The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 17, 1894, Image 4
TUE TRAMPING COMMONWEAL.
IULI. A 111' LF.CTUHKS ON COXKY.
lie Has No l*nttcm-c Willi tlio Ynftu*
IkiikI Army?Coiikitkh Ik l.nuuhiii|[
Hci klmly While I lie Country Ik Sulft<riug.
Atlanta Constitution.
There was a time when every State
had n law punishing vagrancy and it
said that any man who was found going
about in idleness and had no visible
means of support should be deemed
a vagrant, and on conviction should bo
imprisoned and put to labor. 1 don't
think that law has evor been repealed
in Georgia, but it is a dead letter and
1 reckon it ought to be in these hard
times. There are now thousands who
are idle and have no means of support
visible or invisible. Most of thotn are
willing to work, but can't get work to
do. Nevertheless this Coxey army is
nothing but an army of tramps, an excursion
of willing vagrants who would
rather plunder than work. We have
no patience with them?no consideration
for them. If any of them have
families, where arc they and who is
supporting them while tho head of the
hoilSA is hnwl i n ir nonv tli? i.ramtH,. V If
h V. V-V/V.U V. J . I,
they have no families, why don't they
scatter over the West or the South and
work for their victuals and clothes on
the farms or in the mines or on the
railroads rather than to ben or to rob
or intimidate for u living? Most of
them are like the organ grinder who
stops under your window and grinds
out his horrid music until the lad}' of
the house throws him a nicklo and
says : " Please puss on." ' Na, nu,"
he replies, 1110 pass on for two nickels,"
and ho grinds away until she throws
him another. The good people along
tho route of this army are alarmed at
their presence and givo them bread
and meat to go on. So do the towns
and cities. They are looked upon as
dangerous and they aro. Governor
McKinloy showed tho right pluck
when ho scattered the vagrants who
stole the train at Mt. Sterling. There
has got to ho an example made of
somebody, even if it tukesGatliug guns
to do it. If this kind of thing is to go
on we had better change the republic
to a monarchy at once and be done
with it. If the people can't govern tho
people we will have to have a standing
army of half a million men like Germany
has and England and France and
quarter troops all over the country to
preserve the peace and protect private
property. These strikers aro not
much better, for they won't work themselves
nor let anybody else take their
places, it is all a spirit of anarchy
and violence and lawlessness. There
are demagogues who lead them and encourage
them and seek to array the |
poor against the rich?tho laborer
against tho capitalist?aud ride into
oflice or power on tho dissensions and
sufferings of tho people.
Now, with all this devilish spirit on
the one hand, there is on the other a
reckless, ruinous Congress that sits
there and laughs at their own jokes
and quarrels and talks and prints their
speeches and draws their pay and
tramps over the country when they
feel like it. A late correspondent says
the average daily number of absentees
in the House is seventy, and hence it
frequently takes several days to get a
quorum. The cost'of a session is said
to be half a million a day and the people
have it to pay. When will this
outrage cease V when will they pass
a tariff hill ? It docs not matter much
what kind of a hill it is so they pass
one. Cupitnl is waiting on Congress,
and labor is waiting on capital. Millions
are lying idle that would be invested
in manufactures or in mines or
railroads, if it was known what the
tariff was. An Ohio man fears to build
a woolen mill because he doesn't know
whether he can compete with foreign
mills or not. Just so with the shoe
man anu mo paper nun man anil the
clothing man and the nail makers and
a hundred other things that the tariff
affects. There is just as much money
in the land as there ever was, and all
the silver hills and bank tax hills will
do no good until the tariff hill is passed
and the money turned loose and the
wheels of industry begin to move. I
heard a man say, "there ought to he
more money per capita." Well suppose
there was. How am I to get my
share of it unless 1 work for it, and how
am 1 to work unless somebody employs
me, and who will employ mo until eongross
fixes the tariff ? Hut is it possible
that Briee and others are speculating
on sugar stock and keeping the tariff
on sugar in an uncertain state while
they are trading in it? It is openly
charged that they are, and that is why
the tariff bill can't pass. They want
it to trade on. May the good Lord deliver
us ! 1 tell you what is the fact?
when tho people ruminate over all
these things they have a tired fooling
akin to despair. 1 meet good old-time
democrats all ovor the country, and
there is no enthusiasm, no confidence,
and if there was any other respectable
party they would join it. I have heard
thbm say they were now willing for
tho republicans to take the government
and run it, as it would be better than
all this wrangling and delay?all this
long uncertainty, all this marching to
Washington. The democracy haw had
tho President and tho House and the
Senate for two years and done nothing
for relief. How much longer will Congress
abuse our patience? Whom
shall we trust? Whom shall wo elect
to Congress tho next time? The old
set are already setting their traps and
nutting bait on the triggers. To get
oack is tho big thing. There is not
enough difference in the two great parties
to give the people much concern.
' Tho pending tariff bill, with all its
UI11UI1IIUICIII/9, IB IIU WIRT lllitll U1C 1M0*
Kinley bill. Its tweedlo-dum and
twoedle-dec, but the people want it
settled so that capital can go to work.
Machine politics ! Why, it is openly
charged that right here at home in
Georgia, the Stato of Toombs and
Stephens and Hen Hill and Johnson
and Cobb and Joukinu, whose illustrious
examples are still fresh and green
ltt our memories, there is a court
house ring composed of nearly all the
judges and solicitors in the State, and
that this ring has a working fund of
$10,000 to control the Legislature and
nut their slate in office. When I iirst
hoard of this I was indignant at the
the vile slander, but it keeps on coining,
and is openly charged in respectable
papers. 1 know of two judges wh(*don't
belong to it and 1 am told that
they aro to bo left out, and their places
given to others who have joined the
secret league. Cau these things 1x3
true? Has our judiciary surrendered
to tho common corruption ? is everything
rotten? Shades of the honored
dead who have graced tho bench and
bar of Georgia, turn from the scene !
Think of Lumpkin and Warner, and
Nisbet and Jackson and Hutchlngn and
Bonning making such a combine for
office ! What man or creature would
have dared to approach them on the
subject? Now the remedy is to send
our best men to the Legislature?men
of , integrity,1 regardless of church
or creed or calling or party?men
who cannot be pullod around or cor
rupted with tempting promises. The
Yu/.oo fraud combination was not to l>e
compared with tho inlouity of u combiue
of judges and solicitors for porpotuatioo
of otHco.
I saw tlio press gang yesterday:
thoughtful men and earnest women. I
huw 1 ialstcad and Cockcrlll and nome
others who have been lampooning' us
lo these many long suffering years
and I wondered if they had at last
found out that there was something
good in Nazareth. 1 wondered at the
sweet charity of our people, who gave
welcome to them. An editor is a peculiar
instutitiou. lie can lampoon and
scarify another editor, and call him all
the scandalous names in the dictionary
and then they meet together ill press
conventions and on press excursions
aud drink toasts to each other and get
loving and mellow and slobber all over
one another, and next morning go to
fighting as usual. We outsiders ean't
do that, it must be 011 the idea that
Siluey Smith spoke of when he said
<}.< < .. n?.? .!? .,.....-.0 t.1 ?
v v? v ? i v vi v uiui ovt vi n ic*111 i;i n an imsweetest
tiling in the world. If all
tliut these editors huve uccusod one
nuothor of be true, then most of them
ure lit for the ehuingung. Hut it is
uot true, und the people know it, and
tuiiku allowance for it and smile. I
heard a good one on l'hil Hyrd the
other day. l'hil runs The Koine Llustlor
with a lively lick and searilies
around in such a sweet way that the
victim can't get very mad. When Govcriior
Northeu returned from the Corbett-M
itehell liasco, The Hustler said :
" General Northen has returned from
the front with his bottle-seared veterans.
lie came back safe and sound,
save a thumb that he sprained trying
to cock a cannon." Mel (iaiumon has
a keen sense of the ridiculous and
laughed when ho reud it. lie took the
paper home and linding his old father,
the Confederate colonel, at the dinner
table, he read it to him and laughed
again, but the old colonel never stepped
eating nor smiled nor made a remark.
"l'etty good, for l'hil, isn't it,
father?" "No, 1 don't see anything
smart in it. Governor Northen was
trying to do his duty and protect the
people from the bud influences of u
couple of vagabonds, and as for l'hil
Hyrd, if he is fool enough to believe
that a cannon has got a cock to it, ho
ought to quit running a newspaper.
Cocking a cannon ! Who ever heard
of such a thing?" And the old warhorse
seemed to bo utterly disgusted.
Him, AHI\
AN KDITOK'S INTISKltUPTIONS.
It is Hard totiet Time for Hverylliing
?The Mutilations Around u Ilusy
Man.
A largo amount of unfair and snarling
criticism would be avoided if peo
pie intelligently considered tho limitations
that old Father Timo puts on
every busy man. There are only six
working days in a week, and it is not
within the bounds of possibility to do
more than a certain amount of work
each day. The limits of time and
strength are soon reached, and when
you come to these limits you must
stop, no matter how willing you may
bo to go on.
You pick up a newspaper, read a
leading article or puragruph, and you
see at a glanee how the article might
be improved by condensation or by a
more skillful arrangement of the facts;
or in some other way. You notice the
paragraph has little point and no:
sparkle. You, modest reader, think
you could give it both point and
sparkle if you tried. Perhaps you
could and then again, perhaps you
couldn't. Something depends on how
much time you would have for the
work ; and a good deal more on how
much you know about writing paragraphs.
Perhaps the man who wrote
that paragraph had only a few minutes
to do it. Possibly the printers wore
yelling at him for copy. Perhaps the
mail by which he had to send it was
closed before tho ink on the paragraph
wusquito dry. If the man who penned
tho paragraph had been given a day
to work at it tho work would perhaps
have been done in first class style, but
ho had only a few minutes and that
made ull the difToronco in the world.
Literary critics, and some critics
ii mi iuu i^iuu: iiuiueuiiL 01 any ciose
connection with literature, often say
that tho writing on most newspapers is
poorly done. Without atlirming or
denying the truth of that statement,
we may well ask how can any ordinary
editor do high class literary work and
attend to all the other duties that
devolve upon him? If an editor had
nothing to no except write a column
or two each week, ho would be a poor
editor indeed if lie could not write
them well ; but writing what the
public sees is probably not the lifticth
part of an average editor's work. Tho
editor of a country weekly does something
at everything in his ollieo. A
writer on a daily has a much better
chance, but even he may have to sit
down late in tho evening and write a
column or two before the paper goes to
press. Small wonder if tho work sometimes
seeius to lack finish.
It ought to be remembered too, that
a country editor may havo to write
amidst many interruptions, not to say
anything about tribulations. When
he is getting nicely under way with a
leading editorial a neighboring law
student may come in and hand him a
letter gravely Informing him that a
libel suit is looming up in tho vicinity.
An angry citizen may appear with a
horse whip concealed about his person
and mildly ask, " Who wrote that
article?" A subscriber may come in
and want to discuss cord wood or maple
molasses an articles to bo bartered for
a year's reading of the paper. Various
other matters of business may ir tcrrupt
an editor just as the a filet us is beginning
to strike him and spoil the best editorial
ever begun in that part of the
country. Would that editors were
the only men who are liable to interruptions
!
?The biggest solitary wavo ever
known was that caused by the l'oruvian
earthquake of August 111, 1808. in no
other instance, we are assured, has it
boon known that a well-marked wavo of
enormous proportions has been propagated
over the largest ocean trivet of
the globe by an earthquake whose action
has been limited to a relatively
small region not situated in thocentro.
but on one sldo of the wide area
traversed by the wave. At Ariea it
was fifty feet high, and enveloped the
town carrying two warships nearly a
mile beyond the railway to the north
of the town. The single sea travelled
northward and westward, its height
sit 5-lsiri I'diii-n Calif/n.i.lo t.K.u
foot. It inundated tho smaller members
of tho Sandwich group, <1,300
miles away, and reached Yokohoma,
in Japan, in tho early hours of tho morning
after taking in Now Zealand on
the way. It spent itself finally in the
South Atlantic, having traversed
nrurly the whole globe.
? ?i
?' What is tho money to he used
for that the church Is raising ?"
It's to send tho minister away and
give the congregation a inuch-iieedod
vacation
miiiiis on tiik takiff.
He SIiiikU I'or an Honest Hill Which I
Kedcctus tlie Democratic l'lcdKiti,
Washington, May io.?The tariff
bill was taken up to-day aftor the debate
over tbe Coxey committee. *
A long end interesting discussion '
took place on tlio ponding ameudment j
to insert in tbe enacting elauso of the
bill, the words, "or withdrawn for con- '
sumption," so that it will read that
" the duties provided in the act will be >
levied, collected and paid upon all articles
imported from foreign countries 1
or withdrawn for consumption after '
| the 30th of June, 1894?M *
The amendment was attacked on the
Kcpublicun side of the chamber as
musing a gift of between $.'1,000,000 and '
$1,000,000 to tlio owners of imported
goods now in warehouses, and was do- (
funded on the Democratic side as being !
just and equitable and in accordance 1
with existing law.
I) iG.? n .1.1 A 1.1..!.O. ............... .1 I
- ?..V ilivu IV/M VAMIIIIH'IIUMI ll|HMl
j the fact that members of the finance
| eominittee on cither wide disagreed 1
with oaelt other as to the amendment '
and taunted the Democrats with infi- 1
dolity to tlieir platform, which had de- 1
I clarod protection in the United States I
to i>e unconstitutional and to be a fraud. '
The taunt liud an immediate efleet
upon Mills, who took tlie floor as soon '
| as Aldrich had finished his remarks,
and in a passionate and excited man- '
| nor, referred to his speeeli several '
weeks ago, in which lie declared him- '<
self to lie (as between the MeKinley 1
act and tile Wilson bill), "between the I
devil and the deop sea," and said : "A 1
change lias come over the spirit of the
situation?not over my spirit. I have
not got as much sea room as on that <
occasion, i find that the bill pending !
before us is not the Wilson bill, but a ;
hill which ought, perhaps, to hear the '
honored name of the Senator from
Maryland (Gorman), or of the Senator '
from Ohio (Drice). No man can torture
me into the admission that the ;
bill pending before this body is in any '
respect an answer to pledges made by '
the Democratic national convention to '
the Democratic people of the United >
States. I have said?and I expect to '
say as long as I keep my understand- <
ing?that taxation levied on value is I
tiie only honest system of taxation;
and that tho specific system of taxa- 1
f ii in i ^ i 1 f. . .. * 1 '
10 11111me*(."it iur me |)ur[H)bc ui con* 1
coaling facta and defrauding the government
for tho benefit of favored 1
classes. I stand there to-day and shall '
stand there as long as I live. '
44 I rise to say that 1 do not intend to 1
vote for a single one of these amend- I
ments changing the duties from ad ?
valorem to specific. 1 am humiliated '
enough to have to bo drawn nearer and <
nearer to tlx* McKinley act in the rates '
of duty in tho amount of robbery in
llicted upon the poor working people of 1
the country, who have been starved to !
death under this system of taxation, <
without being compelled to bow down I
in humiliation, and to take up even the '
badges of protection. The very first
change is made from an ad valorem to '
a specific system ; and that runs along '
through the whole bill. We have hud ;
to surrender at discretion, at every
point, until it is now a question bo- '
twoen the McKinley protection act and 1
the pending bill, with a very little mar- I
gin of dilTerenee between the two. 1 '
repeat what I said before, that 1 will 1
vote against these amendments: but 1
that when they aire incorporated in the I
bill, I will vote for the bill if it has live '
cents of reduction in it, as a choice be- ?
twoen the two.
44 The Democratic party said to the 1
people in INS):!, that protection is a (
fraud, and that tho party was in favor 1
of honest taxation for revenue alone, '
and there is where I stand. 1 want to '
' make an honest ofi'ort to redeem that
plodgo and I do not intend to go back- '
ward. 1 would rather vote to reduce
the duties imposed by the Wilson bill. '
Every one of them is high enough. 1 '
would have put more articles on the 1
freo list. 1 would have reduced the 1
cost of production on our manufactures '
so that we could (ako the markets of '
tho world and give employment to the 1
peupio in nonusi wui'K in factories, in- istead
of having them walking the v
streets and coining to Washington to Jtell
tho government of their distress? '
a distress which the protective tariff v
has pnt upon them. 1
" You may pile up duties in this bill 1
to any extent you please, and, if it is '
any better than tho McKinloy act, 1 l
will vote for it. Hut do not try to 1
make it just as bad as it can bo mndo 1
before I vote for it. I felt it necessary '
to lile this caveat and let Democrats, j
who are making this bill, understand >
that 1 am not responsible for this
measure and that 1 do not intend to 21
assume the responsibility. 1 want the 1
gentlemen who have demanded this *
measure to stand up in the open day- 1
light and take tho responsibility for c
tho amendments which they have fore- t
ed upon this bill." t
There was some applause in the gal- N
lories at the close of the speech. Of N
the two Democratic Senators especially *
singled out by Mr. Mills, Gorman was 1
the only one in the chamber, but he 1
simply smiled and was not moved to '
make any remark in reply.
Tho pending amendment was then '
agoed to without any further discus- (
sion, and without a division. 1
Co-Ol'kuation ok Faumkrs.?Tho 11
oxeeutivo committee of the National
Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Un- (
ion met in Washington on tho loth (
inst. Chairman Marion C. Butler of c
North Carolina presided. There was H
a long discussion over the proposed 1
formation of a National Farmers' Fx- 1
change to try co-operation on a vast
scale. The proposition discussed con- I
templates co-operation between 5,000,- i
000 and 8,000,000 farmers for tho pur- I
chase and sale of commodities used by
agricultural interests. A part of the
scheme has in view the fixing of the
price of cereals in this country instead
of at Liverpool. It is asserted that
this can be brought about by the cooperation
of all the farmers' organizations
in the United States. During the
1 day, a representative of the Chilean
government appeared before tho committee
and spoko of the desirability of
i trade reciprocity between fanners of
tins country and Chili in order to oh- <.
tain nitrates directly from that conn- <
try. llcprcscntativos of sovoral railroads,
also hold a conforonco with the t
committee, at which their co-opera i
tion with the farmers organization for *
hotter rates for agricultural freights, and
for summer encampments of the 1
Alliance was diseussod. (
?A temperance reformer of Lowell, \
Mass., named Gardnor, recently origi- <
n itod anew kink in temperance work. 1
lie caused it to he announced that he \
would like to hold a temperance meet- \
ing in a liar room. At lirst the saloonkeepers
held oil, hut finally one who t
was not doing much husinoss offered I
the use of his sale on. The result sur- t
prised both, the saloon-keeoor and t
the reformer, though ifi different ways, t
for while the reformer didn't do mucl 1
informing the saloon-keeper did u .
land ofllee business, and now Gardner
is swamped witli olTers from otlior saloons.
s
SAM JONKS ON DliUMMKKK.
He I<ikcm the I'hlqtiitoiis <'ominri-ciul
' traveler?Ti?e Improvement ol
Twenty Year*.
There is tin more characteristic
huuieter in history or science, or art,
Jinn tho drummer. Hois multitude
ions, many-sided and ubiquitous.
Wherever commerce is known and
Liable is curried on the drtnnmor tfues.
been on the road almost constantly
for fifteen years, my contact
with this class of men lias been
frequent; and to be candid the more I
liavo seen os tho drummer the more I
sun see he has a big heart and an intelligent
head.
Tho drummer of to-day, compared
with the drummer of fifteen or twenty
years ago, makes one think favorably
>f the doctrine of evolution, at least in
some of its phases. There is an immense
difference, morally, at least,
between tho drummer of to-day and
tho drummer of twenty yours ago.
l'ho profane, whiskey drinking, beerwaking
gambling drummer is an oxueption.
Tlie rule is that the drummer
is a bright, upright, intelligent,
mortal man. Some of the best men 1
know in America belong to the T.
P. A.
Tho characteristic drummer, with
liis fund of jokes, with his good humor,
with his tact and talent, is a very interesting
man. Take him at the hotels,
>n the railroad trains, on the streets,
aihIeven when lie is pushing his trailic.
everywhere you find illustrations of
pluck and vim and enterprise and getup-and-get.
They are ubiquitous. On every
train, in every hotel, on every street
corner, at every religious service, and
nlmost everywhere else, you will find
it least one drummer. If he lie religiously
inclined, he shows it. If conviviality
dominates him, he shows it
by his associations.
To keep cheerful and pleasant, and
yet follow the hard life that these men
lo, must be a task indeed. Almost always
on the road, with the inconvenience
of travel on night trains,
stopping at all classes of hotels, from
the Flash house up to the Fifth Avenue,
Irinking all kinds of water, eating all
kinds of grub, exposed to all kinds of
weather, and worst of all, away from
homo and loved ones, their life is
indeced a hard one.
Tho thousands of homesick drummers
whom 1 meet hear testimony to
their devotion to their wives and their
love for thoit children. God has made
men so that there is no weaning of a
true man away from his home. Old
Irummers have told me that they have
been on the road twenty years, and yet
3aeh successive year their abscnco
from home and loved ones grows more
painful and unendurable. This is a
wiso stroke of Providence?this instinct
wo call love for home. If this
xmld be obliterated, then we would be
put wandering tribes of men, and
jvery other man would be a tramp.
In this particular, 1 have sutlered
i >
..mi iiiu n?i;i uruiuiiirr bile IIOl'1'OI'S
?f homesickness and the longings for
issociations with loved ones at home,
l'he bright oasis in their lives is when
?he three months' trip is over and for
v week or ten days they enjoy the comimny
and surroundings of homo, and
die sweet noble wife and the prattle
d the children. Thousands of these
nen, amidst all their hardships and
irivitations, bear love and loyalty to
lome and wife and children as saered
is the memories which connect us
with the love of a sainted mother or
i sainted wife. Some of the best
Jhristian men 1 know today are eomnereial
travelers. Their life is a
lenedietion in the world of commerce.
Lly life, example und conversation they
itand for a clean and upright manmod.
1 love tho drummer because he is a
icarty fellow, and be luus a big heart,
li* charities are many, his sympathies
ire profound. When tho record is
nude up of the all'airs of men, it will
>o seen then, as it never will be known
icfore, how many deeds of charity and
low many rivers of sympathy, have
tone forth from tho lives of these men
vhorovor they have found objects of
sharity and needs for their sympathy.
Phoy area generous set of fellows, and
vithal impressionable as they listen to
he things preached, and movable
mdor the influences of truth. It has
joeli my privilege to preach to ten
housaud drummers, no doubt, and
nany letters have 1 received from
hem, thanking me for the good they
md received and for the reformation of
ife which had come to them under the '
nlluonco of my meetings.
I am glad it is true that the vulgar
uul the wicked drummer is fast being
etired to the rear or switched oil" on a
lido track, where his life is less intlu- 1
sntial and his power for evil is abridg
:d. When tho drummer, with Ins (
gripsack in ono hand and his Bible in 1
lie other, shall go forth pushing his
vares and pushing the cross of Christ 1
vith equal vigor, then it is we will (
,ako the world for God. These men, 1
nmifying this country from ocean to
iccan, in every city and hamlet, can 1
>o a power for good equaled hy no ,
orce, scarcely, 1 knnw among man, and 1
verily predict the day when the
:ommereial world with its army of
Irummers will give to Christianity one
>f its most potent forces and active '
igencios.
The drummer is not only a student
>f human nature, hut he is a line judge (
if it. Thrown in connection with all
ilasses of men, if an apt scholar, he <
oon becomes an export in divining the
diaractor and understanding his cus- ]
omer.
Abovo all things tho drummer should !
)0 an honest men. lie should he a <
nan of tho highest sense of integrity,
ie should be a pure man in his per- 1
innal life. With honesty, integrity '
md purity and his leading charactoris- I
ics, lie wiii rellect honor upon his proession,
and, with industry coupled to
heso noble qualities, he will he elTec,ivo
on the road, and do much business <
or those who employ his time. It is
lot necessary for him to drink. It will i
uin him to gamble. It will side- 1
rack him to he dishonest.. The drumnor
who has come to stay is the man
vlio honors his profot-sion by all the
liialities which honor a man in any I
ither profession.
The drummer knows the best towns,
/ho best business men in each town,
md above all, the best hotels, for
.vhen bis business is over ho wants a
quaro meal and a comfortable bed.
withal this is a healthy life. The
Irummcrs are all fat and sleek, and I
tnow of no life more healthy and invigorating
to tho physical man. If a
Irummer is sober and keeps good
lours and gets all the sleep he can, he
vill generally live to be a hundred
mars old.
It is always with pleasure to me
hat 1 stand up before a large body of
raveling men and talk to them about
he things that belong to the soul and '
hat affect character and destiny. 1
uive preached to six hundred or eight <
nindred drumers gathered in a bulbing,
and have always found them re- i
peetful, attentive and responsive. 1
May God bless these men of hard- '
hips and privation wherever they I
may bo, and phicld thom in the hour of
temptation, and guide tliem succors*
fully to tho bavon of rout, is tho
prayer of 0110 who is intorestod in
thorn and who lias boon benevolent in
all of bis thoughts concerning thorn. |
Sam r. .ionks.
ItCljKilON IN Til 10 A lt>l Y.
On lloth Kbit's in i ho iuiic War There
Weil! I'lnyiiiK Hamls.
There arc hundreds, possibly thousands,
ol men in tho west who re mo in
her tho famous Iowa " praying regiment.
" Composed, almost without exception,
of religious men, tho devotional
oxoroiso was, in their eainp, as
regular as tho drill. Kvory evening,
when the circumstances would permit,
the (iill'orcnt companies ussomblod
around their oamplircs, sane their
hymns, and sang them well, prayed
lone and loudly, and seemed to enjoy
their religion, even under the most
!l(l Vfl'kH (html It inniJ iiikit no !%???? . *51..
? v? w.ii-, j mow ?o i?v;il I 111 V iltt
tho soldiers of rogiments that wore
distinguishcd for piety did the regular
curd-playIng and irregular whisky
drinking with which they beguild the
time. The men of " Hie pious regiment
" were just us much noted for
their bravery us for their piety. When
their turn came they fought just us
hard us they prayed, and rarely were
they driven buck. They enjoyed the
respect HT all tho other soldiers in the
army, for, although their imitators
were not numerous, the evident sincerity
which they manifested impressed
every beholder, and it not unfrequently
happened that the men who strolled
carelessly into their camp to witness
the services were profoundly impressed
by them, and, sometimes, it occurred
that even those hardy ones who went
to jest? though the amusement was by
no means safe, for thw Iowa men were
as clever with their fists as with their
guns remained for a better purpose,
verifying the lino of Coldsmith:
" Fools who came to scolT, remained to
pray."
One of tin1 most remarkable features
of the civil war was the wonderful
rovivul that broke out in the Confederate
army during the second year,
and spread from regiment to regiment,
until there were conversions in nearly
every force in the field. Tho work of
the preachers who went into the business
of supplying the spiritual wants
of the Confederates was greatly ham
.1 I .1 \ I- '
I'J Minwus urunuuUKii, liUO 111 OH l
serious of which was drunkenness.
Home-made whisky was astonishingly
ahundaut. As soon as it was discovered
that there was money in making
whisky, thousands of stills were put
into operation. I u one Virginia county
111,000 bushels of grain were made into
whisky during the lirst year. In one
district in South Carolina 150distilories
wore in constant operation day and
night. One writer estimates that (54,000
gallons of the worst sort of ardent
spirits were daily made and sold to the
Confederate army. The lield was unpromising
enough, but the chaplains
weut to work, secured a loan from the
Ih-ilish and Foreign Biblw Society of
CO,000 worth of iiiblos and began an
earnest crusade. At lirst the work
seemed to drag, but in the summer of
1863, after the fall of Vieksbui'ff and
the grout defeat at Cettysburg, the revival
took a mighty start, and moved
on from that time without interruption.
Incredible dillicultics attended
the work, and religious services were
sometimes held amid strange surroundings.
One chaplain, writing in his diary at
the time the buttle of Chanccllorsville
win beginning, said : "In the midst
of all these changes and lighting, we
manage to keep up our religious services.
1 preached one Sabbath, at the
time when our batteries were being assaulted,
amidst the most hideous thundering
of'artillery and musketry. The
congregation was large, serious and attentive.
While passing along the road
that night during the maneuvers that
proceeded the battle, 1 heard singing
and prayer. It was a company of
Christian soldiers that had met in the
darkness. The work went on not only
in the camps and along the road that
night, but even in the trenches along
the edge of battle. A soldier, writing
from Fredericksburg, said that one of
the most interesting meetings ho ever
attended was in the trenches at that
place. It began with some of tho buttallion
singing. One by one the differ
eni regiments collected round and
joined in. Soon it was turned into
prayer meeting, und there wore several
conversions. As the fact bocamo
daily more apparent that the cause
was lost, the enthusiasm increased and
a religious fervor seemed to possess
the men. The meetings went ou constantly,
singing and praying were
heard in all parts of the Confederate
camps. An " army church " was formed
with a constitution and articles of
faith so broad as to admit believers of
every shade. Until the surrender the
enthusiasm continued, and the results
i>f the great army revivals wore seen
in the added membership and increased
interest of the various denominations
after peace again blessed the
land.
" PINK NOT."
The Answer of ft Confederate Maiden
lo Her Soldier hover.
After two days of hard riding and
dodging of Yankee cavalry, Captain
Frank Hnrrott was very near his ideal
of l'aradiso. That is to say, lie was in
the parlor of Colonel Helton's mansion,
kneeling beside a recking chair in
which was seated fair Mistress Mario
Sulton. A solitary tallow-dip was the
only witness of the scene.
lie opened his lips to tell her the
love that had impelled him to take
that foolhardy ride, when the door was
Hung hastily open. His servant rushed
in crying, *'l)o Yankees is comin'!
l(un, Nlaiis Frank! Fo' Gawd's sake!
Use done got de bosses at the back
do'."
With a fleroo oath, Captain Frank
sprang to his feet. Pausing, he stooped
suddenly and kissed Marie, then,
without a word dashed through the
hall, leaped on his horse and rode for
his life.
A squad of Yankees turned tho corner
of the house in time to witness his
flight, and, tiring a volley after him,
they gave chase. As tho millets hummed
around him. the cimfuin onlv h*?nt
? i " ? ~ ~ *?r "N *'w
u little lower in the saddle and urged
his horse to greater speed. (Josely
pursued at lirst, he linaliy distanced
his pursaora and denuded to cut across
tho country and ioin his regiment.
Fortunately, ho fell 111 with his con puny
the next night. In spite of the
fact tfiat ho was glad to bo with his
men again, he was unhappy, for ho was
uncertain how his suit hud prospered.
Mario was looking toward tho door
when he stole that kiss, and afterwards
poor Frank groaned in bitterness
of spirit.
There wore weeks of hard lighting
on hand : he could not apply for leave.
As for a letter?here he groaned
itgain. It was in tho last days of tho I
Confederacy and the voice of Greenback
was scarce in the land. Captuin
Frank had not a cent in tho world and, 1
us ho know, could neither bey; nor borrow
u bit of paper. Ho was alio oat in
despair, when an idcu struck him w iili
an exclamation of delight, ho hastened
U? an adjacent wood-piio and procured
a pine chip, lie smoothed it oil ami
wrote on one aide of the chip iu pencil
' 1 " and on the other side "tlieo''- I
piyo for thee !
Ho called his man /.eph ami gave
him the chip, with orders to take it to
Miss Sol ton and bring her answer.!
Zeph concealed it in his clothes, prom- i
ised to return in threo daya and vanished
in the woods. Tlin o days pus-- ,
ed, four, live, still Zoph did not return.
On the night of tho iifth clay, Fra k
returned late to his tent, trouble l
about bis man's safety and worn out
with the duties of the day. In front of
the tent be found a limp, draggled
specimen of the genus homo, class j
i." i.? ? ..it
i,i>niw|ui, cnmcning over the IIr*- nursing
a wounded arm?/,<:ph ! Tlio poor
man arose and muttering something
about " dat Yankee bullet," handed a
curiously shaped pack aye to his master.
It was wrapped in a piece of bag- .
ging that was fastened with a thorn. 1
With trembling lingers the captain
seized it, toroolf the strange wrapping i
and revealed?her answer ! A pine
knot!?Southern Magazine.
I IK WAS I'lM i'A 11.
Tlio I'idelityN <>(' an Old Ihirkey in
Kl a very Tl mes.
A group of gentlemen, mostly from
Dixie, wore discussing certain phases
of the institution of slavery as it
existed in their region, at one of the
down town hotels. Tlio faithfulness
of the black man to his master was
heartily attested by those present,
nearly all of whom had owned slaves.
"There never was a more loyal subject
than the old-time plantation
darky," said Maj. George Grillln, of
Columbus, On., "The percentage of
slaves who tried to gain their freedom
by running away was very small, which
was the host proof of their contented
lot. My father had emigrated from
South Carolina to Georgia, bringing
with him about thirty negroes, in
themselves constituting a respectable
fortune. Me was tii:?uy planter,
and with the aid of his colored vassals
his worldly possessions increased
rapidly. Among the number was a
great, strapping fellow, named Dan,
who from tho fact of his ability to do
about twice the work of an average
hand, and also for his good disposition,
was a primo favorite on the place.
Dan was really tho pet of the family:
ho could shuck more corn and pick
more cotton than any of his colleagues,
and whibhal was as amiable as a child.
ciimnuip 1 i \i.
111^ II u I 'till '1*11/ I11H
cabin and walked up to the 'big houso'
as tlio servants styled the residence
of their owner, lie found my father
seated on the veranda, smoking his
pipe and coming up to him said, * Mars
George, I've got a favor to ax of you.'
" 'What is it, Dun ?"
" 'You know I've a twin brother
baek in Souf Carolina, dat 1 ain't seed
in eleven years. 1 want you to let me
go on a little visit to see liueben, for 1
thinks a heap of dat. boy."
"Well, the upshot of it was, that
the necessary consent was given.
There was no railroad closer than
Atlanta, hut Dan thought little of
walking that distance. When the day
eaino for him to start he was the
happiest mortal on earth. Father
gave him a nico suit of clothes and
ldenty of poeket money, lie was to he
back in six weeks. Sonus of our neighbors
prophesied that we had seen the
last of Dan, but not so, 1 recollect the '
night when he came down the road
whistling a merry tune, lie hud enjoyed
a great time with his brother,
and the six weeks was up to a day."?
Washington 1 'ost.
A Sensible Farmer.?Mr. Henry
Keller, who lives in the outskirts of
Yorkvillo, is a thrifty small farmer,
who has worked hard, secured pecuniary
independence, and who can give
many of his brother farmers somo
valuable points on profitable farming.
" I never did raise much cotton," lie
said, to a representative of The Knquiror
tho other day. " 1 don't like to
farm just for tho sake of handling the
money. Why, one year, one of my
neighbors raised thirty bales of cotton,
and when settling-up time came, he
was unable to pay all his debts. I only
raised threo bales, paid all my debts,
and had one bale left. Nobody can
make money raising cotton if they expect
to buy anything else that thev
could raise themselves."
? ?
?" Thoro's some folks that make
farming pay," said my driver, pointing
to a plaeo we passed.
44 I low?" I demanded, thinking to
hear of some now plan.
' They work," he replied.
?Hev. J. It. Tho>'nwell has acceptod
the invitation to preach the baccalaureate
sermon before the Thornwoll Orphanage
Seminary at the common ,'emonton
tho 1st of July.
i
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A VKTLKAN'5 VEKMIT.
The War is Over. A Well-known Soldier,
Correspondent and Journalist
Makes a Disclosure.
Indiana contributed her thousands of brave
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error ?rd in that respect than It doeB. In
literature It Is rapidly acquiring an
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Holomon Yewell, well known as a writer as
"Sol," has won an honorable posit Ion. During
the late war ho was a member nf < o. M,
2d. N. Y. Cavalry and of the 13th Indiana Infantry
Volunteers. Regarding an important
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Wo say to till, try thoso remedies."
?Solomon Yewell, Marlon. Ind., Doc. 5, 1H92.
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Dancer From Over Exertion.?
Among people over lifty, danger of
<li?:t1.1i Irnm ItiMivt- II fti'O uiiilflim
exertion us in running for u train, is
by no means confined to such us have
obvious heart-disease. Many hearts, ..
while showing no symptoms of disease, ft*
are unlit to stand a sudden strain, and
for such, a run to catch a train, and %tVt"
especially a run uphill, is sufficient to
produce a dilatation which may shirt
a long or even fatal illlness, or may
causo immediate death. It is interesting
to observe how frequently catustrope
occurs after the otl'ort is over.
While the race is in full swing there
is plenty of room in the systematic circulation,
and thus, although the heart
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great resistance. When, however,
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of ambition is secured, the contracting
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His Mkmouy Was Good.?"And
you pretend to say," remarked a lawyer
to a witness, " that you can remember
the exact words that this
man said to you ten years ago?"
" I do-'
" Well, if my memory serves me, I
mot you at Saratoga about tive years
ago, and I should like to know if vou
can swear to any expression which I
then made."
" I can."
" Now, Mr. J., I want you to remember
that you are under oath. Now
under oath, you swear that you can
quote with great accuracy a remark
1 made l.o vnii ul ??
__ _ j w?. >?v K/u> uvvgU) uvo yuui'8
ago ?"
" I can."
"Well, what was it?"
" You mot mo in t he hotol corridor,
and yon shook hands with mo."
" Naturally 1 did."
"And you said to mo: "Lot's go
and take something.'"
Tho crior of the court had to call
silence for ton minutes, and tho lawyer
confessed that tho witness had a remarkable
memory.
?Among somo old papers in an
Arkansas probate court was found a
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during the last illness of tho deceased.
On tho hack tho administrate^Had
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" This ehiim is'not verified by affidavit
as the status requires, but tho death
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lie put up his hand feebly. "Give it
to me in a teaspoon, please," he whispered
huskily, "till I got used to it."
? Hobby?l'apa, who was Hotel* tho
Groat? l'apa?That's a nice question
for a little Sunday-school boy to ask.
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