The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, July 29, 1897, Image 4
Her Papw's Name.
"Whose little girl is this ?" I said.
"1'm papa's girl," the child replied.
"And what is )apa's name ?" I asked.
To think of it she tried and tried.
"My papa's name ? Oli, let me see I
"I really do not know,:' she said ;
"For when he's ill ma calls him 'Dear,'
"But when he's well it's just plain
'Fred.' --Alice Jr. Doug as.
Abel5 Prize Song.
"Abel, Abel, are you never com
ing in to tea! I declare that boy lives
at the piano !"
" Not always, mother ; you exagge
rate a little," replied Abel, smiling
brightly as he entered the room,
Bout I must practice if I am to be per
feet."
" You are perfect now, I think," the
old lady answered proudly. " You
make the piano speak."
" What a thing it is to have a good
mother to talk well of you, isn't it,
George ?" and the speaker, a slender,
dark-haired young man, looked play
fully across the tea-table at his friend.
"She only says what is true In your
case, however," replied George. "iul
lo I here's the postmian : what has he
brought?"
The young musician's eyes llashed
with suppressed excitement as Mary,
the little handmaid, brought in a
large ollicial-looking envelope and
nanded It to him.
Slowly and carefully the envelope
was opened, and Abel glanced at it for
one moment only-then he said, as if
with a sigh of relief
" I've got the prize, mother !"
"I knew my boy must get it," she
cried, proudly, "I told you how it
would be, Abel, you need not have
worried yourself so mueb."
" Ah ! but the music ought to be bet
ter, mother; I believe I can do better,
too, with harder work," he said, mod
estly.
Abel was a young musician, and,
like nanytanother, he was poor, and
was graclually working his way up
ward, with but few friends and less
fortune. He had competed for a priz 3
offered for the,best setting of a song to
music, and he had won it.
After tea he went back to his loved
piano, and his fingers wandered over
the keys and brought for such glad
and joylul strains that, as his mother
said, " the instrument seemed to be
telling his pleassure even better than lie
could speak it himself."
In a short time he went out with
George-for his friend had a long way
to walk, and now, having got the
prize, Abel felt that lie had earned a
little rest from work.
''1 wonder how often in days to come
I shall take this walk," said George ;
" when you are rich and great, i shall
think of you, and ask myself:
Does my old friend remember me ?
I expect you'll forget me."
"Not 1," replied Abel. "If ever I
do become 'rich and great,' as you call
it, Heaven preserve me from becoming
so proud-Ah ! that's the 'White Ha t,'
isn't it ? Let's go in have a ' pick-me
up.'"
"Not for me, thank you," replied
George.
" Oh ! you still keel) your pledge ?"
" Certainly."
When Abel returned, George not.d
how the btrong drink had hlushed the
delicate refined featur-es, and how dif
ferent was the appearance of his eyes
with what unnattural brightncus they
shone-and impulsively he said, as he
linked his arm in that, of his friend
" Why don't you give up dr-inking,
Abel ?"
" Why should I ?" asked his compan
ion.
" Because it's danger-ous."
" Pooh ! I'm all right, old man,
D~on' talk such stut to me."
" But others, then-think how gr-eat
,your influence will be by-and-by,
Every body has inhluence, and the more~
distinguished a per-son becomes, thec
greater Is his Influence. It is this
habit of moderate drinking, that ix
everywher-e so rIfe, that makes the
dr-unkard. Example is stronger thani
pr-ecept."
" Oh, well," said A bel, imp~atiently,
"I can't help what other-s do. I can't
see why 1 should deny myself a plea
sure because others abuse it. I am not
my br-other's keeper."
The moon was rising behind the old
chur-ch spire and bigltoning the
dusky summer ntght as Abel Meredith,
with a'-oung girl, climbed to the to;:
of the hi. There they sat on a rustic
seat, and while the light breezes o1
the summer night mutrmured among
the tr-ees, Abel told his love, and
learned, it was welcomed by his fair
companion.
" Sing me your prize song," she
whisper-ed, "1I1lkb it so much, A bel ;
I1 am so p)roud of you." And Abel
softly and sweetly hummed over his
picce of music which had gained him
the prize.
* * * * * *
Seven or eight years after'war-ds, ax
man, dressed in that shabby genteel
manner which tells that the wear-er
has seen " better days," was standing
on the pavement of a poor street in
London. IHo was in fr-ont of a p)ublic
house, and he had taken his stand
there, intending to pl .y his cornet, in
the hope that it might earn a few
pence from the passers-by or listener-s
within the house, Hie placed the co
net to his lips and played a well-known
air-.
A lady passing near, glanced rapidly
round at the musician, and saying to
the gentleman who was with hoer, "1i
must give that poor man something,"
began to open her purse.
" Why ?' asked her friend.
"IDon't you hear," she cm-lcd, " he Is
playing poor Abel's prize song."
Clearly the sweet strains rang out
above the roar and rumble of the noisy
street, until the lady coining near- to
the player, the notes tr-embled, and
finally ceasedl for a moment, as she gave
him a small piece of silver and hurried
away.
In that brief moment did she recog
nize the m'alcian ? He did his best to
pt-event hAer from doing so, for he
slouched his bat over his eyes and
p)uckered up his face as though blow
ing har-d at his cor-net, b,ut no~ sound1
came, and in his eyes aippeared an ox
prossion of bitter dlespair, and cursing
his hard fate he turned Into the gin
palace to seek forgetfulness with the
money the lady had given him.
-To drink and to forget what he
might have been, and what he had lost
-his mother, who loved him and was
so proud of him ; that sweet girl whom
he had hoped to make his wIfe, but
whom her friends would not allow to
marry him because of his bad habits ;
his fame as a musician-to drink and
forges, all that ho had lost beoause of
his drinking habits-this now seemed
to be the sole end of his existence ; he
lay and it was torture to him, but he
,ould not put aside the drink that had
dragged him down. To-vight he felt
his degradation more keenly than over,
and when others asked him to play for
them, and then treated him for play
ing, ho drank and drank until hecould
drink no more.
At last the time came for the house
to close, and he staggered along the
wet and dismal street. He reeled for
a few yards and then losing his balance
fell heavily on the pavement, and as
he fell his forehead struck against a
sharp stone.
When he came to himself, he was
conscious that a kind, manly face was
bending over him-a face that he had
known in the old happy time.
"George," he mutt3red faintly, " is
that you V"
" Yes, Abel ; I'm come to take you
home. She saw you an hour or two
ago, and sent me to find you. Come
home with me, old fliend, come home!"
" Too late ; too late. I'm going to
that long home from whence no one
return * * * the mourners go about
the streetj." And he continued to
murmur texts he had learned at his
mother's knee, for his mind was wan
dering.
" Ob ! it's not so bad as that, Abel.
Come, I'il hell) you."
"Too late, George; too late. Do you
remember that talk we had the night
I got the prize, when you urged me to
abstain ?"
He was roused now, and made a su
premne effort to speak.
" I (o remember it, Abel.''
"Would to God I had taken vour ad
vice, George. But you don't know
what a hold the drink had got on me
even then, and how much worse it be
came as time went on. I have strug
gled against it. I have sworn to ab
stain a dozen times. But it had en
slaved Ie completely. Fame, fortune,
love-every good gift of God I have
lost because of this cursed drink! 'rhey
blaaspheme the Almighty, I say,
when they call it one of His good
gifts. Why did my mother teach
me to sip wine ? Why didn't she
make me an abstainer, as yours
did, George ? It grows dark-so
dark. God be merciful to me-" and
as his eyes began to glaze and the dAws
of death gathered on his brow, he
softly crooned to himself the music of
his prize song.
And so he passed away into the pres
ence of lim who is able to judge
righteous jndgment-another victim
to the drinking habits of society, and
the fond foolishness of a parent, who,
unmindful of the danger, taught him
to sip wine in his youth.
)It, IYDI)E LYNCHED.
Continuanco of a Georgia Case Leads
to a Iy nchluig--Cautsed by a Law
yer's Absence.
Dr. W. L. Ryder, the murderer of
Miss Sallie Emma Owen, who was
arraigned for the second trial for the
crime, was lynched by a inob at the
" Willis llace," six miles from Waver
ly Hall, Georgia, Monday night,
Judge Hart, on the evidence that
Colonel Worrell, of Columbua, the
leading counsel for Ryder, could not
be present, due to sickness continued
the case until the regular term In
September.
I)'. Ryder, the prisoner, was to have
been returned to Muscogee jail on the
8:20 p. m. traiu and was taken to
Waverly Hall, the nearest station from
T-albotton, for that purpose. In a few
minutes after- the deputies arrived
with theu-irprisonler at the station the
mob dro-ve up and took tihe prisoner by
forco from the olliceris, returtned with
him to a p)oint just across the county
line, and therme lynched him. His
body was found hanging from a limb at
an early hour. His tongue was out
and his face was horr-ibly blackened.
The mob, while returning with
Ryder from Waverly IHall, was met by
ShleritT Richards and his party, but
owing to the darkness of the night he
could not distinguish the persons, nor
gain any clue to their idertity. Hoe
was informed by the men who had
Ryder in charge that he was too lat',,
so Richar-ds pushed on to Waverly
Hlail, only to lind that he had been mis
led and that at that time ityder was
suspended from a limb of a tree where
his remains wetre discover-ed a short
while afterwards.
'rie reason assigned for the action
of the mob is that the pe.ople were
tired of tihe ease being continued, but
should the facts be known the friends
of the p)rosecution bad given up)mi al opo
of ever bringing Ryder to the gallows
by reason of his being totally insane.
'rhe special term of the Tal bet county
suportior cour-t was called for the one
purp~ose of trying D'-. Ryder. The
murder of Miss Owen was committed
on the evening of tihe 15th of Apiril,
18961, 15 months ago, and though Judge
Butt,, in less than a week afterwards,
called a special term of the court t.,
try the case, the execution of the law
had been deferred, though good
legal grounds, from time to time, and
tile meeting of justice to the accused
was again delay by the continuance
gr-anted by Judge Hart. 'rho con
tinuance was granted, on the gr-ound
that Colonel Wet-roil, of the Colum
bus bar, who was the leading
counsel foir the defense, was unable to
attend the cour-t, he being ill at his
home In Columbus. As a legal pro
position, it is claimed, .Judge Hart
acetedl right, under the evidence, in
granting a continuance.
When tile sp)eciai term of court, con
vened on the foutrth Monday in May
fol'owing the homicide, D)r. Ryd:r,
who was then confined in the Macon
jail, was too ill to be pre'senlt and tile
case was continued until the tegular
term in September. At that term an
extraordinary motion for continuance
was made, but Judge Butt, who was
presiding, over-ruled the motion and
the trial proceeded. A fter a desperate
legal batAle, lasting a week; D)r. Ryder
was convicted and sentoncedl to hang.
A motIon for a new trial was made and
p)romptly over-ruiled, but the supreme
cournt sustained the motion, and the
new trial was gran'ted. Trho mot,ion
was sustainedl on a dozen errors, but
ptrincip)ally on tile gr-ound that one of
t,he juror's that convicted Ryder was
a relativ3 of the guardian of Miss
Owen, vho was D)r. Ryder's victim.
Judlge Hutt evident,ly saw the neces.
sity of another early trial and did not
wait for the regular September term,
but called an extra teirm of the court
for July 10th, to try the case. Judge
JIohn Hart agreed to hear the case for
Judlge Butt, who was unable to be pro
ent.
As was truo at the trial last Septem
ber, the courthouse was crowded when
the caso was called. P'eoplo from
every section of the county were pre
sent, all .f whom, from the time of the
commission of the crime, have taken a
doeop interest in the case. Ryder was
represented by five prominent lawyers
and at the special court all were pre
sent but Colonel Worrell and his un
avoidable abjtnco was the chiof basis
for the motion for a continuance. Ii
was represented that Colonel Worrell
was detained by illness and the allega
'ion was substantiated by depositions
rrom reliable physicians of Columbus.
It was also alleged that several im
portant witnesses for tae defense were
snavoidably absent. Judge Hart c:n
6lnued the case until the regular term
Af Talbot court in September, one year
from the date of ltyder's last trial and
conviction.
Rder shot Miss Sallie Emma Oxen
with a siotgun on the night of April
15, 1890. He was crazed by his love
for her and while sho was sitting in a
friend's parlor talking to a young man
who was a rival of Ryder's, the murder
er crept to the door and fired the shot
that killed Miss Oven and wounded
her friord. Ryder's defense claimed
that he was suffering from affootions
of both eyes and ears that at times
rendered him a crazy man and utterly
irresponsible for his actions. The first
trial failed to hang Ryder and the
friends of the murdered girl have been
chaffing at the long delay. The con
tinuance caused the lynching.
THE WEATIIER AND OROPS.
Valuable linformation to Thoso Inter
eted in Faraing Operations.
The following is the weekly bulletin
issued by the weather bureau in Co
lumbia as to the condition of the crops
in this State :
CoLUAl13IA, S. C., July 20, 1897.
The week was cooler than the usual
with temperature deficiencies ranging
from 3 degrees per day in the eastern,
to 8 in the western portions of the
State. The weekly average, of 50 mean
temperature reports was 76 while the
normal is approximately 82.
The highest reported was )8 on the
11th at Hodges and the lowest 54 on
the 13:,h st Walhalla, The nights
were unusually cool over the extreme
northwestern counties.
Heavy rains, and quite general
showers, fell on the 14th except that
over the northern count,ies the showers
were light, or no rain fell ; on the 17th
a more general rain fell except over
the southeastern counties where there
was none, or at best light showers only.
The latter rain is not fully rell.-cted in
this weeks measurements. Sixteen
places reported less than 1 inch for the
week; twenty from 1 to 2 Inches;
twelve over 2 inches with a maximum
fall of 4.40 at St. Georges. The aver
age of these 48 measurements Ie 1 44
and the normal for the same period is
about 1.32 inches,
Hillside lands were badly washed
and gullied on the 12th in Edgefield,
Saluda, Orangeburg, and Sumter coun
ties. There were no damaging hail
storzns or destructive winds.
The sunshine averaged about nor
mal but varied greatly in different
portions of the State, being most abun
dant in Marion and Spartanburg with
least over the central counties.
The week was a favorable one for
crop d. velopment over the western
portion of the State generally and over
many sections in the eastern counties.
The exceptions were that in places the
need of more rain was indicated, but
since reports closed, quite general and
heavy rains have fallen where most
needed ; in other places there was an
excess of moisture and in such sections
the recent rains will prove harmful.
The temperature, while not generally
low enough to retard growth except to
check the previous rapid development
of cotton, was rather cool during the
nights, but not low enough to prove in
jurioue;'and no high winds or 'lamaging
hail storms occurred.
COrn hImproved very much over the
greater part of the State, excepting
limited areas where insutlicient rain
fall, and other sections where on ac
count of too much rain corn is firing
badly on sandy lands notably in portIons
of Clarendon, Lexington and B3erkele~y.
Corn is being rapidly laid by where
this work has not already been comn
pletLed.
The presen f imp roved condition
points to a full crop yield, except
where it was too nearly matured to be
benejitted by the recent raIn. Corn
planted in May and June i-s, over the
entire State, in line growing condition
and looks very promIsing. Some re
port ears not well fecupndated on ac
count of the rains washing off the pol
len from the tassels,
The condition of cotton has Im
proved in many places, but the stalk
generally continues undersized al
though well fruited, with full-grown
boils numerous. Doils nearly ready to
open|in southeastern counties. The pre
valling unanasonable cool nights hin
dered the growth, and caused the
plant to become lousy, while " honey
dew" is reported from a number of
counties. Shedding of leaves, squares,
and small bells is qjuite common. Many
tields are becoming grassy, and in
b'airfield some fields have been aban
doned on account of grass. Rust has
developed in Barnwell, Bambcrg,
JFiorence and Williamsburg counties.
Over quite large areas there has been
too much rain for cotton. Laying by
is well under way and more than half
the reports indicate that the fields
" laid by " are clean and in good con
dition.
Notwithst,anding the numerous ad
verse reports from eastern and central
counties, the majority of all reports
indicate that the present conditIon of
the crop is promising, but that it is in
a critical stage. A continuation of
rainy weather will, by hindering culti
vation of which many fields stand in
need, tend to cause eleterioration in
condition. Sea Island cotton continues
to do well.
Tobacco curing making favorable
progress, and recent reports Indicate
a better quality of leaf than fiest cut
ting. Some tobacco has been market
ed.
tio continues in excellent condition
generally, except upland of which
some is very p)oor.
Peas are about all sown and they
have come up to good stands. In some
fields the lower leaves are shedding ex
cessively.
Watermelons generally late, under
sized and the crop as a whole small.
Sweet potato slips still being planted
and this crop has made rapid growth.
-Late peaches ripening but are rot
ting badly. Apples generally plenti
ful. Grapes ripening and are a large
cro > but many rep)ort thomn rotting.
Cane of various kinds, and minor
crops, generally, is in satisfactory con
dition and p)romise abundant yilds.
Trurnip) sowing has begun.
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WIVIOUr WARNING.
Six Persons Instantly K11e1 by an
Explosion in a Gun Factory
Appalling Sconce of Horror.
An appalling accident occurred in
the shell loading department of the
Winchester Repeating Firearms com
pany shops at New Haven, Conn.
Without an instant's warning, six hu
man beings lost their lives by an ex
plosion and another victim died soon
afterward at the hospital. A score of
others were more or less wounded, but
no further fatalities are anticipated.
More than 150 men and women are
employed in the loading department.
and that more fatalities did not result
from the concussion is miraculous.
The hundreds of people who gath
ered about the gatos immediately
after the explosion witnossed a grue
some sight. Six dead bodies, black
ened with powder and frightful,y
mangled, almost beyond recognition,
were lying on the floor. Near by two
injured men were writhing in agony,
and all about were men running, with
their faces and arms blooding from
shot wounds, unmindful of their in
juries but trying to assist others and
quell the confusion. Owing to the
number of girls who were carried out
in a fainting condition, it was belioved
that many of them were seriously
injured, and there was a great feeling
of relief when it was found that in
most cases they were unharmed.
The dead are: William P". 13aumor,
Mrs, Mary laumester, Miss Jennie
1Brennan, Miss Ida Brown, William
Hill, Miss Tracy Conroy.
Fatally injured : George Bardolf and
i'dward 13ardoll.
The explosion occurred in the load
ing room. J?;mployed in this room
were 150 hands, two-thirds of them
girls or women. Nearly all of the fe
male hands are employed on the load
ing machines, each of which requires
three operators. The full complement
of hands was at work in the room when
the explosion took place. Party foot
of the side of the building was blown
out and hurled many feet and frag
ments of human bodies were scattered
in a sickening manner.
A hurry call was sent for all availa
ble physicians. 'rho fire department,
the police, the ambulance and hospital
corps were speedily summoned, and
the work of caring for the dead and
injured was begun. larrowieg scenes
were witnessed as the vast throng con
gregated about the place. As rapidly
as possible, the injured were cared for.
In tyvo Instances the suffering of the
wounded was frightful. OWe was
partially disemboweled. As rapidly
as a victim wes seen to ba alive the
sufferer was tenderly cared for, made
as comfortable as possible and con
veyed with all possible speed to his
home. Two of the bodies had been
decapitated ; others had been uartially
torn asunder, and btill others had been
dismembered. The ollicials of the com
pany expended every effort to assist in
the work of relief.
Perhaps the saddest scene was en
acted when John Baumester learned
that his wife was among the dead. Lie
lived in Hampden and had been but
recently married. At the time of the
explosion he was at work a few feet
distant from his wife. Mrs. Mary
13aumester was but 10 years old and
had boon in the factory but three
weeks. She was married a little over
a month ago and she and her husbind
Fritz used adjoining machines. The
girl was blown fully 50 feet and so
cru hod out of shape that it was al
most impossible to identify her. The
husband, cur-inn.ly enough, was ap
parantly blown with the same force
and by the same blast, and yet he is
one of the least seriously injured. He
btruck the ground but, a few feet short
of his wife.
The explosion did not cause any fle,
and the fire department confined its
efforts to aiding in theo work of rolief.
The cause of the explosion has not
been determined, and perhaps its cause
may never be known. Some of those
at work in the r-oem at the time may it
was due to the fact that a cartridge in
process of loading had been improper
ly placed. in the macbine. Of the In
jured, those who arec able to talk, i-c
member nothing exept a blinding
llash. Some did not even hear' the cx
plosion.
The two Bardofi boys, working side
by side, were thrown at a tangent out
one side of the building. Trhey str-uck
the ground thirty feet away. Thley
were so crushed and mangled that they
will ale.
Edvr lahir, cring tem feet
away at his machine, was sent up
war-d through the roof. I-Jo fell on an
ash heap, with broken bones and a
factured skull and his legs twisted out
of shape. The doctors say he, too, will
die.
COMMISSIONERIS IIiT-.
Messrs. Thomas and1( Evans Comoc to
Blows.
A t the meeting of the State Railr-oad
Commission, the request of the rail
roadls for an increase in local rates on
certain commodities was taken up, and
a resolut,ion olfo.red by Mr. Wilborn
that the request be not granted for the
reason that local rates aru already out
of proport,ion to the through Interstate
rates, and which Mr. Wilborn sal(d the
roads had the authority to increase or
diminish at, their will, was discussed.
Commissioner Thomas made a long
speech on the subject, taking occasion
therein to reopen thbe matter of the fer
till-aar rates, and handled the other
members of the commission pretty
plainly for reducing the rate on fertili
zers, when nothing else was changed.
[lis speech was a long one, full of legal
citat,ions and extracts from the records
of the board and the Inter-State corn
merce commission. He thought that
the way the resolution proposed to dis
miss the matter was undig'niflod.
After lie had finished, Messrs. IEvans
and Wilborn, it seems, were joking
him. In replying to them in the same
manner he said some pretty sharp
things. After a while this led up to a
remark by Chairman IEvans, in which
the term "no gentleman" was used. Mr.
Thomas then fired up), andl the remark
was repeated at his reqjuest. Mr.
Thomas, it is said, applied an epithet
to Mr. Evans, which, in the language
of the campaigners, was most decied
ly unparliamentary. The result was
t,hat Mr. ICvans picked up a p)aper
weight, as he rose, and Mr. Thomas
rushed at him and struck him once or
twice on the face, scratching him and
uausing a few drops of bloodl to appear.
At this jumncturii Mr. Wilborn and Col.
Duncan interfered and the men were
:juieted, nobody being hur-t. Mr.
1'homas remarked to Mr. ECvans, it is
statod, that he used the epithet for the;
purpose of causing him to ho the ag
grossor, and rcaliy did not hold the
>plnlon of him ho had expressed.
Mr. Wilborn at once moved that the
board ad j.>urn, andl an ad jour-nont wats
,aken without acting upon the matter
is hand.
AN 1NOWDICNT OF Ti1I4 WAIlt.
How Governor Ilarri Took Care or
the Tennesseo School Fund.
The Washing'on correspondent of
the New York Tribune relates the fol
lowing story in regard to the conduct
of the late Senator Isham G. Harris in
preserving a school fund of $700,000 in
gold during the entire war:
One of the most striking episodes in
the life of Senator Harris was his
taking possession of $700,000 in go:d
belonging to the school fund of Ten
nessee. M mny stories have boon told
about this incident, but the following
account was related by S -nator Harris
himself. In 1802, when Nashville was
about to fall into the hands of the FPd
oral troops. the State Bank of Tennes
see had in its vaults sonethiog more
than $700,000 in gold and silver coin,
besides valuable securities. Two pr'i
vate, banks, the Union and the Plant
ers, also hr Id considerable amounts of
money. Senator Harris, at that time
Governor of Tennessee, was determin
cc that this money should not fall into
the hands of the enemy. He persuaded
the oficers of the State Bank, which
acted as the fiscal agent of the State,
to remove the banks assets to a point
of safety within the Confederate lines.
The vlil :ers of the private banks, how
ever, were unwiling to make the
change, and the Governor's arguments
were unavailing. Ile thereupon re
turned to his o11I,e and sent each bank
a note, in which he said something
like this;
" No doubt you can manage the af
fairs of your bank better than I can,
and I do not desire to undert tke the
conduct of your business. 1lowever, I
desire to inform you that unless yo.
give me your assurance that within
three hours you will remove your cash
and securities to a point of safety with
in the Confederate lines I shall be
unuer the necessi4y of appointing a
receiver to take immediate possession
of your bank, and such receiver will be
accompanied by a file of soldiers to en
force his orders."
Ibfore the three hours had expired
a favorable answer was received from
the two private banks. The Governor
joined the staff of the commanding
general of the Confederate army as a
volunteer aid. He obtained a sullicient
guard of soldiers to protect the bank
moneys, and he moved the assets from
one place to another. He formed the
habit of going each week to the place
where the bank was temporarily lo
cated and personally counting the
cash. In time, he said, he became
familiar with every bag of coin and its
contents. One day the cashier of the
bank appeared at headquarters with
the news that an agent of the Confed
erate treasury was at the place where
the bank was then located with orders
to seize the $700,000 for the mil;tary
uses of the Confederate Government.
Governor Harris obtained a telegraphic
order for the agent to suspend opera
tions temporarily. ie then took the
next train for 1tichmond, where he
called upon President Jellerson Davis.
Governor Harris told the President of
the Confederacy that he weli under
stood the financial necessities of the
Confederate Government and would
freely give all of his own personal
property to the Government. That
$700.000, however, belonged to the
school fund of the State of Tennessee,
and he did not propose to have one
cent of it touched if he could help it.
As an outcome of this vigorous stand
onh the part of Governor Harris Presi
dent Davis directed that the State
fund should not be disturbed. After
the surrender Governor Harris went to
the Union general in command and
obtained a safe conduct, and an escort
for the conveyance of the money from
Grillin, Ga., back to Nashville. Trho
money was taken to the State Capitol
and deposited in a committee room, a
receipt being given for the amount.
'rho bags and keys were broken open
and the money lay in heaps en the
hlour under guard of a lile of soldiers
until the legislative committee count
ed the cash ten dayb later. A remark
ably small shortage was found, con
sl(dering the circumstances during the
ten days the money was lying loose on
the floer.
-One of the oddest documents of the
will kind known was that of Queen
Austrigilda, consort of King Goutran,
of Burgundy. The dying princess en
joined upon her husband to slay and
b)ury in the same grave with her the
physicians who had attended her.
Another wvill was that of a husband
who forbade his wife's marrying on
l)ain of his returning to haunt her.
'his is qutite different from that of a
woman who instructed1 her executors
to seek out " some nice, good, pretty
girl,'' who would make an affectionate
second wife to her spouse. It is a fact
interesting in this connection that the
lirst Napoleon actulally bequeathed
10,000 frances to a fellow named Can
tillon, who had been tried (or attempt.
ing the assassination of the Dukre of
WuellIingt on.
Was there ever a womnen in the wide world
whol (lid not yearna to be the mnother of a
bright faced, happy, healthy, laughing, rol
licking child ? If there ever waa such a
woman, she was a bad one, and while there
are many thoroughly h)ad incn, there are
very few thorou ghl ybad women.
It was God's and Nature's intention that
every wvoman should be the muother of
healthy children. Trens of thousands of
womnen defeat this beneficent design by
their ignorance and neglect. They Rsuffer
from weakness and disease in a womanly
way, and take no measures, or the wrong
measutres, to remedy it. Dr. P'ierce's Fa.
vorite Pr4 serip)tion Is a sure, speedy and
~ertnanent cure for all disorders of th is
(escri>ptlon. It acts directly and only on
the (Ic 1 ecte and imp)ortanlt organs that are
the threshold of humtan lIfe. It makes
them strong, healthy, vigorous and virile.
It heals ulceration, allays inflamatio,n,
soothes pain andl tones and builds uip the
nerves. It banishes the trials of the >eriodi
of impending maternity and makes )fbh's
entry to the world easy andi almost pain
less. It doees away with the dantgers of
motherhood and shortens the l)eriod of
weakness and iassitudle. It insutres the
little newcomner's health and a bountiful
etupply of .nourishnetit. It transftr,
weak, sickly, nervous invalids hito haprpu
heaithy wives antd tuothers. Thousan<ls ot
womnen have testified to its marvelous tuner
Its. A doaler is not a physician and has no
right to suggest a subst itulte for tile prescrip
tion of an emInent specialist like Dr. Pierce.
Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Ad.
viser sent for 2r one-eent stamps to cover
mailing only. Cloth binding 3r stanma
Address Dr. RL. V. Piercc, nBufralo , |
-'roeideot P;. 13, Andrews of Brown
University has sent ar lottof to the
faculty rosigning hi e Ufome. Tt, )etter
wap In response to a aotelt terlon
sent to Proeidont Andrown by tho
opeoial coltIt'.oo -apl}ninted by the
trustees and follows In Juno, who, at
that timo alIled him to account for his
froe silvor utturanocs.
--If wo were all as goo l as we ox
pect our nolghbors to be, thore wouI
be an immense Improvement In Society.
OUTHERN RAILwAV,
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On Pianos, Organs an
drive our business these ha
Prices. We don't sit dlowni
of' money like the old1 fossil
on whien they won't pa1y th<
want to purchase a Piano o
uts and we will sell you. V
Ufnd best selecCtedl stock of I
some of' the best makes on 1.
to sell them. We guarani
than any other reliable deah
time p)urchasers are easy. (
required andI we make
Spot Cash Buyers we will
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business. Wc keep consti
of~ small instruments, corn
Mandolins, Autoharps, Viol
parts, strings and supplies
Sewing Machines at ridici
want one, just intimate it, ai
low you can buy one. Our
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dent.
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Agent.
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