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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-25
THE CITY OF A HUNDRED ISLES
Venice. Her Magnificent Architecture and Wealth
of Historical lie gends.
m " u TnwNsrNn4

BY an express on July - We 20 from
Florence TO the City g; a Hsa5rei
Isles Jos miles ever a eouutry
charming ard varied a. can - imagined
passing through a. tunnels and over a.
many yawnlus chasn-. Here history.
romance. poetry. music ard ar, are 50
blended Is 10 render the city immortal
The city j. Without cah~. carrase> -
horses. % on arrival We were shosu
gcn3o!as. and asked 10 take ~ats -tour
to each boat All passengers - IN,
tram were thus conveyed 10 hotels ON
reaching the doors the ~sondoLer, stepped
on and. tied their boats to 4 post The
building. rise abruptly from the water
without an inch OF space between The
streets arc all al water. save ! Jew mar
row walks. All traffic Is b~roasht n hy
boat. The goudoHer stands Wh}iv h
rows, and. strange to ~y Oh one SIDE
all the tune. and viii 20 - straight us
m arrow 10 where he desires. The Grand
Canal i the Broadway and Eth Avenue
OF Venice. Here are located the palaces
and principal buildings. \ ride on tins
thoroughtaTe some pleasant evening NIll
furnish sweet memories that Mi ahid,
through lie. TIE .~Campagul dc.
PlttoTc' Italian singcrs} give music
vocal and instrumental-from thrl,
beats which floats on the water With a
charm unknown elsewhere. All Itahau.
seem born sIngers-mcn. women an
children. No other people appear to en-
joy music a. they.
Venice was once a tower of Ftrcngth-
the conquering queen OF ConStantuople
Genoa and Pisa, the sovereign 81 Cypru
and Gambia. whose fame was III all tn,
world. Here Calico III 1908 invented III
telescope. Here Loyola in 1886 organize
the order OF Jesus This was the britt
place or home Of many artists. Canoy.
among them. OF HIM Byron says
"Europc-thc world has hut on
Canova.'
In his city in 14f9 tho first cook wa
printed in Italy-'Familar Eplstlcs
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-25

ed during the panic of 1887. when there
was universal suspension OF specie paw
ihents. It was Democracy starknakcd
then, and had the party never departed
from that preachment and all it implies.
it would have been saddled with an n
finiteiy lighter load Of the tribulations Of
defeat than it has lugged around for forty
years, with the exception of eight years
when the Democratic leader was a sound
money pratf0rm in the flesh.
Tilden stuulcd law in New York CITY.
Benjamin f. Butler, Jack~on's Attorney
General, was one of his tutors. He came
to the bar, but he never lost interest i'm
politics. As early as 1874 Manifest Des-
tiny obtruded in our affairs. Texas was
knocking at the door of the Union for
admission, and would rot be denied. Mr..
Van Euren was opposed to it, and that
fact destroyed him. The paIty had long
considered him the logical candidate, and
he had a majority OF the delegates, but
james K. Polk was nOminted. But Poll
could not be elected without the support
OF Van Buren,, and that aid was given
New York WIS the pivotal State, and il
vote decisive of the result. SiiaS Wrigh
was induced to III for Governor. II on,
would be acquainted with Il conspicuou
example OF the pathos and the cruelty o
politics, let him read that lofty and mag
nanimous letter OF Gov. Wright ~recitins
his aversion to accepting the office. NeVc
did soldier so TO battle with a sublime
sense Of duty than did Silas Wright cnte
upon his anvass for Governor in 1914. H
was elected, and he pulled the nationa
ticket through by one half his own plu
rality. Had David +. Hill only lone tina
fCrty-four years later!
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-25

sam mountains and wadcd the lmpid We
tiers of a ncighboring creek, among the
laurcls and ivy, and had a glorious morn
ing. never to be forgotten. Although [
cannot boast of buckets full of trout, yet
the few caught, seemed to me, tired and
hungry from the jaunt, such ambrosia as
delighted the gods or a Mount Olympus
My conclusion is that the speckled
trout. caught with a fly, not in a seine,
brought from the kitchen smoking hot
by a red-cheeked mountain Hebe, Is the
prize winner for the palate of a man. But
if the taste of a ten year old boy IS III
question, l vote for the crisp minnows.
KEMP =. BATTLE.
Chapel Hill, n. c., Aug. %, 1903.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-25

There Is no dispute that the votes were
for sale. Mr.. Hayes got the votes. The
banditti who held the votes to ransom
were rewarded. There was a Governor OF
louisiana. He was a governor by injunc-
tion-the order of a drunken and dis
reputable judge. That governor and his
returning board by fraud and perjury and
forgery secured the vote of Louisiana Tor
Mr.. Hayes. First they disfranchised
thousands Of legal voters. To do that
fraud was substituted for a majority.
There had to be some sort of xcu
Mistress Eliza Pinkston swore to the ex-
cuse. Then there had to be some legal
forms. They were absent, and others were
forged.
They sent the fraudulent vote to Wash
ington. The certificate was fatally de
f~ective. There was not time to get an
other; but there was plenty of time to
forge another, and they forged it. Indeed,
the election was stolen in twenty differ
cnt sorts of ways.
They created an extra constitutional
election commission. Tilden called the
Democratic assents to that "a panic OF
pacifcators." The commission pretended
to hear the case, and then they adjudl-
Gated, by a vote OF S to Z, that they were
| cnly the fence" to hold the plumber the
burglars had stolen. The greatest nation
in the world looked on in Amusement and
shame. 1t was the crowning political IN
fanny OF our history.
Hal Tilden controlled, he would have
confounded and defeated the conspirators.
He would have simply put the Constitu-
tion to them. The Constitution says Con
gress shall count the vote. Congress would
never have counted the nineteen stolen
votes for Hayes. even when it was IRE.
vocablv determined to have the commits
F.! sion, the Democratic cause would have
been saved if Tilden,s advice had been
followed to impose on the commission the
duty Of thorough investigation.
Having robbed him, they proceeded tc
SANDER him. When we do a man wrong
it helps our poor little consciences to
show that he was a bad man anyhow
SO they said Tilden tried to buy what
was already his. They sent Tom Reed tc
question him about it. When Tom got
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-25
PUTS AN END TO IT ALL.

a g~rieyous wall oftimes come. as Il &C
suit If unbearable pain from over taxed
organs. Dizziness. Backachc, Liver com
plant and Constipation But thank, TO
Or. Kings New Life Pills they put an
end to it all. Thee are gentle but thor
ough. Try them. only &c. Guaranteed
by all druggists.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-25
WHAT WINSTON-SALEM MEN THINK
ABOUT FISHING AND WHERE
THEY FISH.

To the Editor: T'crc Is no finer sport
than fishing to q few citizens of Winston
Salem. These are Hons. Clement Manley,
w. T.. Brown, Thomas Huske, j. L. Gil
mer, T. L. Vaughn, Il. D. Vaughn anl
Watt Martin. The last-named claims that
mountain trout is the finest fish to ne
found in North Carolina. Next to these
comes the bass. Mr.. Martin stated that
saw dust Is DISCRIMINATING many OF thc
trout in the mountain streams. 1t is
thrown in by the saw mill men. The
streams in which mountain trout abound
in Grayson county, Virginia, extending IN
ALLEGHENY. .Ashe and Watauga count ,es 10
the Souin Carolina line. The local fisher
men say that the streams IN the Sapphire
country furnish fine sport. The s1es-rs.
Vaughs and Gilmers do most of their fish
ing in southwest Virginia. They are az
ranging for a trip to that section IN a
lew days. 1t is claimed by the lovers OF
the sport that Watt Martin and Tom
Huske ..an relate bigger fish yarns and are
better roSJcd on the names of the VARIOUS
fnny tribes than any men to be found IN
the Piedmont section. 1t Is interesting 70
hear them tell of their experiences with
hook and line on the creeks and river
banks.
Winston Salem, n. c., Aug. %, 1893.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-25

me 1IIdcns came from Kent, and the
-'.a.-E is as Saxon as Cedric and can be
Traced Tor many centuries. In 1884 Ma
'"'l IHden came to America and set
JOB massachusetts,, and from him the
-....e statesman descended. Samuel j.
'"|'n "as born February 9, 1914, the son
F41m Tllden and Polly Younglove
'.. The child became an invalid at
..'r years Of age and continued an in
E"..' au'I his death, some three-score and
YEARS later. 1t is one of the Whimsi-
JOS OF human life that this sanest OF
.a The contemplation Of great affairs
human economy was as
'".d touching medical remedies, and
ready a., all times to swallow any
."'A recommended for the cure OF his
Ill" was at Yale in the class of viii
,'-' M. EFarts and Chief Justice Waite
.' health forced him to leave the In
W. 'i oven before the close of his first
"<''" year. He wrote regularly to his
"'' and one Is astonishcd at the wis
ms suggestions. Here Is a pas
A permanent currency of ire
'''-" paper is a more intolerabl'
.a'h war, p~cstilence, or famine, anc
.' which, | hope and trust, the PEG
''- Nil not long submit" That we penn
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-25

poverlsh slavery would die. He hoped
that the more populous North. REINFORCED
by the immigration from Europe. would
surely make every new State free. But
1t was not to be. He opposed the Re
publican party because 1t was sectional,
and warned the people that any ticket
elected by Northern votes alone would
bring war. But when the war came he
was tor the Union and did a great deal to
make the cause OF the Union triumphant.
Had Mr.. Lincoln made him Secretary Of
the Treasury the war would have cost
about one half what it did and would have
been brought 10 a successful issue much
sooner.
Tho war over, Tilden contcndtd that the
seeded States had al the rights under
the Constitution the loyal States had. lie
opposed reconstruction. aud recognized
the Democratic party. L, WAS claimed
that he defeated he nomination 1T Chase
by the Democrats ia 1858. bat that h. II
ways denied. There u no doubt that Mrs.
Sprtguc believed he forced the nomIna-
tion on Seymour, and there IS history for
it that it was Mrs. Sprague who influ-
enced Senator Conkling III the winter q
1S76-1S77 to the extent that he refrained
from delivering a speech in the Senate
against the counting Of the vote Of Lou
isiana for Hayes.
TIlden'S fame as a statesman of The
practical order is founded on his prose
cution Of the Tweed ring IN New YoTl
City and the canal ring in New Yorl
State. No other American statesman hat
ever wrought anything like such work il
the field of reform. As a practical re
former, he stands unapproachablc. Anc
there never was one word said agalns
The mans fame until he was a candidat.
for President of the United States. II
was the chief figure against Tweed an
against the canal ring. There were 9th
Crs: but there was none to deny him frs
place. His mesa ges as Governor of Ncl
York arc the equals of any State paper
ever penned by an American.
IN 1876 the Democratic party nominate
this man for President and elected hin
! There were $40 votes in the college, an
POS Of them were ri%ghtIully Tilden's. BIT
!. nineteen votes were for sale. The thre
States Of Florida, Louisiana, and Sout
Carolina held their votes to ransom. Or
of these votes. a single one, was all I'll
c den required to make 1S5, or a majorit,
n Mr.. Hayes required the whole nineteel
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-25

Buren,. Marcy was chosen Secretary OF
War and controlled the New York patron
age. 1t split the party-Marcy headed
the "Hunkers' and Wright the Barn
burners" History repeated itself IN 1880
-Conkling elected the Republican ticket,
and was treated as Wright had been, and
the party was split into 'StalWarts and
Half breeds The results were disas-
trous to the Democrats III 1914 and to the
Republicans in 1880. Tilden was d Barn
burner. and in 1S4S he supported Van
Buren,, who ran for President on the Free
Soil ticket. Thurlow Weed has an eX-
cellent chapter on that campaign, ana
one that will we'll repay the reading.
Had Clay been the Wing candidate III
1S4S nothing would have induced Van
Buren, to run. Some ex-Whig would have
been the Free Soil candidate, and New
York would nave gone for Cass as she
went for Polk. That Is why Weed stroVe
50 earnestly for the nomination OF Tay-
Tor.
Tilden now abandoned politics and de
| voted himself to his legal practice. He
was the equal of any lawyer IN the coun-
trv. His management OF the contested
election case of Giles against FlaSg
slammed him as one of the very first prac-
| titioners of that or any other day. Soon
his matchless skill in the conduct OF the
famous Burdell- Cunningham case put hlm
at the very head of the profession. AS a
| miner be had no peer. HIS prac-
tice grew until it absorbed his whole time,
and it is said that at one time or other
one-half of the railroad corporations OF
the country were his clients. He made
the largest fortune at the bar that any one
;ndiy;duaI ever accumulated. But Til
den was even a greater f1nancier than ne
was a LAWYER. OF all the men our coun-
trv has produced Samuel J. Tilden would
have been the ablest Secretary OF inc
Treasury.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-25

Tilden was opposed to the extension Oh
sla very. and had his ideas prevailed siaV-
erv would have died a natural death. he
saw that slavery could not exist without
more slave states. That was why he op-
nosod the annexation of Texas. But his
nlan was to vote slavery to death. he
arqued that slave labor would soon IN
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-25
ri nEN, PROFOUNDEST POLITICAL
THINKER OF HIS GENERATION
ward SAYS He Was the Ablest Practical States
man of His Time, and the Wisest Ameri-
can Since jefferson.

tne p~rotoundest political think
.r. able-t practical statesman OF
e. ..n He was the Wisest Ameri-
Jefferson. His writings and
.- ,.,rr valuable to the student
raft than Webster's. He was a
IT,. administrator, and had he
arms for It profession, and had op-
filtered. he would have been Il
.r.tnler. He was a genius, ana
.a.- yjriIc order of genius that
..,,a aklug pains, and alter vast
". ...,..-.- labor. He was a sagaciouS
.rl. II ~matchless party leader.
I. -...t i'm organization and lac the
-b.u cau wait. He was Il man
i .-Ir-not a noisy and active and
... offensive ~demagoguc, nor yet
~..r ri magnetism; men did not adore
. they did clay and Blaine, nor ad-
..,r .- fhcy did Douglas and Brock
he never split the ears of the
...r.-r- but he believed in the PEG
~. ami PUT his trust in them. He was an
t....l. Judge of human nature, knew
...u crown to heel NJ could exactly
I'll ,att every one who came under his
... y-.- lit Tor. He never made a mis-
Talk. in dealing with individuals. Samue
~.IE.u was a Democrat.
I'm his case nature seems to have played
a.. lr her tricks. His was a frail an,
..EN. body, and he never knew a wei
d4y from the time he was a child of three
,s,r- And this was the tenement of
r.n-~f and commanding mind. Bonapart,
f.f the genius to concentrate his veteran
.+ tine point Of attack. That is the secrc
If TiI!eu'~ success as Il thlnkcr-h
hrur1lt all the energies and all the &c
source, of his mind to the subject undo
consideration. That is why his writing
and -uecchcs are 50 valuable. No youni
man who hopes to serve the State ca
afford 10 neglect his published works
whether he agree with their preachment
or not. Tie had no vocabulary. II
rruucd about for words. Language di
not pour from him as it does from Co
Bryan. or as it did from Senator ingalls,
but you can readily understand him, f
he never spoke unless he had somethin
To say. and he never said anything, nc
wrote anything. that his hearers or reat
crs did not remember, reflect upon, III
profit by.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-25

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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-25

No sooner was Polk in office than he
turned 20 the faction opposed to Van
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-08-25

Mr.. TIldcn never had any bOyhOOd. He
Was a statesman ere he was twenty, and
q sage ere he was thirty. His father was
the friend and follower of Martin Van
Buren, and a familiar of the famous Al
bany Regency. and thus the boy Tilden
was born into Il political world. William
Cullen Bryant was surprised at the defer
cncc the elder Tilden paid to the advices
OF the boy in r~Oundabouts, but came to
acknowledge the profOunditics of his sug-
gcstIOnS. When he was Il youth he wrote
a paper that was at once a campaign
tract. and so able was it that Thurlow
Weed laid It's authorship at the door Of
Martin Van Buren,. He never dreamed
that it was the production of a young
man OF eighteen, but from the day that
paper was first printed that boy was a
trusted adviser of that most sagacious
leader of a great party and future Presi-
dent Of the United States. \ very great
curiosity III literature is the chapter on
Experience in Vivian Grey" One won
ders how so young a man as DisIaeli then
was could nave written such philosophy.
Il was nearly d miracle that d young man
without experience could so brilliantly
define that which ordinary men can only
learn by years of observation. and-thcre
Is 10 other word for it-eXperienCe. When
one reads the earlier political papers of
Samuel J. Tildcn the same sort of Won
der comes to him, and we ask where did
this boy get his wisdom?
T.Iden began the study of the works of
jefferson almost as soon as he learned to
read, and at his fathers house he met
and conferred will such leaders as Mar
TIM VAN Ruren, Silas Wright, William l..
Marcy, Edwin Croswell, and Comptroller
fIyEE. The very atmosphere was rcdOlent
OF politics, Democracy, and jefferson. All
these leaders consulted the boy and
weighed his suggestions. He studied the
works Of Adam Smith, and that profound
thinker doubtless gave cast to his knoWl
edge OF political economy. 1t is curious to
contemplate The tricks the tariff has play
ed many Of our leaders. Van Buren,,
Wright. and Tildcn were all victims Of it.
They were originally protcctionists, and
wright voted for the tariff of abomina-
".'~, but all of them Outgrew protection
ana LeIpo to shape the tariff policy OF
inc Democratic party on honest and con
S.|ajI"noI hines. When tWenty-four years
"i Young Tllden met in debate Nathanie
T. IaImadge and completely discomfitcC
Alm. TaImadgc was a leading Senator il
congress and a very formidable debater
QUIZ here he was completely overthrow
oF q young man the general public haC
never heard Of before.
Arizona republican., 1903-12-27

skln-bound horse. He is as awkward and ungainly as a crocodile would be in a ball room. Take him away from his chosen profession and he is all at sea. He is a frightful object lesson against the use Of heavy dumb-bells, CT heavy weights of any kind.
 The man or Doy who wants to be- come quick. strong and clever must avoid the use of heavy weights as carefully as though they were poison GUS snakes. They completely destroy all that suppleness and agility whi"N maks every detail of the clever ath- letes work.
 A man who is a runner. jumper heavyweight lifter-can have no use for knotty, unwieldy masses of strength.
 Even our best wrestlers nowadays recognize the fact that muscles Of that kind are Of no use to them. They know that there are right and wrong muscles just as well as they know there is a right and wrong way to wrestle. They know that such mus cles bring them premature old age and early death.
 Thus it is that every ambitious young athelete should strive to train his muscles in the proper way Light dumb-bells, Indian clubs, and other muscle-building weights should never be forsaken.
 Do not use heavy weights.
 Do not exercise too much.
Arizona republican., 1903-12-27

was pitiful to me. Walking ever to one side of the room I took a set of boxing gloves from the wall and hand put them on.
 It took me about two minutes to show that man how useless. unwieldly and impracticable his muscles were. He handled himself like a cart horse. He was as slow on his feet as a mes senger boy. His brain acted as did his muscles, slowing and stihy Although a big man weighing perhaps two hun dred pounds, he did not make as good a showing with me as many amateur lightweights with whom I had put on the gloves.
 l think I showed him clearly the use lessness of his heavy weight-liftinC muscles. They were good for one thing-the service for which they had been trained.
 Like every athlete in his profession he was muscle bound. Those huge masses of muscle, gained at the ex- pense of many hours of hard work, were for all practical purposes of no more use than a hand organ would be to a shipwrecked sailor on a raft in the middle of the Atlantic ocean.
 In fact, such muscles serve to help shorten ones life. The muscle-bound man, with every fiber of his body drawn to a tension that pulls al the very heartstrings, most frequently dies with what is known as an athletic heart"
 A muscle bound man is worse than a
Arizona republican., 1903-12-27
MEETING THE PRESIDENT.
A Word, a Handshake, Paragraph in Your Home Newspaper and it'a
 All Over

All Over.
 Every day the despatches announce that "the Hon. MT. Prominent Kansan of Kansas was escorted to the White House by Senator Blank or Congress- man Soandso and met the President, .,'
 This item means to most of the Kansas readers that the Hon. Mr. kansan was admitted to the presi- dents office under the guidance of one of our statesmen and that there he was given a cigar, good seat, and, together with the president and the senator or congressman. discussed the weather, the Panama canal the price of hogs. and probably the political sit nation in Kansas.
 But it isn't that way. The facts are that the prominent citizen of Kansas. accompanied by his senator or congressman. fell into line in the ante room of the presidents office. about TO o'clock in company with a hun dred or more distinguished citizens from other states, accompanied by their senator or congressman. and stood first on one foot and then on the other until about Il o'clock Then 2 side door opened and MT. Roosevelt came in looking like man who had d job ahead he was in a hurry to finish. Beginning at one end of the line the president rapidly worked his way to- ward MT. Prominent Kansan. who was turning in his mind just what he would say to the president, and what sug- gestion he would make as to the con duct of the government. When the
Arizona republican., 1903-12-27

"Oh yes" sighed the 1905 calendar, my days are numbered.". Phil3del- phia Bulletin.