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itR.. .NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1890. PIE$.0AYA G EOR G E JO0HNS T ONE. O2r New Congressman. What the Press has to Say of Him and his Elei - tion. SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. Col. George Johnstone, who has just r,ceived the nomination for Congress .om the third Congressional district, is a native of Newberry, is a son of the late Chancellor Job Johnstone, and is about 43 years of age. He received his primary education in Newberry; he spent one year in the State Citadel Academy, from which institution he entered the army with the battalion of State cadets. In 1867 he went to Scot land and took a thorough course in the University of Edinburg. He was ad mitted to the bar in 1871. Col Johnstone is one of the most successful criminal lawyers in the State, but owing to the sa-all remuneration from that line of practice, has been gradually withdraw in himself from it and devoting his attention more closely to the civil prac tice, in which he has taken a high stand for his age. Mr. Johnstone was first elected to the Legislature in De cember, 1877 to fill the unexpired term of Tom Keitt. During that term he served as a member on the committee on ways and means, incorporations and other important committees. In 1878 he was re-elected; and during this his second term he was chairman of the committee on incorporations and a member again of the ways and means. In 1880 he was re-elected; and during this third term he was chairman of the ways and means, in which position he showed a thorough knowledge of the condition of the State's finances, and exhibited considerable ability i.n their management. In 1882, he .was again returued to the Legislature. Mr. John stone hastaken an active part in the legis"ation of the State since his entry int:) the Legislature. He was promi nent in the discussion of the bond debt question, and was a strong advo cate of the reopening of the South Carolina University and the Citadel Academy. His course has been bold, firm and conscientious. Mr. Johnstone has taken an active part in every cam paign since and including 1876. He is a very effective speaker, on the stump, in the court room, and in the legisla tive halls. With his experience as a legislatori added to his ability, he will, no doubt, be one of the leading mem bers in the next Congress. A SURPISE TO SUPPORTERS OF COL. NOZ RIS. [News and.-Courier.] The second primary election in the 3d Congressional district was held on Friday last and resulted in the nomina tion of Mr. George Johnstone, of New berry, for Congress, over his _competi t:r, Col. D. K. Norris, of Anderson County, by a majority of twenty-two votes. The to:al number of votes cast at the election was 11,080 as compared with 11,954 votes cast at the first prima ry. The result was a surprise to the supporters of Col. Norris. Mr. John stone's friends have been quite confi dent all along that he would win. Col. Norris's vote was the highest compli m.ent that could have been paid to him, and he is to be congratulated that his friends stuck to him so manfully to the last. Mr. Johnstone will make a good Rep.'esentative. He is a thorough going Democrat, a lawyer of large ex perience and fine talents, and has prov ed his capacity for legislative work by his services in the General Assembly of the State. m--* Gifted with eloquent speech, possess ed of charming manners, ready, active and sympathetic, he will be able to ren der good service to his conststuents, and will doubtless make for himself an enviable reputation in the halls of Congress. We congratulate the county of Newberry and the Democrats of the 3d district on the choice that they have made of a Representative, and shall expect Mr. Johnstone to ma~ke good~ use of his time at Washington. MORE IMPORTANT THAN TH E TR IUSPH OF ONE MAN. [Greenville News.] The result of the Third District pri mary is far more important than the triumph of one man and the defeat of another. It means a great deal more than that of eleven thousand white Democrats in the district a mtajority of twenty-two voted for George John stone over D. K. Norris. The two men represented opposing principles, with the line sharply drawn. Colonel Norris represented the dic tate of a small number of representa tives of a secret organization formed for good and noble purposes and thrust into politics to gratify the greed and ambition of a few men. He represented the principle that the allegiance of a Democrat to that organization is higher and more important than his allegiance to his party. Johnstone represented the freedom of the voter to obey his own conscience and act according to his own preferences regardless of the commands of anybody else, and the * principle that in political action the first, highest anid most important duty of a Democrat is to his party. Mr. Johnstone could not have been elected without the votes of hundreds of Alliance men. His election is evi dence that those men intend to main tain their freedom, that they recognize the Alliance as a machine intended for the use and good of the people, not as ,.the master and ruler of the people. No doubt, too, many of Colonel Norris's supporters voted for him not in obedi ence to the dictates of the Alliance con ference but because they preferred him and thought him the better and abler man. He has certainly nothing to be ashamed of in the showing he made at the polls. He can feel that the defeat was not a defeat for him personally, but for the dangerous methods and princi ples he represented. The result is a square overthrow of the sub-treasury bill in the first issue made on it in this State, and is in that respect a vindication of theintelligene'e and common sense of the people. We congratulate Mr. Johnstone cor dially. He deserves his success and will make an active, able and useful repre sentative of whom the State will have good reason to be proud. RUN ON "GENERAL PRINCIPLES." [Abbeville Press and Banner.1 Mr. Norris was run as the Alliance candidite, and we believe he depended entirely on that vote for his election. On his visits to Abbeville we did not hear of his having sought the acquaint ance of any man in the mercantile or other business pursuits at this place. If he called on any of the public officers or any of the professional men in this county, we are not aware of the fact. Mr. Johnstone ran on "general prin ciples," and sought the votes of the people irrespective of their affiliation or non-affiliation with any of the secret political organizations which now exist throughout the country. If the Alliance had set up a different man than Norris to represent them, there is no- doubt in our mind that they would have elected him. In Abbeville county the Alliancemen voted almost solidly for him. Assuming that few outside of the Alliancemen voted for him, we believe that not more than one hundred of the order failed to vote for him. Mr. Norris, like many local candi dates, no doubt suffered somewhat in the public estimation from the evil reports which were circulated against him. JOSH ASHLEY BEAT TRE ALLIANCE. [Abbeville Press and Banner.] To Josh Ashley may be attributed the credit of Norris's defeat last Friday. Sometime ago "Citizen" Ashley was oftended because the Alliance caucus at Anderson ruled him off the track in the Legislative race. For reasons unknown to us, Mr Norris b4came the object of Mr. Ash ley's disfavor. On the day of election he came to Abbeville, and it is conceded that he turned from Mr. Norris that day enough vot--s to cause his defeat. So, if the Anderson Alliance caucus encompassed his defeat and denied Mr. Ashley a free race for the Legislature, he now in turn enjoys the satisfaction of knowing that he has gotten even with those who wronged him. We shall not attempt to say that the general public of Anderson County, and of the Third Congressional Dis trict, is not under a double debt of gratitude to the Anderson caucus. Without the exercise of their kinl'~y power in pulling down one man and in setting up another, the people of the Third Conf.essional District would have nominated the Bon. D. K. Norris for Congress lest Friday, and but for their action it is possible that Joshua Ashley would have been chosen by Anderson County to a seat in the next General Assembly of South Carolina. With facts like these before us, are we to learn no lesson? The Anderson caucus, by assuming to deny to one of the humblest citizens of that county the poor privilege 'of running for the Legislature, ensured the defeaf of their own choice for Con grm--the ver y man upon whom the Alliancemen everywhere had set their -hearts. GRATIFIED. [Sumter Watchman and Southroni.] It gives us great gratification to an noance, after an unusually close con test, the nomination of Mr. Johnstone, from the 3d District for Congress. The result of the vote-without mneaning to reflect upon the other can didates--is a credit to the State. Mr. Johnstone is a man of high culture and extensive attainments, possessed of a pleasing address and cor.rtly man ners. We predict for him a brilliant and successful Congressional career. GOT THERE ALL THE SAME. [Johnston Monit,or.] The Barnwell Sentinel is premature to at least the extent of a few car lengths. The Sentinel of A ugust -28th says: "Yes nowadays stan'ds for office, while no represents the country. Nor ris, of Anderson, swallowed the whole 'catechism,' and will represent t.he 3d District in Congress." The Monitor does not know how much "swallowing Mr, Johnstone did, but it does know that he got there all the same. BETTER THAN HIS OPPONENT. [Cheraw Reporter.] Mr. Johnstone will doubtless make a better representative than his oppon ent would have made, because the Iat ter was the representative put up by the organized Alliance and his move Iments must necessarily have been in accordance with the workings of that machine. THE ALLIANCE LOST INTEREST. [Bamberg Advertiser.] The A lliance evidently lost interest and did not work for their candidate. Mr. Johnstone is one of the ablest ora tors and criminal lawyers of the State, and will represent his constituents in Congress worthily. PELTLD wITH ROSES. [Johnistone Monitor.] When the result was declared New with roses and there was a general up roarious, enthusiastic, joyous hullaba loo. It will be remembered that the Al liance or Tillman caucus endorsed Norris. THE BEST LAWYER IN THE STATE. [York Enterprise.] The successful aspirant is a n:aa in the prime of life and enjoys the reputa tion of being one-of the best lawyers in the State. For a number of years he ably represented his native couhty, Newber y, in the Legislature and dur ing his last term was the chairman of the ways and means committee. He has always taken a lively interest in the politics of the St.te, and is well fitted for the position to which lie will .be elevated. In his hands the interests of the Third District will not suffer. A SURPRISE TO COL. NORRIS. [Keowee Courier.] The result was doubtless a surprise to Col. Norris and his supporters, but the friends of Col. Johnstone have been quite confident of his election ever since the first primary. The large vota cast for Col. Norris was the highest cemplimient that could have been paid to him,.and it is a matter of congratu lation that he was so manfully sup ported to the last. A protest of the election was talked of, but on Tuesday, at the meeting of the Congressional Executive Commit tee, after a careful examination of the alleged irregularities by Col. Norris, he, of his~own motion, withdrew all alle gations of irregularity and left the Board of canvassers free to declare Col. Johnstone the duly elected nominee of the Democratic party for Congress. This conduct on the part of Col. Norris was both patriotic and commendable, and was received with hearty approba tion by his friends as well as those of Col. Johnstone. t Col. Johnstone has made a manly and honorable fight in the struggle just ended and has well earned the I honor conferred upon him by the 1 voters of the Third District. He is an able lawyer, ready gpeaker, and loyal t Democrat. He has had experience as a legislator, having made at one time a i capable and influential member of the ] State Legislature; so that it is reason able to suppose he will make both for himself and South Carolina an enviable reputation in the halls of Congress. But the last ditch is still to be crossed, t and a Republican, probaly Walker Russell, will yet contest the seat in C,ngress with Col.. Johnstone in the i approaching general election. In th's < event, it will be the duty of every true t and loyal Democrat to do all in his< power to secure the victory of the Democracy and the election of Col. Johnstone. t PLEASED A'2 THE RESULT. [Clarendon Enterprise.~1 The congressional primary in the I Third district is over, and Col. John-' stone has licked out Col. NorAs by a close msj6rity of twenty-two votes-. Col. Norris it will be remembered swal lowed the whole alliance, the farmers' movement,'the platform and the March convention, and took in the sub-treas ury bill as a kind of a dessert. It t seems though that he took on a morsel too heavy to digest well, and failed to I receive f rom the articles sufficent sus tenance to enable him to win the race. Col. Johnstone partook less ravenous ly, and only accepted such articles of the great reform layout as were calcu lated to give vigor and strength to the government, progress and prosperity to y the people and endurance to the demo cratic party, and thus he camne in on a home strike. He ":-egarded" the party caucus. We are very much pleased at the re suIt of this primary, not that we re joice in the defeat of Col. Norris so y much, but because we are proud to see elected a man like Col. Johnstone, who e has the courage of his convictions andi dares to express his opinidns in the face ~ of threatening defeat. rEPRESENTS TIlE ENTIRE DEMOCRACY. t a (Anderson Journal.] r The princilpal interest in the election, however, centered on the race for Con gress between Capt. D. K. Norris and Hon George Johnstone. Capt. Norr's had a long lead to begin with, and be sides was the known representatative a of the new organized methods intro- ~ duced into this campaign, while Mr. I Johnstone had no organized backing to r assist himi over the long st retch he had ~ to cover. It was a case of nerve, mettle t and conscious strength against a long ~ lead, the iinside track and unlimiited a jockeying. From the first jump Joh.n- t stone bounded forward, and it soon de veloped into a neck-and-neck race. It r was not until late Saturday afternoon that assurance was received that John stone was from 16 to :1 ahead, there ~ being some difference in calculat'on, but this wvas not accepted as authentic by the Norris supporters. There were charges ard counter-charges of irregu larities in this county, and notice off cont-st was entered against Pelzer and Fork No. 2, on the ground that a num-i her of negroes had been improperly voted. The first-named box went forC Johnstone and the other for Norr's> and the irregularities alleged amounted to about a set-off. Var:ous and vague other irregularities were spoken of or hinted at, and as a consequence much of the interest that hovered over thet election was transferred to I he meeting of the district executive committee at Belton yesterday to canvass and declare. the vote, and it was with no sniall de- 1 gree of relief that it was learned by telegraph that Capt. Norris had with-I aad been formerly declared the choser Democratic candidate for Congress. How this conclusion was reached i aot publicly understood,. for. Capt Norris stated that be went to Beltoi :hrough the countiy Monday night it >ehaf of his cause, and it is known thal ie purposed to prosecute a contest ur ;o the time the executive conmitteE 'uesday morning. After the com iittee sat with closed doors for a con iderable time, the doors were opened when Capt. Norris announced publicl3 hat he withdrew his contest. Ther he committee announced the oficia: otal vote as follows: For Johnstone, ;,551 ; for Norris, -5,529-giving John tone a majority of 22. Johnston was herefore declared the Democrati< iominee for Congress. Col. Johnstone arrived in Anderson on the 4.45 train Tuesday afternoon, ,nd was met at the train by a large iumber of citizens and the Young .merica band. Being escorted up own to the Hotel Chiquola he was alled on for a speech, when he re ponded with expressions of thanks or the kindness shown him personally, ppreciation of the new responsibilities tow resting upon him, and assurances hat he regarded himself the chosen epresentative of the entire Democracy, .nd not of a faction. He pledged him elf to discharge his who!e duty to all he people to the best of his ability, .nd urged the Democracy to stand as a an in readiness for the contest yet te e waged in the general election. Newspaper Enterprise. Abbeville Press and Banner, 28th ult.] At two o'clock on Saturday morning, he Newberry Herald and News print d a full tabulated statement of the lection, which took place in that ounty o'n Friday Irst. That was en erprise. Contrast that with Abbeville. At kbbeville we received by telegraph artial returns Friday night from a few >oxes. The telegraph office was closed a lit le before twelve o'clock. A number of interested persons vaited at Mr. Benet's office for Mr. . B. Gary and Mr. Hayne McDill tc ome from Donalds and Due West. [hey came about one o'clock with re >orts from these boxes.. That was the extent of our informa ion Friday night. Returns began to come in early Satur lay morning, and by midday, all were ii. It took from then till about three 'clock to make the official reports and he tabulated statements, and to de lare the election. To compare Abbeville and Newberry rinters on this occasion, it would seem hat the Newberry printers are a long vay ahead. We do not know how it was in New. >erry, but in Abbeville no candidate ad made arrangements for a complete eturn from any box. There are twenty. ght boxes, and some of them are wenty or more miles distant. As a ~usiness enterprise it would not pay his printer to go to the expense of get ing all these reports to print an extra, vhen we could otherwise get them in ime for the regular issue of the paper. But as a matter of newspaper enter rise, The Herald and News is ahead of nything yet reported to thisoffice. An Honored Name Dishonored. [Special to Greenville News.] CHARLESTON, S. C., Sept. 1.-E. Du ose, freight agent of the Charleston & avannah Railway here has been miss ag since last Wednesday. An expert now at work on his books. His defal ation, it is said, will scarcely exceed 2,000 which is covered - to the road y his bondsmen. The matter has en kept very close by the authorities f the road and only leaked out this vening. Dubose is about 30 years old, smarried and is connected with some f the best families of the city. He was quiet man and had a slightly nervous mperament. He was well known nd liked. No information has been eceived as to his whereabouts. The Only Feminine Militia Company. [From the Kansas City Times.] Miss Helen Furniss of Cheyenne, Vyo., is visiting her friend, Miss Bell f Kansas City, Kan. Miss Furniss be angs to the only female company ol egular State Milita in the United itates. The company was organized 0 celebrate the date of Wyoming's itatehood, and met with such great pproval that it was decided to make be organization permanent, and the oung ladies were mustered into the egular service of the State. Miss Fur is is the first Lieutenant of her comn any, arnd wears the regulation insignia *f her rank. A Beautiful 'Vienna Girl. From Philadelphia North American.] Standing, sit ting, leaning; sad, smil ng or simplc meditative; arrayed in a ariety of chic costumes; smoking a igarette, peeping over a mask, &c., he has challenged comparison with very fresh rival. A few years ago she on a $5,000 prize at a beauty contest. hen she was simaply Miss Mertens, to fortune and to famre unknown." fter that she b'ecame a fIxed star in e theatrical firmament, and is now n actress at the Eden Theatre in Paris, he is a distracting beauty, perhaps the nost beautiful woman in Europe. Her kin shows the smooth, dead white o1 he magnolia blossom, a tint seer tc erfection among the Austro-Hunga. ians. An oriental longer softens her arge, white-lidded eyes. She is tall, 01 Paene/\oua bild, and/ very9 grsaceful. CLEMSON'S FIRST PRESIDENT. The Man Chosen to Preside Over the Fainers' College-A Sketch of the Life of President Strode and His Work for Education-Opinions of Lead ing Scholars as to His Quali fications for the Place. [News and Courier.1 Somietime ago Ahe simple announce ment was made that the trustees of Clemson College had unanimously chosen Prof. H. A. Strode as president of that institution. Few, except those actively engaged in the work of the school room, knew anything about the man called to this trying and inpor tant work. The people of the State are interested in Clemson College, and all classes are anxious that it should be a success, in the fullest and broadest sense of the word. There is naturally some curiosity among the peof.le in reference to the man upon whose shoulders more than any other rests the responsibility of making Clemson College a powerful factor in solving the agricultural questions before the peo ple. President Strode was born in the city of Fredericksburg, Va., on Febru ary 6th, 1844. At a very early age he developed a strong tendency towards mathematical and scientifical studies. He quickly completed such courses in these lines as the ordinary academies of his native city offered and was sent to Edgehill, the school of the celebrated Samuel Schooler, of Caroline County, Va., for such further mathematical and scientific preparation as a course in engineering at the University of Virginia might call for. Mr. Schooler was a remarkable man in many ways, and without doubt the finest mathe matician in the State. He was full of the enthusiasm of the true teacher and kindled the same enthusiasm in the minds of his pupils. After leaving Edgehill, on account of his youth, Mr. Strode determined to wait one year be fore entering upon his course at the University. Within this year the civil war broke out and the day of Virginia's sceession found him, at 17 years of age, in the ranks as a volunteer, where the last day at Appomattox also found him. After the war two years were spent in teaching to provide the means for a university course. In 1867 he entered the University of Virginia, and in the same year won the mathematical medal, besides passing with distinction in other departments. The following year he was called to take charge of the preparatory department of the Richmond College on recommendation of the University of Virginia. The year following he accepted an offer to take charge of the mathematical dc partment of the famous McCabe School of Petersburg, Va. During this year the highest honorary degree of acade mic character was conferred on him by one of the oldest colleges in the country. This degree he has never used. Tihe following year he returned to the Uni versity of Virginia to complete his scientific training under the celebrated chemist, Dr. J. W. Mallett, who had recently been called to fill the new chair of analytical and applied chemis try. During this year Mr. Strode w as nominated by the Uriversity as as tronomer for Dr.'Hall's Arctic explor ing expedition to fill the place of the gentleman first appointed, who had fallen sick, The recovery of this gen tleman at the last hour deprived Mr. Strode of the perilous delights of that experience. He completed all the scientific courses of the University, embracing all lines of chemistry, theoretical, applied, analytical, agricul tural. On leaving the University lhe was tempted by a large offer of salary to take charge of the mathematical de partmient of the Norwood School, one of the most successful then in the State. Within a year he wa invited to establish a preparatory school for the University of Virginia in the county of Amherst, the citizens subscribing $6,000 in aid of the enterprise as an in ducement. This was the beginning of the Kenmore School, where Mr. Strode spent seventeen years of his life as principal. The Kenmore School was soon acknowledged to be amiong the foremost in the State and num bered among its patrons many whose names are familiar to the ears cf South Carolinians, viz.: Memmiinger, Main ning, Hampton, Reed, Rion, Adger and others. Its students maintained a remarkable record at the University, not one having failed to graduate in his first year on mathematics, chemistry or natural pbhosophy who took one of those schools, and twvo of its students having become later members of the faculty of the University. Along with his labors as principal of Kenmore, Mr. Strode conducted for ei';ht years, as; editor, a journal devoted to the devel opment of the industrial resources of that section. A t the end of seventeen years Mr. Strode was offered the chair of mathematics in the Univeisity of Mississippi, and1 on declining it was in duced to accept the place by an increase of salary. Whilst principal of Kenmore Mr. Strode was married to Miss Millie E!lis, the daughter of Col. J1. T. El!is, who fell in-Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. His fam'ly now consists of eight chi!l dren, ranging in age from 2 to 16 years, tbe oldest and youngest being boys, and the others girls. Prof. Strode had already decided, on occount of insufliciency of salary for his supporL, to resign his chair in the Un.versity of Mississippi to resume l's old labor of love at Kenmore, when he beanme aware that his~name had been endorsed by the University of Virginia, without his knowledge, some weeks before, fr the presiency of the (iem son Agricultural College at Fort Hill. His election on the first ballot wps unanimous. Before the knowledge 6T his acceptance of this position had been made public Prof. Strode was in vited by the president of the board of trustees of the Virginia Military Insti tute to meet that board with respect to the vacany in the chair of niathiemat ics in that institution. The following extracts from V,unta ry testimonials will show what deter mined the board of Clemson College upon the selection of Prof. Strode for the position to which it has selected him: The Rev. Dr. R. J. McBryde. rector of the R. E. Lee memorial Church at Lexington, Va., in a letter to Mr. J. E. Wanamaker, of the board of trustees, says: "Prof. Strode is known to us here as the principal of the Kenmore Uni versity, School. A distinguished graduate University of Virginia, a tho rough teacher, a farmer, a man of busi ness, full of energy, and of large obser vation, her old State would do well to secure his services. Mr. Strode is a man of the highest moral character, and was a young private soldier in an artillery company throughout the war, without a blot on his iecord." Capt. Gordon McCabe, head master of the famous Univ(rsity School at Petersburg, Va., writes of President Strode: "I have just heard that Prof. H. A. Strode, of the University of Mis sissippi, has been recommended to the board of trustees of Clemson Agricul tural College for President of that insti tution. I trust that, as one deeply interested in the furtherance of sound and solid education at the South, I may be allowed to recommend Prof. Strode to your honorable board in the most emphatic manner. I have known him well for over twenty years. He is a man of fine executive ability, a scientist of extraordinary attainments and a most admirable teacher. I can speak with full knowledge on these points, for over twenty years ago he was the senior assistant master in this school. I take the liberty of writing direct to you, because I have been for several years a member of the visitors of the University of Virginia, and I know how glad we a'e to get testimonials that we can thorougL;y rely on-not those asked for by the applicant, but those written without solicitation. You w'11 be fortunate to secure a fine fellow in every way as Mr. Strode." Prof. R. B. Fulton, professor of physics and astronomy in -the Univer sity of Mississippi, writes: "I trust you will not think I am going beyond the bounds of propriety in writing to you regarding the merits of a gentle man who-e name may come before the board of trustees of the Clemson Agri cultural College in connection with the presidency. I mean Prof. H. A. Strode, late principal of Kenmore High School, Amherst, Va., and now professor of mathematics in this University. Prof. Strode finished his course at the -Uni versity of Virginia about* fifteen years ago with great distinction, winning the Courtney mathematical medal, one of the highest awards of honor. He was a classmate and intimate friend of Prof. Jobhi B. Adger, Jr., late of Pendleton, S. C., and once professor of chemistry here. Both worked at the same time in chemistry under Prof. Mallet. "Prof. Strode taught for about fifteen years in his own private school (Ken more) at Amherst, and won there en viable distinction as a teacher and a manager of the affairs of a school. He has been here one year, and has won the friendship and regard of his col leagues and respect and admiration of his students. He is well up in mathe nmatics and chemistry, having made specialties of these topics. He has been a very successful teacher, his pupils being a proof of his excellent work manship. He.is h'ghly esteemed at the University of Virginia, where he is well-known to many of the professors. He is about 45 years old, a nd he and his family are rem-irkably pleasant as sociatcs for a college community. All of us here regret that Prof. Strode finds it to his interest to return to Virginia, if he does not make such arrangements r.a will give him a salary beyond what he now receives. His rea,ons for leav ing here are purely financial ones, and he has frankly told the authority that he must icave. "From an intimate acquaintance with Prof. Strode here, as well as from a general knowledge of his work in Virginia, and also from a knowledge of the testimionials that brought about his election to the chair of mathematics here last summer, I am confident that your trustees could not do a wiser thing than to put him in the office of president. The following are briefly, somie of my reasonis for this statement: "First. He hes the scholarship and the mental and physical vigor for the work. "'Second. He is thoroughly acquamnt ed with the best methods of getting on with associate instructors and with boys, having been the successful head of a noted high school for many years. "Third. His experience in the busi ness affairs of such a school served to bring out the very qualities that will be most valuable in the p)resident of a new college. "3Iy connection of eighteen years' duration with college work has tught me one lesson-that experience isabout the only school in whicn the head of a college learns much. Thlere are thou sands of details in college management that can be decided with certainty only by one whose knowledge of affairs is fitted to make a judge. "Fourth. Socially, and in his family. Prof. Strode would be an acquisition to any community. He is not a mem ber of any church, but his family are Episcopalians, and he is eminently a moral man. His influence and exam p)le are such t hat one would take him to be a chjurebt member. "rrusting that you will not consider me impertinent in writing thus, Ihave ventured to say what I have out of my regard for Prof. Strode and entirely without his knowledge." THE AGE OF IULES. Story of One Which Lived "Some Length of Pedod." [Chicago Herald.] "H ow long do mules live ?" repeated thi Major, as he placed his feet on the railing of the hotel veranda and blew into the air, slowly and reflectively, a vast cloud of fragrant tobacco smoke ; ":well, I don't know. I never saw a mule die, and I never saw a dead mule. But for all that I'm hardly pre pared to say that they live forever." "Tell us about Colonel Waterman's mule," broke in the Doctor, extract ing a beautiful meerschaum from its case. "I think none of the others have ever heard that sto:y, and I as sure you, gentlemen, it is as good as a fish story." "It's not much of a story and it's true. At the beginning of the war 'olonel Waterman had an old mule by the name of Jenny. As t.e Colonel had an opportunity to sell the animal at a good figure, he did so. To be sure, Jenny had been in his family so many years that she seemed like a member of it, but $30 is not to be sneezed at for an old mule, so the Colonel put all sen timental feeling aside and let her go for $30. "That was just before the war?" queried the landlord, standing in the door. "Yes, just before the war," contAn ued the Major. "In the exciting times which foL lowed of course old Jenny was entirely forgotten. About ten years after the war was all over the Colonel- con eluded he would like a young, lively mule. After .a great deal of experi menting he bought one that just suited him. Among other good qualities it looked just as Jenny did when she was young. The Colonel's son Frank happened to come home on a visit a day or two after the purchase. The morning after his arrival he wandered out to the stable to see the new mule. In about ten minutes he returned and asked: "Father, what did you pay for that mule ?" "Seventy-five dollars," replied the Colonel. "Frank burst out laughing and ex claimed: 'That's just $45 more than you sold her for !' "And sure enough the Colonel's young mule was none other than the old Jenny." "I never thought to ask you," said the Doctor relightinghispipe, "whether Jenny is still alive or not." "She was L year ago,'" replied the Major promptly, "but was beginning to look a little weary. There's no way," he added, moralizingly, "of telling the age either of a mule or a negro." Fell 1,000 Feet From a Balloon. [From the Philadelphia Record.] MANSFIELD, 0., August 29.-To-day was the elosing day of the fair, and 10,000 people had gathered to see the balloon ascension by Prof. Charles. The balloon used was a hot-air concern and was held over the furnace by ropes in the hands of bystanders. When all was ready Charles gave the word and the balloon was released. As it shot upward the spectators were horrified to see Miltoti Redin, one of the leading'young men of the courity, clinging to a rope dangling from the balloon. Redin must have lost his head, for he clutched desparately at the rope, and in a moment was over 100 feet in the air. The balloon rose rapid ly, and Charles could be 'seen atterapt ing to draw Redin up. For ten minutes Redin clung to the small line as the balloon was whirled southward. While at the height of a thousand feet Redin's hold was loosen ed and he was seen to fall. His body shot downward as from a cannon and struck the earth half a mile away. When found the clothes were torn off, every bone was broken, and 'the body wrs crushed out of human semblance. The Influence of the Telegraph on Diction. [From the Jewish Tidings.] Somewhere I read long ago that the evergrowing practice of telegraphing was undermining the grammar and the literature of America. Though I be lieve that the literature of America, especially of the United States, is but just begun-barring, of course some notable instances in the earlier history of our country, I candidly confess that in the very nature of the brevity of telegrams there is nothing which tells against pure diction and sound gram mar.. I was in receipt only last week of a letter from a well-known editorial writer on a Ne,v' York newspa per. The lar.guage of telegraphy' was as easy disceiaed as though the epistle had been written on a Western Union blank. "Yours received," "will write again," 'am not sure of phrase ology," "Huxley mentions same," are some of the expressions this well traiaed writer allowed to slip from his peu. Hfemphill Held1 on Tight. (From the Anderson Journal.] Editor Hemphill, of the Abbeville Medium, secured a renomination for the State Senate in the recent primary election over the Hon. C. A. C. Waller, of Greenwood. Gen. Hemphill had tail hold on Captain Tillman and got there, while Mr. W~aller ran on his own mer'ts and was defeated. If Hemphill had relied on his merits in the race it is thought that Tillman's coat tail would have been elected just so. The College-;red Indian. LNew York Star.] "Curious notions some of these phil anthropical people have who want young Indians sent to college, educated and then returned to their tribes to help civilize them !" It was John Selend, of Helena, Mon., who said this, as he sat last nibt in the Fifth Avenue Hotel. "I have lived," said he, "more than thirty years on the far Western fron tier, and my opinon *on the Indian question is worth something. I tell you that once an Indian, always an Indian; for there is something is this easy, careless, irresponsible life they lead that hold them proof against any line of civilization. Their chief occu pation is their own adornment, and their days are a succession of talks, smokes, sleeps, feasts, .dances, funerals, weddings, and all woven into a never ending warp of poker, with an oc casional dash of horserace. Educate them? You can't do it. I wastold something the other day which will do as a proof of the truth of what I say. On the Osage Indian Reservation there are about fifteen hnndred In dians, and among them some fifty graduates-boys and girls-of the Car lisle University. It woulagrieve those excellent educators who have charge of that seminary if they should per chance visit the Osage agency at Pan husks and review their former scholars. The last one of them is in'his breech clout and blanket, and avoids English as a language as if every word was a rattlesnake. There is not one left to tell you the tale of their sojourn at Carlisle, for not one of them will speak English. ..The fact is, as showny even a causal look, the education of. the full blood Indian isan exaspatng failure. It will ever fail, as willall at-. tempts by one race to make its civilW zation fit another and a different-one." A North Carolina Hustler. William T. Crawford, the Democra; tic nominee for Congress in the ninth district of North Carolina, is a hustler. He was born on a farm in Haywood Cdunty in 1856, and is therefore4only 34:years of age. As soon as he was able to do so he worked hard in.the field until he was about 18 years old, when he was taken with a desire togo to school and learn something.. Young Crawford went to the public school '. until 20 years of age, at the same time keeping up his share of the work.on the farm.. At the age of 24 he.dvansed.to the position of teacher of.- a coury schooL Soon after this he entered:the academy at Waynesville, studying whenever the duties of his own school would allow him. The course 'at the 3 academy was completed in '82, and then Mr. Crawford emigrated to Colora do, where he engaged in farming.~ Be fore he had been in that country very loiig, however, he came to the eonelu sien that Western North Carolina, writh its mountains and hills, was the better place of the two to make money and enjoy life in. So he pulled u-p his stakes4 in Colorado and returned to Waynes ville. There he engaged in mercantile - business for some time and in 1886, was elected to the Legislature, carrying the county by 500 majority. -He served two years in that capacity and was re elected in 1896. After two more years service in the Legislature be was, in 1888, chosen elector of his district. In 1888 Mr. Crawford was made engroe ing clerk of the House of Representa-A tives. Since that time he has studied law at the University law school at Chapel Hill, standing .highest in his class. He is said to be an excellent speaker. Great LongevIty In a Japanese Family. "A thousand years in one hueod (ikka sen-nen) is an old Japanese say ing, employd with reference to an event which, in respect of extreme; rarity, may be classed with the sight of a dead donkey or a tinker's fun The Hochi Shinbun says that an in stance may be.found in the household -of a merchant called Mizuma Gensuke, 'who resides at Kanazawa, in the Saita ma district of Sado. The family -con sists of the following 'members: Great great-great-grandpapa Gengo, aged 130; Great-great-great-grandmamma Tomi, aged 132; Great-great-grandpapa. Gem bei, aged 101; Great-great-grandmaammna Miyo, aged 99; Great-great-grandaunt - Yoshi, aged 10.5; Great Grandpapa Gensuke, aged 81; Great-grandmiamma Kimi, aged 79; Grandpapa Gempachi, aged 61 ; Grandmamma Toyo, aged 60; Papa (Genkichi, aged 40; Mamma Tomo, aged 38; Uncle Genroku, aged 3.5; Son Genshichi, aged 14; Daughter Toki, aged .5. The united ages of the fourteen amounted at the close of last year to 980, and consequently became 994 on the first day of thisyear, accord ing to the Japanese method of calcula tion. Next New Year's Day, supposing that death had not intervened mean while, the aggregate ages would be 1,008, and as 994 is nearer 1,000 than 1,C038, the family have resolved to cele crate their ikka sen-nen this spring by a visit to the shrine of Ise, and after ward to Koyto, where the whole four teen, from the little tatof 5 to the gray head-if he still has any hair of-130, will go sightseeing in company. It wiln Work Around all Bight in Tilme. [Fromn the Marion Star.] It begins to look slightly as if South Carolina politics are to be manufactured in St. Louis, and a Congressman for~ the 6th district is to ha selected and-his policy fashioned in a hotel bed room in Columbia. Perhaps that notion in regard to this being "a Government of the people" is an obsolete and busted theory. If it is not, where does thet nonnamoine come in? ?