Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 12, Petersburg, Pike County, 31 July 1884 — Page 4

TWO MOTHSBS. Two mothers shoirel me tholr b Pretty darling end both asleep Each foldoJ the coverlid's snow away. The one to smllo, the other to ween. One sleeper lay w ith cheeks a “lush Under his ringlets" wavy gold. And one was wrapped in a solemn bush Uke a marble cherub, white and cold. Fain was 1 to smile wilh her; who crept On tiptoe, bending her treasure o'er. Fain was I to weep with her Who wept For the sleeper who never would more. But to-n'ght I ask, with a thought, the while. Of sorrows and losses that come with the veers: “Were not better for her who wept, the smile. And better for her whitHmiled, the tears?” —Chicago Standard. IN CAPRI. We have had an adventure, or rather, a pair of adventures, that make us feel fairly in the heart of Italy. - Do yon know the Caprian Ways? They 1 e at an angle of thirty degrees, are cobble stoned, and walled with locks that are all green and waving with ivies, maiden Lai'-, terns and mosses. As you ascend you think the end of the way must rest on the upper edge of the moon. Eveir few curves you meet a roguish-eyed girl with a smile that convinces you the Isle is bewitched, and the girl will murmur courage to you, then shyly poise her palm for a sou. After the town, which is, perhaps, four hundred fdbt above the sea, the ways become wilder as they climb to the weird, isolated tower which Libcrius builded as a retreat for the holding of his orgies because it was as secure and inaccessible as Gibraltar on j- its terrible height*. Presently we came upon a group of boys playing with live birds that were fastened by cords wound round their wings. These the gay torturers offered to release if we would give them a sou. The artist told me that a few days before a beautiful Caprian girl who was sitting to him as a model bad a bird made fast to her belt, and that the cap>tive would fly out to be pulled back for her sport. ‘-Very often.” he said, “the big girls catch birds and lizards for the babies to play with and they amuse themselves by poking out their toys’ eyes and disjo’ntin ' their wings.” In the crumbling watch tower on the dizzy heights, aix old woman sang to the castanets, and hen dark, bony fingers thrummed a grotesque tambourine. Then a fantastic group of young men and maidens danced the far-famed tarantella, while a toothless withered hag sang cracked songs, shrilly, on the cliff that dropped 1,800 feet to* the sea. On another wind-swept height was a

monastery in wuien a young mons uvea alone. He blessed us as we departed, lifting his small round cap. He was line looking, and not old enough to have been sated t>y the world’s glories. Yet he smiled with a gentle peace in his Southern eyes that moved us more than many peotestat’ons, as we felt the wind about his desolate height. Looking back again and again wo caught his dark eyes following us and his hands outstretched as if in benediction. Shall I sometime show you the red, red roses he gave us? We saw the steamer coming from Naples and turnedpur steeds about to descend to the beach. At Sorrento and at Capri there is no proper deep landing place. You must take a skill’ and be rowed out to . the steamer. The strand is shelving, possibly because Nature intended travelers to fully appreciate the beauty of the pebbly, shelled beach; but more probably because she is so favorable to each of her son’s schemes for gaining an honest, or dishonest franc from a foreigner. In the skiff the oarsman has you at his mercy. There had been a high gale the day before and thapsea was so high we feared the skiffs must decline taking us to the grotto, for besides the current that is so strong around Capri, the cm trance to the. Blue Cave is so small that only at low tide is there any opening, and .now the sea dashed quite over every eighth wave. It was wildly grand, with the siin on the billows and the Sien’s hats off to prevent their being lost by the grazing of the taut ropes that attached each ski ill to the vessel’s stern. One must go almost around the island to reach the Grotto, and then the steamer anchors outside while the men lower their oars and grasp the rocks overhead. We lay flat m the boat’s bottom, covered our heads, held our breath and waited. It was sublimely dangerous. The two oarsmen, alert and watchful, hurled «s in, and right fiercely the sea dashed in after ns, striking itself into foam far above and against the cliffs overhead. Inside the sea was a miracle of color. I had always fanned that the rare Mediterranean blue was caught from the rare Italian sky, but here there was no sky and even .the daylight had to refract through a wall of water. The blue was unearthly. There is nothing like it on the globe. I think it is the sapphires that gem the great white throne, sent straight from Heaven. A slim 1 oy dove into the deep bine that seems transparent for miles, and was immediately transformed into a knight of glistening silver armor. The oars were marvels of sheeny blue: our hands, when dipped, bscame coated in gleaming mail. The walls of the enchanted cave were also a liquid blue. The dashing out into sunshine an-ain was quite as exciting as the plunge in, and then our gallant oarsmen, whom we had idealised as true Italian .cavaliers, dragged us down from the clonds and dragged our dreumsinto the dust by slavishly pleading for a sou in consideration of their great attention us, and when wq basely .claimed to notunderstanil they murmured “Mac■earom, maccaroni, Signore!” And beCaOSe we still affected a perplexeifincomprehension the terrible creatures actually illustrated how it was eaten, wag

gmg ineir moutnii m aream-joy on tne sublime sea! On the steamer was a man with a violin and one with a guitar. These two kept us in serenades'while another boy sang, danced and clapped his hands. there was also a thin, sea-sick fratilein and two soulless American newspaper correspondents, besides well-bred people from every land, and the man with corals, olive wood, tortoise shells, silks and canes. We recognized the pirate. Coming out to Capri he had wiled us !nto paying three times what we afterward found corals to be Worth, and yet we conld not be vexed at him, he was so reckless and jolly a rogue. Be would hold his bunch of senseless canes before you while your eyes never once turned, from the stiffs of Capri, speaking softly and swiftly and persuasively five words of every language nnder the sun, and those five superlatives of praises of bis wares, actually insisting upon a man’s buying a third staff, or a young and undefended damsel takin^onc, two. three—half a dozen for her brother or father or lover or cousin, five thousand miles away ! 1 *fPi« f ’n in kiln i'Arl *Tis said Capri is enchanted--and e don' dare we doubt it? Cast np by volcanic forces through the bine sea it has all the fire of the former and all th) strange, seductive i of the latter, as heritage. It is lere are no 'docks on the isle and > trace of lime recorded. Eight hnnparate spe ies of indigenous ive on the cliffs Hwt.lwafoty '

peasant girl Whenever there in a stem the steamer from So rrento fails to come, hence the island lies days, sometimes weeks, without communication with the outside world. There’s a full moon to-night, and a moon on Capri ean make the sanest raving staring mad. The new Italian artist is talking to Kittle out under the cactus, the white-haired Baron is speaking in broken English to the little Jladre, while the Amencan cousin, who claims to know no language but his own, and to neither sing, play, pa:nt, sketch, or carve, and to h ave no interest in those arts compared to his interest in the life of the singer, plaver, painter, sketcher or carver, is telling me of the witchery of the Caprian girls. “Do you see that pretty villa'over there?” he asks. “It is occupied by a noble German who lost hie heart to a dark-eyed girl who brought him water from the spring." . “Do you see that waited castle against the cliffs?" calls otit the Italian. “It is owned hy an English lord who came here for a day ana is staying yet His elder brother came out to look iiim op a year ago, but another young girl asked him for a sou and he stopped a day and is stopping yet” And the white-haired Bai-oit mhrrSwrs mysteriously to the little Madre: “The Caprian girls are the daughters of the women that Tiberius chose as most fair from all the world; why should they not be dangerously lovely i*” S'.Jvery vines trail over the crags with leaves as glistening and white as though they had been dipped in the Blue Grotto. The isle will return to the sea sometime and all its warm children with It; but meanwhile they are happy aud iret not—Cor. Mid-Continent.

The Hcalaehe. The headache is such a universal ache that ye are all disposed, in the intervals of its absence, to make light of it; when we feel perfectly fi-ee from its assaults we cherish the belief that it is a chimera, that wo might keep it at arm’s-length if we did not weakly give up the fight too early in the day; but when in some inopportune moment it swoops down upon us, it becomes quite a different affair, and no mean antagonist. =At first we think, perhaps, that it is only temporary; that* it will pass off after breakfast. We take a little coffee and a quinine pill to tone up the system: but the headache still holds its ground, and is still encroaching; by this time we are ready to try a little lemon-juice, a seidlitz powder, some boiling water; we are advised to eat a little dinner—there’s a hungry headache, wo are told. We eat, and are convinced that ours is not a hungry headache. The mustard-plaster is now called in, and the ammonia vial brought out, and we find that the battle is not always to the strong. By-and-by somebody thinks of hot-water baths for the head, and the snn goes down, and we lloat away into the pleasant land of Nod, and waken withont so much as remembering that we have a head. It is almost worth while to have had the pain and to lose a day in order to appreciate the happiness which we considered neutral be;ore, or which we had not considered at all. After the headache is gone we feel that it will never come back; bnt experience corrects this impression. Wo are apt to treat the bilious headache as neuralgic, and the neuralgic as bilions; but perhaps it does not signify, as.no treatment seems to affect it, one way or another, unless it is that a surprise or excitement will sometimes frighten away a nervous headache; but we are rarely satisfied to lie down and snffer without'taking some measures for relief, without trying all the palliatives known. The headache is a convenient illness at times, however; it may not be sever} enongh to make us wholly incapable of “improving the shining hours,’’ and yet sufficient to excuse us from admitting the young poet who has come to read ns his verses, or listen’ng to a dull sermon; it may be severe enongh to allow us tq give up work for the day, yet not so desperate but we may accept any pleasure that offers. As a general thing, however, it is as difficult to escape from, when it seizes ns, as the tentacles of the devil-fish, and not nil the science of the chemist, the restorative^ the tonics, the aperients of the druggisi, can charm it away, till we are cared by sleep.— Harper's Bazar.

Mexican Policemen and Lanterns. One never tires of the street scenes of this strange city. Tfey combine the commonplace, the pathetic and the ludicrous, while, in the eyes of strangers, the novel overshadows everything else. On my first evening, a friend besought me to go to the “zocala,” in the plaza, to hear the band and see the crowd. We started in company, anti at the first corner brought np before a lantern on the ground, exactly in the center of the intersecting streets. “What is that for? ” was the natural inquiry. “That lantern? Oh,' that's a policeman's lantern. It shows that he is in his place. Yes,” looking around, “there he is behind that lamppost. If he stirs so much as to walk up to the middle of the block he must take the light with him. Roundsmen are always on; the watch, and if lantern or man is gone there is trouble.” Further observation showed that this explanation was correct. Every four corners had its lantern exactly in the center, and every lantern Its policeman. Standing in the middle of the roadway, a long line of lights appeared, stretching away to the fpur quarters of the compass. The streets of Mexico are American, in that they cross each other exactly at right angles, though European, in that each square has its individual name. The main thoroughfare, from the plaza te the Ahneda, has as many names as blocks in the third of a mile between the lturbide Hotel and the plaza, and doubtless as large a number off in the other direction.—Mexican Cor. SL Louis Globe-Democrat. The Weodceck. I have closely observed the woodcock’s system of'telegraphy. The bird' s mandibles arc furnished with extremely sensitive nerves, so arranged that when the point of the bill rusts upon the ground, the slightest sounds are conveyed to its brain. Standing upon the water-saturated earth of a sprouty bog, our bird uttered a faint, keen crv, scarcely audible at two rods’ distance, then immediately lets fall his head till the tip of his bill touches the ground, and listens attentively. If bis mats bears him she replies, puts her bill on the ground, and listens in turn. So the love messages go back and forth as lorn; as the birds have anything to say. This sort of thing usnally happens in the soft twilights from May to the middle of August, though occasionally I have seen and heard it m the broad light of a summer day.— Prof, yeomans. -—-•• , —During the last year' the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Philadelphia attended the arrival of 79 steamers, relieved 705 destitute immigrants and gave advice and information to over 5,900 persons at the wharf, and procured employment for 191 girls and 90 men, and expended in relief $466.1!?. — Philadelphia Press. —The Presidential year, sii.ys Gustave Frohman. will break up little traveling theatrical companies by titte score-— m ft

prayer. Every seat on the floor ami! in the gal. f leriee was occupied, and the aisles and stairways were rendered Impassable by the dense throng of people, who had been nnable to finding standing roam. After prayer, the Secretary, R. W. Nelson, of Chicago, read the rail for the Convention. At the conclusion of Secretary Nelson’s reading the band rendered • , “AMERICA.” Mr. C. L. Ross, of Chicago, delivered the address of welcome. HON. G. F. STEWART, Chairman of the National Committee, in 1 behalf of the Convention, responded briefly. Alter the applause which fallowed Mr. Stewart’s reponse had died away, and without intervening business, he at oijce proceeded to deliver the opening address to the Convention. At the close of the opening address Mr. Stewart received an ovation, and it was some time before silence could be restored. Alter the opening address, temporary organization was effected by the election of Uon. Wm. Daniels as temporary chairman, and Mary T. Woodbridge, of Ohio, President of the Woman’s'Christian Temperance Union, as temporary secretary. At half past one the Convention ordered the roll of States called for the members of the various committees. When the Convention was about to adjourn, a warm wrangle was precipitated by the failure of the Secretary to call the Territory of Dakota for members of the committees. Several delegates charged that there was a desire to choke out Territorial delegates. Mrs. Burke, of New York, appealed in behalf of the Territories, put the audience was unwilling to listen, and in the midst of a scene of confusion at 1:30 p. m. an adjournment was taken untU 3 p. m. The Convection reassembled at 3 p. m. Ten minutes were occupied in singing the “ Glory Hallelujah ” and live more in prayer by Kev. Dr. liayes, of Illinois. Considerable time was then consumed over a motion (which was finally lost) that in order to prevent the excitement and confusion of the morning sessions, the rules of Cushlog’s Parliamentary Manual should be adopted. . Telegrams of congratu'ation were read from the Prohibitionists of Missouri and Middletown, N. Y-, and Eastern Pennsylvania, and it was decided to send a congratulatory dispatch to the Temperance Convention which meets in Indianapolis Thursday. The Committee on Credentials was called upon for a report, but no response being made, “#id Hundred.” was sung.

MISS FRANCES WILLARD was then granted leave to read a memorial from the Woman’s Christian Temperance Uniou, earnestly petitioning the Convention to advocate and adopt such measures as are requisite to the end that prohibition of the importation, exportation, manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages may become an integral part •f the National Constitution and that the Prohibition party’s candidate for President shall be by eharacter and public pledges committed to a National Constitutional Prohibitory amendment. The Committee on * Credentials not yet being ready to report. MRS. JACKSON, OF MARYLAND, was called upon and entertained the Convention for about ten minutes with an interesting and remarkably well-delivered address on “Prohibition.” Three hours of indescribable noise, turmoil and bitterness followed this innocent diversion. It was initiated by the Committee on Credentials. This body reported that 436 regularly accredited delegates were in attendance, and that 131 additional were entitled to seats under the ruiings of previous conventions, and further reported a resolution that the delegates from States which had failed to send a full complement of delegates be allowed to cast the votes of the absent ones. This resolution was received with miugied cheers and howling. Dr. S. A. Ransom, of New Jersey, and Rev. Dr. Hopkins, of New York, denounced it as disgracefully unfair, pointing out that the solitary delegate from Texas would, by-its adoption, be enabled to cast nineteen votes, and that several other States, represented by but two or three delegates, would, be given a vote of twenty or thirty. Dr. Hopkins said that if measures of this kind were to prevail the Democratic gag law of unit rule might as well be enforced at the outset. finally, amidst a perfect bedlam, the report of the committee, including the resolution, was put and declared carried. At 6:30 p. m. a recess was taken until eight o’clock. The Convention reassembled at eight o’clock, when the Committee on Permanent Organization reported the name of PROFESSOR SAMUEL DICKIE, President of Albion College, Michigan, as Permanent Chairman, with one VicePresident from every State. Ten of the latter were women. Professor Dickie made an acknowledgment of his election, which, though brief, was the best speech of the day. Considerable time was spent in desultory discussion of the report of the Committee on Roles. By a large majority the Convention refused to adopt the twothirds rule In the nomination of cacdi dates, and adopted the majority plan. On the call of Spates, the following named gentlemen aud ladies were appointed by their respective delegates as members of the NATIONAL COMMITTER. Alabama—J. H. Hunt. California—Mrs. Emory Fltz Stiner and Robl. Glasgow. Connecticut—Geo. P. Rodgers and A. Morehouse. District of Columbia—J. A. Wheeler and Chas. M. Nye. Dakota—Theo. Kenouse and Geo. A. Cressy. Illinois—Dr. A. J, Jenkins and J. A.

* an r net, Kansas—J. H. Pyers and Jos. Perkins. Maine—W. T. Eustls and N. F. Woodbury. Maryland—John L. Thomas and Leonard E. 1). Newman. Massachusetts—Not yet selected. Michigan—1). P. Sagendorpbi and Her. John Bussell. Minnesota—L. Bixiey and ~W. W. Sodderly. Missouri—M. W. Hudsou and A. F. Butts. * Nebraska—C. F. Stempln and John D. Finch. New Hampshire—Chas. A. Hovey and John Fletcher. New Jersey—Dr. T. Edgar Hunt and Bev. Sunderland Parsons. New York—BeY. Thos. J. Bisseil and J. W. Brnce. Ohio—Mrs. M. Brown and J. Odell. Pennsylvania— Hon. Jas. Flagg and Wm. T. Dunn.Tennessee—J. B. Anderson and J. W. Smith. Wisconsin—Hon. Samuel D. Hastings and B. E. Van Burcn. it was agreed to direct the National Committee to All vacancies from States not now organized. Mr. James Flagg, of Pennsylvania, was authorized to call the National Committee together for organisation. After some routine business of no public interest the Convention at 10:05 p. m. adjourned until nine o’clock Thursday. Seeoad Day. Pittsburgh. Pi., July 24. Precisely at 9:10 a. m. the Chairman tapped the assembly to order. The proceedings opened with prayer, by Bev. Dr. Lee, of New York, followed by the hymn. “Jesdi I My Cross Have Taken.” Massachusetts presented the nstoe of M. H. Richards to be a member of the National Committee. Kentucky presented Bev. C. M. Cole and O. J. Gladden lor members of the same committee. At ten o’clock the motion wan made and agreed to tha t thq

be c*lled to JenttoraSHL._ ot California; John P. St. John,of Kansas; Gideon T. Stewart, of Ohio; Clinton B. Fisk, of New Jersey, and John Black of Pennsylvania, were severally presented 4 to the Convention, the name of St. John evoking much enthnslam. This occupied the forenoon -tension. At tile opening of the afternoon Convention, a large number of dispatches were read congratulating the Convention upon its work ahd urging ex-Governor St. John’s nomination. One from Mew Hampshire read: “Two hundred thousand Methodists are waiting to vote for St. John.” Another front the Temperance Convention at Indianapolis conveyed greetings. The isantimcnt in favor of St. John was so pronounced that one by one the other names were withdrawn and a motion was finally made to make St. John the unanimous nominee of the Convention, and npon ik call by States. All the delegates voted unanimously for St John, and when the Secretary made the announcement, giving the vote cast as 602, the audience rose to its feet and cheered vociferously for several moments and then Bang “Glory Hallelujah,” and the long meter doxology. More cheering foll owed as a canvass picture of the nominee was carried around the room. A dispatch containing the announcement eras at once sent to Mr. St John, who was speaking at a camp meeting at Lakeside Park near Rochester, N. Y. When the enthusiasm had spent itself, Judge John Black, of Lancaster, Pa., was called upon to present the platform. The reading of this document was listened to with profound attention. THE PLATFORM. 1. The Prohibition Home-Protection party, in National Convention assembled, acknowledge Almighty God as the rightful Sovereign of all men, from whom just powers of Government are derived to whose laws human enactments sbonld conform ,and that peace, prosperity and happiness only can come to .the people when tile laws of the National and State Governments are in accord with the divine will. 2. T hat the importation, manufacture, supply and sale of alcoholic beverages created and maintained by the laws of the National and State Governments daring the entire history of snch laws is everywhere shown to be the promoting cause of intemperance, with resulting crime and pauperism, making large demands upon public and private charity; imposing large and unjust taxation ami public burdens for penal and sheltering institutions upon thrilty industries, manufacturers and commerce; endangering the public peace; desecration of the Sabbath, corrupting our politics, legislation and administration of the laws; shortening lives, impairing health and diminishing productive industry; causing education to be neglected and despised; nullifying the teachings of the mole, tlxe church and the school, the standards and guides of onr fathers and their children tn the founding and growth, tinder Godjof our widely extend* ed country, and which is imperiling tha perpetnlity of our civil £nd religious liberty, art! the baleful fruits by which we know that these laws are contrary to God’s laws, and we call upon onr fellow citizens to aid in the repeal of these laws,

ana tne legal suppression or this baleful liquor traffic. Attention Is called to tbe fact that during the twenty-four years in which the Republican party has controlled the general government and that of many of tbe States, no effort has been made to change this policy. Territories have been created from the National domain and governments for them established, and States from them admitted to the Union, in no instance in either of which has this traffic been forbidden or the people of those Territories or States been permitted to prohibit. That there are now over 200,000 distilleries, brewers and wholesale and retail dealers in these drinks, holding certificates and claiming the authority of the Government for the continuation of a business so destructive to the moral and material welfare of the people, together with the fact that they have turned a deaf ear to the remonstrance and petition for the correction of this abuse of civil government is conclusive that the Republican party is insensible to, or impotent for, the redress of those wrongs, and shonld n o longer be intrusted with the powers and responsibilities of the Governments; that although this party in its late National Convention was silent on the liquor question, not so its candidate, Messrs. Blaine and Logan. Within the year past Mr. Blaine has publicly recommended that the revenue derived from the liquor traffic shall be distributed among the States aud Senator Logan has by a bill proposed to devote these revenues to the support of schools; thus .both virtually recommended the perpetuation of the traffic'and that the State and its citizens shall become partners in the liquor crime. The fact that the Democratic party has in its National deliverances of party policy arrayed itself on the side oi the drink makers and fellers by declaring against the policy of the prohibition of such traffic under the false name of “sumptuary laws,” and were in power in some of the States refusing remedial legislation, and in Congress by refusing to permit the creation of a board of inquiry to investigate and report upon the effects of this traffic, proves that the Democra tic party should not be intrusted with power or place; that there can be no greater peril to the Nation than the existing competition of the Republican and Democratic parties for the liquor vote. Experience shows that any party not openly opposed to the traffic will engage in competition; will court favor of the criminal classes; will barter away the public morals, the purity of tbe ballot, and every trust and object of good Government for party success, and patriots and* good citizens should find in this practice sufficient case for immediate withdrawal from all connection with this party. That we favor reforms in ail tbe administration of the Government, in the abolition of all sinecores, useless Offices and officers in the election by the people of the Post-masters and all officers of the Government instead of leaving .their appointment to the President; that competency, honesty and sobriety are essential qualifications for holdiug civil office, and

”v vuvi ivuiufai vt ouvu jtciouuo lor mere administrative offenses, except so far as it may be absolutely necessary to secure effectiveness to the vital issues, on which the general administration of the Government has entrusted to a party; that the collection of revenues, from alcoholic liquors ami tobacco should be abolished, that the customs duties should v be levied for the support of the Government, economically administered, and when so levied the fostering of American labor manufacturers and industries should be constantly held in view1; that the public land should be held for homes for the people and not for gifts to corporations or to be held in large bodies for speculation npon the needs of actual setters; that"all money, coin and paper, shall be made, Issued and regulated by the General Government, and shall be a legal tender for ail debts public and private; that grateful care •od support should be given to bur soldiers and sailors, their dependent widows and orphans, disabled in the service of the country; that we repudiate as un-American, contrary to and subversive of the principles of the Declaration of Independence, from which onr government has grown to be a government of 65,C00,000 of people and a recognized power among the nations, that any person oir people shall or may be excludedresidence or citizenship with all others who may desire the benefits which our Institutions confer on the oppressed of all nations; that while tfiere hre Important reforms demanded for the purity of administration and the welfare of the people, their importance: sinks Into insignificance when compared with the reform of tbs drink traffic, which annually wastes *50,000,000 of the wealth orested by toll and thrift and drags down thousand of families from pomfort to poverty, wblcii fills jails, penitentiaries, Insane asjlums, hospitals, and institutions for dependency, which destray health;, saps industry, and causes loss of life imd property to thousands In

the free ■^■should power and prohibit sale of intoxicatu: j> trict of Columbia, the and the Dis- „ „ , „ . . _-torlea of the United Slates, In all places over which the Government lias exclusive jurisdiction. That hereafter no State shall be admitted into the Union until its constitution shill expressly prohibit polygamy ind the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages. We earnestly call the attention of the laborer and mechanic, the miner and manufacturer, and ask investigation of the baneful effects u[H>n labor and industry caused by the needless liquor business, which will be found the robber who lessens wages and pro fit, the destroyer of the happiness and family welfare of the laboring man, and that labor and all legitimate industries demands the suppression of this traffic. How much of comfort the suppressing this traffic would bring to the laboring man, mechanic or employer of labor throughout our land! That the activity and co-operation oi the women of America for the promot ion of temperance, has, in ail the history of the past, been a strength and encouragement which we gratefully acknowledge and record. In the later anu present phase of the movement for the prohibition of the license traffic by the abolition of the drinking saloon, the parity of purpose and method, the earnestness, seal, intelligence and devotion of the mothers and daughters of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union has been eminently blessed by God. Kansas and Iowa have given their “sheave of rejoicing,” and the education and arousing oi the public mind and a demand for a constitutional amendment is now prevailing. These are largely the* fruit of her prayers and labors, and we rejoice to have our Christian women unite with ns and sharing in labor that shall bring the abolition oj the traffic to the polls. At the request of several delegates the document was taken up for discussion, the qnestions being considered seriatim. Before this was done dispatches congratulating the Convention upon Mr. St: John’s nomination were read from Dr. McDonald, who was la New York, and from Conrtland Parker, of New Jersey. A motion « name of the party “TUB PROHIBITION PARTY,” and after the consideration .of business of a routine character, the Convention, at 5:25 p. m., took a recess until eight o’clock. Evening Session. The Convention was called to order at 8:16 p. m., with prayer by Kev. A. J. Judkins, of Chicago. The-first business was the presentation of the report, of the Finance Committee by Governor Clinton B. Fiske, of New Jersey. Pledges were solicited for Subscriptions to the: “Pioneer Battle Fund,” which requires the subscriber to pay the amount oi his subscription annually so long as he shall live, or ttutil the party’s candidates for President and Vice-Presi-dent shall be elected. The number of ten-dollar subscriptions received aggregated $442. The rod of States was then called for the nomination of candidates tor Vice-President. The names of Geoige C. Rodgers, of Connecticut; William Daniels, of Maryland; Clinton B. Fisk, of New Jersey; George W. Bayne, Of Kentucky and Miss Frauces Willard, of Illinois; were presented. The names of ail bnt that of Daniels were subsequently withdrawn and the latter was nominated by acclamation. Mr. Dauiels briefly acknowledged the honor, amidst rousing cheers. A lew minntes were spent in routine business. Votes oi ithanks were passed to the various officers, and at 12:30 a. m. the National Prohibition Convention of 1834 came to an end.

THE G. A. R. EMCAMPMEJST. The Gathering of the Veterans at the National Encampment « in Minneapolis, Minn.—The Days of Twenty Years Ago Recalled. Minneapolis, Minn., July23. The Grand Encampment of the G. A. R. Veterans took place last night at the Fair Grounds, fall; 10,000 ex-soldiers being present. The hotels are all crowded, and folly 600 tents are pitched In the Fair Grounds. Governor Hubbard, of Minnesota, delivered the address of welcome, which was responded to by R. B. Heath, the Commander of the Grand Army o( the Republic, who said the Grand Army now contains on its rolls 234,000 members, all of whom had bravely served their country from the rout at Bull Run to the surrender at Appomattox. These were followed by the addresses of. General Warner, of Missouri; Colouel Hicks, of Minnesota; Colonel Grosvenor, of Ohio, and General Gibson. Among those on the platform were General Sherman, General Logan, Governor Hubbard, Mayor Pilsbury, Governor Rush, of Wisconsin; General Fairchild, and Grand Commander Heath and staff. To-day was the grandest day in the history of Minneapolis, of the character, perhaps the greatest the country has.ever seen. The streets were crowded all day. It was eleven o’clock before the gun which was the signal for the processioa to start was fired. Thca the excitement began, and the MAIMED AND YEAR-WORN VETERANS passed through the streets with their ragged flags’and old uniforms The procession took one honr and a half to pass a given point. Much enthusiasm prevailed, particularly when General Logan or General Sherman were recognized. The former rode on horseback with the Illinois delegation. Sherman rode in a carriage with the Missouri delegation. It is estimated that 300,000 people viewed the procession. At the reception late last night General Rosser, the ex-Con-federate, responded to the toast, _ “THE BLUR AND THE GRAY,” amid much cheering and applause. The delegates will meet to-day to select the next Grand Commander, with the chances between Generals Sherman, Konnts, of Ohio, and Carnahan, of Indiana.

Panic in a Circus. Richfield Spbisgs, N. Y., July 24. Baring an exhibition yesterday of Washburn A Hunting’s Circus and Menagerie a hurricane struck the tents and prostrated them flat upon the ground without the slightest warning to the hundreds of fashionable people who were under them. They were compelled to crawl from under the canvas only to meet a terrible hail storm, each pellet of which was the siae of an egg. They hurried into. barns and sheds until help arrived. • Suddenly a terrific clap of thunder preceded by a flash of lightning was heard. Women screamed and mcnleft the piahas of the hotel. It was subsequently ascertained tbWt the bolt had struct a tree on Hale’s lawn, glanced to the bell knob, which it tore in pieces, rang the cottage bell, tore dot the casings of the Inside of the doors and escaped to the ground. Julios Walker, two mites from here, was driving a load of bay into his barn when the wind drove it back and over him, crashing his leg, Jibs and arm. Dr. Crain says he may recover. Annie Uaaen was prostrated and remained unconscious for three hours. The Aeturna Coming In. Lncnrnscn, let., July 23. A threshing machine englue exploded a few miles from this city Monday. Jno. West was instantly killed and Frank Haskell died in three hours, while Wm. Fisher, Jas. King, Geo. West, Floyd West, Jas. Fardell and Daniel Richardson were scalded and cot, and four of them are said to be fatally hurt. The thresher and the most of the machinery were blown to atoms, and meat <f( the wheat stacked was burned.

—A slop hole at the back door win make doc tors’ hills enough to pay foi draining the whole term.—Cltxelema Leader. - Hickory and cherry require a growth of thirty yean before they an valuable for tim bcr, maple twenty yean, and beeches fifteen.—Exchange. —If a bedstead creaks at each mov» ment of the sleeper, remove the slats and wrap the end of each in an old newspaper This will prove a complete silencer. —An excellent dressing for chopped cabbage is made by heating a small cup of vinegar with a lump of butter or a well-beaten egg; salt and pepper to suit the taste ; pour while hot over the cabbage.—Albany Journal. —Wherever there is a necessity for 'making the land yield the highest revenue of which it is capable, resort must be had to the rearing of live stock and to its improvement and high devel-' opment. —Prairie Farmer. —The combination cow is the one that will eventually come to the front. The ma ority of the cattle in the United States, like the majority of the pigs and sheep are bred on small farms, and the man who is thus situated is not going to breed a herd of cattle as milkers, ana another lot as beef cattle. He can not afford to do it and the combination cow will be sought.—Boston Transcript —To find the number of tons id long or square stacks of hay the -following is the rule: Multiply the length in yards by the width in yards, and that by half the altitude in yards, and divide the product by fifteen. To find the number of tons in c rcular stacks: Multiply the square of the circumference in yards by f6ur times the al itude in yards and divide by one hundred. The quotient w 11 be the r umberof cube yard»in the stack. Then divide by fifteen to get the number of tons.—Michigan Farmer. —Knowledge is power. There is an immense difference between brain and muscle. The one lifts by ma n force, the o: her uses mach nery to do the lifting, Tha mm trudging along on foot, with the bundle on his hack, is muscle; the lightning train is brains; the man laboriously cutting the wheat with a s'ckle s muscle; the self-binding reaper is brains. There is no place where bra ns, educated, thinking brains, pay better than on the farm; often a moment of brnm-work saves a whole day for the muscles. Learn to use the brains.— Rural Few York. Hutton Sheep.

In ancient times the sheep was main* Jy kept for its flesh. A lamb from the flock furnished a choice meal for an honored visitor, while the mutton and lentil stew furnished a food that supplied every necessity of the laborious and active life of the shepherd. Tne nomadic shepheri who liTed and roamed with his flock found his chief subsistence fiom the mutton and the milk it afforded. In course of time, when a pastoral life gave way to agriculture and manufactures were organized to supply the luxurious demands of the'commercial cities, the fleece became an object of special culture, and the Merino sheep then first grew out of, or became evolved because of the necessities of the manufacturer. The Merino sheep was never better bred nor ever produced .a finer or better fleece than in the palmy days of Rome, when the soft rich purple robes of the wealthy people were manufactured from the* wool of Merino sheep reared in Spain And from this ancient use the Spanish Merino has to this day held its first place as a wool producer. But although Merino mutton is excellent, there is but little of it, and when the demand for mutton arose a different class of sheep became evolved to meet th's necessity. The first breed of this class was either the English Southdown or t.he Cotswold, which is said to have been procured originally from Spain, and which of the two is the older no one can now say. England was the great competitor of Spain in the early woolen industry and in rearing mutton sheep, and the demand in England being for a coarser wool than tne Merino, this country soon became possessed of the best coarse wool and fine mutton sheep in the world. The Southdown furnished the best of mutton, being reared on the unequal pastures of the Southdowns, or chalky rolling pastures of the counties bordering upon the southern coasts, where the healthful sea breezes, the dry, limy soil and the sweet and nutritious pasture all combine to produce the finest mutton sheep in the world. There are many localities on our own coasts where equally good mutton might be reared. Then there are the mountain sheep, and the largest races which are fed upon rich artificial pastures or soiling crops with root and oil cakes, but the mutton of these is titter for the tallow candle maker than the cook. After the Southdown comes the Shropshires, scarcely differing in appearance from' the former, but a little larger and with rather longer wool, but when fed upon turnips and good pasture its muttotf’is as good as the Southdown, except to the expert in good living. And with these two breeds we have all that we require with the best of our native sheep for our supply of mutton.—N. Y. limes. How to Prepare Wool.

Shearers and handlers should spare; no pains in preparing wool for market: nothing pays better than nice handling of wool at shearing time; while wool containing burrs, filth, chaff, seed or other extraneous matter loses much mqre in value than it makes up in weight. The proper fmding and tying of fleeces is very important, and should receive much more attention than if does. Keep the -body of the fleece whole and compact, fold by hand and tie with a continuous twine; when properly done it can not be improved upon by any of the presses. Fleeces should bo squeezed or turned so tight as to make them feel soggy, but should be left soft while elastic and woolly. The most desirable shape is near the cubical, in large fleeces, having more length than width or thickness; small and medium fleeces should be twined twice - each way, large ones twice one way and three times the other; if very heavy, more will be needed. The best condition and appearance of wool will depend very considerably on how it is piled, if not sacked immediately after shearing it; this should he done with a flew to keeping symmetry of shape, but handlers should not make the pile bulky or heavy enough to compress the bottom fleeces too hard, which, however, is not likely to occur with clips of light wool. SacKs should be filled with the same view of preserving fleeces in as good shape as possible, and not any harder pressed or tramped than is necessary to keep in place, and not have it “shuok” around in handling and transporting. It is economy to use plenty of sacks rather than to pack so hard as to scare buyers of extra weights. The nice, smooth, even filling of sacks adds to the attractiveness of a lot. Ship in clean cars, as fine dust sifts through the sacking and often gives a very bad appearance to all the outside fleeces. Burry wools are classed as “slightly burry,” or such as can be hand-picked at a cost of from one cent to three cents per pound; “burry,” which may be hand-picked at a cost of from four to seven cents per pound, and “hard burry,” which can be freed only by machinery. This latter class, no matter how heatthy the growth be, ^degraded in selling price to about the same as the lowest and meanest class of wool in like condition.Francisco Chronicle,

A oeacert *ns recently given fey soma amateur musicians at Austn. It was largely attended by the general public- One young lady belonging to one of ttahfirae families, wjth a Targe armysized mouth, sang a selection irosci an Italian opera, which was Y«sifer»ualy applauded, particularly by a stranger on ono of the front seat*. Turning to his neighbor, with whom ho was not acquainted, the stranger said: “What beautiful teeth that young lady has!1'7 *T am *W to hear you so say. It is a high compliment to me.’1 “Ah'- you are the young lady’s father. Yon have indeed ti charming,- daughter.” v/ ' “Ch, do, I'm not her father.” “Her brother?” 1 “No. I ara no relative whatever, bnt I’m the dentist who fixed her mouth up with those teeth you admire so much. I anty charged fourteen dollars fop-thev, but they have not been paid for yet.”—Ter as Sijtmgn. No Jturr of refinement likes to resort to superficial devices to supply a becoming semblance of her former beauty. It is health alone that lights the countenance and brings back fresh tints to the faded cheek. If anything on earth will do this, it is Mrs. Lydia E. Finkham’s Vegetable Compound, which has already brought health to multitudes with whom all other means had failed. The professional th(a£,ij who believer in doing*ev sively upon his own hook.

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