The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, December 19, 1889, Image 1
BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON.
HEADQUARTERS ">? CHRISTMAS!
ONE CAR LOAD OF
TOYS AND CHRISTMAS GOODS
JUST RECEIVED, containing everything ever sold in Anderson, and lots of
things never seen in this market before. PRICES ARE LOWER than you ever
heard of before. Come and see for yourselves.
TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS OF CANDY
On hand, and you know it must be sold. My twenty Clerks will be ready at all
times to show you through this immense Stock. See me before you buy.
BEST CIGARS ever sold. Fresh CITRON, RAISINSand CURRANTS.
One Hundred Boxes Fire Crackers
And.pther Fireworks in proportion ready for Santa Claus.
J5@*' Don't forget the place. Look for Sign?"Headquarters for Christmas
Goods!"
? Gr. M. TOLLY.
Nov21,1889 20 5
E PROGRESSIVE AGE in which we live and flourish demands?
ENERGY,
PLUCK,
? ACTIVITY,
-AJSTID BOTTOM PRICES!
If you will visit our Store you will Bee a combination of all the above, with a few
other-things that are calculated to'make competitors "Get up and Dust" to keep in
Bight. We can and will shake the bottom out of any- prices you can get elsewhere.
We'll tall you the "Good Old Honest Truth" about every article we Bell you.
We Pay Cash for every - Dollars' worth we Buy,
And Give You the Benefit Every Time.
Don't Believe a word we Say.
BUT COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF,
- JOHN M. HTJbBARD & BRO.,
Next to Farmers and Merchants Bank, Anderson, S. C.
AT AND BELOW COST!
TT '-"*?
fl AVING determined to close out onr Mercantile Business in order to devote our
entire time aud attention to the Cotton Business, we now offer our entire Stock of?
Dry Goofls, Hats, Shoes, Mm ai (Mil,
REGARDLESS OF COST.
Read some of these prices:
j Best Calicoes 5c. per yard.
Pelzer Shirting 4Jc. per yard.
Checks 4Jc. per yard,
Blankets $100 per pair, . *
Hats 10c. op,
Shoes?Womens' Balmorals?50c.
Mens' Brogans 65c. * .
.JHens' Boots S1.25.
Mens' Overcoats $1.50 and upward.
These are a few of the leading articles. We cannot begiu to enumerate the
?BARGAINS we offer.
_ We Have a Full Stools of
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
9
That we are selling AT COST. There are ONE THOUSAND BARRELS OF
FLOUR in Stock that must go, if Cost Prices will sell them. And then there are
ONE HUNDRED BOXES OF TOBACCO
That it will pay every chewer in Anderson County to examine.
Sugar at Cost i ?
Coffee at Cost!
Soda at 3c. per lb. !
And Everything Else at COST !
BROWN BROS.
Noa21,1889 20 5
THE BEST IN TBE W?KLD~!
OUR OWN
WHITE PINE EXPECTORANT
AVE such universal satisfaction last Spring that we have prepared a large lot of it
\JC for this Winter, and want everybody?
"who has a cough
To try it. It is the Beat Cough Syrup made, and is recommended by every one who has
used it. If you haye a Cough buy .a fjottle, and if that one don't cure you, it will do
bo much good that you will be sure to get another.
TRY IT.
QJEITI Sz SLOA3^.
FINE GOODS FOR
BEST Four Crown London Layer Raisins, -
Best English Currants,
Best Citron,
Best Almonds, Pecans, English Walnuts and Brazil Nuts.
Best Gilt Edge Flavoring Extracts, in two ounce and one quart bottles.
Largest variety of Sweet Crackers ever brought to Anderson.
Hugler/s Fine Cocoa?best ever sold.
Bummel's Fine Candies, Plain Candies, Cigars, Cigarettes, &c.
Full Cream Cheese 12$ cents per pound.
25 pounds Rice for one dollar.
50 pounds Grits for one dollar.
Canned Fruits and Vegetables of every description.
Special Prices made in Quantities.
Call and see us.
GEE * LIGOR?,
Wholesale and Retail Grocers.
THIS WILL PLEASE YOU!
The*undersigneti have opened
A- First Class Bakery,
At the old stand of J. M. Hubbard & Bro., next to L H. Seel.
AFINE, NEW OVEN hasbeen bnilt, and our Establishment is equipped with every?
thing needful in the Baker's occupation. We will have FRESH BREAD,
CAKES, PASTRY, etc., every day, and we want the public to give us a trial order. We
guarantee satisfaction. We will also keep in stock?
A NICE LINE OP CONFECTIONERIES, Etc,
Which will be sold at very low prices.
We will sell Twenty-Five Bread Tickets for $1,00,
And deliver fresh Loaves to our customers every day.
?SF We will Roast Fowls, or any kind of Fresh Meats, and Bake Cakes to order.
E. BOCK & CO.
Dec 5,1889 . 22
LAND FOR SALE.
MAXWELL'S GALLERY
BY virtue of Deed of Trust made me by ' TS now open for business, fitted up with
Cornelia Morris, I will sell for spot X. the finest instruments that are made,
cash at Anderson C. H. onJ3aleday in Jan- New scenery and accessories, and all work
guaranteed to be first-class or money re?
turned. J. A, Wren will remain in Amler
nary next, all of the said Cornelia Morris'
interest,'being one-seveqth, of a Tract of
Land containing 250 acres, more or less,
situated in Rock Mills Township, on wa
son only a bhort time, and will be glad to
see all of bis o'.d friends. Enlarging pic
tere of Seneca River, adjoining lands of tures to life size a specialty, and at prices
A'ex. Campbell, Welborn Freeman, and j cheaper than ever before heard of. Baby
others. Purchaser to pav for papers. i Picture*, also a specialty.
J. BOYCE BURRIBS, Trustee. | J. A. WREN, Photographer.
Deo 12, 1889 '23 4 ! Anderson, Oct. 10.1880
T^??H^'COL?MN,
All communications? intended for
this Column should be addressed to D. H.
RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander?
son, S. C.
Miss Julia Burroughs is again at work
at the Oat- Grove School. Miss Julia
seems to have become a fixture with
those people up there, judging from the
fact that they generally keep her at
work for about eight months in the year,
and the term she is now teaching is to
run eight mouths. We witnessed a reci?
tation there in Physiology, and we are
glad to note the fact that our teachers are
paying attention to this study.
Miss Nettie Hall again has charge of
the Cross Roads school. It speaks well
for her that the patrons have chosen her
again to preside over this Bchool. We
called to see her one day last week, but
found her with only seven scholars present.
She is doiog her best with this little
handful, but'where there are bo many
she ought to be better sustained. There
are lots of children in the neighborhood,
and the least of the children ought to be
going while tbe weather is good and the
school not crowded.
At Concord we found Miss Nannie
Pool at work with something .over
twenty pupils. Tbe people there have
taken a fresh hold on school matters, and
have started off well. Miss Nannie is a
former pupil of ours, and a recent grad?
uate of Due West, and 1b now making
her debut in the work of the school room,
and we expect to hear good reporlB of
her. She 'is making a good start, and
experience will teach her many things
that she can learn only in that way, and
having a trained and disciplined mind,
she will be able to apply the results of
experience.
At Trinity they have swapped horses
again, and this time Miss Leila Browne
is at the front, and having been there
before, she knows how to lead the little
ones in the way they ought to go. Miss
Leila has introduced a feature in her
school that is to be commended, and that
is short talks every day on Physiology.
We found the children much delighted
with this exercise, and eagerly picking
up scraps of information about tbe hu?
man form. But this school was small,
too, the day we called, and we propose
havifig another peep^at some future time
at all these schools mentioned this week.
In passing we gave our old army com?
rade, John M. Hamlin, a call at Hope
well. He is a veteran teacher, and is at
home in the' school room, and knows
exactly bow to handle a class of boys
and girls at tbe blackboard. We wit?
nessed some very interesting exercises in
map drawing by a class, a part of which
were very small children, and the execu?
tion would have been creditable to much
older pupils. We were called upon to
grade the work, and, after inspection, we
were forced to give nearly all of them
100 for it. The exercises in spelling and
phonics by some of the little ones were
delightful, and we coma' but wish that
some of our old-time teachers could have
been present and have seen the difference
Between laboriously spelling over col?
umns of words, and being able to wrke
those words readily on the board with
the proper diacritical marks to each.
Would that we had raore'bf such teach
To parents we would say, don't let
your boys and girls mres a day from
school for any and every trivial excuse.
It may seem to you a small matter just
to stay at home one day in the week, but
to your child and to the teacher it
amounts to much more tbau simply the
lime lost. The consequences do not stop
there. Your child gets behind in his
classes and soon becomes discouraged
and gives up and comes to the conclusion
that you think going to school is not of
much importance, and hence loses his
interest in his school duties. See that
they go to school, and that they have
time to prepare their lessons at home,
and in every way you caa second the
efforts of the teacher. We once had a
boy and girl in our school whose father
and mother were fond of visitiug, and,
on an average, about once a week these
two children were kept at home to take
care of the other children, while tbe
parents went visiting, and every teacher
who has had experience knows the
result without our telling it.
We hope to see every teacher ?;t Bel
ton who can possibly get there. These
meetings are for our mutual improve?
ment and elevation. We exchange ideas
and get fresh inspiration from contact
with each other. These meetings tend
tu bind us together in a common brother?
hood, and gives us an isprit du corps that
nothing else can. They tend to raise our
calling to the dignity of a profession,
and remove us farther and farther from
the business of school-keeping. They
tend to give us prestige with employer?,
and put us in position to demand recog?
nition of the value of our services.
More and more each yoar patrons are
inquiring into the antecedents of the
teachers, and of the special fituess for
their work, and if you expect to teach
for a living turu out to the meetings of
the Tescbera's Association and keep in
line with those who are earnestly striv?
ing to go forward. Skilled labor is
always in demand at remunerative prices,
and this is as true of teachers as of me?
chanics. Then let more of us who can
'do so fail not to attend, and thus put our?
selves in reach of the means of acquiring
new ideas and new m"Thods and new sug?
gestions. Whether wt are able to adopt
them or not, it will put us to-thinking
and cause us ^o make a fresh examina
lion of our own ideas and methods
? Col. W. W. Spivey, of Henderson,
Texas, came to death the other day iu a
singular manDer. His physician was
trying to cure him of drinking, and was
taking him ou a train to Waco for the
benefit of the artesian water. The med?
icine given to the colonel was of such a
nature that he could not safely drink
whisky. He was duly warned, but a friend
slipped him a bottle on the train. The
unfortunate man drank from it, and was
dead beforo he reached the next station.
NDEKSON, S. C, TE
THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.
Bill Arp'a Misguided Conception of Its To?
pography.
Atlanta Constitution.
The valley of the Mississippi!
I have been thinking all my life that it
was a valley sure enough?that you could
see it for miles and miles, and that ever
and anon the raging waters overleaped
their banksand overflowed Ibis valley and
destroyed the cattie and washed away the
houses and barns, and even the people
who were too careless or too helpless to
get away. For a week I have been up
and down on this Mississippi Valley
railroad as it is called, but I haven't* yet
seen the valley. I have been in sight of
the great river, and have seen large
tracts of bottom land, but agreat deal of
the country is round and rolling and the
towns are generally on high land, and
nobody ever bears of an overflow that
?does much damage. We thought that it
was rather dangerous to stay out here
long at a time for we might get cut off
and be hemmed in and surrounded and
have to send out a dove and wait for the
waters to be assuaged. But I don't see
very much difference between our country
and this except in the black land and the
big trees. I don't see any difference in
the people except there are more natives
here and less mixture. The old confed's
seem as thick over here in west Tennes?
see as if death bad never thinned them
out. They have a reunion every year,
and say they can blow a horn and rally a
thousand or two most any time. I meet
them everywhere and they are still talk?
ing about the war and are
FULL OF HISTORY AND ANECDOTE.
It is astonishing how far one good war
anecdote will travel, and how much en?
joyment it gives as it goes. They told
me things out here that I have been
hearing for twenty years, but I never let
on. When I ventured to tell some that I
thought were pretty good and had never
got away from home, I found that they
knew it all and could locate it exactly. I
was riding around with some new made
friends, and as we skirted some timber
lands that seemed to be low and watery,
I said "that land overflows does it not?"
"Oh, yes, that's Tom Mabry's hog bottom.
Tom is a keen, shrewd laud trader, and is
always looking out for strangers. One
day a Micbigander came along and was
inquiring for some bodies of good land
that be could put some money in,, and
Tom got hold of him pretty soon. Every?
thing was dry then, for it hadent rained
in a good while. Tom rode him around
that bottom that in flood times gets ten
feet under water, and the water mark was
on the trees everywhere, and got higher
and higher the further you went into the
forest. Along the edge the mark was
only about a foot and a half high, and
was sorter muddy from the mark down.
The stranger seemed pretty grqen about
such things and asked Tom what made
these dirty places at the base of the trees.
"Hogs, hogs," said Tom. "They get in
the wallows about and about, and then
rub the mud off against the trees." They
rode on further, and the stranger observ?
ed that the marks got higher, and called
Tom's attention to it. "Oh, yes," said
Tom, "there are some awful big hogs in
this timber. I've seen era three feet
high." The strauger seem satisfied, and
they rode on until they had to cioss a
still lower place and
TOM TALKED RAPIDLY
to divert attention, but still the Micbi?
gander discovered the dirty places as high
up as a horse's back and all of such uni?
form height that suddenly he took in the
situation, and when they started home
Tom asked him whnt he thought of the
land. -Well," said he, "my friend, I
believe I don't care to invest any money
in that land ju&t now ; but I am a stock
raiser and if you wili get me up a thous?
and or so of those high back hogs I think
we can trade." It got out on Tom,
and that's why we call it his hog bottom.
I find these people concerned. about tbe
negro?not troubled or alarmed, but con?
cerned. They all look upon Georgia" as
a progressive State, a leader in shaping
things and solving things, and they fre?
quently ask me how the negro is doing
and behaving, and what are we going to
do with him. They say he is doing very
well here outside of the towns, but in the
towns they get hold of some northern
literature, and are getting more insolent
and aggressive, and it takes more of the
sidewalk to do them than it used to.
There ate no colored cars on these rail?
roads and I have seen big, rusty rascals
in a fine car and their dirty boots cocked
up on the back of a seat in front of them.
A lady has 'no protection against their
company except she pays for a seat in the
sleeper. But they do not travel as much
as they do in Georgia. The negro's worst
enemy is the poor white man?the man
who works in the lumber business or in
the field fur daily wages, and the man
who has to rent'land and work it himself.
He feels I hat the negro is in his way, and
he is. While at the hotel in Clinton, a
prosperous Kentucky town, I listened to
the drummers
TALK ADOUT THE NEGROES.
Most of-these drummers were from the
north. They were sociable, pleasant gen?
tlemen, and have convictions and dare to
express them. A Chicago man said: "I
have traveled all over the South, and
like your people.; but I tell you you will
never catch up until yon get rid of the
negro. He is your dead weight. You
dpu't farm right, nor work right. You
sleep too late. Your farmers come to
town too much. Why, I see this little
lown of Clinton thronged with country
people to dny just because it is county
court day. Our people don't do that.
Up north you can't tell a court day irqm
auy other day. Now, if you could get
rid of the negro, and put the working
German in his place, they would make
more stuff"on one acre than you make on
two. Why don't your people get up
sooner and work harder?" A big whis
kerd countryman, who had been a silent
listener, spoke up in a solemn voice and
said, "we don't have to." The answer
surprised the northern man very much,
and set him back for a moment, but ho
rallied and said, "Well, I know you
don't have to, but, my friend, don't you
want to make more corn and more pota?
toes than you do?" "I don't," said the
solemn man. "Fotatoes ar? ten cents a
[UKSDAY MORNIN(
bushel now, and corn is twenty-five.
What do we want with any more. There's
too much now. The price won't pay for
the hauling to the railroad ; and if your
Germans were down here and doubled
the supply, our stuff wouldent brirjg any
thing."
But Chicago rallied again and said:
"But you must admit that the northern
farm^ are managed better than yours.
You can't help but see that as you travel
through our country. The Germans are
splendid farmers." "Splendid," said the
solemn man, "and if you could pick 'em
it would be all right, but they are mixed
?powerfully mixed. Our niggers have
kept furriners away from here, thank
God, aud that's about all the use we've
got for em. But as betwixt the nigger
and your lawless set of furrener3 and an?
archists and tramps and thieves
i'll" take the nigger
everv time. I don't want to have to lock
up and hide and stand guard over every?
thing I've got. Sly friend, you don't
understand our people. We have &o idea
that there are bigger things in this world
than money." After a pause in the
conversation a New York man put in and
said: "Well, I'm a traveling man, too,
and my trade has been more west than
south until the past two years, and I tell
you I have been undeceived. The south?
ern people don't show up like the north?
ern people, especially in their mode of
farming. But, let me tell you, the north?
ern farmers are fearfully in debt. The
farmers don't own the farms?not half of
them. They are covered all over with
mortgages from New -York to Kansas.
Boston owns Kansas pretty much, and
don't dare to sell her out, for there are
no buyers. It is a common trick 'in
Kansas and Iowa for a man to borrow
two thousand dollars on a farm that was
not worth a dollar more~than that. The
agents of these eastern syndicates that bad
millions to lend got a liberal commission
on every dollar they loaned, and so after
the farmer had already got all it was
worth he wanted to get more, and he
would go to the tax assessor and say: "I
Bee you have got my farm down at two
thousand dollars. It is worth every dol?
lar of four thousand. I don't want my
farm slandered in any such way." And
so the assessor would put him down at
four thousand, and then he would go to
the money king and say, I want to get
another thousand dollars on my land, and
he would pull out his tax receipts and
show them, and get some more money.
Well, after his notes fell due be didn't
care a cent. He had virtually sold bis
land for
more than it was worth,
and the money king let him stay, for he
had rather he would stay and take care of
tbe place than not. I know of hundreds
of Buch cases. New England money is
locked up there by the millions, but in
the last few years they are turning their
attention to the south and find a better
people to deal with and a more inviting
field for investment.-xfThe north is at last
opening her eyes a?d sees tbe south iff a
different light and I believe that a better
time is coming."
The solemn man had straightened ap
and said, "My friend, you talk to please
me. Talk some more."
This reminded me of a letter I had in
my pocket?a letter about that confeder?
ate monument that the Maryland boys
built at Gettysburg. That monument to
the dead comrades who are buried there,
and that the Abe Patterson post of the
Grand Army of the Republic ordered to
be removed. Here it is:
Sandy Lake, Pa.?Dear Brother
Arp?I was reading your letter and notic?
ed your remarks about that monument.
I was on the field last September and saw
the monument and I dident hear any un?
kind remarks made about, it by the boys
in blue, and I thought how pleasant it
was that the time had come when the
graves of the blue and the gray could be
marked together where they fought and
fell for the cause they thought was right.
But, aifs! it looks like death will only
close the bitter contention. Surely no
refined mind would make a fues about
such a thing. I am a Republican aud a
northern man, but I feel like we were all
of one country and ought to love one an?
other, so I call you Brother Arp.
I have picked a sprig of golden rod
that grew at the base of that monument
and I send it in this letter to Mrs. Arp in
remembrance of tbat monument aud as a
token of my good will and esteem.
Yours truly, James Yanney.
Oh, for a thousand such letters from the
boys in blue. Bill Arp.
Ono Sin.
Satan knows that one sin lived in and
allowed, will as certainly shut the soul
out of heaven as many. One sin allowed
and countenanced, will spoil the sweet
music of conscience ; one sin allowed
will make death as terrible and formid?
able to the soul as many. One hand?
writing on the wall made King Belsbaz
zar's countenance to change, his thoughts
to be troubled,, and the joints of his loins
to be loosened. Oh, sirs, remember that
as one glass of poisou will kill a mau, as
one act of treason makes a traitor, so one
sin loved and practiced, will ruin a man
forever. Satan can be conteutcd tbat
men yielded to God in many things,
provided they be true to him in son e
one thing ; for he knows very well tbat
one sin aPowed and lived in, gives him
as much advantage against the soul as
more. It is said of Naaman, the Syrian,
that he was a valiant man, and a vic?
torious man, aod a great favorite with
his prince, but it is emphatically said
.that he was a 1 c-per; so it may be said of
many, that they have great excellencies,
and perform such and such glorious
duties, but their one sin, allowed and
lived in, mar* the beauty of all their
services. There never was a false pro
fes?or who did not live under the power
of ono sin ; and he who can say that it is
otherwise with him, I dare assure that
man, in the Lord's name, that be is no
hy pocr i te.?Brooks.
? Dr. Talmage says that he would as
Boon drink a bottle of laudanum asHmoke
a cigar.
? No man is so high I hat the law is
not above him.
? Broken promises do more harm than
fulfilled threats.
3, DECEMBER 19, II
JEFFERSON DAVIS IN PRISON.
Barbarous Treatment to Which ho was
Subjected.
Hugh McCulloch, secretary of the
treasury under the administration of
Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, and Arthur,
in his recently published book, "Men
and Measures of Half a Century," speaks
as follows of his official visit to Mr.
Davis, while a prisoner of Fortress
Monroe:
The question, "What shall be done
with confederate leaders?" was referred
to but not discussed at Mr. Lincoln's last
meeting with his cabinet.. Mr. Lincoln
merely remarked in his humorous man?
ner. "I am a good deal like the Irish?
man who had joined a temperance
society, but thought that he might take
a drink now and then if be drank unbe?
known to himself. A good many people
think all the big confederates ought to
be arrested aod tried aa traitors. Per?
haps they ought to be ; but I should be
right glad if they would get out of the
country unbeknown to me." This ques?
tion came up in the case of Jefferson
Davis Boon after Mr. Johnson became
president. Mr. Davis had been captured
while attempting to escape after the
fall of Richmond, and was a prisoner in
close confinement in Fortress Monroe.
Some action must be.taken in his case.
What should it be?* He had been the
president of the confederacy, and there?
fore was the most conspicuous of the
enemies of the government. By a large
part of the people of the north he was
regarded as the arch-traitor, upon whose
head vengeance should be visited. Should
he be liberated in the face of the BtroDg
feeling against him, or Bhould he be
arraigned for treason, and if arraigned,
should he be tried by a military com?
mission or a United States court ? These
were interesting and important questions,
requiring the moat careful consideration
both in their legal and political bearing
The legal question, Has Mr. Davis
been guilty of such acts of treason that
he can be successfully prosecuted ? was
submitted to tb.9 attorney-general, who
after a thorough examination of it, and
consultation with some of the ablest
lawyers in the country, came to the
conclusion that Mr. Davis could not be
convicted of treason by any competent
and independent tribunal, and that there?
fore he ought not to be tried. The con?
clusion was undoubtedly correct. It was
a revolution which had been attempted
by the Southern States?a general apris*
ing of the people of the South against the
government. It was war in which they
had been engaged?war of such propor?
tions that belligerent rights had been
accorded them by foreign nations. The
same rights had been acknowledged by
the government in exchanges of the
prisoners and other acts. They could
not, therefore, be charged with treascD,
nor could one of their number be singled
out and legally convicted of the crime.
Aside from these considerations it was
clear that whatever treasonable acts
Mr. Davis might have been guilty of,
were committed in the Southern States,
where, under the constitution, the trial
mu3t take place, and where conviction
would be impossible. The president
was chagrined by the decision, which
was forced upon him by the opinions of
the attorney-general and other eminent
lawyers. It was the direct opposition to
his committals in the vindictive spreches
which he made at the commencment of
his administration; but be saw the cor?
rectness of it and from thai, time he
pushed his generosity to those whom he
bad denounced as traitors to au extreme.
Mr. Davis; wasrOnly one of many thou
sands who were engaged in war against
the government. His position made
him the most conspicuous, but he was
no more guilty than many others against
whom no proceedings were contemplated.
There was no evidence that he was
responsible for the horrors of Anderson
ville, or the general bad treatment to
which union soldiers were subjected in
Southern prisons. He was, however,
kept in confinement unLil the spring of
1867, when he was brought before the
United States court at Richmond, on
charge of treason, and admitted to bail.
He was not tried, although he expressed
a desire to be, nor was he among those
who asked to be pardoned. While the
question was pending, the president sent
for me one day and said that he would
like to have me go privately and unoffi?
cially to Fortress Monroe and asr.i-rtain
whether or not the reports th&t bad
reached him about the treatment cf Dt'vin
were true. "He waB,"said the preside atf
"the head devil among the traitors, and
he ought to be hung; but he should,
have a fair trial and not be brutally
treated while a prisoucr. A lew days
after the request was made I was able to
comply with it. On ray arrival at the
Fortress, Mr. Davis was walking upon
the ramparts accompanied by a couple of
soldiers. I was glad to notice that his
gait was erect, his step elastic, pud when
he came up where I was standing that
he had not the appearance' of one who
was Buffering in health by imprisonment.
I spent an hour or two with him in con?
versation. "I was," he said, "in the first
two or three months of my imprison?
ment, treated barbarously, but now I am
permitted to have a daily walk, and my
present quarters, as you perceive, are
such as a prisoner, charged with high
treusun, ought not to complain of. -A
cot, a B'.nall pine table and two cane
bottomed chairs. The cot and chairs
were hard, and of the plainest and
cheapest kind ; but the room was clean
and well lighted. There was not g^ich
need of light, for the only book in the
room was au old treatise upon military
tactics?a subject which was not especial?
ly interesting to the prisoner at that time
aud in that place. Newspapers were
forbidden him. My interview was very
pleasant. There have been few men
more gifted 'than Mr. Davis, and few
wboae opportunities for intellectual cul?
ture have been better improved. I had
not known him personally, but I knew
what his standing was among the able
meu of the country, and expected to
meet in him an accomplished gentleman.
To thoso who knew him well it is not
necessary for mjpto uay that I was not
disappointed, and that 1 was most favor?
ably impressed by his manners and con?
vention. I Wh b'N first visitor aud bu
389.
seemed to be pleased with my visit, and
with the opportunity which it gave to
him for a free talk. He wa3 indisposed
to say much about himself, and it waB
only by direct questions that I learned
the facts in regard to the barbarous
treatment to which he had referred.
"I was," he said, "when brought to
the fortress, not only strictly confined in
a casement, which was little better than
a dungeon, but I was heavily ironed.
As I had been a submissive prisoner, and
was in a strong fortress, I thought that
chains were unnecessary, and that I
ought not to be subjected to them. I
resisted being shackled, but resistance
was vain. I was thrown violently upon
the floor and heavily fettered. This was
not all: the casement in which I was
confined was kept constantly and bril?
liantly lighted, and I was never relieved
of the presence of a couple of soldiers.
My eyes were weak and sensitive, I suf
fered keenly from the light, and you can
judge now my sufferings were aggravated
by my not being permitted for months to
have one moment by myself." I listened
silently to this statement, given substan?
tially in his own language, but I felt, as
he did, that for a time he had been
barbarously treated, Chains were un?
necessary, and the constant presence of
the guards in the casement must have
been, to a sensitive man, worse than sol?
itary confinement, which is now regarded
as being too inhuman to be inflicted upon
the greatest criminals. I happened to
know some of his personal friends in the
west and he had a great deal to talk
about without saying much about him?
self. He seemed to be neither depressed
in spirits nor soured in * temper. He
could not help saying something about
the war, but he said.nothing i^.. the way
of justification or defense. He had the
learning of a brave and highbred gentle?
man, who, knowing that he would have
been highly honored if the confederate
States had achieved their iudependence,
would not and could not demean himself
as a criminal because they had not. The
only anxiety he expressed was in regard
to his trial, not as to the result, but the
time. He thought the delay unnecessary
and unjust. He was kept in prison for
two years before he was arraigned, and
released on bail; and strangely enough,
Horace Greeley and Genit Smith, the
distinguished abolitionists, were among
the signers of his bond.
On my return to Washington, I made
a verbal report of the manner in which
Mr. Davis was then being treated. No
executive action was considered necessa?
ry in his behalf, and nothing was done
in his prosecution except what has been
mentioned."
What Next ?
John Dervent and Peter L?tz were
graduated at tne same college oh the
same day with equal honors. Both men
went West, and ?ettled on ranches.
After six years one of their old preceptors
visited them.
John was prosperous, but he knew
nothing of the world outside of his own
ranch. He took no interest in politics,
in religion, in books, or in social ques?
tions ; he hardly knew who was Presi?
dent; he had long ago lighted his fires
with his text books. For two.days he
talked to his visitor of his cows ?nd bul?
locks, of the rates of cattle on the hoof
in Chicago, and of beef in New York.
Vmen the professor tried to interest
him in any other matter, he stared at
him vacantly, or fell asleep in his chair.
The visitor* went on with aoxicus
foreboding to Cotz's ranch. Peter, too,
had been successful; he was shrewd and
alert in his business, bui; he was a man
of broad general information and sympa?
thies.- His interest was as keen in the
questions of the day as if he lived in
New York or Chicago.
His friend asked him presently how
be had contrived to keep himself thus
alive and young in thought.
"My father," said Peter, laughing,
"was a fruit-grower. He had one max?
im : 'Never let your orchard run down.'
He incessantly set out new trees, that
were growing and ready to bear when the
old ones wore out.
"When I left college, my brain was
very much like an orchard with plenty,
of plants in it ready to bear fruit. I
resolved not to 'let it run down,' I would
not be satisfied with the knowledge I
already had. I would bring in new
Blips and seedlings. I took the best
newspapers, the best literary magazine,
the best religious journal in the country.
I helped build a church aad school-hcuse
? in the neighborhood. I got up reading
clubs, lectures and concerts. In short, I
followed my father's rule and set out new
plants in my brain instead of waiting
calmly until the old ones should wither
and die."
It is easy to tell, when we meet middle
aged or old people, whether they bave,
like John Derveut, left the intellectual
growth of their youth to wither and die,
or, like his class mate, have taken in
daily new ideas and knowledge.
"What next?" sayB the busy farmer
as he looks at the ground from which
one crop has just been reaped. He
makes baste to sow another.
Many of the boys and girls who read
thejo words have lately received a diplo?
ma at some collego or school, and gone
out into the world.
What next?
Is your intellectual life to end now,
is your brain to feed, during all these
coming years, on the small portions of
Greek, mathematics and history it has
received ? Or will you daily plant the
seed of a fact here, or set the graft of a
new thought there ?
The man of to-day must work hard if
he means to keep himself up with the
life of his time. So rapid is the march
of iutellectual development that the man
who does not do this is soon pushed aside
and forgotten.? Youth's Companion.
? "We are coming, Father Abraham,
300,000 more" to endorse the good effec?
tive qualities of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup
in every case of coughs, colds, etc.
? Idaho Territory has 2,000 miles of
irrigating ditches.
? As a cure for chapped and chafed
bauds nothing equals the celebrated Sal?
vation Oil. For sale by nil druggists.
Price only 20 couin p bottle,
VOLUM
A Mean Bit of Vandalism,
Washington, Dec. 9.?Imbedded in
the Cabin John bridge, noted as the
largest single span of masonry in the
word, is a tablet setting forth that certain
high officials of the United States gov?
ernment participated in the laying of
the corner-stone of the structure which
conveys water to the national capital.
This arch was commenced in the spring
of 1853, when Jefferson Davis was Sec?
retary of War, and for four years he
superintended every detail of the great
work, and it was deemed only just and
proper that his name should appear on
the tablet in question, together with that
of Franklin Pierce, who was President of
the United States at the time the work
was inaugurated and who turned up the
first spadeful of earth, an example which
the Secretary of War followed. After
the war had been in progress for a short
time it tfas noticed one day that the
name of Jefferson Davis had been chis?
eled out of the tablet of the sandstone,
and there was merely a long line before
the title of Secretary of War. Numerous
versions have been given as to who
authorized the erasure, but all have
wound up with the commonly accepted
theory that it was done by order of Ed?
win M. Stanton, Secretary of War.
General Montgomery C. Meig3, who, as
Captain of engineers, was assigned by
Jefferson Davis to duty jn connection
with the construction of the Washington
aqueduct, puts an entirely different com-'
plexion on the matter, and when ques?
tioned on the subject replied that he
remembered the circumstance very well.
"It will be necessary to digress a little,"
said General Meiga, "and show what Mr.
Davis' connections with the aqueduct
was. In the days when he was Secretary
of War work wa3 being pushed on the
wings of the Capitol, the north wing of
the post office building and the aqueduct.
These matters rightfully belonged to the
jurisdiction of the President, and when?
ever they came up in Congress they were
referred to as presidential matters. But
President Pierce had too much other
business to attend to, and consequently
he transferred the supervision of these
buildings and works to the Secretary of
War, who was Jefferson Davis. When
he left the War Department in 1857, the
work was still being performed under the
direction of the War Department, and
this was continued until the war broke
out. At that time it was important for
army officers, and especially engineers, to
go to other stations and duties, anl the
work of supervising the construction -of
the civil building and works was turned
over to the Interior Department, whose
Secretary was Caleb B. Smith, of Indi?
ana. One afternoon, in company with a
party of gentlemen, Secretary Smith
drove up to Cabin John bridge to see
how the aqueduct was progressing, and
the tablet bearing the name of Jefferson
Davis attracted his attention. He re?
marked that such a distinction was too
great for such a traitor as Jefferson Da?
vis, and next morning a workman was
sent up to cut out the objectionable
name with his chisel. Upon my return
from a trip West in connection with my
military duties I visited the new aque-v
duct span and discovered what had been
done during my absence. It did "not
meet with my approbation at that time,
and I have ceased to deprecate the
erasure of the name of an oficial who
took such an interest in the aqueduct,
and who, while in the Congress of the
United States, had been foremost in urg?
ing appropriations for the work. By
attempting to obltberate the name of
Jefferson Davis from the tablet where it
had been properly placed, mere promi?
nence was given him than was ever con?
templated, for the invariable questions of
visitors to big arch bring out tho story of
the dead Secretary of War. I am only
too glad to bear witness to the fact that
Mr. Stanton had nothing whatever to do
with the transaction, and it was purely a
personal matter on the part of Secretary
Smith of the Interior Department."?
Baltimore Sun.
A Romantic Story.
A Chattanooga, Tenn., dispatch says a
romantic story in real life was made
known Tuesday by the arrival in that
city of Mrs. Dandrige Harrison from
New Mexico to visit relatives. Two
years ago Mrs. Harrison, then Miss Child
ress, was teaching school on Sand Moun?
tain, Ga., and she became the object of
the affections of one of her older pupils,
Jim Majors, who, failing to Lave his
affections reciprocated, began to circulate
injurious stories concerning her character.
Miss Childress procured a shotgun, and,
hunting him up, demanded a retraction,
which he made io the most abject terms.
The facts were published at the time
and attracted the attention of a wealthy
mine owner in New Mexico, who wrote
to her asking her to correspond with
him. She paid no attention to the letter,
? as she received hundreds of letters at the
time from all parts of the country, but
after a few weeks, for some reason uu
known to herself as she states, she
answered this letter, and the result was
a correspondence which has now culmi?
nated in her happy marriage. Mr. Har?
rison, the successful suitor, is the.owner
of valuable mining property, and the
brave young school teacher returns a
wealthy lady.
How's This?
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for any case of Catarrh that car, not be
cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure.
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We, the undersigned, have known F.
J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions, aud financially
able to carry out any obligations, made
by their firm.
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ledo, Ohio.
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. sale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
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tional Bank, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting upon the blood snd mucous sur?
faces of the system. Price, 75c. per bot?
tle, rjold by all Drtiggiole.
E XXIV. -NO.
ALL SO?TS OFTA?dlil
?New York expends $100,000 a
in street-cleaning.
? Money makes the man, but
to make the money first.
? A man is not necessarily/;
calibre because he has a larg
? New Hampshire compels worl
children of from fourteen to abet]
years to go to school three months ofj
year.
? "You can't do anything witl
money, my boy." "O, yes, air, yoi
can." "I'd like to know what?""
in debt."
? The Florida orange crop is reported!
to be shorter than usual owing to al
drought that prevailed in that State/lastj
Summer.
? The Kentucky University this^yeari
opened its doors to female etudentsTaudl
now the names of twenty? young women.,
are entered upon its rSlls.
? The recent fire at Lynn, Massacbu
chusetts, rendered 160 families homeless
and threw eight thousand laborers out of
employment just in the beginning"~cif^
winter.
?
? There are two wings by which a
man soars above the world?sincerity and
purity. The former regards the intention,
the latter the affection, that aspires and
aims at a likeness to Gcd, that matt
really like him.
? There are more than forty thousand^
Chinese in San Francisco. They form
nearly one-seventh of the city's popula?
tion and it is computed that they send
twelve million dollars a year fromytheirf;
earnings to China.
? Horse meat is said to be selling at
seven cent3 per pound in Berlin, and (
such is the increasing scarcity of beef tb<
price of horseflesh constantly increases^
and the supply of it has so diminished
that butchers can hardly cupply their;]
customers.
? The Norwegians are said to be the
longest lived people in the world. Oflk
cial statistics shew that the average dura?
tion of life in Norway is 48.33 for theri
men, 51.30 for the women, and 49.77 for -*
both sexes. The duration of life has in?
creased of late years.
? The skin of the whale is from t?0^
inches to two feet thick, that of"a"larg
specimen weighing thirty tons. 11
rhinoceros is the thickest skinned quac
ruped, with hide so tough as to resist the
claws of the lion or tiger, the aword or th(
balls of the old fashioned musket.
? Wife?"Don't you think I have kept
my looks pretty well after our thirty
years of married life?" Huaband?
"Certainly; there is only one slight
change perceptible. At the start you had
white teeth and black hair, and now you ,'
have black teeth and white hair."
? Much of the so called ivory now in ?
use is simply potato. A good sound pc- ?
tato, washed in diluted sulphuric acid, -
then boiled in the same solution, and then "'
slowly dried, is all ready to be converted j
into buttons and innumerable other'
things that ivory wan.used for once upon
a time.
? The current of public opinion is
running a little atronger towards Grover ?
Cleveland" for 1892. He refuses to sell]
his property, Oakview, near Washington,
having been offered several
as he gave for it. He has faith in Wa
ington dirt, or the Democrat
country, or both.
? There is a secret orga
Baltimore, Md., the object of whi{
protect its members from ur
marriages. When one of
that he is falling in love he.
his fellow-members and thej
committee to investigate the ; I
advise him therein.
? A correspondent of the
Manu/octers' Record has discoj
the okra plant hasxi fibre bet
manufacture bagging for c&.ttor
cither cotton on jute and chz ;
easily worked. The next thing I
they will be making bagging oc
grass or potato vines.
? According to the New Yo")
mercial Advertiser, since 1860 mo
60,000 bodies have been buril
Potter's Field on Hart's Ialaac
are placed in trenches, dug ir
rows, forty-five feet long, fopi
wide, and ten feet deep,
pits will hold one hundred anc
ies.
? Evidence exists that deaf^
not confined to the human r?.<
farmer's herd for 12 year
which never gave any aignB ofj
and the evident attempts qpA
lowing had only resulted i?j
guttural. (Nothing abormal;
discovered in the ears or the:
gaus. ]?
? A small boy in Luzerne, 2
said to be able to ''play Taisif{
blade of grass held between his t
Such musical prodigies are name
four year old boy in a country: 1
play airs on a tin pan, by ?impl|
it with a hammer, which'
tinguished from selections fn
nerian opera.
? George H. Short, a
negro, will cry for ten mis\
watch for ten cents, or at t
paltry cent a minute. It
weep, with regular tears,
hoos at intervals, and why,"!
been secured by the museums!
that should be explained^
Detroit Free Press.
?Truth, absolute truth in wc .
in life, is the pearl of great price'.-??
this if you have to sell all your]
possessions. A house may'be the]
ever buiit, perfect in all its^pl
equipments, but if the foundation ij
ky and insecure, the house'isl
vaiu. So with the character !
not rest on truth. Wit, fin^axrpel
attractive manners, great-accoi
meuts, profound learning ?tviflin^
peosate for a want of trutfr~j1iirtqj
vidual.
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