The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 01, 1894, Image 4
?wr jramitij Story.
A WAR STORY.
Between Fairfax Court House and
Washington citv, there was still standing
in a state of good presorvatlon, at
the beginning of the ill-starred war of
the States, a venerable colonial building,
which, though built for Church of
England divines, was known to the
Confederates as Fall's church. Near
it stood a substantial mansion house of
the plain, square style so common
among the wealthy classes of that part
of Virginia. Its inmates consisted of
Mrs. Dulany, a widow lady of elegant
and refined manners, with her son and
daughter. Edward had just reached
his majority, and was then captain of
me 'fall-Tax Rifles, as successor of
Captain Marr, who was killed a few
weeks previously in a night charge of
Federal dragoons. Susan, just seventeen,
was spending a few weeks with
an aunt in the city of Washington.
During the month of June, 1801. the
Federals established a picket station
at Falls' church, and their linos included
Mrs. Dulay's dwelling, but excluded
her spring and stables. Though
very much inconvenienced by their
presence, yet the commanding' officer
allowed ner major domo, Daddy Ned,
to make tri-weekly trips to Washington
with his milk wagou without
molestation. His constant attendant
was his daughter, May, who was one
of her young mistress's maids, of the
same uge aud similar stature.
The family with whom Susun was
sojourning had many friends among
Federal officers, and she sooi became
a groat favorite, and more than one of
them worshipped at the shrino of her
wit and beauty; but none could win
her heart, for true as the noedlo to the
pole, it was lixed upon a dashing
Virginia cavalryman, to whom she had
been previously betrothed. In parting
she promised him to ascertain the
time when the Federal army would
move on to Richmond. This information
was of vital importance to the
Confederates: without it, Beauregard's
small force would bo a slight impediment
to the onward march of so great
and fully equipped an army as McDowell
had marshalled. Unless
General Johnston, then in the valley,
could reach Manasssas in time to unite
with Beauregard, the latter would be
crushed. The Confederates had many
agents in Washington ; but down to
the 13th of July nothing positive had
boon carried to Beauregard. Saturday
evening l>eforo tbat date a brilliant
array of uniforms shone in tho
parlor* of Mrs. B , Miss Susan's
aunt, and among them the love-sick
officer who was seeking to win her
affections. Conducting her to a bay
window, with impassioned oarnostness
ho exciaimed :
"Oh, Miss Sue! will you] not have
pity on mo V"
" Ah ! what can bo tho matter,
colonel? You are looking quite well,
indeod 1"
" Why, then, mon ami, luy looks
fail to index my feelings. I have had a
vision, or oerhapsa dream. It seemed
1 was leading my regiment into the
approaching buttle with the rebels,
and as 1 charged, a bullet struck mo
in the chest, and whilst 1 was falling
into tho arms of a friend I awoke."
' 'Why that is iudoed a frightful
dream ! But you must remember our
grandmothers have always taught us
that dreams go by contraries, and 1
am sure the rule applies with force to
yours, for their is not likely to be any
moro fighting, as all questions between
the sections are to bo adjusted by arbitration."
" Ah ! my dear young lady, 1 wish it
could be so; already enough blood has
been shed by brothers of a common
ancestry, to appease tho masses of the
departed leaders who commence this
strife : (Sotto voce.) But alas ! peremp
tory marching orders have been issued
for Tuesday morning next."
"'Twas this order, then, caused your
wretched dream ?"
" Yes, no doubt, for 1 believe dreams
are the reproductions for tho most pari
of our waking thoughts."
" Then I pity you indeed, as you are
wont to have such horrid waking
thoughts !"
" A truce to your badinage, me chere
mademoiselle; do be serious on the
ove of our parting, perhaps to meet no
more!"
"Why, Colonel, 1 was never more
serious in my life, and 1 cannot but
think, as you are such a dreamer, the
order you mention came to you in a
dream."
"Indeed, then, I will convince you
of its reality, for I wish you to be
serious and listen to me." Handing
her a paper, he continued : " Here is,
inter nos, the general order from headquarters
; so you see there can bo no
mistake."
" Oh ! can it bo so? How sad !"
And here the young colonel eloquently
told the story of his love for the fair
young Southern girl, in utter forgetfulness
of General Order No. 1, which
she still kept in her possesion. Meantime,
she scarcely heard tho declara
tion of lovo, so pro-occupied was ahe
with tho determination to koop that
paper fraught with the destiny of her
dear Southland. But ahe seemed to
givo earnest heed to his burning words,
and whilst gradually concealing the
paper, pleaded her youth and thoughtlessness,
but said with the true reeling
of a lady, that if he should bo
orderod into battle, she hoped ho
would not only escape dp"4.';., but even
V.jo M/.?Wu or a wound, and he parted
with her, hoping ho would return from
Richmond victorious, and fully claim
her heart. But alas ! the gallant
Colonel C fell upon the field in a
charge which ho led near the Stone
Bridge, and mirabilc dictu ! as ho fell
from his horse, aid-do-camp Captain
R received him in his arms !
Trembling with anxiety our heroino
spent that night and Sunday in planning
how to pass the codon of guards
which surrounded the city. Indeed no
one could do so without a pass from
provost-marshal's headquarters.
Monday morning came, and with it
Daddy Ned on his usual mission. In
a moment she wnicrht t.h? lfl?? 'PVw.
maid, May, daubed upstairs to sou
"Missy." It took our heroine only a
few minutes to explain to her faithful
maid that she must remain at her
auntM, hn who herself wanted to visit
her mother. And ho oho donned May'?
t'own and basque, and closely fitting
sun-bonnett, with red shawl and thick
brown veil ; and lightly tripping out to
the wagon, took her seat beside the
impatient Daddy Nod.
And ho accustomed were the sontinels
and patrols to the old nogro and
his team, that he passed them all without
undergoing examination or challenge.
And before dusk our heroine
was in her mother's chamber revealing
to her the important mission she bad
undertaken.
But many difficulties remained to be
surmounted before she could reach
the Confederate linos. Daddy. Nod
was called in for bis counsel and assistance.
8he must reach Bonham's
headquarters early next morning.
Daddy Ned bad observed that the
niouun/v. sunrise from
the road she must travel. and the
relief did not go out for an hour afterward.
" Don, missy, 1 take do horses
to water at do spring, an' vou come
wid do pall on your haid fur water
jig' liko uat gal do ebry mornln', don, I
put you on yo' pony, an' you jig' go
long 1"
Next morning, with pall on her
head, and attired us before In hor
main's costume, she passed the sentinels
and reached the spring, mounted
hor favorito pony and rod towards the
Confederate lines. In less than two
hours, whilst displaying a white 'kerchief
to hor riding-wliip, she was
halted by a mounted picket: " What,
ho ! Can it be possible ! What, you
hero, ma chore, Susie ! My queen of
hearts !" were exclamations which fell
so fast from Lieutenant Tyler, Susun
could only cry out: "O Ernest, you
madcap ?
"Stop this anil conduct iuo to headquarters
without delay. I am the
Emily Geigor of this horrid war, uud
have Important news!" "Then. dear
gossip, couio ! I am glad I have caught
you!' And so with hearts full of love
for each other una devotion to their
country, they rode into Colonel
Kershaw's camp. Colonel Koishaw
immediately conducted her to
Dunham's headquarters. The latter
placed the young heroine aud her
cavalry escort in charge of his gallant
ui ne-ile-en m11 lumoo V I ...... u
,,, - .... ,i.|,nvuuiil,
who conducted her safely to Beauregard,
at Mitchell's Ford. Then Beauregard
was euublod to signal by ilags
to Johnston's lookout, on the mountain
top; and with Jackson's, lice's and
Bartow's brigades. Johnston marched
across the country, wading the
Shenandoah, and reached the Hold of
action July 21st, in time to bear the
" burden and heat of the day."
r That events of that day carried sorrow
lo many hearts, is too well known
to all ; but to none a keener pang than
our heroine. Friday, the lUth, her
brother, Edward, was desperately
wounded whilst leading the Fairfax
Kiflos in the engagement at Blackburn's
Ford, and she and her mother
husteued to the rear to soothe his
bufferings. Ho died that day week.
Again, in the last charge, which the
Virginia cavalry made on the 21st,
near the Lewis house, a charge which,
in spirit and dash, was not surpassed
at Ilalaklava by the "Light Brigade,"
vrtittur 'IVInv f.,11 11?. .......
" J "" ?*"'! "> n?nj HUUUUUU.
Ami there upon tho field of buttle the
dauntless 1 i*l found him. "Oh,
Earnest, Earnest! you will not die!
Do not leave ine !" t uintly ho whispered
: "Hold my hand, dear Sue! l'ho
shadows of night are coming o'er mo !
Stay by mo ! for without thee, I dare
not die !" "Oh, you must not die ! 1
will freely give my life for thine !"
Hut alas ! it was otherwise ordered.
As the shade of night came on, thwro
amidst the green grass and blooming
clover, ho passed into the dark valley
of death, and gave up his young life at
his country's cull.
And no\v there are three graves in
tho old Cedar Grove churchyard : One
Fodoral and two Confederates, enclosed
by a curbstone of white marble,
surmounted by a single shaft, iu8cribed
with tnulr name and virtues
and representing the unity of the
trinity of her affections, who, still
bountiful, may bo qeen at "dewy
eve " stu iding, waiting to l?e called ;
and on Memorial day*, carefully adjusting
on Olll'h 11 ehfinlrtt. fit* ? phnp?I !i> mwl
immortelles, and twining round the
shaft an evergreen garland wreathed
with blue violets and gray moss, emblematic
of the indissoluble union of
the " Blue and the Gray " on 44 fame's
oternal camping ground."?Thomas S.
Arthur, Bryson City, N. C.
A OOLDKN UONU HEVEHEO.
He wu? Desperately in Dove Iloforo
Marriage?It Took Money to Itelease
Hi in Afterwards.
A very pretty litttlo romunce comes
from West Chester, I'a., in wnieh
Roberts Beal's girl wife, Gillie, is roiKjrted
to have received $10,0(H) to relinquish
her marriage certificate and
give up all claims upon him as her
husband, has just reached a most interesting
climax at Cain, Chester
County. If the report proves to bo
correct Beale will doubtless cease to bo
a wanderer in the far West, and return
to the life of luxury and ease
which ho formerly enjoyed as a mem1^,,.
.if ,m.> .>( 1"
uvi ?? uuo vi lltowi V/UUIit^ S WCU1I/U*
iest families.
Robert Roalc, who is u man of 60,
himself developed his fascinating romance
in the summer and autumn of
1892. Ho and his equally wealthy
brother resided in the mansion 011 the
hill, above Cain Station, on the Pennsylvania
railroad. They wore the
chief landed proprietors of the neighhorhood.
Near their mansion, down in
the little village that clusters about
the stution, was the modest cottage of
Robert Walker, a section loss 011 the
railroad, in Walker's humble home
dwelt the prettiest girl in all the
neighborhood?Lillie, his daughter?
who was sent on frequent errands from
the cottage to the mansion.
On one of these running visits to the
hill tho charms of the section boss'
daughter attracted Robert Realo, and
ho was captivated?lore at sight it
seemed to be. Subsequently besought
and found many occasions to meet his
little charmer, and, finally, one day in
October, 1892, tho two took a train to
Philadelphia, and when, two days
later, they returned, the one to the
mansion and the other to the cottage,
Lillie told with pride that she was
Robert's bride, and showed to her
nearest friends the marriage certificate
in evidence of the happy union; for afl
who heard of it the match seemed as
improbablo as that wedding of poetic
fancy in which Maud Mu'ler and tho
Judge wore wed.
Rut the romantic fires which Cupid
had kindled soeined to have boon com
pieteiv extinguished at tlio touch of
Hymen's hand. Bcalo had no sooner
claimed Lillie as his bride than he had
sought to relinquish her. Again and
aguin she called at the mansion on the
hill, hut its doors wore closed against
her: Mr. Itobort had given word that
she was not to bo admittod, the servants
said.
Two weeks after the wedding, Boale
went to Philadelphia, whither ho was
followed and traced by a detective
whom the girl bride had employed.
Then he went to Denver, Col., and has
since been a wanderer in the various
cities of the Wost.
After I Cohort's mother had died, a
few week ago, Lillio attended the
obquies, hoping there to And and claim
her husband. Hut ho was not there.
Since then she bus received and spurned
an offer of $n,000 10 give up her marriage
tcertificate and ronounco her
bridal'claims. Finally, as the impostbllity
of an intimate renewal of marriago
relations dawned upon her. she
was persuaded to give up her husband,
and thus, it is reported, the settlement
for $10,000 came about, and Robert
Realo is expected home again.
?Governor Tillman has re-appointed
Iredell Jones, of llock Hill, as a member
of the board of regents of the South
Carolina lunatic asylum. Mr. Jones
has been a member of the board of
regents for a number of years {fast.
THE DISPENSARY PROFITS.
Quarterly Report of the State Liquor
Commissioner?One HundredThou*,
and Dollar* Cleared In Six Month*.
The second quarterly report of the
State Dispensary was made public last
week. Wo uppend herewith the lauding
features of tho report, showing the
figures as compiled by tho Slate Liquor
Commissioner. In commenting upon
the quarterly exhibit, the Coluutbiu
State says:
"Tho only thing lacking from the
figures given is tho table showing how
each of the dispensaries stand with the
State. A good many of the dispensers
have not sent in their quarterly reports
as required by law, and the State
board is very angry about this failure
to comply with the requirements of tho
law. Peremptory orders have been issued
to every dispenser who 1ms not
s*nt in this report, to do so forthwith
upon penalty of immediate dismissal.
44 It will bo noted that tho statement
not only gives a summary of the business
for tho last quarter, but for tho
entire six months since tho system has
been in operation. It will be noted
that tho profits for tho quarter just
closed are more than double what they
wore for tho preceding quarter. This
is due to tho fact that the number of
dispensaries was greatly increased, and
that the holiday season came in. As
ii, is, niu suibcmcui. snows thai the
profits for the first six months of the
operation of the system have amounted
to nearly $100,000, which the commissioner
states is over and above the
$50,000 State appropriation originally
made to start the State in the business.
It will be noticed, too, that the
expense account has been very considerably
cut down. This is duo to tho
fact that no machinery, furniture,
building repairs, insurance, etc., which
came in tho first expense account, had
to he provided for. The expense account
for tho first quarter was $72,500.30,
as against $58,103.33 for the quarter
just ended. Tho constabulary force
cost about $800 less for tho quarter
iust closed than it did for the preceding
quarter."
Tho Columbia Register introduces
tho quarterly report with this statement
:
"Tho figures speak for thomselvos,
and need no comment. They show that
tho profits for tho quarter ending Janu
ary 31, 1894, wore $<>7,139. The profits
since tho Dispensary was established
are $99,337.1(5, or nearly $100,000. This
monoy has been used in buying stoek
for tho institution, anil in getting on
solid tinancial basis. The Dispensary
is able to pay back to tho State tho
original appropriation of $50,000, and
to turn into the State treasury $50,000
besides. it is believed that the profits
for a year, with no interruption, will
not be less than $250,000. In the course
of a few years the profits would reach
$500,000. Tho profits of the County
Dispensaries are not included in theso
figures, it is not impossible that tho
profits on whiskies in a few years
would furnish to tho State, counties and
cities nearly a million dollars."
The following table shows tho number
and location of tho Dispensaries,
with tho sales and remittuueos from
Oct. 31 to Jan. 31:
Dlspensarlm. PurrbMe*. flralltinrM.
Abbeville $10,782 74 $3,127 24
Nowborry (1.127 10 5,732 85
Florence 4,914 93 349 27
Darlington 6,323 46 8,244 58
Lowiedalo 1)14 30
Aiken 0,357 07 2,453 07
Edgefield 0,002 14 3,075 57
Lexington 1,279 54 364 91
Camden 1,454 70 1,055 4(5
(leorgotown 5,940 66 3,964 91
Creenville 11,434 38 8,948 77
Orangeburg h.ost 21 6.581 37
Walterlxjro 3,154 70 1,534 04
Beaufort 2,586 00 1,573 95
Barnwell 4,825 80 2,012 03
Sumter 13,541 02 7,015 38
St. Stephens 1,329 54 543 37
Mt. Pleasant 1,021 40
Eutawvillo 1,982 34 1,201 62
Monck's Corner. 1,302 30 402 72
Blackville 3.401 29 2.509 98
Bamberg 3,666 88 2,081 03
Columbia:
J. M. Roach 5,495 02 2,975 29
J. Cartledge 5,430 30 2,504 21
T. A. Scott 4,882 34 1,781 88
Winnsboro 3,630 44 1,956 88
St. Matthews.... 3,238 00 1,042 00
Munnlmr f. <U>" T.O U <r>-j <V?
Blackaburg 1,092 80 588 63
Chester 0,661) 12 3,604 40
Allendale 3,250 70 1,033 62
Fort Motto 1,568 10 406 86
Charleston :
H. A. Moyer.... 4,910 18 2,493 38
F. VonSanten... 8,193 00 3,662 74
M. W. Powers.., 4,582 49 3,012 05
C. S. Stan moyer 4,454 43 2,079 70
Branchvillo 1,823 40 763 87
Pleasant Hill... 472 80 114 57
Williston 1,008 90
Kershaw 2,250 80 1,909 77
Jtid go way 1,473 60 563 36
Summorvillo.... 3,632 84 2,296 83
Choraw 2,143 74 847 20
Anderson 6,877 82 5,07130
Laurens 10,843 64 5,695 14
Scotia 4(H) 50 152 99
Hampton 1,624 79 878 58
Lancaster 2,970 43 1,503 69
Jacksonboro 2,265 30 1,808 26
Spartanburg 4,215 78 1,056 00
Luray 748 58 161 86
Denmark 1,425) 10 741 00
Wagner -J,703 34 487 65
Chapin's 906 44 11177
Union 2,078 36
lireoiey vine i,.ui on
Kingstrce 1,021 04
Total a : Purchases, $224,001.65 ; remittances,
$120,945.70; breakage, $l,?
407.75.
THE EXPENSE ACCOUNT.
Tho expense account for the quarter,
exclusive of tho liquors purchased, was
as follows :
Constabulary, $12,080.53 ; gas, $136.57;
hauling, $664.08; printing, stationery
and books, $580.47 ; freight, $18,760.00 ;
labor, $3,320.87; coal, $110.75; ice,
$17.32; stamps and express, $145.50;
telegraphing, $54.37 ; nails, etc., $64.35;
wrappers, $600.80; glass bottles, tlasks,
corks, etc., $18,791. *2; packing boxes,
$450.08: sealinir wax. $1,110.08: mm
stables' badges, $,'{8.00: commissioner's
salary, $550.00; bookkeeper's salary,
$300.00: heating pipes, $75.25. Total,
$58,103.33.
A8SRT8.
Stock on hand an por invontory,
$55,758.03; stock on
hand Nov. 1 deducted,
$39,831.43 $ 15,920 00
Amount duo by dispensers... 99,778 50
Amount duo by others 1,703 31
Cash in State Treasury 19,713 11
Total $137,121 58
LIABILITIES.
Bills payable $ 09,982 58
Amount to balance 07,139 00
Total ....$137,121^08
PROFITS.
Profita last quarter $32,198 10
Profits this quarter 07,139 00
Total profits up to date $99,337 16
P. S.?This over and above the
amount of the Btato appropriation of
$50,(XX).
c
AN ATROCIOUS MURDER.
Lexington County White Caps?
Negroes Appeal to the Governor
anil lie Order* an Investigation.
An atrocious murder was commit tod
In Rexlugton County on Thursday
night, 16th inst., und tiio fuots are
just beginning to coino to light. It
was the brutal slaughter of a colored
man by by a number of white men.
Th? man who was killed was Cage
Robertson. IIo lived about throe
miles from Guston, the place where
threo negroes wero lynched some time
ago, and from all that can bo learned
was a peaceable and quiet negro who
stood well with the butter class of white
people.
On Thursday night, according to
the story told by bis wife, seven men,
who had their faces and hands blacked,
wont to Robertson's house and asked
him to como to the door. One of his
little daughters started to go to the
door, but being slew Robertson himself
wont. He was confronted by the men,
who weroarmed with guns and pistols.
When he reached the door he was
ordered to throw up his hands. Ho
did not comply, but smilingly said to
the men that he didn't like a joke of
that kind, and started to turn away.
As he turned, the weapons wero discharged
at hiH head and face. I'art of
his mouth and face were torn away,
und he was whet in the neck. He fell
dead in the doorway of his own homo.
The men cursed his wife, who hud
begun to scream. They then went
away.
'I ho only reason alleged for the
murder is that last year Robertson
was burning olT some new ground. Tho
tire got beyond his control, and burned
some of tho fencing of a white man.
It is said that those interested in the
burned proportv Hworo to luivo rovengo.
Tho deed of 'Thursday night was tho
bloody rovengo.
The killing w/ih investigated by the
coroner, bul the testimony has not
boon made public. It is understood
that warrants have boon sworn out for
a white man in the neighborhood and
for three of his sons. Whether tho
men have boon arrested is not known.
A delegation of Lexington colored
men called on Governor Tillman and
asked him to investigate tho murder.
The Govornor has ordered tho trial i
justice in the vicinity to make an investigation.
Tho Governor will also
offer a reward for tho urrest of tho
murderers.
The Governor has recoivod tho
following letter from a responsible
man in tho neighborhood :
'' 1 suppose you have heurd before'
this of tho murder of tho negro man,
Gago Kobortson, a few miles above
here, 'in the Sand Hills.' I take the
liberty of writing you about the matter
as far as I know, as I have doubts your
ever getting the truth about it for
several reasons. 1 will toll you in as
plain way as 1 know how. I have known
the negro since he wus a boy, and be
with bin father and brothers aro considered
among' the beat behaved and
most 4al?ifty' negroes in tins county,
( ago bought a small tract of land from
A. H. Wolfe several years ago and unfortunately
for Gag* it joined West
Hawscy's place, who is a one-legged
white man. Last your about this time
fire got out from some one and burned
a little of Ilawsoy's fence. It seems
that he hud a grudge against Gage
because he got the little piece of land
near him and accused Gago of burning
bis fenco. I will say hero now that
Gage has always been a respectable
boy (to those who deserved respect)
and ever since from what 1 can learn
ho has been persecuting the hoy. A
few days boforo the murder a son of
Iiawsey's rode across Gage's wheat.
Gago told him not to rido across his
wheat and the young Iiawsey told him
damn him ho would get him boforo
long.
"The day of the nightof the murder
lluwsey had a log rolling and had
soverul bad follows, so I hear, helping
him, and that night tho negro was
hiMi t !i 11 v iii 11 in )iiu mvn Imiini
I never hoard of a worse case, I do not
think. If you will hire a detective
and Bend him down in tho nighborhood
of lfuekaboo'H mill you will find
out who it is in less than a week.
Ifuckubeo I think knows all about it,
if bo did not help commit the deed.
Tho noodle in that back country are
hardly civilizod yotand don't mind killing
a negro any more than thoy do a
chicken. Something ought to bo certainly
done, and if tho decent white people
do not seo to it it will s<x)n dio out.
I folt that it was my duty to write you
this knowing that you did not approve
of such."
Solicitor Nelson was attending court
last week in Loxington. IIo has made
a report to tho Governor about tho
Gaston assassination and urged him to
take some stops to ferret out tho other
murderers. Four white men aro
already in jail, hut there aro others
; implicated and it will take some detective
work t,r> firul them. The Solicitor
says it was a most cold-bloodod outrage
and that it is necessary that tho
perpetrators be caught and punished.
The four men who have boon arrested
charged with tho murder aro David
and Preston Harsey and Den and Bolivar
Neese. Governor Tillman has
olTored a reward of $150 for tho conviction
of the party or partlos who
murdered Robinson.
Postage Stamps.
Postago stamps in tho form of stamped
envelopes wore first used by M. Do
Velayor, who owned a private post in |
tho city of Paris in tho reign of Louis
XIV. Over a century later, in 1758,1
M. Do Chamoust, also tho proprietor
of a post, issued printed postago slips
to ho attached to lettors. In Spain in
1610, and in Italy also, stamped covers
for mail mattor woro tried, but it was
not until 18-10 that stamps, as we know
thorn now, woro put in use. This wus
in England, tho yovcrnmont adopting
tho system devised by Rowland Hill.
Brazil was tho first country to take up
tho now invention. ^
Russia adopted tho postago stamps
next in 1815, thou Switzerland in 1840,
and on Ma roll 8, 1817, tho Congress of
tho United States authorized the issue
of postage stamps. Those were at
first a five-cent stamp and a ten-eont
stamp. Tho reduction in rates in 1851
gave a new set of stamps, valued at 1,
5 and 12 conts respectively. Other
stamps of different values wero added
from time to time to meet tho exigencies
of postal arrangements, reduction
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miles, and 0 conts for any greater distance
within tho United States. In
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for half an ounce for letters sent less
than 3,000 miles, and in 1885 to 2 cents
an ounce.
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HAItD TIMES AND THE REMEDY.
A Practical Parmer Telia Plalu Truth
In u Forcible Style.
Rowland Black in Yorkvillo Enquirer.
There is now, as well as for several
years post, a spirit of discontent and
restlessness amouug our farmers caused
by a lack of prosperity. A casting
about for some change more protitublo ;
something that will give more ready
money than the farm, with its short
crops and shorter prices, and the little
demand for the little that is to sell
from tho farm.
There are only two courses open to
us. Tho one to leave the farm and go
to the town and seok a better paying
business. Tho other to stick to the
farm und change mothods, and add
new lines and moro intelligent methods
until the farm will pay.
Now which will you choose? It
must bo tho one or tbo other. There
is no escape from making the choice ;
there is no way out of it. Wo have
gone 011 with poor farming from year
to year until wo have gone about as
far us wo can go. Our lands are impoverished,
inuny are in debt, and the
general condition of many of our farms
is pitiful to behold.
We spoke last week of the increase
of population in the towns at th? expense
of tho rural districts, as shown
by tho United Sta*os census. This is
duo to tho causes al>ovo spoken of.
These farmers who are abandoning
tliA fiirni for tlw? town will toll unn l.hiit.
they aro making the change in order
to educate their children and givo
thorn social advantage, lint tho real
euuso is that thoy huvo failed of success.
They have either lacked tho
energy, intelligence or business habits
necessary to success in any business requiring
thoso qualifications.
So far as educating tholr children is
concerned, in tho cases of most of
thoso who desert tho farm for the town
for this purpose, the expense of house
rent and the increased cost of tho
necessaries of life, as well as many
other expenses that would not bo Incurred
in a life upon the farm, would
hire a good teacher in tho country ;
and as far as society is concerned, it is
a matter of grave doubt whether or
not any advantage that might result
from association with this so-called
town society, might not bo overbalanced
by other disadvantages. If you
want your l>oy to learn to tio his
cravat in tho latest stvle. to irraeofullv
handle tho seductive cigarette, or to
do a grout many othor things more
ornamental than useful or manly, ho
will got this kind of education faster,
and more perfectly in the town, than
in tho country.
My opinion is that in a majority of
cases tho reasons abovo givon are not
tho true ones. Tho farmer has tried
one way of farming and ha"s found that
it does not pay. lie has not had the
vim, energy and perseverance, if ho
had tho intelligence, to start out
aright in the right way to success on
the farm.
There Is a way to farm and farm
successfully. We have examples before
our eyes in every community. It
is of no use to say that poor labor and
poor prices prohibit successful farming.
it has been done and is now being
douo. There is no royal path to success
in any pursuit. Success is tho reward
of patience, toll, care and tho
employment of intelligent methods.
There are 110 remedies pleasant to tho
tasto of the ills that our farmers ure
now suffering from. Tho medicine is 1
unpalatable, hut it must ho swallowed
regularly and continued for a long
timo before wo recover from our disfMLflOH.
Tho quack doctors will ho around
this summer. I mean tho politician*.
They arc going to many of your houses
to see you and toll you why you aro not
prospering, and those they do not
visit they will invito to como out to
public meetings, and they will got out
upon a stump and toll you exnetly
what is the matter with you, and if
you will como out and vote for thoin?
that is, place your case in their hands
for treatment?they will remove all
your diseases ; that the doctors you
huvo had in the past did not understand
your case, and soino of theso
quacks will tell you that the doctors
you have had in tho past, wanted to
keep you sick so they could mako
money out of you.
If you want a day's amusoment, it is
well enough to go and listen to these
follows ; hut the world over, those
quacks are a had lot, and it won't do
for you farmers to tako too much of
their medicine.
I heliove in our own homo-made
remedies for most of our ills. Improve
the farm, inako homo attractive so tho
boys will not want to leave it, got good
stock and koep thorn nice and comfortablo,
and, above all, mako farm
life enjoyable umluhandon tho practice
of loafing at tho stores and talking
hard times, and keoj) out of debt. If
you can't pay for a thing ; don't buy it.
Tho farmer who has a good homo
and plenty to eat for man and boast,
should bo happy without money in
these days when ho knows that millions
of his follow creatures in tho
cities aro destitute of food. How much
work has boon done on our farms sinco
last July except sowing a fow acres of
small grain and gathering a small
crop ? Idleness has been tho rule
among our farmers?work tho exception.
Those who havo worked the least
complain tho loudest of tho hard times.
But when tho farmer, liko tho mechanic
and business man, is found with
his business every day in tho year, he
is succeeding and is satisfied with rosultH.
You need not say there is nothing
to do. Every farmer worthy of tho
namo and of his high and honorable
calling, has so much to do that lie
wishes that there wore more than 3(W>
days in a your. Don't forgot what I
told you about those (juacks that will
bo around this snmmor. They can't
euro you ; you must apply tho remedy
yourself.
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HLANDERIN'O THE SOUTH.
Kx-Muyor Hewitt Creates a Sensation
at the Southern Society?A
Yoiiiik Virginian Defends His Own
Heel ion.
Tho Now York Southern Society, a
strong organization of nat ive Southernera,
planned an elaborato celebration
of Washington's birthday, but many of
their invited speakers did not put in
an appoaruneo. Ex-Mayor Abram S.
llowitt was a guest at tho banquet, and
was asked to till the placo of Socrotary
Carlisle. Ho respondod to the toast of
"Our National Credit." After prefacing
It is remarks with a tribute to
Sorotary Carlisle, ho proceedod to lay
out tho Southern statesmen.
"But tho character of Southern
statesmanship has decrejised from the
timo boforo tho war and hor Senators
and Congressmen of to-day are as pigmies
compared with tho intellootual
giants of that time. Tho statesmen of
to-day show little signs of having studlod
tho groat economical questions affecting
tho intorosts of our country.
Tho silver ouestion was at tho very I
foundation of the public credit. It was
duo to tho adoption of a currency not
based upon tho intrinsic value of coin '
that brought about tho silver crisis, '
The difference between the true and
the fulse value of the silver dollar is
called the seigniorage. The South
wanted to coin this seigniorage. They
might a* well try to coin a vacuwm. It
was even worse than that. It was trying
to coin a negative quantity on the
other side. There is one thing the
South wants to learn : it is that public
credit cannot bo maintained until all ;
concerned realize that there is no royal ;
road to vuluo and the Southern Ropro- j
seutatlves must rise to the heights of
the men who represented the South in j
Congress previous to the war.
"There aro other statesmen from tho ;
South who have succumbed to tho fal- j
lacy that positions in the Supremo
Court of tho United States aro local
questions to bo settled on demand of
local politicians. It might be supposed
that tho Supremo Court bench represented
tho whole United States and
that everybody had a right to demand
that it he tilled without regard to politics
or locality, it is not a matter for I
ward politicians to kick about, from
one end of tho United States to tho
other. Such men a* Calhoun, Hon ton,
Roevoa and Crawford would have resigned
their high positions in tho Senate
and gone home in sock cloth and
ashes, rather than obey, 011 a principle
such as this, a man without character
or worth and who had no right tospeak
for the groat State of Now York."
At this point there was quite a sensation
among the guests. Of this Mr.
Hewitt took not the slightest notice,
but proceodod to ask : " Aro you less
brave now than your fathers were
thirty years ago when they sacrificed
everything thoy possessed to their convictions,
that you will allow your Congressmen
and Sonutors to misrepresent
both tlioir country and tho South ?"
Mr. Ilewitt went on to praise tho
Wilson tariff bill, particularly tho provisions
which place iron and coal on tho
free list. Hut it was in dealing with
tho tariff question, lie said, that Southern
representatives hud displayed a
lack of intelligence away below tho
standard of tho men who preceded
them. It was hard to explain this, ho
said. After tho war many Southern
111011 caino North. Those who remain^
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solves to business with a viow of regaining
their shattered fortunes. Possibly
tho remainder had devoted themsolves
to politics.
Tho course of tho representatives in
Congress from the South could not bo
explained simply by devotion tosectiou
or locality. It was tho result of gross
Ignoranco. The present stagnant condition
of trade was brought about by
tho silver bill, and the South, in solid
phalanx, voted for that bill, thus making
themselves responsible for this
stagnation and demonstrating that
there was no greater enemy of tho public
interests than the fools who stepped
lu where angels feared to troad.
The conclusion of Hewitt's speech
was received in silonco. The gauntlet
thus thrown down was immediately
taken up by James Lyndsay Gordon, a
young Now York lawyer of Virginian
birth. He said .
"With all due deference to tho opinion
of Mr. Hewitt, I will 'venture to
say that tho men who stand in Congross
to-day from the South are as true,
puro, upright and sincere in their convictions
and as well equipped, both
mentally and intel'-ectually, as any
man there from tho North, East or
West. It is possible ?nay, even probable,
that the people of tlio North may
bo unable to comprehond the influences
that mould tho sentiments of Southern
people. Those of them who have voted
lor tho silver bill havo done so with an
eye to tho advancement of their constituents
and tho honor of the country at
large. in or must it bo understood that
Southorn statosmanih ip is at a discount
to-day. Tho treasury is guarded by a
Southorn man; tho great navy of Uncle
Ham is under tho direction of a Southern
statesman : A Southern man is in
charge of tho Interior Department, and
a Southern man presides, with dignity
and ability, over the deliberations of
tho House of Representatives; a Southorn
man. groat, pure and spotless, has
been raised to the Supreme Court
bench, and a Southorn man is responsible
for tho new tariff bill. This is tho
record of the men of the South to-day.
They are Southerners ; thoy are statesmen,
but above all thoy are American
citizens."
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Melville W. Fuller, of 111 ion in. chief
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California ; John Marshall Harlan, of
Kentucky; Horace Gray, of Massachusetts;
David Josiah Brewer, of Kansas
; Henry Billings Brown, of Michigan
; Goorge Shiras, Jr., of Pennsylvania;
Howoll Kdmunds .Jackson, of
'lennossoo ; and Edward Douglas
White, of Louisiana.
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A Prominent New Yorker Steals
Largely?He Commits Foi^ory and
Fraud, and Goes to tlie Tombs In
Default of Hail.
Nkw York, Fob. 21.?Erastus Wimans,
formerly manager for It. <J. Dun
& Co.'s Mercantile Agencv, builder of
tho Staton Island Rapid Transit railway,
and a prominent advocate of tho
annexation of Canada to the United
States, was arrested to-day charged
with forgeries amounting to $229,000.
Ho was arraigned before Judge Martine
in chambers in the General Sea-'
sions and committed to tho Tombs in
default of $25,(XX).
M r. Wimans expressed somo surprise
at his arrest and then asked if there
would be any opportunity to get bail,
lie said he ought to have a lawyer and
he would like to bo represented by
counsel. An elTort was made hv friends
to get bail late in tho afternoon, but
without success.
As soon as it was known that Mr.
Wimans had been arrested tho assistant
district attorney mudo known tho
complaint on which the indictment*
were found. There was no signature
to the complaint, but its authorship is
credited to ex-District Attorney Deluney
Nicoll.
Summarized, the complaints aro that
Mr. Wimans was not a partner in tho
tirm of It. (J. Dun A Co., but that he
was upon a salary und commission and
that by various uets of embezzlement
through misrepresentations, concealments,
breaches of agreement, misuse
of powers conferred to him and tho use
of powers with which he was not trusted,
he succeeded, in 1888, IKyo, 1891,
1892, and up to February, 189J, in stealing
from Mr. Dun the enormous sum of
vzzVjUio. That sum ho owes Mr. l)un
to-day. Tho complainant says that
while Wimans has committed numerous
crimes, tho selection for prosecution
is very dilllcult. Two, however,
are sure, Wimana obtained from the
cashier of It. G. Dun & Co. a chock for
$10,000 to pay a bill of E. W. Bullinger,
of Now York, forged Bollinger's endorsement
and deposited tho amount
to his (Wiraans's) individual credit in
bank. Dun Ac Co. afterwards paid Bullingor's
claim.
Tho other transaction is that WImans
procured from Dun & Co.'s cashier
a chock for $5,850, to pay the Campboll
Printing Proas Co. It was drawn
to the order of Ogdcn Brower, treasurer
of that company. Wimans told the
i-rintiny l-reas *.>o. mat JUun & Co.
woro short of funds, and asked thom to
accept two notes for tho amount. This
was agreed to. Wimans made tho
notes in his own name, forged llrower's
endorsement on tho cheok, and aj>preprinted
the proceeds to his own use.
Tho complaint says that Dun lirst
learned of VVimaus's felonious acts in
tho latter part of February, 1893, and
on the 20th of that month Sir. Dun terminated
his contract with Wimans,
dismissed him from his employ and
has never seen him since. On learning
that his crimes had been deteetod
Wimans offered to transfer to Mr. Dun
cortaiu real estate interests in Staten
T..1 1 ~1 ? ?. t \ ? m '
iDiiiuUf ui nuuiii/iui vaiuo, out Mr. I)un,
learning that Wimans was insolvent,
refused to accept them, or to receive
any preference over his other eroditors.
WimaiiB thorefore made a formal assignment
for the benefit of his creditors,
but bis assets have amounted to
nothing.
Mr. Dun did not submit Wimans's
crimes to the authorities on first discovering
them, for several reasons. In
the first place lie was moved by considerations
of sympathy for Wimans's
family, with whom lie bud been on
terms of friendship for many years, and
the piteous appeals for mercy which
Wiinans made to him in a letter. In
the second nlaco ho had then no appreciation
of the extent of Wimans's
embezzlement nor of the length of duration
bo had systematically abused his
( pujjjudence and betrayed the trust reposedfn
him.
The whole history of his many doings
had to be unearthed from the records
of business of five years. It required a
vast amount of timo and labor to find
all the irregularities by which he succeeded
in embezzling so largo a sum of
money. The whole account, with the
history of each item, was not made up
until a comparatively recent date.
Again Mr. Dun was led to believe by
the gross exaggeration by Wiman of
tiis interests in Statcn Island that it
was possible to realize something sul>stantial
for his creditors, many of whom
would suffer more severely than Dun
himself, although not in so lurge a sum.
In view of the fraud practiced upon
them, as well as upon hnnsolf and upon
the conviction that a man of Wimans's
bad character ought not longer to bo
allowed to masquorado as an honest
man in this community and as an advisor
and exhortor of youth, and out of
a sense of obligation to the mercantile
world with which ho is so closely identified,
ho decided that his duty requires
him to expose Wiman's conduct and to.'
hand him over to the authorities thaL'W
he may bo dealt with as tho law directs.
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