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TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN. BY THOMPSON, SMITH & JA YNES. WAIJBLALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, JULY 28, 1892. VOLUME XLIII.-NO. 30. FACE TO F?CE WITH DEATH. COL. H. CLAY KING UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE (?ALLOWS. The Ead of a Sensational Trial at Mem phis by which a Wealthy Tennesseean will Lose His Life-The Murderer Resigned to His Fate. _I [New York San.] MEMPHIS, July 28.-Col. II. Clay j King, tli?- murderer of David LT. Pos ton, sentenced to be hanged on Aug ust 12, refused io talk to-day further than to say that he expected the law to take its course; that he favored j no petition for commutation or nar- j dnn. and that he is prepared to die. ! denounced the decision of the court, however, as an infamous out rage and a judicial murder. On March IO, 1891, Col. King' shot David H. Tost?n on Mainstreet I at noon. The wounded man was j removed to the private infirmary of j Mitchell & Maury, where he died tho j following afternoon. In 1884 Col: King was engaged as the attorney of j Nhs". M. E. Pillow, the widow of Gen. Gideon E.Pillow. .Mrs. Pillow; was a handsome, well-preserved woman of forty when Col. King met her. Lie was a lawyer prominent in ? ids profession, the author of several law books; for twelve years had been Attorney ("enera! of the State of Tennessee, and was distinguished as a soldier, having been the gallant : cavalry leader of King's cavalry dur ing the war. ! ' Soon ('"I. King fou N] it conveni ent to move his residence to Lee county, Arkansas, where he owned a ; : valuable plantation, .which he lensed to M?. Pillow." He left his family i in Memphis, however, and .scandal coupled his" name with that of Mrs. : Pillow. ThreeA'ears later Mrs.P?> 1 low move-] :<> Memphis. Col. King : then sent his family to tin- Kansas 1 plantation, n-nT?ri?ing here himself: and boarding" with Mrs. Pillow, toil "hom he rented thc house out of! hich his family had moved. ; ? On the trial P ?.?..-? : ?n as to theil elation between ('??1. King and Mrs. "illow was asked, and Cul. King, issnrning a dramatic attitude, said : '. '-.Yon have doubtless read 'David j: ["opperfield." You remem.-er he was iiahsppuy married; that he loved i . other with a pure love, hoping when his wife died to make her his Second wife. Mrs. Pillow was my Agnes, I : . . ?u?David.?" ? < !>.;.. his Agiles was afraid t'- trusl i him, and ..'nen at her behest he truns- i ferred to her all his property in Lee county on the condition that she j ? would not record the transfer, she ? violated her j'.art of the agreement s by d<>i:;g s.>. This was the begin- i ?I?IIL: of the disagreement which fol- : lowed; Tho end was that Col: King i filed a suit against Mrs. Pillow, a>k- : < ing that she be compelled to vacate the plantation, on the ground that no i consideration was given. This suit i was kept out of the newspapers for i i months, and when at length it was i published it created a tremendous : sensation. Following the publication Mrs. ] > Pillow Hied a cross bill containing, j among-other charges, one that Col. ? King had heard stories concerning . his wife from a negro that would enable him to procure a divorce from her. This insult to a pure woman Col. King resented, and this para graph furnished the excuse which led tO the tragedy which followed. Mrs. 1 Pillow had employed David IL Pos- I ton to prosecute her suit. On March s IO, 1891, Col. Kin?; shot Poston. Tke Sun correspondent accompa- * nied the murderer to jail a few min- {r utes later, and asked him if he had anything to say. Ile replied that heh would make a statement later. The j * next day he said lie had shot in ! 1 defence of his wife's honor, citing j * the paragraph in question in support ' of Iiis statement. In the trial that M followed the defence was self-defence, provocation and insanity, and the *. strange spectacle was presented of a i^ lawyer and author whose own books . 1 were quoted on the trial. He occu- i*1 pied the witness stand-for two days, \ s successfully baffling the shrewdest of |r two of thc ablest criminal lawyers of j1 the State, and yet his defence was p insanity. ;c Thc trial lasted thirty-three days s and resulted in a conviction. The s jury was out only two hours. He I* appealed to the Supreme Court, and ' it was riven out that he would argue . t his own case. Attorney (-"encrai | ' Pickles got wind of his plan of > * ? . 'i defence, and so took the wind of his j * sails that at the last moment Col. IJ i King refused to speak. Chief Jus- ] ] tice Turn ey was taken ill after the j1 hearing and no decision was rendered j1 for three weeks. It was adverse to I the prisoner on every point raised, j I Justice Snodgrass alone dissenting. ? I Although sixteen months have 1 elapsed since the murder, public indignation has increased rather than . . t diminished, and when a petition was . circulated asking for a commutation j ] to imprisonment for life another peti- ! t tion was at once signed asking the i ^ Governor not to interfere. The lat- j1 ter petition had twice as many sign- J ^ ers as the other. I j Thc four brothers of Posion came out in a card setting forth that their first Mea was revenge ; that finally, agreeing \o let the law take its course, they were satisfied with the convic tion and begging all good citizens not to sign the petition asking Exec utive clemency. IL is almost certain that Gov. j Buchanan will not interfere. King does not expect it, the people want to see the law enforced and there is but little doubt that Col. King will ! be hanged on August 12, in which case he will be the most distinguished j victim of the gallows in this country since the case of Dr. Webster, of Boston, over forty years ago. It Must Be Done. - We shall never know to what an j extent we are indebted to "neces- ; sity." I has been called "the mother j of invention," but it has required an | immense amount of energy to develop ? it very frequently into power. Take, for example, the following incident i connected with the invention of eush ion lace. Barbara Fttman Mas the brave and tender wife of a miner in Saxony. In thc-winter of 1564 hel was vMit of work, and she attempted to help him by making embroidered muslin veils. Her taste was so good ami her touch so delicate that she soon found a ready sale among the nollie ladies in the neighborhood where she lived. It so happened that one dav, after much extra toil, she took a very beautiful piece of ; work to a lady who lived in one of j the great castles, to which she had walked many weary miles. The lady, however, discouraged her by saying, "Ah, Barbara, if you could : work anything like this I would pur- ; chase it from you -?A, any price. Barbara examined what the lady ! showed her^very carefully and closely, bnt could not tell what it was, as ! she had never seen anything like it j before! The lady told her it was a piece !>f rich Brussels point lace. On her way home she thought in- J tently, and when she reached it she, <aid to her husband : "Now, 1 shall want you to help meT I So she set him to work to procure a dozen nice round sticks, while she ma?lc meantime, a neat, hard, roifhd cushion. The next day, and the next, and the next, and for five, days no one -aw much of her, but on the fith lay she showed her husband with [>ride what she had done on hercush- : .on. She also firmly believed she had liscovered the oi< thod by which [X>int lace was manufactured. But .iie had ?lone much more; she had nvented a new article of beauty md greater utility-for she had in rented what is now known asens! ion ir bone lace. It soon became know , and wh at ' .olier was better Still, unlike too ^ nany inventors and discoverers, she vas also able to make a handsome! noonie as the result of her ingenuity md industry. . j: The business also increased to1 .uoh an extent that she had to em- ? i >ioy all the poor girls in the locality, : md nt length had to move to Dres- ' lon with her husband. ! i The Dignity of Labor. ;. ..What is you. secret?" asked a i adv of Turner, the distinguished < >ainter. ile replied: "I have non ecret, madam, but hard work." < Jays Dr. Arnold, "The difference he- j ween one man and another is not so L nuch in talent as in energy." < 'Nothing," says Reynolds, "isdenied ? ^ell-directed labor, and nothing is to >e obtained without, it." "Excel-;: euee m any department," says John- [? on, "can now be obtained by the j i abor of a life-time, but it is not to : >e purchased at a lesser price.":] 'There is but one method," saysi ? Sydney Smith, "and that is hard ', < abor; ami a man who will not pay ; ] hat price for'distinction had better;) it once dedicate himself to the pur- 1 ult of the fox." "Step by step," j i cads the French proverb, "one goes j ? .cry far." "Nothing," says Mira-11 >eau, "is impossible to the man who ? .an will. This is the only law to : < luccess." "Have you ever entered 1 i cottage, ever travelled in a coach, j : ?ver talked with a peasant in the j < ield, or loitered with a mechanic at,1] he loom," asked Sir Edward Bulwer j Lrytton, "and not found that each of ? 1 hose men had a talent you had not, j < mew something you knew not?"I] The most useless creature that ever ] rawned at a club, or idled in rags 11 1 mder the suns of the Calabria, has < io -excuse for want of intellect. |. tVhat men want is not talent but : >urpose; in other words, not the i )0wer to achieve, but the will to 1 abor. I ( - ? - - It is said that the Indi. maidens of ( he Northwest despise suitors of their >wn race and aspire to marry white men. ^ in a camp on Grand Ronde river, Washing- 1 x>n, there are seventeen marriageable < indian girls who want to marry Ameri- < ?ans, and the father of one of them adver- 1 ises that he has two hundred head of ? jood horses to give to any young white : nan who will marry his daughter. COL. DIBBLE'S ANSWER. He Insists that the Rights of His Fac tion Shall not he Ignored and Reminds the State Chairman of Some Past Remarks. Chairman Dibble, of the Conserva tive Democracy of the State, lias answered the recent letter of State Chairman Irby, in which the latter said that he concluded "that any white man known to be a Democrat, who takes tho obligation at the time he votes at the primary election, will and ought to be permitted to vote, whether he has hitherto favored a Third Party, or has been an inde pent, Haskellite, or now favors pro hibition, woman's suffrage or other wise." It will be remembered that Sena tor Irby said in his letter that he j thought that his committee was corn- ? petent to carry out "the orders of the State Democratic convention without interference or suggestion from any one." The following is Mr. Dibble's letter: ROOMS OK THR EXECUTIVE ) COMMITTEE OF THE CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRACY OY SOUTII CAROLINA.) ? CoLUMi IA, S. C., duly iSth. j The Hon. .J?hu L. M. Tr!?,, Chair man State f.'eniocratic Committee 07 i - i Xoid/i Carolina^ "Washington^ D.C.- | t> T I . C j iv.: : J read m a newspaper on Sat urday, and have since received, your letter of the 13th instant, in reply to my communication of the 4th instant, in which I requested, in behalf of tho ConservatiV Democracy, that the State Democratic committee take into consideration and explicitly declare what is to bc done at the j August {primary in regard to Third Party men who offer to vote, and i whether enrollment in a Democratic j club is necessary to enjille one to j vote. I stated that you had been j reported in the press in favor of! allowing Third Party men to vote j and in favor of allowing Democrats j not enrolled to vote : and that youi J published views had evoked discus-j sion, and that opinions differed as to j their correctness, adding that it was necessary to a fair election that all doubts should be set at rest on these ! important points by the State Demo- j eratic committee al its next meeting, j when we desired to submit our views as the representatives of one wing ot ? the Democracy of the State. In your .reply you state that you i "know of no Third Party in South-, Carolina," and that you "therefore ; conclude that any white man, known ; to be a Democrat, who lakes the obligation at the time he votes at the . primary election, will and aught to '? be permitted to vote, whether he has hitherto favored a Third Party, <>r; has been an independent, Ilaskcilite, : or now favors prohibition, woman's suffrage or otherwise." You add that the State Democratic commit-; tee will meet Tuesday, the 26th j instant,,to consider this and other questions. The obligation taken by the voter does not settle the question, for it is prescribed by the rules of the party [ in the following form : "I do soK-mnly 1 swear that J am duly qualified to j vote at this election according to the ! rules of the Democratic party, and j ?.hat I have not voted before at this j election." I am surprised to learn that you 'know of no'Third Party in South Carolina," io view of your predic tions . at Chicago that Cleveland would not carry South Carolina, and the only logioaC conclusion from your utterances is that you expect ? the Republicans to carry South Car-j :>lina for Harrison. This cannot hap- j pen unless white men desert the j Democratic party for t?ie.Third Party j >r for the Republican party.. Should j such men be allowed recognition as j Democrat?, "and participate in the j! primary to elect delegates to the ? September convention, which is to J nominate the Democratic electors? 1 do not wish to be misunderstood | sere. The doors of- the Democratic J party-the party of the people-are i 3ver open for accessions from the j people of those who may have been j connected with other parties, brit! they should render full allegiance to its platform and its candidates. A . supporter of Weaver, the old Green kick party's candidate for President, ind now the Third Party's candidate )n substantially the same old Green back platform, cannot be a Democrat' it the same time, and, if not a Demo crat) should not participate in our primaries. .As tc the matter of enrollment, thc State Democratic constitution declares that "the club rolls of the [?arty shall constitute the registry list, and shall be open to inspection by any member of the party, anti the slection under the clause (i. e., the August primary) shall be held and regulated under the Act," etc. The rules adopted by the State commit tee contain the expression, "qualifi- j cation for membership in any subor-1 ?inate club of the Democratic party cr this State, or for voting at any primary, shall be as follows, etc.," and enrollment is not mentioned as one o? the qualifications. You are, n.*> ?oubt, aware that these clauses are construed differently in different counties, and this is a sufficient rea son for a more explicit declaration from the State committee. You also state that thc "question of appointing more than three manag ers to conduct the primary election" will also be considered at the meet ing of the State Democratic comm it toe ; and I have no doubt that it will be considered in that fair anil impar tial spirit which always belongs appro priately lo the body which is the executive organ of the entire Democ racy of the State and not of any particular wing or faction. In the conclusion of your letter, you have made-permit me respect fully to stale-an illogical distinction. You consider that only Democrats who are aggrieved, or who represent a grievance, should have audience of the State Democratic committee. You also assert that the State Dem- j ocratic committee is competent to j exercise its delicate and important j functions ttcithout interference or ? suggestion from any one" and add ; "we are not disposed to convert the j State Democratic executive commit- ! tee into a debating society for ques- j tio/i.<: of imaginary grievances" This pretension of exclusiveness and infallibility would ordinarily bc remarkable, as the utterance of a Democrat, hut this is a"record-breJ k ing" time. I call your attention to thc fact that the matters in question | arise from some of your persona] utterances, in the capacity of chair- ! man, and I can hardly imagine that' you assert for yourself the right to commit the State Democratic com mittee to tlic position you have indi- ? cated, or that you mean to declare that you are the master and not the j servant of the Democracy of the | State. We would free you from the j embarrassments of such a position ! by declaring thal, in acknowledging j your legitimate authority as State j chairman, and the jurisdiction of the State Democratic committee, we claim it a* our right to address your self as chairman, or thc State Demo cratic committee at any time,* upon party matters which concern us as Democrats and to present our views j upon such questions; and we feel j assured that w hile "howling down" j may suppress free speech from the j slum]?, such a course will not bc imi-J tate-; by the State Democratic com- ', millee when considering/ important lo a fair at>d mary of .the party\ ..LLO j State chairman desire such sappres- j sion. The letter of the 4th instant was sent by me as thc chairman ot the j executive committee of the Cotiser- j vative Democracy of South Carolina, j and as such I accept your notice of I the meeting of the State Democratic i committee on the 26th instant, and, will inform my colleagues. For them and for myself I rciter-j ale my statement in my letter of the ! 4th instant, that "at thc next meet- j ing of the State Democratic commit- ; tee we desire to submit our views of j these questions as the representatives of one wing of the Democracy of the I State." Respectfully yours, SAMUEL DIBBLE, Chairman Conservative Democracy of South Carolina. Cure for the Hines. "Xo man is so miserable hut may j find some one poorer and more com fortless. Sometimes when I am blue and feel deserted, I am pleased to call to mind," said a merchant a short time ago, "the ?lay that I learned a practii al lesson, and it was not very long ago either. I saw no joy in life. I did not know whether I was worth a dollar or not. All ventures seemed to fail. My wife noticed it and she said, 'What's the matter?' I told her. She looked sad and went away. "Pretty soon she came back tome, j and said, putting her hand on my j head as I sat in my chair : 'My dear, our neighbors down under the hill in the. little house are poor. I wish you wqtold go down and see them. You had better take down some apples and potatoes, and I will find some? thine to send to them by the time you are ready.' Then she looked in my face and I saw something that made me ' feel like minding her. Well, I did as she said. I put t\ bushel of apples and a bushel of pota toes and some pork and some other things in the wagon ; but my wife added a lot of clothes from the ward robes of our girl and our boy, who had outgrown them. Then I started, and in due time got to the house. I saw there some one more miserable than I was. As I poured our homely gifts out into a wash-tub set to receive them ? got my first lesson in the relations of wealth. To see the woman weep tears of joy at the sight ?f apples and potatoes and children's cast-off clothes ; the little ones, half ? naked, view them w'th wonder and almost with alarm, set me to think ing, and I said to myself, 'Man, you have done wrong. You have neg lected to appreciate what has been done for you. Why, you are rich, fabulously rich, for you have a home, a business, a loving wife and all the comforts of life.' "A great change came over me, I few calm and still, but content, and have never been downcast since then that I didn't seek some poor fellow more wretched than I in the hope that we both might be made less so together by mutual ministra tion." yili. CLEVELAND'S SPEECH. Mr. Cleveland was officially noti fied of his nomination in New York last week. Ile responded as follows : ME. CHAIRMAN- AXI> GKXTI.EMEN: Thc message you deliver from the National Democracy arouses in me emotions which would be well nigh overwhelming if I did not recognize here assembled the representatives of a great party who must share with me the responsibility your mission invites. I find much relief in the reflection that I have been selected merely to stand for the principles and purposes for which my party stand.- and for the enforcement of the supremacy of which all who have any right to claim Democratic fellow ship must constantly and persistently labor. Our party responsibility is indeed great. We assume a moment ous obligation to our countrymen when in return for their trust and confidence we promise them rectifi cation of their wrongs and a better realization of the advantages which are due to them under our free and I>enelu-eiit institutions. But it our responsibility is great, our party is strong. It is strong in its sympathy with thc needs of thc people, in its insistance upon the exercise of gov ernmental powers strictly within the constitutional permission the people have granted and in its will ingness to risk its life and hope upon the people's intelligence and patriot ism. N.-ver has a great party, intent upon the promotion of right and justice, had a latter incentive for effort than is now presented to us. Turning our eyes to the plain peo ple of thc land wc see them burdened as consumers "with a tariff system that unjustly and relentlessly de mands- from them in the parchase ? of the necessaries and comforts of life an amount scarcely met by the j wases of hard >and steadv toil, while I ' - \ I the exactions thus wrung from them j build up and increase the fortunes of those for whose benefit this injustice is perpetuated. We see the fanner listening to a delusive story that fills j his mind with visions of advance j while his pocket is robbed by thc ' stealthy hand of high protection ! Our working men are still told th-'-: taie, O?t repeated in spite of Its dem -1 onstrated falsity, tliat excessive pro- j tedi ve tariff is a boon to them, and ! that under its beneficent operation wages must increase, while as they ! listen, scenes are enacted in every \ abiding idace of high protection that mocks the honest toil and tender mercy of working men from those : made selfish and sordid by unjust | governmental favoritism. We oppose : earnestly and stubbornly the theory j upon which our opponents seek to justify and uphold the existing tariff laws. We need not base our attack on ouestions of constitutional per mission or "legislative powers. We denounce ibis theory on the highest possible grounds, when we contend that in the present condit:ons it is oppressive and unjust and that laws enacted in accordance with it arc inequitable and unfair. Ours is not a destructive party. We are not at enmity with the rights of any of our citizens. All are our j countrymen. We are not recklessly i heedless of any American interests nor will we abandon our interests, j nor will we abandon our regard for ? them, but invoking th*c love of fair- j ness and justice which belong to . . .i true Americanism and upon which our constitution rests, we insist that no plan of tariff legislation shall be tolerated which has for its object and purpose a forced contribution from the earnings and income of the mass of our citizens to swell directly the accumulations of a favored few, nor will we permit the pretended solici tude for American labor or any other specious pretext of benevolent care for others to blind the eyes of the people to the selfish schemes of those who seek through the aid of an une qual tariff law to gain unearned and unreasonable advantages ai the ex pense of their fellows. We have also assumed in our covenant with those whose support we invite the duty of opposing to the death ano ther avowed scheme of our adversa ries, which, under the guise of pro tecting suffrage, covers but does not conceal a design to perpetuate the power of the party afraid to trust its continuance to the untrammelled and intelligent votes of intelligent people. We are pledged to resist legislation intended to complete this scheme because we have not for gotten the saturnalia of theft and brutal control which followed ano ther Federal revolution of State suf frages, because we know that the managers of the party ^vhich did not scruple to rob the people of a Presi dent would not hesitate to use the machinery created by such legisla tion to revive the corrupt instrumen talities for partisan purposes; be cause an attempt to enforce such legislation would rekindle the ani mosities where peace and hopeful ness exists; because such attempt would replace prosperous activity with discouragement and dread throughout a large section of our country, and would menace every where in the land the rights reserved to the States and to the people which underlie the safeguards of American liberty. I shall not attempt to specify nt this time other objects and aims of Democratic enlightenment which is to bc our mission. True to its his tory and to its creed, our party will respond to the wants of the people within safe lines and guided by en lightened statesmanship. To the troubled and impatient within our membership, we commend continued, unswerving allegiance to the party whose principles in all times past have been found sufficient for them and whose aggregate wisdom and patriotism their experience teaches can always he trusted. In a tone of partisanship which befits the occasion let me say to you as equal partners in the campaign upon which wc to-day enter, that the personal fortunes of those to whom you have entrusted your ban ners are only important as they relate to the fate of thc principles they rep resent and to the party which they lead. I cannot, therefore, forbear reminding you and all those attached to the Democratic party or support- ! ing the principles which we profess, j that defeat in thc impending cam paign, followed by a consummation of the legislative schemes our oppo nents contemplate enacting, and ac companied by such other incidents of their success as might mort- 6 rmi y fi\- their power, would present a most discouraging outlook for future Dem ocratic supremacy and for the ae.com- j plishment of the objects we have at heart. Moreover, every sincere Democrat must believe that the in terests of his country are deeply in volved in the victory of our party in j the struggle that awaits us. Thus, a j patriotic view of the situation exalts the hope of party victory and should intensify our determination to win success. This success can only be ' achieved by systematic and intelli- ! gent effort on the part of all enlisted in our cause. Let us tell the people j plainly and honestly what we believe . ?and how we propose to serve the in- j terests of the entire country, and i then let us, after the manner of true Democracy, rely on the thoughtful ness and patriotism of our fe?ow countrymen. ft only remains forme to say to yon, in advance of a more formal response to your message, that I obey the command of my party and confidently anticipate that an intelligent and earnest presenta tion of our cause will ensure a popu lar endorsement of the action of the body you represent. Coneeit. BY REV. E. E. ROGERS. [Northwestern Presbyterian. J "Ke not wise in your own conceits'" (l?om. xii. lt!). Translated into very plain language, the text moans : Don't think you know everything. The text bids us not to be so foolish as to think we can monopolize wis dom. We make our blunder when ; we think common sense can be han dled like some material commodity. A "corner" in the wheat market may | be possible, but a corner in thoughts and opinions is a very different tiling. "We four" may control the cattle I market, but common sense does not gather itself up quite so easily into a great trust. Don't act as if you knew it all. You will carry your head too high. I You will be too intolerant and over- i bearing. It will be too hard to affili ate or fellowship with you in any- : thing. Wisdom does not run in ruts, nor does she often travel over the j narrow gauge. Don't get up in a r business meeting of the church fully ? persuaded that only your favorite j ! measure has merit. If this isn't < adopted, perhaps the church will sur-1 ' vive. Your measure may be right ; !. it may be wrong. If it be right, the j ? average common sense of the church j i will probably recognize the fact. If j j it be wrong, it would be an unfortu- ; ! nate thing that you should be the ! only one not to perceive tb is. Conceit often fastens to a sing's j ; phase of truth. The opinionated j champion of reform sees only the j need of the hour. The cause, as he j sees it, fills all the horizon of his ? ' thought. Ile wonders why others!! do not fall into line with him. "Why don't they adopt my methods ?" he asks. Their methods to him seem utterly inadequate. Ile allows him self to antagonize and to be antago nized. Kre he knows it he is" treat ing as foes those who in some other way are working toward the same great end with himself. The world frowns on conceit. The gospel has no place for it. The man who thinks he knows it all may be called anything but wise. To know what one does not know is just as important as to know what one does ? ( know. And ever to bear in mind i : that another may know what I do not-may beright while I am wrong -isa concession which, if frankly made and humbly acted upon, may be a means of grace to every one of ns. Teach self-denial, arid make its practice pleasurable, and yon create for the world jd a destiny more sublime than ever issued r from the brain of the wildest dreamer.' ODDS AND ENDS. Gypsies originally came from India. The savings bank was invented by a clergyman. A beautiful wife src?ing means a full purse weeping. It is hard to be a friend to a man who is an enemy to himself. There are said to be sixteen men to one woman in Buenos Ayres. The "Dancing Jim Crow" toy was . worth $75,000 a vear to irs inventor. I Fill the drum and you will hoar less . noise from it. Is it so wirb the head? When we wear the yoke of Christ, the heavier the load the easier it-is to travel. : China, with all her 400,000,000 ot people, has only forty miles of railway. A wife does not beat her husband with a stick, but a tongue is worse than a club. Four-fifths of the v'crld's supply of cloves come from Zanzibar and Bomba, Africa. George Francis Train introduced the horse car line in England at Birk-n-? head in 1833. Pupils in the schools of Japan are taken out rabbit hunting one day ir. everv autumn. i The business of preparing banana meal is about to be started on the Ith mus of Panania. i To complete tb^ir growth the nails "f the left hand require eight to ten days more than those of the right. Four-fifths of tiie engines now work ing in tiie world have been constructed | during the last twenty-five years. To test the freshness of eggs, drop them in a dish of water, and if the small end comes to the top they ar- fr? The Chinese silk weaver always eats the chrysalis of the silkworm after he , has unwound the silk from aronui1, ir. The best time to st t lily of the valley : plants is in tiie early fall, from the mid dle o" Septemlter t.. the last of October, Pale green stationery wiri: address ir.. dark green is a fashion of the moment j in writing paper that is really hand some._ A Queer Bargain. Jeff Bryant and Iiis brother Abe each owned large tracts of land near here, and they w*re bac helor.?. One day the brothers agreed that the one that married first should have the ! other's land in addition to Iii.? own. One Sunday about nine years ago Abc call? d at Jeff H house. "Good morning. Jeff." -"How d'ye, my boy," answered Jeff. "Jeff, you remember that marriage agreement we mad-/:" asked Abe. "Well, I reckon I do," said Abe. "What about it?" "I'm going to tie married Wednesday. Are you ready to keep the agreementl*'' "Sure as you're aii/e,'' ausweit ! ;V. I hain't got no us.:- for a mau as w?l g> . back OB bis word." "Well, you are right. Jeff, and you shall be my best man." So the compact was sealed, but .b il did not intend to give up his t.000 acres so easily. He just fooled Abe. Instead of vai'ing for Abe to get married on Wed: .-day. Jeff hitched up and called on a neighbor'? daughter -ind pr< ?" thai very Sunday night. lb- wa? ac cepted, ami they were married Monday. Then he went to Abe, saying: "Abe, that little agreement :.:?. you remember" "Yes; well" '"You see I was married this morning, and want to know ir" you allow '?' . ; vour promise." "Well, this is ;t little su b! .t like, but I reckon it's all right, i'i! keep my word."' And he did. Abe.transferred hi? prop erty to Jeff. On Wednesday Abe was j married as p*-r contract, and went to I live on a rented tract of laud. Singularly enough the brothers have been good friends all these yeats.-Cov ington Post. Hovr to Fish :t Trout Pool. I presume every fly fisher bas at some time or another found a likely looking trout pool and worked it carefully ? it? his flies from one end to the.other, and perhaps changed his Iii?-* and rested th pool and again worked over it without getting a rise from a trout of decent size, and then proceeded down stream or up stream, just as it happens that he i? a down stream or up stream fisher, ! feeling that iu the pool a big trout is lurking, that he must be there because everything indicates it.but unfortunate- ? ly the flybook does not contain the par- ; ticular fly that will bring his troutship from his lair. If this should happen to a fly fisher ?uring this charming blossom season, and ht-has fished the pool artistically and we) 1 instead of proceeding on lus way. haunted by the thought of a big ' trout left In-hind, let him fill hi.? pipe, if ! he is a smoker, and retire from the ;.1 ? until the soothing weed is consumed, and smoker and pool are both rested. Iben approach and casi t'u<- flies bel or at one side of the particular spot which appears to hold the fish, and when the flies sink below the surface draw them past the spot with force en lugb I make the water euri as it is droded bj the flies drawn so swiftly "har neithei trout nor man can distinguish the par ticular flies of the cast.-Forest and Stream. Cold Water Killel Him. In a small house of the Rue Ste. Mar guerite, Paris, there has iived for a long j time past a crippled old beggar known in the quarter as "The Terrible Savoy ard." One morning recently he left his lodgings as usual co offer ?>encils to the charitably inclined, and when he ar rived at the wineshop of the Rue Bas-1 froy, where he was known, he bogan to tease the housemaid. Clemence Provost, i The giri, not relishing his attentions, re- J torted, "If you had watered your wine this morning you would be less trouble some," and threw a glass of water in his face. The old man sprang forward with . an insult on his lips, brit suddenly stag- j gered back and fell down dead. The j doctor summoned in haste to the spot i leclared the cause of death to have been j :onjestion of the brain, produced by the unexpected cold aspersion.- Pall Mall Gazette. A Major Who Would Train Sea Cull?, j Major Allott, who is himself a prac tical pigeon flyer, states that the Italians employ pigeons very considerably in the Mediterranean in connection with their mips of war. The French also use them regularly and systematically in the Mediterranean during their naval ma neuvers. This officer, however, is of the apinion that if we are going to use birds to fly over water for naval purposes, lucks wonid be better than pigeons, be muse when a duck gets tired he drops md sits on the water until he is rested ind. then goes on again. Ducks, more over, can fly by night, while pigeons carnot. Major Allott thinks that sea gulls might be trained also for message bearing.purf8fles.-iondon^News. * Hot weather, :z ?. j m.* i'u>virr "i i\ mu ness. There is no power of love so hard to get .md keep as a kind voice. A kind hand is deaf and dum!?. It may be r<>ugh in flesh and blood, yet do the work of a soft touch. But there is no one thing that love so much needs as a sweet voice to tell what it means and feels: and it is hard to get and keep it in the right tone. One must start i-i youth and be on the watch night and day, at work and play, to get and keep a voice that shall speak at all times the thought of a kind heart. It is often in youth that one gets a voice or a tone that is sharp, and it sticks to him through life, and stirs up ill-will and grief and falls ?ike a drop of gall on tiic sweet joys of home. Watch it day by day as a pearl of great price, for it will be worth more to you in days to come than the best pearl hid in the sea. A kind voice is to the heart what light is to the eye. It is a light that sings as well as. shines. drover Cleveland. [Chauncey M. Depew, ISOO.] If 1 am to name the typical American, the man who loves and believes tn his country beyond everything else, the man who. determining once in what direction his duty bes. cannot be swerved from the path-the man who is dodged ly per sistent in what be believes to be right the mau who thinks not of self, but of hi> country and i's needs. 1 would name Grover Cleveland. What he has accom plished is thc very highest attribute to the possibilities of American citizenship. A country lawyer the city of Buffalo, he slici lustre upon the high profession which he had chosen. As the mayor of !>:.-> native city he presented as his record a dean and economical administration. Coming into the highest position of thc land without previous experience and without scarcely s precedent to guide him in the conditions which surrounded him. he won thc affection of his party and commanded the respect and admira tion ot" his opponents. I rind myself in one of thc proudest positions of m\ Hie in being permitted to present tb you Grover Cleveland as the typical Ameri can. -rn? WASHINGTON, P. C., July 20. ??errc-'TiMtivt? Bo?tu?r, Log"- s? Price, of Louisiana: Mcltae, of Arkansas ; Bank head, of Alabama, ami Culberson, of Texas, appeared before the House committee on appro priations this morning and made urg ent appeals for appropriations by Congress ;:i :ii<i of tin- destitute suf ferers from tiie floods in tile lower Mississippi region. According to the statements of applicants there is need for the pur chase of rations and snelt.-r in tiie following s:(t...s of money: In Mr. Boatners district, *50;000: Robin son's,*5,000 ; Logan?s, ?4,500 : Col berson*s, ?-30,000; Bankhead's, *'JK 060 ; MeKae's, $50,000. X ?ne <>f the gentlemen on inquiry from iiic committee were able to produce anything tn tiie nature of a forma! request from tiie Executive of any of the States asking for aid. The committee ref?nred the matter to a sub-committee composed ..: Hol man. Tracy and Dingley. Ire Greenville AV-. <..?<' . ?nd 3/OTI tm-, says: "It cannot possibly serve any g. d purpose in otc present earn paign, or farther tiie cause of pence and unity, to discuss the decision the State Democratic Executive Committee in the campaign of tSflO, when it recognized B. i.\ Tillman and his adherents as members bf the Democratic party. Gen. Hampton ha- incidentally raised this question, and the A'- tc* an*! ' r blazons it. in head lines as i: Cen. Hampton was writing on that subject. The Stat.- Executive Com mittee oi iSOty stood firmly against the disintegration of the party, and tho rea sons for their action are plentiful and s;?: tsfacb?ry t- ? the majority of Democrats. If the State Executive Committee madea ..fatal mistak.-.' as tin- .V. and Courier puts it. and if they bad ruled Tillman and his followers out Of the party, as iien. Hampton declares he then held should bc done, the conclusion is inevita ble that a disruption of tiie party would bave been the result with the majority of its members on the outside Tile newspaper which shouted "Primary or split"1 until it was hoarse might haye gained its point; and enjoyed the split, but thc masses of rh?; people, then and now. agree that it is better for us to stick together from almost any point of view. While we do not think it wise ox this time to discuss the action taken in 1S90, we are prepcred to % indicate the soundness of judgment the correctness of principle and the patriotic motives which governed thc State Executive Committee j., that decision. Any reflec tion now upon their action by those who did not speak ont in IS?0 is an after thought of little importance, and yet the truth of history may compel a protest." The Newberry Obsercer bas received from tiie census department, at Wash ington, an official census bulletin, giving the population of South Carolina by sex, color ?nd nativity. The State's popula tion is 1,151,149, of whom ~>~2.'-X)~ are males and 578,812 arc females. Only .j,27o of thc population arc foreign born -probably the smallest proportion in any state of thc Union. The white popu lation is 462,000 colored, <>S'.?,14i. What is Castoria.' Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's pre scription for infants ?nd children. It contains neither opium, morphine, nor other narcotic substance. It is a harm less substitute for paregoric, drops, sooth ing syrup, and castor oil. It is pleasant Its guarantee is thirty years' use by mil lions of mothers. ? Castoria destroys worms and allays feverishness. Castoria prevents 'vomiting sour curd, cures diarrhoea and wind colic. Castoria re lieves teething troubles, cures constipa tion and flatulency. Castoria assimi lates the food, regulates thejstomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Castoria ir thc <|pldren*s panacea-the mother's friend?- -. '