Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I EtTeBLemHer b rnb tR Ce. ESTABLISHED 1865. EBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 181.PRC $1.50 A YER THE MOTES OUT OF THEIR EYES. Bill Arp Observes a Hopeful Change of Sentiment in Northern Newspapers. [From the Atlanta Constitution.] The northern press seems to be in a very hopeful condition. It has ceased to be so deeply concerned about the south and the negro and now devoting more attention to their own morals. I like that. The publican's prayer was a more acceptable one than the Pharisees. The Country Gentleman in lamenting the conditions of the farmers in west ern Kansas, says that over 10,000 fami lies in one district are now suffering for the necessaries of life and would perish but for charity. This is an awful-state of affairs. It sounds like the famines we sometimes read about that come over China and India and :r-pan. The explanation given is interesting and peculiar. There is a large territory lying east of the Rocky mountains that used to be called the American desert, upon which the rain seldom falls. In the spring and early summer it is covered with buffalo grass that is green and rank and beautiful to look upon. The great railroad companies that were crossing this desert en route for the Pacific got immense areas of this land as subsides from the- government. Of course they wanted to sell it, and the emigrants must be the victims. The companies had their sweet-talking agents at Castle Garden, and every foreigner who had $100 or $200 to spare was given a free pass to this beautiful country in the spring and summer, and they took the poor fellow's money and located him on a quarter section and patted him on the back, and told him to go to work and be happy. The corn panies seem to believe that a Dutchman c ould make his crops grow, rain or no rain. The money lenders from the east came right along and loan-ed the i oor fellow enough money to build him a little house and a big barn and to buy some stock and some itools and they took a ten-year mortgage and told him to work like the dickens and pay the interest and not bother about the prin cipal. But the rain didn't come and by midsummer the grass had dried up and blown away and the poor farmer couldn't carry enough water from his shallow well to water his perishing crop; and so he struggled along and lived on his garden from year to year hoping for better seasons, but they didn't come, and now he can'tget away for he has nothing to get away on. The Country Gentleman suggests that as the railroad companies moved them there to get their- money they ought to move them back to the eastern states free of transportation. All that rainless country will have to be irrigat ed by water companies just as Califor nia is now, and the government was urged years ago to withdraw those lands fom the market until irrigation com panies were formed. This accounts for the suffering among those 10,000 families, and I reckon ac counts in part for those 70,000 farms that-are under mortgage in middle and eastern Kansas. A Georgian, writing from there, says they are the best far mers in the world, but they are over loaded with debt, and will never get out. When they have good seasons and the grasshopper does not come they make so much corn the price drops to 15ecents a bushel, and it won't pay to haul it over the mushy roads to a railroad station. The New York Evangelists that great and good paper that is edited by Henry Fields, is now troubled about the poor Indian. It says they have been exasperated to a merciless war by the perfidy of the white man, and that we would do just as they have done if we had been treated as they have been for half a century. They gave up their lands under pressure and under promni ses that have never been performed. Govenmen gnsand ther ni pluner ers have cheat~ed them out of their that is fast disappearing. In their des peration they show tight and our soldiers shoot down men, women and children all alike and all that accords with Sherman's cold-hearted idea that the only way to reform an Indian is to kill him. That's the way they tried to reform us when they were marching through Georgia-buzrn and destroy and make desolate. Fifty-five years ago Sam Houston, who was the best friend the Indians ever had, went to Washington and publicly denounced the men and the methods that were swindling them, and' he got into a fight with a Mr. Stansbury, a member from Ohio, and mauled the juice out of him on the street, but the samesort of men and the same methods have prevailed ever since, and it looks like the poor Indian has got to go. And all this provokes the inquiry: Who cheats and swindles the Indian Who cheats and swindles the immi trant? Not our people. Another trouble with the northern p ress is the late report of the commiis thtduring the year just passed there vere exiported from this L hristian land tforeign countries 1,1500,000 gallons of spirits-not ghosts nor "sperits of just mten miade perfect," buit spirituous iqosand all of it bunt 60,000 ga.ilons was manufactured fromi molasses i gists. '-ueo A,.Crop New Orleans Mt-lasses to ItMieo Bible in one hand and a bottle in the other and let him take his choice. That's fair. A century ago the yankee went to Africa and brought the negro over here to the rum, but now he takes the rum to the negro. Stanley says that the worst thing he had to contend with over there was New England rum. The trading, speculating yankee is a curiosity. He will cheat you if he can-and he generally can. le lies awake of nights ruminating how he can adulterate what he manufactures so as to undersell the honest man. His baking powders, and pepper, and sugar and candy, and coffee, and butter, and tea are all adulterated. The average Yankee will cheat an Indian or an emigrant, or an African or a white man all the same, but he will contribute liberally to help them when they ar e humble or in distress. Who was so generous as they yankees when Mem phis and Charleston and Jacksonville were visited with the pestilence? Who is so generous now to the Kansas sufler ers, who so charitable in their gifts and legacies to science and to the poor? They are a curious people. In a _3-cent trade they would cheat a preacher out of a dime, but they would give him $5 if he needed it. That reminds me of the Dutchman, John Kitsmiller, who had a mill and was suspected of taking too much toll from h's . customers. One night he dreamed that he died and went up to St. Peter and knocked for admission, and St. Peter brought up that mill business, and John said: "Vell, sometimes ven de vater vas low and the stones vas dull and de times vas bard, I deed take a leetle too much toll, but den I always geeve some of it to de poor." St. Peter finally let hini in, but John admitted that "it vas a. tam tight squeeze." We see that some writers in the northern pressaresuggesting a comupro mise on the negro question. They seem willing for us to exclude them from voting in our state elections if we wiil let them vote for.members of congress. That would give the republican party more members from the black belt, and that seems to be all they what. One man suggests that we debar the negro from holding any office, state or federal, and so he wouldut be counted in our voting population. Of course that would suit the grand old party, for it would reduce our number of representatives in Georgia from eleven to seven, and in the same proportion in the other states, but we are all getting along very smoothly now, and I reckon we had better let well enough alone. The Country Gentleman says that the tide of emigration to the West well have to roll back upon the older States and populate the abandoned lands of New England. It does not mention the South at all as a fit place. It never has. And so now is the time for the direct trade movement to take shape and build the ships that are to land at our ports. The Atlanta movement is a grand one and we are glad to see Gover nor Northen giving it his earnest atten tion. This movement looks more like business than any that ever has been started in the South. The emigrants will not settle on those abandoned lands if our people start them this way from Europe and if we let themi know what a country and what a clinmate we have got. Just think of Kansas and then think of Georgia and the Carolinas and the States wvest of us. It really seems strange that everybody don't come South and come a-running and grow up with the country. I wa ruminating about our Bartow county farmers who are now selling corn at 7-> cents a bushel right here in town. The cribs on Pun kin Vine creek are swell ing with the weight of corn. They make fifty bushels of corn to the acre and punking World without end. I saw someI that weighed 100 pounds ap)iece. Those farmers have got fat hogs and fat cattle and ought to be happy, and I reckon they are, though one of themi told me that corn ought to bring $1 a bushel and that labor was eniti rely too high. May the good Lord have mhercy upon us all and keep us from breaking the tenth commna(mnenIt. BILL Aitin. A "IBLUE GUM" NEGiRO. His Bite is As Fatal as a 1Rabid Dog's-A Case Whuich Has Just Occurred in South Carolina. [Sp)ecial to A ugustau Chroniele.] CHA RLESTrON, S. (7., .Jan. 22.-Quite a sensation was created in St. Mauth ews, Orangeburg county, over the death of N iple Brown, a pr'osperous5 colored farmer. It appears thait some time ago Brown got into a fuss with a "blue gnum" nie gro named Tom Simmons, a'nd in the fthht which followed Brown was bi .n on the finger by Simmon. IIn a iittle while tlie bitten finger began to swell, got worse, and it was not before gani grene had set in. Ou Sunday Browvn died. Coroner Dukes was sunnuoned, and an inquest wvas held here to-day over the dead body. Doctors A ble & Able, wvho con dlucted thne p)ost mortem exami nation, say that Brown's death was caused by the bite, and that the bite of a "jlue "um"~ negro in nearl every care proves fatal. The negrnes here are all wild over the death of Browni, and with the ac ecustomed Suipernsti tionl peculiar to that race, imiaginie all ma:tnne.r ofstae things. A negro wvith a "blue gum"t' is a tr ror to them. For restoring the color, thickening the growth, and beautifying the hair, and for preventing baldness, HallPs ALL 15 VANITY. Editor Wilia:ai Doe not Believe that (mia" I;eads Can ne Made Pearls. [From the Greenville News.] We are often asked why it is that a newspaper with so much enterprise as the "rtenville News, and with such a well developed habit of being among -'he first in progress, should persistent ly negleet the "Society" department which i-A now such an important part in most of the leading newspapers. We understand very well the value for the time at least-of the variety of space filler alluded to. People instinct ively enjoy knowing about each other. The poorest and most remote newspa per readers appear to fairly gloat over the gorgeous descriptions sometimes given of social gatherings and enter tainnients among the rich and high. Newspaper personal gossip is a balm, a solace, a delightful stimulant and in exhaustable joy to vast numbers of men and women. If the statisticians could le:rn and tell the number of persons who read to find that kind of stuff and care for nothing else in the daily and weokly prints we would all be aston ished. -- Nevertheless, we do not regard "so eiety news" as good taste or good news or its adoption as a feature as good or safe journalism. It appears to us that cultivation of the habit of publicity changes the whole theory of principle of so(ial life for the worse. We are supposed to visit our friends and to ask thett to visit us because we enjoy their company. Social gatherings are sup posed to be for the purpose of getting congenial people together to have mu tual pleasure in the kind of entertain ment provided. That is how social life should he. It should be a pleasure and happiness, the means of attracting people of like tastes and tendencies to each other and a relief from the bur dens and cares and unpleasant things of life. When the newspaper comes in as part of every social performance the theory and practice are reversed. Con geniality and pleasure are ruthlessly slaughtered as sacrifices to the vanity of display. The question of entertain meat is no longer one of how to make the guests enjoy themselves, but how make a bigger and grander appearance than anybody else in the newspapers. The dance, or ball, or dinner, or high tea, or low tea, or candy pulling, or whatever it may be, is not given for the benefit of the invited company, which is only an incident. It is given to the general public-the big, wide reaching, remorseless, greedy public, including everything in the semblance of hu nanity for the social king and queen to the creatures of both sexes who loaf and draggle about the most obscure of city rum mills. It is the public that is really invited to the great and much pulled social demonstrations where the "society news" column and the insig nificant fiend who usually performs feeble idiocy and ungrammatic bosh in it (10 ravage. "Society news" is never news, b cause it never tells the truth. Every body understands that. It is the re porter's business to earn his supper or whatever else he may get and to secure the good will of his host for the paper to avoid the truth as carefully as possi ble. Nun's veiling is changed to silk or satin, glass beads become pearls, the most shameless Rhine-stones are made old family diamonds. Everybody is described as wearing a fortune in clothes and everybody is handsome, brilliant, and a centre of admiration. All of uIs know that everybody isn't; and that even at the exhibitions where everything in the way of apparel and decoration is as real and expensive as it cani possibly be, every woman is not beautifullor belles tund every man is not a perfect (dancer or an ideal hero of romance, or an ideal gentlemnan either. WVhen the "society news" is begun thetre is no end to it. Nothing is pri vate. The newspapers strive to suir pas each otiher. Fronm givin]g us dea: his, enigagenmenits, marriages, births tmd other incidents of life qnickly after they have happened, they soon1 pro eed to inform the world of the deaths, engagements, marriages and births ex peeted to happen in the future. In the North now they are not satisfied to tell the public who attend(ed Brown's ball or Jones' dinner party. Tfhey.announce before the ball or dinner is given who has been invited, so that accidents and dleeli nations are prov-ided against and Jones anid Brown have the pleasure of parad(inig their guests as well as their gastrlonoiic arranigemnents and house hold matters, before Tomi, Dick and H-arry, 3Ioll, Jane and Bet, whether they are guests or not. There is no d rawing the line. If the Blanks, being an un ~questionable social eminence and with long lists of distinguished friends have their affairs written up, newspa piirs cannot neglect the Cranks, even if they are shabby and dubious and pretenlt ious, and actually entertaini a quantity of peopleC of whomi nobody ever heard before. And if the coming andl going anid (doings of the Blanks, eveni down to the smallest details of their domiestic life, the salaries paid their cook and( the shape and texture of their daughbter's undergarments arc to be made matters of type and record the cranks can claim the same exalted p rivilege-and get it. Thle most extreme development of the "society news" idea we have yet encountered is in the Augusta Herald, a particularly lively and enterprising afternoon newspaper. It has establish ed a baby department and in a recent issue we find a column and a half of gems of journalism like this: - "Little Frank Burnle~ tooth "Little Edith May Keoneeke is just beginning to walk." "Mike Ward, Mr. Pat Ward's littke boy, has lovely eyes." "IDoesn't Marie Vaughan look pretty in her new cloak?' "Arnold Gherkins has two teeth and is only 5 months old." "Maggie May Collins is the brightest 3-year-old in Augusta." "George Howard's baby is getting more and more like his pa every day." "Master Robert Green Parks is the name of a very promising three-year old on Lower Greene." "Mr. and Mrs. David Slusky have a fine little fellow 4 days old." "Mr. John Maher's baby can say, 'da, da,' so the mother says." "Frank Murphy's baby, Timothy, can walk." 'Mrs. A. Timms named her beauti ful baby Sophia." "A large and promising boy baby took his first peep at the world at the home of Mr. J. S. Page a few days ago." "Mr. Jack Sheahan's oldest son says his mama 'got the nicest kind of a Christmas preseet'-a sweet little baby boy named Eugene." "Little Marcella O'Keefe, of Hain burg, has large black eyes and a plump pretty face and is mighty sweet." "Little Johnnie T1'arleton wore a beautiful suit of cream nun's veiling Sunday. He was the proudest boy in town." Now this reads like burlesque, but it is actual, sober truth, the above ex tracts having been actually extracted having been actually extracted from a daily newspaper printed in Augusta, State of Georgia, in this Year of Grace, 1891. Add we have no doubt it will be a popular feature in the Herald, too, and that many other newspapers will see the value of the new scheme and adopt it. It is "smart" journalism and likely to be profitable for awhile until the good people who like that kind of thing tire of it or the newspaper is suspected of discriminating against Mrs. Slusky's four-day-old baby or neglects to notice the next tooth achieved by little Frank Burnley or the new dress in which Marie Vaughan is adorned. It is the legitimate, natural evolution of the "society news"-of the pander ing to the small vanities and the taste for notoriety and advertising and per sonal gossip and wherewith a great proportion of our human race is afflicted. When people who have many friends or kin go or come, knowledge of their movements has an actual value for many other people. Occasionally there is a public or semi-public entertain ment which is a proper subject for pleasant description. But from the "society news" with the heart burn ings and petty jealousies, the wretched little spites, the vacuos, idle curiosity it feeds, and the vulgar, unsocial and de basing tendencies which it cultivates and develops to rank growth, may the Lord deliver us. REVOLUTIONARY WIDOWS. Venerable WomnenWhose H usbands Fought in the WVar. [Fromx a Washington Letter.] The last Revolutionary soldier died years ago. But the revolutionary widows are still with us. Tfwenty ven erable women whose husbands "fit" for American Independence are carried upon the pension rolls. It is amazing how the widows of soldiers hold on. A t the present time Uncle Samn is dis bursing $3,847 a year to the old sol diers of the war of 1812. But the wid ows of the old soldiers of the war of 1812 are drawing in pensions the snug sum of $1,263,239 annually. When we get down to the Mexican war we find the survivors a little the best of it. They draw S1,728,027 a year. The Mexican war widows get $695,054. But the widows are creeping up on the survivors, It will be only a few years until the Mexi'.an war widows will be drawing more pension nmoney than the survivors. That is the way~ the pension laws work out. At the pension office this is weil understood. It is explained in a few words. The old pensioners marry young wives and leave them their blessings and pen The pensioners of the civil war will reach their maximum in numbers eight or ten years from now if there are no more pension laws enacted. But the widows' list will keep on growing for a quarter of a century. Fifty years from now there will not be a Grand Army man living. Seventy five years from now a grateful Repub lic will still be reimbursing widows for what their husbands suffered at Get tysburg and Chickamauga. Women ore yet to be born who will become widows of old soldiers and draw p)en sions for their husbands' services in the war of 1861-5. There are to-day over one hundred thousand widows on the pension rolls. The pensioners number 400,000. These figures will be reversed in twenty years. Ninety-eight thousand widows widows draw $12 a month. Last year the civil war pensioners drew $71,877, 619. The civil war widows drew $19, 00)6,-8.57, more than one-fourth of the magnificent total. Leading physicians recommend Ayer's Sarsayarilla. Old and young take it with perfect safety. It cleanses the blood, strengthens the nerves, and vitalizes the system. Popular ex peri ence has 16ng placed this medicine at the head of toni:: alteratives. Scan be cheerful and happy only nyou are well. If you feel "out ol * take Dr. J. H. McLean's Sarsa SHOT DOWN IN THE ROAD. The Terrible Djath of Capt Maxcy-A Sumter Planter Assassinated on His Way Home. ESpecial to News and Courier.] SUITER, S. C., January 20.-Capt. John Maxey was waylaid and mur dered on the road, about three miles from his home in the upper part of the county, last night between 9 and 10 o'cloci. He had been to Sumter and was going home alone in a spring wagon, and just as he reached a dark place by a small strean the deed was committed. He fell backwards on the floor of the wagon and the horse car ried him on home, and after getting into the yard the wagon was over turned and Capt. Maxcy was thrown out upon the ground, where he lay all night and was found by his family early this morning. He was not dead when found, but died a few minutes afterwards. A load of buckshot was fired into the left side of his face and head. Two negroes, named Hampton Nelson and Ephraim Butler, with whom Capt. Maxcy had had a difficulty about the violatiou of their contracts, have been arrested on suspicion, but up to this time, 8 p. m., have not reached Sumter. The people in the vicinity of Capt. Maxcy's home are very much aroused and a gentleman from there says that there was strong probability that the negroes would be lynched before they reached Sumter. Capt. Maxcy came to this county from Columbia a few years ago. He was a successful planter and was very popular. THE ASSASSIN IN JAIL. SUMTER, January 21.-The jury of inquest on the body of Capt. Maxey has adjourned until Thursday. The two negroes previously mentioned have been placed in the Sumter jail pend ing further investigation. Capt. Maxcy was a member of the kKnights of Honor. THE LITTLE HAIRPIN. How it Served a Good Purpose in Time of Distress. [Augusta Chronicle.] One night last week an electric car started toward the city from one of our popular surburbs. The wind blew a clear, cold blast from the North and as the door opened from time to time the passengers shivered and drew their great coats about their knees. The car was filled with men. One lady pas senger was seated about midway of the coach. Suddenly "the little Sprague schooner" came to a stop. The lamps went out and there was no coaxing the thing along. Twenty chattering pas sengers sat still and waited for repairs. The motorman climbed to the top of the car and took the trolley wheel un der his arm. Perhaps it needed thaw ing out. Then the conductor followed and the twenty chattering passengers listened as the men trudged along the roof, while the wind worked a blue atolian trill along the wires. Finally the motorman climbed down and stood in the doorway, looking piteously at the passengers. They looked at him and chattered on. He seemed about to be about to speak and yet afraid to ex press himself. The conductor joined him and peeped timidly through the glass. Then the door was opened and the twenty chattering passengers pre pared to hear the worst. The conductor did not mane an an peal to the men. He did not announce what all were prepared to hear, that the fuse was cold, that the amature wvas limp or that the rail was dead. Pass ing decorously up to the lady passen ger,, that hesitating official removed his hat. What he said was this: "Madam, will you please lend me a hair pin?" The whole car was on a tension. T w enty persons forgot to chatter, and the spirit in twenty human therimome ters wvent up and then down. Every eye was fixed on the lady. Nineteen helpless men who didn't have a hair pin to save their souls, sat with bated breath. They realized that their chances to return to their homes hung upon one little lady who might or might not be able to supply the miss ing link, the tender pinion needed to lix that trolly wheel in its place and complete the circuit of that mystic cur rent. A delicate tan colored glove was withdrawn, and instantly the fair fin gers commenced to search in the depths of those blonde coils. Never have audiences more hopefully watched the delicate manipulation of white hands over the ivory keys of a concert grande. It reminded one of that breath less moment at the ranch when the miners asked the pretty visitor if she was married. Minor, cowboy, China man and ranchero hung upon the an swer. But this terrible suspense was soon relieved. Out from the depths of the hidden cluster, somewhere near the horizon of ithe head where hat and hair are supposed to come together, a golden hairpin was extracted. Invol untarily there was a burst of applause. The tribute was not rude, but gallant and chivalrous-it was an expression of gratitude from nineteen helpless Imen, whose progress on a winter night hung upon a single hairpin. The conductor bounded to the car roof with his trophy. The trolley wheel was quickly doctored and the briglnlmps soon reflected the "dupli rcatednlow"aouf tht little hairpin. PALACES ON WHEELS. The Luxuries of Travel on the Vestibule Cars---The Ricnmond and Danville's New Train. [Washington Post, January 1st.] The luxury of modern travel is one of the wonders of the time. Nothing seems to be too good for American travelers in these days, and it looked like the railroads had exhausted the resources of inventive genius and money in providing comforts for the traveler. The modern limited trains seemed to be the acme of traveling luxury; but, even in these, improve ments are still in progress. Think of a traveler stepping into a train and tak ing a room as he does at ahotel, a room more luxuriously fitted up than almost any hotel can furnish, a room where he can sleep quietly under silken cur tains, then rise and find in his apart ment a washstand, hot and cold water, and everything else that may be needed. Think of him stepping from this through a covered passage to a travel ing dining-room, where he is served with elaborate and choice meals and sipping his tea or coffee within sight of flying landscapes, while the train runs so smoothly that he can hardly realize that he is in motion. Think of him, after a leisurely meal, going again by covered passages and over soft carpets to a smoking-room, where over a newspaper or a book he may pass the hours in the fullness of con tent. Or think of him passing again to a parlor, where from windows spec ially arranged he may see all the gl. rius landscape, take a choice book from a library and entertain himself or lounge on sofas to his heart's con tent. All this is possible on the latest ves tibuled limited traiu. One of these wheeled palaces stands down at the yards of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, or "Piedmont Air-Line." It is the latest and best product of all the skill, experience, and inventive genius that Pullman can command. It is a complete Pullman vestibuled train, and it contains every appoint ment that the most fastidious or lux urious could suggest. It is just out of the Pullman shops, and consists of a postal car, a combination dining and baggage car, a sleeping car, and an ob servation car, in the order named. All these are vestibuled. The Piedmont Air-Line will, beginning with next Sunday, run one of these trains out of Washington every day to Atlanta, and one out of Atlanta to this city. Look at this train as an example of American attainment. Even the pos tal car is uniform with the others and fitted up with every modern appliance of such cars. Pass next through the vestibule to the baggage and dining car. Passing a small compartment for the baggage in the front, the kitchen is reached. There is a range for cook ing, a steam table for keeping things warm, a cooler for ke"ping things cold, ample spaces above for hot and cold water, and convenient receptacles for placing everything needed in a first class kitchen. This room is worthy of study, as furnishing an example of an economy of space, probably never ex celled. Two cooks will officiate here. Through two windows the food will be passed into the pantry, a little room fitted up handsomely enough, with its shelves of carved oak, brass fittings, and glass, to be a part of the dining room itself. Back of the pantry and fronting the dining-room of the car is the hand some sideboard of carved oak with chinaware and silver in exquisite de signs of the renaissance style and as fine as any seen upon the side board at Delmonico's. Passing through the doorway, through which the side board reveals itself, one next enters the dining room, and it would be hard to fine one with a richer or more pleasing interior. The finishing is in antique oak, the upholstering is of white mohair cloth, beveled plate-glass mirrors are set in every available portion of the wall space, the tables are of heavy oak, the carpet is a Wilton, the ceiling is beautifully p)ainted in :arabesque de signs, the silver contrasting with the light colors and producing fine efiects. Wide and spacious windows occupy most of the wall space, and, as the train flies through the romantic val leys of Virginia, or along the slopes of the mountains of North Carolina, the window borders will frame ever-chang ing pictures of farm, forest, hill, and dale for the traveler who sits and in leisurely fashion eats a meal in courses, from everything from soup and fish to dessert and black coffee prepared by skillful cooks and served to him by trained and experienced waiters. The sleeping-car, which constitutes the bed-chamber of this traveling ho tel, includes every improvement that has been made, and is fitted up with palatial richness. It is finished in mottled mahogany, and contains a drawing-room and state-room, in ad dition to twelve ordinary sections. It is upholstered in white mohair cloth, and has draperies of silk plush em bossed. The state-room, like the drawing-room, is finished in satin-wood and is as complete as any hotel room, having not only a private lavatory, but a retiring-roem of its own, so that there is no occasion to leave it exeept for meals. All the washstands in the car are apparently nickelplated, are six in number, have both hot and cold water, and are of the latest improved pat terns. One feature to he added to these trains, never provided on railway trains before, is a number of ladies' niaids. These will be colored womeni in uniform, selected and trained foi this service, and intended to assist ladies and children in their toilets and in other ways, as they may be needed. The observation car is, however, the chief attraction of the train. It con tains in front some sleeping berths, but the rear and larger portion is fitted np like a handsome parlor. I has win dows slightly bowed, odd things for a railroad car. These give a better view of the country. The rear is almost all of glass, to afford the best opportunity for seeing. The platform outside is ex tended for open air observation. The car is finished in mahogany and silk embossed plush, contains elegant move able easy chairs, sofas, and table, and soft Wilton carpets and under foot. There are two fine mahogany secre taries for writing, and all writing im plements are at hand. There are por tieres of silk plush embossed. There is a library of fiction, travel, and ad venture, and the leading newspapers will be furnished. 'There is a buffet, which will be in charge of an artist in the mixing line, and will furnish cigars and liquors of all kinds. This room is the lounging room for the whole train, and whether the passengers de sire to read, see the country, talk or lounge, he will find an inviting place on some of the soft, rich cushions of this palatial car. Surrounded by such luxury, and looking out upon the romantic pictures which will be presented at every mile of his journey, it may be well sur mised that a trip which may hitherto have been looked forward to as a ne cessary evil will become an occasion where one will "rock the tedious time in a delightful dream," from which the arrival at his destinations will seem like a rude and unpleasant awaken ing. With these trains, the trip of 650 miles between Washington and At lanta! will be made in nineteen hours, five hours less than the present time. Such trains will be the first to be put on any Southern line for all the year, The trains will never be filled beyond their capacity, and the additional charge on them will be small. The cars to be used are named as follows: Obser vation cars,Chevalier,Consort,Courtier; dining and baggage cars, Acileus, De mitrius; regular sleepers, Senator, Soutbron, Diplomate. All will be lighted by the Pintsch gas system and heated by the New York safety sys tem of steam heating. Every section will have -its own lights. Electric bells are also supplied everywhere. The cars were built especially for this company. The value of the vestibule arrangement in increasing the buffers and thus rendering travel more safe on such trains has been frequently dem onstrated. Good-Bye, Brother Blair. [From the New York Sun.] The removal from the Senate of the picturesque and prolific Blair of New Hampshire will certainly result in a material modification of the calendar of business. For twelve years past the industrious Senator has been the chief fountain head of three or four classes of bills, and has poured them forth with out stint. His pet hobbies have been education in the South, the protection of labor, woman suffrage, and temper ance, and without him it is hard to see how these in- erests can hold their own in the Senate as they have in the past. The country hasa,now probably seen the last of the gigantic educational scheme in support of which Senator Blair has delivered so many sixty-page speeches and consumed so many months of legislative time. The num ber of labor and temperance bills that will now go by the board is legion, and as for woman suffrage, the champions of that cause are bereaved indeed, are in tears. Taking into consideration also the remarkable abilities of Mr. Blair as an original, but unconscious humorist, the withdrawal of.the Sena tor from active political life must be regarded as a public loss. Senator David B. HI. ALBAm, N. Y., January 21.-Every member of both houses of the Legisla ture was present and the joint ballot for United States Senator was taken at noon. The vote as announced gave D. B. Hill 81 votes, William M. Evarts 79, and D). B. Hill was declared elected. Cleveland and Ingalls Belatives. [From the New York Star.] There has been a good deal said lately about the alleged antagonism ex isting between ex-President Cleveland and Mr. Ingalls, and few are aware that the two ar-e cousins. The grand mother of Mr. Cleveland was Mehita ble Ingalls, and Mehitable was first cousin to Rufus :Ingalls, the father of the Senator. The two men, the Sen otor and the ex-President, are proba bly as much unlike relatives in their characteristics and general make-up as any two strangers, born without a strain of consanguinity, could be. Scrofula is that impurity in the blood which, accumulating in the glands of the neck, produce unsightly lumps or swellings, which causes painful run ning sores on the arms, legs or feet, which develops ulcers in the eyes, ears or nose, often causing blindness or deafness, which is the origin of pimples, cancerous growths and many other manifestations usually ascribed to "humors." P. P. P. is the friend in need. A course of this valuable blood purifier, and you will be a well mafai If you suffer from Scrofula in any of lti various forms, be sure to take P. PC P: For weak back, chest pains, usea J. H. McLa's Wonderful Healing SENATORIAL ENDURANCE. Speaking for Twelve Hours Without Ee traying Fatigue. [From the New York Sun.] WASHINGTON Jan. 19-The won derful power of endurance dis-?, played by Senator Faulkner of West Virginia, in speaking steadily for twelve hours all through Friday night and Saturday morning, and then stick ing to his post and taking part in the subsequent proceedings of- Saturday afternoon without betraying the slight-. - est fatigue, is the theme of much ad miring comment here, but it is ao.n~ prise to those who have ' remarked the physi ess,of the West Virginians in Congress. They - are indeed a sturdy set of men, al though not especially so in appearauce. This same Senator Faulkner in the last campaign used to travel all night over rough country roads and then make stump speeches all day, for weeks in succession, sometimes not sleeping an hour for two or three days at a time. He is not a large man, and no one would pick him out as one fit for that sort of work. Congressman Wilson is another indefatigable West Virginiaa. Though frail in appearance and said to be threatened with consumption, or something of that sort, he can rival Faulkner for hard work on a stumping tour, and his canvasses among the, mountains and wild country districts in the interior of his State are said to be marvels of endurance. Senator Kenna is another good example of West Virginian iron in the blood. He spends much of his vacation time in hunting and roughing it in the wilderness. Ddr ing the three weeks just previous to the beginning of the present session he was on a steady tramp through the-, woods and mountain gorges of the. Alleghany divide and killed twenty nine deer, besides no end of smaller game. These three men can probably ^^. outlast any other three men in Con-; gress, thanks not to superior physique - but to their life-long habits of outdoor".: life. BOEING TUNNELS BY THE SPAE. -' Electricity to be Applied to ' kmf Holes in the Andes. The new railway which is to conne? the Argentine Republic with Chil r will necessitate the boring of eight tun nels through the Andes Mountains.ofa total length of nearly ten miles. Theee tunnels, in whose construction water power and electricity are to be largel used in a novel form, have already been commenced at twenty pointsa Since August last a cataract of the Junealillo river, which has a fall of 9 nearly 600 feet, has been made use of to supply the power in carrying oat the boring operations in the tung~ nels of Portillo, La Calavera and La Cambre. The Portillo tunnel takes a serpentine course through the mas sive rock, and .its upper side, 450 feet above the entrance. The water of the Juncalillo cataract is conveyed through steel pipes half a metre in diameter for the distance of about a mile to the Jun cal Station. The boring machines employed in these three tunnels require a force of 1,000 horse power to drive, and L,his is obtained by converting the water pow er into electricity. The water, which is carried through the steel pipes, is made to set in motion ten turbines, each of 80 horse power, which are con nected with the electrical machines. The electricity thus produced is con ducted through strong insulated cop per cables to and Calsvera. From Juncalillo air-pressure machines are also supplied in the serpentime tunnel leading up to Portillo. From Calavera four 80 horse power dynamo machines generate the elec tricity for the Cumbre tunnel, where six borers, all working at the same time, are driven by eight air pressure engines. On the Argentine side of the mountains another cataract, near Na varro, has been similarly used for driv ing four turbines, each of SO-horse power. Owing to the distance of the western smaller portion of the Cum- T bre tunnel, water power cannot there be employed, and the borings are oeing carried out by hand. Wherever water and electricity can be used the boring operations are performed, it is estimat ed fully four times as rapidly as they K woul-1 be by hand. -rhe ckes statesman. [From the New York Sun.) Jerome Socrates Simpson, the sock less statesman from Medicine Lodge, Kansas, is not a product of American4 soil, but was born in Vroomfield, a hamlet five miles below Sarnia, Ont. On the St. Clair River was his birth place, and many traditions of his youth ful exploits are now coming to light. One of these says that on one occasion, when he and his stalwart brothers were not expected at a party, they descended : upon the assembled guests, cleaned out the young men, and danced with the girls until morning. Along the river Jeremiah is still known as Capt. Simp son, for he sailed a schooner until he had got together the $5,000 that gave him the impetus to go West. You cannot accomplish any ' ork or business unless you feel welE feel used up-tired ou .4 H.:L McLean's Sarsaparilla: It health, strength and vi Feuntly accidents houehold !'hich ause b er I usine em I Equitab