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NO 45v
Malignant Journalism,
Baltimore Sun,
The malignant and wanton editorial
assault made upon Gen. It. E. Lee by
the New York Sun in its issue of Octo
ber 18 should make that paper abhorred
and detested in every Southern house
hold. No ex-Confederato soldier who
retains one spark of manhood in his
breast, or of respect for the cause of
W;hich this great and pure soldier was
ouo of the representatives, can read that
outrageous libel without the deepest in
dignation. Nor can he fail to remem
ber that the paper which makes this
attack is of the straitest sect of McKin
leyism, admittedly one of the most de
' voted and uncompromising organs of
imperialism and the trusts in the coun
try. The South stands like a stone wall
against Republican policies pnd plans,
and by itaid imperialism" and syndi
cated government are threatened with
overthrow at the approaching election.
That section has already been menaced
by the .Republican party with political
punishment, in the form of decreased
representation, if the Republicans win,
but it has refused to be frightened into
me support ot McJviniey, as it nas re
fused to be tempted by the bribe of com
mereialism or deceived by his sweet
words of flattery and cajolery. It? firm
attitude throws into a fury of rage and
resentment the Administration and all
its camp followers, who see the spoils of
imperialism and trust tyranny en
jdangered by its fidelity to Democratic
t principles. aqib iceung was snown
some time ago in another article in the
New York Sun, in which a bitter at
tack was made upon the South in gen
eral. Now, enraged by the increasing
signs of popular revolt against McKm
leyijm, it spits out its venom and hatred
in an article in which it deliberately
maligns a man whose name it is not fit
to utter. The New York Sun goes
further than most of its kind, because
like the professional wanton, it is utterly
beyond nope of rehabilitation among
respectable people. But it is noteworthy
that nearly evary so-called independent
newspaper which is supporting McKin
ley ism in this campaign betrays more
or less clearly something of the same
animus. They make themselves con
spicuous as defenders of Roosevelt, the
champion of mixed schools, and one of
them, published in this a Southern city
even attempts to minimize the New
York Sun's shameless attack on Gen
eral Lee by describing that paper as
merely "objecting to the choice of Lee
for the Hall of Fame." Southern men
are not likely to be influenced by papers
which are the special champions of the
champion of mixed schools and which
consider as of small consequence and
worthy of no attention the defamation
of one who was too lofty to be tempted
from what he thought his duty by gold
or rank, and too true to hia section to
turn his back upon it in its hour of
need.
Victory Claimed lor Bryan.
Washington, Oct. 21. The Demo
cratic congressional committee to-night
issued a rosy forecast of Democratic
prospects. It makes 1,500 words.
Among other things the committee says:
"A tidal wave of Democracy is sweep
ing over the country and indications
now point to the greatest popular ma
jority for Bryan next m nth ever given
to any Democratic presidential candi
date. The great popular uprising in
favor of Bryan is not confined to any
particular section of the country ; it is
uuiversal. The sign is in the sky, and
it spells 'victory. It is universally
conceded, even by the Republican
leaders, that Mr. Bryan has lost nothing
of the strength he had in in 1890, when
less than 25,000 votes, properly dis
tributed, would have elected him. It
therefore follows that this year he will
receive at least as many votes as in
1896, plus the natural increase in the
number of young Democratic voters
who have come of age since the last
national campaign. But this year Mr.
Bryan has many elements of strength
which he lacked in 1896, and which
are sufficient to insure bim a tremen
dous majority, both in the popular vote
and the electoral college.
Only Two IUIIIs Running.
Raleigh, N. C, October 19. News
to day from the cotton mills in Ala
mance is that of the twenty-six only two
are running full handed. Those did
not notify union men to leave. Their
owners say they do not know whether
their operatives belong to the union or
not. News is that the mills will almost
certainly win in this fight, as there are
enough non-unionists to keep them in
operation. The unionists chose a bad
time to strike, as the mills are long on
manufactured goods and short on cot
ton and are by no means unwilling to
shut down for a month or two. The
union operatives who are out of employ
ment say it is not a strike, but a lockout.
No Power Can float Hryan this Time,
Say froker and Murphy.
New York, October 23. Senator
Murphy, speaking of Hanna's speeches
in the West, said today:
"Hanna, Roosevelt and other Repub
lican leaders now on the stump are
getting mad, and saying intemperate
thing?. That shows they realize that
we have them beaten and thev know
it. "
'Bryan will be the next President of
the United States."
Richard Croker, who was standing
by, said: "The Senator is right. No
power can beat him this time."
The Ilalfour Quarry.
Special to Charlotte Observer.
Concord, Oct. 20. The road from
Concord to Rocky River runs throngh
Rocky Ridge, a section of country
where for a mile or so along the road
side are large boulders of rock aBd as
far as the eye can see through the
woods, great masses of rock piled up
on the earth. At one place, a huge,
conical boulder stands so close to the
road that passing vehicles almost graze
it, and from its top, up among the
branches of a hickory tree, can be seen
the railroad care. Strangers visiting
this vicinity are often told a wonderful
story about this rock, namely, that it
"turns round every time it hears the
whistle." Nearly every one, who hears
thia Btory for the first time, jumps to
the conclusion that there is eome kind
of superstition connected with it, but
Concord folks resent that idea and af
firm that the rock doea tnrn round
every time it hears the whistle blow. If
the stranger don't catch on to this as
sertion quick enough, he is taken a lit
tle further on where an immense flat
rock crops out through the ground and
is shown tb.3 deep print of Samson's
big foot right on the rock. The oldest
inhabitant fails in remembering wbc is
responsible for the identification. But
right here alongside these two curiosi
ties is the location where the Balfour
Quarry Company is at work and car
rying on, with approved methods and
machinery, a very thriving business.
Mr. E. T. Burgess is superintendent of
the quarry, Mr. A. L. Parker, manager
and commissary, Mr. George L. Erd
man, treasurer, and Mr. John M.
Young, ballast inspector for the South
ern Railway. They employ 75 hands
and run two steam drills, which aver
age 40 feet per day. The product of
one day's labor in building stone, fenc
hig stone, screenings, clippings and
ballast is sufficient to load 10 or12 cars.
The company has a lease on the- loca
tion for ten years with the privilege
of extending it to fifteen. But neither
fifteen, nor twice fifteen will exhaust the
stone in that part of Cabarrus county.
Itrother Dlc-key on Race Problem.
"Yes, euh," Baid Brother Dickey,
"hit do look lak' my race is havin' er
a ha'd time in the North! 'Pears lak'
dey has mo' er what dey calls 'de race
problem' up dar dan what dey has down
yer! But lemme tell you one t'ing
en hit ain't two de bes' place for de
cullud man is down South, whar' he
was raise an' bo'n! Min' what T tell
ye! I raise a fambly of sixteen sons
and three wives ef I don't disremem
bcr en bless God none er 'em hez
been lynched or tar-en-feather J, er
beat up, er stove up, dat I knows on;
an' dem what got in de chaingang
w'ich wuz des a sorter side issue, so ter
speak is now law-abidin' citizens en
makin' a dollar a day, and Lawd sen'
Sunday! No, suh, gimme de South en
civilization every day in de year, en
Chris'mus gif when de time comes.
Let Er ItoII.
Greensboro Telegram.
We are friendly to all harmless
versions of the people, from circuses
di
to senatorial primaries, so let her rock.
Besides, it is useful. We have word of
ex-Senator Jarvis that without the Dri
mary, folks wouldn't know that an elec
tion is on hand. We don't care how
much the candidates fight, but we do
regret to see some of the brethren of
the press so wrought up over a matter
that will not be worth a green persim
rnon to them and for which they will
get no thanks after it's all over. But
that is their business and wa are not at
tempting to meddle with it.
Football Can no IIIm death.
Asheville. N. C, October 21.
William Dougal Price,of Palestine,Tex.,
a student at the Bingham school, died
this afternoon of an injury received in a
football game yesterday afternoon. The
first and second elevens were playing a
practice erame and Price, who was left
end, attempted to stop interference.
He fell on his head, the head being
partly under the body, and several
players fell on top. His spinal cord
was sprained and the lower part of his
body paralj zed. He was eighteen years
old.
Charlotte Observer Ibmucb Monday
Edition.
Charlotte, N-C, Oct. 22. The
Charlotte Observer this morning issued
a Monday edition and makes the an
nouncement that it has concluded to be
come a seven instead of a six-day pa
per as heretofore. This is the first per
manent daily Btarted in North Carolina,
although several Monday issues were
printed during the Spanish-American
war. South Carolina has Monday pa
pers, but V irgiuia, it is Baiu, is content
with six-day editions.
We want to impress upon every vottr
in Cabarrus county and this district the
importance of working and voting for
Hon. Iheo. r. Kluttz for-Congress.
His election seems certain, but there
should not be any re!axation of effort
or any resting on oars. It would in
deed be a calamity if Mr. Klutfz should
be defeated, especially by such a Btick
as either Ilolton or Shuford. Let every
Democrat and every voter who wants
the district represented by an able, in-
luential and incorruptible man, vote
j fur Mr. Kluttz.
THE PEOPLE Alt E WITH IIRYAN.
Baltimore Sun,
The reception given Mr. Bryan last
night was the most magnificent popular
demonstration ever witnessed iu this
city. The rain could not chill the en
thusiasm of the immense multitude
which waited patiently for hours in the
vicinity of the depot to welcome him,
and which crowded Music Hall and .vi
cinity to hear his addresses. There can
be no mistaking the meaning of such a
popular outpouring as that of last night.
It means that the people of this city are
with and for the cause which Mr. Bryan
represents, and that the popular heart
Btiil responds with ecthusiam to appeals
to its patriotism and its love of liberty.
It means that the people understand
the true issues of this campaign and are
not deceived by the shallow sophistry of
selfish interests. It means that they do
not regard Mr. Bryan as a demagogue
or a dreamer, but as an honest and
earnest patriot, who is fighing for the
cause of popular government against
dangers which threaten its existence. It
means that they recognize this is a
struggle between greed and gold on one
side and popular rights and free insti
tutions on the other. It means, last
but not least, that Maryland will cast
its electoral vote for Mr. Bryan. It is
the handwriting on the wall, as far as
Maryland is concerned, whatever the
Republicans and their allies may pro
fess to believe. The only hope the Re
publicans have of carrying the country
is by purchase and coercion. In com
mon with their so-called "honest
money" associates in Maryland their
only argument is the dollar. The Re
publicans and their allies know as well
as they know anything that if the issues
of this campaign were left to the unm
fluenced decision of the country, to its
reason and its conscience alone, they
would be beaten, horse, foot and dra
goons. Their only hope of success reets
on the dollar, which is the god of their
idolatry, and in which they live and
move and have their being. They are
straining every nerve to compass Mr.
Bryan's defeat by coercing their em
ployes and by raising an immense cor
ruption fund to tempt the desperate and
venal voter. These are the men, for
Booth, who have the effrontery to de
nounce Mr. Bryan as a demagogue and
a dangerous man.. The dangerous men
are those who are deliberately attempt
ing to debauch the country with their
"honest dollars" and intimidate it
through the power of their financial
combinations. We do not believe they
can succeed. We believe they will re
ceive a deserved and memorable rebuke
on the 6th of November and that the
manhood, the honor and the patriotism
of these United States will assert them
selves overwhelmingly against the
tvrannv and corruption that for their
own selfish ends are recklessly endan
gering free institutions. In Maryland
their game is surely up. lhey are
beaten beaten in spite of all their
money bags and their tons of campaign
literature, in spite of the solid phalanx
of ignorant and prejudiced black voters
who form the large majority of their
supporters in this State and who have
recently been inflamed to dangerous
frenzy by incendiary appeals from col
ored ministers and bishops. Thousands
of intelligent and patriotic white Re
publicans have declined to follow the
lead of these false nronhets and will be
found on election day voting for gov
ernment of the people and by the peo
ple and against government of pluto
crats and by plutocrats. Mr. Bryan is
a dangerous man dangerous to the
plutocrats, but not to the people. lie
represents the people's cause, and the
reception they gave him in this city
last night shows that they regard him
as a leader worthy of that cause, and
that in Maryland thev will carry its
banner to victory.
A Snake Which Didn't Have Any
Senc. -
Statesville Landmark.
Mr. "Red Buck" Bryant, who writes
mtereating stories for the Charlotte Ob
server on all sorts of subjects, has a
most interesting story in to-day's paper
about snakes, yarmints and the like,
which he has culled from an old history.
That part about black snakes is true to
life and reminds us of the snake of
George Gay, a good colored man in Cool
Spring, this county. A snake robbed a
hen's nest at George's place of all the
eggs and then George, to get even,
dropped a white door knob in the nest.
The fool snake Bwallowed that too, and
as it couldn't digest the door knob it
crawled off and died, and when the
vultures disposed of it there was the
door knob to show for itself.
Pay of Army Oflleer.
The salaries paid to officers of the
United States army
rank, are as follows :
Lieutenant General
Maior Generals . .
Brigadier Generals .
in the order of
11 000
7 500
5 500
3 500
3 000
2 500
1 800
1 500
1 400
Colonels
Lieutenant Colonels
Majors . . . , . .
Captain . . .. . . .
First Lieutenant . .
Second Lieutenant .
"A physician says that paople how
Bleep with their mouths shut live
longest."
"Well, people who go around with
their mouths shut when they're awake
seldom get killed."
PRACTICAL RELIGION,
8AM p. JONES.
"No man will ever get to heaven who
has not the love and service of God up
permost in his life."
"This one thing I do."
Paul had a cultivated head, a culti
vated heart, and linked to these he had
achievement. Brains cultivated doeB
not follow that a person is all right.
There are plenty of brains in hell, and
plenty more going there. You take
the politicians and shut them up in a
glasB case, and if the devil came along,
he'd say, "Gentlemen, that's ahead of
anything I've got." Many an old D. D.
in this country is fishing, and has never
got a bite. When I fish an hour and
catch nothing, I'm going to change my
bait or the hole, one or the other.
Lots of people go around singing,
"Jesus paid it all," and another set say,
"If He paid it all what are you dunning
us for?" I'll tell you how Jesus paid
it all. You've got to plank down all
you have and He'll plank down the
rest.
Faith and good works go together.
Paul cultivated his heart and had
achievement. The devil is ahead of
you; for he believes and trembles, and
you believe and sit still, you lazy scoun
drel. So get a move on you, and do
something. God does the raining and
shining, and the farmers alo the plow
ing and planting. You lazy old farmers,
you'd like to do the raining and shin
ing, and make God do the plowing and
planting. Wouldn t you shine?
The difference betweea a Methodist
and a Presbyterian is this: The Meth
odist knows he has religion, but is
awful afraid of losing it; the Presbyte
rian thinks he can't lose religion, but is
awfully afraid he hasn t got any.
In fifteen hundred billion years, they
say, there won't be one drop of water
in the Atlantic Ocean. How long will
it take the Republican party to give
prohibition ? When the ocean is dry.
How long before the Democratic party
gives prohibition ? When you can
wade across the Atlantic. If vou Re
publicans and Democrats don't vote for
prohibition, tell your wiyes when you
die to dress you in the thinnest suit of
clothes you ve got; for you are going to
a hot place.
Some of you women claim to be the
children of God, and you re not worth
killing. You will pay more for an Easter
bonnet than the whole year for uod s
cause, lousing:
"Shall jesus bear the cross alone,
And all the world go free ?
No, there's a cross for every one,
And an Easter bonnet lor me."
Lots of you Christians are like the
fellow who was married three times.
The first was for money, the second for
beautv, and the third for intellect. He
said he married the world, the flesh and
the devil.
It does not say, "Go, read my gos
pel," but "Go preach." A woman
went home and said, "We had a pow
erful sermon." "What was the text ?"
'I don't know; I can't remember it.
The preacher could not remember it
himself, and had to read it," she re
plied. If you preachers can't remem
ber, how do you expect your people to
do so?
I'm tramping on some of your toes?
Well, your toes ought to emigrate.
Lightning never hits twice in the same
hole because the hole ain't there for it
to hit. I believe in the kind of religion
that makes a clean, upright man out of
the dirtiest dog in town.
I was aBked to talk against Uatholice
in Boston, and I told them when I got
through . talking about Methodists it
was bed-time.
I'd rather have one good church
member than one thousand bad ones.
Where will you get the good member ?
Well sir, I reckon one would be lone
some in most crowds. About all that
two-thirds of the church members lack
of being in hell is dying.
Some of you would like to tight.
Well, father told me never to hurt a
fool or fight a cripple, so that will leave
you out. I never preached on heaven
because there were too few in my
crowd who would ever get there to find
out if what I said was true or not.
No man will ever get to heaven who
has not the love and service of God
uppermost in his life; who has not for
saken forever every sin. God help each
of us to determine jast now that "this
one thing we will do" give our lives to
. -. . . .... it-
JesuB Christ, and henceiortn Keep ms
commandments.
Cirover Cleveland' Poaitlon.
Princeton. N. J.. Oct. 25. In con
versation with the representative of the
Associated Press to-day, ex-President
Cleveland said : "I am surprised that
mv opinions and intentions as related
to the pending canvass should at this
stage so suddenly be deemed impor
tant. I am daily and nightly sought
out by newspaper reporters and politi
cians with all sorts of questions, some
Of which seem quite senseless. If, in
ood nature. I sav a few harmless
words, they are so padded before pub
lication as to be unrecognizable, or are
ade the pretext for utterly unauthor
ized presumption.
'It seems to ma that my titration
ought to be sufficiently understood and
pnreciated by thoughtful friends to
ustifv in their minds my determina
tion to remain silent during this excep
tional and distressing campaign.
HILL A HP'S LETTER.
As Patrick Henry said, 1 'It hi useless
to cry peace when there is no peace."
Henry Grady never loved the nation
into peace for more than about a week.
Better take that inscription off his
monument. What alarms me is the fact
that the northern papers that are most
bitter againBt us are the moat popular
with their people. This is a bad sign.
The New York Press boasts that its
circulation is twice as great as that of all
the republican papers of New York and
Booklyn combined and it is increasing
every day. It is ably and bitterly edit
ed. Not a daily issue but has some
fling or slander against the south. I
wouldn't care for what an editor
said if his readers dident approve
and indorse' it and it is reasonable to
suppose million northern readerB
of The Press hate us aa cordially
as does the editor. I can't account for
this antipathy, for we are not. doing
anything to them. In last Sunday's
paper The Press says that we "should
build a monument to Paul Sloan, the
deputy sheriff of Lake Charles, La.,
because he lost his life in trying to pro
tect a negro from a mob." That is not
bo bad, but he continues hia remarks
and says we "should set up his Btatue
in place of one of those erected to
Calhoun and Taney and Travis, whom
their own followers admit were incurably
wrong in every question of their time
and the northern mind reads Paul
Sloan's title to a monument as clearly
as John Brown's."
What is the use of trying to keep
calm and serene under such provo
cations. Chief Justice Taney and John
C. Calhoun were dead before our civil
war and I did not know that any
respectable citizen of the United States
would dare to dishonor their great
names. These were statesmen, not
politicians, and the tributes and eulo
gies paid to them by northern men were
full of praise and overflowing with
national lamentation. Even Daniel
Wibster spoke with much emotion in
his beautiful eulogy on Mr. Calhoun.
But now at thia late day the same old
fanatical cry is heard that caused New
England to send John Brown on his
malicious and devilish errand. The
same malignant howl that inspired
John G. Whittier to write of Webster:
"So fallen ! So lost I The light withdrawn
which once he wore
The glory from his gray hairs gone forever
more. All else is gone: from those great eyes the
tne soui nas neu
When faith is lost and honor dies, the man Is
dead."
And this because he honored Calhoun
and in his old age dared to say in his
speech at Capon Springs that a state had
the right to secede from the union when
the compact was broken. My father
was from Massachusetts and honored
Mr. Webster above all men and was in
tensely indignant at Whittier's fanati
cal puritanical verses. That triumve
rate Webster, Clay and Calhoun was
his ideal of great men, patriots and
statesmen, and it is mine to-day. My
contempt for old Whittier is very great,
and none of his slanderous effusions
shall find a place in my collection of
poems. I was surprised to find a lot of
them in William Cullen Bryant's col
lection.
But I am going to quit reading such
newspapers as destroy my serenity. I
have to hurry out into my garden and
dig too hard and too often thiB hot
weather to keep my choler down. I've
been building a woodshed, and a chicken
coop with two apartments, one of which
is for the Chnstmaa turkeyB, when the
time comes. Old Uncle Sam did die
sure enough, and I am now emphatically
the boy but I reckon it is good forme.
My wife says it v I ve worn out my
forked hoe digging up the hard ground
in the hose beds for the worse I am
insulted the harder I dig. I don't
understand some things. General Gold-
ing and General Wheeler and some of
our orators and preachers go up north
and mix up with those yankees and
come back loaded down and say: Oh,
they are all right; they are harmonious.
but I notice that the Grand Army wants
to regulate our schoolbooks, and the
editors dictate how we shall manage our
negroes. I'm doing my best to harmo-
lze, but when l reaa tneir eaitonais i
want to hire a cussin' man one thai
can't be broke of it and I'll give him
12 a day to use language on that editor.
He wouldent mind being cussed afar
off and maybe it would relieve my
feelings. He knows that every follower
of Taney and Calhoun still glory in
their constitutional teachings. He
knows that Dr. Andrews, who is the
honored head of the public schools of
Chicago, declared in a public addreBS
every principle the south maintained
and fought for had been decided in our
favor by the supreme court of the United
States before the war and has been since
the war confirmed by the present court.
He knows all that and he knows all
about Pana and Akron and New .York
city's treatment of the negro, and in,
face of all this he dares to spit out his
venom at us. I don't understand him
nor what manner of man he is nor how
he can sleep in peace or enjoy and digeBt
his daily food.
But we will get even next month and
then you will hear a howl. Good gra
cious! What a consternation wnat
weeping and wailing and gnashing of
teeth Bryan and Stevenson I Both
names end witn a big N and that com
bination has never failed yet.
Well I am woikirig on that book
now, and my frienda are sending the
names of their favorite poems from all
over the south. It is already interesting
and curious to note the ones that are
most popular. I shall publish a list of
them before long in the order in which
they stand.
And now about that scriptural enigma.
I have leceived several letters about it,
and but one correct answer and bo I will
have to give the solution as sent by the
Mississippi girls:
" Sou have heard, no doubt, the oft-told tale
Of Prophet Jonah and the whale
His living soul was kept within
1 : 11 he repented of his sin.
When the whale dies its oil gives light
Dispelling darkness from the night."
Bill Arp.
Puerile Campaign Argument.
Baltimore tiun. -
A dispatch from Fairmount, W. Va.,
quotes an official of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad as stating that "the com
pany would spend $10,000,000 on im
provements in West Virginia in the
event of the re-election of President Mc
Kinley. A different policy would be
pursued should Bryan be elected." The
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will make
improvements in West Virginia and
other States will continue in operation,
no "matter who is elected, and every
railroad conducted on progressive prin
ciples will extend its facilities as often
as its business justifies additions to its
plant. A railroad which adopted any
other policy would inevitably drift into
bankruptcy. The time has passed when
intelligent people could be influenced by
such statements as the one quoted
above. Corporations are in business to
make money, and they will miss no op
portunity to add to their wealth because
they are not in political sympathy with
the Administration. They will be as
ready to do business if Mr. Bryan is
elected as they would be if President
McKinley should be given another term
in the White House. Every person
with common sense understands this.
Capital will find as many legitimate in
vestments under a Democratic adminis
tration as it has during Mr. McKinley's
term of office. The business of the
country will go On just as it always haa
gone on in the past after a change of
administration. The railroads will add
to their equipment whenever the cir
cumstances warrant it, without regard
to the man in the White House. If
they do not they will invite competition,
and" men who have the capital and en
terprise wili enter the field and give the
public the facilities which are required.
ITIeKliilojIwm Run Mad.
Baltimore Sun.
The New York Sun has read Robert
E. Lee out of the Hall of Fame. 'At
this time," sayB thiB ardent supporter of
President McKinley, "there has come
up a false and muBhy sentimentality
which would have the American people
forget the outrage against the Republic
committed by the rebellious forces
under the command of Robert E. Lee.
It is that meek and mawkish
sentimentality which puts the name of
Lee among the great commanders en
titled to the veneration of posterity.
Hail to the Stars and Stripes.
Forever and alwavs death and confu
sion to its enemies!" Lee, says the
Sun, was a "deserter." Lee committed
"a capital military crime a crime
against civilization." The Sun's savage
attacks upon the South and its rancorous
onslaught upon the memory of the
great Confederate commander are sig
nificant as expressions of the views
entertained by the most extreme
imperialist newspaper in the United
States. Our New York contemporary
is not treating Southern "expansionists"
with as much consideration as their
recent conversion to Republicanism
would seem to demand. They will
scarcely loyeMcKinleyism more because
its chief newspaper advocate denounces
the immortil Lee as one who ''surrren
dered hh soldierly honor" and was a
common "deserter." The Southern
man who identifies himself with the
imperialism represented by the New
York Sun will find it impossible to
retain his self-respect.
It) rou and Beef.
Byron loved to look at himself far .
down the vistas of posterity. But what
would hia lordship say could he read
the following advertisement of a rural
store-keeper:
"You will find everything you want
at my store. I have groceries, meats,
stovea, ranges, millinery, corsets, By
ron's Walks, in four volumes, Ban
yan's Pilgrim'es Progress, and a Balve
that will cure bunions; also, Tennyson
and fresh cabbage in season. I can save
you 20 per cent, on books and beef."
Think of Byron on the same counter
with beef which he abhorred!
"Mr. Scrooge." said the bookkeeper,
"this paBt week I did the junior clerk's
work as well as my own. Thia being
payday, 1 thought it only right IP re-
mind you."
"Very good," said old bcroogs. "Let
me see your salary is f 12 and the clerk's
fG."
"Yes. sir," replied the bookkeeper,
beaming expectantly.
"Then, workiner half the week for
yourself is $(5, and the other half for the
clerk is $3. Your salary this week will
befU."