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COXEYITFS LOST.
Fifteen Members of a Western In
dustrial Army Drowned.
They Attempt to Navigate the Swollen
.Stream. Hut Their Frail Boats Are I'ap
itized Four Bodies Have fteen
Washed Ashore.
PERISHED IX T1IK PLATTE.
Denver, Col., June 9. At least fif
teen members of the Denver contin
gent of Coxej''s army lost their lives by
drowning in the Platte river Thursday
night. Coroner Martin on Friday went
down to Brighton with coffins. He re
turecVi at noon, being unable to secure
any of the bodies. Four have been
washed ashore on the other side
of the river about 8 miles this
tide of Brighton at a point
known as McKay's bridge. To
reach them it would be neces
sary to travel about 20 miles out of the
way, but he expects to recover them
later on. The other men who are
missing- have also been drowned and
their bodies carried farther down the
river. One man found drowned at
Brighton has been identified as Charles
iMcCune. a Missourian, a member of
the Utah contingent. mH
The industrials started on Thursday
with about 300 men who had taken
passage in twenty-six boats, which had
leen built of light material by the
Coxeyites here. The storms had great
ly swollen the streams, and a very
high wind made navigation extremely
dangerous. The first boats to arrive at
Brighton made no report of the
dangers they had passed through,
and it was late a,t night before
reports of trouble began to
come to this city. It was McKay's
bridge that caused the most trouble.
The flood poured under it with the
speed of a millrace, and there, hidden
by the stream, were barbed wires
stretched across to prevent the passing
of stock under the bridge at low water.
The wire caught many of the boats
and overturned them.
Several of the boats came down with
onl" two oars and others had a half a
dozen. The commander of the boats
in most cases had no knowledge. of the
names or the men with him. The
boats stood the trip very well, but a
few of them were leaking. The Coxey
ites will aiake no further attempt to go
east by the water route.
UNDER ARREST.
Capture of the Alleged Ringleader
of a
Fatal Kiot Near Peoria. 111.
Peoria, 111., June 9. John L. Geher,
leader of the striking miners in the at
tack on the Little mine Wednesday,
was arrested at 2 a. m. Friday at
his home at Edwards Station, Geher
is district president of the Mine-
workers union and was a demo- '
cratic member of the legislature from
Peoria county six years ago. He has
always counseled peaceful measures
and advised against attacking the Lit
tle mine, but when the men voted to
go he went with them and led in the
attack. When lie was captured he had
shaved off his whiskers, with the hope
of escaping detection,' and, it is be
lieved, was preparing to leave the coun
try. He was taken to Pekin on the
first train. He insists that he did all
he could to prevent the men from at
tacking the mine, but admits that he
went with them anyhow. The sheriffs
posse is still under arms and expect to
be ordered to Collier's mine to serve a
number of warrants there. The local
militia is also still under orders.
Camhkii;k, )., June 9. The contest
between striking miners and the Bal
timore & Ohio trains carrying coal is
ended for the time being by the pres
ence of the troops at the points of at
tack in Guernsey and Belmont coun
ties. The only trains delayed Friday
was on account of a freight wreck near
Chicago Junction. There has been no
stand against the troops at any point.
There has been no attempt to obstruct
tunnels, or burn bridges, or tear up the
tracks or obstruct them, save tempo
rarily to stop trains carrying coal.
Cripple Ckekk, Col., June 0. The ex
cellent conduct of the state troops act
ing upon the politic order of Gen.
Brooks has greatly tempered the in
tense animosity that the deputies and
the strikers have felt toward one an
other and the chances for a conflict
are more remote than at any
time since the forces arrived. The
militia from its position between the
two armies has moved so as to prevent
either side making an attack, and
they have executed their orders in
such a politic manner that they have
won the regard of both sides. Several
times the deputies began an advance,
but were cut off by the troops.
THAT JENKINS
ORDER.
Congressman
Stone Submit
the Views of
the Minority.
Washington, June 9. The long-delayed
minority report on the investiga
tion of Judge Jenkins" notorious
Northern Pacific strike order was
submitted by Representative Wil
liam A. Stone, of Pennsylvania. It
is signed by Representatives Stone,
Raj-, of New York, and Powers, of
Vermont. After reviewing briefly the
history of the injunctions issued by
Judge Jenkins, the subsequent pro
ceedings under them and the institu
tion of congressional investigation,
the report says that it is entirely a
question for the courts to settle; that
if the judge acted honestly and was
unswayed by influence, there is no
ground for censure.
Receiver Named for a Concern Which Con
trols Property Worth Millions.
New Yokk, June 9. Chancellor Mc
Gill. of New Jersey, has appointed Asa
M. Dickinson receiver for the Union
Warehouse company, which is the
corporate name of the big warehouse
trust. 1 his trust controls all the big
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stores auu nareuuuscs uu n.- iuuuh- etteCts o arugs administered. The
lyn water front from Fulton street to j managers of the race feel much disap
the Erie basin. Its property is worth . pointed over the result, as it was not
millions of dollars in the aggregate, j intended to allow any cruelty, but
Along with the assignmentof the trust simply a test of the staying qualities
came tiie news of the failure of E. B. of the western horses. This will un
Bartlett & Co., who are practically the j doubtedly end long distance racing in
aiue as the trust. this county.
IS BETTER.
Slight
Improvement Noted In Trade
Condition)!.
New York, June 9. II. . Dun &.
Co.'s weekly review of trade says:
The outlook for business seems c little bet
ter on the whole, though the improvement is
not trreat. Moreover it is impossible to dis
tinguish between mere replacement of orders
canceled for want of fuel or other causes
and the new business for which works
are anxiously looking- It is somewhat encour
atdng that the decrease in payments through
clearing houses in comparison with lsy; is
about 30 per cent. Railroad tonnage is larger
than a year ago in live stock and moderate in
cereals, but considerably smaller in coal and
Iron products and in other manufactured goods
west-bound.
"With only 2.937 coke ovens working and 14.
676 idle, with the Cambria discharging half its
force, and seven out of nine of the Carnegie
furnaces at Bessemer out of blast the pro
duction and manufacture of iron and steel are
smaller than at any other time for years.
Vhilo it is believed deferred work will cause
heavy production after the strike termi
nates the demand for products is at presen t
much below general expectations even at the
east. Other industries have been less affected,
but many of the textile mills even in New Eng
land have now been closed for lack of fuel or of
orders, besides other concerns in great num
ber between the Atlantic and the Mississippi
river. "
"The returns of failures are still encourag
ing, 216 in the United States for the week,
against 3J last year, and 40 in Canada against
27 last year. The liabilities in all failures re
ported in the month of May were rl3.305.357, '
about 35.42O.00O at the east. $-1,500,000 at the i
south and $1,400,000 at the west. Of the aggre
fciite J5.lt55.OJ5 was of manufacturing and 36.(533.
4M of trading concerns."'
Bradstreet's says:
-Nearly all the unfavorable business condi
tions of the last three weeks continue to exer
cise an influence. The few exceptions wnere
Improvement is noted are of practically local
Importance. Retail trade at many centers has
been interfered with by unfavorable weather
and by further restriction of the purchasing
power of thousands of wage-earners, by fur
ther industrial trouble, or by shrinkage ia
production.
"The see-saw prices tip in the opposite direc
tion this week, most strikingly in cereals, oats
having advanced 5'c. wheat 3Se and corn 1 V
Potatoes are 20c higher a bushel at the west,
bar iron and pig iron are up sharply at St.
Louis and live stock at Kansas City. Lard is
fractionally higher. Conspicuous decreases in
prices of staples re I ored are in leather and
wool, due to heavy rtce.pls of new crop. Coffee
la oil Sc.
"At larger eastern centers there is no im
provement in general business. New England
cotton mills continue to produce in excess of
demands. Southern and Khode Island cotton
mills are shutting down for want of fuel as
well as orders. Philadelphia jobbers In dry
(roods report a better spot demand and the pe
troleum market there is more active, but Bal
timore jobbers in clothing as well as in some
other lines have not sent out drummers as for
merly. "Among southern cities covered Richmond.
Savannah. Jacksonville and Augusta report
the more favorable conditions. At the first
there is a better demand for groceries and pro
visions, for agricultural implements and leaf
tobacco, which is quite active.
"There is little far-reaching attending evi
dence of improvement reported from the west.
At Louisville there is more demand for grocer
ies, and the leaf tobacco market is quite active
and business being reported. There Is more
doing among jobbers in hardware at Chicago,
although interior merchants tributary to that
market have not I egun to buy in advance of
actual needs, and. on the other hand, the
spread of the coal strike is checking business
there."
BILL DALTON'S FATE.
The Noted Outlaw Said to Have Ileen
Killed in Indian Territory.
Ardmoke. I. T., June 0. Bill Dalton,
the noted outlaw and leader of the
Longview bank robbers, lies dead,
pierced through by a Winchester bul
let. One of his pals visited Ardmore
Friday, and by incautious talk aroused
the suspicions of the deputy mar
shals, who organized and sur
rounded the robbers near a little
town named Elk. about 20 miles
distant, in a house. While the men
were taking position Dalton was seen
to come out, look around, and imme
diately return. Then, pistol in hand,
he jumped through a window on the
north and started to run east. Gloss
Hart, one of the deputies, was less
than u0 yards from the house
and called on him to halt. Dal
ton turned around and tried to
take aim while running. Just then
the officer shot. Dalton fell and ex
pired without a word. The house was
searched and over 150 letters, besides
numerous rolls of crisp bank bills,
found. The addresses proved him to
be Bill Dalton and the money proved
( him to be the leader of the Longview
I bank robbers. His wife, who is in
Ardmore, telegraphed relatives that
her husband was dead.
AMERICAN SHIP BUILDING.
five Hundred and Ninety Vessels with a
Tonnage of H3.KUO Launched in Nine
Months.
Washington', June 9. The records
of the navigation bureau show that
during the first three-quarters of
the present fiscal year there were
built in the United States, and
officially numbered 339 wooden sail
ing vessels of 24,271 tons and 221
wooden steam vessels of 29,948 tons.
During the same period thirty-four
iron or steel sailing vessels were built
of 4.749 tons, and twenty -seven iron or
steel steam vessels of 20,920 tons. No
nnrigged vessels were included in the
above statement.
Aldermen Indicted.
New Orleans. June 9. The sensation
in New Orleans is the indictment of
John T. Callahan, alderman from the
First district, for bribery. He is
charged with having received S500
from L. S. Widney, president of the
Pennsylvania Coal company, to in
fluence his vote and obtain a grant of
certain wharf privileges on the river
front. Nutna Dudoussat, councilman
from the Seventh ward, was indicted
at the night session of the grand jury
for bribery. Be is charged with hav
ing sold his vote for St, 400 to R. J.
Whann, a wholesale coal man, who de
sired extra facilities for his company.
Killed Four Horses.
Chadron. Neb., June 9. Out of nine
of the horses entered in the 100-mile
race four are now dead, caused from
the effect of the race. It was won by
a common broncho in twelve hours.
Several thoroughbred, horses were un
able to finish and one died on the track.
; Many think the horse died from the!
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BUSINESS
A CLOUDBURST.
It Cannes Great Devastation In .Jraier
River Valley.
Vancoiver, B. C, June 9. A terri
ble cloudburst occurred up the Frazer
river at Lytton. It swept the railroad
for 9 miles from the sawmill flats,
where the approaches to the govern
ment suspension bridge on the old
Cariboo road were carried away. The
iron bridge at Ashcroft and the Cana
dian Pacific railroad bridge near Spen
cer Station were also swept away.
A newspaper correspondent, who has
returned from a trip above Port Hanej,
on a rescue steamer, reports a terrible
state of affairs in the upper river.
Herds of half-starved cattle tied on
rafts with no one to guide the journey
of the insecure craft were seen. Two
bouses tied to swaying rafts glided by.
Families were at the doors with ex
cited faces, but apparently safe.
The people of Wharnoek told numer
ous tales of wholesale havoc and ruin.
At Hatzie two houses and a store
floated out toward the steamer, but
the people of the town never spoke,
never moved, and they were too des
perate to ask for assistance.
At Sumas the greatest suffering was
reported. Many requests for assist
ance were made. As the steamer swung
out of Sumas a band of Indians were
I seen holding a barbecue. An ox had
jbeen dragged from the river and the
I half-starved red men were devouring
I it. At Chilliwack City nothing can be
' seen but the tops of the houses. The
entire population met the steamer at
I the foot of the principal street.
A messenger from Nelson reports
that Kaslo, B. C, was swept almost
entirety out of existence Sunday by a
Hood and wind. It is said the wharf
and stores were carried into the lake
and that several persons are missing.
No particulars are obtainable. The
telegraph wire is down and trains are
not running.
THE SUGAR SCHEDULE.
t Senators Vote to Support the Jones Com
i promise Amendment.
Washington', June 7. On Tuesday
the senate voted upon the Jones
amendment to paragraph lS".!1, the
amendment being the schedule agreed
on by the democratic side. The Jones
compromise amendment fixed the
sugar duties, and it was carried 35 to t
2S. An analysis of the vote follows:
' For the Jones schedule: Democrats, ;
; 32; populists, 2; Republicans. 1; total.
' S". Against the schedule: Republic-
ans. 25; democrats, 2; populists, 1; ;
: total, 2S. j
! The Jones amendments increasing j
I the duty on sugar candy from SO to 35 I
per cent, and making the dutj' on sac- !
charine 23 per cent, were agreed to. J
This completed the sugar schedule !
and at 5:45 p. m., on motion of Mr. liar- !
ris, the senate went into executive ses- I
sion and shortly afterward adjourned. !
j As adopted the schedule imposes a duty of j
. 40 per cent, ad valorem on all sugars, raw and '
. reSned. with a differential of oue-eighth of a '
cent per ixjund on sugars above sixteen Dutch j
standard and an additional one-tenth of a j
I rent against sugars Imported from countries I
paying an expert bounty. It continues the j
Hawaiian treaty admitting sugars from tho I
Sandwich Islands free of duty, and places a
duty of two cents per gallon on molasses test- j
ing afcove 40 degrees by the polariscope. Tha j
'. schedule goes into effect January 1. 1A". and
the bounty is continued until that date.! I
IN ROYALTY'S HOME.
T. M. C. A. Iele(jntrs Inspect Windsor i
Castle Adjournment.
London. June'.1. At the invitation i
of tjueen Victoria, the delegates to the I
international Y. M. C. A. conference
visited Windsor Castle, and were con
ducted through the historic building
and grounds by a number of gentlemen-in-waiting,
also being served with
light refreshments in a tent erected in
the great park. All of the private
grounds attached to the castle were, for
the lirst time in its history, thrown
open for public use and inspection.
Before returning to London the
delegates held a farewell meeting at
which addresses eulogistic of the
queen's courtesy were delivered by
representatives of every country in the
delegation.
John Wannmaker proposed that a
message be sent to President Williams.
The motion was carried with enthusi
asm. Howard Williams, thanking the
assembly on behalf of his father, said
that happily his father's illness was
not of a serious nature and he hoped
to meet them all again three year?
hence. Rev.. Dr. Cuyler pronounced a
benediction and the conference was
declared dissolved.
Kansas Itepublieans.
ToriCKA, Kan., June 8. The largest
republican convention ever held in
Kansas convened in Hamilton hall
Wednesday, there being 093 delegates
in their seats when the chairman of
the state central committee, J. M.
Simpson, called the body to order.
After the usual routine business it
was discovered that the committee on
resolutions would be unable to report
until morning. The rules were sus
pended, and the convention proceeded
to the nomination of candidates for
state officers. Maj. E. N. Morrill, of
Hiawatha, was nominated for the
governorship, and W. A. Johnson, of
Ottawa count3", as the candidate for
associate justice of the supreme court.
OiT for liray Cables.
Washington, June 7. Mrs. Cleve
land, accompanied by her two chil
dren, a nurse and a maid, left Wash
ington on Wednesday in a special
car on the Pennsylvania railroad for
Gray Gables. At New York the party
will take a boat for Fall River.
A Tost Ottlee I!ur;l,irized.
Bed Wing, Minn., June 7. Burglars
broke into the post office and store of
G. O. Miller at White Rock, blew the
safe open and secured about S100 in
stamps and cash, and between $1,000
and S2.000 in notes.
Oulek Work.
New Yokk, June 7. The result of
the Derby race was received by the
United Press from the office of the di
rect United States Cable Co. at 10:22:15
o'clock a. ra. Wednesday, just one sec
ond after it was filed in London.
A BUNCO GAME.
How Protection Kobs the American Pro
ducer of Ills Profits.
"The republican farmer is ignorant
or vicious, usually both." This may
sound harsh, but it is true. To the
farmer, protection offers a bunco
game; to the vicious farmer it offers
green goods; to the honest farmer it
offers nothing. It has no use for in
telligent men, or honest men. It de
nounces them impartially as "hirelings
bought by British gold."
The "bunco" game which protection
played upon the simple-minded repub
lican farmer would not have deceived
an intelligent child. It was called the
home market. The farmers in 1880
raised twenty-five per cent, more food
than could be eaten in this country;
the manufacturers produced SOOO.000,
000 less than enough mill goods to sup
ply the demand. The farmers num
bered 2,000,000 in excess of the number
required; the mill-owners employed
200,000 less than the number of hands
required. The demand for the S000.
000,000 mill goods was supplied by
farm labor, the surplus products being
exchanged for foreign mill goods. The
mill-owners said to the farmers:
"What j'ou require is a 'home market.'
You lose by sending j'our product
abroad. America for Americans. For
eigners must be shut out. Foreign
pauper labor in foreign countries is
ruining the United States. Keep out
the foreign product and we will make
it here and you can feed our workmen
instead of the foreign workmen. Then
you will be better off. You fight for a
'home market,' we will fight for a
'home market,' and ever3-thing will be
lovel3" when we get it. You will not
have to export; we will be able to sell
here all we can make."
The republican farmer did not stop
to think it would have been ttseless
to have done so, because he did not
know how. But here and there an in
telligent farmer, a democrat, did, and
he recalled these economic truths:
1. All products of American labor
must be enjoyed here by the producer,
unless he goes abroad and takes them
with him.
2. The exchange of products among
men cannot affect this in any way.
SIMPLY DRIFTING. N. Y. World.
Whatever a farmer may exchange his
Corn for-whether greenbacks or a
coat becomes by the exchange the
pnxluct o his labor. He may make
fifty exchanges before he reaches the
final exchange for the thing to be used
or enjoyed, but that last thing is the
product of his labor and the final pay
ment for his work.
3. By no juggling can anj- profitable
or business exchange of products with
a foreigner pass an3 product of
American labor out of the country or
pass any product of foreign labor into
the country. When corn is exchanged
(sold) for something the foreigner has.
the corn ceases to be the product of
American labor. What it has been ex
changed (or sold) for becomes the prod
uct of American labor, and is en
joyed by the American as "the fruit of
his toil." Foreigners give us nothing,
and no American can get possession of
any product of foreign labor except by
stealing it. The protectionist who
talks about our use of the products of
foreign labor assumes that we are a
nation of thieves, and that what w.;
import is the result of piracy.
4. What we may lawfully enjoy as
Americans must be the result of Amer
ican labor only. The joint labor of all
produces the total of what we eat.
what we drink and what we use and
enjoy. All the mill goods we use may
not be made in this country, but to get
them we must make something else
farm products of exactly their value
to a cent, which we exchange for the
mill products, and the farm products,
passing out of the county, become,
by the exchange products of foreign
labor, while the mill products, passing
in, become, by the exchange, the prod
ucts of American labor on our farms,
taking the place of what our farm la
bor produced in exchange for them.
The intelligent farmer could see that
there was in it no question of foreign
labor; that it was a question of farm
labor or mill labor, and that the only
thing to be considered was whether it
would pay him to give up his foreign
trade. Why could the mill-owners not
compete on equal terms with the farm
ers in supplying the demand for mill
goods? Why did they require protec
tion, for their assertion that they com
peted with foreigners was a palpable
lie? The only competition they had
was in the exchange of the surplus
farm products for mill goods surplus
farm labor. The reason was easy to
find.
The profit in labor is in the wages.
Farming is normally the most profit
able when land may be had for the tak
ing, because the total value of the
product makes the wages. There is
practically no raw material to buy.
What the farmer sells his crop for he
puts in his pocket it is the wages he
gets for his work over and above the
cost of food. The capital required and
the actual expenses are less than in
any other business practically noth
ing. Mill labor is normally the least prof
itable of pursuits, for the total value
of the product is mainly made up of
the cost of raw material, interest on
plant and other expenses. The wages
are onPy a small fraction of the prod
uct. In 1880, in all manufacturing in
dustries, the cost value of the total
product was 55,309.579,191, while the
total wages it represented were much
less than one-fifth, only 5947.953,795.
This is the reason why cooperative
mills will never prove profitable the
wages or earnings are too small forthe
labor involved. If all the profit made
in all our mills should be divided
among the workers there would be no
appreciable difference in their general
condition. The division of the profits
among a very few mill-owners, the
employers, alone makes manufactures
"pay." If the employes owned the
mills in equal shares and did their
own work, it would pay them less than
any other investment of their money
and labor. The profit in mill work
comes from what the employer can
squeeze out of 100 or 1,000 workmen,
from S3 to 510 each per week, and from
what he gets for the "wages" of his
machines. Divided among his work
men it would amount to but little for
each; massed in his pocket it is an
enormous income. N. Y. World.
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
In spite of the smoke that hangs
over the field of the tariff battle, it is
becoming plainer day by day that pro
tection is making its last fight. A few
years hence we shall look back to this
session of congress and say that it
marked an epoch a period remarka-
ble for events of great subsequent in
fluence. We shall then be able to see
clearly that the preent muddle was
inevitable, that it was only one of the
many milestones along the irresistible
march to free trade. Puck.
Shaving and sweating gold coins
seems to be establishing itself as an
infant industry in which there is a
good deal to In? made. The necessity
of protecting it should be called to the
attention of Maj. McKinley. Detroit
Free Iress.
If people hear a grating noise
they cannot otherwise account for they
may take it for granted it is a result of
the friction between Mr. McKinley's
nerves and the persistency of Indiana
statesmen in trying to keep their fore
feet in the trough. N. Y. World.
There doesn't seem to be any
difference of opinion among business
men, whether thej- belong to one party
or another, as to the necessity of
speedy action in the senate on the
pending tariff bill. It is a pitv that
republican senators should not in this
respect reflect the will of their con
stituencies. The whole country from
the Atlantic to the Pacific is sick and
tired of delay. Philadelphia Record.
The Chicago Tribune speaks of
the shortage in the government rev
enues as a "condensed statement of
ten months of unadulterated de
mocracy." But that is just where tint
Tribune makes its mistake. The de
mocracy of the country for the past
ten months has been a good deal adul
terated, notably by republican fili
busters, who stand in the way of demo
cratic reforms which would give the
country sullicient revenues. Detro;
Free fc'ress.
As the senate proceeds with the
purchase of votes by "concessions" to
protect interests we do not see how
the people can fail to be impressed with
the fact that the whole system of pro
tection is a system of bribery. Even
the republican senators, in assaulting
the bill, charge that protection is
given to certain interests in order to
pay for campaign contributions, or for
special services to certain senators, or
because certain senators are directly
interested in the protected article.
This is exactly on a line with the fa
mous letter of a republican senator,
who proposed to "fry the fat" out of
the protection beneficiaries unless they
contributed liber:iMy to the republican
campaign fund. lndlianapolis Sentir...
A PICTURE OF SLAVERY;
Keeroes In a Sooth Carol Ins City Just Be
fore the War.
It was with a curious interest that
we studied the buildings and customs
of the town, so different in every way
from those of our northern homes. The
long, airy houses with their three
stories of piazza, the negro quarters in.
the yards, often much larger and more
imposing than the dwelling of the mas
ter snd mistress, swarming with happy
and careless life, as the many servants
passfcd to and fro between house and
quarters; and the little darkies of all
ages were free to play and tumble to
their hearts' content, unless, indeed, a
sweet-voiced call came from the rear of
the piazza: "George Washington and
Columbus, come notice Miss Elvira!"
followed by the rush of perhaps half a
dozen small darkies of varying ages,
all eager to play with and care
for the heiress of the house and of
them. And the loving and reverent
care which they did take of the little
Elvira was beautiful to see! Then the
long stretch of the yard, with its pump
in the middle, where a buxom serving
maid was filling her pails of water,
which came into the house afterwards,
one poised on her stately head, while
she carried two in her hands; the queer
wooden shutters, and the bewildering;
arrangement of the numbers of the
houses on the street, where it was said
that every citizen, if he moved, carried
his number with him as a part of his
personal property; the inevitable negro
everywhere, waiting on and serving us
at every turn; the beautiful gardens,
whose high gates opened mysteriously
and swiftly by invisible hands at
the appeal of the loud-echoing
bell. While cone negro led us
up the path, another opened
the front door, a third escorted us to
the drawing-room, while a fourth an
nounced our arrival to the gracious
mistress, and a fifth chubby little girl
or boy appeared before we were fairly
seated with a tray of cooling drink!
And the procession of servants from the
kitchen when dinner was in course of
serving, one servant for each dish, so
that everything was smoking hot,
though it had come some distance in
the open air! The queer and fascinat
ing dialect of the negroes, and the alto
gether fascinating accent of the
Charlestonians, the llare of the live
sighlike breath of the pitch-pine knots
in the fireplace in the evening or the
earl3 morning, when the servant who
came to make our fire entertained
us all the time of her stay
by her remarks, and never quit
ted the room which she did half a
dozen times during the process leaving
us in doubt as to what her errand might
be, but announcing encouragingly each
time, as she opened the door and disap
peared, "Now I'm going for the
matches, "Now I m going for to fetch
the dust-pan." etc. All was new and
full of interest and suggestion.
The regulations under which it was
considered necessary to keep the col
ored population were to us new and in
teresting. The law at that time for
bade their being taught to read. A
colored woman could not wear a veil in
the street, nor were two negroes al
lowed to walk arm-in-arm except at
funerals. A curious and suggestive
thing happened, therefore. Every
negro funeral was largely attended,
and the corpse was sure to lx? fol
lowed to the grave ly an impos
ing line of mourners, all walking arm-in-arm.
One verj' marked figure in the
city was the old man at the ladies" en
trance of the Charleston hotel. I think
I have never seen a man who had more
the appearance of being somebody's
grandfather than this kindly old Mar
cus. One day he had disappeared, and
there was no one at the door. After
long and futile search for him a mes
senger brought word that lie wanted
the loan of money in order to return,
and the mystery was finally solved by
the discovery that he could not come,
not because he had bought either oxen
or 'sand, c r married a wife, but for the
simple reason that, having become more
than specially interested in his one
only pastime of gambling the night
before, he had, in a fit of noble rage
at hi:i persistent ill-luck, rashly
hazarded his clothes and lost the
game. A contribution from his friends
ht the hotel soon restored him, clothed
and in his right mind, which was a very
positive one. There is a tradition cur
rent that one evening, as a party of
lately arrived northerners were having
a pleasant conversation in the parlor
somewhat late, they were surprised b
the appearance of Marcus, who gravely
informed them that he had come to
sweep the parlors, and that "our folks
in dis house always goes to bed by half
past ten, sah'."' The intimation was
humbly heeded. Of course no one
could resist the law of the hotel when
the decisions were handed down from
such a height. Anna C. Brackett, in
llarjer's Magazine
Spanish Pride.
Tride is the birthright of almost every
Spaniard, and the fact that one of the
race may take up the occupation cf a
beggar docs not shut him out from the
possession of it. An American traveler
relates that, in alighting at a hotel in
Granada, he saw a man at the door pul
out his hand toward him.
The traveler supposed that the man
was the porter of the hotel, and offered
him his valise. The man stepped back,
tossed his head, and frowned scorn
fully.
"Ciimmlaf" he exclaimed. "Do you
take me for a porter? I would have
you understand that I am no porter."
"Indeed? Then maj I ask you,
6cnor, what you are?"
"I am a beggar, sir. and a.-k for your
alms!" Youth's Companion.
Sometimes Identleal.
Little Johnny Pa. does a visitatioa
mean the fame thing as a visit?
Pa Sometimes, my son. For in
stance when your grandmother cornea
to stop with us for mouth. Truth.
Prof. Stone "To the geologist a
thotisamt years or so are not counted as
any time at all." Man in the audience
Great Scott! And to think I made a
temporary loan of ten dollars to a man
who hoi J such viv!" Indiana polia
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