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but until the bugle notes of the milleniura's dawn are sounded
there will probably be tramps and people who will not work, and
shanties inhabited by shiftless people who are quite happy in misery
and who are apt to resent such assistance as Miss Clary would give.
The lazzaroni are not all confined to Naples. The principles of the
order are almost as deeply bred in the American branch as in tho
original body.
To the question "Does farming pay?" which was put to 1,918
farmers in Kansas by Commissioner Todd of that state, there were
41 answers in the affirmative, and 1,231 in the negative. No answer at
all was received in answer to C2G of the notes. There is pretty good
reason for believing that most of the 1,251 persons who answered
"no" do not know what the word pay as used in this connection
means, or that they are telling deliberate falsehoods. The money on
deposit in the small country banks in Kansas, the payments that
are generally promptly made ou mortgages, the building of new
houses, and the improvement that is constantly going on on the
farms in the cornflower Btate are a fairly good indication that farming
pays. A New Yom contemporary in commenting on Commissioner
Todd's investigation remarks that nine-tenths of the Kansas farmers
aro always disgruntled for some reason or other, and when they de
clare that farming dosen't pay, they merely mean that they do not
all become millionaires while the blizzard blows. This is the truth.
In Nebraska the farmers who have given their attention to the
business of farming have succeeded in making it pay far better than
many of the businesses of the town. Farming has paid so well in
Nebraska that the labor and profit of past years have enabled the
industrious farmer to pass through a twelve month of serious busi
ness and agricultural depression with little, and in many cases, no
inconvenience, while the envied "merchant' has often been at his
wits end to keep his shop open. Tho only reason thut it should
have occurred to anybody to ask if farming pays in the west is that
in some instances farmers settled on land which never can be suc
cessfully cultivated until irrigation is provided, and failing to secure
a good crop every year, they became discouraged, and went into a
new political party founded on drouth and shif tlessness and manipul
ated by tricksters and demagogues. The wail of anguish sent up by
this squawling organization attracted other and more prosperous
farmers who thought to find a new and double quick route to suc
cess and wealth, and these men leaving the furrow for the corner
grocery and the honest work of the farm for the folderol of the
secret order of the Alliance, became less prosperous and finally were
added to the class who claim that farming dosen't pay. Good
honest farming in Nebraska pays a great deal better than populist
politics.
Whether Congressman Breckinridge will be found guilty by the,
jury, or be disciplined by the church to which he belongs, or be ex
cluded from honorable society in Washington, or be subjected to the
cold shoulder by his colleagues in the house of representatives, or be
ruined as a politician, or be thwarted in his ambition for a renomin
ation to congress, or be tabooed by old Kentucky, we 6hall know in
time, says the New Fork Sun. But there is one punishment to
which he has already been condemned, and it is one which, we may
suppose, must be keenly felt even by a hypocrite. His once-honored
- ''Kentucky name is a quip, and his case is a subject of travesty on
the stage of plenty of the cheap music halls in New York. Even in
one of our respectable theatres he figures in an opera bouffe that is
. performed every night; and, as soon as his name is mentioned, the
jeers of the spectators are heard all over the house. Surely,.
Breckenridge! you would feel dazed if you were present at any of
these performances. We should suppose that though the Hon.
William C. P. Breckinridge may be less sensitive than was "The
Man of Feeling' in the old novel, he would realize the humiliation
of his position, under the expressions of popular scorn. The hypo
crite is more contemptible than the brazen-faced reprobate.
Baldness is either hereditary or caused by sickness, mental ex
haustion, wearing tight-fitting hats, and over work and trouble
Hall's Hair Renewer will prevent it
ADVICE TO THE YOUNG.
! ES, ray son. tobacco is a very poisonous weed. It used to grow
yj wild in this country, and the Aborigines learned to smoke it
to drive off the mosquitoes. When Christopher H. Columbus
discovered this country, on his way to India, the savage people in
habiting the island of San Salvador visited by him taught him
many new things, among others the elegant accomplishment of
smoking a corncob pipe. People were ignorant then. They did not
understand the laws governing life and health, and easily fell into
error. . On his return to Spain Colonel Columbus took back with
him many specimens of the products of West India soil and climate.
He plucked a few juicy specimens of the aboriginal inhabitants, to
gether with fruits and flowers, birds and beasts also a small cargo
of natural leaf tobacco. As the poet says:
Vice is a monster of such hideous shape
That he who sees it struggles to escape,
But hurries back to view its ugly form,
Then clasps it to'his bosom safe and warm.
So it didn't take the people of Europe long to embrace the tobacco
habit, after its endorsement by the example of one high in author
ity. Tradition inform us.that Old King Cole was the first merry
old soul to hit the pipe with regularity, and his example had the
effect to give respectability to an otherwise disgusting and filthy
practice. The epidemic of smoking spread with great rapidity. It
infested every strata of society, and the contamination has kept
spreading until now the appetite for the weed is transmitted by
heredity, and the man who does not use tobacco in some disgusting
form is the happy exception. Do you ask why it does not kill the
people? Ah, my son, it does! I hold in my hand a death assess
ment in a mutual association. Out of sixteen deaths therein re
corded three can be traced directly to the use of tobacco. It pro
duces many serious disturbances, among which may be named in
sanity, apoplexy, paralysis, heart failure, palpitation, poverty, imbec
ility, bad breath, disordered stomach, nightmare, insomnia, amaur
osis, vertigo, epithelioma and many other equally distressing and
formidable maladies. The tobacco habit is the crying sin of this
age, my son, and he who goes forth to do battle against it, is a great
er and better man than the old abolitionist leader who suffered con
tinually and had his linen decorated with damaged eggs-in his
efforts to liberate four million' descendants of Mr. Ham, and bestow
upon them the elective franchise. Chattel slavery is degrading
enough, but the bondage of appetite, where the individual surrend
ers to a poisonous weed, is pitiable. No, my son, I had rather see
you do most anything than use tobacco. Engage in the newspaper
business and go hungry, if you will; study law and practice before a
justice of the peace, buy a farm and run for congress, join the salva
tion army and beat the bass drum, but don't use tobacco.
Don't pray to be saved from the torments of hell
When life over yonder begins,
But ask the dear Lord to extend His strong arm
And save you, today, from your sins.
A man may go cheerfully prancing to church,
On sanctitication intent, .
But if he goes home and belabors his kids,
He hasn't been saved worth a cent.
Salvation, dear friends, is accepting the light,
The good and the pure and the true,
And doing to others as you would desire
That others should do unto you.
Acceptance of Christ means desertion of sin,
An earnest desire to do right;
It beats all the forms of cheap show and pretense
Immensely and way out of sight.
Go cheer the sad mourners, lend aid to the poor,
And comfort the sick and distressed;
Be just with your fellows, be true to yourself
And God will take care of the rest
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