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i . HE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL -VOL g.---NO. in. PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1899. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. BILL ARP ON ASTRONOMY. HOW LUNACY IS GROWING. The Moon ani the Sun Are Having a Disagreemnot--The Moon Has Af lected a Preacher Who Denies the Truth of the Bible. - Dr. Baker say1 that all theso late disturbaneas of the elements are owing to the moon, and that we havent had a left-hUnded moon before in forty years. I'ne moon has been passing through a cycle of years, and Is just turning back to go the other way, eorter like the sun whon it crosses the line and makes the equinoctial gales. "Anditha''s the reason," says he, "why everything is out of joint both in the heavens abovo and the earth beneath, for the moon is pulling one way and the sun is pulling another. And that accounts for the extraordinary weather and the storms and hloods and cyclones; and this left-handed moon seems to affect tGhe people, too, and so we are having a hullabaloo about the jug and whiskey businss, and they have got it down bO fiino now that if a rattle snake was to hilto a man he would die before they could get a drink of whisky to save him. And hero is all this de vilment going on obout mobs killing up the niggers, and to my opinion it's all owing to this left-handed moon, for you know that when a man goes crazy they call him a lunatic, and that word came from Luna, the moon, and so I reckon that about this time we are all crazy more or less, and don't know it I am, I know, or olse I would have sold my. cotton when it was at the high water mark, and I dident." Dr. Baker is an old-fashioned philo sopher and has his opinions and some superstition about the moon, and also about screech owls and g raveyurd rab bits, and the like ; but he is wrong about the cycle of forty years. ' It takes the moon only eighteen years to com plete its cycie, and I remember that eighteen years ago we had a very late spring, and never got a chance to break up the land at all, but had to list it in April and plant anyhow. We made a good crop, though, and so we will trust in the Lord, who said that seed time and harvest should not fail. This moon b-siness has perplexed me all my life. I can't keep up with it--I can't foretell whether the next moon will set flit and hold water or set up and duwa andspill it, nor whether it will ride high in the zenith or course low down In the southern sky. It i tbe most mytel ious orb ia the heav ens, and its movemeuts the most cam plicated. but to tho astronomer it is the regularity e1 regularitios. It re volves around the earth in twenty seven days, out, as the earth is speed ing arounl the bun it takes the moon twenty-nino days to keep up with it and make the circuit. Its orbit is an ellipse, and some'.imes itis near us and sometmes more remote. It wabbles and has a now path around the earth every time for nine years, and then gets back again in nine years more. It, has its librations on latitude and longitudes and its nodes and aspides, and, with all-these complications, no wonder the people have their signs and superstitions, and tolieve in a wet moon and a dty moon and a left-handed moon, and see bad luck in looking at the now moon over your left shoulder or through a brushy tree top, and aimost everybody bas a theory about planting in the light or the dark of the moon. But if the moon ever does makes lunatics it is making them nowadays, and We are deeply concerned about those Northern Methodist preachers we see from t,li. New York papers that 400 of them recently hold a convtntion, with Bishop Andrews at their head, and listened with approval at the ut -terancos of Rev. Mr. Cadmnan, of the Metropolitan church, who declared that the time had come when the only - test of religious faith shoald be Christ and his teaching, and that all the miracles of tie Old Testament should be discarded as fables and as contrary to human reason. " We must cease to . believe," said he, " that Moses opened a way through the sea for the children of Israel to pass over, or that he made water to gush from the rock, or that Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt, or the tower of Babel story, or that Daniel wont into the lions' den, or that Sliadrack, Moschack and Abudnago * - walkod .through the fiery furnaco, or~ thaV the sun steoed still at the commandl of Joshua, or that the whale swallowed Jonah, and so forth." The papers say that there was almost unanimous ap) * ~ plause when he closed, andl no one re plied or controverted the argument of the reverend gentleman. What does all this mean ? The press says it, looks like a perfect upheaving and overturning of the very founmda tions of MethodIsm and orthodox Christianity, and that thuis was the most rep~resentativo body of clergy men that ever met in America. Can this be possi1ble? Have they Ignored Muses and the prophets of whom thuis beivoqotdanpndredteond t agan t ni dicipes.Didnthe say to the Pharisecos : ememuber LJL' wife ?" Dident Hle say in one of is - pIarables :" If they wvill dot, believe Moses and the prophets neither would( * they believe though one rose from the dead." Dident Paul preacan a ser mon on faith and qjuoto Moses and Illjah and rpeak of the very miracles tney performed ? I confess that I was shocked when I - read.the Rey. Cadman's new departure from the faith of the fathers; and still .~ ore shocked when the 4100 cheered * im. It sums that they were not sur - ised, for Cad man had been for some Alme delivering himslf o thsnam am~ong them. ''Our belief must eon form to human reason," said he, and yet the idiot can't toll how his will 'raises his hand, nor how he winks hid eye, nor how tho leaves of the tt'co ex pand and grow and all conform to the samu6 shape and size, nor how the rese ~akes on its beautiful colors. All na. * turo is a miracle and gives ovidence ol the egistonce of a Supreme Being, ant' it is only the fool who saith in his heari there is no God, or that thoro Is nt - truth in the Old Testament. So far am ing, and less than notaing in the scakt ofexistence, for I do not know whenc( S*I. came nor where I am going, nor b1 *what power I think, nor what makem my heart to-veat while I am sleeping. If I did not put my trust in a great and good Creator in whom I live and move and have my being I would be most miserablo. He made me and Ho will take care of me. Tbo Bible has stood Is the bulwark and foundation of the Christian's faith for nineteen centuries and now the Rev. Cadman and those 400 propose to strike down and annihi late the Old Testament. Moses and the old prophets and the ten command montf must go, for they cannot strike out the miracles and leave the rest to stand. As yet, we have seen no reply to or explanation 'of this astounding departure from the faith of the fathers. Are the times out of joint in the clos ing of this century ? Are wars to con tinue ? Are mobs to administer the law ? Are negro soidiers to tramp through this goodly land and outrage our people and make them desper ate? This reminds me of a letter that Blshop Turner wrote to us in kind remembrance of our late wedding. I have known this eminent negro preacher for thirty-live years and never knew anything but good of him. In 1865.he was at Rome and used his tal ents and eloquence in pleading for peace between the races and in giving his people good counsel. I remember his public address there on one occa sion, during the reconstruction times, when he and Albert 3errion both throw themselves within the breach and how they counseled the insolent Spanish captain and provost marshal, Do Lan Mesa, to stop arresting the white peo ple on overy trivial complaint of the ne groes. They had good influence over that conceited and revengeful ollicer and alarned him into milder treat ment of the rebel traitors, as he called us. There is something very touching and pathetic in this long-continued de votion of Bishop Turner to his peoplo. He has lived to see them all free and many of them to prosper, hut his dis couragement has at times almost driven him to despair. lie sees the aliena tion between the races is growing wider and deeper and that it has arisen more from political factors ana for political purposes than from race, color or condition. He sees not less than 4,000 of them in the chaingangs of Georgia and a like proportion in the other Southern States, when there was not one in slavery days, and all this in the face of a degree of education that the African never had before, for It Is a fact of record that 75 par cent. of these convicts can read and write and but few of them are old enough to have known what slavery was before the war. He has lived to read of a thousand outrages and a thousand lvnchings when there was not nne in slavery days. Nj wonder he is begging and pleading with his people to go to Africa. Here is part of his letter to us: "13111 Arp, Esq.-Dear Doctor Please permit a member cf the junior race, or as you are pleased to call it, the inferior race, to tender you and your distinguished consort his sincere and unfeigned congratulations upon reaching your golden wedding and baing ablo, through the providence of God, to celebrateyour fiftieth marriage anniversary. The privilege of spend ing fifty years with a devoted compan ion is an exalted honor and should call for a reconsecration of ,ime and talents to the service of God and the better ment of mankind. Once in a while you havo hurled some heavy blows at the degraded portion of my race, but you have ever been charitable and always conceded the fact that there are some good honest and Christian negroes. I pray God that the remain det of your days and the days of your loving comnpanion may be pleasant and felicitous, and fi nally terminate amid the smiles and sunshine of our common LeXther. Your wide reading, your bright in.ellect, your wit and humor and wis dom11, and your ceaseless industry will rank you among the great and nota bles nmen of GeorgIa. Again I Lender you my congratulations. Next July 1 will celebrato the fiftieth anniveroary of my connection with the Methodist church at Abbevillo, .S. L2. Yours with hIgh esteem, "HENRY M. TURNER." We are pleased to place this good letter in our wed ling sctapbook with all the rest. BILLr Atm'. MARTIN DOOLEY O01 KKYL. Pre-sidtent Mcinimley anid Speaker ltoed1 on the IslandI-Frrind1ship is a Snereud TImng. Thme Chicago Journal. "1'd like to been there," saId Mr'. Dooley. "W here's th at?" Mr. Hennossy asked. "A t Shekel island," said Mr. Dooley, "soeen me frind Mack an'- me frlnd Tom R.eed meetin' be th' sad sea waves. "Ye see, Mack was down there with Mark Hanna. He was tired out with expandJIn' an' anxiety f'r fear me frind Alger'd rayslgn, an' says Hanna, he s..ys: 'Comoe dowL,' he says, 'with mna, ho says, 'to Shekel island,' he s-ays. 'Is th' home of ray finoment an r-rlchcs,' he says, 'where us millylon aires r-rest fr'mi tatkin' care iv th' coun try,' he says. 'There in th' shade iv th' coup)on throes,' he says, 'we watch th' smia waves an' wondher,' ho says, 'whin th' goold that's In thimi can oe exthracted,' ho says. 'They'so naw thin' to break th' silence,' he says 'but th' roarin' iv th' ocean,' lhe says, 'an' that sounds~l nat'ral,' lhe says, 'bo0 cause15 'tis alnost like th' sounm'l iv t h siock exchange,' he sayb, 'A man,' hti says, 'that has th' ticker eyo,' lie says 'or thi' coupon thumb,' lie says, 'I cured In no time,' lie says. 'Come,' hit sass, 'liv with me,' he says. 'They's' nawthln' to keep ye here,' hie says 'Ivry wan iv th' cabinet Includin' Lh sicrety lv war'll stick to his place,' i says, 'like a man,' lie says. ''An' Mack wint with him. ie wa settin' on th' beach In a goold chal surrounded be millyonairc0 with tI prisidint Iv a bank fannln' him an' tI threeasurer iv a di'mnon' mine poorir hIs dhrink, an' though he was foollr well they was somothin' on his mln(1 'What alls ye?' ast Hlanna. 'I wai thinikin,' says Mack, 'how pleasan 'twud 1ho If me ol' frind Tom Rod wa hero,' he says. ''Tw ud he paradise A ho was here,' he says, whin, lo an' hi hold, wh' sh'id come acrost, tih' di'moni I snarldd beachh wadin' thr.ough ti banknotes that'd been dropped be ti good farmers iv Shekel island, bu Tom Reed. "Well, sir, to see th' affection tha those two gr-reat men showed at ti oncounter'd dhraw tears fr'm th' oye iv a hoar-rt iv sthone. 'Ton,' say Mack, in falterin' accints, 'where hav yo been? F'r days an' days I've skinne< yon blue horizon 'r anny sign iv yo he says. 'An ye come not,' ho sayt 'Embraco me,' he says, 'if yo ar-re no ar-rned,' he says. 'Mack, me frind says Tom Reed with tears in his eyeE 'this,' he says, 'is th' happiest momen lv me life,' ho says. '. cudden't,' h1 says, 'I cudden't stay in Wash'n'ton, he says, 'with you so far away.' h, says, 'where I cudden't watch ye,' i says. 'Yo'ro th' on'y nian in the wur ruld I care f'r,' lie says, 'but inesilf, he says, 'an',' he says, 'I'd fall weepir on yo'ro shoulder this minyit,' ho savi 'but I don't want to be disravulctfu be turnin' we back on Misthur llauna, he says. " 'Well,' says Mack, 'set down,' Ii says. 'ltockyfoller,' he says, 'tel Morgan 'r to fetch u,) a kag iv sherr: wine,' he says. 'Tom,' he says, 'we'vi been frinds f'r years.' he says. Wq have,' Eays Tom. 'We've concealed I fr'm the vulgar an' pryin' public,' h< Fays, 'but in our hearts we've beer (rinds, barrin' th' naygur dillygates a th' con-vintion,' he says. ''Twas - more incident,' says Mack. 'We'vt been frinds,' he says. 'an' I've alwayt wanted,' he sa s. 'to do somethin' I yo,' he says. 'Th' time has come,' ti says, 'I offer ye,' he says, 'th' prisidino' to succeed me,' he says. 'No, no,' he says, 'I'll not be rayfuscd,' he says 'I'm tired iv it,' ho Eays. "Twa: forced on me be foolish frinds,' he says, 'but I'm not th' man f'r th' place,' bc says. 'I haven't dhrawn a comfortable breath, not to speak iv salary, since I wint in,' he says. "Th' speaker iv th' house burrid his face In his hands an' sobs shook hin partly f'r nanny minyits. Thiu he raised his head an' says he: 'MNck,' hie says, 'i can't take it,' he says. ' 'Twas mius' gin'rous iv ye,' he says, 'but me heur-rt fails mc,' he says. 'What is it to be prisident?' says he. 'Th' white house,' lie says, 'is a prison,'" he says. 'to which a man is condimnled,' he says, 'l'r line wurruk at th' polls,' lie says. 'Th' life iv a prisidint is slavery,' he says. 'If I was to take th' job,' he says, 'I'd be tortured (lay an' night,' he says, 'be th' fear iv assassination,' he says. 'Think,' he says, 'iv some urnychist shootin' 13-inch shells at me,' lie says, 'an' maybe.' lie says, 'dentin' me,' he says. 'No,' he says, 'I have a good job where I.am,' he says. 'All I've got to do,' lie says, 'is to set up at thl' desk, h1 _as, 'an' not recall th' names iv Wi gintlemon on th' flure aln' me jooty's done,' he says. 'I thank yo kindly, Willuim, but I cannot accept ve're gin'rous olfor,' he says. 'Go bacK to Lb cell,' he says, 'an' lave like a convict, he says. - 'I will not rob tme frind,' he says, 'iv such an honor. But,' lie says, 'tell me whin ye thought iv throwin up th' job an' lavin' me br-reak into this hateful prison,' he says. 'About 'th' year two thousan' an' eight, dear frind,' says Mitck. 'No, no,' says Tom Reed. '1 cannot acueLIt it,' he ;tys, pressin' Mack's hand. 'Tis too imiucti, he says, 'an' too long,' lie says. " 'I lave ye,' he says, 'but l'il call or ye,' he says. 'Take,' he says, 'this lit ti silver-mounted bottle iv broom calTeen,' he says, 'an' think iv mne,' hi says. 'I will,' says Mack. 'Ar-ren' yo tired iv yo're long journey?' lie says 'Wudden't yo like to take a bath in th shark pond befuro yo go?' he says. Ar so they backed away fr'm each other th' tears rollin' down their chcaks Lr-riendship, Hinnissy, Is a sacreo thing." "It is," said Mr. Iennessy, "if Lil ar-re, but I don't believe wan worr'u ye tol' ine." "Well,'' said Mr. Dooley, ''if the.3 ain't, both frinds, wan lv them is. An annyhow, ['mn glad to know I'om leet ain't thryin' to break intoi jail." A P'.:cuIARa CAsE oIr L"OiEny. The Washington correspondent of th Atlanta Journal says that the war do pa rtmen t ollicials have'J encountered peculiar case of forery in the army wvhich leads to the suaspicion that ther< may be an orgabnized systemn to defraul thq government. Some weeks ag< iinal statements and oither- docume nt necessary to the dischiarge of an en lisfted manl of voluteers was prl'esente to the 'authot'itios in regduar routine Nothing; was -laeking to make thi papers correct, and it was ordecred tha the armiy palymia.ter in the vicinmilty the regiment~shoeuld issue the check i behalf of the soldier to the amount aibout $1 10. The name given on the dischiarg was that of Charles TI. I11ller, of con eany IK, LFourth Missouri yoiunteers The cause of the discharge was re cordled as disablity oni surge'on's certi ficate, which was furnished. l'yer) thing required in such A -transaictic was pirovided and the company and ri gimental ollicers and the surgeon sign~ ituro were in handwriting aj piaiently dilf- rent from that in th' body of the discharge. The requie was. made that, the soldlet '. me should lie sent in care (of a clergy ma at Augusta, Ga. The latter held th chock in expectation that it would I: called for by a soldier whose ai yearance would correspond with th description embodied in the dischiargi A few days ago the Augusta ministi returned the check to the p'aymlastm with a note saying it had noet boe called for and there might, be somr mistake, as lie knew of no such ma in or out, of the army. A search of ti regi mental returns revealed no sold ii named [Hiller, and an Inquiry of ollicol and muon of eoery company of th L Fourth MI Issouri did not produce ar .ti ace of him. L'urther investigatk 'showed that the whole thing was 3 clever' forgery. TIho signatures of Li olicers were fairly goodl Irproduction a save that, full names wvere ulsed wheo r it haid been usual to ulse only the in tials. Thiere were evidences ttadt tI 'author of the Ippers was thorouagh 'fatiia r w ith the customs of the servis andt that lie lad access to records. Ti ease mns attractedl much attention ,the war depalrtmnt. s A pneum iatic horse collair finlds fav .f with many horsnmen, and~ the an imti t- themselves seem to applreciaite it, as5 '- adjusts Itself to every anotion (of ti TILE SECOND IEGIMENT. t The Southi Carolina Boys Arc Cami t cd at Augusta-Col. Jones Talk ,I Interestingly of Cuban Experienec The Second South Carolina regimen 8 has returned from Cuba and Is now en U camped at Augusta, whero they wil be mustered out of the service. Th quarantine authorities of Savannal refused to lot the regiment camp there fearing yellow fever germs. The Carolinians are receiving muel attention at Camp MacKenzie, and th( Augusta ladies vielt the camp ever: day. Many of the men have interesting stories to tell of their life in Cuba am they have many souvenirs, such as par rots, photograiphs and several Cubai boys. One of the men has a curlosit' -a skull I aken from the Havana come tory. Companies A, B, C anl 1) were mus tered in on the 14th of Niay, urider tih first caill for troops, ias ia sepa:-atot0 bat talioni under command of Lt. Col Thompsxou. Under the second call twi more battalions were formed, and the threce Wert mustered in as a regimeni on Augzust 24. Tto regiment was assigned to thc Seventh ariny corps and has been in camp near Havana, where they arrivet on January I1th. The field and stall ollicers are as follows: Col. Wilit Jones, Culumbia; Lieut. Cot. Henry T. Thompson, Darlington ; Maj. Have look l'aves, Bamberg; Maj. Julius J Wagoner, Charleston ; M. L. Haselden, Marion, adjutant ; G. C. Sullivan, An derson, quartermaster; Jas. 1.. Poore, Andersoi, assistant surgeon ; Rev. P-. A. Mur -ay, Beaufort, chaplain. Col. Wilie Jones was interviewed while in Savannah by a representative of the Morning News, and among other things he is reported as follows : When he arrived in Savannah he was astounded to find that his regiment would be mustered out at Augusta. Hte had received orders at Havana from his commanding general to proceed to Savannah to be mustered -out. When he found that some of his men had al ready gone to Augusta, and had not stopped In Savannah at all he was sur prised. On looking up Col. Beilinger, the (epnOt (ulartermaster, he was ap prised of the changes that had been made in the original plan and that his regiment was one of thoso that would be mustered out at Augusta. Lie and all his ollicers and men are glad to get back to this country, and the whole regiment is happy in the thought of being soon mustered out. Col. Jones said he would ask the war :lepartnient to give his olli, cera and men furlougi-i until such t!me a the ar rangements for muster out can be com pleted. le is anxious to see Lheim all allowed to go to their homes as so-n as possible, and scaos no reason why they should have to remain in camp tor the month or so that will clapso before they can be discharged. While the Second South Carolina has been in Cuba, the principal object of oflicers and men has been to fight oil disrase, and In this way was very sue cessful. There were but two deaths all ihe while the connand was away, w hich was about three months. i'very possible sanitary precaution taken, and the oflicers were looking as keenly to the preservation of the health of thc men as wero the surgeons. The Colonel was greatly impresset with the country, but of its people lih does not think so highly. Le says th Spaniards with whom the oIlicers am men came in contact were found much finer set than the Cubans. Th Spaniards seemed to like the Amerl cans better, and there could ho n question but that thbe Americans like the Spaniards better than they did th Col. Jones says there need never b ar'y fear that the Cubans will light thi countr~y. And it will not be love, h Ssays, that will keep them from it, bu fear. They have too eincere a respec for the prowess of the AmerIcan arm to think of brIngIng on hostIlities, an' anzy fighting they may have will b among themselves. Th fertility of the soll was on hngthat impresaed the Colonel par ticularly. He says crops of potatoe are raIsed in forty days the year round and that the growth of plants is some thing wonderful. IOld TlIIE P11I~l'PINF'S. Ge(In. M. C. IButler Says Expaiaon Ii tjOrigial D~emnocratic lDoctrlne :1 Ills P'lan to Capture Agninaldo. Thne Washington corresp~ondenit o the Atlanta Journal relates the follow eing: General M. C. Butler, of South Cart -lina, takes issue with his party on th 7matter of holding the l'lI ppilnes. 11 stanids with his party on every othe - isue, but belIeves that expansion I n~ original D~emocratlc doctrIne, and tha a studiy of Calhoun, JefTorson, Jackso s and other lesser litrhts wIll revers the opinion of the party now held o e thIs subject. tt lie bollevos that it Is going to be y very tedious thIng to conquer th n I 'hillippine group as long as Aguinald e is allowed to rove about the island e and stir upJ strife. ''"The best way to clear up the situx o t~on there,'' said the general, "'ist LI 1-(1 mont our men on Mexican bnronchtf Ti anid Tiex as ponies andl put them undl~t ri tilehOl mmand of young, agile ollicer n It, is going to take nerve and grit t (e capture Aguinaldo, but it can be (Ion 11 on horsch ick. They say that ou C horses cannot live In the Il'hillipplne: r~ They said the same tiling about, Cub a byet, I n' ver saw horses fatten and g< 0 in a better condItIon faster than thos y of our breed dId which we sent Int in Cuba. The climates are pretty miue a the same except thlat, the clImate< 'the l'hllippines Is better than that< ~,Cuba. "~ ' Roeund1 up) Agulinaldo and aft< Staking him cofinle hlim on D~ry Tiort~t ~ as andl the probleml, in my 0op Cioi ywould be solved." 0 General Buitler' Is looking In r markably good heal th. llis cam p I n experIence In the late war seemed have added to is years rath er thi subtracted from them. 'r'"1 think my experiences In earn Ia were good for me and have done ni IL health good, if It, needled anythin no But I vrould rnot care to undergo n expeionnca in C'nhanaain for a wrnrld 111)py days. I would a thousand timer riatLier ho indU fire amnd lying on Wet ground i) the Open air than lying in 1 comfortibio bed within two or threc doors of a eise of yellow fever. I am not easily frighteni, butI 1 i1 ust onl fees thiitin Cuba I sutfered Imore fro friglhit than I had ever done at, an time in ily life. One who hats not gont tLirou ghi it CIln have no reIliZa ion ol the dread that possesses one. ior th first Lime I seeimeld to understaand til fright of Macbleth and cameo to kinw what lie ilent, When lie Said to the GIost of liarquo, 'Take any form iut thi.l' At LiliiS I longed to meet. :oille tangibIle foe fakce to face and light it out, but to- it within it few yird of yel low fever, not knowing at what time11 the tisea,-e wiuid lay luld of yoll. i abnost torture. I t is not so unlerv Ill. at biret, bot thay after day, seeinga the m en you know ano ;()v-k die of it, is a little to- imuch for me. " iefore any otliet unomy retreat i possible with honlor, but at old ier It n not retriat hefore a disease. I voilI look-pon Canty and san .1an 11,7, a pieCme beidt 111y Cxpeiecs wih LI yellCw fevUr. There is not 11111ch daI. ger' of it inl Callp 1 itfe and W itlh thle pro.( per cire, but. to be ioused with it is terrible." General ilthl' is u.sed to yellow fever di-tricts aml he "ay-, Ll,.L ill a short, tillthe1i re would ho no .m.ng( r of it in Cuban cities. Culba, le y should bIe haLitlthy, and With Ildan ii ness i n c Lit , thc diseasue should almlost disappear. Surgeon G ntral Wyman feels imoi, hope fll of keeping it out of tie Sloth entirely tiis sullllier. The Stat! I larai niiI oflicers, Il) saiys, are llivt to the necessity of en forcing the 1ru'lles trictly, anMd With the Splendii COndi tion of the Country aftr this wilter.I' he (ots not expNiUet to bCo it, lliie itS appearalnc.e an vWhero in thi Country. TiHE l3;N W o o ; 1 T11 E UA Fort Surnt er le1d< O n to t he (l'anle ol' the Nortle'rni lincoln anid the Southli'rn ie. Charlot (0 Observer. The Catnftderate veteransi who at tend tilO IXt relinion, lay Ith i i 15th, will he fortullnate ill that, hley are to se Chairlestoll. It is well. CIaIes ton is ian1 LproIrialt- p1 i i'e for LIer telling of the roushing C1111 fed altti caip lire tales. The Confedrite! vi t erans will feel at homi in this city v the s0, fo' th bomIaItirllI111 of I'(r-1 Sum ter was tLh fire-h i in the that thrilled tile l'uritans and thue Cav aliers into that, four Year clash of m m -uth memory of wiiil is res 1 for tios anclui reunllions of tile fait thinning line of the m1en Who work. t griay. Fort Suiter led onl to tilt fainm of the Nortliern LiA: coin and the Soutih ce Lee. Of tis the wiito-hial , bt 1 oy will talk during these Mav-tays b Charleston, and watching th.- ftl., id the Stfars an11d Stl-i)es a1s they 1ly 1%, the parapets of til present tay Simn ter, they will ponderl how old111-tim. vi milies, reullited, have jlt, funet, 1.t gether ill defeated at ftreien io. A in in tile light, of Oven't, ald brean timlie has ripeuled and strent41ein1'O - "tile angolm of their betel n res,' tiv's old men , whoso he4-arts brkil WIe) Leo sheathed his -wrd m1,1i a furled the Stlars and Iarr, will uhtri "tnot one ignoble prejimei " ho.t.V the ark of teilt Union iloatd ai\ through all that liil of tlimi firom to 'Ci. 1I vain, during th1i happy tay. will Charleston's hite powneid e11 ii 1111s cr1on011 her e'verla -iig i lii i that monotone mielody to whhlh t .ILcty has dreamied out its xnt n-i D the past (save Wilel 8som1 lr-litL k-tr 1 quake has11 come1 alon11g and overtn- I the cr'atle !) A Con fede rate ri ui: i ln s one thing thbat Charlestoni wIl' W l, .1 upj for' ! T1her'e will be ai new muOsie I t St,. M ichael's clie !~ T1hie News atl t Courier-unireconstruicted hotldoiverri' v Con federlate joulrnlism-w ill bii' m1 iin with tales of the battie's title, puli 3 ed for' the first timie, don't, youL kniien The veterans will hobblo down II roie 3 and Meeting streets, and glory In LI - multitudinous cheer1S tilhat gr'eot t. I bullet-tor'n ensigns fromi Chance0l lor' ,ville and Cli ckarnauga ! After Li toil and dulst oif the parade tile entde from the Citadel w Ill paly (cour t tin t,l~ star-lit battery to the fail' 5jsposos tilt come1 allon~g witih tile camp~s I An bo1 e of al1-tile city will inlg with LII mibc of the voices of Char!lestonl Idaughters I Who)il) haOv(:'er boad I - bult to love it ? Unh(Jue, Ilinimitalelt, ir comparabhIlie Char~llestonian neCentI bpoken iby mal~tron (or maiden1:1, ever wto'dls like the strtikinig tit a imr song (in these M~ay tdays Inl Charb-iitii. Iwill ibe the best4 rel ui oif themii :u Lot, tile oldti lghter's enljiy it Lii Ltht inI a for' cre another' year rlls a~hromari, in (1110 (of themhl will i-ulrely Ii: town t a tuhe he'ad (of a' gralvo. Tili AICOl' i9A-T~l-.-A. q that hats beeni oten anslwe'redi. wIV ~ fiesthodt f l'astieru eachI yea an Swhy isn't it, like Chrl'iLstlmas, Liib; i-an; daltto over-y year. i'aster is tlhe Iirist, Sumb111 y aft'rI LI -full moon)1 thait (1cur1 on11il ornx 1 a ft. March 21 ;and if tile full mlooin fall I i the 21, i'aster is the next,81 Sunday3.( coulrso if the dalte wore thet sameit cem 4year, the day would 1h undaiy or. Chiristians diId lix the date Ilin his, wa r while otiher's used the pjresen 1 t, it * lut in the yearI 3125 the I Lte w blroug ht biy Ctmns tanin e bieflort coun~cil of Nico, and( it, w as rv ih-n t Sthoulght, best that tile an111nierilY hi the event whI ih chang-:d thet i't I from the seventh daiy oif tht weik the first day shouuld alIways fad nyi tho first day' ; for they, dreen ;i rtweeni tihe two ways then in a1 , -- ed for thue whiole churichi thie ni i which woultd bring I'ma:ter ai n' - SSunday. u ice that d.eci I ion lla-t lii oii fall carlier' th an M arch 2,n-:a than A pril 25 In ainy y. mi. i 0daltes are clledI the " Latei n .n I'ast 'P occu rired on M ar t' iL'. i I ')1but can11not comlO again i n 1,b.tii Puntil 2285. ly uy --One-lfi tine and in tie city of B~ostoni is unocceupie'd. h first tino in ten years and didn't nave to fly round and git supper for the rowd. - 1 was plum late afore we all said !ood-byv. When it come my turn, I iays : 'Jeems,' says 1, 'Betsv Ann was iionstrous good wife to ye, and I lon't reckon you'll ever see her like Lgain. I don't, so how you're to got loing,' says 1. "'Y'as,' said ho, 'im lound to miss ler 'a hneap, and my pathway looks nighty dark and lonesome, but I hope light wil! ho sont to.lighton the lone y widderor's path, and he drawed a Cep sigh. ".'Joemns,' says I, (thinkin' to myself I Laviny,) 'take koor yo don't foller ny falso lights,' says I, and with that left him. " Well, It certainly wuz a powerful lee fuuorli, and Joems behaved rool ecomiin'. But thar I I jist give him lx months." WRONGID AND DECEIVED. h Wtomnan Whio is on Trial for 111 ilg tie B1rothor-in-Liav of Presl dent' MCilinloy. All Am,jerica waits intently to hear he thrilling story of ruin and rotribu ion that will be unfolded, )iece by icee, in the Cainton court on April 4, 'e ,tory will tell of a woman's frailty, man's villainy and the vengeance of .1 loved and then cast olT withi mock ng scorn. The man in the caso was he brotiher-in-law of P'resident Mc inley, aid his tragic death on tho ightL of Octoher C), 1898, sont a thrill of urpriso and horror through every Smnnericann household. Very few )Co do were awaro that the gentle mistress if the Whito louso had a brother vho, to ieak as charitably as possiblo )f the dead, was a I Ibertino w hose .ragle enl no decent person could de >iore. Lie died by tine hand or the ,vomnan ie had wronged and deceived me of many. Little Allio SholTor, of Janton, 0, the irst girl whon George nxton wooed. died of a broken boart vbenn sine found him fale to her. A eading Canton physicaun shot him for 1tttmnl)tlig to invIde tine peaCO of his nomno. Tine libertinc sIpeInt, a vacation n a country formi, and after in had eft, the pretty little daughter of the arnor, a child of fourteen, crept out n th night, and drowned herself in a )oind. Then Saxton caino into the life >f 'he woman by whoi in mot eil leath. lie was a fine-looking man, big md blond, hearty, wealthy ind full of fie. Sihe was a happy wif(I .&nd mother, haring comparative poverty with her iunbannd, a carpt ntor. The man of vealth was her Iandlord. Iis attract ve personality laind ihis imoney gained or Ihi inn first plaeo In the affections of \Irs. Semple George. Then began the 11rag Ic part of tie story. M rs. George gave i all for Saxton. Saxton promn ised to nmarry ier when sihe Mecured a Dhikota divorce. lie had umade that promie very often in Ihi, lifetime, bit h diled a hichelor. Sick at, heart and Iml f mmad over her troubles, NI rs. Georgo ('inm]( tO S:itxton one day to Clil ihis promnii-C 'o' till last timie. "Go to tine dievilI, aid Saxtoin. Two days later Saxton was shLot tI death in ~Can ton. No one can be found who heard the hnits fired. Mrs. George hand Ltod her uinedcr h shoultd die for his vi lainy. Whet.her orf not she i ust die for her act of retribution, onr whether Amer ea. who respect tie sawred institu tiou of Lte loilie, will Itmalid that she h. alilowed to go free, reinains to be Ten. Te woinan who kiled tie lib eriine -iti in ' er cell, her glorious ieaut.y gone ad I her happy lifo blight eii, waitLing to h tried for inurdering tie main whose whoe life wa- its a ser pent's trail, Tine tr'ial i will b% of na Lioinal i mnporLance. vein, iabmle I t. I,. I ).tnmey, 1). 1) , is well knowin Iin tinis coun ntry ani abroad. Upwn%'ard of tweinty years ago'm his you ngest. son', I12ewvis, wans ai shar'p itt Led lad wvho proi eJ tin bnecomoe a' respgeeted "' chip of thne old block. Th'ie ladl was wippned one day for an act. of dIisobodilence, an~d then mad to umnd engo tine mnore try Iing ordeal of sitting inlotly on tine sofia. l ie becanme deeply ab~sorbed~ ,Iin Lihoungh t and pro sently asked: "Mam, winy did( you wivIp me ? "So as ton imake you a button' boy,'' wvas thne response. Lewis again bnecamne lost. In thought funi rellecttomn. 'roennt.Iy lie blunrtcd out, " Ma, do you believe in prnayer ?" "Yes, my son." " If you were to ask God to make me a bnotter' boy do you thnink hne would grant, your p'lrayor' ?" " I tin in k ho wouldI, son.'" "Well, then, ma, I wish you wvould prnay a little more aind whip a little less." -Jo ishunia It od of I lurl ington, Vt., wvill be 9'8 year's old on Apil 4, and has livedin tine samno house for sixty-five years. Th'ie place was built ever 200 yeariis ago, and was, In olden times, a garrison against indians. In tho wails are holes, long since covered with hoards, tinrioungh win ich settler's used to lire at i'ed-skinned inm'rauders. -Tne Increasing numbnor of mid winteir bathners along the Jersey coast is callung attention to tine fact that the sea therme In winter Is only a little eolder', if any, than In sumnmor, and the feat, wile not, to be rocommended as a hecalth measure, esinecially for people wiho an'e flnt robust, Is nevertheless not so woinderfuli as It sounds. -Two rival cornpanics are ighting for the priviiege of operating automo bilo vehicles for punblio use on tine strets of IHostomn. Tine omnibuses which they wish to une woulid carry lifteen people eachn, and as they would lbe equipped with rubber tir'es they would make practically no inoIse. -" Mr. Perkins is a good business man, Isn't, ho, my daughter ?" "L thiunk son, mamma ; ten minutes after he waii. presented to me he told me hnc was a widower," Yomnuuve beein de~lciiivwithn tine "Onro All s''so oftein it's hard toi coinvinico youa t hat ithiere is sto goodnc a remedy as8 *Allega icr hunt int mi whmicn ill ive youn saiS faindnon m i relie'vning your aches aund paine or mominey back. Thlis is tine - uiaanteo; it ham stood tine test of ten y ears aind inot a sulngle Soc has beecn returned or cailled for yet. Bild everyivwhero. TiHU I-UNEItAL AT T111C COVI. A sketich ol' Chimriacter atld Seeiry in (he 31ounI ain ol' North Caro " , V as, I wa at thle funie il, and it, w . a o 'u1ty a fubneril as I w's ever at, and you0 1n01 t ay thai' atinit lnny Lilat I'Vi skipIi)d 4in lily 0le innll died, fil I ji.t th- liht. in funcirils ; they miake a bodly f.r I ho 'olniln and unconi fortahie liki. " t-y A\ill Iake and nie's been nitighOrls 11.,-h Itn to twelve year, It ii: intor'n tn nilei hy the! bridle pahth to her' Crainn, and-I I allu/. aine Lo C her lea *tway 1n3f a Iozei tinies Ia ya. LI mite-, hri pn~ erfut. 14 ~ty \nn s 111 a gani onia, ad at power-ful kcind neighh-.r. nlone bettter. I 'low thle raon 1 thlilli't, know 'he was etii wasd, ), calus. I a, l dow n at, Samln Iobb's i nu.in' lMari, Ie LIuat wi.'ls Mari Law *, you 1elnunbr. that lives down at a 0h0 Setth -AInent,. \\',tit, ..hl's got her Li tnth, a1nd th.ey are' all ilirhtily LiCkled Cau i il an "heir," and looks is if it Ilu tl Mi. tO lilta \. While MlV i, .he l'ok- dr. . I 11 1 1 puny and lit) cou n t. .h; l n r1 l.V W t I the 4 hlouse of rulouri ' i mr lh a!fore. ion,. ", Sialin ilk warn't for 'cusing Ilim, bukt I prdoil'd hiti.fuli to go back agatin. t te was ju t . i to ;it, U) kt lmS's to e see V how th y t illuc n1e. 'llietyion, 1 1 and I g'o thw nw's ;o late, I piintl ' hiy l o louake ily -ti wmg op. a 1,bL-t way, ai'i hevr wILI ,L i h .ve-N, too. 0 "It wa , iti l viuddktil, iItL ,' d t.h I was, hIat hen ' ek it w'k. DOcIOr t .;i'd!t it Was41 th il In'tary, but I knoW ed i so t LliW ilLO t4'ILy WIt ')bLg 11l 'L't (9 thet '.4i *Ilt.y Ann had a iseaseL4 gherl eure. hiiit n ju. ,mitedfaily woro out, suh a hiap 1 I young n leSY was I in '' k ;' tit, ami l 1t , tIlv coLitraIiyed aly *hdy, u iut :-l: wa t iw ful ,,o t,L- tihui qui1t qmk4 ailw. iII-and what passed ween h. and Lite MLagraws i opeLr now d, Ior couhI it' Iinid Out, i11t, n olio of 'en teve'd cromsned her door step lor. laorc-a aiyar and I was cur'uis t~o ILe i eY' h tt. at the funel . " iles you ; every last, Oo of 'Cirn witas oni Ihani d, I troi I 'Itw and Mlaw lo.' raw, down to the hab'ii inl ari4. \iVy y 'l11d a 11ou t,' tlI'y Walls Cai'St Of Ik in 1, to , ' Ie n i l at ossinit' and diren ll-C l J ve 0V A' Mid every-wharll ; aMid thIe Iw. a ilgky LIn ItL old 1, Alagraw gi1-1 liit t1 . -o ll arou liJt 1 ti.s LIlakt o waits Io t. n ' )h a (If oni L ta ious br igrgity ", tl, but t h 1 lr tn g, n t,-ut. i I tihe Ia w ilII _ I 11,) hrlt(I atil c'll,' I to . t k . 1ab w I' Inl riae Ill klth I I'I-i I.T ih ii, %l c.kn hi . -i !a I i : t - t, and pciles Ind I I alb i li ll' liv'int amid nco n t0 ii, I~n o ir:tr re and . (o)t thand, i! 1 ,1 0 1' Itl i) o I V'l'y eltI'l~ ol - I I , 0:'1 1. W nei t Lo 1 vit, 11 ) 1 . m I more i tus: In1he - I I erit'n ii WU ju) it.b(Ut.IuI i er n, I).' rtid th lia ti kno h 'n ''it ... l~i t 1'4;ta ore~tW stei'/l n UI a i.: 1; q-. U, iltIl m n r ed ",'I '' vt u ' -m a i yli t nt ik . d rt i(l oI 1.t 1 l t.av 111 la-3~l h in alvnd Wthe)14 I r, vii I.i to one. t but, .nd Ili got Im'. ~ ~ l cm l y u hi'a db fr haed ' 11 aI~ -1. 3 44 In ,- a i ii ': . r1 ,ioldi, (14'dei rjiit her Il'ilit,ies, ith 15 11 w , -;ti. b 11)r hrea h el d A . )f it ,I , 11i l I'i tie w '.ii I tUe i a mort gla (, 1 I 1-~y WN Sin ras ltilo