The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, November 13, 1901, Image 1

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VOL. XVII T.ATTRFM9 ^ C , WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBEBER 13, 1901. " NcTTs NOBILE TRIBUTE TO A GREAT HERO. l?cc'a Recognition of Defeat and His Decision Against Further Resistance. At a r.-ccnt incctiug of the Massa chusetts antiquarian society. IIou. Charles Francis Adams said : Tho present seems a proper occa sion to call attention to a matter gcr mane to the purpo.se of this society. IlistOMcal in its character, it conveys a lo8bon of grave import. One of tho most unhappy and disastrous wars of the century is now dragging itself out iu South Africa to a conclusion appar ently still remote. There Is good rea son to think that the conflict by judici ous action, might Ion,'; siuce have been biOUglit Lo U ?.?!?> <? . i ii.ii it io ilun COD tinued simply because tho parlies to it cannot be brought to a sensible basis of adjustment?a basis upon which both uro in reality ready to ngro:. My pur pose is to draw attention to the hair breadth escape we ourselves had from a similar experience thirty-six years ago, and to assign to whom it belongs the credit of that escape. In one word, in the strong light of passing events, I think it is now opportune to set forth tho dobt of gratliudo this reunited country of ouis?North and South ? owes to Robert E. Lee. " Most of those hero remember the state of aiYairs which existed in the re bellious portion of tho United States in April, 1805 It was almost tho identi cal state of ah'iiir8 which existed iu South Africa at the time of the capture of Pretoria by Roberts in June a year ago. It is unnecessary to refer to the series of events between the abandon ment of Richmond and the surrender of Appomattox. The capitulation of tho Army of Northern Virginia b( came inevitable, but the course thereafter to be pursued as concerned further resis tance by the Contederacy was slill to be decided. It is well known that, ill tho face of disaster, Jefferson Davis had not, for an instant given up the thought of continuing the struggle. To do so was certainly practicable. Foreign opin ion, for luslaucc, assumed as a cer tainty of the future that the con quest of the Confederacy was impos sible ; that even ihc surrender of all the Confederate armies would be hut the close of ono phase of the war and the opening of a long, fruitless effort to subdue a united people in a region so past that it would be impos sible to penetrate every portion of it, much less hold it in subjection. " As an historical fact, the scales ou tho ninth of April hung wavering in the balance ; a mere turn of the baud would decide whicli way they were to incline. Thus, on the morning of that momentous day it was an absolutely open question, an even chance, wheth er the course which was actually par sued should be pursued, or whether the leaders of the Confederacy would adopt tho policy which Kruger, R?tha and DoWet have in South Africa more re cently adopted, aud are now following. The decision rested in the hnuds of one man?the commander of the Army of Nortl ern Virginia. General E. P. Alexander, Lee's chief of artillery, had come to ttie conclusion that the army of Virginia, while nominally capitulating, must in reality disperse and those composing It instructed each other to get to his own Slate in the shortest possible time, and report to the Governor thereof, with a view to further and continuous resistance. General Alexander, riding rapidly to headquarters found Leo seated on the trunk of a fallen treo before a dying camp lire. He was dressed in uniform. Full of tho idea which dominated his mind, Alexander sprang from his horse and proceeded at once to propound his plan, for it seemed to him tho only plan worthy of consideration. As he went on General Lec looking steadily into the tire with an abstracted air, listened patiently. Alexander said his full say. A brief pause ensued, which Lec finally broke in somewhat these words : 4 No, General Alexander, that will not do 1 You must remember that we are a Christian people We have fought this light as long and as well as wo knew how. We have been defeat ed. For us as a Christian people there is now but one courso to pursue We must accept tho situation ; theso men must go home aud plant a crop, and we must proceed to build up our coun try on a new basis. We cnanot have recourso to the methods you suggest.' "I remember being deeply impressed with Alexander's comment, when he repeated these words of Lee. They had evidently burned themselves into his memory. Ho said : * I had noth ing more to say. I felt that the man had soared way up above me?he dominated me completely. I rose from | beside him, silently mounted my horse, rode back to my command, and waited for the order to surrender.' " Then and there Lee decided its course for tho Confederacy. And I take it there is not one solitary man in the United States today, North or South, who does not feel that he de cided right. " The Army of Northern Virginia1 laid down its arms at Appomattox on April 0. What Johnston might do was still open to question, but Lee's act decided his. Thero is a vivid descrip tion in Pollard's book, I think, of an interview which immediately after Lee's surrender took place between Jefferson Davis and Johnston nt the headquartcio of I he latter. The two bad met to consider the situation. Davis, stubborn in temper and bent on a policy of continuous irregular resis tance, developed this plan with much earnestness. Johnston mutely listened to him. Finally, the ex-President of the Confederacy lapsed into silence. Johnston then said : * Mr. President, do you wish my opinion V Davis in. t? mated that he was (here for the pur pose of receiving it. Thereupon John, ston brought the conversation to a close with these pregnant words: 'Mr. President, tho South feels that it is whipped and it is tired of the war.' "We all know what followed. I have in my possession a copy of the Index, the weekly journal published in Lon don duiing tho Civil War, the official organ of tho Confederate agents in Europe, The surfender of Lee was commented upon editorially April 27 : ?The war is far from concluded,' it de clared, 'and if worst comes lo the worst there is the Transmississippi depart ment, a new and safe starting-point.' Oh May 25, following tho surrender of Johnston, May 11, tho Index had an article entitled ' Southern Resistance in Toxab,' in which it announced that 1 such a war will be llorce, ferocious aud of long duration.' In a word, such an expiring struggle as wo are today witnessing in South Africa. Only in its issuo of Juno 1, when President Davis hud beeu captuicd and Kiiby Smith had surrendered did it raise tbo I wailiog-cry, 1 Fuil Ilium * * Tho South has fallen.' "Comparing the situation which thou existed in tho Confederacy with that now in South Africa, it must bo also remembered that General Lee assumed the responsibility he did assume, and decided tho policy to bo pursued in the way it was decided, under no amelior ating conditions. Politically, uncondi tional surrender was insisted upon, aud Lee's surrender was politically unconditional. Even moro so was Johnston's. Nor that alono. The cm nncipation proclamation of January, 18(53, which confiscated tho valuable chattel properly of the Confederacy, remained the irreversible law of tho laud. Tho inhabitants of the South, Were, moreover, as ono man disfran. chisod. When they laid down thoir arms, they had before them, first a military govorument, and after that the supremacy of tho former slaves. A harder fato for tho proud people to ac cept could not be imagined. The bit terness of feoliog, tho hatred was too extreme. " It may possibly be argued that the conditions in this country then were different from those now iu South Africa. Inasmuch as hero it was a civil war, a coufiict between communi. tics of tho snmo raco aud speech, in volving the vital question of the supre macy of law. Thisargumout, however, seems to imply that in case of strife of this description a general severity may fairly be resorted to in excess of that permissible between nations. In other words, that wo arc justified in treatiug our brethren wuh greater hatsbne83 than we would treat aliens in blood and speech. Obviously this is a question of contention. It might possibly also be claimed that the bit terness of civil war is not so insur mountable as that of one involving a question of race dominance. Yet it is ditlicult to conceive bitterness of greater iutensity than existed between the sections at tho close of our civil war. Indeed, recalling the circutnstaucos of that lime, it is fairly appalliug to consider what in 1805 must have oc curred had ltobert E. Leo then been of the same turn of mind as Jefferson Davis, or as implacuble and uuyieldiug in disposition as Kruger or Botha have more recently proved. Tho national government had in arms a million men, inured to the hardships and accustom ed to the brutalities of war ; Lincoln bad been freshly assassinated ; tho temper of tho North was thoroughly aroused, ivhilo its patience was ex hausted. An irregular warfare would inevitably have resulted, a warfare without quarter. The Confederacy would have been reduced to u smoul dering wilderness to what South Africa today is. In such a death-grapple the North, both in morale and in means would have suffered only less than tho South. Fron^both sections that fate was averted. And I again say that, as we look today upon Kruger and Botha and De Wet, and the situation ex'sting in the Transvaal and tho Orange F. 30 States, I doubt if oncsinglo mau in the United Stales, North or South?whether ho participated in the civil war or was born sinco that war ended, would not have to acknowledge an infinite debt of gratitude to the Confederate leader who, on April 0, 1805, decided as be did decide, that tho United Stales, whether Confederate or Union, was a Christian community, and that his duty was to accept the responsibity which the fate of war had imposed upon him?to decide in favor of a new national lifo, even if slowly add pain fully to be built up by his own people under conditions arbitrarily and by force imposed on them." What is Thk Mattbu??The Florence Times makes the following pertinent comment upon tho condition of affairs in tho local cotton marketu of this State: If tho local cotton mills cared to ex tend a helping hand to the farmers of tho country, if they would show thoir gratitude to those who gavo them 1 > they could very easily stait tho cotton market upward. If they nhowed some disposition to " stock up," the bear influences, which they are, apparently, booking would be routed in no time. It has been some lime sinco tho South ern cotton mills lined themselves with tho pooplc who produce the cotton. They did it ouco and they made monoy by it, but they offended their Now England and old England friends and they have not done it sinco. Wo hear a lot about bow canital helns nroducers. but wo hardly ever get a Bight of that help excopt when there is a play made I to the gallery. The farmers will get their relief when they can do with their cotton as they do with their corn, I raise as much of it as they ueed and take it to the mill, bringing back the cloth. When the South first began to I build cotton mills wc all congratulated ourselves for it looked as if the pro ducer was going to bo the manufactur er, but the controlling interest soon passed into hands that look very like iniinical hands. The voice is tho voice of Jacob, but tho hand is that of Esau. There's something wrong somewhere. James Farrell, of BarbousvUlo, Virginia, who recently celebrated the one hundred and tlfth anniveraary of his birth, served in the war of 1812 and later was in Mexico, under Jeffer son Davis. When the war between the*State? broko out he enlisted, although no longer a young man, and saw four ? years of service. Ho was probably the oldest veteran to offer his services to (he government when the Spanish war broke out. OASTORTA. BILL ARP SOLVES PROBLEM. He Helps the Grandchildren With Their Studies at Home. Atlanta Constitution. If two-thirds of a houso coats four ilftba of tho lot and both together cost $4,400, how much was paid for each? Well, that sum is easy if you kuow how to do it. Our little school girl has mo to help her every night, and somo of these taugled up sums strain my old fashioned mind for the rule of three is abolished aud now methods adopted. I lemember a autu in the old Smiley arithmetic?if six men can cut 4 acres of wheat in three days by working six hours aduy, how many niou will u tako to cut 9 acres iu four days aud work eight hours a day? Thcso perplexing problems remind mo of Judgo Bob ; buf?zl?r'e cimrgo to the jury in a | horse case, where the plaintiff sued for damages because the horse he bought had the glauders and was a stump suekei aud wouldn't voi 1. on Iho oil side-. Fouttoeu witnesses had testified, somo for and some a. aiusl the horse, some for glanders hut not for *'ump sucking, ?omn for slump-sue' ^ but not for glanders, and some sw^re he was sound and some unsound. "Gou tlemeu," said ho, " if y?u believe that Ihe horse had tho glanders but didn't stump suck, or thai ho sucked stumps but didn't have the glanders, or thai glanders is an uusoundnoss. butstump suuking is ouly a habit, or if the horse wouldn't pull when worked ou tho off side aud couldn't be cured of it, thoiu.li this eourl knows from experience that he could bo cured of it ; or if you be lieve from the evidenco that tho horse was not warranted sound as against slump-sucking and off siding but only against .? uoh malorial things as glan ders and swincy and the like, then you must lind for the plaintiff or the de fendant according to the weight of testimony." i My candid opinion is thai somo of these miscellaneous problems are too perplexing for children not yet in Iheir teens, ami if parents or grandparents j or uncles or aunts or somebody don't ! give help the child would give up in dospa.r. I have often wondered how those pupils got along who had no : help. My father helped me all my school li'c and my wife and 1 have helped our children. It is impossible for a school teachor to gi palionl at- j tcntion to each child wheu there arc tliiity or forty pupils iu the grade. Only live hours to teach iu and four or live different text-books for each pupil and that gives less than flvc minutes' to each pupil and bx>k, while it takos 1 me hah an hour every night fcr oue j pupil in one book. Hence it is lhat only a few pupils get a fair educatiou la a graded school, ouly those who are j bright aud willing and have help al' home. Parents that can't help or won't help lose their home influence over their 1 children. Every phase of their educa tion is lumcd over to tho public school, ! which is a free mucbiuo aud teaches j books only. Morals, inodesU and ob- i cdienec uro not iu tho curriculum. I Many little children are sent thereto get them out of their mother's way, for she has work to do or shopping or visit ing or must, go to the club. Never-1 ihelcss, a few make good scholars and i good ci ' '.ens, aud for their sake tho system n-ust go on. It is no belter in the colleges, for tho most charitable estimate is that not more than ten in a hundred ever make a creditable suc cess in life. The ninety had just as well not beeu born, but the ten will j save Sodom, and it will be found that these ten got, their host education at' home. Good morals, good principles, obedience, self-denial, industry, kind ness and good manners hre a belter foundation to build on than books. To ! n.ake the home happy and inviting is the secret of all success. The family is a more important in stitution thau the school, and love is tho keystone of tho family. I scolded a little grandson the other day aud he got mad and went off and told his little cousin that grandpa was mean and he was going to tell his mamma on him. Next morning he came to see us again and camo to mo and kissed me and it made us both happy. Alit'le grand daughter was troubled because her baby brother was sick and tho doctor was sent for. She mourned over it tear fully aud then brightened up and said: "Well, if baby dies I am going to keep him for a doll." The inuocent prattle and sports of these children is my greatest comfort, and it almost grieves me that they have to grow up and en counter trouble and grief and misfor luuo. George Francis Train may bo a crank, but I had rather bo him in that park with a scoro or two of happy children around mo every day than to bo Pierpont Morgan or Rockefeller. It is pathetic to look at that man who is now past his seventy years, who has traveled al) over tho world; lived in Australia, lectured in England, Ireland and the United States to laboring men; written and had published mnnv books of travel and biography; and at last discarded all contact with mon and society and settled down to daily com munion with littlo children in tho public parks in Now York city. Ac corapanied by a frlond I got quite near to him once, for I wanted to hear his conversation with the children, but ho turned and saw us, aud, taking up his little basket of dainties, walked away to another seat, and soon had another crowd around him, and the only rea son ho gives for his peculiar conduct is, " For of snch is the kingdom of heaven." I am again comforted with now books, George Smith has sont me his last - edition of his delightful nod in structive book, "The Story of Georgia." It is a contribution to tho history of our State that every Georgian should have in tho house. It is replete with the romances of our Revolutionary his tory and the biography of our noted men and comes down to tho poriod of the civil war, where Colonol Avery and Semmes ana Kell took it up. There has just boon publlshod another in teresting and instructive book by Gen eral S. G. French. The title is "Two1 Wars," an autobiography, being the part ho and his command, played in the Mexican and the Confederate wars* The author was a prominent factor in both, and he is a vigorous, leasing and ? graphic writer. Tho book Is happily WOMAN'S TROUBLES AND FLMALB DISEASES CURED BY Johnston's Sarsaparilla QUART BOTTLE8. Painful and Suppressed Menses, Ir regularity, Leucorrhcea, Whites, Steril ity, Ulcer at ion of the Uterus, change of life, in matron or maid, all find re lief, help, benefit and cure in JOHNS ( TON'S SARSAPARILLA. It is a real panacea for all pain or hcadacho about tho top or back of the bead, distress ing pain in tho left side, a disturbed condition of digestion, palpitation of tho heart, cold hands and feet, nerv ousness and irritation, sleeplessness, muscular weakness, bearing-down pains, backache, legache, irregular ac tion of the heart, shortness of breath, abnormal discharges, with extremely painful menstruation, scalding of urine, swelling of feet, Boreness of tho breasts, neuralgia, uterine displacement and catarrh, and all those symptoms and troubles which make the average wo man's life so misorable. U1V1IIUAN UUUU CO., Detroit, Mich. For Salo IV y (be 1 i i i ? n Inf ((?) pany, Laurens, S. C. introduced by Bishop Ellison Cnpcrs, of South Carolina. It is published by The Confederate Veteran at Nashville, Teuu. It is dedicated ?< To the Con federate soldiers, who battled to main tain the cause for which Oliver Crom well and George Washingsou fought." It is indeed gratifying to see our own people multiplying our own his tories and thereby fortifying this gen eration agaiust the malignant and slan derous productions of such autln ?-s as the great Goldwin Smith and the mall Maclay. It takes a lot of work to keep up with them fellows 1 think we are about even with the Roosevelt incident and the miscegenation crowd. Maybe we are a little ahead. We have all bad our say and can afford to wail. I still think that Uoosevclt is a better man than I think he is, but ho is in awful bad company. BILL Akt. A PHYSICIAN IN A SANCTUM. He Gives Advice About the Treat ment of Scarlet Fever. Dr. J. P. Bowdoin, editor oi* the Ad airsvillc Banner, Georgia, and a physi cian of wide experience, publishes the following in his paper: "Scarlet fever is very dangerous and contagious. The poison can bo carried any distance on the bauds, clothing, books, papers, and in every conceiv able way. It never dies, wc suppose, for many cases can be traced back for a number of years. Tho poison will live in books for as much as two years, as has been already proven. The per centage of deaths is very high. "We would warn the people to treat every sore throat us if it was a bad case of scarlet fever. This is the only way it can bo slopped or controlled Wc append below rules of the health board of New York city, which will aid you, should you have a suspicious case, to treat it properly. Carry tli".m out to the lottor. Here they aro: " The patient should be placed in a separate room, aud no person except the physician, nurse or mother, allowed to enter the room or to touch the bed ding or clothing used in the sick room until they have been thoroughly dis infected. " All clothing, bedding or other articles not absolutely necessary for the use of tho patient should bo removed from the sick room. Articles used about the patient, such as sheets, pil low cases, blankets or clothes must not bo removed from the sick room until thoy have hecn disinfected by placing them in a tub with the following dis infecting fluid; Might ounces of sul phate of zinc, one ounce of carbolic acid, three gallows of water. They should bo soaked in this fluid for at least an hour and then placed in boil ing water for waehing. M All vessels used for receiving dis charges of patients should hiivc some of the same disinfectant iluid constant ly therein and immediately after being used by the patient should he emptied and oleansed with boiling water. Water closets and privies should be disinfected daily with tho same Iluid or a solution of chlorido of iron, one pound to n gallon of water, adding one or two ounces of carbolic acid. All straw bed* should bo burned. " It is advised not to uso handker chiefs, about tho patient, but rather soft r.igs for cleaning the nostrils and tho mouth, which should immediately thereafter be burned. " Tho ceiling and side walls of a sick room after tho removal of a p8lient should bo thoroughly' cleaned and washed, and the woodwork and floor thoroughly scrubbed with soap aud wntor.'" ?? A well known agricultural writer says that two things not to do if one wishes to have faith in hia neighbors aro, not to trade horses with them and not to buy milk cows from thorn. This is probably said partly in jest nnu yet, as a rulo, unless one has a superabun dance of stock ho is not going to trnde ??Ii' his bcBt horso, the ono which lilta his ideas of perfection in every respect, J bccauso he will always have a irood cash market for it. Like-wise, ho is un-1 likely to soll bis best \ oung cow unless ho is raising a surplus of cattlo for thai express purpose. Jiut it is not fair to beliovo that the average person will specifically and intentionally mi-repre sent the qualities of the stock ho hns 10 sell. The stateraont that a $2,000,000,000 steel company will be organized to I compete with tho United States Steel Corporation, Is an interesting nn-l nouncoment In commercial circles. Mr. H. C. irk of Pittsburg, is said to be slated for prosident of the now combine. OABTOnXA, 8mm ths Bijjnuturo If jA IN Kind You Have Always TUE VOLUNTARY CHURCH. Separation Between Cliurch and State Brought a New Order of Things. Hiclnnond Times. In an article on the voluutnry church published receutly in The Indepen dent, Prof. Chi lies W. Eliot says that those who are Democrats iu mental habit cannot easily realize what an Immense change has taken place throughout the civilized world in re gard to both tho theological and prac tical relation of the church io the Stale. "The practice of cutting oil all churches from support by or through the State," he proceed*, "is American in origin and has been wrought out io greatest perfection iu tho United j Stales, for the most part within a I hundred years. To detach religious institutions from all reliance ou public taxation was certainly a formidable ex pofimout, but it has been in progress long enough in this country to provide the world with a demonstration of suc cess in certain particulars. A hundred years ago one might reasonably have feared thai churches in BUfliuionl num ber would not be provided by volun tary contributions. The experience of ihc United States has allayed that ap prehension." That statement is only partially true. This apprehension lias not been on urely allayed, otherwise the churches of the country would not ask for ex emption from taxation, Hut as far as the experiment has been tiled, it lias proven to bo eminently satisfactory and successful. The very life of the church to-day is iu its independence, in its separation from State. This is true, because tho lifo of tho church is in the spirituality of its membership, in personal piety. Under the old re gime the church was a great organiza tion aud its aim was to exalt and ex ploit the organization without taking much account of the individual mem bers of the church. The individuals counted only so far as they helped to form the organization, and even at that the individual counted for litllo be cause the church was not dependent upon its membership for material sup port, enjoying as it did a liberal appro priation from the government. Uul with complete separation be tween church and State an entirely new order of things has come. The church of to-day has an entirely new incentive of action. The great aim of the church is to promote individual piety, and the preacher of to-day preaches to individuals, preaches in dividual responsibility and impresses upon his hearers that no member of the church may shift his responsibility to the shoulders of the church. It has been discovered also that giving is a means of gruce, and so each and evory member of the church of trf-day is urged to give something every week, as the Loid has prospered him, for his own spiritual benefit. This of itself creates individual interest. And so voluntary contribution has added zest and unction to church work. More over, there is a stimulus in tins system to the picacher himself. The preacher of old, who had a fat " living " from the government, and who was in no sense dependent upon the members of the congregation to sustain him, could hardly be expected to be so lully alive to the interests of individual incwibers as the picacher who is dependent upon the contributions of individual mem bers for his support. The difference is the difference between monarchy and democracy. Under the demo cratic system the preacher necessarily feels a greater interest in his members, who pay his salary, aud the members necessarily feel a greater interest .in their preacher when they contribute to ward his support. In short we have applied our democratic principles in our church government and they have proven to be as successful in religious life as in political life. it has always been the contention of this paper in discussing tho question of taxing churches that the church would gain far more than it would lose by declining to accept such exemption as a favor of government?in asserting its absolute independence, in relying entirely upon the voluntary contribu tion of its members to support tho preacher and all its institutions. The great question, therefore, is not wheth er or not the government should ex I empl tho churohuS from taxation, but from the church's point of view, whethor or not the church should re ceive this appropriation, for in effect it is an appropriation, or any benefits whatever from government which uro not accorded to all other institutions and organizations of whatever charac ter. It has been abundantly demon strated, as I'rof. Idiot says, that sepa ration has been the salvation and the life of the church; we say that complete separation would bring greater benefits yet. It is puzzling to us bow any American churchmtiu ?au entertain a different view. The lonolicBt missionary in all the world is said to he Hov. ?1. O. Springer, whoso station is said to bo on Ilerachel Island, near the mouth of the Macken zie river, well within the Arctic circle. The latest rccoived lettor from this most solitary mau is dated October 22, i '.miii. No ship has boon at H?rschel island for two winters, nnd the missonary'a nearest while neighbors are at Peels liver 250 miles away. The Wo? Greatest Cure for* Malaria. X For ?11 formifrvf Malarial poison ing tako Johniuti'ft Chill and Peve ? Tonic. A taint of Malarial poison ing In your hiood moans misery and failure. BlOOdrnedlolnoacan'tcure Malarial poisoning. The antldoto for It. Is JOHNSON'S TONIC. Get a bottle to-day. Costs 50 Cuts |f \i CurM ) i*,TION,8!, POSITIONS 11 NO OBJ KCT >ioro calls than wo can possibly fill. Gum nn,?!,?ii0iPa"?,on?l?Mkodby?fco. Coufm. urn xoclltid. Krrtoratiy ilrao. Catalogue fio* AN OLIV? BRANCH FOREST. When Quadruplets Came the Father Fled and is Still Flee ing:. If Mr. Ormsby, of Chicago, had rc llected that it is dark ,t just before the dawn, ho would uot have taken to his heels and run away from his wife, his quadruplets, his twins and the other children with whom Providence had blessed him. Seven years ago Mr. and Mrs. Ormsby were married and went to housekeeping. In the course of time the stork came, bringing an infant under each wing. When ZU pah pre sented Jacob with a son, Leah called Iiis name Gad, for he said a troop Cometh. Gad would have been an ap propriate uniuu for ine QrSt of if 10 young Ormsbys, for a troop caino. Twins followed twins iu rapid succes sion and Mrs. Ormsby proved herself u fruitful tree upon the walls of tho house, a perfect forest of olive branches surrounded tho table, and Mr. aud Mrs. Ormsby became qualified to speak with I heir enemies in tho gate. Mr. Ormsby knew that children are a gift that cometh of the Lord, but he was afraid that he would share tho fate of the covetous Tarpeia and bo crushed under the weights of tho gifts which were showered upon him iu exirava gant profusion. He knew that the young children are like arrows in tho ! bauds of the giant, and that tho man is happy who lias his quiver full of them. Hut what was ho to do after, the quiver became full to ovoi (lowing and iho arrows kept oa coming and no quiver to put them iul One bright October afternoon recently, when Luke Michigan was coquetting with the suu beams, and the birds were singing their sweetest trouodies and the golden rod was blooming in ihc suburbs, Air. Oimsby came to his home, where lie lived and moved and had his being, and found that during bis absence at tho corner grocery, the scene of his daily labors, a whole (lock of storks hud settled upon his dwelling?four of thtm bringing each a baby. This overwhelming gift, of the Lord somewhat da/.ed Mr. Ormsby. Ho was taken hard aback as he entered the door and there slopped to count up the extent of his arrows or his olive branches, whichever they may bo termed. He found by a careful com putation that the result of seven years wedded bliss was fourteen babies, the oldest ono 0 years of age. fetich a wed ded life inii.'lit be aptly termed "one long sweet song." What was Ormsby to do? The corner grocery did not yield onougb to sustain this flock. There were no prattles near Chicago where the young ones could be lost liko lIop-o'-Tluunb and his brothers. And what if ibis fruitful tree upon the walls of his house should do as bravely in each succeeding period of s von years as in the Iii si luslrum of their Wedded life? All these things entered into the dazed mind of Ormsby and lie turned and fled?put his lingers in his ears and lied precipitately like Christian ilecing flora lire City ot Destruction. Just here, as Uncle Kemus would say, Ormsby " drapped his walerniil llOU." He forgot that it is darkest just before the dawn. He lacked faith and made the mistake of his life, lint some allowance must be made for Ormsby. What would you have done With fourteen babies in tho house, the oldest jut 0 years old, and all of ihctn crying for bread?or milk, which is worse?at the same tune, and the fruit ful tree still in commission? Would you, would any man have slopped to consider the dime museum as a sheet anchor? Ormsby did not. He just lied, and according lo the latest advices he is running yet. Still, it was a blun der, for the next day contributions to a SUSlonlation fund began to come in and the fund became a little fortune. This was the beginning of that lido which, taken at its Hood, leads on to I fortune. The next day a dime muse um man came along and contracted with the mother lo exhibit her and the forest of olive branches at &f>00 a week. And now Mrs. Ormsby is going to live in ease and afllueuco at a " swell downtown hotel," while Ormsby is lleeing as if from the wrath to come. Ormsby had never contemplated quad ruplets as a paying Investment.?Jialli morc Sun. A Fink Chop.?-A correspondent writing from JoneSVlllO to The Union Times, says. "Mr. J. L. McWhirlcr has been giving part of bis attention to his farm near town for the last few years and has made a success with small grain and pea culture. He plants no cotton. For three years Mr. McWhirtcr has planted his farm in wheat and oais followed with peas. On three acres this year Hie result is as follows: J5 1-2 bushels of wheat pei aero and then followed with peas/and tho other day Mr. Mark sold the pea vines as they stood on Hie land for ten dollars per acre. Now as to cost and profits; tho wheat $1 per bushel, wheat straw at $2 per acre, pen vines $10 per aero, total $47.50 per acre. Expcnso, seed wheat 1 bushel per acre $1, sowing and plowing in wheat per aero with a grain drill $1, fertilizer 300 pounds from Union Oil Mills per aero $'2.55, reaping and binding por aero with reapor and binder 75c, hauling and threshing per acre 50c, 1 1-2 bushels peas sown per acre $1.25 per bushel, putting in peas with disc harrow S50c per acio, no fertilizer under peas. Total cost $8.17, leaving a net profit per acre of $.'ii) 02 aud tho land much improved and in a lino stato of ..culti vation, which is much boiler than cotton even at ton cents. It is staled at tho Navy Department at the bureau of navigation that the North Atlantic squadron has been selected to visit Charleston at the I oponing of tho exposition, visiting tho city about the first of December. The squadron will consist of tho Airship Kearsargo, the Massachusetts, Alabama I and Poloraac. It is not staled how long tho vessels will remain at the exposition. CiLMTOXIXA. Bears the IN Kind You Have Alwajs Bought Bignatur? Of The United States Gov ernment Report shows Royal Baking Powder to be stronger, purer and better than any other. A NATIONAL THANKSGIVING President Fixes Thursday Nov. 28, as a Day of Thanksgiving, President ltoosevelt has issued a proclamation which designates Thurs day, November 28, as a day of national thanksgiving, as follows: A PUOCLAMATION. Tho season is nigh when, aceoidiuu to the time-hallowed custom ot our "people, tho President appoints a day as the especial occasion for praise aud thanksgiving to God. I This Thanksgiving finds the people still bowed with sorrow for the death of a great and good President. We mouru President McKioley because ! we so loved and honored him, and the I mauner of his death should awaken in ; the breast of our people a keen anxiety for the country, and at tho tamo time a resolute purpose not to be driven by any calamity from tho path of strong, orderly, popular liberty, which as a nation we have thus far safely trod. Yet, in spite of this great disaster, I it is nevertheless true that no people I on earth have such abundant cause for ' thanksgiving as v/e have. Tho past ? year in particular has been one of j peace and plenty. We have prospered . in tilings material and have been able ! to work our own uplifting ru things intellectual and spiritual. Let ub rt f member that, as much has been given us, much will be expected of us, aud that true homage comes from the heart as well as from tho lips and shows itself in deeds. Wo can best prove our thanksgiving to the Almighty by the way in which ou this earth and at this lime each of us does his duty to his fellow men. Now, therefore, 1, Theodore Roose velt, President of the Uuited Statcp, do hereby designate as a day of gen eral thanksgiving Thursday, the 28lh of this presont November, and do re commend Hint throughout the land the peoplo cease from their wonted occupa tions and al their several homes aud places of worship reverently thank the Giver of all good for the countless blessings of our national life. In witness v. hereof I have horcuuto set my baud and caused the seal of the Uuited States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this '2d day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and ouo, and of the independence of the United Stales the one hundred and twenty-sixth. Ry the President: John Hay, Secretary of State. An Iuisiiman's Diplomacy.?Most policemen would have come up aud slapped the three roysters on the back and said gruffly, " Here, no smoking allowed in this depot." Rut theofllcer who was on duty before tho ticket win dow station was a diplomat* and worthy of a wider sphere than he will ever have, even as a depot policeman. There was really four in the party, but there were three of them who were seeing tho other man off. All of them are exhibit attachos at the Pan-Ameri can exposition, and the fourth man wns leaving for his homo in a far western State. With his threo com panions they had started for the tram several hours before train time and had spent most of the intervening time iu drinking his health. Naturally, they woro in a mood to be a little careless of the depot regulations. About half an hour before train time one of them discovered there was a later train which their friend could take and arrive at his destination just a8 poou, whilo the new arrangement would lengthen the time they would have to express fieir regard for him at sundry bars. They repaired to the depot to have his ticket changed. While he was going through this for mality at the ticket olllce they stood a little way back in tho wailing room, pulling vigorously on strong cigars. A policeman approached, but ho wasn't gruff at all. Wilh a pleasant smile and a strong Hiboruiau brogue ho re marked: " It's ividonl none of yc gintlcinin believe in soigns." *? Why not?" asked one of them. " liccause," replied tho diplomatic policeman, 44 thero be wan over ihcro which rados, 'No smoking allowed in this waitin' room." Three cigars camo out of three mouths with a chorus movoment, and there was no moro smoking. , A Southern 44 gentlotnun " sent to tho President tho othor day a 'possum. Tho card of tho donor was not at tached, but it was labeled 14 Booker Washington/' The President is said to be very fond of 'possum, and as the new butler of tho White House, Henry Pinckney, is a' South Carolina negro, he is familiar with the art of prepar ing tho dish in true South Carolina style. It is said the President will have it served on his table at somo future time. It is stated that 5,000 of the 7,000 cavalry which Euglaud has at home, will be sent to South Africa within six woeks. CASTOR i A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Hate Aiwejrs Bought Bears tho Algnatura off IN A HUMOROUS VEIN. Jessie?I think Charley is soft ?nough for anything. Neil?So do I. Oh, by the way, dear, last night I overheard aim say ho was going to propped to you. Mrs. Twaddle?Why, Dr. Jalap, it's ages since I saw you! How have you been? Do you enjoy good health? Dr. Jalap?Not" in others, Mrs. Twaddle?not in others. '* What is Gurn8ey doing with tho fortuue he inherited so unexpectedly?" Well, ho buys a book from every igent that calls on him, and he's mak ing about a dozen poor souis happy every day." She?I am very sorry, but circum stances over which 1 have no control compel me to say no. He?Might I ask what the circum stances are? Sho?Yours. Patioi ce?They say a Chicago girl upon receiving a proposal of marriage, never says: " Oh, this is so sudden I" Patrick?What does she say, then? Patience?Obi she says: " Well, I thiuk it's about time!" Teacher (instructing class on man ners)?Now, Tommic Brown, for ex ample, if you were sitting iu an electric car, every seat occupied, and an old lady entered, what would you do? Tommy? Please, sir, 1 would pre tend I was sleepin'. ''You are going to clean house to day, are you?" Baid Mr. Noxdoro, putting on his hat. " When 1 como home Ibis evening, I suppose I'll lind everything upside down." " Certaiuly," responded his wife. " You don't think 1 can lay anything down sideways in a ilat, do you ?" Ouce two gentlemen attended a tom pciance moetiug, and on returning home by a dark and narrow lane, were thrown out of their conveyance. The incident was reported iu the local paper and the account closed with the words: I " Fortunately, both men were I sober." The editor received au angry letter from one of the gentlemen concerned, with the request for an apology. He was equal to the occasion. M In our account of the unfortuuato acci dent to Messrs. ?," wrote tho editor, " wo stated that fortunately both men wore sober. It appears this statement has given great offense. Wo thereforo beg to withdraw it." Mother?What! Havo you been fighting again, Johnnie? Good little boys don't light. Johnnie?Yes, I know that. I thought he was a good lit tie boy, but after I hit him once, I found he wasn't. " You don't appear to be very parti cular about your appearance nowa days," remarked the owl. " Don't you go into society any more?" "O! no," replied the stork. " Wo don't supply pet doge, you know." ?? Here's tho devil to pay!" exclaim ed the old man, coiuiug in with a handful of bills. ?' Don't worry about hioi, dear," said the wife. " He knows that you'll settle with him hereafter!" " I'll bo ready lor you in a minute," said the old colored farmer to the sheriff, " de/, ez soon ez I feeds Solo mon." ?? Who's Solomon ?" " He's my muio, sub;?dat what ho name is." " Why did you givo him that name?" ?'Kasc ho do wises' mule in de coun ty, sub, au ho t'inka dat fast travelin' is all wanity en woxation er sperrit, thus fulflllln' do Book er Proverbs!" ?' Palrick, Iho widow Malooey tells tue thai you stole one of her tlnest pigs. Is it coireci?" " Yis, ycr honour." " What have you done with it?" " Killed it and ate it, yor honour." " Oh, Patrick, Pairick ! when you are brought face to faco with the widow and her pig ou judgmenl-day, what ac count will you bo ablo to give of your solf when the widow accuses you of stealing?" "Did you say the pig would bo thorc, yor rlverance?" " To bo suro I did." " Well, thin, yer rivorancc, I'll say, 'Mrs. Mnlouey; there's yor pig.'"? Baltimore Sun. ! 41 Did you divido your bonbons with your litUo biolhor, Mollie?" " Yos, ma1,1 ato tho candy aud gavo him the muttoes. You know ho is awfully fond of reading." Edith?Ho says ho loves mo for my self alone. What do you think of it? Ethel?Well, it's hard telling wheth er ho's drawing or. his humor or his imagination. Old Lady?I don't believe this Sure Cure Tonic is a-goin' to do my any good. Friend?It's highly spoken of in tho papers. Old Lady?Yes; hut I've taken forty seven hottlos, and 1 don't feel a bit belter. I tell you what it is, Sarah, I'm beginning to think these nnws paper editors don't know everything. ?Now York Weekly. It is estimated that the campaign in New York cost about 41,000,000.