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BILL ART Bill Takes Chauncy 3 Utter* Atlanta CV Whittier is dead, but his poetic licenso and slanders still live. He was as much a fanatic as old John Brown and no doubt old John imbibed from him his first lessons in hatred of tho South and slavery. Whittier's poems are before me sod thirty-sovon of them are wailiogs for the slave and malignant stings against tho Southern statesmen, including Calhoun, and the Southern people. He was an in tense secessionist, and when Texas was admitted he prayed in verse for a yawning gulf to open and separate the North from the South. When Daniel Webster made his last and greatest speech at Capon Springs, in which he defended tho South and deolarod that we had the right to withdraw from the union when we be) oved the federal compact had been I roken. Whittier flew to his inkstand and wrote this of hiai. "So fallen! So lost! The light with drawn Which once he wore; ^ The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore. Let not the land once proud of him I na nit him now, Nor brand with deeper shame his dim, Dishonored brow. All else is gone; from those great eyes The soul is fled, When faith is lost and honor dies The man is dead. Then pay the reverence of old days To his dead fame; Walk backward, with averted gaze And hide his shame/-' This is part of the tribute he paid to the immortal Webster, the grandest figure in New England history. But I was not troubling myself about the gifted old fanatic. I was ruminating about Chauncey Depew, who is not dead and who every little while bobs up serenely to get a little more fara *. as a humorist. It seems that when General Early passed through Frederick City, in Maryland, he paused loDg enough to exact from the good people the sum of $200,000 for army purposes, for as Whittier wrote of them, they were "a famished horde," and now that oity has applied to Congress for a refunding of that money and one reason they give is' that an old woman in her ninety-sixth year waved the union flag at the rebels ??u Stonewall Jsekson ordered his men to. fire at her and they fired and broke the window glass and riddled the flag , and knocked it out of her hand and she picked it up and waved it again. That's the poetic yarn that Whittier told about Barbara Freitchie aad a committee from Frederick City has been before Congress and said it was so. Chauncey Depew heard it all and said it was worth $200,0.00 to have the truth of the story established and he nodded his head approvingly and said that "old Barbara was one of the idols of his childhood, sud when he played around his mother's knees his heart throbbed with sympathy for the gray-haired old woman whose patriot ism defied tho enemies of his coun try.," The old Rip Van Wi?kle! I reckon that-is one of his latest jokes, for- ho was born in 1834, and wai twenty-eight years old when our army was in Frederick r-Oiiy, and he was then playing around his mother's knees io the New York legislature. Dr. J. William Jones, of Richmond, the highest authority on Confederate history, bas published in the Maxch number of The Confederate Veteran another exposure of this wanton malig nant myth about Barbara Freitchie, and" does so only because the j-ocm has gotten into some Southern school books and he wishes to brand with falsehood this vile slander on Stone wall Jackson. The whole miserable tbiog was investigated not at Wash ington, but on the spot at Frederick City, and it was established years ag* that no Confederate troops passed io sight of the old woman's house; that no flag was waved; that Stonewall Jackson was.not then with his troops, and that old B?rbara was bed-ridden and paralyzed and could not have waved a flag if she had had one. The dame's nephew, Valerius Ebert; has published his certificate that the flag story is all a myth without the slight est foundation, and that his old aunt was at ithttt time bed-ridden and had Inst, the pe\?er cf ]occ;rr,r.{:.r.r. 'Sssri? was- there at the time,' and was the administrator on her estate when she died and hover heard of any flag, and yet one of tho rascals who is after that money , testified that he had the flag at home at his house. , Tho very last curso in the Bible is against him who maketh or lovcth a lie, and it makes no difference whether he is a poet, priest OT senator, ho will God himself in awfn'l bad company in the world to come. Years ago this myth was exploded in Tho New York Sun' whilo Dana was living, but now that ho is dead it has como to light again in its. columns. That paper's motto used to be ."If you see it iu Thc Sun it's so," but now if.you see it in S LETTER. Depew to Task for his irjces. mitUution. Sun ii's not so, would fit it better. I wish that every Confederate soldier and their children and grandchildren would subscribe for Tho Veteran and keep up with tho best memories of the Lost Cause-a cause for which we are still proud, for it gets brighter and purer as the years roll on. Some months ago Dr. Andrews, the great educator, declared and published that every principle the South fought for had since been before the Supreme Court of the nation and dee ded in its favor-and recently a notable New England minister has declared that j negro suffrage was a miserable blun der, and that thc fifteenth and six teenth amendments to the constitution j should be repealed. Well, time is a good doctor, and the South is on the upgrade. The repub lican party may be re-elected, but the South cannot be worsted. The day I will come when pensions and baok pay will be given our old soldiers and our Confederate widows, and our Northern slanderers will take off their hats and apologize. We are trying hard at my house to be reconciled-to forget and forgive and be calm and serene when holding social intercourse with those ?rho fit on the other side, and we get along pretty well as long as they meet us on halfway ground, butas for these vile slanderers who keep on lying and rubbing it in, we are very much like my lamented friend, George Adair, said about a preacher in whom he had no confidence: "Well, he may get to heaven, for the grace of God is very great, but if I get there I'll not hnnt him up to say howdy-I don't want to live on the same street with bim." BILL ARP. A luther Tough Story. CON NELLS vi i,LE, PA., April 23. Leaping into the air as an expert diver would ic taking a fancy plunge into thowater, an unknown man committed suicide this morning at the foundry works of the H. C. Frick Coke Works by diving into a coke oven. Io less than a minute what had been a man apparently in the full vigor of life had mingled with the curling smoke of the ovens, distinguishable only by its blush brown color and nauseating odor from the gas smoke of the burn ing coal. A more tragic death never occurred in this region. The coke workers saw him only for an instant as he prepared for the leap. He was well dressed, of medium height and weiglU, aud smooth shaven. For the slightest space of time he seemed to pause on the sloping ground behind the ovens, then quick as a flash he ran down the slope, taking the quick short steps of a trained athlete who gauges them precisely for the jump he in tends taking. Eight feet from the oven tops thc man shot into the air, bis hands poised above his head in the fashion of a diver, aod descending swiftly, dropped head first i o to the tunnel head of an oven that had burned to the sizzle white heat of coke just before it is drawn. Foran instant the 'body clogged the trnnnel head and the legs wriggled as though a desperate effort was being made to squirm through and meet death quickly in the blazing oven pit. A Tush was made for the oven door by the horrified coke drawers. - AU there was to show for the man who but a few seconds before had been in.life was a charred mass of flesh, not three feet ie length. There is no means of identification. Blood Poison Cured by B.B.B.-Bottle free te Sufferers. ' Deep-seated, obstinate cases, the kind that have resisted doctors, hot springs and' patent medicine treat ment, quickly yield to .B.B.B. (Botan ic Blood Balm), thoroughly tested for 30 years. Have yon m ucuous patches in the. mouth, sore throat, emptions, eating sores, bone pains, itching skin, swollen glands, stiff joints, copper colored spots, chancres, ulceration on the body /hair and eyebrows fall out ? Is the" skin a mass of boils, pimples and ulcers ? 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Evans Phar W.O. T. ??. DEPARTMENT. Conducted by the ladies of the W. C. f. U. of Anderson. S. C. Willie's "Amendment." BY ESTELLE MENDEL!, AMORY. "To-morrow," said Miss Reed, "you may all bring me some incidents show ing the harm that liquor and tobaoco have done; something that you've read in the paper or know of your self." Miss Reed was just going to dismiss her little country school when a hand was raised, and, "Teacher," came from a bright, questioning boy. "Don't they never do no good," ask ed Willie Swenson. "That is a gojd question, Willie; wo must always be just, even to our enemies, so I will ask you to also bring any fact or case where they have dono good." And in the burst of un concerned merriment and noise that fol'owed the tap of tho bell, it would seen, that all of "teacher's" in junctions and requests must be for gotten. But before the long walks across the beautiful prairies were accomplished, every one of the t -Tcoty blue-eyed, flaxen-haired little Swedes and Danes was eager'y searching his scanty col lection of facts, and almost before the "piece" wis v died for, mamma was asked to help out on "teacher's ques tion." At tho supper tables it was also an interesting topic, especially Willie Swenson's "amendment," as one of the older boys termed it. This aeemed to especially please the fath ers, moBt of whom used the subtle weed while all thouaht it no harm to take a "friendly glass" now and then. Still the little community was above tho average in industry and morality, owning large, well-tilled farms, and having a Sunday-school, and "preach ing" occasionally in their own lan guage. As might be expeoted, therefore, facts concerning "Willie's Amend ment" were abundant, and more* than one "Adolph" and "Emil" and "Theda" were very anxious for to morrow. "Oh, I got one; what you got?" was the uiiiveral greeting that bright Juno morning; but, oh, how the facts seem to vanish, as, after thesaort devotion al exercises, they were each called to give them. "This telling about things like a preacher," as Claus Oleson termed it, was one of Miss Reed's many "new ways" of developing her pupils, and as yet was a terrible strain on the courage of these timid little foreigners. f Some of the old ones prefaced their quaintly told stories or incidents with "It stood in the paper last night," and, of course, were the familiar tales of misery and ruin. "Bnthas no ooo found any good that these things do?" asked the teacher, as Beda Isaacson sat dowo, her cheeks rivaling the sweet roses pinned on her blue gown. For a few seconds there was an awkward pause, when the doughty Willie Swenson rose to champion his amendment: "Well, my fader had an aunt and her ?touiach got bad, and she took all the medicine in the drugstore, but she didn't get no better, and so the doctor he told her to chew some tobacco and swallow the juice, and she get well right off." Every other word of this short speech had stuck in thc poor boy's throat, but by means of worming his bare feet and working at Lis ono sus pender, bc scored, his victory. Sev eral- of his companions on thc "de fense" looked jubilant, but almost before the teacher asked "how they would answer this fact," hands were up. "I don't think it did cure the stom ach," replied ; Iva Larson, who was studying physiology, ' "it only dead oncd the nerves, so she didn't feel it."- . "But if it did cure that," added thoughtful Aona Iverson, "tobacco is tobacco, and it did other things, too, -just what physiologysays--about the lungs and juices tnd kidneys! "And it hurts thc eyes," chipped in Adolph Johnson, a little fellow of seven, while his seatmate gained courage to add, "And thc heart, teach er."' "Yes," said Miss Reed, "tho phys icians who are now examining meer for tho war find a great many with hearts injured by tobaoco, and they cannot ?ske th?s?';, fe- they would ubi uiaku [rood soldiers. Has anyone else an an swer?" "Well," exclaimed Laura Roline, noted for hitting the nail on the head, "I think I'd as soon have tho heart burn as swallow tobacco juice!" At this there was a hearty laugh and even a faint clapping of hands and Willie's amendment was considered hopelessly lost. Tho Other good effects of the ?ilo weed were not heard from, "I am really proud of your work this morning, scholars," said Mies Reed, ber face glowing with smiles. "Your answers' to Willie's incident aro al most word for word like those of a no ted physician. Some One asked him about using tobacco <or heartburn and he said tho same thing. And now sa \>ur time is up we will hear tho pro | and con of the liquor question to-mor row." And all went at their lessons with a peculiar test. "Well, what did teacher say about your story?" asked Mr. Swenson of his boy, as they all sat around the supper table that evening. "Oh, she didn't say much, but Ivs and Anna and Adolph and Otto, they did, and Laura Rolin?, she just knock ed it higher'n a kite and they all laughed. I ain't a-goin' to stand up for thc dirty stuff again," and Willie then told all that had been said, anda lively talk followed. Indeed, the story of Willie's "amendment," was thc all-absorbing topic in every home in thc neighbor hood that night, and more than one parent began to seriously inquire con oernin this thing. Tho Uses of Dust. A recent interesting volume, wherein a prominent scientist recounts thc achievements of this wonderful cen tury, contains an entire chapter de voted to the discovery of "The Im portance of Dust-A source of beauty and an essential to life." * The chapter reads like a fairy tale, and leads one to exclaim with Addison, "The hand that made us divine!" To be sure, dust is very often a great nuisance, as well as a source of danger and disease; and much effort of man in enlightened countries has been directed toward abolishing dust. Seienoe tells us, however, that we are dependent upon dust for much of the beauty, perhaps even the habitability of the earth. Why are the sky and the deep ocean so blue? Once the scientist was con tent to say that this was the natural color of great quantities of air and' water. The late Professor Tyndall, however, performed an experiment that led to another answer. Every body has seen the floating dust in a sunbeam in a partially darkened room; but it was not known that if there were no dust in the air the path of the sunbeam would be totally black and invisible, while if only a very little dust were present in very minute parti?les it would be as blue as a sum mer sky. Professor Tyndall proved this by a simple experiment. . Ile passed a ray of electric light through a long glass cylinder. First the cyl inder was filled with the ordinary air of the room and was brilliantly illumi nated by the electric ray. Next the cylinder was exhausted and filled with air which had been passed through a fine gauze cf intensely heated plati num wire, so as to burn up all the floating dust particles; the electric light failed to illuminate thc cylinder, which appeared as if filled with a densely black cloud. . Next the experimenter passed air into the cylinder through the gauze, but so rapidly as not to consume all the dust particles; whereupon a slight blue blaze appeared, which became more and more distinct as the dust filled air increased. The explanation, ic the scientist's words, is as follows: "When all the larger dust particles are wholly or partially burnt, so that only the very smallest fragments re main, a blue light appears, because these are so minute as to reflect chiefly the more refrangible rays, which are of shorter wave-length those at the blue end cf the spectrum, which are thus scattered in all direc tions, while thc red and yellow rays pass straight on as before." High up in the atmosphere the par ticles of dust are ncecssarily smaller, since the rare atmosphere will support only light weights. Hence the tint wo call "sky blue." Going up to the top of a high mountain or asceuding in a balloon, the sky locks even a deeper blue, because at these great heights the observer escapes or yellow light from the coarser dust of the lower atmosphere. Many poets have sung of the blue "Italian skies," but it has been left for the scientist to tell us why their blue is so rich and deep. Italy being Situated between the Mediterranean Sea on the one side and the snowy Alps on the other, the lower strata of air have a less quantity or atmospheric dust, hence the upper strata suffer less dilution by reflection. The bluest of all skies is that of thc Central Pacific Ocean, where, owing to the small area of land, thc lower atmos phere is more free from coarse dust than in any other part of tho world. "All this unsurpassable glory of the sunsets," says the sober scientist, "wc owe to-dust!" Tho same prin ciple is believed to explain thc blue color of the deep seas. But the scientist goes farther and tells us that it is even doubtful whether wc could live ib the earth without dust. Made of the dust of the earth, wo aro'still beholden to it. To the pres ence of dust in tho higher atmosphere we owo the formation oi mists, clouds, and gentle, beue?oial rains, instead of waterspouts and destructive torrents. It has been proved by experiment that if there wera no dust in thc air, escaping steam would remain invisi ble, no clouds would be formed in the F ky, and thc vapor in the air, con stantly accumulating by evaporation, would have to StA some other means of returning to its source. .One ie suit ' would bo constant and copious deposits of dew, that would keep tbo earth and all things and persons drip ping wot both day and night. It is tho dust of the air that proleots us from this as well as from frequent torrents of rain, and from the precipi tation of great masses or sheets of water, such as would prove very de structive to life. In short, tho ab sence of dust would so ohango tho meteorology of our globe as probably to render it uninhabitable by man. I To dust, therefore-so tho scientist tells us-we owe the pure blue of the sky, the glories of the sunset and sun rise, and thc brilliant hues seen in high mountain regions; also tho diffus ed daylight, equable, soothing, and useful; also clouds, mist, and thc "gentle rain from heaven;" indeed", the maintenance of life itself in safety and comfort. Having calmly related all these scientific facts, thc scientist turns preacher in the closing sentence of his chapter, and adds: "The over whelming importance of thc small things, and even of the despised things, of our world hae never, per haps, been so strikingly brought homo to us as in these recent investigations into tho widespread and far-reaching beneficial influences of atmospheric dust." How wonderful is the story of science as a lesson in divine intelli gence! Alung this linc of study, newly revealed by modern soience, lie the proofs of Oreatorship and Provi dence. The < economy of man is a great study, buttha economy ("house keeping," aecordiog to tho Greek meaning) of God is greater still. How marvelously does he administrate the vast universe, measuring the waters in the hollow of his hand, meting out heaven with the span, compre hending the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighing the mountains in scales, and the hills in abalance! Surely there is some blindness of heart, if notof eyes, when any student of nature, peering into the mysteries of croatioo, fails to see also God, eternal, immortal, invisible. The invisible is not necessary un real. Soienoc here demonstrates what religion claims, that "the things that are not seen are eternal." The lesson of reverence comes to us also. Let science as well as religion teach us reverence. "Let knowledge grow from more to more, Hut moro of reverence in us dwell." Is not life itself sacred, beeause God is here? Above his study" door Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist, wrote this motto: "Live innocently! God is present." Then we have tho lesson of depen dence. No man liveth unto himself. Nay, in God "we live, and move, and have our being." Has not soience made this plein? ile hath made noth ing too small for man's help. The letters of Victor Hugo have been re cently published. Among them is a letter to his little daughter: "I have been writing thy name in the sand upon the seashore. Thc tide .will come and erase it; but nothing can ever erase thy dear namo from thy father's mind." Know that God loves us, and will never, never forget us. Therefore let us live for him every day, under the blue sky which his hand has made so beautiful. By Edgar W hito far Work, 1). D.t in Forward. 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