The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 10, 1887, Image 1
VOl,I'M F, I.
v A KIN DIM', 11 son,.
(/ r<>/n The J'eur/.)
? 11 \ i?Ti:it ii.
lw the room ahovo the one oecu-i
I., a'i.... i II ?
I ri. . I ' y IIUMIIUI it I It I I KM" 1 I'M'll( I,
two voting men were seated; otU' i?:itientlv
enonj^od in studying a timetahl",
tin' other, who was rather
voun?rer, impatiently apostrophisine*
VV .'ailroads, the town, and especial
the accommodations of the hotel at
which tliev were utoop njr for the
niirht.
A stranoer* looking 111 noon these
(women, would at onee set them,
down in his mind in this wise: the
vounj.rei\ a man of wealth, iravelinif
with his tutor; or, perhaps, with ui
poor relative, whose meek temper
and wis" acquirements commended
him to the favorable consideration of
his n >re wealthy, and less experienced
kinsman. This, no doubt,
unmld be the verdict of a majority of
observers; and, as it often transpires,
the majority would lie altogether
wronef.
Jack Norton, the patient man, instead
of heinir the jioor relalive or
the learned tutor, was comparative!y
wealthy, and would have been exoeediiu'lv
rich if he had not been a ]
philanthropist at heart, lie did not
expect to reform the world; he fully
understood how hard it is to drive)
poverty and wronir out of it; his!
mind was not clothed with conceit;
he felt instead, constantly discour
a?p'd because, ovon his small sphere)
of life, the wroti<r went 011 as thoughi
it were a matter of no importance,
whether lie fought far it or opposed
it.
I>111 .lack was a philosoper; he indulged
in no visionary schemes, lnitj
Inisied himse'.f amono the poor of his
own family, addine his more destitute
cousins, caring alike for those
who were wasteful and improvident,
thereby eonrtinjr povertv, and those)
who were ill or otherwise unfortunate,
until it came to pass that nut :
only his cousins, cousins, cousins
came to him for help, and did not
come in vain.
Raymond Xorris was a cousin's
cousin; a handsome, taking fellow.so
handsome, in truth, he was usually
forgiven for the self-important look!
upon his face, and the self-important |
airs that characterized his conduct
Generally. lie barely missed beiiio
a o-enius, and was always on the eye
of distiiijruishinir himself, or of maki11jjf
a fortune, or some other eijally
startliiiLT tliinir. There was a plan 1-;
bility in nearly all of his schemes; in
short, thoy possessed everything nee-1
essary to curry thoni out except the
0110 most important element --sue
oess. And Raymond was able to al-|
ways explain so clearly the reason j
why this one element was wanting,
he usually Lucceded in convincing
everybody that he was simply the
victim of adverse circumstances.
lie had written an article on tlie j
labor question which found a pub-:
lisher, and forthwith he betran a be ok
upon this ever fruitful theme; the
book, however, was hiss fortunate
than the shorter dissipation, f<?r no
one was willing to risk the expense |
of putting it in print. There were
o'ood things in the book .lack
Norton felt sure of this after wadintr i
through niuiiberless pn?*es of MS.
but the trouble lay in" the fact that
Raymond had not studied the labor
question eloselv enough; lie needed,
in short, the observation that travei
only could ifive; and so it came about
that Jack Norton invited Raymond to
accompany him on a tour of inspect- i
ion to several laroe mills and fact- 1
ories in various towns and cities, that !
lun mijjdit thoroughly master the sub-,
jert. (if such a thine were possible),]
and make his book a success.
Tt only needed a month spent in
bis companionship to convince .Jack '
that Raymond would never make]
ttiiy tiling a success; and to I hiymoiid's 1
disgust, he was ahout to l>rin<f their
tour to an abrupt termination.
Thev were sitting Jack patiently
as usual, and Uayniond in his usual
intolerant mood, when the voices of
Kleanor Keith and Colia fJi>toti
reached them from the room below.
,Jaek smiled, for the discussion was
so spirited the words were distinctly
audible, and Uavmond lanohed aloud.
%/
"Did you over hear anything so
absurd before, Jack? Why that;
woman must certainly be a fool."
44 If so, she is an original fool," re
turned Jack, "and looks below the
surface, even though she can see hut
a short depth. And to fathom the
question of marriage is even a ipreater
task than to solve tho lalior jiroblom.
Her eyes must, ho far-seeing if
/''they can pierce the mystery that envelpes
either of these two vital questions."
IJavmond did not choose tosuiswor
. - I
this remark and ho nuulo liasto t<>,
slightly turn tho current of conver1
sat ion.
".lack," said ho brightly, "I should
liko, to write that ?^ir 1, whoever she
may be and that we can readily discover
it would be a capital joke. I
wonder if I could win her affect ions
by painstaking correspondence of the
goody-goody sort?"
"Why do you desire to win her
affections?" asked .lack. "Do you
t
~ - -
44 3e tikttie:
think of l>roakiti<r vour on?ra?roinont
with Sue?" i <i
".lack, for a limn of moans, who s
has seen as much of the world as vou t
have, vou are the most truly verdant, I'
matter-of-fact individual I know. ! |v
simply meant the thino as a sort of e
praedcal joke on a girl who advertises h
herself puJilicly. It might lie amus- j
t V
"It would In* very heartless. Sin* n
h;id no intention of advertisino* her-j tl
self, people who do such things are s
less frank than she. At most she is 1
only thoughtless, and you see that v
since Iter father sj oke, we do not t
hear a sound." j <
"1 do not see that it would he t
he;trlless to write her. She would "
prohahly take it as a toke."
"Sin* mioht; hut she seems all
strange, earnest sort of tprl. llay I v
mond, I have no rijrht to meddle1 t
with you or your inclinations, and I t
rareh' do, hut I want to advise you, j t
to-nijrht." I l
' Vim never meddle with anybody, I
except to <lo jrood, and von know
you have a perfect rijjdit to say what i
you please to me," said IbiviUoud. i
with, apparently a parent deal of en- j i
thusiasm. i <
"I have no rii^ht exept the rij/ht v
which frindslii|) o ves to hoth alike
to interfere with von in any way. i
lint I want you t:> promise me vott j c
will not write to that Lrirl."
4'Jnok!" rather impatiently. Ad-jtt
vice he did not dislike, hut a promise i
was a dilTerent t hino.
** I wish Villi III till mill:" ....I '.......t
ly, I>ti t persistent I v. ; t
"Well, I promise,*' said liaymond, i
after si pause; for, though probably too s
indolent to write in smv ease, lie did
not relish dietation, even from .Isiek. t
.lack thanked him and ehnnoed the *
subject. A few moments later he
lounjred down stsiirs and consulted
the hotel register. And, later still,
Hsivtnond went down upon si similar
errsmd, lint they did not renew the
suh jeet that nioht. t
Next mornino, however, both lost 1
at sin early hour, though their train e
Was later, and hound for a different ?
town from the one lOleanor's fsither <
had denominated nnoodly. A.m! I
strangely, too, hoth wandered toward j t
the stsition si few moments before 1
this unorthodox train was due. c
( 'elia I ptou, wh.) knew everything ' t
sinil everybody, had met with :m sic- t
<|uaintiinee, and was walking to the I v
station, under his protection, si little e
in advance of Kleanor and he father, s
Ikiiymomi eliauced or so it seemed I
to be walking in an opposite di- a
reetion, ami so met them fsiee to faee. | s
Indeed, fortune so surely favors the | f
brave, lOleanor dropped her satchel j a
sis lie approsiched; she tisui been look ?
ino- for something which Mr. Keith <
felt cert air. she had left behind, siud . s
the satchel slipped from her hand.sill s
open as it was, siiul its eoutents were s
scattered wide ami far. r
Raymond set himself the task of i i
gathering Miss Keith's belontpnips; I <
lie wsis clever about trifles, and had s
the things together directly, and I
with little {rouble liiw I
he recoivcd curt tluinks from Mr. j
Koitli, and a smile and glance from s
lCleanor, who impressed him as bring <i
a young lady wlnso ghu.ees and |
smiles for strange young men, were : a
few. s
.lark, at a distance, watched the in- *
eident, and when, after the train had '
departed, Raymond joined Itiin, he s
looked ratiier rold and stern. But *
little was said by either, until they }i
were seated together in their own '
train, and were speeding hwift I n to- '
ward homo. Tlion, in a half-jdavfnl *
way, Raymond, who could be exceed- *
ingly winning in his manner when he N
chose, spoke.
' I only promised not to write to "
her," he. said, smilingly. "The sateh- I
el affair wasn't even mentioned; 1
even if you could not foretell that, N
luck. And really it all happened '
accidently." '
"The meeting was not an accident,"
said Jack, quietly; he was evidently
thinking of the same thing
that tor the moment was uppermost
in Raymond's mind.
"No, of course not; I wished to s
know what she was like, and simply
went to see. 1 went, I saw, I picked (|
up her satchel and its contents, and j (
now I am satisfied. Are yon?"
Jack was watching a bit of wood^
c
land that was bright with autumnal (
tints, and did not answer the query,
but his face was restored to its usual
tranquility, and Raymond emigratelated
himself that peace was so easily s
won. j
And Jack took from his pocket six (1
letters, each one oskimr him to come I
, , . ". * 'II
ami spend Thanksgiving with the s
writer, and half regretted hut not |
more than half that he had no home |
of his own in which to spend Thanksgiving
day. f
A bachelor whose yours numbered \
almost forty, Jack had always been j n
too busy with plans for others to't
think seriously of wooing a wife. It (.
could scarcolv bo said that he was z
lonely, yet. there were times when he ,]
looked forward to old acre with some- s
thing like apprehension, and even | f
now he would have been glad of the' y
companionship of a kindred soul, if
he could have known it was a thor- j
oughly disinterested one. > 1
TO yOTJE -woxeio
COX MAY.
No liiul beei. sought after I>v fortne-hunters
ououi^li to render him
mnewhat suspicious, ami he f?? 11 a
liorouoh sympathy with Kleanor
veith in her d sire to tii> I someone
rho wotihi love In r for her soul ami
onduet ami character, and not for
mauls, wealth, or position.
No onlv thought to protect her
vlion he exacted u promise from I'av
111 Mid not to write her. This duty
lone, ho fully expected to dismiss the
ubjecl, but tlio subject refused to
ilisinisscil. lie was rather vexed
vitli himself lieeause he was tinal>le
0 jnit her out of his mind. lie took
nit the morninm paper and read the
ews, and while he read thought:
she must be an odd :;irl," Then he
istened to Raymond's rnmnrks up mi
lie passengers and they were reall\
vittv remarks hut in the midst of
he very brightest one of all, he
houmht: "ami she's a pretty triil
h I t . ^
oo." And s > he lost the joke altoretlier,
and disappointed Raymond
iv not even sniilinm.
"I'm iniserahly stupid this morn*
nn, Raymond," lie said, at la -t, diinv
conscious that he had been impede.
" The approaeh of winter is the
1 rear' --a season <tf tin* year to an norrhbi
>le bachelor; the -< Tlianksmiviiij
imitations, instead of cheer! nm
no, seem to have a positive inil'di a
v about them, as if the writers said:
vou have no home of von i.eome
nd see mine in its n > ITeetive
Iress, and envy me.' A?<<1 vet, takno
all the year round, I've no doubt
am ijuito as route, t as the happiest
narried man alive."
"In all probability vou are more
o." said I Javniond.
And while lie was siniii" it .lack
V ^
houo-lit: "I'll write to that #irl tnv
( '/<> !>( Cohtin net!.)
Tllv> Veriia I I'aj (I ilioi.
< )ii tlio '20th \?f March, at ) P. M.,
lie stiii (tosm's (lie lino ami tho agronomical
Spni)Lr . Wc
sal la threat rime i mtU tin* vernal
spiinox, for, as the wolds sit_r;iify,
la\ and niolii arc eipial. and Spring
las (aimc. iJul the son did not ero-y
in> "lino" or euniuoxial where he did
ast year, luil liifl\ and a ipiarfer seeinds
of a decree behind it. This iniiiitesiinal
111la111it y of recession which
nkes place every year constitutes
vhat is called the procession of the
rpiinoxos. .Small as the ipiantitv
eesns siaco astronomical records
iave heen preserved, the recession
.mounts ?<> ihirts deirreos, or a whole
ii?*11. The retrograde movement of
lie eipiilioxes jrives to the stars an
pparent precession. As the point
vhere the sun crosses the eipiinoxtial
each year is the astronomical
tartinir point, there must l>e a contaut
increase in tho longitude of the
tars, whose risings and settings, a.s
r> t m
ecorded l?y the old Latin poets, lis
io means correspond with the present
ihservations. The cause of this
trance motion has been discovered,
t is found that the poles of tho earth
iave a "juratory" motion around the
Miles of the ecliptic, moving at ->o
low a pace that lie,000 years arc re[uired
to complete the cyel", comilete
the recession around the eeiptio
aid brinir the. sun back to tin* same
tartino point. Durinjr this ivvole
ion, wnorever 111 ino celestial shore
1 io earth's pole points, tlio nearest
tar to that point will bo the; polar
tar. Kor this mason 12,000 years
ion Caph was tho j)olar star, an'l
2,(MM) hence the poor I ess Voira will
njoy tho celestial honor. When in
ho year 111,887 this brilliant star
bines near that point in the sky to
vhicli tho North Polo if extended
vould roach, what will ho tho oharictoristios
of tho race which then
jooplos tlu; earth, how clear will ho
ho lioht that will mak plain tho
venders in the heavens. now soon
inly tli roll oh a <dass da \ ' /'roej
?> r>
(/cure Journal.
Causes all tin- Wars.
"Cases Belli has been tho cause of
core wars than .all the others torionors
in this country put too-other,"
aid tho driver of a Blue Island
venue car as la; leaned heavily
I pen his break. "Who brought on
he IInvolution? ('usus Belli. Who
tartod the war of 1812? Same
ukh. Who was it that made us fit
lie South in til? Casus Belli. Who
vas it that tried hi-' darndest to oit
ip a war with Mexico? Belli. I
eo by tho inorniid paper that the
anio beast, is fitf^erin' on a war with
Cncdand over a mess of fish. In the
onntry where I was reared a feller
lamed Host wick used to oo round
timid up fiohts between his noioh>ors.
lie had heajis of fun as it
nsted, but one day fate in the fall
n undo of mine and the Kendriek
aimly squatted themselves in a
rush heap and when Host wink came
)(>n<^ they filled him so full o? holes
hat he fe!! to price-; when they pi !;
(1 him up. i. <r chokin' the wizard
out of t.iis Belli, oven if ho
loos como from Roman and Italian
toek. Ilo'a <p>t no business in a
roe country, lie's wuss'n Satan,
low old is he, anyhow?"
It's quite natural that a boy should
>luhber when ho is whftlod.
S. C THURSDAY, M.N
TIIKCONFKDKK \TK LKADKK.
wolshlkv < <>>n? \icin <;r.v
1.1:1: to Till': imiki: or
M A It l<itOlt< H'(; II.
"lid's <>nl> (Jcncriii" '
prosse linsiiistie Ailmii'alion
tor tlio Idol of tin*
Soul li His SI ru t ('!!>
W .1 rmI v ('ominriiit? (!.
I
(f 'ithli-;i'<iin^ii Yt'ir York \Vorl<1.)
London, l-Vbniary V?'>. -Tlio leiulin?*
article in M>tornUInn's '
j zinc for March is by ( ton. Lord
W'dstdev on (Ion. Loo. Reference
, is mado in a foot note to tlio recently
|?u!d;.diod memoirs of (ion. lau* by <
'ion. I -olio mid Marous Wright, lnil
it is no souse a review of that work.
(Ion. Loo is ojyon full credit fertile
love lie liad for the I nion and for tlio i
htruo^rlo ho wont through before li-i
navliy making tlio derision to oo with 1
his own Stuto. (Ion. Wolsoloy dosoribes
how Loo accepted his coin- j
i L
mission ns commandor-iii-cluef of all 1
it,.. ..,:t;....... r -t **:.
.... .........it IM \ |[|T||||a III H
crowded convent ion of the most enii- ,
I imnt men of the State, ami then
' aws a parallel between him and i
. jo-eat MarlUoroii/^i: "(Jen Lee's
i presence commanded respect, even
from strangers, I>v a calm, self.possessed
dignity, the like of which I r
have never seen in other men. Nat
nrallv of strung passions, lie kept ,
them under perfect control l?v that
iron and determined will oT which j
Irs expression and Ins face enve evi- ,
deuce. As tliis tall, hands* one sol - L
diet'stood before his count rvmen he
was the picture of the ideal patriot.
' tieoiisrions and self pos> sse<l in his
, strong!h, he indulged o i theatrical
display of feoling. There was ii. his
face anil about him t hat placid resolve
which bespoke groat eonlidenee in
self, and which in his ease, one knows
how ipiieklv communicated its mag- j
I iM'ti'j inlluenco to oihcis. lie was
then just ,"> I years years nhl, (lie n<r
of Marlborough when lie destroved i
the I'Veueh army at Blenheim. In
many ways and on many points these
I two great men inueh resembled each
I other, Both were of a dignilie.l and i
commanding exterior, eminent I y
handsome, with a figure tall, gracefulL
and erect, while a muscular, square i
built frame bespoke ere,at activity of
body. The charm of manner which
' I have mentioned as very winning in .
I.ee, was possessed in the the Inchest i
decree by Marlborough. liotli, at
the outset of their great career of
victory, were regarded as essentially <
national commanders. liotli had |
married young and were faithful liusj
bands and devoted fathers. Both i
, had in all their campaigns the same .
belief in iii. ml.f..l m
. M Iiiv.111111 I I'M M 11*1 n;i5 |
iii whose interpositions they prayed I
! at all times. Thoy were gifted with
' 0 e same military instinct, the same
i genius for war, the power of fascinating
those with whom thow wore associated,
the spell which thev east
over their soldiers who believed almost
snperstitionslv in their certainty
of victory. Their contempt of
danger and their darinecourage con- i
r> r> r>
stitnte a parallel that is diilicidt ton
eipial between any other two great |
. men of modern times.
I'oforenee is made as to how (Jen.
I.ee organized an army of 50,001)
men in two months, and as to how in
another month he had gained a great
vietory at Hull IT,in, and had driven |
the Northern invaders back across)
the I'otomae like herds of frightened,
' diecp, his army being supplied with
ammunition, army stores and elothincr
captured there.
lie tells the following story :|
Tj./iiiv time, afterwards, when Gee.. I
i 'ope and his largo invading' army j
: had ooen sent back living across the j
Maryland border 1 over-heard this I
conversation between two Confedorjato
soldiers: "Have you heard the
news? Leo has resigned!' '(Jood
(rod!' was the reply, 'what for?' 'lie
lias resigned because he says ho can- i
not feed and supply bis army any i i
longer, now that his commissary
'general, Pope, has been removed.' j
Mr. Lincoln had just tie: dismissed!
(Jen. Pope, replacing hi u by (Jen.,
McClellan."
(Jen. Wolseloy incidentally expresses
an opinion, when speaking of p
Hull Hun, that the Confederates did
not follow up their victory there as
they should have done. A rapid and
daring advance would have given
them possession of Washington, their
: enemy's Capital. Political considerations
at Richmond wore allowed to
oulweight the very evident military I:
expediency of reaping a solid advantage
from this their lirst great suc-L
1 cess This suggests the general
criticism which follows: What most
strikes the regular soldier in these
r>
i campaigns of (ion. Lee is the inefliciont
manner in which both ho and
' his opponents were often served by I
is: -^oxxi^ co,|{(
II lit. IssT.
their subordinate commander, and
how luidlv (ho siafT and outpost work
tfonorally was performed <?n both
sides. It is most diflieult to nuivo
with anv elTeetive precision voting
armies constituted av these wer" dmino
this war. The direction and
movement of laroo hodies of newlv
raised trooos. even win...
iiinl iii'vcr c!i>v ami often imix>-sil?le
Over ami over ao-ain was the South
apparently within a stone's throw of
independence, as it has l>oen nian\
times remarked, when from want of
a thoroughly oootl staff to organize
the pursuit, the occasion was
the eneinv lost and
allowed t escape. Leo's continuations
to seeur< :clor\ were the conceptions
of a 1rul\ oreat strategist,
and when they had heon effected his
laetiets were also almost always everything
that could lie desired up in
the moment of victor\. Hut there
his action secerned to stop altogether
Was ever an army so helplessly at
I!i?> mercy of another as that of \|et'lellan
when lie beoan his retreat to
Harrison's Landing after the seven
days' lio!itin<r round Hiehmond ?
What eommander eon! wish to have
his foe in a tighter place tliyn Ihirnside
was in after disastrous attack
upon Local I'rederiekslmrcr? Net
in both instances the Northern commanders
oot safely away; and other
similar instances could lie mentioned
The critical noliOn-i' . !...?
I ? r?? ? ?1 M 11? ? ?I 1 1 I I
war, \v 11? knows the 'cover which
rcmihir troops, well ollieered ami
well directed !>v a thoroughly ellicient
KtulT, plaeod in the hands of an
able general, and who has acquired
an intimate and complete knowledge
of what these two contending American
armies were real I\ like, wil', I
think, aeree t' at from first t?? last the
co-operation of even one armv corps
nf reeular troops would have oiven
complete victory to whichever side
it foiiedil oil."
I. ?rd \\ olseley says that I ,eo told
lion that lie had only dd,000 men in
front i >f Met ltd Ian at Antietam, wi'
a ! -w tired reserves hehind, whi.
Mc'.'hdlan had an army of I0O.O00
men. lie states that Lee alw.,\
spoke well of Met Mellan, though he
spoke bitterly of none of his IA .nrn'
npp< nents.
In his reference to the thirty live
days' fielding around I'icluuond, just
before the surrender at Appottam >\
Wolseley says: "I .ee had OIlK
IHKI exhausted soldiers to Op| x >s<'
UN),000 fresh men under (Seneral
(i rant
In speakino* of the faults of (Inderal
I ^eo, ho says:
u()no of them was a too oreat
dread of wound in?r the feelings of
others, which led him to heave ineom
| MM ?' III 1114*11 III till 11111 M It! .1 111
lions. This siiftiicss of heart or audibility,
however wood in itself, may
unouiil to crime in the man intrusted
with imblie affairs at critical moments,
litre's devotion to duty and irreat respect
for ohedimice seem at times to
have made, him too subservient to
those charged with the e.ivil mjvornmeiit
of his country. lie carried
out too literally the orders of those
whom the ('onfederate Constitution
inatio his s,,juniors, although lie must
have known them to he entirely ignorant
of the science of war. 1 In appear*
to have forgotten that he was
iheifreat revolutionary chief eniraoed
in a threat revolutionary war, that
lie was no mere leaders in a political
struoole of parties carried on within
the lines of an old, well-established
form of government. It was very
clear to many at the time, as it will
be eommonly acknowledged now,
that the South could only hope to
win under the rule of a military dictator.
If (jion. Washington had
had a Mr. Unvis over him, could he
ha'vo accomplished what he did? It
will, I am sure, be news to many
that (Jen. Lee was <dven the coinn
i no < -
mi ;i11 uie * <>liI<mli;rut?5 ill*
mies a month or two only before tlio
final collapse, and that the military
policy of the South was throughout
the war <Ii<*tatc*? 1 hy .Mr. Davis as
j 'npi.ji Joj.f /\C t jw? ( til f/?# I* ? r*? * ? 'Dot!
Doe had r.o powor to reward soldiers
or to promote oflicers. It was
Mr. Davis who selected tho men to
command divisions and armies. Is
it to he supposed that t'romwell,
Imii^ W illiam I 1 !, x<\ asliin^tou or
Napoleon could have succeeded in
the revolutions with whieh their
names are identified had they sul>
initted to the will and at. horities of a
politician as Dee did to Mr. Davis?"
Lord Wolseley says that ' ( en.
I ,ee was opposed to ilie defence of
Uichmond at the last, and that he was
rioht, for if ho had drawn Gen.
(irant's j^rent armv into the interior
far away from its base of supplies
he would have greatly weakened it.
lint it w re vain to spec date. RiehiiioikI
fell and Lee'snnnv surrendered.
W'lio shall ever fathom the depth of
I joe's anguish when the bitter end
t-amo, and when beaten down by
sheer force of numbers and by absolutely
nothing else, he found himself
obliged to surrender; The handful
of starving men remaining with him
laid down their arms and the proud
Confederacy ceased to be. Surely
the crushing, maddening anouish of
awful sorrow is only known to the
leader who has so failedtoaceomplish
crisTTinr^v'
t jrr
sonic 1 <?ftv, some nohle aim, fur which
lii? has lunu striven with niioht ami
main, with heart ami soul, in tlm in- <
terests ?>f kino or of country. A
smiling face, a cheerful manner may
conceal the sore place from the eyes,
possibly even from the knowledge <>f
I his friends, Init there is no healinol '
for such a wound, wliicli cuts into t!;c 1
j very heart of liitn who has once re- J
reived it.''
The article closes with this enthu- v
j siastie estimate of the ('onfederatc
chieftain:
"When all theanory ferlintrs rous- '
ed I>y (he secession are buried with '
those which existed when the Decla s
ration of I ndependence was written;
wljen Americans can review the his- N
! torv of their last jrreat rebellion with
! calm impart inlity, I believe all will!'
admit that (Jen. I ,ee towered far
above all men on either side in that 1
! struoo'le. I believe he will be re- I
oarded net only as tin* most prominent <
lijnire of the < 'onfedernev, but as the '
; oreat American of the nineteeiith
cettturv, whose statue is well worth\ :
to stand on an equal pedestal with '
that of Washington, and whose metn
orv is equally worthy to he enshrined 1
in the hearts of all his countrymen." '
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What Docs it All Mean? <
t
I ^
What under ?|ie S'nn does the '
mean, whilst elaimine-to be a '
I
Deinoeratie journal, by its persistent
efforts to render the people dis '
contented with the only |)euioeratie
administration we have had in a nuar- 1
1
iter of a century? What does the (
H i>r/<! nrniiosr to achieve by its ' 1
i i '
stubborn reeusan oy if not, openly j '
lee I a rod hostility? The |)einoeartic 1
party never undertook to elect a
I I'resident who would follow the no |'
I lions of everybody in the 11 j'
and no such man could have held
I the confidence of the people if it!'
I had,
\nd what in the \\roi'/</ does thel'
S?/t, mi hi, so !on<r as it claims to '
/
" d< forme I )emoeracv, by its bit- '
ti 1 i' to the only |)emoeratie
nt >ve have been able to seat ^
i.art r of a century? Door the''
St//t for "U, whilst constantly and 1
l I (
ciferously puinpino up the cry, I
lern out the rascals," woo it would '
I have tnr/H'tf in upon the country? *
Don't it remember how it would '
have turned Den Duller in on us? '
Does it remember how it sneered at '
so j^ood and heroic a man as I fan- '
cock? And as to the policies of the '
I country,' where would the country M
have been if it had followed the
policies advocated from time to time1
joy this New York "Sunny" and its1
j special favorites?
Is it not time for both of these (
journals to remember that there are j .
other people in the W'ttvld besides )
j themselves, and that there is more i j
j t/ntft r'f/n' Sit/t for people to think |
about than their sapient view of I t
' thinos? Ilo.v we can help the Dein-! >
oratie party by disorganizing the |
only Democratic administration we j.
j have had in a generation, is not plain j ,
to us down hero, whether wo agree ;
! altogether witli Mr. ('lovoland or not ,
r 1
Io our inmd wo can t unset Mr. <
< 'Icvelanil lioforo tlio country with- |
1 out upsetting the 1 Vmocratic party, |
and quietly handing over the rule to
.Mr. Blaine or some other Kepuli- (
! lican. But, of course, we can't ex- t
| pcct patriots like Pulitzer and I hum ?
to take so poor a view of things; or
possibly, tlicy would turn out tlio I |
Democratic ("liief and let Blaine or
{ some other Hepuhlican come in. Is
this what they mean by "turning out i .
j ? V < ^
i the rascals?" If so, thoy are on the |
right track. Columbia Iie<li8tci'.
Fishing With Dottles.
The natives up at Lake Villa, near
J the Wisconsin line, buy a bottle of
whiskey and drink the contents.
Then they put the cork back hi the
bottle fasten about live foot of line
around the neck and bait the hook
j with a minnow. When they reach
I deep water thoy throw the bottle
| away from the boat and wait for results,
(>f course, the hottie is as
buoyant as a cork, and the action of
the waves has the effect of keeping
the bait in a constant state of agitation.
Bn and bv the pickerel comes
along and snaps at the minnow.
The hook catches him before ho
know it, and then the bottfe begins
> p
! to scoot under water or scud along
on the surface. The natives in the
boat may bo playing soven-iip or
whiskey poker, but the minute the
bottle begins to skip they drop everything
and begin to pull out the flask
as though a sea sorpent was after
| them. I j
It in reported that the land in Tvr- '
mil county on the coast of North !
Carolina, lias risen a foot since the !
earthquake of the )l!st of August.
' Mr. Mrown," said Dumlev, "I
call to request your daughter's hand |
1 in marriage." ' ]
"Her hand?" j ,
"Yes sir." |1
"What's the matter with asking j
for the girll?" j
Says an exchange: "Women should .
never use a Hat-iron on their huslvands |
I to smooth out matrimonial difficulties. <
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NUMBER 33.
I >1 >1 BOSTON MAIDS.
(iir!s \VIm? Mli.jt>\ One Whit*'!*
; 111?1 llll'll l,(isc i?ri?_
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Last Yi'iir thorn were forty debuantes
in society, of whom Huston
Ivor rot I, with u propor pride and rejoiciij?r,
there was not onu without
mine acknowledged charm. The
.vinter wont by, Lent came, then
iprino and summer, and the annual
vxodus to Heverlv and Naliaht found
lot one of all the enliuntiiie forty
itIhw married or entfa^ed. Now,
vhy was this ? There is no doubt
hat in some cases the youim women
vero too exacting, like the celebrated
'Three Old Maids of Leo," or that,
n others, the eallant cavaliers were
aint of heart and dared not tako
ipoii themselves the respotisil>ilil\ of
irovidinjr those I 'archer ifowns and
bdlander hats, which enhanced the
ovehnoss of the adored ones to such
i decree. Hut the fact remains that
ill the forty are till siiifrle and that,
. . H 1
vith the present season, another
mtcli <tf buds has bloomed out to
ake the'r places, and to push them
iack into the second row in that
{rand ballet that the world calls so iety.
Are all those pretty cr atures
o be laid He .i the shelf, as the say"tC
iroes? It seems so. Men are
ifraid of them. Their price is too
lioh. If they led less frivolous and
'asliionuhle lives, wore simpler clothes
ind learned to cook ami manatee a
louse, they would not be a whit less
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|#M1 il I MOUHUIl'IS tlllU'S
iiiiff seductive ami irresistible to tin*
mrht'lnis about town with suseeptl)lo
hearts ami slender fortunes.
Many a <_fir 1 anion.'' those, however
s sadly misinterpreted. The realism
)f .lames and llowells. the eynienl
aireasin of Thackeray, and the mod rn
tone of worhlliness which prevaiIs,
all work upon the mind feinitine
as upon its inuseuliuo rival, and
cava little chance for any jrenornm
i?r unselfish sensations. I hit, now
ind then the old love of romance and
sentiment heats in some tendoryomm
tosoin, heneath the Parisian plaits
uul rills that conceal its heaving
roni a rude world, and the Maiden
liostonian, outwardly "icily regular,
iplemlidly null," longs and yearns to
income the heroine of a grandofi'dire
h, ft nr. In one moment she would
'orsuke her ancestral halls for the
nimhlest fjueen Anno to he found in
lie neighborhood of Boston. Hoston
II< I'd/ I.
t/iiccr Story Of i? Theft.
Judge William I\ Byuuin roturn d
to his home in this city a few days
igo, after an absence of six weeks in
'lorida, and found that while he was
iwav his residence has been entered
>y burglars. A trunk which con
, m
allied ^2,500 worth of solid silver.varo
had been broken open by the
mrglurs and all the silverware
stolen. The loss of this valuable
.vare ercatly disturbed J iidife Bynum
O > O J
uul in his efforts to get a clue he
undo a visit to the ollico of the
Southern Kxpress ('onitmnv in the
lope of finding u track of its shipment.
In this, however, ho was unsuccessful,
and lie had turned to leave
lie office when one of the clerks called
him hack.
"There is a heavy box for von
tio?o," said the clerk, "shipped from
New York."
"Well," the Judge answered abstractedly,
"send it down to mv
house."
Judge Bynum then returned to
his law office, and all thoughts of
the box passed from his mind, but
when he went homo to dinner ho
found a hea' " iron hooped box awaiting
him. (Jurious to know what
the box contained, .1 mitre Bvnum
proceeded to open it. lie found
that it was a double box, and when
the inner lid was removed ho was
astonished to see his missing
silverware. The goods were packed
in the most careful manner, and
as the now thoroughly mystified but
delighted Judge removed tho articles
one 1?v one lie found that every
single piece of the stolen silver had
he >n returned. Not so much as a
spoon whs missing, and the ware had
not been injured in the slightest degree.
The mysterv of the theft and
the retun of tho goods, it a most puzzling
character.
This Knil.t I lie Kcconl.
Cincinnati, March 1. -During the
severe wind storm, which prevailed
hero on the tilth, several gentlemen
11 the Kastorn part of tho city were
struck I?v a shower of little pellet-hopod
ashes and mud. It has now
levolopod that the strange particles
ire not known in this country, and
Prof. Curtis, a prominent lnierosco[>ist,
gives it as his opinion that the
[idlets are portions of lava from
Vfnuna l.oa tno volcano in the Sandwich
Islands now ir. eruption. The
Professor in h detailed statement
\r'wr strong reasons for his theory,
nul the subject is attracting much
ittonticn. The distance from hero
to Manna l.oa is 1,200 niiUsiu a
straight lino.
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