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Dr. Rutledge bitched his horse in
rent of his gute and looked out over
he roofs of the village with an ex
pression that no one in El Campo had
ovor soon him wear before. His eyes
wore bright, his figure eroct, the very
brim of his soft folt hat, whioh usually
drooped so despondently, had straigh
tened Itself out. Be looked ten years
youugor than before, and he folt like
a boy. As ho walked up the gravelly
path to the houso be stooped, as he
would have done years ago, to plok a
rosebud for bis buttonhole before he
entered 'tho house where his Mary
awaited him. She had been bin wife
for forty years ', but sho was still his
swoothoart, and this morning he
thought the roso especially appro
priate.
" Mary I" ho said, as he thront his I
head in at tho sitting room door. But
Mary was in tho kitchen, mending a I
much worn coat and making the most
of the yellow March sunshine which,
In hoi4 provident eyes, ought to serve
for firowood in California. She was a
woman of tho Newt England type,
spare and sallow, wfxti gray eyes and
thin, soft hair, brushed carefully back
from a broad forehead. Years ago she
had boon protty, but time and oare
and many disappointments had long
sinco withered her girlish grace, and
had loft In Its stead tho marks of
patient strongth, sweet and gentle, yet
almost storn. Sho had lived for her
husband and, through him, for her
ohlldron; but, with the self-suppres
sion of which Now England womon
aro often eapablo, she had hidden from
thorn tho depths of hor tenderness?
for to > much loving Is a weakness
which Puritanism puts akin to sin.
As sho looked up now from the gar
ment on whloh sho was putting the last
patlont stltohos, sho caught the glow
of tho crimson roso on her husband's
fadod coat, saw tho now light in his
face, and dropped hor hands instinc
tively into hor lap.
" Henry 1" sho crod, wonderingly.
Honry walked straight up to hor,
took hor faco in his hands, and, look
ing down into tho oloar gray eyes, ho
said : " Wo'ro going on our wedding
. journey."
Their weddlug journey I Too poor
to take ono whon they wero marrlod,
jihad been tho wlll-o'-tho-wisp dollght
to wblch they had looked forward ever
since.
. Suddonly|turnlng from his wife, the
doctor stretched out his long, thin
arms and began slowly oavortlng
around tho tablo with a queer, grotes
. quo sort of pranco which was the
nearest approach to a danco step of
which his early education had made
him eapablo, humming all the while
a curious medley of " We're going
homo to-morrow," and " Oh that will
bo joyful, joyful," In want of anything
more Bccular to oxpress his foelings.
"Ob, what a song," cried his wife.
??? Havo you forgotten you wero sixty
eight years old last Decombor ?"
"I knew It," answered Henry, still
continuing -his evolutions. "And I
should bo as woll satisfied if it had
been a hundred and sixty-eight?
provided wo could havo spent all those
Soars together I" and ho gave her u
ow of school hoy awkwardness.
" Henry ! Those aro sacred hymns
that you uro singing; and you look like
a windmill! Sit lcown and tell mo what
you moan."
Tho withered cheok had Hushed and
tho gray eyes looked expectantly
happy. Slowly Honry drew In hh
Balls, doubled up his long logs ant
dropped himself on the carpoted bos
whioh served as an ottoman at hoi
feet.
"Nothing to tell" he answered
with a provoking cooinoss that ho hac
not shown for years?" nothing, onlj
.that wo aro going. Where shall It
bo ?"
" It will bo nowhere, unless you tell
mo what you moan," sho said, putting
her hands on his shoulders and look
ing at him sternly.
"Why, haven't you guessed? Where
are your fem i nie intuition's The
Duarto cstato is settled up, and I have
, their check for two hundred dollars
right hero," and ho tapped his breast
pcrffet with an important air. "Now,
whore shall it be? To the beach?a
fow days at tho Coronado, say?or uj
to San Francisco?or whore?"
" Wo couldn't go homo ?" whispered
Mary, with a wistful look.
Tho dootor sobered instantly.
"Homo " had novor been in California
to Mary, although during tho twenty
years of Ufo thero she had uttered no
word of complaint. Often, as she sat
in tho doorway, looking ou* through
the twilight toward the East, hor
husband had caught tho longing look
in her eyes and had known, with a
bitter and hulplcsB pain, that his
health was being bought at a high
price.
"Go home?" ho repoatcd, relapsing
into bis usuul grave manner and old
fashioned phraseology. " We cer
tainly could return to Massachusetts,
wife, and I havo no doubt that it is
tho best antl most expedient thing to
do. Tourist tickets can be had for
ninety oight dollars, I believe, and we
can save up money to take; us around
when we get there."
"Oh yes, wo can save," sho mur
mured.
And so it happoncd that the " wed
ding trip" was decided upon, and that
the weoks of preparation and of
simple, happy anticipation commenced.
There wero many long and serious dls
ouBslons as to the route they should take
and tho places and people they should
visit. IOnoh familiar name brought
up scores of recollections, and tho two
old people talked and laughed over
tholr early days with bright faces and
light hearts. Sometimes their happi
ness seemed too groat to bo spoken,
and they would sit and look into eaoh
other's faded oyos with a smile that
was glad and yot weighted with a
Eltiful memory of the sorrows thoy
ad shared tbgethor : sometimes they
would- break Into qulot laughter with
out having any visible reason for such
a demonstration ; and altogether, as
Mary snld, thoy " acted very child
ish." Aud y?t/, to stand onco more In
tho old, familiar places, to lift tholr
oyes agfein to the woll-known hills, to
- talk with tho friends of other days
old family frlonds whom tboir fathers
had known and honorod?to worship
again in tho little whlto-palnted
chapel. Where thoy had been baptized
and wnoro thoy had boon married,
ovon to drink at the old spring and to
tasto tho apples from the old trees?was
not tho thought of all this enought to
act as a mild intoxicant?
The day boforo their departure ar
rived, COld and threatening. It had
been raining heavily tho night beforo.
and tho clouds still hung low ovor tho
Sierra Madras.
" I must go to tho A/.usa," said the
doctor, gravoly, as ho ontored the
kitchen whore his wife was putting
away tho breakfast things.
"Go up to t ho'Azusa! Why, Henry,
that's an awful rldo for such a day as
* this I And you'll bo all tired out to
morrow. Toll thorn you can't go?
tell thorn you aro going tQ start East
to-morrow and you're too busy. They
must got some one olso."
" Hut It is John Alvord's baby," an
eworodtho doctor, gontiy.
Mary paused wilb tho quick tears in
her eyes, f . Alvord had boon
the dear*- ' their own John,
and r hor dead boy's
rd sho brought
coat, brushed
1
f . 1
. ntttob betwooo thoo and
mej" said Dr. Ruttodgo, as be took
her band? In his. Perhaps it was the
thought of the long and happy journey
they wore to commence together on
the morrow; perhaps it was the
memory of their bright, earlier days,
which made that handclasp long and
oloee and never to be forgotten. Then
the doctor turned, and his wife watch
ed the tall, thin figure as he went
down the path and through tho gate.
.Tust as he was climbing into the old
fmutton, she was seized with a bright
dea, and snatching up the warm
afgban whloh she bad knitted for him,
ehe ran out, calling: " Henry, Henry,
take this, it Is so cold.'*
Henry.pulled up the old white horse
and waited for her, the stormy wind
blowing his long gray looks about
under Hla hat.
"Thank you," he said, with indul
gent, negligent thank that men give
when they think a woman has taken
unnecessary trouble.
Mary stood watching him as ho
drove away, until the mists that were
trailing down from the mountains in
thiok clouds wrapped'him round and
seemed to Bweep him out of sight.
She had many things to do that morn
ing, and she went about thorn busily,
ringing now a anatch of one old tune
and then of anothor. First, of course,'
there was the housework; then the
last stitohea in Henry's black coat
that bho had been new lining and
brushing up with proud thoughts of
how he would look as he wore it in
the old ehuroh ; then there was a hand
some black silk neoktle to be hemmed,
which she had saved and sorlmped for,
and had finally bought with what
seemed to her a really daring dis
regard of expense, Inasmuch as a less
stylish kind of1 silk would have done as
well. The neoktle was to be a sur
rtrlse ; and Mrs. Hutledge hemmed on
t with pleased and trembling fingers,
a happy light In the old eyes as she
bent oloee to see the stltohes. After
the neoktle, there was a dross to "fix
up," a little, and then tho final pack
ing and straightening up; for they
were to start in the morning. ?
Almost before she knew It, the day
had gone, and four o'clock struok. A
sudden foreboding seized Mrs. Rut
ledge?he was so seldom later than
the hour fixed I She wont to the win
dow and looked out. It had been rain
ing steadily since ton o'clock, and a
gray wall of mist, heavy and menac
ing, shifting but never retreating,
made a desolate island of the little
house and yard. Look any way she
would, still that blank harrier shut
out her vision. The ceaseless patter
on the roof, which she had not noticed
"before, began to mako itself audible?
a dull and insistent murmur that would
not be ignored.
"It's all right; there Is no use in
worrying ; he'll be hero soon," thought
Mary, setting herself resolutely to tho
task of getting supper. " I'll have
just about time to make some hot bis
cuit, and he likes them particularly
well after a long drive. I'll havo to
hurry, or he'll bo here before they're
done."
She put on tho teakettle, stirred
tho fire, and then plunged Into tho
biscuit making with a feverish hasto,
glanoing every .now and then at tho
clock.
" Guess I must be uncommon spry,"
she thought, as she shoved tho tin
into the oven, and commenced putting
; out the plates and cups with a clatter
. that made a pathetic attempt to be
cheerful. She was listening all the
time for the rattle of tho old phreton
as it came up the road ; but there was
1 no sound save tho sullen sough of the
* wind, and tho coaseless, irritating
' patter on the roof?no sound except
one other, growing minute by minute
I more loud and ominous?the roar ol
' the river. Tho San Gabriel has
) tromendous possibilities of dostruc
i lion. It has been silent and harmless
: for months, but to-day, fed by swollen
* mountain torrents, It had spread itself
out to twice its usual width, and was
, ilowlng past tho house, muddy and
I thick, with a sullen, slowly-incroas
1 ing roar. It showed no waves, 11
i seemed not unusually swift or deep,
but huge mountain logs were swirling
[tast, helpless In Its grasp. Rolont
ess, treacheaous, its power was all
- tho more terriblo for Its seeming Inno
oonce.
' Mary lookod at In dismay.
> "The Azusa bridge is safe,'' she
i thought; "but the north fork !" The
i north fork, whoro tho ford had to be
i mado amid quick-sand 1
i Would ho vonture! And then she
. thought, with a sinking hoart, of that
i other time.- when, fearless lest she
should bo frightened by his delay, he
I had crossed a New England mountain
in the faco of a terrifio storm, risking
his life. Certainly he would venture.
. She could do nothing but wait.
Darkness settled down, and the mur
i mur of the rain Increased, while out
p side the tawny, eddying width of the
river could be seen dimly through the
gloom. An unutterable lonolinoss crept
over her. Going to the wood-shod for
another armful of sticks, tho gusty
wind blow out her light and spattered
angry raindrops into hor face from
between tho cracks, and she returned
out of breath.
"He will not come to-night," she
thought; but ber heart was oppressed
With a heavy dread.
Tho ticking of tho clock grow louder
and more insistent. The hands point
ed to ten. Sho had read two chapters
of the " Imitation," and then had
lookod through their local paper with
out comprehending a word of either.
It was timo for prayors, and sho open
ed the Bible, his Bible?and read the
psalm whloh he would havo read that
night :
"I will lift up mine eyes unto tho
hills, from whence comoth my help ;
my holp cometh ftora tho Lord, which
mado heaven and earth."
Dropping on hor kness, sho buried
hor face in her arms. " O God, pro
tcot him !" she sobbed, piteously. The
patter of the rain on tho roof had
grown deafening, and tho howl of the
wind and the roar of the river gave
suggestions of universal dissolution.
After a momont she added, with New
England firmness, " Neverthleloss, not
my will, but Thine, be done." But the
words were spoken with the lips, and
not with the heart. Swiftly her
thoughts went baok over tho years
they had spent together; tho deep
toys, the bitter norrows of which none
mt. they two had known.
'O God, forgive me that I have
I leaned on an arm of flesh !" sho cried,
I her bent figure quivering and the tears
raining through the slender old fingors.
But a wave of recollection was swoop
ing over her. She felt once more tho
soft touch of baby fingors, and lookod
again into the little faco with the samo
doop happiness that she had foil be
cause it wore its father's look and
smile', the bitter desolation of tho
empty oradlo and their joy In the
second little guest: tbelr dally anxie
ties, the poverty that thoy had faced,
their petty privations and their simple
j ys; the way thoy usod to road to
gether, the way thoy used to talk to
f;other, the happy plans that thoy had
aid for this " wedding trip" when
thoy should be rloh?it all oame baok
to her with a feeling of utter, terriblo
loneliness in the present. She oould
not pray; she eo.dd not think olcaHry.
Going hastily to tho fire, she stirred
tho coals and put tho teakettle on
again, with a pathotlo instinct for his
comfort, and then, throwing a shawl
over her head, sho plunged out into
the night. Sho dared not go far, lest
he should come and find her away.
" HorrVy, Henry 1" she oallod, wildly: ]
but no/answer came. The tears rolled '
ilown/hor cheeks, and sho wrung hor j
bantfs desperately.
" axiod,'- she gasped, "sondhimto
mo t Omcond him to me soon !"
She ran down the road to the rlvor,
?ouou eavo tho rush
. waters.
., where la he?where la he ?"
she moaned helplessly; and thee,
turning with an instinct of terror, she
ran back to the ga^c and stood watch
ing for him there, with the rain beat
ing down mercilessly on h?r gray head.
The dawn of day brought to lifeht
the wide desolation for which the
spring of '91 is well remembered.
Trees bad been torn up, cottages swept
away, many lives lost. On the east
bank of the river a rescuing party
from El Campo camo upon an old
phwton, partly wrecked and turned
upside down, with a carefully-knitted
afghan caught in one of its braces.
They dared not tell her; but she knew
it from the talk of some passing school
ohildren, and all day she sat alone, not
speaking, not thinking, her head
bowed in her hands. The clock struck
one?two?three.
" He said he would oome at three,"
she thought, iu a dazed way, lifting
her oyes to the clock.
There was a step on tho gravelly
walk outside that made her heart
stand still. The latch lifted, the door
opened, and Dr. Rutledge stood there,
tall, gaunt and gray as ever, but more
beautiful in her eyes than an angelic
vision.
''Kit ran away and left me," said
he, laconically, with a grim smile over
the absurdity t f euch a proceeding on
the part of bis well-regulated and re
spootable old stoed.
But his wife could only bury her
face In her trembling hands; and then
she felt the same protecting arms
about her that nad shielded her from
troubles for forty years, and the same
Sfontlo voloe that had so often cont
orted her in days gone by was whisp
ering a deep prayer of thankfulness
that, in tholr old age, thoy whose lives
had been so long united, wero not
separated tho one from tho other.
It was evening before their trip was
even thought of, ml then Mary, wise
and provident as -or, said :
" Henry, dear, j horso is lost and
the buggy ruinei. We shall need all
our money to get us started again,
i .nd to help others that are worse off
than wo are. We oap't go yet. You
will not care very much, will you, now
that we have each othor ?"
And good old Dr. Rutledgo came
nearor using violent language than
over before in forty years.
'* The wedding trip bo?hanged I"
saip he.
And so that journoy is still in the
future.
Al>I>ITIONALi COURTS.
Two - j.i ore Proposed?Tho IteaBons
Why.
Columbia, January 21.?The advo
cates of the proposition to oreato two
additional circuit courts havo distrib
uted the following circular among the
members of theOoneral Assembly:
Somo figures by way of comparison.
Present cost of courts : Eight cL*oultB,
averaging now 4.37 counties each : Six
Judges, $3,500 each, $21,000; two
Judges, $3,000 each, $0,000?eight
Judges, total, $27,000. Seven solicitors,
$1,300 each, $9,450: one solicitor, $1,600
?eight solicitors, total $11,050. Eight
stenographers, $1,250 oach, $10,000.
Total for State, $48,050. Average cost
per county, $1,372.85 ; average cost per
olroult, $0,000.25; 105 regular courts
per year?average cost por court.
$457.01.
Cost with ton circuits; ten clrcuts,
averaging 3.6 counties, (with Saluda]
each ; ton Judges, each $3,000, $30,000:
ten solicitors, each averaging $1,250,
$12,500; ten stenographers, oaoh aver
aging $1,100, $11,000. Total for. State,
$53,500. Average coat por county,
$1,486.10; average cost per circuit.
$5.350; 105 courts, as now held, plut
32 additional courts in sixteen counties
a total of 137 courts per year?average
por court, $390.58.
Comparison: Cost, ton circuits
$53,500; cost, eight olrcults, $48,050
Total increase for State, $5,450
Averago cost of Increase per county
$151.39.
Total taxable property of the State
say, $174,000,000; inoroase levy lest
than 32-100 of a mill, or about 3 cent:
on ovory $1,000 worth of proporty.
Thoro aro sixteen counties in the
' Stato of over 30,000 inhabitants, it
which it is proposed to hold four eourti
for criminal trials annually, instead o:
three, as now?i. e., an averago of one
court every threo months. This wlli
save the dieting of prisoners for about
throo months in each yoar. If eacl
county averagos only ten prisoner*
awaiting trial, their cost each pei
month is $9, or $90 por month, or $27(
for threo months for each county, oi
for tho sixteen counties $4,320. . Il
twonty counties adopt four courti
$5,400 (If thirty conntios adopt foui
courts $8,100) will bo saved on account
of dieting prisoners alono, more that
sufficient to meet the increase of $5;40C
for the Stato.
Besides, it will increase tho numbot
and lengths of torms of tho hands on
tho chain-gang, and speedy trials will
bo had.
Tho saving to tho Stato in tho fee.
of witnesses for the Stato, and for the
dofondants in felonies, in cases neces
sarily continued on account of want of
tlmo to try thorn, is boyoud calcula
tion, but it may bo safoly estimated as
at least 25 por cont. in mileage and
attendance.
This does not take into considera
tion the relief which will bo expe
rienced by litigants in olvil oases,
whoso cases are continuod from term
to term through no fault of theirs nor
of their attorneys. Thoy pay an one
rous tax in the form of loss of tlmo
and witness fees, simply because the
State does not afford them the neces
sary machinery for the trial of their
causes.
In addition to tho cost of tho present
circuit court, a county court would
cost for oach county not less than from
$1,500 to $2,000. Should tho Goneral
Assembly boo (It to reduce, tho salaries
of Judges to $2,700 oaoh, there will bo
a farther saving of $3,000, leaving only
$2,450 to be made up in tho way before
mentioned.
Judge Townsond, who is a momber
of tho Genoral Assembly, has resigned
as assistant Attorney Couoral In view
Of his membership in the Assembly,
His resignation is in the hands of At
torney General Barbor.
JOHN BULL* AND JONATHAN.
Various Theories as to tho Origin of
These Two Mythical PorBOIiages.
From the Haiti more Sun.
" John Bull," tho mythical porsonugo
supposed to roprosont tho English peo
ple and now figuring largely in our
editorial writing and in cartoons, was
tho invention of Dr. Arbuthnot, In ono
of his satlrioal sketches ridlouling tho
groat I hike of Marlborougb. In the
opinion of Dr. Johnson Arbuthnot. was
" the first man among tho eminont
writers in Queen Anne's time." He
drew John Bull as tho typical English
man?a stout, i eo faced old farmor,
far too corpulent for comfort, oholerlo,
but withal an honest and well-meaning
fellow. Ho clothed him in leather
breoohos and top boots, put a stout
oaken cudgel in his hand and a bull
dog at his heels, and set him up for all
tlmo to nervo as a representative Eng
lishman. He may have been not so
bad a oarioature in tho days of Quoon
Anne. But today oertulnly there is
much force in Leslie Stephen's romark
that" ho completely hides the English
man of real life." Tho avorago En
glishmen of 1896 is physically nostouter
than, probably not so stout as, the
average American, and tho stout
cudgel and the bull dog are no longer
apt symbols of tho modern Britisher's
jisposition. Ho has lost tho excosslvo
pugnacity of his forefathers, and, as
ive havo lately seon, is above all anx
ous to keep tho peace with his Unole
Samuel.
Spoaking of'' Unole Sam " and "'ho
thor Jonathan," whose names are being
freely used, too, In the passing Inter
national Hurry, there is no doubt about
their origin. When Gen. Washington
went into Massachusetts to take com
mand of the revolutionary army, he
found a great lack of ammunition and
other supplies. He turned for aid to
Governor Jonathan Trumbull of Con
necticut, and got It. and ln'many emer
ge uoles of that period he usod the
Xhrase, " We must consult Brother
onathan on the subject." The ex
pression became nationally current,
and It stands as the American paralled
"John Bull." Unole Sam was not in
vented until the war of 1812. Two in
spectors of war supplies at Troy, N. Y..
were named Ebenezor and Samuel
Wilson.
A workman in their employ was
marking a lot of casks received from
one Elbert Anderson, a New York con
tractor, and whloh were thus stamped:
" E. A.?U. S." A bystander asked
the workman what these marks meant,
and he replied that they probably
meant " Elbert Anderson and Unole
Sam." alluding to Inspector Samuel
Wilson.who was locally called Uncle
Sam. Thus the initals of the United
States were transformed by .a local joke
Into a national sobriquet, which will
doubtless last as long as our republic.
But who first undertook to give tho
portrait of Unole Sam or Brother Jona
than as a long, lean, slab-sided, lantorn
jawed individual is not known. Who
ever he was he libeled us. There is
strong reasons for believing that the
average American of today is heavier
in the scales, broader between the
shoulder, deeper in the chest, and more
generous waist girth than any of his
civilized contemporaries.
An iCIJS O. HAYGOOD.
Tho Well-spent Life of Georgia's Great
Methodist Bishop?" Illustrious as a
Churoh Worker and Educator, Fa
mous aa an Author and Lovable as a
Friend.
The Atlanta Journal gives a long and
appreciative sketch of tho late Bishop
Attlous G. 1 lay good, from which the
following extracts are taken :
Bishop Haygood was born in Wat
klnsvllle, Ga., November 10, 1839, but
when a mere youth his father moved
to Atlanta. Green B. Haygood was
ono of tho pioneers of this oity, a man
of sterling character, a lawyer of fine
ability and an enthusiastic missionary
Methodist. Tho son inherited his
father's rellgiouB fervor and some of
his mental|charaoterlstiC8, but ho also
owod an Inestimable debt to his mother,
one of tho most remarkable women
Georgia has ever seen. She was a Miss
Askew, and from her, her illustrious
1 son recoived many of his character
istics.
Young Haygood entered Emory Col
1 lege when he was 16 years old, and had
already determined that ho would give
1 his life to tho service of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. He was a
more boy when be left college, crowned
by the brightest honors which could
bo won on Its curriculum. Ho was a
1 boy chaplain In tho army and the old
' citizens of Atlanta, especially the old
Methodists, remember what splendid
1 services this young soldier of tho cross
j rendorod horo during the stormy
period.
He was tho first pastor of Trinity
' Church after tho war, and helped to
i lay tho broad foundation on which that
i splendid organization rests now. His
ability was so great and his versatility
> so pronounced that ho was soon called
I from the regular pastorate to the gon
i eral work of tho church.
i As editor of Methodist publications
? he probably acquired one of tho best
? titles to distinction. He would have
i been one of the great editors of the
i country had he so endeavored.
I From 1875 to 1884 he was president
t of Emory College and through his
' efforts that Institution secured the
favor of George Chonoy, who had been
i tho bonefactor already of other South
? orn colleges and who lifted Emory out
- of the slough of financial despond. He
i found Emory College penniless and
procured for it donations amounting to
, $200,000.
i His magnificent ability as an organ!
J zer and bis great power as a preacher
were rocognizod by the general con
> ference of 1882 in his election as Bishop.
? He declined tho office because he felt
i that ho had a plodgo to Emory whieb
t was his supreme command.
> In 1882 no was made general agent
I of tho " Slater Fund," a trust which
t ho hold for eight years and which he
i executed with a fidelity and a patience
' that was truly admirable For a while
? he was agent both of tho Slater fund
1 and Peabody fund.
In 181)0 Dr. Haygood was again
f elected Bishop. Ho did not fool that
i he could decline this second call of his
? church to its episcopacy. He accopt
- ed it as tho crowning honor of his life
1 and only those who have known of his
1 sorvico In that otlico can estimate Its
value to the church and how splondldly
' It portrayed the man's devotion and
I character.
I A most his first service as Bishop
was embraced in his voluntary mission
' to far California, whore ho inspired
1 and strengtenod a feeble organization,
? and where tho olTects of his great
efforts are still folt. Wherever ho
went he was honored and loved.
A fow yoars later he returned to
Georgia and has since resided at Ox
ford, a place which he loved possibly
more than any othor locality. His
health has not been good for ton years,
but this fact did not deter him from
arduous labor. Ho literally worked
himself to death. Not only was he
ready to go anywhere at any time at
the bidding of bis church, but he was
busy with his pen in tho work of ro
liglous literature. His mission book.
V Go, or Send," has been pronounced
tho best appeal of the kind in modorn
times, and is used largely in Europe
as we 11 as in this country. Among his
othor books, "Jack-knife aud Bram
bles," may bo mentioned as creating
a vory deep and wide improssion.
" Our Brother in Black " attracted the
attention of the wholo country, and is
probably the strongest presentation
that nas boon mado of the race ques
tion in the South. The last work
whloh came from him was "The Monk
and the Prince," a splendid story of
Savanarolo. It is difficult to say
whethor ho was more forceful' as a
writor or a proachor. Cortainly he
had few poors in either field.
Tho funeral of Bishop Haygood took
place in Oxford, on Tuesday aftor
noon. The exoroiues were very im
pressive and woro attended by a large
gathering including some of the most
prominent men of Georgia. BlBhep W.
W. Duncan, of South Carolina, preach
ed tho sermon after whloh tho remains
wero laid in tho Oxford cemetery.
COTTON GUOWKH8' ASSOCIATION
An Appeal to the Soil-Interests of the
Farmers?Must Make the Cotton
States Entirely He it-Support In?.
Tho second annual convention of
Southern Cotton Growers and others
dlroctly ooncornod with tho cotton
orop, convened in Memphis, Jan. 21.,
upon a oall from Prosident Hoctor D.
Lane, of Alabama. Every ono of the
cotton growing states wore represent
ed, Mississippi and Arkansas having
conspiolously largo und intelligent
delegations. President Lane, who was
uhoson permanent oha'rman, delivered
his address Immediately aftor the con
vention was oallod to ordor, dpaling
extensively with statistics to demon
strate tho necessity for holding the
cotton no re ago within bounds. He
pointed out that tho annual surplus is
the effootivo Instrument used by the
cotton " bears " to depress values and
that over-produotlon fosters manipula
tion.
At tho conclusion of the address, the
various committous woro appointed,
and thon Hon. CharloB Scott, of Mis
sissippi, was introduced. Ho dwelt
ohIeilv upon the method of Southern
cotton growers, whloh carried him'
Higher of ?11 ia Learcoing Power.?Latest U. S. Gort Report
Royal BSSS
away from diversification and to the'
all-cotton crop, whioh In turn carried
him to the supply men who predlcatou
their advances upon that orop. The
close of Mr. Scott's address aroused
enthusiasm, because ho took up the I
certain consequences of a war in whioh I
this country should figure as a prlnol
pal. He Insisted that so long as war
could be honorably averted let it be
done but when the time arrived, it
would be found that the agriculturists
of the South would be found among I
the foremost of the country's soldiers.
At the close of this speech the oom-1
mlttee on resolutions announced its
readiness to report and did so. The
proambie recites the evil consequences
of ovor production and unsystematic
marketing of the cotton orop, and re-1
solves, "That we call the attention of
the Southern cotton growers to the
fact that thoy are masters of the situa
tion. The orop of 1805 being less than
sovon million bales, renders it entirely
feasible, by a further reasonable re
duction of aoreago during the preeent ]
year, to materially advance tho value
of cotton and thus insure a safe and 1
substantial proiit that cannot fall to I
bring inoreased profit, but the enhanc-1
lng the value of our lands, and turning
hither tho tide of immigration, muoh
neodod for tho development of tho
great natural resources of this favored
section.
" We earnestly urge"all producoraof
cotton to take advautage of this goldon
opportunity, and continue tho wiso
polloy adopted during the past season
of making the South self-supporting
by first producing an abundant supply
of corn, hay, me:, t and other liko con
sumption ; docreatlng the cotton acre
age still further for tho matter of
prime importance, thus guarding
against the dangers of overproduction
and leaving tho cotton as a surplus
orop."
Other resolutions wero reported and
adopted, making the American Cotton
Growers' Association permanent, in
structing the president and exccutlvo
committees to move energetically
against every disposition to increase
acreage, and providing for permanent
officers from oaoh cotton growing Stato.
A committo to formulate an addross
to agriculturists was also appointed,
to prepare and promulgate it, after
whioh the convention adjourned sine
dio.
The committee on address soon com
pleted its work after getting together
tonight. Calling attention to tho
greater returns from tho decreased
crops and the cause therefor, tho com
mittee concludes:
" Wo appeal to your solf-lntorosts
and your patriotism to do all in your
powor to keep down the production of
the staple. Do not desert the ground
{ou have won. Fight upon tho linos
aid down, make the cotton States self
supporting; put more land in clover
and gr&8808 for your hogs to run on ;
diversify your crops, and when you
havo dono all this, the area duvotod
to cotton will yield moro profitable re
turns than If you sought to Increase
the numbor of your bales. It Is felt by
tho most thoughtful men ti nt wo aro
ontorlng upon a year of groat uncer
tainties, and that even a small cotton
orop may fail to glvo adequate returns
for its production. Tho muttorings of
a storm are disturbing the country
and unsottling all business calculations.
Tho prudent men will trim his sails to
meet It. With tho commorco of
tho country interrupted by war?and
war may oomo?cotton would bo un
saleable excopt at nominal prices.
Every consideration thon of patriotism,
or self Interest, and of prudence, dic
tates that you adhero strictly to tho
rule of the diminished acreage."
?Thoro was a mooting of tho direc
tors of the railway lines comprising
the Seaboard Alr-Llno systom at the
office of tho company In Baltimore
Wednesday afternoon. President Hoff
man was directed to issue and order
appointing Mr. 10. St. John gonoral
managerof tho ontlro systom, in addi
tion to^rhs other duties as vico presi
dent. In compliance with this order
Mr. St. John assumed tho gonoral
managership Immediately. Gonoral
Manager Winder being retired from
tho position.
As to further connection with tho
railroad by Gonoral Manager Winder
nothing could bo loarned at this ond
of tho lino oxoopt that at tho mooting
in Baltimore a now position, that of
gonoral superintendent, was created
whioh will undoubtedly soon be filled.
Whon an Importaut official of tho road
was questioned as to whether this
position would be tendered Captain
Windor ho declined to say. Ho also
declined to answer tho quory If he
knew who would bo appointed to tho
position.
Tho announcement of the rctlromont
of Captain Winderas gonoral managor
of tho Soaboad Air-Line was a surprise
although In railway circles it was not
unexpoctod. It is assorted that othor
Important changes in the officials of
tho systom will follow. Vico President
John St. has gone to Haiti more, pre
sumably to confer with Hoff raun.
The Mount Lebanon Shakers recent
ly performed a great deed of charity,
although it was not designed as a
charity, boing nothing moro nor less
than an advertising suhomo. It how
over resulted in uro at good just tho
samo. Thoy gave away 1.000 bottles
of their Digestive Cordial to thoso suf
fering from stomach derangements.
It was so offootive in curing thoso
who usod tho romddy that thoy wero
loud In their pruises of it and in con
sequenco a largo domand for tho cor
dial was at once created.
Tho druggists of this town havo lit
tle books that toll all about it. Di
gestive Cordial oroatcs an appetite,
aids digestion and brings about a rapid
increase In Mesh and strength.
Laxol is tho name of a palatable
Castor Oil. Just tho thing for children.
CHANGES IN OLEMSON.
Til 10 BOARD ASKS FOR RESIGNA
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Better ManaKomont Promised for
the Future?Valuable SuKKcsttonH
Are Adopted?Inside Working of
the College.
Columbia Register, 25th inat.
There has been a shake-up In the
corps of professors at Clemson. Sev
eral resignations have been asked for
by the board of direotors, but for some
roason the members are reticent about
their actions for .the present, and what
is known was learned from an out
side source. The board has been in
session in this olty since Wednesday,
and did not adjourn until yesterday.
All the members have been present
except Senator Tillman.
The board has realized for some
time that some changes were neces
sary in the Faculty. A sub-com
mittee, consisting of Colonel Simpson,
Colonel Donaldson and Senator Till
man, have been quietly investigating
affairs for Borne time, and as a result
several important changes havo been
deoided on. It has been realized for
some time that the literary and
academic departments have boon too
Firomlnent to tho detriment of othor
mportant departments, and as a re
sult of the committee's report the
salaries of professors in those depart
ments have been decreased from 91,
800 to $1,600, and assistants to $1,000,
and salaries in the technical depart
ments havo boon raised to $1,200. The
board has determined hereafter to
employ no ono who has not tho greatest
good of the institution at heart and
who has not tho mental and moral
training of tho students his ohief and
greatest desire. It goos without say
ing then that all professors elected
horeaftor will bo thoroughly equipped
for the work.
As to whose resignations havo been
requested little could be loarned owing
to tho desire of the board to keep that
matter from tho public for the pres
ent. It is Btated that several pro
fessors have been requested to get out,
and It Is positively learned that among
them are Profossor Strodo of the ohair
of Mathematics and Professor C. W.
Welch of the ohalr of Physics. Pro
fessor Strodo has suffered two strokes
of paralysis recently, and the board
took tho action in his case with the
greatest reluctance and personal re
grot, but thoy feel that thoy had tc
do It for tbe good of the Institution
Profossor Weloh'8 ohalr was abolished
and that carried with It his resigna
tion.
The board also elected the following
professors : John G. Cllnkscales, win
was associate professor of Matho
unities, Is promoted to tho full profes
sorshlp.
Mr. James was elected professor o.
mechanical designing and drawing.
Mr. McLucas was chosen associate
professor of English vice Professoi
Harrison, resigned.
Professors Welch's chair in Physicf
being abolished, Mr. Southall wat
elected assistant in physics and elec
trical engineering.
Mr. Urodie was chosen assistant pro
lessor of mathematics.
Mr. Wilson was elected assistant it
the mechanical department.
Other vacancies are to bo tilled later
Tho legislative investigating com
mitteo, consisting of Sonators Sloat
and Watson and Representatives Floyi
and Garrls, began their lnvestlgatlot
at Wright's Hotel yesterday aftornooi
at 4:30 o'clock, and woro In sesslor
several hours. A number of the Boan
of Trustees and President Craigheat
gave information as to the alleged ru
mors about extravagance at Ciemsoi
and tho incompotoncy of some of thi
professors.
Nothing was loarned from any mom
bor of the committee, but from outsidt
and reliable sources it was statei
that tho incompetent men had boon re
moved, and that it did not appear tha
Heart Disease Cured
By Dr. Miles' Heart Cure.
Fainting, Weak or Hungry Spoils, Irrcgu
lar or Intermittent Pulso, Flattering or Pal
pitation, Choking Sensation, Shortness of
Druatli, Swelling of Foot and Ankles, are
symptoms of a dlsoasod or Weak Iloart.
MRS. N. C. MILLGR.
Of Fort Wayne, Ind.. writes on Nov. 29,1804:
"I was afflicted for forty years with lioart
trouble and suffered untold agony. Iliad
weak, hungry spells, and my lioart would
pulpit ate so hard, t ho pain would bo so acut?
and torturing, that I bocumo so weak and
norvous I could not sleep. I was treated by
sovcral physicians Without relief and gavo
up over being well again. About two years
ago 1 commenced using Dr. Milof' Remedies.
Ono bottlo of tho Heart Ouro stopped all
In a11 troubles and tho Restorative Nervine
did tho rest,and now I sleep soundly and at
tend to my household and social duties with
out any trouble.
Sold by druggists. Hook aont freo. Address
Dr. .Mile- Medical Co., Klkhart, Ind.
Dr. Miles' Remedies Restore UcalUi.
Who is Wi? Whitener ?
He is our Fashionable Hair Gutter and Shaver,
--UNDER OPERA HOUSE,
there had beoc any extravagance at
Cloinson. On the other hand, the {
money appiorlatsd by the Legisla
ture nad been honestly and judiciously
expended.
THE RKPORT OP THIS INVESTIGATING
COMMITTEE.
The investigation committee from
the board of trustees of Clomson Col
lege has made the following report,
which was adopted by the trustees at
the meeting Friday morning. This
committee examined in tbe working
order of the college some months ago.
The report was submitted to the board
at a meeting shortly afterwards, but it
was not adopted at that meeting. The
report la as follows: -
Clomson College, S. O, Deo. 12, 1890.
To the Board of Trustees of the
Clomson Agricultural College.
Gentlemen: We, your committee
appointed to Investigate the manago
ment of the college, respectfully sub
mit the following recommendations:
i We consider the academic depart
ment unduly prominent, there being
I in this department, throe full profes
sors and two associates, the latter paid
81,500 each, while in the Agricultural
Department there is no full professor
and in the' Mechanical Department
only one. In order, therefore, to re
duce this department to its proper
proportion and to Bhow our determina
tion to give special subjects, wo re
commend that salaries of literary pro
fessors range from $1,000 to $1,600.
Believing the success of tbo Mathe
matical Department to be greatly lm
Jicdcd because of the Inetltolency of
'rofessor Strode, wo recommend that
ho bo required to resign at such a
time as may seem proper to the Board.
This and similar recommendations
cause us much pain but we cannot per
mit our sympathy for any individual
to dutweignour interest in the welfare
of students whoso preparation for the
responsible duties Of lifo would be
Irrevocably impaired by inefficient In
structions. -
We believo that all of our instruc
tors should be men of at least respect
able education and we, therefore, re
commend that Mr. Litton, whoso educa
tion is lamentably deficient, bo re
quested to resign and that his placo
be filled by an expert of liberal educa
tion.
Wo do not rocommond any immedi
ate Increase in tho salaries of tho in
structors in tho Mechanical Depart
ment, but recognizing tho importance
of having thoroughly trained men
here, wo recommend that our present
Instructors be urged to make uso of
evory opportunity for improvement
and that thoy bo permitted, whonover
practicable, to spend tholr vacation at
special schools or universities offering
advanced instruction in mechanical
arts.
We think that tho salaries of In
structors in this department- should
be not less than $1,200, and we rocom
mond that those salaries bo Increased
from time to tlmo In proportion tbo
zeal and efficiency displayed by tho
instructors in charge.
Inasmuch as the Department of
Physios was, at the last meeting of tbo
Board, mado a branch of tho Mechani
cal Department, wo rocommond that
tho chair of Physics bo abolished and
that tho Instructor In this subject bo
paid from $800 to $1,200, thereby rank
ing with other Instructors In tho Me
chanical Department.
Mr. J. W. Hart, our dairyman, has
shown himself to bo an export in his
work and wo, therefore, rocommond
that his salary be increased to at loast
$1,200.
Wo recommend that Professoi Mor
rison continue in charge of the Fitting
School at a salary of $1,500. As thorough
preparatory training is indlsponsiblo
to successful work in thocollogo, failuro
in higher classes often being due to
shoddy work in the rudimentary
branches, we rocommond that here
after only export and experienced
teachers bo employed for tho Fitting
School aud that tho young men now
assisting Professor Morrison bo urged
to fit themselves as soon as possible, by
special university training, for tho
vocation of teaching. Since it is now
easy to securo tho services of men
who, after completing eol'ege courses,
have mado special preparation at tho
universities for tho wor<c of teaching,
wo do not think is wise to employ horo
young men who have received only a
general collego education. Experiencd
teachers of established reputation
would of course form exceptions to this
rule.
In conclusion, we consider it tho duty
of tho educator not simply to hoar les
sons, but to strive both in and out of
tho class room by all moans at his
command to dovolop his pupils in miud
and moral... Wo want no hirelings at
Clemson, and wo rocommond that tho
Board retain only those professors who
manifos, by tholr acts, a gonulno love
(or their work and a hearty interest in
all itheir pupils, especially In dull
backward boys who most nood tho
oncouragoracnt of sympathetic teach
ers.
?An association is boing formed 1 ft
Washington fo?' tho purpose of pro
moting Sabbath observances among
the ladies of tho olllclal circlos and
fashionable, societies in Washington.
Miss Morton, sister of the Secretary of
Agriculture, with tho encouragement
and CO-operationof Mrs. Cleveland ha?
taken up tho matter. Tho habit of
devoting Suuduy afternoon and even
ing for social enjoyraont has been
growing more common until now it is
quite general to hold recoptions to
crowded drawing rooms on this holy
day. It is to cause a more rigid obser
vance and a greater venoration of Sun
day that theso ladles aided by many
others, with tho clorgymon of the
city have undortaken this groat re
form.
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THE LAURENS BAR.
h. Y. SIMPSON' I) BARRHDAL1
SIMPSON & BAItKSDAIiK,
AttornoyH at Law,
LAURENH, SOUTH CAROLINA
Special attention giv?n to tho invdstl
Kation ot ti U ft and OOllfOtlou of ulaitiis
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BAL.L, SIM Kl NN & BALL,
Attorneys nt Law,
Laukkns, South Carolina.
Will practice in all Stute and United
Statoa Court. Special attention jrivou
collections.
I. T. JOHNHON. W. R. RICH RY
JOHNSON & 11IOHBY,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Oppioe? Fleming's Corner, Northwe
Hide of Public Square.
LAURENS, - SOUTH CAROLINA
W. H. MARTIN,
Attorney at <Law,
Laurrns, - South Carolina.
Will practice in all Courts of this State
Attention ?'?"n to COlleoUonN,
YOUR QUESTIONS
were long ago anticipated when we
punned to perfect onr methods of busi
ness; and
OUR ANSWER
now la ready: Improved and tnoreaaed
5^fi?ft?*/MJhtlM, with the employment
of skilled labor, Insure High Grade pro
duota and efficient serrloe at lowest eoal
to too.
AUOUATA LUHBBR CO.,
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