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i BY E. B. MU&RAY& CO ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 25 1885 VOLUME XX. -NO. 50. ARCTIC SODA WATER, BETTER THAN EVER ! Vi . I [ . Twenty-Five Tickets f A When you come to the City, and wiBh a good, cooling, refreshing glass of Soda, Vichy or Congress Water, go to WILHITE * WILHITE And call for Soda Water with "Red Orange Syrup." Beats the world. Strawberry, Raspberry, Pine Apple, Banana, Sarsaparilla, Vanilla, Orgeat. True to name, and of best quality. 25 TICKETS FOR $1.00 Good for either Soda, Vichy or Congress Water. Congress Water relieves Headache and Dyspepsia, and is one of the best mineral waters sold. THE CELEBRATED NEW ORLEANS MEAD SYRUP. The best Syrup, in the City. Call for it at WILHITE & WILHITE. May 14. 1885 - i 44 i " Go Tell all the People for Miles Around I" -THAT - ?JOHN Wi. HUBBARD * BRO. ARB PREPARED TO SELL MORE JEWELRY, MORE WATCHES, MORE SILVERWARE, ;. Y,<Vi^ -ii^ltoJOT. CJLiOCiKS, &C. A*T PRICES MORE'TO'YOUR "NOTION. THAW EVER BEFORE. EVERYTHING in the shape of a Watch, Clock or Jewelry thoroughly repaired, gab 5,188fi 30_ . .;_ WE |To our Friends and Customers who have so liberally patronized us in tho pasta n W$ desire to return thanks, and offer our usual Spring and Sumnier Greeting ! WK ARE .PREPARED TO .OFFER BARGAINS IN ALL KINDS GENERAL lERCHANDlSE. PLANTATION SUPPLIES -AND -r FARMING IMPLEMENTS. W E ARE'AGEN TS JEOR Daniel Pratt Gin Oo.'s Gins, Feeders and Condensers. Barbour Machine Co.'s Cotton Seed and Grain Crusher. Empire Threshers, Engines and Saw Mills. ""._,. ? Champion cReantnv Moxexa and Bindera-tho^ world-renowned Harvesting Ma tinee, which hWBeM?S died fc???K|&a adjoining Counties for the past ???en years, and fW ?Virabill?y a^d%ebna??y,4bore'brnone to comparea?tt?heChampion. H" We would also mention the Count's Home-raado 7-Fingered Grain Aradlo -a South ?Owollua productlon-of which we sold during the season ot Inverai doicn by way tatroduotlon. and have made arxaogeraenta to furnish them ?bis season sgain to au IP^?^^^S^i Wagon, are well known throwout this E^^r^^^^mw and Perfected. Pulveriser is an implement that ?Mg be oSever?Arni, f ueyban be used for cultivating crops of Corn and Cotton, m? well as in the preparation of tho loud for planting and sowing. Call *nfdn?^nar , ? The "Wlxon^Kt?nt Heal Sweep is growing in favor every dar. ??J ?^?factured In Georgia- Used and recommended by the laU?J.-C. Jartuan, ??tensive farmer of Georgia. Tho blades being adjustable and easily changed, mskwit a ^e?P and derirab?e8wee?, We are taking orders for future delivery, and Would ask nteW^'oe.it . Pinara in nil sizes. lluia^mc1, ? Irial asked-? good chew guaranteed. MoCUJULY, CATHCART A CO, Anderson, S. C., April 80, 1888 FISHING TACKLE SIMPSON, REID & CO.'S C STORE, m GRANT'S ilISTOY OF THE WAR. KxtraaU From Illa Fortheo??ilns (S'aok of Recollection!,. Neu- York JfcrnM. Tho "Personal Memoirs of U. 8. Grunt" will Boon be published by Messrs. Charlea L. Webster & Co. It will be a book in two volumes, containing about five hundred pages each, and it is safe to say that no publication of late years bas created so much curiosity and such vast interest aa to itu scope and contents. The book will be dedicated "to the American soldier and sailor." It will contain portraits, map8, plans and other illustrations. In tho opening chapters General Grant settlor all sp?culation? as to his origin by declaiii g that he ia of tbe eighth gene ration from Matthew Grant, who settled in Dorchester, Masa., in the year 1630. His grandfather Noah nerved in the war of tho Kc vc lu lio n and waa proBeut at the battlo of Banker Hill. M FE AT WEBT POINT. Geueral Grant thus tells thc story of somo of thc notable instance of bia ex perience at West Point : My father received a lotter from the Hon. Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. Wben he read it he said to me, "Ulysses, I believe you are going to receive thc appointment." "What appointmentf I inquired. "To Weat Point; I have applied for it." "But I won't go," I said. He said he thought I would, and I thought sq too, if ho did. I really bad no objection to going to West Point, except that I had a very exalted idea of the requirements necessary to get through, I did not beliovo 1 possessed them, and could not boar the id?a of failing. There had been four boys from our village or its immedi ate neighborhood who had graduated, und never a failure of any one appointed from Georgetown, except iii the casa of the ono whose place I was to take. He was the aon of Dr. Bailey, our nearest and most intimate neighbor. Young Bailey had been appointed in 1837. Finding before the January examination following that he could not pass, he resigucd and went to a private school, and remained there until the following ?ear, when be was re-appointed. But efore tho next examination he was dis missed. Dr. Bailey was a proud and sensitive man and felt the failure of his son so keenly that he forbade his return borne. During my first year's 'encampment Generui Scott visited West Point and reviewed thc cadets. With h ii command ing figure, his quite colossal B?ZO and showy uniform, 1 thought him the finest specimen of manhood my eyes had ever beheld and the most to be envied. I could never resemble bim in appearance, but I believe I did have a presentiment for a moment that Borne day I should occupy hts place on review, although I had no intention then of remaining in the army. But my experience in a horse trade ten yean before and the ridicule it caused me were too fresh in my mind for I me to communicate this presonliment to even my moat intimate chum. The next Summer Martin Yan Buren, President of the United States, visited Weat Point and reviewed the cadets. But he did not impress me with tho awe that Scott in* spired. In fact I regarded General Scott and Captain C. F. Smith, the comman dant of cadets, as the two men most to be envied by the nation. I was inpa tient to get on my uniform and see now it looked, besides probably wanting my old schoolmates, particularly the girls, to see me in it. But the couceit was knock ed out of me by two.little circumstances that happened soon after the arrival of the clothes, and which gave me a distaste for military uniform that I never recov ered from. TWO GENERALS CONTRASTED; That General Grant waa always a keen observer is ' illustrated by his sketch of the marked differences between General Taylor and General Scott : I had now been in battle witb the two leading commanders conducting armies in a foreign land. The contrast between the two was very marked. General Tay lor never wore uniform, but dressed himself entirely for comfort. He moved about the field in which be waa operating to aee through his own eyes the situation. Often he would be without staff officers, and when be was accompanied by them there was no prescribed order in which they followed. Ho was very much given to sit on his horse sideways-with both feet on ope side-particularly on the battlefield. General Scott was the reverse j . in all.these particulars. Ho always wore all the uni form prescribed or allowed by law ; when he inspected bis lines word would be sent to.all division and brigade commanders in advance, notifying them of the hour when the commanding gene ral might be expected, i Thia was done BO- that all the army might be under arms to' salbte their chief as he puted. On th eso occasions he wore his drest uniform, cocked hat, agulllettes, sabre sad spurs. His staff proper, besides all officers con structively on his 3taft'-engineers, in spectors, quartermasters, ??c.,-followed, also in uniform and in prescribed order. Orders were prepared with great care, and evidently with tho view that they should be a history of what followed. I saw a good deal or General Taylor during my service witb the I State. On one occasion he said to mo that I ought to go into the United Slates service. I told him I intended to do so if there was a war. He spoke of bis aeguairittneo with the publio men of the State, sod said he could get them to recommend me for a position, and that be would do all ho could for me. I declined to receive indorsements for permission to fight for my country. . GRANT AND LINCOLN, The General's account of hit first in terview with Lincoln is full of inter est: Although hailing from Illinois mysolf, the SUte of the President, I hid never met Mr. Lincoln until called to the cap! tal to receive my commission as Lieuten ant General. I knew bim, however, very well, and favorably, from the accounts niven by . officers under me at tho West, who badi known him all their live* ' K had also read Ino remarkable course of debates between Lincoln and Douglas a few years before, when they were rival candidates for the United State* Senate. I was then a resident of Missouri, and by no means a "Lincoln man" in that con test But I recognized then bis great ability. In my first interview with Mr. Lincoln ?lone he stated to me that he had never rofessed to bo M militan'man, or to now how campaigns should be conduct ed, and aerar wanted to Interfere in lem, but that proctsstlnatioa on the art of command ere and tho pre?are of itj people at tue North, and of Congress, which, fik? the poor, he "had always witb bim/' bad forced bim into iuulng b - kell-known series of "Executive Orders. Which, like the poor, he "aaa always wun bim/' bad forced bim into issuing his kell-known series of "Executive Orders." He did not know but they were all wrong, and did not know that some of them wer?. All be wanted, Of had ever wanied, be said, was thai some one Would take the responsibility and act, TUE HAT ri.)'. OP 8HIIAHI. General Grant doe? not beliovo that General Beauregard deserved all the blame he got for his conduct at the battle of Shiloh At the battle of Shiloh, when all reinforcements arrived, I expected to take the initiative by marching on Corinth, and had no expectation of needing forti fications. But this subject was taken into considera on. McPherson, my only military engineer, was directed to lay out a liue to intrench. He did so, but reported that it would havo to bo made in the rear of tho line of encampment as it then ran. The new line, while it would be nearer the river, was yet too far away from the Tennessee or even from the creeks to bo easily supplied with water, and in case of attack these creeks would be in thc bands of the enemy. The fact is, I regarded the campaign wo were engaged in aa an offenui veone, and had no idea that tho enemy would leave strong intrench mon tj. to take the initiative when he knew he would be attacked where he waa if be remained. This view, however, did not prevent every precaution being taken and every effort made to keep advised of all movements of tho enemy. Jour stou's cavalry meanwhile bad been well out toward cur front, and occasional encounters occurred between it and our outposts. On the 1st of April this caval ry became bold and approached our Hues, showing that an advance of some kind was contemplated. On the 2d Johnston left Corinth in forco to attack my army. General Beauregard was uext in rank to Johnston, and succeeded to the command, which he retained to the closo of the battle and during the subsequent retreat on Corinth, as well as io the siege of that place. His tactics have been severely criticised by Confederate writers, but I do not believe his fallen chief could have done any better under the circumstances. Some oftheso critics claim that Shiloh was woo when Johnston fell, and that If he had not fallen the army under me would have been annihilated or captured. "Ifs" defeated the Confederates at Shiloh. There is little doubt that wo should have been disgracefully beaten if all the shells and bullets fired by us bad passed harm lessly over the enemy, and if all of theirs had taken effect. GEXEBAL DRAGO. Among tho anecdotes and stories, v. " ',h which the book ?B plentiful by interspersed, is the following told at tho expense of General Bragg : I have heard a story in the old army very characteristic of Bragg. On one occasion, wheo statiobed ata post of sev oral companies, commanded by a field officer, be was himself commanding ons !>f the companies, and at tho samo time acting postquartermaster and commissary. He waa a first lieutenant at the time ; but hiB captain was detached on other iuty. AB commander of the company tie made a requisition upon the quarter master-himself- for something he want id. As quartermaster he declined to fill tho requisition, and indorsed on the back >f it bis reason for so doing. As company commander he responded to this, urging .rat bis requisition called for nothing but vhat be was entitled to, and that it was the duty of the quartermaster to fill it. The quartermaster still persisted that he ivas right. In this condition of affairs Bragg referred the whole matter to the commanding officer. The latter, when lie saw the nature of the matter referred, exclaimed, "My God, Mr. Bragg,- you save quarrelled with every officer in the irmy, and now you are quarrelling with rourealf." Longstreet was an entirely lifferent man. , J . TUB SURBBSPER OF LEE. J Of great value also is the General's recollectioo of the surrender of Lee : I found General Lee bad been brought into our linea and conducted to a house jclonging to a Mr. McLean, aod was there with one of his staff officers wait ing my arrival. The head of hiB column vas occupying a bill, a portion of which ?vas au apple orchard, across the little ridley from the court house. Sheridan's forces were drawn up in line of battle on .he crest of the hill oo the South side of he samo valley. Before stating what ?ok place between General Lee aod my leif Twill give all there'is.of tho narra ive of General Lee and the famoue ipple tree. Wars produce many stories >f fiction, some of which are told until hey are believed. The war of the rebel 1 on was fruitful in the savao way. Thc i tory of the apple tree is. one of thc?( lotions, with a slight foundation of facti \B I have said, there was ao apple ircharrVon the side of the bill occupied >y the Confederate forces. Bunoioi Itagonally up the bill was a'wagon road which at ooo point rao very uear ooo ol he trees, so that the wheels oo that aide lad cut off the roots of the tree, wilier nade a little embankment. Gen ora 3abcock reported to me that when J?< int met General Lee, .he was sitting ipon thiB embankment; with bia feet ii be road and leaning against tho tree it was then that Lee waa conducted lott he house where I first met him. . I had known General Lee In the oh irmy and had eorved with him in. thi Ifexicao wari but did not suppose, owini 0 tho difference ia Our-ages add, rank hat be would probably remember,rae vhilo I would remember him moro dis inctly becauso he was tho chief eogicee in the Btaff.of General Scott in the Mex can war. Wheo I bad left camp tho norui?K I had not expected tho results oou that then was taking place, am consequently was io rough garb, and, lelieve, without a sworn, as I usual! vas when oo horseback on the fiele veering a soldier's blouse for a coat, wit boulder straps of my ta Ok to i nd i cat vho I waa to the army. When I wee nto the house I found General. Le? We greeted each other, and after sbaklo ianda took oor seats. What his feeling rere I do not know, i Being a man < nuch dignity aod with aa irapeoetrabl 1 ?se, it waa impossible to say whether h '.it inwardly glad that the end had fina ?cdine, or whether he felt sadly or? e result, and waa too manly to show i rVhatever his feelings were, they wei mtirely concealed from observation ; bi ny own feelings, which had been qui! ipparent on the receipt of bia lette vere sad and depressed.- I felt like an; bing rather than rejoicing at the dowi fall of a foe, that bad fought so long an gallantly, and had suffered so much for cause which I believed to bo ono of tl sont for which a people over Tough iud for which there was not the lea pretext. I do not question, ho trover, tl iioserity of tho great mass of those wi fera opposed to na. "General Lee w, tressed in fall uniform, entirely nc md wearing a sword of consid?r?t raine, very like likely the sword th lad been presented hy the State of-VJ ?nia; at aU event?, it was an on tire lifferent sword from th? one that won ?rdinarily be worn in the field. In a lough travelling suit, which was the ut form of a private, with the straps of General, I must have contrasted ve .traugely with a man so handsome treated, six feet high, and of f&ulth ibrm. Bat thia Was not a matter that ;h ought of until afterward. . General Lee and X .soon fell into a cc rc real iou about old army times. ? remarked that he remembered me vc well in the old army, and I told him, as a matter of course, I remembered bim perfectly, but owing to tho difference io years-ibero bciug about sixteen years' difference in our ages- and our rank I thought it very likely I bad not attracted bis attention sufficiently to be remember ed after such a long period. Our con.vc . satioo grew so pleasant that I almobi forgot the object of our meeting. C?eli erai Leo at that time was accompanied by one of his staff officer?, a Colonel Marshall. I had all my staff with mo, a good portion of whom were in tho room during the whole of the interview. ( RUSHING THE WORM. 8am Jone? Tlirottlng the Whlikoy Stills. Atlanta Cwwtttution. Tho greatest temperance rally probably ever seen in the city was that at the opera bouse last night, under the auspices ot' the Convention. The house was filled to its utmost ca pacity and tho enthusiasm was high. It was largely due, however, to the remark able speech which was delivered by the Rev. Sam Jones, the famous revivalist. His striking originality and bis strong powers of expression were brought out Into effective play and almost every mo ment during the hour which he occu pied iu his remarks be was interrupted by the applause or the laughter or his bearers. Mr. Joues handlea whiskey in a way that showed his complete detesta tatton of it and bis sentiments were made magnetic by the manner of their ox pression. He said : "I believe liquor is a good thing io its place, and I believe ita place ia in bell. [Applause.] If I waa ia hell [ might driuk it, but so help me God I never will on this earth drink it again." Speaking of the good that could be ac complished by prohibition and the diffi sultiea that stood in tho way of obtain ing it, be said : "Tho main trouble is ivitb thesQ little politicians. Thoy say it ?von't do to bring this question into politics. They say it will hurt your party. If your party has got to ride into power on a whiskey barrel, thea I say it iught to be hart. [Applause.] I am a Democrat. I was born a Democrat, but f you make Democracy meaa opposition o sumptuary laws and friendship to iquor, tuen I am anything bat a Demo :rat. [Great cheering.] After all, this bing of politics is just a question of the ?ins" and "outa." If the Radicals get n four years from now they will adopt be good old Democracy. "Turo the ase?is out." [Laughter.] Some fellows ny don't mix politics and religion. tVhon you hear a fellow talk that way rou may know he hasn't got any religion o mix. I Laughter.] I would mix re igion with politics, but not politics with eiigion. A little religion will help mittles. It will make it clean and tecent. [Laughter.] We want truth, ustice und temperance mixed with poli ica in this State. [Applause.] I spoke o the Legislature of Tennessee on this ubject tho other day. They are talking .bout a constitutional amendment on bo liquor qucstioo up there. We waot h if; question cleared up beyond the reach if these little cross-roads judges who top up every now and thea and say omething is unconstitutional. [Laugh er.] We want to do away with such udges and put decent men of brains and liarnctcr in their places. You can't ro brm a State with a swill tub for Go ver ier and a lot of old wash tubs silting on he bench. [Applause and laughter.] iou can't reform a State until you sena ;ood men to tho Legislature. Some men ome to every Legislature that meets in Georgia that ain't fit to go to tho chain rang. [Great laughter and applause.] kn old skunk ora thing staggering .round on both sides of the streets at mco is a beautiful representative." Laughter.] Thero LB not a purer, lobler mao ia Georgia than your Gover tor. [Cheero.j There are oo better oou - in Georgia than your Supremo Toort Judges [Applause.] I told them o Tennessee, tho other day, that you tad for a Chief Justice io Georgia a roan rho would sit up all night talking to a .eoiteot at the altar. Georgia is all ight at the top aud at the bottom. We rant to get all right io the middle, [ap ilauBe,] and if you refuse to help sup .ress the infamous wrong that ia belog looe by whiskey, you are rotten your ?lf. [Laughter.] Some of you here lou't know me. I speak plainly. I ase fords you can understand. Now you an take the Latin word decayed aaa it roo't phase a fellow. If you take the pod Old Anglo-Saxon word "rotten" you an cat his hoad off. [Laughter.] You se, I choose my words. [Laughter.] )f coune there are always some little pelling book critics sitting arouod, who rill go back Oo a fellow's grammar. I couldn't miod "belog swallowed by a ? halo, bat I would bate to be Dibbled to oath by miooows. [Laughter and heers.1 Yoa have a huodred couoties lu Coor ia where the liquor traffic is crippled, o eighty couoties thero is prohibition, say look out for your drag stores, iookout for your little simlio-headed octon. [Laughter.] Somo of them ll their saddle-bags with liquor and eeoma travelling bar rooms. [Laugh er.] God pity a doctor that will pre oribe liquor for a man I I might pre cribo It for a poor, dyiog woman, bat I roald not give it to a man until ho was ead. [Applause.] Whiskey is not nod for one thlog lo this world for rbich there is sometbiog oho that is bet Br. [Applause.] If the time over omes when they say to me, "You'll dio f you don't drink whiskey," I will say. Get my shroud ready/' [Applause.] mesa to die sober. If a fellow gets so JW that nothing bat liquor will save im, I am ready to preach his funeral. Applause.] And I have a text that I'll lake him hope oo. [Laughter.] I idn't mean to talk here more than half a hoar. If any of you fellows get ired you know the 'way home. Wo rouldn't have missed you if you hadn't ome at all. I rejoice to night that in more than reo thirds of the couoties of this 8tato rhiskey can't be sold at all. [Applause, am glad the Legislature is going to ive as a general local option law. [Ap lauso.] If we doo't tarn whiskey oat f every county io this State at the lint lection we will try lt agaio. [Cheero.] had a great trial not looa ago. I have cen a poor mao all my life, nod wheo rienda in Nashville offered me a house, nd offered to ataod by me and back mo p, it was a great temptation; but I joked down here and saw my old moth r, Georgia. I never loved her so in all ny life before. I said: "Brethren,-no; can't take it. Not that I love yen lees, ut I love Georgia more." [Cheers.j Vhcn I die I waot to die in Georgia, ana ?fore I die I want to. see eve? Inch of ter ?oil rid of the carse of whiskey. Cheers.], I am not mad with toe men rho sell whiskey. I am not mad with ho men who moko itv I am mad with ?biakey. [Cheero/! I am mad with icmijohOB. . I cm Riad thev haven't ?ot ega. [Laughter.] These that hare ricker-work .around them' haven't got ega, but there are plenty of old red ncaed lomijohna walking around Atlanta. [Laughter.] Ain't you sorry for a poor woman wno, every time she goes to church, has to put her tender arm In the hands of an ola demijohn ? ( Laughter.) I put it in thia way : The liquor traffic ought to bo made so odious that nobody but an infernal scoundrel will aell it and nobody but an infernal fool will drink it. [Cheers.] Separate these liquor dealers from their liquor and they will be all right. The church that will house a man who sells whiskey ?B a detestable I fraud. ( Applause.] The church that will house a man who renta a house to aell liquor in is a hateful hypocrite. I Applause.] Gomo of these churches io Atlanta are doing just that thing. [Laughter here.] If there is in this vast audionce ono man or woman who never had a relative or loved one hurt or ruined by whiskey, I want him or her to stand up right now. Yon have all had a brother, or a son, or a father, or ason-in law, ruined by whiskey. My goodness, these sons-in-law I I'd rather have a boa-constrictor around my neck than to have a drunken son-in-law. [Laughter.] The devil can't do any worse thau that. [Laughter.] Someoi you old hypocrites that are dilly-dallying with the whiskey question are going to get caught just thal way. The devil is going to slip up on you with a drunken son-in-law and I'll bet-ho will make you a Prohibitionist with a vengoancc. [Laughter.] I look around your city nnd see thc barrooms as thick os ata? in the heavens, F-ach one of the three hundred bars in Atlanta represents at least ten confirmed drunkards. Three thousand men in At lanla across the line and gone to ruin You can stop it if you want to. Then are church members enough in this town to turn out any day and vote .liquor oui of it. [Cheers.] You are afraid to dc it. You will let some barkeeper with ac old rusty pistol cuss and rear around thc pollB and scare you home. You don'! want to havo a fuss. [Laughter.] Well I'll tell you every good mau dreads r fuss, bul he don't foar anything that walka on tho earth. [Cheers.^ Thc church lays back en tho idea that it mus* have peace. Old Joshua went out om day aud fought all day fong. Ho wai crowding the enemy when be looked ur. and saw the sun going d' -.vu. He said "Lord, if you will just give me three 01 four more hours of sunshine, I'll cleat tbeso fellows un off of the faco of th< earth." And the Lord just made tba old sun rack back on the dial, and Joshut won a victory tho fame of which bai lasted until this day. [Great cheering. God despises a coward. I bad rather dii at the mouth of a cannon doing my duh than to run away from it because I wai afraid. God entrusts all the noble enure, en this earth to men who are game [Cheers.] Ono enthusiastic, brave man in ead county in thia State can carry prohib? lion in Georgia. If you haven't got om in your county import ene. [Applause. Talk abont high license for whiskoy I'd os Boon have high license for smal pox. [Laughter.] I don't want liquo at any price. [Cheon.] If you father who have sons who are your pride am your country'a hope, will give your en thusiaem, your money into this cause th day will soon come when a mother cai kiss her boy ffhen h? leaves ber side ii the morning and know that ho is safe [Applause.] I wu it to seo the gooi people of Atlanta go to the polls an work as they did iu Carterville and thi blighting curso will bo lifted from you fair city." [Long and continued ap please.] At the conclusion of Mr. Jones' speed there were loud calla for Judge Georg N. Lester. The judge rose and returne thanks for the compliment, but said tbi little could be added to the speech tin had already been delivered. The qui? crowd then adjourned. Two Sorta of Courage. Commodore Garrison was once captai of a steamboat on the Mississippi, on while selling tickets one day happone to rouse the ire of a passionate ola mai who drew his pistol, and presenting it i the narrow window, rall in the captain face, fired. Tue cap snapped. He tried a secon time, Mid again failed. Garrison's on pistol lay within reach, but instead j taking it up, ho quietly opened a drano took out a box of percussion caps, ac handing it to his would-be murder* laid : p "Toke a now cap ; yours don't woi well." The furious man stared al him a m ment, then burst into a laugh and he! out his hand. Another kind of courage is exemplify in a story told of a young New Yoi inventor, who, about twenty years ag spent every dollar he was worth in i experiment which, if successful, woul introduce his invention to public not! and Insure bis fortune and-what I valued more-his usefulness. It failed. The next morning th* dat papers heaped unsparing ridicule on hil Sopo for the future seemed vain. I looked around the shabby room, whe Ilia wife, a delicate little woman, w preparingbrcakfast. He was without [>enny. Ho seemed like a fool in ii iwn eyes ; all these years of hard wo vere wasted. If he were out of the ws ihe could return to her friends. I ?veut into his chamber, eat down ai juried his face In his bands, with a di oerato resolve to ord it all. Then, wi i fiery heat passing through his body, 1 ttood erect "It shall succeed," he said, ahuttii lia teeth. His wife was crying overt tapora when be went back. "They i rery cruel," she said.. 'They don't understand. I'll ma them understand," he replied cheerful "It was a fight for six years, he si ifterwarda. '"Poverty and sickness a sontempt followed me. I had nothi eft but the dogged determination that mould succeed?' It did succeed. T nventor is now a prosperous and hap nan. "Be sure you're right" he says rounger men, "then never give up." Youth's Companion. - Tho fame of the Mason Colt Harvesting Machine has spread far 1 fond the limito of this country, and meccas is eagerly awaited not only by I ;otton planters of America bot by cot! mllivalora in foreign countries. 1 [Jotton Harvester Company of this e baa received a letter from Mr. Fi Leni?k. the Secretary of the Sooth , rican Exhibition, requesting the comp? to place one of its harvesters on exni lion at Port Elisabeth, Cape of G< nope, in December next, when i Sooth African Exposition will bo open Mr. Lenick says that in view of tho tension of cotton growing in the coll tho Mason mac'aino would bo esteei ? very valuable tosh lb it. The Harv* Dompsny has patents on the borve: br Cape Ooloay and the Gape of Gi Hope.-Ke\cs and (burier. - The other day two prisoners strip dark naked,: lathered themselves ? map, and Blipped through tbs bars of Birmingham, Ala., prison. ^ - Tho ago at which many invry-e. "* ?'?5 '. :??rv'?' . " ? <i -'( . TAR AND FEATHERS. Bf.?Ollectlon of a Cold Nlsht lu n Colorado Carun. Special Girresjtondence of Qlohc-Democrat. I was Bested in the corridor of a hotel thia evening, when a gentleman read aloud to a group of friends a telegraphic account of tho tarring and feathering of Roy S. Hathaway, the editor of the To? ledo Sunday Dispatch. I observed that they all laughed and seemed to con? aider the thing exquialtcly funny. Tbe fact ia, tarring and feathering, aa far as sympathy goes, is placed in a good deal tho same category as having a tooth pulled, or falling down on a banana ukin. I used to laugh at it mysolf, but I altered my opinion two years ago last Fall. This change of heart did not come about through my boing tarred and feath ered myself, but through an epieodo of which I waa a spectator. It was in 1882, and took place at a little Colorado min ing camp cal'r -1 Carbon ville. TAR ANT) FEATHERS IN COLORADO. Carsonville lies just over the conti nental divide on tbe Pacific side, in Lake County, about twelve miles from Lead ville as the crow flies. It was a mush room city, and at that time was in tho hectic heyday of ita prosperity. Itu business portton waa made up largely of caloona and faro bankB, and the fact that its population was mainly gentlemen ex iled for various offenses from Leadville will give an idea of its moral status. Ono of the very few "respectable" wo men in the camp was a Mrs. Jake Gory, who ran a little lunch room and restau rant. 8be was Bweet-faced and sweet tempered, and bad an abiding fund oi patience, that enabled her to put up with vagaries of one of tho worst husbands ip tho world. We in the camp thought that Jake Gory was absolutely the worst on the face of the earth. He was a drunken, foul mouthed, brutal Scandina vian, who divided his time between the gambling houses and worse resorts. At these places ho spent every dollar hie wife earned and all he could borrow on her good name. He once went no far as to pawn her furniture down to tho cook ing stove over whioh she supported him, II mention these things to show that the i sequel was not altogether unprovoked. FOR STRIKING A WOMAN. I One evening Gory came into tho res taurant drunk and struck hiu wifo sav agely in the face. lld escaped through tho back door of the kitchen, and she came in, scared and bleeding, and told the story to some of the boarders. AD impromptu indignation meeting was held amoug tao "boys" and it was decided tc tar and feather the f ?low and run him out of town. The parase Bounded well in the mouth of tho man who suggested it, and everybody agreed that it was thc correct thing to do. No time was loBt. A couple of mee ran over to the refining works and got r big iron bucket of pitcb, and others pro cured an old feather tick from A lodging house. Then a committee started out tc got Gory. T.hoy found him asleep in a saloon sac bustled him over to a vacant lot in th? rear of nome buildings. Ho was hal dazed and confused with drink, anc thought the affair was a joke, until thi moa began to Btrlp off his clothes. Thet he fought like a madman-io truth, I be lievo he was mad w'.th terror. His shir and underclothes had to be literally ton off of him, and lc was a good fifteei minutes' work bofore he stood, shiverin] and stark naked io the moonlight. APPLYING THE TAR. I can see him now-As laired eye dilated and hiB shock of yellow hal bristling on his head. ?Jis> nudd bod; stood out inhold relief against the zrouni that surrounded him, aad th* chill, pen etraliog air must have nt ru ci: the wrote' to the bone. At any ?cate, he croucho down and somebody called out : "Gire I to him now 1" At the instant the backe of tar was lifted, and about a gallo thrown win a swash ovur his bare shoul den. Ho sprang erect st the oold touc of the pitch, aad whirled around just i time to receive the rest of it on the heat face and chest. For a moment he stood petrified, th black staff trickling down his body an legs, and uniting with a great puddle c it on the ground. Theo he slowly -raise his hands to his eyes aod tried .to bros them clear, bat as his Angers had receh ed a good share of tho pitch, he onl made mat te ru worse, aaa dropped bJ arms again. He did not soem to be abl to realizo what had happened, au wagged his head blindly from side ( Bide. AB he stood thus, ODO of the meo too the upper edge of the tick aod in verte it over bim. I suppose it was as coo plc to a job of tho sort as was ever undo taken ; at least, nothing was overlook* to make it a success. Gory looked lil nothing human, but some strange sped of monster blotched all over with fluf white. His head Boomed about tho Bi and shape of a bushel basket, and fe lures were obliterated in the gener blackness*. IT WAS A COLD NIGHT. When the work was done he was gi vc fifteen minutes to get out of camp.1 ? was made to uoderstaad with difficult but was finally started OD the trail ai tho crowd dispersed. I jSarly next morning some miners, gob to work, found Gory baclc of a bulldu lying on the ground and moaning. Tl tar had by this time rubbed all over hi abd partly solidified. As it grew hard contracted, and every contraction hi dragged with it the thousands of micr r.coplc hairs with which the body is co cred. In places it had broken the ski ;md the men who carried him into a alu bund blood on their hands. A phyi ciao, theo located there andi DOW li vii at Greely, Col., waa called ia and t tempted to remove the stuff with benzlr It was an utter failure, as was everythii else he tried, from grease to ammonia. I saw him in the course of the mot lng. The lower portion of his body w covered with a blanket, but his face w ? spectable not easily forgotten. T hard pitch was cracked all over it, li alligator skin, and caked so solid around one eye it was impoesible to i move iL The other eye was opened, I dreadfully inflamed and suppurating. , places over the surface were todd splotches of feathers., i Business called me away from Cart* ville for about two weeks, and a few di a flo r I returned Gory di ed. Moan ti i most of the tar . had been removed ?uocessive washes, bulk his skin was cc ered. by m inti te black specks like I ohavon cbiu of a man wno has a hes beard. They wore the choked up po of thoekin, and this was probably I roal causo of tho death. A short ti after the pu n lah rn ea t be had been tal with a raging fever, and then sympto of a singular blood disorder set in. J skin over the chest, neck, cheeks and o side of tho arms roce In hard rldi totally devoid of feeling. Theso rapf si ou g a c d o ff, 1 sit vin g opon u 1 cora. I eb not enlarge upon theso details, wh would only porharva Interest a med] mao, further than lo say that the s/i toma were In all care ooo rear-oct Jd? cal with leprosy. This sole di fie re ace was tho frightful rapidity of their devel opment. The distorted remains woro hurried into a collin and hurried Into the ground. THE CAUSE OF DEATH. A wiso physician of Denver told me afterward that thia closing ap of the pores prevented the system from throwing off its impurities, and when tho poison that every instant escapes in perspiration is held back or driven inward the blood ia vitiated with inconceivable swiftness. He took down a book and showed me a caso quoted from a French government report of 18G2, where (be college of surgeons, aa an experiment, covered n boy with gold leaf. In six horne ho waa seized with a fever, then a torpor, and then died. The principle, ho said, ww identical. A man could no more live with hiB pores dosed than he could with bbs mouth and nostrils hermetically seal ed, and if any considerable number were Btopped up blood disorders of the moat dreadful character were absolutely certain to ensue. I had seen enough, however, without the aid of science or history, to tell me that covering a man with tar waa one of the most horrible punishments that cru elty has ever devised. I have no impulse to laugh when I hear of a case of it, but rather to walk away with a picture float* ing before my eyes of a hideously grotesque figure shivering in the cold night air and a bloated corpse in a rough pine collin. JOHN BEX. Fast Trains, Throe of the oldest and most compe tent cnginccrii to whom was-committed the running of the fast trains, not long since asked relief at the bands of the Superintendent of tho road. They had found that the mental and nervous strain which came upon them while urging their locomotives at this high rate ol' speed was so great that they found them* selves unable to bear it. One of these men, an acquaintance of our informant, was a few months before a stalwart man, with a nervous organization which seem ed capable of boering anything that could bo put upon it. Ho now had grown thin and haggard, while his brawny hand was trembling as if an in* cipient palsy had stricken him. He had been compelled to say to the manage* .roent : "You must give me a slow freight train upon which I can have an opportu nity to recover myself, or I shall bo com* polled to resign my position in order to save my health, and even my life." To these men. the excitement, coupled with responsibility, great enough at ordinary times, becomes simply unbearable when their engine was rushing over the rails at a speed of fifty or sixty miles an hour. These men were trained men, schooled to calmness and alertness combined, and had years of experience, but this excess ive demand was too much for them. There ls something pathetic in this statement. It is well known that the relatve cost of running a railroad train at a high speed is vastly more than run* ning tho same train at a lower rate, and the wear and tear of locomotive, rail and road-bed are so muoh greater, bnt we do not remember to have soon any facts ex hibited as to the enhanced loss of nervo and vital power taken from the men who control these naterial forces. That does not, as far os wo know, ever appear in any annual report of tho directors of a railroad. Possibly it has never been' taken into the account or had a thought. The passenger sits calmly enjoying tho gent?o sway or the glide as the telegraph poles flit by bim, and steps from the car with an exultant remark aboul the lesa than two hours between tho cities nearly a hundred miles apart, hut gives never a thought to the man in iront who, with strained eye, and hand on the lever, was all tho time giving literally, moment by moment, a part of his life for thoso whose safety depended upon tho touch of his hand upon Ute polished bar.-Ckrit' iian Union. Woman's Strength. The strength of women lies in their hearts. It shows itself in their strong love and instinctive perception of right, and wrong. Intellectual courage is rare ly one of their virtues. As a rule they are Inclined to be restless and excitable, allowing their judgment to be swayed by quick ?motions of all kinds ; bot : above all, it is in their hopefulness and endu rance that they fina their ohief powers. Who is the last person to give up hopa in the case of a member of the family who has apparently gone altogether to the bad? what .mother or sister with deep and ardent love for such, will over coobo to cherish hope or endure suffering on their account? The patience of women ia proverbial,1 and their whole lives are bound un in their affections. ' Fow people will deny that love, in-ono form Or another, makes up the beauty of life of a woman. It entere, into all she does. Any work outside of her ImmecF t ate circle is undertaken, most often, from a pure desire to help some one else to know something of tho mysterious hap piness of love. Unlike men, women chiefly look for personal ihtercourse irith those for whom they are working. If their interest lies among the poor, they are desirous of sympathetic -personal ac quaintance with them, and very little work of a lasting kind has been done by women without their own influence of love being brought to bear on the indi* vidual case. - The Abbeville Pre*? and Banner naya : "Thc work of harvesting the crops has been commenced, and the' oat crop, though exceedingly small, ia much better than oor farmers at- , one timo thought it would be. Wheat, ie good enough. . Corn is as good as possible, (aid the area is much larger than usual. Th ero nover was a year when more labor Dr energy waa expended on the farma than this year, and there never waa a time when the prospect was more encour aging." v - A couple of- Mormon elders recent ly appeared in Folk County, N< C., and began to hold meetings. They were waited upon by about twenty-five citizens who Invited them to leave .the country, sod gave them some not very gentle hints ; ss to the treatment they might expect Itt'; caao they should chooso to remain. .Th* elders chose the safer alternative tja? departed. ; -Among the Buddhists tiie popular explanation of earthquakes ia na follows pnce a great man dare1} to say In publlo - that He was not afraid of tho power of the gods. The gods held a contention, sed decided to make tho man hold m> tho universe Naturally he goto ?red sud shifting his hwrden from ooo ahooMer to. tito other cracks the earth. ; i^jXjg* j ~ The little town afr^fryatts, Ch??-. tho Columbus (Qa.) Eneuitcr. A hom > h blown -at ft VatO?> thf aft?r-^ a? a signal fi? th* dosing of stores, -and a few safest* thereafter scarcely a, soul.L? seen on the streets. Tho l?oys play bsso baU from 6 o'clock until dirk.