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T1IE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 12,1*8*-TWELVE PAGES.
HER BABY IN A WELL.
The Startling Adventure of a
Nebraska Household.
AN ACT OF PLUCKY
Sirs. Delwilur'a Tltree.Year-Old Iloy Fall*
Down a Seventy-Foot Shaft and In
Rescued nfler Forty-Eight
Hours—How It wan Done.
A farmer named Detwiler, who lives
three miles from Oakdale, Neb., says the
Omaha Herald, had occasion on Saturday
to draw out the wooden tubing from a
deep-bored well on his place, and had
drawn out seventy feet of it, leaving an
unknown number of feet of tubing set in
the well. This left a hole about a foot in
diameter. Last Saturday forenoon a
three-year-old boy of the family was
missed, and a search being made for him
his hat was found near the hole. The
another called down, and her child, from
an immense depth, finally replied. Ap
peals for help were at once sent to Oakdale
and Neligh, and, though all possible haste
was made, all the appliances for sinkirg a
shaft down alongside the bored hole could
not be got on to the ground and the work
of digging begun until late in the after
noon of Saturday. Stenson & Straiten,
well borers and diggers from Oaksdale,
and a firm of men in the same line of bus
iness from Neligh undertook the job and
there was no lack of helping hands. But,
as the supply of air down in this deep,
narrow hole might be insufficient to sup
ply the child with air, an iron tube was
sunk down and a hand bellows inserted,
through which fresh air was constantly
pumped d >wn during the forty hours v hue
digging was going on.
From time to time the child’s cries
could be heard. And often during Satur
day afternoon it called for “mamma” and
for food and water. The process of dig
ging went slowly during Saturday night
on account of lack of light, and rapid dig
gers had at times to give place to slower
workers. All this time the father and
mother were enduring untold torture of
mind; the former sometimes raving and
gray hairs almost momentarily increasing
on the heads of the distracted parents.
the child to the earth’s surface again. Fi
nally, bv the m >st delicate manipulations,
Stenson was at last able to grasp the child
and let himself and his precious burden
into the main shaft.
At 9.20 Monday morning, after the
child had been in the well forty-eight
hours about, Stenson was hauled up to
the top of the shaft with the child in his
arms. A hasty examination of the child
when it was found to be not only alive,
but bright of eye and conscious, though
very weak. Apparently it had slid down
the circular hole slowly, rump first, but
was found with its rump wedged into the
top of the circular tubing set in the hole,
its feet a little above its head", and its
hands extended some six or eight
inches above its head. When the
child was brought up to the sur
face the scene was indescribable. Stenson
staggered, unnerved and exhausted, and
very many of the 200 people there sank to
the ground, prostrated by emotion. There
were no noisy demonstrations; the hearts
of the crowd of lookers-on were too full
for utterance.
Although the parties who helped so
faithfully are worthy of unstinted praise,
yet under the circumstances it is natural
that Stenson especially, aud bis partners
in the depth of what might have been
their tomb, should uow be the heroes of
the hour. While Stenson is lying at his
home exhausted his fellow-citizens arc con
tributing to a fund for a testimonial to be
given him.
HUSTON'S BLUE LAWS.
THE UNIVERSITY.
The Report of the Board of
Visitors.
SOME OF THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS.
A Cliatr of Pedagogics—The Dormitories
Found to tie Neither Comfortable
Nor Healthy—Knives Freely
Used on Furniture, etc.
Professor C. B. Chaoman has returned
from Athens. He was one of the board of
visitors appointed by Governor Gordon to
the State University, and their jeport was
handed to the Governor yesterday,
The report shows that the examination
nto the affairs of the University was most
thorough from cellar to attic, and the
board did not mince matters in the least.
They have given a fair and candid state
ment, fuller perhaps than any previous
board
They found the examination papers
very good, with few exceptions. Some
showed excellence in one or more depart
About 3 o’clock the child seemed to lose
all patience, and filled bis narrow, circu
lar tomb wiih his loud crying. It was a
hard matter for strong men to endnre the
extremely distressing condition of affairs
with anything like composure. All the
time, day and night, crowds of men, wo
men and children were standing around
with faces white with horror, and the
hearts of the men digging in the shaft and
those on the windlass on top were bleed
tog at the cries of the helpless babe below.
Haring nil of Saturday and Sunday night
perhaps half the people who knew of the
affair slept little or none.
On Saturday granting an unfortunate
experience was made in the way of grap
pling for the child with a “wonner.” It is
euppo-wl that the wormer caught' on to
the tubing below and raised It a little,
when its hold released, and something was
heard to drop. Then there was a new
distress in the minds of the waiting crowd
lest the wormer had caught on to and Ur-
cerated the flesh of the child or had in
flicted bruises on it, for it* voice thereafter
was leu often heard, and much weaker.
As the diggers down in the shaft went
deeper, they heard the child moan in pain.
By Sunday noon they had dug to a
depth of about fifty feet, and the child yet
twenty-two feel at least below them. 'By
nightfall the work wns necessarily growing
slower, for more time was consumed in
hauling up tho dirt. Besides, the most
The Neat way Barbers Have of Evading
Them to Tlielr Customers' Satisfaction,
Boston Letter to Chicago Tribune.
The barbers of Boston are, as a rule, un
godly. Despite the new law which forbids
them to practice their profession Sundays,
their shops are still kept open seven days
in the week. Nevertheless, they do not
work the Sabbath. But they gather in a
good day's wages just the same, and the
manner in which this happy result is ac
complished is both interesting and in
structive.
The first day of the present week, dt
about 10 o’clock in the morning, the writer
was walking along Charles street with
some famt hopes of finding a tonsorial
artist in pursuit of his illegal business,
when he was agreeably surprised to observe
a colored person, with a white apron, lean
ing gracefully against a red-white-and-
blue pole on the nearest corner.
“Can I get a shave this morning?” in
quired the customer, wistfully, pausing as
lie came to the spot where the gentleman
from Senegambia was standing in pictur-
esque repose.
“Yes, sab,” replied the latter, courteous
ly, “Walk right in. “You’ll find de im
plements, sah, all ready to use at the fourth
cheer on de lett.”
The newcomer thereupon entered the
shop, where he found three other meu—all
in n partially shaved condition—sitting on
flip clap, nf na many ctiuin) and nnnlvim.
lather and steel to their own fact4." The
situation was quickly explained by the
Ethiopian in charge, who had followed
the late arrival from the sidewalk, “You
see, sah," he began, “we don’t dare shave
nobody n Sunday, for fear o’ bein’ locked
Inp; bnt dere’s no law against lendin’ a
razzer an* cup to a gemmnn friend. No, it
you like, de hospitalities of dis establish
ment am at your service. You'll find a
emtin’ instrument, wid de sharpest kind
ob an edge on it in front ob de lookin’-
glaas; likewise a mug lull of lather, some
hot water and a bottle o’ bay rum.”
“I see,” responded the applicant, who,
wiihoui further delay, seated himself iu
chair No. 4 and proceeded to operate upon
himielt with the utenstla at hand. At tha
end of twenty minutes or so, with some in-
cidentsl laceration, he had finished his
task, and the barber—having helped him
on with his coat—proceeded to brush him
oil. Then the customer fumbled the loose
change iu his trousers pocket aud asked,
sotto voce, what the charge might be.
delicate and dangerous part of the job was
at hand, aud Will Stenson and .lames
Slrnllcu,' of Oakdale, both experienced
men in underground operations,
were sent down, and they remained there
from 11 o’clock Sunday night until 9
o’clock Monday morning, when the awful
acene wns ended. Stenson, as a miner anil
well digger, had many narrow escapes in
■la lifetime, nml as he was now down
sixty-five feet iu a partially dry shaft,
with treacherous walls of earth above anil
around him, hi*situation was verv peril
ous, for no time could be snared to con
struct and sink down wooden curbing in
the shaft. Soon after Stenson and Stral-
len went down into the shaft, at 11 o’clock
Sunday night, they struck loom sand and
gravel. A lew of the impatient crowd
above urged Stenson to dig on down
through tne gravel the remaining seven
feet su( posed to he yet intervening be
tween him and the child, hut he withstood
them and began to tunnel In toward the
. circular hole rigl-t on top of this gravel
bed, to lie could bare a firm clay roof to
his tunnel.
He was then shout eight feet to one side
of the circular hole. lie tunneled in a
few feet and tlieu dug another shaft,
clover to the circular hole, down to where
he thought the child might be lodged. His
object was to strike a spot underneath the
place where the child was lodged, for it
would have been fatal to have disturbed
the earth wall of the circular hole above
the child. Finally he tunneled toward the
circular, and tapping it, was surprised to
find himself yet above the child. He was
able then to reach down and tie a rope
“Nothing, sah,” taid the knight of the
razor. “Wc should be took up if we asked
pay for services rendered on the Sabbath.”
Aud a* he spoke he gave a i«n teutons aud
most expressive wink.
“Ah, 1 understand,” returned the guest.
And, as he went out, he dropped an un
ostentatious fifteen cents on a little pile of
coin near the doorway. All of which goes
to show conclusively the ingenuity of an
iniquitous generation is too much for the
law and the prophets to contend against.
A LOST LOCOMOTIVE.
All Engine Falls Iutu a Bottomless Fit u(
* Quicksand
From tlic Industrial World.
“Id the construction of the Kansas Pa
cific and Topeka and Sacta Fe railroad, 1
said H. I-. Carter, a railroad contractor of
St. Joseph, the other day, “one difficulty
of frequent occurrences was met with,
which, as far at my experience goes, is
unique in railroad history. I refer to the
trouble arising from quicksands. From
Western Kansas to the mountains, quick
sands are to be found in nearly every
stream, no matter how small, and to suc
cessfully bridge them required an expen
diture out of all proportion to the size of
stream to he crossed. We tried pile driv
ing, but the longest piles disappeared with
out touching the bottom. Then filling
with earth and stone was attempted, and
met with equally poor success, as the
quicksand was apparently capable of
swallowing the enure Bocky mountains.
The only means of crossing was found tc
be to build short truss bridges acrosi them
This was very expensive, but was the onlv
thing to be done. As an instance of thfs
SSlSt'KAariJSsSl &*hp«>c?lc.l,y botroml-.n.tnreof.thequick-
same device bold him secure there, but he
<laml not risk an attempt to iln>« l.i... ....
for fear he might break* down the crum
bling wall* of the hole and of his tunnel,
and thus bnry both himself and the child
alive. So be sank another ami second
email shaft down a few feet yet further un
til he knew he was below the ch id. Un
der these circumstances the work had to be
very slow. Stenson worked like - mole
with trenches of sand all around him,
passing dirt oat by handfuls to Straiten
in the first small shaft, and Strallen doing
the same thing to Sheriff Elwood, who was
out in the main abaft.
All this time Stenson harrowed like
sands, I may cite the case of an engine that
ouuii iiisuilkkl Rivet Bend, about 50
miles from Denver, on the Kansas Pacific.
The engine, t large freight, felt into a
quicksand, and in twenty minutes had en-
t rely disappeared. Within two days the
company sent out a gang of men and a
wrecking train to raise the engine. To their
surprise they could not find a trace of it.
Careful search was made, magnetized rods
were sunk to the depth of sixty-five feet,
but no engine could be found. It had
sunk beyond human ken, and from that
day to thia has never been discovered.
. Cattle and horses are frequently lost, the
only animal that is safe being a muli
Tjf , *L dU . ler * 1 L jr work,n * 1 Uke ■ mo j* i the only animal that never get* caught
through so treacherous an elemen conld No greater instance of the intelligence* of
hear ihecbild moaningfaroUy. Whenever t |,i*, uuch maligned quadruped can be
b T , i r * U ^ ° i !* rh *‘ d CO ? ld! e-ro-a Ihsn the ,tflJ and'eare JSh which it
.hA ih. " 0t kD °* b “‘i avoids an unsound bottom. A* iu hoofs
th.tlhe walls of the shaft were coming in mucb , maUcr , od Mrruvtr thaD
-li-L i “ d . wheneT * r ‘ h « »'“ d , thc-se of a horse, it would mire down In
IT M °"m 7 ®? ra,n *' *bere a hone could safely paw.
’ i f* 1 ‘his fact, whenever a mule
-.LMA and prbble*on opof the) fetU lhe ^ ^ .way under his
child , it seeded to feel IL Indeed, the feeti it draws back instantly and cannot
j! li«*l to tru*t
and ihe aud row
rotng with these men
r hum if ill*—practically
with no h.iinl l ut ti.st
■>, to ever hrin# them *n«i
Po»tn»attr Confirmed.
Wamwoiov. June 6.—The .Senate con*
firmed the nomination of J. I). Lopes, poet*
muter of St. Aw-min**, Fla.
ments of study, but behind in others. Thia
was caused by students devoting more time
to some ol the studies than to otbeis. A
boy graduates at the University on a gen
eral average.. He may be deficient in one
atudy, for instance mathematics, but
makes up the deficiency in languages, and
thus secures his average. His certificate
or diploma reads that he has passed a sat
isfactory examination in all studies, but
this is uot true, aud the board seeks to
make it necessary that the student should
be proficient in aii his sthdies before he
can receive the diploma.
The board also found that there were
hoys admitted who were entirely too
young. It has been the custom for a boy
ou entering to pass an examination in one
study and perhaps fail in another. He
promises to catch up and is taken on pro
bation ; hut it has been found that he
rarely fulfills the promise and drags
through with that study in which he is
deficient. The board tnought best instead
of increasing the age at which he could
enter, which is now fixed at 14 years, it
would be best to raise the grade, and this
would, of course, increase the age. In this
way the atndcr.’*’ — reess woaln be meas
ured by :—'it's aud not by numerical
strength.
The board were struck with tho correct
spelling and freedom from grammatical
errors, and the punctuation and chirogra-
phy they found to be good. This improve
ment is attributed to the increased profi
ciency of the educational systems' now' iu
use in the State.
Tho jwtaWI found tho dnymifftwak In •
condition that was not conducive to the
health or comfort of the students; and on
the walls were written obscene versts, pic
tures, etc. 'J he board recommends that
one of the dormitory buildings be torn
down and the material, witli the $5,000
now in the hands of the authorities and an
additional appropriation Irom the State,
be used in the erection of lecture rooms for
the professors.
They found benches and ilc-ks in the
recitation rooms mutilated l>y knife cut-,
etc. To protect the S-.atg’s properly, tin-
board recommends the appointment of a
iroctor to be placed in charge of the
wildings, ami tnat each student - at ma
triculation be required to deposit $5 as in
demnity against abuse of the property, the
said amount, or portion of it, as the'case
may be, returned at the end of the term.
I he law department is in a nourishing
condition. The attendance this year i-
larger than at any time known in tne his
tory of the University.
The hoard was gratified at the ample
equipment of the University with the
most.modem appliances for instruction in
physical and chemical sciences and applied
mathematics. The apparatus is in period
preservation and the scrupulous neatness
of the department in which it is kept re
flects credit upon the professor iu charge.
The library room is beautifully kept and
attractive, affording for a small 'fee advan
tage* unsurpassed in UDy Southern institu
tion of learning. There are upwards ol
35,OUO volumes in the library. During
the present year 2,300 volumes have been
circulated. Half of these being works of
fiction, the other half histories, essays,
biographies, scientific worke and miscel
laneous books. One hundred and ninety
young men have taken out books during
the term, the average daily attendance
being from 25 to 76.
The board were pleased to observe among
the students freedom from intemperance
and vice. They believe that in no insti
tution ot equal size do these evils exist in
a leas degree.
Among the recommendations of the
board are these; That the scholastic
year begin in the middle of September
and close proportionally early; and that
salarie%ofthe chancellor and professors be
increased.
One of the principal recommendations is
the following:
“Inasmuch as every teacher ‘is a ser
vant of /lie State, we deem it advisable
that the Slate provide means for training
in this useful calling. IVe believe that a
branch of the University, to be known as
the State Normal College, to which ladies
shall be admitted, should be established
for the training of teachers. If for any
reason this should not be deemed fen-ibis,
we theneurncetly recommend that n chair,
to be known ss the Chair of L’edagogics. be
created in the University for the pur|>osc
of giving instructions iu that interesting
branch of ethical science known as peda
gogies. That teachers should have pro-
fesaional training as well as doctors or
lawyers cannot be doub cd, and yet the
State of Georgia, behind every otliei
Southern State in this re-pecl, provide- no
means for qualifying the teachers of her
future citizens to do justice to their high
calling.”
It b understood that Messrs. Cartledge
and Johnson, of the bosrd, will submit a
minority report, in which they recommend
the abolition of the office of chancellor.
The full report will probably appear in
a few days.
CHALLENGED THE IVitU.Vi. man.
A» Albany Hank Clerk Who Crowed Sword*
With a Little Frenchman.
I Albany (It. T ) Journal.
A young bank clerk in Albany is wiser
than he was a year ago. In the bank
where he was a clerk a new man was given
a somewhat inferior i (tuition. The new
comer was a small, slight-framed French
man, whose English was decidedly lame.
I ho* who ao seldom spoke that it made liltl#
difference. The senior clerk had a decided
|(enchant for fencing, and, compared with
roost fellows of bis age and j-.-ition,
unquestionably ngood aword-n.an. li
• dili-.n to tbu he war n most in-utlerabl
. braggart, and his military accomplishment
was his one thought and conversation. He
had about him. a very patronizing air,
which lie proceeded to inflict upon the in
offensive Frenchman, and his familiar
slaps on ihe back evidently displeased the
stranger. Finally, a particularly emphatic
thnmp between the little Frcnchraan’a
shoulders produced aa response a stinging
slap in the face, which left the red mark of
a small hand sharply prominent against
the otherwise deathly pale face of the
young American.
Speechless »ith rage tho young man
found his desk, and shortly afterward,
through a friend, challenged the French
man to mortal combat. The latter apolo
gized; in fact, did all in his power to undo
the mischief of his hasty blow. In vain.
“Nothing but blood can wipe out that in
sult,” the young man Baid, haughtily. The
details were arranged, the Frenchman, as
the challenged party, choosing rapiers.
Greatly to the sur| rise of the hot-blooded
young challenger the cashier of the bank,
who knew the Frenchman well, acted as
the latter’s second. The day came, and
the hour. The principals stepped to posi
tion, saluted, and the blue blades crossed
with that smooth, gliding sound which is
music *o the ear of true swordsman. The
Frenchman, whose familiarity with his
weapon was evident at the start, confined
hjmself at first entirely to defense, turning
his opponent’s point with a grace of move
ment aud absence of fear or nervousness
which were poetry in action. The young
man grew bolder, his thrusts began to have
an air of ferocity which seemed to anger
the Frenchman, and in turning aside his
opponent’s thrust he made a quick lunge,
■ which the • oung American barely parried.
Another quick thrust and a turn of the
wrist were too much for him; there was a
sharp snap and the top button of his coat
flew across the room. Angry at tliia evi
dent trifling, the button’s owner made a
spite!ul lunge, which was quietly parried,
aud the next button was snapped away.
One after another the shining buttons on
his navy-blue jacket were cut off by the
Frenchman’s ready point. Decidedly rat
tled at his opponent’s skill and the irre
pressible smiles of the seconds and surgeon,
the young clerk now, with greater rapidity
and less caution, made fierce lunges, any
one.of which would have driven the sharp
WOOHItOlV-s CILUlt.
'1’lie Blair BUI la the Smith.
The negro problem is the South’s exclu- - __ ,
sively. Though the national government ’ ’ “ c8 !l,lltu * Selected t« nil
or any particular seotion of our comn on , *Z® aI Estate Booming. - L
country may attempt it, no solution can be | AUGUSTA, June 0.—[Special.]—f,, .. I
satisfactory or final that doe* not origins te ' rectors ol the Columbia Theological -■ 1
in the South and proceed from tho South-j nary closed up the WoodmaT*. 1
ern people. It is our problem becauseour i > , , ™ w ev Wun<,|
socialaiid material salvation depends as' to ' da 7' 1 ^ u ?“ ,ta b J electing ul
largely upon its right solution as • o the i 8ucce8SOr to the chair of natural scienc • *
political rights of tljp negro. One solution I connection with evolution
——^ m^ J • n Jn.< J J L— «L - W . * 1 [l sonata U U 11 f S rs . • ■
Augusta
visit of Mr.
wisdom of the bill, I wish to call attention * nd master of seven tongues. H e if 16 i I
to one which I have not as yet seen urged. dox on the evolution theory and »Ui *
It is a Southern objection. " rept. The board also filledanotber * *
In ante helium uay" ‘ L - — Lfi - 1 1 •)*■!■ *i,-. -i uit.it—, _
of the South possesst
and esteem of the negro,
tions. They would po-
confidence uow, but for his recognition of
the fact that lie owed his freedom and citi
zenship to the national government, not
the State. Had the State of Georgia
emancipated and enfranchised every Blave
within her borders, there would be no
doubt of tbc Georgia negro’s Democracy
to-day, since he would have recognized hfg
Democratic neighbor as his political
friend, and have adopted nis jiolitics as
his own, and the race problem which con
fronts us to-day would have had no exist
ence. I do not lift the veil from our polit
ical past to cast any reproach upon our
fathers, but merely that we may draw a
lesson from their errors, to guide our fu
ture action. Henry Watterson, as true a
Southerner as ever breathed Southern air,
says in the April Forum: “In all miners
relating to the blacks I have contended for
more than twenty years, in aud out
l pgmia university stud-nli I
WhgriaMle today ^J
and wealthy resident of St. PauMr'” 1 ■
He brings his family, aud th e , aiT
phased that Mr. Sheppard to-day I
{sanrsawjrxjas^
tnp. Ileal estate is boomiag, and a umm I
tuent citizen to-day refused $18000 fcrl
Green street house, whicli last vear Jl
him $12,500.
The Commercial bank to-day roelaij
president Jno. B. North and the old houJ
of directors. I
Tho Augusta Oil Mills made iuck.1
prosperous showing at tho annual meeti.,
to-day that five or six thousand doUm I
will be put into improvements and th»
„ , mill will be extended. President A. L
of season, that they should be con- Thornton, Vice President M. Frank in!
J .1.— 1.. a . f il . \I nnnrvne \\’ IT W M11 - nA ... _ i . *
stitnted the wards, not of the
tion, but of the States; not of the North,
but of the South; not of strangers or mis
sionaries sent from afar, but <>f their own
while neighbors and fellow citizens, whose
well-being is inextricably interwoven with
tl eir well-being, and whose only hope of
the fuiure lies in educating and elevating
them to as near an approach to equality
as race differences will allow ”
The question which the Blair bill brings
home to us to-day is, whether the South
will permit the negro lo be educated by
the national government, and by Bo doing
rapier through the body of the cool Fr nch- confirm his belief in the guardianship of
man, while tile little man, quietly parrying the national government and in his politi-
with the sharp point of his weapon,
stripped the front of the young man’s
jacket to ribbons. The contest had lasted
some twenty minutes, when suddenly the
Frenchman caught the swiftly-advancing
point of. his opponent, turned it aside,
slipped his own sword quickly down Along
the other’s blade, turning it with a quick
wrist motion so that it partly wound
around it, and, with a sharp wretching
mo-ion, tore the weapon away and sent it
flying across the floor. Then he saluted,
threw his weapon down and left the room.
. It subsequently transpired that the for-
oicrnPP wuh n momIwr nf n oim n \Kla
French family, a captain in the French
army, and his teachers have been some of
the best swordsmen. Theyoung American
has not challenged any miscellaneous fo>-
eigners since then, and is less inclined to
talk of his experience or skill.
Feminine llenuty nml Diet.
A great beauty has been credited with
saying that to cat very often was the se
cret of gaining flesh; that to have with one
or near one a bit of chocolate, a little
cal enmity of his white neighbors; or
whether the Southern States will take the
matter in charge, adopting the negro os
their ward and creating in him the belief
that his white neighbor is his political
friend and counsellor. The opportunity is
now given us to disabuse the negro’s mind
of the enmity placed there by Republican
carp-tbaggersof reeons riiction.days, and in
its stead to snow him that our political
and material interests are identical with
his iiwu, lhai instead of enemies we shall
be friends. Will the present generation
of the -oiilh let such an opportunity pass?
Will it raleanle lo the national govern
ment wluit of right belongs to the State?
Does it prefer the negro os an intelligent
enemy rather than as an intelligent friend?
It tunes no political prophet to see that he
will Very w-on he the one or the other—
just as the State decides to educate him
Manager W. H, Wallace were re-elected.
Paine institute for colored teachm ud
preachers graduated five young minister!
tonight. The trustees’ meeting this sft er .
noon was presided over b> Bishop Duncin
and attended by Bishops Miles and 1U1.
sey, both colored. Prof. C. 11. Canon tt-1
signed and Kev. II. L. Campbell
elected one of the professors.
.James Wnllack.
Dion BouciesuU In New York 8un.
James Wallack, a young actor of eicttd-
ing promise, was brought into public no-
tice on the London stage when this century
was in its teens. A face and figure of te-
markable beauty and a rich voice com-
mended him to the fairer half of the ipco
tutors, and he rapidly ascended intoi
position similar to that enjoyed
subsequently by Charles Fechter.
Wallack became the romuitic
hero of tragedy, second only to the dimin
utive giant Edmund Kean, and to the
giant aud scholarly William Charles .'Ire-
ready. But in dashing, violatile comedy
he Held no second place, and in utelodraai
he was facile princops. “The BrigimU
“The Rent Day” and “Don Casar Bonn’
were his war horses. The Muses at that
time brought forth heroes in art and liter
ature. laowtiiey produce iiiten. ii'ai.
lack was one of the last of the glsdiitura.
The race is extinct.
When Byron’s tragedy of “Werner” vss
produced, the Werner was Macready, the
Ulric was James Wallack. Both were hap
pily and admirably eqipped by nature to
herself or permit the national government ^Vrm th'oreoharacti™: DurW .he per.
t > enticnte iiiui; for nc will be e ’ucafcea, j \ i •»
from whatever source it comes. The time }orm ?° c *
for oppo-ing negro education has passed, honon unt, ‘ thc *“ ne wu r '‘ tW
and il is the duty now of every Southern
patriot to see that his education comes
fruit, or something that can be n Mwnrcerail U of the right
klyand which will not overload the kind . T l.e State must take some action,
tomacli, is desirable, fel.o adds that a nr „.:n 1„v,. na.innal >.,lnoniinn.
woman, like a chicken, can be fattened.
The best rule Is to eat as much fresh bread,
especially tho crumb, os possible. Then,
if your digestion will permit, drink choco
late in preference to either tea or ccffce. A
cup of this may he taken in bed before 6
o'clock, and then the aspirant for fatty
totiurs cau turu over aud have another
nap, which very oftenmeansanother quar
ter ponnd of flesh. At the late breakfast
slie mast have eggs. They may he boiled,
in an omelette, or any preferred way.
Some cntlet, a bit of beef, u little chop, or
or we will have national education.
He who will study carefully tho politi
cal situation, must see that the South Is
again on the verge ot a great crisis, os
grave and franght with almost as gloomy
consequences as was the cr'sis of 1860,
though it* action m*y he dower, ana
comes not heralded by the warning voice
•f orators, or thc trump of war. To per
mit the Blair bill to be enacted into law,
through the indifference of the State* b
treason to the South,
If the negroes be constituted not only
the wards, bnt the intelligent wards of the
any meat that is liked but wUh it she na ,i on , w Th all the uoJbiUtie* fur evil
should have somo potatoes, rice or any - “ _ —
vegetable which she fit sure contains starch.
After breakfast u little gentle exercise is
wise, but it must be remembered that worry
and licit are not compatible, and to fret
fur half an hour over the matching of a
bit of dress stuff will take away all the
I Lib gained by one’s breakfast. At
luncheon take a bit of game { a fresh salad
with as much oil on os possible. Drink a
III
Macon, Ga, June 5th.
AFRICAN BAPTISTS.
Centennial Celebration ot the Foundation
ot the Church tu Savannah.
and desi ruction which their intelligence
brings, instead of the intelligent wards of
the South; if they owe thetr intelligence
to “strangers or missionaries sent from
afar,” and not to “their own white neigh
bors aud fellow-citizens, whose well-being
is inextricably interwoven with their well-
being,” tlieu we cau expect to see what
was the port ion of South Carolina in the
. j , _ year* 1868-76, when all law was trampled
glass of Burgundy, or if you do P a e underfoot—revenge, blood, arson and pil
for wines take another cup of chocolate.' i.„_ B c- '
Eat anything sweet that is offered you and l> *'’ \v m. l. cTost.
as far us [ms-ilile eat mayonnaise dressing
on anything to which it U adapted, and if
you can learn t> take it on bread and but
ter your chances for gaining flesh will in-
crcise 10 per cent.
For dinner have soup, fish and meat Savannah, Ga., June 6.-T8pecial]—
S ,t - a „ni cn^c» e .e , nikin; ‘.nd The address of welcome was delivered by
W olin iuif, t k bb( g U ,,Ensnare Kev ’ K ' K ' I ’ 0T0 ' D ' D > of Savannah. •"
n wLfin rhimn-mnA L the organization of the church
“ aid « h »‘ P unwd inbiood. its
Kle g i,on^‘l^ any“lSXt ^ “dl/hU tt .“ivibl’vT "'‘it
acid. Then do not tire yourself. Try and Kid Jd? h ^„S*HiS 7 L2j5!& h !
go to bed before 12 o’clock, and whenever , JfLM ,? nd . b ** lde ,. h “
u ♦.%i-« « wmra l.wtnm *k.a *!.... la* erateu body on the ground for no other
l'r tiiniF iinn nmr#» tn Ltv.n wnmnn ,i.^L* • crime than that he preached Christ to Af*
oTn ! ImJTT he,wt riot’s sable sons amTdaughters enslaved
allow vo.'irsclf to grow excited, '-nd if any- ‘ b “ ~ aB ^ h W1 “ n .
body wants you Co argue with them add to .‘'V* hnnd itsi ,«l G m hL nol^
«n drXc^nT'U Silf 1^° Vd’ZiftSfc
for Von ifu U u£ hralvtrruklEt lrembl,n ? "“h that manly heroi.ro
little wltsT it It makes U vJrv um ?iz- Christian courige that the grace of
aasassiesar ,0 "
p.'r as** •*» 1““."? «*• .«• wJSS.'ff VSXJSXfSZiZ
equ
when thc son hurls his bitter reproach*
into the father’s face. Here Wallack
rose to such a pitch of passion that Mic--
ready felt the crown was slipping from
his brow. The audience was seething in
that momentous silence which every ao
tor recognizes as preceding the storm d
applause. Waitiug until the last p»»-.
sage of his rival’s speech, AVernir attend
one long, despairing acrcam of agony. It
was the cry of a rent heart. It wrenched
nway thc tribute from the young actor ud
captured tho effect which he haa built up
Think of Osmond Tearle scoring of
Kyrle Bellew in this fashion! Ay! Tho.
actors were not tailor made! And u
judges in the pit were bearded men will
bent brows, aud not sim;iering miaws »
the stalls. Elicu 1 Folks, at the time, did
say that this celebrated scream wu torn
from Macready by hU jealous terror of th*
impending catastrophe! Who care*’
A Flat Contradiction.
-Some one haa told yon that your eatanhii
Incurable. It Is not so. Dr. Sago s Catanli
Remedy will cure it. It is plenum to «M
and it always does its work thoroughly, iw
have yet to hear of a case in which It mo
not accomplish a cure when faithfully umo.
Uatarrh ie a disease which it io danfierou* t*
neglect. A certain remedy la at your ra*
tuand. Avail yonraelf of it before the coo*
plaint ounmea a more serloua form, an
druggiata.
nial sermon. After referring to the early
hiatory ot the church, he alluded to more
recent eventa. “Emancipation, without a
thing to do then is to g-> to bed and to sleep
The Cowlug School of Foetry.
From Tld-Bita. , , ,, ... . * H — .
Editor (ten years hence)—This will dollar, w ( hunt experience, without educa-
never do, young man: your line* rhyme, j [ luu ( without friends, without competent
New Contributor—Why, it's poetrr, sir. leaders, like Ishmael and Hager tnrned
Editor-Yes; I suppo-ted from its ap- out to die, driven into the wilderneuwith-
‘arance that it was intended for poetry. “J 1 ] *“• ,* nd vested with the rights of
But here are two coupleta in one stanza— citizenship at a time when we
“here” and “dear;” “there” and “dare.” I were Vitally unprepared for it. our
New Contributor—Why, I—I thought' “ indeed most remarkable,
the tinea had to rhyme in poetry. I atrug- He--|>U* all the 'obstacles, the negro in
gled with those Hue* sir, until they were Georgia haa now $10,000,000 worth of
perfect. prois -ty, and 1ms proved him-elf worthy
" Editor—Shades of Whitman; Where of cil.zensbij*. Take our intellectual ad-
bave you lived? Why, my poor,- dear vancemem. There are in the public
fellow, don’t you knoa all tuzi is dead and >cbool* of Georg a thousand- of children,
buried? ami thousands of them are Baptists. We
New Contributor (timidly)—How would Have a number of high school* oaneJ and
it do to print these lines bind side before? controlled by oar sseociation, besides the-
Editor—Well, that’s a new idea. (Looka Atlanta Baptist and Spellman seminaries,
over manuscript again.) By Jove, you’re ". n, “ x •“* au^ftce* of the American Bap-
s genioa! It’ll be the literary ancceas of Hat Home Mission Society.\
tbo reason. ! To night the tabernacle is decorated
n-a-owu... I with flag* and banners On the speaker’s
_ _ t L . platform is a chair osed by the founder of
Talmtton, Jnne 5—The Talbotton the African Baptist church in Georgia a
£»•» *••• «nlr ““•‘‘he Ural leave* centory ago anil portraits of its leader*.
M :icon *2:5.# a. dl which arrives it 6:301 - *
and the train from Colombo* which ' TbeoM say lag. **oppaattfam to the life ot bu*
arrives at Bostic at 8:20 p. m. Thia is
not aa convenient to travelers as tht old Cowd* Syrup all other reosb meed lea have
•chcdale. tee* dead flock and ttevtoden are la despair.
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There la no ayatem of treatment ktw>*B“
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.Decatur, Mich.
MRS. S E. WlllFI’L'a-
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