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The Highland brigade, the 42d, "The Black Watch," the Coldstream Guards, the Grenadier Guards and the 63d, Sir Colin's eld regiment, were in position which threw the 93d just along the crest of a Blight rise of the ground. The Russian artillery had become annoying, and the 93d lay down just behind the crest, where they were better sheltered and con? cealed. A division of the Russian horse was moving towards the left of Sir Colin's whole line, and its head of column nearly even with the British, when at once four squadrons of Rus? sians, 400 men, swung quickly out of column and struck a gallop toward the English position. Instantly the High? landers rose from the ground and with their tall forms and towering black plumes looked like a line of giants. The 93d was not in touch with either of the other battalions of the brigade, so they stood and took it, and when the Russians got within 300 yards opened fire on them and drove them back. They never repeated the charge. This scene has been celebrated in song and story as "Sir Colin Campbell's Thin Red Line." It was witnessed by the allied armies, English, French and Turkish, and simply astounded the Russians, for both sides saw it. But I myself, with thousands of others, saw Johnston's North Carolina brigade do a thing on September 19, 1864, which far excelled in gallantry, in firmness and in heroism this feat of the "thin red line," and I have never seen a description of it in print, and I do not think it was referred to in the reports. I am sure Bob Johnston did not, for he was as modest as he was handsome and brave. In September, 1864, Early's army was lying about Winchester. We had' been through Maryland, had terrified Washington into fits and had gotten safely back to Virginia with thousands of horses and cattle and hundreds of wagon-loads of plunder of every kind, mostly eatables. I had a cavalry bri? gade of wild Southwestern Virginia horsemen, as brave and as undiscip? lined as the Virginia rangers Col. Washington surrendered at Fort Ne? cessity or Andrew Lewis fought Corn? stalk with at Point Pleasant. I was bivouacked?we had no tents that summer?about three miles north of Winchester, on the valley pike, and picketed from the valley pike to the Berryville pike, running - east from Winchester. Gen. Robert D. Johnston, of North Carolina, had a brigade of 800 to 1,000 muskets on the Berryville pike, on the top of the ridge running across the road. My pickets were a mile in advance of his in "Ash Hollow." Sheridan, with 45,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, lay eight to fifteen miles beyond our picket line, from Berryville, and Ripon to Charlestown and Halltown, in Clark and Jefferson counties, Virginia. Now, every morn? ing the Yankee cavalry would rush my pickets in on Johnston's posts. He would stop them until I got up, and then I'd drive the Yankees back and re-establish my original picket posts. This done, I'd send my com? mand back to camp. I had about 800 mounted men, and I'd ride up to Bob Johnston's head? quarters?which were a wagon under a tree, one camp-stool and a frying-pan sizzling with bacon and a pot of rye coffee and some sorghum. I'd get my breakfast, but after a week of this proceeding it either became monoton? ous or my appetite showed no signs of weakening. I don't know which. One morning I dismounted after my usual morning call to "Boots and Sad? dles I" and swung myself very com? fortably into Johnston's single and only camp-stool. I smelled the bacon and sniffed the coffee und waited. In a few minutes the cook handed me a chip for a plate and a tin cup of red hot coffee, so hot you had to set the cup on the grass, and then Bob spoke up. Says he: "Bradley, you let these Yankees do you too bad. You've got so soared of them that you all run the very first dash they make at you." "Is that so, Robert?" said I. "That's a pity, but I don't know how to help it. I do. the bestl can. How many Yankee cavalry do you think you are good for?" "Well," said he, "I've got 800 muskets present for duty. By a week'B time, as the boys get back from the hospital, I'll have 1,000. Well, with 1,000 muskets I think I can take care of 5,000 Yanks on horse? back." "All right," says I, "wait and see. I hope you can." So I got my breakfast and went off mightily tickled at the conceit of the Tarheel, for Sheridan's cavalry, with Custer, Torbert and Devens, were about as good soldiers as ever took horse or drew sabre. We had drilled them so that in three years we had taught them to ride. They always were willing enough to fight, and they learned the use of the sabre from necessity. Well, things went on as usual. Every morning Sheridan would send a regiment out to feel Early, to drive in his pickets so as to make sure where he was, and to know where to find him when he wauted him, and every morning I'd ride over to the Berryville road, re establish my lines, get my breakfast off Johnston, and come back to sleep. By daylight, the 19th of September, a scared cavalryman of my own com? mand nearly rode over me as I lay asleep on the grass, and reported that the Yankees were advancing with a heavy force of infantry, artillery and cavalry up the Berryville road. Early was up toward Stephenson's depot, and Johnston and 1 were responsible for keeping Sheridan out of Winches? ter, and protecting the Confederate line of retreat, and of communication up the valley. In two minutes the command was mounted?we always saddled up and fed an hour before dawn?and moving at a trot across the open field to the Berryville road and to Johnston's assistance. There was not a fence nor a house nor a bush nor a tree to obscure the view. Way off, more than two miles, we could see the crest of the hill, covered with a cloud of cavalry, and in front of them, 500 yards in front, was a thin grey line moving off in retreat solidly and with perfect coolness and self-possession. As soon as I got to realize what was going on I quickened our gait, and when within a mile broke into a gal? lop. The scene was plain as day. A regiment of cavalry would deploy into line, and then their bugles would sound the "Charge" and they'd swoop down on the "thin grey line of North Carolina." The instant t;he Yankee bugles sounded North Carolina would halt, face by the rear rank, wait until the horses got within 100 yards and then fire as deliberately and as coolly as if firing volleys on brigade drill. The cavalry would break and scamper back, and North Carolina would "about face" and continue her march in retreat as solemnly and with as much dignity as if marching in review. But we got there just in time. Certainly half a dozen charges had been made at the back of the retreat? ing line, and half a dozen times the charging squadrons had been driven back, when the enemy sent his line with a rush at the brigade of Tarheels, and one squadron overlapped the in* fantry line and was just passing it as we got up. In another minute they'd have been behind the line, sabring the men from the rear, while they were held by the fight in front. But we struck a headlong strain and went through the YankeeB by the flank of North Carolina and carried their ad? versaries back in a whirl, back to the crest of the hill, back through the guns of their battery, dear back to their infantry lines. In a moment they rallied and were charging us in front and on both flanks, and back we went in a hurry. But old North Carolina was safe. They had got back to the rest of the infantry and formed HiQe at right anglea to the pike west of Winchester. I rode up to Bob Johnson very "pert," as we say in North Carolina, and said I: "Pretty close call that, Mr. Johnston. What do you think now of the Yankee cavalry's fighting qualities ?" and the rest of that day we enjoyed ourselves. We could see everything that was going on for miles around. The country was entirely open. The day was beautiful, clear and bright?September 19. The ene? my would formjora forward move? three lines, one after the other?march sedately along until they got within touch of our lines; then raise a hur? rah and rush in a charge, and in two minutes the field would be covered with running, flying Yankees. There were 45,000 infantry and 10,000 cav? alry in the open fields against 8,500 infantry and 3,000 mounted-gun men. The thing began at daylight and kept on until dark, when, flanked and worn out, Early retreated to escape being surrounded. This is the story of the thin grey line of North Carolina and the cavalry charge, a feat of arms before which that of Sir Colin Campbell fades into insignificance.?General Bradley T. Johnston, in the Baltimore Neves. A Woman's Bible. There is to be something new un? der the sun after all. It is a woman's Bible. According to the statements of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who is Said to be the "father" of the move? ment, the progress of female suffrage has been seriously hindered by the presence in our homes of a Bible which was translated and interpreted by men only ; and it has been determined to offset this influence by publishing a book in which all the passages that relate, to women shall be given with "fitting" commentary by women only. The first five books of the Old Testa? ment have been already prepared and the daily papers are printing-extracts from them. From these extracts it would seem that our sisters have en? tered upon their work with commend? able zeal and a red-hot sense of re? sponsibility. In the account of the fall the reader is asked to be appropriately impressed with the "ambition of the first woman for knowledge," and Adam whose abysmal dullness made it use? less for Satan to tempt him with in? tellectual inducements, is made the sinner in the case. This interpreta? tion of course requires that the un? complimentary things which the Lord said to Eve should be somewhat soft? ened, and the sixteenth verse of the third chapter of Genesis is therefore declared to be a figment of man's brain. (It is gratifying to know that man is allowed a brain of sufficient power to invent such a figment.) Seeing what these long-suffering sisters have done for Adam, it is hardly to be expected that they will leave so much as a microbe meal of poor Paul?if their nails are not worn to the quick before they can reach him.?Richmond Ad? vocate. "Is God Ilere ?" A young man had been extremely profane, and thought little of the mat? ter. After his marriage to a high minded, lovely wife, the habit appear? ed to him in a different light, and he made spasmodic efforts to conquer it. But not until a few months ago did he become victor when the glowing evil was set before him, by a little incident, in its real and shocking sinfulncss. One Sunday morning standing be? fore the mirror shaving, the razor slipped, inflicting a slight wound. True to his fixed habit he ejaculated the single word "God !" and was not a little amazed and chargrinned to see reflected in the mirror the pretty pic? ture of his little three-year old daugh? ter, as laying her dolly down she sprang from her seat on the floor; ex? claimed as she looked eagerly and expectantly about the room, "Is Dod here ?" Pale and ashamed, and at a loss for a better answer, he simply said "Why" "'Cause I thought he was when I henrd you speak to him." Then noticing the sober look on his face and the tears of shame in his eyes as he gazed down into the innocent radiant face, she patted him lovingly on the hand, exclaiming assuringly, "Call him again, papa, I dess he surely come." Oh! how every syallablc of the child's trusting words cut to the heart! The still, small voice was heard at last. Catching the wondering child up in his arms he knelt down, and for the first time in his life implored of God forgiveness for past offenses and guid? ance for all hi.3 future life, thanking him in fervent spirit that he had not "surely come" before, in answer to some of his awful blasphemies. Sure? ly, "a little child shall lead them." ? "Where are the best horses found ?" asked the young man in the new mustache. "The best horses," coldly returned the man in the wrink? led ulster, with that rigid adherence to truth which once made George Washington celebrated, "are not found ; they are bought." How's This! 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I've toted my democratic habits too long to be smothered now under a blanket with Sibley on one side and Don Cameron on the other. And there's Ingalls, too, would be slipping around and want room, and maybe Mrs. Lease is a silver bug?I don't know. I don't want so many folks using my tooth brush. If every? body is going to make a run on silver, it's a bad sign. I am afraid we can't reform and purify the democratic party taking in so many furriners?so many old stags who have always been side wiping around hunting the orthogra? phy of a little office. I like the way that Uncle Simon Peter Richardson purified his Church. He was telling what a glorious revival they had over in South Carolina where he had been preaching. "How many converts did you take in, Uncle Simon?" said I. "Take in, did you say? Take in? why, my friend, we never took in nary one, but we turned 17 out. Oh, it was a glorious revival." Well, we are getting a big lot of lit? erature now by every mail, and every bit of it is alike about one thing?it all wants an honest dollar. Thegoldbugs want it and so do the silver bugs and the bimetallic bugs, but how to get it is the question. I never saw so much interest manifested in any political question as there is now on the subject of silver and gold. It has overshad? owed everything else. Even the north? ern press has stopped abusing us for a little while and there hasn't been a lynching in Georgia for a month or two. The people are too busy study? ing silver. But we will have plenty of time to settle this thing down. It will be two years and more before any change can be made, and so the old ship must rock along on the billows, storm or no storm. Everybody is pre? dicting better times and say they feel it in the air; and so maybe by the time another crop is made there will be a change for the better. If there isn't, the republicans will have to walk a plank in 1896 and the silver party will take possession and run the ma? chine. We old-time democrats can afford to go slow and watch and wait. I'm not going to commit myself to any new party just because it has got a silver lining. Democracy is mighty sick. I know, but it is not dead. If a man s wife is sick it doesn't become him to pick out another before she is dead and buried. I'm afraid to mix up too intimately with these republi? cans anyway. We can't even trust a democrat nowadays, and so we are be? tween Scylla and Charybdis. We boys used to play a game called bull pen. Two boys went behind a tree and jug? gled and then walked all round the ring with their right hands in their bosom. One of them had the ball, but we boys in the pen didn't know which one, and so we had to watch both, and the first thing we knew while we had an eye on one, the other feller plugged us. Just so, we the people are in the pen and don't know who has got the ball. I've been reading a very scholarly pamphlet, written by Colonel Ben Green, of Dalton, on the silver question, and it alarmed and depress? ed me more than Coin's book. Col. Green is now nearly four score years, and this warning is like a farewell ad? dress from a patriot to his people. I knew his gifted father, General Duff Green, away back in the fifties?a pro? found scholar and a statesman. The son who writes this treatise has had good training from his youth, and what he writes now he believes to be true. He is too old to practice deceit. Sincerity is the strongest muniment of age. If Mr. Green's argument is founded on facts, and it seems to be, the money kings have got not only the government by the leg but nations and kingdoms are in their power. They combine to depress values when they wish to buy and to inflate when they wish to sell. The Rothschilds made eight millions off of our government in a few days and we the people have it to pay. New York banks are our dictators. Sir Edmund Burke said, "The treasury is the State," anditis. It is the Church, too. Money rules the world. Cotton used to be king because it commanded money, and money was king. Is it not humiliat? ing to realize that a man like Roths? child can sit in his office and dictate terms to the United States and make eight millions in a few days. Govern? ments can stand that but individuals can't. It is the debtor class In this country who are now between the up? per and the nether mill stones. Their property won't pay their debts at pres? ent prices. But we still live and are out of jail, thank the good Lord for his mercies. We still have hope of the future, and hope is a good invention, as the school? boy said in his composition. This delightful spring weather can't be cornered by bulls nor bears. The flowers are ours and so are the songs of the birds and the balmy air. The old Persian philosopher had but one maxim to live by?"Even this shall pass away." If fortune was g"bod this maxim kept him from being overjoyed. If it.was bad it kept him from despair, and so in a year or two this trouble about the money will all be settled and we will look back and wonder that we became so excited over it. In the meantime it becomes us all to be toler? ant of opinion and to have respect to those who differ with us. They are good men in all parties and good wo? men in all Churches. When they are sincere in their faith they are entitled to our respect. Then let the yankees throw flowers on their soldiers' graves and we will throw flowers on ours and shake hands and be ai peace. Bill Arp. ? Persons who sympathize with the afflicted will rejoice with D. E. Carr of 1335 Harrison street, Kansas City, ne is an old sufferer from inflamma? tory rheumatism, but has not hereto? fore been troubled in this climate. Last winter he went up into Wiscon? sin, and in consequence has had another attack. "It came upon me again very acute and severe," he said. "My joints swelled and became in? flamed ; sore to touch or almost to look at. Upon the urgent request of my mother-in-law I tried Chamber? lain's Pain Balm to reduce the swell? ing and ease the pain , and to my agree? able surprise, it did both. I have used three fifty-cent bottles and be? lieve it to be the finest thing for rheu? matism, pains and swellings extant." For sale by Hill Bros. I Woman's Suffrage Lessons. The following opinions arc worth reading for more reasons than one, and the average male politician will be especially edified, not to say as? tounded : "The vital question apparently be? fore the people of this country at present is the tariff. But woman's enfranchisement is in verity the ques? tion now agitates the civilized world, and reasoning humanity accords it to her viva voce. But unfortunately it seems that reasoning humanity is in the minority. Many men and women who are really well educated as far as letters go, and who are under the im? pression that they think and reason, are not sufficiently endowed by nature to arrive at anything by ratiocination, but are satisfied to accept things as they find them. Hence woman's suf? frage presents itself to them, not as a thing so clear that it should go with? out saying, but as a problem that re? quires to be worked out by rule. And its importance is as perfect a mystery to them as the cause of the signals said to be visible to science in the planet Mars." "To deny woman suffrage is to in? sult motherhood. She bears sons who make laws that renounce her equality and that imply inferiority for her. Such presumption is as intolerable as it is unnatural. It is with men sim? ply a question of sex, not of right, judgment or capacity. It is an intel? lectual ostracism that is a disgrace to manhood and to the Christian era." "Let me beseech the women of all sections and of all countries who have not yet declared for it no longer to re? main silent and inert, but to rally to the ranks of the marching army of men and women who are striving to rid her of the yoke of servitude, and who aim to compel recognition for her at the polls. Delay in answering the roll-call of this imperative duty is retrogression. And retrogression is ignorance. To hesitate to demand equal rights for themselves is to con? fer autocracy upon their sonB, and to admit to them and'their husbands and brothers a lower plane of being for themselves, of racial defect or defor? mity." "A woman may acknowledge that to v?te is a matter of indifference to her, but to confess that she has the right to vote is to place herself beyond the pale of understanding, and to lower the standing of her gender. Floride Cunningham. mrs a. viola neblett, greenville. "I cannot add any reasons, but only reiterate the old* and fundamental principles that Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. American women are amenable to the laws made and execu? ted by men : their consent was not nsked to a single law on the statute books. I believe that woman should have the ballot because she is a tax? payer. In stock companies she has a vote, but as a real estate owner she has no voice in the expenditure of money raised by taxation on her prop? erty." "I believe that woman should have the ballot because a citizen is entitled to an expression of opinion, and wo? man's intelligence?her close approach to man in the thoughts that stir the world?prove her capable of forming an intelligent opinion on subjects as abstruse as politics. I believe wo? man should have the ballot because by its denial she is classed with trai? tors and idiots, with those guilty of larceny and infamous crimes, which is a degredation to every self-respect? ing woman. I believe, that women should have the ballot because the trend of progress and civilization is to place woman side by side with man in the home, in business and on the intellectual plane, and woman should be the companion in the great work of government, which needs honor, devo? tion and self-sacrifice to preserve the life and prosperity of the nation. I believe that woman should have the ballot because the welfare of the coun? try demands that the womanly half of humanity be educated and instructed and required to take part in the enact? ment of laws and in their administra? tion. This would ennoble and dignify her." "I believe that the ballot for wo? man would open avenues for the exer? cise of moral qualities to be utilized for the benefit of the country. Wo? men would not be dragged down into the mire of politics, but would lift men out of the vortex into which they have sunken. Not that I believe that women arc so much better than men, but that the sexes have a civilizing influence over each other." "The ballot is the golden key to every opportunity, and just as it is an advantage to men it would be to wo? men." "I believe that the ballot should be given woman as a right and exercised as a duty, and its exercise is a respon? sibility that all should perform in a Republican government. American government and the policy of Ameri? can institutions demand 'equal rights for all'." "The demand for the ballot is not the expression of discontent for the few, but is the widespread throwing off of the lethargy of the ages and the pulsing of the new life and activity that i3 to usher in the noontide of emancipation from the superstitions of the past; when the glorious words, 'everyone is entitled to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness,' are to ring round the world there is to be no superior or inferior, and right, not might, shall be the great governing principle of the world and all shall feel the electric thrill of liberty and co-operation in the world's work for the good of humanity." ? The pressure of natural gas in a well at Apollo, Pa., during a cold spell forced a stream of water to a height of sixty feet. It spread in the form of an umbrella and froze, making a beautiful snow picture. ? A lady at Tooley9, La., was very sick with bilious colic when M. C. Tisler, a prominent merchant of the town gave, her a bottle of Chamber? lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He says she was well in forty minutes, after taking the first dose. For sale by Hill Bros. ? Happy are they that speak al? ways the truth ; for they shall be call? ed the bravest of brave. A liar is in every case a coward. To say that all men are liars was, no doubt, somewhat hasty in David ; but he was not far out of the way if those be counted liars who at some time or other, in some small particulars, deviate know? ingly from the exact statement of fact. Lying means also distrust of God as well as fear of man. He who is full of courage and full of faith will have nothing to do with a lie, or with what? ever looks like one. He despises it and hates it. UNION?YOU WRITE THE REST. Mr. Lincoln's Offer to Vice President Stephens. Atlanta, Ga., May 7,1895. Col. Evan P. Howell, of the Atlan? ta Constitution, adds an interesting jhapter td the controversy over what jccurrcd at the Hampton Roads con? ference between President Lincoln ind the Hon. Alexander Stephens, \rice President of the Confederacy, [t will be remembered that Mr. Wat person recently stated that at that con? ference President Lincoln presented l sheet of paper to Mr. Stephens say? ing: "I Will write the word 'Union' it the top and you may write what you please on the other," a statement which is taken as meaning that Mr. Lincoln was ready and willing to pay the South for the slaves. In last Sunday's Constitution John Temple Graveo endeavored to show that Mr. Lincoln made no such prop? osition and he quotes from Messrs. Stephens, Reapon, Hunter and Camp? bell to sustain him in the issue thus made. The Philadelphia Times in an editorial, written presumably by Col. McClure, throws additional light on the subject, claiming that Mr. Lin? coln would have proposed to pay the South $400,000.000 for her ulaves, but did not make the proposition simply because Mr. Stephens had stated at the outset that he could not entertain any proposition that did not embrace the perpetuity of the Confederacy. Col. Howell's letter gives the de? tails of a conversation he had with Alexander H. Stephens on the subject under discussion. Shortly after Mr. Stephens was inaugurated Governor of Georgia, in the year 1882, he spent a day as the guest of Col. Howell at his home. After dinner the talk turn? ed to the Hampton Roads conference, and Mr. Howell asked Mr. Stephens if he ever had any hope that the Con? federacy would turn out differently from the way it did. Mr. Stephens said: "I had great hope when the ques? tion was first agitated about the con? ference. I was always in favor of settling the war and preventing fur? ther bloodshed, and when the confer? ence was suggested by Mr. Blair and others I took a very active part in pushing it. There was very bitter op? position to it on the part of the friends of President Davis in the Congress, but finally it was authorized and com? missioners were selected to attend the conference. Much to my regret these commissioners were given specific in? structions which prevented them ne? gotiating for peace on any other basis than that which guaranteed the inde? pendence and autonomy of the Con? federate States." Mr. Stephens went on to tell of his conference with Mr. Davis, in which he urged that the commission be not hampered with instructions, but he got no encouragement; on the other hand the day the commissioners left they were pointedly informed that no settlement could be considered thatdid not recognise the independence of the Confederate Government. Mr. Ste? phens told of the meeting with Mr. Lincoln and his associates and the cordiality of Mr. Lincoln's greeting of the representatives of the Confed? eracy. "After we had returned to the sa? loon of the steamer," continued Mr. Stephens, "Mr. Lincoln was very talk? ative and pleasant with all of the commissioners. He seemed to be in a splendid humor and was in excellent spirits. After a while I joined him and we went apart from the others and sat down at a small table where there was writing material. This was before any formal discussion had com? menced. He broached the subject of the conference and expressed special pleasure at the fact that I was one of the commissioners. He said to me with great earnestness : 'I believe you and I can settle this matter. I know you and you know me. I have confi? dence in your integrity and believe you have in mine. I do not f;hink you would ask me to do anything improper and I would not require your consent to anything which I believed unjust.' Picking up a piece of paper and push? ing it toward me he said: "I will write one word at the top of this sheet of paper and that word will be 'Union,' and with that as a basis you may write out the terms of settlement, and on that I will use all my influence to have Congress settle as we agree.' "I then told him what our instruc? tions were from President Davis, and as I did a cloud came over his face, his chin dropped to his breast and for several minutes he did not say a word. After a pause he rose out of his seat and said to me with hands uplifted, 'Then I am not responsible for any further bloodshed. I had hoped the war would end with this conference, but it is impossible to make any set? tlement with the instructions by which you are bound. I trust you will con? sider confidential what has occurred between us.' "If we had been empowered to ne? gotiate a settlement with the preser? vation of the Union as a basis the South would have been paid for its slaves, and we would have got any just and reasonable recognition at the hands of Mr. Lincoln. Of course our instructions binding us to recognize only the independence of the South prevented our accomplishing anything, for at the threshold of Mr. Lincoln's desire for peace was his determination that it must be based upon Union." "These are the words, as near as I can remember, that Mr. Stephens spoke at ray residence," says Col. How? ell. ' 'With the exception of my family the only person present was the late Mark Johnson, an intimate friend of Mr. Stephens since boyhood, and a neighbor of mine, whom I had invited over to take dinner with us. I asked Mr. Stephens at that time to permit me to publish the conversation, but he expressed his preference to have nothing said about it, as the confer? ence was a matter of unwritten his? tory, and he did not feel even then authorized to make it public. Since, however, the matter has come up for newspaper discussion I think it but justice to all concerned that the pub? lic be given the benefit of this state? ment from one of the most important, characters in that noted conference." ? The official utterances of the Ger? man War Minister are unusually pacif? ic this year, admits the Chicago Herald, but the fact remains that more than 3,000 workmen are kept en? gaged night and day in making car? tridges and other ammunition. Forts along both the eastern and western boundaries have been newly equipped, and, while the Empire is talking of peace, only the button need be touch? ed to bring about a transformation for war. ? Doctor?Well how do you feel to-day ? Patient?I feel as i:: I had been dead a week. Doctor?Hot?eh? The Cocaine Habit. The cocaine habit is a comparatively ]cw addition to the evils by "which lumanity is beset, and it promises to ;xccl even morphinism in the insid ousness of its growth, in blasting lestructivene3s and in the number of ts victims. Under the influence of jocaine, the subject seems to enjoy a ?enewal of youth. Capacity for labor is augmented, and the need of sleep much diminished. The occasional use of cocaine leaves a highly illusive impression on the unprofessional mind, producing pleasant sensations, inspir? ing courage and causing a general feeling of exuberant vitality, with apparently no unpleasant after effects; but while the immediate action of cocaine is more animating and agree? able than that of morphine, it is not nearly so enduring, and the bitter sequclrc are manifested earlier and in a form far more disastrous than in morphine intoxication. Cocaine hab? itues are utterly unreliable and disre? gard all personal appearance,. going about unkempt, bedraggled and for? lorn. While under the influence of the drug they feel equal to any task, forget the past, cherish hopes for the future, are happy and obvious to their sad condition. Without it they are nervous, maniacal, morose and even dangerous. The cocaine habit is a swift road to destruction, and leaves in its wake a blight most terrible to behold. * The growing prevalence of this vice is largely due to the greatly reduced price of cocaine, occasioned by im? provements in the process of extract? ing it from the crude drug. Less than ten years ago, cocaine was worth 75 cents a grain ; it can now be bought at the rate of two grains for five cents. Several distinct causes result in the acquirement of this habit. Prominent among these is the pernicious practice of a certain class of druggists (fortu? nately small in number) who offer cocaine when asked for something that will relieve toothache, neuralgia and countless other aches and pains. It is impossible to estimate the ruinous effect of such recklessness. To the chronic sufferer, cocaine proves at first an inestimable boon ; but the first dose breeds an insatiable and almost insuperable appetite, and with this comes all the trickery and depravity of an experienced victim. Misery and the bitterness of remorse would fill the soul of the druggist who is so rashly indifferent as to incur this responsibility, had he sufficient imag? ination to see before him a panorama of the degradation, suffering and ruin for which he has become chargeable. In some way the erroneous notion has come to prevail that, in treating the . morphine habit, cocaine is of great value, counteracting the effects of the morphine. Proceeding on this principle, numberless quacks have claimed ability to cure the morphine habit. The unfortunates whom they have succeeded in deluding are perhaps cured of the morphine habit, but in its stead they bocome cursed with a vice far more ruinous than all their former ills. Cocaine may counteract the effects of morphine, but when the action of the cocaine is exhausted the system demands greatly increased quantities of morphine, and this in turn produces a desire for more and more cocaine. To use cocaine for curing the morphine habit is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Another class of victims comprises those to whom cocaine has been ad? ministered in minor surgical opera? tions, and who, remembering its exhilarating effects, subsequently ob? tain and use the drug to their ruin. Some, ignorant of its possibilities for injury, begin this habit voluntari? ly ; others are led into it by what seems to them a necessity; and others, again, are innocently beguiled into it by the influence of environment and friends. The cooainc habit is apparently in? curable, unless the subject possesses a powerful will and renounces the use of the drug ere its vicious effects are manifest. After the habit is once ac? quired, the system craves the drug much as the body craves food. When this drug hunger is not gratified, the habitue suffers all the consequences of natural starvation, until ^is system recovers its normal condition. With overwork or any mental strain the cra? ving for the drug returns, and is repell? ed only with the utmost difficulty. Each dose creates a demand for a larger dose the next time, and a point is seldom reached where a constant quantity produces uniform results. A single instance will illustrate-the terrible possibilities of this drug. A prosperous young lawyer, being very much overworked and in great demand, sought renewal of his exhausted ener? gies in cocaine. For a long time this served him remarkably well, stimula? ting his energies and producing an appearance of renewed vitality. Pres? ently his system failed to respond to the usual quantities of the drug j then began a gradual increase in the dose, with simultaneous reduction in the effect. Finally the drug seemed to lose all potency, and the subject was completely prostrated. Under skill? ful treatment he recovered after a time and appeared to be restored, but with returning labor and anxiety came the old craving and morbid desire for stimulus. This he resisted with all energy, but to no avail. An extreme hunger prevailed in his system, and he could have no peace until this was satisfied. Notwithstanding his former experience, one night he stole from his home and satisfied his longing with cocaine. Pleasant thoughts and blissful dreams were the result. And thus he sustained himself from day to day. By stealth his wife obtained some of the drug, and, finding exhila? ration in its use, continued to admin? ister it to herself, guarding her secret from her husband. To-day one i9 a raving maniac and the other is behind the bars, clamorous for cocaine? Albert N. Docrschuk, in Bulletin of Pharmacy. ? A happy misquotation by a young lady, whose gentleman caller stayed too late, caused a speedy good bye. The clock struck 12, and she remark? ed, "Now is the witching hour of night, when yeople yawn." ? Mrs. Nancy Elder, a lady'living near Griffin, Spaulding County, Ga., has a pair of geese that were given to her as a bridal present, by her mother | 47 years ago. They were procured for that purpose from a neighbor, and are supposed to be at least a hali-century old. The old goose has faithfully con? tributed eggs to the family table for all these years, having laid last spring, and appearing to be good for some time yet. The gander has not been so fortunate. He lost one eye some years ago, and recently a small negro knocked out the other one. In his blind old age, too, he has been desert? ed, for Mrs. Elder lias just bought Mother Goose a new mate.?Youth's Companion. I Hampton Ami Clay. "One of my boyhood recollections," laid General Wade Hampton to a select coterie of conversationalists at ,he Metropolitan, according to the Chicago Times-Herald, "refers to Henry Qjay. He was a frequent visi? tor at my father's house in South Car? ina. Both Clay and my father were irdcnt and nothing was more to their?. ninds than the collection of' a brace )f gentlemen, equally addicted to vhist, and then the quartette would play for hours. While the name whist night serve to imply a game where silence reigned, my father and Clay iidn't play whist that w?,y. They exulted audibly over a success, and did not hesitate when they were play- . ing as partners to violently point out mistakes the other had made and attributed defeat to the other's igno? rance and utter lack of natural intel- - ligence. Indeed, on occasions partic? ularly trying, they were even known to apply hard names to one another. This they did in no slanderous spirit, but to brighten up and sharpen the wits of the other to the improvement of his play. As they were sitting down to a game as partners one even? ing Clay remarked: " 'It's a great outrage the way we talk to each other, and my idea now, at the outset, is for each of us to put up $20 to belong to the one who is first called hard names by the other. If you assail me the money is mine; if I forget myself you take it.' "My father readily agreed. He felt in a mild, agreeable mood. He was confident he would never again be a prey to the slightest impulse to speak harshly to his dear friend Clay. And, besides, it was his recollection that Clay was the man who ragec. and did the loud talking. So my father cheer? fully placed the $20 on top of Clay's. He thought it would be a good lesson to the blue grass orator to lose it. As they proceeded with the game Clay made some excessively thick? headed and ill-advised'plays. He led the wrong cards; ho trumped^ the . wrong tricks; he did everything idiot? ic in whist that he well could. My father's blood began to boil. As he and Clay lost game after game his wrath ran higher and higher. Still he bit his lip and suffered in silence. It went on for hours, until Clay made some play of crowning imbecility which lost him and my father the eleventh game. Flesh and blood could bear no more. My father sternly pushed the $40 over to Clay. " 'Why, said Clay, opening his /rray eyes, 'why do you do that? You haven't said a word.' " 'No,' retorted my father, 'but I'm going to tell you, sir, that you are f-he most abject idiot, the most boundless imbecile that ever dealt a hand at. it 3 ou are^H the-fool I ever met in my life," ill Sorts of Paragraphs. ? ? Half of the world's product of quinine is used in the United States. " ? Corea has a cold wind cave from which a win try blast continually blows. ? Visitor: "Yourlittle son has his : father's eyes and nose." Little Son: "And his pants." v *? ? ? Out of 17,000,000 inhabitants of M Spain, over 11,000,000 are ignorant of the art of reading or writing. ? Hoax: Old Soak went fishine yesterday, and couldn't even catch'nTs breath. Joax: That's funny. It was baited. ? When a woman kisses a. woman she does it under the vague impres? sion that it may taste something like a man's. ? Prospective Pere?What have you to recommend you as a son-in-law? Young Man?Well, your daughter, for one thing. ? "How do you happen to be called Jack?" "Oh, it is just a nickname." ? "I didn't know but that it was an ab? breviation." ? "Why do you punch that hole in my ticket ?" asked a little man of the railroad conductor. "So' you can pass through," was the reply. ? The Dallas News predicts that__ Texas will have no timber in 15 years if the present rate of cutting 1,000, 000,000 feet a year continues. ? Jones, being told that he looked seedy, and asked what business he was in, replied, "The 'hard wear1? business?look at my wardrobe." / ? "How's all the boys makinVout now?" "None of 'em a-doinr*'any thing, 'ceptin' of Jim." "Ac'what's Jim a-doin' of?" "Lofin' around." ? He?Why do you suppose there are so many old maids: .She?Oh, don't know. Possibly because thj are are so many young men I ? Jilson says he does not there should be any objection^ men entering the legal Nine out of every 10 mar know well enough that her woj ? A rifle that will go inches of oak and a hums 1,500 yards, such as the rifle will do, destroys the existing high premium on tr| of battle. ? A hog fell into a well ne ping Shoals, Newton county, G! ing Christmas, and remained without food or water. It we1 only 75 pounds when taken out,1 ing lost 100 pounds. ? The artificial incubation of c} originated in Egypt, where it is carried on. According to a consular report no few than 75,000,000 eggs are hatched in this way every year on the banks of the Nile. ? The distance of the sun from the earth is 91,000.000 miles. If there were a railroad from theearth to the sun, it would take 346 years to reach it; traveling at the rate of 30 miles an hour, day and night. ? He (earnestly): "And now that we are engaged, Ethel, will you pray for me?" She: "Oh, no, George, I've been praying for you for the last eight years. But, now that I've got, you, I'll thank the Lord for you." ? Nevada is the most sparsely set? tled State. There are nearly uwo and a half square miles to each inhabi? tant ; next comes Idaho, with one in? habitant to each square mile. Mon? tana and Wyoming each have less than one. ? "Do you think that marriage is a failure, Mr. Askin?" said Miss Elder, to a young man whom she knew to be engaged. "I haven't got that far yet," was the frank reply, "but I'm pretty well convinced that courtship is bankruptcy." For whooping cough Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is excellent. By us? ing it freely the disease is deprived of all dangerous consequences. There is no danger in giving the remedy to babies, as it contains nothing injuri? ous. 23 and 50 cent bottles tor sale by Hill Bros.