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^ " ^ ^ SBKI'WXSHLT. l. m. grist & sous, Publishers, j % cdfamiln ginrsppr: 40r {promotion of the political, facial, 3igiicuttur;it, and Contmti;riaI jnfcrijsts of (he gcoptc. j 'EB!^? c0APY*fA, centsANC?' ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKYILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 189$). Is'0.57. ' ' * ^ " * ** " ^ ?"r 1?nn """ ? 5A5 nnfl Lnnfmnne sumo tn (inimli-ii nanjanonara MoSilislglmiii. By JOHN HEABD, JB. [Copyright. 1S38. by the Author.] "Our conversation has recalled my student days?the best period of my life ?so vividly?aud the contrast between then and now." He did not finish the sentence, and again for some minutes he smoked on silently, while I sat equally 6ilent aud waiting. "Perhaps you do not know, 66nor," he began presently. "1 came of good family. My ancestors came over from Spain about the begiuning of the last century, which may or may not be true. At any rate my father was an intimate friend of General Calzario, whom the Juarez government outlawed, and about the time I was 10 years old both were captured, executed side by side and all the property confiscated by the state. Nothing except my mother's hacienda, La Perla, was saved from the wreck, and there I was allowed to grow up without education or restraint of any kind. You know what life is on a Mexican rancho and what qualities of human nature are most likely to be developed in such an atmosphere. Well, as a boy, I was perhaps worse than the average. I am extremely passionate, and when I am aronsed I lose all control over myself to such an extent that I am not much better than a wild animal. I ought to have been shot or put out of the way long ago, and sooner or later that is the fate I expect to meet. "I was only 17 when I had a quarrel with a friend over a girl we both fancied. We hud a fight, of course, and 1 killed him. I can't say that 1 felt much remorse at the time. On the contrary, I was rattier proud or my victory, jmo oue bad seen us together, so I was uot afraid of it being discovered. My rival was out of the way, and I profited by it. Then a few days later, satiated and disenchanted, 1 realized what I had dona So, between fear and remorse and shame, I determined to leave the country. "Ah, Europe! Don Juan, that was a revelation to me. 1 had never seen anything of civilization. I saw it first in Paris. For a few months I lived the reckless, profitless life of most SpanishAmericans abroad, bot at last its shallowness palled upon me. I saw that whenever car people came in touch with intelligent foreigners our inferiority was painfully evident and it made me angry to be only second rate. The remedy was obvious. I made up my mind to work instead of play. I was as good as tbey, ana ir worK coma prove it they should know it. I set my teeth and I worked like a horse. Now and then the wild auimal in my natnre got the better of me and I had to let him loose, bat not as before, for education had given me a strong bridle, and after each outbreak I palled up and went back to my books with new ardor." Eraclio stopped, and for the first time since he began to talk he looked at me. "You wouldn't own up to all this, would you? Would you have catalogued your virtues and left out the vices? That is an Anglo-Saxon trait and one of the meanest of its characteristics. You all think a man can't have his failings known and still be a man. Hypocrites! Shakespeare and Fielding painted their men naked, part good and part bad, true human beings?their men will live while all the sawdust manikins you put up today will be forgotten tomorrow. "I have seen a good many English and Americans, Don Juan, and if I have found them perhaps stronger and more generous as a whole than men of other hationalities I have found them not a whit le6S human. The men in your newspapers and the men in your novels are not the same species. You emile? UI coarse?01 coarse?tne meorie? uuu criticisms of a Mexican bandit are only fit to be laughed at. Bat yet yoa cannot honestly deny the troth of wbat I say. However, that is neither here nor there. So, senor, I worked hard ana learned something. I traveled and studied both in England and Germany; then one day I awoke as from a dream, and I came home to Mexico. "We love oar country, Don Juan, in oar unintelligent, passionate way, and the jico to me means perhaps even more than the union does to you. With my knowledge, my fortune and my will I felt strong. 1 felt that I should become a great leader and that my name would be known and loved throughout my country. On my way to Europe I hud passed a few days in Colombia, visiting some relatives, and one night out on the plains, as we sat by the campfire, one of the older men spoke of Bolivar. I see him now, Don Juan, standing in the glowing light, his deep voice trembling with emotion, thundering forth Bolivar's proclamation of independence. Even then, ignorant boy that 1 was, tbo scene impressed me profoundly, and the respect, the veneration of his listeners, as the old man euded with the invocation, 'Ah, Bolivar?liberator!'?I have never forgotten. Bolivar! Why not OOJ1S.' J.I 18 a great, purpo.?e biiui uiuicg a great man, and I believed that my purpose was a great oue. Throughout the laud of Mexico, wide as it is from north to south, Kruclio Sulis should be a household word. Ha! As it has become indeed. A household word throughout the laud, quoted iu the anuual reports among the cursed of Mexico, on the same pages with yellow fever, famine and drought." Bolis had risen from his chair. He was much excited and spoke quickly, with passionate utterance and unconscious gesticulation. Though he was speaking to me, he had about forgotten my presence, except as an impersonal recipient of his confession, and I took care not to interrupt him. As he stopped, he leaned against one of the posts of the veraud^ with his back toward me, and for some minutes looked away over the plain. When he came back to the table, he poured out a tumblerful of wine and drank it down at one gulp. "Ah, Don Juan, I am very tired of it all," he began again after a short pause. "There is a reward of 2,000 pesos for bringing me to Culiacan, dead or alive, nud sometimes I feel that the best thing I could do would be to sboot myself in the bouse of some poor devil who needs the money. J will tell yon bow I became an outlaw?I have given you the beginning and end of my story, but a good deal lies between. "When I came home from Europe, I applied for a government position, and I was appointed private secretary to the governor. He was an able man, but bad?totally unscrupulous?the kind of man I might bave become if I had remained at home. He recognized the advantages of his office, but not the obligations. He was ostensibly apathetio? really one of the most violent men I ever met, as cruel and vindictive a vilno onnW ho fnnnrl in Mexico. It laiu MO V>VU JVi uv - ? was our joint misfortune to fall in love with the same woman?Mercedes, the daughter of old Hoiuobono Paral. "'You are married,'I said to him half joking, one day, 'and I am not. I have the right on my sideP " 'But might is on mine,' he answered, smiling good naturedly, 'and you know that in this country might is right.' "'But it is not love PI retorted. 'I have my right and her love too. So your might will not help you much in this case'?fool that I wasl "I remember the quick start that he gave, and his saroastio emphasis as he said very quietly: "'Ah, Solis, you Mercedes'lover.' Then, suddenly changing the conversation be asked for certain papers and gave me instructions as to what answers I should send. Then be left the room. After he had gone 1 sat down to write, but our conversation had made too deep an impressiou. I began to fear the consequences. 1 wanted to tell Meroedes hereelf, so I threw the papers into my desk, saddled a horse and rode off to Paral's ranch. It was not a long ride, but before it was in sight suddenly my horse was tripped. I was bound, gagged, and that night I was carried to an outlying prison, where I passed the next eight months. I was not inscribed in my own name, so it will hence be un' * AL.i, T7? QMIU KDOWU omcjuuy lUUl JDmuiJU Ouijd uvcu behind bars?a remote satisfaction, to be sure. It was not until long after my kidnaping that my jailer told me I was accused of robbing the state treasury and the governor's private safe. My wheroabouts were nuknown, bat it was supposed that I had left the country with the mouey. Finally I was tried in secret session of the court. Of course I was found guilty, and as I was sentenced by defanlt my mother's estates were confiscated to repay the governor first and the state afterward out of what was left. It all mattered very little to r u " 1 He poured out a tumblerful jf wine. me, however, for while I was imprisoned my poor mother had died?of grip, I was told?Mercedes had disappeared; not eveu Homobono had been able to find her. I did not give up all hope of finding her until a month later, but then I learned it was all over?she had died, and insane." Eraclio stopped 6bort, but his face expressed more than any word could bavedoue. It revealed such capacity for suffering that I turned away. To watch bis face seemed an impertinence. Ho lighted another cigar presently and said: "Seuor, 1 was alone in the world, poor, dishonored, without ties or obligations ot any kind, and 1 burned to revenge myself, and I took for my motto, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' "There was my weakness, senor. A greater man would even then have forontton nnrcnn-tl vi'vnnoi: ntu] rotnnmliororl only nobler purposes, but prison life exerts the most demoralizing infiuenco. A good man may come out of it as a good man still, but his goodness is no longer a power It is merely a latent, useless quality, not to say a weakness. Even that is the exception rather than the rule. A strong man usually becomes a bad man, and a bad man grows worse. So it was with me. My vitality, my energy and strength were neither broken nor impaired, but with only bad influences around me I became a leader of bad men. Revenge wa my only thought, my only dream, my aim and purpose in life. In that prison I planned my subsequent career and formed the nucleus of my present band of brigands. "You may have heard of our escape? It was dynamite?horrible?so bloody that the people realized that a family of human tigers had broken loose, and that the public safety was endangered. Still, senor. it was some time before I began my work of revenge, for I did not feel I could rely on my men in an emergency As for myself, I was lacking in coolness, nerve and the practice of cruelty, which I knew I should need in the future. So for two years I did no more luuu ruu cuacues, raiu a runuu ui two and fight tbo soldiers sent out against us by my former chief. He was no longer governor when he beard of my escape, and knowing that he bad a dangerous foe in me he fled to the capital. When I was ready?not so very long since?I raided and destroyed his randies one after another and in such quick succession that there was no time to prepare defenses. I killed his men, drove otf his cattle, burned his haci "Eraclio Soils, in the name of the natloil. you arc my prisoner!" endus and wrecked bis mines, nntil on the verge of ruin be was obliged to come bere himself and attempt the res?-?# rmi?rfv Than f trfmlrnd him V/UO \JA Uiu Jit WJ . from place to place. Finally I captored bim at tbe Descauso. For years. Don Joan, 1 bad exercised all ray ingenuity in planning new, unheard of, monstrous tortnres for tbis man, bnt wben we were alone face to face in tbe big ball of tbe raucbo bouse, wben after all these years I saw him in my power? tbis man whom I bated with every fiber of my being?when it flashed over me what I might have been but for him, what I W88 because of bim, by heaven, eenor, I burst into tears 1" Solis paused a moment. He drew bis hand over bis forehead?be had been talking vehemently?bis face was quivering, bnt almost immediately be stood up and said, "I shot bim down like a cur!" He walked away to tbe end of tbe porch. He stood there so long that 1 turned to see whether be bad goue. No, be was apparently watching tbe men wbowere harueRsiug the mules. When be came back, all traces of emotion bad disappeared, but be looked at me as if expecting me to say sometbing. 1 did not know what to say, and be sat down again opposite me. "Ab, Don Juan," be began again, "that's what a brigand is made of?just H lUttLl, W l \JIJ 1J ucviuupcu. kjuuLtt? uujr ?who knows?yon may bold me up Come now. tell me honestly what do you think of me? A miserable rascal, eh? An embarrassing question?" His margin was so narrow between good hnmorand the most violent passion that I hesitated ut passing judgment upon the fine animal before me. I could only admire. "You have beeu very unfortunate, Don Eraclio," I said fiually. "I believe you might have beeu a great man in your country " And I put out my hand. Solis grasped it eagerly, and he still held it as he said: "I thank you, Don Juan; 1 shall not forget you. Will you take a little thing to remember me? My end is not far off, seuor 1 believe that I am on the down grade. So far revenge was my right, but that is past now, and for the future what can 1 do? I am not a brigand by nature. If I had something to live upon, I should probably turn to my books again, for of course I can never be a public man now. But as it is 1 don't own 10 pesos in the world; besides I have a duty toward ray men. I must 6taud by them, as they have stood by me." "1 suppose you must, Don Eraclio, unlesB you were to leave the country. Wouldn't you do that?" I suggested. "Impossible!" be said. "No, no, I can't do that"? but he did not explain. We sat awkwardly for a few moments alter our conversation, anyomer topic eeemed out of place?yet silence was embarrassing, so it was a relief to see the horses coming ready to start. I rose, tightened my straps, and Eraclio asked, "Yon are going home, Don Jnau?" "Yes, by a roundabout route, but I shall come back here." "I wish I were going, too," he 6aid, #"but where? If yon come back, we must meet again. You may find me a better man?or, If not, a far worse Vayal" he cried, pulling himself together suddenly. "Today I am at the zenith of my power. Come, drink another glass with me?a big glass this time?here's to luck!" At the stage we shook hands again, and the mules started on a gallop. ? The remembrance Eraclio gave me was the little gold bell?thus it came into my possession. Subsequent events proved that Eraclio's presentiments were well founded. His day wae over, and from that day forward his existence became more and more precarious. His men felt he had lost his grip, and they in turn lost their unbounded confidence in him. One day the troops surrounded their camp, auu mougn me umjuruy vi iu? bandits cut their way through the oaotus thicket Eraclio remained behind. When the soldiers came upon him, he was seated on a bowlder beside the bodies of two of bis men. Cautiously the soldiers closed around the famous outlaw, but he neither moved nor noticed them. Now that escape was impossible, mauy a man among his captors wished it were otherwise, for Eraclio was a popular hero, an ideal to many a Mexican heart. He had often defended them against the law, when it was un justly applied, he had been kind to the poor, and they loved him. Not a few in tho line of troopers owed him thanks enmo nnml rlpiirl nr t.imolv hf?]n Rnfc IKJk oui.iv ? r it was too late. A young officer stopped forward and. covering iiim with his revolver, oalled out: "Eraclio JSolis, in the name of the nation, you are my prisoner!" The highwayman raised his bead, gauged his captor, and emiled. Then he looked around at the circle of soldiers, drew himself up and without paying any iurtuer auenwuu 10 wo ueuieuaui, be spoke to tbem. "Friends," be said gently, yet firmly, "tbe time bas come, and I am more glad tban sorry Perbape more glad than any man here Try henceforth to remember whatever good 1 have done you and to forget tbe barm. You are all sods of Mexico, and 1 charge you, let that be ever uppermost in your thoughts. Because I forgot the duty ev ery man owes to Ms nag, i stana Detore yon now an enemy of my country, which no man ever loved more than I. Many of you are my friends, yet I am your common enemy The good of the country requires that I should die. So Jet it be here, at once and at your bands. I do not yield. I command. Salazar, and you, the five next, etep forward! Are you ready? Goodl Now, when 1 drop my arm aim low and steady. This is my last request. " Eraclio locked up at the pale, hard sky overhead and across the ragged line of cactus brush, so typical of his country. Above in the ovenlike dome a buzzard, the eagle of Mexico, arched elowly round and round. He followed it with bis oyesi until it alighted on a tuna near by. Beyond the sierra, purple and blue and white, crowned the horizon, and while he gazed with a faraway look over their heads the men leaned on their carbines and waited. Then the outlaw raised his hat and the locks clicked?a moment later the simultaneous bark of the eix oarbines crashed through the silence Eraclio fell Salazar alone had understood. The ~ A- U ~miotalron oonornaifvj Karl UlllJCi 11VD YV IbU UiIDlH?V.U QVUV4VQ?V^ MUU shot wild. THE END. MASCULINE ATTIRE. There is one sensible thing which the Russian does from Riga on the gnlf of Livonia to Petropanloski on the northern Pacific, and that is to tnck his tronser into a long boot and allow it to bag a little at the knee. Treated thus, the tronser loses half its terrors from the aesthetic point of view and is in a twinkle transformed into a dashing and becoming garment. To my mind the dress of the Russian workman or peasant is almost ideal, both from the standpoint of beauty and utility. A tunic of a vivid shade of red, belted at the waist, stout, high boots to the knee, into which the loose breeches are thrust, and a round cap of cloth or fur make of the moujik a most attractive figure. The dress, indeed, approaches more Dearly the idea of a loose military uniform than that of any other European peasant, and we all know how becoming is a uniform to man?especially in the eyes of womankind. But if I am personally incredulous of ever beholding a row of burgesses going cityward in an omnibus with their trousers bagging over Wellington boots I would implore my countrymen not to adopt one of the "reforms" which Ouida advocates?namely, the workingman's blouse. Made in velvet, belted and buttoned with silver, it is a garment which she would like to see on the shoulders of our brothers and husbands. I do not tbink tbat many 01 us win snare mas desire. The French artisan, with his blue blouse and loose trousers, may be attired correctly from a workaday standpoint, but it can never be said that he looks alluring. Dr. George Birkbeck Hill, in his recently published "Bossetti Letters," puts it on record that the late William Morris, in bis youthful days, "used frequently to lunch at Faulkner's house in Queen's square, coming in the French blouse in which ho worked from the business place of the firm?'the shop,' as they called it?close by. Faulkner told me that the servant thought he was a butcher, whom her master, for some unaccountable reason, had to lunch."?Ella Hepworth Dixon. Bnlwer and Landor. Bulwer, notwithstanding his deafness, could hear the solitary hiss which mingled with the thousand plaudits. The sweetest flowers prick him with a thorn and the gayest insects sting him as they pass. He came into our box after having received a complete ovation, and the first words he uttered were, "A great many enemies in the house tonight. " Poor fellow, who had so much talent with so little greatness, so much success and so little happiness. That asp, his wife, sends over an abusive letter from Paris to The Post just so that it may appear on the morning of tho day fixed for bringing out his play. Landor, you know, is quite as vain of not being read as Bulwer is of being the most popular writer of the day. Nothing can equal the contempt with which he treats anybody who has more than six readers and three admirers unless it be that saying of Hegel's when he declared that nobody understood his writings but himself, and that not always. Lady B. said the truest thing of Carlyle's productions that ever was uttered. She called them "spangled fus<tian"?a homely, rough stuff sparkling with genius in the seams.?"Memories of Henry Reeve.'' Turkish Preaa Censorship. The censorship is so strictly applied to the Turkish Dress that it was forbid den to give any account of the murder of the Empress Elizabeth at all resembling the truth. According to the accounts that were allowed to appear, she was taking a walk and was suddenly seized with illness. She fell to the ground, got up again, and again fell un oonscioua In half an hour she was dead. The use of the words anarchist, nihilist, etc., is forbidden, so the newspapers have been 6aying "disturbers of the peace," "lawless element," eto., but now the censorship has forbidden even these and has required the substitution of " Utopians" and " Utopianism." In order to maintain the fiction that all north and central Afrioa, so far as it is iMohammedan, is subject to the sultan of Turkey, it is forbidden to mention the English advance in the Sudan. If anything is said, the names of places must be changed, for the Sudan, Kongo; for Lake Tchad, the lake of Kuka, and for Erythrea, Schoa. , ituscrUancous ^carting. ; ROUND BALE AND SUUARE. 1 Three Round Dales Presses On the Mar- ( ket?The Question of Monopoly. I The following letter to Mr. C. C. i Hanson, of Savannah, Ga., from an < experienced ginner iu Alabama, will ' be read with interest in connection | with the present controversy over the round and square bale methods of j packing cotton : i Opelika, Ala., June 30, 1899. 1 Mr. C. C. Hanson, Savannah, Ga. : Dear Sir: My press box measures 26 by 54 inches. However, I will I change it this summer to the 24 by 54 i standard, as I am in favor of a uniform i bale of cotton in size, and practically I a uniform bale of cotton in weight, I say 450 to 500 pounds. 1 In connection with your inquiry, an- < swered above, I beg leave to say that I am opposed to the round bale methods of handling cotton on account of their apparent monopolistic features. < The round bale people tell us that | there are three round bale presses in < the market, therefore there is no pos- l sibility of a monopoly of the cotton or t ginning business. j Now, what are these three round j bale presses? What are their rela- t lions aud what is the competition be- t tweenthem? i I have heard no one deny,except t the Americau Cotton Company and its | employees, that that company is en- i deavoring to place their machines on < the market upon monopolistic hues, I thereby driving the small ginuers out of the business, etc. I The American Cotton company, which is working largely in the western cotton states, come out opeuly aud muke a market for the products of their presses. The Lowery Round Bale company are making a market for the products of their presses in South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, through Messrs. Iumun & Co., cotton buyers and exporters of Augusta, Ga., which firm, it appears they would have you believe, is a different firm from Messrs. Inmun & Co., who are handling their presses throughout these states, although the two firms, as I understand it, are composed of the identical members, the only difference being that the accounts, etc., are kept separate. When we tell the first two above mentioned round bale people that we do not care for their presses on a royalty basis they wish to know if we are prepared to buy, and if so refer us to Ginuers' Compress company, of Chicago, 111, which company sell their machine outright. Upon inquiry of the Ginner's Compress company, of Chicago, HI., we fiud the price of their presses beyond the reach of an average 1,500 to 2,000 bale ginuer and they, in writing to some ginners, send them | the Americau Cotton company's round < bale literature, in explanation of the f merits of the Ginners' Compress com- ? pany's methods of baling cottou. ? Most ginners will doubtless tell you i that all of the round bale people are oil nnseihlv can t,o make ! ""'"f- ? ""J V J ? . the 24 by 54 standard square bale t movement a failure. This I construe g as an admission on their part and the , 24 by 54 packed bale of cotton will , meet all the requirements of the com- j mercial world, and if universally adopt- < ed that it will greatly retard any further progress on the part of the round bale promoters; otherwise they certainly would not be spending any 1 time or money to prevent giuners from changing their boxes to the standard dimensions. ] We ask the traveling representatives , of the first two above mentioned round | bale presses, who are going through | the cotton states, and posing as the , farmers' friendv why they do not sell ( their machines, as most other invent- , ors or manufacturers do, at a price < that will allow them a reasonable in- | terest upon the actual investment, | which I estimate to be about $350 per | machine, and they smilingly answer < you, in effect, why should we sell our ( machines? No, we have a good thing, ] which is fully protected by the United , Slates government patent office stamp, s - 4 - !.??? 2* ,% ? ? r\ Anneu I a anil we propose iu Keep n, uuu uj?ia>v i it oti a basis (hat will net us from ' $1,500 to $3,000 per maehiue per year. , Does uot this now look like a mo- . nopoly ? ' As yet I am unable to see any com- { petition between these round bale f presses. On the other hand there ap- j pears to be a strong combination be- ( tweeu the three rouud hale companies j to knock out the old methods of baling , cotton, so that the matter will be left wholly in their bauds. Yours truly, ( J. T. Plunkett. | IMPORTS AM) EXPORTS. ? Notable Decrease In the Latter Fur the j Year Juxt Ended. A statement of the imports and ex- j ports of the United States shows that > for the year the total imports of mer- ( chandise amounted to $697,077,388, of ( which over $300,000,000 was free of , duty. For the year the exports of do- | mesne merchandise amouuted to $1,- j 227,433,425, which is a decrease from last year of $4,038,905. For the year j the imports of gold amounted to $88,- , 954,603 and the exports to $27,522,086. The chief reduction iu the value of exports during the year is iu graiu, of winch the supply abroad in l?y? was ' unusual, causing high prices as well as a greater demand for the products of J the grain fields of the Uuited States, the average price per bushel of wheat t exported iu the fiscal year, 1898, being i 98 30 cents, against an average of 74.77 ceuts in the fiscal year just ended, f The reduction iu exportatious of grain y is chiefiy in price, the quantity of 1 wheat exported being but about 10,- I 000,000 bushels less than that of last I year. Indeed the reduction iu wheat i exports is more thun otTset by the iu- ] creased exports of flour, of which the i CAJJUIl/3 Ui ?UUU ai C UUUUV v,vwv,wvv barrels iu excess of those of last year, this increase more than equaling the reduction in the quantity of wheat exported. Corn shows a considerable reJuction in quantity of exports, the number of bushels for 1899 being abouj 54,000,000 below that of 1898, when sur corn exports were abnormally iarge because of the shortage in other breadstuff's abroad. There has also been a reductiou of ibout $20,000,000 in value of the exports of cotton, also due largely to the reduction in price, the average price per pound of cotton exported in 1898 aeing 5.98 cents and in 1899 5.55 cents. Fhe decrease in value of exports of nreadstuffs and cotton is thus nearly Bade up hy the increased exports of J AMiSnlnn iitkliiK OOum lil/O. uuuumcturcu aniuica nuiuu oc?uj imv y to amount to $335,000,000 in the iscal year 1899, as against $290,697,154 in 1898, au increase of about $45,100,000. THE SIXTH PLAGUE OF EGYFL Dr. Sidney L. Theard, sanitary officer of the New Orleans board of healtn, las made a study of cbarbon, the disease which has killed so many mules, lorses and cattle in Louisiana and iouthern Mississippi during the spring ust passed, and which still prevails to in alarming extent. He has reached .he conclusion that the inoculation with the serum of an immunized auinal is an absolute safeguard against .be disease. He also stales that all larts of the bodies of animals that lave died of charbon are actually poisonous, and says cremation of the jodies is imperative. Great care must be exercised in landling animals suffering from the lisease, as there are a number of instances of human beings contracting it n that way. Only the other day a nan died of the poison in Charity hospital in New Orleans, and several others similarly afflicted have been successfully treated there this season. Nor is the disease confined to the south. It has made its appearance iear Chicago within the last two nonths, and reports say it is preva ent among the cattle in parts of Iowa ind Wisconsin and in central Illinois. Cbarbon has been known under various names from the earliest ages, and ine authority declares that it was the sixth plague sent upon Egypt as a punishment for the obstinacy of Phalli in hnlrlincr f.hA children nf Israel in pondage after he had been commandjd by God to let them go. It is described by Homer in the first book of :he Iliad, and Ovid gives a minute description of it in the ninth book of sis metamorphosis. The majority of cases of charbon are if miasmatic origin ; that is, the spores )f charbon exist in the soil. The transmission from soil to animal may iccur by cutaneous inoculation, and n a few hours the germs have multiplied so rapidly as to throw the afflicted animal into a violent fever. It begins as a small, dark spot on which soon appears a pustule or vesicle. It sloughs and spreads rapidly, causing /iolent fever and speedy death. The ravages of the disease in Lousiana especially have been very disastrous. Large plantations have been stripped of every horse and mule vithin a day or two, and the profits of /ears swept away, while small farmers lave been ruined.?Memphis Evening Bcimetar. AMERICANS IN THE PHILIPPINES. # The Volunteer Soldiery Has Met With Great Hardships. Advices received by the transport Newport, dated Manila, June 11, are is follows : The volunteers are greaty debilitated in consequence of their lard campaigning through three months of the tropic weather. Since ,be middle of May no volunteer regiment has had a sick list of less than JO per cent, ill and a few regiments lave less than one-third of their numper on duty. The Nebraska regiment las suffered worst. It came in from 3an Fernando a few days ago with less han 200 men in the ranks. The South Dakota followed yesterday with 275 men on duty. The Montana and Kansas regiments at San Fernando have lot more than 280 available men each, rhe morning after the Washington roops took Morong a week ago only | 263 men responded to roll call. The Washington men have been engaged iince March 12 in preventing the insurgent armies of the north and south Vom forming a junction in the region >f Laguua de Bay, often being eujaged at the same time with the eneny in opposite directions. Twenty-four of the Nebraska officers are on the sick list and the Monana, Kansas, Washington and South Dakota regimeuts show 20 or more officers in the hospitals or sick in their quarters. These regimeuts have borne hebruutof the fighting. Their losses n killed and wounded range from 160 n the Montana to 280 Nebraska men. rhe loss of the Kansas regiment is sec>nd to that of Nebraska men, while he Washington aud South Dakota e imeuls follow closely, each with osses of about 200. The Oregou regraent has also suffered severely. Of the regulars the Third artillery s the heaviest loser, its killed and vouuded number 123. nrw nnutf tdiiutu ULrbiiuo inc. inuoio. Pierre Lorillurd Says "Drummers" Must Look Out For Themselves. ialtimore Sun. Mr. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., has written a letter defending manufacturing rusts, iu which he says : ''The consolidation of rival manufacturing firms iu large companies, vrongly called trusts, has beeu caused >y the severe competition of the last "ew years, which has rendered manuacturing unprofitable, has effected a educliou in wages and led to the eradoyment of an army of drummers and idvertising agents and the payment of vu vi ui wuw ?ju iij'j vv vv uu vi j uvna|/u|/vio by advertising rival factories. Of course, the army of drummers, advertising agents and country papers will attack the so-called trusts, but they can never reinstate by legislation or otherwise the old state of affairs. "The revolution in methods of conducting business has arrived from natural causes. There is no retreat. The enormous savings have enabled corporations to increase the wages of laborers about 25 per cent, and will give a fair return on capital and reduce prices to consumers. How honest labor can oppose what isso evidently to its interest I cannot understand. No real labor is dispensed witn. "The now useless ariny of drummers aud advertising agents must look to other means of support. They cannot live longer by their wits, but must join the active labor of the country or become politicians and try to excite the honest laborers to oppose the only thing that could ever make them independent. The saving and iudustrious will invest their savings in the stocks of the companies for which they labor and in time become their own masters." > THE CHESTER REUNION. General C. I. Walker lsftueH an Important Circular. Regarding the Chester reunion, United Confederate veterans, Commander C. I. Walker, of the state division, on Thursday issued the following circular : "Al the request of our host, the good citizens of Chester, each camp will advise Captain J. W. Reed, chairman of committee on information, Chester, S. C., bow mauy delegates and others will attend the Chester reunion July 26, and if possible, the names of those who propose attending. The people of Chester desire to make every guest comfortable, and it will materially help them to secure the above information in advance, and conduce to the great comfort of visitors. "Commanders will notify theirsponsors and maids of honor to report to the Rev. D. N. McLaucblin, at the armory, city hall building, Wednesday, July 26, at 12 m., when full information as to their movements, and any information for their convenience and comfort, will be given. "Commander J. W. Reed, WalkerGaston Camp, Chester, S. C., is appointed chief marshal for the parade, July 27, and will make all the arrangements therefor." THE DANGERS IN THE ROUND BALE. A Prophecy an to What Will Happen When the Square Bale Is Run. Houston, Texas, Post. "The round hale people, do not come into Texas with machinery to sell. mi..... ? ? ~ Hit r\ nil tko nlnnto 1 Liey pi'UJJUSO lu U[JCiatc an luc piauio put iu themselves, or exact a perpetual royalty as rental, if any of their plants are used by others than the company. It is charged that the process of ginning and baling are such that the company owning the plants will be compelled to buy the cotton in the seed and handle it from the field to the factory? evidently the ulterior purpose of these round bale people. This consummation will, it can be seen, when effected, place the handling of the cotton crop of the United States in the hands of one or two round bale companies, and the consequences to the south can be better imagined than described. With the square bale run out, and the millions invested in the old-time gins and presses destroyed, the planters would be at the mercy of a monopoly strong enough to fix whatever price it pleased on cotton, and then to hold the crop long enough to exact from the mills its owners' figures. In a word, the clyiudrical bale company will, after having its gin accepted and its package enforced, be absolutely masters of the situation. What will become of the planters' interest ? As the New Orleans Times-Democrat asks, will the planter not be entirely helpless before this huge corporation, and would he uot be compelled to take whatever the corporation wad disposed to offer? There would be no competition, and Senator McEoery, of Louisiaua, declares that the fostering of the cylindrical bale means the fostering of one of the largest trusts ever couceived by the mind of meu, and the driving out of the cotton factors, exporters and pressmen ! The question at ouce addresses itself to an iutelligeut public and lawmakers, whether a few present advautttges should permit the destruction of millious of capital already in vested in the old processes, and destruction of competition iu the purchasing and handling of the 12,000,000 bales of American cotton, and the building up of a trust, by comparison with which the Standard Oil and Sugar trusts would be but pygmies? Tne trust once supreme, these preseut coucessious and advantages to the planter would inevitably and at once be withdrawn, and the south with all its vast business interests, which are absouletly depeudcuton cotton, would be in tne com, vice nae grip 01 a master with au office iu Wall street! No more serious situatiou has confronted this section since the war of the rebellion. Not to in some way scotch this young and growiug giant now is to be holpless later on. If the benefits of this new iuveution were given, as iu the old process, to the public, by a sale of the plauts, we might see a step forward?existing ginning and compressing establishments would simply replace present with improved machinery, though the cost would be great. To refuse to do this, however, places the new company in a position where it can ask and expect few favors from the public. Texas, the greatest cotton growing slate in the world, should at least be saved from the clutches of this most ambitious aud dangerous of all the huge monopolies."