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TO THINK OW SBLB BK TR?B AND IT MUST FOLLOW AB THE l?IGHT THB DAY, THOU OANS'T NOT THEN BK FALSE TO ANY MAN. BY JA YNES, SHEJLOK, SMITH ? ?TECK. ALL KmOS ) OF li CO IV) IVIE RCS AL PRINTING AT THIS Or^FIClS PO0TER8, PAMPHLETS, BLANKS, AO. WAI?1IA1,1,A, SOUTH CAROLINA, FEBB?JAKY 2, 189?. NEW SERIER NO. 44.-VOIiUMHTi - NO. ?. STAY AWAY FROM ??BA. Ex-tJoyeruor Evans Gires Advice to Mouth Carolinians. In a personal lotter from Major Jno. Gary Evans, now in Cuba, he gives sotho interesting facts about lus work, and shows that the craze for office-holding oxists in Cuba as woll OB in South Carolina. Ile writes as follows, among other things : "I am vory sorry that the news papers havo givon a wrong idea of tho position I hold, as it has flooded mo with lottors from all tho States for positions, otc. I am not what you would call a mayor in civil lifo. 1 am simply on tho staff of Major Gonerol Ludlow, Governor of tho District of Havana, and havo boen assigned to tho duty of organizing tho oity government.. Tho first thing, of course, to bo dono is tho organization of a polico force, and thia wo aro now doing and will havo in effect in a few days. Next comos tho munioipal courts, and this I am to lako up noxt. Tho rcsponsibiii y is much greater than that of civil mayor, as you will understand. I I hope, however, to pull it through successfully. I appreciate tho com pliment vory much, as it carno en tirely unexpected, and I had not at tho timo an acquaintance with tho general. I have tried to do my duty ns a soldier, oven though holding a subordinate position, and I am proud of the fact that it has been satisfac tory so far to my commanding gene ral. I wish you would say through tho papors what I oncloso herewith, as it will savo me lots of annoyance from adventurers and office-seekers. This is a remarkable country, as rich as the valley of the Nile, but the people arc a sorry lot ; lazy and don't care whether they havo more than ono day's rations ahead. Thc little nigs go naked, because they prof or it, and not from poverty." Tho statement which Major Evans wishes published reads : ""I am in receipt of communica tions daily from South Carolinians desiring to know something of Ha vana and tho prospect hero of success in business enterprises. It will bc impossible for me to answer all of these lottors as my timo is almost en tirely absorbed by my official duties. My advice to all such is to stay at home for thc present. Everything here is in a formative stage and prices aro abnormally high. The people seem to think that Americans are made of money, and they pay ac cordingly for what they get. When tho government is formed matters will settle down to a reasonable basis and then will be time enough to visit tho island. This is a splendid coun try and will soon bloom as a regular garden, but after all there is no place liko South Carolina." Bearing-down sensations, internal heat and tomato woaknossos aro cured hy the uso of Simmons'Squaw Vino Wino or Tablets. Tho "Kids" riayed Hangman, Here's a lively nows item from a j North Carolina rural exchange : "Wo learn that two kids-'Zeke Jenkins's kid, and Bud Snoodlo's kid-enticed a victim to the' Bob Williams barn, Friday night, and putting a ropo around his neck, proceeded to draw bim up to a girder and let bim hang till ho was dead, dead, dead." The comment of the editor on this little incident is: "Wc learn from reliable sources that tho victim is no longer kicking !" o A. m ?i o aa x -A. . Be?T th? /?1,10 Kind You Wm Always Howlit The Doge's Palace at Vonieo and tho adjacent Bridge of Sighs and library of St. Mark's have been re ported to tho authorities at Homo as being in a dangerous condition. The walls are cracking in every direction in the palace, and tho condition of tho library is oven worse Unless imm?diate and extensivo repairs aro made these historical landmarks and sources of never ending interest to tourists and sightseers from all parts of tho world will becomo perillous ruins, that cati only bo viewod with safety from a distance. It is reas suring to learn that thc Italian min ister of public instruction and tho lino arts has promised to take the matter in hand at once. ------ An exchange says : "If Ananias were living to-day he would have lots of opposition." Tho truth of this remark might be fully established by some of the defoatod candidates who woro before tho Legislature a few days ago. On a compptifi\ i ex amination it is not probable, inat Ananias would got first placo in this day and generation. Gold Galore Tho prod ucl ion of gold continues to increase nt a wonderful rate. . According to the figures of thc Engineering and Mining Journal tho output of gold last yoar wac nearly $50,000,000 greater than that of 1807 and ?hat hont all previous records. Tho Journal after careful inquiry and investigation puts tho total gold produot of last yoar at $286,218,954 ns against r$237?382,450 for 1807. Tho inoronso last year waB greater than tho world's total output of gold, for any year prior to 1850. From tho beginning of tho present century to the discovery of gold in California tho annual avorago production of gold in tho world was only about $13,000,000. From 1811 to 1820 tho annual average was only $7,OOG,000 ; from 1821 to 1880 it was $9,838,000 and from 1841 to 1850 the average was $40,393,000. The California discoveries caused a sudden and iinmonso inorcaso in gold production, BO that tho annual avorago from 1860 to 1855 was $132, 513,000. Then there was a gradual and steady decrease until the mini mum was reached in tho years be tween 1881 and 1885, when ',he averago was only $100,000,000. Even as lato as 1891 tho world's gold production was only $130,060, 000 or less than half the production ot last year. Tho development of gold proper ties in this country, in Afrioa and Australia during tho post eight yoars lias been phenomenal and is due largely to improved methods of ex tracting the oro. Thoro is no prospect of a decroaso in production and it is almost cer tain that the gold output of the pre sent yoar will exceed even tho enor mous amount that was taken out laut year.-Atlanta Journal. How's This 1 Wo ofl'or Ono Ilundrod Dollarn Howard for any caso of catarrh that cannot bo cured hy Hall's Catarrh Curo. P. J. Chonoy & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, tho undersigned, havo known P, J. Chcnoy for tho last 15 years, and be liovo him perfectly honorable in all busi ness transactions and financially ablo to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West it Traux, Wholosalo Druggists, Toledo, O. Walding, Kilman <fc Marvin, Whole sale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Curo is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tho system. Prico, 75c. por bottle. Kohl by a'' druggists. Testimonials freo. Hall's Family Pills aro tho best. Inhuman Treatment of Child. CHATTANOOGA, TKNN., January 20.-On complaint of his own bro ther, Dr. J. li Pitts, a well-known physician and a maker of a patent medicine, was to-day arraigned be fore thc Circuit Court ohargod with cruel and inhuman treatment of hil own daughter. Tho proof showed that Pitts liad several times carried tho little girl, who is only ten yeaif of age, about tho room by tho hair ol her hoad ; that ho had beaten her un mercifully, inflicting cuts and bruises on 'lier face and body, and had whipped her naked body with hick ory rods. Tlie child was in court and her face indicated the horrible treatment to which she had boon subjected. Judge Estell took tho child out ol its father's custody and regretted that no great punishment could bc inflicted on the niau for his conduct ? - -^ -.-. Tinn ed nt Johns Hopkins* The Memorial Association have received a lotter from Dr. D. C. Gil man, the distinguished president ol Johns Hopkins University, J lal ti mor?, in which ho commends In thc strongest tei'ms tho movement t( restore Timrod's poems to genera circulation. He and a number o professors in tho University hav< BUHOribud f? '" copies of thc book, nm will do all t.icy can to mnko tin memorial edition in every way sue ccssful. Tho lifo preserver which has oarrlei many ladies safely over tho dangerou sea "Chango of Lifo" is Simmons' SQUA\ Vino Wino or Tablots. Dropped Head In ('omi. WASHINGTON, I). C., January 20 -Former Attorney General Angus tus II. Carland was struck with apo plexy while addressing the Unite* States Supremo Court at 12.8 o'clock this afternoon and died with in ten minutes. A transfer company bought ii Cincinnati recontly what is said t be tho largest mulo of its ago in th world, lt is tree year? old, measure IK bands one inch in height, am weighs 1445 pounds. When full grown he will, it is believed, bo 2 hands high, .... m?m ...... Grip nukes om sli-k, A?*iy and r??d?o, Pr. Miles' Restorative Nervino bring? rest. THE T1WRQD REVIVAL. Erforts Being Directed Toward tae Erection of a Worthy M?morial. Houry Tlmrod, who ii .possibly second to no poet thal South Carolin? has o vir produced, io having morltcd honor paid to his inoiuory in thorocont rovival of tho Utoraturo idontiilod with his nam? ?nd his labors. Somo of his poetry ?B soon to bo published for tho first timo in tho vol umo of his complotod works to bo issued this spring by tho "Tlmrod Momorlal Association." An addross In furthoranco of thoBo worthy ouds is to bo dolivorod by President Woodward (South Carolina University) during tho coming April under tho auspices of tho Cliarloston Lyceum. "Tho Tlmrod Memorial AsBooiatlon" has been regularly obartorcd by tho Sco rotary of.Stato, and is composed of many ominont mon of lottors in South Carolina and olsowhoro. Hon. Wm. A. Courtenay, of Nowry, is ono of tho loading Rpirits in tho movomont, and is placed in ohargo of tho ofllco of tho Association at Nowry, S. C. Ifo is giving muoh attontiou to tho work and conducting a hoavy corrospond onoo in furthoranco of tho laudablo work ontrustod to him. \n lu a lottor addressod to us bo says, among othor things: "In compllnnco with tho conditions of this chartor, and for tho purposes thoroin stated, tho Association baa contraotod with tho iuiiuontial publishing houso of Houghton, Mifllin <fc Co., huston, Now York and Chicago, for a completo edition of tho poems, ro-oditod, roarrangod,'wlth a monmir, and ombollishod with a beau tiful portrait of tho author, now pub Hailed for tho first timo. That this hand Bomo volume may bo within tho roach of tho largest number, tho pricohas boon flxod at $1.50 a copy. "Tho Association havo a double pur pose in thoir voluntary and very agroo ablo work: (1) Thoy aim to rcstoro to goncral circulation, in and out of tho Stato, these oh arming poems; (2) thoy havo undertaken, and will npply tho ontiro not profita to, tho oroction of a worthy public momorial. "An ontiro genoration has pasaod away; another has grown up sinco our gifted poet's death-October 0th, 1807. "Tho following expressions of opinion clearly indicato what is thought of Tim rod's poetry by acknowledged authori ties: "Henry W. Longfellow, at a social gathoring in HoBton, Soptombor, 1880, alluding to tho oity of Charleston, 8. C., said : 'To havo boon tho birtlt-plnco of Henry Timrod is a distinct honor; tho day will surely como when his poems will havo a placo in ovory cultivated homo in tho United States.' "Cou. Don Carlos Duel, U. S. A., speaking of Ti.nrod'a poem, 'A Cry to Arms,' said: 'In my judgment that is a battlo strain throughout, which dosorvos a placo high up on tho roll of American pooms.' "Tho Contury Magazino, April, 1808, in roviowing his pootry, said: 'Approaching him wo suspect provincialism, but find a genial breadth that surprises us; his gamut of feeling is wido, and ovon in his war songs, whore ono oxpecta littlo restraint, wo find admirable solf-control and breadth. Nov hhat tho pooplo of tho South aro raising a momorinl to Tim rod's famo, tho suggestion sooma a propor one to make, that tho Amorican people sharo in tho honor, for ho waa a true American poot and worthy to stand in tho narrow space that belongs to tho best.' " lloglnning the Year With puro, rich, healthy blood, which may bo had hy taking Hood's Harsapa parilla, you will not need to foar nttaoks of pneumonia, bronchitis, fovors, colds or tho grip. A few bottles of this great tonic and blood purifier, takon now, will bo your best protection ngainst spring humors, boils, erupt ions, that tired fool ing and serious illness, to whioh a woak and debilitated system is especially ha blo in early spring. Hood's Sarsaparilla eradicates from tho h'oe? all scrofula taint?, tonu.4 and strongthons tho stomach, euros dyspopsia, rhoumatistn, catarrh and ovory ailment caused or pro moted hy impuro or doplotod blood. Finding Forecasted. Tho Washington correspondent of tho Now York Horald says: Briefly put, tho commission to investi gate tho conduct of tho war will placo tho blame as follows: Secretary Algor-For woaknoss, espe cially in his relations with Major General Miles. For permitting Oenornl Milos to go to Santiago. Honorai Miles-For his conduct boforo, during and after tho war. For his selec tion of certain army camps. For tolling Secretary Alger ho was in tho hnbtt of making out ins own orders. For bring ing unfounded charges that bad hoof was supplied to tho troops in Porto Klee Oenornl Shaftor-For cor tain pointa which ho ndmittod in his tostlinony, Honorai Hrockinridgo-For leaving his department to take part in tho Santiago battle. For not making moro limpoc tiona. Gcnoral Ilrookc-For conditions at Camp Thomas. Medical Dopartmont-For lack of in spections. For failure to carry out pro per sanitary regulations. Congross-For failure to mako appro priations for smokolcss powder, Prcsldoiit McKinloy will havo in bb possession tho full report of tho wai commission within tho noxt ton days. This report, it is assorted, will not bi a whitowasl. of tho army administration, lt will bo unanimous on all ossontln points. It will declaro that tho prlrnnrj tronido is duo to tho lack of proper mill tary organization. k ---. A two or throo weeks' colimo of Dr M. A. Simmons' Livor Medicino will si regulato tho oxorotory functions Hiaj they will onovato without any fddj what oxer. - Tho Old Stone Charon. Mr. J. O. StrlbHng, of Pendloton, writes un io the interest of tho committoo charged with the ereotion of a suitable fenoo around tue Old Stone Ohurou ceme tery, whoro roBt tho ashes of BO many of our horoea and auront urn. Thc CouKTRfl recently published an ar tinlo from tho Nows and Condor calling attontiou of the publlo to tho urgonoy of the appeal. Mr. Stribling in bohalf of tho fonco oommltteo rooontly wrote a lotter to tho Anderson Advocate^ from whioh wo quote: "Whllo looking ovor this cometary it oarrioB ono bnok into tho oarliost day n of tho history of this section of tho 8tnto. Among tho, dead hero aro native? of London, England, Iroland, Franco, Gor many, Sootlaud, Belgium and Swoodon. Tlioso wore nd doubt tho pioneers, whilo minglod among thom aro tho names and roooiloctious of the horcos of tho Indian, Revolutionary, Moxican, Florida and civil wars, and representatives of a groat numhor, if not all, of tko denominations of ohurohes. TIio primitivo soldior up to tho groatost gonornls, patriote groat and small, rest hero. Tho ancestral prido of many of South Carolina's noted families aro boro. Yot, whon it comos down to tangible business in tho way of contribu tions toward this cemetery fonco, it is a burning shnmo to know that wo aro to-day gotting as muoh money from Georgia as v/o aro gotting from South Carolina. "Thoro aro many WIIOBO ancestors, noar and far back, Ho boro that liavo not yot given anything, wliilo an ox-mayor of Charleston, 8. C., who has no porsonal intorost thoro, has contributed ton dol lars. Tliis is a typo of patriotism that does not fado out with ago; this kind of patriotism is of tho strongest typo and will not dogonorato Uko, wo fear, lins boon tho caso of many of tho descend ants of horoos who to-day sloop in thin his torio comotory at tho Old Stono Church. "A poor widow, who has a vory hard strugglo for hor daily broad, is now anx ious co got up just ono dollar to put into tho fonco that is to preserv? tho sacrod spot whoro hor husbaud sloops, whodiod in tho army defending his country, wliilo sovoral woalthy mon who havo mado money to loan by tho thousands (under tho protootion of tho laws that this .man diod to defend) aro not contributing ona dime toward this patriotio ontcrpriso. "Thoso horoos and patriots have strug gled years, fought days and nights do fonding and reclaiming and preserving our common country. Tlioy havo made tho laws, defended thom, civilized and sottlod our country for us. Wo aro now enjoying tho bonollts of thoir hard Btrug glos and aro living to-day in perhaps thc most progressive part of our wlioio coun try. Aro wo thankful for thoso privi leges aud blessings? If so, write i( down around their craves witli an iron fonco. "Sond in contributions for tho fonco tc Hov. B. T. Reid, Pendleton, S. C." A sluggish liver causes drowsiness lothargy and a fooling of apathy. Dr M. A. Simmons' Livor Medicino arounoi tho livor and choorful onorgy succeed) sluggishness. The Treaty 1B lu Donbt-Thirty-Sb Senators Will Vote Against it If Not Amended. WASHINGTON, January 2-3.-Sonato Davis, in chargo of tho poaco treaty, to day told a delegation from tho oppositioi that ho would ?'Ot at prosont consent t< a voto upon tho treaty, nor until ho wa satisfied that tho treaty could ho ratified Ho made tho etatenv. :it in responso t ropiosculations mado to him by a dologa tion authorized by thc loaders of tho op position to confor with him declaring ii tho ilrst placo that ho did not accopt th statomont that thoro woro aufilcent voto to provont ratification. Ho asked for Hst of tho namos of opposing Sonatorr and v.'?ic given tho namos of thirty-si Sonntors who, it was declared, won! voto against rat ideation. Senator Davis wns furthor told tba tho dofoat or postpouomont of tho treat could bo provontod by ngrooing to a amendment or even to A resolution dc daring it to bo not tho purposo of th United Statos to maintain pormanon Bovoroignty in tho Philippine islancb Senator Dav's declined to accede to th i proposition, saying that ho would profc to havo tho troaty go ovor until anothc sossion. When ids nttontion was callo to tho fact that an extra session of tl) entire CongrcB? UB woll as of tho Sonnt would bo necessary in ordor, to appropr. ato tho $20,000,000 madopayablo toSpai ho said this was not i i ne, as tho torin of tho troaty did notrccpiiro thc pay met of tho mohoy until aftor an oxclisngo c ratification. Whon Senator Davis was askod as i tho truth of tliis roport ho doolino oithor to dony or confirm it. Tho opponoiits of tho troaty also state that thoro will bo no objection to til oxtousion of tho law until Juno 30, HKX whioh allows tho regular army to consii of 02,000 mon. This proposition, it said, will bo placod upon tho army a] pro. iation bill ns an nmoudinont, an roi love any nocossity for an ox tra Bessie to pass an f.rmy bill. .--i--?-i Dr. M. A. Simmons' Livor Modioim by expelling from tho body tho oxcoso < hilo and acids, improves tho assimilate processes, pm liles tho blood, tonos u and strengthens. --->-1-* lloro it is again. Lately dlscovorc ovidouco nlmont demonstrates tho fn< that Pontius Pilate was bom in Scotlnm Thoro is absolutely nothing to sho\ howovor, that he was a member of tl ProBbytorlon ohuroh; indood, his foll aro knowii to havo boon Romans. A. J. Gill, Jr., Scotia, S. C., writes: havo .used Dr. M. A. Simmons' Liv Medicino in my family 10 years. It h ourod indigestion, dyspopsin, constip tion, and many other ailments,. -.*'-?t?f--r T!-0i"3 is no reoord that Hobson h kissed a ghi tinco ho loft San Franoise FEATHERSTONES OPINION. Thinks Prohibitionists and Local Op? . Monists Should Work Together. Mr. O. C. Featherstone, of Laurens, was in Columbia laut Thursday, says a dispatch. Hu was on business, having no connection with politios, or tho dispensary law. Mr. Feather stone said ho could not talk about politics, and did not care to have anything to say about the present is sues. In a pnrsonal way he did not express himself, and perhaps he do*v not know that publioity is to be givon his viows as to what ho thinks the best legislativo polioy at this juncture. In his opinion tho best thing, tho safest courso for tho opponents of tho dispensary-Prohibitionists, iooal option mon and all-to do is to unite and repoal tho dispensary law. When tho dispensary law is ropoalod then tho Prohibitionists and local option mon can como together, and ho is satisfied thoy will como together, and ngreo upon something satisfac tory to both sides. Tho looal option and Prohibition votes aro in tho ma jority in both houses, and ho is satis fied if they will only come together in so mo such way that both will got protty much what thoy want. Mr. Featherstone thinks that such a course is duo tho pooplo of tho State, who expressed themselves so forcibly nt tho ballot box in tho last primary. With all of tho work of the dispensary advooatos, tho per sonal friends of Governor ICllorbo and everything oise, not to count the r.lloged promises, Mr. Featherstone, who stood as tho opponent of tho dispensary, carno within very little of being oleoted on a platform dia metrically opposed to tho dispensary systom. Up to tho present timo there has not boen a bill of any kind intro duced which in any way looks to radical changes in tho dispensary law. If tho constitutional amend ment proposed, that no mombors ol tho gonoral assembly should bo can didates for positions within the gift of tho general assembly, was passod, there is a likelihood that things would bo different in a good mau) matters. There has beon some talk amonj tho members of liquor legislation, bul nothing definite hns yot been ngrecc upon. There has boon somo talk oi a bill to exempt certain largo oitie from tho operations of tho dispon sary law, and it is thought that thii will bo accepted as a compromise It is questionable if such a mcasun could paBS unless tho dispensary peo plo gavo it emphatic endorsement and support and lot it bo known tba it was a puro anc1 simplo mattor o compromiso. --# fri-1-? A cul wi ido May Jibolaro War. MANILA, January 26,-The Re publics, tho official organ of tho Fili pinos, announces that tho Congres at Malolos has adopted tho Philip pine Constitution, passed a voto o confidence in Aguinaldo and ompow orod him to declaro war on th Americans whenovor he may door it advisable At a mass mooting of women fl Cavite yesterday, the papor adds, I was enthusiastically resolved to pc tition Aguinaldo for permission t take mon's places in defense of indi pendenoo and to boar arms, if necei I Bary. Paterno has asked for and it aj pears has been granted tho privilep of "taking a prominent place in tl lino of battlo against tho Amor can 4." An Amorioan sentry yoatordu evening killoe! a captain of tho Fil pino artillery at tho Tonto outpos As a rosult, tho nativo press is ii tonsoly oxcitod, and denounces it ! a "cowardly assassination." On Saturday evening (Januai 21 st) live Filipinos, detorminod I havo rcvongo for their captain death, attempted to ontor our linc An Amorioan sentry killed on After an oxohango of shots tho otho woro arrostod. Tho inoidont has i tensifiod tho oxoitoment horo. Tho Mahini cabinet yesterday i sisted upon tho liberation of tl Spanish civil prisionera in commorn ration of tho proclamation of tl Filipino ropubVio, and ;,1BO donni* money to tho nativo clergy. A d oroo to that effect was signed. Ti Spanish clergy, howovor, remain pi sonors. An elaborate program has be arranged for tim formal ratifioatii of tho constitution to-day. Nothing waf, accomplished at t oonforonco hero yesterday, and it rumored that tho Philippines at th? r,c^t ^coting will givG the Ame cans eight days in whiob to aeoo to their demand for r?cognitif Tho rumor is disorcdtled. jere Looper to President Line?la* Tue suggestion by "Ex-Confcd," ito tho" Greenville News that Presi dent McKinley show his good will to the South by engineering a Boheme to P. U. P. O. N,-"Pay Us For Our Niggers"-reoaiis to tho Piok ens Sentinel tho following ' letter written ?nd despatched hy =Toro Looper, now tho boss Ropublionn of Piokens county : WILMINGTON, N. C., Noyonbor 16,' 1803.-Hon. Abraham Lincoln, President of United Statua . Door Sir : I have just Boen your proclamation to tho Kobols ir. arius agniust said government, asking them to lay down their arms of de fenoo and remain in tho Union, as I think wo should do. AU the ne grooB would be freed, but paid for by tho government a*, 383.88? a hoad. Now, Sir, I am a Southern man and a South Carolinian and for tho love I havo for tho Uuion of these United Statos I for ono aocopt your proclamation, belioving as I do, it is tho best thing wo could do undor tho circumstances. I have eight nogrocs --J soo, 18 years old j Ilsima, 10 ; Violet, 12; Macy, 20, with thron children from 2 to 0 years old. Now, Sir, in consid?ration of your proclamation, I do horoby grant, bar gain and soil'to tho said'government tho said eight nogroos, togothor with all thc rights and titles I hold in thom. I further bind myaolf, my executor and administrator to war rant and defend tho samo against any ono olairaing or to olaim the samo or any ono of thom to tho said gov ernment. This is given undor my own hand and seal this 15th day of November, 1803. In tho presence of 400 witneasess. JKKKMIAH LOOPBB, Privato in Co. C., South Carolina Cavalry, Wilmington, N. C. Just a Cough Thia is its story : At first, a Slight cough. At last, a homorrhago. At first, easy to euro. At last, oxtromoly difnoult. ?nickly conciuors your liackingcough. horo ia no doubt about tho euro now. For over half a contury Ayor'o Cherry Pectoral has boon curing coldsand coughs and provonting con sumption.' Two sizes : $1.00 ; 50c. Keep one ol Dr. Aver a Cherry Pertcrat Plantera or?r your Irinf.? ll you corfb. Wrtto tho Hoof or. lt you havo ?my complaint wtmtovor, witto tho clootor freofy about lt. You ?will roaolvo a prompt reply, without coat. Address, nu. J.O. AY KU. Lowell, Maps. Horrors of Spanish Troopships. MADBID) January 28.-Thc Ro forma is making rovolations concern ing tho abuses on board tho Spanish trans-Atlantic stonmships bringing troops back to Spain which aro ex citing intense indignation throughout | tho kingdom. Among other occurrences tho paper tolls of an incident on board tho steamship Cachemire, whioh has just arrived at Barcolona. Tho troops woro so ill provided with food that most of tho timo they woro on the verge of starving, Unablo to stand tho situation any longer, tho famished men mutinied and killed a bullock, tho flesh of whioh thoy ate raw. After thoy had finished theil* meal thoy quietly roturncd to their qu ar tors. Tho Reforma says that forty seven mon died of starvation on tho voy ago and 124 othorS woro landed at Barcelona in a oritioal condition from tho same causo. I Best pouffe Byrop. In timo. Bold hr d Rstoe Good. UM I ?Matt. co rsi s UM p. TI ot* Tho cantankerous Now York Press, Hepublioan and expansionist, inoludos ?Hoar and Tillman, Vost and Halo" in ono swooping condemnation as "morbid and porverfc political mlsco gonators," who aro "trading on tho vorgo of a pit Of dishonor" bcoauso of their anti-annoxntion proclivities. Lot us Beel Hoar and Halo, Vest and Tillman ; Now England, South Carolina and Missouri j two Yankco Republicans and t .vo Southern 1 Domoorats-^all treading the verge of tho pit togothor, and a Now York Republican organ throwing political mud at tho company, lt looks very muoh OB If tho country is reunited again, onoo moro. To prevent La Grippe Uke a close or two > oC Dr. Mile?' Rwtorative Ncrtine daily. STRIKE GOMES TO AN END. Augusta 0 poy? tl voa lUtiua to Work at Reduced "Wniros. AUGUSTA, QA., January .20.-The strike in tho ootton mills of tho Augusta distriot, which began No vember 2ist, will eau io-morrow, and tho strikers will return to work at the reduced soalo, aftor nine wooks of idleness. N Somo small concessions arc made by the milla in tho .-natter of house rout and find, but the details of the agroomont are not given ont to-night. About 4,000 hnnde woro involved in tho striko. OA?3VOHIA. Bean tb? ^0 wi KHJ You Have ffifajg Bought rr Tho Nicaragua Vannai* Tho passago of tho Nioarngua oanal bill by tho Sonate last Saturday with only six votos against it improves immensoly tho prospoot of tho oarly oonstruotlon of a long proposed watorwav botwoon tho two groat oceans. Tho bill rocogoizOs tho Maritimo Canal Company whioh started out to build tho Nioaragua oanal on ita own account and with its own re sources, but which for yoars baa boon appealing for government aid. Under tho Sonate bill tho company is to rocoivo $5,000,000 for its rights and franchises, is required to call in all tho stock issued oxcopt that hold by Nioara gua aud Costo Rica; to redeem and can cel all bonds and scrip horotoforo issued by tho company and to oancol all liabili ties. Tills having boon dono, tho govorn mont gu?ranteos tho company's coutraot I for tho completion of tho canal in six I yoars at a cost not to oxoood $115,000,000. Tho annual paymonts of tho govornmont] aro rostrlctod to $20,000,000, and tho caiv<?\ must bc largo onough for the largest, soa going VOCBOI. Tho company must tdvo tho govorn-1 mont a lion upon tho property to soouro tho repayments of moneys ndvaucod. A board of sovon directors is to bo ap pointed, flvo of thom by tho Prosldont of tho United States, to bo confirmed by tho Sonnto, ono by Nioaragua and ono by Costa Rica. Tho dirootora aro required to mako full roporte annually to Congress. Tho govornmont will not assumo con trol of tho canal. On tho contrary, Ita neutrality ls guaranteed, oxcopt that tho United States rosorvo tho right to pro toot it against interruptions of thoir busi ness betwoon tho Atlantic aud Paoiflo| coast. r ho Nicaragua canal will therefore boj in about tho samo relation to tho Unitod States as tho Suoz canal is to England. Though tho passage of this bill by tho Sonate by such an ovorwholming major ity brightons tho outlook for tho con struction of a Nicaragua canal, thoro aro diflloultioB still in tho way. Tho passago of tho bill by tho Houso at | this session is by no moans cori du. Thou thoro aro difforoncoB botwoon tho | Nicaraguan govornmont and tho Mari timo Canal Company whioh may causo complications. Nioaragua has recently been dealing with anothor canal com-1 pany on tho ground that tho conces sions to tho Mar?timo Canal Company have boon forfeited by tho expiration of | tho time limit. Tho construction whioh England has always placod on the Clay ton-Bulwor troaty would provont tho con striction of tho proposed oanal without I hor oonsont, hut it has been stated on good nuthority that no obstado will bo thrown in tho way of this work by Eng land and that negotiations for tho abro- j gatton of tho Clayton-Rulwor troaty will BOOH bo opened. Tho Nicaragua canal novor boforo I soomod so probablo as lt does now. But tho now Fronoh company 1B at work at Panania on a big soalo and apparontly with all tho moans lt needs. Wo may soo a raoo botwoon thoso two | groat ontorprisos, hut, somohow or othor, tho two sons which aro so narrowly | divided will, within tho next few yoars, bo joined by ono canal, if not by two. ? mm* #BI "X" ?O X3. X m Be?? tho The Kind You tiara Always PougM ---..-. In rofei-onoo to tho potltion of the Car dinal and Archbishops of tho Roman Catholic Churoh, now boforo both Houses of Congress, praying for tho restoration of appropriations for tho support of sec tarian Indinn sohools, tho Churohman, Protestant Episcopal, say?: "When lt is | romomborod that in tho last years of thoso sect Mian appropriations, whon tho j Protestant ohurehosworo roooiving noth ing from tho govornmont, tho Roman Catholics woro drawing ovor $350,000 a I year-and this undor a largoly reduced I appropriation to thom-lt will bo soon j that it is a stako worth playing for. Shall it Bucoood? It is for the Protestant j bodios to say. Unless thoy protest vig-1 orously, directly and through thoir Son ators and Roprosontntlvos in Congress, wo nood not bo surprisod to soo soon nnnunl appropriations from tho piddle troasury of $500,000 for tho support of Roman Cathollo sohools." Utah's Mormon Congressman objoots to tho ourloslty shown oonoorning his domostio rolatlons. A man with threo wlvos should pardon bbl noighbora if thoy display something moro than an ordinary interest in his affairs. - ? ????--1 Don't wrook a lifo. From girlhood to womanhood tho monthly courses should bo regulated with Simmons' Squaw Vino I Wino or Tablets. fir." Miss Salllo Faulkner, daughter of Sona tor Faulkner, of West Virginia, recently paid a visit to hor brothor, a nontenant j in tho army, now stationed in Wyoming. While there nho rodo a broncho which only one man at the fort eould master. When Will Twentieth Century nenin? Aa wo nour tho opening of tho next oontury the old controvoraity tm to When that century will begin breaks out au?w, and with unprecedented auiru&tlon. The question is ns to whether tho first day of tho twoutletjh oontury will bo Jan uary l,??00 or January J, 1001. It is strange h?w intelligent pooplo differ on thW point, but it ia ?till re markable how bent od tho disoussiou ia becoming. In many nownpapora this oontrovorsity is going on,- and some of th030 who take part in it aro highly wrought lip. Tho New York , Herald recently ptjb lishod a large numbor of oards from pbr souB who seom to consldor it a matter of Tory gravo importance to determine when tho next century will hogin. A' majority of thoso disputants stand up for tho first of January, 1900, and ono of thom puta tho caso by a praotioal illus tration as follows: "ii, is rather amusing to road thoarti olos concerning tho birth of the twenti eth oontury which appear from day' to day in your-papor. I romomhor while at school an argumout in whioh a cont was provod botter thnn hoavon, in this wise: A oont is bottor than nothing, admitted; nothing in botter thau heaven, admitted. Thou it followed that sinoo a cent is bottor than nothing and nothing is better than heaven, a cont must be bettor than heaven. (Tnis logie Booms not unliko the arguments of your corres pondents. Of oourso tho fallacy, or rathor, tho play of words causing tho doooption, is apparent-but not always at first sight. HI should liko to ask when tho year 1 bogan? According to most of your 'ad visors' tho year 1 bogan at 1 and is tho period botwoon 1 nnd 2, But did it not havo its origin at zoro, and is it not the period botwoon 0 and 1 ? But it is ad mitted that 805 days had to go by boforo tho year 1 bocamo a faot; aud, in liko mnnnor, whon 00 yoars and 805 day? havo passed, a oontury is complotod. If tho yoar 101 is allowod to como to view, thon 100 yoars, plus 805 days, havo passod. I wonder if your Lima correspondent socs that 00 ono dollar bills plus 100 conts equals 100 ono dollar bills. Evon tho year 1001 is not rightly tho llrst yoar of tho twoutioth coutury; it is Dooomber 81, 1000, and tho morning of January 1, 1000, is tho beginning of tho century. "If pooplo understood why tho now century will bo called tho twontloth oon tury whon only ninoteon centuries will havo passed, thoy will ngroo that when 1001 Bhall bo introducod ono full year of tho now oontury must havo passod. Will you kindly toll mo in what yoar lotter? wero dated boforo tho first 805 days had . passod?" Mothor's trusted friend, Simmons* Squaw Vino Wino or Tnblots, comparo tho system for conflnomont, shorton labor aud make ohild-birtb easy. Kev. Dr. Hoss, in tho Nashville Advo cate, says: "It appears that a good many rich and influential Presbyterians in Now York and other Eastern cltios aro follow ing tho load of Dra. Briggs and Shiolds into tho Episcopal ohuroh. Tho move mont is attracting tho notico of tho nowspapors, sooular and religious. It is not our concorn, nnd wo shall not ven ture to offer a word of explanation. But wo may bo pardoned for saying that any roan who looks for tho early demiso of Presbyterianism in this country is bound to ho disappointed. Hore in tbs South, at any rato, tito disciples of John Calvin will continue to oxist and to flourish. A sturdier Bot of boliovors cannot bo found on tito globe. In spito of thoir 'horrible dooroos' and suoh othor objoctionahlo hollofs, they aro also ns lovablo a folk ns tho opith holds." -, . Enumerating tho various kinds of women oluhs thoro aro iu this country, the Atohison (Kansas) Globo, in a mnt tor of fact way, romarks that what should bo oultlvatod is cooking dubs. Thoy havo adoptod a now method of holding up rnilroad trains in Pennsyl vania. Thoy groaso tho rails. This is ICBS laborious than putting obstructions on the traok to ditch trains and is loss objootionnhlo. ---i--? . ft----. It is said that 250,000,000 miorobos might congregate on a postage stamp and then havo plonty of romping room. At tho rato of inoroaso during tho past fivo months tho coHootionB of internal rovonuo for the presont fiscal yoar will aggregate $275,000,000. To Bwooton tho broath, brighton tho oyo, olear tho complexion and insure tho natural bloom of health, uso Dr. M. Ac Simmons' Livor Modlolno. A Northern musoum has a collection of 250,000 bugs and not a humbug among 'om. Tito Chickasaw Indian Logislaturo has raisod tho murringo license for white mon who want to marry squaws from $50) to $000. _ On Docembor 1st the total debt of tho United States was $1,036,000,000. This is a.largo dobt whon measured by ordinary standards, but of rela tively small account when considered in oonneetion with tho faot that thirty-two years ago the dobt of the I country was nearly throe times aa large and tho interest four timer, [groator than tho present. Tho United States is not tho only country whioh has a largo dobt, but it ia tho only country which is steadily de creasing its dobt whilo at tho same timo enormously increasing its re sources. Clonoral Wood has had lita inter view with tho administration nnd ro turnccl to Cubs. Ho thinks it will , roqnift 60,000 mon for sovoral yeanv ? to properly garrison Cuba.