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Hbw Do M Dig Our Graves ?
We must eat or we cannot live.
This we all know. But do we all
know that we die by eating? It is
said we dig our graves with our
teeth. How foolish this sounds.
Yet it is fearfully true. We are ter
rified at the approach of the cholera
and yellow fever, yet there is a dis
ease constantly at our doors and in
our houses far more dangerous and
tlestructive. Most people have in
their own stomachs a poison, more
slow, but quite as fatal as the germs
of those maladies which sweep men
into eternity by thousands without
warning in the times of great epi- j
demies. But it is a mercy that, if
we are watchful, we can tell when
we are threatened. The following
are among the symptoms, yet they
do not always necessarily appear in ;
the same order, nor are they always
the same in different cases. There
is a dull and sleepy feeling; a bad
taste in the mouth, especially in the
morning; the appetite is change
able, sometimes poor and again it
seems as though the patient could
not eat enough, and occasionally no
appetite at all; dullness and slug
gishness of the mind; no ambition
to study or work; more or less head
ache and heaviness in the head;
dizziness on rising to the feet or
hioving suddenly; furred and coat
ed tongue; a sense of a load on the
Stomach that nothing removes; hot
and dry skin at times; yellow tinge
in the eyes; scanty and high-colored
urine; sour taste in the mouth, fre
quently attended by palpitation of
the heart; impaired vision, with
Spots that seem to be swimming in
the air before the eyes; a cough
with a greenish.colored expecto
ration; poor nights’ rest; a sticky
slime about the teeth and gums;
hands and feet cold and clammy;
irritable temper and bowels bound
tip and costive. This disease has
puzzled the physicians and still puz
zles them. It is the commonest of
ailments and yet the most compli
cated and mysterious. Sometimes
it is treated as consumption, some
times as liver complaint, and then
again as malaria and even heart dis
ease. But its real nature is that of
constipation and dyspepsia. It arises
in the digestive organs and soon
affects all the others through the
corrupted and poisoned blood
Often the whole body—includin
the nervous system —is literally
Starved, even when there is no
emaciation to tell the sad story.
Experience has shown that there is
but one remedy that can certainly
pure this disease in all its, stages,
jiamely, Shaker Extract of Roots or
Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup. It
never fails, but, nevertheless,no time
should be lost in trying other so
called remedies, for they will do no
good. Get this great vegetable
preparation (discovered by a vener
able nurse whose name is a house
hold word in Germany) and be sure
to get the genuine article.
GIVEN UP BY SEVEN POCTOB&
Shaker Extract of Roots or Sci
{;el's Syrup has raised me to good
lealth after seven doctors had given
me up to die with consumption. So
Writes R. F. Grace, Kirkmanville,
Todd county, Ky.
he h :akd of it just in time.
“I had been about given up to
die with dyspepsia when I first saw
the advertisement of Shaker Extract
of Roots or Seigel’s Syrup. After
Using four bottles I was able to at
tend to my business as well as ever.
I know of several cases of chills and
fever that have been eured by it.”
So writes Mr. Thos. Pullum, of
Taylor, Geneva county, Ala.
worth ten dollars a Bittle.
Mr. Thomas P. Evans, of the firm
of E vans & Bro., Merchants, Horn
town, Accomack Co., Va„ writxs
that he had been sick with digestive
disorders for many years and had
tried many physicians and medicines
Without benefit. He began to use
Shaker Extract of Roots or Seigel’s
Syrup about the ist of Jan. ISB7,
and was so much better in three
weeks that he considered himsel
practically a well man. He adds:
“I have at this time one bottle on
hand, and if I could not get any
more I would not take a ten dollar
bill for it.”
All or address A.
White, Limited, jqWarren St. N. Y
wl.y to col n r in r.o'n
J. H Alonders Ssad store,
aucusta; GA.
JEFF WELBORN’S CORN.
Jeff Welborn** Conscience < orn ha a 7- :i
to ' H inch l<»ng; has often sheik d a quart from
a single ear; soft corn; clear white: finest nr in 1
an I stock feed; strictly southern - ; g.n and suite 1
only to the south. Per bus., $5.00; J . bu*. -
pe«.k, $1.75; 4qts., SI.OO. l*rice by mail, postpaid,
fcc. per lb.; Job„ lsj.
WELBORN’S PET COTTON
Has no peer as an early prolific cotton. Ma'ur-1
bolls in days; two buk- ginned and sol 1 fro a j
acre-in 05 days from r-1 .miner, in \V<-tern i
yieblo 11.9 >7 lbs. per acre *i;.d ginned o.i. 7?«1 -. •■ i
acre net lint, wi’h caniar-a cult ;■ ■ a:, i d- ;'h
from July Ld. Hb-.ns!’ ar.-il* end oc
tobet frost. iTi* c. prbi ■ ?>.•’): ’Jbi.- 17 i
pock. $1.00; by mail, i -tfn.i l. 4V. so. . J..J
Will sell 1 peck cotton I and 4 corn ),
the purchaser to ; »<y cost of express.
Audrcas orders io
J. H. Alexander’s Seed Store,
AVGUSTA, GA., or
WfiX.GORN 1*110.5., New Hoston, Texas.
Name this paper. feb7 w it
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THE M EEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA m TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1888.
PHILOSOPHER ARP ;
Propounds Some Free Trade
Arguments.
THE STORY OF TWO PREACHERS.
A long time ago there were two noted min
isters in Athens, one a Baptist and the other a
Presbyterian. They were terribly zealous in
their respective faiths and preached doctrines
and sectarianism with a power that kept the
people excited and produced more discord than
Christian harmony. By and by the Baptist
challenged the Presbyterian to a discussion
and the challenge was accepted. For several
nights the debate went on and the house was
crowded to overflowing. It was nip and tuck be
tween them for they were men of power, and
it was hard to tell who was getting the ad
vantage. When the arguments were ex
hausted and the debate closed, it was observed
that neither of them indulged in any more
doctrinal sermons, and within less than a year
the Baptist had withdrawn from his church
and become a Presbyterian and the Presby
terian withdrawn and become a Baptist. They
had convinced each other and swapped sides.
“Well, that was honest and liberal and I
like it. Now, if the high tariff and low tariff
men will do the same way the country will bo
safe. We had a debating society onco that
made the boys swap sides, and it was a good
plan to keep down prejudices and make us
look at a question fair and square. I was
ruminating about The Constitution and the
Telegraph, for they are dealing sledge hammer
blows against each other’s tariff creeds,
and I thought they would have
convinced each other before this and swapped
sides. The truth is this revenue business has
never been so ably discussed and so well venti
lated as in tho past few' months by the south
ern press. Tho facts are coming before the
people and some of tho mysterious surround
ings have been removed. Enough has been
uncovered to convince us that it is the most
complicated intricate problem now before the
American people. If I were to read
only one side I think I should be for that side,
and get mad and furions and intolerant.
Every reflective man ought to take two papers
of different political views, and hold himself
an umpire between them. We are in politics
very much like wo arc in our religion. Wo
are prejudiced, and prejudice is the mother of
bigotry. If it were not for prejudice, the
north and south would have been at peace long
ago. But how can a man who was taught at
his mother’s breast to believe that wo were all
brutes and barbarians, over recover from those
prejudices unless he moves down south and
lives with us long enough to find out his great
mistake.
Next comes in self-interest, and when that
is added to prejudice, who can withstand the
combination. How can Mr. Randall be any
thing but a protectionist, for protection lias
made Pennsylvania rich and great and pros
perous.- He grow up that way, and loves his
state better than ho loves his country or any
other state, and so do I love mine, and so do
you love yours; wc cannot help it. You may
talk about your broad philosophy that knows
no south, no east, no west, but it is all talk.
It pretends to be eagle, but it is buzzard, and
I always suspect a man that talks that way.
A man is for himself and his family first, his
county next, and then his state. His love
weakens as it spreads. We admire Mr. Ran
dall and Mr. Carlisle, and are sorry they are
so wide apart, but they have got to yield some
of their prejudices for the sake of harmony.
But we hope they will make no such com
promises as New England wants —free wool,
but high protection on everything they make
out of wool. That is all very line for them,
but what will Ohio and California and Toxas
say to it? While it would bring wool down
from twenty cents to twelve it wouldn't
cheapen our clothes nor our carpets. Who
will raise sheep, then?
But I reckon I don’t know anything about
it. I can read all about thisTtiriff business un
till my head gets “addledy,” as Cobo says.
Here was tho duty on quinine that raised such
a big row six years ago, and Powers &
Weightinan, who were making it all, sold it
for three dollars and fifty cent an ounce and
they told congress that if the protection was
taken off they would be ruined. Nevertheless
it was taken off an»l quinine dropped to seven
ty-five cents an out.te and Powers &Weight
man built more factories and bigger factories
and their trade increased from one million
ounces a year to six millions, and other patties
built factories and now' the supply is ten mil
lion ounces. The low price placed quinine in
reach of the poor all over the nation.
So It does not follow that removing tho duty
will ruin any business.
But on tho other hand, look at coffee and'
tea. There was a duty that brought us in a
revenue of millions, but the people howled for
cheaper coffee, and so the duty was taken off
and coffee and tea went right up and up and
up, and is so high noty a poor man can hardly
afford to drink it. How is that?
Why dident coffee' and tea come down?
I asked one of our statesmen that question
and he looked wise and solemn and whispered
‘damfino,’ which I,didn’t undeistand and don’t
yet. And that is about all the answer I get
when I get tangled up on this tariff business
and go to the wise men with iny troubles—
damfino—damfino—l reckon its Greek or Latin
or Italian and would explain things if I un
derstood it.
But something must be done. Uncle Sam
is getting too rien off of his own people and
that brings up the whisky business. I don’t
reckon that anybody wants free whisky, but
most everybody wants the tax collected some
other way. AVhy not let the states collect it
in their own way. I’ll bet the Georgia
legislature will find away to collect one dollar
a gallon oat of all that is made or consumep
within her borders; and they will have it in
spected too, so as to insure a pure article.
We inspect guano and kerosene oil, and why
not whisky? If a man wili drink let him not
have to drink poison. As Sam Jones says, if a
man has made up his mind to go to the devil
let him go as decently as possible. Ho
needn t run his horse to death
on the road, but let him trot awhile and pace
awhile and walk awhile and sometimes stop
under the shade of a tree and rest.
The fact is, our people would rather collect
the whisky tax and pay it all over to Uncle
Sam than have it collected as it is now. Sup
pose Illinois can make it cheaper than Georgia,
then Georgia wouldn’t make it at all, and we
would get a big revenue out of Illinois whisky.
There is nothing wrong about this, fs there?
Suppose Bartow county wouldn't allowit to be
made or sold within her limits, whose business
is that but ours? This whisky traffic has set
tled down to be a local question and now let
congress pass a law authorizing cv, ry commu
nity to regulate or tax or abolish as it sees fit,
years ago old Jonadab, the:,on of Recliab
started a h cal option and made a law and said;
“From this day and forever neither
wiil I nor my household nor
my descendants drink any wine or
strong drink,” and they kept the law lor .'JOO
year.-,, and were still keeping it when last heard
1 rum, am! “the Lord blessed them and said:
‘There shall not fail a man from the house of
Recliab to stand before me forever.’ ’’
But why reduce tho tariff on sugar? It is
cheap enough now. Every politician will say
I he is not in favor of crippling or unsettling the
1 industries of the country. Both of the great
parties declared that in their platforms. Then,
I let sugar and rice alone, and don’t cut too
heavy on wool. That is about all tho protec
tion the farmers have got, ami they have little
enough. AVe don't grow coffee nor t* a, und
why not put the tax on again, and see if they
| wouldn't go down ?
Tax the finery heavy—as heavy as it will
bear—the silks ami satins and fine carriages
j and veivet carpets and oil paintings and jew
-1 elrj ami champagne and ‘pate do foi gms’ ami
‘mardi gras’and Scylla and Charybdis and every
other fool thing that the poor do not need and
■ can't buy. Tax the incomes of the rich an 1
! make their surplus wealth support the govern
inept, whether the Lord has bit s- *1 them or
the devil cmse-l them with tb< irmilli ,j., in ikes
I no difference. They owe that niueli to
the toilers who work und labor and wuoso
i honest sweat has made all the wealth of tho
n.iti-.n. They”owe that m<<b to tire yeomanry
I who light our country's liatth-s without substi
. tints or exemptions. My contempt knows no
| bound ‘for th--m. stuck up nabob*; who sw ell and
1 strut arottml m time of peace and leave the
1 poor to do the fighting in time of war. Just
i take tho yeomanry out of this land and Eng-
I land would whip us in less than a month, for
money will not march nor shoo’ nor snff< r.
Rich folks can do wh it poor folks don’t dare
to do The public declaration made recently
; by Mr. Breckinridge, a memlrei of * ongri s, is
| awful w contemplate. Ho said: “There is not
a low that gives protection to any industry but
what yyas a private lobby. There
is not a provision that has not some
private interest Behind it and some paid advo
cate to see that it is not disturbed. Legisla
tures have been bought; governors nominated,
and congressmen purchased to keep certain
provisions in the law.”
Some times I think that may bo it would bo
better to pay tho members fifty thousand dol
lars a year and be done with it, or to ask a man
his price and pay it. and then swear him on a
skull und bones not to take a bribe or steal, or
in any way dodge his duty.
May the good Lord help us, and not put on
a suffering people any more than they can
bear. Bill Aar.
I’. S. —Please let mo say to numerous cor
respondents that the address of my boys (our
boys), who are publishing that nickle-platod
magazine, is “Editor New York Gazette, 151
Nassau street. New York.”
boothFcgnshracy.
Lewis T. Powell. Alias Payne, the Desperado
of the Party.
From the Washington Evening Star.
It seems that interest keeps alive in the first
presidential trugudy. Not mnny months ago n de
script:on of th? killing of Mr. Lincoln was given in
the Cincinnati Enquirer by an intimate acquaint
ance of Booth, who happened to be sitting m the
pit of the theater so near the stage that he saw tho
pallor of his countenance when lie confronted
the audience and dramaticallv uttered the
Virginia “slogan." Not long ago’ The Atlanta
Constiti tion published an account of the assassina
tion of the provident, nnd in the next issue de
scribed the execution of the conspirators. Even the
powerful horse that Booth rode was not forgotten,
his death at his owner’s, m Connecticut, being an
nounced in the newsjHipers. Lately there was pub
lished in your columns a thrilling description by a
faithful old woman nurse of the attempt on Mr*
Seward's life by the conspirator you called Payne.
It is true that Booth's part rivalled fiction in its
ingenuity, and was desperately daring. Public at
tention has been concentrated on the bold organizer
of the plot. But Powell’s task was more desperate
than Booth’s, lor while there was a chance lor the
latter to cs-ape through tlie labyrinth of obstruc
tions in the rear of the theater, and ho did so. there
was none, for Powell, who ascended a stairway
alone nnd attacked his victim and his attendants,
whence there was no retreat but by the way lie
came, into streets brilliantly lit and guarded by
policemen everywhere within call. He, too,
escaped for the* time being, but it was against
chances.
Having happened to live in different parts of
Florida, near where Powell’s parents resided, so as
accidentally t > become acquainted with their his
tory, 1 propose now to tell something about their
son’ and the impulse which drove him. He was the
reverse of a mere hireling assassin. A profound de
sire to revenge what lie conceived to be the deep
dishonor of his section of the country, took posses
sion of him as he grew up in the army. He came of
a good family, of Virginia origin, which passed
through Georgia ultimately into Florida. His
father, who died in I'rSl, wns a man of superior
intelligence and energy, being an eloquent preacher,
a farmer and a school teacher at times. Ho was a
tall gentleman of pleasant manners. For some years
before the war he lived in the western po:tion of
Hamilton county, Florida, and during and for years
after it, he had alarm a lew miles south of Live
Oak, in Suwanee county. Tho turpentine village
there was built on a portion of his farm. He thence
moved to Orange county.
The Rev. George Powell, the father, was very
careful in selecting a captain for his son Lewis,
then scarcely grown, and another son to enlist un
der. He went into his former county and | Ixced
tin m under one of the best in the confederate
army, now Judge 11. J. Stewart, of Hamilton coun
ty, who would exert a sert of parental control over
them with the military. Lewis was at this time a
member of his father's church. Army life caused
him to fall from his piety; but lie did not become a
prey to drink, that arch enemy to many soldieis. But
he did become rather fond of cards. He grew tall, well
proportioned, and tine looking, and his fearless
bearing in time oi 1 attic was particularly admned.
He warmed up as the fight raged and was ever eager
to press forward. State Senator A. J. P , of
Belville. Hamilton county, tells that he was not a
surly, but a happy, boy, ••full of fun and frolic.”
His captain can’ relate some striking incidents,
showing his manliness, his fio'.icksome disposition,
and his cool audacity. He once had him .sentenced
to mark time between bayonets several days for
gross neglect of his rifle. The next day in crossing
the camp he suddenly came upon the execution of
the punishment; the culprit was stepping away
hard and the perspiration was running down his
face in streams, but instead of “sulking” he smiled
so good-natured at his captain that this officer had
the sentence remitted, lie had become warmly at
tached to his captain.
Another tells that onee v h-.n enjoying a short
soldier's “ieave of absence” in one of the Virginia
towns he took down a pair of pantaloons in front of
a store and folded them and walked in nnd sold
them to the owner. At another time he sent a Jew
shop-keeper in hot chase down the street after an
innocent i erson, when he and his comrade helped
themselves, 1 suppose, to what they wanted. These
“n a 1 pranks" mark ids reckless audacity. They
remind one of Charles O’Malley. He was good at
“foraging,” and whatever he got was freely shared
with his mess or company. He was endowed-with
high health and sthleHn .diviiguL Mr. Dan McAl
pin, the < ditor of Lfte <)ak, onee sav him; ei angry
with his adversary in a game of qroi s, and bent
him with one of the irons. An illiterate noighber
once said to me, of the family; “They are ail hot
headed.’'
With all this excess!v? enjoyment of army life,
the conviction grew in the young soldier’s mind
that Mr. Lincoln was the came of all the woeful
war havoc, and he became tired with intense hatred
against him. so that he was often heard to w ish that
he could gel into Washington, saying that he would
try lo slav him, utterly regardless of cousequenc.s.
Little did his captain aud comrades think that the
feeling was so strong, it would finally lead him into
the very jaws of death.
He was* wounded slightly and captured at the
great 1 attic of Getty burg, where howib confined in
a hospital prison He must have been slu.r • -wilted
and glib of tongue, for he so >n persuaded l.i c::;
tors to receive him into a cavalry band. Il was
easy for so daring and shrewd a fellow to esem <■ on
h< r eback, which he did, and made his way u* B ’
timorc. where he met Booth. This is the vvisiou of
the captain.
There is another, tin-"-1 with r •maim*?; that a
y< ung lady's symiahy was so nrou I for him that
she managed to c mvey to him a federal uniform
and money, which enabled h.m to leave the i> s
According to this ver ion two of his fellow sol In r
who were t! ere v.onnd?>l saw him ’on’ ■in such
uniform. One watching, saw him h dtH by ih *
sentinel, when I e parleyed a little, handed hnn
something sup|X)sed to be a bribe, and iunm 'I out.
This is the last that any comrade ever saw of him.
This account goes on to say, that failing t • get
with his command, which was now well back in
Virginia, Lo jo'ned Mosby awhile, and from it made
his way to Baltimore.
While all the other conspirators were de j> y of
fueled - -some, indeed, terror stri< ken—at the '.-xecu
tion, Bowell was undaunted. Tm r ■ w. ; no one
tn give him a parting word. Isis lather h-id ■ tun'd,
but had not arrived: he had got tie: m 0.-, 100 laic
and the lines of travel were much broken. He alter
ward went to W.-i Juiig'.on at his leist.r • ami loan la
preacher who h’ui had a little to say to his m. l i"-
old gentleman pren -hed his on's funend himself,
on his return, nnd urg'-d einphalk diy that he had
lie n l ung in a good cause. His mother was almost
frantic with grief.
Bowell told some on? that he bad no deadly ha
tred again. I Mr. S. wurd. but only : tabbe 1 hnn in
obedience to his chief. He said pithily, “I struck
for my country.”
lien', Mr. Editor, 1 have detailed all that I have
gathered a? I went ak>n. r com cTiiin?; this proniin nt
figure in oneol the most important event* of his
tory, and 1 hope it will till a gup, i. but a small one,
in history. G. C. B.
Lakeland, Fla.
A Slab in tho Dark
Somethin , fails of its murderous intent. The
insidious and dastardly attacks made upon the
reputation of Hostetter’.; Stomach Bilteis by
persons who seek to palm off cheap and fiery
tonics as identical with it. or “the same tldng
under another name,’’ or "equally a.s good,” in
most instances react disastrously upon the un
principled traders upon popular credulity who
atlenipt them, con verting their speculations
into ruinous failures. The Bitters is a pure,
wholesome ami thorough medicine, mlapted to
the total cure and prevention of fever and
ague, bilious remittent, dyspepsia, coii-’tipa
tion, biliousness, debility, ncrvo'isn<ss ami
kidney troubles. Its every ingredient, unlike
those in the imitations of it, is of an ascer
tained standard of excellence, and while they,
by reason of their fiery propurties, react inju
riously upon the brain and m t vous system, oi
both those organs it is a sedative and invig
orant. Refuse all these harmful imitations.
Charles Gajerre, who was / looted a I’nit/ d
States m nator in IMS, is reg r k d a > hop/ le s'y ill of
erysi|Xtlu'- ! nt his home hi New OrleiUß. Judge
Gaycrre, who is in the ei kty-fourth year of his ,
was the gran Ton of the iii.-t moyerofN a Ori’-in-,
and the au'.iior of a bl> o y of Louis'ana an 1 other
works.
J Told You Ko.
Mr. A E. In.dumJ,or Breen. Phillips & Co.,
Nashville, Tenn., says: “f wa afilicted with
Piles for twenty years, and J tried / very reme
dy o”< '-e I m.-; finally’ used the Ethiopian Pile
Oiiitinent. It gavo me in >tant reli- f, ami has
e;fe # ted a pern, xnent cure.” *■ ohl by ail drug
gists-
National Surgical institute,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Treats Ih formit’os and f’hron;/ l>!.va«e", such
a* <JI uh Fe< t. Dis* u es of the Hip, Sp ue and
. Joints, Paralysis, Piles, l*'i -tula, < -atarrh, Fe
! male and Private !)isea->es, H< iiiia. l/ise;p» >of
j the Urinary OrgauA, etc , oVc. 3end for iliui
■ trated circular. w bin
PLUNKETT'SMEMORIES
The Old Man is Opposed to Mod
ern Changes.
THE GRAVEYARD BY THE CHURCH.
For Tho Constitution.
“These youngsters what have come up
since tho war,” said Plunkett, “call mo
‘cranky,’ and that professor what teaches at
the academy says I'm er mono-maniac on the
subject of progress.”
“That professor,” spoke up Brown, “is al
ways er throwing out his highfalutin words."
“I don’t know tho meaning of their big
words," continued Plunkett, “but I've seed
the day when just as smart school teachers as
he is wore jeans to church,
and it was home made at that.”
“I’d like to see,” spoke up Brown, “one of
of those hero since-tlio-war gals, with that
hump on thar back, stand up by tho side of
the Georgia gals with the pretty homespun
dress, that they'd made themselves er during
tho war.”
“Yes,” continued Plunkett, “the women
done mighty well during the war, ami they
suffered a heap, but they didn’t make much
fuss orbotit it, like the men.”
“That's the way wimin is.” chimed in
Brown, “Wimin suffer and don't take on
much. My old ’oman made me orshamed of
myself on that. It used to be that when I had ’
the tooth ache or head ache I’d groan
eround and quit work and knock
thunder onten the children aud tho old 'oman
when she was aching would jest go erlong with
her work erbout as common, till I didn't be
lieve she was hurting much. Ono day W'hen
she bad tho toothache, an’ warn’t saying much
erbout it, the doctor come erlong the road ami
she stopped him and set down m er chair and
had five teeth pulled ’fore she ever got up and
didn't make no to do over it either. I'd always
been ’er getting biling drunk when I had er
tooth pulled and then, with er pint of liquor
under my shirt, I’d howl and kick and talk
erbout it sorer week, but I quit after I seed
her and I haiut had no excuse to got drunk
since.
“Yes,” continued Plunkett, “I've seed the
day when we made everything right here at
home, and the farmers didn't have no mort
gages on their places then.”
“Salt,” spoke Brown, “we made our salt
during of tho war.”
“Yes,” continued Plunkett, “every smoke
house in Georgia was dug up during of the
war, and tho dirt put in er hopcr and run down
like ashes when you make lye, and it made
mighty good salt too.”
“They needn’t talk to me,” continued Plun
kett, “I’ve seed the day when er shoemaker
could settle down at any cross road and mako
as good er living as any man need to want,
and I've seed tho day that I’d rather been er
blacksmith than to have been sent to tho legis
lature.”
“Since these progressive times—as they call
ein—como in, shoemakers and wagon
makers and blacksmithsand sich like get er lit
tle mending to do, but they have erhoap of
time to set erround and cuss tho dullness of
their trades. Its railroads and machinery and
progress that has made it so, and I don’t see
any good such things have done tho country,
cepting to build up towns here and there,
where you’d least expect it, but, I told era so.
“In old Knownolhing days the men in my
settlement were going errouna pulling their
mouths to one side, and winking nnd making
every kind of sign that you’d have to jinc to un
derstand, and they’d harp on tho things from
the old country er coming over here and nerish
ishing out our mechanics, and they said they
were going to stop their goods and them too
from coming, but they didn’t, but It was pretty
warm times for orwhile, and tho whole settle
ment got stirred up and were erbout to jinc
the Knownothings, but Ben Hill made an ap
pointment to make cr speech, and failed to
come,"mid i know m reason that if Ben had er
got ermong cm, thar wouldn't have been one
left outside of the Knownothing party, but in
place of his coming, there come along in a few
days a fellow by the name of Lochrane, a
yon ng Irishman, and tlie men and wimin
botli gathered to hear him speak, and that set
tled Knownothingism in that settlement.
“Lochrane,” continued Plunkett, “worked
on the wimin. He told erbout the faithful
wife that had followed him from crcross the
ocean, and how she had died at Savannah, and
how ho had promised her to visit the grave
and keep it green and how.aftererwhile, their
' two little children hail died and were laid be
side the mother, and then ho drew a picture of
how he would feel, if the knownothings wcro
successful, standing at the graves of these dear
ones just before returning to tho old country.
He cried, I cried, and everybody cried, and
dinged if it wouldn’t or took lien Hill to
counteract that speech, and as be failed to
come there warn’t but three knownothing
votes cast at that precinct, and we learned ar
ter the election that Lochrane didn't have no
dead wife and children.
“They are still er talking,” continued tho
old man, “ and the niggers they aro beginning
to lake hold of these signing organizations.
Tie re’s been cr fellow erround cr talking er
bout what he calls tho Knights of Labor, and
there’s something up ermong the farmers erbout
what they cal! an alliance, and if the niggers
git to winking and blinking at each other, and
the whites have their signs, it will be bad
times witli me ami Brown, for wo arc too old
now to jinc any of ’ctn.”
“Well,” spoke up Brown, “I’m erfoared of
these organizations, on ercount of the nigger;
i for, if his sicty tells him to quit work, he’s
mor n apt to do it, but I hope he'll get his
chickens from tho whites who have set the ex
ample of forming these organizations.”
“The church is good enough for mo, without
hunting up secret things to jino, “continued
Plunkett,” but thar’s no use in talking for
they’ll do just like some feller that wants of
fice tells them to do. and they’ll never under
stand that when er feller gets in some high
office and begin.*; to get rich he ceases to be one
of us, till they try it seventy-five or thirty
i times, like I have and then they'll want some
i body to kick’em all over a big horse lot for
j not knowing it before.
“Thar’s too much progress, too
much machinery, too much or-
I ganization, too much cliango. Magnify
! the church and keep it pure, that's my
, notion,” said Plunkett as he stooped and
j dipped his pipe in tho coals, preparatory to
: taking a smoko. Aftera whiff or two at his
I pipe, tho old man continued :
“Look at the old churches of tho land.
' They aro being torn down in order that they
may bo moved to some railroad station. Wo
I used to cherish tho church, for there wo’d
I meet and know and love each other and serve
our God. In tho little graveyard near by,
j wc'<l bury our dear ones, and meeting days
I we'd go and drop a tear to water the flowers.
I Old people like me could select their resting
! place, in confidence that they’d rest undis
l turbed, shielded by the protecting hand of the
| church tlicy had helped to build. But in tlioso
changeful times the coming generation will
move away the house of their fathers and then
1 its only a matter of time for crops to gro w at
tbeold grave yard I v the church. Keep tho
I old churches up whore they stand and where
' they have stood for years, it for nothing more
I than to protect tho graves of those who have
lived before. If you will change, change not
I in this.
“I go In'those old graveyards every time I
, can, and I read the lettering on tho tomb
i stones, and they bring to mind the friends of
I long ago, and when 1 think of tho parents who
t have buried their little children, and of tho
j sons aud daughters who have buried their
fathers and mothers and moved off to Texas,
leaving their dead in the care of the old
church, it makes me feel bad, for I knaw that
those have tho picture of the old house with
its every nook and corner, and a picture of the
graves they loft behind imprinted upon thoir
hearts, and they live in tho faith that thus it
will remain, but I’ve seed it, and if you move i
the old church, tho graves will soon go to
rack, and after awhile pass away.
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TENN ESS EE MOUNTAIN E EltS.
People Who Live in Wiudowless Cabins tin
Have Black Walnut Fences.
From tho Chicago Tribune
“I always had an idea that tho stories we
read about the ignorance of the people living
in tho mountain regions of Tennessee were ex
aggerations,” said a Chicago man who lately
made a visit to tho southeastern part of that
state. “But now I know better. These reports
arc not only true, but the facts have not been
half told. lam not easily astonished, but I
confess I was astonished by what I saw in Ten
nessee. Why, there are lots of men down
there who have grown old and have raised
families who can neither read nor write, and
have never in thoir lives been far enough away
from thoir homes to lose sight of the smoke
that curled out of their chimneys. I know
there was a time when people lived in houses
that had no windows in them, but 1 never
dreamed that such a state of affairs existed in
this enlightened ago. Y'et there aro plenty of
such habitations in Tennessee. And tlie people
who live in them aro quite as much represen
tatives of civilization as their dwellings. They
have no knowledge whatever of the existence
of a world that extends beyond tho range of
thoir vision on a clear day. I will say, however,
that with them ignorance is decidedly blissful.
To possess a rifle or a shotgun and a jug of
whisky is the limit of their ambition. They
know nothing of tho value of money except as
regards its power to purchase liquor and am
munition.
“One day a man whom I mot bad occasion
to go from his home to tho county seat. He
was a man of more intelligence than most of
his fellows, but he hud never in his life been
away from home belore. lie had never seen a
town. Tlie nearest approach to one ho had
seen was the collection of houses about the
store where ho sold his truck and bought his
bacon. When he got back from the conntv seat
seat I asked him what ho thought of what he
saw. ‘Well,’ said ho, ‘all I got ter say is this:
If this world is as big on the right uv us as it
is on tho left she must be a regular whale.'
“I was onco riding up in tho Cumberland
mountains,” continued the Chicago man,
“when 1 saw :t bearded mountaineer splitting
a big tree ho had felled. It was a huge black
walnut. I said to him: ‘My friend, what are
you doing?' ‘l’m a inakin’ fence-rails,' was his
reply. ‘Well,’ I said, ‘you don’t mean to tell
me. you are making fence rails out of that
piece of timber?’ ‘Why,sartin. That's a good
log, ain’t it?’ it was as fine a black walnut
log ns 1 ever saw, and if my friend had known
enough to got somebody with a few oxen or
mules to drag the log to the railroad ho could
have sold it for .#‘2oo, for it was worth more
than that.
“But it is not o- !y the mountaineers whose
density of ignorance is astonishing. I observed
a case notable as showing in a striking manner
why tho south is far behind tho rest of tho
country in the matter of progress. Tho lum
ber used in Tennessee for building purposes is
poplar, as the mountains are full of it ami pino
is scarce. Saw-mills are established in tho
‘coves,’and the millmnn cuts up logs hauled
to his saws by the mountaineers. He pays a
certain sum for logs, and then, figuring com
pensation for his work of sawing, sets a price
on his product. It happened that at the time
I was in Tennessee the price of lumber was
$lB per 1,000 feet. A man of my acquaintance
was having a house built, and determined to
have the interior finished with hardwood and
red cedar,which abounded in that region. Ac
cordingly lie asked the sawmill man what ho
would charge for lumber of tho kind wanted.
My friend was greatly astonished on being told
that tlie price would bo just the same as for
poplar—slß per 1,000. That sawmill man will
probably never got rich,. Had ho taken his hard
wood and codar lumber to the railroad and
shipped it to Chattanooga or Nashville it
would there have brought him st> or SOO per
1,000.
“Ono more yarn,” ad:’*d tho Chicago man.
“A big strapping boy came into the grocery
store while 1 was there and offered a bag of
hickory nuts for sale. 110 wanted a quarter for
them. To afford me a little amusement the
storekeeper threw down a $5 goldpiece and
asked the boy if ho would sell tlmm forthat.
‘No, siree,’lie said, ‘you can’t cheat mo. I
want a quarter.’ Tho storekeeper afteiward
told me that the boy didn’t know what tho
gold piece was. He said the boy, like most
people in that region, had no conception what
ever of any amount of inoiiey exceeding a dol
lar. That was his limit, beyond which his
fancy declined to cany him."
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