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•* » 099*W*h -» VOL XX. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, MARCH 35, 1B97. TARIFF ilFSSAGE OF PRESIDENT McKINlEY. PLAIN, DIKBCr AND POIN1KD. Conj{r0SH, is Asked to Increase the Tariff Itnmediafely—The Condition of the Kcvenue Deinands Prompt Action. >" The followins measasto, from Presi dent McKinley was sent to Coagrete upon Its opening : To the Congress of the United States : Regretting the necessity which has required me to call you together, I fet 1 that your assembling in extraordinary session is indispensable because of the condition in which we find the revenues of the government. It is conceded that its current expenditure* are greater than ite receipt* and tbit such a condition has existed for now more than three years. With unlimited means at our command, we are pre senting the remarkable spectacle of inrrn—lag imr pnhiir debt by bonow- ing money to meet the ordinary out lays Incident upon even an economical and prudent administration of the government. An exariicatioa of the law which shall provide ample reve nue, need not be further urgrd. The imperative demand of the hour is the prop pt enactment of such a measure, and to this object I earnestly recom mend that Congress shall mako every endeavor. Before other business is transacted, let us first provide sufficient revenue to faithfully administer the government without the contracting of further debt, or the continued dis turbance of our finances. (Signed) Wm. MCKixutY, President of the United States. BILL ARP IS AT WORK. aubjavt :io»cs ttala fatt ia every dota<I aad irada iaevllabty to tha coo oiooioo that th«- eoatf ittoa tho row 0000 watch allows It la Mj-sstiftahh MKl •fn-jH t*e i uCfuCtod. VVtr t#J W Um of tko !Wrrr lorj at %km fr^moory itoi Ibo rwv+om* too His Wife Keeper Him Busy to Help His Ilbcumatism—A Lecture on Woman'n Rigbt^ and Wrongs- I like tp work when I feel like it. Tiut my wife likes for me to work when she feels like It, and so between the two I have to work nearly all the tim**. Yesterday I was grunting around with rheumatism, but she took a notion that it was a good day to take the ve randah trellis do*n aad clean away all tho old dead vines, and thought it would help me to get warmed up by exercise—and It did. She knows—she has beard me try to play off oa grippe and rhrwmaitos before —you can t tool the woman you have been ijviag with .ifw»'Vr« 1 ffM Tear* —so I got tha ladder 0 * **4 •JUth+j up lo lb# t«*f> c#i tho tomglii aob #m ' rooting romwlomood tho mUtorio 100O VUglolo croopor III## 11 . ## #t tho c4i aoooo Of 4 cl*##***! ## #11 ; ! - r loot I rtotf ' 4 i#«# to am mmorn • ■ %»■' fa ♦ time to get married. The matter Is considered and discussed openly aad freely before an engagement Is made. It must be a union that is fit to be made and the bans must be published and announced from the pulpit for so many Sabbaths previous to the ceremony. 1 Consequently there are no elopemeuta —no runaways, and of course not so many divorcee. Inconsiderate young people used to runaway to Gretna Green, in Scotland, and be married by an dll Scotch blacksmith, but those marriages were declared illegal about forty years ago, an 1 now it is a crime to be married anywhere save in the chiirelt afterytrebans have been pub lished. or?a!r solemnity is attached to the ceremony. But here anybody can run away with anybody's daughter and be married by anybody in any sort of fashion and get loose whenever they take a notion. The whole business of marriage and divorce should be re modelled by Cong -ess add. made uni form in all the States. -Remakes mo sick to read tho»o divorce advertise ments of lawyers in Chicago : ** Di vorce* obtained without attracting attofetion.” But the devil is now un chained and the thousand years are out. Bill AMP, I he Cotton Growers’ Protective toocatmi “NG MM C0110N IMS. dent Lincoln appointed him assistant FAUMRKH AI>VI8KI> TO DIVKIt- 8IFY CHOPS. - - The Areal Devoted to Cotton Will Yield More Profitable Returns— The Kind of Protection Needed fbr 8outhern Farmers. M 1881.D A « HOW*. An Iwserratlwa ( hapter of t'arwttwa Miwsavx. Kwo-o B4uratt<w Hacawtwv Sowth Carwliaa bas bad owu a> at maa of wfeMB it bmv ha ss twlsawd a sswwa As awswuM a bks faa< f toe as* a rtiawtar South r The following address was issued by the Cottan Growers’ Protective As- t.ociation, which mot a few days ago in' Augusta, Ga., and which advises tho growing of food crops as the surest road to agricultural prosperity in the South: To the Cotton Growers of America : The Cotton Growers’ Protective As sociation of America, in convention as sembled at Augusta^Ga., on (his Pub March, lb!*7, again come to you with an urgent appeal for co-operative ac tion in planting the crop for 1887; 'll is a matter of extreme- congratulation that the appeal made to you in 1MO and IWJti was so generally responded to and that the crop of I*U6, made upon the diminished acreage, did have the I effect of greatly lncrea»'«v »**•* *.^**-. | of cotton. T* * cr , 13.-*, tuowau I estimated tr tie 3,tufi.tlMO heirs short of I the crop of i WM. was la the markets of I the world \ urth more by eworty t». - I SOa.OSU |a she fare of this result U» 1 abwodoe tl s idea of diaialshed acre I age *uu‘d bp |o sou ad the rstrsal ta , the toew of t ictoey It le tho eeaeoaas i of ••p stow arnowg the Wet fmakers secretary and kept him In that capacity throughout his administration. He also acted as Lincoln’s adjutant and aide-de-camp and was breveted lieu tenant colonel. Entering diplo matic circles in tho sixties, ho was at various times chiu;gp. at Vienna, first secretary at PaVis/and secretary of legation at MadniLi Iff 1870, Mr. Hay connected himself with tho press and ftlr nearly six Years devoted him self to editorial work on a leading New York newsr IK) NOT INCRKA8K AUK. THE AC’KK The Colton Goods Trade Kiueedlngly - - 1*34 Dull—Food and Forage Crops Should be Ample -Make Cotton a Surplus Crop. * The following letter in reference to decreasing the production of cotton and increasing the production of food In 1*7.') he entered pottTlc?, taking suppik* b, scot out for an active part in the presidential cam palgns of 187«, 1880 and 1884, being then a- resident of Cleveland. Presi dent Hayoa appointed him First Assis tant Secretary of State, which post he tilled for nearly three years. Since his retirement from office Colonel Hay has resided chiefly in Washington city; where be occupies a (lalatial home on LaPayette avenue and has devoted himself to literature with the greatest success, some of his best known works of cotton planters. Coming from an expert statistician on tho production and consumption of’cotUn, It empha sizes the conclusions and justifies the action taken by the American Cotton Growers’ Protective Association, which met in Augusta on the loth inst. .New York, March 12, 1887. Hoe. Patrick Walsh, Editor Augusta Chronicle. My Dear Kir : Though our present being “Pike County Ballads." ~Cas-♦ °® tl ‘ ,D crw P 1 wUl not exceed tlllian Days.’’and ahisloryof Uacolk ! ^ nod the stock* la the -rltten in collaboration with John t • “nr** 1 * n»;l n*' 11 * ** lb« ««»d of the season may be even below the moderate figures at its commencement, the fact remains that coil >o is half a cent per pound tower than a year ago The ootVoe goods trade is ascending - ly dull and prices at about the loweat. Many American mm* are running on short time My fncad Mr Thomas I'.tlisua. of Liverpool, thinks the Kero- N ierday ; _2 Colonel Hay has also been a frequent irtbutor to the highest class of .periodicals, aad to him bas bom a }ascribed the authorship of the aaoay- ( »pt, "The Breadwinner*,' I root. • WAY8IDK OATH Bits 01 Humor and Ns tor the atwltltwde. —The quqcn has borne, Windsor and Buckingham Pal* aoe. • * 0 ‘.' Owing to the dry, cold atmosphere, no( a single infectious disease is knows in Greenland. —Michigan produces one-fifth of the iron of thtv eotmtry. mining nine lion tons a year. About •2,000,000 worth at Amer ican whisky is annually sent abroad, most of it from Baltimore. —American colleges received last year gift* of money and property amounting to tlfi,00*,000. —It is said that people who drink a great deal of water have rheuma tism less than the non-water driaker. —The United States aad Germany are the only great powers that have no postal savings hanks. — What is it that causes the sali nes* of the ocean *" asked a teacher. “ It D the codBsb,” said a little girl. —There Is a movemeat la Colemde to erect a moaumeat to the memory of Zebetoe Pike, the first •■plover of Pike • Peak. »ech eg lie turn ia labor •erai Horace unary *i.« * rew i*orte' k graek West —The tea# of a ptaao I , tha lasVr*meal Is net see . I tree temps rats-e should earn* as mere eeltoa ^ ^ u* mwm » beet ebsa r a wail. Aa he malatala- Mkt semwa thaa dsrlag la stow ef tha lajery —Te preseal 1 teas by ^Hlaet cwatly ejtoatad made es sorb > 1- 1 of sailor I the oeeh. a m eaiy aae ef 1 p., so sew KtoamaMOsd (•i imsasM « a t* sum o m rew* amw smwi ■paao am bmMoo* he —The edit* •est asttoiw w psmmgfify swal tha gsmead —Stomte • wv ef toml •W W*; es*M* f ’ a *«m btogs smsmg m dw ! the oomom eww moamao toam efig v • M sff t s* o*w me^oum mwea The soamaao mff «er r m-e mmmm e am aaowa fhoaui a»a daaw srssem <d toad to _* seei «s sato adnee owe saeod ed tow ■•*,»*.* ».* ■ • # to* to % aOOOO to- t f *sto» 000 oooa pgiiOTj ito mo ## #» m 1 Wtoooooot 900 a 1 > s* oot too o Ooo 00000 r t.s 00* a ■ * a # amaoOfmao omO *•# ** l 9 %mom Han 1 0**'O0 Srnmmm «## OO" am**' oa* Off • Mto Otm $900 4O0OOO I aOm$ $0$ot 40000$ OOt two % h V to ^ 44 «%rft%4 •<4 OOaO $ %dtotto0M WOM f f |>*eta! *ervtoe filwi 4I0,iaM. j uetll she 4# aot oeif empuwered to , Tj*?, ** or aa cxcr»» of cxiwodituree over re .eote, hot aieo to bold office la scbnol- hreldes - oeipt* ot •i*.'M2,lBAi. In January ol' rooms sad la tao goveroaeat of tbe j u * a l* * • ibis year, tho rwc-lpt* rxrlusive of I u>wo* aad rillogos. Tbo age of gai-. dietoa, * postal revenue* were 924,318 8114 and (entry and chivalry toward womeahas quaiolcd th<- ei|iendltures exclusive of poatal | p«seeil. This Is tbe unfeeling age, aad | says' ■— t —mg —ee | Itol 1 fit 0909$ #W#M O As * !wsepu. ami Ihhi amtom II te# OOO4O0 %%m •art » r» s cb —eel mtam omm I 0 0 ft##*# Bo | kro j # hr#A# *mn 9+9' 90 1# 0$$O ### H 4 « #te ite to$o ■09 'mo IW# j#i #|# 0 m |^| OTf 0090 $0000 11 ■MtoivWtowaarty warsogAww |#MP# #4 tofii * * 1 OOf$ tsOO* TJ. ft# IkU Ovlighttmi " lift | r## ##il I# rr#i! sore aad profit by maay ether* oath Cero’laiaasL ha* gives saat sartcb of Uovwraor Mtd* ittb shorn he was wall ac- Amoog other Ibtage he service *30,208.38(1, * deficit of A'i Ui>2,- 30ft for tho month In February of thip year tbo recelpt-i excludvo of portal revenues were 924,400,897 and the expenditures, exclusive of postal service 928.796.O>>0, a deficit of 94,HOG,- 050; or a total deficiency of 918d,0t*l,- 580 for th0~thTec years and eight months ending on March 1, 18U7. Not only arc we without a surplus in the treasury, but with an increase-in the public debt there has been a corres- ponding increase in the nnnuHl inter est charge from 822 893,883 in 1882, the lowest of any year since 1862, to $31,- 387,297 in 18!Hi, or an increase of $11,- 493,414. - L - It may be ur^ed that even if the revenues of the government had been suffieftent to meet all its ordinary ex penses during the past three years, the t gol4 reserve would still have been in sufficient to meet the demands upon it, >aad that bonds would necessarily have been uaued for its ropletjon. Be this as it may. it i» clearly manifest, with out denying ,or affirming the correct ness of such a conclusion, that the debt would have been decreased In at least the amouat of the deficiency, and bust ness confidence immeasurably •trungtheaafi throughout the country, ~ Cagfrnarshowid promptly oar suet tha elisting ouaJit'oas Ampto ruruaem mast h* sepal «fi aat naif far the ardl-1 aary sipwaare af the gwvsraasral. tort I tor prumps pay ms at J tbwra* psmstoa* j aad tbe 1 qetdattoa el thw artartpml| aad 'atorsat wf d^a pafidto dsha la, stoafiag raaaawaa Haa ** •aam*4 to m j krwtod spaa i«svrtga*gaartuato to to paa ] eswaa Hto 0ama smsH*^ an tor to pan mto* to sap *ma ismdaaHHi to nas^sw part aarsaaa —TtodHtoH to autos* ### aotfOOOOjOO OfjooaoiOOPo 0 moooooo OO0 OofOoOOfo OO0 0O400O OOOOOOOOOk | women ha* to sblTt ftpr herself. Thirty years ago she worked At seventeen occupations, nod noW al 130, and gets about half price for her labor—half the price that the men get who do it no better. I am ashamed of my sex, and i never buy a shirt for 50 cents but what 1 remember; that a poor wo man made it—made it in some garret — worked all day and ^art of the night. ■ With fingsrs weary and worn With eyelids iieav’y and red.’’ AndT yet those Lords of creation pre tend that if woman is allowed to vote she will get down in Che slums and lose her purity. She Is down in the slums now and would get out if sba-could. I know women who are at work for less than a dollar a day and have to support themselves and their little children out pf it, while their rich employers kit Yjigh up in the .churches and say- ameu and amen to the preachers pray ers. I know women, good women, ac complished women, whom men have ruined by neglect or noandonment, and all they can do is suffer and be silent. I know women whoso unprincipled husband* have been breaking their marriage vows ever sloe* they made thaa. aad stUI thay pa** aed rspass ia tha eommaaity a* gen'ls-t a But (his la The sfifiM old Itary-w*no tares. Saw it I* said that althwagh tha wa- ama • aaffraga MU has pmsasd tha haaaa #4 atoamsms hy a torga majarttf 19 vtol to igawmMasSk*** htitofi ia tha 9ins— *4 u—to — avy I ahatofi UHa to Hpaa * Tha toads aas aa* a amaia o mm O0O OfOi 4 4+ a g\% aoOfomt $0000 Of 000400 $000000000 4## O0O0 00040000000$ O00000000OO0 “Goveraor Middleton told me that he was personally acquainted with almost every distinguished man in Europe. He saw Bonaparte in every station which he had filled,.Irom that of General of the Interior to his seat on th^ throne of France. He was on termsof intimacy with him white hewas General of the Interior, and was in the habit of visiting his family. At one period of their acquaintance ho re ceived encouragement to address his step-daughter. ‘Little did I then think,’ said Governor Middleton, ‘that she would ever tie a queen.’ ” ^Am I not right in saying that Gov ernor Middleton missed a crown? Who can doubt that, had he married Na poleon’s step-daughter, he would after wards have been made king of some Eu ropean country by the great warrior, and he would undoubtedly have made a wise and just ruler. We may sup pose, however, that as Governor of an American Stkt? hewas probably hap pier than be would have been as king of some European country. . McDonald Furman. Ramsey, S. C. . . >* •<■*«' *»•**■ Tig n tot to tea l ••• Auto fill W si • hat safitsa y»m If svs ry far— ouMua grvwlag j bis ml* a( actl cotocttoUotoiy,! to tow — —• *»•- ' 00- Wkw gwwk)— *W I— 11 gun I If fito ItoNM# mfo thaoo I #M Oomo Ite OfOOot •«ls I# pm*o of to am THHHMKTssVHrHH w pms mIto ft— B. g«to vv> * •. — mi to. to* H m — —kgHfito mad fi»m< • 1 *4 I * — amm rr ur p>aal«r ia the j lislrtrt will tuass tat* tm. aad lit* u* to it j I will acKtop< laa Uw { rasslt ws so much d—tr* to awkiag — all pro* pc rows aad happy, wksthcr, your ootloa. which will bs a surpiu* 1 crop, —11 for a high or low price. We ! would urge you again ti maze sure j I' U tiled Hf In agtoa si ace The Coe free* of lb b— met aaauaJly la W November 17, I8IIU. The hall of the Uoues of Itepre—a- s-it I* related that about a year ago | a bou— la Wichita. Kan . was entered [bf a. J— aad a OoeAStbuakpoflUIn- \ 1 lag —ms moaev •— •toieq- ReosatTy T ta* owner to the par— raeelvafi a lev | first of a cheap, home grown IB ing for Ultfet u lh# legi.iatlva as- ail the people and all the animal* on ^mbly room in the world the place, and then make what cotton you can. a We address our argument to each In- diridual farmer. Every farmer may measurably control the cost'of produc ing his cotton. Let each individual farmer resolve in bis own mind and without regard to what others may do, to cut down the cost of producing his cotton. By con fining bis area to the best fields and to the best parts of his field ; by con centrating his skill, his industry and fertilizers on a smaller area he will produce iuY“'cotton cheaper. Every farmer kjw>ws that the better the land, the bett^ preparation and cultivation, the more liberal the amount of well balanced fertilizers he applies per acre, the less will be tho cost per pound of cotton. Rut only the best land in cotton and corn and the poorer lands in rye, peas, etc. This will crop product will much more reduce the cost. So that, in any event, whatever others may do, you will be all right. The columns of the eastern portico of the capltoAwva^ach •olid blocks of sandstone, thirty feet high. A marble column surrounded by a statue of Lincoln stands in front of the district courthouse. It costs about 9100,000 a year to run the white house, exclusive of the pres ident’s salary of 950,000. v Seventh, Ninth, Fourteenth, F and G streets are rivaling Pennsylva nia avenue as business locations. The bronze propeller of his famous flagship, the Hartford, was cast inU> the statue of Admiral Farragut. Tbe Rogers bronze doors at the main entrance of the capitol tell the history of Columbus, and cost $28,000.' ' The capitol rotunda is ninety-five feet six inches in diameter/and^ from floor to canopy measures t83 feeCthree ( inches. •—' — ill certainly reduce vour —^The terraces of the capitol were in the aggregate, buttt onl y completed in 1891, the total cost re reduce the <wst. ^ lhe building footing up 914,455,000 taai <tot wi t toesw—rCy «—tail pto ’ 4——. a—4 a 44—iaw%—a ta wtoto I 4 as—srs. hwwsvsr. c*—wet wait Mr 1 ta«— —vwwesws — they are gwaertoly ’ eu—wellto — sail I hair crape are—pUy la order ta a—srt their uhl igaUoas It le tree that our* la c—*Ul*r*hly ] low— la rhiaagn thaa It w—a ywar ago. while cat* aad pruvUUia* ars a trifls lower aed wheat aad Sour a lit-! tie higher. Tbe rvductioa ta the price of some of the— articles, howsvsr, should be do reason for plaatlng more outtoo aad le— grain, for of what avail to the Southern farmer would be the low price of grain nod provisions if )ilt cotton had to be sold for so little as to •cave him no surplus money In which to buy the*) things ? Tbe world does not need as much American cotton as can be grown on the present acreage. If all Southern farmers would raise their own food and forage crops (in cluding meat and ffirm animals) and make of cotton a surplus or “money crop ’’ they would have in their own hands the amplest protection against low prices for cotton, inasmuch as the overproduction of tbe staple would be avoided and they would never bo forced to sell their cotton ia the periods of ite greatest depression. Yours very ruly, Alfred B. Sheppekson. k—A tope— — — Sato ef M iin* la, — Us —as la lAr— < a* as* — — —M TfHkfj that It will fttdw ■•■•hly an • enr- A trial trip to tha i — dawr la i anally by It has ala ter U if a la* —all* THE DIPLOMATIC PXJdl r!<Y?A. Appnlat—sat to Miatese— I , —Jack rabbits are so numerous in some parts of Colorado that there Is au annual “ roupd-up " to exterminate the pests. At the round-up held the week before Christmas at Lamar 15,000 rabbits were killed. hale * recently captured la ally capt rouiff-tAi Mart OfOOm 4 • a • » • 40O000 #MMH#Bi IS •. to • * 00*00 #N#** tt mm I a d 4f A 9 M— • ••# 000% 000OOO Mpfli ’• 4tol Iml ->aO 004000000 Uoo moo p# f •* '• tm The treasury building was complet ed in 1869, at a cost of 98,000.000. It U tbe largest government department. _pnaa|yivanln avenue, paved with [ _ A _ h _i.. —pbalAdid IwTefit VTde.lT couitdap 1 - r , w ' aU .‘ r i to the fleest pared* street la tha 1 * ,cUc wmWn w—Id. JeAa tjeiacy Ad*—* d—igaed the a. lag—teal gvaap. ** The Geal— to A—ertea." aw ta* sas—rw pan—n to UM w>- I —WLl—-wtaa vtaegar oaa TAalh—sefi^f the As—y to 9Aa Taw- *9 adfitwg tee ga- ew* to aa—aa searJr d— 0— wm s—Aes la t* ppawds to —waWwfi *eist—. aa - n ht ; wm— H Msfipasvww lw Mf ‘ eg * s—wfi — a war— » — PlbB—nw swawee fr^* * * a —wafiA TW *na—sdwa Ao—anaaeat t—0dnf as* ta lw a swssto* aw4 as— tAa aat— as a r ag* ah—g a eaad Tbs— Is psuwl—4 i —Tha air In i isglua* that rind « apart. awad authority that at Gibraltar tha human vole* has base distinctly heard at a distance to tea miles. I —A gentleman traveling la Persia says he ha* been la a town whern the bells ring for prayer fire time* a day. and business men rush out of their offices to the churches, leaving their places of business alone and unlocked, and nobody ever has a thing stolen. —In the year 1893 Great Britaa took 13,707 American horses. In 1894 the same purchaser received from the United States 22,866 horses, and the succeeding year 34,092. During the first nine months ot the year 1896 there had been shipped from the United States to England 34,642 horses. —The boye were looking at a picture in a Sunday achool paper, which showed two South Sea Islanders rob bing noses, after the cordial manner of these natives when meeting a friend, “What are they doing?” asked Rob. ArthurJ who had heard something about the custom, quickly replied, “Oh, just scraping acquaintance.” —Two Danish officer*, who recently explored the country north of the Hl- mnlayas, found there unknown tribes who are worshippers of fire and ignor ant of the u— of mowey. Their aai- bedded In its side * harpoon that ba- oagsd to a whaling vesusl that —ea oat to sarvioa nearly half a < 10*7 Wvite-wiws vftwMwr ana be ■ ftrirgl--- Tutor arc *H dwarf to tha si—of ponl—. the doakeye ef large dqg* aad the sheep to small poodles. Wo—aa are sold I— ft** ortol cows—13 sheep aptees Tbetr chief article to barb— la fare. A m MM# ” 000000$ to «Ha tw— MOA — ^VhSB* 13 wta WW9 fa* It .11 -i ♦ e #Ni ) ^b e* • om room \