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Tilinan Pitchforks Hill, HILL ATIMPIS TO ANSW[R HIM. John Shermal Treats the South Car ollmi Setllor With Silut. Con fem1 penstimonal Debate in the senaute. ,Nl3y D)a3' witlnesscJ a debate in the Lnited States SenatO of a dramatic and sensational character. recalling the famou$ Iugalls-'Voorhees contest of somo yeairs ago. Senator Tillman of South Carolina again brought his unique personality into the debate, his speech being the tirst of any length since his Immora blo maiden speech attacking public olticials high and low. Whille he was speiking, the silver pitchfork recently preseIted to him in the West was conspicuously displayed oi his scarf. The Senator used the blunt words characteristic of his utterances, art raigning the President and Cabinet officers with uinspairing criticism and ersoial invective. lie also addressed himself persolaly to Mi. 1 ill and Mr. Sherinan, Und dreow from the former several l1har-p rcjoinder.. while Mir. Sh..,rmnan deClineo to be brouight Into coitlrovery n" ith the Soith Carohina Seiattor. Mr. il followed rl. Tillunian, an swering the latter point, by point. The New York Senator referred to the com ing Dlemocratic national convention, (leclaring that there would be no split, but tlit trute Democracy would recog nizo the rule of the majority and keep the party intact, despite the threatz of the SoAith Carolina Senator to leave the party. Mr. Hill spoko freely and frankly of his dilierences with the oflicers of the administration and. in parbieuilar, re feried to the grievous inistake, as he called it, of Secretary Ctrlisle inl not sipporting Senator i3laexburn. when the hatter wits tile loltince of a )emo eratie ceucs. The Senator Liscissel international party affairs, r ing harmony and the termi natiltn of vetionous azSatilts by iDcmocr'at!s on a Democratic l'resident. le spoke for two hoirs and was ac cor(Cd the closest attention. The de hate attracted a great crowd to the Senate wing of the Capitol --the great est since Congi'rcss assetu bled, illing the Senate gallaries and overilowing Into corridors, where long lihes of peop)le struggled for admissionl. Alr. Chandler had Offered an amend ment to the naval appropriation bill plroposi ng tle constriuetioin of thir'ty fa torpedo boats, whe .\l r. Tillman took the floor in opposition. lie stid he had found (luring niis brief experi enee here I hat there wer'e some strange things happening in the Navy Depart ment and all other departments. " It seems to be uifering from too much red tape, too much bureaucracy." He qpoke of the great, number of bureaus ani divisiotis in tihe Navy Departument, which c-awed and divided responsi bilit.y. The Senator had concluded that the main) Putpose Was to make as much money as possible out of the goveI'n Ieit. The Senator saidl he Followed the bad examplle of other Senator's, by branch iuig elI' ont finance a nd ether public ques tions. lie said ho denied the r'lgnt of the President to issue bonds for' meet ing current expecnses. There was no law allowitng the President " to hoeus-pocus and bamboozie the peopie by doing by indirection wvhat he would not do by direction. The President overr'tides all decency, overrides the wiill of his lOrty, to accont plish indi i'eetly what he dared not do dir'ectly. t'r. 11ii1I entered the chamnbor and took a1 sea)t in front of Mi'. Tillman. Theii lat ter' went on to re.for to Mr'. ii ill's desigtation of him iilman) as a l 'opultist, "' one of the tailors of Trooley' street." "I denty the right of the Senator f rom New Yor'k to catalogue tmy pliltics," said Mtr. Tillmnan. Alr. iHill rose to state that bo had never clasd Mr. Trillmatn as a P~opu list. 11e had relerr'cd to others. Mr. Tilbuian insisted that Mr. 1Hill's remarks as to a "eoter'ie " included him, and exclaimed :" I would rather be in such a coterie thati with certain men on this side, who go ar'ountd labeled 'Ilemocrats,' but who are not i)emocrats, and I will prov'o it before 1 get through.' T1he South Cartolina Senator sid hei eamie fromt a State thatt supported and followed him, and that lhe could place Its vote whe'r lhe de~sired. "' And can you say as much ?" he asked or Mr. Hill. Mi'. Hill blandly lfnquireCd if Mr'. Till-' man meant to say that he could carry the great State (of South Carolina into P opulism. Mr. Tillmnan relied that he meant to say he representedl his State and could tell where it was goinig and how it would vote, andI, turnling~to Mr. U ill, said savagely, ''and that is more than you can do. Trhe p~eople of South Caro lia have not yet been bamboozled and debauched." 'rhen, again addressing Mr'. HJill, ho declaredl sarcastically, "You represent the peoplo ~"yes, you do. Y ou r'e piresent the honmtholdlers anid the bank ers." ,Aftr criticising bond issues, Mr. 'i'ilhnani exclaimed. "If you force this thing much further, there will be a ire pudiation of bonds and interest too." " Anl if you can't have that," cooliy suggestedi Mr. 11ill, "'I suppos)e you'll have bloodshed ?" "Yes, and the blood wvill be on your' hands,'- responded Mi'. Tfillman, his wor'ds ringing through the ehamnber'. " Yes, anJl the liood will bo on your hands,". responidod Mir. Tillmnan, his words ringing through the chamber. " I tell you we are desperate," Mr. l'illmnan wont otn. "1 have been through te Vest and I know how tho peoplo1 Thue Senator drew a compar'ispn beo tween Andrew Jackson and Grover Cleveland. "One was tihe man of the people, but Cleveland stands as the tool of the classes," lie declared, add ing that the President represented only money, the almIghty dolla,'. The P resIdent had no p~olicy, he went on, ex~cept th policy of the Senator from Ohio (Shiermian). " If Grover Cleveland," hie shouted with an emphasis that fairly made the chamber' ring, "over goes before the .oeople again ho can bear on his brow the eulogy of pihe Senator from Ohio (Shermnan), who declared on the floor of this chambher .that the President has simply donie his duty. They are link e d together. Orover' Cleveland, John Sherman and Jobn (Jarlisle are affini ties. The qutestion is will the people hso dmnaly foolish as to trust them .. Pr'oceeding, he argued with vehe meonce that the taxes to pay for the bOndse wonl be wruntg from the hands of the toili mastes, -Nothing would bec paid by te Phtuocawho aM v the ofices and cl ippied Goupons. Mr. Tillman referred to the Ohio Senator (Sberman) and his associates "in their contemptible work." Mr. Sherman sat across the aislo, appar ently unmoved. " Perhaps you can bamboozle the people," he said, adtdressing Mr. Shler man. " The fools are not all dead yet, but they are getting mighty restless." At one point. Mr. Tillman addressed a direct question to M r. Sherman con cerning the interests of the laboring people. " Will tihe Senator answer in that." asked Mr. Tillman. pausing in antici pation of a response by Mr. Sherman. But Sherman looked directly at the South Carolina Senator and romained in his seat without answer. Mr. Tillman next took up Air. ler bert. and said the Secretary had boon making a speech at Cleveland to somo bond owners and coupon-clippers. and mado running comnents while ho read the Sece'ta"y's speech. If the people wanted this Clcyclanid-Cariisle-Sher man rule, all right : let them baye it: let theim fry. "But I tell you I cat see the end coining," said, 3Mr. Till tan. " One thing I know, there is a God in heaven and a reckoning must coio. We need a plurilication of Public life; we need a new constitution to declare the peo ple's rights and to tie the hands of the thieves who are robbing then. You are damming up the waters. lBut wait till there is a full head on. You peo. plo are going to see somixe line grind ing this year, or within the next four years. Then, turning again to Mr. 11111. N1. Tillman spid : " And now, for the benefit of the Senator from New Yoric -whom I love-the Senator whose motto is 'I am a Democrat'-I will say, "I am a Democrat too,' a I)emocr'at after Jefferson and Jackson. He lates of 'sound money'; I ery 'hard money': he is a Democrat for natiunal banks, for the national government." The Senator added that the Demo. cracy could not win in the oming election. If the farmers could be fool ed into voting that ticket any longer,. lot them do it. " And what will I do ?" the Senator asked of himself, and then answered : " I expect to go to Chicago as a dele gate. I except to try to get my party to throw ofT its rottenness. If we have to bid good-bye to New York and Tam many, I may shed a few tears. But if they succeed in buying a few more delegates-as 1 understood they did in Michigan the other day-so as to be able to endorse Grover Cleveland and 'sound money,' then I am going to take my hat and bid the Senator' from New York and those like him a long fare well. Where I will go I don't know, I can't go to Populism. 'opulism im only an explosion of wraiph. The opu lists tried too much and spattered1 themselves on the wall." The Senator declardd that the Diuo. cracy was on its final trial. If it ( iI not pronounco for silver at Chicago, ii was gone forever. " We may not boat you this years.' he concluded drauatically ' " it would be marvelous if a disorganized mas held together by an idea could defeal at the polls a well disciplined. compaci organization backed by money. But so help me God, we will serve notic< on you that our slogan is 'Americat for Americans; to hell with 1ita and her Tories.' If we don't defial you this year, wve w ill serve notice thal we will interest you In 1900." With these words, Mi'. Tillmat throw his arms up Into the aIr with a gesture as if to say : " I amn(lone,' walked over and took his seat. Whet the Sonate had regained its breath Mr. Hill, who had been taking ntotes took the floor'. At the outset. Mr Hill characterized Mr. 'Tillmnan' speech as a 'remarkable per formance and expressed doubt as to whether he did not err in making any response a at all to anything that had been said He, however, assurred the Senato tha he should confine himself to some o1 the "'gratuitous, uncalled-for' and unt dignified remarks " of hi~ friend whl loved him. "The Senator has denied hor-e to-da, that he was a Populist," M r. Hill thel proceeded : " Let me say to him tha what he has said leads on the straigh road to Populism, or," after a p)ause "to some wvorse place." (Laughter. Mr. Hill congratulated Mr. Tillman however, on his assurance that hi would not join the Populist party. As to what the Demnocratic part, would do at Chicago Mr. Hill declines to make a prediction in view of thi rapidity with which events were a present marching. " But I say to t1h Senator' from South Car'olina that If h loves Jeforson and Jackson and stil represents his people, he wIll have n reason to leave the party he has servel so well in the past.' As to Mr. 'Till man's statement tha he (Hill) no longer spoke for New York he admitted smilingly that that mnigh be true. Hie recalled the fact that pre vious to 19)93 New York had remaine< in the D)emocratic column for eigh years. " But in 1892," se id he, " Stati af ter State instructed for Grover Cleve land and free silver ever the pr'otest c the regular Democracy of New York. "You did not get free silver'," ha added sarcastIcally, " but you go Grover Clevelan d. Are you satisfied? (Laughter). D~espite the serious reverses the De mocracy had since sustained, he an nounced that in sunshine or in shadow in weal or woe, he would be for thi lDomocratic party and would suppor' the nominee, no matter what the pilat form might be. T his annuncemfent was greeted witl a marked demonstration of approvas frotm the galleries. Prioceding, he said that it was t< the "eover'lasting credit and renown of Mrt. Shierman tha', he had acknowl edged that the present Democratic ad mlinistr'ation In the distressing eir'cum stances confronting it had done its duty. " Do you contend that while Cem gress is in session, chargod with thi duty of raising revenue, that the Presi dent ha-s the right to take matter Into his own hands ?" inquired Mr. Till man. "1I don't come from a State where th< executive believes in taking the lawl into his own hand," returned Mr. Hill promptly. Trhis seemted a hard one for Mr Tillmnan arid lie sat down, but Mr. Stewart of Nevada rushed to his res cue and asked permission' to propound a questioni.sid " No, no," sadMr. Hill, waving hiin off, "1I draw the line at the Senator from Nevada.". Mr. lill agreedu with him, contend ig however, that the President had a perfect right to issue bonds to protect the gold reserve. Mr. -Tillman interrupted to say that when " a private citizen usted another's funds it was called stealing. Now~ what right had the President to take money raised for one purpose and use it for aniother purpose ? Perhaps the New Yor'k Senator -can undlerstamnd it, but yout can't get it into the head of vf.rnier." Swonld despair, after the Senator'. exhilbtion here," replied Mr. i, "c.( vetting anything into his head." Mr. Hill went on to show that M Tillman and Mr. Shot man "occupy the same platform " as to greenback,. add lig that ho would leave it to tht two j Senators to fight it out between thom selves. Mr. Tillnan again interrupted to re mark: " Prom yum view, She rian is a better Democrat than Cleveland or a better Democrat than yourself." "The Senator is defending the De mocracy of Mr. Sherman ?" tsked M r. ,fill. "That's about it," said Mr. Tillman. "That Is where I wanted to get you." res >onded Mr. Hill. I N v. 11111 turned his attention t o Mr. Tillman's statement as to riu itt.ing tin Democratic party. Tlt) New York Senator said the es.,entlal principle of the Democratic party wa its r. ecogni tion of the rule of tlt iaijirit.y Tine South Carolina Senator di'eearei h will go to thle chicago Collvenltionl. Mrt . 11111 supposed, ho said, that the Son i ator like a true Demperat would abide by the decrees of the convention. " If he gocs there with ary other idea," exclaimed 3Mr. Hill. wito ring ing vehemenee. - no kuhlit not. to bo admitted ard he wi nl ot he admiiitted." Nir. Tillilinm inertupled. tIhis time securing the permiiss-ion of tihe chair. I Lie said pirties were voluntary associa tions of individ uals who thoug lit alike. They lasted only while thie individuals thought in oon T'A11 he ) D:mocratic party had split once before. anid In his judgment ;' was goring to Split again. lajorities did! not rule herve. or in the House of I esentatives, or in tihe Kentucky .cg isiaturo. 'The New York senator war ted the majority to taKe a goldbug peikey. Biut thev w0otd not have it. If it was forced' lponi tteiu they would get out. \ir. Iill z hook his head at this re sponse. "No." ail he, it will not do for my1V frieud to give that as the sentiment of the South. The i)emo0 racy of the South is not going to hat convention withm one idea. The 1):,muoe racy has more thani one idea. It would be hind f o' iy for that great party to plit. to divde On the Ii nan Cil qluestion. Ilrle is more in li2moe racy thatO in tine "ingle questior of s ilver." \Ir. Tillmnan asked "D)cs not the Now York Senator know that now-a days tle Psinllt IS the party : that a Sonator like himself has no morec' con sideration as to patronage since that. man went into the White House than any hootblack ?" Mr. [till replied that the Dmocratie party was not contined to patronage. Mi-. Hill went on to say that Is " Democratic linen is being washed, we had better have it out," and lie spoke of his association with the admlin izztration. I t was not true that ho was its defender. Ie had said little as to the admtration except to re ply to attacks as to bonds, anid that was without conferring with adminis tration leaders. While admiring the ability of Mr. Carlisle, the Senator be lieved Mr. Carlisle had midei a mis take, a very serious mistake, when he failed to aid Snator IWackburn. who was the Democratic caucus nominee before the Kentucky Lugislaturo. pl'.)ying to a remark of Mr. Allen (Pop. of Nebraska), Mr. Hill asserted that the 'opulists of Kentucky could have elected Litackbur-n, but there, as here, they peddled out their v'ote first to one p~arty,. then to the other. Mr. Allen resented this insinuation. In answer to Mlr. Hill's interr-ogatory ato what would keept him In the De mocratic party. Mlr. Tillmnan said tersely : ". Six teen to one or bus t." "ITnun you will bust." returned Mr. 1H1l1 contomptuotusly. In the course of another passage at arms, I. Tillman announed~ that thc ,people needed a bill1ion dollars. "We aro going to have It," said he. "A mere trilio," sneered Mr. 11111. " What would you do with it''" "Bluild haittles3hips and~ coast de. ~fenses," replied Mir. Tillman. "' Pul the tramp) at work, sot every wheel it motion and make the country agair prosperous and happy." Mr. Hill us'ed this answer to nhow thu depth to which the Domnocracy of Soutt .Carolina has fallen. M r.,H1-111 protestoe against the reckless attacks on thi P1-esident, the dragging In of minoi pensions, vetoos merely to oxpress por' sonali venom. "In my judlgment ho 18 not a candi date for renmominimaton," continuedl Mr 11111. "' T1he national convention wvil iassemble In a few weeks. 1Let us pre pare otirselves against the commlonl Ienemy, instead of quarr'elling amony our-selves." .\lri. Hill1 closed with an apt quota. tion, "1 eissentials uniity, in nion-essen tals ibryandi in all things charaity.' H1't 1AS 1EFiN WiTH T1ILLiMAN G (oyernor E'vanis on thle Connmg Sitamtt - Con ventlon-Hie Th inks Tk'illnian Should he0 Nomtinined for Praesl. dint. 3 -Columnbia State. Gover'nor- Ivans has returned to thet city fi-om Now York and Wasihington, where he has beon for the past, week en official husiness. Hie was in good health and p)irilts and talked plensant -ly to a representative of Th'le State on p jolitics, State and national. O n thme table In his library lay a handsome SIgold-headed walking caine, wIth '.1lihn Gary luvans, April 24l, Isiti,"' enagraved thereon. It, wmas presented by an ad mirer of the governor. When asked how he wa'ms leasekd Iwith tho actions of the d itferemnt, couin ty 0onycrations, wih uwere held onCi MondayI3, he. answeredl that he was mrno than satiblied with the result. When the State ~on1venItionI met on the 20th inst., lhe said, T1ilhnaman wvoul d be present with a strong Ilmjority of the delegates thinaking a, hao does, and ready to act with lim. 'Thero wvas no doutbt in bis mind about Tilhnan being sent at the head of the dologamtion from this State to Chicago. The delogates would probabiy go uninstructed, hiut with a fir m determination to nominate a man as caindlidatit for Pideni~it, who stood for- siiver at, its to I. As to bolti ng, lie hard ly thought the delegationi would i ndl it necessary, for' ther'o would be a Imajority mat the Cihi cago convention holdmint time sanmo views as8 thiey did on the mnonetarny question. 'The governor was~ particularly g rati fied with the results in Charleston, Greenville antid Laurer.s. One-halif of the Charleston delegation, he bald, woro stalwart admiinisti'atoinmen, whoi could be re'ib dI on. In La~urens Irby barely got in by chhe 14 Anti delegates in the convention suplpor'ting him. He would come to Columlbla, bitt as a ,nemi ber of tbe Statec convntion, would, to uso a slang expression, "' not, eit any '.rby's Inconsistency Is being brought out forcibly, he thinks, fomr mast year' the Senator wvould not hear of a divis ion of delegates with tine A ntis, while now it looks a-a If hit Is trying hmard to get Abhoir support since he is about to rose his seat, If the Senate. Z ,. *.rr 'r* . The overnor la of tbo opiiont thi lie Is the mnuti who la abo to un. Ieby in the Suato, Kveirything t inin)lug' smoothly to ttat enltt, bo ht sayS, aind ti eUtortains no Vars o the resuLt. Whole Greeinville wvas umnine tovernor l:anls Could not repress S smile. " Yrs." ho Said. '" Gray aund Donaldson hiuave bon given back stats.' lie thought that the light in Green ville had been made on vet y iuuuh the same line as it will be for th Senate, and if it ends the same way he will carry the county. Whlie in Washington,. the Governot said lie bd talked with many louding ilon from all over the United States Almost every man thought, Tilinat the logical candidate to nominate on v free silymr platform. To win the lighi for the i)omocratic party and silver, against MeKinley, it will take a mar who ecn at ouse the enthusiasn of thc people in the West. No half-hcartei man wvould stand any showing, ti times requiring a inan of Tillman' mnagnetisin. It is marvolous, ho says, to note the number of letters Tillman receivei from all over the country, telling hinm how much ho is admired. They art not conined to the West, but Com( frim New York and other E'asterr States. Tillman wias not a candidate for th P'residcntcial nomination, but if th( party demanded hIiis services lie would of course make the fight for silver. Tillman's natm would, almost, with. out doubt, the G'ove'nor said, ho pre setled to the Chicago convention, an' if it were lie would piobaAly receivt the nomuination. As for Tillman not ranking well It Waslington. that was all nonsense lie was regarded by other Senators a: a very able main, and was listened t( with great attention whenever hI spoke. In conclusion, the Governor said "Tillman's pitchfork will be the om blem of the victorious farmers of til South and West and there is promuist of lively times ahead. Tillman stani before the nation now as he stood ih South Carolina in 1800 and 1 look to] t to samte result." ALL SORITS OP PARAGRtAPIHS. Culled 1ioni Various Sources and Re lating to Nun.rous Sult-c, -Deep and rapid breathing is recom mended as a n.caus of stopping hii cough. -There is a saltpeter cave in liar tow County, Georgia, literally aliv with bats. *-1nglish convicts are to have lee tures o;1 "sienti.ic and interesltin subject,." -Somo people never realizse hio well off they are until they try to rid, a bicycle. -Mrs. Cleveland s favorite pots ari a pair of mociing birds, of which sh< is partienfiZ arly proud. -The first watch ever made by ina chitiery ;i tho United States was mtad at LRoxbury, Mass., in 1850. -Two troes 125 feot from each othie at Gainesvillo, Ga., wero r'ceitl struok and shattered by a single bol of lightning. -The smalest tree in the worldi the Greenland birch. Its heighti less than three inches. yet it cover's radius of two or three feet.. -The Sh1ah of Persia's assassi natlo: is notable simply for the long time i has been dleferred~. H-I aeccended th throne nearly litfty years ago. --Judge Albion WV. Tlourgeo ha undertaken a crusado against book with uncut loavao wh ichi he prioniounce " a senseless and snobbish fadi." -Halfmi the diamonds known to ex is in the whole world cme frotm Sout Africa. The value of ailt thod iiamontiud know n is estimated at $1 ,tIo1j0iogO. -Thie city of Sydn)ey, Austrlia hat !mposed a 1lineo .i. i5 upon any perso: convicted of spitti ng upon)1 the lior U Ipuiblici buildings or iup~on the btreel. -It is repotrted from Prane tha the fi-esh ju.ice of theo poppy pilant ap pilied to recent bee -stings r iv un mme diate relief and1( prevents inl ll:LunmatioL - -The excaatLioni made oni the site o Ninevehl prove itat the city was burn ed and deserted by its inhiabitnts. wh< wvore priobabtly3 deportted after the las great siege. --N inn thouisedi mapIle trees ill b<h cut upi ti siiaunier onl the ilupper IKon nebec lI iver. Mat ine, to fiurninsh mate rial for tillbng an ordera for I.0,0 bl)cks. for' shoe insts.*;oO In l'ran~ce hospitals for infectiou: d iseuases are fuirn ished with~ telephones so tniat the sick may converse witl thmeitr friends wiIthout dangeir of comn mienflctin disteaso. -A mattstodom tooth twelve inchei long, nine inchtes wide and three indce thick was foundl in Oklahoma rcent by A. \'. Stewvart. wh li)was digging wvellI on his tarmn. !--Two men intoxlenated1 and dIrivinsg a large gray horse hxitched to ia wigor leaded with dytna miito were arrested ir WNillmantie, ( lonn., the other da) whlilo driving at a gallop1. -Unlike his predecessor, the young Czariof fluissir. waulks almost tdaily it the streets of *St. l'etersburg. Somne times hie Is atte ndted by no one but hhm w ire. On other occasionis lie goes atlono -Mrus. Fannie It. AllJen, of Athol Mass., who is 75 y'ar-s old, recentl3 took itot hersetf a tnew husband. Thih is somtewhtat remarkab~thle in view of the. fact that the bride is a great-grand mottheor. -Col. J. HI. Bonton has learner thr'ough recent discoveries In the 11 brairy of the lieitishi M'uscumn. thbat thn first book ptinted on the Animeiar cointinlent were made in the City ci Mexico. --Miss Antnio Scott, a studont at Con tial Normal College, Kansas, has beer appointed cler~k of the Venezuolar commission. She is a niece of Justict Brower, of the Supreme Court, chair, man of the comm iIssioni. --Liberia Is the only more our lost clviiz~(etcuntry where clocks are al most entirely dispensed with. Tho sur rises exactly at (I a. in. and sets at (6 p mi. t.htroughout, the year', and is verti cally overhead at nocon. -Dr. St. George Bridgos, a young ph'ysician of Rtichmnond, Va., who had matdo a particulair itudy of appendi citis and was rogarded as an authiority~ on the disease, died frotm it four daya af ter' he was attacked by It. There is nothing now under thet sun. In a stained glass windolw, plac ed in an IEngli sh cathedral over' 1002 years ago, is depicted a bicyclist ridi lng through a town, with. the admeir ing populace watching hh.. - Orange groves in Central Florida that wore cut down to the ground by the cold waves are no0W showing a new grow th eight to ten feet hign. Trho shtoots hiivo buon badded wvith choice fruit, and by next year the troos will be nearly as large as they woro hofore the retco. FVTI ANL _JHK PILSMH, AtAAtAp) vA i h1'AJX .A" ' W ii Ol~d b'at,hw er ').'t is & hov-lbielook01 lug ervuture with his soi3thet In his haud aUd u tbiug t.u but his honios, but he is a gcod dotor. ILong hefore he etitts dOwn ho beg iIi tn4 to (ten and soothu the Pussions am tIsperitlos of li fe and to teparo. our better nature (01r tl3 onlYli silutiOni of lifti's problem, whloh Is lovo to God and to our fellow moo, but very few old non carry bit torneoh to the grave. One day I ob served an old mnan for whose talents the community had great respot talking to a friend. Hiis eyes lIashed and every linaient of his face betoken ed anger. As he struck the end of his cane to the pavement he said : " I ought to have killed the scoundrel." Cautiously .1 approaedl1 and inquired : "11ad a difliculty with somebouy, col onel ? " "Oh," said he, " I was just telling Brown abot', a little atfair tnat happened about-lut me seo-yes, just forty-five years ago-" But oven he mellowed down stime years before he died. Now, if we liveu as ling as No ah or Methusalem,- or even as long as Abraham, we might feed and cherish bitterness fo- a hundred years, but three scure years and ten is too brief a timo to be wasted in passions. Thirt-y-ono years have passed sine the war, and I was ruminating ov'er the dilf'.urence between now and then. We vaeterans remember when we were all aVci.sed of treason and many of our leaders had to leu the country for fear of arrest, and trial and condemnation and death. When to possess or exhi bit a Confederate il %g provoked un prisonient.; Wihn we had to defend tihe lost cause or lament its fallure in whiopers, and when every man who was worth $20.0001 had his property confiscated unless lie petitioned for pardlon and paid well for it. The pardon brokets at, Washington iade millions out, of our wealthy eih~ns. .But Time has dilhi ted the bi tLerness of those Who were out most mialignant enemies. Ii .'leetton has tempered the prejudices of our Nortlern brethren, and now wo seo Gcnera Gordon ani General Longstreet given glad ano willing welcomo as they diecourse ' emperately and trut'hfully of the war, its causes and its rekuhs. Nowhere the carpet,-bagger who figured in - reconstruction timies m11or1 denuinced 3 .nd despised than at tim North. More tihia all this, a monument has been - built on Northern ground in memory if the Confederate (lead. Brothorly imions of the blue and the gray have been held at Various times and places, am nd thousands of the grand army are iiving somiihward and fraternizing with oir people. There is only one sore that, does not hea!, and that, i. the hard fact that while w pay our own pensions we have to hel p) to pay theirs and got notlhiag back. The estimato is that it takes half a million annually for Georgia to pen sion her Confederate widows and dis abled soldiers, and ten times as much to pay her part of the Union pensions. This live millions goes into their hop peri andl we get no tell. But even this wvill pass5 away. Old Father TIimoe is slow up there, but he is sure. Unpen sioned soldiers don't live us long as those who feed on government pap, and there are not near as many of them. We sco it stated that there are inow less than one hundred thousand Confederate survivor~s. I told that to s a Federal general in lorida not, long S ago, andl he ruminated over it some a time and said :"You reb~els fought so hard and endured so much you t broke dlown your constittions. Stone wall .Jackson's fool cavalry, I kno,, mu)0st have worn their legs o1)f up to their k hees, like Munehausen's famous B ut, after so long a time the heroism of the Smth is iooinug utp and the lost cause shine iis ibefore the wvorld in a clearer and more lustrous l ight,. No sane man speaks of us as traitors now., and woe are p~eritted with a kindly gra~ce to honor our dead and build monuments to our heroes. P'atriotistu andl cou rage3 are honored evo~y where. - Thome ar~e, of course, a few heartless souls in every community who care nothing for the sacred memories of the war. and with pious unction ox claim, "' Oh, lot the dead bury its dead. Look not hack, but forwvard. W'e have no time for sentiment,." Such imen will never defend their count.ry nor1 help save a State. A people with out sentiment will never have any heroes. Dr. J1ohnson, the greatest, phi losophier that ever lived, said: "That man is little to he envied whose patriotism would not gain force u >on the plain of Marathon. Even ril igion, which Is animated only by faith and hope) will glide by degreen out of the mind unless it he invigor aited by calls to worship and the salu tary inflluence of example." Never wvas anything more truthfully said. The good citizecn must keep his patriotism alive by cherishing the memories of the wvars in which they or their fathers wor~o engaged. Over two thousand year~s have pasd since the Athenians dlefeatedi the great army of Darius, but Marathon is still memorable In song and story. It is the wvatchwvord of p)atriotism. A generation has passed slice the battle of Gettysbumrg, but the valor of the American soldiers of both aries, asi displayed in that bloody tight, wvill shine In history as long as there are peole to write, or people1 to r'ead. We are glad that Colonel Gai - nett has como South to work for the memories of theo lost cause, and to tell uis about Gettysburg. Did not our hearts burn within us as he described the thrilling scenes that absorbed his vi.41n andl matgnetzed every lber' of his being ? Who can ever forget. the exalteod emotions that a gruat Ibattle inspires ? Then, let every vet, cran go to hear this elcquent Viigin [ in and for a time qjuiver with unasup pr'essed emotions. Let every youtng man, yes, every lad and laissl go to hear hhm and have their patritium q uickened and made stronger. Henry Grady won the applause of New 10>I9. land and the mighty Norti wvhen he dared to say in his great spe oh, "Theu South has nothing for whichi to upolo gize. The hitoe struggle betwveen t he States was. war and not rebel lion revolution, and not conspiracv. Not for all the glories of New igland would I exchange thbe heritage. imy father left, nio in lils soldier deathi." But vwho 's this Charles Broadway Rouse, who hits so recent y electriflod the South with his munilicent, andl patriotic proiOltion ? Colonel Gar nett has toldl us. We haive seen his earnest, genial face in the patpers, but that Is not enough. lie nmust come South aund mingle with our people. Colonel G. W. Scott gave *100,000 to found a college for girls at D~ecatur, andl Dr. Candnlnre, whent deliveringv his beautiful oration at its de Il'eution said. "Where Is h' ? Where is th~e [man wvho In this sollish ago has don ' this thing ? Uan his modesty hIddn in from te publie gaze ? Colonel Scott$ stand u and lot the people look upon you an 800 wbat manner of man you'are." Just st we would say to Mr. nous . "Coine down here an dlet t South 14oo you faco to fao. Stand Up before Iu and lot ,us See what manner of nan you two." 'Thousands of waiting hearts will ('oo the sentiment that IIsE IrtonItd him to do tils thing. At ast the South will havo a Mecca to which her pilgrims can go and fool that the cause, though lost, Is rocog nized, and its memory lives without a taint of treason. IIILL Am%>. - -- - -Ga. Tim COUNTRiY E)I'rOI.-Verily th0 life of - country editor is a path of thorns. ills tread is promise and his meat Is disa'pointment. His creditors chaso 1hm by day and the devil grinneth at him in his dreams by night. He s.n doth the paper to a subscri ber on credit and the subscriber pay eth him not. Then *he stoppeth the delinquent's paper und then the delinguent sing eth tra la ! and borroweth it of a nelghbor. One subseriber pieth his sub scription in wood, and boliold it is rotten and soggy and of short Incas Itrie. H-e whoepoth up the townshi) pol itician and the politician gets elected and knwemth him no more. He plkfeth the church fair gratis and then attendeth it, and payeth his quarter and receiveth two 'ysters. He boomoth his town and all things therein, and yet receiveth no support and is a man without honor in his own colintry. Two young people marry and he giveth them a pIll', and they go to housekt eping and taketh. not his pa per. Yea, hto Is bowed down with W03 and his days are full of griief and trouble and Vex :ttioI of spirit. Bht sorrow only endureth for a night and joy comes in the morniag. Hle ploddoth along and endureth in patience, and it is written that lie will receive his reward at the judgment. R'IIouIiss O JAPAN.-There is no precedent in the history of nations for the wonderful progress made by the 'Japianeso. The country is becomin* less and less dependent on other coun tries for its supplies. It is only forty years since the ports of Japau have been opened to coin merco. It is but twenty-eight years since the first labor-saving machine was set Ip in the empire. The ex ports and imports now exceed $115, 009,000. The industrial revolution now going on is in its way quite as intert sting as the politiuaal revolution of thirty years ago. Until recently all the manu. facturing done in Japan was carried on in the househohls and even now 95 per cent. of the skilled labor still is oecupie( inl the homes of the people. This does away with the conditions which surround the wage-earners in all other countries. Tie cui-ton is for the son to continue the occupation of the father. The finest brocados and silks, the most artistic porcelain and cloisonno are made under the roofs of the cottages. and the p&ytnent is in pr~opotion to the quality of the piece prod uced. The younger generation is being con vinced of the value of macehinery and factories ar beingv built ini all parts of the empire1. .it is said that the qiickest wvay to) instruct the .Jap)anese in any handicraft is to lot them go through the works and look on. Almost instantly they are able to repeat. the process. T1he best nat ve watchmakers get, only :20 cents a (lay. --A fewv years ago the engineers em ployed on the railway at flagan, in Germany', were puz/.led by accidents which always occurred at the~ same place. Th'le Government sent at com mission to the spot. It wns not, how ever, until six months had elasped, that the surface of the rails appeared to be corroded, as if by acid, to the extent of ruore than 100) yards. The rail was taken up and broken, when it was found to be literally honey-comnbed by aL thin, thread-like gray wormif. Theli worm was about two centimeters in length and about the size of a small knitting needle. On the head are two littlo saes or gland, filed with a most power-ful scretion -which is (ejected every ten minutes when the insect is lying undIsturbed.' This liquid, w hen squirted up~on iron, renders that metal soft and spongy, and it is greedily eaten by the littlo Irnsect-London Fdagineeri ng. --The Athens Banner takes issue in verse with a well known adage as fol lows :"'1The lark was Up) to meet the sun, and carol for his lay ;the farmer's son took down his aun and at him blazed away. T1he busy beu arose at live and burned the meadows o'er ;the farrr r's wife wont for his hive, and robbed himi of his store. The alit rose early, his labors to begin ; the greedy swallows flew that, way and took his lordship in. Oh, bee, birds and arts be wise in proverbs take no stock; Ilke me refuse to rise until hmalf-paist 8 o'clock.'" SA $25 COOKING STOVE .' w!r.A00ffT OTI O ~~t f i:' . <a. 1r .. fe box. 1 ic Ia ofi, a, (" -nr 'i.o rit d wovot, ad I * , a i al .oue tIhe ba No il t'iI( l' u g U -.1 e- Nu l, f--r t0 !I *,, 4 -0.~ Vil ed it h on j ii. *m. 2 . v. r . ki be I t ,44 2 1 ridles I *.tin la-ee Jr. s ofi, i44 0,. elw, 1 col. ar. I li . er III 4ur.vp-.. 1i :nkI poli h na trone 4 y tenr u,,ti, i ,ho. l. W. n lot to iako cus. l ilne.( and lier4..n ~in 4ver par ofV48 the 'i so th fo i, . he purg C ;--uj n in.4t.4reditoirca, our I allfr I!-ht "l . I iit 'ica o . n t aokg 44 M wh.- 4'..-1n. " .. I! - p I or. iiT i 5 to.o -, -. .i. o~a . Mel.litna, agl~ldc Bi b 'hgiv ..4 s .nn cr.i~ n. our~l~0, ntlistrated ea c.ta n of Fun' i.t u ,4, toe'sad Haby . L 424, . udI .i~IF. P DGi ETT~ ,fr. Lul 84 Brnlaoad StreetV 403 . A ugusta, ro a ou -A recent Incident in the war in Cuba illustrates tbo uovel posib.it~ies of modorn applicances. A L u ( - eral, Pablo Olivili, urr-ivul iat Iul iu Skirts of a towj defopal i' at spa igar'ileon. HIf() n ((,1ji, 1,0 111 (11., .1m Ocuring Coun ution WiLi tic- frt, 6utnion11ed t[b4 CortinfannllLllt,) LU bil' r nder. When bL lused ho 4i4ed bapk fnvean 'o wi that unlue 4hed Ck over tb it-e his Inin d t Onlnndanto chartgI , burn th it! i In hou' le (Io)l hoiit' ho tow. ,t th1 0id of ti ou th 1Clld the foi-t agin, nd found tho garrin j rdy t uIo0n whioll 0le heT the to-n with., out firing a shot. cans o I iitoi~1htvo ll 1,11 Itc-publi OUndiILt for GoveI't.., -A 1kii itorato POliticia, who 's aooketo Upoll Witi coltclp by the Ilov ilIteigent peopoJ t of iii. own Pttiy, hMt Who Into won his w3 1% his bktli il lJ,1L1)uIat Ing tho Illn:hititie. A Gran alnathelmatiolan has ligtt'< 1 that if all tib1 iaLbii1ants of t lhe .vorl-, 1,460,0(,,00 , vol. l , bt'Otght, togethter uaml p101-1('4.6 as they coulu statIl, a 11 d r co11d I'ide l'tound h.t) n ill .ut- h.fiti 'ill. .I de of M z-m woulj~ Ibt h.-;- N ough to hold tlen. -Al i,11s*(uilyr1 011en1i wli haj held n!, Spekaue, Wsh , on MI t, SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Condowed Sheoidule in iffoot FEu-U tUARY 23rd, 1896. STATIONS. 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Lv 8 -A 7 1P3 "P," p. mn. "A,"' aI. mn. Traio. 15 and44 b) carry nilgant Pullman sleeping~ en ri bo: wetn Columi-il:jud Ashovillo, Cxnronto daily bu~t wu4,n Jackonvillto and( Ulnetm aati. Tran. leavo Sp4art anhurr,~ A. & 0. di visti, porthihoundl, 4i:18 a. mn., :.. p. mi., (1:10 p. m., (Vesibule ~iilted) ; southbo~tundl 1:00 a. m., Trins leave G reenville, A. l4tad 4). diiig ~ rthtbotmid. 1:27 a. mn., 2:1'1 p. mn. and 5:3)0 p. m., Vest ibukel LimitedI) '01 suthboud 1:.0 a. m., :40 p. mn., i2:2s p. i. (\ostinbuled Limnited). P'ullmnan Service. Pnilman lUn titen.~ sohiiiar on Traini. a o W. H.t-:limN, J. Mi. <'l't.P, \u.hineton, D. U. W:ij .n'. 1). 0. G10m. Paiss. Ag't. A Gen. Pa.-i A (..t SOUTHERN RAIWAY PIEDMONT AIR LINU. Condensed Schedule of Passenger Tras. Yes. Fat lr Northbound. No.38 No 36iNo. 12 N.. ig Jlan. 5, 1895. Daily IDaily Daily E Buu LV. Atlanta, J. 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"Washingtni. 10 43 p 11 15 a" LY. heiohmond ... 2 00a 12 55 po3 a Lv. Danvfilo......t 5 50 05 p1 n "Charlotte .... 9 85 a j10 34 pip " G sto'.a. . .. .. 3u po y - " hIatusburg .. 10 49 a 1'2'l'0a -. Lo "* GaiThnys.--.---.....1 2?3 a 2 1l p SSpartuanburg. 11 87 a 32 52 a 3 05 P " Greonvillo.... 1228P 150a 4lp 'Contral.. 115p 235a 5401~ 80u.100c.......------ 30a 6 " Westmainster **.. " T4ccoa........,...., 3~ tp ...... ...A..r..... ........ -. ... '4ornel...........a a 1p --. ----i iu..............---....5p..,,.. " r., ET..'''-89-- 416125p7 Iori " P 459la 83p70a ...... ..'.! ' I - 3 5p a 10.30 p 8 30a ".s . m..'0"p. .1 " noon1. "N'' nlighit. N.a 1,4 ariS-.Washibngton and flouthwester~ Vesubulw o Limnited. Through Pullman sleepo betwcin New York and New Orloara, via Wasb lgcun, A 1*lanta and Montigomory, and also bo iweenl .\-7 York and Memphis, via Washington, atlainta .and4 Hlrmningham. Dinuing oars. Ne. 35 andl 38--Unlited States Fast Mail. Pll. nahishojiing cars between Atlarita, Now Or. eans ald Now York. Nos. 1t and 12. Pullman sleeping oar between Uichmn:d; D~anville and Greensbo no. Getl Stupt.,,TaloMg, Washlington, D. C. Washain'gtoh, D. l Wi. In rtVI7R, Superintendent, Charlotte N(orth Carolina. V. A. TI O K, S. H. H AltD WICK, Q on' J as. Ag't, Ass'S Ge'i Pass. Aet Was' lgton, D. 0. Atlanta,