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AIIU ALL LOVER!) LIAIlSf -A MIN
ISTER'S NOVRL TlIEOItY.
Lovers everywhere are called to the
defense by the statement made in a ser
mon last Sunday night by the Rev. H.
J. Stephens, pastor of a Methodist
church in Washington. , , -
.It ia that more deception is practiced
between lovers than by politicians. Dr.
Stephens' flock' was startled, even shock
ed by his new pronunciamento.
Strangely enough the doctor's text
was? ';lt is not good that man should
be alone." ...... . , . ; , -
Here ia part of what the doctor said
ijn the course of bis novel and interest
ing discourse: ' . . , ; ;
' ."My object in selecting this text,"
said the minister, "is to make a special
talk on the morality of courtship and
marria. e. to ne people think this is
not a proper subject to be handled in
the pulpit, but I think it is, because it
is a subject that is handled in the word
of God. As to courtship I have only to
say that young people should be just as
honest when courting as they are in
other relations of life. As a general
t nng, this is not true. There are many
f ihebooils told and .more deception
pia-ticed among courting people than
taere is evn among politicians. No
young man has a moral right to pay any
special attention to a young woman
without acquainting her with the object
of his visits, and no young woman should
en courage the serious attention of a
young man she would not marry. If
sue does, she is not what sne snouia be.
The affection of the heart is too sacred
to be trifled with,' and the professional
flirt should be made to feel that decent
society has absolute contempt for her.
"No young man or woman who is
what he or she should be will try to pay
or accept the serious attention of more
than one person at a single time,
' Courting ought to be a religious busi
ness, and if there was more religion and
' common sense used in courtship, there
would be fewer unhappy marn gea and
divorce Buits and more nappy homes
The instution of marriage rests its foun
dation on the' command of God and the
requirements of our human nature.
This being ; the case, all men should
marry except those who may be barred
by some mental or lawful cause. "That
it is not good for man to be alone is
proved by the fact that the majority of
, criminals in our jails are either old
bachelorsror spinsters. Neither is jit
good for woman to be alone, for the
same command that places the obliga
Hon on man places a corresponding
obligation upon the woman.
"A good wife is one of the greatest
safeguards a young man can have. -1. be
lieve m people marrying young. ' jt.Ariy
marriages are . permanent moralities,
while deferred marriages are often tem
pestuous to sin, yet the custom ! of late
marriages appears to be on the increase.
Club life, to some extent, has taken the
place of home life. : The man who de
fers marrying until he can begin life
where his father leaves off may commit
the awful mistake of his life Joy waiting
too long; because men dine from good
wine. While improves and grows" bet
ter with age, the other does not. Any
"woman who is not willing to help a
worthy young man make a start in life
is not worthy of the love or support of
any man;whom she may, marry. , If a
young man is worthy of a wife, and a
young woman loves him as she should,
then it will not be a question of a fine
house, but of a fine man. r Did you ev-
'er notice that the man wants the wo
man he marries to be better than him
self? In nine cases out of ten the wo
man is the best of the two..
"No young woman should marry a
.man whom she does not consider her
equal in social standing, education, and
those other qualities which go to make
up a noble character. After you get
married, each one of you should be as
careful to cultivate and carry into the
new state of life all those little courtesies
that made the days of your courtship bo
bright and lovely. Love is like a fire;
it needs the constant adding of fuel to
keep it alive. A married man - should
be as gentle with his wife forty years af
ter he has married her as he was on the
day of her wedding. Married . people
should never stop courting: The mis
take some people make is that they stop
courting as soon as they get married,
when they ought to Just begin. The
thoughtful husband will spend most of
his evenings at home with his wife and
children. How would it look for the
husoand to sit up three or four nights a
week watching for the 'wife to come
home from the city? Has not a man's
wife as good a right to know where the
man spends his time as a man has to
know where his wife spends here? The
fact is that God intended .marriage to
be a blessing to both parties. A man
ought to be better for having a good
wife and a woman for having a good
husband. If marriage is not a blessing,
it is a misfortune. Marriage is not a
failure. When the failure comes it iB
the people."
.Explained, j ,;
"This,' said the "drug clerk, "is a
most wonderful hair rennwer. It's our
own preparation."
"Well, give me a bottle,'' said the
bald-headed man. "But, say, come to
think of it, why don't you use it?
You're pretty bald yourself."
"I can't use it. You see, I'm the
Before Using' clerk. The 'After Using'
clerk is out at lunch. You should see
him." I
SAM JON1IS IS HIMSELF AGAIN.
Atlanta Journal.' TV
With malice oward none and a disposi
tion to be charitable toward all men, I
shall, in this article, dispassionately dis
cuss measures and not men, only as
men are inevitably mixed with meas
ures. 1 know we prohibitionists are
dubbed fanatics, fools and mountebanks
by the whisky gang. It is but natural,
therefore, that we should nickname
their gang and apply such appellations
as red-nosed rascals, rummies and
whisky devils. ; (- .
The issue between prohibitionists and
anti-prohibitionists will live as- long as
there is a distillery, a drunkard, or a law
legalizing the whisky traffic. I am 53
years old, I have been fighting whisky
for 30 years; if I shall live to be 83 years
old 1 will be in the fight 30 years longer.
1 have watched the ever-shifting phases
of this fight. The sons, of temperance
who took the moral side of this ques
tion, Bo-called, pledging its .member
ship to neither touch, taste or handle
the unclean stuff; I remember when
they were at their work. I haye, been
through many of the prohibition fights
which means the present and eternal
extermination of the . traffic. , I haye
fought with the local optionists in their
effort to settle the question. -I have
studied with much interest the workings
of the dispensary in South Carolina and
some of the Georgia towns, and: as
memory runs over the past and as I
have watched the very turn and shift of
the fight I can see how, the anti-prohib
itionists have" always met the forces of
temperance witb all the strength of
their logic and all the cunning of their
lying.
Very soon the legislature of Georgia
must face the issue and vote upon a
dispensary bill - for all the towns and
cities in Georgia' with a population of
more than 5,000; tin this tight we will
see and bear the same gang as they
come to the front with their logic and
; lies to meet all arguments and down all
facts presented by the temperance ad
vocates. I remember when we talked
of state prohibition the whiskyites said,
"No, that woa't do, let's have local op
tion,"' let each ' community settle this
question for itself." : Later along when
we wanted local option they said, "No,
you Ican't make the traffic a crime
in one county and . legalize it in an
other," and they chawed and spit and
said that it was unconstitutional to in
t rfere with personal liberty anyway,
that prohibition don't prohibit and if
you voted it out and closed the saloons
there would be more whisky sold than
when the saloons were open; as much
as to say when the saloons , were open
they -sold 'all they could and when you
close them up then they would sell more
than they could, and that is the speci
men of their lying, and that lie is just
about as logical as any liquor lie.' Now,
when the dispensary , which will furnish
more liquor and better liquor to the
drunkard, with all profits going to the
town or county to care for the indigent
and paupers, is suggested, they rise up
and say "Noj look at Sputh aroliha's
dispensary;' it'iB a' failure; more drunk
ards in South Carolina than when they
had saloons.- It will take a constabu
lary of 1,000 officials to enforce the law.
It is all wrong anyway for a town or a
county to deal in the stuff."
' ' I am candid when, I . say that I am
not only disgruntled when the present
status of things, but I am disgusted.
We have tried the local option, law.
What ' advantage .to . jtne to keep my
premises clean when the filth of my
neighbor's premises gives me the ty
phoid fever? What avails local option
in Bartow county if Floyd's saloons
send their drummers into our town and
ship their jugs by the dozen and hun
dred in up on us. The whisky interests
have corralled the whisky traffic in
Georgia in about twenty -four of our
counties, and from thsse central points
they are flooding theState. The thous
and 4 men in Georgia who fill their
pockets aud feed their gain at whisky
dealers, these are the same men who
give a part of the profits their business
to campaign funds, who take a hand
in the formation of legislative commit
tees, and who carry with them. the
power to defeat any bill that may
abridge their rights or diminish their
gains. The profit on liquor is immense,
and by reason of this fact I honestly
believe that not only the Uniten States
congress but every legislatare in every
state in this union is being controlled,
so far as the interest of that traflle is
concerned, by the whisky gang. I but
state a fact? wheu I Bay that in every
legislature there is a large company of
men who come to the whisky traffic as
a patrimony.. Some men are for whisky
and their daddies were for whisky and
their grand daddies were for whisky
and their great grand daddies were for
whisky, and clear back to Lot's de
bauch after the fires that burnt up So
dom and Gomorrah they go, and their
children after them will go on down as
a patrimony to the whisky traffic until
the fires of the last day shall burn up
this" world. There is another gang in
the legislature controlled by the whisky
traffic, and they are bought like mules
or sheep, so much a head, some with
money Borne with patronage, some with
things that help them into office and
help them to keep office. When a
whisky man goes to the legislature with
a mortgage on his farm or home and
at the close of the session goes back
home, pays off the mortgage, Bets him
self up as a money lender, and takes
his family off on a winter tour, if his
step mammy has not Bent him Borne
money he has been a-trading with some
body. These rumors go the rounds, on
some of the whisky advocates and their
characters' are so monumentally bad
that these rumors are believed whether
they are true or not.
There is another class in the. legisla
ture who are for whisky, they are igno
rant men who will follow anybody that
wears good clothes and that invites them
o lunch like those, famous- lunches in
ona of the rooms of the capitol, , where
oysters and salads and soft and hard
drinks were furnished right in the cap
itol building, the lunch counter presid
ed over by a former Benator who is now
but of a job. These lunches a blind
man can see are furnished by the liquor
dealers, and a man that will sit down at
those lunches, eat those oysters, and
drink the wine and (beer and whisky,
and then vote with the whisky , crowd,
I have as much respect for , a fellow
who goes home with enough money to
pay off his, mortgage as I have for the
glutten andt swill-tub that takes it but
in something to eat and drink and does
their bidding. , . '.t.ii?- t-.l
By the way I wonder who will preside
over the lunch counter in the capitol at
this session of the legislature? .
I bebeve as strongly as that I believe
that the sun arose this morning
and 'then set behind, the ' wescrn
hill this evening: that the, senate of
Georgia today is fixed, fixed unalterably,
in the interest of the whiskygang; fixed
against, the passage of anv bill byrthe
present, legisIatur0wBich Jboksl tJ the
crippling of the iiqaorpower or the con
trol of that traffic. The house may, pass
a dispensary bill or a prohibition bill,
but it will be killed in' the senate,) and
if the history of ; the present 'legislature
does not verify my assertion I will make
the amend honorable' by Van' abject
apology through the press. . '"'. "' .
Speaker Little, of the.house,! so far .as
I am concerned, is.; at perfect liberty! to
appoint any ort of a temperance, cam
m ittee he may desire', whether any 'or
all of their noses shall be blood red, pink
or lily white, it 'cuts, nq; figure, ' The
lower ,hpuso.maypas8 any bill they wish,
but, gentlemen, it will; be defeated,
hopelessly defeated, and die in the sen
ate. Later along I Bhall . turn much of
my attention to the temperance com
mittee in the senate. I am a personal
friend of Clark Howell; politically we
are not bed fellows afc'd1 never :wilUhe,
unless he comes 'over vand jgats infamy
bed. f I never will go over ,'ahd get : in
Clark's bed, and he don' t wrapt to get in
my bed, for he knows that a bed fellow
with me cannot be elected to any office
Tn Georgia. I don't .want any, ffice.
and when a mah has got no office- nor
ever shnll want any office, then he can
sass anybody he pleases and fear ''noth
ing, except perchance some fellow might
lick him, but it has been so long : since
I was licked that I have forgotten "how
it feels, and I had just as soon-be licked
as not just to keep up the remembrance
of how a licking feels.
' . The , average fellow may- hot think
there is much trouble to the, gang ,in
what I say,1 hut I can give them a great
deal of trouble, and I am going s to do
it. I am goin to help prove that f 'the
way of the transgressor ' is hard' and
that ?' uneasy is the head that wears the
Official crown" if he panders 'o vicious
sentiment and runs -with the gang - to
get it. The whiskyites are at perfect
liberty to ! say anything they please
about me or the cause I represent. They
may call me any names they please,
but I shall carry every moment of my
life a conscience void of offence-and the
consciousness that J am right, with the
satisfaction of knowing that I stand by
my convictions of right; that I do not
come to the whisky traffic as an inher
itance or patrimony; that there is. not
money enough coined or printed to
buy me, nor the allurements of office to
move me, with gratitude to God for
sense enough to keep from following
blindly any crowd that has position or
giyes lunches with wine or liquor. If
it is true, I shall say what I please, then
I will take the consequences. I had
rather have the consciousness when I
come to die that I had fought with all
my might the enemies of God and the
enemies of my race; that I had fought
for the women and children of this
country, e,ven though like St. Paul, I
shall be thrice beaten with rods and
thrown into prison and finally with my
neck on a block and my bloody head
rolling off, if like him I can say: "I
fought a good fight, have finished my
course and kept the faith." Rather
this a thousand times than to be elected
to office and receive, the fruits of gain,
then lie down and die at last a dirty old
politician whom the world would hate;
die unwept, unhonored and unsung,
and amid the horrois oi the damned
seek the darkest corridors of damnation
to hide not only from the gaze of de
mons about me, but to hide myself from
the gaze of : my own eyes and the lash
ings of my own conscience.
Take your recesses, gentlemen, visit
the Georgia state fair in a body, drink
your whisky en route, turn over a part
of your crowd j for repairs1 revel and
riot, but remember there is a God and
a judgment ahead of yoi. The scene
on that car at Forsyth, ; where the car
had to be locked to keep them in en
route to Valdosta, is enough ' to make
the present legislature pass unanimous
ly a prohibition law which ' would pro
tect them, and forever abolish the ac-H
cursed stuff from this state. Who fur
nished the liquor for that trip? We
know better who drank it. Sam Jones.
BILL AUP'S' LETTER.
Some sad and some sweet memories
came over me as I journeyed on the old
Ueorgie Kailroad from Atlanta to Au
gusta. It was the first railroad I t ever
saw and traveled on. My good old father
was one of the original stockholders.- He
subscribed $5,000 and paid it as it was
called for. In those days roads were
not built on bons or questionable, mys
terious schemes. There was no pre
ferred stock or income bonds or first and
second mortgages, but everything was
simple, plain and honest. 1 have great
reverence for that road. I lived in Law
renceville while it was being built. Stone
Mountain was our nearest depot, and it
was there I first ventured to board a
train as I journeyed to Athens to enter
college. How solemn, how Inspiring was
that rideWl rem&nber that it seemed
tome that the trees and fenecs and farms
and jiabitation8 "were all moving swiftly :
backwards, while the train seemed to be
still and cfuivering on its track. , J had
the same feeling the- first y time I ever
went up in'ah'elevator".' ' It 'was at the
Gilse House, in New York and I was
not conscious of "going up but thought
the hotel , was rapdly descending into
some subterranean - cavity. Young peo
ple nowadays have ho sflch experience.
They do not remember the time jwheii
there were (na railroads J nor; sewing
machines , or cooking stoves or matches
or Bteel pens, and therefore they cannot
appreciate or be -gratefil i,fon the
blesBitijga they enjoyv- 4iH iiv! f
As we neared Stone mountain and i
look' upon its'bald, sumuilt I was carried
back in mehwry to the delightful days of
my youth, when nearly sixty years, ago
that mountain was our try sting place
and boys and girls journeyed there' six
teen miles from La wrenpevflle and spent
a happy 'day and while k here arid on-the
way we, reveled in love a oyouag dream
and eyes looked love to eyes that spoke
ngaiu. x rviuvmuvr waen-iuere was a
tower on that mountain's top-a tower
.Lou ieet uign-wnoee srenaer ' top aia
sometimes, touch the cleudsand il was
built' by1 Aaron Cloud,- whose very riame
made him a fitting architect.- It,i was
the first skyscraper ever built in Georgia,
I remember the delightful day when a
brunette lassie with hazel eyes and
Indian hair ascended those winding
stairs with me and as we sat together
on its dizzy pinnacle. JLthoiight I was
little, nearer heaven vtnan L had ever
been before. Under pretense of shielding
her from harm, I half enclosed her with
my arm and the palpitating' lactfjupon
her-bosom told mo how fast her 'heart
was beating and there almost in the
clouds wepligh ted ur troth. I remem
ber when one winter night the storm
came and the raia descended a,nd the
winds Blew,' and that tower fellnnd great
was the fall of it. I remember whea
there was a fide hotel at the Base of that
mountain and one night there was a
ball in the spacions dining room, and
''bright the lights shone o'er fair women
and brave men," and for the first lime
I saw that queenly' girl whom the boys
called Becky Lattlmer, and whose daBh
ing beauty drew them, r to her as molas
ses draws flies.' Her father lived not
far a way, ,a substantial farmer, and a
few years later ''our Becky" became;
TVIrs.i Rebecca Felton, the wife Of the
learned and eloquent doctor of Garters-;
ville. 1 remember when that great
solid mountain of granite seemed larger
yes, much larger than it looks to be
now, fori was young then and nature
had not begun to shrink with me. " Ev
erything is smaller now and every year
gets smaller still. As Pope says of the
dying Christian, "The world recedes
it -disappears," and so it will to thoee
who die of: old ago. Tom Jlood ex
pressed it beautifully and pathetically
when he. said:
!'l remember, I remember the fir trees dark
and iti, ' " ' '
I used to think their slender tops were close
against the sky.
But now I'm growing older, and And It little
iov
To Know I'm farther off Irom heaven than
when I was a uov.
I remember that historical town called
Madison, where manv of my college
mates lived.-4 They are' all gone now,
not one is left to comfort me in my
dfifilinini? vears. It was here I saw this
railroad when I was a boy of fourteen,
and it was completed to Maoison. vv nai
a sensation of wonder and alarm as I
looked at the huge leviathan that came
puffing i down the track with a train
behind it. My father had to 'hold my
hand.for I trembled lest it should jump
the track and kill us all.
Mv father was nroiid of that road
proud because he helped to build it.:Iie
kept that stock for, twelve years without
receiving a dividend. The stock went
down. down. down, till it reached its
lowest point in 1849. It was then worth
only 27 cents on the dollar, but he Lad
faith and clung to u with hope. About
that time a commercial revolution a
cnsis-a panic came over the country
,and to save his mercantile credit he was
forced fo sell his stock. It 'distressed
him and grieved my mother," but he
said there was no help tor it- lhe
stock must go. " I remember the1 night
he came home and told my. mother
that the stock was gone be had sold it
fo Judge Ilutchins for 27 cents on the
dollar the Btock that he had paid 100
cents for twelve years before. Father
was sad and the tears fell on mother 8
cheek and none of us cared for supper.
When father went back to the Btorethat
night I sat down by mother's side and
took her hand in mine. "Mother,"
Baid I, "you must not feel so bad about
that stock. Let me tell you . a secret.
Last night I proposed to Octavia Hut
chins, I asked her to marry me and she
said she would and we have fixed the
time the 7th- of-.March and i in less
than three months I'Jl get that stock
back and it will be in the family again.
Now, don't you tell, but you mustn't
cry any more," and I kissed her on her
cheek and said,' "Mother, Mr. Shake
Bpeare says 'All's well that ends well.' "
But my dear mother was a woman and
womanlike she told an intimate friend
what-1 said, about getting the stock
back and that friend told another wo
man in confidence and the confidence
kept spreading and spreading until the
engagement and the stock matter got
all over the village and at last to Judge
Ilutchins. I was mortified and alarmed.
but my affianced Btuck close to me,' for
she was .dreadfully in love, though she
denies it to. this day." In due time .. we
were married and were so happy we
didnt want ariy-stock or anything else
hardly. A few days after our marriage,
as I was passing his office, the stern pkl
judge called me in. He unlocked his
iron safe and taking out a paper, said to
me, "I heard that you told yqur ; good
mother that you were going to- marry
Octavia and get that railroad stock back.
Did you tell her that?" I was intensely
alarmed,' but, like George Washington,
I would not tell & lie. "Yes, judge, I
did," said I, "but I didn't mean it, "
I replied. I saw the twinkle in his eye.
" Well,", said.ie'I thought that if you
were determined to have it ,1 had , just
as well give it to you now," and he
handed , me the certificate with the
transfer already written. ... I don't know
what I said," but he enjoyed mv embar
rassment.- What a considerate man he
was.-a-1 remember that a f few monthB
after he sent six of the family negroes
up to our house one morning before we
gtjt up. We heard them talking on the
front stepS'and my wife asked me to get
up and Bee what they wanted. They
informed me that "oldmaster told them
he had given them to me and Miss
Octavia and to come up here." They
wore all servants who had long said that
when Mses Octavia got married they
were g wine, to live with her. t That was
the usual patrimony, pi slave owners , to
their children.. We. .had, no use for
them, and sent them back with a kind
note begging' the judge ; to keep" them
tor us awhile longer. ' Some years after
that Mr. Lincoln set them free and to
tell the truth I am glad of it, for they
were always a care and an expense..
Now, while, . I . write our train has
reached Union Point and I . .remember
when we college boys used to- take the
taHdem mule train from here to Athens.
It was ari'alf day journey, "for it took us
eight hours .to make the forty miles, but
we'fode on tob and had lots of fun and
plenty of good things to ' eat that our
mothers had provided. Yes," I love to
ruminat? about .those good , old . times
when everything had a roseate hue and
we wrote love letters to our sweethearts
and reveled in love's young dream.
. Bill Aki
THE HE KLE.TpNFJcIINEY.
Baltimore Sun, . . ;, ,.-j -
Yesterday' the nation 'recorded its
will at the" polls after a political con
test conducted with 1 extraordinary
earnestness'. .Issues tof 'supreme im-
portance were invoiveu, auueung wie
permanency of republican institutions
and the rights of the masses. It was
a battle royal from start to finish, but,
despite the intensity with which it
was waged; patriotic men of all parties
will accept the result as the deliberate
verdict of a majority of the American
people. ' ' ' - :
On July o The Sun, 'commenting
upon the adoption of the siler plank
by the Kansas City Convention at the
demand of Mr. Bryan, said; "Mr.
Bryan has diminished his prospects of
election and weakened his party by
the attitude which he assumed when
he dictated its platform.
His 'vindication' may prove the most
costly blunder in his political career.
Like the chargo at Balaklava, 'it is
magnificent, but it is not' war.' "
That ill-judged and unnecessary de
claration for free coinage has cost Mr.
Bryan the Presidency." Mr. McKinley
has been re-elected, not because a ma
jority of the people endorse his ad
ministration, but because they were
afraid; without understanding the
situation, that Mr. Bryan ; if Presi
dent; would disturb the financial con
dition of the country: There was; no
ground for this fear, for Mr. Bryan, if
electedwbuld not have- had the sup
port of A majority of . Congressmen if
he had attempted to secure the repeat
of gold stajidard legislation. In forc
ings declaration for free coinage into
the platform he gave his political op
ponents the Opportunity which they
desired to play upon the fears of the
timid. -
The Presidential campaign of 1900
wiUloag'bo remembered because of
the forces which were arrayed against
each other and because of the princi
ples at stake. The Republican party
carried the country in iyt upon a
single issue- the preservation of the
eold standard, a purely business ques
tion. Itwon then. not because all its
polices were acceptable to a majority
of .the people, but because it was
pledged to maintain a stable financial
system. During, the period within
which it has been in power irom
March 4, 1897,1 to the present time
its course has been revolutionary and
in utter conflict with American princi
ples. It provoked and has waged for
more than a year and a half a war ot
conquest based upon a denial of the
fundamental principle of this .Repub
licthe "consent of the governed."
It has given special privileges to mo
nopolies at the expense of the masses.
It has promoted the growth of trusts
and licensed them to prey upon con
sumers and workingmen alike. The
record it has made merited a stern re
buke by the American people without
regard to party. For no man should
be influenced by ordinary political
considerations when the safety of the
Republic is imperiled or when an
economic policy threatens the masses
with industrial slavery.
1 In this contest the Democratic party
has stood for the interests of the plain
people. Arrayed against it have been
the trusts and the vast influence which
they exert, the corporate wealth of
the country, an army of officeholders,
and all others whose selfish interests
have been promoted by Republican
legislation. All who have - received
favors in the past, all who expected
favors in the future, exerted the vari
ous influences at their command to
perpetuate the power of the Republi
can party. The Democratic party had
no "friends" of this character to assist
it in the contest for equal rights, . in
the protection'of the masses from the
encroachments of the monopoly and
in the maintenance of this Republic
as the champion of liberty in all lands.
It had no "friend" with big purses to
buy vietory for it in consideration of
future favors. " It has fought the bat
tle of the people 'with no other re
sources than those which it derived
from the strength of its cause. It has
stood fof definite principles for jus
tice,' humanity and fair play. It has
asked no favors and it has promised
none. ' " ' -" :
f Now that the battle has been fought
and the issues t have been decided,
"let us," to use, the words of the late
General Grant on a memorable oc
easion, ','have peace." . This great Re
public, asat present organized,.ought
to survive any political contest. It
rests upon the sure foundation of the
consent of the 76,00,000 people who
will be governed after March 4 ' next .
by the President and. Congressmen
elected yesterday. From the new ad
ministration the. people expect and
will demand all that a free and en
lightened people are entitled to. The
countrytwants peace at . home and
abroad. It wants equal opportunities
for rich and poor, for individual en
terprise as . well as , for . corporations.
It wants relief from oppressive taxa
tion and release from trust domina
tion. It . wants government of the
people, by the people, for the people;
not government of the syndicates, by
the syndicates, for the syndicates. It
wants general prosperity, not the en
richment of favored interests at the
expense of the massesJ It wants to
secure to every man the right to vote
as he pleases, free from coercion in
any form. It wants wise' legislation,
good, goyemment and no departure
from correct principles. This is the
ideal which every , thoughtful and
patriotic , American citizen . should
keep constantly before him. ' -
A Remarkable Man.
Charlotte Observer. :
' The dispatches this morning from
Lincoln, Neb., telling that within fifteen
minutes after he had closed his last
speech from his front porch yesterday,
Mr. Bryan was m the second story of
his house, sound, asleep, suggests the
explanation of the man's extraordinary
physical endurance. A North Caro
linian, who traveled ' with him in his
tour of this State in 1896, was recently
heard to say that he could make a
speech from the rear platform of his
car, then lie down in his stateroom and
in five minutes be asleep. It was added
that he is an enormous eater, and these
two bits of information, as to his capa
city to sleep, like Napoleon, under any
circumstances, and to eat everything in
aight at every call, afford at least a
par'xal explanation of his otherwise un
accountable capacity to travel and talk
incessantly for months on a stretch.
Exchange Trade of Cuba.
Washington. Nov. 1. According to
official reports, the imports of merchan
dise in Cuba for ten montns, ending
April SO, 1900, amounted to 159,925,
339: of this 13.074. 110 was admitted
free. The exports of merchandise from
the island of Cuba to other countries
during the period named, amounted in
value to 135,404,421. .: ,
"I don't like to make calls with my
wife." , 4 .i j tf . -
"Docs she pick you up afterward on
your grammar?"
"No: but she makes me give ner iu
cents for every lie I tell." . ..
Fan "nf Salisbury, who
was one of thb Republican nominees
for elector-at-large, win succeeu rec-sentative-elect
E. Spencer Blackburn
as assistant United States district at
torney. He was offered the position
by benator rntcnara.
Greece has seven cotton mills.
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