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TO THINK OWN SELF BK T?UK AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT TBE D.1Y, THOU OANS'T NOT THUN 3? FALSE TO ANY MAN.
BY JA YNES, S M IQ LOK, SMITH & STEOK.
WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, JANUARY 10, 189?.
NEW SERIES, NO. 42.-VOLUME L.-r-NO. 3?
BILL ARP TO FARMERS.
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Cotton Not tho Only Crop-The Drum
mer'? Monkey Story.
Not long ago a ono-horso fannor
from the baokwoods oamo to our
town with' two bales of cotton and
sold it for 5 contd a pound. This
was his entire orop and ho was com
plaining bittorly to ono of our uior
ohnnts abd said that tho farmors
would perish to death in anothor
yoar If thoro wasn't somo ohango for
tho botter. A mischievous drum
mer, standing by, said : "Well, my
friend, you must quit raising cotton
or olso buy somo monkeys to pick it
out. Over in India and Egypt thoy
mako tho monkeys pick their cotton,
and that is what's tho matter. A
monkoy will pick a thousand pounds
a day and ho feeds on tho seed. So
it costs hardly anything over thoro
to raise cotton, and our farmors in
Mississippi and Texas have sont over
for a hundred thousand monkeys,
and they will bo over boro in time to
pick tho next orop and tho prico
will go lowor still, and if you don't
got yo? a monkey or two you had
better quit growing cotton, for you
can't compoto with monkeys." Tho
old man took it all in seriously and
said : "Well, what is a poor farmer
to do if ho hasn't got tho money to
buy tho monkey ?"
"Grow something olso," Haid tho
drummer. "Grow corn and wheat
and sorghum and potatoes. Plant
npplo and peach trcos, raise chick
ens and eggs, and a yearlin calf or
two to soil. Got up Boon and stir
around lively and make every mem
ber of your family work. Work at
something, for if you don't you will
perish out. Go back homo and
take a now start. Don't sit down
and grumble and blame somobody
else with your poverty. Quit cot
ton until you can buy half a dozen
monkeys."
Tho man wont back borne and cir
culated tho monkey story, and for
ten milos around tho one-horse far
?> mors have sworn off from raising
any moro cotton. That's what they
tell mo. Thoy say that before the
war the poor man couldn't competo
with tho rich man's niggers, and
now since ho has lost his niggers ho
is buying monkeys to tako their
pieces, and the poor man won't have
any oh an co at all.
Of course thoro is no truth in this
story, but thoro is a good deal of
philosophy. New methods, now
plows and now machinery are tho
monkeys, and if the poor farmer
doon not work carly and late ho will
keep poor. I know some country
women who make moro money on
their chickens and eggs and butter
than their husbands do on their cot
ton and wheat. Littlo things woll
nursed count up more than big ones.
Tho thrifty farmer always brings
with him something to sell whon ho
has to come to town. Some fowls
or eggs or potatoes or a ahoat or
some fruit in its season. Thoro is a
good homo market for all these little
things. In fact, if we leave out cot
ton everything tho farmer grows
brings about the same old prices of
ten years ago, and ever thing ho has
to buy, except coffeo, is much cheaper
now than it was thou. Everything
that is made of cotton is 50 per
cent cheaper and everything m ado
of iron or steel or tin is 100 per cent
cheaper. Hoof and pork and chick
ens and turkeys and eggs and wood
and potatoos and apples and ponchos
have not como down a nicklo in ten
years. Labor is a little cheaper, not
much. Wo ?till pay the same foi
cooking and washing and work in
the garden. If anybody has a rea
son for complaining of hard timos il
is the town people ; wo havo every
thing to buy. Tho farmer who if
not in debt and owns his farm is bet
i.e. o?T than ?ie ever was and tiu
prudent renter can pay rent nn<:
make money farming.
But of course thoro is a larg(
class of shiftless, unthrifty people
who will not succeed at anything
and they blame overybody for it bul
themselves. Coho says that tho Lon
had to make poor folks to keep rici
folks in monoy, and so Coho is con
tont in being poor, for it is tho Lord'i
V/i)l, I know folks who have not
planted a fruit trco and who will no'
oven plant a garden. Poverty makei
somo folks shifty and others indir?cr
ont and despairing. There is an oh
negro woman who copies to oui
house ovory Saturday and brings ui
a gallon of big hominy-old-fash
io.icd lyo hominy, and it is a luxury
Wo pay her 16 cents for it and sh?
bas seven othor customers. Om
peck of corn that costs her 10 cont
makes four pocks of homlnyv fo
which sho gets 11.20, and that make
kor a good living.
I road, in the last, Homo'and Farm
about a successful experiment in
growing ginseng, and if I was a far
mer I would try it. This was in
Kontuoky, whoro a man planted it in
a well-shaded forost of beaoh and
dogwood and gum trees, and it grew
both from tho sood aud tho roots that
bc planted and gave bira u rood crop.
Us market prico is $4 a pound. 1
know that, it could ho grown in this
mountanous region, among tho foot
hills. I know a good farmer who
makos money growing turnips for
thoir seed, and bo solis all his orop
to Poter Hondorson, of New York,
and Peter* Bolls it back to us at 500
per cont profit. Any smart indus
taiouB woman could mako money
right hero by growing roses and hot
house plants. Our people send off
lots of monoy for snell things and
some of thom are no account when
they got hore
Nobody around hore has over
raised any asparagus to soil, but they
buy it in Atlanta at 25 cents a hunch
and bring it home, or they buy it
canned from tho grooor at 35 couts.
A man in Marietta grows it by thc
aero for tbn Atlanta market and
makes big monoy. Why not grow
it hero ? Shifty is tho right word
wo must bo shifty if wo would keep
up with tho progress of the times.
Wit and wisdom aro vory noble
qualities, but necessity is tho mother
of invention and contrivance. Wo
must get out of thc oki ruts and
learn of our Northern brothren.
New England girls sit around tho
firo every night and plait straw for
hats and bonnets and baskets and
chair bottoms, and thoy liavo a good
timo talking about their pabors and
naborhood nows. Why shouldn't
our girls learn photography and have
a gallery in every town. It is a
boautiful art and peculiarly fitted for
women-pretty young women who
can talk thoir patrons into a pleasing
expression and can pose tho little
children and arrange tho" young
man's neel 'ic so nicely. If I was
a poe-, smart, pretty girl and
no man wanted mo that I
wanted, I would take some lessons
in photography and open a shop. I
thought that tho girls wove crowding
tho young men out of a good many
places, for they ave smart and quick
and don't drink or smoko, and I am
amazed and indignant to road that
200 of thom have been turned out of
employment by a great railroad com
pany in Chicago. I don't understand
that. I hope Mrs. Lowo will inves
tigate it. BILL Am*.
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OK TOLEDO, J
LUCAS COUNTY, J ' .
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that ho is
tho senior partner of tho firm of F. .J.
Cbonoy & Co., doing business in tho City
of Toledo, County and Stato aforesaid,
and that said firm wilt pay tho sum of
Ono Hundred Dollars for each and
ovory caso of Catarrh that cannot bo
cured by tho OHO of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CIIKNEY.
Sworn to boforo mc and subscribed in
my prononce, this (3th day of Deoombor,
A. D. IPSO.
. . A. W. GLEASON,
j BEAL {?
' ^? Notary Public
Hull's Catarrh (Juro is taken intornally
and acts directly on tho blood and mu
cous surfaces of tho system. Send for
testimoni?is, freo.
F. J. ClIKN? . & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 7f>e.
Hall's Family Pills aro tho host.
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Judge linnet and tho Ncgroos?
During tho course of tho sessions
of court at Beaufort recently, Judge
Benet called attention to negroes
and whites sitting togcthor on tho
court-room honchos. Ifo directed
that thoy bo separated and ono side
? bo alloted to whites and tho other
sido to negroes in attendance. This
order was thereupon obeyed and will
bo regarded in future. God Al
mighty ncvor intended, ho said, that
tho two races .should bo mixed, and
tho suggestion is being carried out
from that standpoint at least. Some
of tho colored lawyers sitting in
court during tho J inigo's remarks
wanted to know if the order applied
to them, and if they would bo re
quired to occupy a different side of
tho court room within tho har, and
thc Judgo said Iiis remarks were not
intended for them, and they continuo
to occupy their positions within tho
palo.
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Illcrt <H>MKII Hyriii?. TMMSOOO^ OSO f?l
In limo. Sold by OrugglRt*. 1*1
Kx-Sonator Edmund?, one of the
ablest constitutif.ml lawyers in tho
United States, gives it ns his opinion
that any Stato in thp llnion can
logalizo polygamy, and that tho
national government lias no power to
T ullify tho action.
tl gloomy and nervous, and looking on
tho dark sido of things, tako a fow dosos
of Dr. M. A. Simmons' IJ ver Medicino,
and tho gloom will disappear.
A SKELETON IN THE HlAMl.
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Bonos ot a Creature Antedating Adam.
A Wonderful Find.
MIAMISIIUHO, OHIO, January 14.
A disoovory of tho greatest scientific
interest wa? mode when the piek
axe' of Edward W. Gebhart and
Edward Xuutttnan, of this place, dis
turbed the long reposo of a skeleton
that had boon buried for no ono oan
toll how many thoiuands of years.
Tho body that onoo >roudly strode
on earth possossod of tho living
strength of a giant, .nth tho bonoB
just found for it? f>.\mownrk; was
surely not of a raco of wuioh history
lian given us any reoord.
Tho skelton is that of a human
boing, who in lifo must have boon of
immense size. Tho faco is almost
gorilla-liko in its angularity ; tho
jawbones aro tremendous, and tho
teeth havo been pronounced (by a
local dontist, Dr. Harlan, to bo as
strong and porfcot ns any ho has
ovor soon.
A number of local practitioners,
among them Dr. A. II. Blossom, Dr,
Weaver, Dr. Bookwaiter and Dr.
Shuter, have oxnminod tho bones
and tliey unanimously ngreo that
the .Mind" is no less important a ono
than tlie skeleton of a prehistoric
man, who undoubtedly was ono of
tho Mound Builders, tho relics of
whose sojourn in tho Miami Valley
have boen so oagorly sought aftor by
archaeologists all ovor the country.
Tho splendid condition of tho
tooth lias caused tho doctors to con
clude that the prehistoric mon was a
root-cater, for no masticator of meats
could havo retained to tho estimated
ago of tho man tho porfcot molars
with which tlie jaws aro fitted. Tho
skull itsolf is like no skull that any
living man carries around on his
shoulders, iu that it is of extraordi
nary size and contour. With tho
massive jawbones, strongly marked
orbital places, and odd facial angles,
thc face would present a striking
appearance could it bc rcstorod by
an artist in wax.
Tho discoverers of tho skeleton
wero digging gravel in a pit about a
half milo from tho town, when tho
pick of Edward Gobhart struok tho
skull. A careful investigation by
thc two mon, who, from previous
discoveries of Mound Builder relics,
knew enough of thc importance of
tho find to at once set about unearth
ing tlie skeleton, revealed tho rest
of tho bones, forming an almost
completo skeleton.
Tho body had ovidontly boon
buried in a sitting posture, for the
knees were drawn up and tho hoad
bad fallen between them. Besido
the skeleton was a small flat stone,
about thrco inches long and two
inches wide, with a bolo drilled
through ono end apparently for tho
fitting of a handle. Tho uso of this
stone is not apparent to tlio local
scientists. Some think it was a
unarm buried with tho body, while
others belie yo it to be tho weapon of
thc dead man, although why such a
giant as this prehistoric individual
evidently was should carry so unim
posing a club is a question It ie
importan, 'hat this stone, so clearly
fashioned by hand, was found in
oloso proximity to thu skeleton, for
it settles at onoo all doubts as to
whether tlie groat skull originally
adorned tho body of a man or n
mammoth monkoy.
At present tho bones aro on exhi
bition hore. They aro sorving as C
star attraction, for the people art
very proud of the fact that onco in
this neighborhood thoro lived a race
of prehistoric giants who erected thc
largest earth mound in tho country
and then disappeared, leaving behind
' them fragments of stonie, pieces ol
pottery and wovon cloth mado oj
hark to show that they onoo wen
tho owners of thc valley. How lonp
this was ago, whero tho Mound
Builders originally came from, wiial
they looked like, whothcr or not
they will bo proven Homo day tc
have boen the long-Jookod-for lint
between mon and the lower animals
aro questions that tho residents o:
this locality would liko abovo al
things to have scientists decide. Tin
discovery of tlie skeloton, with iti
peculiar shaped skull, will provo o
great sorvico in th'- Investigation s<
far as it concerns tho appearance o
th.. Mound Builders.
Tho whole question of mar's firs
appearance on earth ?B being ficrcol;
discussed nineo thc skelotop wa
femd.
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To rplipve montai worry, euro despond
onoy und fi|vo refreshing sloop, uso Sim
mons' Srpiaw Vino Wino or Tablets.
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Tho United States, according t
reports rocoived at tho State Doparl
mont, will soon surpass England i
tho valuopf maohincry oxports t
Gormany.'
o.ooo Soldiers Killed.
CONSTANTINOPLE, January 12.-A
great buttle has boen fought in the
Yemen division of Arabia. Tho
Turkish trftopa stormed and oapturcd
tho iusurgont position at Shanel on
November 80. About 4,000 insur
gents and 2,000 Turks wore killed or
wounded. .
A dispntoh from Constantinople
on Dooember 2 said it was reported
thoro had boen renewed fighting in
Yemen and tho Turks were said to |
have suffered a sorious defeat be
twoon Hodeida and Sana. Trouble
betweon tho Turks and Arabs in
that part o? Arabia has boon in pro
gress for over four yoars.
FUnTHKU ADVANCE OJtDEHED.
LONDON, January 13.-Speoial die
patohes from Constantinople say
that after the battle at Shanel, a |
furthor Turkish advaneo was or
dered. Abdullah Pasha command
ing tho Turkish troops, was directed
to oaptnro Sasboh, tho hoadquartors j
of an important iusurgont leader,
ono hundred and fifty miles North
woBt of Sana. All tho commanding
positions in that vioinity arc ceo
pied by robols and BB tho Turkish
troops aro deserting, tho operations
aro likely to bo prolongod and diffi
cult.
Tho trouble in Yomon is ono of
old standing and tho rebellion against
Turkish rulo has spread throughout
Hadschin and othor districts.
Hcglunlng tho Yoar
With pare, rioh, healthy blood, which
may bo bad by taking Hood's .jaraapa
parilla, you will not need to fear attacks
of pneumonia, bronchitis, fovors, colds
or tho grip. A fow bottles of this groat
tonic and blood purilior, taken now, will
bo your host protection against spring ]
humors, boils, oruptions, that tired feel
ing and sorious illness, to whioh a weak
and dobiiitatod system is especially lia
ble in carly spring. Hood's Sarsaparilla
oradicatos from tho blood all scrofula
taints, tonos and strongthons, tho
stomaoh, euros dyspepsia, rheumatism,
catarrh and evory ailment, caused or pro
moted by impuro or doplotod blood.
Persimmon and Dogwood.
Manager Anderson, of tho Hook
Hill Buggy Company, has received
tho following lettor from Conda),
Stono & Co., Binghamton, N. Y.:
"Wo arc advised that the best place
to obtain persimmon lumber is some
where in your vicinity, and we wish
you would pienso put us in communi
cation willi some lamber dealers who
can furnish us this stook. Wo want
to buy a lot of sawed heads to manu
facturo into golf clubs. Wo wish
you would also adviso us if thoro is
any dogwood to bo obtained in South
Carolina. Wo understand this per
simmon lumber grows in swamps and
is muoh larger in Virginia and tho
CarolinaB than in any othor port of |
tho country,"
Evory cough makes your throat
moro raw and irritablo. Evory cough
congosto tho lining membrane of
your hin??. Cease tearing your
throat and lungB in this way. Take
From tho first doao tho qulot and
roat bogin; tho tickling in tho throat
ccaaoa; tho cough disappears.
Two sizes : $1.00; R0c.
Dr. Aycr's Cherry Pectoral Pluater
should bc over thc lung* of every
person troubled with a cough.
J. O. AYER CO., Lowell. Mani.
Huntsman Kills Companion.
KNOXVILLE, TENN., January 12.
Geo. Montgomery was shot oarly
this morning by S. B. McFeor while
tho mon wore hunting near Brick
Mill, in Blount county. Tlio men
woro friends, but had somo slight
altercation and MoFeor drow a pis
tol and fired throe shots, ono enter
ing Montgomery's broast, produoing
what is probably a fatal wound.
Both aro prominent merchants and
well-known hore.
If irritablo, out of sorts, depressed in
spirits, havn a dull hoadacho, take a fow
doses of Hr. M, A. Simmons' Liver
Modiciuo for quick rollof.
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What-bocomcs-of-tbo-pins-problom baw
novor yotboon solved, and now somo ono
wants to know what has bocon:o of tho
100,000,000 old stylo coppor ponidos that
hayo boon coined. Occasionally ono is
sopn, but ory raroly. Out of tho l,R00,
f|Q0 broir 9. cont plocos coined a fow
yoars ago ?,000,000 aro apparently loBt,
and so aro 1,000,000 8-cont sllvor pieces,
ono of whioh ?B raroly soon, and 800,
half-cent pieces, nopo of which aro ov
peon.
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For ovorworked girls and fcohlo womo
Simmons' Squaw Vino Wino or Tahl
1 aro natur o's greatest boon.
MUST BE INDUSTRIOOS.
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Address o? Prof. N, C. Nix, at Orange*
hurts* to tho Negro Race*
Emancipation day wan ohservod at the
Staio Colorod collogo, Orangeburg, S. O.
At 10 o'?look tbo procession, beaded by
tho Stato Collogo Bloyolo club, followed
by tho rogular band of tho collogo, pro
coodod through tho principal strqots of
tho city. Tho most attraotivo foaturo of
tho parado was tho lino of oollogo oadots,
commaudod by Prof. lt. 8. Wilkinson, A.
M., and Major 8. D. Fraalor. In tho roar
woro vobiclos of vnrious kinds containing
tho orator of tho day, Prof. N. C. Nix, A.
B. , nud inar?y othors of muoh promlnonco.
Beside tho college band there was thc
midgot band, consisting of a number of
very Binnll ohildron from tho klndor
garton dopartmont. Tito olegant musio
rondorod by thoso littlo folks showed
muoh skill and preparation on tho part
of thoir loader, Prof. E. F. Mlokoll,
On roturniug to tho campus a droBH
parado was givon for tho benefit of tho
largo gal hering, At 1 o'olook tho audi
oueo nssomblod in tho spaoious collogo
chapel, decorated appropriately, as di
I rooted by Sarah V. Smalls, instructor in
' physioal BC?OUOO.
I Tho oration was dollvorod by Prof. N.
C. Nix, A. B., of tho dopartmont of
mathematica, in tho State colorod college.
Ho is a for mer graduate of tho aeadomio
course at Bonodiot collogo, oomploting
tho collogo olnssioal courso at Clafliu
University, and mado a spcoialty of
mathematics at tho University of Chi
cago, Chicago, 111. Ho is a negro of no
moan ability, a most eloquent orator.
His address was on tho subjeot, "Go Up
High." His advices woro timely, nud
woro enthusiastically rocoivod. Ho spoko
ono hour and a half and hold his vast
audience, of near 2,000 persons, spell
bound. Ho urged upon bis people a
a steady advancement, financially, intel
lectually anti morally. Ho said:
"You havo dono well, considering tho
many disabilities nuder which you have
had tb labor, but thoro romainoth very
much moro to bo possessed. You must
oultivato babita of industry and domes
tic economy.
'.Tho scales of projudico, as tho negro's
ability to learn anything ho may desire
to study, havo long sinco fallon from thc
eyes of tho nations. For tho masses thc
training of tho hoad and hearts, for il
J bettor fits tho individual for tho duties
which tho environment'! of nature im
poso upon bim. Thcobjoot of all otluoa
tion should bo moro especially dirootod
to tho dovolopmont of tho charactor and
strengthening of tho virtue. Ho ox<
horted thom to obtain an education, b(
it indrustinl, or highly literary. That
tho nogroes should thank God for ovorj
philanthropic heart, North and South
I who figured, in any shapo, in thoir ma
I erial, intellectual or spiritual advance
mont."
Ho paid quite a tributo of respect tt
tho lato lion. Justin Smith Morrill, thai
in tho dealb of that venerable mau tlu
nogroos lost a prominent advocato i>
financial legislation. "You should bi
grateful, appreciate and cherish wha
tho white pcoplo aro doing for us. Lo
thoro bo a united ofi'ort, of all tho forcoi
that work for tho advancement of tin
raco, in bringing about poaco, unity
harmony, good will and brothorly lov<
among all negro Bchools and businosi
cntorprisos, for our interests are ono.
"Thoro is no reasonable excuse for tin
provalcnt immoral habits finding lodg
mont among our pooplo. To riso in tnt
opinion of civilization and command tin
respect of civilized pooplo, cultiv?t
chastity and virtuo, rospoot and proteo
tho virtuo of your women, and let you
homo inti uenoo bo puro.
"1 seo but littlo or no prospoots ii
politics for tho nogroes until thoy shal
possess a class noted for entorpriso, in
dustry, economy, success, education,
high moral nt at in;, and got beyond tho
stago where thoy can bo usod ns oat'
paws for wicked and designing mon
seoking selfish ends. Wo aro homo an
boro to stay until Gabriol calls. Arnon
tho bettor olass of tho white pooplo w
havo many strong friends? In tho Sout
thevo IB a feeling in common botwoon th
white and blaok man that only a Go
can determine, and wo shall Blay hoi
and work out our own salvation."
To subdue, nervous irritability, not
ralgia, hystoria, St. Vitus' tlanco, Ul
Simmons' Squaw Vino Wino or Tablet
Forgot His Wife's Nanto.
"I was reoontly making ont a ticed ft
a man," says a Detroit lawyer, "and n
wont swimmingly till I turned to hil
and asked bim his wifo's name. "Ol
yes, of courso. Wifo's nnmo. Very nooc
sary, to ho suro,' anti it wan plain to 1
soon he waa sparring for timo, win
making evo^y effort to bring his momoi
into play. Ho had a rnsh of blood to h
faoo, looked soroly troubled and final
. tuned his back on mo whllo ho look?
out of tho window, as though rollof we
tobo found thoro. 'Wouldn't that be
you'?' ho oxolaimcd, as ho turnod slow
baok. 'I'll be hlowod if I can recall h
namo. You seo, thoy used to call h
I "Pot" when abo was a girl at homo, ai
that wns bor namo wiMi mo up to h
years after our marriage, whoo I bog;
calling her "mamma." I couldn't i
you her namo if it woro a capital offon
not to know it. S'posp it wouldn't do
just call lier "Pot" in tho dood?'
wouldn't, so ho hurried away, and
an hour wns back with his wife's fi
namo on a slip of papor."
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Tho lal esl statistics Of .el hod ?SM, t
world ovor, havo just boon tabulatod
follows: Ministers, 't3,-100; lay proat
ora, 101,013; churohos, 76,821; mombt
and probationers, 7(l00,00l; Simd
sobools, 77,017; Sunday sohool offici
and teachers, 788,000; Suodf.y soht
scholar*, 6,180,700, If we multiply I
communicants by 3, wbloh is tho ust
mothod of getting an avorage In sr
eise a, WO (Ind tho Methodist, populat!
of tho world to bo 21,m ,803,
Hoir to Reduce Taxes*
Wo suppose that it is easy enough
to advise others what to do, and how
to do it, hut when it conies to prac
ticing what wo preach it is moro
difficult, especially when one finds it
hard to got others to go his way.
When ? feiiow is running for tho
Legislature he feels sure that ho will
make a groat many reforms, but
when ho gots to Columbia ho seos
that tho great majority is against
him, and it is so easy to follow tho
multitude Wo oan swim down
stroam vory easily, but whon it comes
to steming the current tho rub bo
gius. A man who had beon a mem
ber of tho Logislaturo said to us tho
other day that when ho first wont to
Columbia ho went thoro with his
hoad full of economical ideaH, but
tiny wero soon all knocked out of
him, and ho wont with the broad
gaugo men. Indood a man who sots
himself up to reduce oxponsos and
savo tho peoplo's money subjeots
himself to ridiculo, but tho greatest
reformers tho world has over had
wero ridiculod, but as bravo mon
th ny s? nod tho storm and turned tho
tido. Now if you aro a mau plant
yoursolf on tho right sido aud stand
firm.
In thc first placo, out down the
salaries of tho big mon. They aro
too large any way. Socoud, reduce
appropriations to the Stato colloges.
If Wofford and Furmnn and Erskine
and Nowborry colloges get along on
$10,000 each and less, wo think tho
Stato schools might. But some
"smart Alick" will begin to figuro to
show what a small amount a reduc
tion of $26,000 or oven $100,000 will
m uko ou oaoh man's taxos. Pay no
attention to that follow-voto to cut
oxponsoB nt every point. Little
things count in tho ond. Now, gen
tlemen, don't forget your frionds at
homo. Wo know you fool mighty
far away, and pretty largo in that
groat big houBO, all oarpoted and
fixed up, sitting in your fine cush
ioned chairs at magnificent desks,
and warmed by tho bcBt boating
apparatus tho State oan produce.
And, too, you have on your Sunday
clothes, kid glovcB, and perhaps a
stove-pipe hat. But, friends, remem
ber tho boys who hold tho plow hun
dios and who sit by log fires, and
who will soon bo cutting briers and
burning brush. And then do not
forgot your old hard chairs at homo
and your baro floor, and como right
square down to business-yes, busi
ness, gontlomeu. It is timo for busi
ness. It is a shame to continuo to
tax the pcoplo as thoy have boon
thoBo hard times. Tho most distin
guished legislator now is tho man
who will lift the burden of taxation
from the hoads of tho people Who
of you, gontlomon, will do it?-?
Grconwood Journal.
OASTOII?A.
Bears the ?-?9^ Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature , S/llJ#-A\-M~ ?'
of t^a^/?rTw^^:
Well Hold.
Referring to Henry Watterson's
abpurd nomination of Dowey and
Loo ns tho Democratic national
tiokot for 1000 on a blank platform,
tho Floronco Times says :
"Hero worship has gone quito far
onough for poople whoso ways of
thinking aro essentially plain and
praotical. We heard a plain man
Hay that courage waa a very cheap
thing among Confedorato Boldiers.
And American horoism is a vory
cheap thing so far as tho supply is
concornod ; and this wo say with
rovoronco and with no desire to un
dorrato tho valuo and magnificence
of Dewey's victory or of Loo's sor
vicos."
Our contemporary is right. Bravo
mon aro not BO raro that wo have to
nominate thom for our highest
offices to onoourngo courage. And
whilo Dowey will do admirably woll
as omporor of tho Paoilio without
any platform, our 75,000,000 peoplo
will want for their Pr?sidant a man
who roprosonts citizenship rather
than seamanship, and has a land
polioy for poaco rath or than a naval
polioy for war.-Tho Stato.
Womon's complexions dopond for
beauty upon digestion. Dr. M. A. Sim
mon'n Liver Medioino regulates tho
stomach, livov and kidnoys and soouros
the bloftBings of good digostion.
One County's Crops.
In Duval county, Florida, outsido
Jackson ville, G000 acv *. jf land aro
under cultivation by 870 farmors.
Last yoar tho swcot potatoes grown
in th?t county were Bold for $20,080,
the corn ior $12,898, tho sugar-oano
for $12,200, tomatoes $5807, water
melons $9210, Irish potatooB $8742,
strawberries $2773, cotton $2000,
rico $676, poas $1884, hay $1704,
peanuts $80, tobacco $100, cabbages
$8400, cucumbers $386, English peas
$421. beans $1497, pears $726,
poaches $1100, grapes $1874.
THE SOUTH IS PROSPEROUS
Satisfactory Conditions In Spite of, the |
IIOTT JPrleo 6f Cotton.
Mr. Riobard H. Edmonds returned
to Baltimore aftor a trip of more
than a month to the South, m nob of
tho timo having been spent in tho
mountains of Western North Caro
lina. Ho gavo an encouraging report
of tho general business outlook
throughout tho South.
"The low prloo of ootton," said I
Mr. Edmonds, "has, of course, af?ootod |
tho agricultural interests to a con
siderable oxtont, but os a partial off
set to this tho South has this year
raised about 120,000,000 bushels of
corn moro than last year, worth at
tho price prevailing in that seotion nt
least $?0,000,000 moro than tho 1897
crop. The most important factor, I
howovor, ovon from tho farmer's
standpoint, is tho stoady inoreaso in
industrial an'd railroad interest, as
tho inoreaso in employment in fac
tories and on railroads enlarges tho
demand for divorsi?od agricultural
produots and givoB profitable work
to thousands of people. Thero is a
very marked improvement in thc
industrial situation, and everything
ends to strengthen tho South's
strong position as tho futuro domi
nating power in the manufacturing
interests of tho United States.
"At Birmingham, Ala., things aro
almost booming. This city is now
exporting an avorago of nearly 1,000
tons of pig iron a day. This iron
goes to almost cvory country in tho
world, Japan having latoly taken ono
cargo of 8,000 tons, while a week or
two ago an ordor was received from
Jorusalom, though a largo part goos |
direot to England and soils in com
petition with tho English and Scotch
iron. At presont tho demand is in
excoss of tho output, and furnaces
aro refusing to aooopt orders for
future delivery. Tho building of two
immonso stool plants is now making
good progress at Birmingham. E?.ch
plant will cost about $1,000,000, ono
hoing intended to make stool billots,
rails, otc, and tho other tho highest
forms of finished picduots, suoh as
wire and wiro nails, and both expect
ing to find their largost market in |
foreign countries.
"Many now industries aro being]
established in and around Birming
ham, tho latest one announced being
an iron pipe-making plant to produce
300 or 400 tons of iron pipo a day.
"The cotton milla of tho South are
busy, most of thom running day and
night, and during tho last few weeks
tho mill owners havo bcon muoh
encouraged by tho broadening of tho
domand for goods and the prcapoots
for higher prices and moro profit.
During my whole trip I hoard but
fow complaints, and on cvory hand
thero was an optimistic spirit based
on tho steady expansion of industrial
and commoroial affairs. Tho outlook
for this seotion, notwithstanding tho
offeot whioh low-pricod ootton is hav
ing, is oxoeodingly bright, and tho
solid, substantial progress of the
South during 1899 will probably bo
greater than in any your since 1860."
-Baltimore Sun.
Morning sickness, or nausea from
pregnancy, is diupollod by Simmons'
I Squaw Vino Wino or Tablots.
Death Rate In Havana.
Wo ollp from tbo Columbia Record
tiloso statements:
Tho following otnrtllng figures, tho
correctness of willoh is gnaranteod by
tlio dopartmont of sanitation of Havana,
provo that thoro is no plnoo on earth
where man-mado conditions for tho de
struction of human Ufo havo boon
brought to such porfootion aa in thatoity :
Doaths. Rlrths. Marriages.
January. 1,071 803 72
February. 1,518 258 00
Mardi. 1,600 803 01
April. 1,411 210 05
May. 1,208 104 ' 65
Juno.. . 1,120 140 40
July. ' ,<? .. lou ?z
August. 1,705 154 ?8
Soptombor.... 2,800 151 80
Ootobor. 2,240 100 40
Novonibor.... 1,828 175 00
Totals.10,840 2,228 007
In commenting on those figures tho
Philadelphia Rocord says:
"This is an astounding showing. Tho
doaths aro to tho births as niuo to one.
Tho lato George E. Waring, ono of tho
most distinguished sanitary onglnoors in
this country, estimated that lt would
cost thirty million dollars to put tho city
of Ifnvana in a thoroughly Batisfaotory
sanitary condition. In tho light thrown
upon the suojoct by thone startling vital
statistlos it would oertAlnly seem botter
to burn tho olty than to undertake to
make it flt for habitation through any
slower process of purgation."
-I-<* . ?~-.
Tho Now York Contrai Labor
union has adopted resolutions op
posing "tho policy of imperialism
and expansion beyond tho limits of
this oontlnont and the islands that
??io within its national and legiti
mate sphoro of influence." Resolu
tions woro also adopted in opposi
tion to an allianoo with Groat Bri
tain,
TOM MILLEU NOW ANO THEN.
Editor Williams, of tho CtrconvlUo
' News, drews interestingly
, Reminiscent.
Tho Gre*nvlllo Now1? ia very muoh
pleased at the sorislblo Enianolpatlon
Hey spoooh that Tom Millor mad?' in /
Spartanburg last Monday, and in con
sidering tho Bp?akor, Editor Williams
indulges in somo into ros ting romlnls
oonoos of tho past. Ho thinks that mon
and things, himsolf iooluded, havo
ekanged wonderfully in tho paqt 22
years, and ho is of tho opinion that' tho
ohnngo is for the bettor. And what ho
tsays is intoroBtiug. In faot it is as fol
lows :
"Beading the spooob ovor wo ???O
movod to marvel ovor tho ohaugeB tho
years bring. lloro is Tom Miller ad
vising bis peoplo to a policy of concilia
tion and subinisBion. . Ho was a member
of tho Legislature of 1870.
"Lord bloss us, that was 22 yoars ago,;,
and mon who woro not born theil ato
voters now, and women who woro not
thought of thon aro mothors of growing
families, and tho universities and col
logos aro full of boys aud girls who did
not arrivo in this world until yoars aftor
that. Tom Millor woro in thoso days a
light wooton suit with a Back coat, in the
pookots of which ho oarriod his hands
mest of tho timo. Vory likoly bo bad a
rovolvor in oaoli of thom. Tho oditor of
tho Groonvillo Nows sat for two days and
a night with r. pinLul indued on Tom
Millor and loarnod to know him woll. ' IM :
was porhaps tho niOBt onormous pistol
over mado-tho barrol of a Romlngtou
riilo Bawod oit and its look fitted to a
pistol butt. It carried but ono ball and
tho oditor of tho Groonvillo Nows, thon
roportor for a Charleston nowBpapor
which died long ago, adjusted it in tho
drawor of his doak, at tho bead of tho
main aislo, and by mathomatical diagram
and calculation and an improvised raugo
finder, fastonod it with pins and cooked
it so thnt cn opening tho drawor to a
oortain pouoil mark and turning it looso
lt would inovitably "fotoh" tho Hon.
Thomas E. Millor, then mombor from
Beaufort, who, all unconscious of what
was walting for him, was up and down
ovory minute or so, apparently doing his
host to bring on a row. During thoso
norvo-trying 30 hours, tho oditor of tho
Groonvillo News studiod and contem
plated tho mombor from Beaufort and
spooulatod as to how ho would look and
fool as that Remington bullot took him
In tho spaco bonoath hiu wish bono, and
surmised that ho would smilo a kind of
sickly smile and ourl up on tho floor, and
that tho subBoquont procoodings would
intorost him no moro; which that samo,
tho editor of tho Groonvillo Nows, be
hoved would occur to himsolf aftor n
vory fow of tho long soconds whioh drag
thoir slow length along whilo fighting is
in progress, and a gout is in momentary
ox pool al ion of hoing pluggod; for ho sat
immediately bonoath E. W. M. Maokoy
and Judgo Wallaco, tho rival speakers,
and kuow woll that tho shots of tho en
thusiasts on both sidos would bo concen
trated in that direction and that some
body would shoot low.
"But it all passed off and nobody was
hurt; and now tho rantankorous, cavort
ing, red hot and no compromiso mombor
from Beaufort rldos about in a. frook
coat and a high silk hat in carriages and
speaks of oonoilintion and submission.
Tho Ring Tailod Roaror from tho Santoo,
who threatened a row ovory minuto is
doad wo bollovo. Olivor P. Morton, tho
wioldor of tho bloody shirt in tho United
States Sonnto, whom wo all used to bato
so bittorly, is doad and almost forgotten;
tho blaok incondiavy f rom Orangoburg,.
whose narnu wo foi got, ba? passed out of
sight; E. W. M. Mackoy is dead ; Dan
Chamberlain is our vory good friend;
tho Hon. John Sam Vornor, who was a
wild man from tho mountains and used
to jump on his dosk and wavo his arms
about, is a poacoful and dooorus oitizon;
tho non. J. Lawronoo Orr, who lod tho
storming party and dolled tho Sorgoant
at-Arms, tho Stato constabulary and tho
United States, and Bmasbod in a groon
bateo door and inoidoutally an Irish
guard, with 200 pounds of woight, rein
forced by a six shootor, is now so law
abiding that ho ovon roturns his inoomo
tax. Tho Hon. John C. Shoppard, who
regularly kloked his way in and out of
tho ball of tho House of Roprosontatlvos
with tho aid of two largo rovolyora, in
now a mau of poaco who doprooatos vlo
! lonco. A Ropublienn Prosidont has como
down among us and Bot us all to hurrah
ing with kindly words of tho Southon)
people and tho Confodorato Boldlor, and
wo who have in our timo sworn groat
oaths of vongoauco and porpotunl bato
aro roconoilcd and reconstructed and
thrill responsively when,,tho stars and
stripes aro hoistod."
A fow doBos of Dr. M. A. Simmons'
Livor Modiolno will do moro for a weak
stomaoh than a prolongod courso of any
othor modloino.
Winthrop's Annual Report.
A part of tho annual roport of tho trus
t?es of Winthrop Collogo bas boon pub?
lishod In tho Rook Hill Horald and is of
groat intorost. Tho roport is now boing
printed by tho Stato printer. According
to this roport tho total numbor of pupils
ndmittod this sossion is 403, and five
States aro roproBontcd In tho student
Lody. Oooneo county is roprosontod at
Winthrop by Bovcral of lt? young ladies.
lt is found that sixty per cont of tho
numbor enrolled could not havo attended
any collogo this sossion if Winthrop had
not brought oduoation within thoir roach.
Last snmnior tho numbor of applicants
for admission to tho collogo roaohed Ave
hundred, but only two hundred and
iiixty-two could bo accommodated in tho
dormitory. In connection with tho col
logo is a largo farm and dalry and io
centlyv a largo orchard has befut sot out
and tho board oxpoots to ean fruit ami
vegetables for tho uso of the college and
thus savo tho collogo a largo amount oft
lnonoy*