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VOL. XII. NO. 42 .
VIENNA, GA„ TUESDAY’, MAY' 8, 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
WHAT ANSWER!
BY MH3. J. V. H. KOOKS.
Artown thro’ the ages comes sounding the crj
The question unanswered that “If a man die
Shall he live again?" Who can tell? Who can
tell?
We know not, hope only that all will be well.
If tw.ck to its elements passes the clay
That shelters the spirit for only a day,
Why may not the sonLas the body, return
To its clementi* too? But what do we learn
By questioning over and looking thro’ tears
To a past full o? idols and blocd-embalmec.
years ?
Though sweet lines of poesy rnn here and there,
Like sunbeams of gold, tbro’ a coJd, leaden air;
Though sweet, mournful music from days that
aro dead
fctill fall on the ear, healing hearts that have
bled?
Thougn 'tie sweet to believe in the legends of
old,
To see trees of life bend with apples of gold,
To bask in the tropics ’neath olive and palm
Where the kind words of Jesus, to the world
fell like balm.
Though sweet to the heart are the dreams ol
our youth,
The present is with us, full of stern, arctic
truth,
P-nll of new revelations for each new-born day.
And teacher and learner must both work and
pray
* or bow light and more light—once candles
would do—
And truths then discovered will ever be true.
But the error must perish, thus sayeth the
Lord;
Though keen pangs are suffered in severing the
cord.
'The ethics of Jesus, broad, soon narrowed
down
To village theologies." Christian and clown,
Inrougli sad years of miscegenation and
night,
Have loosenod their hold on the anchor of rignt,
Have builded a babel from whose crumbling
tower
r^ball be to humanity given new power,
And men shall go forth and shall labor alone,
And bread, shall bo given instead of a stone,
uod s truth in tho heart made alive then
Khali bo
From doctrines and dogmas the world shall he
free
To do right and live right the soul’s highest
good,
*By their fruits shall ke know them,” this grand
brotherhood,
Who work in God’s vineyard with hope fixed
above,
To Him alone looking for life thro’ His love.
Muncie, Ind.
A Story of Early Colo-
nial Days.
rrie mnirrer iosx no time in relaxing tnfl J lorest and wended fils way down the
c ircumstances of Achsah’s illness, and . village street he saw that a house at the
beforo evening all the gossips In the vil- other end was ablaze with fire. With a
BY CHARLES C. HAHN.
CHAPTER XII.
A WILD, WET NIGHT.
HE harsh
sen-
car-
tence was
! ried out at once,
and the poor
young woman
was compelled
to suffer an in
dignity that has
left a lasting
stain upon the
character of our
Puritan ances
tors.
The cruel
treatment which
his wife received
decided Egbert
to remove from
S a g n a u c li—
either to some other place in the colony
or to his home in old England. Tli* lat
ter place was chosen for him within a
few days by an unexpected letter from
his father. Egbert's elder brother had
been killed while hunting, and the
father wrote to recall the younger son,
who would now- bo tho next Lord of
Oswold.
Hut before Egbert Ingram could ar
range to leave Sagnauck other events
wero shaping themselves to keep him
longer in tho place of his wife’s persecu
tion. The inhuman sontenco of tho
Puritan judges had brought on a low
fever, and before a week had passed
Dorothea Ingram was insane. Her in
sanity was of a mild form, and the
vagaries which filled her mind wero of
the most elusive kind.
Some days dark ghostly clouds swept
over her and in tho wall of darkness
around, queer forms intermingled with
each other, fantastic shapes, distorted
faces of men and women. These -would
appear and fade and others come. At
times some woodland scene would appear
its plain as if she wore looking out of her
cabin window at the forests which sur
rounded her home; the waves of the
ocean beat in her imagination and tali
towering castles built themselves and
iisappenred before her eyes.
Hut at all times a light cloud seemed
to iioat beforo her eyes, a cloud which
slio was ever trying to penetrate and
which was so thin that sho was ever in
hopes of finding what was behind it.
Sometimes tho cloud passed away and
then some other object appeared. Now
it was Egbert, now tho minister, and
sometimes Mark Hillary. At length tho
beclouded intellect was able to under
stand what the object of its desire was.
Hidden by cloud or by tho perplexing ap
pearance of other forms was the figure
of her mother, whom she could not re-
member but whoso portrait she had worn
on her breast all her life.
Once did sho see the vision, through
clouds and darkness, and tho gentlo in
fluence of her spirit mother brought a
soothing peace, and Dorothea sank intc
an untroubled, childish sleep. After that,
although the filmy mist hung over liet
Still, tho vision never entirely faded.
Sho felt that the fair form was hovering
over her and tho consciousness brought
her rest.
During Dorothea's illness, her husband
never left the cabin, and yet tho two
wero never in need. Every morning,
when ho arose, Egbert found by his
cabin door some articlo of game, a fish
from tho river, or a piece of venison.
This soon became known to the buss
gossips of tho village, and every effort
was made to learn from what source he
received them. Failing in this they, fell
back upon the old theory that Dorothea
was being protected by that unknown
person to whom the minister had referred
on the day of tho trial.
Mr. Granville was not slow to hear
these tales. In fact he took pains to in
quire daily concerning the young couple,
and stored away every possible story or
theory as more evidence against the poor
woman. Every incident in Dorothea’s
life was now a theme for suspicion with
him. He remembered when she had
given way to anger and knew now that
she had been under the influence of the
devil; her friends had been won by evil
charms; her insanity was tho working of
devils in her mind, and the food with
which she was fed came from her
Master.
About this time Mr. Granville received
medical advice concerning his children,
and was bidden to take them for long
walks in the open air. He followed the
physician’s advice conscientiously, but
ho had become such a monomaniac that
each walk always led him and his two
daughters by Dorothea's home. One
day, as they were passing, they heard a
faint cry within the cabin, a cry so faint
and yet so peculiar that the three
stopped, and Achsah said:
“Papa, did you hear the kitty?”
The father looked at his daughter, and
seeing in her face the signs of her pecul
iar nervous fits, turned and hastened
home with her. All day long she lay
prostrate upon her couch, the ministei
kneeling by her side and praying.
When Jt became jfpowg tlyit a qhild
lage had made etcuses to call upon the
young mother and see the baby that cried
like a cat. Children came to the win
dow, looked in and then ran away as
from a haunted place.
After a few days Dorothea’s insanity
returned, and it was thought best to re
move tho child from her. A month
passed, during which she lay upon her
bed, uttering the vagaries which came to
her beclouded mind. At last her memory
ind her reason returned, and she asked
for her babe as if it had been absent but
an hour. This was toward evening,
and, after receiving the child into her
arms, she lay for an hour in deep silence,
as if absorbed in thought; but not a mo
tion was made she did not see, and at
times, when the babe gave utterance to
a low cry, the mother would raise her
self upon her elbow and gaze upon it
with painful intensity. Sho refused
all offers of food, and now and then, as
the twilight deepened, hummed a drowsy
tune in the babe’s ears or whispered tc
it in sweet and soothing words.
After a time the babe fell asleep and
Egbert sat down by tho open door. The
twilight passed into evening. The wind
began to moan dismally through the for
est, and the rain began to patter on the
cabin roof.
Tho moaning changed to wailing and
then to roaring, and tho wind swept the
increasing rain against the window.
The day was done and a wet, wild night
had set in. Egbert sat for a while and
listened to the dreary music, then barred
the door, and leaning back in his chair,
fell asleep.
The brief period of Dorothea’s sanity
had passed away and the cloud upon her
mind began to settle with the falling oi
the night. Tho roaring wind, the sweep
ing rain, the beating upon the roof and
tho child at her side, became, all alike,
creatures of her imagination. Looking
upward, through the mist, she saw her
mother and was a child again herself.
The sound of tho wind and the rain
passed away; but, as sho gazed, the
vision faded and, instead of tho peace
brooding form of her mother
appeared the child, which to hei
distorted imagination, seemed to
rise, as did those other phantoms
months before, merely to hide from her
tho one face sho wished to see. She
changed her position on tho bed, but the
infant still appeared. She tried
brush away the face with her hand, but
could not reach it.
She could now hear tho roaring of the
wind again and see the warring branchei
of tho trees outside the cabin window
The wind and the rain and the tree:
spoke to her. They were real. They
would help her. Had not all her life
been passed in intercourse with them,
and had not her father taught her their
secrets?
All else wero mere phantoms. She
was a child again, and this was her
father's cabin! Wliat was that strange
man doing in tho great chair by the
table, and whoso was this babe which
was lying by her side? Her past life
was almost wholly a blank, but a blank
blotted by the faint recollection of a life
long persecution. What could the child
bo but some evil sprite left to worry her?
And tho wind and the rain told her to
kill it.
Once more she looked upward, but
could see nothing but a baby face above
her in the mist. Sho turned her head
upon tho pillow and saw tho little sleeper
by her side. Sho watched it for a mo
ment and then, as a serpent creeps
through the bushes in searched its prey,
sho passed her hand slowly over tho
child. As she did so, the Wind seemed to
die away and the rain ceased to fall upon
the roof
Slio paused, and a low moan came
through tho tree-tops in the forest. It
came like a moan from that blot in her
past life, a moan .grief-burdened and
growing faint with despair.
It strengthoned her purpose and she
touched tho baby hand. It clasped her
fingers convulsively, which caused her to
look intently upon the little face. It
was the samo which, a few moments be
foro had appeared in the mist above her.
Still, with a faint dawning of intelli
gence, and perhaps of maternal feeling,
she paused to wonder if it might not be
a real child. But at that moment the
babe awakened and gave a faint cry
which, even to the mother, seemed like
the cry of a cat.
There was no more doubtl The child
belonged to the evil one who was still
pursuing her.
A fresh gust of wind came up with its
long sough gathered from the depth of
the woods, and her brain was influenced
by it. Again her hand, which had been
withdrawn when the baby’s finger’s
clutched it, was stretched out and this
timo touched the infant’s head. Her
eyes were burning with excitement, but
with nerves steady and hand firm as
iron, she passed her fingers down the
little sleeper’s face to its throat and felt
tho warm beating from its heart.
Ah! a fine wild night It was, and the
wind came roaring and wailing through
the dashing rain, and beneath the dark
storm cloud. A roll of thunder and out
in tho forest a tree had been shivered
with the lightning’s stroke! A hush for
an instant and then the storm broke
forth afresh. The hand was resting on
the infant’s throat. Tho fingers
closed. No gasp! No sound! But the
little hands tugged at tho great one
which was taking its life away! The
baby breast heaved with quick throes
and the legs were drawn up convulsive
ly. The struggle ceased, and tho soft
baby eyes slowly deadened into a sense
less gaze.
That instant another roll of thunder
passed over head, the whole village was.
illuminated by the flash of lightning and
a bolt from heaven struck the minister’s
house.
Then the peal rumbled on among the
clouds until it died away in the distance.
As if satisfied with the work that had
been done, the wind died away and the
rain ceased falling. Dorothea Ingram
took it as an intimation that sho had
conquered, -and fell asleep.
A lonely wanderer seeking the village,
and approaching Hillary’s cabin just a<
that time, said next morning that it was
surrounded by a halo of fire and that he
saw strange-looking devils in the light.
cry of “fire” lie sprang forward and ran
with all speed to the burning house. Tho
villagers, awakened by the cry, left their
comfortable beds and followed. The
house to which their steps were directed
was the parsonage, and it had been
struck by lightning.
When the stranger arrived he found
that the minister and his family had
rushed from their burning home, and
that the former was already busy saving
tho most valuable of his possessions.
The wife with her two children stood
shivering beneath a tree, from which
great drops of water fell now and then,
gazing with agonizing looks upon their
home, but seemingly unable to lend a
helping hand.
Even in his haste to reach and assist
the minister, who was making quick
visits to the house, the stranger noticed
that the mother pressed -one child more
closely to her side than the other. It
was Achsah, who had been torn from
her bed where she had been suffering
from her nervousness, but now not a
trace of her disorder appeared. She
looked like one just brought back to life.
There wero traces of ill-health in her
face, but her countenance had under
gone a change. The old-querulous look
had disappeared and in its place a look
of returning health had come. Her
recent illness had been cured in an in
stant, and she stood beneath the dripping
tree stronger than she had been for
years.
Either by the flash of lightning or by
the tragedy in the cabin in the woods,
she had been cured, and, strange as it
was, her attacks never occurred again.
For an hour the pioneers worked
dragging out the minister's furniture,
and then stood around while the last
beams of the unhappy home fell into the
coals below and were consumed. Day
had not yet begun to break when tho
homeless famijy was taken to neighbor
ing houses and the village returned to
their beds. In the confusion the strang
er was not noticed, and none missed him
when he disappeared from the crowd.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE FINGER OF GOD.
When the first rays of morning light
broke through the forest, which circled
around Sagnauck, tho next morning,
they sent dim lines of light between the
trunks of trees along tho water-soaked
ground. Little grass grew in those dark
depths: only here and there a fringe
about a treo or a cluster midway be
tween, where the sun sliono. But tho
dark earth was rich, and here and there
a sky-tinted flower grew, with deeper
colors and more delicate tints than those
which bloomed beneath the sun.
The ray3 of light which were grad
ualiy penetrating the forest from the
eastward, and casting faint shadows on
each side, wero here and there obstructed
by fallsn trees which broke the light
and cast shapeless shadows in its path
way. At first, and this was not long
after Dorothea had strangled her
babe, the rays of light which were goin_
straight upward for the sun beneath the
eastern horizon merely made gray the
darkness betweeiFand beneath the great
trees. Gradually the light increased and
gray paths grew between tho trees, bor
dered by shadows on either side. The
sun rose higher and tho brook was en
livened by its rays, and danced in morn
ing glee. How gayly tho water dashed
over an obtruding stone and how mer
rily it rushed around an obstructing
bank. The birds, too, wero waking up
and rendering distant chirps through the
woods. For, was not the wholo world
merry again? The sun had risen, and
tho brook and the birds wero free.
The light shining through the woods
was broad at the entrance, but gradually
tapered to a point like a great white fin
ger stretching along the ground. It was
liko the finger of God pointing from the
line between heaven and earth, through
the woods to Sagnauck.
In Hillary’s cabin there was a finger of
light, too. The baby fingers were still
and stiff, and the cruel hand which had
stilled them was at rest in sleep. Eg
bert, too, was still sleeping in his chair
by tho table when the rising sun sent its
rays through the forest.
Whoso finger was it that was pointing?
Through the cabin window came tho
first faint rays of tho morning. A light
tho breadth of the window fell upon tho
sill and cast a faint gleam upon the floor.
The sleepers slept on. Slowly the light
grew stronger and crept across tho floor.
Inch by inch it moved, until it had
reached tho floor beneath the bed upon
which Dorothea and tho dead babe lay.
A pause. Then a faint light touched the
bed. Good God! What does it mean?
Gradually but surely the light grew
stronger, and as it did so the finger rose
inch by inch upon the bed and pointed
across the coarse counterpane to where
the dead babe lay.
The sun was risen. Tho day had
come, and the long white finger of God
was pointing directly through the cabin
window to the- bed, and the tip of the fin
ger rested on the throat of tho murdered
child.
When Egbert awoke, the sun was
shining brightly in at tho cabin window
and the finger had been absorbed into
the broad light of day. Ho arose and
glanced around the room, sleepily.
Dorothea was lying quietly upon the
bed; but the child attracted his atten
tion. Its neck was stretched out upon
the pillow, long and lank. It required
only a glance for Ingram to understand
what had been done.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE HOUSB STRUCK BT LIGHTNING.
In the last chapter mention was made
of a belated traveler who, approaching
the village through the woods, saw the
Hillary cabin surrounded by unholy
light, and also saw in the light a wall of
demons dancing around it. They were
of fantastic shape, and yet here and there
were voluptuous limbs which would have
been a temptation for St. Anthony. Ap
pearing here and there like an oft-recur
ring thread in a loom, appeared a round
ed arm or a delicately curved leg, the
shadow of the outline of a woman’s
breast and above in the darkness a
woman’s face. These would pass in a
circle around the cabin, and in their
place would appear the shriveled forms
of hags, and the fiendish faces of demons.
All wore themselves into a supple dance
in which voluptuous forms and devilish
shapes were curiously intermingled. It
was a veritable dance of the evil one
and his victims. The sight struck the
traveler with awe, and he stopped be
neath an elm tree which grew by the
brook to watch it. For a full minute
the light lasted and then the stranger
continued his journey.
Just as he approached the cabin he
heard a roll of thunder and saw a flash
of lightning. As he emerged from the
*0, Dorothea! O, God!” he cried,
•what shall I do? O, Dorothea, Doro
thea, what have you done?”
While Egbert was still bending ovei
the dead babe, a neighbor knocked at
the door. He hesitated for a moment
and then opened it. The visitor was a
woman who lived next to them and who
had come at brean of day to tell them of
the minister’s misfortune and to offer
her service to Dorothea. But no sooner
had she looked in at the open door and
seen the dead babe on the pillows than
she turned and ran toward the village,
crying, “Murder! Murder!”
The sun was now shining bright and
clear about the cabin. The storm was
over, and a new^ day had arisen upon
Sagnauck.
The woman ran the whole length of
the village street, and her cry was heard
in every home. At the sound, men and
women hastened from their brief sleep
and ran toward Hillary's cabin, to which
she pointed them. It needed no words
for them to believe that there was some
sad mystery there. On they went, down
the woodland path, one by one, without
ceremony and entered the room. Within
half an hour it was filled with rriends
and foes.
Prominent among the latter was the
minister, who anxiously moved about and
tried, with his authority, to quell the ex
citement. By his side was the constable
and after it was evident to all that a
murder bad been committed, the two
busied themselves opening drawers, pry
ing into nooks and corners, lifting loose
planks from the floor and making in
quiries of others. It was a godsend to
the minister. Heaven, in his belief, had
sent relief.
During all this tumult Dorothea sat
upon the bed looking wildly about.
Through the cabin door, now wide open,
In the morning light, she could see oth
ers coming, men, women and children,
walking, shouting, pointing toward the
open door. Rude men gathered about
her bed and asked harsh questions,
while half-dressed women excitedly cried
over the little body which, a day before,
thev had said looked like a cat. At f
, iengtn tne minister Grew near tho oea
and said:
“I tell yon the day of vengeance has
come. The persecutor of my children
lias been pointed out to you. I have ac
cused Dorothea Ingram of witchcraft,
and to this sin another has been added.
She has murdered her babe. Last night
my house was struck by lightning, and I
believe it was at the same hour in which
this crime was committed. ”
The wanderer in the forest, who, un-
abserved, had-entered the cabin, spoke
up and said:
“Reverend sir, it was at the same
hour.” ’
CHAPTER XV.
THE TRIAL .OF A WITCH.
The little body of the murdered babe
was buried in a hollow near Dorothea.'*
home, and within three days the unhap
py woman was taken to Salem by armr 1
guard, there to answer the double charge
of murder and witchcraft. For the crime
which she had committed was so terrible
tha t not one person in Sagnauck, save
her husband and her adopted parent.*,
now entertained a doubt of her guilt.
When the little party arrived in Salem
Dorothea was at onoe consigned to jail,
and when once there, her condition be
came so precarious that it was feared
she would never leave it even to answer
to the double charge against her.
Mr. Granville, unmindful of the fact
that she might be summoned to a higher
bar of justice, devoted his time to a care
ful arrangement of his evidence against
her.
The witch fever was just then at its
height in New England, and the news
that a notorious young witch was to bo
tried in Salem now spread through the,
country and multitudes flocked to tho
city.
Besides Egbert and Dr. Lennox, them
was a third friend who visited the jail
daily. It was an old man dressed as an
Indian and so thoroughly disguised that
no one would have suspected that he
was white. True he never gained ad
mittance, but ho was always observed
loitering around the prison door when
ever either Egbert or the Doctor were
visiting the prisoner.
The day set for tho trial at length ar
rived, and Dorothea, still far from well,
was led before the magistrate. A formal
charge of witchcraft and of murder we 6
read, and, by the advice of counsel, to
both she oleaded not cuiltv. These ore-
uminaries uemg over, mo evidence ui
her league with the devil was begun.
The Rev. nenry Granville was the
first witness and minutely he traced the
history of Dorothea and her father, and
of the strange: affliction of his daughter,
Achsah. Other members of the settle
ment were sworn also and bore witness
to many strange actions of the accused,
but the chief evidence against her was
divided into two heads—her persecution
Achsah and her mysterious visitor who
had provided for her at her marriage
and during her illness. Both facts were
supposed to bo clearly proven by the
testimony.
But when the defense began and I)r.
Lennox was put upon the stand, even
Mr. Granville was able to see that
tho first part of his testimony would
fall to the ground. The Doctor stated
that he had made a careful study of
Achsah’s trouble and that he was confi
dent that she was suffering from a nerv
ous disease, not often met with in the
new world, but which was not uncom
mon in the old. Ho pointed out thatjier
most violent attacks had always occurred
during a thunder-storm, and drew the
deduction that her physical nature was
unusually sensitive to tho electric cur
rents. To this ho added his belief that
an inherited antipathy to Hillary had
been fostered and exaggerated until his
presence really did have an evil effect
upon tho child, but that this effect was
due to anything which Hillary did, he
stoutly denied.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
COXEY’S FAILURE.
THE CAPITAL POLICE INTER
FERE WITH TIIE PROGRAM.
Coxy Not Allowed to Speak and is
Forced from the Capitol Steps.
The foremost professsor of hvpnot
ism in Paris, Dr. Luys, claims for s
new method of fascination that no per
son can resist it. Instead of losing
force by the usual process, the oper
ator places a stand in the middle of a
group of patients, and sets upon it a
revolving apparatus of bits of colored
glass such as is used for snaring larks,
the patients being instructed to fix
their eyes upon it. The effect on men,
Dr. Luys declares, is exactly the same
as on birds. “On men the rotation of
brilliant surfaces produces in predis
posed subjects a peculiar state of ret
ina, and subsequently of the whole
nervous system, accompanied with
anaesthesia, immobility of the muscles,
‘suggestionability’—in short, the en
semble of phenomena constituting ‘fas
cination.’ ” The operation takes fron*
five to thirty minutes.
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$6 OOaS 00: imitation mackerel S3 95a4 00. Sal
mon $5 25u5 50; F. W. oysters 8175; L W
$135; corn 82 50 a 3 50; tomatoes $2.00
Ball potash $3 10. Starch—Pearl 4c; Lump.
4,-<j ; nickel packages $3 10; celluloid $5.00,
Pickles, plain or mixed, pints $1 00a 1 40; quarts,
$1 50al 80. Powder—ltifle, kegs $3.25; j^kegs
$1 90; y. kegsSl 10. Shot $1 50 per sack.
Flour, fj.ro.iu nml JIca!.
Flour—First patent $4 50; second patent
$4.00; extra fancy $3.25; fancy $3 15; family
?2.75. Corn—No. 1 white 62o. Mixed,
59a Oals, Mixed 48:; white 50c; Seed rye,Geor-
75a30e. Hay—Choice timothy, large bales,
No. 1 timothy, large bales, 95c; choice
timothy, small bales, 90c; No. 1 timothy, small
bales, 87}^c; No. 2 timothy, small bales, S2J£c.
Steal—Plain 51c; bolted 50c. Wheat bran—
Large sacks 90c, small sacks 90c. Cotton
seed meal—$1 3d per cwt. Steam feed—81.10
per i-wfc Stock peas GCa65c per bn. White,
G0a65. Boston beans 82.65a2.75 per bushel.
Tennessee, $1.75a 2.0J. Grits—Pearl $3.00
CountrT Produce.
Egus 10%all- Butter—Western creamery
25a27%c. choice Tennessee 15al8c;otlier grades
2j4a>5c. Live poultry—Turkeys 8SJ0s per
lb: liens 25 and 27!.fc. spring chickens
large 15 to 40c;small spring 10al2%c. Dressed
poultry—Turkeys 12%al5e; ducks 125 ialTx:
ciickens i0al2;2. Irish poatoes, 2.50@2.75;>ei
Ibl. Sweet potatoes 50a6Jc per bu. Honey—
Strained 8-alOc; in tlieco.nb hkil'd^e. Onion
$1 50a $1.75 perbu. $3.00a3.50 per bbL Cabbage
lal l-2c p_-r lb.
Provisions.
Clear rib sides, boxed 7>£c, ice-curel bellies
10c. bngar-c ired hams 13;. according
io brand and average; California. 8%a9c. break
fast bacon 12c. La.r.1, _ leal . Compound
6;<a6ji".
Cotton.
MarLc; o'o.-ed easy middling 6^£e.
It is better to be an April fool than
a chronic one.
His!
A perfect day with a brightly shining
sun was the portion of the army of
commonweal for. its demonstration in
Washington in favor of Coxey and
good roads bill. The army broke
camp George Washington, seven miles
from the city, in the early morning.
By 9 o’clock there was no vestige of
the camp remaining except a few piles
of straw and a general litter which told
of the presence of men and horses.
Shortly before 10 o’clock Marshal
Browne formed the men in a hollow
square, and standing in the center,
called for three cheers for peace,
i hree cheers were given and the Com-
monwealers waved their flags of peace
and began the march.
The route of the procession was
down Fourteenth street road to Mount
Pleasant, thence along Fourteenth
street proper to Pennsylvania avenue
to Peace monument, and around the
capitol grounds. The Fourteenth
street road was very dusty, and the
marchers were plentifully besprinkled
as they marched along. The common
weal had moved at a funeral pace, and
,5 was three-quarters of an hour in
reaching the Mount Pleasant suburb
of the city. At the head of the dusty
soldiers were three mounted policemen.
Then came Mrs. Annie L. Digges, of
Kansas, in an open barouche, with her
husband anil her two daughters; and
then appeared Miss Mamie Coxey,
typifying “peace,” mounted on a white
palfry. She is a blonde girl of six
teen. She wore a suit of cream-colored
cloth, relieved by a big red bow at the
throat, and wore a little blue liberty
cap. She seemed perfectly at home
on the palfry, but appeared somewhat
embarrassed at attracting so much at
tention. She nodded smilingly at the
people who saluted her. Two old sol
diers, one a confederate and the other
a federal, both members of the Com
monweal, formed her guard of honor,
marching on foot. Colonel Browne fol
lowed on a large white stallion. Then
came seven foot-sore musicians. Coxey,
Mrs. Coxey and little “Legal Tender
Coxey” came next in a phoeton. Jesse
Coxey followed on a spirited horse.
The rank and file followed. When the
army reached the peace monument at
the foot of the capitol it found a crowd
of between four aud five thousand
awaiting it. The procession then
wended its way toward the east front
of the capitol.
BI.UECOATS ON HAND.
The Metropolitan police surrounded
the capitol and patroled its corridors.
Blue coats were seen everywhere, and
visitors were requested by them to
move on and not block tho passages
and doorways. The main body of the
guardians of peace were stationed at
the east front, where General Coxey
was expected to attempt to speak. By
11 o’clock, an hour before the Com
monweal army was due at the capitol,
thousands of curious men, women and
children had gathered around the
building to gain places of vantage to
witness the much talked of aud long
expected appeal to congress by Coxey
and his followers.
The parade moved without incident
until tho head of it reached Second
and B streets, southeast, the end of the
capitol grounds. Coxey had dropped
out of line at the New Jersey avenue
(south) entrance to the capitol grounds,'
where he left his buggy and proceeded
on foot to tbe main steps of the capi
tol. Half a dozen steps had been
mounted, when he was confronted by
the captain of the police and two lieu
tenants. Coxey removed his hat,
shook hands with the officers, and
started to the head of the stairs.
HUSTLED OFF THE STEPS.
Before he had time to turn round to
face the crowd, in fact, before he
could reach the top of the steps, Cap
tain Kelley, the police officer inform
ed him that he could make no speech
there. Coxy entered a protest but
was unceremoniously hustled of the
steps out into the middle of the broad
plaza in front of the capitol. He made
no physical resistance, but protested
all the while and the crowd gathered
around him and obstructed the way
somewhat.
The whole affair did not last over ten
minutes. Coxey was taken by the po
lice to the edge of the crowd without
any difficulty atul entered his carriage.
Captain Kelley said: “Where do you
go now, Mr. Coxey?” “To our new
grounds in southeast Washington,”
Coxey replied. He then gave the
army the order to march, and the dis
appointed army again started on a
tramp for a new resting place.
Chief Marshal Carl Brown was ar
rested and locked up on the charge of
disorderly conduct but was released on
a $500 bond by Mrs. Elizabeth A.
Haines, a dry goods dealer in southeast
Washington. The arrest of Brown
happened ou the edge of the grass lawn
adjoining the house side of the asphalt
plaza, and within sight of the crowds
on the capitol 6teps. Christopher Co
lumbus Jones, leader of the Philadel
phia contingent, attempted to rescue
Brown from the officers, and he, too,
was placed in custody.
When Coxey, under police escort,
passed ont of tho capitol grounds to
rejoin his army, the party was followed
by at least 10,000 people, and tho offi
cers found tho passage a difficult one.
Finally, the police and their charge
reached the head of the procession on
B street, directly in front of the resi
dence of Congressman Springer, of
Illinois. Somebody set up a cheer and
thousands joined in as the leader of
the army of the commonweal pushed
his wav to his carnage.
The mob became so dense and noisy
that the police had hard work to keep
them from running over the common-
wealers. A rush was made by the mass
of people and many ran pell mell to the
plaza, over the lawns, trampling down
the shubbery and vines. The ~wbite
palfry on which Miss Coxey was mount
ed became frightened and attempted
to run away, but was held back by a
young man who clung to the horse’s
bridle.
Coxey finally managed to gain the
carriage with his wife, aud the crowd
cheered him again and again.
“Speech! speech!” came fro® hun
dreds of throats, and, rising in his
phaeton, Coxey started to speak. But
his voice conld bo heard by
a few only, so he waved
his hand for the procession to go
ahead. The commonwealers, who had
tramped more than five miles to the
capitol to find their plans frustrated
were conducted quietly to their new
camp on M street, between First and
Second, southeast. The camp is situ
ated about a mile from the capitol.
WASHINGTON NOTES
WIIAT IS GOING ON AT UNCLE
SAM’S HEADQUARTERS.
Comment Concerning Transactions in
the Various Departments.
Mr. Samuel Thanhouser is the first
appointee to resign a consulship under
President Cleveland’s administration
He has written his resignation as the
government’s representative at Mata
mora, Mexico, and has forwarded it to
the department at Washington.
Miss Harriet Blaine, daughter of the
late Hon. James G. Blaine, was mar
ried at Washington Monday to Trox-
ton Beale, formerly minister to Persia
and to Greece. The ceremony took
place at the Blaine residence on La
fayette square, near the white house.
Senator Walsh will deliver an ad
dress in the Brooklyn tabernacle, N.
Y., on the 11th instant, the occasion
being the national and international
reception to be tendered to the Kev.
T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., on com
pletion of the twenty-fifth year of his
Brooklyn tabernacle pastorate.
The advent of Coxey to the capitol
steps was witnessed by scores of sena
tors and congressmen, and through
the crowd could be caught glimpses of
fashionably dressed women. It
probable that nine-tenths of the im
mense throng were drawn solely by
curiosity. The army’s march from the
camp to the capitol, over seven miles,
was between thousands of people.
The senate has confirmed the follow
ing nominations: James D. Yeomans,
of Iowa, to be interstate commerce
commissioner. Collectors of customs
—Frank T. Shaw, at Baltimore, Md.;
William H. Manogue, Georgetown, D.
C.; C. Ridgely Goodwin, surveyor of
customs at Baltimore, Md.; Ormond
Hammond, assistant United States
treasurer at Baltimore, Md.; Barnes
Campton, naval officer of customs at
Baltimore, Md.
Consul Edwards, at Berlin, reports
that the officials of the German army
and navy after an exhauetive set of
experiments have decided against the
use of peanuf flour as food for the
troops and sailors or as horse food.
During the experiments no immediate
heali h-injuring symptoms were noticed,
but the men showed an unconquerable
dislike to the food prepared with pea
nut Hour or grits. Its frequent use
cannot be regarded as healthful or
nourishing and the food has been dis
continued.
The Debt Statement.
The debt statement issued Tuesday
after noon shows a net increase in the
public debt, less cash in the treasury,
during April, of $8,950,599. The in
terest-bearing debt increased $100,450
The r on-interest bearing debt decreased
$2,090. The cash in the treasury de
creased $8,852,239. The balances of
the several classes of debts at the close
of business April 30th were: Interest-
bearing debt, $635,041,380; debt on
which interest has ceased since maturi
ty, $1, 862,030; debt bearing no interest,
$380,653,569 — total, $ 1,017, 556, 979.
The certificates and treasury notes, off
set by an equal amount of cash in the
treasury, outstanding at the end of the
montd, were $619,989,795; an increase
of $5,362,755. The total cash in the
treasury was $790,826,660. The gold
reserve was $100,000,000. Net cash
balance, $25,097,785. In the month
there was a decrease in gold coin and
bars of $6,263,587, the total at the
close being $170,192,457. Of silver
there was an increase of $1,307,255.
Of the surplus there was in national
bank depositories, $16,840,719, against
$16,5 58,983 at the end oi the previous
monta.
BIG TOBACCO TRUST
Doin ; Business in Violation of Illinois
Law.
Attorney-General Maloney, of Illi
nois, has rendered a decision declaring
the American Tobacco Company, a
combination of Virginia, North Caro
lina, Rochester, N. Y., and New York
City tobacco houses, organized under
the laws of the state of New Jersey, to
be a trust doing a business in violation
of the laws of the state of Illinois, and
announced that he will file a bill in
chancery against the company and two
hundred leading business men of Chi
cago, who are acting as its agents.
The concern is one of the most gigan
tic trrnsts in the world.
COXEY IN CAMP.
The Array Safely Ensconced Under a
Big New Tent.
A Washington special says: The
400 commonwealers passed Wednesday
night on straw under a canvas awning,
and under a large new tent, in their
camping ground, and breakfasted on
bread and fried fish with coffee. After
breakfast some charitably inclined
persons distributed cigars among
them. A number of the commonweal
ers have been sent to the hospital.
Two of these and one who refused to
be removed are suffering from malaria,
caused by the unhealthy location of
the camping ground.
Delircrihg the Goods.
A Nashville dispatch 6ays: The
state funding board and the secretary
of state, Morgan, left for New York
Tuesday night with 81,000,000 of re
demption bonds that have been sold to
Blair & Co. at 98 ceuts, which is the
same price paid for the $600,000 of
penitentiary bonds. The bonds bear
44 per cent interest. The proceeds
will be utilized in redeeming $500,000
of 6s and $500,000 of 5s and the differ
ence will save the state $10,000 per
annnm. _
Earthquake iu Wales.
A sharp shock of earthquake was
felt throughout the Cardiff, Wales,
district Thursday. Crockery and fur
niture in many houses was upset. The
miners in Ponti-Pridd district fled
from the mines in terror. Little dam
age was done,
CONGRESSIONAL.
DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH
HOUSE AND SENATE.
The Discussion of Important Measures
Briefly Epitomized.
The house considered the army ap
propriation bill Monday.
At half past twelve o’clock, Tuesday,
Speaker Crisp sent a request to the
secretasy of the senate to withhold the
resolution of respect to the memory of
Senator Stockbridge, until a later hour
in the day. The purpose of the delay
was manifest. It was desired that the
house at least should be in session when
the Coxey people arrived, as otherwise
the impression might be created that
congress had adjourned as resulting
from a fear of meeting them. The
house at 1:35 adjourned as a mark of
respect to the late Senator Stock-
bridge.
In the house, Wednesday, after the
passage of a few private bills, Mr.
Johnson, democrat, of Ohio, present
ed as privileged matter a resolution di
recting the committee on public build
ings and grounds to investigate the oc
currences on the capitol grounds Tues
day to determine whether unnecessary
force was used by the police; whether
unoffending citizens were cruelly
beaten and whether the dignity of
the house had been vioalated. The
speaker held that no privilege at
tached to the resolution, whereupon
Mr. Johnson asked unanimous consent
for its consideration, but this was re
fused. The house went into commit
tee of_ the whole on the bill to reor
ganize the accounting, branch of the
treasury department, general debate
to be limited to two hours.
At 12:25 o’clock Thursday the house
went into committee of the whole on
the river and harbor appropriations
bill, Mr. Hatch being in the chair.
THE SENATE.
The senate was again enlivened Mon
day morning by one of those scenes so
frequently gotton up to irritate the
majority members of the finance com
mittee. Mr. Wolcott asked Mr. Har
ris whether the tariff bill now before
the senate was really the bill to be act
ed upon, or whether there was not in
reserve such a modification of it as
would render useless all present action
on the bill as it stood. Mr. Harris re
peated virtually, what he had previous
ly said that he was ready to compro
mise any conflicting opinions and was
willing to make modifications where
there was an absolute necessity.
He could not tell, and no senator
could not tell, what form the amend
ments would take.
The death of Senator Stockbridge
stopped the wheels of legislation in the
senate Tuesday, and oothing was done
but to receive the announcement of
his death from Senator McMillan, and
adopt the usual resolutions of regret,
At 12 :07 the senate adjourned.
The tariff bill was taken up in the
senate at 12 :35 Wednesday, and Mr,
Lodge addressed the body.
In the senate, Thursday, on motion
of Senator Morgan, an executive ses
sion was held immediately after the
disposal of the routine morning busi
ness. At the request of Sentor Mor
gan, the consideration of the Chinese
treaty was again postponed. After the
doors were opened the tariff bill was
taken up and the first amendment to
change the date when it will take effect
passed over by unanimous consent,
and the second amendment taken up.'
SENATOR STOCKBRIDGE DIEsT
He Had Been Complaining for Some
Time but His Death Was Sudden.
Francis Browne Stockbridge, United
States senator from Michigan, died in
Chicago Monday night a few minutes
after 7 o’clock. The end came suddenly,
although the senator had been confin
ed to his bed almost all the time since
coming to Chicago from Washington,
April 2nd.
Another Earthquake in Greece.
There was another severe shock of
earthquake in Greece Wednesday
night. It lasted fifteen seconds and
was felt in nearly all the districts which
had previously suffered. The 6hock
completed the destruction of many
buildings which had been damaged by
former disturbances. There was no
loss of life, as most of the people who
previously occupied the houses were
camping in the open country.
The Pythian University.
The corner stone of the Pythian
university at Gallatin, Tenn., was laid
with imposing ceremonies Wednesday.
This is the only educational institution
in the world to which the supreme
lodge has given the right to use the
word “Pythian.” The grand lodge
and uniform rank of the state were in
attendance. Thirty acres of ground
are paid for and $100,000 will be ex
pended on the buildings.
Gold on the Move.
The indications are that the usual
spring outflow of gold has at last set
in. Advices received at the treasury
department show that about $1,500,000
in gold was shipped Wednesday by the
Teutonic, ~ and $4,000,000 more las
been engaged for shipment Saturday.
Of course the amount of exportations
will depend entirely upon the rate of
foreign exchange.
Prizes for Hideous Men.
ROMANCE OF COTTON SEER
ONCJS JJ kS: ' iSED, IT NOW DIVIDB3
KING COTTON’S THBONE.
Beauty competitions no longer pos
sessing the charm of novelty, some
one in Belgium has hit upon the idea
of getting up an ugly man’s exhibi
tion. A grand prize for ugliness will
be given to the competitor who van
quishes all comers, by the hideous-
uess of his countenance. The men
ire to be on view at a place of amuse
ment at Brussels, known by the title
of the North Pole. It is said in The
Daily News that an English timateur
of the ugly in nature has promised
to add a gift of £2 10s. to the first
prize. The wags, of course, are say-
_ that he is doing all he can to se
cure the discovery of some one uglier
than himself. — [Westminster tt*
zette.
AH Ohio judge has just refused x
divorce to a woman whose complaint
against her husband was that he “ob
jected to building the morning fire,
and did refuse, without love or just
cause, to take her to the World’s
Fair.”
Formerly Cns*: Away as Refuse, AH
But the Dirt is Now Utilized—Its
Many Uses.
S OME of ihe most marvelous
and thrilling romances aro
such as pertain to actual bus
iness life, and recount the
achievements of wonderful men, even
along purely financial lines. For in
stance, tho pen of a master might be
worthily employed in writing the ro
mance of the cotton seed. Thera is a
rebellion in the family of King Cot
ton. A few years ago he held undis
puted sway and his youngest son, Cot
ton Seed, was considered a very insig
nificant and comparatively worthless
member of the family, his only merit
being his ability to propagate tbe
royal stock. Now it is quite different,
as the youngster has developed unsus
pected good qualities, and is making
rapid progress toward displacing his
father in the affections of the people.
Five years ago, when tho Southern
planter gathered his cotton and sold
it, he paid very little attention to the
seed. He saved enough of it to raise
his next year’s crop, and, if conveni
ent, kept a few bushels more to feed
the milk cows around his farm. Some
times he carted off a few wagon loads
to dump on an old field as a fertilizer,
and often he refused to haul it away
from the gin at all. The amount that
rotted around such places was im
mense. When any was sold, it com
monly brought five cents a bushel, pro
vided the farmer was not ashamed oi
taking anything for such a commo
dity. Even three years ago, in many
sections of the South, eight cents for
a bushel of cotton seed was considered
a good price. This year the price was
often as high as twenty-five cents and
occasionally reached thirty-two. When
cotton itself sells at six cents or seven
cents per pound and seed at the prices
mentioned the farmers begin to feel as
if they would like their cotton to be
all seed. As it is, the seed not un-
frequently constitutes one-fourth or
even one-third the value of the whole
crop. So important a matter has it
become that to-day one single com
pany—the American Cotton Oil Com
pany—has $40,000,000 invested in
handling cotton seed products.
The seeds themselves are of an ir
regular oval shape, measuring perhaps
a quarter of an inch in their greatest
diameter. They are unprepossessing-
looking little bodies, ar.d are covered
with short white, hairy-looking fibres.
These last are cotton staples that the
gin has not picked quite clean. A
Northern man might have difficulty in
guessing what the seeds are. Bite one
of them in two and yon find a white,
pulpy substance, tasteless and nearly
odorless. How so many products and
such different ones can be gotten out of
such a seemingly simple body is a mys
tery. Perhaps nowhere else do we find
so fully illustrated the principle of util
izing waste products. Not a single
particle of seed goes to waste. When
a ton comes to the mill, the thirty-five
gallons of oil extracted from it weigh
about 272 pounds and sell for about
twenty-seven cents a gallon. There
are 350 pounds of hulls, worth $4 a
ton; 750 pounds of wool, at $20 a
ton; twenty pounds of linters cotton,
at three cents a pound, and about 108
pounds of dirt, for which there can
hardly be said to be any real market.
Cotton seed men are said to lie awake
at night trying to devise some plan to
utilize this dirt, but up to date it con
tinues one item that has proven too
much for their ingenuity. If the
reader will do an addition sum of
these figures he will see that every
pound in the ton is accounted for; if
he will figure a little further he will
find that between $19 and $20 is real
ized on eaoh ton handled. When the
raw materials costs $15, he can judge
whether or not it is likely that just at
the present juncture the mills are
making much money.
The uses to which cotton seed prod- '
nets are put are almost innumerable.
The oil itself is used in making soap,
other oils, lard, butterine and count
less other things. We ship immense
quantities to Europe—especially Rot
terdam—and bring it back again
slightly refined under the name of
olive oil and linseed oil. The Armours
and other pork men use large amounts
in putting up lard. Cottoline is the
name of a new product new coming
into use as a competitor of lard. Many
housekeepers use the oil itself instead
of lard and claim to like it. The meal
remaining after . the oil has been ex
tracted is fed to cattle, and is said to
produce excellent results. The hulls
are also fed to cattle. Twenty pounds
of hulls and ten of meal make a full
daily feed for beef steers, and the
cattle are ready for market in ninety
days. The hulls, furthermore, are
now being used in manufacturing pa
per. Emil Bohn, of Brenham, Texas,
has invented a process for so using
them, and his ideas may cause a com
plete revolution in the paper trai^e.
The oil in it3 crude state is a clear,
reddish-brown liquid that looks not
unlike a substance frequently carried,
by men in flasks in their hip pockets.
It has a peculiar oily taste aud a very
independent, self-assertive kind of
odor. If one may judge from the
odor, cotton seed oil is capable of tak
ing care of itself>- Most mills produce
the oil only in its crude state, sending ’
it elsewhere to be refined. There is a
refinery at Houston, one at St. Louis,
one in Kansas City and others at var
ious other places of prominence. The
refined oil sells at from six to twelve
cents a gallon higher than the unre
fined, hut, as the work is one requir
ing expensive machinery and skilled
labor, it is not generally attempted
by the smaller mills.—Globe-Demo
crat.
Advertising That Paid.
It has been asked, “Does advertis
ing pay?” A German journal, the
Mainzer Nachrichten, replies to this
question by giving the following fact, ,
the authenticity of which it guaran
tees : A person advertised that he
would pay five marks to the sender of
the largest potato. In less than fif
teen days the clever advertiser found
himself in possession of as many sacks
full of the very finest potatoes, which,,
after paying the five marks for the
largest example, might be reckoned »