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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-05
Why He Vas For Sc John.

"We're for St. John, hain' 'tEe, Mary?i
remarked a west-bound passeng = as a
little party OF tfaFeIvers began to talk
politics. His wife. acheeFy, happy-look-
ing woman, looked UP with smile oi
her face and nodded assent.
"Why are we for s.. John?' eontina-
ed the husband. "Well. I'll tell you
We have a powerful reason or two for
bein' for him, hain't We, Mary? We're
from Tennessee. you know. Coin out
TO Iowa to see Mary's mother. I'm
SoEthernsr; my wifes Northern girl.
Bout four years ago we we're running u
little farm OF our own. Ii want all
paid for. either. Worst Of Ii was | was
a paw'fu drinker. Old JeR Williams
kept store half miie from our place
an he sold likker. / spent all my tim
an all my money there, didn't I, Mary
Everything was sold of ise place, an .
mortgage comm due to boot. Our
horses, wagons, cows, everything, went
to old Jem Wiliiams's. Guess there
wasn't much to eat in the house, either,
was there, Mary? All Of a sudden old
Jem shut down on the likkef Wouldn't
sell a drop; said the school-hnuse law
had come down on him, and the women
we're watching night and day. Thai
WAS Eew thing in theal parts, an we
old topers inquired into it, We found |
no likker could be sold within -four
miles of a schoolhouse. Ny wife here
had gone to work an got some other
interested, an they built
school house themselves out of an old |
corn crib. They then called on the off
GERS to enforce the law. They appoint
I'd committees to watch old Jem and
Dull him up il he giolated the statute
Then we had to 20 six miles 20 get our
ikker, and the first thing We knowed
here was school house there, too. L.
tx weeks we couldn't get drink in the
country, all owing to this NortherI
wife of wine; wasn'tit, Mary? We had
o sober up--no help for it. / went Il
york and saved my farm from the mort
rsge. Pretty soon had a good team
md we began to prosper again. Curios
st thing about it was, there was school
ii winter in that corncrib schoolhouse
'Iy wife taught it. Me and lot more
nen attended. There I learned to read,
write and fgure-something / never
new nothing about before. Nov,
lon't know whether rotin' for or even
lecting St. John would do any good or
ot, but we are for him on general prin-
iples; amt we Mary ?"-Chicago Her
ID
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-05

The f flowing beautiful lines we're wit
ten br Inc late Richard Siles, E<q., O
Danville. Va, gentleman of genius, {
line schoiar, and lawyer of distinction
The lines speak Of the sad experience and
fate of the author:
have been to the funeral of all nv hopes
Aud entombed them one by one;
Sut word was said,
Not tear was shed,
When the mournful task was done.
Slowly AMI sadly turned me round
And sought nv silent room;
And there alone
BY the cold hearth stone
! wooed the midnight gloom.
Aud a. the night winds deepening shade
Lowered above my brow,
| wept DER days
When manhood'+ rays
Were brighter far than now.
The diving eGIber- on the hearth
Gave out their Pickering light,
As il 70 say
This i the way,
Thy lie sh lil close in night
[ wept aioHl in anguish sore
Ger the blight Of prospects fair;
While demons laughed
And eagrr quttfed
My tears Ike n,ctar rare.
Through he!l's red halls sn echo rang,
An ecno loud and long,
As in the bowl
| plunged my soul
In the might OF madness strong,
Aud there within that sparkling glass
kusw the canse to lie;
This all men own,
From zone to zone,
Yet millions drink and die.
Union Signal
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-05
Swiss Girls.

No sooner are the girls large enough
to possess the requisite physical strength
than they are set to the most servile
work the land affords. The child has
a pannier-basKet fitted 10 her shoulders
at the earliest possible moment. and
she drops it only when old age. prema-
ture but merciful, robs her of power to
carry it longer. have seen sweet lit
tie girls, of II or +. staggering down
\ mountain side. or along rough
pathway, under The weight of bundles
Of fagots as large as their bodies,
which they no sooner dropped than
thev hurried back for others. | have
seen girls of Is or 16years, bare footed
and bare-headed, in the blistering rays
Of an August sun, breaking up the
ground by swinging mattocks heavy
enough to tax the strength of an able
bodied man. And | have known a
Young miss no older than these TO be
employed as a porter for carrying the
baggage of travellers up and down the
steepest mountain path in all the re-
zion round about. She admitted that
It was sometimes very hard to take an
other step, but yet she must do 1t.
Aud she carried such an amount OF
baggage! A stout-limbed guide is pro-
teeted bv the law, so that he cannot be
compelled to carry above twenty-five
pounds. but the limit to the burdens
often put upon girls is their inability to
stand up under anything more. But
the burden increases with the age and
strength of the burden-bearers, till, by
the time girls have como to womanhood
there is no sort of menial toll In which
they do not bear hand-and quite
commonly the chief hand.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-05
A Granger's Experience With the Tei.
cphone.

Yesterday, while Mr.. Smith. tho
Secretary OF the State Agricultural So
ciety, was very busy he was approach
ed by n granger who desired TO tele-
phone to adown-town store. There's
tho telephone; 20 and help yourself"
said the Secretary. Tho granger ap-
preached the instrument rather timid-
ly, eyed it cautiously for few mo-
ments. and then, taking piece Of pa
per, wrote y message. He then rolled
up tho paper and tried TO push it in the
aperture in the transmitter. Failing In
his attempt with his finger. he took his
lead pencil and jammed 1t in. destroy
ing the vibrating board. With an Dir Of
satisfaction he took his seat and await
ed a reply. After about ten minutes hO
became discouraged, and thinking he
perhaps had not sent the message on
the right line, he wrote another and
iammed It into the hand telephone,
and, TO mako sure work. rammed IL
homo as he would ball In rifle. lie
again sat down, and after waiting near.
lY half an hour became discouraged at
getting no reply, and thanking tho
Secretary for the use of tho telephone,
walked out, remarking that he would
not give q continental for the machine,
anyhow. Soon afterward the Secre-
tary. wanting to use the telephone, was
astonished at its appearance. 1t was
stuffed full Of manuscript and ruined.
The instrument was taken apart aud
the messages taken out; all read rs fol-
lows: "Bakker and Hammeltona--
Send me to the Pavilion n six inch
long munkey rench. Yurs TRULY j.
Eddison." The machine was repaired
at a cost of $l5. which the Verdant
granger paid. 10 avoid similar occur
rences the telephone has been fenced
in and sign placed over it with the
words printed thereon: "Bcwsre Of
the dog. ."-SdcrdmcRt1 Rec0, d. Union.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-05
The m st Pernieious of Habits. .

Joseph Howard, Jr., newspaper cor
respondent of national reputation, writes
to the Boston Herald concerning great
men who have been ruined through
drink. Mr. Howard is known to his
friends qs conyiyial man, fond of q glass
of liquor, yet he says:
There is Just one way to do, and that
is literally and absolutely to avoid tast-
ing spirits at all | am no believer in
moderate drinking. but while would be
the last to suggest any arbitrary dealing
with my fellow-men, believe the best
thing that could possibly be given to the
generation following fast upon our heels
would be conscience so alert that the
faintest leaning toward indulgence in this
most pernicious of habits, would seem
like living in the face of Providence
and desecration of the noblest senti-
sneut known to man. was in the great
bar-room of magnificent hotel last
night. talking to anumber Of friends, all
Of whom were indulging from time to
time IN number Of summer drinks.
Two boys, one Ishould judge fifteen and
the other seventeen, attired in the full
est fashion, entered smoking, and with
out the faintest suspicion that they Were
doing anything to attract attention,
much less 10 excite asmile, leaned upon
the bar. What will you take, Charley !?
said one. s0h, / don't know; ! think a
whisky smash is good enough for me.
What will yon haveF We'll, that
suits me. The bartender mixed tMo
whisky snashes, the boys raised the glass,
ses and drained the smashes, wiped their
lips, paid the check and walked out.
That Incident was taxi upon which
nearly every man in the room, and there
we're twenty or thirty Of them delivered
little sermon the burden of all Of
Which was: How absurd, how ridicu-
lons; Bhat i pity, what ! shame and vet
those boys saw their father, bis friends,
and score Of Nell dressed, well l-behared
gentlemen doing precisely the same
thing So, Why shouldn't they do il
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-05
Putting Only Temperate Men on
Duty.

Relative to intemperance among rail.
road men locomotive engineer recent
ly said to a Chicago News reporter
Things have come to the pass shat rail
way managers have no use for a man
addicted to liquor" This is true in
exact proportion TO the ability OF the
management. The Pennsylvania rules
are extremely arbitrary upon this point.
The Chicago aid Northwestern General
Superintendent, when he hears that q
man is indulging in drink, sends for
him and talks to him like father. II
he reforms, well; if not, he is discharged
Drinking while off duty is forbidden or
account of its after effects. The same
thing is true of the Missouri Pacific,
and, in fact, Of about all the large roads
The various "brotherhoods, such as
those Of the locomotive engineers, fire
men and conductors, discourage drink
by every means in their power. An en-
giaeer discharged from the btstherhood
for intemperate habits canuo5 get a job
upon any railway in the country. 1t is
to be observed further that the restraint
exercised by these forces is brought to
bear upon peculiarly restless and ener-
getic class, who, without 1t, would b
among the first to yield.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-05
satan's Five Degrees.

One of the most numerous of the
great classes Of civilized society is the
D. o. @. d., which may be otherwise
expressed as the Dependent Order Of
Drundards. 1t comprehends persons OF
Ill grades and classes Of society. Ii
draws its membership from bar aud pull
pit, from forum and senate; but, differ
as they may in position, in education,
in social surroundings, ability or cul-
ture. they are brought into one fellow
ship and reduced TO one common level.
We lay before our readers the five prin.
tipal degrees of the d. 0. o. D.:
First, we see the young man, intelli-
gent, courteous and polite, accepting the
cup at the hand OF some young lady,
and drinking her health in liquor that
ruins his own. NYeli-dressed, with fair
promises and bright prospects before
him, we see nothing that should hinder
him from rising to the highest stations
and occupying the most influential po-
sitions were Il not for that cup which
contains within itself the promise and
power OF all sorrow, degradation, shame
and death.
The scene shifts and another degree IS
taken, and he who learned his first les
son in the parlor of the gay and refined,
has taken ano5her in the gilded saloon,
where ioyial visitors accompany, and
vulgar Jokes ana namelcss vices wait to
drag the unwary victim of intempeE-
ance down to the tomb. A little later
we sec him again; third degree is
taken; be drinks deeply, and his batter
ed hat, buttonless vest, patched gar
ments, and look of general seediness tell
Us the eiEect of the maddening poison
upon him.
4 short journey brings him to another
degree. The relics of his old gentility
are gone; coatless and ragged, his shak-
ing hand aud gross and REDEEMED conn
tenance show that he has drank up
everything that made life joyous or this
world Il place of peace and blessing.
One more degree shows Us what strong
drink will do for the strongest man. No
man was ever mighty enough to wrestie
with the bottle He is always thrown
1t last. His body mass of bloated
disease, his heart den Of foul and
baastly passions, his countenance marred
and sensualized beyond all power of
description, in rags and tatters, home
less aud friendIess, he travels his short
Journey TO the d.rkLess of the tomb.
Some day the lidings come that he is
found dead dead by the wayside, with
the bottle in his pocket; dead in the
coming home from a drunken
debauch; dead in his wretched hovel,
with no one to smooth his dying pillow
or minister TO him in his closing. hours.
The end has come; the warnings of God
and man have been in vain; he has
passed through the varying degrees of
evil habits; he has been initiated into
the mysteries of Satan's lodge, and at
last his existence is wrecked, his life is
Iost and he awaits the sentence Of the
mighty Judge who has taught US that
40 DIR lnkard shall inherit the Kingdom
Of Heaven.-Rev. T. De Witt Talmage.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-05
Matrimonial Tests.

The following "points" arc derived
from the experience Of an English la
dy Of good social position, but limited
means, who. for several years has been
taking "clients" in need of husbands.
to watering places during the season.
In ten wears she scores twcntv-ihreo
successes and nine failures. this fisher
Of men. 1t appears that dark girls go
of best in spring and autumn. and
blonds at mid summer; that The mar
ket is apt to be dull in the beginning
of the season. and 10 grow brisk to-
ward its close; that very young. fair
men. like brunettcs best, but Veer slow
ly toward their lighter sisters as the
fair men grow older, and that the con-
verse is as true Of very young dark
men, that brunettes almost as invaTia-
bly, prefer fair men, irrespective Of
age, and that the prediction Of
blondes il commonly an opposite one;
that blonde girls work of very III in
raw, goldfish weather; that TO couple
fair and dark girl in walking. driving.
etc, is generally. but not always. good
policy. since the intended victim some
times falls in love with each in success
sion. and ends by taking neither; aud.
finally, that while mountains and lakes
prove lively incentives TO Irritation. at
early periods. the seaside was decided
Iy the stronger in the way OF landing
the fish as the leaves turn and the days
grow shorter.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-05
Neuralgia and Headache.


Nothing is SO terrible as severe neu-
rslgia, and beyond q doubt the girls
acquire it often enough by the condi-
tons of school life. Headaches IN 2
girl usually mean exhausted nerve
power through overwork. oYer-exelte-
meat. eyer-anxiety or bad air. Rest. a
good laugh or q country walk viii
usually cure it readily enough, to be-
gin with. But 10 become subject TO
headache is very serious matter. ana
all such nervous diseases have nasty
tendency to recur, to become periodic.
70 oe set up bv the same causes, 10 pc
come an organic habit of the BODY.
for any woman 10 hecone liable to
neuralgia is most terrible thing. II
means that whiie It lasts life IS not
worth living. It paralyzes the power
10 work; it doprivcs her of the power
% enjoy anything; il tenpts the use Of
narcotics and stimulanis So says Dr.
Nelson aud so say /. a girl who tinds
herself SUI ject TO neuralgia should At
once change her habits. II but 70 grow
strong IN BODY. OF what use is educa-
hon with ill-health? A happy girl
must be healthy one The Greeks
educated their girls physically; We ed
ueaie ours mentally. The Greek moth.
er bore the finest children the world
ever produced. DR.. HoIbrook in his
great works on marriage and parent
age gives chapter on the Grecian ed
aeation of girls. He claims that i
comes very near 10 tie education that
We need for them to-slaT.and We quite
agree with him. It developed benuti-
lal women ani their beauty lasted I'LL
Old age. The beautiful Helen was as
handsome At Eifty rs Il sweet fifteen.
Do LeseiS lionsig
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-05
strange Fossil

An extraordinary fossil--if fossil it Is
was picked up by me on the banks OF
Spavinaw Greek, in the Indian Ierrl-
tory, about twenty miles from the west
line of Benton County. Arkansas. The
country through which the Spavinaw
flows is verv rough. In many places
rocky bluffs rise to q considerable
hight on either side. and sometimes on
both sides. Rugged hills that can DO
seen for miles on either side flank the
stream from its source to lis mouth.
The rocky formation seems to be Hint
and limestone. Tho bed of tho creek
is composed Of solid rock in some
places and very coarse gravel in 9TH
ers. Tho water is clear and limpid, al
wars cool and pleasant in the hottest
summer weather.
The supposed fossil IS about the SIZE
OF largo walnut. The features Of the
human face-eyes. nose. mouth, fore
head, cheeks, and chin-mav all be
discerned; Of course not readily and
distinctly BIZ every one, but still they
are there-sumewhat distorted, It Is
true. for the chin Is not in line with the
nose. which makes one eye appear to
be lower than the other But this may
Be accounted for By the fact that the
body, before and at the time petrIhca-
ton began, was lying on one side with
something under the head, thus raising
ii above ihc pIane on which the body
rested. The lower jaw IS fallen. as Is
usually the case alter death. Water
flowing over II and other action Of the
eIaments have defaecd It to some ex-
tent, but if il does not prove itself 70 be
! genuine fossil Of human head It i
certainly 3 surprising imitation. and ]
cannot believe that It IS mere freak Of
Nature. The sutures or seams il the
skull. with SO many other points Of re-
sembIauce. seem 10 preclude al idea Of
is being oniy freak and ret Nature
IS full of freaks.
know that Il Is . veTT common
thing for people il rough countries ike
this 10 pick up curious specimens in
the forms of various sorts of stones.
but have never seen anything Il the
shane 81 fossil bearing any resenl-
hIsrce Is Z human head 50 small as
this. Twas living hal1 buried II the
1anze fffrf on the bank oE the creek nnd
oniy i fex feet from The wafer EDGE,
y hen i attracted M notice lie
features 1Tsrs turned d. showing the
outlines 81 8 human face. although it
lar some distance from me Mona but
persons entirely ignorant ck geology
and most q them q limited nEallls
cAnre. lave seen Is ret most of thcm
srree that E must Be lczsA hu1an
f.end. SHAH not he ~Htisl.ek I'll s. has
been inTesli gated ~ 9efenfllse men
have Uriiien more lhe1 onee % dis.
EInan.ASd scientist kuE ha3s k6esIFad
So Is ssS6r. Hnd nov hope that thfouSa
lie <aeIinn St ltz b may s. last
ffire ellis iti8 atone into notice.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-05
Raising q Living at Home.

4 correspondent Of the H0ms aud
Fwm, cousin PETE thus writes from
French Camp, Miss:
believe We have as good q country ds
there Is the South, was it not for the
people, and Just as good people, if it was
not for their ways. a. young as | am
can remember when these very men,
who ar. nv neighbOrs. raised their own
meat, and 10 sell cultivated corn, wheat,
oats and potatoes: raised horses, cattle,
sheep aud poultry; lived at home, and
boarded at the same place. Then they
got along easy. lived well and owed
nothing. Bat, believe, they have lost
the lick or have gotten of the track
somehow: and not only this part of the
country, but it seems that nearly all
over the South, especially in the cotton
belt, the farmers are hurt with the same
complaint. The people are trying to
make fortunes by planting two-thirds OF
their land in cotton, and the rest in corn
and httIe cane and very small potato
Tatch. Buying supplies on credit, de
pending Oh their cotton to pay for it
and IN nine cases out of ten they fall
FIR short of their expectations. aud con-
sequeutly they fall behind with their
creiitors-aud having planted a small
crop of corn, and it not being very well
worked, OF course il does not fill up
very high in their cribs when gathered,
So 4 majority OF them have to buy corn,
a. wei. rs meat and other things. This
Is the reason why the people of this
country are In debt.
I b.Hsa.-a coma ara ouan5ny THAR avpS
to the importance of raising Il living at
home, as stock is much higher than
usual. Good milk cows are rated al
from $50 to $50 per head, meat IS selling
al Is cents cash, and cotton going at
and s cents. l think these figures are
enough to convince any reasonable man
that it Is important 10 make living at
home, and not depend on cotton to buy
a living with when il takes two pounds
OF cotton to pay for one pound of bacon,
and it does not cost over cents per
pound to raise our own bacon. Ny
motto is, first, to plant what / need and
then plant cotton rs q surplus crop.
l will now proceed to tell you some
thing about the productions OF this
country. l believe sorghum is getting
to be very popular, aad our lands pro
duce from fifty to two hundred gallons
per acre, which sells readily at 10 to 80
cents per gallon. Nest people raise a
little ribbon cane, which makes from
l50to 500 gallons per acre; sells at oo
cents per gallon. An average crop OF
corn is about twenty-five bushels per
acre on good laad, and onold, worn land
ten TO fifteen bushels; cotton from 300
to 200 pounds seed cotton per acre, ae-
eording to grade of land. There is but
little grain raised here. On account
of the drouth potatoes are almost a fall-
ure this year; late corn and cane are
also very short from the same cause
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-05
Dynagrapi, Cars.

The New England newspapers give
a long account of the Dudley dyna-
graph car, which has recently finished
its automatic inspection of the track OF
the Boston & Albany Railroad. The
machinery of this car is operated by
levers and electricity, and records on q
running strip of paper. with twenty
pens, BY the graphic method Of curves
on one or both sides of base line, the
actual condition Of the track. The
ruled paper passes under the pens at
the rate Of eight and eight-tenths feet
to the mile Of track, and when the run
is ended. the strip is stenographic
and easily decipherable report Of the
notes and impressions of the register
ing apparatus. From three TO i've
thousand miles of paper are kept In
the car, and fifteen gallons Of blue ink
are used 10 every 100 miles of track in
,sspotting" defective places.
Great surprise is expressed at tho
marvellous precision and delicacy Of
the apparatus. Nh. Dudley can. II the
rails are comparatively new and are
traversed by the dynagraph car at the
moderate rate Of twenty miles an hour,
tell what mill rolled the rails and dis
tinruish the rails Of one manufacturer
from those Of another. DO can tell
also the number Of years each raIl has
been put down. and has an attachment
10 show the exact amount OF energy
exerted By khe engine pulling the car
any point in the jouTney.--1he Opera.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-05
Pledge the Children.

l. If you would save the next genera
tion for God-pledge the children.
2. If you would have ga generation
that will not tolerate the dram-shop
and its kindred viecs''-pledge the
children.
g. If you would save one billion and
a half to the nation annually-pledge
the children.
T. If you would conquer the greatest
foe to human happiness- pledge the
children.
5. If you would rob the gallows and
the grave Of their victims pledge the
children.
6 If you would destroy the greatest
barrier to the progress of the Gospel
pledge the children.
I. If you would empty the asIyums,
almhouses and prisons-pledge the
children.
s. If you would halt forever the fear
full procession of sixty-thousand men
that march annually to destruction
pledge the children.
9 If you want to do work that viii
tell in eternity-pledge the children
Newsboys Appeal.