The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 23, 1900, Image 6
Facts About an Eclipse.
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AOR14T A8TBONOMIOAL
tVENT.
Total Solar XcUpte Visible Id
ite Untied Statoa May 28
VMS ttm WILL LOOK LIKB A
BUMMING CAaVDLK.
M. T. OooamoTo'al AdvMtieer
Ofj Moy 28 of tbo proooot year wo
twall btvo oo opportottty to too on
Ml eotrooomioal occurrence
rill bo totollj oolipoed, aod
will bo fioiolo In parte of
TJaitod Stetee
Oaoojoiooelly, ao wo know, the
00000 between oo ood Ibo eon,
off tbo letlor'e light oomplete
*? wo call o ootar ooMpoe
ooMpott, oo) tbo olbor band, oro
~ by tbo foooo'o reeohiog eooh
tbot tbo oortb io directly
Uttel tbo eoo Tbo mooo
tobereat brilliancy like tbo
mm ; It obiooe only by refleotiog
Otler Hfbl ; ood wboo tbot light io
ami off, tbo eaoon oiaaply "goee oot M
gVt tbo too It oolf illomitoot, ood it
! Ii WwHty tbteiog jott tbt ttstt wbon
s wMwtr ?tttptt oo at toy other time.
\:m abt lawtatr, tbt ttoot bavitf tod
? wteiy tooood tt rtooivt or rofleot
. liwet'twt ottipoo It obovrveble wber
twtr Hat ten, if oaoolipoed, would
' to vaoJoH Bat tt tty given moment
WO toe tottlly ooo tbt woo a from
sjwlbtH tbt eotib't oat foot Ooooo
? ejeosjely, K t Itttr oolipoo ttkot pi ooo
I ? wMfwrfcy of tbt etrth't inhabitants
[ w*fw tt opportaoily to obttrve it,
:, toe tbot t itttr oolipoo it ooroethiog
"'. *tbws eWewtet tty ptrooo ooo rotaottbor
; fm Ijtrot toot Bot it it Tory differ
ejat wfcb tbt ttt. Ao wo boot ooid.
tjt. owttttwtt to giro* light wboo
tt tbot it It ooly it pltoot
ooo It tot tally covered op
tbo mooo tbot bo will ooo at to bo
Tbo ttoot oodor oolipto
t ootdto that boo btto exiin
fyttbdd ; It it dark from wbtttvtr
j tlwt wo look tt it Btt tbt oolipoed
two It liko t boroiog candle, wbiob
trlM bo lejfWblo to him ooly wbooo
wfaea at obtprtotod by tbo itttrpoti
f leWt of Oft opoqoo object
Tkat opoqoo object it tbt moon
- Be* obe at comparatively email ood
, toaatot roodor tbo ttt totally iaviti
j Mo froe* ttoro tbto t tioy oiroulor wr
* wtaJ toot oo tbt eertb'e eorfooe Io
4? tobpot of Nty 88 that little a pot
II bo ooly aboot 76 mileo widt;
if tbt taoon woro oot it motion
total pboot of tbo oolipoo ootld
tw a ooo oowbtrt oloo Bot tbo oaooo
traveling all tbo time tbroogh
wt Io ite orbit troood tbt torth
V 0 littlo opot io moving, too, ood
ehoofieg lie poeitioo grodoolly opco
tbo eertb'e eorfoce Tbue, ioetaad
of o opot, wo obtll hero t long strip
or bead aboot 16 taileo wide ; ood
by wtiliof for the right moment, It
wHI bo poeoible to ooo totality from
toy point within th e band Tbe
whole thing to mach oo thoogb there
woro t btgt pencil, with lie point
leeching tbo eortb, ood horiog ite
elbor ood pivoted to tbo ooo If tho
ttoviog mooo wore theo oloo attach
od to thie peooil eoooewhere uear tbe
???Mod, ehe would draw tbe pencil
Ioloof, ood tbo poiot would trooe oot
abereolipee path oo tbe eerth Aoy
OOO etaoding in tbot path could Iben
took along tbo peooil, ood at tho
gm>per moment eee the mooo cover
ItOJ tbo eoo ood obecoring tbo light
la ploooo eitoeted near tbio path of
totality, ao it io called, we eball bo
tbto to owe tbo eclipoe, bot or>t ee o
total ooo. For each pleooo the mooo
will oovor tho eoo ooly io tort eo
tbot oomo of bio brilliant oorfaoo wfll
rosa at o iu eight Tbo amount of ob
oosaration alweye depeode opoo the
ebeorver'e neoroeot to tho totality
Btt Tbo ooarer bo ia, the more
oearly total the oolipoo will bo
Oo May 28th tho poth of totolity
bogtoe io tbo Pecl?o ooeeo juet weet
oaf Mexico There tbe point of the
b?ge pencil wo hovo imagined : r*?
tone bee our oorlh It then poeeeo
toot word acrooe Mexico, ood entering
tbo Uoitod Stetee ooar New Orleaoe,
proceeds io o oortr eeoterly direotioo
tot11 it looveo tbo continent oloeo to
Norfolk, To Theii it crosses the
Atlontio, toooheo Portogel, ood after
word peeees eoroee Northern Africa
loovlag tho eerth finally near tbe
northern etrd of the Red era lo thie
oooatry Ibo oitioa of New Orleaoe,
La, Mobile, Ala. Montgomery, Ale,
ttalcigh, N. C , and Norfolk, Vo. ore
til oo tho totality path At New
Orloeoe tbo etn will be completely
oovored et 7 80 o m . while ot Nor
folk tbio will oot boppen until 8 63 o
at In tho former city totality will
loot 73 oecoude, end in tbe latter 102
ooooodo At intermediate piacee both
Ibo time or?d duration of totality will
fall between tbeee extreme valuea
For plaoee neorer to New Or)t?ena
then to Norfolk tbo numbere will be
oeerer tboeo given for New Orleeno,
tod vioe voreo
Having tbne explained tbe circum
ttoaoeo of thie eclipoe, wo ?hall now
loooh upon aomo of the iotereeting
Ibiage that will bo eeen if tbo eky ia
oleer Total eoUr eolipeeo eppeol
equally lo tho general public and to
tbo profeoeiooal aetronomer. On tbo
ttt htod, they preaeol tho moet
tajporb opootoclo within the whole
rtoge of totrooomy ; end on tho oib
1 toy offot tbo boot opportunity lo
totrtwo ttfoottrt tad
things to wbioh nstrooomers nttsoh
importance it tbo nocornte rbeervs
tioo of the times of beginning nod
ending of the eclipse It in ensy to
toe i %t the mntbemnticsl considers
tioo opon wbioh ore bssed oor theo
ritt of Inonr motion will be pot to t
Tory severe test io prediotiog I be
eznot iostnnt when tht tan will be
oovered op by the moon If obtervt
tioo tgreet with prediction, we heve
the ttroogett oorroborttive evidence
of the ourreotoeee of oar theory end
of our numerical otloolttiont. O?
tht other herd, if it be foood tbtt the
prtdietiont ere tlightly io error, ih?
?mount of tbtt error ono De deter
mined by obeervatiou, tod mtthemnt
iotl theory that oorreoted for the
benefit of future predictions. Al
though our knowledge in this deptrt
mtnt of tttrooomy bst renohed t
?try high tittt of perfection, it it t
foot tbtt we otnnot prediot the times
of telipte todty without t possibility
of error smoooting to several seo
oodt Ptrt of thit trror it doe no
doobt to insufficient knowledge of
the mooo'e size, or to the possibility
tbtt contact between tan tnd moon
may occur tt t very irregular or
mountainous psrt of tbo lunar surftet.
Bot eteh eclipse teodt to improve
oar information tod make oar mathe
Dttietl theories more perfeot.
The grettest interest, however,
oeotert tboot tht phytiotl obtervt
tioos possible duriog t tottl eclipse
Oor too it oot merely the bitting,
brillitnt, I ami nous globe we tee
tttry dty io the beevene The fiery
center ball bat t vest oottr tppend
tge, ttretofaing millions of miles into
spsoe? (be dtliotttly tinted, tenuous,
filmy, ootzpltlned corona It it the
corona that makes a tottl eclipse to
beaotiful, regtrded merely tt t tpeo
ttclt to be seen tod tojoytd lit
light it mocb ftioter tbto tbtt of the
too; wt oto tee it only when the
Itter it completely obscured. At all
other tlmet the bright light of the
oentrtl ball illuminates the tir aor
rounding oor ttrtb to tt to make it
for superior io brightness to tht ftint
corona ; tod obtervors looking per?
force throogh thit illumintted tir
otnnot distinguish tht delicste trtcery
of the ooroot itself Bat when the
tdvanoing of tht moon tlowly covers
tht bud's central diso, until tt last
ooly t ntrrow tioklt thtped pieoe it
left, tht wtitiog astronomers beve t
ftw moments of intense expectation
The tiekle otrrowt gradually ; bot t
mere thread it Itft; ytt even tbtt It
qoite sufficient to mask the coront
Tbto, ?oddeoly, til it covered. Oo
tht iotttnt. as though tt the touch of
t magioisn's wtnd. outburata the
aplendid coroaa ioto view 'Tit t
t tight of beauty indescribable, im
pressive beyond comparison Men
tbtt have been privileged to see it,
ever sfter tell of itt paving given one
of life's moot exciting momeott,
never to be forgotten
Bat the qaiet scientific inveetigs
tor tritt to tcske ate of these rsre
opportunities to obttio tome knowl
edge of the trae constitution of oor
sun Btfort the coront t sppetrtnoe,
just tt the brillitnt central dieo is
being totally obscured, there are a
very few brief important teconda
when wt receive light direct from
the outer layero of the solar globe,
and tbeeo momente offer the only
cbanot to examine direotly the glow
ing gaaea that make op the eon's oot
side envelope Mnob of oor solar
knowlege has been thus gathered
painfully io the few fleeting minutes
of observation made poaaibie by euo
oesoive tottl eclipses. Then it is
that we aee great red flames flashing
hondreda of thousands of miles out
into spaoe Curliog, interlacing,
ever changing, veritable oloodborata
of living fire, these tre proofs of the
power tnd violeooe of natore'o hid
den forces.
RAILROAD HAS BEEN SOLD.
Tredegjur Mineral Purchased by Bir?
mingham Syndicate.
Anmston, Ala., May 16.? The Trede
gnr Mineral railroad lias btfjsj bought by
Alex T. London of Birmingham and as?
sociates ami will at once bo extended
from Jacksonville to Anniston, a dis?
tance of 1J mil s. Tim road was built
by General J. W. Burke and others and
is 3 miles in length, reaching from Jack?
sonville t ? the Bast ami West railway,
the latter using it to get into Jackson?
ville
One of the conditions of tbs sale is
that suits by the Ticirttgtl Mineral
against list Htli and West now pending
be eon-id>Ted settled, ar I another U
that the rood l>c built to Auulatou with
:D six nioniiis, or as s<.i thereafter as
possible. Tiie Kast and West and the
Seaia>nrd Air Line are Indieved to be be?
hind the deal.
K dlt or'a Awful Pllgnt.
F M Hicgins, Kai tor Seneca, (Ilia , > New,
was afflicted for ytars with l'?ea that no doc
tor or remedy helpeii until he tried Hucklen'i
Aroioa Halve. He write* two boim wholly
cured bira. It'- the Mirc-i IMo cure on earth
'ill tba Lett ?alve in the world. Cure guar
antaed. Only 5 5 SSttSi Sold by J F. W
Uel.orue, DrugaUt ^?
Peculiar Aeeldent at Tampa.
TAMPA, Fla., May 17.?Frank Morris
met with a psjOutifclff incident here. A
rravehng man, running to ottch a car,
dropped his pistol from Iiis |a>cket
I which, striking the ground, was dig
eharged, the bullet taking effect in Mor?
ris' arm, inflicting^ an ugly wound.
Cotton Mill Projected.
St. Matthews, S. C, May 16.?The
Indications an? that St. Matthews w#l,
tt an tairly date, have a cotton mill. A
j?anrtcr has laden applied for and the
work of soliciting stock is progressing.
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War Tax Piling Up a
Great Surplus.
UNNEOESSABY AND UNJUST.
A Standing Invitation to Every
Rascal In the Land.
REPUBLICAN LEADERS UNHAPPY.
Fear of Impending Defeat Render*
Them Irritable?Cannon and llep
bnrn Quarrel?Billlnarsffate In the
Honae?Protest of the Soldier*?In
the Grip of Bnccaneera?Senator
Hoar on True Statesmanship?Indi?
ana Election*.
[Special Washington Letter.]
An unnecessary tax is an unjust tax.
The federal treasury contains,a vast
ourplus which is Increasing every day
and which is produced by the continua?
tion of the Spanish war taxes.
Therefore these taxes, being unnec?
essary, are unjust and should be
abolished.
But the signs indicate that the Re?
publican leaders will not permit any
change at this session of congress of
any feature of the Spanish war reve?
nue bill, not even of those features
which are the most irritating to the
people and the least productive of reve?
nue.
Everybody knows that the bill \\?o
hastily prepared, passed under whip
and spur as a temporary measure and
abounds in crudities and inequalities. <
Still wo are not to be permitted to
change it, even in the estimation of a
hair, because the Republican bosses
have so willed it.
The stamp taxes on uiedlclues are 20
times what the rates are on John D.
Rockefeller's products, but no change
must be made, because the bosses don't
want it, don't you know.
Stamp taxes on small notes, con?
tracts, mortgages, etc., are more pro?
ductive of profanity than revenue, but
they must stand, because the bosses
have so willed it.
By the end of the year the surplus, at
the present rate, will be betwixt $50,
000,000 and $70,000,000, but the bosses
appear to deem that an evidence of
statesmanship, hugging to their breasts
the delusiou that people don't know
that every dollar of that surplus Is un
j'litly wrung from the overburdened
taxpayers of the land.
A surplus in the treasury is a stand?
ing invitation to every rascal in the
land to move on Washington with some
scheme to deplete Uncle Samuel's pleth?
oric pocketbook, but the bosses de?
cree that matters shall remain In statu
quo.
Thomas Jefferson's declaration is as
good and wise today as when tirst
made?"Economy in the public expense
that labor may be lightly burdened"?
but the bosses care nothing about la?
bor or Its burdens so long as they can
point with pride to a huge surplus, the
result of unnecessary taxation. They
could easily double the surplus by the
simple process of doubling the taxes.
There Is no end to such a plan, except
the exhaustion of the people's patience.
RcpublicnnM Irritable.
What seems to be the certainty of
Impending defeat renders the Repub?
lican leaders irritable, querulous und
Kilkenny cattish. They yowl and
howl and claw and otherwise disport
themselves to the infraction of the pub?
lic decorum. They use loud, violent,
abusive and tumultuous language to?
ward each other In such a reckless
manner as to disturb the peace of their
Democratic neighbors, who are in a
peculiarly happy frame of mind con?
templating what reforms they will
work when they come into possession
of the government at high noon March
4, A. D. 1901.
During the debate on the Nicaragua
bill Uncle Joe Cannon of Illinois,
chairmau of the great committee on
appropriations, and Colonel William
Peters Hepburn of Iowa, popularly de?
nominated Colonel Pete, chairman of
the committee on Interstate and for?
eign commerce, committed mouth as?
saults upon each other with intent to
kill and murder?at least to do great
bodily harm.
On the 7th day of this mouth Uncle
Joe was C4 years old, has been in the
house a quarter of a century and
should know better than to quarrel
like a fishwife.
Colonel Hepburn is past Co\ though
he does not look It. He has been In
congress many years, was once solic?
itor of the treasury, and It would ap?
pear that he has seen enough years to
?'cool his heart of lire."
Not so, however. These two veteran
statesmen fell n-foul of each other, like
I two Qroco-Boman wrestlers, and tug
! god,strained, tore up the ground 10 such
disgraceful manner that Charlie
Wheeler of Kentucky demanded that
they be called to order, but nobody
paid any attention to his call, as every?
body wanted to oot the two illustrious
Republican! wool each other to their
hearts' contettt? but It must be confess
ed that when a row gets too hot to
please a Kentueklan Illing! are liable
to molt Perhaps Wheeler uns dis
gutted because they were confining
tbemaolvoi to shaking lists and hurling
epithets Inotoad of adopting the Ken
tueky plan of settling difficulties, whirl.
plan w as recently Ultiatrated by Colo
nol David G, t'olson, when he killed
three men at one time.
Colonel Hepburn east aspersions on
Uncle Joe's sincerity. 1'nele Joe, with
many geotlouiatlona, genuflexions and
gyrations, reflected on Colonel Pete's
integrity and good faith. Colonel Pete,
white with rage, gave Uncle Joe the
lie conditionally, and when Uncle Joe
taunted him with putting in the condi?
tions, Colonel Pete, fairly sizzling with
wrath, withdrew the conditions, there?
by giving the lie direct to the venerable
Sucker. To one hilariously disposed
this exhibition of Republican intelli?
gence, this exposition of Republican
manners, was better than a circus.
A Contest of BllllnBTsflrate.
Now, be it remembered that this was
a scene between Republican statesmen,
and the Democrats had precisely the
Interest in it, and no more, which the
old woman had In the fight between
bruin and her liege lord, when with
perfect impartiality, she encouraged
both by first shouting, "Go it, hus?
band!" and then, "Go it, bear!" First
and last Republican Pharisees have
had much to say about the sweetness
and purity of Republicans and much
about "the plantation manners of Dem?
ocrats."
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To ace ourselves as ithers sec as!
If some New England transcenden
talist will write an essay on "Sweet?
ness, Purity and Good Manners" as Il?
lustrated by this billingsgate contest
of Uncle Joe and Colonel Tete, I will
cheerfully agree to Incorporate It In
these letters for the delectation of my
hundreds of thousands of readers. As
matters stand I think Colonel Hepburn
got a little the best of Uncle Joe, but
the latter, like Major Joe Ragstock, la
"sly, sir, devilish sly; tough, sir, devil?
ish tough," and he will bide his time.
The quarrelsome spirit seems to have
entered Into all Republicans.
Down In Tennessee, where they have
only Republicans enough to elect two
congressmen, two factions, one headed
by Pension Commissioner Colonel H.
Clay Evans and the other by Congress?
men Brownlow and Gibson, are wag?
ing against each other a war of exter?
mination. On with the dance!
Even the ex-soldiers are becoming
disgruntled as to the way tuL gs are
being run by this administration, as is
'.uown by the following letter, which
explains itself:
Washington, April 2*.
Dear Sir?There is a proposition in congress to
give to the present adjutant general of the United
States army?against whom, of course, we have
nothing personal?the rank of major general. The
IJp'on Veterans' union, which I have the honor to
command, respectfully, but most earnestly, pro?
tests against this.
In every possible manner attempts are being
made by individuals and branches of the public
service to get something more out of the colossal
revenues which are being collected and for which
the people are being heavily taxed. The ex?
penditures for the war department are already
swollen to an enormous extent. Most urgent
pleas by patriotic citizens in and out of congress
are being made for retrenchment in the public
expenditures. If there be a plethora from the im?
mense revenues, let taxation be lowered instead
of giving the people's money away; but, under
extravagance, even these revenues do not seem to
suffice, and in consequence thereof and perhaps
of a wretched little war in which we ore engaged
and which costs more than the entire pension roll,
every obstruction is said to be put in the way of
the applicant for a pension in order to save (?)
money. If this be true, it may be remarks that
such does not embrace the proper idea of re?
trenchment. Retrenchment docs not consist in
avoidance of payment of just debts any more than
it consists in presenting the public money to
shoulder strapped or other individuals and un?
necessarily increasing salaries.
In addition to the fact that it appears invidious
to increase the rank cf the adjutant general with?
out increasing the rank of the heads of the other
staff officers of the war department and to the
^act that increasing the rank of the adjutant gen?
eral is a reflection upon COS efficiency of the ad?
jutant general's office of the civil war, when we
had an army of more than '2,000,000 men and the
rank of ttie adjutant general was that of brigadier
general, it would teem to be untime'y and par?
ticularly wrong to give him increased raak and
thus increase the cost of his office, while and mere?
ly because we arc involved in increased, even if
unavoidable, expense. This, especially when the
duties and responsibilities of tho adjutant gen?
eral's office are at prisent as nothing compared
with the duties and responsibilities of the ad?
jutant general's office during our chil war, when,
as above said, the rank of Iba adjutant general
was that of brigadier general. Very respectfully,
lt. G. DVREVRORTII,
Commander In Chief, U. V. U.
A Case of Dor Mat Dos.
Colonel John W. Gates has recently
given the country a startling object
lesson in operating trusts and in fleec?
ing the lambs of Wall street, lie mov?
ed on Gotham, shut down several wire
mills in order to Influence value of
stocks, ruthlessly threw out of employ?
ment thousands of Innocent, industri?
ous laborers and cleaned up a million
or two. Now the Wall street gang are
talking of indicting him as a common
cheat and swindler. With the result
of the controversy between Gates and
the Wall street out?t 1 am in no way
interested. It was a clear case of dog
eat dog, and the more they eat each
other the better the world will be off,
no doubt. So let the merry war go on.
But my guess, is that it will not go on.
Perhaps Colonel Gates ought to be In
the pen. I am not expressing any
opinion on that point. Perhaps the
Wall street gamblers whom he skinned
ought also to be wearing the stripes
of a convict. And perhaps if they in?
dict Gates he will follow stilt and do
the same thing to them. Stranger?
far stranger?things have happened.
They are as deep in the mud as Gates
Is In the mire. He beat them at their
own game.
But there is a much more letiOUS
question connected with the matter
than the circus between Gates and his
Wall street victims, and that is that
Gates or any other man shall be per?
mitted, for gambling purposes, to shut
down mills and throw out of em| toy
ment thousands of honest, industrious
men who are nnxious to earn their
own bread and the bread of their wives
and little children in the sweat of their
faces. TllOt concerns the public wel?
fare. Gates could have cut no such
brutal caper had he not been the head
of the steel wire trust, which is no
worse ami no better than scores of oth?
er trusts. A man Who steals a loaf of
bread is a thief and is sent to jail or to
the penitentiary, but a man who rakes
in a cool 11,000,000 of $2,000,000 by
! taking tin bread out of the mouth- of
thousands of tuen, women nnd chil?
dren Is a financier and hero, with aspi?
rations for a seat In the senate of the
United States. (> Mores! O Tempora'.
Senator Hoar** l'lea For Jest tec
Here is a paragraph from Senator
Hoar's great bikwIi, than which few,
very few. finer ever fell from human
lips. I commend it to the boys of the
land as a thing to be treasured up and
committed to memory:
Mr. President?Our friends who take another
view of this question like to tell us of the mis?
takes of great men of other days, who have vain?
ly protested against acquisition of territory. One
worthy and most exuberant gentleman in another
place pointa out to his betreff! the folly of Web?
ster and Clay, the delusions of Charles Sumner
and contrasts them with the wisdom of Jefferson
and Tyler and Polk. Mr. Jefferson declared that
the acquisition of Ixmisiana was unconstitutional
and wanted a constitutional amendment to justify
it. I think the general sense of the American
pecple is that in that particular Mr. Jefferson was
in error and that our power to admit new states
clearly involve* the power to acquire territory
from which new states are to be made. I wonder,
however, if there be any man now alive who now
holds or who ever did or ever will hold a seat in
either bouse of congress willing to say that, hav?
ing taken an oath to support the constitution, he
would, for any purpose of public advantage, for?
swear himself for the bake of a real or fancied
good to his country. I hope and believe that the
spirit of Fletcher of Saltoun, who said he would
die to serve Scotland, but he would not do a base
thing to save her, is still the spirit of American
statesmanship. That exuberant gentleman con?
trasts the statesmanship of Polk and Tyler with
that of Daniel Webster and Henry Clay ao/1
Charles Sumner. Somehow or other the names of
Webster and Clay and Sumner live in the hearts
and on the lips of their countrymen, while the
men who brought on the Mexican war in the in?
terest of slavery are forgotten. I do not think
we hear of men building 6tatues to those coun?
selors or celebrating their birthdays or writing
their lives. In all generations the statesmen who
have appealed to righteousness and justice and
freedom have left an enduring place in the loving
memory of their countrymen, while the men w'10
have counseled them to walk in the path of in?
justice and wrong, even if it lad to empire and
even if they were in the majority in their own
day, are forgotten and despised. Ah, Mr. Presi?
dent, that gentleman says we are the anointed of
J tlie Lord, as the Jews were the anointed of the
Lord. Hut the Jewish empire i9 forgotten. The
sands of the desert cover the foundations of her
cities. The epidcr spins it9 thread; the owl
makes its midnight perch in their palaces. But
still those little words: "Thou sha!* not steal:
thou shalt not covet that that is thy neighbor's;
whatever ye would that men shall do to you. do
ye even so again unto then." shine through the
ages, blazing and undirr-ned. Mr. President, you
may speculate, you may reOne. you may doubt,
you may deny, but the one foremost action
in our history, the foremost action in all his?
tory, is the writing upon its page9 those simple
and sublime opening sentences of the Declaration
of independence. And the men who stand by it
shall live in the eternal memory of mankind; and
the men who depart from it, however triumphant
and successful in their little jwlicies. shall perish
and be-forgotten or .shall be remembered only to
be despised.
Coming Statesmen.
One purpose? of these letters is to in?
troduce to the notice of my readers the
rising members of the house, especially
new and young Democratic representa?
tives who give unusual promise of fu?
ture eminence. In the great debate on
the armor plate feature of the naval
appropriation bill a trio of young Dem?
ocrats showed forth resplendent?Wil?
liam Walton Kitchin of North Caroli?
na, Charles Kennedy Wheeler of Ken?
tucky and Williard Duncan Vaudiver
of Missouri. They put up a magnifi?
cent fight for the people aud led the
Democrats to a notable vict y.
The Hoosler Republicans had hardly
adjourned their more or less perfunc?
tory state convention before the spring
municipal elections were held, in which
the grand old party was the recipient
of a most righteous but most astound?
ing walloping. The Porto Rlcan bill
did It; the Phi ipplne Imperial propa?
ganda did it; the Cuban scandals did
it; the Macrum exposures did It; the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty did it; the Gage
Hepburn dark and damnable perform?
ance did It; the administration's pro
English tendencies did it; it's evident
lack of sympathy with the heroic Boers
did it; the pro-English gold standard
bill did it; Mark Hanna's ship subsidy
bill did it; Colonel John W. Gates' bold
and brazen trust caper did it; Bever
Idge's speeches did it; Fairbanks' pres?
idential aspirations did it: Governor
Steele's thrilling oration on shirtless
Caribbeaus did it; but, whatever did
it, the Democrats of Indiana didn't do
a thing to the Republicaus! Oh, no!
They trampled them in the mud; that's
all.
Qnny and Hanna*.
In some respects General Charles
Henry Grosvenoi* of Ohio is the uu
luckiest of mortals. The newspapers
are always pestering him. They rep?
resented him as publicly congratulat?
ing Senator Mark Hanna on the un?
doing of Matthew Stanley Quay, where?
upon the general publishes a card
avowing that when he fell, figurative?
ly at least, on Mark's neck in a public
place it was to thank that great and
good man for some kind and compli?
mentary remarks personal to himself.
Whether Quay will believe the expla?
nation 1 am not authorized to say, as 1
am not in the confidence of the ex
Keystone boss. Lord Byron says,
"Sweet is revenge," and far stranger
things have happened in this world
than that ex-Senator and ex-Chairman
of the National Committee Quay should
find some way of evening up the score
with Senator aud Chairman of the Na?
tional Committee Hanna. It may be
that he will avenge himself on Mark's
protege, William McKinley, or he may
be satisfied with defeating Mark's ship
subsidy bill. If the newspapers are
to be believed, that palpitating patriot,
Senator Tom Carter of Montana, med?
itates the latter method of revenge
for Mark's part in taking off his friend,
the late senator from Quaysylvania.
It wotdd be awful on the Republicans
to lose that $180,000,000 steal, but not
so bad as to lose President McKinley.
Rats instinctively leavo a sinking
ship. Senator Wellington of Maryland
deserts the Republican party, or, more
correctly speaking, iie claims that the
I Republican party lias deserted him.
Anyway, he announces that he will
uot train with the McIIannaites this
year. It affords great and genuine
pleasure to a lover of his country and
his kind to observe the multiplying
signs of disintegration now manifest?
ing themselves In the grand old party,
whose battleery has so long been, "The
old Hag and an appropriation!"
Tliut Throbbing Hotdarne.
Would quickly leave you, n you use.i I?r
King's New Lite Pills. Thousands of Bafferen
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groom will sue for bride.
Runaway .Marriage Causes Serious
Com plica tiona?Several In Trouble.
Raleigh, May IL?A sensation re?
sults from the marriage at Hillsboro of
Miss Caroline Sims, a student at the
Baptist Female university here, and
daughter of a minister of Macon county,
and John Birdsong, a post graduate stu?
dent at the State Agricultural and Me?
chanical college. The university stu*
dents went to Hillsboro on a picnic.
Birdsong and Miss Sims, who had made
plans, went to a hotel, where a magis?
trate married them. One of Birdsong'?
fellow students obtained the license from
the register of deeds. The bride was
upon discovery immediately taken in
charge by the university faculty, brought
here and confined to her room. Some
trustees will advise her father to take
her home for two years and tell Bird?
song if he is then in a position to marry
and she is willing he can have her, but
warning him against any other course.
Attorneys have looked into the mat?
ter and say the marriage is valid as the
code says males over 10 and females over
14 can marry. The register of deeds
who issued the license is in trouble and
will be sued. The law says in case the
girl is at school no marriage license shall
be issued save upon written consent of
the person who placed her there. The
groom will sue for possession of his wife
and will secure her.
observatoryTs^cqmplete.
United States Station Put In Readi?
ness For Kcllpse.
Barnesvillk, Ga., May 21.?The gov?
ernment observatory located here for
yiewing the eclipse of May 28 is about
complete, and the only thing now that
can mar the success of the occasion is
unpropitious weather.
There will also be a number of as?
tronomers here who will make observa?
tions as individuals. Amoug these is
Professor Otis Ash more of Savannah.
At the station the photo-heliograph,
with 6-inch lens and 40-foot focal length,
ha> been installed. There is also a dark
room for photographic work, plate-hold
era and all other apparatus necessary.
In the building at the station is the
polar axis, upon which will be mounted
various cameras and photographic tele?
scopes. This instrument is revolved
slowly by meaus of a clepsydra or water
clock. There are also two equatorial
telescopes to be mounted in this build?
ing. These will be used for the visual
observation of the corona.
Mill Destroyed by Fire.
Klizabethton, Teun., JCay 21.?The
Elizabethton woolen mill was bnmed to
the ground early this morning. The
loss is estimated at $25,000, with about
$4,000 insurance. The only things saved
were manufactured goods valued at $200.
The fire originated in the cardroom of
the mill, but from what source is not
known.
Will Not Be a Candidate.
Frankfort, Ky., May 21.?Ex-Goy
ernor Bradley gave out a statement to?
day that he will not be a candidate for
governor in the event the supreme court
decides in favor of the Democrats in the
contest cases necessitating an election
this fall. ._
Hoar Amendment Defeated.
Washington, May 21.?By a vote of
32 to 16 the Hoar amendment and the
committee amendment to the pojrtoAoS
bill relating to the pneumatic tube ser?
vice was laid on the table. This defeats
the pneumatic tube proposition.
Smith Appoints a Senator.
Helena, Mom, May 21.?Governor
Smith has reached Helena and affixed
his signature to the commission of Ma-'
ior Martin McGinnis, who has left for
Washington to present it to the senate.
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