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Show t : i HAS A SILVEE TONG UE. .. Talmage in Washington.. Still Interested in ) New York Affairs- - Seven .Hundred Thousand Dollars for SENATOR! TILLMAN Vhat lie Thinks of Certain Charities lf Books. WILL STIR UP THE SENATE. 4 '. V ; . and sometimes furious sentences, brook ing no contradiction and forgetting notnlng that he ever learned. The heat of the pine blaze Injured his left eye, and an indiscreet plunge in cold water brought on a pulpy tumor. For nearly two years .young Tillman was an invalid. When he was well again, the war was over and his ye was gone. From that time on he labored to improve his mind. He was an omnivorous student reading without system, but gathering together an array of facts and ideas, ancient and modern, which astounds those who hear him In debate today. He was a great hunter land fisher. On the plantation he was "a steam engine in breeches." Although he lis the most remorseless enemy of negro suffrage in South Caro lina, his whole history is full of acts ol generosity towards his black farmj laborers. Before twenty he married, and heihas now six children, One son is at Clem-so- n Agricultural college,' on the old Sen- n estate, to establish which the ator made his first entry into public life, and his eldest! daughter, Miss Adie Tillman, Is studying at the Hollins ind stitute, Virginia a bright, pretty., 12 years girl. His son Henry, old, has inherited his father's extraordinary memory and can tell you offhand any fact in the almanac, the names of congressmen and the majorities by which they were elected, how many gallons of liquor Is consume In the country, and how much money Is' In :: circulation. I Often when the fierce, ruthless leader returns from battle with his enemies, he lies down on the floor and n a minute his children are piled on top of him, pulling his hair, pinching ' his cheeks, and . searching his pockets. Like all really strong men, he is gentle ' Everybody know? that .the illustrious divine, who made the Brooklyn Taber; nacie famous throughout the world, has recently been called to' a pastorate in "Washington'. His church; is the First Presbyterian church of that city, and The Man Who Is Beloved by the "Poor White Trash" of the South Will Take CtheBeins of Leadership He May Be a Presidential Candidate. . in or m e ar years very promf inent institution, it latterly been had - 1 favored with" but small audiences, com posed prin clpally of (Columbia, S. C, Correspondence.) HIS ancient and pe-- c u 1 iar commonwealth is at this moment under the domination of the most notable and exasperating leader the South has prosince the duced war With one or two exceptions he is ! i ;'. to-d- 1 ;. ; high-spirite- ay one-eye- me . ; (Jal-hou- slng-song- - nal be one's self; then a p e r s o n, knowing all the circumstances of the case, can trace. the r j ed . career of the wrongdoer from the first false step until the final catastrophe when he is laid by the heels. If a man enters into a career of erime he is reasonably sure to be caught at last, and as a warning to others I set down here the particulars of how, after deluding the customs officials of France for years and years, I was at last trapped, and curiously enough, when I was innocent. I am a little mixed as to what the moral of this recital should be. In looking over the case from beginning to end it seems to me that the inference is that one should never be innocent. If a man escapes when he is doing wrong and is caught when his motives are pure, the obvious moral is not at all of the kind I care to attach to the end of any story 1 have to tell. I do like to have a nice, comfortable, correctly-modle- d moral with which to finish any article I may begin, and it is a great grief to me that the moral in this case is not at all what It should be. For years and years I have deluded the French customs officials in the matter of tobacco. I think, of course, that it is wrong to smuggle as a general rule, but I cannot imagine it wrong to bring into an unenlightened country - like France tobacco that, a white man can smoke. I always calculate the number at home. of. days I shall be in any part of France, There is not a more remarkable pra packet: for tor and debater in the country. His and then I take a each a and extra in case I day couple can invectives bite to the bone. should meet a friend famishing for a good smoke, and this quantity I have never had any difficulty in smuggling into the great European republic As the tobacco is entirely for my own consumption 2nd as I am not a citizen of France, and as I shall be swindled enough by the hotel keepers In what- the terms of the new constitution to the that has been sitting in the men and convention women who famous old state house. Benjamin Ryan Tillman Is the absolute ruler of rem ained even the state, overriding all other authority IavaI fn thA nld church down friends and foes and though now surrounded largely by alike trampling f when they oppose his will. business houses. "A marvelous change, United the enters When Tillman however, has suddenly come over thi3 States senate next winter that august the landmark, and body will receive a shock, for this!' is First Presbyterian churchof Washing-of no y whiskerando like Mr. ton, owing to the wondrous eloquence Peffer, but the incarnation of agriculIts newly installed pastor, is every bun tural socialism armed with lightning lay besieged by '"multitudes, many of that can blast and scarify. There is not whom stand there frequently hours in senate on a man the floor of the today advance of the opening of the service fit orahis to when with Tillman cope in hopes of being, able tqj wedge their torical bowie knife is out. He thinks way in somehow or other, and to listen in pictures and has a nimble wit. Even to the matchless eloquence of Ameri- dr.'odqg. lowar th F RFRFF aG,(Kca's foremost pulpit orator. unterrified John James Ingalls the won-People all over the country are mova would have hard time of It with this dering whether Dr. Talmage, in exd leader of tKe agrarian revoluing to the National Capital, and in a tion, who has smashed the saloon changing his Brooklyn residence fordi- power, overthrown the heirs of the old-tihouse in Washington, has actually diarchy of landed proprietors, vorced himself from all connection with towns the east. Dr. Talmage was! recently in- humbled the pride of cities and terviewed on this subject by a reporterof this paper, and the reverend gentlenjan'said that as long as his editorial chair had two legs in Nev York and time-honor- HE career of, a criminal is always espeinteresting, cially if the crimi- j 1 while CAUGHT AT LAST. ; . . . two-oun- two legs in Washington he could never be considered as having severed all his connections with the metropolis. "The Christian Herald," he said, "with its wide circulation, is a tremendous power for good," and as long as the Lord gave hm health and strength he would write for that paper ia fact, he rwould be in his editorial chair at the' Bible House more frequently now than ever. Continuing, the genial preacher said: "There is no paper in America that wields a more potential influence for good than The Christian Herald, with a circulation of nearly two hundred thousand copies weekly. Nothing but death shall separate me from it. Dr. Klopsch, Itsi proprietor, Is a man of extraordinary enterprise. This year besides printing The Christian Herald every week in beautiful colors, a veritable enchantment for the eye, he offers asj a premium a Complete library, consisting of ten splendid volumes, full of interest and full'of entertainment, with an elegant bookcase, delivered free of all expense,', the paper itself, fifty-tw- o together with ' times, for the moderate ura of f 3. Hereafter let no home in America be ?' t without a library. .;;?;., i jj Dr. asked whether he could I; Talmage recommend the library to people who contemplated securing, it, and he said unhesitatingly, "I know every book. They were carefully and. thoughtfully prepared, either specially jwrltten. or compiled by most eminent literary men, and there is not a weakling among ever part I chance to be, I ease my conscience by pointing out these facts to it, and I must say that my conscience, being a reasonable one, does not judge me harshly in the matter. It Is needless, perhaps, to add that the French government does not agree with me in all this, so therefore, in order not to trouble the government more than is necessary, I place these packages about my person in such a way that on passing the French frontier I give the government as little bother as possible. j . ce . ! : them' j; ; :...;. ;v :J)V "I opened the trunk and showed him , of yours?" PROFILE VIEW OF TILLMAN. tian Herald at j far-seei- ng -- " j j V The Pianist's Only Requisite. When Hans von Bulow went to England for the first time on a, concert tour he was much surprised to find that the custom of the country made his dress suit inappropriate . at afternoon concerts, where he was expected to appear in a frock coat" with light trousers. Soon after his return from his a young pianist called on him to get his advice and opinion in regard to a comprehensive pianoforte! method which he had just published 'under the title of "l'lndispensable du Pianlste." "Ah, my, dear young friend," cried the with a whimsical smile, great musician are behind far the times. You "you to and travel your mind. enlarge ought Then you will find out that the pianist's only 'indispensable' is a pairj of light :tur j - trousers!" ' : t i i Unique Organlzatron of Bachelor Girls. ; turn and twist around corners with astonishing dexterity, deluding and confusing his opponents. He despises and ignores politicians, slashing and stabbing them indiscriminately, whether, they support him, or not. The secret of his power is his strong hold upon the mass of the white people. He is the god, the redeemer of the "poor whites." Nothing in heaven or earth and let loose seas of reckless rhetoric,' engulfing the traditions of South Caro lina in a flood of Greek, Latin, slang, profanity, crankiness and common sense. He towers up in the South. of the senate The sergeant-at-arm- s has my sympathy, but the senate Itself has a stirring "experience in store for it-The Tillmans of this generation have mostly died in their boots. One of the senator's brothers was .killed In the Mexican war, another died from wounds received in the battle of Chickamauga and two others were shot dead in per sonal encounters. The whole family Is high 'strung and full of grit. "Uncle" George Tillman, who. served in congress for fourteen years,; was actually turned out of his seat for daring to oppose the will of his younger brother. Today you may see the two brothers grappling with each other in this curious convention, which has met chiefly to provide for the permanent disfranchisement of the negro race- and to recognize the so cialistic principle of state ownership of ! saloons in the constitution. Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman was born 7 forty-eigyears ago ' on his father's plantation at Chester, at Edgefield county, S.i C. Shortly afterwards his father died, and his mother, assisted by her elder sons, conducted the hilly cotton farm on the edge of Chevi3 Creek. They had a hundred slaves when the war broke out. Mrs. Till man was an, intelligent, not to say brilliant, woman, for a plain planter's wife. During the war young Tillman went to school at Liberty Hill, thirty miles from home, under the tutelage of. George Dolphin, a teacher and linguist of local renown. The lad's thirst for knowledge and his indomitable will were displayed in his fifteenth year. He knew that at sixteen he must enter the Confederate army. His brothers, then serving in the field, wrote back, urging him to get a good foundation of knowledge, for the war might last so long that he would never have another opportunity for education When school hours were over, and supper was eaten, young Tillman would carry a lighted pine knot into the woods and, lying down in the ' ht ; : ex-sress- ins escapes his vehement irreverence. Hla has an especial hatred and contempt for President Cleveland. "When I get to the United States senate," he says, "I'll punch that' old bag of beef in the ribs with my pitchfork and make him show up something about these Wall street deals." Whereat enthusiastic hayseedism wags its head, sticks its tongue in Its cheek and swears that Benamin Ryan Tillman Is the mightiest v man that lives, has lived, or 'ever will live. And they really believe it. Tillman aspires to be president. All his hopes are centered in a union of the silver forces of all parties next year, Already I silver men have men- tioned the combinatior Tillman and Teller, Tillman and- Ha vey, Harvey and Tillman, Teller, r and Tillman and; many others with the name of Tillman! included. Should he be the nominee! on such a union ticket, Tillman believes that he could be elected. He believes that "he is the son of destiny,! that he is doing God's work; that he will not only kill the rum' power in South Carolina, but all over the coun-- l try as well. There you have Tillman summed up. But you really do not understand the; man until you. see him facing his ene-- j mies in debate. The opposition to him has no leaders and practically no poll- cy except the annihilation of Tillman, But the end of Tillman may be very near. He declares that South Carolina will withdraw from the next national democratic convention unless the f ree coinage of siliver is agreed to. The re- suits of such a course would be very; painful to Tillman, politically speak- ing. But he Is Impetuous and head-- , long, in spite of his hard head. So oddly are some men fashioned. . JAMES CREELMAN. Many people mistake stubbornness for bravery, meanness for economy, and vlleness for wit. -- - ; - The Federation of Girl Bachelors' afClubs in New York 13 a fair with 300 "bachelor" households. The organization is composed jof many small clubs banded together to secure home comforts at wholesale prices. They have a laundry of their own, and the President is an artist who! notifies each member by mail where they may leafy solitude, would ponder over Greek purchase their clothing and food and roots and Latin conjugations by the ent their apartments at 10 per cent or dim, flickering light. He was a lank, x third off the regular sinewy, silent and dictatorial youth, prices. uta opinion In short, sharp ive the packages of tobacco." Instead of paying the government duty then, or having my tobacco confiscated, I have for many years tendered to France advice that Is much more valuable than any duty they might extract from me ; but republics are notoriously ungrateful and France Is no exception, for she has paid not the slightest attention to my counsel. I have shown her that no country in the world has ever become great that has not had' plenty of tobacco of the best quality and at cheap prices. France foolishly goes on spending millions on Its army and on its navy, as If that The really amounted to something. trouble with France lies entirely with the tobacco, and she will be thrashed out of her boots every time she is tackled by a country that used good and cheap tobacco. There Is Italy, for Instance, as an awful example. It uses', If possible, viler tobacco than France, and its customs officials are even stricter than those of the republic. What Is the result? Italy is on the verge of bankruptcy, and it' would fall an easy prey to even the smallest country in Eu. "How are the people to secure this great library, and this wonderful paper 'Simply by sending $3 to The Chris888 to 895 Bible House, New York City, and by return mail they will be delighted with the result. Ever since my boyhood; I've had a passion for books; I love them still couldn't live unless surrounded by them. So fm; something of a Judge of good literature. And in my whote life I ave never ieen a better selection in smajl compass 4han these ten books which Dr. Klopsch has had prepared for his subscribers. It's a perfect library of information, entertainment "and amusement, and is the climax of the wonderfully enterprising and management that has placed The Christian Herald ahead of all competitors' as a .Christian home journal. Do you : know," continued Dr. Talmage, "that this paper has in less than six years; expended nearly $700,000 in various beneficences it home and abroad?" Just then Miss Talmage ca me in to tall'her distinguished father to dinner, and the interview ended, ; Remember the address,. 888 to 893 Bible House, New York City, rneuniiitic : SS. mP' . trl 5?r SV' reslUenceg oM 5 lT ' ... " I j i i rope that uses good tobacco. Switzerland and Holland and Belgium are small countries, yet they attain their independence entirely through having ' good tobacco at reasonable prices. Switzerland took in and disarmed i 80,-0of the French troops that the Germans were chasing towards the close of . the Franco-Prussia- n war. If the French had not used vile tobacco they would not in the first place have been chased by the Prussians ; ' and in I the second place they could not have been disarmed by a little country like Switzerland were It not for the fact that the Swiss had the best tobacco at exceedingly low prices. On the other hand, look at America, at England, and at Germany, they are unconquerable coun tries simply because they use the best tobacco. France, as I have regretfully said, has paid no attention to my advice, but has squandered money on a' useless trivially like the army, when it might by a stroke of the pen make tobacco free all over the land. It should not be forgotten that it was Napoleon III. who introduced the tobacco monopoly in France, and that, while the great Napoleon was conquering; all the world, tobacco was better and cheaper in France than in any other country in . Europe. The other day I was on my way. to Switzerland. I expected to be able to register my trunk clear through to Berne, and although I knew tbbacco was cheap and good in Switzerland I a. inougnt i would take the precaution of f 00 ; - -- i ; A I ..... . Vwor; IJSSIJ V .. yourj system, tone your etomarht, r your appeti;e, enrich your ht prevent sickness by taking J "iv- ; neaith. - Sarsaparilla ' the various articles of wearing apparel It hadbeen packed with much care, and the heap it made on the bench where they examine luggage in Paris was something appalling. It didn't seem to me possible that anyi human being could ever get all those things back in the trunk again. They found no more tobacco; but they all retired to an office and seemed to consult about the matter, then the main officials came out and said that this was a case fori the . i -- showed him the, packages of tobacco. He shook his head, and, gathering the packages in his hands, he departed, leaving me there with the open trunk. He returned after a while with a man who: was evidently, a higher official, and behind this higher official came another of the same rank as the first. "Why didn't you declare this tobacco?' said the official to me., "I did declare it," I answered. , "I told him I was going through to Switzerland with it and none of it was ,to be opened in France." The official said nothing, but the two understrappers attacked the box and turned out every mortal thing that wai in it. I don't carry jmuch luggage when I travel alone, but this trunk contained that belonged to mv family. v-- . i j '" ' pneumatic hub bievr' v ' rrhich the laTeutor riair', jvcle construrtlnn tk. the Insertion of a small r!?1' the hub of th frnnf tected as to give the S 2LrJ-:;dinary hub, and at resilience found in tL tire. The object of the huU,r away with the question " and the lnrentor claims av V Sf The rim problem. designed with rubber cenLthe gauges, so as to be arable, and yet glr together with tbat gree by the pneumatic S'11 ' it is asserted by the xcei the gjt The hub construction i8 of proportion. The machine V coTH.; ' is la the form tubing Is four inches In dla rubber ii7 rSSS wheel, and is protected bv i e1 from friction with the axle n ? 8 f;i means of an ordinary ball loir, !l Ta when the tube is deflated chine can be ridden without i inventor, either to the ' metallic parts surrounding!Lr 1 f v " A The One True Blood Purifier, ft.j, Hood's Pills are mild and - i in your Back, I re-- i D?Hbb's chief inspector. L "Very well, then, get the chief Inspector here as quickly as possible." "But he has gone for the night," said the official. i j They relieve the pains, cure all diseases of which sick neys are the cause. At all for 50c. per box, or mailed postpaid on ceipt of price. of tobacco? Keep them, for Heaven's sake, and present them with my comto the Inspector pliments but ' let me pass through Paris and '' catch my train." He shook his head and the two understrappers began putting the things helter-skeltback, in the trunk, and could not squeeze down finding they the lid again, they took the trunk and the rest of my baggage and locked it up for the night. I learned that the inspector would not be there until 10 o'clock in the morning, and that would make me miss the morning train for Switzerland also. I again offered the pompous official the tobacco, but he said that jit was not a question of tobacco at all, but' of a fine.! I should , probably be fined two thousand francs, he added. A man who had concealed two boxes of cigars, a Cuban, had that week been fined two thousand francs, and probably my fate would be the same as his; it all would depend on the inspector. "But," I urged, "I did not conceal the tobacco at all. I told the man it was there before the trunk was opened." The official shook his head. "You did not declare it," he said. There was nothing for it, then, but to I congo to a hotel, which we did. adhotel who sulted the proprietor, to me curb vised my naturally ugly temper, and to be exceedingly deferential in the morning. He said that if the inspector chose to put a two thousand franc! fine upon me I should have' ta purify the blood, kid-- ! to-morr- . drug-gists- ' -. ever. ...... jj , re- - Write for pamphlet. HOBB'S MEDICINE CHICAGO. SAN CO., t FRANCISCO, THE DAVIS ,' Safety Brake HorseHi j This holster, is built entirely oflrey steeK and is provided with a patenttheL MATIC SAFETY BRAKE holding at any point, and making the working. ' Hoister perfectly safe. Feature 3To Posnessed by any olhtrBor$. These Holsters are built in flvesiz' oaetor machine No. 1, 75with pacity of feet per single Une, 800 pounds, j with sheaves, $90. Price, complete SEND FOR CATALOGUE, j A : In ; parapais "Do you mean to tell me," I said, "that you are going to make me miss my train all on account of a few packages Ithe J t f . Mu ! i , your cles, your Joints, your Head, and all diseases of Impure Blood, are caused by sick kidneys. Sick kidneys caa be i qured, strengthened, i vitalized by i. er - ' putting a lew pacKages of my own. particular brand at the top of the trim'!. It was a foolish thing to do, knowing that I had to pass through France, and when I got to the railway station Jn London and found I could only register the trunk as far as Paris I should then have taken the tobacco out if I had thought about it. .We arrived In Paris a little after 6 o'clock in the evening, and the train left for Berne, from a station on the other side of the city, at 8:30, so there was just time enough to get a comfortable dinner and cab it across Paris from one station to the other, but it allowed no great margin for customs examination. When the villain who acts for the French government asked me if I had anything to declare, I said that I didn't exactly know; I had some tobacco, but itI was not Intended for use in France. was, going to take the night train to Berne if I could get the luggage across Paris in time. I opened the trunk and Thf. F. H. Davis Iron Worte Co, X ., morning I was taken before a very dignified official who scrutinized me with some severity. He listened to what! I had to say, and luckily for me, : i w, tlaVBIA01 POISON penw. cuFedlnl5to55 days. YoucanbeB eame g home for same price underhere we come . If you prefer to ty nOW""' tt..n,4nna. M t lirkn t fa r Anna if we fail to cure. If you have tojw nocharge, cars-- , Iodide potash, and still barer palnX Mucous Patches In moutQ, Spots, Ufc Pitt pies. Copper Colored Eyebrow ru any part of theWr, Hair or BOOD it is this Secondary out; mof we guarantee to cure. We solicit tieworiff-cas- oj the first inspector did not tell any lies about it, but admitted that I had said I had tobacco, andj had said that I waa going through to Switzerland, and. mentioned that the tobacco was not conthe cases and challenge is disease cealed, but lay in the top of the trunk. nafe we cannot cure. Tb eminentp the most the skill ofcapital The official then asked me to show him baffled behind our Clans. 500,000 Absolute proofs sent w my tickets to Switzerland, which I did tional guaranty. Address COOK RfMEP, He finally came to a decision, whici application. U)7 lasonio Temple, was, that I should pay for a man to gc Cut out and ftend tills aaver",! across Paris with me, and see my trunk registered through to, Berne, and thai I should pay fifteen francs duty on thf tobacco, and that I should remembei I was getting off .very easily. I suppose I should have been thankful, .but then some people are as ungrateful as republics themselves. 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