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)Y ESTABLISHED 1865. __NEWBERRY, S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1891. PRICE $1.50 A YE AR [All rIghts reserved.] THE EASTER EGGS. A STORY OF LOVE, POETRY AND PROSE. BEING A CHRONICLE OF THE DUTCH FORK. 1 BY DR. 0. B. MAYER, SR. r t I.-LOVE. Midway between the points where Crim's creek and Cannon's creek empty their sluggish waters into he shining rapid stream of Broad River, and near upon its Lexington bank, is the locality known as Cohees Hill. The oak forest K which .once covered it, corresponding to that still holding dominion over the adjacent hills and in the surrounding country,-so beautifully green in sum mer, so ruggedly black in winter,-has long been shorn from the sides and summit of Cobees Hill. The curious W eye can to this day detect traces of corn rows running towards the bank of the river,-showing that the level top of this hill was-once cultivated; but since the last harvest merry-making all vestiges of farm buildings have been swept away. Cedars almost vieing in luxuriance with the ancients of Leb anon have long ago lifted high their conical forms and interlocked their wide-reaching branches; while in the centre of the old field a shell-bark hickory, after waiting long for the dis appearance of the last apple tree, at length broke ground,-grew to large maturity,-yielded annually, during the boyhood of him who writes this chronicle, vast crops of nuts much and long time sought after,-and then, languishing under the innumerable . clubs thrown among its limbs to dis lodge its fruit, it sickened, and died, s and passed away-buried under the overspread of the cedars. There is a legend that a man by the name of Cohee once lived on this bill; but the oldest men in the Dutch Fork retain no recollection of him. There are none to trace their origin to him: nobody knows where his grave is. More probably, the Indians gave this name to the beautiful shoals just here C in the river nearly a mile wide. It I is known that Indians, before the arrival of white settlers, occupied the portion of country known now as the Dutch Fork; and Webster in his Dictionary has Cohoes or Cohoze sig nifying a fall of water, in the languages of the North American Indians. 0 Irregular masses of coarse granite, projecting from the river side of Cohees Hill, convert its declivity into a rough a di'minutive precipice commanding a delightful view of the .Cohees shoals. There, on the left and right, are the ti pretty little islands with their images mingled by the rippled surface that reflects them. Hundreds of black rocks divide the rushing sheet of water into as many sluices along which the sum mer drake glides with his mate, and the blue crane wades across them ina quest of its food. Through the space h where the point of Lakin's island (for- t merly Pearson's) nearly joins that of i Hampton's, Parr's mill can be seen nearly a mile distant on the -Fairfield I side of the river, and in days longa gone by, before the age of innovations, the old wooden water-wheel was wont to turn incessantly upon its gudgeons, glittering in the noonday sun like sil ver and in the evening sun like gold. Glorious old Cohees! How he who writes this simple narrative does lov thee! The n' 'se of the water tumbling over the rocks of thy shoals-a noise subdued by distance and intervening forests into quieting murmurs-has often lulled him to sleep in his earliest childhood, while nestling on the ma ternal lap, as the L wilight darkened more and more into the night. It is. true, thou art no longer aided in thy s' soothing office by the mellow sound of t the boatman's sassafras horn* coming r from the camp on the Fairfield bank of the river where the cotton-boat was tied for the night to a slanting willow, and true it is, that fewer than they were are the trees that now shelter the "gauz-wing'd katydid", yet thy unas-h sisted roar, Cohees, is delightful toh hear between sunset and dark,-and h even at midnight, awaking from sleep. hb Yes, he who loved thee when he was a boy, and who loved thee still through a all the distractions of manhood, lovesq thee yet, even now, when the roar ofb thy shoaly waters is further softened through the impaired hearing of old age. Since the days of my youth I have seen many places famed in history and fiction, and have heard many t sounds of tempests and breakers, all of which are fast fading from my recollec- h tion, but Cohees, whben thou--: But k4 to my tale. One Wednesday afternoon before i Easter in the year 1830, a stalwart s young man was reclining upon a rock ai at the base of the Cohee Precipice. A h well kept rifle was balanced across his t lap; and a bunch of squirrels, with their heads shattered and suspended y from a small hawthorn tree, was evi- t dence of the steady arm and eye which had aimed it. Upon a mossy bank near the edge of the water lay a large he yellow dog. He looked earnestly in tir his master's face, and wagged his tail to attract attention; but the young man re gazed listlessly over the sparkling shoals, and took no notice of his dog. 1, The sagacious animal rose and recon-m noitred the watery expanse before him, ,~ "This boat-horn was mad!e by accurately n( splitting a small sassafras tree into halves th from top to bottom. hollowing out the two pieces, and binding them again together by a means of shoe thread well wand with shoe- h maker's wax. The hollow tube thus made be was completely air-tight;.and the tone pro- ab duced by this wooden trumpet was very loud. but as soft as that of an old-time bassoon; and could be distinctly heard several miles I h aa In the night when everything was still. ce -et could see nothing within the rang >f his master's rifle, except a sno% vbite ibis wading along the edge of ,rass-bed. He sto9d ready to plung ,fter it as soon as lie should hear th eport of the rifle; but David Hartmai he man in whose behalf the dog, Rinj vood, would have sprung upon a lior emained motionless. This was to nuch. Ringwood gave a bark of ir >atience, and after walking backward owards his master and scratching dir uto his face, started off at full speed u he river,-wbeeled suddenly round, quatted,-barked,-then darting swifl y at David, cleared him with a bound .nd continued his course the same diE ance down the river, where he ex( uted the same pantomimic squat, hen u- be river agaiu,-then behin he r pice over Cohees Hill, an hen back to his master, before whor te went through a series of extrava ;ant capers far surpassing those whic )on Quixote cut in the mountains< 5ierra Morena. They were of no avai iowever,-David Hartman remaine ixed in his reverie. What could be the matter with him lad he injured any one? No; his larg due eye was the very symbol of mat animity. Did he repent the havoc h iad made among the free, the jolly, tb tarmless squirrels? Not at all. E ad caused them no pain, and the vere for a sick friend. What then 1oor fellow, he was only in love. Ringwood again scratched dirt upo is master as an expression of contemi or his weakness, and starting off OVE he hill to amuse himself as best h ould, he accordingly seized a hog by th ar and suffered himself to be dragge vherever the squealing porker's frigh aight lead him. Meanwhile, Davi at upright, and commenced whistlinj he merry air of Billy in the Lou rounds, but it was the most dolefu vhistliug ever heard and he left ol a despair. Suddenly a gleam of plea re lighted up his countenance. H brust his hand into his otter-skin shot ,ag, drew out a mass of tow, and pick 3g it carefully apart, took therefron n egg of a dark purple color. It wa ne of the kind known by the name o ;aster eggs, so-abundantly used by th oys and girls, during the Easter holi ays of the pleasant old times, in th 3noeent game of pecking eggs. Thi, gg that David now handled had beez yed in logwood, and he had with thi oint of his knife scratched a varietk f figures upon one-half of it,-such a. small log-house near which was on< ree with three limbs with a single lea t the end of each,-a man and woman ie proprietors of the premises,-a gami ck with fearfully long spurs, whicl ie disconsolate artist had made to occu y two-thirds of the picture,-and thei e put in a ln with a brood of chick as;-all of which taken together wa. itenaed for a hieroglyphic dissertatior a "Love in a cottage." The othei aif of the egg had not been touched ad the pensive youth now directed is attention to that part. He con. nued his etching and in an hour' tense labor achieved the eleven cabal stic characters of which here is giver s exact fac simile: During this arduous work, he mnut red to himself in soliloquy: "I'll jes be ding'd, ef I ever was ii: ch a fix afore, in my life. It is a fack m over head and ears in love with lis yer young 'oman; and I ain't bir ght ever sence the big meetin' at the bite Church, when I help'd her on er oss, and had to put her foot intc te sturrup, which she could ha' done erself jes as well as I could" Here David completed his "B", and ld the egg out at arm's length before s eyes to scan it critically. Being ghly pleased with his success, he -oaght the egg back to his near gaze id continued his work and his soliio "In course she could, for she had put r foot into that same sturrup herself many and many a time; and she iow'd she had. A nd jes as I took hold her foot. her shoe had to come off. hall always believe to my last day at she mannitch'd to slip tha t shoe f. And while I was a trying to put r shoe on agin she told me to be erful, 'fcj,' ses she, 'I'm- mighty tick h in the bottom of my foot.' Im ejiately after she said that, she rithes out to me. 'Oh, don't, Dave: n't you ash imied of yourself?' as ef I d raly tech'd the sole of her foot:-a ing I wouldn't ha' done ior all the rld; no, Sur, I wouldn't for nuthin' >u could mention, Sur"-emphasizing ese last words as though he was eaking to some one. Now he again ak another scrutinizing look at what had accomplished, and being en ely pleased with his "E K", he wvent with his task. Heaving a sigh he ;med his confession, as follows: "There's no use of nmy resistin', for n clean gone. Daddy has notish'd it; ammy has notish'd it; so has sister ener; and wvot is worsht nor al!. I has tishd it myself. It do seem to me at cold draps o' blood is continuerly ;ricklin' down from the p'nt of my art. I wonder ef it is raly so; for Il dingtA ef I ain't a gittin' skeered out it." Another squinting examination of 3egg showed him that he bad sue "BEKKy"; and he at once addressed himself to the other. He bad less df a ficulty with the next initial, capital e letter, and he was soon satisfied with e the "B" that began the name, Bright; i, and while he was engaged with the ,- remainder of Bekky's surname, he t, made known to his imaginary confi o dent some reflections arising from his - experience in love, and from his ob q servation of married life. t "Certingly, Sur," said he, "I knows p that no blood is ialy drappiu' down - from the pint of my heart; but a thing wot makes a man feel like it wos a , doin' so h..d ought to be watched. Wy, Sur, it moutjes ruin a feller, ef it got the upper hand of him. I've hearn of a - maD and wife a-fallin' out wid wunner I nudder, and that they even fout-" I Here he again held the egg out at I arm's length, viewed it with half closed - eyes, and was well pleased with what : he had done,-having progressed in his >f work thus far, "BEKy B"-; and he 1, again resumed his knife,-talking aside d to his mysteriout, invisible friend. "Yes, Sur," he continued, "I must ? say it wid shame that my own mammy e and dad-y has fout wunnernudder, - and mammy believ'd she always got e the best of it over daddy; but in course e daddy, he never let hisself out; and in e less dan a 'our arterwards dey was Y laughin' togedder, and mammy would ? wash wid camfire de scratches she left on his face. But does you suppose en 1 nyting like dat could ever take place t betwixt me and Bekky? No, Sur! sich r a thing never kin happen betwixt: us e two,-no, Sur, never-never!" e At this point David's blue eyes flashed I with indignation, and in the spirit of t emphasis he came near dashing the egg upon the rocks; but recovered him self in time. It was not long, now, until be fi:-shed his inscription to the I "T." He was in the act of putting the r finishing touch to this letter when un a fortunately a disturbance caused the e point 'f his knife to slip, thus pro ducing a blemish plainly to be seen in - the diagrm above. 1 Ringwood was the cause of this dis 9 turbance. This dog, after annoying the I hog to which he was banging until he e had torn off its ear, returned to his - master, and, finding him in the same a occupation as when he had left him, again bounded over him in expression of contempt for him, causing the point of . his knife to slip. In doingso this time he dropped the swine's ear into David's las.. which so excited his anger that he thrust the egg with its enveloping tow into..his shot-bag, seize&.the btcb_t squirrels, and with his rifle on his shoulder pursued Ringwood over the hill, in order to inflict condign punish ment upon him, exclaiming as he trudged along: "You deternai villion, ef I catch you I'll trash you ontel you won't know smellin' from seein' !" But the dog fled from him with such speed that he soon found it impossible to overtake him. He, therefore, fell into a slow meditative walk in which he continued until he reached home. -As he deposited his rifle in the corner of the hall-room, he murmured: "I'll write Bekky a letter:--that's wat ill do." [To BE CONTIN~UED.] A REMARKABLE PREACHER. Well Presierved at 92 and Votes the Demo cratic Ticket. [Green burg (Pa.) Record. Dr. Samuel Wakefield, of WVest New ton, is 92 years of age to-day. The old gentleman actually looked as if he would live as long as his fine sons, all of whom were here to spend the day with him. Mr. Wakefield began his active life as a teacher of English and literature when he was but 18 years of age. Later he became an author and gave to the world "Wakefield's Theo logy," six volumes of sacred music, one of which is in German; a work on the "Constructive Prnneiples of the English Language," and is now working on a book of 600 sermons. He also enjoys the distinction of having built the first pipe organ west of the Allegheny moun tains. In his time he has been a preacher, presiding elder, justice of the peace, representative at Harrisburg and is now the oldest superannuated minister in the Pittsburg, conference, if not in Pennsylvania. His children number ten-five sons and five daughters-who are all livingland en joying good health. Mrs. Wakefield is 88 years of age, and. though quite feeble, is able to be up. Dr. Wakefied has always been a democrat and in 182.5 voted for Andrew Jackson-the year in which not one of the four candidates obtained a majority, and the house of representatives chose John Quincy Adams. He was of age when Monroe was elected to a second term, but lost his vote by his parents removing to Mount Pleasant. His last presidential vote was for Cleveland, and in conversation he expressed the hope that he would be able to vote for Cleveland again in 1892. In Hard Luck. [From Life.] "Your wife seems vexed." "Yes. She went out to match some ribbon, and found it at the first store." Little Things That Tell. It is the little things that tel--Iittle brothers for instance, who hide away in the parlor while sister entertains her beau, etc. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are little things that tell. They tell on the liver and tone up the system. So small and yet so effectual, they are rapidly supplanting the old-style pill. An infallible remedy for Sick and Bilious Headaches, Biliousness and Constipation. Put up in vials, '-onve .ient to carry. Their use attended with A WELL DESERVED SUCCESS. Capt. V. E. McBee's Rise from Brakeman to President-The Almost Phenornal Railroad Career of a Popular South Carolinian. [E.P.McKissick, in News and Coui ier.] NEWBERRY, S. C., March 23.-There is a great deal of talk just now about the consolidation of the Central Rail road of Georgia with the Richmoud and Danville system of South and North Carolina. Judging from what the newspapers say and what you hear on the railroads there is considerable grounds for the rumors now current about this combination. It would be a powerful combination, and if it is consummated the coup d'etat of Mr. Jay Gould, of which there was so much talk a month or so ago in railroad and newspaper circles, will be doubtless ac complished. But what interests the people of Piedmont Carolina in regard to this combination is that Presidaut V. E. KcBee, of the Richmond and Danville system, in this State, and superinte!ident of the Western North Carolina Railroad of the same system in North Ca.zolina, will be made gen eral superintendent of the combination. These rumors, whether correct or in correct, come with a great deal of unc tion to the souls of the Piedmont peo pole. No man is held in higher esteem than Capt. McBee, and any promotion that may be given him is hailed with delight. PRESIDENT V. E. M'BEE. Just at this time it will not be out of place to give a little sketch of President McBee-a thing that the South Caro lina newspapers have failed to publish so far. He was born in Greenville, in this State, and belongs to the old line of McBees who have helped to make the history of this section of the South so famous in war and in peace His full name in Vardrey Echols McBee, and he is now about 3S years of age. He is a railroad man in the best accep tation of the term, by birth, precept and education. His father was a civil engineer and railroad man; his grand father was a civil engineer or "sur veyor," as the old people termed it, and the subject of the present sketch has made civil engineering and practi cal railroading the special study of his life. His ancestors lived in Lincoln Coun ty, North Cajolina, during the Revolu tionary war, and were distizguished for their gallantry and braveryduring that momentous struggle. It is related t)ht on'e of his dnefes, Whr"was' a par ticipant in the terrible fight at King's Mountain, is said to have been thE man who killed Col. Ferguson, the com-man der of the British and Tory forces. This incident, while it is not related in Mr. Draper's excellent book, "Bing's Mountain and its Heroes," is douless true, for it is sustained by several varra tives of revolutionary soldiers, besides legends and family histories. The subject of this sketch was edu cated at the Hillsboro Military School in North Carolina, in Greenville, and at the Citadel Academy in Charleston. He did not finish his course at the Citadel, however, but entered the war towards its end while quite a youth and served through the hardshi ps of actual warfare until Lee's army sur rendered at Appomattox. HIS FIRST RAILROADING. Some time after the war closed he got employment as a civil engineer and shortly afterwards secured work in the construction of the Atlanta and Char lotte Air Line Railroad, now leased by the Richmond and Danville system. A bout this time he married Miss. Rosa Brooks, daughter of that gallant Caro linian, Preston S. Brooks. The work he did on the Air Line Railroad was so satisfactory that he was soon called to aid in the construction of a railroad in Alabama, and he was engaged in this work when the panic of 18'in para lyzed railway development for some time. In fact there was a scareity for work as well as of money every where; but young McBee's pluck and energy asserted themselves boldly. He ap plied for and was appointed to the dis tinguished, but not lucrative, p.osition( f brakeman on a local freight train. Col. Foreacre was then in charge~ of the 1 ransportation department of the At-< lanta and Charlotte Road, and Mr. I McBee was given the brakeman's posi tion. MERIT WILL TELL. Rapidly, and, in fact; almost phe-f ominally, he became conductor, then soliciting agent for the Seabot.rd Air Lne, for the Piedmont Air Line and gent of the Richmond and Dauville . ines then centering in Charlotte. In ~ all these positions he proved himiself i ative and efficient. When the panic eased and the revival of railway build ng began, Capt. McBee was requested r o accept the office of superin::endenti f the Western North Carolira Rail- t oad from Salisbury to Asheville, then omparatively insignificant, but which ow goes to Pairit Rock, and has an d xtension known as the "Murphy ex- C ension." ORDER OUT OF CONFUSIO:N. At the time Capt. McBee &ccepted he superintendency the road was a3 ittle better than the Newbe :ry and aurens Railway, "two streaks of iron 3 un over crazy trestles and narrow s uts. What a wonderful re:olution as taken place unner his supervision ! P ow, instead of the old ricketty, rock tty, Mr. Jay Gould rides over it in his v ar, and pronounced it one of the best h~ ailroads in the country. And this is a raise from Sir Hubert, for, indeed, X r. Gould ought to know a feaw things I celebrated Mud Cut have been elim inated, the road has been regraded, re ballasted and in everyway made per fect. It is a monument to Capt. Mc Bee's brains, energy and resources. The western extension of the road was just blazing its way along the banks of the Nantahali and French Broad when Capt. McBee took charge, and now im mense engines make fast schedules of forty and fifty miles an hour, and draw millions of tons of freight and passen gers over the winding and snakelike road. A hundred pretty towns and vil lages have been built along the road and are growing and prospering. En terprises of all kinds have always found in Capt. McBee a friend and coadjutor. AN ALL-ROUND RAILROADER. The rapid way in which Capt. Mc Bee won his spurs, so to speak, in the railway world, his remarkable advance ment as a solver of railway problems, t and his rapid way in correcting wrongs, combined with his general knowledge of the management of railways, made him the peer of any man in the South in railway circles. "So conspicuous was his position among railway men," says a writer at the time, "that he was chosen with Major Wilson, who is now chairman of the North Carolina rail road commission, as an expert to settle long standing variances between the Canadian Governuient and the Canada Pacific Railway." These differences involved over six million dollars, and a higher compliment has never been paid a Southern railroad man than the selection of Capt. McBee by the parties interested. t LOYAL TO HIS EMPLOYERS. Some years ago Capt. McBee was t tendered the managementof the Fitch- t burg, Miss., Railway, but he declined t it. A few years back-not over two- r he was offered the general manager- j ship, with the position of chieff en- z gineer of the "Three C's," and very g strong pressure was brought to bear a upon him to accept, but he again de- SI 31ined. And it is well for the Rich MrInd and Danville Company that he 2 has refused all these offers. At present be is superintendent of the Western North Carolina Railroad, which con ists of that road, the Murphy division, the Asheville and Spartanburgand the I Spartanburg, Union and Columbia Railraods-all being designated under b the one head, with headquarters in v Asheville. Besides being superinten- 0 lent of this system, Col. McBee is presi lent of the Columbia and Greenville t Railroad, and all its branches, and the f Charlotte, Columbia and Auguta Rail . ropd, and all its branches. You will ob- a serve that this embraces a very large I amount of territory, and one of the r richest sections of the South. ACTIVE IN OTHER WORK. Besides holding these important of 5ces Capt. McBee is president of the Asheville Park and Hotel Company, b which has a capital stock of one mil ion dollars, and which was incorpor- e ted last year. Capt. McBee is an in- ~ ~orporator and director in a number of ~otton factories and other similar en erprises in North and South Caroliies. y e is a live and energetic man in all of 2s various kinds of work, and he never ires. He is one of the best railroad r nen in this country in every way, in t< ~onstructon and operation, and is well i rer'sed in all of the intricate problems li >f railroad operation. THE SECRET OF HTlS SUCCESS. t( The wonderful success that Capt. c NIcBee has achieved in his chosen pro- tl essions is due to his personal integrity, P is brains and pluck, and the quickness ith which he manages affairs of all orts. His future is very bright and b s friends predict that he will yet d; each the highest pinnacle in the rail- A oad world. There is a great deal of is eason to believe that this prediction E vill be verified. )RIVEN TO HIS DEATH BY DRINK. al --- al The sad End of a Prominent Charles- g tonian.e [Special to the State.] CHARLESTON, S. C., March 25.-3 Tharles WV. Henry, a prominent citizen ,nd rice merchant,comtesuid tI ~etween the hours of 3 and 5 p. m. to-. lay, by shooting himself through the iead with a pistol in his office on northq .dger's wharf. The deed was the re ut of heavy drinking. The deceaseda as sixty-seven years of age, highly O espected and had a wide circle of A riends. The Handsomest or all Coins. ei This proud distsnction is generally a~ onceded to the United State's twenty- ai ollar gold piece, a marvel of beauty in se esign and tin ish. The loveliest of God's A andiwork is a a handsome woman, if a the bloom of health; if she is not, D.r. be 'ierce's Favorite Prescription will re- w tore her. Ladies who use this peerless w medy are unanimous in its praise, for h cures those countless ills which are ie bane of their sex--irregularities, D ragging-down pains inflammation, w ysteria, sleeplessness, and the "all- cu one sensations which burden their t ailv lives. A tonic and nervine, with ut ~alcohol, at Rival Widows. fa Miss Maude-Shall you be at the [artins' on Tuesday ? Young Widow-Indeed, I sha'n't. in [rs. Martin and I are no longer on st eaking terms. l Miss MIaude-Really ! Why, I ar sur- p rised at that. Some misunderstanding? re Young Widow-No. She treated me to ary badly. Invited me to dine there st. month, and hinted so strongly >out my purple velvet that I wore it. vhat do you suppose I found when da sat down at the table ? FARMERS' ALLIANCE. Ifeeting of the Business Managers of tb Southern Exchange. LSpecial to Charleston World.] BiRMiNGHAM, ALA., march 25.-Th 'esults of the meeting of the businea nanagers of the Southern Allianc ,xchange, which adjourned to-nighi Lre two resolutions. One calls on the Southern farmers t )lant one-third less cotton this yes han last, stating that cotton now cost I cents, and that another such crop a his will reduce the price to 6 cents. The other favors a cotten tie mill a 3irmingham, the product to be used b; he Alliance. Geo. F. Gaither, of Birmingham, i hairman of the committee. The resolutions also urge that womei e kept ont of the field, and their at entions confined to raising chickens arden truck, and other things to eat Ten States were represented, an "hairman McCune of the nations ommittee was here. EW YORK STATE TO BE FORMALLI ORGANIZED. NEW YORK, larch 25.-Presiden 'olk, of the National Farmers' Alli ,nee, has issued a proclamation statin hat New York State will be official]. irganized on April 22. The ceremon: vill take place at some point in th< entral part of the State, and it is sai< hat one hundred or more Ic .al Alli nces will be represented. The Alli nee officers affirm that New Yorl armers have been joining the order b, housands the past few months. Thi Parmers' League, having its headquar ers at Springfield, Mass., outnumbere< he Alliance in New York State mem ership until lately, but most of th< nembers of the League have noy >ined the Alliance as well. The Citi ens' Alliance, the new polititical or anization through which the Alliano ets in politics, is also to be introduce( a both cities and rural districts in th< itate. Branches will be organized ii Tew York city within a few weeks. KANSAS ALLTANCE MANIFESTO. TOPEKA, KAN., March 21.-The Alli nee has at last brought forth it auch talked of manifesto covering th4 tbors of the last Legislature. It ha een in process of preparation for tw< reeks. It is addressed "To the Peopl< f Kansas," and says: "The Republican politicians of the na ion were gathered in Topeka and on: 3otsteps were dogged by hired Hes ians -at every -turrr with offers of pel nd political honors, but without effect 7he legislation of this session has no esulted in what we desired to accom lish, nor in what the people wouk ave the ri,,it to expect from us ha re been in power in all the branche f the State government, but we cax afely say in refutation of the charge y our political enemies that we dit ot consider or pass a single bill thal ould in any way disturb the relatior f debtor or creditor, or feopardize th< ollection of debts or repudiate art onest obligation. We can safely say y every business man in the State o: [ansas, that we have tried to careful]3 uard and g>rotect the interests of th4 eople of our State. They will not fai: ai see how unfortunate it was, and it be future it will be, to have a Repub can Senate whose only b)usiness or ob ect is to obstruct honest legislation and ) checkmate the action of the people's tbosen representatives. We commend iis review to the consideration of the enple and a candid world." THE SECRETS OF THE ALLIANCE. A Kansas Alliance leader who hai een looking around town for a feiw ays says it is true that the Farmers Iliance is a secret organization. "Ii secret," he says, "just like Tammany~ [all and the big social clubs and lenty of other societies in New York, hich transact their business in secret, rid don't let t.be outside world know bout their affairs. All the secrets or ie Farmers' Alliance are known te verybody who belong to it, and othe, eople are kept in the dark from mo yes of policy. There are between 000 and 4,000 sub-Alliances in Kansas ad all of them are secret in one sense, iat is to say, outsiders are not allowed itheir meetings and members keep iiet about the proceedings. But every. >dy can learn all about the principles 3d objects of the Alliance and its way doing things. "I am not giving away any of our liance secrets when I tell you that e laugh at the stories printed in East n papers about the terrible oaths that e taken by the members of the Alli ice. We take no oath that would are a hen. When a man joins the Iliance he gives his pledge that he lieves in its platform, that he will ork with others in supporting it: that hen it puts up candidates at elections will support themi, and that he will >t reveal its inside business to people ho do not join it. There is no blood rdling oath about that; there are no rilling or terrifying mysteries of initi ion; there are no big panjandrums the Alliance; it is made up of plain rmers, whose secret operations are as nocent as their crops." No medicine has had greater success checking consumption, in its early Iges, than Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. It ps coughing, sooths the throat and ngs, and induces much-needed re ise. Hundreds have testified to the markable virtues of this prepara n. SCheaper. [From the A merican Grocer.] He-I cannot express my love to you ring. She-Then why not send it by A THIRD PARTY NEEDED. e The Democrats and Republicans Behind The Times. To the Editor of the News and e Courier:-Coeval with the formation of 8 the government the people were and e are now divided into parties, mainly inco two great parties. At the birth of the government the parties were called a federalist and anti-federalist. Wash r ington, the first president, was a feder s alist, but both parties confided in him. 8 In his appointments to office, particu larly in his Cabinet, he made no dis t tinction between them. He treated them alike. Washington served two terms. He was elected each time with out opposition. On his declination to be a candidate in 1796 for the third term, the Anti-Federalist spurned the name "Republican" and ran Thomas Jefferson for the Presidency against John Adams, Federalist. Adams beat Jefferson, but in 1800 Jefferson, the father of tbe Republbean party, beat Adams, and from that date, for a quar ter of a century, the Republican party was victorious over the Federalist, electing Madison and Monroe in suc cession. In 1828 the Republican party took the name of the Democratic party, under the leadership of Andrew Jack son, and the Federalist took the name of the National Republican party, un der John Quincy Adams. The Demo cratic party was victorious under Jack son and Van Buren, until 1840, when the name "Whig" was adopted by the National Republican party, under the leadership of William Henry Zarrison, who beat the Democratic candidate, Wartin Van Buren, incumbent. In 1844 the Democratic party won with James K. Polk, and in 1848 the Whigs won with Zachary Taylor. In 1852 and in 1856 the Democratic party won with Franklin Pierce and James Bu chanan. In 1860 the Whig, Free Soil, Free Democracy and Liberty League combined under the name of the Re publican party and elected Lincoln over the Democratic nominee, Breck enridge. The Republican party has been victorious in every Presidential election from that day to this, eicept in !884, when Mr. Cleveland, the Dem ocratic nominee, was elected. The discontent now is widespread and deep, and the times are ominous of great changes. Neitier of the two great parties can absorb the National Farmers'Allianceand IndustrialUnion and the organization with whom it has confederated. It can no more be ex pected that Republicans in the North will vote the Democratic ticket than that Democrats in the South will vote the Republican ticket. The prejudice against these old and familiar names that waged war fierce and relentless so long cannot be overcome. Men who are now firmly united on principles, demands and measures, on which not only their prosperity but their very ex istence depends, are now kept apart simply because of a name. Shall this continue? In all the changes of names under which men have rallied for the asser-1 tion of their rights in the past history of parties, at no time heretofore have the conditions been so pressing for a change of name as those that now con front us. The National I<armers' Alli ance and Industrial Union, with the organizations that have confederated and those that will confederate, can and will absorb enough from the two great parties to best what is left in each of them combined. No other course is left open to the people if they would display their manhood, assert- their rights and save the Government. They can never get their measures enacted into law through the old par ties. Both of them are dominated and controlled by men who are clearly hos tile to the people's needs and demands. Under their administration It is alleged that during the last twenty-five years one-half of the wealth of the nation has been concentrated into the hands of seventy men; that six men can con trol the finances of the nation. The Goyernment is rushing wildly to the rock on which all the great Govern ments that preceded ours were wrecked. The fight is on and soon the blows will fall fast and heavy. Let there be no pause, but move on in solid column with firm and steady tread as the Old Guard of Napoleon ever did in all the great battles he fought and splen did victories he won. Under the name of the People's party, beneath whose banners all can rally, with clean and< loyal men in the lead and with our principles, demands and measures clearly stated, defined, formulated and embodied into a creed more sublime than any that has been promulgated for the betterment of mankind since the morning of the world, let all move out promptly and the nation blossom with battle flags for the right, and vic tory will be ours and the Republic saved. Let the watchword be in scribed upon all our banners. The People's party expects every man to do his duty. ELLIsoN S. KEITT. Enoree Plantation. Five Babies in One Year c rFrom the Philadelphia Record.] t MILAN, Tenn., March 1'.-Mrs. Thomas Williams, residing near Brady ville, in one year has given birth to fivea babies--twins at first and triplets at the e present writing; triplets all girls and v weighing six pounds each. S p For purifying the blood, stimulating p the appetite, and invigorating the sys- U tem in.the Spring and early Summxer, a Ayer's Sarsaparilla is unsurpassed. Be t sure you get Ayer's Sarsaparilla and no h shw-aathe rmult may be anything d FLOWERS ON A GLACIER. An Unusual Spectacle Recently Witnegged Near the Arctic Ocean. In 1888 Mr. John W. Kelly dii covered on the northea, t coast of Alas ka, emptying into the Arctic Ocean, just above Cape Lisburne, a new river, which has been named the Pitmegea river. The river and its narrow valley are very winding, and the natives say they can ascend it for a distance of forty miles. This stream has not pre viously appeared on the charts. Mr. Kelly aseended the river for a distance >f twenty-five miles, where he found a 2 large glacier, emptying into the rver. The glacier faces southward and re ceives the full benefit of the sunlight during the short polar summer. Gales bave deposited on the glacier particles >f soil and seeds of plants to a depth of from four inches to a foot. The snow rall of winter soon vanishes before the - June sun. Then vegetation on the glacier is warmed into life, and in a re markably short time the brown crustp of soil is covered with a robe of green and with bright flowers, such as butter cups, dandelions, daffodils and yellow poppies. There are also some hardy grasses, whose roots penetrate the light covering of roil. A few arctic willows are also seen, but they grow only a foot, in length and trail along the ground. Such a spectacle is not often wit nessed in the arctic regions. The mass >f green, diversified by the brilliant colors of arctic flowers, has only scanty Iepth of soil to flourish in, and covers, ike a carpet or a ,rilliant robe, the Ice inass on which the scil rests. Duj . ng the summer the ice front melts, iway, leaving the protruding soil above It like the leaves of a house. When. it protrudes too far for the strength of the pass roots, it topples over im.he iver. Mr. Bett4' Cyclone AnnMhlator. [From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.] Mr. Edward Daniel Betts is an artiM Lnd a man with asharpeye. Heread he other day about some hunteron. he plains who was pursued by &re entless cyclone. In sheer desperation he hunter turned and fired Ids trusty - -ifie at the rapidly approaching tunne haped cloud. Instantly the wind be ;an to loose its nerve, and in less th Lminute the landscape wasas beautL Ls a day in June. Mr. Betts shut himself up a wrestled with the secrets of nstre. & Ast he struck pay gravel, - and--i -ateut is applied for. "It is a large rubber ball flledwith ;un cotton or dynamite," he explan - esterday, "which will be hurled withi - :errific force at the advancing cycone.. , rhe explosive will, have a fuse to4 which will'be ignited automatcally. He further explained that the pro -elling instrument was so arrange ~hat it always pointed at the eyceoel Phe ball was thrown after thewn iad attained a certain velocity. Mr. B3etts has had a great deaL of rouble in arranging this last detaild for he found that if he set it'et too lowi inotch the machine would go off in- - tiff' breeze and throw the rubber ball.T if dynimite over into a neighboring . asture or down into a cow lot, doing -~ Ireat and immediate damn&ge to the ows without any material advatage. 7 [lhen again, if the machine were set too ~2 igh, it would not get into active ' peration until after the entire family ad crossed the Dark river andithe ~ylone was in the next county, Mr. Betts says there isno.question ut that a dose of dynamite will knock ~ny cyclone cold. The machines can mput on ahigh pole out of the reach f goats and children. The Comptroller and the Auditors. [The State, 26th.] Comptroller General Ellerbe, who as been waging such a crusade againss > he Eax payers through his auditors, esterdaysaid that he was much pleased ith the way some of the auditors weme rrying out his instructions, and from >me of the estimates of property 1e rned there would be a considerable crease in the total returned this year. ome of the counties, however, were ot doing much. Eczema, scalp covered with eruptions octors proven valueless. P. P. P. was ied and the hair began togrow'again ot apimple can be seen, and P. P. P . gain proved itself a wonderful skin re. No Ashes.I [From Puck. Mr. Donny-Are you wearing the. aditional sackcloth and ashes during .ent, Miss Findilay? Miss Findlay-Well, partly Mr. onny. The sackcloth goes; but I live anatural-gas town in Ohio; and, you now, we don't have ashes. [From the Chicago Poet.] "In the bright lexicon of the Kansas ~male there's no such phrase as down odden woman," Henry R.i3hards, a tizen of the Bleeding State, observed the rotunda of the Sherman House ms noon. -er of the Savannah Brewery, saysr.HnyW te,frrl mhe: d Rheumatism of the Heart for sev al years. Often he was unable t ~alk over a fewiblocks, his pain was intense; he had trouble to get his eath; he had physicians in -Philadel ia, his former home, but t.he best ofesor in thbeuniversity there could - t give him relief. C'oming here her w P. P. P., ad-.ertised, tried two bot s, and is now a well man. His pain aleft him and he can now wajk all - y. He renders thanks to P. P. P. d says its workings are wonderfuL