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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S.O., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1892. VOLUME XXVn.?NO. 2. VINEGARS Xfe have in Vinegars the very Best Qualities obtainable and at Reasonable Prices. Apple Cider Vinegar?four years old. White Wine YInegar?extra quality. Claret Vinegar?for table use. West India Spiced Vinegar?our specialty. Oar Spiced Vinegar is made from Pore Grape Wine Vinegar, boiled down with West India Spices. The combination of imported Spices for the production of this Fine Vinegar has been skillfully made, after many years of experiment. The result is an absolutely perfect Spice Vinegar, retaining the delicious flavor and delightful fra ?rano3 of West India Spie?. Ii is the only Vinegar you can heat, warm or boil that will throw off the same fragrance and flavor as when cold. Especially desirable for Meats and Vegetables. When used to make Spiced Beef or Spiced Onions it will satis? fy the most fastidious taste. TAYLOR & CRAYTON, 42 Granite Row. r ? TO CLOSE SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS, In order to clear out all Muds of Goods to niafce room for anew Fall Stock. WE have decided to make the people of Anderson an offer to secure good, first-class G-oods _ AT AND BELOW COST. WE MEAN JUST WHAT WE SAT-all Summer Goods to go regardless of what they are worth. Embroideries, Laces, Lawns, Muslins, Bedford Cords, Challies, And, in fact, a nice clean Stock of Spring Goods. A big lot of REMNANTS, all kinds 01 Goods, to close. Now is your time to get the ChildrensJ Winter Clothes cheap. Gome and, see me. W. A. CHAPMAN, Agent, Next to Masonic Temple. LITERALLY WASHED WITH BLOOD. Police do their Duty without respect to Persons. The Wall Still Covered with Bloody Gore. I .HE fight was on South Main Street at the Bazaar and Ten Cent Stores of C. S. Minor & Co. It was an attack of the combined forces of seven other merchants on the famous C. 8. Minor. They fought in defence of their prices, which they claimed had been crashed out of all respectability by the said C. S. Minor, and they fought with desperation to res toro the former prices, bat down they go in the dead of the fight, and their blood on onr Store-front only is left to tell a pitiful tale of woe. Stranger tlian Strange. One man claimed that we had reduced the price of Fants to 25c. and 50c. per pair?lesa than cost to make. We don't care. Another claimed that we sell the beat quality Mason Fruit Jar at less than he can buy the second quality. We don't care for that, either. Another said our 10c. Hosiery was the same that he had to Bell at 15c, or two pair for 25c, and that we sold his 15c Suspenders at 10c, and his 25c Suspenders at 15c. Well, what of that? Another man believes that we are Belling his 40c Cups and Saucers for 30c, and his 85c Plates at 25c. Why Bhould we care ? A certain millinery man thinks we have knocked him oat of more than a hundred sales. We don't have to pay a milliner, ancl he don't believe we pay for oar goods. What concern is that of his ? Another man claims that we sell Tobacco at a starvation price. Has he any right to object ? ; These are some of the complaints made against as. We ask you whose busi? ness is it, if not that of onr customers and ourselves ? Can't we make such figures as we see fit without being hounded down and forced to fight for our lives ? We'll fight to the death?we'll put their blood on our walls and their scalps on onr doors, and their customers in possession of undoubted bargains. Say, would you wash that blood off the wall, or would you let it stay as a warning ? Yours for Spot Cash, C S. MINOR, THE BAZAAR and the 10c. STORE. CAM ILLS, EVAPORATORS A! COTTON US! WE are agents for the Celebrated Kentucky Cane Mills and Hall Seli Feeding Cotton Gins. - It will pay any person to call and see onr Ma? chinery and get our prices before baying, ab we feel assured we can save you money, an 1 can sell you on easy terms. We can bottom and repair old Evaporators, making thtan a3 good as new at a small cost. We also manufacture Smoke Stacks, Spark Arresters and Suction Pipes, which e vory Ginner should have, as it saves time, tabor and expense. Our Stock of Stoves, Tinware, Crockery and House Furnishing Goods is complete. We have a large supply MASON FRUIT JARS and TIN CANS which are going ch(?p. It will pay you to buy as soon as possible, as Fruit Jars are poing to be scarce and lrgher latter part of season. Call and see our Cherry Seeders, Apple and Peach Pealers?something that every ho jsehold should have. It saves much time and labor, and are so very cheap. When you come to Town be sure to call and see us. We will make it to your in? ternet to buy your Goods from ns. We still buy RAGS, HIDES and BEESWAX. All kinds ROOFING and GUTTERING done on short notice, and in a thorough workmanlike manner. Yours very truly, PEOPLES & BURRISS. SEASON OF 1892. Womens,' Misses' and Childrens' Fine OXFORD TIES! Duchess, Langtry, Brighton, Elite, Souvenir, Theo, Adonis, Everett and Southern Ties. Juliet, Strap, House and Opera Slippers. YACHTING and LAWN TENNIS SHOES. JAS. P. GOSSETT & CO.? Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Boots and Shoes, Anderson, S. C, under Hotel Chiquola. TeJ??hejh^'Golumn. -fex All communications intended fo this Column should be addressed to C WABDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, 8. C. MEMOEY OEMS. "It is not all of life to live." There is a life beyond. The Summer schools are openiug. We have the names of several good teachers. Any vicinity wanting a teacher should apply at once. We would bo glad if every teacher would notify us when he or she will open and close the Summer school, bo we can arrange our plan for visiting the schools. We have a letter from Miss Hubbard, who is assisting in Institute work in the lower part of the State. She is doing good work we know, for she always does. She is enjoying her work. We publish this week the graduating speech of Mr. II. E. Richbourg, of Pan ola, S. C, at the Commencement of the P. M. I. Bead it and you* wilt be well paid for the time. THE T0W71LLE HIGH SCHOOL. By Liaaif; Grant. You know I told you a few weeka ago, That of our school I would tell something more; > We haven't very much to tell you to-day, But hope it will interest you what we do have to say, As its about our school, thai, we prize so high, And that closes on fifteenth day of July. Nearly all the other schools are already vacated, But ours continues, as I have already stated, Nor any of us are sorry, for we all like to Tot&boye like it much better than to have cotton to hoe; To go to school this season is the girl's great delight, For after studying all day, they can rest bo well at night. But soon the day will come when our i school must vacate, Then we'll lay away our books and our slates, But with not as much pleasure as you all may suppose, For it makes us feel sad for our e ehool to close. Of course, we are glad to get to rest for awhile, And enjoy the 6weet breezes of our cli? mate so mild. We have news to tell you, that wo know will make you glad. We are going to have the best time we ever have had, For our teacher told us that on the very last day We might have a plo nie before we all scatter away. We want all our school mates to be sure and be there, And if we don't have a nice time, we shall certainly think queer. There you'll meet all of yonr old school mates po dear. Who are being trniuod witb the tenderest care. We want ail tho |?nr< nts to be present, too, For it will nwik?- us IVhI merrier than if there were on y * faw, So Comb wilb ..(inr b.trkelrt fiihd up to the top But gu?sa you will have to thru out ihe ?'chicken crop." We bopo our teacher v. ill enjoy tho day, too, For he has "learned ua as much as any teacher could do. He used so much patience wheu we were stumbling along, Trying to distinguish tbe right from the wrong. We thank him so much for his close at? tention, And many other things too numerous to mention. We ell wish him a pleasant vacation, And hope he is pleased with bis new situ? ation, Enough kg any way to teach for ns again, Fox of his work this year, we've beard no one complain. iSo now if you'll give us space in your pa J. per this time, , "Twill be some time again before weworry you with another rhyme, THE WILL Mental philosophers have divided the powers of the mind into three grand de? partments, tbe intellect, the sensibilities and the will, but it is not my* purpose to treat of the "will" in regard to its phi? losophical or metaphysical relations to the ceveral other facilities, but iu its in? fluence and bearing in regard to practi? cal life and individual conduct. Its importance becomes manifest when we know that it is tho basis and founda? tion of all character and of all success. We find that wherever this power is worthily exercised it generally leads to success, and the end in view will be accomplished. Take a profession if you choose, it matters not what, and this power will be the underlying principle, the main spring of action which leads to the high? est success and the upbuilding of those noble principles which characterize the hero in either action or endurance, and make the masterful man. Here stands a man of whom the world might be proud; a born genius whose name ought to shine in the literature of his age. His pen might be wielded with the power of a Shakespeare ; hie oratory might even surpass a Demosthenes, but alas I What a sad, sad pity that such genius should be wasted, thrown away as It were, and the bright, young life which gave it birth a failure, and all for the want of proper energy, of "will"?the main focus?the pivot about which all the other powers revolve. Here on the other hand stands a man who is not a genius, but who has deter? mination and "will" about him. He is persevering, firm and iuflexible as a rock. He has steadily advanced, notwithstand? ing the many vicissitudes and adverse fortunes which he encountere, and which requires such indomitable courage and "will" to overcome. Just as Bure as the sun will rise in all his resplendent beauty and glorious majesty to shed light and radiance over this sleeping world of ours, so sure will such a one continuo to advance. It is impossible that his life should be an utter failure. He may stumble and fall, he may be overthrown time and again, but does that constitute failure? Not by any means. It only moves him to renewed energy, and causes him to exert more freely the power of his "will," and in the end he will come forward in triumph, and the victory will be won. How important it is for us to have this power 1 Why just look arouud you over this grand and beautiful American continent ?the type of civilization and enlighten? ment?yes, and over the whole world if you choose, and view the thousands and tens of thousands of poor, wrecked and ruined human beings who are even now vainly struggling in the meshes of the net prepared by the Evil One. You ask one of them what has bronght him into such a miserable condition ? and he re? plies the Arch Fiend Drink. Why do you not stop it and maintain first your self-respect, then the respect of your family, your neighborhood and your country? I can't do it, he replies. I have tried it over and over again, and just about the time I think I have cared myself of my weakness, or I should say curse, here comes along one of my bo called friends, and nothing will do but that I must take a drink with him ; just one for his sake and for the remembrance of "Auld Lang Syne," and not having the "will" to resist, I have fallen until now there is no hope. The cold winds of winter are rushing in chilly blasts across the continent. The dark clouds have gathered and poured out their contents upon the earth, and now the glistening icicles are hang? ing from the trees, and from the eaves of the houses, while the ground is every? where covered with snow. The two great armies have gone into winter quar? ters. The American cause has been I given np by almost everybody, but not so with Washington, that grand man whose name is dear to the heart of every trne American. See him as he comes from his encampment at. Valley Forge, and though his soldiers are bare footed, clothed in tatters and rsgs, poorly armed nnd suffering from the pangs of hunger, they havo confidence in their com? mander ; they know the power of his "will" and determination, and they cheerfully cross the frozen Delaware at his bidding, and soon the British foes are swept from the Jerseys. Numerous other men could ba named who have won renown by the exercise of this power. Look at Jefferson Davis, always a knightly hero, and never more so than while basely confined a prisoner in For? tress Monroe by hia vile and malignant enemies. Look at Hannibal, the great Oarthagenian General, crossing the rag* ged peaks of the towering Alps and hurl? ing bis hardy legions down on Imperial Borne. Look at Napoleon Bonaparte, that mighty General of whom Haven gays: "Obstacles, difficulties insur? mountable to other men, established usages, armies and thrones were all swept away by the energy of that mighty "will," that determined purpose, as a wave driven before the storm clears for itself a path among the rocks and shells that lie strewn along the shore." We can now form some estimate of the. importance of the "will," and that it is important for us all to have this faculty well developed. Then why not have it? But you Bsk how may we obtain it ? I. reply it may be trained juat as the other facullk-". of the mind by due exercise. Then let us begin at once the exercise and :h~ training, each one for himself, for h<? who conquers himself is more than a* C'Ji-qucror of others. Perhaps we soioKe cigarettes, chew tobacco or neglect the faithful performance of our daily du? ties, or indulge ourselves in other bad habits which, by the due exercise of this power we can overcome, and thus the foundation will be laid, and we can enter into larger and broader fields, where more and greater victories are to be won; new and far distant worlds are to be con? quered, and when all these have been accomplished we can enter victoriously into the realm of light, plant our feet firmly upon the rostrum of eternal glory, where all is brightness and sunshine, and where a halo of light is thrown around you by the reflection from the golden city, for even this bright and happy con? summation is offered free "without mon? ey and without price" to every one of us, and the Saviour has distinctly said of every one who fails to obtain it in its full fruition "Ye Will Not." Inventor Cooly's Airship. Middletown, N. Y., May 5.?John F. Cooley, an ingenious and enthusiastic inventor of Penn Yan, N. Y., thinks he has solved the problem of successfully navigating the air. A company of capi? talists of his town, with H. B. Philips as President, has furnished the money to put the invention to a practical test, and has contracted for the building of one of the airships at an Elmira shop. The Bhip will ba cigar shaped or in the form of a double-cone, and about 300 feet long and thirty feet in diameter at the centre. The principle material to be used is aluminium. There will be no car or apparatus hanging beneath, as the pas? sengers and machinery will be carried within the body of the ship. The buoyant power will be hydrogen gas contained in twenty separate cham? bers. The propelling power will be ob? tained from a chemical compound, the nature of which is one of Mr. Cooley's secrets, and which will operate propellers weighing only ooe pound to the horse power at the rate of 8,000 revolutions a minuto. Mr. Cooley expects a machine of the size indicated to carry ten passengers and all needful machinery and supplies, at the rate of from 100 to 200 miles an hour. He maintains that his perfected airships will at once put an end to all forms of war, because no body of armed men and no fortification could exist for any length of time against a rain of dynamite sheila from an airship. ? There is more Catarrh in this sec-* tion of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local rem? edies, and by constantly failing to care with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and there? fore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional care on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood und mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., PropB., Toledo, O. |^?Sold by all Druggists, 75, BILL ARP'S TALK. Tho Georgia Philosopher at Ylolcshurgand Natchez. Atlanta Constitution. Vicksburg, Miss., Jane 26.?Thirty years ago the gunboats of Fafagut and Porter opened fire on this historic city. Just thirty years ago. For a month they poured shot and shell by day and by night over and into the bluffs, but it was at long range and the batteries here gave them better than they sent and finally forced them to abandon the attack and to retire from the field. Later on in the war they renewed the assault and after terrible sacrifice carried and captured the city with its noble army of defend? ers. I rode out to the beautiful ceme? tery that is but a mile away and it is cer? tainly the most lovely spot I ever visi? ted. It is the peaceful, tranquil home of 16,000 of tho federal dead who fell and died in the long assault. After life's fitful fever they sleep well. Beau? tiful lawns and evergreens and flowas and gravelled roads adorn tho ground and the stranger is impressed with awe and fear of the r-^wer of government money. A feeling of exclusion comes over ub as we walk and wonder?exclu? sion?and the uooonscious thought arises that this great government is for the north not for up. Our dead are not worth caring for. How long the north will continue to make this great mistake we know not, but if peace and good will is worth anything, how easy they might have made it?how easy they might make it yet by giving our dead soldiers the same care as their own. A soldier's cemetery is an American institution and is unlike any other in the world. It is a modern institution, for our forefathers did not have them. There is none for the revolutionary war of 76; none for the Mexican war of 1846; none for Jackson's war of 1812. A few monu? ments can be found?monuments to the officers?but nothing to the privates who fell in tbe fight. A soldiers graveyard is peculiar because there are no graves for women oi children. None even for old men or boys, but here in these guarded graves at Vicksburg are sleeping 16,000 men?strong men who were in the vigor of manhood. As they stood up in com? panies and regiments when in life bo they lie down and Bleep with their mar? ble headstones as Btraightly lined as when their officers said, "Look to the right and dress." Vickaburg is a beautiful city?beauti? ful for its heights and its views and its high commanding overlook of the great river that is always calm and placid as a lake. We read of the great flood and imagine that tbe swollen river was full of ragiDg torrents, but the eye can hardly see the water move. It just rises?that's all?except where it breaks a levee somewhere aud ruuhes through the open? ing. Tbe people talk about a ereva>se about like we talk about a front that kills tbe cotton. They ..ay now that the le? vees were a great mistake and that when the river gets very low again all the le? vees ought to be cut and let tbe water overflow all along the line in a thousand places and it would not materially dam? age anybody and would recede quickly after the rain and would enrich tbe lands it bad overflown. From Vicksburg I dropped down to Natchez, a hundred miles below. They claim as many people as Vicksburg and perhapB it is growing as fast or faster. There is more style here and more old time people who live and talk and look like like old patricians. Tbe old south is here with its culture and refinement and enough of its wealth to keep up ap? pearances. All around the suburbs are the same beautiful homes with tropical trees and grassy lawns and a mansion that was built before the war?a mansion with broad halls and winding stairs and spacious verandas and fluted columns with corinthian caps. Not since the war have I Been anywhere so many of these ante bellum homes. Not since the war have I found a community that has pre? served so much of the old refinement and culture of the southern patriacians. Natchez is an old city?very, very old? older by two years than Savannah, Ga. While tbe English was colonizing the Atlantic coast the French came around and took possession of tho Mississippi country and Natchez was the first place they settled. In 1717 Count Pontchar train settled here and named this place "Rosalie in honor of his beautiful and lovely wife. It kept that name as long as it kept its morals and its manners, but in the course of time they got to fighting with tho Indians and massacred them, leaving but a scattered remnant, that fled toother tribes. The desperate and bloody battle seems to have shocked the womanly pity of Rosalie and tbe name was changed to Natchez, the name of the Modock tribe, and that is all that is left of it. 1 rode out to the "old Prentiss man sion?the home of the greatest orator of the Bouth. Daniel Webster said he was the greatest in the world. I look upon his grave and ruminated. He came from Maine tfhen a youth and cast his for? tunes with the south and never deserted her. Bishop Soule came from there, too, and did the same thing. He seceeded from the Northern Methodist Episcopal Church because the church suspended Bishop Andrew from preaching until he should free bis slaves. That bigotry so shocked Soule that he left his home and his church and came south. Mr. Pren* tiss and Jefferson Davis were born the same year and lived near together. Vicksburg and JNatcbez were then the favorite political battle grounds between the whigs and the democrats. Prentiss led the one and Mr. Davis the other. Their first great batttle was here at Natchez, where Mr. Prentiss lived and where Mr. Davis married his second wife. It was just before bis second mar? riage that he had his first tilt with Mr. Prentiss. The democrats had tried in vain to find some one wbo would dare to meet him, for he was in the zenith of his fame and his eloquence and magnetism carried everything before it. As a last resort they asked Jefferson Davia, who was then only thirty seven years old. He never hesitated a moment. "Yes," said he, "I will meet him. I fear no man when I am armed?armed with the truth and justice of our cause." They met. No one expected Mr. Davis to cope with Prent;ss, Many expected that he would be utterly annihilated, demol? ished, rained, bat he was not. Calm, conscious and dignified, he held his own in that memorable conflict and when he retired from the field he had his colors unstained, and as they said, brought off his dead and wounded and was ready for battle again on the morrow The result of the encounter lifted Mr. Davis up as ar orator and debater, and he was by common consent placed at the head of the party and kept there. His brilliant service in the Mexican war that came on soon after added to his fame and nothing that he ever did lessened the regard and the affection of the peo? ple for him. The two men, Davis and Prentiss, were Mississippi's idols. What the latter would have been we know not, for death cat him down early. He died when forty-one years of age, and Mr. Davis lived to eighty-two, just twice as long. Natchez is fast growing in architectu? ral beauty. They have jast completed a manificent hotel and opera house that would do credit to a large city. They have established a public library whose moving spirit is the gifted authoress Mrs, Walworth, who has written many charm? ing romances founded on Mississippi life._Bill Abp. JHllllonuIre and Pauper. In one of the great London drapery ware hoages an old man, dressed in shabby clothes that were fashionable years ago, is wandering aimlessly about. The ware house has developed into one of those gigantic concerns whose transac? tions are world wide. The shabby old gentleman has a pencil behind his ear and a small book in his hand, and as he walks about he moves his lips as if he were casting up a sum. Every now and then he stoops to pick up a pin or a piece of paper from the floor. The pin he sticks in his coat and the pa? per he sticks in his pocket. Few people know that this shabby and miserable old man is the founder of this mighty house; that he is a millionaire; that, though long past work, he cornea down to the ware house when it opens and stays till it closes, and that he per? forms the duties of door keeper and re? ceives a salary of $7.50 a week, which he carefully boards up. This mighty merchant, this millionaire, is haunted day and night by the thought that he is a.pauper and that he will come to the work house. To ease bi3 mind his sons employ him and give him $7.50 a week, and this be hoards up bo that be may have enough to bury him decently. Fifty years n.50 the world was before him ; he waB young, strong and clear headed, and he deterraiaed to make a fortune. Ho married and children were boru to him in the days before bis greal prosperity came. By the time be was a middle aged man he had distanced most of his trade rivals, and the name of bis firm was widely known as ono of the most flourishing houses in London. Even then he was not satisfied. His sons were partners in the firm, and he might well have retired and let tbem manage it. But no, his establishment only filled one .side of the street; he wanted the other half. His turnover was four millions yearly; why not make ii <-ight? His firm was aecond in importu ice in the eyes of the trade; why shouldn't it be the first? He would devote aoother five years to the task and then retire. Five years passed away, and he con? fessed himself satisfied. He would re? tire. The deeds should be prepared, and in six months he would begin to take his well earnest rent, leaving his sun in abso? lute control of the business. When five months of the six had yet to run he had a fit in the counting house, and was carried home to his West Eod mansion. He rose from his illness an imaginary pauper. His mind was gone, and he was possessed with an extraordi? nary mania. He thought he was ruined, that he had lost every penny, and that be was com? pelled to work for his living. As soon as he could move he wandered down to the warehouse and solicited employment of his sons. With tears in his eyes he begged to be taken on to do anything? he didn't care what. Acting on the doc? tor's advice the sons employed him. He actually believed he would die in the work house. At home he would not sit in the grand rooms, but slink away into the kitchen among the servants the proper place, be said, for a poor man. ?His family tried all ways to dispel the illusion. One day they kept him at home. He tore his hair and moaned that he should be discharged, and would have to go to the work house. They were ob? liged to let him out. ? What is lacking is truth and confi? dence. If there were absolute truth on the one hand and absolute confidence on the other, it wouldn't be necessary for the makers of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Eeme dy to back up a plain statement of facta by a $500 guarantee. They say?"if we can't cure you (make it personal, please,) of catarrh in the head, in any form or stage, we'll pay you $500 for your trouble in making the trial." "An advertising fake," you say. Funny, isn't it, how some people prefer sickness to health when the remedy is positive and the guarantee absolute. Wise men don't put money back of "fakes." And "faking" doesn't pay. Magical little granuels?those tiny, sugar coated Pellets of Dr. Pierce scarcely larger than mustard seeds, yet powerful to cure?active yet mild in op? eration. The best Liver Pill ever in? vented. Cure sick headache, dizziness, constipation. One a dose. ? There has been a curious dispute among the biographers regarding the age of Grover Cleveland. By some of the campaign historians he is said to be fifty* seven years old, while others make him fully five yeara younger. Mr. Cleveland himself, in answer to numerous inquiries Bent him some time ago, ia reported to have given his age aa fifty-five. SEE WHERE THE MONEx* GOES. One Hundred and Sixty Million Dollars for Pensions! New York IlerulO. Washington, June 13.?One hundred and sixty millions for pensions! This is the estimate of conservative authorities for the next fiscal year. Customs receipts for the present year are about $175,000,000. Nearly the whole amount will go for pensions. The entire burden of McKinleyism is put upon the country?not to pay the ex? penses of the postal service, nor to pay the salaries of public officials, nor to im prove the public waterways and light them in storm?but to pay bounties to a million men who are no longer doing anything in return for the burden tbey impose upon the people. When is the drain to stop ? Nobody knows. If anyone is fittrd to tell it is Representative Enloe, of Tennessee, who has made a special study of the pension j problem and has been Ranm's chief pros? ecutor in the pension investigation. He gives it up. He knowa that it won't stop soon, but will go on increasing. I said to him to-day: "The appropriation for the next fiscal year is $134,825,000. Do you think this will be sufficient to cover the disbursements for that period ?" j "No, I do not. The commissioner of pensions estimates that there will be a deficiency of $13,000,000. That sum would swell the amount to $147,000,000. My impression is that the Commissioner, at the rate he is adjudicating pensions, considering the number of claims pending before tbe bureau, will run it up to $160, 000,000." "If that be true the pension list, as the Herald has repeatedly stated, is steadily growing from year to year, inasmuch as it will be necessary to appropriate for the next fiscal year $160,000,000 at least, and this will be largely in excess of any appro? priation in the past, will it not?" "Yes, the list is repidly growing, and there seems to be no disposition on the part of Congress to enact any legislation which will check the increase. It will be remembered that Mr. Garfield, when chairman of tbe appropriation committee, some fourteen or fifteen years ago made a statement to the House that he thought the pension list had then reached high water mark ?" "How much was it at that time ?" "It was $25,000,000. Congress has en? acted legislation making the system more liberal from time to time. The board of pension appeals continue to interpret the law in a more liberal way, and thus is maintained a steady growth of tbe pen? sion list. The last Congress, by passing the dependent pension bill, caused agreat increase in tbe number of pensions, and in the amount carried by the pension ap? propriation bill. There is still a demand for broader legislation so as to provide for every soldier without regard to the ques? tion of dependency or disability. "The 51st Congress appropriated $525, 000,000 at the second session, of which the pension appropriation bill carried $135,214,785. That appropriation was for the year 1892, and was in accordance with the estimates submitted by the com? missioner of pensions. In the last few days he has submitted estimates to the commit? tee on appropriations for an urgent defi? ciency appropriation amounting to $7, 674,000 to complete the pension for tbe year 1892. The appropriation has al? ready passed the House. That carries tbe total for pensions for tbe year 1892 to $142,889,117." "Now, Mr. Enloe, how greatly in ex? cess of the appropriation for 1891 is this appropriation of $142,889,117 for the fis? cal year 1892?" "It is an increase of $34,680,874 in one year. Now let U3 go back another year and see how much larger the appropria? tion for tbe year 1891 was than the year 1890. The records of the bureau show it to have been $22,092,695. This will give you some idea bow tbe list has swollen since Garfield's supposed "high water mark of $25,000,000 fourteen years ago to nearly $150,000,000 at the present time." "How much of the money now appro priated for pensions is wasted ? In other words,what sum, in your judgment, would be necessary to give every soldier a pen? sion who incurred disability in the ser? vice?" "I think to come within the limits in? dicated by your question would reduce the amount at least one-third?that is to say, $50,000,000. We are paying in the neighborhood of $30,000,000 per annum to persons who are not strictly entitled to pensions under tbe interpretation hereto? fore given to the implied contract between tbe Government and tbe soldier. "The original intention of Congress in providing for a pension system was to compensate the soldiers for any decrease in their earning capacity on account of disabilities incurred in the service. It was never intended that pensions should be given as a gratuity or as a reward for patriotism, but in these latter days tbe system has been constantly liberalized until now there has grown up a demand for pensions to soldiers who not only never incurred any disabilities in tbe service, but who are not at present labor? ing under any preceptible disability. There are plenty of ex-soldiera now on the pension rolls who are financially in independent circumstances, while there are many other soldiers who need pen? sions and are denied them because of some defect in the record of their service or in the proof necessary to establish their claim." "You speak, Mr. Enloe, of the contin? ued liberalizing of the pension laws. In what way is this done, and what is the purpose of it?" "It has been done by legislation, and by the interpretation of the law. The board of pension appeals has broken down the established rule which obtained under the general law. I speak of the general law in contradistinction to the Act passed by the last Congress, which provided for dependent pensions, making the granting of a pension dependent on tbe need of the soldier rather than upon tne origin of his disability, Until the pension system was debauched by dragging it into politics in the la3t fifteen years it was necessary for the soldier to trace his present disability back to his service and show its origin in the ser? vice. "If he was claiming for a disability on acconn' of injury received in ihe service, it was necessary for him to show that it was received in the line of duty. The board of pension appeals, which is a sort of hybrid law factory attachment to the pension office, has practically abolished the rule requiring the soldier to prove that the disability is the result of injuries received in the service and in the lines of duty. Their decisions go to the extent of holding that a soldier was in the line of duty if he was hurt in a drunken brawl, robbing a hen roost, or stealing whiskey. You ask what is the purpose of this change of pol?cy. It seems manifest, as I have before indicated, th t it has been done for political reasons; done on the idea of using the public money for the purpose of influencing the political ac? tions of those who are to be the benefici? aries." "To return again to the question of an* nual expenditures. If, as you estimate, $160,000,000 will be necessary to cover the disbursements for the next fiscal year, where is this extravagance going to atop ? Will $160,000,000 be the maximum amount, or will it go to $170,000,000? And if it does go to $170,000,000, ian't it likely to go to $200,000,000 ultimately? And if this be the case where shall we get the revenues with which to meet these payments? The treasury is practically bankrupt now," "It the pension office," replied Mr. Enloe, "is to be continued tobe used us a political machine no man can tell where it will stop. Bat from present indications I would say that it would not atop as long as a soldier can be found in the country who is willing to pat a price upon his patriotism, I have had an occasion to give the matter some thought, and in a discussion on the floor of tbe House I expressed the opinion that the present rate of adjudicating pensions, in view of the number of applications now on hand, it would not stop short of $200,000,000 per annum. It will be necessary to eith? er limit Government appropriations to the salary Hat in support of the army and navy and the payment of pensions, to the exclusion of everything else, or to fk J new eources of revenue. The revenue might be increased to some extent by abolishing prohibitory duties and bring? ing tbe tariff down to a revenue basis, bat I doubt if it would famish sufficient rev? enue to cover the expenditures. I think we will be forced to adopt the income tax to pay pensions. I think the imposition of a graduated income tax od all incomes over $5,000 would be the easiest and mcst equitable way of raising the money to pay pensions. I think it would be better to place tbe burden of taxation of tho?e who are able to bear it rather than im? pose it on tbe labor of the country, which is already overburdened. The sys? tem would not be so injurious as it is if tbe pensioners were equally distributed throughout the country. As it is now Borne localities have few if any pensioners. Such localities are consequently drained of a part of their earnings, which is as completely lost to them as if destroyed by fire or flood, becau36 it is taken from them and distributed elsewhere, never to re? turn." "When will the pension office investi? gation clone and what will be the result of it?" "Tbe investigation is drawing to a close for this seusion and tbe report will prob? ably be submitted to Congress within the next ten daya or two weeks, I intend to ask the Committee not'to adjourn finally until next session, so that certatn matters which they have not time to investigate now may foe inquired into when Congress meets again. I think it would hardly be proper for me to express any opinion as to what the report of the Committee will be. I think, however, that the report will be 8al;iafactory and will be fully bub tained by the evidence taken. I shall arge tbe propriety and the necessity of taking the pension bureau out of politics. I hope tho Committee will recommend its transfer to the war department, where it properly belongs. I believe if that bureau waB placed in charge of a regular army officer it would cease to b' a political machine. That would do much to correct abuses in the system. I also think that it would be wise to confer upon the Secre? tary of War tho power to thoroughly overhaul the present pension list, with authority to eliminate from it all who are not legally entitled to pensions, and all whose circutnatances are auch that they don't need to be pensioners on the boun? ty of the Government. I think every true soldier and every right-thinking cit? izen would be willing to trust the army I officers with tbe exercise of auch power. The regular army officers have been trained and educated to a high aeDse of honor and lofty patriotism. They would naturally sympathize with a soldier who had suffered misfortune or injury in the service of his country, and would be pre? pared to do fall justice, while they would entertain a righteous contempt for the fraud, the sneak, the deserter and the bounty jumper. 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It is pro? posed to send the father, mother and children to the world's fair as samples of what is possible to be done in the far West; All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Few criminals of any kind live to be old men. ? Planta grow faster between 4 and'6 a. m. than at any other time during the day. ? The young lady without an engage? ment ring has nothing on hand to speak of. ? The beat farm in the promised land is always the one which has the biggest', giants living on it. ? If sunshine had to be paid for, there are people who would declare that candle light could beat it. ? The blindest people are those who never find out that they cannot be happy in their own way. ? A "Poor Richard Almanac" of 1768 sold for $35 at an auction in Philadelphia a few days ago. , ? Massachusetts was the first of the* American colonies to adopt slavery, j Georgia was the last. ? It is never too late to mend. This is why the cobbler never baa your booto: done at the time promised. ? The negroes are not dying off rapid? ly. They have increased from 3,000,000] in the emancipation days to 7,000,000. ? Grover Cleveland, tariff for revenue, only, no force bill and honest money is what the Democrats of South Carolin*! want. ? The first commercial transaction'! that is recorded in secred history, is] Abraham's purchase of the cave of MacuT pelah. ? The percentage of women who suc? cessfully pass the examination for goy? eminent positions is greater than that ofj men.J ? A New Jersey minister married fif-j teen couples within sixty minutes the] other day. Fifteen knots an hour isn't] bad. .4 ? ? One of the glorious privileges of ?vi ery American citizen is his right to be a] candidate for any office within the gift] of the people. ? There is no difference in the mind off God between the man who breaks thffl Sabbath and the one who sells goods ^ a short yard stick. ? Washington authorities report new and dangerous counterfeit." As is j represents a $50 bill, it is not dangeronsj to newspaper men. ? An Ohio man carried his jog to the] wheat field and put it under a shady tree.! It got broke and a cow and one chicken j got gloriously drunk. ? Emma?Father, don't you think we want some new gas burners? Father?No. That young man who comes to see you every evening is gas burner enough for me. ? Two lovers at Wilmington, 0., coinV raitted suicide by taking strychnine Sun-j day morning, June 26. The young lady's! mother objected to the match and they] preferred death to separation. ? There are more idle men in this! country to day than there has been at any! previous time during its history. Tha| four years of Grover Cleveland's istration were ones of unprecedenf prosperity. ? Do not thiak of knocking out j other person's brains because he dif^J in opinion from you. It would be rational to knock yourself on thu because you differ from yourself ter! ago. ? The money order department of the Pittsburg (Penn.) Postoffice is exclasivf| ly in charge of Miss Mary Steele, and thi receipts, almost $2,500,000 last year, mari it a3 one of the largest business handled by any woman in America. ? With the desire of giving her hus band a trae picture of herself, a womar in Atchison, Kansas, had her photograpi taken as she appeared at daily houseworl in her kitchen dress with a baby on one arm and a broom and dustpan on thf other. ? Hosband?Where is the hatchet' Wife?In the attic. "If yon saw it in] the attic, why didn't you bring it down ?'f I didn't see it." "Then who did ?" "N<I one that I know of." "Then how ir creation do you know it's in the attic ?'] "I heard you up there yesterday driving^ nail." . ? A paragraph is going the round the press, explaining on scientific grot why a girl cannot throw a stone. If boi scientist would kindly point Out the safest position the Bystander can cupy?whether behind or before?i she attempts it, he would be to some tent a public benefactor. ? Professor Lors, the Greek: is attracting much attention bj of shooting a glass ball from The trick is performed by shootinf trigger of a rifle held in a frame, ml\ muzzle sighted at a glass ball dangling 1 a string directly over the markman^ head. ? Mies Wellalong (who hopes by l iug light of her years to be thought quit] young)?Really, I prefer to look on. am getting too old to dance, you knot Mr. Affable (who prides himself only ways saying the right thing)?Oh, comj now, you are not old. I don't beliet you are within ten years of as old as ycig look. ? This from the Southern C/iurchm is too good to skip: A good answer made by an old Christian, who, when j was asked what his business was, eaitj "To serve God; but I pound iron to expenses;" and thero is in this ai?">^ the key to tbe best results possible to ;c one of us, whatever our condition or- it) roundings. ? A Deer-Isle man has a curiosity the shape of an egg, which had on < end a cap-like excrescence, which, bei lifted, showed a full sixed cranberry boi J between the cap of :ho shell and the ir ner lining membrane of the egg. wants to know bow it got there, and anyone ever saw or heard of the like fore. It is a novel way to raise beans, least. ? In Rocklaud, Me., is a dog that is j born thief. Its favorite plunder is clot ing, and in daily excursions about neighborhood during the past winter? baa pilfered enough to stock a shop, other week it went into an opera hallw* picked up a costly muff and started . home, hotly pursued by a man and. excited women. The owner got her mt and the dog got a beating,