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JACKSONVILLE, CHEROKEE COUNTY, TEXAS, MARCH 29, 1884.
VOL. I.
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OCHILTREE OX ELEPHANTS.
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Feeders and Condensers,
AND COTTON PRESSES
The Mohammedan Messiah’s History
and Description.
His Wonderful Knowledge Imparted
to an Unprotected Eady Friend
in New York.
If either Dave Culberson or John Rea-
gan should get on 1
CLOTHING,
JACKSONVILLE INTELLIGENCER.
NO. 11.
W’E SHAIA KNOW.
When the mists have rolled in splendor
From the beauty of the hills,
And the sunshine, warm and tender,
Falls in splendor on the rills,
We may read love’s shining letter
in the rainbow of the spray,
Weslmll know each other bettor,
When the mists have cleared away.
We shall know us we are known,
Never more to walk alone,
In the dawning of the morning,
When the mists have cleared away.
If we err in human blindness.
And forget that we are <lu-t,
If we miss the law of kindness
When we struggle to be just,
Snowy wings of peace shall cover
All the pain that clouds our way,
When the weary watch is over,
And the mists have cleared away.
We shall know as we are known,
Never more to walk alone,
In the dawning of the morning,
When the miits have cleared away.
When the silvery ml.-ts have veiled us
From the laces of our own,
Oft we deem their love lias failed us,
And we tread our path alone;
We should see them near and truly.
We should trust them day by day,
Nelllier love nor blame unduly,
If the mists were cleared away.
We shall a.s we are known,
Never more to walk alone,
In the dawning of the morning,
V lien the mists have cleared away.
When the mists have risen above us,
*As our father knows his own,
Face to face with those that love us,
We shall know as we are known.
Love beyond the orient meadows
Floats the golden fringe of day;
Heart to heart we hide the shadows,
Till the mists have cleared away.
We shall know as we are known,
Never more to .walk alone.
When the day of light is dawning,
And tlie mists have cleared away,
—Dininu Boom Magazine.
Philadelphia, March 20.—Charles Lang-
heimer, widely known as Dickens’ Dutch-
man, died recently, and his death was
made known to-day. He died in the peni-
tentiary and was quietly buried in tlie pot-
ter’s field, after servingfifty of his seventy-
five years of life in a convict’s cell. He
was not a prisoner at the time of his
death, but was allowed to return and die
in the prison, which be looked upon as
his home.
'J'he Mahdi’s name is Mohammed Ach-
met. lie is a native of the province of
Dongola, a fortified town on the Nile, be-
tween the third and fourth cataractsand
bordering upon the great Nubian desert.
He is said to be of pure Arab blood, and
this is fortunate for him, since hone but
an Arab could ever hope to impose a pro-
phetic authority upon Islam. His grand-
father was a Moslem priest. His father,
Abdullah, was a carpenter. Early in the
Mahdi’s boyhood the family moved to a
place called Thindi, not far from Berber.
Here young Aclmiet was apprenticed to
his uncle, a boatman. This uncle having
| one day heated him, the boy ran away to
Austin, March 21.—The governor to-
day received a letter from Director-Gen-
eral Burke, of the New Orleans exposi-
tion, in reply to inquiry as to space for
Texas. Mr. Burke says that suitable and
sufficient space shall be reserved for a
Texas exhibit, and that at an early date
he hopes to send a diagram representing
plans, etc. There will be no charge for
space, and should the Texas commission
decide to erect a building, he will take
pleasure in providing suitable grounds in
a desirable location. He greatly appre-
ciates the governor’s efforts in behalf of
the exposition, and will see that Texas’
interests are not neglected.
sect of dervishedes). Achmet studied
hard, and especially absorbed himself in
learning the doctrines of Mohammedan-
ism. as taught by tlie sheik of the shrine
of Hoghali. He then removed to a simi-
lar school near Berber, attached to anoth-
er shrine much reverenced by the natives.
After passing some lime at this and other
er schools, Achmet was himself ordained
as a shiek. at a village called Aradup in
(lie year 1870, and lie at once took up his
abode in this sacred capacity on the island
of Abba, in the White Nile.
It was at Abba that Achmet entered
upon those practices, and began, no doubt
to prepare himself for that mission which
has since attracted to him tlie allegiance
of such formidable numbers of Mohamme-
dans. He executed a deep eave on the
island, and made it a habit to retire for
prayer and contemplation, into its darkest
recesses. There lie woqjd repeat, for
hours together, one of the names of the
Deity, which exercise was accompanied
by fasting, the burning of incense, and at-
titude of abject humanity. His renown as
a man of saintly character spread far and
wide. He grew rich on the offerings of
tlie pious, and married several wives, be-
ing always careful to choose them in in-
fluential and wealthy Arab families. At
last, in the year 1881. he openly announced
himself to be the Mahdi foretold by Mo-
hammed, and whose advent had been pre-
dicted for that year.
Those who have seen this remarkable
man. who seems yet destined to play a
stormy, if not. a conquering, part in the
history of Eastern superstition, describe
him as tall, slim, straight, with the true
Arab creamy complexion, black hair cut
close to the skull, and a beard descending
to a point, after the Arab fashion. His
eyes are dark and piercing, one eye being
black and other brown. His manner is
stern, serious and often absent, and dis-
traught, as if in deep contemplation. He
is very reticent, giving his orders in few
words, and evidently alert in all his pro-
ceedings. He maintains rigidly his de-
votional exercises, and at each crisis of ac-
tion professes to hold communication with
Allah, from whom he derives the inspira-
tion to guide him to a successful issue.
But in battle lie is said to become a true
Oriental warrior, kindling to an intense
ardor, and becoming savagely intoxicated
, by the din and fury of the conflict. His
■ later operations indicate, indeed, that he.
is a soldier of no mean order, and that he
; well understands the conditions of war-
- fare in the desert legions and difficult
• steppes of the Soudan. He seems to have
; maintained a wonderful efficiency of or-
r ganization among the semi-barbarioiis who
so enthusiastically follow his. standard,
and to have the capacity of creating an
army out of the most unpromising mate-
rials. His exploits have made him, for
the time at least, the absolute master of
the Soudan, and be now advances to yet
more audacious conquests. Such is tlie
man who has cast his shadow over Con-
stantinople itself, and^ whose name is ring-
ing in the ears of the Mohammedans of
three continents.
PI.EinO l’XEVMOXIA BILL.
Additional Reason® for Its Defeat.
[Texas Live-Stock Journal.]
In a report, of territorial veterinary of
Wyoming to the governor of the state,
made last October, we find the following:
‘■Mr. Richard Frewen, of Powder River.
Wyoming, bought forty-eight bulls at
Lexington. Ky., July, 1882, which, while
en route to his ranch, were stricken with
a fatal sickness at Waterloo. Neb. A vet-
erinarian of Omaha pronounced the mal-
ady •pneumonia,’ and under the circum-
stances 1 deemed it my duty to visit,
them. At the time of my arrival I foilnd
that eleven of the. bulls had died and two
were sick. My diagnosis of Texas fever
was confirmed by an autopsy presenting
all the lesions peculiar to that dread pesti-
lence.’’
After reading this, one sees at a glance
that when cattle doctors disagree ••Texas
fever” invariably comes to the front, and
the veterinarian of Wyoming officially re-
ports a ease that a Nebraska veterinarian
pronounces “pleuro-pneumonia,” as one of
‘•Texas lever,” and closes his report by
stating an autopsy confirmed bis judg-
ment, by “presenting all the lesions pecu-
liar to that dread pestilence.
call attention to the prejudice existing
against Texas tever, a fever taken at Wa-
terloo, Nebraska, hundreds of miles from
Texas. So long as we can show that the
tendency of veterinarians of the west is to
class-every unknown (to them) disease as
Texas fever, that long we do not want any
congressional action taken, the effect of
which would, through prejudice, ignor-
ance, and perhaps self-interest, be manipu-
lated against our grazing fields and cattle.
We know that mistakes more frequently
occur through the action of federal than
state appointments; and local rather than
general legislation can best stamp out
pleuro-pneumonia and kindred ills, to
which eastern cattle are charged with. In
fact, we regard the ‘•Hatch” bill, as a Trojan
horse presented to the cattlemen of Amer-
ica, in which is a force concealed that is
liable to inflict great damage to cattle in-
terests of the southwest.
Mr. Thomas Ochiltree, the Congress-
man from Texas, saunted into Madison
Square Garden Saturday night at 7:45
o’clock, says the New York World. A
pretty girl dressed in black was leaning
on the Congressman's arm.
Mr. Ochiltree's sandy mustache was
neatly trimmed, and his hoots glistened
like the face of a pure-blooded African.
He generally speaks in a very audible tone
and his conversation could be overheard
by a great many people present.
“I want to show you Jumbo.” he re-
marked to the lady.
-How kind of you.” she replied. “Do
you know very much about elephants?”
-Well, considerable?’ answered the Con-
gressman; “in fact. I ought to. I was one
of the first people that ever saw elephants
in this country. Here we are now in the
menagerie, among the wild lions and ti-
gers and monkeys. See. that little fellow-
chimpanzee—big one—orangoutang—one
with tlie red nose, that is one of those
Asiatic—yes Asiatic monkeys—very few
We simply in this country—you can always recog-
nize them, however.”
-There,” said Sir. Ochiltree, proudly
pointing to the Chief, a very large ele-
phant. not unlike “the favorite of 10,000
British hearts,” “is Jumbo.”
“Why. how large he is,” answered his
companion.
“Large! Well, now. do you know,” re-
plied he of Texas, “Jumbo is one of the
largest elephants I ever saw? Of course
there are larger elephants—that we all
know—but Jumbo is a pretty good-sized
elephant. See his massive trunk and foot;
Why, it is as thick as -do yon know, Jum-
bo's foot is pretty nearly as thick as a con-
gressional report?”
••Dear me.!” his companion answered.
“You would hardly think so from ft
hasty glance. And now,” continued Mr.
Ochiltree, growing loquacious. “I want to
explain a few things about Jumbo to you.
To begin with—”
Here a young man entered the arena,
and giving the object of Mr. Ochiltree's
attention a whack with a broom, cried:
••Whoa, Chief! whoa!” and turning to the
congressman, said: “That’s Jumbo over
there in the big squre. We don’t always
have two elephants here; generally one,
so as to prevent mistakes. But that's
Jumbo.”
“What’s Jumbo?" cried the Texan, get-
ting slightly red.
“Why,” said the man witli the gilded
trappings, “this aint Jumbo.”
“Well, did 1 say it was?” answered Mr.
OchiltreC, dangerously. “Do you mean
to imply that I don't know Jumbo from
Chief? Now, young man, you attend to
your business. Don’t try to tell me any-
thing about an elephant, please, for you
can't; and, as I was saying.” continued
the congressman, edging away toward the
real Jumbo, “you have got to study an
elephant some time before you begin to
understand them.”
“Yes, you do.” his lady friend an-
swered, looking half at Jumbo and half at
Chief.
-Now, these stories,” continued the Tex-
an, “about tailors sticking needles into
elephants, between you and me, I don't
think they are true. Why, 1'11 bfit— I beg
your pardon. No. sir, there ain’t a tailor
here in Texas that would stick an ele-
phant int® Jumbo’s trunk.”
“You mean a needle.”
“Yes, as I said, a needle.” Here the
band began to play, and tlie glittering
chariots and triumphal cars were being
dragged around the ring, and Mr. Ochil-
tree went with his fair companion to one
of the boxes.
CREMATION.
More Romantic than the Old Style of
Burial.
[Boston Globe.]
“I see by the papers,” murmured a cal*
TEXT OF BILL INTRODUCED BY '
REPRESENTATIVE HANCOCK.
Washington, March 16.—Mr. Hancock ]
TEXASj^|nrro(ineed, by request, the following re- ,
markable bill: To liquidate the national i
war debt in gold and silver bullion, to in-
crease the circulation of national current
money, to discontinue the collection of in- ,
ternal revenue, to establish a merchant
marine, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
rof Representatives of the United States of
America in congress assembled, that on
and after the passage of this act it is here-
by made the duty of the secretary of the
treasury to create and make annually na-
tional current money, commonly known
as greenbacks, and to purchase from the
mines within the limits of the United
States gold and silver bullion to tlie
amount in value of $1,200,000,000 at the
rate of $40,000,000 per annum, in moieties
of equal denomination in bullion; and that
on and after the purchase and storage in
the treasury of the United States of the
first $40,000,000 thereof, to purchase a like
amount of United States bonds, and can-
cel the same by attaching them to tlie said
gold and silver bullion in the treasury, and
to so continue from year to year until the
last of the bonds are bought and cancelled.
Section 2. That from and after one year
from the passage of this act all laws per-
taining to the assessment and collection of
internal revenue are hereby repealed.
Section 3. That on and after the passage
of this act it is hereby made the duty of
tlie secretary of the navy to give public
notice to the effect that any man or com-
pany of men, citizens of the United States,
that choose to build an ocean ship to be pro-
pelled by sail or steam, ot specific dimen-
son. tonnage and material, and adapted for
the naval service of the United States, and
for this purpose first approved by a board
of naval officers appointed by the secre-
tary of the navy for this purpose, and that
on and after the completion and approval
• of such ship or ships tlie owner or owners
; thereof will be entitled to receive from the
treasury of the United States, out ot any
money not otherwise appropriated, the
one-half value ot the first cost ot such
ship or ships; provided, however, that
the said one-half value so advanced by the
’ United States shall be refunded thereto,in
annual installments for twenty years, at
one-half per centum interest, per annum,
I or in services rendered by the competitive
cariying of the United States mail, or for
services in time of war, the United States,
however, holding the bottomry bonds of
such ship or ships as security until the
said one-half value thereof is refuned. And
the secretary of the navy is hereby author-
ized and directed to bring to effect the
conditions of the foregoing.section.
Terry Harmison of Denton shipped re-
cently 75 head of corn-fed beef to Chicago.
Ilk. and sold at $5.75 per 100 pounds. He
has 75 more that will soon he ready for
the shambles. This hunch we hope will
be killed by the Fort Worth Refrigerator
■ company, as Perry says he is willing to
sell them here, if he ean secure one cent
less pei- pound on them, than Chicago
ruling prices. Denton county farmers are
putting in more corn land and .propose to
make corn-feeding cattle a leading pur-
suit. So next winter we shall look for
more of this class of beef in North Texas.
—[Texas Live-Stock Journal.
TO DEEI>EN PASS CAVALLO.
| Washington. March21.—Mr. Miller pre-
j seated the petition of citizens of Goliad
-T. . ... , .... i county in favor of $100,000 for deepening
We invite our friends and the public in The pet}fcif>n forth the
general to examine our goods and prices the riation ip cx.hansted,
before making purchases, and we Pr‘^ | a,nl fldlUtional nionpy is neede(l |minedi-
ami best endeavms to men oi. pa ion as a cominercj;d necessity inhiew of their word have doubted them let them be
“*■’ - - --------- ----- getting twenty feet of water. ? ' >-i..... .. .n i '-■"j
Prompt attention will be given to all
Work sent us. and all Work of our Shop
guaranteed.
HORSE-SHOEING A SPECIALTY.
J. A. TEMPLETON,
Successor to J. A. Templeton & Co.,
Dealer Tn
General IteWise.
MAIN STREET,
Next Door to Dr. Rudd's Laboratory.
Jacksonville, Texas.
Thankful for the liberal patronage extend-
ed in the past. I desire to merit a continu-
ance of the same only by reasonable prices
and square dealing.
J. A. TEMPLETON,
WATTERSOVS LEITER.
The Article Which He Telegraphed to ,
Ilin Journal, and Which it is
Feared Will Bring About
a Disruption of the
Democratic Party.
Mr. Henry Watterson, in a Washington
dispatch to the Courier-Journal, forcibly
illustrates the Democratic difficulties on
the subject of tariff legislation. He says:
The squad of protectionists claiming to
be Democrats and led by Mr. Randall have
undoubtedly mistaken the generosity and
courage of Mr. Carlisle tor vascillation.and
have lured themselves into tlie belief that
because Mr. Morrison has not been rash
he is uncertain and afraid. Hence, this
class of political scnttle-lish arc in a state
of contusion ami rave over tlie strong and
clear utterances of the speaker Saturdaj
ni-riit in New York. A week ago they - . , . f
were dividing their time in about equal | Khartoum, where he entered a free school
portions with bullying weak-kneed Demo- kept by a fakir (learned man, head of a
crats and ogling, expectant Republicans,
with whom they are in correspondence ‘
and conspiracy all through. To-day they 1
have been whining, putting up a poor i
mouth and tearfully pleading avoidance <
of a caucus. The sooner the break conies 1
the better. There ean be no arrangement <
short of the Morrison bill between the
democratic party and Pennsylvania. If <
Mr. Randall and his followers cannot sup- ;
port so conservative a measure they can ’
support nothing except a high tariff bill :
proposed by the Itepuulicans, and in that <
event they had better pick up their grip-
sacks and go over to the Republicans,
where, on this question, they properly
belong. It is full time that masquerading
should end. The Democratic masses are
sick of it. and it would have been brought
to a round turn two weeks ago but for the
determination of Mr. Carlisle and Mr.
Morrison to exhaust every means of con-
ciliation before they opened the campaign,
which the present organization of tlie
house made f rom the first a foregone con-
clusion. Mr. Morrison’s bill is far from
being all that the friends of revenue re-
form, or even its author, could desire. It
was laid in the most liberal spirit of con-
cession, and it is simply a step in the right
direction.
THK nEMOCKACY IN PERIL.
Its failure means the defeat and may in-
volve tlie dissolution of the Democratic
party. The same clique in the national
Democratic committee, headed by Mr.
Chairman Barnum, and in congress headed
by Mr. Randall, which procured tlie de-
feat of General Hancock in 1880, by run-
ning away in a panic of ignorance and ter-
ror from the tariff issue, is now seeking
to couple the Democratic party to the
rear end of the Republican express. The
Democratic party of the West and South
are not going to allow it, nor are their
representatives in congress. We may be
beaten in the coming struggle—the way
these semi-Republican, would-be Demo-
cratic leaders are going, it looks as though
we shall be—but if we are to be beaten let
us go down with our flag flying, and.
though we lose our baggage, may we not
at least save our honor. We have no can-
didate who is an issue in himself.
Tlie talk about the “old ticket” is sheer-
est nonsense, it comes mainly from those
who opposed the “old ticket” when it
meant something. Mr. Tilden would not,
could not, take the office, far less a nomi-
: nation. The schemers who are constantly
lugging him into the struggle know this
full well. He is not in this tight at all, di-
rectly or indirectly. Long ago he made
up his mind not to cheat his old age of its
repose. For Mr. Payne, for Mr. Iloadley
and for Mr. Randall he entertained tlie
wannest sentiments of personal regard,
and why should he not? They were his
friends during a great and trying crisis of
his life. Times have changed, and with
them issues. The ever-present issue of
administration reforms, which was so em-
phasized in the person of Mr. Tilden and
so pointed by the circumstances of his day
is at this moment only one of tlie needed
reforms.
A CELEBRATED WOMAN.
A Retired Belle at Leadville—What
Was Her Name?
[Correspondence New’ York World.]
Few persons know that in the city of
Leadville, there lives one of the most cele-
brated women of her day. Men at fash-
ionable watering-places raved over her
beauty and varied accomplishments. Pres-
ident Buchanan is credited with saying:
-Tlie only woman I ever loved well
enough to marry. God bless her;” and
that little man of intellect, Alexander H.
Stephens: “The most beautiful, accom-
plished and thoroughly good woman I
ever knew. Worth her weigiit in dia-
monds.” Colonel Dan McCook, the even-
ing before lie was killed in battle, said to
a comrade: “1 feel sad to-night; why, I
cannot tell. Perhaps it is my last night
on earth. I was thinking of my college
days in Alabama and the most attractive
woman I ever met. Well, it is all past;
we are both married, but I wish she may
never know a sorrow.” Gen. Cleburne,
having a premonition of his death, asked
this lady to write his obituary if he should
fall in battle the next day. The battle of
Franklin and Cleburne’s death have passed
to history. The touching little poem that
came out in tlie Memphis Avalanche by
this lady, and was so extensively copied
in southern papers,is still remembered:
Brave Cleburne is sleeping
Where night-dews are weeping
And pale leaves are failing
Like gift-gems around;
IVliere sad winds are sighing
Ami sweet Howers dying
To mingle their own breath
With the ashes they love, etc.
In 1870 the Prince of Wales and suits
were in St. Louis. A lovely young girl
passed Barnum's hotel. “See! Look, my
lord!” the prince exclaimed, addressing
Lord Lyons, “isn’t she exquisite?”
For months touching little poems were low young man to his fiancee, in a street
published in tlie Louisville Journal, and car. “that they have organized a crema-
highly praised by its editor, George D.
Prentice, who spoke of her as a remarka-
ble woman, full of genius. Parepa Rosa
heard of her voice, and asked her to sing.
Tlie great prima donna threw up her
hands in ecstacy. and exclaimed: “Mad-
ame, what a. shame for pride to keep that
voice from the world!”
This wonderful woman, with so many
gifts, has for fifteen years lived in quiet re-
tirement. forgetting and almost forgotten
by the world that once did her such hom-
age. in a perfect bower of beauty (her cot-
tage) adorned by lovely paintings and
sculpture from her own hand and from
European masters.
One painting by Titian, an heirloom
from her husband's family, hangs on the
wall and is beyond value. Many etchings
taken from Southern Utah lie around.
She has traveled for a year in Utah, and
relates many interesting anecdotes of the
Mormons. Her husband is one of the most
noted lawyers on the Pacific coast—a man
J of great erudition, the son of ex-United
States Senitor Goldthwaite, Alabama's
most noted and beloved son. Judge
Goldthwaite is tlie criminal judge of Lake
county, and his wife, the subject of this
sketch, is a well-preserved woman of about
forty, looking about thirty, retaining much
of the original beauty of heart and person
that made her such a favorite with the
sterner sex in years gone by. A happy
iieuner vine w ' model wife; she seldom visits, retains a nna you rememoer ine Dime -
i thegulvematorial track, few cultured friends and seems to have to ashes.’ Say, Charley, will you be
it would cause ft rattling among the dry
Notons, Hats and Caps, Boots and
Shoes,
GROCERIES,
Keeps always
sortment of
Shop and Hand Btade Goods,
Saddles, Bridles,
Wagon. Plow and Buggy Harness, hips
Etc., Etc.
REPAIRING OF A Lt KINDS
Promptly done, and all work guaranteed.
Jan. 19.1884. ly
A, W. & W. T. MORRIS,
BLACKSMITHS,
Shop on Commerce St., East of Main St.
Jacksonville, Texas.
Arc Prepared to do all Kinds ot IV oik in
Wood or Iron.
Make and Repair Wagons, Buggies,
And All Kinds Farm Implements.
’Templeton fe Collier
ATTORMEYS-AT-LAW,
JACKSONVILLE, ' TEXAS.
Special attention given
G. V/. MIDDLETON,
attorney-at-law,
JACKSOXVIUE._J • - TEXAS.
Sneei-d Attention given to the colleo-
1G. oldahus. nud
made, a
iTTbONNBR. WADE BONNER.
F. W. BOMNER & SON,
bankers,
RhnR. Cherokee Co., Texas.
Trinket a geueraTbanking business.
Deposits received, drafts bought and sold,
collections made :u>d promptly remitted.
MISS ANIOE SMITH,
millinery
——and—
FASHIONABLE DRESS MAKING,
East Side Main St.
JACKSONVILLE. - - TEXAS,
Ladies’ and Misses’ Hats and Bonnets,
Ribbons. Plumes, Flowers, Gloves,
Neckwear, Hose, Etc.
All Kinds Ladles’ Dress Trimmings
—OF THE—
LATEST STYLES FOB THE SPRING,
F. W. THOMAS,
Manufacturer and Dealer in
SaMlBiy and Harnass,
Main Street,
JACKSONVILLE,
on hand a complete as-
car, “that they have organized
tion society in this city.”
-Oh, Charley, 1 do think cremation is
perfectly awful to contemplate. 1 hope
you do not believe in it.”
“My darlimr, I must confess much can
be said in favor of incineration.”
“But, Charley, suppose—well, suppose
Charley, that a good while after our mar-
riage you were called aftay first. L
couldn't bear to have you cremated—oh,
no! Charley, promise me that you won’t
be cremated.”
-But, my sweetheart, wouldn’t you
rather have my cold remains consigned to
a pyre and have my ashes in an urn « la.
Greek than see them laid away in the
damp, dark grave, left to the worms and
to the piocesses of decay. You could
have the urn containing my ashes on the
parlor mantle, or on your dresser, so that
they would always be near you. And
then 1 would be in a convenient form to
be carried by your own dear hands to the
seashore or the mountains in summer.”
“1 like the idea, of the ashes, Charley. 1
had never thought of it in that ligfit before.
But, Charley, instead of in an urn, I
: would put your ashes in a nice, perfumed
; saehel and cany you about in my pocket.
; And when I took it out I would kiss it
t and say; ‘AU that remains of poor Char-
i ley is in this.’ 1 hope you won’t buy ar y
; lots in the cemetery. Cremation seems so
much more romantic than the old style ot
burial, now that I know more about it.
and you remember the bible says, ‘ashes
’ • «•« ■» -A--Cl C”*
forsaken the fashionable world that once mated—for my sake? ”
adored her. * ”1 will see,;baby.”
KI
THE NEW ISSUE.
The tariff, which in 1876 occupied a sec-
ond or third place, has come to occupy
the first, yet, though it was not at the
front eight years ago. the tariff plank in
the St. Louis platform was as carefully
and elaborately drawn as any other plank
in that platform. It was substantially Mr.
Tilden's own handiwork, was carried west
witli his sanction and brought back to re-
ceive his approval. The plank itself de-
clares for “a tariff for revenue.’’ In spite
of this we bear Democrats saying "we
must nominate the old ticket to get rid of
the tariff,” as though the sage of Gray-
stone was not as thorough an embodiment
of tariff reform as lie is of administrative
reform. It is all a trick to mislead the
people; those who are using it are friends
of monopoly. They are Republicans in
disguise. By the aid of organization and
money they hope amid the confusion to
make tlie Democratic national convention
a good second to tlie Republican national
convention; then whichever way the elec-
tion goes, they are all right.
A caucus will, show us who are our
friends and who are our enemies, and a
caucus we shall have at. an early day.
Deliberation lias been had, and tlie time
for deliberation has gone by. The time
for action has come. The speaker and tlie
chairman of the ways and means commit-
tee are fully conscious of this, and they
are. the leaders of the party in the house.
They are fearless in themselves and faith-
ful to their trust, and if the army of tried
and true Democrats who are waiting for
reassured they will not have long to wait, bones.—[Tyler Democrat.
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