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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANT
[TUESDAY JUNE 15 1886
CONGRESS.£
Proceedings of the Two Houses
Last Week.
With the President and His Ad
visers—General News.
The Senate*
WUHiJroxoif, Jane 8.—In the eenete, Ur.
Morrill, from the committee on finance, re*
ported a bill creating an additional secretary
of the treasury. He asked immediate con*
eideration of the bill, in Wow, he aald, of the
emergency known to all senators.
On objection by Ur. Hoar, the bill went on
the ' calendar. Ur. Hoar saying it was a bill
of too much cousequenco to consider on the
Washington, June In the senate Hr.
Butler read a telegram from the mayor and a
large number of cltiaens of Spartanbnrg,South
Carolina, urging the senators from that state
in congress to nse their influence in defeating
the oleomargarine bill, which signers declare
la the worst of protection. “Let the people
buy oleomargarine," thoy say, “as they would
any other article of food.” After the routine
business, the senate preceded to the consider*
atlon of bills on the calender under the five
minute rule.
A bill to legalize incorporation national
trades union, which reads as follows:
i it enacted, etc., That the term “national
trade union,” in the
wo or mi
he Unite
nembers
rorkera,
of this act, shall
ng people having
the states or territories or
of aiding its
banner, the r
its and conditt
individual rig
labor, the protection of their individual rights in
the prosecution of their trade or trades, the raising
oTfUnds foe the benefit of tick, disabled or unem
ployed members or families of deceased members,
or for such other object or objects lor which the
working people may lawfully combine, haring In
view thefr mutual protection or benefit.
of the
beoome a
. , _ own to
Land shall hero the right to sue and be
SI to Implead and bo impleaded, to grant and
—are, in Its corporate or feel
erty, real, personal and mlxe
property and proeeeds and Income thereof for the
— corporation as lain its charter do-
hitcioh each InflflrMMtid anion
rsomnch real
necessary for the purpose of its incorporation.
Boo. a. That an Incorporated national trade
union shall hero the power to make and establish
we as It may
1 objects, .and
repeal at r
such constitution, 1 ssr and by-krira as
deem proper to carryout Its lawful obi*
the same to alter, amend, add to or repeal at pleas
ure.
Sec. i. That an Incorporated national trade union
shall have power to define the duties and powers
of all Its officers, and proscribe their mods of elec
tion and term of office, and to establish branches
and rab-unionr in any territory of Uw United
Sec. 9. That the headquarters of an Incorporated
national trade stnlou shall be located in the dls-
trlct of Columbia.
The bill now goes to the house of represen
tatives for concurrence.
After the routine morning business, Hr.
Beck called np his bill to prohibit members of
congress from accepting retainers or employ
ment horn railroad companies, whleh have re
ceived land grants or pecuniary aid from con
gress. Ur. Beck stated that he had no re
marks to make upon it, and naked for its lm*
rued into consideration.
On the passage of the bill the yeas were 37,
nays 11, as ______
Tlie llonae*
WAtnntoTow June 8.—The house committee
on Invalid pensions today agreed to report, ns
a subatttnte for Sonator Blair’s pension bill,
the bill Introduced by Ur. Elliberry, of Ohio,
with amendments. Tba Blair bill granted di
visible pensions according to disabilities,rang
ing from $34 per month down to $8 to invalid
soldiers and sailors of the United States in
the late civil war, who are dependent upon
their daily labor for support. Tha bill agreed
upon by the house committee provides for a
uniform pension of $13 per month for nil aol ■
fliers and sailors who are absolutely disabled
and unable to maintain themselves, and does
not recognize distinctions In rank.
Ur. Crisp, of Georgia, rising to n question of
^”n n fiaturday! e <iaring the debate in thnhjnm.1
was betrayed into a warmth of expression which 1
regret The distinguished gentleman from Indl
ana. (Ur. Holman)Twboas long service and whose
years sntltle him to the respect of the paopls. waa.
and is in IU11 peesesslon of mine. Ancxnresalon
‘ at gentleman, or waleh I understood
prhoso long service and wH
r the respect of the people,
slon of mine. Ancxnrci
or waich I undenMi
: feeling which prompted
»n that 1 non- say 1 regnd.
[atlon with the gentleman
Hr. Kelley, o/ lv.nnsylvsnla, called np ns n
priviltged question the motion submitted by
him yesterday to expunge from the Record the
speech of Ur. Wheeler, or Alabama, upon
Edwin U. Stanton. Ho based his question
of privilege on the conscious, deliberate, por*
slatent abuse of the onlor of the house by the
representative from the eighth district of
Alabama. In lieu of the motion nude yester
day, he submitted a resolution reciting that
Mr. Wheeler has been guilty of tba abuse of
the order of the house, Inasmuch as his speech
had not bean mads upon any pension bill, and
declaring in thn delivery of the ipeach was
without enaction of the haute, and la contra-
or other form. . ,
Immediately Mr. Wheeler took the floor on
tha privileged question, and mid that ho
wished to correct some statements which .had
been made regarding him, whleh were not
true.
Mr, Morrison cut short farther discussion by
moving to refer Kelley's resolution to the
committee on mice. Agreed to.
Washington, Jane 11.—In thn house, on
motion of Hr. O’Neill, of Missouri, tho senate
bill, similar to the one introduced in the house
by Mr. O’Neill, wu paased. to legalize the in*
corporation of national tradee unions.
Civil Service Bill.
The c'.ause appropriating for tho salary of
the president having been reached, Mr. Bayne,
of Pennsylvania, offered an amendment pro*
Tiding that none of this money shall be paid
until the dvil service rule* shall have been
changed as recommended by the committee
on appropriation in the latter portion of the
bill.
A point of order having been
tailed against the amendment,
Mr. Bayne, while not contending
that it was in order stated that If it wat ger
mane to the bill at all, it was germane at this
point.
Mr. Findlay, of Maryland, said that the
provision whether in tho form presented by
tho gentleman from Pennsylvania or in its
original ibrm was a proposition conceived in
the spirit of the purest buueambo for the
bold rat purpose of the moat transparent dema
goguery. There wu no man hen who doubted
that It was subject to a point of order, and
therefore would bo thrust out of tho bill as an
irrelevant and impertinent intruder. There
was no man who doubled that if by
any miscarriage, each should not be
its fate. When It got to the senate, that body
would trample it under foot with the scum
and contumely it deserved. If, contrary.to
mason and precedent it shoatd pus that body,
it would confront n hostile executive who
would give it Us approval only under the com-
pulsion of forced position to which ha had
Man driven by hia own poUttcnl friends.
This hones (and by this he meant tha damp,
ersrie majority) had already rudely tamed its
hack oa one of the principal reform, ia tha
currency o! the country, recommended by the
president, and, u if that had not beau enough,
It now proposes to knock from under him the
vtry foundation atone of his political creed
and public rucctst, and thia was politics and
them were leaden. If it- were not aTverious a
• man might alt down and laugh at
uppose, though that it a quea*
eubt. [Laughter and applause.]
it of the eligible* into bin own
this old party preserving its snecemion. and
name,if not (n polity, and principles through n
half century of conflict and varying fortune
fighting battlee for twenty-five years only to
lose them without one break in a long chain
of reversal and then at last after all this long
tion and defeat when party victory had brush-
•fi aside tho blade cloud of disaster and re
vealed the silver lining to its ravished
gaze. Whether intoxicated to the spectacle
ormad from theorems of Jay, the grand old
party, nneqnnito tho taak of deliberate con
templation of its own splendid ichtevemants,
naked to be in the Terr moment of
lUtnumphand on tho very ipotwhere It had
It had voted down an honest dollar, and it
now proposed to tear away a safeguard to tho
moat valuable law on the statute book. Lot
no gentleman deceive himself. Tho gentle
man from Indians (Hr. Holman), in response
to t question n few days ago, had said that the
object of the amendment was to deal out oven-
handed Justice, and tho gentleman from 1111-
nola (Mr, Springer) had rtlll more plainly 1st
the boose know that it wma Intended to given
partisan, instead of n non-partisan, service;
that tho effect of the amendment requiring
the certification of tho full list of eligtblte to
the appointing power would be to give n parti-
sen and not a non-partisan service, was
not a mere matter of coqjectural speculation,
bnt It wu n matter of experience, demonstrat
ed, boasted of, gloated over by Inn Baltimore
postmaster. Thia ingaoiont young man had
got the whole list of eligiblee Into hit hands.
A voice—What Is hat
Mr. Findlay—He is democrat. He wu s dem-
eorst in office. He wu appointed by the pres
ent preeident to tha office. That fixes hia
democracy, I suppose, though that it a ques
tion of somo doubt. — • •
Hog
hand „
cording to bis own statement before an ex-
amlner of the civil service commission who
wss in Baltimore, he made each good use of it
that in leu apace than a year he hod turned
out every republican In that office and had pat
a democrat In hit place without mlsasng lire
oner.
While Mr. Findlay wu delivering Mi
speech, members from both aides of the house
crowded around him, and hit last sentence
waa received with a burst of mingled hisses
and applause,the spplauso being partly intend
ed for the sentiments expressed by Mr. Find
lay and partly in approbation of tha action of
the Baltimore postmaster.
Turning defiantly towards the democratlo
aide, Mr. Findlay exclaimed:
“When you applaud tha effect of thia amend
ment then yon mean to uy that tha certifica
tion of all ellribles will result in what yon have
applauded. Then yon mean to say thatjthe ob
ject of this amendment Is to give a partisan
and not n non-partiaan service. Applaud Jnet
as iongu you please, neither hisses nor up-
{ louse will deter me from tho discharge of what
consider n doty.” [Applause.]
Mr. Findlay then continued to review tha
action ol tho Baltimore postmaster. This in.
S enlous young man, ho mid, with
ho aid of more expert
ulmtere, still had violated rales
of tho civil service commission and still
boasted that if ho had only boon span
tie longer In hia place he would hav
over the democratic civil service refo
office to bit successor, [Laughter
plants.]
There wu not a man in the house who did
not know what the effect of tho provision
wonld bo.
Hr. Compton, of Uuyland, said that tha
unit hit colleague made on tha Into pontmu-
ter at Baltimore wu u undeserved aa any
one man had over mado on another,
Who wu that postmuter? Ho waa
the peer of tha gentleman from
character and intelligence, end n democrat.
Civil scrvico hid sought by every effort, and
ha had violated the law of
, bo*
Jiticai icaJawags and a lot or nnp rinclpied
scoundrels—associates of bis coUetgnas in last
fill’s campaign, when he (Mr. Findlay) had
•ought to defeat the democratic ticket. [Ap
plause on tho democratic aide.]
Immediately the house wu in an uproar,
but above tba noise Mr. Findlay wu heard to
inquire, angrily, whether his colleague meant
tosay tbit he associated with scalawags and
scoundrels.
Either tha confusion prevented Mr. Comp
ton from hearing Mr. Findlay’s question or
drowned bin reply thereto, bnt tho gentlemen
stood within * few feet of one another, angrily
gesticulating, while other mem bon of thn
house gathered around and took innch Inter
est In tho scene.
Speaker Carlisle, who wu in the cham
ber, approached the speaker’s desk and
wu apparently ready to seize tha gavel and
exert hia authority in the caaa. The demon
stration became mere threatening, bnt Chair
man Blonnt wu equal to tho emergency and
■oon succeeded in securing comparative quiet.
The angry colloquy between these two
Maryland members continued for some time.
Hr. Findlay secured the last word, saying:
“We have real democracy in Maryland, and
tha spurious democracy that hu corrupted and
debauched the fraaehlaa ofonr state, and hu
made, through the ageney of the president
here, thn recommendation of men who owe
their offices to such Influences u have mado
the nama of civil service reform stink by tha
character of tha appointments made, I am in
favor of civil service reform, not snivel ser
vice reform), bnt genuine civil service reform,
and I say that whenever the day comae that
it shall bo recognized u the policy ofonr conn-
try that evaiy four years n hundred thousand
offices era to be put np for talo and knocked
down to the highest biddor; though this
country bu ■ stood every strain and
trial, that strain will be too
great; for the onion will ho
confronted with the most dangerous enemy
that bu ever assailed its peace or threatened
Its Integrity. [Applause.]
The Haynes amendment wu then ruled out
of order, and soma little discussion arose as
to tho proper mode of appropriating for the
ularyofthe presiding officer of tho aeuate.
It wu finaUyagreed to atrikaont the elauu
appropriating $8,000 for the salary of tho vice-
president and to appropriate $3,000 to pay
' int be selected to pnaldo
llog to
In the
The Polygamy Bill.
Washington. Juno 10c—Tha report of the
house judiciary committee on tho Edmnuda
anti-polygamy bill, which wu presented to
the home today, ia a very long document. Af-
ter a detailed atatement of thn changes made
by the committee, tho report nje:
Yr nr committee hu no disposition to recom
mend any mesumre to the house which will in
volve the sanctity of any religious faith, however
wrong in tbalr opinion It may be. But a dlwinc-
llon between overt acts, ream ing from etalcf
which tba law makes criminal, and tho
opinion snd of worshipping of O ' —
the dictates of conscience, wulla!
report oo toe oonstttntr
so as to need no
committee does not hesitate to_
rent from tba twelfth section ot the senate bill,
effect of which would ho that-the conductor too
corporals “church of Jean Christ of latter day
nlnu" would be controlled tor treaties of tba
church In conjunction with trutsea appointed by
ths president. This union of tho irnitnae of too
church and those of the forermunl cannot be
distinguished iron a union of church and state,
and slew respecting too cwahHahmcm of raUgion,
nor can It bo other than a limitation of the free
exercise oi religion. to hero the
majority, who control in tha matter
SBKS? 57,I’M
In fact, an establishment of tha Mormon church
by law. to be controlled by tha government. Tour
committee recommendanaanuTmeot and dtosota-
tlou of the eors oration. This is eUariy public poi-
bedonewlth-
J. M. BIOS,
Thn Regulator and Controller of Low Prices.
Will stall samples of ell dames ofJS®"?*;* 4
ill iTrrrsisrr on all orders abonJIlftOI Ton
toUme money snd get better variety toteket
mat by writing utahoot what you want and get-
ite acknowledged lowest price*. 44 and « White-
HewsamUilapapet.
| INDISTINCT PRUT
out any strained construction ot authorities. iBoth
the charter of the church and of the emigration
fimd company wee* null for want of power. The
acta confirming these charters were voT
tame reason. It Is a matter of grave doul
organic act authorised Use original
tlonal, for it Is obvious they give
form cl religion over every id
which thus discriminate in
over another, is in proper sci
the establishment of rcilgtonHl
possesses ail original power overtheterrUoiBH
a right 10 avoid the acts of its suboniliata agency,!
and awert lie own policy. With thU view of thn
power of congress, your committee rccommonds to
cut out by the mot tots church satabUshmont and
npaay Is dei ...
the church. Its officers an all
church corporation, and If the taster si tussoivuu
its parasite cannot survive. Tho duty of congress
is to prevent such an Institution being eetabllsbcd
in any states* a means of promutlng Its growth to
that nature, at which admission to the union will
toe co«n* l,<le oaan<K <> to** doub5d! ,W *W iS
wltbtrOTsssaSffjflth'rirespaiparpoM Si eurinS
existing evils, it does to In entire consistency with
toe constitutional liberties of the people and with
their free right to exercise their religious beliefs
according to their conscience, and only under the
responsibility or each man, to toe supremo being.
Tariff Talk,
Hr, Uorrleon'a announcement in the house
today that ha would call up tho tariff bill
next Thursday, wu tho result of a confercnco
between the leading revenue reformers of the
between the leading revenue reformers or the
house. Speaker Carilile hu been urging them
not to give np tho idea of patting the Mil at
thia session. Hr. Morrison's announcement
wae met by one from Hr. McKinley, of Ohio,
to tho affect that bo wonld oppose the oonsld-
oration of tho tariff bill. The Indicatloni are
that tha contest will begin and end Jnat at this
point. Necemrily, there ia an element of
uncertainty in all calculations u to what tho
honuwill do next Tharaday, bat tho estimate*
of the opponents of tho bill appear to bo
well founded. They uy that a carefnl can-
vau of both aides of tho house ahowa
that the motion to consider the bljl will be
defeated by at lsaet fifteen Votes.
Washington Gossip.
Washington, Jane 7.—[Special.]—Senator
Joe Hawley, of Connecticut, ia usually sensi
ble, but sometime* ho file* off the handle. Ha
did to today in a most amusing
ator Brown had called np hit bill to give a
rebate of not more than twomty-fivc per cent
to all railroads In the south which had par-
chased rolling stock from the government at
the clou of the war. This rolling stock had
been improvised for array service, ■
was worth very little, hot because toe
southern railroads could then get nothing
else, they took It at tho price* fixed by the
government authorities. Nearly all of the
roads have been reimbursed twenty.flvo per
cent on tho amount paid, and Senator Brown’s
bill ia to provide for a settlement with the
others on a similar buls. Among tbo roads
in Georgia it affects only the Roma and South
western, u tho others have already had • set
tlement; bnt InTanaeatoe and other aouthera
statea it will reimbnne a large number of road*
for nnjuet expenditures. - when tha bill cams
op before the committee on rallroads,!t wu ap
proved by atinanlmons vote. Sena torBrowu wu
authorized to prepare tho report, ’
reason Of tho committee’s action,
and tha .report hu boon in print soma week*.
Today, when the bill wu about to pats, Sea
ator Hawley leaped to hia feetu if ha had jnat
mashed a bumble bee. Holding a fluttering
and frightened report in hit hand, he exclaim
ed in a fourth of J
believe that wat ■
on railroads, Ha
f lacc II stated that an invading army had gone
nto the south, and in another place tho word
“Invaded” wu used In relation to the move
ments of the federal forcee. "I am sure,”
cried Hawley, “that no union Midler coaid
unction the use of thou tonne.” Senator
Brown saggelted that ha wonld supply a
synonym more agreeable to the delicate nervu
of the senator from Connecticut. “No,” said
Mr. Hawley, "I am done with it” Thia would
seem to bo enough to settle tho bill,
bnt it didn’t Senator Brown calmly
stated that he bad no desire to insert any or-
fenslva words in tha report, and that ha wonld
bo the last man in the senate to re-open say
feeling of sectional strife. Aa some offaou
bad been taken to a certain expression In tho
report ho naked icavo to withdraw it To this
S eneral content wu acoordod. Hr. Brown
ben called a vote on tha bill and it wu passed.
He went to several members of the committee
and agreed to anhatltnto tha word "coverod”
for “invaded” and to pat “anion army" for
“Invading army.” Ho wu authorised by the
committee to have the report reprinted and
•eat along to tba house with the bill. Hr.
llawley’e term la expiring, and, u thia inci
dent ahowa, ha ia in deape rate strait.
Washington, Inna 8.—The presidential
party arrived hero from Deer Park at 7.20
Washington, Jana a—Tho Marino hos
tel officers have received information bom
I’enlce, under date of Jnno Oth, to the affect
number of euu being sixty-one, with thirty-
six deaths.
The uma bureau bu alto received infor
mation from Florence, Italy, dated Jana 3d,
that two deaths have occurred there from
cholera, tad men are expected.
. President Cleveland Ia aaxieat for an urly
adjournment of congress. He had a consul
tation with Hr. BandalUoday on tho condi
tion of tho basinets. Ur. Randall aapreaaad
tha opinion that, with tho proper uw of the
time, an adjournment could bo reached early
in July. It ie said that the president has an
extensive tour In prospect for tba summer.
Be will not go to Europe, u hu been stated,
bnt he pines for the recreation of tho Adiron
dack!. Ha it pf tho opinion that an early ad
journment would bo or gnat benefit to the
party, u well u to Mrs. Cleveland oud him
self.
Washinoton, Juno 11. — [8ooc!al.]—
One or the latest removals for offensive parti
sanship Is that of J. B. Hayes, who had bean
inspector of tboportof Now York forflftoeo
years. Hr. Hayu accompanied Colonel Lv
moat oahlatrip out to meet the ship which
wu bearing the president’s brida-olaet Into
New York harbor from her European tour.
Ho supposed that Colonel Lament of coorae
had a permit from tho secretary of too treatary
for tho passage of Mlu Folsom* baggage with
out examination and tha anmaroos tranks of
that lady were not subjected to tha usual cus
tom house Inspection. It turns oat that Colo
nel Lament had no permit guaranteeing this
courtesy. Hr. Hayu wu vary much surprised
to find that tha first communication he re
ceived from the president after this act of
conrteey wu a notice of removal from office
for offensive partisanship,
Tha first comptroller of tha treasury hu de
cided that the word “office” in the first citato
ulelOof the civil servic* commission ap
plies to the bend ofn bare* u wsU u to the
hud of a deportment, that tba head of a ba
rren it tha bead of an office: also that whoa
tba bead of a department believes that tha
public service will ha pi
can appoint a confidential
of a bureau in hia department without re
quiring him to undergo civil service exami
nation, and tho appointee can receive tha pay
of nay clerk ia tbo classified service, provided
then ia a vacancy in any grade for which an
appropriation bu boon made. Tha qnutioa
arose on an application by tha third auditor
for a confidential clerk.
Tbo secretary of stare recently received •
cable message from Minister Cox,at Constanti
nople, saying that tha sultan of Turkey de
sired to ttnda wedding present to Mrs. CUve-
laad, and asking that It ho received, Tho
president, wbil* appreciating tho motives of
the sultan, felt that its acceptance would be in
violation of tha spirit, if not tha letter, of tha
constitution, a>d accordingly telegraphed hit
declination of tha proposed compliment.
“Glad Tidings ForMothsrs.”
BILL ARP.
AND MRS- ARP CBLBBRATB
THEIR BIRTHDAYS.
Sh* Children and Welsh bon goes la ana Pleasant
Mamstlea an Beoallsd-Xr. Srp Is ■ ot Too Old
to amt around tad Pat as Atn-xrs.
Arp In altatt or--Sweat EuadlUp."
We are haring torn* birthdays new for Mrs.
Arp and I are both Juno bugs. That in to uy
lama bngaad she its butterfly I reckon.
I won’t call her a bog though she dou jane
around sometime* when things go wrong.
8h* had a birthday lut week, and I would
tall how old tho is If' I wu sure tbo wonld
never bon widow. She thinks I wonld marry
again at the drop of a hat, bnt declares aha
wouldn’t and uys something about a burnt
child dreading tho fire, Bnt the don’t mun
that I kndw, and tho honut reason is that the
it afraid she never could find another man
Uko me. It wonld take her a long time to
train another feller and gat Mm up to any
standard of uxorial docility. A young man
will train but one over thirty won’t
train worth n cent, and that
In tho reason why it la
so dangerous for a girl of ambition to marry
an old, yonng man or a widower. Tbo train
ing ia on tho other side than, and aha had Jnat
as wall surrender to tha inevitable.
We had the birth day and gathered all tho
children hut one. There were nine of thorn
here, and somo grandchildren and somo
friends, snd we had a good time. I saluted
Mrs, Arp on her cheek aeon ia the morning.
She always turn* her cheek to me now, but
•he dldant tut to by no means. I made np
her had for bar, and swept the room and flew
•round smiling, We had musie and played
cards and want a fishing and eat spring chick,
ant and huckleberry pie and talked, and the
boys said smart things nod told of
exploits snd escape*, and thair mother and
sisters thought they were the smartest boys in
the world. Ifa boy sneezes hit mother thinks
it smart. Mrs. Arp thlnka her
boys an aa improvement on
the old man bnt my
ambition la for the girl* to bo at smart u thair
mother. Than la no room Cor improvement
an that line. Not long ago I wont off and
WU gonaa month. Whan I came book I had
a warm weloomo and everything wu calm
and serene. I played Mng and autocrat for two
or throe days, and strutted around with tha
uma eanaaqaentail airs I had went over in
Carolina. But they don’t lut long at my
boas*, and now I am in my normal state of
tweet humility. A man must go away from
home to put on alia, Ia bet it it a good Idea
for the woman to go too sometimes jnat for a
change. Folks got sorter common to ono an
other from continuous presence Absence mar
conquer yonng love, but It refreeheo the O''
I know a lady whose hatband is
surgeon in tha navy, and ho is generally
gone two yean and stays at homo
tiro months when ho cornea.- “How
do yon stand it,” uld L “I wonld just u
leavo have no husband at all.”
“Oh,” laid aha, “I think It la just splendid.
I am so glad to see him when he cornea, and I
look forward to it with so much pleaiuro. I
don’t see what thou wlvu whoso husbands
are always with them have to think about and
hopo for. I am sure I would got awfUl tired
ofnavingamanbsng around homo nil tho
year nrand. It would be M monotonous. Two
montha in two years ia just about right, and
besides yon know tha doctor sends mo plenty
of tnonmr anil that maku nn for hia amahm.”
•pare I feel better and mors Uko a gentleman,
and it sheds its benign Influence on ail around
mt. A close observer un
toil when I’m in funds by
perusing tha brolly. I can tell by my feelings
my appetite, my hilarity. A man ought to
kup a dollar or two in hit pocket all tha time,
Jnat like he keep* a buckeye or a rabbit foot
It is fruit time now. There are chor
tles, and dewberries, and huckleberries, and
raspberries, and mulberries, and tho tuasr
{ uat flics all tho time. Every
ireakfut, while Carl It mllkii
practicing bar music, I pick tha raspberries
and fiU a tumbler for each of them to taka to
school, and I sprinkle them all oqer with
sugar. I go with them as far at the foot-log
over tho crook, and in tha evening I go to
mcct|them, and wa come by the dewberry
patch snd hava a good time. Thoy will think
about that walk to school aa long as thoy live,
and it wUI always ho a pleasant memory. Thoy
their bato fall of eggs. Wo will begin to cut
cat* tomorrow, and thoy will find tome part
ridge eggs and bo happy. School will bo out
‘"ion for"
next week, and then for blackberries to make
Jam and jelly. They can pick all day and
•cratch all night, and keep fist and hoaithy.
Thia country life It just splendid for children.
Mix It up with school and with work and It
will makamen and women for a state to bo
proud of. But you toad a boy to school all
bin y< “ * " * '
yonng life, and then to collego, and ht
i’t bo fit for hardly anytMng abort an of-
seeker. Us will be wanting to goto tbo
logiclature before he is twenty-five. Fva
known fellers to ran for the legislature who
didn’t know whether a cow that was lying
dowu got np behind or before, or how to drive
a nail Inn plank to keep it from aplittlng, or
whether It was tho east wind or the west wind
that brought fkir feather, or whether it wu
this year* wood or lut year’s wood that
produced poacheo and grapes. But atill thoy
can make laws to govern the people. Old age
may not bring wisdom bnt it brings knowl
edge, and so I wu a little proud that thru
•oon yean had passed over my. hood. I
thought thatauroly I wu gaining unto, bate
good lawyer told ma today that I wu now on
the declint, for our supreme court had decid
ed that a man over sixty wu incompetent U
Juror; to I am not lit to try a ease, I suppose.
I know that a man ovsr sixty could not bo
compelled to serve on a Jury, but tha oonrt
uys ht shall not aervo for ho Is Incompetent.
Well, if tint la co the supremo court ought to
resign for they art over sixty. I rackon that
some of thou Juvenile members
of tho legislature mado that law.
Country Ilfs hu a charm for town folks and
they look forward to the time when they can
retire from work and settle down on a farm.
My friend Judge Branham came to aw at yes
terday and took off his coat and hang it on a
ang it«
futon
•very b
called, A
and cap
Wa talked over tha good old days and wa paid
tribute to tha dead—tha friends whohadlaft
us, and wa diactutad tba living and wa talked
a little politics and wa wandered over tho
ferm and along tha croak and branchu and
« etched tho minnows dodging aroond and ho
•aid in a whisper. “I almost with I wu a
boy again.” If Judge Bleckley had boon
•long I think wa all tons would bars goon in
udga Branham said ht knew
tho baptizing branch, u it wu
.downin Putnam. Heeonldgorlghtnow
catch a cat In one holt and a perch in an
other-tbo lineal decendenlaof tha aame fish
he used to catch ia tho long ago, Ha knew
tba vary spot where ho pnllod ont an sal tbo
first ono ho over caoght and b* thought It wu
a snake and threw down tha pole and nn for
hit life, ’Those wen good times” mid ha “and
this* an good time* too; lot aa apologize for
tbo bad and tnjoy all the good that wa can.
Love, pity end contentment will make any-
W^iat?gentl* genial comfort It la to ho visi
ted by an old friend. Not a formal call but a
good, honut, loving vlait—a visit that pays
double, for it pay* him that give* snd him that
doth receive—it Is twice bletsed and for a sea
son renews onr youth and loaves a sweet odor
after it hu passed. Bill Air.
Many parsoni an afflicted srtth eruptions
of the skin, bolls or ulcere. Brandeth’s Pills
taken freely, will, ia a ehort time, can trap,
tlonr. pimples or boils. Ulcers of long stand-
lag require treatment for tome weeks, hut bo
amured that the wont fever sorea or obstinate
ulcers will surely diuppenr If you porter ere
with ttete KHa.
DURING THE WEEK-
Tuesday, June 8.—Bight perrons were smoth
ered and burned to death In Chicago ...Raleigh
and reveral other North Carolina towns voted for
prohibition..... The Grand theatre in Looisvllla,
Ky. wu destroyed by Bro -A passenger train on
tbs Northwestern railroad of South Carolina fell
Ihtongh a trestle, killing islxpaarongen..... Alfred
long, charged with murder and other crimes in
North Carolina, wu taken from Jail by masked men
and lyaobad Tho pram stand at the St. Ionia
fair grounds fell, Chariot Dyer, one ot the editors
of the Republican, wu killed and several other
persons were injured.
In vnx Cm.-Mr. Ivy, and employs or the Air
Line railroad, bad a Huger mashed while coupling
cars. The general council adopted an ordinance
prohibiting pool wiling oti bawball .Tho rorc-
uue men are haring a quiet ttma.
Wednesday, June 0.—Chattanooga Is Infested
with thieves In the elsritona held' In Belgium
to replace the outgoing members of the chamber
of dopants, tbo Catholics gained sierra seats.
IV. c. Harding A Co.’s woolen mills at Stamford,
Coen- valued at 1329.000, werodeitroyed by dro
Colonel Richard M. Hoe, head of tba firm of B.
Hoe & Co., printing press manufacturers. New
York, died suddenly at Florence, Italy Forty-
nine of the recently arretted men, Indicted by the
grand Jury for rioting and oonipiracyatMIlwaukea,
Wit, were arraigned In court.
In rni CiTT.-Gorernor MeDantcl hu offered a
reward of 1190 for tbo arrest and delivery to the
sheriff of Monroe county of John Simmons, who
murdered Lewis Mathews A meeting of tho
theatrical managers of the southern statu wu
held at DaGlve's opera house A patent medicine
vendor reached Atlanta yesterday, who bu driven
all tho way from Sacramento, California. In a bug
gy , the team—a pair of poulcv-being tho aame he
started with.
Thursday, Juno 10.-A passenger train on tbo
Ottawa, Of age City and Council Crave railroad, of
Kansu, wu thrown from tho track, killing two
men W. A. Dots, tha owner or twenty-four but
ter factorise in Illinois, hu felled .Tha quarterly
report of President Green, or tho Western Union
Telegraph company, recommends that no dividend
bo paid Ibr the present quarter... .The entire polio*
forco of East 8t. Louis, except the chief, hu boon
discharged. A gang of thieves had planned, with
the connivance of lbs polk*, to rob tba city
treasury, several business bouses and a Musk.
in the Citr.-Tho BclecUo medicine association.
oflhe United States will meet in Atlanta next
week.-,, Samuel Lows, a young white man, acci
dentally shot a ponton ot tho thumb and flrst
finger of bis left band away while fbollng with a
gun—.OolonsI Luther J. Glenn, who has, fbr eov-
oral years, been a very prominent lawyer in thia
motion and one or the most prominent oUlsensof
Ibe Mate, died at hia homo yesterday.
Friday. Juno Tire esses ot
•nerohiau in Chloaco were called in court and
their counsel moved for a change of venue, which
wu granted, snd their Inal will lake piano oo
June 21 .The political excitement of tho last few
days in Perth culminated In serious rioting Five
men won arrested In Chicago who an supposed to
bavo sot on lire tho building in which eight per
sons lost their Uvea.
In the ClTT.-Gtnsnl L. J. Gartrell bu bun
Tory tick for sororal days .The artesian well
tower hu boon completed A treo In Walker
street schoolhouso yard wu shattered by llghtulng.
JlmFalkncr had hia left leg broken while
working with a hone Tha graduating exercise*
of tho Atlanta Female inatltut* look place at tho In-
•mute hail.
Saturday, June 12.—Four homo thloras wore
hanged at Limestone, Idaho The business fall,
urea Ibr Ibe part week throughout tho United
Slates number IN, land in Canada 39 Dennis
Boyle, colored, wu hanged al Bolievlllo. La, for
murder Flnstbrook's brother* box factory at
Toronto, Ont., valued at 1100,000, wu burned
A fire at Litchfield, Conn., destroyed 1300,000 worth
or property Bishop Thomas Francis llundrtckon,
(R. C.) or Providence, B. 1„ died while sitting In
his chair.
Ik the CiTY.-Wbllo John Foster, a negro man,
wet standing on hit front porch, lightning struck
a treo In his yard, and tho shock wu so Intense
that Foster wu knocked down snd hu not boon
•bio to walk tinea, bnt his physician uya he will
ba all right In a few daya
Sunday, June 13,-Tb* Mower county national
tank at St. Paul napanded, with liabilities at
190,000. Tha gludars have broken ont among
tbohorauln York county, South Carolina .The
arbitrators In tha caso between the Atlantlo and
Pacific and the Southern Pacific railways, growing
out of I rant-continental wars, hare rendered their
decision in flavor of the Atlantlo and Paelflo A
suit for 1900,000 hu tarn Instituted against Jay
Gould lor breach of oon tract oo account of con
demnation of property while tho St. Louis and
Ssn Francisco railroad wu baying Its way Into
St. Lou! Tcrriblo storms and floods prevailed
In the French provinoes Loon Laurent Picket, a
well known writer tod member of the French
senate, died Ono hundred attires and Ira
gnglltn people lost Umu liras through the erup
tion of tho volcano Tsravens, near Auoklsnd,
New Zealand .The British government hu Is
sued ordsra to the Canadian government toauka
no more act suras of American vs mils, except
whore tbo violation to so open snd flagrant that It
cannot bo wlnkad aL
It) THE City.—James Gumming, a ten-year-old
boy, broke hit right arm whlla playing ball
Jud Bhcnell, a train kind an Urn Georgia railroad,
had hia right foot crushed and two ribs broken
wbllo snitching soar Tba First Baptist Bundty
school minion at Roynoldstown hu baon com
pleted,
Tli* Froth mgrsnea
Of BOZODONT randan It tho most agreeable
artlclo ever used u a tooth wash. It hu none
or tho acrid propcrtUt of thn utringant tooth
powders, and instead of contracting tho gums,
It renders them firm and clastic.
A western ilghtarer bring told that the dried op
mao of )I0 pounds weight wu RrsrU, the Now
York senator, said; ’’By goshl I’ll bet h« boards.”
If yon bad taksn two of Carter’s Little
Liver Pills bafonntlrlng yon wonld not have
had that coated tongue or bad tut* in tho
month this morning. Keep a vial with yon
for occasional use.
’Landlord,” said a Wisconsin traveller,omsrrinf
im tho dining room altera tong and frulitoas
ugjjlo to secure a dinner— 1 'Landlord, (hero's
a dinner—"Landlord, then's
have hero tbit's u good an tho
ono think that yon have hero that's as got
A Most Litoral Offer.
ippliincefl oo thirty dar>'trial to tar man i
nth Hmoua Debility. Lo« of
JJOn»rOIID'S ACID PIIOSPnATK,
' A Valuable Remedy tor OravsL
Dr. T. H. Now lakh, Jr.. Ht. Louis, Mo.,
uya: “I have used It in dlsuMaof th« uri
nary organ* such u yravol, sad particularly
speimatorrhica, with vary Fond result*, and
think It n very valuable remedy in thowdln-
Profcmor—Does uy question trouble rqti. llr?
modern—No, sir, not at all. Bat I am alUtfe in
doubt how to frame rov answer so u to giro yen
tho precise information ibr which you seam to ask.
A sound mind gou vary seldom without •
sound digestion, and nothing contribute* to
ward it mot* than th* on of ANGOSTURA
BITTERS, the world renowned appetiser and
invlgontor, manufactured only by Dr. J. O.B.
Biegtrt A Boos.
JIM GIBBS'S YARNS.
A Florida Humorist and Bis Adventure* by
Flood and Field.
Eustis, Fla., May 13.—Jim Gibbs, tbo era :k-
er humorist of fluwonco county, is a wiry
young follow of about forty, a hard working
farmer and a assal-oooMlonal lover-o'old red
liquor. Ho hu bright imall oyea, a face the
color of old tripe and n mustacho that ia tho
Shadow of things hoped hr. Jim is a good
fellow, 'qniat, peaceable, hospitable and Is sat
urated with natural, genuine, purely Ameri
can humor. Ho hu two voices, ono a deep
but coming np from tho deptha of his Inner
economy, the other a charming falsetto, sug
gestive of tho ambitions school girl, who at
tempts to reach high O without first going
through tho nocemaiy preparation. Tha hu
mor of hit yarns ia enhanced by
bin startling change from one voice
to the other. Many of your
readers will remember him, as they have boon
delighted listeners when stopping over at
Live Oak. Jim never smilea or laughs him
self, and ia at bit best whan he ia about ono
drink ahead of the game.
A PRETTY HEFTY CEAWFIiH.
“I’ll swear, boys,” said Jim ono day u ho
(topped bit hone in front of the saloon and
swayed easily In hit saddle, “I don't wut to
mo no more heavy rains like we’ve had thia
week. They’re about spiled uy crop. VYosa’n
that, them blame crawfish is crawlin’ all over
my yard. My dog bagged ono the t'other
night.”
“How wu that, Jim t” Inquired ono of tha
boye.
“Well, you sl_,
couldn’t go to sleep, for 11
at tho rain, and all to onct the pop com
menced barkin’ like tho devil. 1 thought
*twu a coon ont in the yard after ohlckens, so
I slipped on my panto, took a lantern and
went out. What do you think I uw? Boys,
1H swear it wan th* biggest crawfish 1 over
seed In all my lib. Hit wu on hlu hind legs
a aparrin’ at the dog. I sicked the pup on,
bnt the crawfish whipped Mm ont in ono
round. I went Into tho house after my gun,
bnt when I got hack tho doggoned thing wu
gone. I wu sorry for I wai goin’ to give hit
to ay friend Sonator Bill Bryson.”
“How big wu it, JJmT” ukod one laughing
listener. * \
"Boys, I’ll twar Mt waa u big u that goods
box,” pointing to a dry goods box about throe
feet square.
A MASSACRE OF WILD DUCKS.
I’ll bat a hundred of fodder that I've got
tat in a day.”
“Wbero ia it, Jim?”
“I've got Mt right home now, ain’t I Jo?”
“How long it it, Jim?”
"Hit's twenty foot long, If hit’s a foot. Hy
old grandfather fit tho Iqjlnt with hit. You
kin nut ysr whole arm down tho barrel. Ono
puts ,
day lut winter I got un right tiriy to go down
to tho pond dock hunting. I loaded the old
S un with* pound of powder and six pound of
bot and started off. I had to use about a bar
rel of mou for wadding. Tho gun wu ao
heavy I couldn’t carry hit, so I drag tho
plagued thing through tha hushes. When I
got to tba pond it wasn't quite sun np. Tha
pond wu klvercd with ducks. Boys, I’ll
swear I never nw ao many ducks in my
nateral life. I rotted the gun on a branch
and pulled the trigger. Gentlemen, tho
dog gone thing kicked. Hit cut my lip
throogb, busted my snoot and kicked mo
onto the hood. Yea, air, hit kilt ma dead.
When I came to I wu klvertd with blood and
could scarcely ice. I hurried to tho houao
quick's I could and got my bee fixed un. I
wat that weak that I couldn’t walk much and
it wu two hours afore I went back to tho
pond. I’ll swear, boyi, tho gun wu still amok.
In’ and a forty aero field t'other aide tho pond
wukivered with ducks. I wlshtl’d took
Uttar aim. I b’liavo I'd a Mlt all they wav in
the pond.”
"How many did yon kill, Jim?”
"Wall, I on’y got seventeen hundred. I’d a
got more, bnt somo on ’em wu so badly shot
up I didn't kssr to bother. For all, that gun
cuttin’ up ao and bustin’ of mo nn’ tho load
hadn’t gone outln’ of it, for about a week af
ter, Tom put on a fresh cap and kilt a hawk
with it flvo hundred yards off.”
“What will you take for that gnn, Jim?”
"’Taln'tfor solo. I'm goln’ to koep hit
ontil nex’ 'lection, and to* of I can't make
tom* nigger demoenta with hit.”
A cunious cioAn* ’
"Thank yon, that smells liko a good cigar.
Tba poorest cigar I tver smoked wu ono I got
it Houston somo tlmo ago. Ultwuat night.
Tom and mo had bean to a party, I think, and
uws patted through that place I ’eluded I
wanted asmoke. We had plenty of ‘old rad’
with us, but no smokin’ torbtekor. Wo
dniv np to tho storo and I hollered
for the man to como down,
lilt wu about midnight. Hit wu n long
time befero I could wako him up, nnd when
ha did ba wu akoored tq_ corns down. I
reckon ho
ha found —
opened tbo door a crack and nit what I
wanted. I told him a cigar. IIo handed
somethin’ oat and hit wu so long I thought
kit wu a broom-hnadl*. I toM him i wanted
a cigar, and acs ho: ‘That’s • cigar, and choap
at five cents.’ Solllt bit and rodooff. Hit
wu n dogg<mod_long^hlt_ struck agin /'
' I
Pfe
When I got homo I wu
sahst nnd rich, tenpin’ tha 1
branches nnd sheerin' my host, I broke off
part and kep’ on smokin', bat it wu still too
long, so I kep’ broskln’ off pieces nnd puttin’
IV**, sw t
'em in m:
•till
put and kep’ on smokin', bat it wav atill too
long, so I hap’ brea‘' ' ” -* *
_jfin’ and had a pocket full of cigars.
That wu tho longest dnr I onr ucd, nnd I
wu two boon and a half glttln' homo, too.”
"What wu It mad* of, Jim?”
“Why, bur grass and waboo bark. Hit wu
green, too, for bo had made bit In tho mornln'
and tuk bit In at night afore hit wu half dry.’
THE OAY AND FESTIVE TEXAS FOXY.
One year ago a Texas hflnt trader brought ■
lot of th* mart vicious ponies to Live Oak and
Ask for ‘Hand Harris Tobaccof ’ every time.
SENT TREB-Rampto* ol
oaBow.to apply It. M. M.
become owner of a pony. U# bad no troablo
in breaking it to tho saddle, for ho ia a number
one borreman and a fearless rider, hut when
he came to break It to harness ba had a regu
lar picnic. Ha told na of hit troubles one day,
with the asm* impaatlv* countenance and tho
change of vote* that ia a part of hit natural
swear, boys, them Taxupoatea la Ilka a
streak of lightning. Tothar day I hitched
mine to tho wagon nnd want to loading np fed.
dor. I had about three hundred bundlu on
when tbo pony cot sheered like, *nd off he
started on • deadron.'wagnn and all. Hit wu
tha doggondaat raea I ever teen. Hit run right
through ths woods about forty mllo I guew,
and whan I fetchod np with bit after a two
day’s sarah, hit had a wad or gnpo vinca
’roond Mt u big u that there stone over yon
der. The wagon wu all brnk np and I never
did lad bat ono handle of fodder, hit wu
scattered all over the ynrtb. Now good-by, I
urns’ ba goln’. Come ont somo day and see
my cat that’s big u a yearllu’. Icotched It
by the collar ’tother day and hit drug mo half
way op a big chainyboriy tree,"
Maxwell l!»i a Friend.
Bt. Louis, June lb—Sheriff Coekley yester
day received through mail a proposition to permit
the writer to rescue Maxwell while bring eon- ’
dueled to or from the court room. The letter te
signed' Cbtriu Hunter.” The writer olrimato to
What Wu Left Him.
"Poor Saodboppar to dead,” remarked smith.
“Y'os," answered Brown. ■ be’edead."
"Rich, he wts,” added ffmltb.
“Yes, be wu rich," arid Brown to n riixlued
‘•Leave jon anything?" axked Smith.
I'tift ne a/iTVp" replied I?roan in a more cheer-
i) tone. ,
Harsh purgative ramadiu are feat giving
way to the gentle action and mild affoota at
Carter’s Little Liver Pills. If yea try then*
they will certainly platan yen.
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