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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. 0? WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE^, 1895 VOLUME XXIX. -NO. 49 SLIM- SUITS! . WE make a specialty of Slim Suite, and we want all the . long-armed, long-legged people who can t get a fit to come and see us., "We can fit you, and we won^t charge only about one-half what your tailor does. Don't you think that's ?. worth looking into ? STOUT SUITS! We also dote on these Suite, as we have the best-fitting Stout Suite made. All we want is to once try one of th 3m on you. line of ODD PANTS in the city. B. O. EVANS & CO., Olotriers and yurmiOkers. e People who Enow Us,3 To the People who don't Enow Tffs, VERYBODY, ONE AND ALL. -WE ARE SELLING GOODS CHEAP FOR THE CASH. D. P. SIJOAN & CO. OLD BACHELOBS Cannot fiilly appreciate the elegant assortment of Fancy and Fami? ly Groceries, Canned Goods, Confectioneries, Tobacco, Ci? gar 3j other Goods, that wo are displaying on our shelves and couoters, but we? - WANT WIVES, And Housekeepers, especially, to come and seeJthe nice things we can furnish them for their tables. We have the goods, guarantee them to be pure and fresh, and the prices very-low. Give us a call. G-. F. BIG-BY. AND ?- From any other Market when THE C.A. REED MUSIC HOUSE Can and will Save you Money lay Buying at Home. OUR Goods are bought in large lots from the Manufacturers for CASH Our expenses are much lighter, than dealers in larger cities, who sell almost exclusively through Sub-Agents, thus adding largely to the prices charged you. And, besides, we have the LARGEST STOCK IN THE STATE to select from, and every .Instrument is sold under1? A POSITIVE GUABAJVTEE. We respectfully solicit your patronage, which will be highly ap? preciated. Respectfully, G. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE, Anderson, S. 0. FURNITURE I FURNITURE I! LARGEST. STOCK, LOWEST PRICES, BEST GOODS ! ssr COFFINS and CASKETS furnished Day or Night. WE have on hand the LARGEST and BEST-SE? LECTED Stock of FURNITURE in South Carolina! bought this Summer when everything struck bottom, and while there was a big cut iu freights. We have determined to give the People the advantage of our BARGAINS I If? tf%tt SeU you Furniture at Prices below anything ever heard of in this Country before ! t And prioes 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. Tours for business, (t. F. TOLLY & SON, The Leaders of Low Prices. J. P. SULLIVAN * CO., -Will sell yon the ? Best Coffee, The Cheapest Flour, Crockery, Decorated and Plain, Dinner and Tea Sets, All for has Money thin yon have been paying. J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. PIEDMONT MOONSHINERS. A Preacher Who Makes WhUry and Sees no Wrong n It. New York Sun. The Sun recently published an ac? count of the arrest of a Baptist preacher, the Rev. Baylus Hamrick, who lives in the South Mountains, Burke County, N. C, for illicit dis? tilling and trading in blockade whis? key. The Rev. Mr. Hemrick is 60 years of age and stands high in his church and with the mountaineers generally. An old friend from the Piedmont belt of South Carolina, who doubtless has obtained his before and after meal toddies from the moon? shiner-preacher's still since the dis? pensary law has been in effect, called on Mr. Hamrick, carrying him the article from the Sun. Mr. Hamrick read it carefully, and, looking at his friend with a puzzled smile, said: "I don't know how them fellows up there got hold of this, Joe, but I reckon they got it all down just about right. I esoaped the revenue officers along time, though, didn't I? If Officer Vanderford hadn't been break? ing the Sabbath day by shooting at the duoks on the creek at the back of my house he never would have found my little place of business. You see, the still was under the house, right under my bed room, in fact, and the slops were carried to the oreek through a terra-cotta-pipe. If he hadn't seen the huskings floating on the water and hadn't got a whiff of that good old smell that oomes only from a well hidden distillery I wouldn't have had all this trouble. That's all I mind about it, because, of. course, there's no disgrace attached to my arrest. You know very well, Joe, that a man, when we were growing up, was dis? graced if he didn't know how to make good whiskey and brandy and keep a good supply on hand to offer his neigh? bors and friends." Odd, as the lie v. Mr. Hamrick' i closing remark nay seem to people in the North it is absolutely true, for the settlers in the mountain regions of North Carolina and in upper South Carolina believed that they had a per? fect right to make whiskey of their oorn and brandy of their fruit without restriction. The settlers of this re? gion oame from Pennsylvania and Virginia and were very poor. They lived in rude log huts, and when one began to rise in the world his first ambition was to own a negro. That stamped him as a business-like, mon? ey-making man, but even ownership of a negro was not the real isign of thrift and respeotability; it wts to own a still and make whiskey and brandy. Every prominent man in the early days of the century owned one, and the seorets of distilling were taught to the farmer boys. Every worthy householder kept a supply of liquor on hand for his own use. When friend or stranger oalled the decanters were immediately set out and the, I welcoming oeremony of all taking a drink was gone through with, and often repeated time and again during the visitor's stay. At every little crossroad's store whiskoy was sold just the same as c?lico, eugar, coffee, tobacco, snuff and other necessaries, and in some account books one-fourth of the items ran in this way: "One pint of whiskey, 12J cents." They look very much as if Fal staff's descen? dant's may have peopled the Caro? linas. In the early part of the century only Baptist and Presbyterian preach? ers were to be found in the Piedmont belt, and while some of them were temperate in practice, and worked in the cause of temperance, the majority were not averse to bracing up a little with whiskey or brandy of their own make or that of some member of their congregations. The older people say that these preaohers would now and then get rather lively and seemed to enjoy their potations as much as the unregenerate. In fact, it-is pretty generally "believed that some of them entered the pulpit more or less tipsy, and that a good drink of peach bran? dy, toned down with a spoonful or two of honey, either inspired a sermon in which hell fire and brimstone played a conspiouous part or else heaven was pictured as an elysian land of peace and plenty, according to the effect of drink on the exhorter's mind. These stories may be slanderous, but it is true that during the first 35 years of the century it was considered entirely respectable to make whiskey, and it was not derogatory to ministerial or Christian character to drink it in moderation. A preacher wOuld now and then step into a saloon and go to the bar and take a drink without his oharacter suffering in the least up to 1830. In one of the Counties in South Carolina, peopled almost entirely by seceders, it was considered the proper thing at the annual meetings of Pres? byteries for the people who entertain? ed delegates to lay in a few gallons of whiskey or brandy for their guests. The seceders were considered a very temperate people, though their Scotch characteristic of being mighty fond of good whiskey ttuck to them, and nothing was thought of it. This cus? tom was kept up until 1845,. and the Methodists and Baptists declare now that some of the seceders haven't given up yet. A few of the old-time distillers sur? vived the war, and attempted to do a little business when it was over. One noted for making extraordinarily pure whiskey and fine brandy was knOwn by everybody for miles around in both States as Uncle Edmund Blanton. About 1867 half a dozen delegates on their way to a Baptist association stopped over at his house for the night. It was about dusk when they arrived, and after their horses had been watered, fed and stabled, and the guests were comfortably seated in split-bottomed chairs around a roaring lightwood fire, Uncle Edmund set his decanter out on the sideboard and said: "Brethren, there is something that I think very good. I made it myself, and it is what I drink." He then took the stopper out and began filling the glasses, saying in a self-satisfied, half-soliloquizing way as he poured: "Look what a beautiful yellowish amber fluid this is, and it pours like castor oil, which shows, brethren, that it is mellow to the queen's taste. Will you all try a little?" Two of the laymen declined, Baying that they never "used," but two of the preachers stepped up to the side? board and tasted the contents of the decanter. One of them remarked, as he finished his share and that of the laymen, too: "Well, brethren, I do 'use.' That's a part of mv raiBin' that I've never forgot." The usual price of whiskey in the old days was from 37* to 50 cents a gallon. No license was taken out for making or selling it, and drunkenness then was not greater than now. At the militia musters, which were grand holiday occasions, whiskey and mus? ter-ground-gingerbread made-the day and night go quickly and merrily. When held in summer, the people! would remain on the muster ground all night drinking their home-made whiskey. Those same men would have turned up their noses at the Manhat? tan or a Martini cocktail, and a pousse cafe would probably have nauseated them; but they had a mixed drink, as they called it?and it was the only one bordering on a fancy drink known to them?that they ^never tired of talking about. This was the Christ? mas stew. On Christmas Day a con? genial crowd would assemble and put into a pot from two to ten gallons, ac? cording to the size of the crowd, of thiok old whiskey, adding ground spice, ginger, and sugar to suit the taste. While it was stewing down to the desired point the crowd would swap yarns. As soon as the concoc? tion was ready all would surround the pot with tin cups and long-handled gourds in hand and drink until they gradually one by one fell by the pot's side. A person oould drive from place to plaoe and in each one find a crowd either standing or reaching about a Christmas stew pot. ? Virginia claims that a mint julep that is a mint julep cannot be concoct? ed outside of her boundaries, hut old Carolinians long ago dead, and a few surviving, could never he convinced of the truth of this assertion. The man who was up in the world would send one pickaninny scampering to the mint bed for mint while the dew sparkled on the fresh, green leaves, another to the spring for a bucket of fresh water, and a third to the cellar for a jug of five-year-old corn whiskey, while a fourth was detailed to bring a bowl of sugar, glasses and spoons. While the master was waiting for the return of his small but eager vassals he would spend the time in alternate? ly entertaining his ever-present guest and swearing at the delay. As each little darkey came up with his burden he received a cuff, for which he grin? ned heartily, knowing full well that a nickel would fall to his lot next, and was dismissed. The master then put into the glasses a little sugar, two or three choice sprigs of mint, just enough spring water to dissolve the1 sugar, and, finally, a good deal of the essence of corn. He and his guest would then settle themselves, cocking their feet on the piazza banisters, and there they would sit and sip, fanning them? selves, with their palmetto hata and talking about old times, until they were called to a delicious breakfast, consisting principally of fried chicken, hot waffles and coffee. As late as 1850 a Saptist Church in North Carolina arraigned several male members; the charge against some of them was joining the Odd Fellows, and against others making and selling whiskey. None of them confessed to wrong-doing, but the Odd Fellows^were excommunicated, while the whiskey men were kept in. One of the old-time distillers who was almost reared in a still-house, and who courted his wife in her father's still house, both being of excellent family, says that no good oorn whiskey is made these days. The methods used are two rapid, and too much whiskey is made to the bushel of grain. He thinks the product ought to kill those who drink it. A Child'* Christianity. Little Mabel's mother had long been dead, and while her papa was away from home she had no companions but her governess and the servants. Her father often had told her not to admit to the house any person with whom she was not acquainted. One cold wintry, day, a poor, ill dressed woman stopped at the door and asked permis? sion to warm herself by the kitchen fire. "But," said Mabel, "my papa don't know you." The woman was shivering with cold, and the rain and sleet dropped from her thin wraps. A bright idea soon entered the child's head. "Say," said she, "do you know Jesus ?" Tears started to the poor woman's eyes, and she began to tell how kind the Saviour had been to her. "Well," said the child, "if you know Jesus, you may come in ; for papa knows him, and I'm sure he won't care." A Living Stone'* There was a little Arab boy who was taken prisoner in one of the wars with Algiers and taken across to Eu? rope. There he was taught the doc? trine of the cross, and to him who once hung thereon he gave himself, body and soul. Years passed before he revisited his native shore. His old neighbors welcomed him gladly and gave him joyous recognition. Pres? ently they discovered the awful fact that he was a pervert, and no longer loved and honored Mahomet. They tried, but all in vain, to convince him of his error. Argument failing, they threatened, hut threats did not move him. They determined that he must die, and die a fearful, horrible death. They were those days building the old citadel, which more recently has been destroyed. It was constructed of great blocks of cement, which were cast in great wooden boxes. They seized Geronino, bound him hand and foot, and because he refused to turn, they pressed him down into the yielding cement. It hardened about him and he was built as a block into the cita? del. In later years that block was opened, a cast taken, and to me it seemed as I looked upon his face, that there was a look of sweet peace upon his face. Doubtless the Master ac? cepted the sacrifice, and he became in very truth, a living stone built into the temple of God. Geronino was only an Arab boy, just such as I saw by the thousands in Algiers. I could not help the thought that surely God loves Arab boys, better than we Christians do.?Our Monthly. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, aa they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There la only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitu? tional remedies. Deafness la caused by an Inflam? ed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustach lan Tube When this tube gets Inflamed you hare a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the Inflammation can be taken oat and thla tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forerer; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. Wo will giro One Hundred Dollars for any caso of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circular! free. F. J. CHENEY, A CO, Toledo, 0. S^Sold by Druggists, 76c. ? The befit girl in the world is the one who remembers that her mother is a human being, and sometimes gets tired, BELL ARP'S LETTER. A Friend Helps Him to 0st Out of Hit Financial Difficulties. Atlanta OonitUutiotu Little things give more pleasure in this sublunary life than big ones. That old nursery rhyme about "little dropB of water, little grains of sand," tells a truth thatfl everybody loves? ''little deeds of kindness, little words of love." A good neighbor said to me to-day: "My wife's greatest pleasure seems to be in doing something for somebody, or giving something away. This morning she cut all the aspara? gus and I was anticipating a luxurious feast, when I saw her tie it up and send it off to a neighbor. 'What did you do that for,' said I; 'why didn't you have it for dinner?' 'Well,' said she, 'we have had it almost every day and Mrs. S. has not had any, and she is very fond of it, and I had rather give it to her than eat it myself.' My wife is always planning how she can do something for somebody. We are poor as Lazarus, but my wife will send something to somebody if it is only a collection of pretty flowers. Her re? ligion is to give all the pleasure she can to neighbors?to make somebody happy for a little while." * That is the most comforting pleas ?upe?I- know. %of. : .Some philosopher. said he had never saved anything ex? cept what he gave away that paid good interest, and it 'does. I have helped some people in my life. I have lifted them up out of despair, and the reac? tion has given me more comfort than anything else. I don't know whether it was interested or disinterested be? nevolence, but I do know that it has given me comfort every time I think of it. I had some good luek shortly after the war and the poor fellows who were ,on starvation were not far away. Tbey are nearly all dead, but I love to think that I divided with them/Misery does not like to ask for help. Misery is the most reluc? tant thing on earth. Of course, there are frauds and imposteri, but most of the beggars are real. Beggars is a hard name. I saw a woman yesterday on Marietta street?the child in her arms was proof enough, and I dropped a quarter in her tumbler and went on. She had a sad, sweet face. Suppose she was a fraud, I had given but a mite and I know she needed it. Am I to stop and investigate the woman's conduct or necessities; am I to "cross over on the other side," as the Scrip? tures tell us of tSfei-people who would not help the unfortunate. These panicky time are awful. My pen has oeased to pay my way, and knowing that I had lots of friends, I sought to bridge over the financial chasm and began to look about for a financial friend. They told me that Atlanta was full of money, but I must have a looal indorser. < Well, I have, I know, a thousand friends in Atlanta ?a thousand good people who love me [ and I love them, but when it comes down to money I was not sure of ten? no, nor five. I tried a few and failed ?they didn't indorse?they had sworn off. "And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep." But I did find two out of a hundred thousand ? two great, ? big-hearted friends who said: "Yes, I will indorse for you if I have it to pay myself? how much do you want?" "Only $200," said I, and Igotthe money and I was gratefolr" The' truth" is" I' waB afraid to ask anybody, for "friend? ship is but a name?a charm that lulls to sleep." But let me tell you something more about little things. Last summer I planted seven rows of strawberries from runners. That made ten rows old and young. I watered them in summer and mulohed them with half rotted oak leaves in the early fall. The patch is only 60x30 feet, and we have gathered 40 gallons from it. We | could have sold them at 10 cents a quart, I know, for they are very fine. They are not two inohes in diameter, nor one inch, but they are fine. But we did not sell them. We sent them around to our good friends and that gave ua more pleasure; and then we cooked them up into jam and will have something good for the winter. The raspberries will oome next, and then the blackberries, and will now have lots of jam, for sugar is now the cheapest thing in this country. I Now 60x30 feet in only 1,800 square feet, and that-is only one-twenty-fifth part of an acre?wall, .40 gallons are five bushels, and they arc worth at least $2.50 a bushel, and that is over three hundred dollars an acre. That beats cotton, or corn or anything else. Strawberries will pay at 5 cents a quart, for that is $1.60 a bushel. I take more comfort in picking the ber? ries than anything, and one of our little grandchildren loves to help me, and every big one she finds she hold* it up and says; "Grandpa, here is a bus? ter." I have made my own garden, and now we-are luxuriating on green peas and Irish potatoes and snap beans, and don't care a darn about gold or silver. Carlisle's speech is a good one, and he may be right or he may be wrong, but what bothers me is that such noble men as Senator Daniel and Senator Morgan and Justice Jackson, of the supreme court, have spoken in favor of free coinage of silver, and great men have spoken against it and it keeps us common people in doubt as to what ought to be done. But as nothing can be done for two years, I don't care and am not going to bother myself about it. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." We poor folks will all perish to death before that time or the times will got better. We are still all out of jail, thank the good Lord for His mercies. When I see great and good men differing so widely on this financial question, I recall the scene when Randolph and Patrick Henry spoke at Charlottes ville, Ya., and the people could not decide between them, but took both of them on their shoulders and carried them around, saying: "These are Virginia's sons and they shall not separate us." Then let us all wait patiently for public opinion and reason to settle down and it will all come right in the long run. B. W. Wrenn, of Savannah, Wants me to go to Havana, And write up the towns on the gulf coast, And tell everything of which they can boast. So I am going to Florida, for the gulf coast is my love and admiration. I will tell the truth and tote fair with the public. ' I shall write plain facts. I visited the exposition grounds yes? terday and can say that the half had hot been told me. It will be a grand affair and a wonderful success, and we will get back all our Chicago money, and capture the northern people ana mingle them up with ours and have peace and good will once more. ? Bill Abp. Lesson for a Boy Governor. To the Editor of the State: Away back in the forties I was a plow boy, and in common with most all plow boys, knew what a bumblebee/was,,. So having disturbed a nest'of them looated in the hollow root of an old pine stump, and that stump in the field where I plowed, proved to be quite a menace to both myself and horse. The stump, or rather the bees, had to be respected because they had a stinging as well as a singing end. In consultation with older and meaner boys, and following their advice gave me serious trouble. I was disposed to make a fight with the bees, but had no experience as a bumblebee fighter, hence the consultation. The advice given in order to become a successful fighter was to divest myself of all olothing except a shirt, (plow-boys then only wore one shirt,) then arm myself with a good brush, a fenoe rail with a sharp end ; then proceed to work. When on the ground, lay down the brush, with the sharp rail burst the root; throw down the rail, take up the brush and sail in. WelL I sailed in, and tried to sail out. I had followed my instructions, I was stripped for the fight, and the fight proceeded. Holy Moses ! Great Sewhillikens, how I did get hurt. Mr. Jditor, it has been more than fifty years* since that fight occurred, hut I'll he blamed if I can't see, hear and feel them bumblebees to this day. It was like Bates' dogfight. "They font and fout, they fout and font, and we all fout. ' I got whipped, and badly whipped, and from that time till now I have been powerful oautious. When the fight ended, I was on one side of the field, and my olothes, except what little was left of the shirt, on the other side. That was not a bloody shirt, but it had a history, and it had it then. The sun was shining with the spirit and the understanding, and a very penetrating understanding where the stings of those bees were left. The casualties on the other side I never knew, for I never stopped to inquire that day. Though by no means a common swearer, I swore in my wrath that I would never again take an older hoy's advice about fighting bumblebees if he said I must fight with my breeches off, and I never have. So in mentally ruminating on some of the reoent happenings in this State ' in which the eleotion and dispensary laws have figured, it has occurred to me that our Governor is of the plow boy age, as it relates to Governors, and if he don't mind how he takes counsel with the older boys how to fight the United States bumblebees, he will find himself on one side of the field with nothing on but the gu? bernatorial shirt and the remainder of his official toggery hanging on the other side, with the blamedest lot of United States bumblebees he ever saw in the middle, and dashing in their mad fury at everything that looks like a South Carolina Governor's shirt tail, or a mad Senator's cocked hat. So go slow, boys ; don't holler till you get out of the woods, and then keep in the middle of the road, if you want to prolong your days in the land that your "daddies took from the in guns." R. E. Bell. A Bashful Bridegroom. A friend sends us the following story: "When I was young I was the most bashful boy West of the Alle gh?mes. I wouldn't look at a girl, much less speak to a maiden; but for all that I fell desperately in love with a sweet, beautiful neighbor girl. It was a desirable match on both sides, and the old folks saw the drift and fixed it up. I thought I should die thinking of it. I was a gawky, aw ward oountry lout, about 19 years of age; she a refined and fairly well edu? cated girl in the country and at a time when girls had superior advantages, and were, therefore, superior in cul? ture to the boys. I fixed the day off as far as I could have it put. I lay awake in oold perspiration as the time drew near and I shivered with agony as I thought of the terrible ordeal. The dreadful day came; I went through the program somehow, in a dazed, confused, mechanical way; the guests one by one departed, and my hair be? gan to stand on end. I felt like flee? ing to the woods, or spending the night in the barn, or leaving for the West never to return. I was deeply devoted to Sallie: I loved her harder than a mule can kick; but that dread? ful ordeal?I could not, I dare not stand it. Finally the last guest was gone, the bride retired, the family gone to bed, and I was left with the old man. 'John,' said he, 'you can take that candle; you will "find your room just above this. Good night, John, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul,' and with a mischievous twinkle of the eye the old man left the room. When I heard him slam a distant door I staggered to my feet and seized the oandle with a nervous grasp. I knew that it could not be avoided, yet I hesitated to meet my fate like a man. A happy thought struck me. I hastily climbed the stairs, marked the position of the land? ing and the door of the bridal chamber. I would have died before I would have disrobed in that holy chamber, where awaited me a trembling girl. I there? fore decided to make the usual pre? paration without, blow out the light, open the door and friendly darkness would at least mitigate the horrors of the situation. It was soon done, the dreadful moment had come, I was ready; I blew out the light, grasped the door-knob with a deathly and ner? vous grasp?one moment and it would be over. I leaped within?and there, around a glowing hickory fire, with oandle brightly burning on the bureau, was the blushing bride surrounded by the six lovely bridesmaids!''?Pidaski News Review. ? A healthy adult, doing an ordi? nary amount of work, will require from 10 to 12 ounces of meat a day. ? Charlie went fishing one day, and when he came home his father said, "Charlie, how many fish did yoa catch?" Charlie answered, "Oh I I could not count them." "Why, you little fibber," said his father, "you haven't any fish at all." "I know that," said Charlie; "that's why I could not count them." ? I have too little grand children who are teething this hot summer weather and are troubled with bowel complaint. I give them Chamber? lain s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and it acts like a charm. I earnestly recommend it for children with bowel troubles. I was myself taken with a severe attack of bloody flux, with cramps and pains in my stomach, one-third of a bottle of this remedy cured me. Within twenty four hours I was out of bed and doing my housework. Mbs. W. L. Duncan, Bon-aqua, Hickman Co., Tenn. For sale by Hill Bros. MILLIONS FOR SLAVES. Col. McClure'a Recollections of Lincoln on the Question. There has recently been considera? ble discussion by leading orators and journalists as to the attitude of Presi? dent Lincoln on the question of com? pensated emancipation at the Hamp? ton Roads conference, where Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward met Mr. Stephens, Mr. Hunter and Mr. Camp? bell, who had been appointed by President Davis, of the Confederacy, to confer on the subject of peace. This controversy has resulted in clearing the atmosphere of doubt, and it will greatly aid the truth of history. The controversy started by a state? ment made by Col. "Watterson in re? cent lectures that at the conference President Lincoln presented a blank paper to Mr. Stephens, saying : "Write Union on one side and what you please on the other," and adding that Lincoln had in hand the proposi? tion to pay $400,000,000 as compensa? tion for the slaves of the South, if war could thus be ended and the Union fully restored. This has been disputed by Mr. Graves, connected with the Atlanta Constitution, and has brought out also a letter from Mr. Howell of the same paper, reporting an interview with Mr. Stephens some time after the Hampton Roads con? ference. The two important points of denial developed by this controversy are as follows : First, it is denied that Mr. Lincoln made any such proposition to the Southern commissioners; and, second, it is denied that Mr. Lincoln favored the payment of $400,000,000 as compensation to the South for the surrender of slaves. To these may be added the emphatic statement of the Chicago Tribune that, even had Mr. Lincoln such a settlement of the war, it would have been rejected by the Government and the people of the North. The undisputed records prove that Mr. Lincoln did favor the payment of $400,000,000 as compensation to the South for the surrender of slavery and the restoration of the Union ; and it is conclusively shown, also, from Mr. Lincoln's action and from the records, that he did not propose payment for slaves to the Southern commissioners because they were not at liberty to negotiate on any other basis than recognition of the Southern Confed? eracy. Mr. Lincolci favored compensated emancipation from the beginning of the war down to the 5th of February, 1895, and he believed in it no less thereafter until the day he died, but he did not press it upon Congress or upon the country. He exhibited to the writer hereof in August, 1864, a written proposition for the payment of $400,000,000 to the South as compen? sation for slaves if it would end the war and restore the authority of the Union throughout the entire country. He favored it not only because he be? lieved that it would save more than $400,000,000 of the expenditure, but also because he believed it would bring the South back to the Union in much more friendly relations to the Government than they could be re? turned by the sword. He believed also that in no other way could the Southern armies be returned to peace? ful pursuits and the South saved from anarchy after the military power of the Confederacy had been broken. He informed the editor of this jour? nal after his return from the Hampton Roads conference that he would have proposed the payment of $400,000,000 for Southern slaves as a basis of peace had he not been precluded at the outset by Mr. Stephens frankly stat? ing to him that he was instructed by President Davis to entertain no prop? osition that did not recognize the per? petuity of the Confederacy. This statement is confirmed by Mr. Ste? phens' s .interview with Mr. Howell. and also by an interview the editor of this journal had with Jefferson Davis some fifteen years after the war. Stephens stated to Mr. Howell, as Mr. Davis stated to Mr. McClure, that Mr. Davis had instructed the commission? ers not to entertain any negotiations that did recognize the perpetuity of the Confederacy. Mr. McClure's in? terview with Mr. Davis was published in these columns and republished throughout the entire country and has never been disputed. Mr. Davis lived for nearly ten years thereafter and gave special contributions to this journal during that period. Mr. Lincoln's attitude on the ques? tion is entirely beyond dispute. He met the Southern commissioners at Hampton Roads the 3d of February, 1865, and had a protracted conference with them on board the River Queen, then lying at anchor near Fortress Monroe. That conference was entirely fruitless becauue of Mr. Stephens^ frank statement at the outset that his instructions were not to entertain any proposition that did not recognize the Confederacy. As President Lincoln could not discuss thaquestion at all, the conversation wa3 entirely desul? tory and necessarily accomplished nothing. President Lincoln returned from the Hampton Roads; conference and two days thereafter, February 5, 1865. he summoned his Cabiuet and read to the members the draft of a message and proclamation which he had writ? ten that day. In the message he pro? posed to Congress that authority be given him to attain peace by the pay? ment of $400,000,000 as compensation for slaves. The message and procla? mation to follow the approval of Con? gress were submitted to the Cabinet, at which there was doubtless a full discussion of what had transpired at Fortress Monroe. The Cabinet offi? cers, therefore, understood that Presi? dent Davis would consider no proposi? tion that did not recognize the per? petuity of the Confederacy, and the result was the unanimous disapproval of President Lincoln's proposed mes? sage and payment for slaves. On the manuscript of this message, that is yet in existence, is the following en? dorsement in Mr. Lincoln's own hand? writing : ^February 5, 1865.?To-day these papers, which explain themselves, were drawn up and submitted to the Cabinet and unanimously disapproved by them. "A. Lincoln." There can be no doubt, therefore, that Mr. Lincoln desired to end the war by the payment of $400,000,000 to the South as compensation for the slaves, and that had he been met in a generous spirit at the Hampton Roads conference the proposition would have been made, and in all probability would have ended the war. After the attitude of Jefferson Davis, as pub? licly proclaimed by him when the re? port of the Hampton Roads confer? ence had been made, there was no disposition in the Cabinet, in Con? gress, or among Northern people to accept any such generous terms, and we have no record of Mr. Lincoln hav? ing made any further effort to accom? plish compensated emancipation. "We do not agree with the Chicago Tribune that Congress and the coun? try would have rejected the proposi? tion to pay $400,000,000 for the slaves if Mr. Lincoln, upon his return from the Hampton Roads conference, had been able to assure Congress that such an expenditure would have ended the war and restored the rebellious States to the Union. The war was then costing nearly $4,000,000 a day, and one hundred days of war would have cost quite as much as the amount pro? posed to be paid for slaves ; but Mr. Lincoln's controlling idea was that by compensated emancipation the South would be restored to the Union with much more cordial relation's and gen? eral sympathy for the Government, and that it would enable the Southern people to resume their industrial pur? suits and aid in paying the enormous debt contracted by war. True, it would have been earnestly opposed, but we believe that both Congress ana an overwhelming majority of the peo? ple would have sanctioned such terms of peace had President Lincoln then been able to give assurance that they would end the bloody strife and fully restore the Union.?Col. A. K. Mc Clurc, in the Philadelphia Times. The Tower of Bibl>. The Smithsonian Institution is pre? paring a miniature model of the Tower of Bable for the Exposition at Atlan? ta. It will he in all respects, as far as possible, a faithful reproduction of the famous original. The latter was the greatest of the many magnificent temples of Babylon being 140 feet high. That does not seem muoh com? pared with the Washington Monu? ment, but people in those days were not accustomed to tall structures, and the ancient capital of Assyria was situated in the midst of a vast plain where there were no natural elevations to serve for comparisons. The model in question will be 5 feet 8 finches square on the first story. When it is stated that the first story of the actual Tower of Babel was 272 feet square, a notion will be given of the proportion. The original building was constructed in diminishing stories, each one being a smaller square than that beneath. This was a common style of architec? ture in Assyria, and from it was evolv? ed the Egyptian pyramid. The sto? ries for the model are square wooden ? frames of different sizes, so made that they may be superposed one upon another. These frames, after being put together, will be faced on the out? side with a veneer of plaster of Paris which will imitate the sun-dried bricks of which the tower was composed. The building of the model is under the charge of Dr. Palmer. The work, however, is superintended by Dr. Cyrus Adler, who has made an exhaus? tive study of the historic Tower of Babel. Mechanically speaking, the most difficult part of the job is the casting of the plaster of Paris that is to imitate the bricks. Every brick on the exterior of the structure is repre? sented, and this is accomplished by making a single mold, in which the little bricks are laboriously indicated. From this mold many casts are made, and so the whole surface is covered. The Babylonians had no stone, and so were obliged to employ for all their buildings such sun-dried bricks, which were made and squared by hand. They did not understand the use of molds for the purpose. Naturally structures of such material soon crumbled and did not last very long. The Tower of Babel stood upon an elevated platform of earth 600 feet square. This was surrounded and re? tained by a wall of bricks 10 feet high. Both platform and wall will be repre? sented in the model, which will be quite an imposing affair when finished. The stories will be painted in different colors to imitate the original building, according to descriptions given of it in Assyrian literature. The first story was black, in honor of Saturn; the second story orange, for Jupiter; the third story red, for Mars; the fourth story covered with plates of gold, for the sun; the fifth story white, for J Venus; the sixth story dark blue, for Mercury, and the seventh story cov? ered with plates of silver, in honor of the moon. The old Babylonians were worship? ers of the sun and knew a lot about astronomy. The Tower of Babel was an observatory from which the priests gazed upon the stars in the heavens, drawing portents from them?presum? ably for sale at so much a portent. The model will have no windows, for it is not known whether or not the original edifice possessed any. No? body as yet has been able to discover how the houses of the Assyrians were lighted. It may be that all the light required for this mighty temple was admitted from the top, which was pre? sumably open to the sky. The stairs were on the outside and not on the in? side of the building. They also will be shown. In fact, no detail will be omitted that may help to give a notion of the exact appearance of this won? derful edifice of antiquity.? Washing? ton Star. ? Find your niche, and fill it. If it be ever so little, if it is only to be a hewer of wood or a drawer of water, do something in this great battle for God and truth. ? It is by no means an uncommon thing to see on the closed doors of a shop or store the announcement that the circumstance is in consequence of the death of the proprietor or a Diem? ber of the firm. It was left for a Ger? man who kept a cobbler's shop in a western town to reverse the order of things. On the occasion of his daugh tor's marriage a large piece of paper was tacked on his barred door. Across the paper straggled these words, "This Store is closed on the Account of ? ome Fun in the Family." *? There lives in a town in South Carolina a couple who think a good deal of each other, and when one is ill the other does everything in the world for her or his welfare. Not long ago the husband was taken ill. and his wife rummaged around to find some medicine in the house. Fir ally she came across a box of little black pills. There was no writing on the cover of the box to tell what l;hey were, but as they resembled a certain liver pill the wife concluded that i;hey must be the required thing. She gave them to her hubby regularly, and he seemed to improve. About a week after, when he had got down to the last pill, he chanced to turn the box over, lie gave a yell that startled the whole neighborhood. His wife ran to him, thinking that he jyas dy? ing. "Look," he cried. "Read what it says on the bottom." She did as he bade her, and this was what she read: "Prime Crown Morning Glory Seed j" All Sortti of Paragraphs, ? The thankful man never feels poor. ? Mexico is four times larger than France. ? In battle only one ball out of 85 takes effect. ? Laziness is a much greater thief than a pickpocket. ? The estimated population of the world is 1,450,000,000. - ? Twenty hens will give as muc".. yearly profit as a cow. ? He that cometh to want through laziness, doth not deserve pity. ? Many poor devils are rioh men ; and many rich men are poor devils. ? Twenty words per minute is the \ average rate at which long hind is written. ? After.a man passes 50 ho has more friends in the next world than he has in this. ? It is a great deal easier to jump out of the frying pan than it' is to jump out of the fire. ? True happiness is to be possess? ed of too ambition for the future, and no regrets for the past. ? Lazy men are the most positive ; they are to lazy to inform themselves, or to change their minds. ? The lazy man is usually an ideal man, for he lives on theory, sleeps in hope, and dies in despair. ? Farm lands in the United States, taking the country as a whole, occupy only 289 acres in every 1,000. ? If a well could be dug to a depth of 46 miles, the air at the lottom would be as dense as quicksilver. ? Of the total working expenses ofj the railways, over 60 per cent go in various ways to the wage-earner*. ? In the city you attend to your own business. In the country your neighbors will attend to it for ycu. Z&M ? It is a good plan to remomber that the only time your friends will not find fault with you is when there >' is no fault. . ? "When you read that a millionaire . works harder than any of his cl erks, please to remember that he also gets more pay. ? Panama is a Caribbean word, meaning "mud fish," an allusion to the abundance of this variety on both sides of the isthmus. ? All the chickens in the western part of French Guinea are perfectly white. It is impossible to find one with a colored feather. ? It is strange, though true, that in Asia and Africa, where grasn will not grow, the most beautiful flowers and shrubs flourish to perfection, ? Make up your mind to be more charitable for people, and the man you ; hate most will come in while you are planning where to commence. ? A subscription of $32.37 from each inhabitant of the United States would wipe out every national, State < and municipal debt in the country. ? It is believed by Chinamen that cat's meat is a remedy for lung dis? eases. It is served in most of the Canton restaurants, cooked in various ways. ? Two electricians at 'Gratz, Aus? tria, claim to have invented an ar? rangement by which a newspaper can be printed by telegraph in any number of places at the same time. ? "By thunder," said jfcfi^new wo? man as she lighted her cigarette s?d^ "farted for the office, "I wish I had th" snap Charlie has, with nothing to do but take care of the children and the house." ? There is no similarity of lan? guage between the Indian dialects and any Asiatic tongue. The only bond of Union between them and the ear-":' lier Asiatic tribes is found in the mode of life, implements and the like. ? The most harmonious and culti? vated Indian language is said to be the Arauccnian. Such pains are taken to preserve its purity that even a preacher will be rebuked by his audi? ence for solecisms in his sermons. ? Nevada is the most sparsely set? tled State. There are nearly two and a half square miles to each inhabitant, next comes Idaho, with one inhabitants to each square mile; Montana and Wyoming each have less than one. ? "If you must know, ma'am," said the doctor, "your husoand won't>. live twenty hours longer." "Good gracious!" ejaculated the broken: hearted woman, "and. here youJve^. gone and prescribed medicine enough for five days." ? There is in the Mississippi Valley a system of earthworks extending from the great lakes to the gulf. They are of various dimensions and generally crown the hill-tops, and have defences and approaches very cunningly con? trived. ? "You ought to be ashamed of yourself," said the feather-legged hen to the game one ; "the idea of you trying to crow." "Anyway," retort? ed the game hen, with a scornful glance at the other's extremities, "anyway I have not begun wearing bloomeis!" Sometime ago I was troubled with an attack of rheumatism. I used Chamberlain's Pain Balm and was completely cured. I have since ad? vised many of my friends and custo? mers to try the remedy and all speak highly of it. Simon Goldbaum, San Luis Key, Cal. For sale by Hill Bros. ? A feature of the Paris exposition of 1900 will be a section devoted to the history of Christianity from the beginning to the present day, with representations of the temple of Jeru? salem, the scenes of the life of Christ, Pagan and Christian Borne, Constanti? nople, and the lives of the saints. ? "Many of the citizens of Rains ville, Indiana are never without a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the house," says Jacob Brown, the leading merohant of the place. This Remedy has proven of so much value for colds, croup and whooping cough in children that few mothers who know its worth are willing to be with? out it. For sale by Hill Bros. * ? The word "pea" is derived from Pisa, a Greek city of Elis, which seems to have been the centre of the pea-growing industry for years before the time of Christ. The antiquari? ans aver that the "mess pottage for which Esau sold his birthright, was a dish of peas. In those times they were called "lentils," and even at the present day the English common peo? ple of several of the English shires, notably Middlesex and Oxfordshire, still call them "tils," dropping the "len." In the time of Mary they were called "peasons," and in the time of Charles I, "pease." Prof. L. II. Baily is authority for the state? ment that pease have been in cultiva? tion in Europe for more than 2,000 years.