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HON. STANYARNL WILSON ON BANKKUPIU\ KVILtS OF SUCH LEQIeLATION. Id the Interest ul'ihe Creditor and Agalnac the Unfbttuuate Debtor? A Strong and Vigorous Argument frnm tiiu He present alive ol the Fourth District. The Congressional Uocord of March 1, cO(-*i.lna a speech on tho bankruptOJ bill, delivered In tho House on Feb ruary 17, by Representative Stanyarue Wilson, from tho 1th district of this Stato. As tho speech shows the reasons for opposing this bill, in u clear and forcible manner, It will doubtless In read with interest by both the frionds and opponents of the measure. After some remarks on the silver question Mr. Wilson proceeded to discuss^ the bill before tho Bouse as follows : This bill Is not In tho interest of the I people, but, as practically admitted to day upon this lleior, at the demand of the wholesale dealers and jobbers of the largo cities of tho Fast, North and West, who for ten long > ears have nur tured and fondled it as the hopeful m ans which would place within their power tho burdened debtor struggling uphill and upon tho edge of insolvency. So far as relief is needed by unfor tunate debtors, tho several States are ablote provide and t>ivo upon their statute beoks laws abundantly broad and strong enough to enable failing doctors to obtain rcloaso from their dobts and start life anew. They also havo provided tho machinery for the protection of creditors. They have their assignment statutes, by which tho insolvent debtor can transfer his property to an assignee or trustee to be divided amongst his creditors, and by their acceptance of their pro rata of tho assets obtain his release from their claims. Thon there are attachment laws and the common law by which fraudulent conveyances of. a dishonest insolvent debtor may be sot aside, and by which receivers may bo appointed to tike charge of and distribute the assets of the falling debtor, who is trying to de fraud his creditors. There is no justi fication on the score of necessity for tho National Government to inaugu rate a system of machinery which will oust the State Courts of a jurisdiction which they aro fully prepared and equipped to exercise between debtor and creditor. The demand for Ibis legislation does not como from tho debtors of the country. They are content with their State laws. Their sentiment oaanot be voiced upon this lluor by those who bpeak in advocacy of the measure. 1 repudiate the right of representatives of wholesale dealers and jobbers to speak for unfortunate citizens, whose property Is Bought to be sacrificed. As the advocates of the single gold stand ard robo themselves in the spotless livery of "honest money'' and "the national honor" in trying to fasten upon tho country a contracted cur rency, which deprives industry of one half of its earnings and requires the payment of two pounds of co-ton or two bushels of a heat to liquidate ti contract which contemplated but one, so tho defenders of this bill clothe themselves in the habiliments of the debtor and plead in Iiis name for the legislation. Well may ho say Mr, Speaker, "Heaven defend mo from mj frieDds !" For tho voluntary bankrupt this bill is a delusion and a snare. To tho in voluntary bankrupt it is an outrage When tho despondent debtor bending under the burden of his debt, with ne ray of light to lead him out of the darkness of his Bnauoial difficulties shall come into the United Statei Court under this bill and file bis peti tion in bankruptcy, turn over to tin trusteo all of bis property and hope fully await his discharge from all nil debts so that he maj start life anew ho will find in many instances that the hopo was held out to him only to bi blasted. Sub-division b, of Section 13, pro videa that the Judge may refuse tht discharge if tho debtor, among othei P5*> (1) Made a substantially false vatua turn of any of the property of bis estate in his schedule of property, or inten tionally omitted therefrom any of tin proj-orty of his estate, or from tho list of his creditors any person to whom ho is indebted in a substantial amount, * * * or (2) transferred any property otherwise than in the ordinary course of his business in contemplation ol ? bankruptcy." Tho Judge is to decide, in Iiis discre tion, whether the debtor has done any of these things. If ho ooes so hold, then no discharge is granted ; the bankrupt's property lias all gone to hit creditors and to pay the fees and costs of trustee, referee, receiver, apprais ers, marshal, clerk, stenographer, at torneys, witnesses, etc., and the debts mi,...... hanging over him. More than that, ho is subject to be imprisoned for those same acts under Section <S of the bill, which provides : " A bankrupt shall bo exempt from apprehension upon civil process, ex cept upon a warrant from a Court of Bankruptcy, unless the same Is founded upon some debt or claim from which his dlschargo in bankruptcy would not be a release." Instead of freedom from his debts, ho obtains quarttrs in jail. And who measures tho discretion of tho Judge determining those charges against tho bankrupt? Tho Judge himself. Lord Seiden said : "Ono chancellor has a long foot, an other a short foot, a third an indif ferent foot. So it is with a chancellor's conscience. If, for instance, tho debtor should placohis property at what ho consider ed its value, and the Judgo should con clude that tho valuation was too high ; or if ho should unintentionally omit tho narao of ono of his creditors amongst a hundred, and the Judge should think that it was done inten tionally : or if ho had told a horse or cow, and tho Judgo should determine that such sale was not in tho ordinary course of his business and in contem plation of bankruptcy; in any of these cases away goes his discharge and away he goes to prison. What then, Mr. Speaker, becomes of the guaranty in tho Constitutions of tho several States {iroteoting cltlzons from imprisonment or debt? Tho adoption of this bill would be a sad day lor tho Republic and for Its debt-burdoned citl/.ons ! Mr. Galnes : 1 doslro to call tho gen tleman's attention, also to sub-division b of the samo section, as follows : "The Judge may at any time after the filing of a petition by or against a Sierson, and before the expiration of our months after ho has been adjudg ed a bankrupt, upon aflidavlt ot any party In interest that such bankrupt is about to leavo the district to avoid ex amination, and that bis doparturc wi'. defeat the proceedings therein, issue a warrant to the marshal directing him to bring such bankrupt forthwith be fore the court. "If, upon hearing the evldonoe, it shall appear to the Judge that tho allegations of 'such aflidavlt aro truo, and that It is necessary, he shall order such marshal to koep such bankrupt in oustody, but not Imprison him, until he shall be released or give bail con ditioned for his appearance, from time to time, as required by tho court, and for his obedience to all lawful orders." Mr. WlUon : Yes, Mr. Speaker, 't is there ; and the shame of it 1 Some measly, irresponsible, malignant credi tor, by his mere afndavit and the Judge's discretion, may secure a writ of ne exeat and bold indefinitely the. unfortunate debtor in the oustody of the * -rth vl. practically depriving biro Hboi'y and preventing him fro nlng a living where ho can rains and his bands, the onl eft to him ahaving t' bia propert isorodb i f the bill hundtods of thousands of i >;obtora who uro struggling agulnst In- I solvency, a*.d many ?d whom will su - j <?? ssfully emerge liom tholr iinaueiui I ?tralt8 if given tho limo and oppor tunity, aro placed completely ft the mi roy of their creditor*), who can, by holding over theiu a sword of Damo cles, exact ruinous conceaalona, or, by filing a petition In bankruptcy against tl um, hopoleaaly engulf them. 11 a debtor, after many long yeara of struggling against advetaity, haa ut last aucceeded in developing a prosperous business, which will in a few more yeara enable him to dis charge all hia debta, and rehabilitate himaeif upon u aound business footing, under thia bill he may ho thrown into bankruptcy for anyone of theao cauaea amoi gat others: "(1) Failed for thirty days and until a petition (in bankruptcy) is tiled whilo insolvent to secure tho roloaao of any property levied under process of law for $500 or over, or if such property is to be told within such time under such process, then until three days before the time fixed for auch sale ; (2) auft'er I ed while insolvent an exeeutiou from u court of record for $.">0l) or over, or a number o." executions aggregating such amount, against himself, to be return ed 'no property found,' uuless the amount shown to bo due by auch ex ecution snail ho paid before a petition | la tiled ; (?'!) (lied in court a written statement admitting his inability to pay his debts.'' in other words, if ho cannot pay oil judgments as faat as they are obtained against him, or if ho has to file a sworn plea in court noeessi ating a denial or admission of his insolvency, and if in auch ( lea ho makes admission that he I is Insolvent, tho United States Court I forthwith takes charge of ull hla property and administers it at great sacrifice for the benefit of his creditors and the officers of tho court. A vivid imagination ia not required to discern the general and immediate diaaator that would follow upon tho footsteps of theao provisions. Not a county, city, or towu in the Union would escape from its quota of victims. The same obstacles to a dis charge from their debts and tho sumo open prison doors would confront them as the voluntary bankrupts of which I have just spoken. In going to this length of oppression, gentlemen over estimate the patienc: and forbearance of an outraged people. You may pass tho bill: you"bavo a majority in this Houae, but it will come back to plaguo and condemn you, as did the last bank rupt law of ISliT, which plundered and ravaged the people and which became a stench in the. nostrils of all honest men, who repuu.ated it and struck it , from the statute books. Mr. Speaker, there is another ground provided in Seetion 2 for throwing a debtor into bankruptcy, and it Uis , closes tco ill-concealed purpose of i i Tactically abolishing State Courts, their sheriffs and clerks, and constitut ing the United States C.mrt tho col lecting agent of the creditors against i embarrassed and involved debtors. It ? declares that it is BUlllolent ground for , bankruptcy if tho debtor " has made an assignment for the benefit of h'a i creditors." 1 That nullities and abolishes all State 1 statutes author zing assignments for the bene fit of creditors as etleetually ' as the imposition of the 1U per cent tax upon State bank 'ssuea gave the 1 United States Government a monopoly in tho .ssue of bank notes. After tho ? enactment of this proposed law, by its ' very terms to make an assignment is > logo Into the United States Bankruptcy > Court. Havo gentlemen reflected upon the 1 enormous power conferred upon the Federal Courts by this bill r Are you : willing to shut your State Courts in the faco of your people in order that ' foreign creditors may harass and ' plunder and imprison them ? It is a ! most reckless and unnecessary invasion ' and enroaobment upon the right <>f tho States. It grants tho Federal Courts greater power than they have over \ had or exercised. Already these Courts by bench lasv and building upon their own stare decisia precedents, \ huve assumed und appropriated to 1 themselves jurisdiction in appoint ment of receivers of railroads which has resulted in placing more than ' $1,000,000,000 of railroad property in 1 ll.o hands ol their officers and agents. Tile only measuro of tho exercise of their power by many of them has been the limit of their own moderation. They have annulled Acts of Congress even in ao vital a matter aa rataing revenue for the Government. They havo placed irjunctions ugainst the rights of labor to peacefully co-operate for their own protection in matter of wage's. They seek to minimize State sovereignty and to make all power, authority, and even local government emanate from and be exclusively ex ercised by tho Federal Government, with themselves as tho Biipreme voice of the Government. Their jurisdiction should bo eurtuilcd and not onlarged, and yet this bill will send them with their hungry ollicers and employees into< very hamlet, nook, and corner of the Union. In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I will say my section can survive this legis lation aa well as any other portion of the country, whilo we are far from enjoying the prosperity that should be ours and to which our natural advan tages entitle uo. No people on earth have been ao favored by Providence. Our citizenship is unequallod in Its high standard of American blood and American manhood. it is the old original stock, possessing a century's heredity of American citizenship. Our forefathers have lived and delved and died there. Unlike tho other sections of the Union, wo have not been invaded and overrun by tho degruded, lawless and worthless pauper immigration of lower and Faatern Furopo. Wo havo escaped that abomination of desolation. Our soil, whilo not as rich as some of the lands of the Wost, produces practically tho cotton of the world, whilo our grain crops even ex ceed it in value Our iron deposits and timber aro tho beat in tho Union. Wi produco ita rlco and sugar. Wo are fast driving out competition In the manufacture of the coarser numbers of cotton goods. A despairing wail for help has already come to Congress from tho Now England mills to cbeok tho prosperity and growth of our Southern mills by amending tho Con stitution so as to enable Congroas to re gulato and Interfere with our un equalled labor conditions. But their cry Is In vain. They will never got tho necessary two-thirda of either the Iiouae or tho S.mato. and so long as cotton grows they will never got the necessary three-fourths of tho States. By your majorities you have had the powor to pass your tariff laws and to doraonetlzo sil/or, but the Statos will nover permit yuu to so amend the Constitution as to deprive them of their right to control thoir own internal affairs and conditions in their own way. You may as well bond to the Inevitable Within a few more years not you, but tho South will an nually transform its $300.000,000 of raw cotton into $1,000,000,000 of cotton goo a. Uuuer normal conditions and equal lawn nothing could prevent our people gathering wealth an I prosperity from their resources and then- labors. Strike from i,nu United stales Statuten the udIu'/w laws that you have enaotod during tho past thirty-sir yearn and our people will onter upon an ora of prosperity novor bofore witnessed in this or any other country. You will never do It, but you oannot long pro vent it. Oat of tho shadow of night the day will yet dawn 1 ?The CTew York. cop sspondent of 'e I i Dally Telegraph says: ??I i the highest authority that, illlanoe u ?weon Great Brl-I fnlted AJ*? ' * BILL ARP AND HIS GKAND-CH1LDREN. AN UNUHOKKN FltOIAC AIjIj DAY. Xhey Chalked the Waitf, Upeet the MuoIIakc and Littered the Floor wtih Paper. Ycsterday was a long aod happy day at our tioubu, for a lotof the graud-chii dren eamo early and some of tho neigh bors' little girls found out they wero horo. They always find out, and so thoy eamo over and joined tho proces sion and it was an unbroken frolic all the day hing. Tho little one* brought their dolls along, for the maternal in stinct begins early, j hey made play houses under trees and played muinulo peg with my two kuives, and rode in the ball and veranda on tho tricycle and dressed up in all the line o'd clothes my wife could lind in toe trunks and closets, and paraded upstairs and down stairs and outdoors with their trains dragging after them, and they played going to call and receiving calls. When-tho dinner bell rang they all came running and it took all my tuno to Walton them, and their grandma gotout every good thing she had in the house, and about the middle of the afternoon they wanted to give a little party and had to have more cake and crackero and pie. Soo\e of the .little ones got hold of some chalk and colored e-ayons and marked all over the veranda and tried to make pictures of dogs and horses and monkeys on the walls, and then they called for scissors and fashion books and cut out dolls and ladies and other pictures and scattered them over the room. They got hold of my mucilage bottle and pasted things aoout und even ventured to my littlo tablo to write letters while 1 was working in tiie garden, and all tneir grandma said was, "You had hotter watoh out, your grandpa is coming." i'm going to lick 'etu sometime wiion she is not about. But in due time they had to go home, for, '?The day was doilO and the darkness Fell from the wings of night." Our own girls weut visiting after I sup'/ r and my wife and 1 were alone unu U'Ha sound was heard in all tho houso save the ticking of the clock upon the mantel. The contrast was so great that it was impressive and wo felt lonesome and almost sad. i?aob of \ us bad our corner and table and lamp and tried to read tho war news, but our old eyes were tired and we guzed upon the liro and ruminated. For some time wo ha 1 been in silent, serious reverie about those little, happy chil dren and breathing a prayer that they might always be happy and that no calamity or t.Illiction might befall them, and then our minds turned to our absent boys, who are scattered far and wide, from New York to Mexico, and wo breathed another prayer for their health and happiuc*s and their return to us some of these days?yes, some of these days before we dio they will come, we know, but it may bo to a funeral instead of a feast. Wo were ruminating about all this in silence, when suddenly my wife seemed startled aud whispered, "I heard a footfall at tue window. There is somebody there." Before I could answer, tho sweet, sad strains of mins trel music began low and soft and thu violins and guitar played to the littiug song of "Old Folks at Home." The minstrels h.ul rcconnoitcrcd and found that only we wi re at home. They guvo us but one song and were gone ? but these little episodes sweeten the passim; hours und comfort us in our golden age. Forty-nine years ago to day, wo were wedded. It is like re versing a telescope to look back to that day and time, when the glow of youth and health and beauty wus upon my Creole maiden's cheeks, when gems adorned l.cr raven hair, when the even ing light was on her brow and pearls upon her brea t us she stood beside me at the marriage alter. It is like look through a kaleidoscope to recall toe day.- and weeks and months and years that have intervened since?a kaleido scope that at every turn of the sands of time presents another picture of life, its joys and sorrows, its trials and its blessings. What changes, what sur prises, und in the mulbt of it all a war ?along and horrid war that always looms up before our memories and eclipses all that svas before or after. But on the whole the lines have fallen to us in pleasant places and wo have had more joy than sorrow, more com fort than distress. (Jod gave us live children before the war and live more came after and we are t lankful that only we, the parents of them, shared and suffered ull the long anxiety and thoy knew it not. God grant that neither they nor their children shall be so tried, so troubled, si, strained in mind arid heart for four loug years, while the days seemed weeks and the weeks months. But we i n lured it all and thousands of others cr.dured and su tiered more. What is it that man and wifet cannot endure when their children are at stake. The poet say*: "They who joy would win ? Must share it. Happiness was horn a twin." And it is the same with grief and fillction. I nave hud some, most delicious read' ing lutoly. It is the address delivered by Dr. Hunter McGutre on dun. 22J lust past ut tho St. Denis Hotel, in New York, ut tho eighth unnuul banquet ol the (Jonfederuto veterans' cumpui New York city. It must be, 1 know, the most beautiful und thrilling tribute to Stonewall Jackson ovor written or spoken by any man. Dr. MoGuire was 1 Jacksons medical director und most coniidentiul friend und hii? told in this address more touching incidents con nected with the groat generul's mili tary career than 1 have ever found und ! they uro heuutifully, charmingly told. I ICvery page of this little booalut is j adorned with them. It is not often! that medical men indulge in biographi cal literature, hut Dr. McGuiro ia cor- 1 taiuly a man of rare culture. I r. ad this address aloud to my wlfo and , daughters last evening ana at tunes 1 could not read. 1 had to pause and | watt for my heart to be ?tili and mv voice to come buck to mo. Those al ways tell me when what 1 read is in spired. How did our hearts burn woh in us as 1 reud und how wusour patriot* j ism revived anu set aglow who new tire. Bven on the first page he awakens I us from that lcthurgy a-inch time ur.d I ourront events bring ovor tho ^est ol I I patriots for ho savs. "Ib was with a swelling heart that I rcuonlly hoard some of the llr?tsuhlieis and military studuuts uf England de clare that within the past 2UU years the English speaking race has produc ed but live soldiers of the lirst rnnk? Murlhorough, Washington, Welling ton, Kooort E. Loo and Stonewall J.ick Bon. 1 head them declare thut Jack son's campaign in tlio Snonnndoati valley wuu the hnest specimen of 1 strategy and tactics of which the world has any record*, that in this scries of marcnos and battles there wus never a blunder and that this campaign was superior to either of those made hy Napoleon in Italy. One British offloer who teaches strategy in a great Euro pean college, told mo that ho used this campaign as a modol and dwelt upon it for months in his leotures and that it was taught in all military schools of Germany and Von Moltko declared it was without a rival in thu world's his tory. 'Indeed,' ho added, 'Jackson seems to mo to havo boon inspired.' Anothor British soldier of high rank and a trained student oi war told me that for its nuinbors the army of North ern Virginia bad more force and power than any otbor army tuat ever ex isted." Well, that Is enough for a starter?a starter of the bloou In the patriot's veins. Sometimes I feel like 1 would bo proud to have been born a Virginian, whore these great soldiers lived Washington, Lee and Jackson?and where Jefferson and Madison ?nd Men ? ,r "n shall lived. I wish that ?very old] soldier and every young man In this southern land could read this splcudid | address. I fear that it is too long for a single Issue of Toe Constitution, for it Is near 7,(1)0 words, but nothing better I could occupy Its columns. It reads like a rom trice und if th< re arc any young men in Georgia w o are Inclined to make sport of tl o war tho perusal of this address will make them feel ashamed that they ever entertained j such unpatriotic feelings. Wo havo heard of a "young man's party ' as hostile to any further political honor to tho veterans, but surely t iis cannot bo true, for what young man can be found win) would so dishonor the mother who bore him or the father or uncle or kinsman wtio fought or fell in the late war? No [lather lot ? very young Georgian echo the sentiment of Henry Grady when he said at the New England banquet: ''The South has no thing to take oaok. In my native town is a monument that crowns its central hill - a plain white shaft. Deep cut into its shining side is a name dear to me above the names of men that of a brave and simple man v h > died in brave and simple faith. N >t for all the glories of Now England would 1 ex chaugo the heritage he left me in hlo soldier death. To the foot of that monument 1 shall send my children's children to reverence him who en nobled their name with his heroic blood." That is patrlotlm- pure and simple. Bill Ahp, AN ALLY IN ?A8K OK \V A It. The Japanese Government Likely to I Form an Alliance Willi (lie United States. A now International complication In the Maine incident bus arisen. Japan ! may be drawn into our possible quarrel witb Span.. Perhaps Japan uas un eye on tlie Philippine Islands, wire i might fall into her lap while thu United States engaged Spain in Atlantic waters. Japan has always wanted tho islands, and her Burowd diplomats soe an opportunity too important to he over looked. This new phase of tie; situation arises from tho fact that the slate depart ments, at tiie instance of Japan, has determined that .there were seven Japau .se stilj -ets on board the battle ship when sue was U).-t. Their names were isa Sugtsaki, Otogoru ishlda, Buke Chlngi, Mas O.iye, Yukiehi Kilo gata, Tinekiski Nagamlne and Kasbo tora Suzuki. II it is proven tliut tho Maine was blown up Irom the outside it is staled that the Japanese government does not propose to excuse Spam from re sponsibility for the destruction of these men, and will demand a heavy in demnity from Spain, reinforcing it with a naval demonstration at Manilla. This circumstance gives the Ameri can government an unexpected hut in valuable ally in ease of a rupture with Spain. Iiis stated thai, tho Japanese minister lias given this government as surances ot Japan's support in any emergency ami that while it has not been accepted or declined, it is recog nized that tho friendship of Japan would release America from the neces sity of ^keeping aome of her linest v.ssels in Asiatic waters, and thes". added to a naval force in the Atlantic would insure the supremacy ot tho home llaet against any threatened Spanish raid on our coast. Mr. lioshi called at the state depart ment a few days ago and was closeted with the officials for a considerable time. There is every reason to bellavo that he conveyed lo Junge D.iy the direct ohioial intimation that the ruler of Japan w ould willingly make an alii ance with America against Spain, Mr. Durham White Stevens, coun selor of the Japanese legation, In speaking for the legation regarding the matter, said that the inquiry addressed to the state department win prompted by the Interest felt iu the, Japanese suhj cts upon the ship, and was lo find out whether any of the bodies bad been Identilied and what disposition had been made of thorn. Mft^en asked w hat rela'ion asuljoot of .rfTpan bore to that government wnen serving under tho American Ii ig, Mr Stevens answered that it was a ques tion of international law. He sain that certainly the enlisted men were sub j'Ct to the rules of discipline and or dors, hut remaining subjects of Japan, that government naturally felt un interest In them. To the question of what Japan should do if the court ( f inquiry found that the Maine was blown up by design, and whether the Japan* se government would demand an Indemnity from Spain, ho rej " ied that it was a very complicated question, and that ho diu not care lo say anything about the matter. The s\ mpathy ol Japan would he with this government in the ease, but whether she would ally herself with America was a question he did not care to discuss. - mm ? -? THfiS COUNTINU OK TIMK. A Gain ol' r we illy Knur limns in Going Around the World, \V. Va. Farm Kcvicw. When President Lincoln was assassi nated by J. Wilkes Month, it was found afterwards that one of tin; leading spirits in the conspiracy was.). 11. Sur run who escaped to K o'ope und when he discovered u detective was on his truck he continued Iii? llightacross the continent und across ihe Modi tor runeuD Seu to Alexandra, and was there ar rested by un oilloor. The detootlvo sent u telegram hack to Wushingteu In forming the authorities of the fact, which tolegran. wan received tin (I iy before too event transpired. Now let us see if we can explain this phenome nal freak of nature. In j.ist about the middle of the Pacific Oouan \a too one hundred anil eightieth degree of long* titudo. Teat Imaginary lino crosses the point on the earth's bUi faeo which is precisely opposite Orcouwiob, Kag land, the[>laceut which by the common eji.sent of all nations, the counting of time begins. At noond.iy when the sun is directly overhead at Greenwich, at other points to tin; west the time will hi. oariierone hour for each lifted, degrees of longtitude, so that when 180 degrees is reached it will be midnight anil to the Antipodes. Now, wo come to the, point. For con venience tuke your watch and hold it, so that Q go res on its fuoj indicating twelve o'clock will be distinctly north und six o'olojk south. Twelve o'clock on the watch Is Greenwich, and six o'clock is tho Antipodes. Smarting from Greenwich at twelve and travel ing westward fifteen degrees, wo will discover our time is just one hour fast, and continuing fifteen degreoj farther wo llnd our watch is just two hour* ahead of the l ime at this point. Ho on, until wo have gone 1HU degrees, .vhon wo find our timo is twelve hours fast, and if we continue until wo arrive back att Greenwich our time Is just twenty four hours fnat. Now, how nro we to got out of this predicament ? Thanks to all tho na t ons of thia earth who have agrocd ao as to overcome thia dilliculty, wo wore allowed when wo crossed thoAntlpodea to drop out of our calendar ono day. Vor lnatanee, Buppoae when wo came to thia fatal line that It was mid- i night, January lat. ne xt morning a I lottor would havu to bo dated January I 3rd to bo correct. All nations have agreed that ?altera sailing westward aoroas this lino shall drop one day from the calendar. To the ladles, here is the opportunity of your llvo-. Go to British Columbia and take oat-sago In a steamor about aix days prior to your next birthday, and you will arrlvo at1 the Antipodes iu all probability tho | night before your b'.rthday, and alter Jin have rotired Morphous is banished by the heait-rondlng thoughts that, crowd your poor mind of tho morrow, 1 but what pleasure and peace will yours bo the next morning when you are In- j formed that you are permitted to hkip -* voi roword. High Tides - Gettysburg aud Another. (With Apologies tu Will H. Thompson.) A hove tin." hille a pall of Rmoke, ? tad gathered when the cannons spoke And hid the fateful battle-field, Beneath an odorous, murky riiield, Whiicslill the hoarse-VOlC d thunder broke. In fitful gleams the lightning Dashed And through the cloud some horsemen dashed, I Thon at the linn command of Lee. Moved L'iokett's matchless infantry. While blazing batteries roared and crashed ! lie led where heaven seemed to frown, ? / gainst tiiat awful belching crown? ' lie led his men most splendidly, Beneath that cloud of Destiny, Where leaden hail must mow them down! Mark! High abovo the gleaming guns, 'the welkin rings?a tumult runs, The Bamu that broke in Bhiloh's woods I And Chiekamauga's solitudes? I The tierce wild yell of Southern sons! Abi How before that seething hell, Thal ti'm, gray host met shot and shell How fierce that shriveling tempest blew, Agalrsl the rai Us ol i'ettigrev,*, While valor wept where l'ickelt fell! Thoy crossed the worki where Kemper led; A thousand fell whereGarnett bled; I a Btrnnglingsmoke and blinding ilame, The remnant through the batteries oume And KO/.cd on death wi h Armistcad! I "ItOttn t the battle-front with me!" Virginia sang to Tennessee, K spondod <|uick tin- men in gray, "We'll hold lli08C wcrks us ours to-day And write with blood new history!" Misguided brave! In valorous way. Virgin'n beard her comrades say, "I lose 'r mid the riddled Federal rag" And then she set her battle ling, Bight on the guns of Doubledayl Itut w ho may charge the guards that wall To Bcrve the mern decrees of b'atoV Tlie Southern swords were doomed to nut The Southern Hag to trail the dust And all their hopes made desolate! In sain the Carolinas sot, I'heir breast? against the bayonet! In vain Virginia charged and raged. Nor was hor haughty wrath assuaged, When with her blooU, the hill was wet! A hove the storm id bayonets crossed, There bung a gray and shrouded ghost, iteccding on the battle-cloud, Thai shrieked above the tempest loud, The death cry of a nation lost! The tide had turned! With no disgrace They la\ in ruin's red embrace; Vi'itli bloody faces to the sky, Last mute appeal to Him on high, I n pity not to hide Iiis face ! They met defeat who would command Tho circling sun in heaven lo stand I 'fbey fought and fell who put the bars, Against the stripes and gleaming stars I 'I'o make a disunited land ! I'hrv stood, whom did Columbia greet. Wit crimson Bllllduls on her feet, They held the hill, who hold the hope, Uf pat riots on that slippery slope, And Union forged in hellish heat I That tide has ebbed! Now smell the guns, We now are one those valorous sons, Mill all tho clang of Mammon's elans, They stund as true Americans, For common-weal their purpose runs. There hath been thwarted all that Will, That grasped and held that trembling iiill A fair, foul Kiend (.**? i hue pov. er attain ed, Columbia's beauteous limbs has chain ed And forges stronger tetters still! What limits it. that down in the grave, Secession rests .' That from the slave. The Bhaekles fell'/ Again "tis night, And slavery holds both black and white? Is there no "savior now to save'.' Again a tide is rising high, Again must sound a hat tie-cry. A Nation in i s wrath 10 CO| 0, Again is trembling on the slope. Tills Nation, or tills god, <!?> must die ! Fob.6, 1803. IIknby Nbiiuu. mm ? ? THE ADMINISTRATION'S POLICY, President McKinley in Communica tion With the Cuban Insurgents? The PlailS for Intervention are Now Praotloally Complete. special to The Atlanta Journal. WASHINGTON, March lO.? The Pres ident is in direct communication with the insurgents. Ue is getting data from tbom as to the details of their strength and the form of government they have established uftid also with a view of ? earning whom they desire to have rocogni/.ed whui the independence shall be recognized. '?The President wiil do nothing to fot'CC war.jojd everyCrTihg to avoid it, but he is JBlermincd upon the policy to free Cuba from the Spanish yoKe." These, were the words of a Senator to tn>' this morning, who had just left the White House after an interview with the President. The hope is expressed here to-day that Spain will act in ac cordance with tho advice of nations friendly to her and upon the request of President McKinley withdraw her troops from the island of Cuba. It is believed, however, that she would only acoede to the demand with the assur ance from tlio governments that its present dynasty shall be kept in power. To save the throne for tho young king is the Alpha and Omega now of Spain's policy. It is possible, though not prob able,that Itoan he saved through peace ful negotiations. While, still hoping that a settlement may be reached through diplomacy, the President is buying powder. All I factories are working to their limit, and yet Commander Brownson is com missioned to secure large supplies of it abroad. Hut Brownson'a chief commis sion wdl be to inspect the ships on which this government has already secured options, and if they bo what they were represented, to close tho d al at nee. I The ivittlno Inquiry is nearing tho ond, and tho report v ns rent by usecret messenger to the President. It ia now oonlldontly predicted by those in high official life that this report will not only disprove tho accident theory, but will produce substantial proofs that tho Maine was destroyed by treachery and design of Spanish ohioers. Simultaneously with this report tho President will sond to (Jongresa tho consular report as evidence that auton omy is a failure) in tho prool of the Starvation und devastation there, in roc- j Ognttlon of th i'truth of tho statement that the war is ono not of conquest but extermination. Tho President does not believe that Spain can pay an in demnity, and ho is eoriously consider ing not demanding one. Such a de mand would delay settlement until lato into the spring, when yohow fever would make (Jub.i a death trap to our foldlcrs. The President said to somo (Jongro-smen yesterday that prompt ness was as nccos .ury us notion itself. Tho consular .epora and tho report of the court of inquiry will be but tl ? interlude to \,Y 6 Haul act. This will l o followed by a declaration of Independ oneo, for the President Is sjt upon a policy of Intervention and cannot bo swerved from It. ?"Somowhoro la tho South," says Congressman Su'.lowuy, " a bright col ored boy, appeared botoro tho civil aor vlco commission to bo examined for tho position of letter carrlor. 1 How far is it from tho earth to tho moon ?' was tho first question asked by thoso who wero to dotormine tho young man's fitness for tho placo ho sought. ' How ' fah am It from tho oarf to do moon V " ochoed tho applicant. ' My Lawd, boss, if you's gwlno to put mo on dat route I don't want do ion.' With that tho young man grabbed his hat and left as though ho wero ohnsed." ?Senator Ohandlor has Introduced a bill providing for romission of ddtlns on war materials that may bo Imported. Tuts action Is one morw etep which sbow.i in which dlreotlon the adminis tration is moving. This) resolution Is forth', purpose of encouraging indivi duals ?<? Import ammunition, even with the hope of spooulaitott, in time of trouble, ?._^v,, \ Royal makes th* ?'>-?! pur?, \vhole?uuic und delicious. POWDER Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKING PO?DER CO., NtW YORK. GENERAL PURPOSE HOUSES. Horses have been domesticated, and employed in tlie service of mankind botb ID ponce, and war, from the earliest period of which we have auv account. There were horse men and chariots in the army ol Pha raoh when he pursued the Israelites into th" lied sea and was overwhelmed in it* Waters. The horse is a noble ani mal, and was esteemed as highly in ancient times as at the present. .lob wrote the following beautiful eulogy on the horse : " liast thou given the horse strength ? lla^t thou clothed his neck with thun der? 1'Canst thou make linn afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of bis nos trils are leruble. "He pa weih the ground in the val ley, and rojoicelh in his strength ; he gOOth on to meet the armed men. "He niocketh at fear, and is not allllCled ; nuttier is he turned back by the sword. "The quver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. "He BWdlowolh the ground with fierceness aid rage ; neither helieveih he that it ;sthe sound of the trumpet, lie saith anbog the trumpets, ha, ha ! and he smcjolh the battle afar off, the thunder of he captains, and the shout ing." JobpOth chapter, 10th to 26tb. Jcremiabsays : uAs the horse rush el h into balle." Some pople at the present <lay are laughed a for "talking horse" but it appears till some of the prophets in ancient tins were as enthusiastic ad mirers ot the horse as G n. Grant, Hubert IJiincr, or anybody lobe found. ? Much Us been written in times past abo.it goeral purpose horses, and much nice will no doubt he written for centuies to comes. I once owned a geneiapurpose mare, and if I could always gt her I would never have any other. bought her of a man who Wie gOlg to California. He said she was the best animal he ever owned, and waied to Stipulate that if be re turned i three years he ?hould have the priv.egeof buying her back at the same pre he sold her for. Of course 1 W0Ul( not agree to that. She was not hadsotuo. she had a homely head, aJ an uncomely build behind. Her riup sloped too much forward from lb tail to the hips. She will deep CBSted, of moderate width be-i tween he fore legs an evidence of large lugs. Her legs were not large for lionize, hut finely shaped and ap parent composed of nothing but skin, boue ad sinews. Her eyes were in tolligCI, With a friendly, cheerful ex pl'C8si(. Her color was bay and her Wi ightboul l,-JUii pounds. She ad no pedigree thai could be liaccdback to any fatuous aucesiry, She ight have heen called a "scrub" hut si had an OXCcllctlt COUStilutiou and put strength for her size, she was a beautiful, hut she was an angel disgu:d as a horse. It she under stood bat you wanted her to do, sin woulotrive to do II with all her might. Wbeiteatuiug in the woods, she wa? as sudy and patient in traveling throw bush, and wading through mud lies as an ox : hut when on I In road nrnesscd to a buggy, sho would dart ( with the spirit of a race horse, and ? cotumou horse could trot by her. Vhe.il ?he discovered the gait 1 dosiri l >r her lo travel on the road, she Mild keep that gait, trotting up lull, ill down, and on the level with out ling touched by the whip. The fact , she needed no whip. I often (Irovihcr to town, a distance of l,S inileSfVlth two persons in the buggy, in the hours, and often remaining ' thcriwo hours lo do business, drove her hoc again in the same time, and l she >uld go to eating soon as put in the able, without showing much sign of fatigue. As the road was vervilly, und never smooth and bard, this/as an excellent performance, QVOtfbr a horse with a long line of troiig ancestors. She would draw eveiounce she was capable of draw* ing.Dd draw every tune she. was told, wlmer I he load stal led or not. With horind her mate, after they had bo con seasoned to drawing heavy loiuls, I be drawn 4,000 poui da day after din without strain in or stiffening h mii the least. may he said thai such n horse wns tOeValuahlo lo keep on a faun for BN ^vJLvi ^ tnriii will defend his mk ySS*' n """1 witll Iii-- life. _v?V ^ Wli ii is more dishonor* . \ able llinn unnecessary faire ? Thousands of men tunke failures ofife and ihe premature deaths, leaving wes and children unpi ?vldcd for, hecau ic oillii ir reckless neglocl <>f health. No mi can do good woik or be sticcessfiil in bilucss who sufTers from blHousnoss, <li gijive and nervous disorders such as sick belache, giddiness, dizziness, drowsiness, cd chills, flushings of hent, shortness or bath, loss of appetite, fullness and swell ItiaftCI meals, wind and pain in the stotn aij costiveness, blotches on the skin, loss Ollcep, disturbed sleep, frightftil dreams at lierVOUS and trembling sensations. hrse nre but the forerunners <>f some dad disease like deadly consumption, or fal nervous prostration. Dr. Pierce's Glien Medical Discovery is the liest med? ice for hard working men and women. Ithircs all cases of weak stomach, im plied digestion and disordered liver. It gi.?s keen edge to the appetite, makes the orstion perfect and the liver active. It mres rich, red, pure blooi' and builds fit healthy flesh. It builds new, healthy, miculnr tissue in every vital organ. It |C SS the worn out nerves. It strengthens tl muscular system, and invigorates and v lizes the whole system. It Induces und and refreshing sleep, dissipates d wsiness and melancholy, and imparts u ital power, elasticity and courage. It a uses the physical energies of the whole b y. It cures 98 per cent, of all eases of c sumption, bronchial, throat and kindred a nents. All medicine dealers sell it. Costiveness and biliousness. Doctor I rce's Pleasant Pellets cure them. They ?fcngthen and stimulate the overworked dVanii. They never gripe. One "Pellet" fla gentle laxative, two a mild cathartic. farm work, and hauling logs out of t woods ; that a l'erchoron, or Clydi dalo, or some of Hie large breeds horses could have lilled her place the farm as well, and she could ha been sold to some rieb m in f >r a c rlago hone at a big price. Graule but the big horse would not have b AO intelligent to understand or so rel : to obey, and could not have tilled \ j place on the road, nor even in cult" I mg coro and potatoes, tor she t1 I stepped on a hill, and in nankin-" ground for planting, she would'*4 Btraigbt on a line. She was not a good breeder. ,1U' bei- served by good horses man\jrs' but bbe never laid but one colt ,u> did not inherit her good qualiti "c Wl s stupid, slow, and headslro W88 about the size of his mob 'in , im vices, was good to draw, COllld uot lill her pi.ice. He was i" ~('n" oral purpose horse.- -J. W. rim 1,1 Wisconsin Agriculturist. - Auout Drinking \VATii,,T??ere aro few people, we think," >Xiyv- P??" um'b Health Journal, (Jhi?- lin' thoroughly realize the va"' wator as u beverage, or who kmmw "'' tain tlie greatest ad van? from it. The effects produced by ! drluklng of wate?- * * * vary with nianoor in which It is druiiK. if, fJnstanec, a pint of cuM water be Jlowed as u large draft, or if it b?*K?n 1? two portions with a shoi t ir va'- betwi i D, certain definite resiilij|h)W ?1 iTjot? which dilT.ii" from thowbieh would have resulted from ti,inii; quantity taken by sipping. Si?tf W a power 1 ful stimulant to the ol'latlon, a t liini: which ordinary drinK is not. Dur ing the act of sipping6 action of the nerve which shows'0 beats of the heart is abolish) d, a^ 11 coi sequence that organ contraofuch more rapid ly, tin: pulse boats'1*6 quickly, and tiie circulation in lious parts of the body is increased. 1 addition to this, we lind that trie p^ure under which the bile is secre- is raised by the sipping of lluid. id here is a point which might v be m t d by our readers : A glaff cold water, slowly sipped will prodB greater acceli:ra tion of tho pulsar a time than will a glass of wine or /its at a d raft. I n this connection it in not be out of plaoe to mention that>i'ing cold water will often allay tlmraving for alcohol in those who havoeen in the habit of taking too muiOl it. and who may be endeavoring reform, the i IV -et boinp probably due the stimulant action of the sipping." mm ? mm ?A fruit hier near Dallas, Tex., thinks lie -s discovered a certain means of prentlng the too early bud- 1 ding of trocwblch usually results in the destru(On of the fruit by freea lug. He r-icvi s the soil from around the tr 10, eaks up a good sized lump of (oe witlA'hich lie lills up the s^.'.co. then cov?S tho lee with a layer of straw and layer of soil. Ii. W. i!.\-? '? W. HIM KINS. W. W. u.M.I. ILVL, si >I KINS ?v BALL*, V t lornoys a i Law, i.Aiti:*. South Carolina. Will |iu-ti<" in all State and I'nilcd StHtes.Coyit. Special alteiition given 0 illeeiony II. V Slil'SON. C. I). IIAHKSDALr SlAIjpON AI BARKSDA LL. /Tttornoj'H at Law, LA IRpS, sc lUTU CAK0L1NA Spec/tl attention given tothelnvostl gatlonpf titles and collection of claims I W. II. MARTIN, / Attoriicj at Law, LaJIiknh, - South Carolina. Wli practice In all Courts of this stati Attention given to collections. . ilARI.KSTON A WK8TBKN (AKO ? Una Railway Co. ?? Augusta and Atlic* 8*llo8hort Line." Schemde la affect Oot Qd, 1897. (v jV Augusta. 040 am 1 40 pm ^ r (ircotiwood.12 17 pm . l,v Anderswn. 0 10 am Ar I.aureus. i 15 pm 7 am (Ircenvlllo. 2 00 pm 10 80 am Oleun Springe. 4 05 prn . Rpartanburg. 8 00pa) 9 2/ air Saluda ....... 68 pm . IIomler8onvllle< .? 008pm . Aelievtllo. 7 00 pm . B am 11 45 am ' 1 So atr l 10 pm . 7 00 am 9 28 pm . r> oo i m ti .mi urn 4 :5' pm t oc pm 7 :t' pm !i 39 pm 11 li am t.v A Bheut?e. sp irtanburg.... t!r? 0IIV Mo... . I.aureus?. Anderson. Greenwood ArAugusta .... .\r AiKen*. Lv Greeuv lie. Ar Clinton. . . . New inrry . \ rosperity Columbia . Sumter Lanes. 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