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I 0 ESiTABLISHED 1865 . NEWYBERRY, S. C., TH1URSDAY, JA NUAY819.___________ __ A RETROSPECT. A Review of the Past Year. The Results of the Reform Movement. [News and Courier.] We are all familiar with the methods which were adopted in the March Con vention to anticipate the Convention of the regular Democracy of the State, and by which a candidate was tug ges! ed" for Governor. The plan upon which the campaign, after the March. Convention, was conducted has not been forgotten, and should not be for gotten, by anyone who cherishes a pro per respect for the honesty and integri ty of the men who have been honored by the people of this State in the past and by those who believe that the civilization of South Carolina has been presented through the Democratic par tv. We do not care to recall any of the bitterness which existed during the long and weary months when from one end of the State to another all that was highest and holiest and best, in the his tory of South Carolina, was kicked about in the dust of the political arena, as an unclean thing. We simply desire, now that the "change" has been made in the Gov ernment of the State, to show that the campaign was conducted by the domi nant faction of the Democratic party not as it claimed, to secure a government of the neople and for the people, but to secure the honors and emoluments of official station for those who embraced this opportunity to elevate themselves by discrediting the party and the State. That there has been a "change," no one can deny. That it has been made "in the inte:est of a few families, and for the benefit of a selfish ring of politi cians,'" is not a violent assumption in view of the record which has been made since the old "ring," if indeed it ever existed, was turned out, and the "new ring" went in. It was the cons tant claim of the spokesmen of the dominant Democratic faction in the campaign that the offices in this State had been confined to "a few "families." In his speech at Spartanburg on June 11, 1890, Capt. Tillman, now Governor Tillman, said : "Heretofore the ring run everything. It was heads I win, tails you lose." On the same occasion Col. Gary, now Lieutenant Governor Gary, said: "Don't let there be any cornering of offices in South Carolina. * * *This is a contest of office holders against the people." These, or similar statements, were frequently made by these or other speakers during the campaign, and it was as little, per haps, as their supporters could have hoped for that the new government would indeed be a government of the people and for the people, and that there should not be a ring any more! What has been the result of the re cent campaign ? MIr. Tillman is Gov ernor in place of Mr. Richardson, Mr. Gary is Lieutenant Governor in place of Dr. Mauldin, Gen. Pope is Attorney General in place of Mr. Earle, Capt. P arley is Adjutant General in place of Gen. Bonham, and so on throughout the other State offices in Columbia. The State Government has been turned over bag and baggage, and is now be ing run "in the interest of a few fami lies and for the benefit of a selfish ring .of politicians." There has been a clean sweep of the "Oligarchy," and the "Autocracy" is fully_in control. The new Administration has been safely installed in office, its policy has been outlined, and so far as time allowed and Governor Tillman's infituence went, it has been carried out by the Legislature. .Whether this policy will prove benefi cial to the State, or only to the faction in power, time alone will show. To be entirely frank, we do not expect that the "change" which has been eftected will promote the best interests of the State and all its people. *The leaders of "the rmovement," who claimed that they were mnoved~ only by the highest political considerations and did not specially hanker after the hon ors and emoluments of official station, have nearly all been provided for at the expense of the taxpayers, and those who have not yet been rewarded for their work are cooling their heels in the ante room of the Administration while they are waiting for something to turn up. There now appears to be no doubt that "the MIovemeut" was designed prima rily for the benefit of the politicians who are reaping the rewards for which they worked so hard during the cam paign. It will be interesting to note how fully the victors, in spite of all their patriotic pretensions, have ac cepted the Jacksonian theory of a Republican form of Government, and have agreed amnong themselves that they, and their heirs and assigns for ever, are the people, and that unto thenm pertain the spoils of office. The list that we give is neither official nor complete, but it will show that the drift of the "Reformers," is towards the public crib. Trhe relatives, friends and acquaintances of the Administration, it will be seen, have been very well piovide.d for in the short time since the revolu tion was accompl ished. Here is a part of the record to which additions can be made from time to time as "the Mlovement" unfolds it self: Becnjamin lRyan Tiliman, of Edge field, salary $:3,5}0 a year, two years The H{on. George D. Tillman, of Edgefield, brother of Governor Tillman, Congressman, salary $5,JO0 a year and mileage, about S11,0%. 0. WV. Baebanan, of Fairfield, son in-law of Congressman Tillman, $1.50 ture, and $1,500 as private secretary to United States Senator Irby, $9,200. The Hon. J. L. M. Irby of Laurens County, $150 and mileage as member of the House, and United States Sena tor for six years at a salary of $5,000 a 1 year, mileage and perquisites, $35,000. J. P. Bean, of Edgefield, private sec retary of Governor Tillman, of Edge field, salary $1,500 a year, $3,000. Eugene B. Gary, of Abbeville, Lieu tenant Governor, $10 a day and mile age, about $1,000. Ernest Gary, of Edgefield, brother of the Lieutenant Governor, chairman of the . Iouse committee on the judiciary, $150 and mileage, about $400. Frank. B. Gary, of Abbeville, brother of the Lieutenant Governor, $150 and mileage,as members of the House, about $400. J. Gary Evans, of Aiken, cousin of the Lieutenant Governor. $150 and mileage as member of the House, about $400. The Hon. Y. J. Pope, of Newberry, Attorney General, salary $2,100 a year, $4,200. Dr. Sampson Pope, of New6erry, brother of Gen. Pope, clerk of the Sen ate, salary $1,000 a session, S2,000. Gen. J. Walter Gray, of Greenville, formerly of Edgefield, and a school mate of Governor Tillman, clerk of the House, at a salary of $1,000 a session, $2,000. J. E. Tindal, Secretary of State, at a salary of $2,100 a year as secretary and $500 a year as keeper of the State House, $5,200. Capt. H. L. Farley, of Spartanburg, a relative or intimate friend of the late Gen. M. W. Gary, of Efigefield, Adju tant and Inspector General at a salary of $1,500 a year, $3,000. Capt. G. W. Shell, of Laurens, puta tive author of the March Manifesto, member of Congress at a salary of $5, 000 a year and mileage, say $11,000. Gen. E. T. Stackhouse, of Marion, member of Congress at a salary of $5, 000 a year and mileage, about $11,000. W. J. Talbert, of Edgefield, president of the March Convention, president of the September Convention, campaign speaker and political worker, Super intendent of the Penitentiary, say $4, 500. WALLACE'S GREAT BRAVERY. How tha Dead Indian Fighter Saved One of his Men. [From the New York Herald.] ST. PAUL, MINN., December 30. The death of Capt. Wallace was re ceived at army headquarters with pro found regret, for he was well known here, has hosts of friends and was noted as one of the most popular men in the service. He was a gallant officer and a thorough gentleman. He entered West Point in 1868, graduating with honors in 1872, and was only about 40 years of age. There were ties in later years which bound him firmly to St. Paul and the Northwest, for eight years ago he was married to Carrie M. Otis, daughter of the late George L. Otis. Capt. Wallace displayed his matchless heroism to splendid advantage at the battle of the Little Big Horn. During the engagement one of his men was shot and fell from the saddle. In piteous accents he besought his com mander to kill him, but the officer, for getting everything save the peril of one of his men, sprang from his horse at the risk of his life, and throwing the wounded man across the pummel of his saddle, rescued him. THE FIRST IN THE STATE. A Full-Fledged Colored Bank Started at Florence. [Special to News and Courier.] FLORENCE, December 31.-The South Carolina Banking Association, the first colored bank ever formed in this State, was formally organized at Florence on Tuesday night last under very favora ble circumstances. The books of sub scription to the capital stock had only been open for ashort while when nearly four hundred of the authorized capital of five hundred shares were found to be taken. Only a payment of $350, as the first instalment on the shares, was required, but the stockholders were so enthusiastic that they paid in nearly $700. These shares are to be paid in month ly instalments until fully paid up, and then a general banking business will be started. A strong set of by-laws was adopted, after wbich the following were elected a board of directors to serve for one year, to wit: J. E. Wilson, D. M. Minus, F. L. Baxter, S. WV. Wil liams, J. B. Middleton, E. H. Deas, W. R. Jervey and F. D. Smith. At a meeting of the board of directors held shortly after the adjournment of the stockholderd' meeting Dr. J. E. Wilson, formerly of Charleston, was unanimously chosen president of the bank and WV. RI. Jervey secretary and treasurer. Dr. Wilson is regarded here as a ca pable financier, and such was the con fidence the citizens have in the honesty and business tact of the head- and in the success of the enterprise that most of our most prominent white citizens Ihave taken shares, one of them as high as ten shares, with a view of giving help and encouragement to such a laud able undertaking. The few remaining shares will no doubt be taken in a very short while. To allay pains, subdue inflammation, heal foul sores and ulcers the most prompt and satisfactory results are ob ained by using that old reliable reme dy, Dr. J. H. McLean's Volcanic Oil Liniment. THE FINAL ACCOUNTING. The Agricultural Department Affairs For mally Transferred to Clemson College. LColumbia Register.] Dr. P. H. E. Sloan, treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the Clemson Agri cultural College, was in Columbia yes terday for the purpose of receiving the transfer to the Trustees of Clemson College of all of the property pertaining to the Department of Agriculture. An inventory of everything had been pre viously made out by Chief Clerk -A. E. Gonzales and it was as complete and as accurate as possible, containing everything from the least to the great est. Dr. Sloan, with Messrs. Gonzales and Withers, the clerks of the,old de partment, checked off everything in the offices, the laboratory and the museum, and receipted for the same. The inven tory contained several thousand ar ticles, and it was necessarily the work of many hours to make the trans fer. Colonel Butler was not present at all, Mr. Gonzales representing him. He will be here, however, to-day on private business, after the settlement of which he will return to his farm in Aiken County and devote himself once more to farming pursuits, which he will no doubt conduct with his accustomed success. The laboratory is now in charge of Professor Hartin, who has been elected Professor of Chemistry in the Clemson College, and the analyses of fertilizers will be made here for the present under his supervisicn, with the aid of the present assistants, Mrs. C. W. Sims and H. Shiver. It will be a great gratification to the people of Columbia and to many others throughout the State to learn that it has been decided to leave here perma nently, the magnificent museum which has been collected with so much care and labor by the late department, and that when the present building in which it is located shall be sold some provision will be made for its location either there or elsewhere. The trustees of the Clemson College, meet in the Governor's office this morn ing to decide as to the manner in which the phosphate business of the depart ment shall be conducted. It is said to be likely that Mr. J. L. Withers, assis tant clerk of the old department, will be appointed to collect the privilege tax on fertilizers, having as his office the one heretofore occupied by Mr. A. E. Gonzales as Chief Clerk under Colo nel A. P. Butler. The weather service remains for the present at least, in the charge of Cap tain Angus P. Brown, whose long and faithful service in the Department of Agriculture are well known throughout the State, and his friends all unite in the hope that this branch of service will be continued and that he will re main at the head of it. Chief Clerk A. E. Gonzale, retires with his chief, Colonel Butler, and ex pects to go shortly to New York to en gage in business. In his retirement he carries with him the best wishes of the newspaper fraternity, all of whom have recognized in him one of the most cour teous and obliging, as well as one of the most efficient, officials in the public service. The Old Soldiers do Not Forget. L Pickens Sentinel.] We take pleasue in .publishing the following preamble and resolutions sent to us from the Bowen Mill Alli ance: "Whereas, We the Bowen Mill Alli ance, No. 892, believe in the great prin ciples as set forth in the constitution or our order : "Whereas, We as an Alliance have positively refused heretofore to take part in nominating candidates for office, or endorsing men or measures, believing it to be unconstitutional and unwise : "Whereas, We believe the action of the Alliance in some counties of our State in the recent campaign by the clamor of some who hoped to gain for themselves big public places by hold ing out a scheme so enticing to the masses who could not understand their motives has been the -prime cause of the defeat of our beloved Hampton: "Whereas, We believe that a majority of the members of the Alliance if left to exercise their own 'preferment by ballot would have done honor to whom honor is due ; "Whereas, 'We believe the action of the Legislature to be both unwise and ungrateful; therefore be it "Resolved, By the Bowen Mill Alli ance, No. S892, that we hereby express our disapproval, unanimously of the action of the Legislature in failing to re-elect Wade Hampton to the United States Senate. R. E. BowEN, Sec'y. Spring medicine is now wanted, for, if you are out of sorts and feel badly, P. P. P. is the remedy to take and get strong and invigorated. A Noisy Process. Petroleum-What's all that racket in your saloon? Saloon keeper-Nothing; only juist a few New Year's resolutions a-breaking up. If you suffer from any affection caused by impure blood, sueh as scro; ula, salt rheum, sores, boils, pimple tetter, ringworm, take Dr. J.~- H. Y Lean's Sarsaparilla. If you suffer pricking pains on ing the eyes, or cannot bear l1 llght, and find your sight wer failing, you should promptly use. H. McLean's Strengthmng Ey,ms . 2 cents abox. Ame~ Mc-t~ FIRE IN THE FOUNTAIN CITY. A Hundred Thousandf-Dollars Destroyed by the Flamier. [Special to News and Courier.] AUGUSTA, GA., December 31.-Au gusta was visited by the second $100,010 fire during the month of December at 5 o'clock this morning. The handsome and almost new Kahr's brick building, three stories high, with an, ornamental iron front, extending from Broad to Ellis street, second door east of Camp bell street, was completely destroyed by fire just before dawn to-day. Where the fire originated and how it caught is unknown. The first floor of the building on Broad street was occupied by L. A. R. Reab, wholesale liquor dealer, who bad over 500 barrels of whiskey stored away in the store. The second and third floors overhead were tenanted by James G. Bailie & Co.'s carpet and household furnishing establishment. On the Ellis street side the ground floor was occupied by N. Kahrs, the owner of the property, who conducted a wholesale grocery business. The sec ond and third floors were used as a boarding house, of which Mrs. Mary E. Teppy was proprietress. There was a delay in sounding the alarm and when the fire department reached the scene the flames had got ten full headway and were beyond their control. It was only a short while before the fire spread and en veloped the entire building from top to bottom and from end to end. It was hard work, and all the firemen could do to fight the fire and keep it from spreading to the handsome .D'Antig nac building adjoining, which had a narrow escape. About half an hour after the fire had been discovered about sixty feet of the west brick wall of the destroyed build ing collapsed. The wall fell on the gro cery warehouse of Loflin & Myers and crushed in about fifty feet of the build ing, causing a heavy loss of groceries. Mr. L. A. R. Reab lost about 500 bar rels of whiskey, which filled the air with alcohol, and it almost made one drunk to stand by and inhale the odor. Not a dollar of goods were saved as everybody was afraid to enter the build ing on account of so much combustible matter being stored in it. The destruction was complete. The building belonged to Mr. N. Kahrs, and cost him $30,000, but he only has $10, 000 insurance, and he had a $15,000 stock of groceries, with only $7,000 in surance on it. Mr. L. A. R. Reab had $30,000 worth of whiskey in 'his store; all lost, and only covered by $20,000 insurance. James G. Bailie & Co. had a $13,000 stock of carpets, but only carried $7,000 insurance. Mrs. Teppy, proprietress of the board ing house, will not save a thing, and she had her rooms all well-furnished. Her loss is about $2,000 without a dol lar o[insurance. The partial destruction of Loflin & Myers' ware house,and the loss of some goods by water, will increase the losses $2,000. Fireman P. C. Phillips was badly burnt in jumping off a roof when the walls collapsed. He broke no limbs, but it is feared that he was internially in jured. How the States Rank. The following table shows the rela tive rank in population of the States and Territories in 1890 and 18S0. 1890.18. 1 New York, 1NeYok 2 Pennsylvania,- enyvna 3 Illinois,3Oho 4 Ohio,4 lii, 5 Missouri., isui 6 Massachusetts, 6Idaa 7 Texas., aschsts 8 Indiana,8ketc, 9 Michigan, 9Mihan 10 Iowa, 1 oa 11 Kentucky, 1 e.s 12 Georgia,12Tne5e 13 Tennessee, 3eoia 14 Wisconsin, 1 igna 15 Virginia, 1 ot aoia 16 North Carolina, I;Wsosn 17 Alabama, 17Aam, 18 New Jersey, 18isisp, 19 Kansas. 1 e esy 20 M in nesoZa, 2)Kas, 21 Mississippi, 2 ot aoia 22 California., 2Lusaa 23 South Carolina, 2 a'ad 21 Arkansas, 2 aiona 25 Louisiana, 2 rass 26 Nebraska, 26Mneoa 27 Maryland. 27aie 2.3 West Virginia, 28onetu, 29 Connecticut, 2)Ws igna :10 Maine, 3 ersa 31 Colorado, 31ewhmhi, :;2 Florida,32erot 331 New ilampshire,:rRhd la, 31 Washington, 4loia 35 Rhode Island, :jCioa, 36 Vermont, :;Ds.o onbn :17 South Dakota, : rgn 33 Oregon, 3 eaae 39 Dist. of Columbia, 3 th 40 Utah, 4 aoa 41 North Dakota, 41ewexc 4z: Delaware. 4 ahntn 43 New Mexico, 4 eaa 44 Montana, 41Aioa 45 Idaho,15Mna, 46 Oklahoma, .6Iao 47 wyoming, 17Woig 48 Arizona, 49 Nevada.k by Peunsylan Pennsyoan i,i changs in he litth mliost are are thse ofTexas whischursets,fo No. i o No. 7 Kentucky,ih rp fro $ o 1; Mnneota wihich, e from 3 to 2; Marla,whhdrp from 35 t 31; 5erothChrop from 32 t 36;1Witonswichrie from 42 to 34; D laare,hcdrp from 3 to 42; Neaa,ichsipp s ~~~~2!South Carolina, lbeosre edfoNo214 t Naiorni.3, O ~2 Minntesa, os en ain. swos 33 hort timend, A 4Flria GIANT TREES IN CALIFORNIA. I Forty-four Found that Are Over Eighty I Feet In Circumference. [New York Sun.] WASmIINGToN, Dec. 26.-Andrew Cauldwell, the special agent of the General Land office, appointed to make an investigation as to the location, coni dition, number, &-c., of giant (cquoi gigantia) trees in the Stockton and Visalia land districts in California, has made his report to the Commissioner of the General Laud Office. These trees, the special agent says, grow in detach- t ed clusters on the top or sides of the t Sierra Nevada Mountain range in the districts named, and always at an ele- j vation of from 6,00( to 7,00H feet. Ac cess to them is, as a rule, very diflicult, on account of the extreme roughness of the monntain passes and canons. The Mariposa grove, in the Stockton land b district, is the largest in that vicinity. It contains about 320 trees of all sizes, and seems to be properly guarded from - forest fires by the stage company, which has the monopoly of carrying tourists through that ):rt to the Yose mite valley. The Tuolinne and t Merced groves contain eighteen and ' forty trees respectively. These groves s are in danger of mountain fires careless ly set by sheep herders. The Fresno grove at one time contained between 350 and 40u trees. a Some years ago the Madera Flume and Trading Company, the report says, erected a sawmrill. into whose maw tihe a giant sequoias are rapidly disappearing, and now only about 100 remain. They a stand on the patented land, and are under the control of the Madea compa- V ny. The largest trees, however, have been spared, because they cannot be profitably handled. t In the Visalia district there is one a small and one large grove of giant C trees. The latter is virgin forest, and contains over 1,_00 giant sequoias and a many more small trees. Some five years ago a co-operative colony located about forty entries in this neighbor- d hood, and is constructing a road to thisd timber belt. The colony, it is asserted, numbers about 601) members, and has recently engrafted the Bellamy idea as its leading attraction. There is danger, the special agent believes that these people if unmolested, will soon destroy this most wonderful and perfect body t] of sequoia gigantea in the world. I In a table giving the number and s size of the trees in the groves visited, y only those 45 feet in circumference and d more, measured 3 fet from the ground S; are classed as giants. Of these, 2,57.3 F were found. Forty-four are over 80 feet in circumference and several are S: more than a hundred. One is 106 feet C in circumference, or a littk more than V 35 feet in diameter. d Secretary Noble has requested the V Secretary of War to station a company t of cavalry in the Seqtuoia National 5 Park and another in the Yosem,iteIPark f to prevent depredations on the mamn- s moth tree groves. t It is said the so-called Bellamy eolo niets, who have in part perfected title f to lands on which these trees stand, s have expressed a purpose to hold their f claims in sp)ite of opposition. Gary asa Presiding Offieer. [Abbeville Medium.] C "The Senate has cer tainly dispatched the business before it this session in a most cornmnendlable man ner. Th ree great factors are to be lauded for this I result: First, tile facility and intelli- ' gence of technique with which Presi- S dent Eugene B. Gary has discharged I his duties; second, the intelligence and experience of tile more prominent members of the Senate, and third, the undoubted rapidity and ease wvith I which Reading Clerk Caugh man gets ~ over the groundl. He is a first-class ' man for the p)lace. "There is no disguising the fact either s that Lieutenant Governor Gary has I impressed the Senate favorably. Mr. Gary is now perfectly at home in tile f chair of the Senate, andl has filled his positionl inmpartially on all measures and in all debates. Personally lie isI very highly esteemed, an]d wvill be an all-round success." The above extract is from the (Columi- r bia letter of the corresp)ondenlt of tile a News and Courier. His estimate of Lieutenant Governor Gary does not vary from thiat of others who are qual itiedl to speak on such mlatters. Senator Meetze says that ini his long legislative experience he has never seen i business transaeted with greater dlis patch and accuracy than (luring the recent session of the Senate. He re gardls Lieutenant Governor Gary as a capital presiding ofieer. g Senator Buist says he never saw busi ness carried on with less friction: that Lieutenant-Gov. Gary was quick and correct in his rulingrs anad just anld im partial in his decisions. Senator B3uist regards him as the equal of his distini guished p)redecessors. All the senators with who:n we eoin versed on the subject con'cur in this estimate. He was always on time to the main-3 ute to call the Senate to order and1 re mained to the last at each session. Ninety Thousandi for Atlanta. The Enited States census, taken JTune 1st, gave Atlanta a population in round figures of 6~>,000, but the directory canvass, made by careful and experi enced men and taken five months later, shows the population at this time to be 84,640 within the city limits. Add to this the suburban inhabitants and we find a total of considierably over 90,000. TALL, TALLER, TALL EST. [ow Three A-mericans Illustrated an En glishnan's Lecture. [From The Christian Nation.] Mr. Robinson, six feet high, builder f Tremont Temple, and the Rev. Phil ps Brooks, six feet two inches high, oth of Boston, and the Rev. Dr. Mc ickr, six feet four inches high, of hi:'iAlphia, in company made a trip ver the water. En route they determined that when aey should arrive on the other side icy would travel apart, lest three such il nen in company would provoke re iark. But, arriving at Leeds and aruing that a lecture was to be de vered to working men on America, ur friends determined to hear the lec ire. Entering the hall separately they ok seats apart. As the lecturer pro ?eded his utter ignorance of America )ol became manifest to the three iiericans. Finally, however, a state ient concerning the si/e of Ameri ins was too absurd to be endured in lence. The speaker had barely time cobelude a sentence asserting that mericans are proverbially short of ature, never exceeding at the utmost v3 feet ten inches, when Mr. Robin m arose and said : "My fnie.de mi an American, and, as you can see, measure fully six~ feet. If there is ny other American in the house I re uest him to stand up." An expres on of surprise was followed by roars f laughter as Dr. Brooks arose and iid: "I am an American, and my ze, six feet two inches, occasions no articular remark in America. If there any other American in the house I i turn request him to stand up." Af r a lapse of a few seconds, in order to ive the lecturer a little time to re >ver himself, Dr. McVicker slowly iised his majestic figure to its full eight of six fe^t four, and began : "I mo an Am " But he got no fur ier. The audience had lost all con -ol of themselves, and the speaker's isappearance from the stage brought ie entertainment to a close. Snow Two Miles Deep. [New York Tribune.] "Yes, I-have been in a country where ie snow is two miles deep," said N. B. ,azard, a mining expert from Tomb-, :one, Arizona, at the Palmer House esterday. Mr. Lazard was in the East uring the recent snow storm, and was eaking about what the people in ennsylvania called Blizzard. "They thought the two-foat fall of 2ow was something to talk about," ntinued the visitor, "but if they -ould visit Alaska about two hun red miles up the Yukon river they !ould find snow that for miles is so .ick that the banks almost reach the kies. If it keeps on accumulating as ist as it has during the last ten years, :ientific men wvill not be able to say ruthbfully the earth is round. "I was in Alaska in the Conson ake region, in 1885, and that year the oowfall wvas quite heavy. Snow that Llls there remains, for it never melts. prospector named Jim Thomas was rithI me that trip, and one beautiful iorning he fell from a glacier about ne hundred feet. The fall broke both f his legs, one of his arms, and crushed 2 several ribs, besides injuring him "He was conscious when I reached im, and he told me that he knew he las going to die. HIe begged me to ee that his mnother and sister in the Thst received all the property he had ~ft in Harrisburg. I promised and ave fulfilled the trust. "Just before he died he asked me to ray for hinm, and for the first time nce I had knelt beside my mother then a little boy, I got down on my nees and asked God to receive the nul that was about to depart.I rayed as I never have since, and I neant all I said. There was a smile on *oor Thomas' face when I said 'Amen,' lnd, with a most peaceful expression n his countenance, he breathed his iat. I buried him in the snow, and n-day, if his body could be found, I now it would look as natural as the lomenct he died- peaceful expression ud all.'' Cows and Workingmen. [From the Labor Tribune.] Every time a cow moves her tail to witch a Ihy she exerts a force of three ounds. In the course of the summer single cow wasts 5,000,000 pounds of nergyv. The cows of America throw way power enough to move every iece of machinery in the world. So reports a statistically inclined ex hange. Thbe queerest feature suggested y this ligure work is that no stump peaker during the present political amnpaign has claimed that his party f successful at the polls, will utilize this vaste for the benefit of the working nan. Frequently accidents occur in the ouse-hiold which cause burns, cuts, prains and bruises; for use in such ases Dr. .J. H. McLean's Volcanic Oil iniment has for many years been the onstant favorite family remedy. You cannot accomplish any work or ,usiness unless you feel well. If you eel used up--tired out-take Dr. J. H. 1cLean's Sarsaparilla. It will give you ecalthi, strength and vitality. Is Divorce a TaiHure. [From the Globe Democrat.] Th,. revelation concerning the prac ices o,f the bogus divorce lawyers in New York form an interesting and in tructive contribution to the literature >f the marriage problem. DR. KOCH'S PRIVATE LIFE. Dr. Biewend Talks Entertainingly of his Distinguished Kinsman. (.Boston Advertiser.] Dr. Robert Koch, the suddenly fa mous anti-consumption discoverer, has several relatives living in this country. One a cousin, who resides in Boston, is the Rev. Adolph Biewend, pastor of the German Lutheran Church on Par ker Street, Roxbury. Mr. Biewend says that Dr. Koch had eleven brothers and one sister. The sister and three of the brothers live at St. Louis and another brother lives in Iowa. As Mr. Biewend's mother lives at Fort Waye, Ind., Dr. Koch has a great many ties binding him to this country, and it is his intention to make his relatives a visit in 1893, when he comes to see the World's Fair. Mr. Biewend hopes he will make a long stay in Boston. He describes Dr. Koch as follows: Personally he is of medium size, with a very broad chest, blue eyes, rather prominent nose, on which is always seen a pair of spectacles ; high fore head, full auburn beard and auburn hair. He talks with a noticeable lisp. He dresses neatly neither elegantly nor in the slovenly wy-th fiiGer Thuan doctors do. To look at him one would never imagine that he would set the world talking about him. He is without exception the most quiet and modest man I have ever seen. I sent him a congratulatory letter yes terday, with a copy of the cartoon in Saturday's Record, in which the Thanksgiving turkey is asking for his cure for consumption, and I have no doubt it will cause him a great deal of amusement. My wife and I visited Germany in 1866, when he had just made his fa mous researches into the nature of cholera. He was then living in~a flat at No. 16 Magazinstrasse, Berlin, and came to the depot to meet us. As I was born in this country and had never before seen him, we failed to rec ognize each other by our picture, so my wife and I took a droshky to his home, and when he returned he found us there. He thought this little thing characteristic of the Americans, their ability to take care of themselves in a strange city. We sat down to dinner, and he jokingly asked where my re volver was. I retorted by asking where his umbrella was, for I never saw a German, rich or poor, come into this country without an umbrella, black, brown, green, blue or yellow. He took me through his hygienic institute, where the dogs, monkeys and other an imals were being inoculated with the cholera germs. He was receiving vis its from great physicians all over the world then as now, and was very fa mous and very busy, but he took us all over Berlin. Germans who like each other say du, or thou, not sie, or youz, when they speak to each other. It was always du with us. We used to sit and smoke together a great deal, though the German cigars are not good. They are just like straw. Between 1870 and 1875 he first be gan to receive aid f(om the govern ment to assist him in his scientific re searches. He was appointed physi cian of a circuit which, among other duties, involved the study of the symp toms of any new disease which might appear. A book he published about this time, embodying some of his scientific theories and discoveries, at tracted the attention of Prince Bis marck, and paved the way for further government recognition. His life has been published pretty nearly in full with that exception. I never heard of his connection with the Speichart poisoning case before I saw it in your paper. I am afraA~ the report that his health has been injured is true. When he was sent out to India to investigate the cholera he bent day and night, over the corpses in the dissecting room. He told me that he never felt the slightest fear of contagion. He was too busy and too intent to think of the dange:. He was more bent than he ought to be when I saw him last. I have several letters from him written in business like script. The first was dated 1851, when he was eight years old and he sent some toys to me. He is two years older than I am. His only sister married my cousin, Bergrath Riewend, of Klansthal, and his brother Wilhelm was engaged to my cousin, Matilda Biewend, when he died, so we are very closely bound together. He married Emma Franz, daughter of a Lutheran clergyman, and has a single child, a (laughter, who is married to one of his assistants. -That "Tired Feeling." The newspapers are having a good deal of fun nowadays over that "tired feeling," so much spoken of in medical advertisements, in connection with the ill-health of females. It may be a source of hilarity to witty paragraphers, but not so to suffering women, who by overwork, and a disregard of the laws of health, have lapsed into a condition bordering on invalidism. What most women need is to be relieved of some of the slavish work that is piled on them, and a free, but judicious use of strenghtening touics, such as?P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potas sium), the greatest blood purifier and invigorator in use. Superb as a builder up of women, bringing back lost energy to the body,and col-r to faded cheeks,re storing the appetie, and thus renewing in her that h'althy vitality long lost. P. P. P. curesi all blood diseases, such as Rheumatism, Syphilis, Gout Scro fula, and all ulcerous affections, even vanquishing that melancholy enemy of man, Dys epsia. All druggists sell it. For weak baick, chest pains, use Dr. J. H. McLean's Wonderful Healing Plaster (porous.) FAD OF BOSTON'S DUSKY BELLES. They are Learning How to Take the Kink out of Their Hair. [Boston Globe.] The colored women of this city have learned that it is possible to take the kink out of their hair, and there is quite a sensation over the discovery. The rush to have crisp locks straighteied is becoming general, although but few of those who have successfully been smoothed out are willing to admit that their hair was ever otherwise than straight and glossy. The fad as yet has not reached the male sex, and at the Sunday evening meeting of the A. M. E. church one of the deacons warn ed the sisters against their sinful pride in attempting to improve on theL . handiwork. He was followed by an aged sister, who said: "If God had intended us to have itraight hair He would have given it to us in the beginning. God never in tended it, and I, for one, shall be con tented with what I've got. It's a sin 3efore the Lord and a vanity to have your hair straightened." The idea was introduced by a young :oIored woman from Virginia. She erself has a glossy bang and back hair is straight as that of the late Sitting Bull. She says her own hair was for mnerly crisp and kinky, but that an old Danadian woman told her how to make t straight, and this information she is aow imparting for a consideration. The ustomer is told first to wash her hair md come with it well dried. She does so, and then the operation begins. *A ?reparation that is amber-colored and f the consistency of cream is taken rom a large jar and rubbed thoroughly .nto the hair, and where it was entirely ustreless before it begins to assume a "loss. This is rubbed so thoroughly into the icalp that none of the hairs can fail to have received a portion. Then vigo ous brushing is restored to, and the ;hort hair begins to lengthen. 2f it were an inch long before, it is full two nches long, and if before it had been lone up in what old fashioned South !rn people term "plaits," it is now A ready to be rolled into a loose coil at . the back. The operation takes about rour hours and is permanent in its ffects. It gives the colored woman a very Indian like appearance, and the few who will admit having been treat ed claim they did it merely to make the labor of combing their hair so much the easier. One of them,ad "One thing I know, and that is that itis ter ribly convenient to have straight hair. I never before realized what a blessing it was. Before, I dreaded the task of combing it, and now I don't mind it at all." Hair straightening promises to be the fad for the winter among the colored women of Boston. The O'teome of Organization. [From the Monache Tidings.] The organizations of the Knights of Labor and its kindred societies, have been feared more by capitalists on ac count of the intelligence they bring to the laboring element, than for the organization and formidable members. The Knights, the Farmers' Alliance, and other organizations may become disorganized and disbanded, but the enlightenment they have evolved will. reorganize on still more progressive platforms, more firmly uniting all trades and all people on a more econo mic basis of equity, until all govern- ' ments as now organized will be aban-/ doned. Once justice is done between men, people will be born less and less inclined to rob others for a livelihood. Most of our unconscionable legal thieves and brutal murderers are hereditary criminals against other's rights. The intelligence of the age is more rapidly progressive than the laboring element of the country is aware of. Haste and Leisure. [From the Chicago Tribune.] "When I was in London," said Col. Cody, "I was going to dinner one night and told my driver to get me there as quickly as possible. As my carriage w clattered along over the cobblestones of a narrow street we overtook a fune ral procession. "Immediately my driver got into a dispute with the driver of the hearse over the right of way. I told my driver to keep straight on the trail, and not cut through the funeral, showing my deep religious inclination, and he said he wouldn't. He said he'd beat the hearse if it took a year. Well, we rat tIed on. The race was growing inter esting and exciting. My driver, I fearedl, was getting the worst of it. Pres'ently however, they stopped to argue the matter, andI I heard my man say to the cheerful driver of the hearse: "'Here, my man's in a hurry; yours isn't." What a Canuon Costs.I [From the Twentieth Century.] A one-hundred-and-ten-ton cannon costs about $82,000 to build; it can be shot about 95 times; it requires for each discharge about 1,000 pounds of powder, about 2,000 pounds of ball and $17 worth of silk for the cartridge. Every7 time it is shot, counting the price of wear and tear, powder, ball and silk, it costs about $1,700. [From the Minneapolis Tribune.] Ring out the old! Ring in the new! Blest is the year that's well bieggn, a And when you write your Scratch.out theO01Scrtch in