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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-29

Danny was conscious that there was
something defective in this logic, but,
before he could frame an objection,
Barney went ON with his philosophical
| reflections:
You're only kid, Danny-you amt
more'n ten, an I'm goin' on thirteen
SO it amt likely you know much about
these things. s'pose you think, if you
was rich, you'd have pie every day"
"You bet" cried Danny fervently.
mo, you wouldn't" said his expert
enced friend, sagely lyon wouldn't
/ like it more'n twice week"
why not?" demanded the younger
boy.
Cos they never dc. That's the way
with rich folks. They git sick of eatin'
an drinkin', an they wish they was
poor. Then think how they're all tied
up Now, you wouldn't ketch no rich
boys takin' it easy on the curbstone
like this, eos they spoil their Clothes"
"An' they can't go barefooted," said
Danny, thoughtfully.
COURSE not. Nor they can't go
swimmin' off the wharf, or run to fires
at night. or foller the circus parade all
over the route"
Cant they, thought"
"Not much they can't. They've got
to behave jest so all the time, like it
was always Sunday-school."
Cant they fight?'
"Yes, they can have scrap onct in
awhile" admitted Barney; but, if it's
found out, they git fits for it. An, then,
spose they git arrested for tightin' or
somethin' like that? Why, they're
knocked out forever, an nobody won't
| speak to EN-"
why won't they?'
'Well, eos it amt the caper for them
to do it. Now, s'pose nobody would
speak to me COS | was pulled by cop
for licliin the peanut mans kid? That's
what git for not bein' rich. See?''
Il see" assented Danny. ave has
lots more fun than rich folks, don't
we?'
Lots an lots" said Barney; San we
don't have no responsibility.
That's So" admitted Danny; but"
he added, with sigh, after long
| pause, II wisht we had another nickel
to buy some more apples" = Golden
| DAYS
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-29
FACTS AND FINDINGS.

A SOCIETY for the prevention Of
cruelty to children in New England
city reports that of 1873 children whom
it had aided 1913 had incorporate
fathers and IS drunken mothers.
THE New York Times urges the cof-
fee-house as a cure for the saloon: "The
saloon might be in great part sup
planted if a resort were provided equal
ly as attractive, and less costly, and
not at all mischievous. This is the no.
ton that has found expression in coffee
houses and holly-tree inns in this coun-
try and abroad Several of these are
in operation in this city, and we believe
there is no dispute that, so far as they
90, they are successful, and that they do
counterfeit the influence of the saloons"
In recent sermon, Rev. DIR. A. II.
Plumb, of Boston, argues the duty of
total abstinence from all that can in
toxicate, on the Christian principle OF
self-denial for the good of others. He
says: when a Christian man refuses
to abstain from intoxicating beverages,
he may know that he puts in jeopardy
the temporal and spiritual welfare of
May immortal beings around him;
that he imperils their highest interests
for this world and the next; that he
does this rather than surrender slight
personal qualification himself, and this
while he is all the time processing to
order his life by the Christian principls
of self-sacrifice for the good of others
while he is accepting the obligations
we then that are strong ought to bear
the burdens of the weak
THE drink question" is Large one,
and it confronts every nation. In Ger
many it is discussed under the title of
.Die Deutsche Alcohol-frage," and the
Englishman who knows no language
can make a pretty good guess at what
the German words mean. The discus
sion of the question has brought out
some statistics which are altogether
startling and depressing. One quar-
ter of the productive energy of the coun-
try is devoted to making some kind OF
intoxicating drink. That is one fact
Another is that the production of ma
terial manufactured into beer, wine
and spirits in Germany occupied in
1Ss9-sO just about one fifteenth of the
cultivated land of the country. As a
consequence, bread riots" break out
occasionally, and the food question"
is seen to be intimately related to the
drink question" and both to the sta
bility of the government, and to good
! order throughout the empire.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-29
CHOICE EXTRACTS.

1t is better for a Christian to be GO
ing on to perfection, than to feel sure
that he has attained it-United Pres
byterian.
The healthy body is good, but the
soul in right health-it is the thing be-
You'd all others to be prayed for; the
blessedest thing this earth receives of
Heaven.-Carlyle.
Why should start at the pillow of
my Lord, that maketh deep burrows on
my soul? / know He is no idle hus-
bandman; He purposeth a crops.
Rutherford.
"A superficial reading Of the Bible is
as injurious as is a hasty eating of ones
meals-dyspepsia results in both eases
AS the physical dyspeptic eructates gas,
SO does the spiritual dyspeptic belch
forth folly. IT'S better to be mighty in
the Scriptures than eloquent about
them.--St. Louis Republic.
AS the young eagles know not their
capabilities till the motherbird stirs up
her nest, so it is only by our tranquility
being, as it seems, rudely disturbed,
that we learn to realize the purposes of
our being and what we can do. We
need to be stimulated to exertion.-
Christian Inquirer.
Death is not such terrible thing
after all; it is only an unloosing of the
ties which bind body and soul together,
and we may be sure that it will be
gently done. 1t is largely our imagina-
ton, and not the Divine word, which
clothes dissolution with its terrors. A
Christian, looking at painting which
represented death as skeleton armed
with scythe, said: II would paint
death as an angle with golden key
United Presbyterian.
oh, to be borne through the year on
the wings Of praise to God, to mount
from year TO year, and raise at each
ascent q loftier and yet lowlier song
unto the God of our life. The vista Of a
praiseful life will never close, but con-
tinue throughout eternity. From psalm
to psalm, from hallelujah to hallelujah,
we will ascend the hill of the Lord,
until we come into the Hottest of all,
where, with veiled faces, we will bow
before the Divine Majesty in the bliss
of endless adoration.-N. Y. Observer.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-29
SOME CURIOUS FISH.
How Members OF the Finny Tribe Act
When on Land.

SOWC SOHIOOS Fl0n.
How Members OF the Finny Tribe Act
When on Land.
"a fish out of water" is synonyme
for any creature that is strangely out
of its element. Yet fishes do sometimes
get out of the water, and they do it
from choice, and seem to enjoy the
change.
1t would be more exact to say that
some fishes do this, and not that fishes
sometimes do it, Most fish live in the
water, and die if kept out of it for any
length of time but it is well known
that few species sometimes come out
of the water, and move themselves in
various ways upon the land; sometimes
travel ON it for long distances; some
times even climb trees and sit upon
rocks-perhaps to gaze at the prospect;
who can say?
BY these facts is destroyed one of the
fondest traditions of our childhood
The oldest of us can recall the days
when we solemnly asked each other:
"Why is a fish like stone?' and
solemnly told the answer: Because
it can't climb tree" Science has dis
covered that fish can climb tree.
Who knows but we shall some day be
told that a stone is equally agile?
1t is common, | believe, for cells to
| leave the water and roam about in the
mud; but cells are vulgar creatures, and
goodness knows whether they even bear
a Latin name to bless themselves with.
| But the most remarkable dry-land
| fish has a name as long as his body. II
is periophthalmus Very kindly, nat
uralists allow ordinary mortals to spea,
Of him as the ''goby," The little crea.
ture is about four or five inches long
with big head, prominent eyes, anc
side or pectoral fins, which are more
like legs than anything else. The goby
comes on shore, and scrambles along
the banks in search of food. One ar
dent naturalist tells us that he took q
shotgun and picked off his gobies. as
they hoped along the muddy shore, as
if they were snipe."
These gobies are common in New Yea
land, where the natives call them the
running fishes" On our own shores
we have goby~of a somewhat similar
habit. This inoffensive creature ha:
been called by naturalists the Gobiu'
separator.
Recently party of naturalists trav
cling in Mexico and Texas found some
of these little fishes and confined then
in pail. They remained in it a short
time; then, to the establishment of the
observers, several of them were seer
clambering oveH the side of the. pail
and dropping down upon the ground
when they proceeded to wriggle theil
way to the water, not far distant They
used the fins as legs, and made very
good progress When replaced in tn,
pail they tumbled out again, and coult
only be kept there by placing board
over the top Of their prison"
Fishes that hibernate and fishes tina
migrate have been observed and writ
ten about; and the curious facts abou
these odd little creatures would fiji
many pages.-Harper's Young People
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-29

The spirit of prayer is humble sub
mission to Gods will. We offer our de-
sires 'for things agreeable to His will"
They are laid before Him, subject to
His infinite wisdom and boundless love.
They are subject always to His sover-
eign right. In prayer there iscommun-
ion with God, the heart going out to
Him in loving confidence, in humble de-
pendence, and in implicit trust. Our
Father" we say, and then as children
tell our Father, whose love we know,
all the desires of the heart, and as ODE
dent children, we add: Not my will,
but Thine, o Father be done" Such
prayer is always heard, whether that
which we ask is given or not. We are
accepted in the Beloved. United
Presbyterian.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-29
a TELLING ARGUMENT.
WIZ Barney Didn't Care to BE Rich
Mans Doy,

MANS soy.
Il wisht-I wisht," said Danny, with
o gulp. "that l was rich,
The gulp was caused partly by a
mental yearning, and partly by piece
of apple that stuck in his little throat
"Oh. | dunnow replied Barney, in
differently. Whats maxim you wish
that?"
Zoos rich people has things" an
severed Danny. swallowing hard, pre-
paratorv to beginning on his second APP
pie.
Barney, the other bootblack, took an
easier position ON his box, and prepared
to argue the question.
What things?' he asked, defiantly.
Heaps" assured Danny, laconically.
MY sister was workin' in a rich mans
hous, for 4 year, an she said they had
puddin's an pies most every day"
AN watermelons?"
"Well. watcrmclons an ice cream most
every day"
HIM" commented Barney, doubt
fully.
''Thcy did" persisted Danny, stoutly.
"An' there was boy there, not bigger'n
me. an he had ten or twelve cents day
to spend. if he wanted to-"
"Where is the boy?" questioned Bar
ney. with suspicious gravity.
Dunno"
perhaps he's dead9'
"Wtll. what if he is?"
~ good bit What good would il dc
To have all that money to spend, If YOU
coa,dn iive?'
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-29

1t never pays to do wrong, no matter
how bright the reward may look.
1t never pays to be careless about
your health, even if you can get your
doctoring done for nothing.
1t never pays to break promise made
to child.
1t never pays to run in debt for things
you can get along without.
Itnever pays to buy anything just be-
cause it is cheap
1t never pays to be on the wrong side
of the truth.
1t never pays to put off repenting un-
til You get too old to find pleasure in
sin.
1t never pays to leave the weeds in
the garden until they get bigger
Rams Horn
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-29
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
THE DRUNkARD.

On feeble and unsteady legs
He walks as IL he trod on eggs
Whenever ne has TO give or take
His hands, as with the palsy, shake
To meet your gaze he vainly tries
With dull and bleared and bloodshot eyeA
Compelled to bear the sign, he shows
A swollen, coarse and crimson nose
His pimplcd, blue and bloate face
or manliness has not trace.
All people near him shun like death
His permeating, sickening breath
With ruined health and shattered nerves
He suffers tortures he deserves.
Sad children and heartbroken wife
Through him endure wretched life.
Abhorred and Stunned by friends once known
He wanders through the world alone
Seen losing selfrespect he goes
In seedy, torn and dirty clothes.
With raging, hot, increasing thirst
Which can't be quenched, he's ever cursed
In vain he takes the pledge 80 stop;
With will'power gone he has no prop
Asylums, drugs, "gold cures" he tries
Make him insane-unless he dies.
Down, down, he sinks until in time
He in the gutter reeks wit h slime.
From borrowing he begs until
For drink he'll steal or even kill.
Delirium tremens horrid sights
He sees. With imps and snakes he fights
At last with tramps his doom is sealed,
And then he goes to Potter's Field.
And after THAR Alas, who knows
Where any slave Of liquor goesI
They have their hell on earth, confessed
They can't have worse. So let them rest
II. c. Dodge, in Goodall's Sun.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-29
FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.
PERSEVERANCE.

Out In my garden mother has set
Kinks and roses and mignonnette
And pansies, too, for border;
And she says must weed it every day,
FOR that, yon know, Is the only way
To keep it in perfect order.
! mustn't fret if the sun L. hot
And wish could sit in shady spot,
And wait till it's cool and breezy;
IL my back should ache never must shfrk,
And complain that wedding is such hard uOrl
Tho, really, it isn't easy.
But II would have my garden fair
Imust give 1t patient and constant cars
Until the summer is ended;
II would make it a daily delight,
Always fragrant and blooming and bright,
must keep it faithfully tended
Yesterday, when tried to spell
Perseverance, couldn't tell
How many letters twas needing.
But, by and by, when pick bouquet
To take to my teacher, perhaps can say
have learned perseverance a. wedding
Anna NJ. Pratt, in Golden Days
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-29
FOR SUNDAY READING.
BUILD ON THE ROCK

Matt. vii, %.
The winter with its snowfakes,
The breath OF springtsme flowers,
The autumn with its golden leaf,
The brightest, happiest hours,
The shadows at the eventide,
The sunshine OF the day.
Are fieeting things, a moment here
Then all have passed away.
The pleasure found In gilded halls
The castles builded high,
Are but the visions Of an hour,
They 0nn not satisfy.
The fondest hopes, the truest friends
Are only for day.
They're going. going, one by one,
They, too. shall pass away.
Mid changing scenes, of fleeting years
What is there ehangeless, sure!
When earth itself shall pass away
Will nothing then endurey
Within weary desert land
A Rock stands firm for aye,
Unchanged amid the wreck Of time
II shall not pass away.
Upon the Rock temple build,
Each stone select with care,
That when the storms OF life shall come.
Naught may be wanting there.
Then, in the passing Of the years,
Though time itself decay,
The temple Arm on Rock divine,
Shall never pass away.
L. f. Jones, in Young Mems Era
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-29
A Great Surprise.

One day Tommy was giving his
Noah's Ark sail in the water-pitcher,
when all the people and animals fell
out, and Tommy went away and forgot
all about them. When lunch-time
came Mary Ann filed up the pitcher
without looking in it, and when the
water was poured out what do you
think happened? Mamma found a
great giraffe in her glass, Aunt Annie
found blue monkey, and papa had an
elephant and bear And what do you
think tumbled out in Tommy's silver
cup? Nothing less than Noah and a
pink pig.
OF course nobody wanted to drink
such things, and after that Noah and
his ark and his animals were kept il
the nursery.-Harper's Young People.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-29
DRINK FOR WoRkINGMEN.
Dame ging Influence In the Struggle for
Independence.

The past quarter of century has
been noted, so far as the relations of
labor and capital are concerned, by an
immense growth of labor organizations.
While these are euphemistically de-
scribed as being for the Improvement
and advancement of the working
classes. the only line upon which this
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-29

A Fabricator or q Curiosity.-Jew-
eler Mashey-'1 would suggest tina,
YOU purchase for the ball diamond
necklace" Mrs. Trochey-"But haven't
you something newer. bought one
of them when they first came out
welers Weekly.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-06-29

Lamb. and because they have been
patient in tribulation, will you not be
glad to be one of Christian at
Work.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-20

Free;trade papers repeat with much
glee the announcement alleged to have
been made by Manager Frick of the Car
negie company that that company will
enlarge its steel armour plate plant right
away as proof that the industrial intrests
Of the country will not be in any way
injured by the sweeping Democratic
success. This is a very much forced put.
The Carnegie company have large con-
tracts with the government for armor
plate aud other materials for the navy,
which contracts are in no wise affected
by the tariff. And it may be worth not
ing that the enlargement in the Carne-
gle plant, is confined to the one mention
ed. They have a number Of others pro-
ducing articles of commerce that are
directly affected by the tariff, and there
is no intimation that any of these will
be enlarged. In this connection we
would ask the esteemed free trader how
about the large glass works in Indiana
and elsewhere in this country that have
already shut down since the election
and on account of the result? And also
about the tin plate mills that have ceas-
ed operation and others that We're pro-
jected that have been abandoned be-
cause of the prospective change in the
tariff policy?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-20
STATE TREAsURBR's REPORT

State Treasurer Slower sends us a copv
Of his biennial report for the fiscal yeais
ending June 80, 1891, and June so. 1892.
For the two years ending June 80. 1892.
the total receipts We're S5,392, 53l. 10. OF
this sum S2,S.S, .04 came from direct
taxes. $2l5, 300, IS from penitentiary
earnings. SOL, 931.15 from insurance de-
partmenI, Sl6l. 665. CO from sale OF school
lands. S3a1, 5000 interest from sale OF
school lands, SlS1. 991 % from the general
government D per cent. on the sale of
public lands, S51S, S64. 90 in payment of
county. township and school district
bonds: and s665, 2137 ~ interest on school
district, town ard county bonds. The
balance came from state institutions.
bank examiner, oil inspector, sale of COL
iege lands, etc. There is one item of
81, 544 Al from estates of deceased per-
SONS.
Auditors warrants. ...........S2 $50 lis a.
School fuud commissioners. l.I50. COS -
State school superintendent. LOIS. $50 10
There are two interest items: one of
$105,9 on state coupons: accrued inter
est S5.365.44 The balance TO state
schools, etc.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-20
JUST w AIT AWHILE.

The local Democracy are in high
feather and are claiming the earth for
Wichita under the Lewelling admins
tration. This is all nice thing as a
hedge against possible future contingent
cies. but they and Governor Leweiling
will find that Kansas contains something
like million and half Of people out
side of Wichita, with more hungry
politicians and local claimants to the hun
dred inhabitants, than any common
wealth, between the Atlantic and Paci-
.ic. Sust wait until the opposition ma
chine In alt its parts get wound up, and
then listen for the music. If you hap
pen 40 be deaf that will make no differ
ence. as You will be able TO taste and
smell it, it will be so loud and incon-
gruouSly strong.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-20
SEND A COMMITTEES TO TOPEKA

The Populists should not fail of send
ing strong advisory delegation to To-
peka this winter to watch the members
of the legislature elected by them. The
Democrats were to have the control of
the federal patronage, by the terms of
the bargain and sale, and the Populists
were to be permitted the running of the
state and institutions. But the nav of
Democracy is never satisfied. The lead
ers of Cleveland's gang in Kansas are in
dustriously figuring on everything in
sight. including the United States sena-
torship. They claim eight 'out and
out" Democratic members of the legisla-
ture, which eight as balance of power
will threaten to vote for Republican for
the United States senate before they will
ever consent to support Jerry Simpson
or any other populist. The bosses pro-
pose with this small contingent to secure
the election of John Martin, or of some
other one of the men who made fusion
possible by forcing 4he Democrats of the
state to vote the Weaver ticket. Any
body who knows the disposition of Dem
ocratic politics, generally, must know
that that they will ''do iup" their late
confiding and verdent partners in
great shape if there is any
possibility of doing SO. In
the end the Kansas Democrats will
not only have the postoffices in the state,
the United States marshalship, and all
his deputies, and the United States pen
sion agency and every federal position,
but the state administration itself. This
will probably suit the Populists better
than it would to have the Republicans
in, but how the Populist party is to be
helped or strengthened with the DEM
ocrats pocketing all the perquisits and
running the state generally, passes our
understanding.
The Populists ought to send up such
committee for another reason. There
are few earnest and intelligent men
among their number in both the House
and Senate who will endeavor to secure
some reform measures, such as cutting
down the enormous fees and salaries re-
ceived by county and municipal officials
throughout the state 10 saving of
millions Of dollars annually to the tax
payers, and by looping eff a great num-
her of useless officers. Now when these
bills are introduced office holders by the
hundreds will flock to Topeka fer the
purpose of saving their places and
salaries. There will be but one way to
save them and that by the buying of
members votes, which would defeat the
great reformation promised the people.
OF course no Populist member could be
bought, but it wont hurt them to be
watched, and closely. In short, in a
failure to keep committee of strong
men at Topeka this winter the Populists
will retire in disgrace next spring with
every Democrat official laughing in his
sleeve as he gingles the extra cash in his
pocket.