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Be Just and Fear not?Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's." ' r%?*t-XJ? 4 . - V:'- * STJMTER, S. G., TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1883. THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jvm, 18M; New Series?Vol. II. ho. H. 50 - ift* one feat there ?3S^ya?r Bt-pobt ir to de*l with the Is becoming - ' meh m diffico! traosporla of controlling or Bum unfa tbuee in power w?? a lor weapons all other cases UQ^^nc Ml other halt In the ?f the wevtd ibere are o# the op c?f pow w behold in the Al not name nt tisa4 be refers to 'the dangers to ic is "exposed. A 4be fashion to speak e?rjxwatioo? as .. -? oor civili ?cer' goes' deeper. power of ohe man is that of any corpora TR*y be be reds r^sadorjbfb^ wil!Lbe in the Gould king Goa Id is an instance. Y??kr*J8?'1ite been great for the cettainty with behind every It accuses bint of b^ing aathor r,^ef every political no waiter wbatmisfor foflsa?, the Ttatr* is pretty sere eoite a* the bottom of it. Wfefte this ricw of the evil is of rone, there can be no acr to the extent to ?rhich Go?ld, or indirectly, influences the wuftry. WheSber co atrojjff Tthe Associated is certain that with at bis ^disposal, be information given to half of this city. No one who groater than rapby of hnn has 88 yet appeared, it is not from want of material, or on ac count of any resolve in the mao him self to keep back the facts of his his history. For several months 1 have bad a page in^ny^pote oooJt devoted to Jay Gtauki I.Ji&ve asked ques tions of perhaps a score ? of persons,, who are Kkelf|t? know something of the man who has been called the Sphinx of Wall street, aud although upon reading over my notes I feel that the story k sadly incomplete. I I do not believe that any more extended I biography of Jay Gould exists. Gould was born in November, 1836, in a small post village called Stratum's Falls, in the Town of Roxbury, Dels ware County, N. Y. His father, John Gould, was a small farmer, who I made a poor.living; in sending down logsfrom tlaeCatskills to the Hudson Had it not been that ~ Gould, tfor ^hard^ work, I to-day a shrewd | ^^nfn^cti fo^f-1 co on try Jjpard of making the whole coun try pay tribute. Not being strong and. fit for anything in the general opiuion i of the village, he was sen! to school, and \ eventually entered the village store as clerks It. was. not long before he achieved ike reputation of one of the smartest traders in the community, and before he was 18 years old, the village store was too small for him, besides which his health broke down under the confinement, and be took to book canvassing. While at thin Work, when about 20 years of age he fell in with some surveyors, who had been employed by an Albany book shop, to make a survey of Delaware and Ulster Countes Tor the purpose of a4??pv -Gould onered hit* services at $l<ta mouUi, and.was'accepted as a line uiau~; his work was to carry a rod and chain ahead of the surveyors. He worked at this survey for nearly, six months, practreaBy. "learning the business so well that when the Albany firm had^ailed, and the job was. given up, Gould made use of the work al icady done and completed it with the id ofsomja^try^ By bowowing:i$5O0 I he managed to have Ihe^nap . printed and sold it wit? a history of Delaware from Stat?^or^^trd booTs- found ' in the "Albany Library. Wuen * the book was issued it had enst him about $1,1)00, an<Ro h^l Scfisma/ he ^ouud was a work likely to have a steady, slow sale which /wonld- pay in the course of- 'y-earfc; S?iat wj? iiot Gould's idea of business. He put his | old experience a^ a book canvasser to j usej and taking s sample copy of his j history and map from house to house, | he fordged^ through Delaware and] Counties, talcing ^-uTT?TuVr at j !almost every farm house. Having ! ; V out his first edition he sold the ! ^copyright and plates to an 'Albany] firm who still issue the work, having J on HafJt!tafp*gfer the line, "From | Aciuat^urveys by Jay Gould/' lie j had then $1,000 in his pocket with which to begin life. HOW HE CAjrarWGO TO KEW YORE. He was offered a good position in an Albany hardware shop upon the strength -of bis first venture, but de j dined on account of his health, and I took to wandering about the country j looking for something, to do and sell- j ing books as a means of paying his ! expenses It was i o the course of I his wanderings that he fell in with ait j old man named Pratt, who had a tan- j nery :n Northern Pennsylvania. It is j icaid W Gould's relalioits with Pratt, j that he out-did the man wno, going into j business with a rich partner, managed fo leave it with all the money, while the partner obtained all the expo i ienee. From all accounts, Gould left the tan nery with alf the experience and the money too. > Jt took tum two years to find out that the tanning'iutcrest was j too anwlL In the conr.se of Iiis .deal- j j mgs, in selling hides to T New .York | merchants, he became convinced that I New York was the place for him, and I altliough warned by his father that j bis ambition in going fo New York i would lead to the loss of his few thou- j sand dollars, he persisted, saying that' when he had $20,(OT ? be would re^ j tire from business and return to Dela-j ware County. He came to New York j and took an office in the top floor of j 42 Gold street, beginning the busi-j ness of buying au$ selling hides upon | a capital of $6,Q#). That was in the | year 1859, jusfcbefore the outbreak of j the war. One of his customers in the swamp was Cyrus Miller, whose daughter Eilen, Gould married in ! I860. His father-in-law happened to : j have an interest in a broken down ; ! railroad in the very county which j I Gouhl had surveyed when a-boy?the j j Ren?ssiacr & Saratago Railroad. The j ] slock was almost worthless, and Mr I j Miller regarded it as money gone, ' I when as a last resort, Gould proposed : j to go up and take a look at the rail-! j road before throwing the stock away, j With hisperfect knowledge of the! country,"the 'YHTagcs'aiid the possi- j ; bUity of doing anything that could be : J done witb the road, he quickly saw ' j that the case was not hopeless, and I j leaving the leather business, invested ; all his money in buy ing control of the road, the stock selling for a mere j AN OUTLINE OF HIS METHODS. Gould was now launched into what! be called the real business of his ife, although it would be hazarduos ; to predict that the business of con trolling the railroads of the United | States will not be small for him be- j fore he retires from active affairs. . I He showed from the very 6rst the j rasp of the subject which has made < im famous. Like alt great devices j ih\? method of making money out of! plailroads was extremely simple, and { ne illustration may suffice for all. for instance, thai Gould railroad stock selling at fifteen on the dollar, either the railroad j ?r tnestock is setting for ] less than it is. wcrth. Gould goes ! and examines the road from end to ; end. ".: In case it is wholly worthless,! t he sells the stock of the road in Wall street and when thefinal.crash comes : its of money 1 never baring ] bought or owned a share in his life. But suppose the road is valuable ; then it becomes worth serious atten tion. The first step is to boy enough of the cheap stock to get an inside view of the management, sufficient to be able to spread probably truthful and correct but still damaging re ports in Wall- street?reports which j from internal evidence are seen to j come from some one who knows. By devices kuown to shrewd Wall street operators, the reputation of that road is wrecked and the lower stock goes the better pleased is Gould. When it has been forced down to the lowest possible point, a few 'cents on the dollar perhaps, Gould is ready to buy. When he has a sufficient quantity to throw the road into bankruptcy and compel its safe, be does so and j bays it in, leaving the other stock-1 holders out in the cold. The next step is to rehabilitate the road. Gould has a genius for railroad managing, fie takes his road and infuses money, good management and system into all its departments, soon making it a paying institution ; then reversing his former method, he uses the tricks of Wall Street to increase the value of the stock, and when it has reached its highest point, by competent, honest management, it be does not care to keep the road, it it* easy to give it a still further fictitious value by paying dividends out of his own pocket or the treasury of the, road, if that be possible. Then be sells out. This plan of dealing with railroads has been reduced to a system, and of course finds would-be imitators; but while Wall Street speculators can to a cer tain extent manipulate stock and make it seem what it is not; they have hot GdutdV faculty for really managing the railroad. GOCLD AS A BROKER. The businesss of buying and selling | railroads, revamping up old ones and seliiug them as better than new, very much as the old hat man who finds a discarded hat kicking around the streets, and fixing it up with glue and i blacking, and polish and pasteboard stiffening, sells it for as good as ne n \ to some one. who will wear it until it collapses in the first rain storm, was so mncl. better adapted to Gould's vast ambition that he became a rail road dealer instead of a railroad mana ger. Dm ing the war he made money ; rapidly and ia 1865 was already be coming known among, stock brokers I as an intei easing man to watch. He ! had at this time an office or, rather, I desk room, irr; l&change Place and | was noted among brokers as the j quietest man in the street, having ab- j 8olutely no conviva) habits, noexpen- j sire tastes, and the happy faculty of j completely separating family from j business life. Few persons knew the j extent of hi* operations, so that when j he bloomed upon the world as the ; conti oiler of millions as it was much of j a surprise to Wall street operators as j to the general public. ? j HIS CONNECTION WITH FISK AND ERIE. I His connection with James Fisk and j the Erie Railroad ?dates from 1867, when Fisk, wishing to acquire a con- i trolling interest in the Erie, found that Gould was ahead of him. The audacity of trying upon the vatt Erie j Railroad the same little game that | Gould bad already played upon a! dozen unimportant roads, appealed to Fisk's love of unbounded ad ven ture? it was perilous, but if success ful the reward would be princely. The Erie Railroad, if worth any tiling, was worth $66,000,000, and Gould's scheme contemplated no less titan the ; acquisition of-the road. Gould saw j that in an enterprise of that kind it i would be well to have some one do t the active work, so to Fisk was given j the honor of pulling Gould's chesnuts | out of the fire. The capture of the j Erie Raiiroad is now a matter of his tory and is such painful reading for mauy people who lost money in it, that it is not worth while to do more than mention the fact that at the time of Fisk's death in 1870, the road wis complete^ at the mercy of Gould, j Fisk'8 sudden death upset all the j calculations; the whole structure j tumbled to the ground, and in 1872,! when Gould th rew up the game, he admitted to having obtained $9,000, 000 belonging to the Erie Railroad, a large part of which he was forced j to pay back. The fact shows- the | vast resources in the man. Fisk, in j speaking cf him used to say that j Gould was five feet high, but that he ! had two feet of head. It would proha-1 biy be impossible to-day to do what j Gould did with the property of the j Erie stockholder without lauding in ! prison, and the fact that G( uld never j went outside the law is greatly in his favor, considering the queer times j from the end of the war to the down- j fall of the Tweed ring, and the tempt- j at ion to a man of his power. A GREAT SUCCESS. From the time of Gould's exit from : the Erie Railroad, covered with op- i probri urn, to the present the change; is something stupendous; he has gone ! on adding enterprise to enterprise, I making few mistakes . and loosing ! money only when betrayed by swin dling associates, as in the Beiden ! case. Beiden was a partner of his 1 through whom Gould's points leaked j out ic Wall street to be used against him. It is almost idle now to esti mate the value of Gould*? property if: put into money. He is the last man in the world to invest his money, as ' Vanderbilt ..as done, in government j bonds at four per. cent and it may ; not be known within the next genera-1 tioti what the exact amount of his morey power is. The best-informed men whom I have asked say that no project is too large for him, no matter how many millions are involved, and putting his wealth at $100,000,000 is probably no exaggerate It must also be remembered that mis money is invested in a way which returns ten or fifteen per ceut. every year. If a stock cannot be made to do that, Gould wants none of it. It is hard to convince any one not connected with the financial or newspaper business of New York of the ramifications of Gould's power. In this city be owns two horse car railroads, blocks of stocks in every road going out of the city except the New Haven and Pennsylvania Roads, the Western Union Telegraph Company, the American District Messenger Com pany, and so careful is he of the pen nies that persons employed on bis three newspapers, The World, Tri bune and Mail are forbidden to use the Mutual District Messenger boys in their daily business because that company competes with Gould. CHARACTERISTICS OF MR. GOCLD. Now for the man himself: The chief characteristic of this great gen ius in bis intercourse with other men, is extreme quiet and deference to the opinions of others. When any one calls upon him to ask him imperti nent questions, something which hap pens halt a dozen times a day. the chances are that Gould will listen deferential, and to the man, Gould appears to be a very inconsequental person, indeed. I have seena great deal i of him and yet have never heard him j express an opinion of his own. He is one of the best listeners imaginable. One day last week 1 sat beside him in an elevated railroad car?he owns the elevated road, by the way?when some litt'e trouble occurred on the road and Gould, upon asking for in formation of the brakeman, was treated to a very rough and ready | lecture upon the responsibilities and hard Work of a brakeman's position.! He asked questions in an intelligent! sort of way and the mairauswercd him without dreaming he was talking to what all the men in Gould's employ, whether on newspapers, telegraph companies, messenger companies or elevated roads, call the Great Mogul. Several times the man asked Gould's opinion upon different little points upon which any one might form and express au opinion, but Gould gave no opinion ; the man was civil and when Gould got out he thanked him for his information. I told the man that he bad been talking to Gould, and 1 suppose the poor fellow thought that night that his fortune was made. In his offices, Gould hates noise ; con versation is pitched at a low key, and one peculiarity strongly marked in the great man is that he always does business without the aid of a secretary at his side, preferring to be alone with bis visitor, and when he calls upon any one, he likes the room to be emptied at once. I noticed this peculiarity one day recently, when Gould called upon Dr. Green, the President of the Western Union Company. Dr. Green's private room is always crowded, and yet when Gould came in, the crowd disappeard as if by magic. No greater contrast can be found, by the way, than Gould and Green. Gould?small, thin, sal low, black-eyed, with the cunning of a terrier and the quiet of a lynx, Green?big, hearty, loud, with a jovial laugh that is heard air-over the building, or a storm of impatience, that is over almost as quickly as it comes Gould is never known to show anger of any kind. HIS EXEMPLARY PRIVATE LIFE. Of his home life 1 know nothing, but public report says that he is a model husband and father, leaving business punctually at 3 o'clock and devotiug the rest of the day and evening to his family. He has six children, the eldest of which, his, sou, he has already associated with him in business. He lives in a large double house at the corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-seventh street, built by the late George Opdyke, once Mayor of New York. His sum mer place on the Hudson at Tarry town, contains the most magnificent conservatories in America, which are said to cost Mr. Gould $120,000 a year. For horses, the theater and fast life genet ally, Gould seems to have no taste whatever. Where this wonderful man will stop, is a ques tion asked by many persons. It is predicted frequently that the great effort of Gould's life will come should he and Vanderbilt ever be pitte/l against each other as the rival rail road monopolists of the country. Many persons s-.y that Vanderbilt bought his $50,000,000 worth of government bonds as a little nest egg to fallback upon and keep bim com fortably in his old age when Gould shall have wiped him out as a railroad man and established himself on the ruins. Vanderbilt himself "acknowl edges that he is no match for Gould in Wall street manipulations, and all brokers know that what successes Van derbilt has on the street are accom plished by the meie weight of his money, just as a very big man with out any skill at all, can sometimes ciU8h a little nan who is brimming over with skill. Gould has both the weight and the skill and when the inevitable conflict between these two comes to pass, there is no doubt in the minds of the Wall street connois seurs as to what the result will be.? Detroit Fi'ee Press. Among the papers left behind bim by a German physician who died a few weeks ago is one containing cotes of certain conclusions he had arrived at during a professional experience of more than forty years. In one of these notes he expresses an opinion that at least a third of the illnesses of the patients who sought his advice were purely imagi nary. He found itnotouly against his own interest, but alsoagaiost that of the self-alleged sufferers, to destroy the illusion by informing them that there was really no cause for anxiety. Ill health was to them a matter of almost vital importance. Todestroy the pleas ing belief that they possessed this bless ing was an absolute cruelty. In the few instances in which he broke to tbem th* terrible truth that they were quite well he found that the result was genuine illness. For the patients, all interest in life depru ted with their favorite occu pation ot nursing themselves, and their health became seriously affected by ner vous depression. Ho also found that, as a rule, weakly persons live longer than strong ones. Without going so far as to say that the best lives a- e those rejected by the insu ranee offices, ho thought nevertheless that persons with (a screw loose' more often attain lon gevity than those in whom no trace of duem cai to tkieetod. ' ' safe . - A Horrible Confession. THE DEATH BED TALES OF A WOMAN. Waterford, Ohio, January 1.? Mrs. Emma Stillwell, who lies oy. her death bed in this small village, has made a most reraark^^'^^^ion of crime. She states that she assisted in the murder of her first husband and her child; that she attempted her second husband's life, and that she killed a transient boarder Tn the fami ly. The confession, which was taken down from her lips, is so horrible that but for corroborating testimony it would seem more like the fancy of a diseased mind than a story of real life! The invalid, Emma Stillwell, arrived at the house ot her husband's father, F. M. Stillwell, at Waterford, November 13, suffering lrom lung dis ease, accompanied by Tier infant child, nine months old. Her condi tion rapidly becoming worse, her husband, a freight conductor ou the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, residing at Ottumwa, Iowa, was telegraphed for and arrived here on the seventh. On the Sunday fol lowing the wife informed him that, knowing herself to be a dying woman, she had a confession to make, and im ploring his pardon related her horri ble taie. She said, and has repeated the state ment since, that before her acquain tance with her husbaud she was mar ried when fifteen years old at Mary ville, Nodbury County, Missouri, to Ben Swigert, to whom she had two children. In March, 1877, assisted by her brother, Chester Iloaid, and her mother, she murdered her hus band, whom they believed to have considerable money, They were ar rested for the crime, but was dis charged for lack of evidence, the general belief being that Swigert came to his death in a drunken fit. After the death of her husband, the family kept a boardiug house at Mary ville for some time, and a few months after the first murder the same trio murdered a transient boarder, whose name she was unable to recollect. She told what disposition was made of the body, saying that it was thrown into a deep ra\ ine near the town where it was found nearly a year later, but that they ivere unsuspected of the crime. She married her present husband, then a brakeman on (he Kansas, St. Joe and Council Bluffs Railway, in January.. 1878, the family soon after removing to Rulo, Nebraska, where she confesses that in May, 1880, she strangled their fourteen-months-old baby, named Gertrude, by the assist ance of her aunt, a woman named Betsey Sumstine, for the reason that it was sickly and she thought she would have more liberty if it was dead. She described how the horri ble deed was accomplished, the aunt making a strong tea from peach leaves, which she pourd down the baby's throat, while the unnatural mother held the baby, assisting in its death by strangling it with her hand, Mrs. Stillwell further informed her horrified husband of making three dif ferent attemps to take his lite, the object being to obtain a small in surance he was carrying in her favor, I and related details which leave no doubt in Iiis mind that his life was saved each time by the merest acci dent. The husband bore the terrible secret as long as he was able. Then on Tuesday last four of the best men of the neighborhood, including a min ister and a Justice of the Peace, were called in and the confession repeated to them, the wife signing the state ment. The mother of the woman re ceived fatal injuries in a railroad ac cident in March, 1881, while travel ing from Rulo to Ottumwa, the wife says, for the avowed purpose of con cocting a plan to kill her present husband. A letter was received by Mr. Still well from Chester Hoard, the woman's brother, dated December 20, in which he expressed the utmost anxiety to know if his sister was dead, and if she had told anything about him, saying he could not rest until he heard. The woman is very weak and can scarcely speak above a whisper, and when requested to repeat her story to a correspondent was greatly alarmed, fearing that officers were present to arrest her. Upon being assured that they were friends again declared it to be true iu evpry parti cular. Washington's Punctuality. When General Washington assigned to meet Congress at noon, he never failed to be passing the door of the hall while the clock was striking twelve. Whether his guests were present or not, he always dined at four. Not uufre quently, new members of Congress who were invited to dine with him, delayed until dinner was half over; and be would then remark: "Gentlemen, we are punctual bore. My cook never asks whether the company has arrived, but whether the hour has." When be visited Boston, in 1789, ho appointed eight o'clock, A. M., as the hour when he should set out for Salem ; and while the Old South was striking eight he was mounting his horse. The company of cavalry which volunteered to escort j him were parading in Treroont street j after his departure, and it was not until I the General reached Charles River j bridge, that they overtook him. On the arrival of the corps, the General, ! in perfect good nature, said: "Majori -, I thought you had been too long in my family not to know when it was eight o'clock. Captain Pease, the father of the stage establishment in the United States, bad a beautiful pair of horses, which he wished to dispose of to the General, whom he knew to be an excellent judge of horses. The General appointed five o'clock in the morniug to examine them. But the Captain did not arrive with the horses until a quar ter past five, when he was told by the groom that the General was there at five, and then was fulfilling other en gagements. Pease, much mortified, was obliged to watt a week for auother opportunity, merely for delaying tbe t of an boor. Prospective Railroads. The recent Legislature^Jias granted charters to eight new railroads, among which are the following : THE BISHOPVILLE RAILROAD. ^"v_ The Kishopville Railroad Company, of which John J. Rowland, Walter W. Rowland, John M. Miller, James A. Rbarne and J Wesley Bradford are the corporators, has been chartered for the purpose of establishing a railroad from Bish->pville, in Sumter county, to some point ou the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad by the most suitable route. They also have the power to extend^the road to 'some point on the line dividing the States of North and South Carolina, and between Lynch's River and Wateree River.' The capital stock of the company is fixed at $25,000, in shares of $50 each, with the privilege of increasing it 'to such an amount as may be found necessary to construct and equip the said railroad, not to exceed ?1,000,000.' The com pany have the right to mortgage their property and franchises, issue bonds and 'effect a consolidation with any other railroad company forming a continuous line with its own,' and shall not be exempt from taxation. It is provided that the road shall be commenced within two years and completed within five years after the approval of its charter, and that the charter shall continue in force for thirty years. TUE PALMETTO RAILROAD. Messrs. P. A. Welford, I. P. Brin toD, C Chancery, C. E- Wellford and W. S. Greene, and their successors and assigns, are authorized to construct a railroad from any point on the North Carolina line, through or near the cor porate limits of Cheraw, Cam den, Co lumbia and Aiken to any point on the Georgia line iu Aiken or EdgeGeld counties, the route to be determined upon by a majority of the corporators or board of directors. The capital of the company is fixed at $100,000, in shares of $100 each with the privilege of increasing the same to $5,000,000. They have the right to begin work whenever ?25,000 shall have been sub scribed to the capital stock, the sub scriptions to be made in labor, mate rials, lands or money. The company have the power to mortgage its property and franchises and to issue bends. The charter of the company is to continue in force for thirty years, provided that w< rk shall be commenced aod the road graded from Hamlet, N. C, to Cheraw, S. C, within two years from the date of the charter. ^ 'MOUNT PLEASANT, SANTEE AND LITTLE RIVER RAILROAD COMPANY.' Messrs J. A. Leland, Charles E. Carrere, J. B. Skipper, J. H. Patjens, R. V. Morrison, W. Henderson, A. Powell, J W. Venuing, W. P. Beck man,. R. T. Morrison. Jr., C.. H. Simonton, Claus Koper, H. Winds, J. C Dove, R. T. Morrison, Sr., and Frank Ladson are the corporators. The charter authorizes and empowers the corporators to build a railroad by the most practicable route through Christ Church and St. James SautceParishes, in Berkeley Couuty. to the Santee River and thence to Little River, the road to be connected with the City of Charleston by ferry. They, or any three of them selected for the purpose, have the right to open books of sub scription to the capital stock of the company, which shall not exceed $1,000,000, and shall be .divided into shares of $20 each. Whenever the sum of $5,000 is subscribed to the capital stock of the company a meeting of all the stockholders shall be held, at which it shrill be lawful to elect a president and directors. The Town Council of Mount Pleasant are authorized to issue bonds for investment in the stock of the road to an amount not exceeding $20, 000 whenever directed to do so by a majority of the qualified voters of the town at an election to be ordered by the Intendant and Wardens after thirty day's notice. THE BARN WELL RAILWAY COMPANY Of which Johnson Hagood, Samuel Sloan, G. B.Lartigue, T. Bailey Myers, Alfred Aldrieh, James J. Higinson, John B. Peck,. Isaac S Bamberg, F. A. Stout, Frederick Ilardey, George W. Dilloway. and Henry P. Taltnadge are the corporators, have the right to establish aud operate a railroad from the town of Black vilic to Barn well Courthouse with the power to extend the same to any point beyond the Town of Barnwell and to the Savannah River, and from the Town of Blackville to Sumter or any intermediate point. The capital stock of the company is fixed at $100,000, with the privilege of increasing it to such an amount as may be necessary to construct and equip the road. The company have the right to open books of subscription, which may be made in labor, material, lauds or money, to mortgage its proper ty, and issue bonds. ?i 11 ? ? A New Proposition. It is related of an up-town resident that after his butcher bill has grown to such figures that the butcher could no longer carry the debt he gave his note for ninety days in settlement. Three or four days after the butcher had re ceived the note he called upon his credi tor and said: 'I have your note for $215, due in three months.' 'You j have' 'What should be the discount I on such a note?' 'Well, you ought to be able to realize at least $205.' 'Would you hand me $200 and take the note V 'I should be only too glad to, promptly replied the creditor, 'but for my pride. To ask a mau to dis count his cwo paper is to humiliate him.' 'But I have tried all the banks, Sir. and none of them will take it.' Ah! I see ! It's too small a matter for them to handle. I owe the grocer $196 50. Suppose you pay it, aod let me tear up this note, and give yen one for both amounts combined!' The butcher is still holding the original note.?San Francisco Ex. When Oscar Wilde saw Niagara Falls he exclaimed: 'Bulk but no beauty.' When a little Detroit boy first saw the sublime cataract be solcmly whispered; 'Mamma, I feel like tak ing my hat off to God.' That is the difference between embryo idiocy and embryo maabocd.? Baltimore Day. Report on Temperance. Adopted by tlie Late Session of the So. j Ca. Conference. The tiaje has come for this Confer- i enee4o clothe in living forms, and put j in forceTi^s utterances, in resolutions j touching thereniDe ranee question offered at its annual sessions. Signals have j been raised, warnings ?keji, together j with the fearful record of the ranges of the liquor traffic Tbe voice of lamenta tion aud mourning swells on eve**y band over the impending disgrace and ruin of thousands of the brightest and best of our countrymen. Yet, the traffic in intoxicants has reached colossal propor tions, entrenched itself in every city, county and State, backed by immense capital and numberless men ; is estab lishing itself by legislative enactments, and a will which seems to exert itself in herculean efforts to ' make everything submissive to its dictatorial assump tions. The measures now proposed by the anti-prohibition party indicate at once that if the Church iuteuds to do any thing at all, it must arouse itself, buckle on the armor of aggressive warfare, and go forth in tbe potent name of Jesus Christ, and exorcise this demon and rescue our couutrymen. Therefore, Resolved, That as a Conference, we reaffirm our utterances on. tbis subject, and pledge our earnest co-operation with every laudable effort to stay the progress of tbis evil, aud banish it frou^ public favor. Resolved, That we, as ministers of the gospel, wiil preach and lecture upon tbe subject, and thus try to formulate a healthy, Christian, prohibition senti ment among the people. Resolved, Tbat the third Sabbath in November, 1883, be set apart by tbis Conference* for speer' end earnest prayer to Almighty God for His bless ing upon tbe efforts making for prohibi tion. > II F. ClIREITZBERG, ") J B. C. Wright, V Com. Saml A. Weber, ) The One Day President. Some Reminiscences of the United States in the Old Times. Jefferson Davis differed from all the others, and ranked as one of tbe ablest in debate. There was this to be said of him : You never beard any thing foolish fall from his lips. Davis and I were schoolmates at Transylvania University. The last time I left home to go any distance was to make a trip to Kansas City to see Davis when he was North. Jim Shields was there, too, and we got to talking about ages. I fuund they bad not counted all the years to their ages, as I knew them intimately early in life. I could account for it in Shiclds's case, for be bad married a second time, but I couldn't explain it for Davis. It's singular how old raon lose track of tbe years and either make themselves much older or much younger than ibey really are. Shields was a lucky fellow in politics; went to the Senate from two States and tbeu was elected from Missouri to till out a term. He was a bright man, but not of much depth. Talking of tbe orators in tbe Senate, there was Henry S. Foote of Mississippi. 'Came to be called Hangman Foote ' afterwards, didn't be V 4Yes He was eternally making speeches. He didn't think any subject ; was fairly bandied cr disposed of until ! he bad talked .about it. I think be made four times as many speeches as anybody else. He and Davis didn't get along well. I think Foote wanted to! have pretty much everything bis own j way. Niles and Tappan were our oldest members. When 1 was first elected j President of the Senate it was a matter of considerable surprise to me. I was for Hannegan of Indiana. Elec*' a was ; cotuins: on with him. I wanteu niiu to I Lave it. The balloting commenced and there were two or three votes for me. Several limes I was on the point of ris ing and asking my friends to vote for Haonegan, but every ballot my strength kept increasing and I let it go on till tbe contest narrowed down to old Father Niles and myself, and I got it.' *Thcre are not many of yonr contem I poraries left, sir.' S 'Not many. There is Hannibal i Hamliu. .He was a comparatively young Senator, aud I knew but little of him. He was a Democrat in those days Simon Cameron was a good Democrat, too". Pennsylvania, when Cameron first came to the Senate, was the keystone of the Democratic arch, as we called her, but the growth of her iron interests inclined her people toward a protective tariff. I shall always respect old Came ron. He was a kind hearted, gooJ j man. I expect he'adoue as many good deeds as any mau in bis State. Many were the vouo# meu who went through his printing office an.; were started in life by him, for bis purse wa3 always open to help them. I suppose that was the secret of his great power in bis State, for nine-tenths of the young men he helped became newspaper men. It was through Cameron I made the ac quaintance of Ben Brewstcr, now Attorney-Geueral. Brcwster was just commencing to practice before the Su preme Court. He, too, was a good Democrat iu those days.?David R. Atchison in the Globe-Democrat. - ?> i - "Two Swallers fur Ten Cents." j Strange voung man (awful dry) to i native youth : 'Say, can you tell a fei- i low where to get a little strycb- \ nine?' Native youth ; 'Yes; just go round by that oyster house you'll see a negro with a bottle. * Strange young man goes, as direct ed, finds negro with the bottle, which i he promptly elevates to bis mouth, as the bar is minus glasses. The sable vender equally as promptly seizes him | by the throat, and when he has felt the Adam's Apple crawl up twice beneath | bis hand, cries out: 'Hold on dar, boss; two swallers fur ten cents P Strange young man reluctantly low ers the the bottle and pays bis bill. ?? ? -4M*"" Fashionable talk. Novelties iu di vorce suits. ^ News and. tfossip. J. Gould bought a cemetery lot at ? big price, and the Chicago ^Tiroes is afraid that he is about to get control of the route to the land that is fairer than day. Twenty-two ostriches, imported from Africa, have been sent to Fresno eoon ty, Cal., with the idea of establishing an ostrich farm there. The birds are said to increase npidly, toe female lay* ing about fifty eggs a year. "The prophets ought to be predicting the failure of the ice crop, peach crop; or something."?.Some people seem td fear they will be forgotten if they art not continually lying "V-^ The daughter of a wealthy cHizen of of BurTalo quarreled with hei faihera^nd left her home. A large reward wail $ offered for her discovery, and the .de tectives soon found her doing kitchen work in a Detroit family, flcr employ er was very loth to *ive her up., she had proved such an efficient and induce trious servant. Tourgee said of the Radical party? that it was 'as dead as if Cheops hau been builded over its ashes.' And now Fred Douglass, the beat intel^ lect among the negroes for politics, has this ungracious thing to say: 'The party has accomplished all the good fer[ which it was created?now let it die/ Amen! rreat unpleasantness attending a man's getting parried is bis utter in significanceN^jhe occasion. The bride is the object of attention as the star performer of the show, and he ie re garded merely as a necessary property. A gentleman should only offer hit left arm to his wife. The only time when a lady is placed on a gentleman's left is during the-marriagc service, when the position indicates subjection. ?[London Qaeen. It is generally only a temporary subjection.?[Detroit Free Press. A man on a Georgia railroad train suddenly turned a complete somersault, landing in the seat in front of htm. He was immediately followed by another man bebind bim who landed in the Kit the first one had just vacated. It looked like a performance of the pantomimes and acrobats at the theatre. Tfce cause if this singular conduct was the pres ence of another train on the same track on front and coming in the opposite di rection. . . It is calulated that about five million*^ base balls are made each yjj?r, and these are not extravagant figures when it is considered that upoQ every vacant lot in the large cities and upon every village green in the country there are* crowds of men aod boys banging away at a ball whenever the weather permits. And yet people say the national game is dying out. A precocious boy was once afflicted with a boil in that locality of his anatomy which is seldom mention in polite society. To bin* a playmate addressed words of condolence. 'Oh,' replied the precocious boy. Tin not sd powerful bad off, after all. This \jQ'X~~~ has taught me, in its quiet, uaohstru sive way, what tnaatel-peices were made for. as you yourself shall learn, if you will stay and see me eat my supper.' This fable teaches that all created^ things have their spheres to fill in this - ^ life.?Denver Tribune. : A Brooklyn man applied to the courts for custody of bis children, alleging that his wife was a flirt and unfit to take care of them. Without deciding that the wife had been guiiry of any immor tality, the sternly virtuous judge award ed the children to the father's custody, saying that a schoolgirl might be ex cused for flirting, but a married woman never. Strange to say, the children so lacked the intuition which should have led them unerringly to tbeir tmSirra tio us parent that they wept and waited after the giddy mother. The Petersburg Index-Appeal speaks up warmly in favor of the abolition by Congress of the postage on newspapers. It very truly snys that the theory of law is that the subscribers pay the postage, which is oot true in practice. About 10,000 publishers pay the' pos tage on the reading matter for 50,000 people. In almost every other case of taxation the consumer is made to pay tax. In this ca.?e it is impracticable, and the remedy is in. the abolition en tirely of the postage. 'Look here,' said the governor to a high State official, 'wbeu are you going to pay me that ten dollars T 'Upon my * honor. Governor, I don't know/ *WKy< Sir, the other day, when 1 mentioned the- fact of your indebtedness, you ask ed me where I would be Tuesday/ 'Yes. Sir.' 'Well, wasn't that a prom ise that you would pay me Tuesday V 4No, Sir.' 'Why, then, did you want, to knov* where I would be Tuesday V 'Becuase I wanted to know where you'd be so I could make arrangements to be" somewhere else.' It was just before the curtain had gone up for the third act when Smith, who had been out to 'see a mao,' not ticed Brown seated a few rows in front of him. 'Do you sec that fellow over there V he said to his wife. She nod ded assent. 'Well,' he continued, 'I hate that fellow like a cat bates hot soup, and if ever I get a chance Fit 'paralyze' bim.' Then his wife a**:cd f 'Are you going out to see anotiKi tasn after the close of this act?' Smith hiccoughingly allowed that he wvas.?* 'Weil, I tell you what to do dear; when* you come back you go over to Mr. Brown and breathe on him ; that will paralyze' him.' A man who says ho is not able to* pay for a paper ought to go at once the proper court and have his u-ife ?j pointed bis guardian. Remember thi a newspaper is worth mogfto a than a three months school. A fami that takes a paper lives, as it were, a house set upon a hill, from wb< windows he can sec all that is going io the world. Friend, don't say y< are not able to pay for your paper. Si you don't like the paper, or aay y< would rather live in ignorance, or clare that you do not wan* your childrc to learn anything, but d -n't say y< can't pay?because to say yon eav't paj is to say you are no man, have ho b; bone, sad ought to be in the poor f