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bund Jennie's pathetic story of
WAYS OF DOING GOOD.
4Bhe Hits IlulU n Temple In a Tenement.
Wltere She Uolde Sunday School Eaoh
Saturday und Sunday—She llae Scattered
Sumhlne In Many Homes.
In u little east side tenement she livos,
a womnn "sore afflicted unto God,” yet
who knows not the naturo of repining.
Ah, nol If you ask any child of the
neighborhood to tell you the happiest,
sweetest, most tranquil person in it, I
wager they'll shout with unanimity,
“Blind Jennie!"
And it is true as true can be. The light
has gono forever from the oyes, a blight
rests on the feeble body, but on tho
peaceful soul and on the mind illumed
are lights no doctor’s orjtmigician's skill
could conjure up, and'Jennie, “Blind
Jonnie," everybody’s friond in Lewis
street, basks in eternal sunsliino.
A simple little story is Jennie’s, a story
that I might fill full of teara, I suppose,
and much sentimentality. But what is
the use of woopingif Jennio smiles? Is
it not better to rejoice that the little
heroine has found so much good to do in
the world which has so little good to
, offer her?
Bhe was struck by lightning many years
ago—at least, that 1b the cause her moth
er gives of her blindness. This mother,
with whom she livos, is a little flighty at
times, and that is oilo of Jennie's crossos,
but it is her unflagging industry, going
about the streets peddling soap, matches
and jimcracks, which pays the rent and
brings bread to the poor tenement which
the two call home. Tho bad boys often
chase the old woman, taking advantage
cf her feeble mind, and harass her
greatly. There is no crueler beast in
the jungles of Asia than the bad boy,
and he has not the beast's excuse for
cruelty.
After Jennie had been blind sometime
the disfiguring disease attacked her face.
It ate away her mouth and nose and
compelled her to wear a thick veil when
ever she went out to the church or Sun
day school. Doctors said it was a can
cer, and attempts were made by kind
friends to get Jonnie admitted to tho
Cancer hospital, but the physicians there
said that it was no cancer. And so, with
that cruelty which sometimes marks the
conduct of our hospital attendants,
sworn to mercy and kindness, poor Jen
nie was driven from one institution to
another, and none would have her. None
would have her! Shame be it on the
name of every onel
And so sho retreated to the poor little
tenement behind another tenement and
prepared to live out her life as best she
might.
And then began her Sunday school.
She did not seok for scholars. They
came to her as the sparrows did to look
for crumbs upon the window Bill. They
were the children of tho very poor.
Some of them were of Hebrew birth,
like Jennie, others were Roman Catho
lics. Others did not know if they had
been bom to any creed, unless it were
the creed of poverty and anguish,
i How they crowded into that little
rooml What comfort they found there
undor tho spoil of the blind girl, who
seemed to them to talk with tho tongue
of angels I How they awakened the
echoes of a region which usually re
sounded to the songs and curses of the
drunken and tho vile!
Two Sundays in Jennie’s week—Sat
urday for tho Jews and Sunday for the
Gentiles.
Ono day a little girl came up to the
room.
“I want to come to Sunday school,"
sho said.
“But there is no Sundajr school till
after dinner."
“Well, I ain’t going to have no dinner
today, so 1 guess I'll stay and wait."
You may bo sure that she was made
welcome, and that she did have dinner
that day witL Jennie and her mother.
And that is the kind of child who be
longs to Jennie’s Sunday school. There
are fully GO who belong to it, and who
attend either one day or the other.
Jennie's knowledge of the Scriptures
and of the hymns sung in the mission
and at her home is marvelous. If the
words of a hymn whoso musio attracts
her are read to her several times, she re
members tliom forever after. Tho sing
ing is one of the great attractions to the
little ones.
- The members of Jennie's class do not
meet at stated hours, but run in when
ever they desire.
Ah, what a glorious thing it was that
the hospitals turned Jennio from their
inhospitable doors! She would have
been so useless in those warm and cheer
ful rooms—a recipient of their alms and
nothing else, whereas sho has turned her
tenement into a temple and filled one
of the darkest comers of tho city with
the light and the grace of God.
Hope Mission chapel keeps its eye on
Jennie and her mother and keeps the
wolf from entering at the door, as it
would do sometimes if they were loft
absolutely unaided. Tho good people,
who are not overrich themselves, help
them out with the rent and tho coal man.
A few days ago the missionary went
shopping tor Jennie, and this was what
he bought after paying out $3 for tie
rent: Quilt, $1.50; cot, $1.25; under
clothing, $1.75; pillow, 74 cents; sheets,
G8 cents; two cups and saucers and two
knives and forks. 34 cents, and wash
board. 18 cents.
“The fund from which we drew these
little purchases,” said Pastor John B.
Devins to me, “was only $87, but we
found that Jennie absolutely needed
them, and that settled the matter with
A New Knclnntl Girl's Unique Woj of
Stretching Tight Footgear.
When Mr. Simpson returned from Bos
ton, he brought a beautiful pair of shoos
—laced shoes, with neat heels nnd pretty
toes—for his daughiher Ethel, and a
unanimous sigh of disappointment swept
over the Simpson family when it ap
peared that these shoes were too small.
No one was more sincerely grieved about
it than Ethel's youngest sister, Evelyn,
who liked pretty shoes us much as Ethel
did, and who had been wearing a pair that
could not have been described as any
thing but “serviceable, though plain."
Evelyn was filled with contlictin?
emotions when her lather said: •'Perhaps
you can wear a No. 8, my dear. If so.
you may have these.”
Evelyn knew that though her sister
was six years older thnn herself, yet they
wore the same sized shoe—No. 4: but
sl,e did not say so. She set her pretty
shoe besido her own stout, roomy ono.
The prospect was discouraging,
A little luter Ethel came ill.
“Why," she exclaimed in surprise,
"you can almost get it on? Try it somo-
timo when your foot is not warm nnd
swollen as it is now, though 1 sup; oso
papa would never let you wear them if
they wont on at all bard."
The shoes stood on Evelyn’s dressing
case all day and suggested to her w hat
must have been the feelings of Cinder
ella's sisters when they tried to cut down
their feet to fit tho magic slipper. That
evening when she was going to bod sho
tried them again, and they actually went
on. They squeezed the poor littlo feet
as if in a vise, but there they were, on.
About midnight Ethel Simpson wbb
awakened by u soft knock on her door.
And sitting in the hull outside she dis
covered her little sister Evelyn.
'Oh, Ethel—don't muko a noise—my
feetl" she gasped.
“Why, you have your shoes and stock-
ingB on, Evelyn. The now shoes! Oh,
you poor cliildl" and in a momont the
elder sister was bending over the Buf-
foror, who had fainted away,with smell
ing salts and a pair of scissors.
“You see." sobbed Evelyn, reviving
and watching the cutting of the shoo
lacing with interest, “I thought if I wore
them to bed they would bo on in the
morning und 1 could show them to papa
and he would lot me keep them. I went
to sleep, and a little while ago I woke
up, and I thought I was dying.
'I almost screamed, but I didn’t,
felt numb all over, anil then it seemed ns
if arms nnd legs and heud were turning
into balloons. When I tried to crawl
out of bed, I knew wliut was tho mattor.
It was my feet nnd thoso awful shoes.
“I expect every one will laugh nt mo,
Why, Ethel, yon are cryingl Don't. My
feet don’t hurt me any more, and papa
will say when yon toll him about it, 'It
will be a lesson to her.'"
It was a lesson to her. She nover
wore tight shoes again, but if her father
thought bo he did not say it when Ethel
told the story, and no ono of the family
laughed or snid a word about It. A day
or two later a package came from Bos
ton for Evelyn, which contained a beau
tiful pair of shoes, laced, with neat heels
and pretty toes nnd marked "fours.”
Youth's Companion.
Making lace paper. a W1NTERN,GHT> blaineandconkling
MINNEAPOLIS HAS THE .ONLY FAC
TORY OF THE KIND HERE.
This winter night Attaint*! the pans
.1 hear the Ixuuliw of the min;
The tnrnl wind xhHek* :i harsh n.IYaln
This winter nlttht.
Row a New Industry In Which Germany
£xceln Came to Be Eft tubl tubed In Till*
Country—As Yet It Is In Us Infancy.
Nloe Work For Women.
Within mv room I* warmth and Hicht;
ndly (
THE NEW YORK EX-SENATOR’S STO
RY OF THE LIFELONG FEUD.
Two Bii.ln,,. It
Nernp f.
The friendly lire hlitxw bright.
And—God I out in the bitter cold.
son,a,
Seen In n Dream.
In tho summer of 1855 Mrs. John Tel-
yca, then living in Wisconsin, dreamod
that her niece Mary, who was attending
school at Waukesha, 16 miles distant,
bad mot with a serious accident, the ex
act nature of which sho could not recall
when nwake, but it so alarmed her tliut
sho told her husband the next morning
that he must go immediately to Wan
kesha, as something terrible hnd hap
pened to Mary. He tried to langh her
out of her fears, but when he found that
she would go if he did not, he got into
his buggy and started. He had gone but
a short distance when he met a messen
ger from tho school coming to tell him
that late on the evening before Mary
bod fallen from a tree and broken her
arm.—Arena.
Didn't Caro to Be Presented.
The wife of a well known naval officer
tells an amusing story of some of her
experiences in Washington society. On
one occasion when she was asked to re
ceive at on army and navy german, a
congressman entered with a lady lean
ing upon each arm. One of the floor
committee at once approached him with
the polite request that he give his name,
in order that he might bo presented to
Mrs. Blank, who received the guests of
the evening.
“No, thank you," was the nonchalant
reply. “I don't care to bo introduced.
1 have two ladies now to take care of,
and that is about as much as I can man.
age."—Kate Field’s Washington.
There was a great time when Jennie’s
Sunday school celebrated Christinas.
Snell songs, such games, such recita
tions! And then there was a collection
taken up to build a Presbyterian church
in Pratt, Minn., and when Jennie count
ed out the largess of her little ones there
was one .wholi
. I )lo dollar to go to that
worthy fund!
I wonder if any millionaire in New
York gave so largely of his store as did
••Blind Jennie’s” children!—New York
The Anthem.
The rustic choir’s greatest show was
always made in the anthem, in which
some bumpkin hud generally a solo to
exhibit his “lusty voice." It was
splendid musical display—of its kind,
People came from a long distance to
hear it and felt, so satiated that they
loft without tho sermon. No wonder
Shakespeare made Sir John Falstaff lose
his voice with “hallooing and singing of
anthems." To be sure ho was guilty of
an anachronism, for there were no an
thems in tho fat knight’s time, but it
may reasonably bo supposed that lie hod
become so impressed with this part of
the service in his own day that ho
dropped into the nod which even Homer
is privileged occasionally to enjoy.
The Jack Tar who explained a "han-
them” to his mate on tho simple prin
ciples of verbal elongation was not
far out after all. “If I was to say to
you," lie began, “ ”Ere, Bill, give me
that handspike" that wouldn’t be a han
them; but if I was to say to you, ‘Bill
Bill. Bill, give, give, give me, give me,
that, that, that handspike, spiko,' spike,
spike.’ why, that would bo a hanthem.’
Just after this fashion did tho old village
choirs tear and toss their anthem texts.
—Comhill Magazine.
Minneapolis can claim a monopoly in
at least one industry. There is none like
it in the country. Germany is the near
est competitor. The lace paper factory
here is the only ono in the country. Ilow
the industry came to lie established
here and tho development of certain
possibilities in regard to it make quite
an original story.
A certain business man tolerably well
known in Minneapolis once upon a time
loaned Borne money and material to a
Russian Immigrant who was trying to
start a greenhouse In St.. Patti. The flo
rist was very grateful for the help, but at
the end of six months had not repaid any
of the loan. The business man limited
him up and Inquired wherefore this neg
ligence. Tho florist explained his difficul
ties at some length, nnd sorrowfully
averred that in udditinu to other bur
dens lie bad to sup|iort his brother.
•Why doesn’t your brothor go to
work?”
Pardon, sir. He is honest and indus
trious, bntcan find no work at bis trade,”
What trade can that be?'
He is a lace paper nmkor and there
are are no factories of that sort bore, and
be has not much chance at othor trades
where he has no skill,
An interview with tho paper maker re
vealed some interesting fucts, and after
some investigation Boveral Minneapolis
capitalists concluded to start a factory
to evolve the dainty confections that
modern ingenuity says may be made
from paper. The industry is still so new
that its present condition may be re
garded as only an earnest of the future.
The fad for fancy lamp shados makes
a special department wldeb was not ut
first contemplated. Crape paper devel
ops in all the soft, dainty Bheen, of silk.
Women are specially good at this branch
of the Industry, as it requires patience
und that peculiar “knack" which no man
ever had, und the woman who possesses
it Is luckier than if she hnd beauty,
though she never thinks so herself.
Now, this business of making lamp
shades and flower pots nnd puper flowers
and dolls is light, clean work nnd puys
well if a womnn bus the bent for that
kind of work.
The prettiest lamp shades I evor saw
were being made at the factory. Tin
tobacco leaf forms the latest tnndcl
Two contrasting shades of crape pitpot
form the leaf. It is cut in tho proper
shape, and a delicate wire forms t he mi
rib of the leaf and makes the shuile r-t.l
stantial enough to stand wear. Fu
long leaves and four shorter ones di e
from a common center .and mniio I
daintiest shade imaginable. 1 saw a l hi
one of this siimo pattern for an iik-.ii
descent light. The red leaves were Ih.ic i
with pnle yellow, and how the ihclii
light did glow through the blended col
oral A skillful workwoman can on I
construct four or five of tbeso shades a
day. Their price consequently doom'
exactly bring them within the reach of
all, bnt they promise to largely tako th
place of silk and illusion. Tho operative
earns from $8 to $10 a week in tho shade
department.
Lace paper for lining tho edges of
boxes really forms tho important purl
of this industry. Look at u bit of tills
dainty paper und see how fuithfully ii
repeoduelfl every thread of tho laco from
which it is copied. When people are
told that these delicate patterns an
stumped from engraved metal plutca.
they are "apt to look incredulous. Still
tliut is tho process.
For many years Germany bos con
trolled this Industry. Tho consul
Berlin in his last annnal report states
that 7,000,000 pounds of lace paper are
exported annually to the United States.
One fine day good. fortune befell tlie
industry. A man came in and asked for
employment. He was a designer and
engraver of plutos from Germany. He
declined to give any information as to
how he knew the factory was in Minne
apolis or why ho came. He simply said
they conld try his work, and If they were
satisfied he would stay. He has re
mained ever since. I saw him- several
times and didn't wonder that there was
some hesitancy about engaging him. He
weighs about 825 pounds. Tho face is
intelligent nnd refined, bnt the bushy
beard und lung hair, combined with the
mnseular frame, give the man the ap
pearance of one used to vigorous manual
labor. Appearances are deceptive in this
ease, for lie is an artist as well as an en
graver. und knows every detail of the
business.
He iirHt sketches tho design on paper,
then tukes a block of lead composition,
similar to that nsed for newspaper cuts,
and draws tho exact pattern with a sharp
steel puint. Then, with finely graded
chisels, be hummers out every little de
tail so exact that tho tiniest thread of the
finest lace pattern is visible.
To see the workman hammering out
an intricate pattern one would think ii
an endless tusk. It is not, however,
nearly so tedious us it looks. This en
graver will muko a pluto 20 inches long
by 2 inches wide in four days. A11 the
edges of tho pattern have to bo made in
sharp relief instead of being ent into the
plate, as in ordinary engraving. This
has to be done so that the sharp edges
will perforate the paper when tho cylin
der passes over the plate.
Lace paper lias its styles just tho same
as the real article. The young lady who
gets her daily box of bonbons from the
confectioner wants tho laco edged holdor
to be in the latest mode. She can also
select torchon, Valenciennes, Spanish,
guipnre. broton or any other style in
tho papor just as she can in tho thread.
Among tho pretty imported notions is
that of a cornucopia with a deep laco
edge and closed with dainty hows .of
satin ribbons. This is to hold matinee
or theater allowance of candy and will
probably be very popular. — Eva Me
llow many mortals htruiode on,
With low mill hope mill clmimiSH unnu-
1'oor hutimo atu-ep nutehlr the.fold
Tills winter tiUzIit.
—Robort Lovenmn In Youth's tiomimnton.
Waiting For the Minister.
A good story is told of Mr. Labott-
chore during his career in tho diplomatic
service nnd while lie was an attache nt
Washington. An "aggressively irate’
visitor called at the legation nnd de
manded to soe the British minister. Mr
Laboucticre informed him that he could
not, because "his excellency wbb not in."
Well," said ths visitor, evidently sits
peering sulitorfuge.“l must see him. nnd
will wait till he comes.” "Very good."
snid Mr. Lnbottchere. "Pray take a
chair," and he resumed his wt ittitg. At
the end of an hour the visitor, "still fret
ting and fuming," asked when the mill
istor would be buck. "1 really cannot
say exactly," the attache answered. "But
ou expect him back?" the visitor Insist
ed. “Oh, certainly," said Mr. Lnbou
chere and went oil writing.
At the end of ann'Apr hour the irate
visitor, bouncing up. T’.isted on know
tng what were the habits of the minister
at that poriod of tho day. Was lie likely
to be in in another hour? “1 think not.'
said Mr. Lubouuhere. with increased
blandness; "the fact is he sailed for Eu
rope on Wednesday nnd cun hardly yet
have reached QueenHtown. But, you
know, yon said yon would wait till he
oame in, so 1 offered you u chair."—“Di
ary of the Salisbury Parliament.''
Mr. Itnimwett Tulls a Story nr Two.
Mr. Theodore Roosevelt is a practical
politician and bus some gooil stories to
tell of biH ux]s'rieuces while In the legis
lature. Ill bis address before the Liberal
club on Thorsuuy evening he told sumo
of them.
One was of a legislator who usod to
ask him to support unconstitutional hills.
Bnt, my deur friend," Mr. Roosevelt
would say, “it’s unconstitutional.”
never allow the constitution to cotne be
tween friends." was the reply, and then
becoming very Indignant the man would
add, “Mr. Roosevelt, the constitution
doesn't treat little things like that.”
Another tnau objected to his quoting
Larin. "What do you mean by quoting
Latin on the floor of this house?" thun
dered theobjector,“wheu you don’t know
the alpha or omega of the lauguage?"
Buffalo Express.
rue Literature or tiiti shoes.
Miss Gray has collected somo in
teresting literature on the subject of
old Hhoes for the use cf students. It
includes some quaint advertisements
clipped from old newspapers in the
Bret part of the present century and
toward tho end of tho last by Mr.
Henry M. Brooks of Salem, the schol
arly antiquarian and secretary of the
Essex institute. Mr. Brooks has also
made for tho purpose a number of
notes from “Felt’s Annals." .
Among the information thus given
we find that the highest price of
men’s shoes in 1070 was G shillings,
for thoso of women 3s. 8d. In 1073 a
committee of Boston, considering
that people in low circumstances
“will wear no other boots or shoes
generally but of the newest fashion
nnd highest price," proposed that a
law ho passed that no shoemakers
should sell to any inhabitants shoes ol
11 or 13 sizes above 0 shillings a pair,
and so in proportion as to other sizes.
—Boston Herald.
Undemonstrative Americana.
How many American boys over 15
kiss their parents? They’ve out
grown such “soft” demonstrations,
and all because they have not been
held to the pretty custom.
Anyhow wo Americans are curi
ously undemonstrative among our
selves. I have seen men—brothers—
parting who were thrilled by tho
strongest motives toward each other,
and somehow they seemed as help
less os dumb animals in expressing it.
Each knew how the other felt, of
course, but only because he knew
what he felt himself. He couldn’t
do anything, he couldn’t soy any
thing, because he was a man and an
Anglo-Saxon.—Washington Post.
Couldn't Spare Him.
Mrs. Witherby—Is it necessary,
dear, for you to attend the directors'
meeting as often as once a week?
Mr. Witherby—Yes,-darling; they
might get along without sotae of tho
others, but I have such a good finan
cial head that I have to act as banker.
—Clothier and Furnisher.
A confectioner being curious os to
the weight of GOO pennies placed
them in a paper bag on a confection
er's scales and found that they
weighed 3 pounds Gj ounces.
The central chamber of the great
pyramid is a room hewn out of the
solid stone, 46 feet long, 16 w'de and
33 high. It contains a sarcophagus,
probably of the builder.
Of all the possible means of counter
acting the effects of confinement in
the office, or of other sedentary ein
ployments, walking is one of the
surest and easiest.
A little 5-year-old, after shopping
with her mother at leading drapery
establishments, said, “Seems to me
that there are a good many boys
named‘Cash.’”
The ladies of Albany and vicinity
are respectfully invited to call and ex
amine my new stock of Spring Mil
linery. Mas. H. Fabkas, j^napi.valesh in'Minneapolis Tribune.
rTTT-—-—
Stock Feed
Corn and peas ground together, $1.25
per hundred. C. M. Shackelford,
Telephone 24. East Alban;
A Charge of lleoelvlng Illegal Fees Wliloh
the stato.Ninun Never Forgave—One Side
of an Kstrunguinent That Meant Much to
American llUtory.
Colonel Kthvurd Gebhanl, a lawyer In
the Mutual Life Insurance building, snid
that he thought the true reason tor the
bitter feeling between Roseoe Colliding
and James G. Blaitie had never been
printed. He said that during Mr. Conk-
ling's life in Now York city he frequently
met the grout Republican statesniau
front Utica, and on several occasions
they talked about Ids difference with Mr
Blaine. Colonel Qohhurd snid:
Cockling usod to couto up to see mo
We were intimate friends, and ono after
noon I told him that I would like to got
at the bottom of the estrangement bo-
tweeu Mi - . Blulttu und himself. I told
Mr. Cottkling tliut it seemed to me ab
surd tlint u matt who had been a lawyer
all his life, and a public man, should
have taken offense ut Mr. Blaine’s speech
calling him a turkey gobbler, etc. it
was something I could not comprehend.
Mr. Conkltng replied: 'It is just as ab
surd to me to take it that wuy as it is to
you. You know I have practiced law
all my life. If lawyers permitted tho
animosities of public trials to wurp their
sonsihiliries, we would be in u fight with
all the world. The true cause of the
quarrel between Mr. Blaine and myBelf
is that Mr. Blaine took an unfair advan
tage of me in the house of representa
tives to reflect upon my personul Integ
rity.'
In tho discussion growing out of the
discontinuing of the office of provost
marshal general Mr. Blaine rose to a
question of personal privilege. Mr.
Conkling told me that he did not pay
much attention to Mr. Blaine's speech
until he heard his name mentioned.
Then, after listening, he found Blaine
was making u personal assault, foreign
to the mutter of personal privilege und
alien to the subject under discussion.
Conkling said he listened, and the more
he listened the more he was amazed, and
then he became angry. Conkling said
that he so lost control of himself under
ths Impulse of the moment that he wetit
to his friend. Thud Stevens, and said:
" 'Mr. Stevens, you have heard what
Mr. Blaine hus just said. What shall 1
do? .The question of personal privilege
Mr. Blaine nsed was a personal attack
upon my Integrity. He has character
ized me as a man who has uccepted em
ployment from the government while 1
was a member of congress, and while In
thut employment had received feos paid
to me by Secretary Stantop, and tlmt the
fees embraced pay for' services which
had been Illegally rendered by mo to the
government of tho Unitod StateB in do
ing some work In the western part of the
state. This work Included the investi
gation of certain bounty frauds which
hud taken place in Elmira, and the sec
retary came to mo and employod me to
get at the root of the trouble. 1 devoted
u great deal of time to the business, and
the upshot was that the government re
covered, through my efforts, many thou
sands of dollars. Upon my return to
Washington Secretary Stanton aont for
me and offered $10,000 in payment for
my services, which 1 refused to accept.
I said to him at that time that if 1 was
to receive anything 1 preferred to ar
range tho price myself, und ut all events
1 would not nccopt such a sum,
" ‘Pending the discussion between Sec
retary Stantou and myself I went to
Utica and talked over tho matter with
Governor Seymour and Judge Denlo,
chief judge of tho court of appeals, both
Democrats, 1 told them tliut 1 did not
want to tako a step which could bo used
against me in any way, 1 did not want
to muko a show of purity that would bo
ridiculous, and 1 did not care about ac
cepting a fee that might be questioned.
On my return to Washington the check
of Secretary Stanton was reduced to
$8,500. Even then i was timid about ac
cepting it. but Stanton said: “By Godl
1 know what services are worth. I have
been a lawyer all my life, and this money
you have got to take.” I did take the
money. 1 felt that I had earned It, and
when Mr. Blaine referred to this in the
house I felt that he had taken a mean ad
vantage. and 1 determined never to speak
to him again.'
“Mr. Conkling told me,” continued Mr.
Gebhard, “that Mr. Stevens said to him,
T'U attend to this for you, Mr. Conkling,
and will call for a committee of inquiry. “
“A committee was appointed for the
purpose of investigating and reporting,
and when it became evident that the re
port of the committee would entirely
exonerate Mr. Conkling from the alleged
irregularities, then it was that he recog
nized the fine hand of Mr. Blaine or hiB
friends in the successful attempt to frus
trate the purposes for which the com
mittee was appointed.
“Mr. Conkling told me that he never
spoke to Mr. Blaine from that time; that
all the charges that Blaine had brought
against him were groundless. ‘That is
the cause for my feeling against Mr.
Blaine,' said Mr. Conkling, ’and I shall
never speak to the man again or recog
nize him till he. In as publie a place as
the house of representatives, makes an
apology for the assault be made upon
mo at that time.'
“Several attempts were mado to recon
cile Mr. Conkling and Mr. Blaine, bnt
Mr. Conkling always said: 'When Mr.
Blaine gets up in congress and takes
back this charge, then 1 will he prepared
to meet him, and nntil he does it there 1
will nover speak to him again.’ Subse
quently, during the Blaine campaign of
1884, Conkling told me: T have receivod
an invitation to a dinner at which Mr.
Blaine is to be present. I wonder what
the getters up of this dinner take me for,
I am a Republican, and I believe in the
From Thursday's Kvb.nino
Messrs. R. L. Rnohnls
istend became involved
tion, in the former gent)
on Broad street this morn
the heat of the disctlsalo
that Mr. Armiat'ead used i
that were resented, by
striking him on the hei
sene lamp. The dlfflotill;
a settlement of some bu
between the two
though Mr. Anniatend
seek sat Isfaotlnn through t
Rachels says that he has
being made to suffer any t
consequences. Mr. Anniste
purntively n stranger in Alh
ing resided here only abo
three months. The affair ii
gretted, and will probably 1
torily settled without furl
■ Nt* It It NO I, I, ON
MNi
In Ittgersull’a recent
city of New York on the f
sary of Lincoln’s birthday, th
orator told a scrap of histi
nention with the Issuing oft
tal proclamation on the
tember, 1862, that gave I
Blaves. The enmncipatlo
mation wna written t
22nd of July, 1802, but
coin held It back till 1m
heart of the North wna
Up to this time there Imd b
ferenae of opinion amon
In tho North as to wit
should be struck t
be avoided, and ft wast
dent Lincoln wrote to
tlmt celebrated letter in '
ted that his objeot was
Union; tlmt he would
slavery if he could; (tint
essnry to destroy otavert
save the Union ho woi
words, he woold do wlm
ary to save the Union,
then related the followin
"In 1881 Lincoln saw ii
a colored girl sold at a
scene filled his sold will
nnd horror. Turning ti
Ions, he said, 'Boys, If
clmnco to hit slavery,
it Imrd.’ The ho i
oiounly, Imd planted in
inn
the seed of the prod:
one years afteru
the oath was
staves, of men, won
wus restored lib
In the history, the II
there is nothing mo
mntlo tlmu this,”
You oan get j
nt Weston’s Lon
Tn«j latest In
lnugli lnsts who lattg
Flooring, ceiling,
etc., at Weston’s Lot
....,,
THE AI.ISANY C
From tho Macon Kvoouij:
The Albany Ch
a permanent Institul
its excroises becon
The enterprising c
sister city
they established thlt
national agonoy I
profit nnd pleasure.
Each year the t'n
Albany Chautauqua i
to with pleasant i
when tho time rolls
opening Albany is tlir
fined and cultured visito
en the olty, both by tit
the money they spend.
The preparations 1
qua this year are
the programme |
ually attractive,
tlmt the prospeots
even greater slice*
attended the meetin
A
To Bo Erected In /
Hon World.-
HUH an I
Special to the Hkkald,
Atlanta, March 1
was appointed at a c<
at the Governor’s
to erect a tabernacle th
000 people, and to be (
rime the Christian f
World meet in conven
fall.
The Grand Jury is s
tho Kedwine case.
Stilon
Special to the ilKHALB.
Atlanta, Mar-
. ■ - li-yidB
tion of v
Redwineca
Telephone l
22 dtf
East Albany.
raccess of my party, bnt there is one
tiling I will never do, I will never meet
Court C
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