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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-13
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
THE DEMON OF THE STILL.

The cog and wheel, ana belt so strong,
Was each within its place,
The still was ready now to start
Upon its ma1dening race.
The race to grind from food of men
A poison, SO sure and fell,
That demons watched il drop 10y drop
And loved its praise TO tell
"Oh taste ye of the sparkling iraughtl
See here within this cup
Is all We want of earth or heaven,
Aye, drink the mixture up"
And then the tempters gloating eye
Sparkling with rapture sees,
His victims taste and taste again,
Till sense and reason fees.
at Too slow its gurgling waters flow,
Too slow its victims make,
l thirst for blood fain would now
This quenchless burning slake.
Look hither! 10, see
victim toward me stride
A mothers Joy he sure must be-
A fathers hope and pride
"Come demons, haste, and now keep watch
With keen and piercing eye
And list your chance for warm bright blood
Not let 1t pass you by;
Aye, might not he so brave and far
Be won by truth and right,
Be lost to US and 'scape at last
The dismal realms of night
;" Turn, engine, turnl wheels, swiftly fiy
Bands and cogs and belts so strong
With winged speed go by
Do well your CHASTITY part, for
Am standing with gloating heart,
A burning eye to see
The life blood Of the heart go dry
The sau's thirst thrOuOh atarnitv'u
The demon eyes watched eagerly
The awful power that bore
The unconscious youth round wheel and cog,
While flesh from bone it tore;
But now an angel from Gods light,
Hastes, in this dreadful hour,
To bear alott the spirit bright
Far from the tlendish power.
The reeking blood and quivering flesh,
Stake not the demons thirst,
The groans of PAIN the mothers tears,
But whet his direful curse.
"Now-to the still where warm and bright
The gurgling poison flows,
Which soon will blight the hearts and homes
Where'er 1t hapless goes.
"Ah, we'll for me, thou faithful tool,
That human blood nor tears,
Can stop thy CHASTITY work, nor rouse
The deadened heart to fears.
Here meath this still the power Of death
My power resistess strong,
Is growing steady dropby drop,
Till millions make throng
"Of wretehed helpless creatures lost,
My realm Of night to fill,
While willing servants mad for gold
Run on the faithful still.
Better than tear, or blood or groan,
Than mangled flesh, ween
Are crime and suffering and woe,
Nov In this fluid SEEM"
""rwill fill the prisons, load with chains
The maniac in his cell,
Twill blight fair homes with want and shame
Twill sink the soul in hell;
No power so potent, fiends below,
In all their cunning skill,
Could e'er devise like yhis that men
Have made to work my will"
--Aile Andys in Rural World.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-13
AN EVIL EXAMPLE.
Gifted Men Who Have Led Their Admir-
.,rs IN Drink,

crs to Drink.
More than n score of years ago, an
eminent musical composer, whose
music is heard to-day in thousands OF
places of religious worship throughout
the land, was suddenly cut down by
the reaper Death.
"How saGr' How mysterious
many people said,
One who knew him best said: "lle
was taken away from the evil to
come for, alas. though he had great
gifts, and was an influential member
of the church of God, he often resorted
to artificial stimulants to keep up the
strength which he felt he must have TO
conduct his conventions successfully,
"What harm can a glass of beer do
so great and good man as -" WAC
said by some
Others said: IF - can drink a
glass of beer, can. He surely is
good man."
How many feet were thus turned
into the way of death will never be
known. One has come under our OBJ
servation, where death alone delivered
the victim from the power of tempta-
ton. We looked upon the still, white
face but little while ago and heard
bereaved one say: 'E tried so hard
to resist temptation. 1t cannot reach
| him now.
ut was the example of. b. that
| ruined my husband. saw the danger,
and plead with him that he should not
give such an example to his admirers.
| Death settled that, but it was too late
for poor L. As looked npon the no.
BILE form, and thought of the unvary-
ing courtesy and gentlenoss of the de-
ceased, and of his wrecked life ire
trievably ruined by the example of a
good man. realized something of tho
power each individual exerts; for their
example lives long after they sleep the
sleep which knows no waking Mrs.
L. j. Richmond, in National Temper
ance Advocate
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-13
POULTRY RAISING.
II Is = rrGa.:S!s Pursuit Tor Women If
Properly Managed-Some Advice,

" Is = rrGa.:S!s Pursuit Tor Women il
Properly Managed-Some Advice,
One of the largest poultry farms in
the vicinity of New York city is man.
aged 5y two young women, who, only
three years ago, were pupils in DIR.
Vests seminary for young women, on
The Heights in Brooklyn. The farm is
located near Baldwins, Long Island
''Our business venture" said one of
these Young women, was brought
ahom IN purely accidental manner.
An acquaintance of ours has been read
Ing IN some newspapers about poultry
raising rs business for women, and
laughirgly told us that we ought to go
into the business and make some
mo3cy.
.'Tae remark was only made in a
testing spirit but we began to talk the
matter over between ourselves, and fl
nally decided to make a venture. A
relative of my friends bought farm
scs rs on Long Island about twenty
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-13
Rum in Africa.

1t is a pitiful story which missions
ar les in Africa tell about the effect of
the rum taken into that continent, no
little portion of which goes from Bos-
ton. We have just been reading the
memorial which the last general as.
sembly OF the Presbyterian church
ordered its committee to prepare and
send to the United States senate, and
we hope many such memorials,
signed with the names of many petit
TONERS, will be sent in. II our states
and nation cannot do the right thing at
home. we hope the treaty of Brussels,
already signed by sixteen governments
and now awaiting the signature of our
own, which treaty guarantees the re.
striction of the slave and liquor traffics
in the Free Congo State, will receive
the sanction of our senate, that the
nation may be relieved of disgrace
which every patriotic American should
feel is resting on Sabbath BE,
corder.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-13
We win Make Our Own LAGOS

"You put an exorbitant tariff on
laces," said the ''reformer" to the
trainers of the Mckinley law, thus
grievously taxing the people, although
we do not produce lace in this coun-
t-y" We call to that "reformer's" at
tention the following extract from the
Manchester correspondent of the Dry
Goods Economist of October II:
If one were to credit the stories told of i'm.
pending removals Of lace making plants to the
United States, one would lie forced i-rcsistibiy
TO the conclusion that nothing but bare walls
will remain in Nottingham in a few months
time.
One of the reasons why the duty was
placed on laces was because the indus
try of lace making was not firmly es-
tablisbed in this country. The trainers
of the law thought it was time we made
laces for ourselves and the measure has
already compassed the end aimed at
THE cause of protection does not sink;
it rises The recent elections in the
United States have shown that the
slight reaction against protection has
spent its force. The only colony which
we were able to cite as free trade
colony, New South Wales, am afraid
no longer has an unspotted robe in tina,
respect, and we shall have the advan-
tage, think, before very long of being
the AthaRdsius contra muRdum of free
trade.-Lord Salisbury, prime minister
of England, in a speech at the Mansion
housa November q
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-13
WHISKY DIDN'T HELP HIM.
rhe Almost Fatal Result of Depending
on a Stimulant.


rne Almost Fatal Result of Depending
on a Stimulant.
! saw an exhibition of nerve and
puck the other day which ought to be
recorded in black and white. From
the cornice of one of the tall buildings
was suspended a painters scatfold.
They are raised and lowered, as you
know, by the painters pulling on a
tackle at either end. Few men can
look up from the walk at the scaffold,
swaying about under the cornice and
the men coolly playing their brushes,
without feeling the flesh creep little.
The breaking of rope meant death to
the men on the scaffold and, perhaps,
to two or three pedestrians below.
Should one of the men lose his balance
and fall he'd strike the fagstore and
have every bone broken.
Three or four of us were looking up
from doorway opposite, when one OF
the painters dropped his brush and
lurched about as if drunk. The other
cried out to him sharply, and he lay
down on the scaffold as if helpless.
The man had either taken sick or was
overcome by fright. There was no one
on the roof. We saw the other painter
look up and around in an anxious way,
aud then he crept along the scaffold to
his partner If he tried to brace him
up it was failure. He took the slack
of the rope and passed it about him so
that he could not roll off, and then he
began hosting up the scaffold. He
pulled that end up about two feet, and
then crept down and raised the other
to correspond.
There was lift of ten or twelve
feet, and he passed from end to end OF
the scaffo,d five or six times before he
| elevated it to the cornice and could
step off. The other man lay as if dead
and was pulled off on to the roof sc
helpless that he could not stand. He
was sitting with his back to n chimney
when l got up there, and no dead
mans face was ever winter He trem
bled in every limb, his teeth chartered
and his eyes seemed to have lost al
expression.
whats the matter?" l asked the
other partner. who was calmly adding
little oil to the mixture in his pail.
"New man." he brusquely replied.
How do you mean?"
Its his first time on swing
scaffold," he explained, land he wa
foolish enough to take drink OF
whisky to brace his nerves."
And didn't it?"
"For half an hour so; then it col
lapsed him, as it always does every
body, and he went to pieces quick al
wink"
us it your first experience?'
"Not bv a dozen, Most Of 'em ac
this way the first time. You've got t.
give em sharp talk and tie 'em on o.
they'll do something desperate"
"And weren't you at all rattled?"
"Shoo. Feel my pulse"
And he whistled merrily as h
stirred the mixture and '7aited for an
other man to come aul 20 down witt
him.
"How do you feel?" ask the other.
lie tried to reply, but his tongu
seemed to have lost its power, an,
after two or three efforts he begal
weeping like child He was utterl,
unnerved.-M. Quad, in n. Y. World.
THE money paid in one year for thre
glasses of beer day would pay tn
rent for a small suit of rooms for on
vsar,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-13
FARMS AND FACTORIES.

They Should be side by Sids--One Can Not
be Prosperous Without the Other-If tho
Factories are Closed All Would Flock to
the Farm and Misery to All Would Re.
suit.
The alleged antagonism of interest
between farmers and manufacturers is
a favorite hobby with those whose par.
TALLY for foreign trade leads them to
advocate privileges for outsiders that
are necessarily beyond reach of citizens
in this country. The rapid increase of
urban populations disclosed by our late
census has been seized upon as corrob-
Grating evidence, and made to do duty
in disparaging the policy of protection
for those home industries without which
large non-agricultural communities
could not be sustained
BY some popularity of logic never
yet made plain, farmers are urged to
discourage aggregation of population in
this country as inimical to their pros
perity, which they are asked to believe
will be enhanced by building up the
population and trade of foreign cities,
to the detriment of those nearer home.
| 1t would seem that no voter with in.
telligence enough to be a good farmer
could be deceived by such claim. He
needs but to glance at official statistics
to find that more than three-fourths Of
all the grains and meats he sells are
taken and paid for by these very people
whom he is asked to believe are the
chief impeachment to his greater pros
perity. He has but to draw upon indi-
vidual experience for proof that many
products of his farm that could not by
any possibility be gotten into a remote
market find ready buyers in such towing
as are within reach, and command all
the better prices by reason of their
| perishable nature
Such facts, within the observation OF
every man who cares to look at them,
point to conclusion Numerically OPP
posite to that urged by the advocates of
| free foreign trade. The farmer must
have market for his surplus crops, or
he must discontinue raising more than
can be consumed at home. Prices for
what goes upon the market are so
largely determined by the trade law of
demand and supply that his interest
necessarily lies in having the largest
possible number of buyers Of such
things as he has to sell, with as few
competitors as may be in supplying the
existing demand.
Evidently, then, if by legislation or
from other cause the millions who are
now engaged in some work other than
farming should be thrown out of en-
ployment, or have their income ma
terially reduced by foreign competition,
many of them would probably resort to
farming free traders say that is what
they ought to be doing now, or at best
their ability to buy what farmers have
to sell would be seriously impaired.
Hence, it follows that no other class of
voters have equal interest with farmers
in adding to the number of factories
and keeping the contingent of buyers
of agricultural products at the highest
attainable point of efficiency for pur-
chase and consumption.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-13
TACTICS OF PERFORMERS"

What Will the New Congress Do ?-The
Free Traders viii Probably Assail sin
gle Features Rather Than Frame New
Tariff Bill.
No little interest will center about
Washington when the new congress
gets into working order With an over
whelming majority of shouters for tariff
reform" in the popular branch, and
the knowledge that their attitude with
reference to tariff legislation will be
watched by those to whom as much has
been promised as was offered from the
temples pinnacle in olden times, they
will, of course, maneuver for favor
able verdict from the grand jury Of
American voters. With so much at
stake, and so little opportunity for dodg-
ing the issue they have forced, oppor-
tunity may be had for determining how
far leaders in the reform" movement
have wandered from limits defined by
the Wanted Mills bill of 1888, which
was so effectually showed under in the
elections of that year.
There are some good reasons for be-
lieving that but little effort will be
made to further commit the party to
the Golden policy; but that with wis
dom gained through experience, ener-
gies will be devoted to guerrilla attacks
upon certain features of the existing
tariff, in which assistance can be hoped
for from members influenced by selfish
or local considerations. Recognizing
the futility of assailing the policy of
protection with the avowed object of
supplanting it with free trade in COM
peting products, the advice of their
patron saint is not likely to be ignored.
A few of what may be deemed the
weakest among protected industries
will be singled out as sacrifices to the
free trade moloch, with the hope that
voters thus stricken can be induced to
aid in pulling other interests to the
level of their own.
1t is against this insidious warfare
that protectionists should keep well
guarded. The demand for free raw
materials" to which it is hoped to com
nit some manufacturers, will no sooner
be successful than laborers and capital
lists thereby disadvantaged will be urged
to join in crusade against all protected
manufacturers. Already work along
this line has been started in New En-
gland, where the promises of free wool
free coal, free ores and other materials
are expected to dazzle the eyes and
turn the heads of certain manufacturers
and concurrently farmers and WOO
growers, with owners and workers OF
mines, are urged to make ready tc
strike back with the demand for free
trade throughout the list of imported
competing products. And the shrewC
advocates of reform" can safely be re
lied on to vote with both sides wher
once the fight begins
Protection Sermon in One Hundred Words
Looking backward over the many
efforts of manufacturers to acquire rep
utation for their aptness in hitting the
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-13

THE money paid in one year for three
glasses of beer a day would pay the
rent for a small suit of rooms for one
rear,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-01-13
Protection sermon in One Hundred Words.

Looking backward over the many
efforts of manufacturers to acquire rep.
utation for their aptness in hitting the
bulls-eye in their styles and materials
for cloalSs, and noticing how well they
did for time, only at last to fail, 1t is
wonderful that mills have the courage
to make them. Among the handsomest
fabrics ever made were the gold and
silver beaded cloakings introduced
more than twenty years ago. They
sold readily at Sc to 81, and went off
like hot cakes. The manufacturers in
creased their output and in little
while as many cases of them were
| iobbed at 81 25 and S2.5o per yard as
there had been pieces sold at the higher
| figures - Dry Goods Economis'
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-14
PARKHURSTS BAD GANG.
superintendent Byrnes Shows Up Sex
Huy1er in a Queer Light.

superintendent Byrnes Shows Up Sexton
Huyler in q Queer Light.
NEW YORK, Dec. IA, 1892 Superintend-
ent Byrnes made statement to several
reporters at Police Headquarters in New
York this morning In regard to the story
that Sexton Huyler of DR.. Parkhurst's g
Church had demanded money for the po-
lice on the occasion of Commander
Httchcook's fune.al
The Superintendent produced q letter
which he had received from Henry
Eroen, the Commandant at the United
States Navy Yard. complaining of the
TACT that money had been demanded by
the police for an escort a5 the funeral Of
Commandment Hitchcock.
The superintendent at once placed the
letter in the hands OF Inspector Conlin
for investigation. Inspector Conlin
found Bradford w. Hitchcock, brother
of the dead officer, who said that he had
been told bv Sexton Huyler of DR.. Park
hursts church that there would be
considerable expense attached to
the funeral and that the police would
have to be paid $780, Hitchcock
thereupon gave Huyler his check for
500. The Superintendent then showed
the reporters copy of letter he had
written Mr.. Erben in reply, in which he
stated that the story that the police had
received one cent for 10 escort was false
The superintendent added that the day
after the funeral Sexton Hughes called
Roundsman Shiels, who had charge of
the escort, and said, "I got little money
for that funeral escort. and want to give
you few cigars. Roundsman Shiels
treated the Sexton with Contempt. and
said he was not in the habit of receiving
bribeS or presents
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-14
CHANGES AT ST. MARY'S.

Sensational Stories About Bayonne's
Catholic Church Denied.
The paHishioners of st. Mary's r. c.
Church were surprised yesterday by the
announcement that Bishop Wigger had
transferred the curate of the parish. the
Rev. Father George H. Brown. to the
Church of the Holy Cross at Harrison,
where he will henceforth be assistant
pastor.
Father Brown was very reluctant to
leave St. Mary's, where he had become
universally popular. He has been the
sole assistant to the rector, Father
killeen. since early last spring, when
Bishop Wigger transferred Father An
drew NJ. Egan to the rectorship of a
church at Morris Plains.
Sensational articles in New York papers
said that Father Browns transfer was in
the nature OF promotion, and that
Father Killeen was likely to be left with
out curate for his large parish, unless
his health broke down. 1t was also as
serted that Father Killeen was
to be brought to trial on charges
preferred by B!shopWigger as soon as the
case of Father Corrigan was disposed of.
These stories are denounced by the vener
able rector of st, Mary's as miserable
lies" Father Killeen says he is sorry
Father Brown has been transferred, and
he emphatically denies that Bishop Wig
ger Is to bring any charges against him or
successor, the Rev. Father Nolan, chap
lain of the Catholic convent at Madison.
entered upon his duties at the rectory
L0daV
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-14
PRAISE FOR EDWARDS.
Resolutions of the Board Of Alder
men in Relation to the South
Cove Victory.

President Allen and Aldermen Kelly,
Day, Connolly, Farley, McCooberry, La
hey, Keogh, Salinger and Dusenberry were
present at meeting of the Common
Council last night.
The most notable feature of the pro-
ceedtngs was a resolution, offered by AL
derman Day, congratulating the people
on the decision of the Court of Errors and
Appeals, that the South Cove property,
so long subject for controversy, belongs
to Jersey City, and favoring a speedy im-
provement OF the property to secure the
best accommodation in docks, wharves
and water basin.
The resolution commended Corporation
Counsel William D. Edwards for the
zeal and fidelity with which he has per-
sistently guarded the interests of the
people and secured to them property of
great worth. The resolution expressed
the thanks Of the Board to the Corpora
tion Counsel, the Street and Water
Board and the Finance Board for their
work in securing the city's interest In
this matter.
On the motion Of Alderman Salinger.
the Board of Trade was included in the
vote of thanks, and the resolution was
unanimously passed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-14
STODDARq'S DUAL LIFE.
His Wife and a Detective
Find Him and a Young
Woman Together.

Mrs. Helena Stoddart of Orange has
suspected her husband, Thomas Stod-
DART OF unfaithfulness for some months.
he is halter and has good position
with Newark firm. For months he has
been in the habit of staying away from
home or getting to his family very late at
night. He explained that business was
very pressing and often took MIN to New
York at night. He is fine looking man
OF forty years and dresses well. The
couple have two children.
mrs. Stoddart employed Detective AL
len OF private agency in New York to
Watcn her husband. He reported that he
nad round Stoddart living at No. 10S
Sussex street, Jersey City, with young
woman.
Stoddart engaged rooms at No. 108
sussex street two months ago for himself
ana wife. and gave the name of Mr.. and
Mrs. hahp. They immediately moved in
ara have lived there since. They said
GneY came from New York. Last night, Mrs.
Stoddart and Detective Allen called at
No. no, ao8 sussex street. A young woman
game game TO the door and when Mrs.
banc he came to the door in
his shirt sleeves and vestless. After
reproaching him. Mrs. Stoddart went to
Justice Martinez and got warrant for
Stoddart and his housekeeper. Detec-
tiVes Mcbride and McNally arrested
them, and they were held for further
examination.
The young woman said she was Lydia
Benson of New York. She and Stoddart
had very little TO say except that they
We're not guilty. They are in cells at
Police Headquarters.