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THE AIKENI RECORJ
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BY FORD & XcCRACKEX. AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA]KfUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1889.
PRICE $1.60 A YEAR.
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Hotels and Boarding Houses.
BUSCH HOUSE!
AIKEN, S. C.
HENRY BUSCH, Propnetor.
Professional Advertisements.
STRAIGHT FROM SAMOA.
It A TES $2.00 PER DA Y.
Special Rates by the Week.
Busch House Transfer
Carries
Pasjengers for
FREE.
Biiiicii House
tyOniers for Paf'sengers awd Bag-
rage left at the BuhcIi House or at H.
Iusell A (’o.’s Store,
prortipt attoution.
will receive
HOTEL!
Opposite tie Fasseopr Statioo.
A. IW. TAFT,
Proprietor.
WEST VIEW.
Near Hiohj.anij Park Hotel.
j*#t—1—r—n i ■ ■—r
1 ■ I—I ■ I If ■ mm-L.
Corner York Street and Colleton
Avenue.
Comfortable and well furnished
Rooms and table supplied with the
best. Terms reasonable.
Mrs. N. E. SENN.
'PRIVATE BOARD.
Boarders will be most comfortably
accommodated at Mrs. Percival’s,
York Street; or the house will be let
for the season, thoroughly furnished.
THE AUGUSTA HOTEL!
Augusta,
Georgia.
BEST 93.00 HOUSE IN THE SOUTH.
Headquarters for Commercial Men.
Centrally located nearR. R. Crossing.
L. E. DOOLITTLE, Proprietor,
Formerly of Tontine Hotel, New
Haven, Conn. Also, West End
Hofei—LduuuLtra rich
D. S. Hendehsox. E. P. Hendersox.
Henderson Brothers,
Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C.
Will practice in the State and
United States Courts for South Caro
lina. Prompt attention given to col
lections.
James Alkisich
vYalter Ashley.
Aldrich & Ashley,
Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C.
Practice in the State and United
States Courts for South Carolina.
John Gary Evans,
A TTO r n e y - a t- I. a w .
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Aiken, Edgefield and Barnwell.
of
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WHICH HA Y MAKE SOME
HISTORY.
Haviland Stevenson,
Attorney at Law, Aiken, S.
Special
tion.
attention given to Collec-
0. C. JORDAN,
attorney-at-law,
AIKEN, S.
Edw. J. Dickerson,
Attorney-at-Law, Aiken, S. C.
Will practice in all the Courts of
this State
Dr. Z. A. Smith*
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
VAUCLUSE, - - - 8. C.
Office near Depot.
I’ltUF. I’. M. WHITMAN.
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i
710 Broad St.
the
, [Up-Stairs]
Monument,
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(weak sight), Simple, Compound and
Mixed Astigmatiou, and supplies the
proper glasses, scientifically correct.
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Office hours 9 a. m. to 2:30 p. m.
Capital paid in, - - tj«*>0,000-
PAVILION HOTEL.
Charleston. 8. C
PASSENGER ELEVATOR AND
ELECTRIC BELLS.
House fresh and clean throughout.
Table best in the South.
Pavilion Transfer Coaches and
Wagons at all trains and Boats. Rates
reduced. Beware of giving your
Check to any one on Train.
Rates $2 00 ® $2 50.
Wright’s Hotel!
S.L. WRIGHT & SON, Prop’rs.,
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T ABLE supplied with the BEST.
Rooms large and well furnished.
One of the most comfortable hotels in
the South.
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Savings Department.
Interest Allowed on Deposits on Most
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J. W. Ash hurst, Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
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H. F. Warneke,
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C, H. Phiuizy,
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H. B. Burckhalter,
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Gormati Sailors Start a Row ami are
Butchered—Heads Cut off and Bod
ies Mutilated.
John C. Klein, the New A ork
World correspondent, who is said by
the Germans to have led the natives
in the recent fight between Mataafa’s
men and the Germans, sends his pa
per a five column story of the trouble,
under date of December 20th, from
which the following is taken:
On the evening of December 7, the
same day on which the United States
man-of-war Adams sailed for San
Francisco, news was brought to Apia
that Suatele, the leading Tamasese
chief, bad been shot in the large fort
at Lautuanu. Much satisfaction was
expressed over the report, not alone
by natives of the Mataafa party', but
also by American and English resi
dents, who believed that if It were
true a peaceful settlement of the war
was not improbable, as the rebel chief
was one of the prime objectors to
peace being made with Mataafa by
Tamasese. On the morning of the
8th, however, the truth of the rumor
was positively denied, snd it was later
ascertained that Suatele had not been
killed, but was as active as ever.
Fighting continued between the two
armies, the Tamasese men constantly
receiving aid from the Germans in
the way of ammunition. Mataafa’s
men kept gaining advantages, how
ever, being enabled to shoot many
rebels from a high tower, built of
rocks, erected in one of the captured
sectious of the large fort. Tamasese’s
loss in killed alone up to the present
time had been about ninety. One
woman, shot in the arm by a Tama
sese soldier, while near the fort, was
brought in from Lautuana during the
evening of the 8th and cared for at
the hospital established by tlie Amer
icans and English at the latter con
sulate.
The Mataafa men were beginning to
sufier seriously from want of ammu
nition, but through a certain source
they succeeded in obtaining 20,000
Snider cartridges which came to them
when they were almost in despair as
to how to obtain ammunition. There
are fully 2,500 Snider rifles in Mataa-
fa’s army, wiiich bad been entirely
useless for three months for want of
cartridges, but this welcome supply
of ammunition placed them at once
in service. An outrageous price had
«.o be paid for these cartridges, 2C cents
apiece being at first demanded, but
they were obtained for 11 cents each,
there being no other alternative than
to pay this price or allow the ammu
nition to be bought by the Germans
and given to Tamasese. In order to
obtain money with which to pay for
the cartridges the natives were ob
liged to mortgage large tracts of land.
December 10th it was reported that
three villagers in Atua, on the upper
end of the Island of Upola, who had
been with Tamasese up to that time,
iiad refused to fight for him any loug-
nnd had returned to their homes,
.teveport Grefrf-mrt
fled, yet it was well known that Tam
asese’s men were becoming strongly
dissatisfied with the manner in which
the war was being conducted, it be
coming more apparent to them every
day that the campaign was being con
ducted with the sole purpose of ulti
mate gain for Germans. As one in
stance of the fact that no opportunity
was to be lost to give the Germans a
chance to enrich themselves, it may
be stated that the German man-of-
war Eber, which brought 800 muzzle-
loading rifles from Jeluit, where they
wei^ forcibly taken away from the
Marshall Islanders, who were after
wards flogged, was said by several
natives who had been to Saluufata,
where the vessel was stationed, to be
selling these guns to Tamasese’s men
or $7.50 apiece.
The German man-of-war Olsa,
filteen guns. Capt. von Erbardt, ar
rived from Jeluit about noon on the
14tli, her crew numbering 2G7 men.
She iett the deposed King Malietoa
in tlie Marshall Islands. His return
to Samoa in the near future lias be
come almost improbable. A French
Catholic priest, who had gone to
Tamasese’s fort, at Lautuanu, several
days before, to attend the wounded
and hold services, returned in the
evening. He reported the fort to be
strong beyond belief, and added that
it was garrisoned by 1,400 men, who
had plenty of ammunition.
Dec. 15 the officers of the Olsa
called on the officers of the men-of-
war, Nipsic and Royalist, but follow
ing the custom of other German
naval officers and the German Con
sul, failed to visit the United States
Vice Consul, \V. Biacklock.
(Here follows a long and detailed
account of tlie landing of German
sailors and tlie outrages committed
by them in what appears to have been
a drunken frolicaguinst the American,
Sweedish and native citizens and
against an Englishman who, however,
defended himself successfully. Sev
eral native women were beaten and
seriously hurt, but tlie Mataafa men
who came out of the bush with gnus
to rest-lit these insults and
were restrained by the American
On the night «f tlie IGtii, a Mataafa
man received secret word from his
cousin, a woman, on hoard one of tiie
German inen-of-war, that a number
of Tamasese men were on the German
vessels and would belauded and help
ed to surprise and massacre the Ma-
taafu men. Mr. Klein went with the
Mataafa people the night of the 17th |
and watched from the bush. They
saw the German boats, in the moon-'
light, rowing along the coast and i
kept abreast of them. He acted as j
interpreter and warned them not to
land , whereupon the Germans turn- j
ed bach, but a large boat man tied by!
natives pushed in to tlie shore and
opened fire, a number ot German sail- j
ors who lay coneeakd in tlie bottom j
rising and helping. They were also i
! the shots of tlie German sailors,
| a third lime the Germans fired, k
i ing still another man,
Tlie German civillians who w<
barricaded in one of the houses of t|
plantations, were not inactive df
ing this time, one of them, it is
killing two Mataafa men witli 1:
own pistol, and shooting a third mi
in tiie mouth. This man was
moved to tiie hospital at the Briti
Consulate later in the day, where
is now lying in a dying condition,
this point of the fight the native w!
brought us tlie news left the scene>
battle. The chief and myself ca
on to Apia as quicklv as possible,
called upon the United States Cons]
As I had anticipated, Mr. Black!
informed tlie chief that he could g!
him no advice concerning tiie cou
which the natives might to pursue
their fights with the Germans. That
was a matter which they would ^be
obliged to decide entirely without
counsel from him.
About half an iiour after the visit* to
Consul Biacklock a number of na
tives came running into Apia with
news about the tight. Some said tblat'
six German sailors had been killed
and tlie head of one of them takec*:
another that not a German sailor had
been iett alive, while others agi
said that a number had made th
escape in the launch in which they
had landed from the Eberon the pre
vious night. |
Several hours afterward a trult-
worthy native soldier came in, frokn
whom a connected account was of>-
tained. The German sailors, he sail!,
after running away from the breast
works on the shore at Fangeli, wefit
directly to the plantation houses bit
Vaiieie. The natives, who were um-
ble to overtake them, then scattet^d
through the bush and along the shoiye,
and advanced upon the plantation
houses at Vaiieie from all sides, j a
number of men having run down
from the bush above Vaiieie and
vancing from the direction of Lato,
The Germans made a stand on
top ot the hill, near the plantati
houses, forming a square. When t
Mataafa men began shooting from
sides, the sailors became panic-stricfc-
en and broke their tormation. Some
of them ran under the plantation
houses for safety, throwing away their
guns in their flight.
Others stood behind fences and fired
wildly in the direction of pulls of
smoke ’which they saw coming from
the rifles of the natives who were
concealed in tlie bush or behind co-
coanut trees. While looking in one
direction for tlie enemy, the sailors
would be shot from
the sides by natives whose presence
they were hot aware of. Their total
lack of knowledge of the wav in
which Samoans fight wits self-evident
by the manner in which they defend
ed themselves. Lieutenant Sieger, of
sveral na-
THE SPLENDID SOUTH.
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AN ENGLISH NEWSPAPER'S
ENTHUSIASTIC REVIEW.
Glorious Empire and People, and
How They Have Recovered from
Wasting War.
Lsndon Telegraph.
This is the time of year when sta
tistics find favor, and there are few
quarters of the globe in which the
prospects of the future appear more
favorable than in those Southern
States of America which once seemed
so hopelessly beaten in war and bro
ken in resources. “No such advance
in wealth," writes Mr. G. W. Curtis,
the editor of Harper’s Magazine,
“has ever been made in any other
part of the American Union as that
recorded by the Southern States be
tween 1880 and 1888." In 1880, the
fifteen years which had intervened
since 1885, when the great rebellion
under Mr. Jefferson Davis collapsed,
had not sufficed to restore prosperity
rto one of the most richly endowed
countries on the face of the globe. It
was in that year, however, that the
rehabilitation of “Secessia" began,
we may now perceive, in earnest, as
shown by the remarkable fact that
the Southern railroads covered about
17.000 miles in 1880, and about 36,000
in 1888. Still more notable has been
the growth of iron manufactures in
Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, Tennes
see and Kentucky, an'd of their collec
tive products since 1880, in which
year they turned out 200,000 tons of
pig iron, against about a million in
1888. Last year there was a decrease
in the total yield of the blastfurnaces
of the United States, but that de
crease was confined to the North, and
did not extend to the south of the
Potomac and Ohio rivers. Alabama
and Tennessee continued to advance
while Pennsylvania fell back; and
the prosperity of those two irou-pro-
ducing States of the South now is
wholly outstripping their Northern
(idiferous rivals. Moreover, the iron
df the “Warrior Fields” of Alabama
fs said to be not only the best but the
•cheapest in the world. Turning next
to cotton, which many prophets of
fYoe declared could only be grown by
Mave labor, we find that nearly seven
Bullion bales of that great staple were
produced in 1888, against 5,590,000 in
1880. The persevering Southerner
has discovered, more 'ver, that it is
heliindor *fpomv* lore profitable to turn his cotton into
'yarn, and to export it to Europe, than
co send it raw and packed in bales.
The result is that tbeae are now 300
£ tton mills in the Southern States
ainst about half that number in
1880; and already the looms of Geor-
Gia, Alabama, South Carolina, North
the Olga, was reported by several „ 1 -, T , . .
lives to have fired his revolver ainpc$.^® r ^ ln ®. an< ^ ri ^ t * ir ^ a 1 ten
lessly as rapidly as possible, and was
then shot through tlie heart by a na
tive who was some distance away.
He sprang into the air. his sword fly
ing from his hand, and fell or his
back. His body was seized by several
sailors, who Sought to take it to one
of the houses, but were in turn shot.
Several wounded men were killed,
according to the Samoan custom, no
their inhabitants are released from
the exhaustion of slavery—the costli
est system of labor in the world—and
have found in free and fairly-paid toil
the blessing that it always brings.
Little more than twenty years since
the Southerners, with half their adult
male population wiped out, with their
slaves made their equals, and more
than the equals of those who had
formerly owned them, with corrupt
“carpet baggers" from the North
preying upon their vitals; and with
out capital of their own, were in the
lowest stage of despair. Strange, in
deed, is the transformation that two
brief decades have brought about.
Already the most enlightened ana far
sighted manufacturers of New Eug-
gland, Pennsylvania, and New York
States are beginning to perceive that
Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas and
Tennessee contain resources of Coal,
iron, lumber, turpentine, naval stores
and a hundred other products which
the rich North cannot parallel, and
that the climate of the North and
North-Western States can never pos
sess.
A New County.
The Charleston Sun says a meeting
of the prominent citizens of Berkley
County was held recently at Monck’s
Corner to discuss the division of
Berkeley into two counties. The
proposed county would embrace the
S arishes of St. Stevens, St. John’s
lerkley, and so much of the parish of
St. James’ Goose Creek as lies north
of a line drawn from the junction of
the eastern and western branches of
the Cooper River to the southeast
limit of the town of Summerville
lyiug in Berkley County. Under this
sub-division the new county will
have about 1,000 square miles, leav
ing something over that area in tlie
Courty of Berkley. It was resolved
that should other sections of tlie pro
posed county agree with the opinions
herein expressed. Messrs. G. W.
Avinger and J. Calhoun Cain be ap
pointed to represent the middle and
lower St. John’s Berkeley In an exec
utive committee of three from each
of the parishes concerned, which is
instructed to agitate among the peo
ple and advocate before the commit
tee of the Legislature the formation
of the new county.
BUTTONS.
ing
eru
the New England States and low-
ng prices in Lawrence and Lowell,
Mass., and Providence, R. I. Fourth
ly, the lumber trade establishments
pf the South at present employ about
100,000 hands, and turned out last
year planks and sawn timber worth
nearly $109,000,000. Finally, the value
of Southern live stock has increased
to the extent of about $175,000,000 in
the last eight years, while her
prisoner ever being taken and
wounded sailors, when they saw the
Mataafa men approaching them,
threw away their rifles, cartridge box
es and belts, canteens and all other
accoutrements, and, with the purpose
of placating, if possible, their ene
mies, called out, “Talcfa, Malietoa!"
which means love or success to Ma
lietoa, the present king. Other sail
ors called out to advancing natives
that they were good Mataafa men and
would fight against Tamasese.
The natives, remembering the inju
ries without number which they have
already suffered at the hands of the
Germans, refused to listen to the
pleadings of tlie sailors, and decapi
tated them, knowing that they would
probably receive tlie same treatment
were the situation reversed. Several
German sailors’ bodies were decapi
tated, different statements being made
as to the actual number, some saj’ing
that only one, wbileothers assert that
six heads were taken. The German
consul admits that three heads were
cut off, and this is probably the cor
rect number.
This decapitation of the Germans
muat not be regarded as an act of bar
barism especially toward the Ger
mans. As l have stated in previous^lY.’ Georgia, ooutn ant
itaafa men take Tama~ orth .. Carol . i,, ®» \«rgnnaand Tenues
outrages
letters, the Mataafa men take
sese heads when the opportunity
offers, and tlie latter reciprocate when
they are given the chance. After be
ing exhibited among the natives in
the neighborhood of the fight, the
heads, together with several ears that
were taken from sailors’ bodies, were
buried near the scene of the fight.
The accoutrements of many of the
dead sailors were taken by tlie na
tives, including the sword of Lieut.
Sieger and the swords of other offi
cers who were wounded in the fight.
During and at tiie conclusion of the
battle the remainder of the wounded
sailors who could not be taken int^l
the plantation houses were carried tfT
the boats by their mates, and their
escape effected in that way. The Ma
taafa men then withdrew', burning no
property and doing no further dam
age. Some of the men came to Apia
and others remained in tlie bush. The
German dead were left lying on the
ground. The man-of-war Eber, which
had been lying at Saluafata, had
meanwhile steamed down close to
Vaiieie, the Captain having bad bis
suspicions aroused hv the sound of
t lie
vance.
These really astonish ug figures,
and many more of the same kind,
are summed up by a Trans-Atlantic
journal, the New Orleans Times-
Den ocrat, with the statement that in
eight years the available capital of
the Southern States has increased by
$240,000,000, and their gross wealth by
more than $900,000,000.
All this has happened in a country
one single State of which—Texas—
6 ossesses an area larger than that of
ranee and Spain combined—a State
wnich could, if as thickly populated
as Great Britein, support 70,000,000
human beings. Bearing these figures
in mind, we can easily estimate the
magnificent prospects of the Southern
States of the American Union when
it is mentioned that on the 1st of July
last year there were fewer than 20,-
000,000 inhabitants in the whole of
Secessia, three-fifths of whom were
whites and two-filths blacks. More
over,>|he climate is equally delightful
and plubrious. especially to those
who in July and August—the only
two inconveniently hot mouths—can
afiord to retire to the mountains
which overhang the States of Missis
sippi, Alabama, Georgia, South and
shooting.
Internal Revenue in the State.
n x- ... . i i-- < /m„ „ i reinforced bv mounted German plant-
I be New and 1- irst-CIass Steamships trs and thei ’ negroes vvho lav ii, the
' bush waiting for them. Thev effected
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who
sese men from the Mataafa men,
were gathering about.
Then tlie account continues)
A few minutes later a native soldier
overtook us and said that while the
Mataafa men were wailing, undecided
as to whether to fire upon the Ger-
mHFSF Snlcndid P-issen.-er Steam-* mans < tl)e letter had fired Upon them,
T .iit form an S- : 11 Tl ‘ e
a landing after a sharp tight and
made their way to a German planta
tion house where the sailors formed a
hollow square to protect their Tama- I 1,001.050 cigars. For manufactured
< larondon Enterprise.
A glance through the annual report
of the Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue shows many items that may
interest our readers. Tiie aggregate
collections in this State for the year
ending June 30, 1888, were $102,456.19.
Twenty-nine illicit stills were seized
and seventeen persons were arrested.
Over $300 worth of distilled spirits
was seized tor violation of the revenue
law during the last quarter of the
year. There were 23,990 pounds of
tobacco used in tlie inumitacture of
ships lorm an unequ
weekly line to New York and the
Florida ports, with state-rooms all on
deck, thoroughly ventilated and sep
arated from the dining saloon.
There is no pleasanter traveling on
the Atlantic Coast, and the trip to
Florida consumes only twelve to
fifteen hours. For passage engage-
men te address,
J. E. EDGERTON,
Gen. Passenger & Freight Ag’t,
Charleston, S. C.
father of tlie young man was stand-
tobacco 53,622 pounds were used, to
which was added 2,778 pounds of lico
rice and 800 pounds of sugar, which
produced 57,215 pounds of manufac
tured tobacco. There were also 39,-
6»7 pounds of plug, 2.691 of smoking,
on which $3,850.56 worth of stamps
were used. Under tlie head of special
taxpayers there were 834 retail liquor
dealers, IS manufacturers of cigars,
ing by his side at tlie time, and im- 6,545dealers in manufactured tobacco,
mediately threw up his gun for tlie 2 manufacturers of tobacco, 2 orew-
purpose of taking revenge on the slay- cries, 12 retail dealers in malt liquors,
er of his sou. He was restrained by : and 12 wholesale dealers in malt li
the other Mataafa men around him,! quors. There were 25 distilleries epe-
however, who desired to avert a con
flict with tlie sailors [f possible.
While the chief was being urged by
his men not to shoot, another Ger
man sailor drew a sight upon him
and fired killing the chief instantly.
A second time tlie Mataafa men re
strained themselves from answering
rated, using 18,300 bushels of materi
als, and 173 cattle and 623 hogs were
fed at registered grain distilleries.
The stills at which spirits were pro
duced were located as follows: In
Oconee, 7; Pickens, 6; Greenville, 3;
Spartanburg, 3; Aiken, 2; Chester
field, 2; Anderson, 1; York, 1.
see. Once, indeed, in twenty years or
so, the yellow fever appears at some
little town where the laws of sanita
tion have been outrageously neglect
ed, and produces fright altogether out
of proportion to the mortality which
it causes. Last summeraud autumn,
for instance, a visitation overtook
Jacksonville, in Florida, and tele
grams were scattered all over the
United States and cabled to Europe,
proclaiming the “ravages" of a pesti
lence which in five months put four
hundred persons to deatli—less than
the number of victims killed by con
sumption iu this metropolis every
two months. More titan a quarter
of a century ago the still living Ben
jamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts,
showed the inhabitants of New Or
leans, whom lie ruled with a rod of
iron as Military Governor, that clean
liness and yellow fever stand to each
other in the relation of alkali and
acid. Last winter the whole area of
the Northern States was desolated
with a worse scourge than “Yellow
Jack”—those “blizzards” in which
hundreds of human beings perished
and hecatombs of hogs were frozen
on their road from the West to New
York.
For tlie greater portion of the year
the climate of the Southern States is
as soft as that of Italy and as bracing
as that of the Tyrol. When Mr.
Cleveland and his young wife made a
brief Southern trip after enduring tho
hardships of an unusually severe win
ter in Washington, the President is
said to have expressed astonishment
that wealthy Americans should think
it necessary to cross the Atlantic and
take up tlieir abode on the shores of
the Mediterranean, when their own
country offers a finer climate, and tlie
Gulf of Mexico more attractive sce
nery even than the Bay of Naples.
At this moment Mr. Jefferson Davis
is passing his mild decline iu the ex
treme south of the .State of Mississip
pi, iu a house culled Beauvoir—be
queathed to him in 1879 by Mrs. Dor
sey, an entire strauger iu blood—
winch looks out upon tlie Gulf of
Mexico, and is described by its fortu
nate occupant as “the most delightful
spot on eatb." If any Englishman
desires to have the horoscope of the
“New South" and of its prospects
drawn for him by a competent hand,
he would do well to follow the exam
ple of Lou! Roseberry, and seek out
the ex-President of the Southern
Confederacy iu his Mississippi home.
Lord Dunraven ia another travelled
authority who has declared, iu a lec
ture “On the Making of America,”
delivered lately at Waisaii, that the
future of the great Republic depends
chiefly on those States which, between
1861 and 1865, were iu rebellion
against the Washington Government.
Nothing, indeed, humanly speaking,
4?an arrest their progress, now that
The Augusta Chronicle says: The
lawlessness prevalent in Louisiana
and Mississippi of late is a disgrace to
civilization and discredit to the gov
ernments of those states. Tlie tele
graphic advices from New Iberia,
published to-day, demand prompt
action. Sucli outrages must not be
tolerated. The Southern states owe
it to themselves to put a stop to th ie
atrocities. They are a reflection on
tlie competency of the states concern
ed to make and enforce just law's that
must frighten away from them capi
tal and immigrants, and necessarily
retard their development and pros
perity. Above all, however the ne
gro is a citizen and must be protected
by the laws,
Private weather observers in Mas
sachusetts and Connecticut have been
examining their records to find a
parallel for the current winter. One
observer in Milton unsuccessfully
hunted back (forty years. A Windsor,
Conn., man’s memory Takes him to
the winter of 1815-’16, whicli he says
was exceptionably mild. Dandelions
were in bloom all winter, pond illy
leaves took in the ponds, while the
boys longed in vain for skating and
went barefoot on sunny days. The
following summer was full as mem
orable, there being snow storms which
killed all the crops out of ground.
The corn was twice destroyed. Snow
squalls v/ere not infrequent that sea
son, and in the autumn the harvest,
made a poor showing.
The new Trinity Methodist Epis
copal Church of Denver is tho crown
ing glory of that denomination, not
only in that section of the Union, hut
of the United States. No city in the
country can boast of so elegant an
edifice belonging to tlie Methodists.
Its cost was over a '-‘^arter of a mil
lion dollars. The superb Roosevelt
organ cost $30,000 and is the gift of
Mr. Isaac E. Blake. The handsome
parsonage on Sherman avenue cost
$20,000 and is the gift of Mr. H. B.
Chamberlain. The church is a mar
vel of artistic elegance, and is rich iu
everything known to the uses of the
sanctuary.
A question is now agitating the
public mind of some Floridians about
the area of the state. It has been put
down as the second in area of square
miles east of the Missippi and Geor
gia first. But the American Ency
clopedia allots 59.258 square miles to
Florida and 58,000 to Georgia, making
Elorida first, as has been generally
supposed.
Rheumatism
Is undoubtedly caused by lactic acid
in tiie blood. This acid attacks the
fibrous tissues and causes tlie pains
and aches iu the back, shoulder*,
knees, ankles, hips and w r rists. Thou
sands of people have found in Hood’s
Sarsaparilla a positive cure for rheu
matism. This medicine by its purify
ing action, neutralizes the acidity of
the blood, and also builds up and
strengthens tha whole body.
“It is worth its weight in gold," is
a common expression. But, while
the value of gold is easily affected,
the worth of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, as a
blood purifier, never depreciates. It
will eradicate scrofula from the sys
tem when everything else fails.
“Where’s Buttons, Mary?” said little
‘ 1 In a
her friend, Mary
Alice Smith, the cash girl in a Fourteenth
tol
Croup, whooping cough, sore throat,
sudden cold and the lung troubles
peculiar to children, are easily con
trolled by promptly admistenng
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. This reme
dy is safe to take and certain in its
action.
Baltimore is the Jerusalem of
American Methodism. In addit'on
to the hundred or more churches for
its native population, there are now
four German Methodist congrega
tions, with property valued at $70,000.
Dr. Matthews, Secretary of the Pan
Presbyterian CouuciL‘'"'te down the
Presbyterians of tue vorld as num
bering iu eighty organizations 22,000
ministers and about 20,000,000 mem
bers and adherents.
Attractive young women were em
ployed to pass the contribution boxes
on a recent Sunday at Rockland, Me.,
and the receipts proved the experi
ment well worth permanent adop
tion.
People do not appear to take as
much stock in lightning rods as they
formerly did. There are now only
three lightning-rod factories in the
country against ninety-three a few
years ago.
A Lewiston man has invented a de
vice for stopping runaway horses. It
blinds tlie animal by clapping some
thing over his eyes. The mechanism
operates from the driver’s seat.
street dry goods store
Simmons.
Mary blushed and looked guilty, al
though she hastily disclaimed any knowl
edge of the person alluded to.
“How should I know where he is? 1
don’t even know his name. I can’t im
agine why you girls are always teasing
me about him.” And Mary petulantly
went on with her work of rearranging
tho disordered showcase and with femi
nine tact displaying the newest goods in
the most conspicuous places.
But, despite her disclaimer, pretty
Mary was thinking more about “But
tons'’ than she was willing to confess.
In fancy she could see his broad shoul
ders and the half bashful, half conscious
smile on his face as he appeared before
her counter on the previous week. He
certainly was a strong young man. She
could tell that by his brown, muscular
hand. And besides there was such i n
honest look in his eyes. She recalled his
hesitation, too, when he asked for the
buttons, from which the girls had nick
named him, and Mary argued from his
ingenuousness and his respectful manner
that he must lie entirely different from
the young men whom she encountered
on her way home at night and whose
bold glances of admiration always made
her blush.
A hundred times a day Mary found
herself looking down the long store
toward the door, expecting and even
hoping, although she did not confess the
hope to herself—that he would come
again. Twice he had l>een there already,
and, to tell the truth, he had taught
enough buttons to keep him in those use
ful articles for five years. What he could
want with so many buttons was more
than Mary could divine.
In anticipation of his coming Mary ar
ranged anti rearranged the buttons in
tho case. There was an almost endless
variety of buttons. China shirt buttons,
bone coat buttons, wooden buttons cov
ered with cloth; glass buttons, iris tinted,
reflecting the gaslight in gleaming rays.
But not one of these shone so brightly as
the eyes which had met hers over the
counter for one brief moment and then
had been hidden by the long lashes which
dropped over them.
Tlie chances of his coming hack seemed
very small indeed to Mary when she re
membered that he had taught two cards
of slurt buttons and enough trousers
buttons to start a small store.
“I wonder if he is going to sew them
on himself?” said Mary to herself, a
smile indenting two dimples in her
cheeks. “If he docs, he will "have but
tons all over him.
In fancy Mary could see him sitting in
his shirt sleeves with a slender needle
between his clumsy thumb and forefin
ger, trying to fasten a button on ids
shirt. She could see it all. The com
pressed lip, the slip of tiie needle as it
stole under his thumb naii, the muttered
imprecation; and she laughed at her
thoughts in such a merry way that the
floor walker censured her, and she re
sumed her work with a conscious blush
But the memory of “Buttons” gradu
ally faded from Mary’s mind as the
weeks went by. He did not put in an
appearance again, and as the girls
stopped their cnafling there was notliing
left for the interest to feed upon. Then
came the anti-poverty fair, m which a
many of the girls were interested,
sympathetic heart
“ itdEn- Ti
earts were attracted
5f~ pT Ixxamrg’eld
tffe goiaeh hoi
when all want, all misery, all
would be done away by tho new theories
which were so rife in this city. What
comforts, new dresses, unlimited ice
cream and peanuts were contained in
those magic words “anti-poverty!”
And so, urged on by her desire to help
the community at large, and perhaps
honing just a little that she was going to
be benefited personally by the movement,
Mary entered into the fair with all the
zeal of a zealot.
She was assigned to take charge of a
stand containing articles of vertu and
bric-a-brac, and in addition to these was
an assortment of sleeve buttons, a.most
beautiful array, made of gold, peart
onyx, and some inlaid with precious
stones.
Every night after the store closed
Mary hastened, sometimes very tired arid
footsore from standing all day. to Madi
son Square garden. There were prettier
girls than Mary behind some of the
counters, but none with a more demure
and winning manner, none with a more
sunshiny smile or brighter eyes, and so
the table over which she presided had no
lack of customers.
One night when tho band was playing
and the bunting shining in the gaslight
Mary looked up and found “Buttons”
confronting her. As their eyes met he
stammered:
“Oh, excuse me, miss. I didn’t know
it was you I just called around to see
if—if”
“If what?” said Mary, kindly, anxious
to relieve his embarrassment.
The young man fingered his cane un
easily, and carefully averted bis gaze
from Mary, for he could feel that she an
ticipated his want. Then ho mustered
up courage and blurted out:
“If you had any buttons!”
Before she could reply ho added has
tily:
“Tlie fact is that those shirt buttons I
bought of you down at the store had
such small eyes that I could not get the
thread through them. It may lie that
the thread was too coarse. But, con
found it ail,” lie continued, bis embar
rassment melting away before her as
suring and sympathetic smile, “I've
had to pin my shirt collar together ever
since I came to tlie city. Besides that,
yo’ can imagine what a job it is for me
to pin one of these stiffly starched col
lars around my neck!”
“But I thought gentlemen were in the
habit of wearing collar buttons,” said
Mary, with a reassuring glance.
“So they do here in the city. But when
I left Otsego county my mother made me
half a dozen new shirts in the old fash
ioned way, and perhaps I—I—I”
Here he colored up again, and Mary
came to the rescue with:
“Of course, you like to wear the shirts
because your mother made them. I'll
tell you how you can (ix it. Bring the
shirts down to the store to-morrow and
I'll get a poor woman to fix button holes
in the shirt so that you can use collar
buttons.”
He stammered out his thanks and,
bewildered by the glamour of the bright
eyes which beamea so kindly upon him,
Did Mary send tue shirts to the poor
woman whom she had spoken of? Oh,
no; as tired as she was on arriving at
home she sat up until IM making out*
ton holes in “Buttons”’ shirts. And
while she was snipping with her scissors,
and her needle was flying In snd out. her
lover was pacing back and forth on the
opposite side of the street, his heart on
fire with the delirium of love.
Those were pleasant days for Mary.
Her eyes took on a new luster, her dieek
assumed a more roseate hue. The elixir
of love had animated her with new life.
All day she hummed under her breath:
Just s little sunshine,
Just a little rein;
Just s little happtneae.
Just s tittle pstn.
At last, one night just before the fair
closed, “Buttons” mustered up enough
courage to ask If he could accoiiqtanv
her home. His excuse was t hat tlie night
was wet and she bad no umbrella, and
she consented, so shyly, oh. so shyly, and
suggested that os the fair closed early
they should walk. As they went down
the Bowery with its brilliant shop win
dows and the sidewalks shining in tha
light it was necessary to walk close to
gether because the crowd was so great
and the umbrella was small.
It was curious, but neither had eyes
for tlie dazzling scene along the route.
“Buttons” beguiled the way with the
story of his life. He told her—and she
listened carefully fearful that she might
lose a word—how he iiad come to tho
city from Otsego county and was fortu
nate enough to secure a job as a black
smith in a railroad car shop. His namo
was Tom Murphy. He had a good trade,
and one of these davs he intended to get
married if he founa a girl who was wil
ling to take a homely fellow like him.
Here Mary archly said:
“Why, I don’t think you're homely.”
Tom gave her hand a squeeze, just a
little one. and then they walked m si
lence for awhile and at last arrived in
front of her father’s house.
“I can’t ask you to go in.” she said, in
a deprecating manner, “because it’s too
late. But can’t you come around sumo
other night?”
Could he! Could the stars shinol
Could a duck swim! Well, he should
rather guess he could! But there was a
little matter he wanted to mention.
Here he became strangely silent, and
held her hand while the rain fell with a
slow drip on the umbrella.
“What is it? she said, palpitating like
a frightened rabbit.
A big lump came up in Tom’s throat
and a mist swam before his eyes. He
turned pale as he placed bis hand be
neath her chin anil raised her drooping
head so that he could look into her eyes.
“I was wondering,” he continued, in
an unsteady voice, “if you would be
willing to give up selling buttons and
devote your whole time to sewing but
tons on my clothing!”
“Oh. Toml” she said, struggling to get
away. But ho held her fast ana for an
instant the Irish frieze overcoat and the
waterproof were pressed close together
by a sturdy blacksmith’s arm. A gust of
wind came around the corner and car
ried the answer away, but it must have
been favorable to his wishes, for Tom as
tonished the Italian chestnut vender oft
the corner by buying out his whole stock
and otherwise acting like a good natured
lunatic.—New York Evening Sun.
;
Good Being Dons Cor Women.
Already has the kindergarten.
the
thought of Froebel, left its impress upon
the womanhood of this generation; and
thrht*> AftiiferganXm now iSemg intro-
duccd by generous hands into our large
cities for the education of the little boys
and girls of the poor, will save to good
citizenship, to seif help and culture, many
a poor girt
Twin sister to this, so far as women
are concerned, are “Women's Industrial
and Educational unions,” the concep
tion of Abby Morton Diaz, of Boston.
This takes the woman adrift as it wore,
g ives to her shelter, culture and bread;
nds her work adapted to her education,
and competent pay; inculcates self re
spect, and gives to her companionship
and surroundings worthy of respectable
womanhood. When these unions be
come established in every city, and LT
every considerable town, the objection
made by the editor of a New York jour
nal, that “women are of little value aa
reporters because they cannot go into the
slums," will be overcome, because there
will be no slums.—Beiva A. Lockwood
in The Cosmopolitan.
Factors In Colds.
In every case there are two factors, aa
irritant and a susceptibility of the sys
tem. Among the irritants are micro
scopic germs taken in from without, as
in influenza, and certain |>oisoris which
are developed from bad nutrition or im
perfect assimilation within the body, and
which it is tlie office of the liver to de
stroy. Indeed, the effects of the two
causes are essentially the same, for the
germs act by generating certain violent
E oisons, which irritate the mucous mein-
rane of the nostrils, pharynx, lungs,
stomach or bowela.~ Youth’s Com
panion.
he tau;
which
ht a $3 red
Iiad no
gn
be
use
velvet
and
album, for
which sag-
i
gested each time he looked at it as it la;
in his bedroom the dainty hands whic
had wrapj>ed it so deftly in the paper
E arcel, the string and the paper of which
e had hidden away in Ids valise.
Mary was not aware of it, but that
night when she boarded a Madison ave
nue car to go home, a tall, swarthy
young man, with a bundle under bis
arm, stood bv the driver on the front
platform. When she alighted at Grand
street she was unaware that behind her,
dodging along in the shadows, came the
young man and the bundle.
How her heart would have fluttered
had she known that when she lit the
night lamp in her chamber its gleam
was watched by a pair of dark eves in
the street below, and that only when a
Physicians Confess.
All honest concientious yhysiclans
who give B. B B. (Botanic Blood
Bairn) a trial, frankly admit its su
periority over all other blood medi
cines.'
Dr. W. J. Adair, Rockmart, Ga.,
writes: “I regard B. B. B. as one of
the best blood medicines."
Dr. A. II. Roscoe, Nashville, Tenn.,
writes: “All reports of B. B. B. are
favorable, and its speedy action is
truly wonderful."
Dr. J. W. Rhodes, Craw fordsville,
Ga., writes: “I confess B. B. B. is
the and best quickest medicine for
rheumatism I have ever tried."
Dr. J. S. Farmer, Crawfordaville*
Ga., writes: “I cheerfully recom
mend B. B. B. as a fine tonic altera
tive. Its use cured an excressence of
the neck after other remedies effected
no perceptible good."
Dr. C. H. Montgomery, Jackson
ville, Ala., writes: “My mother in
sisted on my getting B. B. B. for her
rheumatism, as her case stubbornly
resisted the usual remedies. Site ex
perienced immediate relief, and her
improvement lias been truly won
derful."
A prominen physician who wishes
his name not given, says: “A patient
of mine whose case of tertiary sypbi-
aiis was surely killing him, and
which no treatme" seemed to check,
was entirely cure with about twelve
bottles of B. B. B. He was fairly
made up of skin and boues and terri
ble ulcers."
South Carolina ami Japan.
the pavcmentln the * and r for l t ‘ ,e manufaC '
H turing of fertiIio<?r from it.
puff of breath from her rosy lips put out V ' „
the shimmering Iincrprincr fnnfc- 1 _ *tii
steps die away upon
direction of the Bowery.
But the next night found “Buttons” at
the fair. This time he brought the shirts
with him, and was even bold enough to
ask Mary to go to supper with him. But
he had not courage enough to ask if he
could accompany her Ijome.
Mr. J. Sakamiue. tlie Commissioner
of Agriculture for Japan, who was so
well pleased witli tlie South Carolina
exhibit at tiie New Orleans Exposi
tion, lias made arrangements to have
slupi>ed phosphate rock fro.u South
Carolina to Japan and bring in return
fish scrap, which is used in manufac
turing ammoniated fertilizers. Notice
: lias been received by the Department
of Auriculture here that the bark
Belie of Oregoni nd the ship Lizzie
have arrived at Yokahoma,
a lead of phosphate
A sensation has been caused in New
York by the action of the Players
Club, an organization composed chief
ly of actors, iu blackballing Boh
Ingcrsoll, who applied for membership
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