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THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT.
VOLUME 1.
LOST.
Lost! only a hone that erst-woetencl our life
That baglitened its doml- and that calmed io*
VharMften our faint, sinking heart*,’ made
strong,
To tx’ur the great sorrow* and cares that
throng.
!) l( . iong hwa word!' -', that died
unheard,
'1 hut never a ;tring or a zephyr stirred.
j,it r wept all its torrent of music’mong
our h> art*, and there died, unsung.
L>,st! lost! is a poem, with Ijeuuties filled,
That every pulse of otir being thrilled;
Hut ore it was fashioned and penned in rhyme,
In seeking to form it in measured time,
The enchantment was broken-tlie vision lied,
The brightness no longer wa* on us shed—
The thoughts, like the foam which eludes oui
clasp
Dissolving, vanished within our grasp.
Lost! only a day, yet ah 1 never tho same
Again will we be as before it came;
Life turns anew aspect, and diiPrent phrase,
And brings us new pgrpo. -s with new days.
The feelings, the plea* res, we had at nioft
Have perished, like J’lnenix, as others were
born,
Hut shadows have fallen our spirits upon
Which go not at setting or rising of sun.
Vint! lost! the fair beauty that all things wore.
The impress of novelty all things bore,
Krc years had grown many, and Mystery
IP'H fns'enedtho portal of Destiny—
I IV lessons of doubt, of distrust and pain
Were taught, till no faith on life’s page re
main,
A ml all tilings divested of charm, naught more
The object of interest as of yore.
1 lost! that pure freshness of childhood
days
Ere yet hud been learned the world’s artful
ways;
That innocence, freshness again to find
L AH soon seek the meteor’s course to bind.
Or hack to the rose give the scattered dew,
Or tli' Hint which tho grape o’er its purple
drew,
Which never again nor all art nor cost
Can ever restore, thoy’ic lost, they’re lost.
Lost! Lost! and life’s purpose the wail attends;
From consciousness, mourning, the cry as
cends—
For wiifttc'cr its value, or what its cost
From cv’ry hcart-caskot some treasure’s lost.
,H ATT IK (.
“Ronnie I’.rook,” near Cassville, Ga.
UKOOIXKCTIONS OF THK CIVIL SER
VICE OF TIIE CONFEDERATE
(JOVKRNM KMT.
J!Y 11. D. CAriCRS.
CHAI’TKK IT.
While thus remaining tho sole occu
pant of the executive building, and pass
ing the short interval between the or
ganization of the cabinet and the ava
lanche of work which immediately there
after bore upon every resource of mind
and body, in arranging the appointments
of tho department, I had the seclusion of
my dignity disturbed by a visit, which,
wlnle it brought my energies into play,
uncovered tho then limited resources of
the confederate treasury.
i had just entered upon the routine du
ties of the morning, when a b.’isk, Arm
step in the hall, and a sharp, decided rap
at the door, evidenced tho presence of
some one on an earnest mission. To the
provincial reply, ‘come mi,’ which sup
plemented the absence of my office hoy,
there entered a tall, soedy-looking per
son, whose whole bearing indicated one
accustomed to command. This person at
once inquired for the office of the secro
tary of the treasury. When informed
that lu* was then in the place appointed
as such, he scanned the room in a half
skeptical manner and informed me that
he desired to see the secretary at once,
and on very important business. I sla
ted to my visitor, who hadn’t so far made
his name known to me, that Mr. Mem
minger was engaged at tlie eapitol on
very important business, and would not
Ihj at the office during the morning. To
the further suggestion that I might pos
sibly serve him as the secretary’s repre
sentative, lie at once unfolded his mis
sion .
•I atn Captain Peas, sir, late of the
Uniled Slates army,’ was tiie formal an
nouncement of himself.
Handing me fi note, he proceeded
about in this manner.
‘I have been instructed, sir, by the
president, whose letter of introduction
to the secretary 1 have handed to you, to
provide blankets and rations for one
hundred men, who have reported to him
for duty in the army. I want the mon
ey, sir, to carry out the order of the
president.’ Returning the president’s
note to Captain Peas, ‘late of the United
States army,' I assured him that nothing
would give nie more pleasure than to
comply with his wishes and the request
oi the president, but, Captain, said I,
(drawing a lean purse from my pocket
it.' I have been on a con-
frolic in Montgomery for the
,*„sttwo weeks, and my finances are, at
this moment, pretty low. Ascertaining
that I had a sum, not over five dollars, I
continued, ‘this, captain, is all the mon
ey that 1 will vouch for as being in the
treasury department of the confederate
states at this moment.’
At first the dignified captain seemed
provoked at what he might have thought
was impudent, but when informed that
I was hardly three days old in a depart
i ment service that began its career with
~ my presence, his frowning brow relaxed,
and he seemed to appreciate my position
and to enjoy the joke.
Something had to be done, however, to
meet this first acouisition, as the gallant
captain was determined to execute this,
his first order. We were soon at the
capltoi to interview Mr. Memminger.
Congress was in secret session, but my
position ona* led me to communicate
witli my chief, who supplied me with a
note of introduction to Mr Knox, presi
dent of the Central Bank of Alabama,
which opened a credit for the confeder
ate treasury, based upon the personal
obligation of the secretary. The relief of
Captain Deas was as much a matter of
pleasure to me as it could have been to
him. We parted with each other at the
J>ank with the understanding that he
j would make the purchase and send the
i bills to me for payment. In tin eve
ning I visited the troops, in whose be-
I half this first exercise of executive au
; thority had been made, and ascertained
i them to be a company of one hundred
! men from fleorgia, who had tendered
; their services to President Davi . They
| were under the command of an officer
selected from among their number, who
i bore the historic name of George Wash
ington Lee. Captain Lee was from Pe
j Kalb count}’, Ga., and his company was
j the first body of troops who had enlisted
\ to maintain the cause of the confederacy.
t Within a week from the date of his ap
pointment as secretary of the treasury,
the legislation necessary to establish a
credit for the confederacy had been com
’ pleted and Mr. Memminger.with the ear
nest devotion which had characterized
his history in private and in public life,
was a cabinet officer, executing the pro
visions of tho enactments of the provis
ional congress. If from the necessity
growing out of the incomplete character
of this legislation, 1 had found, for tlie
first day or two of my official life, but
little to do, there were no moments of
leisure when the secretary transferred
liis energies and business experience
from the deliberations of congress to the
executive branch of the government
over which he had been selected lo pre
side.
For many years Mr. Mempiinger had
been justly regarded the leading com
mercial lawyer of Charleston, and had
been among the most prominent of the
statesmen in formulating and in main
taining, not alone the commercial char
acter of tli is great ci(y, but the wise sys
tem of economy which had preserved the
credit and the financial standing of South
Carolina, in America and in Europe.
llis selection, from this fact, was gener
ally approved throughout the country.
Educated as a lawyer in the old schools
of tho English training system, with the
graces of culture incident, not alone to
his college course, but also to the asso
ciations of the best men of bis profession
and the highest expressions of our pe
culiar seaboard civilization of the South,
Mr. Memmingcr was not alone a great
lawyer, but under all circumstances, a
representative gentleman. Ao one could
nave been more scrupulously conscien
tious, no one more devoted in the dis
charge of laborious duties, no one more
willing and ready to recognize tho rights
of others or to discharge tho amenities of
social life.
In his youth he-had thoroughly learn
ed the importance of labor as the neces
sary means, not only of acquiring knowl
edge and wealth, but a< the great agency
for the development of the highest per
sonal cnaracter. It is recorded by one
of his historians that the great Bonaparte
possessed such a wonderful vitality and
was so minute in his details that he
would exhaust the physical powers of
more than one secretary in formulating
the plans and devising of his military
and civil administration, f know at least
one secretary who would often leave the
office of the confederate secretary of
finance after midnight, utterly worn out
with labors that had begun in the morn
ing, and who would leave his weariless
chief absorbed in some one of the many
problems incident to his novel position,
•To organize a department of finance for
a government formed amid revolutionary
surroundings, which would constantly
derange the conditions of political econo
my and disturb the proper basis of cred
its, to moot promptly the financial exi
gencies of such a government, growing
as these were, day after day, into c .dos
sal proportions, required not alone .the
machinery of organization, but tho ut
most skill, the resource of the best judg
ment, and a sagacity which should antic
ipate events yet to occur.
To meet all the emergencies of the
government, the provisional congress
bad provided for a 103.n of fifteen mil
lions of dollars; to the work of providing
the representatives of this credit and ne
gotiating tho same, the of the
treasury had his attention at once drawn,
when he assumed the duties of his office.
It w ill appear strange to one who fol
lows the history of subsequent events,
that the provisional congress should not
have anticipated the gigantic war in
which the cradle of the young govern
ment was not only rocked but which, in
the end, exhausted its powers. The rea- '
son tor this was tote found in the declar
ation of right upon which the secession
movement was based. Granting the
right secession was of nec ssity, a peace
able remedy for the wrongs which the
Southern states had so long endured.' it
never entered into the minds of the very
large majority of the Southern democrats,
and was only entertained by a minority
of the North, called “National Demo
crats,"’ that the states had not the right
to resume their sovereignly ar pleasure.
Even among those at the North who
held contrary views, there was a pre
vailing opinion that the federal govern
ment, or more properly the federal party,
would not attempt to coerce the seceded
states by a resort to arms.
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Thousands Say So.
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CARTERSYILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1685.
TEN DOLLARS A MONTH.
I How a rroinlnent Detroit Merchant Got
a Start In the Berness World.
Detroit Free Press.’}
“I made up my mind more than thirtj
years ago that he would be something
more titan a *lrone in this community,
and I never had occasion to change mv
mind,” remarked an old citizen who had
le.irei from business several years ago, to
a reporter as a prominent and influential
merchant drove past with ids wife and
daughters in his private carriage.
“He probably wouldn’t care to have
tne tell about it much; but.he used to
rake care of uiy boss for $lO a mojitluand
his board. That was away back before
the war. I’ll tell you about it.
“I was in wholesale liquor business
then, and I want to remark to you right
here that there was more money then in
a barrel of whisky at a half a dollar agai
lon than there is now at $’2.00. One
morning I was sitting in my store-door
reading the Free Press —1 ye read it
every morning for more than forty years
—when a man stopped in front of me and j
asked if I wanted to hire any help. I
looked him over carefully and liked his
appearance. He was probably about nine
teen or twenty years old, tanned almost
black, and had evidently just come in
from a farm —had on a pair of farm boots
and a pair of farm breeches, and there’s
no mistaking them. He looked rough,
but he didn’t look tough, and lie had
a good, bright eye in his head.”
“ ‘Farm boy, I reckon,’ said I.
“ ‘Yes,’ said he.
“ ‘Know how to take care of bosses?”
“ ‘Yes.’
“I took him out to the barn, where I
had a boss that needed cleaning if ever
one did. I’d ’round calling on some of
my customers the night before,' had been
out late, and had driven hard, had thrown
a blanket over the boss when I got home,
and I’d been dreading the job of cleaning
him up all the morning.
“ ‘Clean that one?’ said I.
“lie took the currycomb and brushes
and went to work, and I watched him
aw hile —long enough to see that lie knew
his business, and then 1 went back into
the store. Rirueby he came in.
“ ‘Do you want to take care of that
boss, keep the buggy and harness clean,
sweep out the store and make yourself
generally useful?’ said I.
“ ‘Yes.’
“ ‘llow much do you want?”
“ ‘Ten dollars a month and my board.’
“‘And how much whisky?’
“ ‘I don’t drink whisky,” said he.
“ ‘Leok-a-here, young man,’ said I,
‘you’re just a-changing your whole life.
Hereafter you’re going to wear boots that
haven’t got-any mud or manure on ’em;
you’re going to get some of that tan ofl’un
your face and hands; you’re going to
have somebody to cut your hair who
knows how; you’re going to wear store
clothes and try and forget when you used
to hoe potatoes and work the dasher in
your mother’s churn. You’re going to
learn to swear and chaw tobacco, and
wear boots about two sizes smaller than
your feet. You’re going to learn to be a
city boy just as fast as you can. You’re
honest and square, arid have got a heart
in you now, but you’re probably get over
all tliat within a year and be so pizen
mean your old mother will be ashamed
of you.
“Now take an old man’s advice. If
you want to see how quick vou can get
rid of all tiiat’s decent in you, go to drink
ing whisky right away. It’ll help you
along faster than any thing; else I know
of. What’s more it won’t cost you a
cent. There’s a barrel of it right therg,
the bung ir out, there’s the test-glass,and
you can help yourself just as often as you
want to. But there’s one thing I want
to impress upon your mind. There’s no
use in your trying to drink up all the
whisky I've got, for you can’t do it. Two
or three young fellows like you have tried
it and failen. They’re dead, and I’ve
got whisky left—lots of it. If you drink
up that barrel there I shall get another
one right up out of the celler and pull the
bung out ready for you. Now, go out to
the barn and go to work and see how fast
you can make a loafer out of yourself!
“That boy stayed with me two years,
and a better boy I never saw, never. My
old hoss never came out of the stable
without his hair was shining like a glass
bottle, the barn was always as clean as
the kitchen, and I never saw liitn hang
ing around the whisky barrel.”
“How did he happen to get a start in
the world and work his way up to his
present station?”
“Well, one day I was sitting here
watching that voting fellow sweep out
the store, and thinks I to myself, ‘That’s
too good a boy to he hanging arouud here,
doing chores for little or nothing. There’s
the making of a man in that fellow, if
he's oniy started right, and I’ll try and
start him ;’ so l put on my hat and went
down to ’s store —old was a par
ticular friend of mine—and says I, ‘l’ve
got a boy that you want here in your
store. I don’t know whether you want
a boy or not, nor I don’t care; you want
this one, and I know it.’
“He took my word for it, set the chap
to work, and that's liira who just rode by.
: He’s got more dollars than I have cents,
Sand I’m gitul of itl”
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JO SLEEP Y TOWS.
Johnnie Hunt Brisbane.]
“Oh? Fairy Sleep, I beg an 4 pray
You give my child a pass to-day
Unto your lovely land of dreams,
With golden skies and sunny streams;
For fever minis my little girl.
And makes her baby senses whirl.
Se, Fairy Sleep, I beg and pray
You give the child a pas to-day!
“Angels that guard the land of sleep
With patience long and vigils deep,
Unbar your gates of rose and pearl,
And enter in this little girl.
Lift her across vour sill of snow
To where the sweet dream-ilowers grow;
Her eyes are blue, her hair is brown;
Now pass the child to Sleepy Town.”
Slowly unbarred the gates of pearl,
And then I saw my little girl.
With breathing soft and lashes low,
Lifted across the sill of snow;
I knew she stood in lovely lands,
With sweet dream-flowers in her hands;
She smiled—her mothtr seemed to weep.
And blessed the Fairyland of Sleep.
THE DREADED SCOURGE.
Up to last Sunday there had been 01,521
deaths from cholera in Spain, since the
beginning of the epidemic, out of a total
of 150,077 cases. At the present rate of
its ravages, the deaths in that country
will reach 70,000 by tlie end of this week,
and tiie total number of the attacks near
ly 200,000. Marseilles, Toulon, and oth
er parts of southern France the scourge
maintains its foothold.
Thus it is clear that while last year tho
excitement and terror over the presence
of cholera in Europe may have been
greater, the present year has been far
more terrible in its ravages. The deaths
from this pestilence in Italy during 1884
were computed at 10,000; but already
during the present season those of Spain
have been six times as many. It is fur
ther evident that in spite of modern ex
perience and appliances to present visita
tion of cholera in Europe is one of the
most destructive ever known.
The persistence of the epidemic and its
greatly increased fury during the present
season are very suggestive. The notion
that because cholera did not reacli En
gland and America last year, and has
thus.far not reached these countries dur
the present year, there is now less likeli
hood of its attacking them,is not in accor
dance wkn historic facts. The concep
tion of its progress as being like that of a
fire on the prairie, which swiftly passes
and leaves its ruin wrought, is wholly
erroneous. When it once gains a foot
hold in a country it invariably occupies
it for several years, breaking out again
and again in the same or some fresh
quarter. Before several of its visits to
America it had first ravaged Europe dur
ing several successive years.
Thus the epidemic of 1332, the first that
afflict*! America, had been raging in Eu
rope nearly two years before itcrosedthe
Atlantic. It appered first at Moscow on
the 28th of September, 1830. During the
entire year 1331 it swept all Europe east
of the Rhine, causing probably 100.000
deaths in Germany alone. In 1822 it
spread over Great Britian and France,
and the deaths in the la'ter country were
estimated at 120,000. It was during this
second year ot its European course that
it found its way to America.
In like manner our second epidemic,
that of 1818, had broken out half a dozen
years earlier in India, and thence had
spread through Persia between the Black
and Caspian seas to Russia, and then, like
its predecessor, was carried to Berlin,
Hamburgh, Bremen, and Havre, as well
as to the cities of southern Europe, and
so found its way to this country after
years of destruction in the Old World.
The epidemics of 1854 and 18(15, on the
contrary, were fully developed in this
country not many months after their ap
pearance in Europe. That of 1873 reach
ed this country after ample warning,
there having been 70,009 cases of cholera
in Germany alone during tiie preceding
year.
Of the present epidemic, we know that
it began its westward march four years
ago; that it was in Egypt in 1883, and
and in France and Italy in ISS4. Instead
of relaxing efforts to keep it away from
America on the false theory that it would
have reached this country before had it
been coming at all, we should remember
that cholera has repeatedly harassed Eu
rope for years in succession before eross
ing the Atlantic.
Even iu this country, while wc habit
ually speak for convenience of the epidem
ics of 1832, IS4.S, 1873, and so on, as if
these were the only years of their contin
uance, the unifoi m rule is that they have
raged from three to five years successive
ly, and occasionally much longer. The
first epidemic in this country did not sub
side until the lapse of five years; and two
years after its first appearance it raged
furiously. Some authorities have declar
ed that in New York city there was
scarcely a year from 1832 to 1854 without
well-defined eases of cholera. But the
first year is the one of terror and excite
ment; and if a season iu which 50,000
victims perish is followed by others In
which the losses are only 5,000 or 10,000
these latter are apt to attract little notice.
This unfailing quality of persistence and
reappearance through successive seasons
should be a warning to continued vigil
ance against the pestilence. The pro
gress of cholera is not only a march, as
it is often called, but a conquest and a
prolonged occupation.
Encouragement, it is fair to add. is al
forded by the success which has hitherto
attended the corralling of the pestilence
in the southwestern corner of Europe.
It is really astonishing that for two years
the disease, in spite of its horrible rava
ges, has been kept, save tor unimportant
scattered eases, confined in Italy, Spain,
and the extreme of France. It is
almost too much to expect that it can be
held and stamped out there. If. this
should be done, through vigorous quar
antine systems, the triumph would be
memorable.
THE FUNERALS OF CONGRESSMEN.
i Some Outspoken Remarks on A Growing
and Expensive Abuse,
Washington, Aug. 26.—A member of
Congress dies of malaria fever or of
pneumonia. In either case the fault is
laid to the climate of Washington, to the
Potomac fiats, or to the piercing winds
which sweep the broad avenues. In
early times, when members were paid
six dollars a day, and while Congress sat
at Yew York and Philadelphia, the fam
ily of the deceased paid the funeral ex
panses without a murmur or a thought
that Congress ought to foot .the bill. It
was impossible for the framers of the
Constitution, and for those who were
contemporary with that event, to imag
ine that they had authority to vote tiie
money of the people to any private pur
pose. They let the dead bury their dead,
and the most they felt authorized to do
was to pass a resolution of respect and
attend the funeral. But in this age tiie
funeral expenses of Congressmen and of
ficials cost as much as the whole civil
service in Washington’s day. It is said
in no invidious spirit, but the fact is
worthy of mention, that the illness, the
funeral expenses, and the gratuity to the
family of Mr. Garfield cost the Govern
ment $75,000. It was with more reason
that those expenses were assumed than
in ordinary cases. Still, there was no
constitutional warrant for the expendi
ture. The funeral expenses paid out of
the public treasury for members of a re
cent Congress—the forty-fifth or forty
sixth —were quite equal to the pay of the
first Congress. It is now the rule, also,
for each House to assume payment of the
funeral expenses of its employees, clerks,
doorkeepers and messengers; and three
or four years ago a messenger was buried
at an expense of S4OO, a sum equal to a
year’s salary of a clerk in Washington’s
time. Now, if employees of Congress
are entitled to the honor of burial at the
public expense, why not the ten or
twelve thousand clerks in the depart
ments here, the employees in the custom
houses, in the internal revenue service,
and the army of fifty or sixty thousand
postmasters ?
We are now an the green tree; why
shall we not be dry ? It is only neees
sary to set the ball in motion. Some
fervid orator will appeal to the sensibili
ties of Congress in behalf of the distress
ed family of a collector or a postmaster
—it may be here in Washington, and the
appropriations will be made. The prece
dent will be set; the wedge will be in
serted. To object will be to throw doubt
upon the practice as regards Congres
sional employees, and aa regards Con
gressmen.
This vicious system cannot be arrested
by objecting to an appropriation in a
particular case. The proper thing to be
done is to adopt a declaratory resolution,
when no case is appealing to the sympa
thies, to the effect that no such appropri
ation will be made in future.
The right of Congress to pension dis
abled soldiers and sailors and their wid
ows would seem to be a legitimate in
ference from the authority given to raise
those arms of the service. It were cruel
and oppressive to call upon a citizen to
sacrifice his health or life, and leave him
a disabled wreck to perish. But there
can be no excuse and no authority for
pensioning stalwart men who go out of
service in perfect health, or who are “re
tired” on rates of pay which are equiva
lent to large fortunes, for life. The in
justice of such acts i5 the more conspicu
ous when they are made in favor of offi
cers, to the exclusion of the private men.
There js no constitutional authority for
them, nor for pensioning civilians. Tiie
acts of Congress in this direction are fla
grant abuses, and show that we are fol
lowing in the footsteps of England and
other monarchies which have no written
constitutions, in which the will of the
Legislature or of the sovereign for the
time being is the supreme law.
It may seem cruel to say it, but it is
true that the grant of a month’s leavemf
absence, with pay, to an official of any
grade is an abuse unwarranted by the
Constitution. It is giving away the pub
lic money, and, in view of the fact that
officials are paid 50 to 100 per cent, high
er than persons in private employment,
tiie abuse is all tho more flagrant.
HOW A RAT SAVER HUNDREDS OF
POUNDS.
Work at Home.}
The telegraph wires in London are not
all above ground, but many being to the
underground system. The main wires
are laid through the big tunnels in which
are the gas and sewer pipes. The tun
nels are big enough for a man to walk
through easily. The branch pipes, con
taining the side wires running off from
the main line for several miles, are much
smaller, of course, and the workmen
must be very careful not to lose the con
nections between the larger and smaller
wires.
Not long ago, however, some men who
were repairing one of those lateral wires
failed to attach it to a leading line by
which the wire could be drawn back to
its place. The blunder seemed to involve
great loss, for it looked as though the
whole side pipe would have to be dug up
to replace the wire.
In this dilemma a remarkable step was
taken. A rat was caught, and one end
ot & fine steel wire was tied around him.
He was placed in the pipe; but, after run
ning a few yards, he stopped. Then
came another curious step. A ferret was
put after the rat. As soon as the rat
heard the ferret coming behind, the fine
wire began to play out. It was feared
that the rat would show fight, but It did
not, and the complete circuit was made
by both rat and ferret.
When tiie rat came out of the other end
of the pipe he was caught, and, by means
of the oue wire, the telegraph wire was
drawn through, so the rat saved the tele
graph company hundreds of pounds.
j DID GRANT RELIEVE THAT TILDEN
WAS ELECTED?
T
George Wiwhlngton Ch!l(l0 Pays So.
Gen. Grant was staying with me dur
ing tho canvass of the election between
Tilden and llayes, and on the morning
of the momentous day he accompanied
me to my office. In a few moments an
eminent republican senator And one or
two other loading republicans walked in,
and they went over the returns. These
leaders said “Hayes is elected,” an opin
ion in which the othoVs coincided. Gen.
Grant listened, but said nothing. After
they had settled the matter in their own
minds lie said : “Gentlemen, it looks to
me as if Mr. Tilden was elected.” He
afterward sent for me in Washington,
and said ; “This matter is very compli
cated, and the people will not be satis
fied unless something is done in regard
to it which will look like justice.”
“Now,” he continued, “I have spoken
of an electoral commission, and tiie lead
ers of the party are opposed to it, which
lam sorry to see. They say that if an
electoral commission is appointed you
might as well count in Mr. Tilden. I
would sooner have Tilden than that the
republicans should have a president who
eouid Vai stigmatized as a fraud. If I
were Mr. Hayes I would not have it un
less it was settled in some way outside of
tho senate. This matter is opposed by
the leading republicans in tiie house and
.senate and throughout tiie country.”
President Grant invited the leading
senators to dine with him that day to get
their sentiment, lie said to me: “You
see tiie feeling here. I find them almost
universally opposed to anything like an
electoral commission.”
I named a leading democrat in the
house who was, p'erhaps, one of the most
prominent men in tiie country, a man of
great influence and of great integrity of
character, whom it would be well for
Gen. Grant to see in the matter, and the
suggestion was acted on. I sent for this
gentleman, and put the dilemna to him
in President Grant’s name as follows :
“It is very hard for the president and
yery embarrassing as to men on his own
side that this matter does not socm to
find favor with them as well as to have
democratic opposition. Republicans all
think you might as well count Tilden in,
but as tho feeling throughout tho coun
try demands as honest a count of the
thing as possible, this electoral commis
sion ought to be appointed.” The an
swer at once was that the democrats
would favor it, and it was through him
and Gen. Grant that the matter was car
ried through. Grant was the originator
of the plan. He sent for Mr. Conkling
and said with deep earnestness:
“This matter is s serious one, and the
people feel it very deeply. I think this
electoral commission ought to be appoint
ed.” Cockling answered, “Mr. Presi
dent. Senator Morton (who was then
the acknowledged leader of the senate) is
opposed to it, and opposeu to your ellorts,
but if you wish the commission carried,
I can do it,” He said, “I wish it done.”
Mr. Conkiing took hold of tiie maiter
and put it through. Tho leading demo
crat I have spoken of took tiie initiative
in the house and Mr. Conkling in the
senate. Gen Patterson, of Philadelphia,
who was an intimate friend of Gen.
Jackson, and a life-long democrat, was
also sent for. lie had large estates in
the South, and a great deal of influence
with tho democrats, and particularly
with Southern democrats. Gen. Patter
son was upward of eighty, but he came
down there and remained one or two
weeks, working hard to accomplish tiie
purpose in view. After tiie bill had
passed and was waiting for sigmture,
Gen. Grant went to a state fair in Mary
land the day it should have been signed,
and there was much perturbation about
it.
General Grant acted in good faith
throughout the whole business. It has
been said that the changing complexion
of the court threw the matter into Hayes’
hands, and if the court had remained as
it was, Tilden would have been declared
president. Gen. Grant was the soul of
honor in this matter, and no one ever
accused him or even hinted that lie was
untruthful in any way. I, for one, don t
believe that he could toll a lie or act de
ceitfully.
ODD TRICKS.
If you want to see curious sliglit-of
hand performances, you must go to India.
No jugglers in the world can compare
with those who practice their curious art
in that far-away land.
They have neither curtains nor tallies,
boxes nor drawers, nor do they wear
loose embroidered mantles with large
sleeves, as Western wizzards usually do.
An Indian juggler is clothed only with a
strip of muslin fastened around his body.
His limbs are bare. He stands in an
open courtyard without a tree, a grass
plot or the shelter of a tent; and in the
midst of a ring of spectators, all gazing
at him with intense watchfulness, he
calmly performs tricks which look like
miracles.
For instance, he extends to you his
empty hands. He stoops down, pick3
up two or three pebbles, rubs his hands
together and presently there is a shining
silver rupee.
Again he shows }'ou hi* bare hands,
picks up the rupee, breaks it in two, or
pretends to do so, and there are two
coins. He breaks these again and again
until he has ten or a dozen, and where
the money has come from or where he
had it hidden, no mortal can tell.
An all Steel Axe, at
Y. L. Williams & Cos.
C. L. C. restores the secretions and
speedily relieves nervous prostration.
Cholera is In Spain, but c. L. c. will
cure cholera in Cartersvillc and Georgia.
Number 32.
TRUSTING IN THE LORD,
A Couple Destroy a Paid-up Insurance
Policy.
Louisville Courier-Journal.! v
The peculiar effects of the recent “faith
cure’’ revival in this city appear in vari
ous ways. A few clays ago a very strange
outcome of the belief in the now doctrine
eauic to light in the office of a life insur
ance company in this city. Mr. Francis
Lloyd and wife entered the office and
presented to the cashier the fragments of
an insurance policy which Mr. Lloyd had
taken out several years ago. The policy
1 was for SI,OOO and was paid up, and the
family were drawing a small dividend
from it yearly. Mrs. Lloyd seemed to
do most of the talking. She handed the
mutilated paper to the cashier with the
remark that they would have nothing
more to do with it, but would henceforth
“trust in the Lord.”
The cashier was very much surprised
and undertook to reason with the^n, but
it was impossible. The policy had been
made payable to Mrs. Lloyd, with a re
version to her children, and the cashier
assured her that although she had torn
the policy to pieces that did not alter the
contract, and that the company would
give her a certificate of its destruction
which would answer every purpose of the
original policy. The couple replied that
they would have no certificate; they were
done with the policy and the premiums,
and would never again touch a cent of
the money. They were again assured
that should Mrs. Lloyd, the beneficiary,
refuse to accept the money on the death
of her husband it would be Daid to her
children, and that a guardian would bo
provided for the purpo.se; that the money
did not belong to the company,and would
be in some manner paid to the proper
parties.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd aro apparently 40
and 38 years of ago respectively, and aro
people of average intelligence, Mrs.
Lloyd being particularly a bright and in
teresting talker. They live in Portland
and are in moderate circumstances finan
cially, Mr. Lloyd being a laborer. Since
the advent of the evangelist, Bulklcy,
they have brooded over their insurance
policy day and night, and boing unable
to understand tho insurance business by
any rules of arithmetic, they consequent
ly place it in the domain of superstition,
and, under tho influence of tho faith euro
craze, they decided to end it. Among
tho fragments of the destroyed policy
were other bits of papor showing that
the parties had treated in a similar man
ner another policy. The amount of the
second policy was unknown.
A FEW LITTLE ONES.
Little six-year-old was obliged to take
a dose of medicine that left an unpleasant
taste in the mouth. When asked how
he liked it he said : “It’s good enough;
all but the end of it.”
A bright little girl who lives in Ilyde
Park asked for a second saucer of ice
cream the other evening. “I don’t think
it’s good for you; ask your father,” said
her mother. The girl went into the li
brary and put the question. “Not much,”
said her father, emphatically. “Papa
says I can have a little,” she reported to
iter mother, with truthful and innocent
eyes.—Chicago Tribune.
“Now, Willie,” said a coaxing mother,
“I don’t like to take medicine any more
than you do; but I just make up my mind
to do it, and then do it.” The child look
ed up through his tears, and replied:
“And, mother, I just make up my mind
that I won’t, and then don’t.”
Fond Mamma—“Why, I thought you
and little Flossy Brown were great
friends.” Little Miss Fashion—“So we
are; but you wouldn’t have me play
with a little girl who dresses her dolls
in last year’s fashions, would you mam
ma?”
Bobby is carrying an umbrella open
when it is not raining or the sun shin
ing. He is asked why he does so. ‘Cause
when it rains pa wants it, and when the
sun shines rna wants it, an’ its only this
kinder wedder that I kin git ter use it at
all.”* . •
“What do you expect Santa Claus to
bring you down the chimney next Christ
mas?” asked old Mrs. Docking of her
grapdehild Tommy. “Grandmothef, I
am surprised that a person of your age
should still believe in such childish
things,” was the reply of the little fel
low, who will bo five years old on his
next birthday. *
“John,” said a schoolmaster, “you
will soon be a man and will have to at
tend to business. What do you suppose
you will do when you have to write let
ters, unless you learn to spell better?”
“Oh, sir,” answered John, “I shall put
easy words in them.”
Little Sammy was looked upon as
quite a prodigy in the Fair family. It
was customary to have him show off for
the entertainment of guests. One morn
ing Mr. Fair said: “Now, Sammy, get
your bible and read to us, beginning
with the verso at which you chance to
open.” This was,to convince the hear
ers that Saminy had not been made fa
miliar with certain chapters only. Hav
ing opened the book, Sammy read in
loud and measured tones: “Neither do
men light a candle and put it under a
bustle, etc.”
A Walking Bkelet*n.
M.r. E. Springer, of Mechanics
i burg, Pa., writea: “I was afiHet
! e d with lung lever and abscess on lungs,
j ail d reduced to a walking skeleton. Goc
I a free trial bottle of Dr. King’s New
Discovery for consumption, which did
me so much good that I bought a dollar
bottle. After using three bottles, found
my3elf once more a man, completely re
stored to health, with a hearty appetite,
and a gain in ftesh of forty-eight lbs.
Call at D. W. Curry’s Drug Store and
get a free trial bottle of this certain cure
tor ail Lung diseases. Large bottles Jl.
Plenty of Millyfile and Mason Jars on
hand at Curry’s.