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Atlanta, Ga.
Robert Edmund Lee's Birthday.
Monday last was a legal holiday In
Georgia, so prescribed by act of her Leg
islature. It was the anniversary of the
birth of the mo it distinguished figure of
the American civil war and of one of the
greatest military commanders of the
world.
This emphasis of such an occasion was
ft : log for many reasons, chief of which
a e that the civil war is becoming a
tradition and that the resplendent part
b.> ne by the Southern side, if not pre
s~, ved to the South by the South, will
garish from history. Certainly “the
historian of the future”—so called—can
not omit altogether from his chronicles a
p artial record of those wondrous achieve
ments of the soldiers of the Confederate
Army whloh challenged the admiration
of the universe, and he will not omit to
name among its prominent leaders the
Incomparable Kobert Edmund Lee,
whose deeds in war and peace illustrate
equally the grandeur of American char
acter and the genius of Southern cour
age; bnt “the historian of the fu are,”
we (ear, may not be relied on to
do impartial justice to the consum
mate greatness bf this man, nor to those
be led into a hundred battles, nor to the
epoch out of which he and they emerged
with unstained escutcheon and unequivo
cal loyalty to their native land.
It is well, then, for Georgia,and it will
be well for all the Southern States, to
commemorate with annual formality and
vehemence the imperishable fame of this
lofty personage whom the world wonder-
r n at and every American should revere.
11 may be centuries ere the periphery of
i vents shall whirl into being so great a
man, so nnsnllled and splendid a soldier.
Senator David B. Hill.
Tne election of Governor David B. Hill
to the United States Senate, to Bucceed
William M. Evarts, is an event on which
the whole country, and particularly Its
Democracy, may be congratulated. Gov
ernor Hill Is a brainy, broad-minded gen
tleman, a skillful party leader, full of
Tigor and alertness aDd who will make
bis Influence felt In the Senate, where
be is destined to distinguish himself.
He will reflect credit upon his State and
his party.
Ingalls’ Great Speech.
Mr. Ingalls’ recent speech In the Sen
ate on free coinage had little to do with
the subject matter. It was a powerful
arraignment of the millionaire monopo
lists of American wealth, nowever, and
it was scathing and thrilling. It was
prefaced by a spiteful fling at the Sonth.
This,too,hadnotb ing to do with the theme
under review, bnt the speaker knew that
the sincerity of the other parts of hie dt'
Uvexance was certain to be suspected,
and he accordingly threw in, in advance
a Tew utterances which could be accepted
with candor—for everybody knows he
bates the South.
Had Mr. Ingalls delivered this speech
on the first of October he would have
atiSsd the McKinley bill, which he fa
vored, and have strewn his own way to
the next Senate. Of if he had spoken it
before November 4 th, the farmer element
ef Kansas, for whose favor he is now
making a life and death straggle, would
have floe«ed to him in the new Kansas
legislature.
Having failed to foresee both these
probabilities, reveals that Mr. Ingalls Is
a brilliant citizen and a fairly middling
politician, bnt no part of a statesman.
Still,such a speecu from any public man,
whether it be lngenuons or not, is time-
17 and valuable, it might be added that
ii. also embodied excellen t Democratic
doctrine.
English View of Oar Politics.
It is not often that an English newt-
paper presents an Intelligent view cf
American public affairs, but occasionally
one of them shows some familiarity with
political matters on this side. The Lon
don Times, for Instance, contained a
very fair and candid editorial commen
tary on the pending Foice bill. The
Times said:
The political supremacy of the whites,
however unscrupulously obtained, is
Hyperion to a satyr as compared wltn
toe negro supremacy wbich prevailed In
tne Southern Suites for many years aftt r
the civil war. No wonder if the memories
of those shameful days, when tne white
cltl z 3us of Sonth Carolina and otuer
states saw the “dregs of tne population
habited in the robes of their intelligent
predecessors, and asserting over tnem
the mle of ignorance and corruption —
to cite the words of a Republican and
originally a stance abolitionist—have Im
planted in the whites, now that they
nave regained their superiority, a dee
perate determination not to suffer that
era to reinrn. Tuey may have the lees
scruple In resorting to Irregularities
when they remember that the enfran
chisement of the negro, ae distinguished
irom his manumission, was an after
thought, having for Its object the reduc
lion of the South to political subjection.
The above having been well and tersely
said, it is a pity that the Times did not
there rest its review of the Force bill,
but while pursuing the theme still forth
er it falls again into the same unaccount
able blunder which has many times
characteriztd not only its own editorials
on the race question, bnt which, we blush
to say, has been also committed by cer
tain American newspapers. For cx
ample:
It invites ns to look ahead for one or
two generations, and predict, if we caD,
the lntnre of these Southern states,
where tns negro is multiplying far more
rapidly than the wnlte. In lour states—
Virginia, the CaroUnas, and Georgia—the
black population has Increased 353.4 par
cent., the white only 2201 per cent, in
the last 100 years. The colored popula
tion has grown from 549,597 to 2 492 358,
the white from 923.385 to 2.596,111. This
compa-atlve rate of increase continues,
although negro Immigration has long
ago ceased, and the black race is shorter
lived than the white.
It is absurd to sar that the negro has
multiplied more rapidly than the white
since the cessation of slave importation.
The present census will show the increase
of the former daring the past decade to
have been bat 10 per cent.; that of the
whites 2S per cent. The negroes' lax no
tlons of morality and disregard of marital
ties always made impossible even a nor
mal increase; while their ignorant and
neglectful treatment of their young, ad
ded to a well known disregard of all sani
tary precepts, positively destroyed, and
still destroys an appalling proportion of
their young. Compared with a white in
crease equal to 160 per cent, above that
of the negro, we take at randum for an
example of negro mortality the weekly
mortuary records of two cities In which
the whites and blacks are very neatly
eqnal-in number and where the negro is
found in his very best circumstances:
In Charleston the deaths were in seven
days, whites 7; blacks 42. In Augusta,
whites 5; blacks 19.
But worst, most monstrous, of all, the
Times says:
A moderate and trustworthy slat istician
estimates that by the year 1900 the ne
gross in eight States—the Caroiinas, Vir
ginia, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Lousl-
ana, and Mississippi—will number 6,440,-
000, ns against a white population ol 5,
912,000
Why, bless yon, at the ratio of present
increase, in 1900 the eight States named
will contain whites two to one, and the
whole nnmb.erof whites will equal both
the above sums added together.
Tne World Moves On.
In regard to a great many things we
are said to b > in a transition state. There
are industrial, social, moral, political
and educational problems pending which
do not seem approaching an immediate
solution. People are discarding the
conclusions of the past age, bat it can
not be asserted that they have as yet
reached any more safe. What whllomy
passed for axiomati c propositions are
now boldly challenged; bnt the chal
lengers have not anything to offer which
can be pronounced unquestionably bet
ter. At the same time there is an eager
looking forward and more or less of con
fident expectation. There is in the minds
of many a persuasion that something Is
going to tarn np; that there is to be a
readjustment of the terms upon which
society is established, and that old
wrongs are going to be righted and new
rights placed on firm foundations. Both
the political and the religions worlds
are in a fever of expectation.
Of course those who expect something
catastrophic will be disappointed. It -is
not likely that any great change will
take place suddenly. All mankind will
not cease to do evil by some hasty im
pulse and begin at once to act aright.
The champions of error will not at once
leaveoff the advocacy of its cause and be
come the zealous supporters of truth.
They who make their way to power and
wealth by injustice and oppression will
not or a sudden leave off the vile prac
tlces from which they derive advantage,
and begin the cultivation of justice and
mercy. The happy period whioh enthu
siastic optimists have been predicting is
not very near at hand. For many gener
ations there will be errors in theory and
wrongs in practice, and the contest be
tween truth and falsehood will seem to
be not an nne qaally waged battle.
Still we think the tendency towards a
happy Btate of things will gradually in
crease. Slowly will It come to pass that
a larger proportion of mankind will hate
vice and love virtue. When we compare
ourselves with those of twenty-five or
fifty years ago, we cannot claim that
there has been any marked change for
the better. But if we go back for several
centuries, we can perceive that men and
women are becoming more just and hn
mane. The movement, however, is very
slow. We may indeed compare the
changes that are ever going on in the
moral world to those operations of Na
ture which are by imperceptible degrees
altering the whole aspect of our globe.
In both the one and the other there is an
upward trend; but it requires long and
close scrntlny to perceive any movement
at all. _ *
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Premature Burials.
A ■ ommunity in a Western State, In
diana, we believe, were recently startled
by the announcement that a citizen or
that place who was supposed to have
died had been prematurely buried. It
appears that a brotner of tbe man who
lived at a considerable distance had ar
rived the day after the burial. To grati
fy bin wish to see the lace of his brother,
the grave was opened, and the corpse is
■aid. to have bsen found >n such a posi
tion as to leave no doubt that the man
had been buried prematurely. There is
nothing more repugnant to the human
mind than the awful possibility of a liv
ing person being consigned to the tomb,
and It seems that such cases occasionally
occur de-pite the fact that in most conn-
tTies precautions are taken to prevent
prematnre interments. Tne London
Standard states that “in England, as a
rale, the bodies of deceased persons are
not buried till signs of decomposition
begin to manifest themselves; and else
where it le enacted by law that inter
ments most not take place till three or
more days after death.” Death-like
tTances occur so frequently that too mnch
care cannot be exercised in regard to the
burial of persons who are snppoeed to
die. No one ought to be consigned to
the grave nntll after unmistakable signs
of decomposition have manifested them-
lelveB.
The following item will prove Interest
ing in this connection:
At Burlington, Iowa, Abner L. Dunn, a
brave veteran of the civil war, was
buried. He died several days before at
the age oi fifty-six years, but in accor
dance wltn a request he had made the
Interment was deferred as long as possi
ble. Tula was the second time Dunn had
died, to all appearances. Several years
ago, after a peculiar Ulness, the doctors
pronounced nim dead and nls body was
placed In a casket. Shortly before the
eoflio was lowered into the grave Dunn
showed signs of life, and in a few days
was well and strong. Tne story of his
experience was thrilling. He was eon
scions of what was going on about him,
understood the conversation, could even
see the faces of nls family as they bent
over him. Bat he could not speak or
move. A'terwards he had a dread of be
ing buried alive, and it was for this rea
son that he made the request for delay.
Oar Model Cyclopedia.
We give a model cyclopedia in three
volumes, one, two, and four. Volnme
three we do not send because it is
history of the late war from a Northern
standpoint and wonld not be acceptable
to onr people.
Tbe question of keeping a city clean is
the most Important wflh which those
having Charge of its government have
to deal. Upon the prompt removal of
matter likely to produce disease depends
the health and prosperity of the people.
This is a work that has no end. It is an
unceasing round where the performance They never consider that money Is serv-
of tasks to day dots not diminish what , tag the basest of purposes when it does
is to he done to morrow. j nothing but foster human pride.
Exaggerated Estimates.
Very few persons, If any, are quite
what they are reputed to be. They upon
whom the verdic; of public opinion has
decided to confer the adjective good, are
rarely so virtuous as they are rated.
They who by general assent are bad, are
not so wholly destitute of redeeming
traits as is sometimes supposed. While
the devil maybe as black as he Is paint
ed, they who give mnch of their time to
his service rarely are. The most un
lovely people have some estimable traits,
and we are forced to admit some defects
In those whom we most admire. It is
thus through all the catalogue of virtues
and vices. The bravest have their fears
and the most timid are not altogether
cowardly. The wordly-minded have their
times when their thoughts are drawn
away from earth’s vanities and fixed on
the hopes of eternal life, and they who
are most devoted to spiritual concerns
have some part of their affections en
twining themsolves around the things
of this world. Men sometimes acquire
the reputation of being very learned,
when, were they subjected to a rigid ex
amination, they wonld be fonnd to know
very little. Others become noted for
shrewdness, and the sagacity of these Is
apt to be largely over estimated. The
politician is often supposed to have his
aim sun clear before him and to never
hesitate In a settled purpose, when per
haps in reality his movements result
from a contrariety of influences. They
who become reputed for shrewdness in
adopting means to a given end, are gen
erally thonght to be more sagacious than
they really are. It is often the case that
the thousands whloh a man actually
possesses swell into millions in the esti
mation of those who have never been at
the pains to make any calculation of
values. Tans it is In regard to all the
Items of our speculations about what our
neighbors have or are. We are almost
sore to let onr Imaginations get the
better of onr common sense, and to mul
tiply by two, by five or even by a hun
dred the mat wrs that we are discussing.
So much have we fallen into this way of
thinking and speaking that we call one
a cynic or a slanderer who depicts men
and things as they really are. * •
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These low rates do not include any of
onr free gifts.
There are many who if required to an
swer according to their own convictions
the question “what is the chief par
pose of man’s lifeT” wonld reply “to
moke money.” If we are to interpret
their thoughts by their sets, many men
suppose that when they are adding deed
to deed and piling np thousands on
thousands they are doing what they were
sent into the world to do. The fact that
wealth is valueless save as a means for
improving tbe condition of mankind
seems never to have entered their minds.
Fn$e Coinage and Mr. Gk’yelaacU
There are just as many Democratic
newspapers as one might count upon his
fingers which persist in connecting the
present controversy over the free coin
age of silver with Mr. Cleveland’s posBl
ble nomination for the next Presidency
These papers, as a rale, are inimical to
Mr. Cleveland's candidacy, not because
he is not, as they cannot help see, the
foremost D unocrat of the country, but
became they entertain hopes that Gov
ernor Hill, with whom they more nearly
agree on the tariff, may become the can
didate of the Democratic party—a con
tingency hardly within the scope of pos
sibility.
Governor Hill is a very different sort
of statesman from Mr. Cleveland. In
fact, Governor Hill Is a politician, like
Mr. Blaine; and it Is true that Mr.
Blaine’s repeated defeats have been pro
portionally doe to the circumstance that
the American people are distrustful of
politician nominees for President. The
United States has never had a “politi
cian” for its Chief Executive, and it
probably never will have. A glance over
the political wreckage of the past re
veals sash men as Clay, Douglas, Blaine,
and others, all of them marvels of as
tuteness, bat all of them politicians and
all martyrs to defeated ambition. And
so it will ever be.
But the absurdity of attempting to
commit a prospective Presidential
candidate in 1892 to the present
monetary discussion, must be ap
parent even to the corporal’s gnard
of Mr. Cleveland’s Democratic foes, for
it is not a question for the next Presi
dent—it belongs to the present adminis
tration. At the time of the next national
conventions of both parties, the silver
question will have been settled in one
way or the other. It is utterly out of
place to seek to embroil Mr. Cleveland
in a public discussion which cannot af
fect his status as a citizen and which
will hardly be a burning issue when he is
nominated for President. The subject
belongs to the administration of Mr
Harrison, and its determination, of
course, may decide his fate in 1892—that
is, for renomination. It can have no ef
fect whatever upon the destinies of the
Democratic candidate, whoever he might
be. E ven Governor David Bennett HiU’s
remote possibilities coaid not be influ
enced for the better or worse by expres
sions for or against the free coinage or
other silver legislation of this Congress.
Mugwumps.
As is well understood, the reason the
Democrats carried the country at the
last election Is, that the party was rein
forced by the Republicans who have been
driven from their own party and have
taken refuge in the Democratic camp.
These men are men of intelligence,
who think more of their country than of
their party—men who are Democrats in
so far that they are opposed to the Mc
Kinley and the Force bills.
Without the active or negative aid of
this class the Democratic party would be
a hopeless minority in many of the
States necessary for the election of a
President.
The Clarksons and Dudleys and Platts
and Quays and Davenports have driven
them from the Republican party. They
have come to ns and have brought sev
eral States with them. They are among
the best and most Intelligent of onr peo
ple. Tney have brought to ns the aotive
aid of the most powerful newspapers and
other publications in the country—tbe
New York Times, Post, and Harper’s
Weekly are among the number—and have
left tbe Republican party pitiably help-
less in the matter of public journals.
These are the mugwumps. Who are
the men, of whom Mr. Cleveland spoke,
who stand at the entrance of the Demo
cratic camp to drive back these people
who desire to come in? They are the
Democratic spoilsmen. They are just
the kind of men who have driven the
mugwumps out of the Republican party.
No one but the most verdant will sup
pose that all the Quays and Dudleys are
in the Republican party- There sra
numbers of then' jn the Democratic
party. TnodiffaA,*? between the two
parties is that thP^ciaya and Dudleys
have possession ofW? Republican party
and are holding ’@afchioat with a firm
and determinedimpeide. In the Demo
cratic national o^j r ^|ittli>n the ruling
spirits are Oretjcdovielsnd, J. G. Car
lisle, and men
The mogwumpsierOprstand this, end
as long aB this beSilgn, healtnful influ
ence is paramount in the parly, they will
co-operate with it regardless of the
snarling and barking of the whole pack
of mercenaries and spoilsmen.
These men wish to diive all reform
sentiment from the party, because they
know that it is fatal to their trade in
offices and .spoils;" just as Dometrlus
sought to close the gates of Ephesus
against Pan! because he interfered with
his trade In silver images.
Tne Democratic party Is the party of
the people. Its principles are the prln
ciplea of human freedom and all should
be free to enter. No man who would
turn one aside is a true Democrat or a
friend of the party.—Hagerstown Mail.
Georgia Prodigies.
Georgia gave to the world Blind Tom
the Infant Drummer, Miss Liake, the
Armless Pianlate; the Two-Headed Girl,
and a long list of other novelties and at
tractions of greater ^r lesser merit.
But Georgia has ^.tcelled herself in the
product i on of a family of musical won
ders of the highest excellence. There
appeared recently at the New Park
Theatre In New York two bright, hand
some lads aged thirteen and fifteen, re
spectively, whose vocalism took Gotham
by storm. The Theatrical World of that
elty says of these little songsters:
The accompanying reproduction from
a recant photograph presents the excel
lent likenesses of masters Frank and Ed
Witmark, who are familiarly known to
tbe amusement public as “The Singing
Prodigies,” and whose specialties, Intro
duced in “Tne Inspector,” at the New
Park Theatre, a few weeks ago, proved
something like a revelation. Taese
youthfal entertainers, aged respectively
fifteen and thirteen, are certainly the
most finished artists, for their years, we
have ever listened to, and it is therefore
not surprising to learn of their conquests
in other cities. Both have cultivated
voices of unusual volume, and what is
more remarkable f >r two so yonng, is
the wonderful blending cf their vocal
efforts; this, combined with a natural
dramatic tastinct, gives them a distinct
and heretofore naoccupied place on the
stage. Tne Masters Witmark are the
youngest of five sons of Marcus Witmark,
the well known music publisher on
Broadway. Tne father, who was him
self a good musician in times gone by,
is an ex Confi d-rate soldier, having
served as an officer of the Fifth ninth
Georgia Regiment dnrtag the late on-
pleasantness. He was appointed by
Governor Brown, and several times pro
inoted on tne field for special services in
the lost cause. Mr. Witmark was
wounded at Gettysburg and taken prlB
oner to Johnson’s Island, Sandusky,
Ohio, where Col. John R. Fellows was
his messmate. Julias P., the popular
tenor, who was at one time a madrigal
with the San Francisco Minstrels, and
isidor, the co n poser of “Jack Won’t For
get Yon,” and other vocal successes, are
the elder sons of Marcos Witmark.
Home was oacemausldered not wo
man’s kingdom h p£ her temple,
wherein were 0* at druggL 4vihe most
venerated obje?w“U5f ’f w
too many regard it ak rather a prison
house. The sweet and lovely virtues
which flourish in greatest beanty amid
the retiracy of the domestic circle, these
hold at a heavy discount. It is held as a
lack of proper self-appreciation that a
woman of intellect should be content to
confine her energies to looking well to
the affairs of her household. It is in
sisted that she should publish a declara
tion of independence, and let man un
derstand that she knows her rights and
dares maintain tnem.
It used to be thought, and by some it
is so argued still, that when yon give a
poor man the ballot yon furnish him a
protection against tbe oppression of the
rich. But in the practical working of
the thing It proves quite the reverse.
Capitalists have learned all too well how
to bay np voters and yet evade all laws
to the contrary, thus turning the poor
man’s weapon of defence into a means
for his further degradation. Yet would
we not advise a giving up on the part of
those wuo are struggling for right
against organized capital.
A Sprig of Shamrock.
On Christmas day Mr. E. C. Murphy,
of Atlanta, received through the mails a
very pretty and appropriate greeting
from a gentleman in Ireland. It was a
holiday card containing a fine specimen
of the Irish national emblem, culled from
Its native heata, and surrounded by
moses and grasses peculiar to Ireland.
Mr. Murphy esteems It very highly; and
it is a lac j tnat there are thou lauds of
Irish Americans and of irishmen them
selves in tnis country who never beheld
native snamrock. Tue following
stanzas, better known than their inspira
tion, was printed ou botn sides of tne
Sprig of Buamrock, and made np, all in
all, a very unique souvenir:
The Shamrock of old Ireland
Keeps ever green ana Irue,
Fu emblem ol the friendship
That exists between us two.
I.ong may it flourish and survive
The ehilliug bntsts of lime;
Long may the peace of uuity
llweli round tny hearth and mine.
Our Shamrock is our nation's pride,
And ever shall remain—
’Twas sung and tuned by many bards
Of ancieut Irish fame.
Then let me send you just a sprig
Culled with the morning uew—
’Twill speak its language to our heart
And oring its blessings, too.
PEOPLE
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The “rainy day” is almost certain to
come, and he is to be oharged with im
providence who does not lay np some
thing in store against its approach. B ut
what shall be said of those whose slender
means barely enflloe to meet the de
mands of the present? Assuredly we
will not blame one for not saving when
all of his slender earnings will not sup
ply his wants. Tney who are tn this
condition may be numbered by the thou
sands. Perhaps did tnose wno do the
payiog pay more lloeraiiy, they won.d
not be so often called on to give to those
who cannot save.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, D. C. Jan. 16,1891.
Mrs. Harrison is happier and prouder
of her success in getttag a bill intro
duced in Congress providing for an addi
tion to the White House upon her own
plane, than of anything she has done
since she became mistress ot that his
torin and somewhat dilapidated mansion.
Everybody knows the weakness of femi
nine human nature for planning houses;
bat in this case I am informed by a clever
architect who has gone over them, the
plane are not only good and symmetri
cal from an artistic standpoint, but they
are entirely practicable. If the bill be
comes a law Mrs. Harrison will be blessed
by all future mistresses of the White
House.
Very bad news comes fiom the sick
room of Senator Hearst, who has been
suffering for some weeks from a cance
rous growth in his stomach. His physi
cians have notified his family that there
was no longer any hope of his recovery.
Mr. Hearst nas not made a brilliant rec
ord as a legislator, bnt he has won a
warm place In the hearts of many people
whom he has attached to him by strong
social ties, and sympathy for him is
heard on all sides. Last year he bnilt
one of tbe most elegant private real
donees in Washington, which was opened
this season for tbe first time. There is a
superstition here that misfortune always
overtakes the senator who builds a fine
residence here.
The mnch talked of wedding of Coant
Devonne to Mies Audenried came off at
Sc. Matthews church. The ceremony
was performed and tbe nupital mass
celebrated by ArchblBbop Corrigan of
New York, who came over specially for
that purpose. It was one of the most
exclusive weddings that ever occarred
here, tickets being required not only
for admission to tbe church, but for the
part of the auditorium in which yon
were to sit. Toe.best places were reserved
for officials, the diplomatic corps and
relatives of the bride and groom. The
full name of the groom, as entered upon
the registry of the court when the li
cense was Issued isi Charles Marie Su-
dovie de la Forest, Compte de Devonne.
It's big red apples to wooden tootb picks
that the bride has already condensed the
whole string into “Charles,” with the
accent long drawn oat on the last sylla
ble.
Entertainments are becoming quite
frequent la dlplo uatle circles. Tonight
Senor Quesada, the Argentine Minister,
gives a dinner, and on tne 23d lost., the
Spanish Minis er a d Mine Suarez give a
bail, which will be ;nauarily in honor of
the birthday of the oaby king of Spain,
but being the first entertainment given
by the piesent minister it will be in the
nature of a house warming. It will be
tbe first ball at the Spanish legation i□
many years, and is looked forward to by
those fortunate enough to have received
’tovRations »Mi s-fefeatvleal or pleasure.
The House evidently believes there is
something In the sliver scandal, as it has
not only adopted Mr. Dockery's resoln
tion authorizing an investigation of It,
bnt has gone a step farther and author
ized the committee to ascertain wno owns
the fl2,0D0.l00 of silver bullion wbich the
the financial bill now pending provides
tor selling to the Government. If the
committee can obtain this information
which is somewhat doubtfni, It is be,
lieved that a great sensation will follow-
Tne prospects of the copyright bill,
are not thought to be as It rig at as they
were at the first of tue week, as not hav
ing been voted upon before tbe disposal
of the Financial bill it will now be an
tagonized by tbe Pure Food bid, the Ap
portionment bill, the Labor bills and
regular appropriation bills, several of
which are ready to be reported to the
Hecate.
Mr. C. P. Huntington, the Southern
Pacific railroad king, is here for the
purpose of attending a meeting of the
House committee, whicu is trying to
settle the question of how the Pacific
railroads shall pay their Indebtedness to
the Government,
Among our most notable visitors this
week are the distinguished ilterateur
Henry Guy Carlton, and Mme Barrios,
widow of tne unfortunate former presi
dent o'Guatemala. Mme Barrios is still
a strikingly handsome women, and she
is immensely wealtny in her own right.
I made a diligent searen for the “con
sternation,” which various out of town
papers alleged to have been caused here
by the action ot Great Britain in at
tempting to get a decision in favor of
that country from the Supreme Court. I
didn’t fiad it. It Isn’t here.
PATENTS GRANTED
ToinventorB in the Southern States dur
ing the past week. Reported for this
paper by C A. Snow & Co., Patent At
torneys and Agents for procuring Pat
ents, Opp. U. S. Patent Office, Washing
ton, D. C:
F. E. Barr, Saratoga, Ark., planter; L.
I- Dodeunam^r, Kerner-tvUle, N C.,med
icine cis ; F. J Cole, Btitimors, Md.,
card case, lor reignt cars; W. J Cussen,
Ricnmuud, Va., tobacco pone ; J D. En
nes, Norfolk, Va , folding parlor bed
stead; R P Henry, Wadded", N. C.,
hoisting apparatus; w. Henry, C olumbia,
S. C . fire or ourglar alarm; S M. J. House,
Hliisbnrougn, Va., fence; W. L Johnson,
Lake City, Miss., back band; 1’. Keely,
Mempuis, Tenn, waste pipe; H. N.
Moore, repeating action for pianos; J. J.
Hlser, Arcadia, La., attachment for
cotton presses; W. A. Randle, Oakland,
Aia., foot warmer; R M. Sully, Peters
burg, Va., cleaning composition; S. Ste
venson, Bastrop, La., lire escape; E.
Tuomson, Baltimore, Md., can soldering
macuine; 3. J. Webb, Minden, La., force
pump; Z J. Goodwin. Memphis, Tenn.
oust aud cinder protector; August Koch
New Orleans, La., apparatus for distilling
wood; L. B Houston, San Antonio, Tex.,
spring bed bottom; Wm. Hogan, Co-
rintii, Ga., fire tlgntener; Edte Pool,
Fotdyce, spooirack tor sewing machines.
taking, and I think unless natural cr
cu.tivated talent abound freely, it will
be an undertaking indeed, but I hope,
under the present manager, the perform-
anc; will reflect great credit upon those
Who kindly consented to take part in it.
Dr Guerrant, a noted revivalist from
Kentucky, is now conducting a very in
teresting meeting in the Presbyterian
church at this place. Two services are
held every day, one at eleven o’clock in
the morning, and the other at seven
o'clock in the evening. All the minis
ters of the town and county, together
with the visltirg ministers—Messrs-
Summey of Chester, and Anderson of
Rndebil!—attend aad assist in the meet
ing. Up to this time eight have joined
the church, and many cbnrch members
have been revived. Dr. Gu» rrant is a
Huguenot, and he speaks with a quick
ness and pronunciation sacharacteristic
of them. One couldn’t help from being
impressed with his piety and his logical
analysis of the gospel troths. May his
teachings’prove an awakening to many
a heart almost dormant, and may he
have the consolation of seeing the Iruits
of his labors in the home above.
We all look forward to tne SUNNY
South with great pleasure, and we enjoy
tbs writings ol Bill Arp and Plunkett,
the sermons of Dr. Taimage, and otner
interesting pieces. We would like to
hear Bill Arp on thedeieatofour beloved
Hampton. The best and most loyal peo
ple oi our community look upon the de-
reat of Wade Hampton for tne United
StateB Senate as base ingratitude. Do
we not love and reverence Washington
for what he has dyne for our cyuniry?
Then why shouldn t South Carolinians
feel the same towards Wade Hampton?
Let us ever remember those who stood
by him to the last, and forget the others
for, in their remembrance, notning but
ingratitude could be thought of. Shak
ape are has well said:
Blow, b ow thou winter wind!
Tbou art not so unkind
As mail's ingratitude.
M. C. A.
Ate tbe Canary.
A curious incident happened some
years ago in a New E gland town where
eccentricities of character are well de
veloped, says the Boston Courier.
A willful old lady, who came of ances
tors who had held almost feudal sway in
the village in the old days, and who in
the midst of her fl >wers, of which she
was extremely fond, lived for seventy
years in virgin state, had a pet canary ol
which sue was very fond. Tne bird was
old like his mistress, and was never con
fined to his cage. He was to be found
flying about the hous9, or more often
nestled in the gray hair of his mistress,
which was abundant and crinkly as that
of an old negress. Tne affection of the
old lady for ner bird was tne one passion
of her fi'e, which she neither concealed
nor checked. Sue had been known to
say tbat if the bird died she would kill
herself, and hertownspsople, who knew
her pretty well, held ner quite capable
of doing so.
In tbe course of time the old lady her
self, after lighting death on her feet
almost to the last day, found herseil
about to die. When she was told by her
physician that she bad but a fewnours
to live the dying woman, who even then
forced herself to sit up in bed, bad her
cook snmmoned to her presence. When
that personage arrived she found her
mistress holding to her breast the car a
ry—a thing well nigh as forlorn-looking
and as near death as herself.
» For a moment the old lady took no
notice of the servant, continuing to
caress the bird. Then suddenly she
seized the bird by the throat with her
long bony flugerd and strangled it before
their eyes.
•• vVe are at theerd,” she Bald,laying the
little thing on her withered palm and
looking at it with dry eyes.
Sne kissed it and then held it ont to
the cook.
“It is to be cooked,” she said.
“Cooked?” the astonished servant
ejaculated.
Tne girl had expected to be told to bury
it in the garden, and while not under
standing why she should have been
cbosen for the office of undertaker, in
stead of the maid or the butler, sue was
too well accustomed to her mistress to
be surprised at tbat. The command
given her, however, was tos much tor
even her.
“As soon as possible,” her mistress
said. “I have only three hours to live.”
•‘But what shall I do with it?” the cook
asked helplessly.
“Bring it to me as soon as it is ready.
The word of the old lady was law, and,
altnough the servants decided that she
was stark mad, her orders were carried
out. The canary was prepared and
roasted, and in due time taken to the
bedside or his dying mistress. The poor
woman, whose forehead was already
damp with the de -vs cf death, collected
all her remaining strength, and with an
effort of the will such as she alone would
have been capable of sue began to eat
the bird. Sue swallowed a morsel or
two, the attendants and those aronnd
looking on with amazement, and then
the firk dropped from her fingers. She
was as lifeless as the bird she was eat
ing.
Whether the whim of the old lady was
a return to the savagery of her ancestors
let him determine who is wise enough.
The idea that by eating her pet she could
take him with her may have been in her
mind, or at least it might have been in
tne mind of some barbarian in whose
veins her llie-blood ran centuries ago.
The man who steals a pig or a chicken
is a thief. He who falls short in his ac
counts of public money by ten or twenty
thousand is a defaulter ana half deserves
onr pity for his poor gift in
But he who grabs a million is ■’brilliant
financier, and the object of ‘ boundless
admiration. Such is the world’s way of
noting things. Will it ever be other
wise? _______
The public mind is not logical. The
opinions and prejudices of the ma ® 8 ® 8 of
mankind are not such as by the deduc-
tlons of reasons they should be. They
can admit that leaders have brought
them to calamity and almost to rain and
still regard them with feelings approach
ing idolatry. Perhaps this will not be so
when a higher order of intellectual cul
ture shall prevail.
A man may become a tyrant without
being inherently and unavoidably bad.
Let one be a little stubborn, somewhat
exacting, rather hasty of temper and
slightly vindictive, and if you clothe
such an one with irresponsible power,
he will be practically a tyrant. We are
not to suppose all merciless who have
been guilty of cruel deeds. There are
few Indeed who would not abate abso
lute power.
When Samuel hewed Agag in pieces he
supposed tbe indignation which impelled
him to tbe deed altogether righteous, and
we tave no assurance that his people
condemned the act. Since his day, very
sincere religionists have 1l dieted very
great sufferings upon others under the
persuasion that they were doing right.
But the judgment of posterity must con
demn all deeds of inhumanity, whether
performed in the name of religion er
otherwise.
Ca»sandra was so unpopular as to be
charged with madness because it was
ber mission to tell of thtags which those
to whom she spoke did not wish to hear.
A like fate Uas befallen many who have
felt it their duty to speak the unpalat
able. It is not good for one s reputation
nor alwajs for the safety of his person
for one to be wiser than those of his day.
Yet the same power that endows one
with the gilt of prophecy often forbids a
withholding of tue voice.
LANCASTER, S. C.
Editor South Sunny: The masquer
ade ball and banquet given recently by
the ladles of onr town at the residence
of Mrs. W. A. Moore, was a decided suc-
oeas. The gu sts began to aaaemble
about nine o’clock tn the evening and tn
a abort while tha parlor, the sitting, and
hail were filled with the masqueraders
Some years ago the question ot abol- | in costumes of every color and style lm-
lshlng the Honse el Lords waa gravely Sa “« of tbeae oostnmea were
■mrmiatJMi hv anma Rritiiti writon. And *®deed beau iful to behold, while others
suggested by some Briuan wmon.muu n mdaooa ln tha
following in their line some American
papers rather advocated theabolition of
onr Senate. Since that time, however,
the wisdom of the framers of onr Consti
tution In providing this check upon
hasty and Intemperate legislation has
been abundantly vindicated. Had there
been bat ont chamber oj onr national
legislature some very unwise laws wonld
have been imposed upon our p«*pl«
ouriog the past few years. We say, let
the Senate remain.
The following la recommended as a
Men Wlio Can’t Propose.
“I think it is a real shame that we
girls can’t do the proposing at times,”
ponted an Evanston youhg lady to her
companion on a suburban train a few
mornings ago. “I’m sure we wouldn’t
make such terrible work of it as some
yonng men do. When a young man is
dying to propose, and a young lady is
dying to have him do so, it seems as
tnough it ought to be a simple matter to
reach an understanding.”
* What has set you to talking in that
strain?” asked her companion. “Have
yon been having trouble with bashful
young men?”
“No, they’re not bashful, but they are
foolish.” And then she lowered her
voice to a little above a whisper and con
tinned: “You know Mr. Waltawhlle has
been calling upon me for nearly two
years, and for tue last several months
he has been just dying to propose. I did
everything a lady could reasonably be
expected to do to mate it easy for bim.
Yon know how awful it would appear if
we seemed to urge matters in tne least.
But still he hesitated and waited nntll I
became exasperated. As a last resort, I
thought I might bring nim to his senses
by telling him that acertain other young
gentleman, whose name i did not men
tion, wished to call on me, and I wanted
him to intimate lfsnch an arrangement
wonld be agreeable to him. He didn’t
have spank enough to say anything to
me, bnt in the privacy of his own room
he wrote me, saying he feared his society
was no longer agreeable to me, and that
he would await an invitation from me
before calling again. Now he’s a good
young man, sensinle in everything else
but love making. Of course when he
comes back matters will be brought to
an understanding, but it is awfully hu
miliating to have to write to him.”
“if I were ln $ our place,” said her com
panion, who bad been a patient and very
tnmb interested listener to the story,
“I’d Just let him go and let the other
young gentleman call in his stead.”
“But there is no otuer young gentle
man. I just made up that sttry lor the
occasion, you understand.”
“Oat" said her companion, “that’s
very different.”—Chicago Herald.
Ireland and the questions arising
therefrom form the engrossing item of
British politics as much as the negro has
ever done in American. We cannot
doubt that the ultimate results of the
disjussions now going on will be the
liberation of that brave, long oppressed
people. But it may yet be far off. The
downfall of Parnell and the fast ap-
proacnlng dotage of Gladstone may post
pone the day of Irish liberation half a
century.
It is commonly asserted by lecturers
on oratory that a speaker’s powter over
his audience arises chiefly from their
conviction of his honesty. Doubtless it
increases the force of his sway if each
hearer is satisfied that he believes every
word that he is uttering. But if the ora
tor keenly studies his audience, he may
carry them with him though ne be whol
ly Insincere. Barristers have often wrung
verdicts from juries in favor of clients
whom they knew to be in the wrong.
Since her death, Emma Abbot has been
spoken of in the papers in a style very
different from that in which puritanical
religionists have been wont to speak of
women who have figured upon the stage.
There are doubtless those who would
not commend her from the pulpit as one
worthy or imitation, and perhaps it would
not be well to do so. But there is cer
tainly more disposition, even on the part
of the sturnly moral, to render homage
to those who have succeeded in a high
order of art.
It is predicted that in the coming time
the performers of tasks once called menial
will not be noted as servants, bat as
proftssors who have prepared themselves
fully for their vocation and who will
claim to be experts in their line of busi
ness. The cook will be employed profes
sionally, and will prepare meals withont
the dictation or surveliance of the em
ployer. The hoctler, the chamber-maid
and even the body-attendant will ail dis
charge their ettices without ever being
ordered, or without allowing criticism.
Happy times those will he.
One Way to Tell It.
“The best story I ever heard illustrat
ing the effects of a morphia Injection
in the «xtreme. Among was told me today’’ said Health Officer
the most striking ones worn by visitors Dotfi- Id yeatsrdsy. A doctor wssdrlv-
were Santa Ciaua b.v Mr J C Lindsay of ing along a country road, when he came
Rodeviile and tne Japanese0.0 Woman, j upon an agad colored <n*u wno was en-
by Mr. 8am Drai oi Biadtsburg. Proba- ■ deavoring to persuade a balky male to
bly *“e most bldeoas was t -at worn by i proceed on i s Journey with a wagonload
Mr Gao. W. Aliison of Bladesoarg. Af- | of wood. Toe old man appealed to the
ter tne assemblage of all tbe next in ; p lyaician' to prescribe something that
order was dat cing, the music being wool I start the oodurate qaadrapel
far ished by the Lancaster string band, ; Tbe doctor leaped from his bogey with a
wbieu continued until twelve o’clock, : small syringe ln bis nand, plunged it
when all wended tbetr way to tbe dining Into the mule’s side, and IdJacted a qnan-
room, tbe masks having been removed a tity of morpoia. Tbe long-eared animal
short while before, where ineir eyes bo- j gave a prolonged bray, threw its bead
held everything to refresh tbe lnnerman. ! in'ihe air, and started down the road
After partaking of tbe sumptuous re- ' with the spi ed of a cyclone. The negro s
past and resting from the ouiinuoi s eyes protruded as he gazed after the flv
OZUftiOD Of tbB dailCA t.Mn amnuomon? an inn tmilo * * y”* 1 * ’JUUTHI 40Q(J qj -j ~ ^ ffifL
noase to*iriLn Ho,l8okt ** per * 1 h * ve no
3d of a( L ra wa ‘ named on tne
t t | ance I cannot g?* 8 ' no insur-
ndiee *audThus indloki** Where tne cracx , possloie pr sentatiou of this opera will into me right qu’cc Yore’s ler i 1 hli<1 to g^ve'u^overvtoiak
end* - I *»k« a great deal of drilling and pains-' I sgot ter xeton dat muie.”> 3 “° ney - j lo ^ and felt I ooidd not part
. ra ck in a ex«rtion of tbe dance, this amusement, so lug mule,
sore way of finding where deiignt’ul to many, was again indulged i “‘Hown
piece of metal end*: Moisten the surface in a:*d continued u-.til a late hour. j him. boss?’ ne aiaed.
With petroleum, then wipe it, and then | Toe amateurs o'our toarn hope to pra ; “-O.’ replied tDe doctor, laughinp
Immediately rao lt with cnalk. Tbe oil sent before onr people in a abort wi i e, *ab >ur. ten cents’ worth.’ * ••
tbat hu penetrated into the crack ex- the comic opera. Little Tycoon. Toe i “‘Welt. deu. pat
v “wo K . ,, th. nrflnr nnaatniM nr nhiiiat.ion nf »k< u * •
udee, i
ends.
MORL KIND WORDS.
What the People Say About the
Sunny South,
J. S. Arwine, Columbus, Ind.: “I like
the 8unny South and cannot consent to
do witnout it.”
W. M Moore, Lancaster, S. C.: “The
Sunny South is an absolute necessity
at my nouse.
. Smlth ' Bsaver Ridge, Tenn-
Ut ail the papers we take we like the
Sunny South best of all.”
Mrs. Maggie Baird, Greenwood, Miss.:
,? a . oue C0 Py of tne sunny South.
outfit ’’ a *° a *’ tor * caaQ ot exist witn-
C. D. Bell, Bell, Kv.: “Tha Rttvvv
taktuu in fact b88t pa P er we h * T « over
without i?® ’ C0UW not set along
J"; Georg'* Kayes, Chapman, Ohio:
visitor become snob a pleasant
ofa^ntlnuln°g“t.” nat thin *
***!?**■ Bsesley, Wesson, Miss.: “I
Irecffvlld 1 ^ £. lth SbwifY South.
am^Gi^i^S 00 *,’ F aYO«ie Poems, and
n^?y. pl<iaaed - 1 °*‘l ft my Cnrlstmas
present from tne Sunny South.”
Honey Grove, Tex.:
Sunwy wUhoa ‘ tue dear
durtol Bouth. Wo got very lonesome
auxing (tie iioildAys OectOM tne naner
did not come. Hera is S5^?newal^ P
Spartanburg, 8. C.:
tton Vo J 0 ** ,or Joar prompt atten-
other ailfl a« a - r .? aper mora “a 0
prosper. 1 ” 111 *' Rva^nd
ss
a little TiMt k* 1 * h*ve
a mile rest. Pat this #2 50 to oar create”
Tw r "' A ' Part on, Arthur City,
Sunny iouTH-Vend 8ub ’ Cl ' 1 ‘ mo “ 10 tne