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r' - “ :. ,hV i * ,—H X TC - •«« —u X. B^RXWKLUS. C„ THURSDAY; JUNE 2, 1887. -jt SOUTHEltN KDl’CATKIN. tiLition fee everywhere is paid. /Mil lelu THU PRlMiKKSg «1 OI K I’HOl’l K THIS A I.I.-I MPOKTANT MATTKK. A Careful Kevleu of the Condition ol j Schools a* Eeartteil by Interviews With! I<eadin|; I'eople in thin Section. ——•—(F'Oih tliFBultlmoTeHun ) In day seitools it is never less than $1 per i mouth, and in boarding schools ^12 per , N j month. It has been found disastrous to I give an education to any one free of j charge, for it is not appreciated. Many of the colored people make great faen- fioes to keep their, childrca at school. I The spirit of devotion among the teach- , ere in the college, who are uMially per- i sons of thorough training at-the North, The Kev. William I. Blocum, ok.-^be * afid who usmdly' receive very meagre First CoDMfgatioual Church, returned salaiiee. is one of the hopeful signs of • „„ trim*# sW-i froo. an e, to(1 c,l trip i of several weeks’ ■duration into tlie Southern States, where he was engaged in investigating the conditions of eduea- tiop, particularly colored w ‘‘l>een eallod two or three hundred years Among the places visited were Charlva r before tue patient was liom.’ There is ton. Savannah, Jacksonville, Fla., New » string sentiment in the South that the ... , , Loolored people must go onto the soil. Orleans, Jackson, Miss., and lalladega, ^ Ala. Besides visiting the public schools uM nntitted for it, and Tnrty lx •come a grade, and the ; k#:d of strung conservative yeomanry in the Sontli. [Oliver Wendell4Iolmes lia ho] >0. said; ‘Any i WOMEN AT THE, POI.I.S. Hou llii Fair Omcm of M aKliinKton Terri tory ChnI Tlielr llallotN. Walla-Walla, May 24.—Although a tenderfoot and acquainted with few in our vicinity, I was appointed a judge of election in Mica precinct. A struggle was in prrgress betwixt rival towns lor the county scat, and runners hail been through the precincts urging everybody to bring oufTlie votes of the ladies. In this chivalrous region our women have equal prerogatives with men, although they view the ballot with an indifference agonizing to all advocates of-suffrage. ills, a small, log patient can be cured if only the doctor 1 I w ent early to the poL the trouble ia in aaboolbouae ia the hfllst shadowed by a s that the doctor should liave | lofty pines. A rough wagon road rkn from lowest to highest varimls colleges^ yljli tin (i ,w mo to lind herstdf the only woman present. Tyndall, whose , dress and bearing showed early culture, nodded to the ollicials, took his wife’s arm and escorted her forward. Hu picked out his tickets from the table, folded one and handed to her, folded the other and held it between rapidly, his fingers. Mrs. Tyndall presented ^ herself before the ballot box and raised her ticket, uncertain a hat came next Her innocent blue eyes rested on the in spector with a pretty look of wonder and inquiry. The inspector dropped her l»allot into the box. No doubt a barb rankles in his conscience to this day. Mrs. Tyndall stood looking on an in stant, without inovirig. “Is that all?” she cried at last, aston ished. “That’s all. You’ve voted, 8 tel la,” rapidly and quickly—on the same prin ciple that would govern g rescuing party in relieving the hunger and thirst of a famishing ship’s crew or a starving gar rison. The plows should follow this hoeing as imickly as possible and go as The second hoeing should commence in a few days after the inter vening plowing, ana should bo done with more care, tho plants now being put to a flmd stand, which can be done with comparative safety. If this hoeing and the consequent plowiugs K* skill fully done there will be little, if any, more need of the hru s. More HKKiH^SS IN Till; SOUTH. SKCUKTAUV l.A'IXU KEAK.N AM. THE UKI'OKTM A HE NOT TKt'R. The A|i|mrefit lero«|>erM> to he Kound Onljr In the CiAf*—The Secretary U In clined to Think 1 lo»l Miteji ol lt t«S|>aei^- hiti\e. (Iwlgrrlc v In thr UarMbnli < tmn , Times) I fntmtl Secretary'Lamar at bis place in tht department the other day, hia by the school house, wherein deer tracks were qnite as common as hoof-prints of ho I|J e8, 1 , , i| said her husband, offering his vote in The ladies were not early at the pol ls. : turni ^ the bride laughed memlj. Hhe A little before- noon came a u limy took her hnsliaud's arm and jteepiTl all ly, a man wife and three children. ju after, from every direction, as if drove twit p contaimn : similar houseliolds. altont her with great amusement, and went off in high spirits. It had been a , , - «PII by preconcerted arrangement, wagons. Tcrv (unny ( or h er . on the age and ]>hysieH| strength of him j th „ ro ,iti lu .-u who hoKls thr. pluw ihau is gi-ui't\.hy^ supiiosed. Asa rule boys ami girls are “s not strong enough or careful enough to guide the plow properly in cultivating cotton in the earlier stages; it should only be intrusted to older and ttroDger and steadier hands. depends J table weftogyered with pat>ers, transact- i^imas niHttunlically THE I H.lll l\ EIUIIIA-KH.III H»m Ihr diance* fur lirmoi riall« i niiK rd nwe t i* i — though he hail bfceu iiu executive oUTv-i r all his life, but it seemed to be a relief to him to turn from them for a little while, walk with me into his pri vate room and talk on other subject#. Our conversation was aliout journalism, its wonderful growth, its change of You I our f The ablet > propoette that t latter and the am id«L WrVorfc cm a bale of eat- dkLfllBX^ ck, why > in , characU-r and its futagB^-MkLimQR-flytf city education-* e‘om- misaiout re uud 0 th* re. Mr. Sh cum said: “1 funu. 1 eve ry whore? a clroi.g feel- log that tin- Ci >lure< *1 people Cl»l*4 iw Hi- ueated. ’ Tin* New Month lia*» no fi 'rof- ou this queati* InmoitaaMspri* iry education of c uU»n tl iteople isc*>D*l. rtid by th«- But*-, liet >rgia and Mi*»iR-.)*pi particularly g TTiLt; mg large * * 1111*; but higher UiMruc texi iu tin* ordinary ring- hah hraiii-h* * Im Ufh ually afionltsl l*r the church m*!i* hj .tpporUsl by plulau- thropic c- utf ibutl i< -na. The work of th»*c arhooh* 1 preabat im|H*r1 tnce for traiuinK < 1* 'l *T sat tiachrr* of high charu t- r. It Itt H ■treking (act tu»> ro- tigion. a* u*ig lit 1; f the orelttuiry col red pn-arin r .n th 1C ^Ns < nth. Is U*>l eh VatiUg the moral tom thr c 1 *r*al rare*. G< Course fhrrr ■ the. mil re.i*d nkmg 1 it 'i-lt 4.*, but ! Ik* Mi li , ‘ f H>'v rutue* thr ih kiigli* f chafcki fouml a |«r» v* Uud Ui.lu»Ul*] fj**U wmi rt»l!4 ic*- 1 twIioH iuu^l Ur | *>li- rtl Thu aun •%iiU » !«» a Hi -vr- meLt and kom 1 tiff* Ct sill -if# % a is a | r-J _ (ate woik. A *• f "1* ikiW|| fttCt i! lit ■koe, im|*roi< ill i*m! c»’f**litK>ii^ im tBw|i the t-uh r line i» gr vw\tiz tsMiw diMiairt; that u, tl * i* Hit tfl I’UMrra CSiil if« V Q and fewer mul ' At*« « 1*. wUi'-u |b-lk'..b' a hrolthi* f wiai rteiioi D of »tolr«an.l Mach*. No om ah *T 4 •tool Uee » f «v practiee in the country districts, and in ccrtu-n cases o<dor< <1 ph^iciaus have Is-on called in consultation with white physieiaiis. The fai t must Id kept, in mind that this is a ifh thm of eleva’.ag a race, ami not mere ly of raising a few i'Jii.duab in this generation. The church schools are having a strong and • k vatiug moral intlui noe. The spirit of genntue religioiu, devotion is often prof, uniL laih college mods to be •jh-ctally eudowerl so as to carry out an mdejiendent policy a<Upte<l to the eou- u,unity in which it m placed. Tjaac M'liooU are- necessary Ix-canse they make i lara k-ctenu, ol mitral and religv ‘ter, and this character U into race only by the »| «ci duals at.*, almli U-eot fight keaderw. 1 q* \r. Wi % 111 INI, INN I. Wtlll. id ol >k u (ItMtlw-l L. s 1 have had the the u,Tvnlor u( a F*ut, Ika, a fftl Au«t,ian Vftfr 'ami >'gii in Bure > <*MM «ltsl iMk»#r lUrf ffuui V •• i •rtunity ol meeting ride, llrrr Fiaux 1m lit* uant m thr , during the hint -•-c wn>I a *1,* •I • Im .j.j. in • l«i not pnn Hi, hut also I an 10 tb lb nun 041*. A main »• i a* . to 44 V. a.i*d tu*- mveutor fp<m ftorvare -c Th*. .re 21 toot only pi a*. it- gn-at discovrncs, far fti*U bri’ij broneh*-* ar* Uit| tt^t. !. m ' a* yet, bcecvsitatr a “In Maiaunali *. j.. ' in i outl ■y w Inch lie can aftonl oMr by ci euployi-*! iu to v iiiiWt i i M-ho.-h, a U 1 Ueu i. p* tsoLal pxnatloiia. “Ml nil'-. uanally Inc caw throngbont tlie b etcepi in Charleston, litre*, at cn« a here els,*, the a» ii'imeLt that the Coi»> peopU* must be (ducated pre Vails. “in Fieri la not v» tuucn lias U done as cla'N here. ^J^'jre>jpTvd pop! lion is not no great tbt re* an in som. i »r. ie» h invant, have i**i.g ia-cn »n the. hand,! ish govt-mH, nt hml tneadvanc a Inch 1 had obtaint*! from prreato person in IxMidon been more ,ia-1 Uiau t-S which did aot .sir of | wage.*, of one aorkman, who r I along, but enormous jogs of milk and < iiu .keto of lunch. The Iwchelora nent U r- d timidly sn,Hhe ladies swarrne,! in upon us, movt*,! tho In-nchct, around the 'fire, b'trcka.U-d the doorway,* and t* ok I entire powHesMou of the pre*|iiises v They ■ were* fanners' wives, Inixom, sen-1hie and energetic. Amort* domoatie scene otie -M-ldoin ares. Here a mother nunuug her baity, there a fond father troling hut infant daughter, yonder a knot of women etcliangtcg reel pin for mixed pickles, and again an eager groan setting oat lunch ami passing pie and sliced jtork to their fricsida. J could not at find understand this in vasion, until ! l- arned that the school bouse was the one public resort foi social purposes, fiances, parties, sing ing schiM’Ls preaching and |toliticd meetiugw all wi re held here. A gallw-r rug at the ■wrbool hoitsd whs the signal f..r a general astw-whlagc of fnaoda, and ■ IIm* women had evidently given uiucr ti» ughl No this fact than to the original motive of the occasion. Still they came. By noon the budd ing was fairly packrel, and the pwaic app, oaooe utcnasnl with every arrival “If yon' iron ginghams and colieoeaoo the wrong side they look"— “Ilia very beat cow. The snow was •Ua-p, and all the poor thing got to real aas moss” — m “ 1 ney say her vituai*, taste of pins g'lm half the time lirups from Urn pitch rafters" — “1 }allied the poor chlkl’s tooth my- . M» WMBS “M ho shall you vote for. Sac?” “Vie? I don't kno*. Juek ain't here yet." “Maiuma, give dm* some pie, too. “Oh. Elian, at the polls afUr all?” “Iis. ISdn’t wwnl to come a lot. Bill ta ttepublicon and I told him I'd vote lAmucfoUc sore if he made m*- come. | But lie said no matu- r, so long as we both vote f.»r S}s kaue Falls." "I’uoh! I guesa wc’lc every 1st as sharj> ss tin- bit'U iolha. “Hon't vote for Spicer. They my he treats his wife perfectly awful.'* “1 b 11 you, times has changtd! ’ com - mi-nted a man in blouse sitd overalls iiauiug against a pine. /‘When I was a Imy, to home iu Indianny, 1 recoil,-rt bearin’ maw and |ww talk this votin’ baMiicae ovir. *1 h it ye,' ways the old man to her, *1 wouldn't liave ye go to the polls noltow. You'd have to walk I I'KKENT EAtlM TOI'ICw. i The New York World thinks tliat tin* * talk of liemocrata from the South an* I the West who have recently visited Ho, ins t om. ( Washington does not Iwar <mt ex Seer,Si •t. i. ii'-.ol wa u, roubern Culnvsior ) M^numg’n tlieory that tlmsc imp>,r- ! <'<>rn, pnqwrly planted on well ]*re- taut section would force Mr. Cli-vo- uaivd land, should rarely uco*! the , laud'** renomination upon the Nejr York Tna* in the early stages il the |>omocracy whether tlie latt* r should [•lowing be skillfully done. While unr bke it or not. Many of Mr. Cleveland's personal cxiM-m-nce does not approve > he strongest fneoda from Uiose sections are* general practice of planting in the water, said to have stated frankly that his re I furrow (asativouatwl by l>r. Jones), we nomination would ilep,*nd upon hu abil- nave found it very helpful in the way of ity to get the support of his own Htoh* . ■ilweiinent milUvation to plant m very delegation. They are* said to have ex wide deep furrows and oovenng very premed thetr satisfaction, in a,lvanoe,wiUi • shall*’W, an that the plants will ta* below tl.«i c-andldate who should prove to la* the general surfac.. The first plowing the choice of New York. They say that I be done with au implement that. tin- battle ground is to la* New York. shoui throws lart little dirt enough to cover well tin- mlU or i*lants. l* utiuiisly the corn, yell step between 1 I thinning uf ahead of the mold lie done I careful labor ers. 1 Ln* plowman sboOld be required to stop and uncovi-r plants, or cover of I'ull out weeJs or grass with foul or Land as In gov*, lie should he im- pnastwl with the aka that the work of cleaning the young plan*a must be dons by tlie work of hM plow, or his hands and fcai—no hue to follow. It is not a bad klus to lurutsh each plowman with a small short-UaMltd, one-liars! boa, tubs reamed with hu plow and used as ore-a ■ion may re-quire. It w ill be found that be a dl be much more* careful to do good work aiU, Li* pi- w if he m giv, n to un derstand that reu'-lcw* work will not be tudure-1 and I* ft f**r the hoea to re*mrely. Uf enure* it wilt often occur that the Ln*l is suttfCh ntlr smootli to a-iunt of thorough work by the plow, except around trems and M umj*; hut it will not l«y to go over a fluid, row by row, m <»rurr to clean around such obstacles. Ih-th-r make a job of it, early in Ibu cul tivation, i oing from one to another with out regard to the intervening rows. It souirtioie* pays well to go over the com crop aitb the hoes about laying-by lim**, each hand taking tuo or more rows at a time, and destroy scattering bunches of grass .tud cleaniog around stumpaand treva. This will dejaud upon whether ! the hands can be spon-d from the more , exacting cotton crop. — just as it was in 1NM, and that it would he extnmaly foolish to nominate any can dl* late who should not have the lack mg of the majority of the New York Democracy. Mr. Cla*eland m beltevod to have bran making a high Ud for MassoehusHts an*l several of the Now England Htatea, but at ha sx topiea, but 1 shall not now repeat w be had to say, except on one sobject the iudustnul condition of the Houth-r and that 1 do with his coiincqI. “The apparent pjajsjienty of ithe Soatli,” said S*-re-tary I-amar, “is to ba foaii<l in tbe citiea, amt not all of shew share* ft, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nash ttlie, kuoxviUc, Birmingham and other cil ica that are* the cwntrus of mineral de velopment already made or anticipoigd arc growing rapidi.v in popnlatma and i apjareotly in wealth. Towns, also, that ! are situated ujioo the new rail nods that have heed built during the pool few years are Largur and mom thriving than they were*, but their growth hashaftoj largely at the ei|x nae of leas fortutom towns that liav* rlther Stood dill or have actually drtenrevatrel. 1 hia oucam I dance,' I tliink, im likely to gfvw an j ,-rroDeuua unpr<asH>a to tha strang* r J passing through the South on the mil-1 ways. II • re •« the towns at the vanows station* apparently thriving, tha aentawa , of new nomim-rewai enU-rpriomt ami ha ualatally reaiclwdea that tha Mouth ia making very rapid i-re>gvam; bat he Joean't know that the man who has •open*d a new atom at one of thoos ptosss Im predreMy iwsnovrel them from snci* town «lis<ar,i from the railiaad whoso he man who ia I>utiding a new bow ■tbly a Urmrr who lx— k ereifis airv«i m the vain «if.»rt to maha a living pEsming cotton, and has sold oal and i ouiur to town hoping to do bettor, or, (•erhajM. to hav, U u. r oi^swtanitMa lor the n 1 matinii of his rlithlrm. *‘1 atn inehuo to think, also, that the > pres, nt prosperity *4 the ctlns which j , am the re ntma of industry in the miser | ■I melon or wImm growth has biwa dusukaie.1 |.y Heir proximity to or in ti mat ia it, w, to a gnat extent, sreecu kattvw--based in soOM measure, at wad, i upon anlM ipaLd devrlopOSents rather' 1 Umo upon thosa already mode. Ol , re,unr t 1 know that a g*»>d deal of eapt tol has been uivtatod there a d that I much of it 1ms gone from the North ami out of our UrndT agricultural lands fertilxxers, and to buy thosa. crop is dua to have not bean abla in the creased tbe labor expenddfL ground and but it costs mors te ton now not raise as much aottoto to sn oot* oa we formariy did Is that wa don’t gst what We call so good a ’stand' as tos uacd to. Tb* importance of this is likely to bo appreciated by oim who never lived where cotton is raised, there ora many tong, vacant tha sows of cotton plants, now vary thrifty, and the field, looki over H, may appear to boor s grant crop, and yet, whoa the cotton pomes to bapiek it will tarn out light. Now, in Adced VSurrV that is,Ya re tha ground idl occupied, tha eloand cam and attention are neceosary at a ear- tain critical period In former rimam when tha plantar had complete contra) of tha Uboc, ha could enforce this care an*l atteution os ht* cannot do now. The cotton lands of tha Booth are now mostly ggtoad to tha aggro m, and if the owner ■wtoina on ialsriist in the crop be has so voice in tha manner m which it shall ba worked. If ha should interfere tha na- deaTof careless fanning in -yr ^ / . j The New York Financial Chroamla, tn its weekly aotton rwviaw, says that lor tha week. ndtog Friday swaging, the JOth inok, the total rweoipto have reached 10,- ICM bales, sgatnol llfiM bales h JT it is not thought that he exprets to be renominated or re* elected without the vote of hie own Mtale. “Mr. ( towalaDd, ‘ said a New York, r the other day, “may get tbe New York •h-legatiw in the National Ooomotion, but unless be has e majority * two-third* i <4 them at hia hack his Is *000 will fall. Fhe whole foumlatton of tlie tlevelan.l Boom in the Mouth Slid West ia due t*. thr claim ma*U- by the Freaident a frnn.ii-* in Um* Fast of his great ]•-•piilanlj iu hi* own Mtate, that he is the only man who can carry New York, Ac. Tin* moUM-nt Mr. I U*inland fails to *lemoii»irai* lus pupolanty at home, hia Waaiem wi- mirer* will drop him unuudiately. New York will ih-cidr the candidatu for the Democracy and the election.” TImm an* said to he several wtak iminta fh Clevt-lan.k • bold upon the .WiiOern and tlie Mouthern m-momey. Ohio men declare* that it w by no means certain that the delegation * from that btate will throw up their Lata for Clove land. Men of the 1 barman type aud unlitla-ra of the old time I Vmiocracy say I tLal many NorthtStt people are settluig that th. y have been overlooked by the and 1 don't uiah to be understood 1 three 1 lSEm fur the s UiF74l Uri iirnas wne4 of IMh-C moe Hsptomber 1. 1 a total of 21. XT U^OM were to Oraet 1 a, and MW to the reel of The • up byi stock* 412.2 the othir Statis. It u sigwfieent tliat I and the mewamry luaterial. the new ollegi- fi*r white*, tin* M’inter I “Now at lost it in linndiotl, ami though Bark College, at Minter Bark. Tin.,Tl may fall into tlie fault of all iuvuntor.i, though only two years old, lues taken a 1 consiiler it the lx*st ntleexisting, being very nigh ^tand amaiig Soiitliern ediiea- »ithe<ut the di-a*lvan4«grei of other ma- lional in.stitutiou*. * - ehiue ntiue, aud with many adiautagee “In New Urhaut- t’l*- edueuti'’*al over them. I can prove by my Austrian movenVruT f**r both races i* atrotig, *.:id | and t ■ it ia spreatling mp* the com.tu> - 1 *« . ai*"r that the atfaiglit imH syshm vrtiieh 1 ueeu more ^ a ., to the box through a crowd o( loaf- luce *or the Rtu dhfn' pipes and starin' at ve, <> a»si»ts me. an j you’d sink tli r * .K'h the floor.’ Vie State in an excellent systi ni f county free school*. The Mraight UniveSIty, iu \« vr Orleans, ih the best institutiou for the training^f colori *! btudeut- in ^ the more advauml bianebeo. It hub ‘^M) in atteudaucty ami supplies numerous teacheru tfi tliJ country schools through out the Soutlu Eighty jier cent, of the graduated buei-me teachers. The univer- mity has wh«e L'achers, and includes a law and a theological dejmrtment. Ita funds coma largely from tlie American Missiofiany Association, amt it is doing work of rfeat value. Some of the no» groes alauit New Orleans are becoming quite wealthy us plantation odrfere, aud one owns a large interest iu one of the railroads that runs into the city. “Mississippi appropriates *>1,000,000 annually for educational .purjjoses, and the amount is divided per capita annjng the white and the black schools. The Governor of the State is a man of ad mirable shrewdness, who believes thor- , oughly that the safety of the country depends upon the isluoation of the col ored people. ‘We feel very kindly to-, ward tbe eolojod people,’ said the Gov- eruor, and added rather significantly, ‘1 believe that the capacities of the colored race have been underrated.’ The best school for the education or Colored stu dents in Mississippi is at lougaloo, near Jackson. It is ui>oii a large iplantation of COO acres, has 200 students, aud is upon the industrial .plan, it has tin active support of the fetate, from which il receives $5,000 a year. Ail of the boys work on the farm for cne hour each day, which has two valuable results: First, it teachev them how to care for stock, Ac., aud second, how to improve wornout lands, a necessary process in tlie agricultural devetepment of the South, iiiscksmithing, carpentry and tinning are taught. A student, if ht chooscs, may become a regular appreu tioe. A. most interesting experiment is being tried by the pn-sidhut of the col lege, at Tougalob.* He purchased a tract of 2,000 acres of lani, which ha dtvmed into tract* of 12^and 30 acrw*. and iasr U ing to colored families. It is found that tliulxndholder immediately becomes Con servative and more strenuous for higlu-r education. This school is 4ping a most iui|tortant work, and every cent received from contribution:- is w« 11 “Another rabool id smulor exaalknce. ja that at Talladega, in Alolma It upca tha inJuttral plan, ia supported by the American Maroon try 4 men ■ring, and mamvaa baip ftusn ii>e Blaiev food, *u wimdy ad—inittrrnri by I*r. Uoyguo^ fiwmi ily ol 4>xi *reh Ga. brw iaasmim (tly tb»* Msuic Writer \ The charactenstie work on a cotton farm during the month of May is cot ton.chopping. Among th* many ma chines that have twen invented to do this work none has yet been very fevor- orto be here now.” ~ t ably received or generally adaptrel by But at last, after lunch was eaten and . form* re. The operation' ia one—like put away, aud tho tmbios had had their cotton-picking -that seem# to domand na|is and the ladies ha<lexhausted all Abe an ever-changing motion a: d the excr- gov-ip, a general movement was made else of an^awr-acUng judgjuc<>t which towarel departure. It wai a long way cannot be materializi-d into a machine. , home, and the cogs to milk, and water Such a machine, however, ia probably niiiiTi iiiiU-ntsoi 1 "mu nvc ycaia Bujija r to gut, and tin*‘ wnthui the^possilulities of human invent breakfast dishes to wash at the htels of | tion. The Cotton harvester is an undis puted necessity; but it is not so olear tliat a machine for chopping, or merely distingnishes * very njoelcm r fie, ami in ; a || its. If without the machine, secures the , After such a festival one might sup- doubl** t fleet, has been my imention. j KWe would vote cheerily, but this w as nbt the case. It had been post • Fj*oii this uud iijHin other ajipropria- tious in the line by -different suoce'asful inventore 1 do not lay any stress. There murt actna is*my new rifir, w hich, iu short, has the I pp j te [ u [j_ following advantages: It can be usethas ™ a single loader even with an Tttacnpd ‘ 1 ”“ ” magazine; cartridges are not thrown i the magazine iu a loose form, but lie ertm above the other, without tho possibility of placing them wrongly; tho magazine cah l>e attached or not at will; 'all parts are solid, no spiral spring exists in that fioned as long as possible and now uly be done they went at it Here was a husband handing rival tickets to his wife and saying., for the public eJf, “You can vote whichever you like,” aMhe same time gripping his own ballot with a resolute air and a jaw of such outline as made one hope his spouse would vote as lie did, in the “blocking out” Cotton—reducing the continuous row of plants to bunches^ ta exactly what is needed. Why now the seed so as to secure a continuous row of 7 f Ethan «t Abe Brat operatremf ^ , V t D . °1 nfic; tbe price of my weapon with r ^ v . j h'rcsts of domestic peace. 1 here a damo ally and ia cry thing else will be iuider ' ,' vaH J^P cr atiyeJyth rusting on her bus L2. Every old system, with the excep tion of Werdl’s, can l»e usetl for tmn - formation into my rifle at a cost of fS oj* 10 shii lings--less in the case of Gras, Mauser, Berdan or Beaumont, and something more in the case of Henry Martini.” “And how can you make any inven tion, especially such a complicated (me as a rifle, without, unfortunately, being able to. see the separate parte, and how are y. ur. devices carrie-d out by the work men?” ’“I see with my fingers. And not in one single case have they deeeiied -me. It’s really curious tliat when great and minute mcat-urHneiits arc iu question, those who se<* with their eyes arc wfoug, and I, with the use of my fipgers,' am right. The models for my mac hints againtt oxidation of metals were entirely made bv myself from carved wood, with the help of a string, wire and bread crumbs. I am now devising a very com plicated electric apparatus.” ..... — - .l.itin ttflrrmun'it Keroml CTioii e. ' tLc It now seems more than probable Senator Hawley had a double purpose in attending tin* Loyal Legion reunion and banquet. He was, of course, de- lighU-1 to meet with his old comrades,' md, beputrx that, U was a gwP cliahoe to giv* > the people a chance'to boom ilawhy for Breoident, Vice-President or something of *>■*« A*n,r i hu—toji.,. uftOftln lonqurt, he was escorted to thr Lincoln Club, wheat he met several of the most prominent Itepublicans in the city, all, by the way. fnqal* of Senator Mhexman. A g* atl*-nan in the party ■aid to tbe Enquirer- “The ticket to win b Hbertsan ami Hawley, and, mind what f tell jua, thal’awEbatVkgo!^ to ba. aok* u, (Lea im will wont iiaak-y for | and mmm kva Motts Mslfttlsy. sA rawbg. Lmd the prohibition ticket. These prohibition ladies were earnest and intelligent. They advanced firmly to the polls and gave in their ballots with an air of satisfaction. Beyond these few who had a definite personal purpose the voting was perfunctory and done with manifest dislike. The ladies each handed their ballot to the inspector hesi tatingly, watched curiously as he put it in the box and turned away with a toss of the head. “There! It’s the first time I ever voted, and it’ll be the last!” - “I hope Spokane Falls gets the coun ty seat so we can stay home next time.” "Young men must be growing weak- minded when you drag an old lady like m*5 out to vote. I’m 7b years old. 01*1 enough to know better!" And with contemptuous air tlie dames retired to the wagons. Alas! The per versity of nature! While many of their sisters iu tho east sigh for suffrage those who have it hold it in disdain. Now came young Tyndall and his wife on horseback, and there was quite a stir among the ladiee'who still in the wagons and the “baches” around the trees. Tyndall had purchased, tho oldest aud largest ranch in the precinct and hail brought a bride from Ban Fiancisoo ■event! month* before. Few had s^n her, for she was very retired ttud aristo cratic. * • v A young woman, with peachy girlish •carth-of-HontlT’ till I ‘lliLU r jTffTf bright blue oyeo, attired in. oa. elegant ruling habit of dark green valval, with a king plume on her dainty cap. “Mho looks vary young” mid the in spector aa the couple drew Dear. “Do rise's old enough ta rater don.t,” replied one of the proceed to destroy the continuity? 'On poor, unfertilized land, which reqniree that the plants should stand very close in order to make a maximum crop, such a^continuous row is perhaps necessary; but it seems an unnecesMiry waste of m _ seed and labor on laud which--will bear the stalks 18 inches to two or three feet apart. Wby- not plant the seed on such land in hills or steps—already chopjaxi? The writer planted his entire crop two successive years in hills 3x2 £ feet with the most satisfactory results. But it is too late now to discuss the policy of hill or step-planting. The crop is nearly all planted and much of it will soon be ready lot the first operation If tlie soil has been impacted from tlie effect of one or more reins after. plant ing, it is of the first importance to break the crust and let in the light and air. The condition of the laud in this respect, and the neccwties of the corn cuop, will determine whether it will t»c better to chop before or after plowing. When the ground is in good, mellow condition, aud comparatively tfec from grass, we have often found it better to put the hoes to work in advance of plowing and as soon as flip seed-leaf of the plant is folly developed. If this plan is adopted the work of chopping out should and may be very rapidly done, the aim be ing to get over the crop in a week or ten days or less. It does not pay to con sume the time that would be required to thin out to a given number of plants, x>r to leave each buuch in a perfect condi tion. If the crop lias been well aud smoothly planted and the ground is mel low and free Irotu obstructiona, such as clods sad stones, a baud should go in a aimi ol half walk, nuely giving more than a Stroke for each bunch of plants ieft. We have seen expert hoe-haixic go 1 over in this way two acres ” aoy r 4iid even more! Kemem ploD-hoeing, or “blocking as doubt i: ^ region. 1 only im>! y vt l>et‘0 ref 1 liav* vary lilt f tin 1 hare 1 ought to say that laowiodgw ol fulurt' y tliat tbe retu tj 11 mi sections of tha Bouth of which 1 have beoa 00111’ liaa 1 The 1, kva baeu there Bre sident until they are in no mood to liecomc Ink enthusiastic followers. In Michigan there are four I Mnoeiat*, ex Copgre ranco, who charge their retire ment to the Administration—May bury of Detroit, Carteton of Bolt Huron, Comstock of Grand BapuL, sad Lldndgc ol Adrian. It ia aaid that there* will Lw trouble in delivering the delegation over to Mr. ClevaUad. Indiana » said to ba in open revolt. Voorbees and Mdhinakl an* known to lie unfriendly to Mr. Clevelands renomi- nation, and the old fnends ol the late V ice-1’resident Hendricks are declared to be in sympathy with them. Bcuator Vo< rheea’s hod, a delegate to Congress. cittea increased in popu from Wyoming Territory, re*oently made tween IfTO and 1880. Charleston gained a violent attack upon Mr. Cleveland, | i n jxjpifction m that decade 1,028, or which was published, it is said,.with tho at the rate of about 1 1-5 per cent.; Ha- Senator’s knowledge aud with his entire : vanuah gained 1,474, or about fi) per approval. Iu Virginia and Louisian* it | ; Mobile actually lost 2,itU2 in pop- is said, many leading Democrats jare option, and New Orleans gained 24,(]72, • kwpfdj* toSte^SS W1.U0U, total all a tatel si! ol 1.4 vtMbte supply lor tbs world « 2,Jtt,779 faatta, ol (tea uambar aaa Araartaaa and 741,50) Bros ladma. ate \ Tha imports into ooaliaraial pori* lor tha aua# partod hare boon 90,00V halaa I r. .** ErJsrs * : ik', Tharaoaspte at istaaor towns tor weak hava hraa 0.0M bates. Old i nor stooks i fwaaaail 7,681 halaa, were 110,0)7 teas than at teal jaar. Ilona, Dot or Moulharu couaumpUoti, but the raoa^ritt that raach tha to rrmam tong at a time, ami my opin ions are formred from what I liave rami in the newspapers pad haaid from pore •on* who havu been there. I think you will find, Uf, that rack rititw aaC. srles- ton, u-- ■•‘te 1 *. Mobile and New Orlean* are* not niiowteg evidence* of proeperity. Let ns see,” said be, taking down a 00m peudiom of the last oonous, “how much 'illation be ihrongh the outporto, 1 iHMi, wore 5,176,331 botto, la XI res 5,301,185 batea, sad m 188k-6 4,741,467 batea. Although at the outporto the pool weak wore 10,4 openly opposed to Mr. Cleveland. Tbe endornemi-nt of the Administration by Kentucky is not considered to have been especially strong either in its language or its spirit. “It is highly improbable,” said a West ern official recently, “that the Democracy of the country will attempt to force any candidate down the throats of the New York Democrats against their will. I do ,not believe Mr. Cleveland would ac cept a renomination coming in that way, as it would mean almost certain defeat.” out acstona,af sod 1 • jy » tbit ahead'of tha plows, requires and a tbal the cotton should be plowed within a few days. Generally the cotton crop ' t* be “gone ovuri* with plow* or planted. It whole <70$ rorar* up together, ho sever ptoqlod At got oic* quickly lima to do the wuik 1 pociutly. Thr at •fthg noods to ba “gone ov« boas aa rapidly at' it * that Cleveland and Lee. It is probable that instead ofs the month of June at Bed Top, the President and Mrs. Cleveland, will go to Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, Ya. Colonel Maddux, the leading hotel man at this place, has, extended an Invitation to them and has prepared a cottage ex pressly for them. He is now in Wash ington, and arrangements have been made for the President and Mrs. Cleve land to go to the springs about tlie first week in June for a day, as a sort of trial trip. If every tiling is satisfactory the invitation will be accepted. Colonel Maddux was in Baltimore-a few days ago getting up a party of Baltimoreans to accompany the President and his wife and to moke other necessary arrange ments. Among those who will accom pany them are General Sheridan and Colonel Kellogg, of his staff; Senator A. P. Gorman and a number of Balti moreans and General Fitzhugh Lee. They will leave here in the private oar of the president of the Virginia Midland railroad. Colonel Maddox has been in Washington several days and has recom mended the water to the President as being the finest in the "world tor Ofer- worked brains," which will, no doubt, induce him to give ita trial. It ia opined, too, that Yhx pH it* trip 1 in jioIiUcol ai| out certain _ fact that Governor Los io to bora ore 1 on to the a y ia regarded * that Virginian* posable, to took, him < Yoanf at *1 Oft. a 1 ia 1 or about 13 per cent, 'll you remember that the average inoitMh of population throughout the wh*|» country during the same ten years uvotigod :i0 per oent, yon will tee that ther# is nothing en couraging in these figures. ” » “How do you account for the appar cut stagnation in what were formerly the great commercial centres of the Bouth?” ? asked. “By the depression of the planting in terest, of which I have already spoken, was the reply. “They are dependent upon the agriculture of tho country,- for 1 ;heir trade. Haven’t the crops been good?” Yes, that of last year was the largest ever made with one or two exceptions. But the crop to-day is not proportionally as great as it was before the war. It must be remciul* rod that the popnla lion of the South increased nearly flft> >er cent, between ISfiQ, aiiiul l*- 1 ^ Ai agriculture is almost our only industry, and us cottou iq our principal product, il wo only held our owu we ought, in 1880, 1;o have marketed fifty per cent, more cotton than we did before the war. But the truth is that the large crop of Iasi year was only twenty-rive jwr cent greater than that of 1800. In othei words, our population increased daring that twenty years just about twice as fast as onr ability to feed and clothe it. You wouldn’t look for ptosperitv under such circumstance.', and you will not think it strange that the cities which are depend ent upon agriculture for their trade should languish.” “I have not been South in seven! yearn," I sail;' “are there outward sigm- in the country of this depression ol which yotxspeak?" ‘Yes, especially when one goes away from the railroad*, improvi inents ore. not kept up and there is a general air ol poverty, want of thrift sad the allowing of things to go to decay." “ftrebot—ainyuu ottnlmfci UF" “I don’t know. * vorutr of eaoaaa. - If I did not know how little influence legislation actually baa upon industry I should say that th* tariff was tha ahiaf eoasa; bat I don t know that it io.” "The pnoa of eutton avancad vary -low latt year." I raid; “has that had anything to do with it?” “Of cuona, that oats doi (sara tha crop fur tool year. 1 tyoafc of dot out orate* 1 ""* >ns was only 2,9*4 bates, tha bakara mg taken from tha stooks at the inte rior towns. Last year the raeespts from tha plantation* lor tha rama 3,887 bates, and for 1886 7ti0 botes. ' Uttj Kstalljr Maas bj a (.•nUpwO*. Cooke county comes to the front with the horrible death ol a young man nomad Charles Allison. Bovonl ago his brother William wan to engage in the oatite-raising 1 He come bock loot week on a visit. loot Sunday morning the two brothers won preparing to go to church, when Charira put on a cost which hia brother hod brought from Texas with him. In a law minutes he experienced a burning Trim tion on the arm. He took off tbe coot* and tore open the sleeve, whan a deadly centipede from the plains of Texas woo seen crawling slowly up his ana, stinging as it went. Medical aashtonoe was has tily summoned, bat when the doeton arrived his arm hod swollen to twice its pataral size and in a few hours bant along the poisoned track of .tha insect., The young man died in moat horrible agony about nightfall and was buried the next day.—Nashville American. —■ 1 Twenty Year* la a Canal-Boat Cablm. “Bee that woman,” said a nuitt, paint ing to a canal-boat moving along the Erie. A head bidden in a cheeked calico sun-bonnet protruded from the cabin hatchway. “That woman, sir, hasn’t . been oat of that cabin in twenty yearn— Fact Bo stout she can’t get nothin' bat her head out. Last time she come up on deck was when Grant was inaagurot- ed. The captain and the mate ana the two mule-ttnvers helped. Had an avfal tune. Then they got her book again and she hasn’t been oat since. late fall a dime mfosenm man came down here and offered her big pay to exhibit her self, bat when he teamed that he'd have to take the canal-boat and all he refuged to sign a contract. ’’—Albany Express. . '••The hleagh t€ I lu which you are wallowing, on suopoat if some of those diseases peculiar to you, nmlkin**, ami which hava rubbed yea uf ■—*=- the ro-y hue ofaoallh, sod mode fifes bar- <ien 10 you. you caa easily get oui of. Dr. Bierce s “Favorite •trarfreiOPiaaBWr Frobohly it is due to 1 die ruse-tint of health to all1