Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Democ,.uic Tex B-,k Shows Fiaws in His P. cs HE IS A WEAK E22T ER The Presidm's shortc:rmings Are Many ar d Hes Oppo nents Are Usi-gThem Against H-m. The iemcer.tic camtptieui toxt i:+" has been issued. Tne fir-t j rt v t tr voted to the Democra.i ar 1900, with that OF l". a' i affirmation of the latter .t the Kar-s City convention makes it " ir s part of the la:f.rm of wt) The notiniation !-veehs of Mr Bryan and Mr. StevensCn are given in their entirct, as is the c.rvention speech of Hon. Jame l). iicha-dsen, chairman of the .ati mrai conyVsuei n The second part cntaiOs the 1 u lican platform and a repi:w o the emn vention speech cf Scratcr L dge, who presided ove r the ,R ubican (onv"n tion. As Mr Lod.: w p.ut wo a as the chief pes a of ther ;:v his speech is treatcd as the (-I is. j re sentati)n of the i e:, envh e Republican la.' srs irtrd to u e the campaign. ECh'CZ c'F TIIE SPANISII VAR Part 3states the origin of the war with Spain and recalls : stubb"ro re sistence made by Piesidect eKinloy against intervetition in Cuba, ever af; ter the Maine had been destroyed tna the causes thereof made. -in- The administration of the war d-;artnert during the war with Spin is dramatte ally set forth. "The disgraceful pros titution of the commissary department to the interests of the dealers in can ned beef" is produced in a condensed form from the testimony of the con mission appointed by the President, a trib-nal which was popularly under stood to have been organized to acquit. The testimony of General liks ansu of numerous cfficers is presented to con vict the administration of the charge of permitting the business intcrts-s of meat packers to outweigh the health and comfort of the brave soldiers who volunteered to fight the country's bat tles. Commissary General Eagan's foul mouthed abuse of General Miles, for which he was court-martiated and sen tenced to dismissal from the army, is also given. This is followed by Presi dent McKinley's approval of the con viction and reversal of the sentence. Instead of exeee:irg the sentence of dismissal, the president decorated Gen. Eagan by relievicg him "ron all fur ther service in the army, but permittd him to draw full pay. Attention is also given to the reck less disregard of sanitation in the sev eral camps of the army, more destue tive to our soldiers taas Spauish bul lets. The Roosevelt atacek on the wzr de partment and the "rounid robfio. 'sign ed by all our higi' mailitary i. ffeers ic Cuba, demanding wm:idravai of the troops to a northern e'imte to save them from utter destrue:ia b disas is presented in full. "THE PARAMCot-NT IssUE. In compliance with the mundate of the national convention auu oloi, the example of the e'ar-diatee, anothe r section is devoted :o imperialism as the paramcunt issue under t he title of "The Republic or the .En;ire?' "Toe President's Philippine \Mr" is the longest chapter in the 1.o'k. It charges against the president gros n e palpaole violations of the cons.it..ion and the usurpation by him both of the trety making power and the war mSeing power. It shows from the rece:d that, although Spanish sovereignity in the Philippiues did not pass to the United States until April 11, 18i'9, the presi dent from December to Aprii road rough shod over the constitution to force a war upon the Filipinos in order to fore stall congresss in the exercise of its power both under the inaty and the Gonstitution, to determine the civil and political status of the Filipinos. The war waged upon them by the pen is treated as a usurpation by him of the war-making power for the purpose o transforming friendly aihits into zi placable enemies. The possibility of a Reul.a ry construction policy in the P'hilip;-ines~ and their division into tive States for admission into the Union is clearly presented. The president's approval of the agreemaent with the Saltan of Sulu is presented, in which he upholds sia very and polygamy under the U'ited4 8tates flag. The report of the i~berty congress of the anti imperialists is fol lowed by a chapter giving rnueou decisions of the supremze court whieu clearly contradict the new Rep-ubican doctrine that the constituricn is not the supreme law in the tenitories. The chapter on the cost of imperiali-um will attract general attention. ANGLO AMEEICAN ALLIANCE. The British alliance is s bo 'n to ex ist, and some of its work is recited notably the surrender to Great Br'.tain of our proper rights in the construction of a canal through Nicaragua; the sur render to Great Battsin of valuale mining territory in Aia:-ka uncer the buise of atemporary arangement; the effort to screen the British fort ign otti cers from the necessity of an apology for the violation of United States maiis in South Africa by a British offill and finally the circulation through one of the departments in Washington of British political pamphlets to create false impressions concerning the cause of the Boers. The stealings by United States Re publican officials in Cuba occupy an entire chapter. it deals with fa:'ts from the records. The nullification oi the constitution by the Puerto Rico act is shown to be "imperialism av. plied." Extracts from the proceeditlgs of congressional committees expose the visible control of congress by thei sugar trust. Extracts from the proceeding's of these committees show the presence of Mr. Oxnard, chief lobby ist for ti e sugar trust, agd his advice, which was obeyed when the customs tari was imposed on commerce between P-uerto Rico and other ports of the Un ited 8tates. A parallei is drawn hetwceer the Puerto Rico bill and the Bitiish colb nial system, showir g that the Repu2:i can party prefers the~ Batish colonial system to the Republican termor al system of the Ucited States. THLE TRUtST s. Part 5 treats of the uts giv;g a list of those corpora iors a-u giveg the remedies prop-o-sed by eaet. party. it gives the revrd of tile'~ i t: congress of the art -pat t t decn that body relieguide sc~e over the subject of the r'~ ice of aar plate T: i<t did in th face of the t ited Sates has been -cmpelcd t.,'ay =4; a ton for plate w* eirr s l" by the same truat tt' e R eublican governm-" at?'Jil to. }'hars is a chapter ou the dis ..na inn by the rsilroal iompani in fa'r of th.C t!u ts, whieh ive" them absolute conMtral of the pr:iees os lls t e prtes ealt ii th<-m S The slhip sub-iiy i'l fvr the ipf buildieg trutst i" r. .ie d. Part t; is dvt' - euC"ffa tim fit h-- r--t c a. er is4 a 'c rai 0 .": K ir , t,"'., ' orf inter:aa ti -"al mn ae h tI' tc-L ' r: " r 1 n'iZ by - l i-attln lnnat: r i:' . sr: 3 11 i"ap. that 3! !L': n't for himet ;: r.a-ett by' a treaeh V 1..:11" iimself( when , ve oft c tintnaten!. SQor Wico 4utes from the eebes o' members of the Bri ish nu -istry and these quotations demon :rate .is fact. The interesting state un is made that during MeKinleys a-itninisttwion Secretary Galse has cined ~>3, ii) 0,00 of "Sft\-centc.ip.d d~llars," all ii which a jreperved by the Sold stand:d aet as a legai tetder. .\lr. Gate i aS just cprsicd great fear that if Mr. h:- an is elcted he would euae th.c >: tt O.) of dollars to be pad ouI of te [r. asury as money. A ana y-i. of thte Ad sta'iarl. D3 t:goal.hl ir , anti-grce euback fit,ar cial ti "k tir.er mainly fr:-m the speech of Seraar 'l:er, together ,ith Sena atur Cadler'.s protest agist the s:mn. iTt.e relalions of tle Stanatid Oil I ational eity bank of New York vith t-,, ira-urc de;partment and its purchase of the old N.w York city cus tonmhou:e are fully set forth. It is shown that this hcalthy istitution is an annex -f the treasury depar: m.t. L: br organizatio:s and the treat mteert they i-ave receevcd f;omi the two grcat parties, respectively, for:u the suitj-:et of important chapters The ch apter on pension shows that not only the pension acts in favor of the soldiers h:ve been construed greatly to the dis advantage of thousands of them, but that the f resent commissioner persis tetly disregards a new act passed ex pressly to do away with such mi?scon structions. O her minor subjects also are dealt with. Weather Statistics The following data, issued by the United States department of agricul ture, covering a period of 29 years, have been compiled from the weather bureau recoris at Charlstan, in the month of September, for 29 years. TEMPERA IT RE. Mean or normal temperature, 76 de grees. The warm;e.t month was that of 1881, with an avtr3ge of So degrees. The ce!&st month was that of 1S71, with an average of 72 degrees. The highest temp ratur-r was 95 de gre es, on September 7, 899 The lo.vcst temperature was 49 de g:e-'s on S ptember 25, 1987. Aerage cate on whieh first "killing" frost eceurr-d is autumn, Nov. 30 Average date on which last "'kiding ' frost occurred in spring, March 3 PRE(CIPiTA TiON. A versen for the month. 5 18 inches. Avs rage n'ahers of days which .01 of an inu er nmore, it). To groaest monthly precipitation was '11 b9 inehes in l500 The least mioibly precipitation was 1 31 inches 1S87 The reatest anounit of pre eipitatio-n int any '4* e seeu'ise hours was 7 (00 irTehes on Sepeaber 2dth and 27Th, 1894. Averaie rnu:uher o-f eiear days. 10); partly cloudy das 22 eleudy days, S The r.revailire wirnds have been fcom the northeast, 25i per cent. TIhe hi~he~t vdocity of the wind was 2 mije f 1:rai the sruch on Se pte mbecr 29 1% L. N. ,Jesunoisky. Local Foerms t Offleial. Charleston, Aug 24 1900. Dytng by Hundreds A dispatch frem Charle~ton says the unprecedented heat wave has plaved deadly havoa with the poor Negroes living on : he sea island& along the coast. It ap;-ears that the Negroes have been dying from fever, which is primarily caued frem the heat and allowed to thrive becau-e the sick cannot gct medi a attention reqiuired in such csses. This su:utuer there has been more fever en the sea ilands than f-or some years past, and this disease has b-en ant torivin~g on by the hot and dry weather. PeojIle who have been around skrooms with fever patients can best inngkze the cadtion of ti-e poor Ne grs in the hovels who have to depend on voaooo:m for relief and who have to stay in a senous way wittout prop-er attention and without ice. The island Negroes have felt the bitterrass of it all,~and they si-nply lie down and die when the fever strikes them. in some of the huts it has been told here that a whole fermily wouldl be ill at a time, and that their only attention would come fr'n the neig.bors who were inclined to letd assistauce The physicians in these i~hrnd bigharhoda haveo done thir bes-t to g ve relif to the Negroes, andi pretty much a I of thi, has beca charity. Et'en with charity physicians, hL-vy-r, the -ufferers ha~ve not been ered for as their corditions might de omd. and with weird ahou ing and cauttint ab.ut te have iaid dowa to d'. with roth ing but -i voodoo do-ctor t drive oi the ill Toe class of N ros now r-oferi g fr--m the disease brought on by the heat are the oneOs who suffered most a fe-w years ago by the terrible st-,r s which : ve pt up t ie coast. Kille d the Porter Mr. Gold sire, a bagagemrster on ti.e lant System road, Thursday night shot and killed Jimu Croon, the Negro porter on the train Ott which Mr. Gold 3 ir runs. The killing occurred on the train between Tifton and Allony Ga. Tere was only one eye witn-ss, Con dicor Harrison, and he give-san ae c~unt of the killing which makes Gold wire's deed entirely jastitiable. Three Skeletons Found In raisint a hou-e forty years old at Bl~l Center, a small towva in :he Kick apoc valky, W isconsin, three sietons wr fou d. They catus: b: account ec .radthe Irev-.fin opitioD i- that the skeletons are those o-f three persons who were murdered a long time ago. Od residents have slight remembrance of the a~air. H ERE' A ~ CiUAcE.-Now do-n't aII he ia spek at o~c. The "Rish atd Pi'ioseopher" of the Green boro iierald Journal says: " We snow an od widower that wants to marry -so bua hat we~' thirk he will s~on have hydro deba. He is about 76 years old, ndo v-ied that he could waik o0 r a rrin the dark and not know i. i t~ e d ca d wants such a tman. 1TN~BESTY B USteIN .3 c Some Facts Ab:.t It - , 3ucw n g ge i-mo~din :f( ?.,t ton of . o k . - l the S tate, 1)) Li 1.' i . oz;. l XL sh. re wer !: e'xamined the : . e v:i, ho:uSs and in - di ~r ar~amrbsi. S e :at we have a rig t o -a , medr:iog -131!g this line. We h ei'Ce, With very true seu f I eQ sCombth, tiat the 1: ierie et-gra ph;s ard r adctr u-id in m r clo .htou1. te written b 'U !? U. 1 ac.d womcn who Ca : j :ie- t r liurattare, on"- hei!da ed :Ur acorer:-phie.i :nva.*i ' ti d tha :-.t th Univir-it: 1' !! P < - ''a pan is Ih p'Ior la thiV ar by Sol! bern :a n..:t a ertb- a and it has lab.ored hognd. fai.ifull, sOmleItimUes ali'it withcut 1oe. Gen - e.ral Rot. 1 L-e as the origir.ator of tie idea that o"'r Ce'ool hooks should bo writ: n by u:hra ::; n. to pre scere our hi t..r; and he, ft:ib e~dorse~i th the rts of the niv'r.ity Phlish in'g C omipany ,. aGroa oth:er, in p E .dng :k for our Sou h erl, cHr: n. We bare no in se in ti seo of this couty and S e. Ma 's gcograpisi H Inlm.s' r- a;rs d H .c :el':1' (1 ham er ) histor : an in rveral courte. 'anOri fS a rties. These bocds we beii:ve. r' ,iving atisfaction There are r.one bt tcr, that ac have seen, and e-e-.' n , use of caning then: now, thereby upset ting the work of tie scheois at.d csu: ini the p-ophe Cedi.s- ekp. n-c with the possibity cf s:tting inferior hocks. They are by Souithtra fier tC' I modore M.ury wna born in Virginia, and wert ts school to .J 3iOW; Utey. Va ti'rwards bishop. ~f liag;eh Sh:a s. Tenn Th s "Pa.' fidr d f the ra" great scient:-t. ineventr of thc weath' r cearts, etc , is kr:.wt as the worhi's greatest geographe. -e d one oc' .s greatest berea :t..rs. le was a Coi fed--ra e solier Dr George F. I lcmes 5 pent his boyhood and carly mnnlood in Sou:h Caroliia. Ile graduated at the South Carolina college. and, ne have been told taught his f:st ;eboel here at 3ennettavilc. He was for a time a profcsaor in the University of Georgia, and later presidem' of the Uni versity of iisissi; pi For nearly for ty lears, and at the time of his death last 3 ear, be was profersr of E glish and History in the Univrsity Of Vir ginia. He was a Southern man and a Coctderate soldier. Prof. Ii E Chambers, author of Hanaelfs Histories. was for a t-me a professor in Tutane Univtrsity. Louis iana, ar:d is now head matter f The Boys High Schoi," of N -w Ola He was nit old enough t g) i'to the war but his father was a Confedcrate holditr. Prof. Sandferd, au: :r of Sa--ford's ariahn:ties and algebra, e-tab ishcd, and tnai principal of a pr. par:'ory high school in Greene notirty. G, ortit: and when 31treer, the Bap .it Unicen it y, wa eta ithed at Mac n. h: 'enm o,, Pofesso~r of Mathematies int hat :nl't 1X Cias F VUnabli' rvxhor of mc-, for somfe to e Prm. f s-~ 'a Mathe in 1862 he w o tt o theb Corfederate stru ee v ith :he frst r. mtar of hou' h Car,.lin a It fantry. La:erlhew n~a'i-ed to the rank of jelonel, and s eh:.'c'ef of :e Terraii cal Etmneerng Corpn on thec st of Gen' RA E L.I *-n whc capcity ~' be -.e thoughteti~ t e war Since tihe war, he ha- be e& i arPo ~ty of i'b ia. ie e ti lahe oray Ano Iher South( C.rolnian ah0 b .:k ae p-ublihed by c-he Uni .Vi- Pu li-hir. Copy is the ace' LiA -cor, D. -... L Gildr cv , ~ti've of Cha le His '0 ks r theC acho.ei' L -:.In ' ,ti /th in John I1a. Ho tr Univ-ersity. Bi oe He was a Confeder.e .ode 'Q'nd~( lo't his, left leg in the servie. At preet inth Su- ( #olina olege iPrhoeso Ba' i a'he < First Latin B-...ek, uuilersally acknol edged as c-ne of the best beginer o( ks on the' inrke and hirti~r endorsed as ruch by the Prof.-.ors o! the Univer-ities of Geo~rgia, N.rth ('ar oina, Missis-ippi. ard others. An other Latin bock (Oc'id,) by Professor Anderson. of Willtamsto. S. C.. is re eiving highest commenda ion by our Latin scholars. The comipany is own-d arile eintrn!!cd by Southern men. Charlee L. Paton, of Mississippi. is Ba-iness Manager That valant soidier and si.tatomsn, Gen. ~John B3. Gordon, of Gjeoraia, is one of the Vtee-Presidents. Hs tame is a guarantce <.f ra'r dealir"gadhn -sty. fThe printing is da- in New Orleans and Nihvi le. e xet that which can be done bf by ou-i--s the New Yo' k press, rut'h aseoe map4, etC. Tfhe books fuliv rcpretern the pro duts, scenery, brains and ebiI dr of the South. TIhey are as we:1 made and a cheap as any w e ha~ve ee The coapany doe- not "eal in set;~ioai They do not at. adoption1 on account of outh ern au:L orship They rely on intrinsic mit. bel hievi' th-at their boks are the eqiual of! any in thi- c-un try. They h'ave done were~ n-ba all otIr agence omioied ' ~srea protect our S.-uthern hist ..y and' iera tue, and they desenIe or abtanl*ia; enouagemienrt. We hone that none of the books no-w in use in the -eboi- of this countv will be changed, with the A'gle trertion of the grammifars. We w ill say in eat~eiusion that this artice is not a paid advei tistnret. it is the voluntary aorkt of rhe editor. We have writ'en it to show thact we are uinz Southern books in our schoeis and to give due credi: to the aut!ors and publishers who ht.ve labored faith fuiy and longrt to rstke and perfect the -ICitorial in Pee Dee Advcate. Don't Want im. Snator Stewairt. of Nevada, is an other recent "convrt" to the Rl;>ubli can csuse. The Boston Acierttiser (rank R.?ublican)sas of his accesion: Thre will be some cr tie3 e:uel e:nounh to hin: that the whole thiner Ias be en de-vised in the i)u'Iceratic intere-ts The SU ieimx wouiti be un.fair Secna tr Vtewart is pr obabl y honest in his raons for boltirg B:yan. butt heu only himself tohbrm for te fae that the G. U. P., elepha SrUrtU'- tr ror at his fond retain." Let Them Come. Thre comies a report frotm L wfou-d land that icebergs of great size' an in great quantity are in thle no.rth' seas invig southward to he mted inth glf stream and the northe- b r.:ezes cooled by the bergs. are . aedi break it e the backbone of the tfrrid wave in th'e New E tland states. Thoug~h fa: away these icebergt will -end u9 a sup pl o -1 colns. -a it cnme pniciv CH ARGED BOARDER EXTRA. 3ut the Landlady Found She Had Overreached Hlerself Tal' ing About It. They were seated together in a car f an incominag suburhana train the >her noring, so near to The Saun :erer that. he cocad not avoid hearing .very word of the!r conver sation, re at.s the Philadelphia Inquirer. The fait. woman got. on the train two sta i:ns ihead of the thin woman. how do von do?" the latter e::n. fuivel'.,as soon as she had r into the seat alongs:de of the for:\r. "Why. how do von do? So id 'o se von. idn't k now I hat r ted to take boarders since I saw youu Iast, did you?" 1he fat. woman itadmittedJ her ig noacae on thit. subject. "Well. I have." continued the thin woman. "l1ow do I like it? Well, it has its drawbacks; lots of 'em." "Yes, 1 suppose it. must have," as ented the fat woma,. "Boarders who crumble. boarders with big appetites ad all that. sort. of thing." ".y. talking of boarders with big appetites," rejoined the thin woman. "ou ought to see the new boarder I got yestelay. A young fellow, and he seenmerd to have so much money I Shared him two dollars more a week than Can' of the other hoarders. But., s. Tie can certainly eat. Had break fast at the house this morning. What do you think of sending out. for chops three times, hot. cakes twice. and cof fee. why, he must. have swallowed fire cups at. least. Then the potatoes he ate were enough for three ordinary men. I never dreamed there could be so much food put. inside of such a small man. Of course, it. made me nervous all the time lie was eating. \hy dhin't. I tell him he mustn't eat so much? Why. I don't want to lose him. don't. you understand? I'm mak ing money off of him, all right, but g'oIduess knows he carries off the prize for big eating. Come out and see him sonic time. It's worth your while. I'll guarantee you." "She'll be too late, madam," inter posedb a young fellow who, sitting one seat to the rear of the two women. had remained unnoticed by them. "I don't. believe I'll return to your house any more. It doesn't exactly suit me, anyway. The money I paid you in advance. Including the two dollars overcharge, will pay you well for the trouble and expense I've put you to. ('rood-morning; I get off here." It was fully five minutes after the train pulled away from the station before the woman spoke, and all she said was: "Well, who'd a-thought it?" FRAGRANT SALTS. A Delicate and Refreshing Prepara tion That Is Easily Made. Women of to-day are not as liable to faint as their grandmothers were, be cause they dress more sensibly and do rot wear as tight dresses or as tight shoes and gloves, but it is a nvise and sensible precaution to keep fragrant salts on hand. says the New York Trib une. Any salt loses its strength in a short time. he simple lavender salts are the most desirable of all perfumed salts. These are easily prepared at. home. While por' are preparing a por ton of these salts it is as easy to make s"eral bottles or vinalerettes as one. and the cost Is small. Procure half a dozen small, clear glass bottles, with close-cuit glass stoppers If you wish. A pret ty stopper costs very little, pur cased with the bottles by the half douz'Inad adds considerable to the value of the vinaigrette as a gift. It is desirable that a vinaigrette be small. so it may be easily carried ia the pocket. V'inaigrettes are often very elablorate, decorated with silver, gold and even precious stones. htut a tiny bottle of elair glass w.ith a pretty-stopper is al w.v-ys in good taste and as useful as a moreIL ornate one. To prepare the salt. procurie from a trustw.orthy druggist laf a pound of carbonate of ammonia aid an ounce and a half of the best oil of laivender. Crush the tw.o together in a moert ar, or in any dish that will mix the:m. Set the mixture in a large bowl, which should be put in a pan of warm water, covered and set In a mod erte oven for about an hour. Stir the mixture several times while it is heat ing. It is not necessary for the ammo nia to be ertushed fine. If it is in broken lumps it lasts longer. Do not get In tie foolish habit of using a vinaigrette cont:iualy. C'ases of obstinate deaf ness have been ascribed to this cause. Tie salts are also said to have an inju r':ius e'iet on the vocal chords as wveli as on the auditory nerves w.hen used continually. Even the odor of flowers. notably the odor of violets, has been known to cause a singer temporarily 10 lose her voice. Lobster a In Newvberg. Rlecipes for this dish have been given by tihe score but there is always room f r ano:ier if It is good and simple. ilke the following: Cook together in the do::h.e boiler of a chafinrg dish a 1a:1 ptnt of cream and the voikxs of thxree e:::rs,~ ntil ther' tic Lken. Punt in them the meat from one laxrge or two small lobsters and when this is smok ing hot pour in a gill of sherry. Cook until the mixture is hot, season with a scant teaspoonful of salt and a couple of daishes of cayenne, and serve at once. For those who like it, a table' spon ful of good brandy may be added. -Goot Housekeeping.~ Not ltqual to thie Itrt. Cholly-I aay, .AlgIe, who is that rul gah person on the othah side of the Algie-We ally, my deah boy, you'll have to excuse mae. I'm so beastly fatigued that I can't look fahthah than the middle of the bloomin' street. donch er know.-Chica go Even g News. THE TRt-sTs astI FARMERS -The rusts combicd sad raisec the price - nearly every commecrai commuodity, td with the aid of a protective tariff, ot great protits ojut of the Jaboricg ~lastcs and bled the e'jsamers, mainly rarmers. 'The only p-ic'es to fall were hcse on favtm prodt,'ts. The Icar 3.ok of the D -partment oIf Agrieuhure or i899. which has recently been is 'ued, shows that the farm produets and 'arm animals in 1899. although vastly .nerened in quantity since ]890), had aien off in value to the extent of 7t.9i9 971. This only' counts as n fthe faem rrlu.?ts of 1899 had rouht the samce pIrext as did the same ructs in 1"Th, they' w:.uld hava .t'.*idht teore than they didi by the tum Gait'esville. Ga., 14ie. 8. 1899 Pis' Anltiseptic Invigorator LS' en used in my family a.d I am per etly satisfied th'at it isll. and will al, oCu claim tor it Y '.irs truly, A. B. . Dortcy. P. S.-I am using it no)w myself. t' ioing mae good.-Sld by Th Niur ay Drog Co., Columbia, 8. C., and all FEMINM FRILLS. Trifles That Are in Season for My Lady's Toilet at the Pres ent Time. Face powder is not such a wicked thing as It sounds when, it is used properly. A little of it in summer help to keep the skin smooth and dry and does much. toward keeping the collars clean. The little package of soap papers, to use in case of emer g.ncy. proved popular, and after them came the package of powder papers in little cases and each leaf full of powder. That is one of the most. con venient forms of carrying powder for the woman who likes it. when travel. ing. but there is also a little leather case of about the same size contain ing a little chamois, well powdered, as well as the tiny powder puff in a little bag to tuck away with the handkerchief. Some women prefer a bit of chamois always, In using pow der, to the powder putf, says the New York Times. New ties which are getting rather popular are of soft silk ent; made to go twice around the neck with short ends. On each end is a large tassel, the color or the tie. They are not ex pensive. which may have something to do with their popularity. The girl who likes to have things match depends a great. deal upon. pins for her hat trimmings. There are some mihiners who tell of the advan tages of pins. With a pin, a flower or bow can be put just where it is want ed, when having to take innumerable stitches is apt to dislocate it a little. But the girl who has things match gets a hat that does not cost. so much, that she must keep it in condition for a second year's wear, and then invests in flowers as she finds them in bar gains. Bargain flowers do not mean cheap flowers. The woman who buys economically is not the one who goes without or buys a poor quality. She is the one who gets the things she wants or something that will answer the purpose well, and gets it cheaply. The bargain flowers may be good ones. There were some very attractive flow ers in one of the shops last week for 15 cents a bunich, and some of them were silk. A c uple of bunches would be enough to give the color tone to a hat and with some flowers one bunch. The girl who has things match has the flowers of her hats match the colors of her ribbons. She puts them off and on, using the hat which she does not mind pinning into for the foundation. It is not expensive, and it is very pretty. Black-headed pins are the most satisfactory to use for this purpose on black hats, the ones with dull heads which are not notice able in the trimming if they chance to show. White-headed pins for trim ming a white hat are used. It is a good idea and worth trying. ETIQUETTE OF THE DANCE. A Few Things That Should Be Known by Every Devotee of Terp sichore. The etiquette of the ballroom or the private dancing party ought to be fa miliar to all who attend such diver sions, but, if so, its observance is far from universal. A few general rules should always be borne in mind, says the Chicago Chronicle. When a man is presented to a young woman at a dance he usually says al most at once: "May I have the pleas ure of this dance?" After dancing and walking about the rooms two or three times the young man may take the girl back to her chaperon and plead anoth er engagement. or, better, she suggests that he take her to a place near her mother or chaperon. The lady is the one to first intimate her desire to stop dancing. If a man holds a girl too tightly she should drop her hand from his shoul der so as to bring it between her part ner and herself. If he does not take the hint let her stop dancing at once under some pretext so evident that he may realize her displeasure or disap A chaperon should not be lacking in personal dignity; nor should she dance while her eharge is un provided with a partner. A girl should be attentive to h er mother or her chaperon. presenting her friends to her and occasionally stopping to say a few words. Both young men and maidens should be careful to remember that their dan cing engagement. must be kept. A girl must not refuse to dance with one man uander some pretext and then dance with another; neither should she dance with the same man more than two or three times A young man invited to a house should dance as early as possible with the daughter of his hostess and pay them every possible attention. Jellied Meat. An excellent jellied-meat for picnics or camp is this old-fashioned stand-by of our grandmothers. Get four pigs' feet with legs to the first joint and boil In a pot of water without salt until the bones fall out. Take the meat from the liquor, strain an d set away to cool. In another kettle have a shank of beef sawed and cut. TBoil this in unsalted water until very tender. Remove the meat an~d set the liquor away to cool. The next morn~ng remove the fat from both liquors. cut the meat in small bits. add the liquor the pigs' feet were cooked in (thie beef l!quor can be util izee in soup), salt, pepper and spice to taste, heat and pour in molds to hari! en. It is hardly necessary to say that thIs meat should be prepared at home. the day before using.-Washing: on Star. Cherry Water Ice. StraIn the juice from a quart of cher ries through a linen hag and the juice from two lemons over a pmued of sugar; add a pin+ of water and wine glassful of brandy and freeze.-Cincin nati Commercial Vvibune. McKinley's Prosperit y. A statement has been sent out from Clinton, Mass., that a general wage re duction in N'2w Eigland cotton mills is contenjiulated. The report esuld not be verified bere A reduction in wsges is under consideration in Fall River. but as yet no decision has been posi tively ar.nouuced, though treasurers representing 1J0,000 spindles have areed to a reduction lan. Should waes be redued in that city it is thought that manay manufacturers else where maY take up the wage question, but as far as can bekIarned here no ac tion has yet been decided upon Consid erable se crecy is maintained at Fall Riv e, concerning the proposed reductirn because of feared objections of some stockhoders opposed i c a reduction at this time. and for fesr of the effect on trade O)pponents of' the plan olaim that while there is. no demand for goods, a reduction of wares cannot solve the market problem wl ich' confronts the ni uen today. Curtr.ilment of pro duction is Lhe only means of relieving Ithe market and creating a demand. OLD INDIAN LANDS. A Louisiana Grant That Troubles the Government. _ . t 1home of the IIonnan J1a1 BIeen the Source of a Great 'Ilny Law suita-Fraudulent Land Clalinants. After a quiet of several years the liouna land grant has agrain com e toU the front to occupy the attention of t the Lnited .state, court-. Iroab y to publie lands in the couuntry he e iven the United States mWore trounIe .banl those ot the liluma Indians. There hate been more lawu..is ou~r tben. c11nspirtcies. riots and di;sturb anecs than over nu:y other part of the fedjerai domain. rihe question has fre lre:; y tigured in local politics and more than once h:as obtruded itself on congress. The liouma Indians occu pied a considerable part of south Louis iana vhen the French landed there. There was a Ilouta village on ie pi esent site of New Orleans. The mudi .t, were quiet and peaceable- they gave the whites no trouble. In. conse quience the whites had a great deal of Itriuble themselves. The Indians were gradually crowded out of all the fer tile. lands thi-y owned, and took refuge in the swamps on both sides of the Anite river in Livingston and .Ascension parishes. in I29 the tribe became totally ex tinct and the lands were thrown open by the government to settlement. It was found, however, that there were old French and Spanish claims to them -for the Spanish piled their claims three or four thick on every acre of land in southern Louisiana. An at tempt was made to oust the squatters in Livingston parish, but they proved a rather lawless lot, and as everybody in that section was a squatter the mat ter was finally settled by perfecting their titles. There was the same trouble in Ascen sion parish. The government opened the land to public settlement in 1S39. and again in 1SS5. Quite a number of entries were made in the latter year. but when those who had entered the land attempted to take. possession of their property they found it already occupied by squatters, both white and black. who had held it for several gen erations without the slightest title. This brought up the old Livingston trouble. The squatters refused to leave, and threatened to resent any at tempt at dispossession. After much parleying a compromise was finally reached whereby the squatters agreed to pay a certain sum of money. either In lump or in installment. provided they were left in their possession. But again in 1S97 the United States land office threw these lands open to entry for the third time and many entries were made. The occupants of the lands, squatters and others, began a new mode of war. They declared that they were being pestered; by land speculators. that the entries were fraudulent and not in good faith and Intended to milk and fleece them; and they organized a committee known as the "Land Investigating Comtnittee of Ascension parish" to investigate the matter and see who were the men in strumental in getting tup these land ent ries. The commit tee devoted much time and attection to this matter and reported that the entry scheme was being worked from New Orleans, lands being fraudulently entered there, corn pelling the occupants of these lands to buy them from those who got titles through the United States land office. The squatters and other occupants of the public lands in dispute. who con stitute a large part of the population of the eastern half of Ascension. be lieve that by this criminal proceeding. and the. convict ion of the men making these entries. they have put an end to the troubles fronm which they have suffered so long and which have conm peled them to organize again and again to keep their farms. They have miadte it too hot. they say, for the land speculators. But if congress or the United' St a tes land office could interfere and prevent further troubl.e and dis putitng of titles in the Houma land riantt it would prevent a great deal of ill feeling, smooth down politics and prevent litigation over a question that has been before the courts for nearly 70 years. An Omtssion. Chloe, a young negro house servant in an Atlanta family, had asked per missiot. to attend the wveddings of one of her friends. This permission hav ing been granted, Chloe set, forth ar raved like unto a combination of Solo mon and glory and the lilies of the field. The next day her mistress said to her: "Well, Chlot, how did the wedding go off ?" "Oh, Ia, mtissus, it was de grandest weddin' I ever saw! It was jess lubly! Oh. yo' jess ought toc ob seen de flowabs an' de splendid weddin' suppah an' de bride-oh, tde bride! She had on de longest trail an' a. white veil all ovah her, an' a wreath oh flowahs, an' oh, It was jess de mos' elegant weddin'!" "Ilow did the bridegroom look?" An expression of in.inite disgust camne into the face of Chloe as she said scorn fully: "La, missy. dat good-for-nothin', no 'ount n iggah nebbah come a-nigh!" Lippin cot t. Getting Back. First Dentist-I got even with tho photographer who took my picture. Secon'l Den tist-How did yon do it ? "When he got, into my chair I said: 'Look pleasant, please.' "-Tit-Bits. Very Strr.atar. "A good womer..' sai the lect urer, "is like pure gold." "That's right." interrupted a face tious man in the rear. "Money talks." -Chicago Evening New. FREE BLOOD CURE An Offer Providing Faith to Sufferers Eating Sores, Tumors, Uleers, are all curable by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Baln.) which is made especially to cure j all terrible Blood 1)iseases. Persistent Sores. B'ood and Skin Blemishes, Srofula, that resist other treatmnents, arc quickly- enredl by 1B. B. B. (Botani, Blood Balm). Skiht Eruptions. Pim pes. Red. Itching Eezema, Scales. Blisters, Boils, Carantneles. Blotches, Catarrh, Rheumatism, etc.. are all due to bad blood, and hence easily cured by B. B. B. Blool Poi.'n producing Eating Sores, Eruptioni, Swollen] gtlands. Sere Throat etc-., cured by B. B B. (Botanic Blood Balm). in one to five months. U. B. B. does not con tan vegetable or mineral poison. One bottle will test it in an case. For sale by druggists everywhere. Lare bottles $1, six for five 85. Write for free sataplebottle, which will be sent, prepaid to Timecs readers, deacribe simptoms and personal free tredicaf advice will be given. Address Blood alm (C . Atlanta a. NEW VALUE OF SAGEBRUSH. I "e Long-DLr r d Plant Has Been I Found to Be Excellent Food for Cattle. One of the strikingly remarkabe hings in the development of this coun ry has been the transformation of iews that has taken pace in the pop ilar mind regarding relative values. c ections of the country. their cap,.e ies and products, that in the early days sere regarded as wholly worthless, of ate dovs have been discovered to be ( mnong the richest wealth-producing erritories to be found anywhere on the ace of the earth. Take, for example, 1 hat section of country lying between t he Missouri river and Denver. Thirty lye years ago the principal part of .hat is now known as the great corn ] >elt was supposed by the shrewdest ind' best informed men of affairs to >e little better than a vast irreclaim tble wilderness, incapable of affording 5 metenance for anything but jackrab- t )its and prairie dogs. Its chief product a n those days was sagebrush, which vas thought to be useful for nothing < wut adding fuel to the flames o9 prairie 1 res in the fall season, says the Chicago I ?ost. But that supposed wilderness has I urned out to be the garden spot of the ontinent, which requires only to be t ickded to produce in superabundance ] if food for man and beast. It has. in I act, become the great granary of the I iorld, on which the eyes of civilization 1 re constantly fixed to see what prom- I se for the future it has to make. Not 1 >nly so, but it has been discovered that a the despised. sagebrush is in itself an s article of great value, through the cul tivation of which the people of the sec ion which is its habitat may be ;reatly enriched. So clearly and forcd tly has this been demonstrated that. the department of agriculture at Wash ngton is actually sending out free to the agriculturists of the region In ques- t :ion packages of sage seed, the cultiva tion of which is strongly urged. Recent investigation has shown that the plant contains highly nutritious t qualities, and is the most desirable for- I age that can be found for cattle in win- f ter. Furthermore, It has been found that cattle are exceedingly fond of It, fnd will eat it when available in pref erence to anything else. Stock fed on it make rapid growth and are said to I be remarkably free from disease be- C 2ause of the tonic qualities it contains. I It cannot be cut and cured as is hay, a but where cattle can be allowed to roam t it large during the winter months it I affords them most desirable feed. It will grow anywhere. Alkali and non lkali lands are the same to it. and. it f fourishes alike in dry and wet seasons. Seeds and stems are both eaten with I relish by all grazing animals. C ARMY PAY TEMPTED THEM. ow New York Italians Were In- a daced to Answer Questions for - the Census Man. The foreign quarters of New York I gave the enumerators a great deal of trouble. Many thought their names were being taken for the purpose of impressing them into the army. An in terpreter was sent post haste one day to help out an enumerator who had telephoned to headquarters that he had been nearly murdered by an infuriated crowd in a crowded tenement. When the enumerator returned to the tene ment in company with the interpreter pandemonium broke onit again. A big, strapping, muscular woman led the hostile forces, and was followed by one Italian armed with a club, another with a picket torn from a fence, while a third had drawn a stiletto ready for bsiness. The interpreter finally managed to win the atteution of the amazon, when she remarked In surprise: "Oh, you] act not like an Italian dago who came around bullying us as soon as they got a government job. And you are a good-looking gentleman, too." Then, turning to her followers the woman cried: "Mfen, these are real gentlemen. and they won't take you for soldiers. So answer all their ques tions." "How do I know that they won't take me?" asked a small-sized man. "They would not take you if you offered yourself," repLied the inter preter, and then he expcmnedt the qual ifications required of -.m American sol dier and told what pay he got. "Fifteen dollars a month and food and clothes? Mfost holy Madonna! And I barely earn that amount the year round, and have to buy food and pay rent," exclaimed a well-built man. "I'll go and enlist to-morrow." The next moment 33 Italians were tumbling over each other to have thc!r names taken down. Sometimes the work of the enumer ator and interpreter among the Ital ians was more agreeable, and had they been matrimonially inclined they could have made good Italian mat ches. In a comfortably furnished house were two sisters, somewhat past 40, one a widow and the other still a spinster. After giving their names and ages they proceeded to catechise the visitors, and when they learned that both were bachelors the widow at once proposed marriage. She had $10,000, she said, md her sister had $8,000. Lead Poisoning. Lead poisoning may be more comu mon than is supposed. So thinks a French physician who was puzzled by the llness of a boy of 12 years. until the father appeared with the wame trouble, when it was discovered that he family had been using wood from a white lead factory.-Clnclnnati En gurer. Pain Producers. Mfr. Talkso-Yes, I am very sensitive about my feet. Mr. Sourdropp-What do you do? Wear tight shoes or write poetry? Bal timore American. ONE of Mr. Bryan's hot shot which worries the imperialists aspecialy is this: I place the philosophy of Franklin against he sordid doctrine of those who would put a price upon the life f an American soldier and jus :ify a war of conquest upon the round that it will pay. The Democratic party is in favor of :he expansion of trade. It would extend our trade by every legiti ?nate and peaceful means, but it s not willing to make merchan ise of human blood." THE Chicago Chronicle calls ittiention to the fact that the op onents cf Mr. Bryan not only oncedle his absolute honesty >ut are actually using this as an rgument for his defeat. The ontrast between the Demo ratic candidates and the Re >ublican is as sharp as the con rast iln platfornmr. Mr. Brvan s in synmpathy with his party] leelarations. McKinley is not. 3ryan leads his party.~ McKin- 1 SLY OLD LI RUNG CHANG. [ow the Famous Chinese Minister Proved the Guilt of Would-B. Poisoners. Many residents of Chicago will re iember the visit of Li Hung Chang to hta city during the aged Chinese min ter's tour of the United States. His uaint observations on men and' things were distinguished by wonderful hrewdness, which shows itself in verything that the old man says or oes. A characteristic story is now n circulation regarding him. He was engaged in a bitter fight with some of he more conservative members of the sung-li-yamen, when he received as L present a magnificent but, as he had, very reason to believe, a poisoned-cake. le put the cake aside and set all his 1;i sr.u. uoxvnt:."sa.iu, aty ;, i pu of Na.t o; ..mnatmatm tn;.sauod o three men, of whom one at least mas absolutely guilty. Li had the trio rrested and brought to him. The ake was produced' with the remark hat "politeness forbade his tasting it intil the three generous donors had iad an opportunity to enjoy its excel ence." Li cut the cake and one of his servi ors handed) it to-the unwilling guests. each took a piece and. ate, or pretended o eat. One crumbled' the pieces and et them fall to the floor, but the other wo ate calmly, without manifesting Lny emotion. Ten minutes and the wo men began to show symptoms of uffering. Li smiled benignantly and aid to the man who had not eaten: "Your wisdom is so great that I am ompelled to preserve your head as souvenir to transcendent genius." The man was removed and) promptly ecapitated. To the other two the >remier remarked:: "The cake that you are eating is not he one you sent, but one which I had ny cook imitate. The poison from vhich you are suffering exists only in our imagination. 1 know of no way o cure your present pain except by etting you share the fate of your riend who has just left the room." Not to Be Discouraged. "Polite society" Is often at its wits' nd to devise means of getting rid of eople who are not wanted as callera r visitors, but who will not take a Lint; for polite society cannot say in ,o many words: "I do not want yon o come again." A French paper re eats this dialogue between two Ia ies: "And so you still receive that dread ul Mime. Comeagain?" "Impossible to get her to take a int! Do you know, the last time she alled I never offered her a chair!" "And what was the result?" "Result? Why, the next time she ame she brought a folded camp tool! "-Youth's Companion. Not One. "Young Goslin is in love with all the iris," said Wintergreen. "But what particular girl is in love vith him?" asked Terwilliger. "The girl who would be in love with idm would not be a particular girl." [own Topics. Snubs Regretted. "A man can't. be too careful whom he inubs." "Wh at d o you mean?" "Why, every once in awhile I've Lubbed some plain people who after vard came int.o a lot of money." Bloomington Pant.agraph. Hauling Down Old Glory. The Augusta Chronicle took ccasion a few days ago when ~he news came that the Ameri an flag was flying over the im erial granary in Peking, to in uire what the Republican ad ninistration was going to do Ibout it-whether the Chinese :apital should ever remain an american outpost, or if the ad ninistration would dare to 'pull down the flag." Mr. Bryan took occasion in us speech to puncture the same >Oint, and did it in such admir ble style as to extort praise ven from his vigorous oppon mt, the New York Evening Post, one of the ablest indepen lent newspapers in America. 'he Post says: He took hold of ne of the most cherished of the Republican scarecrows-the aw ul sacrilege of hauling down Old Glory"-and showed up .ts composition very happily. e pointed out that the admin stration is now engaged in haul ng down the flag in Alaska, for he very good reason that it was ving over territory that did not long to us. He asked wh~ther he fact that the flag had been raised over Peking compelled as to maintain an army per nanently there to keep it from eing hauled down. And he in uired' particularly as to the matter of hauling down the flag in Cuba. Is President McKin .ey going to haul down our flag svhen the Cubans set up a gov rnment, or not? If he is not oing to haul it down, what is he meaning of our talk of Cu aan freedom and independence? [f he is going to haul it down, vhat does he mean by talking s if the act was sacrilege? On his vtbject m. Bryan has scored a distinct advantage. [e has offered the Republican rators a dilemma, from which :hey can escape only after the manner of the cuttlefish. They iave formed the habit uttering . large quantity of cant and aombast and platitude, and pass Eng it off on patient audiences, vith the idea that it would be :eceived as profound wisdom. ow they have to deal with an rator whio is not afraid to expose ~heir sham patriotism, and who nakes their most exalted and mpressive appeals ridiculous. DR. Henry Wade Rogers, eX )resident of Northwestern Um rersity, in Illinois, and recently ralled to a professorship at Yale, iavs he will vote for Bryan m'd Stevenson. In 1896 he roted for McKinley and Hobart. R~ regards silver as a dead is ue, and imperialism as "the nost dangerous possibly policy 'or the republic to adopt," Bss Hanna and his crowd eei to be greatly alarmed and iave joined the calamity howl Is. Thiey are predicting disas .al panic if Brvan is elect