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Uses tor oa year, 110.
Announcing candidates tor BUta at
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CAROS-PROFISSIONAL, Kta.
QEO. F. WEBB,
Attorney at Law,
OfflcelB tha BatlerBaiUla Liberty,
aa? it Ceaaty, Mlu. U--M
D. C. BR AM LETT,
WOODVILLB, MIlaV
Will practice la all tha Ooart
Amite and adjoining counties, Bad 1b to
luprenie Court at Jackaoav 1-L
THEO. McKNIQHT,
Attorney at Law,
SUMMIT, HISS.
Will praotlo la all tha Ooarta af
lk and adjoining counties, and li
tha Supreme and Federal Court al
Jssksoa.
J. R. GALTNEY,
Attorney at Law,
LIBERTY, HISS.
All business confided to hia ear will
soetve prompt litteLtloa.
RATCLIVF,"
Attorney at Law,
OLOSTKB, HIM.
Will praaatca la all tha Oean al
Aalte and adjoiui.ig ocuatle Bad la tatf
tapreaas Court at Jaokaoav IMA.
B. (1. Ratcuff, W. H. Wainio,
Gloster, Miss. Oloster, UU.
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Attorneysat-Law
LIBEKTT. MISS.
Win practice 1b ill tl. courts of Amite
lid itdjoinlas; oountltia and In tba 8
Sreni Court at Jackson.
WILL A. PARSONS,
AttorneyatLaw,
tJLOSTER, I ! : t MISSISSIPPI,
Will practice In ttao court of AiniM
nd adjoining countios, in both criminal
tad civil cases, and in the Bupremf
Court.
Office in the rear of Ratcliff'i drugstore.
t, Louis, Missouri.
w. a. Mcdowell, s i
Amite County, UUa.
HOTEL
And Livery Stable
LIBERTY, MISS.
The undersigned begs to announce
mat she is low prepared to receif
koardets and entertain the traveling
public, Fare the best the market af
fords. She is aiso prepared to meet ths
ants of thn publiu in the way of feed'
big. itablintf ""3 grooming stock which
y bo cntristed to 'aet care. Chaff
"asoaable, Gite me a trial.
HRS. V. V. WEBB.
THIS PAPER 13 ON FILE
IN CHICAGO
m NEW YORK
-timmiaiBi.
HOW GRAIN IS HANDLED.
The Seeaalast Mysteries of th.3 Op-
irauuu -u iy tip'.a Bed.
Val
able Acma.i cf Visit i. ,k.
ra Sra-lloard Kipurl eleva
tors l (hp Unlilniurc
Ohio llnllroail.
Special Baltimore Letter
Speculators do not coutrol ihe nrlc
of wheat except within very narrow
limits. This is an Interesting discovery
I have made during the pust week, after
several visits to the Puudeujouiacal ex
change, anJ after climbing through the
inmuer or mighty export grain elcva
ors in the city of Baltimore n eitv.
by the way, which certainly holils th
aim to-day as being the greatest crain
export center In the western hewia-
lhere.
One million eight hundred thousand
bushels of wheat and corn are being
handled in Baltimore's largest elevator
about every four days, ami during the
months of July and August this as-
cundingly high-pressure condition of
affi'irs has been nructicallv constant.
By the courtesy of the Baltimore 4
Ohio liuilroud compauy 1 have been
privileged, during the past week, to un
ravel the seeming mysteries, commer
cial and mechanical, of how grain it
handled in these largest of large sea
board export elevators located at their
gnat marine freight termiual. Locust
rcint.
The outside dimensions of the larger
of the Locust Point elevators, which
u.ny be considered as among the finest
ever built, are 407 feet long, 84 feet
wide and 170 feet high (the height from
the car floor on the pier to the top of
the machinery loft above). Kveryono
is familiar with the peculiar offset con
struction of an elevntor which makes
look like n huge barn with a little
barn rising from its roof. In the solid,
window-less structure beneath the grain
s stored, while in the attenuated, win
dow-bedecked superstructure all the
THE GREAT B. ft O. ELEVATORS
hi.ipliincrv. welirhlnir bins and scales,
and the multiplicity of criss-cross,
truusverse chutes ure round, in tins
imrtiiMiliii- elevator there are 254 stor-
uge bins alone, each one being some 13
feet square and 1)0 leet tlei-p, wmi n ca
pacity of about 5,500 bushels. A It is
beeessary that this enormous weigiu oi
grain should be supported above the
tops of the railroad cuts winen run un
der the entire length of the granaries
on two separate lines of truck, the tim
bering and shoring and studding are o(
magnificent proportions, jo wniistan.i
the frightful lateral strain of the grain
each bin is built of heavy pine plank
two inches thick and eight inches
wide, spiked together on its grcatei
w idth. Outside of the storage bins, run
ning ulong the entire length of uol.i
li'ies of the buiicnng unci connected wr.n
autside chutes for steamer lading, arc
the "shipping bin3," more than 70 in
umber. Kach or these contains ocr
!,S00 bushels. At the end of the build-
RECEIVER LEO, SHOWING BUCKETS.
lug. which has been erectcu upon a nun-
Illg. WHICH H uvv v. -,
tkrf ul foundation of piles, far out in the
ter, is to be lounu w nai is m "
- lnr " nn Immpngf tVO-
ti'.e sieaujci icS,
legged pendulum device w hich sticks lU
nose i
into tne very uonuui ot u on.........
aihm nn the era in in enl-
hold i
buckets to be stored in
less
the
Unur to pet irrain from a loaded
freight car in the yaro into ine snip
ping bins, and from them into the
steamer to be carried beyond the sea is
quite a'prou'e to the uninitiated but
simple enough to those whose lives are
an endless routine of grain, grain.
Twenty-four loaded cars are run into
the building on the two tracks, each one
being centered overs large.barred grat
ing occupying both the center and one
aideof theraii. These boles lead to what
ts again knor; as a "receiver leg. that
Is an upriirbt wooden chute some t',
feet In width, reaching from this floor
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LIBERTY, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1897.
ryirg thtet iron bucket eiyht inches
apart, and emptying their contents
above ilIo a weighing bin on the top
Boor.
The modern, large freight car will
hold l.ooo to l,2uo bushels of wheat, and
it can be unloaded from the elevator
floor by expert handling and with the
uiechauical coutriiaucea in rogue In
about five minutes after the door in
opened. The opening of the door first i-j
stipulated, as the average wayside
farmer, in spite of the sign: "Oou't
nail this door," and the patent locking
devices, will persist in driving every
thing from railroad spikes to shingle
nails in the edges of the door to insure
the sufety of his precious grain, a most
lamentable proceeding, as it wears out
the enr, and the worse than thread
bare expletives of the grain handlers.
This lightning-change act of unload
ing a full car in a few minutes ia ac
complished by the use of automatically
driven shovels in the hnnds of two men.
These shovels look much like sheet-iron
lined snow shovels," minus the long
handles, and are attached by a long rope
and small chains to a clutch on a re
volving shaft. The men handling there
alternately recede to the extreme cor
ners of the car, bury the shovels deep
in the grain, and then twitch the rope
with the free hand, which throws the
clutch automatically In the gear, winds
up the rope, and pulls the shovels for
ward to the door, where they are auto
matically released again. This recip
rocal shoveling by first one and then the
other is done with exceeding rapidity,
and the grain pours from the open door
in nn almost constant stream, finding
its way through the hoppers beneath
and up the great legs Into the weighing
bins or "receivers," ss they are called,
which each hold 500 bushels.
The scale floor, next to the highest
point In an elevator only the driving
machinery being above Is where nil
the grain is weighed, both when re
ceived and nt the time of shipment,
There are 24 receiving scnles nnd the
siime number of shipping scales, run
ning from one end of the building to the
AT LOCUST POINT, BALTIMORE.
other, each scale carrying an Immense
rectangular box nicely balanced upon
its plat form, w hich has a capacity ot
over 15 tons or 500 bushels of wheat.
Below the scale floor comes the blower
lloor, where I he grain Is freed from dust
and dirt and other foreign accumula
tions w hich may injure its standing or
grading as set by the Inspector of grain
for the city of Baltimore. This blowing
is done by huge centrifugal fans In
large rectangular boxes, oeross which
the grain falls by gravity, and the dirt
nud dust are thrown to one side by Ihu
dir. Here also the grain is run through
a series of screens when necessary, to
remove sticks, clods of dirt and stones.
The next two floors are known respec
tively us the circle floor and the biu
Hi or, and it Is Here inui one sees uio
nust nnnarently inextricable confusion
of ramifying gram cnuies which ui-
vcrc-e in every direction irom great
centralizing circles, nud permit the
grain to be distributed fur and near to
the various storage and shipping bins.
These two floors are wild und weird,
with little footpath bridges and burnt'
,ils running from circle to circle ana
disappearing far uway in clouds oi ny
inn- dust.
Before the vast bulk of grain in the
storage bins can be placed in the steam
ers' holds it must go through a com'
plete rchandling. It Is dropped from
the bottom of the storage bins to the
sliimiinir bin leg and again carried to
the top of the building to the scale floor,
weitrlied bv the snipping scales, nuu
then stored in the outside serie of bins
know n as the shipping bins..
When a steamer is to be loaded with
grain these shipping bins are drawn
upon by long chutes hung upon the
outside of the building, which fairly
well adjust themselves to the varying
nositi.m of n floating vessel.
The energy ail motive power required
to accomplish the constant refilling and
depletion of these stupendous granaries
is simply appalling, and as an exempli
fication of this fact it may be said that
the Locust Point elevators herewith il
lustrated can unload, at their maxi
mum capacity, 800 car averaging 1,200
bushels each day, storing the grain in
llieir rapacious maws ot bins and dis
gorging it again with equal facility.
To do all this necessitates the com
ccrted action of sn arsny of employes
and tw o 1,000 horse power engines, i ne
iipiu. bv the way, wnicn run tne nun
dreds and hundreds of feet of steel
shafting in these mazes of gigantic
machinery are alone astounding, for
ihv measure no less than six leet in
n-idth and it lakes two sections of 150
feet each to reach, to the top of a single
builJing. In fact the exbibitiiio if
these tremendous forces, working at
they sre to-ay at Herculean pressure,
is profoundly impressive, gaming in
strenato by comparison
with hat commerce and mechauical
devil'M vttro only ihuft to yenri ago,
AEP ON MATRIMONY.
Wr.taa of Affectionate Husbands
and Disdainful Wives.
laote tha ' Flk."Drlft
lata a Dlscaaatoa at Jaac Brlae
aae Deceatbrliroom Ar-kale
Groom. Skal4 Die
Whenever there ts trouble and 1 can't
give any relief or remedy, It distresses
me, especially When the trouble is of a
domestic character. Now, here is a let
ter from a man who says; "1 know a
man a neighbor who is of a warm,
affectionate, passionate nature, and
loves his wife to distraction, but the Is
culm and cold and conservative by ha-
ture, and, therefore, Indifferent to his
caresses, and whenever be venture to
uer iuu put in arms auout ner sue
repels him with such expressions as
'Oh, Tom, get sway; don't bother me.'
She is a pure, good woman, and loves
her husband in the way, but she never
meets him at the door when he comes
home tired or disappointed with his
day s work. The poor fellow Is really
pining away sud languishing for leek
of love for reciprocity, as It were, and
can't get it. Now, what ia the remedy?
Can t you bring your Universal philos
ophy to bear upon this case and solve
the problem?
No, 1 cannot, lam helpless. Nothing
but time will equalize and harmonlle
that couple. I am afraid their union
was a misfit, but he took her for better
or worse and must be reconciled. In
fact, he ought to be thankful, in these
degenerate days, that he has found a
pure, good woman, even if she is not as
tumultuous in her love as he would like
her to be. But time is a good doctor.
Time wilt assuuge him down some, and
will tone her up some, for a man and
his wife get more snd more alike as the
years roll on. There Were some good
friends at my house last night, and I
seriously read to them this letter, and
asked for advice about answering it
Tbey all agreed that the man was not
writing about his neighbor, but was re
lating his own pitiful condition.
A married man said: "Write him to
get away and quit bothering her when
she says so.
A bachetor friend said: "Write him
to flirt a little with another man s wife
and she will come to her senses mighty
quick and return to hia caresses
"That is all you know about it, said
another dame. "The flirtations of a
husband destroys love and happiness,
too. They are more apt to bring con
tempt and even scorn. A true woman
w ill suffer and endure any fault or fail
log except that
A young married woman said, timid
ly: "She must be s very strange kind of
woman not to like caressing, but I do
think she ought to meet him at the door
and give him a smile or two when he
comes home."
"He must be a right good man, and I
m sorry for him," said a lassie In her
teens. "Or maybe he Is so horrid coarse
and ugly that no self respecting w oman
would want him bothering her for
kisses and enresses every time he came
about, said a lassie out of her teens,
"Maybe he smoked nnd bis breath was
disagreeable," said a benedict, who
never used tobacco.
So I got but little comfort from this
poodly company and my w ife continued
the discourse by remarking in her quiet
way: '"Well, 1 think your friend had
better have kept his misery to himself.
Let him stick to his promises that he
made at the altar."
"Or apply for a writ of mandomiid
nnd make her kiss him according" to
Inw," said a learned jmlge who was
present. "I would make her reciprocate
If the case was In my court. The writ
of mandnmus Is a far-reaching nnd ef-
fectunl process."
Well, of course, the conversation drift
ed to the topic of May and December
marriages, with grooms of more than
three score and ten and brides of tender
years. We all agreed that if such a
RToom had anything to lenvo such a
bride besides his name nnd would de
part this life In a reasonable time, she
was justified In marrying him. But In
the first place, the property should be
in sight the "quid pro quo and it should
be fixed, settled, dowered, dovetailed,
clinched upon her, and there should be
an Implied contract that he should die
in strict accordance with the death rate,
the expectation laid down in the life
Insurance tables. Indeed, if the late
frequency of old men marrying young
women is to be multiplied to an alarm
ing- extent there should be established
a death Insurance office ro that the
voting girl could go to it and get a
policy insuring the old man's deat h in
limited time, nnd if he did.n tdie within
the time the company should pay her so
much as she Insured for say $5,000 or
$10,000 or $20,000, oa the ease may be.
With the money of course she could live
decently and even secure a divorce on
the ground of fraud fraud in not dylnjr
aoeording to hope and expectation and
an, implied promise. Why, I know a
lady who married an old man 23 years
agtj. He was 60 and she but 20 nnd as
sweet and pretty as a pink. Ho was
rich and sickly nnd agreed to settle on
her $30,000, to be paid at his death, ne
looked like he would die in a year, but,
bless your souls, my eweet young sis-
ters. he is living yet and she looks near
ly as old as he does. Her bloom of youth
is gone. When she married she was an
orphan and soon became worse than an
omhan. and she is childless. What a
mistake she' made. What a fraud waa
perpetrated upon her. What a wreck of
earthly happiness. Young girls, be-
warel These unions are not according
to nature and they ahock the judgment
and the sentiment of mankind. There
are widows enough to take these vener-
nble widowers, but let the maidens re
main single if they cannot get a young
man of their choice.
And now as a supplement to my Inte
Indian letters. l"t me say that my In-
...i.. ..km Mont. Paachnl. who msr
ried Barau, the bnlf-breed daujrhter of
Jobs Jtloj'o, bit m Bw?rc4 tf Mr.
C. A. Lilly, a nephew of Judge George
V. Paschal. Mr. Lilly a mother waa
Paschala youngest aistcr, and died last
year, aged St. Mr. Lilly now lives in St
I ouia. His grandfather Paschal was a
soldier under Sumter in the revolution
ary war and lived then in Savannnah,
Ga. Judge Paschal a eldest son, George
W. Paschal, reside In Washington city.
His second son. Kidge Paschal, la liv
ing with the Cherokee at Tahlequah,
I. T. His youngest daughter married
T. P. O'Connor, a member of parliament
in London, England. Judge Taschal's
most notable and enduring work was
the annotated edition of the constitu
tion and laws of the United States. He
also wrote the memoirs of his mother.
who lived to the great age of 94 years.
which book Mr. Lilly has promised to
send to me, as It contain a great deal of
the history of north Georgia and the
Cherokee Indian. Many younger cltl
zvaB than I am have written me letter
ot thanks for these Indian sketches and
asked for more. May be I will write
some more when I learn more. -Bill
Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
GLADSTONE IN
DEBATE.
Soaa at tha Pecallaritlea
at the
Uraa4 Old Mat.
t aoticetl that he always appeared to
be very anxious and restless before ris
ing to make a speech. Ills first move
ment upon such sn occasion was to ar
range his carefully-prepared notes up
on the box in front of him j then, taking
from his pocket the historical pomatum
pot, which contained, I believe, a mil.
ture of egg flip and honey a recipe of
Sir William Clarke's he would place
it out of view on the edge of the table
by the side of the box. Then he would
sit, placing both hands upon his knees.
with bis face firmly set and with his
hawk-like eyes fixed upon the speaker,
waiting for the signal to spring to his
feet. Once up, he seemed composed
enough, piny lug- with the notes In front
of him and arranging and rearrang
ing them. Then, leaning forward and
laying his hand upon the box, he world
begin slowly, latterly with a husky
voice. When the graceful introduction
with which he prefaced his remark
w as over there would come an ominous
tug at bis wristbands, followed by an
casing of hi collar with one finger, a
step back, a flash from those passion
ate eyes, and then but let other de
scribe his speeches.
As an artist, accustomed perhaps to
use my own eyes more than my ears, I
content myself here with noting down
certain personal traits such, for In
stance, as that when the great orator
paused to consider a difficult point he
was wont to scratch the top of his head
with the wrist of bis left hand. Wheu
determined to drive an argument home
to hia listeners he used to emphasize
it by bringing down bis ringed hand
upon- the box with a tremendous bang,
of which energetic action evidence re
mains In the shape of many tell-tale
dents In the boxes. I have examined
these evidences, snd it was interesting
to find that the energy of the orator
was much prenter when he wns out of
office than when re was in power, ths
box upon, the opposition side being
much more severely marked than iti
fetlow In front of the government
bench, notwithstanding the terrific
thumping to which thnt receptacle was
subjected during the memorable ora
tion of 'lbursday, April 8. 1880.
Another habit peculinr to Mr. Glad
stone during debate was that of turn ing
around and addressing member be
hind him. Upon one occasion, In 1889,
he turned to his younger supporters
and pave them this notable advice:
stand here as a member of the house,
where there are many who have taken
their seats for the first time upon these
benches, and where there may be
some to whom possibly I may avail my
self of the privilege of oM oge to offer
a recommendation. I wouldi tell them
of my own Intention to keep my coun
sel and reserve my own freedom until
I see the occasion when theremny be a
prospect of public benefit in endeavor
ing to make a movement forward nnd I
will venture to recommend them to do
the same" holding up his hands like
an old parliamentary prophet.
Upon great occasions in thehonseMr,
Gladstone's drees was very noticeable
He was then spruce, in a black frock
coat, light trousers, and wearing
flower in his buttonhole. This gener
ally Indicated thnt a great speech was
Imminent. Whenever there w-ns any ex
cuse for wearing them Mr. Gladstone
had a partiality for gray clothes, which
were not too fashionably cut; nnd once
I remember that he caused" some sen'
sation by appearing in the house wear
ing a wedding favor. Something had
evidently tickled his sense of humor
upon the occasion, for he was "smiii.ig
all over" as he came in; and when he
sat down) by Sir Willinm Horcourt, to
whom he related the joke, his merrl
ment seemed to increose. Afterwards
he repeated it to Mr. Chamberlain, and
agnln to the speaker, finally quitting
the nouse to leu it anew outsiue. Kiar-
ry Furnlss, In Century.
Don Smokes Clsrarettea.
Denver has a dog that smokes cigar
ettes. He is a cocker spaniel and
lives In a cigar store, ne is only ten
months old. but he is a confirmed fiend
ana- , crosg and peevish until he ha
j.a(j t.:, jajy smoke. His owner has
taught him a number of tricks, which
Billy that is his namewill perform
when a cigarette is offered as a reward
When ready for his smoke Billy seat
himself on the cigar case, permits
pair of spectacles to be adjusted to
... . nnJ ,hpn daintily takes the
i(rhted cigarette in his mouth. He
puffs away with abeetifio expression on
his intelligent face until the fire gets so
close to his nose as to be uncomfortable.
Then he drops the stub and remain
quiet until the spectacles sre removed
How to Tell
Melissa I'm stirs i'red is in love with
r.ie. Ho comes to tes me t fares eight
I a Weok.
Mlln,A!Io,l only UU In om
l W fomw Mtf aMe-tp-tot
POTOMAC EXCURSIONS.
Waabingto&iana Would Eweltsr to
Death Without Them.
AttraetlT SarT tsi Caal Imm
Hake SaSrla Uaaiaaltr Far
Bet tka Tarrtdltr ot
tha Capital.
Special Washington Letter.
Although the malevolence of the heat
ed season lingers with us here, the
worst has passed. This cspital city
never sweltered through such s Septem
ber a the one which has just gone
seething and hissing into the torridity
of temporal oblivion. The only relief
accorded the people from intense suf
fering and possible prostration was in
the cheap Potomac excursions.
The cool resort (long the upper Po
tomac are numerous, and have never
been fitly described. The traveling
center ot the city is at the junction of
Seventh street and Pennsylvania av
enue, where the car tracks cross each
other, transfers are given and the
crowds are greatest. It is low ground,
and in the spring time has frequently
been covered with water a foot deep,
so that marketing at the great
"mash" market, near by, has been either
done in skiffs or has been entirely sus
pended. Into this low locality, on the burning
and yielding asphalt pavement, the hot
and almost fainting people congregate,
hurrying and scurrying from car to car,
where they "hang on by the atrap, ait
In some fat man's lap, or else stand on
the platform and draw up their feet."
The ride thence to the river landings
is a continual perspiration and swelter.
The little puffs of air are laden with
the heat above and reflected heat below,
nd life is only endurable because of the
hopeful certainty of speedy delivery.
The arrival at the wharf bring the
eool-air seekers into a density of still
furnace-like air, in which there ia never
breath of moving atmosphere, and the
rush for ticketa is an awful nightmare.
Fortunately there are boats enough to
prevent that crowding to suffocation
hich used to be the bane of the river.
Aa soon as the steamers are com
fortably full, the bells ring, the en
gineers put the machinery to work, the
iiots whirl their wheels, the bands
commence their alleged music, and the
motion of the boat produces a breese
which is at once revivifying. Almost
Immediately we are brought alongside
the arsenal grounds. There, under a
shaded lawn, about a mile in length,
lying under the trees, at or near the
dge of the stone wall which rises per
pendicularly from the water, are
stretched hundreds of men, women and
children, too poor even to take the ten-
cent ride down the river. Hut tbey sr
cool and comfortable, so long as quiet.
There is always a breeze on the arsenal
grounds, that is becoming one ot the
most popular resorts in the city for the
residents ot south Washington.
Unfortunately, the half-civilized col
ored people, the uneducated and per
sistently Ignorant and ill-bred class, are
crowding bard upon their more c.eanly
nd deserving fellow-citizens, often
hlbiting suoh rudeness as to almost
make it necessary for class discnmina
tion by the officers of the Tbird artil
lery, who are garrisoned in the grounds,
As we pass the barracks, the long line
of brick buildings used as the soldiers'
quarters, the "sun-down gun" comes in
sight. This little piece of rilled artillery
has boomed forth an announcement of
the rising of the sun nnd of the golrg
down of the same for many years. It
Is situated almost exactly on the spot
where the gallows were erected upon
which were hanged the accessories to
the assassination of President Lincoln.
The breeze grows fresher nnd cooler
is we glide along towards the south
land. That little whnrf extending out
lute the stream is all that remains of the
immense landing places for Camp
Etoneman, during the war. That great
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pile of red stone, on the bluff over the
eastern branch of the Potomac, is the
St. Klizabeth hospital for the insane.
It is a government institution, and is
splendidly kept. Numbers of the unfor
tunates as well as cranks of Washington
arc in thnt asylum. There is Col: Burn
side, the defaulting disbursing officer
of the post office department. He is
really a man with an unbalanced mind;
formerly one of Washington s foremost
citizens. In the same asylum is Col.
Maurice Tinchover, the man whose lit
tlt losses of property involved the dom
inant thought on his mind, and stamped
It on his active brain, that he had been
swindled out of untold millions by
Tom Scott, the great railroad king.
Many a time and oft I have heard Pinch
over declaim for the delectation of the
little crowds of curious people in the
hotel lobbies, demanding the return of
his money from Scott nnd all other rail
road thieves, as he expressed it. Once
he was induced to beiieve that he had
been elected to congress, and that Scott
was contesting his sent. Into the house
he walked, before the opening of the
morning session, and it required forco
lo eject him from the seat to which ho
believed ho bad ben sleeted, Poor oil
Tlndil" lit WM once a bright fellow,
Q feiliTei inw m ti confine1 nd ktft
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In the asylum because of the la-Saem-l
ot wealthy enemies who are using ui
fattening off hi property.
But we pas the asylum and approach
Ciesbore Point. This little wharf, as 1
was saying, is the remnant of the great
lr.ndlng places for Camp Stooeman dur
ing the r. It was a eavalry dismount
camp. That is, the sick nnd wounded
cavalrymen front the army of the Poto
irse were sent here for final rest and re
cuperation, after they began to cow
valesce In the hospital, before they
were sent to their regiments for dutjf
again. You know the cavalry corps ot
the army of the Potomao was divided
into three divisions. The dismount
camp w-ss similarly divided. The men
were sent to the divisions to which they
belonged to the field, and when fit for
duty, were returned to their reglmente
down this aame Potomac river.
Thi excursion steamer we are on t
the Mary Washington. During the war
she was a hospital steamer, or, a she
waa then termed, a "Hospital Afloat."
She carried no less than 70,000 aick ana
wounded men from the front, at Har
rison's Lsnding, White House Land
ing, City Point, and other base hospi
tals, to the hospitals In Alexandria and
Washington. She haa been remodeled
since that time, and is now good ex
cursion boat.
Camp Stonemaa extended clear back
to the hilltops there, and the officer'
quarter were elegant. Here, on the
lawn, they used to hang Chinese lan
terns st night, and with music by ths
post band they would awing the pretty
Washington girls through the mazes
of the popular dances. Here they were
all "play soldiers," but the men hsd all
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seen service, and were recuperating foi
further hardships. They deserved theit
little play days.
Over there to the right, that steeple
which you see peeping over the Alex
andria hilltops is the tall tower oi
Fairfax seminary. Fairfax aeminary
has a history; a war history, too. In
the offices of the surgeon general there
sre records showing that no less than
40,000 sick and wounded soldiers wen
treated In Fairfax seminary general
hospital. After the battle of the Wil
derness, on May 6-8, 1864, when tin
hospitals of Alexandria were full, Fair
fax seminary wus thrown open to the
sufferers and was fitted up aa a hos
pital; und here the poor fellows wen
brought, many of:fiem fnnned into
life by the breezes from the Potomac,
which always sweep over these hills.
And now we are passing sleepy old
Alexandria, with ber grass-grown
streets. There are many historical ob
jects In the old town, which we must
see some day. lhere is Christ church,
with its unchanged pews, wherein wor
shiped George Washington, of Mount
Vernon, nnd Itofert E. Lee, of Ar
lington Heights. There Is the old Mar
shall house, up y'ng street, where ths
gallant and foi partly Ellsworth was
killed by Jackson, the proprietor, wh
was in turn shot down by Sergt. Brow
neil. Jackson's daughter, a most beau
tiful girl, is employed in a government
department at Washington.
Do ycu see that little bit of an illund,
no bigger than a man's hand, down th
river about half a mile? There I one
tree on it and about ten feet of cress
on either side ot the tree. It is about
20 feet square. Thnt is Craney island.
Only n few years ago it was a splendid
Island, containing about 15 acres ol
good ground, with a house and out
houses upon it. The Inst purchaser has
lost his investment. Gradually the Po
tomac has eaten and swallowed the
Island. All that is left in sight is tha
tree which you can see. That used to bs
a great place to go fishing and a splen
did covert from which to shoot ducks.
It is soon to be one of the things of the
post.
The bell tolls, and all steamer bell
toll, as we pass Mount Vernon, where
lies the body of George Washington. W
hnvc hud quite trip down the Potomac,
and it has been delightfully cool ever
since the stenmer started. Now w
will stop, if you please, at Glymont.
That Is one of the ninny landings where
the excursionist stops and spends an
hour or two in the pavillion, under ths
trees, on the water in small boats, or in
the sporting and shooting galleries;
Hut let us return. It is cool here nt
Giymout, and it is equally delightful
at Marshall Hall, Mount Vernon,
Blackiston's island, nnd the other
places where the excursionists have
gone. But as evening approaches, wa
want another whiff of river air, and
return to the city reinvlgornted, to en
joy "tired nature s sweet restorer.
balmy sleep.' SMITH C. j-rt.
Korcnttrm Glorr.
'There," said the infirmary attend
ant, "is a man that used to be looked
upon as a hero. He was feted and made
much of; had plenty of money and hist
picture was published In all the papers.
Now nobody ever thinks oi him, and ne
has come out here to die."
"Indeed! What wa hUbusinese?
"He was a champion pedestrian,"
Cleveland Leader.
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