s-*-.... CHILD I,AHOIl AT THB COTTON MII,I,S, The Mill Men Protest Against a Law With Qualifications and Pavor Compulsory Education. Tbc following memotiol ha* been presented to iho Ueneral A-^cinhly : To t'm Senators and Members of tbo linn i' of lt<-prcacuuiliv< a ol Hit St iti' ? f S >mh Carolina : At a meeting < t tint Text 1 i M.tnu factureis if s mh Carolina, held at Oroenville, S. C, on Sept. lO, Mini, the following icsoltitioii wan adopted: "That a committee of live ?hall be uppoiii'id from thin body who shun add>e--K an open letter to ibe LegisltfS turo ii in 1 ihn coudit onn existing in the mill villages, and [explaining what tbo mill oorptirado a havo done and are doing fertile advancement of tlx education of their employes. They aha'l also deprecate any legislation upon The question of child labor, as unncce.Hsary and ahull appear before ? he Lei^i 1 iture aa repre?entalives ol the mill intereats of tho State. They shall request, however, that if tbo Leg. hlaluie in iia judgment feels that it liiU8t Cimet some child labor law, that the age limit lie fixed at tin years fur day wurk, and that the employment Of nnuora under 12 years of ngo at night after 10 o'clock bo prohibited. 44 They shall unje most emphatically upon the Legislature the necessity ol cumpulHory educatiou in this State." The question ot the advisability of legislation affecimg the employment ol minors in nulls bus been before the legislature ol ihis S'nto for the pa-t never. 1 session* and the question has been very generally considered. In view of these fuels, und of the fuel that there is no organization timm-g-u the mill men of tue Stale, bo thai tbeii views could be made known, a nn-.oi ing of the textile mauufaetureis of the Slate Was caded on Sept. 10th, by cer taiu manufacturers, tbat consideration might bo bad of the subjecl. The question was caro'ully confid* ered in this meeting, und as a result the resolution above staled was adopted. No one can deny the unfortunate re sult of the employment of children of tender years iu labor of any kind. Such employment is nevertheless often a neeewary result of poverty. The agri eultuial interests of the btnlo have hot in recent years afforded to the ton ant classes a living rove uo. The re sult of this is that they are in many sections iu an impoverished condition, and have sought the mills as a menus of obtaining a bettor liviug. Coming to the mills without resour ces, and yet unskilled in mill labor, these people are often lor a time forced to put iuto employment witlun the mill walls, those children whom they had previously accustomed to work upon their farms. Granting that such labor on the farm is not as continuous or confining as that in tho mills, it is yet nevertheless the case ihat the principal cause why It has not previously attract ed the same aticn?ou as has tho em ployment of child^pHr in the mill vil lages is simply for wie reason that the population is more concentrated iu the hiti.er. and attention is more especially directed to tho fact of tho employment Of children. The mills generally have recognized tho evil tendency of child labor, when using this expression in tho senso of employment of children of ago nn -nit. ed to labor. They have and do die courage the employment of such child ren. They have-established, and sup port scboels for many mouths in the year, at a very considerable expense to themselves, and encourage the atten dance of children 'upon these schools. They have aided in the establishment, or have established and maintained churches and Sunday echools, as also libraries and places of entertainment and amu-ement. But whilst making efforts .to improve the condition of the mill population, the managements of the mill properties, being in a position to be conversant with the facta attend ing individual families, know that in many cases the employment of child ren of a younger age than would other wise be desired, is necessary. Kven before any agitation upon the question of child labor the mills in suc cessful operation had used their efforts to ehcourago the withdrawal of younger children from tho mills, apd procure tluiir attendance upon schools. Vfe'are pleased to say that tho people cases cooperated in this direction. Tho proof of this lies in the fact that un questionably tho best conditions in the mill v\illagts as to means of mainten ance of family, the attendance, on schools, (led general evidence of more prosperous condition is U? bo found iu the mill villages of several years estab lishment as contrasted with newly or communities had in most gantzed communities. The manufacturing Interests Cttu l>oiut With pride to the ben. llcicnt ef forts of nanny of the manufacturer* to improve the conditions c f those in their employ ; and they believe that uu examination of the mill village* will prove this interest on tho part of the. manufacture!*, and the appreciation of b'lh tbo necessity ami desirability of improving tim conditiou of tbo em ployea. With the ftfcpmbnyerecited hi view, the, textile manufacf u crs ol ihe Stale, wltilxt fully lecogniaing ihe misfortune both to the Individual und to tin; coin inunity of the ? mplo) ine .t ot children of too youthful uu age, believe that ihn /records of the mnnufiicsurera show thai I these conditions are heilig impmvexf, and That tho improvement will con. Upon. The milt community giving ihe gfcttatost advantage a to ita umpioyua ta the way of ?cbo< li, churches, M^ric ,nml pltif*'? ol t ntci tainnienl, it go.tig TW^Uract |o ih-clf the nir these In iheir ctni 1 >y, we b? liovo the manufactures me bcsl| able to exert a prope Influencofln the 1 inducement* of education. Thoio.iuli of arhltiary legislation would be f? It not bo much hy i Mir cMshlhthcd mill* as by the ne#dy established, and not ftomuih even by these latier a* by Iba'- portion.'iff' our population who, man distress und misfortune, have been forc#l to seuk mill life, nnd uro not yet prepared to support themselves without the lab >r of their ohlldreu. Wo believe ii is un unfair coasldii r atiou to speak of the proportion of illlt it ite iu any mill community. An eX? atntn.'itioit of conditions v% ii 1 prove, that thiu iPltcrayy hit* occurred prior to the coming of^lhu employees to the nulls. Th? record's will show that as full a percentage of mill children are attend ant upou school as nuy oiln r. class of working peopfo within the bounds of the State, indeed wo say with cer tainty that a larger porccntugc of mill children aro at school than can i*;uaily he found even in villages. 'The return of the (?6 mills included in the tabulated statement referred to, show that there arc williin I heir com* .nunitics'.).'{ churches valued at $159, ?r)00, outside of churches situated in towns. iOf tbo nbovi amount the companies I have contributed $8<2,r>95>' towards the erection, and thuy moreover assist in tho inaintenunce of lie B)Cilurehes and Sunday schools to too annuml ot $5,4S:i It appears further that those namo corporations ate paying tbo il mill lax towards the education of tho com inn nity, $44,802.10, and in tho way of special aspossrueuta cr special coutri hntions $27,?l'J 14 additional. That lli? poll iaxes for tho several coiniuuiii ties amount to $7,004, thus making a total of over 8^0,000 contributed by these mill eommuniltes towards cduf. eatiou of the people, and of thc;ir own employes* They have invested in school build ings $74,076; in sohoil equipment $11,180 All the schools with a single exception have free tuition, mil the average term has beeo 8 months, or twice that, of the other pottions of the S ale, hcco:dii'g t>? tho lepoil of the superintendent of education. Tiie to lul enrollment u nlor these sehn. U has been (hiring the p ist y :u f 7,431 Chit. dr> n, with the average attendance of 8,74k With such llgurOs it dries seem tint', fair minded men lunst l>o im pressed with iho .fuel thai tho manufac ture! s are doing iheir best to educate the children in their mill vtiligos an I to relieve, so far as practicable, Iho unfortunate results of child lubor. It is to be regretted that tho agita tion for legislation upon this subject is coming, to a 1 irgo extent, from labor unions. ? If any employe of a orp "ra tion is truly anxious to remedy the evils of employment of children of too youthful an age, their efforts can behest directed towards assisting the manu facturers to accomplish the results de sired. The truth lo that libor unions have seen an opportunity of availing themselves of public sentiment in or der to strengthen themselves in the public estimation. Wc would si e with regret that passage of any legislation which would be (apparently a recog nition of labor unions within the State. The cfTect of labor legislation has not been in other countries, or in other sections of this country, couducivc to an improved condition of the poople, or to success in manufacturing. Kur land is now so hampered by such un fortunate legislation that she is losing her trade in mapfaotutes. Now Kugland is in many section? handicapped in like manner. So much so, that a lew years ago her represent atives iu Congress orideavond to enact an amendment to the constitution of the United States for the avowed pur pose of hampering Southern labor, which, free from shackling laws and tyrannical unions, is undermining her supremacy in cotton manufacturing. We believe that much of ihc agitation in the South in favor of labor legisla tion is brought ah >ut by labor unions in Now England, aided and allotted by Now England manufacturer* seek ing to stillo. Somborn enterprises. Tbeje is no demand for legislation of this character, by the vast majority of those employed within the mills of the State. Almost without exception auch employes protest against interference and ask to be lot alone. The advocates of this hill claim that tho working of children :n tho onII ia injurious to tho public in that when such children become grown thoy avi mentally, morally aud physically un suiicd for tho duties of citizenship. We believo tho standard cili.sonslnp within the mill villages is tho equal of that in other communities of tho State. However lhal may be, a compulsory educational law will'effect tho villages as well as other sections of. tho State, and tbo unnnimous deaire of tbo man ufacturers as expressed above, ia foi the enactment of such a law as Will onablo them lo carry out effectively what thoy have been trying to do for years, to wit: encourage attendance upon the schools. Without tho com pulsory school law the enactment of any child labor law will bo of little value. Wo believe now that there if* leas ignoranco among children raiwd at cotton mills than tboso at farms iso lated and distant from school*, espe cially so when it is- considered thai within tho mill villages tho schools run about nine months in the year, and in the country from three to livo months. Wo append a printed table showing returns irom ?? mills out of 117 in tin State, for iho purposo of Showing what is being done by the mills in the matter of educating their employes. AH the mills in the State were re quested to answer these question*; bin many of thorn being new iu.Hh, lu<> not established schools, and did act answer in time for publication. Tin replies of all who replied wilhio time havo been piin'e.d. ,i,\s Ii Quit. Kf. A. mmytii. ,1 H, MONTIIOMI' IIY, / .1. JJ. CI.KVKI.ANI>. i Ij. W. i'AIMv Kit. _._ ?- ? >.-._ llo lo?ko'l despairingly into vaeancv. " I hayo bad iny iiii-*iIHIIIIIII?HI?l.IIIHUIIIIIi^ indigestion : dyspepsia biliousness ; and the hundred and one simi- j I lar ills caused by impure blood | i or inactive liver, quickly yield i to the purifying and cleansing : properties contained in I Johnston's SareapariUa QUART BOTTLB. ? It cures permanently by acting i naturally on all organs of the i body. Asa blood-cleanser, flesh i builder, and health-restorer, it i has no equal. Put us in Quart Bottles, and sold at $i each. "THD MICHIOAN DRUO COMPANV," Detroit. Mich. !q TakaUvcrettesfor Liver Uu. jsc q For Sam by I he L\ur??m D-upr Com IVUiv, IjHU-erta.'S. C. FROM A BACHELOR'S VIEW. Age withers the body but blossoms ?he heart. Plan too Ic friendship between tho sexes is as likely as temperate dipso mania Immortality doesn't always mean immodesty any more than i..imodesty alwuy means immortality. come people seem lo nourish the Rorpi nt with the idea that it may come In ban ly to bite somebody elso. The average woman's idea of being well-dressed is to have other >>omen wonder how she can afford it. The early bird catches a cold stoking up the furnace in the cellar. The drink that drowns your sorrow waleis your bed. of thistles. When a man is at tho end of his arguments ho swears; a woman cries. More people look ahead to success ten thousand limes over than look back at it. Tho woman who smokes and likes it is ns rare as the man who doesn't drink and likes not to. Drain power and refinement of in tellect move in inverse ratio. After you have learned to unlearn you are in a lair way of learning to learn. It is hard for a fat woman to think that her thinner sister is not so out of pure malice. A woman always feels that tho way to improve her husband's health is to make some change in the weight of his underwear. It i? oi ly in 1 Minks that a man loves a woman so much bo would be willing to let some other man have her if it Wuiild make her happier?Now York Press. Uaui) on TUB Son-in Law.?The Chicago Chronicle says: One of the most charming racon teurs in Milwaukee society is Mrs. Thomas 11. Howies. She is a Georgian and knows the negro dialect to perfec tion. Nothing could be more finished than her darkey stories. Here is one of her best: A young man was telling anccdalcs to a circle and one of his lisleuors was his mother-in-law. He related one about a funeral. A woman had died. Tho undertaker at tho close of the ser vices ut the house said to tho beroaved husband: " You will ride in tho first carriage with your mother-in-law." 41 I decline to rido with that wo man," said tho widower. 44 She- has made my lifo miserable. To rule with her would spoil all the pleasure of tho occasion." All laughingly appreciated tho humor cf tho story except tho young man's mother-in law. 44 Why don't you 1 mgh ?" he asked. ? It was a good story." 41 Oh," she replied, 44 [ was thinking of anothor story about a colored min ister who prayed one day for rain, like this: " 4Oh, Loid, son' us a rain. Thou knowosl dat do craps is a-spiliu'. Thou knowcst dal do caUlo on a thou sand hills am a ponshin1 fo' walor. Sen' us a rain, oh Lord. Not ono oh ycr drizzles. Sen' us a downpour, a guily washin', a tr?r>h-llflin' rain.' " An old mammy in tho hack part of Iho ehuich called oiU: '? Look hyar, parson, whuffo' yo' pray datawa\? Why you pray for a tra&h-lifiin' rnii>? poan' yo' 'niemhor dat I done huiy dal tiifllu' son-in-law o' mlno last week?' " A well dressed and altraclivo look ing man well known on Iho Enal Hide, boarded a Wells street ear to como downtown yesterday morning. Several naon stood on tbo hack platform, and among tho number was a stranger. Ho jga/.od admiringly at tho Hue looking fellow fur a time, and then asked: " Who is that swell in the end f-cat?" ? He's Mr. iUanK." ?? Ohl What s he?a spot ?" " Why, nol He's a lawyer." > any Stale or county ollicial, or hy any judge of a court of record, in tins Slat .' Apptoved December 22, A. D. 181)1." Tlii' act was passed at'your lust Hus sion, but was not ratiliod and turned o\or to ino until tho last day of tho sus sion and, therefore, could receive no consideration until nftor your ad journmont. Tho act which tho ouc under consid eration purports to repeal was passed in response to a popular demand to' remove the legislator and the official, as far as possible, Irom corporate power and influence. It was not en tirely a factional measure, though en acted during tho tune when facticuul fet ling ran high. It had the support of uiembois of all factions at that lime and was enacted for the public weal I do not know of any demand or any good reason why it bbonld be repealed, and have therefore withheld my approval from the ael repealing it. The. system of distributing freu passes by railroads among imem bers of ibe Legislature and other ? ? 11 i nals boforo this act was passed pro hibiting it was pernicious, and wbilc 1 would not for a moment be under stood as saying or intimating that any legislator or other ollieial, .Slate or county, could be unduly lulluineed by receiving a free pass, yet it should be remembered that we are all human and must feel kindly to thai man or corporation, the recipient of whose favors wo nto. These corporations are already ver> poweiful and wield greai Influence on legislation. v\ by should a frank or a free pass he given to a man as State ollieial or legislator when it would not he thought ol so long as be r? inaiued a private citizen. Legislation is frequently had affect ing Iheso corporations and laws al ready nude afl'ectiug them have to be executed. It is best for the public service that the ollieial and the legisla tor bo entirely free to act with entire impartiality in making and executing the laws. lie should be able at uii times to hold the scales of justice with nn oven band, remembering id way a the rights of the corporations as w? 11 ns the rights of the people. Believing this can be belter done by not accepting favors from the corpora, lions, and therefore not being under obligations to them, however small the obligation, 1 lieg to return lo you the repealing act without my approval and signature Respectfully, hi. 11. McSWKKNEY, Governor. The motion of Mr. Spears, of Dar lington, to pass llic net over thy. veto was voted upon hy the House at oiieo. It required 83 voles to ;<1 wash pin*- hoi, lllh'il with hat, in mi atl c, i.nd when h? Im to g> t tip every mom ing ai il oMock, Iced the C w , a. Hi a | loiof wo id before hteaftfaal an i tl.eu w.i k throe miloa to school. It is rat I for early in ihn season f< r the pcnch cn-p id he kill d, but whni appears to ho enroltidy gutnortd ni.d senii-ollicial inform ition from the I Mich'gan peacb country U lo tho < ffect thai the trees, which product (I 800,000 buihil? of the froil bist reason, were prac.ticilly ruined b*v ?tm recent freczo. Over i,(l()0 ?hei p were tski'ii from Moulnnu to Lansing, Mich'., last week lo be fed tboio on sugar bcel refuse.. C?ufV.I??X'3=l.I-A. Bmh th? Tlio tyid You Have Always BougM LOCAi, OPTION WAS KlIvLBD The Friends ot the Dispensary Defeated the Measure in the I House. The first second-re&diufi I? ll ? u Ibe calendar was Mr. Saudeis1 to allow counties to vote ?>n the establishment or removal of dispensaries. Mr. Tut um moved to recommit iho hin. He spoke at length against it as direct ed as u hlow nguiust iho dispensary. Mr. McGowan saw in this hill the j disintegrating process which would re- j snh in the Dual overthrow of the dis bensary. Mr. Djrrob?Do \ou mean by that admission that yo'i are afraid lo trust this matter lo tho people? Mr. McGowan replied that bo would not trust them with local option. It Is un-wi-o to have tbo people, churches, fannies perennially stirred up, and the mau? i- is now settled. The dispensary law is effective only as a police regula tion, and a police regulation must apply to the whole Mate. Mr. Tow ill, of Lexington, said that the people are satisfied with the dis pensary. Mr. Henry B. Hichardson thought the measure fraught with great danger in opening a way lo elections. We utinnol satisfy all of the people. Either tie dispensary has decreased drunken ness or jusl al Ihe lime it was started amoral uplifting came upon the peo ple, fjr conditions are belter. What ?s advocated as local op ion for coun ties might be advocated for the lowu 8hip and where would it end? Mr. Cooper, of Laurens, wauled to know why this Opposition to the bill? Are the dispensary people, who are iu ireuched, not willing for the people to say what they wain? He had favored lolling each county govern the dispen sary m its own way and be bad been sustained in the caiuimiuu. Dr. H. J. Ktnard Haid tlial if thia law were passed Charleston woul I v ?to the dispensaiy out ami liquor would llow as free as the tides on the "IT II' Mr. Kinkier?Wei', the people of GruehWoot) needn't come down there and gel drowned. Mr. Ashley?Would Charleston vot ing out the dispensary have anything to do with Greenwo- d? Mr. Kinkier?if (ireenwood is now a "dr>" county wherein i-t it bettor than Charleston would ho without dispen saries? Mr. Kinard repl cd to theso several ? questions hy saying that the town of Greenwood is dry, hut the county at largo favors the dispensary. Mr. F. II. McMaster made a spirited defense of Chaileston winch hud been ' dragged into this debate. Cliarleslon will do what is right. Tho Stale will not permit itself to be overrun by the scum of the earth. He favors the dis- j pensary, though not us at preseut managed; The constitution merely piovidea that liquor shall not be sold \ by the drink, lie is eternally opposed j to the drenching of the State in blind tiger liquor, and this 'mil would not do that. j Mr. Siokler also warmed up in dc fense of Charleston. j Dr. Kmurd slated that be did not mean to reflect on Charloston in an op probrious way, merely to cito Charles ton as a county opposed lo tho dispen sary. Mr. Dot rob favored the bill. Each county is best lilted to settle tho mai ler for itself. Mr. I/.lar, of Barn well, hod seen bar moms, prohibition and dispensary in I his county at different ti.nes. IIo be-j lievea in the dispensary. Baleful in- j fluonces Will bo brought to bear when the queslivU is tuken to tho polls ami prohibition may, nominally, triumph. IIo declared that the prohibition era in Barnwell was the most demoralizing in its history. Mr. Morgan, of Greenville, spoke in favor of the bdl. The closing argument for tho bill was made by Mr. Sanders, the author of the bill If there is tobe disintegra tion, at whose hands will it bo disinte grated ? With all of tho machinery of tho dispensary in opeialion, if it be voted oui by iho people, then is that not evidence that it is objectionable to them? If it is not objectionable, why be afiaid of this bill? if the people of ??? county oppose a dispensary they have no way in tho woil 1 lo got rid of it now. Mr. (Sunter, of Aikou,nnd Mr. M. L. Smith, of Ker*haw, opposed ihobi 1. The latter admitted that tue measure is founded upon true anil good Demo cratic doctrines, yet i* would not bo ?vise lo have this wbolu mailer opened and tiio State thrown into turmoil. The vole to recommit wan taken and Ifte bill was recommitted., or virtually killed, by the lollowing vote: Yoas?Speaker Stevenson, All, Aus tin, II.inks, lieatnftuafd, llivens, Ulease, Brook i, Huller, Cirer, Coggorhall, ('nun, Dean, DeJtrubl, Domiiiick, telird, Kider, f?strldge, Uaslon, (} .ur din, Otinter, dalle, Ilardin, Hol I is, (lough, Humphrey, I/.lar, James, Jur nigan, (). L. Johnson, W. .1. Johnson, III??Will iiIH I II II II III I ??! UllMHWM HairSplitsl "I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor for thirty years. It is elegant for a hair dressing and for keeping the hair from splitting at the ends."? J. A. Gruenenfelder. Grantfork, III. Hair-splitting splits friendships. If the hair splitting is done on your own head, it loses friends for you, for every hair of your head is a friend. Ayer's Hair Vigor in advance will prevent the splitting. If the splitting has begun, it will stop it. It.M ? Mile. All dratxIMi. If year nvvi nrnk j ii known that in tho providing of a soldieia' I ome for the very indigent and need) ( onfedcrates, it is not intooded to in terfei e with or abridge the usu d an. nual appropriations by the Stuie for tho benefit of the pensioners. The following is a co,?y of proposi tion submitted to the G ?vornor by the n gents of tho State hospital for ihc ii sane: "In view o tho ooslderalion by the General Assembly of tbu Advisability < f providing a bom 3 for Con rederate ' etoraus, the board of regents desire to I resont to your oxo Honey the practi cability of using tho tract of In- d on. braouig al out 60 acres upon the Wat lacn purebnae known as the Ilellcvie Royal ? v Absolutely Pure Mokes the food more delicious and wholesome _ ROYAL (HKIHO POWOER CO.. HEW VO'IK. place. It was the im ny excellencies of Uns imet for hospital purposes in view of future needs of uti.s institution, which largely in Juced tho repents live vears ago to recommend to Governor 10vans ilie purchase of the Wi llace pr poitv. * Upon ihis U, ould now be begun ii m: ic.'s dt (lurmaii i buildings adapt* cd lo all the uses of .be veterans, t ml i i time they could rovt i t to the regonts lor tin-, purposes of this hospital, 1 iy this method the. veterans would be given euch buildings im ihcy could well afford lo expend a larger sum upon then c instruction than could be done for merely temporaiy buildings. "Should pueh a proposition commoud itself to your excellency, and lo the (ieueral Assembly, the regeals wish it well understood i the beginning that the proposed * ans' homo on tho llellevuu place, should in every way bo separate and distinct from the ?Slate hospital and lor the futtheranco of this plan, the land Could be tempo rarily transferred lo a separate hoard of managois, with the proviso that it should uitimaU ly revert lo our sucees ors in the regency." MR, DAVIS ANDTHU OLD BELL The Confederate Chieftain Took a Lost Look at the Liberty Bell. We never hoar of tho Liberty JSell that wo do not think of tbe iuhinl jour* ney it made through the South, just Beveolee? jears ego. At that time its destination was New Orleans, where the Cotton B'xpi silio:i of the South was in progress, and tbe people of this sic ion, for (be Ural limn, behold the great tocsin which sounded the rcvoln li hi just as the bells of Pans sum moned tbe freemen to the standard of Lafayette. Jn Jauuary, iss?, the Liberty Hull was borne through the lowlanus ol the gulf and halted for a mom. ut beneath the pines and magnolias of Mississippi Sound. The air was sharp and cutting for that sunny clime, and, among those who went out to see this eloquent mes senger of a historic past, was an elder ly gentleman, feeble ami lust neuring his su h year. T!io bell bad been de tained at RouUvoir long enough for this aged and distinguished man to greet it. The crowd teil back as ho ncared the ear and Watched him as he uncovered in the presence of tins mute symbol of independence lie himself hud tilled a huge itllglo in the public c)o. Sprung from Revolutionary an cestors, he hail fought, under the old Hag and lofl his blo -d upon the Holds of Mexico. lie had hcc.i a Senator of tbe United Slates fro.u Iho Siate of Mississippi and bad occupied the Olllco of Secretary of War. His position was now in retirement and his life was in the past. Hs had not so much as a vote in the village election. The Statutes of the United Stales bad expressly excluded him from all hope of public amnesty. There was n0o6 loo poor politically to do him honor. He bad not assisted in Inter national functions for a quarter of a century, and yet tbe committee bear* ing the Liberty H. 11 from Philadelphia j to New Orleans summoned .Jefferson Davis from a sick bed and carried him into its Inspiring pre-enco. It was a historic scene, mid one worthy of a national selling in the Hall of Fame. He Spoke j and his voice was tremulous, ilo announced his physical infirmity, but declared that ill as ho was be could not stay at home when that glorious old bell was at the station. He said: " 1 thank jou and your association for sending- mo notice and trust that your anticipation of the harmonizing tendency of this journey of the boll acres the States of the Union, some ot which hud m tspiung into existence when its tones first tilled the air, may in every respect he realized. I think that the time litis come when passion should lie BUhjcclod to reason ami when men who have fought in support of then* lu ncsl COIIVIClionS should do justice to each other. Yon Sacred lo'gan gave voice lo the proudest de? I cl trillion that a handful of men ever milde, h r they faced the greatest mili tary power of the globe. That hand ful of men declared lo all the world I their inalienable lights and staked life, liberty, and properly in defense of tin declaration. Then it was with your clear notes you -cut notice lo all who were willing lo hvo or die for liberty and lelt that iho day was at hand when every patriot must do a patriot's duty. (iloi ions old hell! the *oii 11 a Ituv. luilohuiy soldier l> ,ws in reverence to yor, worn by linae, but Incrua-jug in sacred rue mono? I "Mr. President," said .kfforaoji I) ivis in conclusion) -'accept my thanks, which flrn lieutd it and sin r*h gtvcii.'' ? .?av.iiimih Press, Senator lit it fehl is fond of Gorman oookliig. There is a Iii lie, ruautuiuut near tin; Capitol thai tie pant) dzos frequently. The Other day tin: place Changed hands, and the S nut ?r was greeted bv a stranger when he went in tor a 1 inch. i What, have you g ?t tO-da) ?," he I asked. I have p'g'n f?*? t. laiub fl tongue, boar'* head,deviled kidney a "??? ??Stop I" thundered lue Senate*. " 1 don't cnro atvuii your iiiinicut?; I came in boro to cat."?Bnllimoro Mown. ?? Ych, ho was a-rcBted fur running an Mogul litundry." ?f Nonsense. What's an il egal laundry/" ?? .V (itCO whoro tlioy ?viah tin cm cell limn mi ki fr > n |?m.?i.-c ^ in i?Olevcliind Plain Doaler. if _ m IN A HUMOROUS \EIN. Johnson: " Whftl mokes you think thai olcctrici'y was in uso before tlio Hood?" Jackson: ?? Why, didn't Noah have atk light?" " May, you'ii- jusi making a fool of that mun!" " Nothing of Hie kind. It was only last, night that he told me he was self nmde." " li.iw do you like my new waist?'' sho e.oylv asked. "Very pretty, indeed," he answered: 14 hut 1 sic a wrinkle in it Unit 1 will press out it yon will let me." Muggins: " I cannot grasp the idea of etei uity." Buggins: " Hasn't yuur wife ever called to you when you were going out thai she would he leady in just a minute?" Mr. Manley: 11 Well, my dear, I've had my life insured for $?,?OO." Mrs. M.: ?* How very sensible of you! Now, I shan't have to keep telling von to he so careful every place you go." " Amelia," faltered the young man, "I lovo you." "Oh, Uorbort 1" she said, clasping her hands together. 41 What a long, long tune it has taken you to say sjI" Mrs. Ilauakecp: " You needn't deny it, Delia; I saw you permit that policeman to kiss you last night.*' Delia: " Av ooorao, ma'am. Sliure, you wouldn't have me resist an ollieer, would ye ?" Hanson? There was a time I couldn't abide Pugloigh; but I declare it be hasn't become really agreeable of late. Trysier?You don't menu it! Hanson?Yes; he hasn't called at my pi ice for a mouth or two. She: " Aral I am really and truly the first girl you ever kissed ?." He: "Do you doubt il, darling?" She: " Yes, your manner sivors of long experience." He: 11 How do you know it does?" Mrs. 'Pumpkins ?" I) ?? you think your son's life is blighted by that cruel girl?" Mrs. Simpson?"Oh, no; Archibald is loo much infatuated with himself to he seriously injured by any external love affair."- -Detroit Free Press. Hostoll Traveler: "Sympathy," re marked tho man who gels sour, "doesn't do the slightest good in the world." " t'hon why did you lisloil to it?" "Oh, there is no use in being ill natured. It always seems to please the person who is extending it." " Do you remember that young man you had your eye on when I was hero throe years ago, dear?" j "Oh, yes; I leineiuber." " Have you got your eye on him yet?" "Oil, my, no! I married him. you know, and 1 can't keep my eye ou him now." In making the announcements to bis congregation recently, an Episcopal minister, whose parish