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OFFICIAL ORGAN -oa*— franklin COUNTY. VOL. III. NO. 42 , 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.