The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, January 18, 1893, Image 1

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a.. -- --.."-r NEWBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JA ..WEDNESDAY,TT9E JANAR18 198 W,HQ MU.rR IN xPOLITICS. -: as of Dse a el in columbIa. )A -Oe:4 loa to be Held in arch 'which wil Perfect the erganl sion e h sad sqnae t o - to News and C 3r J4i y10.-the Ndus _ WgO :orkeres Democratic v'' nimed here to-night on The committee on a declaration of princi bogeen idle during the recess' ete boy met it was found o x various plans were be-, cot After considera the paper which was be-.the freest.from objection cgt_feasible was adopted, and -Union goes before tie mert&' does not ask nt through prejudice, It:setsforth in uneq"uvo without personalities or p ples and asks and ex h doement of the laboring ofhstate. .. !fe org nateSn is not confined to zTaeuofany elass; that is ex ~ i s intended to avofd. ageearis eligible and de - me mberPhip. The laboring ~ hi-aseer been allowed a bs faroina's p0litie8s ple The commit nd empphetically xpects . 'Oagricltural iaborers co and showsliow their entiCal. consists of H. A. Wil mnm ings ohn Hoffman, Jas. P. Cahill, T. W. WSMat4;L..w.War S Ward a at Meehan. j e alfof the laboring men they eas-g to represent they mpesnte4a declaration of pur " a rea:as decisive. They have "" conVention to approve or re h plans, and if acceptable to Sout the purposes of organization. has been set in motion, with the thinking people of c estimate for themselves preambleand declaration of "Here they are: e 1I Q :wage workers and sympa Sfellow citizens: Your commit iI" g Zbeen appointed to formu -; n,upon the "basis of which an n, capable of correcting the 'crwhich we complain, might be feel that they cannot do bet th preface the plan agreed upon few remarks calling attention ;te grcounds upon which we seek to our aiction. - t thepossibility of oppo n4o.help1QUitous laws enacted at sessiono the Legislature, said: "Your head is in the ~'ofihe Riform lion, and so long tb-iadon't close its jaws tlis 'teep qmlet andLnot enrage-it ~-4~rzsh ou; such opposition would ~--iig-and. embitter the triuimphant ~ and you- would bring down ~jintbcopoa- fsand towns per -tetenlaws than those which yeetofesape It7 would be po ''1iaisuicide to every-ambitious man ~n ~on the iide of the minority." ~I~tis anner does the "triumph ~ii~facton"seek o freeza the nan hoduthe veins of those who might to oppose-its unhallowed ~~ Thus is the vaunted intellect R elilttn of the nineteenth cen - w-rseledagain into the kingdom trrc!So has it been decreed s,hall bow downf in homage to fthis political Nebuchad sueythe God of Hosts, who de jedDamiel out of the-den of lions, ~*W~451Y&4s also, who have the cour ~~$~aWdelareour mianhood, out of the ~~outhctis Reform Lion!" How,' sbl he scriptures be fulfilled, the quef, there be not "weeping -' of teeth?" ,~.~"~ ?otbesn written that "the -house hath eaten me up?" vsthey not testified to the zeal houses in doing as well as in ubdone? ~Witness- how sa -havel been cut down! Behold the 'dtiuof taxes! Mark how the mTrust was defeated! Oh, Prohi btion, requiescat in pace, for "when I ~bave a more convenient~season I will cail for thee!" See how "justice to all sides"-has been meted out! What mat leas the might of ten thousand against -tmuight of fifty! "Damn!" Where dr-az should corporations and the dweli ra in cities and towns object to being legislated "against?" Why should ~ druggists, keepers of hotels, saloons, .,e estaurants and places of public amuse m-- ent complain. because exempt from - he burdens of the new "dispensation?" . nder snibh conditions as these is it S:licy to keep quiet?" Shall the fear bIemittering the triumphant fac tn" permit the sword of liberty to rit in its sheath?'or the, shadows of political suicide& cause the hand to tremble-as it is drawn fromi its scab bard? Frienda, let us not "strain at gnats and swallow camels"; pious expletives aenot -Issues of vital importagece to hepeople of this State. Let them d amn to their hearts' content, so long as he shall not undertake to dam the of individual liberty by 2 qual rights to all, by grant seilprivileges to any, or by the right of a judicial- ap ~lright which has been to a free as "the shadow of a great roek ~'~iawary land." It is, however, the .~~ltoof not one, but all of these, ~~Icauses us to take counsel with that discourage us? Let us go forth like David, with naught but the stone of honest purpose in our sling, and so shall we have strength to fight against Goliath and his Philistines in defense of the heritage of free men. We are not and must not become a class. Let us welcome to our councils and our .comfort the farmer and the mechanic, the operative and the la borer, for our causo"is a common cause. We are a minority of the people of South Carolina, but, like the woman of Macedon, who appealed to "Philip in his sober senses," we claim the atten tion and challenge the reason of the majority of our fellow citizens. Let us begin now to educate our selves so that we may judge between the wise and the unwise, the evil and the good; for in no other way can we hope to have our efforts crowned with success, conclusive of the integrity of our purposes. Your committee recommend the or ganization of an Industrial and Wage Workers' Democratie League, which shall consist of'a State league, with subordinatecounty and district leagues; and, in connection with the State league, the establishment of a bureau of information; and finally, when the objects sought by the organization of the Industrial and Wage Workers' Democratic League shall have been attained, through the enactment of just and equitable laws, in which the rights of every individual citizen, how soever humble, shall have been duly cohsidered, your committee recom mend that we disband, so that we may not become a political machine in the hands of designing men, to the. detri mett of the interests of this State and its citizens. Your committee -will appoint an or ganizing committee in each county, with instructions to organize county, municipal, township and ward leagues, and to arrange to send delegates there from to a convention to be held in the city of Columbia on the - day of-, 1893, for the purpose Qf electing offleers, adopting a plan of organization and ratifying or amending the following draft; submitted as a DECLARATION OF HE PRINCIPLES OF THE INUII L AND WAGE WORKERS' DEMOCRATIC - LEAGUE. The-Constitution of the State and of the United States guarantees equal rights to all, and prohibits special priv ileges to any one of ith citizens. It is, therefore, the duty of those who may feel themselves aggrieved through the enactment of unjust laws, the effect of which is to deprive some of their con stitutional rights,. while bestowing upon others unlawful privileges, to as semble and protest against sucrunjust, inequitable and unlawful legislation, and to take measures to accomplish its repeal. More especially is this a duty when, from the decision of partizan officials, empowered to execute and enforce such laws, the right of ap.peal to the Courts is denied; a right wisely guaranteed by-the fundamental law of theland, and recognized as one of the cardinal principles of - Democracy; a right which experience has pr oven to be a shield of safety to the weak against the strong, to the few against the many; a right-which has been, and which must be, cherished amongst the dear est privileges of a free people. We condemn the vicious class legis lation attempted and enacted by the Legislature at its recent session, and endorsed and approved by the Govern or of this State, the pernicious effects of which will be to put. to hazard all industries dependent upon corporate capital,-to lessen the volume of cur rency, to increase the cost of credit, and to render uncertain and precarious the occupation of all wage workers within the State. We denounce the inconsistency of the so-called Reform party,which, pro claiming salaries too large, omits to re duce them; declaring taxes too high, increases them; professing opposition to monopoly, conspires to make the State a monopolist; preaching prohi bitioni legislates the State itself into a ruseller. We deejare our principles to bed em bodied in the simple but sound Demo cratic doctrine of "Equal rights to all, special privileges to none," and our purpogte repeal and to oppose all leg islatio incnsistent therewith. We acknowledge agriculture to be the master-wheel of industrial mech anism; but we declare that in the en actment and eyeeution of just and wholesome laws-it is essential to con sider that the quality and quantity of the product depend upon the harmo nious working of the whole machine, and that upon no industry more than agriculture will fall the injurious ef fects of a departure from this just prin ciple. We believe the interests of capital and labor to be the same, and we assert 'that a blow aijned at one will fall upon both, and that legislation directed "against" either will react upon the people of the whole State. We recognize the propriety of just laws restraining the abuse of rights and privileges granted to individuals or corporations, but we condemn all laws tending, unrighteously, to lessen in duceent to esapital to invest in the development of legitimate industries within the State. We assert the necessity ~of . main taining the independence and high standard of the judiciary, and con demn any and all attempts to curtail the one or lower the other of these safeguards to the enjoyment oEindi vidual right. Adhering strictly to the sound prin ciple of Demmocy living within their limitations, and believing that "a' people is best governed which is least governed," we shall undertake to T1 maintain to the highest standard the financial credit and political dignity of the State. The signatures to the documet are: 4ej H. A. Williams, Columbia ; J. J. Jsn- C nings, Wilmington, Columbia and a Augusta Railroad ; Sol Hoffman, af Florence ; J. M. Brawley, Cbester ;. a Jas. P. Cabill, J. W. Bohlman, Char- fi1 leston ; W. T. Martin, Columbia ; L. hi W. Warren, Clinton; R. G.- Ward, Charleston; J. P. Meehan, J. T. Ride- R cut and J. P. Darby, Columbia. tb - at THE PLAN OF ORGANIZATION is to make it as geueral as possible, but p to have a membership that can de pended 'on. There is to be an organi- th zation in every county and towbship ce where .possible. Delegates are to be ev elected to a convention to be held in ys Columbia on Wednesday, March 15, P1 1893. The Union expects by that time to have at least a good start, and to then turn the further management over to a more complete and represen- fu: tative organization. nE It miglyt be noted that the Union lit has already a large membership prom- sh ised without any solicitation. There TI were some of the committee who fav ored a secret organization on the order A of the Alliance, but it was thought best m to have a fair and square contest, with do no secrets, as the Union will .have vi! nothing to hide or of which it will be hc afraid to let everyone know. They ex pee t to conduct as honest a fight as is possible under any circumstances. ce Death of Senator John E. Kenna, of Senator John E. Kenna, of West he Virginia, died in Washington at--3 o o'clock yesterday morning after a long de illness. His death was not unexpected, th for he had been failing steadily since a l midnight. His ailment was heart disease, of which his father had died before him. Senator Kenna leaves a wife and six children, four boys and two girls. The oldest of the children is about 17, and gli the youngest boy was just 5 years old yesterday. To-morrow night the re mains, escorted by the Congress com mittees and attended by the members of the family and a few personal 014 friends, will be taken to Charlestown, blh W. Va., the home of the dead Senator. John Edward Kenna was born in Kan- an awha County, Virginia, now West Vir ginia, April 10, 1848. He was leftw fatherless at the' age of 8 years, and i moved with his mother to Missouri, t where he worked on a farm in summer and in winter was employed digging es coal.. At the age of 15 be enlisted in ni the Second Missouri Confederate Cav- ye alry, and followed the fortune of the so Confederacy to .the end. He was de wounded in the shoulderiand arm in b an engagement between scouting par.1 dc ties, but kept up active service during b3 Gen. Price's retreat from Missouri in ni 1864, carrying his bruises and band- P ages in this march with fortitude. At m the close of the war he returned to his th native Kanawha and was employed'in ge a salt furnace, saving from his earn-J ings enough money to acquire an edu- M cation. Through the kindness of Bishop Whelan, of West Virginia, he g was admittud to St. .Vincent's College ' at Wheeling, where he finished his gr studies. In 1868 .he studied law in fo Charlestown, W.Va., and was admitted Co to the bar in June, 1869. He rose rap-N idly in this profession, and in 1872 was e1 elected Prosecuting Attorney of Kana- h wha County, and in his four years' hi service in this capacity he won distinc- hi tion by his conduct of important cases al. defended by the ablest lawyers in the a State. He was elected to Congress as a in Democrat against strong opposition, hi and entered the House at an extra ses sIon in October, 1877, being the young- bc et man in that body. Here he distin- th guibed hiimself by his ability and won M the admiration of his associates by his ag speeches on the financial and economic issues. He served four years in the yC ower branch of Congress, and in 18'3 be was elected to the Senate and re-elected m in 1889, being the youngest member in at that body. Senator Kenna's death is the fourth to among the members of the Senate since the Fifty-second Congress was called lit together a little more than a year ago.b First there was Senator Plumb, who 1i died in Washington, Dec. 20, 1891. to Then there was Senator Barbour, who m died in Washington on March 4, last; gc Senator Gibson, who died at Hot t~ Springs, Ark., Dec. 15 last, and nOW in Senator Ken na. Why Gen. Butler Erased the Prayer. cr [From the Boston Evening Record.] ot I was sitting in the State House yes terday near the Governor when he h4 took the oath of office. He not only at has to take it, but to sign his name in ] a little leather-bound book, where lots hE of his predlecessors have put their auto- tr graphs. He called my attention to one ti page. It was where the solitary signa- tk ture of "Benj. F. Butler" appears.P In the oath the words, So help me, God, were stricken out. B. F. did it a' himself. I asked the reason why. One 1 of the officials standing by told me that Gov. Butler remarked, as he hi rossed out the words, "The Constitu tion of this State has no 'reference to w God." .0o The General, however, himself is ae devoted member of the P. E. Chureb. P1 To pi sserve a youthful appearance fe as long as possible, it is indispensable re that the hair should retain its natural p color and fullness. There is no prep- k aration so effective as Ayer's Hair Vigor. It prevents baldness, and keeps 54 th sclan clean, coolt and healthy.s MARGARET J. FEESTON. ie Story of a Successfui Writer and Poet. [New York Observer.] The -home of Mrs. Preston is the ecl e town of Lexington, in Roa kbridge unty. Before the Revolutionary War f ollege was founded here, which was erwards endowed by Washington, d took its name from him, being the st institution of learning called after in. After the Civil War, when General 'bert E. Lee bcea'ne its President, e name was cimuged to. Washingtou d Lee Universi.y. Here also is the rginia Military Institute-th. W'st int of the South-with whose found g Colonel Preston, (the husband of e lad3rwith whom our sketch con rns itself), in his early manhood had erything to do, and where S onewall ckson, whose first wife was Mrs. eston's sister, was professor for ten an. o quiet is Mrs. Preston, so iite king personal publicity, so 8ucieSS has she escaped interviewer and wspaper illustrator, there is really' tie known of her, save the glimpses e gives as of herself in her poems. Lough she has so studiously avoided' toriety, saying with Lowell, "We nericans disprivicy ourselves too ach," we hope she will not bar the or against us now if we thus quietiy ;it her, and learn a little more of ier me life and work. She is of right a tterateur," being the daughter of! v. Dr. Junkin, who was the foundeur Lafayette College. Pa., and who pre led General Lee as president of Washington College. Lexington has been her home since1 r early years, and she loves it as no er spot on earth. By her long resi nee and family ties she has become a rough Virginian, though she is also rue American, with love deep and ong for the whole country, as her olonial Ballads" will show. [n a reeently publislied sketch of a it to "Beautiful Elleray," the home Christopher North, she giyes us this mpse of her girlhood tastes: 'When I was a child of a dozen years ;ed to pore with delight over dear t North's 'Lights and Shadows of ttish Life,' and when I grew a little ler I often carried in my girlish ram s a volume of his essays with me, d his 'Noctes Ambrosiante' I might 11 know by heart;le Elleray was a -t of shrine to me, and I came to it th something of a pilgrim's venera Being too devoted a student in her ly-years, she overtaxed her eyes by ght study. A serious illness inter ned, which made her sight delicate, that, although she has never in any gree been blind, and hopes never to so, yet she has spared 'her eyes by ing much of her later literary work means of a ty pewriter and an aman nsis. It was her English friend,. ilip Bourke Marston, who was very ach interested in her learning to use e typewriter, anid persuaded her to' one. In a sketch of him published t after his death in Lippincott's! gazine, Mrs. Preston says: -From his writings it would never be thered that he was blind; nor,'indeed, is he willing that in the slighte:,t de e.any. abatement in the judgment imed of his poems s,hould be made in sequence of his terrible affiction. yr would he have let it be known, uld he ha've helped it, that he was nd; he was very adverse to having. a calamity alluded to, and in both prose and poetical writings, and in his letters. he constantly speaks like nan who had clear eyesight.." And this respeet Mrs.' Preston is like [t was a grea't disappointment to th Mr. Marston and herself that ey did not meet when Colonel and r. Presten visited Europe a-few years1 , and he writes to her afterwards: "To think that I should have missed u when in London. How can that forgiven? Yes, five thousand people ay pay me visits, but these don't ne for the one I missed." Of her methods of work, Mrs. Pres a writes to a friend: "1 have never given moyseif up to erature as my life-work, being too Ls a wife, mother and friend for that ury-for many years the mistress of large a household to be able to comn and the wide margins of leisure that Sto the makings of a literary life. In e ddication of 'Old Song and New,' a sonnet's breadth, is the account of e way I have always written. The ems that would have utterance were owe ailwnt oe dltl n-I ce not at the moment filled with her more imperative things." Since 1888. sorrows have come fast to~ r; the death of many friends, and! ove everything, the loss, in July, 90, of her husband, who had made r life one of ideal happiness, have ed her physical strength, and Chris n forti.ude to the utmost; and for . e last two years her health has been ecarious. Someone has said a poet is many led and uses whatever tongue he ids, and Mrs. Preston has maiy ys to speak "the thoughts that Her first book w-e a story, "Silver nod," now out of print. The see ud, written by the light of "conffed ate candles," wooden torches, so aced upon the hearth as to6 iilami-t Ite the room, was "Bechenbrook." a rvid rhyme of the war, which though aching.. its - eighth thousand, and pular all over the South, is little iown at the North. Though "Old >ng and - New" which followed, the picturesque in nature and human life, much depth of domestic and de vo.ional feeling, with unusual vigor of thought and character, Mrs. Preston is better known by her three later vol umes: "Cartoons from the Life of the Old Masters, the Lifi of Legends, and .he Life of To-day ;" "For Love's Sake," a volume of religious verse; and "Colonial Bailads." No lover of art can afford to be ignorant of her "Car toons from the Old Masters"-giving as they do such picturesque glimpses of them in studio and chapel-nor of her Childhood of the Old Masters" in her' atest book, for Mrs. Preston has a wide range in art. Her ballads are stirring; her religious poems show a faith so pure, so ar lent, so elevating that they are at )nce a prayer and a benediction; while Df her sonnets an English writer has said : "They show great richness and variety of mental culture and vigorous mud original treatment, and a knowl :dge of her work would have made Leigh Hunt happy." In this depart ment she has no American comnpeer, sunless it be Helen Hunt Jackson.- Of ber ballads she herself says: "One would think I was a regular daughter )f the Puritans, when truth to tell I bave not a 'drop of Puritan blood in my veins." Many of her shorter poems are fa miliar through the newspapers though ften published without her name, 'Nune Dimittls," "By-and-By," "In rs-Much," "Comforted," "Calling the Angels In," "Before Death," but not 'Alpenglow," which will bring both Imiles and tears to those who have ver seen such light upon a loved ace-though it shines not for them ow. Her Sonnets on Emerson, Haw hrone, and Longfellow and Browning ire of the best-and there is nothing ner "Nature's Threnody." Her dirge 'or Paul Hayne, her loved and life long riend 'A murmur sad as from off muffled bells, 3oes faintly soughing through' the shimmering pines," md the poem written for the Edgar Alen Poe celebration in New York are worthy of high place. The little book published by Ran lolph-a reprint from Harpers 'Aunt Dorothy" is a story partly in :lialect. The plantation described bre Longed to her sister and the sketch is in absolute photograph of the old Vir ginia life. "A Handful of Monographs," is a volume of travel sketches abroad, not it all in the usual vein, and most de lightful reading both to those who lave been, and those who hope to go wver the ocean: Her article on Stone wall Jackson, her brother-in-law, in Dentury in 1886 won high praise both bere and in England; and her.apostro phe to Washington in the Centennial Dde for Washington and Lee Univer sity is fine. 'That name, which like the sun, Loses no light by all it rests upon, Which glorifies with gorgeous Alpen glow Mount Blanc's stark summits of eternal snow, Fet gilds the crocns b' ssoming below.". .This imperfect sketch of Mrs Preston aan best be closed in her own words: "One day as I was sighing over the ~ast falling leaves my gay-hearted oung niece said to me-'Oh, but; hink how ma:ch more room it gives you to see the beautlfnl blue sky be fond!' and is it not a sweet thought, that as our little joys and pleasures, wd earth's many lovely things fade mnd pass, they open spaces for us through whieh we may look into the llimitable depths above us. To those who mourn lost treasures, earth is sad, but then how many happy homes and appy hearts there are in it after all, end it.becomes us to say with our dear Elizabeth Browning S'Through dearth and death Through fire and frost, With emptied arm and treasure lost, We praise Thee while the days go on.'" SOPHIA B. GILMAN. Cleveland's Inauguration Silk Hat. ROCHESTER, Jan. 11.-Peter Jebsen to-day received a letter from Grover Clevelan d thanking him for his inaugu ration silk hat, size 7j. Jebsen made Cleveland's hat for the same purpose in 1885. On the top lining is the Presi rient-elect's fac-simile signature. The bat has a new feature, which may be generally adopted later. Mr. Jebsen made inauguration silk tiles for Senator Hill andJ Gov. Flower. ME. CLEVELAND MUST PAY MCKINLEY RATES. BA LTIMORE, Jan. 11.-Arthur W. Robso'n, a Custom House broker, re eeived to-day an invcice of a parcel con taing a pair of woolen gloves for Grover Cleveland and a pair' of silk stockings for Mrs. Levi P. Morton. The package will arrive on the steamship Rosmore. K'r. Robson does not know who sends these presents, as the notifi cation comes through his London agent, who notified him- that freight ad been prepaid. The sender, how ever, failed to pay the' duty, and as a result Mr. Cleveland will have to pay at the rate of 49) cents per pound and 6s per cent. advalorem. The wife of the Vice-President will also be expected to pay th,e prescribed duty on the stockings. Mr. Robson haz' notified Mr. Cleveland, and now awaits his pleasure in the matter. "Handsome is that handsome does," and if Hood's Sarsaparilla doesn't do handsomely then nothing does. Have, SuORT STOEIES BY DEPEW. The Railroad President in His Best Aspect. A Budget of Good Ones from the Gifted Lawyer and Orator. [New York World.1 Mr. Chauncey M. Depew is properly considered the great metropolitan joke foundry. So it has come about that whenever the great American republic hungers and 1hirsts for a sparkling epi gram and merry jest it goes to -the ac commodating foundry and leaves its rder. The foundry does the, rest. A careful statistician has figured it out that the foundry has been turning out funny stories for thirty years. The aver age is four a day. So in th:ee decades it has tickled the ears with something like 43,800 stories. Some people aecount for Mr. Depew's marvelous fund of stories by the fact that the crowds of daily visitors to the grand Central station bring grist to the mill, and that, as he has a splendid memory, when he hears a good story he puts it in a mental pigeonhole to be tak n out and used at an appropriate time. That is to a certain extent true. Then again many of his stories arise from in ridents that happen in the office, on the streets, in the railway train-any where. He takes liberties with the in idents when he frames them into sto ries. He embellishes them and exag gerates them. Some of the stories are pure and deliberate inventions. Some are inspirations-humorous fic tions concocted while on his feet ad ressing an assemblage. He invests them with such an air of probability, especially when he lays the scene "up at Peekskill," that men have come to him and said, "I remember firstrat' when that happened. I was living next door to the man you tell it of." "You have a wonderful memory," says Mr. Depew with a grave face. And then perhaps he thinks, "We liars must tand by one another," and holds his peace. The first story with which Mr. De pew made a public hit was one he orig inated when he was a Yale student. Since he first told it, thirty years ago, it has been often repeated, has been appropriated by other people who had no right to it, and has indeed, like many other stories.that he invented, become common property. If it were to be told in public to-morrow it would be pronounced a chestnut and nobody would think of giving credit to its orig inator and original teller. Mr. Depew placed the scene not in Peekskill, but ifourishfng communitywherethe industry flourishes and the most suc eessful kinds of eelports are regarded with high favor. Here is the story of the afflicted widow and the consoling eels: . The wife of a fisherman was ap proached one day by his fellow workers with a statement that her husband had been drowned. Her grief was incon solable, and her dispair was heard through the whole village. .She went. into convulsions. Next day they came to her again with the somewhat alle viating announcement that the body bad been found. "But," they said "it's condition is dreadful." "WVeIl," she said, "tell me the worst." "Well," said they, "madam, he is covered with eels." "Covered with eels?" "Yes, madam; we hated to tell you, but it is true. He is covered with eels." "Well," said the widow, drying her tears, "set him again." Another story that has gone all over the country is about a spotted coach dog that wouldn't wash. 'The husband of a lady in Peekskill ot rich in the foundry business, hav ing been previously a moulder. So Lhe wife set up a carriage. Some one told her she ought to have a coach dog; etherwise the establishment would be complete. So she canie to a dog fancier in New York and bough t a nice spotted oach dog. A week or so afterward she was out one day and got caught in a tremendous raidstorm, which washed all the spots off' the dog. In great fury she went back with the dog to the dog merchant and said: "You scoundrel! Why did you cheat me by selling me this dog as a coach dog?" Said he: "It's all right madam. I cid not cheat you. He is a coach dog, but there is an umbrella goes with him, which I forgot." Here is a story Mr. Depew tells of ieorgia: I went to a hotel in Georgia and said to the clerk, "Where shall I auto graph?" "Autograph?" said the clerk. "Yes, sign my name, you know." "Oh, right here." I signed my name in the register. In a little while in ame some Georgia crackers. One of them advanced to the desk. "Will you autograph!" asked the lerk with a smile. "Certiy," said the GJeorgia cracker, beaming. "Mine's rye. What's yours, fellows?" The clerk treated with good grace. Then he leaned back and glared at me. I felt sorry for him and was some what conscience stricken. "Too bad." [said. "This is what comes from speak ing a foreign' language in one's own country." No. 4 is a story by which Dr. Depew shocked an English duchess. She was one of those insular old ladies who are very anxious to know.if all these dread-I ful things said about America are really so. Mr. Depew took her in to din "Is it really true," she asked, "that yoLr divorce lawsaresolax that Ameri- i can courts sometimes grant divorces in alf an hour? I bave been told so by1 people who !iave been there." "In&ed it is not true. Such stories are todnt by your own countrymen '1 who have been in the United States, as >ut by Americans who delight in ai hocking the English people by-outra- ai eous stories about Americans I know fs )f only one state and one town in my n ountry where the divorce laws are so rE candalously lax as they.describe. That n s q small town.in Indiana. d "There are two great American rail- T oays which have very luxurious trains, ast trains which we call limited ex- to 1re:ses. One of these trains passes over ti he New York Central railway; of a which I have the honor to be the pres- ?, dent, and the other over the Pennsyl- ef 7ania. It is eustomary, I believe, one- n 2our before the limited express on the A ?ennsylvania road reaches that town, i 'or the conductor, or guard as he is -1 alled in Britain, to announce that the bi ain will stop half an hour at the next tt 'tation for those desiring to obtain di- fi, orces, and that the court house is at w he right of the station and directly aw cross the street. ai "So many Americans, I regret to say, ti vail themselves of this escape from natrimony that the Pennsylvania lim- si ted express is never without passen- 'bA ;ers. Sometimes if the divorce has eg >een mutually agreed upon bybusband to Lnd wife, they travel together in the dir ;reatest luxury and good will imagin- in 6ble, and where either party intends to a, narry again, it is, I believe, not un- w ommon for the new bride elect :nd di )ridegroom elect to accompany as a d, bird party the two persons about to is btain their divorce. The court is al- d. ays in session when the train arrives, o that the petitions maybe filed, eases et rgued and degreesentered well with- T n 'the limit of half an hour, which the it ailroad allows. st "A clergyman has his office next st loor to the courthouse, so that one and It ometimes both of the divorced persons rc nay be united to others seeking.cdnju- 01 ,al happiness immediately after the n, ate marriage has been dissolved,so that bi ,t the end of half an hour the Chicago aj imited resumes its flight west, and the .t ouples who came to be divorced have ce aken their partners and are already off cl n their second honeymoon." The luchess threw up her hands in horrer ti 6nd said, "A civilization which permits se uch outrages as that is simply dread- le ul" .t At a Yale alumni dinner held shortly m iter Andrew Carnegie's declaration w hat a college education did not do a g1 nan any good and was a waste of time al fr. Depew remarked: tc A college friend of mine, translated -c kom the .law-to-railroading reseued4 -a ankrupt corporation from ruin and w aced it upon a prosperous basis,, and h; hen administered its affairs with con- ct mmate ability. When he -returned as nany years afterward to his country I iome, and sat as of old upon the nail fi teg of the corner grocery, the wise men if the neighborhood gathered about iim, and one said, "Is it true that you re getting a salary of more than $10, 00 a year?" h My-friend said it was true. "Well,'? said this local oracle, "tha A hows what cheek and circumstances 01 vill do for a man."e Eli Perkins attributes the following g tory to Mr. Bep'ew. He says that he I ince got to talking to Mr. Depew.about A be subject of'supply and demand. He el sed the president of the Central if an-' nstance had ever occurred 'when the ti rice of an article did not depend on P upply and demand. Vtr. Depew cI aid: Well, the other day I stepped up to a ~ serman butcher, and out of c'uriosity. E' isked, "What is the price of saus- a Lges?n h "Dweuty cends a pound," he said. "You asked me twenty-five .entsa his morning," I replied.. "Ya. Dot was when I had some. Sow I ain'd got none I sells 'em for ti Iwendy cends. Dot makes me a repu- ' ation for selling cheap, und I don'd ose noddings."g "You see I did not want any sausage,e ~nd the man did not have any.' There t gas no demand and no supply, and till the price of sausage went down." 01 This story about Mr. Greeley has een often told, but Mr. Depew was the P irst to tell it, and he was a witness of P~ he scene. 0 To interrupt Horace Greely when he 1K was in the throes of bringing forth an ti ditoriai was a dianger which no friend, A io enemy; none but a fool, dared to~en ounter. I was once in his editorial gE anctum when the fool was there. He P1 as one of these itenerant and persist- s t. gentlemen with a subscription ' >ok. He kept presenting it while old'a Iorace was writing away with his pen fo ip his chin. Horace had a habit of W licking when any one would interfere, W and so he kicked at the subscription lend. Finally, when he saw that he old not get rid of the intruder by this neans, he stopped in the middle of a entence, turned around and said rasp ugly in that shrill voice of his: "What do you want? State it quick *nd state it in the fewest possible' m vords. "Well," said the subscription fiend, 'I want a subscription, Mr. Greeley, aj o prevent thousands of my fellow- hu- y nan beings from going to hAil." hi "I won't give you a d--d cent," said w :reeley. "There don't half enough go tt here now." 'i Mr. Depew has done good service by oi is stories, not only for his party, but m or his railroad. Here is one of his re ninisenees, which embodies a. good' tory and tells how he applied it. m Tbere was an antimonopoly party in he state. The railroads were their. af pecial objects of attack. They came o Albany in great numbers and were~ ssisted by some commercial bodies IC rom New York. A publiehearing was 1p1 ea.d upon the bill which would have 1 Tected the railroads. All id orators were present inda Idience-besides Afteie vor of the bilihad made . eW e ents I made a long and. exbsl~ ply in defense of the railway F, feeling ran very high and 'ess did hot produce mueli'.'ef ben I told this-story: A New Bedford whaler bad etiturn and gruff captain, whot +e es officeers and crew very bad'r ate, who was on the lookt. r'har she blows, and tharsbe -- " The captain growled, "o > blows andi don't see nobr s the mate described 'the w ore clearly he yelled more , "Thar she blews, and th - eaches," and received in gru e same answer. The mate lent of his whale sang out ones ith great enthusiasm, and the id, "Mate, ifyou think thart id bar she breaches, you can-io_ ie- boat an go6for her." . The.mate's capture Wa8 D le of the ship ntrie&ont urrele of sperm ol.- The, .ptain said: "Mate wh$n w~ New Bedford fou wlL the report. You will get and. salary. .Maybe you wltbe id the mate saidc" "Capting; ant no honoraible mentiou, ?n't want-no increase of mn't want no promotion. 33t common civility, and tbat of -destcommonestkin& The whole legislature,bnrs ntinued, uncontrollab1W,; ie bill was laughed.out of th was laughed out of the,een ':: >ry went into every. pa-i ate, big and little, dailyand became the aiusementoteve om, and the idcentieto a the railway, question i eay r grocery, and the r-u-t inging together of the anti d railroad peopie by. owe , e demands on the one side snd-c ssions on the other. Heis=a<'" uding reminiscence , I presided at the state ^ in three. years ago, and" ribing the political Bo arned nothing and whom ught nothing ,I said t ey' e of a smal of.fek et>wandering mn'h. aves in the eburbyar riles and singing,"Ne. Thee." I heard of-deeatht nventioi who-wasat ho, when the miriter ," . mn, bad theag o-rotic j nventionsuddenlyb t d broke out into a Istiglx en told that my life wot ed if I ever entered lito w - A Trip to Cb o Mrs. Van Bensselaer,:i tr Forum-on the Wrdi If among myriesiders nierican;who despairso our.republic as fertile soi a tual and spiritualp esi to Chiag next en mm~' tek with2 new -heart ihs nd if there is any otl& sold not be-more'full tan he is to-daet lnd te sanctiqpling and resent eonfldened Above - iildren who should be - >ung generation upon.h Lure of the repulie'ests -&b8 is of which, if it4evloezsY right to expect,.wil,I aad the world's advance 4nli ilectual paths where grgee tould .run -parallel with idogisees 'neral knowledge, iriscienidan1ec re, in the betterment of social o~E :me, and in morality. Aleoik" ie one Chicago will teacti, ro aci :Ipressionable years, will beto1~ ft that any American parent canbe ow upon a daughter or ason. r Chicago will. be a pleasant trip tro Lit it will also be a voyageof dIsUov0~ >ening routes which will lead tiena n yn to the foudation of intelItia iwer, to those green maosad easant waters which.encompasfi' en to t;he enlightening, a g spirations of beauty, .and the an >ns of unselfish intellectnal ndar uid it.will likewise be ajourneyIuk 1 in the influences whieih go-tomake od citizens, t~rue patriots;: Ai~ iblic spirited Americans. rin place Jackison Park nex&m er will have attractions neverbeoe >proached in our landi but-ass a~ self instruction, self cuitivat17fo il surpass any other spot Inth orld, GEN. B. F. BUTLEE DEaD). me Passes Away '5uddeny o Hue Fsare. WAsHINGTON, 3anuary 11.-Gen. anjamin F. Butler-died at 1:30 this. ~ orning of heart'failure, superindue ran attack of pneumonia. - He retired at 11 last nzglitandaSOOni ter nmidnighthiscolored bodyierad~ est, whosleptithadoningooin& hrd him cought.ng violently.-Hi ' ent to the Generai'eraorand bo at he had gone tothe tth~~ tjoining. HefoHlowed him e -a ered him .assistance. The L~ entioned.that his expectoratio~ en discolored with blood, but 4f t appear - to think seriously-O of - atter. West assisted to the ed .. apparently went to sleep. Heut ter died. If you want areliabe e thatw < [or an even browno blck ease and satisfy ydereverymi' aekingham's Dye for te