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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