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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.
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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,