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Homek, Ga., Wednesday, June 17.
Four members of one family have
recently died of hydrophobia in
Arkansas,
A few days ago a water spout fell
in Gainesville, Texas, covering the
streets four feet in water.
Sam Small has been dropped from
the Methodist church by the action
of the Colorado conference.
One hundred children were poison
ed last Wednesday by eating ice
cream at a church festival in Bloom
ington, 111.
Gov. Hill will not visit the Augus
ta exposition, but will he at the dedi
cation of the Grady monument in
Atlanta.
Tlio combined weight of the Coul
ter family in Walker county is 1450
pounds. The family consists of six
members. The combined height of
two of the boys is thirteen feet and
nine inches.
Foot Peddlers.
It iB the duty of every citizen of
the county to demand of foot ped
dlers, going through the country,
their license to peddle.
Every one who peddles, and arc
not maimed confi derate soldiers in
this state, are subject to a tax of 150
in each county.
’ These fellows are getting to be
very numerous- m the country, and
sometimes they say things that are
slanderous to the good name of out
best citizens.
We are informed, that ono of these
peddlers stayed all night at Mr. lien.
Caudell’s a few nights ago and after
he had left there he said that some
of Mr. Caudell’s folks had stolen
about $9.00 worth of goods from him.
Everybody knows that there can not
be one word of truth in his assertion.
Asa rule these fellows are of for
eign birth, and such men as these
have already caused trouble enough
in the United States.
The next time you see ono of those
follows demand of him his license, and
if he fails to produce them arrest him
and carry him to the court lumse.
Tax on Words.
What a pity there is not a tax on
words. What an income would re
sult ? But alas talking passes no toll,
and if lies paid double tho govern
ment would soon be able to pay off
tho national debt, but who could col
lect the tax? Common fame is a
common liar. Hearsay is half lies.
A tale nevoi looses by telling. Like
a snowball, it gathers as it rolls. He
who talks much tells something that
is not true. If people told only what
was true what a happy world this
would bo!
Silence seldom makes mischief.
Silenco is wisdom, and by this rule
wise men and women are scarce.
Still waters are the deepest. This
shows how plentiful fools must be.
An open mouth shows an empty head.
If the chest had gold or silver in it;
it would not always stand open.
Talking comes by nature, but. it
needs a good deal of training to learn
to be quiet, yet regard for trttth
should put a bit on every man's
mouth, and a bridle upon every good
woman’s tongue.
If we must talk let us be free from
slander. Let us not blister our
tongues with back-biting and black
guardism. Slander may be sport to
the ‘ale-bearer, but it is death to
those whom they slander. We can
commit murder with the tongue as
well as with the hand. The worst
thing you can do to a man is ruin his
reputation.
The Quaker said to hia dog: “I'll
not beat thee nor abuse thee, but I’ll
give thee an ill name.”
All are not thieves who dogs bark
at, but they are generally treated as
if they were. Most people believe
that w here there is smoke there is
fire, and what everybody says must
be true. Let us then be careful that
we do not hurt our neighlror’s reputa
tion. When a man is once in people’s
“bad lrook” he is never quito out of
it. If we would be sure of not speak
ing harmful of our neighbor we should
speak as little an possible of him.
If all our sins were divided into
equal parts half of them would be
sins of the tongue. If any man
offend not in word the same is a
perfect man—able to bridle the whole,
body.
We would suggest that the gos
sipors of both sexes give up the
shameful trade. Don’t be the devil’s
bellows to blow up the fire of strife.
Leave off setting people by the ears,
and cut a bit off your tongues. At
least season ;he tonguo with a little
of the saH of grace. Praise God
more and blame neighbors less.
Any goose can cackle; any empty
barrel can give forth sound, but no
flies will go down your throat if you
will keep your mouth shut, and no
evil speaking will c< me up. Think
much but say little; be quick at work
and slow at thought, and above all
ask the Great Lord to set a w r atch
over your Ins.
Cheap Boy.
Solomon.
And the King made silver and
gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as
stones, and cedar trees made ho as
the sycamore—trees that are in abun
dance.—2 Chron. i:ls
This was the first official act of
Solomon, and as Jerusalem was built
and walled from stone quarried on
the ground no one denies that they
were exceedingly plentiful. Silver
is mentioned lirst as of equal impor
tance with gold. The wise ruler
seems to have lost no sleep about the
“danger line” being reached from the
abundance of the white metal, neither
did it eviT enter his mind to demo
netise it. Not only did ho see the
necessity of supplying his country
with un almost unlimited amount of
metal money, but he took precaution
tiry measures to prevent it being
paid out for the products .of other
nations, except in oases whore it was
impracticable to deal with them In
any' other way. Thus in the same
chapter it will be seen he proposed
and entered into an agreement -with
Hiraui, King of Tyre, by which the
latter Was to furnish him n certain
number of skilled laborers and receive
in payment for their services not
gold and siiver, but four articles for
which Solomon wanted a market. lie
know the people of Tyre were in need
of those four articles, and wheat, bar
ley, oil and wine were paid out by
Solomon with a view to furnishing a
brisk demand for farm products so
that fanning would be profitable and
his countrymen be kept busy, happy
and contented. Solomon governed
his country forty years in peace.
Few rulers could say so much. It is
claimed ho was the father of green
backers, and his payment of Hiram
in currency other than gold and silver
is cited as evidence of the fact. How
ever this may be, his financial ability
had much to do with his greatness.
He was never considered a fool, but
his intellectuality towered aloof like
his favorite cedars and “the sycamore
trees that are in the vale.”— Alliance
Monitor.
Not for a Third Party.
I desire to offer a few thoughts in
regard to tho third party- question.
It seems that this question is dis
turbing the minds of the people in
the different seetious of the country.
I am not in favor of, and think it
would be exceedingly unwise for the
Alliance and other labor organiza
tions to form a separate political par
ty. That would be partisanship, and
would sooner or Inter destroy us as
an organization. We would soon
become the prey of demagogues and
unscrupulous politicians. History
proves the fact that all political par
ties soon Itecome corrupt, and ours if
we form one, will not prove an excep
tion to the rule. I believe that our
mission under God is to purify, and
accomplish our ends through the par
ties already iu existence. It matters
not whether our congressmen are re
publicans or democrats, if they are iu
sympathy with, and will work for the
measures we demand. And it is our
business to see that none except
those kind are elected. It seems to
mo tlie height of foolishness that I, a
South Carolina democrat, should de
mand that a Kansas republican must
change his political creed in order to
be a consistent Alliance man. That
would be intensely partisan.
In order to understand each other
we must know and take into consid
eration each other’s environments.
Not to mince matters and beat around
the bush, the question in South Car
olina has been, not between demo
crats and republicans, but a question
of white supremacy or negro domina
tion. The white race of South Car
olina have been democrats ever since
the organization of that party. The
negroes after the war were organized
by a hand of roblrers, and were told
that they belonged to the republican
party. How the state was governed,
and how the government was speedily
reduced to bankruptcy, while the
taxes amounted to almost confiscation,
is a matter of history. South Caro
lina was known all over the world as
the “prostrate state.” These men
were not republicans, but a set of
unprincipled knaves. With but few
exceptions there was not a decent
white man of character connected
with the party in the state. What is
true in South Carolina is true also of
other states in the south. We must
look at things as they are, and not as
we would like to have them.
And why should we form a separate
party? I can give several reasons
why we should not. The main one
is, because it would alienate thous
ands of men who wil 1 otherwise vote
with us. I know this is true of South
Carolina. There are hundreds of
men in this state who vote with us
who are not elegible to membership
in the order. These would not break
their political faith to go with us,
but will vote with us as long as we
work through the democratic party.
And where is the necessity- for an
other party, when we can roach the
same ends through existing parties?
Why can’t the Alliance men of other
states do ns South Carolina and Kan
sas did last year? In South Carolina
we simply toek control of the demo
cratic party, as Kansas did of the re
publican party. We can do it ’9*2,
and can elect every congressman in
the state of South Carolina. This is
iuy idea of non-partisan politics. Let
the democratic A^ iance rnqjj from
South Carolina meet tho -AlflStnoe
men from Kansas or any other ••state
in the halls of congress, and th.gre
work arid vote together for our de
mands. That will bring about a nejv
and happy state of affairs in fhis coun
try. Heretofore the question in con
gress has been not if certain measures
will redound,to the welfare of tho*
people, fwit how will they rfijeot out.
party?
There is nothing in a lthme. “A
rose by any other name would smell
as sweet.” If we elect an Alliance
mail to otlice in South Carolina we
are compelled to elect a man who has
been a life long democrat. And I
contend lie is none the less, a -good
Alliance man because of that? fact.
Absolve our congressmen from the
power of the party caucus, and 1 care
nothing for his former political citfed.
All I care to know, is lie honest in
his profession of sympathy with our
demands, and will he work and vote
for them ? In any state where the
Alliancemen and men of kindred or
ganizations are strong enough to carry
the state, if organized into a separate
party, they are strong enough to, eon
trol the primaries and dominate the"
state and county nominating conven
tions. Where they are not strong
and intelligent and patriotic enough
to do that, then they could not, and
would not, carry the state if a third
party was organized.
I see no good, but great evil, to
flow from the attempt to fot’m anew
party. There aro thousands of hon
est, patriotic republicans and demo
crats in this country. Let us control
the nominating conventions; state
and national. Let us turn the rascals
out and put honest men, who are in
sympathv with the people, in. We
can do it if we are true to ourselves,*
to eur country and our God, without
the formation of any more parties.
Wo have too many parties already.
If our seuators and congressmen from
South Carolina won't support otfr
measures let us turn them out, no
matter who they are and what may
have been their record in the past.
Let Kansas, Georgian, Texas, Ohio,
and every other state that can do the
same thing, and all will be well. We
° -Jf
have been kept apart by thS" “bloody
shirt,” aud by designing politicians
fanning the flame of sectional animos
ity. The force bill was for no other
purpose than to rekindle sectional
hate. But these politicians might
as well make up their minds to the
fact that they have lost their grip on
the masses. We can read their
handwriting, and can see no reason
why the farmers of Ohio and South
Carolina should hate each other; but
can see many reasons why kind and
fraternal feelings should exist between
us. Such men as Foraker may as well
hush up. We of the South will think
none the less of our brethren in the
North and West for any ugly things
he may say. And a great many ugly
things are said by southern politicians
that just go in at one of our ears and
out at the other. What a mail says
who is holding a big fat office must
he taken with a great deal of allow
ance. The Allianeeroen of the South
are doing their own reading ami their
own thinking. And we intend to do
our own voting, and the time-serving
politicians may as well make up their
minds to stand aside and let the pro
cession pass by. Our grand organ
ization is passing through the most
critical period of its existence. Our
cry should he, “Save us from our
friends.” We have more to fear
from the rashness of imprudent, in
temperate men in our ranks than
from all onr enemies on the outside.
—W. 11. Edwards.
Why?
It is a curious fact, according to the
thick and thin party organs, that the
farmers never know what they want,
it is out of order to ask the reason
why? If the bankers of tlie United
States assemble in convention and
make a s'atement of their wants, no
one doubts that they know what
they are about, and everyone will
agree that they know what they want.
So of the merchants; so of the lum
bermen; so of the manufacturers
(those puny infants that have to be
protected at everybody’s else ex
pense); so of everybody but the
farmer, mechanic and laborer. If the
farmers, or mechanics or laborers con
clude that they have certain wants
and will make an effort to coinpass
their wishes, all the big party organs
begin to shout, “ You don’t know
what you want 1” Then all the little
party eirguus take up the chorus^
“They don’t know what they want.”
Well, will eemebody tell us why?
•We are led into these remarks by the
oft-reiterated cry. of the Memphis
Appeal-Avalanche that the fanners
do not want the sub-treasury bill,
but the tariff reformed, flow does
the Memphis Appeal-Avalanche
know so well that they only want a
jiurt of what they* say they want.
*>\ll over (lie South and West there
is a demand for free coinage of silver,
not confined to the farmers; but Mr.
Cleveland says we don’t want free
cqinage, and straightway the “thicks
and thins” begin to squirm and to
admit that mayhap they have been
too hasty, aud possibly Mr. Cleve
land* is rigt. Now, some of these
farmers* are very intelligent men
—Polk of North Carolina, Barks
dale of Mississippi, Iloverly of Vir
ginia, and Macune of Texas, are quite
as.intellectual men as Mr. Cleveland.
Is it not, therefore, barely possible
that these-men are right about the
sub-treasury bill ? The writer is not
rabid about the sub-treasury bill, but
it is the product of men of brains and
honor, who love their country arid
who are hunting a remedy for des
perate evils which encinpass us.
Let us deal fairly with the question.
If we do not think it the best thing,
let us suggest something better. If
it will not hear analysis, show it; but
do not meet'it with the antiquated
wail that the farmers don’t know
their wants, and that it will disrupt
the party. If the discussion of ques
tions vital to the welfare of the
peo[ le will disrupt the party, then
let the party be disrupted; and if tho
farmers don’t know what tney want,
then let some of the wise ones tell us
why.—Rural Workman.
A Fatal Mistake.
We have watched with interest the
gathering of the laboring interests at
Cincinnati, and now that the smoke
of the battle has cleared away we can
draw our deductions as to the injuries
administered to trusts, monopolies and
capitalists. There can be no question
but that throughout the country there
is a deep disaffection with existing
political conditions, and that the
voters are making up their minds to
take a hand in the legislation of the
future. We have been having in past
years too much legislation for capital,
especially when it is true as we re
cently remarked that “Capital can
walk where lal/or creeps.” It is high
time that the voter exercised the inde
pendence his ballot gives him. But
while we are pleased to note the en
thusiasm and vigor of the Cincinnati
conference in behalf of the interests
of action, there are matters in which
the conference was lamentably weak.
The soundness of its position on the
silver question is to be questioned,
; the absence of a low tariff plank is
; a mistake, while its treatment of the
j prohibition of the liquor traffic was
| shameful. Towering above ali other
| issues as does the highest peak of the
‘ Himalayas over Beacon Hill, the
■ saloon reaches out its fangs and fas
tens itself upon the throat and the
hcnts-X/f tlie werktegman. And how
did the farmers and laboring men at
Cincinnati treat this issue ? In the
first place hundreds of dollars were
raised to defray the expenses of the
convention by brewers and saloons.
Again the local chairman of the
reception committee was a brewer:
but let us proceed to the work of the
convention ! On the first day of the
session this same chairman announc
ed that later a reception would he
extended the delegates at the Belle
vue House, also that the delegates
were invited to visit several factories,
when, among other things, they would
be filled up. Says the Boston Her
ald: “A delegate named Groom of
Wisconsin assumed, ns did main
others, that this meant an invitation
to a brewery, which is in the fine of
bnsine.-s of the chairman of the enter
tainment committee, Mr. Burkhauser,
and shouted that this was not the
kind of convention that need to he
tilled up to give birth to anew party.
Others joined in the protest, for the
conference was made up on the whole
of members who are very straight
laced in their temperance and rolig
ious ideas.” But this spasm of vir
tue did not last long, as the outcome
of the convention showed, there
were, however, a few friends of pro
hibition present, who were faithful to
the end. Tho report of the commit
tee on permanent organization came
up early on the second day. No
sooner had the report been read than
there was more trouble. Mrs. Helen
M. Goubar of Indiana protested
against the use of her name as vice
president. “I sympathize,” she said
“with the farmers’ grievances, but I
won’t allow the use of my name by
an.organization which has any con
nection with a committee, tho chair
man of which belongs to the trade
which imposes greater burdens on the
people than any other agency. Until
you repudiate liquor in every form I
won’t allow the use of my name.”
Later a resolution was presented by
a delegate front California, calling fer
tile total prohibition of the liquor
traffic, ami this was defeated by a
vote of five to one. Thus endeth the
first experience of anti saloonists with
the People’s Party. It is indeed a
pity that the labor leaders assembled
in this convention blinded themselves
to the devastations of the liquor
traffic among their ranks.—The Tem
plar.
-Bankers.
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BANKERS?
MAYSVILLE, GEORGIA,
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are protected by one of Hall’s Burglar
Proof Sales and infaliable lime lock.
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MEDICINE.
Blood Purifiers, Tonics, Piils—al! Kinds,
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CLEANSING FLUIDS,
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