Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SPRING IN OUR HILL COUNTRY. Fara Wert is We!! Advanced and the Cotton Acreage Has Not Been Increased. p.: Pisagh, March 21.-The warm weather that we have had for the last week has made the oats look green. Peach and plum trees are in fallboom and the woods are bursting their buds, so in a short time we shall have Spring. I notice that where oats are m planted is corn fields and rough land the sand is fine, but on .the cotton lands I the stands are poor. Farm work is pro? gressing very well. Corn planting zmwill commence this week and if the weather is favorable the crop will soon be planted. I see . no change in the standard crops, or rather in the acre- , * age and preparation of other years. The farmers have long realized the utter futility of depending on cotton . for everything and notwithstanding the high price, good attention will be paid to food crepe, i Tobacco as a .croix will be a stranger to us this year. I hear of no one'who is going to plant it So I think it win take its place in history as one of the lost arts, and joy go with it for iT is a good riddance. The grip, eolds: and coughs in our Bg?ction are gradually disappearing un? der the warm spring sun and this is about all of the kind of sickness we hare. - News is scarce. All are so busy that I hear nothing going but the ringing, of tne farm bells, ?nd if they wonld v only ring in unison we would haye music to enjoy, but there are so many of them, and the tones so different that it is hard to harmonize the sounds. Congressman Lever says that the decision of his case will have afar reaching effect on politics tn the south. Hr* Mann, chairman of the electiors committee who wrote the decision, is v a sensible man and stated the matter as it should be. Too much northern capital invested in the south, for us to be disturbed politically, as we have been, then conditions have changed ?; a great deal in the last few yearn : It is to be hoped ?hat the Republi? can rascality in the Postoffice Depart-:, ment at Washington will be fully ex? posed. Congress has taken up the matter, Aand I hope, when the investi? gation is through, the people will have some light on Republican methods. Sam Jones is kicking again' , about the dispensary. It\ her WiiuH- "try! ito3 elevate people from the pulpit to his ideal of manhood he would be more successful. It is true the State sells liquor, .but has':3Dt:?be State always sold- it indirectly?? I- think ?3o* -A man who loads s gun to kill, isas guilty as he who kills. The granting of a license toe sell is equal to selling * indirectly.' Tknow not the time when the State, w?s not a party, to the isat? of whiskey. "More whiskey is drunk now than ever,. but there is less drunkenness. The -negroes are the large patrons of the dispecary for the roads and woods where they travel are full oil. bottles,^ve? arounS thei churches, zn thick places, are seen'the bottles. This condition bf affairs will grow worse until the men who are opposed to it will take a bolder stand than they ever did against it. This is election year, and Soon the candidates will start to see the 'dear people.". For once we hope the cam? paign will be decent and not full of that talk which your Hagood corres? pondent so pertinently discribed as lying sometime ago..- A kind of talk that has got to be very popular. rafS!?8T?r5)TS GRIME. Town Marshal of Barnwell Con* fessed to Murder for Which Negro was in Penitentiary. Columbia, March 22:-Gov. Hey ward yesterday pardoned Anderson Nix, col? ored, given a life sentence in Novem? ber,, 1897, for the murder on the public square in Barnwell of Jennings Green, a white man. The pardon was the re? sult of a deathbed confession of the killing by Town Marshall Owens, and it is likely that but for this justice would never have come to the negro, although several responsible white men saw Owens fire the fatal shot The account of the killing is given in ex-Solicitor G. Duncan Bellinger's endorsement of Nix's petition for par? don: "This is a peculiar case of the pun? ishment of a man for a crime he did not commit because the real murderer was a white man who kept secret his offense until on his deathbed, when other white men of position and un? doubted veracity came forward and corroborated the statement of the guil? ty man now dead. "At the time of the conviction I had no doubt of he guilt of the defend? ant, Anderson Nix, a negro, who was certainly engaged at the time of the kilHng in reckless firing on the streets. Now, however, knowing well the character of the men making affida? vits for the pardon and hearing talk by others who saw Owens, the town marshal, fire the fatal shot, I am con? vinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that Nix was not responsible for the ! d?ath of the slain, and inasmuch as he ! and Owens, the self-confessed murder? er, were not acting in concert Nix is gui'.ty neither in law nor morals. I therefore earnestly urge the immediate pardon of defendant" Pensacola, Fla., March 217-The cruiser Brooklyn which sailed from San Juan several days since arrived in port last night and today began coaling. Reports from the ship are to the effect that considerable disorder occurred there Sunday night, the men saying that they were given only one piece of hardtack for supper, the offi? cers knowing, too, that they had to coal the ship the following day. The trouble was averted by the officers tak? ing prompt and vigorous measures. Kansas City, Mo., March 21. -\ special to the Times from Higginsville Mo., says: Fifty buidings are party wrecked, one man was mortally wounded and several others were hurt : the town is in darkness and the streets are strewn with debris as the result of a tornado and hail storm, which swept over Higginsville this evening. The hail on the streets was a foot deep within fi^e minutes after the storm began, and some of the stones were as large as hen eggs. Dozens of trees in the town were blown dovvn and seveal horses were killed oa the street A NEW GUI?ESE TREATY. It is Expected to be More Liberal tn its Conditions as to Admit? ting Chinese Into this Country. Washington, March 21.-A new treaty, regulating the admission of Chinese into the United States is in preparation. The existing treaty, which was made by Secretary Gresham and Minister Yu in 1894, will expire next December by limitation. While much'reticence is observed at present as to the lines upon which the new convention is being framed, there is reason to believe that it will bo more liberal in the treatment of Chinese wishing to enter the United States, when they are not actually in the coolie class, than the existing treaty. I Provision may be made also for the entry of Chinese laborers into the Panama Canal strip, though this is not certain. An attempt also has been made to avail of this opportunity to make more extensive use of Chinese labor in the Philippines. i TE DECLME" OF*NEW ENGLAND. -i-; Some Few of those who incited War Against the South are Now Suffering from its Effects. ' "The New York Sun in an article on the decline of New England recites an anecdote recently told by a gen? tleman who had visited the State of Vermont, which is as follows : "I was the guest of a venerable old gentleman, who had been born in the house in which he was then living, as had his father. He tcok great pleasure in driving me about the country and pointing out its former greatness and prosperity. Or. one of our excursions he pointed out several spots in the course of a few hoers' drive , where there had been school houses in his boyhood days; where there bsd been thrifty farms and com? modine farnT houses, but now marked by abandoned and decayed ruins. "Coming, from, the^west as I did, ..where improvem?alv ?8^. <the' mle, I expressed surprise at the general decadence, when he pathetically re? marked: "The war of the rebellion was the greatest disaster that ever happened to Vermont. Our young men and horses went into the army and they never Returned--to stay. ' Cit js^rather surprising 'to hear afc this late day that the devastation and loss caused by the civil war was not confined. to-the south alone, but; that New England also suffered great losses f ronx-which sher bas not yet fixxfrereaV while the Southern States are richer than they have ever been in their his? tory, and are far advanced on the highway of progress. With the aban? doned farms and depressed manufactur? ing industries Vermont and other New England States are described as being in a bad -way indeed, but there is little reason to hope that their condi? tion will improve so long as they sup? port the *4 stand-pat" tariff policy of the Republican party which deprives, their manufacturers of the benefit of free raw materials and an opportunity to extend the foreign trade so essential to the prosperity and expansion of their industries. It was in New England' that the movement was born and nurtured which resulted in the civil war, the, freeing of several million slaves, and reconstruction which completely im? poverished the vanquished south. Now that New England should be dis? astrously hurt by the result of her own work seems to be the irony of fate and a most painful retribution. How? ever, it may be that in time Vermont and her sister States will find more prosperity in becoming Democratic than adhering stubbornly to Republi? can policies that are hastening the ruin of their industries and the decrease of their population. RAILROAD TRUST DISSOLVED. Plan of Northern Securities Com? pany to Abide Court's De? cision is Announced. New York, March 22.-Following a day of great excitement in the stock market and numerous conferences amongst the leading financiers the new plan of the Northern Securities company was made public this after? noon. In substance it provides for a stock dividend of 99 points to be effect? ed by a redaction of that amount in the capital stock of the Securities company. For every share of Northern Securities stock surrendered the com? pany will deilver $39.27 stock of the Northern Pacific Rail? way company and $30.17 of the Great Northern railway com? pany. The shares of the Northern Pacific company which were taken over by Notheru Securrities at 115 and those of the Great Northern will be distributed on this basis. Ofticial notice of the new plan, which is signed by President Hill, and under this date was sent to Northern Securities stockholders in a circular letter which says: ''The company's acquisition of Northern Pacific and Great Northern shares WES made in the full belief that such purchases were in no wise obnoxious to any laws of the United States, an opinion which received the approval of four justices of State courts. In the suit brought by the United States against the right of the company to hold and vote the shares, however, the majority of the court, disregarding as irrelevant and beneficial interests of commerce, was of the opinion that your company's holding of ^the stocks of the two rail? way companies in itself constituted a restraint of interstate commerce pro? hibited by the so-called Sherman act of 1890. Accordingly the railroad companies hate been forbidden to per mit your company to vote to collect dividends on the shares held by it. Therefore your directors, at a meeting held this day have under the advice of counsel, decided that it will fully and promptly comply with the decree in this suit and it is necessary to reduce the capital stock of the company and distribute to its shareholders the shares of stock of said railway com? panies now held by it "To this end they have adopted re? solutions recommending to the stock? holders: First that the capital stock of this company be reduced from 3, 954,000 shares now outstanding to 39, 540, being a reduction of 99 per cent. Second, that said 99 per cent, oi the present outstanding shares be call? ed in for surrender and cancellation. "Third, that against each share of stock of this company so to be surren? dered, there will be delivered $39.27 stock, of the Northern Pacific Railway company ; $30.17 stock of the Great Northern Railway company and pro? portionate amounts ?thereof for each fraction of a share of stock.'' "As required by the laws of the State of New Jersey under which the company was created, a special meeting of the shareholders has been called or April 21, 1904, at the office of the company in Hoboken. "The assets of the company remain? ing in its treasury after the foregoing distribution is made will consist of stock and other property in no way involved in the suit producing income and conservatively valued at an amount in excess of $3,954,000 to which ic is proposed to reduce the stock of the company," SULLY ADJUDGED BANKRUPT. Proceedings Have Been Com? menced by Creditors-Two Receivers Appointed fr ~) ' New York, March 22.-An involun? tary petition in bankruptcy was filed today in the United States district -court against the firm of Daniel J. Sully & Go., composed of Daniel J. Sully,- Samuel B. Morse, W. R. Fagan and Edwin Hedley JrM by three creditors. The latter were S. M. Weld & Co., having a claim amount? ing, it is alleged, to a sum in excess of $250,000; J. Temple Gwathmey & Co. whose claim is in excess of $170, 000 and Shearson, Hamill & Co., with a claim in excess of $100,000. On March 19th, the petition states, the firm of Sully & Co., notified the cot? ton exchange and the creditors in question of its inability to meet out? standing contracts. The act on the part of the firm constituting bank? ruptcy, is given as the making of a general assignment on March 19th. ? Judge Holt appointed as receivers David H. Miller and Henry W. Taft fixing their receivers' bonds at $200, 000. PORT ARTHUR AGAIN BOM? BARDED. "St. Petersburg, March 22.-A tele? gram from Vicerof Alexieff to the em? peror gives Vice Admiral Makaroff's report as follows: "At midnight of March 21 two of the enemy's torpedo boats approached the outer roadstead but were soon discovered by the search lights of the batteries and fired upon by the forts and by the gunboat Otvazuy. They were obliged to" re? tire. "A second attack was made at 4 o'clock in the morning by three tor? pedo boats which also were repulsed. "At daybreak three detachments of the enemy's fleet, consisting of six battleships, six armored cruisers, six secondhand' third class cruisers and eight torpedo boats, approached from all sides. At 6 o'clock onr squadron commenced to leave the inner harbor the cruisers leading with the Askold flying my flag at their head and the battleships following. The enemy's battle ships approached Liaotishing and fired 100 shells from their 12-inch guns at Port Arthur and 108 shells at the end town. "Our shells, fired at a range of 80 cables were well placed. About 10 o'clock a Japanese battleship was struck by a shell and retired. We lost no men during the bom? bardment which ceased at ll o'clock, when the enemy's ships reassembled and after passing along the outer road? stead drew off without attacking our fleet." Musical Entertainment. The Ladies' New Church Building Society of the First Methodist Church expect to give a musical en? tertainment at the residence of Mr. John M. Knight on Hampton avenue, Monday evening, April 4th. A very attractive program has been prepared, and the music-lovers of the city are assured that a genuine treat is in store for them. Details will be pub? lished later. Weather Forecast. MARCH 23, 1904. For South Carolina: Occasional showers tonight and Thursday. C. S. Kingsmore, Local Observer, U. S. Weather Bureau. THE GOSSIP OF WASHINGTON. Congress Rushing Work in Inter? est of Early Adjournment. The Bristow Report.-Scandal in Red Cross Society. Washington, March 19.-Work is be? ing crowded along so fast in Congress that it seems as if adjournment might possibly come a week or so before the 1st of May. The appropriation bills that have not already passed are pass? ing, without such opposition as will cause much delay. Several bills in the interest of the labor unions are on the calendar and some are reported from committees. But there is little pro? bability that any will pass this year. The service pension bill will now be withdrawn, for this session at least, in view of the action of the Commis? sioner of Pensions in so interpreting the law as to grant old age pensions to veterans of 62 without regard to dis? ability. The Postoffice appropriation bill has been before the House this week, and has again been the storm centre. The minority leader, John Sharp Wil? liams, Miss., declared that the Post office Department was rotten from turret to foundation stone, and the Republicans were trying to reorganize it in an appropriation bill. He said that only one division of the depart? ment had been investigated, and that only partially, white other divisions were equally corrupt. Mr. Payne, the Republican leader, and General Grosvenor threw such explanations as they could into the discussion, and Mr. Overstreet, Rep., Ind., the un? happy father of the report declared that nothing in particular was the matter and nobody injured. Mr. Williams came back with the charge that public moneys had been repeatedly diverted to illegal uses in contempt of law, that buildings had been rented, fuel bought, and clerks appointed and promoted in defiance of Civil Service regulations. "These officials," he declared vehemently, "violate the laws whenever they please and grant favors to their friends whenever they please, and tell you cooly that it was because of a construction put upon the law by somebody, God only knows who." Joseph L. Bristow,'Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, who has been almost two months sick and confined to his bed, was diagged out Thursday and Friday and given a roasting in the third degree by the McCall Com mittee appointed to investigate him and his famous report. He explained that he had been disabled from service for several weeks and that he did not make and was not responsible for the report that had been sent to Con? gress. The most of it was the work of First Assistant Postmaster Wynne. At the same time, he defended the re? port in general terms, said there had. been improper clerk-hire allowancos in offices and that various measures had been forwarded at the earnest request of Congressmen. He had cited some cases and said a hundred other similar cases could be cited. He was asked whether the report came directly from the hands of the Postmaster General, or whether some other official was consulted. He said he had been told, but did not know. He was asked by Mr. Bartlett of Georgia whether any suggestions had come from the presi? dent. Before it could be answered, Mr. Burton of Ohio interposed an ob? jection to "any such question being asked," and it was ruled out by the committee. 2 The American Red Cross Society is rent in twain. Definite charges of mismangement were yesterday filed against Clara Barton and her coterie of friends by a large majority of the directors-an eminent and honorable body of citizens. They found that not less than $715,000 have been col? lected and that no part of it was ever received or disbursed by the Treasur? er, and that the accounts, if accounts were kept, have never been audited. There have been no public reports of receipts or expenditures. Money paid in has been used for anything that the president wished to use it for, without consultation with the di? rectors. It is charged that the char? ter of the society has been grossly and repeatedly violated. Miss Barton has now to show why reorganization should not take place in the public interest. The "World's Fair Industry" con? tinues to prosper. Congress has given $5,000,000, to St. Louis and "lent" her $5,000,000 more; it has smiled productively on propositions to cele? brate Forefathers' Day in Masachu setts, Lewis & Clarks' Day in Port? land, Oregon, and Daniel Boone' Day in Louisville, and yesterday Congress? men went to Jamestown, Virginia, to view the site of the proposed Poca? hontas Exposition in 1907. The sum of $500,000 has been appropriated to the Portland show, as a-starter. Senator Newlands advocates the es? tablishment of a permanently vacant /one through the Mall from the Capi? tol to the Washington Monument with a width of 800 feet between buildings. On both sides of this space public buildings may be erected. The Sena? tor seems not to know what citizens of Washington know pefectly well, thar this central park called the Mall (generally mispronounced Mani) is not fit for public buildings of any kind. Several have been placed there, but the number ought not to be added to, as it recently was in the new postoffice building, merely because real estate owners wanted to sell their lots. In every freshet or season of flood tide the whole Mall is submerged. More than once in this decade the * water of the Potomac has stood five feet deep on the site of the Postoffice Depart? ment, and boats have been rowed along Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to Market Space. Govern? ment buildings ought always to be erected on high ground, on the j squares around the Capitol or the White House or on Sixteenth Street br on Judiciary Square. The whole movement to cover the depressed Mall with expensive government pal? aces has its origin and its support in loeal speculators in real estate. General Miles has been summoned home ; Mrs. Miles is critically ill. Representative Thompson of Ala? bama is down with pneumonia. Gout has at last released its shackles and the Postmaster General is out again. Secretary Moody is making speech? es in New England. The Senate played a mock game of Jai Allai in executive session while considering the conduct of G?nerai Wood in Cuba. His nomination as Major General was confirmed on Fri? day. HOME ROLE FOR FILIPINOS. Law For Self-Government Two Years After a Census is Taken. Washington, March 21.-Secretary Taft is contemplating a return to the Philippines in the event of Mr. Roose? velt's election. The trip to be taken by the secretary of war will be of great importance to the Filipinos, as it will mark the first step toward self govern? ment for the islands. The Philippine law provides that two years after the completion and publication of the census of the Phil? ippines, in case a general and com? plete peace, w;th recognition of the authority of the United States, shall have continued in the territory outside of the Moro country, the president may direct a general election in the Philippines for the choice of delegates to a popular assembly of the people of the islands, which shall be known as the Philippine assembly. The government of the Philippines will then be placed in charge of two houses, the Philippine assembly, elec? ted by the people, and the Philippine commisison, appointed by the presi? dent. The legislature so constituted shall also choose two resident commis? sioners to the United States to look after Philippine interests. ? - i i ? i mm Beauties of Ked Tape. A typical instance of the war office methods is famished by a correspond? ent one of our stations'. An officer having occasion for the use of a screw driver made application for the supply of that humble but handy implement from the government stores. His appli? cation was bandied about .in the usual manner from officer to officer and final? ly reached the upper authority, from whom a reply filtered back by the same devious ways to the effect that screw? drivers were only . supplied in tool boxes and not singly. Nothing daunt? ed, the officer at once applied for a box of tools and after the usual cir? cumlocutory tactics was informed that boxes of tools were only supplied to carpenters* shops. By this time the officer, who had quite forgotten what he had. wanted the screwdriver for. had thoroughly entered into the spirit ?of the campaign, and his next applica? tion was for a carpenter's shop. He got it.-London Tit-Bits. Lake* of Blood. The name Lake of Blood or its equiv? alent has been given to places as far apart as England and South America. "Sanguelac"-i. e., the Lake of Blood -was the name given by the victo? rious Normans to the battlefield at Hast? ings, where the Saxons. were over? thrown and slain with terrible carnage. For a similar reason Lake Tra si men? has borne the name "Sanginetto" be? cause its waters were reddened during the second Punic war by the blood of some 15.000 Romans Avho fell before the troops of Hannibal. Yet another Lake of Blood, called also "Yaguar Cocha," is situated in the state of Ecuador. It is one of a series of lakes formed by the extinct craters of volcanoes on the towering heights of the Andes range of moun? tains. Feared He Had Been "Done." A messenger boy was sent by an official of one of the big banks to pur? chase a pamphlet. When the lad re? turned and handed over the little pack? age he stood toying with his cap until tho banker said: "Well, my boy, I guess it's all right." -Gee," sal;! the boy. brightening up immediately, "dat's a load off my mind. When dat bookman took de half dollar an* didn't give me nothin' but dat weeny, dinky bit of readin', gee whiz. I says, he's a-doin' me up fur fair! Why, I don't pay only a nickel fur my books, an' dey're twice as big as dat one."-New York Tress. Recommendation. "Didn't your old employers recom? mend you':*' "Oh. yes::" "Their word should have been enough." "It was. They announced me as the best man they ever turned out."-Cin? cinnati Commercial Tribune. LEFT MINDED PEOPLE. Vbe Way the Brain'* Orders Are An? nounced and Obeyed. Both sides of the brain are capable* of performing the duties of giving commands to the limbs, but the orders 3nly come from one side, either from the right or left, but if the side upon which the speech center lies gets in? jured and is rendered incapable of per? forming its duty then the other side taker, up the work, though it requires seme time before it can do so properly. Supposing a man meets with a bad fall or accident of any kind which damages the speech center on the left, he becomes dumb for the time being. Then the right side slowly learns how to give orders, and the man guadually regains power of speech after somo years, but in many cases ho becomes left handed because now the orders from th?; brain are transmitted more rapidly to tl;e left than to the right. You have often experienced, I sup? pose, the curious feeling that you have done something or met some orje at some time or other when in reality you. have not done so at all. Supposing the left side of your brain conceived the idea that you "were go? ing to tie your boot lace and that the right side was, say, a thousandth part of a second behindhand in grasping tbe same idea, the result, when the right side did grasp it, would be that you would imagine that you had al? ready tied your boot lace.-Dr. With row in London Answers. Dreams of Peace Allure to Death Dreams of peace have always allured mankind to their undoing. Human des? tiny has been wrought out through war. The United States is an illus? tration. Little of the soil which now acknowledges the sovereignty of thc Union has not been subdued by arms. The first settlers slew the Indians or were themselves slain; next the Ameri? cans and English conquered the French ; afterward the Americans turned on the English and, with tho aid cf France, ejected them. In 1S12 we again fought the English to defend the national unity and subsequently took California from Mexico by the sword. To consoli? date a homogeneous empire we crush? ed the social system of the south, arid lastly we cast forth Spain. The story is written in blood, and common sens;* teaches us that as the past has been, so . will be the future. Nature has decreed that animals shall compete for life. or., in other words, destroy or be destroyed We can hope for no exemption from the common lot-Brook Adams In.At? lantic. London's Whistles. A boy was charged at a London po? lice court the other day with blowing a whistle in such a way as to cause three policemen to come toward him. The fact that such a thing is possibie suggests the questions: How do the? " police distinguish between a cab whis? tle and a police whistle? What is there to prevent any one from blowing a whistle in such a way as-to call a po? liceman? A representative of the Graphic who put these questions to a. high, officiai of the city police learned that in the matter of attending to whistles; as w^tb his many other duties, the policeman uses his discretion. Any shrill whistle will attract a policeman, but such a whistle blown at night outside a res? taurant or any place , where people con? gregate and cabs are ?wanted would not bring a policeman to the whistler. The same whistle blown in precisely the same way iu the middle of the city at midday would bring a policeman on the scene at once.-London Graphic. PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. Ifothinjc Else Can Supplant lt as a. Preserver of Youth. Next to air and food in the humais economy comes exercise. We may hare plenty of fresh air and a proper allow? ance of the right kind of food, and yet without helpful daily exercise thesr will not avail to keep the body in good condition. In answer to the question. .'Why do we grow old*?' ?. French writer gives these three reasons: "We do not get enough physical exercise ia the open air, we are poisoned by mi? crobes which the phagocytes have not succeeded in destroying, and we are depressed by fear of death." Of tft>> three reasons it will be noted thai he glves.thc place of first importa net? lack of exercise. There is nothing elsc which can take the place of physical activity as a preserver of youth and energy. "Grow younger as you grow older by cultivating a moderate love of good, healthful, honest sport.*' is sonni! advice Walking, running, jumping, rowing, playing golf, tennis or croquet or any other milder form of exercise in the open air keeps the muscles sup? ple and prevents the joints from stiff? ening, fills the lungs with life giving oxygen and keeps the blood from be? coming sluggish or the liver torpid. Im short, it is exercise that keeps the body in tune and "up to concert pitch," just as exercise keeps the voice of a music instrument in perfect tone. Music the Kernel of Welsh 3iature. Music is the very soul and kernel of the Welsh nature. A musical ear is the national birthright. Every Welsh preacher who migrates to an English church finds the greatest difficulty in abstaining from that weird, peculiar intonation of his sermon which is known as the hwyl and which is often strange and objectionable to English ears. A remarkable and subtle fact which will be interesting to English readers and at the same time significant of the sensitiveness of the Welsh musical ear is that it is-positive discord to many among the Welsh congregations if the minister, in 'giving out' the first verse of the hymn, does not so pitch his voice that it shall be in harmony "With the key in which the tune has prelimina? rily been played by the instrumentalist. -Westminister Review.