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EASTER DAY.
Earth is now wearing
- Her bright Easter crown.
'Hark!" cry the angles.
From Heaven bending down;
"Hear the glad bells
That so joyfully ring;
Easter shall 'peaco and
fiood will to men' bring."
Curtain the altar
With lilies so fair.
Sweet Easier lilie, .--Ferfuiuing
the air! '
; I)rap the dim chancel,
The shrine, and the nave;
Christ hath arisen
In power from the grave.
Sing, mighty voices, -
Your jubilant songs;
Heaven's grandest story
Proclaim to the throng?.
Kinf, little children,
For Christ said of thee:
"Suffer the children
To come unto Me!''
King out, oh ring out.
Ye glad Easter bells!
Over the mountains
And over the dells;
Over the cities, ...
And over the sea,
Bay to the Nations,
, Redemption is free! .
Mrs. M. A. Kidder.
THE COMMANDER'S EASTER
- BY ERODES CAMPBELL.
All Akenside was stirred by the news
that the commander would be home
for Easter. To the " younger genera
tion he was a hero,. perhaps all the
more eo on account of his long ab-'.
sence. Then he was a naval officer,'
and he had had a . romance, which
keenly interested the young people
especially. -
, He had never visited our little town
since he had left it that memorable
day after his unfortunate marriage.
Ramors of this and that had reached
the ear3 of the good folk of Akenside,
but it was from an intimate friend of
Barbara Lippincott that I. heard the
story.
The commander King "West was
early left alone in the world, and' made
his Lome during holiday times at the
Lippincotts', who were old frieuds";of
his mother. He was at college wftb.
Ned Lippincott, and then was sud
denly seized with the fever to be a
sailor. An influential friend of his
father's gained him the appointment ;
he passed the requisite examination,
and entered the Naval Academy. He
had graduated,and was about to enter
upon his new duties, when his health
suddenly failed. It was a not uncom
mon story of a fine physique and per
fect health'ruined by persistent disre
gard of all hygienic rules. He came
to the only home he had known for
years, as every one thought, to die.
He did not give up without a desper
ate struggle. He consulted the b&t
physicians, who all agreed " that fiis
case was hopeles?. Mrs. Liippincott
having died within the year. Barara
the only daughter, his life-long play
mate and friend, was his untiring
nurse. It was his only consolation.
She was so sympathetic, 'so earnest,' s;o
beautiful! King lay there one! day
watching the pretty figure in the perfectly-fitting
mourning dress, which
brought out withfetartling clearness
the golden hair, deep blue eyes and
fair skin of Barbara Lippinoott. 4
"Bab, come here, will you?" he
asked. ? ' . -
Something new in his tone made the?
girl look at him apprehensively "as she'
obeyed him. He was lying on the low.
conch, and she sat 'on a cushion beside
him. The contrast between the strong
man so familiar to her and the one she'
eaw now made her voice very tender,
as she asked : i
. "Can I do anything for 'V6n
King?" ,
' 'Yes, you can marry me, " was the
abrupt reply. "I know I'm not'much
to marry," he went on, in his fauifc
voice. "Bones, chiefly, but it is the
desire of my heart to have you bear
my name for "a while, and and
Here a flush came into the 'pale
face.
" and to have vou take care of all
this money I must Jeave to someone.
It will save me a world cf trouble, and
rt era n .
you will do far more good than I ever
could or would do with it. I know
you don't love me, dear, as I do you,
but I thought, perhaps, you'd pon
sent; it's for such a little while. Why,
I can har31y' remember the time I
didn't Jove yon. But, darling "
Ho stopped abruptly, and Barbara,
alarmed by his pallor, shocked and
overcome by his unexpected confession
and request, could only beg him to
give her time.
That night she lay awake trying to
decide what to do. She longed for her
mother as never before. She loved no
one else, but the hero of her dreams
had always been an unknown, fascin
ating creature, and King West she
knew so well. He was a dear good fel
low, brave and handsome, but she
would almost as soon think of marry
ing Ned as this old and intimate
friend. It wrung her womanly heart
to think of him so soon to die. What
mattered her girlish qualms? As he
had said, it would be such a little
while, after all, and it would make the
dear fellow happier. Bat there was
that money. If only he were poor, her
motives would be understood ; butr
well, what did she care if her own
heart "was right? And she Would give
it all away and help everybody all in
his name. And yet marriage was such
a sacred thing. So poor Barbara tossed
and turned and reasoned and changed
her mind, and the upshot of it all was
that there was a very solemn and quiet
marriage ceremony, and at its close
the pale, sweet-faced bride was Mrs.
West. - . .
Mr. Lippinco tt consented he loved
thisiiftdopted Vonfeincerely and, in-
nigJFvapptfia
leeyj&ie nev
m iT i t -
ever bad refused any request
of histidol, Barbara. So the days went
on. ' Happiness seemed to revive King's
waning strength for a time, and then
he grew slawly worse. Suddenly upon
the scene came a most important actor,
a college friefid of King's, whose
friendship was of that ardor almost
loverlike in its intensity. He had
heard lately of-his friends's condition,
and had come to urge upon him an
Arabian remedy which had been given
him by an uncle whose life had been
passed in the Orient. A native, w.hose
life he had' saved, had presentedlt to
him. m
' With no faitb, but partly to please
his friend, partly-because a dying, man
catches at any straw which will- pre
serve life, King followed the prescrip
tion and treatment, and, to everyone's
amazement, he improved, and," after
many weeks, was restored to histoid
vigor. Of course, few gave credit to
this remedy ; few knew of it ; but
whatever it was, the young man re
covered. And then to Barbara came the shock
ot Ihiding that the restored life of her
old friend meQtiboudage toer. Was
she a murderess. at heart ? QL. no, no !
But if she had only stood -rm and
never yielded to King's entreaties.
The very fact that she was bound to
him made her turn from him. These
conflicting feelings told upon her
health and spirits. And then, one
day, her husband came in, holding a
letter. ' He went straight to her, "and
taking her hands in his, said :
"Barbara, don't think that I have
been- blind. Do you think that I
wotld hold you tojyour word now? I
am ordered to China at once. After a
proper absence you can apply for and
obtain a divorce."
Barbara burst into tears as he went
ohjn his considerate", thoughtful plans
forher comfort, with- never a hint of
hiigwn pain. -
fee had a horror ' of divorce. Let
thtfEifSbe Eepariated for awhile, anyway,
shinurmured to herself. -.
Kfng went off on his three years
cruise, then on another to Australia.
M- Lippincott ' finally took Barbara
abaVj. It. was - thenand ."while far
yravi5i Australia, that .King received
aVfre8h stab. A' comrade of his, a
kbrother officer, was' reading aloud a
ieet,Jrom a correspondent in .Naples :
Vj'rn?Iairtiu'g7 ewVole t present," he
wroV.fj'charperoniBg a wealthy scion of an
oliinKlWh famtlv. .Attd. here, -what does
ttesllow do but lall madly in love with a
yitMj American widow! "1 be silre," madam
isffarming, very modest, and beautiful, but.
irsld Norajied to say: Widdies are a
desaun let,' and Carori-"Louis's' lather has
Tar tfcTerent de3IglAIorkis-eon.'The widow's
narn is 'Hadam AYest, blonde type. She
seems interested in my protege, I must say.''
liing wrote pnj?e, Rafter his long
silence, to BarSara, urging a divorce.
could picture her mentral distress and
scruples against her love for this ap
parently charming young stranger.
King had aged somewhat, and his
friends declared he was much less jolly
since his long illness. He never
epoke of himself, but he knew that
all real happiness had vanished for
him the romanse of his life was
over, and he was often tempted" to
curse his return to health. But he
devoted himself to his loved pro
fession and had risen in it. His love
for Barbara was chivalrio and constant
as any knight's of old ; but, above all,
he longed for her to be happy, at any
sacrifice to himself. He was to return,
to New York, and Barbara's answer
was to be sent there. As the time
drew near, he could neither eat nor
sleep. He knew it would be the end
of all his feeble hopes, and yet till it
Sid come, there was no certainty.
How he envied this Caron Louis ; he
knew his pure, good Barbara had
given her love unconsciously and
without premeditation, and had fought
against it. She was a noble woman,
yet how could she help rebelling
against a bondage which the one who
loved her best in all the world had.
brought upon her I Slowly the ves
sel Bteamed into port a letter might
await him.
He held it in his hand that well
known, plain chirography and I the
strong man felt as weak as a child.
With muttered disdain, he tore it
open. The' words danced bofore his
eyes at first, and then he read i S
'I have suspected my feeling for .soma
time, but X wanted no mistake -this time.
The shock of finding a young boy here really
making love to me, under the impression
that I was a widow, awakened me to a fresh
sense of my comDromisine Dosilion. ana
h also, ph, King, for my love for you! How
couia i neipu the bravest and most un
selfish man in the world? How could I have
been so foolish, so heartless, so blind! ! Can
you ever forgive me? May I come back to
you and try and make up for thesalong
years of separation'? Or are you weaned
from me? I shall follow thiq letter, and if
you can take me back, meet me in New
York and let us go back to dear old Akenside
for our Eastertide. If not, let me find a
letter" - j
And so it was that bur oommander
did not come to Akenside alone. The
boys stood around the door.and gate
way of our little stone church to see
their hero come in so tall, so com
manding. No longer grave, the dark
eyes had a subdued gleam of laughter.
He saw no one but the slender, grace
ful figure by his side. They go ori intd
the church. The glad anthem,"Ohrist
is Risen," peals forth from the choir,
joyous, triumphant. Barbara West's
heart is full. She struggles to control
her quivering Ups. Such happiness as
God has permitted her ! . J "
The senior warden rubs his eyes,
hardly daring to believe the evidence
of his sight, as the gold pieces drop
from the hands of these two, as a
slight offering of what gold can never
express.
They are certainly most happyour
commander and his wife. When the
order came for him to go the Mediter
ranean, his wife followed him to Italy,
and I heard some one say of her 1 1 'I
never in all my .life saw such a radiant
ly happy wife as Barbara West."
New York Ledger.
Her Easter Egg. j
She loved to paint, and many days she toiled
To find the shades that blended well to
gether; 2 j "
So careful was she lest it should be spoiled,
She handled it as carefully as a feather.
But when, alas! she went to fondly stroke it
She let it slip upon the floor and broke it.
" Easter.
Our English word Easter as repre
senting what old ecclesiastics used to
term "the Queen Festival of the
Church" is taken frorryJ.he early Teu
tonic language like 'many another
word in the Worcester and Webster,
dictionaries. - i
Ostern was the German name early
given to the church festival. From
that to the present appellation was an
easy gradation.
Some fanciful writer have derived
the name from that of a heathen god
dess among the Franks and Normans,
who was known as Eastre, which ! has
in French .a similar pronunciation to
Easter. This goddess had traditional
ly an April festival in her honor. '
.Easier. Fare.
It is easy to tract the origin of lamb
being served on -Easter' Sunday,1 but
the use of mint sauoa may not be so
apparent. Like the msat with which
it is associated it is derived from ; the
Jewish passover, at which herbs were
in evidence to commemorato the bunch
of hyssop with which the Iuaelites be
spattered their lintels on the night
when the death, angel passed over
Egypt. In many parts of Germany
small sweet cakes are feature of Eas
ter fare. In Cheshireifr Is the cus
tom to Berve the last r of the Christmas
plum pudding oa Eaitr Day. - j : . v '
TAR HEEL NOTES.
THE DISMAL. S3IA3IP CANAL.
A Survey of North Carolina Water.
Ways Submitted to the House.
The Secretary, of War hastransmit
ted to the House a survey of ihe water
ways through ' the sounds of North
Carolina and the Dismal Swamp canal,
with a view Oi obtaining a depth of
nine feet and the necessary width for
a ship canal, also a survey of the riv
ers and waters, connecting . the canal
with the" sounds of North Carolina.
Capt. Casey .states that the cost for
a nine-foot canal, tis called for by the
act of Congress, would be practically
the same in all items,, save excavation
and looks as for a a ten-foot canal. As
suming the cost of the. ten-foot canal
to be $1,711,380. Capt. Casey esti
mates that a nine-foot canal would cost
1,364,930. -". '
"It seems proper to state," the Sec
retary says, "that ; the Dismal Swamp
canal is the property of a private cor
poration." Death of Major Winder.
Major Winder died at his home in
Raleigh. He was 61 years of age, and
was a native of North Carolina, having
been born at Smithfield. He was
married to Miss Ootavia Bryan, a sis
tor to J udge. Henry R. Bryan. His
railway career is thus summed up by
the News and Observer: He entered
the railway servico in 1850, since which
time ho has been consecutively, 1850
to 1851, rodman and assistant engineer
New York and Erie Railroad; 1851, as
sistant engineer Erie . Railroad; 1851,
assistant engineer Albany and Susque
hannah Railroad; 1856 to 1860, prin
cipal assistant engineer Croton Aque
duct, New York; 1866 to 1868, 'master
of road, Wilmington & Weldon Rail
road; 1868 to 1871, general superin
tendent Wilmington, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad; 1871 to 187S, chief
engineer various North Carolina rail
roads; 1875 to 1882, general superin-.
tendent Raleigh and Gaston and Ral
eigh and Augusta Air Lino. and Caro
lina Central Railroads; May 1, 1890 to
December 1&91, general manager and
vice-president ol the Seaboard and
Roanoke, Raleigh and Gaston, Raleigh
and Augusta Air Line, Georgia, Caro
lina and Northern, Carolina sCentral
and Durham and Northern Railroads.
Ashevllle to Get the Teachers' Assem
bly. The North Carolina Teachers' As
sembly, one ef the. largest associations
of teachers in the South, is, to meet at
Asheville, June 16th. For many years
the annual meetings have been held at
Morehead City, but three-fourths of
the teachers wrote to the committee
Eaying they favored Asheville.
Odd Fellows in Greensboro.
North Carolina's grand lodge of Odd
Fellows is called to meet at Goldsboro
in May, when the corner-Btone of the
new main building of the Oddfellows'
Orphanage will be laid. The Odd Fel
lows have raised the money to pay for
the building.
Cumnock Mine Sold.
The Sanford Express learns that the
New York Gas and Coal Company, of
New York city, has purchased the coal
miiio at Cumnock, Chatham county
formerly owned and controlled by the
Langdon-Henazey Coal Mining Com
pany. ' The new Company has assumed
control and is preparing to operate
the mine on an extensive scale.
The Seaboard After the Right of Way
to Asheville.
The Seaboard Air Line has made an
offer to the French Broad Railway for
a charter which it holds for a rail
way from Asheville to Rutherfordton
through Hickory Nut Gap. The mat
ter will be decided Apil 4th.
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To Meet April 0th.
The Central Committee of the State
Democratic Executive Committee met
in Raleigh and decided "to call the
State executive committee to meet in
that city onHhe 9th of April next.
The committed at that meeting will fix
the time for the meeting of the State
Democratic convention.
- Wilcox Acquitted.
Wilcox, a Republican, who killed
the Democratic registrar near Elizabeth
City in October, 1894, was recently
given a new trial by the Supreme
court, and was acquitted at Elizabeth
Citv.
Commission on Labor, Agriculture
and Capital. ,
-A bill has been f avorably , reported to the
senate from the committee on labor to es
tabllsha commission on labor,,' agriculture
and capital for the purpose of investigating
those questions and recommending . such
legislation to congress as may be necessary.
The board is to consist of , 15 members.
Those representing labor are tp be selected
by the President upon the recommendation
of labor .organizations; those representing
ogriculture three from the Farmers Alli
ance and two from the National Grange:
those representing, capital, from various
manufacturing industries.
UXCIIAININGIISS BARTON.
Turkey Will Allow Her Agents to Give
Relief; Directly.
Secretary Olney has received a cable dis
patch from the United States legation at
Constantinople, stating that the British am
bassador there had been informed by Tewflk
Pasha that relief may be distributed freely
in the interior by English and American
Agents, a member of the Turkish relief com
mittee being present at every description.
Miss Clara Barton's agents are thus able, says-
the dispatch, to dispatch, to distribute sup
plied directly with their own hands t whom
soever they think proper.
The Poisoned Dagger.
The poison dagger, an Infamous wea
pon still in use among the aborigines
Df Brazil, is fashioned after-the fang of
a serpent. St Louis Rerjubllc;
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
The battleship Indiana has been suc
cessfully docked at Port Royal, S. C.
Prof. D. C.Miller, of Cleveland, O.,
has succeeded in photographing his
own ribs and backbone by means of
the Roentgen rays, ' 4
B. McDade, an employe of the
Augusta Sonthern Railway, while coup
Ung cars in the yard of the road at
Augusta, was run over and instantly
killed. .
Rev. E. G. Shouse, of Terre Haute,
nominated by the Prohibitionists for
Governor of Indiana, has declined the
nomination.
The Tennessee Republican Executive
Committee met at Nashville,' and called
the delegates' convention for April 22,
and the gubernatorial convention for
August 22 . The committee then went
into secret session and discussed fusion.
The directors of the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad Company met in
New York and organized by the le
election "of its officers. A committee
of three to look after the erection of
a Bteel plant at Birmingham was ap
pointed. The Grand Opera Houce at Spring
field, Mo., one of the finest theatres in
the West, has, been destroyed by fire.
The fire originated under the stage
and swept through the scenery and in
a few minutes the entire building was
in flames. The loss will be $80,000,
with insurance of $40,000. '
The cut-down in a few of the smaller
Rhode Island cotton mills is not to be
general. The larger corporations deny
that a general reduction is contem
plated. Twenty colonies of Dunkards from
six States passed through Chicago on
their way to new homes in North Da
kota. The colonists, numbered 1,500.
They are from colonies in half a hun
dred towns in Virginia, West Virginia,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illi
nois. In order to carry all the emi
grants four trains were necessary,'
composed of twenty passenger coaches
and 102 freight cars.
The Southern Association of Base
ball Clubs organized at Atlanta under
President Power's administration, with
six clubs: Atlanta, Montgomery,
Birmingham, Mobile, New Orleans
and Little Rock.
In Ybor City, Fla., a number 'of.
Cuban and American cigar makers
burned General Weyler in effigy and
destroyed a Spanish flag. The feeling
between the Cuban and Spanish resi
dents is increasing in bitterness, and a
collision is not unlikely.'
Two cow thieves were killed and two
wounded in a fight with cow men in
Texas.
WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE.
Mo Important Change in Business Con
ditions. R. O. Dunn A Co., of New York, say in
their Weekly review of trades The returns of
failures are somewhat disappointing. Sev
eral of magnitude were mentioned a week
ago, and they have swelled the aggregate of
defaulted liabilities for three weeks of March
to $12,883,614 against $11,271,121 last year.
A heavy failure in Texas will also swell - the
aggregate of returns for" the past . week,
which includes 259 in the United States
against 234 last year, and 39 in Canada
against 12 last year.
No important change has occurred In the
general condition of business during the week
and if trade in some respects looks worse, in
other respects it looks better, Some failures
of magnitude hate occurred, Which hate
caused much apprehension and unwillingness
to lend among bankers, and there have been
somewhat less favorable features in the dry
'goods market,but in Iron and steel conditions
are slightly improved ana in Doots ana snoes
they are considerably more hopeful. Foreign
trade is a little more satisfactory, exports
from New York for three weeks showing an
increase over last year of 6 per cent., while
imports have shown nearly the same rate of
decrease. In generally, the course of do
mestic prices tends to favor the marketing of
staples abroad.
Cotton had a lively rise with the covering
of short sellers, but began to decline again
a week ago and has been lagging ever since.
The receipts from plantations continue quite
as large as in the same weeks of that last
short crop year and stocks In sighti with the
quantities known to be held by European
and American mills, make up an ample
supply fr tbe rest of the crop year. In the
dry goods market the latest indications do
not warrant expectations that the mills will
continue full production throughout the
season. The demand for women's dress
goods is the best feature of the woolen
market The sales of wool have fallen to
less than half an ordinary week's full con
sumption, amounting last, week to only 2,
826.750 pounds, at the chief markets. A
striking Feature of this week has been a sale
of 850,000 pounds of American wool for ship
ment to England,
The Southwortti Case Decided.
Chief Justice Fuller, for Justice Brewer,
who is In San Antonio with his sick daughter,
announced the decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States affirming the
Court of Claims in favor of the United States
upon the claim of the widow of John P.
Bouthworth. Southworth was a United
States commissioner in Louslaria and in 1876
made the last attempt according to Assistant
Attorney General Dodge, by an ofileer of
tbat class, to regulate or pnrify the regis
tration lists. He issued 8,300 warrants in
nine cays and a petition was filed in the
Court of Claims for the recovery of $83,000,
a feeof $10 being claimed for each warrant.
There were two petitions, in fact, one for
$70,000, for 7.000 warrants that produced no
material results and one for $ 31,00 for 1.300
warrants upon which arrests were made. The
first one was finally disposed of two years ago
in favor of fie United SUtes and the opinion
to-day affirmed the judgment of the Court of
Claims in favor of the United States as to the
$31,000 claims.
Carlisle to Speak In Chicago.
J. O. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury,
will deliver a non-partisan address before
thi laboring people of Chicago, III., April
15 next. Mr. Carlisle was last fall invited to
make an address on the silver question but
he could not come at that time. He now
sends word that he will be able to speak on
the date given above.
. Southern Railway's Earnings.
; The Southern Railway Company reports
for February gross earnings of $1,494,918, an
increase of $233,010. and net earnings of
$430,465, increase $47,120; and from July 1st
to February 29th, gross earnings of $13,451.
870. Increase $1,047,780; and ndngs of
$4,384,350, increase $352,041 V
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
THE DARK AND THE BRIGHT
SIDE OF LIFE.
The Philosopher Admonishes Us to
Be Calm and Serene.
Oatside of revelation, there is sure
ly sufficient proof of original sin and
moral turpitude in human kind. If
a man could be lifted up in a balloon
high enough to see the earth roll un
der him and could keep his position
until it had turned a time or two upon
its axis, the scene that would pass his
vision would be. proof enough. What
a horrible revelation of war and blood
shed and suffering would pass beneath
him in almost every part of the earth !
We boast of modern civilization, but
has every advance to be baptized in
blood? Suppose a man could see a
one time all the present misery of the
world and 'all the crime that caused it,
could he endure the awful pioture?
Would it not paralyze his soul and ob
literate his power of vision and make
him a maniac? Every day wo read oi
these horrors and shudder, but they are
afar off and we have become almost
hardened to them by their daily repe
tition. Ifj familliarity with danger
breeds contempt, for it so does, a daily
recurrence of crime and suffering and
grief breeds indifference. 1 Unless we
see it with our own eyes ;we aro not
greatly affected.
The weeping prophet ' exclaimed:
"Oh, that my head' were waters and
mine eyes a fountain of tears!" but
there is no prophet to weep nowadays.
We have no time to weep. The poet
ays:
"Man's inhumanity to man
, Makes countless thouainds mourn,"
and "if we could actually see everybat
tlefleld and all the blood and agany,
and into all the prisons and chaingangs
and into every hovel ajid garret and
dark alley where the poor do congre
gate, and ino the hearts of all the
mourners at all the funerals, we would
never smile again. The memory of
them would haunt us and we would be
more than willing to quit this horrible
world and take our chances in another.
But we !will let the preachers talk
about this. We must look on the
brighter side. There is no comfort in
pondering and lamenting what is going
on in Turkey and Abyssinnia and
Cuba, or over the long-continued quar
rels at Washington, or the shameful
broils in Kentucky, or the daily crimes
and murders and suicides and lynch
ings that fill the newspapers. Now is
the blessed springtime, when all na
ture is smiling upon us. When the
flowers are blooming and the grass is
springing and the birds are singing.
Even the beasts of the field and the
fowls in the yard are happy, and every
created thing save man seems to re
joice in the goodness of the Creator.
What is the matter with man, anyhow?
Woman is not so, nor are the little
ohildren who play and sport around
us. The poet says'.
'Every prospeci pleases
And only man is vile."
But after all, there is comfort in
knowing .that there are. some "good
raen; Ye lots of them. You can
pick them out in town and city and
country, "and a great traveler who has
been all over the world and mingled
with Gentiles and Jews, and Arabs and
Hottentots, and the heathen Chinee,
says he found good, kind-hearted pso
ple of every tribe and nation and reli
gion on the globe. He said tbat a
traveler could never be a secretarian
or be intolerant, like many of our so
called Christians are.
Last Sunday I went out in the coun
try with a friend to visit an old lady
who is on her last bed. She has lived
eighty-three years and I reckon never
bad an evil thought in her life. She
was pleased to see us and the nearness
of death gave her no alarm. "For the
sake of my grandchildren," she said,
"I would like to live a little longer to
to' help them and guide them in
the right way." Her Bible was
printed away before the war and
had been patched and pasted atrd
mended until it would hardly hold to
gether, but she knew a good deal by heart
and told iia what portions of it were
her greatest comfort, These old
fashioned mothers are the best people
on earth and when they have paestd
through all the perils of motherhood
they seem to outlive the men. There
are three times as many old women in
this town as old men and tbey are most
all of them widows. I had rather in
sure the life of a woman of forty-five
than that of a man of thirty. I would
get the premiums longer. The old
fashioned men lived longer than they
do now. They had simple habits and
limited desires. I mean the well-to-do
men who lived in comfort. The
old presidents, leaving out Washing
ton, whose death was not from old
age, outlived the more modern ones.
John Adams 'lived to ninety-one and
his son to eighty-one. Jefferson
was eighty-three, Madison eighty
five, Monroe 6eventy-three and
Jackson seventy-eight. This "makes
an average of eighty-two years, which
is very uncommon. The average of
all the presidents is only sixty-eight
year.' In looking over their records
I was surprised to 'find- that three of
them died on the -4th of July and that
Adams and Jefferson expressed a de
sire to die on that day.. Whether
Monroe did'br not the boigraphy does5
I-not sar i I have, bo doubt that he. did,
for that day was very dear to the patriots
of that time and their wish was father
to their fate. It amounted almost to
will power, for the chance for a man to
die on that dar was only one in36S
and the chance for three presidents
out of six to die on that day is almost
beyond computation., - Could it have
been chance, or ; was; it their spirited
devotion to the day and the declara
tion that gave birth to a great natida?
1 Neither Polk nor Pierce nor Harri
son nor Johnson nor Grant saw his
throe soore and ten. But ever since
King David made the declaration 'that
the days of our years are three score
years and ten that has been the allotted
age of man. It is 'still the averagoage
of a prudent man whatever may be his
oecupation. Man is very much like a
wagon. If it is kept greaied "and
painted and under shelter it will last
twioe as long as if it be neglected.
Of course, the mind has muoh to do
with the health of j the body.. -Trouble
will shorten life and bring the gray
hairs sooner to the grave and that is
why a farmer's lif4 is the most condu
cive to longevity. It is the moet'inde
pendent of all occupations. - It is sub
ject to less temptation, less hazard, less
worry, and it is a little cloier ito,Cibd
in its daily communion with nature.
The accepted tables give to laborers
forty-four years, io mechanics forty
seven, to merchants forty-eight," ' to
professional men! fifty-two, and - to
farmers sixty-four! years. If long life
is an index of good .health and pros
perity then the farmer is blessed above
all other people, j There is force' aad
truth in the old maxim; thab'Ggd
made the country and man made the
town."
But after all thd crime and
4
misery
that we read of this age is a great im
provement on Sodom and j Gomorrah.
Abraham could find more than , ten
good men in any kown or city in ,ffit8
conntry.I believe ne could find fiitjrifc
Cartersville and a hundred'and fifty
women. The Load's pity and con
sideration for sinners is very wonder
ful, if He will save! a whole city ttUtfarr
the sake of ten good men. , Maje
that is why He dpsent rain "fire, and
brimstone on the wicked bdw.s It
might do harm tojthe righteous. The
ungodly ought to give Christians credit
for that. If the wicked people 'of this
world were all bunched in one"fobuV
try and not a good man in it howdgpjr,
I wonder, would jthe storm stay, off?
How long would the wicked stay there
if they could possibly get out? "If-fsa
redeeming trait in human nature, how
ever wicked and (lepraved, to respect
virtue and good people j There are
but few of the tingodly ..who ''would
abolish the churches if they could, or
who would rear their children in any
but a Christian country, -Biiil'Arp,
in Atlanta Constitution, -i . :
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HERE'S ANOTHER
PARTY.
4-
The New National Reform Party
Which Is to Meet In Convention.
The provisional Rational executive com
mittee, representing the new National Re
form party, have issued an official circular,
calling a national convention of the reform
ers to meet in Old City Hall, Pittsburg, Ta..
May 25, 1896. j j
The following principles and measures aro
recommended by the committee to the con-,
sideration of the platform eommittee to be
created by that convention:
yirstDirect legislation through the Ini
tiative and referendum should be the first
principle incorporated in a national platform
in order to restore the ancient rights of gov
ernment of the people, by the people, Jor
the people. : f ' ! "
Second That as the money question has
become a live issue in politics, : it must there
fore form a prominent feature in the plat
form, setting forth the distinctive views of
the reformers as favoring the issuing: of -tail
monies gold, silver Jand paper by the gen
eral government and this money should bo
the legal tender for all debts, both public,anl
private, and that each shall be ! exchangeable
into the other at par: at the option of the gov
ernment, j I -
Third The abolition of the liquor traffic
for beverage purposes with government con
trol of the same for jail other uses.
Fourth The free or equal coinage of sil
ver and gdld at the ratio of 16 to 1, govern
ment ownership or railroads, telegraph lltoes.J.
telephones and other means of communica
tion. Equal suffrage and proper means to
raise revenue for the government, immigra
tion, nublic improvements and other ques
tions that may be deemed sufflcientiy impor
tant for consideration. 1
(Signed) E. Evans, chairman,
M.F. Gray, secretary.
WITNESSES 1MUST TESTIFY.
The Amendment! to the: Inter-State
Commerce Law Declared Valid; "7
i
The amendment to the Inter-State com
merce law to compel wittnesses to testify Jo
lniracuona oi law, uuinituaiauuujg tuo uu
Btitutional provision protecting persona
against a requirement to criminate them- .
selve?, by providing that they shall not he
prosecuted for any Complicity In such viola-"
tlons, has been declared by thrt Supreme
Court of the United States to be effective and
oiM TKo nnw vm that nf Then. V. "Brown.
auditor of the Allegheny Valley railroad vs.
Urown, unnoa ovats Mdreuw ivr
proceedings, brought to test the new law.'
The opinion of the Cburt was read by Justice
Brown. i i .
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