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Singing by the Way.
He ring ns the blithe-hearted robin
gings In a summer day,
Unmindful that any listened
To theiuusio o 1 his lay.
The joy of life and of living
Seemed voiced in the simple strain
That filled the air with such sweetness i
is the fields have, after rain.
His weary and toil-worn neighbor
Heard, and was glad to hear,
for into his life of labor
thrill AC 1
It threw a of cheer. , -
It lifted his thoughts from •
It charmed away his eat.
And the music and its glad
Brought a blessing, unawa
We may all be singers, my brothers,
Of songs to help and cheer,
The strain may not be lofty;
There may be few to hear, y
But into some life the music
Of the song we sing may fall,
Brave with its faith in the goodness
Of the God who is over all.
Ut the joy of our lives run over
Our lips in a cheerful song,
And the world may have more sunshine,
And ihe faint of heart grow strong.
Sing for the joy of singing,
And sing your cares away.
And share with others the gladness
That comes to you, day by day.
»-[Eben E. Eexford, in Detroit Free Press.
TERRIBLY IN EARNEST.
BY I.. U. HUMPHREYS.
They met at the mountains—lie a
recently graduated Amherst man, she
a gay Now York belle.
She was seeking a summer’s diver¬
sion, and as men were scarcer than
ever in the mountains she began to
throw the spell of her lustrous beauty
about him.
As for the man himself, John Hines
was nothing but an honest, simple-
hearted New Englander of humble
parentage and modest means.
So matters went ou smoothly for a
fortnight or so, until the afternoon
train from Boston, on a certain Sat¬
urday, brought Maurice Courtney, a
(lashing young New Yorker.
From that moment the star of poor
John Hines was on the wane. He
realized the fact with a dull weight at
his heart, as he slowly made his
toilette and went down to tlie hop in
the evening.
“I am so sorry,” Mr. Hines, said the
spoiled beauty, when ho had made his
way to her side and requested the
pleasure of a danco with her, “but I
am entirely engaged.”
Then she introduced him gracefully
to Courtney. Hines held his-hand
out cordially; Courtney neglected to
take it, however, and the hint of a
sneer curled on his lips, as the hot
blood boiled iuto the olhor’s face at
the intentional inRiilt.
Hines flashed a sudden searching
glance into the young lady’s eyes, and
found them bubbling over with sup¬
pressed merriment.
“I am 6orry, Miss Hoit,” lie said,
"that anything should have occurred
during our brief acquaintance which
has given you the right to lliiuk me
other than a gentleman. That you do
think so I gather from the obvious
fact of your having introduced me to
a cad," and without another word he
left the room.
Courtney stood petrified, gazing in
blank amusement until Hines’ figure
was out of sight.
‘‘By heavens! That hayseed meant
to intuit me,” he said at last between
bis feeth.
"He not only meant to, but lie did,
mid that in the most orthodox
fashion, ’ was rlic laughing response.
“Come out on the piazza,” lie said
moodily, “i can’t endure the glare
mid heat of this room any longer.”
They quitted the ballroom and at the
ond of one of tlie long piazzas they
eeale d themselves.
“What have yon been doing to this
fellow llines?” he asked, at length.
“Mo? Nothing,” in a tone of sur¬
prise.
"Jhe old story of ‘veni, vidi, vici,’
1 take it, Marion.”
At this she laughed a little, a low,
rippling, well pleased laugh.
Bell, perhaps so, a little, but what
would you have? There really was
J 10 as one proved else, and besides, diversion. Mr. llines
Hut a great In the
place he is so thoroughly in
6ainest that it is almost catching, ami
111 this light 1 have studied him us
a member of an almost cxiiuct
cies.” spe-
Just at that moment a man rose
Irom a hammock, in a dark recess
wear by, and stepped abruptly
Miss H oit> It was Iliues.
“Miss Holt,” he said, in low, hard
‘owes, which trembled a little in spite
° f Ml bis efforts, “I that
Wul ti ust you
behove me when I say that I had
' 10 intention of eavc*V
J'-Pl’cr jast playing the
„ow. As an earnest man
4n > sauce rely glad that have
ce ’red you re-
a certain amount of pleasure
this "»ntner from studying
me us a
THE ENTERPRISE. '
'member of au almost •xtinat tpeoie*,*
to use your own expression. I may
also add that I atn fervently thankful
that affairs have turned out just as
they have (his evening; for, as nn
earnest man, 1 would not ask a woman
like you to bear my ltamo—no, not if
she were to fall upon her knees beforo
tno and confess her love.”
"You sneaking, contexnptibto
puppy,” ejaculated Courtney.
Before the words had fairly left his
lips the young New Yorker hud
measured his full length upon the
piazza from a well directed blow from
Hines' massive fist. For a moment he
lay thoro half stunned, and then rose
slowly to bis feet and sat down again.
There was a passion fraught silence,
and then llines’ deep voice again broke
the silence.
“I ought not to have done that, Miss
Hoif,” ite said, ' and I humbly beg
your pardon. But there are somo
things which no man can bear from
another. Good night.”
“Maurice,” sho said at last, in a
faint and very tired voice, “I hope
you are not much hurt."
“I think lie has broken my nose,”
lio almost sobbed. “1 am going homo
in the morning. I have had all the
acquaintance I care for with a hotel
whore they keep prize lighters for
guests.”
“Upon the whole, perhaps it is the
wisest thing that you could do,
Maurice,” she said, thoughtfully.
Maurice Conrtnoy went home upon
the early morning train. A week
went by and the glorious autumn was
upon them. John Hines spent his
days in scaling every mountain peak
within a radius of 20 miles, and was
seldom home until the late hours of
the night.
As the time went on Miss Holt found
herself thinking more and more persist¬
ently of the awkward New Euglandor,
and this feeling became at last an un¬
satisfied yearning which gavo her no
peace. The young lady realized that
there was more than idle curiosity at
tlio bottom of her fervent prayer, to
again stand face to face with John
Hines.
One afternoon Miss lloit, after an
hour’s aimless wandering, found her¬
self on a wooded hill which faced tbo
hotel, a mile or so away. How long
she sat there she did [not know, but
finding the shadows beginning to
deepen around her, she started to re¬
trace her steps.
While hastening down a steep de¬
cline the girl’s foot caught in a narrow
crevice in a rock andj she slipped
and fell heavily forward. Her
foot sho could not’ release, and the
severe wrench whioh she had given lo
her ankle in falling, made the torture
almost unbearable.
Then she screamed for help, but
heard no response save a faint echo
from tlie opposite hillside. Again she
lifted her voice in a frenzied cry, and
this time she heard a faint and far off
halloo, which soon proved to come
from Hines.
“Hello!” he exclaimed as became
in sight, “what is the matter down
there?”
“Mv foot! my foot!” she sobbed. It
is caught in the rocks. I think my
aukle must be broken.”
“I will cut the boot, Now be
brave,” and be carefully ripped the
soft kid of the boot to the solo.
“There, can you draw your foot out
now?" moaned; “don’t ask
“Ob, no!” she
me to do (hat. I cannot.”
•Will you let me, then?” lie asked.
“Yes. Only do bo careful! Iam
afraid I shall cry out if you hurt me.”
Slowly and carefully be extracted
the little foot. Then lie lifted Marion
t o an upright position beside liim.
<•1 do not know liow I can thank
you for what you have done,” she
said, with a faint smile.
••Never mind that now,” he re¬
lumed, brusquely. “If you will put
your arm about my neck and allow
me to put mine about your waist, 1
think that perhaps wc can get ou slow¬
ly in that way.”
tVith a slight blush she did wliat lie
requested, But Ihe first movement
resulted iu such intense auguish that
tlie poor girl uttered an involuntary
cry of suffering and tottered against
),iin. white and trembling.
“That will never do. I cannot
walk,” sho gasped, then,”
,<p gee but one way, was tno
business-like reply. “You must Jet
tne carry you.” said.de-
“I am very heavy,” she
miirely, th d
“Tou look like if> ” ° ' 7
answer, as he lifted her in ins . power-
ful arms and bore her carefully down
the hill. badly
That evening, after the
sprained ankle had been duly oper-
"ted upon bv the villago
Miss Holt found herself sufficiently
conifer able to receive Mr. Hines.
Equal Rights to all, Special Privileges to None.
CARNESVILLE FRANKLIN CO.. GA.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 16.1892.
For some time sho lay in perfect eon.
teutmeut, listening to the sound of his
voice as he conversed easily, most of
the time with her mother.
At last he rose to go. The elder
lady had already quitted Ihe room and
they were alone.
"I may as well say good-bye ns well
as good night, Miss Hoit," ho said,
holding out his hand. “I’m going iu
tho morning.”
“Going!”
“Yes, my holiday is over and stern
life begins for mo tomorrow. 1 am
glad to part with you ns a friend and
as a true friend to wish you all the
happiness through life. Good-bye.”
She still held his hand firmly clasped
iu her own, witli faco averted and
crimson cheeks.
“John,” sho whispered at last.
At the sound of his name, the blood
left John Hines’ face and he bent
quickly down over her to catch the
low words which sho was evidently
struggling to utter.
“You said once that you would not
ask a woman like me to hear your
name, even though she were to fall
upou her knees before you and con¬
fess her love. 1—I can’t get down on
my knees, yon know, but—but-*-’’
Sho hesitnted, faltered, and then
looking bravely up into bis eyes, and
clasping both his hands iu her own,
she said: “Cau't yov see that you will
break my heart if you leave me now,
John?”
Looking down into those beautiful,
tearful eyes, now overflowing with
tlie light of love, he evidently did see
it, for he stayed.
Formidable Wasps and Famous Ants.
Of the wasps found ou the island
of Ceylon one species is so formidable
that it is regarded with the utmost
droad by tho uuclad natives. It
builds nests seven feet long and two
feet in diameter. Tlio famous ter¬
mites, commonly called “wliito auts,”
although they belong to the order of
tlio dragon fly, infest Ceylon in count¬
less swarms, devouring everything
eatable, aud even gutting the timbers
of dwelling houses so that the latter
are reduced to mere shells. They
ereot great mounds of clay ten or
twelve feet high, the material for
which is brought from beneath the
surface of the ground. Below tho
ground a cave of corresponding di¬
mensions is necessarily scooped out,
and here, under the multitude of mini¬
ature cupolas and pinnacles which
canopy it above, the termites hollow
out the royal chamber for their queen,
with spacious nurseries surround¬
ing it on ail sides. Store rooms
occupy the lower apartments and
all are connected by arched galleries,
passages and doorways of the most
intricate and elaborate construction.
In the center and underneath the big
dome resides the queen—a hideous
creature with the head and thorax of
an ordinary termite, but a body swol¬
len to one hundred times its usual and
proportionate bulk and presenting the
appearance of a mass of shapeless
pulp. From this great progenitrix
proceed the myriads that people tho
subterranean hive. Destructive as
they are, the ‘‘white ants” serve one
or two useful purposes. So finely do
they powder the clay out of which
they build their bills that the gold¬
smiths of Ceylon employ it in prefer¬
ence to all oilier substances for making
crucibles and moulds for their finer
castings. Their devouring propensity
lias been turned to good account by
naturalists who secure the pertect
cleansing of molinscan shells by sim¬
ply leaving them exposed to the at¬
tacks of tlie termites, which consume
all the animal parts within a few
hours, eve u to the innermost and
otherwise inaccessible whorls.—
(Washington Star.
A Remarkable Mathematical Feat.
Professor Truman Henry Salford of
Williams College is one of the most
remarkable lightning calculators now
living. A gentleman who Imd heard
of his power and wished to test it,
said to lain one day: “1 have a iittie
problem for you, Professor Salford. I
was born August 15, 1852, at three in
tlie afternoon, This is June 20, 1883,
and it is just three o’clock. Now can
you tell me my age Ju seconds?"
The great man frowned, bent his
head and began to walk rapidly up
and down twisting his mustache and
clasping and unclasping his hands in
his nervous way. Aftci' a moment or
so ho returned to tlio answer, which
was somewhere in the billions. The
gentleman produced a paper contain¬
ing the problem worked out, and said
wUh a superior smile: “Well, you’re
several thousand out." The Professor
stretched out his hand for tho paper,
and, running over the calculation,
said con te m p t no ns 1 y: “Humph!
You’vo left out the leap years.”—
(Buffalo Commercial. .
PEOPLE’S PARTY COLUMN,
Current Comment .Concerning the (treat
Crusade Against Oppression,
Au old party poltician aptly describes
the present popular movement as spon¬
taneous combustion. He says: “It’s
There simply n case of spontaneous like combustion.
itics. never was unything it in pol¬
The country is all afire. The
Colorado People's ticket than will have more votes combin¬ in
all other tickets
ed."— Colorado Farmer.
The one thing that the old party lead¬
ers fear above all else is that the people
will get to reasoning among themselves.
Such a course would inevitably mean
death to democracy and republicanism.
It is for this reason that the people are
being fed such largo doses of tariff and
force bill opiates. But those narcotics
have been so freely used in the past that
they have about lost their efficacy, aud,
consequently, in spi:o of all tho old
parties can do, their supremacy is threa¬
tened as it never was before.
“We have never had any chance,” says
the Democrats. Tho party had the sen¬
ate and house in 1878. Nothing but a
Republican president dared stood in the way,
and he wou'dn’t have to veto any
law they passed, for he was the head of
the Republican party, and the responsi¬
bility would have rested on the party.
That senate and house was elected pledg¬
ed to reduce the tariff, pass a freo c fin-
age bill and abolish national banks. Yet
the first thing done was to elect Samuel
J. Randall, a high protectionist and
banker, speaker of the house. No chance!
No chance I Bah 1
We have been amused no little, says an
exchange, at the repeated Gen attempts Weaver to
blacken the reputation of
by publishing his "wur record.” Our
friends will remember that this is not the
first time so called “war records” have
been published. These “records” ere
false, that is enough to say about them.
Gen. Weaver was not “a general” until
long after these things ares fid to have
occurred. Our readers will remember
that Col. Poik was a very bad “general”
during the late war according to the
“Slander Bureau.” Yet he never was a
“general” aud never was at the places
where he is said to have done the “bad
acts” as reported by the “Slander Bu¬
reau. ”
SUSTAINED.
The organ of the Virginia 8'tate Alli¬
ance, the Virginia Sun, has been in ft
position exactly similar to our own, says
the Progressive Farmer, of Raleigh, N. O.
The State Alliance sustained its course.
Speaking of it the Sun truthfully re¬
marks :
We have honestly endeavored to “hew
to the line” as chalked out by the Farm¬
ers’ Alliance without taking any side
squints of our own, That line is “the
demands.” We have followed the de¬
mands where they have led. If
they are to be found in the Democratic
paity, vre have made a mistake. If
they are to be found in the Republican
party, we have made a mistake, But
everybody, whether Democrat or Repub¬ found
lican, admits that our demands are
in the People’s party, and if we are
found there along with them, it only
shows how absolutely non-partisan The great the
course of the Sun has been.
desire of our heart was that the demands
should be found in the Democratic party,
because that when has they always led in b^en another our own di¬
party, but
rection loyalty to our obligation to be
nou-partisan compelled and us to affiliate turn with our
back on our own party,
that party which alone represents our
principles.
PATRIOTIC (?) REASONS.
There arc many people in the South,
all over the country, in fact, who answer
questions about this way: “Why afraid arc
you a Democrat?” “Because I am
the Republican party will not be beaten.”
And my friend, why are you a Republi¬
can? “Because I am afraid the Demo¬
crats will get into power.” in both That old parries is ex
actly the way many
feel about it. They don’t seem to realize
that there is nothing twins” to lose, win, no matter how
which of the “two nor
much would be gained if the new giant
shouip win. There are thousands who
know that reform is absolutely necessary,
yet they have not the moral courage to
strike out boldly for the shore.
Let us illustrate. If you should open
your eyes some night at midnight and
see a fiend setting fire to and your the house, lives im¬ of
periling your property first impulse would be
your family, scoundrel, your would be
to sheotthe and you
justified in doing so. Now the old par¬
ties are imperiling the lives of your fam¬
ily, your property, getting you deeper In
debt, forcing you to tuko le^s than cost
for your farm products and compelling
you to pay more than the value of every¬
thing you buy. Yet you don’t move
your hand. You needn’t shoot anybody
nor do anything rash. AU you have to
do is vote; “the people’s party proposes
to do the rest.” Let the bosses take care
of the old patties, family.—Progressive and you vote for Farmer your¬
self and
(Raleigh, N. 0. )
SILVER,
opinion There seems to the be farmers quite a in diversity regard to of
among unlimited
free and coinage of silver.
Free coinage means that the government
shall coin silver brought to the mint free
of charge; unlimited means that no re¬
strictions shall be placed upon the amount
brought to the mint for coinage. Don’t
get alarmed; this was the law from 1793
to 1878, and it is still tho law in regard
to gold coinage. It is a notable fact that
farm products rise and fall as the price of
silver rises and falls. Why is this? Our
rates words, of coinage lflgrains are of silver 16 to 1, coined or, in equals other
in value one dollar grain of gold.
Our silver contains 371}
grains standard silver, worth a- 1
bullion, about ft) cents. We coin: 371}
grains 1C to 1, equal in value $1 in gold ;
371} grains of bullion equals in value 70
ccuts in gold.
Iu England, 871} grains, coined,
iu value (15 to 1) $ 1,068 in gold; 348
grains, o lined, equals in value (15 to
$1 in gold; 371} grains—348.3
equals 22 95 grains; S3.95 grains
lu value about six cents iu gold.
ooin 871} grains and fix its valuo at
grains in gold, which is $ 1.
coins 848.8 grains and values it at
aud grains ia gold, which is one gold
she has23.95 grains left, worth
six cents. Thus we see English
coined to the value of our gold
does costs her 70 cents (70.0). Well,
this affect the farmers? Our
exports are cotton and wheat.
greatest buyer is England. India is
greatest ducts. competitor in those two
India is a British province and
purely silver country. England
silver for her.
We have silver to sell. England
our silver, 70 cents for 871} grains.
coins it into rupees to the value of
gold dollar aud has six cents left.
she has an equivalent India for our geld
to purchase wheat, and for
equivalent she has paid us only 70
(70.8j. Assuming that England, wheat is
one dollar per bushel,
of buying our wheat, buys silver, coins
into rupees and buys tli i same amount
India wheat for 70 ctnts. Now in
to sell our surplus wheat we must
this price in the Liverpool market.
is a discrimination against us
nearly 33} per cent. Uudcr free
no one would sell silver for less than
ooin value. England then would have
pay 100 oentsfor the silver in the dollar.
No profit would then accrue to her by
purchasing silver, coining discrimination it and buying
India wheat, and this
against American wheat would be re¬
lieved.—Mecbanicsburg, Pa., Faimers’
Commercial Advertiser.
FLATTERING POPULIST PROSPECTS.
The cause of the People's party Is
meeting with unprecedented and breadth success of the
throughout the length
country. It has received an impetus
since the Omaha convention which is
wonderful and which is past the expec¬
tations of the most sanguine. Through¬ the
out the mountain states and aloig
const where General Weaver has been
speaking he has met with marvelous
crowds and has made countless numbers
of converts. In Colorado where he
opened his campaign, forty prominent
newspapers of the state, twenty-tbreo
deinocraitic aud seventeen republican,
have cust off their old party garments
sml raised the populists’ colors. including Eight re¬
pub ican papers in Idaho, one
daily, have taken the same course. The
St. Louis Chonicle, the Cincinnati Post
and Detroit Evening News,having a joined com¬
bined circulation or 160,000, have
the movement. In Texas the demo¬
cratic party is hopelessly divided,
with two tickets in the field, aud the
conservative democrats do not hesi-
sitate to admit that he Alabama’s People’s
party will carry that state.
recent election by which the Democratic
ticket was saved only through the and most this
glaiing frauds in the negro belt, good
in a state which has usually been
for forty thousand Democratic majority,
has demonstrated that the straight Dem¬ of
ocrats will not be equal to the task
holding the state in line for the party at
the coming election. The Democrats of
Tennessee aie hopelessly divided, and in
Georgia another Kansas political cyclone
is predicted on all sides. Virginia and
West Virginia, Mississippi, Louisians,
North and South Carolina aud Florida
are all infected with the new party craze,
and the Democratic organs are filled daily
with forebodings which clearly settles in
the minds of keen political observers the
wonderful power which has been achiev-
cd by the new party. Nebraska and Kan¬
sas are conceded to tho Populists by all
parties. In Minnesota the Bt. Paul and
Minneapolis papers are pounding Donnel¬
ly every day, but the most authentic re¬
ports from "the country indicate that the
people arc going to vote for him. lie is
gaining ground every day. Nelson, who
was nominated to whip into line the Scan¬
dinavians who deserted the republican unable
paity two years ago, finds himself
to do what is expected of him. His bit¬
terest opponents are among the Norwe¬
gians and they are sticking to Donnelly
almost to a man. The public need Dot
be surprised to see Donnelly triumphantly
elected. Two years ago the Alliance cast
58,000 votes in the state. At that time
there were five hundred alliance organiza¬ fif¬
tions in Minnesota; to-day there are
teen hundred alliances which will roll up
a mighty vote for the People’s Party. In
South Dakota the republicans had a plu¬
rality of but 8,000 at the last election.
The new party has grown astonishingly
during the past year in that state and it
is safe to say now has a nice plurality of
the votes. The republicans nominated a
vain, windy fellow for governor who dis¬
tinguished himself at the republican con-
vention in that state in 1890 by the asser¬
tion that foreigners were n nuisance ai d
ought to be abated. In North Dakota the
work is progressing ns nicely as could be
defired. We shall carry more than half of
the ity counties in of the the democrats state by large nominate p’ural-
case a
ticket, by overwhelming majorities if
the democrats ondorse the independent
nominees. A poll of the state which is
now being made di-closes fearful inroads
upon the ranks of the republicans, The
list of certain independent expected, votes is more
than twice as large as was and
the list of solid republicans and demo¬
crats is appallingly small. There is also a
very large li.t of doubtful votes which
bodes no good to tho republicans. On
the whole, forward the cause of the populists than might is
going much better
have been anticipated, and there is every
reason to take oourage at the flattering
prospects before us everywhere.—North
Dakota Independent.
Hissed the Stars and Stripes.
A news special from Montreal, Canada,
says: patriotic “The American White Squadron,” play, the being high
ly the theatre Monday was night.
produced at that represented of
The scene a congress
navies flag* of the various nations were
applauded until that of tho United States
ap[ eared, whe n it wns hissed. When
Hilliard, representing the American ad¬
miral, appeared,the hi*4og was renewed,
and somebody threw at h m. The crowd
then went to tho entrance of the theatre
and tore down the stars and stripes.
ALLIANCE LITERATURE
Matters of Moment Wliich Concern tlie
Order and Its Members.
It is a mighty weak Ocallist wlio votes
against the dtmauds of the order.
- *
Tho New Forum remarks that tlie
people arc in a position where they
“must either vote out or shoot out.”
***
If all the money ia the laud was iu tho
banks, they could pay their depositors 10
cents; iu gold 2 cents or in gold and sil¬
ver 3 cents on the dollar.
***
Iu 1770 there were neither tramps nor
millionaires in America. Now the United
Stubs cau boast of 5,000 millionaires,
uud 800 tramps to each millionaire.
*** district
The seveuth congressional
democratic convention of Kansas en¬
dorsed Jerry Simpson for congress by a
vote of 78 to 30. Jerry is a hummer.
Is it not time to change a system that
has so worked legislation in this country
as to give one-half of the property into
the possession of 25,000 people? Statis¬
tics show this. Let’s have a change.
.%
Shall the poople own the railroads or
tho railroads own the people? The 892,- area
of the original thirteen Grants states was railroads
000 square raile«. to
amount to 825,000 squaro miles. Think
of this, farmers; it’s a serious question. of
Eight per cent of the average cost
what you buy or sell goes to transporta
tion account.
An exchange remarks: “Republican
editors and managers express much so ¬
licitude respecting soldier’s pensions in
case the People’s party should get con¬
trol of the government. Should the
People’s party adjusted come into power, pension
claims will be ou a basis of ser¬
vice in the army and navy of the United
States, and not on a basis of service to
any political party.
If our government could safely carry a
$3,000,000,000 debt contiacted in the
destruction of wealth to the value of
$20,000,000,000, to say nothing of the
destruction of a million lives, os hsp-
pened in our civil war, where is the dan¬
ger it iucurs in purchasing the railroads,
telegraphs and telephones, when it will
receive in actual value one dollar for
every 100 cents it will have to invest?
AN ADDRESS TO GEORGIA ALLIANCEMEN.
The following address to the Alliance
people of Georgia, has been issued by
President Ellington, on bis assuming the
duties of that office:
The recent State Alliance convention
held at Gainesville elected me as your
president for one year. Now I hope it
is needless for mo to take up much time
and space in attempting to prove to you
the importance of keeping up the Alli¬
ance. I feel and believe, and hope you
do too, that if we allow the Alliance to
go down, that tbo hope of tho masses
goes down with us. I have only time
now to tell you what steps I have taken
in order to prevent so disastrous a calamity
from overtaking us. I have directed that
the District Lecturers take tho field at
once, beginning in their own counties on
September 3 aud from thence to cover
their respective districts as rapidly as
possible. written appeal to
I have an every
County Alliance President in Georgia to
be up and doing. Now I appeal to you to
co-operate with the officers of tho Alli¬
ance, to bold up their hands, go out to
their meetings, attend your sub-alliance
meetings; the sub-alliances are the mud
sills, the foundation stones of the whole
structure, and they must be made solid.
Pay your dues. In fact do your whole
duty and thereby help me to do mine.
Yours fraternally,
C. H. Eli.inoton,
Pres. Ga. State Alliance.
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THE ALLIANCE DEMANDS—A NON PARTISAN
VIEW.
A correspondent in the Southern Alli¬
ance Farmer (Atlanta, Ga.) speaking of
the Alliance demands from anon-partisan
standpoint, says: for
- Tlie organization of thu Alliance is
n purpose. What is that purpose? It is
set out iu its principles and demands. If
tlie Allianccmen of Georgia are not wilt¬
ing to sustain those principles und de¬
mands, what is the use of the organiza¬
tion? I say there is no use for it, aqd
this view will readily appear to anyone
who will consider the matter. Politics
may cloud the question. Men may rush
up and say I will not quit my party.
They may abuse others who seek new
party affiliations, but what of all that?
Ah! our demands ore not uncertain,
there’s no c'oud on them. They are
our only hope. Will we forget or neg¬
lect to sustain them? What aro our de¬
mands? 1st. Free coinage of silver. 2d.
Sub-treasury. 3d. Land loans. 4th.
Increase of currency by the national gov¬
ernment. Shall wo sustain them? Yes.
Ifow shall we sustain them? By seeing
that all our caudidates for tho nntionnl
legislature will support them. Would
you apply the yard stick again? Yes, in
every district. Suppose the candidates
refuse to sustain them, what then? Re¬
fuse to veto for any such, Who should
interrogate candidates? The president tho
or secretary, both or cither, of
County Abiancee. Do you mean to in¬
terrogate candidates of all partiis? Yes, ! ;
Allianccmen, stand by your colors. I
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STATES AND THE PEOPLE.
The Tennessee riots have resulted in the
loss of several lives and the destruction
of a considerable amount of property, but
the real trouble has not yet been settled
and will not be settled for a loDg time to
Come, uo matter how signal may be the
temporary triumph of ore side or the
other. There are those who insist that
the lawlessness develop is a mere anarchy. outcropping That of is
wliat will into
it is an open defiance of the law and the
duly constituted authorities. The ideal
anurchist is a worthless fellow, who is a
workingman with a mouth only. He is a
stirrer up of strife. The Tennessee
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FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE.
$1.00 PER YEAR.
miners are hard-working men, who say
that the state shall not turn thorn out of
the honest work, which they have beon
laught to do, in order to givo employ
meat <o convicted criminals. Wo say
that the states should not allow con¬
victs to compete with free labor. If
there is a piece of work to bo done and the
states gives it to a convict, what encour¬
agement does aim < ffer to the man irom
whom the work is taken? Is it not a
shabby treatment of one of her citizens,
and is he to bo blamed for a feeling of
resentment? The convicts of tho state
should bo put on permanent internal im¬
provements in which all the people have
interest and which will add to the general
welfare and convenience. We confess
that we regard the future with somo
misgivings. Within a few weeks
wo have had war in New York,
war in Pennsylvania aud war in Ten¬
nessee and there is a very bad stute of
affairs in many sections over politics. It
is very natural that the capitalist, with
his property needing protection, should
rush iu for a strong government aud for
the iron hand of the law to suppress the
laboring people. But in the very nature
of things the strougth of themselves—the this govern¬
ment is in the people
very masses from whom the troublous
outbreaks are feared. The people of this
country must learn that the power of
tho government is in the men who toil.
They have the numbers, aud we have
no king with liis army to say, like young
William, “I alone am master.” It is
doubly important therefore that the
state should never do an apparent injus¬
tice—never take bread from the houest
uud give it to convicts. It is a wrong
principle, aud whenever enforced by
power it lenves a sting in the breast of
every woiking mau—a resentment that
no state should provoke. The miners may¬
be wrong, but their defense is human na¬
ture. The state of Tennessee was wrong
in turning out free labor to give place to
felons. The sooner we realize that the
strength of the government is not in
its armies but in its people, Ihe sooner
we will set about to truly educate and
lift up the masses; makiug the govern¬
ment, first, absolutely just, and then
teachiug the people to love it for its
blessings—to fight for it, ond to die for it
if need be. Enthroned as it should be
in the hearts of the people; fair and just
to tho humblest, her armies would be in
her fields and mines, and her foundation
enduring for all time. Let states learn
that “ho is naked though locked up iu
steel, whose conscience with injustice is
corrupted.”—Atlanta Herald.
jilts Mon t h Has a Gold Roof.
Tho privilege of going about day after
flay with an improvised covering of gold
to take the place of tho roof of one's
mouth is one that is not accorded every¬
body. Thero is, however, one young
man who bears this distinction, and to
all intents and purposes appears to be as
anybody comfortably who equipped is the in that respect of th# as
possessor
regular old-fashioned mouth.
Charles Dcveney is twenty-four years Nev.
of age and lives in Virginia he City, San
About three weeks ago came to
Francisco to consult with physicians which had re¬
garding Formed an unnatural growth
on the roof of his mouth. The
superficial substance was found to bo a
cartilaginous of growth, located partaking the of right the
nature a tumor, which upon besides
side of the mouth cavity, of the
encroaching upon made the structure serious inroads
interior bones, had
upon the nasal cavity, resulting in tho
nose being rendered a useless ornament
ns well as interfering with tip faculty of
articulation iu that it allowed no play
for the tongue.
After a diagnosis of the case it was de¬
cided to make an artificial roof for tho
mouth to take the place of the bone
structure which would necessarily have
to be removed in its entirety. An in¬
cision was made through the middle of
the upper lip and continued along the
right side of the nose to the inner corner
of the eye. This done, the flesh Then was
laid back on the side of the face.
the two incisors were extracted from the
gums and a fine saw was introduced into
the nostril, which cut through and sepa¬
rated the bone on the median line. The
side of the nose was laid back and the
superfluous growth exposed. the section The of oper¬ the
ation was continued by
maxillary and nasal bones with the use
of the saw and the process completed Lyon
with bone forceps. By means of a
mouth forceps the growth, with tho
wish-bone attached, was wrenched off.
Then a quantity of gold fashioned to fit
iu the cavity was put in, and Deveney
now carries $200 worth of gold in his
mouth. In medical parlance the disease
is called enchondroma and is rarely to
be met with.—(San Francisco Chronicle.
Cattle anil Music.
Opposite our house was n large field,
In which twelve or thirteen cows were
put during the summer. One day road. a Ger- Thf
man band began to play on the
cows were quietly grazing at the other
end of the field, but no sooner did they
hear the music than they at once ad¬
vanced toward it, and stood with heads
over the wall, attentively listening. This
might have passed unnoticed, but upon
the musicians going away, the animals
followed them as well as they could on
the other side of the wall, aud when they
could get no further stood lowing pit-
eously. So excited did the cows
become that some of them ran round and
round the field to try to get out, but
finding no outlet, returned to the same
corner where they had lost sight of the
band, and it was some time before they
seemed satisfied that the sweet sounds
were really gone, Once we had a brass
band playing in our garden. In n field
adjoining ’' ' ' were four Scotch oxen. When
the band struck up they they were were at at the the far tar
end, quite out of sight. They They set set off off
full trot to the garden wall, put their
necks over and remained so till the tune
was finished, when they went back to
graze, but as soon as the music struck up
again they came and put their heads
ouco more*over the after wall. which This they went ate on
till the band left,
very little the rest of tfle day aud were
continually lowing.—[Christian Regis-
*cr.
O^i man in Wfcomioe County. Md., nearly on
the eastern shore, shipped huckleberries this season in single
23,000 quarts of a
weak, and a near neighbor of his shipped earned
nearly as many, Smart berry pickers
*2 a day picking huckleberries.