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GRANDMOTHER'S STORY
! how cold It is! llow can I over
cot up? It would bo so nieo to lio
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??iu niiiuu^ niu ? uriu I'IUUKUU) i \\ ny,
I htul to part with I don't know how
much of my own caloric to got the
shoots, and the blankets and the comforters
warm- I like the old-fashioned
word bettor than the modern "puff''
or "spread " name?and directly 1 had
done so 1 was asleep. And then the
first thing 1 knew it was morning, and
1 woke up. So 1 haven't had half the
good of it 1 ought to have. And it's so
delicious just to lie still and think. 1
know some people plunge out of bod
the instant they wake. How they can
do it is a marvel to me. 1 like io lio
quiet, and get a little used to this life
I've been away from all night, and
think over what I'm going to do. and
wiiat pleasures 1 hope to have. Hut
there's the imperative necessity of
getting up 1 (Iruudmother says it
doesn't make a thing a hit easier to
dread it. and then you have all the
misery of the dread besides. How true
that is ! And yet here 1 lie, and think
how hard it will bo to touch my feet to
the cold counterpane.
Oh, my, if there isn'ttho train whistling
down ! Half-oust seven! It's mil
use procrastinating uny longer. There ! J
I'm up. Ami it's just us I expected.
My stockings are like sheets of cold
lead. The air is as sharp as needle
points. Dear, dear! shall 1 over got
dressed ? It is so nrovoking that in
winter, when its such a fearful trial to
dress, you have no end of things to put
on, while in summer, when it wouldn't
matter, you can dross in two minutes.
I'll throw 011 mv wrapper. I can put
011 a belt and collar down stairs.
llere wo go ! Ah, my foot arc frozen.
I'm certain ! Now, it would bo just my
luck if the lire had gono out last night.
No ! Oh, this is a comfort! Not that
it's warm, but it isn't quite like the
North Polo. And hero is grandmother,
as suro as I live !
Why, grandmother, what did make
you got un so early? Why didn't you
wait till tno rooms got warm? Didn't
get up till sunrise? For my part, I
wonder the sun rises at all sueh weather.
Oh, grandmother, what a shame!
Hero's my lovely geranium frozen?and
my oxalis, and my daisy ! Oh, I'm so
Knrrv ! Ami I unt. (Imm K?> ?!>..
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stove, too! Might have known the
current of cold uir near the lloor would
freeze them ! 1 suppose I might. So
much for not putting one's scientific
knowledge to use. Hut this is the
coldest room that ever was. When I
got rich, I'm going to build u house
that shall have no north side.
Don't 1 know anything about cold
weather? Oh, grandmother ! and the
mercury twelve below. Last week it
was like April, it's my opinion the
thermometer has lost its senses.
Remember tho cold Friday ? I'm
glad 1 don't. If I remembered anything
worse than this, T wouldn't own
it. You were out in it? IIow came
you to go out? Tho houso wont and
left you ? That was funny! Tell mo
how it happened. Oh, yes, you'll have
time. Nora has only rung tho tirst
boll just now, and mother won't be
down for half an hour. I'll get tho
ottoman, and sit down, my back to the
lire; and while I'm thawing, you can
tell your story. It isn't a story? Oh,
yes it is! Everything?all life is a
story. That's what makes it so interesting.
Now, then, grandmother!
When I was a girl
" When I was a girl," said grandmother,
" 1 lived in a littlo frame house
in what we called the 'now State.' Of
course, 1 mean Vermont. It's full of
pretty towns now, but in those days
the few settlers wore scattered over
miles and milos. Our nearest neighbor
was two miles oil'. You could just
soe the roof of the house over the hill,
though when the leaves were out, they
hid it. We used to bo glad when the
leavos fell in October, for then wo
could see Squire Bergen's house again.
"We lived there year in and year
out, and wo didn't see a strange face
once in six months, or, perhaps a year.
1 remember traders used to pass us on
the way to the lake : and, after a wlulo
they began to lumber from up above
us, aud then wo used to see the men
when they went in the fall, and again
when they came out in the spring.
We used to bo glad enough to soo them,
too. They called at our house, and
stayed all night, and in the evoning
they used to sit around the flro, and
tell stories, and once in a while Squire
Bergen's folks would eomo over, and
we'd dance in the great kitchen?thoso
nice old-fashioned country dances?
Fisher's Hornpipo and Money Musk,
and Lady Washington's Heel.
"That was real dancing, Kitty.
Nowadays you walk through the
eliangos as if you wore doing a stint,
and woulu be only too glad when it was
dono. Pretty figures wo were Y Why,
yes, I suppose so. A short saloon
gown?saloon is homo-made stuff pressed
until it shines? good, stout, leathern
shoes, no hoops, nopaniers, no ribbons.
Sometimes we had a calico slip, and
then we were lino indoed. Calico cost
money in those days. When J was fifteen,
mother bought mo a Turkey-red
calico that cost sovonty-live cents a
yard, and it was so sleazy you could
throw peas through it.
" Well, that brings mo back to my
story. When I was tiftoon, as I said,
we lived all alone. In tho winter father
worked in tho woods. That winter
he was getting out timber for a house
he was going to build tho next summer.
Ho used to go away about daylight,
carrying his dinner, and not
coining homo till dark. Then, you
may be suro,i mother had a nice supper
ready. The winter days wore so
short that, what with doing up tho
morning work and watering tho cattle
at noon, and taking care of tho baby,
wo couldn't more than turn round before
it was timo to get supper. In tho
evening wo used to spin. Tho little
wheel ran so much better when tho
room was warm and shut up.
"The morning of this cold Friday,
father came in aftor ho had milked,
and said it was going to bo a bitter
cold day.
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noun v you newer not |{0 mio uio
woods toduy said mother.
" Fathor laughed in his good-humored
way, and said a great stout follow
liko him would look well staying at
homo because it wus cold. And so he
muHlod himself all up in his groat-coat
and started. When we'd got the dishes
dono up, and the house put to rights,
mother says:
*1 * I guess. Molly, I'll boil a nice
kettle-full of corn porrlgo today, and
have it hot for supper. It will please
fathor.'
" Yes, it was very liko what you call
hulled corn, only after wo got tno hulls
all off the corn, boiling it in tyo. ond
washed it nicely, wo put a pioco of
meat in the pot, and somotimos some
beans, and just before it was ready to
cotno off, wo thiokenod it a little, and
there was a nioo soup^-if you like to
call it so. I daro say Borne French
name might bo given to it; but corn
porridge waa good enough for us.
"Mother went about it pretty soon, .
and 1 tended to the cow a, for the boys ,
were small then?Kben being twelve, ;
and Sammy ton?and I did a chore at ,
spinning, and took euro of tho baby
between whiles, and wuh ho busy, und
forgot all alnjut tho weather, till all at
ionoo 1 noticed how dark it luid grown;
and then 1 looked up, and there wuh a
great black cloud in the sky.
" ' Why, mother,' I cried, 'see that !'
"Mother came away from tho tiro
where she had been tending to the
porridge, and looked out of tho window.
" ' That's wind !' said sho.
" And sure enough, in flvominutoH it
began to blow. You thought tho wind
blow last, night, Kitty : but vou don't
know anything about wind? That wind
grew and grew, till tho poor littlo
house rocked like a cradle. It burnt
the latches olT tho doors, and wo had
to nail them up. It broke in tho windows
in the north room, and they wont
down on tho tloor in a thousand pieces.
Sometimes we crept to tho window,
and peeped out, and then wo could see
in the pieeo of w<hk! across the valley,
tho trees going down in crowds. It was
terrible?this mighty ouoiny abroad,
whom you could not see, but only know
by his awful work.
"Tho children wore awfully frightened,
and poor mother had her hands
full. She was as white as a shoot, hut
she kept composed and quiet, and tho
hoys didn't know sho was alarmed.
Hut 1 was old enough to understand.
" Sho didn't dare to keep much lire,
for fear the chimney inicht catch, and
so who only put on a stick or two at a
time ; and we all huddled together on
the hearth, and the pot simmered
slowly, and mother hid her fear in her
heart, and told us stories, and sang1
sweet, old-fashioned songs. Mother
had a pretty, soft voice, and I used to
think nothing could he sweeter than
her singing of 4 Mary's Dream.' Ilow
does it begin V Why, this way :
4Tho moon had climbed the highest
hill
That rises o'er the source of Deo,
When Mary laid her down to sleep,
Her thoughts on Sandy, far at sea.'
' Poor Sandy ! How we sympathized
with him, and pictured the cold, wot,
shivering wraith to our mind's eye !
Now, while the awful wind howled,
and the chimney roared like a demon,
and the windows rattled, mother's
voice rose, full and clear, and so ten"
dor, as perhaps the angels sing through
all the discordant noises of the world.
44 I had for one minute almost forgotten
the wind and the cold, thinking
of poor Mary and her lost lover,
when the house gave a great heave, as
if it were at sea and a mighty wave
broke against it, and then there came
a terrible deafening crash.
44 The children screamed, and mother
sprang up, and there was more tearing
and crashing of timbers ; and then,
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ami an ai uin;u, >> ^ r\uu? iimu tuu mum i
hud boon lifted, uud there was tho!
cold, gray sky looking in upon us, for
tiio ruftors overhead had no floor. Oh,
how the cold rushed in.
"'What shall wo do?' I whispered,
looking at mother's white face.
" 'You stay with tho children !' she
said.
"1 had much ado to quiet the boys.
By good luck tho baby slept through it
all, as babies sometimes will.
"Mother came back in a minute,
and said tho roof hung by only a stick
or two, and might break through upon
us any time.
"'We must go up to Squire Bergen's,
she said.
" We got the children ready as quick
us wo could, for there was danger in
every minute wo remained in the
house. Mother wrapped the baby up
in a comforter, and wo put on all tho
warm tilings we could, and started.
"Then we knew how intense tho
cold was. Eortunatoly, tho wind was
at our backs, or we should have frozen.
As it was we had to hurry and run and
talk loud, and keep each other up.
Once Ebon sat down and said ho could
go no further. And then mother gave
the baby to me, and coaxed and scolded
Ebon, and so got him along. Never
were more thankful people than we
wore, when wo wont into Squire Bcr,1,.l.wl
"Thou mother stopped," and looked
at mo.
" 1 Why didn't I think to bring that
kottlo of porridge?' sho says. 'Four
hungry mouths, and I hate to bo beholden.'
" She didn't say anything more, for
just then Mrs. liergen oamo to the
door.
"'Why Molly Haven!' savs she.
'What has happened to your house?'
"' The roof has blown olT :' said
mother, and then burst out crying.
"They took us in, and made us just
as welcome as if we'd boon thoir own
folks: and the boys popped corn and
roasted chestnuts, and I could have
enjoyed visiting with Cynthia. Bergen,
only there was mother worrying about
fathor, and feeling bad about tho porridge.
" About the middlo of tho afternoon
tho wind lulled a little, and pretty
soon somebody was stamping at the
door, and there was fathor ! ilo came
in, looking anxious and eager; when
he saw mother, bo cried : "Tho Lord
be praised that you're snfo, Molly !"
and ho took her In his arms, and kissed
her before all the folks.
"lie said he found it was so bittor
cold in the woods, after he bad choppod
a eouplo of hours, ho thought be
would go over to tho villago, and do
some errands, and then come home.
Then the wind caino up, and lie had to
stay, for the way homo was through
the woods, and the trees would bo coming
down all around.
" 'They lay as thick as if they'd been
mowed,' said he.
" And he told stories of people who
had been frozen, and of cows freezing
stiff in the barn. And we wondered j
more and more how we got to Squiro
Bergen's alive.
" ' But I've brought some things for
you,' says father, starting toward the
door.
"'Oh, father,' said motliei' hurrying
after him, ' if you'd only thought
?but of course, you didn't!'
"'Didn't I, though?' said father. .
" And he pulled a blanket off the
sled, and thero was mother's kettle of
corn-porridgo, all nice and savory, and
not quito cold.
" And we had a nice supper, and a
good visit, after all : for father wasn't
a grumbling man, and he said the
house wasn't worth fretting about, as
long as wo were all safo."
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vsupwunii\i< nrnwi'i?j.ney wore
having a heated argument. IIo said :
" Stop your quarruling. Peoplo will
think wo aro crazy."
"No thoy won't my dear," she ropliod.
" Thoy will think one of us is
crazy."
" Ah !" he responded, "thoro's your
egotism again."
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THE TARIFF BILL HAS PASSED.
A MAJOHITY OF FIVK IN TIIF.
HKNATK.
Senator Hill llccoi'ded IIK Vote
Attaint*! It?Some of the Closing I
Scenes In tin' Senate.
Washington, d. c., July 3.?The
lurilT bill has passed by tt vote ol 3b to
34. Mr. Illll voted against it. The
two Louisiana Senators oould have
done the sumo and yet the bill would
have ridden to anchor. At the last
, Mr. Hormon came out in the lead and
| tried to pass it without the aid of the
Populists. At the close ho made the
finance committee repudiate their
promises to Mr. Allen about the barb
wire fencing, and passed the word
along tho line to turn the l'opulists
down and force the passage by a strictly
Democratic vote. Mr. Allen and
Mr. Kvle, however, voted for the measure.
Mr. Hill was the only Democrat
who faced the furies of the future and
cast his vote in the negative.
At tho close of the final scenes in the
tariff drama the galleries were crowded
and for a time there was enthusiasm
equal to that of the last day of the hill
in the House.
The Senate mot in continuation of
yesterday's legislative session by virtue
of the recess taken last night. That
obviated all the delays incident to tlx;
foi'Miill i t.icu (if !L 1'nirnlni' iinrinimr nf it
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now day. The tar iff bill was taken up
ut onoo and action 011 the amendments
in the coinmittoo of the whole occupied
the whole of to-days session.
First came the motion made by Mr.
Mills to placo burlaps and grain bags
made therefrom on the free list. It
was carried by a vote of 28 to IT. Next
eatne tho famous "collars and culTs"
amendment lixing the duty on thoso
articles at 30 cents per dozen and 30
per cent, ad valorem and on shirts at
;>0 per cent., equivalent, according to a
statement made by Mr. Chandler, to
an ad valorem rate of from 80 to 12."?
per cent. That amendment was agreed
to after a couple of satirical speeches
directed nguinst the junior Senator
from Now York (Murphy) by a vote of
43 to 5.
Then the great wool schedule came
up for action, Mr. Sherman offering an
amendment to place wool on the dutiable
list at 30 per cent, ad valorem.
The longest discussion of the day took
pluco on this proposition, appeals being
made by Uepubllcun Senators to
Democratic Senators from the woolprodueing
St\tes to supply even two
votes for tho ainendmont which would
be enough with tho l'opulist votes to
carry it. Hut these appeals fell on
deaf ours. There was not a single desertion
from the Democratic ranks on
tho quostion of wool. The two Populist
Senators who usually act with tho
Democrats?Allen and Kylo- did not
vote, and the amendment wus defeated
?yeas, ill!; nays, ilT : and so wool remains
on the free list.
Tho committee amendment placing
bituminous coal on the dutiable list at
40 cents a ton and coal slack at 15 cents
was agreed to by a vote of 57 to (I. Tho
six were Allen, Hill, lrby, Kyle, Mills
and PolYor.
All tho committee amendments to
the lead schedule woro agreed to, also
the amendments under the title of
' (in 1 wi*n11 *i ttiMiiiv: inn nnfm?1 11 i*??u "
) The next reserve amendment was as
to paintings on the free list. Mr. Allen
moved to strike out the paragraph
and to substitute for it the provisions
of the existing law as to duty on paintings.
It was contended, however, that
the motion was not in order, the rule
under which the Sen a to was acting being
that all eoininittoo amendments
should be disposed of after which every
line of the bill would be open to amendments
were agreed to.
The committee amendment which
had been originally offered by Mr.
Hill, exempting the salaries of the
President of the United States and of
tho Judges of the United States Court
from the income tax was rejected after
a brief struggle by a veto of yeas,
di; nays, .'Hi?ten Democrats having
voted for it and six Republicans and
three Populists against it.
All tho other reserved amendments
up to tho close of tho hill were agreed
to without opposition.
The date when tho bill is to go into
effect was fixed at August 1st. 1894? (
with the understanding if necessary a
later date can be fixed hereafter.
liar bod wire was a subject of some
dispute. An amendment had boon
agreed to in the committee of the
whole that barbed wire for fencing
should be admitted free of duty. This
i amendment was rejected and one of!
fored by Mr. Allen, of Nebraska, to
placo " wire for fencing" on tho freo
list was ulso rejected?yeas, .'12; nays, (
28. And so wire remains 011 tlio dutiable
list at rutos according to gua^o.
Mica was taken oil' tho freo list and ,
put on tho dutiable list at 20 per cent,
ad valorem, upon motion of Mr. Hansom,
which amendment prevailed by a
vote of 10 yeas and 28 nays.
Some amusement was hud on the <
floor by tho personal appeal of Mr.
Hansom to Senators to support his
amendment. 11 is throe-minute speech
in favor of his proposition was the only
one lie has made on the tariff question,
ami after ho had concluded the Sena- '
tors gathered about him and promised ,
support. After the vote Mr. Hansom
interrupted Mr. Morgan for the purpose
of, as he said, "completing his
amendment," which he proceeded to
do bv moving to strike mien from the
free list, where it hud been placed by
the committee. This was agreed to
amid much laughter, which was only
increased when Mr. Chandler crossed
the aisle, invaded the ranks of his political
enemies and grasped Mr. Ransom
by the hand and congratulated
him upon his victory for the mica industry
of North Carolina and New
Hampshire.
Mr. Morgan offered an amendment
to come in as llvo additional sections
at tho end of the hill aimed at trusts,
combinations' and conspiracy, in restraint
of trade and commorco or to increase
tho market price of imported
articles, lie made a speech in explanation
and dofonco of tho amendment
which would have tho alToct, ho said,
of ronrossing " those trusts in all their
multiplied'hideousnoss/' Tho amendment
was agreed to without division. ,
Tho lirst section of it is as follows : 1
Section 7. That every combination,
conspiracy, trust, agreomont or eontract
is horoby declared to be contrary
to public policy, illegal and void when
| tho samo is made by or botween two <
[ or more persons or corporations either
I of whom is engaged in importing unv 1
article from any foreign country into ]
the United States and when alien combination,
conspiracy, trust, agreement J
or contract is intended to operate in 1
restraint of lawful trade or froo com- i
petition in lawful trade or commerco i
or to increase the market price in an/ 1
part of the United States or of any 1
manufacture into which such imported I
articles ontors or is intended to enter. '
Kvory person who is or shall horoafter i
bo engaged in the importation of goods \
or any commodity from any foreign f
country in violation of this section of 1
this act. or who shall combine or con- t
spire with unothcr to violate the same
is guilty ??f a misdemeanor, and on eon
ictlou thereof in any court of the
I'liit.eil Kt.iitc-i <in>)i iiiiivmu wlicill lm
fined in a sum not less than $100 and
not more exceeding$o,000, and shall bo
further punished by lmpriHonmont in
tho discret ion of the court for a term
not loss than three months, oor exceeding
twelve months.
Mr. Allen theofTeredthoamendmont
to tho sugar BOliodule of which Mr.
.(ones gave notico yesterday but which
he did not at any time today offer to
tho Senate. Tho amendment in full is
as follows : Provided, however, that
tho inanity provided by said act shall
stand unrepealed to the extent that
there shall ho paid to tho producers of
sugar from beets, sorghum, or sugar
cane grown in the l.'nit* d States in the
year 18P1 or from Maple syrup produced
in the United States during too year
l8'.)i under the license for 181)1 and subject
to the limitations now imposed by
law on all sugars testing not less tlian
IK) degrees by tho polariscop, ninetenths
of one cent per pound and upon
such sugar testing less than IK) dogtves
by tho polariscopo and not loss than 80
degrees eight-tenths of cent per pound.
Mr. Jones asked Mr. Alien to withdraw
it but he declined. It was tlum
laid on the table on motion of Mr.
Harris, yeas "><), nuvs 22.
At 1*) p. hi. thero was an immense)
concourse of spectators in thogAllcries,
most of them ladies and all waiving
fans industriously, for the atmosphere
of the chamber was hot and sweltering.
Senators evinced great impatience at
the unnecessary delay occasioned by
theolTering of amendments which have
no show of being adopted but which
occupied time in taking the yeas and
nays. There was much excitement as
to the result of the final vote and a
rumor prevailed that the bill would he
beaten. The ehairiuan of the House
Committee on Ways and Means Mr.
Wilson- and Koprosentativos McMillin
and Springer were interested spentatorrs
of the proceedings and eager
watchers for the last struggle. At 1<>
p. in. the bill was finished and then Mr.
Smith (Dcm.) of New Jersey rose and
and addressed the Senate in a set
speech against the socialistic income
tax. as he characterized it, hut he said
he should vote for the pending bill because
ho is a Democrat.
Mr. 11 ill declared his continued antagonism
to the bill as a rag bag production,
a crazy <(iiilt combination, a
splendid nothing. The close of his
speech was applauded.
The calling of the roll 011 the final
passage of the tarilT bill bogan at 10:20
ami the voto res u I tod?yens, 39; nays,
34. Mr. CalTroy voted no and after tho
vote had been completed made a brief
explanation as to why he had done ho
and then changed his vote to one in tho
ufllrmntivo. Mr. Irby voted for the hill
and Mr. Blanchurd. who was denied
the privilege of explaining his vote in
an objection contented himself with a
simple yea. Mr. Iiill was the only
Democrat to vote against the bill. The
Foulists, Allonand Kyle, both voted for
it and Feller against it. Following is
the vote in detail :
Yeas?Allen, Hate. Berry, Blackburn.
Blanchurd, CalTroy, Call, Cockroll,
Coke, Daniel, Faulkner, Goorgo,
Gibson, Gorman, Gray, Harris, Hunton,
Irby, .Jarvis, Jones, of Arkansas; Kyle,
Lindsay, McLaurin, Martin, Mills,
Mitchell, of Wisconsin; Morgan, Murphy,
1'aimer, Foseo, Hansom, Bench,
Smith, Turpio, Vest, Vilas, Voorhees,
Walsh, White?39.
Nays?Aldrlch, Allison, Carey, Chandler,
Cullom, Davis, Dixon, Dolph, Duboso,
Frye, Callinger, Hale, llansbrough,
llawley, Higgins, Hill, Jones,
of Nevada; Lodge, Me.Millin, Manderboii,
Mitchell, of Oregon ; Fatten, 1'offer,
Ferkins, l'latt, i'owor, F roc tor,
Quay, Sherman, Shoup, Squire, Stevvvvart.
Teller. Wushhm-n?:n
Tho Vioo l'resldont appointed the
following managers on the part of the
Somite as conferees : Voorneos, Harris,
Vest, Jones, Sherman, Allison and
Aldrioh.
it was no secret among' those who
laid tho confidence of tlio leaders on
tlio I vopublioan side tliat they expected
to defeat the tariff 1)111 and that they
ligured on a majority of ono vote
against it. Tho first break on the
Democratic side came when tho name
of Mr. CalYroy was called and ho replied
with an emphatic "No." His colleague,
Mr. Hlanchard, did not respond
to his name at all when it was called.
Irby, it was claimed, had promised to
vote against tho bill, but when his
namo was called ho responded in tho
alltrmativo and all doubtof tho passage
vanished. Mr. CalTrey then, after a
brief explanation and a protest against
tho way his people had boon treated,
changed his vote to in favor of tho bill
and Mr. Hlanchard voted the same
way. Had Irby stood by the combination
the two Louisiana Senators would
have remained firm and tho veto
would have been .'17 to 2(i against the
bill.
Special to Atlanta Journal.
WAStllNfJTOM. IV C. .InluR ?If
exactly 1:80 when ilio tarilY bill was
returned to tho Mouse this afternoon.
When tho Senate messenger hud concluded
the reading t?f its title, there
was applause on the Democratic side.
There were no manifestat ions of any
character from the Ltopublicuns.
The bill will remain on the Speaker's
desk until tomorrow, when it will
be referred to the committee on. ways
and means. It is probable that conferees
on tho part of tho House will bo
named tomorrow, and that by Saturday
tho first session of the House and Senate
conference committee will be held.
l'robably on account of the financial
stress through which tho country has
been passing, tho Democrats have been
charged on all sides with unnecessary
and interminable delays in the consideration
of the tar ill bill. Evon while
the bill was being considered by the
ways and means committee of the
House, the cry went up against tho
amount of time that was taken in getting
it before the House. Tho few
days occupied by tho House in its linal
discussion and passago, was criticised,
and from one end of tho country to the
other tho Senate has been railed at for
its delays.
In nopartioular spirit of dofensoarc
some facts on tho subject givon below.
They are stated simply to show and
will prove conclusively to any fairminded
man, that the Democrats have
made a remarkable record for speed
in tho consideration aud final passage
of tho bill, as compared with the
Kepublican management of tho legislative
act of 1890, known as tho MoKin
ley bill.
from the record it is found that the
MoKinloy bill was not reported from
the Hoiiso eommittoo on ways and
nouns until April lb. Tho Wilson bill
vas reported to tho Houso December
19. Tho MoKinloy bill passed the
uouso on iviay z 1, wniio too Wilson
)ill passed tho Houso on Fobruary I.
fho McKinloy act wan roferrod to tho
Senate committee on IInance, May 23,
vliilo a similar oltlco was porformed
or the Wiison bill on Fobruary 2. Tho
dcKinloy act passed tho Senate with
wnondmonts on Soptombor 10, and tho
? 2*
Wilson bill with amendments puusod
tho Senate on July J.
It will Ik' thus aeen that up to tho
present time tho Deinocruts have disposed
of their taritT measure in two
months' less time than it took the Republicans.
After the McKlnlcy bill
had been passed by the Senate it took
exactly twenty-one days, including
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I uu.moj /- , iui i in* imii I/O uceomo u iuw,
us will l>o seen by the following dutes.
After passing tbo Semite on Soptembor
10th, it was referred to the conference
i committee on September 15th, reported
by the conference committee to the
lleuso on September 27th, roported by
the conference committee on Soptem
her 20th to the Semite, passed the Senate
on September ,'iOth. ami approved
by the I 'resident October 1st.
Reckoning on the Republican basis
of time, which is an extremely liberal
one, consumed in disposing of the MeKinley
act, the oresent tariff bill should
become a law by duly 21th, and it will
have taken the Democrats exactly two
months and eight days le*-a time to
have enacted the party's pledge on the
taritl into a law than it did the Republicans.
It has become popular to attuck
everything done bv the Democratic
party, hut u careful study of the record
will show thai much less of thu time
and money of the people has been frittered
away at thin session of Congress
than in any other Congress since the
war.
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A SI'ICY cokkios PON 1)1 INCH.
Chairman Nettles Makes a lively
Answer to Senator I tilt lei* and (Jets
a Pithy Itcply from His Itepresoiitat
i ve.
Senator ibitler sent a letter recently 1
to the chairmen of the Democratic ex- i
ecutivo committees of the several
counties in the State, asking for representation
on the boards of election
managers in the coming primary. '
The following reply was sent by the (
chairman of the Clurohdon executive j
committee : I
Manning, S. C., Juno 30. 1894.
Hon. M. C. Butler, Columbia, S. C.
Dear Sir : Yours of the 20th instant
to hand, in which you say:
44 For the coming primary election, j
l!Stl? of August next, I have the lienor
to request that 1 bo allowed from
among my friends an equal division of ?
the managers of said election. Hither
give mo two managers and give Gov.
Tillman the other manager and the
clerk, or give Gov. Tillman two man- 1
agors and give mo the other and the j
clerk." C
I conf088 to very great surprise at
the above. You seem not to reulizo (
the objects and interests of our pri- i
niaries, but to have reached the con- ]
elusion tliat their sole aim and end j
t.lliw VP!11' ic (VOtt nmwl lit 4 111! Cin?i?if/I??i?il
contest. l'ossibly you.hnvojovorlookod J
the fact that there is really to be no <
election in our primaries for a United ]
States Senator, but as usual theso of- ,
floors are elected by tho State Legisla- t
turo, and it is to be presumed that our (
legislators will have some other merits <
and qualifications than simply to vote (
for a United States Senator. You j
have apparently jumped at the con- |
elusion that the heretofore Koforin ]
and anti-Iteform factions of the State j
have been revised and that their plat- ,
forms of principles are now concen- ]
trated on Tillman and 1 hitler, or on ]
Tillmanism and lhitlorism. t
You surely lost sight of tho fact that (
there are many other candidates, each ,
of whom may feel as great interest in i
his individual election as you do in |
yours. I believe it is a fact that there '
are already four candidates for Cov- {
ernor. Then there are candidates for \
tho other State olliees, for Hailroad i
Commissioners, for Congress, for tho (
Legislature, for county otiices?a great
host of candidates, each one like your- ]
seir, possibly, fearful of tho eonso- \
<iuenees. Suppose that following your
example each one of this mighty host
should demand two managers, that he
might fool fully assured that every
vote cast for him was properly counted
(and you must admit that in this
Democratic country of ours you have
no rights that the humblest cannot
equally claim,) what would bo tho result
?
1 think when you carefully consider
tins question you will realize that your
request is unreasonable.
Wo have in Clarendon County
twenty-live clubs, and in each tho line
is strongly drawn between Reformers
and anti-Reformers. Fifteen of these
clubs are Reformers and ten are Antls.
At our primaries in 1892 wo agreed
upon tho following plan: Each club
should select from its own members
two managers and one clerk, and a
neighboring club of the opposing faction
should complete tho board by sending
another manager and a clerk. By
this plan each club had three managers
and two clerks and both factions
a wore represented. We found it to bo
most excellent plan and it will probably
bo adopted again this year. If now
these anti clubs (or Reform clubs)
should see lit to champion your candidacy,
and to select Butler managers,
they would of courso have a right to
do so, and in this way you may got
your wishes gratified, but then, as you
will note, this is a private matter with
the clubs and not for tho executive
oommittoo. You know it is now
''equal rights to all and special privileges
to none." Yours very respectfully.
S. A. Nettl.es,
uiiuirman Democratic lCxocutivo
Committee, Clarendon County.
Columbia, S. C., July 2, 1801.
Mr. S. A. Nettles, Chairman, Clarendon
County:
Dear Sir : Your favor of Juno JO, in
reply to the letter written by Senator
Butler, usking for an equal representation
at the coming primary election
in the board of managers, duly to
hand.
Your expressions of surprise are as
absurb us your ideas arc narrow and
partisan. It alTords 1110 some satisfaction
to feel sure that you do not express
the views, nor do you represent
the feelings, of tho executive committee
of your county or of tho whito
Democrats of South Carolina, matters
not to what faction they may bolong.
Many of your re fore nces to (.ion. Butler
avo unworthy of you, but I dismiss
them and credit thorn to a bias which
in*?v tiiaiiiunin/iUii yuur puouc curocr 1
for tho last four yours. I
From many portions of South Caro- i
liua I have reooivod most courteous I
ropiios to Senator Sutler's letter?from ?
county chairmen, who have boon in
tho movement longer than you have
and who are no doubt just as true iioformers.
l)o me tho kindness to sub*
mit Senator Butler's letter to your executive
committoo whon it meets. /
The simple request is only for "fair jj
play" and you should not show so much p
nervous agitation in anticipating that I
fair play would mean tho removal of '
yourself and some others from influenco 0
in Clarendon County.
Very truly yours,
John g. Capers. *
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THE STRIKERS FIRED UPON.
SKRIOUS TltOfliLJ: AT CHICAGO
STOCK YARDS.
Fho Carn Derailed ami Fired by the
Infuriated Workmen?United Stales
Soldiers Come to the llcscuc.
Chicago, 111., .July 5.?At o'clock
this afternoon a special train consisting
of an engine and one passenger car,
was sent out on the Lake Shore Road
from Van Huron station loaded with a
letail of special police. Ollicors of the
road were also en hoard. The police
had boon dispatched to aid in the moving
of trains in the vicinity of the stock
/ards. At Fourth street the mob grow
io demonstrative that the train was
compelled to halt. The engineer believed
himself the object of attack ami
lrew a revolver. Before ho could
shoot a policeman disarmed him. The
jrowd saw the movement and became
wild with frenzy. They rushed upon
Iho train, literally swarming around
? 1 1 ...111. -.1 - ? ?'
u, it witu hiuuus una slicks,
ireaking many windows unci howling
iko mad men. Tho police then drow
thoir own revolvers and 11 rod iuto tho
jrowd. One or two 111011 are said to
liuvo boon hit, but it is not yot known
how seriously they aro hurt. A dozen
diots or so wore lired. In tho moantimo
tho engineer had rovoracd his
jngino and tho train was soon forced
backward out of roach of tho now unbridled
mob and returned to tho city,
rids is tho first shooting in the present
strike. It occurred in a locality whore
the men wore already furious and it is
believed will Vie the signal for desperate
encounters very soon.
A meeting of the chiefs of all the
leading labor organizations, including
i.ho International Machinists, Knights
af Labor, tho National Street Car
Men's Association, tho United Mine
Workers, tho National'Typographical
Association and tho American Federation
of Labor, who liuvo placed thoiniclves
at tho disposal of tho American
Kailway Union subject to call, has
jcon called for tomorrow in this eity,
ivhen it is expoctod an attempt will bo
nado to call out ovorv member of labor
n'gaizations in the country.
Mayor Hopkins, in tho name of tho
jity of Chicago, this afternoon sent a
telegram to George M. Pullman urging
jpon him tho ncoossity of arbitration,
itul requesting him to return to this
;ity to ilo all in his power to settle tho
great strike.
The special train from Blue Island
carrying two companies of the Fif,oonth
Regiment to the scene of troublo
jotwoen Forty-third and Fifty-first
itroot on the Rock Island tracks arrived
there at i.uo.i. A corporal's
guard of soldiers was stationed inside
md outsido tho tracks and on tho tenders
of the engine. It was found that
the Lake Shore through train hud
joon held there for an hour. Tho train
<vas stopped at Forty-fourth street by
i mob of sympathizers. Two of them
got into tho cab and ouo choked the
mginoer by tying a handkerchief
mound his nock. Tho other man start)d
the engine ahead. Tho engine and
Daggago car had been cut from the
'est of tho train and movod a block
twny. A call for police was rcspondjd
to by a force of sixty ollicers. Tho
train was coupled together again and
moved under police protection to Fifty-first
street, where it was hold until
tho arrival of the soldiers train. Then
It was started without further trouble.
As soon as tho soldiers had boon orlored
out of tho ear a mob of several
hundred came towards them. Some
>i me crowa got under u lino or box
:nrs standing1 next to tho fonco and
Lieutenant Jamioson of Company C.
od a squad of soldiers who quickly
Irovo them off. Tho rost of tho crowd
yas driven l)ack along tho tracks by a
latoon of soldiers at tho point of bny>nots.
A few of tho crowd wero too
ilow in moving and wero started by
.bo bayonets. Some stones wore thrown
>ut of tho back yards of houses along
.ho tracks, but no ono was hit. The
aggugo of the soldiers was unloaded
it Forty-fourth street and tho soldiers
vill remain in camp at that point if
locossary. Ono of tho crowd was ar osted
by deputy marshals.
A Koek Island oxpross from tho
West attempted to follow tho train
earing tho rogxilars from Blue Island
nto the city this afternoon, but at
'V*rtloth streot tho train was effectually
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iU . ?blocked
by tlio strikers, who had |
thrown Mat oars across tko track. The
mob iuduoed the firemen to ijot otT the
cab. Chief Clerk llubboll of the
Munerlntondont'l ollico of tho Kock
Island was severely stoned while attempting
to switch the Blue Island
special b-uiring the soldiers and the
mob burned a Hock Island freight car
at Fortioth street and would have demolished
the tower at that point, but
were prevented by the police and lire
department.
At <> o'clock to-night a mob numbering
2,(XX) men started north ory the
Lake Shore tr:ioks, marching toward
the heart of tho city. At Twentyeighth
street, they overturned two
freightcars on tho track : at Twentieth
street three and at Twenty-fifth street
two. Tie y were met at Twenty-second
street by a small detachment of police
and before the oMieers could make any
arrests the mob had dispersed. Tho
trainmen repaired tho damage within
two hours.
At special detec tive (Jregory of
the Western Indian Hail way shot two
men in the leg who had made an attempt
on his life. The shooting was
done in self-defense. Two ears loaded
with meat were burned near the Fort
Way no Crossing beforo the tiro department
woi e able to extinguish tho
llnmcs. Tim (Tni<m sanolc V,i?.la
Switching Company has boon blocked
by four freight ears which the strikers
have placed across the tracks. From
there they proceeded to the round
house with the intention of piliqg some
box cars on the switch leading to the
round house so that no engines could
got in or out of the round house. Inspector
Hunt with Jifty policemen met
the mob, however, and drove them
away.
The mob is very rabid and seems
bent on doing everything to destroy
property. They pay no attention to
attempts to dissuade them, having become
rockh sly daring. There are
largo crowns blocking every street and
ally in the stock yards district.
Con. Nelson A. Miles arrived in tho
city last night. Alluding to the strike
in a conversation bo said: li 1 would
suggest that the newspapers warn all
law-abiding citizens, as well as law
breakers, to keep as far away from
those commands us possible. Tho
rapidity of lire and tho rang? of their
weapons is such that grout loss of llfo
must follow if the troops lire. Tho
military is not performing its duties for
display or for picuie purposes, but* lip?
under orders of the President. They
do not propose to allow themselves to
! i . -?
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Greenville, S. C.
Wheke the Week Has Six Days.
?There is a small island in the South
I'acilie where there only appears to bo
six days in the week. This extraordinary
phenomenon is brought about by
the location of tho island. Travelers
around the world are acquainted with
the fact that time is lost while traveling
east and gained while traveling
west, the difference of time in a transatlantic
journey alono being about four
hours. 1 had to run in to Chatham
island once when disabled, and was amused
to see the way in which tho people
accepted their fate in regard to tho
jumping of time. This little island is
juston 1ht i'ne'of demarcation between
timer and dates. In order to keep
right with the remainder of tho world
it is necessary to skip from noon in the
vear. and hoiinn t.lio u s -
^ t v..v/ juuv uiuvu iu in puaail>lo
to spend a whole day at dinner
without eating an average meal.
The island is so near the Antarctic region
that day sand nights are altogether
mixed up from tlie-idea of an ordinary
individual, but this plan of jumping the
afternoon of one day and the morning
of the next, so as to keep in lino with
the almanac, is something so ridiculous
that none but a seafaring man can appreciate
it, or understand the necessity.
?St. Louis Globo-Domoerat.
?Tt Is hard for the judgment to
keep pace with the heart whore our
sympathies are challenged. How often
do wo pass with diffloulty tho outstretched
hand of tho street-beggar?
how often fear that wo havo dono
wrong in not giving, and how often fear
wo have given unwisely. No rules will
seem to fairly apply to tho matter, and
H. {? ? ' -
tv in ittmuuiv iuruuu tu MlOW now W ftCt.
A porson who gives alms at random
may bo compared to one who liros at
random among a crowd. There ia a
aocd of social mischief in every ill-bestowed
bounty, though tho ovo docs not
aoo what the heart rues. How many a
criminal bus to curse tho careless hand
that first encourages him jjj alifoof idleness,
imposturo and vagraflcy!
A YOUNG GIRH FORTUNE.
AN INTERESTING SKETCH.
Nothing opponld bo strongly to t mother's
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woman nooo. Following-is an Instance: "Our
daughter, Blanche, now 16 years of ago, had
been terribly afflicted with nervousness, and
ha?l lost tho entiro use of her right arm. She
was In such a condition that wo had to keep
her from school and abandon her musio lessons.
In fact, wo feared Ht. Vitus dnnco, and
aro positive but for an lnvaluablo remedy sho
would havo had that terriblo affliction. Wo
had employed physicians, but she received no
benefit from thorn. Tho first of last August sho
weighed but 76 pounds, and nllhough sho has
taken only three bottles of Nervine sho now
weighs 106 pounds: her nervousness and symptoms
of Ht, Vitus oanco uro entire''*-gone sho
attends school regularly, and studlr- with comfort
aod ease. Bho has recovered complete uso
of liorann, hor appetlto Is < splendid, and no
money oould procure for onr daughter tho health
l'r. Miles' Norvlno has brought hor.
When bit brothor recommended the romodv
1 had no faith in patent medicines, and would
not listen to him, but as a last resort he sent ua
a bottle, wo began giving it to Blancho, and the
effect was almost immediate -
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