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The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-19
Stale Officers, +. d. Q.

STATE Officers, f.&L Q.
President=1cvefcrs Ironasd. Mt. Leonard.
fsce>rresfdeat -f1crce Haeke;t, Builder.
Sceretaly-3. ~. Long, wasrenss,,rrF.
1tea-n.e,~-T. n. RickUx, D<ssuc county.
lsertarcr-L. Wise, Iacts<tc.
Assistant Iccturcr-D. II. Cowan. Sparta
Chaplain--w. King Eos Madrid county.
Duorksxases>-W. II, PluMnrr. Cole county.
Executive CON nsttee--N. ). wOl,sssi. Thomas
iapy and Joseph Miller.
County +. g. l.. u.
Meets nrs, Friday in April, July. October
and January.
EDWARD HITLER. President.
JAMES r. MUoNE, Vfcc-Prcsislent.
Secretary.
AUSTIN EG04.EsnN, Treasurer.
r. j. SMITH, Lecturer.
SC. WISE, Assistant Lecturer.
Sol. A:.tEN. Chaplain.
VIZ. ADAMS, Steward.
wv. SERVER, lboorkcepcr.
ED MYERS, Assistant Doorkeeper.
PROSPECT srB UNION, No.
Meets on Saturday night on or before full
moon.
GRANGER UNION, No. c,laa,
Meets every fourth Saturday in each month.
MEMPHIS SUB-UNION. No.
Meets second and fourth Tuesday nights In
each month.
CONYERS SrD-rNION, No. csS3.
meets the first and third Thursdny nights. Ia
each lnCnf:.
OAK FORREST CxrON, No. .S4.,
Meets every fret and third Fridays in each
month. d. p. JACKSON, President.
joel. EWING, secretary.
FORREsr CNIOS, No. 2,:49
Regular meeting 1rst Saturday night In
each month.
J. ". HARKER. President.
| J. ID. BROWN. Secretary.
| EDENBURG UNION. No.
| Regular meetings each Monday night before
full moon.
| CT. ARNOLD President.
JOHN BRANx. Secretary.
LAWN RIDGEaUNION. No. gEs.
Meets every second Saturday In each month
| at p m. W. r. ADAMS. President.
JSO. 4. GILL, Secretary.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-19
Daisy Prices.

We make every price just as low
as it can be made for an honest arti-
Gle. Nothing can be sold cheaper
than we sell it, unless it is Of an in
forior grade. Our goods are RIGHT
and cannot he sold a cent cheaper
than the price asked by US. Y"u will
find US on the rock bottom basis ami
our goods always very low in price.
in short, John II. Mulch & Co. leads
the spring trade with a big stock of
furniture of all kinds, carpets, shades,
rugs, oil cloth and undcrtakers goods
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-14
thought that she wouldn't care If did

thought that she wouldn't care II did
come down town occasionally at night.
"Since these nocturnal absences from
home have become SO frequent l
notice that change has appeared in
her nature. Her sparkling vivacity
that used to charm and electrify me
commenced to wane. Still she strives
hard to appear happy. But she is not
the woman she used to be. Her face
has grown wan, her cheeks have
sunken and the merry CLEAN has left
her eve When | arise in the morning
with redeemed eyes and no appetite she
looks at me pityingly and hugs the
baby closer TO her bosom than ever
noticed her do before
mo. she has never spoken to me
about it. You see, that's the devil of
it. If she would just pitch in and give
me tongue flashing her sorrowing
look wouldn't make me feel SO like a
dog. She just looks-that's all! Oh,
no; she doesn't fear for herself except
as am affected. That look tells me
palmer than words that she feels that
l am killing myself and will soon be
lost to her. This morning she told
baby to kiss papa good-bv. There was
! strange pathos in her voice when she
/ spoke the words that never heard be-
fore. And then she turned away and
broke into low sobs that she tried to
hide from me. Good God, boys
didn't think those things ever existed
out of the novels or off the stage.
That's the reason tell you that have
quit. / like you all, know you are
splendid fellows and that you are my
friends. But-but-er-she's the best
friend ever had or expect to have, and
-and-well, I'm going to be her friend,
too" The crowd dispersed Nobody
took anything. "-Chicago Dispatch.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-14
ALL IN A TWIST.
The Little Annoyances of Life Are Niece
sary for Its Seasoning.

The Little AnnOy3nceS OF Lie Are Neces-
sary for Its Seasoning.
OF course there are undoubtedly times
when everything seems to go wrong.
From 7 a. IN. until 10 p. m. affairs are
in twist. You rise in the morning
and the room is cold, the steak for
breakfast is tough, the stove smokes,
the pipes have burst, and you start for
your marketing nettled from head to
foot All day long things are adverse.
lnsinuations, petty losses, meanness on
the part of everybody. The ink-bottle
upsets and spoils the carpet. Some one
gives wrong turn to the damper and
the gas escapes. Besides this, you have
a cold in your head, and grain of dirt
in your eye, and you are walking un-
easiness. The day is out of joint, and
no surgeon can set it. Now. the prob
ability is that if you would look at the
weather-vane you would find that
the wind is northeast, and you
might remember that you have lost
much sleep lately. 1t might happen to
be that you are out of joint instead of
| Inc DC tdIClul, HOb WTllc
many letters while you are in that irri-
tated mood. You will pen some things
that you will be sorry for afterward.
| Let us remember that these spiked net
ties of life are part of our discipline.
Life would get nauseating if it were all
honey. That table would be poorly set
that had on it nothing but treacle. We
need little vinegar, mustard, pepper
and horse-radish to bring the tears
even when we do not feel pathetic. II
this world were all smoothness, we
would never be ready for emigration to
a higher and better world clustering
March and weeping April prepare us
for for shining May. This world is a
poor hitching post Instead of tying
fast on the cold mountains, we had bet
ter whip and hasten on toward the
warm inn where our good friends are
looking out of the window watching tc
see us come up.-Talmage, in Ladies
Home Journal.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-14
CHILDREN NEED SYMPATHY.


They Are Quick to Detect the Loving
Glanee and Kindly Word.
Why not pass through life like CLEAN
of sunshine, cheering and refreshing
the jaded hearts of those we meet? En-
tering into others trials and helping to
bear their burdens are blessed service,
which is its own reward.
We realize the comforts derived from
sympathy-'that fellow-feeling which
makes us wondrous kind" But how
much sympathy do we bestow upon the
little ones?
Their need for it is greater than we
think, for the old are just as apt to
forget they were once young as
the young are apt to forget
they will one day be old. To us
the sorrows over dead" dollies and
broken carts seem very trivial, yet they
agitate them just as much as a fall in
stocks and sick baby disturb us chill,
dren of a larger growth. Their feeblel
power and lack of experience place
them in trying position. Every ac.
cident appears an irremediable disaster
each little failure an abiding ruin.
A distinguished clergyman was asked
what was the most poignant grief Of
checkered life. "An unhappy child
hood" was the unhesitating response
Dickens was scared by the fires of hi,
younger Affections. Byron was wrecked
by his mothers lack of sympathy.
Oh, let us be careful how we trea
these tender blossoms of Heaven, 81
shrinkingly sensitive, so quick to detec
the loving glance, the kindly word =
and so parched, many of them, fo
want of the dews of affectionate sym
pathy and tender interest
Many man and woman afflicted
with a melancholy temperament whicl
distorts and discolors all his or he
view of life owes that terrible Nemesi
to an uncared-for childhood. Ever,
touch upon such plastic character
leaves its impress; every stain defiles
Don't keep your hearts wealth ant
best bonmOts for the drawing-room
Take them up to the nursery. N. Y
| Ledger.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-14

see did not become extinct with the
end of the apostolic age. A recent
writer has aptly used the
phrase: The eternal Pharisaism of
the human heart" One great part of
the Pharisee's fault was that he had
lost the sense of proportion in the
things of religion. To our age, not less
than to that in which He lived when
on earth, our Lords words apply:
"rhese ought We to have done, and not
to leave the other undone. n y Seek
We first the Kingdom of God" Jesus is
the great Teacher of proportion in the
things of morality and religion. He
always puts the important things first.
He never lays great stress upon a minor
matter. Seemingly minor things might,
indeed, in His eyes be very great, but
He treated them according to their real
inner moral use and worth. We can
learn no greater lesson than to measure
things as He did S. Times.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-14
CHOICE EXTRACTS.

Man never deceives himself so much
as when he attempts to deceive God
Caryl.
Life and obedience to God are in
separable, for life is in being conformed
to the image of the Divine on.--United
Presbyterian.
Power against us is granted to
Satan in two ways; either for our pun
ishment, when we yield to temptation;
or to our glory, when we stand the
test.-St Cyprian.
The strong purpose of Paul and
Barnabas to enter on a foreign mis-
sionary work they interpreted as the
voice of God calling them to such a
work. This voice speaks within the
heart 1t needs no angel to proclaim
it, and no miracle to authenticate 1t.
1t needs only the spirit which cries
ever: Speak, Lord, for Thy servant
heareth. christian Union.
Let no one suppose that he can pass
through life without temptation. Let
him not ask it, for temptation lies in
the power of choice and the freedom to
make it. A choice must be made, but
knowing the power of sin, our own
weakness aud the danger there is at
every step, our prayer should contin-
ually be; Our Father, lead us not into
| temptation. United Presbyterian.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-14

ally an immense crowd had assembled
on the streets, the lawns, porches, bal
comics and windows, even those of the
executive mansion itself being crowded
to excess.
A central figure was that of the pres
ident, Abraham Lincoln. who, with
barred head unfurled nd waved our
aaSion's flag in the midst of lusty
cheers. But suddenly there was an
unexpected sight. A small boy leaned
forward and sent streaming to the air
the banner of the boys in gray. 1t was
an old flag which had been captured
from the confederates, and which the
urchin, the presidents second son, Tad,
had obtained possession of, and con-
sidered an additional token of triumph
to unfurl on this all-important day.
Vainly did the servant who had fol.
lowed him to the window plead with
him to desist No, Master Tad, the
pet of the White House, was not to be
prevented from adding to the loyal
demonstration of the hour
To his surprise, however, the crowd
viewed it differently, Had it tloated
from any other window in the capital
that day, no doubt it would have been
the target of contempt and abuse; but
when the president understanding
what had happened, turned, with a
smile on his grand plain face, and
showed his approval by gesture and ex-
preston, cheer after cheer rent the air.
1t was, surely endNgh, the expression
of peace and good will, which, of all our
commanders, none was better pleased
to promote than the, COMMANDMENTS
chief.
Tad, as he was called at home, was
his fathers idol and constant COM
panion. Scarcely day but he could
be seen trudging along the country
roads near their summer home or in
the city itself, his small figure in COM
cal ontrast to the presidents tall lank
form. In these walks they had chats
which were to the boy as precious
memories His early death was a
calamity. for on his return from Eu-
rope he promised everything fine, man
ly and noble his father had hoped for.
A characteristic incident, which he
himself related to the writer, occurred
a day or two after his entering, tenn
porarily, foreign school A rather
snobbish young gentleman of rank, not
knowing who young Lincoln was, in
quired, as boys will of each other, who
his father was. Tad, with the Slow
reflective smile which was his sole point
of mblance to his father, answered.:
"a wood-chopper."
"Oh, indeedw was the rather sheer
ing answer And for "a day or two the
high-born lad turned the cold-shoulder
to the ''new boy"
Judge of his feelings when, very soon,
the American lads prestige being
known to all the school, he found that
he had made himself ridiculous Tad,
however, was too much of little gen.
tleman not to accept the friendship,
however tardily offered. - Harpers
Young People.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-14
FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.
IN GRANDMAMMA'S KITCHEN

In grandmamma's kitchen things got in riot:
The cream in a pot on the shelf.
Where everything always seemed peaceful and
quiet,
Got whipped-for heard 1t myself
And grandmamma said-such qresg iAing 20
say
That it made some things better TO whip them
that wayl
Some hold, naughty eggs, that refused to be
eaten
On toast with their brothers may be,
Were stripped of their clothing and cruelty
beaten
Right whore all the dishes could see;
And grandmamma said though the poor things
might ache,
The harder the beating the lighter the cake
The bright golden butter was petted and patted
And coaxed to be shapely and good;
But it finally had to be taken and spatted
Right hard with paddle of wood;
When grandmamma carried the round balls
away
The buttermilk sulked and looked sour all day.
The water declared that the coffee was muddy,
But an egg settled that little fuss:
Then the steak and the gridiron got in bloody
And terrible broil such mussl
And fatiron spat at grand ma in the face
| And ran away from the quarrelsome place.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox In Wide Awake.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-14
FOR SUNDAY READING.
PAINTING AFTER GOD.

Where is the Friend for whom I'm ever yearn-
ing?
My longing grows when day to night is turn
ing;
And though find Him not as day recedeth,
My heart still pleadeth.
I kt ow He's there in every force and power,
Where waves the harvest and where blooms
the flower
I'm ever. in my breath and signs so burning,
His love discerning,
When summer winds blow gently then / hear
Him;
Where sing the birds. where rush the streams,
I'm near Him;
But better far when in my heart He blesses
Me with caresses.
And yet TO hide Him oft cloud prevqileth,
NY prayer can reach Him, but my vision faileth;
Would could see His face and heart so loving,
And eease my rowing.
o, where such beauty is itself revealing
In all that lives, through all creation stealing,
What must the source be whence it comes, the
Giver?
Beauty forever.
o, Fount of Peace, whose rills with light are
beaming,
When shall Thy waters come upon me stream
ing?
In Thy fresh waters what shall end my crying'
A peaceful dying.
Ny soul, be strong! Hope, pray with self de-
nial;
Thy Heavenly Friend submits Himself to trial;
So shalt thou find in Him, on Him depending,
Mercy unending.
Soon, in the harbor, where no waves are break
ing,
Or like the weary dove her refuge TAXING.
Thou, tmorous lamb, shall by thy Shepherd
favor
Find rest forever
-Archbishop Wallin. in United Presbyterian
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-14
A QUEER TRAIN.
1t Is Made Up OF Velocipede, Express
Wagons and Doll Carriage.

II Is Made Up of a yelocipede, Express
Wagons and Doll Carriage.
Harry is his own engineer, conductor,
brakeman and fireman. His train is all
made up ready to start. FbAt
At the head of it is a velocipede upon
which he rides when the train is in mo-
ton; for how could an engineer take
the passengers through safely without
seeing the track ahead?
While it is not the usual place for the
brakeman, in this case it is very con-
venient, because he can put on the
brakes at the same time that he is at
tending to the duties of the engineer.
The engine must be some new motor,
for, look as carefully as possible, we do
not see any smoke. That really does
away for the need of fireman.
The most inconvenient part Of having
to attend to so many duties is when the
tickets are to be taken. Even that is
not so bad. He stops the train, and
then goes back just as all conductors
do, and when he has taken the tickets,
returns to his engine and continues the
trip.
1t is not a very long train. Follow
ing the engine is an open baggage-car,
something like boys express-wagon.
1t is loaded with baggage of various
| kinds.
Back of this is another car, similar to
this one, and in it are two ladies.
They are no doubt going on long
journey.
The last car very much resembles a
a dolls carriage, in which are two
ladies, elegantly dressed. This must be
a palace-car. 3' =
| This train has no smoker. Indeed it
is not needed, as all the passengers are
ladies.
The track is not like an ordinary rail-
road. 1t is made wholly of stone and
is very smooth. At little distance
one could not tell it from a stone side
walk. Mrs J. S. Lowe, in Our Little
Ones.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-14
SALOONS IN NORWAY.
Their Number Regulated by the Cit,
Government.

Their Number Regulated by the City
Government.
In Norway the city government fixes
the number OF liquor licenses required
to meet the reasonable conveniences of
the public" but all licenses are granted
as Il monopoly for five years to a single
company, pr society, as they call it,
which is organized for the sole pur-
pose of doing all the retail liquor bust
ness in the city where it exists.
This society has board of manage
ment, a part of which is chosen by the
shareholders, and the remainder is
chosen or appointed by the city.
The dividends on the stock of the
company are limited by law to five per
cent. and all the surplus, instead of GO
ing into the city treasury, as in the
"Gothenberg SYSTEM" which is said to
encourage city governments to grant
more licenses than the good of the com
munity requires, must under the Nor
wegian system be applied to deserving
charities or other objects of public
utility, excluding all which receive any
pecuniary aid. however small, from
the city.-Boston Advertiser.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-14
NOTES BY THE WAY.

OF thirty thousand criminals in Ger
man prisons, fourteen thousand were
arrested for crimes committed under
the influence of Intoxicating drinks.
THE consumption of tobacco and
beer is increasing in England as well as
in France. In France the average
amount of tobacco consumed by each
inhabitant annually is two pounds.
The temperance cause is advancing
among British soldiers in India. Lord
Roberts says he has under his CON-
mand fourteen thousand FIVE hundred
British soldiers pledged to total abb
stinence.
WE sometimes hear merchants com
planning of hard times, but we hear no
complaint from the saloon-keepers.
They are getting the money, and the
merchants will have hard times until
the whisky traffic is stopped, and the
money that is spent for liquor is spent
for the necessaries of life. Business
men, think it over.
THE number of drunkards who died
last year in the United States was l20,-
OOO The drunkards who are living to-
day in this country number $500, 600.
The drink bill of the nation last year
was about 81, 200, 900, 600, and three out
of every four arrests are made fol
crimes directly due to drink-at least,
that is what the Voice says.
ARKANSAS, Georgia, Indiana, New
Jersey, Kentucky, Nevada, Tennessee
and Texas are the only states that
have not secured from their legisla.
lures law requiring scientific instruc
ton in the public schools concerning
the effects of alcohol and narcotic:
upon the human system, taught il
connection with physiology and by
giene.
In the year 1891 the inhabitants o
Germany drank SO, 304,0OO hectoliter,
of beer, an increase of over 7,000,0 0C
over the quantity imbibed in 1890. L
they would abstain from lager, the oc
eupation of the socialists would be
gone, for so many of them would be 81
far on the road to a moderate prosper
ity that they would have no tempta
ton to covet their neighbours goods
In poverty is anarchy bred, and alcoho
! is the mother of poverty and crime.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-14
THE BEST DRINK.
Alcohol a Great Degenerator of the
Physical Man.

Alcohol a Great Degenerator OF the
Physical Man.
The man who drinks freely of alco-
holic drinks becomes prematurely old,
and shows deterioration of his tissues.
Alcohol is the great degeneration of the
tissues. When he should be man in
the prime of life he is an old man. He
becomes decrepit in thought and mo-
ton, and that love of life which might
be perhaps increased as he goes on in
years is rendered hopeless, and then
comes despair. Every man is safest if
he never INDUCES in that variation of
nature from water, which was i'm
planted in the whole animal world.
You may make water more palatab BILE
by the addition of fruit juices, but
there must be no poisonous or dele
terious addition to the drink which
goes to assist in the construction and
activity of the body; our thirst must
be siaked with that drink which the
great Chemist raises from the ground,
from the lakes and the rivers, expands
into clouds, allows to distill down from
the mountains back again into the
streams, and keeps up for us current
of living water, which, like life itself,
it is His blessing to bestow.-Dr. B, W..
Richardson, in Western Rural.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-14
WHY HE QUIT DRINKING.
4 sensible Man Who Knew 1t Was Time
TO Look to His Home.

\ sensible Man Who Knew 1t Was Time
TO Look to His Home.
mo, boys, am going to quit-this
time for good" said melancholy
young man to crowd of cronies, as
they stopped him in front of saloon
and asked him to take something"
You know | have been with you for
years, and the painting we have done
has given this town a vermillion hue.
But | must quit now. 1t may go a
little hard with me at first,
but IN short while l guess
l will be able to rid myself of all
desire for those jolly rants and revels
that we have had together. Yes, the
resolution il sudden one, but it is
none the less firm. You see, after l
was married l quit yol fellows for a
long time and then gravitated back to
YOU. 1t was not that loved my wife
any the less l just got careless and
thcughtless. Somehow l seemed to
think that since l was providing her
with all the material luxuries of life
she ought to he satisfied. ! didn't in
tend to neglect her, you know, and
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-14
PATRIOTISM OF TAD LINCOLN,

why 1t Wasn't Appreciated Until His Fa-
Their Had Approved of IL.
One of the prettiest incidents in the
closing days of our civil war occurred
when the troops marching home
again" passed in grand form, II with
well-worn uniforms, and tattered hunt
ing, before the White House. Natur-
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-14

Oliver Wendell Holmes, who re-
Gently became eighty-three years old,
had the good fortune, the distinguished
honor, as he terms it, of being born the
same year with Gladstone, Darwin,
Tennyson and Lincoln. The genial
doctor, philosopher and poet was very
''smart" and active when his last birth
day was celebrated. His eye was bright
and his mind clear, and his sense Of
humor as keen as when the ''autocrat'
was young. The only literary work
which he now has in hand is volume
"reminiscences, to which he devotes a
brief part of the morning. The re-
mainder of the day is given to the en-
joyment of life and the preservation of
his health.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-14

If man can by art make of ashes the
curious glass, why can not an omnipo-
tent God, of dust and ashes, make glori-
fed bodies fair as crystal2-Lowe
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-12-14
A Riddle.

A Kansas City mother who was much
occupied in good works, needed rest.
She took her children to one of the
southern winter resorts. One day she
thought she would attend little TO
teaching her own little boy at least to
find out if he knew the catechism.
What is the chief end OF man?"
The boy answered: "The head"
The mother laughed, when Tommy
said:
81 did not know you were asking me
riddles Wide Awake