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_ T1HE PEOPLE SJORA_ -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --- -------- - - - - - - VOL, jo.--- NO. 23. I'll~iN U. R. SIIIJ DAY, *UY5 .Ol OLRAYA (othe Reoaders oF We invito you t and boy..s we Ouir line of, l t )ur BIoys' Knie, Men's l'alts fi A onplete! linl fL't and Al The best :63. 51 l'very ibn ini line of uinii kno'wn to WVe will take I best stock section, amu Y ours 11rulY SMITH & I GREE AlRI' ON THIII RAINS. We Havo too Much litailn anll( too Many Fool", ats soloikon) Said. This i the first bright, genial eunny morning that we have had In three wOOks-for twetiy.ono days It has rained every day save one. The crops are in a bad fix ; the corn and cotton are hidden by grass and weeds, and labor is scarce, for the negroes are wanted in the mines. Most of the wheat has been cut, but how much of it will be saved cannot yet be told. Within my recellection of fifty years I do not recall so much rain in harvest time. According to Scripture, it seems to be the same old story, for Solomon says, " As rain in harvest so is honor unseemly in a fool." They had too much rain and too many fools then just as we do now. Maybe Providence sends the rain to try the farmers-to make them diligent and shifty. I traveled on the East and West railroad last week for sixty miles and I noted some farims that were clean and nice the corn and cotton chopped out, and the wheat shocked In the field : one of those belonged to a widow, and she and her three girls and one boy were just finishing the cotton. Markham dident write anything about the woman with the hoe, nor the girls, but one of those girls was merry enough to waive her konnet at somebody on the Liiin bcsides me. Some farmers sit down and wait for tomorrow's sun to dry off the ground ;Abut tomorrow's sun dident, shine, and so they wait till next day. Others slap in at every chance and do something. I know one who began to cut his wheat Monday morning just as soon as Sunday was gone-for bunday was the day it did not rain. le cut half that night and all day Monday and i.ot through with his thirty acres, and lie says he will make 700 bushels. An other diligent farmer made -00 bushsls last year on twenty acres, and sowed it right away to cowpeas and sold his pea vine hay for more per acre than he got for his wheat. That is business-and Solomon says, " Seest thou a man aili yent in his business; he shall stand be fore kings." I am no( braggart but let me say that If I had waited for the r'ain to quit I would be singing that old1 song. " A man of words but, not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds." I worked between showers, and some times when Mrs. Arp called and called me to come in out of the rain I pro tended I d idont hear her, and struck a few mnore licks for Mr. Markham. I wIsh you couild see my bean arbor-not, b,mttor beans, but the hest and most, prol ice an I have ever pl an tcd; I had them last, year on miy corn patch, but, theoy do better on poles or over' a cane arbor. I 'Iant, two rows of becans live feet, apart,, and w hon they are well up stick them with canoes. Lalp the smtiall ends oif the canes together on the ground and get your wife or daughters to0 tie thoem in throe or' four places-allI of un iforum length-then arch them over the beans, and nature willI do the rest,. I never saw half as many beans as hang from my vintes. Of ciourse, tho rains have stimulated the growth of every thing, and Its lucky that vegetables g row uplward Insteoad of ouitward. planted my potatoes in a trench that wasi shoveled out and manured w ith ashes -wood and eoal mixed -thou cov (wed with pi1ne straw and some earth on that,. They are tibe finest I ever grew, anid come ouct of the straw all most clean enough to cook w ithouit wachin3g. I 'ino straw is very valuablle ill a garden and is cheap, costing only 30 cen ts for a good load. It is a goodl mulch for strawberries, and I am experimen thng with It under a few tomato plants; mnost of them I have trained u p to stake4, but I saw a market gardena near MIem phis1 and all the tomamo vines had tum* lold over on wheat straw, and madeu more fruit, though not so large, and tine as when staked. A garden Is a small experimnental efarm, and Is as nmuei consequence and more pleasure, espuo cially if you mix tIowers with it. l)on'l throw away your coal ashes ; mIxed with woodl ashes, they are a flue fertil lizer. Mr. llorckman says that ashe produce fruit, while stable mnanuirt prlodulcus vine and foliage. Ashes will double the quiantity of strawberries loots generally come up too thIck. Tbhin them out andl transp)lIant ; cut ol part of the tops, and the transplant will make the host booets. dunst so witI celery. ilut I d(,n't piropose to teach 01(d gardeners, for me~lt of them cat teach ime --my neighbor, NIrs. I'ields is the best gardoner' I know of, and am satIstled if I can keep cip w ith her I have somne of my wonderful bean planted to poles. 'rho poles are fronm eight to ten feet high, and It inter-est me to see the bean vines reachinlg ul to find something hIgher to cling tc The tendrils are now two or three fee highe than the poles, and still reachl Tueli Journal: I come to see us for any tlingir tilat leIl III% n'S uitsa Iu-ill foini .4.00 to . 5.1() I Pauit Suits $1.50 to $6.0). oim 81 .00 to $7.5il. - of Meni's and looys' l:in1 iIn botl aV gt1414. Shoe imaide for men. Underwear, atlinongwhie is thet-best. II1tI ri(~ I V IrI i iot ey~ "I, I in I- .4e;11 iuidtild while ishirls undl coloreil slit Ie t.rIde o fr ) 1, is. i'fasure in showing.' you th1111lrouglh it 'odsill our, linle inl the Pil'idmoni i the prices are all riiht. BRISTOW, ~NVILLE, S. 0. 1ng up1) and feeling around in the air. I am going to give then some fishing poles fifteen feet long. They remind me of Jack and his bean vinc- my Children and grandchildren never tire of that good old story. How a poor widow had a little boy named Jack who was good to his mother, and one dIay Jack saw an old giant coming. His head was as big as a small barrel, his yes as big as saucers, his nose as big as my arm, his mouth like the und of a big stove pipe and his teeth like iron spoons. He came up the road snorting like a horse, and was singing, " I smell (te , blod(1 of an Eiiglishmian; Alive or dead I must have some." Jack ran in the house to his mother and she pullel up a plank in the floor and dropped Jack down in the cellar and put the plank hack, and moved he'.r chair and table on it, and sat down and went to knitting. Here came the old giant, pulling and blowing like a steam boat. I1e dident eat anybhing but little boys, and he peoped in at the door and said, " I'm hungry and I'm hunting for a boy." Jack's mother told him she dident have any boy for him and to go oil, or she would set her big dog on him. Then he walked all round the house and looked down the chimney, for he was as high as a tree, but he couldent find Jack. When he went away and was out of sight, Jack's mother took up the plank, and reaching her hand (own she pulled Jack out of the collar. Soon after this a poor old woman came along and begged for something to eat, and Jack and his mother fixed her uo a good dinner and some cotfee, and the poor woman was so thankful that she gave Jack a bean and told him to plant it and it would grow as high as the sicy and have bushels and bushels of beans, and the vine would grow as high as a true in one night. So lack planted it right away, and next morning he went out to see it, and the top of It was away up yonder aid he could see it growing higher and higher. So ho thought it would bc fun to climb it, and the stems of the leaves were strong enough to hold( him up like a ladder, and he kept on climbing and the bean vine kept on growing so fast that .Jack couldent, catch up with it, and by and by he got so hiigh he couildenit see the ground~ and b-fore long he got up to the clouds and btcpp~ed oil on the ble iloor of the sky, and looking around at, the beautiful counitry lie saw a great line house that, was built, of stone. So he walked over toi it and( dIldett see anybody-niot a sutI -nor a dog nor eat iior horse nor cow, hitt he heard a great sniori ng in sIde and saw bones all aroundi~ the yard. TIhien no peeped0( in abnd saw thIiat, same old1 giant, alop1 onl the loor of the wide hall. ills tongue was hianginig out of hiIs mou th and his face was grieasy anid hloody, for he had bueni eating somie body and laid down to sleep, andI his snorIng shook t~he house. Jiack was awfully scared, and started to rn, lut. ho saw an ax near the door, and lie wondieredl if he couldent kil! that ohl( giant while he was asleep. So lie slipped in on Lip;toe and raising iup tiihe ax as high as he could, lie burought it, d o win ont the 01(1 gIant,'s neck, anid w i tlh oiie blow cuit his head oif. The blood spoutdi all Iover the room and .1 ack raun away as hardl as lhe could. B~y and by lie sli pped back to see, and sitre enough the old giant, was dead and had stopped kicking and the blood had stopped run ninog. J1aek caught his head by its' long hir~ andi dragged it away otf to the bean vinto and took it downi to) hiis miioth - er, andc thbe folks camte to see it fromt all ever the couniitry, and were so prionai of Ii ttl e J1auck that they gave himii elomrhes andl pocket knives and miarbles anid balls, and e ver after waruds caliled himi Jack th~e Gi; ant Killer. Anzd tbere has never been another giant in the wrbi since, for he was th*' la4t, on e.NManiy a time11 have I got the eli tir ten to sleepe on that story, for of courso( I ,'ariy it and comtbllish it and teli many Lth inge to poinit a moral and adorn the tale. have not forgotten howu eagerly I li toned to the little stories my miotheri used( to tell me when I wtit to bed, not how 1 dlevoiured the A rabian Nighte whlen i grew older. W ories that ro. ward the good and brinie griof to the. bad childreni are great helps) to raisiny thbem ;they are kindergm.rtons, to the~ oar and a comnfort to thei r little minds I had rather please themit with a hi ttlt story likec tIls than to fret myself abus in~g Miark ilannia and lia crowd, foi little children are neare'r Heaven thbar Mark is, according to miy opinion. BliA, A tRiP, The Ili~ ot Conigregzational Church I laowell, Mass., realiz -s the value o Iadvertising. Its hours of service, to .gether with an invitationi to all to at t tend, are displayed in miany of thi MITUiJAlION IN CIIINA. A Iitrgo Aramy Will i Necosmary to SutIpres the Iidots. A London dispatch to the Now York Trihune , dated June 25, says : " The lIrIitish adirality heinyL en11 leshed with red tape does not givO out dism tchbes ais prompitlly a' the navy delmirlent, at Washington, but it has coniirmiei Ihe previous acecounts or t6, rellulse of the relief column which atteipteLd to enter Tien Tsin on -l'ri day. "-hi e! bulletii is short and depress ing. The loraign 3ettllielit it J'ion T],sin was almiiiost eltirely destroved and tbie I0uropealnlis we!re tiphtineg hard. There Is nothing about a relief column of I isslias and Americans being cut, Co piec(s, )ut, the repulie vras attended With sole loss. 011nly one runner had entered Taku from Tien Tsini In five days and not at word had heen received from the relief olumir.s wihieCb slartedI for lI'kin two wieeks ago nor froii the legations theuilves. - The relief force may ho describhed its it ailtin consisting 11itaiii , of Iniksjig links. 'I'lero is it ilixed force Of he tw een 2,0(10 and :;,000 men ati Taku in e Iludinjg at pOrtiOnl Of tht' ChineUse ei lment fromt Wei lli\ Wei. This cooini, witLi the Ilussian and A me rican -on Li ielnLt of Over "(10 imen, mu111st cult its way through it sipier ilr (Chineue force which is said to have 60 guns, altholigh this sems incredible. ie foreignerws at Tien ''sin are clearly in it desp-erate AM(at. Wit~h thle g~arrikon urol hv a hise borde aiid with L n1t111111111 O and slipplis rul.ning short. " Someicw her be~vhvyun1d Tien T.,in1, either o tie way to l'ikin ill at the City, is It m1ixei force of 2.,300 men, with inadainlate supIplies, ammuillnition anld food. A. t-the legattions are probIbIly from 1:50 to 200 Iuropeans, .1alpanese and Americans, refugees bei ng atdledi to the working force anld tie imlilitary and naval guards numlber Iout, -150 men. l-:very link in this Chain of relief Is weak alind detacied alnd( tLhre is no accurate information. Ml who have Iived in Ciina aser that the u1111mber of foreigners Itt Tien Tsin is large -since tie city its a Chinlese population of oiver I 1,000,00P and it com:11kr1ce of over $-5i,00it0j,000. Tien Tnin is the ciiief d is tri)uting Centelr. There are four for eign hanks, a large 11lnhLnber of Iish. Gemrmlltni, lus5sian, Japanllese and Amer ican merchants and oeveral groi ups of misiona01ry stations. " Tile situatioli of the foreinrocs' at Tion Tsin is regarded by formier I rit ish ollicials in China as deplorable, and doubts are expressed respelcting tibe ad adequacy of their relief force which ib available at, Taku u nlus I 'issia takes decisive mxieasures, as indiiented last night in ollivial comm) Ulications fron the foreign oIlie it St. I'mersbileg for the iinvasion of the cbilim3c territory by a really formidable army. Tie E'uropean and Anierican lleets may be working harmioniously ILIder the head ershiip of the reAr admiral at 'ak u, but ine0 suIression of anarchy in C ina now rcqu ires tle prCSCeC Of 1a ltlrg1er ariy than anly great, power e-Xcpl Russia can put into the lield witihout delay." The British Cruiser- TerrI-ible has ar rived at Ciefoo from Taku with the latest lewd which is as follows: "'l1'ight hundred Sikhs and 200 Welzhi l<usilil S have etffeeted It junletion wi th tile American, Germian tiund Ilus-ian forces whichi had been cut oil by the Clhinese about nine miles from Tien Tsin. It was proposed to deliver an assault upon the Chinese forces at Tien Tsin last night (Sunday iniglt)." It is not clear wlat forces uniLed. It would seem that ()Ine relievilg force, cut olf, lid been relieved by anothber. At any rate, it is apparently certain thatt tile alli.'s arrived in suillicient firce at, Tieni Te'ini Sunday to attack tile besieginig CJhinlese. a dipiatchi irom Shaiinghani toI the Im don lI Cr." "ine13 lines to ii beieve LIit tile wor st has happene l~i(d tml the lega-. tionis itt I'ekini aiid to At.mii ral Seym1our I as well. Iiven if the legatonss weree sale on .11un1e 10, theres is no0 guiarantfee that they lire safe now. Th'Ie si t~latiln, In fact, grw moreVS11P iandt miore gloom111y. 'I'he enlti re abisenice of reliable news flrom tile capItal seems to justify tihe upon1 it. "thid news comes1( from11 Naii Kinog. whwre the unhret, is satid Lto be groiwing hiorly. \'iieroly I iu 1 lin V'h haIl tele he0. 1,as olrdered4 the live Chinilese cruis8 ers whiichllI have' been lyinlg il the hiar botr here to iproeb~ed t~l Nanl1 I Iin." Polndeni t t Shantl l iti l\ Watn, " eonsist ing1 Ill 1,1011 mell, left, a wee-k aigo for Ila lce on1 1 June lI>. andI itrmiament of thle ChineIlsel tl'r)opI) and( It, is ieums1It~edl Lhat tiese troopsj~ possessm 227iC(l Letime15 teS( Creulot,~ gunS, I S Krp gunsij andl 1 0I% Max imis. CartlloitzL. li'ullyI tiibrme-fiourths of Lthm (C~aineses forces atre bailly drii lled, wi'hol ly undlisciplinemdiii and piite unifaitliar11 wIth llmdern wveapoins."' JIun' 2, say3s: "ltI' Am lirail 1<'3m1pIf (American) thiat tiihe comb li ined forces (5n1tered TPieni Snwll lo hss. "The'i y star'ted on1 Sundal iy to the r3Ie lief of the for'.m ivbhich lef I Tien Ts iin on Junme 10i, atndl wic ie s beliejved toI lbe surroumiialed neartI I'ek in. "Accordling~ I htolpanese r'eports, Adl Liuiedl andi t~bo mollisters have left l'iskin, left grdedlmt 113 Chinse sol. mliers. Th~ir *I whereabtl~s Is un.1 I'hl whlistle of ai lcomoutive is the noie olf thl- ratilway trinl 2300, the r'epor it (If at rille itndl the bar11k of it doge, I,-noi yartd', 1an orIchei stra or Iiihe roll olf a1 dru p11.1I jii yardih-, the hillman1 voleie r'eae is to ai d istlilnci (If I ,000i the clhipIng of -ricket 80t0 yairds. -lIstinct speak Ilng h. hleard' In thbe aIr - above ti) a mdistancle if Got yards: fr'om 3 abhove3 It has a r'ange of illnly lo0) yard'is down wad._ llrill'14 )iticuies,(N. New York Sin. 'I'he l itti war which Great Ilritain has on its hands in \Vest Africa i, likely, according to the latest dis patches from the gold coast, to give Smle trouble before It is over. The itiiniediatO cauIse Of tihe dilicilty With tlle nativos Is I ncidental to the tranuiii tion through which they are piasisinig froma cotndition in which ttxes . were paid innd trade Was carriod on in kind and with cowries to tlhat of ia ioit'y uing community. The taxes, since the Iliritisi administration has tak en charge over tib votintry, have been rig orously exacted in money, e-speciaitlly the obnoxious hut-money, which tha been the etusc of nearly all the risings agalist British authority in A fri(a. Tle phreselIt Ashantee trouble hai its ori!in in 1.hlis cause, thoigh the g olden11 stool plays at pan-t in C,-e matter. The Ashante contention appear to I( that taxes lret only leviable by aln oclu Ipan, of the ( Golden Stool, but this ii only anothelr Way of saying that t1ley refuse to recognize the authority of tLbu British governtor to demiand or re eeive taxes. The ytea of the absence (if tle Goldn Stool I1is siiply i su hteor Iuge. The real point is that besides being partly unable and partly u n will ing to pay the taxes imposed by the B11itish althor-itios the' Ash an tces are still loyal to the old native dynasty, Vr1101 though its exorcise of powr wa.: and hlley may have thought, iftor hearing of tie hritish deeats ill South A frien, that ai opportunity presented itself for throw ingf ofl the Iritish Iiule. They have also not forgotten tilt Caluises tIhat led to tihe grneat war of 1i*: , 1, and its rvsults. The trouble thnil arOse ot, of tihe transfer by tihe Dutch of their rigll to lminilna and the 'urrounlidin terri tory, which they held uide1' a lease5 froi tibe king of Ashantee, dating back to the last een tuL'.V, to the lI ritisl in exchange for settlement (if Achin in Sumatra, held by the ilritish undetr Similar conditiiono fron the sultan of that count.ry. t. (1or1 tihe treaty of lease the I)utch were i'ludged, if ever they pave up1) the El inina settlemen iln the goldl coast to hand it back to the king of Ashantee, tlit those who made the transfer to lingland in 187,2 were either ignorant of tbe existence of this stipulation or disregard2ed it, and when the king pro tosted against tle br-leaeh of the agree milnt lie was iefelred to tile ii3tish8 governnient. I?-i'civintg 10 satisfae tLion from it he took the miattur into hIs own hand and with an armiy esti mated at G0,000 mlion Iarched into tihe dieputed territory to maintain hlis right of access to the sea. Bunt smiitall pox and the British Sn1ider ril-e, aided by the defectionI of bolle of the tributa r'y and allied tribes, ended IlsI power of resistance and a treaty of peace was signed in 1874 which brought tile cou1n try virtually inoder Br iLtish contro l. It was not, howeverV 1, un (ti! 1 l; tIt Lti Biritish governn-ieni~lt finially accomlplishl cid its plI'pse of abolishing the semi1i independence of tile country and turn ing it into a crown colony. King I'rempehi, the last of the Asiantee kings, is now a lIritish political mris oner, but tile emblem of sovereignty, tlhe Golden Stool, has not pasacd to his [BritLish ucessor, which gives the as LII to leader of the present revolt aailnst British rule the jlstilicatilon for ditpiting the legality of its acts. Soue of ,the Ashantees are armed with illodenti rillies, and they are said L.o have several machiino guns. Their want of training, however, i'enderis tLhese Iast of doubtful valiu Ii theiri hands, and the hrench governm11lient through whoise territor'y aroiin ind al mn11lit:o)n were becilg siliuggled into Ashainteo, hlas pIrol hiited tile trade in arms11 otnL teir eoa--t durngnt the ooniinii uatce of tihe tLolesi)0. 'The riel ievi ng forc'e, whIlch1111 has bee sen ui. Ip fromtn hIie coatst ti raise5 thle siege of li tmas;i , hias b y las., r'eporIItS mt w ithI a 0cheek, wichei w ii encoura'Ige thiose t(rib~es thlat against tile Blritishi. It, is, howe-ver, only3 i ag qulesti o01(f t11m how soon1) thle t'isinyt wVill b~e Ilut, downi, Liboughi ilhe will bei exceed(inlgly dilIliculIt, is at hand'. A su hicient, fol'c (of U aussas, thle host mnateriail for' soldiers ini West, A frica, wIi ti sti l1'nintg (If blue jackets, and the West I ni atn troops will no1 11 dout slooni be (1n thle grou~ind and marbi'cIlng Ilo tihe re lie Io(f LIIb0 beisieiged governor andii gar r 'ihon. Th ei greait, illichulI ty at, bult thbis is boeing overo biy Lihe emi wile, orders haive gone (lit, fi'om l~ng land mlo hurr~l'y 11n tuhe pronlolngaitionl of ktndi nIthe Li(oasI~,t LI iiih goI mlinesl at, to ark wil le li umati, aI(l ileal LiistanceI t~h II0 CI:-t, (If itL~CI n dI (lnstr lt0(1. iii' I htlih'5ICSTN iCX i"OIIlOIN. A Mi iroig lioar'uh of Ilioetors Meliet il To M anage l'he I idtterta kin1g. At, ai largely aittembd m eeting oIf ,tockholers~l' beh1l in thle G rermanli A rtillei'y I hall, Charoleiston, Thulirsdaliy niight, Ju ne 21st,, the Sou1th Cal'olinia In tori-S Ate and] WVes iniaun I'xpos1i tlion CranpanyitIL, was~ dul, n--gai/.0tt lie. cord( lig toI huw. C.n>on 'h lly mor~ie wats represen('lted' pi.r'sOnlIly ill by prox y. The ret'(c tin wa!LVis hpre sided oven by3 the 11(on. Jo11. W. ilarnlwell. St ito Sent)Lor for'Chlentii 401 Coun ty, nnd the proceed~(in gs were mo~st, halrmo.luls. Thle pin 0111ipl bsiness (If the vn.nhg was tile election (If a hoard (If n no til reotors. TheI follow in(g wllC -k nown genitlemien we-e unaimiouIsly eba~seni Lt diroct the ni lirs oIf the1( Expo1(sition(: ". W.V. Waigernr, Cu'. Wilii Jlones, Mle. Francis IK. CareI'y, Nl r'. J. C. lormp Wellch, Nlr. J1. b. I) ivid, NIrt. Samutel I apl~hami and( Col(I. (. S. (iadsden. 'The 11iliVvacancies0, adtoplit bly -laws and~ ", gu Ilations anld elect, thi n tecessany olh .:eris forl the vaiouI~ bu(reauls aind dleparit mienits. Tii ~hIoard' Iof di1rectorls Is regar d ed som o1)0(f thei h:- t aind most4 progrnessiv buisi nesa min oI(f the St~ai,0. C 1pt. Wagener', tbe henior memberi 11'(f the Ilim oIf I". W. Wagliener .\ Co., (If Char' hesun. is knlown in coiuimnreial cir. ule< tll over thli. colintry His aileli In'anls have biven auceuunillated by hiln tt active work. lo is largely inter u('ii i 111any intdu(stries andi ever reiiy to (l)ter new lleids % hero entor pi''' plorn vs advancuemlent. Cat.t W.gener hans endorsed the FExpositionl with at suibsc7ription of $10,000. I. V raniI is K. Carey, of IlaltiLliore, I Md., is presiient of the Ch larileslon I (ConolidaLed Gas, IleetIrit andi Itail way 0 O pan y, and im of tle most I uVceuil youtig iusiless ieill of the South.I COl. \\ I lie .)(IIIvs, of Columilia, lI well IC nown It rouglo!uillt 1.11v State ias a Manl (If n p11 I ai Ill cli0ili' haracter and p - ali a ility. MIr. J. (". Ill phill i., Uhu able amd olneryetie edJitor of thlt Chlletstonl Ncw. and (jiritir. \ Imlan will) illoor tires- ill his lf rt to build up1 hh,. lil Live State. 114111. Joh (0 ''. Pivkenm, of lFicheni, iliugiles % -'Iiokln, is one of hIarle Loun's iiloL sLmubmstiIii vitizens. I Iv haS he-Id lInnly p)Osit.iolls OF[ trI--t, anid wis for yearr, in)yor of tie cilty of Chaleston. liv is a prominenit , mem-I' her Of till C'harleston tL har. Alr1. .1. 1 . Dlavid, (if .1. 1'. D)avid ir(O., SItalis very li Il in thC noin iner. Cial 'orld, and Is tevery where regarded as at mlan of gret, inLturprir and elier gy. lite is always at th front, in iny ItloVO for tit reeriial good, AMlr. Matiuel l'alphatil, lliiniiter. Of tilhe tity counclil of Cliarlestoni, pre ideIt of the Chitlston let CotIPOny, ere-i deniL of tiLe Charl ton Ilotid (omipany, and otherw isv variollly initere-eLd, ii Onle (if th i' 1m, valuable, mllbers (ifI tb. oard , Mr. Will. 11. Whel, stlior melember of the AirIn of \\'& iasoni, and prvemident, of thbe Y'ounig Mden's Business I'eague is one oif 01h0 leadin! mnen in) aill nlterris. U fOrhegd thit('ii Of tile City tald State. An11 ii-Iatig'aho worer. hie givt(s nauLChb Of his 61i1nC to tMhe puIbliC service, anil i anl entthusiast onl tib! ub)ject, Of thle E"xIpo-ition. Col0. (.. S. toehnis pres.idenIt Of the Atlantic Camit W de of SIAh Car lina and preih-nt (if tie Charlestonl and Savannaillih IZ. i". Col. Gathiten i. at COnservative and conlLItscient-ios work er, and will o k will iitii Lit.h matters brouIglt befoiet tO bloa!d. Le has for [)tiniy years served (in the board of aidermahltn and tand, very high inl Chare in and oiilh ( artLiia. TL If lit A Nlm lii'itlAlif.. jira minsli WVomen., Wihose Lsocks Were a Ituily Rted or Golenl 1111ne. We( are inIc in 1 v t o 1,hinitk that Charles J. Bayne has returne~d from his engagentents with lycum hureaub and lecturing tur Inanatgers Uo edi torial work on tie Agiiui(Ista L-veniig Ii eral. No oie else coui w rite to entertainintgly of the "' u ho In- hai red giI.L" lie Iakus a :ontIribuition to th dillslon in tle nlwspapers, stichil as no oic t. I uli mae. ile shows that iL was with at We of go.dn CIreSo es that iielen enslilrli thlt heart of 'aris, and 11e proved that Magdiile wiped the feet of the Master with hair that Was bloilae. Thie Ierald is like wise atiliority for the stateente, that Dante's IHcatrie wias a blinte ; Tasso's Arm.idv wats inVspi red by tie fair and blonde Il'leonlore Lid'te one of the most reni wkabie women of that epoch1, andl(] one with whoil, Of coirse, he was dies porately inl love. Teilt b'autl l Cleoni ic,,e s)pplanit' iall, IrIuLtte rIlS il thbe heart of her royal l(Vor, where Hlit(e "'veils her pearly tears in Lilt! siiiiing goli of ler il 11r. V'enus, the god less of e)aty and iove riises fromt the sea foam with del gold locks. The It was' 1.he( ;-oh~ilie 'i oIf the beautltifuhl 11.lia,1 mistr'2o' oif T1ibullus, that b)e witvhid the poit, and Cauallus sang tie gi ndes (If I-.rincs g olenIi hillir. 'The raia lnt idt'als of .I'itiani, Mu (rillo erihed Adrl~lienn deLi' Cordville~ii :~t "L''r hair was oS(f Ia reL'hb- huei oilt!f Lhalt, pie '7uilar (color seen1 ini any~i", oIf tuhe mor(~t, Lthe fair, wvhen brigh beL )fore her~i juigo~s, suddnlly threw (li her~ pepiium andii dazled itIh Lii Lwmiakers witih lier wonld rous ibeauti y, clad(1 on1ly in Liihe wavet' (of rippiiiling' hir. Menh haive~ not, ty wais Lten, as' no1W. IL womlian', hit, deLfense5(, an~d heLr pal:'nii was( granltte l instantly." iiy's Ilipatia, uilwe''s AdlineOt de .\iont~r7aLh, \'ir'i l's \'enuls, i homor 's Agamedeiiht, Shakiei<,speare'~is I'ortN Mi red-hard-is Nitrben! ~iiSabe lla ofii Ias uile, iuh-~n of 'i'r~ov,(itr in 1 . t of ihnsia .la ofr /,re, tlilIiabeith of Ivulinde Mary 50t'ii at, AuneofI Itu ssiaN, ex Empreuo s tiloni, ue, i yertli'(I iuoga 11t i ri Liso p IL I ,1n< n i itt li (!S 'hIO llin fof ilbe prosed ofeec os.iu coni~tlierisy:kt was derale, utI'IS ~at when 1,1 liu t~i on Iis werei ai sed ii I I it, wa IIhoughe itSVL oldineverihe lin !Loe.fi The\tr v.tcer. .'i irtlire, h t'arker, of121( 1ondon.if ithauhor (ofli'y ue ii ove r forty. o hiei i writing a C'.'ii, k liti n red I esp eelll IilOUCH I. HI AIrCSt L S1C\IA IST.I(' l r or :' yearl iiilir. thi. Nfe to i l l athawayi'i' has mo succes filly lrate forni iseas-~l( ofkife (I or ILLutery iiuresL in i0 per Ient I f \'ita F orces. NervousLIL'.N 1).rd , Kulneyit lad atrinary Comlant, arayi..l k DIipioinaat W1o Played an inipor. a tiant Part in C( tomnImporary III" tory. 'I'ho detilh of Coiut MIu ravielf, the c "ussian 1 minister of fore'ign abfairt, Ils produce-d a dcpll and vbiibl utfoot, l Im iiterLnatioli ilmats. They real- 11 ze that lb doimlinillan. ligurno in) tihe e vorld's areailb has4 hun removed, ind t i 1 eviico anI) inltee18 anxieIct~y as to t0b C ndividaIt1ity Of hill sucessol'. l iuisilan diplomacy is beginning to >v recognlized as Uilu most succeseful nid aggre:-Ove cx tato. Th pyla on ,he1. part of iussia for international u cc whitile' sheI was puhin operia lins in Chiia, atid ti poi tic stanid wvilich Llat governiimenti has assumed mI ever y knotty probleml, lenIds ground ror ih veri ie tion of ilss t'.i a' w pilictiin tiit "h is he toing power i Asia." it, is now conceded at Lhat Nilravief was tLe leading spirit C in allii the- ilnatters , aInd that all toI OS t'- scht-ilems mi smiiooth plays which h are iow seeothing to tie urface orilg- g naIILte In la it brain renarkahlu for i Ls tiick and coins iltu.it sihrowdness. iL is ev idint, if mal 'isu I deieid, tIt a mlinld Of U-o1nIsummaHIt aility IS b~ehind k all lissia's atCions and 1 Coiiiettelt judges are realy to believo tiaLt it has het'n Uhat of tile strong-willid lur' vielif rather than tei ,- iiggish ezarb'. Wilat will ble the outcomi of his death is a, yet miiiere Conl jectil re. it a htuccefssor can he found who maue u11) to his standailird the outward mani fe'stations will peraips he vagie. iiut if an ineilicient man is choseu, or if it becoiles appirent tbat Mluraviel Wls the powerl bhinhlid the thronLe, then tihere will ho changes anld devcop meti , of a radical and terrifying na ture. Theu other powers will cease to regard ilussia als ab stu.nbling-block iII tl path ioward the atitainment of their el h cnds, and we will see the pairtition f China, and othr bloody sChlemtles puJIed to ab speed'y coLiple tion. it lppears Iso that th U i1 ted St.tL's as IlS 1A ltu nchiltIi fr'ienmd in the Iotsian linister. What he has done for this. country is told su1ccinetly as fullow-, by lb ConLullm porary, and may he a reveilatiol to te averago news paprIII rea1derl : "When siltiliental sympathi y in Prance and Austiria's ancient griev anice ti accounit of our Mexical inL'er venLiin agai1ist Ilaximilian led to talk of a iiropean conert, aginst the Uni Led Statis in favor of Spaiin, a word from NIII ilvietf dispelled these danger OiS dream11,111S. T11e CCentl'iC Ip'oCCl ings of Admiral von lOuiderichs at, Ma iila, althouii undoublLtedly in excess of his iltu'tvition, had cliused many A mericais to doubt tLi sincerity of LGe'many11,'s11 neutrality, and to look upon irlat liriai Ias ourl inly friend in ler'ope. inglianld was prompt to seize hli' Ii id v111g, and the U111 ted Stlabtes w:6- netv er larer than then to tuiib ling int~i th Anglo A merican ailianuc p i L. Ily uNI 1I ratv I u.I in stru1 ct ions, Count Cassini hastnod L.) assiir our St aLte di'partment, that liussia in no way resented our advance into Asiatic Walters, and welcomed us as a nighblor in tie 1'hilippine1,S. lPrance, caulitioned b)y her aIlly, bIeCImIo mor13 discret,. iirmliny saw that her admirl's zaIil had miii.ri his :judgmeint., aid sent h im )T to Ilatavil LI) lire iarmilless salutes ill hnor of Queen Wi libiiiit's Coro niationi. i"aIvlaid Claimed the Credit of 11aviIg ihe Ullited Stitbexi fr a'Ol lb Ilur1o peInl wir, but theC decisive word which blxasLi i h imdtdlin1g IOjCt W las spknfromil St. P('utelbug." It, is reporteLd, InI addition, that there i' a pissiility LhaLt th death of the hie the Cabs1, new~i andi endiler s lavIenue.s hiti ii IIrest, ini thei developmentiisu of the nxiix 'I'NI weeks. Thei Noitodx (Confedoraite Spy hil a ConstliuLion Liibus w ri tus of this duatli of lille lloyd: W iion I readi tilb0 ConstitLutLioni's teo graph1)1 Cii ieo ln yeUsti'rdaly mlori'i ngj I wais siomiewhatb sho~iCkId Lo Ilarnl tbat, Ilii'l Ilhiyid was deadi. in the days of liy hxoyhood I r'egai'dedi this womanbf lbs a hero'ii ni whio was entited Lto a Ver iy hii gh pla1ce in Lii h iistory of herCl I 1 h-1 I 1.yd was lb Viriglliian of goodil fami lv. Shui wabs lan abrdeint Confoder al-C sympa iltlhizer', anid ILL the vory b)e ginin oij~(f ourll iil~ war 14ho( weiit toi workii to Iaid thei Cauise3 of her~i fr'inds. wor~ik of lb spy uintii the l''ederail lau thor, ies found i t neCcisary to huntil heri ilo-Vi. Th'Ie womanlbi was5 abirrestLo Lim and bll aga.inii, but, heri ready Wit andl womnlyi3 fascinatbions mxade iL easy3 for' hier to e"'capeII ith Lout, seriousl puniish-i mnt,. Shuo wabs patiibotI)ICicndl uttcrly feari'bvss. I'eqtiuintly shio~ took miiidniigiht r'ides in oCliies~ which were' Con-i slideredCI iinsaifc for' the holdecst, men. NI iore Lthan1OfC ince lrdio l''edera n h liers ar rested hur and11 searchiedi heirx persoin for dispiqatchles, bulL lie geneal'ly dVLIis s-wllow ed themii. After shie had11 maidtoi hier'nif famllous 1a lb CJon fedlerate spy' she visi tedl ALt ant L nd lb w I vas tie r-e'lpient, (If manbiy cour'eLess1 frnomi our best peleil . AL LtihatL time we ha i d onl y onll Liie' LtIr, L, A Lihenixean oni IDieatur str'eet, I sawi hi ir thei'e 1one1 night, es'ortedt bty thei late Colonel .1lihn WV. lDiCunban. She was5 eleyanitily cisti~umedi 1and wor'e ilur oinI AtLlanLta she madetI ab fine im preisIion, bu ai Llfter I eav ing hurC she had 1 m1anylii iIs fortLounes. AL o~nt LImo11 sh wasIV11 Iimpr'i sonleId ini Washli ingLon city aid her C.~ I guads5 t reated- hr i'th u grioat bruitail ty. l''inailly she1 wabs releaised, hut on tier waly to I~xuropie on a bliock bdo rullnner her31 ve',sei wvas cap)turedI biy at l''ederli i'u iser. NIiiss liOyd dIis' LI nguiishedl hiersel f on theo occasion by slapp1 in g the cheek oif lb l3deral 11011 tenant, ibut later' on 8she recoinsidered the mallttre muil marrhuIlii une Omntim. A w rnonths later - she porauaded her isband to resign, and in the course of short time the civil war was a thing the past. Bello Boyd's career was then practi bily over. She was a woman without country and her husband was ostra sod by his own people. Then she igan a hard struggle for oxietence. inding that she could not make a ving by writing for newspapers, she nitred the lecture field and during ic past thirty years she has visited very city and town in this country. Conditions and opinions changed so alpidly that the poor woman lost all of er friends. I'ven here, in the heart f the Confedoracy, she lectured to old and uiiym)athetie audiences, and n more than one occasion her baggage 'as attached. tlor blue-coated husband died and he married again, but the result did ot, improve her fortunos. The brave varted woman had to tight her battle lone, and now she is dead in a Wis insin town, far away from her old 'londs--far away from the VIrginia Ills and valleys whore her beautiful Irlhood was piasod. Deadl near the snow line-this won erful womian of the tropics I Dead where both man and nature are 11hl and unsy mIthote ! Was the irony of fate ever worse or iore cruel ? lO'r liello Ioyd-when our real his aran comes to tho front, she will have er rightfull paweu. Gm A'~ lwap 1hidt Watull *\ tI ii; . ai ns, and a tiood of (oIp ie IM l always be found W k n. 't a;!ree Iogetlier. \1 0u never knew 's ali fancy prices t o keep compny said you never will. Alnnual Suilner Cut Sale. ()n M on day morning we inaugurated ur 11an ;d iot sale on all Stijim er (toods. A Dimity Opportunity. \ll our 12%te and be Diimitites, on front ewutter, at l10e All oui r th0 Diliities, oil front counmter, at Scenlts. A sweepig reductioni in tolored French Jrgantdes. .\ few pieces of 40c quality at 20c. A pretly line of ithe 20e quality at 15c. I aieliceyou (an0not afforcd to lose this opportunity to secure soeic of the best mrigains ever ofTered in ihe above goods. .\ chance to get a Crepon Skirt. at little i ive piecues of $1 10 t'repon, elegant pat .ern, at 6;9c. Frive pieces of $1 .0 Crelpon, elegant loal Cri, al Vh'e. .These are new goods and just in, bodght or this satle. A Flyer in Shirt Waists. We have toi maiy; antd we have Inade a rule hnever to cirry a one over from oIe senOn to another, so here Ioes. Al 514- Waits ait .'32c. .All 7c Waists at 48. A 11 $1 00 Waists at 58C. We have many other bargains that will i Wrest, You. We initend to demonstrate our power of Iiwe crishing, and iicrease tle ltrchne I.capacity (of y cash. (:mali is the tive ow1 er that does it all. W-A Little Better Thani The Best,-Wi E?'is wiy we' sell themI.-l The A merican Ildy t:orset, all styles. (iir Irish Dimities at 1he. 0i2n le, Reynold1 6 Ftic Slioes for ineii. ltenitv. IS oes for ladies and children. Intitterick Piatterir. R. L. R. Bentz, (Xsh D ry (Goods andt Shloes. J. FSiCLTN KING, Manager Easley Branch. Greeniville Store,............ ... .'Corne0' olttrancee, 201 Main St. E?-Agent for lttutteiick 'l'atterins.-'w1 Th/olwn godstog below cost-all latest style -no old stock, .adica' $'alii Taut O xfords at. .......200 andies' $2 itt TFan Oxfords at..........1 50) aies' $1 60~ 'Tan atil Itlack Oxfords $1 00 \i issesu' $l 2i 'PTn and Black Ox fordls $1 00 lbildreni's $ i 'P an and 111k. Oxford, 80 lPRI1A & PA'rTON, 106 S. Main Street, tig' Plrst, door ahove binannmh) Ar nnuaniU'g