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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1886.-TWELVE PAGES.
THE TELEGRAPH,
IOBUIUD EVERY DAT IN THK TEAR AND WEEKLY
BY THK
telegraph »nd Mfswuger Publishing Co.,
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ble to U. C. Hanson, Manager.
I'resident Livingston's l’ru|»«Mltlun.
President Livingston, of the State Agri-
o.u'.turalSeciety, has visited Atlunt i to inves
tigate Hite» for permanent fair grounds, and
Law submitted a proposition to the people of
' that city through tboCbnmberof Commerce
th.it ought to bo brought squarely to the
oltention of the whole Society. We find it
difficult to believe that President Living-
aton'd picturesque financial ideas will re
ceive the indorsement of sensible men i-f
that organization.
The proportion is to give Atlanta the
Stale fair permanently, and to “put up the
buildings, fix the grounds, construct a race
trick and complete the whole thing," if At
lanta will pay $5Q,C00 to the Society. The
proposition seems to Lave taken away Mayor
English's breath and to have paralyzed the
enthusiasm of several of tho audience, but
President Livingston informed the assem
bly that “a placo bos offered us $35,000"
anil blandly proceeded to fthow the beauties
of the trade.
The points that the Society lias to consid
er uio thoje: Macon has a park that cannot
l»o duplicated at any price, and improve
ments in it that cost from $150,000 to $'2* 0,-
O H». The Agricultural Society has the free
tun of these, and it is kept up at the city’s
t*xj»et.Hc. Macon also furnishes polico dur
ing Fair week. All these President Living-
Mt<»u proposed to sacrifice in order to he
§mt in poMesiiion of such a park as can he
constructed in Atlanta for $50,000, and to
incur the heavy expenses that must attend
the ownership. We feel that the mutter
needs tnly this bare statement to give it
the proper send off.
Hut there are attendant facts that must
h ivc some weight with the gentlemen whose
interest* are being trilled with by tho itn
practical officer they have elected. The
floeiety has it recorded in its cash book anil
Iclgertbata State fair in Atlanta declares
no dividends. It is admitted Unit Macon is
probably the only point in Georgia where
Much faint can bo successfully conducted.
It iarilie State’s centre nml in the heart of
ihn most productive hoc!ion. It is prepos
terous to aupposo that tho people aro goin;
to have thernHelves and exhibit* annnnlly
!au1<h1 from South, Southwest and Middle
Goorgia out of Undr territory to Atlanta.
It will nsuit in the formation of u second
agricultural organization, with headquarters
at Macon.
The city of Macon will be 'glad to wel
come the Agricultural Society uodt r comli
tious that are easy and ju-t aul that in
v dve no cost to tne Society. The annual
free use of the park is better tlum the
ownership, and when Macon tenders that
ah'j offer* threefold more than President
Livingston asks of Atlanta. Why should
Maoon be required to put up a $30G,000
park and $2,500 in cash to seenre a Fair
that U offered to Atlanta for a $50,000 park?
There is no buaiuoa* sense behind the
^imposition. It will neither bluff the mer
chant* of this city nor receive the indorse
ment of President Livingston's Society.
PugUKt* or PlstolB.
Witbin the week a fierce prize fight has
taken place near Louisville, Ky., which
drew a large crowd of excited admirers. It
was no more bloody or brutal than such
fights usually are between men equally
matched in strength and pluck.
The fight ended by one of the light
weights being knocked out by a blow on
the neck. The Courier Journal has a vir
tuous spasm over the mutter, and winds up
a vigorous leader with this paragraph.
If lawlessness of this kind goes unpunish
ed; if a lot of bruisers and roughs can gather
in Kentucky from all parts ot the country,
and defy onr laws anil force men on to
bloody contests like thin, and then go off
unmolested, we should cease to boast of
our State and acknowledge that it had be
come the Botany Bay of the Union, u refuge
for thieve* and thugs but no place for law-
abiding men.
But on Another page of the same issue of
the Courier Journal, four solid columns, il
lustrated with cuts of the contestants before,
and at various stages of the fight, are devot
ed to the minutest details of the affair.
We give an extract as a specimen:
The much-vexed question of the hour
has been decided, pleasantly and definitely,
aud Tommy Warren stands the champion
featherweight pugilist of America. Thoso
who have doubted his skill and powers
filled with amazement and admiration at
the display of wonderful qualities ho pre
sented yesterday, and it is no exaggeration
to assert that he can now find all the buck
ing ho may require against any man of his
weight in the world. When Tommy Barnes,
the staunch Englishman, in whom the
hopes of many were centered, fell senseless,
quivering anil gory, into the cornet from
which, but a few moments ago, ho had
stepped so ligul! j und confidently, a mighty
shout went up, and few were so ungenerous
ns to thiuk that both men had not done
well, though one was worsted.
The notable battle was decided in the
forty-fifth round, after three hours and a
half of admirable fighting.
In many of its respects the contest boro a
striking resemblance to the Dempsey-La-
Blanche fight, which so lately awakened the
highest interest in tho sporting world, and,
aside from the result itself, there is much
that is worthy of recoid in the nnuuls of
pugilism.
For five weeks the prospective meeting
has been the source of tho mest intense in
terest. There was litt’o demonstration up
parent, but tho interest was no less strong
than Utent. Warren came to Louisville
omparutivcly unknown, and soon made a
host of friends by his excellent ring work
as displayed on two or more occasions, and
by his pleusuut personality. *
The description of the fight, which is an
admirable piece of reportorinl work in its
ray, is calculated to have a great deal more
force and effect than tho vehement periods
of the editorial.
But considering tho bloody record of Ken
tucky, it would appear that even a brutal
prize light is better than the daily pistol
practice all over that state, Vhich carries
de ith and desolation to families and mocks
the majesty of the law.
About the best thing to do with prizo
fighters is to make them fight When en
gaged in this business they punish each
other. In their idle moments they are apt
to engage in punishing peaceful citizens.
The Courier-Journal is authority that tho
taking of human lifo goes unpunished in
Kentucky. In the face of this admission it
wero better that Kentuckians should lenrn
to settle their feuds with their fist* in place
of pistols*
Arnica and liniments soon care the bruise*
of u slugger, but Kentucky slugs most
always hurt beyond the help of surgery.
Until Kentucky bungs a few of her desper-
ado**, and give* to society tho protection
of her hemp, which alio asks tho Govern
ment to protect, she should not ho too
hard on the pugilist* who break tho statute
against assault and battery.
Coi!jr*vM Moved.
H will be no* n by our dispatches that the
attention of Congress ha* been urn * ted by
the breaking up of business and travel by
the strike* all over the couutry. A proposi
tion is male, that if a plan can l>e agreed
upon to arrest tlie troubles and to adjust
the causes of difference between employes
nnd employers, the Committee on laibor
ftball have the floor ut any time. In the
rawntime, the trouhlo ha* become so alarm
ing that it i* pn»po*t il to hold a convention
of business men in some Western city at an
early date to adopt some plan for protectioh
from those who will not work, will not let
those disposed to labor accept employment,
and who are imperiling live* and prop. rty.
It in of the highest importance that some
thing bo done at once to mitigate or eradi
cate the evil compbine 1 of.
The re aro two side* to this busine-s, nnd
the merit* of both should have a prompt
and fair showing.
It i
Tub strike ba-i struck tue clergy,
just possible that the regular preache
dissatisfied at the large Hilaries pod the
traveling evangelist*. This is what hip-
pened in a Pennsylvania town on lust
8 u inlay:
There wn* a sensation in the little Pres
byterian church of New London, this county,
yesterday, canted by the isudor's, Rev. J. K.
Clark, refusal to preach. The congregation
-AHsomblei at the usual time in the morning
and there patiently awaited the p odor's
coming nntil almut II o'clock, when it was
denied advisable to send a committee to his
residence. The committee found the doors
locked, bat with evidence of life witbin.
Failing to gain admission through their
thumping on the door, they finally raised u
window, and were there met by the mitiis-
4ti, who wanted to know the object of their
inti u d<m, Mr. Clark informed the delega
tion that be had recently become d»ssatis-
The Liquor Contest In llaldwrln.
In another placo we publish u letter from
a friend and subscriber in relation to the
recent contest in Baldwin county.
An attempt is male to impute some blame
to tho Tklkoiuph in this mutter. It is stiffi-
ieut to say that tio such charge can be sub
stantiated.
Tho TcLKiuui'it took no part in tho con
test in Baldwin, »ml as strongly reprobates
the practices adopted there anil elic where
can any lover of open, fair and dean
mt-thoils in appeals to popular verdicts.
Tho position of tho Telegraph has cover
be»n disguised. It I.h opposed to the evils of
unrestrained liquor selling hut ho* advocated
from acoUHcicntioiiH conviction high license
ihe proper remedy for the evil. The Tkl*
Ki.KAi’ii is a newspaper, anil proposes to fur
nish it* patrons with all the news in its
teiritory upon nil topics of Importance and
interest.
Such report* as it has published as to the
prohibition contest in Baldwin, were fur
nished by citlzeus of unquestionable stand
ing, nml care was taken to verify their cor
rectness. On two occasions we have sent
.pedal reporteis to that locality to write
up the facts ns they were found. These
men were not interested one way
the other in the result, nml bud no ac
quaintance with or partiality towaids any
of the parties engaged in u heated contro
versy. This is the head and front of its
offending.
Those atiil suffering from the hi at o*. a
hitter and unstemly contest are i.pt to
make mountains from mole hills, uml are
not nlwa)s capable of locating complaints
where they properly belong. The Tkle-
obaph had no further interest than aoy
other good eiliz- n in the contest in Bald
win, and is not responsible in any way for
the result or for any unpleasant complica
tions or corn* quince* which may have fol
lowed it.
Mason's Cotton Picker.
Mason’s cotton picker, which still keeps
in sight, need not strip the cotton plant of
its product to be a success. If, as claimed.
It will finally pick 4,000 pounds of seed cot
ton per day, it thereby saves $18 or $20, it
matters not from what part of the field it
gets it. Any machine that will pick half
tho cotton from a plant will go fnr towards
solving tho labor question. When the in
vention, wLich must seemingly violate
many principles of mechanics, has reached
this near perfection, tho Tkleohapu "will
begin to believe in it.
It is but fair to state though, in connec
tion with this machine, that it has many
warm friends and the positive assurances of
its final success are plentiful. The Bivouac
for April illustrates and describes the
picker in detail. It is owned by a syndicate
that proposes to demonstrate next summer
the practical utility of tho invention. The
Bivouac says:
Tho syndicate has already spent some
thirty thousand dollars, of which six thou
sand dollars weut in securing patents,
domestic and foreign; for the harvester is
.patented in India, Egypt, Brazil, and in
nearly every other cotton-producing coun
try in the world. Its fame has even pre
ceded it to the realms of the Mikado, for
one Senor Mencius, a Spanish tea-planter,
writes Mr. Mason from Japan, begging him
to devise at once some method by
which the leaves may be stripped
by machinery from the tea-plant.
From six thousand to eight thousand dol
lars were spent in fighting interference
suits, the last of which has just been de
cided in their favor. The remainder was
consumed in the actual cost of their experi
ments, including their plant of shops and
machinery.
Large as this expenditure is, it is not an-
other “Keely Motor’’ case by any manner
of means. The syndicate is satisfied. For
three seasons, Mr. Mason’s own crop has
been picked by his harvester, at a cost of
little more than one dollar per bale. By
hand it would have cost seven dollars nnd
flfy cents; and the total cost of picking the
past year’s crop for the entire South has
been not less that forty-nine million five
hundred thousand dollars.
Again, the article says:
It has yet its defects, of course, and t is
far from tho object oi this article to conceal
them. The first is, that os at present con
structed it cannot work in cotton over five
feet high, ’lliat can easily he overcome by
making different sizos of the machine
adapted to ordinary and to rank growths.
Nine-tenths of tho cotton, however, now
grown in the South cun bo harvested with
the present size.
Again, tho machine sometimes drops a
little cotton from tho picker stems before
they enter tho box.
Also the cotton, us it pusses up on the
elevators to enter the sack, is sometimes
blown off on windy days. This can
readily bo prevented by covers, which have
never been put ou except for the purpose of
experiment, because Mr. Mason did not
want aoy purl of the interior workings of
the machine hidden from view white he
was studying aud improving it.
In the’fouiih place, a boll Is occasionally
passed over and left ungathereil. This oc
curs seldom, nnd practically is of little con
sequence, two trip* generally cleanings row
thoroughly. When a boll is accidentally
left it will bo gathered at the next picking
for the planter can run over his crop *•
rapidly anil so often that >i toll left tier*
and there is of slight importance. This
frequent harvesting must also necessarily
result in a bettor grade of cotton, m thi
fields can always be kept dean in advance
of a min.
Finally, the harvester sometimes fails to
gather the lowest bulls when list on the
ground in the dirt, That is difficult to
teinedy without introducing cotupli 'utions
which would seriously interfere with the
working of the other parts of tho machine.
But Mr. Mason is hard at work remedying,
us rapidly iim possible, these delects as they
iireseut themselves, and is confident of
bringing tho harvester's present capacity of
two thousand pounds of seed cotton per day
up to double that amount, or three bales
per day, and of reducing the cost of picking
to Its* than one dollar a bale.
And ull this by one iuun and one mule!
It is impossible for the syndicate to place
tho harvester on the market in time for the
next crop, as Mr. Mason will himself be
compelled to wait until fall to test the
changes he has now in progriss. They are
in no hurry, and do not hesitate to say that
the machine will never he sold until its
presents defects are effectually overcome,
be that lime when it may.
But a* these defects are trtliing, nnil as
even with them tho harvester does excel
lent service, it is fuir to conclude that Mr.
Mason, having ttlreedy accomplished the
most difficult portion of hts work, will
not he long in presenting the public with a
machine perfect in all iu parts. When the
time does come, the present declaration of
tho syndicate will he the best guarantee of
the machine's actual efficiency.
It* cost has not yet been fully deter
mined, as it is not known in exactly what
shape it will l>c finally put upou the mar
ket. Mr. Mason states, however, that the
price will at first probably be about equal
to that asked for a substantial reaper or
twine binder pcahars bss say from two
hundred to two hundred und fifty dollars.
Tint will put them within easy roach of
any one making twenty bales or upward.
We publish these statement* for the turno
ut of those who have wutched the progress
of this invention with curiosity and hope.
It is manifestly unfair to criticize in ad
vance a machine not yet pnt upou the mar
ket, and one )w»‘‘ked by private capital only.
We are afraid Mr. Ma-on and our friend*
are doomed to disappointment, but if suc-
cess should ut lost attend nnd reward them,
it will he a day for rejoicing, indeed.
Ilaldwlu's Election.
Editor Teleoraph; The lio-tility of the
Tklegbafb and it* unfair reports concern-
in},' the prohibition movement in Baldwin,
bus grieved some of the best friend* of that
paper. I think it hardly questionable that
the prohibition party of Baldwin include*
four-fifths (»»ud more) of the white men,
nine-tenths (and more) of the shite women,
and most of the intelligent tax-pacing
negroes, The antis include some most
xcelleut people certainly, a portion of
whom were so disgust til with their asso
ciates and their method, that they would
not vote at all. /The rank and tile, however,
were ignorant and viciou* m grots, held
together by corrupt influence* f *r the most
part. Money uml meat, whisky and prom
ise* impossible of fulfillment, were potent
agencies. Baee prejudice or hate was
stirred up most effectually.
Early in the campaign they were urged,
and many pledged, not to hear a prohibi
tionist. They were taught th *t prohibition
would rob them of one ri^.ht after another,
nntil they should be eusutved agaiu. Pro
tection against the penalties ot vi< latcil law
i»as promised them. The control of county
politics and offices was promised them.
From adjacent counties they came to register
anil v« te. Under different names they reg
istered and voted iu more than one d strict,
ltegistering under false* names they hoped
te escape the payment of back taxes. Scores
had their taxes paid by others. Blank t«x
receipts, unpaid for, were used to multiply
the vote. And every other device of trout
was practiced by them known to the skilled,
and probably with tLc connivance, it not
instigation, of men who puss as white iu« n.
It is believed that of the 1,005 votis polled
“for the sale" not less than 700 were illegal.
“No wonder “old Baldwin went wet" un
der such circumstances. But the legal con
stituency well understands the game a*
well as the ample remedy furnished by the
law. They will have it promptly applied,
anil you may tell your renders “old Baldwin
went gloriously dry” in response to the
prayers of us noble a race of Christian wo
men ns the world cun thow. M irk the
SKYLARKS AND DAISIES.
Bouton Advertiser.
Mr. A. C. Wheeler, the New York journal
ist who writes over the nom de plume of
“Nym Crinkle," delivered his lecture on
JUMBLE.
quel:
Yes ten
relay, tho day after tho election, our
city was thronged by over a thousand coun
try negroes, parading in hue, under com
mand of Henry E. Kreutz, a white bar
keeper. From str* et to street iu disorderly
procession they marched and yelled “Down
with the whites," “Bottom rail on top,” and
ithor insolent cries and gestures. Fassiug
the parsonages and citizen* of prominence
in prohibition, they made the day hide
w ith redoubled insolence. Well did decen
cy repress indignation whilst this pande
monium was rampant. Only a few whites
countenanced them for u short time. An
other sequel:
This morning it w.*sj ascertained that
Kreutz had counseled his black hosts to in
sult most grossly any white woman who
might speak to them of prohibition. No
tice to leave the country by 5 p. m. led to
his flight at 11 a. iu. He is gone, but who
kuows the mischief he left behind him? 1
deem this the logical outcome of the cam
paign ns conducted by some of the anti*
prohibitionists. Tbire are some more
blumoworthy than Kreutz, I suspect.
C. 1*. Crawford.
Millcdgevillc, March 21.
Fkylurks mi l Daisies' to a fair audience in
the Boston Theatre last, evening. The lec
ture U a reply to the one of ltobeit G. lu-
gersoll ou • 'Myths and Miracles," and t‘ e
answer is, in form and substance, not that
of a defender of the faith or a special cham
pion of Christianity, but of a man of the
world u ith a purely secular training. There
was in* examination of the Christian
evidence, but of Mr. Ingersoll himself. He
did not question Mr. Ingersoll’* sincerity;
it was enough for the speaker that he wua
incorrect. The lecturer quoted from “Myth*
and Miracles’’ passages calculated to show
the shallowness of the author, and then
satirized the latter's sentimentalism. The
mistakes and complacent self-esteeiq of “the
gentleman from Illinois," were handled in a
manner to provoke frequent applause, and
the m« re serious portions of tho lecture
were devtloped to showing the iudescruti-
biiity of the religious idea in man. The
following is a good illustration of Mr.
WbeeUt's style und method of treatment:
‘ One night, in the New York Academy of
Music, afurour friend (Mr. Ing«rsoll) had
denounced religion, ridiculed reverence, and
pel formed hts spiritual clown trick ou the
mercy scat of every olio’s sensibility, two
rough-looking young meu were coming
down the stairs, one of whurn accosted the
other with
Well, Bill, ho made a e’ean sweep of it,
eh? 'I here nin’t nothing left.’
“ ‘Well, I don't know,’ replied the other;
I kinder feel that the old woman's there
yet. She ain’t lost her grip of me.’
“I thought of this," continued Mr.
Wheeler, “tor along time afterwords. It
was the answer of sentiment that came over
the golden w ires of that hoy’s memory and
loyalty. There* was an old woirnm Horae-
where who had woven her example and her
love into the fibre of his manhood, and he
couldn’t quite $et away from her; and, some-
THK MJN SHINTO BRIOHT.
De tElnc le he ° B W fur ,Uo B «r h* Prr I
lie sun sblne» brl«bt. good Lawd-
An* filie knows wldin her heart dat wa'/ovi
have some Bpring. Bvine t
De sun shine** bright, good bawd-
De mockin' bird ho whissuL ez he hot*!
fence, “ 0| * frl “f4, |
De eun Rliinee bright good
in' I tell yer wiiut'R er fieU, ho hub Bit e, k
sense, •* cr ne»p 0 .
Do ann shine* bright, good Lawd-
He know* mighty well dat de spring's ’«, P I
long. 1
De sun ahlnes bright, good Lawd
An'dat. sah.arn de reaacn dat bes timin' nri vt. I
Bong. “PJiii |
De sun shine* bright, good Lawd.
Oh. do^pring am er cornin’, doan yer know,
Oh, de spring am er cornin', doan yer know
Fur de pW. gamer ninnin' lu de ro», l n4 ;
Fur de plow's gamer namin' iu de row.
De buds da am er swellln', dough de a'r i. •
ool, ***• |
• De sun shines bright, good Lawd-
Da know’* whut da'* er doing, fur da ain't t 0 U> r |
De aun shines bright, good Lawd-
DerooRter’e mighty happy ez ho .trim I
Huccrsstiil t-aniiing.
D.ivisnoito, Ga.. March l'.Hli, lHhfi —Editor Tklk
a hath: lu your issue of the tilth Is an article
lu-atletl, "Successful farming. fa> U and tlglirilH
to how it can be done,” by Air. Aldred H. Franklin,
tsilug a review of a • ouimunicaiiou by Mr Clay in
tin: Atlanta Cunaliluttfii. M-n— allow me space to
review tnvui both—disclaiming any reference to
myself whatever.
Mr. Clay says the average crop to the mule in
-teiTersuii county is seven bales of enttou worth
[$2*n the past season, 150 bnsbt ls of ecru and 1,500
buudlea of fodder. Deducting one-third for la-
borer*, an annual expense el ftfi for one ton of acid,
wtitch la manipulated Into Avn tons, ami flO for
coutiugeutexi>emie to the mule the net proceeds
are $15*.
That staten\ent la true, both in theory and prac
tice, in tbta tn.mediate section, and the analyst*
only demonatratea in flgutc*. what la patent to the
eye. on a uunibor of thritty farmstead* In tlita
community, and la In evidenco that farmiug upon
that ay sit In had paid aud could be made to pay
and money in Und* pilinggood it-turoa as
«ny legi |mat** Investment. No objection may lie
had to tbia system of planting and itowelbly none
with the ligurt a. Mr. Clay oiuilii, however, to say
anything of the inevitable tax on Und aud the iu
per cent, depreciation ou live at ck which the 91"
coutiugent expense to the plow ia not expu-ied Ut
cover. Nor does Mr. Clay say anytniug of the oat
crop town independent of the hoed cro|si, which
some years become a supplement to a |M>ssibie
shortage in corn and some years a source of reve
nue in dollars and cent* equal perhaps to loss in
| depreciation in livestock. Ills figures, then fore,
fairly be preaume fo stand.
H’.C' a)'! deduction as to fa,120 profits on a 2"-
hoou farm la a legitimate deduction, aud doubtless
intended by him to show that planting pal l a rea
sonable dividend on lnveatment at present price* of
cotton. Uut Mr Fratiklin Jolt.s leeno here and un-
dertakce to prove that a given quantity of land at
flu per acre, with interest added annually, could
not have been discharged in tifiren years under ltd*
system, but would hriug purchaser lu debt uot only
the original purchase pri-e of the l*nd. but
an lulerest also, aggregating a total of |52.2nl.M). It
may only be umesnaiy to as* the question: Is it
fair to take th- price of rottou tie la-t year when it
ia the lowest tu the series of yearn, which Mr.
Fratikliu does, as a bads of calculation fur fifteen
years’ operation*? Mr. Fratikliu forgeta that fif
teen yearn ago cotton brought '*) ceuta per |M>uud,
or floo per bale, while the price | laced on tho same
last season by 51 r. Clay was only* rents, or »*•
per bale, coupled with the a-severatlon
that no former crop bad been sold
that low. If * r. Franklin will examine the
published compilation of cotton price.* and fact)
from official sources the past fifteen yes * by A. Rj
shspia-raon. of Near York, he will find the avera t
| price of cotton in that city over the period named
to be Dl 11-10. Discounting one-half cent between
New York quotations aud Savannah and three quar
tern to rover expenses from producer to savsnm li|
(the producer is siip|K)sed to live near DsvisIm
t’eutia! railroad), and the average n-t price I*
This make* the average price per bale p'j 5o, hot
tor "convenience o eolation,” l will tuaM it
and what do the figures show?
Seven Bale* at fCO ft*)
Laborers Share . ftp)
1 tou acid |it was put at $20; I put It at the
average f&)) 30
Contingent expense lo-flw)
liow, all the irreverence of that lecture
sec mod to strike at her. Ami that old wo
rn a u sits in the heart* of millions, answerin''
this sentimentalism with' her mute hut elo
quent example. I have seen her every where,
p i or,* are worn, sitting with her hands folded.
Her work is done nnd she is wailing for eter
nity. I’ve heard the boy on the battlefield call
for her. I’ve heard the dying wretch in
the hospital murmur with stiffening lips,
a* lie pussed out in the dark beyond, the
name of mother. I've seen the wildest
debauches, in the orgies of his siu, brought
up aud sobered ns some wave from the past
washed in upon hi* soul ntd brought with
it th t swe* t and holy recollection of that
mother. Talk about dimples; 1 kissed that
withered nnd wrinkled hand. Honest chiv
alry could not do less. The very seam* and
sc.irs upon her face are beautiful, noble,
memorial; I look into vour watery hut un
complaining eyes, and remember how you
poured all that affluence of a mother t heart
upon your boys—how you wont often
h mgry and thinly clad—how you
clutig to them something like desperation
—how many tears you shed that they never
saw, how many wound* you have bote that
they never fel ! I sdute yon, Christian
mothers of America! You believe in God
poverty cannot dim the lustre in your devo
tion, nor adversity bend the fibre of your
faith. Your example, your precepts, your
character have ni.gs. d into thd generation
and when anything mote dang-rons th.:
sentimentalism assaults Chris unity, mil
lion* of your sous, who may not have kept
all the eounnandmeuts nor practiced ull
your precept-, will rise up from ono sea-
wa-dn d limit of the Republic to the other
to th fend the altars you have left behind."
In cl-'sing Mr. Wheeler gave the following
as the tribute of a newspaper man to the
-pirit of Christianity: “During twenty odd
years of eventful toil in tho great city I
utv r found a depth of misery so deep, a
poverty so rank, a crime so atrocious, a de-
Hpa'T so black, that some humblo follower
f that MuHter did not find it out. Into all
the holes anticorucrs of wretchedness whore
icu nml poverty, like twiu wolves, had
hunted down their prey, the policeman
aud tho irporter always found the hxhIhI
s'ster or the misdonary ahead of
them. They wore the first to come
They were the la st to go. They
stayed an I put up their supplication when
all ibe of earth had forsaken the wretch.
They followed him to tho orison cell, and
they stood beside him on the gallows, and
they never forgot in all the obloquy of sin
fool,
>o sun shines bright, gooff Lawff-
But let him go erhiaff, t»r I'll tub in ff e mi
De sun aUines bright, g- off !*wd;
He thinks he’s mighty smart 'cs'ae he's goterhA,-
un borne.
>e sun shines bright, gooff Lawff:
But den. wlff all his souse, w'y de fro*' it bit ku
com’,
De sun shines bright, gooff Lawff.
A Louisville newspaper complain* of \U
street car manners of tho ladies of tls
town, and says that they keep car* waiting
whilu they kiss and bid each other g.M^f
Thi* instancy is related: Two ladies on tbt
sidewalk bailed a car and the driver stopped
supposing they wanted to get aboard 1
th* y had simply seen a female acquainting
ou the car, nnd, calling her out to the «loor.
tep of the car, the ladies kissed, passedtl*
compliment* of the day, gossiped awhiiT
and then tho two lidies walked back tot£
sidewalk, tho lady inside resumed her sen
ami the astonished tjriver whipped up hi
mules, to the great relief of the impatient
passengers.
A farewell meeting was held in Denvq
on Sunday in honor of Misses Mary L. ('oit,
Delia A Fuller, Mary J. Henderson and
Jennie M. Small, who are about to go tj>!
Siam ns missionaries. Mis* Cort, after U|
years in Siam, returned a year ago for»
vacation. She is the daughter of an oil I
citizen of Denver. Miss Small has beet
teaching school iu Denver for three yean.
She is a Pennsylvania girl. Miss Fuller in
returned missionary. Miss Henderson ii»
Kansas girl, aud graduated from Turk Cob
lege, Missouri, last Summer. They nil go
for ten year*.
As a richly dressed young woman, cam-
ing a pr.iyerbook in her daintily gloved kft
hand, was about to leave tho Third a\>nu
elevated train, in New York, on Saturday,
she thrust her right hand into her pocket
for her kaudkerchief. When she withdnt
her hand from her pocket about a d«74
cigmdtes came with the handkerchief &l4
were scattered over the floor of the car. J
galleiit young mau picked them up tv.
handed them to the young woman, wlw
without the least apparent embarruKsmett
accepted them and gracefully bowed Lc
thank*.
ami tho cry of human vengeance tho cler
ical brollo rhood of man. Aud they wanted
no pay and they got no praise. They were
doing that Master’* work. True, it was
1.8G0 Years ago when He called upon them
mid hid them go out and bind up the bro
ken heart* and dry the tear*, and thus,
with tender touches of tone, to carry out
His mission, and in that time empires have
fallen and race* have become extinct, hut
these lit tie streams have widened and deep
ened till they encircle our globe like it* tit-
mo-pberc und sweeten myriad* of arid
hearts."
nnuny for
adon. It
Uotstrln Milk fur Loudon.
London Dally Neva.
An English firm i* forodug a com
the export of Holstein milk to Lon«1
is stated that the tuiik cun In preserved for
a considerable liaie without anything Wing
added to it. Experiments recently made at
Hoorn with milk h. v« ntecn days old are
said to have proven this.
Corttvrn g in** Lv .a*vli.t.
FhilwielphU Record.
If Chicago can g« t up a corner in Ham
w Jones’s serai on* the rest of the ccnntiy will
£td with some action un the tiart of the f«el gratefol. The wickedness of k-r cor
hoard of trustee*, and further, toat hit sal- | mm ia lard, pork and com, if abe coraera
ary was in arratn. 1 Junta, will no iomrer be act down airainst her.
Jones, will no longer be *et down against her.
Due of the lloj*.
Exchange.
A wealthy citizen bad been out until tho
■uiall hours with convivial companion*. It
was not exactly a “dry locality" that he
had visited, and ho arrived at home slightly
exhilarated. He managed, after describing
several erratic rather than geometrical hues,
to get to hi* bedroom and into a chair
Then he culled to his wife in a stage whis
per: “I can’t get my boot* off." “What's
the matter with your boots?" “Nozrin"
(in a faint whisper). “What’s the matter
with your bauds, then ?" “M.irni, I've for
got the combination I"
Thtuklnc of Sam.
New Orleans Picayune.
A religions paper that cannot quite swal
low Bam Jones does him the justice to say
that he stirs people up and undos tb*m
think. It is the name wav with Biistor.
People where he preache* become stirred
up, and try t> think ho* they c m get him
out of town without killing him.
An Unfailing source.
Cntcago Tmm.
A gas well lisa » ecu struck in Ohio that
has a flow of 1,5 JO,UJ0 feet a day. it mud
have been tun* in the neighborhood of a
burying ground of Ohio statesmen.
N«*t proceeff* to on* plow $240
Nrt proceeds to twenty plows ft nm
Hale* for fifteen .wan* <72.00
Nov, let 51 r Fratikliu put down f'il.aofor Lml
stiff $3,1X0 l«**a fftO for mule*, tuakinv |2<i Itt-l. Hit:
hnti»e la left out as no prudent man w tild huilff ou
Inn 1 before it is p*t«i for. and burden Miu«eif with
an interest fifom year*, nor ff<t*« 51r. UL> sosut.:.
t he tntereet 'hen Iwtu* c.iiooUt-d ou (be above
sum at 16 | erceut is 14,042 BO. against f 4 *0 profit*,
reducin* tlie i rm. lpxl tiiefir»t jnat.uuly f?r>?.5o
The fifth year the principal is re uiceo to 923.1*7,40.
The tenth >ear principal i* reduced to ft4.3to.2il.
The fifteenth year the land and stock are paid lor
and a dtxtffrud of $53. t,«<* declared in favor of
nurehaaet aufllt lent to build a very gooff country
house. Successful fanners are not exp*-rh-d to put
as much in fast horse*, no - any thins eh* fa*L ex
cept fast paring land, a* in a bon**. And while
cattle and beep, though of wonderful frctU:dlt».
ff * not ■! "Htaneou-ly evolve Ae«e* wwtimv do.
If 5fr. Franklin ia not natinfled with the •--lutiou
of tlie problem, and will o-rue to 4effer*oti count-.
1 will show him results in excess of the at»ovr
figures and won’t po beyond my first neigh tor, who
suited with only fifty cent*
In JnsUce to men who sell land here I will «ay IS
per cent interest ha* fever hero charged, while the
banking rate of luterest in Savannah fifteen year*
ago was 13 per rent, and factors’ cotuini*dons was 2
per cent for advancing, and planter* paid that for
money to clock their farina at that time.
Thomas Hardeman.
Witnesses Afloat.
St. L uia P<Mt-bi*p*tch.
General Buell eny* bo sa w many soMiers
swimming in tho water ut tho batt'e of
Shiloh. The public would like to h< nr from
one of throe swimmer*. The fig*.ter* >-nd
the hou-comltttarit* have iiia le iiieir state
ments UoW give the awimmi ra a chance.
lne«*(u|»wiit><litjr.
Boston Herald.
A very bright woman, health doe*
not thrive in the mtrine city where her
b»rdand master live* aud bn* Lii Icing,
declare* ah* will aue fur a divorce ou the
ground of incompatibility of climaU.
A Curious Certificate of Character.
New York Sun.
Mr. Doriuan B. Eaton has commended bis
vucccsaor, Mr. Charles Lyiinin, in the
*tr ingest terms as a thoroughgoing Uenuh-
lican. Mr. Eaton is reported as mis ing of
the new ComuiisMioner:
“He is by conviction a Republican. He
is in no st-use a Mugwump, lie lm* evtry
year gone to his home in Connecticut nntl
voted the regular Republican ticket. He
weut home and voted for Mr. Blaiue last
year. He has been the Treasurer and other-
wiae an active member of the Republican
Association in the Treasury."
Front the civil service reform point of
vl«»w those arc strange qualification* for n
civil service commissioner. Mr. Lyman was
k in the treasury, and while serving
in tint capHcity lie w.«s the tre tsurer of the
Connecticut Republican Association. These
soci- tit * were organized exclusively for par-
isnn setvi.'e, and were mainly made up of
Jerk* in the different departments, who
subsciilied money for carrying elections,
un I went home to vote themselves.
They keen a sharp kokout that no Demo
crat* should poach on the R'-pnhiican
manor, and they reported as suspect* all so-
called Republicitim who were delinquent in
zeal or who happened to have the courage
to be in any wav dependent. In fact, they
constituted an important part ot the work
ing tim -hioi ry of the organization.
In the worst sense they were offensive
partisans, because they gave time due to the
public se< vice and money furnished by tux-
i" ye*s to politics ns a busino*. And they
rewar led wiih promotion aodpiitronage
• one ponding to the industry with which
the party was served.
Thousands of such offensive partisans are
st 11 employed at Washington, und oue of
them i« now a civil service commissioner.
A Corner on llrlrmtone,
Raltimere American.
Sam Jones say* ill-gotten gains will turn
int»brim-t ne. New York shiftmen ought
to be able to get up *m etM>rmon* corner in
the brimstone market.
UarU to tsi t bo Faith.
Pbll**«lfilkia Prw-a.
The Democratic party hadem bsving
“Till recently," sav* the London Liter
ary World, “wo in England have had but i
poor opinion of American newspapen.
now that our paper* have sunk to tVi
level, und fill thtir columns with S'-nw
tional new* nnd the results of wholesale if-
tcrviuwing, it is to be questioned whriW
we aro in a position to pride ourselves u
our intellectual superiority. American*■
great readers of newspapers, aud then,
more than here, do they inform and guilt
the general public."
In uddition to D entenant Greeley's cs
rative of his expedition in the Arctic t
gions, ho has written un official repm
with map* and illustrations, which is tol
published ns a public document fit a cost
$12,357. An odditional edition of 4.ff
copie* will also probably bo printed it i
cost of $S,N77. Twelve hundred und 6(7
of thrso will be distributed by Benat fi
3,500 by Representatives und 750 by th
signal service.
Edward Atkinson, the well-known *ti»
tician, present* figures showing that ti
railroads of the United States givn crop! *
tueut to 050,000 people aud transport* 4l)i
000,000 tons cf freight annually, one-bJ
of which in food nnd fuel; and furtk*nn fl
it is proved that the freight rates are sol
that the Eastern mechanic can haveayMt'i
supply of food hauled from a dhditneed
1,000 mile* for the proceed of one dad
labor.
OxoxTiYon, a full-blooded Indian, grwk
nt*d No. 18 in a class of forty-six at ti
Buffalo Medical Colb ge lust week. He irih
first of his rnco to tukc honor* in ncoum
of medicine in this country. His find
Oronvet hokhirt (Burning hk>), wutgrkM
ted ut 0* ford, Eugland, and D now a*r‘
rcssful practitioner at London, Os
Ouontiyoh is of pure Mohawk blood, «■»
hi* name signifies “Beautiful Moufttiia’
In his amuHing book, “Music in FogUnA
M. Remo tell* the following; “The butli
of a great lady of fashion was overheard l 1
her one day discussing the vicissitude*
life with a follow-s* rvu 111 ‘My dear M!fi
he ejaculated, *1 am afraid that our |**F
are going in for economy. Only fancy, 1
the party yesterday evening. I seo witli J
own ejes my lady und Mi»* Hisats l*
in' on ono piano at the same time!"
Billy Mannino, of Ban Frsnebco,
Burt Brice, of El Base, Texas, met in 1
prize ring the other day at El BitnO. D*
had agreed to knock out the CaliLmdi’i
five rounds or forfeit$250. He Httrtrd
and knocked Manniug down »u the W
round. In tho second round the inanu*
the Bitcific slope astonished the cro*J *!
rushing at Brice aud knocking him co®
pletely out with a blow in the neck.
The noted stallion Superb (by Ethan
let*, dum by Hairin’* Hanibletoomo, l 4
Ttppo Sahib) died lost week of old ■iff'
20 veais —at the stable of his owner, J- 4 *
F. Frost, of Chatham, N. Y. Visitor*
the Albany State f*ir of 1873 will r«mrt»"
the displuy made by Ill's horse a* 11 *
stallion sons, all coal block and of
ful form and uctiou. Superb i* *aid to h'
earned over $50,000 in the stud.
A man who WtfH seen “walking J
head down and having a very dejected!
pearance" threw himself off London fifi .
the other day. The instinct ot lif* clQ ,
him to Htruggle in the water; jet wUJj
a Imat wn* put off to hi* assistance ■&“,
ro|»e wo* thrown to him he r. j« «*ted is
on being seized with a hitcher ho do* 6
gled hiruself from it and wu* drowu«*L
A Yale concert theoth«r night
the benefit of u Japanene jouug uijm
lieing too poor to pay his way, BJj* 1
able to get into the good grace* of » ,
leuians, and will now go siii'wthly u*“T
the Sheffield course. At tho c0UCt V-
Jap wore a big noHegmy und s*og • i °°r\
Nf.w York «ttyy La* only
dwelling-bonses which it* tire
consider* fireproof; seven ore «l ur
and twenty-e'D* private houses.
Turkic talkative American m **'!*^
Monte C’srlo are conspicuous,
perchexl u(>on the hat of each is a
permit.
eviuw,«iiB |’ ul v »»*«*enx nifiog
trie«l slmont every remedy to bring Mr. A tailor in Albany testifies the*
Cleveland into line and failed, why not try I hip pockets of ihree.fifths of his
the Faith Cora on him?
I he nods hard, cold shooting-irons*