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THE WEEKLY TELEGRRPH; TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1888.-TWELVE PAGES.
CONEED. BRIGADIERS.
Southern Veterans who Oc
cupy Seats in Congress.
LESS NOISY THAN EX-UNION SOLDIERS
Interesting Parallels In the Membership of
the House—Five Out of Seven Repre
sentatives from South Caro
lina Were Volunteers.
B «,cnta year in Fort Delaware. Crisp is XHE USE OF WEALTH
chairman of the committee on elections •
and it a man of wonderful ability. Col.
Special Correspondence Macon Telegraph.
Washington, February 23.—The Con
federate Brigadier in Congress has at
tracted more than his share of attention
from the nation. lie is swamped in num
bers by his brother, the Federal Brigadier.
The Congressional Directory gives the
record. There are 141 veterans of the war
in the House of Representatives. More
than a third of the members saw service in
the field. Fifty-eight were Confederate
and eighty-three Union soldiers. All are
called Brigadiers, but very few of them
■were really Generals. Only six from the
South and fifteen from the North are en
titled to that rank, if the Directory is cor
rect. Tlie’Federal brigadier outnumbers
his Confederate brother by jnst two and a
half to one. It is a great
leverage numerically, but not clse-
wise. The Confederates seem to gain in
tellectually what they lack in numbers.
Thirty-one of the fifty-eight Southern sol
diers and forty-six of the eighty-three
Northern veterans enlisted as privates.
One or two climbed to the rank of major-
general, a score became colonels and ina-
jorSj and one at least reached the exalted
station of sergeant-major. Ail the others,
if the directory was correct, were captains,
lieutenants and privates. The Confede
rate brigadier seems to be quiet and atten
tive to his duties. He is a studious com
mitteeman, and is usually to be found in
his seat. The Federal brigadier is, of
course, mure noisy and demonstrative.
This is especially the case where lie hap
pens to be a Republican. When heated in
debate he seems to forget his Democratic
conyades in the Union army, and includes
them in his wild assaul upon the six
Con federate Brigadiers. He tries to set
the heart of the country athrob by turn
ing the band of time back to the glorious
achievements of the war. This he docs
whenever party necessity seems to require
it. At such times he exaggerates the im
portance of his brother, tlie Confederate
brigadier, and burdens his shoulders
with many an ugly and unjust reflection.
He is usually forced to cross swords with
Grand Army Democrats in such assaults.
The Confederate veterans never refer to
their heroin deeds unless taunted
beyond endurance. Then they flash into
light like hicory coals before a rain
storm, and glow until they are buried in
the ashes of debate.
The directory shows remarkable paral
lels and contrasts. The seven members
from Mississippi all fought in the Confed
erate army. They are matched by tile
seven Representatives from Kansas, all of
whom served their time in the Union
army. Louisiana, Maryland—my Mary
land—and Delaware are the only South
ern States unrepresented by Confederate
veto!ans. The North presents a schedule
equally remarked. It is not astonishing,
pcrlia|«, that Nevada shows no Grand
Army badge, hut when the States which
gave gallant 1’hil Kearney, heroic E. D.
Raker and brilliant Alfred H. Terry to
the Union army send not even a private
soldier to represent them in the
Allen D. Candler, another Georgia Repre
sentative, was successively a private, lieu
tenant, captain, lieutenant-colonel and
colonel in the Confederate army. He rep
resents what is known os the sawdust dis
trict of Georgia. In reconstruction days
its Congressman was John A. Wimpy, a
Republican, who was repeatedly taken in
hv the sawdust swindlers of New York
city. His letters seeking an agency to dis
tribute counterfeit money gave him a na
tional reputation. The oilier ex-Confed-
erates from Georgia are Private Thomas
W. Grimes and Captain John D. Stewart.
Grimes is not d ad and Stewart is a Bap
tist clergymen.
Of the eleven members from Kentucky
three were Confederates. One was a sur
geon in the Union army. The latter, N.
5. Hunter, is a Republican. Gen. William
J. Stone, one of the Confederate veterans,
lost a leg in the war. He is a good talker
and chairman of the committee on war
claims. In the present Congress he has
won fame by championing (he claims of
Union men in Kentucky and elsewhere.
Another cx-Confederate is Polk Lafl'oon.
He was in Morgan’s celebrated raid
through Indiana mid Ohio. Captured at
Cheshire, he spent some time as a prisoner
of war in a Pennsylvania penitentiary.
The last of the Kentucky Confederates is
Col. James B. McCreary. He has been Gov
ernor of the State and a United States
Senator. Col. McCreary is one of the solid
men on the Democratic side, and is fre
quently called to the chair when the House
is in committee of the whole.
The entire delegation from Mississippi
fought under the Confederate flag. Gen.
Chas. E. Hooker may he said to head the
squad. He was born’in South Carolina and
lost his arm in the siege of Vicksburg.
The General is a graduate of the Cam
bridge law school. He has been attorney-
general of Mississippi and has served eight
years in Congress. He commanded a cav
alry regiment during the war, and he is as
dashing in debate as on the field. Next to
Gen. Hooker is Thomas C. Patchings,
called General probably because
he also has been attorney-gen
eral of the State. Catehings served
throughout the war. The other Missis
sippi veterans are Col. James B. Morgan,
of Hernando, Col. T. R. Stockdale, who
was badly wounded in 1864, Lieut. C. L.
Anderson, and Privates F. G. Barry and
John M. Allen, of Tishomingo county.
Allen lias the reputation of being the best
story-teller, in Congress, but lie doesn’t tell
too many stories.
Of the fourteen members from Missouri
two served under the Stars and Stripes and
one under the Stars and Bars. The latter
is Gen. William If. Hatch, of Hannibal.
He has served eight years in Congress, and
is one of the ablest and cheeriest members
of the House. The Grand Army men are
William Warner, of Kansas City, and Wm.
If. Wade, of Springfield. Both were pri
vate soldiers, and both are Republicans
who appaVenlly do more thinking than
talking.
Six of the nine members from North
Carolina are Confederate veterans. Two
of the six were niujors and one was a col
oncl. The colonel is W. II. 11. Cowles. of
Wilkcsberough. He served in I arc’s army,
and was twice severely wounded. He has
a mark of a federal bullet in his head to
day. Major Charles W. MoClanuny, n
new member, was among those who sur
rendered at Appomnttox, ns was also
Major Louis C. Latham, of Greenville.
The latter is a graduate of Harvard law
school. The other Confeelcrate vet. vans
from North Carolina are Lieutenant Alfred
Rowland, of Lumbcrton, and Thomas 8.
Johnston, of Buncomlic county. Rowland
was captured at Spottsylvanin Court
House, and was imprisoned in Fort 1 <ela-
ware fur a year. Johnston received three
desperate wonnds'at the battle of Malvern
Men Who Pretend That They
Don’t Enjoy Money.
HOW MILLIONAIRES ENJOY MONEY.
Vanderbilt, Sngo ami Sanford Claim That
Their Gold la of No Benefit to Them,
But They Rather Like It
Just the Same.
From the Chicago Herald.
Wasuin$ton, February 17.—Russell
Sage has been here the past week swap
ping reminiscences with tlio other Con
gressmen of thirty years ago who helped
make N. P. Banks Speaker of the House.
Sage was only thirty when lie came to
Congress, but he did one thing well—he
rescued Mount Vernon from decay in
private hands and organised the scheme
for its purchase and renovotion. Since
that good deed he has wrestled with the
bulls and bears in Wall street and has
piled up shekels. He is, probably, worth
$50,000,000; at any rate, Jay Gould has so
declared, publicly.
Mr. Sage was asked wlmt fun there was
in making money—more than he could
e.
“Merely the pleasure of successful com
petition,” he said.-“Just the same pleas
ure that a boy experiences in running
faster and climbing higher than his mates.
There are other ways of surpassing that I
should think would give even more of
this sort of gratification—being the great
est poet or the greatest artist or the great
est inventor or the greatest scientific au
thor ty.”
“Then there is no pleasure in the mere
possession of money?’’
“What do you mean by the 'mere pos
session?” lie replied. "Winning the mon
ey and keeping it when all the rest of the
fellows arc trying to get it is just the suc
cessful competition I was speaking of.
Money in itself has no power of conferring
pleasure, of course, any more than so
much mud. It is the knowledge of what
money will do that gives pleasure.”
“Are you rich enough, Mr. Sage?”
“Am J ? Why, yes, I have a great deal
more money than I need and don't
really want any more.”
“Why don’t you go out of business,
then?” ,
‘ Because there is nothing else that 1
want to do 1 don’t care about horse-rac
ing or^-atching. I don’t want to travel.
New York I like better than Paris and
Broadway is good enough for me. In fact,
I’d rather stay at 71 Broadway and gue.-s
on the prices of things than anywhere
else in the world.”
“What are tlio pleasures of having
money?” 1 one day asked of Pete
Cooper.
“The probability it brings that, you will
not conic to want,” he suid. “There is no
happiness in the mere accumulation
wealth that 1 know of,” he added, “e
cept the chance it gives of serving otlio:
But the art of spending muncy so that it
the most
to he a burden, and was petulant because
lie had to carry it. “I don’t see what good
it docs me—all this money that you say is
mine," he was wont to say to his friends.
“I can’t eat it; 1 can’t spend it; in fact I
never saw it and never imd it in my hands
for a moment. I dress no better than my
private secretary, and cannot eat as much
as my coachman. 1 live in a big servants’
hoarding house, am bothered to death by
beggars, have dyspepsia, cannot drink
champagne, and most of my money is in
the hands of others, who use it mostly for
their own benefit. There is that man over
on that next corner who isn’t worth a hun
dredth part as much as 1 am, hut he en
joys more of life than I do. It isn’t half
iair.”
YELLOW PINE.
; up to the clerk’s desk and had read a let-
j ter from W. II. Gravely, treasurer of p a J
j rick, in which the writer declares that it
4 Northern Estimate of the !‘ as co , m « *" t 1 .' 8 taowledge that other mem.
lMortiicru AVSUluaie OI me hers of tile Virginia I^r^ature lent their
railroad passes to fri nd . The writer
Big Money in It.
COMPARISON WITH WHITE PINE.
The Question of tlie Future Vnlue of Yel
low Fine—Stumpage Exhaustively
ExaminciWTho Conclusion n
Very Favorable One.
gives tlie names of such ...embers and the
names of persons whom, he alleges, th cy
allowed to ride on their ; .asses. This leU
ter caused something of a sensation in the
| House, and resulted in ixcommitting th e
whole matter to tlie committee. One of
the results of ‘.lie agitation of this abuse
of tlie free pasi system by members of the
Legislature is that a hill'about to pass the
Legislature regulating the railroad traffic
. . in this State prohibits railroads from issu-
ln discussing the southward march of ing passes to nty one except employes of
Probably if the exact truth were known; northwestern lumbermen, with their great such corporations, or persons regarded as
“magnates” do not really enjoy life much,: oapitaI Lumber, the Chicago Journal, says: ob j e< ;‘ 8 of char f t y- This measure will pass
if any better than other people, and the ». . . * . . , . . . ... * the House to-morrow, and the develnn.
constant care and protection of their prop- U 18 8ald 1181 ' be P rescnt winter will see men ( g j n )> a rr’s ease will secure its passu™
' ' more Northern money put into yellow ( by the Senate almost certainly.
pine in the South than any of its predeces- gammon school
erty involves a good deal of anxiety; but,
as nobody declines the Presidency of the
United States whenjoffered by a majority of
the electoral college, so the man possessing
the strength of mind to refuse $1,000,000
for the purpose of avoiding worry lias yet
to he born.
The Palmetto Suite is hardly up to the
MissU-ippi mark. Only five of her rep
resentatives were soldiers. The most
prominent of the five is Lieutenant Samuel
Dibble, of Orangeburg. He is chairman
of the committee on public buildings and
grounds. He lias charge of hills that may
probably did more to bring on the war
than all the other States combined; yet
five out of the seven representatives from
the Palmetto State were Confederate vol
unteers, and only two out of the eleven
from the Buy State were Union soldiers.
Oneof the two was a paymaster. The Ex
celsior Stale of the North compares unfa
vorably with the Excelsior State of the
South. Five out of ten of the Georgia
members are veterans of the war, and only
eight of the thirty-four from New York
were Federal volunteers. Pennsylvania
pans it out of 28; Ohio, 14 out of 21; Indi
ana, 7 out of 13; Illinois, the home of Lo
gan, only 6 out of 20; loWa, 8 out of 11,
and Wisconsin, the home of Fairchild, n
putative Grand Army candidate for Presi
dent, only 2 out of 0.
Let us look at the Directory’s record
South. Seven out of the eight Represent
atives from Alabama were Confederates.
Msj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, of cavalry
fame, is the most illustrious of the seven.
Gen. Wheeler ought to ride any kind of
liorsc to perfection. He weighs less than
either Gen. William Mahotte or Snapper
Garrison. He wears his hair like Custer,
and always appears in a close-buttoned
black frock coat, lie is an untiring worker
and rarely addresses the House, but when
lie does arise he commands close attention.
The other Alaliniiia brigadiers are Gen.
Oates, of Abbeville, and Gen. Forney, of
Jacksonville. Gen. Oates lost his »rin in
his twenty-seventh battle. lie has been in
Congress six rears, and stands in the front
as a solid, old-time debater. Gen. Forney
served throughout the war, and was among
those paroled at Ap|s>mattox. He has
served in the House twelve years. The
other Alabama Confederates are Col. Her
bert, of Montgomery, and Lieu Is, Jones, of
Dcmopolis, and Cobb, of Tuscaloosa. Cobb
was made a prisoner at Gettysburg. Her
bert is the famous chairmsn of the naval
committee.
Four out of the five members from Ar
kansas served under the Confederacy. The
most noted of the four is the son of John
C. Breckinridge, once Vice-President of the
United States. Young Breckinridge was
a midshipman in the Confederate navy.
This is his third term in Congress. He is
a careful and studied speaker. He lacks
the physique of his father, but is fully his
equal in intellect, if not in oratory. Lieut.
John H. Rogers, Private Poindexter Dunn
and Col. Samuel W. I’eel are the other
Cutederate representatives from Arkansas.
Rogers is a watchful and wary workman.
He and Dunn are good speakers. Peel is
a qnict gentleman, reserved in manner and
disposition.
Both dk the Representative* from Florida
■were Confederate soldiers. The youngest,
Tlio Crown Ptlnee’s Weililing.
From the Cosmopolitan.
In April, 1851, Prince Frederick Will
iam stepped for the first time on English
soil, having accepted an invitation to at
tend the opening of the great Industrial
World exhibition in London. The idea of
uniting all the nations of the world in a
friendly competition in the arts of peace
had first emanated from the Prince Con
sort. and had been eagerly espoused by the
CJneen. One result of the exhibition, how
ever, which they had scarcely foreseen,
was the betrothal of their daughter, Prin
cess Victoria, to Prince Frederick William
of Prussia. It is obvious from the very
cool way in which Prince Albert writes of
the event to his friend, Baron Stockmar,
that the match was not thought to be a
very grand one, though on the whole quite
satisfactory. Prussia was not the power in
1851 that it is now, and the house of
Hohenzollern, now the most illustri
ous in Europe, was then judged by
the pitiful policy of its two last represen
tatives on tne throne, who were playing
second fiddle to Emperor Nicholas of Rus
sia. What appeared to reconcile the bride’s
father to tlie marriage was his observation
that the young people seemed to like each
other, and that the young Hohenzollern
had “lioneit eyes and a frank amiable dis
position.” It was not until 1855, however,
that the ennagement was made public;
and the way it was received by the Eng
lish press of that day would scarcely now
he credited if it were not a matter of his
tory. The Times particularly distinguished
itself by heaping coarse abuse upon the
royal house of Prussia, which it declared
to he a “miserable” one, and by requesting
the English people to be prepared to sec
their Princess return to their shores, in a
not distant future, as a fugitive nud an
exile.
The wedding was postponed on account
of the extreme youth of tlie bride, until
Banunry 25, 1858. It took placo in the
chipcl of St. James’s Palace, London.
After the ceremony Queen Victoria ad
vanced and kissed her daughter and son-
in-law, and turned her cheek to the latter’s
father, who had rt-pectfully stooped to
kiss her hand. When the young couple
embarked at Gravesend in the royal yacht
will do good'is, 1 "think, ' the most V V»ria and Albert, there was an mormons
difficult art in the world- ?°n« mrs ? of P«opl* who were wildly cheer-
more difficult than painting a great! 1 /'"' *“ d «*«“ ‘ h ® riT « r was covered
picture. I tricil for twenty yearn to bent-; * or nu f 8 . ''I 11 { rom
lit those around inc by giving them monev n " D ! e , rn ’ e handkerchief! waved a last
as I thought they needed it, and 1 sudden- ?,” od : b - v . c *? the '? ,r rese of England.”
ly found that 1 had set up n pauper factory 1 “rlieulnrly amusing to the Prince wns
and was changing industrious families into i ,‘ h * “ nd <«*r«qa3CtfaUdvlca freely
Inggiirs. Then 1 .topped that method and lm l >artcd b 7 th« sailors and Thames boat-
built the Institute, and I reallv hope some JS? who croa<kd about the royal yacht,
good will come from that. The most pleas- '!? ' r,le *° 0,le ''"If 81 ,elb,w
ure monev over gave me to look at wan the I r ?‘. ou ^ , " cr * wc , • an °ther
OF THEOLOGY.
sors. though it is well known that for sev-I .
, „ . . Paper# of Incorporation Filed—It# ProJec-
eral years that region has offered superior . tors a.,.1 Benefactor..
attractions as a place for investing spare Atlanta, Febnrary 23.—A bill to incor-
capital. Without making any great stir porate t ) le Gammon school of theology
about it, timber buyers have bevn industri- wa , t0 -<lny fifed j n the cerk’s office of the
onsly employed searching out lands Superior Co nrt . The incorporators are J.
still open for purchase and having M. Walden, R. S. Rust, W. P. Thirkield
them estimated, these preliminaries usually . n », . T *
resulting in the transfer of the tracts under A. u. llaygood,, J* W.
negotiations from the government or trom j Adams, J. W. Crogman, C. O. i Fisher and
the earlier buyers to those who arc acqnir- J - p- . Kl . 1 P b8 ! 1 - „ lhe incorporators are
ing them for a permanent holding. Capi-! principally Northern men who are taking
tafists. especially those who are familiar j an mtcre8t ,n the educallon of tbe col »red
with the lumber trade, recognize the worth ra ~ „ uie.it .
of Southern timber, and arc making haste . The Gammon Khool of theology will be
to secure it before it is too late to get in at 1 b > ca ‘ cl1 n * ar the Clrak University and will
the low figures that still rule. They know , % hpera ed under the auspices of the
that yellow pine at fifteen, twenty or i Ep| 8C “P al , thu ^ b ’ a . ,ul . ,‘ hc I’reeiiman's
twentv-five cents a thousand must be good | A,d ‘”! ldln * at 1”“?"
proiierty, and they are willing to buy it,! u8 f d >>? VJ ark Umversity a8 Theological
even if thev have not gone s5 far as to college will pass into the control of the
form any definite idea of what it is likely i organization. ,
to pay them. They look back upon this ' lh . e ,dea > 8 enla ^' thia bn “ din 8
experiences of the last quarter-century in tha . incorporators will operate the school
Michigan and Wisconsin, and rightly draw ! /! U,rel - v IM T arate ‘ b <\ um Y,orally. Mf-
the conclusion therefrom that they can in Gammon fi ow. of the subscribers to the
a measure repeat the profits derived from f !' nd ,18<?d ImildingthoClarkUmver-
the advance in white pine timber during sity. Recently lie has made a large addi-
that period.
ritOFITS IN SOUTHERN TIMBER.
If there are those who remain skeptical
of the possibilities that exist in the South
for handsome profits on timber, the com
parison herewith given will probably prove
convincing evidence that such chances are
there, and that they cannot be too soon
seized. The figures were made by an expe
rienced Northern operator, partly to sat
isfy himself that his position in respect to
Southern pine was well taken, and partly
for the purpose of convincing others inter
ested with him of the correctness of his
views. 'J he cost of both timbers is compu
ted on the basis of present value, with
compound interest on that amount for the
various periods indicated. I bis is assumed
$1(1 in gold that l saved in 1808 ont of the
$25 which llurtis & Woodward paid iue a
year for carriage-making. I clothed my
self somehow out of tlie remaining $15,
though clothes and everything cost more
then than now, and I saved $10 each year,
and it seemed a“ if I was almost a ricli
man. Tlie mere possession of millions has
never since given me so much pleasure,”
Nonator Stanford was asked last week
what were the pleasures conferred bv
wealth.
“It is pleasant to be rich,” he franklv
un <<l0 tbat J 011 are beyond the reach
of want and can actually do something to
relieve the wants of others when you ate
certain of the case; but the advantages ef
wealth nre greatly overestimated. I am
not comparing it with pau|ierisni. The
millionaire is infinitely belter off than the
take millions upon millions from tlie
treasury for the erection of public build
ings, in snch cities as Greenville, Ports
mouth, Springfield, Ashvillc, and Hanni
bal. Dibble is a man of energy, well up
in the rules of the House. Next in im
portance is Private George D. Tillman,
chairman of the Reading railroad investi
gating committee. Tillman once success
fully contested the seat of Gen. Robert
.Smalls, the block Grand Army man from
the Sea Islands. Gen. 8malls afterward .. , . . • .— .
successfully contested Tillman’s seat, ami Imt *’ a man I » b » 18 »“'«*>
is now contesting the seat of another Con- UP’.t . 8 “° Ve " 8 ^h* 8, * do not clearly
federate soldier-Col. William Elliott, of i f elh “ l . a 1 } ,un wbo «“» b »y anything that
Beaufort. One of the brightest of the h t fanc ‘*T “ “7 . L M * r ^ fl ,*. han tbe m * n
Soutji Carolina veterans is Captain James w u> can b,1 > *' bat he actually needs. He
8. Cothran, of the Abbeville district. He'f? n 8ratify his whims to be sure; but
was severely wounded at Chancellorsville, J, r 'J an> J”" ne R°“ 1 1 . 1 , lv ? disadvantages} in
second Bull Run, and Jericho Ford, and ’ J 1 ’®, 6 " 1 P la «‘. the life he was compelled;to
he was among those who laid down his * Ciu m lo accumulate wealth
sword at Appomattox. Judge Cothran is
Charles Dougherty, was a boyish scout in
tinper Georgia during Sherman's raid,
if is colleague, R. 1L M. Davidson, was
Colonel ola Florida regiment, and was
disabled by a wound in tbe battles of the
W i Idenu-s. Bo! h men speak fluently when
aronsed, and Dougherty ia one of the
quaintest story tellers in the House. Da
vidson has been ten yean a Congressman.
Only half of the Georgia delegation saw
enrii-e in the war. The most prominent is
Claries F. Crisp, of America-. He was a
lieutenant ia a Virginia regiment, and he
a good lawyer, and one of the best speakers
on the floor of the House. Tlie other l'al-
motto veteran is the son of old Governor
15. F. I’errv. He served during the war as
a Confederate trooper.
Of the ten mcmU.-rs from Tennessee two
were Union soldier* ami three Confeder
ates. The former are Col. Roderick Ran
dom Butler and iaionidas C. Honk, of
Knoxville. Both are also veterans in po
litical service. No men are better known
in national Republican conventions.
Houk’s voice is frequently heard in the
House. When he is warmed up it sounds
like the rolling of thunder in tne moun
tains of East Tennessee. Butler is more
quiet and carries less fumes of sulphur in
his speeches. The Confederate veterans
are Gen. Washington C. Whitthorne, Ad
jutant James D. Richardson of Murfrees
boro, and Col. John R. Neal. Whi.tborne
is credited with
engineered by George M. Robeson. His I f™ «««;”»» u.me no good,
hair is as white as snow, hut he is as rig-1 L ie ?"{> v v:due ,b:lt wealth has to me is
orout as a Mexican eagle, and fullv M | *hc ah. 1 ",!.'' it conn re for doing good. Now,
stxcy when corruption is unearthed. Rich- ,? lle con * u >ned. ‘in course a ma-
ardsoi. is a long-Wied, long-legged, long-1 of Pf* « have stayed out of
armed and long-headed man, cl bairman of i 8, R h, i 80 'hat ! don’t know whether they
the printing committee. He is a thirty-! were helped or h*rmcd_ by the money 'l
third degreeMason. He is a hard worker ! K . av * , m - ” “ PfuUbly a fortunate
anil a good speaker. Neal is a quiet Dem- r" c “ m,,anc f' <) ' 1 ,, ‘hose I
(utmat mlwi kaa Itsast lia*.l Sm U!> Poss ! AUOtlt UCsIl ItHVf
accumulate wealth
has probably prevented that culti
vation of taste for art, musie
and letters which is essential to the high
est enjoyment; and, in the second plus;,
hi* life is an incessant struggle to keep
what he has got and to fight off the eoru-
petitor* who are clutching for it. No s in
can keep a fortune with him; it must lie
scattered here and there in business, ar.d
he must protect it at arm’s length. Prob
ably the average man worth .'■100,000 en
joys just as much as the millionaire. For
my wife and I are worried almost to death
by beggars, most of them regular ‘round
ers,’who solicit, implore, entreat and de
mand that there be sent to them at once a
certain stipulated sum of money. There is
no pleasure in lieing thus tormented, and
the man of moderate income escapes it”
Elizalietb Thompson, tlie New York
philanthropist, was once found drying tier
tears. “I have had a good crying spell,"
houted. “God bless vou for it," was the
greeting of n third. Thu railroad journey
from Brussels to Berlin was a triumphal
progress, full of interesting incidents.
Nt:w HTYLK OK HATH BOH MUN.
tional subscription to the education of the
colored race, and this, with other funds,
will be Used in building and maintaining
the Gammon School of Theology.
Ilnw tlio Fijtlit Kmled.
From the Lexington Echo.
A citizen and an ex-citizen had a little
fracas a few days ago, and were about to
come to blows.' One invited the other out
of the house to fight. When the yard was
reached the invitation was extended to the
road, then from the road in front of the
house to a point in the road further from
the house; and when it was further ex
tended to a place off in an old field the in
vited fighter coolly remarked: _ “You are
a fool, Captain; you ain’t going to fight
me, ’and I ain’t "going to follow you no
further. You’ll brea.; me down before
to represent tlie eost of carrying the prop- i y° u Teach yonr fighting place.” And here
erty, the taxes being set off against the (he bloody combat ended.
tv.
value of the land, which ought to, and
doubtless will, more than cover this item
in both cases. The future value—that is,
the market value—of tlie timber as given
in tlie tables, is necessarily purely a matter
of estimate, hut tlio idea lias been to keep
within bounds on both sides—not overrat
ing the future value of the Southern wood,
and giving white pine ns much increase as
its most sanguine friends will claim. The
tables certainly make •
AN INTERENTINd COMPARISON.
White Ptoe.
Eat. value. Prollt.
I 3.00 * ...^
6.00 .00
6.00 .80
7.60. .1)0
10.00 .10
13.00 *1.30
hot % a
1W 6.10
t'JOO 6.40
1903 7.20
1907 9.90
1912 13.20
•Loss.
HOT t .IS
1ST 27
1900. 32
1902. 35
1907 SO
1912. 60
-Yellow Plne.-
I .15
2.00
3.25
2.60
3.00
4.00
onn ii. iseai. >vni:tnorne L ., .•"r' l
breaking the Naval Ring! ““finding oat that all the money
George M. Robeson. Hii | * bat 1 bave f ,re " **»)' h .“ d " ne "<< g<«<l.
The Bode'* llcllglit— fashion for Colonels
—Bailor Hats— Panoramic Torino
From the Baltimore Sun.
Just as true as that women have not ail
the curiosity in the world is the fact that
they have not all the vanity either. This
is what the straw hat manufacturers have
prepared for the spring. The style will
run mostly to yacht hats. Straight, nar
row brims they have, crowns from three to
four inches high, and tops ns flat us hat
presses can make them. Their tone in
trimming will lie quite loud, though quiet
men can also be suited. The hands will
he very broad and gay, and Solomon in all
his glory never wore a hat baud like some
of these! Some are st riped in gorgeous
cardinal, yellow and black, sonic are blue,
and some have figure* of large size scat
tered about, one style lieing filled with
acorns of natural size. Many white flan
nel bands arc also used.
But the one lo which the prize should be
awarded is the panorama hand. To get the
good of this hat one must imagine a sweet
little face under it, a cigarette sod a mous
tache like the bltfsh of dawn. The hand is
interesting, possibiv much more so than
the young man wlio will wear it. If a j
young lady finds this to be the case she'
might pass aiound the hat, meaning of
course that she might walk around the
wearer and eniov his picture gallery,
which F« certainly more varied than that
at tho I’eabody Institute. The art display
starts ont with two fierce dragoon flies,
then comes a vacating party, then some
distant sailboats, then in the foreground a
shell race and a party of scullers in bright
jerseys rowing some lauies, and finally
come conventional patterns. Truly this
hatband Is a jioeni on summer that should
not go into the waste basket. Another fad
is the dyeing of the under part of the brim
to correspond with the color of the hand.
Many straw bands will alsojie used.
The “colonel” hat* are a rushing suc
cess, and cargoes of them are going to all
parts of the 8outh. In Texas they are
immensely popular, and it is Baid that
even tlie' children cry for them. The
“colonel” bat is a fierce-looking fellow,
with an Alpine crown, a big four-and-a-
llumed to Death.
Atlanta, February 23.—A horrible ac
cident occurred one .mile from Blowing
Springs, Un., yesterday. Mr*. John Will-
hoito was seized witli apoplexy anil fell
into an open grate and was ■ TmwU to
death. No one was about the house when
the accident occurred except tlie unfortu
nate woman.
Wd’s extract
i!°
oerst, who has had bard fights in his Con-11"*”;*. . . hav, \ haen good, too, bnt everything grows fast there,
gross district, and who invariably wina P°* ,,1Vfl . v ln J urcd i and the other half Numbers of these military hats are sent
them. have apparently nut been affected in anv ■ - 1 ■ ■
affected in any
The point these figures bring out may he
even more forcibly stated. For example,
$3 invested in yellow pine now, at the
price above given, will buy 20,000 feet, tho
value of which twenty-five years hence
will be, as estimated, $80. From this must
be deducted the cost and expense of
carrying which amounts to_$13.20, the dif
ference or net profit being $66.80. The
same sum invested in white pine will buy
only a single thousand feet, which at the
expiration of the time named would show
a net cost of $13.20, and he worth at the
liberal estimate made, $12, showing a loss
to the holder of $1.20. The difference in
favor of yellow pine is just $68.
THIS CA4.CULATION
is of course open to the objection that it is
merely “preliminary arithmetic,”proverbi
ally regarded with suspicion by every prac
tical man. The doubter may want some
assurance that yellow pine stumpage will
go to $1 within the next twenty-five years.
He will find plenty of it in the history of
the lumber business at the
North since 1882. In that
year stumpage well located on Saginaw
waters in Michigan was readily purchas
able at $1.25 a thousand feet, and was not
regarded at that price as an exceptional
bargain. Plenty further West was to be
had for much less money. It did not take
twenty-five years for it to go to $3 in lo
calities where, that length of time ago. it
was sold at government price. That his
tory will repeat itself in this respect in the
South admits of no question. Indeed,
manufacturers in that quarter now are
easily getting that stumpage out of the
stud' they are cutting, and even more. One
recent purchaser of pine in the South
States that he can ent timber recently
bought at not over twenty-five cents, and
make it yield him a net return of $4 for
the stumpage.”
LENT HIS HAH.ItOAD I*ASS.
wtui at is .tijMiiu tiiinii, a iii^ luui'wuu'u-
half-inch brim and a thick hand of straw.
The colonel crop in California seems to he
thither, but instead of straw bands the
The West Virginia delegation ia eqnallv EtouIL'.,* "i*” " b ? , dled a drunkard California warrior affects cord and tassels!
divided betweend,e*Blue andGray? The ‘'lYir? I The Unton hat is nice. Made of needle
former it repretentcU by ex-SecrcWjr of ^ torv There are whole mlnmnt \ loop* of whitest itrtw, it
wii^- I
comment.’ ““ ^ kDOWD j gfi-Vi! ^ pi 'ZTSJ# «
Such is the record of the so-called Con-1 the mischief I have done with the 'money! 2Ti»htohThL n ?tM*UM iw ihs^stitrh-
fedcrate brigadier*. To ure the words of a ! ». husband left me-and hc- tohl me to do ,n * hlch . * bc 8traw *£• »* er » bc ,,,tch '
KepubKcaii representative from New York i giisl with it.” me to do concealing it completely.
who served in the army of the Potomac, : Mrs. Thompson was in a morbid state of! !!f ( ’ r ,U
“They are more intelligent and better men mind, and, of course, underestimated the' gooo«.
than all the judges sent to Congress. They ; real value of her benefactions, hut it is
have taken the place of the old mosshseks, well known that a good deal of mocelime.
and I wish wc had more of them here." t «us charity is worse thsn useless.
Baltimore
A Virginia Legislator Creates Somes lint of
nKensatlnn.
From the New York Times.
Richmond, Va., February 16.—The sys
tem of granting free railroad passes lias
received a black eye in this State. For
years past those wbo opposed this perni
cious system have made an unsuccessful
tight to break it up. It was left, though,
to a little slip of a member of the present
legislature to accomplish what the com
bined efforts of scores of the enemies of
deadheadism had failed to bring about.
Some weeks ago Mr. E. Parr, a Republican
member of the Virginia House of Delegates
from Patrick county, lent his own railroad
pass and two others, borrowed from brother
members, to constituents to visit the
national capital. The discovery of this
led to the investigation of the matter by a
committee appointed by the House, •he
committee submitted their report to-day.
It declares that Parr’s conduct in borrow-
its manufacture j ing member*’ passe* and lending them to
other persons was reprehensible in the
Pvreonai Mention. T'“^Vh^n’tl^wrt of the committee cam.
nTLASTA, February 23.—B*vcnn* In* U p ; n the IIoumc tbUevening I’m in*i
Hemorrhages. SsSsSzX
No*«, or from any cause U ijwcUlIy con
trolled and ■ topped.
Sores, Ulcers. Wounds,
Sprains & Bruises.
It U v cooling, cleaning and lloulinge
P51 f 51 Pl*h h I# mo*t rfflcac'oufl for tht#
14CIUU I 11 j Cold in tlie BMdia
•‘Pond'e Extract Catarrh Care,**
specially prepared U> meet *crion#case#,
#iKmld be applied with Pond*# Extract
Knial Syringe.
Rheumatism. Neuralgia.
No other preparation ha# cured more
Cfcfte# of thoMdl«trc»fclug complaint* than
theRxtrart. Pond** Kxtract Plat
ter 1# Invalur.ble in these dlxease#, Lum-
bago. Pains in Hack or hide. JLc.
Diphtheria, Sore Throat,
■Use the Kitiact promptly. Delay is
dangerous.
Plf nc IHIml'Dlerrilng or Itching. It
1 HUji is the greatest known remedy; rap
idly curing when other medicines have
failed. Pond's Kxtract Ointment is
of great service where the removal of
clothing la inconvenient.
For Broken Breast and
Sore Nipples.6«« her *<^
owl The Kxtract wilt never be with
out it. PomPa Extract Ointment U
tlie best emollient that can be applied.
Female Complaints.
Ity disease* the Kxtract can be
lined.as is well known, with the greatest
benefit. Full directions accompany each
bottle.
^ , CAUTION.
Pond s Extract
the words “Pond's Extract** blown in
tho glass, and our picture trade-mark on
surrounding bull wrapper. Noneotberl#
genuine. Always insUl on having Pond’s
Kstrari. Take no oilier preparation*
It i» merer to d in hulk or ty measure.
Sold mrjvlietf, Prices.fdlc., 81, $1.«S*
Prepared only by POXD’8 EXTRACT CO.,
NEW YORK AND LONDON.
aprmntnsaUw^ly
you to fight tbe battle of life. In these days of
deception and fraud it is a great comfort to
know that the afflicted bave a tried aud reliable
remedy like Ilenaon's Plasters for tbe relief of
cbest pains, weak back, kidney afTectioDi, rheu
matism. sciatica and aches and pains of every
description. Over ft.QGO physicians and drug
gists voluntarily testify to their value In such
diseases, and say that Henson's Plaster is tbe
most popular external remedy ever sold by
them, gome unscrupulous dealers will try to
palm off worthiest Imitations on careless buy
ers. Ask for Henson's and take no other.
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