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Y; THE AIKEN n (Utl RECORDER. :l H /.l/ill till!’ CHARLES E. R. DRAYTON, Manager. AIKEN, S. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1887. VOLUME 6.—NUMBER 21? Save Your Money and Shop By Mail MAD SPECDLATION IN LAND. HOW THK Tint: HAS lilSKX IX HI KM IXG HAM. JEWELRY PALACE REPAIRING A SPECIALTY u*L>LAt*c.Oo. CAM^as.o. 207 KING STRET, CHARLErtTON, .S. C., - (Opposite Masonic Temple •(>: Great Special Sale 0,00 Pieces of It >'irs A. A. -:0: Silver Plated Flatware. «Sc., &c. -:0: 5,000 pieces of Rogers A. A. SILVER-PLATED FLATWARE, bought at an iiniiiense reduction front regular prices, to close out certain pattern which they are not going to make again, and which I am selling at the following prices; ' * My Regular My Regular 1 J rice. Price. 1 ’rice. Price. 250 sets Teaspoons $1 25 $2 00 100 Crumb Scrapers 2 00 4 50 125 sets Tablespoons 2 50 4 00 250 Sugar Shells 45 1 00 150sets Table Forks 2 50 4 00 500 Butter Knives 45 1 00 75 “ Dessert Forks 2 25 3 75 100 Pickle Forks 45 1 00 75 “Dessertspoons 225 3 75 100 Oyster Forks 45 1 00 100 .Soup Ladles, each 2 00 4 00 250 Salt Spoons 25 50 100-Oyster Ladles 1 .50 3 00 250 Mustard Spoons 56 75 100 Gravy Ladles !X) 2 00 500 Nut Picks 18 35 100 Fish Knives 2 00 4 00 500 Fruit Knives 25 50 100 Cake Knives 2 00 4 OOj 50 doz t’hle k’ves.doz 3 o<) 5 00 100 Lie Knives 2 00 4 00 150doz T’hle K’ves 2 00 3 75 The above Goods are the very best (juality of Silver, plated on Xickle Silver, and are perfect in every respect, and only sold at these Low Prices in order to close the entire lot out quickly. Every piece is warranted to wear from live to ten years constant use in any family, if properly used. CST'Send for Catalogue, giving prices of Watches, Jewelry and other silverware, and buy where you get the best value for the Cash Money. J!MO. McELREE, Proprietor. w I i\ lllilUj Tlf S. O. S. Is the cheapest and the best and the- only Specific Fertilizer for small grain the inaiaui. \SHLb •' ASH ELEMENT, a very cheap ami excellent non-ammoni- ai 'jrtilizw /or small grain crops, fruit trees, grape vines, &e. ARHLEt COTTON AND CORN COMPOUND, a complete fertilizer for these two crops, and also used by the truchers near Charleston for vegetables. A-/ILR% COMPLETE GARDEN FERTILIZER, specially adapted to roses, geraniums, pansies, flowering annuals, &c. Dy*For U^ni-s., directions, testimonials, and for the various attractive and instrt^ti- e publications of the Company, address, The Ashley Phosphate Company, .t/harleston, - - .SC. "OFFICIAL ANALYSES PROVE OUli GOODS TO EE ABOVE THEIR O UA It A N TEE.'» IMCME OF THE GOODS OK THE WANDS PHOSPHATE COMPANY HAVE EVER BEEN ITALICIZED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AT COLUMBIA. Wan do Aniinoniated Fertilizer, Acid Phosphate, Dissolved Bone, Kainit, &c. FOR SALE BY FRANCIS B. HACKER, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL AGENT, 5 EXCHANGE STREET, REAR OF POST OFFICE, OUAB-X.Be'TOJSr, B- c. THE ASHEPOO PHOSPHATE CO. -MAXUFACTURERS OF- FEETUjIZEES. , Tin,on i mu,nils, GEXEKAL AGENTS, Central Wharf, : Charleston, S. C, Ashepoo Fertilizer. Eutaw Fertilizer, Comassie Fertilizer. Carolina Fertilizer, Ashepoo Wheat and Oats Specific, Ashepoo Dissolved Bone, with Ammonia and Potash Ashepoo Acid Phosphate, Palmetto Acid Phosphate, Eutaw Acid Phosphate. -DK.W.KRS ix- Cotton Seed IVSea!, Ashepoo Floats, ASHEPOO ASH ELEMENT. Importers of German Kainit, Ashepoo Bone Ash. WM. M. BIRD & CO. WHITE LEAD, COLORS, WINDOW CLASS, ETC. AGENTS FOR HOWES STANDARD SCALES AND MARVIN’S SAFES. For th« present at IT’S East Bay, ■ ■ § CHRLESTOX, S. C. Instances of Fictitious Increase ol Values—Absence of Cash in Trans- lers—Litigation Ahead. From the New York Times. Birmingham, Ala., February 21.— If there is any distinction in having been shaved oy a barber worth a quarter of a million dollars, I can claim it. He is a black man, is this barber; he used to he a slave. Na poleon Abercrombie, that is his name, and he lives and shaves down in Montgomery. Birmingham real estate has made him his riches. Along with another tonsorial artist of the Ala bama State capital he “homesteaded” some of the acres on the mountains close beside Birmingham just before the land speculating craze got under way here; a superannuated brother was given a cabin and put in charge, while the owners themselves went on barbering the good natured Mont- gorneryites. Two or three hundred dollars was the amount that the part ners invested. Five or six years ago they were ollered $1,00C apiece for their interest. A year later the ofTer rose to ^10,000, and that was doubled a month or two after, and so on up ward rose the figures till about twelve months ago |lo0,000 cash was put at their disposal if they would consent to hand over their land titles. Last July the floO.OOO rose to $200,000, by Thanksgiving it was $300,000, and Christmas brought along the rounded figure of $400,000. Now $.'i00,000 is offered for the tract. They still de cline every proposition and talk calm ly of the “million” that is sure to he offered before next summer appears. It is justice to say that this rare for tune lias not yet made the gentlemen proud; my barber accepted his dime gratuity when I hade him good-day with about the same amiability that shows itself in the New York saloon where (lie razor wielder is seldom the possessor of 250 cents instead of $250,- 000. This ease is a fair illustration of the way in which land lias been sent kiting away up above the clouds, and the way in which, at the same time, colossal fortunes have been piled up in this town. “The Magic City” is what the native loves to call Bir mingham; it does not require the recitation of many instances to show how thoroughly the appellation is deserved. And a few of those instances I want to giveo business part of the city are two lots 50 feet wide and about 50 feet deep. There is no special reason apparent to make them exceptionally valuable. Koine of the principal business houses are within sight. There is just one building on the entire block where they are situ ated. A half dozen years ago these lots sold for $l>0 apiece; then with the tide of speculation they began to rise rapidly. The man who paid $00 each for them sold to another purchaser for *000, and a little later was*glad to buy them hack at $70 a frftnt foot, equal to $3,500 for the two. He made another trade and got $100 a foot, and then bought once more at $150 a front! foot; next he sold at $250, rebought at | $500, sold again at $800, bought again ! at $000, resold at $1,000, and now is; afraid that he cannot get the same | thing hack again at a now offer of $1,- 250 a front foot. He says he knows where he can turn the property over just as soon as lie gets it for $1,500 per front foot, or $75,0110 for 50 feet of real estate that he originally paid $120 for. Such whirls in market value are daz zling, incomprehensible, yet for all that they are facts that stare one in the face at every turn here. It is needless to inquire the basis for it, the reason for it, the sense of it. Enough for every local mii.d it is to see that the fact is. Nowhere is it polite to look the gift horse in the mouth ; here the simplest o'oss of inquiry is rated treason, heresy, the crimeof all crimes rankest. It has been shown in this correspondence plainly enough, I think, that there is nowhere here any substantial warranty for the real es tate values that obtain; it is bootless, however, to elaborate on this now. Birmingham’s rare mineral wealth and her iron making advantages are indisputable; hut there is yet an abundance of hare land available in the very lieart of the city; not half— not a fourth even—of the town terri tory is built upon or seems likely soon to he built upon; homes should be cheap, but*—but they are not. and all the logic in the world cannot just yet avail to make them so. Wherefore, all regardless of the sense or the non sense of it, let us consider the con dition as it is. An elderly Baltimore man named Richardson, happening to passthrough Alabama six or eight years ago, in vested $250 in a little strip of land, an acre or so, close beside Birmingham. Soon after he died, leaving a widow with one daughter and no abundance of this world’s gheds; yet even in this circumstance they did not deem the hit of Alabama land as worth atten tion. A fortnight ago, though, a law yer hunted them up with the informa tion that tiiey could sell out their Birmingham interest for $30,000. Mother and daughter are here now. Since they arrived $10,000 lias been added to their property’s market value. I believe, however, they are waiting to see the sum grow to $100,000. and local advisers assure them that they won’t have long to wait. A Selma citizen got entangled in his business affairs a couple of years ago and came to Birmingham, leaving a Selma hank in the lurch for $2,500. Little by little he began to get an in terest in Birmingham reid estate, and one day, a mouth or so ago, the Selina bank officers discovered that they could attach this property aud help out their loss somewhat. They' took what lie had, estimating its value at about $1,500. Before a sale could be made according to law that $1,500 value had jumped up to $8,000; it now stands for $10,COO, and there is a hrighi prospect of a hitter law-suit to deter mine to whom belongs the handsomt* profits involved, the bank or the hank’s debtor. A Cincinnati bank held a mortgage on a piece of Birmingham real estate for $2,750, and decided to foreclose. At a forced sale they squeezed $2,000 out of the property. That was a year ago. Now the old owner of the land turns up, alleges that the hank did not treat him fairly, and proposes to sue for damages to cover the difference between the fee of that mortgage and the laud’s present valuation of $30,006 —the advance of one year. Geo. N. Gilmer, of Lowndes county, a few years ago bought 120 acres of government land on Bed Mountain, overlooking Birmingham. He paid $2.50 an acre for it. In November, 1885, he wanted to sell out the entire tract for $13,000, and offered a Mont gomery' lawyer $1,000 commission to find a purchaser at tiiat price. The lawyer couldn’t do it and Mr. Gilmer perforce held on. Now it lias a market value estimated at from $200,000 to $300,000. Mr. Gilmer still owns it all save a small portion he let go lately at $4,000 an acre. Josiah Morris, of Montgomery, was obliged to take a quantity of Birming ham land for a debt of $10,000 in 1885, and everybody thought he had a bad bargain, ami repeated offers to sell at what it cost failed to find a purchaser. Last fall he sold out at $50,000, and recently the new owner refused $75,000 for it. Three young lawyers got an option on 200 acres of land a mile or two out of town at $1,000 an acre, organized a land company, made out a map cut ting up the tract into building lots, and sold out for $450,000 before they were obliged to pay down a single penny of the original purchase money. It would be easy to go on multiply ing instances of this sort till not a line of space in the New York Timex was left to let further description in. The Elyton Land Company, as I have heretofore explained, paid $25 an acre for all the land that is within Bir mingham’s limits. It is indicative ot the upward movement to cite the fact that the last land sold by the company in the town’s centre went at the rate of $97,000 an acre. The Alabama Great Southern Railroad was offered land as a gift for its shops in the early days of Birmingham anil furled to take possession. The same land is market able for $500,000 now. I have been given the names of a score of men who came here poor a half dozen years ago who are now reputed be worth fortunes of $10,000,000 each, all made out of Birmingham real estate. There is a social organization here called the Alabama Club, with a membership of 150 .young men. A man witli a lead pencil and a genius for statistics cal culated for me yesterday that each of the 150 members was worth, on an average, at least $40,000, all made out of real estate buying and selling. Boys who cannot raise a mustache can raise $25,000. Business building lots range from $500 to $1,000 per front foot all over town. Residence lots are valued from $2,000 to $5,000, with 25 feet front, in the less desirable parts of the town. In the “residence district”—to borrow a local descriptive phrase—$400 or $600 a front foot is not considered in any sense excessive. Rut there is after all—and I do not know why there should he any’ need for disguising it—a vast deal of hum- buggery in all this rampant furor ol speculation. Do not, dear Northern reader of conservative ideas, do noi deceive yourself into the supposition that when a man talks about $1,000 or $1,000,000 down in this burg tiiat he necessarily means that much cash or any other certain amount of cash. He means nothing of the sort. It would be an over-estimate, indeed, to claim that as much as 10 per cent, is paid on the average. Against the land that originally cost $100,000 the Elyton Land Company to-day holds $5,000,006 of mortgages. Notes pay,for land. Men with no substantial collateral whatever give their notes and have them accepted here for fabulous sums. John buys a lot with $100 cash and his note for $909; lie sells to Joe for $2C0 cash ami notes for $1,300, scoops in the $100 cash profit ami figures out that ids real profit is $500. Andrew comes along, takes the property, pays in the same way, and so the nierry-go-rouml makes everybody happy and rich. But, ah, what a future there is here for the lawyer. Birmingham’s real estate transactions could stop right here and there would he litigation enough ahead to last a century through, so tangled are titles here al ready. Cash value is a myth. Onl\ the greenhorn pays out dollars when lie knows the market value of the promissory note. The whirlwind eometli sure; we won’t have to wait long for it; mark that prediction. Men buy and sell laud of whose loca tion and appearance they have not the faintest idea. And far over on the mountains out side of the city limits, three, four, six. even a dozen miles from town, the “boomers” have marked up “values” till there is nothing akin to anything hut shame in it. Away out in the woods, where natives are still hunting bear ami deer ami shooting wild geese, tame geese are “investing” in build ing lots—“choice sites,” as tiie poet ical prospectus names them. I have learned of very many instances of where farmers have mortgaged their farms, where merchants in neighbor ing towns have quit business, and (by • scores on scores) where clerks and ' young men managing plantations have mu away from this legitimate business to conic here aud take part in the hurly-burly speculation that his the promise, they imagine, of panning out millions for every six pence invested. And in every in stance, according to the local chroni cle,has been fruitful so far of handsome profits. Here is a true story: Three years ago a New Yorker came here with $1,000. He bought an acre and a half of land. He sold out for $2,000 and a little later bought an acre of it hack for the sarm sum that he had sold the acre aud a half for. On up it went, and lie got $4,000 for his acre. He bought back afterwards one-half of it for $6,000, and so went on throng half a dozen transactions till now he owns but a wee bit of a strip of that original acre and a half, and for that he has paid $80,000. He counts his fortune at just That amount, and though as yet scarce a single building is on that ground that was not there when he originally paid $1,000 for it, he believes that he has made a profit of $79,000. As a fact he lias but a few lumps of clay where he used to have a field full of it. Yes, he has some notes; hut—hut—but, well, there is a time that the prophets tell about when there may he a weeping and a wailing and a gnashing of teeth. And the gentleman may find that in the end he can raise more potatoes on an acre and a half than he can on a 25 by 50 foot strip; and there will be a genera tion or two, I reckon, who will have the chance to do the potato act before anything like residences jam up against one another here. Still, it Birmingham goes right on growing in pooulation as she has in the Iasi half dozen years, there may be a need for building lotj out where our New Yorker is in about Anno Domini 2544—or soon after. A CHAT WITH LOKD WOLSELEY. The Czar. Washington Letter to the Boston Trav eler. Gen. Alfred Pleasanton was in a communicative mood to-night. Hi sat in the reading room of Willard’s, and began to draw stories from the vast storehouse ol his experience. Tiie correspondent asked him if the reports of the Czar’s drunkenness were true,aud the General replied: “I knew the Czar very well when I was ia Russia, and these reports are all lies made out of whole cloth. They are concocted for the readers of the English newspapers, for y’ou know that a Briton is willing to believe al most any thing bad about a Rrs iau Americans ought to place no confi dence in sucli stories. In some respects the Czar is a wonderful mart. “Physically lie is the.strongest man in Europe. When he was the Czaro vvitz he noticed that all of his letters- were opened before they reached his hand. He requested an audience with the Czar, and inquired if his mail had been opened by the executive orders. His Majesty replied tiiat lie had given no such directions, and the prefect ol police was summoned. The C/.; r asked him if he had opened his sou’s letters, to which tiie prelect replied that orders had been is*' ted tiiat all letters should be opened and no ex ceptions made. The Czarowitz’s let ters had therefore been perused before they were delivered. His Majesty at once directed that his son’s mail should be unmolested. Dari ng this conversation the Czarowitz took a gold rouble in his hands, and by main strength twisted it into a cork-screw, then throwing the mutilated coin af ter the retreating form of tiie prefect, lie said: ‘If you open one of my T let ters in the future I will treat y’ou as I have this coin., His letters were handed to him unopened after this little episode.” A Sure Sign. From the Louisville Post. Col. Gabe Wharton two or three years ago was sent to Mexico by a syndicate of New York capitalists, including Mr. Selignian, the famous Hebrew banker, who wanted to build i railroad to tiiat country. Col. Whar ton was not pleased with the outlook, and reported to the company that the prospect did not justify the expense. Mr. Seligman, who was much inter ested, amt thought that great fortunes were to be made in that part of Mex ico, was considerably disappointed He thought perhaps Wharton had not informed himself sufficiently of the resources of that country, and so ex pressed himself. “Colonel,” he asked, “why do you think our railroad wouldn’t pay?” “Well, Mie fact is, Mr. Seligman,” said Wharton, “when I went down there to study the industrial status of the country I was immediately struck by the fact that there were no Jews there. Where there are no Jews there is no business enterprise and no pros perity.” Mr. Seligman was immensely pleased with the keen response. The inventor of the chestnut hell was before the patent office tiie other day endeavoring to patent an im provement on his previous atrocious invention. The improvement con sists of an attachment which will probably' give a new lease of life to the now almost obsolete chestnut bell. It is an elastic band connected with the bell but fastened to the oili er side of the waistcoat. When the bell is struck a miniature rat runs across the breast of the wearei and stops in full view of the victim. To make it more effective tiie word “rats,” in white letters on a black background, is inscribed on the rat. A flreat European War Certain—An En^lish-8peaking Federation. Cablegram to the New York Post. London, February 20.—In an inter view to-day Gen. Lord Wolseley’ said: “Simply expressing my own per sonal opinion, I feel sure that a vast ami appalling war is a certainty in the near future. The rapidly increasing armaments, the huge burdens which several of the powers are laying upon themselves and the directions in which the armaments are being devel oped and massed make war inevitable. But whether it will he this summer or next there is only one man in Eu rope who knows—that is Bismarck.” “What do you take to he the lesson of the German elections? Do they mean Franco-German peace?” “I do not see that they do. But their overwhelming lesson to my mind is the disregard of the popular voice in imperial matters.” “Do you see the profile of an English Bismarck on the horizon?” “No, I do not. Tiie miserable squab bles and petty personal aims of our party government preclude any such hope. I do see, however, with the greatest satisfaction ami gratitude, the beginning in English life of some thing like a national party, in which Liberal, Conservative aud Radical will drop their differences on the ques tions of empire, pax Britannica, and indeed an ultimate federation of all English-speaking peoples.” “That, then, is your ultimate ideal for us ?” * “It is. When every' man who speaks English is in the same empire or fed eration, or whatever it may be called, an international millennium will be reached. For we should then be able to impose peace and freedom upon all the world. “I am a great admirer of America and American people. I witnessed at Washington the final review of the armies of the republic at the close of the war. The spectacle of that im mense force melting away among the people, and being almost immediately absorbed, was the most colossal I have ever seen, and left upon me an ineffaceable impression. I never lose an opportunity of assuring people in England that the education of a public man is not complete until he has been in America and stayed there at least six months. Every step which brings England and America nearer together seems to me a step nearer the realiza tion of tiie ideal civilization of the fu ture. I. am, therefore, always de lighted when I hear of an Englishman marrying an American lady or vice versa. “With such a miserable squabble over a kettle of fish as the present fisheries dispute I have not a mo ment’s patience. I am convinced tiiat if I or any man of ordinary tact or experience was sent over with suffi cient authority to arrange matters with a similar American representa tive, tiie whole affair could be settled out of hand in a week.” Not Guilty. One of the prisoners tried at the re- e.*ut term of court for stealing meat, after hearing a verdict of not guilty in iiiscase, said that he was much obliged to the jury' for the verdict, and that he took the meat but would not do so any more. The evidence against him was very slight.— Winnsboro News and Herald. The Kion Romance. The editor of the Abbeville Press and Banner has visited Fort Hill, Mr. Calhoun’s old place, and interviewed Mr. Thos. G. Clemson, Mr. Calhoun’s son-in-law, about the story of Col. Kion’s ancestry, given the iVeui# and Courier by “an eminent lawyer.” The following is the gist of the interview as reported in the Press and Banner: Mr. Clemson said: “I did not bring a snuff box from France to Mr. Rion. I never heard of the snutF box before that publication. Col. Rion never spoke of it to me. I knew him inti mately for many years before his death, and I know tiiere is not a word of truth in the statement that it came from France to him.” “Can you tell us about his trip to Canada?” “Col. Rion never went to Canada. At the time at which it is alleged he went to Canada he went to Washing- t >n to see Mr. Corcoran on some busi ness for me. Mr. Corcoran is my friend, as was Mr. Rion. Mr. Rion went to see him in reference to some investments which lie had made for me, aud for which service Col. Rion never charged me a cent.” “It has-been stated, Mr. Clemson, tiiat ,‘peculiar relations’ existed be tween John C. Calhoun and Mr. Rion. Can y’ou throw any light on that sub ject?” “I knew John C. Calhoun as well as any other man, and I know there is no truth in that story. There is no! even a possibility for any truth in it.” Riding on u Hiimp-Raclc Mule. Barnwell People. Capt. Bruce, one of the editors of Forest and Stream, New York, and an enthusiastic sportsman, visited Col. Alfred Aldrich last week in com pany with Messrs. Sanders, of Sumter county. A bird hunt in Red Oak was one of the leading features of the occa sion. Capt. Bruce, although the owner of a six thousand dollar colt, preferred a mule to a livelier steed, desiring to familiarize "himself with Southern life. So he was mounted on tiie Col onel’s yellow mule, “Original Sin,” and the procession started, Capt. Bruce bringing up the rear, and ar rayed in professional hunters’ garb. All went merrily until a precocious bumbie-bee, with a keen sense of the ridiculous, reminded “Original Sin” that the sweet spring time had come. Up went tiie yellow mule like a blue bird, down came Capt. Bruce like a meteor, receiving one bite and two kicks en route. The shock n f his fall was equal to a miniature earthquake, aud the depression ho made in tiie sand-bed is equal to a Summerville gej’ser. Capt. Bruce has gone home, his corduroy’s are at the tailor’s, and the yellow mule is chuckling over the reconstruction of the veteran of the “Old Guard.” Woman Suffrage. In the discussion in the senate on the constitutional amendment nlknv^ iug women the right to vote, which bill was overwhelmingly defeated Senator Vest, of Missouri, sjjoke, irt part, as follows: “I pity the man who can consider any question aftieettng the influenee of woman with the cold, dry logic of business. What man can without aversion turn from the blessed mem ory of that dear old grandinotlier, or the gentle words anJ caressing hand of that blessed mother gone to the un known world to face in its stead the idea of a female justice of the peace or Township constable? For my part I want when I go to my home—wheu I turn from the arena where man con tends with man for what we call the prizes of the paltry world—I want to go hack, not to be received in the masculine embrace of some female ward politician, hut to the earnest, loving look and touch of a true wo man. I want to go hack to the juris diction of the wife, the mother and instead of a lecture on finance or the tariff, or upon the construction of tiie constitution, I want those blessed loving details of domestic life and of domestic love. There are other con siderations more important, and one of them, to my mind, is insuperable. I speak now respecting woman as a sex. I believe that they are better than men, but I do not believe that they’ are adapted to the political work of this world. I do not believe that tiie Great Intelligence ever intended them to invade the sphere of work given to men, tearing down aud des troying ali the best influences for which God has intended them. “The great evil in this country to day is in emotional suffrage. The great danger to-day is in excitable suffrage. If the voters of this country could think always coolly, and if they could deliberate, and if they could go by judgement and not by passion, our institutions would survive forever, eternal as the foundations of a conti nent itself; but, massed together, sub ject to the excitement of mobs and these terrible political contests that come upon us year by' year under the atitonomy of the government, what would be the result if suffrage were given to the women of the United states? Women are essentially emo tional. It is no disparagement to them that they are so. It is no more insulting to say that women are emo tional than to saylhat they are deli cately constructed physically and un fitted lo become soMieiw or workmen, under the sterner, harder pursuits of life. What we want in this country is to avoid emotional suffrage, aud what w’e need is to put more logic into the public affairs and less feeling. Tiiere are spheres in which feeling should be paramount. There are kingdoms in which tiie heart should reign supreme. ‘ That kingdom be longs to women—the realm of senti ment. tiie realm of love, the realm of tiie gentler and the holier and the kindlier attributes that makes the name of wife, mother and sister next to that of God himself, I would not, and I say it deliberately, degrade wo man by giving her the right of suf frage. I mean the word in its full signification, because I believe that woman as she is to-day, tiie queen of home and of hearts, is above the polit ical collisions of this world, aud should aUvays be kept above them.” A Dismal Failure. We said that the last Legislature was hostile to education, beceuse we had aud still have reason to believe tiiat tiie “neglect”—“the oversight”— to pass tiie appropriation for the Insti tution was a deliberate one, because we know that an effort was : \ade to guillotine the public school system. We pronounced it a “dismal failure” for many reasons. Tiie members were chosen after much agitation; they were chosen for most part on account of a supposed superior fitness; they went down to the capital in the arrogance of superior wisdom to reform the .State aud to usher in an era of unexampled pros perity. While there in the capacity of law-makers “they tried to do tho.-.e things which they ought not lo have done, and they left undone those things which they ought to have done.” They showed themselves to be pigmies instead of giants. They spent the time of the session in noisy an l uninteresting declamation, drew their pay promptly adjourned sine die, leaving things in statu quo aud the people to groan under the burden of unequal taxation. As a body of re- f irmers we think that they may very fistly be called “a dismal failure.”— Winsboro News and Heredd. The* Teinporuiice Newberry Herd#.::’- ^ Mr. EtLsifc-di Partin ulii nl Fa—da, has been engHg^l b^\ihe Di vision of of 'tVonffeV.. Pee ofn. i n .State to deliver a numlief J Hf?bJ*per- anee lectures in (H^ee and towns. Mr' f 1 . M ThY’gf:5f1*k«t Grand Worthy FatrU.rch of tiffs accompanies thU (noinent for tiie purpose of estal>!*'’'ftf?*' frfw divisions f H«d pffttiwj? rrew the order. Thi? niglii.Nx<?TVr. the beginning an ngr»rssst“• fi&i* for prohibition, whle/. hchev^'fM; sweep the State from east tii tvt*»t u (La north to south. ’Die people e State are npe for It. All thaPfs ‘ (j<«- j ed are leaders with court*ge to t'ia*:* ( the fight. The Bona of not a large bodyt’htrt list some of ns fnlthfhl] ever drew breath en Carol! and it? members afehn>T'c3bi] Christian people Wish them fio in their efforts ho prop qt young men, aud father^ from influences attending the sale Af key, and froai the stavery foil] the use of if to persons; and 11 to the homes and families! country. Th>s order akes tiative. The times* ..ehi -nd temperance, church and fclta! lives of -ome of the mo^t cut' men that ever lived in Ncwbt! crying from their gtaves r this evil. The eb'di. 'hi Ira firesides in many homes dr maifl something be done. The void m;inv ino*heia win cry *“vi ' 1 wandering boy to-nfght?” :.r for it. Hungry anil negkv'ed chll-^ dren are pitifully hegg'Ug “Farfi^t‘ fo come home.” Youug wives watt pa tiently many weary hours to rftfc^t. their husbands who have spent thcl even lugs at the bdrand biiliae^fcoui The State needs sober mtr chants want sober clerks, ruL^ steady hand on ihe throttle vaj the church men of sobriety or. We fear that none of, the measure of our L.dividt sibility for the suffering We too often console oei the thought that we are | and therefore'not resnot we do uc£ sell it, but lej ceived in this matter. A.stonisliing Success. It is the duty of every person who has used Bose heels German Sgrup to let its wonderful qualities be known to their friends in curing Consump tion, severe Coughs, Croup, Asthma, Pneumonia, and in fact all throat and lung diseases. No person can use it without immediate relief. Three doses will relieve any case, and we consider it the duty of all druggists to recommend it to the poor, dying con sumptive, at least to try one bottle, as 80,000 dozen bottles were sold last year, and not one ease where it failed was reported. Such a medicine as the German Syrov cannot he too widely known. Ask your druggist about it. Sample bottles to try, sold at 10 cents. Regular size, 75 cents. Sold by all Druggists and Dealers, in the United States and Canada. In six States, thus far, constitution al prohibitory amendinzuts have been favorably voted up/m by the Legislatures. They are Michigan, Tennessee, Oregon, West Virginia, Pensylvauiaand Texas. John Barley corn will yet be punished for mak'ug men’s noses red. Pardon Pi In New Orleans q| Ford, a leading phyj port, La., was sent years in the penrt< John C. Fitzpatrick seduction of his wife Entry has been ovj petitions for tiie pa The people of Gi tit ion to which number of ladies 1 its receipt Gov« dressed a reply tj he says: “lass plication reacj grant the par to do so, he wj before con vid lowed tiie nol I hope it will' Governor Low] have not, excc« given any expr any matters thai^ pardoning board, law of the land; lt^ mandate that the nine virtue—< f hoi happiness—shall for# explanation of Goverl reply it is only-proper t? before the Executive can iss don, the application nm-t be^ by a majority of tiie Board of composed of the trial Judge, ^ ant Governor and Attorney , “The Way to Greenville.” A correspondent of the News and. Courict from Johnston, in comment ing on the Orangeburg ami Lewiedalo Railroad, says: “While acknowledg ing tiiat it would lie a sliort line to Greenville, we have something else to offer for the consideration of the Charleston people. The distance from Cliarle-ton to Greenville via Orarge- burg, Lewiedale, Newberry an*! Lum ens is* 2**8 miles, and the distance from Charleston to Greenville via Ninety-Kix, Johnston, anu tapping the .South Carolina Railroad at, sa> Moutmorenei or Aiken, is 226 miles, 18 miles f -tpor. Now, in order lor Charleston to get the Graueeburg ai 1 Lewiedale road she must build a ne road from Orangeburg to Newberry, i. distance of 56 miles; while by only assisting in building a road fro!:.| Johnston to Aiken or Montmorebci,; distance of 1» or 19 miles, the wilJ have a through line to Greenville, aim also in a short time beyond the motmi tains to Knoxville, Teun., foi .he At J Lantic, Greenville and We-tern Rail road will not only be completed t; Greenville this year, hut will he pual ed beyond to Knoxville inside 0(4 years. Newspaper men iu Germany to he very careful about punctuatlo! The Hofcr Tegeblutt a short tiui'* am said tiiat a decoration had beeujfim, ferred ujkiii Count von HolsteUK B/ an oversight an exclamation ponit in-^ stead of a period appeared at the eu«i of a sentence; mid for this the author ities seized the whole issue and insti tuted a suit against the editor for atrocious libel. Liquor is at the bottom of all pover ty. If the tax for ft were lifted there would not need to he a man, woumu orchild without brcadV-Th -re enn; ■■■U be a more pitiful and com*, aptiblo) sight than a man quarreling over uui bemoaning his taxes while tickIi^l < .-' , ids palate and burning up his stom ach and his substance with giuss after glass of whiskey.—.fiftmjst/cc Record. The perspnol property of Gen, gan Is valued at only $10,i wife is qualified aa admini