re TOO, | Window hing per = nade and of CS r known, S tomakd © Hst—the vdollar's” red tick: re, Tick- hity of & ¥ | kinds. of : Sen Foam” handle ght in car: tore in oe | that nobody would take is abroad. We toand that the vileges pit put : ‘we were about to. without charge ‘would a la, for it We omitted fos aug Jouss. | : : And that neglect has cost’ he Gor. "| could be more Yea ly for the er and despoilment of all the Sommercial laboring classes. ao Jemocratic Con ention came a mystery. I have heard i | dhe argument adduced that we would . | Beep the money at home if Btate banks were instituted; but we should keep it | at home because it would be so Worthless EVIL OF STATE BANKS. Were the system of State bauks rovied we would agsin have discounts at the State lines, large charges for drafts on financial ceaters, and general. | suspension of every bill: offered in pay- ‘ment, with's liquidation every few years that would be a destructive loss to the innocent holders of bills and a corre: el 1 sponding profit to the parties owning the | | ban he three issuss which I have given pre the issues on which I would arraign ‘the Democratic Party. "1 would ‘not _muifiply issues nor be diverted by our ‘opponents from a steadfast adherence to | and constant presentation oft ‘these ques< tions before the people until every voter | is made to know and understand thelr true ‘and weighty significance, ; i Yery 8 pearely yours, : James G. Braine. | Protection For Onr. Farmers Found ; o Jah the MeKinley Tarilt Law. how, by decreasing import-, peting farm products it has a | incrensed the demand for ourown produc: tions, while a6 the same time still furthes fied, | extending the farmer's market by opening ap new opportunities for employment to ¢ bur people in manufacturing industries, and thos creating a larger consumin= { class forthe farmer's producis, {But those | ly been in Eh, of tin : mi a declaration, Who was its | ‘author, what intelligent pur was in 36 will re aw has had on Awerican i : 3210400 : 5 5.151 1.058.616 01 sud 2 314 sm flax- : ? sasisessee Shas Ame 088, od ‘ manufee: cone $108,262 851 : : bua : iss of i init Totals..........888,048.491 Manas Larger market fon American far . ; TET... x ; 26,100,034 articles competing with the Ae oft American farms by $26,199,634. In other words, in the first fiscal. year of its operation,’it has made the { farmer’s home market more valuable by Iv exactly that smount. This, however. 18 but a small part of 4 ; ' remember the new industries established, the old ones expanded, the larger num. ber of laborers employed, the wages in- creased and the greater purchasing on the part of all classes of our ‘which so prominent a free-trade cian as Mdward Atkinson says y grisin is safe to say that double jist dor wi measures the value of the | osm of Wood’ ivision which would | tend te short: 1) ¢ ; | ton and. Wood. 2 ie | The enemy ‘made opbated ores | from ‘noon till 2:30 o'clock to ascertain | | or ghrsniiig wo | laid the Sn of a policy which ; the positions of our forces. There was ‘will give us a greatness beyond ous a sanguine dreams. Tr continue the a ve Py Siang io uncertai With such a cho hesti Philad Tf the tariff is a tax, hh aves ; | izen doesn’t pay a cent of if, use | the average citizen uses only nny : made goods, upon which there is nt tariff, and he buys them cheaper than he ever did under free or low tariff Jadmisisiration, Kat City (Mo.} ‘Journal. 0h HOMEMADE COMFORT. thi Berviceable Awnings Made atan Expense. of a Few Cents. Spending the summer. recently tn a Let tarm-house It in the country, we found thé absence of ‘wooden blinds o1 | | shutters a very gerious incon / ‘venience when |fi ‘the sun reached “its highest point | in. the heavens, writes a corre. spondent. It was WA decided to seek a §&___ 3 way out of the Aiffenlty by constructing home made awnings. A frame was made of laths and short serews, on the plan shown in i | the illustration, and covered with striped’ awning cloth. This cloth happened to be of just the right ‘width to cover the top and front of the frame, | The’ triangular side pieces were cut from one length of sloth, thus economizing material. The coverings were tacked on with tinned tacks, as these ‘are less likely bo rust than others; and the awning, zompleted, was fastened with: small wire nails to the inside of the win: low-casings, in the manner shown in the cute It took about tivo yards of cloth 447) TRE AWNING codPLEIm, Jor each window, and the entire cost; including the frame and SCrews, was about 28 cents for each window. The results were sosatisfactory that. lete ‘wé should have preferred awnings in even. though ‘the house vided with blinds, since | the: blinds, when closed, shut out the | Aight and make thes interior gloom; hile. awnings adn 3 an. abundan SOLDIERS COLUMN] if My regiment (the 89th 111.) and fhe balance of the Third Division scarcely | ok PEACH TREE CEEFE. + {Bein Armies Ook Mixed “4p and “Pap? Thomas Oomes to the Rescue. Knowing. that your readers relish reminiscen- ces of the late he war, and which | © have not been made known here © tofore, 1 address “myself to them at “i this time a8 a 8ol- .. dier of the Urion QUE ‘mixed up” in the carnage 1 Z£ ‘am about: 10: re~ upon. the ‘memorable BEof Peach Tree Br “Creek, in the "wR Georgia ca m- EE ea July 24, 1864, found the lines of the Union army in front of Peach Tree Creek not everywhere com- plete. A gap of nearly two miles was held by the skirmish-lines of Newton's Division; of the Fourth Coxps, and Col. Banning of the 121st Ohio, of Palmers (Twentieth) Corps; but how well they did it we shall presently see. The situation was a dangerous. one, and Pap Thomss, with his accustomed wisdom and promptness, immediately commen: ced 8 series of movements for the pur: pose of closing this gap, and, as the Of | sequel shows, statements of rebel pris- | | oners made afterward revealed the fact ‘I that fhe enemy were aware of the ex- istence -of this: Bap; and were actually | bunting to find it when they made | their furious. ‘assault upon the Union ‘| forces in the evening, but. most provi ; dently they faildd to find ite pt 3 0th’ Thomas’ | design. of closing up this gap culmi- | nated in an order. to Newton's: Divis- ion to prepare to advance from the bank of the, creek in 0 heavy skirmishing all along our front, ‘as well ag along ‘the skirmish line | | which, stretching across the great gap, | connected the left of Newton with the right of Wood. ‘Then came that ‘memorable Tuli, which was temporary. { and short. Tt was 8:30 when the ‘| enemy's skirmishers, advancing as if | to. reconnoiter, gave ‘ unmistakable | notice that something was impending. Our line had halted longer than was. expected, and was just on the point of resuming the advance. when this ap- pearance of the rebels determined. Newton to remain behind Lis bastily- 1 ks from the low ron din 80 that he might, con ton’s right. The order to sdvardee given when from the, high ground north of the stream all «Hooker! 8 bat teries and Ei Ha an apynificent arrayseemed resolved fo erushat one blow: what! ever might opp tacle the artilles ground north of the ereek: could plain: iy see, but th fantry clin moment later and a savage: yell upon the left, fullowed by the clang ‘and clatter of 10,000 muskets, announced that Newton's forces had * veen apsailed by the foe. The enemy did not wait to push forward a 'skirmish-line, but charged at onée in lines of battle two and three deep. .Ourskirmishers in the advance gave way like a whirlwind as they came’ rushing back, and came very near throwing Newton’ 5 extreme right into confusion that for the. moment caused it to give way: Here Geary’s Division, | of Hooker's Corps, considersbly in ads vance of both Williams and Ward, was struck by this rushing storm and tems porarily shattéred. ‘Both these center 1 divisions were pushed from their posi- tions after a short ‘and desperate. re- | sistance, and were hurried ‘down ‘the ‘hill nearly to the banks of thei creek. The wary old Kentuckian imagined F that he saw both Newton and Geary overthrown: He was abont to send them assistance when to his astonish. | ment the whole'scene was changed as if by magic. Newtons line became firm as a tock, und, without another’ sign of wavening,, continued to pour into the repel host a steady, ninter- rupted and deadly fire. At this time the 80th 111, of Wood’ 8 Division, under a ‘withering fire from: the enemy. while a couple of his bat- teries were directing their pieces full at the right flank of the enemy, drove | { them buck, tearing in pisces their ranks with a tornado of shot and shell. The advancing of the 80th and 82nd Ind. caused an indentation in our lines, ‘which became a pit. of ‘death, info which hundreds ef maddened reliels rushed only to die or fall wounded and ‘bleeding upon ‘the god. = Not one inch did these gallant regiments give, but advanced slowly and stubbornly, with- ving the day for the Un- It was just as. Wood be: came convinced that all was going ton and Geary Shet his h 4 “i National Tribhne. ‘ nant, defiant yell that each host hurled at fhe other. Both were stirprised. knew that the enemy had emerged from the opposite woods, whey they: found themselves full in their presence. The rebels, disappointed elsewhere, | supposed they had certainly reached their long-leoked-for gap, but found instead 4 tine of battle and & sheet of vindictive fire! oth lines instantly charged forward, ‘pouring the leaden pail full into each others’ bosoms. They stood like brave heroes-—as both lines were—only 15: feet apart, and still hurling death into each’ others’ faces. They charged acain 4nd the men intermingled and fought hand to hand! In pleces the lines crossed each other and wheeled round, only to renew the combat, the rebels facing {Atlanta and we of the North facing Peach Tree Creek. . ‘When the storm broke Aven Wil: lich, of Wood's Division; the 89th Hl, had advanced upon its part of the line, and the veterans were struggling through u dense forest and striving to form connection with the balance of the old division, when suddenly the { woods in front of them were filled with fierce yells and spurts of fire and whiz zing missiles, as if each tree had held Whisn x2 Bret stoke oF comisi strife Had 'started into hideous 1If ‘The incident deserves more notice even than I have given it. So intense was the interest among our men to re- pel the rebels in our immediate frout ithat they did not perceive a small} column ‘hal passed around entirely to the left and penetrated the right of ! that long line of weary skirmishers, which I have alluded fo, as alone hold: ding the huge gap between Newton Tex? John, I, 3. Comments / The buster ths lesson is 80 Yous, and ce allotted ; ae alk me is so short, that I cannot verse takes es 15 to chapters Hh, 1, io emis lakhs Us to. own te blag his former life te chapters xxii. via 9-11; and Gal 13; 14. He that Jesus of Nozarcth was an a deceiver, find Sat he in this persecution was doing right in the sight of the God of 2. With otters of authort from ] he started f or Damasors the in theligh arrest and bring as jeisoners to og ; any whom he might fing hserve in margin and Version of this verse that ny Pe s permission ove i LT i; 10. It was aa. le 85: 58. rom ven, brigh rs, fone So 2 e fel earth, as 2 th ‘soldiers in Gethsemane (John nh 6). Compare “sa. vi,, 5: Dan. x., 7.8, 9 17, and remember that thes) were id but Baul a pared man, and 5 what you ore such light. This voice was inthe Hebrew tongue a 29- x When Saul touched a believer in Jesus touched Jesus Himself, for all bel members of His body: the place of the lost, So shall ‘sonse day when they shall. tame Jesus coming. ‘and’ Wood: nntil they heard the noise | 9 ofconflict immediately in their rear. | fo Pap Thomas was overlooking the pros | gress of the fierce fight. The moment | e he perceived the body of the rebels “he hastily got together a force consist- | ing of the pioneers and the straggling skirmishers who had fled before the'| first rebel onset and a’ couple of pieces of artillery. Taking immediate per: ~.| sonal command of this novel battalion | he assailed the astonished rebels, and killed or captured the entire body. ‘Although the Union army fost ‘about 3,000 killed and wounded this engagement, there is much of i ‘teresting and momentous history con. “nected with it. ‘Here the famous rebel | .tommander, Joe E. Johnston, was de. “prived of his command, and the fiery, and intrepid Hood place at the head, ‘of Bragg's old veterans, He it was who knew of the gap between Thomas and Schofield, snd’ with desperate _promptness attempted to throw his massed strength into it, but met Hook- er and defeat. Had he succeeded he wonld huve striick right and left in| detail, Bchofield was virtually cut off, bit the foolish intrepidity of ‘the }:bo free booter failed to see his chance, and he let it slip, and thereforé the '{ battle of Peach Tree -Creek virtually! gave us Atlanta’ And although the | Union forces were in terrible melee in this peculiarly-fought engagement, the failure of Kenesaw Mountain was redeemed here, and the prestige of the heroic’ but dashing. freebooter Hood fot Lik from een 0 ie be had ‘to beled b the, hand to thecity. What a contrast CLELRRE for the present help disciple ‘ the recent proud b +9, Three d an be bh an RE ti, 4: HLL 17, Sonat i 12: Hos. v J obs i 19: : Bev. xi; i font Sie report of all the Jews (Chapter xxil., Be Blin Wray te the Lord's call reminds us of the ot trie peni and munion with God, more of it would be good for every Christian, for unless we are much alone with God we shall nevor be much used by God. Asto Tauls after oh conduot' in a this : was brokes with his first blow in and} Ax around Atlanta’ —I.7 K Younes, in| upon him ! WONDERFUL FEAT. fmocob Myers Stands Ypos One Foot on a Tree 178 Feet High. " Jacob Myers, of near ¥ortuna, Cal., vas photographed receatly while he Hood "upon one foot on the top of a 1 Imbless tree, VI8 feeb high and 14 nches in diameter at thé top. Mr. { Myers, it is claimed, performed the ; ly expect Vv | for ‘we have the completed Sond. and faite is more blessed at present than sight Johny xx, 29). 18, 4, Sanl. ‘and his doings seem to have been well known even at Damascus, and also his present’ mission aud authority, It is robable also that the saints ‘at Damascus d. given themselves to praysr that God would save them from the power of Saul, and possibly they bad prayed for his gonver- + sion, - but like the saints at Jerusalem, in chapter xii, 14; 15, the answvar was too goot ‘to rue. How ‘wendrous is our ) of k: 0 fia ‘PREE TRIMMED ‘BY JAKE MYERS, FORTUNA, CAL. wonderful feat of dancing a jig on ‘the top of the tree. “Few people,” Jays Mr. Myers, “like to gd¢ up so aigh, but I have never yet seen a place too high for me. It is no triek it all for me iu these great red woods to ‘elimb a tree, cut-off the top, and stand on it. I have stood On the ex. jreme top of an electric tower in Tip wn, Iowa. The tower was 159 feet nigh, and 1 stood on a one-inch rod with one foot. Of this you can get aroof from Tipton. - I was a stranger there, but. you can find that I did so hod Bsking the people. of Tipton.” 0 of TELL you.” : he said disconsolates’ : 1y, “wonder are i too busiv ; i wad “What's the | 3% ii, 12; but be ae ‘by Rom. viii. n God. 15. The Ford graciously bears with Anae nias in his objections and repeats His com- mand to go, adding that Baul'is a vessel of His choice to bear His name before Jews and Gentiles, great and small. In-Gal. i, 15, 16, Paul tehis us that God bad set him apart 1romyhis birth toreveal His Sonia him. Io: Eph, i.; 4 we read that the elect were chosem before vhe foundation of the world, "16, Baul is not only wehosen to bear the name of Jesus, but algo to suffer for the sake of that name." The two are inseparably con. nected in this present age, for 15 is an evil | age, and the whole world lieth in the wicked one (Gaki., 4; I John 8 19, BR.X. also ‘Jobo xv. 18,19, xvi. IT Tim, ug > > i Ananias is obedient, searches out § Sanl, calls bim brother, and in the naate of Jesus lays hands upon him that he may recive his sight and be filled with’ the Spirit. Natural sight is restored to him, but he has now a new sight, a spiritual vision} old things are passed away, all things ars be core naw. The scales falls from his eyes, and at fhe command of Ananias ha'is baptized and. confesses Jesus as Lord (Acts xxii, 14-16). His sine are all forgiven: hs is now to 'bs & witness unto all men of what he has seen and heard. This, too, is your glorious privilege if wou are a believer in OErist. § 19. He now receives food that his body may be strengthened ~and: continues some days with the : discipics at Damascus. : 20. Being filled with the Spirit (verse In © he goes even into the synagogues, a and in- stead of talking against Jesus he fearlessly: proclaios that Heth the Son of God. The oldness of the disciples toward him, but arnabas provesa true son of Soteolation, ir + Lssson elper, y Lives mn a Gless House. The King of Siam, according to the i x and effective method of Keeping cool He has recently had built for himself, ‘by a Chinese architect, a pavilion of glass. Walls, floors and ceiling are nesses of glass, joined by Tmperme: : able cement. : rg By one door only ca ter, and this closes h London News, has chosen a unique | formed of slabs: of different thick.
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