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p~~- j . fife- . |PLAYING FOR THE DRINKS. ? E ON A MISSISSIPPI STEAMER. t 5' A Story of the Gambling Days Before a the War?How a Game of Euchre f Led to Draw Poker. <3 On a bright October morning in the fifties the good and new steamer Belle Key left her wharf at Louisville on ? her maiden trip to New Orleans. Nothing particularly interesting or re- ! markable transpired until Cairo, 111., } was reached, where ther6 were added * to the passenger list four namesGeorge Bennett and Cyrus Poultney, of England, large cotton buyers in the South: Mark Townsend and "Old Bob" Lockard, two of the most famous short card professional gamblers that infested the river craft in those days. The steamer like all those of the Louis ville and New Orleans Packet line, carried a piano and a string band, composed of negroes and music, and dancing prevailed every evening till eleven > o'clock, when the card tables were shunted into the foyer, between the ladies' cabin and the gentlemen's promenade. The great American game of poker had not yet opened up on the new roat and it was a question of some import who should start the first game. Townsend and Lockhard had followed the river for years, and were well known generally by travelers southward by the water route, and poker was not mentioned specifically by those present for the reason, probably, that in the opening game one or both of the / professionals might want to play. Prom their manner and manouevrings they were evidently anxious for a game, but not seeing the opportunity Townsend suggested to Bennett and Poultney that they make up a game of euchre ''only for the drinks." Bennett assented, but Poultney declined for the reason that be was not versed in the game. Townsend, Lockhard and Bennett were three. Who would take the fourth hand ? " Will you play a game of euchre ?" asked Townsend of a well dressed, thin visaged, callow looking youth of about v eighteen, who in course of conversation gave his name as Leslie Brown, of Lexington, Ky. " I don't object, but I am not an expert player, and I have not yet learned to gamble," answered Mr. Brown. " You are all right," returned Town, * send, "the game in only for the drinks, you know, and gentlemen do not regard that as gambling." Townsend and Bennett and Lockard and Brown respectively being cast for partners the game began. About the fifth deal of the cards Mr. Bennett said he had what might be regarded as a good poker hand in ordinary play of that game. "Do you ever play the game?" asked , Townsend. " I have played occasionally at my clubs in England and with friends elsewhere. Lshould not care to play promiscuously with strangers while travelling, especially in America." ^Certainly not," observed Townsend, casting a furtive glance at Lockard. " Well, sir, what you bet on your hand as against my hand ?" asked - Brown. "I will lay you ten shillings?twc dollars and a half of your coin of the realm," putting down a half soverigr (gold). Along toward the last hand of the third game of the rubber the young Kentuckian remarked that he had a better poker hand than tbe previous one, on which he bet $2 00, and proposed to wager $5 that it was tbe best - hand out. " Now, partner," he said to Brown, "there is the best trump card in the deck, and he ought to win for us Don't let him get away from you if you can help it." "No instructive remarks, please," said Townsend. This little diversion was doubtless projected for a purpose, which however, was not u .derstood by Bennett. If it was intended to convey any in formation or instruction to crown ne > - did appear to notice it. Looking over bis hand Bennett smiled, saying, " I have here a*poker hand on which I might wager a small amount. "Well, you have taken me into camp twice,'* said Brown, " but I will tackle you again. The third time is the luck charm, as they say in old Kentucky. PWhat do you propose to bet this h-' time?" ? " Oh, anything; ten pounds if you like, 1 am not particular." " I will see your fifty dollars and go you two hundred and fifty better," retorted Brown. " Come, come, now," broke in TownBbad, " I and the gentleman from Indiana on my left, are still in the game, but we can't keep still under the circumstances of the occasion, I may say I have decidedly a good poker hand. I hanker after a little of the chicken pie, and as all appear to be in a sportive mood and want to bat, no doubt, I will have to raise the bet $500!" "See here, gentle-men," piped in old Lockard, who had a peculiar manner of accentuating the ends of bis words of three or more syllables, " don't be too precipi-tate. If we are going to have a quiet little game for amusement, I too, will signify. I won a pot of money once from a member of Congress on a hand like this one, and, .v, after 'seeing* the other bets, I will elevate the pot one thousand good simole-ons, and here they are. Don't bother'about 'calling,' gentlemen: there is no limit to my pletho-ric purse in the oonsider-ate treatment of this x favor-ite hacd." It was now Bennett's say. He mused for a moment, looked his hand over carefully, put his cards on the table, one by one, drew from his breast pocket a roll of Bank of England notes, figured the amount due the pot for ~ ^ 1 M /\ <riA ?M/\ OCbS mj ulttw pvmib, w?ciou ill duo sauic, Baying, 441 bet 300 pounds ($1,500) more. 44 It is up to you, my young friend from Lexington," interjected old Lockard, looking at Brown with a grin. 44 Jehcsephat!" exclaimed the callow young scion of Kentucky sporting "blood. 441 wish my old governor was here to play my bard. Wonder if I j can handle it a3 he would. Say, gentlemen, give me this card in the place of one in my hand and I will chip up with you and try to make the game interesting "?picking up the jac* of spades, the trump card of the euchre deafk 44I have no objections," said Bennett, calmly. "You can have it for all I care," added Townsend. 44 Appropri ate it by all means," drawled old Lockhard. ' 441 see I am in for it, so here goes," <said Brown. 441 will go broke and just finish the business by 'seeing' your hets and a raise of $5,000. There it is. the last of an illspent fortune, and I am not yet twenty-one." Taking up a wad of biilb from nis lap recently placed there by a fifth party. "I pass. I am out?'way out," said Townsend. "I was only biuffiing and got pinched. I crawfish?lively, too." *l Gentle-men," began old Lockhard, " I believe I have had a little amusement, and the substitu-tion of the jack of spades for another card in his hand by my docile young partner from Lexington I shall never be able to comprehend. It disturbed tne temper and tenor of my play entirely. Gentle-men, I am somewhat declined in the vale of years. As Byron said, 'the fruits and flowers of love are gone.' I may as well add, so are my one thousand good simoie-ons, as my hand is not worth a sou markee as a poker investment. ' Like Othello in the finale of his check- ' ered career, old 'Bob' cries 'peccavi' 1 and retires." \ It was now time for the Englishman 1 to seriously consider the turn affairs had taken. Manifestly he was not in- J clined to bet more, and he could not i ??? ithdraw without considerable loss, le feit absolutely certain t'nat he had he btst haad, especially since Town- j end and Lockhard, whose methods ,nd manner he did not understand, ,nd for whose conversation and interarded remarks he had no liking, had Lropped out. ( He turned and whispered to Mr. < ?aulton, who sat near watching the \ fame. His friend whispered som6- , ,hing in reply, when he again drew his j oil, took out a thousand pound note, ihrew it into the pot, and, looking Brown in the eye said ' My young American you are a. plucky fellow, and I don't like to win your money, but ali is fair in piay as in T ? ^ t- 4 U ? Vtonrl war. 1 SUpposu i nave me ucsb uouw, j sure. See, four kings and a queen." "Not wortb a continental. I have four aces and a jack." " A knave, an arrant knave," said a by stander, and sweeping the money from the table into his hat, Brown started to move away. The Englishman in consternation and amazement, jumped from his chair, and in a smothered tone asked. " What in she name of ail the devils in hades did you want with that knave ?" Brown did not, reply, bat walked out through the throng to his j stateroom. ! The exe'tement was intense, and scores of men had been watching the game all along with the keenest in[ terest. The ladies also came out of their cabin to the verge of the foyer to look on the animated scene. When they learned that "the young man" had achieved some sort of a victory over the older men they clapped their hands in approbation, although they knew nothing of the game. An hour later, after the game had been thoroughly discussed in all its bearings, Bennett went to the clerk of the boat, John Woolfolk, and complained that he had been robbed, "How so?" asked Woolfolk. "You played and bet to win, of course. So did your opponent. Naturally, it appears that he played best and won. If you had any doubts about the standing of the parties of any suspicion of unfairness or foul play, as you admit, you should not have continued in the game. These are matters that the officers of the boat cannot possibly control. " You may assume that the parties are known to us. What then ? It is not our province to advise you or any pas"* 1 * v. > r _ senger as to cara piaying on a puouu waterway. You should have exercised your own judgment. As to the young man that won your money, we know nothing about him. No one connected with this boat ever saw or heard ol him before he came on board at Louis> ville. It is a fact that the other par. ties are notorious all over the Wesl and South. They are unquestionably dangerous characters and their f?*ater nity ramify all the navigable waters . from Wheeling, W. Va., to the Belize. Had an officer or employe of this boat interfered in 4the slightest with thai > game, involving as it did, thousands o; dollars, he would very likely have beer - marked for assassination the first op portunity. Therefore we cannot afford , to take such chances. " There is no such thing as exclu ' siveness in steamboat travel. W< i necessarily have to cater to all classes of white people, and it is not our policy i to discriminate in our passenger list > If we did we would be compelled to g< t out of business. We regret that yoi lost your money?not an uncommon ac > currence, by any means, on steamboat' ; ?but we can do nothing to help you t< k recover it, if such a thing were possi i ble. The parties engaged in the game with you will probably ieave the boa i at the next landing, although two hav< paid their passage to New Orleans ant one to Natchez, Miss." > To those acquainted with the gam< . of poker and considering the incident: i connected with this game, it is plaii that it .was a well planned scheme o ' Townsend and Lockhard to entrai the Englishman and secure his money i no matter by what game or means o . play. Having learned at Cario tha' they were cotton buyers, the inferenc( was that they had plenty of money > and they resolved to follow them After getting on the boat they thoughi . perhaps that Bennett and Poultoz were too high toned to play poker on f crowded steamboat and the game o euchre was suggested, i Neither Townsend nor Lockhard i had any considerable amount of money Certainly not enough for the purpose.' of the game as played. It was oelievec i that Brown had not more than $15 oi $20. Luckily for the projectors or tn< game they encountered a man witl cash galore, who came on boa^d the , boat at Columbus, Ky., a "gentlemar gambler,'* " Colonei Tom " Claiborne a wealthy planter of Mississippi. Upor an understanding by him of the scheme he agreed to furnish the funds neces sary. It was he who placed the roll ii Brown's lap with the writing attached ?" Be careful and don't bet more thai $5,000 at a time. The strangest part of this affair is that neither Townsend nor Lockharc ever saw young Brown before the game of euchre was made up, auc there could not possibly have b9on anj collusive arrangement or understand ing between tnem. Believing thai Brown might be a pliant tool for theii purpose, they used him. How readilj he caught on and took the measure ol the game has been shown.?Now York Herald. ?At present the two greatest railway tunnels of the world are those piercing the St. Gothard and Mont Cenis. It will not now be many years before that other great mountain of the Alpine range, the Simplon, will also be pierced, so that men may pass to and fro in trains beneath its mighty summit. The operations, it is true, are progressing slowly, but steadily, and surely. More than 2,600 men are there at work. The length of the cutting at the north end is now about 1,500 yards, that at the south end only about 800 yards. Tlje work is now progressing at the rate' of five yards a day at each end. It is impossible to foretell the probable date of completion, owing to the changing nature of the strata; but when the two gangs of workmen meet in the middle they will have completed the longest tunnel in the world, for they wili have cut through thirteen miles of mountain. ?According to an official report of the United State3,consul general at Stockholm, the government of Sweden owns and operates 2,284 miles of railway, ; the rolling stock of which consists of 502 locomotives, 428 baggage cars, 892 passenger coaches, 3 dining cars, 45 postal wagons, 6 combined coaches and baggage, 21 prison vans, 216 flat cars, and 12,161 freight cars. The annual profits during the forty-three years of government ownership of the railways have averaged more than one and onethird million dollars in American money, besides the accumulation of a fund of $2,2S2,164 for pensioning employes retired on account of age or injury, and a fund of $2,079,219 for the relief of widows and children of deceased employes. ?By the falling of an aerolite, seven miles south of Crescent City, 111., the residence of John Meyers was partially wrecked and the neighborhood was panic stricken. The meteor came from a point in the sky a little east of south and struck the north end of the house, tearing away a part of the upper story. The aerolite buried itself in the ground about three feet from the foundation of the house. ?There is a zinc and lead mine in Davidson County, North Carolina, which is in the control of an English syndicate, which is doing well. This mine carries coppor in its ore, while the other zinc and lend mine in the same county which is down 600 feet, shows i similar ore, but without any copper, j ?Some people consider it wrong to 1 marry for money, yet all ministers do < t. BILL ARP IN MISSISSIPPI. < 1 3e Talks With a Northern Man and Differs With Him About the Next Presidential Election. The other night I dropped down from Chattanooga to Meridian. It is over 100 miies, but it seemed like a dropping down, for the fast train on the Alabama Great Southern carried me there in less than eight hours while I slept. Beautiful cars aDd a smooth track made the trip a pleasure even to a veteran. I had some flattering calls to the cotton belt of Alabama and Mississippi, and as the lirder was low and the family purse looked like an elephant had trod on it, and taxes were to pay and coal to buy, and my female folks were in need of winter garments, my wife said I had better go. mat settled it, and here I am in Meridan. Many years have passed since I visited this growing city and I hardly recognized it. It has since grown from 800 to IS,000 people, and now puts on metropolitan airs, for it is the largest town in Mississippi. It used to be a dirty place, and was a dug-out for saloons and disreputable quarters. Six years ago there was a great awakening I and the saloons were abolished and I many of those who supported them left I for parts unknown. Grass dident grow in the streets as was predicted, but the town took on new life. Mr. Dial was elected mayor on temperance principles and a system of public works was at once inaugurated. Since then fifty miles of sewerage has been laid and thirty miles of sidewalk paved and twelve block of streets graded and paved with chert. Two cotton mills and an oil mill and a fertilizer factory and a splendid system of waterworks have been established. Six large buildings for the public schools have been erected. Two female colleges have been planted there. The new city has gasworks and street cars, and new residences with handsome architecture are in sight on all the high lands that environ the city. I never knew before that there was a hill within miles of Meridian,^but there are not only hills, but a mile or two south there are mountain r.dgeslike those in upper Georgia, and from these come the gushing springs that supply the city with the purest water. There is , no better kept hotel than the Southern?good fare, good beds, good ser * * -1 J ^ t -r.r* Kaai i vice 01 every Kina?anu wjuau was uc cof all to me the people gave me a gooc audience, all select, especially th( eighty college girls who came arrayec [ in college uniform. I saw more cottoi f yesterday than I ever saw before a . one time and place. Meridan compress . es and markets 150,0C0 bales, and hal ; of it is there now in the warehouse r and outside. Much of it has been sold . but cannot be moved for lack of cars 5 Cotton is still king. While at breakfast this morningtwi t Northern men took seats at the sami j' table and one remarked: u This towi \ is on a boom. They are building al ! over it.'* 44 Yes," said the other, * th . whole South is on the upgrade, and i [ it keeps on Bryan won't carry a siDgl Southern State." Well, they were fo . McKinley, of course, but they wil 5 know by waiting. A Northern ma: who has never been South finds mucl to interest and astonish him. Notion] ago Mayor Dial took one over the cit, and asked him what be would like t 3eo specially. He replied that h would like very much to see wnero th negroes lived and how they iived. S the mayor drove up to negro towr where he saw numerous women an children and heard them laughing am talking merrily. "What are the; laughing at ?" he inquired. 44 1 diden know they ever laughed." 14 Why, said Mr. Dial, 44 they laugh all the da, long; they laugh at anyth'ng." 44 Is i possible?" exclaim d the Yanker "Supppose we stop and ask them wha they are laughing about ? My curi osity is greatly excited." So the mayo stopped, and calling one of the womei whom he knew to the gate, said 44 Hannah, this gentleman is from th North?up in God's country?and say he dident know that the negroes dowi here ever laughed, and he wants t know what you were all laughiDj about as we drove up." This, of course provoked another spoil and all the; got out of them was that " Jinny axe< Mandy which was de most alike , 'possum or a coon?" The stranger wa profoundly impressed, and made a not in his memorandum book. Mr. Dial says tho new law about vot ing works well in Mississippi, aod ha ceased to excite any comment or dis sent. The negro population of Meri dian is about equal to tho white, bu ? are nnlvaomt fifty colored voter , ?most of these are teacher, preacher i and barbers. About eighty registers > the first year after the law passed, bu - the number has decreased from yea t to year,.and the negro has loag sinc< : ceased to take any interest in politics 1 Quite a number of white men have re tired from registration because the: 5 can't swear that they have paid theii I taxes for the two past years. Mr. Dia i says that the registrar's office was 11 I his office, and that officer was uniform r ly considerate toward the negroes wh< - applied. Some of them who coulden t read made right good answers whei called on to explain a clause in th( r constitution, and if he was a good ne f gro he was questioned very lightly anc : was admitted. But some who coulc read missed it a mile and were reject ed. The law, he said, was harder on i poor trifling white man than it wa> on a thrifty, industrious negro. Bui 1 nobody makes any fuss about it or pro ; poses to change it. Well, I have been impatiently wait ing on the stars, but do not believe that this is the year for the meteors? my books do not say so. Humboldt ie pretty high authority, and so is Appleton's cyclopedia, and both say the periodic interval is thirty-four years instead of thirty-three. They fell in 179S and in 1833 and a partial dispLy in 1867, and so they will not come again until 1901?year after next. And the anniversary was 12th and 13th November, which has already passed. I remember well the fall in 1833 and would like to see another before I die, and I I wish my wife and children to see one. It is a grand and solemn sight. Bill Arp. HE SAW THE FALLING STARS, He Was *ox Hunting at the Time? Ran For Shelter in Great Fear. 3 a _ e T~>: A correspondent 01 tue xtmuuuuu Dispatch says that ex-mayor John W. Haughawout, o.' Lexington, Va., who celebrated his 85th anniversary on Thursday, November 2,1899, was a witness of the great meteoric shower which took place in 1833. He is the oldest native born inhabitant of Lexington, and is a vigorous man yet, and is to be seen daily on the streets engaged in conversation or greeting his I numerous friends. He has a vivid recollection of the " falling of the stars," as the old people calied the meteoric storm of that time, which happened on the morning of Nov. 11,1833. He takes great delight in telling his *' great fright " on that occasion, and says he certainly wanted to see the display which is predicted to take place either today or within the next few days On the day preceding the " falling of the stars" ''Old Huck"bad made arrangements with a boon companion of his by the name of Tidd, an old field schoolmate for a fox hunt and chase the next morning. "Old Huck" is even now known as the mighty hunter of iiockbridge County, and possibly with the exception of the past two years has never failed to take his annual deer hunt. In order to get an early start, which was at 3 o'clock in the morning, " Old Huck " spent the night with Tidd, but on arising found that Tidd could not go, as he was sick. He would not miss the sport of running the fox, and went alone, but first woke the echoes with bis horn, which brought forth his pack of fourteen well-trained hound. With the hounds he struck for the Brushy Hills, about two miles away. The woods then extended to within a short distance of Lexington. Near where the prt sent reservoir stands he loosed his hounds, and their music soon rang out in the morning air as they struck the trail. He followed, crossing hill and dale, until the summit was reached, where he sat down to rest and listen to the hounds as they ran around first one hill and then another. The night was perfectly clear, and the heavens were bedecked with stars, which twinkled and sparkled. " Old Hack' mused and finally looked up at the heavens, when suddenly a star appeared to leave its position and fiy across the heavens, leaving a streak like a rocket, then disappear in the west. This did not disconcert him in the least. Another star, much more brilliant than its predecessor, shot JUaring & tsner umciai career n [" Became Quite Popular With th 5 Senators. D : The death of Garrett A. Hobart, vie a president of the United States, whic1 s occurred at his home in Paterson, a J., on the 21st inst., was not entire!; 0 unexpected, but there was genera 1 sorrow throughout the country whei i, the announcement was made, as Mi y Hobart had won the respect of a! 1 sections in a brief official career. a Garrett A. Hobart was born at Lonj s Branch, N. J., on June 3, 1844. As i q child he attended the common ecnool making rapid headway in his studies At 12 years of age he had finished thi s viilage school and was sent to a neigh . boring classical school to prepare fo college. In 1859 he wa3 ready to ente t the sophomore class of Rutgers Col 3 lege, where it had been determined t< s send him. He entered Rutgers ii j 1860, and graduated in 1863, at the ag< t of 19, taking a high stand in all hii r studies. Shortly afterward he begai 3 school teaching at Marlboro. Hi went to Paterson in 1863, and begai 1 the study of law with Socrates Tuttle , a leading lawyer of the town and ai r old friend of his father. I In 1871, with Paterson in the contro j of the Democrats, Socrates Tuttle w& . elected Major of the city, and Mr. Ho bart was chosen as clerk of the Citi . Council. He gave such satiafsctioi j there that in 1871 he was elected coun 3 sel for the ooard of freeholders. Ir _ the fall of the same year he wa9 select I pd as one of the most available men ii I his party as a candidate fer the lowei house of the State Legislature. H< was elected by the largest majority ever given a Republican candidate I He took a leading part in that body In 1873 he was re-elected, and whei the Legislature met in 1874 he wa? elected Speaker. In 1876 the Republi[ cans put him up as their candidate foi [ the State Senate, and he was elected ' He was re-elected in 1879, and in 1881 was elected president of the Senate, ' and re-elected in 1882. Hi9 decisions while in the chair were seldom ques, tioned and were never reversed. He accomplished much in the way of legislation for his cdhstituents, aod proved one of the mcst popular presiding officers and legislators the State ever had. Mr. Hobart five times declined nominations to Congress. An attempt was made to secure his nomication for Governor in 1892, but this also failed. He also declined in 1895, and did everything he could for his friend and neighbor, John W. Griggs, the present Attorney General of the United States. Id 1876 Mr. Hobart was a delegate-atlarge from his State to the Republican national convention. Id 1880 he was again a delegate to the national convention, from the beginning of his career being an ardent supporter of James G. Blaine. In 1884, as a delegate at large, he had the satisfaction of seeing his friend nominated for the Presidency. That was the year he became a member of the national committee that he might give his time and money to the election of Blaine. He was a delegate at all later national conventions. Mr. Hobart's work as chairman of the Republican State committee in the election of Gov. Griggs, won for him 9uch unstinted praise that the Republicans of the State at once began to agitate his name as a Vice Presidential candidate. The Republican State convention of April, 1896. unanimously declared for Hobart for a place on the national ticket. As Vice President Mr. Hcbart presided over the Senate with great dignity and to the highest satisfaction. He made a plac9.for himself in Washcnol-i o.a fow Vip.ft Presidents iu^; vvu ouvu mw .. . ?,?. have held, being admitted to the close councils of the Presidnet and taking a prominent part in all the administration's affairs. In society he has been especially prominent and has relieved the President in many public functions. ?Moses Thatcher, the Salt Lake City millionaire, who has started a 40,000-acre cattle ranch in Chihuahua, Mexico, though a man of good family and education, began life as a ranch hand and at one time was considered the best cattle expert in the West. i THE DEWEY HCME MUDDLE. | f | ( Admiral Dewey Has Fallen Under j ' Condemnation of His Friends?He , Protests Against the Treatment Received from the Public. The transfer of the gift house in Washington from Admiral Dewey to his wife caused a great deal of indignation, which was not allayed the next day when Mrs. Dewey made a deed of gift to the son, George G. Djwey. The resentment of the contributors was general, and attacks upon the Admiral in the Washington and New York papers were acrimonious and scathing. A protest in the Washington Star said that the contributors had reason to think that the home would go to the Admiral's son, George Dewey, and not to a brand new wife taken in his old age. But they were not appeased when the new wife made the transfer to his son, and many odd and sensational rumors were flying about the city. O le report had it that the transfer was made to preserve the house, as Admiral Dewey feared a suit for breach of promise will be instituted against him by a lady employed in the bureau of equipment, of which the Admiral was the head before he was asEigned to the charge of the Asiatic squadron in 1897. It was stated upon wnat appeared to be reliable authority that an engagement of marriage existed between the two at the time of the Admiral's departure from this country more than two years ago. There is deep regret mingled with the indignation, but no one felt called upon to defend his cause, and even his best friends admitted that he has shown bad taste in the matter, to say the least. In a desperate effort to stop criticism of his action Admiral Dewey caused a statement to be made that he intended to transfer his home to his son, George, but in order to avoid any legal complications it was first necessary to give the home to his wife and then for her to transfer it to the son. Unfortunately the idea got in the minds of the people that the transfer was with the understanding that Mrs. Dewey would, in time, give the house to the Roman Catholic church, which has been anxcom a t.imft t/i annniro t.h? nrn IUU3 IVl OUUAW V4uav HVV^Mk4 V *MW w perty as a parsonage. Sne is a Catholic convert, which magnified the part 1 she might have played in the transfer > and to accentuate the feeling against ' her. 1 Mrs. Mildred Dewey, the Admiral's ! wife, signed the papers transferring ' the property to the Admiral's son, and ' the home passed into the legal com 5 trol of the young man. It is said that Admiral and Mrs. Dewey will continue > to occupy it for a time, but that thej r will eventally move out and take uf 1 their residence in the elegant mansior i of Mrs. Dewey, which is located in ? - more fashionable section of the city i Mrs. Dewey is immensely wealthy, anc 3 in addition to a magnificent city houst - she owns a beautiful country place 1 where the Deweys will no doubt live 1 during the summer months. Admiral Dewey felt compelled te i come out in an interview in which h< 8 makes complaint against what h< 1 claims to be the unjust and unpardon >- able condemnation of his course it s transferring his house to his wife, whe f- subsequently transferred the property b to the Admiral's son, George. Th< 6 Admiral displays considerable tempe: b in his condemnation of the newspaper and the public for criticising his action " and declares that he would not hav< accepted the house had he undersuxx b that a string was attached to it. Hi i claims the right to dispose of it accord ing to his own ideas, and he believe< he was doing an act wh'ich would mee universal approval by giving the houei to his wife so she might have the pleas e ure of bestowing it upon his son. e The Admiral is reported to havi made the following remarkable state ment: e " While I was a hero two month h ago I am now reduced to such a posi tion that certain people cannot sa; y things too villlanous, too scurrilou 1 about me ; and no one defends me. 1 q I was so much of a hero then and thi American people thought well enougt 1 of me to give me this house, why do not some of those people defend m< ? now ? a "If I had known how much trouble > how much vilianous abuse was to comi upon me as the result of accepting 3 this house I would never have taken i - at the hands of the American people r When I sailed into Manila Bay ovei i* dangerous grounds, with death am - even worse in front of us, I littli 3 thought that in such a brief period o 2 time after I returned to my native lam 3 the American people would counten s ance such monstrous atttacks upon m< i because I was duing what I considerec 3 -to be the most gracious thing I coulc 1 do, to present my home to my bride. , "I do not intend to arraign the entir< 2 American people for the acts of a few but I am hurt: I am cut to the guick 1 I never felt so badly in all my life, j 3 want the American people to know it - I want them to know that if I could . J would return to the contributors to the i fund the house purchased with it. ] - would never in the world have accept i ed it if I had known what it would cos: me. If I should feel to-morrow as ] i feel to-night, I would cut it all, throve up everything, go on the retired lisi i and go abroad. In fact I feel so dis r couraged, so worn out to-night that 1 . scarcely know what I will do. I hardlj . feel like living in a country where 1 > can be attacked in such an outrageous ) manner without being defended by anj one." i [ REPUBLICANS WILL CONTOL. The United States Senate Will Now Pass Under the Control of the ReRepublican Party. At the beginning of the approaching session of Congress there will be almost a complete reorganization of the United States Senate, as that body for the first time in many years will 1 pass under the complete control of the Republicans. The majority of tbe Republicans will be not less than sixteen, and in the event of the death of Senator day wood, of Nebraska, it will not fall beiow fourteen. At present, under a.coinpromise effected during the last Congress, when neither the Republicans nor Democrats had a clear majority, but the Populists and silver Republicans holding the balance of power, the Republicans were given the Presidency pro tempore of the Senate, while the Democrats were given the minor officials, such as secretary, sergeant-at-arms, postmaster and chaplain. The present chairmen of the Senate committees are divided among the various parties, the RepubiicaLS having all the important chairmanships. When the new Senate convenes by the retirement of several Senators who failed of re-election, there will be muc 1 shifting about ia the Senate assignments. The selection of Senate committees is not done in the manner I established by the House of Representatives, wheie the Speaker appoints all of the members of the committees, both for the majority and minority, but in the Senate the members of the committees for. the majority and minority are chosen by the caucus of the respective parties. As to the organization of the Senate there is no doubt but Senator Frye, of Maine, will be chosen again to be President pro temDora. Secretary Cox, who comes from North Carolinia, will be replaced by a Republican official, and it is likely that a Republican sergeant-at-arms will be chosen to succeed Col. Bright, of Indiana. Col. Bright, however, is very popular both with the Republicans and Democrats, and his long service in the Senate chamber has rendered him a most ' efficient tfficer. There will doubtless be a strong effort made to retain him ] in the office of the sergeant-at-arms, \ and he is likely to have the support of < eastward, i nen several cnasea across. Matters were now getting interesting, but not exactly pleasant. Several more took "a shoot," and this brought "Old Huck" to his feet with great suddenness. He no longer heard his hounds; he was all eyes. Could there be anything wrong ? He had never seen so many "falling stars" at once. The stars now began to move in droves, and those chills which many a one has ex perienced when frightened began to run races up and down his spinal column. The stars now began to fall to the treetops, and the chills increased in proportion, perspiration beaded his forehead. The stars next began to fall at his feet, and now his hat rested not on his head but upon his hair, which stood straight up. The trees stood forth like gigantic devils, and everything was stars, stars, stars, stars. Bis past life moved before him like a rapidiymoving panorama. The reason for the leaves not taking fire was that they were yet damp with dew. Thus he reasoned until a star struck him on his arm. He smelled to see if he. could de tect the sulphur. There was nothing to indicate it. By now the stars were falling like the flakes of a terrific snow ? a. ^ r|i U ? n Vi 4 ft f 1 rl ^ <7. i 5fcUrLLI? lucu uc yinjugu. v yu.au juug ment day had come. Down the moun! tain-side be rushed headlohg, over i logs, rocks, and brush. Through briers > he dashed; nothing stopped him in his i mad flight. Thus for a mile or more he raced along until the reservoir hill - was reached, and then he turned and t expected to see the everlasting hills I in full blaze. He saw their outlines, ? but no fire, leaping with its all-devour1 ing tongues. Nothing but the " rait i of stars " not abated in the least. He t again turni d h.s face towards Lexing - ton and pretse i on with greater vigoi f ?thinking tnat to be with his friend* s was better than to be alone. Lexing , ton's outlines appeared, and again n( . conflagration was going on?nothing but the storm of " falling stars " anc 0 the brilliant glare. On he pressed, as a streaks of dawn, heralds of approach a ing day, appeared in the east. Througi .1 Wood's creek he dashed and up th< e hill he pressed. Lexington was reach f ed, and the houses stood intact, an( e the storm was abating. As he reache( r the main street the stars had disap 1 peared, and tbe day was breaking. Ai n old resident hailed him from acros a the street and asked him where he ha< g been at such an early hour. He ra y plied that he had been to a neighbor' o to get his gun. This was passingl; e strange, for from the distant hills cami e the music of the hounds, and the oli 0 man remarked upon it, an dsaid that h >, feared that " Old Huck " had been a il hunting, and that the " falling stars : d had chased him home in his fright y This eventful chase served as a joki t for years to come with the old peoph ? ?nevertheless, the " stars fell." 1 THE LATE VICE PRESIDENT. i. _____ ?ome of the Republican Senators. 1 After all the organization of the Senate is not so much along political lines as in the House. No matter which pa-ty Is in control of the Senate there are always to be found upon the rolls the names of Democrats and Re publicans. The Senate recognizes efficiency of service to a much greater extent than dots the lower House, where politics always reigns suprem Postmaster James A. Crystal of the Senate is another popular official, but it is said on good authority that when the reorganization of the Senate takes nl?OA t.hat. hp twill r?rrth?.hltr rim rthliorprl to step down and out. There will probably be no change in the office of chaplain. The present chaplain of the Senate is Dr. Milburn, the venerable blind divine, and he is well known to members of both the Senate and House. He served for three terms as chaplain of the House of R presentatives, being chosen first by a Democratic Congress to succeed Rev. Dr. Powers, who was President Garfield's pastor. When the House fa :8ed uoder the control of the Republicans an effort was made by the Republicans to oust him from the chaplaiacy of the House, but when the vote was taken | enough Republicans voted for Milburn to re-elect him by a large majority. Later he was chosen chaplain of the Senate and he was succeeded in the House by Rev. Henry N. CoudeD, who is also blind. Unless Chaplain Milburn decides to voluntarily withdraw there is not much doubt but that he will again be chosen chaplain of the Senate. It is not likely that the organization of the Senate will take place ior some time after the assembling of the body. Handy Relic Factory at Gettysburg.?According to a facetious Germantown man, who has just returned from Gettysburg, there is hidden away in the woods, a mile or two from the battlefield, a relic factory. It is a twostory building of brick, 80 by 100 feet. Twenty-nine hands are employed in it, and the weekly pay roll averages $300. The value of this year's production will not be far from $20,000, an increase of forty per cent over that of last year. The relic factory was only built in 1898. The production, the Germantown man says, consists of old buliets, old cannon balls, soldier buttons, buckles, swords, pieces of bone ; and sabre-taeches, all, of course of a very ancient and worn appearance. > These are the cheaper products. ; There are, besides, the finer and more . costly lines. Testaments bored through by bullets, love letters burnt by powdei t and stained bark with blood, skulls 5 with big leaden balls lodged neatly ic r the eye-sockets or *he jaw, and the ) full uniforms properly punctured anc i bloodstained, of all the officers slair k upon the battlefield. The factory . makes nothing in advance, thus avoid i ing ever-stocking. It only runs oi 3 orders, and by night customers call fo; , their goods. They are the inn keepers i the grocers, the saloon keepers, baker and real estate men of the town, ant ) whenever it is moonlight they may b< 3 seen distributing the rare relics cau 3 tiously and judiciously over the field - Visitors there now are more numerou i than they used to be. [ Mutually Agreeable.?On one o "r the recent warm days a sour visaged middle-aged, fussy woman got on on of the smoking seats on an open car ii g the subway, says the Boston Trans j cript. Next to her sat a man who wa smoking a cigar. More than that tb woman sniffing, made out that the mai j had been eating onious. Still mor t than that, she had the strongest kim of suspicion that he had been drinkinj beer. The woman fussed and wrigglei and grew angrier, and looked at th g man scornfully. Presently she couli endure it no longer. She looke squarely at him and said: " If you were my husband, sir, I\ give you a dose of poison !" ' The man looked at her. " If I wer ? your husband," said he, " I'd take it! e ?Siberia, long looked upon as j i frozen waste, is becoming a veritable Mecca for immigrants. Their numb e : last year was 400,000 and with increas ing facilities of travel the movemen , thither is likely to become of a volume s comparable to the flow of populatioi z toward the United States at its high t est. The attractions are fertility o i. soil and mineral wealth. Betweei 1. J M ~ OO i^T r jl'Jujsk. auu Jxwz.utJ8a. lie 40, jlui tquar 1 miles of coal lands, while the existenc< a of i ron ore yielding as high as 60 pe f cent, in close proximity to coal in th< i Amur territory, gives promise of ai - industrial future. Wheat ripens 1j 3 the region of Irkutsk within 107 dayi 1 and tue cold season lasts only 97 days 1 ?There are few people who cai a claim to have heard their own funera " sermon. Rev. ?. R. Johnson, of 11 ul ' berry, Indiana, once passed .througi r this unique experience. While suffer Ing from an attack of catalepsy Mr [ Johnson was declared dead, and as h< [ was lying in his coffin he heard his fun r eral sermon preached by a brothei _ minister. He was conscious of wha' " was taking place about him, heart r the physician pronounce him dead . and witnessed the preparations made for his burial. The spell was broker just after the eulogy had been pro nounced and his restoration to health r followed. [ ?The Senate has always been con j trolled by lawyers, and Blaine was ai r a disadvantage because he did not be long to the profession. The law-lord* were disposed to disparage and floul him, but he was disrespectful to the verge of irreverence. " Doth the Senator from Maine think I am an idjit r (idiot, ?" roared Thurman, in reply to - an interrogatory Blaine put to him one day in the Pacific railroad debate. "Well," bellowed Blaine, "that depends entirely on the answer you make to my question 1" ?An exchange says a gentleman in vited some friends to dinner, and as the colored servant entered the room he accidentally dropped a platter which held a turkey. " My friends," said the gentleman, "never in my life hare I witnessed an event so fraught with disaster to the various nations of the globe. In this calamity we see the downfall of Turkey, tne upsetting of Greece, the destruction of China, and the humiliation of Africa." ?The death of Mr. William H. Appleton removes one of ine oldest booimen in America. For sixty years he had been connected with the house of D. Appleton & Co., for many years past as its head. He had personal or business relations with Thomas Moore, Halleck, Bryant, Thackeray, and scores of other authors of England and the United States during the last half cen-1 tury. He was one of the leaders in the fignt for international copyright. ?The tobacco growers in Florida will increase the acreage in tobacco next year. The Cuban and Sumatra seed for cigar leaf are the kinds best adapted to the Florida soil. Tobacco is the chief agricultural product in the northern and western portions of the State, and the crop is frir more profitable than oranges were before the great freeze of several years ago. ?" The lies the blamed newspapers publish about us"' said one politician to another, " is lenough to drive a man to drink." " Yes, that's so," replied the other; " but still we have no cause for complaint." " Why not ?" asked the first, in surprise. " Well, it might be much worse," was the reply, " they might publish the truth." ? W. C. Coleman, a negro, has started , a large cotton mill at Concord, N. C., which has 5,000 spindles. Mr. Cole- . Z 1 A U 1 man is aaiu tu to wo weaibuieub representative of his race in America. ?A spinster who is still living in hope says the marriageable age is any- ! inhere between the seminary and the ( jemetery. i THE TRUST PROBLEM AND THE * CRY AGAINST WEALTH. n Nowadays one hoars much of the J "senseless cry against wealth" and everyone who dares champion any measures for the protection of labor is dubbed a "demagogue," "socialist," or "anarchist." But all admit that great changes in the relation of capital * to labor are taking place. And to get . a proper and just conception of these changes and the final re-adjustment, * we must come apart from the thiong . and view the matter with as little feeling as possible, says the Progressive ^ Farmer. Af la onaK n fViintr HQ a KJi (JUIliac, 111 CI 1/ 10 ouvu I* tiuug ?~ # "senseless cry against wealth." There ' are some who never consider the rights of property?or rather the rights of ] the property owner. There are some who foolishly hold that no one labors * or benefits the world save by muscular , | labor. Then, too, we have people who ( would give the same remuneration to , a Shakespeare or an Edison as that , earned by an ordinary day laborer, forgetting {hat the inventor or poet, to render proper service to mankind, needs much that the day laborer neither requires nor desires. The theories of these persons are, of course, basically wrong. There are, on the other handlersons who recognize no rights save those of the property owniug individual. These cry "demagogue" and "socialist" at those who oppose injustice and with these epithets attempt to muzzle the opponents of oppression. They abuse the striking day laborer for using his power, his muscle, to prevent competition, but have never a word against the equally wicked course of capital which often forces strikes by using its power, the dollar, to restrain liberty and establish monopoly. These people tell us that the satne regulations regarding the accumulation of wealth that were in force a century or half century ago should apply now. They tell us that the trust evil will settle it1 self; that the trust problem is solely a business problem, demanding no attention from our law-makers. These doc| trines, like those of the anarchists and socialists, are dangerous and un-Amer| ican. > And why? Whj do we hold that J restrictions different from those in fnrrp. HO vears axro ahonld be Dlaced [ upon the accumulation of wealth, and , that trusts are dangerous now, though \ trust movements a half century ago i would have constituted no ground for j fear ? Why is the trust problem one - of the greatest questions of the centu1 ries ? These are pertinent questions. r Let us consider them. They are seri^ ous questions because many intelligent I men believe that as the trust has 3 sprung up within the past few years, - that it will of itself vanish within the . next few years. This is a serious, a s fundamental error. The trust is made possible by the changes that nineteenth century progress, the advent of steam >f and electricity, have wrought in our i industrial system. Monopoly, a thing 0 impossible before, is made possible l?y Q these changes, but is not an inevitable j* result of them. Corporations and e large aggregations of capital are the Q necessary result of thele changes, but e the trust is not. d To build railroads, factories, or im| prove in almost any way the oppormties afforded us by the inventions ^ and discoveries of this century we must 3 have corporations, and if those corporations are properly restrained and not d allowed to stifle competition, they are not injurious. But the trust or mon0 opoly which attempts to rob the people of all the benefits of nineteenth century invention by taking to itself all their a. profits and benefits is injarious to the ' people and dangerous to liberty, f Before the steam engine commenced t its work of revolutionizing oar indus3 trial system, capital and labor went 1 hand and hand. But there have been - changes; capital and labor are now ? largely dissociated. The stage coach, a driven in many cases by its owner, has ? given place to the steam engine manr aged by servants of the railroad mag3 nate. The individoal weaver, with his 3 own hand loom, has been superseded 3 by (he factory hand, hired by the mana ufacturer. The machinist, using his own capital in his own shop, has been 2 forced out of business by the employees 1 of the great foundry manager. Hun dreds of similar illustrations might be 1 given. To make a long story short: " the machine has divorced capital from ' labor and has largely placed the laborer ? in the power of the capitalist. The r laborer can do nothing without tools, t and while in other days lie owned 1 them, to day they are in the possession , of others. And he, without crganiza5 tion, is in the power ol those who own 1 the tools. And in this we see the reason for alarm over the condition of labor; this tells us why the trust is possible [ now, though it would have been im. possible two score years ago. As i Henry Wallace recently said in WaU i lace's Farmer: i "There are some features of the -, present organization of capital in coa' nection with corporations and trusts 1 that are clearly permanent The time is past, and that forever, when the i workman will own his tools. Hence> forth he willhave nothing to sell but his skill and labor. The tools of modern civilization aie so complex and costly that in the great factories, in mines, and in transportation, the laborer cannot afford to own them. He himself can use but a small part of the tool, and apart from that use his labor is worthless. Deprived of that use his skill is of no avail and he is helpless. The tool in modern industry is a part of a vast complicated system of ma-, chinery devised for the purpose of making labor more efficient. Its cost runs into thousands aud hundreds of thousands of dollars, and hence the division of labor which has so multiplied human power has entirely and forever separated the workman from his tool, and to restore the old conditions would be to set back the dial of human progress many degrees, and certainly de- , stroy the present social and industrial i order." j Such is the problem. To talk of a i change of conditions, to talk of the t trust problem settling itself, is idle and ] dangerous. As a non-partisan weekly, ] one of the most powerful and one" of 1 the most conservative in the country, r recently said: - a "Inventive genius?planting, bar- c vesting and manufacturing by mechan- * ical methods?has made it possible for n one man's labor to supply the means P of life and comfort to hundreds ; and j1 the same inventive genius, calling to 11 its help vast combinations of capital, tl has created conduits for the distribution and exchange of commodities over large spaces of the globe, by land s< and sea. la '.'Naturally, the nations that are vj most intelligent and enterprising ren- tx 3er the laigcst service and reap the g< largest benefits. Naturally, also, a tc small minority of any population be- p< jome captains of industry, and direc- tu ?rs of the great financial operations pi ? rhich fill the sluices of business, and iake the mighty wheels go round. "This situation makes two thiugs os8ible. The strong and prosperous ations have it in their power to crowd nd oppress the lower or slow er races hat will make up the large majority of aankind, and the few men whose geiius for management, or advantage of ?osition, places them in the lead, can ompel their fellows to pay them undue 1 ributes and to depend on them for itrmission to live on the planet. "In short we have reached a condi;ioa where the human multitudes, by jenerous, equitable dealing, might live vith less exhausting labor and more iitional happiness than ever before; md yet it is a condition where the jellish use of power may easily create aew ami cruel forms of tyranny and jorfdoni, which must be the seeds of conflict and revolution." p This is a broad and sensible view of the case. The trust problem will not settle itself, because in human nature there is that greed and coveiousne&s, that lust of power, that has asserted itself in every land and in every age. If the people would preserve their freedom, they mu^t remember that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.?' A RECORD OF PROGRESSIVE FARMING. Mr. Joseph T. Anderson, of Cobb County, is one of Georgia's leading farmei-s. His farm of 1,650 acres lies seven miles southwest from Marietta, four miles northeast from Austell. The drive down is over a splendid read, and easily made, and is through one of the most prosperous farming sections of Cobb County. Among the farms pjissed are those of CoL R. 1'. Nesbit, W. J. Manning, A. C. Edwards, J. P. Cheney and others. These beautiful country homes and splendid farms show every sign of prosperity, happiness and contentment, making the. drive to the Anderson farm a most pleasant one. On arriving there a spacious old time farm house, with large lawn, wellshaded by fine oaks, and surrouuded by commodious barns and outbuildings greet you. His cow barn, which is the largest building on the farm, is fitted up with stockB and modern barn improvements. Here from sixty to 100 head of cattle are cared for with ease. He has his Darn so arranged tnat ne saves all manuie, both solid and liquid, and says the manure furnished by a cow will pay well for her ieed, if no revenue was made in any other way. He is now milking sixteen head of cows which yield an average of thirty gallons per day. This milk is carried immediately to the separator, where the cream is taken from it and the skim milk fed to hogs and calves. He is getting ninety pounds of butter per week, which is put on the market at 25 cents per pound. Mr. Anderson says it is just as easy to make good butter that will bring 25 cents, ?s to make > an inferior quality and get'less. He has about thirty beautiful heifers which promise to increase his supply for next . year to more than donblethe present a production. His hogs aie the finest the country affords. He has Berkshire pigs for which.he was offered $25 apiece at J three months old. This statement will .-.1 doubtless open the eyes of some of the "lazor back" producers, but if they should see the pigs all doubts would be removed. There are four in one litter if that at three months and seven days old, weighed 157 pounds each. Their gam in twenty-seven days was fiftythree and one-half pounds each. More perfect pigs were never seen, and some Georgia farmer will have to compete with these at the State Fair this fall. He has one brood sow which has yield- | ed him an average of $60 per year for the lost three years. He thinks this 2 so w worth more than a "cotton patch." Mr. Anderson sayB sorghum is one of the best feeds for hogs he has ever tried, lie also .grows artichokes for ; them, and has raised 800 bushels pet -'v$ 1 ' .*?& acre. .. Four hundred tons or more of hay have been harvested off his place this year. Sorghum and pea vines, he says, make the best hay he raises. He sowed 100 bushels of each this year. He gives . two good reasons for growing them to- ' gether. . 1. The mixed hay is better feed than either separate. 2. Sorghum is a very exhaustive crop, and when cut, the roots put forth shoots and grow till killed by frost* and the peavine being a good fertilizer, will add to the land as much as the sorghum takes away. Besides the 400 tons of hay he will have seventy tons of shredded corn, fodder and ear corn in abundance, and ^ 100 tons of ensilage or green cut corn. His ensilage pit will hold 200 tons. His wheat and oats are splendid, and he is now getting 75 cents per bushel for seed of a very fine winter variety. They successfully weathered the blasts of last winter and yielded. someUung like forty bushels per acre. Turnips, he says, is a paying crop. * "Last year I sold $10.30 worth off that little piece of ground you see there," which was about one-seventh of an f. acre. They arc profitable for cattle feed and also for market. "I will raise several hundred bushels this year, and have raised 1,000 bushels in. ? one year. J. have tried a small crop of broom corn this year, bnt not enough to test it. I think there is money in it, . and will test it more thoroughly next year." Mr. Anderson has tried various ? grasses for pasturage, and is thoroughly satisfied that Bermuda is by far the best for this country. After another year he expects to have his farm fenced in forty acre lots and rotate crops and pastures. It may not be generally known, that - Sf the by-products of fruit stores are of considerable value, says the Scientific American. The pits of peaches, apricots, nectarines, plums and prunes, - | which have heretofore been thrown ^ away or used for fuel have a market ralue. This is specially true of the peach and apricot pits. There is noW a strong demand for them at $8 to $10 a : " on, delivered in San Francisco. The ternel is, of course, what is sought, from the kernel of the apricot Turkish 'nut candy" is made, which has alnost displaced the almond. The same ubstance is used for the adulteration if cinnamon, all-spice and nutmeg. 'russic acid and essence and oil of alionds are made from the peach and rune pits, and these flavors are used i many ways. The pits are cracked C > ^ i Sau Francisco, and the kernels are > v ten sent Fast. ???^ Y Until recently broom corn hat been illing at $60 per ton; but within the at four weeks there has been an ad- m wee of $60 per ton. The price has sen runup by speculators trying to st control of the market to $110 per m, and some are now holding for $126 it ton. In consequence manufao- ; irera are beginning to advance the ice of brooma* j