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r 1 hr _____- _ VOL. XVI, PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 2,187NO3. SOUTIIERN EDUCATION. TIlE PROGRESS OF OUR PEO'LE IN TillS ALL-IMPORTANT MATT SR. A Careful Review of the Condition of Schools as Learned by Interviewi With Lending People in this Section. From the Baltimoro Sun.) The Rev. William F. Slocum, of the First Congregational Church, returned on Saturday night from an extended trip of several weeks' duration into the Southern States, whore ho was engaged in investigating the conditions of oduca tion, particularly colored schools. Among the places visited wore Charles ton, Savannah, Jacksonville, Fla., New Orleans, Jaokson, Miss., and Talladega, Ala. Besides visiting the public schools from lowest to highest grade, and the various colleges, an interviow was had with the Governor of Mississippi, various city authorities, State education com missioners and others. Mr. Slocum said: "I found everywhere a strong feel ing that the colored peoplo must he ed ucated. The New South has no doubts on this question. In most cases pr.1 imary education of colored people is conducted by the State, Georgia and Missistippi particularly granting large sums; but higher instruction in the ordinary Eng lish branches is usually afforded by the church schools supported by ,Vhilan thropic contributions. The vork' of these schools is of greatest importince for training colored teachers of high character. It is a striking fact that re ligion, as taught by the ordinary colored preacher in the South, is not olevating the moral tone of the colored race. Of course there are striking oxception., but the improved moral tone of the race comes through the training in these - higher church schools and college:i. I found a prevailing sentiment every where that industrial education must be push ed. This amounts to a decided move mont and some of the colleges do first rate work. Another striking fact that shows improved moral conditions is that the color line is growing more distinct; that is, there are more black children and, fewer mulattoes, which indicates a healthier separation of whites and blacks. No one who has not stood face to face with the tremendous problem in the South can rightly appreciato its nuiy difficulties, and yet tliere are element. of * hope, strong hope, and the outlook is not wholly discouraging. "In Charleston the Morris street. school is the best for colored children, and contains about 1,300 pupils. Its principal, Mr. A. Doty, an elegant Southern gentleman, was on officer in the South Carolina army. It is a sig nificant fact that it was he who loaded the first gun that fired 111)011 the :hip advancing to the aid of Fort Sumter in 1861- The school is prevadod with the spirit of military discipline, and the utmost neatness of dre:s is required. There are 24 teachers, but only primLlary branches are taught. "In Savannah colored teachers are employed in the colored schools, e; is usually the caso throughout the South except in Charleston. Here, as evcry where else, the sentiment that the colored peoplo must be educated prevails. "In Florida not so much has been done as elsewhere. The colored popula tion is not so great there as in some of bap e other States. It is significant that o e new college for whites, the Winter Park College, at Winter Park, Fla., though only two years old, has taken a very high stand among Southern educa tional institutions. "In New Orleans the educational movement for both races is strong, and it is spreading into the counties of the State in an excellent system of county free schools. The Straight University, in New Orleans, is the best institution for the training of colored students in the more advanced branches. It has 500 ' in attendance, and supplies numerous teachers to the country schools through out the South. Eighty per cent, of the graduates become teachers. The univer sity has white teachers, and includes a law and a theological department. Its funds come largely from the American Missionary Association, and it is doing work of great value. S'omo of the ne groes about New Orleans are becoming quito wealthy as p)lantationi owners, and one owns a large interest in one of the railroads that runs into the city. "Mississippi appropriates $1,000,000 annually for educational purposes, and the amount is divided per capita among the white and the black schools. The Governor of the State is a man of ad mirable shrewdness, who believes thor oughly that the safety of the country depends upon the education of the col~ ored people. 'We feel very kindly to * ward the colored peoplle,' said the Goev ernor, and added rathier significantly, 'I believe that the capacities tof t.he' colon d(4 race have been ulnderrated.' The bet, school for the education of colored s tu dents in Mississippi is at T'ougaloo, near Jackson. .[t is upon a lage planMlaioni of 500 acres, has 200 stutents, anud is .upon the industrial lani. It has the' active support of the State, from which it receives $3,000 a year. All of t he * boys work on the iarmi for one~ hour each day, which has twvo valualel results: First, it teaches them how to care for stock, &c., and second, howv to improvt wornout lands, a necessary process ii the agricultural development of th< South. Blaeksmithing, carpenItry ant tinning are taught. A stud(ent, if ht chooses, may become a regular appren tie. A most interesting experiment ii $ being tried by the president of the eel. lege at Tougaloo. He purchased a trael of 2,000 acres of land, which he divideci into tracts of 20 and 30 acres, and is sell ing to colored families. It is found tha the landholder im mediat.oly becomes conl servativo and more strenuous for'highe education. This school is doing a mos important work, and every cent recivot from contributions is well expended. "Another school of similar oxcellenc< $ is that at Talladega, in Alabama. It i upon the industrial p)lanl, is sup)portt by the American Missionary Association and receives help from the Blhato fund, so wisely admin'stored by D)r H2aygood, forraorly of Oxford, Gha. Sew ing and cooking are among the branche taught to girls. "An excellent feature is that a smal WOMEN AT TIILE 'OLLS. [ow th4. Fair Ones of VasiIngton Terrl tory Cast Their Iallota. WALLA-WALLA; May 24.-Although a mnderfoot and acquainted with few in ur vicinity, I was appointed a judge of ection in Mica precinct. A struggle as in prrgress betwixt rival towns for to county seat, and runners had boon rough the precincts urging overybody bring out the votes of the ladies. In is chivalrous region our women have ual prerogatives with men, although iey view the ballot with an indifforenco fonizing to all advocates of suffrage. I went early to the polis, a small, log hool house in the hills, shadowed by fty pines. A rough wagon road ran r the school house, wherein deer tracks are quito as common as hoof-prints of )rses. The ladies were not early at the polls. A little before noon came a fr mily trty, a man wife and three children. >ou after, from every direction, as if preconcerted arrangement, wagons ovo up containing similar households. ot only were all the little ones brought ong, but enormous jugs of milk and skets of lunch. The bachelors scat red timidly and the ladies swarmed in io us, moved the benches around the :e, blockaded the doorway, and took itire possession of the premises. They ore farmers' wives, buxom, sensible td energetic. A more domestic scene 1e seldom sees. Hero a mother nursing r baby, there a fond father troling his fant daughter, yonder a knot of women :changing recipes for mixed pickles, ad again an eager group setting out nch and passing pie and sliced pork their friends. I could not at first understand this in sion, until I learned that the school ise was the one public resort for cial purposes. Dances, parties, sing g schools, preaching and political ectings all were held hero. A gather g at the school house was the signal r a general assemblage of friends, and e women had evidently given more ought to this fact than to the original otive of the occasion. Still they came. By noon the build g was fairly packed, and the picnic >poaranco increased with every arrival. "If you iron ginghams and calicoes on .o wrong side they look" "His very best cow. The snow was :ep, and all the poor thing got to eat as moss" "They say her vituals taste of pine im half the time. Drops from the tch rafters" "I pulled the poor child's tooth my 1f, so" "Who shall you vote for, Sue?" "Me? I don't know. Jack ain't here :t." "Mamma, give me somo pie, too." "Oh, Eliza, at the polls after all?" "Yes. Didn't want to come a bit. Bill Republican and I told him I'd vote emocratic sure if ho made me como. ut he said no matter, so long as we both )to for Spokane Falls." "Pooh! I guess we're every bit as sharp the men folks." ''Don't vote for Spicer. They say lie eats his wife perfect.ly awful." "I tell you, times has changed!" com ented a man in blouse and overalls aning against a pine. ''When I was a y, to home in Imdianny, I recollect arin' maw and paw talk this votin' isiness over. 'I tell ye,' says the old an to her, 'I wouldn't have ye go to to polls nohow. You'd have to walk to the box through a crowd of loaf 's, all smokin' pipes and starin' at ye, id ."ou'd si]lk through the floor.' He to be here now." But at last, after lunch was eaten and it away, and the babies had had their La5 and the ladies had exhausted all the >ssip, a general movement was made wvard departure. It was a long way >me, and the cows to milk, and water draw, and supper to get, andl tho -eakfast dishes to wash at the heels of 1. After such a festival one might sup >so the ladies would vote cheerily, but is was not the ease. It had been post. mned as long as possible and now that must actually be done they went at it >itefully. Here was a husband handing rival ekets to his wife and saying for o public ear, "You can vote whichever m like," at the same time gripping his vn hallot with a resolute air and a jaw such outline as made one hope his ouse wvould vote as he (lid, in the in rests of domestic peace. Tihere a dame us imperatively thrusting cii her hus mnd the prohibition ticket. These prohibition ladies were earnest id intelligent. They advanced firmly the 1)0lls and gave in their ballots ith an air of satisfaction. Beyond these iw who had a definite personal purpose uo voting was perfunctory and (done ith manifest dislike. Tihe ladies each anded their ballot to the inspector hesi Ltingly, watched curiously as ho put it the box and turned away with a toss fthe head. "'There! It's thme first time I ever r>tedi, and it'll be the last.!" "'I hope Spokanio Falls gets the cot'm i' seat so we can stay home niext timle."' ''Young meni must he growing weak uinded when you drag an1 old lady like to out to vote. I'm 70 years old. Ol nough to know bettor!" And with contemptuous air the (lames 3tired to tile wagons. Alas! TXhe per ersity of nature! 'While many of their titers in the east sigh for suffrage those ho have it hold it in disdain. Now came young Tyndall and his wife ni horseback, and there was quite a stir mong the ladies who still in the wagons nd1 the '"baches" around the trees. 'yndall had purchased the eldest anmd urgest ranch in the pireinct anid had roughit a bride from Sav. Francisco iveral months before. Few had seen or,.for she w;as very retired and aristo ratic. Aiyoung woman, with peachy girlish ace,-a wealth ->f b)"u'de hair and round, right blue eyes, attired in an elegant iding habit of (lark green velvet, with a ang plume on her dainty cal). "a.io looks very young!" said the in peto:' as the couple drew near. "D)o '0ou thliLk she's 01(1 enough to vote?" "No, J don,0t," i-opliedl one of the udges. ."hi she ought not to be allowed." "You 11 have to ask her age," said notl. or of the judges. The burly inspector looked concerned .nd nervous. MIore nervous yet as the rido came in, glanced about and1 blu.hmi to find herself the only woman present. Tyndall, whose dress and bearing showed early culture, nodded to the ofilials, took his wife's arm and escorted her forward. He picked out his tickets from the table, folded one and handed to her, folded the other and held it between his fingers. Mrs. Tyndall presented herself before the ballot box avd raised her ticket, uncertain what came next. Her innocent blue eyes rested on the in spector with a pretty look of wonder and inqu~iry. The inspector diropped her ballot into the box. No doubt a barb rankles in his conscience to this day. Mrs. ''yndall stood looking on an in stant, without moving. "Is that all?" she cried at last, aston ished. "That's all. You've voted, Stella," said her husband, offering his vote in turn, and the bride laughed merrily. She took' her husband's arm and peeped all about her with great amusement, and went off in high spirits. It had been a very funny episode for her. WooDnur' CLAiK(. CUI(ICENT FARM TO'ICS. Iioeing Corn. (nt. J. nte'tliag in :outhe rn Cultivator.) Corn, properly planted on well pre pared land, should rarely need the hoe in the early stages if the plowing be skillfully done. While our personal experience does not approve the general practice of planting in the water furrow (as advocated by Dr. Jones), we have found it very helpful in the way of subsequent cultivation to plant in very wide deep furrows and covering very shallow, so that the plants will be below the general surface. The first plowing should be done with an implement that throws but little dirt 'to the corn, yet enough to cover well the stop between the hills or plants. '1'he thinning (if needed) should be done ahead of the plowing, and the latter should be done only by conscientiously (?) careful labor ers. Teli plowman should be required to stop and uncover planie, or cover or pull out weeis or grass with foot or hand as he goes.. lie should be im pressed with the idca that the work of cleaning the young plants must bo done by the work of his plow, or his hands and feet-no hoe to follow. It is not a bad idea to furnish each plowman with a small short-handled, one-hand hoe, to be carried with his plow and used as occa sion may require. It will be found that he will be much more careful to do good work with his pl .w if he is given to tun derstand that careless work will not be endured and left for the hoes to remedy. Of course it will often occur that the land is sufliciently smooth to admit of thorough work by the plow, excepi around trees and stumps; but it will noi pay to go over a field, row by row, in order to clean around such obstacles Better make a job of it, early in the cul tivation, o oing from one to another with out regard to the intervening rows. It sometimes pays well to go over thc corn crop with the hoes about laying-by time, each hand taking two or more row at a time, and destroy scattering buinches of grass and cleaning aroin( stumps and trees. This will depend upon whether the hands can be spared from the mort exacting cotton crop. "'Choii.ing'' Cot tn. (Ity the t'ame Writer.) The characteristic work on a cotton farm during the month of May is cot ton-chopping. Among the many ma chines that have been invented to (10 this work none has yet been very favor ably received or generally adopted by farmers. The operation is one-like cotton-picking-that seems to demand an ever-changing motion a: 1 the exer cisc of an ever-acting judlgmett whieb cannot be mnaterializedl into a machine. Such a machine, however, is probably within the p)ossibilities of human inven tion. The cotton harvester is an undis puited necessity; but it is not so car that a machine for chopping, or merely "blocking out" cotton-reducing the continuous row of plants to bunchaes-it exactly what is needed1. Whly sow th< seed so as to secure a continuous row of plants, and then at the first operatior2 proceed to destroy the continuity? Or poor, unfertilized land, which requiret that the p)lants shoul stand ver-y clost in order to make a maximum crop, snel a.conatinuous row is perhaaps hecessary but it seems an uinnecessairy wast() cj seed and labor on land which will bema the stalks 18 inches to two or three feel apart. Why not plant the seed ona suclk land in hills or steps-already choppedi The writer planted his entire crop twc successive years in hills 3x2i feet wuitt the most satisfactory results. But it ia too late now to discuss the policy of hiF or step)-planting. The crop is nearly al planted and much of it will soon b( ready I01 the first op)eration. If the soil has beeun imapacted froma tht effect of onie or more rains after plant. inag, it is of the first imuportance to break the crust aindI let in thet light and iar, The condition of the hlad in this respiect andl the necessities of the corn c.rop, wil: dletermrine whether it will be better- tc chop biefore or after lowinag. Whlea the grouand is in good, mellow condition, and comnpariatively Ifree from ga-ass, we hauve (often fouind it bLtter to put thu hoes to workI iin advianco oif plowing and as soon as the seed-leaf of the plant hi fully developed. If this plan is aidop)tet the work of chioppinag out should ant imay b. eeory rapidly (lone, thae aim he ing to get over the crop) ina a week or k-r days or less. It does not pay to con sumne thec time that wouald bie required t< thin out to a given number of lanatts, o; to leave each b)uncha in a pierfect condi lion. If thae crop htas buen well am( smoothly planted antd thae groundi( is miel low and lfree froma obstruactionas, such al clods antd stones, a hand shaulid go ini kinad of half walk, rarrely giving morn thtan a stroko for- each huncha of plant left. We haave seen etxpetrt haoe-hande g< over in thais waiy two acres per hand pe dhay, tad even more. Renmember, tha this planhoeing, or ''blocking out' ahead of the palows, requires and assumae that thle cotton should he ploweCd withia ai few days. Generally the cotton crol needs to be ''gone over" with plows o hoes as rapidily as it was p)lanated1. sometimes occurs that thae whole croj comes up together, however planted. A such a juncture it is more imaportanat t4 get over quickly than to dho the werl ( hoe-work) perfectly. Thae aim shioub ameto make every stroke of the hooe do it. utmost, rarely striking "twice in thaa samae placn." thins getting ever the nrml tuition feo everywhere is paid. In day schools it is never less than $1 per month, and in boarding schools $12 per r mouth. It has been found disastrous to give an edueation to any one free of charge, for it is not appreciated. Many t of the colored people make great sacri- o flees to keep their children at school. 0 The spirit of devotion among the teach- w ors in tho college, who are usually per- ti sons of therough training at the North, ti and who usually receive very meagre t salaries, is one of the hopeful signs of ti our times. Indeed, the whole problem, e( though sad, is not without hope. Dr. ti Oliver Wondell hIolmues has said: 'Any ai patient can be cured if only the doctor is called in time, but the trouble is in s( many cases that the doctor should have lc been called two or three hundred years b; before the patient was born.' There is w a strong sentiment in the South that the h< colored people must go onto the soil. There is something in this. They seem not unfitted for it, and may become a kind of strong conservative yeomanry in the South. But their occupations need b; not be limited to this sphere, and many d other occupations. Colored lawyers N practice in the country districts, and al in certain cases colored physicians have b been called in consultation with white to physicians. The fact must bo kept in u: mind that this is a question of elevating fi a race, and not merely of raising a few of individuals in this generation. The w church schools are having a strong and ai elevating moral influence. The spirit 03 of genuine religious devotion is often h profound. Each college needs to be iI specially endowed so as to carry out an 03 independent policy adapted to the com- ai munity in which it is placed. These hi schools are necessary because they make tc the elements of moral and religious character, and this character can be vi brought into the race only by the special h< training of individuals who shall become sc intelligent and upright leaders. The il same may be said of the pupils in these in schools as Dr. Thomas Arnold said of inl the boys of England, 'We must seek to fc raise up great leaders.' " tl __ tl in A IB iNU INVENTOR. Constructing a Ma;azine (In and Other Things Without the Aid of Sight. al (hnglish Letter from Vlenna.) I have had the opportunity of meeting the inventor of a now rifle, Herr Franz d Fortelka, a former lieutenant in the Austrian army, who, during the first campaign in Bosina, received a shot in his right eye, which destroyed the optic i nerve, and, indirectly, so aflected the left oye that the poor oflicer, now only 28 years old, tias been for the last nine years totally blind. But without the use of his eyesight this ingenious man has invented during these years not only a new magazine gun, but also two ma chines for the anti-oxidation of iron, steel and other metals at a cost which i must be called ridiculously small; furth- I or, an apparatus for automatical iap- 13 ping, a new micrometer, a new sort of gunpowder, not to speak of smaller in ventions which found their way into the les.ser indmustrial establish ucnts of Vienna and savel the inventor from starvation, ti as his great discoveries, far from bring ig h m money as yet, necessitate an m outlay which he can allord only by cx- . treme personal privations. "My rifle," b complained the unfortunate inventor, h ''would have long been in the hands of l) the British government had the advanced money which I had obtained from a t private person in London been more , than ?20, which did not suflice for the u wages of one workman, who assists me, ai and the necessary material. "Noiw at last it is finished, and though I may fall into the fault of all inventors, I consider it the best rifle existing, being without the disadvantages of other ma chine rifles, and with many advantages over t hem. I can prove by my Austrian and German patents of somo0 live years t ago that the straight pull system which b)3 distinguishes every modern r fle, and in al itself, without the machine, secures the doublo effect, has been my invention. Upon this and upon other appropria- t( tions in the line by different successful inventors I do not lay any stress. There is my new rifle, which, in short, has the following advantages: It can be used as a single loader even with an 'ittached ti magazine; cartridges are not thrown intot the magazine in a loose form, but lie onle above the other, without the possibility y of placing them wrongly; 'the magazine . can be attached or not at will; all parts - aro solid1, no spiral spiniig exists in the "I rifle; tile price of my weapon with roy-t alty and everything else will be unmder l ?2. Every old system, with the excel)- b tion of Werdl's, can be0 used for trans.. formation into my rifle at a cost of 8 or a: 10 shillings-less in the ease of Gras, t< Mauser, Blerdan or Belaumont, and " something more in the case of Henry f Martini." t] "And how can you make any inven- n tion, especially such a complicated one h as a rifle, without, unfortunately, being t able to see the separate parts, and how i] are your devices carried out by the work- 0 "I1 see with my fingers. And not inv 0o10 single (caso have they deceived me. It's rea L!y cuirious that whlen great and iiunuito mw eaueents are in quesltionl, thlose( whol 5Ie( with their eye aro wrong, I and I, with the use of my fingere, am 1 iight. Thle m'od1els for may machines algainsht oxidation of metals were entirelyv made 1) myself from carved wood, witih the 1s Ip of a string, wire aud bread erumbsM. I am now devising a very com plicated electric apparatus." - ----- .1 idhn Shaani's Secoul Chaoio. it no0w seems more than probable thmat a Se3nato'r Ilawley had a double purposo5 'j ill atten4dinlg thel IA'Ll Le~gion reunion la and( banqeuet. le was, of course, de- 1 lighted to mueelt with his old1 comrades, s and, besides that, it was a good chance r to give the people a chance to boom e IIalvley for Presisceut, Vice-Prcsident* or something of that kii1.t'dfJTuriiday, f after the banquet, lhe wvas'ecrted t/tTie 1 Lincoln Club, where he met severO 9t r I the most prominent Replublicanls in ile 1 city, all, by the way, friends of f3Enator Sherman. A gentleman in the party s said to the Enquiirer: "Thie ticket to win I is Sherman an<i I [awley, and, mind what I tell you, that's what it's going to be.j rif by any mischance Sherman cannot make it, then lie will want Hlawley for - first place and some live Western man, a like Major McKinley, of Cainton, or Ro bertson, of Indiana, for Vice-President." 1 .---Oncinnati Euir.. rapidly and quickly-on the same prin ciple that would govern a rescuing party in relieving the hunger and thirst of a famishing ship's crew or a starving gar- s: rison. The plows should follow this hoeing as quickly as possible and go as rapidly. the second hoeing should T commence in a few days after the inter vening plowing, and should be dono with more care, the plants now being put to a final stand, which can be done with comparative safety. If this hoeing 0 and the consequent plowings be skill fully done there will be little, if any, ir more neel of the hove. ore (IOIt p(ls t on the ago and physical stirength of him who holds the plow than is gene(rilly sup)pesed. As a rule boys and girls are arr not strong enough or careful enough to of guide the plow properly in cultivating rc cotton in the earlier stages; it should only be intrusted to older and itronger li1 and steadier hands. v) 'rEi FI.'IT IN 't;IGITV.uT. llow the Chances for i)emocratic \Vie ory c look to Ono Ohsorvor. The Now York World thinks that the h talk of Democrats from the South and the West who have recently visited Washington does not bear out ex-Seere- a tary Manning's theory that those inpor taut section would force Mr. Cleve- S land's renomination upon the Now York fc Democracy whether the latter should al like it or not. Many of Mr. Cleveland's vj strongest friends from those sections are ei said to have stated frankly that his ro- v< nomination would depend upon his abil- a ity to got the support of his own State a delegation. They are said to have ox- m pressed their satisfaction, in advance,with hi that candidate who should prove to be the choice of New York. They say that t the battle-ground is to he 1row York, la just as it was in 1881, and that it would tc bo extremely foolish to nominate any a1 candidate who should not have the back ing of the majority of the New York cr Democracy. p, Mr. Cleveland is believed to have been making a high bid for Massachusetts and st severa, of the New England States, but of it is not thought that ho expects to ho n. renomin.ited or re-elected without the rn vote of his own State. "Mr. Cleveland," said a New Yorker o the other day, "may get the Now York h delegates in the National Convention, t< but unless he has a majority (two-thirds) e) of them at his back his boom will fall. ) The whole foundation of the Cloveland a boom in the South and West is due to .r the claim made by the President's friends in the East of his great popularity inr his e own State; that lie is the only man who can carry New York, &o. 'l'he moment t Mr. Cleveland fails to demonstrate his I popularity at home, his Western ad mirers will drop him immediately. New i York will decide the candidate for the Democracy and the election." There are said to be several weak t points in Cleveland's hold upon the 1 Western and the Southern 1)enocracy. l Ohio men declare that it is by no means certain that the delegation from that e State will throw up their hats for Clevu land. Men of the rTurman type and members of the old-time )cmocracy say t that they have been overlooked by the i President until they are in no mood to r become his enthusiastic followers. IL a Michigan there are four )einocratr, ex- r Congressmen, who charge their retire- 1 ment to the Adninistration-Maylry i of Detroit, Carleton of Port -lhuron, . Comstock of Grand Rapids, and Eldridge q of Adrian. It is said that there will be tc trouble in delivering the delegation over iu to Mr. Cleveland. iL Indiana is said to be in open revolt. sc Voorhees and McDonald are known to . 1)e unfriendly to Mr. Cleveland's renomi- t nation, and the old friends of the late I1 Vice-President lHendricks are declared L to b~e in sympjathly with themi. Senator Voc rhees's son, a delegate to Congresi si froni Wyomaing 'Territory, recently made t, a violent attack upon Mlr. Cleveland, it which was pubillishied, it is said, wvith the al Senator's knowledge and with his entire y, applroval. In Virginia and L ouisiana, it et is said, many leading D~emnocrats are openly opposed to Mr. Cleveland. The,~ o endorsement of the Administration b,y tI the State D)emocratic Conventio)n of ti Kentucky is not considered to have been tl especially.strong either in its language y or its spirit. e "'It is highly improbable," said a West ern official recently, ''that the D)emocracy e: of the country will attempt to forco any g canidi(ate down the throats of the Ne*w York D emocrats against their will. .1 oe not believe Mr. Cleveland woul ac- to cept a renomination comning in that way, u as it would mecan almost certain defeat." u It is probable that insteadi of spending o' the month of June at Red Top, the J President and Mrs. Cleveland, wvill go to aI Fauquier WVhito Sulphur Springs, Va. I. Colonel Maddux, the leading hotel moan ti at this pla1ce, has extendoed an invitation 1P to them and has prepared a cottage ex- a p)ressly for them. lie is no0w inI Washi. ~ ington, and arrangemuents have heena miade for the Presidenit and MJrs. Cleve- t land to go to the springs ahouat the first c( week in d uno for a day, as a sort of trial Il tripl. If everything is satisfactory the( Y' invitation will 1)0 acceptedl. Colonel g Maddux was in Baltimore a few days W ago getting up a party oif Baltimoranms tI to accompany the President and his wife ic and to make other necessary arrange- " ments. Among those who will accom- ci pany them are General Sheridan cowl st Colonel Kellogg, of his staif; Senator A. of P. Gorman and a number of IBalti- si moreans and General Fitzhuigh Lee. TIhey will leave hero ini the privato car of y the plresident of the Virginia M idlanid ii: railroadl. Colonel Maddux has beeni in wv W~ashinigtoni several dalys and hats reom mnedl the water to the Priesiidlent as f being the finest in the world for over- i worked brains, which will, no doubt, pi induce him to give it a trial. It is opined1, o: too, that the little trip) may niot lbe with out certain plolitical sigificanee. T1he fact that Governor Lee is to be ini the a party is regardcd hero as another evi- hi don01co that Virginians are determined, if h p 1ossible, to tack him on to theo tail of bm - the next P'resideontial kite with Clove- k Iland.--Baltimore American. 1< Young or mIidldle- aged menCi suiffering ~ from Ivrvous' debhillity, loss of memory, preiiIimatue (old age as the mresuilt of haid f nabltIits, shiould sendt 10 cents ini stamps 'Ioi I illuistrald boo0k offerr.'s sure mfeans of cure. I. Addre&s World's l)lspnaary Medical Asso. a clation, Buffalo, N. Y PlROG IESS IN TIlE SUTI. h;Ct1;'ALV LAMAlt iAKS ALL Till 1iEl'OttT Altl NOT TiRUE. ItE A pimrent 'roypority to bo Fotn, On,ly In the ('Ulti--1'1ito Secretary is In liluIn to Tlhi "1 Tiuit lueh of It. In Secc IutIie. tervie tr In the Hlarttlttid, Conn., 'rinics I found Secretary Lamar at his plac the department the other day, hi Ile well covered with papers, transact g the routine business as methodicall; though he hai been an executiv< licer all his life, but it seemed to be t lief to him to turn from them for I tie while, walk withi mc into his pri to room and talk on other subjects ur conversation was about journalism 1 wonderful growth, ith change o laracter and its future, and upon othe: pics, but I shall not now repeat wha > had to say, except on one subject .o industrial condition of the South td that I do with his consent. ''The apparont prosperity of th< )uth," said Secretary Lamar, ''is to bs und in the cities, and not all of then are it. Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nash l11, Knoxville, Birmingham and othei ties that are the centres of mineral d lopment already made or anticipate o growing rapitly in population an >parently in wealth. Towns, also, that o situated upon the now railroads tha ve been built during the past fen ars are larger and more thriving tit ey were, but their growth hits beu rgely at the expense of less fortunatt wns that have either stood still or hav< tually deteriorated. 'This circum riec, I think, is likely to give am roneous impressiou to the strange ssing through the South on the rail tyU. lie sees the towns a1t the variou utions tt,parelt.ly thriving, the c('ntre new comlmercial enterprises, and h tturally concludes that the South i aking very rapid progress; but I esn't know ttnai the man who ha ened a now store ^t one of these place 1s probably removed there from son w i lstant from the railroad where h1 used up his foluler business, or th am who is 1iltting a new house is po; bly i ftrtner who lanlS betsiO discoml ;d in the vaui etl'ort to ltake a livin i5ating cotton, 1111(1 hats soul out au] 1111 to t',wnI hop1in t o dl be1sttecr, (,1 d .upsz, to havet b)tt. ," t';pa.rtunlitiesit. u: ecalllCtiOl of his chihiren. "1 im Incine' to 1think, ails , ihat ti1 reiIn 1pr operil y of the cities whic re the centres of industry in the mine I region or wbose gr' wti has bet timulat'd by} th(lir poxii1)nt,y to or i) Lrest in it, is, to i grit exteit, spec itive- based io som1110 m1easure, it 1Cis poii itnticiptted dcvCl,lmtls rtth( !lan 111)011 those already 1nideC. t ourse, 1. know that at good detl of cap ti has beutn invested t.hcru a .d iJ1: Inch of it it s gout f1Oim thie North :tn, att mny NortlerIn peop:ln arO settlii. lert, aut I don't wish to it inderkstoo d ouibtinig the future pr1"J:,perity of thl gion. I only my thi the returns h v ;t yet baeei reilized. J. ought to say tu lwv0 ve1y little ,ersotuJ kin wi ih-ige o l'airs inl those sections of the >iouthl o hlich 1. huvo I cnn spea(vking. Th<l 00111' has colc since I lutve ben ther remain long at it time, aond my opin is are formed fromt what I have reat the n1ewspapers and(1 h e rd from per 118 who h tve been1 there. I. tii nk yoi ill Ii nd(1, too, that iuslh cities as ( trles n, SavannahI, i\iob)le andl Ne W Och:ul: [ ot stowiig tvidtencOs of tro.iperity It u1s see,"' 1.an( he, tak ing down a co111 ese cities incereasetd ini lpoputioil he 'eent 1870i and1 18hSt. Chach-tstoin gatinte ptopultiont inl that ti cad( e I,(l', c: minahti gained 1,474, 0or abiout ni pe mi. ; McI bile actually lo st 2,0)02 in pop .ationi, and11 New Orleans galinedi 21 ,t7: about 13i per cenIt. If you remnembie at thei atverago incereaise of populatioi Iro)ughou)lt the whiolo 'ounIt ry dulrinj 10 sam10 o e years averaiged 3t 1per cent. .>u will see1 tIlait tliere is ntothinig en mlrauginlg iln these Ii gures." "HI ow do you1 accounlt for the app1a11 It stagnalItioIn ini whalt were ftormterly th~ cent commlterch iacenItres of tihe South? aiked. "iBy thle depression o (f thle plantintg inl rest, of which I hav a112lreadty potkeni, ats the repIly. "ThAley iare dependenhtI pIOn tile agricultulre of the counltry fo toir trado1." ''11aven't thet crops bieen gootd?" '"Yes, that of last year was the larges oer matde with cite or two etxceptions5 utt the cropl to-dlay is not p)rop)ortionlal2 reat as: it was behro t!ht war. ] 11n to e remeialIben-d tied the ptopuhtr Iin of thnc ut ~3Ii -al itsed nearltly lifti 3r itnt, betweenl lo>l andi 1-0. A: ;i.iutltyr i'ls bnIt. our ontlytn mdstrys 0l as clnt is et our 1rinclpdoth i c raie tnlt ie ourti e WIuil, (lOplI te h1(11 we dii i hlre frtheir. tad '' : niV iiiat the(1 l i i mto sev strl,'I our popi ''1tinierutad duigi aiten(elty y ars tistbu dewiei sIf ioiur(1 abiit?t eladcoh t'o 'uYin' looeCtly for UI in-speit under lsue 111 iOresacer,Iad yo illot think i rang ht th ciii1tie' s wich ae rdopend ''' itlt upon C 1y agrcutr tfritheir td O tol lagih."etelgiitcttittih "0 hat nt s nH." i evr Wars," yesar,;"are ither outa d ig 'tOf coury of thaCl iowdepreion itolt b(it yIo speak?"fiiiio lcilren "Yatt e epreay of e cton111 goen gaw > kap rule," heei agn rla ".on't knuow i8probably t wisl out of our lands. You know that all agricultural lands produce less an1d less except they are constantly renewed by fortilizers, and our people are too poor to buy those. The increased aggregate crop is due to increased acreage, but we have not been able to increase the former in the same proportion that we have in creased the latter and the amount of labor expended. We work over more ground and more hands are emeployed, but it costs more to make a bale of cot ton now than it formerly did. '"Another reason, I thiuk, why we do not raise as much cotton to an acre as we formerly did is that we don't get what we call as good a 'stand' as we used to. The importance qf this is not likely to be appreciated by one who has never lived where cotton is raised. If there are many long, vacant spaces in the rows of cotton plants, they may grow very thrifty, and the field, as one looks over it, may appear to bear a great crop, and yet, when the cotton comes to be pick it will turn out light. Now, in order to secure a good 'staud,' that is, to havo the ground all occupied, the closest care and attention are necessary at a cer tain critical period. In former times - when the planter had complete control of the labor, he could enforce this care and attention as he cannot do now. The cotton lands of the South are now mostly rented to the negroes, and it the owner retains an interest in the crop he has no voice in the manner in which it shall be worked. If he should interfere the ne groes would resent it. There is a great deal of careless farming in the South." The Cotton Movement. The Now York Financial Chronicle, in its weekly cotton review, says that for the week ending Friday evening, the 20th inst., the total receipts have reached 10, 626 bales, against 12,666 bales last week, 13,077 bales the previous week, and 15, 141 bales three weeks since; making the total receipts since the 1st of September, - 1886, 5,158,523 hales, against 5,142,549 bales for the same period of 1885-0, showing an increase since September 1, i 1886, of 15,974 bales. The exports for the week ending the same timo reach a total of 21,227 bales, s of which 13,035 wore to Groat Britain, - s to France, and 8,192 to the rest of the continent. The total visible supply of cotton, as made up by cable and telegraph, for the week was as follows: Total of Great - Britain stock 991,00, total of continental stocks 412,500-making a total of Eu 1 ropean stocks of 1,103,500. The total , visible supply for the world is 2,266,779 r bales; of this number 1,525,279 are American and 741,500 East Indian, etc. ' The imports into continental ports h for the :rae period have been 90,000 bales. n There was a decrease in the cotton i- in sight, Friday night, of 5,699 bales i- as compared with the same date of , 1886, an increase of 30,389 bales as com r pared with the corresponding date of f 1885. 'Io receiptc at interior towns for the t week have been 6,686 bales. Old inte rior stocks decreased 7,581 bales, and were 110,397 less than at the same period i last year. Tlie actual movement from the planta lions, not including the overland receipts i or Southern consumption, but simply the receipts that reach the market through the outports, sinco September 1, 188t, were 5,175,331 bales, in 1885 6 were 5,301,195 bales, and in 188-4-5 were -4,711,167 bales. Although the receipts at the outporth the past week were 10,626 bales, the actual movement from planta tions was only 2,981 bales, the balanco being taken froiu the stocks at the into rior towns. Last year the receipts from the plantations for the same week were 8,s887 bales, and for 1885 they were 7i()0 bales. Itally si tinig by at Ceatli,ctie. Cooke county comes to the front with the horrible death of a young man Inmed Charles Allison. Several years ago his brother Wilhami went to Texas to engage in the cattle-raising business. lie cameo back last week on a visit. Last S)iuday morning the two brothers wvere preparmng to) go to chirch, when Charles put on a coait which his brother had b)roughit from Texas with him. In a few minuteos lie experienced a burning sensa tion oni the armi. lio took olf the coat and tore open the sleeve, when a deadly centipede t romt the plains of Texas was noeen crawling sliowly up~ his arm, stinging as it wvent. Mleial assi-tanJce was has t ily summuonied, biut when the doctors arnivedl his arma had swollen to twice its natural size and in a few hours burst along the poisoned track of the insect. Ilie young man diedl in most horrible agony about nightfall and was buried the nioxt (lay. --Nashville American. "Sco that woman," sJaidl a man, point ing to a canal-boat moving along the E'rie. A head hidden in a checked calico sunl-bonnjet pirotruded from the cabin hiatchIiway. "1lhat woman, sir, hasn't bieen out of that cabin in twenty years. F'act. So stout she can't get nothin' but tier head out. Las~t time shoe come up on1 (leek was when (rant was inaugurat. ed. The captain and the mate and the two n-ule-d(rivers helped. .lad an awful tinie. Then they got her back again and she hasn't been out since. Last fall a dime museum man camoi down hero and ofl'ered her big pay to exhibit her self, but when he learned thiat he'd have to take the canal-boat and( all ho ref used to sign a contract. "-Albany Express. la y, hieh you are walowing, on acecount of sOin' ot thie ili'ses peiiuiar to you, Oiihiart' andi which have rotbbed you of t e rot y hu le of hieailth , unit madie life a br h.o to you, you can easily get (out of. Dr. 'ieriie "F'avorite Prtecritior" ' will I ree ou ti im ill such troubles, and soon recall ne rosa int of hieaIlh to your chee~k and it. elbwticity to your stepi. It is a muost p)er fee tritle for all the wecakness,es and -regiuiarities peculIar to your sex. It cures alcertion, displacements, "internal fever,'" batrinig dlownI sentAionslii, reiioves theC teii hiiiey to canierouis 'ff'ections andui corrects atIll, mtural discharges. By druggists. . "Ye', sir,'' saidu the entomologIst, "'I can itme 11:as soi that when I whIstle they will comie mi l alight on miy hand.'' ''Phaw!"' widi ii the, blhiaded m ian , "thiat's nothIug. l'hiey com and atui light, on my head without my whistling." The catomologIst sat down.