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THE TELEGRAPH.
rraLISTMD EVKBT VKY IM THS YEAR AN» WEEKLY
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J. Hale Sypiieb and his man Thocbc
no longer disturb the public curiosity.
The friends of the Blair bill are weak
ening. They still claim a majority in the
Senate, hut they are away behind in the
House.
Stanley is said to have reached Emin
Bey. As that adventurer prefers to re
main where lie is, nothing remains hut for
Stanley to come hack again.
The coffin ring lias come to^rief, and
the cost of dying is reduced, hut, as all ex
change remarks, the trusts ami ring* which
increase the cost of living still flourish.
The unhappy Tory government of Eng
land now lias Scotch as well as Irish
troubles on its hands. The crofters of the
Western islands are almost in a state of re-
hellion.
Mil Boitki.i.k, of Maine, is the sand-
hag of the House of Ueprescntatives.
Even the naiatcnrs practice on him to pre
pare themselves for sparring matches with
the parliamentary athletes.
Tiik surplus is like a mouse in a cage,
with a lot of hungry cats yowing around
and pushing their claws through the wires
to catcli the jMxir, shrinking creature.
Away with cats and mouse!
A French inventor lias offered the Btate
•of New York what he call* a beautiful ma
chine, warranted to execute 100 criminals
n day without pain, lie must bo expecting
A reign of terror in this <0J:itry.
A lady in Washington say* Congress
man John J. O’Neill, of St. Bonis, is her
husband. Mr. O'Neill says lie is not
Things have come t J a pretty pass if a
woman does not know her own husband
when sho sees him.
Mr. Blaine lias preserved a discreet »i
lence for several weeks. Evidently he i*
not too old to learn. Had he talked h
and written less he might nut lie seeking to
heal his political bruise* in the balmy air
«if Southern Europe.
A learned professor lias invented
seismograph whicli gives |ierfeut picture*
of the earth during earthquake convulsions.
This is a smart trick, hut what we want i*
An instrument which will show ns how the
earth looks just before an earthquake.
The Valdosta Times gives thus warning
to Congressional aspirants in the (second
district: “Fences built this year to keep
Henry G. Turner out of the next Con
gress will have to he built high and staked
and ridered. Ordinary fences will not do
the work,”
At the present rate of arresting Irish
members, there may be a quorum of them
in jail by the tine Parliament meets.
They cannot make speeches nor vote while
locked up, but perhaps their influence
greater while they merely serve a* object
lessons of Tory tyranny.
Mil Carlisle will arrive in Macon on
the morning of January 24th and on the
evening of that day will address the |ieo-
pie of Georgia on the tariff. The rail
road* will give reduced rales and Macon
will have a bust of visitor*. It is needless
to say that Mr. Carlisle will have an ora-
tion in Georgia. The people admire him
ami believe in his theories of taxation.
The Constitution says no reply to Mr.
Carlisle will he needed in Atlanta. This
is true. The people of Atlanta, a* well
the people of the other parts of the Slate,
* agree with Mr. Carlisle on the tariff. If
reply should be attempted it ought to be
liy the tali If statistician of the Constitu
tion, who said Georgia paid $1,000,000 in
ternal revenue taxes last year when she
-really paid $237,000; or by the marine
editor of that able paper, who not long
ago wrote a leader on "our free shipping
laws;” or by the medical editor, who
figured out the tax on alcohol used in the
arts and sciences at $30,000,000 a year,
when it is about $3,000,000. We are con
fident that cither member of this illu-tri
cm* trio coil Id annihilate Mr. Carlule.
The Wlil*ky Tax Again.
The Atlanta Constitution disclaims any
desire that whisky shall he free from taxa
tion. It merely desires that the collection
of the tax shall l>e transferred from Federal
State hands, that the revenues arising
from it may relieve other property from
taxation and an end l>e put to a state of
nflairs among us which the Constitution
describes as ‘‘more horrible than the cruel
ties of the Siberian laws of KuHtda.”
A few days ago the Tej.kgkafh took up
thin plan of the Constitution and showed
that it would result in an almost total sac
rifice of the revenue from whisky, because
1. A direct tax on whisky by the States, acting
separately, would result in one paying large
tribute to another, because, while two or three
them produce almost all of it made in the
country, the consumption is general.
A system which enabled one State to sup
port its government by taxing the people of all
the States would bring about a rapid reduction
the tax as each State bid for a source of rev
enue to which its own people contributed only
part.
3. The internal revenue is now collected by
eorgians, and no more harshness is displayed
than is necessary to prevent frauds upon It. If
these Georgians were State instead of Federal
officers, the same methods of collection must be
retained.
4. The license system cannot be employed, be
cause iu three-fourths of Georgia prohibition
prevails, and in the remaining one-fourth
,500,0U0 cannot be collected, in addition to the
Stutc and municipal taxes now imposed upon
dealers.
5. Collection by the Federal government
and distribution from Its treasury not only
has no warrant in the constitution, but would
ntisuc the present Russian cruelties about
hich the Constitution writes so pathetically.
To the Telegraph's exposure of the im
practicability of it* plan the Constitution
replica at some length, but it floe* meet a
ingle one of the point* made. It evade*
charge* the Telegraph with having
adopted the “free whisky” cry of the
whisky ring instead of answering an argu
ment to prove that it* plan would bring
about practicably free whisky. The para
graph ill its article which approaches
nearest to argument ia a* follow*:
But the TxLEORAni says that taxation by the
State Is an Impracticable scheme and proceed*
renew the cry of "free whisky.” Are wo to
gather Irnm this that the Tki.kokai-h Is trying
convince Its readers that there would bo more
hisky produced and consumed II the tax la re-
pealed! Are we to understand the Telkoracii
claiming that the Federal tax act* as a re
straint to either the production or consumption
whisky? Under all the circumstances, we do
not see how such n claim could be made. It
certainly could not be sustained. A whisky
trust has just been organised to prevent
over-production "and for other purposes.”
Rather than pay the government tax on whisky
lor wb'ch there I* no demnnd In the market the
members of the whisky ring harp exported
thousands ol barrel*, and when there Is a de
mand they will reimport It Iree of duty. Is the
TxiAokAi-n ol the opinion that anybody .who
wants a drink ol whisky refuses to boy It be
cause of the tax Imimscd on Its manufacture by
the goverumeu? We know know very well that
the TxLEoitArit doesn't believe any such non*
sense.
This is a complete turning aside from
the inane. The question has not lieen
whether the tax affects the consumption of
whisky, but whether ninety cent* (>er gal
lon can be collected by the State., acting
separately. The Teleobaph does not hes
itate to say, however, that in its opinion
more whisky would be consumed if the
price were 15 cents a gallon instead of
$1.05, and tint the production would lie
correspondingly greater. It seems reason
able to suppose so, nnd therefore thnt the
Federal tax doc* restrain consumption.
While it may be true thnt no man refuse*
to buy a drink of whisky because of the
government tax iqran it, it ia afw>
true that ho cannot buy ns many
of them ns he could but for
that tax. The extent of many n man’s
drinking is limited by his ability to buy.
The whisky trust would soon find itself
free of any surplus product were the tax
removed.
The Constitution’s statement that thou
sands of barrels of whisky have been ex-
been collected by tlie State, j
—ss? trnssrs j&snz anonymous letters
eeption for which figures may be used interv iew with the proprietor of the Phila-
can hardly be better illustrated than by deiphia Call, and this interview wcfind re-
this statement which is mdde for the pur- published in the Times. It is printed in
pose of showing that the internal revenue another column.
is especially burdensome to the people of
Georgia. Bet ns look at the fads.
In round proportions of (mpulntinn
Georgia is one thirty-third of the country,
In round number, the spirits tax lias since
the close of the war yielded 1,150 million
dollars. Divide 1,150 by 33, anil we have
tlie per capita proportion of Georgia—in
round figures, $35,000,000. Instead of pay-
ing more than a fair share of the whisky
tax Georgia is in default, a. it were, fully
eleven million dollars!
A\e hazard the statement thnt there are
single counties in both Kentucky and Illi
nois from which more whisky fax has been
taken since the close of the war than lias
been collected in the whole Stat# of Geor
gia. If this statement is doubted by any
of onr readers, we will at once get exact
information relative -to it from the com
missioner of internal revenue.
But we are toid that Georgia has prac
tically been robbed of these.millions. The
money went into the treasury, and
was disbursed in payment of postal ex
penses, in dredging ont impossible
rivers, in Imanling the untutored and
unwashed children of tlie plains, In paying
Mexican war (tensions, and in the vari
ous other lines of expenses that the gener
al government is charged with. It Ueor-
liad not paid these millions
into the treasury in internal
revenue taxes, they would have
been collected from us under the indirect
or sneak system of taxation, bv which we
would have been compelled to pay at least
five time* as much more to Northern mo
nopolists, ns recent statistics plainly show.
Wc have saved a vast sum in the trans
action.
Who felt, wc beg to ask, this tax of
twenty-four millions? Did you feel it?
Ask your neighbor if lie felt it. If you or
he did pay any part of it, you or he must
have lived in a “wet” county, and lieen in
generous mood. The tax is, of course, a
consumers’ tax, and is largely paid by those
who are convivially inclined. President
Cleveland very truly says there is no hard
ship in it, and consumers do not complain
of it.
There arc taxes in Georgia, however,
that arc hardships, ami if our
friends want some more examples in arith
metic they can find them in such taxes.
The tax on salt is 80 per cent, ad valorem,
and this represents tho difference in tlie
price of salt in Biverjiool and in New
York. Vessels coming to Savannah for
cargoes of cotton would be glad to bring
salt as ballast. Now let ouri oiernal rev
enue abolitionists figure up what this tin
necessary and unjust tax, for tlie benefit of
half a dozen salt localities in the Northern
States, lias taken from Georgia since tlie
close of the war. Tlie sum total will
mount into the millions.
When the>y hare ciphered out this ex
ample let them think of the struggling
farmer* of Georgia and ask himself, should
the tax on whisky or the tax on salt go
first?
If tills example dors not satisfy them they
can find 1,000 more of a like nature in the
tariff bill. Yes, 1,000 more that extract
money from the pockets of the farmers of
Georgia without considerably swelling any
tliing except tlie (racket* of bloated monop
olists in other States. Stick to facts.
It will he seen that Col. McClure does not
agree with the editors of certain newspapers
the South, who are protectionists first
and Democrats afterwards, that tile Presi
dent's message is a free trade document,
and threatens the prosperity of the coun-
On the contrary, he believe* tlie
quickening of discussion caused by tlie
message will make Mr. Cleveland invinci
ble and bring about tariff revision on the
lines be lias laid down.
If Col. McClure correctly represents tlie
position of tlie Democrat* led by Mr. Ran-
dnll there ought not to Ire any great
trouble in agreeing npon n compromise
bill that will satisfy the country and in
sure a long lease of (rawer to the party.
ported, which will he reini|mrtod free
duty, ia either an attempt to deceive with
a half-truth or else a specimen of careless
writing. The whisky was exjrarted, not
to csea|ie the tax, hut to delay payment
nd when reimported must pay tlie same
tax a* if it had not lieen sent away, in ad
dition to the cost of transportation both
ways.
But tbc Telegraph is not defending tlie
hisky trust, though it confesses to the
opinion thnt a trust to raise the price of
whisky is infinitely less harmful than cx
biting trn«t* or combinatiAi,* to raise the
price* of sugar, steel, aalt, nail*, window-
glayi, and other articles of daily necessity,
Tlie one trust is the result of internal, the
others of tariff taxes. The interference of
either of these combinations of capitalists
witli legislation should not lie tolerated,
hut there is no evidence to show that
the whisky trust ha* been more guilty in
this respect than the tariff trusts.
Now let the Constitution state plainly
the method* by which it would control the
manufacture of whisky in Georgia, meet
ing the objeetbm* which the Tklkuraph
lias (siimt-d out. It professes to desire
lower tariff rales; let it also show how tlie
people can escape the enormous burden of
indirect taxation when more than $800,-
000,000 must be annually raised at the cus
tom houses to pay the necessary expense*
of the government.
Stick to Karts.
We intend to make our friend* who are
clamoring for a repeal of the whisky tax
stick to facta—if we can. Their eloquence
is thrilling and their pathos is lunching,
but these qualities are flioisy material
wherewith to construct an argument on the
great economical question of the day. Let
u* some down to facts, dnll and stubborn
though they he.
We are told with a great flourish that
Georgia ha* paid since the war the enor
mous sum of $24,000,000 in internal re
nut taxes, and that this tnm, if It ha
Do Not MiKKtnte Fart*.
In the war which is being carried on by
certain pa|iers against the internal taxes,
is persistently stated that in its past his
tory the government has only resorted to
this means of raising a revenue on extra
ordinary occasions—that it has been strict
ly a war tax. It ia trne that the rate’ of
internal taxation lias varied greatly, being
sometimes almost nominal, but it is also
true that in one form or another it iias
been levied for eighty-two yenis of tlie
ninety-eight during which our government
has existed in its present form. It was
only during the short interval
between 1848 and 1862 that no internal
taxes whatever were collected. Congress
first resorted to this means of raising
money in 1792, and even when so large a
orpins bad accumulated in the treasury
that it was necessary to distribute it among
the States, it was not entirely abandoned.
These facts prove that in the early days
of tlie republic internal taxation was
looked upon as a natural and proper source
of income—not as a war measure.
English prejudice ap(iears to be strong
er than English genius. Mr. Gladstone
and bis party have lost mncli ground in
the last few months.
A Coiicrnliurnt of Troth.
Sonic of tlie Knights of I-abor among
tlie Beading strikers having passed reso
lutions that they would hereafter vote for
no man for Congress who is not pledged to
vote for tlie reqical of tlie coal duty, the
New York Tribune is moved to remark
that Democratic demagogues have evi
dently been among the men nnd have led
them Mtray. Tlie Tribune then proceed*
to point out that there i- no import duty
on anthracite coal, which 1* the variety-
mined by tlie Heading Company, and it is
therefore o|ien to tho competition of the
whole world.
The men whom the Tribune attempts to
deceive by nn argument so shallow ns
this are too intelligent for the attempt
to be succssfnl. They know that though
anthracite doe* not appear on the tariff
Hat it has just as much protection as Mini
minim* coal, because the tariff duty of
seventy-five cents a ton on the latter de
prire* it to that extent of tlie (rawer to
compete with anthracite. This wmildnot
lie true if there were any foreign de)io*ita
of anthracite easily accessible; but there
are not. .Should any be developed in Can
ada the demand for tlie imposition of
duty would be prompt and vigorous.
Tlie putting of anthracite on the free
list was a cheap Bcpublican fraud,
If the duly were ten dollars
a ton the price would lie fixed, as now, by
iu chetpnem as compared with soft coal,
with its duty of seventy-five cenU.
The men who passed the resolution* re
ferred to were, no doubt, moved in some
part by anger, bnt it may well lie that they
begin to sec that thednty on coal strength
en* the hand* of the monopoly which <q>-
presse* them, while it in no degree helps
their wages. In their present quarrel they
only ask an advance of eight cent* per ton
for mining, only a small part of the ad
vance in the price of coal, while the last
report of the company show* profits for the
year of over ten million dollar*.
IVniioylvnnln Dctnoont*.
The Philadelphia Times ha- been looked
upon as the ablest rcpri— nutire of the
protection-wing of the Democratic party.
It a printed at Mr. Randall’* home, and
has frequently been referred to a- ih
entle
“A Great Question Answered”, “
letter in mytVndl’revlh^
may be a blessing bv testing |H '' 1
ness. A man ma/thU him*lf“ r
lltm-n I,..1.1 .. I . **
■
■
at the Tabernacle.
INTERESTING FRIDAY NIGHT TALK.
Dr. Tnlmnge Sajr* Persecution Is no
vantage, Inasmuch ns It Humble
l’s. Lets Us Know flow Much
Hail We Ilavu Left til Us.
Brooklyn, January 13.—The subject of
the Rev. Dr. T. Dc Witt Talmage’s talk at
the Tabernacle to-night was: “A Great
Question Answered.” Ife said:
I have received an anonymous letter so
suggestive of good and profitable thought,
nnd asking a question in which we are all
interested, tlint I make it the basis of to
night’s talk. Many anonymous letters are
not worthy of thought.
Ill boyhood days we were impressed with
tlie fertility of a certain author, whose
name so often appeared in the spelling
Looks and readers, stvied Anon. Ho seemed
to write more titan Isaac Walters or Shake
speare or Blair. In the index, and scattered
throughout all our books, was the name of
Anon. He appeared in nil styles of poetry
and prose and dialogue. We wondered
where he lived, what his age was and bow
lie looked. It was not till quite late in
boyhood that wc learned that Anon was tin
abbi
revialiou for anonymous, and that lie
was sometimes the best saint and at other IOr Iienonalitv; and thp |
times the most extraordinary villain. °* n ? a .*. ,ce > revenge and hate, with J
After centuries of enrresnnndeww Anonv-
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
1 ustlcc—Nlncty stays. Hoe that the fellow get*
butb. Prisoner—All right, Judge. I don't mind
the washing, only so 1 ain't Ironed afterward.—
Hartier’* Bazar.
At the church sociahtc.—Vlvactswa young
lady—Guess wliat we are going to halve to-night,
Mrs, Ilascnm—charades! Mrs.Bascom—tknowed
lit t smelt 'em clear out to the gate.—Burling
ton Free Press.
New Congressman at dinner. Walter (who has
seen new Congressman before)—"’Btiu*c me,
boss, but 'taint good fawm to cat yo r pie wld yo’
knife." Sew Congressman — "Writ, why In
thunder didn't you bring me a spoon?”—Wash
ington Critic.
mous is as fertile of thought and brain mid
strntegem as ever, ami will probably keep
on writing till the last fire burns up lit*
pen and cracks to pieces his ink bottle.
Anonymous letters sometimes have a mis
sion of. kindness and gratitude ami good
cheer. Genuine modesty may sometimes
hide tlie name of nn epistolary- author or
authoress. It may lie a “God bless vou”
from sonic one who thinks herself hardly
in a position to address you. It may be
the discovery of a (dot for your damage,
in which the revelntor does not care to
take the responsibility of a witness. It
may lie anv one of a thousand tilings that
mean frankness and delicacy, and honor
and Christian principle. ’ We have re
ceived anonymous letters which we have
put away among our most snored archives.
But we *up|wse most |>eople chiefly as
sociate the idea of anonymous communica
tions with everything cowardly nnil base.
Therefore in nil. ncighlrarhouds (lertidious,
sneaking, dastardly, filthy, calumnious,
vermin infested wretches sjrawed up from
|>erdition, whose, joy it is to write letters
with fictitious signatures. Sometimes they
take the slia(>e ol n’vnlcntine, February 14
being a great outlet for this obscene spawn.
Sometime* they take tlie form of a delicate
threat that if you do not thus or so there
will he n funeral at your house, yourself
the chief object of interest. Sometimes
they will be denunciatory of vour friend-.
when it is a mere hobby he!,'
when the hobby balks lj e r
home. 1*1 a Hitt WH out “irf .3
who promised to help provC?"!
his motives m aligned, lie wilT ' ri 1
unless lie bo in 'earnest. It ; * IVl g
soldier in time of peace uJ e f- T I
brave captains and colonel'Vnl' 1 1
liefore the war begin bat at H- 1
when the war opened, how thef iJ
run. if men are not i„ earner. i„7l
conflict they make a bigshnw f I
but, attacked and pursued, they J
white flag and surrender p'k "i
sanctified, make* one humble -I
a tendency to brag, and so GodTI
jeered at. Tlie man say*, ra
that college. I started ti,,,
built that church. Is not this *
ion that I have built?" And *p i 'J
Nebuchadnezzar out to eat cm Ai
ox. “Blessed are the poor iat.,1
thoirs is the kingdom of heaven'' I
Another advantage of pertreini J
lets us know how much of the „i1
in us. W hat a mild Christian I
when everylssly praised him
runs against the sharp edge of u Al
Opposition, and he fk in f„|| El
feels more like swearing thanprariJ
runs about in great excitement l
over all the mean tilings he knot!
those who oppose him. An eye f„,I
a tooth for a tooth, acorn for *
sonalitv for (lereonalilv
explosion, keep Fourth o{ J„|, r 1
I.UIII-I. After a wiiiiu i, e Wlkn 1
finds lie is all wrong, and he
anil has a long list of hard m w |I
unjust deeds to repent of, and l e J
never before, his weakness befoJ
urinin us into
Once beinK called to preside *at a iiiectin#
fur Inn ml inf n/ »!>■ ■ — Q j |>||j|
Magistrate (to Uncle IUatua.)—I am iiorry to
*e© you here, Uncle Rastua. Only a week ago
yon experienced religion and now you nre up
for chicken stealing, Uncle Rcinua.—Yen, yo’
honoh, hut It ’quire* mo’n er week, *ah, fo’ ter
git to be much ob a saint.—New York Sun.
Miss Campbell 1* forty, and the affestiou* of a
maiden lady of that age are never so badly
wounded that they may not lie hcalefl with a
sum as large os R\ooo. It is not surpritdng to
learn that she is satisfied with the verdict. For
the amount of true love that she Invested in
the fat and flcklo Mr. Arbuckle she receives u
very fair return.
Chicago dame (In Chicago art »tore>—^"That Is
just the sort of picture I want. Ask the pro*
prletor how much It Is." New boy—'"The boss
is out just now, but I seen him sell that picture
to another lady only half an hour ago. He's
gone to get a man to haul It away, I gueiw.
lUpbaei." “Too hail. Well, tell Mr. Kaphacl
to paint me one like It." "Yes, ma'am, lfeaml
his men Is awful busy at the factory notv, but I
guess he can fill your order."—Omaha World.
for the relief of the aewing women
adelphia, and haying been called in tlie
opening speech to say something atraut iqe
pressive contractors, we received some
twenty anonvmous letters, the pur|rart of
which was that it would be unsafe for us
to go out of door* after dark. Three
months after removing to Brooklyn we
preached a sermon reviewing one of the
sin* of tlie city, nnd anonrmou, letters
came, saying that we would not Inst six
month* in the City of Churches.
Ix-t every young man know that when lie
is tempted to |>en anything which requires
bun to disguise Ids handwriting be is in
fearful danger. You despoil your own
nature by such procedure more’ than von
can damage any one«1h. Bowieknife and
dagger nre more honorable than nil anonr-
mou* pen »imr|iened for defamation of
character. Better try nutting strychnine
III Hie flour barrel. Belter mix ratsbane in
the jelly cake. That behavior would he
■re elega MM
l’ERSONAL.
Spurgeon has publUhcd 2,000 aermonM, and
the lazy country udnUter regard* him a beue-
factor.
ArcbbUhop Kyan, of Philadelphia, U dill
gently gathering material to cetnbltah the claim
of canonization of biz predewaor, Binhop J. N.
Ncwmann, who died in 1650.
Marah Bernhardt Maya »he expects in her Amer
ican tour in 1MM to recoup herself for all the ex-
pen** she weut to in giving her son a good
sand-off."
J. It. Unwin went to California with S500 bor
rowed money, and U now worth f1o,«oo,tx6.
This item Im published in bopea to make eiudcr
the path*ay of the inveterate borrower.
queen Victoria will go to Han Remo by way of
Hwitzerland. The jubilee addreos of congratu
lation sent to the queen by the women of Great
Britain waa signed by 1.132,608 women.
The Prince of ttaxe-Coburg-Gotbti is a mighty
hunter. In three days at Walsee, Austria, he
brought down more than 700 head of game, and
In six hours at Htlftlngeu be »hot sixty wild
bogs.
(senator Ingalls, of Kansas, In the burning of
bisthonieat Atchison, lose* one of the finest !i-
brarit'M of the Mi»sU*ippi river,and one i*r.
tkalarly rich in the literature of |io1ltIcs. The
home waa inadequately insured, which h
other instance of how some. men take better
care of the publjc than of their own interests.
A Dark's night.
Ont in the country the bell* were ringing.*
Ont iu the field* waa a child at play, *
And up to heaven a lark went singing
Blithe and free on that morn In May:
And the child looked up a* she heard the sing
ing.
Uatcning the lark aa it ooared away;
<>*wcct lark, tell me, heavenward winging,
ehall I go alao to heaven one day?"
Deep in the shade of a mighty city
* lTy bread.
Toiled a woman for dall.
Only a lark to see her and pity,
Hiuging all day in a i-age o'erbead.
And there they dwelt in the gloom to
Prisoned and pent in the narrow st
• rtaoned and iwu*...rucci,
But the bird still rang of the golden weather
And the woman dreamed of her childhood
sweet.
Still in her dreams tlie bells were ringing.
Htlll a child in the fields wo* she;
And she ofieneq the rage aa the lark waa sini
Kissed him gratis and set him free.
Ann upend on a* Um lark vent .ImciuK,
Down nunc a voice that seemed to anv,
"Evens* the lark that is heavenward winging
Thou shall go also to heaven one ilav!"
—Krr.lvrick E. Wratherlj.
An Knd t>i Done hcmplng.
Edward Shepherd, of llarrt»hure. 111., son.
Bitter** 1 ! 'l''*. 1 '- 1 » «oeh bereftt from Elect rie
iiismiT snow ii. nave nan a running sore on
m, lec tor visa,ears: mjr doctor, mid me I
would have w hove the bone sevsped or the leg
amputated. I lued. Instead, three bottles ol
Mre-trlr Bitters and seven boxes Hue ti ten’s Ar-
nlr* Salve, and my lex is now sound and weU."
Kleeirb- UtUers are sold at ?o rents n bottle,
snd ArairaKalvest £tcenu per box by Lamar,
Rankin A Lamar.
more elegant nml Christian. If, since the
world stootk there have lieen composed
nnd sent off hy mail or private postmen
1,600,378 anonymous letters derogatory of
character, then 1,600.378 were vieioui
mill damnable. If yon are coni-
railed to choose between writing «
etter witli false signature vitriolic
of nny man’s integrity or anv woman's
honor on the one hand, and tlie writing
of n letter with n red-hot nail dip|>ed
in adder's poison on a sheet woven of lep
ers’scales, choose the latter. It were
healthier, nobler and could better endure
the test of man’s review and GimI’s scru
tiny. But there is n kind of nnonvniou*
letter that one lias n rigid to send, aiid the
more one receive* of that kind the bettor.
One like thnt which I have in my hand
might well keep us for a week at profitable
thinking.
That letter says: “Why did Jesus, in
the list of blessings promised to those who
should exercise self denial, place the word
-.rarseentions—'shall receive a hundred
fold in his time, houses and brethren and
sisters nnd mothers and children and
lanil* with irarseeiitions?’ Why rewards
and punishment* for the same act?”
I never In-fore noticed the paradox. It
seems like premising a man health and
comfort and success ami a sound thrash
ing, nr saying to a child for something to
Ira done : “1 will reward you with a cake
ami a ride and a dark closetj’ Ktill there
is no contradiction. A cup niav he so
sweet that it.ii insipid or nauseating. Offir
cup nf life is not all sweet*. It ia a com
imunded cup, and with the saecliafim
there mingles the acids and tlie bitter*. All
tlie go,si and useful shall have tlie promise
of persecutions fulfilled. Cutting out the
tongue, (Hitting out the eye or pulling
apart tlie limbs is a past fashion, hut »t||
there arc wca|*>n* of persecution. Some
times it is a newspaper attack, sometimes
it ia an anonymeus letter, sometimes pri
vate caricature and misrepresentation.
Tell me of any man eminratlv useful that
lias not been eminently cursed. Crossing
tlie sea, I used to hang over the side of the
ocean steamer and wateh tlie stroke of tlie
wave against the ship’* cutwater.
I noticed when it was fnggr
and when we were making only raven o’r
eight knot* an hour there wa* hut little
«tir in the water, hut when it wns fair
weather and we went at the rate of 400
miles a day the ocean towrad in front of
tlie prow nnd trailed on either side. S
iust in pro|rarlion as a Christian make
headw "
icadway in Christian enterprise, in tlia
ratio will there be a com motion and ex
cited resistance in the waters. If nothing
can be said against yon, if vou have nevel
been assaulted, if evcn-bodr seem* pleased
with you yon are making little nr no pn
great; you are waterlogged. In-tead .
mistering tbs wane the waves Meter m
All of yon who will do your dutr inn-
take a share of that treatment. Be n-
oversensitive. If you see two (.er-ins tall
ing in :i . orn-r mi I is i a-immll* I.-,kin
over toward you, you are annoyed an
Persecution brings u* into sympa,':!
Christ. \\ hat deed or work of his 1
not been misrepresented. They sai.ll
was a sot, a traitor, a disturber J
They got iqi n sham trial, J
on until matters culminated
death. He answered not. StrJ
did not strike hack. The reason vJ
demolish your enemy is because voj
Christ had all the (rawer in lieavenl
earth, yet was a sheep before hi*
Oh, thou despised one of the <
us how to hear the scoffs and c
the world! If Christ will aJR
irnver, then we will be able to km]
ti tlie tenth chapter of Mark,
noimced irarseeiitions as the very cJ
all blessing* we can possibly Vmj
earth for Christiau work aini raiiq
Though it be n crown of tire,
breath of lu-aven will nut ont ill
nnd leave nothing but the gold, id
nil tlie brighter for tlie heat, lvd
found in tlie shell in tlie deep sea,I
shell ia opened by the knife of til
diver nml tlie pearl dro|M out. The!
blessings are hidden and inclosedf
sometimes take* the sharp knife M
cut ion to bring out the pearl of ernl
Mr. Lnrry Gnnttoii ths Internal ll|
From the Athens Itauner-Wati-hmao. "
I cannot conceive a greater curs
could Ira inflicted on Geurgia hedaX
l" I- iii.it ii.- di-iillnti..,, , . , '
" li’-i-y - in I" :i. i.l.■ mi m n-t . ■ i
Ii'” • 01- |- r c.ill'll, .’uni w, ;! i I
retailed for men that Mm. TWI
■|Ui 111 '■ Ml,III.I I... lh.lt I-V.-I; . I
have on its hank-, one or more di-l|
and every encouragement would i*
to drunkenness. Tlicnegro natural!]
Ida dram, and being no longer ucj
restraint of slavery, would i|tiiel
transformed into a race of vugsh'J
drunkards. lYohibition would beta
It now cost* tlie general govennacsj
ally thousand* of dollar* to sup(*e
Imsiness of illicit distilling, and iu -1
tlie greatest vigilance of efficient aJ
salaried officer*, the Imsines* i< |
tirely broken up. The State wouU|
have to take this burden upon
King Alcohol would holu n
sway in Georgia.
1 have always been opposed to a I
live tariff, thnt i* making mitliunaia
few men nnd pau|H-rs of the great f
I can see a systematic and mo*t u«
fort on tlie pert of tlie protection cr
achieve their end* hy indirerts
tlmt.i*, the re(raal of tlie revrotl
1s t tlie voter* of (Jeorgia and i-viH
Btate in our union be not blinded a
led. Kememlrar that to re|>etl ti*
whisky and tobacco means that d j
on tlie necessaries of life shill I
tinned. T. L. Gi
An Olil \Vnr Shanty.
Dawaon Journal.
Just on tliocdge of town andoei]
of tlie Houtliwcstern railroad »
ingle house, dilapidated and •
beaten. It is n forcible reminder*
times," when that house nerved ail
miasary for tlie refugees from Alb*
then had their camp around it. Tt
to-day is gone, and the land up*
It wns located ia u cultivated field I
a pine grove not far distant are twl
of many of these refugeeo who M
far away from home in umarel f
What a commentary upon life!
(lentil or Mr. A. K. Htn- .
CoLlMbls. (ns. January IA
coi.i mih s, (im., January ! ~ .'T
Mr. A. ¥. Hill, an influential eitizea-
ville, died lost night. lie w*» si
years of age, and married to tbe "l’I
ilmm *”
ter of the lamented Judge Bi^J
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not * “nostrum” but a scientific 'J
valuable medicinal ingredient*.
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