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About The Elberton star. (Elberton, Ga.) 1891-1981 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1893)
THE STAR, ELBERTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1893. Mernerial Exercises The line of march commenced on the public square in this order: \ eteraus lirst followed by the military. The la dies of the Memorial association,of which Mrs. R. M. Heard is president, then the -schools and lastly the populace. Arriv ing at the cemetery, we observed a crowd of about 800 assembled, a large stand with canopy, on which was the organ and choir. This consisted of Mrs. Hes ter as organist, Misses Mattie Henry, Mora Jones, Georgia Heard, .'■jallie Lou Arnold, Mrs. John Warren, Messrs. L. M. Heard, Carroll Heard, John Brown and Julian Brewer, possessing voices of splendid volume and sweat tone. Revs. Dr. Hoyt, Dr. Mixon, Mr. Rog ers and Mr. Wootten took seats on the stand. Mrs. R. M. Heard, escorted by the orator, General C. A. Evans, next arrived and was also given a seat on the stand. Rev. Mr. Rogers, in a very im pressive and touching prayer, opened the services. The choir then sang “Ameri ca/’ Dr. Hoyt in a beautiful introduc tory of appropriate language, present ed the speaker, General Evans, who de livered one of the finest orations it has ever been our good fortune to hear or listen to* We are glad that it is given in full for no synopsis could do justice to the eloquent and touching language— the living, burning, glaring brilliancy of the speaker. Many were the eyes that melted to tears under the master truths of the great orator, and the audience was electrified and so charmed that the moments Hew by unrecorded. After the speech Mrs. Hester render ed a bugle accompaniment that was grand and was her own composition. Mrs. John Warren sang a war song to this. Her voice is one of marvelous sweetness and volume. We canuot say enough in praise of Mrs. Warren’s su perb sprano, it is truly grand. Rev. Dr. Mixon in a beautiful denedic- tion dismissed the enwd. The choir sang “Nearer ray God to Thee.” Then followed the firing of the salute and the placing of floral offerings and the crowd dispersed. We have not learned the amount con tributed to the monument to-day, but judging from the enthusiasm manifested it ought to have been larger. General Evan's Address , This is the day when we enter through the veil of the past into a sanctuary of sacred memories. Today we are per mitted to return in spirit to the south ern confederacy. Its brief existence was passed in cruel war; its people by suffer ing and valor glorified humanity, and its unsullied honor shines around the dark spots of its sorrows like the stain less beams from the disc of the sun. Today wo will stand under the folds of our country'§ llag and gaze with glowing eyi-'S Upon tin- buniior of Gu slars ami cross, made sacred forever by the love of Southern women and the blood of southern men. Retail nations stand apart while we cuter our sanctua ry. Let all national airs be bushed, that we may listen awhile with beating heart to dear old Dixie's martial strains. Rollback! roll back! ye years of the past, Bring once more again the scenes that are gone; Let us greet the brave men who were true to the last. Let them know, that though dead, they are always our own. It is very fitting to celebrate this day on tliis historic ground. Here in Elbert, I survey a chosen part of southern soil, on which more than a century of important events occurred. Crossing the upper Savannah, whose magnetic waters leap from Georgia’s mountains, our forefathers found the grand unbroken forest, the generous soil, the springs, the climate, the valleys and the hills of a land which God made for the happy homes of men. These men were co-patriots in a great rebellion which Washington led to success. They were a people wlio held fast to faith in God and honor among men. The libei- ty loving Baptist, the patriotic Method ist and the true blue Presbyterian laid their axes at the root of the trees pre destinating the triumph of civilization through fidelity to God, the work of • man and the baptism of suffering iuto the body of a common brotherhood, bringing in their veins the best blood of England. Ireland. Scotland and Wales, enriched by tradition through Virginia and the Carolines, they transmitted their principles and pluck to thousands of descendants who have made all peri ods illustrious. This patriotic county, containing the posterity of such an ancestry, gave its hand and heart, its men and women and all it possessed without stintage to the confederate cause. It gave all it could grow out of the ground, or weave by the loom, or gather from the fields for four long years of war. It laid the wealth that had come from a century of toil upon the altar of its patriotism, and saw it ail consumed . J read from the suggestive figures of the record that there went out from their homes three companies for the 15th Georgia regiment, three more for the 38 th Georgia icgiment, and one lor the :17th Georgia regiment. Two hun dred enlisted in the calvary service and 400 more joined afterwards as recruits, making in all more than 1,200 men. But how can I portray the scenes which occurred in Elbert when these men were preparing for jvai? What words can describe the enthusiasm that thrilled the land when the state resolv ed to cast its lot with Carolina. Alaba ma, Mississippi and the south? Here in Elbert a local mass raeeiiug discusses the memorable event. The farmer leaves his plow in the furrow*, the me chanic drops his tools on the bench, the merchant shuts his store, the lawyer leivcs Lis office, the doctor hurries from I his patients and the young men and the j fair women joiii the assembly, Gur lib* i erty loving sentiment electrifies all alike with the honest purpose to organize and maintain a government of co-equal states, with popular rights which no sec tional discord should ever disturb. 1 recall the rapid formation of these companies, to be armed only at first with shotguns. 1 see the skillful hands of women making the uniforms for their soldier boys, and with cunning art adorning the flags which they will first bear to battle.- I hear, the patriotic speech when the day of departure came. I behold the tears of matrons, maidens and manly men, and the words of fare well come, back to my ears. Look at them! those splendid young soldiers marching away to the fields of bloody battle, from which many have never re turned. The years which followed were crowd ed with startling events. The news of victory and defeat came with the lists of wounded and killed, and our homes were soon in mourning. Our foes pour ed upon us iu hordes, which were brought from all over the world. We defeated army after army for three glo rious years, until when the fourth was reached, our men were slain, our muni tions of war exhausted, our land laid waste and subsistence was gone. Then the lurid fires kindled by Sherman roll ed their desolating llacaes from Dalton to Savannah by the sea, and from Sav annah swept northward to Columbia. Richmond and Petersburg were wrapped in flames, and at last the veterans of Lee and Johnson laid down their arms to superior force, defeated but not dis honored. Across this same Savannah which your forefathers forded came from fal len Richmond the great hearted south ern chieftain, Jeffei'son Davis. Yonder in old Wilkes, out of whose original ter ritory Elbert was carved, he wrote the final official order, and here on the soil of our own.Georgia came to an end the magnificent empire, undertaken in pat riotism, fostered in righteous regard for the .rights of men, and consecrated by sacrifices not excelled by any people who ever struggled to be free. But I will forbear the right to place the claim of greatness for the south upon its achievements during the war, for I can rest upon the acts of its people since the day of surrender. That greatness conspicuously appears by its recovery from the state of prostration in which it was placed at the close of the great struggle. The wealth held in 1800 was gone, the vast expenses of four years of battle had been borne, all the prod ucts of the land were consumed, the wear, the waste, the burning, the pil lage, all added to the impoverishment. The work of recovery was begun in 1865, in the ashes of former plenty, without money, without banks and with no basis for credit. Not a year’s provisions nor clothing were on hand. We had what the Indians had when Oglethorpe land ed at Savannah. The land was still here, the streams, the fields and the clirujite, but what was more than all else, we had a manhood and woman hood of dauntless spirit to make the white rose of peace bloom in beauty from the ashes of the red rose of war. I will venture in sincere kindness to say that if Yew England had seceded in 1802, as that section threatened in the noted Hartford convention, and if such a war had been waged upon those East ern States as swept over the south, if Boston, Mew Haven, Providence and other cities had been burned as were Richmond, Columbia, Atlanta and scores of southern towns; if the cotton mills, manufactories, farms and store houses had been ruthlessly destroyed, that sec tion, notwithstanding its former glory, would be today a land of want, with lit tle left except its bleak climate and ster ile soil. The money centre would have swiftly shifted west by south to some city now unnamed. The ships of the world would be pointing their prows fo lower Atlantic ports. The men of the cotton mills and moneyed corporations would be the inhabitants of some other states, and to that New England a pros perous south would be now contriving measures of generous relief. I rejoice in the fact that our sister section has had no such disaster, but 1 will appeal to all that world which understands the south, to say that we would never have sent down upon any people in distress the clans of the carpetbagger and the scalawag. In the resourceless poverty of 1865 we commenced to redeem our state under the yoke of ill timed fame and oppres sive rule. The carpetbagger, the scala wag and the upstart official iu epaulettes swarming over the laud reminded us of the couplet about the lamb: “The buz zard and the butterfly picking out his eye.” A bolitical coterie possessed the government with a spirit of small re venge and ungenerous purpose to hold the states of the south in provincial sub jection. The debts of towns and states were increased from year to year and the drain upon our labor for interest, taxes and tariffs was like the letting of blood into the maw of a leech. Bear in mind that in all this period we have worked in unfarvorable artificial condi tions . The vast sums of the public rev enues were poured out upon the same people, who were made rich by a war that made us poor. Three hundred millions every year in pensions; similar sums in government contracts, the like amounts in official support, and the streams of commercial life bore away from us the rich results of our toil. Is it not simply marvelous that we have borne all this and yet can show yearly balances in our favor, until now we can make an exhibit of taxable wealth nearly equal to the days of 1860. The heroic spirit of the southern peo ple displayed in their efforts to retrieve the fortuues of their country, is the grandest spectacle of popular enterprise the world ever saw. France has been praised for the ability of its peasantry to fund the immense debt of the Franco- FrussiauJ war. But the French, after a brief struggle, had capital, undestroyed homes, organized labor, unimpaired commerce aud an unhindered govern ment, Yfliat U&4 the south;* Its prop erty swept away by a proclamation, its labor disorganized, its local government obstructed and its commerce forced iuto unprofitable channels. Without curren- ey or credit, but with a great and sunny land and with brave irrepressible spirit, the southern people struggled for thirty years with unremitting vigor until this day, and now the men who entered on that great endeavor are growing old and many have gone where “the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.” Young men stepping into the fields of effort from time to time have kept up the energy and the enterprise. Sometimes we hear it said that the south has been recouped by northern men and northern capital. Let us see. Let us be fair and give due credit to ev ery man who deserves it for we will honor the men of every northern state who have done us any service. They are our people and we are theirs. We are of the same lineage, the same lan guage, country and religion- But look first at the fact that for over ten years we were hindered and not helped by the reconstruction policy of our northern friends. Look next at the names of men who have been leading the south in this era of thirty years. Who were the farmers, the merchauis, the lawyers, the bankers, the railroad builders of the south? Let us grant that some of them came to us from the north sinc^ the war and give them the praise to which they are entitled while we ask for more like them to come. But let fact stand out promimently in our histo ry that for every one of these there are a hundred from Virginia, Carolina, Ten nessee and Kentucky and thousands from Georgia, whose brains, skill and en terprise brought the state through this wilderness of trial to at least the borders of a land of peace and plenty which we yearn to enter and possess. As to northern capital, let us ask where did that capital come from? A vast portion of this wealth was made out of the government as a profit of the war and is represented by national debt. The north made money, we lost it. Our total losses were about the sum of their gain, The stormy seas of war transmu- horizen on which the eye of patriotism may proudly gaze. The south has a right to its share of all that this country can be to its people. What section has a better claim? It is not merely faceti' ous to say we celebrate this year in the great Columbian parade of the world’s wealth at Chicago, the discovery of America by a man born in a sunny land like ours and sent on bis mission by the sacrificed jewels of a southern queen. It is history telling ns that this land was won from Brittain by armies led by our own Washington who is called the father of his country. We are indebted for our democratic constitution to the j brains of Jefferson and Madison. See the yast territory that lias been carved into a dozen states in the west and re member tliat it was Virginia which gave all that land to the country. Alabama and Mississippi are the gifts of Georgia to the Union. By the political fore thought of a southern president we gain ed all Lousiana and the territory that, stretches to the northwest. Read the war of 1812, and learn that while a Hartford convention was in session to dissolve the union old Andrew Jackson was whipping Pachenham at New Or leans and saying our country’s sailors from degredation. Southern policy with a southern president brought us all of Texas, New Mexico, California, and led to the purchase of Alaska. Who led oar union armies in Mexico to the victo ries which won all this vast western do minion? It is only the truth of history that these victories were won by Zacha ry Taylor, Wingfield Scott, Joseph E. Johnson, Kirby Smith, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. Look over ail this broad land and see how it became one great country covering almost a conti nent. The southern blood, southern treasure, southern statesmanship are all most conspicuous in the strata of devel opment and therefore we may well ask whose country is this anyhow? I will reply that it is the common wealth of all the sections, north, south, east and west. The south will not say it is mine alone. Nor will the north, nor east nor west. But altogether we will say it is our land, our country, our incidents and anecdotes. I have heard that some men hear said: “It is time that this confederate cause should be sent to the rear.” They seem to think that too • much affectionate re membrance has been wasted. These men remind me of the story told in the New Testament of a certain man who com plained when the alabaster box of oiut- ment was broken and uttered the pre cise complaint—“why all this waste?” I recall the fact that the man's name was Judas and that after awhile he be trayed his Lord. These true men went to war because their states seceded. The states seced ed by constitutional right and proper remedy. Gen. Lee wrote to Hampton after the war: “The differences culmi nated in blood, but never in treason.” The man who says that secession was an act of treason is either a poor lawyer, a political knave or a prejudiced fool. Survivors of this patriotic confederate army, I greet you today as my brothers by a bond that neither life nor death nor any earthly cause can break. My com rades of the 3Sth, I greet you with the deathless love of your old commander. I greet you, ye faithful remnants of old Rock’s brigade. Ye men of the 37th, 1 greet you today in memory of many a brilliant battle in which you bore a no ble part. All ye of any confederate corps, I greet you with the old time fervor of a true southern heart. Brothers above us—gone before us— confederate dead! hearken to our words! We were with you in field.and camp, in bivouac and battle- We saw you fall, and mourned our loss. We have buried your bodies in the bosom of this land from lakes to gulf and ocean to ocean. You died for your country from diseases, hardships and wounds, aud the hosts of the dead are greater than the remnants of the living. We survive to honor your memory, to guard your fame, and to re call youx deeds of patriotic valor. We live to love you still. Hewn from its socket be the arm that shall be lifted against your home, and dead from a gib bet hang the criminal tongue that ever ' speaks in your dispraise. The noblest history made by man is A suggestion from THE STAR to the Ladies Memorial Association foi a Confederate Monument. ted southern wreckage into northern salvage, shifting our wealth into their coffers. Another part of this capital came from the distribution of govern ment money by pensions, contracts, in terest and the like, of which Georgia re ceives an insignificant share. We have also whitened their wharves with our cotten, and the richness of the product has kept us poor, and increased fheir wealth. They have bandied all the cash of the country and when we borrow we secure the principal and pay the inter est The silver is dug from the south ern fields ef Arizona and the western wilds of Nevada. The gold comes from southern California and the rich hills of eastern Georgia. The currency is stamp ed with the authority of a government which is ours as well as theirs. The tariff falls heavy on southern consumers. With all these facts before us I would beg to inquire whose money has built up the south? Such truths as these must be kept be fore our minds because it is a singular habit of this deluded world to misrepre sent the.southern people as a haughty, pleasure-loving, indolent race who are without thrift and are not endowed with the elements of success. 1 am proud that I can point out these things to my young countrymen and then bid them survey the present atti tude of that laud which their fathers turned over into their possession. The position of the south that gives us hope of its future is its unity, patriotism, its sound political maxims, its domestic vir tues and its conservative enterprise. We are a part of a great country which is our own country, from Alaska to Key West, and from Lake Superor to the Gulf of Mexico. It is time to stop the talk about southern loyalty to the union, which is its own and the call for proofs of southern fidelity to the flag which our fathers made. The Ransy Sniffles in national politics who attempt to excite hostility of feeling between north and south, deserve to be kicked into obsruity by all honest men. North and south, east and west as four great quarters of gae great country, are within a common people forever and for ever. What then shall we do for the future of this southern land which has come to us as the gift of God and the heritage from our fathers. I can answer only by briefest statement. We will have the Old South and the New South, remain as One South, like the evening and the morning of creation were one day. We willjblend the best traditions of the for mer times with the best views of the present age in the warm coloring of one southern purpose. Our natural resour ces being unsurpassed we will draw them out with honest enterprise. The worth of our fields shall be well consid ered for we are a rural people. Our cot- ten shall be wrought by our mills, and our iron by our furnaces. We will im prove our highways and educate our children. The honest emigiant who comes to be one of us, shall have the hearty southern welcome everywhere. We will hold fast to our Sabbath, our Bible and tlie religion of our fathers. We will never surrender our chivalric es timate of woman nor our enthusiastic love for our sunny land. Last but not least we will hold to certain maxims havener been, still are and will ever be the settled principles of the solid south. There must be no sectional use of the powers of government, no robbery of the rights of states, no federal control of state elections, no waste of revenues. There must be a fair tariff the education of the peoples children, Equality of all interests under the law, aod coin, curen- cy, and exchange that will meet the de mands of our trade. It was for such a land, for such a peo pie and for such principles the southern soldier yielded up his life. The men who made up the armies of the south were of the finest mould of manhood. The south had no large cities with their slums, no vagrant population and no vicious class. It drew its forces from town and coun try and set in battle array the truest type of the human race. Gen. Evans portrayed the confederate soldier in camp, march and battle, illus trating his unique character by several not the record of the victor, but of th^ vanquished. Classic story is richer in the relation of the defeat at Thermopylae than of the sacking of Troy. The hunt ed Maccabees made the world respect the courage of ancient Israel. Switzer land is best known by William Tell, Scotland by Bruce, and Poland dismem bered has a fame of rarer quality than was ever enjoyed by the arrogant nations which parted its territory. So will the story of four years of southern war illu mine the great history of the United States with a page of glory richer in col or tiian any romance and sti’anger in its truth than any fiction. Sons of veterans, we have reached the period when the great war in which your fathers bore an honorable part has passed into history. To you it is a half- told story of heroic devotion to an un successful cause. For your sakes that war was waged, and had it not been fought the principles that now govern this country would have departed from national policy. You have the inherit ance of the high spirit as well as of the spotless fame of confederate soldiers, and you will cherish and transmit the honor with worthy pride. I am the great grandson of an officer of the revolution, my grandfather received his wounds in defense of Georgia and died on its soil, aud my father and mother with tlieir brothers went through the perils of war between the Italians and the state. I have a natural pride in these facts, but greater than all these is the honor I transmit to my children—that they are the descendants of a confederate soldier. I have reserved to the last because it is the best part of this memorial hour some allusion to the women of the south. I hesitate, because I know that no man can do them the justice which is their due. The words of praise must be few and rare, but they must be the diamonds of speech. The world awards the dis tinction of the most honorable devotion to womanhood to the men of the south, but we feel that the southern woman herself is the inspiration of southern chivalry. What she did aud suffered in the sequestered life at home while her men were at the front is a volume of do mestic story never to be fully written. How sbe lent enthusiasm to southern courage iu war, how she inspired hope, how she bore defeat, disaster and pover ty can never be told. Sbe has been the radiance of the south m the days of gloem and the helpmate of southern men FUNERAL 0E A DRUID STRANGE DEATH RITES ON A LOFTY HILLTOP IN WALES. GENERAL CLEMENT ANSELM EVANS. in all his work since the war. To her we are indebted for the memorial day, for the flowers that mantle the graves of our dead, for the monuments in our honor, and for the last and best tears that are shed over confederate graves. O women of the south ! what monument shall admiring men erect in memorial of your devotedness to the southern cause! Shall we take some great blocks of Geor gia’s everlasting granite, taken from the heart of Elbert, and lay them broad and deep in the sacred soil crimsoned with the best blood of Ihe state; shall we cleave the finest; marble from Georgia quarries and build upon this solid flint a sculptured fane of unsurpassed richness, with pillars, columns and pilasters, with ground arches and architraves whose carvings will celebrate the highest wo manly heroism; shall aspiring minarets of Georgia’s burnished silver spring above the lofty fane, pierce the sky and touch the stars; shall we then collect the opals of Clarke, the amethysts of Hab ersham,- the rubies of Rabun, the dia monds of Hall, and with them jewel a crown of Georgia gold for the brow of an ideal statu* 3 : and then shall we dedicate plinth, fane, crown and statue with words of eulogy never yet spoken to southern womanhood! Yes! all this may we attemnt,-but when the labor of love is done, these chivalric southern men would sav that our women are worthy of a monument as far exceeding that as the starlit sky in its celestial glory surpasses the brilliants that flash on the crowns of common queens. THE ATHENS PRESBYTERY Met in Elberton Last Week—-What Was Done by the Presbytery • The Presbytery of Athens, which has just held its annual spring meeting in Elberton, embraces fourteen counties in the northeastern corner of the state. It consists of fourteen ministers and forty churches. Only half its churches were represented at its recent meeting. The first day was devoted to a Sunday school convention, held in the interest of the Sunday school work. In the morning Judge Estes delivered a most touching and impressive address upon the responsibilities of parents to tlieir children. His power of word painting is remarkable. The pictures that he drew of domestic bliss during the inno cence of infancy and childhood, and then the unhappy contrast, when in later years sin and vice have corrupted the once guileless heart, were touching iu the extreme. It would have been well if every parent and child in Elber ton could have heard his pathetic words of warning. In the afternoon three other interest ing and instructive addresses were en joyed by an appreciative audience. At night the opening sermon of the Presbytery was preached by Rev. J. S. Hillhouse of Cartersville, who is Dot a member of this Presbytery, but was present looking after some important- business of interest to the church. The next morning he made a Stirling address in regard to the evangelistic- work of the synod of Georgia, setting forth its import.’me, showing the re sults already accomplished and arousing a deeper interest in the prosecution of this branch of church work. At the conclusion of his remarks, several hun dred dollars were quickly subscribed by the churches for this object. The afternoon was principally occu pied in hearing reports from ministers and elders concerning their work during the past year. Dr. H. S. Allyii, a student at the Col umbia Seminary, was examined upon his course of studies and licensed to preach. The church at Harmony Groye had al ready made formal application for his ministerial services. Mr. W. S. Barber of Center was also received under the care of the Presbytery as a candidate for the ministry. After a pleasant and harmonious meeting the Presbytery finished its bus iness and adjourned Saturday afternoon. The following resolution of thanks was unanimously adopted by the Pres bytery: “Resolv&d, That the heartfelt thanks < of the Presbytery of Athens are hereby tendered to the good people of Elberton for their generous hospitality to us dur ing our stay among them; also to the Methodist and-Baptist churches for the use of their pulpits Sunday. We will carry with us the pleasantest recollec tions of our visit here, and pray God’s richest blessing upon the homes so gen erously opened to us. Tabor & Herndon has a large stock of embroidery and lace which they are sell ing extremely low. 15 Barrels sound family flour to close gut at $2.75 a barrel atB. B. Braswell’s. Impressive Ceremonies Attending the Final Disposition of the Body of the Late Leader of Clio Druids of Wales—Rather Mixed Services. Far away seem the times and the rites of the Druids; even under the mistletoe at yuletide—the time of Yowling. Theirs was one of the most ancient and primi tive of religions, and its cult is greatly Shrouded in mystery. Yet it is not alto gether dead. Among the hills of Wales many strange relics of the past remain. There may be no “fragments of forgot ten peoples,” but there are legends and customs and songs and social and reli gious rites preserved unchanged from the days of Arthur and Merlin and Taliessin. There are probably not a few seers who, like Glendower, “can summon spirits from the vasty deep,” though whether or not they will come is yet a mooted ques tion, And as for the Druids, their line is yet unbroken, and their weird rites are still celebrated as of old. The death occurred at Llantrissant of Dr. William Price, who held the distin guished office of archdruid cf Wales. He was something more than 93 years old and might have passed for one of the old time bards who perished in King Ed ward’s reign, so rugged and antique was his appearance. Six or seven years ago, it may be remembered, an infant that had been born to him in his old age died, and its body was publicly cremated by him with Druidical rites. For this he was arrested and brought to trial. But after a hot contest in court he was ac quitted, and a decree was pronounced from the bench establishing the entire legality of this form of funeral. Ac cordingly when Dr. Price himself died a similar ceremony was enacted without thought of interference. The ceremony took place on the sum mit of a high hill at Caerlan, the very spot where the body of the infant had been burned. Several hundred tickets were issued to the friends and former patients of Dr. Price, entitling them to enter the inclosure and witness the burn ing. The hour first set was noon. But public curiosity rose to so high a pitch that, to avoid being overwhelmed by a mob of sightseers, it was at the last mo ment decided to change it to 7 o’clock in the morning. So in the gray light of that early hour the strange procession made its way to the hilltop. No mourn ing garb was to be seen. The closest friends of the deceased Druid were at tired in the ancient costumes of the Welsh people. The body of Dr. Price was clothed in the Druidical robes he had worn in life and was then placed in a coffin of per forated sheet iron. On the hilltop two stone walls had been built, four feet apart, each being about 10 feet long and 4 feet high. A number of iron bars ex tending from one to the other formed a rude grating between them, some dis tance above the ground, and upon these bars the coffin was placed, the head be ing toward the east and the feet toward the west. A clergyman of the Established church was present and read the ordinary serv ice for the dead in Welsh. The vest ments of the church contrasted as strangely with the Druidical garb worn by some of the attendants as did the words of the prayer book with tha strange rites. Some slight changes were made in the service, such as the body be ing “consigned to the flames.” Then under and over and all around the coffin was piled a great lot of wood, perhaps a whole cord of it, and to this wero added several tons of coal. Many gallons of paraffin oil were thrown upon it, thoroughly saturating the entire pile. Then, at about 8 o’clock, two of tha closest friends of tiio late Druid came forward from the throng and applied torches to the wood, one at each end of the mass. In a moment it was all a rag ing furnace, and the hill literally flared like a volcano. A brisk breeze was blowing, which fanned the fire and carried the flame aud smoke far into the heavens. For many miles the strange spectacle was clearly seen, and thousands of people came flock ing thither from all parts of Glamor ganshire. Seven or eight thousand of them gathered in a ring about the pyre, as close to it as possible, and watched it with eager interest all day long. Some hours after dark that evening the flames had died down, and there was only a dull glow from the coals. Then with long hooks they dragged the coffin from the furnace, when it was discov ered that it had been literally burned through in many places, and when tho lid was uncovered the receptacle was ab solutely empty without the faintest trace within of the remains. The coffin was subsequently conveyed on a bier, fol lowed by an immense crowd, and de posited on the couch in the deceased's residence, where a few days previously he had breathed his last.—New York Tribune. Two Wealthy Girls With No Taste. Two girls sat awhile ago in opposite stage boxes at the theater to whose united wealth the word inconceivable would almost literally apply. Both were faintly pretty,, of the style that is abso lutely null without proper dressing. One, the most decided type of blond, wore pale blue. The result was simply flat. The other girl, is a brunette and was dressed in a brown silk (which is the ugliest and most characterless wear the mind of man can devise, except in com bination). and had a wisp of illusion tied tightly around her neck.—New York Let ter. A Stanch Friend. Old Gent (proposing health of the hap py pair at the wedding breakfast)—And as for the bridegroom. I can speak with still more confidence of him, for I was present at his christening, I was present at the banquet given in honor of his coming of age, I am present here today, and, God willing, I'll be present at his funeral (Sensation.)—Pick Me Up. Tabor & Herndon is sc-lling 15c lawn at 9c, 6c lawn at 4£c, 5c lawn at2|. Rheumatism Quickly Cured. Three days is a very short time in which to cure a bad case of rheumatism; but it can be done, if .the proper treat ment is adopted, as will be seen by the following from James Lambert, of New Brunswick, Ill.: * “I was badly afflicted with rheumatism in the hips and legs, when I bought a bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, it cured me in three days. 1 am all right to-day; and wouM insist on every one who is afflicted v ith that terrible disease to use Chamberlain’s pain balm and get well at once.” 50 cent bottles for sale by W. M. Terrell, M. D,
