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'FOR GOD, FOB COUNTRY AND FOB TEUTH."
W. FLKTCHRR A US BON, KDITOR. '
C. V. W. AUbliON, BUSINESS MANAGES.
PLYMOUTH, N- C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19. 1892. -
NO. 14.
A-
t. .
r. ef II. I'lvmouth Lodge No. 2508-
sets 1st and 3d Thursday nights in each
month. W.U. uamptou uiomn.
K. B. Y eager Jtln. importer;
L. of H. Boanoke Lodge Meets
4 aad 4th Thursday Bigots m eacn montn
J. F. JJorinan Jrrotecior,
. h. B. Yeager secretary
I OO F. Esperanza Lodge, No, 28 meets
everv Tuesdav uiebtat Bunch's Mail. I.
. J. Lewis, . G-, J, P. Hihard, riccretary.
, OOLOBED.
OBTUKCH SEHTICES
Desotple - Elder A B Hicks, pastor.
fiar vices every Sunday at U a. tu,, 3 p. m
J I em. bunday school at 9 a. m. E.
J' Mitchell Superintendent
Methodist - Kev. 0. B. Hogans, pastor,
Gerviees every 1st and 3d Sundays at 11 a.
ta.. end at 8 and 7:0 p. nv bnndy school
at 9 a. m 8. Wiggins, superintendent ; J.
W McDonald, secretary
1st BaDtist. Kew Chapel - Services every
' Sunday t 11 and 3, tev tt u Knight,
pastor - Sunday school every Sunday
Id Baptist. Zion's Hill - H H Norman,
mater Preachine every 4th bunday. Huu
day school eviry Sunday, Moses Wynn,
Superintendent .
LODGKS
Masons, Carthegian - Meets 1st Monday
niirLit in each tuOUlh. S 'loww, M., A.
Everett, secretary
O U O of O F Meridiau Snn Lodge 1024-
Meets evry 2d and 4th Monday night in
each mouth at 7 e'cloeft-, T. BeuiUry,
M. O., J. W McDonald f . o.
Christopher A tocks Lodge K of L no-
Meets evrv let Monday uigUt tu each
month at 8 o'clock
Burying Society meets everj 3d Monday
night in each month at 8 o'clock, J il.
Walker secretary
Eoper Directory.
CIVIL.
Justice of the Peace, Jag. A. Chesson.
Constable, Warren Caboon.
' ' ,, ,'.. . , CBCBCHES. . ,
Methodist. Rev. J. T. Finlarson, pastor,
fi.ttrAa everv Sunday morning at It
o'clock (except the first), and every Sunday
. 7.tn Praver msfttior everr Wed.
V nee lay night. Sanday school Sunday mors-V-
ivfng at 9;80, L. G. Roper, superintendent,
. R. Lewis secretary.
' EpicopV Luther Eborn, rector.
Services eTery 2d Sunday at U o'clock
. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school every
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, Thoe. W.
Blount superintendent, W. H. Daily aecre-
. tary. " - ' '
Baptist, Eer. Jos. Tinch, pastor. Ser.
.Tlosi i amy 3d Sunday at 11a. m., and 7:30
p. B.: ', v ' ! 1 , f ' ...
Eoper Masonid'Lodge, A. F A A. M. No
443. meets in their Hall at Roper, N. C, at
7-30 p. m let 'and 3d Tuesdays after 1st
ISundaV J L. Savage, W. M-j J H
Ciarkf Secretary.''
Important to Ladlos.
Eir I! made use of your Philctokes
with niyVlaut ohild, in order to procure a
safe and easy travail. I used it about two
raonths bwore my expected time, until I
ws,s taken tick, and I had a very quick and
eay confinement, nothing occurred to
protract my convalescence, and I got about
in Um tlsia than was unatil for me. I think
it a medicine .that should b used by every
xpectnt mother, for should they but try
it as I LaveAthey would evar agaia be
without it at SeucU times. I am yocrs re
- a t!"2!ty V rs. 1X12 ABE I'll D1X,
- .,y ra.rdiiiitr drusgitt can procure
ju. T's FntoTC K s lor 1 a holll -C'JA'.'tf
'i-MU:- LBY, Jt rfala Drur
c:st, K2 Cer;!acS i t., New Voik. '
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QUERIES.
' Is it anybody'a business, ,
If a gentleman should choose
To wait upon a lady.
If the lady don't refuse T
Or, to speak a little plainer,
. That the meaning all may know,
la it anybody's business
If a lady has a beau ?
Ia it anybody' business
When that gentleman may catl,
Or when he leaves a lady,
' Or if he leaves at all?
Or ia it necessary
.That the curtain should be drawa,
To save from farther trouble,
The outside lookers on ?
Is It anybody's business
Bat the lady's, if her beau
Bides out with other ladies,
Aad doesn't let her know f
Is it anybody's business
But the gentleman's, if she
Accepts another escort,
Where he doesn't chance to be ?
If a person's on the sidewalk,
Whether great or whether small,
Is it anybody'a basic ess
'. Where that person means to call ?
Or if you see a person.
As he's calling anywhere,
Is it any of your business
What his business may be there ?
Ar AA :v 5
The Hubstanoe of your query.
Simply stated, would be this :
Is it anybody's business
What another's business is ?
If it is, or if it isn't-
We would really like to know,
For we are oertain if it isn't, '
There are some who make it so.
Ex.
iVHO PAYS THE TAX?
Wilmington Star.
I The high tariff advocates,
with
jHou. Wui. McKinley in thd lead
Icoatend thai the tariff ia no burden
Jto the consumer as it is the foreign
uexporter and not the American con
.sumer wno pava cue uutv. as trans
l parent as this fraud is there are
good many people who are deceived
by it and really believe that the for
eign exporters do pay the duty and
thus help to pay the expenses ol run
nine: this government.
.Not very long ago a Mr. Dolan, a
citizen of this country, but a native
of the Emerald Isle, received a half
dozen pairs of woolen socks from his
good old mother, as a present. The
socks if they had been purchased in
a store m Dublin might have cost,
perhaps, twelvo and a half cents
pain but as they were made by the
old lady they didn't cost auything.
IJut when they arrived in this coun
try Mr. Dolan found that he could
not take them out of the custom
house until he planked .down ubout
forty cents a pair, which was the tar
iff duty. Mr. Dolan, who had been
reading Mr. McKinley's tariff speech
es about the foreign manufacturers
paying the duty, wrote to him and
asked him how it was that ho had to
pay for these socks, which were Bent
us a present, but Mr. xvicllinley
never gavo huu the slightest niior
mation. Mr. Dolan has consequently
been forced to the conviction that
somebody else than the exporter
pays the tariff on socks.
A year or so ago. Mr. Andrew (Jar
negie, as a reminder to. Mr. Harrison
that he still esteemed him and occa
ioually thought of him over there
in his Scotch castle, sent him a keg
of Scotch whiskey. But asjhe thought
it might possibly cause some of the
President a prohibition friends to
make some unkind remarks if, the
keg had been sent direct to him, he
sent it to the Collector of Customs
with a request to forward to Mr.
Harrison. JBut Mr. Carnegie didn't
read the American papers very close
Jy and was not aware of the fact that
the collector of the port of New
York, to whom he sent it, had been
retired and another one appointed
before the keg of Scotch whiskey
arrived- The consequence was that
the ex-collector found a keg- of
Scotch whiskey on which there was
custom dues of about $49. . As he
thought it would look small not to
pay it he paid ic, and had the
"spents forwarded to the Wnite
House. The presumption is that
Mr, Harrison reimbursed him, as
there is no evidence of Mr. Carnegie
ever having sent along the $49. ,
Just before the passage of the Mc
Kinley bill, a bill was presented in
Congress to establish two signal dis
play stations on Lake Huron. As
the bill required some alteration on
account of inaccuracies, it was held
in hand until after the passage of
the McKinley bill, when it was found
necessary to increase the estimates,
and ask for an appropriation nearly
twice as large, in his letter to Sec
retary Ilufk calling attention to this
bill, Mark T. Harrington, Chief, of I
the weather linrean, eavs :
' This bill is of the same general character
as Senate bill No. 295, which I returned to
you December 26, 1891, and which appro
Driatedtl2.70O for this Duroose. A be es
timate for this bill was originally made by
this office, but since that time a ohanige m
the tariff laws has nearly doubled the cost
to the Government , of telegraph ebles.
l'he Government now cannot import free
of dutv as formerly. Instead of $1,500
mile the estimates should be increased to
. 7 miles cable, at $3,000 per mile, $21,000
22 miles leadline, at f 100 per mile. . .2,200
Total... $23,200
"I am, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, WABK w . hakrikutuh,
"Chief of Weather Bureau."
i To which Secretary Rusk, in trans
mitting the bill, attached the follow
ing endorsement :
'Dspabtuht ov Agriculture,
, "Feb. 11, 1892
"BesouctfullT referred to the Commerce
House of Kepresentatives. I approve of
the recommendation of Prof. M. W. Har
rington. : . , .
, MJ. M. Rusk. Secretary."
It appears from this that neither
Mr. Harrington' nor Secretary Kusk
believes that the exporter pays the
duty. .:
If the Government has to pay dou
ble as much now for cable wire as it
formerly did, in consequence of the
increased, tariff, how. is it that the
exporters pay the tax on the things
which the indinidual American con
sumera purchase? Mr. McKinley
should not thus have discriminated
against the Government, as tight as
it is run for money, while every one
else gets their goods duty 'free, ana
the foreign exporters loot the bill.
POLITICAL POINTS.
Our opinion is that while the South
lay appear to bo an inviting field for
aining Republican'recruits, Chair
man carter will be a sadly disap
pointed man on rhe morning follow
ing cue movemDer election. recers
burg Index-Appeal.
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According to the report of the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
between $7,000,000 and $8,000,000
was expended in sugar bounties last
year. the republican party has
patent on this method of cheapening
sugar. -si. i. World.
The Minneapolis platform is bu
two months old, and its authors are
already making frantic efforts to es
cape from it; They protest that
when they declared in 'favor of a new
Force bill they had no serious purpose
to enact such a measure, iiut can
the American people repose any con
fidence in these expressions of contri
tion.and repentance. -Phil. Record.
, . . . ;
Under a Democratic- administra
tion 47 per cent, tariff yielded a rev
enue of nearly $100,000,000 in excess
of every legitimate . annual demand
for the conduct of the . government.
Under the succeeding Republican ad
ministration this average tariff taxa
tion was forced to 00 per cent. The
$150,000,000 surplus left by Mr.
Cleveland s administration was wiped
one ana in us steaa a yenuieuuy was
t i ? .. . l ..1 . .1 . n - - -
found. Cleveland rtam Dealer.
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The third party people are very
fond of alluding to the Democratic
arty as "the so-called Democracy,
it is the same old party that it was
when Virginia was suffering from the
horrors of reconstruction, and which
stood by her and all the South, when
1 V i -1 T1 . IT...? - . . V . il.
Den uuuer ana &en iiarnson oorn
were so anxious to fasten upon her
the chains of bayonet rule and negro
domination. It is also the same old
party which has always championed
the cause of the people against op
pression and monopoly, and which
has always opposed any new-fangled
will-o'-the-wisp which has shown it
self to lure the people to their own
destruction. It is not the Democra
tic party that has changed, but it is
the third party graspers after snares
and delusions. Richmond Times.
.
In the early part of the session of
the 46th Congress (April 25. 1879)
the democrats refused to voto for the
passage of 'the army appropriation
bill, unless the republicans would
voto to repeal the provisions, of the
aw which had largely disfranchised
Southern whites and enabled Federal
authority to control elections. Ex-
resideut tiarheld, then a member of
the House, offered an amendment in
o nature of a compromise, and
which admitted that some of the leg
islation complained of was "obnoxi
ous and antagonistic to American
idea
Tho Congressional Record.
46th Congress, pRgo 053, shows that
the nominee of the Omaha conven.
I tion foi' President opposed every ef.
S l 1 . Jl .1 t i a.
even moainea in iavor of Southern
whites. Ho voted against everv pro
position to enfranchise the white men
of the bouth. lie voted to keep them
in political slavery, even at the point
of the bayonet, lie voted to keep
armea soiaiers at our polling places,
Theso are some of Weavers votes,
Can North Carolinians vote for such
a man ? They will not. Chronicle.
7UAT THE SOUTH WANTS.
Wilmington 8tar.
What the South wants is fair olav.
lifting of the incubus which has been pres
sing upon her for' thirty years. If her
people have managed to live and prosper
at all in spite of the obstacles to their prog"
ress mat mey nave naa to contend against.
they have done more tnan any other Deo
pie under the sun oould have done under
the same circumstances, and they could
not have done tins It they did not live in a
section espesially favored by Providence
with a genial climate, a fruitful soil, and
an abundance ef varied and wealth-pro'
during resources.
Beginning with nothing after four years
of wasting, desolating war, with the old
labor system destroyed and the laborers
demoralized by their delusive ideas of lib
erty, without money to pay for labor and
stock te work their larms, and with scarce
ly enough' to buy seed to seed the acres
they could plow they went to work with a
Spartan courage aud oheertnl hope that
Buccumbed to nothing but forged confl.
dently onward. Year after year they
brought the brinr-grown fields under the
plow until the land again blossomed as
garden. Year after year the acreage was
inbreased and culture improved until the
crops were doubled.
Since the war. leaving: out ef consider
ation other crops grown, timber cut and
sold, the product ol her mines and ouar.
ries, her fisheries and her manufactories,
the South has grown and sold 1 10,000,000,
000 worth Of cotton, and yet there never
was, perhaps, since the war a year when
the Southern cotton planter didn't feel tho
want o' money, or mere money than he
had or than his cotton crop would bring
him. We specify cotton because that u
eminently the staple erop of a great por
tion of the South,' and is the export erop,
or as some innocently call it, "the money
erop." .
There has ueen out utile money maae
out of It Why? Because even at what
would be cenaideied a fair market price,
there is not margin enough between that
and the coot of production te yield a large
return to the planter. And then when
there is taken eat ef this the cost of meats,
flour and other food stuffs that the plantar
does not raise,, but ' buys troni the West,
this return is still further whittled down
until he is a very large prodnoer or a very
clever manager who has anything left.
While riot perishable, cotton cannot be
keot over from one crop to the other safely
for there are few planters who can afford
to keep it over, and they, although prices
may be low, risk losses wheu the new crap
. i . ... ..a; .
comes in. li it snouia d an oraiuary .crop.
The only way that this could be effectively
done would be by combination among the
cotton, growers, sufficiently strong to oon
trol the crop, which U not practicable be
cause it would . have to embrace too many
peeple. 'Others may do the cornering, but
the .planters will never combine so as to
control the cotton crop. It. they could or
would, there would be more seue and buis-
ness in that than in endeavoring to help
the cotton industry by voting for itnprac.
tioal visionaries or for impossible financial
schemes
The visionaries and the schemers tell the
nlanter that the low price of cotton ia the
reault of an insufficient volume of currency,
and that the way to overcome this is to
double the volume. This may look plauni.
ble to the unreflecting, but it is a delusion.
The volume of ourreuoy has been Increas
ing more or less for twenty years and under
the present law we are auuiug aooui , pov,.
000,000 a year to Ine currenoy. There is
now more money in existence, whether it
be in actual circulation or not, than at any
time since the war, and yet eottou is so low
that it commands scaroely enough to pay
the cost of production and marketing. .The
price of cotton is fixed in Liverpool, and
the volume ef American currency does not
affect it a particle If there ws a per cap.
ita circulation of $100 in this country in
stead of 125. it wouldn't affect the price of
otton the fraction of a peunv. The South.
ern planter wants something besides an in
creased volume of currency to help him.
He wants clamps taken off. and the obstruc
tions to the open markets of the world
removed. Then the mutual trade relations
that would spring up between him aad the
spinners of his cotton would create a larger
demand and ensure better prioes for the
cotton he has to sell. .
THE DAIRY.
A eross of Jersey and good feed makes
good COW.'
Shade in summer is at grateful to the
cow as it is to man.
Improved stock is now so plentiful that
none need breed scrubs.
Two pounds of butter per day each for
Jersey cows it the repert.
It isn't n question of - thoroughbreds ; all
fairly good cows will make good butter
when the care and conditions are right.
The more milk a young oow can be mde
to rive the more bos is capnble of giving
and the capacity may be increased np to
her natural limit.
Professor Hunter Nichok-on concludes
that whatever articles of food enter into
the ration of a dairy cow they need to be
mixed with discretion, at the rate of, say,
fifty per cent, discretion.
The cow inherits the habit of prodncing
well at the p;l, or she inherits the habit of
producing fit on her ribs and back. The
former U what we are after if wa are keep.
in her for dairy woik. ELs rag,y ako a.
qiire fcsbits. Selected,
lore to ine oojoctionaDie provisions
STEVENSON'S PltOBADLE AP
POINTMENTS.
TO BFXAIC AT RALEIGH, PATETTBV1LUE,
WLLMINOTON, GOLDBBOBO, CUAB
LOTTQ AN" ABBEVILLE. '
Charlotte Obierver.
wnen lion. Adlai is. Stevenson, our
candidate for Vice President, consented to
come to North Carolina during the cam
paign, and to make five speeches, he left
it to certain of his frieuds iu the State to
determine the times and places, himself
suggesting a pieferance lor two or three
places which he named. The editor ot the
Observer last night received from Col.
Thos. W. Utrange, of Wilmington, a letter
in wbica He says that on the occasion of
reoent visit to Jiaieigh to attend a meeting
ef the executive committee of the State
Association ef Democratic clubs, he had
oonferenoe with Col. J, S. Carr, president
of the association of clubs, and with Hon.
F. M. , bimmons, chairman of the Demo
eratic State executive committee, aad theve
gentlemen agreed on the following pro
gramme for Mr, "Stevenson : That he
hall speak at the mass meeting incident to
the convention of Democratic clubs at
iialeigu on the 31st inst. Then go to Fay
ettevilte Thursday eveninc. the 1st of SeD
tember, speak there Friday, the 2d ; go to
Wilmington Friday night, speak there Sat
urday, the 3d ; spend Sunday on the sound,
g le widbooro on Monday, oth, speak
there that afternoon : leave at 4 d. m. fur
Charlotte, arriving here at 2a. m., the 6th:
speak here that day. leave here that even
ing r Wednesday, 7th, for AsheviUe, and
speac mere Wednesday or Thursdav.
ooi. strange nas written to Mr, Eleven-
son that this is the programme agreed
upon, lie will doubtless approve it and
as soon as he is heard from the appoint
luenie win oa emoialiy announced.
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
The following ia tho State Demo
cratic platform as adopted by the
otitic iOii ven woir assembled Mav 18:
RESOLVED. I. That the demooruer of
north Carolina reaffirm the principles of
me uemocratic party, DotU State aud natio
nal, and particularly favor the free coinage
of silver and an lacrease of the currency,
and the repeal of the internal revenue
system. And we denonnoe the McKinley
tariff bill as Unjust to the consumers of the
country, and leading to the formation of
trusts, combines aad monopolies which
have oppressed the people ; and especially
do we denoance the unnecessary and bur
densome increase in the tax on cotton ties
and on tin, so largely used by the poorer
portion of the people We likewise de
nounce the inequitous force bill, which is
not yst abandoned by the republican party,
but is beintf urged aa a. rneasura ta h
adapted as toon as they regain control of
the House of KeDresentativea. the
and iffect of which measure will be to es
tablish a second period of reconstruction in
the Southern States, to subvert the libertiea
of our people and inflame a new race an.
tagonism and sectional animosities.
2. I hat we demand financial reform.
and the enactment ef laws that will remove
the burden of the peeple relative to the
existing agricultural depression, and do
full and ample justice to the farmers and
laborers of our couutrv.
a "PL.i. . . . . . .....
o. tun' we aeruana tne abolition er
national banks, and the substitution ofcral
tender treasury notes in lieu of nation!
bank notes, issued iu sufficient volume in
do the business of the country on a cish
system, regulating the amount ueeded on
a per capita basis as the busineu Inf rf
ot the country expand, and that all money
issued by the Government shall b 1m1
tender in payment of all debts, both nnhlin
and private.
That we demand that Congress shall
pass such laws as shall effectually prevent
the dealing in futures of all agricultural
and mechanioal productions: providing
such stringent system of procedure in trialtt
as shall secure prompt Con vie tion aud im
posing such penalties as shall secure most
perfect compliance with the law.
0. xnat we demand the free and unlimi
ted coinage of silver.
6. That we demand the passage of laws
prohibiting the alien ownership of land.
and that Congress take early steps to devie
some plan to obtain all lands cowl owned
by alien and foreign syndicates ; and that
all lands now held by railroads and other
corporations, in wXoess of such as is actu
ally used and needed by them, be reclaimed
by the government aud held for actual
settlers only.
7. Believing in the dootnne of "equal
rights to all and speoial privileges to none,"
we demand that taxation, national or State,
shall not be used to build up one interest
or class at the expense of another. We
believe that the money of the country
hould be kept as much as possible in the
bands of the pople, and hence we demand
that all revenue, national, State or county,
hall be limited to the necessary expenses
of the government economically and hon
estly administered.
o 1 hat Congress issue a suQoient
amount of fractional paper currency to
facilitate the exchange through the medium
of the United States mail.
Besolvid, That the General Assembly
pass sucn Jaws as will make tne public
school system mere effective that the bias
ing? of education may be extended to all
the people of the State alike.
that we demand a graduated tax on in
comes.
' Let us Reason.
If any one who suffers froib Rheumatism
would stop and reason a moment before
they decide to purchase some rmedy, they
could not help avoid 'any so-called cure
that is sold for $1. ' Figuring the retaiUrs,
tb bobbers and ths manufacturers' profits
out of that solitary dolkr, and their is ltfi
not over 20 cents tor the medicine, hr.
Drummonls Lightning Remedy apnea! ts
one's good sense. Th price is $5 per tot.
ie aud to any one Biuitsrint; from lUieumt..
tism it is as cheap as it is good and effeetrve.
gent to any a'.Mrossly Drummoud Med;c';i.e
Co. 4S .r,0 2'aiJoa L&ue, New Yoik. Ageuis
mated " " t
TJIE DEMOCRATIC FLAT
FORM ON TilE TORCE EILE.
.'We solemnly declare that the n-ed of a
return to the fundamental principles of free
popular government, based oa home rule
and Individual liberty, was cevr more
urgeut than now, when the tendaacv to
centralize all pow at the Federal cai'i'al
has become a menace to the reserved
rights of toe Stares that strikes at the very
roots of our Government and the Censii
tution as framed by the fathers of the
republic. '
"We warn be people of our common
country, jealous fur the prewarvation of
their free institutions, that the policy of
the Federal control of election to which
the Republican party has committed it!f
is fraught with gravest dangers, scarsely
less momentous than would result from
revolution practically establishing monarchy
on the ruin's ef the republic. It strikes at
the North as well as the South and Injures
the colored citizen even more than the
white. It means a horde ot deputy mar
shots at every polling-place armed with
FedenJ power; returning boards appointed
and controlled by Federal authority ; the
outrage of the electoral rights of the peo
pie iu the several States : the Bhfnffit;A.
of the colored people to the eon trol of the
party in power, And the reviving of race
antagonism, now happily abated, of the
utmost peril te the eafetv and hnnlnea f
all a measure deliberately aad Justly de
scribed by a leading Republican Senator as
o uivnt jumuiuus pin mat ever e roused
the threshold ef the Senate,"
WHAT GOOD ROADS ZIEAIL
Rnral World. '
They would make it possible for the
farmer to take advantage promptly of the
mgnest market, bo matter at what season
of the year.
Thoy would save him days aud weeks ef
time which he wastes every year wallowing
through tje disgusting mire cf dirt roads.
mi ' .
a Ley wouia rednoe to a minimum the
wear and tear on wagons and carriages.
Thej would lessen the expense iu keen
ing horses in worklae order, and
horses would be required in the country to
perform the farmer's work.
They would require Icbs expense to keep
them in repair than do the dirt roads.
They would make it easier for a taam te
pull several tons over their smooth surface
than to drag a wagon through the mud.
I hey would affjrd ready eammuaicatioa
with the outside world stall times of the
year. l.
They would spare the farmer uml v vexa, 1
tions and nervous strains.
Thej would practically shorten the dis
tance to the local market.
They would increase the demand for
country suburban property.
They would be free freurdirt In Summer
and mud aud ruts in Fall, Winter aul
Spring.
They would bring every farming -commu
nity into clnoer relations, (
'1 hey would make an evening drive a
pleasure insttad of n vexation, as it is now
They would da away with the aUurd
polltax and supervisor system iu places
where it is still in use.
They would be, in short, thj beet possi
ble investment to the taxpayer if built &:!X
cared for by the nationsl government and
paid for by a national tax. '
All these they would do, unless expsrL
ence goes feft naught.
ASKED . FOR AID.
Dumb Animals. ' ,
As a Pennsylvania farmer was - passing
tiirougn a paten or wood last summer a
hen partridge fluttered up and ran between
his feet. It was such a strange thing for
So wild a bird to do that the farmer thought
the partaridge was blind. So he . stooped
over to pick her up, aud then ha found she
wasn't bliud at all fur just as he was abeut
to grssp her ha dartJ toward the brush
heap from which he had seen her emerge,
stopped at the ede and looked back.
Presently she ran at the man again, with
her wings down, clucking constantly and
appearing to be In great distress about
something. The farmer walked to the edge
of the copse, and the partridge Hew ahead
and alighted en the ground two or three
rods beyond, winging her way baok again
when she saw he was not meving. She re
peated these manceuvers until she led him
to a hemlock tree, and there, in a little
curve mads by the roots, he saw a nest tzll
of eggs. At the same time he saw a fckek
snake in the act of swallowing one of the
eggs, and understood the reason for the
partridge's actions.
lie bunted up a club and killed the sn&ke.
relates Golden Days, its soon as the par
tridge saw that the snake was motionUss
she ceased her noiaa and hid in the bntiss.
The man went away, and in half an I rs'r
cr?pt near euou to see the parings til.
ting on the nost as though uctLiag li
happened.
SHILOa'S CATABim IiSMEDY. A
marvelous cure for Catarrh, ljjbtt.?ri-ji, .
Canker mouth, and Haii.iche, Willi enrh
Lottie tiijra U an inr.ious i-iv.l Iis'Jit-r
for tba iLor BU;:otsnfi'l trtalaiv.iit )f ii.'s-ir
coir -!;i:t!3 wiirout extra chsrr!, IV;::,!
i:-. 1 1 by Jlrya'i A Chsj.ra, Wy:'. - '
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