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pranklin COUNTY.
VOL. III. NO. 42 .
E if Mother Would Listen.
I jfmotlirr would listen to me, dears.
1 I She would freshen that take faded gown,
jije would sometimes an hour’s rest,
! 4nd sometimes a trip to town,
f iud It shouldn’t be all for the children,
The fun and the cheer and the play;
| fl-jth tho patient droop on the tired mouth,
And the “Mother has had her day.”
True, mother has had her day, dearB,
Wheu you were her babies three,
And abo stepped about the farm and the
house
As busy as a bee.
When she rocked you all to sleep, dears,
And =ont you all to school,
And wore herself out, and did without,
And lived by the Golden Itule.
And so your turn has come, dears,
Her hair is growing white;
And her eyes are gaining the far-away look
That peers beyond tbe night.
One of these days in the morning
Mother will not be here,
Sho will fade away into silence—
The mother so true and dear.
Then what will you do in the daylight,
And what in the gloaming dim?
Arid father, tired and lonesome then,
Pray, what will you do for tiim?
If you want to keep your mother
You must make her rest to day;
Must give her a share in the frolic,
And draw her into the play.
Antl If mother would, listen to me, dears,
She’d buy her a gown of silk,
With buttons of royal velvet
Aud ruffles as white as milk.
And she’d let 501 do the trotting,
While she sat still in her chair,
That mother should have it hard all through
It strikes me isn’t fair.
—[Margaret E. Snngster.
THE GRAY COUPLE.
BY CECIL CIIAIU.ES.
My friend Kummcls is a handsome
fellow—barring the nose—and carries
his forty odd /ears gracefully. lie is
a bachelor, but kiutl hearted ou tho
whole, a good story teller aud good
company when yott have the blues or
got into a sentimental suarl with your
wife.
K 11111 mol owns a hotel on Long Isl¬
and, oue of those cool, quiet North
Shore places overlooking the Sound.
He does not aspire to manage it, but
he spends some of tho hottest days of
the year out there and occupies him¬
self pleasantly with doing nothing and
doing it prettily.
A short time since my wife anil I
were his guests for a week at the
Mansion House. O >e rainy evening,
when the long grass forbade wander¬
ing and the Sound was gray witli fog,
Kuunnel entertained us with a story.
My wife was unusually restless and
continued pacing up and down the
long piazza, alleging mosquitoes, until
Ktttmnel’s good-natured narrative had
begun as follows:
“Did I ever toil you about the Gray
Couple?’’
“1 dou’t remember it," I said.
“Perhaps Althea does.”
Aut Altboa didn’t. So Kummol be¬
gan in earnest.
“One afternoon I was sitting hero
in the porch when a carriage drove up.
It was a very neat yellow affair drawn
by a sorrel horse with a banged tail.
The occupants were a lady aud gentle¬
man, both dressed in gray. The gen¬
tleman was perhaps my own age and
the lady was about twenty-five or so.
She was oue of those gray-eyed, gen¬
tle, fragile creatures, Herman was
manager then, but he did not
come immediately, so when the gentle¬
man asked if I was tbe proprietor I
answered ‘No, only the owner.’
Then I whistled for Herman and
asked him to kindly wait a moment.
“In the meantime 1 had opportunity
to look them over and form an im¬
promptu opinion. I guessed them to
be bride and groom, or very nearly
so—there was such a palpable attempt
at appearing easy and accustomed to
the situaiion. At ail events, I took
something of a fancy to them and was
rather glad when they dismounted anil
made arrange meats with Herman to
remain a fortnig lit. They were given
•he corner suite, just above aud look¬
ing out on the pi .zz 1 above this. And
thoy settled down very comfortably
and unpacked their small valises ami
the bauged-tail sorrel was put away in
the stablo and carefully fed and
tv tered. Now, the Gray Couple
were ‘gray’ in more than one sense of
the word. They were Mr. and Mrs-
Nathaniel Gray by name, and they
were all togged out in gray clothing-
gloves, hats, everything. Their eyes
were gray, and 1 believe the gentle-
man had a gray hair or two.
“Well, a day or two passed and they
seemed very happy and contented.
They were comparatively a bridal cou¬
ple, for thoy had not been m irrietl
three weeks, They were everywhere
hand-in-hand almost, arm-in-arm,any¬
way, and delighted with each other s
good tag'o in matrimonial selections—
that was clear enough. But after the
first two or three dnt s of sunshine ill"
sky seemed to cloud t)p. Mrs. Gray
Appeared oue morning looking fright*
THE : H NTERPRLSE. »
fully pale. Slio liad nothing: to aay
and she wouldn’t eat a mouthful of
breakfast. Gray spent all the fore¬
noon fussing about bis bangod-tailod
horse and after luncheon wont off for
a drive alone. I suspected a firs 1 '
quarrel, but I didn’t wish to intrude.
However, I must say it made mo feel
bud to seo the poor little woman walk
up and down the porch with such a
broken-hearted look in her eye9.
“Finally she went up to her room.
But Gray didn’t return, lie stayed
away until I began to think there
must be some thing rather serious
about it.
“Mrs. Gray did not come down
again, either. So I found one of tho
chambermsids who seemed to have
good sense and put her up to go and
see if anything had happened. She
came back and reported that Mrs.
Gray was lying fnco downward on
bor bed, not moving or seeming to
broathe. Of course I sent her up
again at once to seo if Mrs. Gray was
dead. She wont up and roused her
and the lady said sho was only rest¬
ing; she would come down in the
porch. But before she had had titno
to do so Gray drove up, sprung out
and sent his horse and cart to the
stable. He looked around, saw that
his wife was not in sight and hurried
up stairs. I had an idea he was a
little frightened. And I folt sorry,
for I had taken a sort of liking to him
—he was one of those good-natured
foitows, always ready with a harm¬
less jest, even though he wasn’t cs-
pecially brilliant.
“After a good while he catne down
gain, looking simply woe-begone.
<1 say,’ 1 said, moved by a sudden im¬
pulse, you’ll pardon me if I’m mak¬
ing myself officious. But is there
anything the matter? Anything that
I could do to help you to set things
right?’ Ho looked almost relieved.
‘Why,’ he said, *I’tn in a deuce of a
fix. I hardly know what to do. It’s
au absurd thing, too, and yet it’s
growing serious. My wife is the
dearest little thing on earth, and yet
she has some high-flown ideas that—
well, I don’t know but they aro going
to part us. She wants to leave me
and go home. Not to tier mother, for
sho hasn’t any, but to an old maid
cousin of hors who lias filled her up
with ridiculous notions of honor.’
‘“But what ltavo you been doing?’
I asked. ‘IIow have you misbehaved
yourself to deserve such punishment?’
‘Why, that’s the humiliating part of
it,’ he said, ‘It’s so absurd. Tiie
truth is, I was in the war and I was
wounded. And I never happened to
relt my wife about it until last night.’
*He blurted this out like a big school¬
boy, but ho seemed relieved when he
had done so.
“ •Oh,’ I said. ‘I understand. Well*
good gracious 1 Of course yon were
very very young when you were in the
war. A mere child. Thai’s easy
enough. Let’s see—’64 to ’84, twenty
years; ’91, seven more, makes twenty-
seven. Suppose you were fourteen.
Why that’s only forty-one. A man of
forty-one is young.” wound,’
*• ‘It isn’t the age, it’s the
he said, with a little groan.
a 1 And you mean to tell mo slio is¬
n’t protul of them?’
“lie tried to laugh, but only suc¬
ceeded in a sort of grunt. ‘They’re in
my back,’ he says.
“Well, of course there was a mo-
mont’s silence. I wasn’t us ready as 1
might have been, I didn’t want to
grin either. Then he went on hastily:
•L was a tncro boy; carried the colors
mounted. My horse was shot first nnd
reeled sidewise. I couldn’t turn him
back quick enough and a shot ripped
up mv back—in aud out—ricochet 1
think they call it. There’s two big
holes and they cost me a year in bed.
But Celia will never get over their lo-
cation.’
ol reflected for a few moments,
theu I said:
lt 1 I’ll try to help you out. I was in
the war, too, for a few days. I’ll tell
a war story that may serve a purpose.
Where is your wife?’
U t She's all dressed 10 go,’ he says.
•She begs mo to take iter home. She
iiH’t moan, at all, only just broken¬
hearted, and I feel like a fool.’
.. 1 Have vou your horse hitched up,’
£ save. •Let her think you’re going
to drive her homo. While it’s being
hitched she’ll be down here in tho pi-
azza and listen, no doubt.’
“So Gray obeyed aud the poor littlo
woman came 1 down, unaware, of
of my knowledge of her
course,
reason for distress.
“Gray went down to the stable and
I drew up my chair aud began to talk
t0 !,'!s or ry to hoar that you arc going taken
away, Mrs. Gray,’ I said. -I’ve
such fancy to your litisbuid. But
a and
then, I’ve only discovered that be
1 were comrades in battle once.’
“She turned a shade paler,
Equal Rights to all, Special Privileges to None.
CARNESVILLE FRANKLIN CO.. GA.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21.1892.
<« i You—you were iu tko war?’ she
asked.
“ ‘Yos; but I wasn't lucky enough
to be wounded—much less do anything
heroic. But thou, after all, Mrs.Gray,
a great deal of heroisin'gocs unknown
and unappreciated.’
“ * Yes,’ I wont on, ‘sometimes those
who uro nearest and dearest are ig¬
norant of deeds of their loved ones iu
the past, which, if they but know,
would fill and thrill them with pride.
How many people, Mrs. Gray, do you
suppose know of your husband's
wounds ami the noble way ho received
them? Few enough.’
“I looked around to see if Gray
was returning, but ho was nowhere iu
sight.
4 « ‘And oven if thoy did know of tho
baro circumstances,’ I went on, ‘how
littlo ideu thoy could form unless they
had seen him as I had seen him that
day, in the thick of tho hideous strug¬
gle, tho bullets whizzing by him, tiro
powder clouds blinding and choking
him, tho shells bursting at his horse’s
feet, and he, child that lie was—barely
fourteon—dashihg forward with the
oolors. When I remember it, I al¬
ways think of the poem ‘Boy Brit¬
ton.’ Perhaps you know that poem.
Au exquisite things. Yes, Gray was
as eager, as daring a young hero’—I
heard tho wheels of the cart coming
up from the etublo and made a big
jump to end it. ‘No retreat for him—
no retreat 1 A shot shattered tho
flagstaff in his hand. He stood in tho
stirrups and held his right arm up
with the precious rag. Another ter¬
rific explosion, ati.S the horse went
down under him. Ho freed himself
and turned to catch a comrade who
had fallen and was being trampled,
and a shot struck him in the side aud
ripped through his,back 1 Think of
it—a boy of fourteen—a tender
child I’
“Mrs. Gray’s face had changed
strikingly as site listened. She sat
leaning forward and fairly hanging
on my words. Her lips had almost
begun to work, w e 11 up drove Gray,
good natured and impassive with the
banged-tailed horse. As ho sprang
out, she rushed toward him.
.. . Oh, Nattie, Nattie! We won’t
go—we—won’t go I I want to stay
—I’ve changed my mind, Nattie!’
“I disappeared into the house and
ho took her upstairs sobbing. But I
knew it was all fixed aud I felt quite
happy.”
Kuntmel patued aud drew a self-
satisfied breath.
Altbea, my wife, l.ad come up 1 and
stood , leaning , . against . the , porch , railing ...
with her eyes intent upon him.
“And was it all trite and just as yon
said, Mr. Kummol?” sho asked, sinil-
itig very sweetly. My wife is con¬
sidered a great beauty by good judges.
“H’tnl Supposing it weren’t,” ha
laughed, “what would you say?”
“I should say ‘Oh, what au awful
liar l’ ” said Althea with beauty’s own
audacity.
“My dear,” I corrected, “you
wouldn’t at all- You’d merely mur.
inur ‘Blessed are the peacemakers!’ ”—
[New York Mercury.
Frogs Growing Popular.
Where there is u large supply of any
one article on the market, it neces.
sarily follows that there must be a
good demand. There is upon the St.
Louis market a large supply of frogs,
ranging in size from obesity to attenu¬
ation. The frog, however, affl oted
with embonpoint is at present tbe
leader iu die social swim. Frog rais¬
ing is evidently a growing industry,
aud on tho word of Paul Pietri and
Julius Danseen is bound to thrive.
Frog-eating among the Americans,
these gentlemen say, lias grown won¬
derfully within the past year or two,
and they, from tho nature of their
business, are in a position to know.
Although these gentlemen do not con¬
duct a frog farm in the rear of their
place of business, they are known to
have concealed in the neighborhood of
their men kitchen Kitcne.. and within easy grasp ‘ of
the chef many well developed singus
from the marshy lowlands, ail of which
are alive and full of hojrs. A man at
the market who receives a fresh in-
T ,.ice every day of these sprawling
warblers, which so recklessly jump at
a piece of red flaunel or a seductive
minnow, says that their sale has ho¬
come one of the most important
branches of ids business. —[St. Loui*
Star Sayigns.
Very Suggestive.
Young Mr. Dolley—How lovely
those fleecy white clouds look lying
against that blue sky.
Miss i - a Ifipp—Yes, viinn_Yos itid^ad ina.it. Thev 1 ney
look like delicious ico crGum on groat
blue saucers.
Dolley-Y-e-s—er, would you like
some cream, Miss Fiipp?
Miss Fiipp—Duq’t care if Ido. IIow
kiud ot you to suggest lt i Dotty*
PEOPLE’S PARTY COLUMN.
Current Comment Concerning the Great
Crusade Against Oppression.
The democrats and republicans both
want the people’s party to pull down its
ticket. The people are le.ving them so
rapidly thnt they both see defeat staring
them in the face. As the democrats are
fighting the pcple's party it is plain that
they would rather see the repu biicans in
thau the people's par<y.
* *
The demonitization of silver iu 1873
was not accomplished by stealth. This
was conclusively suown and fully proven
in a recent issue of The Economist. The
claim of Senator Stewart, in his silver
speech in the stealth, Senate, that it was accom¬
plished by record. was only a pretext to
cover his own
Southern Mercury (Texas) suggests a
good reason for the extra courtesies ex¬
tended the Pinkertons by Congressman
Oates, of Alabama, chairman of house
judiciary committee: “William Pinker¬
ton is a staunch democrat and 00 per cent
of his employes are democrats. Well,
that’s what we said, the old parties
would fuse to down the new party.
Ninety per cent of the Pink rtou men
are democrats, and about 00 per cent or
more of those who employ the Piuker-
tons to crush out organized labor at $5 a
day are republicans. That’s one form ot
fusion, brethren; dou’t forget the
method,
THOMAS JEFFERSON’S DEMOCRACY.
“I have ever opposed money of hauks;
not of those discounting for cash, bui
of those foisting their own paper inio
circulation, aud thus banishing our cash.
My zeal against th se institutions was so
warm and open at the establishment of
the Bank of the United Stutea that I was
dec ded as a mauige by tbe tiibe of the
money-mongers who were seeking to
fih h from the public. But the errors
of that day cannot be recalled. The
evils that they have engendered are now
upon ps, and tbe question is, how to get
out of them. Shall we build an altar to
the old paper money of the revolution
which ruined individuals but saved the
Republic, aud burn on that all the bank
charters, present and future, and th ir
notes with them? For these are to ruin
both Repub icand individuals.”—Letter
of Thomas Jefferson to President Adams,
January 24, 1814.—Exchange.
PROGRESS OF THF FIGHT.
The Presidemia campaign, which is
interwoven with local issues and men,
continues on its weary way. We wish
it was over. Every iuch of ground is
being fought for by 'he three contend¬
ing armies. The tariff issue, which is a
big one, does not figure in the fight to
any great extent. The people are tired
of the methods of the old line poli'i-
c j aDS . They want something more than
a fight ou it; they want it whipped off
the earth, fhe force bill is treated as a
ghost, and it deserves to be. The fiuau-
eial question is the great oue. The
tax question is another one. Free coin-
«g« *>< 8 ’ lver an< * a f ad t ated iucome
tax are the watchword. More money
jg paramoun t. The people favor the
election of the President and Senators
by 'he people. The people want monopolies to get
loose Irom these powerful
that are sucking their life blood. They
are determined to ge rid of Pinkerton’s
army. They want justhe just between prices labor
aud capital, they want for
th' ir products according to supply and
deinand, »nd they are going to have it.
’I hey want something that is something.
A mere wrangle over the tariff does not,
wifi not s disfy them, and they are kick¬
ing hard aud constantly.—Progressive
Farmer, (Raleigh, N. C.)
* *
FEDERAL SUPERVISORS NECESSARY.
Among the first questions asked
General Fie d was one as to his views
withregari to the decision of the third
par y to apply for federal supervisors at
all South in polling places. his
“I health endor-e it,” w -s answer.
“I «m decidedly supervisors in favor of the appoint¬
ment tif federal at each pol¬
ling place, and the planing Marshals- there, if We ne¬
cessary, of United »tat's
are in this fight to get a fud and fa r
count, and i> is evidently not the inten
tion to give us a fair sho wing for this
r< agon. For this reason we have decided
to appeal to the national Government
to protect our rights as voters through
the medium of federal supervisors and
marshals. In Arkansas, tor instance, we
were refused judges at the elections, snd
the same policy is likely to prevail in
oilier Southern States. It is for this rea-
s“n that we invoke the power of the fed-
crsl Government. We believe that with
such supei vision of elccti ns we can get
our votes all counted, prevent corruption
mid oarrv tffp Sou*' • rn States tW w< old
otherwise be stolen from us. If the same
danger exists in the North and West,
then I any let’s have supervisors and mar¬
shalls at the polls there, too. Our boast-
( d liberties will soon be valueless unless
we can guarantee protection to the humb-
lest voter in the Let that that his vote
w j|[ ] )e properly received and properl7
couuted.”
A NEED OF TIIE nOUR.
Now that tbe conventions are over and
the tickets are in the field, marshaling
the forces must b-gin. Tbe lines are
drawn,and ihe most momentous political
contest for a quarter of a century is upon
us. The lovers of gold and the enemies
of liberty, the monopoly fed and trust
fattened cormorants, the partisan bigot
and political leeches are united against
the people. Success at ad hazards is
their determination.
There is no life too dear, no character
too sacred, no ballot too pure to escape
their selfish avaricious assaults. Viilifi-
ca tion, Blunder, libel and personal resorted vio-
leuce, if need be will be to.
Organization, colomza'ion, “blocks of
tena and twentir;Si frau d, perjury in the
und bribery will bo fcneir weapons
present campaign. Home workmen a re
to be crowd-d out and back to mike
way for imported voters. Exorbitant
freight rates are to be extorted from the
farmers, meehtnics aid consumer* tc
gwell the a fund and despoil
and corrupt tbe ballot box. Compiett
organizations, liberal donations and con¬
tributions, an t perfect obedience to their
plutocratic rustlers is their hope of sue
cess.
We must be awake to tho necessity ot
work. To fail to realize our situation
and work to m 'Ot au unscrupulous and
insiduous foe is defeat to our principles need
and danger to our liberties. The
for close, conservative organization clubs was
never grea'er. Upon political afford drifi are
insufficient. We eauuot to
in fancied security when the political o(
worms are destroying the bulwarks
American liberty. If wo would throw
off the corporation anil incubus wo that must
think, act and vote, see out
votes are counted.
If wo haven free ballot anil fair count,
wc must organize and stand together like
men and pa riots. No organization for
the education of (he masses iu tho inter¬
ests of justice and equity should be al¬
lowed to dissolve or lose its power. Each
reform organization has a legitimate mis¬
sion and held of labor.
The Farmers’ Altianc*, Knights of La -
bor and kindred organizations are charac¬ nou-
artisan and educati mal in their
ter, and aro composed of a membership
limited to certain c'asso«, and aro there¬
fore restricted iu their work. But each
has a noble and useful work to perform. Al~
The National Citizens’ Industrial
iiauce is composed of a membership stand from
till stations and callings in life who
-quarely upon tho St. Louis organization, platform,
and, while not a partisan for the
adopting t is political its principle!, and will work and the Pooplo’s party
party having done this wo tako our
stand and pktdgo our support t > Weaver
aud Field and tho People’s party tickets
in every state in the Union.
Our membershin is composed and of mer¬
chants, farmers, laborots business or
professional men of all callings, irrespect¬ oth-
ive of whether they are members of
or reform organizations or not, and wo
meet upon a common level to devise the
safest and best method to meet aud ro-
sist our common enemy. While work-
mg in perfect harmony wa occupy a field
unoccupied by any other labor organiza¬
tion. Tbe N itional Citizens’ Industrial
Alliance is a uational organization; its
mission is a good one - its existence is a
necessity.
The work of reform education in bus¬
iness circles, guarding and protecting fraud
the ballot against illegal voters,
and bribery is e-tsential, and must be
lone by reliable, conservative, organized
effort. The plans for successful work
cannot be laid in open view of the enc-
my. There is much to be done in an im-
portant contest like this that must be
well and carefully planned.
Our orgauiz >tion is well sdapted for
'hat work—it is for that purpose, Po-
litical clubs and committees need all tbe
assistance they ran get, and our purpose
is to Bssist them with well matured and
organiz d plans. Surely we must fight
if we would wm in this struggle, nnd to
firht well the National Gitizo' s’ Industri-
;■ 1 A fiance should he thoroughly hamlet or¬
ganized io every city town and
in tho land. I/ t every ; atriotic reform¬
er join us, pit' his shoulder to the wheel
and help us on to Wo ffington. With
uni ed effor * and patriotism the people i-
wi 1 b; sue ossfu .—Noau Allen, Pre
id nt National C dawns’ Alliance.
Incipient Melancholy.
Molancholio is a grave disoase, ospeci
ally because of its strange and terribt
tendency to induce suicide and homicide
As the be patient’s perfectly reasoning friends prooesset
seem to clear, art
seldom sufficiently on their guard. Tin
danger is always present, however, noi
of is the highest degree safeguard of intelligence oj it
moral worth any against
The New York Medical Journal has n
report of a lecture on the importance ol
recognizing melancholia in its earlioi
stage by Dr. Burnett, lecturer in the Kan¬
sas City Medical College, of which re
port we make free use.
“There is a marked difference between
sadness and melancholia,” says Dr. Bur¬
nett. “In ordinary sadness thero is 0
cause comprehensible wifi seek to the it. individual In mel¬
aud he to remove
ancholia there is no apparent cause;
there is some implication of the higliei
faculties, and the patient is usually in¬
different to Iiis condition, surrounding*
arid future progress. "
There are several forms of the affec¬
tion; Simple melancholia, melancholia
agitata, melancholia uttonita, and me!
anebolia with stupor. The first two an
the most difficult of recognition, and i:
is these that especially endanger the live?
of the patient and his friends.
The first important system of simph
melancholia is sleeplessness. Another
symptom, of the greatest importance, it
a dull pain in the back of the neck, ex¬
tending to tbe back of the head. It i*
only within a few years 1 hut this syrup
tom has been recognized. depression ol
TI 10 third symptom is
spirits, accompanied by slower mental
movements aud retarded speech and ac
tioris. When the first and the last symp¬
toms are connected with pain iu the neck
the diagnosis may be considered as CO li¬
elusive.—[Philadelphia Record.
Nos< and Complexion.
Dr. Emil Schmidt, professor of an-
thropologv in Leipzig University and
aut jj 0ro f “Anthropologisehe Mcthoden,”
| hag - n recen t numbers of the Globys
- yen the results of his studies on the
„ at ; ve races 0 f India. Ho elassfies the
different types as, 1, narrow nosed, fair
B ^j nne< t; 2, broad nosed, fair skinned;
,, narro w nosed, dark skinned; 4, broad
n ’osed, second dark skinned, be is inclined to
The type resulting from inter- con-
B j<j eT a mixed one,
mixture of the white Aryan and Dravid-
j an< qqje third type is represented observed by in
t ; ic tii n g S 0 r day laborers and Dr. Schmidt
the cities of the straits, Teiuge
thinks they are of Tamul or
origin.—[Philadelphia Ledger.
Mrs. Richard in Kw«, Texas, widow of the big- h
gesrt cattle owner waose ran ts
tha largest in tae worlJ, hi 3 bought the
Guntor herd ot s'rorthorn cattle, »o 100 ne
eleven hundred head, paying therefor * .
000. She will remoye them to the Kn;
ranch near Corpus Ohristi. This is tbs pig-
mwtjaiepf registered cattle ever made in
OFFICIAL ORGAN
—oi» Turin—
FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE
ALLIANCE LITERATURE.
Matters of Moment Which Concern the
Order and Its Members.
Tho following State Alliances are yet
to hold their annual meeting-; It dimi/i,
Indianapolis, Owensboro, Novi November mbt r 17; California, Kentucky,
1;
isaernmento, October 18: Williamsport,
Pa., October 25.
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The American Federation of Libor ex¬
pects great tilings from the moral effect
of the national eight-hour law on State
eral legislatures, adoption and by in the event of its gen¬
the States, a part cure
for existing tabor troubles. There are over
eighteen million laborers in tho country
working on an average of ten hours per
diem, and it is estimated that the reduc¬
tion of hours to eight would give em¬
ployment to all of the unemployed la¬
borers iu the land, with less friction or
injury to employers than any other plan.
The use of machinery lias made this solu¬
tion not only practical but absolutely
uecestary.
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STIPENDIARIES.
Just outside the main exit of the ball
of United States Representatives, in tho
Capitol, are the railed-off officers of tho
Western Union sight Telegraph Company. here It
is a common for visitors to
get their closest glimpse of law-makers.
Some of them are always standing about
(while the House is fu session) dispatch¬
ing or receiving telegraphic messages. for
And it is also a common sight, the
eye of the observer to follow a quick
transfer from a neat, leather
bound little book of a “telegraphic
frank” to the Senator's or Oongris-man’s
dispatch. These books are furnished
Representatives by the “c'Urtesy” of the
Western Union Compio y,aud when their
conteuts are consumed, another is
promptly forwarded. The custom—for
it has grown to lie one—is almost uni¬
versal. Few statesmen fall to avail them¬
selves of monopoly’s sop to Cerebus. It
follows, therefore, as shadow substance
and day night, that men who aro the
stipendiaries u> d recipients of a corpo¬
ration’s favors, will enact no legislation
irritant to it. By such methods are the
helpless rendered more so, and tho pub¬
lic wronged.—National Economist.
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Populist (Kan.) Correct. The men
who denounce reforms ns visionary or
virions are doing so in groBS and un¬
pardonable ig orm cc. They have never
studied Alliance principles or demands
and most of them never will. They only
dimly r<aline that tbeir day is passb g
and the new dispensation bus in it no
place for them. Hence it must be
trampled under fo t, brui-ed and beaten
out now—an impossible undertaking.
Men who denounce government owner¬
ship of iailway“, tbe land loan scheme
and sub-treasury t > an do so mote in a
spidt of fault-finding and because they
know that they must oppose the df-siro new
party on some grounds, ttian any prejudice
to get at tho truth. In short,
prompts their deposition to these meos-
uns, and nothing attests this fact so
fully as the interest thnt crops out of
them in advancing opinions on these
questions. We have heard men con¬
demn the land loan -chen e the subtle,,s-
ury plan and government ownership of
railways in the most positive terms, and
yet all tbe while proving nothing -o clear
aa their own absolute ignorance of what
they were talking about. Instances of
that kind are not confined to illiterate or
tbe ignorant clases but bankers, intelligent lawyers,
merchants aud the more
classes.
SUB-TREASURY IN FRANCE.
The following letter, published correspond¬ in tbe
National Economist, from a
ent in Fiance gives an insight int > the
working of the Sub-Treasury plan in
that country. Read it:
My dear sir: I have read with much
interest your article in your issue of Au¬
gust 6, entitled “The G vernment Loans
to Banks.” Instead of lending money
on bonds to hanks or mi llonaircs, the
banque of France (government nr stale
banks) lends it to the people, at present,
at 8i per cent. The fine of bonds is
extensive—central government, railway
credit foncier, departments and citie?,
nil of which are The superintended 80 by the
government. loans are per cent
of the present value on government
bond* proper, and 75 per cent on rail¬
ways, credit f ncier, department and city
securities. The loan is as low as 250
francs, so that every citizen m iy have a
“compete courarit d’armes,” as it is
termed, and the Bank of France takes
charge gratuitously of perce ving the
interest of same bonds or securities, so
that the borrower has only to pay a dif¬
ference of interest on receiving the
loan.
This mode is very democratic, and
yon should require it from your Govern¬
ment. One per cent is the best desider¬
atum, bu* we pay 3 1-2 per cent on nc-
count of tbe private character, also of
the Bank of Franco by its shareho' ders.
Thnt central bank has nearly 300 cities
in France, where our paper is forwarded
by its care. I am able to give you this
information; I am one of its “compete
cou'ants.”
Always at your orders, ns were La-
Favette and Rochambeau, I am, respect¬
fully yours, A. M. Blancho.
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ALLIANCE DEMANDS.
la. We demand the abolition of
national banks.
b. We demand that tbe Government
shall establish subtreusunes in the several
States which shall issue money direct to
the people at a low rate of t -x, not to cx-
perlsbabic rf-r-'i 2 ppr cent yer annum, on non-
farm proi'ue a, and also upon
real estate, with proper limit«tions upon
the Duality of land an 1 amount of money.
0 We demand that 1 he amount of the cir¬
culating medium be speedily increased to
not less iban $50 per capita.
2. We demand that Congress shall
pass such laws ss will effecutafiy
prevent the dealings in fu¬
tures of all agricultural nnd me-
hanical productions; providing a strin¬
gent system of proceeaure in trials that
will secure prompt convic'ion, snd im¬
posing rneb penalties as shell secure tbO
most perfect conaplifipce witl} Ihe lftff.
$1.00 PER YEAR.
3. Wo condemn the silver bill recent¬
ly passed by Congress, and demand in
heu thereof the freo and unlimited coin¬
age of s lver.
4. We demand the passago of laws
prohibiting alien ownership of land,
and that Congress take piompt action
to devise some plan to obtain all lands
now held by aliens and foreign syndi¬
cates; and that all lands now held by
lailroads and other C'rporations in ex¬
cess of such as is acuslly used and
needed by them be reclaimed by the
Government, and held for actual settlers
only. doctrine of equal
5. Believing in the
rights to all ai d special priveleges to
none, wc deinand—
b. That our national legislation shall
he so framed in tbe future as not to
build up one industry at tho expenso of
another.
b. We further demand a removal of
the existing heavy tariff t«x from tho
necessities of ifo that the poor of our
land must have.
c. Wo fur her demand a just and
equitable system of graduated tax on in¬
comes.
d. We boliovo that the money of the
country should be kept as much »s possi¬
ble in the hands of the people, and hence
we demand thnt all national and State
revenues shall be limited to tbe necessary
t xpeusea of the government economical¬
ly and honestly administered.
fl. We demand tho most rigid, honest
and just State and natioual govtrnmental
con 11 ol and supervision of the moans of
public communication and transporta¬
tion, and if this control and sugeivision
does not remove the abuse now existing,
we demand the Government ownership
of such means of communication and
transportation. d< rnand that the Congress of
7. We
i be Unit' d Ktates submit an amendment
to the Constitution providing for the
election of United States Senators by
direct voto of tho people of each Stale.
FINANCE.
First. We demand a national currency,
safe, sound, and fb xible, ssued by tho
general government only, a full legal
imdir for all debts, public and private,
and that without tbe tec of bonking cor¬
porations, a just, e quitable, direct and the efficient
mentis of disuibu ion to peo¬
ple at uj'iix not to exceed 2 ptr cent per
annum, to be provided as sit forth in the
sub-treasury plan of the Farmers, Alli¬
ance, or a better syst in; also by pay¬
ments in discharge of its obligations for
public denial improvements. d fr* and unlimited coin¬
We e
age of silver and gold at the present legal
nitioof 1(1 to 1.
Wo demand that the amount of circu¬
lating medium be speedily increased to
not less than $50 per capita.
Wo demand a graduated income tax.
We believe that the money of the
country should be kept as much as pos¬
sible in the hands of the people, and
hence wc demand nil state and national
revenue shall be limited to the necessary
expense" of the government economi¬
cally administered.
We demand that p' stal savings banks
be established by the governin' nt for tbe
safe deposit of the earnings of the peo¬
ple, and to facilitate exc"»nge.
TRANSPORTATION.
Second. Transports'ion being a means
of exchange and u public riecesMtt, the
government should own a d operate the
railroads in the inti r- st of the peop'e.
I he telegraph and teleph ne, bke the
postoflice system, being a i ecessity for
the transmission of news, should be own¬
ed snd operated by the government in
the interest of the p> opie.
land
Third. The land, including all tbe nat¬
ural sources of we 1th, is tbe heritage of
the people, and "bould not be m on'po¬
ized for speculative purposes, > nd alien
ownership of la <1 should be prohibited. and
All la d now belt! by railroads
other corporations, in • xecss of their ac-
ual nee -s, anti all lands now owned by
aliens thould be reclaimed bv the gov-
i rnmeot and held for actual settlers only.
Jocko’s Recreation.
A few pedestrians who were out for a
morning stroll witnessed a brief but
bloody battle through the windows of the
Market street bird store .Sunday morn¬
ing. of the place is
Among the denizens proclivity a
monkey called Jocko, whose
for mischief Ims led him into disgrace be¬
fore. On the morning in question Jocko
determined to go on a lark. Ha suc¬
ceeded in picking the lock of Iiis cage,
and once free turned his attention to his
feathered companions. It took him but
a few minutes to unlock a dozen of the
various cages in tho room, and soon a
funny procession of moukoys and parrots
were strutting about.
In a few minutes trouble began to
brow. One of the parrots, in a spirit of
mischief, probably, bit Jocko, ard a
lively battle ensued. Polly soon found
that she was getting the worst of it and
made a run for her cage, minus her tail
feathers and part of a wing.
Jocko, who was then thoroughly
aroused, sailed in for a general massuere,
and in a short time had the floor to him¬
self, save for .Minnie, a nightingale, With who
wus too dazed to escape. one blow
the bird was stretched lifeless on the
floor. The monkey then offered battle
to a bigstuffed owl which had been giving
solemnly upon tho scene, and receiving
110 answer to his challenge threw the bird
oft’ its pedestal. Waterloo awaiting, him,
Jocko’s was
however. A huge vampire hat; tvhich
had been watching tho battle, jumped
down from his perch, and Jocku started
for him. The contest was brief. The
sharp beak and talons of the bird buried
themselves like a flash in tho monkey’s
flesh, and Jocko was glad to mako his es¬
cape witli the blood flowing from, a dozen
wounds At this juncture the proprietor
appeared auJ hostilities ceased.—[San
Francisco Chronicle.
J. S. Parker, of Lincoln Creek,
Wash., killed fourteen bears—eleven
full grown and three cubs—in one week's
hunting near his home two weoks ago.
He bagged five the first day that he was
out. Bears are exceedingly and plentiful another in
that section of the State,
hunter klllqd twelve bears there a month
or so Mr. Parker holds the record.