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__ PEOPLES JOURNAL_ -YOL 9.---N. i- PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1899. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR BRYAN'S NOTABIE SPEE1QCH. A J-:FIEatSONIAN WAlt-URY, 11o Takes Up Now ani Vital Issues -or the Campaiitu oft 1000 Without Dropping tile Old. William J. 13ry mU spoke recently at the JeYL rsouian oanquet in Topeka. Kan., concentrating his attention chiefly upon anti -monopoly, anti-con .tra'ization iad an ti-imperialisin rather t)ian upon the silver question. He un reservedly lli--'nad allegiance to the -h Cicago pla-.form, but the greater part - of his address was tevoted to new issues. Tihe following is a stenographic roport, anid xclusively for The World, giving veruatim the inportant parts Of the speech : The ,ti ug g1 of 1896 is a plainer - strugglo now tLan it was then ; a strugglo.botween democracy and plu tociacy- remocracoy which would main tain a gover, mitnu t of the people, by the pleole and for th- pcopIle, aid a pluto ct'Acy wh!oli wou ld place tho dollar above th3 :.m in the structure of our government. That struggle is beconr ng clearer. aril elearer every (ay. ." When we erc ter the campaign of 1900 we wil f11eav-- a ligh ting forco dif ferent fromt thatt which we had in 1896. We will enter it not only with the peo pl 'vo had then, but we ,vii. gain re cruits cvcry day foni the olpublican party, bw1-aitiso t i ltepublicans even -are learnting what Itepublican princi ples of modern times mean. The ltu publican party of to-day is not, the Re publican party of Abraham Lincoln. The1ituepublican party is to-day dis putin~g cvery gre1-at principle upon --which It rlied in its-beginning. To-dity evCIy policy of the ike publican party is but the lifting of money -into at place where it over shadows human rights. Tle war with Spain instead of strengthening the l.L, publican party will, in my judgment, iead to its defeat. . " Let me give you a reason for my faith. I do not tnk you to accepit pro pliecy or oiitmon, but to form your own opinion uliou reason. When wo en tered into this war Democrats knew it woul-d heof - t'no rary service to the .Rtepublican pirt.y. We knew that a S -war suedessfully carried on wou!d help the party in power, but the Democratic - party wis gr, :t. h to surrender a temporary advantage to give freedom to. the: people of Cuba. I glory in the courage of la patI % that is willing to do right eveni tieau:: it knows that in so doing it wilt bring temporary defeat to it. "This wa4r i ; in the firist platce settled th. old qustion that, gro.v onut of the form-r ar. The --onj of Con federates anl the nons of Union eo!diers marched side by side, sharing in the dangers of the eam p and field, and the strains of -Y, .ke Doodle' and of 'Dixio'-have been blended forever into 'My Country, 'Tistof Thee, Sr eet Land of Liberty.' "The sky is now clear. We can now discuss the (uestions of government without h avi"ng our partiotism assailed. We can now mne'-, and settle the great political and ,Cek-'omie questions which confront our nation. This Var has done something vlse. Do you remen --bo;r bow Justice Brown in his dissent - ing opinion u.o: tue income-tax case pointed to the possible danger of war? -13o you remember how he said : 'I fearl that In sone hour of national peril this d enision will rise ill) to paralyz3 the arm of the governmont?' The hour of peril camo; we needed mor - roeeu and thalt decision did rise up to parftlyz, the arm of theigovernment. When Engiand needs moro money she can tax the Incomes of her country, but our Supreme Court erected a legal bulwark and l-ft us helpless. When wvo neede- mor-e revenue we had to * - look htround for- any old thing to put a stampi on. W bN en we euater another catmpatign *the p~eople will (10 it with a clearer knowledige. They know that the lWe -. . -- . publican par-ty has puot the miser's dof latr above- the blood of the citizen. When itcame to dr-afting men for the * - aery-ice tahe countr-y took the son fr-om the mother, toe husband from the wife, but the country dare not lay its fihger uponi accumulated wealth and 4 make it hear Its share of the burden. It is the* dollar above the man, and - 0those who could not see it In 1896 wvill be able to seo it in 1900. " A Republican committe has r ported to the Ihouse ab bill that turns over- the entir-e paoor money of the *nati-on to the national banks, surren ders the greenbacks, provides for the . uses of bonds and gives to the national - banks absolute contr-ol of the credit * money-of the. nation. Some boar-ds of trado -have asked the i'r-esident, to call ,a special session of Congress to pass this bill. What does it mean Y There nover- was a more palpable~vliation of the 01(1 .lelfersonian doctrine of equal rights to all andii special priviloges to none. I a farmer holds at bond (draw ing 26 poer cent. his only return is hie *iriterost, upon the bond. llut if a banakdr buys the samu bonds he 'can Isue hank-notes . upon thern, .thus gettIng back exactly the amount p~aid for the bo'nds, and be al so receives ---the interest on lbha bonds, as w ~ell.' When I was a boy I was -told thatt no' one could eat, lis~echko and Keep) i.t, to(o, but the R'publicans pr1o pose0 to put a few people In a pozdtlti - -.where they not only control the wol fare of the- nati-on, but get handsome -pay for doing it. - " Tre Is anaot~her thing that thc - --Americau pdOlo ma-c thinking about - and'lt secmni to mfl. that, this sublject Ii agitatting - Eatorn brethr-en some10 -whatt. T~he industial trusts,are going - , to~ebelp tLho -Domoc'-atic parity. Th'e3 - .are nothing. new, but they are exem p)lfyinlg and-sho'wing In vlvd colors th< really vidilus prilncIples abdvoated b) - - ipblican party. The -trusti -ha6 i .gro6wing .in the last tw< .yQArs. 1i~ 4 rapidity nov'er- known be (toro, ..-.lnet, of them are caipitalizoeg - .orthr.sb-llions-and a ballof dollars The= etiro amount of 'metallic mone: .,*-- in thnivtwldris-eight billions of dollars - .* Nearly halt of.that eight billUna I re - ' prdedtted bji.tfled .ninety trusts. * -'They have a Sugar 'Prust, a -Blscul TIrust and a Wvhiskey Trust, and. s that no one in traveling from th cr-adle ', the grave shall bo without tr-ust, they have organ ized lb Milk T'rue for the Infants abnd a Coflin Tr-ust fo theb 1( old eole. T1heso trust9 ar awakroning the 1)001)1 ton a real.,atlo of what Republicanism means to-day. " The President has selected his At tornoy-General from the State in which most of the trusts are being formed, and his Attorney-General tells us that If there is any way of stopping the trusts it must be some way devised by the different States. I believe it is within the province of the Attorney General to enforce. the law, and if those laws arc insullicient it is within his province to rLcommend now laws which are sufficient. " You know why it is that the trusts exist today ; it Is because their exis tonce is purchased by campaign funds. You can never extinguish the trusts until the extinguisher is taken from the hands of those put In oilice by the trusts. " But we shail not have to rely upon the old issues to wind the battle of 1900. The new issues are adding' strength to our cause. The President has asked for 100,000 soldiers, not as a temporary, but as a permanot t army. If he had asked for this vast army until a stable government could be establed in Cuba the people would have gladly given it, but the President asked for permanent army of 100,000 men, 70,000 more than we needed In 1896, and I am glad that the Demo crats in Congress opposed it so fear lessly and so courageously as they did. They compelled him to accept a tom porary increase. But the demand is still there. The Republican party stands behind it, and if the Republican party remains in power it will in time trans for 70,000 men from the ranks of the producers over to the ranks of con sumers of taxes. " It times of peril the volunteer soldier has been the nation's soe.urity. We have never called for him in vain, nor will we. I liked the volunteer soldier before I knew him personally, but my brief association with him last year made my love for him more in tense; but I protest agains, a large standing army for the citizolns of the United States. Instead of an army to represent force, as above reason, I want the volunteer to make the laws, and because he makes them and must enforce them, try to make them well. I want the volunteer who fights when the country ncedr lighters and works when the country needs workers. "'The- Democratic party is opposed to a great standing army, anu when this question comes before the Ameri can people 1 miss my prediction if we do not draw out of tho Republican party more than we have drawn on any proposition since the war. " Who would have thought two years ago that to-day we would find p1ople denying the validity of the De ciarat ion of Independenco ? Who would have thought two years ag that we have now outgrown the con stitution ? Who would have thought two years ago that the dollar could be placed higher than the unalienable rights of the people ? The Ropubti. can party won its success by applying the Declaration of Independence to the blackman, and I feel quiwe sure that it w ill go out of existence when it at tempts to deny that Declaration of Independence to a brown man. " We have two theories of govern-. ment-a government by and with the consent of the governed, and a govern ment by force, and it is a forced gov ernment which we are trying now. Tho principle of conquest is a principle foreign to American history ; a princi ple repugnant to American history, and, while we glory in the bravery of our soldiers and rejoice that the loss of life in the Philippines has been as small as it has been, we can deplore the policy that makes a sacrifice of one single American- Aitizen In a conquest. " Nd matter what, -we do .uow, it is 1fim1posib1le for us to undo what has been done. If the administi'atlon had given to the peopie of the Philippines the assurance of Independence that they d id g iv e to Cuba not a sIng-le drop of blood would have been shed in the Philipp Inc Islands. "When the President made his speech at Atlanta he said, 'Who will haul down the flag Y' And when he went to Boston two months afterward he said that the question was in the hands of the American people We have ircad of the retreat of Xerxes, the retr-eat of the Ten Thousand. but the retreat, of the President is the greatest retreat kno wn any where. A t Boston he placed the question where the D)e mocrats believed it belonged in the first place. "But, we are told that the President did get his views fromz tho people. He didn't know what to do until he wont to Omaha in October and gathered the suntiments of the people, and woent back to curry out the people's'will. Of course 1. am not In the confidence of the P'resident, but If he had asked me I could have told him how vain it was to gather the sentiment of the 1)eopl1 from the rear end of a railroa? train. "If he had gone with me through the cam paign of 189fi I could have con vinced him that silver was overwhelm ingly in the majority in every State in which I spoigo. Ulut afteor theielection was--over I found that I had carrIed over-y State in which I had not, spoken and had lost nearly every State In which I had: spoken. You cannot judge the sentiments of the people In that, way. -Nor should you try to judge the sentiments of the masses thbrough a few who seem to be in touch with t~hoem. "Flifteen months ago Mr. McKinley issued a message declaring that forc bie acqjuisition -was not to be thought of. If forcible ac quisition was not to be thought, of fif teun montns ago, why then should It, bu thought, of now ? Why should we nma-ke subjects out of the Filipinos, who were our allies when we needed them. France didn't, treat us that way. Siue left, us free, and it would have comported with the greatness of this natiori if we had said: ' Stand up !Be f ree We come to preach liberty !' "Bome say that woeowd a rellgIous duty to those pebple and mnust comp iel them to acept our idoas, or to kill -them if they do - riot. I do not, know the admiinistratlon's idea of the '..3hrie tian reliyion. For myself I know no I' religion that comes from a Gatllr~g Sgun. Our opponout~s have confuisedl 3 the terms. Mr. Gage says t at pihilan Sthropy andl 5m pr cent. will go hand in thand. We have heard this before. it r is heard eycrywhore, and aiwaym 3 where there Is a war of conquest. " I do not know what the result o1 this will be ; I am not one of those who believe that temptations destroy, If this nation will improve its oppor. tuniLles there is a chance to-day te prove that there is a difference be tween a monarchy and a republican government. It has a chance to strike such a blow and win such a victory at has not been won since the battle of Yorktown. Let it be known that the American people were willing to aid distant races, and that this republican government, when the war was over, turned a deaf car to the claim of greed. Then we shall do more for civilization than we could do in all the wars of conquest that we could wage in a gen oration. " Democracy is applying the princi pes of J elferson to every question, and that's one reason why we love those principles. They are eternal. They go down so deep that we can never get below them. They reach so high that we can never tower above them, and they spread to the East and to the Wcst and the North and to the South -as far as our imagination can reach. " Destiny is not a matter of chance : it is a matter of choice. It Is not a thing to be waited for; it is to be achieved, and this nation can deter mine its own place among the nations of the world. It can make its destiny what it pleases, but, it has got to choose what it will do. "The people of Prance not many years ago joined with the people of the United States and erected in New York harbor a statue representing liberty. As the ships come in the Ias seugers look upon that statue, with its torch -upheld. It stands for the funda mental doctrine of our people. Shall we depart from it ? Shall we turn back ? Shall we give up all we have struggled and hoped for ? [I we do, then we should send that statuo back to France and go over to England and borrow a second-hand statue of William the Conqueror and put it in New York harbor in Liberty's place." GOOD A DVICId TO NEGRtOES. Booker WashIngton Tells the Ne gro to Voto for- andt with tie White Democrats. The most sensible and practical no gro of prominence in the South is Prof. Hooker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, Ala., and he is thoroughly independent in his views. In answering the rcquest :)f a prominent colored man in North Carolina as to what should be done to Allay the present conflict between the races, Prof. Washington clearly ad vises him to make alliance with the triumphant Domocracy. He says in the letter: I1 have been asking myself lately some rather serious questions, and I want to put one or two of them to you. Is there any roason why the negroes in the South should continue to oppose the Southern white man in his politics ? Is not this the source of nearly all our troubles? Unconsciously wo seei to have gotten the Idea into our blood and bones that we are only acting in a manly way when we oppose Southern white men with our votes. "I believe that Governor Johnston, of Alabama is just as goo2 a friend to the black man as Hon. Win. Young blood, of Alabama. Hon. W m. Young blood has about 400 white followers, and Governor Johnston has about 500, 000 white followers in Alabama. Why should we follow M r. Youngbood with his 4100 white followers rather than Governor Johnston with his 500,000 followers when no principle is at stake ? "Why is it that the negro in Cuba has surpassed us in settling his race problem ? Is it not because the negrc in Cubs has made the white man's in terest their own? "For examnule, supp~ose during thc agitation of the freedom of Cuba the negro had continued to espouse the cause of Spain instead of. the cause of the wvhites in Cuba? Would not the white Cubatns have grown furious against the black man irn Cuba y "In some way, by seime method, we must bring the race to the point whore it will cease to feel Mthat the only way for it to succeed is to oppose every. thing suggested or put forth by the Southern white man. "'This I consider one of our real problems. -I confess that personally I have brought, myself wholly to the point that I should like to see the whole race get to, hut i merely ask these questions to put you to thinking along those lines if you have not al ready begun to do so. "'I believe that th'ere are thousands of white Deomocrats in North Catroimla who arc 50 per~ cent. henttonr friends t( the negro than Governor lIubseli, ant I see no necessity in continuing to fol low Governor Itussell-who has n< power to protect, or If he has the power, does not exercise it-rathe than the white men who cano protec us if we cease to continually and for ever oppose8 them." STR'lONG HllnUiau . -A dispatch firon Lincoln, Neb., says that Governo Poynter sent a message to the logisli ture vetoing the Senate bill which comn mends the F'irst Nebnraska regiment i1 the Philippines. The language in th bill objected to by the governor' says: "That we acknowledge with grati tude and joy the debt that the Stat owes them by reason of the honor con ferrtid upon it by their valor while dc fending in the Philippines the princi 1)108 of our government, and addin new glory to our flag." The governor in his veto says: "I cannot stultify myself and th calm judgment of the thinking peop1 of th is commonwealth by giving oflicis a ppr.oval to the statement that the we of conquest now carried on in the P'hi ip~pines is in defense of the prin'ciplc of our government and is adding ne' glory to our flag." The Senateo promnptly passed the bi over the veto, but like effort failed I the Hlouse, P'opulists voting solidly sustain the Governor. The bill wi passed several dlays ego antd the vet followed shortly after an extended com feronca between Governor Poynter an W. J1. Blryan. Thne steady iincsing~ trade for Alli tor 14mnimeint proves its sterling wvortf Its not a chneap remedy put ump by inexp rieniiced peopnjle. fts~ a purely scienm ifi cc tntinty, at remedy that~ gets dlowin to 1.1 cause amnd roots it outll is prepared I Phfarmacists of kinowun repuinto. Thlemni unaranen Mal nverywhers. THIC FIGIIiNG IN SAMOA. American and British Officors Kille( in Ambush an(I Beheaded by thi Natives. The situation in Samoa has taken i very set ious turn, and the news comoi that, a party of British and Americai sailors were forced to retreat to thi beach, under cover of the war vossols after having been caught in an ambusi on a German plantation. On April 1 a force of 214 British ani Americans and 150 friendlies wore sur prised in ambush at the German plan tation of Vaslolo. The robol foret opened fire on the rear, left flank ant front of tho Anglo-American force The friendlies bolted, but the marinet and bluejackets stood their ground splendidly, Americans and B ritish firing shoulder to shoulder. The Coll autonatic gun with the landing party became jammed, and the Americanm and British were practically at the mercy of the rebels. But "retreat" was sounded three times before the marines and bluojackets retired. Lieut. Angel 11. Freeman, first lieu tenant of the Tauranga, who was in command of the allied forces, was shot through the heart. Licut. Philip Van Horn Lansdale, of the United States cruiser Philadel phia, had his leg shattered while en deavoring to fix the jammed gun. Seaman Hunt, of the British cruiser Porpoise, had an extraordinary e cape. lie remained with Liout. Lansdale until clubbed over the head and knock ed sonsoless. The blue jocket revived as the natives wore cutting off his right ear, and were tu ning him over to cut off his left ear. At this juncture a Ehell from the British cruiser Royallst burst on the battlefield, scattering the rebels, and Hunt succeeded in escaping to the beach, although severely stabbed in one foot. The same night the friendlies found the bodies of all the officers headless. The bodies were buried with all honor at Mulinuu on i0aster Sunday. Their heads were subsequently brought in by some Prench priests. Thograves were ro-opened and the heads buried with the bodies. Lieutenants Freeman and Lnnsdalo were capable and popular 011i cers. The former was single, and the latter was married in June. The officers who returned are Liout. George N. Cave, of the Porpoise, and Licut. 0 M. Perkins, of the Philadol pihia. All behaved splendidly. LIeut. Cave took command of the retreat. Capt. Sturdee. of the Porpoise, wak. away on an expedition with his cruiser, and Gaunt's brigade was also absent on duty. The lose of the enemy is vot known, but probably fifty of the robels were killed. The priests buried 38 rebels, and much blood was seen on the road over which the Mataafans nad been dragging away their dead and wound ed. There were also pools of blood be hind the cocoanut trees, the bullete from the American and British .. iilee going right through thick trees' and killing men hiding behind them. Some of the rebels fired from the town last evening. It is proposed to summon anuothier -arship to distribute more arms among the friendlies, and to im port additional friendlies from Tutuil. It is also suggested that troops might be obtained from New ZMaland or Syd ney, New South Wales. If ia suflicient quantity of arms could tc obtained, about two thousand f riend lies could be used against the Mataaf ans. But they are not brave, and havt not shown fighting qualities excepting those with Gaunt's brigade, and thai force may not accomplish much. Admiral Kautz, Captain E. W White, of the Philadelphia, and th< American men and officers generall: have oat-nod golden opinions, as havy Captains Stuart and Sturdee of tha British navy. They are doing overy thing possible, and every one rcalize3 that bettor men could not be handilin1 the situation. The Samoans say Mataafa, on threo occasions, had resolved to surrender but the German consul, Hlerr Rose, ad vised him not to do so, and he now say he will never give in, but will fight ti the death. Lieutenant Philip Van Horn Lans (1a11 was born in the District of Zolum bia, February 15, 1858, and entered thi Naval academy June 6, 1873. He grad uuted in 1878, and was promoted snsiga in 1881, and after duty at Washingtoi navy yard was transferred to the Phil adelphia in June, 1890. H~e was mad< lieutenant, junior grade, in 1893. H< was in charge of the caravals at th( World's ieair in Chicago, and after re, ceiv ing his full lieutonancy was a shori timen on the battlebh ip M assachusetts in June, 1898, he was ordered to thc l 'h iladelphia. I~nsign John it. Monaghan was ap~ pointed to the Naval acadlemly as a cadet fi-om the State of Washington -enter-ing Annapolis on Soptember 7 1891. lie graduated and was made al ensign in July, 1897, being assigned t' the Philadelphia, to which vessel h was attached up to the time of hi - death. - Licut. ieroeman, killed in Samoa, I igiven in the British naval list as Lieul 3 Angel H. iFreoman, the senior lieutor: ant (of the cruiser- Tauranga, and, nex -to Captain Stuart, in command of th vessel. As chief lieutenant, he wa -executive oflicer of the Tauranga. - Trho British admiralty has ar numbo - of ships not far from Samoa in th Australasian islands, a special dosig of small cruisers being usedl in that k cality. Trho chief naval station access n 11)1e to Samoa is on the China coasi a wher-c the Asiatic equadron embrace .1 some of the largest warships in th r Biritish navy. In number, arimamn -and tonnage, the British ships) on thi 5 I station far exceed those of Germany a y any other power. Tho chief Germa naval station near Samoa also is on th I China coast, at Kliao Chu, where Ad n miral Prince Henry Is In command. o Admiral D~owey's fleet at Manila s the nearecst assemblage of America o warship to Samoa. The sail from Mi I- nila to Srmnoa is abou0t 14 days. d Further advices from Apia say the on the arrival of the British cruisc Tauranga at A pia the British and An L- ericean consuls issued IL proclamatic - to give Mataafa a last chance, and thi the French priests also used their i r0 fluence, but all efforts failed, and ti y rebels continued their depredation toProperty wasI destroyed, and bridgi and roada were barricaded. On Marr 29 the enemy was sighted at Maguigi, and machine guns and a seven pounder were used. The friendlies also at tacked the enemy during the latter's retreat, and several rebels were killed or wounded. The friendlies carried one head through Apia, which made I Captain Stuart so furious that he went to the king and tbreatened to shoot any mrnil found taking heads. Tihe king then issued a proclamation forbidding the practice. The German conisul wrote to Admiral Kautz, asking if two great Christian nations approved of this inhuman and barbarous practico against the laws of Christialnity and the decree of the su preme court. The ad miral replied, agreeing with the consul as to the In hiumiianity of the practice, and pointed out that had the German consul upheld the decree of the supreme court of January, there would have been no bloodshed : that the custom was an old Samoan one, but first made known to the world ten years ago, when the heads " of honest German soldiers were cut oIf by the barbarous Chief Mataafa, whorm the representative of the great Christian nation, Germany, is now supporting. . xpeditions in armed cutters belong ing to the T1au ran ga and 'orpoise are doing enm'ideraible execution against Mataafa's stronghold along the coast. Tihe 1I-itish forces are being aitisisted by 100 samrroanrs. A bout ii of Matanifa)s boats and severail vil lage boats have been destroyed. In the meantime, ly ing Colu11111s are being sent daily along the roads and through 1,1he husih near Apia --now * N1 F EA NT I 3USI ISS.-" I make a regulair month'ly visit to a little townii in a neighboring state,' said a drum mller1, aid always put up akt a small hotel kept by a widow. Last time I was there my hostess announced to rme that she was goinrg to be miarrid, which didn't su rp rise me in the least,, inasmijuch as I had been a spectator to the progressive stages of her court shipl, anrd in fact did a good dIea to ward prrromroting the happy alltair. It wias somiewlat peculiar. The hapipy Ian is a peddler of tom bstones, Who first ,urned up at the hotel about a year ago. You might supporoe at first blush that monuments and matrimony were somrewh at incongruous, but such is far fr'oi being tLe case. The tomrb stone truurr was a man of iilagi na tion, and in tril aiig over a neat and tasty rUe mr -ial for the dear deplLairteaI no naturally drited to the loneliness of widowhood. When you comie to think about it, the two -'bjects are closely allied, and as the wooing progressed I was greatly interested in noting how deftly they were intermingled. The drummer was bent oin capturing the lady, but lie was equally bent on sell ing a tombstone, and he would invari ably open the conversation by produc ing the catalogue of the Tennessee marble yard which lie represented. Then, while the widow feasted her eyes on the dilTerent mortuary cuts lie would intorlard the soft nothings of aI lover with practical points on prices. As it turned out he popped tihe ques tion and made the sale i-ho saio night., but he afterwards told me that lie had thrown off 50 per cent. of his commi sion to make the two happy event.s coincide. This is no joke, hit a cold, clammy fact, and when he asked rme whether I thought it would be right for him to enclose his business card with the invitations to the nuptials I told him to do iio by al mnuaum. Tle wed ding comes off this spring, and I tamn going to attend it if I miss every date on my route." Tui-.: lHtiOiAtoom's UNiFlOiN.-P Washington letter to the Chuicaigo lI(e Scord says : " ' One of the young gentlemencr wi -have just heen apploinited in the r'e a gular army was married only a fel y weeks ago, and his bride takes ra grea deal of ireorest in his uniforni. II, 3 left his measure with a rmilitary tailoi ,here the other day, and thre next after - noon whlen she was out shopping si Sdropped ini to give some instructionr ) as to the matter in which it, was to hb trimmed. She told the tilohr she il - not like the o.'dinary uriiformn of second lieutenant and desired to hav< her husbandl's dIfferent. She wantes four bands of gold braid around Llhu sleeve, liko Admiral Schiley had o. hIs, and after critically exaniniing al the shoulder'strapa she instructed th< tailor to put on her husband's coat, a pair that had silver birdo eriibroideret on them, because they were pr'ettho than any of the rest. Tholr tailor tr'ie to advise her that the recgulationis dlid not permit, a second leutenant, to wear the insignia of an adilr'al of Lire navy or throse of a colonel in the armriy, but1 she delaredl that is lie would1( not miake tire uin iforrm tire way shre wanted it sht would have hei' rhusbandr pattror nize som ebody else.'" -l'hliladelphlia sceems to bre firll oi typhoid fever. Th'le l'hriladelpraia l 're says: At pr'Lsent the rnumbr er of ty Sphldc fever paitienits in thre var-lous lies pitals Is b00. Th'ie per'eentLage of thb total to the aggregaste r~umbrher of al manner of cases be ig tr'eated is 2: T Ihis Is nrot includling urrgieal arid in SfantilIe crases. MxclutsivYe of these th<n Spercontage is considerably Inure thbar r douibled, being nearly h;5. -"' Why, WillIe,"' said his maotbei ri onc-day when they were out walking "' what (10 you mean bry offer'ing a penn: -to that amuie ?"' " B ecaurse," 'reliui ,the young in vestligator, "' I hreard papr; s say that money makes tire mare go. a and I want to see if it has thre s-am: t effect, on a mule." '--Th'le Columbnhia I icord narme-s I .icut rGoy. Mciiwueeney, Col. Wili I .Jonei, SCongressman L~atlmer, Cong resmial T''1albert, Attorney General Htellingrr Senator Shoppard and Sernator lender son as guhorniatorial possibliitries ti n 1900, and says "' there arc othera.'' SCASTORIA n For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bough e Boars the B. m Signature of A MIissioniary'm I)eserIption o 11' th 11111an1111 an1114 itsihauans lRev. \V. LI. Sloanie, of the Asciate Iteformed clire b, gives a iMost ilterest ing description of thbe island of 'uerto 1 10o, together with the habits and charaetueristics of the natives, ill the M issionairy Iteview. froimi which the following extracts are Iiade : The isilad of 'uerto Iico is the sumin mit of a mountain thit, rises live imiles from the depths of the Caribbean Sea, It is a pitrallelogramiii in slape, its leIigth from eilst to Ivest being onie h u nd red and eiglit miles, and its aver Ilge brealdth 1,hirLy-seven Ililes. It has an area of about, 3,53110 6q ualre mil es, or sl ightly h.s thln bit of the StiteL Of COIIIectiCu t or the ilbinud of .l1amanica. It lies some ),500 iles soult.h L At, of New \'ork, aid Se'Cnty miiiles eai sIt Of Iliayti, aid Is the smallest aid iist, elstrly of the greater Altilles. 4'oPuerto iCO is Li islanIId of great b at-11,1 y. Its niittnI'erOIS riVerIS, pirolifii I soil and hid climate contribuilte tf I produce iL lixLiaIn11t vegetLion sur passe(d by no ot1ber pmt of Li : \V t Inad ikS. Hlly inl the interimr. walhl le-vel lowhinids arounld the coast, :11(i innumIerale vallCy, xtndilg !in heatitiful vtIls inl lil dlrectin, eVCr1 fool, of soil iiti Les to cutLi va L"(1ii. Bt-road rc~theS Of sugar eIe) tnihlt. lower levels, fringcd and dotLed with the c(':OcIMUL pu1pain, giv linle after a while It) VxtVensiveO tUohaLCeo litIs, wni Lh'SC inl tli'n ILr followed u1 ti hilbl, t aid IIoLintlin sid eSI by3 the waxen Ilaved coffe ynlt, yilinllug its al-tlllt iC berriy snder0' 1,he ShIke Of tie brad bana!IaIIIk. 'Thlese llighlit. i'e tilledi Il nlost, t~o then . rsuunn i 1ts, an~d i t w oulld bo ditliCtilt Lt liLd aiiyVheurie ii the in terior of I'lru 10 an aIcre Of -oil 1,bat does, not, e ontributao inllm waty to tle siusLtilnce of inan. Ieosh-les Ltie suIples ieitioined, (sit gar, C)lfee nd tobacco,) cotton, i'lee, corIl, sweet polLtts, lanatas iit OragiCS Iar produced. The r le is a ountinl VIILty hiiIi dIOS iot ieed flooding, an1d with imported codlili forlmls the prinli p: article of food :long the IabaringiJ cl asses. (O)n Lihe loii and paIstIuirI, Of which telre ar e iny1I1, cx celleiit beef ctile are relred. A g ood Iiniitilry roLd , conrstrueCted at i ll imes, costL to h govem1e11111nt, triiaverses tlIh island fromn San Juanti to Plice, wvith at branIlh oi r V lead ing from111 Iyy to Gu IyiLI Iam. (Oe grtu nicd of illt i I IlI is goodi roldtIs (an(d bridlgis. Thie journe.ty across the hills Can be ier formed only oil Iorsebaick. I''ort.ilLtu ly for tratveleirs, tihe horses, dimiut1Live aitnimials, haILve 1111 eaW,3 canter, aid a ride oil one of thiml is a deligltful eX pIenDCe. ILuerto ltiio hasz- been1 inli!.overn..1ed 11(1 exploitLd by rvalacious oWlicialk to iaI O(1 pint i1111Ost incolceiVIllIl'. 'I'll, hi~endaLs, or piantatios, hi.V been ilargely owlled oy Spaiaurd. lie ex to'tioni priacticed by the Spanih tUax gathLierers, al~ong withI othber abhum of It -,imihtr' na1,1t.ue, omde thleowrhi of lanild and the earryiniig .1 Of an huN3 llsi ners on tile part, of Iiaive I 'icrto itic s almost an imposi bility. l-'romi 'Le beg itin of SpInih rule, tlhe in habIltllits of tile island h suffered a boY.-ott in alilost evcry induitry Ihcy Irvl, kindlertiaikel. I idied it iLay be douted wletler the Spnluiadis tlibm selves, who, owi tile inild, CvCIr maILde L tLiti.be as inlh olit )f it Ias (id otic oflicilals who governelIldt theml . Thell toltal poptiat~ion Itunomilni tol libont 'N(t10,1101. of Vhillli Liie Sai s, 0r " lislares," formii it ,lmll Out coliniiIC ialy' doininaiit las. iThe hi ldireni of thlere Sli:iniards, ilorn oni thLIe ishmdlL, are known i as I l'toI IlUceans, and1 in Spaini they' n aecomi lIletd LI mlove in IL loweri socil ei reIe tLhani (10 thieir' pare'nts. Thie Giblarus, Ior smiiall Iandl owner i' aii LILday b 11borier t' of thbe counltry dintictes, are a1 cuious1 old stock mlodli lied by3 CaribI desct A still lower' cILass lias a lar'ge iIx -tur'e of necgro blood. All ripeak SpanII dlropinig oIf the " S." andi a ebaig (If theI " r "' inio i "I' LhatL un0ike LIb Ilangutiage verIy exaLSpariat ling Lu a loveri Lof the old CaLstilian I. The naiivesi ofi l'011rt Wteol are' 511.li t Iini phii 1ue, and ii ore ori iless conlsu1i1ny L ivye Inl a~pp~ear an1c, a1LIhoughI vi gor'ou 1frameI s are' iccas i onlly seen il ''Th Iower classes is said to lbe due1 par~it1y Lto the3 (onstanti Intermiarriiages that~ haive talkeni plaice in LthIs small.1 island duiirinig tIboipast3L00u yearls, andlt partI'Ly to the trealtmIent, r'eeelved lat, the handils o heIr ule rsIwho suoming ly spiaroeu noefrto irepiress ov'ery asp1 iation~ andiI crushi ever'y entLerprli50 tbat, show (id thiems,-elves am~iong tiS n teoll gent andii generou(I~s-hea11rtAed pe~opleC. WitLI wages~C ranlg ing fr'om $1 .(00 Ie day'i 13 :1 (wni toI twonty hanana~ils (wib were(VI ofleni .conisideredI. sullhiaiinL, for t~le suppor~ltof wage!I pid~t in depreciatCed silver orP uin ripiI frit. it, i not,0 to b~e wondIeed 'LI that tbe avelirage I'Lierto iticang looko .ioreI' likei ai wal2k ing corpse ,than~l a .great k inC iness of spirit, hosp1 iabi .Ito a dlegri', remiarkably dhocile and( patien t unldier restra'inlt, in ten~sely 1(oyoI has lbeen '~ r erssed, lioy-cotLt~hd, olv taLxc and o111Iver-work Ied, under- fed andI seanlti ly ChLd, un1til hopu1 wats well nigh e xti oct in his bosomi. Is it to be wo(niiderei'd ILL LII at,, w huen Lthe stais and11 stipes were unfuirled oveir hiis ,naiive soil1, heL shiold riush toward themii, w(h wilt (h deirius joy, an~d, with buirst~in heart,~ , houlId thank God Lthat the yeari of juo le had 11( comoi y A few of the I lurt) Iticans1 lare well I Lo-do; L larger number1131 manage to1 iVt in some1 sorL of comnfort, although thLleirI scaIntilIy-furni shedL, shedI-Iike dwellings -oIler few attrLa.tionls to the visitor rfromli Northeorn c.lmes. The great ImaIjoiit y (if the peopl11 are poor0, li OneC wonders how they liv e. h)ay after (liy we have watched thu 0110n apalrt imenits (If indhigent fainil ies, memiibers il 'which had no emplIloyment, where' mi food seemed to enter, no tabllo waII spread, and no hir'e was kindled foir eili narl~y puLrpioses1. T1hi r'outin (If faiLly life w'enft (In Lday after' day, SavCe that all Ilabor' 11( and 1 alliartk Iing (If food aIl -Idrink{ were left ouit (If the acouint,. 111ma1med there arie n0 asl umlis, and but few hOmuInas fr the i,. one is as GR E ENVILLE'S Ne-w Store! i1)On1 tho Ihes of the haindsom0 -tore room occupied by .1. 11. Morgan SI ro prior to their Iire hat; been rear -d a new businl 8. which is at credit to he city and at money Saving institution o the Surro i tndling country. A largo and hrand now stock or Dry G0oods ad Shoes llti, is um 4pialedl inl assortmont, and inattitlihl. in its money Saving ,r A. . visit lo this new sjtore will '"."Vi. k. v\mu Hilrt, herel' vmu-l m11,mey A*iI ill i it-; groatest. Worth, for in1 'very de4partment, kihes Ahoid A st:twv will ialieato th"u direction I-lt!w in jtd i' It 'd wlit , -144 t1 t(W~ _~ewn sh~ie and tilb- crowds deIllonstrate itief po ai hl-.i store. rake u11 or your hoathllarter, l',ve-ry conlvenince p6Inty (of rooml, and at largeI hlitchlingt lilt at ha -k Of s3torn for youmw as 'Tho mloA, complete--ever-y pallr a new one11, th is seta1O')n'S mtill ke, and that means mullch for oe are not likeliquor -Imn prove w i ith age. Ar&- UN'membeript we % are agents for (lhe Mc-ra a .tiall ihnuar- 'atternis, price I:1:4 I Ct \I hto it ::t ,- nt t I i-it tle New Store :W 1te Iti" Itwin o ,. . Moi-taan I MAHON & ARNOLD, 211 1Ipper .\lat) SL. ImIENVI LA'. Loit.ih'd at Lite nubluert of lialformied clildren Ie ineteL-S Oin the sLreet,, but cl-I) 'illiitt, a largeu numbher died it In.. fanty. The cotditionts of life are such 'liat inifant mlortdity is . very great. I little ri!tad i, pi;td hy te autihorit'ies to tihe death nItd hturial if the indigent. In the city of Ctaus tihe dying poor areqL- Viunovetd to a rOom adjoinling thel, et'liLtrV, wh\it th L 1y taty br'eathIC tibeir i:,1, (li-t byv ,heir' tiial resting 14la(1:., ailli4 heat!~ thetir tmeasure'( [or the 4!ratve befor 1 th4 L e xp~irin1g brthi hais gralvi' wVit1(4,hout bx ort collinI, or' 01n (til-. '01. h)nt:. of thte dead1( are colt wVitlith toe atia tti aNx has niot, been paid0, inl (4r14r to4 4ita{e roomtl for niew thet rulte, in fact, and] is niot regarded with th Liii- fatvor' tit -iteh alife wouhld caus Ltin te t:nitaliStat The LI eor-~ bitaL: nt fr t:-tt den ordy It b: 14liman |danotLv of t ho marriiage reclation. 1Te number ~t: of ilh-g i tilnate cildt]ren is iar'g'ly In extes oMif te legitmate , an41d many.1 Vf (the I ( pIrit h ave famnilIes Gn>I A I'('4)1N'I11t-NT1'. --Th'o two lieItnannt i the regular1 'i army' 1Pf which were0 apt1ltonteud11 to S Luth Car~ioiina. have beeni given to 1o T411'. ilayne aind r.Ilayne is l,by eldiest sjfn of P, J rapiier itayit, oIf tis city. and is "14V l]"i'ahi in Trootp 1, l''ifth cav 1 ti,. hav ing i mistd as IL prIi vate 4'ra11nat. t fromt ltie C.iaL4iU tacademny I N'. itt and14 Mtr. SitIh heing class 4m44 4' andt bthi taing Ihigh stands 1'ht o~w- if \1r. lln's a1ppotinltmtent, w (4 r 141 by3 Ihis fathier oni Monday. (,Clari'nc. IH. Smithi. who for two year h. 4)en1 014 the( -,ta1l of t,bo Co umiha -tate, hingit neht)lieved consid I it-. 41 or'' nally ftromi Uniont, aind was ioth C t 4tarelit regimett.ny I'iit, Sunda t411 o 'taand hIis xinaI1ititon. M. Sm1 ith at cade, ii1t cat~lttin wt'hen he g *d Th it IVo( youn1 men who(11'Vi) get thiese a mi414la ,' educa'tIion bt, praticli ex pericL e i~l~ n the armty, and they wvill be excelenttrere-ettive V.dof tho Pal-i mtetto Stalte. Mr-Nts. Mariy IEden14 Lea~so 1s nOW Ox p)(iLioit~ig hself( on the spirttualist plate formt. Site1 says t lie spirit of .Jay Gould .talks abutt in r'ags, condemnod ovor Lto htear tht clink otiif g(old a1.nd to cut conp Jont fronm ihis h414(oodd bonds. -A pauper 11'womanli in P aris has been !onlv icted1 of hiavi ng had hor child ba1ptized foulrteen timeso~ as a Catho'lic andl~ twelve ties as5 a Protestant, for tho pturIose of securingr Ion francs and