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The "Supe" Missed His Cue j ti 0 The State, August 7. I Somebody has sent us a copy of tbe t< Sumter Evening Item of Saturday, \ oootaioing a report of a meetiog io that g eity at which Senator Tillman made ao \ address This is not our year for poli- a tics, and we have in time past given v tbe esteemed Tillman more than his [ due share of free advertising ; yet, as c there seems to be a challenge iu this s paragraph from his speech, specially fc marked by the person who seDt it to us, r . _ -i . - > we are movea to enoataer it. j "While sitting here and listening to { Dr. Abbott's words of praise I could j not help (Licking of what The News \ and Courier and The State would do if Dr. Abbott's spet oh were to be printed j ii their ooiumus I believe the presses t would explode with indigoatioa.'* i Speaking for The State, we beg to ; say that the senator is mistaken. The j press of this newspaper is a tolerably < tough piece <>f machinery and is not so f unaccustomed to rcoordiug evidences of ] folly on the part of public speakers that , it can be "exploded" by the utterances \ of one more oratorical fool If our piees ever felt iocigoanon at the stupid { flunk eyi?ni of a oiass of Senator Till j man's admirers that indignation was t long ago fa'igueti and has reiired from < aotive service It appears from The Item's report j that Seoator Tillman was introduced to . bis Sumter audience bv ooe Dr H. T 1 Abbott Dr. Abbott io torn needs an < introduction to us, although we bate a < nrsty memory of somewhere and at { some time seeing bis Dame io print It i is to be presumed tbat he was ohoseo to perform this task because of his powers i as a flatterer, the Sumter people io au I excess of courtesy, desiring to "go the i whole hog" and make the senator | happy?knowing of course his excep tiooal capacity for the deglutition of i r taffy At ar.y ?h?c the job was thor ! oogbly done Dr. Abbott did not offer i to get dowo on ail fours, harness him I self to a wagon and drag the enthroned 1 Tillman around the streets as some of < his Snmter County worshippers did in 1 1890. bnt nevertheless he did his best < in another way to show tbat be was willing to mske an ass of himself for 1 the man of his adoration. I Dr. Abbott began by oompariog Ben t Tillman John Wesley and seemed to I intimate that like John be deserved a | tomb it? WestmitiS'er Abbey?a snggcs tioo which the Home Secretary may 1 adopt as bdcd as be hites wibout protest i from oa. i Be concluded by nominating Benja- < mio for vice president next year. I It is not our purpose to contest Dr i Abbott's opinion of bis hero or of the men who opposed bin in 1890 and I "after There is no disputing aboor i tastes, sod few men are so unfortunate as not to find meaner aod smaller men < to toady them. For people who like "" that sort of great man Ben Tillman is the sort of great man they like, and may continue to like for all we oare. Nevertheless it is pleasant to observe that notwithstanding the little outburst ! of tickled vanity which we quoted at the beginning of this artioie Senator < Tillmao realized that bis flatterer had made a fool of himself, for be immedi ately added : "Had I been consulted I would have advised Dr Abbott against making the speeob he did in introduo iag mo. but as 1 was not consulted aod was not prepared for what was said, 1 take it as it was intended. I am not here to rake up old feelings or to stir op strife that belonged to past years < We are getting along pretty well, and I would utter no word that would tend to incite feeiing aud pnjttdioe.'' The f?et i?) that Tilluaat>'t* one at rai present is conciliation. He is in t moe and war.:* to stay in, and if be cao do so by being amiable, tolerant aod pmoi fioatory be is quite willing to adopt that Tvnllrt? Ha/i ha Kann arvtA "tcu ou.o .u jsci IUIU office originally by employing the same means we cannot doubt that be would not h*?e created hie ten year*' beil iu oar politios. Dr. Abbott in bis saperserviosb'e etopidity did not realise nhai bia master's iotereete bad changed, that the curtain bad beet) rung down on the tragedy of 4,Get In" and bad risen on the pleasant coundy of "Stay In,'* with the leadit.g man in an entirely new role. ?c * ? Any other "supex" of the Abbott eo/t who may be tyieg around loose i*< South Carolina waiting for their cue may profit by bis experience. ATLANTA SENSATION. Mayor Woodward Asked to Resign. Charged With Drunkenness and Immorality. Atlanta. Ga., Aug. 5.?The municipal sensation of the past quarter century culminated here this afternoon, when the city council met in called session and demanded the resignation of Mayor Woodward by 9 o'clock Monday morning. The action lacked only three votes of being unanimous. The mayor had been charged hefore with drunkenness. To-day's action is the result of a big spree the i i .1 - l. mayor uas oeen on cms wees, in which lie is said to have acted in a disgraceful and immoral manner. It is believed that Woodward will not resign. In that event impeachment proceedings will be begun. IT Not Much of a Relief. Crusty Old Uncle?Well, William, I've decided that you needn't pay back the #50 you got from me last summer. I'm going to make you a present of it Reckless Nephew?Thanks 1 Crusty Old Uncle?Well, that's not _ a very enthusiastic way you have of acknowledging my generosity. I thought ^ you'd be overjoyed at getting this debt off your mind. Reckless Nephew?Oh, it hasn't been bothering me! 1 had no intention of paying you anyway. ?Cleveland Leader. His Trade. The Policeman?What's your trade? The Suspect?An ironworker. "Is that so? I'll see what yon know about it. I used to be in the trade myself. " "I?1 mean in a laundry. "?Indianapolis Journal Diamonds are cnt in three different forms?the rose, the brilliant and the ' table. of which the second is the Dretti- < est. It is a double pyramid or cone, of which the top is cut off to form a large , plane, and at the bottom, directly oppo- ( site to a small plank ( The finest opal of modern times be- * longed to the Empress Josephine. It was called the "Burning of Troy." ] Its fate is unknown, as it disappeared I when the allies entered Paris. ' Wf[CONTINUED FKOM FIRST PAGE.J e rusts oo everything from pianos to o offins, and there is do help aoder the ri iepablioao party. Trusts aod eapit?l b its are the favored of that party. u featerday the Philadelphia Times tele- t ;raphed me for my opinion of William Vaidorf Astor, the hundred millionire, dosoeodeot of the old fur trader rbo invested bis money in New York ; aod that is now worth several hundred ^ niiiioos. This man moved to England y \ few years ago and has now renounced ^ lis Amerioao oitiieoship, aod does not >ay an ioeorae tax on bis Amerioao s iroparty. I wired that paper: "If the 11 >eop!e of New York oaonot make bim 11 >ay lazes oo his property they should c tick themselves for asses " ^ I made a speech iu Cbioago some a seeks ago, aod at the same time other r nembere of the Democratic oommiitee a imoog the number beiog William J ? Bryan, 6poke The meeting was held ? o the largest theatre in ibe eity It t leats six thousand people, and it was a ilied. I fouod the people more red t lot on the Philippine war aod the ? rillanies that are beiug perpetrated in fi ibe name of liberty than you are The primary ana fundamental objeo c ;ion to the annexation of tbese islands t s that the natives are a oolored race, c ltd we have more negroes ncftr tbao we want. I want oo more negroes. . Another objeotiou is that tbe Philip pines produce rios. sugar aod oottoo, products that eome toto oompetition with staple produets of the south, aoless tbe UDbeard of policy of shut it?g out the products of ooe section of k :be country to proteot another seotioo is ' idopted. 1 Then there is tbe great staodiog ' irmy that must be maintained It is a breeding ground for jobs for tbe orea 1 tures ot political bosses aod it will r prove as dangerous as it is burdeosome t Pbe talk about giving tbe Filipioos ? ( ahaooe is preteoce They will never j 1 ? kiim! , !)ave a snow. i ue ueupio wuu uvw< t ibout the negro in the South have found out there is ootbiog in it for j hem aud they have throwo the negro t jverboard, exoept to give him a poet j jffioe in South Carolina oooe in a { while , The Philippines are filled with a 30 ored raoe and the republicans want to hold them to faroish jobs in the islands * end in the big standing army Mighty little show will the eduoated Filipinos get. 1 The standing army is itself the grea I danger. What ia to prevent au on i scrupulous president from brioging the t army into the United States to shoot dowo Americans ? With 100,000 men ( they oao control the election and pot f into office whoever they wish, and tfiey will do it if they are permitted to have j full swing Talk about a big standing j army for the purpose of benevoieut assimilation of the Filipinos What ( does the term rneao ? It means to ^ swallow and to digest. ( Some preachers have patted MoKin ley on the back and endorse bis eobemes on the ground that the result ( will be the oivilisttioo aud Christian* 1 nation of the Filipinos God be p ' uch preaohers! I do not belive iu ' doiog evil that good may oome. Reli- 3 a ion by force and shooting is -a farce. Bibles on the points of bayonets, Chris 1 'iaoity at tbe rifle's mutzle, conversion ' by shooting tbe ooovert*! What a < speotaoie! 1 Talk about doty aod beoevoleuoe and < manifest destiny r? quiring tbe aonexa >iou and ooi quest of tbe Philippines, i as McKioley?aod aome others?has done, makes me siek. I believe they | are hypooritea. Wbeu I bear such talk | ?tir nr. too tnrn over A IU J |?roi?V0 ? ?Y ? ? ? set of bjp'torite* and fraud* ! What are we to do with the Philip* , pioes ? We bear that we cannot get out with booor, that our preatige is ai n'ake. Yet we are iu booor bound to j let tbeno go Dewey aeot for Aguioaido, took bim to Maoila, armed hit followers and eooouraged them to throw off the Spanish yoke. We are bound to oarry out this eompaet to make them free if we have booor left. 1 President McKioley baa without au tboiity or warraot of law uodertakeo to vubdoe the Filipinos beeause tbey are said to be io rebellion He weot into 1 this business with a mistakes imprea- 1 eiou. believiog that a few thousand tropps would be sufficient to break op the rebellion, to called, aod bold the islands io subjection Now be find* hit mistake aod don't know bow to get out I believe tbe war will go oo aod the army will be increased year after year, imposing iooonceivable aod intolerable 1 oatdeoa on tbe people, causing loss ot life by thousands aod breeding greater and greater corruption, unless tbe American people rise np in tbeir strength and anger, turn MoKinley out aod put William Jennings Bryan a< 'be oelm. He will settle tbe matter quickly aod honorably. Tbe acquisition of tbe Philippines from Spain was merely to fix tbe title, aod we oao now turn tbe country over to tbe Filipooos aod say to them, run it to suit yourselves uoder au Ameri r>.fiton?nf?ta nhinh bb will declare. ?-U y* and repay to as tbe $20,000,000 we paid to Spain We will retain coaling stations and barbers of refuge, but tbe natives will have full liberty to govern themselves as tbey see fit, free from foreign interference. This is the way we should get oat, aod it is tbe only road opeu to true Americans and bon est demoorats. It is the way I believe Bryan would settle it. Wbeo Senator Tillman coooludsd there were calls for Hon. J. Wm. Stokes, but Mayor Hugbson announoed that a recess would be taken for dinner aod that Dr. Stokes would speak in tbe afternoon. An abundant dioner of all maooer of < good things was then spread before tbe 1 orowd, aod all weot away from tbe 1 taoies satisfied; for there was more than ( enough provided for a rnuob largtr crowd lo tbe afternoon Boo. J. William ' Stokes spoke, discussiog, national 1 affairs; tbe issues that have been before i Congress aod tbe efforts that be bus made io behalf of bis ooostitueots.' I Hod. E. D. Smith was called oo h-r a speeeh aod bo fioally oooseoied to * 30 m ply with the wubes of the oroad ( He stated that he agreed perfectly i with what Senator Tillman had 3aid as to the right of free men to 1 differ, and the right to think and c jpeak as they believe to be right, [n pursuance of this belief he would . proceed to give utterance to opinions diat would probably uot coincide t with the views of many of his hear- < rs, but if his remarks served no ther purpose they might at least ub off some of the butter that had een so heavily laid on Senator Tilllan that he was embarrassed hereby. He then briefly outlined the reults that have followed the Reform pheaval, the establishment of the ispensary and the creation of Vinthrop and Clemson Colleges, le criticised the management of hese institutions. The dispensary ystem with its beer privilege aniex was characterized as an enor nous and growing evil that is anjnubus fastened upon the vitals of the State. Winthrop and Clemson, he sserted, do not accomplish the good esults they should; that the results re not commensurate with the ex?ense of maintaining them; that a >oor boy or girl has no chance of atending them; that there is too great gap between the public schools and he colleges, and that there was no >ridge across the gap for poor girls tnd boys. He said, he like Senator Tillman, lid not desire to stir up old animosiies, but he would ask any one in the :rowd who had received any benefit, vhose taxes were a cent less, whose >urdens had been made lighter as a f-he afrifp and turmoil of COU?? Vt V..V w V, ..W 890 and the triumph of the reform novement, to stand up. No one same forward. "No," said Mr. Smith, "there has been no change except iu the men who hold the ofices and the people are not a whit letter off." He could not agree with all that lad been said in praise of Senator Tillman the Olympian from Olympia, >ut if the Senator will rid us of the iispensary, raise the standard of the lublic schools,so that the poor people jan receive good common school educations and prepare them to en;er the great colleges that he points ;o as monuments of pride, he would >e proud to honor him and ready to issist in laying on even a thicker ,reneer of "butter" and praise. Senator Tillman replied in a speech tearly an hour long that had the earnarks of an 1890 campaign meeting. He said that all of the butter had >een rubbed off, and as it was his ule to rub pepper on the back of the nan who put salt on his, he would :alk straight truth. He repudiated the demand that he lischarge his duties iu Washington md run State affairs also. He said he would De a candidate 'or re-election and would take a hand n the next campaign, stumping jvery county in the State in support >f the dispensary, if necessary. He arould lick the opponents of the sys;em out of their boots or go down svith its ruins. He asserted that the lispensary was not intended to be a noral institution, but a place where people who wanted to drink could jet all they wanted of good quality and the State receive the profits. The beer privilege is wrong and should not be allowed. It was not bis business to stop the wrong, however, but the duty of the members of the Legislature. If Mr. Smith and others like him did their duty they would stop it or put the men responsible for the evil in the penitentiary. As to the question of his responsibility for the dispensary system he said that it was forced on him, anyway. He found the devil loose when he went into office and he* did not attempt to chain him. The State had to choose between prohibition and the dispensary, and as the Prohibitionists were a set of hypocrites and cowards, the choice fell on the dispensary. He also went back to the first time the dispensary constables made a raid in Sumter. He Baid he selected honest, sober, Christian men as constables, and when he sent them to Sumter to raid Morris's blind tiger they were mobbed and rotten-egged. Then he saw he had to fight the devii with fire, and appointed as constables men who were honest and had sand in their craws to stand up and fight. Among many othei things he said that he was no peace and unity man and that there had already been too much of that sort of thing; the lines were still here and would be drawn. The men who had formed the old rings and rode into office over the people's backs were still trying to ride into office and would do it again if not watched. He defended Clemson. and Winthrop and said it was was from such friends of education as Mr. Smith that they needed to be saved. If they are let alone they will tear down the colleges aiu^have a set of asses to teach a crowd of asses who will fill the State with a breed of jackasses. These colleges were not intended to be filled with poor boys and girls, for the poor people will not send their children to college anyway. They were established to educate those who could go to college and to train teachers who will go out into the State and teach the people, raise the standard of the public schools, which are shamefully inefficient. He denied vehemently that he had made mistakes while in office and declared that he was .. . !iL .. aU A /"? r\ /\f ?\ AM MA fV>M/\ Ail A ueillier HSlittUlCil wi uwi ir^icucu a single act since he had been in public life. In the afternoon he was the same r>ld Tillman of 90-'92-'94 and it is plain to all that whenever the steel strikes the flint sparks will fly, no matter how thick the butter be laid i?n between times. A woman's pocket-book is nearly ilways worth more than the money in it. Many a ball-room dress in covering a warm heart reaches its limit. It takes about four generations of iches to produce a boy without freckles. A kettle sings before it boils, and i boil sings before it breaks. Men who live on little are called economists, and men who live on lothing are called tramps. The man who never tries to do inythingand the man who tries to io everything are both foolish. The safest way to pass counterfeit money is 011 the opposite side of the street. Some fools actually go hungry that hey may gratify their desire for fine ilothes. v GUN WITH OUR GOSPEL. Sam Jones 011 Our Policy Toward Filipinos. OPPOSED TO EXPANSION. The Famous Evangelist Thinks it is Kind of Americans to Give the Heathen a Bible After \JLla Will Him "Til I Purc'Evillk, Vam Aug ?Rev. Sam P. Jones has been here for the past two days addressing the hushmeeting field near the town. He is not in the best of health, having just returned from an extended trip to the Pacific coast, where he has been in great demand at the Chautauqua meetings out there. He left to-night i for Bethesda, Ohio, and he has engagements which] will fill his time for the next four weeks. In spite of the fact that lie is not in the best physical trim, he has the same keen mentality and the old forceful way of putting everything he says. He was asked by a representative of the Post , to express himself on topics of current interest. In speak ingon the Philippine question he frankly stated that he was not an expansionist. He said he believed that in spite of the progress of the nineteenth century the world had not moved enough to disprove the advice given by Washingto# in his farewell address. Those principles were eternal, and no flight of time could render them valueless or inapplicable to the needs of the republic. "To tell the truth," continued Mr. Jones, "I think we have more crops planted than we can care for. If we are no better guardians of the Philippines than we have been of the Indians, the Chinamen, and the negroes, I fear for the results of our so called philanthropy. If Frenchmen, who came to our relief in the war of ti e revolution, had assumed the same attitude we have taken to-1 ward Cuba, and the Philippines, we would have been fighting that country yet. "Our old style of philanthropy was to take the spelling-book and the Bible. Latterly we have been using the gun and the Bible as our implements of conversion and civilization. We Protestants believe in no probation after death. Therefore, we argue, we put the heathen on the other side of probation. But it is kind of us to give him a Bible after we kill him. "I am not a believer in annexation by extermination. It may be philanthropic, but it is not just. The poor barbartans may be wrong in misinrmr atform to irive them ICI piCVIIig Vit. ^ ... nthe benefits of civilization, but I believe they are justified in thinking that a nation which cannot take care of its own inferior races need not bid for any more contracts until it has shown that it knows how to fulfill them. The advantages of commerce are more than offset by the difficulty of holding those poor savages until we can drive a bargain with them." VVlien asked to give his views on Governor Caudler's statement of the race problem, Mr. Jones spoke as follows: "Gov. Candler, in his address covers a great deal of ground, but he does not touch on all the points. It is a mistake to think that the South is responsible for all that happens there. Circumstances alter cases, but they cannot change human nature. Yankee Doodle and Dixie are both catching tunes. One is whistled on one side of Mason and Dixon's line, and the otner on the other side. The sentiment that puts Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee in line with the boys in blue lasts until that particular crisis is over. Then each side goes to whistling the same old tune." "The South is like a dog whose master whips him for biting a cat. The dog knew that lie could never bite the cat any more, but every time she passed him hp would jump at and scare her. Now, we can't secede any more. But we can jump up and growl every time something happens that we don't like. In other words, we are going to run our little institutions without aid or advice from Yankee Doodle. "The average negro in the South fares as well as the average Chinaman in San Francisco. Not one man in ten in the South has ever seen a lynching, to say nothing of haviug taker pa't in one. Southerners discoura &nd denounce lawless hangings, except for the one crime of rape. And I want to say that rape means rope, he it North or South. "I was born, bred and buttered in the South. I never saw a lynching. If one ever took plarte within 100 miles of me I did not know it till I saw it in the papers. Governor Candler is right on the elimination of ignorance and vice from the ballot box. A characterless, moneyless, ignorant negro or white man has no more business at the polls on election day than a mule or a billygoat, and I mean no reflection on the two latter animals. 14 What do I think of Bob Ingersoll ? I have had my opinion pretty well expressed in an editorial comment in the Atlanta Constitution. In brief, that editorial said that Colonel Ingersoll fought in the open and made no pretensions to being other than he was. He did not profess religion to betray it. He struck Christianity no blow while pretending to hold its doctrines. But in all his life Ingersoll never did one-half the harm committed by the Briggses, the Potters, the Lyman-Abbots and others of like kidney have done, are doing and will continue to do. 'Them's my sentiments.' "Colonel Ingersoll was a charming rhetorician and a magnetic orator. His sentences were like strings of pearls. His oratory was equal to that of Demosthenes. In logic he ranked with a sophomore boy with pin feathers all over his face. He championed temperance, but never reformed a drunkard. He preached philanthropy, but never endowed a hospital. So far as the world knows, he was a giver whose left hand never knew what his right hand did. He fought creeds rather than Christ, churches rather than Christianity. "I suppose infidelity is progressive. lugersoll began hy doubting. Then he denied. Then he denounc- j ed. He wound up by doubting whether his doubts were doubts or not. Peace to his ashes! I did not gang with hiin while he lived, and j I will not abuse him now that he is j dead. But if he could get back to j this country and fill the engagements j he made while alive, I would like a| front seat to hear what he has to say j now, with experience of the past] few days added to his original lectures.?Washington Post. RACE RIOT IN GREENVILLE. Result. One White Man and Five Negroes Wounded. Greenville, August 7.?Reports of a race riot in Greenville have been exaggerated. On Sunday night a difficulty started at the Poe Mill. According to the evidence of witnesses, negroes precipitated the riot by deliberately firing into the house of John R. Ellenburg, a cotton mill operative, living just across the Buncombe road from the fertilizer factory. The shooting occurred between 6 and 7 o'clock, or an hour before (lark. There were present at the house at the time of the shooting John R. Ellenburg, Mrs. R. Ellenburg, T. P. Ellenburg, the father of John R. Ellenburg, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Phillips, Taylor and Walter Cannon. When the first shot was fired Mrs. Ellenburg was in the rear end of the heuse. Her little child was playing in the yard and she cried out: "Don't shoot the children !" This was answered by two more shots at the house, one of which took effect in the roof. John R. Ellenburg then walked out on his front piazza and, addressing the negroes, said sharply: "You had better shoot again." They answered him with two more shots. Then the crowd from the mill village began to gather and march down to the fertilizer factory. There were in the crowd of negroes Jack Moore, Will Cunningham, Tom Jackson and George Clements. Moore was captured and carried to jail. Seeing Moore led off, the negroes immediately seized the idea and conviction that he was going to be lynched, and a courier was sent to the Mount Zion Colored Baptist Church to give the alarm and call for assistance. The Rev. J. A. Pinson the pastor, was asked to announce from his pulpit that a negro was being lynched at the Poe Mill, but Pinsoii, being cool-headed and a man of judgment, refused to do so. This broke up the meeting, however, and the negroes rushed from the building to secure weapons and go to the scene. In the meantime a negro had gone to the home of Sheriff Gilreath and ie[;uiicu mo same tiling UJ IIIIII. Chief of Police Kennedy and Deputy Sheriff GiIreath went out to the scene about 10 o'clock, as quickly as they could get there after being notified of the trouble. At the Buncombe street railroad crossing they met Deputy Sheriff Whitmire and Officer Atkinson. \ A party of between fifty and seventy-five negroes were congregated at the crossing, and a party of about twenty-five whites in the woods, a few hundred yards away, guarding the operatives' houses. The officers persuaded this mob of negroes to disperse. "While the other officers stayed at the crossing to see that the negroes did not reassemble after promising to go home Chief Kennedy and Deputy Sheriff Gilreath crossed over by the fertilizer factory into Highland avenue. Here the officers met a mob of about 100 frenzied negroes well armed. They had revolvers, shotguns and axes, and one in the crowd brandished a reap hook. After a parley Chief Kennedy sent the Rev. Pinson, negro Baptist Preacher, to jail to ascertain if Moore was in prison. He returned and reported that Moore was in jail. This report ended the riotous proceeding. There was considerable firing of guns and pistols, and one white man and five negroes were wounded. In passing through the streets of the city it is reported that some shots were fired into dwellings. The only fighting was between a few operatives of Poe Mill and straggling crowds of negroes. Later the Greenville Light Infantry was called out and remained on guard until morning, but there was no further trouble and the negroes went to their homes. The names of the leaders are known ami they will he arrested. If all the different crowds of negroes had collected at one point the consequences would have been serious. The officers handled the different crowds and prevented concentration.'? R. S. M. in News and Courier. $100 ItEWAKD, $100. The readers of this paper will he pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science hus been able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hull's Catarrh ('are is the only posjtive cure now known to tne medical fraternity. Catarrh being; a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Caterrh ('lira is taken internally, acting directly upon ehe blood and mucous surfaces of the system. thereby destroying the foundation of the disease. and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for liAt of testimonials. Address, F. J. C'HKNEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 7"?c. Hall's'Family Dills are the best. ______ Lots of fathers gi ?e their daughters away and have a son-in-law on their hands. There is only one truth in palmistry ; when a man's hand is doubled up into a fist it means trouble fori some one. You can't get something out of nothing ; but there are a number of people who can get little or nothing out of almost .anything. Seek and ye shall find applies very forcibly to the man who is looking for trouble. A man spends time wondering why his neighbors dislike him to make himself agreeable to them. CURRENT MISCELLANY. ! One of the secrets of the success of Robert I'. I'orter. editor. tariff eXpeH. superintendent of the railed States census of LSI hi and rerently I'nited States diplomatic airent in the West Indies and afterward in Uerniatiy. is his wonderful memory for lljrmvs. He fairly revels in statistics. In Ids home in New York there are several rooms filled with volumes upou volumes of industrial statistics. Many of these Mr. Porter can readily quote from memory. An illustration of this oc? - ' ?> ?< I'niff o<ir,v cni\ tli.> lMiilndel UUllt'U 11UI iuu^, .... - pliia Saturday Post. A Chicago man was boasting of the rapid growth of his city. "We have 11,000.000 inhabit.tnts now. You gave us 1,100,000 in ho said. "Not as inucli as that." replied Mr. Porter. "The exact tigures were 1,000,850. Your school census of ISO!' gave 1,400,000." The conversation then turned upon New York city. "You underestimated that also." I "Yes, we gave New York 1,515,301, and the state census of 1803 gave 1,801,730." "Where do you carry all these figures V" asked the Chicago man. "I believe 1 can repeat from memory the best part of the important figures lu my census," returned Mr. Porter. "Can you tell me how many negroes there were iu this country in 1800V" asked the westerner with an air of triumph. "There were 7,470,040," repeated the statistician without a second's hesitation. "And there were 107,475 Chinese." The visitor took down the census report from the bookshelf and found that Mr. Porter had uot made a single mistake. A Rattlesnake Eater. Moses Henderson is a sable son of Africa and lives two miles from Amoricus in a rocky field where rattlesnakes are most plentiful, says the Savannah News. Moses makes a living by capturing snakes and selling them. Whenever he cannot sell them he eats them. This Is the truth, strange as it may seem. He recently killed a large one with 11 rattles on it. This was a fat snake, and Moses ate it. The other day he brought a very large snake to Savannah, trying to sell its hide. There were 23 rattles on it. The snake was very poor, and Moses said it would not do to eat, and he stuffed its hide and sold it for a good price. Every year Moses makes a great deal of money selling snake oil. He says right down the vertebrae of a rattlesnake is a fatty streak of flesh that makes an oil, when fried, that will cure any case of rheumatism. It is strange to how many people he sells this rheumatic snake oil. He has a long list of certificates from people he has cured. Some of them are from intelligent whites, who declare that the oil has cured them when all other remedies have failed. He sells a vial of the oil for $1 and guarantees a lasting cure. Moses says his father was an African hoodoo doctor and taught him how to cure all aches and pains with snake oil. The negroes of Sumter county venerate and fear him as a mysterious doctor who can cure when all else fails and look upon his snake oil as something enchanted. A Ring With a History. A ring with a history has just beet handed over to the Numismatic museum of Paris by a Polish gentleman who purchased it for a small sum recently in Warsaw. Shortly after he formed the acquaintance of the lady who was afterward Marquise de Pom padour, Louis XV presented her with an intaglio ring representing his own apotheosis. It was pronounced at thai time to be a marvelous work of art, equaling anything of the sort produc ed in ancient Greece or Rome, says the London Chronicle. Round the edge was an elaborate inscription. One day Mine de Pompadour, to lier distress, l.ost this precious ring, which has now reappear ed after nearly 150 years' peregrina tion. If rings could speak, this out doubtless could tell a curious tale. Shootinff at a Balloon. At Meudon, near Paris, a captive bal loon was recently allowed to rise to a height of 150 meters and then shot al with a Lebel rifle. Most cf the shots passed through the lower half of tin balloon, and some pierced the uppei half. The effect on the ballon was hardly perceptible, as six hours elapsec before, in a very gentle descent, il reached the earth. It is evident thai the light gas did not escape througt the holes made iir the lower part ol " - * I- -1 tne Danoon, ana 10 muKe noies euei.i ively in the upper half would require a gun of greater caliber and firing per haps shrapnel. It would not. howver, be an easy matter to hit with shol from a large gun a balloon traveling at a considerable distance from the ground.?London Times. Klondike Hospitality. The following extract was taken from a letter in the Kansas City Journal: "We were entertained at dinner one Sunday by a gentleman, and he had his cabin as cozy as a woman's, He didn't have a tablecloth, but served his dinner in courses and washed the dishes oetweep. He had evaporated vegetable soup, broiled steak, evaporated potatoes and macaroni, canned raspberries and spice cake which he made himse1^ and coffee. I enjoyed it, as it was nicely cooked and served." The Sea's Salt. At present it is estimated there are In the world's oceans 7.000.000 cubic miles of salt, and the most astonishing thing about it is that if all this salt could be taken out in a moment the level of the water would not drop one Inch. When the mantle of greatness falls upon some men they become nothing more than mantle-pieces. It is a great pleasure, sometimes to see a friend make an ass of himself. You may, for a while, make people believe it is nervousness, but eventually they will suspect your disposition. A woman's art is to make pursuit just so difficult as not to be too difficult. The man who thinks he knows it all should got his five-year-old nephew to ask him ahout it. Don't let your doctor-be your creditor; he may take a notion that, your heirs are better pay. The fox makes his host, time when he travels for his health. A man thinks himself superior to a hen, yet a hen can sit on an egg without getting mad. No man, woman or child who I whines is deserving. Dogs are excusable?they don't know any better. A good many men would rather he right than President, but they would rather try being President first. Some day the German Emperor will put the lighted end of his cigar in his mouth, and then he will understand that heaven is not necessa-J rily with him in all things, THE ROTHAMSTED EXPERIMENTS. i Sir .J. It. I.awes' Notable Work in the Interests of Scieutiiic Agriculture. Many Americans, going to England, have visited Rothamsted. inspected the i experiments in progress and made tht Acquaintance of Sir John Bennett Lawes ; whose agricultural work there during ; the last fifty years is known throughout ; the civilized world. This friendly in I tercourse has led Sir John to institute ? course of lectures, to be delivered bien nially in the United States, upon the in vestigations carried on at Rothamsted From a report, published by the depart uient of agriculture, of the first six iec tures delivered under the Lawes trust ; at Washington, by Robert Warington F. R. S., we leant the following: Sir John entered upon his home faru of acres in 18:14. Three or foui years later he began experiments, it pots, upon the effect of various manure* and these led to field experiments. SIR J. B. LAWKS. The foundation of the Rothamsta ation for agricultural experiments i earlier than that of any other, with th single exception of that established i: Alsace. The earliest German statioi that at Mockern, was founded in 1855 the earliest American station, at Mic dletown. Conn., in 1875. The earlies of the systematic held experiments a Rothamsted were those with turnips commencing in 1343. The continuon wheat experiments commenced in th autumn of the same year, the first hai vest being in 1844. In the earlier trials maae upon lurmi, and wheat the manures varied a goo deal from year to year and the sam plot was not always treated in the sam way; a more regular proceeding was however, soon adopted and has sine been generally adhered to. In the late systematic experiments each plot r< ceives every year the same manuring unless a change of treatment is neede to attain some special object. The sul 1 stances applied are ammonium salts sodium nitrate, superphosphate mad 1 from bone ash. potassium sulphate, ma< nesium sulphate and sodium sulphats The various constituents of plant foo are thus applied in a soluble and activ i form. The weight of each constituer applied is also known, so that the r< , suits admit of quantitative treatment. Wheat has been grown in the cel< > brated Broadbalk field every year fc forty-eight years, and there is at preset . no appearance of any decline in its fei l tility. Our second cut is from a photo i graph representing the wheat harveste in 1878 from seven of the plots. Plot has receive 1 farmyard manure ever . year since 1844; plot 3 has been unmj ? nured for the same period; plot 5 has ri 2.1 3.1 5-1 G-1 7.1 8.[ 9. 5 i "''ill ! * IjffVf " ^ ||j^ ||| , ^ wheat from broadbalk field. . ceived ash constituents omy since 185' plot 6, the ash constituents, with 20 . pounds of ammonium sal^s; plot 7, th ^ same, with 400 .pounds of ammoniur salts; plot 8, the same, with 00C pound ammonium salts; plot 9, the ash const: i tuents, with 550 pounds of sodiui , nitrate. The picture illustrates in striking manner the preponderate effect of nitrogenous manures in d< termining the luxuriance of wheat. A correspondent of Hoard's Dairyma says that from trials with the Babcoc ! test he is convinced that a cow over eigb j or ten years old will not give as good test in the richness of her milk as whe I she was in her prime. They may kee | up the quantity of milk, but it will gro\ poorer in butter fat. Intemperance In Drags. There is a source of nervous ailment entirely special to this age and the un ! expected outcome of $ur present da; j chemistry and advertising. Intempei j auce in drugs is becoming more com mon. and it may possibly outstrip th abuse of alcohol in its evil resulta Th' manufacture of new chemical product is supplying the public with endless cat bun derivates of high molecular powe .f in.nurfu/.tli' Irnntpn nVtvainlooi/io j niJM VI MMVtl M WVAVglVM action Some are most dangerous, am their continued indulgence leads to con firmed neurosis or hopeless neurasthe nia. and it thus comes to pass that a: the therapeutic activity of the professioi tends to abolish disease that of the pub lie is manufacturing it.?Medical Jour nal Planter of Pari*. The setting of plaster of paris maj be retarded by the addition of 2 to 4 per cent of powdered althea root Thit addition not only retards the hardening of the plaster, but also enables it to be cut. filed, sawed and turned. An addition of 8 per cent retards the complete setting of the plaster for about an hour, so that the mass may be used for anj purpose where it is to remain plastic during at least a portion of that tim* 4 1 RUBBER FROM CRUDE OIL. A Recent Important Discovery Which Has Keen Kept a Secret. A most unique manufacturing establishment, the only one of its kind in the world, has been in operation successfully for some months at Savannah. Here cottonseed oil is manufactured by a secret process into rubber?not a substitute, but bona fide rubber; such at least some of " * * ?4? 1 flio i tne Desx expens nave yivuuuu^ ; product of the factory to be. Nobody knows anything about what is going on inside of the factory with the exception of a few workmen. Nobody is admitted. The bare facts alone I are known that crude cottonseed oil ! from the oilmill, costing about 5r. cents a gallon, or about $135 per ton' is carted in in 5-ton lots and that tons of rubber, worth about $1 per , pound, or $2,000 per ton, are carted out and shipped to a very prominent rubber dealer and manufacturer of 1 Boston. In a recent interview the discov1 erer of the process, who is an artist ' of some prominence, states that while experimenting with cottonseed oil to produce a varnish for paintings he obtained a product entirely foreign to his expectation?not a way to make varnish, but rubber. He claims that his process is so simple that 't is not patentable; hence his only safeguard is in the secrecy of the process. The only information he gives is that he uses only 15 per cent of genuine rubber to pro I duce an article wmcn cannot m any I way be distinguished from crude india ruboer. As soon as his discovery was made he went at once to Boston, where a number of rubber experts pronounced the product genuine rubber and would not believe that such an article could be produced by artificial means. A prominent rubber manufacturer of Boston recognized at once the value of the discovery and took a different view from the rest and purchased an interest in the process and placed $30,000 at the command of tne discoverer for the purpose of erecting the necessary plant. The existence 1 and availability of the rubber trees 3 is limited, and it is doubtful if much 3 higher prices than the present quo1 tations would have the effect of caus! ing a corresponding increase in the * production. a -fi m' q 11 \7 nlantpd rubber trees ? ni i^juvw*j ? - - t would require many years before , they could be made to yield, and the s present rubber forest is deteriorating e fast Any discoveries in the line of - a quick and cheap process for the ^ manufacture of artificial rubber are 3 likely therefore to possess great com1 mercial value and importance. ?C. 0 B. Warrand in Manufacturers' Bee- 0 ord. i, ? 3 Foretelling Weather by Action* of Birds. r There must be sound scientific laws that rule the earthly conditions that prevail, and when these laws are correctly understood weather prophesyI" ing will be decidedly useful and ' * q necessary. Aside from the scientific *jp .. end of it, it is remarkable how all , birds and beasts understand the sitj uation correctly. I have heard of e any number of animals whose pecult iar moves on certain occasions pre diet a storm or foul weather. I myself have made a study of one class >- of fowls in this connection?the barn- A r yard pigeon. I have had a chance to study them for a good long while now, and I imagine that I understand '* pretty thoroughly what their moves . . * 2 mean. I have taken ordinary news- ' paper predictions and set myself to r watch that flock of pigeons to see if >. they understood what was coming. i I noticed that when a sudden storm was approaching, although the sky might be ever so clear, my pigeons were always on the wing?circlin * about and around with great unrett until the storm came. When a season of clear weather was on, my nitrenna alwavs flv higher than nanal | t"D - O . _ but not so often. They prefer to at on the barn roof or in the yard and mope in the sun. About 24 hours before the arrival of a cold wave | <?? pigeons will begin to enter in and out of their coves without apparent cause, remaining always close'at hand. Thes* predictions I have found infal- . lible up to date.?St .Louis Poet-Dispatch. Political Union of North America. The area of public lands between * , the Red river and Rocky mountains in Canada upon which the beet hard wheat can be successfully grown, stated by Professor McCoun at 200,- ^ 000,000 acres, is one half as large as that of all the rebellious states. If one fifth part of it was under culti- > vation, yielding 12i bushels per acre * ?the average yield of wheat in Manitoba in 1891 was 25 3-10 bushels per - ->_ acre?the total yield would be 500,- -.-|p y? 000,000 bushels, or in value greater than our entire cotton crop. This is ' 43 only one of many sources of wealth i ?J i?iv '4m 0 to utJ gtuxicu uy uut? peauciui wusuui- 1 mation of continental union. 3. The political union of the United - States and British North America can i be peacefully consummated by the a wise expenditure of less than one5 tenth of 1 per cent, or one-thousandth " part of the cost of the civil war to date, leaving out of the calculation the value of the property destroyed and J the destruction of human life. All t parties agree that the preservation of j the territorial integrity of the Union j was a necessity, and that its cost p has been justified by events since the 7 close of the war.?Francis Wayland Glen in New York Sun. ^ WILSON & SUMMERTON R. R. ^ 9 Time Table No. 1, to take effect f Monday, June 13,1888. ^ TRAINS GOING NORTH. Lv Wilsons Mill 9 10 a m Ar Jordan 9 36am x J Ar DavisStatioa. 9 46am * ArSummerton 1010 am * J Ar Millard 1016 am Ar Millard 10 46 am r Ar Silver lllOajn j Ar Packsville 11 30am I ArTindal 1166 am v Ar W. & S. J unction 12 27 p m * - ? taon^m AT ouimer :i* tjv p ui TRAINS GOING SOUTH. 1 Lv Sumter 2 00pm 1 Lv W. & S. Junction 2 03 pm Ar Tindal... 2 20pm Ar Packsville 2 38pm Ar Silver 2 60pm Ar Millard 3 06pm Ar Millard 336pm Ar Summerton 3T50 p m ArDavis 4 20pm % Ar*Jordan 4 46 p m -. Ar Wilsons Mill 615 p m BETWEEN MILLARD & ST. Ar Millard 10 16 am Ar St Paul..' 10 25 am raj H Lv St Paul 10 36 a m Ar Millard 10 46 a All trains daily except THOMAS aj H i m