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THE CAMESVILLE TRIBUNE
ESTABLISHED 1875.
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C. W. BOND, PROPRIETOR.
Do you want anything in tlio line r«f vegetables, candies, fancy
groceries, cider, rail* shako, crockery, call o i me. I keep c m-
»Ukt:> on baud everything that is usually kept in a well storked
grocery store aud will give bargain*.
C. W. bond, Lavoma. Ga.
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Cureful Economy,
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.king that can con tribute to your comfort and pVamreat one ol
fh« molt delightful lununer regorte in Georgia, can be found at
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CAHNESVILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY f GA . WEDNESDAY JULY 22 !89l.
NOTICE. "
Notice it hereby given that a!
per.-ton* are prohibited from tress-’
passing upon my lands lying in Car-
r.esville District, Franklin county,
Ga„ adjoining landg of Mrs. Harnett
Broom, Mrs. Catherine Broom, Dr.
H. G, Freeman, J. A. C. Teat and
K. C. Vandiver, aud containing one
hundred i ml one acres mnra -*r T *<i
ard briny the place whereon B. A.
B «>*nn io» lives. Persons hunting
or fi* Ling on said lands, riding over
or tresspassing on the cultivatei '
lands in .hit way will be dealt with
terms of ti e law. This july 15th
1891 . \
6t, Elizabeth Broom*.
NO PIC:“TUT"DEBTORS AND
OB EDITORS-
A' |.H-'s,n* having demands against estate oj
T. II. Hath <-k, dec’ll arc hereby notified to ren-
derin tie r drioands to the undersigned a coord-
ng to hw, 4ii i ail jiersonsindebted to the estate
are required to inakaimmediate payment. This
May. 20th Istil.
•T. H. Hatheock,
F. T. Kirk,
Administrators.
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NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND
CREDITORS.
A'! jier*oiiM It 1 viiii; demands against tiie estat*
<if Mary Stonecypher, deceased, are hereby
•i’»t:ftidto render in their demands to the un-
dersitrneii according to law, and all persen* in-
dcl.ted t<> said estate are r«quir#d to make
immediati’payment. This May, 20tl>Ts<)t.
Samnal A. Porter,
Adminlst-rator
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GEO IGI A. Franklin c >nn*v.—q'ie
spit aide's *pi«>ia f ed u on >i>p 1 i«xiion of
Mr*, >1. E. The mason, w i lev of A r>.
Tin nifiKon, f r twelve men ,l 's »n; port
- r lieiH-U n- -1 'our minor 0 } ildren, hav-
hg 610 1 t if-ir return, al’ Person
certied 1 - <- r-by cited <0 show cause
f eti* tbov c. af then*x'- .Tu’v tern, of
ill’s court nLy said upolieadnn should
e : a* t*d. ThisMa> 23-d, 1391.
Djmiel McKenz e, ordinary.
5 i >■-« — Pr*. $3.35.
♦: FOR*51 A, Franklin county,
Ojdinarya Offioe o'said county.
Whr.roasWm. M. Rampley, administrator of
.fno. NV, M.-Farlsnd, ropreseuts to the court in
liis petit on, duly filed and entered on record,
that ho lias fully administered ou.Ino. W. Me-
F»rl*nds ( »t*te, this is, therefore, to cite ad
persons s-om-.ei nod, heirs and creditors, to show
cause- if any they can, why said administrator
-lionid not be discharged from liis administra¬
tion sod receive letters of adismistrstion, on the
tlic fin t Monday in October, IsOi. Tide Jaly 1st
I*-. 1 HAnTo BtrKEXZIE. Ordinary,
Three nu ntlis, l’rs_ ft-e paiil._________
r.Mi -~ r uTSTKld" " TOTL\TTT
To » I M hem It may ooaceru 5»lly Murry
a* Tine in ji :oper form applied to me for p«r-
iiM.en! l,stt*r* of AdiuinUtralion on the
•state of E. II. Murry,late of said county, this
:• to rite sil and singular the creditors and
next of tin of E. R. Murry to he and appear
•>t my oil.:* within til* titnr slowed l»y law,
and .'how cause,If any they can. why perman¬
ent administration should not he granted to
^aliic Marry on X.1E Hurry’s estate.
Witness my hand and official signature, this
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JiAN’L McKENZIE. Ordinary.
* flic’-- tr*. foe $3.35.
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T * ! v Li m Ik mat : J. II.
*v\' Du *c«P, Ex*»ut-.r ,ol J.ihn
3ec;*s«Kl. liav* in due fo m
« 1 .. 1 * 1 iidars’;n*d tor leave to
‘ ** *1 hilorgirr to the estate cf
■rcrl, «'d •’id applic fi h w ; 1
c l ’ • .1 ,i on i. - i m fir*' M -I'd vv in
S -rsi n*>t.
!' i» Juue LSth, 1S91.
DAN L. McKENZIE, Ordinary.
- *s P-«. f-» ft i ”5.
d IK<i 1A-lliA.NKLlX COINTY-
VVhsroasi II. S. Cna | e f-*r. Extent >r
of J II. C **p> cles.r, re-re* nu t«> rbe
"ourt m li * D'rthi n da-r fli-d snd
ev>t red 01 rfco.ri, tb*’ lie ha* tu’lv
•d eb Isle • <] J. H. Ciiaj p-lear's es
•*'i*’e/ - Flii* i* ; ther«fo-e to ei> til
r.e--.In* irineerm-c, lis rs a d c *dit()rf,
*o -bo - ran**, if anv they**!*, why aaid
E *t i t ri lu ill 1 »ot b“ <Lse *s\rte 1 fr» j'
’ ’* K< ',*:'tor*bip, a; d r-« eive letters '•
.• Ltrirbei , oil tl r fir t Mcnd.-y iu S-{-
» f 18H1
>fil Vt-K-n/>, Orli >ary.
, 1» f>. f-e fd.
.vnffinow the barbed wire people have
formed a trust, when their patents have j
ran out. One afford thhig the is certain, of gigantic j
combinations means trans- j
actiag Wliat the business profoun.b successfully r meaning iu this of ago. this j j
present tendency of cirinzaiion is, fa- j
tore philosophers can read. But at pres-
cut commercial an 1 industrial co-opera-
tion «.the way to business success The
field is as open to one class of p-*ople as
to another, ff one *:-t rf men with labor
yuii ^ Ke
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commmng.Aaen otner sets of men can
certainty do tae seme. It is better,
within the bouads of honesty aud fair
treatmeut. to swim with tb« tide than
to go against it
Canadian ioaus: ainonntmg to $5,000,-
000 have been renewe.1 in England at 4 I
and ... si percent. . That is whid Canada , must . j
pay ior money. At the same time, we j
may with modest pride call attention to j
the fact timt the United States secretary
of tiie treasury la able to refund the war j
pt*r cent, bonds at 2 per cent.
) Cry of the million. Oh, if people would
onlj- mind their own busdneas!
HIS LIFE WAS A SUCCESS.
THE REMARKABLE RECORD MADE BY
THE LATE HANNIBAL HAMLIN.
O-* Entered Politics Forty-seven Tears
Ago and Advanced Steadily to the
Senate and Vice Presidency—Painless
Death in Old Age.
Hannibal Hamlin’s name must be add¬
ed to the list of groat Americans who
have died on independence Day—t hree
presidents and one vice president Jef¬
ferson and Adams died on the fiftieth
anniversary and Monroe on the fifty-
fifth—two signers of the Declaration and
a young soldier of the Revolution—and
it is a striking illustration of the youth
of this country that Hannibal Hamlin
was already in active life when Monroe
died. His political career, from his elec¬
tion to the state legislature to his retire¬
ment from the United States senate and
resignation of thb mission to Spain, eov-
ered just forty-seven years, and certainly
no other public man of his time was so
uniformly successful or so completely
rounded out his official »d’e.
was bora in Parw Oxford county.
Maine, August 27, 180 ) lie obtained an
exccut-iii lic.Ktemic educates. «»ut was
pre\ented irom going to college by the
death of his father, and had ,o w->,*.: hard
on the home larm till of age He then
worked a s.iort time . iu a printing m ice. ,
studied law and was admitted to the oar
*!* remaining in nominal practice
till 1848, but becoming yearly more and
more a politician. Beginning in 18LG as
a. member ol the legislature, he advanced
thereafter from rank to rank with almost
military regularity.
In 1840 he was the Democratic noun-
nee for congress, and challenged his op-
ponent to a joint discussion of the is-
sues- his challenge was accepted, the
novelty of the thing greatly interested
the people, and taat method was thuares-
fea dished in Maine. In 1812 he was
elected to congress and re-elected in 1344.
An interesting fact in his congressional
life is that it was he aud not David Wil-
mot who offered the famous “Wilmot
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proviso,” in the Twenty-ninth congress
Mr. Wilmot ha 1 bee a considered the
best man for such action, because of hi?
ability as a low tariff advocate and hie
popularity wifii southern members, but
when the emergmicy ca a and the
amendment must be pres or lost.
he was in consultation with President
Polk, and so the proviso was submitted
by Mr. Hamlin.
I 11 1S47 Mr. Hamlin was again elected
to the legislature, was a candidate be¬
fore that body for United States senator,
and only defeated by one vote. That
vote he lost, it is said, became of having
joked about a sensitive mem tier’s bald
head. Senator Fairchild, who was
elected, died in 1848. and Mr Hamlin
was chosen to fill the unexpired term
In 1851 he was elected for tiie full term
of six years, and in tV grand overturn
ing of 1854, when th * Kansas-NobrasLu
act was passed, he broke wi.n his party
and took ground as an advanced Free
Soiler.
When he announced his views in a
comprehensive speech in the senate on
June 12, 1856, there was national sen
sation, and when the uepnfiin stiite
convention of Maim* ire 1 soon aft- 1 lu
was the choice for go. r of ail but
forty of the 1.100 u*.degas The state
which had been I)em.K*ra.ic by 5.0") ir.
1855 gave him 23.000 plurality Resign
ing from the senate he w<„s inaugurated
as governor, and a few day latei r
GigHed as governor because of ben:.
elected senator—an office he held till iu
augurated vice president in 1*61
In July, 1865, he was appointed col
lector of the jiort of Boston, hut resigned
thirteen months Inter From March 4
1809, to the same daic ui Pol, lie was
again United States senator In Oeto
ber, 1881, he was appointed minister t<
5i>ain, but resigued early in 1883 and re
tired to private iife. lie emered the
United States senate 111 the days of
Webster, Calhoun, Benton. Cass. etc.
outlived them and nearly all their sue
cessors, lived beyond the allotted years
man ant ^ ^i p d in {rerfect peace and
B ^ mos f without » a:n
veuembie cn«r,h ni S ,.Uarie S .
Several prelates of the Episcopal church
j n the Uni tel States are quite old men.
Bishop Himriugton is 72 Bishop Ciark,
the acting »li.x*eoan in Massachusetts, is
over eighty. Bishop Cose is
>' ears beyond three score and ten and
still a vigorous ui.-.u. Bishop Williams,
of Connecticut, the present primate of
the Episcopal church, is very nearly
geventj -five. Bi.d-op Littlejohn, of Long
Island, is uot far from seventy
The Profit nu Drug s.ilea.
The paternal iL’.ss.an government has
°Scial y discov *r -1 t.:e f-ict taat drug-
b'ist* umke eaorm m- profits A project
is 1 :» a oeiug cuujiuTe 1 t*i mase drug
;i st , v . )! v Then the
VVi jj _r , { ai-micine? at cheap
rates, y t out uf u fix. i profit of 10 per
cent, tue g overam m will be able
keep two *d.trieJ pay-i i ius in every
drug shop i-»treat poor invalids gratui-
tou^iy.
Eacent statistics .- how that less alco¬
holic drink it r-an^-imed m Finland and
Norway than iu any other part of Europe.
I 1 AS A MILLION MEMBEBS
GROWTH OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR MOVEMENT.
Tho Idea for This Organization Took
Form with a Blaine Clergyman Ten
Tears Ago—Now There Are Thirteen
Thousand Societies.
[Coft right, 1S91, by American Press Associa¬
tion.}
HE midsummer
^ conven tions of
the V oung Peo-
ple’s Christian
Endeavor socie¬
mm ties have become
M\ Its in important active sentiment. the spread religions factors They of
bring together
t.honsauds of zeal¬
ous young people from all parts of the
United States ami Canada, and a fair
representation from England, Australia
aml other c , mn t n es beyond the seas,
Along with the young people, acting as
guidts hjh] counselors, gather some of
t ^ e most eloquent divines in the world,
ftIu j the meetings are noted for their
practical Christianity
Tliis year’s gathering at Minneapolis,
international convention of the
i societies, naturally calls attention to the
,
j Iliarve Jous expansion ol the original idea,
j beginning in a very modest way at Port-
land. Me., in the winter of 1880-81, the
ideaof Yotmg Christian Endeavor speed-
jjy took root and flourished amazingly,
[ n 1^2 there were 2 societies, with
^ mera )>ers. the following year there
were 56 societies and 2,870 members:
j; ve y ears later the number of societies
wa8 o >3 , j and the ..il.ership 140,000;
w ^j e totl=»y there IH.OOO societies
wlth 1 >C oo.OOO m . .ms on the rolls,
Notwitlistaiuiing t aw enormous increase
the organization moves like clockwork
;ilu | the expenses ol the United s<iciety
have gradually decreased until they are
almost completely wiped out. Strict
economy aud good management are the
watchwords of the officers The profits
of the publishing society meet ali the
general expenses and t’aere are no taxes
or assessments of any kind.
One of tiie most active spirits of the
movement is Rev Dr. F E Clark, the
founder, who is now popularly known as
“Father Endeavor" Dr Clark who is
a modest, unassuming gentleman, con¬
ducts The Golden Ruie, the official news-
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FATHER ENDEAVOR’S 1’AKSONAOE.
paper of the organization His account
of the origin of the Endeavor societies is
interesting to al! who take part in re¬
ligious work, since it is another proof of
the great virtue of small beginnings in
this particular sphere He tells t he story:
“1 was pastor of a church in Portland.
Me., and realized the difficulty of keep¬
ing the young people ol my church to¬
gether ami m getting any work out of
them for the benefit of the church So 1
set to work to devise some plan by
which 1 could arouse la their hearts a
more earnest interest Out of this ne¬
cessity 1 conceived the idea of calling
them togethei at u>v residence and at
tempting to organize them into a body
of Christian workers I had prepared a
constitution fo 1 them to sign in which
they pledged tliemscivcs to Christian
work. Well, a number of them came
and cheerfully signed the constitution
1 really did not have much corifi lence in
the success of tee movefile:!' because J
thought they would grow tired of it in a
little while, as they had of ail other so¬
cieties which had been instituted for the
same purpose but I w.-is ii ppby mis¬
taken in this It continued to grow in
interest until otiu-i churches began to
take it up without any special «-,Torts to
introduce it. Boon mt|r.ii’iesL -gau to come
in from othei point - and tints it spread
rapidly from point to point untd nowit
has readied every state iu the Union
and every civilized part of the gloiie.”
j Every annr.fd convention Ltars elo¬
quent testimony to the eudof.**** charac¬
ter of the movement inaugurated at
those simple gatherings in ’Father En¬
deavors'' par.-on,arte at Port land. Me
In 18-35 the dem.ai : for informai ior* con¬
cerning the work i.-.-came so great that
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REV. E. E C’l.AUK— UKS WAVI.AM* HOVT
the United ?ociety was formetl This
body i.- simply the i*ure;iuof information
for all the societies. It prints tho litera¬
ture, answers thousands of letters of in-
quiry every week and Ls tne ceneral
headquarters of tiie work. It levies no
taxes and assumes no authority, every
society managing its own affairs in its
own way. It is managed by a b ard of
trustees representing the great ev vngeli-
cal denominations Local societies be-
members by simply filling ont a
statistical blank, furnished on epplica-
tion to the office at 50 Bromfield street.
Boston
The central idea of the Enue-ivorso-
! ciety is the inculcation of the methods
and rosponabitities of chnrcE work into
; the minds of young people, it does not
interfere with denominational lines in
the slightest degree; each socirty be-
comes part and parcel of its own . hnrch,
whether it t»e Presbyterian, Lmheran.
Methodist. Congregational, or wliat not
Endeavor work is, iu fact, a hart;ionizer
of all evangelical txidies. bringing th. in,
through the enthosiasto of the young
VOLUME XVI.—No. 25. h
AUTHOR AND DRAMATIST AT ODDS,
The Dispute ilrtivevu Kjgleston and Ar¬
thur—The Former's Home Life.
The many admirers of “The Hoosiet
Schoolmaster” and his friends are wa\ch
ing with no little interest the progress
of Dr. Edward Egglestou’s suit against
the owners of “Blue Jeans,* the play
which attained such popularity last sea¬
son. Dr. Eggleston’s story of * Roxy” is
averred to have furnished not only the
plot but many of the characters and
much of tho actual dialogue. Since
few, if any. modern plays are entirely
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original, and the playwright is in gen¬
eral little more than a skillful adapter,
this suit is regarded as a sort of a test
case, and as such is being followed with
deep interest by the Lite vary as well as
the theatrical world.
Dr Eggh ston of late has becouu
rather a picturesque character. Hi?
home for the past twelve years has been
a stout little castle of rough stone
built o.i the southern shore of Laid
George \ more beautiful or a more
lonely sp_>t con’d scarcely be imagined
Back of the castle—Well named “Owl’s
Nest”—a gnve of pine trees crowns the
promontory, which slopes abruptly down
to the waters of the lake. There is n<-
attempt at lamiscap • gardening iu tin
grounds around the house allowed Roses, tali
lilies and geraniums are to grow
in demon., ic association with wild
daisies nttercups
A few ,.s from the house is the doc¬
tor's library and his youngest daughter’s
studio, in;:it »il the same native stone
and finish .-.1 inside with hard wood and
tiling. Here lie spends most of Iris time,
and hero ail his recent books Irive been
written Due side of i.ie room is taken
up with aa eu-orm "i s tire]»lace with a
brick cuimney reaching to the roof.
Thjjre is a old projection faslmmed large enough to
support an clock, and be¬
side it hangs the sole decoration of the
apartment—a carved mahogany panel of
a piping faun—the work of the artist
daughter. Allegra.
The other three walls are lined with
books. There are some rare hangings, a
few chairs, rttflgTiiT^Ptabie <Trt W O .TffMT. t ft*
battered old Colonial desk stuffed with
papers and manuscripts, from which all
of Dr. Eggleston s stories have gone
forth He has never had any other desk,
and only one chair has ever stood in front
of it. This chair, a veritable curiosity,was
made by the slaves of John Randolph,
and is an enormous construction of
straw, bound with willow withes. The
doctor regards it with an affection that
bids fair to outlast the chair itself, al-
though his daughters say it does not j
shed much more loose straw now than it j
did years ago, when David Swing ad¬
vised Mrs. Eggleston to domesticate a
young calf for the special purpose of >
keeping the carpet clean around the doe- :
tor 8 ’
A little distance froiii the castle lives
the novelist's eldest daughter. Mrs. El
win yet iy. a sweet faced woman win* j
has found time to rains live children and
to write a number of juvenile books. !
George Cary Eggleston h;is recently built -
a summer home on. the grounds, and a j
number of the doctor's old Brooklyn
parishioners have cottages i a the vicinity,
That pastoral work of fifteen years ago
was entirely uousecrarian. ;t:i*l in many |
respects bore a close •mblance to I lie ;
Robeff F.ismeie in !ii«* 5 it in Mrs.
Ward s novel Its ) iods have been
largely ;uiopted in m n< J than one Brook¬ ;
lyn parish since, and Dr. Eggleston may
not b.- far wrong when he declares that
to have* been tin* East v^*rk of his life.
RuiifA Louise Chii.de.
Pliiel of the Weather lim-riin. * 1
The Weather bureau of the United
States government is now a bran fii of
the department of agriculture, and Pro¬
fessor Marx W liogiiilgtOTi is its l.evvlv
appo!:’,tad chi f This gentleman was
born fi. ty-iuree years ago in Sycamore,
Ills. is an e;u!}’ observer <4 na
ture s .lomena. but his studies wer-
so deki), J tkm it was not till I 860 that
he was graduated from the University
of Michigan.
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PROFESSOR M. W. HARRINGTON.
He lectured extensively on his favorite
subject of astronomy, delivering ad-
dresses thereon at Oberlin. ( 4 .. at;d at the
State nniversfey of Louisiana. He was
also connected with the Chinese foreign
office in Pekin, and spent a year in'Alas-
ka with a scieutifir expedition When
the lamented Wat i-igned from Ann
Arbor tc- go to Ma n \Vi».. Profes*st»r
Haitiugtou was ch< 1 to fii! the ch iii
of astrouomv Hii l .at-. luce remained
there lu * 84 t - > Uibli.-hetl fi„.
American Meteorological Journal and
has since been its chief editor.
Eighteen bundled and nine was a yeaf
prolific in the birth of distinguished men.
lu that year were born Darwin, Tenny-
eon, Gladstone and Oliver Wendell
Holmes. The late Hannibal Hamlin,
that fine gentleman o'? the old echool,
was born in 1809 too.
In the large cities where business i*
dull this summer the cry is, The crops,
the crops—wait till they move, then
money will be plenty. Fortunately, in
most parte of the country crops aw
abundant and of fine quality. It may
possibly bring anew to the commercial
and speculative mind remembrance of
the fact that do as men may the pros¬
perity cf a country comes out of lb*
ground, in one shape or another. Y'.v*
fanner and the slock raiser l»ter*My
carry the world on. In year:; wb»a
crops are abundant tho merchant Ion’;-
to sell goods, because the farmer iL
buy generously. The rail-oau* exjv' f
good di vidcnds.for they earn large lit ’gtu
money carrying the ngricrdtnrist’s prod¬
ucts to market. In view of tfo. far:.,
lawmakers, business men ntnl r Ixh
may well understand that their
does not lie in r queering the f:u :• r. bn-
in making freights, taxes, tv
and everything else as easy fir- jlul as
possible. His prosperity means the
prosperity of all.
Whose Fault Is It?
A government clerk in Washington,
sixty’ years of age. makes doleful wail.
He got a government clerkship thirty
years ago, when be was a young man
IIo has “serv *d uio government faith¬
fully” for thiny years. Mow lu* finds
himself chord win re he began thirty
years ago—with no money laid up, be¬
ginning to be an old man, no pension
and no nothing, liable to be turned out
at any time to make room for a younger
clerk. In turn the younger man will
doubtless settle down in ffont < f a desk
on a leather covered chair, cud dry* up
and blow away with a pen behind his
ear. Thirty years from now. in 1921,
when this second fellow, to *, shall be
sixty years old, he in turn will doubtless
wail that lie is just where he was when
he started, and has no money laid up.
no pension and iha noth ing.
But these fossilized government clerks
will have nobody to blame hut them¬
selves. In the enthusiastic days of
youth, when with strong young arms
they in gat have breasted the waves of
life and fought and gained a : are har¬
bor and support for age, they g<-r a gov
erunaent clerkship .t $ 1,200 n •• car. It
time it increased perhaps i > $1,500.
They staid and grew round mI*h*rcNl
and <1 ys ic and gray hea ’. 1 . C .ur-
ago and per >evr*rance would h ive built
for them a business independence out¬
side: for there is money enough and op¬
portunity enough in this country for
every intelligent person with average
health and business good luck to lay up
a competency. But they did not take
their lighting chances, an 1 now they
are left. Probably the most unfortunate
thing that can happen to a young man
is to get a government clerkship in Wash-
iugton.
A Psychological f>;udy.
Something like twenty years ago a
negro boy was bora on one of tho Sea
islands off tho South Carolina coast. A
human being more stupid, to Lave utthe
same time good sense, conld scarcely lie
imagined than this black 1 > \v apparently
was. He seemed as he grew fntu his
teens to be absolutely to ? dull to talk.
He could not understand direction that
was given to him if it cent lined more
than a few words. Yet this boy, Tony
Hamilton, has lived to set at naught
most of the theories about human educa-
tion and training. IIo seems almost to
prove that there is an underlying nat-
ural sense or faculty in particular direc¬
tions that is either above or below all
the sum of human education and in¬
struction that can be poured into chil¬
dren. At any rate the faculty displayed
by Hamilton, whatever it i.s, is outside
of all human training. That innch is
certain.
When Hamilton was old enough to
work he shipped on a steamer that made
trips from a Louth Oaro-m** port to New
York. The captain of Ibis :,tearner sent
the boy to a friend of bis. a horse trainer,
Mr. William Lakeland, i dling him that
Tony lilted liorsea and warned employ-
ment to work among them f amething
was fonnd for him to clo. But be had
no companions, never seemed to talk to
anybody unless it was to tho horses
among which he spent his time. lie did
what ‘Mr. Billy” told him to do and
kept L!; mouth shut.
After a while, nobody knows how,
Hamilton seemed all rt once to be a good
rider for horses in a race, First a stable
owner offered him $2,599 a year. Then
the Late Senator Hear.-t off .-red $0,000 a
year. The strange boy would not* make
the chang- till he. 1’id consulted Mr.
Billy. Next ^August Belmont attempte*l
to get the b >y fc*r $10,0U0 a year. Once
more'Ir. BiUy told him to take it an-1
he did so. This contract is still opera-
tive, a l Ilanifiron is the most cele-
! bratrti jockey in An .erica. He earns jm*
much more riding outside horses, so
that this . co.orcd boy, who . to all in.»
attempt to tals to him seems to seveel/
‘ comprehend the commonest English,
i hob nu incouio cf $20,000 a year, **a»-l
geta n( j 0 f the money as though ha
j fonod it in thp Tondr At the Qjn*
j thero ;ut L;:n(Ire , ls ef thousands of dfs>
! torr-, law vers, ministers, teachers
colicg.- graduates who would be Only too
| i gt-vc i<; ***t its many hundreds a year mm
daiiir . — es thousands. . :