Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A SAD PICTU KP BiiM Arp Cals Attention to the Deca dence of the FARMERS OF NEW ENGLND. He Writes About a Book, Which All Should Read, Especially Our Youu Men. A Good Letter. - Last uight I read to my family. po tions of a long article by a preache describing the sad miiin ap ple he has receutly visited. ()itl Of one hundred and sixty-cight tow.Ns in the State he visie sevenlty of t1hwm that are off from the railroads, and all of these have decreased in population since 1o9. None of these towns have settled pastors or preachers and the > churches are abandoned or have preaching at irregular intervals and the attendance hardily ever exceeds twenty-t-ve person-. The Sabbath sch .- are equally deserted. The once busy planis of small industries are dead and the people farm only for the bare necessities of life. Houses, barns, and fences are going to decay and the little mills that were on the creeks have tumbled down and the dams have washed away. Here and there you will see a stately mansion sheltering some degenerate family in the back woods while the vacant front greets you with the silence of the -tomb. Sometimes you will tind an old man and woman alon: in an old ances tral home. I found a mother and her two sons and two old maids in one house not one of whom could read. The intermarriage of icar rclatives or not marrying at all is common ai-d bachelor and divorced men and widow ers have housekeepers and they un blushingly cohasbit with them and yoing girls become grass widows by 7-the time they are sixteen. "Where is all this?" said my wife. "I don't believe a word of it. It is some newspaper lie-a fake made up by some reporter." I read on. In one town I found the usial Saturday night dance going on in an old vacated tavern and they danced and develled and drank until Sunday morning. Sunday is no more observed than it is in Chicago, for they hoe and dig and gather hay all the same as on week days. Illiteracy, insanity and imbe cility are very marked: I found one family in which both parents were idiots and had raised up a family of idots. In another home or house I found a poor father taking care of three motherless children, all idiots. 1 don't believe a word of it," said -^my wife. "There is no such people in this country. What paper are you reading from?" One can hardly conceive of the filth and vice reigning in these country places called homes-a barbarism dif fering from the city slums only in its stagnant inertia and touched as little by church influences as if in the heart of Africa. The conntry people all over the State are generally without ambition, improvident, ignorant, not able to read or write, loose in their family relations, socially corrupt, giv en to drink, and some to the opium *habit. And these are the towns where half a century ago, lived the best fam ilies of the State. Among them the Fields (Cyrus and his brother), the Abbotts, the Barnes and Donald G. Mitchell and others. And now let me tell you, my dear wife, I am reading from The Hartford Times and this is only a short portion of the report read in New Hlaven re *cently by Rev. Mr. Hutching, a Bible colporteur, of Connecticut. This report is fully accredited to be true and the editor of The Times tries to tone it down by saying, "The same conditions described by Mr. Hutchins for Connecticut are common to all the older States." Rev. George Horr. of of Massachusetts, is also a Bible col porteur for that State and he said in Boston the other day. 'I have driven all over New England with my own horses and my conviction is there is no immortality in any western mining town that will compare with what you find'a few miles from any New En gland town. Mr. Hutchins' observa tion corresponds exactly with my own." Good friends, kind friends, t'hat is -to be done about this. But the editor of The Times is mistaken when he says the same conditions are common to all the older St ates. We have no -such people in Georgia. In some of our mountain counties the people are illiterate, but tney are honest and -moral and attend church and observe the marriage relation and obey the laws of the land and make the best soldiers the world ever saw. They have courts twice a year and it takes only a half a week to clear the crimi nal dockets. Now, I was thinking that as Bos ~ton and Hartford and New Haven had sent a big lot of money down here to - educate and reform our negroes it would be nothing but fair for us to send a lot of the graduates up there to do missionary work in Connecticut and Massachusetts. These negrc graduates couldnt teach them the lost art of making wooden nutmegs, but they could teach school and pi-each and the New England people could -pay them for it and keep their money at home. Something must be done and done quick, or the old Puritan race will become extinct. I reckon these 'colored graduates would make good missionaries. They have never tried anything else. When my good friend MIr. T. K. Oglesby sent me his book, "Somae Truths of History-The South Vindi cated," I was too sick to peruse it carefully. Since I have gotten better I have reread it-every page-and am free to say it is the most comforting little book of 260 pages I have vet found. It is masterly and as true and solid as a stone wall. He has certainly vindicated the South and nailed the lies and slanders to the masthhead. I feel like I have a de fender in mine own household, and yet there is not a malignant expres sion in it. It is gracefully done and would bring conviction to any mind, North or South, that was cpen to conviction. Every youth in the land should buy a copy and absorb its con tents, for it is as readable as a 1o mance. I regard it as the best con tribution to Southern historical litera ture that has yet appeared. Send 81.25 to Mr. Oglesby, No. 8 South Broad street, A tlanta, Ga. It seems to me that this book would convert a Northern fanatic and if it converted only one it would save a soul from death and hide a multitude of sins. And there has recently come to me; the March number of The Alkahest, a iirst-class Southern magazine, and 1 The Stafes of ClNilization,- by Mr. 1 Frank Orme. of Atlanta. I did not -hink that the Frank Otme I used to now was old enough to have written an article so scientitic, so Dhilosophl -al. so Huxleylikeon the races of man kind. 3kst of the article is an analy tical history of the principal races and the causes that coutributed to their advaneament or their decay. The latter part deals gently and fairly with the negro and our efurts to eleva and retine him by educatiun. From Mr. Ornacs viewpoint and the laws of ethrology and biogy this camnot be done ald the t2ort wil be in vain. Ihr I have not time or space to re view his admirable treatise. Let our tlough tiful mnii. our wise men. our larned prfehssors in the college read it al the y will find abundant food fo r thought and serious realection. Mr. Orne seems as familiar with en thnology, biology, anthripol~og.y, so cologV and all th2 other ologies as Huxley or Humboldt or Darwin. We Old veterans are pleased to see our young men taking hold of these things. Ever since the war our peo ple h'ave seemed almost paralyzed for fear ;f nking their condition more intolerable by talking but (if late there s a renewal of independence and vountger men are coming to the frout. Tue sale of Henry I. Jacksons great speech on "The Wanderer" has ex ceeded my expectations and it was a voung man who projected that-not for mouey but for the diffusion of knowledge. And here is a long article in a Des Mon ines paper from a woman who has been recently traveling through Texas hunting for something she wanted to find and she found it. It was some very high weeds in the front yard of one home-and at another house was a woman sitting on a log dipping snuff and she had lost all her front teeth. Another discovery was that Texas i mni don't do anything. They wi( wo 'k t !e garden or raise enickens. or churn the butter and if one was caught at it she would be taken up and put in a glass case and sent to the St. Louis fair as a curiosity. What a malignant slanderer she is. She winds up by saying that the people there hate the negro so bad that if the whole race had but one neck they would chop it off. I know Texas from east to wes' and north to south and the neople svill average well with the bter class in the older States. When will these slanders cease? The March number of The Review of Reviews has a most excellent editorial on the South and her people. It is kind and con siderate until it gets to Roosevelt and it gives him the most falsome praise and declares that he is our friend. But I want Mr. Shaw to cell me if he can about when will Roosevelt retract his published slanders of Jefferson Davis and make an apology to his widow. That's what I want to know and until he does that no words of praise will prove him to be either a gentleman or a friend.-Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. NEGRO BLOOD IN TETR VATINS. Henry Watterson Takes Notice of a Recent New York Escapade. Henry Watterson finally has taken note of the entertainment on the part of Nw York's 400 of a negro woman. Aida Overton Walker. The Cou rier-Journal's editor does not appear to have been greatly shocked. He says some of these swells need not go far back to find negro blood in their veins. Says Mr. Watterson: 'The news papers are making an ado over the in ident which came to pass at Delmo nico's the other evening, where at a function by some members of the smart set a colored lady became the piece ot resistance, as we Irish say. "It is due to the truth that history observe that the colored lady was not among the originally invited guests. In point of fact, she belonged to a company of show people exhibiting at a B~roadway theatre, and that she came to instruct the swells into the mysteries of the cakewalk. They took such a liking to her, however, that the line of distinction was quick ly obliterated, the host leading the Queen of Midnight through the giddy mazes of the dance, and the lily white belles of the court circle, making her at home and inviting hier to other en tertainments, pledged her in flagons of foaming champagne "The Courier-Journal has been asked by several esteemed contempo raries for an expression as to this new departure. It is not, we take ieave to remark, an altogether new depar ture. Several swells named as of thos3 present are known to haxve acted within their rights. If questioned, these might trace their own origin back to the rich, red blood of the Ethiopian, in some cases not so very' far back, either. They did but honor their race in honoring the dusky rep resentatives of the vaudeville stage. "The Courier-Journal is not en gaged in the work of sensational speci ication. If it was so engaged, it might reduce the great question to the dimensions of a vulgar scandal." Washington Post. His Father's Friend. Thomas McNeal, Esq., speaking at the banquet of the Kansas State Bar association, told of a lawyer wvho col lected $50 for a client and took out $35 for his fee. H~e said as he hand ed over the $15, "I am your friend. and I can't charge you a full fee. I knew your father for a great many years." And the client in the full ne~ss of his heart could only say, "Thank God, you didn't know my grandfather."-Law Notes. Shot His Two Sos At ]pankland Ind., as a result of a family feud David Gaines Thursday night shot two of his sons. Lloyd 14 ye~ars old, was shot in the side and the older son who interferred was shot through the lett hand. The younger boy will die. Gaines left home and is being hunted by two other sons. Who are armed and swear they will shoot him on sight. Otiicers are also lo ki ng for him. Served Them Right. C. E. Sapp, formger collector of in ternal revenue, Leonard Parsons, his former deputy, and Joe Potoning, a local Republican politician, pleaded guilty in the federal court at Louis-I vile, Ky., on Wednesday to indict ments charging them with asseesing federal employes for political purpose. Sapp and Potoning were fined $300 each and costs, Parsons $:200 and Tn. lion. Grover Cleveland rises to remark that the scribe who quoted h im as saying that he is out of politics took unwarranted liberties with the language, for he didn't say anything of the kind. Grover miay as well say Trouble With the Landrones on the Island of Mindanao. A dispatch frn Manila says tie town of Suriwa, in the norheasteni part of the Island of Mindanao. which was captured Sunday by ladrones. %%as relieved Weduesday. Toe Americali o:licials and foreigners were found to be safe. Secretary 1lu't received a cablegram from Governor 'I'aft givir the following account of the atack of Surigao: -Affair at Surig , turns out to be the. escape of to prisoners sententced to long terms fr ladroism. whO. with to or 8o of their fellows returtred to surig;jt, succeeded in s r'risi" and rushing the constabi!ary ispc tor. Lewis M. Clarke. and I hus taking commandll( of tile town. Nine A mer cans. including two wonn. retreated to the provincial building. where. un der the direction of Luther S. Kelly, provincial treasurer, formerly captain of volunteeri and still earlier an In dian scout. known as 'Yellow Stone Kelly.' barricaded the building against the attacking party. The Amerieans. armed with only a few shotguns and short of a * mmunition, maintained their defense against the ladrones, re fusing to yield to an ultimatum de manding guns by the reply of Kelly that they would not give up a single gun and would kill on sight any Ia drone within range. Assistant Chief Taylor arrived at Surigao with con stabulary force. about 18 hours after the attack. On his approach the la drones disappeared and columns are now following them. Surigao, ex treme northeast Mindanao: is so far removed that I have concluded to call upon George W. Davis to put military in command with hope that a large force of ladrones and their guns may be captured and they may be prosecu ted for murder and ladronism. So far as advised Capt. Clarke only American killed. The cable from Surigao land ed near provincial building in which Americans took refuge and they were thus able to communicate with mili tary commander at Iligan and with constabulary headquarters at Cebu. Two constabulary inspectors were ab sent from Surigao in Cebu, where they were passing their examinations for promoition. Surigao had been re garded as a quiet province since the capture and sentence of ladrones, but their escape led to the difficulty. 1f deemed necessary by the military commander the commission will sus pend the writ of habeas corpus for Surigao, but it is to be hoped that this measure can be avoided." IUST ?E CRAZY. Mad Act of a Morman Elder in Wil liamsburg County. A dispatch to The State says there was considerable excitement at Lake City in Williamsburg County on last Thursday caused by two Mormon eld ers. About 10 o'clock that morning one of the Mormon elders entered the home of Mr. A. C. Stewart, a farmer living a few miles below Lake City. The men folks were out in the field at work, no one being in the house but Mrs. Stewart and her daughter. He talked insultingly to Mrs. Stewart and her daughter, causing them to run out of the house with fright, the young lady jumping out of the win dow and running across the field to Mr. S. Ed. Floyd's screaming for help with the Mormon elder chasing her, t seem the other elder tried to stop him. Mr. Floyd and others got him and tied him and after he was tied he went into the house of a M~ r. McKen zie and used insulting language to a young lady there. He fought to a finish and was knocked down into a clay hole of water by Mr. Floyd with a large paddle used in boiling clothes. He begged Mr. Floyd to pull him out, and when out he fought Mr. Floyd again, and the latter had to knock him down several times before he con Iquered him. Mr. Stewart was informed that two men were attempting a cri.ne upon his daughter, and it took hard work to ge~t his gun away from him. as be wanted to kill this fellow, the other having gotten away. A courier went into Lake City with the report, saying they had one bring ing him to town and wanted dogs to catch the other. Soon after they came in with the man they had cap tured, tied and bloody, wet and cold, and shivering like he had an ague. An excited crowd soon assembled, but nothing rash was attempted. lie did not ask to have his wounds dress ed, but begged for some one to do something to get him warm. Is wounds were dressed by D~r. Courtney. He was having a preliminary trial for attempted rape when your correspon dent's train arrived. Your corregpon dent had a talk with the prisoner and believes he is not in his right mind. Woman. A plain woman takes pride in her friends, a beautiful woman in her enemies. A woman will often say no when she means yes; but nev-er yes when she means no. The normal woman is capable of one love and fifty atl'airs. A woman's charity sometimes begins away from home, and Zhen remains there. A young girlis the nearest approach to an angel that we have-and the most exasperating. - It has not been decided whether ai woman is happier when happy or when miserable. When a woman is throughly tired she finds nothing so refreshing as a nice long talk. Do Not Laugh. Do not laugh at the drunken man reeling through the streets. Hlowevecr ludicrous the .sigh0 may be, just pause and think, Hie 1s going home to some tender heart that will throb with intense agony: some doting mother, perhaps, who will grieve over the down fall of him who was once her sinless boy; or perhaps a fond wife, whose heart will almost break with grief as she views the distruction of her idol: or maybe a loving sister who will shed bitter tears over the disgrace of her brother, shorn of his manliness and self-respect. As your eyes follow the drunken man's uncertain footsteps record a solemn vow that, while you live, you will do all that within you lies to avoid drunkenness. illed Her Aunt At Chicago while jokeing with a relative. Miss Nellie O'Day picked up a small riule yesterday afternoon and accidentally touched the trigger. The weapon was dischartred killing her aunt, Mrs. Margaret O'Day. The c('r oner's jury acquitted the young wo Briety ira BorOui The people of the North in general, and New England in particular, delight in charging all manner of elec tion frauds on the South. To hear these people talk one would think that such a thing as cheating at elec ions5 aiong them is a thing unhiard of. * B1t they aie not half as free from wrong doing in the matter of .:iections as they pretend to be. In fact the cheating in elections have became SO nltorious in Boston even that the Legislature of Massachusetts has been compcelled to take hold of the matter. Itecentl evidence, of wilt lesale repeati- in the eighth ward of B-ostoln at theI State election la.:t Nuvembr startled tihe legislative committee thati was investigating the charges made about that saintly city. Otine of the witnesses before the com miLtee, Hlenry Brown by name. de clared that he voted no less than seven times between 3:15 and 3:55 in the afternoon under a promise of re cei viig :I for each vote. As he wac paid at one time J2 the afternoon's work netted him $8. he said. Ile thought this was a pretty good day's pay. until later he ran across another man. who said he knew of a man who voted twenty-four times between 6 and x o'clock in the morning, receiving $1 each time. Brown added that he met parties on Election Day going from precinct to precinct, and voting in all of them. In each case he voted for John A. Keliher for Congressman and Daniel .1. Kiley for Representative. Irown also said that he was induced to vote at one of the places by Repre sentative Kiley. Nothing half is bad as this ever oc curred in the South, and yet thesE self-righ teous Boston people lay awake at night trying to devise some mean to prove that the South commit all sorts of election frauds. Some hovi or other they won't se2 thfir owr rascality during election times. but worry themselves sick about the sins of the people of the South. They arc the worst kind of hypocrites and nc one know it better than they them selves. If they would sweep the trast from their own- doors and let othei people's trash alone they would be a great deal more consistent than they are. Sit Down, Grover. It is the opinion of many that Gro ver Cleveland is working for the nomination for president at the hand, of the Democratic party. In com menting on this subject the Louis ville Courier-Journal staces a well known truth when it says "to th( great body of the Democrats of thE west and south Mr. Cleveland is an eyesore, an offense, a red rag, but- t< those Democrats who, like ourselves, would bridge the chasm of 1891-190( he is merely an obstruction. H( stands riglit acr6ss the middle of thE bridge, blocking the way. Except for him there would be no seriou: trouble. If we were his friend, anc assuredly we are not his enemy, and believed in his lofty professions, wt should still counsel him to stand aside. We should say to him: 'Mr. Cleve land, the Democratic shipwreck came to pass whilst you were on the bridge, Many of the crew. and some of the passengers, hold you responsible, guil ty of incompetency. if not of treach ery. Even according to your owr rating of yourself, you have done enough for your par-ty and your coun try. You are an old man. Why com pl icate the situation, embarrassi ng yur friends and cheating your age o: its repose. by once more unde-taking to seize the helm and to steer the shipy " This is a simple truth plain ly told, but Cleveland is too full ei egotism to heed it. It seems hard for Cleveland to understand that h( is only a han been. and that the ranli and tile of the D~em3cr-atic party has trusted him forthe last time. He be trayed the party into the hands of its enemies once. but he will never gel the chance to do so again. Grover should go away back and sit down. Scarcity or' Leap Years. It is very unusual but still it is a fact that the completion of the montih of February marked the first time ik history for 100 years when seven suc cessive Februarys of only 2S days have occurred and it will be 200 years longer, or the y-ear 2.100. The unu sual occurrence is due to the workings of the rule of astronomers for calcula ting leap years. The rule by which the present or Gregorian Calendar as calculated is as follows:' Every year divisible by four shall he a leap year except the centuries and these shall be leap y-ears if they are divisible by 400. According to this rule the year 1900 was not a leap year and therefore the present year, 1903, is the seventh y-ar since a leap year curred. The y-ear 2000 will be a leap year because it is divisible 1)3 400 so that the neXt time when seven com mon y'ears will be from the year 2096 to 210:3, the year 2100 not being a leap year. The above rule was in stituted by Pope Gregory in an effort to kcep the solar and calendar years together. The solar or sun 3-ear is 365 days, 5 hours, 40 minutes and 47 seconds long, so that every four year the solar years gets nearly but not quite 24 hours ahead of the common year and ac cordingly one day is ad ded to February evry 4 y-ears to take up the discrep ancy. There is, however, still a slight diference-. the calandair gaining on the solar year by about one day in every 40 years so that on every cen tuy year divisible by 400, the extra day is not added. The First Statue to a Woman. New Orleans claims the honor of heing the first city in the United Statcs to erect a statue to a woman. The n'onument stands in Margaret Place. at the intersection of Camp and Pr- tani a streets. It com memora testhe charities of Magaret Ha ughery, a woman reared in poverty, who accu mulael a for-tune in the milk and bakery business. She spent freely in the care an'! help of the poor in the city. and when she died her money 'as divided among the charitable in stitutions of New Orleans. Margaret was a young, ignorant wonmn when she lost her little boy. and although she had but servant's wages, she began at once to spend her money for the children of the poor about her. She used to carry bread and milk to the orphan asylum when she had no noney to give and no matte r how little money she possessed she div1ided with those who were poorer than she, when she died the people of New Orleans erected this statue in her- memory. Margaret is represented in the wvollen shawl and cotton dress familiar to resi dents of the city for so many years, with a little child by her side. THE Washington Post says some of the southern delegates to Republican conventions have had the palms of their hands liberally greased with " soap " The "ilow of seap" is older hn the rinnr of hope." The Blind Tigers in Charleston Clai the Chief of Police. t A dispatch from Charleston to the I Augusta Herald says war against the r blind tigers of Charleston has develop ed quite a sensation in whieh some startling assertious against the character of Charleston's chief of Po1 ice have been made by means of piac ing placards in the window of one of the places recently closed up. Since I the first of his administration Gover nor Hleyward has been keeping the constabulary moving actively against the blind tigers, of Charleston. The t developments in the Chiccoallair were spread broadcast and read with con siderable interest' in a great many newspaprs, but the latest "atair is the first of a r-ally sensational type so far. Scveral days ago a blind tiger run by R. M. McManus was raided by .rder of Mayor Smythe and ever since there have been placards placed daily in the window knocking on the character of the chief -of the police department to stare pedestrians in the face. The day following the raid this 1 one appeafld: ."This business was closed by orders of a drunken, inc impetent Chief of Police." No notice was taken of the placard by the otlicials, but it was read by ev erybody that passed the place. The following day an even more sensation ai placard was exhibited in tne win dow, reading as follows: "Why don't this drunken Chief t of Polica be as active in closing other places as be has this. The Governor could then call in the constabulary." The affair did not stop with this placard, nor was it allowed to remain long in its place. Apparently not satistied with the effect a single pla card was having, the advertisement was changed this morning, and in stead of one card, the show window was decorated with an array of cards that was calculated to stop anyone who might be passing, and could not help but have some resting place in the minds of the readers. The signs displayed are as follows: "What the community wishes to know is why this Chief of Police disgraces the uniform that the taxpayers put on his back. Who pays the rent of No. 37 Coming street? Who runs that den? Let him answer that, too." "Closed by order of that De baucher, Imposter upon the tax- 1 payers as the Chief of Police. Had he been sober instead of a state of beastly intoxication on the night of the murder of Young Pinckney the perpetrators of that foul deed might have been apprehended." "Who but this rotten Chief of Police is responsible for the rob bery of the old Veterans during the reunion in 'the year 1898? A 1 privilege was granted an imported gambler and ex-convict, at .the cost of $5,000 to do the work. Why was such a privilege granted? Not for the love of this convict. ] Who got the privilege money? Let him answver that." "This drunken Chief of Police occupied the time of tihe special dletectives in hounding down 1 those-that are distasteful to him, while the thieves have their own 1 way and the taxpayers pay the costs." It is the chief of police, W. A. Boyle, who 's refered to in the signs or cards that appear in the window, and everybody in Charleston expects i that some serious trouble wili be the] result of what many of the test peo pe here are referring to as "a dirty I piece of wor<" on the part of a "blind tiger keeper" meaning McManus.I While Chief Boyle has taken no action in the matter, treating it appa- < rently with contempt, it is plainly I seen that the manner in which his name is being handled by the blind I tiger is not at all appreciated by him. I The chief of police is pretty well liked by the best element of Charleston's people and tne community is siding I with him in the work he is doing, wile on the other hand McManus has I very little standing here at all. The fair-minded element of the city are I referring to his action in using the placards the way he has as "a stab in< the dark." Employment for Girls. One of the most important of the new institutions started in Charles ton and in the entire state, is the new plant which the American Cigar Company opened about eight weeks ago in Charleston. The company is employing young women and teach ing them the art of making cigars. I They have at present only about two hundred and fifty. But can give em ployment to five thousand. The work is clean, healthy and easy to learn. and the amount of money that the girls can make is far greater than in any other trade or employment. In six weeks time the young ladies make t from $4 to $6 and in three months from Si to $10 per week. A very3 strong effort is being made by the management to secure-only the high est class of young ladies who are forc ed to earn their own living. The Commercial Club of Charleston and a number of the leading ministers are assisting the company by sending I them all the worthy young ladies who are in need of employment, and they have given the concern their hearty I approval. In order to break the monotony of work a piano is played in the building every afternoon and the girls are allowed to sing while at work. An elderly lady acts as ma tron and one of the leading physicians a of Charleston is employed to treat the si girls free of charge to them. Of e course no negroes are employed and s everything possible is done to make the work both profitable and pleasant. g Good board is secured for girls from ft he country at very low rates. t st H~ow It Stands.1 From several quarters in South Car olina, as well as in other southern i States, reports come that trattlc ont highway has been practically r.uspend ed because of the condition of the 'I roads. If railroads suspended trattic u they would soon be bankrupt. Mer chants in the towns and farmers liv ing on these roads leading to the il towns, occupy the relative position of P Istockholders of railroads. Yet few p realize the heavy losses incurred by g suspended tralc on highways.J t THE Kansas City Star say: "It is t certain that if Henry Ward Beecher v were alive he would admire Grover g Cleveland as much as Mr. Cleveland c' 2am ire Mr. Teecr-h I TH E~TARTATR CUEF laid to Be Worn Out Of Gratitutd to the Horse. Herbert Allen Gles in "China and he Chinese" says that there.- are trange misconceptions as to the mean ag of the Chinese cue, which has eally been worn by that nation for nly about 250 years. It was imposed by the Mantchoo Tar ars, the presert rulers of China, as a adge of conquest. Previous to 1644 he Chinese clothed themselves and ressed their iinir like the modern Jap nes,-that is. like the Japanese who till wear what is incorrectly known s the "beautiful uative dress of .1 an." As a matter of fact, the Japan se borrowed their dress as well as heir literature, philosophy and early rt from the Chinese. The Japanese tress is that of the Ming period i. 'hina, 1368 to 1044. But where did the Mantehoo Tar ars get the cue? They depended as a ace almost for their existence upon he horse. The accepted theory is that ut of gratitude and respect for his oble ally the Tartar, so far as he. ould, took on himself the equine form nd grew a cge in imitation of a irse's tali. This somewhat grotesque heory might fall to the ground save hat it is supported by striking evi tence. Official coats as seen in China at the resent day are made with peculiar leeves, shaped like a horse's leg and nding in an unmistakable hoof, cov ring the hand, which are known as 'horseshoe sleeves." Incased therein . Chinaman's arms look much like a torse's fore legs. The tail completes he picture. Coffee Chewing. "Coffee chewing," says a doctor, "is L habit easily contracted, for the taste >f the crisp roasted berries Is not un ieasant, and the exhilaration, the stim ilus, that the berries give is quite as narked as that which would be obtain ,d from a glass or two of beer or from t drink of whisky. "It is this exhilaration, I am convine L,.that 'causes the habit to be formed tnd that makes it a bard habit to break tway from. It should be broken away rom. Its effects are highly injurious. Chey are more injurious than those of obacco chewing. "The coffee chewing habit wrecks the ierves, it makes the skin sallow and it estroys the appetite. I have had oc ,asion to treat a number of men for it. : always advise such men to break off )y imperceptible degrees; to give three )r four months to the task. Some suc ed and some do not. Men who work n coffee plants find it almost impossi )le to succeed."-New York Tribune. When Ice Covered Europe. During the long tertiary epoch, when possums disported themselves on the te of Paris and mastodons tramped long the valley of the Thames, the arth was in the throes of mountain naking. The Alps, the Himalayas, he Alleghanles, the Andes, attest the >ower of her activity in those days. At heir termination our continents stood |reatly higher than they do now,-and his aided their glaciation, although It toes not fully account for It But as they became loaded 'with ice Europe and America gradually, and we nay venture to say contemporaneously, ank. This was inevitable. Owing to he extreme heat and pressure prevail ng in its interior the earth Is an em nently elastic body. Its surface ac ually bulges in or out with a very slight increase or decrease of the load ipon it.-Edinburgh Review. Not In His seat. A certain congressman was very busy tt his desk In the house one morning hen a page announced, "A gentleman n the lobby to see you, sir." "Tell him 'in not in my seat," said the congress nan after looking at the card. The >oy, a stardy looking chap, did not nove. "But you are in your seat, sir." te answered in matter of fact tones, 'and I can't say you are not." The iongressman looked at the lad angrily, mt, seeing that he was in earnest, noved into the vacant chair of his teighbor. "Now tell him I'm not in my eat." "Yes, sir," said the boy briskly d went to deliver the message. i:Ret of Chloroform on Chinamen. It takes .a very large dose of chlo 'oform to anasthetize the Chinanman. Ie passes under Its influence more lowly and rarely shows the excitement ften characteristic of the initial stage f anesthesia. Still more rarely does ie suffer from sickness on his return to onsciousness. This greater apathy of mature helps to recovery from severe edents and operations.-Londoni Hos mital. A Horned Snake. A very handsome species of snake is he rhinoceros viper, which bears, as ts name suggests, horns* on its nose. t is most beautifully colored when reshly emerging from Its cast skin, but ts form Is by no means elegant, being 'ery thick in body, with a buildoglke ead. It may attain a length of more han six feet and is a very deadly ani al.-Quarterly Review. Unsympathetic. "This Is a cold, unfeeling world," he emarked bitterly. "Ha!" returned his companion. "You, 0, have heard the ribald laugh when 'ou slipped on a banana akin, have Simple. Ethel-A sixteen page letter from ieorge! Why, what on earth does he Mabel-He says he loves me.-Pitts urg Gazette. Organ grinders in Vienna are not al >wed to play in the morning or even 2gonly between midday and sunset Some Wholesome Truths. Some newspapers and people. who re everlastingly trying to turn their tiIs to catch every breeze from what ver quarter it come, get the cold ivers every time Senator Tillman oes into a Northern city and in his rceful, sledge-hammer style tells se Northern people some good whole >me truths. The Atlanta News be ngs to this class of newspapers, and is now frantically calling on Sena r Tillman to come home and hush. Fell the News does not know Senator jilman as well as we do nor does it nderstand the purpose of his mission. s the Spartanburg Journal expresses Senator Tillman does not soft-soap eople, and his audiences does not ex ect him to. In fact. they would be reatly disappointed if he did not in ct considerable vitrol in his talk-s to .iem. The people that the Senator tlks to in these Northern towns k-now at they are going to get when they o to hear him and have no cause to mplain when . he gives it to them. re trord thern at TDetrint ne night The 850,000,000 eggs produced yearly in America would. it laid ehd to end, girdle the earth twelve times at the equator. An Object Lesson. A French reformer delivered a lee ture at Lyons against corsets and lac ing. In course of the lecture a woman fainted. It proved to be the lecturer's wife. who wore a corset and was too tigb -.1. laced. Crust Coffee An old fashioned Invalid drink is called crust coffee. Over the equiva lent of two slices of bread toasted a golden brown In the (ven pour one pint of boiling water.. Steep gently for tifteen minutes, strain and serve, adding sugar and cream to taste. Great Britain's Beer. Great Britain brews annually $345, 000,000 worth of beer. A Great Iron Mountain. Near the city of Durango, Mexico, Is an iron mountain 640 feet high, and the iron Is from 00 to 70 per cent pure. The metallic mass spreads In all di rections for a radius of three or four miles. The entire deposit is suticient to supply all the Iron required in the world for 1.000 years. Acid Fruit Juice. The ju:ce of any acid fruit can be made into sirup by adding a pound of white sugar to every pint of juice and boiling ten minutes. Seal in pint cans. Alcohol In Russia. The Russian ministry of finance mo nopolizes the alcohol industry, and some Idea of the value of the output may be gained by the fact that 0.000, 000,000 corks are used annually. one third of which are produced in govern ment works. Hat Tax. In the reign of George III. hats were taxed. The last tax was 6 cents. Those above $3 In value paid a tax of 50 cents. Bark Shirts. Shirts and hats that are never in need- of Ironing are worn by the In. dians of the Interior of Bolivia. They are made of the bark of a tree, which is soaked In water until the fiber Is softened and then beaten with stones to make It pliable. Egyptian Specialists. The ancient Egyptians had dentists as well as specialists for diseases of the eyes and ears. European Marriages. The average duration of marriages In England Is twenty-eight years. Rus sia, with thirty years, Is the only coun try to beat her. In France and Ger many twenty-six years is the average duration. -Sappho. The one poem most often translated Into every language of the civilized and uncivilized world was written by a woman--"The Ode to Aphrodite," by Sappho. Shakespeare's works have borne the test of but three centuries. Sappho's have stood through twenty fve centuries .Berlin Bridges. After Venice. Berlin has more bridges than any other town in Europe. A Monster Laundry. The biggest laundry In London has seven miles of drying lines,.all under cover. Eighty thousand pIeces can be dried at once in the space of half an hour.. A Miser's Hoard. Four thousand pounds in gold, silver and bronze has been found in the hut of an old beggar woman at Chabet-el Amem, Algeria. Work For Prisoners. Prisoners in E'ngland awaiting trial can elect-to work during the period and receive payment accordingly. Honest Chinamen. Honesty Is a prevailing virtue among most Chinamen. Some of them, in their native towns and cities, often leave their places of business unguarded while they go off for half an hour or more. Should customers arrive in the meantime they find the prices of goods plainly marked, select what they want and leave the money for them. The Cradle of the Race. Dr. Moritz Alsberg In his work on tl' descent of man accepts as plausit'.e Schotensack's Idea that Australia .we the cradle of the human race. An Early Astronomer. Thales, born 640 B. C., was the first to note the four distinct divisions due to the position of the sun-namely, the solstices and the equinoxes. He also taught that moonlight was simply re fected sunlight and was the man who irst made a prediction of a solar eclipse. __ _ _ _ _ _ A Corkscrew Substitute. A convenient substitute for a cork screw when the latter is not at hand may be found in the use of a common screw with an attached string to pull out the cork. The Earth. If the earth were equally divided among Its present inhabitants, each of us, man, wvoman and child, would get twenty-three and a half acres. School Gardens. In many of the continental cities and in some few American cities gardens are laid out in the neighborhood of public schools, and the chil'dren are taught to cultivate them. ast week that Sherman's army was ~omposed of bummers, chicken thieves, tc. The Spartanburg ,fournal thinks 'these are mild terms to apply to the perpetrators of wholesale arson and obbery and the South ought to be r-oud of a man who can go into the nidst of the place where those he is lenouncing come from and express ihe South's opinion of them. Senator illman Is engaged just now in stat .ng the South's position on the race iestion, which has been so offensively hrust upon us by an uob-alanced Re ublican president. Only a portio~ >f the northern people smypatbize wlth the president in his course, 'the ther portion, and a very large por :ion it is, sympathizing with the outh. The subject does not furnish >ccasion for the superb flights of elo uence of which the editor of the tlanta News is so well capable, but rquires just the kind of treatment rilman is giving It. Such words as -s may not please, but they make Sheir hearers go home and think, Ld such thinkingwillinevitably bring ihem to a better view of the South's position and the absolute necessity of aintiningr it." TH COE LO RAb6APACHES. AU an Accaziste Man Trackef ke Bad No Equal. As a trailer the Colorado Apache has. no equal. le possesses the acute In-. stinct of the hound combined with an. accurate sense of vision. A turned: leaf, a fleck of gravel cast aside, the displacement of a pebble from its bed-. ai .- clear, readable pages. They ask few if any particulars of. the man they are to follow. They will, as they progress on his track, gather up for themselves one by- one little items as to his personality, which are nearly :,ways vei-iied in the end: When following a trail over the iron capped rocks and stony arroyas of Arl zona, his face is a picture of intense concentration. Not a syllable escapes him. His pace varies from no visible cause. At times he almost runs; then, with a rapid glance behind, he glides along slowly and with eyes glued to the ground possibly for hours. Here, and there may be a few stretches of sand. but dry sand leaves after the footstep only an indentation, closing. after the pressure, so that to the inex perienced eye it might have been a horse or a mule that made it and not a man.--Man Trailing With Human Bloodhounds" in Outing. Trlck Candies. "The trick cigar has its counterpart in confectionery." said a candy manu facturer the other day. "The callow youth who delights in giving explosive cigars to his men friends demands something similar for the candy con sumuing sex, and we have' to meet the demand. -The possibilities of a cream choco late or a piece of nougat are limited, but we have a few contrivances. We make of a very hard candy an imita tion of a tooth with a gold crown and hide it in a cream chocolate. You can imagine the rest-a party of women munching eandy. one of them discover .... ing something hard and finding a gold crowned tooth loose in her moufih! "Similarly we imitate a bone collar button in a hard white candy, lMde a candy shoe button in a piece of nougat, put a bit of cork in a caramel or fill a candied cherry with red pepper. -So long as the sanity experts don't weed out these alleged jokers the candyman has to put--np these trick? candies for them."-New York Times. Honey. According to a writer in Health, hon ey is a valuable medicine and has many uses.- It is excellent in most lung and throat affections and is often used with great benefit In place of Cod liver oil. Occasionally there is a per son with whom it does not agree, but most people can learn to use it with beneficial results. Children who have natural appetites generally irefer i to butter. Honey is a laxative and seda. tive, and in diseases of the bladder and kidneys it is.an excellent remedy. It has much the same effect as wine or stimulants, without their injurious effects, and is unequaled in mead and harvest drinks. As an external appli cation it is irritating when clear, but soothing when diluted. rn many places it is much appreciated as a remedy for croup and-colds. In preserving fruit the formic acid it contains makes a better preservative than sugar sirup, and it is also used in cooking and con fections. Honey does not injure the teeth as candies do. Ancient Rules For Carving. Our ancestors fully recognized the value of good carving, and many were the rules by which a carver was- ex pected to be governed. The ancient "Boke of Kervyng," among other things, admonishes him to touch venison only with his knife and to "sit never on fyche, riesch, beeste ner fowle more than two fyngers and a thumbe." Ein gers he was naturally obliged to use since forks were a luxury of later date and were not in private use until .Tames I.'s reign. Piers Gaveston. the favor ite of Edward II., had three silver forks for eating pears, but this was re garded, ,no doubt, as a great and spe cial lux1iry. CuckooCustoms In England. - There are or were not long ago in different parts of England remnants of old customs marking the position which the cuckoo held in the middle ages. In Shropshire till very recently, when the first cuckoo was heard, the laborers were in the habit of leaving their work, making holiday of the rest of the day and carousing in what they called cuckoo ale. Among the peasantry in some parts of the kingdom it was con sidered to be very unlucky to have no money in your pocket when you heard the cuckoo's note for the tirst time in the season. Cholly's Good One. "Oh, Miss Perkins, I have a conun dwum for you. What is the diff'wence between a jilted fcllah who pwetends he doesn't care and a dish of Dutch cabbage?" Miss Perkins-Well, go on: What's the answer? Cholly--One's sonah gwapes and the other's saaaukwaut. Ha, haw! Isn't that doosid clevah?-New York Press. Not sure of Him. "Why are you so sure that he loves you?" "Because he stays away from me in hopes he can overcome the fascination of my presence. And there Is but one thing that bothers meI fear he will succeed."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Neat Bull. An Irishman, prosecuting another man for assault, was asked to explain the accused's biack eyes. "Ahi." be replied readily, "before he had time to hit me I hit him back." It runs in the family-a woman's tnnue.-Philadelphia Bulletin. A Bad Mess.' An unusual criminal case was re-Z cently tried in the court at Green wood, Norman Hodges and Hargrove, two white men, and three negroes, Jim East. Kicking Bell and Robert Coleman, wcre arraigned on the seri ous charge of highway robbery. It is said that they "held up" Gus Ar nold, a white man, near Ware's Shoals, some time last fall and relieved him of 86.6 in money. Gus Arn ld is also to be tried for killing a negro on last Thanksgiving day. The three negroes pleaded guilty, but asserted that Arnold only had 85:3. They claim that he lost $13 gambling with them and with two white men. Hodges and Hargrove. AN unusual circumstance is noted Iin connection with the office of pro bate judge. or keeper of mortuary re cords. etc. This year four counties have lost by death the men who had ben holding this important office. and it has not been so long since the pro bate judge in Chester died. Tihe four counties in which vacancies have oc curred this year are Fairfield. Horny, Kershaw and Colleton.