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~ t ■ ■“gyrr— ; T• - ' W s -- ! ~ *? •■•■-■■: ■■ ■-- 7-=->* ■ sp?mm • . OH ', H. HODGES, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO HOMS INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE. PKICE: TWO DOLLARS A Year. VOL. XXL PERRY* HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA. THURSDAY..FEBRUARY 19,1891. NO. 8. THE NEW DETJG STORE, Carter of Carroll and Ball streets, PERRY, GEORGIA. PURE DRUG-S, patent, medicines. TOILET-ARTICLES. Fine Perfumes a Specialty. Iterosene and Lubricating Oils. UESCBIFTIONS CAREFULLY COM- tJHDED by one p£ the best dmg n in the state. A choice lino of Cigars and Tobacco Always on hand. Open on Sunday from 8 to 10 a. m., and from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. A share of public patronage is respect fully solicited. L. A. EELDEB, M. D., Proprietor. NI3W PUBLIC KOAl>. GEORGIA—Houston County: To all whom itmay concern: . tSS&^fi^SSUSSiS. ■teaagrsSfiB *■ marked out by the road sommissioners Mossey creek at a P° int „ r ^ re ,j^ssey Port Beylthe^hoie being; about two mill to Mossey creek. By' order of court. n p p Fob. 2,1891. J. M. PAVip,O.Q. g HOUSTO^SHERIFF’S sale. Will be sold before the cmirt house door in the town of Perry, lionston county (la., between the legal n °urs of sale, on tho first Tuesday ingMarefa, 1891, the following property, to-wit. Forty-five acres or land of lot No. 58, in the 9th district of H°uston c°nnty, bounded west by -lands of Mr». E. J. Houser, east by lot No. 39, north by lot No. 59, south by lands of Mrs. L. J- Houser. Levied on as the property of J.■ E. Mathews, agent, sion, to satisfy a tax fi fa for slate and county taxes for the year 189U. llso, at same timo and place, lot of land No. 125, and the east t3*£ta*Sg of lotNo. 124,being 135 acres ofsaidlot,in all 3377 acres, in the Lower 11th district of Houston county: Levied on as the property of M. H. Faulk, to satisfy Wo tax li fas for state and county taxes for the years 1889 and 1890. Also, at the same time and place, that part of lots Nos. 16 and 17, lymg on the west side of Bay Creek, m the lOth dis- trict of Houston county, containing by estimate 2027 acres more or less. Levied on and sold as the property of It. Patterson and Florence J. Yancy, to sat isfy a tax fi fa for state and county taxes for the 3 ear 1890. . M. L. OOOPEB, Jan. 28,1891. sherlff ' Houston county J. L. Hardeman, W.D. Nottingham. TTAMfflWAN & NOTTINGHAM, Attorneys at Law, JlACONl ' ' ; f G 7rT i the Eternal City. Will practice in thti State and Federal Courts. Office 306 Second Street. liis eirronit. MONEY LOANS not lower than the lowest. Apply to W.D.- Nottingham, tf Maeon. Ga. MONEY TO LOAN. In sums of §300.00 and upwards, to be secured by first liens on improved farms. Long time, low rates and easy payments. Apply te C. C. DUNCAN, Nov. 20th, 1889.—tf Perry* Ga. Philadelphia Ledger. Thera was one that was weeping In a heart broken way By the side of a coffin O’er the form that'was clay. * And my heart it grew heavy As the drip of the tears, And the sobs of her sorrow Were borne to my ears. Oh, ’twas sad. sad to list Her passionate grief, That the life ofherbosom- Of her babe, was so brief. Put I thought of the battles Fought by souls tempest tost , And how few are triumphant And how many lost. Then I gazed on the sleeper, On his white brow of peace, And I cried to the mourner, “Cease thy sorrowing, cease. “Weep no more, O thou mother, For thy wee little waif On the far shore of heaven With the angels is safe!” LITTLE ALEX. The Idler in Atlanta Evening Journal. “Were you an admirer of Alex ander H. Stephens?” asked Col. Tom Burney last night. “Yes, sir—why?” “Because I want to give you a little incident about him which may be of some interest.” “Ont with it.” I wish I could produce here the capital -manner in which Tom—- who is a superb raconteur—then told this interesting story. “You know Colonel Thompson, who for years was the chief editor of the Savannah Morning News?” “Never met him except in print —Major Jones’ Courtship, editori ally, and all that thing, yon know.” “That reminds me,” said Tom, T have been in the little old house down in Morgan county, in which he wrote the courtship. But let that go.” 'A few years before Col. Thomp son died, I had the pleasure of riding on the cars with him from Thomasvilie to Snvannah. He was one of the most eiitartaiinng men who ever lived, you know, and on that particular occasion was in a talkative mood, so we sat up all night and smoked and talked. “At least, ho did most of the talking, while I did most of the smoking and listening. He told me enough interesting things to fill a small volume, aud one of them was this: “Some years ago,” said lie, “I went abroad, and a short time be fore- taking ship I went to see my friend Alexander H. Stephens. Upon taking leave of him’ he re marked: 'Thompsou, here’s a letter that may or may not do you some good.” “I thanked him and glanced over the letter. It was addressed: To Whom it May Concern,’ and in it the old gentleman spoke very kindly of your humble servant. I put the letter in' my pocket and left. “It was not my purpose to make an extended tour—but simply to devote a few weeks to London and Borne. Paris was not in my pro- Atto rncy n't Law, Office: 510 Muebebex Street, MACON, GEORGIA. gramme. Special attention given to business in « jjy fetter of credit was address- ed to a London banker, and after spending some time very pleasant ly in that great city, I drew enough money to keep me in Borne for about two weeks, and departed for C A short time after my arrival, I fell in witn one of the ‘old briga diers,’ as they call the old guides down there. He was a polite old fellow and very accomplished— speaking several langauges wjiich Attorney atLaw. Perby, - - - Ga.* Wi 0 D __ ... Will practice in all the Courts of h e spoke with great fluency. He nirrimit. i __ _ __ l • proved a vpry entertaing compan ion and went with me everywhere, )n Houston farms procured at the low- showed me everything worth see- sst possible rates of interest. As Jow, if - iu fa Jl contributed in many aeshavebven mad#«t work for us, br Amur F*gc, Austin, •" — * * - *tonu, Toledo, Ohio. ■doing** well-Why Snug Utitc for work for ns, L., ^Texas,. and Jno. ltoun, • enfc Others are doing*. "*••» - yon? Stow earn over 5500.00 a tuiucn ■.* easily earning from 55 to •slOaday.All ages- Weahowyon how j»d start eon. Can work In spara time orall the time. lUg money for work- — A fcAV nndwnnderftrt.Particular*free. g[.HniIetttt t'o.,B«ix sSO rortIand,Matae PERRYBRANCH SCHEDULE. Dally, Except Sunday. . Leave' Perry at 4 a. m. Arrive at Port Yalley 4:45 A. at. Leave Port Yalley at 11:35 p. it. Arrive at Perry at 12 :20 a. m. Leave Perry at 3:25 p. ir. Arrive at Port Yalley 4:35 p. ir. ' Leave Fort Yalley at 8:25 p. at. Arrive at Perry at 9:10 p. K TCSl WORE NEATLY J3X.T3CrTJT7-:X> AT THIS OFFICE ing, iu fact, contributed in many ways to the pleasure of my visit.” ‘After ‘doing’ Borne pretty thor- onghly, he said to me one day: ‘Of course you are going to Paris. We will go together. I know Paris just as well as I do Borne, and will take pleasure in showing you through the city. “I explained to him that my let ter of credit was in London—that I had brought aloug only enough funds to defray my expenses in Borne, and couldn’t think of going to Paris. “At this he simply bowed his head and said nothing. “The next day I met him on the street, and after a cordial- greeting he said: ‘‘Come with me Mr. Thompson I wish to introduce you' to a : friend.” “After walking arm in arm a few blocks, we turned into a little street and entered-a peculiar look i D g little place, which I saw at a glance was a bank. Passing down a narrow passage, we entered a small doorway leading into an el egantly furnished room. “Its sole oecupant—a splendid looking old gentleman with curly, gray hair—arose from his easy chair, greeted us. with effusive courtesy, and begged ns to be seat ed. I cannot remember the name of the old Italian banker, but can never forget his fine face. He spoke English beautifully. _ “We chatted pleasantly lor a few minutes when ' the old brigadier remarked: “I am very anxious for Mr. Thompson to take a trip with me to Paris, but he says his letter of credit is in London, and he, there fore. is not prepared to go. Mr. Thompson is a very clever and de lightful gentleman of whom I am very fond—and I think he would enjoy Paris very much. 1 ‘But nnrlerstand me. He did not come to ask a lavor. He called with me at my request. I thought, perhaps you could arrange for him to go with me ” “Ah,” said the old hanker smil ingly, “I see, I see.” “He then turned to me and ask ed: - “Mr. Thompson, have you on your person any paper establish-; ing your identity?, I beg pardon, but it is customary— Oh, I understand, said I, ‘but really I don’t think I have any pa per-let me see,” putting my hand in my coat pocket and pulling out a pile of letters, among which was the one written by Mr. Stephens. “Nothing but this,” said I hand ing it to him. “He glanced over it and in a twinkling his placid look and man ner vanished. ■What!” exclaimed he, fairly springing to his feet, and tremb ling with excitement. “ ‘Stephens! Alexander H. Ste phens, the great American states man! He gave you this? Nothing bat this, indeed! Why, my dear sir, this is everything with me.” He then went on to tell how ar dently he admired-Mr. Stephens, how he had read his speeches on the slavery question 1 delivered in cougress in the fifties, how proud ly he hhd watched his career,: with what interest he had read his “War Between the States” and ev erything else he had written, and wound up by calling to his cash ier: ‘Hera is a friend of the great Alexander Hi : ‘Stephens. Shovel him out all- th'e'gold be wants.” ■ Theold:geiitlemari was almost beside himself Stith: joyous agita tion. ‘He shook-my hand again aud again, in the most cordial manner, and fairly embraced me, saying all the time: ‘Oh, Stephens! Stephens! how I wish 1 could see him and express my admiration to his face.’ I was never more astonished and gratified at anything iq my life,” said Thompson. I thanked the old fellow pro. fusely and in answer to querries sat there and talked Stephens to him for about three hours. “Hewould take no refusals, so that night; accompanied by my friend the ‘brigadier,’ I went to the old banker’s elegant home and was entertained most royally—so royally, indeed, that it was hard for me to decide whether I was re ally only a plain American citizen, or a genuine prince of the blood. ‘One or the first things I did upon returning to America was to visit Mr. Stephens at his home in Crawfordsville and give him a de tailed account of the remarkable •pisode. “The grand old man heard the story with the deepest emotion, and when I had concluded said with brokea voice: “ Thompson, in my whole ca reer, I have heard nothing which touched me so deeply. That in deed is a compliment of which any man might justly feel proud. Thrice blessed be name of the friend 1 have never seen—the no ble son of that glorioos land of el oquence, poetry and song.” Queen Victoria, ns she increases in years, shows a disposition to mase youth and good looks a re quirement in the ladies in waiting and other women about her. She Completely Cured the Governor. “Speaking of accidental cures/* said an old physician to a Chicago Post reporter, “reminds me of an incident in Jhe official career or ex- Gov. Paddleford of'Bbode Island. The governor was a very corpulent man,' and shortly, nfter bis inaugu ration an abscess formed in his stomach. It was most painful, and, to ease the pain, his physician instructed him to travel. The gov ernor, accompanied by his wife, set forth, and pretty much over the entire country they went. One night, in a sleeping car, the pain attacked the governor with extra ordinary force, and, as usual at such times, his good wife got up to prepare a mustard plaster.. Go accustomed was the governor to Buch applications that, like drinks for an old toper, theyihadi to be made extra strong to be effective. With the assistance of the porter, however, she fixed up a large, fat plaster, which,she calculated,would come pretty nigh drawing the very abscess itself out of her Jiege lord. Tben, holding it carefully before - her, trotted back to the bertb, and, parting the curtains, she placed the poultice on the proper place. As she gave it its last pat, she looked up for a smile of thanks from her husband, when to her horror she discovered that she had stopped at the wrong berth, and operated upon a strange individu al, who was a drummer for a liq uor house. That she had not be fore discovered her mistake, or, that be had not awakened, was due to'his being a person of about the same size as the governor, aud considerably under the influence of liquor. Shuddering with fright, the good lady found her husband’s berth and stammered forth what she had done. The governor, al though in great pain, and notwith standing that the plaster contained his entire stock of mustard, laugh ed loudly, and vowed that if he died he would not stir till the man with the gubernatorial plaster on his common clay stomach should awake. The time was not long. A piercing yell that brought the conductor and porter to the drum mer’s berth announced its arrival. As they tore aside the curtains the drummer, putting his hnnd to his stomach, felt the soft plaster. ‘My God!’ be screamed, as visions of premature decomposition danced before his eyes, ‘I’in spoiling!’ In an agony of mind he tore the plas ter, which he supposed to be a lay er of decayed flesh from him, and, with a scream of despair flung it away. Itstrnck the porter, in the face, and that individual, fancying that his brains had been- knocked out, fled. “‘What’s the matter with you?’ the conductor - inquired of the drummer. “ ‘Matter?” echoed that person, with misery in his face. ‘Matter? Great heavens, can you ask? Look there,’ he said, pointing to his stomach.. ‘Iam rotting away; and to think it was my own whisky that did it!’ “The conductor looked at the spot indicated, but saw nothing unnatural. He so told the drum mer, who cautiously placed his hand on his stomach. His light ning change of countenance told the relief he felt. ‘I must have had a nightmare,’ he said. The conductor, considerably mystified, withdrew and obtained an explana tion from the governor, who, hav ing overheard the drummer, was just recovering from a paroxysm of laughter, which had broken the abscess. Its breaking was what had been sought, and in a few hours the governor was entirely cured.” ' Republican Financiering, Susceptibility to Disease. Youth’s Com panioa. Savannah Homing >*’ews. At the close of the Cleveland ad- Of several persons who have ministration there was a surplus in i been equally exposed to chilly the treasury of about 854,000,000. J weather one takes a fatal cold, In au article in tffe February Fo. j while the others are wholly - unaf- rum Senator Carlisle says that at fected. The great majority es- Cane-bottom chairs that have commenced to sag a little should be washed with soap and water Put plenty of it on so that the cane will become well soaked. Put the chairs in the open air to dry thoroughly, and if none of the canes are broken the seats will be as tight and firm as when new. Now Try This. It will cost yon nothing,and. will sorely do you good, if you have a Cough, Gold, or aDy trouble with Throat, Chest or Lungs. Dr. King’s New Discovery for Con sumption, Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to give relief, or money l^ acomely appearance and a fresh face to the wrinkles “> at La Grippe found it just the thing years impose, and for that reason and under itsjise' had' a speedy insists that the women officials of and perfect recovery. Try a sam- her royal household shall be | pie bottle at onr expense and learn voung. j for yourself just b'ow good alliing | it is. Trial bottle free at Holtz- S™ pocket momumbB I claw & Gilbert’s Drug Store. size 50c. and 81.00. tbebestTonic;Eiv«D away at Drug and : the end of the present fiscal year. June 30, there will be a deficit of §4,000,000, and a year from that time n deficit -of 884,000,000. And yet there has been no falling off in the receipts’from the revenues. On the contrary, there has been a pretty steady increase. Bepubli- can management of the finances does not compare favorably with democratic management of them. Senator'Curlisle says: “It.is the confirmed and incura ble habit of the party now in pow er to dispose of the public mouey iu a wasteful and extravagant man ner, aud there is no reason to sup pose that it will cease to pursue this course until the treasury is ex hausted. What was two years ago the richest public treasury in tbe caped la grippe during its late prevalence. And the same is true of epidemics of every kind and de- gree. This difference is mainly due lo difference in personal susceptibili ty, inherited or acquired. Disease invades the body at. points where its life-forces are weakened. Such a lowering of the vital resistance may date back for generations. This is one reason for the astound ing mortality of infants, so im mensely beyond that in the young of some of the lower animals. Many persons who start with small pouer of resistance carry it through life. Their only hope is constant care and freedom of exposure. But of those who reach adult age .the greater part may be sup- world will be substantially bank- posed to have inherited an average rupt long before the term of the present administration expires.” Congress is cutting down tbe appropi'iations to tbe lowest point, with the full knowledge - that there will be deficiencies for which the next congress will have to provide. The next House will be democrat ic, and the purpose of the republi cans is to make the democratic par ty responsible for their waste and extravagance. They will succeed, of course, in briuging about a con dition of affairs that will force the next congress to make larger ap propriations than it would if this congress should do its duty,but the democrats will take care that the country understands which - party is responsible for the laige appro priations which the next congress will have to make. The Senate passed the pension appropriation bill on Thursday. It appropriates §133,173,085, and Mr. Allison, the chairman of the appro priations committee, admitted that the amount might not be enough by at least 810,000,000. Who is responsible for such a large pen sion burden? The republican par ty. of course, and that party is continually increasing thet burden. When the pension claims now pending are adjusted 8150,000,000 a year will not be sufficient to pay the pensions. The democratic senators at tempted to have the pension ap propriation bill amended so that between 82,000,000 a year and 83,- 000,000, which now finds its way into the pockets of pension attor neys, would be saved to pension ers, but their efforts were fruitless. The republican senators stood by the pension attorneys, who doubt less contribute large sums to the republican campaign fund. Before this administration is closed the people will appreciate more than ever the economical gov ernment of the Cleveland adminis tration. Mr, Cleveland made a sincere effort to give the country an honest and economical govern ment, aud he succeeded. And that is why he is so popular. It seems to be the impression of many people that the mail when sent from a postoffice is gathered carelessly together and thrown into a mail bag, which is then locked aud dispatched.. This is wholly wrong, for even in the smallest of fices tbe letters and cards.are all gathered face upward and tied into a neat- package. The government furnishes the twine to do this, and some idea of the immensity of the postal service can be formed from the fact that in one year the cost to the government of the twine for ■this purposef which, though strong, is of the cheapest quality) was nearly. 872,000. Many a child goes astray simply because home lacks snnshine. A child needs smiles as mach as flow ers need sunshine. If home is the place where faces are sour, and words harsh, and where fault-find ing is ever going on, children spend as many hoars as possible elsewhere. Let every father and mother, then, try to be happy; let them look happy; let them talk to their children, especially the little ones, in such a way as to make them happy.—Exchange. -Accepting the philosopher’s the ory. that money represents trouble, it is surprising to see bow many people are anxiovs to borrow trouble. measure of physical soundess. Whence their susceptibility to dis ease ? It comes from physical trans gression, either positive or nega tive. Sleep, for instance, is a funda mental condition of high health. Nothing can make up for a defi- cienay of it. Lack of food does not begin to equal lack of sleep in its power to depress vitality, and so to render the system liable to any prevailing disease. Still, insuffi ciency of food is a great depi ess- ant, and may exist where it is least suspected; for the food must be such as to supply the daily waste of all the tissues—brain, nerve, bone, muscle and fat—besides fur nishing heat-forming fuel. Many a person who sits at a luxurious table is not half-fed. But over-eating is as bad as un der-eating, and often acts more promptly. All tbe organs, especi ally those that eliminate the waste, are overworked and weakened. Poisonous wnste is retained in the circulating fluid. Any over-indul gence wastes the nerve elements faster than they can be' supplied, and nerve-force is behind the nor mal working of every organ. Worry and care have a like ef fect, not only rapidly using up nerve-force, but also weakening the organs that elobarate it Fear, also, is a great vital depressant, and by itself often induces a fatal susceptibility to epidemic diseases. Temporary, and fatal, susceptibili ty may be caused by fatigue. Eight white rats, having been sub jected to exkanstiDg exercise for several days, were inoculated with au attenuated poison. Four oth ers in a normal condition were similarly inoculated. All four of the second series survived, while seven of the first series died. Not of the dude species. Not of the kind that stands on stret corners. Not of the kind that prides him self on being a masher. Not of the kind that sneers at the idea of personal purity. Not of the kind that thinks Christians' a mild sort of fools. Not of the kind that owes the tailor, livery man and everybody else. Not of the yes, yes kind. Not one of the kind that calls mother old woman and father old maD. . Not of the ignorant infidel kind. Not of the coward kind. Not of the iceberg variety. Not of the 1 can’t tribe. Not of the kind that is better ac quainted with pool than the fifth chapter of Deuteronomy. Not of the evading, scuffling, snuffling through life kind,'having no hope, and without God in the world.—Exchange. A bird of immesne wing power is the tiny storm petrel, the small est web-footed bird known. It belongs to every sea, although 'so seemingly frail, it breasts the ut most fury of the storm, skimming with incredible velocity the trongh of the waves, and gliding rapidly over their snowy crests. Petrels have been observed 2,000 miles from nearest land. rn*: DYscET-r i re* ocsmcxul iL Ail o-L .re* p pe: J.ctUe. Genuine An old maid in Connecticut who adopted and reared a boy to man hood has been sued for 825,000 by the ungrateful wretch because she chose to give him the name of “Moses David Absalom Daniel Mark Isaiah Exodus White.” Husband the Resources. Gov. Xorthen in Southern Cultivator. A wise man will look well after the material resources from which he must draw his support. Every business has its special capital,and it most be wisely guarded if its in crease is satisfactory and profita ble. Fvery business has main re sources, and afterwards minor in terests. In neglecting minor in terests, material resources become thereby involved nnd business fail ure is the result The maiu resource of the farm er is his land. It should be as well and carefully guarded, and prudently drawn upon,as tbe bank er guards and cares for bis capital in money. The banker does not let-out his capital into the hands of irresponsible parties. Farmers too often put their lands ont to the management and absolute control of such labor as begin its destruc tion and waste at the very first lick they hit it. The merchant’s main resource is in his goods. He takes care of them. He has them care fully handled, so they may not be come shop worn. When his cus tomers apply for them he inquires what security they will give for the use of his resources. An ignorant negro applies for the use of some of the farmer’s land, his main resource. He gets it without let or hindrance. He plows it up hill and down hill; works it when it makes mud,treads with stock at all unfavorable seasons of the yeor, and then re turns it witliont profit in crops, a barren, bald waste. Everywhere, in all the states, this is the way farmers hnsband their resources. Self interest and general thrift de mand that farmers should hnsband their resources like other business men. Tbe laud, as capital, should be improved every year, and not wasted. To do this it mast be put ander the management of careful and intelligent labor, properly worked and at the proper time,and the proper condition. To do oth erwise is deliberate, wanton and wicked waste. Its fertility should not be destroyed by a continued succession of the same crop!?, nor its strength allowed to waste by washing. Use every possible means to husband yonr land as the main resource of the farm. Oat of it must come the life and happi ness of the home; education aud sustenance of the little people, aDd the material prosperity of the state. At all hazards, 'take care of your land. Wise and Beautiful Answers. Wesleyan Ciristiam Advocate. A Sophist, wishing to Thales with difficult questions which he had arranged, put the following, to which Thales answer ed without hesitation and with the utmost precision: What is the oldest of all things? God, for he existed always. What is the most beautiful? The world, for it is the work of God. What is the greatest of all things? Space, for it contains all things. What is the most constant? Hope, for it remains when all else has fled. What is the best of all things? Virtue, for without it there is noth ing. What is the quickest? Thought, in a minute it can reach the end of the universe. What is the strongest? Neces sity, it makes men face all dangers. What is the easiest of all things? To give advice. What is the most difficult? To know thyself. If you drop a nickel with a string attached, keeping the end of the string in yonr hand, have yon real ly dropped the coin? An Iowa judge has decided in the affirma tive. An ingenious yoatb of that place tied a thread to a nickel, dropped the nickel in a slot ma chine, got what lie wanted, tben, withdrawing the nickel by tbe thread, repeated'the operation un til he had made a clean sweep of the receptacle’s contents. He was arrested on the charge of theft, but the judge who tried him held that he had committed neither burgla ry, larceny, nor robbery, nor even obtained property under false pre- great liabilities, and co tancoc TTA liurl momltr flnnn wlmf ^ ]lY6 wlill Ills **"* * T tenses. He bad merely done what the inscription on the machine told him to do—drop a nickel in the slot—and had kept on doing it. Nothing was said about leaving the coin where it was dropped. This decision will probably abate a nu isance. Oil of peppermint in luted even to one part in < lion will kill cockroaches hour, they dying- of convc One drop of the oil placed bell jar covering cholera bacilli will kill Subscribe for the Home JoUBNAL. and spores in forty-i Nature as a-Southern Boomer. AtUnia Constitution. For tbe second time this winter a furious blizzard of snow Jins locked in its icy fetters the indus try, commerce and transportation of the north and west, from New York to the Dakotas. It is a familiar story. Travel is blocked, traffic is’ paralyzed, the electric lights are otft, and at night large cities are iu total darkness. For months daring every year Nature directs her most- destruc tive forces against ihenorthen belt of the union—a territory whose massed capital and combined cor porations control the industry and trade of the conutry, and compel its products to .pass through in convenient ocean outlets to Eu rope. At a time when the south clam ors for direct trade with Europe this blizzaid emphasizes our de mand. Perhaps we need no glifc- tongned representatives to present and argue our claims. Nature is a powerful boomer when she takes an active hand in anything, and this winter she has been calling attention in the most pointed way to the advantages of the south. It will not be long before the busi ness interests of the ccnbtry will recognize the fact that it is bad economy to ignore the great trans portation systems and perfect har bors of the sontb, far below the snow line, beyond the reach of blizzards, and .never obstructed daring any month of the year. Iu the eod considerations of profit will regulate this thing. Our south Atlantic ports will be built op, and lines of steamers will ply between them and Enropp. It may be n magnif.cent idea for southern and southwestern prod ucts to be shipped all the way to New York for . transportation to Europe, but it is not business, and the steamships and railroads will soon be forced to see it in that light. On this continent industry, com merce and transportation must in evitably find tbeir fullest and fre est development in this region so highly favored by nature. Artifi cial conditions in the past have delayed the result, bnt these con ditions are disappearing, and the sonth will in a tew years begin to enjoy the full measure of her rightful prosperity Nature’s for ces are working for us, and they are bound to prevail. An Kssay on 3Ian. Man that is born of woman is small potatoes and few in a hill. He rises up to-day and flourishes like a rag-weed, and to-morrow, or the next day, moans the Wachita t Democrat, the undertakers hath him. He goeth forth in the morn ing warbling like a lark, and is knocked out in one round and two seconds. In the midst of life he is in debt, and tho tax collector pursues him wherever he goeth. The banister of life is full of splinters, and he slideth down with considerable ra pidity. He walketb forth to the bright sunlight to absorb ozone and meeteth the bank teller with a sight draft for $357. He cometli home.at eventide and meeteth the wheelbarrow in his path. It riseth up and smiteth him to the earth, and falletb upon him, and runneth one of its legs into his ear. In the gentle spring time he pnt- teth on his summer clothes, and a blizzard striketh him far from home and iilleth him with cuss words and rhenmatism. In the winter he pntteth on winter trous ers, and a wasp that abideth ex citement. He started down into the cellar with an oleander and go eth backward, and the oleander oometli after him and sitteth npon him. He bnyeth a watch dog, and when he cometli home from the lodge the watch dog treetb him, and sitteth near him until the rosy morn. He goeth to the horse trot and betteth his money on the brown mare, and the bay geli with a blaze face winnetb. He marrietb a red-heade ess with a wart on her nose, tbe next day the pareni goeth under with a fee, arrest, j beloved son-in-li