VOL. X, LAKE PROVIDENCE, EAST CARROLL PARISH, LA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1897. .NO 24 .. fluWf THE BUTTERFLIES. But 0 butterflies abrc7e the meadow grasses, the Above the daisies with their golden eyes, doe The shadow of a cloud that lonely passes; (I I walk with you, 0 wandering butterflies! serf The freckled wings that faunt and fall so "TI gently, for That cross before me dappling to the skies, wot The wings with fairy jewels marked so quaintly, row Are you my childhood's happy butterflies? Dear butterflies that rest u on the clover, ser And joyous then in winged lightness rise, pro You know one pathway I would fain dis- lan cover, the Ah, lead me home, free wandering but- an terfliesl Show me what way you passed from my old of summers, My dhildhood-summers, under far-off ho skies; tab Familiar wings, you pilgrims, you light- "T comers, bel Home to old meadows, happy butterflies! On one green hill with grassy chamber hol- str low, "I The old, old home, the long-lost garden lies; Flit not so high, too spent am I to follow; Yet soon I'11 come, my laughing butter- thi flies. ev And Earth will place her anclent palm so Th tender se] Alittle while upon these darkened eyes, Th then soft I'll wake, the early morning splen- fre dor To climb with you, my old, sweet butter- in fllesl --Irene Putnam, in the Independent. do it oo0oo00000o ooooooooooo I WHILE THE BAND 8Wyo WAS PLAYING. Tc 17 r cA'UIs A. wALKS. th an VENING the terrace or at a German bath. Band ptiayjog. Rows of little s o*' tables on either side. si' - , Groups of students nO strutting about showing de off their scars. Sprink- fi ling of officers in gor geous unifprms. Stout Frauen and se stouter Herren. All back hair and spectacles. Usual American and Eng lish contingent. (Pretty American girl, as she strolls gl up and down with male admirer from ts the land of the stars and stripes.) ki "Isn't it amusing to listen to the th scraps of conversation at the different T1 tables? A regular cannonade on both iti sides! It's laughable! Such an ab- th surd jumble! Do listen as we go R back!" pi (Male admirer, returning to earth.) in "I hadn't noticed, I confess." in (Pretty A. 0.) "We will walk a 0( little slower to get the full effect." di (1st table.) "Your pa's gone off at now and I want the waiter. What's ti the German for waiter?" di (2nd table.) Two officers in confi dential aside. "Ach! Wundershun! P Busses Madchen!" (Across the Aisle.) n< "Left her in Paris. The dear lady fi said she really' couldn't, you know." w (Next table.) "Marry anything that bi looked as much like a monkey!" (To rc right.) "Mais les Allemands! Guels 0 bates!" (To left.) "A'd the best of V it, Lor'! There's noplace like 'ome!" pi (Bridal couple in antiphonal coos.) e( "Darling! dearest!" (Lower down ec two students noisily drinking toasts.) "Hoch! hochl hooh!" (Opposite' n "My stars, what a dress!" i (Native Professor talking in guttural w German no one could understand, and C gesticulating wildly to companion, va ried by embraces on both sides.) d (American enfant terrible.) "Hi, there, T you stupid! Take this old duff away!" w Slaps mug off the table, contents 1 water the trousers of passing gentle- t, man-tableau vivant. (End couple.) i "What do you want?" u (He.) "Your heart!" . . . . (Male admirer.) "That last remark v was rather interesting. Did you catch >I it?" (Pretty American girl dimpling into smiles.) "Yes. Do you think she will give it to him?" (Male admirer.) "Ah, that's an- v other question. Woman is an un- i known quantity,you know,"-sighe. s "It's half our charm, too." a (Pretty A. G.) "Some one has said a we are our national motto personified, I 'Infinite variety in unity,' I think it t was Charles Dudley Warner." (Male admirer.) "It sounds like I him." (Pretty A. G.) "Isn't he delight-I fl?" (Male admirer.) "Yes, Charles Lamb with American mint sauce." (Pretty A. G.) "Let's sit down here for a few moments and enjoy that de licious bit from the Cavaleria Busti cana." (They sink into chairs.) (Male admirer.) "This is perfectl Why don't we have this sort of thing in America? Good music and ex quisite ilowers; refreshing and elevat ing." They lose themselves in the artistic strains of the Intermeaso. Two old ladies, evidently British, at table next to them. (1st old lady.) "Ah, that was quite lovely!" Beckons mysteriously to waiter, and asks that astonished individual to go to the band condouctor (a regimental one), and tell him to play "The Watch on the Bhine." Waiter smiles benignly and disappears into the backgranuud, without the re motest intention of execuating the-or der. In a few.momeants band strikes up "See the Conquering Hero Comes." Old lady rises enthusiestically and raps the table with her fan: "es! That's it 'The Watch on the Rhine, what a grand thing!" (Sad old lady, palling her by the dress.) "Sit down, Mtaril I never stead up for *g but 'God Sav the Queen.' ?-t Americeas girl ad male ad mire', laughing.) -"Thabt was richl (Male dmirer.) "Imains a Ger man waiter, whe attention is strictly mited te his duties, requting the with Ike odleers of the regimet si*. tiiag grounad, to alter the programme. Why, he would be eourt-umartilled sl. But she was just as satisfied with 'See the Conquering Hero Comes,' so it doesn't matter." (Male admirer, suddenly becoming 8RITI serious and drawing his chair nearer: 1 "This has been a delightful evening, for me at least" (drops his voice). "I some won't allow myself to think of to-mor- me1 row." (Pretty A. G.) "Do you have to de. w sert our party so soon?" (turns her Ch profile to him, and watches the colored State lanterns twinkling into being about ;ier a the grounds.) He studies the profile ;pex a moment before answering. Irive "Have to? Yes. That's the worst to m( of a business cablegram, and I had Feria hoped-" he stops. (People rise from goal. tables next to them and go away.) itten "To try and make you like me a little mere better." iand (Pretty A. G.) "Why, we are not lenli strangers, you know -" (hesitates.) lorce "I hope we are very good friends." Ines' (Male admirer.) "Friends! Is that ,olat all, Kate? I can't be satisfied with had that." (Silence) and they watch the tI ever-shifting seene before them, dowI The tables are gradually de' Briti serted and the throng thins out. migl The band plays a last selection mere from ParsifaL A young moon shows ure, in the sky. back (He, under his breath.) "Kate, Br don't torture me this way, I've stood eutti it so long. Must I tell you again that s w I love you, that I can't live without Evei you." (She, rising hastily.) "No, into you mustn't. Not now. There come such Tom and Lucy to look for us." anst (He, desperately.) "But I leave on plan the early express. You must give me of A an answer now, (passionately,) only Chit one word, darling, one little word, yes deer or no." gods (She, with a catch in her voice, and ,con e sweeping him forward with an impul- Brit sive gesture.) "Well, if you insist, maa no! I mean yes! No, I don't. Oh, the dear! What am I saying. Yes, yes. ope I've loved you-i--all the time." (Final the flourish of band. The terrace is de- jabi d serted.)-The Iroquois Magazine. gua d sett Old Railroad. him The oldest railroad west of the Alle. pire Is ghany Mountains is that running be. T n tween Lexington and Louisville, Ky., hills .) known as the Lexington Division of con e the Louisville and Nashville system. thr< it The Legislature of Kentucky granted Pat h its charter January 27, 1830, under and . the name of the Lexington and Ohic tics ,o Railroad Company, and the most tha prominent men of the Blue Grass State, a including Henry Clay, were among its Ma incorporators. In a few months $400," tra 000 of stock was subscribed, and the and directors engaged Professor Matthews of if at $3 a day to survey the line. Mat- not 's thews was granted an assistant at $1 a 3 day and an attendant at $12 a month. che The route was from Lexington to The 1! Portland, a village on the Ohio River, evi, now a part of Louisville. The road's dre ly first President was Elisha I. Winter, the who was sent to England to study the The it buildingof the Great Western Rail- the 'o road, then in process of construction. del Is On his return his salary was fixed at Ihl of $2000 a year, and an engineer was em- itez !" ployed at $4.50 a day. With this roll ) economical staff construction was Ma n commenced. He ) The cornerstone was laid at the cor- fan ner of Upper and Water streets, Lex- tril ington, with elaborate ceremonies, at Eat al which Governor Metcalfe presided, on the id October 22, 1831. out a- The road was built on a stone foun- 1 s.) dation, on which stone sills were laid. fer e, To these were spiked the rails, which sat !" were straps of iron. On August 14, )ut ts 1832, it was formally opened for about am e- two miles. It was at first operated Ie m.) with horses, the first locomotive being Iee unsuccessful. In 1851 the entire lino wi was completed. In 1881 the Louis- me rk ville and Nashville purchased it.- iii ch New York World. is to A "Salted" Gold Mine a Bonanza. the ae Now that the discovery of gold in be( the Klondike region has attracted uni- gr - versal attention, the story of the "salt- s - ing" of a gold mine in the Transvaal in' i. some years ago is f interest. Three shi men were concerned in the swindle, s id and they made Klerksdorp, some two mi id, hundred miles north of Kimberley, an it the scene of the "salting." we By "salting" is meant that the per- ch e petrators load a shotgun with gold dust Do and blow the charge into the rock. en t- Specimens are then submitted to the sk prospective victims, and as they seem me les to be filled with gold, he buys. The would-be swindlers in South ee Africa discovered a bit of veldt near ar d- Klerksdorp. Of gold there was abso- cI ti- lutely.no trace. They blew the rock (a full of gold and then sold the property m ict to a "jay" for $25,000. The "jay" st ing floated a company for four times that a ex- much money and the company sank t at- shafts in all directionas. I In the last five years the company at tic has taken nearly a million dollars' worth of gold out of the "salted" mine at and the would-be swindlers are cha- T ly.) grined, to say the least. The only a o oral that can be drawn from this oj hat story is that it does not always pay to a d- be dishonest. tell -a Peter the Oresrt's Moament. ra An immense block of granite, hay e- ing a given weight of notlessthan 1217 e or- tons, was recently put in place at St. p es Peteraborg as the pedestal for the new b ,s statue of Peter the Great, the block t1 ad having been transported four miles by a land over a railway and thirteen miles i e, in a caisson by water. The railway old consisted of two lines of timber fur- j Sitni ashed with hard metal grooves, be- I for twen which grooves we placed a ,. spheres of hard brass about sir inches a ad- io diamqter; on theAei spheres the t h" frame with its load was easily moved B lr- by a force of sixty men working at the * etly aptani with treble-parchase blocks. & the Aother lasgebloak, measring thirty-" at, ire by ireen by fourteen feet, is ro sit ported to have been taken out a few a me. mmths since from the rigahq - al- les, noer Dabeettie, Sooj3aud, the Mboof waishin #50 to es,-4iw Tork a WHERE EMPIRES MEET, It it is BRITISH-INDIAN RAMPART ALONG breal THE ROOF OF THE WORLD. meal cans) Some Characterlstics of the Tribesmen of the Hills-A Possible Remnant of the fonn Lost Tribes of Israel-The Women bless Wear Trousers-A Pastoral People. tic, t Chitral, India, is the one border sons State which touches the Russian fron- the r tier and also the Chinese. It is the ents apex of the British Indian wedge, on w Iriven to the heart of the continent, base to meet the apices of two other im- ing serial wedges driven home to the same ner, goal. The Russian advance first drew durn attention to it, or something more than has mere attention. Captain Younghus- ever band, traveling in that region, sud- the lenly came upon a Russian military hear Iorce under the famous pioneer of con- to p quest, Captain Grombchevsky, or his just solaborer, Captain Yonoff. The latter The iad actually come through the passes Af the Hindoo Koosh and ad4anced ing lown the slopes. On meeting the can British party, the Russians made a say mighty show of innocence, as though reqt merely traveling for health and pleas- wit are, and so by an easy circuit moved Mot back to their own land. proc But the incident set Simla and Cal- tion cutta to thinking, and Downing street im as well. Chitral was closely watched. tg Every murder of a Mehtar was taken of t into account. And when a series of it 6 such tragedies made the throne seem Th unstable, and the Kahn of Jandol thir planned to conquer it, and the Ameer of e of Afghanistan prepared to seize both the Chitral and Jaudol, and Russia was hyg I deemed ready to seize them all, the enc 4 gods of things as they are began to consider the things that are to be. A and British force was sent to Chitral, to Car t, make a permanent garrison and keep Th( * the throne secure. A highway was the * opened up from Peshawar, up which not I the loyal legions of the Sikhs and Pun- mol e- jabis could hasten, should need be, to tair guard the passes. And a subsidy was On settled on the Mehtar, thus making apI him a vassal of the British Indian Em- woi e- pire. din e- The masses of the tribesmen of the dra ., hills are loyal to the British, under of of constraint of circumstances, if not °. through heartfelt love. They are all 1 'd Pathans, save the nondescript Kafirs, reli eI and have the well-known characteris- me c tics of the Pathan race. The old story tor st that they are Greeks, descended from we e, a colony planted by "Macedonia's ant to Madman," is to be dismissed. Some by I, traces of Greek forms, in implements lai 6e and weapons, may be discerned; but tio sa of Greek types of body, face or mind wo ºt- not one. sat a More plausible by far is the self- on h. cherished legend of Hebrew origin. up to The Semitic type is unmistakably dec r, evident. They call themselves Chil- the l's dren of Israel. They observe many of Ac r, the peculiar rites of the Mosaic law. ins Le They keep the Passover. They keep ala il- the Year of Jubilee, with its release of bra n. debtors and redistribution of the land. lat at They wear the historic garb of Israel- me m- ites. Their names are echoes from the or is roll-call of the Pentateuch. Ages of for as Mahometanism have obliterated many un Hebrew practices, and made them as it r- fanatically loyal to the Prophet as any the M- tribe of Islam. Yet he who studies we at can scarcely doubt the truthfulness of an Dn their boast, "We have Abraham for be our father." n- The Pathan type is distinctly dif- C1 `i. ferent from that of any other Hindoo gr ch nationality. You can pick a Pathan Ti 4, )ut in a Hindoo crowd, unhesitatingly cii ut and unerringly. He is big and bony. is ed IIe walks with a long, easy stride that th 1g seems slow, but covers the ground th in cwiftly. His cheek bonds are prom- an is, nent, his lips full, his nose aquiline. sic - ils skin is swarthy, but:not brown, M ike that of the Hindoos further south. lo ts the men grow old, especially among Pc the well-to-do classes, they dye their ca l, beards a bright red, in order that the w 1- grayness of age may not be visible. th lt- MIany of them have naturally fair hair th al and beards and light blue eyes. In cc ee their clothing blue and white are' the A le, nost common colors, and both are wo mingled in the turban. Long jackets y, and cloaks are worn, and in cold weather a sheepskin robe covers both, si er- Ihe wool being inside and the leather oi nst outside, adorned with elaborate silk ix k. embroidery. At such times a leather ti the skull cap, or sometimes a leather hel- tl m met coming down over the ears, is a woirn instead of the turban. a th The women commonly dress in red a ar and blue, wearing trousers and a long o- cloak, with which they cover their d ok faces when meeting strangers. The e ty men are universally armed with long, r y" straight Afghan knives, with ivory i hat handles. Another common weapon is nk the jezail, which is an enormously t long musket with a carved and ornate r ny stook and a slender rod to support the t rs' muzsle while firing. The sword com-r ine monly used is the common tulwar, or a- Turkish scimitar. In addition to these clya great variety of weapons of all kinds this of European makes are to be found te among them. The Pathans of the hills are chiefly an agricultural and pastoral people. I They cultivate wheat, rice and sugar av- cane in the valleys, depending almost 17 exclusively upon irrigation, though St. perhaps once in five years it is possi new ble to obtain good crops from land lck that is not irrigated. Sheep, goats a by and oxen make up the bulk of their les live stock, though they also use camels way and donkeys as beasts of burden. frax rheir trade with India and Afghanis be- tan is conducted by means .d caravans Med made up of camels, oxen and donkeys. bh Sometimes a single caravan will con the tain from a hundred to a hundred and ed fifty camels laden with skins, grain the ad other merchandise. These trains cks. have to be guarded by namerous armed irty- men to islsure them protection agsainst r the countless outlaws that inest the few region.-New York Tribune. theO (arlea Darwin's staue is brone ork as been set up in his icative town, rwiury aq, gianI I The Anti-Brearkfut Crsa-ue." q It is not safe to say positively that IT it is best for everyone to go without a breakfast, eating enough at the other PHIL meals to make up any deficiency caused by it, but many of those who ,t have experimented on this line have found that for them it has proved a rake n blessing. The corpulent, the dyspep- of i e. tic, the over-eater, and sedentary per- eve sons are almost always benefited, and e the non-breakfast diet has more adher e ents than many suspect. The theory w on which these two-meals-a-day folk mad t base their conduct is that, no work be- thin, ing done after the late and hearty din- out i e ner, and little tissue waste following his w during the hours of sleep, the body am n has sufficient energy stored from the than . evening meals to meet the demands of wall the next forenoon's work. To take a use *y hearty breakfast, they claim, is simply com n to provide a surplus of supply, and by and is just that much overtaxing the system. and er The elimination, therefore, of one- out Bs third of meals a year means conserv- or s id ing of energy, which, in the aggregate, pere 1e can be used for other purposes. They posl a say that after the first week or two it so h requires no effort to begin the day you s without food, and even the aromatic take 3d Mocha, steaming through the house, tion produces no effect upon their resolu wal' d- tions. Many years ago there was a rose et similar practice advocated, but it was bits d. to go without the third meal instead tom en of the first one. Those who advocated w of it also claimed to be much benefited. my = There are still people who omit this him ol third meal, but the latter-day practice The er of omitting the breakfast instead of dec th the third meal is considered to have us as hygienic advantages. Only experi- him he ence can decide the matter. It would did to be a great saving in household labor, his A and women who have so many little ism to cares would certainly be benefited. bra Those who try it should not content themselves with a few days' trial; did ch nothing less than a month, or even dis more should be thought of, and cer- con t tainly no harm could come from it. kno ras One great benefit is in the splendid an( ng appetite guaranteed and for brain the workers the clearness of the brain dur. ing the forenoon when no energy is isa he drawn off to digest the food.-Journal the ler of Hygiene. Ha iot The London Stone. a d all The London stone, the most famous br! rs, relic now preserved in the British soe -is- metropolis, has a most interesting his- ble >ry tory. Tradition says that the stone of om was originally taken from the ruins of no a's ancient Troy and brought to England the me by Brutus, who with his own hand tha nts laid it as the first block in the founds- lee but tion of the city .now known to the sup ind world as London. More than a thou- stc sand years ago it was taken from its ga elf- original bed in the first wall and taken frc in. up on Cannon street, where it was set th< bly deep in the earth at a place said to be ev il- the highest spot of ground in London. an r of According to Camden, it was not orig- co aw. inally set as a stone in a wall, as pi, sep claimed by those who say that it was lo, Sof brought from Troy by Brutus, as re- an nd. lated above, but was a stone specially ur tsl- made and set in place as a millarinum, L the or mile-stone, similar to that in the ru a of forum at Rome, while London was an any under Roman rule. Camden considers a as it as being the stone which marked any the point from which all British high- L lies ways were to radiate from the capital, s of and from which all distances were to for be measured. ha After the great fire of 1666 Sir SI dif- Christopher Wren changed the city's T doo grade and the stone was taken up. hi han That which is now reserved by the ni agly city as a relic of its very earliest days any. is said to be but a mere fragment of n that the original stone. It is not more lc and than a foot-square at the present time, om- and it is built into a niche in the out- T ine. side of the Church of 88. Swithin and wn, Mary Bothan. on Cannon street. Geo- g nth. logically speaking, the stone is of g ong porphyry, and it may still be seen, heir covered by dust and dirt, by any one the who cares to go up Cannon street to ble. the church mentioned and peep through b hair the iron grating which covers the cir In cular opening in which the relic lie>-- a the Atlanta Constitution. are I ets X-rtays and the Heart. cold Professor Benedict, of Vienna, oth, states that the most important result ther of the employment of the X-rays in silk internal diseases has been the ascer ther taining of the strength and extent of I hel- the heart's movement under healthy s, is and unhealthy conditions. They have shown that the work performed by a red sound heart has been greatly overesti- I long mated, and thus the vibrations of a their diseased heart have been rendered 1 The easier of understanding. Doctors are long, now in a position to learn the size and ivory position of the vital organ in cases on is where the former methods of ausculta nusly tion and percussion would afford them rnate no help. By the X-rays it is possible *t the to observe deterioration of the valves corn at a much earlier stage than formerly, a, or and to gain exactinformation as to the these relations between the heart and the kinds diaphragm, as well as to observe the omnd movements of the membrane. In the early diagnosis, especially of disease hiefly of the lungs, stomach and kidneys, the aople. rays are now of the greatest service to sugar practitioners, and it will in future be lmost possible to gain knowledge of snob aough diseases at a stage which they have possi- previously entirely escaped detection. land -Ohio State Journal. their Remaiade of the Debt. amels Bishop John P. Newman (Methodist) rden. visited South Onondaga, N. Y., on s zanis- recent Sunday, in which town he was avans pastor of his tfrst church fifty years akeys. ago. He made an address, in. which Icon- he told how he was obliged to w'lk a d and nine-mile circuit and speak at four gain services every Sunday, until a member trains of the congregation took pity on him armca and raised enough money to buy him gainst * horse. '"The horse had short legs," st the said the Bishop, "and I hadJlong legs; eonsequently I could by turns eitBha walk or ride without dismaounting. ronze The salary for a year's service was town, *100, and," said tlhe Bishop, '" owe juop tfsIb uQitAs THE GEORGIA HUMORIST gover them PHILOSOPHER IS DISPLEASED AT M'KIN LEY'S POLICY. set th none: rakes a Walk to "Cool Off".-Appointment But M of Colored Postmasters in the South El. iotwi evates William's Choler--.Other Inter. opin esting Talk. when hooin When Abasuerus got so dreadfu said t mad with Haman he dident do any Yes, i thing rash all of a sudden, but walk~ anati out in the garden to cool off-to let Unite his choler down. That's the way I arms am doing now every day, and am' looke thankful that I've got a garden to an in walk in. When my good old father take I used to feel the rheumatic pains I mt coming he dident sit down and grunt quit. and look miserable, but seized his hat and i and his cane in a hurry and started tiona out to peruse the farm. In an hour langr or so he would return all in a sweat of natio perspiration and the rheumatism was senti postponed for a time. Walk about peopl some and commune with nature when accei you feel bad. Almost every day I is a take on a new mad, a fresh indigna- some tion at McKinley, and it I dident ever walk in the garden and peruse the if roses and posies or feed the pet rab- Garil bits and the peafowls or pick a lot of defia tomatoes for dinner my choler escaj wouldent come down and I would lose agai my appetite and my serenity. Dogon him him, confound him, dad blast him! his The good book says "Cursed be the by ti deceiver," and if he hasn't deceived folly us no man ever did. I never voted for is De him and I am thankful for it, but I gro did have respect for him and believed placi his sincerity and his national patriot- Rom ism, but he has falsified our faith and will broken our hopes, and my personal le w contempt for him is amazing. I If he dident know that my kind, gentle man disposition could generate so much KinI r contempt for any man. We dident woul know that he was a south hater per se Sf t] and had smothered it in his bosom all rout these years only to be uncovered when stit is he got us in his power. Some say he i is a fool, some say a knave and some M that he has been hypnotized by wli Hanna; but my conviction is that it is a deliberate party policy to open the " it breach between the north and the m?" bI south, to set the healing wound to tk s' bleeding again. They have despaired I Le of capturing any southern state and Ml 01 now seek to raise hell between us and ad, id the negroes. Oh, my country! was tIe! id there ever such heartless, reck- *bal ' less tyranny of official power, "I e such insulting humiliation? Let me aind stop a few minutes and walk in the ose ti garden. I see the beautiful flowers -D en from the window, the cannas, with "A et their turbaned tops, waving in the lath be evening breeze; the zenias and dahlias n. and geraniums in all their variegated g- colors. I see the flocks of little birds picking the sunflower seed. I am as looking upon the innocence of nature, and I grieve that man is the only creat- X ture that disappoints and deceives us. Let me go out among the flowers and ruminate and calm my fretted thoughts as and comfort my olfactories with a re sprig of lemon verbena and heliotrope. l * ** Well, now I think I feel better. H Let McKinley proceed with his pro- as 1, cession. The governor and the press wat will attend to him. I liked those we' headlines of the governor, '"McKinley's a Skirts Stained With Loftin's Blood." my s That is a fact, and his party's skirts Gov tP. have been stained with a good deal of -o negro blood since the war-not oy lynching has taken place that was T re not the result of their teachings. Just , re look at the animus that seeks to pro- w voke a war of races in the south. Ar Ed The New York Press, in spitting its e- venom at the south, says the national of government should at once arm every colored office holder and prepare him s )ne for the fight and back him up in it. to Which means, of course, arms for his al g friends and soldiers stationed near at h band and an internecine strife and at last another war between the north t S and south. What is all this for? at What necessity? Who is Loftin or r Lyons or Dent that they should put m the south in such peril? The post u, offices of all others belong to the peo- * lt ple of the towns and cities. They are in nearly as close akin to the color line t r'as the schools and churches. McKin- 5 Sley knows this and knows the temper h of our people on this subject, and he ve knows that it will not be peaceably y a permitted. It will widen the breaci - not only between the north and the f south, but between the whites and the red blacks. But all this has been are said over and over again by the Spress and our senators and rep. ses resentatives all over the south, and t it has been felt by millions who think W em much and say little. I wonder if Hbl anna, McKinley & Co. think they e can by force reform and regulate the I ly, sentiment of a great and mighty peo- Pi the ple-a people who want peace, but Sare not afraid of war when they are the trampled on or insulted. But I must e walk out again or change the subject. I ase Ibelieve I will go and see some of the little grandchildren and play horse for '1 be them.. Ilike that I had rather nurse * uch and pet the little chaps than to hate s have McKinley. It pays better. But the i. greatest tro'ib'e I have now is in try ing to keep my respect for some of my friends who still stand up to him. I don't see how any southern man ex di) cept an offie-seeker can stay in hiTs Sparty. The average ollcsee-ker is a politiuian, add Shakespeare mays "a ea politician would circumvent God." hich But here I have got back to the sume I contemptible subject. Plague take ou the niggers. I wish that Bishop Tur ner wonuld hurry uphis transportation. , him This everlasting fi has been going ona him thirti-fotir years sace freedom easse and half a enatary before and the end Sis notin sight,and now half the legis. I legs; ature is in session as a eommittee to' determine what to do with the tl r ting. or four thousand colored eonvicts and Il more to come. It will st the state IoW a million #s. BoIl4& blejqp tbt ipj1 plan is carried out, and the national UARu government ought to pay it or ship them away. The north first brought Methe them over here from Africa and in t ctr rse of time sold them to us and then The set them free and refused to pay the &teee money back, dogon 'em! confound eml or cot But we are getting along fairly well -deps notwithstanding our troubles. We were have I hoping for a peaceful and prosrieroui er ol admlnistatlon, out my tafnwafenea Las n when I read that McKinley was boo- One booing over John Brown's grave and gnmOs said the very place was an inspiration. Lowle Yes, sympathizing with that old crazy enue Sanatic who seinl, the arepal of the numb b United States at Harper's Ferry to get up alb arms to murder Virginians, and he is