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-er ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, GONE BACK TO BICHMOND. Jefferson Davis on his Last-Great Marck An Old Man, Broken with the Storms of State, is Come to Lay his Weary Bones Among you-Lot the Bells Toll and the Minute Guns Sa lute the Great Chief as he Takes his Place in the Banks rA.B. Williams, in Greenville News.] in the far South, where the mightiest river of a continent swells to its most majestic width and the summer winds dance across the blue and sunlit waters of the Gulf to linger languidly in the fragrance of Lanisiana's thousand flowers, an old man lies asleep. - In Virginia, nine hundred miles away, is Hollywood Cemetery. On the slopes of its many hills the grass grows green beneath the shade of old trees, and ,marble monuments to mighty dead gleam through the foliage, sway ing gently in the breath of the breeze from the James River. It is very still and .solemn there, and the roses drop their .petals silently on the graves beneath.and. yield their breath to go forth gentifthrough ravines and valleys wherethe hopes and loves of genera tions lie -buried and the memories of thousands turn backward from all the corners of the earth. The broad, yellow river rolling by on its ourse to the sea is broken there by;any Islands, and its waters surge beneath the.drooping branches of wil lows'ndare ruffled into waves by the ledgesof rock beneath. The voice of the river,rdshing amid the willows comes softly among the hills and ravines of Hollywood, like the sound of ceaseless sighing from many thousands of breast8&and mingles with. the whisper in*loftie old trees as their foliage sways and rustles. iL.Hollywood the soldiers sleep in ra:hks4ong and straight as those of the batie line. .Beneath the green turf, shabwed by the whispering, sway ing trees, with the roses above them andin thesound of the sighing-from the willows in the river, they sleep and wait, silent, stark and motionless, each man in his place in the last array. To-day the old man who went to sleep by the blue waters of the Gulf will be brought on his last journey to Hollywood to join the men who sleep there. He wl pass.nearly a thousand miles through the Southern land to the sound of tolling bells and solemn boo&n of minute guns and the music of dirges telling of the mourning of mil '-onst of men and women. He will be laid in Hollywood for his long rest-will be put there among the men whose hearts thrilled at his name and who crowded the path to death at his bidding. Thirty-two years ago he went to Richmond at the head of a new nation, th.e chief of a people who had taken arms 1n- vindication of the principles and "for the defence of the land they loved. From every part of this wide Southern country men gathered there to see him, and his name was highest among all those whom the swarming hosts honored with wiid enthusiasm. In the splendid dreams of that time dreams of a new empire, broad, beauti ful, mighty and peaceful, and a flag. bearing the Soathern cross fluttering on far seas and waving higher than the flags of all the empires-his personality was formost. Reeling and falling in the choking battle smoke, sickening and dying in 'prisons, passing away in the crowded hospital wards, his men went from the ranks they filled so gloriously and from this world. His armies melted away, the splendid dreams faded and his flag went down and was furled forever. He lived to show that the confidence and love his people gave him were well placed, to illustrate the heroism of advediity, sto show the world how a mawly man and patriot could endure disaster and deprive defeat of sting and shame. He died an old man and very tired. He is going back to Richmond to rest among his veterans who have slept there silently more than a score of years. He will take his place among those ishom he reviewed as they passed him ini shouting ranks or swept by dad~&g ofsabre and blare ofbbugle th 'fair-faced boys, the bronzed and bearded or grizzled soldiers who wore the grey and fought and cheered by the inspiraticn of his name, and fell and died following the flag whereon the S:>uthern cross was blazoned.4 They will rest there yery peacefully amid the rolling green hills kissed bya the river breeze beneath the wide reaching, whispering branches of the, old trees. The far-off rushing of the river will sigh an everlasting requiemi through the days of the changing sea-t sons and the darkness of -the nights or when the moonlight sifts through< the leaves upon the mounds beneath - which they sleep. The dreams they dreamed have vanished; the flag they foughtforwaves nowherein this world, fies above the waters of no seas. They 1 are' memories, with no evidences of them remaining save the ranks of graves and the lingering sorrows in aching hearts. Yet their dream was a glorious one, and the memories of them will be cherished through all this Southern country while the hills in Hollywood endure and the yellow t waters of the James rush by their sleeping place. Let the bells toll and the minute guns boom their mournful signals and 1 the music of the dirges go with the passing of the splendid old chief to joini the dead army of his soldiers silently awaiting his coming in Hollywood. It is our right and duty to mourn and h6nor our dead men and our dead ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS. A Brilliant Oration on the Great Com moner by Ex-Senator Norwood-New Facts in His Life. We come neither to praiso him nor to bury the great commoner of the re public. What of him was mortal has long been given back to earth, and what was spiritual needs no eulogy from us. His fame, like the question of Cm-sar's death, is enrolled in the cap itol and the capitol covers the conti nent. These red hills echo and reecho his name and a thousand groves are in part its sanctuaries. Wherever he ad dressed the multitudes-and the mul titudes followed him as he journeyed he left undying memories, and the people wondered and many said: "Never man spake like this man." And -this was a true saying. "For take him for all in all we shall never look upon his like again." And his like the world had never seen before. This is no extravagance of eulogy; no com pliment pardonable only in an epitaph. It is unvarnished truth. I repeat, that in all the tide of time, history gives no record of any mortal whose physical and intellectual com bination was comparable to that of Alexander Hamilton Stephens. Wher ever he first appeared-whether on the hustings, in the forum, or in delibera tive bodies-his personnel aroused sur prise and disappointment in every be holder; but when he spoke the people marveled at his power and wisdom. With a stature of near six feet in height, at no age of life did his weight exceed a hundred pounds. Pale and sallow, he seemed to be a boy of 18 years until he attained middle age, when envious time began to furrow his beardless cbeess. Nor at any time was his health ro bust, while for the last twenty years of his wearisome pilgrimage he was a con firmed invalid. So feeble and atten uated in form was he It seemed as if every day would be his last. And yet for the first thirty years of his man hood his physical endurance under constant labor was not surpassed by that of'any other man engaged in sim ilar work. In the most heated and active political campaigns he seemed never to be fatigued. In fact, in the fiercest of a political contest he gath ered strength, as the eagle rises higher when- the storms grow furious. He said of himself : "I am like a kite; I soar only in the rage of a gale." He was a signal exception to the the ?ry that great-intellectual power is combined with strong physical devel Dpment. At no time did his strength xceed that of a boy of fourteen years. Such was the physical man, Alexander Stephens. But what is to be said when we turn to contemplate his intellect? It is not saying too much to assert that at the bar, on the hustings and in the legisla tive halls no man in America has ever achieved greater renown. He was never defeated in any contest before the people. In the gladiatorial field bis career was more remarkable than that of any other statesman of Ameri ea. I will not consume time before his neighbors and champions in recount ing his continuous triumphs. Henry Dlay. in a great speech delivered to his sonstituents, began by saying : "Forty years ago I pitched my tent on yonder bill, and you, and you, an A you took mue by the hand and made me what I m." To you who took this homeless >rphan by the hand when he pitched bis tent on that now famous hill and belped to raise him to his high emi ence, it would be presumption in me to narrate his woniderful career. His boyhood was unmarked by any vents or incidents of special interest. His parents were poor and this lad had :o undergo the hardships and depriva ions incident to poverty. But the precious jewel of his head shone with sch brilliancy that it attracted the at :ention of some friends of wealth, who, with a view to secure his powers for ~he pulpit, sent the boy at their own ~xpense to the University of Georgia o take the regular course for gradua ion. For reasons, best known to him elf, he preferred the law to theology md, after graduation, began the prac ice as soon as he could be admitted to he bar. With his power of analysis, 1s legal acumen, his tenacious memo y, his studious habits, his fluency and intrancing oratory, he rose rapidly at he bar, and his fame soon covered the state. Within less than four years after h~e mas admitted to the bar, his ability as Slawyer and debater convinced the roters of this county that their inter ts should be committed to his keep ng, and they sent Mr. Stephens in 183G o the Legislature, where they kept imn until the year 1841, when he de lined re-election. But his fame had ~one over and beyond the State. His peech on the bill for the State to build he Western and Atlantic railroad, ~nd his report for the minority who op >osed the resolutions, censuring John ~IcPherson Berrien, United States Sen tor, for certain views and votes in the senate-these alone placed Mr. Ste >hens in the front rank of Georgia's statesmeni. In the year l843 he was again drawn way from his first love, the law, never o return, and as the circumstances rom this partial divorcement from the rofession of his choice and lifelong reference have never been fully de ailed and given to the public, I will ;ive these interesting facts as stated to ne by an eye witness. Daring that year Mark A. Cooper, a Whig, resigned from Congress to be a :andidate for Governor, and, the Leg slature being in session, a number of unminent Whigs aseamh1lrl in Mill edgeville to select a candidate. The Democratic majority in that district was about three thousand. It was con sidered hopelessly lost to the Whigs. Their leaders naturally did not long for the nomination. Each tried to confer the honor upon the others. Many were the complimets generously paid to the "great ability, the burning elo quence, the rushing oratory, the ccn manding influence" of each leader when the golden prize was tendered him, but no man reached out his hand; they knew the gift, like Circe's kiss, was fatal. At last in desperation a Nestor among them rose and made a speech full of policy, not to say a politician's wisdom-a speech that has often been made, and will always be made, under like circumstances. He said, in sub stance: "Every man here is praying to have the cat belled, but it is very evident that no one- of us is brave enough to undertake the job. We are like a good many people I know who, when a subscription is to be taken up, prefer to do the praying while the hat is passed round. Now, we here-are all too old to fool with this business. We can't afford to be beat, but a young man can. He can outlive defeat, but we can't. I propose that in order to make a show of fight we nominate a little fellow in my district named Ste pLns.. He's a boy, looks to be 14 years old, but he'll fight anythirg. If he gets killed he's out of everybody's way. If he whips the fight we can choke him off the next race." Mr. Stephens was nominated, accepted, and entered at once on his work. What followed I have from a friend of Mr. Stephens' who accompanied him through that memorable cam paign. The Democrats treated the nomina tion as a joke and turned their back on that district as one rock-ribbed and impregnable. The boy candidate en tered at once on a triumphal march. There being no railroad or telegraph in that section the news traveled slowly, but the Democracy of the State soon heard unwelcome rumors of disa'ter at the front. They came at first as the gentle breeze comes that foreruns the gathering storm. Then came a louder, swelling sound like the soughing of the pines as the stroDger couriers of the air broke from the storm center, like fleet-footed couriers bearing wessages of disaster tN forces held in reserve. Finally the storn had gathered in strength and the forest swayed and groaned and the Democracy heard a wail for help. Speedy meetings were held, and a gentleman from Savannah -a trained and able debater-was dis patched by relays to the scene of con flict. He appeared suddenly and with out notice at one of Mr. Stephen's ap pointments and challenged the boy to meet him in joint debate. The chal lenge was gladly accepted, and when the pale-faced, beardless boy; who had the conclusion in the debate, had de livered his last blow on the veteran Democrat his remains were borne away by his sympathizing and mortified friends and were never beard of again during that campaign. That defeat aroused the Democracy to greater energy. They decided to rush the boy at one blow, and to that end they dispatched the strongest stump speaker of their party, Hon. Walter T. Colquitt, to drive the young ster out of the district. The Democrats Were afraid that the gosling Whig would not dare meet their champion in oint debate, and they arranged a sur prise by concealing him at afarmer's ouse the night before ,and near the point of Mr. Stephen's appointment. At the hour for the speaking Judge olquitt was rushed on the ground and is friends demanded a joint debate. The little David of the Whigs readily onsented, he having the opening and onclusion. Mr. Stephens opened with a rambling talk of an hour, studiously avoiding all salient points of advantage o his adversary. Judge Colquitt re plied with all the great power of which e was master. .The eye-witness says when Mr. Ste pens rose to reply he was trans formed. His eyes flashed, his form ilated, his stature seemed to stretch o the ceiling, and his triumph in the ebate was so complete that the Demo rats grew angry and attempted to reak up the meeting, until a lank ountaineer in a coonskia coat and ap stepped to the side of the speaker's tand with his rifle and proclaimed that e would kill any man who interfered with the speaking. The Democratic hampion had enough of that cam aign and retired from the district without another dobate with the haste hat had signalized his coming. Goliath was slain; the large Demo ratic majority was overcome, the boy was elected, and from that day, for ifty years, he reigned without a rival n the hearts of his people. For forty ears you honored yourselves in honor ~ng him. The Roman maxim, "a man s known by his associates," applies to a people and their representatives. No igher encomium could be paid to you han you conferred on yourselves by ontinuing this great statesman in our service. But his fame is not your exclusive in eritance. It belongs to his native State and to his country. He came a surprise and remained a wonder. He rose like a meteor, but soon took his rightful position among the fixed stars. I n erecting this monument of marble standing on a base of granite we add nthing to his name and fame ; we seek only to perpetuate both and to give inspiration to the youth of comn ng generations and an incentive to. igh and noble deeds. The marble but ypifies the character of the man, while he granite symbolizes the enduringi fntionn on whirch h is glory stands.~1 MANY QUESTIONS OF LAW. Questions About Dispensaries Passed on by the Attorney General. COLUMBIA, S. C., May 24.-Since the county boards of control were ap pointed and the Governor has re quested the members to submit all questions of law which do not appear to be clear as to costruction, to he sub mitted to him, be, "in conjunction with the Attorney General to decide them," the questions have been piling in. The following opinion of the Attor ney-General, filed with the Governor yesterday, covers a great many ques tions about the construction of the dis pensary law which have already been sent in: To His Excellency, B. R. Tillman, Governor. DEAR SIR: I have carefully consid ered the inquiries concerning tbe dis pensary act contained in the letter re ferred by your Excellency to this office and teg to state my opinion thereon in the order in which they occur in the letter. The first inqairy is as follows: "(1) Can a person who owns real es tate outside of the town but in the county sign application?" This question refers to the application to be made by any one desiring to be county dispenser. My answer to this question is that such a person cannot sign the application. The second question is as follows: "(2) Can a person who owns no real estate in his own name but owns stock in a corporation which has real estate in the town sign application?" My opinion is that he cannot. "(3) Can a person who owns real es tate in a town, but rEsides outside of its limits, sign an application for a dis penser?" I answer, No. "(4) Can a person who now holds office become county or town dispenser without resigning said office?" In answering this question I must say that tnder Section 28, Article II of the Constitution of South Carolina, a member of the Legislature could not accept the position of coun ty dispenser without vacating his seat in the Legis lature; but one holding any other office could accept the position, provided the duties of the two offices be not incom patible-that is, so they do not conflict with each other so as to interfere with each other and prevent a proper dis Dharge thereof by one and the same person. The above are all the inquiries con tained in the letter referred to, but I may as well answer some others which have been made from time to time. 5. "Is it obligatory on the county board of control to appoint the one who secures a majority of the freehold voters in the town or may the board use its discretion?" The board may use its discretion and reject any improper applicant. 6. "Is an ex-bartender eligible to the position of county dispenser or assist 3.nt dispenser?" The mere fact of his being an "ex bartender" would not of itself render Lim ineligible. What a man has been is not the question. The important luestion is whether he is qualified as to character, habits, etc., but I may as well say that under the act- one who das during the two years immediately previous to filing petition engaged in :he liquor business would not be con tidered eligible. 7. Can one holding real estate as ~rustee to collect -rents, etc., sign ap-. plication? Not unless he is qualified in some ther way than the position as trustee. S. Can husbands whose wives own eal estate sign applications? No. 9. Can a man who owns real estate n a town where the'dispensaryis to be ituated, but who is unable to do man 2al labor, and hence exempt from poll ~ax, sign application? Yes. I have the honor to be, most respect 'ully, your obedient servant, D. A. TOWNSEND. Attorney-General She Drew the Line at Kisses. Her eyes were soft and dark as night, Her raven tresses vieing. took a seat beside my love, And soon I fell to sighing, She placed her hand within my own 'What thrills began to quiver About my heart! Said she: "Dear John, 'What is it makes you shiver?" [ scarcely knew, and so I said, "I'm warmer than a cinder;" And then a daring ti ought occurred Pray, what was there to hinder? [ bent over her ruby lips To steal the tempting blisses. 'Oh, no!" said she, "it cannot be; I dIraw the line at kisses." rhe years may come, the years may go, I'll ne'er forget our meeting. [~pon her cheek a pretty glow The moments all too fleeting! Ah, who can tell the royal way To manage pretty misses? [ust when you think they love you most They draw the line at kisses. -Fred Pardee Hanchett in Chicago ['imes. Eezema causes an itching so persist mnt as to produce, not only sleepless jess, but, at times, even delirium. Local application will not relieve the :ause, which is impure blood. Ayer's :Sarsaparilla cures this disease by cleans ng the blood and eradicating all hu OUrSIDE VIEWS. Siap Shots on Current Events" and Glances at Things Past and Present. It is not generally known that a celebrated weather prophet has lately come into the State, He is the Re v. G. J. Martz, the new Lutheran preacher at Walhalla. While living at Lebanon, Pa., in 1888, he predicted more than two i weeks beforehand the great snow storm I that so suddenly struck New York in I the latter part of March in that year I and completely took the breath away f rom the Knickerbockers by its immen sity. I saw Mr. Martz's published pre diction ten days before the storm oc- I curred. While we have gained, Canada has lost. Wiggins has gone out of the busi ness and declares he will make no more weather predictions. Instead of getting down the rates to I the World's Fair, the railroads are try ing to annihilate the distance to the fair. Chauncey Depew sends out a t train on his road from New York to Chicago that runs an average of fifty miles an hour, and on some portions C of the road it goes eighty-three miles an hour. The W. & A. road has just put on the "Velvet Vestib'ile" between Atlanta and Chicago. It makes the trip in twenty-three hours. The roads are making a mistake. The rate should I be lessened and not the time between t here and Chicago. Time saved is not r money made to us in this case. I Will the State Press Association let 8 the opportunity pass for a trip to the I World's Fair. We pass. It is curious how old customs sur- 0 vive. Take the manner in which the bell is rung at the Newberry Lutheran r church for instance. The two succes sive strokes and the interval between I them and the next two strokes is the way the bell has. been rung since f it first summoned the worshipers to o hear the gospel preached. The first ' sexton of the church adopted that way of ringing the bell from a church in i Greenville whose bell he once heard. I That was almost forty years ago, and although that old sexton has been dead t twenty years, the bell is still rung the 9 same way. a -11 I have heard many bells in many e churches in many towns. I have heard .1 them all clang together, and what- r ever may be gaid derogatory to the d character of Newberry's church build ings, we must give our town the credit for having well-toned church bells. Their mellow tones on a Sabbath eve e are delightful. b s1 But there ought to be no excuse that o we have no better church buildings I because we have good bells. There is o lenty money here with which to build etter churches. L And just here I would remark that they do things differently IE lsewhere. I was told the other day that Rev. Win. Hayne Leavell's con- a regation in Houston, Texas, is going to build a new church. He preached a a ermon not long since and told his peo- tI pie he wanted $.50,000 for a new church. In just three weeks time the entire ti amount was raised, and they allowed their pastor to select the building com- a ittee and arrange other prelimina- si ies. a p There is not so much silver and gold and notes floating around anywhere a: hese times. It is enormous to know ow much of the business of this coun- k( ry is transacted through the inter hange of credits. The payments made ti y bank checks alone amount to $200, 00,000 in a single day-$120,000,000 in l( ew York city and $80,000,000 in the b alance of the country. This shows the alue of credit-the life-blood of trade ft and commerce. Young man, take care f your credit. d I might say to this grand old State, ake care of your credit. Don't get so 'elastic," and try to cover all the law and the gospel too. Nobody has no I igh ts. Be s,omebody.e The misfortune is that the use of ii ower, like credit, easily runs intob buse. There is just now in this coun-s ry too much of the latter. We should 3 all a halt. t. It is like they say out in Wyoming gi now after having tried woman suffrage tl for twenty years: "The realization never h omes up to the expectation." If it did - he millennium would be ushered in. All the Wyomingans are disappointed 'I xcept those who got the plums-just ' he same as it is in Georgia or underS] he eaves of the White House. b THlE OUTSIDE MAN. a a Water That Won't Qjuench Fire. n [From the Minneapolis Journal.) v PIERRE, S. D., May 26.-A flow of 00 gallons per minute was struck .atb he Government artesian well at the f Endian school yesterday at a depth of \ ,3 feet. The water possessed the a ame qualities as the water at the Hot d Springs in the Black hills, being at a tE emperature of 92* and is highly mag- t4 etic. The gas which accompanies a he flow makes it worthless for fire s rotection, as the gas will blaze if a ight is applied to the flow of water. p d Hood's Sarsaparilla positively cures u ven when all others fail. It has a h ecord of successes unequalled by any k oher merdicine. cl WILD WORK OF THE WINDS. & Terrible Storm In the State of Arkansas Many People Killed and Irjured. HoPE, ARK., June 1.-Howard Dounty was swept by a terrific storm ind rain yesterday afternoon, resulting ,n loss of life and great destruction of property. County Assessor Stewart ind two children are reported killed in ;he collapse of their house. Many >ridges and trestles along various rail -oads are wrecked and several hun fred feet of the Arkansas and Louisi Lna Railroad has been washed away. rhe train service is abandoned at Har -isburg. The Cantly Lumber Com any's property is swept away. Among he injured are: David Roberts, fatally; [acob Suzede and wife, slightly in ured. Loss to property $20,000. The arm of Wm. Martin, living twelve niles southwest of Hop'e, was washed Lway. The entire country from two o seven miles southwest of Hope has een wrecked. Rain and hail both fell ieavily. Judge Gibson's farm house, bree miles south, is totally wrecked. kt Guernsey half a dozen houses were >lown down and many inM-"3 seri usly hurt. At New Leadville a de tructive hail storm did great damage o crops and residences and killed a arge amount of stock. FOREST CITY, ARK., June 1.-A tor iado passed four miles west of this city ast night, but as that part of the-coun ry was completely isolated by the hur icane, no particulars could be gained ntil this morning. The two-story rame liouse occupied by Mrs. Thomas, widow with a large family, was com letely demolished, and Mrs. Thomas nd her thirteen-year-old daughter 7ere instantly killed. Other members f the family were badly bruised. lany houses in the track of the tor ado were demolished or unroofed. CAMDEN, ARK., June 1.-Meagre re orts from points in~Columbia County, djoining this county, were to the ef ,ct that a disastrous tornado passed ver there yesterday evening. The rind cut a swath four miles wide. Ine hundred and sizty-five big trees ,eie blown across the Cotton Belt %ailroad track near Valdo Station. Damage was done to all property in 2e track of the whirlwind. It is a reat yellow pine region and saw mills ad stocks were injured. No loss of fe is reported, the people fleeing to rcavations and ravines. One man imped in a well to save himself. The tilroad track has been cleared of ebris. What Is a Baby? Did you ever try to formulate your ract opinion of a baby not your own by, but the tiny morsel in the ab ract? A London paper offered a prize r ten dollars for the best definition. [ere are some of those sent in, the last fwhich won the prize: The bachelor's horror, the mother's -easure, and despotic tyrant of the ost republican household. The morning caller, noon day craw r, midnight brawler. The only precious possession that ever excites envy. The latest edition of humanity of hich every couple think they possess ie finest copy. A native of all countries who speaks ie language of none. A bout twenty-two inches of coo and -iggles, writhe and scream, filled with iction and testing apparatus for milk ad automatic alarm to regulate sup y. A quaint little craft called Innocence ad laden with simplicity and love. A thing we are expected to kiss and ok as if we enjoy it. A little stranger with a free pass to e heart's affection. That which makes home happier, ye stronger, patience greater, hands usier, nights longer, days shorter, urses lighter, clothes shabbier, the past >rgotten, the futuse brighter. A tiny feather from the wing of love ropped into the sacred lap of mother ood.-Womankind. The Story of the Millennium. A fascinating picture of the possibi-4 ties of future development on the arth and of the condition of mankind 1 the ten thousandth century, when iterplanetary communication has sen established and the "dream of thei ges" become a reality, is one of the1 pecial features of Demorest's Family [agazine for June. It is compiled from ie records of the Optimists' Club, an rganization establisbed for foretelling I 1e future of tbe world, and the unique lustrations tell the story as vividly a le words. If one admires pictures of andsome women,-and who does not? -over a score of them may be seen ini 1e same number, illustrating "Societyi eaders of Indiana." In "Familiart aks on the Different Schools of Art" e are introduced to the Venetian and panish painters ar.dl many of their ost noted works. "The French Em assy and the European Legations" e treated of in a superbly illustrated rticle. "The Diary of an Athletic il" tells all about tennis teas and nns dresses; from "A Caravan Out ig" one learns about the newest and ost charming way of spending a acation; and if the suggestions in Summer Furnishing" and "Thec uest-Room" are carried out one mayt s sure of having an attractive home 1 r the hot weather. The story of "A ictim of the Bargain Counter" will ~ ~peal to many a victim; the other e oies are all good, and the numerous , apartments replete with helpful mat r. Demores%s'alwayscontains plenty ~ >interest every member of the family; 3d is published for only $2 a year, by ( . Jennings Demorest, 15 East 14th. t., New York. An occasional bottle of Ayer's Sarsa- I arilla does more to correct the ten- t ency of the blood to accumulate ha-.t ors, and keep the organs sound and salthy, than any other treatment we. now of. "Prevention is better than - ire." Try it this month. THE BEGINNING OF PENsION REFORM The Administration All Right with the Country on the Question. [New York Sun.) The decision of Mr. Cleveland's ad ministration with respeci to pensions is simply this: The Government. will not undertake thesupportof ex-soldiers whose disabilities or infirmities did not originate in the service, when the dis ability or infirmity not due to service does not prevent the ex-soldier from earning his own living. A more reasonable, equitable, and proper measure of reform it would be difficult to imagine. Loose and inju dicious a were some of the provisions of the Disability Pension act of 1890, the Congress which passed that law never contemplated any such abuses of the system as were fastened upon it by Commissioner Raum, under Gen. Har risoh's reckless management of pension affairs. The rescinding of Raum's order restores the rating of disability pensioners to the standard established by the la,w which has been persistently misconstrued for the past two or three years. The estimate that from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 will be saved to the Treas ury annually by following the law itself instead of Gen. Raum's illegal construction of that law, may prove. excessive. But, whether the saving is "20,000,000, or $2,000,000, it should be effected. The most liberal interpreta tion of the Government's duty to its rormer soldiers does not require that aitizens shall be taxed to support other itizens who are capable of supporting themselves, merely because the names )f the latter once appeared on the rmy rolls, although the war left them nscathed. This wise and proper measure of pen ion reform is described in some of our Rapublican contemporaries as an "at ack on the pensioners." Pensions of .hat sort ought to be not only attacked, 3ut obliterated. Five yqars ago the an 3ual pension expenditure was about$90 )00,000, or about nearly the sum which so good a patriot and friend of the vete ans as Gen. Garfield declared was the 3igh-water mark of any honest pension ystem. Within five years the annual ?xpenditure has almost doubled. It is ime to call a halt. In any effort to check the unparal eled extravagance which threatens to 3ankrupt the treasury in the name of ratitude to the Union's defenders, Presidedt Cleveland will have the sup port of All rightthinking citizens, in :luding the veterans of the war. He nay besure.of this. In.honest pension efor'm'no worthy dependent upon the 3overnment's bounty has anything to !ear. Donaldson vs. (antt'.*' [From the Piedmont Headlight.] To the Editor of the Headlight: Your .ssue of the 12th inst. has just been landed me. In your comments upon ny reply to Governor Tillman's attack apon me you say, "And we further ask Sol. Doonaldson how can he advocate Alliance principles and then endorse he nomination of a man at such vari mece with them as Mr. Cleveland is mown to be?" Again, you say-re erring to my advocacy of Mr. Cleve and-"this is the only portion of Col. Donaldson's letter in which the Alli mece men of our State are interested.'' Well, there is no accounting for indi lidual opinions, and your opinion in ~his matter, I am glad to believe, is lot, and as I will show ought not to be, he opinion of intelligent Alliance men ~enerally. In the first place you start out on alse premises and discover the fact hat you gre ignorant of the first prin ~iples of the Alliance, in that you mix p in a conglomerated mass the Alli mece with politics without even an at empt to discriminate or distinguish he one from the other, and just such ~onfusion of terms and misleading tatements, as you indulge in, as to the urpose, principles and aims of the alliance, is doing more harm to the )rder, in the honest attempts that are eing made through it to better the ondition of the farmer, than, perhaps, .nything else. Whether intentional >r not, such strenuous efforts on the art of newspapers to direct and con rol the Alliance in politics make them, bough professed friends, the worst nemies the farmer has. You say the only thing the Al iance is interested in is my endorse nent of Mr. Cleveland. Do you sup >ose you can thus lead Alliance men vho read your paper to believe that it~ s of no interest to them when the Pres dent of the United States is told that he president of the South Carolina ~armers' Alliance is not fit to hold flce? Most of the members of the .liance are 21 years old and will be .pt to make up their own minds as to hat. Now what about your apparent ig iorance of the first principles of the tlliance? If you will turn to page 6 of he ritual you will find that when a andidate is presented for membership he president repeats these words to iim: "Before you proceed it will be iecessary that you take on yourself a olemni obligation, which, I assuresyou, ill not conflict with the freedom of 'our political or religious views. With his assurance are you willing to pro eed?" In the face of these words, with hich ev'ery member is familiar, you >resume upon the ignorance or political >rejudice which you evidently suppose o exist in the Alliance in undertaking o arraign rue for exercising my free lon, as a citizen, in politics. Suppose ir. Cleveland has not endorsed the )cil pnittrm. Did any one ofth other candidates for the Presidency:do so, except Weaver? Three of our dele gates to Chicago voted for Hill. Has he ever given the remotest intimation that he favored the Ocala platform? If not, why not arraign .Governor Till man, Senator Irby and B. F. Perry for voting for a man so "at variance with Alliance demands?" Thirteen of our delegates to Chicago voted for Boise. Have you ever heard that he favored a single plank in the Ocana platform? If not, why have you not cited these thirteen men to trial for not supporting the candidate who was in accord with the Ocala demands, namely, Weaver? If you think the words of the ritual which I have quoted-are of no force or effect, and that the Alliance binds men's consciences, why don't you come out squarely and say so and admit that you think the Alliance ought no longer stand as the only pure and unadulterated farmers' organization for their distinctive protection and benefit -become a political party-a free om nibuq fer the transportation of dema ,6aes and political dead beats into office? In your effort to play upon the suli posed prejudices and credulity of the people you lay great stress on certain instructions of the May Convention and would make believe that every body knew just how every delegate would act and vote when they got to Chicago. It was found, however, that the delegation worked and voted for three different candidates and yet I, who was not a delegate and could not vote, and was not instructed in any way, you would hold up to the public gaze, and have the people believe was the only man who violated trusts and deceived the people. With such facts before them, it is supposed that the Alliance or the 'peo ple will fail te see the organized politi cal persecution that is now being di rected against me? I have, from the beginning, believed that Mr. Cleveland stood nearer to our views than any other Democratic can didate mentioned for the Presidency, and I gave the reasons for that belief to the public as early as 1891, a copy of which I enclose and trust that you, having so severely criticised me, will republish as a matter of justice. I have no apology to make to you or to anybody else for my course'in politics or in the Alliance, but when the-Farm ers' Alliance is lugged in and its prin ciples invaded and perverted for politi cal purposes 1 feel that I would be recreant to the trusts reposed in me as its head if -I- -failed-4edefend -those principles. I have tried wherever I have gone in the State to impress the Alliance men with the fundamental doctrine of the Alliance, that it is non partisan in politics and that its mem bership is entirely free, so far as the Alliance is concerned, in political or religious views. Ihave great respect for my brethren who have honest convic tions and the courage of those convic tions in politics, whether they agree with my views or not, bgut cannot say as much for those who denounce Alli ance men as holding "with those Wall street gold kings" when they them selves boast of voting the same party ticket. If you ask who is meant, 1 re ply, "thou art the man." You de nounce Alliance men who believe in the People's party, which opposes "those Wall street gold kings," and then with another flop of your political wings you warn with a long crow the Alliance men against me for supporting the nominee of the Democratic party, whom you boast of having supported as aparty man. You even sought for and delighted in the privilege of bear ing upon your own person the electoral vote of South Carolina to Washington to be counted for a man "whose suc cess" you say "means utter repudiation of our demands." Is this not a fair specimen of what you call "idiotic inconsistency?" Me thus'elah was the oldest man and Moses the meekest man, therefore David slew Goliath, is about the style of logic that you employ when dealing with the subject of the Alliance and its relation to politics. Allow me to suggest that there is quite enough intelligence in the Alli ance to meet the demands laid upon it by recent events in its own way and at the proper time. Yours truly, M. L. DONALDSON, GREENNIL LE, S. C., May 17, 1893. Old Glory on the Devil's Tower. [Chicago Daily Tribune.] CljAMBERL AIN, 8. D., Miay 2.-The people of western South Dakota and Wyoming are greatly interested in the approaching attempt of W. B. Rogers of Sundance to plant an American flag on top of Devil's Tower, in the Black Hills. The tower is 1,200 feet high, measures 800 feet in circumference at the base, and 3.50 feet at the top. It is supposed to have been a chimney to some subterranean fire. It is perfectly round in form, the sides being fluted like a portico column. No one has ever yet stood on the top of this curious tower. It is inaccessible, the sides offer ing no foothold. Rogers claims he will eut footholes as he ascends. Should he be successful. he will receive $200. Scientists say that this tower has not a duplicate in the world. Asking for a Bill of Particulars. [From the Boston Bugle.] 3Mrs. Cay-Mary, did I see you kit sing my husband this morning? Mary-At what time? Every man having a beard should keep it in an even and natural color, and if it is not so already, use-Buck inham4s Dye and appear tidy.