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BY E. B. MTJKBAY & CO. AvnF.KSOV. S. fl. THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL I T. 1884. VOLUME XIX. ? NO. 40. OUM WOMEN IN TRO WAR. THE FIRST WAYSIDE HOSPITAL. Mint I. /'. .V., of Cotuiiihia. C, hi Charles? ton MV..'././ A>w* During tho summer of 1 SOI, just after the battle of Manamas, when Hie hearts of Southern women of all ages were fired with that zeai for the Confederate cause which lus never flagged, a party of young girls in Columbia. S. C., determined to see what they could do t ? help the sol? diers. They therefore, made a call through the papers (.;' the city to all :he young ladies of the community, :-.-king ihem to nie? tat a certain time and place in tinier t" consult together, lay plans ' and devise schemes i;;r work. The meet? ing was a grand success. A large num? ber of girls responded to the call, a society was formed, officers were elected, committees were appointed, and all the ceremonies nl organization gone through with the *kii! nl veterans. "Oh death i:i life, the days thai are nuire." What memories are recalled of laugh- j t?.r and fun, uf sighs and tears, of" sols and agony as one of the officer* of the society then formed?"The Voting La- j dies' i[?.spital Association " ? looks I through her book* to night, and runs over the names of the young girls who ; with lull hearts and earnest laces enrolled their names that summer afternoon, j Poor children ! their hands were unused i to labor, hut willing minds- made up for j their lack of skill, and it was wonderful bow soon they learned to cut out and | make up homespun shirts, knit socks, i roll bandages, &c, and before long many j a box of substantial comforts was sent to i the boys in the army from the girls at ' home. ' The meetings of the association were weir attended and kept up regularly. True there was perhaps a lack of parlia? mentary usage in the conduct of the assembly; their was, it must be confessed, a tendency manifested by all the mem? bers to speak at once when there was a question to be decided, and even the president herself instead of maintaining the dignity of ihe chair and preserving I order would join in the general clamor, while'occasionally a nervous giggle would | shock the conclave and prove that in all times and circumstances "girls will be girls." Many a sober matron with whitening hair will recall the time when the secretary and treasurer was called upon to read her first report, how she turned her back upon the audieuee, and in that position aim cou!d be prevailed i upon to read aloud. Pity ti c benighted { girls of 'til, advanced young women of the present day ? They had scarcely ever even heard of an emancipated wo- j man, and a female lecturer or public I reader was beyond their powers of imagi- ! nation. Tili: first practical step taken", j During the winter of ISO1-2 the num- j ber of soldiers coining home sick and wounded began to be considerable, of? ten for want of connection between the incoming and outgoing trains, the poor fellows would be obliged to remain in Columbia for hours ami sometimes a day and night, and as they had little money they would frequently suffer for want of lodging and lack of attention. Some ladies of the city resolved to meet the trains as they arrived from Virginia, and minister as best they could to the needs j of the Buffering men. But there was no organized plan, consequently on some occasions one man would be entirely overlooked, while another would come near sharing the fate of ihe complaisant heto who meekly submitted t<> having his face washed by seventeen enthusiastic volunteer nurses. A clergyman of Columbia, who was in the habit of meeting the train* to ailbrd any assistance ju Iiis power to the airiv- ! ing soldiers, called the attention of some of the members of ihe Voting Ladies' Hospital Association to ibis state of I nHairs, and suggested to them the propri- j tt.v of applying some <?;' their funds to arranging a loom at the Charlotte depot for the refreshment ol ihe weary and wour.de?! men. The idea seemed to ihetn 1 a good one, and the suggestion was im? mediately acted upon. An empty loom was secured from ihe authorities of the railroad, and it was j ut in order. Though ihe furniture of this little room was scarcely more luxurious than that of ihe "Prophet's Chamber," ihe place was ambitiously styled "the soi.iuer's rest," and for a few days it* scanty accommo? dations proved to be a comfort to many weary passers-by. It was soon found, I however, that the need iora resting place ! for the passing soldiers was greater than at first supposed, and as it was necessary for then to be transported across the town in order l<> reach the other trains, I it was concluded to transfer The Soldier's Uest to the depot whence they could be 1 put upon the cars as soon as they had J their wounds dressed and a night's lodg? ing and been made comfortable for their journey. Hut the affair had now assum? ed dimensions far beyond anything ihat ? its originators had ever dreamed of, and the older heads, to whom the girls of the Voting Ladies' Hospital Association were accustomed to defer, thought it best to take matters into tle-ir own hand*. There was grim work to be done., ghastly sights to he seen, horrors to oe endured, and the wiser and more experienced ones ' tenderly wished to spare the young hearts, already becoming loo familiar *\i:h sorrow, everything which it wa?- in their power to do. The Soldier'* lte?t was then changed into the Wayside Home or Hospital, as it was afterwards called, and the charge of it as-tmivd by a committee of ladies, a-sist.-d !?;, sonic tent lerne ii, whom age ?>r duty repi out of '.he army. Iea\ ing !?? the < i? u. P. aid. "the esthetics < .' the llo-t.ita!.v HOW the system -l'KEAl?. Such was the small beginning of the Columbia Way.-ide llo.-pi al. lie- tir-t of th" l:i'-d in ibe wori?!. .'?,.?. extract from an address of i'r. .lohn T I Kirov, s>ir g?'on C. S. A., ht f?iro t!i. Sou it ''. r >iina AL ifieal Association, ':.? 1<! i; ;' -tot, in April, 187", will -::<??.;? part id''the outcome of the work ol there ?"?.lunibia drD. Speaking of the ameliorations of in?.dern warfare, Dr. Darby says: "On ihe route from ihe army l?? the g? n ral hospital wounds at- drvs-ed and ih" fildier- refreshed at wayside home.-; and tere. be it-aid with ju-tice and pride, !;:.' ihe (red it of originating 'hi- -ysiem is due to the w?mcii ol South ('an lira. In a small roi'iii in ihe capital of this )tate, the firsi Wayside I Imne was fun ti? led ; and dining the war .- me seventy ive ;??< u-and ??d?li?-rs were-relieved by laving their wounds ?lie.-sc?l, their ail iiet.tr atii n?l.?I. ami very frequently by teiug cliithedi ;litt.ugh Ihe patriotic sei ices and ^o???i ??(liees nl a lew untiring a?lies in Columbia. Kroni thi- little -if :u\ i'nal '/rand -ysiem of !' -:.';-.'? which was ?stabli.-h d.'during oui the laic Kuropeali tu- : :ti ?I i' i- b? 'iiiiful t?? s< ?? atnl know [Vat iuu??i imp', m? ;,t- - I- war arei ade ? i" a no no ,-? ( ;' < live for ?!?? ?!<>-! i to t-ii ol i.!' |'r<:gre-s ai:(l surgery in dv'ahce. on higiiiT grotimls, gives com* | I fori and restores health to the servant in : arm- who has stillere?! fur his country." ?J course the girls were very indig , nant, at first, at their work being taken out of their hands. "What arc I he es '? thetics of a hospital, wo would .liko to I know," they cried ; but they soon discov ' ercd how much they might do to soften I and cheer the soldier's journey, and they I became quite pacified when they found ? that they were to be allowed to'accompa I ny the older ladies in their daily visits to j the Wayside. ' The plan of operations was very sim i pie. The same clergyman who had first j observed the need of a resting place ! would meet the train as it came in from j Virginia, and direct the soldiers to the ! Wayside Home, transportation being J furnished at first by private means and ' afterwards, as the* demand became great? er, by the central committee for the soldiers' relief. HEARTRENDING SCENES. \ Sometimes ihe scenes on islanding street, through which the wagons passed to convey the passengers to the Wayside, would be heartrending. Altera battle one would >ce a forest of ertliches pro? truding from one wagon ami a parly of bandaged men in another; then ihe am? bulances would pass, bearing those too ill to endure the drive in the wagon, and more mournful still, the carts carrying the rough boxes which contain? ed the bodies of the slain. The writer can never forget once meeting the clergy? man who had been receiving the incom? ing guests of the Wayside, and saying to him: ''1 have just seen a harrowing spectacle?two boxes in a cart, one upon I the other; nor the look in his face as he replied: "1 have just left the father of i the two young men whose bodies are in ' those boxes. The body of his third boy Could not be found at all. lie is taking j these home to their mother." ! At the Wayside the soldiers would he J met by a committee of ladies with proper assistants, and after they had been re I freshed by a bath, and often had a I change of clothing and their wounds ! dressed, they would be furnished with a J comfortable supper, a night's lodging and breakfast the next morning. Here j the work of the girls came in. They were allowed to lay the table, prepare the coffee and serve the soldiers at their meals. Sometimes ihey would be per? mitted to go with one of the older ladies and carry a meal to the cot of an ill man. The out-going trains from Colum? bia then left at a very early hour in the nioruing, but never through the whole existence of the Wayside Hospital did these women and girls fail to be at their post ; through winter's cold and rain, or summers heat and dust, there were they f und, ready to welcome tue wayworn soldier and cheer him on his way. There was scarcely one of these women who was not actively engaged during the other hours of the day in some other hospital of the town or in some work ;>r the aid of the army. In order to give the actual facts of the work of the Way ~i<:>- Hospital, we present an account lurnished by one ol the officers of the executive committee. a RKCOltD < >1" THE WORK, The Wayside Hospital at Columbia, fi. C. was established March 10th, 1SG2, and continued until February ltlih, l^o'?. The executive committee consisted of five ladies. Visiting committees were appointed each day. These were assisted by gentlemen, ami when necessary by physicians. This House was begun in a single room, but additions were speedily made and before the close of the second year the Home contained nine rooms be- I .-.ides piazzas and bathing room, water as well as gas being carried lb rough the building. Over one bundled soldiers were often accommodated with cots and three hundred wiih their meals per day, | chiefly supper and breakfast, as they were usually furloughed sick and wound? ed soldiers passing to their homes. The second year it was thought expedient to a-k the Covern men I for a surgeon and hospital steward, which request was granted?a matron being engaged by the ladies. The Home was entirely suppor? ted by voluntary contributions from all j parts of the Stale, but the ladies were j allowed to purchase stores from the eoin inissaries at (iovernmcnt rates, Soldiers' detained by sickness and want of con nee- j lion in I lib trains ha! religious services i r> <m ministers of the di lie rent religious j denominations. The number of soldiers entertained in this Home during us ex- I istence ol nearly three years was about seventy-live thousand. After the 17th > of February, lS'i?, when the Home could no longer be used large numbers of sol- i dier.s received food and accommodations i when they were passing through Colum- j bia. from the Wayside Home committee, j funds belonging to the Wayside Home j were sent to the upper districts as long; as they were available during the Spring I of lSG-i, benefiting in that way many i soldiers returning to their homes." PATHETIC AND HI'MOROCS INCIDENTS. Like all other hospitals the Wayside had its varied incidents, pathetic and ! humorous. One morning as the men I were boarding the up-country trains, j yell?, shrieks arid howls were heard. ; Everybody rushed to see what caused the disturbance. "Oh said one of the sol dicrs, "it's jist Jim lliiingaruer, and he's jest been a cutlin' up that way ever since we left Virginia," and there, on a ' ' stretcher,'' was a man being put into ' the car. ? Ah!" observed the doctor,1 "no wonder he yells at being put through j the car door, cut to pieces as he is." j lint in a moment there was a bright, j though pale, thin face at the car window, I and a merry voice crying out: "Hurrah lot ihe Columbia ladies! Hurrah for Jell' H. vis! (iood-bye, ladies!" and oil'went, .lim liumgarti< r lo his homo in North Ci.roiiua. < ?nc morning there was a man ?o ill thai it was thought it would be a risk for him to a'tempt io l-ave!,aiid the surgeon told the ladies ihey had better persuade him lo stay a dav or two longer. So in wen! tik ladies to his cot lo advise him in rem tin, but i: was of no u?e. The I. ?i,r fellow had been shot in the mouth, so his replies were of the most laconic. !?. ar. motherly .M r-, I!, would persua si v. I\ s iy : ?< Hi, you arc much too weak In rave: ; stay, ?ia\ let Us nurse you a day or two." "I'm agwine!" responded the man. Then gentle Mrs. F. would try. "!>o slay at lea-l 'till to-morrow ; you ivii! be so much better abb- lo travel then " ' I'm agwine!" Finally bright Mrs. M. undertook ihe ease; but to all c ime the same unvarying "I'm a gwino !" and as i o one hud authority to keep him, go be <ib!, and, let us hope, reached in safely bis longed-for haven. a h'?i.dii:i:'s i"a n il. Another incident is copied from a com? munication lo one of the papers of the day : "After I had ministered to sever? al ? the wounded I drew near the cot of i, in- whose case was considered one of the ' worst ihere, but who appeared since Iiis wounds had been dressed ami refresh ii. ' nts administeredtohim much relieved. A Her conversing with him some time he a-ktd my name. I told him. ami s;ii,| thai I '.'..i- wil'i' oi the gentleman ivI o had been ifivinsr him hi- bleak fast, for he had to !?? fed ilk.- at: infant. i I told him, moreover, thai ihe gentleman was ti preacher?a Methodist preacher. '1 am a member of the Methodist Church,' said he, 'and would he Lie kind enough to pray for me? for it is long since I have heard a prayer.' Alter the prayer was ended the subject of religion continued to be our theme. He said he was ipiite resigned to Cud's will concerning him, and that he was not afraid to die ; and while dwelling on the goodness of Cod his countenance assumed the serene and beautiful expression indicative of peace within and joy in the Holy Ghost. Well was it for him that he had strength irom on High and that the everlasting arms of God's love were about him, for in a few hours from the time of our con? versation it was found that amputation of his arm would be necessary, from which he suffered excruciatingly until death came to his relief. But all the time of his mortal agony his faith re? mained firm and unshaken, and he pillowed his sinking head on the bosom of Jesus and "breathed his life out sweet? ly there,' while to all around witnessing a good confession of Chri.-t's power to save to the uttermost ail who put their trust in Him. The name of this young man was II. F. Hays, of the -loth Geor? gia Regiment." One morning the ladies noticed a pine box. covered with flowers, being careful? ly put upon the train by some gentlemen. In answer to the inquiry, whose remains were in the box ? Or. G. replied: "In that box lies the body of a young man whose family antedates the Bourbons in France. He was the last Count do Choiseul and he has died for the .South." Let his memory he held in perpetual re? membrance by all who love the South and revere her past! THE PROTEGE OK THE HOME. But an account of the Wayside Home woidd be even more incomplete thau the writer of this fears this one will be with? out some notice of its protege, Jimmy Matthcwcs. Une Sunday among the number of sick* and wounded who came in from Virginia was a miserable, emaci? ated, childish-looking boy, who appeared to be about Jl years old, but who said he was really 13. He had been badly wounded and was so exhausted that it was found he was unable to travel, and the surgeon decided it was be.st for him to remain at the Wayside for a day or two. The ladies soon became deeply in? terested iu the pitiful looking little ob? ject, and their hearts were more than ever moved when they learned his Had story. He and an older brother were the only two left of a family of Irish emi? grants who had como to America and settled in Georgia when Jimmy was a baby. Tho two brothers were living on a larm with a family in Georgia, and when the war began the older brother enlisted, and Jimmy, as he said, "went along too." The older brother was killed in battle, and Jimmy was left done in the world, with a Yankee bullet in his feeble body. He did not have an idea where to go, as he heard the family in Georgia who had employed his brother had been l< reed to leave their i home, it did not take the Indies of the Wayside long to decide to adopt Jimmy, ? the girls undertaking to clothe him. j The little fellow was removed Li a pri- j rate hospital in the town, where he was i nursed with Lenderest care by his guar- I dians. The ball was extracted, and after, weeks of suffering he began to mend, j and it was good to see the look of rest and satisfaction which settled on his small, weary, pinched face. Then, best of all. Jimmy was taught the way to the Saviour, and he received holy baptism, I wo uf the wayside ladies standing as his sponsors. Alter a while it was thought best by Jimmy's guardians that he should i be put under the discipline of a boarding school, and he was kitidiy received on most generous terms by Mr. (>. T. Bor? dier at his excellent school in Abbeville. This poor little waif, however, manifes? ted no liking for study, and the duties of j school proved very irksome to him after I the freedom of the camp life. It was judged, too. that a farm life would be ? better for his health, and he was then taken by Hon. John Townsend to Jiis home on Kdisto Bland, where he was given light employment and the most I kind and judicious treatment. His con-J Htilulion had, however, never recovered 1 from the shock of the. severe wound, and he died at Kdisto before he was grown, j surrounded by gentle friends and gracious i influences. THE MORALE <H" THE SOLPIEIIS*. \ There can be no better way of judging | of the month- of an army than by the , conduct of its men when oil duly and I away from the surveillance of their ofli- | cers. Our men stood this test nobly. A lady who was almost daily at tbe "Way- ! side during the whole lime of its exis? tence says: "I must have been brought j into contact with thousands of men and certainly conversed with hundreds. Among all these f remember seeing one drunken man, and he was so slightly in- ? toxicated that the only manifestation of his condition was an insane desire to present one of the young ladies present j with a handsome black plume he was ' spirting in his hat, which desire was communicated to the matron of the bos- . pital in energetic terms, and most : promptly by her suppressed. 1 never heard one oath or one coarse expression. I never heard a sentiment of disloyalty ' or dissatisfaction. I never heard a doubt thrown upon the right of our cause or a ! I regret that the war had been begun. I I never saw one man, however wasted by I ; disease or disabled by wounds, whose | ; chief desire did not seem to be to recover j as speedily as possible so that he might ' be back at his place in the field again ; j and while I encountered many illiterate, '? rough and uncouth men I never met one who failed in that courtesy which every S inthern man, however humble his sla* j lion, instinctively accords to woman hood." A SAO CONTRAST. i Another of these Wayside visitors! -ays, "I stood on the morning of the i 17th of February, ISoT?, where I could | se-e Sherman's army enter Columbia. 1 can best give you an idea of the vast I numbers of the mighty le st by lellimr I you that I counted twelve bands of I inu-ic pass by playing at full blast, and j ' yet they were at such a distance from | each oilier that the music of the one had died away before that of another reached my ears. They were a strong, healthy, ' well-fed looking sei of men. There was ! not a broken -hoe or a ragged elbow j among them. When 1 looked upon these i j and contrasted with them the pallid, | hungry, ill-clad men I had been associa I led with for so long ami thought of the j thin garments, tattered blankets and : scanty rations of the few men I had seen ? leave Columbia a lew hours before, and n Heeled on ihe unei|tial struggle ihat lor j ! nearly four years had been going on, the i proud tears rained down Iroin my eves ! us I prayed trod to make me worthy Io be the country woman of such heroes*" "l.< i ils I hank t!..- l...o| ..- f;|.,rv - Ii .1- 1 he.... Imw- |j\..| hikI ilii'.l I The cotton mills of South Carolina employ L*'i"l persons, and the value ol Ihe product i- placed at ?1'.,0011,1 mi 1. \\ hat do we live foi if it :? m ; ? . I make life less dillieull for oilier*? J I Kr. TiluYii's Views A Tribun* reporter called ycsteiday on General J. I?. (Jordon, formerly United States senator from Georgia, now t'resi dent of ilie international Kai I road and Steamship Company, of Florida, at lii ollice in the Ilryant building, to inquire about llio trutli of published reports of a visit, recently paid by him to Samuel J. Tilden. General Gordon said : "I saw an editorial note in this morn? ing's World but do not know its source/' The reporter then showed the General a note in the Cleveland /frruld, stating that he had called on Mr. Tilden, who I bad expressly reftised to allow the use of his name for President, but had said that he thought Mr. Payne could be elected lor three reasons: First, that he bad been right on all the public questions that hud divided the country in ihe past twenty years: second, because his nomi? nation would not frighten business men ; and. lastly, because he had the ability to conduct the canvass :t!!,| t||(! necessary menus for legitimate expenses, (ieneral Gordon then said : "It is in the main a truthful represen? tation, to this lim? I should not ! have fell at liberty lo taik ai all in refer? ence, to any suggestions ma le by Mr. j Tilden to me. although he did noi enjoin ? confidence. I do not know bow ibis I report came to be made. It was certain I ly not through me. i feel grealci liberty i to speak now, only because of the tact I that Mr. Payne has been formally with? drawn from the canvass by the emphatic statement of his son. Colonel Payne. 'it is true that I did recently call on Mr. Tilden, whom I hau not seen for some time. I was rather gratified lo lind, too, in spile of reports, that his physical strength was greater than I had antici? pated, although be is very feeble. I did not, however, lind any material change, so far as my observation went, in his physical condition, since my hist visit to him several years ago. Possibly his voice is somewhat weaker. Of one thing, however, 1 was fully satisfied. That is thai his menial vigor has not lessened, I nor did I discover any abatement in the I profound interest he feels in public affairs. I introduced the conversation with Mr. Tilden by telling him 1 hud not called through any idle curiosity or mere? ly to pay my personal respects to him, however glad I was to do that; but that I had called because of a very profound conviction on my mind that he under? stood more thoroughly than any man in the democratic party the necessity of making no mistake, either in platform or candidate, for the coining campaign, and j that his opinion would not only be very I potential in .shaping the policy of' the 1 party, hut that, in my judgment, the sue [ cess of the party in the canvass depend I ed largely upon having not only his car nest co-operation, but the benefit also of his prudent counsel. 1 stated lo him that I (bought 1 was entitled to his confidence, and begged him to consider my visit as a real search alter information that might be of service to (hose of the democratic party in the South who had been in a habit for years of looking lo him as a safe ami wise guide." I ieneral Gordon remarked that bis ob? ject was to put the conversation on so high a plane as to draw out from .Mr. Tilden his real convictions and wishes both as to himself and as to candidates ami platform. Continuing, the lleiieral said : "I first asked .Mr. Tilden whether it would be possible for the party to induce him, notwithstanding his physical con? dition, to undertake the campaign, if be should be tendered the nomination. I coupled this inquiry with an expression of my earnest hope that he would con? sent, lie replied, after some hesitation, that he did not think the party ought to ask him to make the sacrifice which he would be obliged to make of bis health and possibly his life, but that he would be ready to give both il he believed it was ai ail essential lor the welfare of the country. When he was a candidate before, he said, he held in view, and should have in view now if it was possi? ble for him lo '?(. a candidate again, one ami only one ?real purpose, which would be comprehended in the general term reform : that to ask him to undertake this reform which was equivalent to enlisting lor five year-' service, ami that, loo. in a cause in which he could not enlist without giving to it his whole lime and thought, but for Ihc success of which he could not hope without a vast deal more of physical strength than he pos? sessed. With various other explanatory remarks, lie finally added with absolute emphasis and great decision : 'No, I cannot be a candidate, and would not accept if the nomination wen- icndcrr-d me.' 1 (hen said lo him : 'If thai is your decision and it is irreversible, the next thing is for mo to inquire what, in your judgment, ought lo be the platform of the democratic party and who should be the nominee'." "It would require too much time lo go over Mr. Tiblen's conversation, but it may be summed up in a few words. As to platform, he was clearly of the opin? ion thai the party should have made its campaign this year wholly one of an aggressive warfare upon the record of the party in power, in which Mr. Tilden included all that had been charged against the record of the republican party, especially that portion which had been termed the coriuplions, without discussing at all the merits of the larifl" issue. I understood him laud I think I did not misunderstand him; in express an entire dissput Iron) the policy of mak? ing that the issue in the campaign. I do not remember I hut Mr. Tilden ex? pressed any opinion as to what in his judgment was the true policy of the government in reference to the question of larifl", the p riut under discussion be? tween us being confined wholly lo the probability of success in the campaign ami not to ihe merit-: of any special governmental polities. I next asked him lor bis opinion as to the availability ol I candidates. His lir.-t remark was thai he was as much at sea as I myself was, and thai he was afraid lo advise liie p.nly lor fear be might mislead them. To this I replied that i: sei med to me a duly he owed to the party to i-xpre.-s freely an opinion, if he had one, on I hat subject. To this he replied that he would not hesitate lo express an opinion il lie had a well defined one. "hi order to draw him oul, I mention ed quite a number of names which bad iii-en suggested, upon ail of which he commented freely. I cannot now recall the exact drift of hi- conversation in this connection lurlher than lo give you the impression left upon my mind. His opinions evidently tended to one point -tiie absolute necessity of carrying New York if the democratic party hoped lor success. ,\s (o who con Id carry New York, lie expressi >\ a good deal of i.'oiihl, m- iitiotiing M r. I.'andall,' lovernor < 'leve land, Mr. Flower, Senator I lay.an I ami Mr. Payne. His general remark was thai they were all gum I men an.I that any of them would be satisfactory lo him. Kill the -urn and substance ol iii- la k convinced me thai lie was clearly of the opinion llial il M r. I 'avi e e .uid be in ?be ? i to aecep' the nomination, be w >ui I : e liie iioiig-s! candidate tl:edemo>-i;:< y could -e|eei. He was, however, veiy ! emphatic in expressing the belief thai Mr. I'iiync would not cntuenl in run. Hut lie said t'nat Mr. Payne's record in public life was so pure, that he eominan ileil sii entirely the confidence nf ilie business public, without which clement the party couhl not hope lor success, that, in his judgment, (he Senator-elect from Ohio could certainly carry New Yi?rk and secure ihe triumph of the democratic parlv in ihe coming national election.*' -.V- '; )'??'/: Tribut,,-. Thriving by Industry, I A correspondent of ihe Yorkville l'n i '/uirrr, writing from Cromwell, Connecti I cut. L'ivcs tli" following sketch of "Van ? kee Industry,'' which otir people would i do well to read, ponder and imitate : The coming nf more plea-ant weather ; exhibits in u- .-till more of ihe industry ' which characterizes New Knglandcrs. , Kverybudy works. In the homes we find most of the ladies doing all their own dome-lie work. Gentlemen of mean- a- well a- those without, may bo met with their dinner buckets as they ; hurry to their places in the factory, the ipiarry. at tie- Ik ach. or in the lb-Id, and I have seen fewer idlers and tramps than I have ever seen i !-i where. The young ladies are nol ashamed to work, and sillier no c nuproinise of their charac? ters or respectability, by makiti?; an hon .-i support for themselves. Here, too, there is industry in saving as well as in making. The practical demonstration of the trite axiom, "lake care of the pen? nies and lite dimes will take care of themselves." may be seen here. The penny enters largely into all commercial transactions, and not infrequently enters the contribution plates of the churches. If sn^ar is fifteen cents a pound, a half pound i- seven or eight cents, and not ten ; and when the little fellow draws on papa'.- treasury lor the wherewithal to purchase candy, a penny is given, and it seems that the child here think- as much of one "penny'' as the average South Carolina boy thinks of "a niekle." This iiidu.-lry and economy would be line capital in ihe South, where I have often heard the remark, "Northerners would live on what is thrown away by the Southerners." It stains to have been the outgrowth nf about three causes, viz: Shar;? competition in ail branches of business, the necessity tor each one to work in order that he may live, and the greatest cost of living lu re. These in? dustrious people lind employment in the factories which characterize this portion ol the North. Here in our town of about seventeen hundred inhabitants we have a large establishment, which contributes to the happiness of ihr little folks, I am told, all over the United Stale-, and even across the great deep, by the man? ufacture of all styles of iron toys. Km ploymeul is given to at iea-l one hundred men and women. Their agent is to sail in a few days for the promotion of the business in Kurope. There i-nlso located here ihe Cromwell Plate Co., manufac? turers of electro silver plated ware, which employs about fifty men and doe-a busi? ness nl' about lifly thousand dollar- a year. Through the l.-indmss of one of the employees I have enjoyed a tour through the factory. Commencing in the moulding department, where the lire, antimony and cupper are compounded to form Britannia, uf which their goods are made; then In the ponderous pi esses which take ad vantage nf the malleability of the metal, ami iranslorm the blocks of several inches thickness to sheets as liiin a.- desired: (lien to ihe -pinning department, where the circular Hat plate is shaped to order; then to the soldercrs, where the parts arc put together; from the soldercrs to the plating mom, where electricity i- employed to aid the Hritnti nia as it appropriates to itself the pre? cious metal from the bar.-; then to the engraver- and burnishers?by hand and machinery?where we begin to see the elleel of so much labor, as we behold the beautiful, bright castors, ice pitchers, cake-baskets, butter-dishes. &e. At last we have completed the circuit in the packing room, where the goods are made ready tor shipment to all parts ,,\ the I'nion, and where we begin to lose our conviction that the price of such ware has always been exorbitant. It costs nut :>. little to make the attractive silver piated bullcr-dish, which ornaments our table, I rum the metals in their orig? inal stale. The Spindle in the South. The Huston JCtunomht draws t!.e fol? lowing contrast between the cotton mill- j ing business in ihe South and in Massa- j clmsutts : "The establishment nf mills for the manufacture of cotton goods in the Southern States has been attended with such marked success generally as to at? tract the attention of economists every? where. Due of the largest mills in the South, and perhaps in the country, is the Kagle and IVnix, of Columbus, Ga. In a year when Massachusetts mills were ' reducing wages and resorting to all trim- j ming ex peri men is to make ends meet. | the Kagle and I'hienix has jii-l declared a dividend nf 8 per cent, on an in vested | capital ? ' $1.200,001?. The mill had ex- j Iranrtiinary expenses during the year, I purchasing additional river property,] making new dams, rebuilding Hume*, | Sic. Notwithstanding all this, its net j earnings for distribution to stockholders were !?9",000. Since 1807, when the mill i company was reorganized, it has paid ' $l.it7U,000 cash dividends, and built out I of it- earnings besides a mill which cost I $l,0Qu,0UO, and it has a large -urplus on j hand. It is now proposed to build au | additional mill at a cost of >I,0'i0.ooo. The new King Mill in Aitgu-la, which cost $1,000,000, is doing a highly piolila hie business, and a new mill i- under construction in Gritliu. t ?nc fi-aiure in the business in the South is that s'rike arc unheard of. The operatives in Augus? ta and Columbus are contented with their lot. investing in small homes and educal ing their children." Here i- another ilcin which may ap proprialely be added Io those irjven by the /.' ,n,',,iht: "The Saluda Cotton Factory ofOrecn vi lit*, South Carolina, has made a large and valuable contract with a Huston linn lor furnishing lliein with yarn- until m\\t .I.iniiary. New Kuglaud yarn- wi re o He red at one fourth ol a cen I lower, but the superior'piality of the South Caro? lina yarn- commanded '.Io- contract." Bismarck has been chic! ol the Prussian Mini-try --incc I8??2. and has been tor iweiily-two year- more than any other prime minister in Kurope, a verita? ble ruler. Hi- retirement from the min? istry i-. therefore, a notable event. ||js probable -mn--or. Count Von llat/.fcidt Wildeaburg, ha- been for some years Herman Minister of foreign all'airs, and Von Houllicher, who goes with him to tin- I'm?iaii cabinet, ha- been the "Hep rescuialive of the chancellor" in tin- im? perial cabinet or group of councillors. Tin?e changes would indicate dial His marck i- to retain hi- influence. Von Putt kamer, the Vice President o the I'ru-siau council nl mini-ter-, has held that place -!!-. ? I -? ? and ha- been :t member ol the cabinet since C,':1. kktsy !:.\Mi:.T<?'s m:iti:i! I'.i l-y Tells ol M?r School l?,iys. ; Dkai: Cim sin : One cold winter night ! long time ago, we'tins was ?II u settin' j round the lire roasliu' sweet tat or-* to eat longer siuimon beer; and I'ap he'lowed, says he, ".Maw." "What," says .she. "Kf it takes the last bottom dollar." says he, "I'm gwine to gin Hctsy a little book larninV "'Taint no use,"' says she. "You'd better lay out your money fur vitiles and clothes. Indication is the i ruination of some folks. Let 'em git a ! little smattcrin' of hooks, ami they haint litten lor mithin' else on [he face of (he yetli. You've got that gal spiled lo death now." He was sorter tight that night, ami Maw she's alters, mad when lie's a iliinkin'. .list then the dogs harked ami somebody hollered ami axed to stay all night, ami it was the new teacher, Mr. Westlichl, a huntiir up rclmiars. He bargained longer Tap to do some carpcu I lers work lor him, and agreed to wait on j him lor ("other part of his pay, and soon I Monday I'ap hesonl usall three to school, j mo and buddy ami sifter Flurridy Ten nysy. I'ap he went around the settle? ment and hope him make up hin school. Some wanted him and some didn't. You'd have to make a teacher ami hand j him down from (hi skii- lo -uit every? body in this settlement; ami then some would lind fault of him. Some 'lowed he was two bighfalutiu and moiight put big notions in Ihe chilluus' head-. Tap (old 'em he'd better put big notions as none at all for. nie of the youngs lets was a growin' up monstrous empty headed, old Miss Fresh ours 'lowed she allers got along mighty well without books herseif, ami her chiiltlli could do (he same ; they wasn't no better'n she was. Well, she was right, they wasn't a hit better and wasn't likely to be. < Md man Loft us 'lowed hc'il send .lake ami git him to larn him how to ligger a little, so as to keep folk-, from achealiu' him ; but fur as his gals was consumed it would be jes a ihiowin' money away for nothin'. (ials didn't need noschoolin' nohow. He 'lowed he never had no schoolin' in his raisin', ami he didn't see bill he got along about as well as your high larnt geog'phy and gram mar nary, grammarnicle sort ; he had sense enough to count all the money he could make, and that was as fur as he seed any use in. old For man 'lowed he wanted Malindy lo go tel she got a stilhlick to (each, so she could make the money back. Obi West field was a big, fat, red-laced, bald-headed, old Irishman, good-hearted but turrible high tempered. The scholars was skeered of him as death. He'd jerk you up in a minute, boys and gals loo, and j wear a hickry out on you. it was Friday evenin' and we gal- had been on the branch and got us a big chaw of sivec'gum, ami was jes a chawin' hard as our jaws could work, when he knocked on the ?l ?or with his switch for : "books," and we Hew in the bouse. Julie Ifiekerson haint .-ati.-li -d lesson she's got siimpcu in her mouth. She eats chalk ami s ate pencils, and drinks ink, and her books alb rs looks like the rats had had 'em \\ bar .-he's nibbled i if the cor? ner-. She retched over ami begged us for our -wee'gum. "l'iease gimme a chaw," -ays she. "Mine's sticky," says I. ''Wait tel I get the streich berries in mine, and J'll gin you half of it," says Cindy Uoberson. "Lend mc yourn, L'rsuly Ann; I'll gin it right back to you at recess," says she. "1 lent it to lieeky Jane; you can chaw it awhile when she giis doue chawin' of it," says she. And we'un.i was all a whisperiu' and in a powerful giggh nicnl. I didn't know nairy word of my bigspcllin' lesson. The boys was a llingin' paper balls at us and a lookin' t'other way like they hadn't done nothin'. A inou.-e run across the floor, and the whole school got to gigglin'. ( Md Wesllield stomped his toot ami told us to hush ami e,it our lessons. Iky Uoberson he made a doll oiil'n his pocket han'kercher ami danced it on his hook and we gals snickered out loud; then he said the fust one laughed agin he 'lowed to make 'cm stand on one loot. His head's as bald a- the pan of your hand, and as siick as a peeled ingon, and we gals named him "ingoii-hesnl," but be never would er kuowed it it' il hadn't a been for ?luiie Dickersou. 1 drawed hi- pictur on my slate am! passed it around. Tiling-, is a heap funnier in time o' books when you know you can't laugh. We all had our heads together whisperiu'and most choked to laugh out. ! Julie she'belt in long as she could, and then she snickered and snorted out. lie called her out in the middle of the Moor to stand on one foot tel -he could tell what she was a laughiii' tit. She didn't want tj tell, so she stood, and stood (el j she couldn't keep t'other loot up no longer, and then she up and 'lowed : "Mr. [ Wesllield?" "Well, what is it?" "Betsy j Hamilton said?' and then she stopped ami looked at me ami grinned, ami lei her foot down. "Well, what did she say, and what were you langhin' at ? Take up your foot. You might as well tell, ! for I'll make you stand there on one foot j all day till you do tell," says old West- I field. Julie talks through her nose and whines her wind- out long. "llctsy I ! 1 lamil-tcii. .-he-" "Well! what did l!et-y Hamilton do?" "lietsy Hamilton she 'lowed -" ?still lookin" at me like she was skeered to tell on me.) "Well, out with it ?what did I'.etsy Hamilton say The gal.- all begun to look skeered, I ami I dodged behind my speliin'-bonk to hide my face from Iky Uoberson, for I was sure she was a gwine to tell what I said about Iky's years, sot out on his head like he was a liappin' ol 'em lo lly ; and 1 knowed in reason he".I never want lo speak to nie no more if she tool that. | "Out with it: mit with ir. J can't wait] any longer. What did lietsy Hamilton sis".'" "Why, llctsy llain-il ton'lowed as how?'lowed :i< how?a- how your b.ail looked like a- a?a ingon," and down come her tother foot on the lloor, ami si"; tucked her bead am! snickered, j and t'other- all laughed too; ami some I ol' the boy- je- yelled. My face tin ned ? i -il a- a biled beet, and my speliin' book was b iltom up'nrds. I ri/ troin behind it and 'lowed : "I didn't." "Come here to me Ibis minute." says he. "and teli mc what you .-aid. Come here, ! tell von." I kivt ri ii my lace with my speliin - book, chawed my sweo'gum last, and went up (o him. "Now, tell mo what you said, or I'll wear you out. You keep that corner in a grin ball" your time. Take that gum out of your mouth. What wasil? Tell it! I know you must have said something. I'll keep you in till dark or make you tell it. Tell me the truth, and tell it quick." He turned his eve toward- a hickry sliekin' in the crack. "I never said your bead looked like a I ingon," -ays 1. "Well, what did you say? Tell it quick," .jerking down his hickry.i "I said your head looked like! a a like a -peeled ingon: that's what) I -aid." says | ; and (hey all snickered agio, and the po'old man looked sorter j shame. Kiid said: "You can lake your -eal now, liin if you hadn't told ine ihe truth I would have thrashed you good." ''Yes it i- ihe truth," -ay- I, "but I never aimed l'..t Julie lo tell y >u I ?-t I .ike yoni so it this minute !" -a\ - be. . .stoinpin' of bis loot ; and I (el you Ii sot down quiek :?:i<1 |**.-.>? * ? I like I v. i- a , gcttin' my Ilia' lesson in a hurry, i fcy j Uohersnti retched over and whispered: i "Kl that hail a been airy nother gal in School *?!.I Wc-Iiield \\? <? 11?1 t i v.!,; ,i:;.t I ! her siiorc an' sarliu." Alter a while | seed ihc |mi' ohl feiler run Iiis hand over i the top of his head to see if it rriily was like a peeled ingon, and turn Iiis faee away in laugh. Then J felt mean about ?ayin'of it, and wished I had it hack, but it was too late; and when 1 went home I told Tap all about it and cried. He laughed powerlul. "I wan: you Io let me stop the school,'' says I, ' !'? r i?!d 'ingon-hcad' never will like me no more." "Why, llets, honey, you can'! stop ihe school ; hit wouldn't go on without you," .-ays Tap, "but I reck in you mought as well stop jfwinc for all tin good you air a doin'- a gigliir' and a langhin'ami a giltin' of your spellin' lesson boitom up "ards. Middle, honey, that's the reason you got foot a Friday. Von got your spell n' lesson lop d.iwn'ards. B::tsy II vmii.to.v. Wlial is Wearing Apparel .' Wa-hi.V'.ton, April 7. -A question of considerable inlcre.-i lo travellers return? ing from abmad, namely, what const i tu'.i - wearing apparel in actual use which by law i- exempted from duty, was de? cided by the Supreme Court of the i'nited Slates to day in the ease of Wil iitm Aslor, plaiiilill' in error, against Ivlwin A. Merritt, collector in error to the United States ('ircuit Court lor the Southern District of New York. The plaintill'in error, a citizen of the I'nited States, arrived home from a visit to Kurope at the end of September, with his family, by vessel, and brought with him wearing apparel bought abroad for his and their use, to be worn here during the season then approaching, not exces? sive in quantity for persons of their means, habits and station in life and their ordinary outfit for the winter. I 'art of the articles had not been worn and duties were exacted on all those article-. This Court holds that under Section 2/?0.j uf the lie vised Statutes exempting from duty "wearing apparel in actual use and other personal eliects not mer? chandise," the proper rule to be applied was to exempt from duty such articles as fulfilled ihe following conditions : First, wearing apparel, owned by the passen? ger ami in a condition to be worn at once without further .manufacture. Second, brought with him as passenger and intended for the use or wear of him self or his family who accompanied him ' as passengers, and not for sale or pur chased or imported for other persons fir to be given away. Third, suitable for the seasons of the year which was im? mediately approaching at the lime* of the arrival ; and fourth, not exceeding in quantity, quality or value what the ' passenger was in the habit of ordinarily providing for himself and his family at that lime and keeping on haml for his and their reasonable wants in view of their means, habits and station in life, even though such articles had not been actually worn. The judgment of the Circuit Court i- therefore reversed and the eau-e r< mar.dial with instructions to I award a new trial, "pinion bv Justice Blaiehford. Preaching and Praciice. ''See here, Mr. Blank, what are you going out for to-night?" asked Mrs. B. I with a threatening look. "Big political meeting, to night." apol? ogetically explained Mr. It. "Political meeting, eh?" echoed Mrs. P>. "You have been going to political meetings every night lor live weeks, and if it had not been for me you would have worn your boots to bed every night." "I5:it just think how nice it would be if I should get nominated for something? Think ol the loads ol money I could I r ike in, and the nice furniture, and new clothes and sealskin sacqiies and?" ! "That will do," interrupted Mrs. B, "I have heard that story before. You made a speech last night at a ward meet in-. I sec." ??Yes." responded Mr. B. with pardon? able pride. "And I see by two or three line notice that the burden of your remarks wa- the ollice should seek the man and not the man an ollice. Now you just take oil ; that overcoat ; sit right down and if any I oflice comes along and knocks 1 will let I it in."?IWmUtjtliM Call. Bringing II im lo Taw. Two men were standing at the gate of ! a country farm yard whittling sticks and [ giving each other dots about managing ; women. "Talk sassy to 'em," the man on the outside of the fence said ; "an ' ye'll see how they'll be fotch down.'' i ' Just then the cabin door opened, and a \ red headed, long necked woman yelled : "Say, '/.eke, ther Hour's out!" "I hit whar ?" he yelled hack. "Otiten ther bar'l." she answered. "Wall, put it back an" cover it up tighter," he replied, while the outside man grinned. "Don't you see how -he's hacked a' ready?" he laughed, when :hc fury tup knot disappeared. "I does,'' spoke the elated victor, j Presently the same shrill voice cried : "'/.eke. I'se gwine over to mar's, an' ef ye think ther measles air ketehin', I'll leave ther baby hyar." "Ihinno whether they's ketch in' cr nut," replied the husband. "I've never' seed 'em ketch enything." Again the head was drawn back, amid j applause from the outside. The next I time tue d<?or opened the muzzle uf a j ' shotgun was poked out. and a bead drawn J on tiie -aucy man. j "/.eke." came the Solemn voice. "Melindy, " he gasped, looking in vain I lor some place to dodge. ! "/.-ke," she continued, "ther flour's j but." J "Ali rite, I'm elfter the mill at once," he an-wered sliiveringly. j "/.eke, I'm gwine over to mar's fer a spell, d'ye think tin- nna-ie-i- ketch-j j in'?" I "N... Melindv, I *i ed pap ler dav, an' he sed tile chillunz wuz all well." i "Kerrcet." she -aid. lowering the ^t:n. I "I'm i?i!" Ye can sorter clean up ihe i place 'till I git bad:, imt beshore tcr stay | ' inside i\ Idle I'm gone.'-' "All right," he an-wered meekly, mov? ing aside lu let her pa--. Athntn < ???(? i itHntion. ? A woman in Atlanta dreamed that her mother came to the side of her bed and bade her awake and get up. She did so, and found her room so full of coal gas I that .-he would have been dead in an hour had she continued asleep. The same niu'lit a man in Yarnville dreamed that he sa? h,> mother in-law looking at j him over the foot of ihe bed. and he j jumped out "I the window and broke his back. The fable teaches that some i I dream- are far more dreamfully dreamy ' ! than other-. Whal ha? be??? mo of mil m anly j men ' ask - an ? xchange. \\ ? II, sonic of them are ihe hiisb.iiid- nf womanly wo? rn n and are ngag? I :???-:::>? ehildi !i j cbildrcu. I Senf.,,- ;{;.?; ?\ \V\-!!!N<;r?'N. April ?th. .\f,j lh ?- ? I am i:i ti ?? ipi .1! yotirs of ihe ! in-i, this; ni-irriiri-r. amf-end by !? -lay'- ma:: :, ,? q.y ,,? mv eceh >\\ the IMtieali mal Kiil. A few years ago I entertained tho opinion, i: woui-l bo u .,) thing (or ' the South l.. have this u d-ral a: i locdu ? cation in the States and introduced a I'.iil not like the I'.lair Kill, however,) and wnii 10 work to prepare a <\.!i in support of it. I had 11 previously examined carefully ihe I'mstitiitional power ol' f.'ongn ss |., p,., sueh legisla? tion, and determined to satisfy myself by a thorough -tuily of the -pie-lion. This invc-iigatiou eonvinced my mini that LVuigres- has no sueh power! and there up -t: abandon. .! liie Kill and did u ?: call it up. Tlii- Klair Kill under discussion i- 11111 ?11 more obnoxious 1,, i|tc (lonsiitu ' lion a- I r>a ! it than mine, and ofeo:?r-c j I oppose it. ; Kill it ihe I' n-lituti.-nal p ?wi r were ; clearly expressed and I had no dotib; on ' thai - of-. I shoo.'d vole against it a< a i in 'tier of policy. Yielding lo .md sympathizing with an almost universal anxiety among our best , people ii. regard to public education after we reeovi red pos-es-ion of the State 1 ?< n.im 11! in I '7 i. I lavon .| national ? aid to edueation, but :.- I h ive remarked, ' I had not ri iisidered maturely it- Con? stitutional hearings m r the ueneral effect ? ami probable nisequeucc n!' such a pol j icy. I was simple minded enough to believe that the Kepobliean lenders were sincere in their prof, s-. d de-ire to sec the negro educated. I am convinced now that in this regard I was also mis? taken. They are quite wilting to vote the money in aid ol common schools if they can control it- disbursement from Washington, ami thereby again get con? trol of the negro vole as they had ihr. ugh the Friedman's Kureati and Union League. This at least i- my opinion ami every day's discussion confirms it. I know it is urg"d by some of our Southern Senators that this is not the purpose a;..I they are perfectly sincere in this opinion, 1 ut I have seen too much of their crally ibsigns upon (he South to liu-t them in a vital matter like this. If .South Carolina should receive one million of this money ami . spend it for the schools with the mo! perfect and scrupulous impartiality between the two races, nothing would be easier than lor the llepublicaii managers lo send einisa ries among ihe negroes and Hood Con? gress with statements from them that we had ignored them practically ami given the whites the full benefit of the money, investigation by Cotigres? would follow, i'he negmt - would prove their statements by evidence made to order and ultimate? ly federal school inspectors would be ap? pointed ;.: .1 finally, entire control of the schools would pa-s into federal hamls, What would be the result? Kvery common school ;:i :b ? Slat" won hi be re quired lo us*; seiiool luniks from which our children would be laiigln thai you and I and every mail who felt he was ! : lug iiis duty to the S nth during ll.e war vi'e iraitirr*, and ibai tlo?e on iho I otiier side tuati ?! by 110 higher sense of 1 iliity, w. r.- pure ami un-e!lish patriots. ! Hiis may come in lime in -pile of us. I but d ? not int >nd lo help it along il 1 I know it. A proper an<! healthful nation j al feeling may be created in the South and will be without condemning the .lead ami living You say the "papers are giving me hoi shot." Weil let them lire away. They have a right to their opinion-, ami I have to mine. I have a Ii w -hot- in my locker that I am will? ing to exchange, if they will come at me fairly and one al a time. Let the par. en that are firing their "hot shot.'' at me give the people an opportunity to decide by stating my position fairly ami honestly side by side with theirs, ami 1 shall bo willing to abide the issue and shall not complain. So far in my public life I have taken my positions: on public questions accord* ing to the dictates of my own judgment ami const.ence, and have not waited to enquire whether they were popular or unpopular, whether the newspaper- would vouchsafe their approval. In the main, j when differing they have treated me fairly in ti.eir criticisms. So I have nothing to complain of. No doubt L have made mi-takes. I expect to make I them in the future, but i shall not be driven from what I believe to be right by'adverse criticism or uninformed op? position. Upon mature reflection 1 am convinced I was in error when I favored this na? tional aid to State common school educa? tion. A man who >b>cs not change his course, reverse it if need be, when he believe- ii is leading him over a precipice and drawing with him. is either a fool or what is worse, a knave. Acting upon this principle I have changed my mind about this whole business. The race question we will have to work out ourselves, each State for itself. Kvery lime the (ieneral Government in lerferes.it makes matters worse, ami re? tards, postpones and pmbarrasses a prop? er solution, and I am opposed to it, whether in the form of aid to common school education, t.'ivil (lights Kills, political prosecutions and persecutions. The illiteracy of the emancipated slaves is as fixed and incurable as the decree of his freedom. All the money in the Uni? ted States Treasury can no', remove it. The generation that has grown up since freedom must take their chanets with other freemen in the race for education. They must go to work ami contribute to their own education like other people, or I like other people who do not work, and help themselves, drift into that army of drones who !ir-t try to live on their wits bv idleness, and finally land in the pen? itentiary or exile. Fxctiso me for troubling you with this loin; letter. Your own well considered ami timely observations as expressed in your letter have drawn me into a more exteiub ?! letter than I had calculated upon. 1'hi discussion on the Klair Kill has been abi. and interesting at.-I I wiil try and send you some of the speeches ol other Senator-. V. rv trulv v :irs. M. I . lit ; 1 1:1:. IJox. F. A ("<>NNKit, I"okosbu.'y. S. 1'. Kir.di.i -. iikc grain, increases by -0? ing. - Witling prisoner a man locked in slumber. A deadlock the fastening of a cemeti ry pate. - !>o unto .ih-rs as you would that they should ?!?? is til ? voll, ? Little George was questioned the ?lii. r day about hi" big si.-tei - beau, ilow old :- he'."' "I don't know.'/ 'Well, be is yotii - " ' I think -?, for he 1:1-11'l any hair on his hcild "' ?What shall wc name baby sister': ' i?kv?l a motherofher lit tie four year 1 !?! hiii"hter. "''all ;>< r Karly. mamma: hat's a pretty mum ." "Fatly ! That's ol little ::iri'- name." ' ? Hi, vi - it i-. lon'l v. 11 remember read to me In ut tiie iirt'e ?.irl who v as to he the d.iv ? ?0: en. at..I v '*?> wot.. ; 1:.','' r o call In r early."