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F,,t lhc pro,racted meet
Mr.. Dye stands very
[;m,,iop of our people as
n Masters vineyard.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18
A SONG.
AIR SWEET BYE AND BYE.

In land where the demon of Rum
Stalks abroad in his terror and might
Will the face of our Savior come,
Till we vote as we pray for the right
CHORUS: Shall we wait, till too late,
Ere we vote the right as we pray?
Shall we wait, till too late,
Till our loved ones are lost by the
way?
Shall we come from the pulpit and pew
And go forth into darkness and
night.
Joining hands with the rum-selling
crew,
Thus for party Gods blessings we
slight.
Sweet Oneida is drenched in the blood
OF our brothers who fall in the
street;
our prayers are pured out like a
flood,
BY our votes we shall suffer defeat.
O, how long, blessed Savior, how long,
Will it take to endue US with light,
That to vote for a wrong must be
wrong
That our works, like our faith, must
be right?
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18
"What the Traffic WI Bear"

An Eastern exchange tells some ugly
truths as follows:
Does any product of the agriculturist
appreciate in price, here comes the trans
portation company and advances the
rates of freight.
AS an illustration of this, we may
mention the rate Of freight on hops has
been doubled within the month. And
why2 Simply because hops have ad-
vanced in price and the traffic will bear
it.
In olden times the feudal barons Of
England used to issue from their noun
tain fastness and levy a toll on the passing
merchant caravan, according to the value
of the merchandise carried This wonld
be considered highway robbery now !;
{but we have legafi4ed species Of nign-
Way) and the managers of railroads are
not slow to avail themselves of the laws
or rather the want Of laws that permit
them to rob the producers ofjust SO much
Of their earnings as they think the price
the of product warrants We do not OBJ
ieet to reasonable charges, but why
should the cost of shipping hundred
pounds of hops be doubled, simply be
cause they bring better price.
This is only an illustration, for this
practice of charging all that the traffic
will bear is not confined to hops, it is
applied in all and every instance, unless
restrained by the self interest of the
managers, for some reason best known to
themselves but which enables the man
ayers very often, to draw magnificent
salaries, live in palaces, and look down
with disdain on the common people ;
while the roads they manage are appar-
emily bankrupt.
We say apparently bankrupt. Why?
because these roads cannot be made to
pay interest on extravagant, reckless
management and watered stock. We
read in a New York paper that Jay
Gould has just watered Iron Mountain
Railroad stock $3,OOO,0OO; and short
time ago he watered the Missouri Pacific
5000, 100000 of water on two
ronds in one year. This is what makes
it necessay for the managers to watch
every chance to rob the people, either
by extravagant freight charges, or else
by unjust discrimination.
How long will people submit to this
legalized robbery? Wehave not in this
country the castles of barons on noun
tain craigs, but the palaces of our rob
ber barons are situated in every larg'
city; and many fine country villa I
simply the residence of man who ha.
grown rich by !egalized robbery.
Our barons have no need OF mai
coated followers and retainers, but IN
stead have to maintain an army OF lay
yers, lobbyists and corrupt and vena
legislators and judges and the people
have to pay for it in the end.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18
For the SWORD AND SHIELD.
". c. T. U. FINANCES.
FREE ADVICE TO STATE CONVENTION.

If it is not too presumptious IN me
please allow me word or two on the
financial plan ofyour great organization.
Many enterprises have been injured or
manned by constantly changing plans
Be slow and sure in making changes.
Remember that the great mass Of men
and women do not think and feel like
the few energetic, enthusiastic leaders
in regard to any movement, and that It
YOU press them too much financially,
you repell them. Drive men and Wo-
men out of your unions, and you fail
just where you should succeed. Make
the annual dues two or three times as
much as now and you will loose half of
your members within twelve months
and will not organize one dozen new
unions in that time.
Complicate your finance plan by
having number of items all of differ
ent amounts, and you at once burden
your State Secretary and Treasurer, and
throw all the local unions into confu-
sion.
Have one common State fund into
which all State Union money goes and out
ofwhich all expenses are paid. People
have too many things and too much to
do to Justify us in comphcating matters.
[ will suggest for what 1t is worth,
simple single-rule plan which | feel
sure would work well, and not confuse,
burden or repel any one Every one con-
nected with all local unions pay 80
cents annually to local unions-pay %
twice year if you like, say in January
and July. This to include honorary
members, regular members and young
women; in fact euery member. Then
let every local union be required to pay
annually an amount equal to % cents
per member, including any member
having "ys'' and all
This is easily understood, would be
only slight change from the present
plan: in fact it would be only making
the present plan uniform.
It would be just as systematic as one
five times more complicated and would
have almost inconceivable advantages
over such. OF course the State Union
will pay the National Union the per
cent required by that Union. This
plan would swell the State Treasury
considerably. Far be it from me to
dictate to our noble women, but | know
something about such matters and
speak only for the good Of the cause.
Respectfully,
N. G. STEELE.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18
w. C. T. U. COLUMN.
Dear sisters of the ". C. T. o.

Our convention meets on the 24th,
18th and 26th inst. / desire to get up
my report, and it is necessary to get re-
ports from locals, have sent blanks to
all Unions Of which | have the address.
will not each Union do me the kindness
to cut out this blank, fill it out and
send to me at once.
Mrs. r. C. PATTON.
State Supt. Temperance Literature.
September, II. 1886.
FILL OUT THIS BLANK AND RETURN TO
Mrs. R. G. Patton, State Superinten-
dent Of Temperance Literature, Shu-
buta Miss.
Rep. of Literature Com.
of.................U of. Union, for the ..........
ending. ....Numb ber of mem
bers on Literature Committee...........
Number of members in Union. ............
Number of of subscriptions obtained for
the Union Signal. Number of
subscriptions obtained for the Youths
Temperance Banner. Number
of subscriptions obtained for the
SWORD AND SHIELD. Pages
of tracts (of all kinds) distributed by
Union funds...... .........Copies OF
temperance books placed in Sunday
School Libraries. Copies
of temperance books placed in School
in District Libraries es..........................
Copies of Temperance text books placed
in Schools. Details
Of special lines of work, distribution in
factories, loaning books and pamph-
lets, ETC., etc...........................
Amount of Dime Collection sent to the
National Literoture Department........
Entire amount expended by the Union
in Temperance Literature Work..
Signed ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Chairman of Literature Committe.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

GEO. GOULD was very uncivil to the
reporters when they asked him if he
had really married Miss Kingdom the
actress. He said he was not a public
character and it was nobody's business
whether he was married or not. 1t Ii
said however that he is really gone tc
Kingdom come"
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

The cock chatter law of Zurich SWitz-
erland is very curious and imperative.
Itrequires every land owner to catch
two quarts of cock-chafers every third
year or pay heavy fine. This year is
the officially announced cock-chafer
year (they being supposed to visit the
land but once in three years. and the
land owners are in great trouble. They
must nav a fine or catch the cock
cbafFers and no cock-chaffers have
come.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

No Christian man should ever lift the
glass containing liquor to his lips, un-
less actually prescribed by physician
And even then you should know the
physician. There are times when, un-
der the administration of wise and
skillful physician, whisky may do good.
But for every man to become his own
physician, and take whisky for every i'll
to which flesh is heir, is the very cream
of absurdity.- Western Recorder.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

WIGGINs! Virgins Are we never
to have the last Of this man? He now
bobs up serenely and proves that he
predicted the Charleston earthquake
as far back March 1885, and to add in
Jury to insult, predicts that the worst
not been reached yet, and that between
now and the middle of October the
Southern States will be AL broke up.
That man should be suppressed.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

THE "old reliable" Republican party
will rest its case for the fall election
on the presidential vetoes. The con-
sistency (?) Of this party is truly re-
markable. It first stated that Cleve-
land has vetoed too many pension DillS
nd then states that he has been too
loose in regard to the pension bureau
There is something in the method IN
which they conduct issues that is re-
diculously absurd.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

IT is not enough to say, Educate,
Christianize, moralize the people and
they will not drink" After all, knowing
what man is, knowing the corrupt nature,
knowing how difficult it is to with
stand temptation, what right have we
to expect that moral machinery will
counteract all these fatal incentives to
intoxication.-Cdnon Sto,ceU.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

AT the White Mountain Hotels this
summer the majority of the waiter girls
wear white dresses, and are pupils at
the Conservatory of Music in Boston
during the winter. Many ofthem walk,
as if keeping time to some invisible
music and when carrying a tray of
heavy dishes their step suggests funer-
al march.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

SINCE the trouble with Mexico is dis
pelled, Geronimo captured and the
Presidential fish story collapsed, the old
and reliable Associated Press is trying
to get the President to kill deer, II ne
cant It will explain the reason, and
give US the statistics Of the Charleston
relief fund business.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

WHILE the press are suggesting the
kinds Of restraints and the size
and weight of the chains that
Geronimo should be subjected to, we
NAV be pardoned for suggesting that the
best restraint would be the kind that
would restrain him from putting his
foot to the ground, and the surest chain
is a rope around his neck.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

The growing lawlessness of the North
has met with decided setback in the
conviction of the Chicago Anarchists,
while law and order have made distinct
head-way in this section by the punish
ment of all the accessories to the Ford
murder
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

PRINCE ALEXANDER seems fated to elk
out miserable existance on $150,00O
year. He leaves his native land with
only $4,000, 900 to pay his expenses, and
keep him from starvation.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

PIrTsBURG is threatened with an in
fux of foreign labor. on account Of the
depression in British iron circles,
Thus we have the spectacle Of laboring
men fleeing from free trade England
to foreign tariff America.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

CLEVELAND is said to have adopted
Jeffersonian simplicity, while hunting,
and takes his fsh-bait with "a total
absence of sugar and water
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

The last Legislature only lifted the
cover for one instant, but the stencil Of
accumulated corruption, was enough to
cause them to drop the cover quick,
hold their noses and solder on the top
with special committee"
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

The Prohibitionists of Texas have
nominated a full State ticket, with E.
L. Dohony, for Governor, and denoun-
ces the Democratic party for nominat-
ing whisky stump-speaker to rule over
a Christian people.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

A young man from Tippah said on
hearing the good rews from Union
county: II cant understand it, Uulon
used to be counted the worst county IN
that district but she has voted dry
AM Of which means that the good peo-
ple of Union know the cause OF their
Ills and have votedit out
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

The argument in the telephone case
will be commenced next Monday at
Columbus.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

THIS year bids fair to be known as a
railroad building year, the present OUT
look is that over sixty thousand miles of
railroad will be built, the most of the
mileage being feeders of trunk lines.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

The amazing cheek which George
Gould showed when approached on the
subject ofmatrimony, was probably bor-
rowed from the President. At any
rate they are both in the same sad con-
dition.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

SPECIAL AMBASSADOR SEDGwIoK has
about finished the Mexican Imbrglio,
and Mexican whisky has about finished
its work on Ambassador Sedgwick.
He will drink no more pull for some
time.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

THE New Orleans Picoyune is Waging
fierce war against the a corrupt State
and city government. We sympathize
with the indwellers of New Or
leans.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

THE Gar is being importuned to send
a strong invading force into Bulgaria
under the command of Prince Dolgo-
ronki, who is said to be opposed to the
scheme. Rusfia has given guarantee
she will not occupy Bulgaria, and all the
nations second the motion.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

LATE Tuesday evening, negro by the
name of Bill Harris was captured and
hung by lynchers near Waco. tie was
carried before Mrs. HetmilIer. She
fully identified him as her assaliant.
Public sentiment approves the lynch
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

IT IS said that it required shoe
horn and two assistants to get Special
Ambassador Sedgwick's hat on after a
night with the Dons.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

FIVE cent nickle pieces and one cent
bronze pieces will be sent from Wash
ington in sums of twenty dollars or
multiples of twenty dollars, free of
charge, if the destination is reached by
the Adams Express Company.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

The whisky man hath brass enough
R11t his love for truth is weak,
And his nose stands out like beacon
light
On his shoreless waste of cheek.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

THE harvest in Russia, which was
expected to be unusually good, has
been utterly spoiled by fifteen days
incessant rain. One can travel tor
hundreds of miles and everywhere see
the grain rotting in the fields.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

CHARLEY WRIGHT got into a virtuous
fit this week and denounces a certain
saloon as a nuisance. Guess the bar
keeper refused him drink.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

One hundred ejectment notices have
been issued by Lord Annelsley to be
served on his delinquent tenants in the
county Down. The short crops have
rendered these tenants unable to pay
their rent.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

LACE curtains and pianos for the
East Mississippi Insaue Asylum, and
taxes and bare windows for the farmers
and wage workers of the State.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

The number of silver dollars coined
last week was 651, ,553. The total
number of the dollars coined under the
Bland act is 239,0OO,O00.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

The printing of silver certificates has
been commenced by the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

CONGRESSMAN JONES has been re-
nominated in the Mobile district Of
Alabama.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

The next Legislature ought to be a
Hercules to deal with the Augean
stables of Mississippi politics.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

THERE is something singularly appro-
pirate, to our mind, in the color of the
paper on which the Corinth Sub Demo
crat aud Soizcr is printed dirty yell
low. It is significant Of billiousness and
dirt
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

AN train near Silver Greek N. Y,
collided with freight train, killing
fifteen men and wounding a good many
others
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

Mr.. GLADSTONE got $1,000 from his
publishers for his pamphlet on the Irish
Question.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

The New Hampshire Republicans
nominated Col. Sawyer for Governor and
reinterate the negro franchise chest
nut.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

THERE is no compromise possible
between Parnellites and the govern
ment.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

The Republicans carried the State of
Maine by about their usual majority.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

CHARLESTON is receiving aid from all
parts of the country.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

MAINE was visited by a cyclone
this week.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

The last saloon in Osyka is to be
closed out within a week we are tod.
Let the good work 60 on.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

Steps were taken last week to close
out the lasts aloon in Sturges.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-09-18

The Mayfower won the yatch race.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-04-15
Special Notice!
OFFICE OF
Rockford Watch Co.

ROCKFORD, ILL, May 18th, 1884.
Referring to the fact that we have
appointed WAIT BROTHERS. OF
Ravenna, Sole Agents for the sale of
our Quick Train Railroad Watches in
Portage County, Ohio, we desire to saw
that no parties other than WATT Bros.
or their employees, are authorised to
oiier these Goods for sale in the terri
tory indicated; and that no warranty
Whatever attaches to our goods when
offered for sale by others than our duiy
authorised agents. Our goods are sold
directly from the factory, and only
through competent and well known
dealers.
AS the movements leave our hanas
carefully adjusted and Regulated IN,
immediate use, we hold ourselves d;-
reetly responsible to the wearer 0. the
watch for its satisfactory performance.
BUT ONLY WHEN SOLD By ouR ctxosEN
AGENTS. We understand the extraor-
uihary guarantee OF excellence mada
oy WAIT Bros, and given out bv
them to the public, and are prepared
TO make good the assertions of our
representatives in that particular.
Very Respectfully,
ROCKFORD WATCH co.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-04-15
Stradivarius Violins,

1--WE have persons coming in here
every day with so-called Stradiyarus
violins." said a maker of violins in the
Bowery. They are common German
ylollns with copy of the Stradivarius
label printed or pasted ON the inside.
Pretty much every violin, no matter by
whom it is made, has some such label.
SO that labels nowadays do not count
for anything. inexperienced persons
may be fooled by them, but anyone who
knows anything about violins pays no
attention to them.
Il suppose makers put the label on
because some people like to pretend
they have valuable violin. A Strad-
lvarius violin is worth anywhere from
$4,000 to $4,000, and they are not very
plenty. They can be told by their
shape and by the kind of varnish on
them.
1t is unsafe to pay big price for a
violin until it is passed upon by experts.
L have known a label to be taken off a
genuine Stradivarius and inserted in an
imitation one, for the reason that one
could be sold on its merits, while the
other needed the label. IN. Y Sun.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-04-15
The Industry of Dreams.

A thing like about dreams is their
industry and economy. One able-bodied
dream can get in more work and travel
farther and consume more time to the
minute than all the kings horses and all
the kings men from Pharaoh's day to
Carter Harrison's. / remember fallino
out OF bed once, and as did thought
fell off the edge of the world. went
SAILING around through space for two or
three hundred years, knocking about
among the stars and comets and things,
never stopping to think whether l was
hungry or whether it was just the proper
thing to go visiting all over this uni
verse and several neighboring universes
in my night-clothes. Some way didn't
seem to care whether school kept or not
or whether they taught Latin or Greek
in it if it did keep.
After l had sailed awhile began to
drop. not like Milton's disappointed
god, from morn till noon, and noon
till dewy eve," but from New Years till
the 4th of July and from the 4th till
Christmas, and, finally. after few CEN
turies of this depressing experience, |
found myself impaled on one of the five
points of star of the forty-seventh mag
nitude, and gradually came to realize
that had fallen matter of two feet
and tangled my legs in the rounds of a
chair. Now, there is industry for YOU.
and great economy of time in the bar
gain.
One would naturally suppose that
when dream had worked ten or "A
dozen centuries in half jiffy it would
feel like laying off day or two and
resting up, but it doesn't. / hadn't
been asleep two minutes after crawling
back into bed when that dream came
back and pouneed on me again and
went to work like a boy carrying water
to circus elephant.
That's the kind of stuff dreams are
made of.-Ben Wide IN Pittsburg Dis
patch.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-04-15

We have had the exclusive sale of the
Rockford Quick Train Railroad Watch
for the past three years. No OTHER
PARTY CAN BUY THEM FROM THE FAC
TORY, OR HAS ANY RIGHT TO SELL
THEM. 1t seems to us much like bows,
play to get angry and advertise prices
because they cannot buy the goods.
We trust the publication of prices will
continue through the whole list, as we
have no money to advertise goods not
in stock. Such desperate efforts will
not deceive any. The people know
that we have never cursed the place as
ready to be fenced in, because we were
going to leave it. They know that we
are not travelling experimental insti-
tuition, and they will continue to buy
their Watches, Silver Ware, etc., of
the Old Reliable Ravenna Jewellers,
Swift's Block.
WAIT BROTHERS.