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WASHINGION LETTER.
From our reyular Correspondent
February, 26,1884.
There will be a notable assemblage
at the white house Shrove Tuesday
evening. The president will hold the
the last of his official receptions for
the season, and senators, representa
tives, cabinet officers, eupr-me court
justices, army and navy officers have
been invited to meet the members of
the diplomatic corps. Heretofore,
the foreign legations, in full court
dress, have been the cynosure of all
eyee on such occasions, but recently
the navy officers appeared in their
stunning new uniform, and those
gaily caparisioned sojourners were ef
fectually eclipsed, un'i, it is sup
poa“d. got atrae now ideas about
clothes. Notwithstanding the fact
that th" American navy is without
ships, as has just been humiliatingly
emphasized by the purchase of one
and gift of another ir m England,
for the Greely relief Arctic expedi
tion, this sum ■ navy on land is unri
valled outside the circus ring as a
thing of beau y, and realizing this to
be so, Secretary Chandl rb »s ordered
the officers of the navy to present
themselves in special lull dress at
the executive rrc-ptiun Tuesday eve
ning. Though lent hrs begun,
a list of gay entertain
ments have b‘-en arranged up to
Ash Wednesday ev_, the bril
liant social season intending to die
royally, crowne i with 11 owers and
full of punch. No one who has not
spent a season in Wa-hiugton can <
have an adequate conception of the i
garrish, excessive extravagance that i
pervades official and social life, and i
the season just closing h >s never been
surpassed in brilliancy, levity and i
dissipation. It is to be hoped that
our too festive stat smea and jurists i
will now devote more time to their .
legitim »te duties. Social pleasures
cake up entirely too much of the
time of Congressmen, cabinet officers, ,
judges of the supreme court, and
othersiu public and official life,whom
one would suppose to bo lilted by age
and dignity above such vanities.
When members of the cabinet are
seen di inking punch and champagne
at two o’clock in the morning, it is
not surprising that the work of the
departmen s .a so far in arrears, and
that those having business with the
government officers nave to wait un
til they grow old before they can have
their attended to. The exam
ple sec by those high in au
thority is followed by the
entire clerical force of the govern
ment. Such a saturnalia of dancing
and fe .sting is, to Bay the least, imm
leal to work because it is ruinious to
health. Worn out bodies with pale
faces are seen at every turn in this
dissipated capital, and It is high
time public opinion should do some
thing to etop the route that so sori
ously interferes with public busi
ness.
The senate continues to discuss
the Unsocial problem, having de
voted more than a week to debate on
the M id’herson bill, involving the
relation of the funded debt to the
national banking system. It is
thought a favorable vote will be
reached on Tuesday, and being a
democratic measure that it will also
pass tne house. The last bill passed
by the lower house of congress, was
the military academy appropriation,
alter a long aud entertaining, but un
important discussion on the good and
evil featur s of West Point as an edu
cational institution, in wicu quite a
number of representatives partici
pated. Mr. Ellis favored paying tne
professors of West Point handsome
salaries because, he said, it was the
great institution of the American peo
ple, more important than others, and
mentioned a list of men educa
ted there, who, he claimed, had
wreathed our flag with victories, and
far more than paid for the moneys
expended on the institution. Mr.
Holman, who is not addicted to un
necessary speech-making, was incit
ed to make some remarks at this
point. He asked if Mr. Ellis could
not mention a multitude of nam<s
equally illustrious in the employ
ments of peact—thought the grand
purpose of this republic was to se
cure the bieeslnge of peace and that
the judgment of the people would
b i that Harvard, Brown and Prince
ton were no less important than
West Point. He thought the milita
ry academy was at best but a pre
cautionary measure—a point around
which the nation might rally in its
hours of adversity, while other insti
tutions, colleges and universities, and
above ail the grand university of the
nation, the common schools system,
lifted the whole body of the people,
in their general advancement, to a
higher plane of social and political
life.
ffliuln gob Uitnra.
What Congreii la PegKlng At.
Washington, February 26.—Dr.
Green, president of the Western Un
ion Telegraph Company, was again
before the senate sub-committee on
postofflees and poetroadsjwhich seeks
jintoimatlon concerning the business
|of the telegraph company. Senator
Hili’s-effarts were directed to elicit
ing from the doctor a statement of
■ the revenue of the company from the
[gold and stock telegraph company,
Icaple contracts and various outside
sources, but Dr. Green refused to an
s ewer on general principles. He re
i garded the questions as inquisitori
al in their nature. In reply to a di
rect inquiry from Senator Hill, Dr.
Green said that about two years ago
the negotiations between the West-
I ern Union and the Baltimore and
Ohio telegraph companies had pro
gressed so far that contracts were
ectually signed when the return
from Europe of John W. Garrett
knocked the arrangement into a
cocked hat.
Senator Hill asked Dr. Green to
produce, among other contracts,
those with the Press Association.
Ttn se were also refused on the sev
eral grounds that they were not in
his individual custody, that they
were under the control of the execu
tive committee of the company, that
it would not be right to make them
public without the consent of the
other party to the contracts, and
that neither the sub-committee nor
the full committee had the right or
power to compel the witness to pro
duce said contracts. The doctor said,
however, that if the time should
com-' when the government decided
to purchase the Western Union com
pany’s property, the latter would
produce all information of the kind
in dispute before the board of ap*<
praise men t .
Senator Hill indicated his purpose
of calling William Henry Smith, gen
eral manager of the Associated
Press, to appear before the commit
tee.
THE LOTTERY BILL.
Io the senate to-day Mr. Wilson
reported favorably, with amend
metiiß, from the committee on post
offlc a an 1 post-roadß, the bill intro
duced by Senator Sawyer to prohibit
the mailing of newspapers and other
publications containing lottery ad
variisementa. The bill as it was in
troduced provided that it shall be
unlawful to deposit in any mail, re
ceptacle, postal car, pjgtoffiae or to
convey by mail or to give to any em
ploye of the postal service to be sent
by mail any newspaper, pamphlet or
other publication containing an ad
vertieement or other notice of a lot
tery or agency of a lottery, or of a
lottery drawing, and prescribes pen
alties for the viola'ion of these pro
visions. T e prohibitions contained
io the original bill are retained in the
bill as reported, but the bill is
amende ! by striking out the penalty
section and tr.e substitution therefor
of the following: ‘Any person en
gaged in publishing a newspaper, as
owner or part owner, proprietor,
agent, manager or superintendent,
president or other officer connected
therewith, and eny person en
gaged in conducting a lottery
as owner or part owner, and any per
son connected therewith as superin
tendent, manager or agent, or in any
other capacity, violating the provis
ions of this act,upon conviction there
of, shall be liable to a fine of not less
than S2OO, with the costs of prosecu
tion, or imprisonment for not less
than thirty days nor more than one
year, or both at the discretion of the
court.”
It is also amended by an additional
section, as follows:
“AH other persons not embraced in
the foregoing section, who shall vio
late the provisions of this act, with
intent to give ciiculatlon to any ad
vertisement or notice of a lottery or
any agency thereof, or any notice,
report or statement of any drawing
of a lotiery, shall be subject to the
penalty prescribed in the first section
of this act.”
The minority report, signed by
SenatorsJackson,Maxey and Groome,
opposes the bill on constitutional
grounds. It is a very long argument,
most of which is that the general
government has no power to sup
press gambling in any state, conse
quently no power to prohibit the use
of the mails to newspapers publis ed
in the states, which contain lottery
advertisements.
The Cincinnati Star says that the
property losses by the late flood is
variously estimated at from $9,00(1,000
to s2s,ooo,ooo—that the true figure is
. between those two estimates. Be
sides this property less, there was a
vast deal of personal suffering that
can never be made known to the hu
man understanding by making flsures
in dollars and cents.
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COLUMBUS, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28, 1884.
PROBABLE MURDER.
W. B, CASH SHOOTS THE TOWN MARSHAL
OF CHERAW AND ALSO A BYSTANDER—
THE ASSAULT PROBABLY THE OUTCOME
OF A FORMER DRUNKEN SPREE - CASH
PERMITTED TO ESCAPE.
On Saturday afternoon W. B. Gash,
aeon of Gol. E. B C. Caen, came
into town says a special to the Char
leston News and Courier from Che
raw, 8. O , February 24. and after re
maining about two hours walked up
to the peace officer, who was sitting
on a dry goods box at the corner of
C. A. Brock’s store. Passing him a
few paces, Cash wheeled round and
fired three shots in quick succession
from a 38-calibre Smith & Wesson
shooter, the first ball hitting a by
stander, Mr. James Coward, and
shooting him through the lungs. The
sreond shot took effect In the Mar
shal’s left lung, and as he fell Cash
fired another shot, but missed.
Dr. G. Kollock, who was called In
pronounced both wounds dangerous,
though not necessarily fatal. Imme
diately after firing the shots Cash
jumped on his horse, which was near,
and made bis escape.
A warrant was issued on Saturday,
in a few minutes after the shooting
took place, for the arrest of W. B.
Cash, he being charged with assault
and battery with intent to kill W. H.
Richards, who was town marshal,
and James Coward, a bystander. The
warrant was first placed in the hands
of the constab e, but upon second
consideration by the proper author
ities and the trial justice who had
issued the warrant, it was deemed
beet to place the wa rant in the
hands of the sheriff for execution.
Sheriff P, F. Spofford, who lives at
the ccunty seat, twelve miles from
the scene of the affray, arrived here
this morning about 12 o’clock, and
witn a deputy proceeded immediat -
ly to the residence of Col. E. B. C.
Cash, where it was expected he, woul i
find the defendant. W. B Cash. I am
informed that Col. Cash intimated to
him tnat hie son, W. B, Cash, would
evade an immediate arrest, as he
judged that public opinion was too
strong against him to warrant bis
surrender.
Mr. Ricbardsds, it is feared, fatally
wounded. Mr. Coward is also in a
critical condition, but his wounds are
not thought to be so dangerous as
those of Mr. Richards.
The above affray probably resulted
fr m a difficulty which occurred on
Saturday, the 16 h Inst., between the
marshal and Cash. The Wadesboro
(N. C ) Intelligencer, in giving an ac
count of this affair, says that on Sat
urday night, the 16. h, Cash went to
Cheraw, got gloriously drunk and
raised quite a disturbance in the
streets. Town Marshal Richards re
mmetra'ed with him, and toldh-m
i hat he would have to lock him up if
he did not behave himself. This in
furiated Cash, who caught the mar
shal by the collar, “whereupon the
marshal rapped Mr. Cash across the
head with his club, causing him to
stagger like unto a bull yearling
when the butcher hitteth him be
tween the horns with an axe. How
ever, Cash recovered almost Instant
ly, and still holding to the marshal’s
collar, s'ruck at him, but the mar
shal having been well instructed in
the art of dodging when a boy, evad
ed tjre lick, and at once began to
reign terrific blows down upon Mr.
Cash’s rigntarm, which be threw up
to shield bis head.’’»Caeh received a
fearful gash over the Mt temple—
the flesh being laid open to the bone
—and nis right arm and shoulder
were badiy bruised.
Continuing the Wadesboro Intelli
gencer says: "‘lt was a terrific strug
gle, and the marshal would have suc
ceeded in caging hie man. but for the
fact that, as he walked backward
across the street, polling the offender
after him, he stepped off the end of
a bridge and fell. Cash fell on top of
him, and having thus the advantage,
beat up the marshal’s face and
stamped him in a manner horrible to
behold. He would, perhaps, have
killed the marshal bad be not been
pulled off by Mr. PeterS. Terry,who
had by that time arrived upon the
scene. He then turned up n n Mr.
Terry, but that gentleman quickly
whipped out a small magazine of ex
plosives, commonly denominated
Smith & Wesson, and leveling the
same at the breast of Cash, warned
him not to advance another step or
be would speedily introduce another
face into that kingdom wh->re there is
said to be no remission of sine.”
“Bruwn'i Bronchial Trochee"
are excellent tor the relief of Boaiseness
or Sore Throat. They are exceedingly
effective.— Christian World, London, Eng.
Banking Out Went.
Wall Street A’ewe.
A Baltimore man who started a
bank at Ouster City a year or so ago
failed witbin a week, simply because
he didn’t know W'stern human na
ture. His place had not been open an
hour when a man in buckskin slouch
ed inland presented a note of SIOO run
ning for six y days and asked to
h ive It discounted.
•I don.t know you," replied the
banker, who was his own cashier.
“Stranger, tbat’s my name that’
at the bottom—Blit R>ggs.”
,‘I see.”
And that note is backed by Jim
Madden.”
“I see, but I dont care to discount
it.”
The man picked up the piper and
walked out, and in the course of ten
minutes a chap with a pistol in either
band danced into tne bauk and cheer
ily called out:
“Here’s Jim Madden, and he wants
to set eyes on the galloot who won’t
discount a note when be backs it!”
He popped the banker in the sbou 1-
der, a clerk through the hip and then
tired away at the fixtures until some
one called him out to drink. The
next morning the banker was miss
ing, and when be lafterward turned
up in Denver she acknowledged that
the banking business had some pain
ful features that none but a cowboy
was able to wrestle with -
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Chapped Hands, face and Pimplee, and
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That Vineville Murder.
The story in circulation Sunday and
. Monday of a murder ia Vineville,
seems to have cropped out of a Very
trifling ass iir. Ou Sun day morning
the ciiy bat racks were besieged by
anxious inq iirits after the murdered
boy. Solicitor General H.-rdeman
was informed that a boy had been
beaten to death by a man named
George, and the circumstances as re
lated to him were about these: On
Saturday night a negro woman whs
passing in the vicinity of Anderson’s
race track in east Vineville. She
beard licks and yells, and cries of
“Don’t, Uncle George.you are killing
me!” Tuen she saw toe man pick up
a piece of wood and strike the boy
and the noise suddenly ceased. The
man dragged the boy into the woods
and that was all she kuew about it.
Another woman came down town
and told about the same story, but in
addition said the man’s name was
George Poole. Determined to get at
the bottom of the mysterv, Chief
Wiley ordered the arrest of Poole on
sight and get him to produce the
body of the boy. Lieut. Wood located
Poole, and early yesterday morning
Lieutenant Wdey and Officer Frank
Mosely found him and the boy sup
posed murdered. Poole was
docketed for fighting and disorderly
conduct on the recorder’s docket.
When the case came up for trial
the evidence developed the fact that
the boy had been given some money
by his aunt to get some cows out of
the city pour d. The boy spent the
money thus sent was promised a
good thrashing from Po >ie, who is
his uncle. Poole found the boy near
Anderson’s race track and “brushed”
him with several stout ewi’ches. On
going to their home in Tybee, Poole
thought he had not btushed him
suffl.;ieutly, and taking down a leath
er etrap administered anothereevere
flogging.
The recorder thoughtone whipping
w is sufficient and probably merited,
but the sec jiid smacited 6i cruelty,
and after a lecture to both boy and
uncle, fined the latr>-i $2.50.
And this was the Vineville murder.
Maeou Telegraph.
Jackson’s Grief for his Wife.
Nashville American.
We have before us the original let
ter of Andrew Jackson, written on
the 20th oi November, 1829, to bis in
timate friend, Col. Robert I Chester.
Jackson was elected president,
in 1828, and shortly after his
election, and before his inaugu
ration Mrs. jacason died. This
letter was one ot many friendly, let
us say family, letters—for Mr. Ches
ter was a rela.ivj -written to Crionei
Cheater bv the old general while he
was president. Col. Chester was one
of his most intimate friends, bad been
under him in the Indian wars, filling
an impor ant position as a quarter
master, though a mere boy; hadal
ways beeufittie firm friend and ad
mirer ot the old hero, and
had his entire cotfidence. Bo
low wa give an extract from the
one named. It was not written
for the public, but to a long tried
and cl s j frieu-l, in relation to pri
vate and family matters. It now
comes before the public for the first
time. It is valuable because if un
folds and opens to the public eye the
heart of the great warrior: “As the
meeting of congress approaches my
labors increase. I am engaged in
preparing tor them, and this, with
my other labors, employs me day
and night. I can with truth say
mln-i is a situation of digtrfi d slave
ry. But mv hope of happiness fled
with tne severe bereavement I met
with in th loss of my dear wife. The
only consolation on tuis side of the
grave is when I look forward to the
time when lean again retire to the
Heiinitage, (it God permits me), there
to spend my latter days beside the
tomb of the only solace of my life, set
my house in order and lay my bones
beside her."
♦ ♦ ♦
Anecdote of Wendell Phillips.
The Lima correspondent of Roches
ter Democrat and Chronicle says:
An incident illustrative of the unos
teutation of Wendell Phillips’ char
acter occurred in the fall of 1878,
when he was advertised to lecture in
Lima, which is a town four miles
from the railroad. On the day that
be was to lecture, Mr. Phillips ar
uvedat Honove Palis about coon
and found that mere was no stage fur
Lima till after 5 o’ciock. Fortunate
ly there happened to be a teamster
from Lima there with a lumber wag
on, and Mr. Puillips requested the
privilege of tiding with Him, which
was cheerfully granted. There was
another passenger, a Lima citizen,
who entered into conversation with
the stranger, and among other
things, remarked that there was to
be a celebrated lecturer in town that
evening.
“Indeed 1” said Mr. Phillips, “who
is it?”
•‘Wendell Phillips, the great ora
tor,” was the reply. "Have you ever
heard him?”
“Oh, yes 1”
“Well, what do you think of him 1”
persisted the citiz n.
“Well,” said Mr. Philips, deliber
ately, “I don’t think he amounts to
much. In fact, I wouldn’t go across
the street to hear him.”
Or course this verdict was a great
surprise to the won by citizen, anti
when the lecturer appeared on the
platform that evening he discovered
that the critical stranger was the
celebrated orator.
A Catechism.
Did you ever see a counterfeit ten
dollar bill? Y-s.
Why was it counterfeited? Because
it was worth counterfeiting.
Was the ten dollar bill to blame?
No.
Did you ever see a scrap of brown
paper counterfeited? No.
Why? Because it was not worth
counterfeiting.
Did you ever see a counterfeit
Christian? Yes, lots of them.
Why was tie counterfeited? Be
cause he was worth counterfeiting.
Was he to blame? No.
Did you ever see a counterfeit Infl
del? No, never.
Why? You answer.
I am through.
To The Afflicted.
Having been engaged in the practice ot
medicine for thirty-six years, anti having
been successful in the treatment of Dys
pepsia, Bheumatlem (acute and chronic)
and Secondary 8 , I solicit a trial.
O. B. Leitner, M. D.,
Randolph 8U Opposite Postoffloe.
imatf
MATTHEWS’ MEDDLESOMENESS.
COPIAH COUNTY DEMOCRATS UNVEIL SOME
■ OF THEIR GRIEVANCES.
New Orleans, Feb. 24.—The senate
committee investigating the election
outrages in OopUb county, Miss.,
to-day examined witnesses called by
the democrats.
Uriah Millsaps testified that he
was a republican and circuit judge
under the republican regime. He
considered that Copiah county was
one of the most conservative in Mis
sissippi.
MATTHEWS’ BAD RECORD.
Matthews had Deena candidate
for sheriff for the past fifteen years
uadi the last election. He was only
elected once. Ail the Mat,thew/fam
jiy were regarded as lighting men.
Print Matthews us.-d violent lan
guage, and was unscrupulous in pol
ities, Prejudice existed against him
among the whites, who considered it
impossible to build up a eusceesfal
party under his leadership. Oo cross
t xamination the witness said that he
hadnever known of any democrats
protesting against outrages in Copiah
county.
PACKING GRAND JURIES,
Judge !'. J. Whartou, of the ninth
judicial district, testified that he had
more irouble regarding grand juries
in Copiah county than in any other
county in the circuit. The grand ju
i y was elected by the board of super
visors When he went there to bold
court, in October, be was waited on
by a large number of prominent citi
zens, who protested against the se
lection of the last grana jury, assert
ing that it had been constituted with
a view to political persecutions. It
had teen generally asserted and be
lieved that the grand juries of the
county bad been minipuiated In the
interest of one party, with a view of
the proa-cur lon of their political op
ponents. Mathews Was represented
as the ruling spirit in such manipula
tion.
The witness continued: “On the
Friday night preceding the election
Print Matthews told District Attor
ney Foote that he wanted to see us
at hie room. Matthews said that
Thompson, with an armed body of
men, bad murdered an innocent, in
offensive man the week before, and
hat another party would leave town
on a similar,marauding expedition. I
asksd fur their naans, saying that I
would issue a writ and u- ve every
one ut them arrested. He said that
the sheriff would probably find some
excuse tor refusing to execute the
writ; that the attention of the grand
jury had been called to the matter,
but no action had been taken, and
that there was conspiracy to murder
bis poiical ftiends, himself and bis
family.
A TRAGIC RECITAL.
“When my two sons lett for Oxford
college, a tew weeks ago,” he said,
■ I took their baud, and, with tears
in my eyes. eaid. ’My eons, I don’t
know bow soon you may be summon
ed i.home to avenge the assassination of
your father. ’ They replied, with
tears, ‘We are ready to obey tne
summons.’ Matthews said that four
of his uncles had been killed, but
heir deaths had been avenged.
I’bere were four men whom be want
ed to kill, then he would never again
lay his head upon a pillow, but, be
ing outlawed, would declare war
against the human race.” The wit
ness said to M attbews that be bad
nevi r before heard him utter such in
cendiary language. The witness had
never counseled violence or fraud to
carry on an election. He was for
more than eight years attorney-gen
eral of the state.
MATTHEWS A DANGEROUS MAN.
Judge F. E. Cooper, of the supreme
ccmt or Mississippi, testified mat he
formerly resided at Hazlehurst. He
detailed the circumstances connected
with Matthews’ defalcation as sheriff,
and said tnat J, P. Matthews was re
garded us a dangerous man, and as
violent politically. The witness con
tinued: “In 1 875 I heard that Mat
thews haa made tbrea’s against the
lives of myself and Judge Hayes. I
was then chairman and Hayes was a
member of me state executive demo
cratic committee. I asked Matthews
about it. He said that ne understood
we wanted to kill him, and he had
decided that it Killed his deaihsbould
be avenged, and that his will provid
ed that if ne should be killed SIO,OOO
should be used in securing assassins
to avenge him.” Tue witness con
sidered the people or Copiah county
orderly and law-abiding as a general
rule.
On cross-examination the witness
said that in 1871 he wrote Matthews a
letter saying that Matthews bad been
a good sheriff tor ail classes of the
people. He had always found Mat-
thews as a court officer efficient and
accommodating. The witness did
not approve ot the killing of Mat
thews and did not believe that the
negroes ot Copiah county would arm
against the whites.
A PEACEABLE CANVASS.
Dr. E. A. Yowan, member of the
legislature horn Copiah county, tes
'.ified that the canvass of the last
lection was very peaceable. He be
liev d the democrats would carry the
eiection. He knew J. P. Matthews.
The witness identified au article in a
newspaper as a copy of a circular
handed him in 1875 by Matthews’
brother. The circular contains vio
lent, abusive remarks and statements
about a nutnber of persons, includ
ing Ooi. King. The witness believed
that the republicans failed to bold
meetings during the last two weeks
preceding the late election, being
satisfied that they had been beaten
in the canvass.
E. G. Wall, commissioner of emi
gration, testified that ue never saw
Matthews but once. He was intro
uuced to him one evening by Mr.
Johnson. Toe witness gave the
name of another person present. Mr.
Johnson asked Matthews how he
could consistently support Col. King
tor governor, against whom he bad
published such a violent circular.
M Atthews replied chat the circular
was all a lie; that King was ail right
now; that at that time he (Matthews)
bad 500 organized men in Copiah
county, had gotten out a circular for
the purpose ot aggravating King,
then a leading democia - , and his par
ty to violence, “when'” Matthews
said, *'we intended to kin every white
man, woman and ebiid in Copiah
county.” The witness, feeling in
dignant at the use of such language,
left to avoid a personal difficulty.
Mrs. Eliza Brannan, Ivanhoe, (ia n says:
“I used Brown’s Iron Bitters with best re
sults for extreme nervousness, sleepless
ness and bad blood.”
A LUXURIOUS MISSIONARY.
i How an American Protestant . Im
paired His Influence with
Mexicans.
I beard a good story about one of
the missionaries in a Mexican town,
says a correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune. The reverend gentleman
rented as good an adobe house as
there was in the place—two rooms
about twelve by sixteen feet. Ha put
a glazed sash in the aperture left to
admit the light, and which had
hitherto only been protected by
a wooden grating. It was the only
glazed window in the place. He laid
down a cheap carpet on the brick
floor. His callers had never seen a
carpet in their lives. He covered the
unsightly adobe walls with a few en
gravings, and his wile made the
rooms pretty with fancy work, Christ
mas cards and these airy nothings
with which a well-bred American
lady would beautify her horns were
in the heart of a desert. It was not a
particularly luxurious home, and the
missionary, with a tinge of home
sickness perhaps, wrote an account
ot his surroundings to one of
the foreign missionary journals.
He described the bare walls of
adobe, the di r t floor covered with 80-
cent carpet,through which the damp
ness would come, the adobe roof
which leaked occasionally, and the
“jacel” kitchen, built ot upright
stall 's n 1 <! e ■ with mud, in
which his wne prepared the food of
the family, and he did hot forget the
Dutch oven where the bread was
baked. It made mighty interestin’
readin’ to the church people at home,
and the missionary’s hardships were
no doubt discussed by sympathizing
friends. Now, there is a Roman
Catholic religious paper published in
the city of Mexico, and this mission
ary’s letter was translated into Span
ish and appeared in its columns. In
due time the padre at our missionary’s
town received his copy oi the paper,
and, as he had already been com
pelled to warn his flock against the
strange teachings of tne American
Protestant preacher, he made this
letter a text to point a fact or two.
Tne simple natives were mostly of
mixed Indian and Spanish blood,
and had been gazing with wonder
at the luxuries of the American’s
home. Carpets, glazed windows, pic
tures, chairs to sit on, and tables to
enjoy one’s food at, were to their
eyes the most extravagant and sy
baratic of luxuries. I have seen men
and women pause at the door of my
office and open their eyes at the poor
carpet which covers my floor, and it
has sometimes been difficult to per
suade them to set foot upon so beau
tiful a thing. And so when the pa
dre read to the people the mission
ary’s account of his hardships and
his mean surroundings, and then
called their attention to the fact that
the Catholic church had sent its mis
sionaries to teach them while thay
were yet savages—missionaries who
had literally sacrificed their lives by
hardship, hunger and toil —while this
Protestant preacher reveled in lux
ury “beyond the wildest dreams of
any ot the people of the town, and
then wrote back to his church that
he was suffering unheard-of hard
ships,” it had a pronounced effect.
It is safe to say that the useful
ness of that missionary has been im
paired.
If and If.
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Is Your Uncle Joseph a Senator for
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senatorial contest snowing an anxie
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anything he wants; at least, he has
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THAT DOUGHTY DUCHESS-
Opposite Opinions about a Wonderful
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The Austrian Duchess was mighty because aha
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