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ii --9. /// I A r j~or, ____-_ ~h - A tnilb a -- _ __.~~~~_ _ FSTABLISHED 186w NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY - - PRICE $L50 A YEAR 0. 19,1888. * THLE FARLERts' ALLIANCE. A State Organization Effected-The Objects of the New Secret Order-Similar to those of the Grange-No Poitics. [Special to News and Couriei.1 FLORENCE, July 11 -The delegates from the various sub-alli:aces of the Farmers' Alliance met in secret session this morning at 10 o'clock for the pur pose of perfecting an organization of a State Alliance. The attendance was large, so large that Barringer's Hall was filled to suffocation. The enthusiasm of the delegates was unbounded. A temporary organization was effected by the election of the following officers: Presiden t, E. T. Stackhouse, of Marion; vice president, F. P. Taylor, of Chester field; secretary, J. W. Reid, of Spartan burg; treasurer, J. F. Breeden, of Marl boro; doorkeeper, J. E. Pettigru, of Darlington; assistant doorkeeper, H. McPae, of Marion; chaplain, the Rev. J. H. Turner, of Chesterfield; sergeant at-arms,J.Eugene Jernigan, of Marion. The State Alliance was permanently organize-1 by the election of the follow ing officers: President, Gen. E. T. Stackhouse, Marion; vice president, J. 1). Breeden, Marlboro; secretary, J. W. Ieed, Spartanburg; treasurer, F. P. Tayl: r, Chesterfield; chaplain, James Douglas, Fairfield; lecturer, J. E. Petti grew, Darlington; assistant lecturer, Hector McRae, Marion; doorkeeper. E. L. Brown, Williamsburg; assistant doorkeeper, A. R. Whaller, Horry; ser geant-at-arms, J. E. Jarnigan, Marion. The State executive committee is composed of the following: F. P. Mitchell, Fairfield; S. T. D. Lancaster, Spartanburg, and Lucas McIntosh, Darlington. A distinguished visitor in the person of Col. L. L. Polk, of Raleigh, North Carolina, first vice president of the National Alliance and editor of the Progressive Farmer, contributed inval uable service in the propagation of this enterprise by his wise counsel and en couragement. To-night a public meeting was held at which addresses were made by the Hon. D. K. Norris and Col. Polk. The former occupied a short time in the de livery of a practical and instructive speech. The latter spoke for an hour to a very large and appreciative audience. Col. Polk's reputation as an orator had preceded him and the people were not disappointed. His remarks were freight ed with practical information incident to modern agriculture, while he became eloquent in his advice to farmers rela tive to their financial management, em ploying illustrations throughout as amusing as they were appropriate. The Convention is just getting down to real work. It will be in session all day to-morrow, and may be able to ad journ to-morrow night. There is considerable interest mani fested in the election of the permanent State officers, and not a few candidates are in the field. None of the offices will go o-begging. It is generally con ceded that Col. E. T. Stai-khouse will be retained as president. The Strength of the Movement. The Order has evidently obtained a strong hold on many of the best farmers of the State. The delegates are fine specimens o,f the best class of farmers. They are generally men whose capital consists more in land, labor and char acter than in bonds and moneys. They dress well and have a general air of hard work and thrift about themi. They senm to have the utmost faith in the Alliance, and look to it as the only solu tion of many questions that have wor ried the tillers of the soil for many years past. They all wear faces that show full confidence that they are on the eve of a new and a better era in the agri cultural development of the State. THE sTRENGTH OF THE ALLIANCE. The Farmers' Alliance is, compara tively speaking, a new-corner in South Carolina, but since its arrival it has spread and incased with a rapidity unparalleled in the history of any or ganization of like character in this State. It is well established in the West, Southwest and Northwest,where it has a membership that embraces necarly tho entire agricultural popula -. tion. The Order is also rapidly being introduced into the Southern States. ufact, every State in the South has. inte organization. North 'Carolina en~1 organized and its farmers are ent husiastic over the practical benefits t hey are daily receiving from their con ia'tion with thme Order. It was from the- old North State that the Alliance camxe into South Carolina. It first miade its appearance in the counties along the border. The first sub-alliance was formed in MIarion County last fall by anm organizer from Anson County, N. C. MIost of the organizers now at work are from North Carolina, as that State can claim three o,f the four in the field. The Itev. T. W. Kenell, Dr. D. C. T1iling e~~~aLaughlin are le Capt. J. D. S.outh Caro The plan of the National Alliance is to have an organizer employed in each Congzressional district of the State, but thme friends of the movement hereseem - to think that they have work for an organizer in every county. The Order is attra,ctig attention all over the State, and the demand for information is so great. that it is said that a discreet orgranizer canl be used to advantage in every county. Already there have been received a long list of places that are anxious to have an organizer visit them. .Just as soor' as the State or ganizat ion is perfected work will he I Pushed in all the counties. At pres ent tihe greatest strength of the Alliance is in Cestrield Marion, Darlington. Marlboro, Spartanburg, York, Union, Chester, Lancaster, Horry and several other counties. THE OBJECTS OF TIE ALLIANCE. The purposes of the Order are ex plained in the following declarations of the national constitution: 1. To labor for the education of the agricultural classes in the science of economical government in a strictly non-partisan spirit. 2. To endorse the motto, "In things essential unity, and in all things chari tv." 3. To develop a better -state, men tally, morally, socially and financially. 4. To create a better understanding for sustaining civil offleers in maintain ing law and order. 5. To constantly strive to secure en tire harmony and good will among all mankind and brotherly love among ourselves. 6. To suppress personal, local, sec tional and. national prejudices; all un healthful rivalry and selfish ambition. 7. The brightest jewels which it gar ners are the tears of widows and or phans, and its imperative commands are to visit the homes where lacerated hearts are bleeding; to assuage the suf feringsof a brother or sister; bury the dead; care for the widows and educate the orphans; to exercise charity towards offenders; to construe words and deeds in their most favorable light, granting honesty of purpcse and good intentions to others; and to protect the principles of the Alliance unto death. Its laws are reason and equity, its cardinal doc trines inspire purity of thought and life, its intention is "peace on earth and good will towards men." The article of the constitution relat ing to membership says: "No person shall be admitted as a member unless he has been a citizen of the State for six months past, and not then unless he be a farmer, a farm laborer, mechanic, country school teacher, country physician or minister of the Gospel, be of good moral charac ter, believe in the existence of a Su preme Being, be_of industrious habits, is a white person, and over the age of 16 years." Another section of the constitution gives a black eye to the lawyers. It says: "It is deemed contrary to the spirit of the Order for brothers to go to law with each other. Therefore, it is earn estly recommended, when pecuniary differences arise between members, that they settle them amicably among themselves; failing to do so, that they, leave the matter to arbitration by two Dr more members of the Alliance. Each contending party shall have the right to select one arbitrator, and the arbitra tors shall select the third."' - TAKING LIKE WILDFIRE. Mr. G. J. Redfearn, a well-educated and progressi.ve farmer of Chesterfield County, says that the Alliance is very popular in that county. It has grown almost like magic. Not a year old, it has already over 2,000 members, and is growing every day both in influence and numbers. All classes .of farmers are joining it, and taking an active interest in the Order without any clashing of feeling. Some members have their cash surplus of thousands, while others have only their labor and their sturdy character. Mr. Redfearn says that the Order has encountered opposition from some merchants, but that it was due to business matters and not to the principles of the Order. The Allhance is strong in its membership, and it commands the respect ofall who are informed as to its objects. THEIR WAY OF DOING BUSINESS. Mr. Redfearn gave me an account of their business methods, whereby they are enabled to get reasonable rates and accommodating terms for their mem bers. In every county the Alliance has a trade agent and every sub-alliance in the county has a trade committee, the chairman of which is the sub-trade agent. The various sub-agents consti tute the county trade board, and they have the management and control of the financial affairsof the organization. Their plan is to give every merchant in the county a chance to bid for the trade of the Alliance. The merebants who make the best responsible bids are ap pointed as tradestores for the Alliance. 1,n. Chesterfield County there are five trade stores that are ft.rnishing mtem bers of the Alliance with certain classes of goods at ratZes far below those hither to paid by the averagc farmer. Some farmers, who have always been shrewd buyers, who have had no reason to complain of the prices they have paid for their supplies; but many farmers, who have been practically at the mer cy of the merchants, have' been com pelled to pay prices that have been sim ply outrageous. These farmers are helped by the Alliance and are enabled to procure their supplieseon reasonable termis. Mr. Redfearn sees a decided improvement in dealings of credit. He says that as long as the members can get what they want fromn the trade stores they will buy there; but that they go elsewhere for.what they do not keep. In Chesterfieki- the Sub-Alliance meet twice a month, biftthe constitu tion only requires a monthly meeting. The Count~y Alliance, composedof del egates from all the various Sub-Alli ances, meets every quarter. The great est interest is manifested in these meet ings. The attendance is very large and all the proceedings are characterized by great enthusiasm. One object never lost sight of in any of the meetings of the Alliance is to stir up the members to a determination to improve their condition. All meetings are social in their character. Every Sub-Alliance has a le-turer, whro rdnty it s to de liver a carefully prepared lecture on some selected subject or to read somie instructive article at every meeting. These features will be developed when the State organization is perfected. NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS. Mr. Redfearn says that the Alliance f has nothing to do with politics. It is C not in any sense apolitical organization. 7 It will take no part in any political c movements. Its ienbers as good cit- ( zens will take a lively personal interest s in all matters that pertain to the in- p terest of the State, but the Aliance will p not be entangled in any political con binations. No doubt the influence of t the Alliance will be felt, but it will be p only as the influence of the Masons, t the various churches, &c., is now felt. , In any contest where office is sought by p an Alliance man and a Non-Alliance h man, other things being equal, there is '1 not much doubt that the members of a the Alliance will vote for the Alliance f mant. TLe Alliance will take no action ii in the matter, and every nember will a be left free to vote just as he sees fit ; t but a fraternal spirit will prompt many v to vote for their brother, whom they d recognize as the equal of his competitor ii in every respect. r THE RICH iEL'ING TIIE POoR. Dr. D. C. Tilliman, who is one of the t most prominent organizers in the Order. is here prepared for work. He has been at work for some time in organizing sub alliances, and has just succeeded in forming county alliances in Marion and Darlington, where he has enlisted the support of the best farmers. He was z largely instrumental in organizing North Carolina, and feels sure that the same success will attend his efforts here that. did there. Dr. Tillman says that C the Alliance is not like the Grange in some important and material respects. fc The Alliance has no coercion of its mem bers; but its combinations are for mu tual benefit. The Alliance compels no c member to go security for a brother 'l member. It helps the weak without placing the strong in danger. By stand ing together and trading at the same r store, the rich help the poor. The mer chant is glad to take the trade of the C poor small farmer in order to get the S fine trade of the rich planter. The s trade of a farmer who will need $100 worth of supplies is a small matter, but 1 when it becomes a stepping stone to the U trade of a dozen farmers who will want I $5,000 in supplies, it becomes a matter V of some consequence. In that way the i rich help the poor without running any h risk themselves. -_-_el WHO WAS THE WOMAN? The Strange Adventure of Mr. Richard Peters at Gettysburg. e s [From the Augusta Chronicle.] Richard Peters, of Atlanta, was at t Gettysburg. Besides attending thet reunion there, he had on hand another s mIission. During the war Mir. Peters was at- ' tached to General George Stewart's t brigade of Ewell's corps, andI was at I Gettysburg. A bout three o'clock of the I afternoon during the hardest fighting, t he was given an order by General t Ew"'l to carry over to General Hill. ' He started off on his mission at a mad a gallop. As he crossed a roadl, near aI farm house, a woman's v.oice hailed I him. "Look here," she cried, raising the window as she spoke. Mr. Peters I turned his head without checking his I. horse's speed. He saw the faIr face of S a beautiful womian, not fifty yards ( from him. Her sleeves had slipped ' down, disclosing a finely formed arm.i She raised an old long, single-barrelled S gun, took deliberate aim at himl, and t withlout another word fired. Mr. Peters & 'heard the ball whistle over his head I and the woman's voice cry, "I missed t you this time, but I will hit you the < next time sure." Mr. Peters says she could not have I been over twenty. The house was ill a range of the fire of both armies. Whent he returned there was no sign of life about the house. He had not been there since the battle. Yesterday he started out to look up the house and tile i comiely maiden, who is niow, if living,-] no doubt, a buxom matron. He says he will not return to tile south withoutI finding hler or what has become of her. It is needless to say he bears 110 enlmit y - Fourteen Husbands, all Living. [From the Pittsburg Dispat ch.] McKean county's record breaker is a shle, and her experience in the "silken bonds of matrimony" would fill a book as big as a dictionary. She lhves in Smithport, tihe county seat of this counlty, and is known as Mrs. Ida Hoosted. Her chief attraction is her Junio like form. ShIe is tall and mag-1 nificently proportioned, anld looks as if the winds of thirty-eight winIters, more or less, mighlt Ihave toyed with her abundant dark-brown tresses. 'When scarcely out of her short diresses she contracted her first marriage. She has been after mieni ever since, and is now livinlg with husband No. 14. The other thirteen husbands are all in the flesh, and all are on good terms with the mar rying woman. She has been legally separated from all her alliances, and was only married a few months1 ago to No. 14. Something She Should .Always Let Alone. [From tile Summerville Jou rnal. A young wife can be a good house keeper without bothering to polish up the spare change in her hlusband's pocket every timle she cieans up the "HOW DID YOU (ET IT:" he Farmers' Committee iw Astonished by the Ubiquitous Reports. [Special to the News and Courier.] CoLCMIr1, July ll.-A thunder-bolt rom a clear sky would scarcely have aused more consternation among the ilhnanIites5 thian thme published accont f their proceedings in the News anI ourier to-day. They had aequire< me knowledge of the newspaper re orter from their experience at their revious meeting, and this tinie they -ere confident of being able to conceal heir objects and actions. They were arcticularly suspicious and guarded in heir conversation when any strangers, ,ere about, and it was an utter im ossibility to get one of them to gtve a int as to the purposes of the meeting. 'hey had decided to hold a meeting in ne room, but just a feow minutes be ire they were to assemble a man hav ig the appearance of a farmier applied t the hotel desk for a room aljoiniing me one in which they would meet. They -ere inmiediately on the alert, aid ecided to change their place of mieet ig to the room described in last night's port. Their new position could not e approached witliout being seen by le "watch (log of the treasury," who -as stationed in the door. The most -equent qjuesti ii put, and not answer 1, to-day has been, "How did you get Amont other rash thinrs said by apt. Ben last night was that if Gon tdes had the reporting to do he (Till ian) would always get beaten. In eaking of the practicability of the armners' Association having the State tnvassed, it is understood that lr. illrnan said: "If we had thecampaign md and stealings that they have we )uld do the work well enough." If [r. Tillman is misquoted as to this he in say so. A number of the cormittc e -ere very bitter against the present tate Government and some of the fticials. It is, of course, needless to peat what they said about individuals. 'utside the committee room one of the )intteeien alluded to two of the tate House officers as"able-bodied pap ickers." In running over the list of those -hom they could possibly decide on for overnor, the names of Capt.Tillrman, x-Governor Sheppard, Senator Ed -ards and Giles J. Patterson were lentioned. Mr. Tilhnan, stated that e would not be a candidate for office. Ir.Tillman mentioned eight or ten Dmnties that wotild send solid firmers' iovement delegations to the State Con-I eation. Capt. Tillman, speaking ofthe present ttr:ivagant Government, said that the ilary of the superintendent of the Lsylumn had been increased from $2,(N0 >$3,000 in thepast few years. One of bie comnmitteeman objected to that, lying that while it appeared to lie an ierease on the b)ooks. it wvas niot, for rhen the State had paid the superin mudent $2,000) the b oard of regents laid aid him $1l,000, and that now it was aidl in one lumn. Capt. Tilnman said hat that made no difference; he found be apparent increase there, and he could use it with the people and leave ny explanations to theother 4ide; that .c was not called upon to give the why nd wherefore. He next spo(ke of the 'enitentiary and its extravagzance. This shows the line of Trillman'?s olicy. He will tell the farmers that.the ooks show such and such an increase, nd convey the impression that the ~overnment has been extravagant, then lie personally knows that the acrease is only on pap>er anid that ctually the expenditures have been lie same. In this manner he hopes to ain strength with the labiorinig claisses. last night lie said that when he( toild he farmers that the State officers re eive over two thousanid dollars a year hey would think it a very large sum. {e also proposes to contrast the expen] es of the Government in this State. with hose of Georgia. Nothing was said last nigh t about the xpense of the canvass, but from the ~eneral character of the proceedings it s inferred that all Mr. Tillmnan's ex >enses will be paid. Who by? The members of the commxit.tee left he city to-day. They seemed some w'hat stunned, and no attenmpt was nade to deny' any of the published tatements. T1hey could only say, 'How did you get it?" How to F.at a Watermelon. [Atlanta Constitution.] How many peop)le in Albany, or out ~ide of it for that matter, knowv how to ,at a watermelon ? But for the truant chool boy, and memories of hini, the Lrt would peri from the face of the earth. A watermelon, even though it >e a (60 pounder, is not intended to be levoured in p)ublic, nor is one water relon. 1no matter what its weight may >e, more than enough for one healthy )ersoni. This fact is probably well known to ~very country school boy. The art of ~ating a watermelon and kee'ping cool ,s as simplle now?V as it was in the diays of ong ago. The rind should be slit with ishort bladed knife, so that when the melon is divided the heart of it shall rest in one of the halves in one luscious, iuicy lump. The knife should then be 'rarefully wiped and then pmut in the pocket. Then the coat shol lie taken >f and the sleeves rolled up. Plungre the right hand under one end of the beart and the left uinder the other;:lift the dripping mass to the mouth and raIl to. The juice will trickle (down your arms and saturate your face, lbut what of it ? There is p)lenty and to spare, though the feast is the rarest to TUMBLED INTO A TRESTLE. A Terril,le Wreck on the Virginia Midland- A Five Killed and Forty Wounded Death Among the Postal Clerk-,. A 1.ExA IRI, VA., July 12.-A ter- tl rib.e a(cident occurred on the Virginia al Midland railroad early this morning a The through Southern train that left n here at 11.25 o'clock last night went h through a trestle between Orange Court it House and Barboursville a distance of tE fifteen feet, killing five persons out- _ right and wounding upwards of 40, tl some severely. T Amng the killed is Cornelius Cox, v of tie engineering department of the tj road. The naiiies of the others have i not yet been received. The train hands hl were all more or less hurt, but none tl seriously. tc CIARLoTTKESVI LII, July 12.-The a express train No. 52 left Orange C. H., o1 southbound, at 1.5) a. n., Conductor C. sl P. Taylor, Engineer Watkins and fire- fr mnan Kelly. About two miles south of 1 Orange is a trestle, 48 feet high, which rt war known to be weak, and the Rail- s road company was engaged in filling tl it in. The train was moving at a speed of of six nules,crossing the trestle under st regular orders. The eigine had passed t< safely over most of the trestle when the p sioker, mail, baggage and express cars e went down with a great crash, drag- s ging down the engine and tender and two passenger coaches. li Two sleepers remained on the trestle. d The engine went down pilot foremost, s thus' communicating no fire to the al wreck. All the lights were extinguish- cl ed in the fall as soon as the accident g occurred. t The engineer. who was but slightly ei injured, walked back to Orange and telegraphed for assistance. Dr. W. C. ei N. Randolph and other physicians left a: here on a sprcial train for the wreck. b The dead anil some of the wounded ' were taken to Orange, while the more n seriously hurt were brought to Char- w lottesville and placed in the Cottage oi Hospital, hotels and houses of friends. tl As far as can now be ascertained, five rt were killed. C. Cox, of Alexandria, of s the engineering department of the ti Piedmont Air Line, was instantly s killed. H. T. Whittington, of Greens boro, North Carolina, postal clerk, a lived ten minutes. H. C. Brightwell, o postal clerk of Prospect, Prince Edward ti County,Virginia, lived until he reached sl the hospital. W. D. Parrott, of Alber- ii marle County, postal clerk, badly in- S jured;J.J.AVest and J. L. Walthall, of n Washington, D. C., postal clerks, badly 4 injured; Louis Jenkins, of Lynchburg, p postal clerk, slightly injured; Potter- e field. express agent, seriously injured; a Jennings, of Lynchburg, a passenger, c internal injuries. Capt. C. P. Taylor, of t] Alexandria, who was in the car next to e the smoker when the accident occurred, n wats hurt ab,out tIle head and arnms and v one leg was injured. Tile injured are b est imiated at about t went-five. ta THE TR1EsTLE WAS R')TTEN. The accidlent was clue to an advanced ~ stage of decay of trestle timbers. The ~ coroner's jury (declared thlat the disas- I ter wvas due to 1no other cause. Wreck ing trains have been at wvork all day, and it is believed that all the bodies have been recovered. Thie debris will ~ not be renmovedl and the bridge replaced under several days. Trains will go by way of Gordonsville to Charlottesville for tihe p)resent. t Another Account. WASINGMToN, July 12.-O. A. Nich (lsoni, of Baltimore, one ofthecsurvivors of the accidlent,. has arrived here and relates his experience as follows: "It was5 a ho(rrib)le ting, and it is a miracle how any~ one who wenit dowvn in that terrib)le fall escaped. It was inl the dead of nigh t, and w.e had started across thle bridge whlen it sudldenly gave away. Thle enlgine lad reached tile 1 other side, hut it wa puilled back by the falling baggage ear anmd fell on top. The mlail car wvas knocked out of recog nitionl and the snmoker was totally de molishled. I was in tile sleeper that wenit down. I don't know how I es caped. When I was awakened, I look edl out andI fo.und tile car hoisted in the air, resting on tihe remiainls of cars be low. The couplings coninecting us with the other sleepers hlad given away, and they remained on tile track. We went to wvork as soon as possible, though it was pitch dark, and did our best to rescue tile injured. The scene that fol lowed was of indescribable horror. The shrieks and moans of the injured, the shlouts of wildly excited passengers and the hissing of steam was terrible to hear. The passenlger ears were crushed out of1 all shlape, while tile sleeper was held hlighl in the air i)y the ruins of the broken coaches. A little stream runs under the trestle and recent rains had swollen it to far beyond its wonted pro poirtions. It is feared some were pin ionedl below its surface and perished in its waters." GAFFNEY FURNISHES A VICTI. [Special to tile Greenville News.] GAFFNEY, S. C., July 12.-Informa tion has just been received hlere of tile death of Dr. J. N. Trorrance, president of tile Cherokee Falls Manufacturing Comlpany, in the wreck on tile Virginia Midland Railroad to-day. He was on hlis returnl home after a visit of somel time North in the inlterest of his factory. His remains wvill be brought hlere for i ntermient. EncouraLging People to Go.ph'er Thern. [F romi the Rtehlobothl Sund(ay H-eral.] Thei burnis county. D). T., commiis sioniers hlave this season)i paid a bounty of thlree cents eaich on 1J7,000f gophler ON SINAI'S SUBLIME SUMMIT. Traveller's Picturesque Description of the Ascent of the Sacred Mount. The July Century opens with a paper illed Sinai and the Wilderness, illus -ated with photographs taken by the ithor, Edward L. Wilson. From this rticle we quote the following: It does of sceni high, because it was yet half idden from our view by the interven ig hill. As soon as the hill was mas ,red the plan of Er Raha, or "Plain of .ssemblage," came into full view, with e Sinai range at its southern extreme. 'te combination was satisfying-con incing. Here was the one great fea ire the want of which prevented [ount Serbal from contesting for the onors of Sinai. There is no plain in 1e vicinity of Serbal exteasive enough accommodate an assemblage as large Moses led. But here is s vast plateau sufficient extent and, as we shall iall presently see when we view it om Mt. Sinai summit, so located that [oses could overlook it all when he sad the law. This must be the "true inai"-the very mountain upon which )e glory of the Lord rested in the sight the people. When facing its awful, ately grandeur, I felt as if I had come the end of the world. How many ilgrims had come from all parts of the rth to this very spot to reverence to trifice, and to worship! I dismounted to contemplate the sub me panorama, and Elihuel, my camel river, sat down beside me. He hardly eiued to understand my actions, and t last interrupted my reverie by ex taiming, as he pointed to the lofty roup "Jebel Mousa-Tayeeb ("Moun tin of lMoses-good!") He also rever aced it, for lie was a Mohammedan. What impresses the American travel r most sensibly here is the fact that, Lthough mountains abound and stream eds are more plentiful than in our own Vhite Hills, a cascade or a waterfall is ever heard. When the rains fall the -ater rolls down these bare, rough diag als uninterrupted, and empties into i wadies, which in turn impetuously 11 the torrents into the sea with great )eed, before the parched earth has me to absorb more than a mere surface ipply. What a surprise, then, when, arrived t the highest ridge of the vast plateau f Er Raha, to see a bright oasis full of -ees laden with the rich blossoms of ,ring, backed by the strange, contrast ig, gloomy walls of the convent of aint Catherine. No location could be iore charming-In the narrowIg val y, nestled at the feet of the closely rotecting mountains. Upon the high 3t ramparts are set both the cannon nid the cross. It was both castle and Dnvent we were approaching. More han once the inmates have been oblig d to defend themselves against the 2arauder. At one time every monk ras massacred. Since then more care as been exercised. We wvere obliged a prove our friendship before we could ain admittance. We could not even namp in the neighborhood until our redentials were examined and ap iroved. Arriving at the convent wall wve sent :p a shcut to the top. In the course of ime the voice of a monk sent down a quaky response. To a point near the op of the wvall a tiny structure shaped ike a dog-kennel is attached. From his a small rope was let down, to which re attached our firman, or letter of in roduction, obtained at the branch in titution of Suez. This was hauled up lowly and soon answered by a great oise in the aerial ken nel. Then a thick able was lowvered to us and we were .skd to "Get in and come up." But he lowv gate in the wvall was swung pen at that moment, and we chose to uter the convent by it rather thani go Lip by a cable. When we arrived. at the qluarters of he superior we saw that the cable was ot let down hand over hand, but that clumsy windlass, worked and turned >y Bebouin serfs, was the power behind he throne. The conmbination is be ieved to be the first passenger elevator n the world. It seems as though no semblance o. iuanity should remain in a plac4 nade sacred by so many holy associa ;ions, but the convent is inhabited by bout sixty monks varying in grades o. sanctity. Nine of them yielded to oui ~amera. A beardless youth afforded us ~onsiderable amusement. Repeatedly ie came to me, with tears in his eyes, md begged for some recipe to malje his beard grow. He said that he would nol e allowed to read chapel service unti: he had beard; that nearly all the monks but him had beards. How Mrs. Cleveland Spends the Day. Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Folson pend the days at Oak View alon< since Rev. Mr. and Mrs. William Cleve land and Mrs. Hoyt returned to thei homes early in the week. They drivi into the city and visit the White Housi every few days, Mrs. Folsom is lookin, very well, and often comes in for: drive with the President in the morn ing. She wears a bonnet of white strawi a red shawl and a white muslin dres for those early excursions. The Presi dent and Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs Folsom have no plans for th.e summe vacation. You Get the Weather Free. [From the Sonmerville Journal.] There is very little real (differenice lx tween dog-day atmosphere and th~ mucil ge you get for 10i cents a bottle a country store. Both are a little toi thick to breathe with comfort, an neither of them can stick two pieces< iaver together. A PIG AND A WAR. How a Riotous Porker Brought On the War of 1812. [From St. Nicholas for July.] It all happened in this wise: Two citizens of Providence, R. I., fell into a most unseenly discussion on accouit of the lawless trespassings of a pig owned by one o:them. The aggrieved party possessed a very line garden, in which it was has custom to spend his hours of leisure, weeding, grafting and transplanting the flowers and vegeta bles in which he delighted. Butoften, as he entered his garden in the evening, his ears would be saluted with a grunt and a rustle, and the fat form of his neighbor's pig might be seen making a hasty flight from the garden, in which it had been placidly rooting all day. Repeated misdeeds on the part of the pig fanned the smouldering fires of dis sension into the flames of open hostili ty. At last the crisis came. The owner of the garden, rising unusually early one morning, discovered the pig con tentedly munching the last of a fine bed of tulip-bulbs. Flesh and blood could stand it no longer. Seizing a pitchfork, which lay near at hand, the outraged gardener plunged its sharp times into the hopeless pig, and bore the body, thus fatally impaled, to the sty, where it met the gaze of its owner an hour or two later. Thereafter it was war to the knife between the two neigh bors. Now, what had all this to do with the war of 1812? The answer is simple. The two neighbors belonged to the political party known as the federalists. Through all the outrages that Great Britain inflicted upon theUnited States; while seamen were being impr.essed, American vessels stopped on the high seas, and while every possible indignity was being committed against the flag of the United States, the federalista re mained friendly to Great Britain, and contested every proposition for the declaration of war. But the democratic party was eager for war, and as British opposition be came more unbearable the strength of the democrats increased. It so hap pened that the election district in which the two neighbors lived had been about equally divided between democrats and federalists, but the latter party had always succeeded in carrying the elec tion. But in 1811 the owner of the gar den was a candidate for the legislature on the federalist ticket. His neighbor had always.voted thatticket; but newi with his mind filled with bitter recol lections of the death of his pig, he cast his ballot for the democratic candidate. When the ballots were counted the democrat was found to be elected by a majority of one. When the newly elected legislator took his seat, his first duty was to vote for a United States senator. He cast his vote for the candidate of the demo crats, who was also elected by a ma jority of one. When the senator took his place in the United States senate he found the question of war with Great Britain pending, and after a long andI bitter discussion it came to a vote. The democrats voted for wvar, and the feder alists against it. As a result of the voting, war was declared-again, by a majority of one vote. CAN IT BE SO BAi)? Editor Labouchere's Terrible Charges Against Engiish Society. Editor Labouchere, in the last issue of his paper, the London Truth, says: "W hen ,vomen, once chivalrously honored for their natural tenderness anid line feeling, p)ush and scramble into the lowest police courts or the most crowded halls of justice to gaze on some no,torious criminal, preferably of their own sex ; when, without a blush or tremor, thyrietheir opera glasses to gloat on the livid countenances of men and 'women trembling at-the moment of the sentence of death ; when women, young and old, apparently innocent and ostentatiously depraved, are fa miliar with the details of every gross divorce scandal, and do not hesitate to flaunt themselves in,their fine feathers in prominent positions when counsel and judges are, to their disgust, discussing ;subjects and sifting de tails that miake decent men almost sick with shame ; when we hear of young girls listening to questionable anecdotes from depraved men, and familiar with crime so revolting and human frailties so appalling that, not twenty yeari ago, they were held to be unmention able, even in the society of the loosest men ; when we have in evidence the exisrence of abominable bookshops with back parlors where women of all ages assemble to familiarize them Sselves with the grossest form of French literature, +ranslated and in the origi nal, and to cast an admiring gaze on rso-called classical pictures ; when the familiarities practiced at middle-class dances nowadays and in so-called re Sspectable society are said on trust worthy evidence to be so shameless a to discuss their mothers' frailty, and mothers wink at their daughters' licen tiousness, the question naturally arises how far the advance.of high civiliza, tion or culture whatever it may b4 rcalled, differs from the classic times when women feasted on the revolting scenes in the Roman arena, and wher the soft and caressing success of hyper sensitive sensuality received its crack o doom in the destruction of Pompeii an< Herculaneunm." S General Butler's Name for Hayes. ~[From an interview in the Inter-Ocean. ~fPresidIents from Ohio are not wanitet .s,n.e the Hen Persuader. FAMILIAR JEWISH WORDS. Hebrew Expressionathat are iieing Into duced Into Englih. (Froru the New York Press.] If you can say acht-und-aehtzig you will be able to catch on to the pronun ciatiox of a number of Hebrew words and phrases that aregradually creeping into use in New York. If you can't manage acht-und-achtzig, try to enun ciate the "Shraughraun," as Dion B3oucicault does it, and you may conml pretty close to the way in which the Jewish gutterals are intended to be ex pressed vocally. Some of these Hebrew vocables are easy enough. For instance, the word Sehnorr.er, signifying a dead beat, is Hebrew, and has made fair progress in making English-sneaking acquain tances. "Mazzell," the Hebrew word for luck, has, like the word Schnorrer, almost succeeded in getting itself ad mitted into the German vocabulary, and is loudly knocking at the door of the English dictionary. Schlenazzell, "bad luck," is the antinym of nazzel, and is also ambitious to be recognized byEnglish lexicographers. Schlemihl, meaning "diot" or "Jonah," has been so long familiar to German ears that many persons not German think it belongs to Germany, but it is a Hebrew word all the same. "Muchullah" is one of the Jewish words which requires a throat built on the German model to pronounce, If you go into any German saloon on the vast Side where a game of pinoche is in progress you will be certain to hear a loser exclaim at his bad luck, "Much ullah is trumps," meaning that disas ter has claimed him for its own. "Shtallniacherah" is the way the Hebrews and some other persons refer to lawyers' weary parchments. "Achonebish" is the Jewish expres sion of condolence which the vocal organs of a German delight in. It's a little difficult for others, however. "Mishpocher" is a word which may be heard whenever a knot of Hebrews and Gerrnans are brought together by news of a dishonorable business failure. Tne word means a "combine" for de frauding innocent creditc,rs. "Nikaive" is Hebrew for a young unmarried woman, while a matron is designated by the term "Yiddineh." When a Jew wants to say, that he will persist in any line of action, he shrugs.his shoulders in the- ininiitable Hebrew fashion and exclaims .00 his way. "Mismit" is the way an apostate from : Judaism is referred to, while a convert is called "Gar" if a male, "Garista" if - female, while "ben goy," "child of a Christian;" is the generic word. " Schksa't is what Jews call a gentile maiden, while "rasha" means a very bad man. "Chutsper," a word which~ sounds very nmuch like an everyday Christian sneeze, is Hebrew for "seheek." or "chic." That the Jewish race appreciates the blessings which have been showered upon it in theUnited States, is evidenced by the fact that in their language America is called "Genalden" (the G. hard), "thxe land of Eden." On the "DJay of Atonement," thegreat annual .Jewish feast, the solemn prayer con eludes with the words "next year in -- Jerusalem!" addressed by~ each devoted to his neighbor. Many Jews, it is said, refuse to make use of this prayer claiming that Ameri ca is a good enough Jerusalem for them; they look for nothing better than the "Genalden," with which their earthly eves are familiar. Kicking Against Primus. [(avannah News.] The attention of cotton men was called to the Albany dispatch in yester (lay's Morning News announcing that Primus Jones had sent in his usual first bale to Albany on Wednesday last. Cotton men here do not take much stock in Primus' "new bale" business. He sent his "first bale" to Savannah two years ago, but the Cotton Ex change refused to pass it as a "new bale," but held it to be a mixture of old cotton and cotton picked when it was too green to pass. Superintendent Bryan, in speaking of the matter, said that it does more harm than good to send out such cotton at so early a date, for it is misleading as to the condition of the growihg crops, cot ton not being so far advanced as to warrant the picking of a sample bale. He was not prepared to passjudgment on this year's "first bale," but he does not think a bale of good cotton can be gathered at this season. The Savannah Cotton Exchange passed on one of Jones' "first bales" and in due time the New York Exchange would doubtless pass on Mr. Jones' "first bale of 1888," and until that is done he had no right to express an opinion upon it. Not ~Pig Tight. [Boston Herald.) In Providence the other day they -- were setting some very tall poles for the telephonle wires-sventy-footers. A countryman came along and asked the foreman what his men were doing. Now, the foreman of that particular gang is a mild-mannered citizen and means to be patient and forbearing, but heis worried a good deal with questions f and gets tired of answering them. In i this particular case he told the country- I man that he was building a wire fence. "Is that so ?" said the farmer, looking aloft, and then added : "Well, I guess you've got it bull high, but I don'thbe ] lieve you can make it pig tight." That I foreman has been very shy of Rhode Island farmers ever since.