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THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL VOL 12.-NO. 17. PICKENS. S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 20 , URS AY, AY ~ 100 . nu nnifTA A a v ~A D VOLCANORnS OF THEt WEST INDIES An Ertiption oil the Islti(I of St. Vinceent-Detnlils of tile Calaimity. The fearful disaster at St. Pierre, in the island of Martinique, where 40,000 lives were lost by a volcanic eruption, was quickly followed by a similar disaster on the island of St. Vincent, one of the British West In (lis, which was threatenied even be fore the St. Pierre calamity. The cor respondent of the New York Herald, writing from the island of St. Vincent, gives a graphic description of the situ ation as follows: Adm2onitory rumblings and earth quakes in the vicinity of Soufriere came two weeks ago. On Monday, May 5, the lake in the old crater be came greatly disturbed. On Tuesday at 2 o'clock in the afternoon Lhe moun tain began a series of volcanic efforts. Severe earthquakes accompanied these terrible noises and detonations suc ceeded quickly. At 7 o'clock in the evening an immense column of steam issued from the crater and lasted un. til midnight. Terrible explosions followed on Wednesday morning, andi at 7 o'clock there was another sudden, violent es cape of steam. This ascended for three hours, when other material was I ejectel. At noon three craters ap peared to open and began to vomit lava. Six streams at once ran down the sides of the mountain, making an I awful scene. The mountain labored t heavily for half an hour after the ap- I pearance of lava. Fire flashed around f the edges of the crater, an-l thLre I were tremcendous defonitiotns in suc cession, rapidly mergig inuti a coat in- e uous roar. This lasteil through Ved nesday night and until Friday morn ing. The thunderings of tihe volcano I were heard throughout the Caribbeanr sea. The eruption hegan Wednesday. A t huap cloud in a (lark and dense col umn, charged with volcanic matter, t rose to a height of 8 miles from the c mountain top. Darkness like mid night 'lescended and the sulphurous f air was laden with line (lust. A black I rni'i tollowed, a raiii of favilla scoriac, rocks and stone. There were bright t flashes, numerous and marvellously a rapid. Thele with thundering, the c mounLain shocks, the cartbquake roar, the lava and falling stones created a e scene of horror. Large areas of culti- E vation have been buried beneath the a volcanic matter. c On the Windward coast seven planta. t tions are totally destroye(. Sixteen I, hundred and twenty deaths are already c reported. There are 167 cases in the (I hospital at Georgetown under treat- c ment . The dcaths have been caused r chiefly by suffocation by the sulphu rous gas, and burning lava masses. A few of the cases in the hospital s are likely to recover. A new crater is i reporte(1 formed on the Richmond os. e tate near the seashore. The country districts on the Windward coast are lit- c tered with dead bodies. t Kingston, tihe capital, and the whole I population are safe. There have been no accidents or deaths. Clouds of c (lust are blowing over the city, how- e ever. The roy".na'i mai tTm,.a. is transporting food and water to the< Leeward coast, sailing vessels proceed to the Windward coast on the same cr-'c rand. D.octors and nurses have gone to the scenes of distress. h e major- I ity of the corpses beCing found are coy-t ced~ with ashes, (decomuposedl and hard ly approachable. TIhe (eadl are being I buried in trenches, thirty in each. A (dispatech from the island of St,. Lucia, dlatcd 13th inst., says: " The Souf riere volcano on the island of St. Vincent is st~ill in destructive erup ti'on. The terr'ific cannonad~e can be beard a hvndred miles away. T1hie re.. ports are followed by coluimns of smoke, rising miles in the air. Im miense balls of coloi'ed fire also issuei fronm the crater. JLightning is laymng fiercely in the uipper sky andh the whole northern pairt. of the island is one mass of travelling flame, It is imipossible to reach the disti'ict by land or sea, and there is no means of esti mating the deCstrulctioli wrought, to life andl pr'oper'ty. Kingston, the capital of St. Vincent, is still saf'e, though showei's of ashes andl pchbles are con tinually falling. Th'le volcano itself is invisible.'' T1hue governor of the Windward Is.. lands, Siir lobert b lewellyn, telegraphs to the colonial ollice in ILondon from the island of St. Vincent, uinder~ datec of May 13, as follows: " I arrived here yesterday and found the st~ate of' affairs much wors5e than had been stated. The adlmin istrator's reports show that the country on the easi, coast, between Itohin H~ock and Georgetown, was apparentfly si'ruck and (devastatedl in a manner similar t~o that, which destroyed St,. Pioi'ie, and I feai' that, practically all living thmuigs in that raditus were killed. P'robably I ,(00 persons lost their lives. TIhue exact numb~er will nover' be known. Managers and owiiers of estates with their families, andl several of the bet ter class of people, have been killed. A thousand bodies have been found anid burled. One hundred and sixt~y pers5ons ai'e in the hospital at George town. Pm'obably only six of thio nunm ber will r'ecover'. The details of the disaster arc too harrowing for dlescrip tion. SI got,, at St,. Lucia, a coasting stoeamer, which is irunning up and~ (downi the leewar'd coast with watei' andi provisions. Twcmty-two hundred per sons have receivedl relief'. I have asked for medical aid from Trmnidad and Gretnada. All the neighboring British colonies are assisting goner. ously. Eveory effort, is b~eing made te giapple with the awful calamity. All the best sugar estates in the Carrib boan country are dcvasted and the cat- y tle are dead. The eruption continues, but is apparently moderating. Anx iety is still felt. All the oflicers and residents arc co-operating with me. The ladies are making clothing." f] Sir Alfred M. Ilodgson, the govern- p or for Harbadocs, has forwarded the iE colonial oflice the report of the colon- n ial secretary, who has just returned ci from a visit to St. Pierre, Martinique, s( which confirms the worst accounts of T the disaster. The secretary compares a the ignited matter, which destroyed e( everything within an area of teni miles long by six wide, to burning scaling T wax, Ile adds significantly, that w, the services of doctors are not re- "] quired as there are no wounded per- cr sonls. 11 Governor Ilodgson estimates that of two million tons of volcanic dust fell 1) on the Island of Barbadoes. ni In the destroyed city of St. Pierre, tv the work among the ruiis is being con- cx tinued in an unsatisfactory manner, fal says a Fort de France dispatch to the s1 Now York Herald. The (lead are hcing burned, the py- sI res being fed with petroleuim and tar. in< Lreat flroi are kept going, which at i light light uip the entire island, and as hich, being seen at St. Lucia, led to str ,he belief that lFort do France hadl mrned. mt Although thousands have been burn- rai ,d, many still remain to be cremated. an iearchers, while walking through the noi ishes, often step upon what appears of o be charred a pillar of stone, only to of earn as it yields gruesomely under oot, that it is the trunk of another un- lie ortun11at. ti1 Some o 1 te Wal's of tile houses that of mi staid, ermnble 1 and fall at touch. ill lole iIea of the terrible heat that prC ioured dlown from Mont l'elec may be fail ad when it is kinown that the iron sill ollers of the I rinolle sugar mills were nitg Jolted Its though they had been put i brough i f urnaice. rev Thie island of Si. Vincent is one of bei lie British \Vest Indian group, lying Sill ne' hundred miles west of thlin Iha- hat oes, and between St. iucia aid the su relladin~es. It, is sevenien ils if mw, by about tell miles in width, and tiol Ls 'ea is 132 square miles. Through abl bit island, fron0 north to south, trou Lt. tchei a ridge of llh, wooded, vol- am an c hills of subordinate, irregular arn lasses, which extend to the sea on 'J ither side. The volcano called the ran oufriere is in the northwestern part her nd tremlendlous erul)tions have ,c.. d re urred in it. I. rises to a height of for brec thousand feet, above the sea am mv(I. Its crater is three miles m cir- cro umference amid live ltndred feet miu ee). While the climate of St. Via- low ent is exceedingly humid, the average heq amfall being nearly seven feet, it is Loi ot unhealthy. The soil of the valleys ing i a rich loam, and sugar, rum, m1olas- rigl es, arrowroot and cotton are produced I.01 i abundance. St Vincent, has a local ill i overmlient subject to that of tile for Vindward Islands. Kingston, tile foil apital, is near the soutliwestern ex- tell remity of the island. It had a pop- 1an %tion of 41 ,000 ten years ago. the Prof. Henry S. Williams, professor cot 'f geology at Yale University, in dis- am tissing the Martinique horror, said: tha ia The tl roublie at M"art-in-iu au- mi 12 A. II L UI I 0 lL 1111(11I lj110 IYUM~1Ii A -t loubtedly of voicanic origin. It ver nlighlt hiave been associated with earth- 5011 tuake energy, ats the two sometimets shic occur together. ['le thlunder and hat ightuning which accompanied the erulp. mil ionl are niot, unlom~tmon iat siicht timies. phi l'hey were piroducedl by tite tensionl in a lhe aitmostphlere. tio1 " Tile volcanlic explosionls were due1 a .0 water getting into tihe cavities ill grai lie ersrthl and coming ill conitact with ma he heated rocks. Thlese explosions we ire frequent in tihe vicinity of the sea Ito >r r~ivers. The ashes spoken of were ] really not, ashes, but fragments of rock sim bhrowl out.'' ea "' Iow far dowr. inl tile carth are m11 hlese dlisturbanlces?"' thbe profe.ssor was asked. 8o1 " At various depths. Usually they cyv ire pretty dfeelp ill the earth andil mtay m11 be several miles down. Tbcli matter an thlat flows out after anl explosiois not,10 foi real fire, but moltecn matter. It, is red ch hot, aind flows downl thd moun~tainl like TI watecr an~d gives thie imprl~essioni of fire. an Gases are emtitted, andc takinig lire pro0- im dluice the flame wichl is often soon. of Tihe molteni matter sets line to alny thling in its coturse. Th'Ie theory is that, pr t~le miatter ill the interior of tile earth Ic is underlo very great, pressure, whlich li keeps it, front becoming mlolten. But bt as5 soon1 as it, is thrnown upl, thenl it, be- lhi comeIs molten miatter. " 1arthquakes are plroduced by a al sliding away of ma1sses of rock amnd hi thenu thlere is a settling of the earth. lh At, the Chiarliestonl earithquatike [lie al ciatck ini thle earithWt wassverl~ Imiiles hil long.~ TIhecath settledl onlly a few fil inchies." TIhe late Senatufom Iohni Shiermanil's grave. (on the Sherman lot iln thle Manlflld, (( ). ) cemietery, will bie miark- 01 ced by a matissive sarcophmagus. It will lie of Ii hode Island granite, 1 b iyh tI feet att the base, atndc wili weighl thirty tI toils. A couple)mariedl~ recetl Iy in I )ani- p~ ville, Kentucky became acuiamlt edl [through [lie spilling of a bottle of inik ' by [lie man on thle girl's gloves. CASTORIA For infants and Chlidren. The Kind You Have Always Bought ~ Bears the --- tii Inteestisig Sublject for thei ScielitisMt4 nnl L overs of Cn rios it ies. Saluda County has an extraordinary eak in tle person of a negpro who reaches admirable sermionis while he asleep, and last week a test was ade by leading citizens with a physi an and stenographer at hand, which cis conclusive that lie is not a fake. lie Saluda correspondent of tle News id Courier gives tle following ac lunt: Tho " Sleeping i'teacher "1 was here 8 iursday night and a large crowdl i -it out to hear this strange man. dajor Perry," for that is the preach- g 8 name, was in the charge of Messrs. P. Bouknight. and J. P'. Bodie, two this county's most reliable citizels. a rry has been living with Mr. Bouk ;ht, a few miles below this place, for elve or fou teen years and, witlh the il ception of a few nights, Ie has never d led to preach iL sermoii on going to a ep during this long period. 'erry is 54 years of aige, of medium ti e, copper colored aind( wears i flow- II beard. lie was raised in Fairlield n unty, but not by a Baptisti preacher, N has been said in explanation of this " ange phenoielon. tr. Bouknigt has l Ien in the com nity where Perry was born and sed and lived until 1. years ago, I emphatically states that Perry did belong to a preachor. The placeo his birth was near the present town Ridgeway. hic of the peculiar things about -ry's sermionizling lies inl tle fact t his plreaching dates from the time uis being paralyzed on (he left side fr 1888. lIe was never known to ki ach before then and lie has never ed to preach a sermon every night W -e then save occasionally oi Friday n( lit. at L test made by your correspondent w ealed that 'erry is very illiterate, I tig scarcely able to spell out the It" plest words, even with book ini a id. Ile is extremely reticent on the oF ject of his iightly preaching, and Pt resseLd will resent too close ques- ii ling. Another pecularity notice- tr e is that Perry can go to sleep aur- fo ided by a curious crowd as readily h l as quickly as ia babe in its mother's wi 1s. y 'hursday evening l'erry's wife ar- ( ged a bed in tle school buildling w e and at 9.40 tle strange man nil- CU sed andl "1 turnled in,' apparently, I the night. In lifteen minutes, ce dbit the gaze and hubhub of the da w'd, lie was sound asleep. Four U, mtes later lie commenced to sing in t and measured tones an old hymih inning " Come, ye that love tle 8 d." After 0liiing ou" " and sing- all two verses lie slowly turned on his N it side anld reverently Iepeatedl tle es -d's Prayer, making but one change It( t, viz, inserting the word " all '' be- II the words " our trespasses." ie is owed the Lord's Prayer with an ex- all iporaneous petition, tle logic and il ruage of it being as good as that of NV average white preacher. At tie E clusion Perry turned on his back ar after a moment's pause, sitated b t the text would be found in tle hI b' chapte~r ruf Matthe'iw land :20,Wh, se. Th.'is lie (uoted( and1 aL c~ompuart. all of thie quotation with (lie original liz ws that lie rep~eated thie words ver-tr im. Ihis dliscourse hasted forty-live intes and (lie reading of a steinogra- b2 e report mladle by Mr. TPadlock shows 1) losely reasoiied (with some excep- s is) G >spel sermoii, instead of beuig s censeless negro harangue. Fow 01 mnmatical errors were made and m ny of his citations fromi (lie Bible si r~c Substantil.'y carrect. At times aL was r'eally eloquent. LI 'or the most p)art lie spoke in a w~ oothi, conycersautional ,oiie but oc- b) ionially lie became impassioned and tI (10 (lie welkiin ring. Il 1'vice dlurinig (ihe sermnon lie had d nething like convuilsioiis, and when- h ir seized by 01nc of these lie im- a1 diately left olf speaking, his heart hi I pus ceased to beat and1(, except '(lhe straiige movenment (If his inns 5, one wouldI suppilose life ext(inict. ese conivul sioins lasted but a miniute dI as5 soon as oiver lie would coim and his sermioni jI st wherme lie left 'adin (lie saime (one. An examiniationi of the e'yes while 4J eaching showed (lie pupils motion ' 1s and a bright, light laIced close to 5 s face while the lids5 were putshed .ek did not cause5( himn toI move or nchl. - D uring his preaching pe(riodl it has ways been found impjossible t.o wake I mn. Pins have been stuiik in to his< sh, burning acids have been put out, his (ey es, but, all to no eIffect ,save I at, lie sulfered from these (~expei eints on awaking. Perry is par'tacuhtLrly severe in his iticisms of the present,-(lay preachers. e stateCd that "' wo are told there ere twelve disciples or teachers, and iw of these was a devil. lBut to-day think about eleven and1( a half out, of velve are dlevilIs.'" in (.labhoration of mis statement lie ieferred to (lie "mnnan mi, prea(lcr " anld " (lie self-sent reacher "' and ' (lie money-making reacher.'' IPerry made iio gestures at all, but, heni undIer the impression t.hat, lie as readhing from scmne book in (lie ib~le would run the lingers oIf hiis right and1( across (ie bed covering as5 if fol >wiing the hines. lie closed his sermon with an earniest shtortat ion and~ whieii the end was t~leach lay perfectly still andl slept mietly until awakened biy a physician, ho closely watched ~him throughout. an beiing awa~ikened he appleared rightened for (lie moment. Although' me had greatly exerted himself several St. Peter replied, 'That old man, sir is Noah and hie hd a loo( of ii8 owr to think about.." And now we read that, all the hor. rors of our civil war are being repeated in the 'hilippinies. In our war it wau the white Yankees who iade war hell for us, but now they are making it hell for the negroes in the Philippines. We were trying to smiother what out people stiffered, but they won't let us and now boast that (eneral Sherman found it the bet wiy to shorteti the war. No, we Old11 mn and wolen cu'1t forget, and I hope that our chil (ren1 ald grandchildren will learn it all mi some Sotthern history. The civil ized world halts not forgotten Hlerod nor Nero nor the 1)uke of Alva nor the massacre of 8t. Bartholomew where 30,000 Protestants were butch Ored Iu a m1ght. But when wi I Teddy repent, retract, and apologiz e lie has got it to do s0oner o1 later or go (lown i n history asm i 11111 licious de famer ol 0o whose slot H he wats not worthy to un1loose. lIe 11and Miles will get togetlher some time and111 some where. Now, why does not Teddy consider the fee Iilngs of ortit people il his ippoinlt Imionts to Soithern ollices? Why did 11e not give Savannab a white man for I collector ? Appointments ol negroes Lo be )ostlllast(ers and reveniue collec Lor1s are nl ilisilt to us, and he knows it. If lie 11a stich affectionate regard For those negroes why not give thbem t place lit Washington or Albany or Bloston or i consulslhip at llt ayti 01 Sanl Domingo? These olices are the licarest of ill to ur people. The postoflice is our rysting place, a kind of Mecca. and .he post11111ter 0111 Confidait. '1'ltt )llicer' should above all othurs be ic -eptable to the majority of the people. het1 collector Ias the commerce )f it city in his hands 11a(nd under is control, and that. coliierce is ill viite -none of it, comes from the ne ro race. What excuse can he give or0 such appomntments? None, anld vlen is lie going to retract and apolo /ize for that slander of Mr. I)avis? 1 i i.i. A it'. 6HACHINE ICCOTTON l'ICK ING. SN ew \\ Iivention Thuat Gives I'romnise o' Suocclessfi \\'ork inl the l;ield. i ufacturers' lIecor(, N ay 16, . .r! Fo'r several years inl inventor of it :0tton-picking machine has been try ng developintenlt8 of his iiveItiol in lie Mississippi I)elta. Two years ago he iventor, Air. Anguis Campbell, lAd his backer, Mr. F'. It. Morris, used lie mnchine to pick cotton inl such a ay as9 to im1press the spectaltors with ls success. The two getitlemenl, how vei, were not satimlied with the mla hiline inl every respect, anild since then hey have been remedying what1 they ionglt to be its weak points. llav ng perfected the mlachine, they sigiled list 110111 contracts for live imlachlin1os o pick 2,000 acres of cottonI in dLhe )elta next fall. In a letter to tile dianufactiurers' Rlecord Mr. .. S. Weiss If Greenville, Miss., writes I have watched very closely for' the at, live years the cotton-pick ing ma11 :hine patenited by Mr. Anigus Camp :1e11, which i5 ownled and1( opeorated by Llhe Amnericani ( otton Pickimg Co. of IPditsbiurg, Pa. 1 am11 perfectly satisfied, beyondl any qulestionl of a doub~lt, that M r. CampbIel lhas solved thle qu1estion of picking cot tonl with his ma~chiine, and it, does eve! bcttcir wor'k t~han is claimedl for it. On the 153.h~ day of last October saw the miaehine in opeorationi at CJol onel Morga n's place at Sheppards town Letlore County, Mississippi, and1( aa the macheline pick W3.7 per cenit. of cot. toin tlhat was open on the row, without destroying the leaves, bolls5 or stalks in any shape 0or mianner. I have also seen the malichine ait wor'k before fr'ost,1 never a greotn leaf, boll, bloonm or sqjuar'e being hurt. One could not tell that the macline h~ad been1 ill the fIeld, excepiting that the lint was missing. Strange ats it may seemII, the machine onily takes the inmt, but,1 (of course if there happlens to be0 a piece (of a dead1( leaf on an open b)oll it Lakes it, along just, as5 one( does plickinlg it biy haund, which, of course, n cleanieut before the cotton01 is ginnIedl. I think I am safe mi saymg1L that. the farmnere of this great I )elta only lhar vestedl about 75 per cent,. (of t.heir e1of this season1, and I think it, is a qjuestiol of at veiry shiort, timie whien Mr. Camp bell will have hlis mahineiii at a poini where he will get, 100I per cent. As I before stated that thle machiml Oicked1 03.7 per cent., however, th othier i.: per' cenit, does not go t waste', as the planter' cani gather iti lhe so chooses50. I dlon't thmiik the miachinie will wor! in very hil ly hanrd, hmut it, does0 the wor to perfectioni mI thut andI low lands. Th'le machline will plick at least thre bales per (lay, and1( hasi already pieke as high its five. l~very plater wit whiomu I have talked and who has see thle miachinie work is more t~hani please with it. Iin)y estimaition 1.110 cotton farml oIf tile South arie abou~t to receive the greatest, boon. It. goes wvithiout sayin atS, 1.4 my mind, the~ questioni has heo solved regatrdmlg thle harvesting cottonl. Tlhie signing of the conltract ind(icat a faithI ill the eillciency of the machmi which, if realized, means abniost, revolution ini agricullture' and( indulist ml the Sout1.h within t~he ne'xt, few year The suhsitutnion of machinnry for' mi The World's Greate For all forms of fever take JOHNSol It le 100 times better than quinine and nine cannot do in 10 days. It's eplendi feeble cure. made by quinino. COSTS 50 CENT in gathering the cotton crop has long been a dream, with most substantial reasons why it Should become a fact. Again and again an invention to that end has been announced, only to bring isappointment without destroying the hope. The success of the Campbell c picker must resiiult in an enormous economy in briiiging the cotton to the gill, one estimlate being that it will nearly halve the expense, in the encour agement of more scientilie methods in cultivating cotton, thereby permitting a greater area of land and gienter hu n'an energy to be empl-yed in the raising of other crops. Of special im- ul portance, though, is the promise in tihe re invention of the release froil the cot- Cl ton fiell of a great muasi of labor into tii othier lines of imdustry requiedl( for St th (he full developmielit of Solitherl re- tr sources, ald i wonderfi change for ki the better from present. conditions, il which the opening up1) of a I tiiber t ract, er the extension of a railroad, the startin' at of a cotton mill or the development, of S a coal or iron mine draws often at the b) moot inopportune moment, needed help c from i the fields, or i Sliddell rise in] the price of cotton tends to at.tract nleeded fr help from maniifacturin u1ndortak iligs. (rC n& This blancing of labor conitioniS. is likely to be accolipallied by ia alaliling of agricultural (ies. The use of cuttoi picking machines imust, tend to limit cotton-growiig to sectiois where great are.as of lan(n, devoted principally to cotton, may be under one managemnent , r as the use of such a maclhine b y the cultivator of one acre or ten acres would hardly he ecolloillical, if possi. ble. lience might he expectel ill rot toll-growilg a radical cbalinge sim1ilar to 1 that induced by tle adoption of ima clinery inl the wide stretchinhg wheat, fiels of the West. This cmnge, though, wohl injture no sinall culi Lva- 71 tr ready to adapt, hiimself to it. He -I inighit lose if he slhouid attempt to .1 colipet' with hand against. tho 1a chiie. [Jult if he shnoub( recoglize aino take adlvantage of the wider market for foodtiffs aind other produict created by the conlversion of cotton- N pickers into iniiers, lumibermaein, oper atives and l mechanimcs, ie woull hetter N himself conisiderably. N The saw gill created a d eimaid for an extensive clltivatioi of cotton and ani exlimui~son oI slaLve-hiiinlg. i, wias posille unoer the ld system, for the large cottn.grower to iiae eiogi from cotton alone to justify dhepen denflce upon1 ouitside sources for the bulk of his supplies, though mniy a well -imaniagedl plan taution was sel f-coni tined. Th'le dhestructioii of the slave -labor systemi brought about, ani acces sion of whites to the body of indlividli cotton-growers, forced, however, for the while to dlepart, fromi (lie habilit of living at honme, and often unable to apply most app~lrovedl methods to their cotton cuilture. Th'e labor dilliculties - led thiem to the mtvention of dlevices for (lie impllroveuimnt of mechanical handcling of (lie crop) after it, reached the gin, clIminlati ng in (lihmeroulndl baling pr ocess. Necessitiles, too ,gave an imupetuis to t~he mtovemnent for in creasing theQ amifoun t of cotton raised ( pecr acre, amid for a return to the rais- r ing of home food crops. Thie invyen tion oIf a suiccesafuli cotLtimn-picker will compllete t.he chain of miachinery, gliv ing to the Amnericani cotton-grower ani adlvantage which may iiever lie eqtualled, permitting him to enjoy all the best. results of long experience wtIh the stplIe, a.. d yet swell. hg the rn ik' of American productive labor. It is hoped this machiine may be a suiccess. The pearl industry of A rkanisas has reached a po it of piromtiinence~ i now among (lie eliterp'lrises of thie Of k State. Not, only arc thie pelS val I- - able, but, the mussel shiel Is arce binhg Sutihze. I in newly istabb shied Ibut ton il factor icc. Tlhie V/alley bu11tonl factory hi of Newplort, At k. , has beenI clhartered , nandi will soon1 stall. a factory of' 100. saw capacity, emIipliyinug abiouit thiirly meni, fourteeni of whom have already b een contlrlcted fill ill Iown and lilII. nois. Tlhe c ap talI stock of t.he com-* r iis lil,00 i In it is backed ex closively by homefli men0. A ccordhing to statistics (he climax in th rush 1151Of immigr'ation was reached Ihle week endling May 4. Ia seveni daliys 2.x210 immigrantse came mnto New York. This record exceeds by Y far thlat, of aiiy previous similar peOriod 5-. and is not, nearly equialledl in the total mI of somae months. times during his sermon, he stated that he did not feel tired or at ill exhaiust i; yet Ils pulse beat rapidly and his breath came quickly. Whatever else may be said of the Itrange "c sleeping preacher," the per ormance is no fake. Time after time ariiis citizels ill tins coility have tone to Perry's hom after night and cercted themselves to detect the fake, 1s they supposed, but Invariably after vatching him through the cracks in his ouse go to bed, and giving him tiic. o go to 1l1), he would sing a hymn, ffer a prayer, announce ),s text and reach a sermon. Ile nevt uses the ine text and the body of his discourso always different. lie rarely ever fails, however, to ive the preachers "I lail Columbia." The effect of this strange pheno 101non oil a spectator cannot be im 4ined. I'erry's father is said to be a white an and ie 11a 1ndiani blood in him so. This he shows unmistakably, as a)s his wife, who of late years al11ayh wcompanies him to prevent the cruel <perinents which were at first piac ced by some in trying to awaken her isband while in the midst of a ser onl. Men of ascientihic turn of mind tve ati interesting subject in the dleeping preacher," and Saluda ( ont in his person possesses on1e of the ysteries of the new century. IL 1 ARIP WANTS APO0OGY. OOsevelt'sl4 Remiilks A bo tit Jefferson Diavis Were W rong. lanta Constintlon. " Once more unto the breach, good iends-onco more.'" I would like to low about what time I 'resident :)osevelt is going to retract what ho rote about President I)avis. It 1111 ow been proven by the oflicial records .Iack'ion, Miss., that MAr. )avis never is Governor, nor was le ever a mem r of the Legislature of that State, d in a public address male after the t of repudiation, ie declatred he was )osed to it and the debt ought to be id, andl([ this aiateu r historian de Ilnces him ill his book as an arch Aitor and repudiator. Mr. Davis tight, ill Mexico for the honor of the .g; Won tihe victory at lhiena Vista; x4 desperately wounded and for live ars walked with citutches; married meral Taylor's daughter for his first fe and (Ididn't run away with her, .her; was secretary of war under anklin Pierce, remodeled the curri lumiii at West Pointt and it stalids to. y as he framed it; was i member of I a United States Senate when his t ate seceded and, like General ILee , went with his people. fie did l o Lek the presidoney of the Confederacy d insisted that another be chosen. aw all this has long since been tablished, tild if Mr. ljoosevelt (idl it. know it he could have knowin it. L certainly knows it now, and if i a gentleman he will retract it and t ologize to Mrs. Davis anid the faimily t (I to the sainted shade of Miss i inniC and ti the people of the South. 3 called him an arch traitor and :Ah repudiator, and compared him ,o t medict Arnold, and that slanderous I el is im) print inl at book of so-called the . fools, fanatics and idits who ye readl it. WVhen is he going to re. The international Cyclopedia, edited r(distmiguished professors of Column a Uiniversity and ] artmouth CJolleg~e, *ys of Mr. Davis: ''lie was a ripe holar, a vigorous writer, a splendid ator, a brave soldher, a trute genitle an, an accomtplished statesman, a uirdy champion, a proudi, true patriot,, lover of hb1erfty, a Christian hero is is the .Jefferson D~avis that history ill chicrish." General Lee was htis >sOm friend and confidant and yet, his so-called historian, this rough rider 1(1 bear hunter, praises Lee while he 3famles his friend, a mani infInitely is superior in every mtoral attribute id1 every ntoble emlotion. Hut maybe will retract and~ apologize, though 0om Moore, says: But faith, fanatic faithi, once wedded fast 0 somei de~ar fat1lchod hu igs it, to the last.." le had better retract,, for some) of our id soldiers are very madl about it. 'hey are tilking about suin~g himt for lander andl garnishecin g the govern-. tentt for his salary. K<illun g hears in he wiIderntess won' I.save Iin nor will htat little brush weha m14 inCubia. I'That. s perha'ps tihe biggest, little war we iave aver had, antd every small ploliti :mn and stump Orator who wantls an 5I1lce jumptls upl andl says we are0 iall )rethrein now. Weo fit, and font and >led together att Sant .1 uan aitd Sa0 ngo, md14 thten we c:rossedl thte wide oceant tot vhip out somel nliggers anid we wil 10oon all be oin the penlsionu roll. Ant >ldl veteran satid to mte, "' Thalt little spanish war remtind~s mel of the fellow who( was dIrownled at ,iohnsown, andt~ whnlt he knocked at, the gaite St.. I'ete, lidni't recognize hinm and( refused to let 'tim in. 'Whty, my (lear sir,' said lhe, I am one0 of the ,lohnstownt sufferers. [ was dIrownted iln thtat flood.' So t~he .Oood saint relented and1( let him mn. IIe wandelred1 about heaven, looking at the b~eautiiful thintgs and aifter a while came tecross an old mant antd saiid, 'Good mornmng, 01(1 gentleman ; glad to se1 you. Been here a lontg time, I reckon?' Thte old1 mant said nothing. 'I am one of the .Johnstownt sufferers. Iwa d rowned( in that great Ilood.' riTe 0ob1 man did ntot reply, but turned andl walked slowly away. So the fellow went, to St. P'eter and asked whto tha old man11 was. 'ie would not$ speak te me,' saidl he, 'though I told him I wa., in the grreat Ilood at, Johnstonn' Amn st Fever Medicine. I'S UHIl.11 and PEVER TONfO. does in a single day what slow qui d cures are in striking contrast to the S IF IT CURES. 1 Women as Well as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis ourages and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor and cheerfulness soon disappear when the kid neys are out of order ' or diseased. Kidney trouble has become so prevalent r that It is not uncommon - for a child to be born ' afflicted with weak kid neys. If the child urin ----- atestoo often, 1f the 'Ine scalds the' flesh or if, when the child aches an age when it should be able to mntrol the passage, it is yet afflicted with d-wetting. depend upon it. the cause of t difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first !p ::hould be towards the treatment of ese important organs. This unpleasant >uble is due to a diseased condition of the dincys and bladder and not to a habit as ost people suppose. Women as well as men are made mis able with kidney and bladder trouble. id both need the same great remedy. ie mild and the immediate effect of vamp-Root is soon realized. It is sold druggists, in fifty nt and one dollar of Cs. You may have a mple bottle by mail C, also pamphlet tell- Vome of swaozp-oo. all about it. Including many of the >isands of testimonial letters received In sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer Co.. Binghamton, N. - Y., be sure and ,ntion this paper. I 'K ENS RAILROAD .1 '. IC~ ii. I ,l'residenIt. 'TI I ' EC TA I IL1 No. 2. n'urs, I, -s'liedes Time Table No. 1. Ef 'live 1'.':01 A. AM., F'eb. 18t., 19101. -ail - ead Up. No. it). 8T ATIONS. No. 9. Mixed. Mixed. .it In m... . I 'ickensI At....... 2:5 ) )In .. a in...... I.Ig so '.........2:45 p i i ............ * ' '..........2:3 0 p m Al In ...... ....Ariali's............2:5 P m :.', a II ..........' ati l iln's ......... 2:20 p m1 I: it Ik........ Ar EIa ey JV.......2:15 ) m Ni. P2. STATIO 0NS No. 11. Alvxed. - Mixed. :00 p Il ...... I 'iken Ar. :40 ) :05 p ........ rglee uo 's........ :3 :. .......... p 'aron'. ... :15 : p ...........'A riail's.......... : () 1) :''l p ..........A lub L'........ 6 0 1)I :A5 iii Nlalelj,'q 6:05 p mu :-lu i'lm...A r' Liasley 1,v... :00 p mu ' l ag Stations. All Itrains daily excetll Sunday. No I0 Coinneels willh Sou1thernl Itatilway No. ! ( 'onnects wilt Soutbern aiilway I.N' No. P !lie neeltwith Smithern Itailway 11. It. No). I I Ciiects with i'Montil.hern Hlailway o. 31. fy''" 1r any inuIoriitjtuiol avply to (Generai Maniager. L'HE YOUNGBLOOD .GUMBER COMPANY AUGUSTA. GA. )FvleE ANt) Wonxas, Non-ru AUOUrrTA, 83. U. floors, Sash, Blinds and Builder's H ardware. [LOuiniNG, SiDiNG, U~1LI1NG AND INSIDEJ F'INISHIING LUMBER IN GEORGIA PINE. AlIl correspondeonce given prompt at ontion. Why Not Save The 4iddle-Man's Profit? Thu MJl'hall l'iano or Kindergarten 'rgan dlirect to the buyer from fac >ry. Write mue if you wish to buy an Irgan or l 'lano, for I canl save you loney. I travel South Carolina, and rould he pleaseod toi calil ar~d show you y Pianos and Organs. A postal card will bring me to you. L. A. McCORD, 2aurensH, - South Carolina Agents Wanted. ,ife of T. DeWitt Talmnage, by his on, itev. lfrank D)owitt Talmage, and tisoclate editors of Christian Herald. >nly hook endorsed by Talmage family. |normous profit for agents who act uickly. Outfit ton cents. Write in iedliately CL~AR.K & C0., 222 S. 4th t., Philadelphia, Pa. Mention this paper. I. .1. IIAVNKi4woRTH, C. E. RonINSON .. W. l'AaKKRL, Pickens, g, U Iroegnvillo, S. (. Saty uesworthIi,Parker &RbinSON, Ast oseneys-.atLaw, Pickenaii 0. H., - - South Canrolin~a Practica ini all Courts. Attend to a IjW'*Mo~nov to loan. flj., u (ired in) thirty tosixy day's *IIILUTen da - reia~lment FREEk. IIIIliail',ou ldto glad to hutve names of all suffering with Dropsy O. 10. COLL4UM DROPSY MEDI Cil NtCO., 3112-il3 Lowndee Building, Arilanta Ga.