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Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26

iron. % which ,hsre arr 1900 tous
prodnced every day 10 aud sround
birmingham can he eonyensesl into
steel, at si.7o ton
This Is by a new process In ase
IN Baltimore. Iron costs ls@- than
so a ton In Birmingham and lie
conversion into steel costs only
sl70 itssems that steel rails Cor
cheap dummy lines that ran up
and down hills might he deposited
here Of els ton This true the
road frmn Hazlebur, 10 wsstville
would cost one-half less than .
common middle Tennessee turn
pike and il would cost nothing
forever.
But won't mankind be amazed
when the great million dollar steel
plant u Birmingham goes into
operation. Then all the iron Of
Alsbama will become steel rails
and every capital IL every county
in that and this State will be con-
nected with every other by these
dummy lines Old fogies. looking
mp mourhfully. exclaim. "Ah yes.
but that will he fifty years hence.
when I'm dead and gone" We
reply, why not nov r II - only
for lack 81 pluck and vim and
enterprise and the spirit II a brave
people. Let rs lead the States
and their counties and be first to
marguerite a scheme % cheap rail-
ways that will enrich the county
and the town and all the counties
and all their capitals beyond com.
putation.
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26
rHE WORLDWIDE RIFIBIH AND
MS CAPITAL.

We don't see the use "a main
tanning 81 many costly govern
ments or Why the great MISS "a the
people should be- burdened with
this ,nsuifcrable taxation in order
10 maintain trusts aud splendors
Ut Carnegies and Goulds and
huntlngtons who live only to prey
upon toll and poverty. The
10000 federal place holders Of to
day could A. easily govern and rob
both tins and the British Empire
a. this 50 called Republic. when
Queen Victoria dies We propose
that all English speaking people
come under one government and
lei us set Cleveland. who won't
steal or suffer any body else 10 DO
H. At the head 81 these sublunary
things and At least let all this mass
q English speaking humanity
have the blessings 81 free and cost
less Interstate trade and govern
ment
Can't IAboue here and Bennett
and Jones Of the Republic and
Collier and editors IL Paris and
Nater-on Cooperate with THE
sI0SAL In founding the worldwide
Rep~hlr ~ English speaking
people When Queen Victoria
i No more lei the Repub-
lie rise ON the tomb II the Empire
and As with Canada 30 let the
English nations b. absorbed. each
= ire Republic and only united.
as against all the nations in pur-
suit II personal freedom and local
Independence. This would be-
most blessed a nations II there
we're perfcct unity of trade aad
freedom Il intercourse With States
and kingdoms and provinces q
English speaking people.
A ship channel would make
Florida an island aud the Mica
ragua canal be- extended from the
Pscihc via Mobile, 10 the greatest
city In the world At the bot II the
mineral region u the Gulf States.
Kansas city has already sent two
railways 10 that point and Mem
phls, for the gr aud contamination,
Is bridging the Mississippi
The worlds capital, when En-
glish speaking nations constitute
the worlds governing republic, will
be- located IN Alabama anil because,
when there are no tariffs, all prime
necessities III mankind can he col
located there at less cost than else
where on Gods footztool and all
the nations, u necessity. must come
TO buy where they may buy for the
least prices aud sell Tor the
greatest
The Bank u England. the grand
old lady II Threadneedle Street,
viii yet repose in gray-haired
opulsnee and majesty. when the
venerable Empress Victoria. l. no
more. in the plains q Alabama
in the latitude II Rome and
Athens a old.
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26

lrss great pity u the people
suftr Campbell, their trur-i rep
psentstive 10 b. robbed a the
Presidency by the money Il the
trusta
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26

at school. She would teach me.
ITO, the harl, long words in my
geography. When the other girls
made fun Of my dress because il
had holes in it, anil my mother
there. who ls poor. like Mary's,
could not buy me another. Mary
used to put her arms around me Ia
conceal the rents, used a. think
there was a pretty light around
Mary's sweet face. like that which
mother showed me in the picture
of our Saviour Those who did
not know Mary well did not think
she was 40 beautiful. but we little
children did She was kinlest
and genilrst la the poorest OF, Us. =
had nsyer listened Ia an culo-
GUM upon the dead more touching
than this which frll from the
sremnloua lips an1 teurfui eyes ol
Aaza.a friegd
asEain upon &c little ehilaiah
group who come tripping out a
the odd school house shall not adj
luster 30 the ehsngeful eyes aud
pale cheeks Of Mary her seat IN
school Is vacant her saichel hes
Idly on the shelf The spider will
weave his busy web upun the
wall in Mary's garnet, but there arr
ma lusirous loving eyes Ia watch
him. The heart broken mother
shall often dream that she hears.
and listen in vain for the soft.
sweet accents Of little Mary'- voice
she shall see Mary, not here, and
MANY like her 81 whom the earth i
not worthy.
How eol,lly and rudely the
elols that struck Mays coffin fell
upon the mothers heart A
piercing shrek escaped her lips
Then ell was still, except the fall
my Of the dull, heavy earth with
which the old man flled the snail
low grave When all were leaving
the place. ! asked the school-child
friend Il Mary how she came IA
die.
II don't know, she answered /;
Mother said that the war took
bread from the poor in Richmond,
and Mays mother Is very. very
poor"
When I hal finished this story
~ told Afterwards in a MODEST vol
ume, entitled, "Fagot- from the
Camp Fire" turned 30 listenining
soldiers, lounging and listening. 10
ask whether they who inaugurated
this conflict deem themselves
Christians or Statesmen. II was
wicked, needless, fratrlcidaL win
not they who preeipltate,l war or
persistently made II unavoidable.
who went systematically about the
task Of making the North and
South hate one another will not
these be Consigned to perditlon 81
profounder depths than those we
common soldiers will surely reach ?
! never recur 30 miseries aud VICES
OF the msny and the poor o. my
fellow-countrymen begotien of the
splendid achievments Of statesmen
and heroes. so-caliej, that iire-eat-
ing eloquence u the Soath and
Abolition sentimentalism u the
North do not organize themselves
into the rrd dragon u Apocalypse
with seven heads and ben horns.
Its tail drew after il q seventh
part Of the stars 81 heaven and dld
east them 30 Earth" Like The
SIGNALS philosophical correspond
ent u Inst week. | am asking what
R..as.Lar txan drAanin.v ahus,f whan
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26

Tar fellow, DE fonssca. sud
denly made President II the Re-
public q BrsEil, hss evinccd M
special ability and only the bull
dog virtue 81 pluck and infinite
vanity and self-love. He doesn't
think there is anybody In Brazil
having the right or capacity 10
govern except himself, AMI there
fore, when his Congress differs
fvm him and refuses 10 enact his
laws, he kicks out the Congress
aud de~lares himself dictI tor II
10 astonishing how little fellow >
head swells when be is lifted To
high place by newspapers and peo-
pie. How the embryo Gungr-ss-
man struts and blows and how soon
h. kicks over the ladder GA which
be climbed into place aud powcr.
lonseca's career and folly should
h. studied In the United States.
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26

In Is uiaisd in the Maaufaetur-
ers hecorl that railway steel n
Baltimore Gusts so a ton In
birmingham. mot long ago. a steel
plan, was making these rails si go
a Ton. Recently Agreat steel plant
has been founded in Birmingham
designsi "a convert all the iron II
% fumances about that city into
steel and a, such cost that all lead
ing cOuntry roads may become
light dummy lines Iron is made
IN Birmingham Al les cost than
elsewhere Ia the world. ltcer.
tainly does not cost more than from
: n 10 dollars q tan. The Manu-
facturers Becord tells Us that an
inventor Of that city IL nov CONVEX.
ting iron into steel at one dollar
and seventy cents . ton. IL this
he tue, birmingham will soon
furnish steel rails At els q ton OF
less IL this eni h. contaminated,
the cost Of dummy rad will h.
!ess than one-third that q a Virgin.
ia turnpike or about $500 a mile,
for all the materials wool, steel
and iron
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26

THE Republicans made IL
poin, 10 buy Ohio. nov. in order
that Cleveland. INSTEAD u Camp
bell, may he nominated for the
Presidency. Theres no trouble
about buying Tammauy.
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26

THE Matches Democrat pokes
fun IT the Clarion-Iedger l~-uause
the C.L fclicitaies itself that
its own views are those announced
by senator NRlthall THF slaxAI,
with iss krst number. after IL
change Of proprietorship some
three months ago. began 10 write
Just what senator walthall has
leen saying during the past week.
In Tact. wsithall has stolen all
our thunder and II be were a uews-
paper lnstead u a SENATOR Ne
would prosecute him for plagisr-
ism. Bot THE SIoxAL Is No smaz.
ed. walthall always vas emf
nently lcvcl-hesded, and Tar sia-
AAL conscious a. the fact, has
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26
wHlr wrLL ,ec no Auo,r

County Courts. Alliances. Cham
hers 81 Commerce and Boards of
Aldermen should never forget that
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26

The Westville News is eager d
have Hazlehurs, and the Counts
II Copiah begin the task % uniting
the capitals u the two counties by
means II the cheapest possible
dummy line. The News tells that
the people u Simpson must have
direct unbroken access 10 the great
markets Of the world and that the
construction Il the proposed light
railway would bring 10 Hazlehursi
the trade Of the country for LOO
miles IN all dirctions from West.
vile. Meanwhile, Meridian
gentleman comes 10 the rescue oI
the scheme and insists that IL Co.
piah will build the .oad % West
vile. Meridian will see that Il II 81
onne extended 10 Meridian. There
II will meet the Alabama system
OF cheap roads and give us GOA
at half present price, and thus
save the disappearing forests d
Copiah. Limisle~s blessings. Il
seems are about 10 ov~rwhelu
us ss incidents 81 THE SIGNALS
modest railway venture But lei
us be patient Mr. Miller. our
representative in the Legislature
that his constituents may be reliev.
ell of endless tasks "a road-work.
ing. viii have such laws enacted
that coauiy Courts may safely givs
any reasonable aid 10 enterprises
like this which 10 delights Meridi.
an and our Nestyille contemporary
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26

IN twenty-four hours the Edgar
Thompson steel rail works pro-
duced l707 gross tons of finished
steel rails Birmingham will soon
undersell the world in steel rails
Ne Il d"es In raw iron and the
place only needs water transporta-
ton 10 the sra 10 make il the bug
gcst city On the globe
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26

LIVINGsToS a Georgia repre-
senting the Atlanta District in
Congress, i surely most statesman
like aud 1nselRsh Of all the ALI
anoes in the late indianapolis con
Vvniion. His spe-ch= were
always wise and conservative and
designed 10 win friends and not 10
make enemies for the Alliance.
All the rest % the conspicuous
characters in the body seemed
resolved to rule or ruin. Each
was animated by the purpose, as
erihed TO an ambitious character
in history, Who preferr~l 10 be-
first Ia the meanest village Of Italy
rather than second in Rome.
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26
wALrHALL AND rHE ALLIANCES.


Senior MalthAll, interviewed a
few days ago in Memphis. assert.
the very opinions and purposes
maintained for the last three
months by The sIaSAI.A lie tells
us that the Allionces are consiitu-
ted of class Of citizens who are
especially iotbed anil wronged ~
our revenue system aud sllat these
farmers are - revolt asainzi a aa4l
have been perZIs inleeli -
remedies io 49, thsyhase 81.
poalssl But they are none the
less loyal Dcmeeraia says the
Senator and that convention " hich
sat Al jackson, the senator should
have added. and under the guild
ance II the tremendous Mis-lssip-
plan, thrus, the Alliances ont ~
the Democratic party should be re-
convened and bored Tor the SIM
plies.
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26

War little grading would be re-
CURED 10 be done 90 dummy line
roads in this level country. Dummy
engines can follow NJ and down
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26

THE Louisiana Octopus has
lnught the negroes en mas-e and
depravrd whites everywhere aud
especially in New Orleans, imbrut-
e,L through twenty years, 10y It's
presence n the Lottery win at
the polls IL will not he suffered 10
exist The discussion a IL crimes
has made lie presence iutolarable
aud il will surely b. destroyed by
Law OF by violence. Such Is the
feeling aud purpose u the BEST
people q the degraded and impoy-
crushed and once most honorrd
cid commonwealth.
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26

nA1s Malthall lie preferred eAndi-
date fos the United States Senate
and Tor the Vice Presidency ON the
Camyhell ticArs.
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26

fHE Merriam Gaz, tie takes
siask IN the schsme fur the cxten-
sion Of ths dnmny line FROM this
place b. West lle. The whole
country Seems b. be aroused 10 a
sense Of rs importance II only tor
its experimental value. Every.
body says We must have roads and
this universal. Siate-ombracing
system, connecting every county
capital with every other. wi,l makr
the whole system profitable and
this the richest of American agri.
cultural commonwcalths.
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26

VIRGINIA Proposes 10 invest a
million aud a half in tumplkcs
next year These arr always tot
repaired aud handy les-en the
number Of draft horses Ia H. main.
tanned 10y every farmer OF sums in
vested ia wagons aud harness that
should 40 into crop production.
Here. luckily, We can by no possi.
bility have turnpikos Material
for their cunsi ruction l. absolutely
insoceslble Ia this valley AID il Is
only left for ~ to build dummy
hnes OF have - roads
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26

FHEsE primary elections now
going through the forms 81 a rig
ular election in Louisiana will b.
continued up 90 the 18th oi Dccem.
Der The city vote IL 20 per cent
~ that a the whole State aud the
country or parish vote 80 pr cent
The total number 81 delegates 10
the convention 10 l,c elected h csG
OF tkcse NsN Orleans. has 1879 and
the rest of the State 547 The
Lottery owns the city.
Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1888-1899, 1891-11-26

OrR excellent contemporary 81
the Mississippian SAYS that this
neat Legislature Is confronted with
tie problem Of road-building. and
the member who solves 4 will de-
serve q monument more enduring
than brass" IL will surely be a.
Lasting a. steel aud in this metal
h1. name will L. written la the
traditional ''cross, East, West,
North and South. athwart every
county IN the State
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-28

THE Rutland Herald man indus
triously interve we'd the farmers pres
ent at the dairymen's meeting in st.
Adams last week on the agricultural
college question and says he found the
proportion thirty to one in favor Of
separate institution That is about the
way it is among the representative
farmers of this county. MiddlebWy
Register.
A DESPATCH to the daily papers
states that the United States attorney
general has decided that the date of
paying bounty on sugar commence,
July instead of April l.. The ground
of his decision seems to be decidedly
weak, but after all April l is bad date
as il cuts the sugar year in two, and as
the bounty is to continue twelve years
the last year also would be cut short.
In most years the bulk of the sugar is
made before April l. but of course it de-
ponds upon the season. Representa-
tive Grout intended to amend the act
to include the sugar of this year, but he
evidently has forgotten what he knew
about Vermont sugar-making Man
chester Journal.
DIVORCE proceedings in Vermont
reflect no credit on that state. At a
single term o county court recently,
twenty seven divorce cases were heard
and nineteen divorces were granted
and at the last term only a single di-
vorce asked for was refused. The
causes for divorce in most cases were
slight and would not have warranted
legal separation in other states. One
of the judges gave it as his opinion
that when a man and his wife had
made up their minds that they could
not live together the law might as well
separate them. With such laws and
opinions respecting their enforcement,
marriage in the Green Mountain state
is oh iously failure.-Ne,C York
Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-28

calling on the army to flu Ish the good
men. There are plenty o capable men
in civil life who would fill the bill.
When good agents have been found,
peace will doubtless be assured so long
as the government Keeps its promises
with fair degree of certainty. The
educational branch of the bureau could
then work to some advantage The
Young Indians should be put into in
dustrial schools and taught how to
earn their livings in more ways than
farming and grazing. Whether or not
it is impossible to get the Indians to
work and support themselves, it is
clearly the duty of the government to
make all possible efforts to induce them
to adopt civilized ways of life. Their
only hope in the future is along this
line. The present generation of
Indians is probably incorrigible, but
the next may be more promising, if it
is intelligently educated.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-28
Maple Sugar BOunties.

The decision of the encouragement
regarding maple sugar bounties may
be right or wrong, welcome or unwel-
come, but, as the expression is, d" it
goes" There is nothing to do now
but to get ready for next years crop by
fling notices and executing bonds
between April | and July |. Every
one who hopes to get bounty next
year must comply with this provision.
The whole subject of the recent de-
cision and the condition in which it
places the matter is very clearly stated
by Collector H. E. circuit:
Numerous inquiries have been made to
this Office by persons intending to engage in
the business of making maple sugar the
coming season, whether they would be en-
titled to the bounty on sugar produced
between April and July l, 1891, under the
provisions of the acts of October, 1890. The
Encouragement has rendered an opinion
that no bounty is payable on sugar pro-
duced prior to July l, 1891, and this office
will be governed accordingly. The ex-
preston as to the provisions of the act TAX
ing effect April is understood to mean
that the law begins to operate on that date;
that before April there is no authority to
issue licenses but that on that date the ma
chinery begins to move and applications
may be then made and bonds filed and
licenses issued for the year beginning July
1, 1891. Maple sugar producers, therefore,
who intend to make sugar in the spring of
1892 under bounty provisions of said act
must file their notices and execute the
bonds between April and July /, 1891.
| The blank forms of notice and application
for license by sugar-producers and of the
bond required to be given are being pre-
pared, and will be printed and ready for
distribution promptly by April /. Regula-
lions and Instructions will be issued very
| soon, and will be furnished with the other
necessary blanks to the collectors of all in
ternal revenue districts, and persons intend
! ing to manufacture sugar and apply for
bounty will be able to obtain them upon
application to the collector of the district in
which they reside"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-28
Erase the Dead.Line.

The dedication of youth in which The
poets are in the habit of INDUCING, and
which is due mainly to pagan ideal,
makes mature life an anti climax.
Probably if the popular impression of
oil age were taken, it would be repre-
scented rather by the very partial aud
inadequate picture of the cynical writer
of Eccesiastes than by the beautiful
old Greek figure of life as matched
house in which the child is born, and
under the roof of which his nature eX-
pands, the house all the while growing
more fragile. until at last it sinks
crumbling to the ground, and the man
stands erect in the everlasting sunlight.
If life were purely matter of fresh
ness and delicacy of physical sensation,
ii would eliminate early, and decline
through long aftermath of decaying
powers and sinking vitality. Such an
idea of human destiny can be held only
by those who have no spiritual faith, or
who have wasted and squandered their
own force. Life was meant to be
cumulative; to add, year by year,
strength, experience, and courage, each
successive stage contributing its own
special accession, and the whole struc-
ture reaching its completion in the
serenity and calmness of age. No man
ought to be willing to recognize any
dead line in his life, or look forward to
any time when he shall cease to grow.
Life ought to be, for every healthy ma
ture, one quenchess thirst for achieve
ment, experience, and expansion. No
limits are set to the human soul, al
though time keeps a sharp registry
against the human form. In this CEN
fury some of the greatest things have
been done by old men; men who have
declined to stop and step out of the
ranks, and who have gone on adding
strength to strength and service TO
service until old age has become the
fruitful harvest of October, and not the
bleak barrenness of December. Phys
ical infirmities are not to be warded
off by an effort of will, but no man
need decline because his body dimin-
ishes in force. Growth takes on many
forms, and it can still persist when the
senses have begun to fall. 1t is a great
| 10 10 oh
ideal of life which fixes its best period
at the beginning. 1t is a great thing
to look forward to ever-increasing
gain, to think always of leading and
advancing, never of retiring and re-
treating. The charming old woman
who began to study painting after she
was sixty years old is capital illustra-
| tion of the spirit in which we ought all