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/ - < VOL XXII- i BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, APRIL 20, >1899. Na )>. BRYAN’S NOTABLE SPRBCH. A JKKKKOSo.NIAN WAR CRY, M ^ ,>yl ^ He Takes I'p New and Vital Issue* . ^ tor the Caiupaiicn of 1900 Without Dropping (be Old. William J. Bry to spoke recently 'at the Jeffersouisn banquet in Topeka. Kac., concentrating hie attention cbledy upon anti-monopoly, anti-cen tralization and auu-imperiali8m rather _ than upon the silver question. He un reservedly affirmed allegiance to the Chicago pla.iorru, but the greater part of his address was qevoted to new issues. The following is a stenographic report, ^ tuadj--i xolusively for The Woriq, giving'verbatim the important parts of the speech : ."The etinggleof 18% is a plainer struggle cow than it was then4 a struggle between democracy and plu tocracy- democracy which woufd main tain a government of the people^by the people and for the people, and a pluto- . cracy which would place the dollar Mi above the •man in the structure of our ~ government. That struggle is becom ing clearer aid clearer every day. •A* Wh^n we enter the campaign of 1900 we will' havu. a fighting force dif ferent from lhat which we had in 1896. We will enter it not only with the peo ple we-had then, but we will gain re- - cruits cvi;ry day from the Republican party, becaueu the Republicans even are learning what Republican princi ples of modern times mean. The Re publican party of to-day is not the Re publican party of Abraham Lincoln. Toe Republican party is to day dis puting every great principle upon wbicb it relied in its beginning. " To-day every policy of the Re publican. party is but__the lifting of money into a place where it over shadows human rights. The war with Spain instead of strengthening the Re publican party will, in my judgment, lead to its deleai. ' . --- * , “ Let me give you a reason for my faith. 1 do not ask you to accept pro phecy or opinion, but. to»form your own opinion upon reason. When we en tered into this, w ir Democrats knew it would be of t inporary service to the Republican party. We knew that a • war successfully carried on would help the party in power, but the Democratic party was gr. at enough to surrender a temporary advantage to gjve freedom to the people of Cuba. 1 glory in the courage of a oftr'y that is willing to do right evuu tetrogn it knows that in so doing tvwiu t?cjng temporary defeat ' to it. “ Thb war has in the first place settled the old q-iestion that grew out of the bn racr war. The sons of Con- fdderati s an J the sons of Union soldiers marched side by side, sharing in the dangers of tha oh nip and field, and strains of Va keo Doodle’’ and of ‘Dixie’ have oeen blended forever into ‘My Country, Ti-iof Thee, Sve«t Land of Libeity.’ " The sky is now clt ar. -Wo can now discusaJthe questions of government without having our p&rtiotism assailed. We can now m-v i, and settle the great political and ^coiuomie questions which confront our nation. This war Has done something else. Do you remem ber bow Justice Brown in his dissent ing opinion u| on the income-tax case .ppmted to the possible danger of war ? Do you remembeE bow he said T fear that in some hour of national peril this decision will rise up to paraljze ‘ the arm of the government v ’ The hour of peril came ; we needed more revenue and that decision did rise up to paraljzethe arm of iheigorernmeut. Wbm England needs more money she can tax the incomes of her country, but our Supreme Court erected a legal bulwark and left us helpless. When we needed more revenue we had to look around for any old thing to put a stamp on. " When we enter another campaign the people will do it with a clearer knowledge. They know that the Re publican party has put the miser’s dol lar above the blood of the citizen. When it came to drafting men for the service the country took the son from tbe^aaother, tuo husband, from the ^ytife, but the country dare not lay its finger upon accumulated wealth’and make it bear its share of the burden. It is the dollar above the man, and those who could not see it in 18% will be able to see it in 1900. , . "A Republican committe has re ported to the House a bill that turns over the-entire paper money of the nation to the national banks, surren ders the greenbacks, provides for the uses of bonds and gtves to the national banks absolute control of the credit money of the nation Some boards of trade have asked the President to call a special session of Cpngress to pass this bill. What does it mean Y There never was a more palpable violation of the old Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges tq. none. If former holds a bond draw ing 2f per cent, his only return is hie interest upon the bond. But if a banker buys the samq bonds he can issue bank-notes upon them* thus getting back exactly the amount paid for the bonds, and he also receives the itterest on the bonds, as well. When I was a‘boy I was toid that no one could eat his cake and Keep it, too, but the Republicans pro pose to put a few people -in a position where they not only control the wel fare of the nation, but get handsome pay for doing it. " There is another thing that the American people are thinking about, and it seems to me that this subject is agitating cur Eastern brethren some what. The industrial trusts are going to help the Democ r atlc party. They are nothing new, but they are exem plifying and showing in vivid colors the really vicious principles advocated by the Republican party. The trusts have been growing in the last two years with a rapidity never known be fore. Ninety of them are capitalized for three billions and a half of dollars. The entire amount of metallic money n the world is eight billions of dollars, early half of that eight billions is re presented by these ninety trusts. ‘They have a Sugar Trust, { a Biscuit Trust and a Whiskey Trust, and. so that no one In traveling from the cradle to the g^ave shall be without trust, they Have organised a Milk Trust for the Infants and a Coffin Trust for the old people. These trusts are awakening the people to a realization i?e of wb&t-Rspublicanlsm means to-day. •' The President has selected his At torney-General from the State in ’which most of the trusts are being formed, and his Attorney-General tells us that if there is auy way of stopping the trusts it must be some way devised by the different States. I believe it Is within the province of the Attorney- General to enforce the law, apd If those laws are insufficient it is within his province to recommend new laws which are sufficient. , ... You know why it Is that the trusts exist today; it is because their exis tence is purchased by campaign funds.’ You can never extinguish the trusts until the extinguisher is taken from the hands of those put in office by the trusts, " But we shall not have to rely upon the old issues to wind the battle of 1900. The new issues are adding strength to our cause. -The President tins asked for 100,000 soldiers', not as'a temporary, but as a permanent army. If he had asked for this vast army until a stable government could be establed in Cuba the people would have gladly given it, but the President asked for permanent armv of 100,000 men, 70,000 more than we needed in 18%, and I am glad that the Demo- crais in Congress opposed it. so fear lessly and so courageously 'as they did. They compelled him to accept a tern porary increase. But the demand is still there. The Republican party stands behind it, and if the Republican party remains in power it will in time trans fer 70,000 men from the ranks of the producers over to the ranks of con sumers of taxes. ' “ In times of peril the volunteer soldier has been the nation’s security. We hive never called for turn in vain, oor will we. I liked the volunteer soldier before I knew him personally, but my brief associatipn with him last year made my love for him more in tense ; but I protest against a large standing army for the citizens ml the United States. Instead of an army to represent force, as above reason, 1 want the vplunteer to make the laws, and because be makes them and must enforce them, try to make them well. 1 want the volunteer who fights when the country needc fighters and works when the country needs workers. " The Democratic party is opposed to a (treat standing army, ana when this question comes before the Ameri can people 1 miss my prediction if we do not draw out ot the Republican party tpore than we have drawn on^any proposition since the war. '' Who would have thought two years ago that to-day we would find people denying the validity of the De claration -of Independence? Who would have thought two years ago that we have pow outgrown the con stitution Y Who would have thought two years ago that the dollar could be p i^ced higher than the unalienable rights of the people? The Republi can party won its success by applying the Declaration of Independence to the biackman, and I feel qui.e sure that it will go out of existence when it at tempts to deny that Declaration of independence to a brown man. "We have two theories of govern ment—a government by and with the consent of the governed, and a govern ment by force, and it is a forced gov ernment which we are trying now. The principle of conquest is a principle foreign to American uistory ; a princi ple repugnant to American history, and, while we glory in the bravery of ouf soldiers and rt juice that the loss of life in the Poilippines has been as small as it has been, we can deplore the policy that makes a sacrifice of one single American citizen in a conquest. “ No matter what we do now, it U impossible for us to undo wnat has been done. If the administration bad given to the people of the Philippines the assurance of independence that they did give to Cuba not a single drop of blood would have been shed in the Philippine Islands. " When the President made his speech at Atlanta he said, ‘Who will haul down the fiag ?’ And when he went to Boston two months afterward, he said that the question was in the hands of the American people We have read of the retreat of Xerxes, the retreat of the Ten Thousand, but the retreat of the President is the greatest retreat known 4 anywhere. At Boston he placed the question where the De mocrats believed it belonged in the first place. " But we a|re told that the President did get his views from the people. He didn’t know what to do until he went to Omaha in October and gathered the sentiments of the people, and, went back to carry out the, people’s will. Of course I am not in the confidence of the President, but if he h%d asked me I could have told him how vain it was to gather the sentiment of the. people from the rear end of a rsllroa? train. r T‘ If he had gone with me ,throqgh the campaign of 18% Lcould have con vinced him that silver was overwhelm ingly in the majority in every State lb wnich I spoke. But after the election was over 1 found that I bad carried every State in which I had not spoken and had lost nearly every State in which I had spoken. You feannot judge the sbntimeuls of the people in ibat way. Nor should you try to judge the sentiments of the masses through a few who seem to be in touch with them. " Fifteen months ago Mr. McKinley Issued a message declaring that lorcl- ble acquisition was not to be thought of. It forcible, acquisition was not to be thought of fifteen months ago, why then should it be thought of now ? Why should we make subjects out of the Filipinos, who were our allies when we needed them. France didn’t treat us that way. She left us free, and it wobld have comported with the greatness of this nation if we had said: ‘ Stand up ! Be free 1 .We come tu preach liberty I’ -^Bome say that we owe a religious duty to those people and must compel them to accept our ideas, or to kill them if they do not. I do not know the administration's idea of the Chris tian religion. For myself I know no religion that, copies from a- Gatling gun. Our opponents have contused the terms. Mi. Gage sayat at phllan thropy and 5 per cent, will go hand in hand. We have heard this before. • It is heard everywhere, and always where there is a war of conquest. "I do not know what the result of this will be ; lam n»t one of those who believe that temptations destroy. If this nation will Improve its bopor- tunUies there is a chance to-day to prove th%t there is a difference be tween a monarchy and a republican government. It has a chance to strike such a blow and win such a victory as has cot been won since the battle of Yorktown. Let It be known that the American people were willing to aid distant races, and that this republican government,, when the War was over, turned a deaf ear to the claim of greed. Tben>we shall do more for civilization than we could do in ail the wars of conquest that-we could wage in a gen eration. “ Democracy is applying the princi ples of Jefferson to every question, and that’s one reason why we love those ^principles. They are eternal. They go down so deep that we can never- get below them. They reach so high that we can never tower above them, and (hey'spread to the East and to the West and tne North and to the South —as far as our imagination can reach. " Destiny is not a matter of chance ; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is to be achieved, and this nation can deter mine its own place among the nations of the world. It can make its destiny what HU pleases, but it has got to choose what it will do. “ The people of France not many years ago joined with the people of the United, S l &tes and erected in New York harbor a statue representing liberty. As the ships come in the pas sergers look upon that statue, with its torch upheld, it stands for the funda mental doctrlne<of our people. Shall we depart from it? Shall we turn back ? Shall we give up all we have struggled and hoped for ? If we do, then we should send to at statue back to France and go over to England and borrow a second-hand statue of William the Conqueror and put it in New York harbor in Liberty’s place.” GOOD ADVICE TO NEGROES. Booker Washington Tells the Ne gro to Vote lor and -with the White Democrats. ~ The most sensible and practical ne gro of prominence in the South is Prof. Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, Ala., and he is thoroughly Independent • n his views. In answering the request of a prominent colored man in North Carolina as to wbat should be-done to allay the present conflict between the races, Prof. Washington clearly ad vises him to make alliance with the triumphant Democracy. He says in the letter: "I have been asking myself lately some rather serious questions, and T want to put one or two of them to you. Is there any reason why the negroes in the South should continue to oppose the Southern white man in his politics ? Is cot this the source of nearly all our troubles? Unconsciously we seem to have gotten the idea into our blood and bones that we are only acting in a manly way when we oppose Southern white men with our votes. "I believe that Governor Johnston, of Alabama is just as gooi a friend to the black man as Hon. Wm. Young blood, of Alabama: Hon. Wm. Young blood has about 400 white followers, and Governor; Johnstod has about 500,- 000 white followers in Alabama. Why should we follow Mr. Youngb’ood with his 400 white -followers rather than Governor Johnston with his 500,000 followers when no principle is at stake ? "Why l*4t that the negro in Cuba has surpassed us in settling his race problem ? Is it not because the negro In Cub* has made the white man’s in terest their own ? "For example, suppose during the agitation of the freedom of Cuba the negro had continued to espouse the cause of Spain Instead of the cause of the whites in Cuba? ..Would not the white ' Cubans ‘Lava.jmilfii luxioue. against the black man id Cuba? “In some way, by some method,* we must bring the race to the point-wtere It will cease to feel that the only way for it to succeed is to oppose every thing suggested or put forth by the Southern white man. "Thi* I consider one of our real problems. I confess that personally I have brought myselh-wboily to the point that I should like ' to-see the whole race get to, but I merely ask these questions to put you to thinking along those lines if you Lave not al ready begun to do so. "1 believe that there are thousands of white Democrats in North Carolina who’ Are 50 per cent, better friends to the negro than Governor Russell, and I see no necessity in continuing to fol low Governor Russell—who has no power to protect, or if he has the power, does not exercise it—rather tban.tae white men who can prptect us If we cease to continually and for ever oppose them.’’ Strong Rebuke.—a dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., says that Governor Poynter sent a message to the legisla ture vetoing the Senate bill which com mends the First Nebraska regiment in the Philippines. The language In the bill objected to by the governor says: "That we acknowledge with grati tude and joy the debt that the State owes them by reason of the honor con ferred upon it by their valor while de fending In-the Philippines the princi ples of our government, and adding new glory to our flag.” » The governor in bis veto says: "I cannot stultify myself and the calm judgment of the thinking people of this commonwealth by giving official approval to the statement that the war of conquest now carried on in the Phil ippines is in defense of the principles of our government and is adding new glory to our flag.” The Senate promptly passed the bill over the veto, but like effort failed In the House, Populists voting solidly to sustain the Governor. The bill was passed several days ago and the veto followed shortly after an extended con- ferenca between Governor Poynter and W. J.-Bryan. The fighting in samoa. American and British Officers Killed fn Ambnab and Beheaded by the Natives. , .The situation in Samoa has taken a very sei lous turn, and the news comes that a party of British and American sailors were forced to retreat to the beach, under cover of the war vessels, after having been caught In an ambush on a German plantation. On April 1 a force of 214 British and Americans and 150 friendlies were sur prised in ambush at the German plan tation of Vaslelo. The rebel force opened fire on the rear, left flank and front of the Anglo-American force. The friendlies bolted, but the marines and bluejaokets stood their ground splendidly, Americans and British firing shoulder to shoulder. The Colt automatic gun with the landing party .became jammed,, and the Americans and British were practically at the mercy of the rebels. But "retreat” was sounded three times before the marines and bluejackets retired. Lieut. Angel H. Freeman, first lieu tenant of the Tauranga, who was in command of the allied forces, .was shot through the heart. Lieut. Philip Van Horn Lanedele, of the United States cruiser Philadel phia, had his leg chattered while en deavoring to fix the jammed gun. Seaman Hunt, of the Britisfi' cruiser Porpoise, had an extraordinary e-cape. He remained with Lieut. Lansdale until clubbed over the head and knock ed senseless. The blue jacket revived as the natives were cutting off his right ear, and were tui ning him over to cut off his left ear. At this juncture a shell from the British cruiser Royalist burst on the battlefield, scattering the rebels, and Hunt succeeded in escaping to the beach, although severely stabbed in. one foot. The same night the friendlies found the bodies of all the officers headless. he bodies we^e buried with all honor at Mulinuu bn Easter Sunday. Their heads were subsequently brought in by some French priests. The graves were re-opened and the heads buried with the bodies. ’ Lieutenants Freeman and Lansdale were capable and popular offi cers. The former was single, and the latter was married in June. The officers who returned are Lieut. George E. Cave, of the Porpoise, and Lieut. G M. Perkins, of the Philadel phia. All behaved splendidly. Lieut. Cave took command of the retreat. / f Capt. Bturdee, of the Porpoise, wat away on an expedition with his cruiser, and Gaunt’s brigade was also absent on duty. The loss of the enemy is rot known, but probably fifty of the rebels were killed. The priests burled 38 rebels, and much bltod was seen on the road over which the Mataafans had been dragging away their dead and-wound ed. There were also pools of blood be hind the cocoanut trees, the bullets from the Americau and British rifles going right through thick trees and killing men hiding behind them. Some of the rebels fired from the town last evenihg. It is proposed to summon another warship to distribute more arms among the friendlies, apd to im port additional friendlies from Tutull. It is also suggested that troops might be obtained from New Zealand or Syd ney, New South Wales. If a sufficient quantity of arms could be obtained, about two thousand friend lies could be used against the Mataaf ans. But they are not brave, and have not shown fighting qualities excepting those with Gaunt’s brigade, and that force may not accomplish much. Admiral Kautz, Captain E. W. White, of the Pniladelphla, and the American men and officers generally have earned golden opinions, — ■'have Captains Stuart and’ Sturdee of the British navy. They are doing every thing possible, add every one realizes that better men could not be handling the situation. > . |v' y The Samoans say Mataafa, on three occasions, had resolved to surrender, but the German consul, Herr Rose, ad vised hint not to do so, and he now says he will never give in, but will fight to the death. Lieutenant Philip Van Horn Lans dale was born in the District of Colum bia, February 15, 1858, and entered the Naval academy June 6, 1873. He grad uated in 1878, and was promoted ensign in 1881, and after duty at Washington navy yard was transferred to the Phil adelphia in June, 1890. He was made lieutenant, junior grade, in 1893. He was in charge of the caravals at the World’s Fair in Chicago, and after re ceiving his full lieutenancy was a short time on the battleship Massachusetts. In June, 1898, he was ordered to the Philadelphia. Ensign John R. Monaghan was ap pointed to the Naval academy as a cadet from the State of Washington, entering Annapolis on September 7, 1891. He graduated and was made an ensign In July, 1897, being assigned to the Philadelphia, to which vessel he ,wa8 attached up to the time of his Heath. Lieut. Freeman, killed In Samoa, is given in the British naval list as Lieut. Angel H. Freeman, the senior lieuten ant of the cruiser Tauranga, and, next to Captain Stuart, in command of the vessel. As chief lieutenant, he was executive officer of the Tauranga. The British admiralty has a number of sblps not far from Samoa in the Australasian islands, a special design of small cruisers being used in that lo cality. The chief naval station access ible to Samoa is on the China coast, where the Asiatic squadron embraces some of the largest warships In the British navy. In number, armaufent and tonnage, the British ships on this station far exceed those of Germanyor any Other power. The chief German naval station near Samoa also is on the China coast, at Klfco Chu, where Ad miral Prince Henry is In command. Admiral Dewey’s fleet >at Manila is the nearest assemblage of Americabi warship to Samoa. The sail from Ma nila to Samoa is about 14 days. ^ -Further advices from’ Apia say that on the arrival of the British cruiser Tanranga at Apia the British and Am erioan consuls issued a proclamation to give Mataafa a laat chance, and that 29 the enemy W)M sighted at Magulgl, and machine guns and a seven pounder were used. The friendlies also at* tacke4 the enemy during the letter’s retreat, and several rebels were killed or wounded. The friendlies oarrled one hebd through Apia, which made Oaptaln Stuart so furious that he went to the king and threatened to shoot any man found taking heads. The king then issued a proclamation forbidding the practice. The German consul wrote to Admiral Kautz, asking If two great Christian nations approved of this inhuman and barbarous practice against the laws of Christianity and the decree of the su preme court. The admiral replied, agreeing with the consul as to the in humanity of the practice, and pointed out that had the German consul upheld the decree of the supreme court of January, there would have been no ' jqodshed ; that the custom was an old amoan one, but first made known to the world ten years ago, when the' heads ” of honest German soldiers were cut off by the barbarous Chief Mataafa, whom the representative of the great Christian uation, Germany, Is now supporting. Expeditions m armed cutters belong- ng to the Tauranga and Porpoise are doing considerable execution against dataafa’s stronghold along the coast. The British forces are being assisted by 100 Samoans. About 46of Mataefa’s boats and several village boats have ieen destroyed. In the meantime, fly- ng columns are being sent dally along the roads and through the bush near Apia. He Meant Business.—”1 make a regular monthly visit to a little town in a neighboring state,” said a drum mer, "and always put up at a small hotel kept by a widow. Last time 1 was there my hostess announced to me that she was going to be married, which didn’t surprise me in the least,- inasmuch as I had been a spectator to the progressive stages of Her court Ship, and.'ltf fact did a good deal to ward promoting the happy affair. It was somewhat peculiar. The happy man is a peddler of tombstones, who first turned up at the hotel about a year ago. You might suppose at first blush that monuments and matrimony were somewhat incongruous, but such is far from being the case. The tomb stone drummer was a man of imagina tion, and in talking over a neat and tasty memorial for the dear .departou be naturally drifted to the loneliness of widowhood. When you come to think about it, the two subjects are closely allied, and as the wooing progressed 1 was greatly interested in noting how deftly they were intermingled. The drummer was bent on capturing the lady, but he was equally bent on sell ing a tombstone, and he would invari ably open the conversation by produc ing the catalogue of the’ Tennessee marble yard which he represented. Then, while the widow feasted her eyes on the different mortuary cuts he would Interlard the soft nothings of -a lover with practical points on prices. As it turned out he popped the ques tion and made the sale the same night, but he afterwards told me that he had thrown off 50 per cent, of bis commis sion to make the two happy events coincide. This is no joke, but a cold,, clammy fact, and when he asked me 1 thought it would be right to enclose his business card invitations to the nuptials 1 The steady increasing trade fpr tor Liniment proves its sterling’worth. ,, 1 _ I _ T .. m , rebel* continued their depredations. tainty, a remedy that gets cause and roots' it out; is Pharmacists of known repute, guarantee. Sold everywhere. down to the prepared by Then ite -M Property and roads THE PUERTO RICANS. whether for him with ttfe invitations to tbe nupi told him to do so by all means. The wed ding comes off this spring, and 1 am going to attend it If I miss every date on my«route.” The Bridegroom’s Uniform.—A Washington letter to the Chicago Re cord says: One of tbe young gentlemen who have just been appointed in the re gular army was married only a few weeks ago, and hfcrbride takes a great deal of Interest in hie uniform. He left bis measure with a'mllltary tailor here the other day, and the next after noon when she was out shopping she dropped in to give some instructions as to the matter in which it was to be trimmed. She told the tailor she did not like the ordinary uniform of a second lieutenant and desired to have her husband’s different. She wanted four bands of gold braid around the sleeve, like Admiral Schley had on his, and after critically examining all tbe shoulder-straps she instructed the tailor to put on her husband’s coat a pair that had silver birds embroidered on them, because they were prettier than any of the rest. The tailor tried to advise her that the regulations did not permit a second lieutenant to wear the insignia of an admiral of the navy or those of a colonel in the army, but she declared that Is he would nqt make the uniform the way she wanted It she would have her husband patro nize somebody else.” —Philadelphia seems to be full of typhoid fever. The Philadelpnia Press says: At present the number of ty phoid fever patients in the various hos- “‘tal# is 600. The percentage of this tal to the aggregate cumbdr of all manner of cases being treated is 25. This is not including surgical and in fantlle cases. Exclusive of these the percentage is considerably more than doubled, being nearly 65. —“ Why, Willie,’’ said his mother one-day when they were out walking, “ what do you mean by offering a peqny to that mule?” “ Because,” replied the young investigator, ~~ say that money makes and I want to see if it has the effect on a mule.” ► * —The Columbia Record names Lieut. Gov. McSweeney, Col. Wilie Jones, Congressman Latimer, Congressman Talbert, Attorney General Bellinger, Senator Sheppard and Senator Hender son as gubernatorial possibllteies for 1900, and says " there are others.”' r-Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease is now ex ploiting herself on the spirtuallst plat form. She says the spirit of Jay Gould stalks about In rags, condemned ever to bear the clink of gold and to cut coupons from his hoorded bonds. —A pauper woman in Paris has been convicted of having had her child baptized fourteen times as a Catholic " I heard papa tbe mare go, same 1* ■■ f'**: w . T'.. .-v - — aii^yrr - . - ' v * X. was destroyed, and bridges were barricaded. On March 1 ' 'XZ A Missionary's Description of tbe Island and Us Inhabitants. Rev. W. H. Sloanej of the Associate Reformed church, gives a most Interest ing description of the Island of Puerto Rico, together with the habits and characteristics of tbe natives, In tbe Missionary Review, from which the following extracts are made : The Island of Puerto Rico is the sum mit of a mountain that rites five miles from the depths of the Caribbean Sea. It is a parallelogram in shape, its length from east to west being one hundred and eight miles, and its aver age breadth thirty-seven miles. It has an area of about 3,530'(:quare miles, or slightly less than that of tbe Slate of Connecticutor the Island of Jamaica. It lies some 1,500 miles southeast ot New York, and seventy miles east of Hayti, and Is the smallest' and most easterly of tbe greater Antilles. Puerto Rico is an island of great beauty. Its numerous rivers, prolific soil and humid climate «4ntrlbute to produce a luxuriant vegetation sur-’ passed by no other part of thj West Indies. Hilly in the interior, with level lowlands around the oast, and innumerable valleys extending in beautiful vistas In (til directions, every foot of soil in rites to cultivation. Broad reaches of sugar-cane on the Tower levels, fringed and dotted with the cocoanut-palm, give place after a while to extensive tobacco field!), md these in turn are followed up tFe,bllis and mountain sides by tbe> witlen- leaved coffee plant yielding its aromat ic berry t under the shade pf the broad banana. These heights are tilled al most to their summits, and it would he difficult to find anywhere in the in terior of Puerto Rtco an acre of soil that does not contribute in some way to the sustenance of man. Besides the staples mentioned, (su gar, coffee and tobacco,) cotton, rice, corn, sweet (Kitatoes, bananas and orauges are produced. Tbe rice is a mountain variety which does not need flooding, and with Imported codfish forms the principal article of food among the laboring classes. On the lowland pastures, of which there are many, ex cellent beef cattle are roared. A good military road, constructed at Immense cost to the government, traverses the island from San Juan to Ponce, with a branch or Y leading from Gayey. to Guayama. One great need of the is land .is good roads and bridges. The journey across tbe hills can be per formed only on horseback. Fortunate ly for travelers, the horses, uiminullve animals, have an easy canter, and a ride on one of them L a delightful ex perience. Puerto Rico has been misgoverned and exploited by rapacious officials to a point almost inconceivable. The haciendas, or plantations, h&ve been largely owned Dy Spaniards. The ex tortion practiced by the Spanish tax- gatherers, along with other abuses of a similar nature, made thd ownership of land and the carrying on of any busi ness on the part of native Puerto Ricans almost an impossibility. From tue beginning of Spanish nile, the in habitants of tbe island have suffered a boycott in almost every Industry they have undertaken. Indeed it may bo doubted whether the Spaniards them selves, who own tbe land, ever made a tithe as much out of it as -<Sd«the officials wlio governed them. the people and their character istics. The total population amounts to about 800,606, of whom tbe Spanalrds, or " Peninsulares,” form a small but commercially dominant class. The chiidren~of these Spaniards, born on the Island, are known as Puerto Ricans, and in Spain they are com pelled to move in a lower social circle than do their parents. The Gibaros, or small land owners and dav laborers of the country districts, are a curious old stock modified by Carlb descent A still lower class has a large mix ture of negro blood. All speak Spam isb, but with a rapid articulation, a dropping of the "s,” and a changing of tbe "r’.’inlo "1” that make tbe language very exasperating to a lover of tbe old Castilian. The natives of Puerto Rico are slight in physique, and more or less cqnsump tive in appearance, kltbough Vigorous frames' are occasionally seen. Tne anemic condition of the middle and lower classes is said to be due partly to the constant intermarriages that have taken place in, this small Island during tl'eipaot.400 years, and partly to the treatment received at the hands of their rulers, who seemingly spared no effort to repress every aspiration and crush every enterprise that shof ed themselves among this intelligent and generous-hearted people. Wltfi wages ranging from tl.00 per day down to twenty bananas lwhich were often considered sufficient for the support of a-laborer’s family), and even this wage paid in depreciated sliver or un ripe fruit, it is not to be wondered at that the average Puerto Rican looks more like / a walking corpse than living being. Naturally bright and vivacious, quick and eager to learn,, of great kindliness of spirit, hospitable to a degree, remarkably docile and patient under restraint, Intensely loyal to the soil on which he was born, be has been repressed, boy cotted, over taxed and over-worked, under-fed and scantily clad, until hope was well nigh extinct in his bosom. Is it to be wondered at that, when the stars and stripes were unfurled over his t native soil, he should rush toward them, wild with delirious joy, and, with bursting heart, should ttiank God that the year of jubilee had come ? A few of the Puerto Ricans are well- to-do; a larger number manage to live in some sort of comfort, although their scantily-furnished, shed-like dwellings offer few attractions to the visitor from Northern climes. The great majority of the people are poor, anc one wonders how they live. Day after day we have watched the open apart ments of indigent families, members of which bad no employment, where no food seemed to enter, no table was spread, and no fire was kindled for cull nary purposes. The routine of family life went on day after day, save that ail labor and all partaking pf food and drink were left out of the account. For tbe poor, tbe blind and the a dree? each time. tonisbed at tbe number of malformed children be meets on tbe street, bat earns that a large nnmber died in is* l ancy. The condition* of life are snob that infant mortality )* very great. Mttle regard is. paid by tbe antborltiee to the death and burial of the Indigent. 'n the city of Cagu« the dying poor' are removed to eYoom adjoining tbe cemetery, where they may breathe ‘ their last close by their final reetiag-. place, and Isave their measure for the rave before the expiring breath baa eparted from the body. Frequently corpses are placed In the shallow grave* without box or coffin, or oae coffin is made to serve for many fun erals. The bones of tbe dead are con- rtantly being removed from graves oa which tbe annual tax has not been laid, In order to make room for new interments. ~ Concubinage is very common, almost tbe rule, in fact, and is I not regarded with the disfavor that audh a life would cause in' the United Stales. . The exor bitant fees demanded by thj Roman Catholic Church for tbe solemnisation of the marriage ceremony has brought about an almost total disregard of the sanctity of the marriage relation. Tbe number of illegitimate children is largely in excess of tbe legitimate, and many of tne priests have families. \ TOSS AND ADKLR. —- -- The Modern Romance Described From Every-Day Life. Chicago Record. ' Chase went to the Rockies fetraight from Harvard college, pitched his camp on u gold trail, and putting what mining theories he had been cramming into his brain to practical tests. He fairly successful, too. He struck paying lead after he had been pros pecting ten year; or so and in a while he was willing to let the folks back Sast hear from him. He had been engaged to a girl down Boston say, one of thotse cold, blonds Hew Englanders who arc not to blame for lack of sympathy with tbe common world because they qre so far removed from it by the circumstances of birth and education. She had always been rich, and Tom Chase took the notion in his head to offer her prospects still- more dazzling. So he went West and Ailele Richardson promised to wait lor him. At firtt he wrote her letters of tbe glowing Eldorado. But htp suc cess was always just ahead—never la band She grew tired of his stories of the hills. Than be went deep into the mountains and in the vastnesi and forgot her. It seems strange that such things can be, but there are solitudes which seem so near to God that earthly alms and ambitions drop i rum the shuu dors of the traveler Like arment outgrown. For years Tom ase lived like an Indian reclaee, lifting no rifle to his shoulder, caetiag 00 line into the streams where the fishes leaped up to tbe sunshine. He neither read nor prayed, but nature kept him as a wise mother keepe a child in a dim and quiet room until Jhe has become strong enough to bear tbe glare and clangor of the outer day. Then came a morning when ne thought of what life was beyond the mountain's green and lofty waits, and that day he set out to return. He weak again to his cabin on the. trail, and be lelt the strength he had gathered would win him a victory. He struck gold and the shining metal was lika a key into his past. He wrote home to Adele. He hubsband curtly answerod the letter. Last year about this time a wagon went lumbering over the trail, and a wheel gave out in front of Tom’s cabin. Tbe bearded mountaineer went out with hospitable intent, and thrust bit face Into the opening of tha canvaa cover.. ‘ Tom ?’’ cried a well-remembered voice, and Adele reached out her arow toward him. Adele with mors low* la her eyes, than he had e«er seen lo them, even when life was young, and unknown the mountains. - She had believed him dead and had marrl.d another. Then his letter came. A message out- of the peek. She cried over it and gave it to the man she had married. But her thoughts fled like doves to the hermit in the fastness of the eternal hills. Months passed and her husband went oa a yachting trip. Was drowned. Then for a time keen regret and self-re proach kept her thoughts from journey ing. But grief Is not meant to dwell ith one forever. After a suitable time Adele laid aside her sombre trap pings and started for the Rockies. She located the one she thought; she went to him in the manner befittlag one who intended to be the bride of frontiersman, and found him. Jaet I she had planned it., It was a day’s' journey back to a clergyman. But this time thera wr~ no delay in making it, and now kb long lonely cabin is called Paradise lodge, and a wo nan’s hand has planted roses along the gold trail. g* 'ha and twelve times at a Protestant, for ¥ tho purpose of securing five franca and- maimed there are no asylums, and but few hospitals for the sick. One is asr Good. Appointments. —Tha two lieutenants in the regular army which were apportioned to South Carolina have been given to Paul T. Hayneaad C. B. Smith. Mr. Uayoe Is the eldest sun of P. Trapier Hayne, of this city, and now corporal in Troop K, Fifth airy, stationed at Manitee, Pi Rico, having enlisted as a eighteen months ago. Mr. graduated from the Citadel aoadi in 1895, he and Mr. Smith being mates and both taking high The news of Mr. Hayne’s appoia was received by his father on The other South Carolina man gets a commission as second if is Clarence B. Smith, who for years has been on the staff of the umbia State, having achieved erable success in the newspaper He is originally from Uaioot Mir firqt lieutenant la Company South Carolina regiment. Sunday to stand his examination. Smith was cadet captain when' anted from the Citadel. ' - The two young mel who appointments are thoroughly for the positions, having had a military education but perience in the army, excellent representatives metto State.- kJ ■ « * Jk ' A f %'■'*. .W.