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The times., 1897-08-29
BUTTER, EGGS ANDFREE TRADE

MI Gladstone has been expressing his
views on the advantages OF small culture IN
d speech at the meeting OF the Hawafden
Horticultural Soci ETY., where Mrs. Gladstone
distributed the prizes After praising
HawaTden and its butter he said:
mo doubt it seems almost riduculous if
we were to recommend the pursuit of the
culture of fruits and flowers and butter and
eggs and poultry to the farmers OF this
country as a cure for all their distresses
At the same time it is a matter to me OF
eztTcme satisfaction to know that in my
own particular cases these recommendations
have been useful TO farmers. For my parJ,
IN very strong free trader and look
back with satisfaction and delight upon these
changes in the laws of thi 5 country which
have made the products o the whole world
open To the population of thi S country with.
out let OF hindrance or charge of any kind
The effect OF that is delightful to wit
ness, and, although there may be still
much to desire and there always will be
much 10 desire-in the lot of our fellow
lahoring men, when l compare this state
of things which now prevails with that
which prevailed in my youth; when l
coTLpare that which you may hear from
your grandfathers with what you are able
to tell for yourselves with regard to food,
clothing, lodgings, the comfort and enjoy
ments OF life open to the people at large,
the change which 1t has been my happy
fortune to witness is an immense change
''But, at the same time ladies and gentle
men. though l wish that the products of
the whole world should find their way
to the tables of the laboring people of this
country without let or hindrance and
though / hope that no delusions and no
qaackery VIII ever induce the legislature
of this country TO go back upon the happy
experience that it has witnessed, yet
If any of those products can be better
raised at home, l delight in it. If they
can lie raised better and cheaper here, I say
Irejoice it. When find that zoo 000,-
coo eggs are laid all over Europe, to lie i'm
ported into England, cannot help think
ing that il would be very good thing
| If five or six hundred millions of these
| eggs were laid at home, because you ma V
| depend Cn this, that the nearer an egg is
| laid to the place where it is consumed tfis;
| better it will be.
~ do not believe that the egg -produc-
| ing faculty in this country is half ex-
hausted, or, in point of fact is exer-
| cised in the degree to which it ought to
/ be exercised, and, therefore, while l re-
| joice unat the foreigner is allowed 10 sup
| ply the Englishman with cheap food rather
! than that the Englishnan should not get
| it, yet / say the more the Englishman can
| grow that cheap food at home. the bet
| terror himself and the country" New York
| Sup
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future perform her duty, only by the ere
alton of that sea power upon which pre-
dominance in the Caribbean must ever
depend. In short, as the intern al jealousies
of Europe, and the purely democratic III
stitution of the levee en- masse The gen
eral enforCemento of military training g-haVe
prepared the way for greaunational arn,ies
Whose mission seems yet obscure, so the
gradual hroe dening and Tightening hold
upon the sentiment OF American democracy
of that conviction loosely characterized as
the Monroe doctrine finds its logical, in
evitable outcome in a great sea power, the
correlatiye, il connection with that or
Great Britain, of those armies which CON
tinue to flourish under the most popular
institutions, despite the walls OF economists
and the lamentations OF those who wish
peace without payiag the one price which
alone she has insured peace readiness
for war.
Nothing is more ominous for the future
of our race than that tendency, vociferous
at present. which refuses to recognize in
the profession OF arms, in war, that
something which inspired Words worth S
Happy Warrior" which soothed the
dying hours OF Henry Lawrence, who
Ifdiueu bDe luedlS oil Ills career Ou ttic
poets conception, and SO nobly illus trated
it in his self-s acrifice; that something
which has made the soldier to all ages
tie type of heroism and of self-denial.
When the religion of Christ, OF lin who
was led as a lamb to the slaughter.
seeks to raise before its followers the
image If self-cOntrol and of resistance
to evil, it Is tie soldier whom it pres ents.
He Himself, if by office King of Peace,
is first of all, in the essence of uis Being,
King OF Righteousness, without which
true peace cannot be.
Couflict is the condition of all life,
material and spiritual; and it is to the
soldiers experience that the spiritual
life goes for its most vivid metaphors
and its Ioftiest inspirations. Whatever
else the twentieth century may bring
us. it VIII not, from anything now cur
rent in Tie thought OF the nineteenth
receive ii nobler ideal. Captain a. L.
Mahan in Harper's Magazine
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\ nuped PI,rennIfcist.

The jokes that practical iokerS play upon
wise men are sometimes aS funny as they
are elaborate. a case in point is said to
have occurred some years ago in England,
when a humor-loving individual who re-
1oiced in the possession of fine vegetable
garden found therein one evening q large
tGrnip. 1t so happened that this par
ticJlaT turnip was marvelouSIy Ike "a
its shape to q mans head and bore verT
decided resemblance, too. TO the features
f a man. Tie joker, perceiving fine
chance to make a point, and struck by the
curious resemblance Of the turnip. had
cast made Of it and sent the cast TO q
phrenologist, requesting him to examine
its bumps and make a report.
After sitting in Judgment upon the cast
for some time, the phrenologist, so the
story goes, reported that while he collJ
not Judge accurately from the cast, it was
his opinion that it was the head OF per-
son OF acute mird and deep resear h; ;
that he had the organ of quick perception
and also OF perseverance well developed,
and that there were signs that he was
also a person of extreme credulity. This
opinion was sent by mail, ana the pafe-
nologist expressed, in closing, the hope that
at some time he might have the priyil egG
OF examining the head itself.
The reply was sent that the owner would
gladly comply with this request, but that
unfortunately he could not do 50. since I he
original had been eaten by himself and
his family several weeks before with t,ieir
mutton dinner.
What the phrenoIogist thought Of tina
reply is not stated.-Harper's Round Table
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out by hand, and in 1896 there were
enough to plant half an acre, less thirteen
square feet, as measured by q cotton ex-
pert FROM Baltimore. The land composing
Jackson's little farm is not at all ada pied
to cotton culture, and the farm had been
conducted as grsin- growing and dair ying
establishment for years. But from that
haif acre j Jackson picked aiittie over : 900
poundsof seed cotton. IT was not carefully
ginned but 1t yielded 500 pounds Of the
finest Int cotton ever grown in Georgia,
giving forty instead OF the usual thirty
three and one half pounds of lint to he 100
of seed.
Experts say that it rivaled the finest of
Egyptian cotton and was superior in man J
respects to the far famed Sea Is a Id pIo II c.
The Clark Spool Cotton Company sent an
agent here and offered 10 gin the cotton on
the special machinery operated by the com
pany, 50 as TO give the fiber thorough
test. but Farmer Jackson declined the offer
and saved the seed carefully, selling a few
at the enormous price OF 8 cents apiece i.I
packages Of 90 to some enthusiastic plant
ers who wished To give th seed "a trial. He
sold the lint for l 8 cents a pound when
other cotton was selling a5 5 and l. 2 cents
a pound. This year he planted six acres,
and he has today the most magnificent field
Of cotton ever seen In Georgia. New York
Sun.
The times., 1897-08-29
THE COLONEL'S DRUNK.

The mai jor sat on the hotel yeranda,
q cigar in his mouth and his feet on the
railing, when Col Nash came across the
square. The major saw that the colonel
was tangled in the legs" and that he
was headed for the veranda, but he was
not the man to give anything away.
An! lna1ah-zhat YOU" exclaimed the
colonel, as he pulled himself up the steps
and came TO halt.
'.Kurnel Nash, good mawnin' to you
good ma wnin - heartily replied the
major, as he arose and extended his hand.
'.N-nice day, Majah Davis?"
Powerful nice da Y, KumelNash. Won't
you sit down, sah?''
"C-cant stop, ina tah got 'er go down
'er bank. Good day, sab"
He vent OFF down the steps, walked half
block up the street, and returned to say:
"Ah! Majah Davis-Zhat you?'
why, Kurnel Nash, good ma wnin' good
mawnin' TO you" replied the ma jor, as he
got his legs under him again.
"Hev I-hey l sheen you befo' this
mawnin'?"
mo, sah. Won't you take sunthin' with
me, kurnel?''
"shanks, but 'er gotter 60 down Ter
bdnh. SHecn you up Sefe anu Jusb came
over, you know. Good mawnin', Ma Jah
Davis.''s
Good mawnin', Kurnel Nash"
The colonel fumbled his way down the
steps and zig "a gged across the street, and
alter bugging a hitching post for a mo-
ment he returned over the route to say:
:" Scuse lie, sab, but hev you sheen Ma.
jan Davis round yere zhis ma wnin'?''
~ am Majah Davis sab. Kurnel Nash.
glad to see you-powerrul glad. Been out
of town, sah?''
Not 'zactly, majah-not 'zactly. Ma jah,
how long have you been round yere?'
"A bout an hour. sah,''
"And hev 1 been round yere befo'?"
mo, sab. Powerful good cotton wea-
ther, kuEnei?"
Yes. Glad 'er shee you. majah, but
l gotter 20 down 'er bank. You'll 'scuse
me, won't your"
'Oh, certainly. Hoped you would take
, nip with me, but business be fore pleas
ule. See you later, kurnel-see you later.
The colonel made off dowE the street
this time, but after going a hundred feet
he halted, puzzled for moment, aud then
returned TO the man on theveranda to say:
'Scuse me, sab, but I'm lookin' f'r
Majah Davis
Il am MaJah Davis replied the sitter,
as he rose and bowed, land l take it
that you are Kurnel Nash?"
''Zhe same, sab. Majah Davis, hev
sheen you befo' zhis ma wnin'?"
Not this mawnin', Kurnel'r
And would you shay, shir-would you
shay / was zhrunk?"
mo sab, | wouldn't
Honest Injun?p
| Honest Injun, sab. Do you feel that
You are inehriated?''
Cant zhactly shay, Majah Davis but
sunthings wrong. I'm either zhrunk or
a fool or else you are a liar and gentle
man, anG l gotter go down 'er bank ant
| find out,''
The times., 1897-08-29
HE WAS AN HONORABLE.

A farmer whom l met on the highway
three or four miles from Paola inquired if
/ knew whether the Hon. Jim Hensaw was
in town l replied that didn't, and asked
him in turn il Mr.. Henshaw was the mem
Der OF Congress from that dis trict.
mo, sab Jim hain't no member OF
Congress- he replied.
Member of the legislature, perhaps?'
mo, saL, Jim never went TO the legis-
lature."
''Is he Judge or an alderman" per-
sisted.
NO, sab, lie hain't." was the steady
reply. Hes Just the Hon. Jim Henshaw
and nobody else"
'nut the term is generally applied TO men
of prominent political position. How Co
you make Mr. Henshaw an honorable?''
wan, sab, it wasn't two vars ago
that he shot mad dog which had bitten
four bosses, Yes, sab shot that dog us
dead as d nail"
But that would hardly give him the
title
Hold on, sah," he continued, with a
wave OF bis hand. Jim Henshaw was
the first man TO diskiyer coal in this
county,"
W ell!
And he caught three men setting fire to
the schoolhouse at Growers Corners and
shot one of them in the tack. -
Il see"
And ne contributed S1oO TO git the race
track at Paola, and he's got the fastest
| trottin' horse In this State.''
Go on, said"
| And, sab, Jim Henshaw bet $500 on the
Presidential lection and Won it as straight
a string"
lis that all?"
lis that air. he echoed as he began to
| get red N the face. mo, sab. that
hain't all. Jim Henshaw kin cure poll.
| coil oa hoss; set broken leg on dog;
| takeoff warts from human tein' in seven
days, and If thar's an nybody yere who says
he hain't an Honorable that pusson better
| git down off his boss and git some sense
| thuuped into his head!''
| After d little reflection l agreed with
| the farmer that Mr.. Henshaw was fully
/ entitled to the appellati0n, and he grew
| good-natured and offered me almost half a
| plug of tobacco at parting.
The times., 1897-08-29
The Greater America.


The same tendency is shown in the
undeniable disposition Of the British peO-
PIE and of British statesmen to cultivate
the good viii of the United States, and 10
draw closer the relations between the two
countries For the disposition underly-
ing such a tendency MI Balfour has used
an expression, race patriotism" phrase
which finds its first approXinla ton, doubt
less, in the English-speaking family. tut
which may well extend its embrace, in a
time Yet distant, 10 all those who have
drawn their present civilization from the
same remote sources. The phrase is 80
pregnaut of solution for the problems Of
the future, as conceived by the writer,
that he hopes TO see 1t obtain the cur
rency due TO the value OF the idea which
IL fortuulates That this disposition on
the part of Great Britain, toward her
colonies and toward the United States,
shows sound policy as well as sentiment
may be readily granted; but why should
sound policy, the seeking of ones own
advantage, If by open and honest means,
he imputed as a crime? In demoCracies,
however, policy cannot long dispute the
scPptcr with sentiment.
That there is lukewarIn response in the
United States is due TO that narrow con-
ception which grew up with the middle
of the century, whose analogue in Great
Britain is the Little England party, and
which in oul own country would turn all
eyes inward, and See no duty save to our
selves. How shall two walk together ex-
cept they be agreed? How shall there be
true sympathy between nation whose
md
one that eats out its heart in merely III.
ternal political strife? When we begin
really to look abroad, and TO bus ourselves
with our duties TO the world at large in
our generation and not before-we shall
stretch out our hands 10 Great Britain.
realizing that in unity of heart among the
English-sFealdng races lies the best hope
of humanity in the doubtful da VS. ahead.
The times., 1897-08-29
Asia and the Future of Christian
Civilization.

In the ebb and flow of human affairs,
under those mysterious impulses. the origin
OF which is sought by some in personal
Providence, by some in laws not vet fully
understood, we stand at the opening Of a
period when the perplexing question is TO
be settled decisively, though the Issue NAV
be long delayed, whether Eastern or West
ern civilization is TO dominate throughout
the earth and to control its future The
great task now before the world OF civilized
Christianity, its great mission, which it
must fulfill or perish, is to receive into its
own bosom and raise to its own ideals
those ancient and different civilizations
by which II is surrounded and outnuubered
the civilizations at the head of which
stand China, India and Japan. This, to
cite the most striking of the many forms
In which it is presented to us, is surely
the mission which Great Britain, sword
ever at hand, has been discharging toward
India; but that stands not alone. The
history of the present century has been
that OF constant increasing pressure OF
our own civilization upon these older ones
tn now, as we cast our eyes in any direc-
ton, there is everywhere a STIRRING, rous-
ing from sleep, drowsy for the most part,
but real, unorganized as yet, but conscious
that that which rudely interrupts their
dream of centuries Possesses over them at
least two advantages power and material
prosperity-the things which unspiritual
humanity, the world over, most Graves
What the ultimate result viii be IL
would be vain to prophesy; the data for
q guess even are not at hand; hut it is
not equally impossible TO note pres ent
conditions, and TO suggest present con
Ederations, which may shape proximata
action, and tend to favor the preponder-
snce Of that form Of civilization which
we cannot but deem the most promising
for the future, not OF our race only, but
OF the world at large.
Thepeoplesof European civilization after
o period OF comparative repose, are ad-
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The Future Battle-Ground OF the
Nations

Considering the American States as
members OF the European family, as they
are by traditions, institutions and Ian
guages, it is in the Pacific, where the west
ward course of empire again meets the
East. that their relations to the future Of
the world become most appar ent. The
Atlantic, bGrdered on either shore by the
European family in the strongest and most
advanced types ofits spoliticaldeveIopment,
no longer sewers, but binds together, b.
all the facilities and abundance of water
communications, the once divided chIi-
cren Of the same mother; the inheritors OF
Greece and Rome, and of the Tentonlc
conquerors Of the latter. A limited ex-
press or a flying freight may carry
few passengers or Il small bulk overland
from the Atlantic to the Pacific more rap
idly than modern steamers can cross the
former ocean, but for the vast amounts in
numbers or in quantity which are required
for the fun fruition 0 communication it is
the land that divides and not the sea. On
the Pacific coast, severed from their
brethren by desert and Mountain range,
are efound the outposts, the exposed pioneers
OF European civilization, whom it is one
of the first duties of the European family
TO bind more closely to the main body, and
to protect, by due foresight over the ap-
proaches 10 them on either side.
1t is essential to our own good, IT is
yet more essential as part of our duty to
the commonwealth of peoples to which
we racially belong, that we look with
clear, dispassionate, but resolute eyes
upon the fact that civiliza tions on differ
ent planes of material prosperity and
progress, with different spiritual ideals
and with very different political capaci-
ties, are fast closing together. IL is a
condition not Unprecedented In = history
of the world. When IL befeii a great
united empire, enervated by long years
OF unwarlike habits among its Chief citi-
Zens, it entafled ruin, but ruin prolonged
through centuries, thanks to the pro vi
sion made beforehand by a great general
aud statesman. The Saracenic and Turk
ish iRvasions, on the contrary, after gem
era tions OF advance, were first checked,
and then rolled back; for they fell upon
peoples, disunited ind eed by internal
discords and strife, like the nations of
Europe today, but still nations OF war
riors, ready by training and habit to
strike for their rights, and, If need were,
to die for them. In the providence of
God, along with the immense increase of
prosperity, Of physical and mental Iuxll-
ry, brought by this century, there has
grown up also that counterpoise stigma
| tized as 'militarism," which has convert
ed Europe into a great camp of soldiers
| prepared for war. The ill-timed cry for
disarmament, needless Of the menacng
possibilities of the future, breaks idly
against a great fact, which finds its suffi-
cient justification in present conditions,
but which is, above ALL an unconscious
preparation for- something as yet noted
| but by few
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Instead OF the new buggy, and So, as we
have seen, was caught in the midst OF
a spell of weather.
Law sons moon-faced silver watch, which
had last seen life in the shop OF Port
land pc nbroker, pointed To five min
utes OF 3. Above the racket Of the storm
came family voice, and Barkis jumped
tn the door and went wild with excitement.
'-!t's pa! / vumf' said Aaron, elder
b,cther Of Moses, and he opened the door
1t pa, shouting for help; there was no
doubt about that. The Wind still blew
it was one Of the hurricanes which come
to Northern States once in a lifetime
IMt making their way slowly tow ard the
little hut We're two figures, the color of
mother earth from top to toe.
TIL" squire and his wife had Just reached
the pie-i:9r piowed land opposite the wood
lOtwIen tremendous gust or wind skewed
their team across the road. In trying TO
reg.AG Ills footing the horse slipped over
the barS and the wind, ca tching the buggy
top pitri.s,I the worthy Toothacres into the
niddic of the soft, sticky. rich, meadow
lcelin, excellent for growing vegetables. but
not 70: ornament.
Mrs. .TuothacIe's bonnet was plastered over
Win uiutl 30 was Uer sltWl. 90 wax
the 'squire's best hat; but they were on
time The unwonted activityor the 'squire's
horse hd something to do with it, and
more thaa made up the fifteen minutes
they ha lost through Lawson's setting
the hands CT the clock back Just before be
left.
The squire OWNED these facts. with
the Lelp of Aaron that night He con-
fisc; ted the So which Lawson paid over
to Moses FOR fear OF discovery, and is
went t, buy Mrs. Toothacre a new bonnet,
and to pay for some things which Lawson
nj caused 70 disappear from the farm
Barkis stayed where he was and Moses was
obliged t. return the iaek-knife- Lawson
ceased very soon thereafter 20 be the new
hir rna; or any other kind
Moses" aid the squire, after matters
had leen quite squared up, with the private
aid OF strap, ''let this be lesson to
ys Thrn. as bet, don't alters bet fair.'
well" said Moses, ma alters did get
thar OH ttTe, and thought she would, anu
she d;.i. though not percisely right side
up WIN care "
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vancing all along the line, to occupy not
only the desert places Of the earth, but the
debatabie grounds, the buffer territories,
which hitherto have separated them from
those ancient nations with whom they
now soon must stand face To face and
border TO border. But who viii say that
this vast general movement represents the
Thought, even the unconscious thought,
OF any one man as Caesar. or of any few
men? To whatever cause we may assign
it, whether TO the simple conception of q
personal Divine Monarchy that shapes our
ends or to more complicated ultimate causes.
the responsibility rests upon the shoulders
OF no individual men. Necessity is laid
upon the peoples, and they move, like
the lemmings OF Scandinavia; but to man,
being not without understanding like the
beasts that perish, il is permitted To ask.
"Whithcr?" and what shall be the end
hereof?' Does this tend 10 universal
peace general disarmament and the treaties
of permanent arbitration? Is ii the
harbnger OF ready mutual understanding,
OF quick acceptance of, and delight ln'
opposing traditions and habits of life and
thought? Is such quick acceptance found
now where Easterns and Westerns i'm
pinge? Does contact forbode the speedy
disappearance OF great armies and nasles,
and dictate the wisdom of dispensing Will
that form of organized force which at
presentis embodied in them?
what, tnen, viii be the actCal conditions
when these civilizations of diverse origin
and radically distinct the eVoiu-
tinu Of racial chara cteristics radically
different confront each other without
the intcrposition Of any neutral belt
lJy he Intervention of which the contrasts
being more remote, are less apparent ana
within which distinctions shade one into
the other?
Positions suitably chosen, frontiers suit
ably advanced, Will do mech 10 retard and
bv gaining time TO modify the disaster to
the one party, and to convert the general
Issue to the benefit of the world. Hence
the immense Importance of discerning be
times what the real value of positions Is
and where occupation should betines be
gin. Here, in part at least, Is the sgniii'
canoe of the great outward movement OF
the Earopean nations today. Consciousiy
or Dncunsciousiy they are advancing the
,utposts of our civilization, and accumu'
lating tie line OF defenses which will per-
nit II t,, survive, or at least will insure
that it shall not go down till it has lea
vened The character OF the world for fu
ture brighter even than its past, Just a the
Roman civilization inspired and exalted
its Teutonic cUnquerors and continues Il
bless them to this day.