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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17
A Greek Olive Oil Factory.

From the churches our host took US
to inspect an olive-oil factory, of
which there are several in Pyrghi, so
that the stream which waters the vii
Iage is brown with olive juice, like
water tinged with peat in an Irish bog.
Here they use no machinery or modern
appliances in pressing the oil, merely
the old primitive wooden press. Wo-
men, or sometimes mules, walk round
and round revolving a wheel which
crushes the olives; in this condition
they put them into sacks and then into
that 'black-faced heifer which deVours
oak wood" as the Chiotes, in their
fiourative way, are wont to describe
their ovens. The sacks are then placed
one over the other in the press, and
two men turn a post which pulls a
rope, which drags stick, which tight
ems the press, and the oil oozes into the
receptacle prepared for it, with water
inside. The oil and water, of course,
do not amalgamate, the dregs sink to
the bottom, and the pure oil flows into
jars prepared for it.
1t is impossible to realize the affec-
ton the people have for olives in q
purely olive-growing country. IAN
olive with a kernel gives boot to a
man." is true adage with them. 1t
is the principal fattening and sustain
ing food in country where hardly
any meat is eaten. 1t takes the place
of the potato in Ireland, and on the
olive crop depends the welfare of
many. An olive yard is presented to
the church by way of glebe, and the
peasants collect on stated day to
gather these sacred olives, which they
buy from the church, and always at the
highest market value. MGcmilsaB's
Maqdztne.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17
CIeveland's Tabor Record.

Governor Cleveland signed the bill
passed by a Democratic Legislature, to
allow the people to express their opin-
ion against the competition of convict
with honest labor.
Governor Cleveland compelled the
last Republican Legislature, much
| against its will, to pass a bill in accor-
dance with the wishes of the people SO
emphatically expressed at the polls last
! fall, against the continuance of the
| prison contract system.
Governor Cleveland signed the bill to
abolish contract child labor in all the
Statereformatories.
Governor Cleveland approved two
bills against tenement-hOuse cigar
manufacturings.
Governor Cleveland signed the bill
making working-men first creditors for
wages in case of the failure of the en-
ployer or contractor.
Governor Cleveland signed the bill to
protect hat makers from convict manu-
facture.
Governor Cleveland signed the bill to
protect widows and orphans from
SWlndling insurance corporations.
Governor Cleveland gave his sigma
ture to the emigration bill to protect
emlgrants from eXtOrtion and robbery.
Governor Cleveland signed the bill to
prevent pawnbrokers from Tobbing the
poor and unfortunate.
Governor Cleveland signed the bill
for the better protection Of those who
place their earnings in the savings
banks.
Governor Cleveland signed the bill
which provides for the testing of steam
boilers, that laboringmen might be bet
ter protected from accident resulting
from the careless indifference of
wealthy corporations.
Governor Cleveland asked the last
Legislature to appropriate sufficient
funds to allow laboring men to contin-
ue work on the capitol. This the Re-
publican Legislature refused to do,
preferring to squander the State funds
on commissions and political investi-
eating committees rather than for the
benefit of Workingmen.
What Governor of New York mas
done more for labor than Grover
Albdng ArqGs.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17
The NIadigan Circular.

The Augusta NelC Age prints aflida-
Wits from Daniel Buckley, Col Morton,
Oliver Otis, L. NJ. Robbins, and Thom-
as Murphy, all reputable and wefl-
known citizens of that place, fixing up
on James G.. Blaine the sole authorship
of the notorious Madigan circular,
which he has time and again denied
upon his word of honor. The Madigan
circular was a campaign document ap-
pealing to Protestant Democrats to re-
bnke their party for asking them to
vote for James C. Madigan, a Roman
Catholic candidate for Congress in the
Fourth Maine district in 1875. Messrs.
Otis and Robbins swear that they re-
ceived from the Republican campaign
committee a bundle of the Madigan
circulars, with the request to have
them circulated among dissatisfied
Democrats and Republicans, thus PROV
ing the falsity of the charge that Gov
ernor Plaisted was the author of the
circular Daniel Buckley swears that
Lee was in the employ of Blaine dur
ing the four years from 1873 to March,
1877; that in September, 1875, he found
huge piles of the MaGigan circulars in
Blaine's library, and they were done up
in small packages and shipped away
from Blaine's house. Buckley says he
never meant to make public his knowl-
edge of these facts, but when he was
told that Blaine denied ON his honor
having anything to do with the circu-
lar, he determined to tell the truth.
Col. Charles B. Morton swears that at
the-time Blaine issued the Madigan
circular he (Morton) was employed in
the express Office at this place, and re-
ceived packages of the circulars from
Blaine for transmission to many parts
the State. Col. Morton says some of
e packages came to him broken, and
ie thus saw and read the circular
Thomas I. Murphy swears that he is a
printer, and worked in Blaine's Kenne-
beck Journal office; that the circulars
were printed in that Office, and that
the cOmpositor who set up the circular
told him that the manuscript was in
the handwriting of Blaine's private
Secretary, with which both were very
familiar
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What Railroad Company Can NOt
do.
Railway Register.

Railway Register.
One of the best settled PRINCIPLES Of
law is that common carrier cannot
stipulate for immunity from ei!ity
for injuries resulting from its own neg
ligence. Free passes usually contain q
condition that the company is not to be
liable in case of injury to the recipient
Such a condition is void if the traveller
is hurt because of the negligence of the
company or its servants. 1t will be re-
membered that not many months age
the Supreme Court of Georgia declared
that an agreement of an employe of the
| Western and Atlantic not to hold the
company liable if he was killed or hurt
in any way on the railway, was not
legal and was consequently of no effect.
The same is true of a clause in a bill
of lading to the effect that the company
will not be liable for the loss of the
goods; such clause is imperative if the
loss occurs by the neglect or negligence
of the company.
1t has been known that railway cor
porations sometimes have contracted
with legislators to bring about favorable
legislation, or perhaps with outsiders to
work to this end. All such contracts
are, of course, void. So are all contracts
that are against public policy.
A company cahnot agree with any
one party to carry freight for him at a
less rate than for the general public.
This has been decided in many courts,
particularly in Ohio and Pennsylvania,
and the federal courts have concurred
in the view. Legislation is not necessary
to prevent such determinations, ,forit was
always the law that public carriers must
charge all the people just the same. Rail
way companies cannot agree with each
other not to transport any article or COM
modify that it is their duty to carry.
As a seeming inconsistency it may be
noted that where the Chicago and Padu-
cab Railroad Company gave the Western
Union Telegraph Company the exclusive
right to build a telegraph line along its
route, and afterward tried to give another
concern the privilege of building a rival
telegraph line, the Western Union con-
ract was upheld.
Neither the Board of Directors nor
the shareholders of the corporation can
vary the route of the road from that
specified in the charter, nor can they
change the general purposes or plan of
the organization. The directors cannot
make any valid contract in their own
personal interest nor lease or sell the
road, because they are trustees for the
stockholders. If any such contract be en-
tered into, any stockholder can obtain an
injunction against its being carried into
effect, and can obtained an order court
of cancelling the illegal contract.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17
Lancing a sword-flsh.

One day last week the schooner Jen.
ME was anchored on Cox's Ledge, cod
fishing. The usual method in summer
is to anchor the schooner and put of
in small boats, so as to avoid getting
the lines entangled, and also to bring
the bait to the notice of q larger num-
( Der of fish. The small boats are an
chored by means of grapnels. While
fishing thus, one of tho men noticed q
large sword-6sh swimming along with
his mouth open, near the surface OF
the water. The fish moved slowly along
apparently feeding, just ahead of the
boat. The grapnel rope was directly
in its path, and whether by accident or
design, he caught it in his mouth. In
stead of retreating, as one would have
expected him to do, be kept forging
ahead, the rope, of course, remaining
in his mouth. The men, at first, fear
full Of being capsized, tried to clear the
rope, but when they found he did not
struggle. they began to pull in on the
rope, which slipped through his mouth
until the grapnel points caught against
the side Of his head. BY swimming
backward he could easily have cleared
himself, but so long as he tried to swim
ahead he was held BY the boat which
was being towed slowly along.
Seeing what had happened the other
boats came up. Another grapnel rope
was fastened to the first. and the end
carried to the schooner. The fish was
slowly pulled to the vessel. one fisher
man iancing him through the gills
with an oar-blade, while another stuck
4 boat-hook into his body, and third
slipped moose around his finkes He
weighed when dressed nearly four
hundred pounds. Provideslcs Jotrnak
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17
Great Interest Abroad in the Dis.
coYerY of True Hebetudinous
From the st. James Gazette. |

From the St James Gazette.
a controversy has arisen between two
of the New York papers on the subject
of the hebetudinous crank. According
to the Sun there is only one representa-
tive Of the species in existence Mr..
Cowles, editor Of the Cleveland Leader,
to-wit. The Brooklyn Eagle denies that
the species is SO exceedingly rare. ssIf
the Hon. Geo. B. Peck of Topeka lit says,
s'is not 9 hebetudinous crank, science
and the Sun are deceived in supposing
that such species exists. The Sun,
however, denies that Mr.. Peck's intel
lectuals are clogged in the peculiar
manner.that constitutes hebetudi dinOsity,n
and says that it "cannot permit Cowles'
unique distinction to be attacked In an
irresponsible way by newspaper which
negiects to show that it has given suf-
Iicient special study to the subject to
enable 1t to distinguish between simple
crank and hebetudinous specimen
The Sun goes on to maintain that IA
4 matter 81 fact, no other strictly hebe-
tudinous crank has been discovered
either in America or Europe, in sAsia
Minor orr ssAEadaga ascarg and Says that thiz
IS the reason why the attention Of
scientific men IS so general directed to
the case, while even the poets arc find-
fnp ID the solitude Of C0Hles mental
abnormaIity grand though gloomy
subject for the exercise Of their inagi.
nation
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17

enc pint Of -four made loaf, that wa
plenty for one day, and left somethinl
| over. Thus, in a week, about one loai
would be gained which was blessing
The great draw back in light-breac
rations, was the bulk of it; it was toe
large for the haver-sacks, So, what could
be done for it? When three days
rations were ordered for a march, We
drew one in bread, and two in -four, l. E.,
if you were sharp enough to get around
the commissaFy. have seen men
marching with loaf of bread ON his
bayonet, or his rife, this one was con-
sumed first To throw away a loaf of
bread because it was sour or antcietdy.
would have ranked with treason, arson,
or murder" We were fortunate if a
beef head and heels could be secured
from the commissariat. They would be
boiled down to mass of Jelly; aud
when done the bones and debris skillful-
ly strained by an improvised mot OF
seive contrived for the purpose; the mat
ter was allowed to cool, and then taken
as cake from the vessel, and afforded
nutritious mess. In those days every
atom of food was utilized, and stretched
until it broke, 'as the hungry ones
would say" In the summer poke weed
furnished the greens and caused the
mouth to water for the traditional |
bdcoa and greens Of the home ireside |
Wild fruits never reached perfection,
lalf-ripe it seemed was better than none.
Persimmons were plentiful in Virginia,
md helped the cause nightly. We
'ecall the aneedote of Gen. Ed. John
on, he who lost the salient at Spott-
ylyania, who espied soldier apparent
Y eating half-ripe persimmons, "my
riend, said the general, don't you
now that those persimmons are not
ipe, why do you eat them? ," Gen
raj, he drawled out, 81 am eating
hese blasted things to draw my belly
p to suit the rashuns draw" Sold
reclaimed the general, as he rode on,
1llowed by a chuckle from his staff
he general assured me since the war
nat this was actually fact.
T1A /
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17
See What the Tariff Does.

With what infinite assurance the
stump speakers who favor the tariff
and cry for more tariff tell us that they
want to protect American working
men" Look at American workingmen
in various places where industries have
grown up under the fostering care of
tariff legislation and observe their con-
dition to-day.
All through Ohio and Pennsylvania
the men employed by protected indus
tries are on strike. 1t is very singular
that men over whom the government
exercises such benignant guardian
ship should be compelled to quit work
by twenty thousands. They do not
strike because they are paid too little.
The idle coal miners and iron and glass
workers are the men whom the tariff
should make prosperous if it has that
effect on anybody outside Of fthe wealthy
employing class, but it so happens that
they are the people who are now suf-
feTing most. Everybody else is better
off than they are. Some OF them have
not had three months of employment
in year. They are wretchedly poor,
while their employers are enormously
rich. That is what the tariff has done
for them.
These strikers are not striking against
free traders or tariff reformer5. Their
quarrel is with the men who contribute
thousands Of dollars yearly to circulate
literature favorable to protection, who
sabsidiZe newspapers, run weekly Or
gans, paY stump speakers and replen-
fsh campaign funds-their employers.
The men who are loudest In their pre-
/. tensions that they wish to dignity and
ennobIe American labor are the ones
who have mower wages below the point
at which Americans can live, and who
are even now importing labOrers on
contract from Hungary and Italy who
do not intend TO become citizens Of the
United States.
If the tariff is the blessed institution
which it is represented to be, why is it
that strikes, idleneSs. closed mills and
furnaces. military guards, destitution
and misery are now to be witnessed in
this country only in those localities
where tariff subsidized industries have
taken root7 If the tariff made wages
higher w0llld the men in Pennsylvania
and Ohio who are now importing labor
at from 60 to 80 cents a day to take the
place of American labor be IN favor OF
IT, and would they contribute thousands
of dollars in every Presidential cam
paign to continue The party in power
which fav0rs that policy? We repeat
that nothing but tie most sublime as
Gurance on the part Of tariff orators
coupled with the most surprising ig-
norance or patience on the part of their
hearers, makes the presentation Of tae
fallaeies Of protection possible Just
now when any man with eyes to see,
ears to hear. and brains to understand
can behold evidence Of the system 3 "
ter iniqniiy. eicQgo Herald
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17

ONE of the most curious incidents in
the history of African slavery in Amer
lea is the life of Charles Stewart, a
slave owned by the Johnsons of Vir-
ginia, and afterwards by the Porters of
Louisiana, both of them noted as posses.
sors of remarkable racing horses. He
was born trainer and rider of horses,
and during his long lifetime has ridden
the winning horse at many of the great
races down South. He could not write,
and knew nothing about figures, but was
nevertheless trusted by his owners with
the care and transportation of their
stock, and the custody of bets and
stakes, and he seems always to have
come out right. One of the ladies of
the Porter family recently took down
the story of his life as told by himself,
and it will be given, in his own negro
dialect, in the October Harper's, with a
portrait of the old hero of the turf.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17
Total Abstinence our Only Security
BY BISHOP C. D. Foss

/
} Hence every young man should adop
. it as one of the rules of his life anC
make it like a "law of the Medes anC
Persians, which altereth mott declare
my conviction that total abstinence is the
only complete security against the dis
grace and the doom of drunkenness.
know how hard it is for any man to
realize this for himself. / know how
prompt the almost indignant response
| II have too much self-respeet to admit
the insinuation of such weakness; can
stand" / confess to no little sympathy
with such feelings. But let such over
weening selfconfidence be sobered by
facts. Who of all the 10000 whom
drink tumbles into the most dishonor-
ed of graves in this country every year
ever expected to go there when this cruel
habit began. Who of them all did not
say, as you and l are ready to say
tonight: 81 know my strength;
have too much manhood in me to be-
come a slave" All there comes voice
from the grave of many brilliant son
OF genius-many once holy minister
of the Gospel-saying to you, young
men, and to me: ''Let him that think
eth he standeth take heed least he
fall"
| do not hesitate to say that a per-
sonal religious experience is no sufficient |
safeguard against the demon of drink, |
unless it be girt about with the bull
wark OF total abstinence. If Christian |
play with serpent he may be bitten to
death. God promises no miracles. The
Sunday-school is one of the safest ha-
vens on earth, yet from its sacred pre-
eincts thousands of teachers and scholars
have been swept into ruin by this fell
destroyer. The Rev. Dr. Guthrie, in his
book on fThe City its Sins and Sorrows"
cites many facts which almost pass be-
lief. | give few specimens. Among
the prisoners tried at Glasgow assizes
in September, 1848, sirty-two had been
with Sunday-schools, and of
these, tJiy-nine admitted that drinking
and public house-company had led them
away from the Sunday-school and into
crime. At Launcaston, out of one hun
1red boys in a Sunday forty |
we're overcome by drink. CAT Ipswich, {
)ut of fifteen young men protesting piety
we're ruined through drink" Such {
rightful statements would be instantly s
elected if they came on any inferior '
They only show the power
# the rum fiend where the temperance e
eformation has little to do with it. L
Religious youth listen to me. appeal I
0 you to say whether if, in the face of 7
ueh facts, any man plays with this ad- v
er and is stung to death his ruin is not B
t
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17
Cure for Hydrophobia.

As soon as one is bitten by mad-dog,
or six or eight days thereafter, get a
pumice stone dip it into boiling hot
water, then apply to the wound, and if
there is any poison it will stick until full
then soak in sweet milk; that will take
the poison out of the stone; then dip the
stone into hot water, and apply until it
will stick no longer, The celebrated
mad stone is a common pumice stone.
The secret you have-John S. Hatten in
Journal of Agriculture.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17
Advertising Rates.

othersse specially agreed. On all contracts Of $40
or more, discount Of ten per cent. will be allowed
e paid in advance.
legal notices will be inserted at the rate pre-
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Advertisers Who wish cuts inserted for a longer
period than month, must send then Of solid
metal.
Fy-Adiug special notices, to appear on local page
E5- These are our only rates, and they will be
rf-ffv adhered to
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17

DURING the cholera season Of 1873 a
French physician in Nashville declared
that he never lost a cholera patient.
Shortly afterwards, having gained some
notoriety by this assertion, ne vas sum
noned to attend q man named White.
The neighbors were anxious TO see the
result Of the Frenehman's treatment,
and whenever the doctor was seen leav-
inc Whites house numerous inquiries
were propounded: How IS your pa
fient. doctor9'' was asked one morning.
aZe man Is dead What! thought
Won never lost q case Of choleraP lis
was the first case ! had. You not ex-
pect man to lose one case before he gli
him. cure ze man of ze cholera, but
he die Of ze weakness. ArkansaW 1rav-
elIer.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17
Orchard Making.

An address delivered before the Horti-
cultural Society at Hamilton ILL.,, re-
Gently contained the brief, summary OF
the points which are necessary to sue.
eesfulOrchard-making: "The site selected
for the orchard should be thoroughly
prepared. If not well drained tile should
be used for that purpose. Trees should
beiplanted two.rows apart and set slop-
ing to the southwest. On sandy soil
put on Red Astrachan. Saps of Wine
Maiden Blush, Potter or Lowell, Ben
Davisaud Rome Beauty. The discussion
showed the Benoni, Rambo, Jonathan
and Grimes Golden still held place in
the.estimstion of the society. Some favor
planting as much as 80 per cent Ben
Davis. All admit that location, soil and
OBJECT have much to do with selections,
commercial orchards, wanting but few
Kinds, and family orchards more and
different kinds.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17

A MINISTER of the Gospel who once
ieurneyed on horseback through ' tir
ginia in the ante bellttm days tells this
story:
Overtaking an old negro on the road,
and feeling in the mood for chat with
the old man, he slowed his horse to
keep pace with him, when the following
dialogue ensued:
''Do ycu live about hereT'
eyes, massa. belong to Colonel 81.
He lib bout two miles from yer"
''It is a beautiful country. Are the
people about here religious? ?"
''Yes, massa; dey is powerful sight
of 'hgion bout yer. Dere is Baptisses,
Mefodesses, Presbyteriums, and some
Quakers." 4
"Well, what religion did you choose /?
'sOh, laws, massa, / 'ain't no 'Hgion
at all-Ps jes ole 'Piscopel.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17

Professor Henry says. 81 would urge
mat our farms give more oats to young
STOCK, colts as well as calves. There
Is no food so easily attainable that will
SO well correct acidity of the stomach
ana keep the whole system in good order.
10 those who wish to raise calves on very
Iletle milk l would say use oats and oil
neal freely, and by studying the wants
o. the calves you will be able to raise
nne me, animals on a small allowance of
Poultry breeders must not lose sight
OF the double object Of raising poultry
the production of eggs and the produc-
aon OF the supply Of carcass. Without
entering into the merits of either as a
preference, it will be well to bear in
mind mind that certain breeds are essentially
.aoie BIRDS and put on flesh IN shorter
Psfioa than the others and, consequently
whether eggs are desired or carcasses,
particular breeds should be used for the
purpose intended.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-17

remarkable change of general opinion,
and it is no doubt due as much to the
efforts of societies like the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union, which lately held its
fourteenth annual Convention in Chi
cago, as to any other active cause now
operating against the evils Of int.mper-
ance.-The Current.