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ESTABIE 1NTIO. ESTkBLISIIED 1865. -NE WBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MTAY,19.PIE$.0AYA GI:OEGE JOH.'cSTO E FOE CONGRESS. A Beform Newspaper Enthusiastically Ad voc.tes His Re-election. IGreenville Evening Democat, April29.] The Hon. George Johnstone, of New berry, is the son of the late lamented Chancellor Job Johnstone, who was one of the wisest, purest and ablest of the many eminent jurists that ever adorned the bench of South Carolina. Chancellor Johnstone was also a man of a fortune. "George," as he is fa miliarly called, is possessed of a re markably fine native intellect, which he has cultivated as broadly and deeply as unlimited means, indomitable en ergy and tireless perseverance would permit. He is to-day concededly one of the most talented, learned and cul tured men in the State. He was born where he now lives-and where his honored sire before him led his long, useful and eventful life-on the 18th day of April, 1846, and therefore is just forty-six years of age. He received his early education in the schools of his native town, and entered the State Military Academy from which he en listed in the Confederate army as a member of the Battalion of State Ca dets and served till the close of the war. From 1866 to 1869 he was a student in the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and returned to his native own, read law and was admitted to U,he bar in 1871, since which time he has contin ned in active practice and is now at the head of his profession. Though raised in affluence, he is emphatically a Peo ple's Man. He loves the people and they love him. This caused him to embark in politics. In 1874, during the dark days of negro and carpet bag misrule, his people tendered nim the nomination for representative of New berry County, but there being such an overwhelming black majority in the county and, hence, seeing no chance of election, he declined the proffered honor. But when the "Wallace House" gained the ascendant and ex pelled the members from Newberry who were negroes-in 1877, on the ground of frauds in the election, there it was that he was elected to the Legislature and erred as member of the House Committee on corpora tions from 1878 to 1880. In 1881, he served as a member of the commission created by act of the Legislature which revised the tax laws and to suggest amendments to the State constitution; during his active service in the Legis - laf;itea..Was a member of the com mittee on- waya.nd means, and from I88 to 1884 he - was a member of the State Executive Committee. In 1882, he was, among divers others, a candi date for speaker of the House, receiving the next highest vote to Hon. James Simons, who overcome him by a small majority. In 1886 he was a candidate for Con gress before the primary election with - four others when he received the next highest vote to Judge Cothran, who was successful. ~In 1890, upon the re tirement or the last named gentleman, he was again a candidate when he de feated the Hon. W. C. Benet, Maj. E. B. Murray, Cols. D. K. Norris and R. E. Bowen, achieving a most signal victory against the most fearful odds * living in the extreme lower end of the District, in a county possessing by far a smaller white vote than any of the others. Col. Johnstone is a man of ambition, laudable ambition. In this there are no objections. Gov. Perry was want to say: "All great men are ambitious.' This, upon the idea that, in order tc achieve greatness, it is essential that you have ambition. This is literally correct. Again there is -much ina man's having an idea in life-an hon orable ambition which he desires t< gratify. Col. Johnstone was heard re mark over a decade ago that when hi quitted school he started to Congress Who can doubt but what this enablec him, in great measure, to attain hi: ends? Congress is a very large and un wieldy body. There are now 356 mem, bers of the lower House and it takes new member, and who is active and enterprising at that, at least one tern to familiarize himself with the rule and methods of procedure and th workings , of the various department in Washington to adequately represen his constituents. Hence, the reason o that unwritten law that entitled member to a second election withou opposition. The simple truth is that : Congressman's labors and duties ari so arduous and multifarious that Pi, Iron Kelly, who served in that bod for over a quarter of a century, was no far wrong when he asserted that serv~ ing in Congress may properly be terme< a business--an avocation-that canno be properly mastered by the lucubra tions of four years! Colonel Johnston is unquestionably the ablest man it his district, and is in full touch an< sympathy with the farmers' move ment, enjoys an experience thas n, other man in the district does, and w .do think that our friends in the Thir< District owe it to themselves no les than to George Johnstone, and to t whole State as well, to return himt Congress this yeatr without oppositio: "This is a consummation devoutlyt be wished." And, what is more, w are satisfied that it will be done. Trui there are many able and practical me: in the old Third, many of whom ar ambitious to go to Congress andi every way worthy of the place, wh under different circumstances, w would love to see them honored; bt: we do say, with all the earnestness< our nature, and with all the earnes ness that language can impart, the Col. Johnstone is. all tbings consid ered, pre-eminently the man for th THE "ELEETRIC" GIRL." She Does No; Possess an Inexplicable Power-New Light on an Old Sub Ject (From La Nature.) "E!ectricity is a mysterious agent, there ore everything mysterious is elec tric." Such is the logic of the masses, rightly observes Mr. Nelson W. Perry in an article in which he exposes the somewhat crude processes emr',yed in an exhibition made recently, at Pari' ar.d London, of a girl called "magnetic" or "electric," and possessing, according to her manager, an inexplicable and un known supernatural power, although it is a question of a simple application of the elementary principles of the laws of mechanics, chapter of equilibrium. This logic of the masses has already given birth to electric belts, hair brushes, tooth brushes, tripoli and book covers. To this logic of the masses, the logic of the scientist responds, almost under the same form: "All cows have tails, but all animals possessing tails are not cows." The conclusion is that the "electric' girl is electric only in name. If the exercises that she per forms provoke the astonishment of a certain portion of the community, it is because the spectators are not, at a dis tance, in a situation to observe the artifices employed in each of the exercises, or to find a natural explana tion of them in the known laws of mechanics. We propose to point out here a eertain number of such artifices and to describe a few of the experi ments, utilizing for this purpose the data furnished by Mr. Perry, as well as those resulting from our own observa tions. The first exercises of the kind under consideration date sack to 1883. They were presented by Lulu Hurst, of Georgia, and were the subject of a description by Prof. Simon Newcomb published in Science, Feb. 6, 1885. The success of those exercises, then un explained, was prodigious, and Lulu Hurst soon had many imitators. Miss Abbott, of London, and Miss Abbett., of Paris, are, we believe, the most recent and the first in Europe. They give the same exhibition and have even greatly improved upon and varied the experiments of their initia trice Lulu Hurst. All these exercises tend to the same end, I. a., to make it believed that there is a supernatural and incomprehensible force, electric or magnetic, by putting in opposition, under equivalent orapp"rently equiva lent conditions, athletes or very robust men and a frail or delicate little girl, who triumphs over them in every experiment. One of the experiments consists in having a man or several men hold a cane or a billiard cue horizontally above the head. On pushing with one hand, the girl forces back two or three men, who, in unstable equilibrium and under the oblique action of the thrust exerted, are obliged to fall back. This first ex periment is so elementary and infantile that it is not necessary to d well upon it. In order to show the relative sizes of the persons, the little g4rl is supposed to be standing upon a platform in the first experiment, but in the experi ments that we witnessed this platform was rendered useless by the fact that the girl who performed them was of sufficient height to reach the cue by extending her arms and standing on tiptoes. Next we have a second and more complex experiment, less easily explained at first sight. Two men take a stick about three feet in length, and are asked to hold it firmly in a vertical position. The girl places her open hand against the lower end of the stick, in the position shown, and the two men are invited to make the latter slide vertically in the girl's hand, which they are unable to do, despite their conscientious and oft. repeated attempts. Mr. Perry explains th.s exercise s follows: The two men are requested tc place themselves parallel with each other, and the girl, who stands oppo site them, places the palm of her hand against the stick and turned toward Iher. She takes care to place her hand as far asi possible from the hands of the two men, so as to give herself a certair Sleverage. She then begins to slide hei hand along the stick, gently at first, Sand then with an increasing pressure, fas if she wished to better the contact Sbetween the stick and her hand. She tthus moves it from the perpendiculal Sand asks the two men to hold it In Svertical position. SThis they do under very disadvan Stageous conditions,jseeing the differenci tin length of the arms of tbe lever. The -stress exerted by the girl is very feeble Sbecause, on the one hand, she has the tlever armn to herself, and, on the ether the action upon her le'rer arm is Ssimple traction. When she feels tha! Sthe pressure exerted is g:reat enough jshe directs the two men to exert i -vertical stress strong enough to canse Sthe stici. to descend. They then ima agine that they are exertin~g a vertica jstress, while in reality their stresses ar Shorizontal and tend -to beep the stiel ein a ves.ical position in order to reac oagainst the pressure exerted at thi lower part of the stick. oThere is evidently a certain vertica ecomponent that tends to cause the sticl ,to descend, but the lateral pressur Sproduces a sufficient friction betwee1 ethe hand and the stick to support thi Svertical force without difficulty. Mr SPerry performed the experiment b; eplacing himself upon a spring balanc tand assuming the role of the girl, wit] ftwo very strong men as adversaries SAll the efforts made to cauise the stici to slide in the open hand failed, and th eexcess of weight due to the vertics frcea always remained1 lae than t wen ty-five pounds, despite the very deter mined and sincere stresses cf the two men, who, unbekrown to themselves, were exerting their strength in a hori zontal direciion. Two men are requested to hold the stick firmly and immovable, but the slightest pressure upon the extremity suffices to move the arms and body of the subject. Such pressure in the first place is exerted but slightly, and the stresses are gradually increased. Then, all at once, when the force exerted horizontally is as great as possible, and the men are exerting their strength in the opposite direction in order to resist it, the girl abruptly ceases the pressure without warning and exerts it in the opposite direction. Unprepared for this change, the victims lose their equilibrium and find themselves at the mercy of the little girl, and so much the more so in proportion as they are stronger and their efforts are greater. The experiment succeeds still better with three than with two men, or than with one man. In the experiment where it concerns the easy lifting of a very heavy person, the trick is no less simple. Out of a hundred persons submitted to the ex periment, ninety-nine. knowing that the experimenter wishes to lift them and cause them to fall forward, grasp the seat or arms of the chair, and, in endeavoring to resist, make the whole weight of their body bear upon the feet. If they do not do so at the first instant, they do so when they are conscious of the attempts made by the girl to raise the seat, and they help therein un consciously. The experimenter, there fore, needs only to exert a horizontal thrust, without doing any lifting, and such horizontal thurst is facilitated by taking the knees as points of support for her elbows. As soon as a slight movement is effected, the hardest part of the work is over, for it is only neces sary for the girl to cease to exert her stresses in order to have the chair fall back or move laterally in oue direction or the other. At all events, the equili brium is destroyed, and, b -e it is established again, it requires but little dexterity to move thesubject about in all directions without a great expendi ture of energy. The difficulty is not increased on seating two men, or three men, upon each other's knees since, in the latter case, the third acts as a true counterpoise to the first, and the whole pretty well resembles an apparatus of unstable equilibrium, whose center of gravity is very high and,lconsequently, so much themore easily displaced. All these exercises reeniresomelittle skill and practice, but are attended with no difficnlty, and, upon the whole, do not merit the enthusiastic articles that have given the "electric" or "magne tic" girl her European reputation. SENATOR IRBY'S LOUD TALK. Proposes to Force Joint Discussion if it Brings Riot and War. [Special to Atlanta Journal.] CHtARLoTTE, N. C., April 25.-Sen ato.- Irby, of South Carolina, passed through Charlotte last night en route home from Washington. Passengers coming in on the same train report that the Senator was very loud in his talk about South Carolina politics and was rather jubilant over the fact that a red hot time is pending there, and he says Tillman can defeat any thirty men in the State, and he proposes that the Governor shall meet Sheppard in joint discussion if it brings on riots and war. He said all sorts of rascality had been charged up against Tillman, and that now when the Gov ernor proposes to meet his enemies and defamers on the stump they were yell ng "Peace." But there would be no peace until Tillman was again inau gurated Governor of the Palmetto State. Senaror Irby is chairman of the Till man faction in South Carolina, and has deserted his seat in Washington to whoop him up along the line. NoT ATTENDING TO HIs BUsINESS. [Greenville News.] When Senator Hampton, during his holiday time, came to this State to take part in the State campaign by making a speech in which he took no sides and which he concluded with "God save the old State!" there was a great outcry. That was an awful as sault against the liberties of the people, we were told. Now when Senator Irby-assistant dictator-deserts his seat-in which he has been but six days of the session-and comes back to force joint discussions, even if they lead to riots and war, we suppose that will be declared to be all right. Of course Senator Irby's bluster amounts to nothing. He cannot force anybody to do anything. He is not yet the master of the free people of South Carolina. He cannot have us all hauled up and cowhided by negroes as he is said to have o.nce done with~ a Swhite mran whio offended him. The Sconservatives will do exactly as they Smay think 4it about joint discussions. Sif they secure a majority of the mem bers of the Democratic State Conven Stion Senator Irby will have a good Stime ruling them out on account of Srefusal to obey his orders. SHe is a nice man to be our United SStates Senator and chairman of the ex ecutive commnittee-determined to force matters in what he suppos~es to be the einterest of one Democraux candidate Sagainst another even if it causes riots Iand war! SHe cannot bulldoze anybody, how eever. The best thing he can do is to Igo back to Washington and try to earn mopartnf his $K000 a year alary. WM. E. EARLE'S OPEN LETTER. He Asks a Cotton Plant Writer to An_sw.:r Some Questions. WASHINGToN, D. C., April 19, 1S92. Dear Sir: A friend has sent me a copy of the Register of the ltth instant, wherein, under the head line of "Rem inis^ences and Recollections." I observe a letter signed by you to the Cotton Plant, and dated March 25th ult., in which you assert that in Columbia at a public meeting of Republicans "to con gratulate each other on the fact that North Carolina had just cast her vote for Gereal Grant," you heard Govern or James L. Orr make a speech in which "he said the Southern people generally ought to congratulate them selves that they were not hung to a man as traitors and rebels, a'l that they ought to be exuberantly thankful that they had fallen in the hands (.f such magnanimous conquerors, tha,t it was now the manifest duty of the Southern people to put forever behind them the history and traditions of which they had heretofore been so proud, and come forward into the new light of the new gospel of carpet bag evangelization, as North Carolina had done and a great deal of the same of talk. From the period of Governor Orr's candidacy for governor in 1866 until he sailed for St. Petersburg as minister of the United States in 1873 my relations with him were very close and intimate. In 1S68 I suggested hi: name and se cured his election as judge of tbc 8th circuit, and until he received in Iowa my telegram of his election he was not aware that his name had been consid ered in connection with the position. My recollection is that he received every vote of both Democrats and Re publicans. He did not accept it, how ever, until the almost unanimous and most urgent request of the bar of the circuit led him to feel that it was his duty to do so and declined a most de sirable professional offer in St. Louis with the guarantee of an income more than double the salary as judge after deducting necessary travelling ex penses. Thereafter, through the united personal efforts of the Abbeville bar, then (and no doubt still) one of the ablest and most honorable in the State, their county was added to his circuit. On the personal request of the bars of several other counties he was assigned to hold extra terms of court for them. Notwithstanding he had made a most strenuous and vigorous campaign against F. J. Moses for governor in 1872, he Wds after four years of judicial service, re-elected judge in that win ter, and my recollection is that he again recieved every vote in the legisla ture. All of these well known facts seem exceedingly singular if you are correct in your statements of his speech. But, besides this, the language and views which you impute to him are wholly at variance with his well-known senti ments, his patriotism and his strong feeling for his fellow-citizens and their sufferings, however much he diiThred from them in matters of judgmen t, and however short they might fall of his wonderful political sagacity, that I beg to inquire of you who else you saw at at that meeting. Governor Orr has been dead nineteen years, and the only other persons you mention having seen him are dead. Who presided over that meeting? What was the date, or approximate date, of the meeting? General Grant was twice a candidate for the presiden cy, and North Carolina voted for him each time. Which of these votes was it that the Columbia meeting was intir changing congratulations upon? Did you read any contemporaneous newspaper account of this meeting? If so, where and in what paper? I am sure you must realize that nine teen years ago af:er Governor Orr's death it seems very extraordinary that in connection with the candidacy of his son, who is a Democrat, another Demo crat should violate the grave to make a statement so utterly as variance with the well-known sentiments of the fa ther whilst living, and I trust you will not deem it sigular if the friends of Governor Orr should want some cor roberation of this unnatural charge based, as it is, upon so unreasonable a statement before they accept it as true. Respectfully, WM. E. EARLE. John M. Payne, St. Matthews, S. C. The Parisian Fashion Journals. "LaMode de Paris" and "Album des Modes," so well-known as the publica tions giving the choicest Paris styles one month iu advance of all other jour nals, appear to be growing just a little too popular. The demand for them is growing so radidly that the publishers, A. McDowell & Co., 4 WVest 14th Street, New York, have found it ditlicult to keep up with the increasing demand each month. They claim that the American ladies are now buying their journals to such an extent that most of the newsdealers are entirely out of them by the fifth of the month. As all the plates are made in Paris by the best artists, the publishers claim that it re quires considerable time to catch up with such an increased demand. We agree with our lady friends that these are superior fashion journals. We sug gest to them to become regular sub scribers, thus muking sure of receiving their journal each month, and securing that valuable book, "Dressmaking Simplified," that is given as a premium to each subscriber paying i3.50 in ad vance for either "LaMode deParis" or "Album desModes" for one year. You may place the order through your news agent, or end Adirect to the pnhlishers. THE STATE CAMPAIGN. No More Speaches Until June 10-When the Debate Will Begin in Beaufort. [Greenville Democrat, April 29.J No more speeehes until June 10. At least none by Gov. Tillman or the president administration, and that day has been fixed as the formal opening of the campaign in in South Carolina. The meeting at Greenville and Edge field were to allow the Governor to ex pose and show the weakness of his opponents, and admirably has he suc ceeded ! This information is authori tative. The Governor will not longer sacri fice the interests of the State, and for two months will allow the "farmers to their plow, and as editor Williams sug gested-until watermelons get ripe," and will then commence the campaign in his aggressive manner, and in ear nest. As crops are laid by earlier there, the-campaign will formally open in the lower part of the State and B1eaufort has been fixed as the place for the first speech. June 10, will probably be the date. The speeches will be so arranged as to interfere in no manner with Gov. Tillman's duties when he puts the energy and hard work upon them for which beis noted. The (ampaign will be agressive, and the farmer will demand and secure his rights in the coming election. It will be some months yet before he will begin his speeches in this section of South Carolina again, as the entire lower part of the State will be can vassed first. He will then open in the middle counties and come from them to the Piedmont section. It is safe to predict in the coming campaign Tillman will sweep every county in the State, possibly excepting Richland. Charleston will go over whelmingly for him, and sentiment is fast crystalizing in his favor in Rich land, and there is now strong hopes that it will be carried. This statement is no campaign bombast, not founded on evidence in our possession. It is well founded and there is not the least showing for the anties in Charleston. Richland is fast coming into line, and the Tillmanites there are making claims to the county. The oppositionists are affrighted and making desperate efforts, but they are proving of little avail. THE PEOPLE'S PARTT. Torn Watson Enthusiastic Over its Progress in the South. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 25.-Hon. Thomas Watson, of Georgia, the leader of the third party in the house, said to day, in reference to the circular of the Farmers' Alliance officers calling a meeting for next month to consider party matters, that the Allir.nce people need feel no alarm over their belief that the Democratic converts to the third party movement were likely to go back to their old allegiance. Mr. Watson, it will be remembered, severed his relations with the Demo crats since the present session of Con gress began, and announced himself as a straightout people's party man, and as such received the complimentary vote of the members of that organiza tion for the speakership. Mr. Watson said that, instead of feel ing alarmed over the prospect of deser tions from their ranks, the Third party people should feel elated, for the losses were all in t.e Democratic ranks. The people's party was steadily gaining in numbers, he said, and in the South the old Democratic organizations had be come so weak that it was only by tak ing men of no prominence that cam paign committees could be formed. any one who read the newspapers, said Mr. Watson, could see the disinte gration going on in the Democratic ranks and the constant gain of the Third party. He was sure the people's party had no fear in this regard. FAMwINE IN TEXAS. ilations Served in Rio Grande-A Number or P'eop,le Were Actually Starving. CORPUS CH RIsT!, Texas, April 29. The distribution of food sent from this section to the famine sufferers on the Rio Grande City section, began yester day, when rations were issued to 500 people, some of whom were actually starving. Unless further assistance is soon had many of the sufferers will die. 'The greatest distress is reported from the country back frbm the Rio Grande, where there are many cases of Mexi cans who had hundreds of cattle be fore the drought now destitute, their stock having died. Work at Clemson College. [Greenville News.J The executive committee of the board of trustees of Clemson College met at Fort Hill yesterday to look after the progress of the work. The trustees are having as much work done as is possible with convict labor. There are carpenters and brick masons among the convicts and they are fin ishing the dormitories and professors' houses and working on the main col lege building. Fair progress is being made considering the kind of labor and number of workmen. Col. Orr, who returned yesterday from the meeting, said that the farm, which is in charge of Professor Newman, is in spleudid condition and the members of the executive committee are much pleased by Professor Newman's man* agemnent of it. Of course, the trustees have no idea when the college will be opened. It depends altogether on when some money will be forthcom-~ TEACHERS' COLUMN. TEos. W. KErrr, Editor. COLUMBUS DAY MESSAGE. To the Public Schools of America. OCTOBER 12, 1892. To the Scholars of the Public Schools of the United States, the Executive Committee of the Columbian Public School Celebration sends the following Message: THE SCHOOLS MAY READ. The 12th of October, 1892, the 400th Anniversary of the Discovery of Amer ica, ought to be observed everywhere in America. The day will be ruarked in Chicago by the dedication of the Columbian Exposition grounds. The day also may be signalized in every town and vil lage in the Republic by a local celebra tion of which the Public School is the center. The Public Schools of the Republic will form the most fitting centers for all these local celebrations. A national Public School Observance simultan eous with the Chicago exercises will awaken a popular interest in the com ing Exposition. Far more important is the fact that the Public School has the right to occupy the most promi nent place in the celebration. The Public School is the one characteristic institution which :inks all neighbor hoods together, anc can thus furnish a common bond for a national selebra tion. The Public School is the rip. fruit of the four centuries of civilization. The Public School of to-day sways the hundred years to ccme. HOW IT CAME ABOUT. The first approva. of this suggestion came from the Public School scholars themselves. When the plan was first proposed by the Youth's Companion, January, 1891, thomands of letters were received, testifying to the enthusiasm with which the scholars responded. The World's Co:gress Auxiliary of the Columbian Exposition then took up the proposal, calling upon all the people of the Republic to observe the day in their own l.calities, and sug gesting that the Public Schools be everywhere the center of the celebra tion. The Superintendents of Education were the next to recognize the fitness of giving to the Public Schools the first place in this Columbian Anniversary. At their National Convention in Brook lyn, in February, 1892, they took charge of the movelnent, and appoint ed the undersigned an Executive Com mittee to lead the schools in their com memoration. APPEAL TO TB E SCHOLARS. This Executive Committee now ap peals to the scholars themselves to be the first to move. It is for you, schol ars of the American Public Schools, to arouse a sentimen t in your schools and in your neighborhoods for this grand way of celebrating the Finding of America. Educators and teachers will meet you from their side. But it is for you to begin. You will make it Saicceed if you unite to say that it ought tc i>e done. The interest of the public will be awakened if the scholars join in the earnest re quest that the school be allowed to be the center of the day's observance. There are thirteen millions now in the Public Schools, You have the chance to conduct a patriotic move ment which will have a place in his tory, and will strengthen the Republic througbh the coming century. WHAT T'O DO. The first thing to do is to determine, when you read this Message, that you will do all you can to induce your school to enter the celebration. Then show this Message to your teachers; every patriotic teacher will be glad to help you if you show yourselves in earnest. Take the Message to the School Committee and the superin tendent; their consent and aid are in dispensable. After you secure the support of all these, then let the school vote that it will enter the celebration. The next thing after this public vote will be the appointmnent of a strong committee to take the charge. This committee should be made up jointly from scholars, teachers and friends of the school. The committee should in all cases be made up of those who are most in earnest, so that the work may not be checked by ary possible change of teachers during the summer. THE PRoG:3AMME. A programme of exercises will be fur nished by the Execaitive Committee. It will be simple and adapted to any school, yet so arranged that more elab rate exercises may be added wherever desired. The aim of this Ofmcial Pro gramme will be that certain leading exercises may be t be same in every school in the Republic; and that at least in one feature the Chicago pro gramme and the school programme may be identical. In due time this executive commit tee will make more definite suggestions on methods of celebration through the superintendents of education and through the press. THE LOCAL CoMMITTEE. The duty of your committee will first be to interest the citizens and to prepare the school. Processions may be arranged. The veterans, both North and South, will gladly be escorts for the schools. The other military, civic and religious organi rations of each town will lend their aid if they see that the schools are determined that the celebration shall t e worthy of the .day. The local press will be the most valuable n~f all supports; and the ear. :liest effort of your local committee should be to enlist its sympathy and and request its cooperation. Ask your local paper to print this Message. On October 12th the Stars and Stripes should be floating from every school house in the Republic. It is the hope of the friends of com mon school education that not one public school in the United States will allow itself to be left out in this most memorable celebration. EXECUTIVE COMMIITTEE. Francis Bellamy, chairman, repre senting the Youth's Companion, Bos ton, Mass. John W. Dickinson, secretary of Massachusetts board of education. Thomas B. Stockwell, commissioner of public schools of Rhode Island. W. R. Garrett, superintendent of public in:truction of Tennessee. W. C. Hewitt, superintendent of Michigan edueational exhibit at World's Fair. Matrimony in Wyoming. [Chicago Tribune.] Camping near a town in Wyoming we secured our stock and then went in. Entering the leading store of the town, I introduced myself to Mr. Stiles, one of the proprietors and the postmaster. Stiles said: "It's now 2 0 o'clock, and at 3 o'clock there is a wedding at Jouas Burton's. Old Jonas is a rough old coon that we elected a justice of the peace about a month ago, and as this will be his first attempt at a marrlage, I think we willsee some fun; come with me." We went into the old 'squire's cabin and found him poring over a large volume of the "Statutes of Wyoming," sweating like a Lorse and looking terribly anxious. After greet ing us, hel : "Stiles, -them ga oo 'i got up these yer laws hadn't gumptioniiitigk to last 'em over night. I've run through the blamed books a half a dozen times an' can't ind a word about matrimony or how the hitchin' process is perceded with. I've jest got to put the clamps on this 'ere couple, hit or miss, an' if I don't yoke 'em legal I can't help it." Stiles explained to him about how to proceed, and the old man finally thought he could worry through in tolerable shape. Ere long the couple appeared, fol lowed by a crowd of citizens of the camp. The candidates stood up before the 'squire, who began: "Feller citizens, this yer man and this yer woman have appeared before the court to be hitched in the legal bonds of wedlock! If any galoot in the mob knows anything that might block the game if tuck to a higher court let him now toot his bazoo or else keep his jaw to himself now and forevermore. All in favor of my proceedings as au thorized by law say 'I.' " Everybody said "I." "Contrary 'No.' " Nobody said "No.'' "The motion's carried unanimously, 'an' the court rules there isn't nothing to prevent the trying of the case." "Now,"said the 'squire, "grip your fins." The candidates joined hands. "Amos Peabody, do you solemnly swaar that ye'll freeze to Mandy for ever, and pervide for her, and treat her square and white, accordin' to the rules and regulations set down to govern sich cases in the laws o' the United States, so help you God?" "Yas, sir, I do, sir." "That fixes your end of the bargain." "Mandy Thomas, do you solemnly swaar that you'll hang on to Amos for all comin' time; that you'll nuss him in sickness and ibe squar' co him in well ness; that you'll always be to him a good, true, honest, up and up wife, under the penalties prescribed by laws for the punishment of sich offenses? Do you swaar this, so help yer God? "I swaar I will." "Then, by the power in me vested as justice of the peace and for this pre cinct, I pronounce you, A mos Peabody, husband, and you, Mandy Thomas: wife, and legalize ye to remain sich now and forevermore; and ye'll stand com mitted till the fees aud costs in the case are paid in full, an' may God have mercy on your souls and blsss this union with His heftiest blessin's. The fees and costs were adjusted, and the newly made husband and wife, after receiving the congratulation oj of the assembly, departed for thei: cabin up the creek. Conldn't stand the N(ame. 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