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V -- J ___THE PEOPL E'S R VOL g.---NO. 2. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY i, i899. ONE A THRILLING EPIS( THE C( A SURGEON WHO MADE] Running the Blockade w AVINAVILT.E, S. C., Jan. 21, 1898. In 1804, Dr. W. M. Whistler was as. sletant surgeon of Orr's Rifles. He was a native of Baltimore and one of the best surgeons I ever saw. He was without fear and went into battle with the line. He was a man of the highest honor, liberally educated, refined, genial, humace, hirh-born and accom plished. His father was a distin gulshed engineer offier of the United States army but years before the war - went to Russia and under the favor of the Czar directed the building of sev eral groat railroads. Oar Dr. Whis tler spent part of hia life in Russia and ] in Ragland. In 1865, in the month of February. he had got a furlough of four months to go to England to visit his mother who then resided in LIsm don. He went tnrough the lines and before his furlough was out the sur- I render at Appoinattox took plice and the war ended. Not one word was heard from Dr. Whistler until I re elved a letter from him on Deenber 12th, 1898, 0hich is published here with. Last December I read a newspaper I sketch of James McNeill Whistler, the distinguished artist, who also has a studio in Paris. I know from the sketch that the artist must be related to our friend and comrade. So I wrote and requested the artist to let me know if 'he doctor was dad, but if still liv ing to send my letter to him. The re sult was the letter which I now fur- 1 nish to the Hoyt publications. It will be found graphic and interesting. RO3ERT It. HUMPHILL. 1 WIMPLA STRXmT, CA TENDISR SQUAII, LONDON, Nov. 29th, 1898. My Dear Mr. Hemphill: My brosher came over from Paris recently and brought me your letter, which I would have answered by a much earlier mail, but I have only just recovered from a severe illness, and so was uiable to write. I have never received any mes sage that has touched me deeply or Siven me such delight. To be so kind y remembered by my old comrades carries me back still merk vividly to past times when we were fellow cam paigunors in the "Old Cause;" days which I never forget and which I cherish among my fondest memories. Often do I recall my association with Orr's Rile Regiment as the brightesti of my recollections of the war. How time has ",ne by since I parted, for a short timet'as I then supposed, with our regiment in February, 1805. 1 little thought that the four months' furlough given me, as you say, to come abroad, would have left me here still after thirty-three years. On reporting in Richmond after leav ing the front at Petersburg, I was en trusted with dispatches to deliver in Ungland, which made my gesting through the lines a somewhat more anxious undertaking. I had arranged to ran the blockade from Charleston. Os reaching Columbia however, I found mysel f stopped by Shermnan's advance, and so I had to beat a hasty retreat from there back again towards Richmond. Here I bid good-bye to my friend, Dr. John Caldwell, of our brigade, who on leave hadi traveled with nas this far. Sherman's camp Ares were lighting up the night just across the river, and the whole town was ina a bustle of excitement and p rep aration. Every man was being ordered to immedigto duty. All trains were for the imie being under the control of the D j3rtment, and passenger traf fic was temporarily suspended. I saw at once that this was no moment for showing papers, or entering into ex planations as to the undertakings I had to fulfli. 8o, finding a Treasury Departmenb train just starting for Vir ginia, it's occupants being ladies en gaged in the Treasury, I s$towed my self unknown to anyone, i ..a empty braice van. Here I climbed in the dark to an upper shelf just under the roof, and laid down and rested as best I couild in the bitter cold, for it was snowing. Fortune, however, smiled on me before the journey was over, and a friend whom I unexpectedly met, at a station where we stopped, rescued . me from my stowaway position and. .transferred me to a ear where all was bnight and cherry, with lovely ladies whose kind reception I shall never forget. * . So we went on to Richmond, stop ping for a day at Charlotte, North Carolina, where I met our Colonel, McDufte Miller, and Mr. Mulally, our .- chaplain, who were making their way to Sooth Carolina on furlough. Our ordnance officer, Capt. Thompson, of Mc~owan's staff, also joined me here. I found it impossible next to run the blockade from Wilington, and so had * to give up all chance of getting out by sea. The only course open to me was * to get round Grant's line as best I could, and make my way through Maryland. I am amused when I recall that thei traveling suit required by me, for a disguise, so to say, cost me fourteen - hundrel dollars, and the bundle of - notes needed to meet the damage was so bulky that I got a negro to tote it to the tailor. To effect my plans was not so easy:; and it was not until the 4th of March that I got fairly off. I started in an ambulance wagon;s having secured a p lao.s in it for five hundred dollars. This being done I may add that I walked nearly all the way owing to the state of the roads. The driver had aot long left '~aetle Thunder," asnear as I remembeyr, and my companion was a man going' with him on foraging duty. They wore rather rough dia . mends, but as you know all of us had got well used to roughing; and se, for the few days we joged along togeth~er, * I got on very jo11 with them en our risky journey. - were making our way towards the Rappahannook, my )DE OF )NFEDERATE WAR iAIRBREADTH ESCAPES hen the War was Over. intention then being to get over t Maryland In that direction, en rout to Now York. This plan of mino waE frustrated by Stanton's expedition. 1D was on the fourth day while journey lug along that the sound of distant :uns, which proved to be the shelling from the gunboats on the Rappahan nock, burst suddenly upon the still air >f the bright spring morning. We learned further that all the boats that had been in use for crossing were eized or hidden away. To me, there fore, this means of exit was closed. That night we found shelter in a lone ly farm house. Our host was an old gentleman dwelling alone with h faithful negro servants. Going over the compliated situation together that .vening, before wrapping up in our blankets on the floor, we decided that bore we should have to part and shift or ourselves. My friends elected to remain and watch their oppportunitiee, while I determined to go across coun ry to the Chesapeake Bay, and try ny luck by the eastern shore. I had iome sixty or seventy miles, I was told, to get over to do this, and I started the -ext morning alone and on foot to take my chances of reaching Europe. How 3ver, I got an unexpected lift, such as Lt was, for part of this tramp. It was it a country store, at a cross roads, where towards sunset I stopped for a hort rest, that, I managed to get a borse after mdch difficulty. Poor beast, I did not gather from the man who sold it to me how unfit it was, or 1 would never have taken it away. What a funny store that was, I have aften thought since, romiding me of soms of Bret Harte's descriptions, where business seemed to give way to gossip and the chief neglecting, appar antly, all notion of profit sought only to be the cheerful host to the daily !requenters. The sun was about an hour high when I rode sway into path: anknown to me. The company con regated on the piazza to see me off. can see the picture now as thoy waved their hands in token of good luck. The only road instructions I 3ould get - were to start on a certain :ranch of the fork, and after that to cnnp my eyes well to the front for the lorthern cavalry scouts that were icouring the country. I must have been oorn under a lucky tar, for I escaped any such interrup. ion. But oh, the loneliuess of this ido I Not a person did I meet to speak o. I passed by the charred ruins of nore than one deserted village that marked the raids through this land. often wished as I rode along that I night be back with my comrades in ,he field. After many a weary mile I came at ast in the night upon a hollow, where 6 party, where a party who proved to )e good Southern friends, were taking helr meal by the roadside under shel er of their wagon, in the rain. On ne side thero was a mill and on tho -pposlte bank the home of the miller. hfter looked after my horse who,Iso far, had borne me so bravely, I joined 6he party I had so luckily met. Mw efuge that night was the mill. It was the only shelter its owner could give me. The negro boy who showed ae to t is, my bed room, to my sur rise and annoyance locked me in at once, and that without any light.rjOn my remonstrating with him through the door he said there were his Maq ter's orders, as the raiders had always met fire to the mills of any one wno had heltered Confederates, and this one was the only mill left. I had noticed before the lantern was withdrawn that there was only one window, and thai ipened on the mill stream, but the boy was gone and there was no rooni for further argument. So I picked out meal bag for a pillow and slept the sleep of wearines, not even heodine the rats (my usual abomination) until was roused at break of day, and turned out to push on in rain ard mud, walking by t~he wagon, leading my horse who was utterly worn out, and who died later on the road. It took nearly two more days of thi trudging to reach the Chesapeake, oui dily experiences being much the same You can well imagine that my toilel had been sorely disarranged by all thi. exposure, so that I was scarcely pre sentable in polite society. Certainly I was not in a state to pass unnoticed among the mashers of the Northerr towns I had still to pass through and this was an important matter if i wai to get safely to the end. Had it noi been for the cordial and warm eep. tion given to me in a most lovely homE a Gloucester, I feel convincedi should never have succeeded further Ispent several. days with this charmine Virginia family, the gentleman and his wife, with theIr two daughters, dc in g all to make my stay with thenr delIghtful. The advice of my host who interested himself very greatly is furthering my plans, proved mo.t val uablo; and the rest and the genera renovatIon set me once more on mi feet. It was with true regret that] bid them good-bye, to find my way t< the shore, and take sail across the bay The unexpected seemed always t; happen, so at the shore I was delightei to find a verb old friend waiting, liki myself, to get across. Captain J., als' a arylander la the Confederate army had lost his leg at Antietam, and whili1 a pridoner of war had had this replaces b y a 'ool one of most ingenious devict T"his had become rusty and worn i subsequent campaigninog after his ez change; and he was goingon leave t his original maker in Philadelphia t, get a new one, that he migiht be read; for duty on thet next campaign. WI did not find it an easy matter to get passage even now, for boats wer, sCarce, and i6 was not, until late il March that we got away. There wor. four of ts in a canoe, commonly callei by the bay boatmr a "eanner"; (is tan J., the skipper, his assistant si myself. It was a small craft, aboi thirty feet long, rigged with leg i salts, the skipper steering with a pal die. It was a black and stormy nigh but we had a skilled helm-man, ai the b at weathered the storm withot disaster. We lay under cover, hidin from view, all next day in a creek c the eastern shore of irginia. The under cover of darkness we 6et sail At the Maryland skore which we reache in the small hours, moving under tb bank of a swamp. In doing this i we passad undeteetod close under ti stern of a gunboat. At dawn we grope our way along the shore to our lac of landing. Here at last we ne where to go for safe keeping, so Cal tain J. and I took leave of the othei who were returning that night to Vii ginia, anJ made our way to the countr seat of a friend, who took every car of us until we could find safe means ( pursuing our journey. The risks to v to do this were now much greater an we ran many narrow shaves to escap capture, ash the conscription was bein rigidly enforced bythe enrolling off cers at every point. We got across courtry as beat w could by wagon, at one time passng a oystermen from bthe bay, until w slipped into the train for Philadelphi at a way station, where fortunatel time did not allow for the scouting C passee. We got to the Quaker Cit late that evening, where we made bu a short stay, though sufficiently lon to ferret out the mater ofothe artifiloi lag who with every dispatch met th requirements of my friend. We thei caughtthe midnight train to New Yor I confess I was seized with panic almos at the depot when I was confronted a the ticket office by two sentries wit] srord bayonets fixed, posted one oi either side of the wind)w. I had hai all along a great dread of being recog nized by some Northern soldier wh< might have been in the Libby prisoi where I had at one time been on duty But they let me through without i challenge, whether it was that at tha late hour they were sleepy, or that looked too innocent to be questioned You can judge at the relief from th terrible strain we had been under, tha that we felt when we reached th "Empire City"' where we were com paratively in safety at last. Fror Sis port I sailed on the "City of Mat chester" of the Inman line, under somewhat altered namo. As soon as landed in Liverpool I delivered m dispatches to the Oonfederate ager there and glad enough I was to do a( for this package had been a source( great anxiety to me. All this time n news of any reverse to Lee's army ha reached me, and so with a light hei I hastened to join my mother an brother in London. I learned.only a week later, the t ings slowly, the awful report o'f th surrender at Appomattox, and th downfall of the Confederacy ; then a] the sad events that followed. Afte this I had nothing to return to so remained here with my family. TIhel I went to join my elder brother ii Russia, which had been an early homi to me in my boyhood. Then I grev tired of idleness and took up my abod< in Paris, to work in the hospitals ani in the shools of medicine. All thi time I had intended to return h..me but owing to unseen circumstances finally determined to establish mysel in London in practice where I havi been ever since. What with privatl practice hospital and other publii work, I ave found it more and mon difficult to get my holiday to America which I am always looking forward to Whea I do manage it, I shall dsligh in coming to see all my old friends and you may rest assuredO I shall lool you up. If I have not written before it Is that t did not know, after the wal was over, whbere a letter would fin, any of you. I have now written many things ii this letter that will seem to you as cient history, but I love to think of the old days, and I have jotted do ii answer to yours what has happend ti me since I left the regiment. Bd6 want to hear of the others. Do writi and tell me. My warmest remenm bratnces to all. Always sincerely yours, W. McNEIxL L WfHIST LUn. 8TATIC BOARD OF~ CONTROI, WANTS TO ABOLISH THE COUNQ BOARIDS. Answers the IRecent Orittems Governow Ellerbe-Olatms that tII Consumption of Beer' Will Deeoaa Drunkenness. The following Is the annual report the State board ofecontrol: To His Excelleney, Win. H. Ellerbi Gover ner. Sir . We herewith submit our ai nual report to be transmitted by yo to the General Assembly of Soul Carolina. We herein submit a reviel of the business transaetions of the di pensary and huggest such ohange in the law as we think will improve I Section 1 of the dispensary act rF quires persons intending to impoi liquors for personal use to first has sample ef same analysed by the chemvi of the South Carolina eol loge, and that feature of the law has been ai nulled by the court, and the right< the State to forbid its sale afieg in poriation sustained, we recommen that secton 1 and section 3 be amead~ ed, leaving out she requirement a; t anyalysis of sample, so as to clearl detine the rights of the citisen und4 the court's decision and to guide tl constabulary force in making selsurei that is, that the law should cleairl comport with the acoision of the coui that the citisen and the officer .ms know their respective rights or dutiel Section 4 gives by implication th right to the dtate board of control ppinedispne limiting their salt tL>"nmait liquors " or beer, and bols -assured by tne attorney general's offie that such right existed, we hay availed ourselves of it, and have thort Sby been enabled to fui nish to the cot sumer fresh or " tap 4 beer. This has hadl a most admirable eftec as a temperance measure. The bs Sdrinker rarely getsdrunk unless he driven to the use of ardent liquori which never happens so long as he cs get, fresh beer. At the last session ef the precedin - General Assemabl, a concurrent reso d lation was pases expressing disfavor I it of beer dispensaries. In deference to )f that resolution the State board care- I 1- fully and thoroughly considered the 1, whole question of beer dispensaries in I d all its aspects. Those dispensaries 6t had been legally established and the I g men running'them had gone to con a siderable expenbe of preparation for I n properly conduosing them. At the I ir very outset of consideration of thetques- I d tion, the board felt that it would be un- I e fair to the beer dispensers to revoke I e their permits and make them lose all I e of the money so spent to carry on a d business, permits for which had been t e granted in good faith and accepted ( w with the belief that they would not be >. merely temporary. -I We naa used them to assist In sup i- pressing the illegitimate compeoition I y thrust upon us by the federal court, o and we tuen concludid that It was only of commoa fairness to permit them to t .s run until the meeting of the General a d Ansembly. e We considered the concurrent re- i I solution only advisory and not manda ory, leaving the board of control to act as circumstances demanded. We g e now respectfully ask that you legislate a specifically upon this point. Our ex 3 perience 'leads us to heartily favor a their continuance on the ground of r both temperance and profit. During f the past year the profits from this y source amounted to $50,807.40. t Provision is male in section 6 for r appointments of county boards of con 1 trol, and we regret to say that that a plan has proven unsatisfactory. We 3 believe that these duties can be more efficiently ahd economically performed t by creating a board designed to p't -t t the interests of the State, count3 and i town, in making the quarterly set 1lo i ments, composed of the county auditor I on the part of the county, the mayor or intendant on the part of the town, and the dispenser on behalf of the 3 8tate and his own behalf. Their worr, . and all the operations of local dispen m earies, to be subject to the scrutiny or r t supervision of inspectors. [ Section 9 requires the county auditor 0 to assist in the quarterly settlements and to make an itemized report of t same to the State board of control, V 3 which has never been done; and we - advise that in order to enable us to a better protect the interest of the coun ty and town that a penalty be prescrit a ed for non-attendance to his duty. I County dispensers could be elected by Y the delegations to the General Assem. t bly, subject to the approval of the ), dtate board. if Section 6 requires the county dis. 0 penser to execute a bond to the county d :treasurer, to be delivered into his 't keeping ; the dispensary act also stipu- C d lates that his bond must be given be. fore the dispenser enters upon his - duties; the attorney gene&l or a solIl e itlor Is directed to pass upon the form e and execution, and the board of coun . ty commissioners upon the suMoiency r of these bonds, none of which has been I don x pcot where the State board of 2 control has taken the matter in charge, 2 wheih we have no legal right to do, 5 but It has bden rhe only course of r safety, as we could never know when t 5 to begin shipments to dispensers until i I we examine bonds. Hence we advise I I that dispensers' bonds be made to the I State board and delivered into their I keeping. While the suggested ohanges 2 in the law would be beneficial, yet we can, under our present " rules ad re gulations," successfully operate it. We wish to call your attention to our I aetion in November ot1ast year, chang- y ing the distribution of-proits between the btate, counties a 1 towns, and if 0 our action does not m~t your approval h we hope that you wiN legislate *pon e that point. IThe constitution of 1895i directs that ~ all the State's share of the dispensary a profise shall go to the school fund, and u bo0th the constitution and the statutes e are si,1en. as to the perceatage of dis- j tributt6 , hence our assumption that it was intended to be left as a matter c I of " regulation " by the board. > The belief has become very general t I that the State was getting too much 3 and the counties and towns too little of 1 - the profits, and as the constitution seems to fix 68 per capita per scholar s as a reasonable amount for the schools, we have maie the change, giving a e greater share to the counties and e .towns, and herewith attach the re- t port of our committee making such r change, which will more clearly show 3 our reasons and the basis of redistribu- e tion- e OO0MITE3'S REPOET. 9 >fTo the State Board of Oontrol. Le Gentlemen: We, your committee C cappointed at the October meeting of1 the board, for the purpose of revising fthe price list to county dispensers so as to reduce the profits to the State and increase the proflis to the towns and counties, respectfully report as foI . lows: u Accepting 675,000 in round numbers h as the amount necessary per annum r for account of school fund, as shown by ~. the denaands upon us of the comptrol * ler general the p ast year as the amount ~, necessary for the same, and accept ,. ing the fourth quarter of 1890, when t we had no original package competi e tion, and the first three quarters of t1898 as a fair and conservative basis1 *upon which to make our estimates, wei . recommend the adoption of price list, tf which we have revised and submit . herewith,.and ask your careful scrutiny Sin detail of same.. You will perceivei that we .have left uudisturbed a large proportion of the items of the price list, and have 'confined nearly all of r the cuttlag .to medium and cheaper 6 grades, -which are largely consumedi everywhere, thus as naparly as possible ,distributing the benefitover the whole 86Sate. Recurring .to the basis for these proposed changes or the price to ,dispenser, we invIte your attention to the following data: o Stbte's share of net profits s for last quarter of 1896....$8,8.2 State's share of not profits e for the first three'quarters e of 1898................7,789 -Tot~al for the four quarters selected ....... .... .,i19,411.79 it To the net profits for three quarters r of 1898 is to he added the ubusual ex Spense of settling the agricultural hail 4' claims, which have been deducted from 13 the* net earnings of said three quarters, .11 ,i 0n la Total net earnings for the above VA lamed period, 0170 401.72. If our er. >OSed outs are a\iopted, they will, W >aed on business of aid period, bimount to $50,000. Estimted amount BI or school fund, $120,401.79. It will be noticed that while we 'tarted out with the intention of utting from the school fund all but }?5,00.00,as Just shown above, we 1 laye $l20,401.7V, and there are three in, 'easons, which are these : The first ph 8 to be conservative as to be sure to un eave the balance on our side of the go heet. The second is that we are com- die elled to reckon our profits from the ales of the fourth quarter of 1896 ha which were large) aNd to base our out lai n the prices on our purehases (which of were small), because in August and ou leptember, 1890, we bought largely pri or the winter trade, hence our actual on] DO$ on account of the proposed cut rill be greater than indicated. And ab bird, the $75,000 requirement for the chool fund was based on the school ter inrollment of 1895, which will hp 2.5 N'opped with this year, and the on- Da ollment hereafter will be greater and in tonce a greater amount will be neces- st ary for the benefit of the school fund. P| However, we believe It to be entirely on: afe to adopt the proposed changes, bo- ml ause we have selected three quarters a i f this year as a basis, and have had a i bout half of the time original pack- siv go competition, which we will here- bu ftoer escape. fat Respectfully submitted, ant (Signed) L. J. Williams, 20( J. 13. Douthit, to Committee. du In February, 3898, when you were tic aet in session, the federal court of ap- wa eas decided the agricultural hall pri ass against the Blate, which had the pel ffect of depriving the dispensary of a ins lant in whi-h to operate. The sink- of 2g fund commission and the Btato the oard of control were constituted by con- ma urrent resolution a commission to Dit 5ttle up all claims of Edward B. Wes- is )y on account of this litigation for Th ents, costs and damages. We paid ant ut of the dispensary fund $10,000 in the 5ttlement of this claim. Dr We were thus left out of doors and ( ere compelled to provide a home in bo 'hich to operate. ho We entered into a contract with an Vesley through his attorney by which He ,e were to continue for the time to no' ocupy agricultural hall at a rental of ha 170 per month. he To operate the business in agricul- bu iral hall involved heavy exponee on Re ecount of draying as well am heavy hii reakage, and insurance rates were o cry high on Main street. -ItB There was no building in Columbia li Lear the railroad tracks either for sale I i ir rent sufmciently well equipped in ge which to hand'i the business of the lispensary, and as we were compelled w o make considerable outlay in equip- it ing a building, we concluded it was us >eat to buy, hone we bought the build- th og we now oacupy at a cost of 618,000. es We have since expended $10,015.U9 al . repairs, making the total cost 933,- m 16.9A. CA Our saving per amaum in handling 01 he business where we are now located fr as follows : an Lent per aans m................. 2,100 trI Irayage-......------............ 5.,000 i nsurance saved.............,... 850 reakage and shortage........ 1,000 an Total........... ..............g 8, b50 It will be seen thab the saving will be my for the property in less than four bil ears. lik The building is situated immediately m. a the railroad tracks, enabling us to be andle the business with dispatch and wi conomy, the property including nearly yt whole square of valuable real estate, t~u nd is ease the State should desire to w] sll, it Is admirably adapted to man- g faoturing purposes, and would com- p1 tand a hand some price. We cordially te invite your inspection of same. m The Governor, in his message to the a eneral Assembly, has seen fit to crit- tih sise the manag ement of the affairs of m be dimspensary by the board of control. ah Ye make no reply in the spirit of ori- yr sissa, but are content to rely en a re- at lew of the operation of the dispen- es ary as our vindicasion. , During Mr. Trailer's a dministration, overing a period of 19 months, the W et profile of the State, ecunties and )wns amonaled to *125,328.40. During the administration of Mr. Ra [ixson, covering a period of 14 "1 tonths, the net profits to the State, ensbles and towns amounted to Si18, 74.08. C Total prolts for both those periods, th overing 88 months, S489,802.48. wc During the incumbency of the State ph oard of' control, a period covering 83 re nonths, the same length -of time as us obh former administrations, the total sh aet profits to the State, counties and p1 owns have amounted to *858,219 95. ne [rhis result has been obtained at a In sonsiderably reduced scale of profits ct and prices to consumers, with a volume pa )f business increased but little. m At the very beginning of our man- at igement we instituted the system of ii >ompetilive sealed bidding, from which at we have obtained very satisfactory re- ci lulls. w Basing the calculation on the actual gi price of the whiskey, exclusive of the sternal revenue law tax, we pay for n< [ rye 29 per cent. less than Trailer si mud 16 per cenu. less than Maxeon. hi We pay for XX rye 2'7 per cent, less it han Trailer and 18 per cent. less than ti In XXI rye we pay 40 per cent, loes m haa Trailer and 28 per cent. less than a< diison, or 63 ces less per gallon ta han Trailer, and 24 cents less per gal- w on than Miaison. is The difference in beer and glass is sL hqnally as great in our favor,.i We are willing to risk a comparlson 0 f the character or Quality of the ta iquors we put os sale with those of ar >ur predecessor., to the judgment of de heypeople who consume the same. th We court your most careful inquiry ar nboall the details of the dispensary h< nanagement, and are ready to furnish d< tny data you may desire. di All of which is respectfully sub nIlled. c J. D. H~suLDueN, or Chairman. L. B. WILLIAMs. T J. B. DOUTHIT. gI D. M. MILES. M. RI. CooPalt,. B. 0. Wann, Cilek. 18 XONXY WELL SPUNT. V --- - ti 011K OF' THiEi LYCEUM BUitEAU. n i Arp Tells About the Cartersvillo Womon-Tho Members Hear EAi- rl net Leoturros and Enjoy Fine k Concerts. U 'hero is a way open to every con knity to elevate, reline, entertain and g itruct their young people and give 0 sasure to the old. But few from the t pretending towns are privileged to U to Atlunta or any largo city to hoar 1 tinguishod men lecture or to witness ] entifno exhibitions. Small towns C we the same pardonable envy of the a go cities that country peoplelIave the towns. They fool like are shut t from many innotcnt pleasures and w vileges that they could onjoy if they t y live there. 0 ell, now, I have boon ruminating 0 Mu this because of the gratifying T icose of our Home Lycoum in Car- LI sville. Our white population is only I 3O-a smaller city than Marietta, 1.1 iton, LaUrange and a dozen othert i Georgia, and many in our elsto Atos, and so when there was any W. icial attraction billed for Atlanta i v a few could afford to travel lilty l lee to attend it. But whore there is oil rill there Is a way, especially if it is 1 a ronan's will. A few of our progrem- th e women inovatigated the lyceum : it iness and then plotted agal nhi, thNir wl hers and huubandt and brothers Ma I beforo we know it they had secured lI members at $3 each, and promised - m give in return six entertainments -Ing the winter months, and each fr ket was to admit two persons. This c1 9 only 25 cents for each and has vi ived tu be the best investment our ci ople have ever made fo- pleasure or ", truction. We have already had five 11 dho series and are yet to have Konan, L" Siberian travnlor. The ladies have I" do it a sucoos and oven old man sl inal, who ahlways predicts disaster, LI uow attending the entertainments. 8' o series began with Thomas'concert et I since then we have had llannon, M i electrician, and Bob Taylor and Headley. )f course our Bob brought oat every- H ly who could como and packed the o tso, and ho made us laugh and cry a I laugh again through our tears. $ gave us the fiddle and the bow, but h ,h woro imaginary, for he has not N udled either In ten years. le says 11 never professed to play tho violIn, IIL used to fiddle and sing fairly well. t" went through all the motions and 81 I word painting of tie charns and wer of music was close akin to i)r igby's wonderful description of "Ilow kby Played the Piano." Mr. Kditor, h wish you would publish that exqiatsiite t m once more. lAst night we had Dr. Janics Uadloy th us, and his beautiful thoughts onl s o sunny side of life will linger witih a long and do us good. They reached e heart and the haarthstono. Ills ,rnostness, his sincerity and pathos' fected us all, and I know will pruv aI oral lesson to the young people thbey nuot forget. I looked upon the faces a snuo children and youLii w hu we5ro it I )nt of me and I could see how eagerly t d tenderly they drank It in. ils bute to the tolling, humble armay of I nisters who are the pionors of a r rlstian civilleation in the great West I d are holding the forts in the long I ,,led eastern portion of this country, 1i Ing and working on scanty salarios, e t never complaining, was grand and e mutifuh He impresses you as a great, e F-hearted, Christian gentleman, who, :a Abou Ben Aldoin. loves his follow- t mn. He saya he 's a Methodist chiefly cause he likes to ride on a train that 11 stop and back up to you and take u on again if you fall off. is le r. is, of courso, interspersedl freely Lh fitting anecdotes and illustretions. on a man does good as well as given sasure as he goos. ils beautiful ichlngs elevate and refinie the coin naty and bring the young peoplo to aigher grade of intellectual andi emoi mnal pleasure than they can find In a anstrol shaow. TIhe sunny side of lIfe ould be cultivated just as we eulti to fiowor-s to make them lovely anad tractive. Enjoy the day. Enjoya ery day. One poot says : would not live alway-I ask not to stay here storm after storm rises dark o'er the way." But, I like best another p)oet, who ye: his world is very lovely, Oh, my Goed, ? thank thee thant I live." 2b, these women I What would be noe of us if thoy did not pilot us in S way that we should go? When uld the men of Cartorsville have nned and worked up a lyccuan bu iu? When would they have given a park whore we can rest under the ~ ado of the trees and see the childron C my up~on th3 grass and look with ver-censing wondler upon the passlng c tins? When would the men of the ~ urch have raised tie money to buy a rsonage ? Who keops up the prayer ' setings that livIng do languish d languishIngly do Ivo y? Who are e most, faithful In the Sunday-schoo, t d who nurse and care for the infat, ~ ildron and never tire of their loving rk in trainIng thema uip to duty and g oad condauct ? I was rumInatIng about our historl.:al I a agloot of the noble, faithbful, long. fforing mnothers of groat amon, who I ave lived and died ini all these eon rios, It, is thte mother who makes | e man. "Just, as the twig is bent, I e tree Is inclined '' and I6 la~ the t other who moulds the emotional char tor of their childron. While the ther Is In hIs cournting room or hIs )rkshop, or at the plow, the mother' at home wIth thorm, and day by day boldIng thom from harm and guardIng air tender haearts from evil inlences, ar calotions are of far more Impor ne than our intellects, andi these e mouaidod at our mother's breast and veloped at her knees. Thlaen, why is historical neglect ? Who kcno we ything of the mothers of Clay Cal un or Webster, or any of the i'resi mnts, or of any of our Governor-s, ort' stinguished statesmen ? Perhaps one person In a thaousand ows that George Wa hington's tfdth 'a maiden name was Mary Hall, hut tat else do they knew about hair. so best biographical cyclopcdias wil ve you the paternal a20estors of' eat tmon from away back, but not a it, on the mlatealside. TLhey do not ,on mantinn tha Joh, Werly,-. fhiteld had a mother. Appleton and ic Uentury do sonetines make meagor cution of who those great-men mar ed. o')r instance, Appleton says that in June, 1808, Daniel Webator mar ed Miss Grace Fitohor, of Hojl inton, N. IL" Only that and nothing ioro. This hhktorlea: noglect of women be an with Moses, who makes record of ar mother E've, nud then skips a :iousand years to Lamxeet without ientioning another vomnau. Then clpis another thousand down to Sarah, ie wile of Abraham. Ho tells us that aln took unto iun a wife, but doos t ltnme her, and that the wive" of oah't sons went into thu ark with ten, but we do n t know whio they or, Later on in thu centuries he di us SomeO pretty stories about Ra wol and M irlam, and still later we read Ruth rand Naomi, and in the New UStaient aboutit a]. dlzi*n women bo dos Mary, the niother of Jesus,' are entioni d, and from that day down to i ,-formation woman has been un e the ban of historical neglot. hen we old people wore young thoro L% It gifted writer by the name of ead Iy, a relative of Dr. James Llead y, the Iucturer, who wrote a book lied "The Saered Mountains," and other book callcd " Tho Women of e Bi blo," and Ito did h is host- to make an attracilve volume, but the tsacrod )men woro fewer than the sacred auuintiainti, and ho had to put it in very rur type and hiavo largo margins to iko it, a book ait all. But woman h- fast coming to the onit In tiils land, aid the iords of vationl arc rucogniii zing ihe r, With hor rtue, hert- iimportaitic it a factor in vilizationi, imIoro than if) any other to or tillt oIr country. She stands de by sido with man antd is really and uly his bottor half. Bi t, the chief irpo'3 of thli prosy letter Is to in ire the sniall towns of Georgia and 0 SJuth to organlz3 lyceuims and euro 1s good lecturers as thoir limit L ineans %vlil bring. Ono hundred Clilberi at, $3 vachi will secure six utres at,$0, VA and maCeI tlef cost only cents folr ad iiision. Of Court8o out ders will pay moro. They paid 60 tits lire aud 7-5 (Ctst for romervod kt.4. WO Mid Lhiree- Of oir lecturers 00 each ; th othierb 150 to *75. ri-re no mliontey inl a it an1d should not be. honey is not the obj.et,, but there is ) lous. Outr series is all paid for and aves us with a few dollars In the Casury, anld next winter the nembor I) will probably be doiblod. BIM, ARF. A DSunm>1x ilAI-l-ilon. A. -1. Gar lid, wh lit wa" he a Lorney general of lie United Stmues during Mr. Clovo %nd's Iirst ad iministration, was stricken Mitl apoplexy whilo lidoressing the .l)rm11e court of th United "States and lid wi thin Ltn iiinuttes. The follow njg Ii ia brier siketelh of is lifo: August.us 11111 Giriand was born in l'itp U uity, Tieni., .1u1no 11, 18:2. kiorethe was a yenv (ld his parents -emo'jved t,) Arkisiii. li) wILs dii lated at St. I'ilary'a Cullege, Lhanon, iy., and St. johJi'i College, iards own, Ky. lie road law thOero nd in Srkansas and was ad initted to the bar i 1853. After practlcing at that place ir threo years ho removed to Little toek. lloi was a lwilg in politics and n 18(60 was an eletor on thbe Boll and ivrt'cti, tiet. l3 Illu, weas an opponent I th secession ordinaneO in the Stats onvention but after its passage he spoutsed the Soithern causo and was momber of the provisiunal congress hat imet In Montgorrory, Ala., in May, Ll0 wan chosen a dolega'o to the dret Jonfederate Congretiss and afterward orved in theo S-enate, in which lhe had seait w hen the Confederacy fell. In 805, he petitIoned the UnIted States uipremlo Court for thio rIght to pirao lee without takIng the "iron-clad" ath, plrescItirig anf argument , m rhih IcthIIe~ iquestdon wias decIded ni hils favor. 11i wast elected a JnIi tedl Staitest Senator for the termi be :innin g March 4, i167, but1, wats not mi.rm ittodit to koP he~ is seat, ina Ig8'l4 ,itor serving aL short LImre as act~Ing (icretuary oIf state, hie wast elected gov >rnor' of A rkarnsas under the new sitate onstiItution. Inr Janunary, 1876, h~e was emnt to the Uiflted State Seniate and vabs r'e-eiectedJ in 188.'1, serving from ilarch 5, 1877, to Mareih, 1885, when he ook his 51a', asi attorney general in reisidenit Olovelanhd'l cabiinut. ie was Moredi rand decli ned ai supreme court udlgesh Ip. At thuecloso of the Cloye anid ad aInIstratIon he ret~lrod from 'olilcs. -I. Ia announced thmbat (Col. Albert, E. leone, thbo promoter of the Black Dia )ond( railroad, hais been awarded the ontract for the buliung of the eutire nn frarn, inciniinati to the coast, at a ost of *50,750,000. The termninus of hie rono Is to be l 'ort kRoyal, with a 13(1 to Savannahl. The flest, work, it is Lated, wiil be dones in Ohio, and the rat, two hulndred mIles will cost *10, 00,000. TVhe line of road will run brough Oh1, o, Kentucky, Tfennessee mid Sou th CarolIia. -One of Speakorj Ileed's best, epi rains now enjoging natitonal circula lonm, shiows that, ho Is among those far (enng stabtesmnnun wvho thInk it worth rhil( to stop and count, thie cost of im >eriallism. ie ms freely quoto'd as say - ng: - We are buying 10,000,000 dainays at *2 ab bond, unpicked, and lobod k ~nows what it will cost to po hem." --A transfor' comrpany bought In Oln sinnatl recently what Is said to be the argest mule of Its ago In the world. t Is th roe years old1, measures 18 hands 'no Inch In heIght, andl weIghs 1445 ounde. When fully grown lie will, it s bolloved, be 20had i. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children, Ihe Kind You Have Always Bought Signaturo of o otain a bottle of Aiga Linme1 n<1( to scQ the rapid cure It wIll effect will a~use you great pleausure'. Its the only r gtaao riul for Rheuma