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$C "lET YOUL LIGHT SHINE." SHERARD & 1IOR W~ILL FUTXIiIl THE~ ArmMUHCHAE KEROSINE OIL AT 13 CTS. -PER -ALLUN Go and See their Wonderful FOOT'S OLD STAND. tjos l Sad ~MEI ESTABLISHED 186F RA YR ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER1,19-PII 15 K CHARLES S. PARNELL DEAD. Friends and Foes Surprised and Shocked by his Sudden End-The Famnous Leader Returns from Ireland-Takes to His Bed, and Dies in Four Days. LoNDON, Oct. 7.-Mr. Parnell died at Brighton. 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 o'clock last night. Great Brirain and Ireland were startled this morning by the ut terly unlooked-for announcement. It has been well known that Mr. 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 thinner, and perceptibly aged in ap pearance. But nobody expected to hear of his death, and no inkling as to his illness had reached the newspa pers. The chill which he caught last week was not regarded as serions. Mr. Par nell, however, grew worse, and a pby 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. -From 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 Lhe 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, 1 for he soon sent for another physician, I with whom he held a long consulta tion. This consultation of physicians i was resumed on Sunday, when Mr. I Parnell was found to be in great pain i and apparently growing weaker every I hour. His sickness was pronou-nced to i be an attack of acute rheumatism, and I every attention was paid to the sufferer. I He was carefully nursed by his wife, 1 41 ho hardly left his beside from the s I g&moment her husband's illness was I proncunced to be of a serious nature. i Mr.-Parnell, however, grew steadily 9 weaker. Several hours before his death e he became unconscious and so remained t until he died. Owing to the sudddenness of the ( Irish leader's illness, and to the belief f of his wife and of the attending t 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. C In this city, particularly, the news of Mr. Parnell's death fell like a thunder- r bolt upon the clubs and in the political circles. Nobody, so far as at first known, was even aware ..hat he was.indisposed, ~ and, consequently, when it became known that the Irish leader was dead, t the first idea was that he had com mnitted suicide. As the day wore on, however, it came out, through the statements of his inatimate friends, that Mr. Parnell had complained to them t recently of Dot feeling as well as usual' h but it was not thought by anybodyr that there was anything serious in his r symptoms, though he was thinner than he was last year, I The last time Mr. Parnell appeared in public was at Cregg, in Ireland, onn Stpt. 27, when he delivered a long speech upon the attitude and alleged inconsistencies of Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien. Upon that occasion he said that he was speaking in defiance of the l orders of the doctors who were attend- P ing him, and who had expressly or.. dered him to keep to his room.g While Mr. Parnell was speaking at a Cregg it was noticed that he was very fi oale, and that, in other respects, he 0 -at the man he had been in the U thea carried his left arm in n fn s. his friends, upon askinig 0 e wre informed that he ~ eiunmatismi. ~~e from Dublin g .5~t',and from 5 - -1, unite 0 -W rr. Par- t< ~IT'Ai1Ong 0 1,th., 'mt Y mup id h~ -ent tunmall. tiefby the - j,er, who, /toduced Dr. Ithew I'>f the day. ~ of'it iour, hearti- t -rode. form. In r da rf the doctor Sd of being an is done only tot .ha .I know I have's im sa candidate for a ti n h tor), I have never said I ut lukig solely for the Alli the good of the farmers. I r said 1 was a candidate, but low farmers and if my neigh- tl and friends see fit o honor my Ip ors in their behalf with an offce, el why not accept?" But a very few knew p that the doctor had ever been sug- a gested as a candidate until he remninded $ them of that very apparent fact. ti POLK'S RECORD AS A SOLDIER. A General Denial to the Accusation of Cow ardice-He Claims to have Spent Two Hours In the Fight at Win chester. RALEIGH, N. C., October 6.-Col. L. L. Polk publishes a lengthy statenien t, in which he says: "It has been charged in the newspa pers that I skulked the battle of Win chester of September 19, 1864; that I was hidden behind a stone fence on the morning of that day, whe.n 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 recor6 of a Court-martial which poves, on the sworn testimony of Gen. Grimes himself and fourteen other witnesses, that :he 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 who should try the case. Brig Gen. W. R. Cox was appointed president. ELECTED TO THE LEGISLUTURE. "The record shows that up to Sep tember IS, I was acting adjutant of the 13d North Carolina regiment, being then lieutenant in Company I. On 'hat day I received a certificate from he sheriff of Anbon County showing hat I had been elected a member of ;he Legislature. That day I turned >ver my horse, books, etc., to the prc >er authorities, preparatory to leaving 'or Raleigh on the 19th. The com nanding officer of the regiment re eased me from duty, and on the morn ng of the 19th I had prepared to start iome having previously filled.the pro >e" application for release from duty. -inding that a battle was imminent I vent to the commandant of the regi nent and asked his opinion as to vhether I ought to go into battle. He aid I was under no obligation what ver to go, but suggested thtt I speak o Gen. Grimes about it. After the ine of battle was formed I approached xen. Grimes, and asked his advice as a riend. He advised me to go in, saying here might be talk if I did not. REMAINED IN THE FIGHT. "I tole him I would go. I then took barge of Company H, it having no ficer. We advanced and we halted nder a heavy fire of skirmishers. The rder, forward, was repeated. For some eason the regiment did not advance ntillIwent in frontand called to the Alor sergeant to follow me. I led the biarge through open ground for two or iree hours under he.avy and destruc ye fire. I was the only officer seeni in -out during the charge and remained i front until the line 'was ordered to alt. When ordered to fall back by en. Grimes I assisted him in rallying 2e regiment on a line indicated by im, until the commandant of the ~giment, who was my former captain, as brought to me near Gen. Grimes, nd, being as he thought, fatally 'ounded, implored me to take him to 2e rear, insisting that I had no busi ess there and appealing to me as a rother Mason. AN ERRAND OF MERCY. "I took him from the field to the ospital. Soon after reaching the hos ital the report caine that our line hadI een broken and the wounded should et out if possible. I seized my pistol nd sword, and, go.ing out, met, some ying cavalrymen. I drew my pistol a an officer and halted and held hinm ntil our toops came up. The Court iartial, after hearing all the evidence, rdered the following verdict to be sent "In accordance with the Act of Con ress, published in General Order No. 1, Adjutant and Inspector General's flice, present series, I have the honor inform you that you have been hon rable acquitted of the charges against ou. R. C. BARG ER, Major and Acting Judge Advocate." SERENAD)ED BlY THE TROOPS. "That night I was aroused, pulled '-- j bunk and placed on a stump 'd made a speech to my friends of the -gade, who had come to honor me ah a serenade. It was on the eve of departure for R.aleigh, I left the Ext morning." Reform IDemkocrat-. Won. N%AsivILLE, Tenn., Oct. 9.--The Re >rm Democratic ticket was elected in 2e city election yesterday over the agular D)emnocratic ticket by majori es ranging from 1,000 to 504). George Guild, who was elected mayor, led e ticket. He is an old Confederate >ldiar. There was no Republican .chet; this city is overwhelmingly ~emocratic. Catarrh is in the blood. No core for i1. loathsome and dangerous disease is ossi ble until the poison is thoroughlv radicated from the system. For thi~s ur pose A yer's Sarsaparilla is the best, nd most economical med icine. Price I. Six bottles, $53. Worth $5a hot ALL ABOUT THE ALLIANCE. What Ia Going on In the Various County Organizations-Lesa 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 the coming year, and formulated its ideas in the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: Whereas, it is admitted by all that in order to make agriculture successful 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 iu breadstuffs 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 effort 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 actiori. 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. SUMTER FOR DUNCAN. SUMTER, October 10.-At the regular meeting of the Sumter County Alli ance, held on the 9th dag of October, 1891, the following preamble and reso lutions were passed, to wit: Whereas, Col. D'Arcy P. Duncan, our respected Alliance brother,is 9 canddate for the office of Inter-S,ate commerce commissioner; and whereas, we are most favorably acquainted with his experience in that line of business, he having ably and 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 Coun ty 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 positin't. 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 thbe Freemnan. E. Mnurs Prrrs. Secretary Sumter County F. A. 3MARRIED FOR FUN. B5ut It Turned Out Not to be a Joke. TK{ing's Mountain News.] Miss Nettie Sitgreaves, of Winsboro, S. C., in August spent some time with her aunt, Mrs. Mary Abernathy, at Uataw ba Junction. Among the young ~entlemen 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. R~eese Massey, an acquaintance, got off the train. Mr. Steele laughingly asked bim to marry Miss Sitgreaves and-him self. Mr. Massey consented and in the presence of several witnetss, s pronoun 3ed them man and wife. About two weeks ago Mr. Steele was married to Miss---Williarns, of Rock Fill, 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 aome up at next term of York court, when an effort will be made to have the marriage between Steele and Miss Sit greatves an nulled. Dr. Wyeth Contradicted. NEw~ YoRK, Oct. 9.-The New York 3ity association of Union ex-yrisoners >f war held a meeting to-night at which the reent article by Dr. Wyeth n the Century, in which the treat nent of Confederate prisoners of war w-as described as cruel, merciless and .iDjustitiable, was referred to and called orth strong specches of denial from amany -members who were cognizant of :he methods pursued at Johnson Is and where Dr. Wyeth was confined. When the hair shows signs of failing,. >egin at once to use Ayer's Hair Vigor. rhis preparation strengthens the scalp, >romotes the growth of new hair, re tores the natural color to gray and aded hair, and renders it soft, pliant, THE RISING BOY. Bill Arp is Watching the Strutgglei of Ge niusa Rumination Erought On By Seeing a Parcel of ConvictR Pa14 By. Dr. Nunnally was telling about a poor boy who was working his way through college. He worked for hire on a farm at $10 a month and his board, and saved his wages and went to school, 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 didn't fit well. I remember that his pants were too short at the bottom and too long at the top, and the waist seanis of his brown jeans coat was high up on tl'e back. The boys laughed at him on the sly, but they didn't laugh long, for be soon took the lead and kept it. If he hadent got killed in the war he would nave 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. The fact that the highest places in the nation are in reach of the humblest citizen-that a tailor can become a president and a millboy a senator, and a lad who plowed a bull for lack of "something better" has held more offices and higher offices 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 ;.-lined 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 gen eral thing merit and diligence are re warded in this country. Andy John son became a president, and 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 iassed a lot of convicts who were working the road between Atlanta and Decatur. Itis 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 howv the, felt. They were all negroes, and they don't feel much-not much penitence and less mort itication. There are l,737 convicts 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 womeii. What is the matter with the negroes? When will they do better? Nearly all af these convicts are between sixteen and forty, and but a very few,-were aver in slavery. They have been to school most of themi, and most of themi are from cities and towns. The oldl time negroes are; not ini the chain ang. They had no schooling, but Lhey had moral training. What is to become of the negro? He has less ex ::use for crime than a white man. His wants are few; it takes less to do himi; be is not cramped by society nor social temptation; a day's honest work will support himi for twvo days; he pays no tax: his schooling is free, and yet the Clevil seems to be in him. There are 30 per cent more whites than negroes in this State, and yet the negroes oom 2ommit nine times more crime. The problem is not solved. I have before mue a very able paper on the race prob em by a humane and gifted citizen of Louisiana. It was written some years ago, and he then thought that educa ion would solve it. He is mistaken. C~rime among the negroes increases with their education. It does that it the North among the whites. Their criminals are nearly as numer us, according to population, as among ~he negroes at the South. Bishop Turner is a very smart colored man, tnd is a good man and we see that he wvants the negroes to go to A frica. I ,elieve that our people are willing and eady for the exodus. We are~ getting ired of the experiment. Twenty-five rears has made no satisfactory progress. you find one good, honest, industrious negro, you will find ten shiftless, im moral ones. We are tired. I s,.w a crowd of thcm in Atlanta the other (lay who were gathered around a black man with a plug ' st, and I heard him say, "We must a get away from this country-a colored man has no chance here at all. The white man has got him down and his heels on him, and we is bound to go." He is as much an anarchist as Herr Most. Every one of those darkies can get $1 a day and live on 25 cents. There are millions of white people across the water who would thank God for so good a chance to make a living. If this restless, trifling, insolent, crime loving class would go somewhere it would be a great relief. The fact is they should be made to go. Abolish the chaingang and ship them to Africa. I wonder if it Can't be done. Eugland used to send her bad men to Botany Bay. We are tired of having to use lynch law for their outrages. Lynch law does not reform or intimidate. There have been more of these horrible outrages within the last year than any year since the war. And yet there are many good negroes, negroes whom we respect and love to befriend, and there is the trouble with Bishop Turner's plan. He wants the good ones to go and set up a government. We want them to stay and the bad ones to go, and that would take a large majority. At all events they should be thinned out, and we will give the bishop choice and help hi-m to thin them. It is the common sentiment of our people that the whites and the blacks cannot live together in peace much longer. The generation that is now coming on right out of the schools is worse than the last. Every town is full of young ne groes who are vagabonds and they keep the police continually on the watch. The jail and calaboose are never without boarders. Over five hundred colored convicts have been sent to the chaingang during the last twelve months. When will this thing stop*' Their o wn race, with few exceptions, don't seem to be much concerned about it. I overheard one telling his expe rience as a convict, and he had a good time. He said: "Now, children, you know I was a trusty, I was. I didn't wear no spuis, nor chains. I had charge of the dogs, and when a nigger got away my boss holler for me, and I jump for the mules and put .he saddles on quick and ontie the dogs, and away we go. We had two dogs-a big, long eared boun' dog, and a small dog, sorter half fice, and a short tail. Dey was both powerful good track dogs. One' mornin' about daybreak de 'arm was given, two niggers got away. De boss call me and I got de mules and de dogs quick, and he bounce on one mule and I bounce on de otber and we let de dogs smell of de nigger's bunk whar dey sleep and den put 'emn on de track and away we go. De niggers and de dogs run and we keep up behind. De niggers run and de dogs run. Bime Iby de track got hotter and hotter and de niggers run and de dogs run. De ole houn' opens his mouth wide and say come on, come on, and after we had run 'em about four miles de ole dog change his tune and we know'd dem niggers was treed. Shore eniuf, when we got dar, de two niggrers was up in a post oak setten on a limb. De ole houn was a settin' off a piece.a-Iookin' up in de tree and he say t-o-o-o-o of 'em, t-o-o-o-o of 'em. De little 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 down from' dar and take 'em back and de boss give 'em a right smart whipping and put 'emn to wvork agin. Dey was mean niggers and dare aint no other sort dare hardly. I neber sociate wid demt convicts. I was a trusty, I was." BILL ARP'. THEY WILL CALL HER RUTH. That Was the Name of Mrs. Cleveland's Grandmother. NEw XORN, Oct. 9.-Ex-Presiden t Cleveland said to-day in answver to an inquiry regardIing the name of the new comer in his house: "We have settled on the name and it is 'Ruth.' This was the name of Mrs. Cleveland's grand mother and has always been especially liked by her." He further said: "In connection with the publication of this item,j wh ich, I hope, will end much ap parent curiosity on the subject, Idesire especially that menticn be made of the extremte and kindly interest in 'is and our child shown by good people every wbere throughout the country. We have received almost in numerable con gratulations and kind remembrances. Fromt the President of the United States and fronm my humble citizens have come hearty felicitations. All this has been very gratifying and has been fully appreciated, but since it will b)e impossible to acknowledge all these messages separately, I hope this public recognition will be accepted as suffi cien t."' A Georgia Giiat. Wan:R:oss, Oct. S.-Jinm Murphy, anl oldi line, Whtig, fanmiliarly known as "BigFootJim," living on Bridge Creek, in C'olquitt County, is certainly the biggest and strongest man in Georgia. He weighs 2830 pounds; stands seven feet in his stockings, and wears a number fifteen shoe. His strength is almost phenomenal. On several occasions he has been known to cruelly breaks the horns of cows off. He is an expert hunter and spends most of his time in the woods. The Unspeakable Turkish Bath. 1,Augusta Chronicle.1 Did you ever take a Turkish bath When yuu are in New York be certaii to go dowi to Twenty-fifth street, an< inquire for the bath house. After ai I all-day jaunt in New York such a plac, is worth seeking. You have bee, climbing "elevated" steps and wan dering about on the stone pavement until your bones ache. Then two day: travel has broken you up with everi extreme of diet from Lynchburg clare to Danville buttermilk. You want t4 be boiled down and smoked out. Then is but one way to do this. Entering the stone steps of this Rus so-Turkish establishment you hand I h< officeman $1.25. He gives you a "ke3 to the Dardanelles." You deposit youi $4 Waterbury and purse ii a littl< package and write your name acros. the folder. The office man locks then in a drawer before your eyes and give you the key. It is attached to a rL b ber ring which is worn around th< wrist a:l through the fiery ordeal. I your purse contains a leaf pulled fron the elra tree at Cambridge wher4 Washington took commaud of th( American Army you feel uneasy aboul leaving it with this attendant. H may have a pazs key, and then yor might need that elm leaf. From the disrobing room. you art conducted down stairs into a warn: apartment, which feels like a kitcher in July. A man is willing to turc back, but his attendant pushes hirJ 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 from the furnace almost blinds and stifles. You stagger and faintly ask leave tc write a letter home before you go any further, but- by this time you can't struggle. The blood rushes to youi 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 bead 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 aow and your heart ready to stand still. "Does this thing ever kill a man ?" "Sometimes we have trouble; nol often." The candidate for i6r%- rvlvance ment lapses into moist despair ani 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-mast:er, who is dressed like an ordinary brother, comes along with hii 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 he 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-master 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 your breast, puts coppers over your eyes and tells you to keep your mouth closed. Then you think of your past conduct and reflect upon the number of things you have done and haven't done. An hour ago, life was sweet and hope was young-now you are two stories under 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 over 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 than a cadaver. Then he stands you up and you are ready for the undertaker. You go back to the steaming room where a long pool of water stretches out in a marble tank. The air is dim with vapor, but the water is clear and inviting. You are thrown into the nataoriunm and the house doesn't give itself any more con cern about you. The grand-master hunts another candidate and dresses down another carcass. But the pool is clear aid cool, and there is no further trouble. You paddle and kiesc about for fifteen minutes, preferring the tank to the endless vapor of that deep canvas chair or the hot tiles with their muffin rings. When you go out the attendant feels your head and waist and shows you that the former is hot and the latter cold; you must return to the bath and duck your head until both become of equal tem perature. Five minutes more in that bath; things are becoming more com fortable. You are getting reconciled to fate. Your skin is growing pink and white under the rubber band. When you decide to go out, you are met by a dleputy grandmaster and carried to a little room with a lounge where two or three men rub you down with crash and give you a massage ordeal which makes you .glow. The temperature of this room is several degrees cooler. The towels irritate; the reaction has set in. Your head and waist are equally cool, the rubber band has ceased to sizz. W hen yun are dismissed, dry and I comfortable, you are carried nround a sinuous passage, and *ound 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 lie down and a waiter now covers you with a spread and tucks it close around, just as the nurse used to do on Satur - day nights, when you were a !>oy and i laid down to pleasant dreams. You drop like a mummy, "forgetting the world and by the world forgot." You are at peace with everybody. You for give the man who charged you forty cents for hauling your valise across the :erry; the Danville buttermilk and Lynchburg 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 and the silvery spray from the fountain rises and falls. Your blood flows through 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. Is 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 and 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 thew, will be ordered to eat certain things'an 'i-we others alone. I don't object so much to - lack in the store, but I do object o the time, and that's what we'll Isaveto do now. Heretofore when our Sunday dresses began to look old we wore thema 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 of 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. Successfo1l-Rain Making. GoonLAND, Kas.,. Oct., 9.-Frank Melbourne, the Australian rainmaker, closed his experiments at this place yesterday. Melbourne explamned 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 offered to do it for ten cents for each cultivated acre. There were this year 2,000,000 acres under cultivation in the counties which it is proposed to water. Killed Whule Defending Her Father. A T LANT A, 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. Have you humors, causing blotches? Does your blood run thick and slug gish ? Are you drowsy, dull and languid ? Is a bad taste in your mouth, and Is your tongue all furred and coated ? Is yoursleep with bad dreams broken? Do you feel downhearted, dismnal, Dreading somiething, what, you know not ? Then be very sure you're bilIous That you have a torpid liver', and what you need is something to rouse it and make it active enough to throw ofi the impurities that clog it ; something to invigorate the debilitated system, and hellp all the organs to per form the duties expected of them, promptly and energetically. That "something" is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, the great Blood Purifier, which its proprietors have such faith in that they guarantee it to cure. If it does not, your money will be refunded. But it will. Buy it, try it, and I(+ convinced of its wonderful power. If the proof of the-pudding is in the eating, the proof of this remedy is in the takring. TEN MILLIONS FROM METHODISTS. The Great Denominationl University to be Built at Washington. WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 24.-Bish op Hurst has issued a le , circular in behalf of the great 'lijin rsity which the .fethodist 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 asks for $10,000,000. After repeating much that has already 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 zt'on of the bisbope' numerous annual confer ences, the representatives of our benev olent societies and publishing houses, 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 nutaber of pastors and assurVeeS of support frn representative men and women in all varts 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 exalta tion we do not fear, but we comea providential burden. A 'great oppor tunity now throws its doors wide open. Opport.unity, in such a case, means duty. Duty means faith and consecration." BAYARD TAYLOR'S GRAVE. The Resting Place of One of the Great 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 int 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 Kost1e distinction In letters, ranking if not anritbe first, at leaset 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 act&n should at last come out of the nobie and mighty turmoil and lie in this humble restful spot. It was a realization in a certain way of the long ing that pseesalmost all men of action and of travel "to rest at home at 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 Goldsmith: "In a'l his wande-ings round this world of care In all his gifts.-and God gave hirn his shar; He still had hopes his latest hot.rs to crown Amidst 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 f~ortresses in the beginning of the long, great war for freedom, and in those days echoed the voices of Wendell Phillipps and William Lloyd Garrison, md it was there that Anna Dickinson mnade her first appearance as a public speaker. Mail 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 Tackson railroad postoffice-one car with four clerks running from Wil mington, N. C., to Jacksonville, Fla., a .iistance of 500 miles. Last Friday night the crew handled .53 sacks of newspapers and 766 pack iges of letters. A sack of newspapers tverages 125 single packages, and 75 etters are estimated for each bundle. ['bus four men between 10 o'clock at 3ight and noon the next day handled )7,325 single pieces of mail or nearly ~5,000 pieces for each of the crew. This work is in addition to exchang ng pouches at most of the local stations >n the run. The State of Florida re :eived 154 sacks of the total newspaper fnil on this trip, showing that the F'loridians read the newspapapers. One clerk in the service has run dur- A ng the month ten trips, covering 5,000 niles, and handling 1,5.59 sacks of 3ewspaper mail, or 194,875 pieces, and das made but twenty errors in the whole work. Such a record -demon trates the efficiency of the service and he hard work ttached to it,