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1 *vJ ? - i <T>uv Tamils Story. | A FARMER'S WIFE. HV KATIE WILLIAMSON. From the Homo and Farm. " Well, sweetheart, hero wo arc at homo,'' said Hurbert, " and now I will have to leave you for a few momeuts and j;o out and see how things have been carried on in my absence. Have a seat aud when you have warmed and rested you may take a peep into the oook-room and give Sal any directions you may wish to." So saying, ho kissed mo and left ine alone with my own thoughts for the tlrst time in several days. We hud lx?en married only a week. 1 had left all that 1 had known and loved from my earliest recollections and come among strangers for Herbert's sake. This 1 had done willingly, for I loved him and knew that he loved me with all the devotion of which his gentle, noble nature was capable. 1 was a school teacher when 1 mot and learned to love Herbert and it was with many misgivings that 1 had finally consented to marry him. 1 knew that 1 was totally unfit f-n* a farmer's wife, as I had spent all my time in the school room and know nothing of the practical dllt,io?i r?f lif?? 11 n... !...? _ _ M vw v? > *%/ I IV" VTVI * UlU Ul^l few months boforo our marriage I hud endeavorod to learn something of the duties upon which I was ul>out to enter. After resting a few moments 1 went out into the cook-room and looked around, as Hubert had suggested. Sal had commenced preparing supner so I gave no orders as I was afraid I would betray my ignorance. When supper was over I stayed in the dining-room a few minutes and assisted Sal in cleaning away the table. When she asked me about breakfast 1 told her that she hud prepared a-very nice supper and she could get what she liked for breakfast, and then I went into our cozy little room where 1 found Hubert. "Well, sweetheart," ho said, "how do you think you will like your new duties ?" " You must wait awhile before asking me that, 1 haven't had time to learn what they are yet; but 1 intend to like them for your sake. I fear that 1 have done you an injustice in consenting to marry you. You could have married a nice girl who has been uncustomed to farm life, and instead you have ehosen an ignorunt ' school inarm.'" Hubert laughingly replied, "Icull that a contradiction of terms, but 1 am perfectly contented with my 4 ignorant school inarm,' for 1 know she can learn whatever she sets her wise little head to learn." "O, 1 mean to try so hard, darling, and if you will be patient with me perhaps 1 may learn to be u model wife and housekeeper." Then we talked of how wo had first met and learned to love each other and indulged in happy dreams of the future, as all young married people are wont to do. At the end of the week, Sal, the negro woman that Hurbert had employed, informed me that she had only been employed for a week. 1 had alsojleurned that none of my neighbors kept a eook, so I decided to undertake the cooking myself, with the understanding that Sal was to assist me some every Saturday. The first months of our married life passed like a happy dream. I would often go to the ginhouse and watch Hubert ginning cotton, a sight of which 1 never tired as 1 was raised in a tobacco country. Sometimes wo would ride horseback over the farm and Hubert would tell me of his plans and how he hoped to own the farm in a few years. lie had only made a small payment on it then. I managed to get on nicely with the housework, a fact which greatly elated me. Hubert was lavish in his praises of my culinary skill. Time passed rapidly away and soon the busy spring months wore upon us. It was then that the first clouds came over our married life. Hubert informed me one night that he had hired a negro boy and he would begin work tho next day, so I could prepare breakfast for him. Although I had never been accustomed to seeing ladies do their own work I knew it was the custom here, but I had never imagined that Hubert would expect me to eook for " hands." I said nothing, however, and had tho breakfast already in due time the next morning. As the farm work became more pressing Hubert was away from me from sun up until sun down, only spending a short time while at meals. How lonely 1 was. June came and then 1 had to cook for five "hands" instead of one. The weather was much warmer than I had been accustomed to, Tor 1 was raised in another State, and as I had never spent many hours over a cook-stove before inv marriage the combined heat was almost more than 1 eould bear, for my hculth was very bad, too. Hubert was always gentle and kind, but naturally ho was absorbed in his work and i brooded over my cares and troubles, as 1 termed them, until 1 grew sad and silent. One day when 1 was more sad and silent than usual Hubert drew my head down on his shoulder and said : ' Sweetheart, married life is not what you thought it would be; you are disappointed, are you not?" I did not answer in some time and then I said : "What makes you think 1 am disappointed ?" ' Because you are so sad and quiet, so different from the gay, light hearted girl of a few month ago." " 1 am not verc well and you don't know how tired 1 am sometimes, dueling," I sobbed out. ' Iladn't you better have a cook for awhile then ?" he said. Now. none of my neighbors had cooks and 1 wanted to be as smart as they were, so I said : " No ; 1 will try to do without one." December came around and it was the anniversary of our weeding day. I was seated in my room with my little baby girl, Malnd, in my arms. Iiul>crt came in and said ; "Katie, we have been married a year to-day." ' Yes, I whh just thinking of it," I replied. Then wo reviewed the past year together. " I have fallen so far short of what 1 expected to bo, Hubert, und now I am nothing but an expense to you." " How can you say that, Katie ? You know life without you would bo dreary indeed for me. Tho year that has just passed ban been the happiest of my life. I could have employed a cook <?r a washer-woman, but not a wffo auch as you are." I lib words comforted me somo but I knew that I was an expense to him. I was in very feeble health and our darling little baby was ho delicate tt at we scarcely dared hope that she w. uid be spared to us. Tho cotton en p had been a failure but Hubert l, J- 'aMi itmrri r'lflir mnr^.i .o ? managed to nay up nearly of all his debts and to pay a small amount on his land. Hut 1 could not bo as happy and bright hearted as I had been a year ago. 1 thought of the dreams I j had indulged in before marriage, when 1 pictured myself as a farmer's wife. In those dreams I imagined that I ' would have a cook who would only I need a few directions from me to pre- J pare a perfect meal. I thought I would spend my time in keeping the house in order, looking after the chickens and working in my flowers. I always pictured myself as possessing a lovely flower garden for 1 was possionately fond of flowers. Hut alas ! 1 thought what a contrast between the anticipation and realization. 1 only had a cook when I was so weak that 1 could no longer do the work, and I had no flowers at all. Hubert had so often impressed upon mo the necessity for us to practice the strictest economy that 1 didn't dare ask him for money to buy flowers. It always embarrassed mc to ask him for money for any purpose. 1 had been accustomed to having my own purse before marriage and now I felt its absence keenly. Hubert had said that 1 might have all that I could make on the chickens and cow. I knew nothing of the attention which should have been bestowed upon them to make them yield a surplus, and although i i nail managed to liavo a sufficient supply of chickeus, eggs anil butter for our own use 1 bail not sold any. The second your of our married life passed away very mueh as the first hud done. 1 was very despondent and often urged Hubert to give up fanning and try some other oeeupation. This he would not agree to do and I indulged in some very bitter thoughts heenuso he would not. At the end of the third year it seemed to me that matters wore growing worse instead of better. Owing to bad crops and low prices Hubert had not been able to pay anything on his land and hail also some other small debts which ho could not discharge. 1 had visited my mother during the summer months and traveling expenses and the clothing for myself and babies, for we now had two. had taken a considerable sum. Now, at the close of the year I reproached myself for spending so much, although Hubert did not reproach me. 1 resolved thut I could not spend so much again until we had discharged some of the debts which were weighing so heavily upon my husband, lie win beginning to look care-worn and although wo were very happy in our little home, for our baby boy and little girl wore a never-failing source of pleasure to us both, 1 knew that Hubert spent many wakeful hours at night thinking of the future, which looked so dark to us in a financial way. However, wo resolved to redouble our energies and hoped that we would bo more successful during the next year. 1 felt that 1 could aid Hubert more than 1 bad hitherto done. I had learned to managed my share of the work better. I had made a small amount on my chickens and as I bad increased my lloek, 1 hoped to realize a considerable) sum from them in the future. 1 had also resolved not to spend a cent more than was positively necessary. Lastly, I resolved that 1 would endeavor to be a wife in the highest sense of the word, sharing in all my husbands toils and plans. This I knew 1 had not done in the past as fully as 1 should have done. ? ft * * * Twelve years have passed away, and it is the anniversary of our wedding day. It has been a happy day for us. Seated at the supper tuido with our two boys and two girls around us we presented a merry group. Mabel and Annie set the table, they also prepared several dainty dishes without my assistance. l'apa and 1 were lavish in our pruisow of their success. Even little two-year-old Hubert seemed to enter into the spirit of the day. Hubert presented me with a piano a few montns ago and already the children arc learning to sing well. So after supper we spent an hour singing together, after which wo all uuited in prayer, and now the children have retired and Hubert and 1 are left alone. We review our married life as it has always been our custom to do on this day. "Well, darling," Hubert says, "wo should be very thankful for the kind i'rovidence that has watched over us uitn o<? : 11 * ...... uo b\j ncii uiessings: let u* ouumorate some of them." " First ami foremost, Hubert, we must put our precious children." " Yes," said he, " they are our most precious possessions, and it is for their sakes 1 am glad that we have almost lifted the debts which have burdened us so long. 1 feol as if a groat burden had been rolled away when 1 think of it." " It has been a hard struggle for you, my darling, you have always been so cheerful, such a kind husband and father." " My wife," said lie, "you deserve a greater part of the credit for my cheerfulness. You have denied yourself so many things to which you had been accustomed before our marriage, you huvo overcome so many of your prejudices, and then think how much you have aided mo in paying for our home! You have almost clothed us by selling your surplus chickens, eggs and butter. Then what a nice housekeeper you are! You have made our homo beautiful with flowers and pictures, you have a nice littlo library started and you have expended such a small amount that I wonder how you have managed it all." " Spare mo, Hubert," said I, "You almost make mo blush. You deserve more praise than I do for it all ; you have always led mo on to nobler, higher things, and whatever 1 have achieved as u wife, mother and housekeeper is due to you gentleness and Tint innnft Ah I retire to-night I thank God that I am a farmer's wife. It is true I have been deprived of some of the socalled " luxuries of life," but what are they compared to our happy homo? 1 have learned what a great happiness it is to possess a homo that has been earned by the combined efforts of a farmer and his wife. t ^ ^ ' South Carolina's Militia.?Governor Tillman states that more than a hundred new military companies have applied to be mustered into the State militia, and that they will all bo admitted into the " reserve force," the law providing for the uniforming and equipment of only a hundred companies. The Governor says that about; twonty-fivo companies will bo disband- ! ed on account of insubordination in the : recent riots, and their arms will bo given to new companies. The three ! Columbia companies are included in | those. According to the letter of the I law disbanded companies cannot main- j t iin their organization, and as armed bodies are not allowed to move from ) plflee to place, but the Governor does not believe they will bo interfered! with if they purchase their own equipments and continue us rifle clubs. THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. A MASTKHIjY VINDICATION <)! ' Til10 SOUTH. Address ol" (icncrul Stephen I). Lee at the Laying of the t 'oiner-Stone ?>!' the Confederate Monument at Iliriningeu in, Ala. My Fhibnds : Wo huve assembled hero today to discharge a glorious and solemn duty ?to lay the corner-stone of a monument which shall commemorate the valor of tho living and the dead. Wo have mot to keep alive the memories of our comrades who fell in huttlo ; that vast army of heroes and patriots, and to renew the now ties of friendship between tho gray-buried survivors, who wore their comrades in the four years struggle from 1801 to 1 1805. When we praise them we glorify, ourselves when we speak | of their invincible eorage, of their ; heroic sacrifices, we feel a thrill of pride that we shared the same privations and the same perils. We ; moved in the slime linn nf hnttln ?m<l 1 braved the same showers of sehrapnoll I and tniuio halls. Wo charged the same breastworks. We heard the echoes of the same artillery and the rattle of the same musketry. The bullet that took one of them whistled by us when it took him, and from our throats went Iho same ' rebel yell' that bado defiance to our foes. We shared or went without the same scanty rations, endured the same fatiguing march, the same chilling rain. Wo did all that they did. except it was theirs to die for their country. Loyalty to the past is a duty. Keeling that we were right, we staked all on the uncertain chances of battle, and we lost. We were overpowered and wo had to submit to the result, hut wo cannot he otherwise than proud of the history we made while a nation. We are here today, not to praise the victorious, hut to claim imperishable 1 renown for the vanquished. When wo look backward from the ) zenith of life we see things with a clearer vision. We see many causes j that brought 011 the struggle. Slavery, the indirect cause of the war, the North is as much responsible for us the ' South. As to the doctrine of 'States' rights,' the right of a sovereign State ; to withdraw from the union, the ques .i....> ? * * 1 v.wii in uuvmuu luruvur againsi us. 11 we sire not convinced, we are quieted, j we accept the inevitable with such grueo as wo can, but we cannot blot it from our recollections. We cannot yield the belief in the principles we inherited from'our revolutionary forefathers. We fought for what they did, but they had better luck. War | was forced on us. Constitutional and sacred guarantees agreed on in one union of sovereign States were trampled under foot, under the theory \ promulgated by Mr. Seward and ac- j cop tod by the North, of a ' higher law than the constitution.' We were in- j vaded. We were forced to defend our hearthstones and our property, and the inherited rights of local self-govern- i meat bequeated us by our forefathers. We need no justification for our conduet. It is a universal law that, a man should defend his own. We did that i and that only. We would have deserved to be trampled on if we had not : resisted. See .how gloriously 'vc did it. Look at our record. Never did a nation contend against such odds. I defy contradiction. Rend for yourselves the war records now being honestly published by our government. My young fellow countrymen, young gentlemen, young ladies, listen to me ?you who have lived since the war and have only heard of it from others. Learn now what this monument, the ! corner-stone of which is now to belaid, is intended to commemorate. Look at these gray-haired veterans. Who are they? 1 will tell you. They are some of the survivors of an army of 000,000 men, who fought and kept back from our Southern soil an invading army of 2,804,272 men (not including three and six months volunteers,) or with the odds of 2,201,272 men more than they had to confront them. To this great odds must be added 000 vessels of war blockading our coasts and occupying our rivers, manned by .'15,000 sailors, preventing our getting supplies of j liPIIU nt'AlM jione 12 !" JM ioiv/11 r>, Viutu l , Hll'U IC I HUS and necessaries of all kinds. In this unequal contest the Confederate army did not lay down its arms until it was completely overpowered, and it laid only 100,000 effective lighting men for duty in the lield left of that army of 600,000 men, while tin* Federals had over 1,000,000 men for duty, or ten men for every Confederate soldier, and all our arsenals, munitions of war and supplies were exhausted or captured. Before the end of the conflict the Confederate army had lost over onehalf of the 000,000 men, or .'120,000 men on the death roll. It had fought over our beloved Southland almost foot by foot, on nearly 2,000 battlefields. It had inflicted a death roll on the enemy of 350,528 men, 275,000 of whom lie buried beneath our Southern soil. Comrades of tho gray, we made a record unsurpassed in the annals of war or history. Let us go a littio more into details. In tho bloodiest of European wars statistics show that the number killed or mortally wounded on tho battlefield, has not exceeded 3 per cent of tho soldiers actually engaged, whilo in the great American war between tho States tho Federals lost 5 per cent and the Confedoeatos 10 per cent. We see that the American soldier stands ahead of the European soldier, and that in heroic aspect, so long as the Confederate banner floated to the breeze, the Confederate soldier stands at the head in the history of the world. The more the facts connected with the war are brought out. tho more honor is reflected on the valor, endurance of hardships and fortitude of the soldiers of tho Confederacy. Tell me we did not believe our cause was a just one ! No people could have made such a tight, could have stood tip so long against such odds, had they not 1. A 4-1 * ' 1 wuii iictuutuu oya iirmuna unwavoring adherence to tlio principles of selfgovornment, and a doteruiination to maintain inalienable right which they had inherited from their forefathers. This is said in no boastful spirit, but to show what a gallant resistance was made bv the South, actuated by a lofty patriotism, before her Hag was furled forever. We, who participated can hardly believe the incredible flgures. Our own children, when they comprehend them, will stare in wonder and say, 'Impossible.' If on every monument we have erected in the South only these figures are put the numbers composing tho Federal army and the h w Confederates who onposed them it would need nothing else, hut every Confederate accepted tho result of tho war as final and in good faith, and we rejoice that tho men who fought so well on both sides, believing they were right, are again reunited under the fiag of their forefathers, which covers our common country. My comrades, when we see desola- i tlon everywhere: when we feel dis- ' mayed at our broken fortunes and dis- | appointed hopes; when wo know lilo meuns for us only toil, poverty und privations until the etui, go and read that record. When we feel that we have made poor crops, and mortgages and debts have pressed upon us; when we feel utterly d iscourayed and cast down, ^o and read our record. You will rejoice that there is a country where honor is first and not wealth, where patriotic endeavor and duty are everything, riches only a secondary consideration. Thank Cod ! there are such men ; those who have boon and those who are now. 1 uncover my head with reverence in honor of our comrades, living and dead, who bore the proud title a Confederate soldier. I rejoice that we raise this monument to the memory of such heroes. It is an irresistible impulse of homage to their voluntary immolation on the altar of thoircountry, it is to perpetuate their stainless name and untarnished honor. It is that our children may thrill with the thought that they are descended from such a race. As we lay this corner-stone and leave others to finish our work, so may the blood of our martyrs bo the seed of such a race in the future. May they take up our life work of loyalty to our j reunited country as we lay it down, i and crown it with success worthy of J their forefathers. What hiirhor i praise inn man huvo than is conveyed in tho wont, Con fedora tu soldier? Palsied bo the tongue that would east si slur upon his memory, and recreant is the stm who does not glory in such a siie. liAIUiKKT DKI'OT IN TIIK WOKMX Tlio Burlington and Missouri 1'aeilie roads are partieuhirly interested inthe completion of the new union depot sit St. Louis. Both lines will enter the new station. Indications point to itopening about June loth. It is the largest depot in the world, covering over 100,000 sijusire feet more era than the famous depot at Frankfort, Germany, smd over 150,000 square feet more thsin the Kesiding station ut I Miiladelphisi, the next largest. It covers six city blocks ; or an area of (100x700 feet, tn its construction there has been consumed 12,000,000 pounds of 'steel, 2,500,(00 feot of lumber. :i,000,000 nails, 100,000 cuble feet of stone, 5,000,000 bricks, 200,000 roofing tile, und .70,000 square yards of plastering, smd cost, including the ground on which it is built, $-1,000,000. Tlie most remarkable feature of the new station is the train sited which is already completed. It is tlie largest train shod in tho world and covers thirty tracks. It is built of iron, with a wood and slate roof, und though homely in appearance, it is well adapted to its work. It covers twelve acres and will shelter two hundred passenger coaches. Tho baggage and mail room are in separate buildings at one side, under the shelter of the train shed roof. Tho express buildings are outside and beyond the train shod and luivea separate spur of track running The now union station is located at Kightcenth street. Trains will bo run into it from hotb^tlm oust and west, and will depart 'ikewise in oitlier direction. This reccssitated some means of turning tho trains around, since many of tlioin would leave in the direction from which they arrived. The tracks leading into the station, therefore, were regularly constructed in the form of a triangle or double Y, permitting a train coining into the station ready to go out again, engine foremost. Tiik Cat and tiik Canary.?A lady who owned a large and handsome cat, received from a friend a present of a canary, a beautiful singer. The canary's cage hung in her bedroom : and, when the cat was not there, the cage was opened, and tho canary allowed to fly about the room us it pleased. < )no day when the cage was open, the cat somehow got into the room without being noticed, and when their mistress came in she was surprised to find the cat and the bird the best of friends. The. canary was riding about the room on the cat's head, and looking very dignified, and the eat was purring with delight. After this they often passed hours together. One day in tho middle of their play, the cat soi/.cd the canary in her teeth, jumped upon the bed with it, and looked as if she were j going to eat it. Her niistresss thought i the bird was certainly lost. Hut when the eat stayed there for some time with the bird in her mouth, making no attempt to kill it, she wondered what it could mean. Looking round, she saw there was a strange cat in the room. I low it had come there no one knew. Hut this explained why puss had caught hold of her friend the canary. It was to potcct it. When the strange, cat was driven out, she lot the canary go, and they played together happily once more. -?-rnmmB - ? "Ouu Hkotiiku'S Kf.kpkr."?A business man whs in the habit of now and then steeping into a saloon and taking' a glass of beer with a friend. Ho did not rare for the beer, and only drank it for the sake of being social. He said he did not suppose be drank more than five or six glasses a year. Yet. be was not a temperance man. One day a friend asked him to step in a certain saloon and take a glass of boor. He did so. Standidg near by was a young man who had never drank ] a glass of boor, but be knew these men i were regarded as very line men, and thought that if they drank beer lie could. Wo later he wont into the su- i loon. He found be liked beer, ami was i easily alTected by it; and that night ho was taken home in a carriage drunk, i When lie,was sober ho told his moth- 1 or how be came to go in the saloon, i The mother told this business man I what bis example bad done for her i boy, and being a really good man lie said that should bo bis iast glass of ( beer. He bad not thought what little < be urank could Injure anyone, but i added, " I guess we are our brother's keeper; from this time on I will let all strong drink alone."?The Golden Censer. ' Thk Cmioamauoa Commission. The following have been appointed 1 by Governor Tillman members of the 1 f'H.I.. ' ' v nn .iiiuiu^ji commission, whose duty ' it will bo to go to tho battlelleld anil ' murk otT tlio position of South Caro- I lina troops in that momoruhlo battle : < II. L. Farley, Kershaw's stutT ; Capt. < A. C. Appleby, of tho the 21th South t Carolina, St.. George's: Gen. G. I Walker. Manisriu>lt's lirigado, Charles- ' ton; C. K. Henderson, loth South < Carolina, Aiken : .1.* I). MoLuens, nth ' South Carolina, Marion; Lieut. Ferry Mosea, t'ulpeper's lhittery, Sumter; L. I'. Marling. lt)th South Carolina ? Longmire's: K. ?L Goggana, 7th South < Carolina. Ninety-six : A. S Owens, .'In! South Carolina. | buyer'. J The chairman of tho national commission, connected with the war dopartmont. lid ? notifieri thp State com- , mission that they will he on the battle- ' Hold during tho month r< a 'y to meet uml eonfer with Stale commissioners. I Tho South Carolina commission will | go as soon a- otllcially uotilled of t!,. s time tho national commission will 1> ?i present. < A lMlorr.ST AHAl\S 1" DELAY. ftiiNinrKN Men iu New York Urjfp Coilurrss in l'uss the TuriH'Hill, Nk.W YoHK, May ,'i. A mass meeting was hold in Cooper Union tonight to protest against the diiatorinoss of tin- Senate in passing upon tlio Wilson hill. All was not harmony at tho meet* ing. and the income tax question was what marked tho dividing of tho ways. Tho storm broke when Frederick K. Coudcrt took i-sue with .lames 0. Curler, and roundly denounced tho income tax measure as bad, dishonest and unit. nocratie. One-half of tho largo crowd hissed and interrupted this expression of opinion : the others cheered and applauded and hurled buck tho epithets applied to Mr. Coudcrt by his opponents from the body of tho hall. An old man jumped up, shook his list at Mr. Coudert on tho platform, and shouted : " Wo wore paying the f ixes while you Wi ro robhinir " a? - - -r> 111 this point tlii'i'o wus tumult. A chorus of "put him out" burst forth and every one jumped up. Half a dozen policemen rushed up and seized the old man, carrying iiirn to the rear of the hull. Confusion reigned for some minutes. Finally Mr. Coudert put every one in good humor by saying that as had as the income tax was, he was willing to swallow it for the sake of the tarilV reduction. The meeting had been called by representatives of forty tw o basinets houses of the city. Fx-sccr? t try of the Trear ury, Charles S. Fairchild, called the meeting to order and denounced the Senators responsible for the delay *f action on the tariff bill, lie, thought the income tax an unwise men u *o, but there were many tilings worse than it. one of which was to have no income at all, which was what the public delay would lead to. lames C. Cartt r delivered the principal speech of the evening. Ho dofended the income lax as the most, just and ctpiituble form of taxation. There were man:f(.'stations of approval and disapproval when he said that,m forel)oding4>f tlio tumult, that broke forth later when Mr. t'oudert took the opposite stand to Mr. Carter. Mr. Carter also denounced Senators Hill and Murphy f<>r their attitude toward the Wilson bill. This seemed to please the large audience hugely. liosolutions in substuncc us follows woro passed : " Tluit we should prefer a more consistent and courageous measure of tarill' reform than is now pending, hut we urge that it he passed to a linal vote so that we may he relieved from the extortions and oppressions of the McKinloy tariIT. That while we are opposed the income tax provision wo are more opposed to the existing system of tarilT taxation, which casts on the working o as?o nine-tenths of the burden of taxation and extorts from them an enor lnous tribute for the benefit of a few. 41 That we desire the income tax clauses to be stricken out. We deem their retention no excuse for the vote of any Democrat against the bill as a whole and demand that every Democratic Senator and Representative vote for the repeal of tins McKinley laws. "That tie- defeat of the bill by Democratic votes would be a disaster to the nation and an act of treason to the Democratic party." - -Til 10 >1IOTIIODISTS IN COUNCIL. Opening ol' (lie ( cncrul ('onl'd'enco of Sooi her11 Mot liodisls. Special to the Atlanta i (institution. M KMPHI8, Tonn., May ?The General Conference of the Methodist Kpiscopal Church, South, convened here today. Hishop Keener presiding. The religioits exercises in the opening of tho great body were impressive. The ten bishops woro present, all halo and hearty except Hishop Cranberry. Dr. W. II. Harrison, secretary of the lust General Conference, was elected secretary. The roll call of tho IM.'l delegates showed nearly every delegate present. They came from every State in the. South and from every foreign country whore Southern Methodism has hoisted tho banner of the cross. The onstni'iiI ikUIixuu ?i.~ i-* >- - , UI mi; OISOOOS was by Dr. Ciranberry. who, in spite of a throat affection, held out well for the hour and a half occupied in the reading of the voluminous document. The address is spoken of as a most able paper. It was unequivocal, broad and interesting. It shows that the aITairs of the church have steadily prospered. The membership in the Southern connection is now 1,100,000, a net train during the (|uadrennium of 170,000. Over $.700,000 have been raised for domestic missions. The women of the church have raised for missions nearly $800,000. The increased activity of the youths of the church was mentioned as a cause for rejoicing. The bishops treated the subject of evangelists at length. Sue-; cinctly stated, it is suggested that each annual conference he give power j to appoint one or more evangelists to work. In the episcopal address tho bishop called attention to the danger involved in forming separate "societies" for the promotion of holiness whereas the church exists to promote holiness. They exhort the church to avoid extravagant expressions in speaking i about religious experience. While tho point is not made diroctly, the papoi gives out the opinion of the opiseopaey that in case any bishop should he prevented from work by physical disability, his colleague's could, without serious inconvenience, rl S .^l * ' 1 1,1 uiciMitirtfu uiu utpntlonal duties. It is, theroforo, not likely Hint any now bishops will bo made. ' The man most talked about in ease a now bishop is elected is Dr. Candler of Georgia, who Is a very strong tjAantity in this grout bod y. Memphis given the preachers and hurtdi men a cordial and royal welcome and the session has opened most suspiciously. ? ?M? ?The great wall of China was rc-. ently measured by Mr. Unthank, an American engineer enguged ?U tbo survey for a Chinese railway. His neasurementgave the height eighteen feet, livery few hundred yards there s a lower twenty-five feet high. The foundation of the wall is of. solid granite. For 1,5100 miles the wall got s >vor plains and mountains, every foot >f the foundation boingof solid granite, ind tho rest ot the structure solid nusonry. In somo places the wall is built smooth up against the hunk, or mosses a precipice where there is a ihoor descent of 1,000 feet. Secretary of Agriculture Morton ias received tho resignation of I'rof. hmrler. V. Kiley, who bus for many I ars he on ehief entomologist of t.hn icpartmept of agriculture. Tbo reilgnation wns requested by tho Sooroury, and will take effect <luno |. The josiition pays 'J.oOU pop annum. Senator Wulah has Introduced n >ill providing for tho re p ul of tho 10 )er cent. tax on State b. nks. pure and tuple, omitting all tho conditions thnt ire found in some; of the bills intro- I luoed for thin purpose. 1 JONII8H CYCI.ONK 1KHSI,. A Western Gontus Solves a Problem or IjiIV* in I lie West. From Hurpcr's e klv. J tick Hon Peters leaned back in i?is chuir ami .slowly blow u cloud of -moke toward the coiling. ".Tones," ho Mild, " 1 want to ask your opinion in regard to the probability <>1 a story which was told mo the other day." "Woll. Jackson?" was tin guarded roply of the cautious Jones. " It jjtruck mo,", continued l'etors. " that ft man who hud told as many that is to suy. a man who has told as much of what I may call awe-inspiring truth us you have. ought to ho a good judge of the probability ol a story. It wits u cyclone story wiiieli t was going to ask you about. " Most cyclone stories 'are palpable lies, Jackson." "No doubt. The point is t . ,: II said be bud scon :-trrw. brivi i through inch Ixmrdsby the fore, o! tin wind." " it never happen el. Jura ;it is u stock lio toiti nf <?v? iv cycioue nut blows. Your friend imposed upon your youth, my b y. lio w. ! never luivo (lured to hnve teli sin a 11 uui fost and solf-herulding lie to llobin-on or Smith. I must admit, though. 11 i tlio force of the wind in a genuine cyclone is considerable. When I lived in Kansas, in the 70V, I had a quantity ( of poultry, but it all was blown away in the first cyclone of the season except a black Spanish rooster. ii" clung to a grass root with Mis bill, and allowed his tail to crack and whip in the wind like a yacht pennant. H?rode out the gale, though most of his feathers were blown olT. Subsequent iy 1 found some of them imbedded over half an inch in my grindstone." 44 Yes," returned I'etors, "I presume my friend was trying to impose upon my adolescence." 44 I think so, Jackson. I had considerable experience with cyclotr s that summer in Kansas. Hut I learnt d to handle myself, so that I did not mind them much. i soon saw tin fallacy of depending on cyclone cellars j and that sort of thing. The fundamental difficulty with all such things is that you try to hold yourself firmly in one placo. it is us if a ship in a gale should tie up to a post (supposing mid-ocean posts for the time being j instead of driving before the tempest. The lirst cyclone that summer I, of course, went down cellar, like other folks. My hotiso was soon blown away. The next thing I knew the cellar wont too, rolling over and over. I like a silk hat. 1 was soon spilled out. j With infinite labor I crawled back in Luu teem 01 uio wind, intending' to] take refuge in the hole the eel litr caine out of. To my consternation 1 \ found that had blown away also. I i then followed the example of the rooster, clung to a root, and allowed my logs to 11 utter and snap in the gale ! like a weather signal Hag. How Rich Mf.n Ark Annoyko.-The other day a shabby looking man called at the residehce of Mr. Joliu 1). Rockefeller, in New York, and demanded forty million dollars. As ho was very persistent, and would not listen to reason, he was turned over to the police with instructions to treat him kindly. Our millionaires should not he severely criticised if they adopt unusual precautions to prevent st rangers from intruding upon their privacy. The ] country is full of cranks, and when a rich man meets a strange visitor he feels that he may stand in the presence of an assassin like I Yendergast, or an anarchist with a dynamite bomb. Kven when the crank is harmless it is annoy- , ing to have him drop in at odd hours with an urgent request for forty million dollars to he paid down in hard cash. Very few Americans carry that amount of money in their pockets, and fewer still can sptire it upon a moment's notice. Mr. Rockefeller and hundreds of other millionaires are good citizens. They give liberally to objects of public and privato charity and arc good friends to the poor. They should he protected from the unreasonable and oulldozing demands of their half-crazy perseehtors, and if they seek the aid of private detectives and body guards, they cannot be blamed. There are desperate people in this country who seem to think that a rich man is fair i K?iuu m no minuHi down, threatened | and dynamited if lie refuses to turn ] over bis millions to the first tramp who comes along and asks for them. Against this class our millionaires I have tho right to demand and receive adequate protection.?Atlanta Constii tution. ? ?? ?Senator Walsh has accepted an ini vitation to mako an address at tho ro| coption to he given in honor of tho | completion by Dr. Talmagc of the 2f>th year of his pastorate of tlie Brooklyn Tabernacle. ? The strike on tho Groat Northern is ended. Strikers carried nineteen out of twenty of their points. To Beautify the Completion tnoV, take tho I [>tief, paints and | lers which intho. skin, but the easiest way ain a beautiful and a whole* > skin. Health , tho greatest beautificr. Tho means to beauty, comfort, and health for wo- 1 men is Doctor Pierce's Favorito Proserin- , ti o n. 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For live years I wastrented by one physician eoni tlnuously. 1 was in business, but obliged to , retire oh account of my health. A physician told tuv friends that I could not live a I month. My feet and limbs we it) badly swol I ion, una I was iucloo:| in a serious condition I when u gentleman directed my attention to Dr. Miles' Now Heart Cure, and .--aid that his ! Bister, who had heen nlllleied with heart dlsI ease, had heen cured l?y tho reinudy, and was , tiguln a strong, healthy woinan. 1 purchased a hot tie of t he Heart ( tiro, and hi less than tut hour after taking tho tir.-a (lose I could ; feel a decided Improvement in tho circulation of my blood. When I hud taken three doscu 1 1 could movoMuy ankles, something I had not done for mont hs,and my limbs had been swollen so long that they sootned almost put rilled. Keforo 1 hud taken one liottle of (lie New Heart Cure the swelling had ail gone down, and I wus so much bolter that I did my tfwn work. On my recommendation six others nro | taking this valuable remedy." Mi . Morgan, | 5M W. I larrlson St., Chicago, 111. l)r. Miles' New I leart Cure, a discovery of an eminent specialist in heart disease. Is sold by nil druggists on a positive guarantee,or sent by the Dr. Miles Medical Co..Klkliart, lnd.,on | receipt of price, $1 per bottle, six bottles for K>. express prepaid. It. is posit ively froo from all opiates or dautjeruus uruyb. Sold by Gurp< nl.or 11i'i is., Druggist. Sc.mtkh's SbhDlERS.- Govertaot*Tilltuatt hois taken the lirst action with reference lo tlio military companies which refused to obey ( fders to pit to Darlington during tho riots. Tho Sunt lor Light Infantry, of Sumter, on tho night of the outbreak were ordered to Darlington, but declined to budge. < )n the following day they reconsidered t and olTored to go to Darlington. They also rendered valuable assistance in>. protecting three of the fugitive const aide- who made tin ir way to Smote*.. I The Governor bus addressed a lott.* r to Captain A. C. l'helps, commanding the company. In this letter. while ho condemns the insubordination shown, on tho night of March ?10th, tho Governor agrees to overlook it on account of their soldierly conduct on tho following day, and allows them to remain as a part of the State militia. Tho Governor concludes as follows : " 1 am uius lenient becausetho wisest ami coolest of us commit blunders under high excitement. Let it bo a warning to tbo company in future and let them novel1 for et that while the coininr.nder-in-ebief may make blunders and give unwise orders, ho i> responsible to the people, and no citizen soldier can ever question his command..* until they are of such an outrageous kind as tooverridc'law, decency and justice.'* -??? ?? Ac j a t n st 1 lit k?. k i:Nit 11 hi ! ;. ? Tho preachers of Lexington, Ky., Lave united in opposing the renoinination of W. C. 1'. Ilrockt nridge, and the Ministerial 1 nion of that city has adopted tho following, which clearly deli ties their attitude : The. M ini: ferial Union, of Lexington, Ky., deems it, a duty of conscience, in. the fear of (Jod, t>> hear tho following public testimony against tho renomination or re-election of our present representative in the Congress of iho United States. On the witness stand in the courtroom ho has confessed that for years ho has indulged in a course of adultery and hypocrisy, and in tho light of such a confession, we regard his canvass for renoiuination and reelection tirst, as an open dclianco of all personal chasity, domestic purity and religious integrity ; second as an appeal to voters to ignore personal morality when choosing political candidates : third, as a, corrupt and corrupting misrepresentation of the social order of our community : fourth, as ai debauching example to youth : fifth, as in every way a peril to truth ami righteousness." Tin: Woks oka Cottontot.?Tho Ihirnwoll People expresses its convictions as follows about thc4cotton crop: Wo have at last learned something about cotton. It has taken a longtime and a lot of reading, but we are finally convinced ? *" " v?iiiv >vu tvnuw nothing about the king, ami that all Southern peopleare in our class. Last fall and winter; we read the cotton reports in the lesiwling papers, the statements of the d/?- ' foront Southern Bxchanges and State an I National Bureaus of Agriculture and tho conclusion we reached was that the price was as sure to rise as the sparks to fly upward. And now where are we at? Last week receipts of 'Oil cotton passed tho seven million hale mark and a third of the year yetto come. Tho crop of is out of sight. We own up to total, dense anil hopeless ignorance and drop the subject. Hereafter we shall spin 110 moro theories, weave no more airy pictures of better times to come from the cotton fields. We rest our hopes hereafter on the corn stalk. 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