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\VaKF-MAN'S WANDERINC.S,
Ibt Birthplace and Burial Place oi
Thomas Carlyle.
JEoclefechan, the Quaint Scottish Bor
der Village Which Gave This Century
One of It Mightieat Minds- A Testy
kittle Hamlet, Unchanged by Time
snd Progress—Carlyle's Boyhood
Borne and All Material and Bocial
Environments Precisely as He Left
Them— Glimpses of the Ignorance,
Cant, Bancor and Positive Savagery
That Fiercely Beset His Childhood's
Days
(Copyright.)
Ecclefechan, Scotland, Sept. 14.—Some
Engliad tramps were singing for their
breakfasts before the doors of the grave
Scottish villagers of Ecclefechan when I
tramped into the hamlet behind them.
There were live of them, great, hulking
fellows, and their hoarse and aggressive
bellowing was the only sound indicative
Of human life in the village, even at that
late hour of the morning. They stood be
side a melodious burn which dashed from
under a covered way and coursed on
through the village street.
At one side of the stream was an an
cient wall. On the other were strag
gling houses, and the one before which
the vagabonds lifted up their harrowing
voices was one of the plainest and quaint
est in Ecclefechan. From its appearance
it might have been an olden stable; an
i handoned lodge at the entrance to some
gentleman’s establishment formerly lo
cated behind it; or the ancient jail of the
Tillage, now smartly whitewashed and
transformed into a lowly habitation. It
was a mite of a thing with an archway
through it occupying one-third of the
lower story.
At each side was a narrow oaken door,
and, nearer each end, a tiny window. In
the second story another little window
above each lower one looked into the
street ; and over the center of the arch
way were two still more diminutive win
dows. side by side. It was a double house
of the dwarf variety, and the one at the
north end, where the strong-lunged
sorners sang, was the birth-place of
Thomas Carlyle.
The bellowing had brought much-capped
guid-wives to various windows and alley
entrances, at safe distances. I loitered
near enough to hear them discuss the
matin-song of the tramps as well as the
house and its former occupants.
"They needna fash (trouble) theirsels
tae sing there,” croaked one old dame
with a gentle swaying of her head, be
tokening a reminiscental vein of remark.
' They’re like mecht roar theirsels black
i' the face, afore they e’er wrang bluid
frae that neep (turnip).”
• Oh aye,” crooned a still older woman,
-•its weel kent nae puir body iver saw.
syne or soon, the recht side o’ the Car
lyles’ siiler!”
How Carlyle’s hosts of adorers would
have groaned to hear these his old neigh
bors go on! One hinted at their pride
with, “They thocht theirsels nae sheep
shanks!” Another, of their thrift with.
“They ne’er sell’d their hens on a rainy
day.” Another, of miserliness with, “They
gae their banes to nae dogs.” Another,
of their austerity with, “They warna euid
to neebor wi’.” And another bent
old body summed up the feeling of many
of the testy villagers with the crisp epti
ome, “They were ill to thole! ” That is,
it was hard to get along with the Car
lyles. And it is historic that others be
sides these dim old souls, some who lived
in the same houses with them, found it
Just that way.
The tramps got nothing for their offer
tory, and, after a few vigorous kicks at
the door, departed; giving me opportu
:nity to reach the house just as the huge
form and red, veinous face of Mrs. John
Courley, caretaker, appeared at the door
Shaking a line bludgeon after the vanish
ing vagrants she relieved her indignation
with: “Hoots! It’s a weary day for auld
Scotland when there’s nae body t' fend
a boose like this frae tlia low English beg
gars!” and then, in radiant expectancy of
Jow English “saxpenees,” hade me enter.
1 doubt if there ever lived a writer
about whom more has been written by
little and great writers than lias been
penned in criticism or praise of Thomas
Carlyle. And lam just as much in doubt
whether any oue or all of these, from
passing essayist to stately biographer,
ever really visited the birthplace of this
rare and royally rampant genius. Yet
that should have been every serious
biographer’s tirst duty. Interesting as
may he every little detail in the maturer
career of the man of genius, when we
have learned each one by heart, and have
been given standards by which to find his
place, measure his personality and weigh
liis influence, we are still unsatisfied.
AVhat made this man what he was! What
were the potent forces which sent him on
his way. or which were overcome, in his
upbuilding? Out of what manner of mold
did he come? What was the actual en
vironment of the babe, the child, the
youth? We wish to he shown the ulti
mate perpective. It is not to be found in
any biography of Carlyle.
And so 1 think there is an unusual fas
cination in coming to this hard little ham
let and seeing with your own eyes pretty
nearly the same sort of folk and precisely
the same scenes as those the boy Carlyle
knew, hard as it is to believe from his
biographers he ever was a boy; and, in
sympathy and feeling, getting as far as
possible into the same framing and set
ting as those through which his eyes had
their earliest outlook upon the close ma
h'nal and spiritual horizon about him.
i truer hint of all this could be given
than in that morning incident of the grim
oni dames and their tongue-wagging about
the singing beggars and the house before
they sung, it was in itself simply a bit
out ol Carlyle’s family’s time. I almost
lelt the Carlyle folk were “glowerin’
ahint th’ door.” It is but two years less
than one hundred since Thomas Carlyle
was born in that little stone cottage,
f here is no place in Britain where less
change has come in that period than in
sl <-rn and tiny Ecclefechan.
Indeed the chuugelessncss of all these
am n ut border towns and hamlets is one
o' their most impressive characteristics,
rroiii Yetholm to Dumfries along the
> cottish border, and from Berwick to
Carlisle aiong the English border it it
j.m the same. They are all as they were;
u> v a little more asleep. The railway
stations are about all the structures in
m in that have large windows or smell of
■'! inl They remain chiefly as they stood
lon the border raids were ended. They
are gray, battle-scarred, ancient. They
' re built in fighting times and have
their records in their hard old faces. To
under among them is like
f-ing whisked back two or three cen
ines and set down face to face with the
s :in ness and cruelties of feudal times;
ti I S ” me times think that the nature of
n, lowly folk, beaten to savage hardness
• those sorry times, is in this borderland
loth kingdoms a long time taking on
i “J ‘•’l’oHer touch of our time. Scotland
■ richest in these weird old border relics
a sorry age. The Scotch crowded
to the border; built more and
o,l Per places of sally, even the tiniest
lainlets having likeness in sturdiness
•strength to the larger towns, and
, m being the liveliest on their legs,
the English in such a brisk
1 • occupying way, that they had little
vuu their hands, after chasing the
tor ouiuiing important Bor
der towns
The quaint hamlet stands in a Itttle
bol’ow of the champaign land of South
eastern Aunandale The same old |sst
road which leads north from England
through Carlisle and gtvwsowe Gretna
<ir<s>n passes through it, forming Ha
principal and almost its only stn'et.
From the south this highway leads
through a pleasant country, well watered
and wooded and charmiugly broken by
clumps of ancient trees or newer plauta
tions and small, well-tilled fields. Be
youd the hamlet the road winds upward
for a mile or more to as bleak, sugges
tively dreary and hopeless horizon as you
will often come upon in Normandy, or as
are seen in the peasant pictures of Brit
tany by the master hand of Millet. To
the northeast there are dim outlines of
the Hartfell and other mountain ranges.
Away to the southeast are the misty
vales of lovely Annandale and to the
northwest, but four miles distant, the
legend-haunted hill of Brunswark, where
the boy Carlyle often wandered, lifts its
Roman-cam i>ed head into the fleecy,
vagrant clouds
Ecclefechan has great age but little
history, aside from having produced this
one famous man. At about the center of
the village, where a highway leaves
the old Carlisle and Glasgow post-road to
wander through the valley of Annan to
the Solway-side town of that name, a
little cross-street, formed by t his road,
runs a few rods with it and stops short
by an ancient grave-yard. In this lies
Carlyle, his father and mother and
other members of the family, It has also
hundreds of unnamed graves, for half a
thousand years before the Carlyle line
had crossed the border in Scotland from
Carlisle with the adherents of returning
King David 11., it was the site of a then
ancient church called Eeclesie S. Fec
hani, orthe Church of St.-Feehan. Fechan
was an Irish abbot of the seventh ceutury
from lona, who was canonized, his day be
ing Jan. lienee the curious name of
Ecclefechan.
Border war brought the ancient church
to ruin. The spirit of the covenanters’
time effaced what remained. But the
churchyard of a thousand years ago is
Ecelefeehan’s graveyard of to-day; and
all the stern descendants of those who
swore to "endeavor the extirpation of
popery, prelacy, superstition, heresy,
schism, profaneness, etc.,” who have de
parted life in little Ecclefechan, are lying
here in “consecrated ground.” In Car
lyle’s boyhood time there wen: many of
hand-loom weavers here. Their stone
cottages stood along the highway Inter
spersed with a few shops and
inns. The cottages remain,
housing folk of the same social
order, comfortable laborers among
the surrounding farms. At least three of
the inns are still standing. Two have
been transformed into humble habita
tions. One, the Bush hotel—a little, long,
low rambling structure jutting out [into
the highway Invitingly, and presided over
by a brisk, bonnie landlady, Mistress Kil
gour, who Is not afraid to tell you that
she has no love for “Yonkee” pilgrims
and their sneering ways—contains most
of the life of the sleepy hamlet; and.
with ministering to cycles on their north
ern tours, modern coaching parties and
occasional pilgrims to Carlyle's birthplace
and grave, is almost as breezy and bust
lingasinthe times of the packers and
carters, when the olden post coaches
changed their steaming horses, after the
dash from Gretna, before its hospitable
door.
So this was the spot and these the
physical surroundings of Thomas Carlyle
from his birth, in 1795, until his stone
mason father, James Carlyle, who “ham
mered on at Ecclefechan, making in his
best year £100,” removed to the bleak
farmstead of Mainhill, near Lockerbie,
about ten miles north of his native ham
let, and still alongside the old Carlisle
and Glasgow post road. This comprised
the first fourteen years of his life. Dur
ing this time all the boyhood, boyhood
home and home surroundings he ever
knew 7 were his; for he had already felt
the terrors of schoolboy life at Annan;
and just after the family removal to
Mainhill he was sent away to Edinburgh
to the university, walking the whole
distance, through, Moffat, in company
with a senior student in the university
named Tom Small.
There are none living here or here
about now who knew Thomas Carlyle as
a boy; but I found very many old, old folk
whose parents were liis youthful com
panions, or his parents’ “neebors,” and
who, on account of Carlyle’s subsequent
fame, left clear testimony with their chil
dren. from their standpoint of view, of
liis home surroundings and boyhood life,
it is all a grim, gray picture set in for
bidding shadows, with but one bright,
clear ray streaming through it—a brave,
loyal mother’s endless care and love; of a
home so little and mean that no room in
it permitted the family meals to be eaten
by all its members at once; vs hieh forced
young Carlyle to carry forth his food of
bread crumbs boiled in milk to be eaten on
the “coping of the wall,” while the lad
gazed at the distant mountains; of a fa
ther irascible as honest, unreasonable as
stui'dy, miserable as pious in the dim old
steely way; of a mother, with all her
great virtue, a pestilence of fire and
sword against all intellectual unfolding
not in accord with her own almost sav
agely exacting creed; and of social and in
tellectual environment in which there
were more melancholy, hopeless serious
ness, petty caviling, downright hatred
and far less brightness and sentiment
than about the olden campfires of the
American Chippewas or Sioux.
It is plain that the Carlyles were not
only not beloved, but that they were dis
liked with that brutal sort of rancor com
mon in ignorant neighborhoods. The
father was the best workman in the com
munity. Had he not possessed a furious
temper and a hard fist, he would have
been driven from the hamlet. He
was feared, rather than liked or re
spected. The mother was held by her
guidwife neighbors to be o’ersaintly and
“o'er-asperans,” or pompous in manner
and language, as well at “muckle auld
moi/d,” or sagacious and crafty in dis
course. The imperious obstinacy of the
father, so marked a characteristic of the
son, rather than just pride in intelligence
for its own sake, determined him on
making the boy a scholar; and this again
widened tho breach between the stone
mason’s family and the carping villagers.
The latter stood in awe of his fists,
but stung the brave wife's spirit
wulully with their crafty gossip and
raillery. The hurt was double upon the
boy’s defenseless head. The parents in
their prayers, illustrated to the lad what
a debt of gratitude was being piled up
against him by the Almighty that he was
permitted to live, and by themselves that
they had sustained contumely and sacri
fice to give him those mighty advantages:
while through his playfellows, on account
of the disposition of their parents, he was
made the victim of every conceivable
species of savagery and contempt.
From these old tales it is easy to learn
that as a babe Thomas Carlyle drew in
the very milk of unhappiness and rancor
from his mother’s breast. He was a
weazened, thin, uncanny bairn, “sniffle
snaffling” in infancy; mournful, moaning
and haddering through the "cutty-gear”
period; not into kilts before he had
learned the unspeakable terrors of an in
fanthood where every other child about
him showed only the face of harassing
ogre; in childhood a lamentable bairn set
upon and scourged by bullying brats; and
all his youth-tide the quarry of avery ill
natured little human beast of the Eccle
fechan gutters or by-lane cabins. Why,
it seems to me that right here is found
the true key to his whole aftertime
nature. The royal protests, the often al
most imbecile caviling*, the Titanic out
bursts, that rumble and grumble and
thunder throughout his mighty work
were, after all, largely an endless if uu-
THE MORNING NEWS: IVESDAY. OCTOKKK3.
cornu i.ius cry of the mao * heart against
the barbarities of his own I'kilitinnit!
In the HU)e stone cottas” where they
lived, there is hut one risim below stairs.
In the upper story there is a room the
same si/e as that on the tint floor This
is retained as sort of show-room, and is
well enough filled to he interesting with
Carlyle relics, including his famous cof
feo|(ol in which he was wont to brew his
own coffee and his equally famous tobac
co-cutter handmaids of iheChe.vne How.
Chelsea, inspiration and inseparable com
panions of his irascibility and dyspepsia.
Off this little chamber and sitting-room,
in which there is set a quaint old fire
place, is a little, long bed-room over the
archway ; and in this Thomas Carlyle
was born. Altogether the place is unin
viting. meager, hard, austere.
Disassociating the man Carlyle from
the heroism of his lofty work, you cannot
come to one spot made warm, tender and
glowing for his having been a part of it.
Even the dreary old kirk-yard where he
lies, but a few steps from where he was
born, intensifies the feeling that some
thing of the human and humane was
lacking, or was denied, his whole line.
There does not seem to be one soul in all
the region where he was born and reared
who recalls the family name with loving
kindness and respect. To be known as a
pilgrim to the Carlyle home and tomb is
to be regarded with suspicion and sneers.
The very gravestone is parsimonious and
shabby; the inclosure unkempt; weeds
and brambles crowd the spot closely; the
lad that unlocks the gate snickers behind
you; and as you stand for a little time
leaning upon the iron railing in contem
plation of the lonely, neglected grave of
this rare old warrior in the field of let
ters, you cannot but wonder, after all.
if any true greatness can ever exist so
far above the heads and hearts of the
lowly that they are not reached, aided
and encompassed by it.
Edgar L. Wakeman.
THE VAN ALEN AFFAIB.
Mr. Horace White Calls It a Scandal
That Has All the Appearance of a
Barter.
From the New York World.
Ex-Secretary of the Navy William C.
Whitney’s answer to Mr. Horace White's
charge that the nomation of James J.
Van Alen as minister to Italy as a re
ward for Van Alen’s $50,000 contribution
to the democratic campaign fund for the
last election caused a great deal of com
ment. Among those who had something
to say on the subject was Mr. White. He
read the statement of Mr. Whitney
through very carefully, and then said to
the reporter of the World:
“Mr. Whitney’s explanation does not
alter the situation in the slightest degree.
On the contrary, it is in substantiation of
every allegation that has been made con
cerning the nomination of Mr. Van Alen.
The truth stands out as clearly as pos
sible that Mr. Van Alen received this
nomination not because of any special
qualification for the office, but because he
contributed $50,000 to help elect Presi
dent Cleveland. Mr. Whitney himself
emphasizes this in his letter of June 20 to
the President, as anybody can see who
reads that letter carefully.
“Do you believe that a direct bargain
was made?”
“I never said that, I have uot even sug
gested that a bargain was made at the
time of payment or of the contribution.
Furthermore, I have never mentioned
Mr. Whitney’s name in connection with
the matter until it came up under the
present circumstances. I have held, and
my opinion has not been changed in the
slightest by what Mr. Whitney and Mr.
Van Alen have said, that the w-hole mat
ter has been a scandal, and has all the
appearance of barter. The conclusion is
inevitable that somehow, at some time,
Mr. Van Alen expected to be rewarded
for his services to the party, and that his
service was simply a contribution of
money.”
“You think, then, that the criticisms
of the nomination of Mr. Van Alen are
justified?”
“I do,” answered Mr. White. “Mr.
Whitney is not entirely igenuous in his
denials, but I have no fault to find with
Mr. Whitney. In liis letter I note one
point. He repeat the words of the inter
view in which he denies that Mr. Van
Alen did not contribute sums of $20,000
and $20,000. I know that he did con
tribute $50,000.”
"Do you think that the nomination
will be confirmed by the Senate?”
“It should not, be,” was the answer.
“It sould he withdrawn, if it is not it is
not it is likely to meet with an unpleas
ant reception in the Senate.”
Mr. White also sent to the World yes
terday the following letter bearing on tho
same subject:
New York, Sept. 28, 1893.—T0 the Editor of
the World: Sir—Mr. Whitney's letter on the
Van Alen appointment seems to justify a few
words from me. Shortly after President
Cleveland s inauguration 1 happened to lie at
the City Club, where I heard from three differ
ent persons in one evening that somebody in
Rhode Island had contributed $60,000
to the democratic campaign fund with
the understanding that he should
be appointed minister to Italy if
Mr. Cleveland was elected, and that the mat
, ter was the talk of the diplomatic circle in
Washington and of clubs and society in New
York and Newport, in which latter place he
had built a large house. This was spoken of
as a rumor only, nobody pretending to have
personal knowledge of the facts, but, never
theless, as a matter about which there could
ho little doubt. The person was said to be a
connection of the Astor family.
The result of this conversation was that I
made some effort to return the money to the
then unknown candidate for diplomatic
honors, but Mr. Gilder did not take part in
those efforts. Of course the affair could not
reach the dimension of a scandal unless tho
President should actually make the appoint
ment.
I never mentioned Mr. Whitnoy's name as a
party to any bargain or even as an indorser
of the application.
Touching Mr. Whitney's remarks on the
morality of returning money to persons who
have contributed it to campaign funds under
the promise of office. I presume that he and I
would not greatly differ, yet there may be
cases where such an offense might be con
doned.
As I do not know Mr. Van Alen and never
heard of him until last spring I cannot dis
pute his fitness or the diplomatic service;
but I insist that no ~ody can be a good judge
of his fitness who views it through the refract
ing medium of SSO,GOJ.
Horace White.
A DEMOCRAT BOLTS.
One of the Leaders in lowa's Senate
Turns Populist.
Des Moines, lowa, Oct. 2.—The great
est political sensation of the lowa cam
paign this fall was sprung this morning
by Senator L. R. Bolter of Harrison
county who, in a letter to Chairman
Scott, of the populist central committee,
announces that he has bolted the demo
cratic ticket and will support Mr. Joseph
for governor. Senator Bolter has been a
democratic leader of the lowa general
assembly for sixteen years.
RAN INTO AN OPEN SWITCH.
An Engineer and Fireman Killed in
Their Cab.
Springfield, Mo., Oct. 2.—Passenger j
train No. 4 on the Frisco road, which \
left here at 10:05 o’clock last night
about 10 minutes late, ran into an open
switch at Lyman at 10:20 o’clock last
night, dashing through three stock cars.
Eigineer Maxey Hall, and Fireman Char
les Robinson, were both instantly killed.
So far as could be ascertained none of
the passengers were seriously injured.
"This note from the editor," said Spaeerjt,
“looks to me very much like s freeze out."
What does be say V asked the ofllce boy.
‘Hereafter ho wants me to do the
yachting in winter and skating contests fn
summer,”—Puck.
A PRAYER AT A LYNCHING.
Williamsburg County Quietly Strings
Dp a Black Rawlaher.
Columbia, S. 0.. Oct 2 —The sownd
lynching within the last five months in
Williamsburg I'ountv. this state occurred
early this morning at Moores Croat
Roads, fifteen miles from the county seat
The victim was a 25-year-old negro named
George McKadden, alias Jake Stokes,
who attempted to commit a criminal as
sault on Miss Sallie Dußose, the Ifi-year
old daughter of S. C. Dußose.a highly re
spected farmer who belongs to one of the
best families in South Carolina.
McFadden was caught late last night
and taken before the young lady, who
identified him. whereupon he confessed
his guilt. He was tried by Judge Lynch's
court, convicted and sentenced to die.
The mode of execution was hanging,
which was decided upon by vote.
McFadden was prayed for and was
given time to prepare to die. and was then
hanged decent ly and in order.
A handkerchief had been placed over
his eyes, but it was removed at his re
quest, ns he wished to see it out. During
all this ho never moved a muscle, and
seemed utterly indifferent. Tnere were
200 whites and three negroes in the
crowd. They were very orderly.
A placard bearing the following was
placed on the corpse: "We do not know
any better than to protect our wives and
daughters.”
A coroner’s jury renderd a verdict of
death from hanging by unknown pqr
sons.
AN EX-CONVICT IN COURT.
He Was Pardoned on the Plea That He
Was at Death’s Door.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 2. —M. T. Whitlock,
convicted of the murder of Neal Belding
four years ago and pardoned out of the
penitentiary a year ago because tlio doc
tors pronounced him at death's door, fig
ured in a lively case in police court to
day. Since his pardon Whitlock has re
gained his health and is now a veritable
giant. Saturday he literally bullied a
small mob on Hunter street because of a
fancied insult. D. Morrison, a real estate
dealer, sent for a policeman and the big
ex-convict, whom the doctor told Gov.
Northen was sure to die within a few days
at the time of his pardon, was arrested.
He was fined in court to-day and was
later put under a peace bond by Mr. Mor
rison, who anticipated trouble on account
of having had Whitlock arrested.
RUNS OF THE RACERS.
Summary of The Principal Events on
the Country’* Tracks.
New York Oct. 2. —To-days races at
Morris Park resulted as Follows:
First Race—Five furlongs Kolia won. with
Anawanda second and Enileld third. Time
57X
•Second Race—Mile and a furlong. Race
land won. with illume second and Loudon
third. Time 1:53)4.
Third Race—Six furlongs. Helen N.ehols
won with W. B. second and By Jove third.
Time 1:09)i.
Fourth Race—Pelham Hay handicap, mile
and quarter. Ramapo won, whh Sir Walter
second and Herman ihird. Time 2:07.
Fifth Race—Seven furlongs. Mary Stone
won, with Annie Hlshop second and Madrid
third. Time 1:27.
Sixth Race—Five furlongs. Tom Harding
won, with Frog Dance second and Minno
haha third. Time 57!,.
AT LATONIA PARK
Cincinnati, 0., Oct. 2.—Following is a
summary of to-day’s races at Latonia
park:
First Race—Seven furlorgs, selling. Mer
ry Eyes won. with Nestor second aud Cadet
third. Time 1:35*5.
Second Race —Milo. Gascon won. with
Frobasco second and King David third.
Time I:4Rq.
’third Race—Soiling, five furlongs. Little
Cripple won. With \ o: see nd and King How
ard Ihird. Time 1 :IK.
Fourth Race Seven Furlongs, selling.
Eyelet won, with Bessie Bis and second and
Aurora third. Time 1:34.
Fifth Race Four and oro half furlongs.
Conicc won, with Shuttle second ami Nance
third. Time 50y
sixth Race—seven and one-half furlongs,
selling. W. L. Munson won. with Little An
nie second and Little George third. Time
l -MV,.
TO RE Hi:N AT LOUISVILLE.
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 2.—The fall meot
ing of the Louisville Jockey Club will be
run off here instead of at Latonia, as was
first proposed. The pressure brought to
bear by the hotels and the business men
was so great that it was decided best to
hold the meeting at home.
LEXINGTON TO HAVE RACES.
Lexington, Ivy., Oct. 2,—The governors
of the Kentucky Racing Association have
rescinded their action of last week and
the fall meeting will be held.
A FIGHT WITH A BEAR.
The Famous Hunter Obadiah Barber
Has an Adventure.
Way cross, Ga., Oct. 2.—Mr. Obadiah
Barber, the veteran bear hunter from
down on the Okefinokee swamp, who
claims to have killed a score of them, re
lates the following story; “For several
weeks the hears have been destroying our
hogs, and I concluded a few days ago
that a bear hunt was in order. A young
man seconded the motion, and it was
“a go.” Provided with dogs, guns
and ammunition, we arrived at a
place where the water was
waist deep in the thickest of the swamp.
We found it very difficult to proceed fur
ther. We had about decided to return
home when our attention was called by a
stranpe noise near by. Listening again,
we discovered that the sounds v/ore com
ing from a spot distant about twenty
yards to our right. We could not de
cide upon whatcourse to follow, as we did
not know what made the noise. Sud
denly the noise became louder,and we were
satisfied that it was a bear. We waited
no longer, but holding the guns and am
munition over our shoulders made a leap
into the mud and water and advanced.
We saw standing on a tussock two small
cubs. Nothing was seeu of the old bear,
and we prepared to kill the cubs.
Near them was the carcass of a hog,
which might have once belonged to me.
The cubs were picking playfully at tho
carcass and were not apprehensive of our
approach. Not wishing to make any un
necessary noise, wo concluded to knock
the cubs in tho head with pine knots.
A large root of a dead gum tree was
found, and I proeetxled to deal a heavy
blow upon the head of the cub nearest to
me. No sooner had the cub been hit.
than a terrible growl was heard directly
over tho cubs 1 looked up a tree and
saw the old boar coining quickly down.
She was furiously mad, and I knew that
she meant to lie game. I waited until she
reached the ground, and, aiming my gun
at her heart, tired. She roared with pain
but did not stop, and I saw I had to do
quick work or have a “hugging
time” with her. Another load of
lead was aimed at her head and
she fell on the tussock. She vainiy
attempted to stand up, hut she was bleed
ing fast and was too weak. Finally she
died, after coming near grabbing me with
her claws. The voung man was there,
but he was trembling with fear. We
killed the cub and would have saved the
meat of the bear, but it was no easy Job,
as the water was too high.
A Small Bank Fails.
Huntingdon, Tenn., Oct. 2.—The Rank
of Carroll, tho oldest hank of this city,ha*
failed Cashier R. F. Trualow acknowl
edges using *5,000 of the bank’s funds.
The county funds are locked up and the
public schools may be forced to close. Cash '
ier Trualow has turned over all hi* prop
erty.
BANKER CLEWS' VIEWS.
The Financial Outlook as Seen From
Wall Street.
New York. Sept KU Wall st reot shows
little change from the reactionary ten
dency that has held the securities mar
ket in dus kMr tho past month. Its at
titude is simply a waiting one; not by any
means one of despondency. The over
whelming vote of the House of Represen
tatives for silver repeal produced a large
advance in prices; hut buyers did not suf
ficiently take into account the possibili
ties of obstruction in the Senate. That
obstruction, however, came with a force
and a persistency that has taken tho
whole country by surprise and put a
chock u|>ou all the * reviving tenden
cies which the House vote brought into
play. The Senate's delay has been
like the return of winter in the middle of
spring. It has nipt in the hud reviving
confidence, and put a fresh check upon
the industries that were beginning to
venture upon a renewal of operations. It
has also had the effect of reawakening
distrust among our foreign creditors,
with the result not only of stopping their
buying of our securities, but also of caus
ing some return of them to this center.
Such an interruption to an unqualifiedly
hopeful drift of affairs could scarcely
have a less injurious effect upon the stock
market than has actually happened. The
wonder is that the relapse has not been
much more severe; and tho fact that
prices now stand comparatively steady is
evidence that Wall street at least is far
from hopeless as to the Senate ultimately
adopting the repeal bill.
There are two points of view from
which the disappointing attitude of tho
Senate may be considered. Thcreus that
of the ordinary observer, who under
stands little about the methods and
tricks of parliamentary warfare, or the
complications of party interest and of
legislative policies. These people are led
by the external appearances of the mo
ment and easily mistake weak parlia
mentary feints for real strength, and they
are consequently deeply impressed by the
daring hostility of the minority in the
Senate. Yet it is this very class that
mainly make the body of sentiment we
call public opinion. It is therefore not
surprising that the attitude of tho trained
■ political warriors, known as “the silver
leaders,” should have created some dis
may and much disappointment among
this preponderant part of tho public.
And it is not to be supposed that the
opinions of this class are unimportant be
cause they are based upon imperfect ob
servation; for opinions influence action in
practical affairs, and in this case they
carry a chill of apprehension through
every branch of business.
The other point of view is that occu
pied by men conversant with the ins and
outs of politics; familiar with the tricks,
the limiiations.and tho licensesof debate;
versed in the mysteries of log-rolling;
and acquainted with the party Jealousies
and the conflicting policies involved in
the present political situation. To these
observers there is nothing in the present
attitude of the Senate that is really in
consistent with a confident expectation
that tho upper house will finally adopt
unconditional repeal. They cannot con
cede the imssibility that tho United
States Senate will finally dare to carry
affront to the almost universal public will
to the extent of absolute disobedience.
They know that, while it may be good par
liamentary tactics to give the m inorityrope
enough to hang themselves, yet the ma
jority is made up of men who are con
scious of their power and will not fail to
used it to a purpose when a ripe oppor
tunity occurs. They understand how it
may be prudent to give each minority
senator a chance to set him-elf right with
his constituents or on his record; but
they know that to the party now in power
success in their issue is a matter of life
or death, and that having prudently done
all they can to avoid offense to their op
ponents, they will then unite with the
republican repealers in carrying tho
measure by a majority that will surprise
the country by its magnitude.
This latter point of view is the one that
now prevails in the best informed quar
ters in Wall street. There are bankers,
well situated to know whereof they
speak, who intimate that some of the in
fluential fire-eaters of the minority have
received warnings from constituents
whom they are uot likely to disregard
that their obstruction must go no fur
ther; and the case of these senators is
likely to become that of others also at an
early day. The game of bluff and bluster
has about exhausted itself, and that
point being reached the chance for the
minority showing its power will have
come. The nearest to the heart of the
contest incline to the opinion that the
time is not distant for the registering of
a vote that will finally set this
disturbing question at rest. Among
bankers apt to give the cue to opinion on
such matters, there is evidently a more
confident feeling, and it finds expression
in a freer disposition to extend their op
erations. Tho steady retirement, of
clearing house certificates is a hopeful
symptom in this connection. Until re
cently there had been a marked disposi
tion among the bunks to cling to that
support until all doubt was removed as to
the action of the Senate. Out of the
total issue of $28,000,000, however, only
$20,000,000 is now outstanding —which is a
significant expression of the estimate of
the banks on the prospect. To the same
effect is the welcome fact that the banks
are lending and discounting much more
freely, and without discrimination as to
long loans.
The firmness of foreign exchange, so
far as it may seem to foreshadow an ex
port of gold, is uot seriously viewed. As
part of the gold lately imported came as
the result of various expedients for tem
porary use, it is taken for granted that
some of it must go back to Europe again.
In tho event of repeal, however, that can
not be a serious matter, for the Improve
ment in our foreign credit would in that
case create a fresh European demand for
our securities; and the abundance of cash
pouring from alt sections into the banks
will enable us to bear a reasonable foreign
drain without inconvenience.
COTTON SHORT IN TEXAS.
A Falling off of 40 Per Cent, in the
Southwestern Part of the State.
San Antonio. Texas. Oct. 2. —Reliable
reports received from all parts of South
western Texas show that three-fourths of
the cotton crop lias been pickod and about
one-half already marketed. Tho crop
has been gathered in a hurry during the
last ten days. There will be no top corn.
The crop is 40 per cent, short of last
year s yield in Southwest Texas.
A BABE FOR 73 YEARS.
Strange Affliction of a Man Who Never
Fad or Clothed Himself.
From the Philadelphia Record.
West Chester, Pa., Sept. 28.—The
funeral of Charles Talley, at Chadd’s
Ford to day, was the final chapter in the
history of a remarkable man.
He was 73 years and 6 months old, yet
never either fed or dressed himself a sin
gle time in all his life. Every part of bis
body was perfectly formed, yet lie could
perform only the most simple acts with
hands or feet He was 1 year old before
he raised his hand from the pillow, and 12
years old before he made any progress
whatever in locomotion. His mind was
clear, his Judgment keen, a id ms
ry retentive He was a resident of Bran
dywine Hundred, Del., but was buried at
Chadd’s Ford.
(Sisnt Craig weighs 907 pounds; and his wife
only 130 pounds.
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A CRANK IN THE WHITE HOUSE
He Thought Mr. Cleveland Wm Hl
Father and Wanted Hie Chair.
Washington, Sept. 28.—'This morning
shortly before 10 o’clock a white man
about 28 years of age in some unexplained
way found his way into the lower regions
of the white house, and, meeting the col
ored cook, said to Iter: “1 want to see
father.”
“Who is your father?” the cook asked
him.
“Mr. Cleveland, of course,” was his re
sponse.
Just then Policeman Hellor appeared
upon the scene and saw at a glance that
the man was not altogether right.
“Your father is out in the garden,” he
told the mysterious visitor; “com* with
me and we’ll find him.”
Arm in arm they started toward the
door, the intruder thinking that he was
going to meet the President, hut the of
ficer knew that he would land him at tho
watch box. On their way to the box the
office asked the man: “What did you
want in the white house?”
"1 wanted that chair,” was tho re
sponse.
"What chair?”
"The President’s chair.”
“Don’t you think the President fills it
satisfactorily?”
“No, I don’t,” was the reply, “and I
intend to get it by fair means or foul.
Give us each a pistol and I’ll show who
will get it —quick.”
When they reachodn the watch box
theylfound Policeman Hibleon duty. Be
fore that officer knew what was going on
the prisoner grabbed the policeman’s
black Jack from his pocket, ovidently
thinking he was going to get a pistol. He
tried to use the club on the officer, but
both officers grabbed him, aud tho strug
gle lasted but a few minutes before tho
man was overpowered. The crank was
conveyed to the police station, where he
gave the name of Joseph Washington and
said he came from Pennsylvania. A
charge of being a suspicious character
was filed against him,
RAILWAY ACCIDES. .NT
Surgeons Say They Would Rather
Deal With Those Which Occur at
Night.
From the Washington Star.
Railway surgeons would rather deal
with the victims of a night than of a day
accident. Some of the oldest of them in
attendance u|>on tho Pan-Amec! 'an medi
cal congress stated this with much oosi
tivcncss. They declared that a daylight
accident by rail adds greatly to the hor
rors ns well as to the fatalities. The dif
ference is in the increase in the mental
strain, which is so much greater by day
than it is when darkness veils the scene.
This strain, tho surgeons argue, is greater
than in the case of the soldier going into
battle, for he carries with him the hope
that somebody else will stop the bullet.
The shock enters very largely into con
sideration with the railway surgeon. By
this is meant tho mental instead
of the physical shork. This mental
shock, the railway surgeons say, is great
est where through the sense of sight the
injured is conscious for a few moments of
approaching dangor. The case of the
brakeman who. while making a flying
switch, catches his foot in the frog is a
good illustration. Ho can not tear him
self loose. He secs the loose car coming
down, and knows what is to happen.
The mental shock to that man makes
his condition much worse than that of a
man whose foot is caught and crushed so
suddenly that he does not have time to
appreciate the impending danger.
The rail vay surgeons say that many
fatalities occur for which this mental
shock is responsible, rather than the phy
sical Injury They say that experience
proves injuries at night to he less likely
to prove fatal. They account for this by
tho fact that the injured has not been
abblo to comprehend what was coming,
as he might have done in the day time.
It has done me good to bo somewhat
parched by tho heat amt drenchod by the rain
of life.- Longfellow
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