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BY E. B MURRAY & CO ~ " ANDERSON, S. C THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21, 1886._VOLUME XXL?NO. 28.
OUR HEW YORK LETTER,
[From our Regular Correspondent.]
New York, Jan. 15, 1886.
While the joybells were ringing ush?
ering in the New Year?while the shouts
of glad children were awakening every
household in the city, as they surveyed
the rich treasures that Santa Claus had
left them, a poor woman in her garret,
in .one of the poorest streets was slowly
dying of starvation. She knelt down by
her bedside on New Year's Eve, so goes
the story, to say a parting prayer as the
old year went out, but the grey light o;*
the 1st of January, 1886, as it broke
through that attic, found her still kneel?
ing there, but dead ; no sign of food or
money, scant furniture, and a tattered
dress were all that remained of her life
story yet she had been a wife and a
mother. Little ones had prattled about
her knees and nestled in her breast*, and
she had fought the battle of life as brave?
ly as she could; but home, husband,
children and friends bad drifted away
from her, one by one, till at last she
found herself alone, and she too passes
into the great b?yond. Did He who
watcheth the sparrows fall hear the last
prayer that she uttered and in mercy
call her away ? If so she had a Happy
New Year; happier far than the millions
she leaves behind her. And now comes
the questionvis there actually any need
of anybody suffering for food in this
great city ? - On Christ.mas morning a
poor widow sat with her two little ones
unable to pay her rent, unable to get any
Christmas dinner. Santa Claus had
passed that poor chimney by the night
before; and no drums or trumpets glad?
dened the eyes of widow Morris's babies.
The* reporter of a great daily newspaper
found them- out and told their humble
story, and within twelve hours that lone
widow had her cupboards full of all sorts
offgooch things,- and a respectable bank
account beside. Thousands, if necessary,
would have been ready to relieve her.
But notwithstanding our proverbial char?
ity and the magnificent organizations of
which this city is full, the hard fact
stares us in the face that there is still
untold suffering, and the dreadful fact
that twenty-one bodies lie unclaimed in
the morgue, tells a story of woe' more
eloquent, and-forcible, than ever was
uttered by human tongue or written by
mortal pen.
I was strolling down Broadway the
other day aud stopped in front of the
Hoffman-House. This you will doubt*
less remember, is the bostolry kept by
E. S. Stokes, who killed Jim Fisk. A
dapper young man stepped up to me and
placed iu my hand a copy of The Bar.
I stepped into the Hoffman and took a
look in the looking-glass to see if there
was auy advertisement on the end of my
nose that entitled me to such attention,
and I assure you on my honor there was
not; but looking over the paper I find it
is devoted to the beer and whiskey in?
terest. Let us look this thing squarely
and honestiy in the face. What /ire
temperance people doing? In New
York City there is at the present time
not a -single temperance meeting or a
single temperance orator that commands
popular attention. A short time ago
New York had Mr. Sawyer at the Cooper
Institute where he conducted the Sab?
bath meetings for years, but the devil
tripped up h'is heels and he fell, to the
great grief of all who knew him. In
Brooklyn, Oliver Cotter a reformed
whiskey seller, became the terror of his
former associates, and many a one he
had fined or sent to the penitentiary for
violating the excise laws, but the devil
got after Oliver Cotter; he disguised
himself in a bottle of whiskey, he got
inside of Oliver, and one very dull
morning ho found himself among the
drunks* in the police court. This cer?
tainly was an exceedingly bad showing
for prominent temperance apostles. But
while the prohibition champions fall by
the wayside, the whiskey interest grows
stronger and more defiant every day, and
why^sbouhHt not. It makes uur Gover?
nor, our Legislature, our Aldermen and
Supervisors?our Sheriffs, our constables
and police. The man who keeps the
saloon on the corner is a more potent
factor in our local politics than the most
eminent clergyman iu the city. Two
policemen were tried last week, one for
robbing a mau and ihe other for assault
with intent to kill, and the excuse of
both wai that, they were drunk. The
policeman Couroy, now serving out a life
sentence for clubbing an innocent pris?
oner to death, gave it as an excuse on
his trial that he was drunk. Prohibition
will not become an accomplished fact in
New York in the present generation,
and as long as the Prohibitionists run
separate candidates, just so long we will
have free rum, Sunday and holiday in
this city and State. The policeman who
feels bis position in danger, if he com?
plains of a violation of the excise law,
is going to keep his eyes and his mouth
shut, especially when he k nows that iu
addition to his other advantt ges,Jt is to
him free whiskey and money in hU
purse.
I dropped into the business men's
prayer meeting at the old John street
Methodist Church, on Tuesday last. The
services were conducted bj Rev. Mr.
Pentecost, a Baptist, at one time sup?
posed to be like Paul, the straightest of
his sec'. The meeting was welljatteuded
by respectable- business men, the only
peculiar thing about it was that there
appeared to be no particular need of it,
as every man wa3 a Christian in full fel?
lowship, who had made his calling and
election sure. I believe I was about the
only sinner in the church, aud of course
felt very uncomfortable.
We are rejoicing in an operatic revival
which h full of promise for ihe future,
and if we have to pay a good price for a
soprano i r a tenor, at least, we have the
satisfaction of knowing that the money
will be spent on this side of the water.
And now for a little bit of musical
gossip that ha3 never before got into the
papers.
When the late Doctor Damrosch was
alive, there was a strong feeling of ri?
valry between him and Theodore Thom?
as. The Doctor, like Mr. Theodore, was
a thorough musician, and he always re?
sented Mr. Thomas' rather aristocratic
ways. For before the doctor arrived in
the country Theodore Thomas had set
himself up as a sort of musical dictator,
from whose ipsi duvit there was no appeal.
Doctor Damro3ch sought to counteract
Mr. ?homa3' influence in musical circles,
and he inaugurated one of ihe mo3t
magnificent series of concerts at the
Seventh regiment armory, there had ever
been beard in the country. Tbe result
was not only an artistic, but fioancial
success, and Doctor Damrosch retained
bis influence up to the day of his death,
having founded first-class German opera
in this city where it promises to remain.
When Doctor Damrosch died the baton
fell from his lifeless baud iuto that of
I his son Walter, and the German opera
still continues?Wagner's Meistersinger,
which was produced on Monday night,
being the crowning glory of the operatic
season. There was a great gathering of
fashionable and financial magnates; tbe
handsome face of our ex-Presidetit being
seen in the boxes, and everybody was
asking why cn earth ho has'nt got mar?
ried.
But you must not imagine that all the
world ind his wife were at the German
opera tX the Metropolitan Opera House;
by no manner of means. On the same
night Theodoro Thomas produced Goetz'
comic opera, Taming a Shrew, at the
Academy in Eoglisb. We. have here a
musical enthusiast, Mrs. H. B. Thurber,
wife of a wholesale groceryman and a
lady distinguished in fashionable and
musical circles. Tbe dream of her life
has been first-class English Opera, which
would enable the Amoricau public which
loved music to dispense with tbe service
of the hordes of vagabond foreigners
who have fairly devoured our substance
in the pnst. Theodore Thomas and the
English opera scored a great success;
though opera is even in Engiish a costly
entertainment, anything like a fair seat
costing two dollars and a half, and choice
seats were five and ten dollars, so that
notwithstanding the discovery that we
have native talent in abundance, we are
not yet prepared to offer opera at fifty
cents and a dollar.
I see O'Donovan Rossa is an applicant
for a place in the Brooklyn navy yard.
President Cleveland had better keep an
eye on the Irish Boanerges or he may be
afther blowin' up our entire uavee wid
dynamite.
A remarkable and sensational feature
of the week has been the Dixie ball at
the Metropolitan Opera. An actor
named Dixie has been amusing the
patrons of a little theatre on Broadway,
called the Bijou Opera House for a year
and a half in a burlesque called Adonis.
Mr. Dixie and his manager Mr. Bice,
have made a handsome fortune by the
venture, but in consideration of his dis?
tinguished services and the obligations
under which he bad laid tbe public,
Bice got up a ball at tbe Metropolitan
Opera House. Tickets, $5.00. Boxes
fifty. Of course there was a jam; all
the fast people in town were there, and
hundreds went just to touch elbows with
theatrical people off the stage. Finan.
cially the thing was managed so that
Dixie and his manager got a pocket lull
of rocks.
At tbe sale of pews in Beecher's
church this week tbe premiums fell off
from $53,304 in 1875 to ?15,400 in 1885.
Stocks are again on the ragged edge,
one day strong aud tbe next day weak.
The weather which a week ago was
like a pleasant spring is now wintry
enough to suit an esquimaux dog or a
polar bear.
Very truly yours,
Broadbrim.
A Deserted Bride.
Barnett, January 5.?On the evening
of Tuesday, December 29, near Willis
ton, S. C, at tho residence of Robert L.
Wade, two of his daughters, aged re?
spectively sixteen and twenty-four, were
married, tho former to a young man
named Addison, aud the latter to Walter
Stroud, a man about twenty-five years of
age, and by trade a blacksmith. Both
couples bade their friends adieu and
started for Vicksburg, Mississippi, where
it was supposed they intended to locate.
They reached Thomson, Ga., the follow?
ing day, Wednesday, where they halted
and put up at the Knox House, and, re?
gained until Friday, January 1, when
they boarded train No. 1, and got off at
Barnett with tho expectation of finding
accommodations. Failing to do so, after
spending several hours, Addison and his
wife returned to Thomson by fast train
to spend the night, and Stroud and his
wife went to Sharon on tho Washington
branch.
In separating, tho baggage of the party,
consisting of five truaks, was checked
to Atlanta, and it was agreed between
them that they would all meet the fol?
lowing morning at Barnett, and proceed
westward by fast train. When Stroud
and wife reached Sharon they stopped at
the Edwards House, and tho next morn?
ing Stroud informed his wife that he
would run out to Harnett and meet the
other couple and would return on the
next train. He carried with him a small
black valise, and when he arrived at
Barnett purchased a t cket ' to Uuion
Poiut aud joined Addison and his wife
and has not been heard of since, but it
is supposed that he went to Atlanta, as
the baggage belonging to himself and
wife has been claimed there, aud be was
in possession of the checks. It was very
hard for the lady to realize that she had
been deserted by her husband after being
married only a few days, and when she
was enabled to view her position in its
true light she wept bitterly, and remarked
that she would prefer death to having to
return to her parents' roof under such
circumstances.
She was left without a dollar and
among strangers, but she has been kind?
ly treated and will be furnished with the
necessary means to return homo. The
father of these young ladies, R. L.
Wade, is a respectable farmer, and the
father of thirteen children. Walter
Stroud is the son of tho Rev. W. H.
Stroud, a Baptist minister, who has lived
for some years in the vicinity of Willis
ton, Aikcn County, and is the father of
teu children. Mo is poor, but respected
where he is kno.vn. In 1875 he removed
from Langley, S. C, to Atlanta, Ga.,
where he located !or awhile, but nally
returned to Carolina.
Barnette, Ga., January 5.?Walter
Slroud returned his wife's trunk from
Atlanta by express to day, and wrote her,
saying: "I know I have treated you
badly. I am strapped, and it is best
that we should never meet again." She
left for home by tho fast train this
evening.?Augusta Chronicle.
MAJ. GEN RANDOLPH, U S. A.
by annie kendrick benedict.
[The following sketch is a true one.
Every incident iu connection with Gen?
eral Raudolph has come within the
experience of a friend.?Autuob.]
I was a young man of leisure. My
physician bad prescribed a vacatioo, and
I was taking it in a Summer boarding
bouse among the hills, in company with
an uncle and aunt and some pretty
cousins.
One of these cousins was Alice Braut
ley. She was an orphan, my uncle's
ward, and she added to the attraction of
large dark eyes and a fair face that of a
lovely disposition and a strong character.
This is not a story of my courtship, or I
might tell how the grape vines were
ladeu with their purple harvest, the
apples were showing their golden color
through the leaves?in short, bow I had
lingered far beyond my convalescence, all
for the joy of sitting in the light of
Alice's eyes aud listening to her low
voice.
But the time was coming when we
must separate. She was poor. I bad
yet my name and fame to make in the
world. Wanting a position as governess,
she bad replied to an advertisement from
a lady iu tbe South. Her application
had been accepted, mouey had been sent
ior her outfit, and she was busy about her
preparations.
Alice and I were together under a big
apple tree one morning, she stitching
away on some of tbe numberless garments
that women think they must have if
they are going to make a jouruey, I
lazily lying on the ground, trying to make
her stop to eat the golden fruit with
which I was pelting her, when my uncle
came near with an open letter, which he
throw into Alice's lap.
"I am glad you will have company,
child," he said. Alice read it. and in
answer to my inquires told me that Dr.
B., a well known divine from one of the
large Eastern cities, who knew my uncle
well, had written iutroducing Major
General Randolph, of the Confederate
Army, who was to come through our
town, and would accompany her to her
destination.
We thought no more of it, except that
I remember the iuward curse I visited
on the poverty that compelled me to
allow a stranger to do tbe task that would
have been so delightful to me. Mrs. B.,
to whom she bad engaged herself as
governess, also sent a letter of introduc?
tion, and we only awaited his coming.
Well I remember the morning that he
arrived. We were sitting on the broad
piazza in front ol the bouse as he walked
up the drive with my uncle.
He was a man of about medium height,
rather slight, but giving the impression
of great activity. His whole bearing
was that of a soldier.' He had a remark?
able face, wavy brown hair brushed back
from a high forehead, fair complexion,
eyes that changed with every changing
motion, now laughing, now pathetic,
now keen and sharp, now earnest, never
really sinister or wicked. His grey trav?
eling coat and handsome brown valise
become him well, and his slough hat, of
the finest, softest felt gave him a distin?
guished appearance.
With air of good breeding worn by a
man of the world be acknowledged the
introduction which my uncle gave in
passing, and went to his room to remove
the dust of travel.
His coming marked an era inourquiet
life. It was tbe last week in August.
Many of the Summer boarders had fled,
and those that remained were pet haps tho
most cultivated who bad been with us.
In those hazy days of late Summer and
early Autumn there was little to do but
to sit on tbe piazzas and watch the chang?
ing lights on tho hills.
General Randolph was here and there
and everywhere. I have seen much of
the world since, and Alice, my wife, is a
keen judge of men and things, but we
can both freely say that he was the most
fascinating man we have ever met. He
had a keen intellect and was brilliant in
conversation. His fund of information
seemed endless; ho would sit on the
piazza an hour at a time, twirling the
little cane which he always carried, dis?
cussing a favorite author, or telling a
funny story or a pathetic incident of his
army life. We asked no greater pleasure
than to watch the lights and shadows of
his wonderful eyes.
The ladies were charmed with him ;
one of my cousins mixed his brandy and
.water nightly, and a rich young widow,
who had many suitors at her feet, receiv?
ed his attentions with evident pleasure.
But ho had the tact which made no one
jealous or unhappy in his presence. Not
a pang crossed my iniud in thinking that
Alice would travel with him. He was
my ideal of a Southern gentleman, and
my only feeling was one of pleasure that
Alice would be so well taken care of.
He formed a special friendship for a
gentleman who had a school in the
neighborhood. I remember that one
evening as we sat in the parlor he asked
this gentleman to purchase for him a
number of books during a visit to New
York. He wrote down from memory the
titles of at least one hundred of the best
books, and our friend rea'.lily promised
to do as he desired and give the privilege
of his discount. The General also pro?
posed to bricg bis brother to our friend's
school, and offered a generous subscrip?
tion to aid him in bis woik.
He stayed two weeks and then left for
a few days. He was expecting to return
and bring hh brother, then take Alice on
their journey.
He came back, but his brother was not
with him.
"Harry came to the depot," h:; said in
explanation, "but was suflt ring so m':ch
from a felon ou his band that I had not
the heart to insist on his coming. He
will be here iu a few days."
But all pleasant days n.ust end, aud
and the last of our pleasant sea o-i came,
He and Alice started. He had left a
substantial check in the hands of our
friend, and we were all sorry that we
might never meet him again.
I lingered a few days to gather my
things together, and was spending my
last hour with my uncle and his family,
when our friend, the Professor, came
suddently in the room with a daz'-d look,
saying:
"General Randolph's check has been
returned /"
We could not believe our ears. Gen?
eral Randolph dishonest! Impossible!
My uncle telegraphed at once to his
clerical friend in the East. Alas 1 Dr.
B. knew no such man. He was blind
and wrote by means of a secretary, so
that his signature had been easily forged.
I was crazy, maddened ! Alice had
gone with him ! Where? oh, where? I
took a detective and started in search of
her. I gathered my own saviugs, the
bank furnished more money, and I de?
termined to find him and bring him back
to justice dead or alive.
We followed them to New York, but
they had left the day before. We traced
tbem by meaos of a small cane which he
had left to be marked at a jeweller's
store. It was to be engraved: "From
Randolph, of Virginia, to Bush, of Ken?
tucky," and was to be sent to Lexington,
Kentucky. We followed them to Cincin?
nati. I recognized his handwriting on
the register of one of the hotels in an
assumed name. As I pointed to it the
clerk laughed and said :
"I'd like to collar that fellow. He
played us the neatest bit of roguery that
I've seen for many a long day. He went
to the theatre one night and brought
back with him a cb.ap that he picked up
there. They were as thick as hops.
They must room together. I bad charge
of the safe, and as they came to the desk
to get the key, your friend said to the
other in the airest tones?you know what
a way he had with him : (Yes, I knew.)
'Now, you must excuse me, sir: but of
course we never met each other beforo,
and I think it would be better to leave
our valuables in the safe over night. I
have a package of papers beside me that
is worth a good deal, and with your per?
mission I'll take a check for it.' The
other chap did the same, leaving a watch
and quite a sura of money. Now, what
do you suppose that infernal rogue did ?
Early in the morDiug| before the other
fellow was awake, he slipped bis hand
into his pocket, got out the eheck, dressed
himself, came down and banded it over
to the clerk (a different one in the morn?
ing, you kno-v,) and received the watch
and the mo?ey, leaving his friend his
package of papers, worthless, of course.
You may be sure we haven't seen him
since."
We then visited the chief of police,
who conducted us to the rogues' gallery.
I hate to live over again the d.strust of
human nature that entered my soul that
day when in a conspicuous place I saw
the handsome face and brilliant eyes of
our friend Randolph.
"He is one of the biggest rogues in the
country," said the chief. "He has been
in prison twice for forgery, and has done
more petty crime than any man I kuow
of."
We traced them, iu one slight way
and other, to Buffalo. There, in one of
the first clas3 hotels, to my joy, I found
Alice. She si?d that General Raudolph
had gone out for a few minutes, aud they
were to leave that eveuiug. . He had
taken her even to the town where she
had expected to go; showed her the
house of Mrs. B., but regretted to find
that the lady was still in the North on
her Summer trip. Alice had beeo treated
with perfect courtesy, but rather by the
power of his magnetism than in any
other way he had got her on the cars and
taken her to Buffalo.- We subsequently
concluded that his purpose in taking her
was to make her of use in counterfeiting.
She was a fine penman, and that was one
of his diversions.
She promised the officer to board the
train that evening, as had been agree'd
upon, and, after it was iu motion, to point
out General Randolph. She did so, and
thus was he delivered up to justice. On
the return home he escaped once, but was
recaptured.
Alter he was fairly locked in the jail I
went to see him. He looked haggard,
but met me with all his polished ease of
manner
"It is all a mistake," he said ; "all a
mistake. It will be righted soon. I
heard you were searching for me. and
was traveling to find you."
"Strange," I answered, "that we were
looking so hard for each other and
couldn't como together. I hope the
matter may be righted, as you say."
But it never was righted. He was
tried aud senteuced to Charlestown State
Prison for seven years. I have heard
since that he played insane aud was
released, and that be was afterwards feted
in one of our smaller cities as Governor
of Arkansas.
Perhaps one of the few truths that
General Randolph ever told was that his
brother had "a felon on his hand." The
many questions that will arise in the
minds of my readers I cannot answer. I
have given the facts ; you must form the
theories.
? One of the most felicitous illustra?
tions of that evangelistic oddity, the Rev.
Sam Jones, is that in which he likens
some bombastic men of small account to
a little steamboat which he used to meet
on a Southern river. This vessel had a
very small boiler and a very big whistle.
When the whistio blew the boat had to
atop, for the boiler would not furnish
steam enough for the engine and the
whistle at the same lime. The compari?
son is applicable to many of the most
noisest of reformers and workers While
they are trumpeting what they have
done, their work, such as it was, comes to
a halt.
? A very loquacious lady, calling one
day to consult her physician, talked on
and on with such volubility that the
latter could not get in a word edgewise.
Growing impatient, he :'.t length told her
to put out her tongue, which sh-? did.
He then said: "Now, plc.i>e keop it
th 're until you have heard what I have
got to say to you."
"Don't."
It has been many years.since Punch
delivered the oracular bit of advice "to
young people who are about to get
married," which it summarized in the
one cautious, emphatic and peremptory
word, "Don't.'" And perhaps no single
piece of advice that was ever given has
been so often and so earnestly quoted, or
has been so persisteutly disregarded. In
a slightly modified form, there is no doubt
that Punch's counsel embodies a vast
deal of prudence and wisdom, and that
it should commend itself to the matri?
monially inclined. The reason why it
fails to be accepted in so overwhelming
a majority of cases, therefore, must be an
unusually strong reason, and one deeply
rooted in human nature. Herein lies
the difficulty. It is no doubt safer and
better to bear the ills we have than fly
to others that we know not of; but there
is a spirit in man, and in woman, espec
ially in young men and young women,
which irresistibly impels them to hope
for better things than the things they
have : and no ills ever seem so certaiu or
so unendurable as the ills from which
they chanco to suffer at any given time.
The loving mother who once enjoined
her daughter never to get married, was
promptly met by the argumentum ad
midierem of the daughter's own existence,
which argument, it must be conceded,
was conclusive to the daughter's mind.
And when that perverse young woman
was furth.-r remiuded that the mother
spoke from experience, what more natural,
as we say, than that tbe daughter should
entertain aud express a desire to encoun?
ter like ills in order to qualify herself, by
like experience, to give like counsel at
some future day. Thus it goes, from
generation to generation ; and thus it
happens that maukind and womankind
make so slow advance towards a state of
perfect wisdom?because the knowledge
we so painfully acquire in a lifetime dies
with us, and those who come after us
must needs begin the spelling-book at a,
b, c, and will insist upon regarding the
story of the boy up the apple tree, of
the ox that was gored, of old dog Tray,
and eke of the sanguine milkmaid, as
but so many cunningly-devised and
inconsequential fables.
And yet Punch was more than half
right. With a slight qualification, tbe
best advice to give to young people who
are about to get married is "Don't," and
that qualificat ion may be briefly expressed
in the one word "unless." The formula
then becomes "Don't?unless," and in
this shape it is the very best sdvice that
can possibly be offered and accepted
under the circumstances.
Love is well enough as a motive for
marriage, and there should be, as there
can be in truth, no marriage without it.
But that they love each other, however
fondly or foolishly, is not a sufficient
reason why two young people should
haste to be married. For it must not be
forgotten that Cupid has wants as well as
wings; that beatitude and bacon, happi?
ness and houiiny, go hand in hand ; and
that there are few thingynore conducive
to the development and persistence of
exalted eeutimeats than the gentle influ?
ences of a coal fire, with the kuowledge
that tbe bod is full behind the door, and
a strong reserve in the cellar.
It is easy to say, before marriage, that
these things are of the world, worldly,
aud are not worthy to be considered in
comparison with the mere happiness of
being aud abiding with him or her, as
the case may be. But, fortunately or
unfortunately, we live in a material
world; lovers are not spirits, aud after
marriage, if not before, they must eat
and drink and dress like other people, or
suffer because they cannot. Love has
wings as well as wants, and there is an
old saying that when poverty comes in at
the door with its train of trials aud
privations, we become aware of certain
bright pinions fluttering at the casement,
and the danger is that, ere we are
aware, the gentlo guest who has dwelt
with us awhile may take his flight, never
to return.
It is uot wise to incur so great a risk
unnecessarily. It is better to pause
beforehand and count the cost of even a
wedding; better not to get married at all,
than to marry in haste and repent at
leisure; better to Avait than to wish,
when loo late, that you had waited. It
is better, far better, dear young friends,
to go on loving truly and faithfully, and
madly if so be, thau to marry without
reason and without prudenc*, aud cease
loving forever after.
If you will not consider these things
before marriage, depend upon it you will
be compelled to consider them after mar?
riage. Recklessness in regard to any
important step in life never yet precluded
reflection and regret, when that step has
been desperately or impatiently and
unwisely taken. Be suro your folly will
find you out, and, if you arc a young
man, don't begin life with the dearest
woman on earth by placing her in a
position which will inevitably entail
disappointment and, perhaps, misery
upon her for your selfish sake. If you
are ayouugwoman, on the other hand,
it is not necessary to lose your head
merely because you have lost your heart.
He may be the very bestand handsomest
and most affectionate iover in the world,
as he probably is ; but, if ho cannot oiler
you a home; if he have not a certain
profession or calling that will enable
him to provide for you as well an for
himself, to say nothing of others who are
not usually taken into account; if he
cannot take c:iro of you as well as lovo
you, don't, we earnestly entreat you, don't
impose upon him a burden which he
cannot bear, even if that burden be your
6weet self, and so assure for both of you,
in advance, the loss of the very happiness
thai you seek.
Examples of the danger of disregard?
ing the advice which we have thus fully
and freely given, and which, perhaps,
you have received before from those who
love you Lest, are not wanting. The
dismal story of young lives blighted by
ill-considered aud imprudent marriage is
told anew almost every day. Do not
fancy that your ease would be any better
under the same circumstances. If you
aro contemplating go perilous a venture,
stop and consider. If you aie about to
get married - unless you are fuliy pre
Fared for the duties and trials of marriel
fj?heed the word of wisdom, and
Don't.? Charleston Sunday News.
EDUCATION IX THE SOUTH.
The Nation's Duty to the Colored Pooplo
i'lain mid Imperative.
The reconstruction policy that followed
the late civil war extended suffrage to a
million or more of freedmcn who were
entirely uneducated as a class and entire?
ly untrained in any of the responsible
duties of citizenship. There was every
reason why the Southern States should
deny education to a servile race, as edu?
cation could ouly endanger the tranquili
ty of slavery, and it is not surprising that
the poorer class of whites in the South
present a larger percentage of illiteracy
than is found in the North, where free
schools have been established for half a
century.
It is too late to inquire into the wis?
dom of enfranchising the colored men
who were freed from bondage and clothed
with all the prerogatives of citizenship.
That has been done and it will not be
undone. There is special force in the
argument, now that the passions of sec?
tional strife have perished, that suffrage
should have been limited to the standard
of intelligence, but it is too late. The
South has the power to practically dis?
franchise the colored citizens, but it will
not be done, because the limitation of
voters would be foiled by a corresponding
limitation in representative power in the
popular branch of Congress and in the
Electoral College.
Universal suffrage, regardless of race,
condition or properly, is now the irrevo?
cable policy of the Republic, and that
compels us to look squarely in the face
the appalling fact that ninety per cent,
of the whole colored vote of the South
cannot read the ballots they vote, and
twenty-four per cent, of the white voters
of the same section are equally ignorant,
In South Carolina more than one-half of
all the voters, white aud black united,
cannot read their ballots, and iu Missis?
sippi, Louisiana and Georgia, ouly a
small fraction more than one-half of all
the voters cau tell, from their tickets, for
whom they cast their votes. These
statistics- are furnished by the official
census reports of 1SS0.
It must not be assumed that the South?
ern States have been remiss in enlarging
facilities for popular education since the
war. On the contrary, considering their
resources and their extreme necessities,
they have greatly surpassed the North in
their efforts for the education of both
races. The good work was hindered by
the profligacy of carpet bag rule, that
collected school taxes and promised edu?
cation to the colored race, but wasted o.
stole most of the school revenues. Since
the reconstructed States have been al?
lowed home rule they have made mar?
vellous strides in popular education.
South Carolina, where war left its lega?
cies in direst vengeance aud desolation,
pays nearly half as much for free schools
as does Pennsylvania, aud employs more
colored teachers than are employed in all
the Northern States combined, while
Mississippi, the ouly Southern State in
which the colored race predominates,
offers better advantages to colored pupils
for higher education at the coat of the
State thau does Pemisylvania.
The plain duty of the nation is to give
its voters, with whom are lodged the
sovereign powers of the Government, the
highest possible standard of intelligence,
for only iu intelligence and virtue is
there safety for free government. How
the problem i.i to be solved ; how educa?
tion can be so diffused as to rescue the
supreme power of great Slates from the
domination of ignorance, is a question of
the graven moment. Earnest men have
proposed a comprehensive scheme of ed?
ucation by the General Government, but
the country halts at the scores of millions
necessary to carry it into effect, and many
hesitate at any system of governmental
power in the South that could be prosti?
tuted to partisan ends; but the facts that
a full million and a quarter of voters in
the South are uuablo to read their bal?
lots ; that the whole natiou has pledged
its faith to the improvement of the freed
meu, and that every intelligent citizen of
every section is immediately interested
in elevating the standard of intelligence
among those who may control the destiny
of.our institutions, speak trumpet-tongu
ed for enlarged educational facilities in
the Southern States. They have done
their part generously, and will doubtless
multiply and extend their schools as rap?
idly as their resources shall be increased ;
but they are unequal to the great work,
aud the natiou should extend a helping
baud in justice to itself as the exemplar
of popular government among the peoples
of the earth.?Philadelphia Times.
In a Trance for Seventy Days,
Columbus, Neb., January 12.?News
has just reached here from a farm house
several miles north that Minnie Dishner,
Nebraska's sleeping beauty, recovered
consciousness on Sunday, January 3, the
seventieth day of her hystcro cataleptic
trance sleep. The roads have been im?
passable until the present time aud the
news of her recovery could not be re?
ceived before. The girl fell into a trance,
from which she has now revived, October
2d last. During this long int' rval she
hall lain to all appearances lifeless, with
the exception of respiration aud pulsa?
tion. When Miss Dishner awoke her
mind was apparently clear and unim?
paired. Her appetite and general feel?
ings were good, but her arms and legs
were paralyzed. She says she was con?
scious during the whole time of her pro?
tracted trance, but, though .-?he exerted
her utmost power to evince her conscious?
ness, she could not move a single muscle.
She said she had no physical pain until
the fortieth day of her sleep, when the
electric battery was applied. Since then
she has suffered a thousand agonies of
body, ami at times it seemed as if her
mind would give way under the strain,
and she now complains of terrible phys?
ical sufferings in consequences of the
shock 10 her system. The doctor in at?
tendance says, however, that she will
recover iu a short time and will also
regain the full use of her limbs.
? One linn iu weslpru Massachusetts
last year made 130,000 drums, using half
a million feet of lumber, 35,000 sheep?
skins. 2,200 pounds of cord, and tens of
<4b.er lutings.
A Battlo with Wild Hogs.
Few men are aware that there are
such things as wi'd hogs in this country,
but such is the case, however little the
fact may be known.
3 [Not long since Jim Raynolds and
myself were on a deer hunting expedi?
tion on one of the numerous bayous
that jut into Red River, in the* South?
eastern part of Arkansas. We had with
us two dogs, and were trailing along the
bank of the bayou?the dogs some two
or three hundred yards in advance. All
at once the dogs began to bark and there
arose the greatest consternation imagi?
nable. It did not take us long to deter?
mine the cause of all this commotion, as
the dogs soon hove in sight fighting and
retreating toward us.
Attacking them was a drove of wild
infuriated hogs, some of them so large
and ferocious that a grizzly bear would
be little more formidable. To say that
they would strike terror to the bravest
heart is but to make ?u assertion tbat
would receive immediate credence if
the reader should he ever be brought
face to face with them.
What was to be done? Here they
came, with a deafeuiug aud unearthly
noise, their every bristle projecting for?
ward, eyes reddened with rage, froth
dripping from their long tusks, ready to
rip open any one or anything that offered
combat. ,
We stationed ourselves by the water's
edge so as to be ready to take to the
bayou in case of our guns failing to
check them.
When they were about fifty yards
from us we encouraged the dogs to stand
their ground, aud so they did for a short
time until one of them was struck by a
very large boar, and literally ripped
open, the poor creature's entrails falling
to the ground before he expired. The
other dog then beat a hasty retreat to?
ward us, closely followed by these mad?
dened monsters.
We were armed with double-barreled
breech-loading guns, one barrel rifled
and the other shot, rifles 38 calibre and
our shot cartridges contained No. 2
iihot. The remaining dog bad been so dis?
abled that wc could expect but little if
any assistance from him. It was all he
could do to take care of himself, and
rather questionable about his being able
to do that for any considerable time.
I suggested to Raynolds that we give
tbem a volley from our four barrels at
cnee, and perhaps it would so discomfit
taem that they would retreat. This we
did when they were about two rods from
us, aud, although wc felled some three
or four to the ground and crippled others,
they seemed more enraged than ever, and
were on us before we could reload our
guns. The only thing left for us to do
was to take to the water (and very fortu
nate aat we bad water to take to) which
we immediately did. Abandouing our
guns, wc plunged in and swam to the
opposite shore, the live dog taking kiud
ly to our example.
The bayou at this point was about four
reds wide. After crossing, we each
selected a tree which would be easy to
climb in case the hogs should cross after
us. Several times I imagined that they
wore about to cross, but the dog now
having ceased to bark and lain down,
while we concealed ourselves behind the
trunks of large trees, their rage seemed
to assuage, and they presently moved off
down the bayou.
Some little time after they had disap?
peared among the thick timber of the
bottom, we swam back to our guns.
After making an examination of the
hogs we had dispatched, we concluded
that we had had all tho bottom hunting
that we desired that day, and struck out
for the uplands.
We learned that these wild hogs
abound in considerable numbers along
the bottoms of Red River and tributary
streams in this locality. These hogs be?
long to the "razor back" breed and grow
to an enormous size, feeding principally
on the mast of the bottoms and adjacent
uplands. Wo were also informed that
had it not been for our dogs tbey would
probably not have given us any trouble,
but would quietly have withdrawn on
our approach.
The tusks of the largest one that wo
killed (an old boar) projected fully four
inches from the jaw, curving outward
and upward from their base on the upper
jaw, aud upward aud outward on tho
lower jaw.' They are frequently hunted
in the fall and winter after the mast has
fallen, and they have become fattened
on it, aud make, it is said, fair bacon.
Were it not for tho fact that the hog
cholera makes frequent ravages among
them, tho bottoms would swarm with
them, and it Would be dangerous to
travei there. As it is, one feels safer at
a distance thatraraong them, especially
if you have dogs with you, which they
are certain to attack if tbey come within
sight. In the drove that wo encountered
there were fully thirty, the greater num?
ber of them large, and must have been
four or five years old. I presume, also,
that, overflows destroy very many or
them.
If there is auything to bo dreaded
more in tho woods than an attack of
wild hogs in considerable numbers, I
have yet to learn what it is.
Thought He Could See Clear Through,
A specialist in throat troubles was
called to treat a Boston lady, who mani?
fested so much interest in his surgical
instruments that he explained their uses
to ber. "This laryngoscope," said he,
"is fitted with small mirrors and an elec?
tric light; the interior of your throat
will be seen by mo as clearly as the ex?
terior; you would be surprised to know
how far down we can see with an instru?
ment of this kind." Tho operation over,
the lady appeared somewhat agitated.
"Poor girl," said her sister, who was
present; "it must have been very pain?
ful." "Oh, no, not that, not that," whis?
pered the Boston lady; "but just as he
fixed his instrument iu place I remem
b'tel that I had a hole in my stocking."
?Xcw York Sun.
? Tho physicians of Lancaster have a
blac'i list, and have agreed not to prac?
tice for any persons whoso names are on
it unless paid in advance.
The Gallant Dead.
We extract from "The Campaigns of
Stuart's Cavalry," by H. B. McClellan,
just issued by Randolph & English,
Richmond, the following touching inci?
dents which occurred in the late war
near Brandy Station:
"Butler had now secured a good posi?
tion, covering the road to Brandy Sta?
tion, and where he might expect soon to
be reinforced by the 4th cavalry. More?
over, he threatened the enemy's flank,
should he advance towards 'Cuipepper
Court House. The one gun that had
followed Colonel Wickham from Brandy
Station was now available, and Butler
proposed to make a stand. But while in
the road, side by side with Captain Far?
ley, (of General Stuart's staff), their
horses' heads in opposite directions, a
shell from the enemy struck the ground
near by, ricochetted, cut off Butler's leg
above the ankle, passed through his
horse, through Farley's horse and carried
away Farley's leg at the knee.
"The Hon. John T. Rhett addresses
his narrative, from which I have already
? largely drawn, to the Hon. M. C. Butler;
and thus describes a scene which, for
knightly courtesy and heroism, cannot
bo surpassed:
"After we cross'cd the stream the ene?
my placed a gun iD full view of us all.
vVhile they were so doing you ordered us
to retire. As we were moving off I was
turned in my saddle looking backwards.
I saw the artilleryman fire the gun, heard
an exclamation, and saw that the shot
had taken effect in the small group with
you. Captain Chestnut and myself, with
a few men, hurried to the spot. We first
went to you, sending some men to aid
Captain Farley. When we had placed
you in a blanket you said to us : 'I wish
that you two gentlemen, as you have
placed me in the hands of my own men,
would go and take charge of Farley.'
"We went to Captain Farley, told him
that you had scut us, took him out of a
blanket and placed him in an old flat
trough. He was very cool, in fact pleas?
ant and smiling, though evidently in
great pain. Just as we wore about send?
ing him away, he cal'ed me to him and
pointing to the leg that had been cut off
by the ball, and which was lying near by,
he asked me to bring it to him. I did
so. He took it, pressed it to his bosom
as one would a .child, and said smiling:
'It is an old friond, gentlemen, and I do
not wish to part from it.' Chestnut and
myself shook bands with him, bidding
good-bye, and expressing the hope that
we should soon again see him. He said :
'Good-bye, gentlemen, and forever. I
know my condition, and we will not
meet again. I thank you for your kind?
ness. It is a pleasure to me that I have
fallen into the hands of good Carolinians
at my last moment.'
"Courtoously, even smilingly, he nod?
ded his head to us as the meu bore him
away. He died in a few hours. I have
never seen a man whose demeanor, in
the face of certain, painful and quick
death, was so superb. I have never en?
countered anything so brave from first to
last."
Let the world, whilst doing justice to
the memory of this preux chevalier, see
the instinctive love of fellow Carolinians.
"It is a pleasure to me that I have fallen
into the hands of good Carolinians."?
Columbia Register.
Wages in Germany.
Consular Dethmar, at Breslau, Germa?
ny, has made a report to the Department
of State relative to agricultural labor.
He stated that the laborer usually lives
upon the estate, and is employed the
year round. The working hours are in
summer from 6 a. in. to 7 p. m., and in
winter from sunriso to sunset. He is
given fre.i lodging and free fuel, aud it is
customary also to allow his family the
use of one hundred square rods of land
for raising vegetables. As direct wages
he receives per annum $19 to ?23.80 in
cash, aud twenty-four bushels of rye,
three bushels of peas and one and one
half bushels of wheat. The laborer's
wife is bound to work in the field when?
ever required and receives for a day's
work iu summer 12 to 14 cents and in
winter 10 to 12. Of tea, meat, tobacco
and schnapps the laborer gets but little.
If he smokes a pipe, it is but seldom,
arl his tobacco is unmanufactured leaf.
In harvest time he is treated to schnapps
to encourage him in bis new work. The
government tax is no longer paid by farm
laborers, but the commercial income tax
amounts to fifty or seventy-five cents per
year. A writer on economic subjects
figures that a laborer's family consisting
of himself, wife and fivo children under
twelve years of age, can subsist for $1.Q9J
a week, or $57 a year. Consul Dethmar
also gives a tabular statement of the
wages paid to theminersand mine labor?
ers, showing that they receivo daily from
52V cents (which is paid to foremen, en?
gineers, and carpenters) to 18} and 16
cents paid to women and minors. The
average cost of-the subsistence of a
miner's family, including rent, clothing
and taxes, amounts to $122.80 ner an?
num. The rents paid by miners range
from 36 cents to $1.19 per month.
Jones and Small.
Cincinnati, January 12.?The meet?
ings inaugurated by Sam Jones at Trini?
ty Church are attended twice a day, de?
spite the worst weather known here for
17 years, by crowds larger than the
church will hold. No larger crowds can
be accommodated outsido Music Hall,
and the weather forbids its use for the
present. The press of the city favor the
movement, and urge Jones to strike and
spare not. Very full reports are given,
and general interest in the community is
wide spread .and deep. The Christian
co-operation will bo hearty, aud the
prospects wero never better anywhere for
success. It is likely that double meet?
ings will bo necessary hereafter, Jones
and Small preaching simultaneously.
? A Pittsburg woman having inclu?
ded in her complaint against her hus?
band that "he had kissed her in 1882,
and she hadn't seen him since," the New
York Graphic says some women evident?
ly expect their husbands to hang around
the house and make love to them all the
time.
DEATH VALLEY.
A California Valo*;m Fatal as the Gmvo
Upas.
The name is fearfully suggestive, and
yet few place? in the world deserve their
appellation so well as d-.-.es the Death
Valley of California, nor is it ea<y to find
any other country whatever which gath?
ers about itself so much that inspires
horror and dread. A region where a
man can die of thirsi while he has water
within his reach, more than he can drink,
may well bear the most terrible title that
can be given it; and this name?Death
Valley?given from the first known event
in its history, thirty-five years ago, will
doubtless cling to the spot to the end of
time.
In the Southeastern part of Iuyo
County, California, and the point at
which the meridian of 11G degrees 45
minutes West crosses 36 deegrees 10 min?
utes North as nearly as possible is iu its
centre of horrors. Probably only one
other spot of which we have any knowl?
edge, the Guevo Upas, or Vale of Poison,
in Java, exceeds the fatality of Death
Valley. The valley i:self is forty miles
by eight, running nearly North and
South, and every portion of this is desert
I and barren in the extreme, as is, in fact,
the entire surrounding country; but a
narrow central space along the Eastern
side about fifteen miles in length, embod?
ies the typical features of their highest
intensity. Into this very few persons
have ever gone, that is, who returned to
tell the tale, and what is here related
pertains to the higher and comparatively
moderate parts toward the borders of the
valley.
The dangers are the result of atmos?
pheric conditions solely. Lack of water
may be a fatal evil, but this can be avoid?
ed ; supplies of water may be carried, or
better still, it is now tolerably well ascer?
tained that water is available by sinking
even shallow wells in much the greater
exteni of the upper portion of the valley.
But the water fails to afford its usual lifo
giving value from two causes. The first
of these is heat. Of course this is mod?
erated during two or three of the Winter
months, and for that space of time a
residence on the borders of Death Valley
is possible without any exceeding great
risk. But this soon passes away and the
furnace is in blast. By about April the
average (of day and sight) is about 00 to
95 degrees; and a little later it averages
over 100 degrees, reaching often 120 to
125 degrees in the coolest place that can
be found. If this was with a damp
atmosphere it would stifle any human
life with great rapidity, but a certain
amount of dryness enables it to be borne
with more safety.
Here, however, comes the second of
the two evils which have been indicated;
the intense dryness of the atmosphere.
This is so excessive as to be in many
instances fatal, in spite of every precau?
tion. The writer has never tasted the
full severity of this feature in Death
Valley itself, bat his experience along its
immediate border renders him ready to
give full credence to the statement that
many cases of death have occurred "when
water was plenty but could not be drunk
fast enough to supply the drain caused
by the de3iccative power of the dry, hot
air." In fact, in one instance he himself
nearly reached that condition, and a few
hours of the heat and dryness would have
placed his own name among those of its
victims.
It has been said that birds drop dead
in attempting to cross the valley. Mr.
Hawkins, who visited it in 18S2, says
that he picked up at various times, two
little birds, a mile or so from water, whose
bodies were still warm, having just drop?
ped dead." The bodies of men and their
horses are liable to be encountered at
any time; they have been found within
a mile of water, and in one case with
water still in their cauteens, and a supply
of food as well, showing that the climate
was the cause of death.
With these facts in view, it is not un?
reasonable to say that the name of Death
Valley is well bestowed. And if this is
the state of things on the elevated bor?
ders, ranging from 1,200 to 2,000 feet and
more, above the sea, what must be the
heat and the dryness in the very focus ?
For one of the additional wonders of
Death Valley is that its central region
lies away below the level of the sea.
There is, perhaps, no other spot on the
globe which at so great a distance from
the ocean reaches such a depression?150
feet. The dead sea, with the gorges of
the Jordan and the Arabah, of course
greatly exceeds this, but it is not widely
separated from the Eastern parallel bor?
der of the Mediterraneau.
Popping the. Quest ion in Ala inc.
When I was a very small child I re?
member hearing my father tell the fol?
lowing story: "A young man away down
in Maine went to see the idol of his
loutish heart one winter's night. The
kitchen was the place of rendezvous, and
the kuchen fire the uninterested specta?
tor of their rival sparking. But, from
the distant position the two lovers lock
from each other, I should imagine the
fire had it all on its side; for Hezekiah
sat upon one side and Matildy on the
other of the wide, old-fashioned fire?
place. They sat as quietly as Quakers,
waiting for the spirit to move. The fire
crackled, the old clock in the corner
ticked mournfully, the cattle stamped
uneasily in the adjoining stable, the cat
purred, but silence reigned between the
two. So quiet was it that a mouse made
a mistake, and thinking the company
had gone, scampered half-way across the
room, then scampered back again. Time
wore on, till the clock struck 10, when
the swain spied the tongs. For the first
time in his life, he was attacked with an
idea. He was so surprised that he
chuckled. Matildy looked up in sur?
prise. He took the tongs, aimed them
like a gun, and said, sheepishly:
"I'm goin' ter shoot yer."
"What yer goin' ter shoot me fer?"
said the fair maid.
" ?Cause I love yer!"
And so in a few words, was the all
important question popped.
? The annual income of a famous
Baltimore chiropodist is $10,000. He
is employed almost exclusively by the
wealthy.