Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

r.,4S. ^ ... ' >-> A - f, • .-i.,: • 1 ...ti? - - 4= '■Ju The Barnwell People. a -’ - - I rn-; - r -- , —-, • . _ . f"- .. . Largest Circulation in the County . >»» ^.4 A FIRST DEBT. BY FUMUENCK ». HALLOWKLL. r—«» •pend b month Fftnona, \ g-;. & r When I wm » little Rirl my brother Jack and I used to be sent once a year te Oermantown, near Philadelphia, to nobth with Uncle and Aunt who had no children of their o#n. So much effort wa# madedurin* our ▼Uith) giro ua a good time, and to in dulgent were uncle and aunt to our erery wlah, that we would alwaye wil lingly hare remained much longer had our parent* contented. *— But mother declared that she could not (pare u* a (ingle day over the atated time, and uncle waa very parti- eular to aend ha home promptly on the ~ upon. Jnole'a house waa on Rlttenhouae street, and, though old-fashioned, was ▼ery comfortable and convenient. The one next to it waa occupied by an old - gentleman named Reed, who, we were told, had loft his wife and three chil dren by an accident on a railway, and had ever since lived in the strictest se clusion. . Jack and irsaw him very often at his gate or on the street; but he sel dom took any notice of Us, and con sequently we stood greatly In awe of him. One afternoon in December, when only two days more remained to us of our annual visit, Jack and 1 were walking along Main street on our way home f rom an attorney’s office to which we had been cent on an errand, when suddenly Jack stopped before the.win dow of a hardware store, in which "hung several pairs Of skates. * “I wish Uncle Andrew bad given me a pair of skates as a parting gift instead of that sled,’ he said, in a dis contented tone. “1 won’t be able to go skating much longer unless 1 have a new pair. My old ones are three sizes too small.’’ “But don’t ask Uncle Andrew for them," 1 said. “ He has given us so mach already.” ^ —■■ • “ I don’t believe he trould care a bit If I got a pair and had them charged,’’ said Jack. “He has an account here, ~*-T1KWr~r<5diiia ■ w fTO “blnr abouT TT after 1 got home, and pay him out of .my Christmas money.” Before I could reply a hand fell heavily oh Jack’s shoulder, and, look ing up, we saw old Mr. Reea standing beside us. “ You’re wrong,-my boy," he said, in a grave, earnest tone.’' “ Never run in debt if you o&n avoid it, and never mortgage your expectations. It is a bad custom. 1 speak from experience, and will tell you the story If you care to hear it." V Jack was too much mortified and embarrassed to speak, and I was so muoh frightened by the old gentle man’s stern tone and grave face that I 'could not have uttered a word had I tried. Mr. Reed apparently did not notice our silence, but led the way to his house, and took us into his library, a light, pleasant room, with well-filled bookcases against every wall, and a big desk, covered with letters and papers under the chandelier. He gave us each a comfortable chair and then seated himself on a low sola opposite us. “You see me old man, Jack,” he said, once a boy like yourself, skating, riding, dancln { just as you do. But 1 bad no parents. They died before I was old enough to understand my loss and left me to the care of- my grandfather, a stern, proud old man, with an iron will. Upright and 'honest himself, living by rule and precept, he had little charity for the faults of others, and punished the most trivial errors ojt my childhood with the most relentless severity. “But he was extremely iond of me, neverthless. and I returned his affec tion, though, as was only natural, 1 stood much in awe of him, and had a wholesome dread of his displeasure. “He had a large plantation and owned nearly 100 slavee r and, as was customary among the youth o£~J£en< tucky in those days, I spent each morn ing with my tutor and the. rest of the day as 1 pleased, i' “ My grandfather gave me a liberal allowance, which ought to have been sufficient to gratify my wants, but! was naturally extravagant, and as I grew older I found it- extremely irk some to be obliged to practice economy and self-denial toward the end of every month. But I knew it would be use less to ask my grandfather to increase my - allowance, for he considered it ample for my needs. “ One day when in Danville I went to a shoe store to buy a pait of pumps, for 1 was going to a party that even ing and my old ones were not present able. But as I entered the store I sud denly remembered that it was almost the.end of the month, and 1 had only a dollar in my pocketbook. “I hesitated a moment before reply ing to the clerk’s inqulrv as to my wants, for I knew that if I bought the pumps they would have to be charged, and 1 had learned from my grandfather to have a horror of debt. “ But the thought of the shabby con dition of the old pumps decided me to make the purchase, and no comment was made when, in a low, hurried voice, I said : ’ Charge them,’ as the package was given into my hands. I was so well known and my grandfather was so highly respected that I could have obtained credit at any store in the town without the least difficulty. J>The party was a great success; but I had never enjoyed myself so little, for, whenever I happened to glance at my feet, I was i emlnded of that debt, and the thought of what my grandfa ther would say if he learned of it made me, old as 1 was, turn fairly sick at heart. v “ But as time passed my conscience troubled me leas, and I did not carr; out the determination 1 had form at the party to pay for the pumps oyt of my next allowance. oonolud&d do no harm, now that the debt was contracted, to defer payment until I could spare the money without making any sacrifice. ^ “Not long after this, I needed a pair of boots, and, though I had the money to pay for them, I had them charged to ay aooount, for I had not enough to and was now, a gray-headed “ but I was and enjoyed f and cricket, had no kind pay for the pumps also, ashamed to confess the fact. “ To the account, a little L later, were added a pair of slippers, and a pair of leather leggings, and, at the end of six months, my debt wak so large that the Idea of paying it out of my al lowance was ridiculous, and, as is generatty the ease #lth people who get things on credit, I was losing all about it. My face did grandfather, old Pompey came in with not flush when I accidentally met the proprietor of the shoe stere, and on his asking mo, one day, when I could settle with him, turned him off with a joke. But the day of reckoning was dose at hand. One morning in early sum mer, when I sat at breakfast with m. ff* the mail. "He always went to Danville for it some time during the forenoon, but, as fate woul.dhaveTt he had gone earlier than usual this morning by several hours. “My grandfather looked over the letters, and, selecting one on which was a printed advertisement, handed it over to me. At the sauhe momept, he dismissed the two servants from the room- “I have never forgotten how that envelope looked, with ‘ Bailey A Co., Fine Boots and Shoes,’ In big letters, in one corner"; and I can see now the ominous frdwn on my grandfather’s' face, v- , - ' A “ 'What is that, sir ?’ he asked, in a stern voice. “ I knew perfectly well that it was a bill, and 1 could not lie about It. So I remained silent. “ 'Hand It here, sir 1’ said my grand father. “ 1 dared not disobey, and in less time than it takes to tell it, my grand father knew my secret. Never before had I seen him so angry. He denounced me as unworthy to bear his name, and told me in the plainest possible language what he thought of my conduct. You contracted this, debt, know ing that you had no means of paying it,’he said. 'You have taken this man’s goods under false pretense. You have traded ou my well-known integrity. You were trusted because you are my grandson. But until that debt is paid through your own endeavors, 1 refuse to recognize you as in any way re- lated to me. You will keep your room in this house, if it so pleases you ; but our meals will be served at different hours.’ “ And, without giving me a chance to reply, he left the room. "1 was completely overwhelmed at the consequences-of my folly, and for a time could think of nothing else. But at length the question of how I was to earn money to pay the debt in truded itself. “ I was 17 years of age, but 1 had never earned a dollar In my life, never done a stroke of work. I .knew my grandfather too well to imagine that any effect upon, him. There was no hope whatever that I would be re stored to his good graces until that debt was paid. Ltook my gun and.went out Into the woods to think the matter over, but, after a tramp of four miles, *1 turned my steps homeward without having arrived at any solution pf my difficulty. “I had to cross a ferry in order to reach my grandfather’s plantation, and 1 shouted to old Patrick, who kept the ferry house, to bring the boat over. But It was old Patrick s son, who lived several miles away, aud whom I seldom saw, who came across. " ‘Father’s laid up with the lum bago,’ he said, in answer to my in quiries. ‘It looks as If he was going to have a bad spell. He’ll have to get .somebody to tend the ferry, for I can’t stoo any longer than to-day.’ “ 1 suppose you can guess who the ferryman was for the next three months 'i I was ready to grasp at any chance, and here was something ready to my hand-, I was strong and hardy, and old Patrick hired me willingly, though greatly surprised that I should want the work. “Of course it wasu't pleasant. 1 had to be at the ferry bouse every morning by five o’clock and stay until ten, and sometimes I bad to ferry ray ydtang lady friends across, which made my heart nearly burst with shame and chagrin. But I lived through it, and learned a lesson I never forgot. ^“1 was as proud as a king when — the very day before my tutor was ex pected back to begin the fall term—I went to Bailey and paid that bill. “Irate my dinner thftt day at my f randfather t) table Instead of in old ‘atrick’s cabin. Nothing was said of the pasi, no allusion made to my re turn, but my grandfather was kinder in tone and manner to me than ever be fore, aad on my eighteenth birthday, which occurred soon after, he in creased my allowance. “ Occasionally we crossed the ferry togetherTanironce, as' we slopped on the boat, be glanced at me with a twinkle- In his clear gray eyes and a smile about the corners of bis mouth which 1 could not misunderstand, but to the day of his death he never men tioned agale.to me the subject of that dreadful bill. “And you may be sure I never ran into debt again. When I couldn’t pay cash for an article 1 wanted, I did with out It.” Jack and I talked!over the story after we had left Mr. UoeU’s, and 1 know It made a strong impression upon my brother’s mlpd, for from that time forth he was extremely particular how he Ipent the money gix«'n him, and he kept his accounts In a, small book with scrupulous exactness ; acd -when, on the Christinas <foHowicg that ylslt of which I have told you, Mr. Reed sent him a pair of handsome skates, he whs as "happy as a king.” BILLION AND A HALF RECORD A BIO LIST OF APPROfiJUATIONB. • . —7-^“/ - The Costliest'Congrsa* That" Kver Met—Democratic View of'the ex travagance. I' The official statement of Representa tive John O. Cannon, of Illinois, the. chairman c * committee He Did not Have it.—Here is a characteristic story of Hon. Isaac Parker, famous as the terrible judge at Fort Smith, Ark., who probably sentenced more men to be executed than any other judge that ever lived. This was not, however, because he was so unrelentingly sever?, but because he had the hardest and most numerous lot of criminals to deal with that ever came within the jurisdiction of such an offic'al. One day, when there was an unusually large batch of culprits to be sentenced, the judge looked com- passlonately over his spectacles at one young scamp, and said, says the Wo man’s Home Companion: “ In consideration of the youth and Inexperience of this prisoner 1 shall let him off with a fine of $50—” • Before the judge had done speaking the very fresh young mau very coolly stretched his right leg and ran his hand into his trousers’ pocket on the side, remarking nonchalantly, as he Aid-so 4. “ That’s all hunkey, Judge; I’ve got that muoh right here in my jeans.” " And one year in the penitentiary,’’ continued the judge. Then, looking over at the convict in a quizzical' sort of way, he added, “ Do you happen to have that ip your jeans V" —“ Do you believe Schiller when £e says that the best woman Is the one whom nobody talks about ?” "1 rather think it is the one who talks about no body.” —The Tinney family of Kir win, Kan sas, makes its living through sickness and death. One son is a doctor, another an undertaker and another a tombstone maker, 'T’ tlons of the an aggregate appropriation by the en tire Congress Of $1,506,800,010,and for the session just closed, a total of $673,- 658,400, with authority for contracts for future appropriations amounting to $70,000,000* Chairman Cannon’s statement In full is as folIOws: " The appropriations made at the session of Congress just closed amount approximately to $073,658,400, and shows an apparent reduction of $210,- 573,000 uq^er the appropriations made at the preceding session. This is at tributable to the large expenses oc casioned by the war with Spain that were provided for during the preced ing session.-^. " The entire appropriations made by the Fifty-fifth Congress aggregate $1,- 566,890,016.28. Of this sum, #482.562,- 083.48 is directly chargeable to our late war with Spain or incident thereto. Deduotlhg thls charge from the whole amount of the appropriations the re mainder, $1,084,327,032.81 represents the ordinary or normal appropriations made by the Fifty-fifth Congress. " The appropriations made by the preceding Congress, the Fifty-fourth, amount to $1,044 1 580,273.87'. A com- parlsbo shows an .increase in ordinary appropriations made by this Congress over those made by that Congress, the Fifty-fourth, of $39,747,000; but this apparent Increase is more than ac counted for by increases under eight items alone, namely, for pensions $4,- 000.000 ; for the postal service $10,000,- 000: for rivers and harbors, including work under contracts previously au thorized, $3,600,000; for now ships for t“b'e navy $6,000,000; for beginning the work of the twelfth census $1,000,000 ; for the Paris exposition $1,200,000 ; fur new public buildings, including the building for the department of justice, and for the site and partial consti ac tion of the new government printing office, about $5,000,000 ; and for pay ment of judgment rendered against the government on account of French spoliations, and under the Bowman jKBUl&.Qffih -These ..natural and necessary increases in puAUc ex* peuditurcs, on account of the pension list, the growth of the postal service in response to the demands of commerce, the improvement of the great water ways of the country and for increases of the navy, the construction of needed buildings to accommodate the govern ment service in the cities of the coun try, taking of the census, the partici pation of the nation in tbe great ex position to be held at Paris next year, and the payment of the French spolia tion judgments and Bowman act cases, so long considered by and pressed upon Cong'-ess, aggregating $39.900,000— more than dissipating the entire ap parent increase tn tbe ordinary ap propriations by this Congress over thoso by tbe Fifty-fourth Congress. " in addition to the direct appropria tions made at this session, contracts were authorized, subject vo filture ap propriations to be made by Congress, amounting to about $fO,OOO;0OO. Oi this amount $44,000,000 is for ships for navy, #22,500,000 is for work on river? and harbors, and something over $3,- 000,000 Is for public buildings. The contract system is of necessity uppl i^d to the construction of now warships, which require periods of years for their construction. In the case of river aud harbor improvements and tbe authori zation of public buildings, experience Las shown that the authorization of contracts tends materially to expedite and cneapen tae same." .Mr. Dockery, of Missouri, the rank ing Democratic member of the House appropriations committee, maJe .the following statement giving the Demo cratic view “Tuts Congress easily surpasses all its predecessors in the stupendous aggregate of its appropria tions. It was thought that the 51st Congress, commonly known as the • billion dollar Congress,’ had—in point of extravagance of appropriations— touchea a limit which would not be reached, or, at least, surpassed, by any of its successors. —“-This- Cun g reea-, how ever,-has - far - exceeded the appalling total of appro priations then made, and it wul be remembered that the ‘ billion dollar Congress’ was followed by overwhelm-' .lag disaster to the Republican party at tbe ensuing election. Confronted with a war with Spain, requiring the imposition of -additional taxation, it is obvious' that rigid eco nomy should have been applied in all. other directions to the expenditure of F iublic money- The people were wili ng to meet *all the demands upon the national treasury made necessary by the Spanish war, but it is (air to pre- sume'that they expected their repre sentatives, in view of the cheerful dis- E ositlon manifested to meet these added urdens, to limit the-ordiuary appro priations to the necossitiei of a wise and economicaladmiaistra..0D. These expectations have not been realized. "The result is an actual deficiency in current revenues amounting, on the first of this month, to $99,109,554.50. This deficiency, as shown by a recent conservative estimate by Chairman ■ Uannon. Of the appropriation commit tee, will probably reach $159,000,000on the 30th of June next. " It is impossible to estimate with absolute accuracy the treasury defici ency for the coming fiscal year. The secretary of the treasury, ih his an nual report, made in December last, estimated it at about $31,900,000 ; but it is now apparent that it will not be less than $109,000,000. It is almost certain, therefore, that the govern ment will be compelled during the cal endar year 1900 to face an actual treas ury deficiency. This $462,000,000 of in come arising from tbe sale of bonds un[ der this administration and that of Pre sident! Cleveland will then have been exhausted, and tbe treasury will pass from the condition of a borrowed sur plus to an actual deficit. Such a con dition must be met, either by increased- taxation or by tbe issue of treasury certificates, or by an additional bond Tssue. "Notwithstanding this deplorable treasury situation, which has been called over and over again to the at tention of Conferees and tbe country, appropriations have been made in which many cases have not been war ranted by the Interests of the public service, or which, if proper in them selves, should have been postponed until the national income should be ample to meet all Us liabilities without the necessity of bond Issues. "The appropriations of the original ’billion dollar, CongresT amounted to $1,035,68Q4^-Si. The appropriations of the Congress just ended reach the mighty aggregate of $1,566,890,016.28: It is fair to deduct from this total Royal ^ Absolutely feuRE Baking Powder Absolutely toRE V - _ . • Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ROYAL BAKING ROWOCR CO..NIW ^ -flnfcONUKRNT TO BEAUREGARD. $482,562,083.47, made necessary to meet the liabilities of tbie'BpanUh war. So if we deduct from the grand total the liabilities bn account of the war with Spain, it appears that tbe appropria tions for the ordinary expenses of the government are $1,084,327,932.81. The appropriations of the Congress just ended to meet the ordinary govern mental expenses exceed those of the preceding Fifty-fourth Congress by $39,747,658.94 Not only this, bat the contract liabilities authorized by the Congress just expired for new ships and their armament, public buildings, •fivers and harbors, and miscellaneous items amount to $70,602,524. If, there fore, to the ordinary appropriations is added the liabilities on account of these authorized contracts, wo ascertain that the appropriations and contract liabili ties amount to the tremendous total of $1,154,930,456.81. “These increased appropriations have gone for French spoliation claims, public buildings, rivers, harbors, Bow man acts claims, and hundreds of other projects, some meritorious, blit many of tpenriiot entitled to recognition by the/national government, in nearly every branch of tbe civil service of tbe government there has been an in crease of appropriations. “Tbe time hap come to reform the scale of national expenditures. The reckless improvidence of the outgoing Congress will at least serve the good purpose of arousing the people and of causing them Ho sfend representatives to tbe national capital who will reduce the burden imposed by riotous appro priations." QUUKK HAPPENINGS. Things of Interest to Readers of All Ages and Tates. An Indianapolis woman wants a di vorce set aside on the ground that there was no ground, as her husband, a drum mer,“Ttistfeu irer <nw sifdaeaotr viio fast day he was at home. — :-rr- A Pennsylvania coal miner was frozen to death last week standing up in a snowdrift with his dinner pail in his hand. The pride of the life of thff late Mrs. Elizabeth Skeats, of London, was that she was the mother of six policemen. A Chicago magistrate'recently fined a man $25 for being a liar. He was probably from St. Louis.. The authorities of Wellington, Kad., propose to give the name- of the/first prisoner confined in tbe new jaiPu) that institution, and it was callqdf Horton jail, because Mrs. Horton wAs the first. She proved to be innocent "and now she is suing the county fordamages on ac count of the jail’s name. „A Vineland, N./J., girl was fright fully burned last week by the explos ion of a coffee pot boiling on the stove. A pet fox in a West Chester, Pa., bird store upset a gas stove and as phyxiated a number of the birds. A lot of Bourbon County, Ky., cattle went into a tobacco barn for shelter during the last snow and 20 of them died from eating tbe tobacco. A Pineville, Ky., barber bas this sign displayed : " If you don’t come in and let me shave you, I am going to close my ghop and go to hoeing corn.” A Massachusetts farmer sued for sneezing so loud on highway k as to .cause the horse.to run away. A farmer near Nolesville, Ind., 52 years of age, has never had teeth, and all four’of his children are toothless. Three young women in various par c U of the country bad all their hair burned off their heads last week by tbe acci dental ignition of the celluloid combs they wore. Au Indiana man, 82 years old, banged himself last week with a clothesline. A Michigan legislator proposes to make liquor drinkers pay a license of $5 per year for the privilege t)f drink ing, ~ • • A New YortTman advertises that He has the addresses of 20,000 red-headed women. Twelve thousand dozens of eggs are shimted every week, it is said, from Sffoam Springs, Ark. it would mean ruin to close the hatchways of that tows. • • A St. Louis man committed suicide last week by putting a rubber tube into a’'HarreroTwhislti&y and filling himself beyond tbe limit. A Kentucky farmer noticiag a tree on his place filled with something that looked like black fruit, inspected it more closely and discovered that rfun- XHE PENSION REGULATIONS. Tbe State Board of Pensions Issues Full Directions to tbe Gonnty and Township Boards. The Legislature did not change the S ession law. Amendments were intro- uced by Capt. A. H. Dean, of Spartan- bnrg, and by Mr. Laban Mauldin, of Pickens, but neither bill passed the Senate. The State board of pension, is send ing out instructions to township and county boards. The State board con sists of Mr. R. Cooper, secretary of State, J.P. Derham, comptroller gen eral, and G. Duncan Bellinger, attorney general. All new applicants for pensions must appear in person beforeulhe township boards. Said applications must have the approval of the township and coun ty boards before the State Hoard will approve them. ~The township boards may drop from the roll of pensioners the name or names of any party or parties which, in their judgement, are not entitled to a pension under the law. They may add to the roll only such names of new applicants as may file applications. Those already on the pension roll need not file new applica tions, but must report to the boaid. The board will prepare a list giving the name of each pensioner jw ho has died since the last distribution of pen sion funds, and of those who partici pated in the distribution of 1898 who, in their judgment, -are not now entitled to a pension. All new applications not properly and correctly filed in every particular, although approved by township and county boards, will be disapproved by the State board. The county boards are requested not to forward to the State board the applications of new pensioners disapproved by township and county boards. . Township and county boards wlll'no^ is being the public plaintiff’s New Orleans Will Honor the Memory or the Hero of Fort Sumter and Manassas. The Atlanta Journal says a move ment for the erection of a monument to General P.*G. T. Beauregard In New Orleans has been started with fine prospects of success. Il is strange that General Beaure- gard bas not already been honored with a monument in the city where ho lived so long and was honored so h ighly. of the He was the especial admiration o: Creole population of-New Orleans and was esteemed by all classes in that city. Handsome monuments to General Lee and to General Albert Sydney John ston have been erected in New Odeans, and the newspapers of that city are >pealing for a popular subscription to sneral Beauregard./” About $4,000 has been raised for the monument, but a much larger sum Is desired. We have no doubt that con tributions will be made in many parte of the South. General Beauregard was-one of the most skillful and highly, edneated soldiers in the Confederate army. As a civil engineer he bad few equals. The manner In which he forti fied Charleston with very limited re sources and In a remarkably short time would of Itself have given him great; reputation. -He was a fine or ganizer and an excellent fighter, as well as a skilled tactician and civil en gineer. 4 Soon after the close of tbe civil war General Beauregard visited France. Emperor Napoleon received him with conspicuous cordlaliiy and offered him a very important command, which Beauregard declined in spite of the emperor’s insistence. He was greatly honored by the people of Paris during his stay in that city. They were na turally proud of one of their race who had distinguished himself conspicuous ly in the American civil war. _ We hope to see "the Beauregard monument ejected very soon, and we have no doubt that it will be worthy of tbe brilliant soldier and the city in which it is to stand.- -’-At a dinner in Indianapolis, the other day, ex-President Harrison told this story: “Judge Martindale has recalled the time when I was the very youngest and very smallest elder. which reminds me of an occurrence In EFFECTS OF TRAINING. The Influence of Surroundings Upon the Habits and Deutlitrs of Young People. ■ [ ■; Cities, States and nations are proud of their distinguished son*; schools and colleges publish lists of their famous graduates to prove the value of the Instruction given them, and / tji: •flKwt Washington when a number of very anomalous bills for public improve- tk"» tbftt the iajiHacQR'd^s threa al*saas, menteuKana IntriMiuziadniMiiatainingi.pro-.. dreds of black, birds were frozen to the ' war ds the State board. In making limbs. Mr; Daggett, member of the Wiscon sin legislature from Bear Creek, has introduced a joint resolution to appoint a commission to draft laws preventing women from tight lacing. .Charles Kraus, of Cincinnati is suing for divorce on the ground that his wife never let him know-sha had a glass eye until after they were mar ried. A mouse threw a woman’s prayer meeting at Chester, Pa., into wild dis order one evening last week by running dpwn the aisle. In Cumberland County, N. J., tne farmers are catching crov s and selling them to trap shooters. *>. lola, Kan., gave a big dance recently to raise funds with which to buy a cork leg for one of her indigent citizens who was shy a leg. Nine people were burned and 11 frozen to death in Kentucky during the recent blizzard. At a Topeka dining table one day this week a member of the Kansas House made the remark that a certain member must have been drunk when he made the motion to strike out the enacting clause of a bill which was being dlscu8se.d,by the diners. " I ex amined the entire enacting c ause carefully,’’ he said, “ and found that It enacting clause of any other bill.’’ And then he wondered why the laugh started. ~; ■ j A New England' coal miner was troubled with a pain in his book and one day last week he went to a doctor about it. Tbe doctor looked him over and.took four inches of knife blade out of him. He had been stabbed lathe back eight years before and the blade had broken off. t- Postmaster TulUe, of Carthage, Mo., after waiting thirty-four years for $8.26 owed him by the government for one extra day’s service as a soldier just amount. V A,” “ B,” “ C,’.’ with five sub-divi- siODs'of Class C, as follows Class A.—Those, who have lost both hands, or bothTegs, or both eyes, or are totally disabled, and whose income does not exceed $250. This does not fncludesoldiers whose disabilities arise from ^meases or causes arising since the, war. Class B-.—Those who have lost one "arm or one leg, and whose income does not exceed $2o0. ' Class C, No. 1—Those soldiers and sailors disabled by wounds, but not sufficient to be placed in Class B, Whose income does not exceed $250. Class C, No.Jl.—Those who have reached the age of 60 years, and whose income does not exceed $100. Class C, No. fi.-^Widows of those who have lost their lives while in the service of the State or Confederate States, and whose income does not ex ceed $250. Class C. No. 4.—Widows above "the age of 60 years, whose Income does not exceed $100. Class C, No. 5.—Widows of pen sioners. This class is not mentioned in the printed acts sent out, but by the act approved 9th December, 1894. Blanks for reports of township and county boards have been prepared and mailed. The boat’d can on each blank write the township, and then give the pensioners in that township by classes alphabetically. Township boards cannot be too care ful In these matters of “ income ’’ and “ physical condition.’’ It is a very poor man whose gross income from labor, rent, and other sources, does not exceed $100, or poor lands, If any, which will not produce this amount gross. Property sdfficlent to produce $100 lu applicant’s or bis wife's name debars him or her. Where soldiers or widows dispose of their property by giving or selling to their children they are de barred. Widows of pensioners who re-marry are not entitled any longer to pensions. Pensioners who hagp moved to anoth er State are no longer oatUled' to a- pension. Those who have moved to another county must have their name, transferred and draw their pension from that county. . Let township and county boards act promptly and fairly, giving tbe State board full information with complete reports by townships for each county, and writing the names alphabetically, full and clear, and beginning with Class A, and giving reasons for ap proving. Township boards must first approue in writing each new applica tion, and then county boards, and after- visions similar tathose to which Judge Martindale has referred to in the In dianapolis postoffice bill. 1 decided to veto some of them. I remember that therewas a New York representative wbohad interest in an appropriation of $250,000 for a public building on tbe Hudson. A friend learned from him that it had been ..vetoed. ’See tbe President,’ suggested his friend. The representative-responded that that was was his intention, and next.day went to the tyhite House, where he was in formed by the secretary that the Presi dent could not be seen. J Gooff ' Hard '* exclaimed the representative, ' has he got so small at that ?' ” —The largest coal field in the world is in the Chinese province of Hunan. Baron von Rlchtofen, who investigated the mineral wealth of China, reported' that the whole of the southeastern part of the province of Hunan may be called one great coal field, covering in all some 21,7000 square miles. Over large areas of this tbe coal measures are visible on the surface, and a good proportion of the coal is of excellent quality. Hunan also produces iron, copper, silver, quicksilver, tin, lead and gold. As to the latter mineral there are sixty-four localities' where gold is to be found, and in some tbe mines are indisputably rich. The same minerals are found in Shansi, which, in proportion to its ares, has probably the largest and most easily workable coal field of any region in tbe globe. At the present rate of consumption the world could be supplied with coal from Shansi for ten thousand years. —A. remarkable feat In engineering is being performedi»at Lake Wawasee, Ind., where the Lakeview Hotel is being moved two miles across tbe Ice on tbe lake. Tbe hotel bas thirty rooms and was erected at a promising (lolnt on the shore of the'lane. Sub sequently the trend of cottage building and resorters was toward another quar ter. It was found impracticable to move-tberiiotel along the bank, and the revere cold of isst week solved the difflejilty. Two feet of ice covered the lake. Immediately tbe hotel was started on its travels, and though there are now signs of a break-up, the im mense building will be off the ice before it comes. - ^j. Frank Wheaton f a member of the pri^nt Legislature in Minnesota, is the first colored man who ever sat in that body. He was elected by a con stituency of 9,000 voters, only fifty ef whom are colored men. reports tp county boaods, township boards’ repirts should be signed by eaqhm ember, The World’s Greatest Eulogy. —This is the encomium given to Blaine’s address in memory of Garfield, the matchless peroration ef which is as follows: ^ “ Masterful in his mortal weakness, he became the center of a notion’s love, eushrined in the prayers of a world. But all the love and all the sympathy could not share wl’h him his suffering. He trod the Wli^'erness alone. With unfaltering front. 416 faced death. With unfailing tenderness he took leave of life. Above the demonaic hiss of the assassin’ bullet he heard the. voice of God. With simple res ignation he bowed to the Divine de cree. " As the end drew near his early craving for the sea returned. The stately mansion of power had been to him tbe wearisome hospital of pain, and he begged to be taken from its prison walls, from its oppressive, stifl ing air, from its homelessness and Us hopelessness. Gently, silently, the love of a great people bore the pale sufferer to the Iqpged-for healing of the sea, to live or to die, as God shobld will, within sight of its heaving billows, itnin sound of its manifold voices. With wan, fevered face tenderly lifted to the cooling breeze, he looked out wistfully upon the ocean’s changing wonders ; on its far sails, whitening in the moratng itgtrtr on its restless waves rolling shoreward to break and die beneath tbe noonday sun; on the red clouds of evening arching low to the horizon ; on the serene and shining pathway ’ of the stars. Let us think that his dying eyes read a mystic meaning which only the rapt and part ing soul may know/Xejt ns believe that In tbe silence of the receding world ha heard the great waves breaking in The clftr war and for clothlng. !^."^ 00 has just received a check Tor, the ?,•nd felvklready iipoir his wasted brow the breath of the eter nal morning." “ If life wen- one long summer day and its journey through a garden of flowers,, it might be possible for people to be careless' of their health without fearing evil results. Unfortunately, since Adam and live were driven from the Garden of Eden, life has not been a toilless journey through a garden of .flowers. Man must earn bread oy pie sweat of his brow, and woman must brhig forth children in pain and si^ffering. ■ In both cases the curse Is multiplied many times over because both men and women neglect their heallth. Man’s toil is rendered a thousand times harder by the added burden of ill-health. The woman is a still greater suffered. . She suffers In si lence untold agonies from weakness and disease in a womanly way. Motherhood becomes to her a menace of death and her babes are born with the seeds or already implanted in their little bodies. There is but one unfailingremedy for wom en who suffer in this way. It is Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It acts directly on the delicate and important organs that bear the brunt of maternity. It makes them strong, healthy, vigorous, vjrile and elastic. It allays inflammation, heals ulceration, ■ soothes pain and tones and builds up the tortnrvd'nerves. It fits for wifehood and motherhood. It does away with the trials of the period of apprehension and makes baby’s advent easy and almost painless. Thousands have testified to its marvelous merits. “ I was afflicted for font years with local weak ness. but Would not confess it for a tirae," writes Mra Beulah Woodall, of lUlemau, Patrick Ox, Vn. .‘~V lhen I took, the * Favorite Prescription * and ' Golden Medical Discovery,' and they cured me... I cannot praise Dr. Pietcc'a medicines too much." elementry—sohouis never fall to pwr*— Hoc the great men who were started in lite from .their portals. The dis tinction has been won by the men them selves, but everybody associated with them In any way claims a share of the honor.* Nor are these claims wholly unreasonable. The course oven of a man of genius is largely determined bv his environment. If ho should rise above‘the common level, the presump tion is that he had good training in or odt of school. The city or State that sends forth great men may fairly be presumed to have some features of so cial life or custom favorable to the de*. velopment of genius. - A little town in Pennsylvania has given birth to a number of emluent lawyers and politicians out of all pro portion to its population. It would be interesting to trace, if possible, the reasons for its eminence in this respect The people who settled in this town were of a sturdy and intelligent race ; they established good schools and it became a custom in the community to honor learning above anything else. The youth who wav born there In herited a disposition to study and the ability to acquire; provision was made b for his education and he was etlmu- lated to effort by the traditions of his birthplace andf the example of his pre decessors. This much is Known, and under these favorable influences a large number of men distinguished In State and national life have grown up in Bellefonte. No very broad conclusions can be drawn from this or similar observa tions, buf R seems reasonable to con elude that the influences known as en vironments may be favorable or* un favorable to tbe development of talent. Tbe effects of training have been fre quently observed. A preparatory school gains a reputation because its students are th£ honor men of colleges and universities ; the head master dies, and In the course of time it loses its reputation. We cannot affirm that it has similar material to deal with, but it appears, to be similar and yet it does not-meet with its old-time success. It is a fair inference that the instruction courses of study may remain the same, but there is lacking the inspiration of a real teacher. The pupils are no longer well grounded in their stunies and n* longer distinguish themselves in after life. This, at least, seems to be a fair in ference, for when we turn to less com*' plex problems of training, such as ~ that of the lower animals, we know beyond doubt that training counts for almost as much as natural ability. The pedigree of a horse counts for something, his training for a great deal, and the jockey who rides him is. often tbe prime factor in a race. It Is possible that the same factors deter mine the course of a man, though it Is difficult for us to determine the factors in his case. His pedigree is not care fully kept, or, if kept, is not as -easily measured as that of a horse; of hu training we can have little knowledge, so numerous are the influence* brought to bear upon him; nor do we know anything about the impulses that ride , him like a jockey in his race. We may, however, fairly infer that training Counts Tor something, and that it is therefore our duty to surround the growing boy or girl with as many in fluences for good as possible. The school training should, be thor ough, even though it should not be car ried very far. Deficiencies In that respect may be made up in after life, [ trovided a good foundation has been aid. But above all, the home training and the training of social life shouid be made wholesome and- elevating. The city, State or nation which has done its duty in promoting educational influences can be justly proud of those of its sons who may have distinguished themselves; so also the schools and colleges may share in the honors won • by thei£ graduates, provided they have given sound training and proper direction to their pupils. The infla-. ences of training are far-reaching, and, though we may not be able to say just what they have been in determining the course 6f an Individual, we should aim at least make them wholly sound and wholesome. f* , f . J MV e / —The New York Tribune says that Major Clement B. White, of Selma, Ala., the only surviving brother-in-law of Abraham Lincoln, was an officer of the Alabama State Guard at the out break of the war, and, Under orders of the executive of the State, took part with his command in the capture of Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, before Ala bama .has formally seceded from the Union. When it was reported to President Lincoln that his brother-in- law had performed the daring exploit against the federal authority, on being asked what he would do about it, he replied : “ Well, I suppose I shall have to hang White—when we catch him.” Major White later performed many distinguished military and civil services for the Confederacy. —The fatherly school directors of Kano Township, Schuylkill Valley, Pennsylvania, are bound that there shall be no flirting among the pretty young women teachers in their district. They have under consideration a clause to be inserted in next year’s agree ments by which the school ma’ams shall bind themselves not to receive marked uteniiou from young men utiler-1 they have the consent of the resident and secretary of the board. he git Is must, also give their word of honor that they will not marry during the school term. .« ' < —The cost of administering the Cu ban government under the United States military control will not be more than one-quarter of that under the Spanish management. ¥ A POSITIVE CURE rOR GONORRHEA AND GLUT CMK* IMtT0SMVS.SON0evPSUMl«TS. ASH ran Y.rtT TAKE NO OTHER. TRY IT TODAY. Sent bv prepaid express on receipt of Me. z ALLIGATOR LINIMENT OO.. ...-v. . Charleston, H. C. o OBBOENFE ,4-X