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VOL XXIII
KHLIGIOUS DEPARTMENT.
The I'nirersal Sin.
The universal sin. What is it? It
is not drink, nor unbelief, nor man’s
inhumanity. These are effects, not
the source. Satan is called the
“father of lies.” This sin is the
mother of a vast, vile brood of evil.
It was in the beginning and will be
until the millennium. It was ex
pressed by Adam and echoed by Cain.
It was manifest in Lot and typed by
Jacob. David was nearly destroyed
by it. Judas perished through ic.
And yet it is neither disobedience,
murder, greed nor adultery. These
things were born of it. The trouble
with sin as a theme is, it is deemed so
abstract; but this sin is not vague; it
is specific and pestiferous. With
men, what is general’is not deemed
personal, but this is exceeding singu
lar and present. The catechism de
fines sin, the law thunders its penalty,
our conscience everlasting warns, but
this sin goes on brazenly, its existence
even denied.
It is in trade. ,
It is in politics.
It creeps into worship.
It chills prayer.
It breaks up homes.
It denies affection.
It is vulgar and boorish.
ft mars beauty and hinders success.
It moves ambition and thwarts it.
It hindered, tempted, denied, be
trayed and at last crucified Christ.
It begins almost imperceptibly and
grows into the unpardonable sin.
It is the most stubborn sin the Holy
(ihost encounters.
And yet it is not pride, nor hate,
nor lust, nor doubt, nor falsehood es
pecially, but the root of these.
In plain words, it is simple, down
right SELFISHNESS ! W
In the evil of drink, it is self-indul
gence. In the sin of unbelief Tt is
self-righteousness. In the curse of
war, it is self-esteem. The lust of the
eye, and of the flesh, and the pride of
life is after all, mere selfishness.
Yes, all these. Conceit and envy
are born of it. Backbiting, gossiping,
talebearing and slander come from it.
It mars happiness and destroys beau
ty. It can make unbearable an oth
erwise sweet nature. Oh, how it can
make miserable the home, destroy
the influence of the church, and
throws into an uproar a whole com
munity. Selfishness! Selfishness!
Have you not this much despised ele
ment in your character ? Go to God
with it. You may be making a whole
circle of friends unhappy. Examine
yourself closely. You may deny or
overlook it at first, but still it lurks
in some secret hiding place. Root it
oui—the arch fiend of humanity.
Salvation for the Ycuug.
I was born April 28, 1806, and born
again June 21, 1819. Being taught
by Christian parents that Jesus loved
children, and often feeling a con
scious lovejto Jesus, I seemed to take
it for granted that I was a child of
God. But in my twelfth year I began
to question my adoption, .fust after
I had passed my thirteenth birthday,
on my way to a campmeeting, I pur
posed to settle the question. At the
first*prayer meeting I-began to ask
the Lord to make me His child and
let me know it. Then came the first
keen conviction. I was a condemned
sinner; I was frightened and wept
aloud. But soon the joy unspeakable
was mine.
Temptations were many, and my
views were not dear, but I Yelt that
1 must have a clean heart. We were
going to a camp meeting. I thought
"Surely I will get the blessing there.”
On the first day of U*e meeting I
went forward as a seeker of sanctifi
cation, and continued to do so
through the whole week. Jacob-like,
the whole of the last night I wrestled.
Dear ones said again and again, "Be
lieve, believe the blood cleanseth.”
My reply was, "I do believe, but I
want to feel.” The day dawned ;my
dear mother said, "Daughter, you.
must leave this place,” as she raised
me from my knees.
Finding I could struggle no longer
I said, "I will believe.” At that
moment, as I opened my eyes and
caught the first crimson ray of the
rising sun, filled with rapture, I ex
claimed, "The Sun of Righteousness
has risen with healing in His wings.”
—Mrs. S. Palmer.
NOTICE.
All the Vice-Presideuts of the District
binietalie Leagues are requested to or-
Ranifce at once, as I will shortly call a
meeting of the County League, ariff want
es ch district represented. Attend to
th'g matter at your earliest convenience.
Respectfully,
A. Atkinson,
"S Pres. B. C. B. L.
< Or.ll ;N |C .4 TIO.N .
Editors A nous:
Is the town of Jackson now a cor
porate body, or has the charter been
forfeited by non-compliance with pos
itive requirements and mandates of
the power creating the body corpor
ate? It is well known that any cor
porate body may and shall forfeit the
powers granted in their charter in
several different ways, one of which
is by the non-compliance with the
terms of the charter. All the powers
and privileges that the town of Jack
son has as a corporation were dele
gated by the state of Georgia on the
condition that said corporate body
would on their part perform certain
things specified in their charter, not
leaving the authority to do or not to
do these things; but the state says
that we will grant you (as a body
corporate) certain powers and privi
leges upon the condition that you
perform certain duties. Their limi
tation was made that the citizens of
said body corporate might and should
be protected. Have the authorities
(the mayor and council) of the town
of Jackson to whom the powers and
privileges and duties in the charter
named having been delegated by each
citizen to them, complied with the
terms of said charter?
The charter of the town of Jackson
from the state of Georgia, through
the legislature demands That the
mayor and council of said town shall
make a quarterly report of all funds
received and disbursed by them, and
that said report must be published in
a gazette of the town. Has it been
done? Do the citizens know where
and how their money is spent? Does
anyone know anything about the
finances of the town except the pow
ers that be? If so, “let him speak,
or forever hold his peace.” It is cer
tain that the charter has been vio
lated knowingly and willfully, hence
the mayor and council have no right
or authority to make any demands on
the citizens of said town. The power
with which the mayor and council
have been clothed is no longer, the
body corporate has committed suicide.
Xo tax payer is bound to respond to
any call made by the mayor and
council. Jackson is only a thickly
settled neighborhood, clothed with
no corporate power.
Will the charter be complied with?
The citizens will answer when they
are asked to pay tax. If everything
is correct with our finances there can
be no harm done to publish it; if not,
the citizens would like to know it,
and the charter gives them the right
to know. Officers are paid by the
town to perform certain duties, and
let the report be made and published.
Napoleon.
COMMUNICATION.
Editors Argus :
Allow ine space in your paper to
thank your senior editor for his con
cise explanation of the difference in
the simple demand of the free and un
limited coinage of silver at a ratio of
16 to 1, and the sound democratic
mand of the restoration of silver to
its constitutional rights, which will
fix the ratio. I never so completely
understood the difference before. The
first would, as thegoldbugs say, make
a fifty cent dollar, while the latter
would increase our currency and keep
it just as sound as it is. Some people
don’t really comprehend the differ
ence. I will state right here that I
am glad the intelligent populists have
the manhood to walk up and say,
“Well, if you are afraid of our kind
of free coinage, we are not afraid of
yours.”
You should write an editorial on
this point, that your readers who did
not hear his talk could get the bene
fit of it. Between extremes the right
is always to be found. Respectfully,
A Listener.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, {
Lucas County. n
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney & C’o., doing business in the City
of Toledo, County and .State aforesaid,
and that said firm will pay the sum of
One Hundred Dollars for each and every
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
the use of Hall’s Catarrh Care.
Fxahk J. Chkxry.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this 6th day of December,
A D. 1886.
[SealJ A. ,W. Gleason,
Notary Public.
Halt 8 Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mucons
surfaces of the system. Send for testi
monials, free.
F. J. Cuenky & Cos., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
If you have a farm or any kind of land for
sate, give it to Harmon & McDonald, who will
advertise it free of eharge and only charge you
a nominal cost for selling it for you.
JACKSON, GA., FPIDAY. JULY 12, 1895.
R ESOLITIONS,
We, the teachers of Butts county,
in body assembled, as an expression
of our appreciation of the services of
Hon. C. S. Maddox as county school
commissioner, and Prof. Carle R.
Thompson as expert and conductor of
the Teachers’ Institute of said county,
do hereby resolve :
First, That we heartily endorse the
selection of Hon. C. S. Maddox as
county school commissioner by our
worthy board of education. In him
we recognize the qualities of a faith
ful teacher, an efficient commissioner
and a Christian gentleman ;
Second, That we as a body and as
individuals, do sadly lament the af
fliction which has befallen him who
so long, so faithfully and so worthily
watched over the school interests of
our county, and we do hereby tender
our sympathy to him and his family. 1
The Hon. E. E. Pound will ever be
held in tender and loving regard by
the teachers of Butts county, upon
whose hearts he has indellibly im
pressed the high thought and noble
purpose os his own great soul;
Third, To Prof. Carle R. Thomp
son, our able and worthy expert, we
tender our warmest appreciation of
his labors. He being a young man
and the first of our own county’s
teachers ever chosen as expert, we
feel it a high honor, well and worthily
bestowed. No expert has ever so
thoroughly and so satisfactorily ex
pounded the principles of pedagogy
to the teachers of Butts county. He
has marvelously Changed that abhor
rence which teachers have of Insti
tutes to a love for the work imposed
upon them. He stands pre-eminently
at the head of his profession, and in
his leaving Butts county suffers an
irreparable loss, and the people with
whom he casts his lot may deem
themselves fortunate in securing his
valuable services. He is a golden
hearted gentleman, a thorough
scholar and a true teacher.
Respectful ly submitted,
Miss M. J. Patterson,
J. B. Madden,
J. W. Moore,
Committee.
COTTAGES AT IA RIAN SPRINGS
HOLINESS CAMP GKOCND.
Mr. T. L. Thrower, 90S, Forsyth
street. Atlanta, Ga , has gone to work
and figured out the plans for several
cottages and the cost of them half in
advance ami the other half when the
work is completed. We give below
the sizes and cost :
No. 1. Is a cottage, 18x30 divided
into four rooms with a four foot hall*
Veranda 6xlß, painted outside, win
dows, doors, locks and keys all com
plete for sll2.
No. 2. Isa coitage 18x20 divided
into two rooms, hall all the way
through three feet wide, veranda, 6x
18, locks, doors and windows, house
painted on the outside, $75.
No 3. Is a cottage 12x30, three
foot hall, doors, windows, locks and
keys complete, and painted on the
outside for $65.
No. 4. Is a cottage 10x18, locks,
doors and windows, paiuted on the
outside, S3B.
Anyone desiring to build a cottage
ou the grounds should conespond
with Rey. W. A. Dodge, 48 Stonewall
street, Atlanta.
P. P. P.
Makes Marvelous Cures in Blood
Poison, Rheumatism and Scrofula.
P. P. P. purifies the blood, builds up
the weak and debilitated, gives strength
to the weakened nerves, expels diseases,
giving the patient health and happiness,
where sickness, gloomy feelings and lassi
tude first prevailed.
In blood poison, mercurial poison, ma
laria, dyspepsia, and in all blood and skin
diseases, like blotches, pimple-, old
chronic ulcers, tettei, scaldhead, we say
without fear of contradiction that P. P,
P. is the best blood purifier in the world.
Ladies whose systems are poisoned, and
whose blood is in an impure condition,
due to menstrual irregularities, are pecu
liarly benefited by the wonderful tonic
and blood-cleansing properties of P, P. P.
For sale by all druggists.
Lippman Bkos. , Proprietors,
Lippman’s Block, Savannah, Ga.
Don’t Forget to Remember
that impure, unhealthy blopd is present in
all, and the direct cause of many diseases
from which we suffer, Scrofula, Rheuma
tism and Specific Diseases which have
ravaged the earth and the blood
of nations for generations, and are the
evil parents of indescribable horrors are
under absolute control of P. P. P., the
only infallible blood purifier known.
The P. P. P. Blood Cure has positively
cured numeious cases of Scrofula and Salt
Rheum in a short time, where all other
blood purifiers have failed.
Pleasant to take; applicable to diseases
of infancy or old age.
What*s the use of getting hurt and lying in
bed suffering, when McDonald & Kinard can
fit you up in accident insurance, and you get
from $25 to SSO a week while you are sick.
IXGERSOLL ON TEMPERANCE.
In speaking to a jury in a case in
volving (lie manufacture of alcohol,
Coi. Robert lugersoll used the follow
ing eloquent language: “I am aware
that there is a prejudice against any
man mgaged in the manufacture of
alcohol. I believe that from (lie time
it is issued from the coiled and poison
ous worm, in the distillery, until it
emptits into the lull of death, dis
honor and ci inye, it demoralizes every
body that ton dies it from its source
to yvliere it ends. I do not believe
anybody can contemplate the subject
without becoming prejudiced to the
liquor crime. All wo have to do,
gentlemen, is to think of the wreck on
either bank of the stream <f death, of
the fuicules, of the insanity, of the
destitution, of the little children tug
ging at the weary and faded breasts
of weeping amt despairing wives
asking for bread, of the talented men
of genius that it has wrecked, the
men struggling with imaginary ser
pents produced by this devilish tiling,
ami when you think ot the jails, the
almshouses, of the asylums, of the
prisons, of the scaffolds upon either
bank, I do not wonder that every
thoughtful man is prejudiced against
this damnable stuflYallcd alcohol.
“Intemperance cut* down youth in
its vigor, manhood in its strength,
and old age in its weakness. It breaks
the lather’s heart, bereat es the doting
mother, extinguishes natural affec
tion, erases conjugal love, blows out
filial attachments, blasts parental
affection, ami brings down mourning
age in sorrow to the grave. It pro
duces weakness, not strength, death,
not life. It makes wives widows,
children orphans, parents childless,
and all of them patq ers and beggars.
It feeds rheumatism, invites gout,
imparts j estilonee and embiaces con
sumption. It covers the land with
idleness, misery and crime. It flits
your jails, supplies yom* almshouses,
and demands yourasjlums. It en
genders controversies, fosters quarrels
amt clieiishes riots. It crowds your
penitentiaries and furnishes victims
to your scaffolds. It is the life blood
of the gambler, the element of the
burglar, the prop of the highwayman
and the support of the ifilttiitglit in
cendiary. It countenances the iiar,
respects the thief, esteems the blas
pheme-. It violates obligations, rev-
erences fraud and honors infamy. It
delames benevolence, hates love,
“corns viituc and slanders innocence.
It incites the father to butcher the
helpless offspring, helps the husband
to massacre bis wife, and tha.chi!d to
grind the parricidal ax. It burns up
men, consumes women, detests life,
curses God, denies heaven. It sub
orns witnesses, nurses prejudicial el
mine. If degrades the citizen, debases
the legislator, dishonors the statesman
and disarms the patriot. It brings
shame, not honor; terror, not safety ;
despair, not hope; misery, not happi
ness; and with the malevolence of a
fiend it calmly surveys its frightful
desolation, and unsatisfied with its
havoc, it poisons felicity, kids peace,
ruins morals, blights confidence, slays
reputation,and wipes out national hon
or, then curses the world and ljiughfj.
at its ruin It does all that, and more
—it murders the soul. It is the sum
of villanies, the father of all crime,
the mother of abominations, devil’s
best friend and God’s worst enemy.’’
Gin Repairing.
The Jackson Oil Mill will whet ycAir gins,
rebabit boxes and build brushes on short
notice. • jun2lt4
—♦ -• f
WANTED,
Dry and Green Hides, for which I will pay
the highest market price. Call to see me, next
door to Postoffice. C.R. GRESHAM,
jun2B-4t Jackson, Ga.
NOTICE.
All who anticipate having Photographs or
Tintypes made, had better come and see me
about it within the next three weeks, as I am
going to leave Jackson about that time.
J.B. GUTHRIE,
Jackson, Ga., June2B. Photographer.
Re-Advertised
SHERIFF’S SAEE. '
GEORGIA—Butts County.
Will be sold before the court house.door in
the town of Jackson, said county, on the first
Tuesday in August, 1895, within legal sale
hours for cash, the following described prop
erty : 1 l#-Horse Stationary Cole Engine and
Boiler; one 50-saw Loomis Gin; one 50-saw
Smith Gin; one Cole Power Press; one 50-saw
Pratt Gin. Levied on as the property of W. C.
and J. A. Woods and O. B. Knowles, by virtue
and to satisfy one mortgage execution issued
from the superior court of Butts county fn
favor of Russell and Company against W. C.
and J. A. P. Woods and O. B. Knowles; W. C.
Woods’and O. B. Knowles in possession of said
I property at the time of levy. Property pointed
out in mortgage execution. * This July 4,1895.
* J.O. BEAUCHAMP,
julys-4t * Sheriff Butts Cos.
CITATION.
STATE OF GEORGIA—Butts County.
Whereas, J. C. Pittman, administrator of
Sarah F. Turner, represents to the court in his
petition duly filed and entered on record, that
he has fully administered Sarah F. Turner’s
estate, this is, therefore, to cite all persons
concerned, heirs Rnd creditors, to show cause,
if any they can, why said administrator should
hot be discharged from his administration and
receive letters of dismission, on the Ist Mon
dav in October, 1895. '
J. F. CARMICHAEL,
julyo-Sm Ordinary.
aaa more ahoit Mexico.
Editors Argus:
I will give you a slight description of San
Luis Potosi, and to describe one Mexican city
is to describe them all. They are all alike. The
streets are very narrow—the widest about 30
feet; the sidewalks 5 feet on each side, leaving
20 feet for street ears, etc. The houses are
nearly all one story, and are all flat roofed.
The streets are as smooth almost as a floor,
and kept perfectly elean. We, by special per
mit, visited the governor’s garden. It is very
elaborate; no pains or money seem to have
been spared to make it pleasing to the eye, yet
I think Ferrell’s at LaGrange, Ga., shows more
taste in arrangement. We also visited by
special permit the bishop’s palace—and a pal
ace it certainly is. The furniture is all of the
finest; the rooms are carpeted, floor, walls and
ceiling, with the finest material. The parlor,
sitting room, dining room and library have
gold chandeliers and gold candlesticks, in fact
there is nothing hut solid gold and silver in
the palace. The pictures on the walls are the
work of the finest artists, and cost thousands
of dollars. It seems like one man- should not
have so much of luxury, while there is so much
poverty and suffering on all sides; but the
Catholics are very fond of their preachers, and
in this they are to he commended. Here we
will remark that the Catholic church is almost
the universal church of Mexico. There are
very few protestants.
The city has plazas or parks, with comfort
able seats, pleasant walks, with a band stand
in the center. The parks are great resorts at
night. The men and women do not promenade
together, nor do they go the same way, so they
are continually passing but not meeting. The
Mexicans don’t do things like the Americans.
They have a different method of courting; the
young man stands at the window an<) makes
love to his sweetheart. He is not permitted to
enter the house until engaged, and then only
in the presence of the parents. He'eannot ac
company her to any entertainment until after
engagement and in company with the mother
or oldest sister.
We attended the bull fight, and will give you
a slight description. The pen is circular and
about twice as large as the hippodrome in
Central Park, Macon, Ga. The crowd gathers
at 4 o’clock, the band playing; seats priced
from 50 cents to $5.00, owing to locality. The
president enters; the gate opens; a troupe gaily
dressed enters; the audience huzzas; they ap
proach the president; the leader addresses him
asking permission; the president consents and
throws the keys to the bull pens into the ring;
the troupe throw their flue laced cloaks to
friends in the audience; all leave the ring ex
cept troupe. Silence a moment; a heavy gate
swings open ; the bull comes from a dark pen ;
he bounds into the ring, his head and tail up.
He is a magnificent animal, as trim as a race
horse—neither lean or poor. He pauses a sec
ond to find something to fight. The troupe is
scattered over the pen, each one with a robe of
gaudy colors several feet in length. He dashes
at the one nearest; he strikes the robe and not
the man; he tries another and another with
the same result. He sees a horse, and makes
for it and the rider. The pecador endeavors to
ward him off with his spike, if successful the
audience cheers the pecador, but most fre
cfuently the bull throws horse and rider into
the air, and rushes around the pen, his horns
red with the gore of the horse. He strikes an
other horse, he succeeds or fails according to
the skill of the horseman. The bugle sounds;
horses are out, dead or alive. Two banderrillas
with sharp, barbed darts, one in each hand,
now lay aside everything except their darts.
They are not permitted to thrust the darts into
the bull except as he approaches. They are
waiting his dash; he comes with the velocity
of the wind. The banderilla thrusts his darts
into the shoulders of the animal, jumping or
dodging his horns at the same time. This is
in turn repeated until six or eight of these
darts are in the bull’s neck. Now comes the
star of the occasion ; he is as perfect ip form as
a man as the bull is an animal. He has a red
flag and straight, keen sword. He taunts the
bull; the bull dashes at him; as the bull bows
his head to T gore, the matador thrusts the
sword to J.ts hilt between the shoulders of the
bull, dodging the horns at the same time. This
is done so quickly that you can’t tell when.
The bull grows faint, drops to his knees; the
matador then thrusts his sword behind his
horns; the hull drops and is drug out. Another
bull enters, looks just like the one killed, and
the same thing is repeated. Six bulls were
killed and three horses. The crowd throw hats
and leap into the ring; they carry the grand
matador around the ring with loud huzzas.
Argus, I will not moralize further than this:
I would riot go to another bull fight if I lived
the balance of my life in Mexico. My curiosity
is fully satisfied. But can we complain of the
customs of Mexico, when we are tolerating
something worse ? They pit athlete men against
a mad bull. We put two intelligent, morally
responsible human beings in a prize ring to
pound each other to death. Now, you know
that editors of papers are presumed to know
all things. Which of the two do you think the
greater evil? I do- not approve either; but
from a moral standpoint—that is if a moral
can be drawn—of the two evils I would prefer
the bull fight.
Well, you must excuse the digression, but it
was a fact I could npt pass and give you a true
sketch of my trip. If you are impertinent and
ask me what I was doing there, I reply “to see
Mexico.” If you ask me what day of the week
it was, I tell you to go to—Mexico.
We will come to the water question in San
LuisPotosi. In each of the parks of the city is
a well, about 20 feet in diameter and about 30
feet deep. There are logs across the well for
men. The water comes trickling from uqder
the walls of the well. There are little tin
buckets around the well; each one uses a buck
et to fill his or her vessel, the men carry tin
can’s holding five gallons each, suspended
across the shoulder on a rod four feet long; the
women carry earthen jars on the shoulder. To
see these people around these wells, carries us
back in memory to the well of Jacob; and oh,
how it rejoices us to think of our rippling
streams, our gushing springs, our handy cool
wells'! Argus, what would the two wells on
our court house square be worth to the city of
San Luis Potosi ? Major Rouls, supervisor,
told me he was hauling water 40 miles to sup
ply his railroad, and he was praying for the
wet season to set in. It is not presumed that
railroads have any soul, being an incorpora
tion, but I think Mangham was in earnest.
The winter is dry, the summer wet. U was the
beginningof the wet season.
I will not take more spaee at present, but
think it proper to give a little sketeh of the city
of the Montezumas, perhaps as old if not the
oldest eity in the world, whose history is a ro
mance. Many of the actors in the last scenes of
the drama being those identified with the
United States, and especially with the south,
such as R. E. Lee, Braxton Bragg, Joseph E.
Johnson,ll.R. Jackson, andourown (I will not
make it personal) W. H. T. Walker, as brave a
man as ever drew sword in defense of his
country. •- Van MoKibbkn.
SOW READ THIS.
The annual meeting of the Butts County
Sabbath School Association will meet at the
Holiness camp ground on Friday, before the
2nd Sunday in August, which i3 the 9th day of
: the month. Be ready for the meeting.
jUlys-Gt J. M. McMICHAEL, Pres't. I
I>r. J. Eee Byron.
Dr. Byron has moved into his ele
gant new office on Main street. There
is not a prettier nor more comfortable
office in town. The inside finish is
beautiful, and the arrangement of the
furniture and office equipments gives
it a business-like as well as neat ap
pearance. Since Dr. Byron located
in our town lie lias built an elegant
residence, and now a beautiful and
substantial office, where bis patients
and friends can feel comfortable and
at homo when they call on him. This
conduct on the part of Dr. Byron
proven more conclusively than any
amount of talk could that lie has con
fidence in the future of our town.
When a man puts his money in a
town he helps make that town, and
deserves the kindest consideration of
every lover of his town, which esteem,
we are glad to state, Dr. Byron enjoys
in a high degree. liis success in prac
tice has been so uniformly good that
our people feel safe when they have
Dr. Byron lo see and administer to
tlieir sick.
Jeiikinsburg Iti inula lie Meeting.
The bimetalic meeting at Jeukinsburg,
Saturday, was a perfect success. Forty
of the citizens were in attendance, and
after the Hon. A. Atkinson spoke (and
by the way, lie made a grand speech,
showing beyond the sbadow of a reason
able doubt that our country needed the
restoration of silver and the death of the
republican idea of mouometalism), 38 of
the 40signed the pledge. All the signers
weio democrats. There were several
populists present, who came in late and
did not sign, in addition to the two dem
ocrats who refused to sign. They be
lieved in free silver, but seemed to want
to hold aloof from an organization com
posed chiefly of democrats, which we
grant is tlieir privilege.
Col. M. Y. McKibben states his views
on the financial question in this brief
and concise way: “I believe in the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, seignor
age and all, with a heavy tariff levied on
the importation of silver bullion.”
A Man with a History.
Hi* Body Covered with Lumpi. Could
not eat and Thought he wu
going to dry up.
(AYcmi th% Nashville, Tenn., Banner.)
Mr. John W. Thomas, Jr., of Theta, Tenn.
is a man with a most interesting history.
“ It was in ’84,” said he to a reporter who
had asked him for the story of his life, “when
I was working in tWe silver mines of New
Mexico, that my troubles began. _
“ From simple indigestion my malady de
veloped into a chronic inability to take any
substantial food, and at times I was pros
trated by spells of heart palpitation. On
the 11th of April, 1893, I suddenly col
lapsed, and for days 1 was unconscious,
in fact I was not fully myself until July.
On September Ist I weighed but 70 pounds
whereas my normal weight is 165 pounds.
All oyer my body there were lumps from
the size of a grape to the size of a walnut,
my fingers were cramped so that 1 could not
more than half straighten them. 1 had en
tirely lost control of my lower limbs and
my hand trembled so that I could not drink
without spilling the liquid. Nothing would
remain on my stomach, and it seemed that
I must dry up before many more days had
passed.
“ T made another round of the
calling in one after the other, and by the
aid of morphine and other medicines'they
gave me, I managed to live though barely
through the fall.”
H Mr. Thomas displayed his arms,
and jud above the elbow of each there was
a large irregular stain as large as the palm
of the hand and of a purple color, the space
covered by the mark was sunken nearly to
the bone. “That,” said Mr. Thomas,'“is
what the doctors did by putting morphine
into me.
“ On the 11th of December, 1893, just eight
months after 1 took permanently to bed—l
shall never forget the date—my cousin, Joe
Foste -, of Carters’ Creek, called on me and
gave me a box of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills
for Pale .People, saying they had cured him
of pirtixi paralysis, with which I knew lip
had all but died. I followed his directions
and began taking the medicine, as a result
1 stand before you to-daythe most surprised
man on earth. Look at my hand, it is as
steady a< yours; my face has a healthy look
about it; I have befen attending to my"
duties for a month. Since I began taking
the pills I have gained 30 pounds, and I am
still gaining. All the knots have disap-
from my body except this little
kernel here in my palm. I have a good
appetite and I am almost as strong as I ever
was.
“ YesterdSy I rode thirty-seven miles on
horseback, I feel tired to-day but not sick.
I used to have from two to four spells of
heart palpitation every night, since 1 began
the use of the pills I have had but four
spells altogether.
“I know positively that I was cured by
Dr Williams’ Pink Pills, and I believe
firmly that it is the most wonderful remedy
in existence to-day, and every fact I have
presented to you is known to'my neighbors
as well as to myself, and they will certify to
the truth of my remarkable cure.”
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