The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-05-30
Nhe Aerala anil Yews.
ARP AT HOME.
After Luxuriatinc in Florida and Ruunine
Fiery Gauntlet, Going Back Again
If he Is not Coxeyited.
ATLANTA Constitution.

ATLANTA Constitution.
It is worth going away from home to
return again and find welcome from
kindred and friends. 1t was long,
weary ride, but every mile stone was
comfort and every station gave hope
and faith that no accident would be-
fall US. We had one alarm when near
ing Palatka, for the woods We're on fire
and the wind was blowing the lesping
flames across the track. The engineer
halted his train and hesitated. After a
brief interview with the conductor the
train was backed aquarter OF mile,
the windows were all put down, the
vestibules closed, the steam put on TO
its full power and away we went to run
the fiery gauntlet at the rate of mile
a minute. But it was hot-intensely
hot. Though the glass kept out the
flames, it did not keep out the heat. II
the run had been a little longer every
pane would have shivered and the cars
would have caught OF fire, but still
every passenger was willing to make
the race. Who does not like to ride a
mile a minute and take the chances?
Even the engineer will do it if be is
permitted. How proud he is to be
pointed out as the man who took the
lightning train from Jacksonville %
New York. He is a hero-he is.
We reached home at 10 o'clock at
night and found the family mansion
all lighted up and the kindred on the
verandah and old Aunt Ann and Uncle
Sam in the background and the big deg
and little dog alert, for they, too, SEEM
ed to expect US, and for a while there
was shower of kisses and howdys and
welcomes and barkings and waggings
of canine tails.
But it was sad to see the havoc that
the great freeze had made. Intense heat
and intense cold must be close akin, for
all along the route from Jacksonville
the dead and withered leaves on the
treetops and among the shruooery
gave an appearance offire instead Of a
freeze, and when we surveyed our own
surrounding at home We found not q
green leaf left-no fruit, no plums, no
garden coming on; strawberries para
lyzed, raspberries killed TO the roots,
grape vines scorched, for what the
freeze had left of vegetation the hail
that came week after finished the
work of destruction.
What wonderful power is in nature
to restore herself and make good her
losses. It has been but three weeks
since we reached home, and now every
thing is loyely-the trees are all in leaf
again--the grass is green, the strawoer-
ries are giving US some fruit, the garden
has beans in bloom and peas in the pod
and potatoes big enough to steal few.
7 ALWAYS steal few before breakfast,
Just as surprise, you know. Just to
hear my wife exclaim when Aunt Ann
slips the savory dish under her eyes.
We had been luxuriating on all these
things for months in Florida, but there
is nothing like having your own. beg
pardon for mentioning Florida, for I
have been admoaished to let up on
Clearwater. 7 am at home in old Geor-
gia now and we are happy. We came
from spring to spring, and for the first
time IL our lives skipped over long,
hard winter. We had strawberries from
the 10th OF January to the lst OF May
and can do without now. If the good
Lord spares our lives and our people
make another good crop and Congress
passes the tariff bill and that Coxey
gang don't bust up the government, we
calculate on spending the next winter
in Florida just to save winter clothes
and blankets and coal and horse feed If
nothing else. But I beg pardor--I am
on Florida again. Senator Harris says
that he thinks now they will getto a
vote on the tariff within five or six
weeks-yes, he thinks the debate on it
will not take longer than six weeks.
Merciful heaven-ho, for a Cromwell
to dissolve that parliament! Debate
what for? Isn't the argument already
exhausted? Haven't the Senators all
made up their minds? Do they expect
to change single vote by debating? Is
there a constituent in all the land who
wants more talking done? Is there any
body who will read another speech?
Then why debate? Why not vote and
be done with it? Verify, Nero is iddling
again.
had letter yesterday from friend
who says there is no truth in the charge
that is going around in the press and
among the people that there is court
house ring in Georgia, and that if there
is it is not ring for Atkinson, for two
thirds of the judges and solicitors:are for
Er.nc Wall ra ara oratifie6 TO have