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• X The Barnwell_ People. 'wmQamBMuam hb—bs —p^ea ■' mb Largest Circulation in the County BII/I; ARP ON THE FREEZE. HIS OWN STORY AND OTHERS. H« T«lka A boat the Cold D*jr* SUijr YSU« Affo When He Wee » Mall feiby and Game Near Freezing. I remember—yet, I remember the oold Friday and Saturday of ’3U, when I waa a little male boy—1 mean a mall boy—and had to ride tht mail from Lawrenoeville to Roawell, twenty-four milee and back in a day. Friday wra my day, rain or thine, cold or hot, and my mother cried when father helped me on the high dromedary horae that morning; but I waa bundled up good, and had warm woolen aocka over my thoea and a pair of home-knit mittena r on my handa and a woolen comforter crotaed around my neck and earn, thought I could atand it, for I waa young and toSgh, and lull of bkod, and beeiFraiaed ! N. B. he waa a newapapor man. Well, I’m not going to write a poem on the beautiful anew, for I don’t like it, eapecially when 1 am the boy—the only boy about the houta,'and have to kebFtrotting to town or the woodpile or ocalhouae,or aomewhcre. But the children Ilk? it, and there’a aome com fort in that, and the other day while I waa tramping elowly to town on the alippery walk l met a pretty Udy, a middle-aged matron, and just befo.c ahe got to me Her fool slipped back coal wu» too high, and they had a re- '>*}! 10 ce had beef raiaed to work in the oold and to chop wood and go to mill, and my father alwaya aald that boye who were raiaed easy would be no account and die hard. I made my trip to Roa well in good time, but it waa growing colder ana colder, and the drizzling rain had turned into aleet. Fur about an hour I aat by the postmaater’a fire and got thawed. He urged me to atay all night, and aald I would freeze to death on the road; but I knew my mother would imagine i waa some where dead on the way and be dis tressed, and so the postmaster helped ,meon the old dromedary and 1 gave him the reins for hoihe and held on to the horn of the saddle. He waa a tine 'traveler, and paced up hill and down hill the same. By the time 1 got to Gregory's bridge,on theChattahiojte I waa pretty well cthd in ice, and ino horse’a mane was a solid sheet and hia ears were full. I stopped in the shelter of the covered bridge a few minutes and found I was getting colder, for the aleet had blown under me on the saddle and got into my socks. A feeling of alarm came over me, for my Unger*, were numb and my feet, too. Despera tely I clucked to the good honfa. and away he went, for there were yet six teen miles to make, and the blizzara waa on in earnest and it looked Tike the darkness of night had almost come. Mile after mile waa left behind, and I felt that we could make it; but all of a sudden, when I got to Falrview church, 1 realized that I had about lost feeling. I couldent unciutcb my hand from the horn of the saddle and 1 dldent know whether my feet were in the atirrups dr not. 1 was only two miles from home and—my good horse paced on. They were looking for me —my father and mother—and as the horse rounded up to the back door 1 almost fell into their arms, and my hand was wrenched from its frozen grip on the saddle. I remember that, for it waa the cold Friday, and the next day was colder, i waa rubbed with turpentine and oil and tenderly nursed, and la a few days was ready for another trip. We had no ther mometers then, and there is no record how cold it waa, but 1 remember that birds were frozen in the Woods and chickens on the roost. I don’t know whether these thermometers are any advantage or not. T^ie other morning 1 got up soon and made a Uro in two rooms and then went out to the coal- house to get more coal for upstairs. I noticed that the back hall floor and the Steps and platform cracked strangely as 1 walked on them, and 1 felt that it was oold—very oold—but 1 never looked at the thermometer for half an hour, and it was 7 degrees below zero. I got colder immediately, for 1 had never seen the mercury that low before. My opinion is that 10 degrees above zero is about as oold as 10 degrees below if you have no thermometer. 1 can’t realize the difference, and that is the reason why our Northern brethren make so little fuss about weather 30 and 40 degrees beldw the mark. Il ls, like the engineer who was called in by a railroad committee to give his opin ion about speed. They asked him if it was more dangerous to run fifty miles an hour than forty. He said no. “Can you runsixty as safe as forty?’ r “Yes,4 said. he. “ How about seventy or nighty?" “Just as safe as forty,” he said, “ for if you jump the track at forty vou will go to the devil, and that is as far as you can go at 100 miles an hour.” Just so I don’t care much where the mercury goes to after It gets below 20. I was talking to. an old friend from Maine about the weather, and he said he had suffered about as much down here as up there, but dident suffer long at a time—only a day or two ; but up there it was several long weary months. ” Where 1 was raised,” ho- said, “ the mercury was far below zero for a month at a time, and I remember obe long weary night when it dropped to 30 and then 35 and 40.. There was an olifhshloned box stove in the big room. It waa made of thick malleable iron and on blttei nights we crowded in wood and pine until it was red hot all round. On this particular night we boys had to turn round and round to keep from freezing on one side while we were scorching on the other. About midnight the mercury dropped to 15, and the house cracked and popped like little guns. Father got alarmed, and, being an old-fashioned Christian man, said, ‘ Come, children, let us all kneel down and pray.’ After prayer we piled more pine into the heater. l 'Father said to mother : 1 When Elisha Kent Kane was in the arctics he said that he found that fatty matter was better than tire and he made his crew stuff themselves with whale blubber and seal oil and grease and it saved their lives. And so, mother, you had better bring us all the grease in the pantry.' Mother turned us all loose on her lard and butter and fat meat and we crammed it down and it did do us good. But the mercury kept on dropping. Father had an old donkjey that brayed incessantly all the forty part of the night, but about 3 o’clock he oeased and father said : ‘My child ren, the poor old donkey is dead.’ About 4 o’clock there was a fire in the little Tillage, but nobody went to it. The family fled to the nearest house for refuge. Just before daybreak the mercury began to rise a little and father said : 'Come, children, let us kneel down and give thanks to God for His mercy.’ > “ Well, it was glorious to see the big, round, red sun rise and shine In tho windows next mornings About this time we heard a racket in the barn which .was near by and father ' Boys, go out and see if that ward and the other extremity bad to bend forward'and she made me the prettiest little courtesy 1 ever had made to me. She never lost her per pendicular, but just come down grace fully on one knee like 1 have seen girls in the parlor 4 ttncw - • ^ course, 1 tipped my hut and said “Tbankyou, madam." She colored up and smiled and spoilt it all by saying, “ i dldent mean to." I havent told my wife about it yet, for our golden wedding is near at band and It is no lime for these irre gularities. it was the beautiful, toe sltckery, trickery snow tnat did it. I had to shovel it out of ttie pathway Irom my house to the street 110 yards so that my women folks could walk without wetting their shoes and stoek- ings, but every one of them, even to my wife, prepared to wade In the beautiful snow and the girls found a ditch where it was knee deep and waded in that. That’s the way they impose on a poor old boy like me. ButthMMi is not so much difference between heat and culd aftbr all. Ujth destroy sensation and vitality and wither and bla^t vegetation. They are very close akin. Not long ago a man told me he witnessed the experi ments made in New York with llqul fled air. He saw the discoverer place a tumbler half full of it in lhe ( center of a targe pan of water and in less than a minute the water was all frozen into solid ice. Then he took an iron rod three feet long and as large rdund as a cedar pencil and put one end in the tumbler and while it rested there he touched 4 a lighted match to the other end, and it took fire and burned furious!^ until the whole rod was con sumed. He declared that a teaspoon ful of this liquified air placed in a re frigerator would freeze everything in It and keep it frozen for three or lour days, and that ice would soon bo made at 10 cents (or a ttfbusand pounds, and all the ice factories be closed forever, and he said that this liquified air had Charleston to interior points were re duced. * It was found that the manufacturer^ of paper boxes in the city of Charles ton were being charged too much by the railroadsi tq enable them to com pete with the manufacturers of b.ozo* beyond the limits of our State.- The board removed this discrimination by reducing .the rates. > - , * Upon Ixubgjgigatlon the commission were of the opinion that the rate on ir Uon. Tdere aQjUiti Sg= ffve times the destructiTO power Of hliVt! ,)eu,) erucU d u - v Au ** n - irve wine* TOeraBstructive power or (jgjjK Line aTBumter, Btshopville, Ltqiar, it dynamite. The operator made Union ade and cocktails for the party and froze them by dropping a very small drop in each glass. How is that ? But—N. U. The gentleman-wlfo solemnly told ibis Is a newspaper man, loo. UlLb Am*. COMMISSION. ductlon made of 10 cents per arc many 1 eductions and .adjustments that have been made ou other com modities If we desireu to continue this ; ■ * ; . Traffic managers of the railroads In ibis State, In 1007, filed with the beard an application to licreaseth.o rates on cotton seed and cotton seed hulls 100 per cent., cutlon in bales 2 cents per hundred pounds, agricultural implements 25 per cent, ice 40 per cent., cotton seed?)!! 20 per cent., ve hicles of all kinds 20 per cent., coal 25 per cent., granite and marble stones tiu per cent,, paper boxes 54 per cent. These arc a few of ibe articles meo- tioi.e# in this application for an adyance in rates. Tne railroad commiss|lbn re fused to Allow it. ' Ail these matters are from the record* lp~4he office of the railroad commission. Iq the matter of the passenger ser vice given the public it has been muofe^ improved on tne-rccommcndation and suggestions and co-operation of the commission. In 1000 on the Cheraw and Darling ton Railroad from Florence toCheraw, on the Manchester and Augusta Rail road from Sumier and to Gibson, and frodi McCormick to And rson tbe«com- missiou had daily p.isvcnger trains put on In plaoo of the mijri'-u trains tnairr^ had been the accommodations afforded by those roads. Ouo of the most Im portant services tendered the public has been the Improvement-in the depot accommodations that have beta ob tained through.the efforts of the com mission. Oa the recommendation of the board very material imprrovombnts have been made m the depot accommodation along the line of the Southern Rail way Company, ara’jng the most impor- portant of which are the depots at Spartanburg, Greeuvulo; Rock Hill, Winnsboro and a shed at li'andlng street in the city of Columbia. New donkey is nllve.’ And sore enough he wqi and there he stood facing the door wltb in iclolestlckingoutof his mouth, three feet long and as big kt the base as a coffee pot. HU brays had frozen end frozen to n pharp point and had a ed np hU jnouth so effectually he eat bray any more.” That’* what my friend told me, but l Defence of Us Courae And a State ment ol the llenetll* Which It Has Conferred Upon the People of the State. - . The ColumDia correspondent cf the News and Courier makes the following statement in regard to the work of the' railroad commisstoti: t There has been considerable redently said relative to the railroad commis sion of this State, .even suggestions as totts being worthle**. JTuere^is such thing as overdoing a thing and of leaving's false impression^ it is well to appreciate that the utlicers and rep resentatives uf the railroads arc far sighted men, and that it haslargety been with their co-operation that what has been desired has been accom plished With a view to petting aCtho | information and data have ~ been solicited. To begin with, the railroad comrqis- sion by its reports and decisions has contributed largely to a better know : ledge of the various railroad questions that have arisen and has given direc tion to public opinion, so as to crert a constant influence upon railroad man agers and .make it a force in securing reforms, while, at the same time, it has brought about abetter understanding ol the mutual relations of the corpora tions and the public. .Specifically, the commission has held the railroads in obedience to the rail road laws of the State l it has invest!-, gated accidents and fixed the responsi bility • tberefor, whether on the cor porations or their agents, and it has hastened the introduction of a better equipment and the adoption of alj the latest appliauees for the safety of trav ellers. It has helped to secure better accommodations ami facilities for many places, and has had redressed many grievances uf individuals and communi ties. ' V In the matter of tho rates on fertuK j zors the following reductions havo^ been made since the adoption af the general railroad law, and as an illustra- < l ue lion It Is wed to name certain points! ^^een the sfiipoe located in different sections of the State at the time of the passage of the act. The-rato on fertilizers from Char lesion to all the Dudmont section ol the State varied from $4 80 to $5 per ton. This territory is now covered by * blanket rate of 13.10 per ton. Fifty cents of this reduction has been re cently made. In the fee-Dee si ctiou the rate varied from $270 to $3 20 per per ton : today this territory is covered by a straight mileage rate that dpes not average over a rate of $2 20 per toh. The local rates on fertilizers on all roads have been reduced on an average uf 50 cents per ton on all short distances. Very material reductions have been made in other articles. The .ciltivation of tobaccoo having THE assigned very euusiderabte proportion^ in this State it was found upon investi gation of the rates that were being charged that the railroads w, ru retard ing the development of the business of ware housing uf the tobacco, and that the rates used were very much higher than those used in Virginia 'and North Carolina. The board reduced the rates on tobacco, giving tho necessary relief to this industry. ^ Complaint was made by the Rock Hill carriage and buggy manufacturers bat they Could npt compete with ‘.he Western manufacturers for the busi ness in this State with the rates from Cincinnati made them by toe railroads. The commission took these rates up and so reduced them until now these home manufacturers are able to come In competition with all outside dealers or manufacturers and cooltpl their local territory. On complaint of the wood dealers of the cities of Columbia, Spartanburg, Ruck Hill, Sumter and Charleston that the wood rates were too high the board, after ftfll investigation of the matter, made a reduction of 50 per cent, in the wood rates and, increased the minimnm carload from eight cords to ten cords;.this deduction was ffikde Jn 1898. In 1897 the rate on shingles omttsville, Conway and Denmark upon me re commendation of the board. On the South Curolitfa and Georgia beverul new depols.-bave been erected on tne Augusta division, aud for this year the board has recommended,^ that new depots be erected at Summerville, St. Matthew's, Heath Springs and Hock Hill. This road has.erected a union depot at Denmark—which fills a want long demanded by the public at thio point. '* The, board annually inspects the roads of tbe Sta e, and sees that the physical condition of the roads is kept up to the standard and that the bridges and trestles are kept in a safe condi tion. During the year 1897 they con demned th 1 trestle on tho South Caro lina and Georgia Railroad over the Wateree River swamp this 'trestleIs three miles long, and two miles of it has been fi.led in with earth and made permanent aud secure. The train ser vice has been greatly improved under tbe roles of the commission, and upon their recommendation tne separate coaclTTi.U was passed. Tne actioot»T the commission in the matter of bringing about the consolid^- of the, ruaJo operated by tbe At lantic Coast Line system under one system to be operated as one road, mereby 'causing tho operation of a straight mileage tariff whereby the rates to this entire territory have been reduced on an average of 25 per cent, is an accomplishment foi* tne bent fit of the entire eastern portion' of the State that cannot easily ~6j.estimated in all its benefits. The commission are now using their best endeavors to uonsuimaale the con solidation of the O. K. aniT C. R. H. by the South Carolina and Georgia Rail road, which will resulfin the opera tion of their two roads as vne road, which will give the operation of a straight mileage tariff rate from Char- Testou to all tdq. territory of the O. ft ‘ and C. R. R , and will be the Hecom- plishmeit of the Ufe-iong desire of Mr. Memminger who spent the best years of his life in endeaviug to get a through line under one management from Charleston to the up-country. The board of railroad commiss+oners has been twice held up by auJhjunc- liou from Tb'e L^ted^sYifcs Court, and ultimately sustained in its Action. An inspection of tbe reeprds of the Office wltl sfi&W 'ttrat there are con stantly arising questions, astu_rates_ r and the- carrier wb.ch arc amicably settled by the board,, many overcharges rectified and discriminations removed. There has been complaint relative still here, to insist on their immediate departure. On finding that the men they were looking for were not in the clfy the cit izens spent about two £oui<s • around t >wn before starting for their homps. Before leaving tu'ey made urgent re quests of Mr. T. F. Riley and othei ortizjob not to allow, any of the Tol berts now under proscription to again take up their residence in the city for any-Fenjith of time. - The people jn the lower portion of the county,, it was represented, hau suffered for many years at the bands of the Tolberts, ana they have resolved that they will not suffer from this cause any iongeh They do not be lieve that peace and good order can be niaintamed-wlth the Tplberts In tbe cou,nty at present and they do not pro pose to run any risks. Tuey said that if the Tolberts had shown any sign of regret for their past conduct and tbe consequences of it^ or had made any pledges as to good .conduct in ttie future, their return might have been tolerated; that until the Tolberts show ed some desire to have tbe friendship and good will of the people Of the county they would not be allowed to live in this -county again. The citizens said they thought if this was known the better it would be fdr ail parties concerned, and that tbe object of their visit here was to make tnis fact known jn must unmistakable manner: Tne crur'd during the two hours stay in the city was generally quiet and orderfy. borne of the men uad been drinking, and one or two were disposed to be quarrelsome and make asses of themselves, but tbe great majority were sober men and sober men were certainty in charge of the crowd 'hdh directed its movements. The leaders the crowd were using every effort to keep down any disorderly or un seemly conduct. -Tfre crowd staHecFout of tow n in the direction of PLojjIx about eleven o&fock. A stop s was made at the home of Mr. W. H. Napier, in the outskirts of the cltycs Mf. Napler'ls a brother- in-law of James W. Tolbjrtf Tolbert him been there for two weeks past; but left, it is said, several days ago. Mr. Napier_was told not’ allow Toloert to, return. Mr. 'Napier stated yesterday that the crov d, during the stop at his' house, was quiet and orderly, that no threats were made and that no abusive language was used. ' The in lex reporter talked with Hon, J. M. Gaines over the telephone yester day afternoon. Mr. Gaines was at his home, ti[teen miles in the country. He staleu that the men, after leaving the city Tuesday night, ail returned quietly to their homes and were yesterday attending to their business as usual. READY FOR THE VETERANS. Tbe Arrangements for tbe Confeder ate Reunion In Cbraleeton Are Progressing Finely—Historic Forts LIFE ON A CtjBAN FARM Will be Open to Visitors. The pftparaxiops for the great Con federate reunion Xo he held In May at Charleston are progressing on well de fined lines, and matters are taking x-r- u» Unto—.- all hard at worl£and the various pre liminaries have’’ been accomplished. The finance committee has been very successful in its efforts to raise funds Over six thousand dollars have been subscribed already, |md ten thousand, it is thought, win be sufficient to de fray the working expenses. Th i*ex A soldier correspondent of the Char lotte Observer, writing from Havana recently, gives his observations of farm life in Cuba as follows : A few days ago I spent an hour in a Cuban farm house, which I believe to be typical., ft is of one story, a long low building, with an “L”> nearly as is fairly well to do and has a large fam ily. The large centre room is a sort of general hall. It is the dining 100m, the sitting room and nursery. On one side of it is the kitchen, on the other a room used as a pig pen—and a very filthy one. The othei rooms are bed ecutlve committee now holds weekly, exceot two whh-h are used linri iroes over th* w«rlr«»Aki M*»uiuers, except IWO, Wn.CD are USCO NKIL DENIES ALL CHARGES. to the union depot mat-ter aj, Columbia 1 he commission has had _ouo of two things to do : Walt on the adjustment of tbe financial matters between the oeveral roads interested in the union station here or go into the courts and tic up the matter, perhaps for years. The several, roads are now considering' tae arraugements-for toe erection aou, control of the union station and the* commission has done everything pos sible uuder tho circumstances, arid in time the station will bo constructed. of lumber were shipped at what was the rate on rough lumber, making con sideration reduction In Vhe rate. On complaint of Mr. John A. Smith, manager of the Charleston Freight Bu reau, the rates oa-oil and TOLBERTS-AUK of Greenwood Coiinij Allow Them to Stay The Citizens Will Nut There. Greenwood index, 23rd inst. Tuesday night about nine o'clock a body of men,<1 variously estimated at from 75 to ll)n in number!" rode into the square and stopped in front of Riley’s hotel. They were all on horseback and all werh armed. < Tne men w* ro all. or nearly a'l, from the vicinity of r’hce'hlx, in tuis county, and a number of tne best citizens of that section were in the party. None' of the crowd wore masks, and tiu re was no attempt at concealment. Hon. J. M. Ga^ii^? appeared to be in com mand and. did must of the talking. Inquiry was made if Joe Tolberf was at the hotel. On being told tnat Tol bert left the city several days ag< , the crowd, with ,possibly one or two exceptions, sjemed glad of It. They said they {Wd not want any bloodshed and were glad that Tolbert was out of the way. * 1 < The object of tho visit toGreenwood, the men composing the party stated, was to make a demonstration showing the-attitude of the people of the ^— Ditt'jix saction toward those of the was reduced 2U per cent qpd.alLciasses- -Toioerts Viio were to blame for the re- All Reports About the Shortage in His Accounts Are Untrue—He Wants a Thorough Investigation. The State, L’.rcTiuataut. Col. _W. A. Neal, superintendent of the State penitentiary, returned to Columbia late Tuesday night, after spending some time in Anderson on personal and State business combined. Go account of the snow stormrCol. Neal was ke.pt indoors for five days at his sister’s home and this delayed his return to this city. When seen in re gard to matters in which his official rectitude has been tecen-tly questioned, Col- Njal talked freely in a general way. * • He began by saying the reports that he was short in his accounts were all rot and totally untrue.' He aaid that when t:.e office is turned over U^-bjs successor everything will ba found to be correct nnd 0 in perfect condition so far as ttie accounts and management are concerned. He invited a full im vestigation and was glad that a legis lative committee has been appointed for that iMirpo^e and he would aid them in any way .possible. He stated that he bad nothing whatever to fear.from an investigation. Tne committee, he said, lias only one man ou it who voted for. him, but tbe members are all fair, square men and would do what ws» right. Col. Neal said he had had a pleasant talk yesterday morning with his suc cessor, Capt. Griffith, and it has been arranged thatCoi. Neal should give iip the office "right after ihe next direc tors’ meeting, which takes place March 8ib. Gol. Neal said, he would' take great pleasure in giving Capt. Griffith all possible information about the institu tion and its workings and int .mded to go with Capt. Gr,ffi.h to the State (arms and explain everything. Be said that the only thing which was not in perfect order was one or two dams on the DeSaussure and Kjed farms, which bad been injured by tbe recent high water in tbe vVateree. The out- standing cbntr.cts, ne saui, ere all excellent, and Cap 1. Griffith's adminis- tration ought to be very successful. Col. Neal expressed his friendly feel ings towards Capt. Griffith several meetings and goes over the work of the sub-committees at each sitting and lays out the new lines ol effort. The com mittee at its last meetlhg considered * ‘tlculany the question of housing 1 board for the tqousands of visites tnat are expected. This matter Is con- \ sidered the'most serious feature that^ tbe city has to contend with in connec tion with the reuoion, but plans are being ^devised to overcome whatever obstacles are in the way. Permission has been secured from the secretary of war for admission of visitors to the harbor forts during re union week. The concession is a very welcome one, since an enforcement uf the regulations would have barred the veterans Jrom the historic Forte Sum ter and Moultrie. Tne work on th6~blg auditorium was delayed somewhat by the blizzard weather, but the building la proceed ing rapidly. The front ^elevation is almost complete J and promises ja veryL Handsome appearance. The State at large has joined heartily with Charleston to maze a success Jf for a granary and store room for farm implements. A piazza extends all around- the house, and it is also used to stall horses, mules and cows. On it; while I was there, two of the farm er’s,, daughters—and very pretly girls they are—were grinding corn in a very primitive mill. Two round stones are used, each about 3 inches (hick and about 18 inches in diameter; The nether stone is laid on a cloth-covered table. It is solid, and has an iron'pin rieing out of the centie. The uppei stone has a 3-inch hole in the centre, with a soR of snare hub within it, to engage the pin of the nether stone. Into the tdge of its upper surface is fastened a handle. One girl twirls the upper stone swiftly, while the other drops the corn, grain by grain, into the hole. A tine meal is made, vyhich is flirted cut from between the stones, on to the table. In' the kitchen a younger senorita was occupied baking small, thin corn cakes over a charcoal the reunion. Substantial aid is being ‘ L, . , given from all parts of Soutn Carolina, * pme . 0 ^ ^ ie8e were given to me, each of the counties contributing gen- au “ ^ ' contributing gen erously of supplies and money. The resolution of the general assem bly extending to the Confederate Vete rans the freedom ol tbe State has been engrossed and signed toy tbe president of tbe Senate, the speaker of the House and the chairmen of all the standing committee of the two bouses, it will be for warded to General Gor don, commander-in-chief U. C. V. The textjit tbe resolution is as follows : “ Be ,i,t resolved by tbe House of Rjpresentatives, tbe Senate concur ring, That the state uf South Carolina hereoy extends For loving welcome to tbe United Confederate Veterans, who, as ber guests, are to gather in the month of May next at Charleston, then and there to hold their last great annual reunion of the century, under the shadow, as it were, of historic Fort Sumter, and hereby grants to them and their heirs, male and female, ' the freedom of the State.’ And that tbe people throughout the length and breadth of the commonwealth ne, and they are hereby called upon to lend their full presence and give amply of their substance to tbe royal greeting and princely entertainment that are due to and await such well^tieioved guests in the birthplace of the high and holy hopes which once inspired them and their Southern brethren, ‘partof whose host have crossed the flood and part are crossing now.’ “ Resolved, further, That tbe Gover nor be itqucsted to transmit to the commander-in-chief of the United Con federate Veterans a copy of the fore going, attested by tbe presiduo* of tbe Senate and the speaker of'the House of Representatives, and also of the chair men of the standing committees of tj)e Senate and House. tunes - Cm. Neal remarked that he had held# the office for six yours, which was about S' long as any man ever held it, and he whj not at an disgruntled at his defeat hoc. has he any reelings of resentment UwarUs those who opposed him. Ho txpeets to go back to his farm near Easley, retire from politics and en deavor regain his health. His family will leave lor their home near Easley., ou Saturday. Col. Neal will gu aim them andj-eturn in a few days. —-— The joint legislator investigating comm.lice met yesterday morning at the penitentiary. The members aro_„ WARN ED. Sjfialors Livingstone and Hay and Representative's Stevenson, Dalton and McDow. Mr. Stevenson is cb&irraaa by the vote of the committee. The committee heard a statement from Mr. T. J. Cunningham, chairman-of the board of directors, and elected Mr. John Taylor, formerly of tne State treasurer’s office, as their expert to ex amine tbe books of the penitentiary. Mr. Taylor was author.zed to begih at once and will investigate everything from the beginning to tbe cud of Col. Neal’s administration as superinten dent. The committee will meet next on March 8th at 12 o'clock, when the ex cent political troub'e# in this county. Twoof theiso Tolberts, it was known, had Lpen in' thu city, and top ftltizens stated that the object of their visit was to protest against the presence of these ugar frotn^men hj-she county, •ndrtT'Tire'y were . - tiai report upon the condition of affairs. — u I spoke the truth, and the literal truth," rejoined the hale and hearty old gentleman impressively. “ Belie;e me or not, as you may, I am not more than sixty years of age, and yet for more than fifty of those years 1 have eaten-nothing.” Tne elegant young man looked rather unea?y “T don’t^ want to be offensive,” he observed, “but, really, are you sure that you’re feeling well in your mind ?’| The hale and hearty old gentleman laughed but-i right “No, lam not crazy, if that’s wbat you mean,” he returned: “but see here, I’ll explain. Out of the twenty-four hours of the day 1 never spend more than three, all told, for my breakfast, lunch and dinner, and often not as iqucb as that. Bullet us say throe. That leaves twenty-'one dur ing which I take no food ; that is to say, seven-eigntos of my time. Seven-'" eighths of sixty years is fifty-two and one-half; so, you see, it is literally true that for more than fifty years I haven’t eaten a thing, and " But the el.egant young man bad gone off as fast as bis legs could carry him. _ —A bill has been introdu'jedjn the KaUSBSf Legislature which "provides tnat a residence of three months in t ie the State shall give a person legal standing to bring a divorce suit. nervous, A woman dbes-uot have to bp 'placed underan X ray to show to'all beholders that she is suffer ing from ill- health. Ill- health marks than it does a man. It de- | stroys the sparkle in her eye. the bloom j of health on ber cheek, her vivacity of manner, her sprightliness of carriage and makes her petulant and despondent. , pc r , Generally ill-health in a woman is due to disorders or derangements of the delicate and important feminine organs which are the cradle of the race. No woman who suf fers in this way can retain her good looks or her attractiveness. Tbe daily burden of torturing, dragging pains that she carries, will soon make her a physical wreck, and eventually either kill her or_drive her to insanity. Any woman may restore and re- v.u uuu qui- u ucu ca insanity. Any woman may restore and re port isuixjiccted to make at least a par- |ain_her health and strength in a womanly way by the use of Dr, Pierce’s Favorite Tne meetings will be opjn and the rep» 1 Prescription. It cure<absolutely and com- resentatives of the press and ail others pletely the weakness and diseases peculiar are at liberty to be present session. 1 ft\lS possihiq. that the work . jr^to her sex. It does away with the neoes- sity for the obnoxious “examinations ” and ,, L “local treatments ” insisted upon by nearly taking testimony will begin at this all physicians^and enables her to treat her- in the privacy of her home of ■ _ . tune. . ; Mr. Stevenson, tho chairman, stated Invention of Dr that tbe committee had merely started the work yesterday and no"action was taken nor was anything brought be fore them except the statement of Mr. Cunningham, which it is out deemed prudent to make public at this time. —Some .of thq Indiana of the United 8,ales are among tbe richest farmers in the world. The annual income of t le Osage tribe, whtch consists of only 1,729 persons including children, is $442,044, or $2.50 23 for each man, wo man and child. It is the R. V. Pierce, for thirty years chief consulting physician to the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y. Any woman may consult him by letter free of charge. All csrres- pondence sacredly confidential. found them excellent, flavored with garlic ana very‘peppery. There were half a dozen well grown boys about tire house, but they were engaged in playing dominoes and bedevilling.a miserable little monkey, and I did not see any of them at jvork. ‘ -> The house is roofed with rougli clay tiling. About the premises there was every evidence of a disregard for clean liness, and only the girls seemed ever to - have washed their faces. This farmer is a land owner, and has sev eral peon tenants. I visited the hut of the latter, and found it to be built of banana bark, and thatched with leaves of the same palm. There was no "floor, nor any attempt at comfort. There was a door to one room, but the children of the household generally squeezed their way thiough the baik walls wherever they happened to wa it to get through. The beds are slightly raised off the ground and are of the poorest description. The hut is very dark inside, and there is an unpleasant odor within, in spite of the fact that the walls are mere trellis work. The farm is of goodly eiteut, ami there are large fields of bananas, pine apples aud tobacco, besides a very pretty orange grove. The peons de scribed tbe landlord—the farmer of my acquaintance—as a miserly fellow, very rich and grasping. The farmer said the tenantry was of the poorest order, and that be suffered them to, remain on his land merely otit of charity. ■ ■ ■» Jlr. Jr Y. Richardson writes to Tht^ Netrs am? Courier from Quemados, Cuba, and gives the following items of- interest as to farming and othei 'in dustrial features of the •island : The land in the neighborhood of Havana and surrounding country is very fei tilg. «Tlio cultivated land can be bought for about $50 to $75 au aero. The same land in the States be worth $200 or more, and a farmer'has every advantage over heic, in that he can gather three or four crops in,a single year. The principal products are tobacco, Indian corn or maize, (which is used mostly for fodder,) radishes, cabbages, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes and to matoes. There is a certain farmer who has a farm about eight miles from Havana, who says that he has rrdver bad ang trouble witji bis potatoes since he has started farming. He planted the po tatoes and gathers three or four crops a year, and he'never goes near the patch until it is time to gather the crop. The wealhei 1 here this winter would be just the thing lor cotlon, but a man ! never knows when it will rain, or when ! the sun will shltre; It is liable to do ! either any minuterin the day. | The laboring class of Cubans seem 1 to "be very lazy and worthless. The ' government hires "quite a number of 1 them, and’they arc only require^ to work eight hours a day, but there is 1 very little work done, as thp)t loaf most of the time. t The Cuban farmers. also seem to be lazy. Whether the climate has this effect is not known, but, in my opinion, ,a good practical farmer from South Carolina could make plenty of money a woman much ,1PI P by investing in a good farm. All more quickly that would be required would be com mon sense, grit and a few up-to-date agricultural implements. — The chances of employment for young men in Havana now arc very uncertain. A man may strike, a job, but he has the odds against him. If a young man has any money to invest he might think of coming over. There are quite a number of investors and capitalists here, but as 'everything seems to be so unsettled most of them .are waiting tfntil next year. As far as I can judge the Spaniards seem to be more industrious than the Cubans. Almost every nianufaetory, etc., is either owned or run by Spaniards, and, in fact, everything of importance is controlled by them. There is quite a large sugar planta tion not far Irom here, which is owned by a rich Spanish senor, who lives ip [ Spain. r The plant is said to be worth five million dollars. ‘ The mill is built on a large hill overlooking a valley, and adjoining it are numerous sugar plantations of countless acres. It is a PRACTICAL EDUCATION. tsion/ asiujg Both the demand and the provisio for technical education are increasin steadily in all parts of Hie count new advance on this line har heetp made in Illinois. A bill has been in troduced in the Legislature of that State which provides that in all the country schools of the State the ele- ments of taught. The bill provides further that “suitable' studies shall be prepared under the supervision of the dean of the college of agriculture, the professor of horticulture, of the State University, the Stale entomologist and the State superintendent of public instiuction; and it is hereby made the duties of these officials tq prepare such studies.” It is said thaf this bill will certainly pass and thus Illinois will takethelcad ip what will probably beccmb aveiy import and educational reform,}'’ A scient.fic knowledge of agi'icpjjure is of great value to every man who farms, and Illinois will make a good investment when she provides the sons of her farmers with the means of ob taining this knowledge. We believe that such a system of education will not only result in a great increase of the State’s productiveness and conse quently of the value of its lands, but it will do much toward influencing young men In (he country to remain on the farms instead of joining the rash to the cities, which , is now one of the misfortunes and dangers of our coun try- - Hon*Harvey Jordan, one of the most successful farmers in Georgia, has urged 111 The Journal the istablish- ment of farmers’ institutes in this Slate for the discussion uf practical farm probletqs and the comparison of farm methods. An institute of this character in every county of^Georgia would be of incalculable value to the State. We are glad, to see that Mr. Jordan’s plan is being cordially ap proved by many of ourState exchanges, and we expect to see'it adopted in many counties this year. The, institute system would not in-» any way conflict with the Illinois plan The two would work admirably t gether and each would supplement th other. Illinois will set a good pattern to the other States when she establishes her system of agricultural education.— Atlanta Journal. "I wa» sickly for sixteen years with prolap sus, weakness. <Rsa)treeable drain, pain in the small of mv back aqjl eoatlvencsa," write* Mr* Wary Ashlin. of ffaVronrtt, Barron Co., Wl*. " Wh*n 1 beran taking Dr Pierce * Favorit*. Prescription t could not sit up. After taking It for one week I got up and did my housework. I have taken four bottles of the 1 Favorite Prescrip tion.’ one bottle of the yGolden Medical Discov ery • and three bottles of the • Pleasant Pellet*.’ These-medicine* h«ve curfd me. T.feel as weU as I ever did. Seven of the be*t doctors in tbe land treated my case, but gave me no reUeft” very interesting sight to see the mill in operation. The sugarcane is cut and then hauled to the mill, thence it is ground and goes through a process from which it is put in vats and allow ed to remain until the sugar is formed. ry tribute: “Its a pleasure to recommend Alligator Liniment, I know it cures Rheumatism, Neuralgin and all ains, and is also guaranteed by the ma- ■HrertadyWas quite right. "ATI deal ers sell Alligator Liniment. paim 1 i icerg. Kerosene for the Hair —It has ,; been known for sometime In a general way that kerosene applied to tbe hair promotes its growth. Most women who have seen this statement in print have felt that an experiment with tbe oil, unless it could be deodorized^ would not be satisfactory. Recently, a woman was found who asserts that the tine appearance of her hair was en tirely due to a persistent and thorough treatment with the familiar kerosene of corner-grocery commerce. It was applied regularly once a fortnight In the following way: A little was poured into a saucer and rubbed with the fingers Into the roots of the hair. The application was slow and thorough, the gentle massage of the roots with the fingertips being needed to open tbe . pores for the absorption of the oil. The treatment was usually made at night, and the hair afterwards tied up in a silk handkerchief. The silk handkerchief is recommended by hgir- dressers as useful in retaining the na tural electricity of the hair. By noon 1 of the following day the odor Of the r kerosene had disappeared, and in an other twelve hours the olliness that followed its use had also gone. The effect of this treatment on the hair was promptly noticeable; the falling out ' stopped, and soon new, short hairs were found all over the head. As the kerosene application was continued, tbe hair became thick and smooth. When, after several monihs, it was finally discontinued, abundant glossy locks replaced the dry and lustreless bair—the Tormer condition still existing though no kerosene has been used for two yeaft. —/ newly discovered mineral, which is of a lustrous black cn'or, and which as a'fuel surpasses coal and all other substances heretofore known, Is found on tbe island of Barbados, In the Les ser Antilles, where the natives call It '’ manjak.” It thought that man- jak is petrified petroleum, great quan tities of petroleum being found on the same island. It contains only two per cent, of water and fully twenty- seven per cent, of solid organic mat tes, thus surpassing in utility tbe best asphalt of Trinidad, in which thirty per cOTV.—pf' water ts contained, and which^ has been classed so far as tbe very finest fuel. Mixed with turf, it gives heat far superior to any known.' . , * —Speaker .Reed was talking with a religiously Inclined member of the House the other day regarding the Filipinos. The member suggested that missionaries were the greatest of civi lizing agents. " Well," replied the Speaker, with his inimitable drawl, “ I guess if you are going to send any missionaries to civilize the Filipinoa you had better hurry un. Last week there were 4,000 more Filipinos travel ing about than there are now, and if Gen. Otis keeps up bis present work, at the end of six weeks there won’t be -man?--natives for the missionaries to ^ civil ze. n ^~ — • — —“ Filipino " means a person of pure Spanish extraction born in the Philip pine islands.! The people of mixed blood are Mestizos, while tbe Span iards oall the aoorigiraes “Indians.” The Indians of LtredVuate those of Panay, while both are cordially hated by tbe Mahometans of Micdano. — — General Otis’ report says a consid erable number of incendiaries have been shot, and a few of our soldiers wounded. The property loss by dre at Manila was probably half a million. 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