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SRead ug j VOL. x m1. _ IMANIN(, S. \.. WEDN Es Y. S': TiMBE1 NEVER S.AW fI(8TK GECRC A ;M/ZED 5Y A NEW MiD F R!Ca P.A:-T. A Story from All ~m ,bat tesd- Ukea Fake, 'td R1"). h W. tuo.h for What i f W, :b-A Gr.: h: g :r rruM The Ai art: crrsp-rant <.f tie New Yak Sut ass: it ;:s e r ft to Adolph K; le, sz, Enursh J-w. g re is now, if : iVP,inheir ye - ricn, to revcL.' cr.ze conio grow;ng in the South, to carge he r;1rd of )~rcducticn of greatest mores crop in the world, tiat briv< s $36,000 00 annually to the prcducers as'de froi what accrues :o the trsrsyrra io)n companies, t'e f.ctors, deaiers in fu tulPs, anufactoreis, ar-d rrerchnts From a few seed br.ought from the heart of Equntorial Africa three years ago encugh crito-n las been rown to prove beyond a dou; thint he has been the means of scviing the problem o' pn( fitable prcdae ion, which has !o?:e puzzhd the political ecorscnci s of the country. In spite cf all that has been said and written the fact is :2 patert to the thinking man That ctton is 5111 king in the South, and the com mercial mor aich is mcre irmiy seated on his .throne than ever befcre in the history cf the world. One day in the autumn of 1S!'2 a trave'r, brorzedi and bearded from the effects of the tropical sun atnd a long sea voyage, about 45 years cid. robust and sinewy, sigred 'Adolph Kyle, England," on the hotel register at the Kimball House and ordered his somewhat cumbrous lugga e carried to his room. He was soon surrounded by a crowd of curious colonels, who we e arxicus to learn what particular brand of spirits he sffected, and, inci dertally, something of his antecedents an d whether or not he had any spare cash to invest in suburban lots or min ing scheimes. P .rtly through natural garrulity and partly through a desi.e to gratify the manifest curiosity of the colonels, he began to relate scralts of his c'.ven tues among the jungles of Central Africa and of the remarkable sights and scenes that came under his obser vation. He regaled them with huntinz stories, tales of the slave trade, which made their mcuths run water, and of the wonderful vegetable prcductions of that region of eternal summer. "In December, 1S92, I joined a par ty of prospectors," said he, "and we set out on a tour of exploration to the country of the Congo. It was an ard uous undertaking. full of perilsand privations, but we were all cyoung Fn lishmen who had started out to seffy our fortufes, and we had all to win and little to lose, and for many months we wandered about the jungles of Central Africa, meetirg with the say age tribes and passing 'hrcugh strange; scenes innumerable, such as may b= seen only in that wonderful land. "One day along in 1593 we pitched cur camp on the outskirts of an Afri can village, about twenty miles south of the (quator and 1,000 miles from the coast. I observed growing near the camp a thicket of enormous cat ton plants, twenty feet and cver in height, and covered from bottom to top with snowy pods and blossozs It attracted my attention because of the abundance of the plant, whieh was limbless and bore its nods at ttie base of the big, broad, fig like leaves and only a few inches from the stem of the plant,which shot straight up from the ground asd appeared likega-voung tree. :per as "I tried to learn of the nafrk w* bus use, if any, they made of it,* who4 are seemed utterly ignorant of its utufty I bad seen cotton growing in Egzypt, and the similarity of the plants caus ed me to think to myself that if this plant could be introduced into a civil iz :d cotten growing country,and could be made to grow as luxuriantly and fruit as abundantly es it did there in the primeval wilds, it would make the fortune of the man who introduced it. "I cut off a section of the plant that had more than six hundred pods on .s by actual count, and was more than twenty feet in height. The section was about eighteen inches long, and had sixty five pods open on it, and I carried it away iamong my luggage as a curiosity. At first I care'ully wrap ped it in a piece of antelope skin and packed it among other souvenirs of our wanderings. We were then on the return j mrney to the coast, and on the way up we were upset in a tur bulent stream by the overturning of a raft, and all our belongings were thoroughly saturated. ''In drying my cotton stalk I smok ed it slightly, but I preserved it in a niece of dressed shark skin to protect it from the salt water and air en the voyage to the Cape. Anrivicg there I did not like the turn s iairs had tak en, so I resolved to visit America The only relative in the world that I know of is in the service of the Bati in's B~ay Company. and I am now on my way toihat part the ccuntry in search of him. I inherited a iittle money, and having no homne ties I have resolved to graiify my taste for travel. "I noticed in travelling tbr.ough this country that your principal crop is cottoa. Now I have carried that piece of cotton for many months, and it has travelled 6,0(0 miles of land and sea, so that i dr-ubt if the seed will germinate; t ut I want to give it to some gcod fellow, who will experi ment with it and see if it can be natu )alizedQ in a cetton g rowng ccuntry, where civilized methods of cultivation are understood. "There is a rran living in this coun try who has dtvoted many years to the study o-f the cotton piarAt," said one of the colionels, who bad heard the story, -and be can teli you in a few minutes whether it can be growva in this country or not." "Send for him and I will make him a present ot the cotton," said the tray eler. A nete was dispatc'red to old Thom as A. Jaicker, wto lives uct far from the citv, and6 on the rtext <'ay he c-al ed on j-yle at his rooms in'the Kim ball. Farmer Jackson is an East Tennessee-an, was an aid de camp to a Confederate g:-erali in the war and left his native land because of the hostility of the Brownlow faction imn mediately after the war. He is a mar of large esperience in cotton growice and has a liberal education snd an ez quiiring turn of mind. He has beer studyieg the history of the cottor plant for years, ano as sooa rs he lak eyes on the withered stalk that har bee-n carried so many -mikts -he sa' that it was of a different genus fronr the shrub cotrn of South America ot ao 7 '" 1 , t i i J. ." i.;'v rm , " ti e 1eddIs t f t'ir r<i i?; l ei a ar fu, :1 ir (iU the. ans from e s ik-t i e co i.n, obs-r i::e tha *'- y f t toes or boils co.': i- td L:: Cs t c ite:i ,f fo:ur. h ii ra'e with sad .irored ii'tv _. 't van t':lroi tar i:: thfie e aidr, d-n lut M '"e s" L,: p t e Y.e i 'h cr ~r ':~ (.Ti V 1 )'6 .. . aTGri: t:' scry' p -CC io a , oria rv rpir ofi kIv ;.r-d ii- m edia yt' a l've them' a st1')d la vphich arw am.it fro thSic' sm t ru to' -,i. ptn fllot a jri-nt.y at \eC nrz a clu r .f "sqh:rd'< r buds ao red, the leaf s es cOriouiu a.d term iat s bid, thick: leaf, whie te 'oto ewe the cluste, of hu". 't1 d :he*stak thihend to te :L: re a had ell foertring a tuppr orlo tthe elvv bo-''s. T::-e piluts ,gr;e v to a be bt(y birve to sourc aen fe, putting frc th a.eraat-ly th. general leaf and the f:uit bearing. leaf ai! theF wa, to the top, and con tinir ' in fal fo:sce till te e frs fe. i: :c=pt th;at the 1'were Boes dropEd as the boils a:ured, s that by the tar the cot ton wis opt fn ad ready to pica the leave s had dis4 ppeared. Wtavinz orly toe sow balls ready the fared frer romta trash or p!.. t -s uspc Tdhe itiscovery beca:e r.oied abro:d and cotton men from s loyg istnce ebme tosee it E rery$ sed -.vas ee fuyickrs d out by hand. and in 1:+ -:hEre were enough to pia hl an!: acre, les thirteen o feo , snd w as metasured by a cttt expert from fal imore. The land composit Jaca son's little far:a is not at all adapted to cotton culture, and the farm tad been crsduced as a grain -oeing and dairy establishm en s for 3 ears Ba' from tsat btf are J- Jasou pick ed a little over 2 000 pounds of sted cotton. Ia wrf l ot cae'ully ginned but it oiefdd 893 ptunds of tie rnest lint cottoni ever grm : in, Gforp i1, givieg 0 ir stead c dtO usm 33 1-3 oui ds of lint to the 100 of seed. s terts ssid that it rivalled the Snlest'of E rypttian eotton, and was su serior in many r spects to the far famed sea Islat~d produact. The Clark Spool Cotton Company sent an agent h rc and cffered to gin the cotton on the special macniery operated by the company, so as to giv the mthre a thorough test, but Farmer Jackson acctined the cffer, and saved the seed carefully, sellin a few at the enor moos price of 5cents apiece is pack Ares of one hundred-to some entbusi ashic planters who wished to give the seed a fair trial. He so lint for 15 cents a pound when other cotton was sellig at 5 and 5 1-2 cents a pound. This tear e planted six acres, and he has to day the most mag picnt f aeld ofcotton ever seen in >Georgia. On account of the absence .of lits the catton can be p'an'ed very cioseiy, and are crop no eavrol rieg s on p eor lauld, with A stiff cy sit h iryv- c mss each si.es thriete res laL. ; at N a pryi tracten drught of eight pte ks. and the hard clods iurned up by the sougn in cultivation are sil! tualed a e o the water furrows. But in spite of all that the stalks will averaae about six feet in height, ar are heavily fruited from the groutd up. On one wr s't teidfrls, ofxwhic. foTy sevenaid acels ridch.uan h difreparts the appeac 'o hed ffyteplants inog tohere ethen eoigheteaten moree brke ditn The coutton isoeneof teet sensio tionad paters and mall four are wondeflf ales of cotton tht acre the oanted ground some throp cise o nealy omaeri it is p robabng that theusLy.ell belst t in nan ill o puche p the ir ropt and gie it a trougwih thestin theicanfxoiu. Toe comarison Jasn riiclnted with the dipriyix eapetatnce of thern gtno lan is nighor dihed t m.st noetlraks asrtgge wbroer in corint frour bles, arond if view res wondrpul haesoctt tiat fhs hel tppearneie of atgowijngplet tans tlanstod from what tropamie to~p fotssn lcato n the rri ed illso reoutia.z cto sroabl ha the Southmls nN ngadwl Adorh the eterp aniv it a though testo in te nrete of& the acintane of gmods frewhihli Farmern t Jackom plned withs- te ie.caino ateigegte ares, andor hisneihbts laughe atc abiut hi nowloos i hes were goo orten y fubls aruh iind if he res et0s copton harves.t cifli! alfo byer anromi ofthegron plantsrand onry dhisngyo the sumdern dJys. will mreoltianoizehse otmroigai zthe South sinte ors f r rAtionph yelefrthe waio.h his presseintetii of he waoin' Day'u candonAlana fHe h nobee Seard fmr this ari~ coear, al haughdurie fact tat tere is to made th iacqisnteade safico of mniitea citznto o the eri prods-dt sedouttis ftare acre.tienerll bt ho end a hasla tuho he acsn buin red vir buEs and p Emerodm alu l ber the c t' durng thesoter summe rdays aed toryel from one toxhaurivemata inte scr-e wis crte courtiveto, prpa raon simhlaae lustrations, s cusi* nd the puiariies ofC th wo derful ctto e lae rom: 0 theo Some"i idn o tis' prolisc cttn, as e .pared i with the old to ayhe J aleo is rgade ast a far rop~ of the olds c:-t o th' Georguianthse seed co)ttn theacre ge0Ineayto A few dto,, o the tews band prom: rr r cred a ie:itr rm Mr A. Plum r Dar, a promin 'it "'i o S a oa, S. C ,i Mr.Dr - I2 . J R ul 1 ei t: I a- 1f cs cs. the .. ' . Vus Ja ko -ret e' P m. Tr -IC -. J W -. ?i.reo A 1 n -Il '. hM e it ea er L: rom u' vr. JS r na:..dt tie 'ocais are str_.i t. t -rt ut o see 'i e-:terdy. -ownei ; M:- Furs:'s :card-ni. OV e hrawr , whte: is~ h -od beickI' ohand ras seed bie lnabo:ai tho houi. ztore ae poLine. Te a.dt l the s ils : ir.di says to m;nh., 1I; a irte i itt) st0 bws rO ai an. :r beeare s' eenty g1 v bas. A stalk5 hg~ limbs alol., The lmbe a roall rig bt at the b:.'tom an.d are se::er-: ;o. long; they seemo to be, ve ry t S.1 dt:Chta from th p1m stem. . was shown where re had betn km cked off. Tis w uld be unfavorable to croain or late ploughins. The rest f :he st al has no lias :Sas iChf but: blls a;re on hlt:;j stems f rc:1: ore e th~ree ieches long, tireef and four' bolls patng out 'rom the er.d of t i-. th obuls e : a' rage s'z!., a'id nr t. inl a usa narsilrth uel ceosn 1the is etimii nt fr uie eithe r stalk or M ia The bit of groing limrble' s virmi with kind of cltivatin. O e h e iL haing 'gtei h cgrrd nrs Peavi limbs at aT. i seems that if o enI room~t and cood C 1ltivationI it wrll throw out severa limbs. ad deSeer aie into a usual ilmb cotton. "The test made this year is bt fair one for far beiteg pur sfs. as m ust re . hrown in bete qunti:ites and w i:1' s...me fertil z ":s 1O prove it z quli itieos, c tn ared with our teterkin cotton. The idea that it awl sO bpteer in proportion on ptor land deems di Tele:,. s the stalks getting the best cultivation, and in a better part of toe garden ta much better f:uted and devoloped than thcs; nearer the edlge, where it is always poorer. WEATHER AND CROPS. Te ontoneture onditions drming Ilaterests. The following weekl statement of the crop and weather conditions or this section has been served by Direct or Bauer: TEMPERATURE. Te temperature condiitions durirng the past week were slightly above tbe normal, bat the departures were small on any day. The normal mean tem perature for the State will decline during the prisnt month at the rate of 2 decrees a weck, caused, chiefly, by cooler nights. The mean tempera ture for the week was 79. and the nor mal is about 76. The hizhest reported was 100 on the 29th of August ~a Beaufort, and the lowest 59 on Lt satiors the maximum tempDeratur s reacned to or above 90 on several days and the minimum temperatures rang ed generally but geen sixty and sevea tv. The rainfall fcr the week was gen erally light and con fined to s:attered s w vers over various portions of tbe :at a during the first p srt of the week, the latter portion being without ra:2, acept a light shiver on the coast. R iu is needed over the greater por tin of the St.ate. Twenty-one places reported meas urements of less than 1 inch, ten of trom 1 to ? inches, and one more than two inc-has the latter being Kingstree with 2 48. 'The approximate normal for the week is 1 30. and t e ean of all measurements 0 69 The greater portion t f the S:ate received no rain 'or merely lightL and insutfiujent amounts. Hs~il recompanied the rains of the 2.h ove r much of Berkeley, CYlleton, Charleston, Hampton and B-aurort counties, doing corsiderable injary to ctton and rice. On August 3vth hail fell at B'aekville, Greenville, Hope Station and L~berty; on the 31st at Camden. IThere occurred few high vinds. but they did to material or wide-spread injury. The sunshine was gere-ally in ex css of normal and aseraged S2 per cnt of the possible, but cloudiness increased over the easteranortions of the State during the laster ,ortion of the wetk. CROPS It is the unanimous opinion of all correspondents that the cotton crop will be much smnalier than the coadi tion of the plant curing July ard t e ist two weeks of August promned. he loss ir. condition is greatest over] te centraL and eastei n countits wher te Augu squsres and young bails nealy ll ropedcif, and w;here the slat s, orthe most part, apparently ynlg, wit no appearatec f top enp,. and wihere rust was most vrva lent. T>ere is, ho.'.ever, less shed ding and rus7 this$ hek tha .st Over the western coul~ieS, the i: jir to the crop was ret so inarked and many ii ds continue to bloo:n ad pt on f ruit CO a hVizted ex.ent, espe si~iz on iate ctton. C~tton is open~ ig rapidly and pick rng is genmral, h i lab.or euu availabie, generai y, .0 keep e .ton pi-ked orj as opens, except in paces where iabarers1 re scaree, and trne lint is Jiable t; damage from storms srioild any 0o cr. A heavy rain in Uniona coint damaged con cotton materially. Tne September'pickicg will be larae anid i.. places inc'u e aucu: half the cron on the stalls. Sea bland cotton con tinues to iook very promising with cmparaively little snedling duri:ng the last week. aCorn is mauring rampidly ard late corn is torning out 0-tter than antici Ipate d. As ye' no e -ra h-as been. housed F odder pullig i aboat iisished ex cept from very 'ate~ co-n. Tne weatq r favored curing and housing the fodder in thie very best corndition. Cutting p- a vine cay made favora be pro ~e-s a .te ra is ahev one gnraiy ah s in places the aesaelingP c-is exasively. -.ting gr~s: for hay is a-sc w-el iu dr' way ann 1.arge vields are repor-ted of ood qualitandn nisl cared. andu' much of ''e ea-1r cx'.i is cut and sckd. Some- repr: r"- ipn e irreguar with ma'y s he'as, blt on the w bole t':e ric. ce:: seuroximastes a full average. Fast nv milled rice rcceived atares:on on September 2.1 from the ( argeto-rs district. Ior winter pasture. IN R -ERN PRISON CEMETERIES NOT F3RGOT'TEN. hbenn M nument Will ie Er<cted. F,::ch of Grav Grr.!N. :arc It it Esti mnid That th' Work Rlt Css Four vh11ans1;d DD'IdT a mover- rrt ha: re-"I tarteu in -:" }.dC. a , 1o ertct ronurncr-s r:, r iie crrms of it1 southeln sot r= <.o died in inoCrthe rn prisonS i-eral orov. int.. Cse as s of the ntfederate t .. . .mIS ap;: i ad im adate f feet a' reeulted is (o iir" atte:tion to I fa t t t e rsting .'aces or 2 (: Somhein rcad abcve Mscn 3l. Di:on's li e are u:vnmirkt-d. The re cards in the ar;hives at Washington wee s::rebc d and it was tcund that there are 20,120 Confederate graves dis.rib ued amon~r thirteen northern pris~ns as follows: C .BLatler, I .............. i Cm'> Cnas, O --....- .2.io6 S-Duss. Ill.............,.-j C:.u tirton, Ind ...... .........2.125 -or . D ..........,.....2,513 F .ort : Mei e ,' :.)1.. .- --. des'.:Idt~en. C ......,..... 14S F rt L daett". N. Y. barb br.... 21 ... Nlard, N Y. harbor...... 229 Pont. Lokout, Mu...... ......3,446 Rt -ci sland..................1,960 Fo-t Warren, Mass.........-.... 12 I: a d-cided to erect a monument of grarie- Confederate gray in color -At ech of these cemeteries. The i ,n:':ents will ;e of uniform design, !:i shiafts, with appropriate inscrio tio!s. It is estimated that about $4,000 will cover the co1t of this work and a joint committee from the Lie Camp Co: federate veterans, the Daughters of the Confederacy and the S )-s of the Confediracy, has undertaken the task o, raising that sum. This committee has issued an appeal to the people of the south for contributions and their hone is that the responses will be so liberal as to permit the completion of all the monuments before the next an nua! meeting of the United Confeder ate Veterans in 'July, 1S9S. All coa tributions are to be sent to tWe treas urer, Colonel James T. Gray, post commander of R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, United Co-federate Veterans. The text of the address is as follows: "Confederate Veterans, Sons of Vet erans, Daughters of the Confederacy: There lie in prison cemeteries through cut the north 33,000 of "Jar Dead." With twoexceptions (Jamp Chase and C.imrp Douglass), no stone marks their r ing place. -Tis true they sleep well, '"for all the world is native land to the brave." butsoon ever, the local ities will be forgotten. 'Died in pris n,' these boys of oars, many from .Lee far sou.a, in their 'blue j !ins and the cold blasts of the north even before the icy hand of D:a:h touched them. Wao has reminded as of our duty to the memory of these dead heroes? A generous Federal olfi:er, bearing the .cars and stilt suffering from the wounds won honorably in battle with these men. "All honor to Colonel William H. nauss, cf Columbus, G., who in May, 1897, sent out an appeal to the Unitui. Confederate Veterars, asking hat the graves of the Confederate pris oners buried at Camp Chase should be remembered. This was done, but there are stili 30,000 vho rest in unmarked graves. Have we forgotten 'our dead C No; but the cry of the needy wives and children of these dead have been ever at our door, and we could not r-ach beyond. "The time has now cme when these graves must be marked. To acuom plsh this obj~ct it will be necessary to raise about $1,000. We only ask f or a simple suait at these places, erec:ed before the next annual meeting of the United Confederate Veterans in July, 19. Whatever sum this committee has in hand by next spring will be di vided equally oetween the prison czm eteries. "Inis fund is to be knowvn as the monument fund of Confederate pris oners buried in northern graves,' and all contributions are to be sent to the treasurer, Colonel James T. Gray, past coramasder RI. E. Lee Camp No. 1, Confe derate Veterans, R{tchrwond, Va , and nothing can be dra wa from this fund, except over his signature. 'These dead heroes of ours from every southern state appeal to their survivors througnoat our land. Re member their sacritices and sutfering. All should feel it their privilege to contribate to this cause Those who .ave relatives or friends still -,vouud d arid missina' may join in ttsre :nocune'its, and foi that the:r lov.:d ones wili nor cco r~cogJ:z:d. "I is sca a :,odest sail thd i ased it orint to be readily guatten at one fromn our camups and Uo~afedera e rn ziurons ab.ae, bat to insuresu cess we cjrdiaily t~ut very oae who is int ad in tue Can~lederate~ came3 to esatribate thiir mite to -ards- the co.npiishment of this noble object" Tr.e comnmittee in charge of thie ma rk s cmp'osd as, faLOvs: Me-rs Wu n. Mrs Kat J. W\:nu, Dau rs of i-e Sp-nce, Jr. '-os -etcrans. OURm RA:LkADS. Soe vy Ilatermyijg sta wie:I C.m~c. lng Them. Far year's lPoor's Mrnual has hben a 'itrd authority cia rai.oa '~a ise ta-es every year. and its hi etl annual nmbr just ioae i even lareraad uore completell ''' afo is "r'e e sors. 1t cout>.n 1: 3t the mile-ge, ear-i-'s an tir3 if all the~ railroad ia t Li :id S'ates, Canada, and M--ixicobside fu! acts cocriu re ai o meretse : 1, mi1-oe 20 c astaiwa 65207:57; the funde .lebt '.416,07t ' . umnfu de det. L:0.5 2 3'2: current debt . $335 h.5, SA 6 Te ptssengr r,ilage was 13,U54 '-1.2,3 miles; the freightnmile age, . .J 5; 334 miles Earn irec -. ora assengr, $2(5,313 25S: fr.-m freih 'r:. 770 4%,013; from o'.Iersourcs e S' S." '4. Dduct r g ope-ratirr exp'rses the n't F'srnins cre f'm d to havA er. ;"33 2 333,756 d .otal revenue K3 .34L 29.8. Tie -:r r e r- i per passerger p'r mile wvre 2 C$2 'a'rs: the sverage dsisnce traveled by ach passenger 24 4 miks, and the avr ge number of passem rs crried to.eace mile of road ws 38 G. Tre farid itdebtedness rf te r''ilemas d, in conse u-nce of rcrpaizatiors, as much as t179 t5 9i. or 3 17 per cent Share capital frlike reason. in part, in cre - .7 e r e ct. Th avera: o cost of mds p r !riil, as measured by weeks r. bnds ..s $59,732. cr **456 , ti anin 195. N t earnings were :3 27 r cent b'-ter in 1S9G than iu t peri-:us y er, though the earr. inns pr ton der mile were 2.15 per cat. iks T :e inate moved and nu"mbrr c' a-enL-rs carri d were o preciate lc ear'han in 1S95, the in crease-* he frr& b.ng, 6 per cent: of the : ter 3 46 per cent. Over SS per cent f' our raiiay mileage is now in steel r;! .. The .anual shows that the ne.v :onstruction in the south dur ing 1e{'t '-ss greater than that in any other part of the country. The in crease ia railway building in the south since 1870 has been phenomenal. :t ws 'rver eqiaiied in any region of ei1pal estent iu an ecuai period and is a:t trie :-ore remarkable that this de velipm.:t should have taken place in a seeit'in so recently devastattd by war. The t-tal railrad mileage of the south in 1S70t was n Ilv 14 735 By the end of 1:8,6 it br-d -risen to the enor mcus (1. ures of 67,279. The prospects :raif r v construction in the south for the next year or two are fine and the conii:ion, both fioar cial and phy sical. of the railroads in this section. has been much improved during the past year. Poor's Manual is a valua ble publication, not only to railroad men, but to all who want to keep up ith the material progress and develop men tai the country. A BRAVE PREACHER Has a !tmarkb:e Exp3rienca With a HIghwaym an. Rev. Sam Jones, tells the following story in the Atlanta Journal: \When I was in Texas a few months ago I heard a well authenticated case of this kind which happened in that community. A Iccal Methodist preacher-a plain, unassuming man -was riding into town on horseback. Passiog one of his neighbor's homes on the way the neighbor stepped out of his gate and asked the preacher if he would take a check to town and bring back $5,000 in cash for him; that he had bought a piece of land and the man was there with the deed to deliver and he wanted to pay him the rmon'ey. The preacher replied he would ortainly do him the kindness to -'>: him the money. He rode on ntZ- tovn and when through with his business went to the bank, got the money, put it in his pocket, got on his horse and started home. He hadn't ridden more than three or four miles from town before a man stepped out from behind sor e bushes with a drawn pistol, sa;'i og: "Give me that five thousand dollars." Tue local preacher replied: I won't do it, sir." "Well, if y ou don't I will kill y ou," reglie d the highwayman. "All right," said the preasher, "you can ;.et the money after I am dead, but not while I am alive." "What do you menz?" said the highwayman, "don't you kno v that I will kiltlyou for that money if I must kil'. Scu to get iti" *'Yes," said the preacher, "I think you will, but you wi-li have to kill me to aet it." The highnayman then said to the preacaer: "What do you mean by this? Do yda think more of that man's five thousand dollars than you thin k of your life?" ".No," repliedi the preac'2er, "bu I do think more of my character than I do of my life. I have a wire and several boys and girls at home Their husband atnd father is known as an honest, upright man. If 1 give you this mioiey and then go to the man whose money it is and tell himn that I was robbed on the highway, he would never bllieve me. My character would be gone and my children dis graced. S.o I atuiem to you sir, that I think more of my character than I do of my life, If you will have the money, whack away with your g un.' ~The highwayman looked at him and said: * I haven't it in my heart to shoot a man like you. Go on with your life and money too." A few months afterwvard this high. waymani did killia man, was conviet e~i andi sertenced to be ihange'd. To a visiting preachi:r he confesed amnoog other tuiings. th~se facts i reference, to the local preache". 'Tae visiting pstor went to the local preacher and asked htmn if it was trum. 'Yes, said tie, "'it occanrcd just as the binn~.y maa has related 'it to ye "Why," said the visitic pastor. " ou never said any thiog about it. "No.' said the local preacher. 'I ev.r nave said anyvthi ng abut it. I "e-er tela y wifl about it." "'''-ause I dia't thirnk it as sny mieht have thoughrt that I was telling a faisehocd or tr ying t*o give an illus. tration of muy bravery or something of that kind: bat 'ue'thing occirred juzst as r<!ated. VO i;weha cit'zas-.d like this, d' ere e'ary mi ad boy thoughnt mor ofl hi c' r e'er an he did of hi lfe an would die before he'd r:g reproa ch uipon himself or his Lau.Ten we. would have a world won a :ivi 'n. But chatties are put abrevcha'c-e: o' -v an men ruin their c arIacter , kill his cnscience adi tamn their sa js for dollars anid cens. nd n te end they reai.za Ia they madeo' a ai t:2.1 bank u 'ted t-em- hr- a-nd ruised them hera-ter Lt every mnan be true to -is o ru charxsee and honest with all Co.Lee W. Av , atoe ic oda.r o0 in' ''lar 'a Cnituthio, -medianer-n -ua Aer'ican repab ics fo" ta C Gatt s:.os andt Interna inlexos~itin o3 195 fei 'romi the arc of is aidece n Kir rh-ood, a atu of Atla a Wedn'sjay niignt, and id Tiursday from the~ eifec s of the fall. IMASSA(GE UF MI1iid T .RIB.E CRVIS IN THE COAL. S-FIKE SITUATiO'14 Blocd.h'lray ' pti-s Shoot r ace M'b cf E1:nerr, '.pp trrLti3 Without Jast:..^c:ltion KLimo g F-en or vwcs ty sa r oned. ing Forty or Mre. The =trike siluation race a c-ri ble c:i=i- , t ' cutskirts of Ltimner. Pa., F'r.C- .rf 'rr oon. when a b-r of de; .v eitifs fired iro an inKu ateti no' of n.in rs The mc-n fe1l iike so m=uy sheep, and the excite ment hire' has bren so intense that no acc'urae iguris cf the cesl and w'urded can be chtain'd. lports run from fif~ee-: to twenty odd ki!e a-:d f':ty or ncre woun'dd. wary of thecse wT:ill di.Oae n~an who~ reached the scene F.:iIay no-ht coun:t td thirteen cesrps. Four other dead lie in the mcuntains betr-een Latimer end Earlee h. Tose who were i:. inj:ired carri.d their dead and wound ed friends into the wocds, and estimate is belled. The strikers left Haselina at -3 o'clock Friday afternoon, announcing their intention to go to Latimer. As soon as this became known, a band of deputies was loaded on a trolley car and sent whirling across ihe mountain to the scene of tre bloody conflict which followed. After reaching Lati mrr, they left the ear and formed into three companics. under Thomas Hall, E A. Hessel and Samuel B. Price.. They drew uo in ine at the edge o' the village, with a !ente and a line of houses in iheir rear. Sherilf Martin was in commend and stood in the front of the line until the strikers approached. They were seen coming across the ridge, and Martin wert out to meet them. the men drew up sullenly and lis tened in silence until he bad once more read the riot act. This tinisheu, a low muttering srose among the for. eigners, and there was a slight move ment forward. Perceiving this, the sheritl stepped toward them, and, in a determined tone, forbade advance. Some one struck the sheriff, and the next moment there was a command to the deputies to fire. The guns of the deputies ins:antly sent forth a terrible volley. The strikers were taken entirely by surprise, and as the men toppled and fell over each other, those who re mained unhurt stampeded. The men went down before the storm of bullets like ten-pins, and the groans of the dying and wounded filled the air. The excitement that followed was simply indescribable. The deputies seemed to be terror struck at the deadly execu tion of their guns, and seeing the living strikers fleeing and the others dropping to the earth, they went to the aid of the un!ortuuates whom they had brought down. The people of L titrier rushed pell mell t) the scene, but the shrieks of the wounded drowned the cries of the sympathizine and half crazed inhabi tants. The reporter who soon after wards reached the place found to: road leading to Latimer filled with groups of frighterned Hungarians. Some surrounded dying conpanions, I and others, fearful of pursuit, clung to the new comer and begged his pro tection. At Farley's there were two men lying on the porch. Both had been s'hot in the head. Oa had three bul lets in him. His groans and appeals for a dcc tor or death were heart-rend ing. All along the road the wournded men who were able to leave the fild of battle scattered and sought the shade of the trees for protection, but there was no need of that then. Approaching the place where the shooting occurred, people were met wringing their hands and bemoaning the catastrophe. They could not talk intelligently, and it was with the greatest diffculty that information could be learned. Along the bank of the trolley road men lay in every posi tion, some dead, others dying. Taree bodies, face downward, lay along the incline, and three others were but a short distance away. 02 the other side of the road, as many more bodirs lay. The school house was trans formed into a temporary hospital, and some of the wounded were taken there. The colliery ambulance was summoned to the place as soon as pos sible, arnd immefliately upon its ar rival, two men, both shot through the legs, were loaded into the wagon. All along the hillside woanded men were found. Many others who had been carried to a distacc could not be found. As soon as the news of the shooting reached Haselton there was consterna tian. Within ten minutes the streets were blocked with excited people. The Lehigh Tracti. n company imme diately placed a number of cars on the Latimer line and doctors and clergy ten respondtd promptly. Amid the atention to the wounded and carried many of them ta places where they culd be more comfortably treaited. Mariin Riaki.an intelligent Hlanga ian fromu Ms. Pleasant, who was shot in the arm, was seen by a reporter on the cr coining over, and gave this versi'n of 'he atfair: "We were go ing along~ ine road to Letimer, 2nd the depaties were lined across the road, bae ring our progress. We triea to go througu them, and dtd not at tempt to hit or molest them until they ied upon us. WAe ran, but they kept on shiooting on as wie we ran. It is all their iault. The board of trustees of Farman Uiersitr ma Wd nesday niht at he C2ola-nbia Baptist churca, av'd un ainaoudy ee.-d Pro sa A. P. Motaugue, o ' Was itou, D. C. fte-vl vic r.~ Cna~ri aley, wo re:,igned several mouths ago. P rofessor :Jjntaau~e IS a \'irginian Oy bith bat is now a resident of the na t-onal capotal. Hle is a celebrated educator and a scholary gentleman, ad the uni;e:sitr has added lustre to the timec honored institution 'of the adito of rofessor Montague to its .'c y. Pro ~:fessor :don tga was born in Virgioia, and is a graduate of he Univestyof Virgiata aal the on. Hez .i::ears o-d. Tw u?cC'C :o U h Tochlden of Jseph Creery, a boy and a girl, aycd, r~suiecsivdy, ten and ta-elve years :er,: barned to death Wednesday a:a'son at Fairm at, a subrb of Riichmond, Va. Taey were playing in an outhozuse. whore a lot of lay and shucks we:e stored in eme m:ner tis became ignited and death ensued before assistance couldi reach Ithem. EXAMINATION OF TEACR . N<.w R-tat+Tha. are Now .appI::.lFr First 'rme. The examinati rs r.f pl:cwvs ft:r teach rs' cour'. cc:::!:ate ' : be5 veld thrcusma tn:'s on F y S p'emnber 2 wn u adopted by t: tioa a"re ap^;ca:1- r if th:e 'i.:_ tir-re c:e shall car d raa' z_' ar.t. u t r .ni 'a- -Pt' - t b {i que n li pi ft : ni~shed for t hre nty x. - ts. There shall be out t.o _r ; _ teacers' county certi'icates-a 1i:. grade rad a second grade, the latte -oiin dividcd into class A and clasB ih's not to atfet any certificate :a outstan-din-. To obtain a first grade teachers ccuzy certificate, the app lcant shall stnd a written. exarnination n rsa grade ques ions, prepared ;ui ': ed to 'e ccu-sty board n -': ?: by the SLate board, and -ihail m:e gen'ral average of no-t less the ~.' I per cent. and not less than 50 per c:n*. on any one branch. The county boars May also impose oral tests in reading an- language. T, obtain a second grade teachers' county certificate, the applicant shall stand a written examination on ques ttots prepared and furnished to tcs county board of education by the Sta'e board, and also suchoral tests in read ing and language as the cunty board may impose. To an applicant stand ing an examination on first grade q'estions ard failing to obtain a first grade certificate, a second grade cer tiicste class A, shall be issued if the applicant makes a general average of 70 per cent., and not less than 45 per cent. on any branch; and, if the ap plicant makes a general average of not less than 60 per cent. and not less than 40 p:r cent. on any one branch, a sec ond grade certificate, class B, shall be issued. In estimating for a second grade certificate on first grade ques tions, Algebra need not be included; if it would be to the applicant's advan tege, it may be included. To an ap plicant standing an examination on second grade questions, a second grade certificate, class A, shall be issued if the applicant makes a general average of not less than SO per cent. and not less than 50 per cent. on any one branch; and if the applicant makes a general average of not less than 70 per cent. and not less than 40 per cent on any one branch; a sezrod grade certifi cat-:, class B, shall be j?i. 3 _1 J ur tP Ufl -aye cr an examination who is not at lcast 18 years of age, and before taking an ex amnsanion each applicant shall pass such oral tests in reading and langu age as the board may impose. A tirst grade certificate may b3 re newed by the county board from which it was issued. If, however, a teachers' institute or summer school is held in the coanty, a first-class certificate shall not be rene wed unless the holder at tends the institute or sumnmer school, or shows some satisfactory reason for not doing so. A second grade certificate, Class 3. shall not be re warded unless the hol der attends a teachers' institute or sum mer school, and in such case it may. be renewed. A secoond grade certiacate, Class B. shall not be renewed. Tne county board shall issue to each applicant making the required per cent. a certinicate signed by each men I ber of the board and ucder the seal of the cilce of the county super;stendeit' of education of the county, and sho: ing on its face the per cent. made oa each branch and the generat averag e.I The certiticate shall run for two) yearsj from its date, and the holder shall b deemedcomjpetet to teach in the pub lic schools of the county. Nr'ertin-I cate of qualifieation shall oe gr-au ed by any ccanty board under any circ an stances to any person who~ is under 1S years of age. Tihe county board of on county may recogniza a certificste issud by, the county baardof another county: but in such case they shall regiser the namne of the holder, c ;an'y from which issued, date and number of the certiticate, and when so regigtee it shall have the sa-ne forcea to in that c:uatv. Etch county board sna'i Lep a regi:Ler, jia which shal be recoaed the na:na, age, sex and post' i.e o' each person to whom a c ruincate is granted, and also the dat and grade of the certiflcase. Whiskey st111 Rtsided. TeColu's ia Re istr, of Tuesay, says that Revenue :Ec-:r Hlal Rich ardson retune. t., C omia &ondav night from drue on the Sousu bound Railroad where he made a suc cessful raid of an illcit whiskey dis tilery. Tne Register goes on to say that at the last term of the U~nited &Stes court, a p-arty livin eightmle ,est of S vansea was indad fo ru a ted of the charge. Onir R. e c~ wnt' 'o Swra'sea, a'd prcemgt in0pet oration. Thu a f L lcc~cdson made hi perns new tanks and copper liemacA - er arel in evidecec andtervn ollcr proceeded to captre rthem out i:. Tue distillery hai uten in op erationa for same time, and re galons of apple and peach b th ii~el c.ncre, The Pri1c--tol pa -ma The sttemen -'- 'd - at -- s wi .: yine~ jure an1 ehmina Aion of the pro~i fe cur of the law UiREDS MAY PERISH l E M AD USM T O T H E K LO N DIK E GOLD FIELDS. c:-M. c: inrr. StQvation and Death In cvitabe if the P:r-nt Rale of Influx Cont'n. a anty L-r-The Situation De red a -. .pp illing. I $tates Treasury Depart . r t h Wm:.de pubic the following f tr 1om a :v umlent official now -n wayto t-e gold fields, tith sanme time that the rier v' se .name is withheld, had b-r 3 ain the service and a K r y relable. The letter I -- it my duty to write you ona -t ..: d es not come strictly i.m ismi~ y line f uty, as it trench Cs 1 lemes. upon the functions of thet raeydpiet I have had . o ytawt h . :: Ivey, coliector of for Alaska. who is at present ;I-a;guay, tree miles below here. T e kuay trail is the most largely s. e a r.d route (though by no e b0s) to theKlondike. Mr. ic y i forms re 'hat there are now :d rand the lake some :. i - ' i uJ ., -ope and about 2.000 hor. e Th c -.rander of one of the ves-e!s ro y at Saguay states that sixteen vsz s are chartered to land cargoes at that place between now and the 15bh of September and that the number of passengers will average t. each essel, making 3,200 more 2)ple who will attempt to go in this I e tal:ed with some of the mot ence i traders and miners it this vicinity, and they are unani nous in the prediction that not over 20 per cent. of this vast number will get through to Dawson before winter sets in. The other 80 per cent. will be caught on the trail, and those who sarvive and get back to tidewater will have to winter at Skaguay or return S )uth. If the rush continues two weeks longer, hundreds will inevita bly perish on the trail, which is ex tremely dangerous after the first of Oetober. The postmaster and Indian trader at this place (ir. Heron) states that more than 5.000 men have gone up the Chiicootpass during the past thirty days, and that 700 of them are still this side of the lake (24 miles from here.) Vessels are arriving every day or two, and at the present rate of in flux another thousand will enter the trail by September 10. Mr. Heron is of the opinion that not more than 20 out of 100 will get through. and he says this trail is far more dangerous than the Skaguay after the snows set in. He says if the rush continues an other week the resultant loss of life will be aopalling. I attach the great est importance to what he says, for the reason that it is to his pecuniary in erest to have as many as possible come this way; yet he advises an im mediate stoppage of the stampede. It is difficult~ to suggest a way to stop this inrush of people, but Mr. Ie in timZ th it th insnection rules of toe treasury department were properly enforced it would materially decrease the number of passengers on the incoming vessels. Nearly every vessel that arrives here brings twice as many passengers as the law allows it to carry, and many of them are con demned craft which have been fitted up for this trade. Mr. Ivey will no doubt at once p.resent the facts outlin ed above to tae p-oper authorities, and I merely give them to you for your information. The situation is appalling, and it is imoossible for me adequately to de scribe the mad rush for the gold field. i had rno conception of its immensity until I saw it. I have talked with seernl men who have recently arrived here from the Klondike, two of whom let theeless than thirty days ago. They unanimnously agree that while there is a rich gold field there, the f ~ts do not justify the present stamn pee and thiey say there is bound to .- much suffeiing and actual starva i'n. P.Avisions are already scarce andi the pr-cas of many articles abso int-ly prahibitory in the case ofta man o ordinary moans. My usual good luck has attended -'e here. Mr. Heron, the postmaster, ia old Montana friend, and he has nade it possbl for me to go for ward by I'dis.~ carriers at the prevailing ra~ (3 cats pier pound3). taking pre cedece ov-er handeds, many of whom hae. been here two or three weeks, atig their turn. He assates me he can maake the way easy for me at te lake in secirlng a boat, etc. So I feel comortabiy sure of going right T:e mn~il izilities are very bad. heie a ystodire department has n~tmade any allowance for the rapid towth of postal business. The postal autaorities here are powerless to cope ih the mass of mail matter, and ii nve doubts as to whether tais letter will reach its destinatioa I am fore d to clon~ this letter to catch a boat which is a bout to leave, I am leaving unsaid some things which I shall have to iO2:ude in my next ietter. A BrutaI .Assalt. Miss SAllie Chap:nan, aged twenty, iiiii; with her brother-in-law. J. C. 'olifrale, in Macon, Ga., was assulted an brutally outraged in her bedroom before daylight Wednesday morning. A nine year od girl was in the room it but was so frightened that 3e oud not give alaru. Miss Chap -an doe not know whether the man 'as o ek-o white. Sue was so ed nd' so ter'aibyhurt bythe s-' tlt uts became mnsen 5 .s ot '-et recovered her K o- e a-e working, and 3OghL up to a se:n7t This is the e s of alike natu.re mnthe n tLis-city. udHrs a asanc8. s*s hav' becomne so much of a neein N rthern Arizona ".: ve G neral Francier has enam if they can not legally be rjh~ered. That vicinity has been arru vseveral large bands, hun .i~d la nianber, unbranded and un :"in'd b say one. Taey have rap vdl i'acrased la number and have be -m wiler than deer and vicious aswl.Te matter has been referred c toak board. a who receatly sued his coe~,upying three inches ota hittle discomP' .s)e.NLG HOTEL. hint attr