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r- - - - -- - --T Tl..A .LJ l.Li1.LiLi.LL I THE SHELL MANIFESTO. Col. M,cMaster has no Connection with University and Explains his Speech in the Senate. To the Editor of The News and C< rier: In an article addressed to I Democracy of South Carolina, pi porting to come from the executi committee of the Farmers' Associati of South Carolina, published in y< paper of the 23d inst., I am descrit as representing the sentiment of t South Carolina University and M tary Academy in consequence of r using what appears to be an unchari ble expression against the Clems College in a speech in the Senate L month. The honor of being trustee of t South Carolina College was conferi on me on two occasions, each time wi out my solicitation or knowledge of t purpose purpose to elect mle. But i the last two years I have had no ct nection with the University or Milita Academy, and, therefore, these instil tions should not be held responsible I any offence charged against me. The remarkable philippic publish by a body of men who style themselN "The Farmers' Association of Son Carolin" traduces our people and d honors our State. The document unworthy of Carolinians, and has parallel only in the diatribes of a Wh temore and L. Cass Carpenter in t dark days of Radicalism. It is not n purpose to answer this manifesto, b when this committee undertakes -arraign me as opposed to the high education of the farmers of South Cai lina by insinuation and a garbled e tract from a speech, I will resent t imputation as false and calumniot whether it comes from the individt or an association. At intervals, during many years, have given my services for the edu< tion of the masses of the people and rejoice in the fruit of my labors, as ( lumbia does especially. But I w always oppose, to the best of my abilit any effort at class legislation whi< will show discord and bittern amongst our people, and give one cly of citizens a pre-eminence over anoth< I see no reason or justice why 11 farmer shall be favored any more th: the mechanic, the railroad man, mi( chant or any other calling. Moreov< I have no sympathy with any legis] tion which is measured by the horizc of any little neighborhood; and at legislator who works for the benefit a town or a county at the expense the interests of the State is unworti . of his position. South Carolina is .small and poor State, and her hon and.prosperity depend upon the uni integrity and education of her peop; and whoever seeks to cripple her ins tutions or divide her people is not friend to the Commonwealth. Thiei fore I protest against against, a sing garbled extract as the keynote of n speech, as it will create a false imprt sion. I, therefore, beg to submit short extract of my speech on the Clei son College bill, as well as I can reet it: "I began with a history of tU 'Farmer's Movement,' so-called, originating in the brains of a witty ai able enthusiast, who desired to restc the grandeur of the ancient plant< without any reference to the chang condition of affairs. That after mu waste of eloquence and flounderil amidst figures he boiled down to t scheme of a 'Farmers' College,' pc and unadulterated, as the panacea I all the ills of State. The Mississir Agricultural College became tihe isst It was thoroughly discussed throughe the State, and demonstrated that t 'Annex' to the University was far perior to the Mississippi model; al here we thought the matter was end& and our schools and colleges would on dispensing their blessings as th have been doing since 1882. But, al: about this time a poor cranky Agnost who sought to perpetuate his name allying it with that of South Carolin: greatest age, by offering to the Stati few hundred acres of hills in a remer corner of Anderson, which could dutplicated at two( dollars per acre Oconee or Fairfield, atnd an annuity ,000 a year, and intnediately t noisy advocates of the 'Farumers' Mo' ment' grabbhed at it as if it was a nua nificent legacy, showinhg aiIn holy< sire to co-operate with a e'rank in < PLiving a descendant ot ('alhoun of i nightful inheritance. "I challenge any Senartor to point the instance of any purely agricultu college succeeding-that it would quire tthe wvealth of a Vanderbilt to tablish one; that a technical agricul ral college could only diff'er from otl colleges in hoei ng, ploughi ng an tending to stock. It could not, a would niot, be attractive to farma sons, and wvoul prove failures, as manual labor schools had. That or polytechnic colleges, wvhere d iffert arts and science wecre taughlt, couldi tract nunibers su fficient for a colIe That in these expensive buildings a apparatus could be' used in conanm saving thousands of dollars, andi variety of branches wvould increase1 interest of patrons and pupils. TI the State at great expense has alrea established the fintest tech nologi school in the South. That there w eighty-oneo in the University in College of Agriculture a-nd MIeehan! That since 1882 tihe nutmber of che ists, engineers and farmters grad'r at tihe University wvere smuch greei than those fromt the Mississippi, an was a source of congratulatiotn to er citizen of the State. That Scie Hall, wvhich is principa1lly devoted mechanical arts, chemistry and a, culture, cost the State $60,000, anc was. an ornament to the State, an :he should be a pride to every farmer an mechanic in the limits of South Car< lina. That to cripple such an institt tion would be a crime against civiliza Stion, and to attempt to duplicate suc he colleges would create a burden th .r- State was unable to endure. Tha ve farmers desired to give their sons th o best opportunities for education, an ur wanted them to come in contact witt ed the sons of all classes; that this attritio1 he was best for all students and for th State." I did not believe then, nor do I nom believe, that the farmers approve o sympathize with any such movement They were satisfied and would prefe to send their sons to the University he rather than to a school in the cla: hills of Anderson, inaccessible in th th winter time and without a hotel o be liveiy stables in miles of it! There or was no use for it. That all attempts t< n- carry out the scheme of a purely agri ry cultural college had failed, and fron u- the nature of the case must fail. Tha or 'the Clemson College was an unmiti gated and infernal humbug.' But a a few of our people were determined of es the subject, for sake of the peace of th< th State I was willing to vote for a tax o matter0 a year. That I wanted th< s matter to go before the people, and i ts it was fully discussed they would con it- cude that they already enjoy muel ae better advantages in the University ry than a farmers' college ever can give ut And then the people in .four years to time would sink the Clemson Colleg er out of sight. o- After I made my speech a friend told x- me I used the word "infernal." I ad :e mitted it was unparliamentary, an< IS, used in the heat of debate. Since I al have seen the pronunciamento I thin I think the word was prophetic, and Swas the proper word, if this addres: a- voices the sentiments of Clemson Col I lege advocates. ?- F. W. MCMASTER. ill Columbia, S. C., January 24, 1890. Circular from the Comptroller General ss The Comptroller General yesterda. r issued the following circular to County nTreasurers: COLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 2.5, 1890. r The following amendment to the Ac r, in reference to forfeited lands, collec tion of taxes, &c., approved December 1897, and the Act of December, 1888 ofamendatory thereto, was passed by th< of General Assembly of 1888, to wit: XXStats., pp, 347.-"And the Sherif to whom such warrants . shall b< Dr directed, shall take from such defaulte: Stbe-following fees, in the exeestien o his office, viz: For serving each wariant $1.00, besides mileage at the.rateof fiv< acents for each mile actually traveled ii a executing the warrant;*'for advertisina le sale, 2. cents; for making sale and ex ecuting deed of conveyance and put Sting purchaser in possession, $3.0Q; an afor all sums levied, as aforesaid, fivy nper cent.; and the County Treasurer Lfor every such warrant ;he shall issue shall have from such defaulter $1.00 Provided, That the printer's charge efor advertising shall not exceed 51 cents for each tract of land, and 2 recents for personal property levied on runder each execution; and the Sherif is prohibited from demanding or col b etn ny greater sumi therefor thai is hereby allowed. Provided, furthei That neither the Sheriff nor Count, Treasures shall receive fees upon null< re obona returns." .Approved December 24, 1889. PRBy this amzendment, the Sheriffs an< e. Treasurers will not be entitled to an: unulta bona costs on tax executions, a iallowed under the amendment of 1888 Th ounty Tesrs,before issu . ing executions to the Sheriffs, will sat *d isfy themselves reasonably that th' "money can be made upon the execu tions. In issuing executions for poll tax, Ie the Treasurers satisfy themselves tha Sthe party from.whom such tax is du sstill resides in the County, and then di trect to the Sheriffs for collection. I ,e the Sherifis fail to collect by simpl .execution. they can then have warran of taken out by themselves or deputies be offore Trial Justice, for crimmnal prosecu tion for non -paymnent of poll tax. Thi is preferable to issuing direct to Tria ~Jusices, because the Sheriff is a bonded eofficer, and it makes the system uni form. erTreasurers will collect the taxes up t toand including February 1st withou penailty, anid, immediately thereaftel wvith 1.5 per cent. penalty up to Febru ary 1.5th, 1889; after wvhich date the; will issue executions for sale of ren and personal property so delinqueni er according' to law. See Section 10, 20t] Statute, page 44. Treasurers will notify the Comptroll Ier General, as soon as possible, at wha ldate it is p)robable that they will bi -ready~ to mxake settlements for C'ount nt and school t axes of 1888S-89. at- This information is necessary, b< 'cause, under the recent Act of Genert udAssembly, these settlements will hav >'to be made by Comptroller Generali he A\uditor's oflice. J. S. VERNER, he Comptroller General. (0y By a Party Vote. al - are C'ou-nts, 0.. Jan. 30.-The hea he i' in the Marquis-Lamnpson conteste es. sse for the lieutenant governorshil m- was concludled in the Ohio Senate th ed afternoon and Lampson, Republica1 ter was ousted by a strict party vote. it The Republican members filed erv nundser of protests against the mann of proceeding, and the conclusion wi attended with stormy scenes. to Lam pson gave notice that the ca i\ " . AL . SLEEPING HIMSELF TO DEATH. 3 I The Strange Affliction of a New York 3 Peddler. [New York World.] Charles Gillick, aged fifty years, a peddler, who lives with his wife and t family in Eighth Avenue, between Sixty third and Sixty-fourth Streets, is tl suffering from a peculiar disease which c; the doctors say will cause his death in e a few days. The fact is, so say the o physicians that if he is left alone for a is certain length of time he will sleep him- g self to death. Last Thursday night a r policeman attached to the West Forty- p seventh Street station found Gillick o sitting on the curbstone with his back ti against telegraph pole at Forty-sixth b, Street and Eight Avenue. Gillick was w to all appearances in a drunken stupor is and did not budge when the ofcer i1 shook him up and told him that he p was liable to catch the grip if he con- X tinued to sleep his drunk off there. nt The policeman worked himself intoa si perspiration rubbing Gillick's ears and it shaking him before he showed any - signs of vitality. Then Gillick slowly e< opened his eyes and asked what the d trouble was about. The policeman l lifted him to his feet and held him up n: against the telegraph pole while he i rapped for assistance. When another p: officer came up Gillick was sound w asleep again, standing upright against bi the pole. The officers agree that it was tl the worst case of "sleeping drunk" that they had ever encountered, and after once more shakiing up Gillick until he showed slight signs of life they started with him to the station house where he was locked up. ai Gillick was sleeping soundly in his b] cell in the morning, and was awakened ai only after heroic treatment. When w arraigned at Yorkville Police Court he B acted stupidly, and almost fell asleep si while standing at the bar before Justice ai Ford. He was in too dazed a condition a to give any account of himself and was committed for examination. He fell off c into a trance-like sleep as soon as he di was placed in a cell in the Yorkville a prison, and when Keeper William ti Gover tried to awaken him to give him ti his rations. Gillick did not respond. w After two or three more unsuccessful na attempts to rouse him, Gover became ft alarmed and summoned an ambulance P from Bellevue Hospital and had Gillick N removed there. re Gillick.was again arraigned in court of yesterday afternoon, having been re- b; turned to the police by the hospital tl authorities, who claim that they can do Si P nothing for him. Gillick was just as of sleepy as.ever, and the policeman who had.himin .6iarge~presented a certifi- fr r cate from the. doctors at .the hospital st r which said -that Gillick. was afflicted tl with a peculiarbrain trouble and would ti 'probably sleep himself to death, and D they could do nothing for him. As his is - wife wanted him home so that she j, could care for him herself, the hospital es Iauthorities turned him over to the ei police. n:i The unfortunate man's wife was in to court and had a coaeh outside to take ul her husband home in case the court si decided to turn him over to her. She ir wept bitterly when asked about the it matter and said she was unable to o account for her husband's strange tr 'affection. He wa not a drinking mxan, go - she said, and always attended to his e' Ibusiness. He never showed signs of ic such a disease before. The court dis-p charged Gillick and his wife took hinm m home. His case is said to b)e incurable, d and the only way to keep him alive is to keep waking him at certain inter- ,j vals. THE COLORED sTATE FAIR. ti Election of a New Board of Officers and st Managers. C( (Special to the Daily News.]u - COLUMBIA, Jan. 29.-At the annual st meeting of stockholders of the Colored n t Agricultural and Mechanical Society of ,i t this city last night the following direc- fe a tors and managers were elected: The u - Rev. C. P. Nelson, Columbia; the Rev, o f J. B. Middleton, Sumter; Lewis Duck- og a er, the Rev. F. Rt. Wallace, Newberry; -y 1 Prof. A. M. Hampton, Columbia; U. A. e, -Reed, Beaufort; the Rev. A. J1. Stin- e - sonl, Columbia; Prof. B. F. Means, r: s Spartan burg; James RobinIsonI, Col um I bia; Rt. J. Logan, Greenville; the Rev. o i H. H. Ely, A bbeville; the Rev. D.. T- tI -McDaniel, O)rangeburg; Maj. A. H. fr Wilson, Col. W. H. Robertson, Char- n > leston; E. H. Hampton, Lexington; rt tthe Rev. A. Decker, Columibia; George tI ,Nelson, Williston; E. M. Weston (Gads. t< - den; C. J. Hollowvay, J1. W. Sikes, a Greenville. A meeting of the new c I managers will be held the 27th of b February. ( Miss Bi,sland's Return. t - - e NEw \oRK, Jan. .'0.-The Cunard ? steamer "Both nia" was sighted ofl Sandy Hook at 10:28 this miorning. - Miss Bisland, the competitor of Ned . lie Bly, in the race around the world, ' e is on board. Nothing Like It. Every day swells t he volume of proof 1' that as a specific for all blood (diseases, 1 nothing equals Dr. Pierce's Golden ,.Medical Discovery. Remember, this is an old established remedy with a d record : It has been weiLrhed in the >, balances and found fulfilling everyt s claim ! It has been tested miany years1' in thousands of eases with flattering 'success! For Throat and Lung troublles, f Catarrh, Kidney disease, Liver (Com a plaint. Dyspepsia, Sick Headaxche. and t ,r all disorders resulting from impover- e L ished blood, there is nothing like Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery- d oe world-renowned and ever growing; in t ORE TROUBLE FOR MRS. MORRIS. [r. Morrk' Will to be Contested by His! ' Relatives and the Life Insurance Company. [Special to Columbia Register.] RFI .IsVI LI.:, N. C., Jan. 2S.-As was a ell known, there was rnore at stake in f ie trial of Mrs. Morris, charged with II tusing the death of her husband by iioroformr, than the mere conviction t acquittal of the fair prisoner. 'lhere I the large estate. of Mr. 11orris he- a iieatlhedl in his v, ill to his wife, aid a h 0,000 insurance poliey on his life, also t lvable to Mrs. Morris. Tfacquittal s the prisoner, of course, throws all v 1is into her hands; whereas, had she tl sen convicted, the will of her husband e ould have been nuIl and void. This fi the homne of Mrs. Morris and it is in is thriving town where muost of the c rperty mentioned in the will of Mr. Ii orris is located. It is learned to- i ght that there w ill be several law- W iits over the matter, and there is rore a terest in store f~r the pretty Widow k orris. Reiatives of the 'lead man will tc mntest his will, on the ground of un- u ie influence on the part of irs. C, orris in inducing her husband to fi ake its provisions in her favor. The tl .utual Benefit Life Insurance Con- tl my of New York announce that they ill fight the case till judginent day a ,fore they will pay over the ten d ous.nd dollar policy. c - --st Jackson and Jefferson on the Tarlif. a gi [From the Albany rrines.] a: If Andrew Jackson were alive to-day i id were to repeat the sentiments ei- i -aced in the extract from one of his h inual messages which we subjoin, we b onder how he would be treated ? " ere is what Old Hickory said nearly u Kty years ago concerning the power t' id the duty of the Federal Govern- H ent to protect home industries: th "Our political system (without the hi nst.itutional power to protect our in istries) would present the anomaly of ' people stripped of the right to foster ro Leir own industry and to counteract di Le most selfish and destructive policy af hich might be adopted by foreign I ttions. In this conclusion I am con- T rmed, as well as by the opinions of t residents Washington, Jefferson, adison, and Monroe, who have each m peatedly recommended the exercise this right under the Constitution, as a the uniform practice of Congress, h ie continued acquiescence of the th ates, and the general understanding at the people." 01 Now, wherein does the above differ " om the opinion held upon the same ibject by Samuel J. Randall, the Sun, at [e Albany Times, and hundreds of la rousands of earnest and thoughtful T emocrats .throughout the country? IT th a well-known fact that Thomas tc efferson, the great apostle of Amern-t .n Democracy, while he was strenu isly opposed to the collection ofinter- P dl taxes (wvhich he called infernal xes), except in cases of- the most " -gent necessity, was an earnest and t( ocere advocate of the policy of levy- u g discriminating duties upon foreign iportations for the avowed purpose,n nong others, of protectinmg the indus h ies of the republic. Argumments in " vor of free trade found no favor ini his a -es, and he was not the kind of Amner an to desire to see his country deC- aL indent upon foreign nations for -tieles tha tmight, under proper con tions, be manufactured at home. Just as .lefferson showed his fore ~ht by purchasing from France for hat seemed then the enormous sum of P 5,000,0010 the vast tract of territrr " en known as Louisiana, and .thus t curing the absolute arnd, undisputed t mtrol of the Mississippi River, so lie tI arceived the importance of buildiing 0 manufacturing industries. thusd imulating American enterprise and TI aking his country self-reliant and in-n ~pendent. .Jackson followed in the " ot-steps of the illustrious JTefferson, ashaken by the specious argumients " Calhoun, andl unawed by the threats I ~the South Carolina "nullifiers;" and ~ aindall antd his followers and adher- " its among the Demnocrats of the pres- f it are but the upholders of the Democ- C: cy of Jefferson and Jackson. It is wise on1ce in a while to take note ~ ~political bearings antd to make sure e: at we are niot gettinig too far away :b om the ancient landmarks. It was -ti at the Democracy of Calhoun, but :rn ther that of the sturdiy old hero who reatened, ini a certain contingency, >hang himi, that the people were ont to admiire, and that made the iuntry strong aiid great; and it would e a matter for congratulation if more, Eour statesmen at Washington andi a epre..ntative KilIgore's Hlorsemnanshi p. [From the Atlanta Constitution.] t 'd. Kilgore, of Texas, although overt I years of age, is yet as active as a e 'exas cowboy, lie often rides horse- I nek on pleasant afternoons, and in- r arialy selects the most vicious and 'v reacherouis animal he can find. It s latters not whcther the horse be a s ticker or a'pit cher, ('ol. Kilgore cannot t e removed from a dignified poise. ( ndeed, he sits in a saddle like he had y veen there every dlay of his life. On a recent ridle, some distance in be country he was bantered by a col sague that lie could not pick a stone rorn the ground while his horse was in swoeong gallop, as do the cowhoys in be various wild west shows. Kilgore ould not stand such a challenge, and rith his horse in a full run, leanied .own and gathered up stomne after tone, which he took occasion to) chuck acok at his ompnon. BRIDE BUT NO GROOM. - he Funny Story Related by a Veracious Th Hoston Cabman. [Boston Globe.] erJ "Perhaps we Herdic men don't have n adventure," said a cabby. "''The nniest thing that ever happened to e was this: I g ! a passenger at the ,lbany depot one night and drove him r a certain hotel. He was a rich mian, to think, judging from his appearance, i ud before he got into the cab he wi anded rme a dollar and told me to keel) str ie change. He asked me to go up- des airs with him and take down some equ alises. When I got them into the cab th iere wasn't much room for anything g se. I went back to the room and the dri rst words he said were: On "'(o in there!' pointing to a big tot oset. He told me I'd find another va se in there. I went in, and as I did e locked the closet door on me, and I as a prisoner. I heard him go out tio ad shut the door, and then I began to the ick like a steer and to call on the bloke wit let me out. In about twenty mi tes whoever oceupied the other room ho dled the porter and I was let out. At ex rst they wanted to arrest me as a du lief, but finally I convinced them bri iem that I was all right. con "The job was now to get my horse id cab. Going on to the street I asked )j iferent drivers if they had seen my his Lb. One cabman said he had seen a tru range looking man fora cab-driver on ran box driving into Bowdoin Square. I twe >t a cabman to drive me to the square, tha id true enough, my cab was standing fagl front of the Revere House. The va- rev aes were in the cab, and the bloke who mo td locked me in the closet was in the star trroorn trying to get a drink. I went his and told him that he tried to do me Evt ), and that he hadn't succeeded, and hur at I wanted him to take his valises. his e looked at me and said 1 was a fool lect at he never saw me before, and that see (didn't have any valises. Gre "I tried to tell how it was, but he len ouldn't have it. As he left the bar- this om he told me he'd shoot me if I mer dn't keep away from him. I got hin raid of him then, as he was full, and dri% put the valises in the Revere House. ily he last I saw of the man lie was going C ward Howard Street. in t "I didn't think any more about the soni atter, supposing he would call for his six dises every day, but time went by, He id the clerk at the Revere said nobody har id called for them. One day I met wit re inspector of hacks and carriages, my id I told him about them. His eyes not >ened and he said be had been look- ear g for the valises for a month. They tui longed to a rich New York merchant of id were worth several thousand dol- que rs, as they were filled with silks. Me here was a diamond brooch in one bod at was worth $2,500. He had come nig Boston to marry a girl just outside He e city, arnd was loaded with presents. ter e got to drinking on the way, and dam: -obably had an excellent jag on when anc met hinm. He (lid not know what he gle as doing from the momenlt we began wel take out the valises until he soibered anc > the next day. tha "Of course he hadn't shown up to be Ne' arried, and finding himself without tysi .s four valises felt pretty sore. The bat arriage never camne off. He sent me afte V for my honesty. It was worth off ore. than thlat to be locked up as long geti 1 was."C -. -has Abs-nce of the Decolletay hxliel is [From the Chicago Tribune.] ha~ It seems to be conceded that thle hor 'esent Administration has set the cur mn-decol lete fash ion which WVash inrg- tha n society, as a whole, inclines to fol- cou w. This is true in a great measure, gre iough nlot altogether, for the reasonll itwardly assigned. There is a large fort )ating population of the city which, '"g ore than any other metropolis of theIt itionl, undergoes a complete change "" ithi each new administration. fl This winter, oddly enough, the fern the line p)ortion of the crowd o)f stranlgers ter. ere for tihe enjoyment of the gay sea- has n does naot seem to be overburdened ha< the mat ter of surplus flesh. Indeed bee ute the contrary appears to be the or I se, arid the truth, miore often amus- thne ig than pleasant inl regard to the ab- He nece of decollete gownIs at large gath- T -ings, is due more to the p)revalenice of pe >nie aiid grastle amionig the fair sexex ian to tile p)revalenlce of any nmush- i >m growth of niodesty. site - nu Facts About senators. (From tile Washington Post.] an There are four members of tile Uniteddu tates Senate who can never be carndi-. ates for the Presidency of this repub- occ c. uder tile (onstitution, because of he lien birth. Senator Jones of Nevada at -as born in Herefordshire, EnAglandl; ~ en. MicMillan of Mlichligan ini Hamnil-no yl. Ontario; Senator Beck of Ken- m icky ill Dumfriesshiire, Scotland, and thi enator Paseco of Florida in London, .r. Inglanld. WXhile it is the exception xther than otherwise that a Senator ~as horn in the State he represenlts, a '1 setinal lines have beCen closely ob- it arveud. Of the Northern Senators onily wo were born ill tihe So)uth-Senlator 'ulloml of Illinois in Kentucky, and elnator Hawley of Coinnecticut in thi sorthi Carolina. Not onie Southiern.o enator is of Northern origin. m - - ---~---of .Juelg, Hlu<on .Joins the Church. an [Blennetsville Alliancee.] anl Last .Sunday nlight Judge J. H. Hud- car on was baptised and received into full hu nembership in the Baptist Church in U HOW SOME RICH MEN LIVE. ey Hustle as if They Had Not the Price of a Dinner. ay Goull is at his desk in the West Union building shortly after nine rv morning. His office is in the theast corner on the econdl floor. A g-ilistance telephone, a private tele ph wire to his home in Fifth ave r, which in summer is switched so connect with a wire running into horne at Irvington, and another -e running into the heart of Wall et, are all handy to Mr. Gould's k. Mr. Gould does not have private ipages. He uses the horse cars and elevated trains. Sometimes at ht he rides in a hired hack. He ves away at his desk until 4 o'clock. some days he talks with 200 visi ; 200 minds, acute and marvelous incisive minds that cannot he tched any-where out of the financial -d, rubbing against one! The fric i is frightful. Besides, there are a usand important matters associated h the Gould corporations which re re his attention. When he starts for ne Mr. Gould is very much mone austed than a laborer on the acque t. The day's friction frequently gs o nervous headaches, which iplt-ely wilt the owner of $7,000, hn Jacob Astor is on the go from early breakfast hour to dusk. He Iges about Wall-street like an er d boy. He does this for about nty-four days in a month, and by t time he calls in his cab. He is ,ed out, and a week in his cab so ves his energies that when the new ith is ushered in he is ready to t again on his daily tramps among real estate agents and bankers. r; day in his life is devoted to the it for substantial investments for money. He has other folks to col his iueome. It is his business to that it is reinvested satisfactorily. at labor, untiring industry and re less attention are necessary to do He is in the city winter and sum His fortune of $100,000,000 chains to the city just as tight as the 'er of a leased hack with a big fam on his hands. arnelius Vanderbilt is at his office he Grand Central station ahead of e of the Central's clerks. He works times harder than any one of then. has a dozen meetings of directors on d nearly every day in the week, h all their conflicting interests and rinds of important details. He could work harder if he really wanted to 1 the interest on his individual for e of $100,000,000. After a long day ;his monotonous drudgery he fre ntly lectures at night to the Young 2's Christian Association and other ,es of the same character. On other hits he dances until nearly dawn. was in every dance at the McAllis ball. But the lectures and the ces are in a measure recreations, they revify him for the daily strug to retain his immense fortune. It is I known that the old commodore William H., after him, remarked "it was easy enough to get rich in v York. It is requires a daily Get >urg, a Seven Years' WVar, a stern Ic every day, to keep your fortune r you get it and to scuttle andi ward the pirates and brigands bent on irng it fromr you.'" allis P. H untington for t wo months hobbled on one foo)t inl and out of ottice in the Mills building. A book per in a dry goods shop would have every excuse to have remained at ie until his sprained ankle was ed. Mr. Huntington couldn't do t, and yet lhe can point to bank ac nts and personal investments ag ;ating $.50,000,000. But the vast :hinery by which hie obtained this tune was in full motion and steam ahead like a Pennsylvania flyer. ras absolutely necessary that the 'tneer should be aboard. His power tud dletermnined hand must be upon throttle valve or wrecks and disas must follow. So Mr. Huntington been assisted in and out of his cab, Smany a wince and wvrack, btut has a compelled to watch his millions ase some of them. ussell Sage is inu town every day in year save holidays and Sundays. hasn't hlad a day's vacation in years. bleakest and most miserable sam of winltry weather and the most austive days in summer find hinm at desk in his Broad way office oppo Trinity~ churebyard. With thirty mtes' notice he can lay before you 000,00)0 inl cash. (He prides himself keeping more ready money than othe(r muan in the worldi.) With ther half hour's notice h2 can pro e 8'20,0010,00') in securities, all his n. The only recreation of his life ulpies half an hour each day when joins Mr. Gould and Sidney D)illon luncheon in the Western U,nion Iding. He gets his midday meal for hmng there, and', b)etweenl ourselves, ionaires are as anxious to get some ng for nothing as the poorest men Sage works eight hours a day. He old be positively miserable at a pic and would fret and fidget through homas concert. Hie would consider ni expensive evening that lie had to ud1( in such a manner. The Roecfellers. William and John with $2->0,000,000 at their back, and 'ir satellites. Henry H. Rogers and mn Archibald, with other numerous Ilions, wvork more hiours every day :heir lives than a driver of a Broad y ear. Ini fact they have muore wear I tear than any driver on that or y other horse ea'r line in town. Few u appreciate the possib)ilities of the nman intellect for crushing high -ed arid tenion)l until he attempts to rierstand the space set by this quar One's Self. [From the Sunday News.] A recent number of the Spectator i contains a paper entitled "Scepticism About 'One's Self,'" in which the I writer touches lightly upon that phase 1 of scepticism in itself, but enlarges < upon it in its relation to the rightful- c ness of the various positions in life in N which we find ourselves either by r birth, chance, or deliberate choice. It is evident that his reflections were sug- s gested by the exordinary action of the s Emperor Pedro in resigning his crown r without demur upon the first intima- I tion that his people would prefer to govern themselves; for he dwells at a some length upon the moral cowardice , of those who shrink from a duty be- i cause it has grown distasteful to them, s or because the fulfilment of it may be disagreeable or disastrous to others. It is dear that the divine right of Kings is not a subject casable of being discussed satisfactorily even within the limits ofa magazine article, so that we need not enter upon it here. We may F remark in passing, however, that there is not much indication that any others of the present reigning sovereigns of the world are afflicted with scepticism t regarding their right to rule, nor have t they the slightest intention of following Dom Pedro's example. Some enter prising and iron-nerved tourist should interview the Emperor of Germany on the subject if he doubts this. But there is a small kingdom called "Self," and each one of us has been born with the right of governing it, f without accountability to any one ex cept Him from whom we derive that authority. Now, if it be moral coward ice for a man to decline to rule ten mil lions of unwilling fellow-men, it is far 1 more blamable to lay down a heaven given crown and sceptre because we are a weary of them, or to bestow them upon ti another binding our prime minister, a conscience, and laying hini captive at the usurper's feet. And yet this is e what the greater part of the human race is always doing, either consciously t or unconsciously. They find the bur- t den of self-government too heavy, and so they look around for some person or t some institution to relieve them of it, b and when thep find one man who ap- t preciates his rights and is resolved to maintain them, regulating his actions by the aid of consecience and reason, c the whole race of usurpers cry out against himas a dangerous person, and a pernicious example to others. But, laying aside allegory, this seep ticism about our own ability to see, and judge, and act for ourselves is t most enervating in its effect upon d character. No great deed in the world's f history was ever performed by a man t wno was doubtful of himself; no great d battle was ever won by a general who waited to ask for opinions as to how its e details were to be carried out. Had Luther been Melanethon the Reforma- t tion would not have taken place at that time. And as in great things, so in small, a lack of independence and of r self-reliance miust always be inimical to one's success in life. Although it must be admitted that there is still a sufficient amount of pre sunmptia)n and self-control in the world, and thatthere is no difficulty in niam ing scores of men who have an abiding e faith in their own ability to fill 'any ~ office from President dowvn, yet there are many in high positions and places t of great responsibility who are con st:ntly troubled by doubts as toe whether tbey are fulfilling their duties as they should fulfil them. When the occasion requires these same men, for getting self, act with decision and judgment, but thle moment the crisis is past they fall back into their scepti cism, doubt whetler their action was the right one, and becomes as depend- ~ enlt as children On the praise and ap proval of these among their friends whose commendations are of any value. To such as these Burns' much r hackneyed couplet: "0 wad sonie power the giftie gie us t To see oursel's as others see us !" mighlt wvel! be applied, not, however, f that thley might learn their own weak-i ness, but their strength, and so gain ; courage anid self-reliance from tihe] knowledge. - It may be doubted, even if we could I "see oursel's as others see us," whether we would recognise the portrait, so greatly must it differ from the self ~ wvith which wye are acquainted. Have I we not all experienced at times the a strange sensation thlat we are saying or doing things almost without our voli tion, and that surprise us almost asI much as if they had been said or done by a stranger ? Physiologists tell us that tile entire body undergoes a change .every seven years, and the same might be said with equal truth of the mind. If we look back at the pages of an old diary, or re-read the letters we wrote years ago to some intimate friend, it will frequently ineed all the evidence of handwriting and signature to convince us that We c')uld ever have thought or felt as we then expressed ourselves. Hardly one of the pleasures or pursuits of those days interests us nowv; nmany of the opinions we then entertained of men and things are en tirely opposed to those we now 'hold. The aversions we then fancied so uin conquerable have melted away; the love we believed to be eternal has been; forgotten; the enthusiastic friendships have cooled into indifference; in short, there ha~s been a compilete alteration of our former selves effected, so silently, so inauppreciably, that we cannot point to any special period and say, Here I began to think differently on this or1 that subject. No wonder that the ancients taught, and that Pope r-ecoed, "all our %nowledge is ourselves to knN . ,hat is precisely the lore we reC naster. Just as we are beginning tG :olerably well acquainted with our elves, and are feeling elated by t nowledge our strength in sor_- dire: ions and humbled by the recognition >f our weakness in others, we become onscious that it was our- old self we vere analyzing, and that our work nust all be done over again. Let us hope and endeavor that each uccessive change may be for the better o that when we look back over the ecord of' our lives we may feel with iumble thankfulness that each new elf was an improvement upon the old; ,nd that when the final change comes, vhen the mortal puts on immortality, t may be upon our best self that death hall set the seal of eternity. Where the Grippe Originated. The origin of the grippe, which, is how causing so many deaths in the united States, is traced by a corres iondent of the London Times, upon vhat appears to be probable grounds, o the insanitary conditions, coupled vith famine, produced by floods broughout an immense extent of hickly inhabited country in Eastern sia about two years ago. The great lood in the province of Honan, China, - aused, it will be remembered, by the ursting of the banks of the Hoang Ho r Yellow river, spread over an area of bout 4,700,000 acres and caused a loss f life from drowning estimated at rom one to seven millions. In Octo er, 1888, the new embankment, con tructed at an enormous cost, was wept away by a summer flood, inun ating a second time a vast extent of )w-lying fertile land. Later on the ame year there were terrible floods in fanchuria impoverishing hundreds of bousands and producing, as reported t the time, much illness and fever. 'he effects of the Hoang Ho flood were specially disastrous. During the sum ier of 1889 there was great distress in be towns and villages elevated above be plains and spared by the floods, ut deprived of their means of living, he fertile land having been covered y the yellow mud brought down by e swollen river. The great level area as dried up by the intense sumiper eat of this region. but was no longer ipable of supporting a large popula on. The result was that the survi ors were compelled to live upon roots, rasses and anything that could be icked up until relief was provided. Vhile famishing they were exposed to be countless millions of organic spdres eveloped in the marshy water of the ooded area, which must have been bick with the manure and refuse of a ense population. "It would not have een surprising," says the correspond nt of the Times, "if some malarious isease had been strongly developed in bese unusual conditions, and the pe uliar character of the rich earth from - rhich the Yellow River derives its ame would be likely to give rise to afective organism differing from those ommon to marshy districts in tropica ud temperate climates. There ap ears to be a reason for the supposing bat the present epidemic of influenza ad its source in the dried up surface1 f the sodden soil of the province of - [onan." The data now at hand suf ce to make out China or Siberia' asi be breeding ground of the disease, but - iture inquiry may justify the more xact location here suggested. The restward course of the grippe has been Iready to some extent traced. As arly as October 15 it -was at Tomsk, ,000 miles east of St. Petersburg. By lovember 15 nearly the whole of Eu opean Russia was afflicted. In De ember it was in the chief cities of Vestern Europe, having been carried, appears, in letters, parcels and arti les of mercha ndise. Being intensely afectious it has spread with great apidity by reason, it is thought, of be improved facilities for travel and ransportation of goods at the preen ay. A comparison of the date ot' armier epidemies and Chinese floods odicates the casual relation abovesug ested. The epidemic of influenza in urope in 1832-3 was preceded by great too,ds in China, which occurred in 830--1, and that of 18S54-5 was preceded y the floods of 1851-3. Whether the pidemics of 1803, 1835 and 1847 were imilarly associated with Chinese in undations remains to be ascertained by tudy of the Chinese flood record. The ature of the grippe points, is held, to 'a malarious origin among ill-fed peo >le." Be this as it may, it did niot, it a believed, originate in Europe or forth America. Unkindest Cut of All. [Lippincott's Magazine.] Visitor to Editor.-"Could you use an *ntirely original poem on 'The Narcotic ,Veed7' " Editor.-"I could, of course, but as ong as miatches are so cheap I don't ee the use." "A Roaring Farce," s the term we often hear applied to the noderni trial-by-jury. The trial of Dr. ?ierce's Favorite Prescription, by a ury of thousands of women afflicted vith "female coniplaints," has been no 'arce. fo)r it has established the fact that his remedy is a specific for all chronic ,veaknesses peculiar to the sex. The nly medicine for women, sold by Iruggists, under a positive guarantee, ~romn the manufacturers, that it will prve satisfaction in every case, or money iwill be refunded. This guarantee has >een printed on the bottle-wrapper, Lnd faithfully carried out for many rears.