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lewis m. grist, proprietor, j Jndpprndijnt Jjantili) ffiwgpnpir: <Joi[ ilii) ftomofioit of tliij fotitipitl, jsoqial, ^^t[tcuUut[nl and (fonimqtial Jnferqsts of fhij jSouth. . | terms?$2.00 a year in advance. "VOL. 37. YORKYILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1891. NO. 32. ???? - I ? * *rf\ mitmn fllTnnr VDO ?fcc J>t0rit ?rllrr. j A Reversed Judgment j By ROBERT G V. MEYERS. [Oopyrixkt by American Press Association. 1 CHAPTER m. ^^ WfJlM I threw the roll of notes upon the blazing coals. All at once there c:ime a low knock j on the stndy door. His wife roused herself, and with a little easeful sigh turned from the fire. "How sweetly Estelle is singing tonight!" she said. Then in a raised ; voice she called aloud, "Come in!" The door opened, the music from the other room gushed in, and a white capped ' maid entered and went up to her misi tress and said some words in a low tone of voice. "You know, Catharine," said , the lady, "that I am trying to put a stop to this." "I know, ma'am," returned the maid, "but she looked so fagged out I couldn't be snappish to her." Maybe the judge's reflections as to his younger life caused him to feel that he j owed his wife a little more than usual. ! He looked up. "What is it?" he asked. "Anything I can do for you, my dear?" . "It is ono of those tiresome women come to speak with you," his wife answered wearily. "Must the mothers and wives and all tho female relatives j of the men you try come to ask your i clemency for the accused ones? Why 1 should people be so preposterous? A jury are the judges of the facts; a judge has nothing to do with conviction." "You are a good lawyer," smiled the ! judge, gathering up his loose papers, j "and like most women you are against i your own sex. You don't say a word _1 A Al ? ?*> ItUUUb tuc UiCU wuv wiuu uuo. "These women irritate me," she went ' on. "The criminal class appears to single ont the houses of judges. I suppose they argue that personal appeals will lighten sentences about to be imposed. I believe some of the women who bother us borrow the babies they bring with them; a baby is supposed to be a most pathetic adjunct to an appeal. Do you remember that old toothless one who came here with twins in long clothes?" "Then the wife and baby of an accused man are down stairs?" "His mother, sir," ventured Catharine. "And without a baby." "Well, I suppose I shall have to see her," said the judge's wife. "It is the mother of the man whose case you are _._emwg?d ori." "What man?" ^ "Dunlap." Again the name of the man may have influenced the judge. As his wife arose from her chair he said: "My dear, perhaps you had better slip on a shawl. Your diamonds, your gay dress?they are such a contrast to the woman you will see." % "Nonsense!" she said, "nonsense!" "And, Catharine," said tho judge, as ? - ?? <l?/v ?/l*Ain<n/it v/tAMi lmnnma IliU IllUttiU 1U l ilt* (Hguiiuu^ ha/ui ucvoiug more brilliant, with a man's voice added to it, "tell Miss Estcllo I should like to see her." His wife gave him a quick glance before sailing from the study, her velvet train swishing a yard behind her, and cautiously followed by Catharine. Then the music stopped abruptly, there was a light movement outside the door, and twenty years of blondness and beauty entered the study, a good many tinkling ornaments jingling as she came along. "Papa," she said, "you sent for me?" "Sweetheart," said the judge, "I should like you to interrupt your concert for a few minutes. There is a poor woman down stairs, the mother of a man 1 am trying, and the music, our cheerfulness" "Oh, you sensitive papa, you!" was the merry interruption. "Is that all you wanted me for?" "That is all." "Then I will go back to Mr. Elwyn? do you heiir him picking out a tune on the piano? He says he only knows two , tunes; the one is 'God Save the Queen,' and the other isn't. Did you ever hear that before? And?phpa, he is all alone in there." "And I am all alone in here." She looked at him. and the color rpshed to her face. "What do you mean?" she said. "There's a difference." The judge leaned back in his chair and regarded her. "Surely there's a difference," he said -1 1 It _ .MIX Biuwiy; wireij lucres u uiueieuce. Come here!" She went around to him, putting her arms about his neck. "Kiss me," he said, "my daughter." So she placed her rosy face up against his, the faint perfume exhaled by her garments, her tinkling beads and bangles almost as a parenthesis in the caress. "Now go back to the lonely young man," said tho judge, gently pushing her from him. "Surely there's a difference." But she kissed him once again and smoothed his faco a littlo before she gayly left him, and he waited, listening for the hist faint jingle of her ornaments. "Surely there's a difference," ho said softly. He picked up tho papers he had written that evening, made a roll of them and slipped a rubber band over all. With this baton he tapped upon tho table, thinking of the letter he had yet i to write before going to bed?the letter regarding his coming nomination for governor. Surely there was a differ- j ence, as Estellc had said, but surely tho father owed his daughter this new honor I despite the difference between his lone- I liness and that of her lover. The governorship?and after that! He looked up at the limning of a faco on j the wall?Webster! Tho cabinet! His j wife hail said it! Suddenly there came the sweep of tho \ velvet robe, and his wife entered the ; room. "The woman appeals to me," she said. "She wishes to see you. What you said 1 to mo regarding iny dress ;is I went I down to her maybe rebuked ine, for 1 ! could not turn her away. Will you see I her? She looks sensible." The judge recalled himself. "I can do little for her," lie responded ; with an air of resignation. "But so j long as you havo told her you would get 1 my 'yes' or 'no' I suppose I must prepare myself for a bad quarter of an hour. : Let her come up." His wife left the room. She called : "Catharine," gave a low order and passed by the study door to the room where the | daughter kept the young man from be- j ing lonely. There was a laboring up the stairs, : the touch of garments on tho wall, and 1 in the doorway stood a woman. Tho | prisoner's dock, the witness stand, may lie supposed to hold pale faces, but the judge had never lieforo looked upon a face so utterly devoid of color as this woman's, framed by gray hair and dimly illumined by failed eyes. Perhaps the regularity of the features, the fine outline and the immobility of the expression tended to accentuato the abse nce of coloring in the epidermis as much as the dun colored gown and bonnet the woman wore. At the first glance ho had of her the judge thought of a splendid intaglio ' cut into sard which was among his wife's j jewels. Then the woman's eyes were fixed on his. She stood on the threshold for an instant before 6ho glided over into the room and closed tho door behind her. When she spoko the passionless quality of her voico was as though that were also decolored. "Your wife mistook me for Harry Dunlap's mother," she said, "and I did not correct her. I am his aunt?he is the son of my husband's brother. I came in regard to his case. I wish to learn if extenuating circumstances may not tend to lessen the term of his imprisonment. The missing money is a large amount; he was a trusted bookkeeper, and the betrayal of that trust makes the offense all the more heinous." She put her hand to her throat as though there was an obstruction there. Then she went on in her dull voice: "The reputation which you bear for integrity, the confidence the community places in you, the applause of the papers over a future honor likely to bo yours actuated me to come to you with the recital of that part of my nephew's case which the trial failed to bring out." Her eyes had drifted around the room as she last spoke, as though she compared the comfort there with something ; that she knew, and now they rested on tho portrait of the judge's wife in all it.: beauty and idealization. Her profile was toward the judge, and whatever doubt ho might have had before was dissipated, and he uttered her name. "Yes," she said, turning to him; "yes, for all the change you recognize me. I knew that you would. Now listen to me. I know that you regard the crime of which my nephew is accu.< *l very sternly; there h:is been too much wrong doing by trusted men, and leniency would almost amount to complicity." Again her hand went up to her throat and pressed there. "As I say, this man is my nephew, have never had any children. His par- ; ents were dead when I married his un- j cle. He came to me a mere infant, and | loved me as his mother. My married j life was not happy, as I knew it could , not be, for I never loved my husband, I who loved me and knew how I regarded ! him. I wronged him in marrying him; my carelessness of his regjurd for mo only tended to develop in him traits which a wife's affection might have eradicated. His nephew was everything to me; his innocent love kept me from despair when my husband went wrong time and time again?for which wrong I blamed myself, seeiug that ho cared deeply for me while he was of small account to me. All women cannot love because they are loved. My husband became a gambler, a drunkard. He ill treated me, and my nephew protected me as a son might protect his mother. You will not need to hear details; you know many a similar story in your professional experience. This money, which my nephew is accused of stealing, was in his care. He had taken a half holiday that ho might consult an oculist regarding his eyes, which close application to his duties had impaired. He volunteered to deposit in bank a large sum of money paid that day to his firm. First, though, he went to his oculist. He was detained longer than he had expected to Ite; it was after 3 o'clock, and the bank was closed. He did not return the money to the firm, but brought it home with him, determining to take it back with him in the morning. He never took it back with him. He acknowledged that he stole it, and despite all promises, despite legal acumen, he has not divulged where it is or what he did with it. Why? Because lie does not know where it is?because he never stole it. He put the roll of bank notes under his pillow that night: in the morning it was gone. He believes that his uncle, the gambler, the drunkard, took it. He accepted the shame in order to shield me; his great, unbounded1 son's love would do that for me, for he thought the last blow I could stand would be to know that I had made my husband a common thief, as 1 had always said that through my not loving him I was morally responsible for his faults. But my husltand did not take the money! He knew that it was in the house and ho coveted it Thns in the niirht I went to UlV neDh ew's room and took the roll of bank I notes from under liis pillow to put them ; in a place of safety. As I left the room a hand grasped my arm; my husband had come for the money and discovered what I had done. lie led me down stairs and there he demanded the money. All the hatred that was in me asserted ! itself, and I sjiid hot words to him. Ho j struck me, and he had never struck me | before. The tire was burning in the j stove; I throw the roll of notes upon the blazing coals. 'Now,' 1 said, 'proclaim me a thief. Give me a prison cell; it will be heaven to any further life with you.' But ho fciced me smiling. 'I will do more than that,' he said. 'My wife shall never be willed a thief; Henry shall be accused of the theft, and I dare you ' to enlighten him ;is to the truth.' It : was so; his revenge on mo was complete. I would not, indeed, dare to tell my dear boy, for he loves me, and he has idealized me into a mar- j tyr, a saint. I am all that ho has j in the world; to make me less than i he thinks I am would rain his be- { lief in heaven itself, and in me who j have only him and his faith in me to | carry me through my wasted life. Ho : is glad to sacritico himself for me. Ho j will come forth from prison a strong j man, and we can go somewhere where ! we are unknown, and he can begin life j all over again. But if he knows the truth j will he not think mo a creature who j loved him and his fair name not so much as I loved the idea of thwarting my husband, whose blighted life was all my fault? My husband has been drinking | hard since this affair, and today he died, i The papers are full of your praise. , Among other things they say you havo i the distinction of never having had a 1 decision of yours reversed by the higher j court. 1 wish you to reverse tne uecision you have made in this case. Now you ! know why I am here. Do you believe that I am telling you the truth?" Believe her! CHAPTER IV. She tilt the touch ot Hits. The judge had not si token since sho entered the room except to whisper her ! name. Every word sho said smote him; his long experience had given him many instances of women wronged by men. i Here was a woman as deeply wronged by a man as she could be?and tho man was himself. All that sho was ho had . made her; tho wreck of all that should have made her other than she was; her wretched married life, her husband's i downfall, her nephew's disgrace, her own torture that should hist as long as she?he had done it all. What misery of soul had been here since that day when she had stood before him and asked him if he wished to marry her! Her love for him had made this ruin? and he had loved her and wronged her love. She had always l)een fair to look upon; she would have been beautiful with other environments than had been hers, more beautiful than his wife; the education she hail gleaned somehow or other, her dignity of speech, could not he himself have brought it about and molded her into a brilliant woman? She had loved him, and her love for him had wrecked her and all those nearest her. Did his wife love him? Had not ambition, rather than passionate affection, brought her to him; had not ambition, rather than the maternal feeling of this woman for her nephew, made his wife anxious for this match ljetween Estelle ana jonn jiiwj uf Believe her! To doubt her would have to exculpate himself. Believe her! Though the woman watching him may have thought hiin only cold and callous. "What!" she cried. "Do you hesitate? Do you feel that nothing is my due? Have I not sufficiently accused you?" With a despairing gesture she threw herself at his feet Believe her! "No, no," she said pleadingly, "I do not accuse you?yon are innocent, the whole world is innocent, only I am not. I came to you because I am not quite dead, and the affection that made you its idol holds to this child of my adoption with all the tenacity that availed it so little of old. I loved you once, and that should be something to you. I ask for something for my dear boy, as I ask you to screen me for his sake from justice. Will there not be sufficient punishment for me when it is always before me that I send him to prison and must withhold the truth from him? I?I"? She could say no more. She kneeled there with uplifted pallid face. And the judge! "Salome!" he said?nothing more. But the agony, the remorse, the grief in that word were apparent to her who heard. She looked at him, her life surely concentrated in that look. Then she roso to her feet and tottered, and he put out his arm to support uci. "Oh, Salome! Salome!" ho said. He held her thus a little while, and from the adjoining room came the low murmur of happy voices, while from the wall looked down upon him the pictured eyes of his wife. The face of the woman he held had undergone a strange alteration. What years of privation and repression had wrought still remained there, but it was as though a soft light had flooded down over brow and eyes. She disengagod herself from him, and he took the roll of papers he had written that evening, crushing it in his liand. "To-morrow," he said, "I place in the hands of your nephew's employers the amount of the money that is missing. My word will be taken for whatever 1 shall say. And?I will have the sentencing of your nephew! I can say no more." "He will know the truth," she cried in sudden terror: "my boy will know what 1 did." "When you tell him." 'And you say that you will have the sentencing of him. You mean that you will make his sentence light?" "Yes?the lightest." Do you know that people will blame you for that? They will call you unjust; and then there is your chance of being governor; may not that be weakened by what you would do?" She still thought of him and his welfare despite her own great pain. His eyes were looking into hers, his face came nearer her wan cheek; she heard his troubled breathing, and then she felt the touch of lips she had not felt since 6he was a young, passionate girl "Robert!" she'said softly, and he put his hands up over his eyes and knew that she went from him, without another word, without another look. Half an hour later the judge's wife rustled into the study. She was radiant "Asleep?" she said brightly, going to the table where her husband sat "Then wake up aud let me tell you how glad 1 am that Dunlap woman came when she did. For when 1 went to Estelle and John they had been having a little tiff, which 1 quickly patched up, and the reconciliation, as all reconciliations will do, led to far greater tenderness than before. John will speak to you tomorrow. and Estelle is in the seventh heaven. "Why," she said as he raised his face, "how old you look. It is all that Dunlap case, and" "Will you leave me?" he said in a dominating tono of voice hitherto unknown to her. "Mercy!" she smiled. "You are angry because I helped to expedite matters a little with Estelle and John?" "1 am not angry," said the judge. "But I should like to be alone. I?1 have a troublesome matter to think of." She leaned over and put her # lips to her husband's forehead. "I had forgotten your letter to Gen. Wayne in regard to the nomination,"* she said. "1 am so happy on account of Estelle and John that I forget everything. Go on, my dear; apres moi le deluge?after the capital of the state, the cabinet, governor!" She went from the room humming. In the room beyond the music was resumed; from outside came the jingle of a car hell. The pictured eyes of justly celebrated men?had there been no romance in the lives of those men??looked down as asking the occupant of the room by what right he should assume the prerogative of the higher position offered him. while the eyes of his wife demanded by what right he should refuse any prerogative offered him. But the judge -heeded no fancied question, heeded do quesnon ue mmseu wigm have asked. He sat thero motionless, while the voice of his daughter sang a song of love and truth to tho man who loved and trusted her. THE END. Doctoring a Pugilist. A pugilist, well known in Cleveland as a good talker, but a poor fighter, once went to a local physician and complained of a peculiur nervous sensation that prevented him from sleeping well. The doctor was well acquainted with the pugilistic gentleman, and thought to spring il little joke upon him. He filled in a prescription blank calling for "terra alba" powders to Iks taken three times a day. The man of the manly art went to a drug store near the corner of Detroit and Pearl streets to have the prescription filled. "Say," said he to the clerk who wjis waiting upon him, "wot is dis here terry aloy, anyhow?" "Sand," was the brief and laconic answer. "Wot are ye givin' us?" said the pugilist. "Sand," was the reply. The prize fighter met the doctor a day or two afterward, and told him what the ajHitheciiry's jwsistant had said. "Is it true, doc, that it was sand?" he asked. "Yes," said the doctor; "one kind of sand." "You make me weary, you do," said tho pugilist, jus the point of the joke }?. gan to penetrate his intellect. "You don't git no more of my tr.ade. See?"? j Cleveland Leader. A lilt; Timk. The fish commission's exhibit of aquaria ;it the Chicago fiiir is to Ik; immensely attriictive. As thus l'ar conceived, though details have not been perfected, the annex for the purpose will be 150 feet squiire .and entirely of glass. There will be 1,000 feet in length of glass tanks filled with all sorts of water creatures, i one half lieing devoted to marine life Jind the other half to the disphiy of fresh water specimens. The visitor will walk | l>etween two lines of aquaria the length | of the building. ?Washington Star. THE BATTLE OF BATESBURG. Congressman Watson and Senator Butler WRESTLE WITH THE SUB-TREASURY. Both Shlos Claim the Victory and it Must Have Been a "Dog Fall." The big sub-treasury dcba'ic, adververtiscd for the past month to come oil'between Congressman Tom Watson, of Georgia, and Senator M. C. Butler, took place at Batcsburg, S. C., last Wednesday. There were about 1,200 people present, and full reports of the speeches appeared in The News and Courier and The State. I)r. Stokes, president of the State Alliance was absent, being kept away, according to a letter of regret, by engagements in another part of the State. The debate was opened by Congress' - - If.. uMic fiillnu'oil bv [ III IIII t? illMWII. JH ii or ............. -v Senator Butler, and the first speaker [ closed iu reply. We take the followI ing report of what was said from The News and Courier: WHAT COLONEL WATSON SAID: Colonel Watson spoke substantially as follows: I know perfectly well that I will he at a disadvantage in discussing this question with Senator Butler. . He has [ all the advantages over me. You know him, and you love him. I am j unknown to you. There is a wide difference between me and him in our relations to you. If Senator Butler were a candidate for office I would not be here. That would be a matter for you to settle yourselves. But when Senator Butler takes the position he has on this question it affects every one of you. We are here discussing measures,, not men. We are discussing measures that affect (leorgio as well as South Carolina. It is a platform that touches everyone. I am in a position to expect that questions shall he discussed on broader lines than personal ones. Each of us will rise to a position of statesmanship and brotherly love. South Carolina bus always been close to the heart of Georgia and Georgians. Your distinguished men are known and honored in Georgia as well as in South Carolina. I say to you, General Butler, with respect, that you demonstrate the manhood of South Carolina, and I feel it nn honor to debate this question with you, and will debate it in the highest sense of honorable discussion. I feel that a Georgia hoy is at home with South Carolina hoys. We assert that the sub-treasury plan will be a good law. General Butler denies it. That puts the burden of proof upon me. it is for me to demonstrate that the plan is a good one. That's good parliamentary law. We started it in Georgia, and we wanted the sub-treasury or something better, but the more we thought of the subtreasury the better we liked it. Now we want the sub-treasury from its horns to its hoofs. I don't know how correctly General Butler was reported in the debate at Prosperity with I)r. Stokes. I have the report as published in The News and Courier, but I presume it was substantially correct, and, if there is no correction of it, I take it for granted that the report is correct. When we debate a measure we debate the principles underlying it. I am going to demonstrate to this audience that General Butler will do himself great injustice if he undertakes to discuss the details of any measure without discussing the principles underlying it. Further, General Butler will be forced to take one of two positions. The bill was either right or wrong. If it is right, he, as an American statesman, owes it to this people to help them make this bill a law. If the plan is wrong, ought not lie to be able to demonstrate that it is wrong? He ought to be able to demonstrate that fact from a constitutional standpoint, from an economic standpoint, from precedent and from legislative enactments. When he wishes to decline to discuss the plan, he puts himself in the awkward position of saying that the plan is right, but he can't help you, or it is wrong and lie can't show it, and lie can take either horn of the dilemma he likes, and lte will have some rough riding on either one. [Applause and laughter]. Colonel Watson went on to say that General Butler would have to come out and debate the plan, and may God trice the vietorv to him who is right. [Applause.] Colonel Watson, as an analogy for the discussion of the plan, said the greatest reform movement of modern times had been discussed without a bill with its details, just sis the tariff was discussed before the Mill's hill was framed, and that General Butler discussed it without waiting for the bill, and so it was with secession, the adoption of the postoflicc system and the railroad system. lie then discussed the sub-treasury plan on three lines: First, the laws; second, the evils complained of; and third, the remedy. lie took up the national banks and discussed them as an old law and an evil. He denied that they were a war measure, having been established in July, 1 Still, when the war was nearly over. He elaborated the charges of contraction and stated that the system was robbery and so forth, and that the $00,000,000 they made every year belonged to the people. He charged it as disloyalty that Democratic senators' should have voted for the reehartering of national banks. Applying the rule, he held that if the government could lend money 011 bonds it could also lend it 011 cotton and other field crops. He maintained that a precedent for the sub-treasury could lie found in the banks of Amsterdam and Hamburg, which issued certificates on gold and silver uncoined, which certificates passed current in Europe. He also cited the case of the Land Loan bank of Euskelda, Sweden, which issued money on lands at 4 per cent., and which plan was adopted also in Norway. None of these banks failed, while the English and ltussian banks bad to be helped out by the bank of France. He also cited the case of the ! - ? ' < .1.1:1 T... I.' 1. nilCSiail iuiiik, caiumi.-micu i^> i uumi n the Great. Georgia lends money at. !U per cent, lie maintained that priees were regulated by unlawful contraction of the currency, and he illustrated it by a supposed case, in which all the banks of tbe country should suddenly call in outstanding obligations. On this point he quoted Mills, Kicardo, Henry Clay and John T. Sherman. He eulogized the Knglish system of laws by which the great depression of 1X57 was overcome by the financial measures of Lord Castlereagh. He denied that laziness and extravagance were the causes of depression, but drew a picture of a liard-working people eating poor provisions, musty meal and white meat, wrinkled like a ribbon. This comparison created a great deal of laughter. He couldn't see how people could be lazy and yet produce a surplus of cotton. Vet cotton goods were high r.nd the staple was low, which proved that there was a bug in the buttermilk somewhere. He held that silver and gold were not the unit of value in the books on political economy. On this point he quoted Adam Smith, who held that a variable article could never be a correct measure of the quantity of other things, that is gold and silver continually varying, could not be a correct measure of the value of other commodities. He held Ifbor to he the correct standard of value and the subtreasury bill was imbedded in this philosophy. Colonel Watson then said that the sub-treasury could be tested by the people of a county selecting a factor who would be a bonded olliccr I elected. Let such an officer issue cer' tificntcs as the government does on j gold and silver, and this would be the sub-treasury in its essence without any government expenditure. The bond, of course, would be approved by the circuit judge. General Butler said that all the money would be back in the treasury in the spring, when the people wanted if most. Colonel Watson said that this would only be true if all the people put in all their cotton at the same time and took it out in the first six months. On the contrary, the farmers would put cotton in at various times from September on, so that the operation would be continuous the whole year. This was the last point made by Colonel Watson in his opening argument, which was closed by a peroration based on the eeSrypf the relief of Lticknow, the application being the sub-treasuuy us a means of relief to t lie beleaguered farmers. SENATOR BUTLER'S SPEECH. Senator Butler spoke as follows: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen and Fellow-citizens: I am almost in that condition in which my distinguished friend said he was in upon one occasion, when he took a bite of that old white meat imported from Tennessee, from Kentucky, or some place else. I believe I could eat some of that meat now, and I am afraid that there are a good many in the audience who have their minds turned to the dinner table rather than to the speaker, but I will occupy a short portion of the time before we adjourn to respond, as well as' I may, to the observations of the distinguished gentleman who has just taken his seat. He reproached me, as I have been reproached before, with discussing what is known as the sub-treasury bill at Prosperity. I was invited there tn n tlu> Kiil>-frniisurv nlan on its merits, and the only plan I have ever seen or heard of being the hill, I ventured to discuss it. I have been herated, defamed and derided because, forsooth, I exercised the right of an American citizen to discuss in public a question of interest to the people. That bill was presented to congress by the friends of my distinguished friend. It was paraded before the world as the consummation of all the wisdom, of all the statesmanship of America. In The National Economist, by the lobbyists to put it through congress, by the orators upon the stump and off the stump, in the press and everywhere, we were told that it was a consummation of the sub-treasury plan. But it seems to me after all the sounding of gongs and blowing of trumpets, which is a matter of public record in the department at Washington, that I committed some great crime, and that I will commit a great crime today if I venture to discuss it without the consent of the bosses who are trying to domineer over and dominate every man who chances to differ with them. [Cheering and applause.] Fellow-citizens, I never expected to live to see the day in this State when any citizen of the Commonwealth of the State of South Carolina should have to go to the bosses of the sub-treasury to get authority to discuss any public measure of interest to the people. From what I can observe the bosses themselves have become ashamed of their bantling; they have become ashamed of the bill; and because I ventured to discuss it have accused me of bad faith, when, as God is my witness, I had no more intention of being guilty of bad faith than I have this day. I will do my friend the justice to say one thing to him, that he has the manhood and the courage to say to my face, to state the misrepresentation of what I have said, while others waited until my back was turned hefore they plied the tongue of slander and defamation. My friend says that I said at Prosperity that the man who would borrow money at 2 per cent, did not intend to pay it Imck. I say to you, fellow-citizens, upon my honor as a man, that was a base falsehood, a base misrepresentation. The gentleman says that I said that no other man who borrowed money would pay it back except the man who borrowed it at 7 per cent. I say that that is not true. So that my friend hail a good deal of A... . l./x .? ntin/tilnfnQ llllt j J1U mill il ^UUU JIUHIJ uuvvmvwi/ ) lie created u good deal of laughter upon premises which were wholly erroneous and without a particle of foundation. No, gentlemen, I have stood by the side of too many of the good people of this State, when their souls and courage were tried, to say here or at Prosperity, or anywhere, that there were 40,000 farmers in South Carolina who were thieves and scoundrels, and I brand the author of it as a liar. [Great cheering and applause]. I have lived too long, I have seen too much of this life at this day of my existence to pander to demagogues and charlatans for the highest ollice in the gift of the people of this State or any other. And now one word, purely of a personal character. I be lieve my lei lowcountrymen will do me the justice to say that when South Carolina called upon me for my services I have contributed them in war and peace, and 1 liifve done so without slopping to count the cost of that contribution. They have honored me perhaps a thousand-fold more than I deserved, but they have never yet put me in otfice upon conduct on my pnrt which would create the belief or impression lint I lmvp over stated one fact to the people of this State that did not meet the approbation of my judgment and conscience, [applause,] and they never will put me in ollice if I have to pay as its price the advocating, the sustaining or maintaining of any proposition which my judgment or my conscience will not approve. My friend rather rebuked me because I had not amended the subtreasury bill. Why, fellow-citizens, I have those two bills here and will submit them to the candid judgment of any intelligent and impartial man in this State, and let him say whether or not in that form they were susceptible of amendment. I might as well have tried to amend a proposition to pontoon the Atlantic ocean, or to build a bridge to the moon. [Laughter and applause.] The bills were introduced by (Jovernor Vance, and they went through the usual course, being referred to the committee on agriculture, and as they wore buried in the tomb of the Capulets I bad no opportunity of I amending them if they were susecptiI blc of amendment. So. then, 1 have I been reproached because I did not I amend the bill, and 1 am asked to j discuss the sub-treasury plan. If my I friend will pardon me I would be under : the profoundest obligations to him if ! he will only tell me what the plan is. I have not heard it. and he spoke for : an hour and a half by the watch, lie j talked about the battle of Lucknow, | about the Kneyclopu'dia lhitannica. ) He talked ah >ut the reforms of Mugland. about the Duke of Wellington and the Duke of Newcastle, about the i abject poverty we are all in. and lead! ing up to thai particular flight of his j eloquence, from which we would have j thought that every man, woman and ! child in this audience was crawling on j his knees in abject poverty with not | even the white meat of which he talks to satisfy their hunger. Well, I see before me about as healthy and well-dressed an audience as I have seen in a long while. The ladies seem to be reasonably well attired. If they will pardon me for referring to that, and the men are not entirely ragged. I expect if they would go home they would find a sweet potato or a bit of bacon, although not so white as he talks about; a little dust of meal, homemade, to the manner born, and no't imported from Tennessee or Georgia. [Laughter and applause]. But my friend studiously, conspicuously avoided to discuss the very plan which he says I did not discuss, and when he had finished I was inclined to jump up, clap my hands, and Say that the political millennium had come. [Laughter and applause]. And I say it without ir .niroKannn tlinf nnlit.lPfll Ml?8Sinll had come. [Laughter and applause, and a hurrah for Butler] ! I was about to exclaim, with folded hands, that this generation and day of our Lord had brought in the electric telegraph, the Trans-Atlantic cable, the flying machine, the electric light, the telephone, the phonograph, the grapaphone and Tom Watson. [Great laughter and applause]. A voice: "Hurrah for Watson." General Butler: And I say so, too. He is a new man, [laughter,] just come to life. He is going to congress, an d he is not only going to pass the subtreasury and put money on these trees, where you all can get it by shaking them, [laughter,] but he is going to smash the national banks, get pay for our darkeys, get a return of the cotton tax, and?well, if that is not enough for one man to do I do not not know what is. [Great laughter and applause.] And when he goes in for all that he will find me with him. He jumped 011 the national banks and he destroyed them, but I do not think he was correct in his statement of the history of the banks. Colonel Watson?In what particular? Gencrnl Butler?You said that they did not buy the currency, that they got, say one thousand dollars, deposited them in the treasury and got ninety per cent, in currency. Colonel Watson?But who gets the interest? General Butler?Why the national bank people, of course, just as a man >?" inf/iMof nil liia nnt/1 Wliorn JllUSb JMIJ UiliUl v/n iuo ?iwvv? m would you get bonds if you did not buy them ? Colonel Watson?But where do the bonds come from. General Butler?I said they were bought from the government. But let me point out your inconsistency. When I say that we desire to repeal the bill laying a tax of 10 per cent, on the State banks in order to paralyze | the national banks, he says, oh no, that will not do. Colonel Watson?I did not say that, i for I understood you to say that you obi eet to it as a remedy. What is your bill ? General Butler?My plan would be to repeal the tax on State banks. But I need not discuss the bill. I am to furnish the plan and you the bill, for that is your logic. [Laughter and applause.] Colonel Watson?That is all right, but I will make this trade : I will come in on the State banks if you come in on the sub-treasury. General Butler?Well, that is a fair proposition, gentlemen, and I will do it, but on this condition, that I will tell him what mv bill is if he will tell me what his bill is, and I will tell him now that the bill which I tried twice to have passed, is to remove the 10 per cent, tax on State banks. Colonel Watson?"What is your plan ?" General Butler?Just keep quiet now ; have patience, and I will tell you. I waited on you. I would say to the farmers of this country?go to the legislature and apply for a charter to go into the hanking business, deposit a hundred thousand or fifty thousand dollars, as we did before the war, when the banks of Columbia and Hamburg enjoyed a very high credit. riAtiav.il Dntlnv lion. nvnlnined the MUV,V1 "vtw V"I method of procedure before the war of putting in a given amount and issuing double the amount in hank notes. A voice?"How are you going to get the capital ?" General Butler?Work for it, sir. How else would you expect to get it V [Great laughter and applause]. Under that system there was rto contraction of the currency, and the gentleman should remember that in the instances cited from Holland, Sweden and Norway as precedents for the sub-treasury, the money was disbursed through the hanks and not directly to the people by the government, which is the subtreasury plan. Besides the constitution prohibits sub-treasury legislation, and he must swear to obey it as I have sworn to obey it. I should have been glad, said Senator Butler, to have heard my distinguished friend on the subject of Democracy a little. If the newspapers arc to be believed, and of course they are, he has been doing some very energetic work against the party. As the distinguished gentleman said in introducing my friend, Georgia has often aided South Carolina in her political troubles. Her distinguished men have crossed the river to aid us in times of need, to maintain the integrity, honor, ??wl intr r\{* aiii? I b>mn. ('Hill illTI 1*1 inn i jivi I'vi uuj urn A'vanv emtio party, [(treat applause]. Now I understand that this distinguished gentleman lias eome to us to put the knife, the entering wedge, for its disintegration and destruction. A voice?"You wrung him that time." Colonel Watson?Are we discussing the sub-treasury plan or not ? General Butler?I am not to he governed by your ideas on that subject. Colonel Watson?I would like to say if you go into a general talk on my record I would ask for more time to reply. [Cheers for Watson and counter cheers for Butler.] General Butler?I do not think he wants to discuss my political record. Colonel Watson?Well, you opened the list and I am not'going to show the white feather. [Cheers and hurrahs for Watson.] General Butler?I understood you to take my record in hand and discuss it without reservation. Colonel Watson ? I did not criticise your record, but let us go hack. The only reference I made was to your speech reported in The News and Courier and I merely wanted you to say whether it was correct or not, and you did not answer. General Butler?Because 1 did not want to interrupt you. lie says, gentlemen, that he did not take-liberties with my record, but he did criticise a report that does not purport to be stenographic. Colonel Watson ? I asked you to point out where were the errors. General Butler?And 1 did, but I will give you all the time to reply. ! Colonel Watson?Go ahead. I'll be able to take care of myself. A voice?"Now go on, general, and : tell us about the Third party." ; General Butler?As to that, I say that the departure advocated and i maintained by the gentleman, if per| severed in a spirit which he manifested i must result in a Third parly. I sup| pose that is a legitimate conclusion. A voice?"Where did the Third party come from last year ? Wasn't it Haskell , who led it ?" ' General Butler?Yes. and I hope it j will be a lesson to them, (applause,] I for there is no room for a third party ; never has been and never will be. "General Butler expressed the hope and the belief that the Fanners' Alliance would not be found in line with the Third party. He complimented it on its work when confined within its original lines, and referred particularly to the successful fight made against the jute trust, and this brought up the subject of the tariff, which General Butler discussed at some length, explaining its exactions and how they operated. General Butler's speech was interrupted here by the hour for adjourn- ' ment. Resuming his speech, General Butler began by showing that the sub-treasury officials meant Federal interference in local afFairs, and he said it would put us, body and soul, back again under the Federal power. He maintained that the bill was a violation of the first article of the constitution. He said that the loans in the New Orleans and Philadelphia exposition cases were in. pursuance of appropriations and were, of doubtful validity, and were justified, partly on the general welfare clause., ye denied vehemently that the Democratic party was derelict in its duty. "General Butler referred again ttf'tne fact that Colonel Watson wanted the national banks abolished, and when he, Butler, suggested the repeal of the tax on State banks as a remedy, Colonel Watson said it wouldn't do. I have come to the conclusion, said he, that if I were to suggest a remedy announced by inspiration from Heaven he would reject it. [Applause]. Nevertheless. Senator Butler went on and explained the operation of State hanks before the war, their integrity and success, and thought they could now he operated as successfully. He maintained that there could be no run upon the hunks or no sacrifices to speculators if the condition of the banks were subject to official examination, as was the rule in the national banks. He held that the national banks were a war measure, although not instituted until 1803, because Mr. Chase could liot borrow money elsewhere, and he had to float the bonds of the government by the national banking plan. Senator Butler said that the land loan scheme has proved to be a failure in Florida. In general terms the scheme could only result in a monopoly of lands and mortgages on lands in the hands of a few. Senator Butler, in this connection, explained the distinction between bank currency and loans and discounts. Referring to the succor given the English by Peel and G'ustlerengh, Senator Butler reminded Colonel Watson that such speedy relief was a possibility only under a constitutional monarchy, and that this government was one of the people, by the people and for the people. Our constitution, our written gospel, prohibits things nossible to British states men. [Applause.] Senator Butler continued as follows: I regret, fellow-citizens, that anything should have escaped me in my remarks which might in the slightest degree mar the courtesies of this occasion to our distinguished friend. He remembers perfectly well that last night, when we met for the first time, I went to him and said : "You are a stranger among us; choose your own position in this debate. I will either open and reply, or you can." I had every inclination to extend to him every courtesy for which this State is celebrated. I referred to his political relations to the parties in Georgia in response to what I thought were liberties he had taken with my political record. I have nothing whatever to be ashamed of, so far as my record is concerned, and I am sure that he has not. [Applause and cheers for Butler and Watson.] Referring to the Haskell movement, General Butler said : My friend Hardy wanted to know a little while ago if there wasn't a third party last year in this State. Well, there was an effort to run a ticket, which I thought very ill-advised, and so expressed myself then, but the power and influence of one man are of little avail. I thought it was a great mistake and I think so now. [Applause.] I voted the Democratic ticket straight out and out, hecause the majority of my fellow-citizens nominated the ticket and I shall do it again. iThey had a light to their opinion and we had a right to ours, and T luitfA 1 it'll/? Iaa Iniwr t A rf-vfTi?tl/1rwl with a man because lie differs with me in opinion. He adverted to Colonel Watson's argument about the land loan banks of Norway and Sweden, and said the government did not there lend money direct to the people, but the banks, and that the same thing was possible in our country under the present system. Senator Butler appealed to the audience to stand by the Democratic party, now that its prospects of success were so bright. Hi- was pained to hear it said that the Democratic party had done nothing for the people. Such a statement could only have been made through ignorance or design, and when the party lines were drawn he expected tosec all the Democrats together except a few Hessians. He said?Whenever the time comes let us again lock our shields for the battle, and when my services shall be called for I shall not stop to count the cost. If the people of this State, when my term expires, shall conclude to send some one else to the United senate, in (tod's name let them do it. It is their right and I shall not complain, but if I am to be expected at this late day to advocate measures which my conscience does not approve, you must send someone else to the United States senate. A good deal has been said about what Senator Butler thinks and says, but I am not in this controversy as Senator Butler. I am plain M. C. Butler, and I have never presumed for one moment to oppress the humblest citizen by reason of the high station to which I j have been elevated. If I have done | anyone wrong, as (iod is my witness, I I stand here prepared to make proper ' amends. Senator or no senator, I have always expressed my honest judgment, and when this country reaches that point when I shall not be permitted to tell the truth as I understand it, let my i friends lay me aside aud I shall retire without a murmur. [Applause and cheers for Butler.l i ' The foregoing, of course, is only a j synopsis of Senator Butler's speech, which was wildly and enthusiastically applauded as lie closed. coi.onki. watson's iuum.y. Colonel \\ atson iiii*ii rose lo reply ami there was a second slonn of liurI ralis and elieers. I lie said that Senator Butler had ae! cased him of trying to pontoon the At, lantic and huild a bridge to the moon. He, Watson, had failed in this, hut he j was sure (ieneral Butler had succeeded. | and (ieneral Butler was still with the i man in the moon, with his old friend, j Bill Spencer, playing on the fiddle. * [Ureal laughter and applause, in which (ieneral Butler heartily joined j. If there was anything he did not debate I it was certainly the sub-treasury, but | hi' had talked about tragedy and comedy to keep his spirits up at the other end of the bridge. [Laughter and apl plausc], lie thought that his spcccli was very milch speckled, like the butler in a certain old lady's pantry, which I the old lady says was speckled, but that her Jersey cows were a great sight ! more so. [Renewed laughter and applause]. Ile denied that he had not discussed the sub-treasury plan, lie had discussed it as lie would discuss , any other grave measure or remedy on the line lie had laid down in his open-, i ing speech. He said distinctly it was desired to get money direct to the people at 2 per cent.; that the people should not be discriminated against in favor of national banks. He had showed that what was wanted was a medium that would expand or contract only with the necessities of trade. As to the details he thought they could be discussed hereafter, but he had certainly discussed the plan. He would be a pretty fellow indeed if he came here to talk about a plan and didn't do it. General Butler did not catch his idea about the Hamburg bank. They did not issue money on gold and silver, but on certificates that deposits had been made, and the certificates became money. He had shown that the banks of Sweden issued money directly on land upon mortgages to two-thirds of the value of the land. He did not sec why that rule could not be applied to cotton, which varied less from century to century than silver. Senator Butler?Will you state whether the money in Norway and Sweden is issued by the banks or by the government? Colonel Watson?The money of the banks is authorized by the government, aiTff'Tt clfctittftfer Jbat" as; greenbacks'' circulate here. That is, that the certificates are convertible into money as good as greenbacks. A voice?"I don't wish to trouble * the debute, but I would like to ask you a question." Colonel Watson?All right. Go ahead. You can't trouble the debate. The voice?"I have no land. How will your land loan benefit me?" Another voice?"Oh, don't mind him; he is a preacher." Colonel Watson?Suppose you have no land, will the change leave you in any worse condition than you are now ? If a man has nothing and don't want to make anything, he is unfortunate and we can't help him. Now, boys, I think he is in trouble, isn't he ? But I do say that if the neighbors around you make plenty of com and cotton and get money at 2 per cent, they will take care of the one-armed people of this country. [Applause and cheers.] Colonel Watson, in answer to another question, said that the tenants would be benefitted because they could get money on the surplus over the rent. Anyhow, said Colonel Watson, I have been compared to the Messiah, and he came to heal the sick and not the well, [laughter and applause,] and besides, you must remember that when one of you asked Gencral'Butler how to get money to put in State banks, he told him to go and work for it. [Laughter and applause.] How do you feel now, sonny ? [More laughter and applause.] A voice?"Are you going to vote for Crisp?" Colonel Watson?Gentlemen, that fellow sounds exactly like a last year's April fool. [Laughter.] The voice?"I want to know who you are going to vote for for speaker?" Colonel Watson?The man that stands nearest the Ocala platform. In answer to a suggestion from Mr. Jas. P. Bean, Colonel Watson said that there would be no expense in issuing the certificates except in the paper and the ink. As to the dispute between Senator Butler and Dr. Stokes, it was a question of evidence. Some people affirmed what he is reported to have said, and the senator and others denied it. He thought it strange that Senator Butler had not corrected it in his favorite paper, The News and Courier, which was Anti-Alliance and a supporter of the senator. Senator Butler?I did correct it in The Cotton Plant. Colonel Wutson, continuing his speech, said that he did not know much about politics in South Carolina, but he knew the Alliance was JetTersonian Democratic in Georgia. [Applause.] He claimed that the force bill was killed through the orders of the National Alliance convention at Ocala. Colonel Watson devoted a great part of his argument after this to the need of an income tax. Kccurring to the 2 per cent, difficulty at Prosperity, Colonel Watson used this language: "You have admitted, general, that your own paper on that reported an infamous lie." Senator Butler?No, sir, I did not. I said that whoever said that I charged 40,000 farmers of South Carolina with heing theives and scoundrels, were infamous liars. Colonel Watson, with the assent of Senator Butler, took a hand primary as follows: "Those men in this audience who believe that the Ocala platform is pure Jefferson inn Democracy hold up your right hands." Here the right hands of about nine-tenths of those who voted declared it was. Then a similar vote was taken on the subtreasury plan with tin same result. Colonel Watson?Now I hope the reporters will put down that an oveiwhelming majority of the audience voted for the Ocala platform. Near the close of this speech, Senator Butler said : I would like you, Colonel .Watson, to come down more practically on the subject of Democracy. I would like to ask you if the Ocala platform is submitted to the National Democratic convention and it is rejected, will you stand by the national convention? Colonel Watson?Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. Voice?Oh, no, that won't do, that won't do. Colonel Watson?Well, my people are my bosses, not yon. They told me to stand by the Oeala platform, and I am going to do it if I meet my politieal death by it, and I shall die with colors wrapped around my body. [Applause.] Continuing, Colonel Watson attacked the record of Cleveland, said he wotdil not vote for him, and the farmel's could not expect the abolition of national banks so long as a Wall street banker was chairman of the national | executive committee. ; Colonel Watson subsequently took a hand primary as to who was right in j the debate, he or Senator Butler, and it resulted pretty much as before. Colonel Watson?I think, general, j you are in a minority here to-day. | (Jeneral Butler?(>, no, I am not. ! Yoiees?uHe will get there all the i same." Colonel Watson?This crowd is with 1 me, sure as you live. I can swear to a crowd like this. I Shortly after tlii* Colonel Watson ' concluded his speech, his friends cheer- I i ing vociferously, and (Jeneral Butler's | friends hurrahing for Butler, and ! everybody to all appearances in a very j laudable and lovely good humor. fikr/Y" Before the war there was no such j flower as the daisy in Virginia. The { hardy flower was a curiosity. Now ! | the fields around Richmond are white ! j with them. This is especially so of ; the late battlefields about the Chicka- j hominy river and wherever the Feder- | als had encampments. An investiga- i j tion shows that the seeds of the prolific daisy were brought here in the bales of hay brought by the I'nion soldiers to Virginia when they were I camped near the city. An old battery west of Richmond is the spot from which the daisy began to spread. tfii" Why people will gel mad with j each fuller because they hold different j opinions, is one of the greatest mystc- 1 fics of the world. I'id you ever sec two leaves, or roses, that were exactly alike? No? Then why do you ex- . poet other people's mind to be like j ! yours ? I THE t'AKJlKKS AAV main surrmco. "W. A." Criticises "X's Banker?A Plea for Better Roads. Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. Blackbburg, September 8.?We are having genuine autumn weather, cool, hazy mornings and evenings and warm sunny days. Our farmers are busy saving their fodder and hay, and it is to be hoped that they will have enough to sell some, even if they don't raise a surplus of corn, oats and wheat. They have been advised all along to raise enough of the above, along with similar commodities, to supply their home wants, and before they hardly have time to get in the habit of doing that well. Your Bethesda correspondent's banker wants to buy thousands of bushels of corn, and oats, and hams, and flour from them. This seems to be rushing the poor farmer, too fast. He is already overburdened with good advice, from all the other trades and professions, and this last is the "most unkindest cut of all." Give him time and the advantages of his Alliance experience and he may yet lie able to furnish Mr. Banker with all the farm products he will care to "buy.* The fact'is, that the South always having been almost entirely an agricultural region, when a farmer did raise a surplus of breadstuflfs, and would oflcr them for sale, the prices he received were discouraging, and the markets of our ftittle towns and villages were easily^atisfied to say nothing of the competition from the great Northwest. The recent introduction of manufacturing on our water courses, and in our towns and villages, is opening up a better market for breadstuflb, vegetables and fruits, and I feel sure , that our farmers will not be slow in taking advantage of the new state of affairs, and will turn their attention and energies to the cultivation of corn, wheat, etc., and especially to truck farming. Of course it will be hard for them to break off from the habit and fascination of making cotton, their principal crop, for like all the rest of mankind, the money which it is sure to bring in the fall, has a wonderful charm, and then it all comes in a lump and they are not troubled with selling their products by the small. But the change will certainly come, by sheer force of circumstances, if not voluntarily, and a pointer to it is the recent combine of the cotton pickers to de- . mand one dollar per hundred for picking cotton. I am glad to know that the Rock Hill section is to have good public roads, I wish I could say the same of those leading into Blacksburg. The most of them have been gone over by the "hands," but they seem not to have taken much pride in working them. The oldtime ditches across the road are not so numerous. They course along about the middle of the road now, and are very convenient for the wheels to run in. The only road, which I think will meet the approval of our county commissioner, when he does come round to inspect them, is ' ' " i m 1 tne one leading irom nere 10 vmeruK.ee Falls factory, of which Mr. R. P. Roberts is overseer, and I would advise our county commissioner to go over that first, and then he will know how the others ought to be worked, w. a. How Matches were First Made. It was in 1805 that the notion of chemical matches was first conceived. In that year a French professor introduced for the purpose a small bottle of asbestos, saturated with strong sulphuric acid, into which little sticks of wood, coated with sulphur and tipped with a mixture of chlorate of potash and sugar, were to be introduced when a light was wanted. When the wooden splint thus prepared was brought in contact with the acid in the bottle ignition followed. In the same year matches tipped with lumps of phosphorous seem to have been known, but they caught fire too readily by spontaneous combustion to render them very desirable for household use. An improvement was introduced in 1823, when equal parts of sulphur and phosphrous were melted together in a glass tube, which was securely corked. When a light was desired a small stick was poked into the tube and a particle of the mixture withdrawn on the end of it. On exposure to the air the substance caught fire spontaneously.?Washing ton Star. Extraordinary Jumping Feats.? The jumping and pole vaulting feats of our contemporary athletes seem but the work of babies and pigmies, when compared with the extraordinary doings of the old time acrobats. If history is to be believed, Phayllus, of Crotona, could stand and make a fifty-six foot jump on a dead level. He was one of the main athletes at the old Olympic games, his enormous jump forming part of the course of the Pentathlon. Strutt, the noted English author on games and amusements, speaks of a Yorkshire jumper, named Ireland, whose powers were something marvelous. He was six feet high at the age of eighteen, at which time, without the aid of springs or spring hoard, he leaped over nine horses-ranged side by side, and at another time lightly cleared a heavy wagon which was covered with an awning. Colonel Ironsides, who made a voyage from England to India, early in tho present century, relates that he met in liis travels an old white haired man, who, with a single bound, cleared the hack of an enormous elephant, Hanked on either side with six camels of the largest breed.?St. Louis Republic. Bfet?" An instance where five hundred dollars was paid is mentioned in the following extract from a letter written by Josh Billings in reply to an anxious correspondent who asked for his autograph. "We never," wrote the humorist, "furnish ortografls in less quantities than hi the packig. It is a bi/.zincss that grate men have got into, but it don't strike us as being profitable nor amusing. We furnished a near ami very dear friend our ortogratr a few years ago for ninety days, and it got into the hands ov oneov the banks, and it kost lis five hundred dollars tew get it hack. We went out ov the bizziness then, and have not hankered for it since." tfrif' In digging out the colossal statue of Kamcscs II,!) ft., 4 in., of consolidated Nile niud had to be removed before the platform was reached. This platform was laid 18(51 years before Christ, in the reign of Kamcscs. Hence three and one-half inches of this consolidated mud represents a century, there having lapsed 8,lM"> years since then, ruder the platform a depth of 80 feet of Nile mild had to he penetrated before sandy soil was reached,and according to this 10,000 more years must have elapsed. Pieces of pottery were found there that show the Kgyptains to have possessed enough civilization to form and bake vessels of clay 18,000 years ago. 8k/>"' A curious case of gross superstition was recently brought before the criminal sessions court at Samaria, in Russia. Six peasants were tried and sentenced to imprisonment for terms of various duration up to four months, Ibr deliberately disinterring the body of a woman who had died of intoxication, and Moating it down the Volga, as a means of causing rain. It seems to be quite a lixed belief among the Russian peasantry that throwing the dead body of a drunkard into the river is a sure cure for want of rain.