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About Haralson banner. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1884-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 11, 1890)
4 " No, eglantine and cresses ' e For her tresses!— o LAy Let care, the beggar, wait ;i W Outside the gate. Tears if you will—but after > Mirth and laughter; ‘Then, folded hands on breast ‘And endless rest. ~[Thomgs B. Aldrich, in Independent. 4 I et THE OLD SILVER WATCH | Charles Eames stepped into the office of his friend Bowles, editor of the Glenville Courant. . “How are you, Eam~s?” asked the editor. «I ought to feel happy, I suppose,” said the young man, a little ruefully, «for I've just received mnotice of a legacy.” : ¢‘lndeed, I congratulate you.” ¢“Wait till you hear what itis.” - «Well, what is it?” «My aunt Martha has just died, leav ing fifty thousand dollars.” “To you? I congratulate you heartily.” «No; she leaves it to a public in stitut.on. She leaves me only her silver watch, which she has carried for forty years.” ¢“How is that?” ; «She didn’t approve of my becom ing an artist. She wished me to be a merchant. If I had consulted her wishes, I should, doubtless, have been her sole heir. This small legacy is meant more as an aggravation than anything else.” «‘But you can make your own way.” ‘T can earn a scanty living at pres ent. I hope to do better by and by. But you knowmy admiration for Mary Brooks—ls I had been Aunt Martha's sole heir, I could have gained her father’s consent to our marriage. Now it is hopeless.” ‘ lam not so sure of that. This legacy may help you.” ¢An old watch? You are joking.” «Not if you will strictly observe my directions.” «What are they?” ; “Simply this: Agree for one calen der month not to mention or convey the least idea of the nature of your aunt’s legacy. I will manage the rest.” “] don’t at all know what you mean, Bowles,” said the young artist; «but I am in your hands.” «“Thatisall I wish. Now remember to express surprise at nothing; but let smatters take their course.” t “Very well.” " In the next issue of the Glenville ‘Courant, this young artist was sur prised to read the following para graph:— ““We are gratified to record a piece of good luck which has just befallen our esteemed fellow-citizen, the prom ising voung artist, Charles Eames. By the will of an aunt recently deceased, he comes Into possession of a piece of property which has been in the family for many years. Miss Eames is re ported to have left fifty thousand dol lars.”’ “‘Really,” thought the young man, ¢anybody would naturally suppose from this paragraph that I had inkgri ted my aunt’s entire property.” He put on his hat and walked down the street. He met Fzekiel Brooks, president of the Glenville National Bank. Mzr. Brooks beamed with cordiality. ¢“My dear sir, permit me to con gratulate you,” he said. ¢“You have read the Courant?” said Eames. : ““Yes; and I am delighted to hear of your good fortune. Can I speak to you on business a moment?”’ ¢Certainly, Mr. Brooks.” “You'll excuse my advice, but I know you are not a business man, while I am. My young man, do you want to make some money ?” “’Ccrtainly, I should be glad to do 80.’ ‘«James Parker has five hundred ghares of the Wimbledon Railway. It stands at fifty-six, a figure much be low its real value. But Parker is nervous, and wants to sell out. I want you to buy out his entire stock.” «But Mr. Brooks—" ¢I know what you would say. It may go down—but it won’t. I have advices that a speedy rise is almost certain. Buy him out, and you'll make a handsome thing of it. ~ *But how shall I find the money?” your note on ninety days, and I'll in dorse it. You'll sell out before that time at a handsome advance.” : ~ «I will place myself in your hands Mr. Brooks, but you must manage the business.” . | ¢Certainly; I shall only want your signature when the documents are made out. By the by, come round and dine with us, or have you another engagement ?” Another engagement? If Eames tad had fifty engagements he would have broken them all for the privilege of meeting Mary Brooks. This was the first time he had been invited to the capitalist’s table. The fact is, until this morning Mr. DBrooks had scarcely vouchsafed him more than a cool nod on meeting; buthad changed, or appeared to, and his behavior al tered with it. Such is the way of the world! ’ It was a very pleasant dinner. The young artist remained afterwards. ¢I have an engagement, Mr. Eames,” said Mr. Brooks, ¢‘‘a meeting of the Bank Directors, but you mustn’t go away, Mary will entertain you.” The young man did not go away, and apparently was salisfied by the en tertainment he received. He blessed his aunt for her legacy, if only it had procured him this afternoon’s inter view with the young lady he had ad mired. But it gained him more. Every four days he received a similar invitation. He could not fail to see that Ezckiel Brooks looked with evi dent complacency on the good under standing between his daughter and himself. “What will he say?” thought the young man, ‘‘when he finds out. what sort of a legacy I have received from my aunt?”’ Occasionally, too, he felt nervous about his hasty assent to the proposi tion to buy 400 shares of railroad stock at 56, when he hadn't SSO ahead. Ile reckoned up, one day, what his pur chase would amount to, and his breath was nearly taken away when he found it amounted - to twenty-eight thousand dollars! Still, it had becn in a man ner forced upon him. He asked no questions, but every now and then the old gentleman said, ¢All going well! Stock advancing rapidly.” With that he was content. Indeed, he was so carried away by love of Mary Brooks that he gave little thought to any other subject. One day Mr. Brooks came up, his face beaming with joy. ¢«“Wish you joy, Eames,” he said, ¢«Wimbledon's gone up like a rocket to par. Give me authority, and I’ll sell out for you.” The artist did so, hardly realizing what it meant till three days after, he received a little note to this effect: Drar Eamres:—Have sold out Your five hundred shares of Wimb'edon at 101. So you bought at 55. This gives you a clear profit of forty-five dollars per share, or twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. You had better reinvest your surplus. Call at my office at once. Yours very truly, EzrklEL BROOKS. Charles Eames read this letter three times Before he could realize its mean ing. Could it be that without invest ing a cent, he had made over twenty thousand dollars? It must be a dream, he thought. But when he called at the old gentleman’s office, he found it was really true. ¢«Mr. Eames, how about (this money? Shall I re-invest it for you?” «Thank you, sir. I wish you would. I should like a little in hand, however.” ¢Certainly. What will answer?”’ and the old gentleman’wrote a ¢heque for five hundred dollars, and placed it in the young man’s hand. , It was more money than he had ever before possessed at one time. This was convincing proof of the reality of his good fortune. The next day he went to, the city and ordered a handsome suit of clothes at a fashionable tailor’s. The fact was his old coat was getting threadbare, and his overcoat decidedly seedy. ‘While he was about it he bought a new coat and boots, as well as other needed articles, and stili returned with money enough in his pocket to make him feel rich. He changed his boarding-house, ‘engaging & handsome room at a much nicer boarding-louse. ‘ «It seems to me you are dashing out, Eames,” said his friend the editor. R it AL Y ~“ begin to think you have,” scid eel 10" T ~ When Eames appeared on the street in his new suit it was a confirmation of the news of his inheritance. His removal to a fashionable boardirg house was additional confirmation. It was wonderful how he rose in the es timation of people who had before looked upon him as a shiftless artist. All at once it occurred to him. “Why shouldn’t I proposz for Mary Brooks? With twenty thousand dol lars I could certainly support her com fortably. There was a very pretty cottage, and tasteful grounds, for sale at five thousand dollars. This would make a charming home.” One morning with considerable trepidation, young Eames broached the subject to Mr. Brooks. ¢‘No one I should like better for a son-in-law, if Mary is willing,” was the prompt answer. A Mary was willing, and as there seemed no good reason for wuiting, the marriage took place within a few weeks. “Charles,” said his father-in-law, after the young people returned from their wedding journey, ¢t is time for me to render you an account of your money affairs. I have been lucky in my investments, and I have thirty-one thousand dollars to your credit, or de ducting the amount paid for your house, twenty-six thousand dollars. By the way, have you received your aunt’s bequest?”’ «I received it yesterday,” said Charles. , «Indeed!” “Here it is,” said the young man, and he produced a battered silver watch. “Do you mean to say this is all she left you?” asked his father-in-law, stupefied. - «“Yes, sir.” Ezekiel Brooks whistled in sheer amazement, and his countenance fell. For a moment he regretted his daugh ter’s ‘marriage, bg then came the thought that his son-in-law, through a lucky mistake, was really the posses sor of quite a comfortable property which under his management might be increased. So he submitted with a good grace, and is on the best of terms with his daughter’s husband, who is now in Italy with his wife, pursuing a course of artistic study. He treas. ures carefully the old watch, which he regards as the foundation of his pros perity.—[ Yankee Blade. Yaluable Hints to Fishermen. Clarence Deming, in arecent article, gives some valuable hints to fishermen as regards the weather question. e says that when fishing for troutin swift or rippling waters the weather makes little difference unless it rains. Nor does cloudy weather aid one to take fish in water over fifteen feet deep of a lake or pond, unless that water is very clear; indeed, a still bright day, which is apt to drive the fish to the cool, shadowy decpths, is often best for this deeper fishing. A rough, windy day is, generally speak ing, almost as timely as a cloudy one for lake fishing, or for the usually smooth reaches of a stream. For pick erel the wind-beaten water is» the best of all whether the day is bright or not. I you happen to know where a large, timid, and sly trout lies in still water, your time of all others for taking him is during a hard rain which beats the water and prevents the finny aristo crat from é¢ither seeing you or feeling the jar of your approach. e RAT i Alligators to be Protected. Fashion’s mandate that purses, reti cules, traveling bags and footwear must be made of alligator hide has made alligator hunting an industry in Louisiana and Florida, and the mon sters arerapidly being exterminated. So marked has been this destruction that the Police Jury of Plaquemines Parish, La., have been compelled to prohibit the farther killing. It seems that alligators feed largely on musk rats, and since the lessening of the number of the former the rats have increased enormously, and have se riously damaged crops. The jury pro hibits the killing of alligators in the bayous, marshes, canals or on any portion of the land or body of water under the penalty of $25 fine and im prisonment of not more than one month for cach offense.—[New York Times. ) : eI e e Li el it Sl S S NEWS OF THE ORDER AND f IT’ MEMBERS, § ¥ WHAT I 8 BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THIS GREAT ORGANIZATION, —LEGISLA-~ TION, NOTES, ETC. ' The Farmers' Alliance of Lincoln county, South Dakota, has raised $lO,- 000 with which to start a newspaper. i ke : Alliances are being organized in the Indian territory. One hundred is the number reported up to this time. ’ * * ok Ooncordia, Kas., is to have an Alliance gaper, the Union News. A company has een chartered with $50,000 capital. % * The sub-treasury plan secures industrial freedom to the world and emancipates productive labor from the power of money to oppress, * sk Application has been received at the office of the National Secretary for a charter for North Dakota State Alliance, the meeting of that body having adopted the secret work unanimously. * * % A few days ago the Alliance people around Lynchburg, Va., tried to get the tobacco warehouses to reduce their charges. They refused, and steps were at once taken to build an Alliance ware house. About $3,000 was subscribed on the spot. % * ok The Union (Luray, Va.) says: The move ment which has been started by the farm ers of our country, will not only benefit the tillers of the soil, but will bring about a better state of things generally, and the toiling millions, which include the me chanic and the laborer, as well as the farmers, will reap thesr just reward. | *® N Ak The present banking system is a curse | to you, farmers and laborers. It suits the speeulator because it gives them the | power to control your crop sand labor. They desire you to remain slaves to them. That’s why they oppose the sub-treasury plan and favor the present banging sys tem. Do youunderstand ?—(Jacksonville, Fla.,) Farmers Alliance. K * % The Indianapolis (Ind.) GQlobe says: ‘Many of our dear old party newspaper friends are just now expressing great friendship for the farmers. They think it would be very degrading for the farm er to meddle with politics, and tearfully advise them to have nothing to do with it. The fact is, the farmers have been taking that kind of advice until the poli ticians have got about all they possessed, and are now after the farmers to make serfs of them.” | *** ~ The Farmers’ Newspaper Alliance has filed at Washington a certificate of in ~corporation by L. L. Polk, J. H, Turner, Alonzo Wardall, C. W. Macune, Benja - min Terrell, N. A. Dunning and Joseph 'A. Mudd. The objects are an agricultu } ral newspaper and printing business with headquarters in Washington, and the ‘ stock in $500,000. The directors are L. | L. Polk, J. H. Turner and C. W. Ma | cune, of this city, A. Wardall, of Huron, 8. D., and L. F. Livingston, of Coving ton, Ga. *** . The National Alliance (Houston, Tex.) organ of the colored Alliance, advises the following: ‘‘Vote for principles, not for parties. It can make no differ ence with us - whether a man is a Democrat, or a Republican, or any other partisan, so long as our wives are barefoot, our children naked and our homes mere hovels. We wantaman who will work for the sub-freasury, who will see to it that the people have money at one per cent interest, just as the banks have it.” : e The Young Farmers’ club of the south ern states was organized at Holton, Ga., May Ist, 1884, where a constitution and by-laws were adopted and officers elected. The club meets only once a year, and its objects are not to discuss political ques tions nor fight trusts, etc., cte., except as individuals at home on the farm. It is thoroughly friendly to the Alliance, the Wheel, the Union, or any other farmers’ organization. It advocates home labor, home economy, home made manure, home raised provisions,home bred horses, mules, hogs, cattle, etc. It desires young farm era tc look more to themselves ‘and their families and their own personal efforts than to any human or ganization for a better condition of things ‘in the south.— Georgia Alliance Quar l terly. = ® * % - Cheering words of congratulation and encouragement are coming in from all quarters. and a general determination to continue the contest with increased ear nestuess is manifested all along the line. New Alliances are being formed, and old ones revived in States where the opposi tion has been the most bitter. News is being received from the North and West which indicate a rapid growth of the Alliance in these sections. Taken as a whole, the assault that has recently been made on the Alliance, its members, and methods, has not only increased its zeal, but has brought about a genuine revival in its favor. Nothing secems to strengthen the order like persecution, or to enthuse the brethren to more determined efforts than an attcmxt\’t to.impugn its motives or abuse its members. Let the opposition do its very worst, the Alliance will thrive in the meantime, and march right along to victory. - Opposition from poli ticinns, demagogues, and subsidized fol lowers must be expected, but the hour of final accounting is not far off, —National Eéonomist. P T s L Fla.) has the following regarding the mb-tmmr{)plan:‘ e Wt e “The sub-treasury plan is a cardinal principle of the Alliance. It is the test and the sine qua non of the order. Tor an Allianceman to say that he is ops)'oned‘“ to it,is like a member of a Christian church disbelieving the advent of our Savior. The trougle with such Alliance men is ignorance, or something worse— knavery. If the former, seck light and pray to God for a righteous understand ing; if the latter, leave the cuntlg. The battle is now being fought cu this line, and none other. The tariff, the bloody shirt and the nigger are all dwarfed into insignificance. The nation demands suf ficient currency, and the Alliance meas» ure is the only one under the sun that meets this demand. It is the farmers® measure, originated by them, formulated by them and promulgated by them, and is now being defended and maintained by them all overthese United States. The main opposition to the measure is that ‘nothing good can come out of Nazareth,’ that’s all.” * } *‘* £ . The State Alliaace, of Wisconsin, met recently at Barabws, and among the reso lutions adopted were the following: Resolved, That we form co-operation of all the agricultural and laboring classes of the nation to protect themselves from the robberies of nou-Producers; That we sympathize with the just demand of labor of every class, and recognize that many of the evils from which the farming com munity suffers oppress univer:al labor, and that therefore producers should unite in a demand for reform of unjust systems and the repeal of lJaws that bear unequally upon the people; That the general govern ment witll; the States shall control all * railroads; 'That option gambling on boards of trade should be abolished, and we ask the State aud Congress to pass such laws as shall make all such transac tions a criminal offense; That we are in favor of the delinquent collection of the tax on the whisky in bonded warehouses and applied for the carrying out of the sub-treasury bill demanded by the Na tional Farmers’ Alliance; That the tele graph should be owned by the govern ment and operated by the postal depart ment; That we are opposed to all alien ownership of land; That the United States Senators, President and Vice- President should beelected by the people. * ¢ %k The Minnesota Farmers’ Alliance has issued an address to the people contain ing a remarkable attack on the su preme court of the United States. It says: ‘“Very recently a United States judge invaded a sovereign state, accompanied by an assassin, who murdered a citizen of that state. The supreme court stepped in and rescued the assassin, declaring that in such cases the law of the state . against murder was of no avail. The state of New York condemned a murder er to death according to a law enacted by its legislature. A judge of the supreme court of the United States reached out his hand and took that criminal, that murderer, under his protection, declaring that a state could not punish its own murderers except by permission and in the manner prescribed by a federal court. The state of Minnesota created a railroad commission to stand between the people and the roads, to prevent the iatter from exacting extortionate rates. These roads are the creation of the state, and hold their charters from the state.. Yet this same supreme court has decided that these creations are greater than their creators; that a part is greater than the whole; that the State who made the roads has no power to regulate and govern them until they get permission from this autocrat tribunal of the American repub lic. Inthe case of the law prohibiting the sale of dressed beef, which your leg islature passed to protect the public health, this same court has enacted the role of the schoolmaster and descended to administer a lecture to your legislature, -4 charging them with incincerity and lying, in that they justified the law on the ground of protecting the public health, when in reality the object of the law was something else. The Dred-Scott decision rendered the name of Taney infamous, for the reason that it made slavery nation al and compelled freedmen to become slave catchers. These judges aspire to even a greater sublimity of infamy, be cause their decisions contemplate the en slavement of the whole American people.” The address denounces the McKinley bill and urges every alliance in the State to send delegates to the State convention July 16. U s SARAH'S CLOSE CALL, THE, CELEBRATED ACTRESS TOOK TOO MUCH CHLOROFORM. : | A London dispatch says: TUpon re turning to her hotel, &fter haying per formef at Her Majesty’s theatre Tuesday night, Madam Sarah Bernhardt suffered from an attack of insomnia. Findin herself unable to go to sleep she toog chloroform. ~ When her attendant dis covered her, the famous actress appeared to pe in a dying condition, and physicians were summoneg hurriedly. After a per sistent effort, lasting through four hours, and the application of powerful remedies, Madam Bernhardt began slowly to re- - cover. : : The Butter Record. | The record for the largest amount of butter produced by a cow in one year has . been broken by a cow owned by D. F;’a@ Appleton, of Ipswich, Mass., who, with three days tospare, produced 941 pounds 11 ounces. - The previous record was 936 gounds 13§ ounces, held by Landseer’s ancy, owned by Dr. William Morrow, of Nashville, Tenn. St R
