The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 10, 1894, Image 4
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<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.
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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.
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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....>
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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
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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.
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"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.
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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?
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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."
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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.
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?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.
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A Page From Her History.
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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.'*
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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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