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indulging IN the sciences Of book keep
ing and logic. Quercas expatiates on
jonrnalizing, and suppose keeps his
day book and ledger posted. it not his
pocket book. As logician, he thinks
no logic so successful as the logic Of ex-
perience. As farmer, he seems to have
encountered all shades of experience as
a logician and book keeper. Trial after
trial, failure after failure, followed by
disgust and the final abandonment of
farming operations. Lien Law, ct the
bottom of the collapse, as shown By his
logical deductions. The mode CON
forms to that of all the other repealers.
The data on which the premises are
built are taken for granted as self-eyi-
dent, and hence the conclusion that the
Lien Law should be repealed. Planters
are green in some things, 1t Is true, but
Just here a denudation Of the eye
would not reveal any misapprehen-
sion of this illusiveness. These repeal
ers emphatically assert that all our
troubles arise from this law, without
any proofs Of the facts. The 0atts pro-
5ani certainly rests with them, and they
should advance something to sabstan-
tiate the GlLeg ita 1t is nowhere shown
or attempted to be demonstrated, and
therefore of no weight from bare asser-
tions. The wisdom of one Legislature
put this wholesome law ON our statute,
and there the wisdom Of the next and
all succeeding Legislatures, Will let 1t
remain in testimony of their high ap-
probation of It's originators and of its
Own immeasnrable usefulness.
Judging from the letters pouring IN
on The CLARION in behalf of the re-
peal, there is to be considerable lobby
ing at the ensuing session, but legisia-
tors work in the interest of the common
veal, and there are no fears of their
being drawn after phantoms springing
from delusions and prejudice. Conser-
vative in views, they viii here ''let well
enough alone. Respectfully,
PINUs SYLvANUs.
October p. 1888.
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Children,s Laughter.

There are no sounds so sweet to q
mothers ear, except perhaps the first
lisping of an infants prayer, as child 3
laughter. How dull is the home where
in its music once joyously echoed, but
is heard no more! How still is the
house where the little ones are all fast
asleep, their pattering feet are silent! /!
How easily the fun of child bubbles
FORTH Take even those poor, premature
ly aged little ones, bred in a gutter,
cramped in unearthly homes, and ill-
used, it may be, by drunken parents,
and YOU will find that the child-nature
is not crushed entirely out of them.
They are children still, albeit they look
so haggard and wan. Fry to excite their
mirthfulness, and ere long a laugh rings
out as wild and free as if there was no
such thing as sorrow in the world. Let
the little ones laugh, then; too soon
alas! they will find cause enough "a
weep. Do not silence them, but LET
their gleefulness ring out in gladsome
peal, and reminding us of the days when
we, too, could laugh without a sigh.
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At Z meeting of the Hazlehurst Bar,
held At the Court House ia Hazlchurst
on tie 31st day Of October 1883, Hon.
+. q. Peyt0n was called to the chair and
II. B. Mayes, Jr., was chosen Secretary
Of the meeting The meeting being
called to order, the chairman, after
stating its object, appointed the Hons.
II. B. Mayes, r. P. Willing, i. o. Bride
we'll and r. n Miller, committee to
draft resolutions expressive Of the sense
Of the Bar. WheFeupon the committee
having retired, reported the following
resolutions which were unanimously
adopted;
WHEREAs, The labors Of Hon. II. s.
Foote as District Attorney Of this
Judicial District, viii terminate in
Copiah with the adjournment Of the
present term Of our court, he having
declined to become a candidate for re-
election; and whereas we deem itproper
and due TO Mai. Foote, that the bar OF
this county should give some expression
Of their appreciation Of the manner IN
which he has discharged the duties OF
his Office; therefore
Rts0lccd, LIST. That we take pleasure
in bearing testimony to the legal ability,
personal Integrity and manly bearing Of
the Hon. III. s. Foote, and to the uni
form courtesy he has shown 10 the mem
hers Of our bar, both in his social inter
course with them and while in the dis
charge Of the duties imposed by his
Office during the term he has held the
same,
ID. That he has at our courts dis
charged the duties of his office with
great ability and impsrtiality; making
no distinction between any classes Of
persons, between the rich or the poor;
the high and the low. And while he
has guarded with fidelity the interest OF
the State, has been careful at the same
time to guard against a conviction OF
the innocent.
Sd. That copy of these resolutions
be handed to Mai. Foote, and copy be
forwarded to our county papers and
Tbs CLARION for publication, with the
REQUEST that they send Maj. kOGte q
copy of said publication.
II. b. MAYEs,
r. 2. WILLING,
L. 0. BRIDEwELL,
II. n. MILLER.
On motion the meeting was then adj
journed.
H. B. MAyEs, JR., Sec'y.
A meeting of the officers of Court was
then held and the above resolutions
we're unanimously endorsed as to theiE
association with Maj. Foote during his
term of Office,
f. w. BEowN, Chr'n.
G. F. WOLFE, Sec'y.
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One at a Time.
Kansas Methodist ]

hanSas heIHOulSt'I
A boy watched large building, as
the workmen, from day to day, carried
the bricks and mortar.
"lIy son." said his father, "you seem
taken with the bricklayers. Do you
think of learning the trader
"No, sir; l was thinking what little
thing brick is, and what great houses
are built by laying one brick upon an
other"
"Very true, my son; never forget it.
So it is in all great works. All your
learning is one lesson added to another.
If a man could walk all around the world
it would be by putting one foot before
the other Your life will be made mp
of one moment upon another. Drops
added to drops make the ocean.
"Learn from this not to despise little
things. Be not discouraged by great
labors. They become easy if divided
into parts. You could not jump over
mountain; but step by step takes you
to the other side. Do not fear, there
fore, to attempt great things. Away
remember that the large building went
up only one brick upon another"
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An Important Land Case Decision.

DENyER, Col, Nov. An unusually
important case was decided by Judge
McCreary, Of the United States Circuit
Court, to-day. The United States
brought suit on sixty patents to land
hald By the Colorado Coal and Iron Com
pany and others. The Los Animas
County Company's patents were OBJ
tanned through the pre-emption law be.
tween 1870 and 1874 They were issued
from the Public Land Office After
ward they found that the patents were
irregularly obtained and the patentees
we're fictitious persons Testimony was
Introduced to show that the register
and receiver Of the land Office were
parties to the fraud. The defense claim.
cd that the deed was now good, they
granting the patents were frandulentll
obtained, becanse the lands were nov
ii the hands Of innocent parties. Tn.
Judge held adversely, and rendered 1
decision in favor Of complainant wliicl
cancels The titls TO 1850 acres Of yalu
able land.
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Women's Conversation.

What good thing it would be, if
women would only speak their minds.
There is nothing that honest men desire
more than to understand that mysteri-
Gus race that is so like them and yet 20
unlike, who share their homes but not
their thoughts, who are so shrewd, so
practical and so irrational. The poor
men yearn to break down the invisible
barrier and see into the real hfe Of those
they love so we'll; but the loved ones
smile and chatter and say pretty things,
and ingenious things they have borrowed
from men and improved in borrowing,
but never one word Of the real thoughts
that are working their busy brains So
the men fatter and lie because they
think the women like it, and women ac-
cept it all because they think it is mans
nature; and the men think women are
empty headed angels; and the women
think men are fine intelligent brutes;
and the two classes go on loving and
despising one another accordingly and all
for the want of a little truthfulness IN
conversation.
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Talmage On pOpes.


The following Is an extract from Z
report Of DIR. Talmage's. lecture % Fri
day eveningof last week:
Talmage's Friday evening talk at his
tabernacle was about .the Luther eele-
brations. No man that ever lived, he
said, has done 50 much for the liberia
ton Of human thought as Martin Luz
ther. bat the world and the church ever
and anon need another iconoclast TO
break ecclesiastical pretensiol. In all
religions and churches there have been
those who would t1r.annize over the
souls efthe people. Its q great mistake
To suppose that the Catholic Church has
had the monopoly of persecution. lot
ton Nather. a Protestant minister Of
Boston. advocated the burning OF peo-
ple supposed to be bewitehed, " no
burned the Quakersg Protestants- Ser
vetus wrote books offensive 70 Protesr
tanrs. and was burned to death, and John
calvin is understood to have sanctioned
the awful tragedy. We waTt a new
Martin Luther at least every fifty years
to extirpate the spirit of religious tyrran-
nv cropping ont in all denominations
Ii the reformer appears in the Methodist
Church his antagonists will try TO get
him appointed to some Insignificant sta
tion on small salary. If he be in the
Baptist Church, his antagonists will try
to get him expelled from the association.
If he be in the Congregational Church,
they will call a council and not invite
him. Ii be be in the Presbyterian
Church, they viii try to grind him
him up between the Book of Discipline
and the Westminster Catechism. | am
not SO much opposed to one Pope, If he
be a good man, as | am to these scores
of little popes all over Professionalism
Methodist popes, Baptist popes Episco-
palian popes, Lutheran popes, Congrega-
fional popes, Presbyterian popes- and
will say that in tins country 1t takes less
timber to make a pope than in any
other country in the world. In the
harness Of the church there is too much
breeching strap and not enough OF
traces; but ever and anon some one
arises and catches Luther's spirit, and
then comes another crash of conseera
ted humbugS
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A millionaire IN Prison.


ALBAsY, Nov. 3.-CIerk Bowers, of
the Albany Penitentiary, who scru-
tinizes the mail of prisoners in that in
stitution, to-day opened the following
telegram, dated at New York, Nov. 3,
signed Ulrich, Van Seller & Ulrieh,
and addressed to sBaron Robert Her
man, Albany Penitentiary: Received
cablegram informing US that you have
fallen heir to the estates of Baron Bern
stein, valued at $2,000,000. Particulars
when your sentence expires" The
prisoner for whom the dispatch was in.
tended was busy at the time pegging
shoes. He is short and stout, has light
hair, blue eyes aud a pleasant face, and
| is a German. His portrait adorns the
rogues' gallery at police headquarters
| the country where he has successfully
worked off forged checks for largt
amounts. He was convicted Ia this city
for uttering worthless checks in Septem
Der, 1882, and WAS sentenced to the pen
| itentiary for two years. He was impris
oned under the name of Herman, which
/ he to dav stated he assumed in order K
shield his family, who are wealthy aRC
/ influential Germans. The Baron Bern
stein. to whose title and estates he ha
succeeded, was his uncle; and th,
prisoner has wife and children a
Frankforta.n-the-M Main, where he wa
born.
His career, as revealed by himself to
4 day. Is romantic almost beyond belief
/. He was graduated from Heidelbery
University at the age of twenty-four, 3
d surgeon. in which profession he gaines
reputation. Coming to the Gnitet
n States in 1861, he enlisted in the arm,
! of the Union, and served PROFESSIONAL,
with success and honor throughout th
var. At the close Of the rebellion b
was attached to the staff of Belleyu
: Hospital, New York, for some years
He says he never drank glass Of iquo
. ii his life, nor used tobacco, but th
passion for gambling caused his ruin
Some years ago he fell heir to SIS, ,00(
|. He vent to Germany and secuged hi
legacy, and returning to this countF.
LOST It all il : few months At faro. II
speaks seven languages with huencl
He has been New York Herald CORES
pondent from China, court interprs
{ Ter ii san Francisco, successful pol
tician ID Chicago, where he served
T term as coroner.
Owing To the penalties awaiting hil
! on expiration of his sentence here, &
] various f0rgeries, be wishes u den
s that he Is the person for Hh0nl the abo1
I dispatch IS intended but the penitei
]. Eiary officials know that bis real name
I Bernstein, and that lie Is the aal
Z Money aud lnxuriez have come to hil
j ii prison from time - time from pe
I sons IN NeM FORK City
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LONG staple Cotton.

Gen. B. S. Kicks has sent one bale OF
cob-web and one of Allen, grown ON
Belle Prairie plantation 70 compete. lot
the prize at the Louisville Exposition.
He has raised a few bales only OF the
cob-web variety, but Is growing inc
Allen on ali his places, and Will maze
195 baIes az II. This cotton sold last
ro.r - Vicksburg during the season Tor
: ~ a.n,s !. ner pound. With long staple
.o..en ~ en- ne market does not huctuate as
.;.h .o ether kinds, as there Is always a
ISs.,sad 49, Tor the best varieties, that they
ui.vavs us...r,.. command their price regardless
- rise or fall of the market. Gen.
Ricks 4 raising a variety Of long staples
A.,5 viii ~ able to sell o limited quantity
~ seed this year.-Yazoo Herald
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intimate female friends and spend the
tine at needleNoFk, is an exqallsifely
furnished little cage Hef work tAhle.
thimbIe. scissors, needle case and few
unfinished scraps OF embroidery are
there Just as she left them nearly cen
tury aga The diyorcing Of Josephine
by
NAPOLEON
fixed blot on his fame similar e that
which the murder Of Marie Anlainette
fastened ON the fame Of France. The
apartments that had been occupied by
Napoleon consisted Of two large. and
one small room, the latter being his bed
chamber. The hedstead with al It's
costly paraphernalia standsexactly where
ii did when the conqneTor Of Europe
slept on il. His escritoiF containing his
inkstand, peas, paper cutter, sand box,
are all preserved intact. His chairs.
bath tub, bureaus and every article Of
furniture is to be seen where he left
them. | was rather surprised at the
diminutiye size Of his bed. 1t was not
more than 80 inches wide and d feet in
length
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The story Is told Of Senator Vance, q
North Carolina, that soon after hls
second marriage he remarked so II.
bride; Ny dear I'm stubborn iellon, Nv.
and von may anticipate trouple. Z
in the beginning, while am s1l 9ls.ssss -
want Is give you one piece a =. ~ lI sasIsI'
If vou follow It, We i get on mi9Alss Ms.s'
/ n Il fhiss Make me do Just g Pieass.
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AM DEAD.

merit r,a am dead,
,hs rude gaf ing crowd
~ -:asr, and, mid lamentatiOp
rlro .s3 with vain regret
II " mi. leaving me. forget -
tbs lev Of kindly heart
f,l,aue came, so nobly did
|Loeks ,s.ia! deeds their love ex-
On and ,..r.. no ra re, no less,
sF.n asa dead
r..sI am dead.
Fire. the high and storied
gave. and then be LEFT
|Jo,L r. -,ms things I once did
be- - ... ;avgus world above.
|..I- - s ani each succeeding
meals renew them, and oft
'..ssa.s upon the dear one
departed long ago,
g5szI AN dead
W ! Nt.a am dead,
"a. .sas ~. puy far more than
/ co. 81 have ,9a-el, the Iced be-
rest Z 'ea'Il "a NE e., Ice so still,
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When Mr.. Hendricks was in New
York last he called upon Mr. Tilden at
Greystone. He found the old man hold
ing a 100 pound anvil out at arms
length, and when Tilden inquired after
the Indiana statesman's health, the latter
grabbed the handle Of Samuel Us lift
ing machine and pulled the whole ar
rangement up by the roots; and then
Tilden, with significant smile, applied
his mouth to Lis lung-tester and ex-
ploded it in the first round. There is 3
great deal Of strength in the ssold ticket
VET. -Norristown Herald.
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Timely help--The Laird to the
S.o.,.b minister. who has been holding
forth On temperancel: But what
sisonld / 40 with my cellar OF wine
Ye,, wouldn't have me destroy ~
1r;riater. aNa. nal that would be 9
ssni siBut get rid 81 I in q natural mans
,sar a noon' a We cansand lll come
~ ~ help te whenever ye like Fun.
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A LITTLE girl seeing an old lady take
out her false teeth, said, Mrs. n. can
you take your tongue out too?
The above squib is furnished by a
young friend at Natchez, and suggests a
story told Of Gov. Nichols, Of Louisiana.
If we remember Alright, he lost an arm
and leg during the late unpleasantness,
and subsequently, was travelling through
out Claiborne county, in this State, stop
ping for the night at the residence of a
Mr.. Humphries. Using cork members
for the lost ones, the old colored man
who led him to his sleeping room in the
second story did not discover the differ
ence, SO, when Mr.. Nichols requested
that he unbuckle the strap around his
leg, Immediately kicking the cork sub
stitute into the middle of the floor, the
darkey's eyes dilated considerably. He
was worse frightened, however, when
after unloosing the arm strap the cork
imitation of that member was thrown
near the leg. But he was bewildered be
yond comprehension when jOkingly asked
by Gov. Nichols to unloose the STRAP
around his neck, thinking the head OF
the gentleman was about to be taken off
Bounding for the door he sought th'
lower 70 ms, reaching them the more
quickly by turning loose all holds anC
tumbifng heels over head down the steel
stairway, much to the amusement 81
all who knew the circumstanees.R Ray
mOnd Gazette.
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,slsirrE Rates.

. ras after first insertion, unless
E s-reesi- on all contracts 81 sfg
Is O. zen per cant. viii be allowed
b ~ inserted at the rate pre-
pr word, hEzt Insertion; = Q
iHai insertion, and IS cents for
hlcatiOh.
g.h cuts inserted for a Iouesr
7t must send then Of solid
notices 10 appear on Local page
.-ts n.-r line each insertion.
gglg rates, ard they viii be
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The entire alphabet + found u these
four hne
God gives the grazing IS his 1deaf,
Re quickly hears ~ sheer lou rts I;
But man. Who tastes his finest N heat.
Should ioy u lift bis praises hfel
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Thanksgiving.

The Aberdeen Examiner thus heartily
responds to the Presidents proclama-
ton appointing Thursday, November
29th, as day of general thanksgiving:
If there ever was time when our peo-
pie had better reasons to give thanks,
it WAS before our generation was called
to the stage, for we have had health,
though pestilence reigned in other
lands; we have had peace, though the
shocks and threats of conflict disturb
ed the hearts and souls of Others OF
Gods creatures; we have been spared
from the blight of the earthquake and
volcano while hundreds of thousands oi
innocent and deserving people in Other
lands have met death without warning
at the hand of the foreesof nature sud
denly reused from the | ep of eentu
ries: we have had a bountiful harvest
while famine's gaunt figure shadows
many foreign lands; we have had gooC
government, while in mighty empires o
the Eastern world patriotism gilds con
spiracv, and agonized races see in tn
assassination Of their anointed monarch
the only pathway to liberal rule.
Here in Mississippi everything maj
hath touched, hath prospered; the low
ing heards give life and animation tt
pasture lands that last year were but a
grassy deserts; the forests are aliv,
with hogs that are to load the smok
houses that were in the far Northwest
our cribs groan with the yellow ear
that we're iu 1881 freighting the car
en-route to our stables; the cotton GRO
is generous and the price is fair; ou
labor is well organized and worthy o
| its hire" our lands are advancing il
price and our timbers are sought by al
the world; our waste places are bein
rapidly peopled, and the sound of the saV
and the plane and the hammer are hear
everywhere; our railroad system is be
| ing rapidly developed and foreign cap
| ital is flowing to us in a stream that cen
turies of progress can hardly check; on
schools are fourishing, our colleges ar
crowded with eager students of bot
crsexes, perfect aInity exists between tn
races, and the calm of joyful peace an
generous progress is over all our sum
land, therefore should we be pecnlarl
grateful and thankful, and therfor
should we as readily respond to the Pres
idents proclamation, as doth the faitt
full Moslem when from the tower of tn
mosque the voice of the Menzin sun
mons him to prayer.
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probation OF its orlginators and OF Its
Own Unreasonable usefulness.
Judging from the letters pouring IN
on The CLARION in behalf of the re-
peal, there is to be considerable lobby
ing at the ensuing session, but legisia-
tors work in the interest of the common
veal, and there are no fears OF their
being drawn after phantoms springlng
from delusions and prejudice. Conser-
vatiye in views, they will here 'let well
enough alone. Respectfully,
PINUs SYLyANUs.
October p, 1888.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE,
Caqnot be Regulated by a State- BuH
Ttrt of the Dcei-ion By Jtdge MeCrary,
Of he United States Circuit Cont.
In snit brought to recover damages
ior overcharges upon freight shipped
from points in Iowa to points in Illinois
and Wisconsin, Judge McCrary, of the
United States Circuit Court, decided as
follows:
Assuming such to be the law, the
question remains:
/. Whether the act in question, il APP
piled to through shipments of freight
upon lines extending into or through
several States, must not be held to re-
late TO a subject which is in its nature
national. or which admits OF one UNI
form system or plan of regulation?
2. Whether, if the power OF the state
10 PASS such an act be conceded, it does
not necessarily include the power TO
include the power to discriminate against
the commerce of other States?
If either Of these questions must be
answered afiirmatively, then the statute,
in so far as it relates to through ship
ments, over Interstate lines, Is III VIOLA
ton of the Federal Constitution. am
of the opinion that both questions MIST
,,Se so answered. 1t seems very ohjTsg
nhe regulation Of the trans MA
erchandise over a line nd
from the Atlantic the
a subject which i u its
It is so because it ees-
sople of the 4tole
the leg slative
It is al4o ap
ftion not
uniform
do not
lnsel as
It he in
te charges
les within
rds, the
IN State
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bon @ ::.:: =. s::.::: 4. :: 4: :: s5:1: 5:.S !: ::
. srgely attended, that the
20 .,. sj,v are exercised about
/ h,.Iacetommodations h,.I for Sc
- -us.r. Onc Of the ''long-felt
Il VI as Hill City Is L large hotel,
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.~sscRIPrToS:

sais BY postoffce order rP
sss.iaesl. or by registered
,.tse mails in the ordinary
I, I s. = responsible Tor loss.
sseh subscriber a notice
s.isIl isel Obliged ior prompt
s,sr q ~ isstSals i,1Hlssi Be-
Il. .l.En sfafaLl.
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