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8 THE SUNMY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 1887 NOCTES HEHORABILES. “BY B. B.” Dramatis Personae. The Doctor—a bachelor, age 60. The Judge—a bachelor, age 46. The Professor—a bachelor,(suspect) age 30. The Madam—a widow, (landlady) age un- uertain. The Imp—landlady’s hopeful, age irrelevant. Time—Night. Scene—Bachelor’s Apartments in a Down- stroet Boarding House. [Copyrighted by Author. All rights reserved.] Antimony City, Arkansas. Texarkana and its People and “Boom” —Resources and Growth of Ar kansas. Editor Scnnt Socth: There are so many pic-nic and tea parties that it is impossible to keep up with them; the woods are fair and at tractive in this sultry weather. Mrs. II. W. Rumells and her charming daughter, Georgia, are on a visit to relatives in Marshall, Texa». Dick Clayton, Clerk of Little River county, is, with his estimable wife, entertained this week at the home of Hon. Paul Jones. M rs Peck and her handsome son, Tommie, have, after a long visit to that most charming cantatiice, Mrs. W. G. Cook, returned to their home in Michigan. A recent visit to the much talked of Anti mony City, disclosed to us the fact that it well deserves all the good things said about it. The woods are wild and beautiful; the mag nificent growth of ash, poplar, pine, wainut and oak, exhibit an exhaustless wealth of ma terial for lumber dealers and furniture facto ries. The luxuriant and bountiful supply of wild grapes proclaims this to be nature’s own vineyard. The town itself is, at present, in embryo, merely, but the location and surrounding country are full, brim-full of natural resources, whose development give assurance of great future wealth. When we remember that this is only the third known Antimony Mine in the world, we at once comprehend, to some ex tent, its immense prospective value. The oth ers are in Bornea and Germany, two wide- apart countries. This locality will yet be a noted summer resort. Our own city, the dual incorporation, steadily growing to good proportions. Thir teen years ago when we first arrived in Tex arkana, it was a small hamlet, though at that time there were four or five large hotels— wooden buildings, of ceurse. One of the houses was presided over by an attractive look ing lady, whose hair was white with the weight of years. This gray haired widow, who had three families of grand-children, mar ried a lawyer then boarding with her, of twen ty-five years of age. Another, and even at that early day the most popular in town, was the Benefield House. The genial host and his kindly wife made the homeless and weary feel truly they had found a haven of rest. The other hotels were more on the cosmopolitan order. The wooden buildings are now re placed by elegant, commodious and substan tial brick structures, for, as the town grows in years and strengthens with the growth, it is well to have proper and expensive buildings. And the proprietors remaining through these years to grow with the town, deserve the pros perity they enjoy. Now our city has more fashionable boarding houses than in the early days—among the most prominent are the Cen tral House, kept by Mrs. Sheehan, and the Caflire House, on State Line avenue. Both comfortable and elegant. The street railroad has been completed to the suburban village, Fairview; the terminus being just at the Stegall Green House. A park is soon to be opened in this suburb, thus giv ing a new lung to our dust-oppressed people. It is to be hoped they will have games of archery, lawn-tennis, etc. Many tow js of forty and fifty years are not blessed with such delightful resorts as the Ste gall Green House and the Witterstatter Gar den. The East Side Water Works are to be in operation in sixty pays. Ondit: B. Hargrove, of Georgia, and his pretty wife paid a visit to our city recently. Mrs. C. II. Moores had a fortnight stay in Shreveport, La., the guest of her father, J. L. Hargrove. The schools have all closed and the homes are bright with youthful spirits, and the town is gay with the college girls and bovs, some have graduated and some home only for a short vacation. The Convent school closed this week with the rendition of a Cantata and the granting of medals to successful competitors for honors at the opera house. Little Katie Warren, daugh ter of E. A. Warren of the Daily Independent, was the happy recipient of one medal, for which her proud Papa gave her an elegant large doll. How her bright eyes sparkled when, meeting her on a promenade yesterday evening we asked “whose pretty baby in that carriage?’’ What a glorious vacation that lit tle heart will have. Judge Elliot’s daughter graduated with first honor at a convent in Missouri. Mabel Humphrey has returned from Millers- burg, Ky. Though Mabel is a mere child, in years, she gives promise of being an artist of ability. Her work does honor to herself and her teacher. Miss Inez Tilson, daughter of W. H. Tilson, recently representative from his Texas district, graduated in one of the Texas schools. R. L. Henry has returned from Texas with his diploma, ready now to sit with his father at the legal desk and gain new and other lau rels for himself and make a proud name in his chosen profession. Elise Haywood is home from the Sam Hous ton Normal Institute at Huntsville, Texas. A goodly crowd are camping and fishing at that ever popular pic-nic ground, McFarland, or Dripping Springs. The place is picturesque and fishing is good. The water drips into the spring from an over hanging cliff. This is a large, rich tract of land lying idle and the fields once cultivated, have gone to waste. Why should this be so? ’twould yield richly to a sympathetic touch of scientific cultivation, and the application of capital. This belongs to ex- President Davis. We wish something would happen to induce him to look after it, that he might transplant his elegant daughter to our social circles, and perhaps enrich himself by the use of this valuable" property, which lies about ten miles northwest from Texarkana. Prohibition is the topic—some talk, some rant, some preach, a few think upon this meas ure—one of such importance. The contest, pro and con, will be no tame one. Carrie Moores, of Richmond, Ark., and Nel lie Estes, of Texarkana, Tex., returned from Staunton, Va., where they’ve been attending school. Mrs. Breswitz and her pretty children have returned from a lengthy visit through Mississ ippi, and are cozily ensconced in their pretty new cottage-home on Olive street. The firemen are preparing to have a grand fourth of Juiy celebration. Mr. McLendon, of Florida, came into our midst and deliberately took unto his heart and home one of our attractive widows. The mar riage ceremony was performed by Rev. W. A. Tarne. The happy groom, with his handsome bride departed on the outgoing train for their home in the American Italy. May life be to them as bright and flowery as the land of or ange groves and radiant flora in which they live. The society people are “folding their tents” (or packing their trunks) and stealing away to Long Branch, -Wancheshan, California, St. Paul, etc., so, ere long, there’ll be a great still ness, a resting time, a veritable benediction to the tired devotees of fashion and folly; a time for reflection and—mosquito fighting. We are to have a fashion wedding soon. One of our most brilliant young ladies—but we don’t want to tell all we know at once, so good-bye. Idler. There is a plan afoot to build in Philadelphia a memorial church in honor of the late Bishop Stevens. The Doctor: To be sure, Judge, to be sure. Keep fast hold of those precious prom ises. We cinnot afford to let them go, none of us. In one sense the Christian religion is personal—personal in its work, personal in its promises; and it is through this personal work that the other result I spoke of is to be brought about. If you want to claim the first to be more important you may do so. We don’t quarrel about that. I find in the Christian re ligion not only hope for myself as a man, but also for mankind as a race. And just that far, Judge, I claim that my conception of it is higher and my love and reverence for its au thor deeper than yours. The Judge : Doctor, I don’t know whether I fully understand you or not, but it seems to me that you are making a great mystery of a simple thing. These are questions of life and death, and we ought to strive rather to clear than cloud them. Dark sayings will but illy answer when tie simple and benighted soul is crying out for light. The Doctor: Not at all, Judge, no mystery of it nor cloud it with dark sayings. The great truths that most concern you and me, and every human being, are plain and sim ple, and he that runs may read. They lie up on the surface. But there are deeper truths, too, in this book that only come to light as the world is able to comprehend and receive them. “Each age,” says Lowell, “must worship its own thought of God.” He has revealed Him self fully in this book We do not fully com prehend the revelation yet, because we are not yet able to do so. The light is there, but the eye is not yet perfectly adjusted to it, and we see confusedly and indistinctly. No age sees wrong, but only dimly right. No creed was ever false to those who made it; but all creeds are false to those who did not make them. My truth, if held before your eyes, will shut out yours and be to you a falsehood. Men are never wholly wrong except in think ing they are wholly right. Let each age be lieve what it can. That belief, if sincere, will be its salvation. But not for those that follow. Handed down in creeds, it becomes to them a stumbling block, or else an idol shutting out the truth it purports to image. There are more idols than were ever carved in stone or hewn out of wood. Much, very much (I grieve to say) that bears to-day the boastful title of or thodoxy werd truer named idolatry. God’s revealed truth can no more be lawfully and harmlessly imaged in a human creed than can 11 is divine person be sculptured in marble and Himself not insulted and His form pro faned thereby. I quarrel with no man’s faith, except when he would thrust it before me to shut out my own My faith is my truth. His faith is to me a falsehood or an idol. If I receive it I am a worshipper of images—an idolater Thus do man’s pride and selfishness hinder his own de velopment and cast impediments in the path of progress. The Judge Professor, I turn to you sheer desperation. You can talk sense when you will; the Doctor does not appear to be able to do so. Tell me, in your honest opinion, can a man be a consistent believer in Christianity and an intelligent evolutionist at the same time? The Prof : An orthodox believer, no. But a sincere, devout, humble believer, yesl The Judge : I don’t understand you. The Prof.: If you’ll define Christianity I’ll make my answer plain. The Judge (after a moment's thought): I’m afraid you’ve set me a difficult task, Will. If I make the definition broad enough to compre hend all who would claim the right to be in cluded, its liberality would certainly be most strenuously objected to by a large per cent, of all embraced within its boundaries. If I nar row it down to satisfy them. I must necessarily exclude the others who would complain not less loudly of its narrowness nnd injustice. I cannot do it. The Prof.: Of course not. And don’t you see that you have answered your own question and also explained my seemingly paradoxical answer? H Christianity consists in accepting the tenets of any society, body or organization of men; in bowing to the authority of any partic ular creed; in recognizing as divinely bindiLg upon the consciences of men any so-called “Article! of Faith” or summary of religious belief; or in the interpretation of the Bible to conform to the doctrines of any sect or church, or number or sects or churches—if any, or all, of these constitutes Christianity, then I say a man cannot be a consistent Christian and an intelligent Evolutionist. But suppose we say that Christianity consists in accepting the Bible as the divinely inspired revelation of God to man with regard to man’s relation and duty both to himself, his fellow-man and his God. see nothing in Evolution, even if it were true, at all inconsistent with this idea of Chri f- tianity, and no reason why a man could not firmly and honestly believe in both. What has man’s duty to his God or to his fellows got to do with Evolution? Or what has any fact or hypothesis of science got to do with his duty? If you can bring them into a dependent rela tion, the one upon the other, you can do some thing, Judge, that I canno:. I think I have answered you. The Judge: Not so fast, Will. H accord ing to the doctrine of Evolution man is a de velopment from the lower animals, he possesses no faculty, power or attribute the germ of which did not lie in the beginning at least po tentially in that form of life with which the de velopment began. How then do you account for his spiritual nature? The Prof.: If the spiritual germ was pres ent in the beginning, by its gradual develop ment, Judge. The Judge: But if it was not? The Prof.: The burden of proof is on you to show that it was not. Estaolish that fact and I’ll answer you. The Judge: But how can you reconcile the evolutionist’s idea of man’s origin with the account of his creation and fall as recorded in Genesis? The Prof ; Judge, it is the business of those who believe both, to reconcile them; not mine. There are wise and good men who do so, and find no difficulty in it. So it is cer tainly not an impossibility. But, Judge, a thousand little questions could be sprung here and there, about which men could argue etern ally and come to no conclusion at last. As I said, what men do is clearly not an impossi bility. And after all, to him who believes the Bible to be what it purports to be, a revelation from God concerning our duties and our rela tions to Him and to each other—and no man who has ever investigated its claims with an honest, unbiased mind in all the world has ever doubted them thereafter—to such an one these little outside questions of interpretation that concern neither the one nor the other, are but of trivial import, and really not worth bothering one’s self about a moment—they are so utterly insignificant in comparison with those great facts about which there can be no question. We may believe what we please about the physical constitution of the sun, but not the less serenely and majestically for all our learned debates and fierce disputes does it roll on in its appointed orbit, dispensing light and life and warmth to all who do not hide themselves from its beams, or wilfully shut them out. So of the Bible, the glorious sun of the spiritual world about us and within us, as it shines in the sky of life with hope and light for all who do not willfully turn away from it. Believe about it what you will, only believe in it with all your heart and with all your mind. Do you want your plants to thrive, you put them out into the sunshine, and don’t bother about theories of light, sources of radiant en ergy, transverse ethereal waves and such non sense, for in all the world a theory has never been known to sprout a mustard seed, but sun shine can do itl and that, too, through the thickest clouds that ever gathered over the face of the vernal sky. Do you want your life to germinate and grow, to put forth leaf and blossom and bear fruit? Open your heart then, that the sun shine of God Almighty can freely enter, and don’t go bothering about the hows and whys and wherefores. The more religious theory, the less religion you are apt to have. Creeds at best are clouds; they can’t shut out the sun light wholly, God be thanked 1 but they can make gloomy days, and hinder more or less the soul’s free growth. The Doctor: I understood you to use awhile ago the expression “if evolution were true.”- You don’t mean to imply that you have any doubt about its being true, do you? The Prof.: No, Doctor, I did not mean to imply anything of the kind. I just meant to say it right out flatly and firmly. To be ex plicit, I have grave doubt about its being even tbe shadow of a truth. Insomuch so, that I believe it not only to be a very improbable, but an utterly unscientific and wholly unten able hypothesis. It is not directly supported by a single well established fact in nature, and is flatly contradicted by thousands, and leads to conclusions so absurd that reason and com mon sense revolts at it. Seen from a distance, or even examined into superficially it is a beau tiful theory, a charming, a fascinating, a per fectly lovely, a wonderful theory 1 Bab! so is a cloud-picture, but tbe lightest puff of wind can scatter in invisible atoms throughout the boundless realms of space. Such a structure is evolution, just as airy, just as unsubstan tial. That great and learned men have devoted their lives to the attempt to establish it, is no argument in its favor. I believe I may N safely say that some of the wildest, maddest theories that have ever sprang from the wildest and maddest of human intellects have had some of the worlds greatest men among their disciples and defenders. I cannot call to mind one that has not had such. But great men are liable to fall into great errors from which lesser men are safe. But how have these great men sought to es tablish Evolution. By a fair investigation? Not at all! They compass land and sea for a few facts that can be twisted and tortured and perverted into a semblance of support for the doctrine and parading them before the aston ished eyes of the world, ignoring with studious care the thousands upon thousands that will neither be silenced, nor bribed into giving false testimony. They are doubtless sincere in their belief as far as any one who magni fies to an unlimited extent the smallest jot of T , I evidence in favor of his doctrine while he per- 1. make aictontlv onH nrillfnllr irmnrnc oil nniilnnnn sistently and willfully ignores all evidence to the contrary, can be said to be sincere. Yet there is the germ of some great but as yet un developed truth in it somewhere. What it is I do not know, cannot even conjecture. Time will bring it out. Let us wait for it with pa tience. There never was a husk of falsehood but wrapped some kernel of truth in it. It will be worth the waiting to see what comes of this. (They smoke in silence awhile.) continued next week. Here and There. A Sad Picture—An Enterprising Ho tel-Keeper—A Double Shuffle. Editor Sunny South: The first syllables of Texas, the first of Arkansas and the last two of Louisiana, are ingeniously combined to form the name in the date liqe of this communica tion. There is something in a name after all; for this geographical philology indicates that Texarkana lies at the conjunction of Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. The Arkansas and Texas line runs through the centre of the town, while the Louisiana line is but a few miles away. By going two or three blocks I would be in the state of the famous tourist who won golden opinions from his rural host by know ing the latter half of that wonderful tune,' “The Arkansaw Traveler;” and I would have to date this letter at Texarkana, Arkansas, for there are two post offices, as also two munici pal governments and two county court houses and jails. Leaving Sherman, Texas, I sought the for ward car to enjoy a smoke. Just in frint of me sat a young woman in neat attire and with a pretty face. Turning around, she politely asked for a “light” from my cigar, which 1 gave with more surprise than gallantry. And, while I was forced to admire the grace with which she handled a cigarette, I could still but condemn her conduct with a feeling more of sorrow than disgust. It was not long before the peripatetic “newsboy” (though his appa rent maturity did not entitle him to the indul gent consideration usually accorded to youth ful follies) sought her society. Seating him self by her side, he produced a bottle from which she drank with a relish, and in a man ner that would have done oredit to the most ambitious cow-boy of the old school. * * * After her departure I believe there was not a man in the company who did not, either by words ar looks, deplore the fallen estate of one whose graces of heart and person might have blessed a home and adorned her sex. Here was some mother’s image, some father’s joy— perchance some brother’s pride—the object of every honest man’s contempt and the creature of society’s curse, wearing a brand mere awful than Cain’s and beyond a line which the sin- cerest reformation or the sweetest penance cannot obliterate. About four o’clock in the afternoon a pas senger got off at a station which boasted of one store and two hotels. Looking on him one was reminded of the honest old rustic who, after traveling fifty miles from home for the first time in life, gave expression to his sur prise at the magnitude of our little planet, by remarking: “Well, if the yeith is ez big ’tother way az tie this, I swow she’s a whopper!” Alighting, he accosted a citizen and quired for the cheapest hotel. Before he could receive the desired information, the proprietor of the more presentable of the two, having heard the query, volunteered: “If you want to go whar you can git the best the market affords, served up in the most ap proved style, go over thar,”" pointing in the direction of his own domicil, remarkable for breadth of sign, if not for beauty of architec ture. “But if you want to eat cheap slops and be et up by hungry bed-bugs,’’ he continued, pointing to his rival, “thar’s your honey.” The uninitiated tourist reflected a moment and then said, half apologetically: “Wall, stranger, I’d like to tackle the best the market affords, but az I’m runnin’ short of money, guess I’ll have to take chances with the slops and beg-buge " Arriving at Texarkana this evening, I ate a hearty supper and took a stroll down the prin cipal street to briefly view the manners of the town. I believe 1 can comprehensively and yet explicitly condense my impressions into the one statement, that Texarkana is full of progress and saloons. Passing down the street, I was attracted by the sound of a banjo from within one of the many places of liquid refreshment which seem- to flourish so well here. Through the partly open screen I per ceived that the instrument was operated by an efficient negro player, who succeeded in ex tracting just the right kind of music to inspire another “brother in black” into activity and restlessness, which found relief only in the artistic “double shuffles,” skillful “pigeon wings,” and wondrous “wirings,” that no minstrel can execute so gracefully as the native Southern darkey. I have a fondness for jig dancing which amounts to a passion. As boy and ■ as man, one of my chief ambitions has been to be an artist in this pedal accomplish ment; and I shall never cease to regret my failure to improve the opportunity wnich sur rounded my early childhood on a Southern plantation for acquiring this distinction. Quite a crowd soon gathered in front of the saloon, drawn thither by the music and danc ing. The proprietor, seeing his chance, closed the screen. By this time the crowd was so much interested that most of them went in, where, doubtless, many indirectly contributed to paying the fiddler. C. Enno. at Sugar Hill. Uncle Edom’s Fourth of July Speech- Feller citizens an’ citizenes-es: I has de ’casion uf appearin’ befo’ you upon dis occa sion, which occasion am de ’casion er my ap pearin’ befo’ you on dis occasion. It air wid feelin’s er de utmos' refulgence dat I appears befo’ you on dis occasion to luci- date upon a subjeck which I puppose to venti late to de best er my debility, an’ I shill stick close to de pints er de confluence whereby I is myse’f annihilated. De subjeck am also one which ev’y pusson, no matter er what insexes or complexions, is boun’ to tek a distended in trust in, fur it am nothin’ les dan de founda tion an’ devilopenment er de gloejous Anna Varsary uf Amerikin depennence which to day we do cerebrate. I see by de lights er yo’ countenances dat you air perparred to gin me yo’ unpervidedde tentions, so widout any fuLher perlimitary ob- serwations, I will ptrseed to decompose de subjeck. De forf er July, my frier,'s, air de mos’ gloy ous an’ gregarious uf our free republikin insi- tutions. Hit airde insitution consarnin’ which de great poet, Demosternnze, wrote more’n three thousan’ year ago, “Hit air de lau’ er de free an’ de home er de brave, but as fur me, gin me liberty or gin me death.” Hit air de institution uf our constitution which Gener’l Washin’ ton an’ Julius Scissors an’ Aberham Linkum, dem good ole patriarchs, fit, bled an’ died to save, dat we, my frien’s, mought injoy in peace our forf er July bobbecues, an’ warm upde sperrits er patriarchism in our breas’es wid de remem Deration er dere aticetteral great ness. Fur ef <W hai not tit, bled an’ died in d scause, my feller citizens, dar wou'der bin no forf er Juiv, an’ef dar warn’t no f rf er July, dar would be no forf er July bobaecues, an’ ef dar warn’t no forf er July bohbecues, dar would be no little brown jugs hid aroun’ in de bushes, whar de pollyti :ians teks dere con- siterants an’ gins ’em a free dram fur a re- memberation agin election day; an’ so you see dat, kinsequontly, de forf er July am de ve’y tap root an’ bottom limb er de refulgent tree uf Amerikin institutions. An’ now my frien’s, what air de meanin’ an’ intentions er dis word, Amerikin insitutions, an’ what air we to onerstan’ by it? Hit mean my frien’s, de ruppersentation er de insitutions by which de insitutions uf Amerikin depennence air brung into ratification wid de gover’ment by which de powers er de position is obtained. As de planits in dere orbs all relates aroun’ de sun, an’ de sun an’ de moon in dere orbs relates aroun’ de earf, so all de nations er de earf relates aroun’ dis glorious public uf ourn, an’ draws de lights er knowlidge an’ freedom from it, as de earf draws her light fum de sun an’ her weather an’ her crap luck fum de moon. An’ now dat you may allon’erstan’ clarly de comperhension er my rematks, I will perseed t.O tP K nn Ha TYl I TY7 TtAQtTl^ n f Alii* tnof iftiff nnn WASHINGTON CITY. Reminiscences of Distin guished Public Men. Incidents Which Have Transpired at the National CapitoL By BEN: PERLY POORE. No. 192. Holly Springs—Happy Marriage, Etc. Editor Sunny South: The Methodist church was filled to its utmost capacity on the evening of the loth, with the elite of the city, gathered to witness the marriage of Rev. J. W. Malone and Miss Lillian Kimbro. At the appointed hour, from the skilled fingers of the accomplished Miss Lizzie Clark, the grand wedding march pealed forth. The bridal party entered, preceded by the lovely and handsome attendants. The bride, attired in an exquisite cream surah silk, and enveloped in the mystic bridal veil, looked the very poetry of love and beauty, the groom clothed in the conventional black, looked a very Apollo, justly proud of the fair jewel who before God and man he claimed as his own to love, cherish and protect. 4 For the past two weeks all the town has been a stir attending the closing exercises of the different schools. Franklin Female Col lege so well known as one of the first institu tions in the State, closed with the usual inter esting exercises. The essays by the graduates, Misses Ann Finley, Alice Smith, and Anna Fennell were each one well rendered, and bore evidence of the most careful training. The ad dress by Col. Meek, of Columbus, Miss., was indeed a master effort. Miss Mary Matthews received a beautiful gold medal for the greatest proficiency in music, which is the second year in succession she has wod the same honor. Miss Ella Ward, of Louisiana, received a medal for good conduct, and lady-like beha vior. Sheriff Dan Miller returned from Arkansas yesterday with a white man name Moody, ar rested for murder committed eight years ago, a few miles from Holly Springs. After weeks of most unbearable heat and dust, we were blessed with a splendid rain last night, greatly beneficial to crops and gardens— as well as mortal man. Rex. Holly Springs, Miss., June 25th, 1887. to tek up de mo’ imposin’ uf our institutions in pertickler, and displain to you dere mean in’s an’intimations. Fiist, dar is de gloryous insitution er de bal let, by which every man kin tek his vote, which ’taint nothin’ but a little scrap er paper wid some names wrote on it, an’ git fum twenty- five cents to a dollar, fur expositin’ it in faver er whichever canidit’ll pay de mo’est fur’t, an’ more’n dat, he kin git jes’ ez many free drinks ez he want to, by jes’ only a pomisin’ to vote fust fur one side an’ den fur t’other. Now my frien’s’y’all knows dar aint no other country in de ’varsal world, whar folks kin mek sech i good livin’ outen dere ballet, as in dis heer glo yous ’public er ourn, an’ dat’s why you keer so much ’ bout de campaign ’spences at ’lection times, de campiign fund bain’ a benevolent in sitution fur enablin Amerikin citizens to mek a honest livin’ outer dere votes. Anudder gloyous insitution in which no na tion er de earf cant hole a can’le to us, is de pension. By de consitution er de pension, ev’y pusson what fit, bled and died, er stumped his toe in de gret civilized war, when Giner’l Grant and Giner’l Washin’ton sot de cullud race free from British depression, an’ ev’y pusson which air kin to sech a pusson, or which air kin to dem which air Kin to sech a pusson, have de ondoubted rights an’ titles to draw fum de gover’ment a suppole fur hisse’l an’ his wife an’ his chillun an’ his brothers an : his sisters, an’ his aunts an’ his uncles an’ his cousins, so dar ain’t no call fur ’em to wuk no mo’, but dey kin jes’ live at dere ease, ’dout costin’ nobody nothin, ’caze de gover’ment gin it to ’em. De only objection to dis insitu tion air dat it doan tek in de cullud race, but bre’r Chrismus seh he gwine ter curreck dat when he go to congus, an’ gwineter git a law passed givin’ to ev’y cullud pusson in dese heer Unnited States, a pension uf a hue nerd dollars a month. De third an’ last uf our superlatious insitu tions which I shill excuss wid you to-day air de tariff. Dis am a tarrifyin’ subjeck, my fel ler-citizens, to dem waat doan onerstan’ it; but I have studied di3 subjeck simplematically, an’ will displain my views fur yo’ benefiks. De harizontal induction er de tariff, fur de acci dental pertection uf Amerikin manifactures air caused by de impotation er de infernal taxes to suppote de supplus in de avenues er de treasury; so dat ef de pertectioners carries dere pint to de competition er tree trade, Amerikin industry will be paralleled by de degurdation er de pauper laber in Yurrup de meanin’ er all which, my feller-citizens, am dat furriginers an’ white folks mus’ be drove outer dis country, so dat cullud pussons won’t have no opposition to dere imployment, an’ so kin ax whatever wages dey chooses. An’ now, my frien’s, havin’ fully displained dese pints to yo’ comperhensions, I will con fuse my remarks on dis occasion wii de obser- wation dat de smell er bobbecued vittles begins to perwade my nostrils, de carcasses air a roastin’ at de pit, an’ I see by de water in de comers er bur Juber Jones’ mouf dat he Scents de fumes er gravy fum afar, An’ his jaw-bones aches to jine de gloyous war. Table Land of Tennessee. There are peculiarities of climate that are not easily accounted for. Perhaps were any one of them left out, the charm would be gone, but altogether make it a marvelous place! The altitude is but a tittle over 2 000 sweeping over the plateau, uninterrupted by surrounding height’s, that no vestige of malaria could pos sibly lurk there. Then the water, while lim pid and pure as spring water can possibly be, is strongly impregnated nfth the minerals that underlie the mountains. If there is disease of any kind in the system, these waters will bring it to the surface, either in the form of boiis or in a fine eruption, which is not agreeable at the time, but which leaves the patient well at last. It must be the climate and water com bined that do this, for until a few years past the diet was certainly adverse to health, being confined to bacon and corn bread. With the new civilization, all the comforts and manners of the outer world have crept in, and as wild game abounds, the table need never be fimited. Indeed, I think the menu of a supper given there a few weeks ago would compare favor ably with any one in our larger towns, be ginning with oysters and ending with NeaDoli- tan cream.—Cor. New York Sun. School Teachers as Old Maids. “How does it happen that there are so many old maids among the school teachers?” asked a reporter of a teacher the other day. “Be cause school teachers are, as a rule, women of sense; and no woman will give up a sixty dol lar position for a ten dollar man,” was the reply. Butler and the Professor-Witness. Gen. Butler is merciless when cross-examin ing witnesses. O.ice, on a trial in Massachu setts, at which Pr >f. Ilorsford of Cambridge, a compeer of Dr. Webster, the eminent anat omist, was a witness, he used the distinguish ed gentleman so roushly in his cross-examina tion that the court interfered, saying: Perhaps, Mr. Butler, you are not a »are who the wit ness is. It is Prof. Horsford of Cambridge.” Whereupon the terrible advocate fixing an eye upon each, replied: “Oh, yes, your nonor, know, a Harvard professor; we hanged one of them a while ago,” The Strongest Butter In the House. Gov. Seward used to tell a story about Gov. Draper of New York, who was dining one day at the Congress Hill Hotel, where the butter happened to be particularly rank. “Here, John,” said Draper to a favorite waiter who was standing beniud h.m, “John, take this plate away, some people like their butter stronger than others.” John took the plate., held it up to his nose a moment with the air of a connoisseur, then put it back again in its place, and observed in a firm voice: “Misther Draper, that is the strongest butter in the house.’’ She was from Ohio. When President Hayes occupied the White House, Mrs. Hayes saw a little girl gazing about in the East Room one morning, and went up to her with.outstreched hands, saying: “What is your name, little girl?” “Dora,” was the reply. “Well, Dora,” said Mrs. Hayes, “I am very glad to see you.” “You’d be gladder,” said the child, “If you knew I was from Ohio.” Mrs. Hayes enjoyed the joke as much as any one. Webster and the French minister. After the dethronement of Louis Philippe in ’48, the French Republic sent here as its minis ter Major Poussin, who had served in our en gineer corps. He thought that Mr. Webster then Secretary of State, was backward in ac knowledging the new Government, and calling on him one day, asked whether the United States intended to recognize the new republic. “Sir,” said Mr. Webster, gazing at Poussin from his cavernous eyes, “the United States have in turn recognized the Bourbons, the Republic, the Constitutional Monarchy, and now—” “Enough! enough!” exclaimed PoossiD, as if convinced that if half of these precedents were followed the desired recognition would take place. “And now,” Mr. Webster went on to say, “I think we can consider the propriety of ac knowledging the government you so ably repre sent.” John P Hale and Senator Foote. John P. Hale was a most incorrigible wag, and he delighted in making Senator Foote of Mississippi, who in an unguarded moment had threatened to hang him as an abolitionist, butt for his jokes. < )ue day, after a visit to New York, Senator Foote came smilingly in and took his seat at bis desk, rather astonish ing the other senators, as his previously bald pate was covered by a fine, curly, black wig, Up rose Mr. Hale, and demanded a special committee to examine the credentials “of the youthful upstart who had assumed Senator Foote’s likeness and chair.” Senator Foote rose up, and bowing politely, convulsed the Senate by quickly removing the wig, and hang ing it on his umbrella, with the.observation:" “With this motion on my part, which is quite in order, despite my illustrious colleague’s, the committee is not necessary.” There was round of applause. Remarkable Collection of Autographs, One of the rarest collections of autographs in this country is in the Department of State,, where the treaties and other communications from the crowned heads of Europe, since the Declaration of Independence, are preserved. When the British burned Washington, these treasures were packed in bags and carried out into the country. They now have a place in the magnificert library of the new Department of State, In addition to the handwriting of Emperor Napoleon, the ill-fated Marie “An toinette, crazy George III., Alexander of Rus sia and several Oriental sovereigns, are many American state papers. Prominent among these are the private papers of George Washington, and a volume which relates en tirely to the capture, trial and execution of Major Andre. There is the letter which that brave young man wrote to Gen. Washington the night before, as he says, “I am to swing upon a gibbet.” and there is also a letter from the traitor, Benedict Arnold, who infoims Gen. Washington that, having the interest of his beloved country at heart, he can no longer serve in the American army. With these auto graphs are many valuable souvenirs of distin guished individuals, including the war-sword of Gen. Jackson, which he broke in a fit of passion, and which was rudely mended by the camp blacksmith. I CURE FITS! Whflfi I BBT COT* I (in not IRaM Rural* I* — - - - .l MOST PERFECT MADE Prepared with strict regard toPnrity, Strength, and Hedthf ulness. Dr. Price's Baking Powder containa no Ammonia,Lime, Alum or Phosphates. Dr.Price's Extracts, V 7 &uillA, Lomoii) etc-, flavor dflliciQOBly» Bl/ons POWDER Cff. Cwcmco. add Sr. [twrfi Whan I say core 1 do not • time and than han them leal cara. 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Corporal of der Guartz!” The corporal came, and inquired what was wanting. Koch wished to be reliev ed for a few minutes, having something to say to Gen. Macpherson. He was gratified, and in a few minutes stood in the presence of the general. “Well, Mr. Koch, what is your plea sure?” asked Macpherson. “Why, general, I wish to snow what may be der value of dat wagon over which I am shentinel?” “How should I know, Koch?,, “Well, something ap proximate—not to be particular.” “A thous and dollars,perhaps.” “Very well, Gen. Mac pherson, I write a scheck for der money, and uen I will go to bets” (bed). Justice Harlan and the Speculator. The impertinent coolness with which corre spondents and stock speculators’ agents seek information is illustrated by a story which Jus- tic Harlan tells of a man who came to house one night, an entire stranger, sent in his card, and when the judge came down bluntly told him that he proposed to make a fortune for himself and the judge if the latter furnished him information about a certain decision that was pending and was expected to affect stocks. He would furnish tbe capital and do the trad ing, dividing the profits equally. Tbe justice was so completely taken aback by the man’s cool impudence that he scarcely knew what to say, but the humor of the situation'struck him at once, and he asked the caller if he would please stand up under the chandelier, where he could get a good look at his face. The stranger stood the scrutiny without flinching. Then said the judge, “My friend you have asked something that is not only improper and impossible, but your proposition ought to tempt me to kick you out of my house. I scarcely know why I do not feel in the mood to do it. I do not think you are aware of the significance of your proposition, and therefore I shall not treat you as I otherwise would. I am not go ing to enter into a speculation with you, as that would be wrong, but I will tell you how you can get the information you seek before any one else.” The man’s face brightened up, when the justice continued: “On the day when the opinion is delivered—cannot tell you when that will be—come to the Supreme Court room and take a seat on the very first bench, then, as it is read, the sound will reach your ears first. Good evening. But wait a moment, sir; you should thank me for not kicking you down stairs.” This machine is the Singer pattern and is simple, durable, handsome and comp lete. 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Certificates From Some Who Have Ordered the Machine and Tested it Allendale, S. O., May 2w, 1886.— o. H. Seals & Co.: I h«,ve received the Machine and my family area ery much pleased, indeed, and it is very probable you will sell some more in this section, as several persons have been to see ours and seem pleased. Yours truly, F. H. Dickinson. Henderson, Tex., June 24,1886.—Machine arrived safely in- perfect order. Gives perfect satisfaction,- in fact, we are perfectly delighted with it. Mrs. P. D. Chapman is my daughter. Very respectfully, J. P. Scales. Canton, Miss., June 22,1886.—Gents: The Machine received O. K, and like the “Sunify South,” gives entire satisfaction. Respectfully, H. D. Priestley. Raleigh, N. C., June 22,1886.—Gents: The Sewing Machine came duly to hand. We find it very satisfactory. Yours truly, J. W. Cole. Johnston, S. C., July 20,1886.—Messrs. J. H. Seals & Co: The Machine was received some time since and please accept my thanks for the same. 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