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IPOLINXSCALES & LANGSTON.
AMPAIGN OPENED!
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A WAR OS
THE Campaign on Cotton Is over for this Seauon,
and we are going to make a campaign on high prices in
Groceries. We intend to. make this the oheapeit crop
the farmers have ever raised in Anderson County, by.
selling*:Groceries and ProvlsionB so CHEAP that no
man ban complain of not being able to live economically.
We a re bujing for Cash, and propose to sell thesame
;^a^^-vWVs*6 fanning only one line oft Goods, and buy
in large lots, ao gefr.-.Goods"cheap; 'we sell- at;the closest
"margin for handling, so we cannot bo undersold, even if
pur comi?titors sell for coat. We mean what we say,
:';:andBay:what'?'e mean. .
? We buy for
SPOT CASH,
And
We propose to sell only for
SPOT CASH.
So don't ask to have Good*
charged at these prices.
SEAH>, ?
.. RllPiBCT, aud
ACT.
These! prices; "make the
r: old jadei wince."
' WE GIVE A FEW PEICES:
. Granulated Sugar 7c per pound. :.<
Coffse?best Kio^-20o. per pound.
Soda?pure?8c. per pound.
Flour?Patent, 84.85 per Barrel.
^Flour?Good Family, 83.85 per Barrel.
Flour?Family, 83.45 per Barrel.
Bacon, Lard, Corn, Oats, Tobacco,
And all other Goods in proportion.
fe>^r^esome^A^rS^SHOE8, NOTIONS, and oth
4er':i)ry^5;?obd8 ?left.'that.'.we are selling so.low that tha.
?^?c&9^^^^j^l-\-^^o.are no shop-worn, oldgoods,
\;jbn?*^ These goods
arein:.tto-wfty,'a^;:we;nee^ .the room for an immense
. ? Stock' of Groceries; so they must' and shall go.- ..
THE
IiAST OH ANCO
TO GET
SOME DEBIRABLE COODS
At and
BEIiOW COST.
ER?WM bros.
THE PUBLIC.
I have a Pine Stock of
jgies,
Wagons,
S?rreys, .
Harness,
Muies and Horses.
On hand that can be bought at a Bargain for Spot Cash.
AJSi situated so at present that I had rather have the money than the Goods,
?.even.if I.have to cell at about cost. Will continue until my present stock is ex?
hausted to sell on time to good, responsible parties. Always prefer cash payment,
i 3 OaHl on Mesara. L. L. Gailaard, John D. Beard and J. 'A. Shanklin.
Tanking the people of Aodersou and country for their kind and liberal pa?
tronage, I am ?> v ?
Very truly yours,
CTOT?nST IB- EFIEOiFLElS.
I am
EMM IS YOUR MULE!
BCECKLEY & FRETWELL'S
Exposition Building is now open for the
patronage of the Public?we refer to
Oiif intense Sales Stable,
. On Corner Mtaffle and Benson Streets,
:d:e3:r,so:n% s. g.
.-^rjS'CE our opening we have received Three Oar Loads of Fine young Kentucky
? MTJL1S3, :and * Jp* of Fine HORSES. We assure our friends and customers of?
FAIR AND SQUARE DEALINGS,
As it is hot our intention to misrepresent Stock, but to sell them ju?t for what they
weY If you neeil. any Stock at any time, call at the Stablw on MAJ. J. N.
VANDIYEBi who is in charge 0/ them, and will be pleased to show you around.
We have now a good large assortment of?
YOUNG MULES AND HORSES ON HAND,
And can sell you also?
BUGGIES,
CARRIAGES,
WAGONS,
HARNESS,
COLLARS,
BRIDLES, &c,
??E _A_ IP I
v?.i ? %x ???? -. ?
"'.We do not propose to deal in old ripa?we handle only clean, nioe young
Boiaaiite, and excaH#at bargaioa,tren be had at our Stabl? every day.
ni
mm l FRETWELL
TE}A?HE}r$'G0LUMN,
. All oonimnnicationsj intended for
this O?lomn should be addressed to E. H.
RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander?
son, S. C.
, The colored school at Mt. Moriah is in
charge of Charity Guy ton, who seems to
have her school well in hand, and to be
doing good work and putting in honest
time. The school is full and the pupils
show up very well for a third grade
teacher.
Mr. A. J. Watt is again in charge at
Deans, but the character of the school
somewhat disappointed us, as from what
we saw last year we expected to see a
school of advanced pupils, but instead
found only a school of primary pupils,
and mostly small ones. Them ould
be a better school here, for then, . Oood
material at hand out of which to organ
ize it, and we believe it can be done.
At Starr we found a new teacher at
the helm in tbe person of Miss Jennie
Cowan, who seems to be at home in her
work, and to have secured the lovo and
confidence of her pupils. We have
nowhere in tbe County found as many
pupils studying grammar, and it has
been made a pleasure to them. We
spent tbe night with the teacher at the
home of friend Wilson, who, with others
in the community, is earnestly holding
up the bands of tbe teacher.
From here we proceeded to the col?
ored school at' White Hollow, taught by
Margaret Bowie, who is quite an im?
provement on their last teacher. She
seems to have something to teach, and to
be trying to do it, but has a miserably
poor bouse to work in.
Back from here to the school at Ivy
Hollow, where we had many pleasant
recollections of our former visit to Miss
Sallfe Gosb, who has a worthy successor
in Miss Lena Johnson, an earnest, capa
ble and conscientious teacher. Her
pupils were ready, prompt and eager, and
gave us a welcome to the house and a
cordial invitation to come again. We
think the people of this community have
been fortunate last year and ibis in se?
curing teachers, and we feel confident
that good results will follow. We spent
a pleasant night with the teacher at the
home of Mr. E. P. Clinkscales.
At Mountain View we found a colored
teacher who had just changed her name
from Burdette to Hayes, who is doing
some good work. She made a class give
a drill in phonies that was creditable,
indeed, and in fact all her classes did
reasonably well.
It js a pleasure to go to Moffattsville
always and witness the orderly methods
of a man who understands his business,
and is fearless and faithful in tbe dis?
cbarge of his duty. Everything inside
the building has an air of busy work,
and all seem earnest and interested and
working for a purpose, and it could not
well be otherwise with the earnest exam?
ple set them. This school is a great
blessing to this community, and radiates
its good influences for miles around, and
deserves and should receive the cordial
support of every head of a family within
its radius. Not many boys and girls can
go away from home to receive a higher
education, and here it has been brought
to them and offered at a minimum cost,
and ono of the great advantagees is that
it is removed from all the temptations of |
town life, and tbe pupils are still under
home influences and home restraints.
And we take an especial pleasure in not?
ing tbe fact that tbe good people of this
Bection, knowing that they have a good
thing, are sturdily standing to the sup?
port of the teacher, and besides having
built him a good house in the past, bare
recently added a room for tbe primary
classes, and hare installed an admirable
teacher in the person of Miss Kate Hoi
lemao, of Walhalla, who is ably second?
ing tbe principal in his work. We spent
the night with tbe principal and his ex?
cellent wife, and we discussed schools
and school methods until a-Into hour, and
after a good night's rest and ?n excellent
breakfast we left, feeling Hint the school
interests of those children are in safe
hands.
From Generoatee to Old Fellowship,
and what a transformation met our eyes
from what we saw there a year ago.
Then huge cracks were yawning at us on
all .sides, and a fire-place into' which
might be dumped almost a wagon load of
wood, and pupils timid, shrinking and
Borne crying, never having seen a School
Commiaaioner before. Now a comforta?
ble house built out of the material of the
old Church, a good chimney and pupils
not a.'raid but ready and willing to
talk to us, and giving us a cordial invi?
tation to return again, and but of oil and
most important is tbe capable and com?
petent teacher in charge in tbe person of
Miss Faunie Bronuer. Just- ono more
pull, friends, and gel thoBe sash in and
keep that teacher ut work, and our word
for it your childron will make progress.
Through rain, freezing as it foil, we
drove from Fellowship to.Moseley, where
we found our old friend, Mis*) Bertie
Cunningbum, in charge. This is a new
school house, but the strauge thing about
it is that it is built out in a bleak and
open field, where it will be exposed to
the fierce blaeta of winter and the scorch?
ing ray* of a summer sun, and every
stick of fire-wood has to be hauled.
Timber is cIobo by, ;and we sug?
gest that it be put upon wheels*, hitch
several yoke of cattle to it and pull it
over to the woods Children will soon
have au aversion to a place where there
is ho nice, cool, Bhady playground. Misa
Bertie has a nice school here, but has a
great hindrance in tbe lack of classifica?
tion, which ia produced by the want of
suitable text books, and those ought not
to be purchased until the teacher has
been consulted.
REPORT OF THE SALTJDA SCHOOL FOR
JANUARY.
First Claas?MisB Cora Elrod, 92.
Second Class?Master Joe Singleton,
83.
Third Clace?Master Harvey Merritt,
aa,
v
NDERSON, S. C, T.
Fourth Class?Master Jimmie Elrod,
94.
Nellie M. Stenhouse,
Teacher.
Brushy Creek
Hoir He Excelled Himself.
by ike philkins.
The lamented Sargent S. Prentis?, of
Mississippi, has righfully been considered
the most brilliant orator of tbis age. He
is to American oratory what Chatterton
was to Eoglish literature. For his years
he was a phenomenon which promised to
outblaze the brightest sun in his sphere.
A characteristic anecdote is related of
one of his brilliant efforts.
He was to defend a man accused of
murder, and tbe evidence appeared to be
plain. No one expected he would be
acquitted, and almost every one was sure
he would hang. Prentiss told some inti?
mate friends that he could only hope for
a long sentence, instead of hanging, even
if he could obtain this much. But on
the day be was to make his speech he
was, as too frequently occurred, helpless
from drink. But be was on baud, in
spite^of tbe protests of his colleagues in
the great case, When his name was
called, he got up in a dazed sort of way
and insisted on speaking. He made a
most powerful speech, but, to tbe amaze?
ment of his colleagues, and to the horror
of the prisoner, be made a terrible speech
on tbe side of the prosecution. It was
said that there had never been heard
sucb a convincing argument to a jury in
New Orleans, where the trial occurred,
against any man. As he closed with one
of his matchless bursts of eloquence, be
started to take hia seat, as the other law?
yers for the defense exclaimed:
"Great God I What have you done?
You have hung your own client!"
It flashed on Prentiss all at once that
he had, in his drunken stupor, made a
speech for tbe State instead of for his
client. He was thoroughly sober now.
Beaching for a pitcher of water standing
near, he said, as if he had only paused
for new strength:
"Mr. Sheriff, give me a glass, please."
He then took a drink of water, set tbe
pitcher down, looked around on the jury,
the judge, the lawyers and the audience,
amidst a profound silence. Every one,
who had beeu under the spell of bis
argument and amazed at his change, was
breathless with expectation at this
strange conduct. They all knew that
something unusual was about to take
place. What they could not guess. But
that they were to be treated to something
great, even for Prentiss, all felt, and not
one in the rast throng so much as
breathed for a few ?econds. The fiery
orator did not keep them waiting but a
moment. He settled himself on his feet,
Blowly wiped bis mouth, raised hia hand,
pointed it at the array of talent and
learning on tbe side of the prosecution,
and began :
? "May it please the court And gentle?
men of tbe jury, I have given what I be?
lieve to be tbe strongest argumenta that
the prosecution could possibly bring
against my client; arguments which, I
admit, seem to involve him in a network
of convicting evidence more inextricable
than the meshes of the silken web woven
about his victim by the cunning and
alluring spider. But, gentlemen of tbe
jury, I will now address myself to tbe
arguments in favor of the accused, and I
think I shall be able to sweep away the
entangling web, even a9 the hand of man
sweeps away the spidrr'a Bilvery threads
of B?ken fetters and sets free the captive
fly."
He then proceeded to make not only
the most eloquent, most remarkable
speech he had ever made, but the most
remarkable, perhaps, in the English lan?
guage. Tue jury, judg?, audience, and
ev?n counsel for the prosecution were
dumbfounded, overwhelmed with amaze?
ment, Applause and tears came at the
bidding of Ihe great <raior. When he
ceased speaking br- k>ll back exhausted ;
and, when he rVeoveud his Btrength, he
was told that lie jury, without leaving
their seat^, had brought in a verdict of J
"not guilty," aa the prosecution submit?
ted the case 4ter his Bpeech without
making itirlhci argument.
When Ksked how he came to be in?
spired with the idea of making B?ch a
speech for tbo prosecution, and then
knocking it all to pieces, he remarked:
I was never inspired with such an
idea. I didn't know what I was about
until my colleagues told me what I had
done. Then my brain seemed to take
fire; I saw that I must redeem both my
reputation and my honor, and had to do
something quickly. The only thing that
I could do, without acknowledging that
I had played the drunken fool, was to
pretend that I did that on purpose, and
then try to undo my blunder. That's all
there is to it."
But we have only bad one Keats, and
one Chatterton, and one Prentiss. As a
gentleman once remarked to a young
man who excused his drinking habita by
saying tbe brightest men we had drank,
and naming Prentiss especially :
"Yes, my yoang friend; we see what
Prentiss is, in spite of drink. But, great
God, just reflect what he would have
been bad he not drank intoxicating liq?
uors at all."?Chicago Ledger.
State op Ohio, City of Toledo, "I
Lucas County, j
t,Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is
tbe senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doing business in the City
of Toledo, County and State aforesaid,
and that said firm will pay the sum of
one hundred dollars for each and every
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before mo and subscribed in
my presence, thia 6th day of December,
A. D., 1886.
f^T 1 A. W. Gleason,
j seal j Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly upon the blood and mu?
cous Burfacea of tbe system. Send for
testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists?price 75 cents.
? There is nothing bo natural as to 119)
EXJKSDAY MOENIN
BILL ARB'S PHILOSOPHY.
Atlanta Constitution.
To read or not to read, that is the ques?
tion.
Newspapers, I mean.
The newspapers that make us mad or
sad. Sometimes I think a man had bet?
ter swear off and read no politics?no do?
mestic scandal?no hangings or Iynchinga
?nothing about the race problem, or the
tariff, or woman's rights?nothing that
will excite his indignation or keep him
from feeliug calm and serene. Sometimes
I meet a clever, hard-working country?
man, who hasent heard the news, and I
envy him. One asked me the other day
if congress bad begun to ship the negroes
to Afriky. But then we must keep up
with the times, or we will get behind. It
seems like we are living in an enemy's
country, and must keep posted or forti?
fied. The newspapers are our scouts, our
sentinels. They hoist the danger signals,
and somebody must read them, or the
enemy will slip up on us. I thought that
we were getting along pretty well with
the yankees since Henry Grady made
his Boston speech, aud I still believe we
have gained some ground, if we can hold
it. But it begins to look like the most
of our northern brethren were more in
love with the boy than with what he said.
Moat all of. them praise Grady, but very
few indorse his sentiments. It is just
like an earnest, eloquent lawyer pleading
for his client until the tears are seen fall?
ing from the eyes of the jurymen, but
they retire and convict his client all the
same. I thought that as the south was
on trial she was about to bo acquitted
when Grady spoke, but slas, for us, he
dident have the conclusion. Admiration
is short lived, and prejudice is long.
Even IngalU praises Grady, while he
abuses the South and winds up with the
dagger and the torch. But there is a
bigger sigh than Ingalls. The northern
press has already settled down to its usual
business?not only the Republican pre3.?,
but the religious press.
Editors of great papers either mold the
opinion of their readers, or they reflect
them, some of them do both. The
preacher editors generally mold them.
They are a bold, aggressive class, and
! hence the danger if they go wrong. Dr.
Phelps is the president of Andover Col?
lege. He is a learned and notable man,
aud whatever he writes for his paper,
I "The Congregationailst," is taken by New
England as the law and testimony. His
readers will swear by bis convictions. In
a'late number of hii paper he arraigns
the south and makes demands upon us.
He ridicules Grady'a speech as the "elo?
quence of the banquet,"'as a "remarkable
succession of irrelevances," as the "tick?
ling with feathers of only a feather's
weight," with the coolness and arrogance
of a king, he tells us that we should
"refuse the negro no place by reason of
his color." And then be adds: "Ib
Georgia doing this?wo have the right to
ask? Is it her civil and her social policy
to educate the colored citizen up to the
level of the Republican ballot?"
Was there ever such ignorance and
impudence combined in a great man.
Educate the negro to vote the republican
ticket. Good Lord and maBter, why
don't you educate Grover Cleveland and
Governor Hill and all the Democrats up
north to do that? Why dident you edu?
cate the negro before you gave him the
right to vote. Yea, you have the right
to inquire, and you can keep- on inquir?
ing, and Georgia will keep on attending
to her own business. The Rev. Dr.
continues his impertinent remarks and
says: "Having educated the negro to the
level of the Republican ballot, will you
count the vote if it will elect?" Now,
he really believes that the negro vote is
not counted in Georgia. He won't be?
lieve us when we tell him that it id. He
won't believe even the negroes when they
tell him so. I have been watching and
wondering for twenty years to see a negro
intimidated at the polls either directly or
indirectly, and I have never seen one?I
have never Been his vote miscounted or
fail to be counted. But we would like to
inquire why you suppressed and mis?
counted Sam'l. J. Tilden'b vote and stole
the presidency from him.
But what is the use in quarreling with
such fanatic. Here is the negro the hap?
piest creature upon earth, and the most
contented, and away up in New England
you can hear the hypocritical howl of
"Vote, vole, vote"?won't educate the
negro to vote the Republican ticket. His
precious, vote is all they are concerned
about. It hasent been but forty four
years since Rhode Island wouldent let
anybody vote unleaB he was the eldest
son and was worth $134. That is what
Appleton Hays in his biography of Thom?
as 0. Dorr, And because Dorr called a
convention to change the constitution and
extend the franchise, they arrested him
and put him in the penitentiary. But
the reverend doctor says that we must
not refuse the negro any place, civil or
social. He would invade the sanclty of
our homes and .firesides with his phi*
lantbropy. He does not seem to know or
believe that the white Republicans/of the
south are as much shocked at his demand
as_ we are. He does not know that the
white people of the south are a unit on
the color line?the separation of the laces
in schools and churches, and hotels and
theatres. Here in my town are Republi?
cans with whom we affiliate and associate
in our churches, in our city councils and
scboolboards. They are banker? and
merchants, aod lawyers and manufactu?
rers and we arc naturally tolerant and
considernto of each others' political
preference, but you can't find one who
does not draw the color line, no one but
who will say that Dr. Phelps is' a foolibh
fanatic. The grand army post ut Macon
has somo colored members, but they were
not invited to the banquet. The north
had just as well quit wasting their sweet?
ness on this question. The negroes don't
want that sort of equality, and they could
not get it if they did.
And here is what another crazy, cranky
preacher says. He is the editor of the
Examiner, a great Baptist paper publish?
ed in New York : "No doubt it would be
desirable for all concerned if the spirit ot
emancipation was pu?hed to its logical
and human extreme, but the question is,
oan the hostility of amalgamation bo se
G, FEBEUAKY 13, 1
He is considering the propriety of this
thing, this unnatural union. We don't
know that he is hankering after a negro
wife, but he is ready right now to pasB a
law that would encourage tbe amalgama?
tion and make it legal. He would force
it upon us but for the hostility. Now if
he was just one man speaking for himself
nobody would care, but he speaks for
thousands and tbey hear him and approve.
It does look like most of the people up
north are cranky about something. It is
no wonder that they are cranky on this
question, for they have been crossed and
recrossed and mixed and amalgamated
and bred in and bred out so much, that
it is a wonder they have any established
principles about anything. The masses
are a mixture of al! nations. You might
as well try to raise a good stock of horses
by mixing tbe blood of the racer and the
trotter, and tbe Fercheron, and the
mustang, and tbe Couestoga, and the
Texas bucker, and Balaam's ass combin?
ed.
You can't take up a northern paper but
what you see the oulcroppings of this
degeneracy. The Puritan blood has
about petered out. In the days of the
I blue laws of Connecticut it was a penal
offense for a man to kiss his wife on Sun?
day, but now, in some places, tbey kiss
anybody and everybody every day and
every night at home and abroad, in the
church and out of it, if the following be
true. It is taken from a telegram to
tbe Associated Pxess from Tauntnn,
Mass., and is headed "Osculatory Chris?
tians."
"The peace of the brick church at
Dighton has been broken, up by the pro?
miscuous huggiogs and kissing that has
been going on in the church at the spell?
ing bees that are held in the saucluary
as nightly entertainments. Tbe new
pastor, Rev. Mr. Dyer, was shocked to
find that males and females, ripe spinsters,
elderly maidens, and blushing damsels,
were engaged in these osculatory perform
mances, and counting the number of
times that each had been favored and the
church had been turned into a house for
hugging and kissing, he dared to put his
foot down, and the result is pandemonium
and persecution without end. The young
men defied him and burned powder at the
door of the cburcb, and blew tbe smoke
through the keyhole, and tho?e who were
inside left their empty whisky bottles in
the pewB as contributions to the church
collections. Tbe pastor had to Bend for
the sheriff to keep tbe peace, and as the
church officials wouldn't pay the sheriffs
fee, tbe pastor bad to pay it himself."
Not much Puritanism about that, is
there. And here is another in the Boston
Herald of Jaat week, which says: "The
committee on tbe public schools of Boston
report that in one of tbe schools, a dozen
boys have, within a Bhort'time, been ar?
rested for stealing. One boy struck his
teacher such heavy blows as nearly killed
her. Another boy fought bis teacher
with a loaded bludgeon two feet long.
Three other boys kicked their teacher and
one drew a revolver on her. Eight of
tbe boys belong to a band called the
Forty Thieves, who meet regularly and
plan stealing expeditions. And there are
three other schools that are worse than
this one."
Now, we have a right to inquire when
these osculatory and'Ursine performances
are going to be prohibited, and when will
those boys be educated up to the lerel cf
republican manners? Will Massachusetts
do it? You may traverfrom Virginia to
Texas and you can't find anything to
compare with it. Isn't it .strange that
ti^ey will presume to lecture us on moral-*
ity. McOauley says in his essays : "The
Puritans hated bear-baiting?not because
it gave pain to the bear, but bee?use it
gave pleasure to tbe spectators." And
so I reckon the north abuses us about the
negro, not becauae of any love or pity for
him, but because we mako such good use
of him.
In a late letter to tbe Charleston
Courier, Dr. Phelps is more considerate
in language, and admits they made a
great mistake in giving the negro the
ballot. He says it struck nature a blow
in the face, and what the eud will be God
only knows. "It would not aurpriae me,"
be Bays, "if it cost the nation more blood
than the civil war." He Bays we.have
his aympathy.
Thanks!?we don't care for sympathy
now. All we ask is to be let alone?just
let tbe negro alone; keep your.mouths
abut and your hands off, and there will
be no blood. I wonder how that fight is
getting on at Alton-that fight tbe negroes
are making to force their children into
the white school? I do hope they will
whip it. The white folks mixed that
medicine for us?now let them drink it.
The hair of the dog is good for the
bite 1
Bill Aitr.
An Iron Rivet in his Neck*
Rome, N. Y, Feb. 1.?Michael Finn,
who formerly kept; the California House,
near here, served in the war of the re?
bellion in Company E., New York Volnn
teora, from 1861 to 1863. Ho was wounu
ed twice?once in the left hip and once
iu the neck. The latter wound, he sup?
posed, was inflicted by a spent ball. The
surgeons, however, failed to discover any
trace of a ball and said the man waB
mistaken. He wa3 awarded a pension
of $4 per month for the wound in the hip
but nothing for the one in the neck.
He always felt a pain in hi? neck, and
eventually loat all power of speech and
became a pbycical wreck. In 1883 Dr.
N. C. Scudder examined the man and
grive it as bis opinion that a ball or some
auch substance was lodged at the root of
the laruyx. Mr. Finn died in 1885.
In order to enable the widow to obtain
an increase of pension, if possible, Dr.
Scudder and Justice Bowera, of this city,
made an examination of Mr. Finn's neck
on January 19,1S90?five yeara after hia
death?and found imbedded therein a
button shaped rivet of iron, which he had
carried for twenty-five yeara, and which
was the immediate cause of hia death.
? A York County (Pa.) schoolmistress
baa got into trouble through faatening
sticking plasters over the mouths of her
pupils to keep them from talking.
? Who can foretell a sudden bruiae on
tho leg of a favorite I Keep Sfilffttion Gil
?5 \hi staWi.
890.
nOW SOME RICH MEN LIVE.
They Hustle as If they Had Not the Price
of a Dinner.
Jay Gould is at bis desk in the West?
ern Union building shortly after 9 every
morning. His office is in the Southeast
corner on the second floor. A long-dis?
tance telephone, a private telegraph wire
running into his home at Irvington, and
another wire running into the heart of
Wall Btreet, are all handy to Mr. Gould's
desk. Mr. Gould doe3 not have private
equipages. He usea the horse cars and
the elevated trains. Sometimes at night
he rides in a hired hack. He drives away
at his desk until 4 o'clock. On Bome
daya he talks with 200 visitors; 200
minds, acute and marvelously incisive
minds that cannot be matched anywhere
out of the financial world, rubbing against
one I The friction is frightful. Besides,
there are a thousand important matters
associated with the Gould corporation
which require his attention. When he
starts for home Mr. Gould is very much
more exhausted than a laborer on the
acqueduct. The day's frictiou frequently
brings on nervous headaches, which
completely wilt the ovrner of $70,000,000.
John Jacob Astor is on the go from
his early breakfast hour to duek. He
trudges about Wnll street like an errand
boy. He does this for about twenty-four
days in a month, and by that time he
calls in his cab. He is fagged out, and a
week in his cab so revives his energies
that when the new month is ushered in
.he is ready to start again on hi? daily
tramps among his real estate agents
and bankers. Every day in hia lite is
devoted to the hunt for substantial in?
vestments for his money. He has other
folks to collect bis income. It is his
business to see that it is reinvested satis?
factorily. Great labor, untiring indus?
try and relentless attention are necessary
to do this. He is in the city winter and
summer. Hib fortune of $100,000,000
chains him to the city just as tight as the
driver of a leased hack with a big family
on his bands.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is at his office in
the Grand Central station ahead of some
of the Central's clerks. He works bix
times harder than any one of them. He
has a dozen meetings of directors on
hand nearly every day in the week, with
all their conflicting interest and myriads
of important details. He could not
work harder if be really wanted to earn
the interest on his individual fortune of
$100,000,000. After a long day of this
monotonous drudgery he frequently
lectures at night to the Young Men's
Christian Association and other bodies of
tbe same character, On other nights he
dances until nearly dawn. He was in
every dance at the McAllister ball. But
the lectures and tbe dances are in a meas
uro recreations, and they revivify him
for the daily struggle to retain hia im?
mense fortune. It is well known that
the old Commodore,and William H.,
after him, remarked that it was "easy
enough to get rich in New York. It
requires a daily Gettysburg, a Seven
Years' War, a stern battle every day, to
keep your fortune after you get it and to
ecuttleand ward off tbe pirates and bri?
gands bent on getting it from you."
Collis P. Huntington for two months
has hobbled on one foot in and out of
his offices, in the Milln building. A
bookkeeper in a dry goods Bhop would
have bad every excuse to have remained
at home until his aprained ankle was
cured. Mr. Huntington couldn't do that,
and yet he can point to bank accounts
and personal investments aggregating
$50,000,000. But the vast, machinery
by which he obtained this fortune was
in full motion and steaming ahead like
a Pennsylvania flyer. It was absolutely
necessary that the engineer should be
aboard. His powerful and determined
hand must be upon the throttle valve or
wrecks and disaster would follow. So
Mr. Huntington has been assisted in and
out of hia cab, had many a wince and
wrack, but has been compelled to watch
his millions or lose some of them.
R?ssel Sage is in town every day in
tbe year save holidays and Sundays;
Ho hasn't bad a day's vacation in years.
The bleakest and most miserable samples
of winter weather and the most exhaust?
ive days in summer find him at his desk
in hia Broadway office opposite Trinity
churchyard. With thirty minctes' notice
he can lay before you $30,000,000 in cash.
(He prides himself on keeping more
ready money than any other man in the
world.) With another half hour's notice
ho can produce $20,000,000 in securities,
all his own. Tbe only recreation of his
life occupies half an hour each day when
he joins Mr. Gould and Sidney Dillon
at luncheon in the Western Union build?
ing. He gets bis midday meal for noth?
ing there, and, between ourselves, mil?
lionaires are as anxious to get something
as the poorest men are. Sage works
eight hours a day. He would be -posi?
tively miserable at a picnic and would
fret and 6dget through a Thomas concert.
He would consider it an expensive even?
ing that he had to spend in such a man?
ner.
The Rockefellers, William and John D.,
with $250,000,000 at their back, and
their satellites, Henry H. Rogers and
John Archibold, with other numerous
millionn, work more hours every day of
their lives than a driver of a Broadway
car. In fact they have more wear and
tear than any driver on that or any
horse cur line in town. Few can appre?
ciate the possibilities of the human in?
tellect for crushing speed and high teu
sion uulil he attempts to understand the
pace set by this quartette.?Chatter.
? A Hopkinsvillo (Ky.) special to the
Cincinnati Enquirer saya : This city has
a prodigy that i* attracting great atten?
tion. It is a colored infant named Lou
clla Graves, a daughter of Rev. J. C.
Graves, that is only 3 months old, but can
talk distinctly. The. child could pro?
nounce many words ere it was 3 weeks
old, and now, at the age of 3 months, it
can talk plainly. Great crowds have
vUited the minister's home to behold this
infant prodigy.
?The early bird catches the worm, and
sometimes a bad cold, which, however,
does no injustice to the old proverb, for
with the aid of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup,
colds ?ro of no c?nnenp.?R5c? Prise, ?$
VOLUM
At What Age Should a Girl Marry?
The New York World has received
quite a number of answers to this very
important question. They all come
from elderly women. It might have
been better to have published the opin?
ions of some of the girls, for they are the
ones interested.
Mrs. Johu'A, Logan thinks about 25
the proper age, for a woman is then at
her best, both mentally and physically.
Mrs. Harrison, the President's wife,
being asked if a girl should choose a
husband for herself, said:
"Yes, as a rule, but not when she is
very young. Marriage cannot concern
any but the parties to it and they should
decide, although I must confess that they
sometimes make poor work of it.''
The first lady of the land has this to
say about marriages for position:
"Love and respect, but never position,
should decide a woman's choice of a
husband." Mrs. Harrison believes the
proper ago fot a woman to marry is 25.7
Mrs. W. B. Astor thinks that 25 is the
right age for a woman to marry, but she
married at 17 and her daughters have all
wedded before they were 25.
Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt and Mrs.
Henry Clews both think that early mar?
riages should be deprecated,
Mrs. S. Van Renssallacr Cruger is fre?
quently mentioned as the most "fashion?
able woman in New York," whatever that
may mean. So her opinion on the
proper marriageable age ought to carry
much weight.
"Really," she raid, "I scarcely know
what to say in reply to sucff a question.
It is so clearly a matter to be decided by
circumstances and the persons most con?
cerned. I think, however, if-a woman
intends to marry at all, the quicker she
does it the better. Some women have
found that while they were waiting for
the proper marriageable age to come
along, their marriageable chances have
quietly passed them by altogether. We
all know, after all, that marriage is a
lottery, and I think women have just as
good chances early as late?young or old.
The great mistake about marriage is,
that very youngbrides are apt to compare
married life to perfect bliss. Married
life, as a fact, is very single life, happy in
various degrees, but, from its very na?
ture, never perfect bliss. Indeed, I am
getting to believe that all the women
ought to marry and marry early, but that
the men ought not to marry at all."
Mrs. Chauncey Depew thinks that 25
is the right age except in certain cases.
She says:
"But,-after all, marriage is bo purely a
personal matter that it is hard to decide
a proper age by theorizing about it, or
on general principles."
Mrs. John R. Brady, who evidently
had an attack of love, Bays:
I should say love has no age. The
modern bride is no doubt often afflicted
with a genuine attack of love, and in
such a case I do not eee why age should
be taken into consideration, I will say,
however, that in my estimation 25 is the
most suitable age, under most circum?
stances, to marry. By that time a wo?
man will doubtless have Been many vari?
eties of men and her experience, even if
uneventful and unvaried, will enable her
to make a more judicious choice than she
would have done at an earlier age. But,
after all, love has no age, and we can
never tell when a woman will fall a vic?
tim to the tender passion, so the modern
bride may be ssid to have no abiding
age."
A well known Philadelphia lady,
whose marriage occurred some seven or
eight years later than Mrs. Harrison's
limit, but who desired that her name
should not be revealed, said :
"For many reasons I think it is advis?
able for women to wait until they have
reached the age of 25 years, for by that
time their mental and physical faculties
are fully developed and in order. Phys?
iology shows that the mortality of wo?
men as regards maternity increases as
you depart on either Bide from the 25th
year. The demands of higher education
do not allow a woman to avail herself of
all the privileges offered to hor before
that age. Ac 25 years of age a woman
should have had a liberal share of social
enjoyment and be prepared to settle
down as a wife and mother. The woman
who marries very early in life may settle
down to family cares at once, but the
chances are that a few years later she will
realize that she baa lest many of the
pleasures of single life and will long for
the freedom of early womanhood from
which hor marriage has shut her off. As
I look at the matter every consideration
points to 25 years as the most desirable,
the most prudent and the most happy
age for a bride."
When Dancing Is Wrong.
If you are wise, if you hope that the
future holds much for you, you will
learn to be particular as to your partner in
dancing. Dance with no man with whom
you have only a ball room acquaintance,
and if you really are anxious to gain the
respect of the people, in your own set,
you will number among partners only
your own brothers, or some very intimate
friends.
It's all very well to say there is no
harm in dancing. There isn't. But
there is harm in having about you, a
sweet pure girl, kept aa much aa possible
from the wickeduesa of the world, the
arm of a man who may be a profligate,
and not possess the first instinct of a
gentleman. He may, aa you say, dance
divinely, but even for a partner in a
round dance, more than that is necessary.
My little girl, dancing indiscriminately
will teach you to forget how to bluah,
and with that knowledge departs one of
your greatest charms. Dance, sing and
be merry, but remember, not oulydoe3
the world judge us by the company we
keep, but juat as you and I arc made
belter and nobler by being with those
who are true and good, eo we aro insen?
sibly made meaner and poorer 'in heart
and brain when we consort with those oi
leas degree in morals.?Ladies JTomt
Journal.
? Interviews had with mauy lending
business men, as to tho prospect for 1890
reveal an almost unanimous belief that
the year will one of mrusmrI ttfwpsrl
If.
CB XXIV.?NO. 32.
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
? A true friend is one who id not
afraid to tell us of our faults.
? A goat in Tenneese died of grief from
losing its young master.
? Woman's hand may be pale and
delicate, but she can pick up a hotter
plate than a man.
? A married maa of Rome, N. Y.,
eloped with a widow and sis children,
carrying off the entire family.
? "Ma," said a little girl, "Willie
wants the biggest piece of pie, and I sink
I ought to have it, 'cause he was eatin'
pie two years 'fore I was horned."
?There is a slight additional difference
between a hill and a pill other than the
difference of one letter. The first is hard
to get up and the second ia hard.to get :
down.
? Illinois is staggering to the front
with what is claimed to be the largest
hog on record. A Olark county farmer
has a porker that tips tbe scales at 935
pounds.
? The Wiiisky Trust, representing a
capital of moi^ than $30,000,000, has
thrown up the sponge, and will resolve,
itself into au every day corporation in
fear of inimical State legislation.
? There have been heavy blockades in
the Sierra mountains, where the snow is
in some places fifteen feet deep. In parts.,
of Utah there has been more snow this
winter than for tbe last twenty five
years.
? A little tot, Baying her prayers, was
a?ked by her mother;iwhy she had notjl
asked God's forgiveness for some special
act of disobedience. "Why, mamma, I -
didn't s'pose you wanted it mentioned
outside the family."
? A Massachusetts man, 75 years of
age, baa just found in his leg a pin which
he loat when be was 8. Some boys
would have let the pin go, but those
Massachusetts people are so saving they
never give up anything.
?The Centerville Alliance, of LaurehV:
County, has passed a resolution requesting
merchants not ?o sell pistols or pistol '
cartridges; and the members pledge.;
themselves not to trade with any merchant '
who disregards this request.
?-It costs $100,000 a day to run tbo
city government of New York. There is
a large suspicion that the taxpayers in
that town do not get their money's worth.
Tammany, however, manages to have a
good time.?Baltimore American.
? The longest bridge in the world is
said to be at Language, China, over an .
arm of tbe China Sea. It is as much as .
five miles long, built entirely of stone,
and has 400 arches, each seventy feet /
wide. The roadway is aleo seventy
feet. .
? The largest tea and coffee importer
in the United States is J. W. Doan, of -
Chicago. Mr. Doan keeps one man ;
buying teas in China at a salary of $12,-J i
000 a year. Another gets the same amount^
in Chicngo for grading teas by inhaling ?
tbe aroma.
? The potato er. p of the country is
estimated at 213,000,000 bushels, an in-. .-,
crease of 17,000,000 bushels over that of
last year. Estimating the population at
65,000,000 souls, it will be seen that there
are over three and one half bushels for
each man, woman and child in the Uni?
ted States.
? To show the capacity of his stomach
a Pennsylvania man a few days ago ate a
mixture composed of a pound of figs, fifty
raw oysters, and a pound of sugar, and
topped off the mess with a pound of lard.
He said on a wsger he-would eat a box of
wagon grease, but tbe spectators would
let him go no farther.
? An eagle was killed near Holman,
Ind. After being wour led made a des?
perate fight. It was estimated that the '?
bird was 250 years old. H9 measured 7
feet and 4 inches from tip to tip, and
weighed 104 pounds. His talons .were 7
inches broad and his claws 1J inches
in length. It was the largest eagle ever |
shot.
? The snow blockade in [tbe western
mountains is the worst ever experienced.
Many passenger trains are caught in the
drifts, which are reported to be from 10 to ' -v
to 30 feet. The chief trouble is on-the
Central Pacific near Truckee, Cal., and
on the Union Pacific, near Baker City,
Oregon. There has been much Buffering
among the imprisoned travelers.
?"Do you feel any change?" said the -
minister solemnly, as he walked - badr?:?
during the revival meeting, and placed;
his hand gently on the sailor's shoulder. -
The sailor, thinking he was expected
contribute something, quickly ran his
bands down into bis pockets, then looking
up into the minister's face with a bland
amile, answered: "Not a cent, parson."
? A farmer writes that twenty-five
years ago he set split white oak-posts for
his garden fence, putting a peck of air
slacked lime around each, and they are
all good yet. He attributes their good
condition to the effects of the lime .ifl?
which he is doubtless correct. It is said
that a board that has been used in a mor?
tar bed, and thoroughly saturated with
lime, is almost indestructible from de?
cay. *
? It is no trifling manner to open a
letter addressed to another, even if that'
other be one of your own family. An-'"?J
Ohio girl has just had;her father arrested
for opening a letter addressed to her by >;?
her lover, and the old man was-placed
under $300 bond to answer the charge in -
the United States Court., He was curious
to know what the lover had said about- ;
beiog bounced from the front porch on
the toe of the old man's boot.
? Some statistician reports that the
number of lynchings in the United States'
last year was 1-75, while there were only
98 legal hangings. Most of the latter
were in the Southern States, but the
"wild and wooly West" contributed a
large proportion of the lynchings. In
fact it is said that all the hangings in
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin and ?
Michigan, and a majority of thoaeE?
in Indiana were done by Judge Lynch.
Entitled to the Best.
All are entitled to the best that their
money will buy, eo every family should
have, at once, a bottle of the best family ;v::
remedy, Syrup of Figs, to cleanse the ,
system, when costive or ' ",4:?si. For salo"
in ?0ci and $1.90 hcM *n'ti41fig>>*