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r< i r VOL. XXT?' NEWBERRY, S. C. WEDNFSDAY, 9 86 o 0 EVEIRY Wi;DNEsDAY A' TERMt.--One year. 2: i: utn: QI; three month, : 0 ceat t wio Iln,th 35 cents ; one month. 20 e'nt: sin. copy, 5 cent- payable ill adv:niue". Expirations.-Look at the' print. label on the paper: the date there, shows when the :ubcrip tion expire Forward the money for re wal at lea: one week in advan'ce. Subscribers de:iring the adlires their paper changed nu:t gi;e both t! old and the new a<dir"ss. .'TERMS OF A DVERTISING.- 1.0i;s squa:e the first insertion. a(l 5) e"s. "t square for each subsequ,Ient insertio -,'y- A. square is the space of nine lini :; il sohrd bre"vier type. tii)tiees in local column 12e. per ii: . a each insertion for on- mo>nth,, long at inch rate-, w:ti 25 per cent aided. A reasonable reduction made for :o vertisements by the three. six, or tweh mfonthus. EDITORIAL PRGAH From the State Press on the Work < the Farmers' C"onventt!rn. It started out to reduce taxes and ren edy existing evils in legi.lation. To th ext"nt we were witll those.Y favoring tL Convention, because we know that thier has been too much extravagance in tit legislation and administration of or government. But when the coaven:io met, instead of keeping to the line n its professions it has mapped out ne' legislation such as an agricultural co lege and a constitutionail conuventio which will add from t wo to d00),(00 t the taxes of the State and which mean an addition of about two mills on ih taxable property of the State. It wi be claimed that the Conlvento:ists pr< pose to retrench a suflicient amount t balance the expenditures for an agr cultural college and constitutional eon vention. This is impossible without total uprooting of the preseit ystem (i our St' e government. But ;1pps they were to make the two la:ane where is the reduction of taxes. whicl the farmers are clamoriig for? No feature in the prcecedings of thi mnost remarkable gathering is so promi" nent as the conplete mastery Mr. Till exercised over its action. Nth 0 i0 1 otllt:ng w1e havre. ef RA. jc Carolina politics has mlle.Mtn the "bossisn."-Pec Dee Index Xay 5i/i But the farmers are to blame fu many of the ills of which they coMn plain. It is not tiat the land is no fertile, that ile labor is not tood that the planting is not prelitab le The average farmer in South Caro lina, does not consider himself se up in busineCss unless he is provide< wi a horse, a gun andi a stump.tal dog. Many demand a pack of egg sucking. sh!eep-killing botunds. Thie they' must be able to m'ee t at th cross-road store or tavern, gabble a: to what they think they' know abiou politics, curse the Governor anm State officials, and adjourn to th farm to find that the *'d-d ni:tters' have not been working. The end o the year comes, and the "d-d lii law" takes whatever they can't spiri away on tihe und(ergZround railroad and the "d-d lawyers" arc emlf)oye< to foreclose their mortg'ages. so tha it is one "d-d bother fromn ti time they' 5ow the seed until it i. time to p)ay up. We do not ivotIe they are down upon the "d-d liel nlaw'' and the "d-d lawyers'" and thi SUk. The only part of the proceeding of the late farmers' convention tha had a fishy smnell. and lookedl as Svere poltiets in it. w,as tueL' deterd)giont to go) home aind organ ize TtillmttUN's-~ No th" i not mention w:'ether they were to) b G. . Tilmanf clubs for ile b,ech of B. IR- Tillmtan or B. IL Tiinay clubs for the benefit of Georgc Lets htear what they' tre-t ()- li people will know who and whnt nt are wor'kting for. for we SnPIIOSC tier will be such a rush that tms t:n5 t getL' hori' ymied 'rie etut :nd drieCd programmt2i moderated, perhiaps, by' the frequen caucu5ss was carried thtrouhI ude -theC wh.ip of the majoity anid the g:; lawi, limiting s1:eeches tofve" i utes, destroy<d all opott1ft to any' efThetiC Oppousi'n And U: action of tile convetion. proposin such radical chiangeCs in the spiri and)olicy of our governilment, wa consulmmatedI in less than thirt; hours : Can thC conventioni then es ''ope(i he ltate to :ae ej tertit of its rcviv'al serv ees: the deliberaite eoone usions ' me' the best treatmlenlt that hmunnn un -iment can discover for the illsoft bo - poiic Will it be less tia crimllial to accept the crude incoric of two hundli~red anid seventy-tve Inc rather than to be sure to be right bi fore going ah1ead?A II.)iiu so in temporal life there is a lin beyond which repentenWce and refor1 are imossible.Bar mee l Peo,p e . i has n;ver been our pleasure to f :O+ok upon a body of men who seemed more deteImined to make some ad vancmen in their callings and pro sis. Whatcvcr may have beei the motives whicli prompted the ag r;cltural "Mose-s" in the present t mOvemnnt. one tii;ng is sure. and hat is that there ar: men in the con- 1 vention who will not be ruled by any Spoliticail .:aogne. or take part in any ::"t:on which would tend to a , disruption of State democracy. e By far the most important resolu tion a: fpted by the committee, and r one w ic; (!cVts every individual C t 1 taxpayer of. the State, .was one pro- t vidin,^ for a Ire equitable equaliza- I e tion of the assessments in all the counties in the State. Under the P I- present syst?m in some counties ; property is assessed far above its 1 real market value and far above what I it should be. while in other counties property is assessed too low. This t question has been agitated by the press of the State for some time, and a - all classes will join heartily in the c s effort to rene(ly the inequalities.- f I Wun,s. >ro Keestc acn IImddtL. C e Mr. Pulitzer's Prodigy. r 1 Three years ago Mr. Joseph Pul- i i itzer announced to the wearied read- C ers of the New York World that d from that bright May morning the paper would be under different man aement. -different in men, measures e and netlods-different in purpose, y I policy and principle-different ~ in c objects and interests-different in IC sympathies and convictions-differ- C cut in head and heart." Ile (e- t. clurcd that there was roo,n in New e York for a journal that was not only che:p but bright. not only bright but s large. not only large but truly Dem- tc ocratic-dedicate, to the cause of the people rather than that of purse potentates-devoted more to the a news of the New than of the Old tr -vorld-that would expose all fraud C and sham, fight all public evils and o ni d and battle - .T peff with earnest sincerity. The WXorld has been run on a high pressure ever since. It has been p secsstiona-at times startling. It ias discarded the dignity. if also the dryness, of Wm. Henry iulburt's A World; it has flowered into illustra- b tions-its best columns becomnng tc Spicture galleries. Candor compels ti us to say that the World is not the highiest style of p)aper in New Yiork --but it has rapidly become one of the most popular. It is tireless in gathering news and "regardless" in publishing it. Mr. Pulitzer snows up in p)rints what hie has done. In the month of Miay, 186:3, The World printed a -grand total of 917,04:3 copies. For the month of *'plril 1886, Th'le WXorld printed 5,49094 copies. In the Vtwelve months ending M1ay 1, 1983' a The World printed 87,148 advertise mnents. In the twelve mouths ending MIay 1, 1886. The World printed i 45:,594 advertisements. For the weeltz en ding Mlay 8, 188'3. the total circulation of. TIhe World was 1G0.170J copies. For tihe week ending MIay 8. 188SG, the :ttl circulation of TIhe W\orld was 1,3 i4,382 copies. The amount paid for the white paper on - which The World is printed, for the first three months in 188:3, was $1~>.776. 16. Them amount paid forc -hie white paper on which The Worldc -was printed, for the first three months oif1S80, was 830,005. 70. It sows a vigorous and a v-ersa e mc.t hod nd has proven an lhon et -f a oy-den. menmber of staid oli Priniting house Sqiuare. We cannot help but wish the new World well. --Anqn.*1 C;,~h*bi&.IMy 11//h. Primiary Ecetions. The papers are again agitating the' matter of nomninating candidates for P -(Congress by primnary elections, it j ~s certanf that. the presentL mfoue of r no::nna tinL by conlventions is hv ino men cptable to theC people, not -withstading the fact that thi; re'so'. r asseef nino present members ofC on Sgress. are not altogethier unsatisfac- e toy The principle underlying thec x mr system is certainly the cor- p reet one. The dilliculty- lies in its r appliatio n to the choiCe of. candi- a dates for. Congress. To go no9 fur thr !fte plurality plan be followed. U s th-ebaces are that the most popu 1 lnscontr wllchoose the Con eressmen: while. undter the majnority ji - ilan. a~ scond primary would be ne- 1 e es.s-ary at much inconvenience toi i the voter"s. Inl that event, too. the s .0o!e w ould lie between the favor-i a tes of the two most populous coun - tis A ood middle ground will be1 ound i n the further enlargement ofjt t representation in the nomiuating coin a ventions, and in the exercise of more 31ORE OF 31R. MITCHELL. Vhat he is Going to (10 With His Re Lines Now. The Evening News ran up again lie busiest railroad man in town, an ecosced Col. R. M. Mitchell thi norning, as follows: "Well, Mr. President, what abou he Carolina Red Lines ?" --The survey of the Newberry Rel ine," replied President Mitchell is progressing quite satisfactorily preliminary line-has been run b; hief Engineer Barksdale and hi orps to Sweetwater church, abou en miles from the city, and thi 2ornng the engineer corps is en aged in locating the roadbed pre ar,tory to commencing the grading Ce are particularly delighted wit] aving found a way over the Ham urg Hills with a ninety feet grade.' "You will begin grading very sooi :en ? "Yes; perhaps in a day or two nd the track laying will follov losely. We are now advertisini >r two hundred railroad laborers aptain Barksdale estimates that th< rading from hamburg to Sweetwatei -ill not cost exceeding $500 pei ile, which is much cheaper than ] ver supposed the work could be one. Ie is the great pathfinder owever." "IIow long will the main line be ?' "Say 70 miles to Newberry, and esterdav I had a letter from the hiairman of a committee represent ig township No. 4 of Newberr3 ounty offering aid to bring the road >ward Union C. II. When we re eive a definite proposition fron nion County, which we anticipate >on. the Newberry road will be ex mded through Union and perliap, ork Counties, and into North Caro na. Thus the main road will prob biy be over 150 miles long, pene ating the best counties of Soutl arolina. With its branches all ir ?eration, this road should bring tc ugusta 150,000 bales of cotton an ually.. "Iow are the assessments beinE aid in ?" "Very nicely. But you know we ive private subscriptions only in ugusta and Edgefield County. Th dance of the road will be built by wnship, city or county subscrip ons." "Yes, we will build it. Never fear at, and when you hear any one say e will not, put him down as a preju ced individual or a fool !" "Other parties are proposing tc >nstruct a narrow gauge from John. on to Augusta-are they not ?" "I have heard there was some such :eme afoot. The Augusta and ewberry authorities have nothing tc >) with it, however. We will build - our own line, and gladly welcome 1y other narrow gauge which has ugusta as its terminus, because eders, come whence they may, wil] j great good commercially." "Where will you cross the Savan, ah river ?' "That has not been fully decided e are considering three or foun :ints-over the S. C. railway or C .& A. bridge, or the building of ar idependent bridge by the Sanders lle railway. I believe, however iat most of the directors prefei ossing in the upp& part of th< --You will build rapidly ?"' "Yes; you can say that the Red ine directory have their road as ired, and not only assured, but thal will be rapidly built. But you wil ardon me now."-Augusta News. bbevile in favor of the Primary foi Nominaiting a Conigressmian. TPhe following resolutions wer< assed by the A bheville Count) lemocratic Convention. W/wr,eus. The nominations by th( emocratic party are equivalent t< a election, and whereas our Stat< enator, R epresentatives andl counts [eers are nominated by primary tections, andl whereas every Demo at should have a right to partici ate directly in the choice of all rep ?sentatives both State and National nd whereas the convention plan o ominating candidates for Congrest revents this direct p)articipation b) ic whole people. R'-soved, That we adopt the pIri iary election as our mode of nomi ating the candidiates for Congres a the Third Congressional District Rescd', That our President bi structed to correspond with thi 'residents of the Democratic Club: a the different counties composin! he Third Congressional Distric otifying them of our action aral oiciting the co-operation of thei onties in the nlan. BACON AN D GOI:.)ON. The Rival Candidates for (overnor d Georgia Begin their Canvass. AU;USTA, G.\., May 12.-TI Gubernatorial campaign has open; in Georgia. The lIon. A. U. l;aeo s of Bibb County, and Gen. Jto. Gordon. of De Kalb County. a: t prominent candidates and ire stum ing the State for nomination ly ti Democratic Convention. which wi probably meet in July. The car paign promises to be spirited an i heated, as both candidates have large following. Major Bacon h: been prominent in State politic having been Speaker of the House Representatives for several term Gen. Gordon has a national reput: tion. Don't Undervalue the Boys The following sound reasoning w find in the American Agriculturis It would be a benefit to both fathei and their sons if its precepts wer more often regarded. Too many men make their boy feel that they are of little or no a< count while they are boys. Lay responsibility on a boy, and he wi meet it in a manful spirit. On n account ignore their disposition t investigate. Help them to unde: stand things. Encourage them t know what they are about. We ar too apt to treat a bov's seekin after knowledge as mere idle cur osity. "Don't ask questions" is poc advice to boys If you do not eC plain puzzling things to them, yo oblige them to make many exper ments they find out; and though em perimental knowledge is best in on sense, in another it is not, for tha which can be explained clearly doe not need experimenting with. If th principle involved is understood, ther is no further trouble. and the boy ca go ahead intelligently. Do not wait for the boy to gro, up before you begin to treat him a an equal. A proper amount of cor fidence, and words of encouragemen and advice, and giving him to unde stand that you trust him in man ways, helps to make a man of hit long before he is a man in eithe stature or years. The Boston Journal of Comtnere also makes a good suggestion to p: rents apropos to the above. Give him tools, says the writei and let him find out for himisel ,whether lhe has got any mechanic: taste or not. D)o not discourage hlin: as parents are apt to do, by saying "Oh, it is no use for you to try to d anything with tools. I never has any taste that way, and of cours you have not." If a boy finds lie ca: make a few articles -vith his hand.i tends to make him rely on himsell And the p)lanning that is necessar; for the execution of the work is disciplhne and an education of grea v'alue to him. The future wvellfair and happiness of the boy depends ol the surroundings of his youth. Whe: lie arrives at that period in his lif when he is obliged to choose whot profession or what line of b,usinies to follow, it is highly important thar lie should take no false step. Andi in his youth lie has cultivated a tast for any particular branch, tihe choie of a p)rofession or business will b nmade more easy. The Dude Factory. Mr. B. Ri. Tillman's allusion to th Citadel Academy as a "dude fat tory" is perhiaps funny and sma:r but it is altogether unsupported b facts, of' which so wise a man as ought not to be ignorant. The wnt belb'oa graduates of the State Mil tary Academy made goodI citizen -and good soldiers. TIhey were by in means "dudes," andl Mr. B. R. Til man, in his wisdom, ought to k no it. No class has yet gradluated f'rm the Citadel as reorgainized. an Iheiice it is impossible to say whieth< the outcome shall consist of 'dudes or not. Even Mr. TIillmnan can't d< cide that matter as yet. But ti much may be said -that the C itadi Academy is now a more thorougi practical and eflicient school than h as been at any p)revious time in it We ~~~Yare among those who hav doubts of the necessity for the Cit: del as a part of our public schor system. We rather incline to thin that were the money spent upon -devotedl to the South Carolina ('o lege, and the scholarships in the Ci adel transferred to thme College, mom .good might follow. But the Citadi is here. It is doing a good worn It is therefore best to give it Schance to carry on that work: ;least for a time longer. It is cc Stainly unjust, as well as childish. 1 undertake to bring the institutic into ridicule by calling it a "duc rfactory."-WinsborO Neus and Hie na May 12th. iE IN nmu SSELS. of shot). in Picture of t:he ) gr<n.ution o4 tlhe UelgianR Capital. ie - ! Go from the cafes to the hotels. n. Thi propriet(rs will wait and fawn B. upon you-ifvon be well dressed and re have a few diamond rings on your p- fingers-just as his parisian confrere he does. Here von will find those pri vate rooms--or. as they call them. !- cabiiet,, particuli.'rs-that are. by d the 1y. mere imitaiions of the class a at the Palais , oval in Paris. where hs gallants eat and drink tete a-tete S. with the fashionable female tatterde >f malions of the city, and where mar . ied women forget their nuptial vows i- in the arms of dudish dandies. On the streets after ni_ihtfall we meet with the same disgusting sights so common at the same hour on the e boulevards and Foubourg Montmar 6. tre of Paris-the rough and pow 's dered battalions of smirking vice, e iaunting its gaudy dresses and stur ing you im n,iodestl y out of counte s nance. Stroll into by-lanes and into alleys, where you will not need very a much discrimination to see that I Brussels even exceeds Paris. pro o porticnally speaking. in the number 0 of its dens of corruption tolerated by the statute hook and patronized by 0 many who have something to do with C the manufacture of statutes; dens where British, Irish, French and American girls cater to the brutal r tastes and proclivities of scoundrels of every class and of all nationali t ties. (o into society. frequent fash ionable tea parties, dance at fashion -sable balls. and eat and drink at mid e night suppers. and what do you find except that strange sameness of s habits and ideas so prevalent in the Scity by the Seine-the same fashion e aIle dictun, if not openly expressed, 1 at least. secretly implied and acted on. that a marrie dame who does v not afforfherself the luxury of a s paramour is the wretchedest of sotts; the sa.ne prurient. practical pliloso t phy that ties respectably brought up girls to their mammas apron-strings f till the nuptial day-a philosophy n whieb makes the minxes hypocrites r before mr.arriage and God knows what after it; the same simpering civili C ties c (lhan,ed between men and m1n) or women and women who have no mtore re(ard for each other than an Irish dynami'cr has or is sup. posed to have for the hide of the aver age Saxon. ()ver the tea-cup) the Ssame scantdal is bandied about as in P'aris. Mmec. A. wore. it seemis. the Ssame dress three times consecutively at her Lox in the theatre. M. B. is lproud of thle younugsters. B. never tileamning,r poo'r soul ! that they are Sout his own. Mime. C. is stupid - enough to love her husband. although Ythe felo lavishes thousands of franes mionthly on) one of the ae ttresses of La Mlon naie. &c. 2 So from the tea talde to the political caucus club, and there you will find Sthe same political p)rofligacy running a riot. II' re as there D eputies are t secret ly paid thousands and thou ssandts of franes for allowingi their Snamies to appear 01n the directing Scompany in the prospectumses of C fin an cial~ speeulatitnis. IIlere as e there the D eputs or Senator's e h)ockets are li ned with gold for beg-. gi ng ministerial favors. I lere as there politiel:) ig-.w'gs carry on the 5s:ine Petty i ntrigues. the same double C faiced chienniery. the same double dyed hlypocrisy. Whiere pulic po -sitionis are gZot by bribery polities he Ycomies a 1 tae, and politicatl traders e or trickLters) are as proportionately -niun:rous in l1russels as they are in Ti - s T Ihe- 1:nd( Of GranIlt's Story. n The~ s:econdi v)lum o ( entral I G rant's autiobiiographyi is out. It .r t akes up the threal f the story where "it was dropjped by t he first volume -an d coni ns muchI that will interest s readers on this side as well as on the -1 other side of .dlason and D)ixon's iline. T1he first tive chatpters are a .t reprint of the atuthors article in the s Century of' November. 1:45, for which they were originally writtten. e b ut thiere is the following in)terp)ola ttion of an account of a personal in d s pection of the piceket lines of his ownu arnmy and of the Coniifedlerate tarmy as well: - --As I wouhi be uinder short-rawge - i and in an op.in country I took e 'joltd i\with me eH xcep t. 1 bel ieve, a h u'ler. who staid some1 d istanee to .the rcar. I rode from our righlt, 'aroundl to our hlft. W\heni I emnte to t the~ c amp of' tile picket guardl of' our - s-id I heard the callI, -Tuirn (out the uardL f1.or the coimmandingz G;eneral.' I replied. 'Never mind the guard.' Fand th'ey were dismissed and went h ack in their tents. Jnst back of these. and about cduallv dist:unt from the creek. were the ,uards of the th Confederate pickets. The sentinels ti< on their posts called out in like man- of ner. 'Turn out tie ?nard for the corn- T man:in fcneral. and. I believe. ar added, -General Grant. Their line ci: in a moment Iont faced to the North. ar facing me. and gave a salute., which to: I returned. wt --The most friendly relations N seemed to exist between the pickets wt of the two arnie. At one place ne there was a tree which had fallen be across the stream. ani which was pe used by the sohliers in both armies th< in drawing water for their camp. cn General Long,streets corps was sta- C% tioned there at the time, and wore blue of a little dificrent shade from our uniform. Seeing a soldier in blue on this log. I rode up to him. te commenced conversin; with him, ani Ev asked hIP whose corps he belonged no, to. Ile was very polite, and, touch- sid ing his hat to me, said he belonged boi to General Longstrect's corps. I Nc asked him a few questions-but not le with a view. of aaining ay particu- sie lar information-all of which he an- Wo swered, and I rode off." an This is a very pleasing picture of me the friendly relations that are well known to have existed between the or pickets of the two armies of brothers, Sh and corroberates the many stories of ho the same sort that veterans delight al to tell. sm Touching the final scenes at Appo- i mattox. he says there is no basis res whatever for "the story of the famous whi apple tree," and that --mucli-taiked-of a surrendering of Le-'s sw'>rd, and my att handing it back is the purest non- iic sense." 1 never spoke to Ger.ral Trt Lee about private property or side- Hei arms, and when I put my pen to the th< paper I did not know the first word I -or should make use of. Ile had on a tos soldier's blouse, with straps of his shi rank, but no sword. and "must have bu contrasted very strangely with a man so handsomely dressed, six feet high, and of faultless form." Let the Colored People Alone. Among the many schemes that have been devised io employ the lie United States treasurv. objectionable h as they mostly are, none has vet been . presented so obnoxious as that noted 's in our special dispatches-fron Wash- P Th ington. the purpose being to facili Late the emigration of colored peole an from this country to A'Yica. o After twenty year- of failure, the I North has ceasedL trying to regulate cu the relations of the races to each i other in the South. even .John Shier- to man admitting that the South must work out her own salvation and that 1 the South can no more be ruled by pa ~ tie' the North than Ireland by England. The race problenm at the South is fiuding its own solution, and the re- a lations of tile two races to each other are rap)idly adjusting themselves ac cording to the laws of nature. Freed from the interference of political and social charlatans the whites have eaey control of the Sonthern States. and* the colored people, following the lead o . . .by of tile sup)eroir race. arc imaprovol~ iln intelligence, ind(ustry and thrift, and are acquiring, according to their ju abil ity. the elements of enligh:tened . . . 'to c7i vih zatijon. T1hie chief factor. however in this adjustment of the di ferences bewe gr whites anid blacks is the convictionn that t hey arc and must continue to ap be 1 welers in the samet land, shatrers n of a c2iiommo iate-t hat the prosperi ty or adiversit y of te tommunliity" inmst ailike affect b oth races. aid thoat thi their interests. whiile to a certain e:n tent distinect. amre nevertheless initer de peienct. This schet'me of colon zatonm. it a'doipted. wonuld chiange the whole aispet of a1Tairs. It wouldl knock the base fr on under the fabric to of toe new South. which has been " erected with so1 nuch coKt and pains. ~ atnd which, thoughi yet' incomln)ete, al-. ready i egins to vic in streng~th and " spiendor with that old South, whs " grand archles and e astellated walls at were shatLtered by the dvnamimte of p mfodern progiress. T[his schieme wvould um teach the colored man to hook upone America as ani F.gypt, and on Africac Ias the l'romised ILand. It woul fil the race with a spirit of restlessness " fatal to progress and prosperity. It woud hei as dangerou to c onten t - ti theC South asi divorce lawsv. are to mnat wiorse, :u241 they are very sensibl mainll the bcst of i. Iloidl out the. hop~e of' sepaIration, and1 thei moutiv e of imutual to.riearancet aire gonie. nie resul t would14 be another soia rev olution in tihe Suith. The twenty ta years that have been spent in accomn- ch: modating ourselves to free colored co labor would be waste'i, and another P score of years be spent in adopting h m. sety to white labor. IbU No. gentiemen of Congres ! Leave e south to work out its own salva m. 1)o not offer bribes to any part our population to move away. ic scheme can work no good to ybo:y but the Colonization So aty. That would become a great .d powerful organization, its direc rs would grow rich. and its offices cld alford many fat places to needy )rthern adventurers. But the South ,uld be unsettled, and of the poor groes 99 in every 100 who should enticed from their homes would rish in the unequal struggle with difliculties and dangers of unac stomed surroundings.-Kews and "ri(r MayI 13th. The Girl We All Like. "'The plainest girl I ever saw was favorite in my native town. erybody liked her. Beautiful? 0 she is not beautiful-that is, out e, but inside she is an angel. No, ly thinks of calling her beautiful. one of a dozen can tell whether eyes are black or blue. If you >uld ask them to describe her they uld only say: She is just right, i there it would end. She is a rry-hearted, fun loving, bewitch maiden, without a spark of envy malice in her whole composition. e enjoys herself and wants every 'ly else to do the same. She has vays a kind word and a pleasant ile for the oldest man or woman; fact. I can think of nothing she er:ibles more than a sunbeam, ich brightens everything it conies contact with. All pay her marked ention from rich Mr. Watts, who es in a mansion on the hill, to ne Sam. the Sweep. All look after ;:-ith an admiring eye and say to 1mselves; 'She is just the right'sort a girl !' The young men cf the en vie with one another as to who ill s:ow her the most attention t she never encourages them be ad being simply kind and jolly, so one can call her a flirt; no, indeed, young men all deny such an as tion as quickly as she." -Do girls love her, too?" I asked. Yes, wonderful to relate, girls like too; for she never delights in rting their feelings or saying spite things behind their backs. Sh. always willing to join in their little ins and to assist them in any way. ev go to her with their love affairs, d she manages adroitly to see Willie Peter and drop a good word for i or Jennie until their little diffi ties are all p)atched up and every ng goes on smoothly again, thanks her. Old ladies say she is 'de htful.' The sly witch, she knows i to mranage them. She listens tiently to complaints of rheuma mn or neuralgia, a.'d then sympa zes with them so heartily that they Imore than half cured.'.'-Eli rkins. Fix the Responsibility. While the limited time allowed n for tihe consideration of the mass special pens)ion bills sent to him the present Congress has not per tted President Cleveland to pass igment upon them in detail and to ~approve those which ap)pear to him be without suficient warrant for atment. he has found suflicient >unds. in the course of even a st examination, to withhold his, proval of two-thirds of the entire mber. One hundred and fifty-nine the two hundred and forty bills 1 therefore become laws without Ssanction of the P'resident, who s very properly placed tihe respon >lity for their passage where it he izs. at the doors of Congress. The Presidents analysis of this iss of loose legislation, which adds the burdens of the tax-payers the mn of S:15.000U annually, reflects deC rved discredit upon the methods of 3people's repiresentatives in deal. zwith this class of claims, and is a calculated to direct the public enton to thme manner in which the biei fu nds are misappropriated der the pressure of p)urely political uIsiGerations. The President is nvinced and with abundant reason. .t interposition byv special enact mt shiould be -'rare ande excep)tion -whecreai- it bias fair, because of Scomln :aince or t!iidityt of Con s-men. to icoe thne rule. An !en-iVe tiureau. i'nlhy equipped for - exmnli nation or pension1 claims, 1 been organized by Congress for Sduty. and tho.ugh certainly no son exists for charging that bureau th illiberality to claimants hereto -e. in view of the length of theC es lished pension roll, scores of tims are passedi by Congress which ld not survive the tests of the asionl b)ureau, and some of which ye never been submitted to that ..a- teir success being largely due, as the President states, to mis directed sympathy rather that to right and justice. President Cleveland has acted with his usual good sense and directness . , in refusing to accept any share of the responsibility for the unwise legisla tion he has so plainly characterized, and the blame for which he has so clearly fixed. It is not improbable that Congress will be a little more careful in future in dealing with such claims, and any plan of procedure that promises to have the effect of making it more careful is certainly desirable.--Kews and Courier May 11. Death-Dealing Tornado in Illinois. Ch IcmAco, May 12.-Passengers on ,he Chicago and Alton train, which arrived to-night, had a remarkable axperience with a cyclone. At Pon ;iac, Ill., a storm-cloud was seen ,athering in the west and moving ia a northeast direction. As the train sped on the storm kept coming near er every minute and the passengers >egan to realize that they were being ahased by a cyclone. Just as the -= ;rain pulled into Odell, Ill., the storm struck the town and the air was full = . f debris. In a moment seven stores ad the h-btel were unroofed and one arge brick building was nearly de troyed. Under the wreck of the structure two children were buried. relegraph wires in that vicinity are eported down. Specials from Stre ator and Rockford, Ill., and Peru, [nd., tell of a terrible wind and hail storm at those points. About 5:30 7. m. heavy roaring clouds from the south and east met just over the city -Y >f Rockford and daylight was sud enly converted into darkness. - A iownpour of immense hailstones fol towed, greatly damaging 'trees and breaking windows. In the con -urrounding Streator rain and hai raged for an hour and a half. TIE TORNADO STRIKES JOLIET. One of the heaviest storms ever known struck Joliet about 8 :30 this evening. A deluge of rain, thunder and hail inundated the earth. The thunderbolts were deafening and electric display unparalleled. A cir cus show was having a performance ere, and in the midst of the per rormance the storm struck the tent, urning the whole show upside down., A. general stampede ensued amid sheets of lightning, drenching rains:. and resistless gales of wind. Three -- persons were serionmsly injured by raling poles. A number were hurt seriousy. A Mighty Uncertain Game. The Buffalo Courier tells an in eresting draw-poker story, and in. ists that it is true. The game was played in a Buffalo hotel by seven men. One of the players had won'~ $200 and was about to jump the : game when he picked up a hand of ~.c four kings and an ace. It was in vincible because they were not play ing straight flushes. All came in, one of them raising they ante $. Mr. Four Kings just chipped along, not wishing to keep anybody out. The others stayed and all drew cards, the man with the kings throw ing away his ace and drawing one ' card rather than spoil his chances of getting bets by standing pat. The man who had made the ten-dollar - raise took two cards. Then the bet ting began. All were driven out excet the man with the four kings and the man who had drawn two cards. They whacked back and forth at one another until at length, hav-* ing exhausted all his chips, and f goe shy for many dollars, them n. with the kings felt that he had won all he wanted to, and called. To his horror hiis r'pponent laid down four aces. The beaten man howled and claimed fraud, for how could the other man have four aces when he himself had one before the drawt The explanation was simple. There - being seven players there were not enough cards to go around after the first deal. and so the discards were . shuled up and dealt for the draw. In the draw the man who took two cards and was drawing to three aces ot the ace which the man with the four kings had discarded, and Was thus able to beat his opponent out of - his boots. This doesnt happen often. It is a legend in a club in this city that the same thing did hapa pen on a.Mississippi steamboat in the good old days, and that a Louisin lauter who held the four kings. lost his plantation to the man who then secured the discarded ace.-N. Y.~ None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and . nbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul who is satisfied and lweth over.