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OFFICIAL PAPER. OF BROWS COUNTY
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For President—
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
of Indiana.
For Vicepresident—
LEVI P. MORTON,
ot New York.
From an editorial in this week’s
Ruralist we should judge that it was
the democratic partner’s turn at the
helm.
The fine crops now being harvested
around Warner insure the town an
other year of prosperity. The
country around Warner is conceded
to be the richest in Brown county
and Brown county is well known to
be the richest county in the territory.
The death of Gen. Sheridan re
moves another gallant soldier to
whose efforts the suppression of the
rebellion was largely due. A na
tion’s tears attest the esteem in
which he was held. One by one the
old defenders pass away and with
them the recollection or their brave
deeds seems to be passing also.
Tbe Aberdeen News is quite severe
in its condemnation of the manner in
which that city is run under demo
cratic rule. There seems to be
ground for remonstrance, but the
present state of affairs may teach a
lesson to those who nominated the
republican ticket last spring, as well
as to these who bolted it. A good,
healthy respect for other people’s
notions is a grand political virtue.
Rev. Father Hens, of Aberdeen,
an ardent democrat and a wide
awake student of the time?, mat
returned from a visit to rNew York
and says the outlook for a*mocratic
success in that state is not nearly so
bright as it was in 1884. Inasmuch
as the democratic majority in 1884
was less than 1200, it would appear
that the reverend gentleman’s re
mark was a mild way of conceding
republic;:*' victory.
,
S. B. Mercier, the popular deputy
cowfjty treasurer, returned on Mon
from a visit to his old home in Vir
ginia and brought back with him a
Harrison badge that was worn by
his grandfather in 1840. The badge
is superior to those of the present day
in workmanship and finish. It is
about an inch square, with a gold
frame and represents a log cabin,
a barrel of cider and the motto
"Harrison and Rifyrs.” Mr Mer
cier says tire democrats have virtu
ally given up the fight in New York,
New Jersey, Rhode Island and
Cor.neticut and are turning their
attention to Michigan, Illinois. Wis
consin and Minnesota. This report
is verified by all who have been
east since the convention* and shows
how slim are democratic chances
of success.
Many of our democratic friends
are congratulating themselves upon
the fact that a number of republican j
predictions of disaster under demo
cratic rule have not been fulfilled.
The reason for this is apparent to
all political students- 111 all cases
where republican methods were de
parted from disaster and failure have
resulted, but where republicanj
methods were adhered to the party
lias been svtctessriil and graceful as <
a Mtle maivAwen could be wear mg!
a big *43**i£m
bit the party did no; dare put
in practice many of the foolish theories ]
advanced by its puitisaus in speeches j
m congress and on the stump, j
past three years has been a sort of I
Here i|a good example of recon
struction fund prohibition combined:
Dr. Brooks, the prohibition candidate
for vice-president, in a speech at
Chicago July 13th said:
I never was a soldier in the con
federate army; I never was a chap
lain in the confederate army. I was
with the confederate' army for
a while, but it was simply because
it got so hot that I ccrnld not stay
any where else but in prison. * * * I
was on the opposite side exactly
from my distinguished general.
While he was fighting in the Union
army I was praying that he might
get licked by the rebels.
In a speech delivered at Decatur,
111., July 26th, the same gentleman
said: "I have been a rebel, a slave
owner and a fire-eating democrat,
but thank God I have never bet?h a
republican. I will not have that
sin to answer for.”
Ti»* Free Trade Plea of Cheapness
The free trade attorneys claim as
the chief merit of proposed tariff re
duction that it will reduce prices.
And in this they are at least partially
correct. The recent experience ol !
England under the fiscal policy now
advocated for this country shows
that cheaper wheat from India, che.;> -
er meat from America, cheaper wool j
from Australia and South America, I
have made unprofitable lands at!
home; that values of English farms j
have fallen off 40to 70 percent, while
each year large tracts are withdrawn j
from tillage.
If a like result of cheapness is to 1
follow an approach to free trade here,!
an alternative is presented which it is
well for a large class of our people to
seriously consider before aiding to
strike down the policy under which
out country has hitherto made such
advances in wealth and greatness.
We may well be appalled in contem
plating' a shrinkage in real estate
values in the United States to one
hajf the extent experienced in England
anti the losses of farms and homes it
would entail upon those industrious
toilers who haye incurred debts in
securing homes for themselves and
families. Under a decline of one
fouoth its present value, the man who
had bought a home for S2OOO, and by ;
years of industry and saving paid
ftjooo, would still find himsef owing
for property worth but SISOO. j
In the midst of the “cheapness" with
which he has been cajoled, the pay
ment of this sum would be more:
difficult than the original S2OOO un-!
der existing conditions of ready sale
of products and fair retiyis for labor.
If the adoption of the EtMisri policy
by the United Staes shoulij be follow
ed by one-half the reduction in real
estate values that England has ex
perienced within the past few years,
mortgaged farms and homes would re
vert by thousands to creditors who,
like the landlords of England, would
permit what could not be rented to
go oul of tillage.
In no other country than ours does l
so large a percentage of farmers own
the lands they cultivate. In no
other country is there so large a pro
portion of workingmen who own the
homes they .occupy. In no other <
country does the fiscal policy so de
cidedly favor the man who honestly
and industriously endeavors to bet
ter his condition in life. No where
else in the world can the laborer get
so many of the necessaries of life for
1 a day’s work as here in the United
States. Ail this we are asked to
menace by adopting a policy that has
thrice brought disaster to the business
of this country; a policy, with but one
aggressive advocate among all the
nations of Europe—and that one
nation to-day presenting within her
borders some of the strongest possi
| file arguments against the policy she
I seeks to enforce upon others. While
the Cobden Club and leading British
journals are preaching the benefit of
free trade the British farmer Is de
pressed, 800,000 workmen are idle,
and the police of la>ndon are kept
busy Suppressing uprisings of men
made desperate by hearing their
children cry for bread. Nothing can
be dearer than ‘‘cheapness" bought at
such a price; nothing more un-Ameri
can than a policy which makes such
a condition possible.
Savannah News: Gen. Neal Dow
teriukation is praiseworthy and Geni i
Do* will be Wuivd to the thanks of j
•yu
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MAKE ME A SONO.
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On* of tin* silence make me a *on(r,
K.-aiJlifiil, anil ai-ii »ofi low; _ *, i
Lrt the loveliest imunc eounU Sloe* ~yi !
Aud wing ejtch note with wail ot wo*. »'
Di»u aml drear; - j
As hope's last tear
Out of the silence make toe a hymn
Whoso sounds art shadows soft and Alas.
Out of the stillness in your heart—
A thousand songs are shv-plng there—
Make me but one, thou child of art.
Tho song of a hope in a hat despair. J■’
Dark and low,
A chant of wee;
Out of the stiilu'.ss, tone by tone, .
Bof*. as a suowtUks. wild as a moan. »■ *
Out on the dark recesses flash me a song.
Brightly dark and darkly bright;
Lei it sweep as a love star swseps along
Tbs mystical shadows of tbs night.
Ring It swc i*;,
Where nothing W drear, or dark, or dim,
And earlu songs melt Into beateu's hymn.
—Esther inyaa. J
SUPERSTITIONS OF ACTRESSES.
Sign of the Tom Cat—The Hunchback.
OiTenbach’s Evil Eys.
It is singular, in fact, to note bow
Parisian actresses are attracted—as moths
round a flame that will singe them—by ;
the belief in signs and warnings and
omens. Mme. Favart, a societiiiro at the
Theatre Friuicaise, asserts that when a cat,
and especially a black tom cat, comes of
its own accord, with tail erect, purring
round the stage, it is a good sign. Then, )
who “sings so delightfully with her
shoulders,” as the Nestors of theatrical
criticism aver, believes that it is very un
lucky to catch sight of a hunchback and
not touch his bump. Tho pretty actress
will, in fact, go out of her way aud dodge
one a mile to get a chance to do so, as if
by accident aud without being seen
Croizerto. who retired from the itngu of
the Oomedie Francalse on a pension and
married a rich banker, attributes her suc
cess in life to the fact that one day she
picked up a horseshoe.
Borne cauUitrices are also highly super
stitious. Among those who belong more
or less to the Paris stage I raity ir.r.tsncs
Adelina Patti. Adelina Maria Cloriuda
Patti—and indeed the whole musical tribe
of the Btrakoseh and Patti brood—
strongly believe iu the jeftators, er “evil
•ye.” Patti will aot sin& where there Is
11 cross eyed conductor, Just as the blonde
Surah will not play by the side af an
actor whose organ of vision is askew; sad,
as those w ho, like PatU, have been happy
and successful are more liable te this
fascination, the prima donna never fails
to wear a bracelet er necklace of preeiens
stones—even shells and corals will d» —to
counter sc-. t’«* malignant Influence which
darts from the eyeballs ef eertain envious
and angry persons. She asserts that
Offeuhach, who poe-eveed the evil eye,
brought ill Inck with him wherever he
went; tbat he iwtssed throngh the Roe
L*peletier the night the old opera house
was destroyed by fire, when poor Km me
Livry was hnn.ed alive in tbs only ballet
Offenbach ever had represented at the
opera, and that Mote. Rertlieller died
while playing in the “Tie Pamienpe,”
for w hich he wrote the aeore.
I have also L-en told that Kaola Marie,
of the Opera Oomiqaa, and her sister
Galli Marie, both west amnlet rings te
evert the snake Hke reaeioatton which is
eurreatly attributed te Onnnt •abrlelli,
tbe well known boulevarrtet.
Znlma Dos gar once told me that she
never would think of washing her hands
—as it often Uapjiens behind the scenes to
many of the music hail singers—in tbe
water used by another person, not tbat j
she considered the act as so very unclean,
b«t rat Iter because she knew that tbe
parties were bound to qnsrrel soon after,
unless one of the twe spat in the basin 1
And I may add parenthetically that I
once saw a dancing''girl, whose veracity
waa questioned by another member ef the
talent, suddenly draw back with some
show of indignation, spit on the ground,
stamp the boards with her foot, and raiae
her right hand, saying, "I swear HP’—
Paris Cor Inter Ocean.
LEADING CONVERSATIONAL CHARAC
TERISTICS OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
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The English Peasant's (Mb fsr Empty
Meditation lrish and Scotch - The
Cbattering Nations of Europe—Blting
nal riaoce—The dew—Teutonic Peoples.
The Scot, even if ho will not converse,
will usually argue, and the Ixmdoner will
tell anecdotes; but the English peasant is,
as a rule, a person with a gift for empty
meditation; The Irish peasant, on the
other hand, talks readily and pleasantly,
in short sentences Usually fall of expres
sion; so does the Italian, who knows ieae
than the Englishman; and so does the
Bengalee, who knows hardly more than
the animals around him. The latter, in
deed, talks frequently and with anima
tton, though almost always on a single
subject—money. It has been said by one
who wrote after years of observation,
that if two Bengalees talk for live minutes
the word pels* tpencc) will always be
heard; but talk they do, with remark,
rejoinder and repartee. What i* 1
the cause of that difference?
Profeesor Mahuffy suggests an answer |
Which seems to us to savor of artificial I
profundity, and therefore to be very un
like Professor Mahaffy, who usually says |
his true thought, even if it is a little out !
of place: “I fancy the causes of these so- j
c.al difference* arc rather recent than
primeval; they do not dei»ud directly I
upon climate er atmosphere, and if I may 1
quote she opinion of a wt«e friend on Vtis
large question, I should! nay that one ehiM
of the talking or social ability ot
some peasantries over others, u the fact
that their proximate ancestors were a 1
bilingual people. Thu* the great major
ity of west Irish and north switch jfe.ia- j
aut# arc descended from grandfathers
whose talk oscillated between (>IU* and
EngSieb. «n.| who were, tfwrifore, con i
StanUy educated jn intelligence by tin
"V 'UTS
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two*-, whv has never heard more than fOO
or BUO words of a very rude -loviuclal
dialect ef English, and therefore cow
n-ti.nds neither the words aor the klesus ot
the outlying provinces.”
A theory of that kind should explain the
f»ct*. and this does not rxplsim them. If
It were i»-ue, the women would b« aa si
lent «e the men, having even )«>»* of cul
ture, but they are not. On the contrary,
the vrivoe of those silent rural folk eaa
often chat »/reeshly. and give aud take in
conversation. They do not only narrate;
they disease and are capable even of
rough badinage, which helps the argument
directly on. Moreover, tho chattering
j»?oples—the Neapolitans, for instance—
sre not bilingual; aud the best talker* in
the world, the bom Parisians, spring at
ancestors who knew no language but their
own. The border j (Copies, too, are not
exceptionally talkative, at we see in
Wales; and the Swiss peasantry, for ftH
their linguistic acquirements, sre ex
ceptionally taciturn. Nobody would say
that an Ah-.atf.ui, accustomed from ehild
huC>d to two l.tttgtmgcs, and those among
the richest in the world, was more con
versable than a Lyonnais, who hardly
knows of the existence of two, while a
Parisian seems nimble iu talk by th-a ride
of a Bruxellois, who Is never for an in
stant out of the hearing ef two tongue*.
The man who is bilingual, either in fact
or by tradition, has no doubt a larger
command of words; but is the com maud
of word* the key to the secret? If no, why
do the women, as we said before, talk bet
ter than the men. and why are not all th*
cultivated eqnally capable of conrena
tion? How often can a professor’s co
psratively ignorant wife talk well, while
the learned husband is incapable of eott
vnrsntion! And. finally, if the difference
ton question of knowledge of any nort,
Why does wiuc so often, aud up to a point,
brighten talk and talkers? It cannot odd .J
thoughts, or increase a limited repertoire
of words. At most, alcohol, iu ar.y
form, can but impart (•ottrs-ge, and per- J
haps a litiie spwd to the movements etto
tho brain. We should any that tho power
' of talk, In the sense of oanversir.g, town
fin t of all from the wish to talk, the de
f !-e to manifest one’s self to others, aid
that this was in the first instance exactly
what the professor says St is nek—a me*
peculiarity. Nothing runs more *w»-
plctely in families than the habit *f con
versing much, nnl a race I* nothing but a
big family. Did Mr Mahaffy, tn hi*
whole lift?, *v*r meet a Jew wh* could not
talk, or w ho did not wish to talk, er vtia If
circumstances favored Mm, did not talk A
little too readily? Perslaaa and A mho,
who know nothing, chat twice as readily
ns Scotch farmers, who know much; and
the populace of Naples, men as ignorant
as the Halves of their bay, talk, and talk
well all day. The Greeks have been chat
terboxes for S.O'M) years, and have lived
for «00 pf them side by side with Tnrkn,
who In the lower classes scarcely ton versa
at ell. It is not crea tt.e, so far as imr
observation goes, that, outside the Teu
tonic- race, class make* any perceptibbt
difference, an Italia* *r Greek or French
workman talking quit* as
•ulterior*, and enjoying talk quit# mb
We fear that the troth is one which
! Professor Mabaffy’s courtesy induces hpu
only te hint, vis., that the Tenton of *n
ttwee bronchos—German. Englishman end
American—though ho is Ailing the world,
and may possibly ouster it, is a slow
wilted being, who does not by nature
enjoy talk, but rather feels it a worry to
be called on to understand words and
make a response to them »o quickly, Ha
docs not take in readily, and therefore, g
ha* little pleasure ia hearing talk; and he
j cannot give out quickly, and therefore
sutlers in uttering it. As to the cans* of
sorb s peculiarity of race it is tiresome,
or at ail events useless, oven to speculate.
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