The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, September 15, 1897, Image 1
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VOL. x m1. _ IMANIN(, S. \.. WEDN Es Y. S': TiMBE1
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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