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The San Francisco call., 1896-10-04
THE BUsr doHTHERD---Br HRTz.

spectacle of murderer who committed
his crime in the heat of passion, to his
lasting regret and disgrace. And among
the rest is lesson OF seif-respect and
manners to be learned-conversely-
lawyers.
In the higher courts fear all the les
sons must be read backward, but they are
there in the spectacle of unpunished mur-
derers and twisted laws and unblushing
adventuresses, in purchased eloqueDce
and endless quibbling.
Lessons in public economy, too, are
written on the soles of boots displayed
through ofice-windows, and smile from
the helmets of lolling officers. Oh, yes
there is food for thought in the City Hail.
Our City has one of the best schools of
foreign customs and costumes to be found
in the world. We have a small China, in
all it's tawdry splendor and its varied
smells; Italy is here with her red
turbaned, peaceable anarchists and num-
berless etti made of paste. Nearly every
nation has colony.
1 almost forgot the theology class.
You may study all its grades, Including
the a. p. A. and the convent, Salvador.
Army and High Church. And it is but Just
to say that, however shabby your coat,
the High Church will welcome you as
cordially ii not so effusively as the army.
These are few things to be learned in
q city school. There are others. They
are not to be counted. We walk past
them like the child treading on mignonette
while reaching up to the tall tulips to find
the odor. OLIVE HEYDEN.
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Adolf Artz. one of the most distinguished
of the pupils of Israels, studies the sep
arate figures in an out-of-door light; his
shepherdesses and goatherds, women
gathering potatoes, little squat, sturdy
children playing animate generally an
autumnal landscapes; wide and mel
ancholy plains, with grayish blue grass
and silver gray skies.
When he represents sunlight it is the
pale light that may at any moment van
ish behind the clouds; windmill turns
on the horizon and faint mists obscure
the distance.
Jongkind, who died few years ago and
whose pictures have now gained value
he never coveted for them. painted the
freshness and the glitter of his beloved
Dutch landscape, to which he was for
many years a stranger. He was distant
relative of Corot. brother to Diaz, and to
Daubigny the closest friend. He painted
moonlight with a delicacy that he
learned from Corot; in his energetic day.
light studies he learned from Diaz the
value of thickly modelled light almost
like low relief, and from Daubigny he ap-
preciated the sharp value of few keen
accents, in the modelling of clouds, or
water, or houses, or the little figures that
are one, two, three little splashes of paint,
human interest. He painted in Paris,
around the Pont Neuf. in the old streets;
on the Norman seacoast. On this he
travelled to Belgium and portrayed the
swarming streets of little towns. 1t is
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l wonder how many of the people who
travel In them know all about the work
ing of an electrician, or even cableP
Yet these things are open and free as the
air around US. The great wheels and en-
gines turn and pant before our eyes if we
would but look, and there is always some
one willing to explain. Men who run en-
gines and work with electricity and do all
those wonderful, mysterious things are
glad to tell about it to people who care to
hear. Even though laboring under the
unsurmountable disadvantage of being a
woman, and thereby being incapable of
understanding anything with more than
two wheels, I never hesitate to ask about
things, and never fail to find out, if it is
something ought to know. The signs OF
"No Admittance" are weak as water when
stormed by an interested lads eye, and
crusty. oil-spotted old fellows will tell all
the eager questioner asks. 1t is only a
question of whether he really wants to
know.
The whole world of commerce lies before
him in freightcars ana ships. Can any
boy here tell all about the rigging and
loading of ships, how many kinds of boats
there are, and the powers which move
them? It is no ones fault If the boy can
not; the school is free. Geography ought
to grow most fascinating after morning
on the water front. Where do all the
wonderful winged ships go? How long
are they away? What do they carry to
other lands, and what do they bring back
flow many men does it take to sail ship?
Where does all that coal come from and
what is coal? The boy may as well camp
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curious fact that in 1852 he received d
medal in Paris and that until the EXPOSE
tlon of 1889 no further work OF his was ac-
oepted by the salon juries.
1t was after this most remarkable ex-
hibition that Jongkind was recognized
as a strong link between the school OF
Fontainebleau and modern art. While he
did not scruple to use the methods ana
effects of the men for whom his admlra-
tion amounted to reverence, he made his
own work so distinctly personal that it
may be recognized at once in any exhib1-
ton for its own strong and characteristic
charm.
The two brothers William and Jacob
Maris and Mauve are the poets of Hol-
land. They make of the landscape the
country of a dream; so delicate. so ten
der, SO luminous and simple. The har-
monies of very early morning, the in
definite beauties of the twilight attract
them, and they render them with rare
success.
In Mesdag we have two personalities,
the great marine painter and the enthusl-
astic collector. Mesdag paints the sea as
few men in or out of Holland have painted
it. The windy sky, torn into shreds OF
cloud and mist. the sea disturbed and
shaken as with the shudder of an ap-
preaching storm, he represents by means
of color that is nearly always silver and
rose and gray. Rarely does he introduce
the heavy. dark sails and somber houses
of the fishing villages, as less obseryant
eye would portray them, by the force OF
strong contrasts. He bathes his canvas in
light, and to stand before very good
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They are important factors in the gen.
eral economy, for they number legion in a
limited population, and the Dutch father
and mother. perhaps in view OF the chas-
tening experiences of their hardworked
future lives do not believe in efficacious
discipline at an early age. The bicycle is
the object of their particular attention.
They call it "a feets'-the abbreviation of
northumberland woe betide the woman
who rides alone through peaceful and
apparently solitary village, along sunny
road between two rows of stately trees,
with a convenient ''sloot" to fall into on
either side of the road.
The children spring up from the ground
apparently, first two, then four, then
twenty, they signal the little hends at a
distance, and attach themselves to the
unfortunate rider with howls and yells
that pierce the ear and the quaking heart.
There is nothing to do but to run the
escape their outstretched feet, and sticks,
and grasping hands. as you would escape
hungry pack of wolves.
The roads are generally good and the
villages themselves are like .he pictures
Neuhuys pronounced Noyhouse) Artz
and Israels love to paint. The doors are
generally open and the strong light and
shadow bring into prominence the busy
figures of the women working at the fax,
knitting or scrubbing their hard floors.
Israels has represented every phase of
Dutch life on sea and land, in shadow and
sunlight, in winter and summer. The
Ofher yooderD nutch 11astprs have CON
fined themselves TO special branches.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-06-17
Eleven Killed.

BARCELONA, June 9.-This city is
under martial law and a reign of ter.
ror is feared on account of the explo-
sion of a bomb Sunday night, by
which IL persons were killed and
about 80 injured. The explosion was
the work of anarchists. 1t was about
9 o'clock Sunday that religious pro-
cession was passing through the streets.
The captain general of the province of
Barcelona acted as standardbearer in
the procession. while the civil COVER
nor and city alcalde held the stream
ers of the banner. 1t is thought that
the anarchists meant to kill these Off
cials. The excitement became so
great as the extent of the outrage be-.
came known that on yesterday martial
law was proclaimed. Thirty.two men
have been taken into custody on sus-
picion of having been concerned IN
the perpetration of the outrage. The
prisoners are confined in the prefecture
Yesterday an angry mob gathered
around that building and demanded
the summary punishment OF every
one Of the prisoners whether his guilt
be proven or not. 1t looked as through
the mob would attempt to storm the
prefecture to wreak vengeance on the
suspected men. The civil guards on
duty at the palace were speedily rein,
forced and were frequently compelled
to charge upon the crowd to make
them keep their distance.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-06-17

God be praised for the glory of our
race the number of such is very small,
and the passing years bring in their
train a growing belief in the right.
eousness of the Southern cause. Par.
don this personal allusion. Wherever
my lot has been cast among the
South's young men, whether where
the balmy breezess of Mississippi re.
fresh a brave and generous people. or
where Virginia's blue mountains
stand as silent sentinels over the
graves of sages and patriots, or wheth-
er on the sacred soil of our own Caro-.
lima, the home of proud and impul-
sive people, from every quarter of our
Southland I have heard the same
sweet song of thankfulness and praise
that our fathers
"Were ever warriors tried and true,
Who bore the flag ofa nations trust,
And fell in cause, though lost, still just,
And died for me and you"
Nor is this spirit OF surviving justice
confined within the borders of our
Southland. God be praised that
throughout the length and breadth of
our glorious republic are appearing
the bright streamers of golden light
betokening the coming of that golden
day when as brothers once again in
full affection, true men Of every cline
shall accord to Southern soldiers that
full justice which the passions of an
hour have hitherto denied them :.
Know well then that though the short
span of our days may not witness this
acknowledgement of right, yet in the
fulness of time your justification must
surely come. In the search for truth
by the paltry processes of human logic
we blunder and err, stumble and fall
as we grope through the binding
mists of prejudice and passion. But
we are promised a day 10 the which
we shall not see as in glass darkly,
but when we shall see face to lace.
And in that great day when the great
searcher of hearts shall lay bare the
secrets of the human bosom, when
the motives of men shall stand forth
manifest in the transcendent light OF
divine truth, then I bslieve the peer.
less prince of our people shall stand
with his legions in gray acquitted of
all evil intent before the judgment
bar OF eternal justice. Yours then it
is, my venerable countrymen, to abide
in peaceful faith the coming of thRt
great day.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-06-17

DIR. Bates has received the following
letter from the president of the Balt-
more Trust and Guarantee Company,
the former mayor of Baltimore: g
Baltimore, June 9, 1896.
Hon. w. T. G. Bates, State Treasurer,
Columbia, 8. @.
Dear Sir: I understand that some
question has arisen as to the propriety
of your having accepted compensation
from the syndicate which purchased
South Carolina bonds in 1898, and we
think it no more than fair to state that
under the rigorous terms imposed by
your then governor, the Hon. Ben.
R. Tillman, it would have been ex-
ceedingly difficult to have carried out
the terms of purchase without the con-
slant presence in Columbia of some
competent and trustworthy person
charged with the duty of performing
the various acts of necessary clerical
labor which were necessarily requir-
ed. 1t was not convenient for this
company, as the agent of the syndicate,
to have such a representative contin-
ually on the spot, and you were asked
to so act, and the compensation paid
you was only fair, and said payment
came from the syndicate alone, and In
nowise, even remotely, affected the
interests of your State nor the interest
of the most insignificant of your tax.
payers. The payment for your servic-
es was made upon the volition and by
the sanction of the executive COM
mittee of the syndicate, it was entirely
proper and the engagement OF your
self in such capacity really proved to
be safeguard to your people because,
in the execution of the clerical duties
which the syndicate required you in
variably manifested an unalterable
zeal for the protection of the interests
of your State, and in the exercise OF
this quality, we think, you often i'm
posed upon the syndicate conditions
which would have been quite unnec-
essary in the conduct of any matters
pertaining to private business. These
conditions, however, were accepted IN
cordial spirit, because we thought we
recognized in you an officer whose
crowning ambition appeared to be di-
rected only in the channel of exercis-
ing every scruple of prudence in the
conservation of the duties involved by
his official capacity.
Yours respectfully,
ROBERT G. DAVIDSON,
President.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-06-17
Drowned by a Cloudburst.

LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, June TO-
Four persons were drowned and con.
siderable damage to property done by
a cloudburst that visited this section.
Water fell in torrents, smashing win
dows, tearing down signs and flood
ing cellars and bottom lands. Dennis
and Michael Desmond and Dennis and
Eugene Cummings, all under II years
of age, were drowned by going into a
stone culvert to escape the storm.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-06-17
A SLAUGHTER of Germans.

LONDON June 9.-The Daily News
will publish dispatch from Athens
saying that instead of only a few
French, British and German engineers
being massacred by Kurds on the line
of the railway from Smyrna to Kassa-
ba, as reported on Sunday last, the
number of victims is estimated at 200.
The consuls at Smyrna have gone to
the scene to investigate the affair.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-06-17
NIany Il Horse Burned.

New YORK, June 11.--Fire COM
pletely destroyed the building of the
American Horse Exchange, which oc-
cupies nearly the entire block bound.
ed by Broad, Seventh avenue, Fifty
first streets, tonight. 1t is supposed
that 125 valuable horses perished in
the flames.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-06-17

roams,
Peace, God of peace! peace, peace in all oul
homes,
And peace in all our hearts!
And in this blessed peace it is yours,
nv venerable countrymen, to spend
the evening of your lives, and yet in
the present peace we do not forget the
past. Your deeds are craven upon the
hearts of this generation. The story
of YOUR valor and devotion to duty we
will cherish, guard faithfully and
Transmit to posterity for fond hearts
have taught it US. There is one whose
approving smile is all the world to
me. and whether it be when l hear
from her lips the story of him whose
name in part I bear, and who fell
with Pickett at Getty ysburg, or wheth'
er it be when at the feet Of hun who
gave me my other name l hear how
pleasant a thing it was to follow the
Southern cross through fond long
wears of war, whenever and wherever
| I hear that story OF the Confederate
soldiers faithful warfare in defence oi
home and principle, my pulses beat
with a gladder bound and my heart
lswells in gratitude to God for bis
great goodness in bestowing upon
this generation such a priceless herit
age of yalor and honor.
/ AhlI know that even as among the
twelve who lived in the loving sun
shine of our Saviour's presence there
was one who for love of gain betrayed
his master, so there may be those ol
this generation who likewise in sord
id seIGshness may deny just need o
praise to those who Ia full. self-sacri
| ltice followed the stars and bars. Bu
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-06-17


crashing thunders of battle.
Sufficient it is for us to know that
he overmatched many Generals. and
that with inferior forces and equip.
ments he for four years successfully
repelled his country's foes, and when
at last having done all that mortal
could do to deserve success, he was
compelled to yield, he did so with noble
dignity, no stain upon his honor, no
burden upon his conscience. Satisfied
then with the verdict that all the world
accords him as a soldier of SURPRISING
genius have turned to the contempla
tlon of his character as man.
Born in the purple of an illustrious
lineage, nurtured amid scenes vocal
with the inspiration of heroic deeds,
he chose as his own his fathers pro.
fession of arms, lived a leader in
event of high import, added to the lus
tre of his sire's name, adorned with
his deeds the State that gave him birth,
won for himself commanding place
in the affections of his fellow country
men, wore ''every Christian grace Sc
rene, illumined with his life the an
mails of our race and dying left as q
priceless heritage to posterity caree,
without blot or stain in its unselfish
devotion to high duty. Well has
Georgia's gifted Hill portrayed him as
"a foe without hate, a friend without
treachery, a soldier without cruelty,
and victim without murmuring. He
was public officer without vices, 6
private citizen without wrong, a neigh
Dor without reproach, Christian
without hypocrisy and a man withou,
guilt. He was Ca sar without his am
oition, Frederick without his tyranny
Napoleon without his selishness, anC
Washington without his reward. He
was as obedient to authority as a king
He was as gentle as woman in life
pure and modest asa virgin in thought
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-02-12
Texas, came in yesterday from

Texas. came In yesterday from a
trip.
Freight business on the Missouri
Kansas and Texas IL reported 10 he
heavier now than for several years M
this time of the year.
10. Dickinson, general manager Of
the Union Pacific, went south yester-
day In a special car on the Katy flyer.
u. Pennington. superintendent OF the
500 line, went north yesterday ON tbs
Missouri, Kansas and Texas,
+. r. Place, superintendent of tels-
graph. Texas and Pacific, was here
yesterday.
Il. w. Campbell, trainmaster OF the
Texas and Pacific ut Marshall. was in
the city yesterday.
j. N. Wisner, travelling passenger
agent of the Seaboard Air Line, went
north % the Denver yesterday.
p. C. Byrnes OF the telegraph de-
partment. Texas and Pacific, went to
Baird yesterday
Colonel Jim Wilson, general agent OF
the Chicago and Alton, is In Hous-
ton.
j. l.. Pennington, general live stock
agent OF the santa Fe. Is In from a
trip out on the line.
Page Harris, general live stock agent
of the Texas and Pacific. went west
yesterday.
Mr.. A. A. Chapman, in charge OF the
construction OF the Denlson and North
ern from Denison to the Choctnw coal
ilelda, has reported that all arrange
fnents for the building of the line are
completed. Other reports from that
territory state that the receiver of the
road is fast paying off claims against
that company, and that preparations
are on foot for resuming the work OF
construction.
Mr.. BERNARD Corrigan of Kansas
city, one of the wealthiest contractors
in this country, has secured the first
fifty miles of construction of the Kan
sas City, Pittsburg and Gulf road Ho
has three train loads OF outfit which
left Kansas City last week for Shreve-
port. The twenty-five miles south of
Corrigan's fifty mile contract have been
let to NJ. Tausey and II. NJ. Quigley
& Co. OF st. Louis. who had contract
on the road north of Shreveport.
George Signor, OF Sodus. tie contractor.
has secured the contract to furnish
ties for 200 miles of the road, Mr.. G..
Knoble, resident engineer from Texar-
kama, Is quoted as saying that in
about sixty days the road Will be oper-
ated from Texarkana.
Il. S. Beard. general agent of the
Fort Worth and Denver. is in from
trip up the line.
j. II. White. superintendent Of the
Cotton Belt. was here yesterday from
Chicago.
Texas and Pacific earnings for the
fourth week In January show de-
crease of more than $1,000.
Retrenchment seems to be the order
of the day on the Santa Fe. and
there is n rumor that all officials OF
the system Will accept 10 per cent
reduction in salaries on March /.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-02-12
ALWAYS.
bing Car ReserVa-
lions Cancelled.
~ PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK
crs ron FIsTiC cARNI-
r.rnnnnLr DOUBTFUL
king UP A LINE
Ism FROM pnlDcEroRT TO
TIE CITY or WACO.


"A neople have weakened very
I'M on the prize fights since
the press dispatches yesterday,
! opinIon is freely expressed
I,re will be no fights. 1t Is true
I.,r,Ions have continually come
\ paso that Dan Stuart Is con-
4, pulling off the engagements,
M are many who desire to be-
| Ma ability to do so. but there
I a grave apprehension that the
M 10 Ell Paso and back would
iu nothing.
|bmlnent passenger man yester-
FRA 10 wager the Gazette rep
I,Iye A box of Havanas there
mol be anything like a fight.
Id told that there were other
hunting the same kind OF wa
sno,her passenger man was au-
| far the statement that IA great
'b,ders that had been given for
car reservations We're Cancelled
|ay, BY people who have sor-
n arrived at the conclusion
ere was no use In bucklng fur
kraInst the combined powers OF
te, Federal and Mexican gov
3s.
tlNay man remarked yesterday
believed the only way for
10 hold his carnival would be to
he entire aggregation into a
Ia then pull the hole In after
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-02-12
oakNc ur 4 NEW LINE.
y City Man Projects ~ Line
ssm bridgeport to waco.

bon has heretofore been made In
|tllmns OF a projected line down
is Valley, west of this city, and
k,t.f SEEMS TO he now assuming
h form. A Kansas City man is
he project. and the fact that
qo%sd lne is getting into terri
With the Rock Island Is in
Y lends some color to the sus-
ihat there may be more In the
bsni than some people imagine.
tfiasrford Democrat says:
!. Spencer OF Kansas city ar
IN Weatherford last Tuesday.
~ met by n party of business
NJ have the interests of the
y county at heart, and are thor
awake to the necessity for
and vigorous action to bring
railway into this city. A meet
~ held In the Lewis
Isiors, and 1t seems now that
0id from Bridgeport through
sford and thence to Waco will
II our citizens come to the
20 work for the project unitedly.
1etsnd Mr.. Spencer will return
hherlord soon. when another
y Will be held. and II is
every progressive citizen
ready to whatever may be
W W 10 assure the building of the
inis city would then move for
sad soon rank with the most
j towns In Texas.