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WEDNESDAY .
...JUKE 8, 1886.
THE SUMMER COMPLAINT.
There are sign that there is to be the
usual summer lamentation in speech and in
print over the State's supposed losses by
emigration. Is there' any good in it? Is
North Carolina at all singular in the mat
ter of emigration? Have not we all, ora
tors, editors and correspondents, played
Rachel's part quite long enough? When
we are asking other folk in, is it worth
while to tejll them that those to the man
ner born can't be persuaded to stay in the
land we advertise?
The questions are suggested by the fol
lowing paf graphs in our friend Page's last
New Yorkffetter to the Chronicle of this
city: r
" Two dt ys ago I was talking to a North
Carolinian Ur ho is now a resident of New
York, abou his emigration. ' I'll tell you
why I caraway,' he said. I had an
idea, a t&iiness rather, that T believe)
could be riiisde profitable. I tried for five
There is naihecessarv reason whv
not have e$K everything there that I erot
here, Bufcq came here a stranger and in a
few month; I received encouragement; I
carried ouy plans. Succeeded? Well,
during th1 last 90 days I have made
. $10,000 cr money. My children are
better educated than they could have been
in North Cf&olina, and every way I am an
indeDendpnfr
gained some! ideas, too, that I could notJ
nave gaineqyaown tnere. '
. - " 'I coulijhav been a country doctor,'
. said a distingruishedphysician who came
here from oiie of the most progressive of
the Southern States and was graduated
at Bellevue .Medical College, ' I could have
been a country doctor down there. But I
should have tfaad no opportunity to perfect
myself in m j profession and no outlook. I
decided to five here. I had a hard time
of it for several years, and I have known
actual want! But I have at last got on
the up grade. I care much less about my
financial success than about the chances I
have had (and improved, I hope,) to be
come' a good physician.'
"I happen to know that he has an in
come of about $15,000 a year, and that he
has as his intimate friends the most of the
leading physicians in New York. He is
already a man of reputation in his profes
sion. '
" Anybody knows that if there had been
in the Southern States any such opportu
nities for thse men as they found here
they would sever have come away.
' We want men who make money; who
lay the foundations for all the advantages
that men in "any part of the world have
who develop the resources we have
talked about so much."
Doubtless he successes reported are ac
curately repcgrted. Physicians of Southern
birth and merchants of North Carolina
birth are well known to the Resisteh as
- emigrants to few York without fortune or
friends there, and who have won troops of
friends and- accumulated large wealth.
Perhaps it would not be difficult, however,
to name a much larger number of North
ern men whcf have found friends and for
tune in Norh Carolina. Let our friend
think a bit, and the Register doubts not
that he will jagree with it as to the fact
that more successful people of Northern
birth are to be found even in Raleigh than
New York can show of North Carolinians.
People do not go away from North Car
olina because it is peculiarly deficient in
opportunities, jthough in some special cases
its opportunities are undoubtedly small.
The cases cited above, for instance. A
great city was heeded for success in them,
and North Carolina has no great cities. It
may be doubted if they are desirable.
They are grea sores, and a few big for
tunes would not pay for healing them.
People tell u every now and then that
more men havp emigrated from North
Carolina than Sue now in it. It may be
so; but if it be s$, what of it? Is there an
other of the Stales of. the Union of course
we mean of th States which have been
breeders of mehi-that can say more or
less? The census reports from 1790 to
1880 furnish a conclusive answer. The
truth is that th people of North Carolina
have been' andare only like the peoples
from whom they sprung, and like their
kinsfolk in all rjarts of America. Daniel
Boone was a type, perhaps an extreme
type, of the race, and while life lasted
Boone was everfjon the tramp, never abid
ing in any place, however fair to see. after
hearing the bark of a neighbor's dog or
the crack of a neighbor's rifle. Take for
illustration the 'States referred to above
North Carolina and New York, one re
garded by our friend as a good State to
move from and the other as the good State
to move to and the census tables show
thatc if emigration be sign of disaster,
New York's experience has been sadder
than that of North Carolina. There were
living when the census of 1880 was taken,
as emigrant citizens of other States, nearly
as many people! born in New York as there
were inhabitants, of North Carolina.- The
report shows that in 1880 there were liv
ing 4,753,547 people of New York birth,
and only 3;556,894 of them were living in
New York. That is to say, there were
then living in other States 1,197,153 emi
grant New Yorkers. The whole popula
tion of North Carolina was 1,399,750,
and its emigrants 291,718.
; I HE SPOILS.
There is every variety of opinion tele
graphed and written from Washington to
the New Yorkjand Baltimore papers as to
what is or is not to be done by the admin
istration in regard to distributing the
spoils. Whicft is right, or if any is alto
gether correct is as little known to the
Register as to any of its neighbors. It
reprints a large'assortment of very positive
and very contradictory statements, and
such of its readers as care to make a choice
have the chance that is due to them who
pay their money for it.
Quite a stir has been made in this neigh
borhood and in the State by the retention
of Colonel Yotog as Collector of this Dis
trict for so long a period, and nearly every
citizen you meet can tell you the cause of
it. The Register cannot tell and sees no
use in guessing. It has no doubt that
Colonel Yotoq win giye way to &
good DemocraUprobably at the end of
his fiscal year, June 80-but not soon
enough to correct harmful impressions
-SS I04 lod8ment men's minds,
and been fixed there by angry utterances:
years to gfl.somebody in North Carolina
to give me&eln to develop it. I erot none.
I should
THE SUPREME COURT.
Thterm of the Supreme Court which
has just adjourned must have been one of
unusual labor to the Judges. With one
exception they have decided every case on
the docket which was in condition to be
decided. Since the term began,-on the
first Monday in February, they have heard'
arguments and delivered opinions in 173
cases. Many of these involved questions
of great difficulty, and required much
thought and research in order to write the
opinion. We doubt if any other court in
the United States, consisting of only three
judges, can show a record of as- much
work as well done. Lawyers tell us that
the State is tobe congratulated upon hav
ing a Supreme Court' which Unites so much
industry with so much learning.
The next issue of the Register will con
tain digests of the few cases not already re
printed in its columns from the Reporter's
notes. Members of the Profession tell us that
they have been exceedingly well done, and
laymen say that they have had no difficulty
in understanding them.
People in all parts of the State write
to the Public Printer to name the price at
which he can furnish the Laws, &c, &c.
The Public Printer does not furnish them at
all. Those who wish copies must write to
the Secretary of State, enclosing $1.50 for
the book and 43 cents to pay postage on it,
or the price of the book and orders to send
by express. The volume is large and
heavy, containing l,200page8 and weigh
ing more than seven pounds.
THE CLEAN SWEEP.
Its Necessity and the Obstacles to it.
New York Sun Letter.J
The more experience the new Democrat
ic head of departments and bureaus gain,
the more clearly they see that there must
be an approach to a clean sweep in their
offices, if they would achieve substantial
reforms. Department officers to
whose attention cases of suspected wrong
doing in their bureaus have been brought
are feeling themselves handicapped by Re
publican clerks in subordinate positions.
The great trouble experienced by
the Democratic officials in authority is
that they stand alone at the heads of their
bureaus, with no subordinate on whom
they can rely. Should they desire to con
duct an investigation they must either ex
amine the books or files in person or dele
gate the work to Republican clerks, who,
if they are not directly implicated, are
hand in glove with others whose positions
and characters are at stake. There prom
ises to be a general movement all along the
line on subordinates of this sort, and there
is no question that it will be a real reform.
Secretary Lamar is evidently getting ready
for a movement of this kind in the Interi
or Department.
Republican politicians here are begin
ning to see that when Mr. Edmunds said
that, no matter with what purpose the
Administration started out, the logic of
events would in time place the offices in
possession of Democrats, he spoke like a
prophet. There is evident preparation
among the Republicans for a fight to keep
the rascals in. Threats are freely made of
the part the Senate will play in blocking
nominations next winter if the Adminis
tration continues to turn Republicans' out.
The Critic says that just before the ex
tra session of the Senate adjourned the
Republican caucus adopted the following
rules : First, that in case of the removal of
any efficient Republican officer on the al
leged ground of offensive partisanship,
and the nomination of any Democratic
partisan in his place, such nomination will
not be confirmed ; second, that in case any
Democratic partisan causes the removal of
an efficient Republican, and receives as
his reward for causing such removal the
nomination as successor to the decaDitated
official, such nomination will not be con
firmed.
WHY THINCSS ARE SLOW,
How Many Petition Did Yon Sign? i
New York Sun Letter.J
The Colorado delegation whioh climV
away from the White House on Werinpo-
day after a sharp lecture from Mr. Cleve-
1 Tl - m
iana is onjy one oi several delegations of
Democrats that have meanly swindled the
President and the members of his Cabinet
by recommending unfit men for office.
The number of Senators and Representa
tives and Governors and Judges and Col
onels who have lent their
signatures to aid unworthy men to get of-
uce is almost past Deuel.
There are many parallels to the decep
tions practiced by the Colorado and Ken
tucky statesmen which have led to the re-
vnfttmn l nnrvktntmanta in 1. . . . .1
.t,rviUim.u iu tuuac otatea.
The shotgun Postmaster of Copiah county,
MississiDDl. whose roRicrnfttirn ha lun
tailed for by Mr. Vilas, was foisted udoo
4.1 T J 1 ... a
me r-resiueni Dy representative Barks
dale. Attorney-General Garland, it is
said, was nearly entrapped recently into
aDDointiner to office' a
U - - 1 WO V
for horsestealing Mr. Garland, as Governor
oi AiKansas, onerea a reward. A remark
able exposure of an attempt to palm off
an unfit applicant occurred in Secretary
Manning's office the other day. A United
States Senator had in tow a man confirmed,
in intemperate habits, whom he was push
ing for an internal revenue appointment.
A gentleman from the same State, who
knew the applicant, went to see the Presi
dent, and laid the facts before him.
"I wish you would lay the facts before
the Secretary of the Treasury," said the
President.
The gentleman reached the Secretary's
office to find the Senator and his bibulous
friend in consultation with Secretary Man
ning. He called the latter personage aside
and said that the candidate was a drunk
ard. -
"Well," said Mr. Manning, "you say you
can substantiate your charges. Suppose
we settle the matter right-here;" and
bringing the three visitors together, he told
the gentleman to state his charges in the
presence of the candidate. The candidate
wilted, and confessed that the charge was
true. He withdrew his application and
retired with his Senatorial friend. The
latter was not at all abashed by the expos
ure, and recommended another man, who
proved to be under indictment.
In another case, where a Treasury ap
pointment was made on the recommenda
tion of several Congressmen, Secretary
Manning learned, after the commission had
been mailed, that the appointee had been
indicted for quite a serious offence A
despatch demanding his resignation forth
with nipped another scandal in the bud
An application for an important appoint
ment in the railway mail service is pend
ing before Postmaster-General Vilas, which
bears the names of Congressmen and
Judges and business men of Ohio. The
man they recommend was a defaulter, and
themen who recommended him knew it
There are scores of such cases in every
department which require the most careful
scrutiny before appointments can be made.
Letters and petitions have become almost
valueless, so careless have public men be
come in lending their names to everybody
who asks for them. The infirmity xf some
statesmen in this particular has become so
thoroughly understood that their names al
most create suspicion of the unfitness of
the applicants for whom they vouch
Victor Hugo was buried on Monday
1 There was a great display and no riot '
MB. BEECHEB'S FAITH.
The Globe a Sublime History of God as
an En(laMr.
It is not often that Mr. Beecher writes
out his sermons. When, therefore,: he
yesterday read the' second of his. series of.
sermons on evolution in Its. relation to re'
i ligfcm orach 'of: theoratory ; thatf .usually
emoeuisaes ms -. uitHJOucmsa wag iwmug,
and when he returned to his manuscript
after an impromptu breakaway he not in
frequently stumbled over a word or a
phrase. There was a great audience, de
spite the threatening weather. "All things
were made by him, and without him was
not anything made that was made," was
the text "for tne sermon, -taKen rrom jonn,
L, 3.
NATURAL LAWS.
That the whole world and the universe
were the creation of God is the testimony
of the whole Bible, both Jewish and
Christian, began Mr. Beecher; but how He
made them, whether by the direct force of
a creative ' will, or indirectly througn a
long series of gradual changes, the Scrip
tures do not declare. The ground truth ia
that this world was not a chance, a crea
tive fermentation, a self -development, but
that it was the product of an intelligent
Being, and that the divine will an tne
countenance of this world manifests itself
under the form of what are called natural
laws, and that the operation of normal and
legitimate normal laws are the creations of
God Himself. We have two revelations of
God's thought in the evolution of matter,
and God's thought in the evolution of
mind, "and these are the Old Testament
and the New. In this great book of the
world is a record of the progress, order
and results of God's thought in regard to
the trlobe as a habitation for man. 1 he
globe itself . is God's history, of creation.
When I reflect that the silent stones and
the buried strata contain a record of God's
working ; when I think that the earth is a
sublime history of God as an engineer and
master builder, I cannot but marvel at the
indifference with which good men have
regarded this stupendous revelation of the
ages past and especially of the assaults
made by Christian men upon scientific
men who are bringing to light the long
hidden revelations of God's work in the
material world.
TUB TEN COMMANDMENTS.
God's methods are printed in the rocks.
Were the two tables of stone written by
tne linger of Uod a memorial to be revered
and their contents to be written in letters
of gold in all men's churches, while His
ministers turn with indifference or with
denunciation and scorn from the literature
of the rocks written by the hand of God
all over the earth ? What were the Ten
Commandments but a paragraph out of
the book of divine revelation of nature ?
Science is but the deciphering of God's
thought as revealed in the structure of
this world. li to reject God's revelation
of the book is infidelity,, what is it to re
ject God's revelation of Himself in the
structure of the whole globe ? That noble
body of investigators who are deciphering
the hieroglyphics that God inscribed upon
this temple of the earth are to be honored
and encouraged. As it is now, very vague
ly bigoted theologians, ignorant pietists,
jealous churchmen and a whole band of
shallow, ignorant men, whose very exist
ence seems like a sarcasm upon creative
wisdom, swarm about the adventurous sur
veyors who are searching God's handiwork
and adding to the realm of the knowledge
of God the grandest treasures ; and when
men pretending to be ministers of God,
with all manner of grimace and shallow
ridicule and veteran wit and unproductive
wisdom, enact the very feats of the mon
key in the attempt to prove that that was
not the origin of the human family, it
seems to me that there will yet be an in
ternal evidence that it was the origin of
the human family in part.
SCIENTIFIC DATA.
It is objected to these assertions of the
validity of God's great record in matter
that science is uncertain, unripe. As the
case stands how is the record of the book
any more stable or intelligible than the
record of the rock ?
There were three classes of men em
braced in the research of science, Mr.
Beecher went on in defence of his right to
draw religious teaching from scientific
data. They were the observers, the rea
soners and those who applied ascertained
truths to human life and conduct. He
put himself in third category. He was at
home there. It had been the business of
his life, and he felt that he had a right to
speak with some authority. He then
proceeded to consider the false notions
that were entertained regarding evolution.
A vague idea existed that science was in
fidel. Men said, "I know that religion is
true ; I don't want to hear anything that
threatens to unsettle my faith." The faith
that could be unsettled by an accession of
light and knowledge had better be unset
tled. The ascent of man from the anthropoid
apes, said Mr. Beecher, was not absolutely
proven, and he saw no present means of
proving it. But it was a hypothesis press
ed forward by a multitude of probabilities.
These were so many that he quite inclined,
not to the belief, but to the supposition,
that man was in the order of nature in an
alogy with all the rest of God's work, and
that in the ascending scale there was a
time unknown and methods not yet dis
covered by which he left behind his prior
fellows and stood upon thespiritual ground
which now distinguishes him from the
whole brute creation. The theory of the
evolution of the human race from the in
ferior race not proved, and yet probable
throws light upon many obscure points
of doctrine, of theology, that have sadly
needed light and solution, and before I am
done with this series of lectures I shall
discuss this question.
WHAT EVOLUTION TEACHES.
Mr. Beecher next touched on a number
of things that evolution taught. It taught
that the creation was not accomplished in
six days of twenty four hours; that the
work occupied ages; that nothing was at
first created perfect, but has been going
forward toward perfection ; that the earth
itself was condensed from ether into a vis
ible cloud form and increased in solidity
through chemical process aquatic inver
tebrate animals being its first inhabitants.
The earliest mammals were the marsupials,
like the opossum and kangaroo; it was
doubtful whether man came in the terti
ary period or immediately sequent. In
this, Mr. Beecher said, he quoted from
Professor Dana, and as thus stated evolu
tion was accepted by ninety-nine per cent
of the working scientists of the world. It
was taught in all advanced colleges and
universities, and if cast aside civilization
would go back into chaos. To the fearful
and timid he would say that while evolu
tion was certain to oblige theology to re
construct its iystem, it would take nothing
away from the. grand principle of religion.
If theology could be changed religion
would be emancipated. Evolution would
multiply the motives and facilities of
righteousness, which was the design of
the whole Bible. It would obliterate the
distinctions between natural and revealed
religion, both of which were the testimony
oft God. J
WHAT HE BELIEVES.
I believe in Jod, said Mr. Beecher, in
conclusion; I believe in immortality. I
beheve in Jesus Christ as the representa
tive of divinity of God. I am neither an
infidel, an agnostic nor an atheist; but if
I am anything, by the grace of God I am a
iOVer Of Jesus aa t.hn nnMU,..l.i: r j :
and in nopart of all my life has my miuis-
yj mcu mj me so solemn, so earnest, so
fruitful as this Wat w..i. .mi 7
- 7 will sveui 11 X
snail succeed in uncovering, in the faith of j
God's people, the great truth of the two
revelations God's building revelation of
the material globe and God's building re
velation in the history of the unfolding 'of
tne unman mina. -jnay uoa afreet mo. -
: SBN ATOH 'AMU SECRET ABY. ' -
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he Tie that Bind liantar and Hansons.
i ' Jt W1" ' l
.Washington Letter to the Philadelphia Tune.
During the stormy days of the XUVth
Congress, when the electoral count was
being made,1 Ransom established a .new
claim to the future Secretary's gratitude.
Mr. Lamar made, near the end of the ses
sion, one of his eloquent appeals in favxr
of standing by the electoral count.- - This
speech, was made late at nighty when some
of the members had been to the restaurant
more -frequently than7 was good for their
mental powers. There was. one. member
who has ' Since,; passed "away and whose
name will not therefore be used, who was
drunk, exceedingly drunk. He heard La
mar's speech and so did Senator Ransom,
who had. come over from the Senate for
that purpose. At its conclusion' Lamar
and Ransom walked into the room back of
the Speaker's stand and sat down. The
drunken -member, enraged at Lamar's
speech, swore he would kill him, and go
ing to where Ransom and Senator Lamar
were seated, called the latter traitor to his
party, and, drawing a pistol, presented it
at Lamar's breast. Lamar did not see it,
but Ransom did, and, seizing the drunken
man, whirled him round ana pushed him
toward the door. Lamar caught the situ
ation and drew his pistol, but said: "I
will not shoot him; his back is toward
me." This event bound Lamar still more
firmly to Ransom.
THE MISTAKES mAOE.
Tne President Smoulders Responsibility
(Washington Letter.J
It is no secret here that the President
accepts full responsibility for the very ap
pointmcnts which have attracted the
harshest criticism, and which have been
charged to . Mr Bayard's account! Mr,
Cleveland was grossly deceived by politi
cal friends, some of whom could not have
been ignorant of the deception they prac-
uscu, wane oiners oi mem were misled,
just as the President was, by false repre
sentations. ,
When Senators, Representatives, and
local leaders, personally and in writing,
urge appointments, vouching entirely for
their fitness, character and standing, it is
only natural that the President and his
Cabinet should accept such recommenda
tions as worthy of full confidence. In
several instances these endorsements have
proved to be valueless.
Complaints in regard to the retention of
offensive Republicans in ofhee would be
materially moamea li an tne tacts were
made known to the public. Democratic
members of CoDgress have interposed in
their behalf, and often prevented removals
that are demanded by the pubuc interests
PICKWICKIAN POLITICS
not ABoreeiatoa at tne wum House.
INew York World digs the Tribune.
A certain Republican editor called upon
Mr. Cleveland the other day. He said to
bim : "I desire to make your acquaintance,
I may have said an amber of very disagree
able things about you during the cam
paign. That Was simply politics, you
Know, mere was notning personal in it
The next time you come over to New York
I hope to have the pleasure of your com
pany at dinner at my house." The Presi
dent looked at this editor a moment and
then he said : "Some time after the elect
ion you printed in your paper a paragraph
saying that I was a man of coarse ana vul
gar habits, and that when I dined I ner:
formed wonderful feats of knife-swallow
ing.; I do not think that I would be
very agreeable person for you to have at
your table, Mr. Editor, and you must there
fore excuse me from accepting your invi
tation."
SENATE AND PRESIDENT.
No Trouble to Occur Next Winter.
I World Washington Letter. I
All the talk about anv action nnon fhn
part of the Republican Senators in ecus
Deiore ine senate adjourned looking to-
waras opposition to me President s ap
Dointments has not the Rlirhtjt f&nnrla.
tion. It ia the gabble of dull times. The
Republican Senators are all agreed that
me appointments oi tne President snail be
connrmed without : anv factious onnnai-
tion. A prominent Republican Senator
nam to-nigni: i ae ttepuDiicans in tne
Senate WOUld not trv unvthinrr rinito m
senseless as to fight the President without
very gooa reason, j we believe that the
Administration should receive from us
honest support in confirming its general
line of nominations. Special appoint
ments may be rejected, but this happens to
every Administration. '
SECRETARY MANNING
Shows the Boys he's no longer "Dan."
fNew York Herald Letter. I
One of the "boys" from New York
came aown a lew days ago to see Secretary
Manninar. He saw him hut aAmolinn xiv
Manning's manner did not invite his warm-
vjhvwwwuuo tur s ineuuiy cxiat.
"Do you want to see me on business? ''
asked the Secretarv.
' Certainly, "the b'hoy replied ; "I came
down to talk matters over with you,"
"In relation to Treasury business W in
terrupted the Secretary.
"No, not exactly, but about another
maiier.
"You will please excuse me; I am very
busy and cannot waste any time to-day,
and, for that matter, any other day, to see
you except on government business."
The b'hoy says he is going to tell the
"boys" that Manning ain't a bit cordial.
Valuable Information About Drafts.
fDetrolt Free Press.
"You see, Captain, my son vhas in Mil
waukee. He goes oafer dere last vheek
-to see his uncle."
"Yes, Mr. Dunder."
"He takes feefty dollar mit him, but
may be he plays pool und goes mit the
opera und has extra expenses. Before he
goes avhay he says he draws on me if he
vhants money."
"I see."
" Vhell, two days ago a chap comes into
my blace und says he has a sight draft for
$25. My poy Shake vhas dead proke
und cant't come home. Captain, how
vhas it aboudt sight drafts?" -
"Why, you pay 'em on sight."
"What to?" 6
"At the bank."
"Dot's vhat I tells der old vhomans,
but she says I must pay to der man, und
so I didt. Dis morning Shake vhas home.
He says he doan draw on me for noth
ings." "Well, you've been beaten again."
" WH"' 801 iet 80 Captain."
"I know how I got eafen on dot."
"How?"
" Der old vhomans has l&nn in Aor k.nk
und Shake has 90.- I draws some drafts
on 'em und pays myself back. If you
hear some rows in mv hhuo -
- -- J ww nr-uoj JUU
knows how it vhas. I vhas doinir a b&nW-:
ing peesness." ,
In an article on thn tnmnU A -i
editor says:, "We are rich beyond the
dreams of the Imairination in imA
ver." The next article is an earnest exhor
tation to tne subscribers to pay up, as the
editor is (badly 6trapped-JVa York
THE WESTERN REVIVALIST.
Samples from Sam, Jones's 8ermoBt
Nashville, Tenn.',- for four r weeks "has
been all stirred up by the preaching of the
Georgia Evangelist, Sam Jones, -who is one
of the most unique preachers : of ' these
times. Before beginning his campaign if
that city he paid preliminary visit to
Nashville, and his twb serinoas were rath
er disappointing, causing savage criticism
and comment on the roughness of his lan-
fuage. Some of the clergymen openly
enounced him. His friends, however,
, went ahead with their "work, and it was
: decided to hold a revival. Fer this pur
. pose, -nearly $4,000 was raised, the contri
butions coming principally from business
men. He was engaged for twenty days,
thirteen of which he has filled, holding
three services a day.
.From five to tea thousand have heard
him at service. Many well-known men,
given up as hopeless cases, have been con
verted. Leading gamblers have avowed
their intention of never again touching a
card, and of becoming church members.
Leading business men have been most earn
est in aiding his work. Committees have
waited on him and urged his acceptance of
checks of $500 and $1,000, all of which he
has refused, saying that the good he does
is all the reward he wants. One zealous
convert has tendered him a lot, and the
money is ready for building him a house if
he will consent to remain there.
Mr. Jones was born in the town of Car
tersville, Ga., in the year 1849. His
grandfather was a Methodist preacher, as
were also several of bis uncles, prominent
among them being Col. Robert H. Jones,
who, after valiant services as a soldier, en
tered the ministry, and is now a member
of the North Georgia Conference.
Samuel received a good academic edu
cation, and besides was a studious reader.
Early in life he displayed a preference for
the legal profession, which he adopted,
and in the courts of his native county
practiced some three years, and was
looked upon as a very successful and ris
ing member of the bar. During his early
life, and while practicing in the courts, his
life was far from exemplary, and he was
addicted to several bad traits. The death
of his father in 1870 awakened within
him a sense of his religious duties, aud
shortly afterward, under the ministration,
of Gen. Clement A. Evans, the renowned
Georgia preacher, who was at that time
conducting a protracted meeting near the
Jones homestead, the wicked young jnan
was converted, and joined the churclw
His first evangelistic work outside of
his native State was in the year 1881, and
the scene of his labor was the State of
Alabama. He then at different periods
visited the States of Florida, Mississippi,
Kentucky, Texas, Tennessee, South Caro
lina, and New York. In the city of
Brooklyn, in January of the present year,
he held a four weeks' meeting in Talmage's
church. The Doctor has frequently since
stated that it was the most successful ever
held in his church, and the immediate re
sult was 188 accessions to his own mem
bership, besides a large number added to
other congregations.
; The preacher's style when preaching to
the -sinners of Tennessee is particularly
rugged and forcible. He appears to have
the courage of his convictions. He is not
afraid to attack vice in high places. He
speaks like a man who believes he is di
vinely commissioned to war against sin
wherever found. Wealth, power, influ
ence, reputation, and the customs of so
ciety have no terrors for him. He denoun
ces the most popular institutions in the
land if he believes those institutions are at
war with Christianity. He rebukes the
actions of men that are not in accord with
his ideas of Christian duty. A moral man
without the graces of the Christian religion
is his abomination. These he regards as
stumbling blocks in the path of religion.
In his sermons, he declares that he was a
gambler, a drunkard, and the worst of
men until his conversion twelve years ago.
Among the best known of his converts is
Gen. William H. Jackson, proprietor of
Belle Mead stock farm, the home of Bon
nie Scotland, Luke Blackburn, Great Tom,
and other racers.
The following sentences from his ser
mons, as reported in the Nashville news
papers,' show what manner of preacher he
is:
"Well," says a man, "I gamble, I drink,
I swear, or this or the other, and I can't
give it up." I tell yon I have been along
there and J know, and I tell you I would
rather do anything than be damned. A
man said to me: "I couldn't do anything
because I had such an awful temper." I
said, "I had rather have a bad temper in
heaven than a good one in hell." One
fellow says: "I never will swear again."
You black-mouthed rascal, what right had
you ever to swear r
There are men in this town who have
whisky on hand and say they would get
na oi it ii tney oniy Knew now. l tell
you I would rather empty S50.000 of whis
ky in the Cumberland river than be in hell
with the barrels sitting around me.
Another fellow says: "I am going to
quit drinking." God bless you, you ought
never to have drank at all. And you
ought to have 1,000 lashes for the way you
nave treated your wite about it.
Another says: "1 am never going to
dance any more." You ought never to
have begun. Nobody ever will begin un
less uiey are iignt neaaea. mat's my
judgment.
Thank God any of us can turn to-nirfit.
but I would not be any man's security that
he can turn to-morrow . The best thing a
man can do is to say, "Here I am, Lord;
take me as I am." There's many a fellow
with a whitewash brush trying to clean up
a little before he goes to God. There are
many men in this town who think that
their neighbors do not know that they are
licentious and unfaithful to their wives.
Don t you fool yourself that way. Your
neighbors know you. They know who
pays the rent for that house where that
woman is living who is dragging you
down. They know she does not pay the
rent. They know you pay it, and they
have seen your buggy at the gate. You
haven't deceived them.
.Many men think people don't know that
they are gamblers, but they do. You
wear fine clothes and look like a gentle
man, and think people don't know what
you are. But you don't find the town full
of greenies, you big old fool, you.
Influence 1 You hear men talk about
influence, and you hear a man say he hasn't
got any influence. Well, if he hasn't he's
a dog. He's a natural monstrosity and a
moral blank. Every man has influence,
and is every day of his life sowing seed
that come up after their kind. In this
world, sowing, but in that world over yon
der reaping. Some of you men since last
Sunday have sowed seed and refined
enough to damn the world, if those seeds
have had time to propagate themselves.
oow wni8Ky, reap drunkards. The
promise is sound and the logic is as clear
as the mind of God. Sow whisky and
reap drunkards. How' many men in this
city have crossed the line hevnnii k;k
they can never return and will die dmir.
ardsf Your crop will be the seed for an
other crop. A drunken father, the sad
dest sight in the world ! Evervbod v ho
" uruuaara iromtne moment
he is born. Your immoderate dram drink
ing will bring yon on a crop of drunkards
that will be a curse to this tn
f wl. it. M I. r 1 4 .3 1 J . -4
by. Oh, father, eternal issues are in every
Cup you turn up to your lips. Sow whis
ky, reap drunkards! I'm not mA ifc
men ; I'm mad- with whisky, that damns
everything it touches and is csnriixr mv
race.' There is 'enough whiWi
ville to debauch the whole
years to -come. Oh, how I do hate the
grocery stores that have bar-rooms in the
rear. These Methodist and Presbyterian
groceries you go in to buy a pound of soda,
and canittake drink without anvbody
suspecting you. ' I am not surprised (hat
you have so much-' whisky sold in jTash-i
vilta hut I'm Hnrrmsed that vou haven't
got ten times as many drunkards aayou;
have ome men are ieeiing .au wgns wi
cause all their boys are girls, -and are not
concerned in regard f.to thetwhisky quej
tion,. but first thing you know the devil
will pack off a drunken son-in-law on youi
He couldn't do worse than that if he had
a thousand years to work up a bad thing;
The devil has played a joke on the whole
concern. A drunken son-in-law I My
God t I'd rather have my girls buried to
night out of my sight forever than to
have them lie in the embraces of an im
bruted. drunken son-in-law. ;
Progressive euchre! ' That's the game
for the spider legs. There ain't one in ths
town but plays progressive1 euchre. ! He
thinks it's chawming. You little simple
minded fool, your old mother, who works
for a living, has to give you the money to
pay for a shave at the barber shop. One
of these barbers told me the other day
that' he was mighty glad I got after the
spider legs, because they might pay their
debts. I couldn't describe a spider leg,
He looks like he's melted and poured into
his pants, and then those toothpick shoes t
I see samples of "em every day on the
street. He does think cards are splendid,
and is just a sight at a german. And I'd as
soon see a shaggy Scotch terrier with his
arms arounds my daughter as to see one of
these spider legs. If anything is to hug"
my daughter I'm going to exercise a cer-;
tain amount of choice. If I sow cards T,
reap gamblers; if I sow whisky I. reap
drunkards, and if I sow germans I reap
spider legs.
Sow billiards, reap fools. I never knew
a first-class billiard player that was worthy
the powder and lead it would take to kil
him. Borne oi these so-called chnsl
homes have got billiard tables in them
christian
Now, Tf.nnpss is a hir Star on finN
horses. There's many a man here that'M
going right straight into hell on a blooded
. . ........ -.
horse. I reckon you think, though, it'j
better to go that way than to walk. It $
the gambling that is ruining the horse"!
raising in this country. It's the pool sell
ing and the betting. I don't hate the fasfc
blooded horses because they bet on them
If I did I'd hate Gen. Grant because they've;.
r u uvtiiug VSLA W lltil lie vt UlC.
That arm clutch. I wish I had about"
five minutes on that. I don't argue that a
girl is not virtuous when you see some
leiiow holding her arm, but 1 do tell yoiKJ
niui me spiuer leg is not virtuous, nej
that thinketh on these things is alreadyfj
unclean at heart, i would lock my daugh-?s
ter up in a closet for six months if I sawS
her let some fellow clutch her by the armtj
and walfcsoff in that way. The eirl is al4l
ways virtuous, but the boy I wouldn't;
trust him as far as I could throw this tent.
WHAT COMES TOOFFICE HUNTERS.
One's History.
New York Herald Letter.J
"Every now and then," said an old pol
itician, "there is a grumble heard from an
applicant for office to the effect that the
President is slow in making up his mind
as to whom he shall give office to; that he
ought to make up his mind more prompt
ly than he does, as it costs them a great
deal of money to remain here. Now, this
is all nonsense, and after they have lived
in Washington twenty or twenty-five years,
as i nave, they win see where they are mis
taken. Applicants who are in such a ter
rible hurry for a decision are the oftenest
disgusted when the appointment has been
made. I'll give you a case in point:
vvnen tsucnanan was President John W
Forney, who was one of his most intimate
friends, was very anxious to secure the po
sition of Collector of the Port of San Fran
cisco for a former Philadelphia friend.
who was then either a Judge or the Chief
Justice ot the Supreme Court of Califor
nia. The Judge came on here a few days
alter Buchanan was inaugurated, and be
gan ding-donging at Buchanan right away
for the appointment. Forney helped him
all he could, but Buchanan swore he
would not be pushed into making any ap
pointment until he was ready to do so.
But the Judge kept up his ding-donging
ana insisted tnat mere should be an ap-
. WT .... . .
pointment; nen, the appointment was
made, but the Judge did not get the place,
Another leiiow, who was much quieter
ana worKea in a amerent kind ot a way
carried off the prize. Then the Judge
made another mistake. He remained here
and thought he would get even by de
nouncing the President and his entire ad
ministration. He kept up his denouncing
until ne lost nis innuence at home. .Every
now and then he picked up a little law
case here, but before Buchanan left the
White House his law practice did not
amount to $3,000 in a year. From that it
ran down to almost nothing. During
urant s administration the Judge, who
still hung on here, was given a job by
Colonel Thomas B. Florence, a Philadel
phia ex-Congressman, directing the mail
of a Sunday newspaper here. When Col
onel Florence died, the Judge, who was
then getting very old, was left without a
friend and his income grew leas and less.
To wind the story up, that man died a
pauper in the almshouse here."
THE HUNT FOR POSTOFFICES.
When the Whisky May Come In.
A candidate for an important Western
po8tofficearrived here several days ago,
accompanied by his Congressman and half
a dozen influential friends. The day after
their arrival they had an appointment to
meet at the PostofBce Department. All
appeared according to appointment except
the candidate. That day, the next and
the next were spent by the delegation in
hunting up the candidate, who, it appears,
went on the warpath in consequence of a
too free personal examination into the
liquor question. The delegation were in a
sorry plight, but they finally corralled the
candidate and got him on a peace footing.
Now that they have him secure the Post
master General has gone away and the
President will be away until Monday. The
result is that they will be here an entire
week without being able to accomplish
anything at all, except that the trifling
misconduct-of their candidate has ruined
his own chances of appointment. Herald
Telegram.
Now that warm weather has fairly set
set in, "the boys" have abandoned the
cracker barrel and ruisin boxes and sit
just outside the door of "The Lyceum."
They had all gathered about and were
having a good, quiet smoke, when Si Slip
shod 8 poke up:
"D'ye hear who'd eofthe nostoffice nr.
to Hawkinsville?"
"Na-a-w," drawled Rube Rations.
"Who's the lucky cuss tomerf "
"Augustus de Lacedge, snre's I'm born I"
"Who in sheol's he?" inauired Rube.
with a surprising familiarity of the newest
version.
Nobody ever hearn tell on him afore,"
Si. "But here's tew him. I honor
success, an
wins it."
I doan' care a continental who
The hint was sufficient, and the "mos
quito antidote " was served freely in the
backroom. Hartford Post.
A Reckless Conclusion.
8t. Paul Globe.
A prominent corset dealer in the East,
who claims to have gathered reliable sta
tistics, says that 15 per cent, more corsets
are sold in the winter than summer. The
length of the winter evenings probably
accounts for the difference in the wear and
tear of the corsets.
RACE PROBLEMS.
Preachers and Papers-Handle Figures.
Preacher's " Figures that don't Lie."J
tn the Presbyterian General Assembly
at Cincinnati the Rev.'Jgr. R. H. Allen,
Secretary of the Freedmen's- Aid Society,
said : .
" Twenty years ago, at the close of the
war, there were in the Southern States
3,947,000 colored people, and now there
are more than 7,000,000. Then there were
in Mississippi 220,000 negroes; now 650,
000. Then there were in South Carolina
400,000; now more than 600,000. Five
hundred colored babies are born in the
United States every day. The ; colored
population of the United States doubles
every twenty years; the white population
only once in thirty-five years. Eight years
will not have passed before the negroes
will be in a numerical majority in some of
the Southern States. At the present rate
of increase, in 1985 there will be 96,000,
000 white people in the United States, and
192,000,000 colored people. The day is
not far. distant when it will be a physical
impossibility to continue the present prac
tical disfranchisement of the colored man
of the Southern States. In South Caroli
na he has bought and paid for 270,000
acres of land which he cultivates. In the
South he pays taxes on $91,000,000 of
property. He is editing, printing and
publishing 106 newspapers, and yet of the
7,000,000 colored people of this country
more than 6, 000, 000 cannot read or write."
Newspaper Figures In New York Times.
At the recent meeting of the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in
Cincinnati the Rev. Dr. R. H. Allen, Sec
retary of the Standing Committee on Freed
men, made some extraordinary state
ments. Among them were these : That the
colored population of this country doubles
every twenty years, while the white popu
lanon noui)ies oniy once in thirty-five
vears. and that the present rate of in
crease lnere wm De ln tne United States
1 rrr hiinrt van ttoii fa Kavisia 1 CsO f win fn 1
one hundred years hence 192,000,000 col
ored people and only 96,000,000 whites. (I
Other persons have published within the
last two or three years articles in which
similar predictions, apparently based upon
trustworthy statistics, were made. Soon
after the results of the census of 1870 were
made known the disappearance of the col
ored race in this country was foretold, be
cause the figures indicated for that race an
increase of only 10 per cent, iu ten years
The census of 1880, showing an apparent
increase of 35 per cent, in ten years a
rate greater than the rate for white people
in the same period turned the tide of
opinion in the opposite direction;.
If those who sadly predicted in 1872 and
1 873 that the colored race w ould perish
from the land had known that the census
of 1870 with reference to the population
of the South was almost worthless, they
would have wasted no time upon the cal
culations that pointed to so gloomy a re
sult. And if Dr. Allen had known just
how much the census figures of 1870 were
worth, and had carefully studied the fig
5 ures for other vears, he would not have
made the extraordinary assertions of which:
we have spoken. Let us see what some of I
the facts are. The colored race, he said
doubles in twenty years. That is not truef
of the period from 1860 to 1880. The;
percentage oi increase ior that period was:
1 1 S 3 ... ..
oniy 48, and eacn oi tne two censuses isr
trustworthy. Nor is it true of the period?
from 1840 to 1860, for in that period thef
percentage of increase was only 54 per!.
cent, bo much lor one Ur. Allen's remark
able statements. While the rate of colored;
increase from 1860 to 1880 was 48 peif
cent., the rate of increase for the whites!
; was 61 per cent., although in the carlieif
; part of that period there was caused by1
the wara white loss estimated at 1,000,000.
After making an allowance for immigra
tion it appears that the white rate of in
crease was still greater than that of the
Colored people.
It is not difficult to find out just whatj
the rate of increase for each race has been:
since our first census was taken. Th
average decennial rate of increase for th'
white people for the five decennial periods
Deginning in ivvu and ending in l4U was
very nearly 35 per cent., while the corres
ponding averaere rate for the colored race
was only 30 1-2 per cent. The white rattf
for each of the two following decades was
more than 37 1-2 per cent., while the rate
for the blacks was 26 1-2 for one of the;
decades and only 22 for the other. Tb8
rates tor the double decade ending in 188Q
have already been given white, 61 ; col
ored, 48. The same general tendency can
be shown in another wav. In 1790 the
colored people were 19.27 per cent, of
the whole population, and the whites were
80,73 per cent. This proportion was subt
stantially maintained until 1820, when the
colored people began to steadily recede
and the white people to steadily advance!
In 1860 the whites were 85.62 per cent, o
the whole and the - colored people only
1413 per cent. Omitting the untrustwoH
thji census of 1870, we come to the last
census, which shows that the whites were
then 86.54 per cent, and the colored pec
pie only la. 12 per cent,
fThese figures effectually dispose of senp
sational statements like those made by
lit. Allen, ihe birth rate of the colored
race mey be larger than that of the white
population, but the death rate is also
larger. The colored death rate in cities ii
frequently twice as large as that of the
whites. We showed some weeks ago that
the average annual death rate of the col
orel people of Washington a city whose
vital statistics are trustworthy, and in
which the colored inhabitants are oner
third of the population had been for a
period of nine years 35.06, while that of
the whites had been only 18.90. The
mortality records of other cities show a
similar difference. The rate for the entire
colored population, urban and rural,
considerably in excess of that of the white
people.
HISTORY THAT LASTS.
Has the South no Faculty to make It?
' s
' Halston in New York Times. J
Over in a Jersey town, at Mount Holly
as near as I remember, is the grave of Pat
tiehce Barnum. Patience Barnum was a
Quaker girl and heroine, and no grave is
moe entitled to recognition in this seasoa
of decoration. She gave her life for the
Union. No strength or charm can be addi-
ed to the simple tale of her sacrifice. A
young physician in Philadelphia was bet
trothed to Patience Barnum when the
war broke out, and their wedding day was
fixed. He also was a Quaker, and was
enthusiastically loyal, and he was among
the foremost to volunteer his services ia
defence of the Union. Months went byj
ari he was with his regiment in thethickf
est; of the most bitter fights. One day
n-8 came North that a skirmish had left
sdttie of his company dead and other!
winded, and that he was among the
missing. When this dispatch reached the
girf, who had been waiting to become his
wffe, her whole life changed as in tht
tinkling of an eye, and she suddenly dei
ve'4pcd into a mature woman. The next
nes that came convinced all the young
soj&ier's friends that he had been killed
BiA Patience did not sit idly and hopei
let)ly down to wail. Before even hei
cl-e8t relatives were aware of it she had
volunteered for the war; she found hef
pujee in an ambulance corps, and they who
lofd her at the North lost sight of hef
wNolly ere many weeks went by. She was
fan South; she was in the van of the very
rejmeat with which her hero had marched
a ay. There came a furious fight one night
an? a rebel town was captured, a town!
wh a prison pen, a Libby on a small
cei When victory was no longer prob-j
leaticaL but . assured to the Union troopsj
bilking fagots wen thrown upon the root
fof the crisp and seasoned
the Union soldiers rnfii .rnson' anl
old
doomed. But the rebels we
time, and, half suffocated bv' ?.U'd .,
kpnsoners were finallv l,r.,f..
;open air to their brethren, aod to
t .i. ... . J . e"oui to
ivi tne oia nag once more. In thP 1
of emaciated beings saved wis ti. . n8
IPhiladelphian whom
! KQsnnm's lv a. i
wiuuxuo ucari nan crivn
i aileric-i.
Foremost among those to meet hi
as is,
Ht
front so nuirklv f .r BUC t0 th.-
soldiers knew. But she was "the n "2
there was ecstacy in two bosoms in S
moment, but only for a moment V 41
from a neighboring woods came the bull1;
of some still defiant rebel. Its victim 1
Patience Barnum. Many a teai 7
rough storm-beaten soldiers shed as fc
laid her forest for a little while
BOUthprn orrnvn- nr . u
, ? j "i inosf
v,uc ui mem that diH
not love her. Still unwedded the
man
iu-uay in rhilad
citizen known for good deeds.
Iphia, a
THE LOTTERY KING DEAD.
Louisiana
Lotteri
Yankee SDef-m..
tion.
TNew York Tribune.)
Charles T. Howard, the Lottery Ki
the real owner of the Louisiana Lotted
Company, although it is a stock compan
died yesterday at his country seat at DouIk
-Ferry, from the effects of, injuries receiveH
in a runaway accident
Howard was a Philadelphian, born about
1830, and was half educated at a. collet
there where George Alfred Townsend
his fellow-pupil. Though his education
was incomplete, he had an active" mind
undoubted talents, which, had they been
Properly directed, would have made him
famous in almost any honorable career
He began life properly enough, as a nuns'
dealer in Mobile, Ala., but he soon drifted
off into other lines of business which
brought him more money tb.an the selling
of newspapers. He was.anian of the"nT0Tt
ungovernable temper. Like most oJd
haters he was at the same time atinn
and constant friend, and to those who ac
cepted and endured intiuku-y with him his
hand and purse were ever open and fm.
He organized with several others the Lou.
isiana Lottery Company shortly after the
war. He had been an agent of various
companies of the same character and I,,
experience had learned what such a tou
cern could be made. The entire stuck of
11,000,000 was given away in curnipthw
the Legislature. The charter ,
sooner obtained than he and his fellow
trustees and organizers leased the eou,,u.
ny to themselves, agreeing to supply Un
necessary capital and give half the pVofiu
to the stockholders. Then thev 'uuietk
bought up the stock for themselves, How
ard securing the lion's share.
THE FAIR MOONSHINER
Astonishes a Federal Jndsc
lArkaosuw Traeller.j
Miss Bettie Smith, of Fentress county
Tenn., has been arrested on a charge of
illicit distilling, and has been taken to
Nashville. She is said to be handsome
and accomplished, - an I is supposed tu
have written that wild and stirring ro
mance, " The BlueHeaded Sap Sucker, or
The Rock Where the Juice Kan Out."
CoJ. Harvey Mathes, editor of the Mem
phis Ledger, says that Miss Smith is un
doubtedly the author of the story. This
is a startling revelation in Tennessee. At
one time Colonel Mathes offered three
thousand -lollars for the discovery of tht
author.
When Miss Smith was arraigned before
the United Stntes Court, she, conducted
herself with such grace and dignity that
the polite old judge, deeply impressed,
arose and made her a profound bow.
"Miss ourith," said the judge, "to see
you in this awful predicament seriouslj
touches me."
''It does mc, too, judge."
" How old are oi. ? "
"Judge, you should not ask such a
question, but I will tell you. 1 am two
years older than my married sister, who
was married before she was as old as I am.
She has been married eighteen months,
and still speaks well of her husband Now
how old ami"1
"I cannot tell.'"
"I am not to blame for your mathemat
ical inefficiency. "
"Why did you go into the business of
illicit distilling ?"
"Because I wanted to make whisky."
" I suppose so. How long have you
been a distiller ?"
" Ever since I was sixteen yeart old."
" When were you sixteen years old !"
"The year my father died."
" What year was that ? "
"The vear my Uncle Henry moved t"
Texas."
"Miss Smith, you are a woman, hut I
insist that you shall answer my ipiestions.
Remember that if convicted of this awful
charge, you will be sent to the penitenti
ary. What did you do with the whisky
you made ? "
"Sold it."
" Who bought it ?"
" Well, judge, it would be rather hard
to tell who bought it all. Some time ago
a party of gentlemen came out into my
neighborhood to hunt deer. The part)
got out of whisky, but found it difficult
to buy any. After awhile 1 told a mau if
he would put his jug dow n on a dollar and
go away he might, when he came hack,
find the jug full of whisky, lle.dhl
" Would you know the man '"
"Oh, yes, sir, I recognized him" in
moment. You are the man, judge.
A Newspaper Tale.
New Orleans Tiiues-DeintKTjI.
" What Style of bustles do ladies liker
"To tell you the truth, sir, the home
made article" gives more satisfaction than
any other. I mean the newspaper hustle,
which can be made in a few moments and
does not cost a cent. A great many Idits
will wear no other kind, because when the
papers are properly wrapped around
piece of haling twine it will retain its shape,
no matter how severely it is crushed, wht-nv
as a close seat in a street car is-deatn to
wire- bustle, and that is the reason win
ladies, when they ride in the cars, spreau
their dresses over the seat ami usurp
much room as they can."
POETBV OF THE PERIOD.
The aeason-the Offlcen-Huroao Xrt
Sow nature wears a joyous srnile.
The girls are wearing feathers.
And the dude is out in his new white w
And a pair of patent leathers ;
Once more the days are warm a"1' "n-" '
The birds are paily ginjrinif.
And the icecream peddler's bell at int."'
In the thoroughfares is riusfins:
Nigh to an office newly made.
A Bunery and thirsty stranger "''' ,...
HepeJped through the keyhole.
As he chanted a strain from an ohl -"" . ,
And the sad words fell from his hp-; " wl
I want to get in ! I want to get m
Close by the office tire there sat.
A well-dressed citizen, sleek and fat.
Soft was his chair as a throne mini'' , v.
But he mournfully played with the-. nit
And sobbed, as he listened thestrautrer - ' ..
"I'll have to get out ! I'll have to
An .i. ot-w.ruvt si ill on i hill one ua
To list to the lark as he sang ms .. .jV
And he said, "That's sweet but v..u ;..
It's the worst of songs, for I only tra
So he wagged his tall and he flopped his ear
To shak?out the sounds that he ept
And he raised his bray in jibe and )eer
That the lark profaned the days m
He brayed aloud, but he brayed iu vaw
For he could not drown the L
And wonder grew as the ass kept bra. n
That bis master did not keep him dV.