The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, February 13, 1895, Image 1
BY CLINKSCAI ES & LANGSTON.
ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13. 1895.
VOLUME XXIX.- -NO 3S
HATS AND CAPS.
WJ3 have just received another BT? LINE of HATS and CAPS.
This is our third shipment this season, which shows?
WE MUST HAVE TEE PRICES BIGHT.
SGT Don't fail to see our line when in need of one.
B. O. EVANS & CO.,
Clotillers and Furnishers.
PLOWS! PLOWS!
25,000 Pounds Rome, Georgia, Steel Plows.
Highest grade Steel?latest improved shapes.
Tremendons Stock of Oliver Chilled Plows,
FJow Stocks,
Flow Handies,
Heel Bolts,
Clevises,
Homes,
Traces, &c?
In fact, EVERYTHING needed by the Farmer at this season of the year,
AND AT PRICES CUT TO THE QUICK.
S@? Don't forget to get our prices on? *
BARB AND GARDEN WIRE
We will SAVE YOU MONEY. v
. Yours truly, >
SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO.
FURNITURE ! FURNITURE! I
LARGEST STOCK,
LOWEST PRICES,
BEST GOODS!
wsr COFFINS and CASKETS furnished Day or Night.
WE have on hand the LARGEST and BEST-SE?
LECTED Stock of FURNITURE in South Carolina I
bought this Summer when everything struck bottom, and
while there was a big cut in freights. We have determined
to give the People the advantage of our BARGAINS!
We will Sell you Furniture at'Prices below anything ever heard
of in this Country before !
And prices it is impossible for any one else to buy the same
quality of Goods for. When you need anything in the
Furniture line give us a call, and?
WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY.
Prices Lower than Cotton at 5c.
Yours for business,
G. F. TOLLY & SON,
The-Leaders of Low Prices.
Ill P. SULLIVAN * CO.,
-Will sell you the
Best Cofiee,
The Cheapest Flour,
Crockery, Decorated and Plain,
Dinner and Tea Sets,
All for less Money than you have been paying.
J. P. SULLIVAN & CO.
SHAKES! UP AND LETGO GROCERY!
WE beg to announce to our many patrons in Anderson and throughout
the County that we have moved our place of business to the elegant and
commodious salesroom?
IN HOTEL GHIQUOLA BLOCK, NO. 5,
Formerly occupied by D. S. Maxwell & Son. We will be better prepared
than ever to supply you with the BEST GROCERIES at the lowest price
consistent with the quality of Goods given: We haven't disappointed you in
the past, and hope to do even better for you in the future.
No compromise nor winking at adulterated goods. Strictly pure food ai
popular prices. Come and see us. We are ready to make things lively.
Shakem up and letgo,
J. A. AUSTIN & CO.
BLUE STONE
AT
ORR & SLOAN'S, BE*??
USE
GENERAL PRIMARY ORDERED.
Senator irby Makes a Speech to hiit
Committee.
Columbia, February 5.?The Dem?
ocratic Executive Committee met here
to-night and referred all of its work to
special sub-committees. The meeting
was well attended, the following mem?
bers being present: J. Y. Jones, W.
M. Jordan, J. P. Glenn, R. H. Swee?
ney, P. H. Gadsden, T. J. Cunning?
ham, M. F. Jackson, J. T. Davis, A.
E. Williams, R. B. Watson, T. W.
Taylor, R. M. MoCown, J. W. Gray,
J. P. Derham, J. Gentry, T J. Kirk
land, Ira B. Jones, J. L. M. Irby, C.
M: Efird, J. D. Montgomery, W. D.
Evans, J. A. Sligh, 0. R. Lowman,
T. C. Robinson, Wilie Jones, D. E.
Keels, N. L. Burnside, A. C. Lyles,
M. L. Donaldson, Secretary D. H.
Tompkins.
As soon as the roll was called Chair?
man Irby arose and said:
Gentlemen of the Committee: It
has been customary for the ohairman
of this committee to he compelled to
open its proceedings without any re?
marks, hut on this occasion I deem it
necessary to have something to say in
brief. In view of all that has hap?
pened in this State since 1890 it is
well that we should take our bearings
now and meet the situation face to
face like men. I cannot congratulate
you on a bright outlook for the Democ?
racy. You and those whom we repre?
sent are in no way responsible for this.
When the Democratic party came into
power in 1876, under a Constitution
that was forced upon the people by a
Republican Government, one of the
first questions advocated, the first
demand made by the people, was for a
Constitutional Convention to frame an
organic law that would be adapted to
their wants. The powers that con?
trolled between '76 and '90, for reasons
satisfactory to themselves, but unex?
plained to the people, dallied with thiu
question and refused their reasonable
demands.
Fortunately for the State the people
took charge in ?1890, and after a long
and hard struggle succeeded in ratify?
ing the call made by the Legislature
of 1893. She Democratic party of the
State, whom you and I represent, and
I may say the only Democratic organi?
zation in . the State, proposed in its
Convention of last September to make
it a party question. The Republicans
and Independents, aided by some loyal
Democrats, came very near defeating
this call at the November election.
You and I considered it as our impera?
tive duty, representing as we did the
will of that Convention, to urge the
people to sustain it. After a fair and
free election it was carried by a short
margin.
I had hoped when this call was
made and the Legislature had passed
an Act carrying it out that its white
enemies, for the good of the State and
white supremacy, would have ground?
ed their armB and allowed a peaceful
and harmonious solution of this ques?
tion. But not so, we are confronted
to-day first by a Republican organiza?
tion, which, outside of"a few Congres?
sional districts, has been regarded as
a political corpse, through its repre?
sentatives, and its black hosts are now
attempted to be marshalled for a des?
perate struggle. But for some things,'
which I shall hereafter mention, it
could be easily overcome, for the rank
and file of the Republicans in this
State are tired of politics and cannot
be organized in suh numbers as to
threaten this Convention and white
supremacy.
Second. There is a quasi organiza?
tion made up under the leadership of
the State. They, calling themselves
Democrats, are unwilling, and have
been since 1890, to submit to what a
majority of the white people demand,
and are ready, not only to defeat the
call and objects of this Convention
but to unite in an unholy alliance with
the negro leaders whom they helped
to overthrow in 1876. I rejoice, how?
ever, that this number is small and
cannot assume dangerous proportions.
There is still another element?that
is the more conservative of this Con?
servative (so-called) element?who are
unwilling to unite with the negro, but
who are unfriendly to the present Ad?
ministration and its officers.
There is still another that belongs
to what is known as the Reform party,
most, if not all, of whom were opposed
to the election of Governor Evans.
Lastly, there is the Reform move?
ment, upon whom, thank God, this
committee, with all its scattered for?
ces, if necessary to maintain white
supremacy, can rally and rely, and
even with the great defection among
the white people can defeat the Re?
publicans and save the Convention.
It is our duty, and the white people of
the State expect us to peform it, to
see that Republicans are defeated for
delegates to this Convantion. There
is no use to mince words about it.
We must carry this Convention or
white supremacy is gone forever.
The Constitution under which we
were elected does not give us the ex?
press power to act in this matter, but
it does by implication. It was a party
question. This committee took charge
>f it as such and urged its ratification
at the first election. They talked of
peace, of harmony in the Democratic
party. There is as much peace and
harmony in that party in ^jjuth Caro?
lina as there is in any State in the
Union. It is only the whole of the
minority who will not submit to the
will of the majority.
I would not dictate. I have tried
since I 1 av-1 been c airman of V is
co nmittee to avoid ? ven the appear?
ance of dictation, but there is only
one way in which peace and harmony
can be had in South Carolina, and only
one way by which success can come to
the white people in the election of
delegates to this Convention, and that
is for this committee to order a pri?
mary election for the white Democrats
of the State, to be held in July or Au?
gust, for the purpose of selecting such
delegates. If the factions have griev?
ances let them settle them at this
election, and let every true white man
of the State abide by its result, other?
wise we go into the fight disorganized
and split in several factions to meet
the Republicans, who are organized.
I beg pardon for this departure, and
announce that, a quorum being pres?
ent, the committee is ready for the
transaction of business.
UpoD motion of Col. Jones, Gover?
nor Evans and Capt. Tillman were in?
vited to attend the session of the com?
mittee.
Dr. Lowman, of Orangeburg, offered
the most important resolutions of the
evening, which, with a slight amend?
ment of Mr. Gadsden to have rules for
the primary, was adopted as follows:
Resolved, That the delegates to the
Constitutional Convention be nomina?
ted by a primary election to be held
in all counties, unless deemed unprac?
tical by the County Executive Com
mittee, and that a committee* of seven
be appointed by this committee to
draft rules for the government of said
primary, such rules to be submitted
to a subsequent meeting of this com?
mittee.
Senator Irby said that he was in
favor of a primary wherever it was
practicable, but in some cases the con?
vention might be preferable.
W. D. Evans asked whether it was
intended to have a campaign.
Mr. Lowman suggested that each
county could arraDge that for itself.
Mr. Evans said that he was opposed
to any Court House ring regulating
the affairs, and he wanted to see the
people deal directly with the elections.
Mr. Efird did not think it best to
put down any ironclad rules as to a
primary. He wanted to see the best
men in the State Bent to the Conven?
tion and have it a white man's Con?
vention. He thought it rather early
to give away the plans of action, and
thought it better to wait and on that
account moved to strike out the latter
part of the resolution.
That was voted down.
Mr. Lyles wanted the resolution
trimmed down so as to make it a gen?
eral primary, but this was voted down.
Mr. Gadsden suggested in view of
the importance of the matter that the
rules had better be referred back to
the whole committee before they were,
adopted.
This suggestion was accepted and
incorporated in the resolution.
Upon motion of Mr. Williams it was
agreed that the primary for the nomi?
nation of delegates be held on the last
Tuesday in July, and that if a second
primary be necessary that it be held
two weeks after that.
The following committee was then
appointed to prepare the rules : Chair?
man Irby, Lowman, Montgomery,
Gray, Jordan, Sligh and Watson.
Upon motion a committee of five
was appointed to prepare an address
to the Democratic voters of the State
in the name of the committee. The
committee consists of Messrs. Efird,
Gentry, Ira B. Jones, Glenn and W.
D. Evans. Upon motion of Mr. Efird
all County Executive Committees are
advised to look after the matter of
registration. As there was nothing
else before the committee it adjourned
subject to the call of the chairman.?
Special to Newt and Courier.
Tbe Uses or Hot Water.
The best methods of using hot water
are as follows:
For sprains of the ankle and wrist
or any joint, the part should be thor?
oughly soaked for half an hour at a
time, night and morniDg, in very hot
water, writes A. Marcy, M. D., in a
.very valuable list of "Domestic
Household Remedies" in the January
Ladies Home Journal. Any one
suffering from a severe sprain will not
require more than the first soaking to
convince them of the advantages of
hot over cold water. A flannel band?
age should be applied firmly after
each treatment. For bruises, very
much the same method should be fol?
lowed, although the application need
not be continued for so long a time.
For wounds and sores the best method
is to drip or pour for a few minutes.
For stys and inflamed eyes, use water
as hot as can be borne, by sopping.
To stop bleeding, very hot water ap?
plied to the raw surface will be found
efficacious. For many forms of dys?
pepsia and biliousness, particularly a
catarrhal condition of stomach, a gob?
let of hot water, drunk after the
night's fasting, will give relief. For
continued application, in the form of
a poultice, as in catarrh of the breast,
pleurisy, pneumonia, etc., a jacket of
cotton batti?g wrung out in very hot
water by means of a towel, and covered
with oiled silk or waxed paper, should
be used.
? Fannie : "Why do people always
apply the name of 'she'to a city?"
George: "I don't know. Why is it?"
Fannie: '"Because every city has
outskirts."
$100 Reward, $100.
The reader of this paper will ho pleased to learn
that there is at least one drexded disease that
s i?nce has beo'i ahl- to cure in all Its stages, and
that ts Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh < ure is the only
p aittve cure known to the medical fraternity.
(Marrh bclnga constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Hal1's Catarrh Cure is
tnke-< internally, acting directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the. system, thereby destroying
tho foundation of the disease, and giving the
patient strength by buildln* up the constitution
and.assisting nature Iti doing its wo-k. The pro?
prietors have so much faith in its curative rowers,
that they nffitr One Hundred Dollars for nnyeve
Unit It falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address, F J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo. 0,
i fl^-Sold by Druggists, 75c,
?NO. 25952" TALKS.
A Convict Now Under Sentence Tells of
the Life at Columbus, Ohio.
Atlanta Constitution.
Rare, indeed, is it when a convict
from Uncle Sam's hig prison in Col?
umbus, 0., is brought back to his na?
tive State before the expiration of hii
sentence.
j There is only one condition that will
effect this transfer, and that is when
the convict can further the end of
justice by telling what he knows of
the doings of Bome other fated crim?
inal on trial. And it is only in ex?
treme cases of this kind that it is per?
mitted.
The exigencies of an important case
in the United States court demanded
that Jim Braokett, convicted and sen?
tenced last June, be brought back to
Georgia. After much correspondence
j Solicitor Joe James received a com?
munication giving him the authority
to order the oonvict out. Escorted by
Deputy James, son of the principal
keeper of the Ohio penitentiary,
Brackett was brought to Atlanta and
is now, waiting for the McKutcheon
case to be called before Judge New?
man.
Brackett has changed since he was
carried on to Columbus. After the
nine months' imprisonment his face
ha3 taken on the usual expression of
the criminal and he wears the conven?
tional convict features. The loss of
one eye has destroyed what might
have been once a pleasing counte?
nance. His skin, which from long
exposure in the climate of the moun?
tains and moonshine was rough and
rugged when he first went to Ohio, is
now thoroughly bleached, and its
milky whiteness is covered by a thin
coating of red beard.
He has doffed temporarily his con?
vict's garb and donned a neat-looking
suit in whioh he made the trip.
"Don't call me Jim Brackett. Call
me No. 25,652, and I feel more like
myself. I've almost forgot my real
name, ybu know. That passes away,
when a fellow strikes that place, and
it's not often that he hears it pro?
nounced.
"I can't complain of the treatment
they, give us up there. Of course the
life is hard for me. I am uped to the
mountain, where I can go anywhere I
want to and have things my own way
generally, and where everything is
free and open.
"It was a great surprise when they
came to me last Friday and told me
that I must make the trip to Georgia
for the purpose of being a witness in
the courts. I couldn't believe them
at first. I didn't see how they could
let me get out of there; they were so
strict, but they sent me down a citi?
zen's suit, and last Sunday evening,
just after we had been marched away
from the chapel, the guard told me to
step out, and I knew that I was to
come. It's like stepping out into a
new and very different world. I don't
feel natural. The Bound of human
voices seems strange to me.
"You cannot imagine," he resumed,
"the size of that place and the num?
ber of people there. I think that now
there are 2,150 convicts there. The
buildings cover 25 acres, and these
buildings are cut up into little cells in
which the boys are packed away.
"There is only one man in a cell.
A light is furnished us at night, and
we are allowed to read until 9 o'clock.
"We get up at 5 o'clock every morn?
ing. Then we form in squads and are
marched out into the hall. Every?
thing goes lock-step there, but we are
not chained. The guard marches us
to the bathing rooms and there we
separate and take our morning baths.
Then, out into the yard for an hour
we go to take exercise, and after that
we are carried to breakfast. All of us
are arranged in squads at the different
tables. This finished, we are march?
ed over to the 'idle house,' where we
spend the time doing nothing but
thinking.
"The greatest torture to me," con?
tinued the cr" ?ict, "is the silence
that is demanded of you. We are
never allowed, under any circumstan?
ces, to say a word to a guard or a fel?
low prisoner, except on matters of im?
portant business, and that business
must be stated, just like a school boy
tells his teacher what he wants to
talk about.
"I broke the rule about speaking
and caught the consequence one day.
I knew that I was breaking the rules,
and I knew what would follow, but I
had not heard the sound of my own
voice in so long that I was forced to
say something. There was a man
named Fowler sitting by me in the
'idle house.' I knew him well, and
before I could control myself I walked
up and slapped him on the shoulder
and said, 'how are you.' He looked
at me and trembled.
"Then the guard came up and asked
my number. I blurted it out to him.
He put it on a piece of paper. I knew
what it meant.
"About daylight the next day the
guard ordered me out. I was marched
down to a little room where six or
seven more on the same missiou had
assembled. We formed lock step and
were marched down to the cellar, where
we knew the flogging operation was in
store for us. I was the third man to
he called. The guard led me into a
small room. It was heated with steam
so as to make it feel comfortable when
a fellow's clothing was all off. I was
disrobed entirely. Then a kind of
elastic cap, which reminded me of the
gallows black cap, was drawn down
over my head and eyes. My hands
were drawn behind and tightly hand?
cuffed.
"IwaB.led to another room, whioh
I afterwards saw was much smalk.
The deputy was here. He read over
the charge to me in a ldud voice, and
asked if I was guilty. I told him I
was. Then I tasted the lash for the
first time. The strap which he used
was made from heavy leather. It
oamc down on my bare back ten times
with all the force the deputy could
use. '
"After he had finished I was scarce?
ly able to put on my olothes, I was so
exhausted.
"This was the only time I ever
tasted the leather and the last, if hold?
ing my tongue has anything to do
with it.
"The number of lashes in cases of
this kindy vary of course, according
to the nature of the offense. But this
style of punishment is nothing to some
I hare seen. One man that I know of
was strung up for three days.
"The process is about this: The
convict is handcuffed and his hands
drawn up over his head, where they
are tied to a chain suspended from the
ceiling. In this position he is foroed
to remain until his sentence is finish?
ed. During this time he is allowed
nothing to eat except bread and
water."
Here Brackett gave an interesting
account of the religious aide of prison
life. In the large chapel there, he
said, a corps of teachers assemble
every Sunday morning. They are us?
ually citizens bent on doing home
mission work. There are three ser?
vices during the day, but in order to
attend a written permission must be
obtained from the chaplain and this
is tacked on the door of the convict's
cell so that the guard can call for him.
"The convicts, as a whole, are a
very religious set," continued Brack?
ett, "and their enthusiasm at the
different meetings would surprise you.
It is one of the few times we are al?
lowed to talk, at these meetings, and
when the preacher calls for the exper?
ience of the men nearly all of them
get up and say something, just to keep
their tongues from going to sleep.
"With the large number of convicts
there it is a rare thing that we see a
man we know. The best friend I had
in the world might be there with me
for years and I could never know what
he was doing or have anything to say
to him.
"I caught a glimpse of old Jim
. Lawshe the other day. He was march?
ing along with a squad of machinists
going to work. His head was shaved
and he was stepping high. He saw
me and winked?that was all he could
do. Jim is a good workman and they
keep him employed all the time.
"I have never seen any of the rest
of the boys. Lewis Redwine is in the
deputy's office, but I have never seen
him, nor Laird either."
Brackett says that he has been
treated kindly, especially by Deputy
James, who brought him to Atlanta.
The convict will remain here until the
trial of McKutoheon, who is charged
with stealing a still from the officers
after it had been captured.
Prices and Prices.
Mr. Lewis Hancock, in the Galves
ton News, closed an elaborate article
on the present and past purchasing
power of the dollar and of the cotton
bale, as follows:
"The average percentage of the
fifty-five staples which a dollar will
buy now, compared to the amount it
bought in 1873, is 227 percent. That
is, $1 now will buy as much as $2.27
would buy in 1873. The price for
which a farmer sells a bale of cott.on
now is certainly less than he obtained
for the same grade in 1873, but the
prices of the articles which enter into
his daily life have fallen lower still.
"As I stated above the actual aver?
age prices of cotton in Texas in 1E!72
was 13 cents a pound, at which a bale
of ootton of 50U pounds would yield
$65. The actual average selling price
during the fall of 1893, in the midst
of a panic, was 7.07 cents, at which a
bale of cotton would net here $35.35 ;
a difference in actual cash of $29.65.'
But, as a dollar now will buy 2.27
times as much as it bought in 1872,
the bale of cotton at $35.35 will buy
as much in groceries, dry goods, hard?
ware, etc., as $80.20 would have
bought in 1872, being a difference of
$15.24, or 23 per cent, in favor of the
farmer of to-day.
"If the difference in the price of
ginning, bagging and tics, and of cot?
ton seed be taken into account,, the
balance in favor of the farmer of to?
day will be increased to $37.27, or 71
per cent. If the average price of cot?
ton for the last five years?10.62 cents
?be taken as the basis of calculation,
the favorable balance will be greater
still.
"There does not seem to be here; a
basis for argument in favor of charg?
ing our currency system. Any system
under which the farmers of the South
can, in twenty years, increase their
production from 2,000,000 to 9,000,000
bales and yet buy with each bale 71
per cent, more of the necessaries of
life than formerly, would seem to be
too good to trifle with."
The electric light which is to be
erected on Fire Island, on the Now
York coast, will give an illumination
of about 250,000,000 candle power.
It is expected to be visible 120 miles
out to sea.
? O. W. O. Hardman, Sheriff of
Tyler Co., W. Va., appreciates a good
thing and does not hesitate to say so.
He was almost prostrated with a cold
when he procured a bottle of Cham?
berlain's Cough Remedy. He sayn :
"It gave me prompt relief. I find it
to be an invaluable remedy for coughs I
&nd oolde," For sale by JJjlJ Brop, I
THE PRAIRIE BLIZZARD.
An Unwelcome Visitor to the Peoplo of
the Plains.
Winter's crown of glory in the East?
ern States is the snow-storm. From
the up-country neighborhoods of Maine
to the Southern snow limit and west?
ward considerably beyond the Alle
ghanies, winter would be indeed a
failure without the generous downfall
of the big feathery flakes whose com?
ing is prophetic of so varied a lino of
cheery amusements, ranging from the
ichool-boy sled-rides to coasting par?
ties and the jingle of sleighbells. The
snow may drift and swirl?it is longed
for and welcome.
On the prairies the winter storm is
a different matter. With slender pro?
tection afforded by their cabin walls,
with scanty fuel and perhaps scantier
store of food, the settler has good rea?
son to dread its coming and tremble
as he sees its approach. The snow
does not fall in soft white masses,
eddying here and there before alight?
ing. It drives in fierce horizontal
lines out of the north, fine as flour and
chilled by zero currents until each
particle is a distinct and separate pro?
jectile, bent on piercing some living
thing and causing its quota of anguish.
It is something to contemplate with
fear and to marvel at because of its
fury.
The blizzard, as the plainsman's
vernacular designates the prairie snow?
storm, is utterly incomprehensible to
one who has not experienced it. Gen?
erated in the great snow-breeding
regions of barren British America,
and swept on arctic blasts along the
vast level reaches that stretch east?
ward from the Rocky Mountains, with
no forest to break its force, it becomes
a demon of the air, secojid only to the
cyclone or tornado in destructiveness.
The moisture is ground as between
millstones, hurled with bullet-like
energy over hundreds of miles of level
plain and finaly transformed into yeasty
sleet by the softening effects of lower
latitudes, falls in bleak showers on
the ranges of Texas and No-Man's
Land.
At the beginning, the nowcomer is
inclined to be merry over the bliz?
zard's reputation for severity. He
has not noticed that for two days the
preparations have been going forward
for the coming of the storm. The sky
has been gray and the winds hushed.
The sun has been marked by a great
hazy circle, while the merouty has
been-steadily falling. The gray of the
heavens grows darker in the north and
northwest, and here and there a curl?
ing eddy shows that the wind is rising.
Then a few flakes of snoir come drift?
ing down?not big, white masses of
half-congealed crystals, but hard,
cheerless harbingers of boreal wrath.
For a time they slide slantingly from
the airy treasury, but as the wind
grows stronger their course becomes
farther inclined from the perpendicu?
lar. They also change character, be?
ing smaller and harder with each in?
crease of speed. The wind eddies and
curls no more. A level-lined gale is
tearing its way southward, bearing on
its wings the sifted snow. The ther?
mometer marks zero and below. The
plain is hidden by the storm as by a
fog. There is nothing to do but crouch
by the fire, listen to the roar of the
ice-furies without, and hope through
weary hours that the end will come.
The blizzard is abroad upon the prairie
in its full perfection. The "tender?
foot's" sneers will never be repeated.
For three days and nights there may
be no cessation. Some particles of
snow have found a lodgment on grass
clump or furrow and narrow drifts
hundreds of feet long have formed.
The settler's cabin is the nucleus of a
generous gathering of the arrested
storm-burden and it may be almost
hidden beneath the close-packed snow
mass.
At last the darkness lifts; the gray
of the sky becomes lighter; rifts of
blue appear here and there?then the
clouds break into slow-moving fleecy
islands and vanish. The meroury
takes a final downward plunge through
one bittet but Bilent, clear-skied night;
on the morrow the sun shines and hope
dawns again.
Lack of cheap building material and
the brevity of the winter season on
the prairies, contribute to make the
settler's cabin a poor refuge. When
the blizzard comes, every resource of
fuel is husbanded and it is faced with
a grim determination to see it through.
But not all are prepared, even so
well as the settler. Occasionally a be?
lated emigrant, en route either to a
chosen claim on the frontier or toward"
tha pleasantly remembered East where
he hopes to find old friends and help?
ers, is caught by the blast. He may
have a tiny stove inside the canvas6
topped prairie schooner but its heat
can do little against the power of the
storm. Sheltered by the low bluff of
some ravine or watercourse, he may
weather the dragging hours of suffer?
ing, but the chances are that team and
driver will be found a gastly monu?
ment to the storm-king's strength.
The farmer who has hurried 10 or 15
miles to the nearest village to secure
supplies for the impending visitation
is often overtaken before reaching his
waiting family and perishes on the
road, for no matter how well he knows
the path, when the blizzard rages his
way is as uncertain as that of the
mariner without a compass.
At the prairie schoolhouses, where
the settlers' children are gathered
from a territory covering many miles
in every direction, the blizzard brings
terror to the pupils as well as to their
parents. Rescue is impossible until
$6 luU comej, and awful possibilities
lurk in the bosom of the storm. A
Dakota school mistress last winter
failed to dismiss her scholars in time
for them to reach home, and found
herself and them prisoners from a
I blizzard's approach. A night and a
day at least were before her, during
which her little charges must be pro?
tected. Deliberately she apportioned
the food remaining in thedinner pails,
divided the larger boys into squads to
keep the fire burning steadily, and
when darkness came put the younger
pupils to sleep on the benches. Then
through the bitter night she sang, de?
claimed, told stories, invented games
and kept the frightened children
amused and cheered as best she could.
The following day passed much the
same?but still no abatement of the
storm, nor any rescue. The second
j night was dreary, indeed. The chil?
dren cried themselves to sleep, hun
I gry and cold. With her own hands
j the teacher broke up desks and black
I board to feed the voracious stove.
With morning came a shout at the
door as the settlers shoveled away the
snow, and then the plucky girl to whom
the children owed their lives showed
her womanliness?and fainted.
! The loss among stock on the plains
by each blizzard is appalling. There
is less exposure of herds and flocks
now than in earlier times^ yet every
season causes the destruction of thous
ends of head of cattle and sheep on
the ranges and in the unsheltered cor?
rals. Several years ago, during the
height of the Texas cattle trade, a bliz?
zard in western Kansas early in De
I cember destroyed more than half of
300,000 cattle that were being herded
j on the open prairie. At one railway
station, after the storm, 35,000 hides
were shipped; at another 20,000. One
ranchman found but 225 head alive
out of 7,500 that had been grazing
before the catastrophe. Several hun?
dred ponies and a score of herders also
perished.
j The blizzard is a permanent feature
of the prairie winter. Nothing but a
decided climatic revolution can secure
to the great Transmississippi region
immunity from its death-bearing pres?
ence. Better preparations are yearly
being made to withstand its fury, and
to protect more generously the dumb
animals who suffer equally with their
masters. The signal service is ren?
dering aid in warning communities
reached by telegraph of the storm's
approach, while the settlers, taught
by bitter experience, take with each
season better precautions and provide
more intelligently for their time of
need, which is sure to come.
But, with all man's care and de?
fense, the blizzard remains uncon
quered. It is cruel, relentless and
unmerciful as some Norse god, from
whose kingdom it comes. It is one
of the West's possessions which is
wholly and irredeemable; in its fore?
front is apprehension; at its height,
terror; in its wake, desolation and suf?
fering?sometimes death.
Charles Moreau Harger.
*?LoTe for Love."
As a dirty, ragged street-boy was
running along one day an accident be?
fell him. Re was pushed into the
gutter, and for a minute or two he lay
hurt and screaming, until a rough
hand picked him up. He was not a
beautiful object to look at a j he stood
propped up against a pillar, his face
and hands blackened with mud and
the tears running down his cheeks.
No one stopped to pity him. If any
one noticed him at all it was only some
rude boy who mocked and laughed at
him. Poor little fellow! it didn't
seem as if he had a single friond in the
world. But a lady passed. She
caught sight 6f the croucLing, unhap?
py figure and suddenly stopped.
"Why, John," she said, "is it you ?"
J She had recognized in him a boy she
had once taught in her Sunday-school.
He told her his troubles and the pain
his fall was causing him ; and, full of
pity she had him removed to the hos?
pital, where he was tenderly cared for.
A year passed, and one night this
same boy, now well and strong again,
found himself drawn along by a crowd
to a dwelling-house that was on fire.
The engine had not yet arrived, nor
the inmates rescued. But no sooner
had he caught sight of the house than
the cry burst from him, "O, she lives
there!" and bravely he struggled?up
the staircase through the smoke. He
hunted until he found her of whom he
was in search. She had fainted, but
putting out all his strength the boy
lifted and carried her out into the fresh
air. And then, as the amazed by?
standers cheered and praised him for
his courage he walked away muttering,
J "She didn't turn away from me when
I was hurt."
Love had done it. The love the
lady had shown to him had awakened
an answering chord of love in the boy's
heart.
And it is, as we think of all that
Jesus has cone for us, of the love
which led him even to die for us, that
we are constrained to say, "We love
him because he first loved us."?
Morning Rays.
? A Des Moines woman who has
been troubled with frequent colds,
concluded to try an old remedy in a
new way, and accordingly took a table
spoonful (four times the usual dose)
of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy just
before going to bod. The next morn?
ing she found that her cold had almost
entirely disappeared. During the day
she took a few doses of the remedy
(one teaspoonful at a time) and at
night again took a tablespoonful be
fore going to bed, and on the following
morning awoke free from all symptoms
of the cold. Since then she has, on
several occasions, used thifi remedy in
like manner, with the same good ro
eults, and is much elated over her
discovery of so quick a way of curing
I a oold. For sale by Hill Bros,
All Sorts of Paragraphs. t|
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? Charley (bidding good-by)r^I
haven't the check to kiss you. Alices
?Use mine. t
? A recent murder in Gorham, Mc,
was the first that occurred there sinceJ
it was incorporated, 150 years ago. :-M
? The young woman who is looking^
for a man of perfect disposition should":
choose one who can tend some one
else's baby.
? Long?"Are you in favor"of a
gold basis ?" Short?"Silver is goods
enough for me. Have cyou a'spare*
quarter?"
? What is the difference between^
an editor and a wife ? . One -sets artijSs
cles to rights, and the other writes!
articles to set.
? A philosopher who had married^
an ignorant girl used to call her "brown
sugar," because, he said, she was
sweet but unrefined.
? The dog never fails to let a per?
son know that he is glad to see him. |
Some good men are so? peculiar that |
they don't do this.
? "What did the editor get for his
Christmas ?" A gold collarubutton." .
"Well, isn't he satisfied?" "No I
Now he wants a shirt I"
? Grandma?"You are just like aj
clock, aren't you, dear ?" Johnnie
(who has other thoughts of clocks)?
"How's that? Got works inside of 1
me?"
? J. W. Jones, of Robertson, Ky.,^
has found a pearl on which is the per- \
feet outline of a man's hand. Seen
through a microscope even the veins
appear. It is valued by experts at
$150.
? This is the way a Georgia darkey
handled the Queen's English recently:
"I doan' in ginerly buy on credit,'but.
at dis particular conjunction I would
like to git a little resistence on 30
days' return."
? He?How does it happen that
none of you women has come forward
with a new currency plan ? She?Oh,
we already have a perfect one 1 When
we need currency, we just sit down'
and cry for it.
? The population of London is said
to be 5,948,300 and increasing at the
rate of 105,000 a year. The city,
therefore, has a population of about
1,500,000 more than Scotland and;.
1,000,000 more than Ireland.
? Teacher?Why did you hit Willie!
Winkum with a stone ? Little Johnny
?He?he got mad and looked like ajij
if he'd like to hit me with something,
so I jus' chucked the stone over to
him so he could throw it at me. '
? The largest check ever drawn on
a bank was paid a few days ago to
Thomas A. McEntyre of Brooklyn.
The check was drawn by G. W- Yagfe^
presj^t of the United Statesl?^R?*
gage Company, and was for $12,278,
750. 4
Rudy's Pile Suppository, is gnar^
anteed to cure Piles and Constipates
or money refunded. 50 cents pernoSS
Send stamp for circular and FreeSam4
pie to Martin Rudy, Lancaster, Pa.'
For sale by Wilhito & Wilhitfi^rug
gists. ^^8fe&
? Judge : "I understand the plUlM
tiff is suing for a horse." Attorney :
"Yes, your Honor, but there seems to
be a hitch about the evidence."
Judge: "Well, you can't saddle the
responsibility on the court. Let the
case proceed."
? Mrs. Emily Thorne, who resides,
at Toledo, Washington, says she has
never been able to procure any medi?
cine for rheumatism that relieves the
pain so quickly and effectually as
Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and that
she has also used it for lame back with,
great success. For sale by Hill Bros.
? George S. White, known as the
cattle king of Mendocino County,
Cal., has been ordered by the Califor?
nia Superior Court to pay his wifey
who has secured a divorce from him,
$100,000 for her separate estate. The
divorce case has been continually in
the courts during the past ten years.
? It is a wise providence that we
cannot see the future. We can see
through one pane of glass easily,, but
through ten placed together we cannot
see, yet each is transparent. By liv?
ing a day at a time we get along well
and all is clear, although we cannot
see through all the purposes of Gcd
concerning us.
? Nicholas Hallocx, of Queens, L,
I., engraved his name on a silver quar?
ter in 1844. It continued in circula?
tion until a few days ago, when it was
taken in change by the railroad agent
at Queens. As the name was still
decipherable after the coin's fifty
years of wandering, the agent turned
it over to Mr. Hallock.
? The little creature] which bears
the distinction of owning more legs
(and feet) than any other known or?
ganized being, is the millipede, which
literally means "thousand-footed."
There are several species of these curi?
ous worms, all possessing the charac?
teristic of having a many-segmented
body, each segment provided with a
pair of legs. Unlike the centipedes?
"hundred-footed"?they are perfectly
harmless.
? The experience of Mr. R. D.
Whitley, an influential and prominent
citizen of Martindale, North Carolina,
will no doubt be perused with interest
by people in all parts of the country.
For years he has been subject to vio?
lent attacks of inflammatory rheuma?
tism ; on the first of February he had
an attack, which settled in one of his
knees and caused almost unbearable j
pain, for two days. He obtained
bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm
from W. M. Houston <JcCo., merchants
at MecklinburgCity, N. C. He writes
that it gave almost immediate relief
and gives Chamberlain's Pain Balm
the highest praise, and advises all
persons troubled with like afflictions
to use it and get relief. For sale by
Hill Bros, 1