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SNATOR viAMPTON'S SOLUTIQr How the Ncgroilrobicm in the South 'Aould be Met and Settled. Senaor Wade Hampton has an ar ticle on the race problem in the July Arena. He declares the conferring ihe right of suffinge on the negro was a violation of the constitution, and he quotes General Grant's message as follows to sustain that position: "A measure which mtkes at once four millions of people voters who were heretofore declaredby the high est tribunal in the land, no citizens of the United States, not eligibIe to be come so, is indeed a measure of grander importance than any one other act of the kind from the foun dation of our fr.ee government to the present day." He also says the Republicans admit that giving the negroes suffrage was a mistake, though they cannot afford to say so in public, because they would lose the negro vote. He also says an overwhelming majority of the people of the country would vote for the abrogation of the negros right of suffrage if it was submitted to them, but as it will never be submitted, he thinks the next best thing i. deporta tion of the negroes by their own con sent, and with lavish appropriations by the federal aovernment for their help. rrage He asks why the right of suff should be given the negro when it is denied the Indian and te Chinese. "The former," says he, "was cer-, tainly a citizen of this country until it was wrested from his hands, and the latter can boast a much higher civilization than a negro has ever or will ever attain. and yet in his case the most brutal laws have been en acted, not only to exclude him from citizenship, but to drive him from the country, in violatibn of solemn treaty stipulation. Such has been the in consistency of the Republican party. In their senseless advocacy of uni versal suffrage, they have not only thrown wide open the doors leading to American citixenship, admitting thus the anarchist, the communist, the nihilist and all other, scum of European nations, but they have in Ajected into our body politic millions of ignorant, uneducated blacks, who have no more comprehension of our system of government than their A-rican forefathers had. And all the evil resulting from this frightful crime falls on that portion of the country where, but a few years ago, these newly enfranchised voters were salves. The crusade made against slavery was on the ground that the condition of servitude brought men to the level of beasts, unfitting them to discharge any of the datieso manhood. But when the direful e igencies of the war forced the North to call the crdored brother to its aid, to escapse aefeat, as a reward for his eminent services, he was clothed with the attributes of American citizen p, thus giving him the power to take possession of those States in 4which he had been for centuries a slave. Now, if slavery had debased himto the condition of a beast, he was scarcely fitted to assume rule of ~great, free andproudcommonwealths; Sif he was fitted todo so, then slavery had done more for his race than all the missonaries who had labored for igenerations in Africa to rescue him Rfrom barbarism and savagery. Our friends whose chief poclcapital isathe negro, may choose which'ever h ornof this dilemmapromistp-gog ~ hemleist.~ But we tmust meet ihe fact that thenegro, whether rightfully ior, wrongfully, is a citizen and a ~;voter, and this fact gives a right and buignifiance tothe racepro~imwhich " threatenssuchdisaster to the countrny, Sd 'to all of its most cherished in K "One solution of the question has vbeen alluded to, that of revoking Snegro citizenship, but it has been dis ,missed as impracticable, because our people have not the courage to face ~ this issue which would rectify the greatest 'wrong ever inflicted on a free people. "As this remedy cannot be'applied, we must turn to the 'next bestthing,' and in my judgment that would be 'the deportation of the negroes, of -ecurse by their consent, to some ttlace where they could work out their own destiny, free from contact ~ with the white race, and where they could prove their capacity for self government,if they possess it Thous ands of them, and many of the best, Jiave expressed a wish to try this ex periment, and our government should aid them, not only with a liboeral, but a lavish hand. Let us help them to establish a nationality for themselves, when they can show to the world that the lessons they have learned here have borne good fruit, and that the savage who was brought from Africa is now a civilized, law-abiding, self 'sntaining man, fit to take his place ~among the nations of the earth, and to berecognized in the great family of ci'azed peoples. Africa, the na tive home of the negro, still sends forth her 'Macedonian cry' for relig ion and civilization, and here the negro of America could find ample field to redeem a continent from bar bar."__ A Gruesome Hour. The law of Minnesota, which re quires that the execution of a mur "derer shall take place between mid night and dawn, has just been en forced for the first time in the case of Wiliam Beodker, who was hanged shortly after midnight at Pine City. The Minnesota lawgivers seem to have desired toaddgloom and solem nity to a ceremony most gruesome at best, but the hour must be a very in convenient and untimely one for the murderer himself. Every attentive reader of the accounts of execution ers knows that a baby never enjoys balmier and sweeter slumber than a condemned murderer the night be fhre he is to be hanged. He also knows that he takes a very excellent and hearty breakfast in the morning The refreshing sleep and the hearty breakfast are always the features of the few hours that precede an execu tion. But under the new law there will be no such enjoyment for the murderer in Minnesota. He will go to bed after supper, be called up in the middle of his sleep, and be hang ed on an empty stomach.-Chicago Herald._______ * -The other day a North Carolina woman started for the haymow to see how a& hen was getting along that wa's sittng on some eggs. On en tering the barn the woman was s'. prised to see the old hen taking her chicks down herself. She would p)ick up one in her mouth, fly down with it, lay it down, and continue the pro cess until she carried them all down. thirteen in number. --Davis Dalton, an American, wui attempt to swim across the English channel from Folkestone to Boulogne next month. MAY ROB US ANOTHER WAY rIepublicans May R ush Through an A ppor tionment Bascd on a False Cemus. WASmNrGTo. D. C. Jly 10.-There is a revival of th- scheme mentioned in the Star some time ago of crowd ing an appointment bill through the present Congress while the Republi cans have a safe majority in both Houses. The results of the census just cmpleted, or alleged to be com pleted. will control the basis of reprg sentation in the lower house of Con gress for the next ten years. . A pre liminary summary of the results, in formally submitted to the Republi can bosses, it is said, shows large gains received in the Republican States of the Northwest, while in the Democratic Southern States there is made to appear a falling off in popu lation *hich will materially reduce the basis of representation. Some of the Republioan leaders in the Senate are quietly urging upon their col leagues that by the prompt tabula tion of the returns of the eleventh census and the speedy passage of an apportionment bill based thereon, a continuation of the power of the Republican party in the lower House can be more effectually assured than by the passage of the Lodge Election law. They argue that the provisions of the force bill are so repugnant to the general sentiment of the com munities in which it is proposed to put them in operation that the exe cution of the law, even if it can be passed by the Senate, it is believed, will be practically impossible. A new apportionment, on the other hand, passed by a Republican House and Senate, and approved by a Republi can President, striking off fifteen or twenty representatives from districts now represedted by Democrats, and adding thirty or forty new members to States deemed reliably Republican, it is hoped, will give a steady work ing majority in the House for ten years to come. The trouble is with the next elec tion. Even the most reckless parti san hardly dare to suggest that the new apportionment bill should be made to apply to the elections to take place next November, and for which a large number of nominations have already been made on the present recognized lines. A tentative sug gestion, timely advanced, is that un til the Legislatures of the different States have had time to adjust their Congressional districts to the new ap portionment, Congress might enact a law maintaining the districts as exist ing in the present Congress. This, it is thoxght, might avert threatened los %es in Ohio and Iudiana and answer the purpose .contemplated by the McComas national gerrymander bill. But this proposition is not supported with sufficient strength to insure its passage by the House and it would surely fail in the Senate. So the plan reverts to the original idea of crowd ing the new apportionment bill through before the expiration of the fifty-first Congress, whiie all three branches of the government are in the hands of the same party, without waiting to take any risks off the next November elections. superintendent Porter can, of course, be relied upon to facilitate this scheme in every way by hasten ig the final tabulation a2nd report. On all previous occasions the new ap portionment based on the completed enus has been made in a leisurely and orerly-mriner by the Congress succeeding the 'one which controlled the taking of the census. The pro priety of this course would seem ap parent to any party less bent on per petuating its own power, regardless of the means employed.--New York Star. THE FARMERS' COMMITTEE. A 3Ieeting in colombiatoniscuss the situa tioza - Commna, S. C., July 7.--In re sponse to some understanding appar ently reached by private communica tion, a number of the leaders of the Tillman movement assembled in this city to-day for a conference. Among those present were Capt. G. W. Shell, Laurens, another of the famous manifesto-or of that part of it which Capt. Tillmon does not cim-Col. J. L.M.i Irby, of Laurens; T. W. Standland, of Berkeley; Octa vus Cohen, of the Charleston World; J. T. Murphy, of Charleston; H. R. Thomas, of Edgefield, and others. Capt. Tillman by reason of the de lay of the Augusta train, did not reach here until 7:30 and took the 8:15 train to Camden without coming up town. The number of conferees was increased by the arrival of J. A. Slioh and W. D. Hardy, Newberry; A. V. Jones, Abbeville; Dr. W. B. Rice, Barwell: 0. W. Buchanan, Fair fele: W. H. Timmerman, Edgefield; . E. Tindal, Clarendon, and H. A. Meetze arid J. H. Counts, Lexing The conference first assembled to night at the Agricultural building' but hastily adjourned on the dis covery by a late arriving delegate that a reporter hadelimbed a tree within a few feet of an open window where the meeting was held. The confer ence resumed its session at the Grand Central in a room on the second floor with guards posted to keep at a dis tance representatives of the press. Capt. Shell presided and the situa tion was thoogl~dsusd The sense of the majority present, it is learned, was in favor of making no nominations at the August conven tion, but to vote down the proposi tion of a State primary, and to also elect a new State executive committee of known Tillman tendency. It was also proposed by some to have the convention take action for the reapportionment of the State at the September convention, taking the population of the counties by the census of 1880 as the basis, instead of asnow. The members of the conference talked with express the greatest con fidence in being able to control both the August and September conven tions for the farmers' movement. Augusta Chronicle. A Shocking Accident. A dreadful accident occurred near Chpells Depot,in Newberry county las. Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Dan Hollnd and a negro woman were driving in a sulky. They were en doring to get ahead of a rain storm which was coming up, and in crossing a small stream the sulky was thrown off the bridge, turning it over. Mrs. Holland's foot caught in the siirrup of the upturned sulky, and the hrse, becon.ing frightened, ran away, killing Mrs. Holland and seriously hurting the negro woman. _Mrs. Holland was only 16 years ola. and had only been married about two ITEMS OF INTEREST. -Mr. Blaine favors sole govern menit coitrol of Mississippi River improvements. -A Hungarian paper announces the death of a veteran of Waterloo. ag-ed 105 ye-ars. in his native villaae. Hatszeg, in Transylvania. -Colored citizens of Birmingham Ala., propose to start a bank there. owned1. officered .,nd patronized by their own race. with a capital of $50, 000. -The newly appointed woman deputy factory inspectors for the State of New York will receive a sal ary of $1,010 a year and their ex penses. -Dr. Meredith, a Brooklyn preacher, has established a second reading room for workingnen, where no re striction is placed on smoking cigars and pipes. -A huge tower, eleven stories high, is to be erected at South Kingston, B. I., and dedicated to the advent of modern spiritualism, .by Joseph P. Hazzard, a wealthy spiritualist of that place. -George Eliot made S75,000 by her great novel "Middlemarch." That is much more than Gen. Lew Wal lace has yet realized from his very popular "Ben Hur." George Eliot also made $35,000 by her "Romale." -A St. Petersburg doctor is stopped late at night by a policeman, who asks why he is out so lat e. "To at tend Mr. Popoff, who was taken ill." "Did he have a permit to be taken suddenly ill?" "No." "Then you will have to go to prison."--Detroit Free Press. -Dr. W. Gilmore Thompson, of New York, has made several success ful experiments in transplanting brain tissue from the head of one dog to that of another, and from cats to dog's heads. He is now considering the practicability of transplanting human brains in the same way. -Augusta is having a warm fight over the confirmation of Postmaster Denning. He is opp6sed on several grounds, including physical disability and a charge that he once "raised" and approved a bill against tne city and collected on it several hundred drollars more than was due him. -In the Louisiana parishes so far heard from the censas shows the white increase of population to have been greatei since 1880 than the colored increase, and to such an ex tent that if the parishes yet to be heard from turn out as expected Lou isiaa will be "white" by 16,651 ma jority. -During the fiscal year just closed, the pension office issued 151,651 cer tificates. The number issued during the preceding year was 145,292. Of the number issued during the past year, 66,637 were original pensions, which is an increase of nearly 15,000 as compared with the number issued during the preceding year. -A special to the Chattanooga Times says it has been found that the collapse of the Briscoe building in Knoxville was caused by a cave under the building. The centre support dropped into a 6ave of unknown depth, not yet explored, but a stone dropped into it can be heard to hit the bottom "away down." -A curious fashion has come into vogue in Paris. In all the cemeteries metal boxes with a slit in the lid are placed on the tombstones to receive the cards of visitors. The relatives of the deceased are thus enabled to see who among the living still cherish the memory of their departed friends. --It is stated that a German artill ery officer has succeeded in making a new explosive from carbolic acid that a shell filled with this material possesses a power hitherto unobtain ed. Experiments made with these shells throtn from mortars have all, it is stated, proved highly success ful. --During a dispute over a calf at Camas Prairie, Oregon, recently Ed Rinehardt hit Helm McConnell on the head with a heavy plug of to bacco. In order to prevent a suit charging him with assault with ra deadly weapon, Rinehardt paid $10, besides giving over the calf and the plugof tobacco. -There are only five States in the Union in which a schoolmaster can now legally flog a pupil. In all other States a pupil menaced with corporal punishment can arm himself with any secret weapon and use it as he best can. Massachusetts- teachers flog an average of two boys per day per capita. -The guests in an up-town res taurant were considerably shocked and then amused the other night to see a well-dressed woman pour water from a tumbler into a napkin and deliberately washi her face andhands. She didn't seem at all disturbed by the snickering, and paid her bill as indifferently as if it had been for a Turkish bath.-New York World -During the eleven months ending May 31st, the European immigrants arriving in the United States num bered a fr-action over 400,000-more than equal to the number of inhabi tants of any one of the twelve States of the Uniori. Nearly one-half came from Great Britain and Ireland, the others from the continent-Italy, Hungary, Poland, Germany, Hol land, etc. Sam Jones on Public Men. Rev. Sam Jones addressed an im mense audience at the prohibition camp grounds near Mounmdsville, West Virginia, on Sunday, touching up quite a number of nan onal characters in the course of hi remarks. Of United States Senator Matthew Quay, of Pennslyvania,he said: "Talk about wickedness. Look at Matt. Quay. There you find it personified. Unless he repents he'll go where the fire dieth not.'' Turning his attention to President Harrison, Mr.Jones said: "He's small. I saw a picture of him under his grandfather's hat a few days ago. They might have put the whole Har rison family under the hat and still have had lots of room." The Rev. Mr. Jones eulogized ex President -Grover Cleveland in pic turesque language, saying at one time: "There's a man with a back bone as big as that pillar there. If he hadn't so much spine he might have been President still." -Two girls of the same age and nearly the same name were placed in a French institution for the care of friendless children ten years ago. Some time ago one of them was taken out by her supposed mother, given a handsome dowry and married. The other gir'l now comes forward with offers of proof that she is the real daughter, and she claims the dowry, if not the husband, of her LODGE AND HEMPHILL. Pen Pictures of the Leaders in the Elec tions U iul Comt est. There Is a striking contiast be tween .31!r. Lodg,. the leader of tI:e Rfephblican forces ill the ontest over the federal electionL bill. mai;l Mr. Heuph-ill. who by virtue of his posi tion on the committeeou the eleetion of President and "Viev-Presidetu. is at the head of the oppo:ition. Mr. Lodge has more contradictory traits of character than any man I know of in the House. Hc is a curious coin bination of liberal reformer and dema gogue; of broad intelligence and bit ter partisanship. In his character as partisan lie is admired by his col leagues and has a considerable fol lowing. As a reformerhe has scarcely any following in the House and is sneered at by those who are his as sociates and admirers in his other character. His associates are of two classes. Those who follow hi-, lead on the federal election question call him a political dude when he talks civil service reform. When he ap pears as a reformer of politicad meth ods he is superb but ineffective, but in party intrigue he will go further than some of his less intellectual and less enlightened associates. He is clever however, in the assumption of high motive in his partisan action, and is too shrewd to use denunciation instead of argument. The best pre sentation of his side of the Federal election question that has been made, and the best that can be made. was that which was made in his opening argument. He is not an orator ana never rises to the point of eloquence. His speeches are finished literary pro ductions, and he delivery them with an appearance of earnestness. He is a fair representative of the intelligent but bigoted young Republicans of New England. still retaiidng the strain of Puritan blood. Mi. Hemphill is a good represen tative of the progressive young men of the South. If Mr. Reed, in a spirit of magnanimity, had so de signed it, he could not have done bet ter for the Democrats than he did in the appointment of Mr. Hemphill to the head of the minority committee which was to consider this bill. He is not a fire eater. He is calm, dis passionate, logical and a goodlawyer. It would be much easier to throw Mr. Reed, Mri. Lodge or any other cold-blooded New Englander into a passion than to provoke an indiscre tion on the part of this young South Carolinian. He is fair and frank. His speech is slow and somewhat halting at first. There is never any thing in his manner to provoke an tagonism; he never forgets to be courteous to his opponent, however bitter that oppenent may be. He is not as graceful a writer as is Mr. Lodge, his periods may not be quite as well rounded, he does not attempt as much effect with his voice, but as he advances with his argument, feel ing what he says, as he did on open ing theecase for the South in this dis cussion, he becomes eloquent without effort and without knowing it. There is a frank earnestness inwhat he says which impressess his hearers. His voice, his manner and his speech ap peal for fair play, and give promise of fair play in return. His speeches are the work of a lawyer rather than a litterary man, but he is a scholarly and as able as is the young statesman from Massachusetts. The contrast between the two men is such as to make them suitable antagonists. 1\either side could have been repre sented by any one who could present the case at opening better than the men selected An expression of arrogance is stamped on Mr. Lodge's face, and one naturally expects some bitterness in his speech. But he is never dis courteous either in language or man ner. He maintains an air of superi ority, however, which is sometimes offensive. Mr. Hemphill is extremely modest and is one of the most amiable men in the House. During the eight or ten year's I have known him I have never seen him lose his temper in debate. THE VETO OF THE LOTTERY .BILL. What Gov.Nicholls Predicts as the Result of the Passage of the Bill, Governor Nicholls,iof Louisina, in his recent veto of the lottery bill, said: I say to this general assembly in all earnestness that should this meas ure be passed we will enter upon a period of strife such as has never been seen before in Louisiana, and should this contemplated corpora ton ever be formed, we shall enter npon an era of corruption and degra dation,beside which the era of Recon struction will appear as one of honor and happiness. And let me say that should this measure be adopted and carried out, in my opinion no good will ever come of the money which we will receive as the price of your honor and our liberty. Extravagance, profligacy and corruption will assuredly follow the receipt as night follows day. I feel thoroughly satisfied that the fact of the adoption of the measure will be that while the six-mill taxes will be kept thero will be an immediate falling off in the Legislative appro priations for charitable and other purposes for which this money will have been directed to be applied, and a wondrous corresponding increase of the application of the generalfund to the payment of the interest bear ing debt. At the end of twenty-five years there will be;the same claim of pover ty in Louisiana and the same claim on its behalf for the continued exist ence of the lottery. So far as a claim for necessity of the present mteas ure is sough to be predicated upon the assumed condition of the poverty of Louisiana, I, as its governor, pro nounce it totally without justification or warrant. Some other motive for this measure must be found than that her people are unable honorably to carry out the duties of State hood. Knowing this measure as I do, as one dishonoring and degrad ing Louisiana, it has met, as it will continue to meet, my most determined opposition. A Man's Simple Rights. Miss Parkwood: "Do you know sir, I could sue y on f r breach of promise?" Findly Place: "Oh. I guess not. "Why, sir, did you not ask me to marry you?" "Yes.'' "And I co'nsented?" "Yes." "Well, sii?' "Well, I didn't promise. did If ou were the one that did that. I presume I have the right to ask you a civil question, have I not, without running the risk of being dragged THE SONGS OF AULD LANG SYNE. No 3usic Iair S- Sweet as the Memory ol Those Tender Lines. "The mothers of to-day do not sing as the mothers did in laun: syne." said a man whose business cares have never oveIcome aLd -rowded out the soul of )oetry and the memory of a happy boy. hood. --You seldom hear a woman singing about the house now." "So it is. The modern mother does not sing as our (ear uld-fashioned mothers uSed to sing. She has little time to herself. and if she didn't have the advantages of a musical education sihe says she cannot sing. Thea, too, the songs of to-day are not like and never will be like those old songs. They do not touch the heart and give the heart's feeling utter ance through the lips. There are beautiful songs set to music, of course, and wonderful voices sin,- them on the stage and in the drawinmg-room, but how seldom it is we hear a song that thrills and charms us and brings the ,pearls of feeling" to our eyes. A voice pleases us and we bear home the satisfaction of having heard an artist of artists, but we will forget the singer and the song long before we forget one word or note of the one who sang "Bonnie Doon" and "Annie Laurie." There are those of us who will nevex forget the summer evenings, the ripple of the brook in the distance, the stir of the woodbine leaves around the win dow, the sweet fragrance of the "birk" from the neighborin- wood, when- the mother sang "Afton Water" and rocked her baby to sleep. And then there were other songs that stirred our childish hearts, "The Soldier's Dream": Our bugles sung truce, for the night cloud had lowered And the sentinel stars set their watch In the sky; When thousands had sunk to the ground over powered, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die. Deposing that night on my pallet of straw. By the wolf-scaring faggot that guarded the slain. In the dead of the night a swoot vision I saw. And thrice ere the morning I dreamed it again. Our childish imagination could picture the soldier, always handsome, in his uniform lying down on the field of battle to sleep under the stars, the pine knots' blaze scaring away the prowling wolves, and he dreaming of hearing his "own mountain goats bleating aloof," and of hearing "the sweet song that the corn reapers sung." There was another song, old, very old: "On the Lake WhereeDrooped the Willow," the story of a oirl who died in autumn. And: "rll hIng My Harp on the Willow Tree," which later-day Bacon-Shakspeareans tell us was dedi cated to her Majesty, Victoria. There was "Jeannette and Jeanot" -Old Kentucky Home," and "Suwanee River," and to-day we cannot listen to 0. take me to my kind old mother. There let me live and die, whether sung in soft, weird tones of a jubilee singer, the pathetic ones of little Kavanagh or the every-day street Arab, without a rush of tender feeling. There was another song, a regular bed-time song in its wooin- sweetness. It was "The Cuckoo": 0 When winter comes the woods is my home, In summer I sing in the meadows. How we liked to hear about the little bird that hid itself away in the brush in the winter, and in the springtime its plaintiff -cuckoo." "cuckoo," was the sure harbinger of south winds and warm showers. And last and best of allwas that song of "Clari, the Maid of Milan": 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. No. there is no place like home. and there are no songs like those of the old time, and there is no music b'alf so sweet as the memory of those tender notes.-Bu{faoNews. A High-Priced Artist. In an elegantly appointed studio, not a hundred miles from Hartford, sat one of our noted artists in thought. He was earnestly contemplating a design for a cathedral window, and a look of annoyance flashed across his face as the door suddenly flung open to admit the figure of a lady. The look vanished instantly, however, as the artist ad vance to meet his visitor. 'Are you Mr. --?" asked the lady shortly, yet casting a furtive glance at her muddy boots, buried deep in the pile of t~ie beautiful Persian rug. "I am, madam." "Well," continued the lady, with an air of importance, "I have brought you a commission. I want you to de sign the toe of this slipper for me. The design itself is to be embroidered in the shape of a slipper. It is for the City Mission fair and I must have it im mediately. Can't you do it while 3 wait?" "Pardon me, madam," courteously replied the artist, "your kindness in giving me the commission is fully ap preciated, but as I have not the honor of knowing you I must ask you to pay me in advance." "Oh, certainly." responded the lady, with a-rent readiness, drawing out a well-filed purse. "How much will it "Four hundred and seventy-five dol lars. madam." " What!" screamed his visitor. '"Four hundred and seventy-five dol lars," calmly responded the gentle man. " What do you mean?" demanded the lady, growmng more and more as tonished. "-Just what I say, madam." quietly answvered the artist. "I think yet: have made some mistake. The com mission von have pleased to bring me is entirely out of my line. If you will visit one of the places for fancy stamp ing, in Pratt or Trumble street yor will succeed in getting your work done to your entire satisfaction, I have no doubt." The lady gave a final glance around the studlio, filled with European curios of every description and adorned with artistic works, from the magnificent picture in oils, covering half the wall, to a dainty, delicious little landscape, which in its very delicacy was a marvel, and, with another look at her muddy shoe and a paxrtina. "Well, I don't be lieve you are the Tind of artist I am looking for," (to which the gentleman courteously replied: "I am afraid not, madam") she sailed Out of the room, remarking to herself-as she savagely punched the elevator annunciator, and glared at twvo conflicting shades of red, which were mentally swearing at each other about her dress-"I thought artists were always ready for work, and glad to get it, too."-Hartford Courant. Tennyson N. Twiggas-"Woula it make any difference if Ishould read this poem to you, or leave it here for you to read?" The Editor-"Yes, I think it would. If you leave it you'll go out of the door; but if you read it you may go out of the window."- -Lippincott's Mag azine. Father-'"My son, you must not dis pute with your mother in that way." Bo-"But she's in the wrong." Faher- "That makes no difference, and you might as well learn, my child, once for all, that when a lady says a thing is so it is so, even if It isn't so." A Sunday-school teacher was giving a lesson in Ruth. She wanted to bring out the kindness of Boaz in command ing the reapers to drop large handfuls of wheat. "Now, children,"' she said, "Boaz did another nice thing for Ruth; an you tell me what it was?" "Married her," said one of the boys. Homicide in Lane.Ister County. On Wednesday afternoon last as Mr. J. E. Kennington and Mr. H. B. M1assey o Flat Cr: ( T o1:)ALiip't V'r returning to tleir' homes fro:n Ker --haw they levamin dinn- a f ii culty. in which the lat:k'r wl sr- - by the forimr in tbe mouth. T' matter ended there.:md on1 the fol lowing day Mr. Kennington went into Mr. Massey's yard and hallooed. Mr. Massey, who was at the' dianer table. went out to where h. was. and soon the two vwere heard passirg loud words. by inmates of the house. Mr. W. J. Blakeney. who was at the din ner table. jumped up and ran to the door just as Kennington said: "If are not satisfied, I can salisfy you:" at which Massey drew his pistol and fired twice at Kennington. one ball taking effect in his body about two and a half inches to the left of his naval. At this ifr. Kennington ran off and Mr. Massey walked b.ck into his house. Mr. Kennington was a stout, io bust man, about 35 years old, and leaves a wife and five er six small children. Mr. Massey is about the same age and has a wife and four small chil dren. He came to towi and surren dered to the Shcriff on Monday.-Iaa caster Ledger. Anot her Convention Called. The tenants, hirelings and laborers of every vocation, -also those that sympathize with them and desire the betterment of their condition, and who look upon "Tillmanism" as the synonym of a landed aristocracy or ganized to opp-ess and deprive them of their rights as freemen, are hereby called to meet at their various county seats on Monday, August 4th, 1890, and to elect delegates to double the number of the members they have in the General Assembly of the State to a convention of laborers and freemen, to.be held in tho city of Columbia, S. C., on August 27th, 1890, for the pur pose df taking iito co-.sideration the betterment of their condition, and, if found practicable, to nominate a State ticket, from Governor down, subject to the Democratic State Convention. M V oTRs. Born With Teeth. Yesterday morning Mrs. Carl Kim ble, J No. 44 Kindel avenue, gave birth to twins. Tne doctors. who were in attendance at the birth of the babes noticed that they were exceptionally large and well develop ed. Greatly to their surprise upon examining one of the twins it was discovered that it posessedtwo large lower front teeth, which are at least an eighth of an inch in length and perfectly formed. The teeth are of a pearly whiteness and look as natu ral as those of a child six or eight years old. This is a rare occurrence, and a similar one has never been re corded before. There have been cases where there was one tooth when a single child was born but never before when there were twins. -Cincinnati Enquirer. Drinks for Warm Weather. "Lemonade and butter milk are as good as anything drinkable that you can find for this weather," said a physician. - "They both are great things tc quench thirst. They both act as a pleasant tonic ::o the stomach and they have a stiomulating quality. But they should not be drunk ice-cold That is, bits of ice should not be in the goblet. Let them be as cold as the ice chest or refrigerator can make them, but not more than that. When you pour down your throat a pint or so of fluid that is fresh from the ice temporary paralysis of the stomach follows. If a man happens to be very hot, such a thing not in frequently is as fatal as lightning." The Color of It ater. What is the color of pure water! Almost any person who has no special knowledge of the subject will reply at once "It has no color." Yet every body knows, either through hearsay or by evidence of his own eyes, that the ocean looks blue. Why the ocean looks blue is a question that few who have crossed it have ever sought to solve, says Nature, and there are probable many travelers who, though they have seen most of the famous rivers and lakes in the world, have failed to notice the remarkable differ ence in color which their waters pre sent. Even the ocean is not uniform in color; in some places its waters are green, or even yellowish. Some lakes are distinctly blue; others present var ious shades of green. so that in some cases they are hardly distinguishable from their level, grass-covered banks; a few are almost black. The lake of Geneva is azure-hued; the lake' of Con stance and the lake of Lucerne are green; the color of the Mediterranean has been called indigo. The lake of Brienz is greenish yellow, and its neighbor, Lake Thun, is blue. New York has both green and blue lakes. The colors of rivers differ yet more widely. The Rhone is blue, and so is the Danube, while the Rhine is green. Anybody who has traversed the won derful Adirondack region and fished in its waters must have noticed the re markable difference in the c'lor of its rivers and smaller streams w"hich radi ate in every direction from the central group of mountains. The waters of the Sacondaga are yellowish, while those of the Canada creeks and of the Mohawk -are clear, with perhaps a bluish tint in deep poles. Fish creek is black or deep brown; and its neigh bor, Salmon river, is colorless. Next comes the Black river, whose color is indicated by its name, but between it and the Grasse, which is also black or brown, is the Oswegatchie, with clear, white waters. The St. Regis, again, is black, but the Raquette is white. The St. Lawrence is blue. These various hues are not caused by mud or any apaque sediment, such as that which makes the Mississippi coffee-colored, but belong' to the waters, like the golden color of tea, without greatly impairing their transparency. The cause of the difference in the color of lakes and rivers has engaged the attention of many celebrated in vestigators of nature, such as Tyndali, Bunsen, Arago, Sainte-Claire D~eville, and others. Recently Prof. Spring of the University of Liege has carefully investigated the question of the color of water, and has reached some inter esting conclusions. According to him, absolute pure water, when seen in masses of sufficient thickness, is blue, and all the varieties of color exhibited il lakes and streams arise from the presence in the water of mineral salts of different degress of solubility and in varying quantities. Water containing carbonate of lime in a state of almost complete solution remains blue, but if the solution is less complete the water will have a tinge of green, which will grow stronger as the po' of peii tation is approached. Prof. Spring concludes that if lime is added to blue water in which so much carbonate of ime is already dissolved that the point~ of saturatiani is app1roached the water' will become green. In proof of this he cites the fact that the water near the shores of lakes and seas, where it comes in contact with limestone. 'a generally of a greener hue than ,lse THOSE WHO CARRY MASCOTS Some of the Peeuiiarities of PeoPle Who Cherish Odd Souvenirs. The cherished preservation of odd or particular coins as pocket-pieces is an Old andl harmiess sort of idolatry fre quently indulged in by a large percent age of humanity. Such souvenirs often possess intrinsic value as well as le gendarv importance, but whether rep resentei by a broad piece of gold or a battered copper-token, all have asso ciations or little histories of peculiar interest to their owners. When these treasures are under inspection in a social way. remarks of the following tenor are frequently heard: '-This is the first bit of silver 1 earn ed wheni I left home." "I found this half-penny near Shaks peare's tomb." -Daniel Webster gave that Spanish quarter to my father when a boy for holding his horse." --Here," said a man, noted for his unthrift, "is the only money I ever saved, and I wouldn't have saved that were it not made of German silver." It is a custom for many kind old per sons to say, while tendering a bright piece of silver or gold to an emigrating lad or lass: "-Keep this in your pocket and you'll always have money." Thc present and injunction are, per haps, intended for a practical sugges tion of thrift, although in most cases the lesson is likely to be disregarded. Few people possess the quality of economy to an extent that will allow them to join Shylock in his boast of ability to make coins breed. A large number of these mementoes fall into the hands of New York money changers, whose locations give them daily opportunity of dealinL with emi grant arrivals. While spe:ling of this incident in the business, one broker said: "It used to give me a pang when some poor fellow or woman would un wrap a time-smothered piece of foreign money or remove a perforated one from a chain or faded strip of ribbon, and tearfully offer it for sale or ex change. But one soon losses senti ment in this business, and in a matter of-fact way. I simply pay for the weight of most of such odds and ends as you see heaped in that tray. rve had cases wherein persons who had struck pros perity have returned after a long time to see if their keepsakes could be iden tiied and recovered, but the crucible of the Assay Office had' generally put them beyond hope." Sometimes a special piece of money is kept sight of with almost religious interest. Instances are known where pawnbrokers have made advances often enough on a reverend coin to make the interest exceed its nominal value many times over. It is a case of Indescribable horror when the owner of a metallic "mascot" or prize talis man had paid it away in some un guarded moment. Hallowed heirlooms thus have been ruthlessly swept into the coffers of an unsentimental rail road or more profane till. This risk is always likely to prevail, regardless of the ways of safely storing such pre cious things. ine out of ten of the devotees of these little gods would de cline the use of safe-deposit boxes or bank vaults, believing as they do that the luck or charm chances of the ob. ject only become , potent by personal contact.-. Y. Tribune. HOW CRANT POPPED THE QUESTION. 4, Pretty Romance Connected With the Great General's Engagement. A striking incident in the life of Gen. Grant was mentioned by an intimate friend. It related to the delicate sub ject of how the General popped the question. Those who knew Genera] Grant intimately can imagine how he could storm a rampart, charge a bat tery of artillery, or lead a forlorn hope in battle easier than he could ask for the hand of the woman he loved. The occasion when the young Lieutenant in the army and Julia Dent plighted their troth was not one of those ideal moonlight nights nor were the stare twinkling over lovers' sighs, but on a dark, stormy night in the woods ,of Missouri. The Lieutenant was visiting his army comrade and former class mate, Fred Dent. He had driven into town in a buggy- with his comrade'u sister. The young people were on their way home. The darkness had overtaken them. The rain had fallen in torrents and the roads were axle deep with mud. The lightning flashed and the thunder pealed out of the blackness of night which followed. A swollen stream and a frail bridge stood~ in their way. .As they reached the danoerous spot a sudden flash of elec tricifight revealed the terrors of the flood, and the dang~ers of the bridge. In an instant, avaiing himself of this moment of light, the brave young offi cer urged the good steed upon the quivering floorway. A dreadful burst of thunder shook the very foundations of the earth. The young maiden, who had thus far bravely faced the terrors of the situation, stunned by the tre mendous crash, grasp'ed the unmoved Lieutenant by her side with affrighted force. The bridge now began to yield to the undermining action of the rag ing torrent. As it seemed to sink away the maid exclaimed in her fears, "O, we are lost." "No, Julia-," came a tender reply from the heart full of emotion which beat in that brave young breast. "Nothing shall happen to you. I shall take care of, you." Another flash in timely succession re ealed the terrible situation, but one judicious stimulation of the powerful steed brought the Lieutenant and his heart's treasure once more upor. the solid ground of the other side as the plankway of the bridge moved away in the surging flood. Rescued from a sit uation so nerilous was the occasion for a thoughtful silence. The storm beaten lover's pushed on their trying way through mud and rain and wind. Soon out of the darkness came a voice, "Julia, were you frightened?" "What a terrible night it is!" said the maiden in reply. --I would always like to care for you and protect .you. May I do so?" --Yes," in the simple innocence of her girlish heart was the answer.-Philadelphia Inquirer. Beauty Only Skin Deep. A few days ago a young girl, beauti ful in form, feature and dress, sat in a Madison avenue car, says the N. Y. Evening Sun. Directly opposite sat a poor child of about the same age, shaly bilv clothed, with a shambling body. slightly deformed as to the shoulders, and ani exceedingly plain face which bore the lines of suffering and want. Her eager eyes were fixed on the face and figure opposite her wvith a devour ing, pathetic look that showed how keenly alive she was to the exceeding beauty of a beautiful body. The object of the gaze began to grow uneasy un der its intentness and fixity, and finally, looking the girl coldly in the face, she leaned partly across the aisle and said: "Well. Miss Impertinence, if you have looked at me long enough, will you be kind enough to look somewhere else. 'm tired of it." The poor child grew first red and then white. A look of keen pain came into her eyes, and then tears, and as she turnedl away she said softly: "I was o'ily thinking how beautiful you Taxation in a Brazilian City. There is no taxation upon either real r personal property at Para, Brazil. but when a piece of real estate is sold the purchaser is required to pay a fee to the- government of 5 per cent on the MISSING LINKS. Gatheroole is the name of one of ennsylvania's coal barons. T. Johnson, of Englewood.Humboldt Dounty, California, owns a calf with 1hree horns. The animal has two more l itarted. Captain Charles King, the writer of military stories,is a retired army officer. is portraits show him wearing eye glasses. New beds of guano have been dis covered on the coast of Peru which,it is estimated, will yield 1,500,000 tons of xcellent quality. There is a girl in Caldwell who can put a whole egg in her mouth and close er mouth over it,and she is not a bad. looking girl, either. A statistician calculates that the total tonnage of the world, steam and sail, is in round numbers 21,000,000, of which 50 per cent is British. Ex-Gov. English, who died recently, is said to have been the richest man in Connecticul. His estate is estimated at $1,500,000 to $2,000,000. Princess Beatrice has been photo graphed as Mary, Queen of Scots, to whom she bears about as much resemb lance as a hat does to a butterfly. Mr. Richardson, of the Maryland lower house, says he can get 26,000 signatures in Baltimore to have any member of the legislature hanged. The French newspapers declare that the dance as a social joy is doomed, go ing out of fashion at the command of the women who lead Parisian society. King Humkert of Italy has adopted the hot-water cure for dyspepsia. Lost European royalties feel inclined to avoid hot water as much as possible. : ; A doctor of Cremona, with a large band of peasants from its neighbor hood, has just started for Uruguay, where he proposes to establish them as an exclusively socialist colony. John Ruskin spent much time in'ad vertising the painter, Millais. In- re turn for this priceless service Millai married Ruskin's divorced wife and is now a millionaire, living in princely style. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is said to be writing a book of which her younger son,Lionel, is the hero. Lionel is as much a wonder as an enfant ter rible as is his brother in the opposite role. George W. Childs states that since the introduction of foreign and native mineral waters as table beve.ages the use of wine has decreased nearly one half at dinner parties and entertain ments. A Blue Springs (Ky.) paper says that in a recent lawsuit in that town,Colonel Colby, in addressing the jury, brought down the house by singing a comie song as an illustration in making a point in the case. The postmaster of Owosso, Mich.,has been so pestered by local dudes gossip. ing with his pretty clerks that he has placed over each window a printed card which reads: -This window for P. 0. business onky; not for visiting." Due de Montpensier left $40,000,000. to be divided between his wife and his son and daughter. It is said. however, that the Duchess intends to go in a convent and leave the whole fortune to be enjoyed by the two children. It is sai. the first cost of building a feet oA Atlantic liners is a trifle com ared to the cost running them. In ess than thiree years it will exceed the. cost of construction, so enormous is the expenditure in wages, port duties and repairs. The emperor of China visits the em press dloiager at the Nanbai palace every five (lays to inquire after her majesty's health. The visits are al ways niade early in the morning. at tended by a vast retinue of personig. followers General Sherman conkesses that he likes the bands to pla7 "Marchi g' Through Georgia" in his honor..H was surprised by hearine the tune as a erenade when he visitea Ireland, and was su rised to learn th-.t it was an ancienr'sh air. The postage on a letter -from Ve United States through England to n dia is 5 cents. The postage on a letter mailed in England for India is 10 cents. 'On account of this the English business public is making' a big kick against the English postal d'epartment. Mgr. O'Connell, rector of the A&meri. 'can College at Rome, denies that an American woman has ever received the Koes golden rose. Miss Gwendoline Cdwel1 was debarred from receiving it, despite the rumors to the contrary, because she was not of noble birth. Hall Caine, the dramatist, is .a~j yethouhtfl-lokig, and sli graefu. e has logauburn and a pointed chin-beard; is quiet of manner, and the proud possessor of a -erious old lantern, wlhich was' carried by Eugene Aram on the night of the murder. Seats for Mr. Jefferson's recent peo. orman'ce at Atlanta, Ga., were sold at auction without his knowledge or con sent. When he learned it he said that he did not feel honorably entitled to the premium money and he thereuo gave it-some $600-to variousloa charities. The famous old mountain fortress of .Asirgarh, which was formerly regarded as one of the principal defenses of cena tral India, is about to be dismantledl. It stands on the summit of an almost inaccessible mountain, and has many *interesting and romantic historical as sociations. Uncle Joe Haddon, who is still living in South Carolina, was sent out to SAmerica in 1833 by an English comn pany to take charge of the first locomo tive on the old South Carolina Railroad. He is now eighty-six years old~and still does a hard day's work as a miller . and machinist on a Carolina plantation. In Italy, it is asserted, the opera has become simply a fashionable gathering place for society, and social calls and :similar enjoyments implying the free I -use of the tongue render the house so noisy that the music is spoiled. This fact is alleo'ed to account for what is called the aedline of opera in Italy of late years. A Curious Episode of the War. A veteran of the - Connecticut eiment of Volunteers keeps at home a handsome uniform of a Confederate officer w~hich was never worn but by himself, and to which he owes some months or years of liberty, if not life H was a tailor before the civil war, and w~hen hie was captured on a South er battle-field this fact reached the ears of the commander of the prison ers' barracks. "Egad! I'll have the Yankee goose *pusher make me a new suit," said the ofiicer, gazing at his dingy uniform. The line gray cloth, gold-lace, and bright buttons were brouwht to the tailor prisoner, who workerY cheerfully away at the welcome employment. On the evening the suit was to be deliver ed, however, a bright idea occurred to him, and soon what was to all appear. ances a spruce Confederate olicer walked past the guards, and was seen no more in that part of Dixie. History kindly draws the veil over the ex letivs vented on the --nutmxegz Yan kee" for not enly gaining his libert .he crned that-butt for taking that precious suit, which cost so many hun dred dollars of good Confederate