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VOL. i.
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS BIEMBERS
Reform Press Comment and Items ol
Interest Everywhere.
The Advocat' (Escondido, Cal.) says:
Farmers are always ready to sell their
products at a reasonable price. But as a
rule, grain goes through the hands, of
speculators, no matter what the price
may be which the fanner gets. If he
should insist on gutting as much as $1.15
per bushel, and would, not part with it
for less than that price, the speculator
would take it, and after getting into the
hands of the speculator there’s no telling
where the price will go.
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■* The Southern Alliance Farmer (At
lanta, Ga.) says: doctors,
lawyers and all other professional men
have been convinced of the need of this
country—more money. This is one de
mand of the Alliance that has been forced
upon the public. Everybody has felt
the need of more money and for this
reason the Alliance strength has been in
creased and the next election will find
many in the ranks who were opposed to
us last fall. ‘Experience is a dear school,
but some people will learn in no other.
The Alliance Herald (Montgomery,
Ai’a.)sft3 7 s: Why is money so scarce?
because the policy of the government is
to contract the currency. Why is it the
policy of the government? Does not the
government belong to the people, and is
not the will of the people the sovereign
power of the government? Yes, that is
true; but the people have been letting
the politicians stand for the people and
the interests of the politician be the su
preme policy of the government. The
politicians are in good condition. The
big office-holder is in clover. As long as
the people permit themselves to be bossed
by them they will continue in clover,
find the people will be in distress.
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The Weekly Appeal (Simsboro, La.)
says: The Alliance have placed their
demands before the country, and these
demands are right and just; yet both the
Democratic and Republican parties repu
diate these demands and denounce the
AU<>inr> thi.rO
tionists, centralists and socialists. Yet
what do they demand? Do they ask foi
anything more than has already been
granted to others? Let us see. Th*
principal demands can be stated in a few
words, viz: Stop the payment of inter
est by placing the bondholders on the
same footing with others, and pay his
demands as you pay others. Lim him
receive what the day laborer receives for
his work. Adopt and act on the motto
that what is money for one is money for
all. Add to the taxable property of the
country by such legislation as will force 1
idle capital from bank vaults into actual
circulation, and convert bonds into cur
rency, and protect laborers more and
bankers, bondholders and corporations
less.
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The New Era (Cass, Mich.)says: “The
government ownership and control of
railroads is one of the growing issues and
ideas of our country. Centralization in
the bands of all the people (the govern
ment) does not seem to be as bad as cen
tralization in the hands of a few individ
uals, with a power greater almost than
the government itself. In Australia the
government owns the railroads. It only 4
costs the people $0.50 to ridel,ooo miles.
Commutation rates for local service is
still lower. A workman can ride to and
from his work a distance of 6 miles for 2
cents a trip, 12 miles for 4 cents, 18 miles
for 6 cents, 30 miles for 10 cents. Yearly
tickets good for 30-mile trips are sold
for $17.40. This is the kind of centrali
zation we need in this country. It cen
tralizes the bread and meat into the
mouths of the workingman’s children
and clothes on their backs. And yet,
low as the rates seem to be, we are fully
assured that there is a fair profit in the
business. Statistics prove this beyond
dispute. .
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The Dakota Ruralist (Huron) com
menting on the Indianapolis session,
says: “It was demonstrated to the sat
isfaction of every delegate and visitor
present that the North and South could
work together as harmoniously as the
delegates from any State in the Union.
What better proof of this could be asked
than the fact that it was Delegate Stone,
from Georgia, who moved the resolution
in favor of a service pension to the Union
soldier, and Delegate Page, of Virginia,
an ex-Confederate soldier, who seconded
it, and every Southern delegate supported
it. When the question of admitting cot
ton goods free, that the foreign demand
for the cotton grown in the South might
have a better market, the delegates frog
the North voted for it. When the South
Dakota resolution requesting 23 per cenfc
of the recepts of our government lands
to be retained for irrigation purposes was
reported, every delegate from the South
and East voted for it.”
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The Ocala (Fla.) Demand tackles a
subject which should command the at
tention of every reform paper in the land
when it says: “We advocate the owner
ship of American soil by American citi
zens. Just think of it for one moment,
citizens of the United States. One En
glish syndicate owns 4,500 000 acres of
land in Texas, another, 3,000,000 acres;
Edward Rued, K. C. 8., bus 2,000,000
in Florida; the Duke of Sutherland
holds 482,000 acres of American soil;
Philips, Marshall & Cos., 1,300,-
000 acres; the London Land Com
pany, of Twcedale, 1,700,000, etc.,
and, as it was very prominently brought
to our notice during an important trial in
our own county court in Oeala last sum
mer, it was declared to be the avowed
policy of certain foreign land and mort
gage companies to acquire Florida lands
through the foreclosure of their moit
gages. Any thinking man will see, from
these statements, that one of the thing*
that Great Britain failed to accompli-h
during the bloody struggle from ’7O to
'B3, she is slowly but surely accompli-h
--iog through the instrumentality of tha* 4
*owererful and secret enemy of American
liberty and American homes, w^ney.
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The Industrial World <Spc Vane.
Wash.) says: The business men, t it
'■piite evident, do not pay much attention
to to the real reason for hard ’-e.es.
They say with one voice that the , is
“not enough money in the country,”
“business dull,” “the people haven’t got
any money to pay with,” They stop
right here. They don’t follow this up
and ask why it is the people have uo
money, and if there is any way of in
creasing the volume of money. If it
were a question of experience in running
a business they w T ould give their uudivi
ded attention, 'a tbit respect they are
some of the ia. .or orgau Zitions.
they spend all their efforts on trifles and
>dlow their earnings to eke away in other
directions. All the enormous interest
that the people are paying is as great a
burden on the business man as it is on
the farmer or laborer, and the money
stringency affects him in precisely the
same manner. The sooner the merchant
realizesthat his prosperity depends upon
the prosperity of the masses the better it
will be for all. The man of business has
a tremendous influence, and it should be
used for good.
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Lot us as true Allianci men guard against
an uncompromising spirit. In the princi
ples of our order 1 say yield not a single
item. Stand firm and unflinching by
every precept laid down in the platform
which we have ,adopted and which w
must maintain in its completeness.
when it comes to politics and measui
et us as brethren be yielding and no
aggressive. Let us meet on the Ocala plat
form and then adjust our differences, and
if we find the majority are inclined to
adopt certain measures to secure the grand
result for which we are all striving. Let
us fall into ranks aud not stand aloof on
iccnunt ot an nnwintngnoss to yield our
pet opinions to the fiat of the majority,
but with the spirit of compromise that
the name of our order implies. Let us
start to conquor, give up our views to
the verdict of those who are perhaps in
i better position to understand the safest
measures and best policies to pursue.-
Gompromi-ing in measures, uncompro
mising in principle is our duty and our
interest.— Southern Alliance Farmer.’
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ALLIANCE INSURANCE.
Hon. Alonzo Ward all, of South Dakota,
member of the Executive Board, is a
hustler. In an interview he expressed
himself as follows: I would be happy
to tell you that I had been home since
the ludianapolis convention, hut Illinois
and Michigan have claimed that time.
In short, I have been in 34 States and
traveled 39.025 miles in the interest of
the Farmers’Alliance in *the past year.
The work I am at present especially push
ing Is the organization on a nutuial basis
of the Alliance Association, a mutual
insurance plan that will add a necessary
and benevolent feature to our beloved
Order. It has already met with wide
spread approbation from Alliance offi
cers throughout the Union, and received
the indorsement of the Supreme
Council at Indianapolis, and will
henceforth be a degree of the Alli
ance. My business here is to perfect de
tails and enlarge its scope. We are a
regularly chartered institution, and our
one aim is to build up and cement togeth
er the men and women who have espoused
our cause of reform. I will net enter into
business explanations. The association
will recommend itself without “blare of
trumpet to the wind outblowD,’’ when it
is laid before the people. There is no
class more in need of its benefits or pro
vision against the coming of the grim
reaper than the farmers, and none less
solicited by regular insurance companies
or secret societies. We are beginning to
apply certain goodly advice about “help
ing ourselves,” and if we do not find a
remedy for that majority of our afflictions
and make wise provision against the fu
ture, the fault cannot he charged to the
men brethren have honored with the
present dignity of office,
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THE BT. LOUIS MEETING.
The attention of alliancemen every
where is turned to the great conference
of producers to be held in St. Louis, Feb
ruary 22d. At the national alliance con
vention at Indianapolis, a few weeks ago,
a committee consisting of C. W. Macune,
Herman Baumgarten, Thomas W. Gilrath
and John P. Steele, was appointed to
formulate an address setting forth the
objects ef the St. Louis convention.
They have completed their work and
their report has been printed. The ad
dress is quite a lengthy one, and is main
ly taken up by a summary of the facts
leading to the call for the convention,
and tho financial condition of the produc
ers of America. The address says among
other things:
“The call for said conference origi
nated with the National Farmers’ Alli
ance and Industrial Union at Ocala, Fla.,
in December, 1890, as follows:
“This body gives its sanction and call
for a meeting to be held about February,
1892, to be composed of delegates from
ill organizations of producers upon a
fair basis of representation, for the pur-
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1892.
poses of general odj thorough confer
ence upon the demands of each, and ;i,
the end that all may agree upon a joint
set of demands just prior to the next na
tional campaign, and agree upon the
proper methods for enforcing such de
mands. If the people, by delegates com
ing from them direct, agree that a third
party move is necessary, it need not lie
feared that the next session of this sifc
preme council elect delegates from this
order to represent it iu said national con
ference of productive organizations fen
political purposes.
“The call for the great labor confer
ence has since been ratified and accepted
by practically all farmers’ and laborers’
organizations. The national c*xecutive
committee met in Indianapolis, Ind., or
the 10th of November aud fixed the basit
of representation, and appointed a com
mit'ee to choose the place of meeting.
“The objects of tlitf coming meeting,
under the blessings of God. to confer am?
agree upon the wis- st, fairest and most
just means of relief in the interest of the
whole people, and to announce a declara
of principles upon which all are agreed
to stand, and d<maud laws to cry out for
this puipose. Every organization ot
producers in this broad land is invited t<*
send delegates a id participate in its di>
liberations. For the love of our country*
fjy th<- sake of your family, in view of
your duty to posterity, come! and let
this he the second declaration of inde--
pendence for the American people, in
which, instead of throwing off the yoke
of a tyrant king, they liberate postcritv
irom the national industrial tyranny and
slavery. ”
The Industrial Educator (Fort Worth, •
Tex.) says: Now we have Finley Dem’
ocrats and anti-FinlejaDemocrats, Ocala
Democrats and anti-Ocala Democrats,
sub-treasury Democrats and anti-sub
treasury Democrats, free coinage Demo
crats anti free coinage Democrats, alien
land law Democrats and Democrats who
opposed the alien laud law, high tariff
Democrats and no tariff Democrat*, Je -
fersonian Democrats, Jackson Democrats
and Cleveland Democrats. But passing
them all l>y, we propose to keep right in
the middle of the road. We mean by that
that we shall follow the line of reform
movement marked out in the St. Louis
demands, the Ocala platform and that
promulgated at Cincinnati. We shall
not be swjtched off the track to follow q
Democratic or Republican faction of any
kind. We want nothing to do with the
machine of either party, hopelessly- con-
A—, JAr.-iJ wt ui ut V ' uy Vile y
power. The People’s party is being rap
idly organized in all the states. It is fast
'ir-AiL- —-Va i a bor organizations in on?
grand political party of reform. We mus t
have this to save our cun ry. And we
must have it now. Here we stand and
we shall fight it out on this line, if it t ikes
all fummar. We rh ill ns far as possible
expose all attempts to disrupt and divide
the labor forces, or prevent us from win
ning a complete victors for the people.
NEW DIRECTORS
Who will Manage the Georgia Cen
tral Railroad.
The stockholders of the Central
road of Georgia held a meeting in Sa
vannah Monday and elected anew hoard
of directors. General Henry R. Jack
son and General G. M. Sorrell take
the places on the Central lailroad direc
tory made vacant by tiie retirement of
Pat and John C. Calhoun. Mr. G. .T.
Mills was elected to succeed Mr. S. Y)
Inman, who tendered fpvresignation be
cause of
E. P. Alexander was re-elected president,
The meeting was further enlivened by an
attempt of the minority stockhobiers to
enjoin the election of the new board.
Out of this attempt future sensations are
expected.
From New York comes gossip growing
out of the situation, hat developments
were in a state of expectancy. The one
fact is prominent, however, and that is
that Brice and Thomas arc in the saddle!
The board selected is composed as fol
lows : General E. P. Alexander, J. K
Garnett, Abraham Vetsburg, Joseph
Hull, Gen. Henry R. Jackson. George J.
Mills, General G. M. Sorrell, C. H. Puin
izy, H- T. Inman, E. P. Howell, U. B.
Harrold, James Swann, J, C. Mahen.
The board is regarded as a very fine
body of businessmen. It is a hoard of
men who are above suspicion. No one
reading the list will think for an instant
that the majority of these men would
stoop to any underhand dealings or any
thing calculated to injure tbe Central
railroad or the interests of the minority
stockholders. The new hoard gives great
satisfaction to all interested parties.
SECUETAUY’S STATEMENT.
After the adjournment of the meeting
Secretary A. J. Raub gave out the fol
lowing for publication:
The annual election of ihe Central rail
road of Georgia was held to-day. Nine
members of the old board *-were re-elect
ed . Four vacancies which have occurred
by death, resignation and otherwise,
were filled by iheelecti j of J. C. Mahen,
of New York, and General G. M. Sor
rell, General H. R J<ickeon and Mr. G.
J. Mills, all of Savannah. The last two
gentlemen are the largest stockholders of
the Central road in the state of Georgia.
The directors of the Richmond Terminal
company have acted in this case in the
same way that they will act in the Rich
mond and Danville election to-morrow,
and in the elections of boards of the
smaller leased roads. That is, all hoards
of directors now elected are to hold office
only until the stockholders’ committee of
representation, of which Mr. Olcott is
chairmrn. shall submit its plan and the
stockholders vote upon it. ,
A number of villages iu North Schleswig,
Germany, have united in purchasing great
quantities of rye, which they sell at half
price to their poorer inhabitants.
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
The Central railroad shops in Augusta,
Ga., have been reopened.
Tbe Georgia encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic will be held in Au
gusta instead of Taiiapoosa.
The liquor question is raging in Char
lotte, N. C. Monday night, however,
the council granted licenses under certain
restrictions.
It is stated that 11. M. Bowden, the
long missing cashier of the wrecked First
National hank at Wilmington, N. C., has
within the past few days been seen at
Baltimore.
A dispatch of Saturday from Denver,
Col., says: The jury returned a verdict
of guilty of murder in the first degree
against Dr. Graves for the murder of Mrs.
Barnaby by poisoned whisky.
A telegram of Sunday from Apalachi
cola, Fla., says: The schooner Dexter
Clarke, which went ashore on Flag Island
shoals last Thursday, haagone to pieces
and will be a total wreck. No lives were
lost.
Dispatches of Tuesday state that the
steamer Tu9kar, Savannah for Bremen, is
ashore at Nieuwe Diep, broken amid
ships, and her cargo is washing out of
her. Two hundred hales of cotton of
her been saved.
All the motorinen and conductors in
the employ of the Birmingham, Ala.,
railway and electric companies struck
Monday for 15 cents per hour instead of
12. The demand has been refused by
the companies. Much excitement pre
vails.
Tuesday the property of the Spout
Springs Lumber Mill Company in Harnett
county, North Carolina, with 13,000
acres of pine timber lands, was sold to
John Y. Gossler, of Philadelphia, and R.
W. Hicks, of Wilmington, N. C., who
become the Consolidated Lumber Com
pany, with 40,000 capital.
A Columbia, S. C., dispatch says:
Richard Lewis, master of equity and
judge of jprobhte of Oconee county, com
mitted'snicide \u his office at WalhalU,
Moiiuay? oy snooting nui.seu tnrougu
the heart with a pistol. Judge Lewis has
held the two offices above mentioned fof
many years, and was one of the most
popular men in the county.
A New Orleans dispatch says: An
thoDy B. Silba, a laborer, aged thirty,
was lightened to death Friday Evening.
He wasaw'itnes Yoa stabbing af ay wfien
a policeman arrived on the scene and ar
rested him by mistake as one of the par
ticipants. The man became so fright
ened that hevYell in a fit and died ten
minutes later. 4 *
A disDatch of Monday from Laredo,
Texas, says: It is stated that the
Mexican revolutionist, Garza, is sur
rounded in the chapparel in the extreme
north corner of Zapata county by
United btates (roops and Rangers, and
that it is almost impossible for him to
escape either to the westward or in the
directing of Mexico.
The tobacco dealers of Albany, Ga.,
are loudly kicking because the city has
placed a tax of $5 on retailers and S2O
on wholesalers of tobacco, and they will
petition to repeal the tax. The tax was
placed on tobacco dealers as the internal
revenue tax on tobacco was off, and the
council considered that the city was en
titled to some revenue from that source.
A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch says: A
mass meeting of the Ware County Farm
ers’ Alliance, which has nearly three
thousand members, was held Tuesday.
The chief question considered was the re
duction of the acreage in cotton. Reso
lutions were offered urging that the
acreage be reduced 15 per cent, and that
the proportion be added to the acreage
in food crops.
A St. Louis dispatch says: Adelbert
Sly, the alleged Glendale train robber,
was, on Saturday, identified as having
connection with the now famous robbery
by the furniture men who sold the furni
ture of a Swan avenue house wherein
detectives found clues by which the gang
of thieves were traced. He was also
identified by Express Messenger Mulren
nan and the engineer and fireman of the
train robbed.
A hill was filed in the Montgomery,
Ala., city court Tuesday, by attorneys
for the stockholders of the Adams Cotton
Mill Company vs. S. D. Hubbard. The
hill sets out that the value of the proper,
ty of the Adams cotton mill is $82,500-
and they pray that the corporation may
he dissolved and a receiver appointed to
wind up its affairs. They allege that the
c mpany owes about $75,000. The de
cree was granted.
On the Murphy branch of the Western
North Carolina railroad, forty miles from
Asehyille, Tuesday, the engine of a west
bound freight, while detached at a heavy
grade, became uncontrollable and dashed
down the track at a fearful rate of speed,
At Dyke Ridge vrestle it left the rails
and plunged into a gorge, landing in the
creek, more than one hundred feet be
low. Four men were killed aud the en
gine completely demolished.
A dispatch of Sunday from Denver,
Col., says: Deputy Sheriffs Sheans and
Wilson, who conveyed I)r. Graves from
the courthouse to the cell, state that on
the way he made a confession, and said
that Daniel K. Ballon was the instigator
of the crime. Judge Furman emphati
cally denied that Dr. Graves had made a
confession to the deputy sheriffs. Dr.
Graves refused to say anything in regard
to the mntter. excepting that he is en-
tirely innocent and desires to be left un
disturbed in his cell at the jail.
The Mississippi legislature met at
Jackson in regular session Tuesday.
Lieutenant Governor Evans was absent
on account of sickness in his family,
lion. R. A. Dean was re-elected presi
dent of the senate. In the house the
contest for the speakeiship resulted in
the election of Hon. H. M. Street, of
Meridian, over Hon. J. 8. Madison,
speaker of the last house, by a vote of
61 to 59. Hon. R. E. Wilson was re
elected clerk of the house unanimously
and the organization was completed by
the election of minor officers.
Converse college at Spartanburg, 8. C.,
was destroyed by fire Saturday night.
The college was opened a year ago last
October with the brighest prospects of
any college south. There were over one
hundred and fifty young ladies enrolled
for the first session. The fire originated
in the furnace room unaccountably.
The loss will reach $60,000;, insurance.
$40,000. Mr. Converse, for whom the
college was named, has lost his pet, and
the people sympa’hize deeply with him
and President Wilson in the loss of an
institution of which any state might well
be proud.
A RAILROAD FLURRY.
The Retirement of the Calhouns from
the Central’s Directory.
A New York dispatch of Sunday says:
The retirement of the Calhouns from the
Richmond Terminal on Saturday was the
sensation of the day. Pat Calhoun’s
letter, iu which he declared that a scheme
was on foot to wreck and ruin the Cen
tral railroad of Georgia, was so spicy
that it broke through all Sunday reserve,
and groups of business men discussed it
with interest. The Associated Press
dispatches of Saturday night, in telling
of the incident, stated that, at
an informal meeting of the pres
ent party in control of the Richmond
Terminal, it was resolved that both Pat
and John C. Calhoun should be dropped
from the CentraLdirectory, and that their
places should be filled by two Georgia
gentlemen not named. It was also
stated that Pat Calhoun would no longer
be counsel for the system.
This, taken in connection with Mr.
Calhoun’s letter, showed that the lines
between the two factions were sharply
drawn. The charge made by Mr. Cal
houn tfiat the Terminal magnates desired
so as to better wreck it, coming fron
lawyer, was regarded as bold and gn.ro.
If true, it would call for such actior. as
would protect Georgia railroad proper
ties from ruin.
What Mr. Calhoun has tossy about the
matter is severely criticised by the Thom
as-Brice people, and some interesting
stories are told in the talk. The legal
affairs of the great properties cannot be
transferred in a day, but as soon as the
change can be made the law department
of the railways will be placed in other
hands.
FIRE IN NASHVILLE.
SBOO,OOO Goes up in Smoke—Four
Colored Firemen Killed.
At 5:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon the
most disastrous fire that Nashville has
had since 1881 broke out in Webb,
Stevenson & Co.’s store, on College
street. A strong wind was blowing from
the northwest, and, although tbe firemen
were promptly on hand, they could do
practically nothing. The fire gradually
found its way into the adjoining store
occupied by A. G. Rhodes <fc Cos., and
theD into Atwell & Sneed’s. The wind
changed and the fire started in another
direction. Weakly & Warren’s seven-story
furniture store, north of Webb, Steven
son & Co.’s was soon a mass of flames.
Members of the colored fire company were
standing across an alley on the three-story
building of the Phillips & Butler
Manufacturing company, when Weakly
<$ Warren’s building suddenly bulged
out in the center and fell across the alley.
Four firemen, all colored, were caught
under the falling building and instantly
crushed to death. When the Phillips &
Butler building crushed in it quickly took
tire and was consumed. About this time
the wind changed again and the flames
s^. r Jback towards the Noel block and
a vacant building, adjoining Atwell &
Sneed’s, which was soon burned. There
were a number of men iDjuied at various
times by falling walls and explosions that
blew out the front of two or three stores.
The total loss will probably re"ch SBOO,-
000.
PLUMB’S SUCCESSOR.
Fx-Cougrcssmau Perkins Appointed to
Fit! His Place.
A Topeka, Kan., dispatch says: Fri
day afternoon, Governor Humphrey ended
the senatorial struggle aud appointed ex-
Congreasman Bishop W. Perkins United
States senator, to succeed the late Pres
ton B. Plumb. For a week Govenor
Humphrey has given patient considera
tion to the claims of nearly tr dozen can
didates.
Bishop W. Perkins was born at Roch
ester, Lorain county, Ohio, in 1842. He
removed to Oswego, Kan., in 1869, and
was soon appointed county attorney. He
was elected probate judge in 1870, and
held that office until he was appointed
district judge in 1873. He remained on
the bench ten years. In 1888 he was
nominated as one of four candidates to
congress at large in the most bitterly
contested state convention ever held in
the state. He was elected in the third
congressional district in 1884, 1886 and
1884. being defeated in 1890 by the com
bined vote of the democrats and J’K'uners’
Alliance, vith B. H. Clever as toe van
'■ld ate.
NO 38
THE BATTLE OF LIFE.
Rise! for the day is passing,
And you lie dreaming on;
The others have buckled their armor,
And forth to the fight have gone I
A place in the ranks awaits you.
Each man has some part to play;
The past and the future are nothing,
In the face of the stern to-day.
Rise from your dreams of the future—
Of gaining some hard fought field;
Of gtorming some airy fortress,
Or bidding some giant yield.
Your future has deeds of glory.
Of honor, God grant it may 1
EutVour arm will never be stronger,
Or the needle ffleat as to-day.
Rise 1 If the you,
Her sunshines and storms forget;
No chains so unworthy to hold you
As those of a vain regret;
Bad or bright, she is lifeless forever;
Cast her phantom arms away.
Nor look back save to learn the lesson
Of a nobler strife to-day.
Rise 1 for the day is passing,
The low sound that you scarcely hear
Is the enemy marching to battle.
Rise 1 for the foe is here 1
Stay not to sharpen your weapons,
Or the hour will strike at last,
When from dreams of a coming battle
You may wake to find it past I
—Adelaide Proctor .
PITH AND_POINT.
“I am the great corn eradicator,” re
marked the crow.
A tight money market eften induces
loose financial operations.— Lowell Cou
rier.
All that most men have in the world
is what they are going to get.— Atchison
Globe.
The clergyman with a “long hedd” is
apt to indulge in short sermons.— Boston
Courier.
Asa sole stirring invention the basti
lado is worthy eminent mention.—Bos
ifen Courier.
Twelve hundred and eighteen kinds
of mushrooms grow in Great Britain, not
including the mushroom aristocracy.—
Binghamton Republican.
Diplomatic Phrase: Tommy—“ Paw,
is a liar who weighs more than
you.”— lndianapolis Journal.
“I have always wished,” soliloquized
the coroner pensively, “that I could
have held this office immediately after
the flood.”— Pacific Harbor Light.
An exchange speaks of a man who “is
not a physician, but a simple druggist.”
We had supposed that a druggist was a
compound fellow.— Binghamton Leader.
He is a mighty meek man that can
patiently hold the baby while his wife
puts in a couple of hours at the piano
learning the latest lullaby.— lndianapolis
Journal.
Rural Gent—“ What are they carry
ing all that garbage into that theatre
for, sonny?” Messenger—“Oh, dere
goin’ ter playde “Streets of New York.”
Texas Siftings.
She—“l thought I marked the best
man in town, but I find I made a mis
take.” He—“l thought I married the
best little girl in town, and I find that I
was not mistaken.” She— ‘‘Forgive me,
Charlie. You know that I don’t always
mean what I say.” He (sotto voce) —
“Neither do I.”— Brooklyn Life.
We must content ourselves to-day with
ancedotes of foreigners trying to express
their thoughts in English. The latest is
told by Dean Briggs, of Harvard. A
Japanese student, desiring to impress on
the dean how studious he had been,
said: “I have worked so hard I eat
nothing since to-morrow.”— Boston
Globe.
“And so you have decided to marry
your deceased wife’s sister, eh, Fred?”
“Yes, old maD. Two years of lonlincss
are all I can stand.” “Do you love her
as well as you did your wife?” “Why,
what a question, Harry.” “I know, but
do you?” “Well, to tell you the truth,
I do not.”' “Why do you marry her
then?” “Well, to tell you the truth
again, her mother is really a delightful
old lady, and I don’t feel like taking any
chances on another mother-in-law.”—
Chicago Tribune.
Oil Baths For Lead Pencils.
Anew discovery has been made by
railroad clerks in Pittsburg regarding
the saving of lead pencils. This will be
a great boon to those who are continually
using ex fletive and borrowing pocket
knives on account of the frailty of good,
soft lead in a peucil.
Every one who has much rapid writing
to perform prefers a soft pencil, but
nothing has come to public light so far
by which the lead can to an extent bo
preserved. The P. C. C. and St. L.
clerks have brought about anew era in
the pencil business; also have they mor
ally benefited humanity, inasmuch as
they decrease violation of the third com
mandment.
The new idea to preserve a soft pencil
is to take a gross of the useful article
and place them in a jar of linseed oil.
Allow them to remain in soak until the
oil thoroughly permeates every particle
of the wood and lead. ;
This has the effect of softening the
mineral, at the same time making it
tough and durable. It has been found
very useful and saving, an ordinary pen
cil being used twice as long under the
new treatment. —Finsbury jJitpateh.