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THE PITTSBUEG- DISPATCH, SUNDAY, JANTJAET 13,
1889.
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GALWAT AND BEYOND
Editor L. Wakeman Tells of Ireland's
Most Ancient City.
BICH ARCHITECTURAL TREASURES
And Quaint Old Structures That Tell of
the Glories of the Fast.
A STOEI OP EXALTED HEKOISH
rCOKKZBrOKDEKCZ OF THK DISPATCH.l
ALVAY, Iee-
LA5D, December
31. There is not
probably in all
Ireland another so
picturesque and in
teresting a city as
old Galway. Its
picturesquenesi is
found largely in its
location; bnt also
to a great extent in
the antiquity and
quaintncss of its
structures, its many and winsome crannies,
corners, nooks and lanes, and the rich
arches, gables and heraldic devices of its
moldy buildings. But its deepest interest
to the appreciative observer lies in the dis
tinct and colorful character of its people
and those of its environs, classes among
whom are so peculiar that novelist or
painter could here find as rare studies for
pen or pencil as could be anywhere discov
ered within the most unique communities of
Europe.
It is a wild, drear land and coast where
the ancient seaport lifts its gray walls
against perspectives of desolate, rock-covered
reaches, the weird, lone metropolis of
the "West But there is a dreamful vista
across the majestic bay, where ships no
more will come and only the fisher's sail is
seen, stretching westward from the huts of
iCladdagh, far and far to the thunderous sea.
To the north creep blanched, walled roads,
rising in graceful curves, terrace-like
lengths, or in sharp, zig-zag lines, pushing
on and over and again up the Conemara
heights to the frowning headlands of wild
Cloghmore. To the south lies a circling
Bhore traced by brown and snowy lines
where the fretful tides have left their spume
and drift. Behind this the blue hills of
Clare invite to mystic regions beyond, and
rise in graceful undulations toward the
west, until, as far as the sight can penetrate,
the dim outlines of grewsome Black Head
pierce the horizon; and here are ever tre
mendous ELESirXTAI. STBT7GGI.ES
between sea and land. Perhaps SO miles
away, at the mouth of Galway Bay, be
tween Black Head and Cloghmore, stand
the Arran Islands, where live, or exist,
3.000 wretched beincs whose hearts have so
grown to these hags'-teeth of the sea that
they cannot be wheedled away, but stay and
starve and die. North, south, west, and
here at the east in Galway town, arc the
strangest, ruggedest, most starved, yet brave
and cheery, souls that live; and between
wild seaport and wilder sea naught can be
seen indicating the activities of men, save
the ragged fisher's sail, an infrequent gov
ernment mail and coast service boat, and
now and then a rude curragh gliding over
the waters, just as it did a thousand years
ago; while the wheeling gulls whirl, whistle
and gurgle as if in surprise at the desolate
loneliness, where should ride the traffic
giving merchant navies of the world.
Unquestionably Galway is one of the
most ancient of if ish cities. It was tne "il
lustrious city of Kaganta" of Ptolemy's
second century Geographia. Its records are
as dim as its olden structural glories are
ruinous and defaced. But during the first
1,500 years of the Christian era its trade
with Mediterranean ports was constant and
important. To such a degree was this true
that its rare old legends are as full of the
half-Latin taint and the half-Moorish weird
ness as Yalladolid and Barcelona are
to-day rich with the arabo-niorescos
and " arabesques which were indelibly
wrought upon them during the same period.
The traces of these former far-away in
fluences linger in old Galway as surely upon
architecture as upon people, evidences of
the latter forming one of the most curious
and entertaining studies in Ireland. Here
are the narrow, winding streets across
which lovers, friends and gossips could ex
change greetings and garrulousness, and
almost clasp hands, from upper windows in
the olden days, as now. In this dark nook
are broken "wall lowering upon delicate
balcony, minareted roof leaning upon six
teenth century shoulders, Normandy gables
protruding over window-work of flowing
tracery, and arabesque devices cut
upon Elizabethan sternness cf castellated
chimney.
QUACTT ATICHrTECTtmE.
A wild conglomorate in architecture seems
to have taken possession of the spot, as
though the fancilul Moorish thought, the
early German point and peak, and the
rugged Anglo-Norman severity had, in some
ethical-architectural conflict, waged war for
leaving their impress upon posterity's sight
and mind. In this narrow way are arch
gigantic, corbel Huge ana gargoyiea, ana
balconied latticework as light and graceful
as though the foam of the sea, or a mass of
spectral ferns, had been flung into tremen
dous walls by fairy architects of a night. In
that deep court are mullioned windows,
sculptured gateways, bastioned angles, iron
wicket work, and early Moorish tilings that
awaken historic memories of Southern Eu
rope for a thousand years that are gone.
Ton will find a startling similarity to the an
cient architectural fancies prevalent in the
' older cities of Spain, also traceable in many
of the cities of the Biviera, of memorializ
ing family history, accentuating personal
distinction, pronouncing family peculiarity
belief, or distinguishing trait, or heralding
title or degree, in sculptural device, over
doors, on lintels, beneath balconies, within
or upon arches, and in all manner of un
reasonable and unexpected places. No city
in the United Kingdom is so rich in display
of "coat-armor." It is found upon the most
ancient structures; is still profuse upon
those of a later period; ana even in the
most modern buildings for there are few
structures of importance in the old city of
the present or past century architecture
and this manner of decoration have a warm
and glowing likeness to that of the past.
Jl. strange old stbcctube.
Perhaps the best illustrationmay be found
in a strange old structure standing on one of
the principal thoroughfares of Gaiway. This
is "Lynch's Castle, famous in romancer's
talesbut very plain and uely to an eye al
ready accustomed to the extraordinary and
profuse architectural remains of surpassing
beauty throughout Ireland. Its form is that of
a huge sauare keep or castle of retreat, such as
are found standine in lonely grandeur and de
cay throughout Ireland and with surprising f re
fluency along the Bride and Blackwater of the
bouth. Rude windows and arched gateways
have been cut here and there, evidently as
civilization gradually assured their propriety.
Around and over 13 of these have been chiseled
some of the richest, quaintest and most gro
tesque devices of this class to be found in
Europe. Members of the proud family
who erected and occupied this cas
tle had for their armorial bear
ings, or crest, the elaborately-carved figure of
a lynx, which is yet to be seen over the gate
ways of their various habitations. One family
chose a most hideous cross-bones and skull in
black marble for its crest. Their ancient i
bomo is still found in Lombard street, which is
called "Dead Man's Lane," aad beneath this
Singular piece of heraldic device is warred the
doleful motto. "Remember Death Vanitl of
VanitL and All is But Vanitl." The huge old
Lynch a Castle recalls a curious history and
story. At the beginnine of the thirteenth
century the Anglo-Norman De Burgbos and
followers settled in and about Galway. These
in time became known as "The Tribes of Thir
teen," from which fact Galwav has taken the
.sobriquet of the City of the Tribes. An old
(quatrain preserves their names:
"Athy, Blake. Bodkin,
Browne, Deane, D'Arcy, Lynch,
Joyes, Klrwans. Martin,
Morris Skerret, French."
AX IBISH BBUTUS.
These grew to be rulers of mercantile and
civic affairs. Through intermarriage with the
Spanish-Celtic residents, and almost complete
isolation from people of England, Scotland
and Ireland, save those of the "savage West,"
they finally became more completely Irish in
feeling and character than the Irish them
selves. Out of these who once nourished in
Lynch's Castle, many of whom figured as old
time Gal ay officials and dignitaries, came a
veritable Irish Junius Brutus, one James
Lynch Fitzstephen, who was a portreeve,
provst, mayor, warden, or sovereign of Gal
way In 1493. He traded largely with Spain,
and entrusted his son, Walter Lynch, with an
important sum of money with which to pro
ceed there and purchase, and return' with a
cargo of wine. The son squandered the money,
but obtained credit and the company of the
Spanish merchant's nephew in retnming
to receive payment at Galway. Young
Lynch conceived the idea of hiding
his profligacy from his friends by mur
dering the agent and bribing his crew into
silence, which he did. He returned, was re
ceived with honor, prospered, was betrothed to
a titled and beautiful lady, but. on confession
of the conspiracy by one of tho sailors who
was with him, he was apprehended, given sum
mary trial by his own father, condemned, and
despite the fury of the populace, which had
been aroused by specious pleadings on tne part
of his mother's powerful friends, as heroically
executed at his own father's hands. The half
forgotten record of the event relates: 'Tbey
(the mother's friends who attempted to pre
vent the execution) flew to arms, and a pro
digious concourse soon assembled to support
them, whose outcries of mercy for the culprit
would have shaken any nerves less firm than
those of the Mayor of Galway. He exhorted
them to vield submission to the laws of their
countryfbut finding all his efforts fruitlpss to
accomplish the ends of justice at the accus
tomed place, and by the usual hands, be, by a
desperate victory over parental fecling.rcsolved
himself to pay the sacrifice which ho had vowed
to par on its altar.
Still retaining a hold of his unfortunate son,
he mounted with him by a winding stair within
the building, that leu to an arched windowover
looking the street, which he saw filled with the
maddened populace. Here he secured the end
of the rope which bad been previously fixed
around the neck of his son to an Iron staple
which projected from the wall, and, after taking
from him a last embrace, be launched him into
eternity. The intrepid magistrate expected
instant death from the populace: but the peo
ple seemed so overawed or confounded by the
magnanimous act, that they retired slowly and
peaceably to their several dwellings."
AS CifHONOBED HERO.
To my mmd this act of exalted heroism,
standing alone in the annals of sacred or pro
fane history as a sacrifice made, not only with
out the prospect of any form of reward, but
with the certainty of instant and horrible
death, and wholly without the not altogether
unselfish motive "of Brutus, or the certain ex
pectation of divine personal approval inspiring
Abraham, is a surnassinc tribute to abstract
justice incomparable in its nature, and incom
parably incomparable in a time and age when
justice was too often subserved to the piques and
prejudices of power. But because this man,
who so loved his country that the preservation
ol its laws, through the most awful conceivable
struggle of the human heart, was infinitely
more sacred a thing than human ties of inex
pressibly solemn tenderness, was an Irishman,
and did not have a Latin name, a Greek name,
or a Hebrew name, to jingle in pedantic prat
tle, the act, fact and man are lost from among
the transcendent deeds, examples and person
alties of men. It is a curious commentary npon
the vaporous applicability of human thought to
serviceable incidents, that this act of moral
grandeur alone gave an irradicable appellation
to that most abhorrent misuse of punishment
in the name of justice, and a characteristically
if not exclusively American institution of
horror and crime, our notorious lynch law.
But Galway is more noted for its fish-wives
than its heroes or history. There are perhaps
300 in the old seaport city. They are nor, as
has been generally supposed, wives of the
equally celebrated fishermen of the Claddagh;
but tbey sell the fish these men bring back
from the coves and the sea. They have no
other means of livelihood, and wish none. If
any are mothers, you cannot dicover that fact.
If any are wives, no one knows it. If any ever
loved, or If any ever knew as we know, the
home, neither can be ascertained. What they
grow nut of into their state and honor in what
isliterallytheircalling.no human can know.
Here they are from generation to generation,
just as you and I sec the.m to-day, a wild,
tender, savage, merry, lawless, honest mob,
dressed, or half -dressed, as females, grotesquely
indifferent from women, radiantly indifferent
to either man or woman, incomparably brave
and more enduring than any men. As I know
to my own despair, before amity was estab
lished between us, there are not other such
outrageous and indescribable blackguards on
earth; and yet I defy sny honest analyst to find
an atom of viciousness beneath their soul
blasting speech.
A PICTURESQUE SPOT.
Tho Claddagh fishermen came in with the
early tide with their "catches" of herring,
hake, cod and conger eels. Then the ancient
and picturesque fish-market, with gables lean
ing over it, wicket-windows peenng into it, and
shadowy arches leading out of it, and with the
Claddagh sails and spars like a wind-whipped
autumn-forest almost hiding the bine of the
sea, is alive with startling colors, forms and
sound. The dexterity with which the fish are
bandied and cleaned by these fish-wives, the
shrill, wild callirg from one to another, the
wordy wars between them and fishermen about
weight, quality and luck, and between them
early bujers as to price, the bedlamite ballads
that are hurled upon the air as the gleaming
knives flash and the scales fly like driven sleet, I
ana tne torrents oi nerce. tnougn secretly
merry, billingsgate and abuse, with passes of
fish-knives as if for murder, cloutings from
conger eels, rushings and drubbings bestowed
upon innocent strangers or meddlesome in
truders, are something marvelous, indis
cribablc, awful, and utterly beyond compre
hension until seen and experienced. Most of
the larger flsh are shipped to Dublin; and
curiously enough a graduate of the band, one
Molly Noon, a personage of stupendous influ
ence and girth, practically controls the busi
ness: but the herring are hawked about Gal
way by the fish-wives in a way to startle one
new to their strange ways. With their "herring
skib," or basket, upon their bare heads, with
their bare, brown, flat breasts naked to the
waist, barefooted in winter and summer, with
legs bare to the knees, divested of their cloaks
and onlv covered with petticoats of "tuck
flanneV'with anything at all convenient pro
tecting the shoulders and arms, theymove with
incredible rapidity from point to point; all their
merriment gone;" with an anxious, terrified
look in their faces; and as they glide and dart
and sweep along, their unearthly cries of
"Fresh Herringsl" transformed into "Fros
Ern-n-ngs!" "Fros Ern-n-ngsH meet, cross,
echo and re-echo, until it seems that, from the
Ballynabinch Mountains of Conemara to the
purple hills of Clare, a thousand monster calli
opes have been brought together for contest,
such wild, fierce choristers are they.
A BARE OLD TOWN.
But at other times how charmingly they fit
into the picturesque scenes of the rare old
town. Wander in the night and yon will come
upon them in groups wrapped in their black
braidcens, silent as hooded monks at prayer.
In this tap-room and that, they give you
goodly companv. Buy for them their porter
and stout, and listen. You will bear the
strancest words and think the strangest
thoughts that ever came to man. Tramp in and
ont of nooks and underneath arches in the
grav of morninzs. You will stumble on a dozen
of them squatted and crouched upon the stone
ways, with heads together, their faces invisi
ble, and the smoke of their pipes curling out
of their braideen hoods, for all the world like a
diminutive bunch of tepees. They are un
accountable to law, yet no law could
harm them. Tbey believe all things their
prey, yet they are scrupulously honest.
They know no such thing as we count
for morality, yet their virtue is immaculate.
No such drinkers of spirits live, yet there Is
not a drunkard among them. No door in Gal
way is closed npon them, yet they do not trans
gress the nicest laws of hospitality among
townspeople, while utterly without awe of
thing or being upon or above the earth, not
even royalty itself; for was it not my good
friend, venerable Nell Morris herself, who as
Victoria's son, the Duke of Edinburgh, was
parading the streets of Galway in 18S5, on the
occasion of a little lofty distribution of cbanty
to famine sufferers of that year gave the illus
trious ninny a glorious bug. and then shaking
him out of his paralysis with her two great
hands, with an inimitable wink and leer,
roared at him:
"Yer welcome to ould Galway, me buckl
Arrab, an' how's yer motherT"
Edgar L. 'Wakzman.
Breaking tho News,
Z-'x3k. &
twsvir
Mrs. Croshey My dear, I want to ask yon
what yon think of Jack "Whadley. He has
been paying Lulu marked attention, latelyl
Papa I think he must have turned over
a new leaf. It's the first thing he ever paid
in his life! Puck.
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HE PUT HIM IN A BOX.
The Father of His Country Hidden
From the Gaze of the Multitude.
HOW THINGS MIGHT HAVE BEEN
If Garfield Had Heeded the Advice of His
Secretary.
THE S0BRWS OF HOLD-OTEE CLEEKS
tCOBBSSrOOTEJCCE Or THE DISPATCn.J
ASHINGTON,
January 12. The
Architect of tho
Capitol has put
George Washington
in a pen.
Not literally, bnt
figuratively, as it
were. He has built
a wooden enclosure
around and over the
gigantic, semi-nude)
sitting- postured
statue of the Father
of his Country, that
for so many years
past has stood, or
rather sat in tho
'Eastern front of the
j"ff
f&m
grounds facing the
Capitol..
This statne, which perhaps has been more
criticised than all the other works of art in
the city, was designed and executed by the
American sculptor, Horatio Greenough, at
Florence, and was finished in 1843, after
many years' labor.
Congress gave the order for the work, mainly
through the influence of the novelist, James
FenimOre Cooper; and while not entering
very closely into the consideration of models,
specifications, or plans, the members of that
body naturally expected that the forthcoming
work would represent the eminent subject
in the garb and pose of modern life some
what as they had been accustomed to regard
him in the life and times of which he had
been so potent and prominent a factor.
AS AKTISTIC SURPRISE.
Imagine then, the surprise, to put it
mildly, of the worthy Solons, and indeed of
the whole country, when, upon the reception
of the statue, it proved to be, not a repre
sentation of the great soldier in the costume
of the Virginia gentleman of the eighteenth
century, but a work of heroic size, almost
naked, and designed after the antique statue
of Jupiter Tonans.
Think of it, oh, my masters! The man
who apart from the great work of his life,
for which all Americans hold him in grate
ful remembrancoj was individually, and
personally, the most dignified and un
approachable of men, doomed to
sit there in the broad glare of day,
through this eminently practical and utili
tarian .age, clad in nothing but a Itoman
sword, a blanket thrown across the knees
and a pair of sandals!
Viewed as a work of art, it is said by those
who profess to knowabont such things, to be
our grandest possession, as it is the most
criticised. This may be true if vifi could,
somehow, come to think of the great man as
a cotemporary of Julius Cassar; but as things
co. it somehow doesn't seem to fit, and the
public at large will not be sorry for the
boarding np.
Aside from its failure to find a place in
the esteem of the populace, it has long been
a kind of white elephant on the hands of the
local authorities.
The trouble has been to find a place for
its location. When ordered, it was expect
ed that it would be put in the rotunda of
the Capitol, but lo, it was found too pon
derous to go in at the door.
A hole was made through the wall, and
the mighty structure was taken in through
that. Then it was found that tho great
weight of the granite pedestal, 12 feet high,
surmounted by the heavy statne, was about
to cause the floor to give way, and so it was
taken down from there. Finally it was lo
cated in its present position.
Here some vaudal relic hunter climbed np
the pedestal and carried away in triumph,
one of the great toes. A local artist
"sculpted" out another toe, but in splicing
it on, he discovered that the weather was
beginning to play sad havoc with the work
itself. The freezing and thawing of winter,
it was believed, were particularly damaging
hence the boarding-up.
XS INTERESTED SPECTATOR.
There is one man in this city to whom the
quadrennial season of bustle, preparation
and expectation, intervening between No
vember and March, may be supposed to
have a peculiar interest, and especially may
we suppose this interest to attach to what
ever pertains to the important office of Pri
vate Secretary to the President.
His name is George TJ. Kose, and he now
holds a position in one ot the depart
ments. We may suppose that he feels an interest
in whatever pertains to the office of Private
Secretary, because he came near once filling
the place himself.
It was under President Garfield, and the
circumstances were these: For many years,
he had acted as Secretary to the Ohio states
man, probably during almost the whole of
the latter's Congressional career. He was
with him at Mentor, during the campaign
of 1880, and after the election, everybody
expected, as a matter of course, that he
would go with his chief to the White
House.
Perhaps the appointment was even given
out to the press. 'However that may have
been, there is no doubt that np to a certain
time the two parties most nearly interested
fully expected that the place would be his.
But mark the curious thing that now oc
curred. , Of course, dnring the winter of 1880-81,
it was the proper thing for the Eepublican
statesmen to journey to the home of the
President-elect, just as they are now en
gaged in making pilgrimages to the politi
cal Mecca further West, In the confer
ence between these visiting statesmen and
the coming President the faithful Secretary
gathered enough of what was to be the pol
icy of the incoming administration in cer
tain directions to give him the gravest
alarm.
BEARD IT AFAR OFF.
It is bootless now to inquire who origin
ated or who was most to blame for the quar
rel that a few months later convulsed the
Republican party, and especially as both
the leaders thereof have gone to other
scenes; but certain it is that Garfield's sec
retary saw and heard enough in the Mentor
conferences to give him forebodings of
trouble.
And he warned his principal there is
just where he made his mistake. What the
Congressman might have tolerated from the
secretary and friend of many years, the
President-elect could not brook.
It was the end. It was not many days be
fore Rose received notice of his appointment
to a place in Washington, and also ah inti
mation from Garfield that perhaps he had
best accept it.
He went. J. Stanly Brown became pri
vate secretary, and later a son-in-law in the
family.
And all for a few words honestly spoken,
I repeat, it is useless now to inquire who
was to blame for the origin or prosecution
of th trouble in which, a few monthslater,
Garfield and Conkling stood arrayed against
each other; but if Kose was right in his fore
bodings, and did say to the former: "Mr.
President, you cannot do so and so without
destroying'the Eepublican party," then it
becomes an interesting study to consider
what might have been the aspect of affairs
during the past eight years, if that word of
caution had been heeded.
In all human probability Mr. Garfield
would, just now, be in the closing months of
his second term, preparatory to dropping bis
mantle npon the shoulders of whom?
The fate of individuals, of parties and of
ft J-
larV't
nations has turned upon fewer words than
these.
THE CLERK'S HARD LOT.
To the great army of Government clerks,
who compose so large and important a factor
in Washington life, the quadrennial recur
rence of the Presidental election, with its
attendant excitement and anxiety, is not
always and altogether a season of tranquil
and placid enjoyment.
Life in the departments has not been alto
gether normal for ths past five months.
Dnring the three mouths next before the
election, the days of the "hold-over" Ee
publican were not happy ones.
His daily lot was cast in an atmosphere
that was not calculated to stiffen his politi
cal backbone. He was surrounded by as
sociates who could speak out, while he, per
force, must keep silent; and who were not
backward in showing the exultation of an
ticipated success. His peace of mind was
not augmented by repeated notices, received
through the mail, that an "Advisory Com
mittee" was located at No. F street, and
that all contributions would be "duly ac
knowledged.
That innocent looking little card, was cal
culated to give the average Eepublican
employe, some mighty solemn thoughts.
And then when in the early days of Novem
ber, the "boys" went off home to vote, an
nouncing as a parting shot,that they should
expect no quarter if they lost, nor should
give any if they won, the mental barometer
of the poor "hold-over" was still further de
pressed. They are now feeling better.
The anxious seat, however, is just as full
as ever.
The "boys" as they came straggling back
from the scene of the late conflict, moved
promptly to the front, and occupied the
place so lately vacated by the brethren of
the other side.
The question now agitating their minds
is to know the full extent of the civil and
political rights pertaining to an honest, fair
minded servant of Uncle Sam, and just
where the incoming administration is going
to draw the line separating these from this
domain of "offensive partisanship" arJ
"pernicious activity."
But the man occupying the very front
seat of the mourners' bench is he, who four
years ago, was a Blaine shonter from the
head of the creek.
And who when he found that he had lost,
straightway became a Democrat of the
strictest sort.
And during the past four years, has
shown all the zeal of the new convert; even
to tho extent of going home to take the
stump; to engineer conventions; to pull
wires.
Verily, now are the days of the "flopper"
laden with tribulation, and at night Bleep
departeth from his eyelids.
For he saith to himself : Surely will I be
set to pressing brick soon after the begin
ning of the third month.
His lines have not fallen in pleasant
' places for many days past. His associates
of four years ago have kept aloof from him,
and his new friends have despised while
they have tolerated him.
A rECrLIAR PERSONAGE.
But the man above all others in the de
partment service who will be found worthy
of early attention by the new administra
tion will be tho individual known as the
"hold over assistant chief."
This is a title unknown to the law, bnt
the assistant chief is a very potent factor
in department life. He comes more in con
tact with, and can do more to make the
clerk's daily life pleasantor otherwise, than
all the other officers, from the chief of di
vision up. The new chiefs and heads of
bureaus have naturally had to rely to great
extent upon some one of the old employes,
and the result is that in many cases the
place of assistant is to-day filled by the
same man who filled it four years ago.
Most of these men have acquitted them
selves in their difficult position like the
honorable gentlemen that they are with
equal and impartial justice to all, and with
an eye single to -the prompt and efficient
dispatch of the public business.
A few of them, however, have developed
into the veriest martinets and petty eight-by-ten
tyrants.
Whether they hoped by this means to in
gratiate themselves with those higher; or
were only puffed up by a little brief author
ity, or were only actuated by pure mean
ness, it is not material to inquire.
But if they expect the men who for four
vears have kent silent because thev dared
not speak, will continue that silence, they
may find themselves mistaken.
Men who have been treated for years as if
they were devoid ot an honor who nave
been herded together and watched as though
they were convicts who have had the time
counted against them every day to the
fraction ot a minute who have been re
quired to transact the business of this great
Government almost in a whisper who must
not wash their hands between 9 and i with
out leave first had and obtained who have
been the subjects of the harassing "error
slip" system, until men who should have
worked together in harmony have grown to
almost hate each other men who have been
watched and dogged and spied upon, even
to those occasions in daily life where de
cency draws the veil, until the higher Dem
ocratic officials were forced to interfere
may for the sake of bread for wife and chil
dren, bear much and long, but the "Hold
Over, four-years-ago-Eepublican, Assistant
Chief, who finds herein a shoe to fit, may
rest assured thathe will not be forgotten.
Solomon Grundy.
Beautiful Engraving Free.
"Will They Consent?" is a magnifi
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exact copy of an original painting by Kwall,
which was sold for 55,000.
This elegant engraving represents a young
lady standing in a beantiful room, sur
rounded by all that is luxurious, near a
half-open door, while the young man, her
lover, is seen in an adjoining room asking
the consent of her parents for their daughter
in marriage. It must be seen to be appre
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This starch is something entirely new.and
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everybody says so that has used it). It
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Ask for Wax Starch and obtain this
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A New Ycnr.
Housekeepers, turn over a new leaf and
use the best flour in the market Eosalia
manufactured exclusively by Whitmyre &
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Valley Railroad.
It Heads the List.
Marvin's new milk bread rivals the best
and sweetest home made article. Your
grocer will get it for yon if he does not
already keep it. Tussu
Dabbs, the photographer, took several
views of the wrecked buildings almost im
mediately after their fall.
Cash paid for old gold and silver at
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WES OF THE SOUTH.
Bessie Bramhle Inveighs Vehemently
aid Forcibly Against the
SOUTH CAROLINA MARRIAGE LAWS
Indulging in Philosophic Laziness in a
Southern Eden.
PEESIDENT HARRISON AND THE SOUTH
COBErSPOJTDEKCX Or TIM DISPATCH.
IKEN, S. C, Jan
uary 7. To us
of the North,
who are accustomed
to having winter
lingering in the
lap of spring away
along in May, it
seems odd to be
told that January
is the principle
winter month in
the Sonth, and this,
too, in view of the signs of spring every
where apparent with flowers blooming in
'he open gardens, and the thermometer np
in the air. But as winter here is mainly
distingnished by rain, we have had two
days of what seemed to be a second edition
of the deluge. The heavens opened np the
clouds and wept upon the sad and dolorous
world with snch torrents and water falls
as suggested the looking out for an ark and
a modern Noah. But if we had to have an
ark, with our new-fashioned ideas, we
should want the animals to have a boat of
their own, while that in which we embarked
should be run by electricity with all the at
tachments for comfort as comprehended m
the nineteenth century. But two davs rain
in a week shows that South Carolina is
behind Pennsylvania iu the way of a rainy
season, when "in our Northern idyllic Octo
ber, we had 27 days' rain in the lovely
month, when yellow and red shonld have
flamed in gold and sunshine.
But supposing now that the floods should
be let loose, the skies should drip as to-day,
until Niagara should seem a gentle water
fallthat the world should be treated to
another deluge when should we look for a
Noah? Would we turn onr eyes to Ben
Harrison, the commander of Republican
hosts, the chief representative of over
60,000,000 of people the great god of hope
to the officeseekers?
AN UNPLEASANT INSINUATION.
Not here in the South certainly. Brother
Ben has put his foot into it with his bugle
call speech. His address to the Grand
Army to" stand shoulder to shoulder, as
they "did during the war to preserve a free
and honest ballot, is rather a reflection on
Southern methods, or at least is so con
strued; and they do not hesitate here among
the chivalry to tell him to look at
home to consider his own back vard to
meditate upon Dudley's "blocks of five" to
consider Pennsylvania, said by one of her
native sons to be "the most contemptibly
corrunt, the most diabolically vile, the most
notoriously dirty piece of territory, politi
cally speaking, on the face of the earth"
to look at New York, where bribery and
corruption find a native home, and so on.
As everybody knows, it does not do for peo
ple who live in glass houses to throw stones.
If Brother Harrison's words were aimed at
the repression of the Eepublican vote of
the South, they will only serve to incense a
people against him who were ready and
anxious for conciliation and amity.
The South, as we are told by an intelli
gent man, is anxious to let war issues die
out wishful for fraternal feeling desirous
of cultivating amicable relations with their
brethren at the North, but when that means
subordination to negro rnle and domination,
the bugle call of Harrison will wake up not
amicable, but rather belligerent emotions
it will not pour oil upon tronbled waters,
bnt rather wake them to storm and tempest
it will not subserve to amity and love, but
will rather keep ablaze the fires of hate and
sectional feeling.
If Harrison made the speech as recorded
he did a foolish thing for one who should
aim not to be a sectional patriot, but a
representative of the whole country. The
South should be allowed to manage its own
affairs to exercise home rule and to hold
local option just as we do in the North.
Even if as asserted the negro vote is re
pressed to the advantage of the Democratic
party, what Northern man is justified in
calling attention to the mote in his brother's
eye while he considers not the beam in his
own eye. If the South represses the vote of
ignorance, the North represses the vote of
intelligence.
BESSIE IS REPRESSED.
We can speak strongly on this matter
because we aro one of the repressed. We
claim to be able to vote with as much re
gard for the good of the country, with as
much interest in the welfare of virtue and
the promotion of morality, with as much in
telligence as regards politics and the rights
of humanity as anv man we know, and yet
our rights are trampled npon, our vote is
suppressed, our voice is silenced by force,
so we cannot see that onr brethren in the
North have good cause to put on airs of
superior virtue, or are justified in showing
any pious rage over the enormity of the
South suppressing the ignorant vote of the
colored population.
One of the most striking things abont this
sunny Southern town is the great number of
young and strong-looking negroes who stand
about the groceries and npon the corners of
the streets. How this was before the war
we ot course do not know, but it is certain
they would be much better off if indus
triously employed. Satan, we presume, is
just as busy down here finding mischief for
idle hands to do as on Fifth avenue at
home. When we asked how it came that
these big strapping fellows could sit around
in the sun and indulge themselves in loaf
ing, we were told their wives and mothers
tooK in wasnmg woricea out as cooks and
chambermaids and nurses and their hus
bands spent the money. This is their de
lightful privilege under the laws of South
Carolina.
In the last 40 years most of the Northern
States have so amended their laws as grant
to married women the right to hold prop
erty and to have some control of their own
earnings; but South Carolina, it appears,
has stood by the old common law in all its
enormity of tyranny and slavery from the
day of its first settlement at Charleston in
1670 until now.
A form of slavery.
Although the Huguenots, the Quakers,
the Scotch and Irish Presbyterians and
Methodists came to this sunny Sonth to en
joy civil and religious liberty, it never
seems to have occurred to them that the old
common law of marriage was for wives an
even worse form of oppression than that
from which they had fled. By this old
English law, under which no wife in South
Carolina can hold property or claim her
own earnings, possess her own cjothes or
devise by will a cent to anyone, wives are
held legally in a state ot servitude not
less abject than that from which negro
suffrage emancipated the male slaves. It
speaks loudly for the chivalry of the South
that women in the main arc so kindly
treated and warmly appreciated that they
have not found cause or courage to clamor
for a change. Still chains are chains,
though made of gold, or wreathed with
flowers. There is no good reason why the
sisters of South Carolina should not be in
possession of the same privileges which we
of Pennsylvania enjoy, and the more which
we propose to hold in the hereafter. As an
added cruelty to the marriage law as it
exists here, is the fact that tbey have no
law of divorce no such thing as divorce be
ing allowed. So when a woman here marries
and makes havoc of her dreams of happi
ness, she has no hope of freedom or release
save by death.
Of course this is the door mat theory in
practice, and it falls in with the creed of the
Roman and Ritualistic churches, but con
template the tragedies implied under such
civil and ecclesiastical laws. It makes the
blood run cold to think of the cruelties that
can be perpetrated nnder such a system of
laws, and to contemplate the martyrdom
comprehended in such a creed. Men in the
South, as in the North, are better than their
laws would imolv. but that does not make
them any the less responsible for the evils1
mat may be practiced nnder them by brntai
and unscrupulous men. When a woman in
South Carolina marries sbaurrenders every
dollar of her property, 4fery idea of con
trolling her own money, every right save
that of food and clothes, and these are to be
regnlated by her lord and master.
no recourse to law.
If he should prove to be a cruel tyrant
she has no recourse in a law of divorce.
When we think of such a condition of
things we wonder what has become of the
revolutionary blood of their patriotic sires;
what has become of the spirit of resistance
to tyranny that animated her heroes of '76;
what has become of the fiery heroism that
made the name of South Carolina famous
throughout the world. It is only to be un
derstood by the thought that women have
always excelled in the line of martyrdom,
and have had the doctrine of submission so
sedulously ground into them by the Church
that they look to heaven only for re
lief or release instead of to any ex
ercise oi their own powers or efforts.
Bnt the women of this State will some day
wake up, and then Wade Hampton and
Butler and the rest of them will sing a dif
ferent song in the Senate. To hold their
own in the race problem, an educational
test is the project most favored by Southern
politicians, but if they would double the
white vote ot intelligence tbey would reach
the solution much more readily and reason
ably. To those of the North this beautiful State
is but little known little as its beautiful
climate its great resources, its genial and
hospitable people. Judging by the rant,
and roar, and fire-breathing speeches of
some Southern politicians it might be sup
posed that its people were almost ready for
another war. Bnt no such feeling is mani
fested. Warm hearts, hospitable welcome
and kindly attention have been our
experience. The people of the town, both
white and colored, are polite and pleasant
with strangers. There are a number of
Northern people who have settled here for
the advantages of the climate. One young
man came here from the Northwest tor his
health. He recovered and went home again,
but soon found that only in the South could
he live, so he came back here and went into
the dairy business. He purchased the
finest cattle, secured the best machinery and
the latest methods, and now makes as fine
bntter as was ever seen, which is retailed
every pound of it, at 40 cents a pound, and
the supply is less than the demand. Many
people from the North have their cottages
for the winter, and almost every honse is a
boarding house. It is a beautiful little
town and in the lutnre, when all of the
parks recently laid out are grown, it will
be one of the most charming winter resorts
on the continent.
GO NORTH IN 'WINTER.
Another reason given us this morning by
an intelligent young colored man for the
numbers ot idle men constantly standing
about the corners is that they go North in
the summer and earn a lot of moner. and
then come down home to spend the winter
in elegant leisure and in dazzling the eyes
oi meir neignuors. xiiis is not as uau as
the previous reason, bnt it shows'that they
are improvident and are not laying up for a
rainy day, or providing for a luxurious old
age. It is quite evident, however, that they
are literally and lessurely obeying the
scriptural injunction to take no thonght for
to-morrow, or, as the revised version has it.
"Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall
eat or what ye shall drink, nor yet lor your
body what ye shall put on." They behold
the birds of heaven which sow not, nor
reap, nor gather into barns, and they con
sider the lilies of the field, which toil not
and neither do they spin.
They are not anxious for the morrow, but
stand around in the sun or sit npon a fence
and let to-morrow take care Of itself. No
where is this philosophy more in practice
than in this sunny Southland, where it is
restful to see how easily the people here take
life and how free they are from the restless
rush and constant toil and struggle of life at
the North.
Nervous prostration here finds enre not so
much from climatic balm perhaps, as from
the absence of distracting care, tne contem
plation of calmness and the indulgence of
philosophic laziness a-sitting in the snn
under a tree in the middle of January.
Bessie Bramble.
"One of the Finest" at Harris' this
week is an old and standard favorite, but this
season has been made more attractive than
ever, having the great North river scene il
lustrated by an immense reservoir of water
in which boys are seen swimming, steamers,
etc., sailing to and fro.
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NO SHOP-WORN GOODS AMONG THESE
Sale "to Com Tuence on
TUESDAY MORNING AT 10 O'CLOCK.
Our buyers have ransacked the eastern markets and have succeeded, beyond our expectations, in
procuring, for SPOT CASH, many large lots of desirable goods, which we are offering to our patrons at
UNHEARD-OF LOW
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386 dozen Finest Linen Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, worth from 20oto 25c each; our price 10c.
169 dozen Misses' 4-Butfon Embroidered Kid Gloves, selling elsewhere at $1; our price 45c.
108 dozen Ladies' Natural Wool Vests, worth 88c; our sale price 44c.
64 dozen Ladies' Fine White Merino Vests, silk stitched and pearl buttons, worth 65c; our price 42c.
36 dozen Ladies' Fine All-wool Ribbed Vests, selling elsewhere at $1; going this time at 62c. ;
84 dozen. Ladies' Black Hose, imported, regular made, 13c a pair.
219 dozen Fine 2-Thread Balbriggan Hose, French toes, would be cheap at 20c; our price 12c.
NOW, 64 Ladies' Very Fine Seal Plush Sacques, equal in appearance to Seal Skin, advertised by competitors
at $25; our price $15 75.
30 finest Lister's Seal Plush Jackets, 32 inches long, sizes 34, 36, worth $23; our price $12 98.
If you can match these bargainsanywhere in the United States we should like to know where.
MIND, THESE ARE ALL FRESH GOODS.
As these goods are bought exclusively for our retail customers, we will not sell to merchants at above prices.
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5 1 0, 5 1 27 5 1 4
A MUSICAL MYSTERY.
A Toung Lady Controlled hy the
Spirit of a Dead Italian Musician.
SHE SINGS Ifl F1YE LANGUAGES
Rendering a Chinese Song With a Chop
stick Accompaniment.
0NEATA, HUE IXDIAN BPIE1T 10TEE
fCOBEXSrONDZJlCX Or TOT DISPAICJI.1
Eochesteb, N. T., January 11.
ISS LULU BILL
INGS, the only daugh
ter of Elon G. Billings,
who was for over 25
years connected with the
Erie Eailway ticket of
fice in this city, is creat
ing no end of excite
ment here by her won
derful spiritual manifestations and powers.
Miss Billings is atall, slim brunette, about
29 years of age, with a rather pretty face
and quiet, attractive ways. She is not a
person who would be supposed to be in
league with spirits, but it seems that she is
endowed with a supernatural musical power.
For several years Miss Lulu has been able
to sing while in a trance state, but it seems
that her parents have been so averse to hav
ing the public know the facts, that they
have successfully concealed them, and, until
recently, bnt very few have ever listened to
the fair musician during one of her spirit
performances.
The young lady will take her seat at the
piano, and after a few nervous movements
of her head passes into an unconscious or
"trance state," during which she plays and
sings with the greatest ease and skill the
most beantiful and difficult songs. The
strange feature of all is that she sings in
five different languages, all of which are un
known to her, as she can only speak and
understand her native English tongue.
CONTROLLED BY SPIRITS.
She has no knowledge of music whatever,
except what her mother has taught her on
the piano, and even then her skill as a
pianist is by no means above the average of
that of many girls of 18 years of age, yet
her playing while in the trance state is
beautiful in the extreme. She also plays,
while under control of the spirits, the
guitar, flute, violin, cornet and harp like a
.master, although she has never received a
moment's instrnction on any of them.
She says she is controlled and directed by
an Italian musician who has been dead for
several centuries, and whom she says was a
noted scholar named Ingrelio. Under his
direction, while in the trance state, she im
provises rare harmonies, strains of soft, ma
jestic sweetness andchords of solemn, touch
ing pathos. Her playing while not in the
trance is of a very common order, and the
style is entirely different. She has a sweet
soprano voice of considerable range, but
when she is in the trance it is intensified to
double its natural power.
A Dispatch representative called at the
home xf the Billingses, in the handsome
Howe flats on North Fitzhugb street, and
met Mrs. Billings and her daughter. When
asked to play and sing she smilingly con
sented. Seating herself at the piano,
she passed her hands rapidly before
her face several times, and be
gan playing a very pretty air and
a sweet voice sang a Spanish love song in
the Hispanian tongue. She played a most
difficult accompaniment, consisting of runs
and trills that blended beautifully with her
voice, Dnring the rendition of the piece
her eyes were tightly closed and she held
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her head on one said. She stamped her feet '
several times as if at the direction of her ' 'J
master, and played accordingly.
sang- several languages.
When the last note had died awaysha
stopped playing, and in a strange tongns
addressed her director, and then played a
pretty French song with excellent effect.
This was followed by an Italian song, and
Lulu Billings.
she concluded by singing a Chinese song
and playing a chop-stick accompaniment,
after which she shook her head several times
and arose from the piano.
She seems to undergo no nnusual phvsl-
cal or mental strain while in the trance.
She says she experiences the most delightful
sensations, but is oblivious to all around her,
and can see nothing but her director, who
stands in front of her and guides her by
voice and gesture. She cannot recall her
visions after returning to herself, and says
she has no control over her hands while
playing. Miss Billings has been handed a,
harp while in a trance, and has played
beautifully upon it. The same may be said
of the other instrument mentioned which
she has played.
Mrs. Billings told the reporter that about
nine years ago was the first that the family
knew" that Luln was controlled by spirits.
One night they were calling npon some
neighbors who were spiritualists, when Luln
went into the sitting room and began play
ing upon the piano. The room was entirely
dark." They heard her playing familiar
songs, bnt after a time the music became of
such an order and so strange that they went
into the room and lighted the gas. Sha
says Lulu sat there playing like mad, her
hair streaming over her face. She ran to
the piano and shook her, when Lulu gave a
scream and fell to the floor in a fainting
condition.
AN INDIAN SPIRrr LOVER.
Mrs. Billings says that when Emma Ab
bott was playing here, she sat by her win
dow in the Powers' Hotel, across the street,
and listened in amazement to Lulu, who was
playing and singing. She made inquiries
regarding her and in company with Mrs.
Omar Gage, the clerk's wife, who was a
friend of the Billingses, called to see her
and hear her sin?. She did so and Miss
Abbott pronounced the performance wonder
ful and her voice superb.
Mr. Billings says that Lulu is guarded by
the spirit of an Indian named Oneata, who
gives her strength and calls her his "little
squaw Lulette." She says her daughter
sings in Spanish, French, 'Italian, German,
Chinese and in the ancient Hindoo dialect,
the latter fact she having learned from Bow
ley, the celebrated medium of Cleveland, O.
Mr. Billings does not believe in spiritual
ism despite his daughter's manifestation.
Personally Miss Billings is an attractive
young lady of retiring disposition and has
a large circle of acquaintances who marvel
at her wonderful power. She has had offers
from well-known managers, at a large
salary, to go on the stage and show the pub
lic her "spirit power," but modestly de
clines all offers and says that she "does not
care to parade herself 'in public."
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