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TFRMS OF SHRSftRipTION; 1 (CASH IN ADVANCE) Un Copy, One Year, NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. All correspY.n.lt-nts are hereby notifieil that to insure the insertion ;-bf their com mnuieiUions they ninst furnish us with their 1ki fiile name and address, -which we itl liu'iite to keep in strict confidence. Write . .'.') ' 0)ie shh of the sheet. - 3 7 The Plant is in no wise responsible for the Views of its correspondent si . Address all couinmnicatioris to ' THE TOI5ACCO: PLANT i I DljBHAM, X. C. A- we speed; out of youth's surriiy station The track' seems to shine in the litflit, I '.iit it suddenly shoots over chasms r sinks into .tunnels fo riiglit. . Vnd the hearts that were hravf in the morn ;.' iiiH i j Are tiili-diwith repining andjjViirs s they pause at the city of sorrow. ( r 'pass thro' the Valley of Tears. 1 '.tt the road of this perilous ;jiurnev ,r'TIe hand: of the Master ha-j made ; Viiii all its-disroinforts and dangers, W need tint le sad or afraid, i 'at lis leading from light into darkness, Ways plunging from gloomto despair Wind out thro' the tunnels of-juidnight ' To fields that are blooiningauid fair I ho' the rooks and the shaihjvss sutround us, Tlio' we cateh not one gleaut-of the d;iv - - Ahoye us, f;(ir cities are laughing " A fid diiping white' feet in srne Hay, ' And;always eternal, forever, I 'own over the hills in the wet, The last final end of our journl-v, There lies the great Station tof Rest. Tis the Grand Central point Ifif all, railways, All roads ieenter Itcre whenhey end ; "l is the final resort of all taurfc-fs". - All rival lines meet here and blend.-' All tickets, all mile-books, all iia'sses, ' ! I'fstoleii r lagged for or bought, On ;i hatt vcj- road or ilivisiony K 1 Will bringyou at last to this spot. If y.ju pause at the City of Trrtuble r wait in the Valley. of Tears, . ;' l'.e jsitieiit, the train w ill inovti onward And rush Mown the track of khe years. Whatever the plaee is you seel for hatever: your aim or voiirijiu-sf, oujsliall come at the last vitl rejoicing 7 . lei the beautiful City of Rest. . You shall store all your baggage of worries, Y;u sliall iVel perfect peace m this realm, !Mi shall s:il w ith old-fricndsiiii fair waters, With joy and delight-at theJhelm, on shall wander in cool, fragrant gardens " With those who have loved I you the best, "Win! 'the hop;es that were lost iti! life's iournev lou snail; mm in the C lty nj Rest. .f-ElJ.A WlIKEUgHT VVlLt l iX. AV 3IAN'S OPI'Oirri'NITV. IM-. Tahiiajre's Sermon, Preached Sunday, August StH, 1887. Text : "So i iil created mall in Uis ow n ininge, in the iniii'je ot t;xl crented Jjehitij ; male and fe male, created he them." Geneei83. 27. " In. other words ;od,Wln can make 'mistake; .made man: iind woman lor a specific work and ito move in particular; spheres man ! to be reg nant in his realm'; wohlan to be doiiiinant; in lnrs. Tlut liundary line' between Italy and Switzerland, between Englancl and Scotland, is not more :thoroughly nutrked than this' distinction between Xhe empire masculine and the empire feminine. So entirely dissimilar are the fields to which Clod called them, that you can no more compare thein tlum you can bxygeh and hydrogerf.Avater and sxrass, trees and stars. 7. 4 H this talk about the j superiority ofi'oue sex to the other is an everlasting waste of ink and speech. A jeweler may have a scale so delicate that htfean weigh the dust of diamonds bitt yhere are the scales jsb delicate ' that "you can weigh in them afll ction agti list affec tionl, sentiment againstsentimcnt thought against thought,! 7- j srL a;aixst mth", . a man s wurkl ? world ajramst a woman s You come ouii with your stereotyped remark, the'-lman is su erior to woman in intellect; and theii I open on my desk the swarthy, ironLtyped. : thunder-bolted writings of llarrietiMartineau an() Elizabeth JJnnvningiand (u-orge E)ri(t. You : come on with your stereotyped re mark about woman's suerjorit" to ..man in the item of afl'eetion, but I ask you where was therb .more ca paeity to love than inJpln the dis ciple, and Robert MeC&eyne, the Scotchman,; and .John Suihimerfield; the Methoilist, and Henly Martin, I the missionary ? The'hert of those men' was so large that aftfryou had rolled into' it two hemispheres, there was room jstill left to liihrshal the hosts of heaven, anl set'upfthe throne of the eternal Jehovah. ; I deny to nyiq the throne intelh ctibtl. I deny to wotuan the throneifl'ectianal. No j human phraseology wiir;yer define! the spheres, while therg'is..ari intui tion; ly which we know when a man is it) his realm and wheh a woman is in her realm, and when either of tlrein is out of it. No biQigling leg islature ought to attemptyto make a ; definition or to say : "Thijiis the line and; that is the line." . Mj- theory is 4hatJ if a woman wants to vote, she ought to vote, and tliati if a man wants to embroider and kk'ep house, he ought to be allowed toen)broider and keep house. There are iiAs vi.ixk womRx : I . u . and 'there are elleminate pen. My ; theory is that you have rio right to interfere w'ith any one lloing any thing that: is righteous. 'Albany and Washington might as "well decree by legislation how high a brtKv'n thrash er should fly, or how- dtjt p a trout : should plunge, as to try to seek out the height or depth of k woman's duty. The questi)n"of capacity will settle finally the whole question, the whole subject. When til woman is . prepared to preach, she .till preach, and neither conference iior presby tery; can hinder her. .When a wo man is prepared to movcf in highest ; commercial spheres, she will have i great influence on the exchange and no boards of trade can hinder her. ; I want woman to understand that ; heart and brain can overly am- bar rier that oliticians may-$et up, and that nothing can keep , hjer back or ' keep her dowu but the luuestion of incapacity. : There are women, I knjw, of most : undersirabjfe nature, Who fsvander up and down tlie country-iaving no ; liomes of their own or forsaking their own; homes talking aout their : rights ; and we know vert' well that they themselves are fit Ineither to ; vote nor fitL to keep hotjise. Their : mission seems to be to hrjmiliate the i two sexes at the thought of what anv! one of us might befcome. No . one! would want to live junder the laws that such women would enact or to have cast upon society the chil dren that such women tould raise. I . -.V LI FK'S - si-50. TT II i. ( rr-rr II. . ' . V ' VOL. XVI.--NO. 36. Iut I shall sliow vou this niorniiv that the best rights that woman can own she already, has in her posses sion ; that her position in this coun try at this time is not one of com miseration, but one of congratula tion ; that the irrahdeur 'and power of her realm have never vet been ap preciated ; that she ' .SITS TO-DAY ON A THkONE so lnglr that all the thrones of earth piled im top of each other wouM not make for her a footstool. Here is the platform on' which she stands. Away down below it are the ballot box and the congressional assem blage and the legislative halt. Wo man always has voted and alwavs will vote. Our great-grandfathers thought they were by their votes putting Washington into the presi dential chair. No. His mother, bv the principles she taught him anil the habits she inculcated, madeh'im president. It was a Christian moth er's hand dropping the ballot when bord r.acon wrote, and Newton phi losophized, and Alfred the ("ireat gov erned, and Jonathan Edwards thun dered of judgment to come. How many men - there have been in high political station who 'would have been insuilicient to stand the test to which their moral principle was put had it not been for a wife's Voice that encouraged them to do right, and a wife's prayer that sounded louder than the clamor of partizanship? Why, my friends, the right of suffrage, as we men ex ercise it. seems to be a feeble thing. You, a Christian .man, come up to the ballot box and you drop your vote. Uight after vou comes a liber tine or a sot the oflscouring of the street and he drops his vote; and his counteracts yours. Jut if iirthe quiet of home life a daughter by her Christian demeanor, a wife by her industry, a mother by her faithful ness, casts a vote in the right direc tion, then nothing can resit it, and the influence of that vote will throb THROUGH" TITK ETERNITIES. My chief anxiety then is, not that woman have other rights accorded her; but that she, by the grace of iod, rise up to the appreciation of the. glorious rights she already pos sesses. This morning I shall only have time to speak of one grand and all-asorbing right that every women has, and that is to make home happy. That realm no one has'ever disputed with her. Men may come home at noon or at night, and they tarry a comparatively little while; but she, ;all day long, governs it, beautifies it, sanctifies it. It is within her power to make it the most attractive place on earlh. It is the only calm harbor in this world. You know as well as I do, that this outside world and the business world is a long scene of jos tle and contention. The man who has a dollar struggles to keep it ; the man who has it not struggles to get it. -Prices up. Prices down. Losses. Gains. Misrepresentations, (ioug-ings,'- Cndersellings. I'uyers depre ciating; salesmen exaggerating. Ten ants seeking less rent ; landlords de manding more. Cold fidgety. Strug gles about oflice. Men who are in trying to keep in ; men out' trying to get in. Slips Tumbles. Defalca tions. Panics. Catastrophes. ( wo man ! THANK OOD YOU HAVE A HOME, and that you may be ijuet n in it. Better be there than wear-Victoria's coronet. Better be there than carry the purse of a princess. Your abode may be humble, but you can, by your faith in ( iod, and your cheer fulness of deiiieanor, gild it with splendors such as an upholsterer's luHid never yet. kindled. There are abodes in the city humble, two stories; four plain, unpapered rooms; undesirable neighborhood ; and yet there is a man here this morning who would die on that threshold rather than surrender it. Why ? It is home. Whenever he thinks of it, he sees angels of Clod hovering around it. the ladders of heaven are let down 'to that house. Over the" child's rough crib there are the chantings of angels as those that broke over Bethlehem. It is home. These children : may come up after awhile, and they may win high po sition, and they may have an afflu ent residence ; but they will not un til their dying day forget that hum ble roof, under which their father rested, and their mother sang, and their sisters played. 0, if you would gather up all tender memories, all the lights and shades of the heart, all banquetings and reunions, all filial, fraternal, paternal,and conjugal affections, and you had only just four letters with which to spell out that height and depth, and length, and breadth, and magnitude, and eterni ty of meaning, you would, with streaming eyes, and trembling voice, and agitated hand, write it out in those four living capitals, H-O-M-E. What right does woman want that is grander than to be meen in such a realm ? Why, the eagles of heaven cannot tly across that dominion. Horses, pantiug 'and with lathered flank's, are not swift enough to run to the outpost of that realm. They say .that ' 4 THE SI N NEVER SETS upon-the English empire; but I have to tell vou that on this realm of woman's influence, eternity never marks any bound. Isabella fled from the Spanish throne, pursued by the nation's anathema; but she who is queen in a home will never lose her throne, and death itself will only be the annexation of heavenly princi palities, j When you want to get your grand est ideas of a queen, you do not think of Catherine of Russia, or of Anne of England, or Marie Theresa of Ger many ; but when you want to get your grandest idea of a queen, you think of the- plain woman who" sat opposite your father at the table, or "HERE SHALL THE TRESS talked with him arm in arm down life's pathway ; sometimes to the thanksgiving banquet, sometimes to the grave, but always together .soothing your petty griefs, correcting your childish waywardness, joining in your infantile "sjlrts, listening to your evening prayers, toiling lor vou with needle or at the 4 and on cold nights pinning-wheel, rapping you up snug and warm. And then at last on that day when she lay in the back room dying, anld you saw her take those thin hanils with which she toiled for yt u so'! long, and put them together in a J dying prayer that commended you "to the God whom she had taught vou to trust O, she was the queen! The chari ots of (iod came down to fetch her. and as she went in A EI. HEAVEN KilsE IT. You cannot think of ct now with out a rush of tenderness that stirs the deep foundations of vour soul. and vou feel as much a child again her lap ; and back again to as when vou cried on if vou could bring her speak just once more your name, as tenderly as she used t speak it, you would lie willing t t i row yourself on the ground and kiss the sod that covers her, crying: ''Mother, mother!" Ah ! she was the queen she was the queen. Now, can you tell me how many thousand miles i woman like that would have to tn.vel down be fore she got to the ballot-box? .Com pared with this worly of training kings and queens for God and eter nity, how insignificantjseems all this work of voting for aldermen and common councilmen, and sheriffs, and constables, and mayors and presidents. To make one such grand woman as I have described how many thousands would you want of those people who go ill the round of godliness, and fashion,! and dissipa tion, distorting their body until in their monstrosities they seem to out do the dromedary and the hippopot amus ; going as far towjards disgrace ful apparel as they dar!e go, so as not to be arrested of the police; their behavior a sorrow to the good and a .caricature of the vicious, and an in sult to that God who made them women and not gorgons ; and tramp ing on. down through a frivolous ami dissipated lifvto temporal and ETERNAL OAM NATION. ' O, w( man, with the lightning of your soul, strike dead at your feet all these allurements to dissipation and to fashion. Your immortal soul cannot be fed upon such garbage, '(iod calls you up to empire and dominion. Will you have it? O, give to God your heart ; give to God your est energies ; give to God all your culture ; give ,to j (iod all your refinement; give yourself to him for this world and the, next. Soon all these bright eyes will ibe quenched and these voices will be hushed. Eor thelast time you will look upcnthis fair earth. Eather's hand, mother's hand, sister's hand, child's hand will be no more in yours. It will be night, and there will come up a cold wind from the Jordan and you must start. Will it be a Itjne woman on a trackless moor? Ah, no. Jesus will come up in that hour and offer his hand, and he will say : "You stood by me when yob were well; now I will not desert you when you you are sick." One i wave of his hand and the storm will drop, arid another wave of his hand ancl mid night shall break into midnoon, and another wave of his hand and the chamberlains of God wjllcome down froui the treasure houses of heaven, with robes lustrous, blood-washed, and heaven glinted, in which you will array yourself for the marriage sup per of the Lamb. And thep with Miriam, who struck the timbrel of the Red sea ; and with Deborah, who led the Lord's host into the fight; and with Hannih, who gave her Samuel to the Lord ; ai)d with Mary, who rocked Jesus to sleep while there were ANGELS SIXG1XG IN THE AIR J and with Florence Nightingale, who bound up the battle wounds 'of thp Crimea, you will, from the chalice of God, drink to the souls eternal res cue. ! One twilight, after I .had been playing with the children for some time, I laid down on the lounge to rest. The children said, play more. Children always want to play more. And, half asleep and half awake, I seemed 'to dream this; dream : It seemed to me that I was in a far dis tant land not Persia, although more than Oriental luxuriance crowned the cities ; nor the tropics although more than tropical fruitfulness filled the gardens; nor Italy although more than Italian softness filled the air. And I wandered around, look ing for thorns and nettles, but I found none of them i grew there. And I walked forth arid I saw the sun rise, and I said, "When will it set again?'' and the sun sank not. And I saw all the people in holiday apparel, and I said: ''When will they put on workwoman's garb again and delve in the mine, and swelter at the forge?"! but .neither the garments nor the robes dM they put off. And I wandered !'in the suburbs, and I said : "Where Ho they bury the dead of this great city ?" and I looked along by the hills where it would be most beautiful for the dead to sleep, and I saf castles, and towns, and battlement.; ; but not a mausoleum, nor monument, nor white slab could I see. p And I went into the great chapel of the town, and I said : "Where do the poor worship I V here are the benches on which they sit?" And fa voice an swered: "We have no ; poor in this great city." And I wandered out, seeking to find the placp where were the hovels of the destitute, and I found mansions of amber and ivory and gold, but THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED BY INFLUENCE DURHAM, IN. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, No TE.IiR Oil) I SEE OR SIGH HEAR. I was bewildered, and I sat under the shadow of a great tree, and I said: " What am I and whence comes all this?" And at that moment there came frdm among the leaves, skip ping up the flowery paths and across thq sparkling waters, a very bright and sparkling grou.i; and when I saw; their step I knew it, and when I heard ; tl leir voices 1 thought I knew them ; but their apparel was so d'fiereiit from anything I had ever seen. I bowed, a stranger to strangersl But after awhile, when they clipped their hands and shouted, j' Welcome! welcome!"' the mvstery vas solved, and 1 saw that tirn hadjpassed anid that eternity had! come!, and that God had gath ered! lis n V into m hiir-lier linmp -mrl ' . -t - t-,-- , I said, "Are Ave all here ?"' and the voices ofj innumerable generation answered j "All here ;" and while tears of gladness were raining down our cheeks, and the branches of the Leb anon cedars were clapping their hands, anil the towers of the great city were chiming their welcome, we began to laugh and sing and leap and shout ''Home! home.! home!"' Then I felt a child's hand on my face, and iit woke me. The children wanted to play more. Children al ways want to play more. A (Hrojviiir Denomination. The ministers of the two leading branches df the Methodisms in the Enited States, the Methodist Episco pal church and the M. E. church, South, for lNSf), show an almost mar velous grdwth. The M. E. church had a. net increase of 100,477, and the M. E. church, South, a net in crease of T-V-s3, making a total of 17-",s;(')0.- The smaller branches, if the figures! could be had, would swell the number to 200,fMtO. This large increase was due to un paralelledjrevival influence that pre vailel throughout the bounds of thesd churches. Only onice before in the history of Methodisni have such large annual gains been! recorded. In 18-43 there was a net Increase of lohOOi;, which was larger; in proportion to the mem bership thhn the increase ofl'ssi;. A Carefiil study of the annual min utes ! of these bodies will show a healthv arid encouraging progress. InjlS72i the M. E. church had l,-tSO,047 members ; in ls.s, it num bered 'J,01f,'2( '.", an increase in four teen years: of 534 ,01s, or 3(5.10 per cent. and an annual average gain of 38.1 S7. ! ' " 111.172; the M. E. church, South, n u l. bered! '54 , 1 51 ) ; in i S,s5, i ts mem -bersliip was 1 ,0()(,o77, an increase of 412,21s, or!(i:;.01 per cent., and show ing a net annual gain of 21 1,722. This is i fine record for Method ism. It is a matter of doubt whether any Protestant denomination of mod ern times ihas had such prosperity. In point of actual membership it is probabli' the largest denomina tion in the United States, .and by far the largest; Protestant denomination. It is also the wealthiest church in the United States, and has the larg est number of high schools, colleges and universities under its control. What a ! century of progress has Methodism had. " v How; to Kill Mosquitos. 1 Railway GuMe. Having j recently heard .an easy and sure way of destroying inosqui tos, and prompted by sympathetic motives, I am influenced to give the public the benefit of my information free of charge. Go to any reliable drug-store, 'se cure one grain calcined pulmonatic alicumfusalum, mix thoroughly in one barrel of clear rain water. If the rain water has " wiggle-tails " in it, it must I be carefully strained. Pluck froni the tail of a two-weeks-old gozzling, a couple sprigs of down; pick up the mosquito between the thumb and firsfJinger, reverse your hand so his legs will extend upward; take the sprigs of down with the other hand and brush lightly the stomach of the mosquito. Mosqui tos are so peculiarly constructed this simple performance will cause them to laugh immoderately, and while he is convulsed with laughter, his mouth stretched from ear to ear, so to speak, drop one single drop of the mixture down his throat, and he will expire immediately. The Democratic Party Will Do It. rXew York Star, Pern. Mr. George was never a member of the Democratic party, but he was first called into public activity by a dis position to oppose the glaring abuses of Republican rule. The Demo cratio party and press have.always recognized the worthiness of. the mo tives which brought him into the contest, and while honestly and frankly differing fcom him and his school as to the Remedies he sug gests, it has ever been ready to re dress the grievances of which he complains, and wherever invested with authority to do so it has al ready redressed them. ; Undoubtedly True. Ribhrnoml Whig, lifin. The Democratic party is the party pledged to; reduction of taxation and will start this reduction by cut ting off internal revenue, not forget ting a proper revision of the tariff. The Republican party has not been, and is not now looking in the direc tion of economical government and reduction of taxes. It is to President Cleveland iind a Democratic Con gress that the people must look for relief. j A noted doctor says that onions arethe bestinervine known. It isn't the man who eats the onions that exhibits nerve ; it's the man who hobnobs with him. xi-: W' youk ri:fij:c noxs. Amos J. Ciininiings in the "Wash i ington Star. New Yorkers have the reputation of being the most nervous people on earth. A stranger is kit once lm- pressed with this fact a? he takes an elevated tram to go to his hotel. 1 eo- ple bustle in and out j'of the train like mad, and there is rio waiting for anybody. It is onl- by this prompt itude of action that it is possible to transport half' a million people a davfen the elevated railways of New York! I Wall street is the cdnter of New York's nervousness. Witch the men who freouent it, and Vou will see that they rush down the thorough fare' a:- if pursued by somebody. Jay Gould, and even staid; old Russell Sage, step along with a Springy gait, outwalking the messenger b(jys, who are about the only deiiberite per sons!seen on the street. )n the Stock Exchange every man s constantly on the move, and it is this d'esirefor perpetual action which-; leads mem bers to snatch off eacli other's hats and engage in all mariner df horse plav, such as stuffing bit of pa- per down each other's! backs, and similar movements of ari undignified nature. . 1 The tvpical old keeper of a hotel used to be a man of slow mov enicnts and great deliberation, ibut there is in New York but one j of t lis old school, and he is landlord Ashman, of the Sinclair House. Frank Allen, of the xstor House, dwafd Yer nanb of the Morton House, and Ed wardtokes, of the Hoffman House,' arc examples of the nsjh-ss modern landlord. Mr. Stokes lis. perhaps, the most nervous man in New York. There is a legend to thetjUecl t'i. t In i never known to sit sjtill iHr more than five minutes at akiine. Ncxi to him in the line of iiQrvouiu ss is a buyer for Sweetzea, Pembroke A: Co., the dry goods menj The sales man: who sells him a bill of goods must follow him as lie pates the floor, or perhaps pursue him up stairs into the upper-story ments of the house. ) j If you meet on the street a printer or a Composing-room foreman from one of the great newspapers, fou will imugine that you have .nt lat found men who are not in srjch an eager rush as the rest of New porkers, but when once they have Returned to work, every man of them gods about his labors' with uuick, energetic movements. This is espeeia of workers on the aftenjoon v.-;ei!e tiihe is tireasurnl) by ' ly true papers, lie sec- onds, and where a delaof ajminute or two m issuing an qditiqn may mean the loss of the sine o! f thoU sands of copies. Mr. Morosini, Gould's rigl man, is a large gentleihan t-hand of for- midable plivsiuue. Hejlivesj up the Hue son. an hours iournev lifoni Ins oflice on Wall street, pvirly every morning he rides to the Kj ralid Cen tral denot. at 42d street, arid then walks with a quick, nevouk tread Irom there to his otlice on Wall street, a distance of over! twul-and-a halt miles. ; AMKHICAXrZKD IH'TOIIMEpS". ! i The old Dutchmen, who wore once in the majority in New York, were men of slow movement?, but their descendants are as restless las the New Yorkers of Yankee liescejnt, and the infection seems to havejspread to the Dutchmen in the Eatherland across the sea. Jay Gould I relates how he went, not long jigo, o Am sterdam to negotiate a rallroajd deal, lie supposed that the Air)sterjlamers would smoke and deliberate ojver the matter a day or two. Hp called on the parties in interest, Hid the case before them, and was surprised when they consummated the bargain in exactly ten minutes. The Yanderbilt boys, mth the ex ception of the poetic (jeorge, are early risers, rapid walkers, and ner vous in their movements. Chaun cey M. Depew rushes inllo his office like a hurricane early in the morn ing, and is constantly oii the move until he goes home in the evening. Go into any of the resorts where prominent New Yorkers! take their luncheons and you will be at once impressed with the fact of their ner vous temperament. The! brothers of Robt. Bonner take their midday meal daily at the Astor h'busej. The moment they drop into their seats a well-trained waiter rushes out to the carving table and orders their lunch eon with the supplementary remark: "It is for the Messrs. Bonher;! hurry it up !" Robert Bonner hinfrelf is a man of slow movement as coiripared with other New York editors.) Stick a pin in him and he wouhl probably turn about with the calmnes pecu liar to the old school of Nw ;orkers and ask what you meant ifry the same experiment with Jamei Gor don Bennett 'and he would wheel about and offer to giveyoh battle on the spot. Resort to the same Artifice with Jos. Pulitzer and the would spring up, with rage, turn upon you, ancl probably knock you out in a jiffy. He is the mos: ner vous of all New York journalists, . and walks rapidly, with his broad shoulders thrown well back. EVEX MARK TWAIN" AKEECTED. EvenMark Twain, who once had the reputation of being sjow tion, has visited New Y'prk ten that he has caught ithe in ac- so ol- infec- tion of nervousness, and h almost abandoned literature has for the more exciting pastime of Specu lation. He is reported to be now en gaged in one of the most gigantic fi nancial enterprises of his life. Hen ry Watte rson comes to New York every summer to get rest sand entire relief from the cares of his newspa per. He starts out on his vacation with the instruction to His editors that he is not to be bothered: with A0 Ul AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN 1887. the details of his office, but after he has been in New York about a fort night his energy gets the better of him and he keeps a private wire from New York to: the Cviirier-Jour-nal hot with specials for his paper. Mr. Arkell, publisher of Jmhjey is a short, firmly built bundle of nerves, talks in quick, jerky sentences, and has the faculty of conversing with energetic Mr. Gillahi, his head artist, and a caller in the same breath. The best field for the study of the proverbial nervousness of New York is Broadway. Watch' a stranger at tempt to cross the thoroughfare and you will see him hesitate, wait a long time and finally try to cross the crowded street with; hte accustomed deliberate gait. A New Yorker, on the other hand, makes a dive into the surging procession of vehicles, darts almost under the feet of an up going .team, dashes in front of a down-bound car, escapes being run over by a hair's breadth, and is across the street in . a ji fly. Observe the drivers of trucks and street cars on Broadway and you will see that they are affected with the same restless spirit. Generally speaking it is im possible to accelerate the tide of travel on crowded Broadway street, but the truck drivers yell at drivers ahead of them, urge; them to hurry on, and curse in a mariner that would fill the heart of a canal boatman with envy. The street, car drivers keep shrill whistles in their mouths and hlow them with a constant screech of warning to drivers ahead of them to hurry up. All tfiis intense nervousness seems to have affected the reflective literary men of the metropolis, and you will scarcely find one who is not spare in mild and restless in movement. This was particularly noticeable at. the reception some weeks ago to Walt Whitman, at which about the only perfectly composed and restful per sonage was Walt Whitman himself. Cigarette Smokiiisr. NVu KiiiiliiiiilOrover. It is calculated, says Joe Howard arith:it Ihe tota nuinher ot riiT-nrettcs consumed in this country is 2,400. (HX.XXX) S for each man. woman and child in the United States, or about 100 for each male inhabitant mclud ing me. Some other fellow smokes mine, l his estimate does not in clude imported cigarettes from Tur key, Russia, France, and other Eu ropean countries. About 50,000,1 KJ0 were imported from1 these countries last year. In the I mted States, four cities have a monopoly of the manufactur ing New l ork, Richmond. Koches ter and Durham, N. C. Detroit has just put up some big factories, and San Francisco promises to rival the Eastern cities. The ; increase in the cigarette business in the United States during the last ten years has been enormous. Fjfty per cent, a year is said to have been the average increase As the cigar trade has also increased, though not in such a large proportion, it appears that this coun try is becoming a nation of cigarette smokers. "The Solid South.' The KkkJi, jlml. In the stirring of Republican hopes to which the result of the Kentucky election has lent a" decided impetus, there has been a good deal of talk about the possibility of making a break in the vote of the Solid South. No thoughtful American denies that it is a very undesirable thing to have one section of the country ready to cast 153 electoral votes for an' pos sible nominee of the Democratic part1. But, when it becomes a ques tion of changing the Democratic ma jority in any Southern State, sober political observers will demand some very good reasons for the change. So long as Republican .jplatforms and campaign speeches are full of serious imputations on the loyalty, the good faith, and the ulterior purposes of Southern Democrats, it does not seem probable that any large num ber of the latter will be found ready to vote the Republican ticket. At present, Republican platform-makers seem to be engaged in furnishing it with -an overmastering reason for keeping solid. 1 m . Entitled to Protection. I)aily News, Baltimore. The Salvation Anpy may be a band of cranks and lunatics, but they are harmless certainly are less in jurious to a city or country than the tough gangs which revile and assault them. They are entitled to worship 'God according to the dictates of their own consciences, and it is the duty of the authorities to protect them in it, just as much as to protect any other church organization from in terruption and mob violence. It is about time the authorities were awakening to this fact and discharg ing such duty intelligently and dili gently. A Sealed Mystery. Chii-ajtn Tribune. We hike the spade of scientific re search, throw up the dirt, and reveal the secrets Time has buried there ages ago, and to the heavens we ele vate the celestial tubes of astronomi cal investigation, and bring down knowledge older than the earth we tread ; but with all our reaching up ward and digging downward, there is onematter that will always remain a sealed mystery, and that is, what the deuce becomes of. the last inch of all the used-up lead pencils. A minister walked six miles marry a couple lately. He said to he felt sort of fee-bill like. The groom saw it. To thrive is to be independent; the thriftless are dependent. $1.50 PER ANNUM. CRANKS. Religious, Political, Social and Honest. liultininre American. The crank, like the tramp, is much abused and misunderstood in this world of inequalities. Hardly any two people agree as to a logical defi nition of a! crank, except of the most pronounced or violent kind. In the eyes of the world, which judges them by appearances only, the tramp be longs to the 'lowest stratum of life. He may be a foreign count, whose identity is obscured by the lack of fashionable clothes, or he may have taken his degree frpm the best unb versities in this or other lands ; if life has made the acquaintance with that jovial gentleman, John Barleycorn, and stuck to his company, as his fol lowers usually do. with the usual re sults, the mark of failure to every one, except; the truly sympathetic, is upon him. 1 lencefbrth he is regarded as too far gone ever to be made re spectable. The crarik, on the other hand, belorigs to all conditions of life. It has been said the biggest fool is the old fool. Of cranks, the old and the rich arc probably the worst afflictions men have to deal with, ex cept the conceited crank, whose im position on any comriiunity is clearly aspecial mark of the; divine displeas ure. By a crank, some say, nothing more is conveyed than what the Germans mCan .by their word krank that is, a jsick man. If so, it is ob jective sickness. The crank makes you' sick, not you hiin. ( Hhers say he is only an individual eccentric in one or more particulars, out of the normal center, or as ! the vulgar say, off his nut. Persons of this kind (if not insane or tending that way) have an abnormal development of some power or characteristic. By educa tion or indulgence some part of the individual has been exalted into prominence and. often dangerous prominence at expense of others. Life is tori short for one to enume rate all the classes' of cranks. We may ask, hqwever, if you ever saw a religious crank not the fanatic, but the man who thinks he has a patent way for saving the world Christ never knew of; the social: crank, a .thing of dress and; show, without brains, of silly distinctions and modes, aping in others what is foreign and unnat ural to the j aper living a fleeting, worthless, colorless existence;- the legislative crank, cruelly called a lobbyist and schemer ; the political crank, a m:in of high moral ideas and perfect methods 'that will purify and enaohle state arid federal gov ernments, without taint or suspicion of being boss or color-wearer; the conceited crank, whom that common-sense philosopher, St. Paul, may have thought of, when he said : "When a man thinketh himself to be something when hej is nothing, he deceiveth himself ;" j the mercantile crank, the speculative crank, the honest crank, who knows he is one, and is frank enough to say so, and hundreds of others. The world is full of all kinds, and a mighty inter esting study it is to investigate them. But a person is not a crank necessa rily because; he is said to be. Cer tain peculiarities of temper, disposi tion, intellect, are as much a part of one man's individualism, which dif ferentiates him in degree and kind from another, as the color of eyes and hair, anid the expression of the face. Individualism must have a sign. A wid-awake enthusiasm, and an intelligerit spirit of iriquiry in a search after truth, is not evidence of eccentricity.! Different methods ith different people. If there be intelli gence and order in work, swiftness is not undue or reckless haste. It is where there is a want of logical con nection in what is done signs of bungling, slurring, neglect, and igno rance that! the crank or fanatic shows his hand. It is true, however, that too swift may arrive as tardy as the slow. Cranks, like tramps, have their uses in this world of ours. Like the bones by the wayside in the des ert, they show the traveler to what end the misdirected and ignorant may come. I How They Execute in Franc. Pranzini, the murderer of Mfhe. Regnault, her maid and the maid's child,was guillotined at Paris, August lst. He maie no confession. Vast crowds waited about the place of exe cution during the whole of the night and kept up;a constant howlingjand yelling. The Idin was horrible. When the chaplain: who was to officiate at the execution arrived, at 40, the the mass of people was so great that he was almost prevented from reach- ing the gate of the prison. Pran.ini marched frorii his cell to the scaffold with a firm) step and defiant air. When the executioner seized him the murderer resisted and fought desper ately, demanding that they let him alone. The executioners overpowered him and threw him upon themachine and in an instaoit. had him securely bound. Immediately the terrible knife was staked. It descended with horrible slowness at first, but then its movement ouickened, and the head of the murderer rolled into the basket. The! mob outside became very disorderly during the progress of the execution., . All "Played Out.' "J)on't know what ails me lately. Can't eat Vell-:an't sleep well. Can't work, arid don't enjoy doing anything. Ain't really sick, and I really ain't well. Feel all kind 'o played out, someway. 7 That is what scores of men; say every day. If they would take Dr. Pierce's "Golden Med ical Discover" they would soon have no occasion to say it. I It purifies the blood, tones up the system and for tifies it against disease. It is a great anti-bilious remedy as well. RATES FOR ADVERTISING: 1 inch, one insertion, 1 inch, one month, 1 inch, three months, 1 inch, sis months, 1 inch, one year. ....... i column, three months,. '. '. J column, six months,...'.". i column, one year ) 4 column, three months,.. . 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President Cleveland will open the coming international medical con gress at Washington. Goy. Lee, of Yir-ini;l, smokes a large red clay pipe which Gen. Sib ley presented to him. The rumor in New York is that John Swinton will be run by the So cialists againt Henry George. Mr. Abell. owner of the Baltimore Snn, is SI years old. He is the rich est newspaper owner in the world. Robert Bonner's fortune is now es timated at 82.75(,()00, and he says it is mainly the result of advertisin-'. " Henry Clay was sometimes called the Great Pacificator. He was also known astheMill Boy of the Slashes. General Law ton, the new. United States Minister to A-ustri-Hugary, presented! his credentials to the Em peror on Friday. The richest man in Philadelphia is said to be Isaiah Y. Williamson, who is worth S20,0O0, X X i, all of which he made himself. Gladstone has evidently taken a new lease of life. He looks younger, brighter and more hopeful "than he has for years past. Gen. John C. Black, Commissioner of Pensions, is looming up in the West as a Democratic candidate for the Yice Presidency. Robert J. Burdette is already an nounced among the speakers for the annual Baptist Conference at Indian apolis in November. Mr. Robert E. Lincoln states in de cided terms that he does not wish to be a candidate for either the Yice PresiiK ncy or the Presidency. James S. Richardson, of -New Or leans,' the largest cotton planter in the world, has this year .'1S,0(X) acres in cotton and 7,XX) acres in corn. Col. Lamont will mnain in Mc Grawville until the middle of Sep tember. Until that time the Ship of State must drift along as best she can. General Longstreet lives in a farm house on the summit of a ridge in North, Georgia. His fortune is small but comfortable. He is a grape grower. Charles Dickens, Archibald Forbes s and Max O'Rell, from abroad, land S' Milbhm, the blind chaplain, are the pronilfnent lecturerers in this conn-' try f(r next season. Henry George's boom has suffered a relapse in Boston, where some of his former friends have made a pub lic demand that he shall divide his 825,XX) a year income. Powell and Foraker, the Republi can and Democratic candidates for Governor in Ohio, were classmates at college, were both soldiers and are still warm personal friends. General James B. Weaver, of Iowa, who was the Greenback candidate for President in Ls.sO, actually thinks he has a chance to be the tail of the Cleveland ticket next year. General Beauregard has been in vited to be present at the laying of the corner stone of the Lee Monu ment, in Richmond, Ya., which hikes place next month. He has accepted. Captain James Barron Hope, edi tor of the Norfolk Landmark; will read the dedicatory poem at the lay- ing of the corner stone of the Lee Monument at Richmond, Ya., Octo- ' ber 25th. Mr. Bell, the owner of the Thistle, and his wife are passengers on the I steamer City of Rome, whiuh left Liverpool August -51st for New i ork. Mr. Bell is confident that the Thistle will win. Governor Knott, of Kentucky, at the expiration of his term of oflice, will settle in Louisville and perhaps become a journalist. He is said to have an eye on the United States Senate now. Charles T. Stewart is the leading cattle man of Iowa. He owns -JO,-M head of cattle, and his name signed to a check for 81 ,500,0 X ) would be honored. Mr. Stewart is a quiet young man and abhors politics. George Alfred Townsend ("Gath"j makes oh attack on the privatechar- acter of Columbus, and asserts that for years he was a lobbyist at the court of Spain, "called by every name under the sun that was vile." Dorsey, a Republican and ex-U. S. Senator, says he favors a "whirlwind campaign,'' and his ticket is Sheri dan and Fairchild. That means tearing up by the roots and smash ing constitutional machinery gener ally. Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartorisand her little daughter Yivian, aged eight years, arrived at New York from England on the steamer Elbe. She comes for a six weeks' visit with her mother at Long Branch, and friends in Saratoga. .. . Senator-elect Daniel, of Yirginia, will add another to the list of lamp men in the Senate. He uses crutches, owing to a mishapen limb. Despite his disability, however, he served in the late war as Adjutant-General of Ewell's division. i -i- ' :-
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