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Contentment in Nature.
t would not change my joys for thoso
Of Emperors and Kings.
W'hnt has my gentle friend, the rose
Told them, if aught, do you suppose—
The rose that tells me things.
What secrets have they had with trees?
What romps with grassy spears?
What know they of the mysteries
01 butterflies and houey bees,
Who whisper in my ears?
What says the sunbeam unto them?
What tales have brooklets told?
Is there within their diadem
A single rival to the gem
The dewy daisies hold?
What sympathy have they with birds,
Whose songs are songs of mine?
Do they e’er hear, as though in wordB
’Twas lisped the message of the herds
Of grazing, lowing kine?
Ah no! Give me no lofty throne,
But just what nature yields.
Let me but wander on, alone
If needs be, so that all my own
Are woods and dales and fields.
— [John Bangs, in Harper’s Weekly.
Under Three Umbrellas.
“If it didn’t look as if I woro trying
to gain some benefit from your um¬
brella,” he remarked, as lie chanced to
meet lief ou the church stops after ser¬
vice, “I would ask to walk home with
you. 1 didn’t expect rain when I left
homo, so I am unprepared.”
“However,” came her clear reply,
just arch enough to be fascinating and
just tender enough to be frank, “if
you’ll carry my umbrella and let me
turn my energies to keeping my dress
caught up out of tho mud I’ll be very
thankful to you.”
They had walked, strangely enough,
half way home iu almost complete si¬
lence, when a man and a woman passed
them, like them, under one umbrella,
but, unlike them, the woman was held
snugly close to the man’s side as she
clung to his arm. It was a picture of
that open freedom which so undenia¬
bly marks a congenial mail and wife,
whose companionship has ripened into
frank trust.
As they passed Robert Courtriglit
said, half thoughtfully, perhaps:
“They are sensible. If two are
trying to use one umbrella, they aro
surely’ti rb e commended if they sirive
to tako up as little room as possible.
Even if it be noon, won’t you tako my
arm ?”
“But they are plainly not such—
such strangers as we,” she returned,
conscious that both were treading on
dangerous ground.
“Are wo strangers?” ho asked
quickly, turning his eyes searcliingly
to her.
Tlic pretty face grew a trifle pale
against its light-brown hair. A lump
seemed to climb to her throat, but sho
returned, bravely: “Yes—that is,we’I*
always be strangers compared with
them.”
He slopped for an instant and gazed
fixedly at her till a hot flush flew up
from out her dark fur collar aud
swept under the velvet strings of hor
dainty brown bonnet.
“Always?” he asked simply.
“Yes. Why, can’t you see that they
are married?”
She tried to laugh it away, but it
would have been difficult to tell
which pair of lips quivered the most
or which pair of eyes swam in the
deepest mist as tho two started ou,
both silent, both sad, both realizing
that a little tragedy had occurred in
that brief instant under that dripping
umbrella on the noon boulevard.
Eight years went by and found
Gabriel Vaughne alono iu the world,
with necessity for keeping up a life
in which all interest aud all energy
were dead. She had at last arisen
from a tedious illness, and the nurse
herself scarcely recognized the tall,
pale, sad-faced woman, with the short
dark curls, as the bright-eyed, light¬
haired girl of six mouths before.
Gabriel had one tiling dear to her,and
only one, and that was a memory.
And some of our dearest memories
Jto the cruelest parts of our lives.
When finally she stood before a mir¬
ror, and realized that that changed
clicature was herself, a mighty re¬
solve filled her—sho would go to Ihe
source of that memory.
She knew where he was; she knew
that he had married threo 5 ears after
that hitter morning in the rain, and
bad married a wealthy wife, That
was tho veason that she had thrust him
back from her long ago, just because
of his poverty. Not that it would
pain her, a thousand times nol Hadn’t
she cried out, niglit after night since,
that starvation with him would be
only bliss? But she had known his
ambiiions and his capabilities; knew
his dreams of success, and she realized
his abilitv to turn the dreams iuto
realities. She was poor. Would sho
permit herself to bang a millstone
about his neck? No, she would hurt
his heart before she would ruin his
fife.
THE ENTERPRISE.
Time had proved that she had been
right. Ilis wifo was a beautiful
woman, and her wealth had opened
boundless opportunities to him. lie
had risen—she had known that ho
would. But, now that she scarcely
was able to know herself, site would
venture into his world and soe for her¬
self how happy and proud and pros¬
perous he was.
So, having spent all but her last bill
for hor ticket, slio stepped into Phila¬
delphia one spring evening, steeling
her heart to what might follow. The
next evening she had walked past his
great, rich house and was starting
back when a sudden shower burst un¬
expectedly upon her.
She gathered up her skirts in that
particular way so characteristic of a
dainty woman, and was hurrying
along when all at once she was con¬
scious of a sharp, childish cry at her
side. Turning, she beheld a tall sad¬
faced man trying to quiet a fretful
baby of about 8 years, which held out
its dimpled hands to her and cried:
“Mamma! Mamma!”
The gentleman strove to stop it and
Gabriel started on. But sharp and
piercing came tho “Mum-mal” and
her heart bade her linger.
For the first time the man spoke to
her.
“I must bog your pardon, madam.
HU mother has just died and some,
thing about you seems to have recalled
her to him.”
Gabriel’s heart softened at onco.
Going straight up sho took the tiny,
outstretched hands iu her own and
murmured: “Poor, motherless little
one.”
The father held out his umbrella
over her and for tho first time she
looked at him—the face was Robert’s?
She was glad for the excuse of turn¬
ing to baby again and murmured
something unintelligible. •
However, lie had not recognized
her,so she drew all her strength to her
assistance and succeeded in hiding her
emotion.
“If you will walk tinder my um¬
brella,as I am going your way for this
square, you can keep dry. And, too,
I fear baby won’t like to part with
you now.”
There was no easy way to retreat:
it would have been absurd to scud off
iu a changed direction through the
pelting rain, so she continued talking
hurriedly to the child. As they reached
the foot of the broad stoue steps she
stopped, “I cannot thank you enough
for having calmed Leslie. His nurse
left this morning and h i will not be
consoled by any of the other servants.
So I finally told Mrs. Clarke, the
housekeeper, that I would try him for
a walk. But will you not take the
umbrella? It will be a shame to ex¬
pose yourself to such a deluge.”
She gracefully declined all thanks
aud such kind offers, and glidod
quickly off, a tall, blacked-robed figure
daring tho watery drops. But a per¬
fect shriek from baby arose when he
found himself deserted in this fashion,
and eacli succeeding cry became
louder and moro distressing. Again
Gabriel could not go. Again she came
back to him.
“Will you please come into the
house with him? Mrs. Clarke may
there be better able to get him away
than I.”
So Gabriel, carrying the child, en¬
tered his house, uuknown, but wel¬
come even then.
Leslie was not to be easily deceived,
nnd all the ruses were seen through
immediately by his careful, big blue
eyes.
“We must get a nursemaid this
very night,’’ declared Mrs. Clarke, as
she endeavored in her practical, cold-
hearted way to inveigle tho young
lord from his new “mamma.”
“But,” groaned Mr. Courtriglit,
••where can one get one which he can
trust on such short notice?”
A bold idea entered Gabriel’s head:
She tried three or four times to speak,
aud her voice failed. Finally sho
choked back the lump iu her throat
and said:
“Would it be presumptuous for me
to offer myself? I can show you ex¬
cellent references, nnd I am uow look¬
ing for some such position.”
“You a nursemaid?” exclaimed Mr.
Courtriglit in amazement. Then, a
moment later, lie would have given
much to have it back unsaid; her
plain black gown was darned at the
elbows— it was merely her way of
wearing it that gave her the appear¬
ance of a woman of long founded cul¬
ture and delicacy.
Two years went by, in which Miss
Varney, as she was now known, un¬
discovered was loved by and
loved in return Mr. CourtriglU’s two
children. It was one evening iu
March, just before dusk, when she , had
left Leslie up stairs asleep and had
just mm?? down to the drawing-room
Equal Rights to ail, Special Privileges to None.
CARNES VILLE FRANKLIN CO., GA.,.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28 . 18 ( 12 .
with Mabel, to stay with the child tiU
her father cauio to dinner.
He waa late and Mabel had wan¬
dered oft - to a back parlor, Hitts leav¬
ing Gabriel alone in the dimly lightod
room when Mr. Courtriglit finally
entered.
“I shall call Mabel,” she began,
starting from her station by the win¬
dow.
“No, Mies Varney; stay. I have
something to say to you. You re¬
member how moved I was tho first
time Lcslio called you ‘ mamma ?’
You thought then, uo doubt, that it
was because of tho memory of my
wife. Partly so, but mostly because
as I looked up at you I thought for
mi iustant that you were (lie woman—
who might have been his mother if
tho fatos had been kinder. Do you
know, Miss Varney, that you often
remind me cruelly of a woman I
loved better titan the world?”
“Your wife?” She was glad that
it was dark enough to hide the tremb¬
ling of her lips.
“No, not my wifo. I lovcil Mario
one way; site was tender and true to
me. But the woman that l really
loved—” Then, after a short pause,
he went on: “But what I meant to
say to you is this: I have learned to
love you a thousand times bettor titan
Mario, and sometimes, I almost think,
as much as I loved—the dearest one.
Can you, will you hate me if I ask
you thus to bo Leslie’s mamma in
truth as well as in word?”
Slowly came the reply: “But you
love the first womau host of all, even
yet?”
“Yes, I do. But, as I said, I of¬
ten almost think that you are she when
I stop to realize how I feel toward
you.”
Moment after moment went by.
The shadows came closer and tho vim
of lighter clouds near tho west hori¬
zon grew narrower. At last she
said: “I, too, loved in the long ago.
But I can never iu any way love an¬
other man. But—”
Before she could finish tho sentence
Mr. Courtwriglit had reognized in
his governess the “best loved one of
all,” and it is needless to say that the
umbrella episode resulted in Mis 3
Vaughn’s really becoming the mamma
of baby Leslie.
Catching the Octopus.
< *It is no trick to catch them. They
arc pulled out with hook and line from
the deep waters of the Sound just liko
fish, and are found ou the rocky bot¬
toms of the fishing banks,” said a
fisherman in Seattle. “Look attbis,”
continued he, raising the slimy mass
of legs aud pointing to a perfect
counterpart of a parrot’s black beak.
“That’s his mouth. Just liko a par¬
rot’s, only much larger and more
powerful. When once those jaws
fasten on tho bait they never let go
until landed on the deck of the boat.
They seldom give us much trouble.
Experience has taught the men how to
handle them safely. Tho only care
necessary is to prevent their fastening
their suckers on (he sides and bottom
of tlie boat. If by accident or care¬
lessness they should succeed in doing
so, the octopus is safe, for the suction
of those cup-like disks is so great that
nothing but tlie knife can dislodge
them, and as they can’t be reached they
get away.
“Tlie men know by the weight on
the line and its action when an octo-
pus is hooked. Then, by means of
poles, tlie line is kept away from tho
beat, and, watching a favorable op¬
portunity, with the assistance of boat¬
hooks, tlie fellow is suddenly yanked
on board and left to thrash its life
away on deck, Of course, the men
have learned to keep carefully out of
reach of its tentacles. Ou a clear day
and in clear weather one can see an
octopus at a groat depth. Their bodies
usually lio hidden under shelving
rocks, leaving one or more of those
long feelers visible, moving cautiously
back and forth.
“Baiting a hook with a white rag
and dropping it close by, it is fun to
watch their movements. They pre.
tend not to see the bait, believing it
is a living prey. They will advance
their feelers inch by inch, aud grad¬
ually their body, and retreat again as
if to draw on the intended victim.
Playing the bait back and forth ex¬
cites their cupidity, and when satis-
lied with the result the beast makes a
spring for the bait that for lightning-
like speed beats anything on record.
Of course, it fastens its razor-like
)
double-back-action beak into the rag
and holds on like grim death, allow¬
ing itself to bo pulled out of the water
rather tlmu let go.”
In the Orchard.
U e _How (he trees are moaning and
sighing today.
She—So would you, if yon were as
full of greet? apples as they are.—
[Life.
ALLIANCE LITERATURE.
Matters ot Moment Which Concern the
Order and Its Members.
How much money have you made on
tho fnrm this year? Ate you not poorer
now than /on wero question January tho first!
Ask yourself this on the morn¬
ing of the election and vote as your con¬
science dictates.
***
Ituratist (South Dakota) says: The sub-
treasury plan would give thxioi ity to
our currency. Wittdom said some plan
must, be devised. lie offered nene. lhe
farmer does and it is coSipiete. Tire old
parties refuse to discuss it.
***
The Homo of representatives of the
United States gave five days to the which dis¬
cussion of tho World’s Fair bill,
provided for giving away #5,000,000 of
the people’s money, but when the sub¬
treasury measure—the monsura to relievo
the toiling farmers and laborers of
America—came up in tho samo House,
they positively refused to allow oue min¬
ute to discus-s it. Tho same House that
donated two and one-half million dol¬
lars to a rich circus of Chicago, killed
the bill to give the people tnc relief they
demand, without even discussion.
***
The Arkansas State Atliauco was held
at Little Bock, with thirty-two counties
represented. The Arkansas Fanner
was approved for past year aud readop -
ed as official organ. The following new
officers were elected for 1802-03: Pres¬
ident, D. E. Parker, Barkada, Drew
county; vice-president, W. P. Dowell,
Fayetteville, Washington county; secre¬
tary, L. H. Moore, Alston, Franklin
county; treasurer, Dr. G. Kid well,
Chismville, Logan cousty; lecturer, Ho¬
mer Prince, Searcy, White county.
Tho financial condition of the order was
shown to be prosperouJ, and tho reports
of all committees were able, impartial
and encouraging.
***
Coming Crisis which (Colorado) furnishes goodly a
few points upon to hang
thoughts. The people own and operate
the postal system. The people own and
operate the judiciary system. The peo
pie own and operate tho police system
The people own and operate the fire sys¬
tem. The people own and operate the
army and navy. The people own and
operate the streets, highways and bridges.
The people own and operate the tax
systems. The people own nnd operate
the school systems. The people own
and operate tho prison systems. The
people own and operate the insane sys¬
tems. The people own aud operate the
election systems. But fools who sug
gest that the railroad, telegraph, coal
and oil should be added, is too crazy to
be allowed to run at large. Funny,
ain’t it?
***
NATIONAL ALLIANCE MEETING WILL l!K
HELD IN MEMPHIS, TENN.
Notice is hereby given to the member¬
ship of the National Farmers Alliance
and Industrial Union, that the executive
board, after a reasonable effort and Ihe
expenditure of all in the their time judgment possible,
found it not best, to
locate the next regular annual meeting
of the supreme council either in Harris¬
burg Pa.; Atlanta, Ga., or in California,
and as a number of other cities have
made goed and liberal oilers, Ihe city of
Memphis Tenn., has been chosen as the
best and most convenient.
The invitation extended by Memphis
is oordial and liberal, and has been for¬
mally accepted by the executive board as
the place for the next regular annual
meeting of the supreme counci! of the
National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial
Union which convenes on the third Tues¬
day in November, 1802.
W. C. MaCijne,
Chairman Executive Board.
*
* *
PAYS NOWHERE.
“While farmers in tl.e South are com¬
plaining that the last year’s cotton crop
of nearly 9,000,000 bales—the largest
ever raised-will leave them scarcely a
dollar of profit, and brings thousands of
them in debt,” exclaims the St. Louis
Republic, “the Illinois State Board of
Agriculture reports that seven of the ten
corn crops of the State b tween 1882 aud
1891 were raised at a loss of #89,000,-
000.” The truth ip, farming pays the
farmer nowhere in the Unitid States,
It is the men who farm the farmers that
are prosperous. And yet some of oilr
farmers are foolish enough to vote for a
continuance of these same conditions.
We admit that our Southern farmers
have pursued a bad systematical system—that all. many But
of them are not at
the North and West, where better sys¬
tems are practiced, The agriculture thrifty New is going En¬
down rapidly. ge'ting toward
gland farmer is fast down
the poorhonse. Farming pays the men
who farm the farmer.—Progressive Far¬
mer.
,**
UNIFORMITY OF ACTION.
8 . A. Houghton to Members of the Alliance In
West Virginia:
All will agree that it is absolutely
necessary for the good of our Order and
the maintenance of the organization that
there should bo uniformity of action on
the part of our members in the present there-
political contest. Wc should all,
fore, without prejudice or partisan guile,
determine to do that and one reasonable. thing, whatever It is
it is, that is honest
fair to presume that when we connected
ourselvts with the order we were in fa-
vor of its principles aud honestly desired
to have them cairnd into effect. The
Order demanded a change in the financial
legislation of the country and a change
in the policy of our Government with
1 eference to Jana and me great depart-
uient of transportation. The platform
sitting forth in detai these demands has
been before the country three years,
Tbiee times has our Order adopted and
confi med them with unparalleled unani-
raily. More than this, alt the other farm
and labor organizations of the country
have united with us in support of these
principles. have they received at
What treatment
the hands Democratic of political pirties? Republican
The and par-
ties, through tbeir leaders and platforms,
have ridiculed them end contemptoasly
passed them by ns though they wero the
incoherent utterance of a chattering idiot.
By this action on the part of the po¬
litical parlies the issue 1 ms been clearly
made between the people and monoply;
between labor and organized capital; be¬
tween the man nnd the dollar. Boino
say, let us wait, and try the old parties
onco more. Let us seek a remedy
through them. We have waited, and
while we wero waiting moro than a ma¬
jority of the people of the Uuitod States
hnvo humbly supplicated Congress to add
but n few cents per captia to the circulat¬
ing medium of the country by the free
coinage of silver. This request, with every
denied. petition for The substantial burden of relief, taxation has been
and of grows labor
larger, the bowed back
bends lower.
Shall we wait any longor?
This is what yotir enemies dcsiie.
They know instead that your present organisa¬
tion, of increasing in
power and members will grow weaker,
with the long waiting and watching. of
You will never have such an army la¬
bor again ns you have to-day. You will
never again have an opportunity so fit to
cast n vote in behalf of your rights and
your homes against the encroachments
of the money power. The difficulties in
the way will be greater two years and
four years hence. If your principles and ore
right, why not houestly stand up
vote for them now? Think for one mo¬
ment of the spectacle that, will be pre¬
sented if you fail to record your vole in
favor of your demands. The spectacle
will be presented of millions of citizens,
huviug a right to live and vote in this
country, demands,” who solemnly adopted pledged certain de¬
1 nnd solemnly
votion to them, nnd then, at the crack
of a party whip and the sound tbeir of a prin¬ bra-
zi n instruments, forgetting and
ciples and their pledges, thetr honor
their homes, fell into lino like unreason¬
ing horses and went round and round
the ring their plutocratic masters had
made for them.
You will have been found to have
been playing only a grand farce. You
will be saying to the plutocratic enemies: of circu¬
“We do not want a dollar more
lation in the country. We do not want
one mortgage lifted. Wo do not want
a cent added to the wages of labor.
Take our homes and make them tenants’
hovels. Take our children and put up¬
on their fair limbs the chains of slavery.
Wo were only joking when we talked
about labor and rights, only playing a
farce for your entertainment.” It seems
to me uo member of the Alliance can
hesitate a moment ns to what is his du¬
ly under thesi circumstances. There is
no compulsion. Only each one must do
that which before God and his con¬
science he believes to bo right. I would
suggest that every sub-AUianco in this
S' ate meet together as individual, hon¬
estly discuss the situation and honestly
detetmine to do what they think is right
—Republicans nnd Democrat* together. ad¬
Cursed be the man who, for party
vantage, would play false to hi* neigh¬
bor at this crowning crisis.
Lincoln as a Wrestler.
At the time the Lincolns settled nt
Goose Nest Dan Needham was the cham¬
pion wrestler in Cumberland County.
This county joins Coles, the one in which
the Lincolns lived. Needham hud often
been told that he would liud his match
in Tom Lincoln’s boy Abe, but he would
boast that he could day “fling lived.” him three At
best out of fotlt any he
last they met. It was at “Raisin’s” a house-raising
on the Arnbraw River. at that
time brought “neighbors” from many
miles around, and 1 am told south that at Craw¬ this
one they came from as fur as
ford County, more than and forty with miles him away. his
Thomas Lincoln came, day,
boy Abo. Aftef the work of the in
which Abe and Dan matched handspikes suggested.
many times, a “rassle” unwilling was to
At first Abe was measure
arms with Dan, who was six feet four and
as agile as a panther; but when Thomas
Lincoln said, “Abe, rassle ’im,” Abo
flung off his coat and the two stood face
to face. Four times they wrestled, and
each time Needham was thrown.
At the close of the fourth round tho
combatants again stood face to face, Abe
flushed but smiling, Dan trembling with
anger. However, one glance at the honest, cooled
good-natured and face extending of his opponent rough
his rage, his palm,
he said, “Well, I’ll be blessed!” Ever
after this they Were warm friends. Need¬
ham survived Lincoln many years, aud
though he was a strong Democrat, ho
had nothing but good words for Abe.
Several of his boys still live near the old
homestead iu Spring Point Illinois, township,
Cumberland County, One
daughter, the wife of W. I*. Davis, —a
brother of the writer,—resides on a farm
near Roseland, Nebraska. Uncle Dan,
as we called him, now sleeps in a quiet
churchyard hidden away in a deep
forest. A braver heart never beat; and
though his life was humble, I am sure
that lie did not lack for a welcome iuto
the Eternal City.—[Century.
According to Chicago authorities the
the little ones arc going to be well
looked after at the big World’s Fair.
There will be a children’s home and
creche where tho little ones can be left
; u sa f c bands during the day of sight-
8 ( , t ,i n g In many cases it wili be inv
possible for the mothers to visit the
World’s Fair without taking their chil-
dnm, and in so doing they will wish the
ones as well as themselves to take
the fullest advantage of the educational
facilities there offered. No plan having
be a made by the Board of Directors for
a children’s building, and no funds hav-
[ n g been appropriated for this purpose,
the Board of Lady Managers han taken
a p the work of building and equipping be de
a beautiful structure which shall
voted entirely to children and their in-
terests. The Board has secured a desir-
a p ]( , [ oca t[ on adjoining the Woman’s
Building on which to build the children’s
borne. The building will have an assem-
j,iy-room containing rows of little chairs
an< j a platform, from which stereopticon older boys
lectttres will be given to the
ant [ girls about foreign countries, tbeir
languages, manners, and customs, and
important facts connected with their
bistory. These talks will be given the by
kindergartners, who will then take
g roU p S 0 f children to see the exhibits
f rom the countries about which they
have just heard. -
PEOPLE'S PARTY COLUMN
Current Comment Concerning the Great
Crusade Against Oppression,
Three new People’s party papers lmve
been es'ablished in Minnesota within
the past ten days—two daily and one
weekly.
* *
Over one hundred of the employes of
flto Deuber Watch Company at Can
ton, Ohio, have formed a People’s [tarty
club.
The Dcnvor Rem says Colorado will
give from 10,000 to 20,000 majority for
Weaver and send two People’s party men
to Congress this time.
A convention of Nevada silver men
has instructed their presidential being tho electors only
to vote for Weaver ns
consistent thing to do.
* *
Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee,
has joined the People’s party. Gover¬
nor Pennoyer, of Oregou, has joined Ni- the
People’s party. Senator Stewart, of
vadn, has come out for Weaver.
Now that T. V. Powderly, Grand Mas¬
ter Workman of the Knights of Labor,
has declared in clarion tones for Generals
Weaver and Field as the only true friends
of the people, old party papers are dis
covering his “influence on the wane.”
Why, thon, did the Democratic campaign
committee find it desirable to steal nnd
garbled an article from his pen and dis¬
tribute it broadcast.
One of the most absurd charges yet
made is the one that Peoph’s party
speakers urc being paid out already of t lie stated State
Alliance funds. We have
that two-thirds of tho Executive Ootn-
mitteo are Democrats, amt no money is
paid for any purpose without their snne-
tion. No speakers of any party are paid
that way. '1 ho charge is an insult to
every member of Iho Alliance.
* *
Alabama has just had the greatest con¬
vention iu its history. Twenty-five hun¬
dred combined zealous men the met elements at Birmingham of
aud all oppo¬
sition to Bourbonism. Kolb men, Alli-
ancemen, People’s party men have made
a ticket that will sweep Alabama like a
whirlwind. Even Congressman Oates
admits that the outlook is very gloomy
for the Bourbons, says the Tacoma Sun.
* *
The report that Congressman Watson,
of Georgia, was beaten in the recent
election is not true. Only State officers
and members of the legislature were they
voted for. Tho democrats claim that
carried Watson’s district by a few hun¬
dred majority, but ns the vote lias not
been counted, it is candidates probubly will untrue. be
The Congressional November 8 U and
voted for on 1 , wo pre¬
dict a good majority for Watson at that
time.—Exchange.
Tho Brooklyn, N. Y., Times says:
“We have no sympathy with General
Weaver’* doctrines, out t wo hasten to as
sure him that up here in New York, if
he does not get any Electoral votes he
can at least depend upon a courteous
hearing, and that there is not, in the
most disreputable of Northern city manhood slums,
a mob so lost to the instincts of
1 s to make such an assault on a ludy.
The Macon mob has covered Georgia
with inclf iblo and ineradicable disgrace.
It has exploded the tradition of Georgia
chivalry.”
For fear that the “workingmen” might
forget or neglect to remember that this
is tlie in< st prosperous and happy nation
on earth, Sloan Fassett, of New York,
and the Republican party, remarks ou
the stump: "We stand before the world
to-day, after thirty world years of protection, industry,
leading all the in science,
and happiness, and we arc asked to turn
our backs upon the principles undei
which all this great happiness has thco been
achieved to adopt and try the new
lies, but the workingmen who study tb«
question will hesitate to act ept the invi
tntion. —Rational Economist.
Coming Crisis, (Colorado), says of the
spirit of ignorance fostered by bigotry:
“Hurl epithets at the men and wome»
who are trying to teach the truths that
will enable you to move into a decent
house of yo ur own, to clothe and feed
yourselves as well as any may live, and
make you better and wiser and richer.
Tyrants have always found fools and
tools to help them uusurp the rights 0 )
the people, md you are one of them. Pa
triots in all ages have been denounced
and betrayed by the very class of men
they were trying to liberate. But we
hate them not. ‘They know not whal
they do.’ They are not wise enough tc
think, but they can be -taught, Tl«
man who thinks is rescued.”
* *
Nonconformist, (Indiana,) says: Ther
is no sincerity in either the Repub
lit an or Demociatic partit a on the
issue of pure elections. Neither of them
ere deeply and honestly imbued with ft
determination to secure a free ballot and
a fair count. The Nonconformist has it
from a reliable source that one of the
leading Republicans of this Stat e. in
conversation staled that before the Min-
non poiis convention, the Democrats of
the South requested the their Republicans platform, in to
put the force bill into
order to make an issue in the South that
would help down the People’s party. tbh
The action of both parties confirms
statement.
The progressive Age (Minnesota), arranged says
The two old parties have e
sham battle over the tariff. TBe truly
great issues are ignored by them. 'lh<
quintette of mo nopolies, land, liquor,
money, suffrage and transportation, old an
not dealt with. In a word, the par
ties belongto the present order of things,
They believe in the present system,
They must not be expected to note thi
demands of the people. Reformer 1
should do all they can to organize thir¬ the
people around the new issues. Do
in your school districts, in your town-
a-ins, towns a#«j .counties. Tajw 01 -
OFFICIAL ORGAN
—OS’ THH—
FRANKLIN COUNTY ALLIANCE.
$1.00 PER YEAR .
relormers f< r your representatives. Get
the Independent them. men this if you can, polit¬ and
support ical readjustment By will means consummated. the
bo
ANOTHER ONE EXPLODED.
It is being circulated around that "if
Weaver carries every state in which he
has an electoral ticket he cannot he
elected." The idea they try to teach is
that ho has electoral tickets only in a few
states. This is false. His electors are
working hard in every state in tho Union
except South Carolina nnd there is a
strong in field disposition there to put a ticket in
the yet. The reform element
South Carolina, in order to hold tiro
state democratic government, promised ticket, support But to
the untional
since its platform and candidates were
made, they aro mighty sick in that state.
Only four states were not represented at
Omaha, and three of them aro well or¬
ganized now and working for Weaver.
Toll it abroad that every state except
South Carolina has electors.— Progressive
Farmer, (Raleigh, N. C.)
GETTING TOGETHER.
At Inst! At last 11 At last the Amer¬
ican workingmen and farmers aro get-
iug together. The pro ftssioual and
businessmen will divide after a while
and some will be found on the side of
right ami justice. In tbo cities of the
North and West many mechanics, print¬
ers and business men are boldly fighting
in the ranks of tho reform movement
and will vote that way. It is now safe
to say that thousands of tho same classes
in Southern towns and cities are shore.” quietly
but earnestly “pulling for the
At least one third of the voters of many
towns are People’s party men. They
see ruin without a change, and are too
pal iotic to be helping to hasten tho end.
Sell nreservation is the first law of na¬
ture, .nd they propose to look out the for
themselves and friends let the in politicians the reform do
same. Our move¬
ment should look after their friends in
both town nnd county, furnish them
with reading matter, etc .—Progressive
Farmer.
THE CAMEL.
Ilia Great Adaptability to Life Upon
tlie Desert.
The camel is found in Arabia, Persia,
Asia Minor, Afghanistan, China nnd Baluchistan, Northern
Mongolia, India, Western Syria, Turkey, North
as well as in
Africa, and parts of Spain. The camel
is known by the same root-word in near¬
ly all these lands; not a page scarcely of
an Arabic lexicon but it has reference to
the camel; the language itself, accord¬
ing to Hammer Purgstall, knows him by
5,744 names. The only reason why
Scripture is comparatively silent is be¬
cause the topography of the Holy Land
is such that in most parts the use of
camels is an impossibility. distinguished species
The two main
among its hundreds of varieties are the
Southern, Arabian, Bactrian (one-humped (two-humped camel,)
and the Northern,
camel). Each is especially adapted to it»
locality. The Bactrian camel is long
haired, tolerant of the intense cold of the
steppes, and is said to eat snow when
thirsty. The Arabian species is short-
haired, intolerant of cold, but able to
endure extreme heat. The limbs and
the structure of tho foot differ also in
each, to conform to desert caravan paths trails
in the one case and to mountain
and passes in the other.
Apart from differences in species, to
enumerate the parts of the camel is to
catalogue instances of evident design. of
His long neck, giving wide range
vision in desert marches and enabling
him to reach far to tho meagre desert
shrubs on either side of his pathway.
The cartilaginous texture of his month,
enabling him to eat hard and thorny
plants—the pasture of the desert. Ears
very small, and nostrils large for breath¬
ing,but also specially capable of closure
by valve-like folds against the fearful
simoom. Eyes prominent,but protected lid, limiting by
a heavy overhanging guarding upper from the
vision direct upward of the and noonday Cush¬
rays sun.
ioned feet, peculiarly adapted for ease of
the rider and the animal alike. Five
horny pads to rest on when kneeling for
burden or repose on the hot sand. His
hump—not a fictional, but a real and ac¬
knowledged reserve store of nutriment,
as^fell as nature’s paoksaddle thought for the
commerce of ages—have you ever morning
of the relation between your
cup of Mocha and the hump of a camel
in Yemeu ? Jfis water reservoirs in con¬
nection with the stomach—not as in the
Occidental Arabian Nights, for thirsty
travelers, but for the animal himself, and
enabling him when in good condition
to travel for five days without water.
Again, the camel alone of all ruminants
has incisor teeth in the upper jaw, which,
with the peculiar structure of his other
teeth, make his bite, the animal’s first nnd
main defence, most formidable. The
skeleton of the camel is full of proofs arched of
design. Notice, for example, the
backbone, constructed in such a way as
to sustain tlie greatest weight in propor¬
tion to the span of the supports. A
strong camel can bear 1,000 load pounds
weight, although the usual in Yemen
is not more than 000 pounds.
The sole support and the only wealth
of a large desert population near the
cradle of the human race, all that can be
obtained from the animal is of value.
Fuel, milk, excellent hair for tents,
ropes, shawls and coarser fabrics are ob¬
tained from the living animal, and fresh
food, leather, bones, and other useful
substances from the dead. Even the
footprints of the camel, though soon ob-
iiterated, are of special value in the
iesert. A lighter or smaller foot would
teav.e no tracks, but the camel’s foot leaves
data for the Bedouin science of Athar—
the art of navigation for the ship of the
desert. Camel tracks are gossip and
science, history and philosophy to the
Arab caravan.
Is it not also remarkable that, al¬
though many diseases attack the camel,
none, according to Burckbardt, are epi¬
demic? Thus has Providence prevented
the sudden impoverishment of those who,
without the camel, would suffer starva-
ion. _
Salt nnd vinegar, applied hot, are
good for clcaniiur brass, which should
■ “x-r'v;irip- fjn polished with fine ashes.