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Byefield Ajj . editor rj!?'s^ AESDAY, MARCH 16. Russia and Japan are preparing for war. The dry dock at Port Royal is said to be now in a condition to accommodate our war vessels. The new battleship Kentucky is to be christened with a bottle of water, to bring it good luck, we presume. Pickpockets follow in Bryan's wake. Two gentlemen who listen ed to his speech in Augusta last Thursday were robbed to the sum of $185. It is not at all unlikely that Fitzhugh Lee will be made a Briga- J dier or Major General in the Uni- j ted States Army on account of his wise and manly oonduct in Cuba during the present unpleasant ness. We must' not forg< t that the State Democratic convention meets in Columbia on the third Wednes day in May next tor the purpose of re-orga::izing the democratic party of the State, as if we had ever been dis-organized. If-the prohibitionists could be induced to take up uncle George for Governor, and if-Uncle George could be induced to become their candidate, there would be much hope and promise for both in such a getting together. We have heard of stranger things: William Jennings Bryan deliv ered a two hours address in the Augu.-ta Opera House on last Thursday night to a large and de lighted audience. The Hon. Geo. D. Tillman was on the stage with Mr. Bryan and introduced him to the audience which seemed as much delighted to see Uncle George as the President, elect-to be. UP-TO-DATE WAR NEWS. The battleship Oregon has been ordered from San Francisco to Valparaiso with instructions to cruise down the Pacific coast touching at all points where there are cable communications. A large quantity cf muuitions of war for the White Squadron arriv ed at Tampa on last Saturday r ight ?.-fliH^will-be^broughi- to - Dry ..T.-.? tuga8 by the Marblehead. Three shifts of men are working night and day at the Washington Navy Yard in the manufacture of big guns. Two car loads of torpedoes reached Key West on Saturday last. They will be laid in that harbor. Genl. John B. Gordan in res ponse to a telegram asking if he will head one hundred and fifty thousand of his old soldiers, says : "I think I hear rebel yells aud Yankee hussars mingled as our common country unites in protec tion of our flag." Rudyard Kipling, apropos of the impending war with Spain, says: "The American are irreso lute and full of doubts np to the point where they wake 'the drum ming guns that have no doubts.' After that there is no more irreso lution till tho last shot is fired." The Secretary of War has crea ted a new department to be knowji as the Department of the Gulf with headquarters at Atlanta, to be un der the command of Brigadier General Wm. Graham, and com prising the States of South Caro lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. The Emperor of Germany is. re ported to have said at a recent dining that the United States should never possess Cuba as long as he was Emperor of Germany. There seems to be no longer any doubt but that President McKin ley has determined to recognize Cuban independence and this means war unless Spain makes a complete "flunk" on the whole bu siness and this is not probable. Senator Morgan was probably right when he said that Spain would rather yield to the iuevita blejthat is, Cuban inbependence, after a battle royal with the Uni ted States than to give up to Cu ba fighting alone. The latest from Havana is to the effect that the Board of Inqui ry has virtually completed its in vestigations. Everything now is in the nature of cumulative testi mony strengthening the evidence that the Maine was blown up ex ternally. Inspector-General Losada, of 'the Spanish forces in Cuba, "recently issued his official report, says The Medical News, in which are indicated losses almost without precedent in modern times. His ^<rcx shows that out of the 200,000 soldiers sent by Spain to put down the insurrection in the island from the beginning of February, 1895, to the beginning of December of the year just terminated, not more than 53,000 (a little over one fourth) are at this moment fit for active service. The 147,000 are j either dead or sent back to the motherland ill or wounded. The causes of this unprecedented death rate and sick list are (besides casualties in action ) mainly three : (1) the inappropriateness of the clothing furnished to the European troops; (2) fatigue; and (3) lack of food. The report, which does not apparently err on the score of reticence, paints a lurid picture of military service in the chief Spanish colony. Under successive gener?is the three years' campaign, in spite of numberless royalist "victories," leaves Cuba as pre carious a Spanish possession as ever; while a whole generation must intervene before island and motherland alike can recover from the loss of blood, property and treasures.-Scientific American. WHO WAS THERE. Wm. Jennings Bryan spoke at Due West on last Friday. The Greenwood Index ext?a, tells us who of the candidates for State officers were there as follows: On the stage at Due West there was a fine assembly of prominent people. Among them were : Gov. Ellerbe, Senator McLauriu, Con. grossman Lentz, of Ohio, Show alter, of Pensyl vania, Norton and Laitmer, of South Carolina, Goo. D. Tillman. President Hartzog, of Clomson College, Rev. J. Walter; Danif 1, Abbeville, and others. Uncle George Tillman, the "Nu midan Lion," was hore. He is a free silver mau of long st andi r\ He is looming up as a candidate for Governor. Maj or Hub Evans, of Newberry, j came up and remained over night. He was hading a good time, and incidentally running for Attorney Genera!. * Senator McLaurin, minus the curls, was willi the Columbia partv. He was in Congress with Mr. Bryan foi two years. Seuator Archer, an aggressive candidate for Governor, circulated among the people yesterday. Governor Eilerbe was on the stand here. He came up from Columbia. Col. KnoxTiivingston, a cand idate for Attorney General, was Wozrg. M. R. Cooper, a candidate for Secretary of State, was up. It is impossible for the rrj st to withstand the demands mad? upon it just at this season* with out the assistance of a good paci fying and strengthening toafo. The changea which Nat?*e?fce*e?s .hall take place ?aeh spring an .o severe that a breacebovra is almost iure to come. It is wis* that all possible assieeanee be riven daring this period, as nj>oa this purifying procesa ??penas the health for the entire summer. Everybody just now should taits a thorough oourse of Swift'9 Saeei?e iS?Blood which thoroughly oleantes the blood of all the aoeumulatod im purities, tones up and strengthens the entire system, and aids Nata*? in renovating and renewing the body so as to render it healthy and strong. Those who purify their blood with S. 8. S. at this ssa son are well fortified against the many forms of disoase so prevalent dur ing the dreaded heated tsrm, for it nas boen demonstrated that ?he system, that is thoroughly purified in the spying is well prepared to resi.-t disease all summer. Ko other remedy on the marhet is equal to Shift's Speeiflo as a spring raedtoina, boeanse it is the otjly purely vegetable Mood rem edy and is guwaneee? aheoNjbely free from poteeh, maromry and ail other miaeiils. It cleanses, puri fies, builds np and strengtfcaas. Insist on Q. 6. for there*is nod ing half as-good. \ FAWCI P Proprietors of ? CHATHAM "T a MILLS. & CO. ? Commission J Merchants. ? '{anu^cUfr'r-i ol Self-Rats?nq F!ou.-, Grht, V . Meal, cad ail lids ol Corn Goods. . S Flour packed either in Bnik or T ??a I tiper fackaKca "i miy use. ?\ Ten Cars Choice Texas Rust-Proof Oats, this f ?year's crop, at rock-bottom prices. J ?LIDER AL ADVAXCES made, on r.ll kinds . of country Produce. Corrttpcmdtnct soiiatra. ^ 210-218 BAY STREET, WEST, ?j Savannah, Ga. j ailllllllillllllllllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllliH?lWIlWIlH f -f cu ? ITS POPULATION, PRODUCTS, i COMPII ^illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIII This "the gem of the Antilles," the largest in the Weet India group of islands, was discovered by Co lumbus about two weeks after he first sighted land in the new world, and 1511 it was colonized by Spain. Twice has its capital city been de stroyed by the French (1534 aud 1554), in their wars with their Eu ropean neighbor, which extended to their respective colonies; in 1624 the Dutch took it, but in a short time restored it; in 1762 the British possessed themselves of the coveted little country, holding it till the next year, when it was sur rendered by treaty to its former masters. Since that time they have held it without contention of for eign powers, but against the will of an increasing element of its . in habitants, and despite their occa sional fierce resistance. Cuba lies between 19? and 23? north latitude, and 74? 30' and 85? west longitude. At a point on ita north coast, directly south from Cape Sable, Florida, it is distant about 120 miles. In length, ex tending east and west, it is more than 600 miles ; in its narrowost part it is 21 miles wide and in itB widest 111. Its area is 43,220 squat e miles, or 27,660,800 acres. Compared with American States, it is somewhat larger than Ken tucky, Ohio, Tennessee or Virginia, and as large as seven of the East ern States, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Its population is 1,632, 000, about one-fifth of whom (230, 000) are residents of Havana, the capital. The island would furnish homes for twelve millions of peo ple, and then be but little more densely populated than Massa chusetts now is. In .the southeast it is mountainous, some points of the ranges being about 8,000 feet high. The central and western parts are the moBt fertile, but much of the surface is still cover ed with forests of various growth, among which are valuable timbers, palms mahogany, ebony, and cedar. Tropical fruits, of course, abound. The chief and ^ ery profitable crops are sugar, coffee and tobacco. These, with molasses, some of the j most valuable * timbers, and some -?rui-ks;-?*O-?l?-?pp*?<l-frvtu ?tho:' va-"" . rious parts, chiefly to the United States, and in time of peace are sources of great revenue, of a large part of which, however, the island ers are despoiled by the Spanish government. In 1894 the sugar crop was 1,050,000 tons, and the average annual tobacco crop, under normal conditions, is about 450, 000 bales ; out the war has brought disaster to all agricultural inter ests, so that in 1896 the sugar crop was about 200,000 tons, or less than one-fifth, and the tobacco crop was 50,000 bale?, or one-ninth of the normal quantity. The de cline of the island's commerce with the United States, as indi cated by statistics prepared for the Agricultural Department, showB how ruinous the conflict has be come to the Cuban people. The year before the present war began, the trade amounted to $102,864, 204 ; but for the fiscal year ended June 30,1896, it was or'y $47,548, 610, or 46 per cent of what it was 60 recently. It is estimated that the close of the year, June 30, 1897, found it to be only about $20,000,000, or less than oue-fifth of what it waa before the revolt. Of the population, 65 per cent are white. This consists of native Spaniards (known as the peninsular class), who are recent immigrants from Spain, mostly officials, ex-officials, wealthy plant ers and merchants, to the number of about 60,000; and about a mil lion of insulars, or native Cubans, descendants, of the Spani sh conquerors. There are probably 50,000 Chinese laborers on the plantations, and the remainder of the population con sists of negroes and mulattoes, who constitute the great majority of farm and domestio laborers. In the city of Havana alone there are about 76,000 blacks-nearly a third of its residents. Negro slavery existed iu the island till 1886. Governmental provision for its gradual extinction began in 1880. Havana has been described &s a wonderful city because of its spacious harbor, its old fortifica tions, and its marble buildings; the old city, formerly within the walls, and the new one, laid out with considerable architectural effect ; its modified air of autiquity contrasting with its modern bustle aud its dirty streets, which are smeared with sugar and molasses the whole presenting a picture of iuflnite ?variety. The frowning old Castle Moro, with its greater aud lesser guns, look* out upon the water approach to the wealthy JI|!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIII!III?IIIII!lllllllllllli:illlllllill? B .A. . ?. I LND HISTORY-AN UP-TO-DATE i CATION. 1 IIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIR and in general gay metropolis, while over it floats the flag of Spain, the emblem of a power detested by the people who have long groaned under injustice and the oppression born of a greed which hates the wealth-producers of the island while it wantonly plunders them. In the great Cathedral of Havana repose, after several removals, the bones of Columbus. His son Diego is alRO entombed there. A glance at the government and the manner of, administering it will show what cause the islanders have had for revolting again and again, aDd why people who hate oppression, the world over, are in sympathy with them. The supreme executive power is vested in a governor-general, who is appointed by the Crown and who is nominally under the immediate control of Secretary for the Colonies. Associated with the governor-general is a Council of Government whose members are also appointed by the Crown, but thia is a mere advisory, without authority either to restrain or to direct. The governor-general has such large discretionary power that hetcan suspend the execution ofa law or decree of the Madrid government in cases of what he may choose to consider a necessity. For purposes of civil admin istration the island is divided into nix provinces, each of which has a governor appointed by the Spanish home government, and these provincial govei nora report to tne governor-general. There is a legislative assembly, whose members are elected by the people ; but its functions are almost farcical as, they embrace little except the making of suggestions. It is not a law-making body. Each province is represented in the Spauish Cortes by persons of its choosing-the number of members sent to the Lower House determined by the population, and each electing two to the Senate. At this time there are 30 deputies and 14 senators, the 12 from the provinces being supplemented by one each from the University of Havana and the Royal Society of Friends of the Country, an organist ???mi-^uvutiSor^d*^aiKng ?'? a upholding that sort of patriotism which licks the hand that smites. For military purposes there aie threo departments. A single officer is entrusted with the administra tion of naval affairs. For convenience in the adminis tration of justice there are two groat districts and 28 sub-districtB, each of which has a judge. The Spauish Constitution binds the government to establish , and . maintain the Romun Catholic 1 Church, at home and in the Colo nies, and in Cuba there aro two ecclesiastical divisions, the Arch bisopric of Santiago and the Bish- . opric of Havana. There is au economical or royal ; property department which is I charged with the management of ] the finances. No accurate statement of rev- i euues, received and expended, can I be made for any year since 1893- i 1894, Spain could not collect taxes i in Cuba, and the decline of com- | merce had reduced the customs re ceipts to about one-fourth of what 1 they had previously been. The 1 Madrid government levies a tiix, in one form and other, of from $20, 000,000 to $26,000,000 annually. 1 For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1 1894, more than $20,000,000 was collected; but the expenditures for that time, when ordinary con ditions obtained, were greatly in excess of this, and so it had gone on until Spain's debt on account, of Cuba alone was $159,849.000. Since then it has been increased by some millions. The expenses of the war (which of course the Cu bans are expected to pay in case they are again Bubdued) are reck oned to be about $120,000,000 a year. The debt of Spain, includ ing that on account of Cuba, is more than a billion of dollars, and is rapidly increasing by reason of the revolt in both Cuba and the Philippine Islands, as woll aB by unfavorable conditions at home. A little iuterest to Americans, in connection with th?R debt, is the fact that over $570,000 of it is due to the United States. Some idea of what it costs Cuba to maiuatin the parasites that have for a long time beeu draining her life-blood (the Spanish civil, military and other functionaries sot to misgovHru and keep her in subjection), is furnished by salary items. The population of Spain and all her colonies ?B scarcely three-eights as great as that of the United States, but the governor-general of Cuba, - having in charge a population about threo fourths as great as that of the little State of Massachusetts, is better provided for than the Presi dent of the United States, the executive of a mighty people, inhabiting a country compared with which CuU* is amere speck. This Spanish appointee nas a salary of $50,000 a year, a palace in Havana, and a summer houee in the country, with servants, coaches, and a fund at his disposal for the employment of spies and pimps-is maintained at the ex pense of the Cuban people in a sort of regal diguity to which our Ch;ef Magistrate ia a stranger, though the nation over which he presides is the richest on the globe. Here follows a list of salaries paid other civil officers, and of those appointed to miltary, naval and other crown positions: Director-General of the Treasury, $18,500 Archbiship of Sau ti ago, 18,000 Bishop of Havana, 18,000 Coramander-Gen'l of the Naval Station, 16,392 The General who is sec ond in command in the island, 15,000 The President of tho Au ' dieucia, 15,000 Governor of Havana, 8,000 Secretary of the General 4 Government, 8,000 PoBtmaster-Geueral, 5,000 Collector of the Havana Custom House, 4,000 Manager of Lotteries, 4,000 Chief Clerke of Adminis tration, first-class, 5,000 Chief Clerks of Adminis tration, second-class, 4,000 Chief Clurks of Admi iis tration, third-class, 3,000 Major-Generals, each, 7,500 Brigadier-Generals, each, 4,500 Brigadier-Generals, each, when in command, 5,000 Colonels, each (salary is increased when in com mand), 3,45o Captains of largest men of-war, each, 6,300 Captains of frigales, each, 4,560 Lieutenants of the navy, first-class, each, 3,370 All these officers are entitled to free ledging and to domestic ser vants at the public expense. A host of minor officiais have pro portionate salaries. Some of the items of annual expenditure help to bring into stronger light the financial burdens borno by this people for the purpose of keeping themselves enslaved. Judged by Americas standards, on the basis of our State government expenses, the following summary gives figures six times as great aa would be necessary uudar purely local rule, and a wri ter . apparently fully informed as to Cuban affairs, says that this money taken under forms of law does not represent more than is taken by peculation and fraud These are the figures for a year under ordinary conditions; how much more astounding must they be in time of war, if we admit that the islanders will eventually be made to pay : Interest on the Spauish national debt. $10,500 000 Army and navy. 7,000 000 Civil list. 4,000 000 Pensions to retired milita ry and civil officers and their widows. 2,000 000 Department of Jubtice. 1,000 000 Department of Finance. 700,000 Even these figures mark an ex penditure of $15.44 per capita, or 5Sper cent of the entire currency per capita of the United States. The paternal government makes no appropriation to educate the masses. It would be harder than it has been to keep the people in bondage if popu'ar education was provided for. In a>lditiou to the direct ex actions spoken of, the tariff and other commercial laws passed by the Cortes are so framed as to benefit Spain, while they discour age industry and enterprise in Cuba and prevent the full develop ment of her groat resources. This article is intended mainly to explain in brief the economic conditions of Cuba, as brought about by more than three hundred years of misrule. The story of filibustering attempts to wrest her from her Spauish mas ters, or rather to aid her citizens in doing this, and of the repeated struggles of the islanders themselves to establish their independence and institute free government, would require -a volume told however nctly it possibly could be. As said previously, foreign powers have occasioua'ly held temporary possession. The expedition of Lopez (1850), in wiich Crittenden, the gallant young Kentuckian, lost his iife but spoke wDrds of defiance and of high meaning when standing be fore his executioners, which must have thrilled even the oru'.'l Span iard, and which his home people will thiuk upon as long as they cherish valor,-this of itself would require a chapter. Uprisings have beeu many during tha last half century-in 1850-51, 1855, 1868, 18S5, and 1895. The struggle which began tn February, L895, has been desperately waged until this time, and tho en? ?B not yet. In 1868 began a ten-year conflict. At last, seeing hopeless!] jes of their cause, tho patriots consented to enter into a treaty, and the Spanifb go verum wt agreed to give liberal terms, and inaugurate reforms which would tend to pacification and bring about prosperity. By royal decree of August 8, 187b, an important con cession was made, Cuba was to have representative government. Every province was to elect deputies to the Cortes -one to every 40,000 free inhabitants. But the freedom, the economic advantage, the protection of persona! and public rights, that were to come of these have failed utterly of realization. Spoliation, confiscation in effect, if not in set terms, disregard of personal and public righto, the insolence of office, the neglect of popular education, the enriching of the few at the expense of the many,-these things have gone ou in open day and eveu i vaunted themselves, to the ex asperation of a long-suffering and outraged people. Spain is faithless when dealing with an inferior. All tho world knows that. Spain is avarcious and cruel in ber avarice. All the world has knowu that 6iuce Cortez and Pizarro tortured the gentle and confiding (why not say noble?) Aztecs, in order that they might get gold and fame and the smiles of Spanish monarchs whose standard of nobility was the money that it could command, lu the language ot Senator Frye, "Cuba was her sponge," which she squeezed without regard to the people she was squeezing to death, in order that her favorites might grow fat. With disconient and murmur ings and occasional manifesta tions of popular fury, Cuba bore with this disappointment, this renewed insolence and faithless ness, anti. 1895, when, as previously the fires of revolution broke out anew. For nearly three years the islanders, reinforced by sympathizing Americans, have struggled with the Spanish power. The captaiu-geueral first entrusted with ?h > work of subduing the patriots was recalled because he lacked the savage ferocity deemed in Spain essential to the subjuga tiou'of slaves who dared to cry out when Ihey'were forced to additional toil to make good the tale of bricks when the supply of straw was withheld ; and Weyler (surnamed "The Butcher") was substituted. Outrages, shocking j kop.ivilL7.fl.tion;, haye been perpetra^ Dd upon captured Cubans, meu and women. Injuries not atoned for aavfi been mflicted upon American citizens. Insulting acts and speech have in the main been the ?eply to the petitions aud ?emoustrances of American diplo natic and consular agents. And ret, the wily Spanish government iud its agents in Cuba have prudently abstained from giving he United States a well-defined sause of war. A belligerency measure passed he American Senate iu the lummer of 1897; the American )eople, acting as individual s, have lefied international law in order o carry aid and comfort to the slanders. .Wheo Wm. Crittenden, captur id with fifty of his men after the icheme of Lopez Lad evidently railed, and carried to Havana, itood ready for execution, the spanish officer having charge of he shooting detail ordered him to ;urn his back and kneel, as has Deen the Spauish manner duriug he prisent war also; but he inswored firmly: "A Kentuck ian never turns his back on his memy, and he kueels to u me but jodi" Thereupon the order to ire was given, and he received ^the colley in frr looking with steady eyes u? the musketeers md their cot oder.-Washiug ;on Post Enc;, -paid?a. JOHNS JN'S CHILL AND FEVER TONIC Cures Fever I? One Day. Maps of Edgefield county, con? t&iuing both Saluda and Green wood, for salo ac this office. 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Our course of study is thorough, practical and progressive. We flt stu dents for life, as College Diplomas are issued to those who deserve them, h.-We have Special Departments offering superior instructions in Book keeping, Fainting and Music. Call and see the character of work done. Our rooms are open to inspection. 7tli.-We have a bigschool. There is something stimuiatingand inspiringabout large schools, because children learn not only from books but by ab sorption. 8th.-We have eleven teachers, S. M. Martin. John Lake, A. J. Reamy, C. C. Herbert, Miss A.S.Arnold, Miss Sophie Swearin^en, Mrs. L.C.Latimer, Miss Sue Sloan, Mrs. S. S. Cobb, Mrs. J. H. White, Mrs. A. J. Reamy. We will add more if necessary. Uth.-Our School is linger Christian influence, but strictly unsectarian. No narrow denominational lines are drawn. IOU).-We are giving Hiebest poss)ble education at the least possible cost. The Institute is the school for the people. 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