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| "ET YOUR LIGHT SINE" r- i'WILLh FURIfTHE,1P lVlA~2T~ KERS FBY BUYING YOUR SO MUC CEAPER AT 3 CTSI > Go and See t~SHERARD & MINOR STAND ~i'~~Foot's Old Stand. FOOETS 1865 N B Y ., U DCO111P E 5A ii~STABLISIED 1bo~.-EWBERRY, S. C., TUURSD,AY OTOBE1 5 81 ESPRICES$1D508A5YEAR CHARLES S. PARNELL DEAD. Friends and Foet Surprit!d and Shocked by his Sudden End-The Famous Leader Returns from Ireland-Takes to His Bed, and Dies in Four Days. LoxDON, Oct. 7.-MIr. Parnell died at flrighton. His death was the result of a chill caught last week. He took to his bed on Friday last, and died at Walsingham terrace at 11:30 ('clock last night. Great Britain and Ireland were startled this morning by the ut terly unlooked-for announcement. It has been well known that 31r. Parnell has not enjoyed the best of health for years past, and it has been noticed and widely commented upon, that since the O'Shea divorce developments be came a matter of public notoriety, and since the political trouble came upon him, the Irish member has grown thiner, and perceptibly aged in ap pearance. But nobody expected to hear of his death, and no inkli;,g as to his illness had reached the newspa pers. The chill which he caught last week was not regarded a- serious. Xr. Par nell, however, grew worse, and a phy sician was called in, with the result that the patient was ordered to take to his bed. This was on Friday last, and from that time Mr. Parnell lost strength, and finally succumbed. Froid the day he took to his bed the state of Mr. Parnell's health has been such as to necessitate the constant attendance of two physicians; but, in spite of their incessant and untiring efforts to pro long or to save his life, Mr. Parnell gradually sank lower and lower until be expired in the arms of Mrs. Parnell, who is utterly prostrated by the shock. Another account of Mr. Parnell's ill ness is as follows : He arrived at his home, at Brighton, from Ireland on Thursday, and complained of suffering from a chill. On the Friday following he was unable to leave his bed, and his regular physican was summoned. He seems to have considered Mr. Parnell's illness to have been of a serious nature, for he son sent for another physician, with whom he held a long consulta tion. This consultation of physicians was resumed on Sunday, when Mr. Parnell was found to be in great pain and apparently growing weaker every hour. His sickness was pronounced to be an attack of acute rheumatism, and every attention was paid to the sufferer. He was carefully nursed by his wife, who hardly left his beside from the moment her husband's illness was proncunced to be of a serious nature. Mr. Parnell, however, grew steadily weaker. Several hours before his death he became unconscious and so remained until he died. Owing to the sudddenness of the Irish lender's illness, and to the belief of his wife and of the attending physicians that he would recover, no friends or relations of his family or of that of Mrs. Parnell-were present when he died. Mrs. Parnell and the physi cians were alone at the time. In this city, particularly, the news of? Mr. Parnell's death fell like a thunder b.olt upon the clubs and in the political circles. Nobody, so far as at first known, was even aware shat he was.indisposed, and, consequently, when it became known that the Irish leader was dead, the first idea was that he had com mitted suicide. As the day wore on, however, it came out, through the statements of his is timate friends, that Mir. Parnell had ,complained to them recently of not feeling as well as usual, but it was not thought by any body that there was anything serious in his symptoms, though he was thinner than hie was last year, The last time MIr. Parnell appeared in public was at Cregg, in Ireland, on Sept. 27, when he delivered a long speech upon the attitude and alleged inconsistencies of Mlessrs. Dillon and O'Brien. Upon that occasion he said that he was speaking in defiance of the orders of the doctors who were attend. ing him, and who had expressly or dered him to keep to his room. While MIr. Parnell was speaking at Cregg it was noticed that he was very pale, and that, in other respects, he was not the man he had been in the past. He then carried his left arm in a sling, and his friends, upon astinig him ' cause, were informed that he w-- itlering from rheunmatism. .a legrams received here from Dublin and other towns in Ireland, and from the principal towns in England, unite in reporting that the death of MIr. Par nell has caused a great sensation among his supporters, principally on account of its suddenness. AFrER BROTH ERt sTOKES' S flOES. An Orangeburg Alliancemnan Who Wants to bea senator, [Special to the State.] ST. MIATTHEwS, Oct. 10.--The local Farmers' Alliance held a public meet ing at this place to-day in Jacobsin's hall. The attendance was very small. The meeting was called to or'der by the president, MIr. O. 31. Dantzler, who, without any comment, introduced Dr. J. H. Price as the orator of the day. Dr. Price spoke about one hour, hearti ly endorsing the Ocala platform. In speaking of the noble order, the doctor said: "I know I am accused of being an ofhce seeker, but it is done only to weaken the Alliance. I know I have beeni spoken of as a candidate for a haigh omlce (Senator), I1 have never said so. I am wvorking solely for the Alli ance and for the good of the far miers. I have never said 1 was a candidate, but if my fellow farmers and if my neigh bors and friends see fit o honor my labors in their behalf with an oilce, why not accept?" But a very few knew L that the doctor had ever been sug gested as a candidate until he reminded POLK'S RECORD AS A SOLDIER. A Genera' Den' al to the Accusation of Cow ardice-He Claims to have Spent Two Hounri in the Fight at Win cheter. RALEio ii, N. C., October 6.-Col. L. L. Polk publishes a lengthy statenient, in which he says: "It has been charged in the newspa pers that I skulked the battle of Win chester of optember 19, 1864; that I was hidden behind a stone fence on the mornivg of that day, when my regi ment had gone on and was engaged in battle; that Brig Gen. Bryan Grimes saw me there and had a conversation with me; that I claimed to have a chill; that Gen. Grimes called special atten tion to the matter and said with an oath that he intended to Court-martial me for it, and would summon Devereux as a witness; that for some reason I was not Court-martialed, but was allowed to resign. WHAT THE OFFICIAL RECORD SHOWS. "I have in my possession the official record of a Court-martial which poves, on the sworn testimony of Gen. Grimes himself and fourteen other witnesses, that the above charge contains no truth. The official record shows that the charges were: 'Misbehavior in the presence of the enemy' and 'absence without leave.' Gen. Grimes makes no allusion, either in the charges or speci fications, or in his sworn testimony, to any lack of duty on my part during the morning. Upon my petition he was instructed to try the case before the Court-martial of Rhodes's division, and thus was allowed to select officers wbo should try the case. Brig Gen. W. R. Cox was appointed president. ELECTED TO THE LEGISLUTURE. "The record shows that up to Sep tember 18, I was acting adjutant of the 43d North Carolina regiment, being then lieutenant in Company I. On that day I received a certificate from the sheriff of Anson County showing that I had been elected a member of the Legislature. That day I turned over my horse, books, etc., to the pro per authorities, preparatory to leaving for Raleigh on the 19th. The com manding officer of the regiment re leased me from duty, and on the morn ing of the 19th I had prepared to start home having previously filled the pro per application for release from duty. Finding that a battle was imminent I went to the commandant of the regi ment and asked his opinion as to whether I ought to go into battle. He said I was under no obligation what ever to go, but suggested that I speak to Gen. Grimes about it. After the line of battle was formed I approached Gen. Grimes, and asked his advice as a friend. He advised we to go in, saying there might be talk if I did not. REMAINED IN THE FIGHT. "I tole him I would go. I then took charge of Company H, it having no officer. We advanced and we halted uznder a heavy fire of skirmishers. The order, forward, was repeated. For some reason the regiment did not advance until I went in front and called to the color sergeant to follow me. I led the charge through open ground for two or three hours under heavy and destruc tive fire. I was the only officer seea in front during the charge and remained in front until the line was ordered to halt. When ordered to fall back by Gen. Grimes I assisted him in raiuying the regiment on a line indicated by him, until the commandant of the regiment, who was my former captain, was brought to me near Gen. Grimes, ana, being as he thought, fatally wounded, implored me to take him to the rear, insisting that I had no busi ness there and appealing to mue as a brother Mason. AN ERRANDOF MERCY. "I took him from the field to the hospital. Soon after reaching the hos pital the report camne that our line had been broken and the wounded should get out if possible. I seized my pistol and sword, and, going out, met some flying cavalrymen. I drew my pistol on an officer and halted and held hinm until our troops came up. The Court martial, after hearing all the evidence, ordered the following verdict to be senit me: "In accordance with the Act of Con gress, published in General Order No. 53, Adjutant and Inspector General's office, present series, I have the honor to infor:ii you that you have been hon orable acquitted of the charges against you. R. C. BARGER, "Miajor and Acting Judge Advocate." SERENADED) BY THE TRooPS. "That night I was aroused, pulled from my bunk and placed on a stump and made a speech to my friends of the brigade, who had come to honor me with a serenade. It was on the eve of my departure for Raleigh, I left the next morning." Reform Democrata Won. NAsHvILLE, Tenn., Oct. 9.-The Re form Democratic ticket was elected in the city election yesterday over the regular Demnocratic ticket by majori ties ranging from 1,000 to 500. George B. Guild, who was elected mayor, led tL.e ticket. He is an old Confederate ,oldiar. There was no Republican ticket ; this city is overwhelmingly Democra~tic. (Catarrh is in the blood. No cure for tis loathsome and dangerous disease is possible until the poison is thoroughly eradlicated from the system. For this purpose Ayer's Sarsaparilla is the best and miost economical medicine. Price S1. Six bottles, $53. Worth 3 a bot tle ALL ABOUT THE ALLIANCE. What N. Going on in the Var!oux County Orgauizations-Less Cotton and More Bread. [Special to News and Courier.] EDGEFELD, October 9.-The Edge field County Alliance convened here a few days since. The body took action in regard to the matter of decreasing the acreage in cotton for th.- coming year, and formulated its idens in the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: Whereas, it is admitted by all that in order to make agticulture succeswful the farmer 'should be self-sustaining; and, whereas, this has not been the case in the past to a great extent under our system of farming. Therefore: Resolved. That we deem it necessary and recommend that the acreage in cotton for the next year be reduced and that the acreage in breadstufM' be cor respondingly increased. 2. That we hereby agree to conform to the recommendations that may be made on this line by the Cotton Con vention to be held in Atlanta, Ga., this month. 3. That we, the Edgefield County Alliance, do cordially invite all agri cultural classes to join us in the efrort to carry out the reforms set forth in the above resolutions. The Alliance of this county is severe ly in earnest about this matter, and it is believed that its ideas will material ize into general action. THE ANDERSON COUNTY ALLIANCE. ANDERSON, October 40.-The County Alliance met in the Court House yester day. There are forty-one Alliances in this county and twenty eight of them were represented at the meeting. One hundred and twenty-five members were present. Thirty-three clubs have already paid up their dues. Jos. L. Keitt, the District Alliance lecturer, was present and spoke to the meeting. He said the Anderson Coun ty Alliance was one of the most pros perous in the State. The business agency was discussed and J. B. Douthit was again placed in charge of the agency. As all the business of the meeting was not finished they adjourned to meet two weeks hence. SU31TER FOR DUNCAN. SUITER, October 10.-At the regular meeting of the Sumter County Alli ance, held on the 9th day of October, 1891, the following preamble and reso lutions were passed, to wit: Whereas, Col. D'Arcy P. Duncan, our respected Alliance brother,is a cand;date for the office of Inter-State commerce commissioner; and whereas, we are most favorably acquainted with his experience in that line of business, he having ably aud acceptably served our State as railroad commissioner for the past eight years, has been the chairman of said commission; and whereas, we know his sterling worth, his ability and his great fitness for the position he seeks: Resolved, That this Sumter County Alliance do endorse his application for such appointment, and we hereby ear nestly request the President of the United States to appoint Col. Duncan to fill this responsible position. Resolved, That the secretary be in structed to forward a copy of this preamble and resolution to the Presi dent of the United States and to Col. D'Arcy P. Duncan, and to publish them in The News and Courier, in the Cot ton Plant and in the Freemnan. E. MuIs PITTs. Secretary Sumter County F. A. MARRIED FORl FUN. But It Turned Out Not to be a Joke. [King's Mountain News.] Miss Nettle Sitgreaves, of Winsboro, S. C., in August spent some time with her aunt, Mrs. Mary Abernathy, at Cataw ba Junction. Among the young gentlemen she met was Mr. John Steele, of Rock Hill, the railroad agent at the Junction. One day Miss Sitgreaves was at the depot when the train arrived Mr. Reese Massey, an acquaintance, got of! the train. Mr. Steele laughingly asked him to marry Miss Sitgreaves and him self. Mr. Massey consented and in the presence of several-witnesse s pronoun ced them man and wife. About two weeks ago Mr. Steele was married to Miss--Williams, of Rock Hill, and.it now turns out that Mr. Massey was a notary public and the marriage with Miss Sitgreaves was legal. This discovery has brought conster nation with it and Mr. Steele finds himself in a predicament through his joke. We learn that the matter will come up at next term of York court, when an eflert will be made to have the marriage between Steele and Miss Sit greaves an nulled. Dr. Wyeth Contradicted. NEWv YoRK, Oct. 9.-The New York city association of Union ex-prisoners of war held a meeting to-night at which the recent article by Dr. Wyet b in the Century, in which the : M ment of Confederate prisoners of war was described as cruel, merciless and unjustifiable, was referred to and called forth strong speeches of denial from many rmembers who were cognizant of the methods pursued at Johnson Is lanid where Dr. Wyeth was confined. WVhen the hair shows signs of failing, beg.in at once to use Ayer's Hair Vigor. This preparation. strengthens the scalp, promotes the growth of new hair, re stores the natural color to gray and faded hair, and renders it soft, pliant, nd gr1orsy. THE RISING BOY. Nill Arp 1; Watching the Struggles of Ge nius Itumination Brought On 1Iv Seeing a Parcel of ConvietiA Bajs By. Dr. Nunnally was telling aiout a poor boy who was working his w:y through college. le worked for lire on a farm at $10 a month and his board, and saved his wages and went to Mc ! and during vacation he hired out and lived hard and did his own washing. That boy is in earnest and needs watch ing. I am going to watch him if I live, and see what becomes of him. They are not common. I knew one in college about forty-five years ago. He walked from north Alabama to Athens, Ga., and his clothes were all home made and coarse and didi't fit wivell. I remember that his pants were too short at the bottom and too long at the top, and the waist scanis of his brown jeans coat was high up on t!e back. The boys laughed at him on the tly, but they didn't laugh long, for he soon took the lead and kept it. If he hadent got killed in the war he would have been a leader in his State right now. This is a great and glorious govern ment. There is none like it upon the face of the earth. Tie fact that the highest places in the nation are in reach of the humblest citizen-that a tailor can become a president and a miilboy a senator, and a lad who plowed a hull for lack of "something better" has held more offices and higher oflices in Geor gia than any three of her most gifted citizens-is a wonderful thing. En gland and Germany have good govern ments, but over there a poor boy has got to have help to rise. He must be kin to somebody who has power or in fluence. He must have a cousin in Berlin or an uncle in parliament, but the field is open here-open to all. Aristocracy is not the passport here. It is merit and diligence. Honor and shame from no condition rise. A venerable gentleman quoted that to me and said: "I used to be proud of my lineage, and was inclined to boast of the good blood that was in my veins; but one day I was talking to an old kinsman about our ancestors, and he said: 'Well, yes, my son, there was some good people away back there, but the stock sorter run down. Your pap and your grandpap behaved mighty well, but some of the boys dident. Your uncle Dick stole a bag of taters offen a flatboat, and they cotch him at it, and took him down in the cane brake and whipped him. And there was so much talk about Tom markin' every stray sheep and shote in his mark that he took a sudden notion to move to Arkansas, and I haint heard of him since. Some of the stock was good, but some was powerful coveychus.' " Well, of course there is something in luck, for Solomon says, "Time and chance happeneth to all;" but as a geni eral thing merit and diligence are re warded in this country. Andy John son became a president, anid John Tyler did, too, but John was reduced after his time was out, and the county commissioners made him an overseer of the public road, which shows the ups and downs of fame and politics. But good conduct and good principles pay in the long run, if they don't in the short. I was ruminating about this yesterday as our train r assed a lot of convicts who were working the road between Atlanta and Decatur. It is a sad and melancholy spectacle to see them in their striped uniforms and hear the clink of their ankle-chains as they came down with their picks into the hard ground or tossed the earth away with their shovels. They looked healthy and strong and contented, but I don't know how they felt. They were all negroes, and they don't feel much-not much penitence and less mortification. There are 1,737 con victs now in our State-that many in our State system under lease. There are some more on the public roads of the counties, and nearly all are negroes. There are only 170 white con victs, and not a white woman. Nearly sixteen hundred colored are wearing the stripes, and forty-seven of these are women. What is the matter with the negroes? When will they do better? Nearly all of these convicts are between sixteen and forty, and but a very few were ever in slavery. They have been to school most of them, and most of them are from cities and towns. rThe old time negroes are; not ini the chaln gang. They had no schooling, but they had moral training. What is to become of the negro? He has less ex cuse for crime than a white man. His wants are few; it takes less to do him; he is not cramped by society nor social temptation; a day's honest work will support himi for two clays; he pays 1no tax; his schooling is free, and yet the devil seems to be in him. There are 3(0 per cent more whites than negroes in this State, and yet the negroes com commit nine times more crime. The problem is not solved. I have before me a very able paper on the race prob lem by a humane and gifted citizen of Louisiana. It was written some years ago, and he then thought that educa tion would solve it. He is mistaken. Crime among the negroes increases with their education. It does that. at the North among the whites. Their criminals are neariy as numer ous, according to population, as among the negroes at the South. Bishiop Turner is a very smart colored mani, and is a good man and we see that be wants the negroes to go to A frie:.. I believe that our people a're willing and ready for tihe exodus. We are getting tired of the experiment. Twenty-five years has made no satisfactory progress. you find one good, honest, industriou negro, you will find ten shiftle., i m1oral Ones. Woe are tircil. I s:.w crowd of th( -n in Atlanta the othe day who we e gathered ar-su:il a 1lad man with % plug hat, and I Lt-ard b.i;, !ay, "We m-ust all get away fromil :hi eountry-a colored man has no here at all. The white mai has go him down andli his heels on him, ai< we is hound to go." He is as much al anarchist as Herr Most. Every on of those darkies can get $1 a day an live on -,> cents. There are millions of white peopl across the water who would thank Go< for so good a chance to make a living If this restless, trifling, insolent, crime loving class would go somewhere i would be a great relier. The fact i they should be made to go. Abolisi the chaingang and ship them to Africa I wonder if it can't bo- done. Englant used to send her bad imen to Botan: Bay. We are tired of having to us lynch law for their outrages. Lyncl law does not reform or intimidate There have been more of these horribl outrages within the last year than an year since the war. And yet there ar many good negroes, negroes whom w< respect and love to befriend, and ther is the trouble with Bishop Turner' plan. He wants the good ones to g< and set up a government. We wan them to stay and the bad ones to ge and that would take a large majority At all events they should be thinnec out, and we will give the bishop choic and help him to thin them. It is tb common sentiment of our people tha the whites and the blacks cannot liv together in peace much longer. Th generation that is now coming on righ out of the schools is worse than tb< last. Every town is full of young ne groes who are vagabonds and the' keep the police continually on th watch. The jail and calaboose ar never without boarders. Over fiv hundred colored convicts have beet sent to the chaingang during the las: twelve months. When will this thin stop? Their o;wn race, with few exceptions don't seem to be much concerned aboui it. I overheard one telling his expe rience as a convict, and he had a gc-x time. He said: "Now, children, yot know I was a trusty, I was. I didn'1 wear no spuis, nor chains. I ha( charge of the dogs, and when a niggej got away my boss holler for me, and I jump for the mules and put thesaddle. on quick and ontie the dogs, and awa3 we go. We had two dogs-a big, long eared houn' dog, and a small dog, sortei half flice, and a short tail. Dey wa. both powerful good track d, . On( mornin' about daybreak de 'larm wa given, two niggers got away. De bos. call me and I got de mules and de dogi quick, and he bounce on one mule and I bounce on de other and we let d< dogs smell of de nigger's bunk whai dey sleep and den put 'em on de trachi and away we go. De niggers and di dogs run and we keep up behind. D< niggers run and de dogs run. Bimi by de track got hotter and hotter and de niggers run and de dogs ruu. Di ole houn' opens his mouth wide and say come on, come on, and after wi had run 'em about four miles de olt dog change his tune and we know'd dem niggers was treed. Shore enuf when we got dar, de two niggers was uj in a post oak setten on a limb. De ohf houn was a settin' off a piece.a-lookin up in dc tree and he say t-o-o-o-o o: 'emn, t-o-o-o-o of 'em. De lit tle dog was settin' on his short tail and he say dat's a fak, dat's a fak, dat's a fak Well, we make dem darkies get dowr from dar and take 'em back and d< boss give 'em a right smart whipping and put 'em to work agin. Dey was mean niggers and dare aint no othei sort dare hardly. I neber sociate wid (dem convicts. I was a trusty, I was.' BILL ARP. THEY WILL CALL HER RUTH. That WVas the Name of Mrs. Cleveland's Grandmother. NEWv ToR1, Oct. ').-Ex-Presideni Cleveland said to-day in answer to at inquliry regarding the name of the new comner in his house: "We have settlet on the name and it is 'Ruth.' This was the name of Mrs. Cleveland's grand mother arid has always been especiall3 liked by her.'' He further said: "It connection with the publication of thi item,jwhich, I hope, will end much ap parent curiosity on the subject, I desir especially that mention be made of th extreme and kindly interest in us and oiur child shown by good people every wvhere throughout the country. W< have received almost innumerable con gratulations and kind remembrances From the P'resident of the Unitetn States arnd from my humble citiz.en have come hearty felicitations. Al this hais been very gratifying and han b'een fully appreciated, but since it wil be imnpossile to acknowledge all thes< miessalges separately, I hope this publi, recognition willt be ucepted as stfir cient.' .1 Ge,orgia Gian:t. an ol line Whig, fa:miliarly' kno)wn a "Big Foot .Jiin,'' jiving on Bridg Creek, ini (oiquitt C ou nty, is certa in! the bigge.-t anid strongest man i Georgia. Hie weighs 280 p)ounids standls seven feet in his stockingLs, an< wears a numiber fifteen shoe. Hi strength is almoAst phenomenal. O: several Occasions lie has been knowvn tI cruelly breaks%the horns of cows oil He is an expert hunter and spend: A -r:e umpeakable Turk.h Bath. .Au-usta Chronicle.l r E yei ever take a Turkish bath < Wh'n you are in New Yr-k be certaiy I to gi (:owi to Twenty-iifth streeL. an inqu-rfor e bath house. After al al-(day j!:i in New York such a p!ae is %virti seeking. You have bet: Iei(.limbing "elevated" steps and wan I deriig about on the stone pavemenitb tintil your bones ache. Then two day I travel ha.s broken you up with ever: extreme of diet from Lynchburg clare to Danville buttermilk. You want t( I be boiled down and smoked out. Ther< is but one way to do this. Entering the stone steps of this Rus so-Turkish establishiment you hand tb< offleeman $l.i5. He give you a "keN to the Dardanelles." You deposit you $4 Waterbury and purse in a littlE package ard write your name acros the folder. The offi.e man locks thei in a drawer before your eyes and give you the key. It is attached to a rub i ber ring which is worn around th< wrist all through the fiery ordeal. I your purse contains a leaf pulled fron the elm tree at Cambridge wher Washington took command of thE American Army you feel uneasy abou leaviin(v it wit this attendant. HE may have a pass key, and then yor might need that elm leaf. From the di--obing room you ar< conducted down stairs into a warn apartment, which feels like a kitcher in July. A man is willing to turt back, but his attendant pushes hiw forward by telling him not to block the way for the next man behind him It's all a ruse. No man is behind Then the cork doors open and you are in Hades sure enough. Hot air fron the furnace almost blinds and stifles You stagger and faintly ask leave t< write a letter home before you go any further, but by this time you can't struggle. The blood rushes to your hair and you feel like you were shod in muffin rings. The perspiration oozes from your shoulders and the rubber ring around your arm is ready to sizz You are carried, half blind, to a deep canvass chair, and pushed down. You get .up and walk around, but the place grows hotter and hotter. More beads came out on your neck. Your atten dant tells you to keep quiet for ten minutes and he .vill give you a shower bath. Ten minutes of quiet in this oven! Your head is bursting now and your heart ready to stand still. "'Does this thing ever kill a man ?" "Sometimes we have trouble; not often." The candidate for further advance I ment lapses into moist despair and wonders if he will live to see that show er bath. He asks for an iced melon, a fan, a refrigerator, anything to relievE this sizzing monotony. Finally thE grand-master, who is dressed like an ordinary brother, comes along with hih white trunk and satisfies himself that you are going to die. He notes that you are not going to die. He notes that you are in profuse perspiration and carries you into a small closet, where hie turns on a shower of cold water. This shock is severe and elec trical. You haven't very much feeling after this and follow the grand-mastez with submission. He locks you up in a marble room and puts you on a cold slab which looks like a dissecting table. He folds your hands over youz breasqt, puts coppers over your eyes and tells you to keep your mouth closed. IThen you think of your past conduct and reflect upon the number of things 5you have done and haven't done. An hour ago, life was sweet and hope was young-now you are two stories undem ground on a marble slab, with a strangE man scraping you like a hog, and noth ing for the coroner to identify you by except the rubber ring and rusty key. He makes a few massage passes ovem you with soap and sea-moss farine. He rakes|your hair with a currycomb and tickles your feet with a bastinado. HE slaps and rubs and beats until you aren't .ny better tlhan a cadaver. Then he stands you up and you are ready foi the undertaker. You go back to thE steaming room where a long pool 01 water stretches out in a marble tank. The air is dim with vapor, but thE water is clear and inviting. You art thrown . into the nataoriumi and thE house doesn't give itself any more con cern about you. The grand-mastes hunts another candidate and dresses down another carcass. B~ut the pool is clear ard cool, anti there is no further trouble. You paddht and kick about for fifteen minutes preferring the tank to the endless vapoi of that deep canvas chair or the hol tiles with their muffin rings. W\het: you go out th e attendant feels yous head and waist and shows you that the former is hot and the latter cold; yot must return to the bath and duck you1 . head until both become-of equal temn perature. Five minutes more in thai ba th; things are becoming more comn f .rtable. You are getting reconciled t< inste. Your skin is growing pink ant white under the rubber band. Whet youi decide to go out, you nre met by: deputy gra.'?master andl carried to i little roomi with a lounge where two os three men rub y-ou do~wn with crasi and give you a rhassage ordeal whiel mnakes you glow. The temperature o: this room is several d1egrees cooler. Th< towels rritate; the reaction has set in, tihe rubber band has ceasedl to siz.z. WXhen you are dismissed, dry an1 conifortable, you are carried around a simuous passage, and bound up the steps to the waiting room. It is quiet and cool, without draughts, but full of i comfort. A broad, Morocco lounge I awaits you. Wrapped in a sheet you i lie down tnd a waiter now covers you I with a spread and tucks it close around, i just as the nurse used to do on Satur - (lay nights, wheu you were a boy and laid down to pleasant dreams. You i drop like a mummy, "forgetting the world and by the world forgot." You L are at peace with everybody. You for > give the man who charged you forty cents for hauling your valise across the ferry; the Danville buttermilk and Lynch burg claret have been boiled out; you only remember the brutal scrubber of the marble slab with gentlenss. Up over the high arcade which spans this trysting place a colored globe muffles an electric arch and sheds a soft gleam over the half-toned room. A shapely palm stands in the centre of the place and catches the spray from a graceful fountain. The broad, soft lounge and white, sweet spread hold in grateful touch and seem to invite you to repose, recalling the Elysian wish of Voltaire; "Cover me with per fume, sprinkle me with flowers, let me die to the sound of the sweetest." Two hours have elapsed since you entered this building with the dusts and stains of life. Now you are white as a statue as and restful as a star. You dream and drift for hours under the white spread, while the blue globe flickers ad the silvery spray from the fountain rises and falls. Your blood flows throtgb your pink veins like electricity--even the rubber band and rusty key seem vibrant with new life. When you return to your dressing room you order garments of split silk and fine linen and give away your old clothes. You redeem your Waterbury and elm leaf and step back to Broad way with a feeling of vitality which suggests that you "could tear down and bear the gates of Gaza." P. A. s. WANAMAKER'S GIRLS IN BLACK. The Postmaster General Arouses Indigna tion Among His Fair Employees. [From the New York World.] PHILADELPHIA, October 2.-All the sales-women and cash girls in the Wanamaker store reported for duty this morning in black attire. This was the result of an order to that effect is sued several days ago. There was much feminine excitement and indignation when the order was communicated to them, and some of those who affected bright colors a"-d jaunty styles declared that they would resign before they would don the sombre robe prescribed -but they didn't. "After a while," said one of them, "we will be ordered to eat certain things and leave others alone. I don't object so much to wearing black in the store, but I do object to wearing it all the time, and that's what we'll have to do now. Heretofore when our Sunday dresses began to look old we wore them in the store; now we can't do it unless we wear black all the time." Another bright-eyed little saleswo man gave a hint as to the cause of the order being issued. "I'm not bothered much about the order,'' said she. "I always did dress in quiet colors. But some cf the girls have been dressing a little too gay; wearing terribly striking colors and having their dresses cut rather low. That's why the order was issued." The girls are required, it is said, to buy the material for their black dresses at the Wanamaker store, but are al lowed a discount of 50 per cent on the price. successful Rain Making. GoODLAND, Kas., Oct., 9.-Frank Melbourne, the Australian rainmaker, closed his experiments at this place yesterday. 3Melbourne explained that the cold nights counteracted all the work he did during the day. Since his experimenting began, Northwestern Kansas has had more rain than has ever fallen here before, and the people are satisfied with his explanation. Melbourne wa asked last night to sub mit a proposition for watering the forty counties in western Kansas, and he ofTered to do it for ten cents for each. cultivated acre. There were this year 000)O,000 acres under cultivation in the Icoun ties which it is proposed to water. Kiled While Defending Her Father. ATLA NTA, Oct. 9.-To-day near For syth, J. C. Gasset had a dispute with the four Thomas brothers about stock depredations. Thomas went to Gas sett's yesterday evening to whip him. Gassett's daughter, Lizzie, coming to her father's defense, was shot to death. The P'roof of the Pudding. IRTve you humors, causing blotches? D)oes your blood run thick and slug gish? Are you drowsy, dull and languid * 18 a bad taste in you rmouth, and Is your tongue all furred and coated ? Is yoursleep wvith bad dreams broken? D)o you feel dowvnhearted, dismal, D)reading somethiig, what, you know not.' Then be ry sure you're hillous -That you have a torpid liver, and what you need i', something to rouse it aind make it active enough to throw ''I! the impurities that clog it; somtet hing to invigerate the debilitated fo d heuies expected of th em, p)rom:pt ly andI energetically. That "somxethinog is D)r. Pieree's Golden Medical D)iscovery. the great Blood Puritier, which its proprietors have such faith in that they guarantee it to cure. If it does not, your mioney will be refund'ed. But it will. Buy it, try it. an~d be con vinced of its wonderful power. If the proof of the pudding is in thbe eating, the proof of this remedy is in rhe taking. TEN MILLIONS FROM METHODISTS. The Great Denominationl University to be Built at Waahington. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 24.-Bish op Hurst has issued a lengthy circular 41, in behalf of the great university which the Methodist Episcopal church in tends to build at Washington, and for which a magnificent site has already been obtained. The name of the insti tution will be the American Universi ty. Bishop Hurst asksfor $10,000,000. AfLer repeating much that hasalready been published, pointing out the pecu liar fitness of Washington for the home of the great national university, for which Washington had hoped, and for which in his will he left $:5,000, Bishop Hurst continues: "The Methodist Episcopal church is thoroughly committed to the under taking through the approving action of the bishops' numerous annual confer ences, the representatives of our benev olent societies and publishing housef, the editors of our periodicals, the board of control of the Epworth League, members of the faculties of many of our larger institutions of learning, a large number of pastors and assurances of support from representative men and - women in all parts of our country. Members of other Christian bodies have given a practical expression to their gratification at the inauguration of the work. But we stand before the Protestant churches, and the whole world, as the sponsors in this under taking, and are pledged to its success ful prosecution. We do not shun mere responsibility, for we believe It a divine purpose. The history of our church proves that in our best hours of exalts tion we do not fear, but we comes providential burden. A great oppor tunity now throws its doors wide open. Opportunity, in such a case, means duty. Duty means faith and consecration." BAYARD TAYLOR'S GRAVE. The Besting Place of One of the Greas Literary Men [Philadelphia Press.] Down at Longwoed in the trimly kept but venerable-appearing burying ground connected with the history of Longwood Meeting-house is the grave of one of Pennsylvania's greatest lite rary men, Bayard Taylor, and it is the Mecca to this day of many tourists of a'. poetical and romantic turn of mind The grave is marked by a column of green granite in Roman style, which bears the dates of the poet's birth and death and the legend "He being dead, yet speaketh." It was in accordance with his wishes that he was buried here, where so many of the friends of his youth sleep, and there is something very touching and gratifying- in the fact that the world wanderer, who had gained most enviable distinction in letters, ranking if not among the very first, at least closely approaching the front rank of our literary men, after being for years familiar with the fa mous places and famous men of the world, and being a leader among those who stimulated its loftiest thoughts and action should at last come out of the noble and mighty turmoil and lie in this humble restful spot. It was a realization in a certain way of the long ing that possesses almost all men of action and of travel "to rest at home aZ last." Bayard Taylor frequently made mem tion in his poems and other writings of the locality and there is no .doubt that it was an almost always present, ever tender subject in his mind. To para phrase Goldmith: "In a'l his wainde:-ings round this world of care In all his gifts-anzd God gave him his share; Hi' still had hopes his latest hours to crown AmnI'at these humble-bowers to lay him down." His wife rests beside him. When she was little Mary Agnew, his simple country sweetheart, the two were fre quent visitors to the Longwood Meet ing House and familiar with all the region and the people round. The old meeting house itself was one of the fortresses in the beginning of the long, great war for freedom, and in those days echoed the voices of Wendell Phillipps and William Lloyd Garrisoni, and it was there that Anna Dickinson made her first appearance as a public speaker. Mali Clerks' swift work. Some Idea of the immense business, says the Wilmington Star, done in a postal car may be had from a trip of what is known as the Wilmington and Jackson railroad postoffice-one car with four r.derks running from Wil mington, N. C., to Jacksonville, Fla., a distance of 500 miles. Last Friday night the crew handled 253 sacks of newspapers and 766 pack ages of letters. A sack of newspapers averages 125 single packages, and 75 letters are estimated for each bundle. Thus four men bet ween 10 o'clock at night and noon the next day handled 97,325 iingle pieces of mail or nearly (,000 pieces for each of the cew. This work is in addition to exchang ing pouches at most of the localstations on thbe r-un. The State of Florida re ceived 154 sacks of the total newspaper mail on this trip, showing that the Floridians read the newspapapers. One clerk in the service has run dar- - ing the month ten trips, covering 5,000 miles, and handling 1,550 sacks of newspaper mail, or 194,875 pIeces, and has made but twenty errors Ir. the whole work. Such a record demon strates the efficiency of the service and