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A True Sfory.
The American workingman returns
at niglt fiotn his toil clad in a woolea
eu t and taxed 55. per cent, stockings
and umleishirt taxed 75 por cent, a
cotton shirt taxed 44 per cent, and per
chance# pair of gloves in winter taxed
40 per cent.
lie carries in his hand hia tin dinner
kpall tsxcd 45 percent, and greets his
pwife with ache rv smile as she looks
at him tli org'h a window pane taxed
60 per cent, from whic h she has drawn
aside the curtains taxrd 40 per cent.
After scraping his boots on a scrap
er taxed 45 per cent, he wipes them on
a mat of bagging taxed 10 per cent;
he lifts the door latch taxed 43 per
cent., step# in on a carpet taxed 68
por cent., and gives a kiss to his wife
in a woolen dress taxed 70 per cent.
Sha has a needle with a duty of 25 per
cent in her hand, wlh which she has
hßen mending with thiead with a du
ty of 40 per cent, an alpaoa umbrella
with a duty of 50 psr cont.
It is a small brick house which they
bought with their hard earnings
ef a building association. The bricks
on them a duty of 20 per cent,
the lumber has on it a duty of 16 per
cent. The paint has on it a duty of
54 per cont. The wall paper has on
it a duty of 45 per cent, the plain lur
niture has a duty of 35 per cent, flo
.hangs his bucket on a steel pin with a
slaty of 45 per cent, and proceeds to
get ready for his supper. He washes
hia hands with oastile soap with a do
ty of 20 per cent, ia a tin basin with a
duty of 45 per cent, and wipe* them
on a otton towbl with a duty of 45 per
cent. He then goes to the looking
glass with a duty of 45 per cent, and
combs his hair with a brush with a du
ty of 15 per cent.
Ho is now ready for his supper,
which his wife has cooked on a stove
with a duty ot 45 per cent; with pots
and kettles wih a dnty >t'sC percent.
The table is spread with the common
est crokety, with a duty of 20 per ots.
and he drinks his water out of a cheap
glass tutnoier with a duty of 45 per
cent, 'fhe li r t!e sugar that he puts in
his tea h h i nxty of 8 > tier cent, an 1
he stirs it with a spoon with a duty ot
42 per cent. Big meal is a frugal one
becatv-e hard times have cnt his wages
down, and he is saving every cent to
pay the installment due on hi* house
With an appetite worthy of an amp
ler meal, he takes up his knife and
fork with a duty of 45 psr cent, and
begins to eat a piece of ralt fish with
a duty ot 25 per cent. on
vinegar with a duty oS-4K) r cen>, he
sprinkles salt a doty of 80 per
cent, and eats a stk * tfith a da
tv of 35 per cent. < He t .li" lu> meal
with a puddin£o%juß w" afiFiy bf
1 1-2 per cent;Kv* • *'jßk
i • with a
bilk dres with
IgJpaK cout, and a pair cf
MJJvitb a dnty of 45 per oent.
w Washington, Sept. 10.—The heavy
purchase of United States bonds last
week caused a marked decline in the
treasury surplus, which fell off from
$110,000,000 last Men day to $lO3-
950,000, as stated in the treasurer’s
statement to-day. The discrepency
between this amount and the surplus
as stated in the president’s letter of ac.
ceptance — 130,000,000 —i9 probably
dne to the fact that the president in.
eluded about 35,000,000 dollars frac
tional silver coin on hand as part of
the surplus, while the treasury ofiioia’s
do not.
Mrs. Dixie Ilaygood.
Birmingham, 41a., Sept. 2.—For
several weeks Mrs. P. Haygood of Ma
con, Ga., has keen visiting relatives ia
this city. She is an electric woman,
possessing the same wonderful power
as the famous Lula Huist, and has giv
en a number of private performances
in this c’ty.
Friday night, just after midnight,
Messrs. L. 8. and F. Iv. Keogh, mer
chants, were passing the house where
Mrs. llaygood is stopping, on their
way home. They heard a lady scream
and call for help, and entering the
house they found that bnrglar had en
tered Mrs, Haygood’fi room and stolen
all her jewelry. She said that sha
was awakened, saw the burglar going
through her trank by the light of a
candlo. She asked him what he waß
doing, and the burglar sprang to the
bed and pressed a handkerchief, satur
ated with chloroform to her mouth.
By the aid of her electric power, she
threw him across the room, and he
leaped tbiough a window and escaped,
but took her jewelry and diamonds
with him.
Next morning Mrs. Ifaygood went
to the house of M>. Keogh, who lives
next door to where she is stopping,
and asked that gentleman to go
with her to recover her jewelry. He
was surprised, and she declatod that
she knew where it was and who had
stolen it. When asked how she knew*
declared that the spirits had told her.
Mr. Jxeogh did not believe her story,
but agreed to accompany her, and she
led the way to the large millinery
store of A. Hirsh and Cos.
To Mr. llirsh she told the object of
ter visit aud said that her jewelry was
under the counter. Ha gave her per
mission to find it, and to the conster
nation of everyone in the etoie, went
diieotly to an empty goods bx and
picked np a small pasteboard one and
in it wore her jewelry and diamonds.
She said that no one in the store was
in a way implicated in the theft. Mrs
naygood declared she knew who robb
ed her. hut declined to prosecute. She
“.aid her diamonds was stolen bv a
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younS man in the city who had pre
sen ed thmi o one of the lady clerks
at ni sch’s. £he says that spirits
oante to her and told her where they
were. Her finding it as above men
tioned, was witnessed by a dozen pt>o
pie. No li tie intetest has been arous
eu by this remarkable woman.
Home Patronage.
For an enterprise or industry of any
kind to piosper it must receive the
patronage of ila home people, and where
this is not the case there are none that
prosper. It may seem that this home
patronage is ao small that it would
never bs missed, or that it wonld be of
such little benefit to the patronizer
that it would seem like money thrown
away. This may be true in the imme
diate transaction, bat how about the
eiJ'eoi3 afterwards? For a home insti
tution to receive home patronage is
the highest lecommendation it can
have. Wnat would be a stranger's
opinion ef an enterpiise were he to
know that it recaived bat very lktle or
no home paiionage? He would think
immed ately that they were not Worthy
of patronage, as those who knew them
lost refuse to pa.ronize them. Th>s is
not tbe case only in manufacturing or
meiohandisiag, but the newspaper bus
iness. It is quite a commendation,
and one no doubt that we should feci
pond (?) of, to have our own con cry
Ci mmiss r cners send even to Alls; >£-.
and places to have advertising
done in the interest of the cona'y
without ovoQ asking our prices, and in
a secret manner. It is a nice way to
return faces, and to bhow to the
world that they are proud oftherconn
ty o:gau aad anr willing to encourage
and foster it. We thank (?) our wor
thy comm'sstonera and their advisor
for this high commendation (?), and
hope that it shall be as broad cast up
on the waters, which shall roturn to
them in due season.—[Ooonee Enter
pries.
Gen. Harrison’s Latter.
If the party fr iends of Gen. Harris
on hthe expected from him a letter in
dicating B'reng'h or individuality,
they aij doomed to bitter disappoint
ment. The labored document which
appears in another column is utterly
devoid of any such characteristics.
The letior is a studied effort to find
a sure footing upon a platform with
many plarks of which the author of
the leiter is not in sympathy. The
tariff question, according to the repub
lican plan to keep it prominent in the
campaign, holds the first place in the
letter. The discussion of this ques
tion he eis weak when compared to
the discussion of the same subject in
Mr. Cleveland's letter, and a perusal
of it leads to the inflection that it
would have been tar better for tho par
ty had the writing of this portion of
the letter been left to some ot tho ab
ler republican leaders. General Har
rison admits all that Mr. Cleveland
claims for judicious reduction of the
tar iff scale, men bases all of his argu
meat against the democratic plan up
on the fiee trade bugaboo. Ho is en
tirely willing that necessary reductions
should bo made, but he prefers that
they should be made by republicans;
just as be is willing that the public of
flees should be filled, bnt prefers that
they should be filled by republicans.
Passing to the question of the im
poi ation of foreign labor and the re
stretion ot Chinese immigration, Gen.
Ha>; ison repudiates his notorious re
cord and that of his party. He makes
a weak bid for the voios of the Pacific
siacee. In the same strain is the para
graph relating to trusts. Here he re
pudiates the republican doctrine as laid
down by the real leader, Mr. Blaine,
that “tinsts are private affairs. 1 ’
In the paragraph upon election
frauds, be makes an effort to raise the
race issue against theSonth. His civ
il service plank is likely to cause a
howl among “the boys’’ —if they be
lieve him sincere.
There is a studied effort in the treat
ment of the pension question to refrain
from a denunciation of the robbery
practiced by pension sharks, as dis
closed by the president’s manly vetoes,
henee the natural inference is that the
republican candidate indorses this rob
bery. The!a is nothing in the other
portions of the letter worthy of consid
eration. Asa whole, it is wofully in
ferior to the manly acceptance of Pres.
Cleveland.
The campaign is now open. The
contest will be a heated one, and may
tbe best man win?
That man is Grover Cleveland.—
[Constitution.
The fai oners who have obligations
shouM meet them promptly, and then,
wheiAhis is done, boycott tbe jute ba
giaS-
Mrs. Captain Tom is the name cf
- cbpst Indian woman in Alaska.
* worth about 20,000 dollars add
• .oya’ly at Siika, surrounded by
* ayes.
Gunnels, Power & Cos.,
GKO VE.—v
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