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yoL xxu- BARNWELL.SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. |ULY 20,1890. NO. 46. KS88R8. MORGAN AMD PUGH. IT U BRYAN AND ANTI-BRYAN. Morgan Wants a Man to ■alt tbs East—Ex Senator Pugh ■Mobs to Bryan and rree Stiver. An Interview with Senator Morgan, of Alabama, hay created a sensation In political circles, beeause he does not faror the renomi nation of Bryan. It has created much more of a stir, coming from Senator Morgan, than it would from most Democrats. Of course It has given rUe to all kinds of specu lation, prominent In all being the sug- S estlon that Morgan’s friendship for orman may have had not a little to do with his talk. Senator Morgan is quoted as follows. “I very much fear that uieDsmo- oratlc party of the East and North cannot be brought into harmony with the Democratic party of the South and West until we have a candidate who is recognized for his wisdom and his will ingness to follow the instructions of hie party when his party has the power to issue its instructions through legislation. • "lama free silver man. I believe the free coinage of silver is right and that the country will not prosper as Jt should until silver has been restorfed to its proper place as one of our money metals, but at the same time I do not overlook present conditions and the situatiou that confronts us. To win we must be reasonable and wise. Tht re can never be force and power in our party until we have united it as it was in the days when we stood solidly under one banner and fought our battles against a common enemy. The ques tion that ought to give every member of the Democratic party concern is : How can that condition of affairs be restored? " My personal views may be of little impjrtance, but 1 have an idea which, if worked out, would, I believe, bring the Democratic party together and get out every vote in the country for the man who would be nominated for President. In my opinion we should nominate a man who would bs willing to say to his party something like this: " ’When my party is able, in Con gross, to pass a free coinage bill, 1 will not veto It, but will permit it'to be oome a law. Whatever my own opin Ions may be, I believe the combined wisdom of the men of my owa party in Congress la better than mine. It might be possible that 1 should not, personally, think a free coinage law the proper thing to enact, but if your representatives in Congress believe otherwise, If It la your judgment that such a law will be lor the best interests of the country, such a law, when en acted by you, will stand.’ "A man who will make such an an nouncement and live up to it could easily, I am sure, be elected by the Democrats to the presidential office. "Then, if the people saw (It In their respective districts to elect advocates of the free coinage of silver, we shou d have it. We would not* have a rjpetl- tioe of that deplorable inclueat in IBM. when President Cleveland, repud lav ing bis party aad all that it s‘<ood for, vetoed tb« b\,'t passed by both houses of Csns rose jr?ovidin^ for the coinage of. the sliver^iulllon held in the tress- ary. "When Mr. Cleveland sent that veto ton Democratic Congress he committed himself W> the single gold standard and becmne no longer a Democratic President, elected on a Democratic platform. " We must get rid of shat we mlghP 1 call fanaticism and act like sensible men. Wnen we do this, Democracy will again become triumphant, and we will all work together in harmony. 1 believe a mao can.be found who, while notan extremist on the silver ques tion, wlU follow the will of his party expressed in legislation, and that, after all, is the way, and the only way, in which to settle thls^reat question. Att-the tsklktag we- may^ do on Vhe stump will not bring about free coin age, save only that in educating the people we may elect silver men to Con gress. It takes votes in Congress to bring us to free coinage, and after we have cast our voles that way we must have a President who will permit our will to stand. Until we have the votes we are fighting the air. Why, then, not nominate a man in whom the Democrats of all parts of the country have confidence, and then go about the business of electing' free silver men to Congress? " I could name several' such men, but that is not my province. It does not require qjparked degree of greatness to make r good President. Common sense is of much more importance in that position. "I was discussing this question with some friends coming up from Virginia, and they all agreed that loyalty, abili ty, tact and common sense were better factors in making a good administration than too high a degree of what is known as statesmanship. Pierce and Polk were not brilliant men, but,they were good Presidents. I wish they were here now. " 1 permit no man to outrank me in loyalty to the causa of free sliver. I taught that doctrine, when some of the men now controlling the Democratic party were yet unborn. But 1 see the uselessness of the party, North and South, being divided,and continually pulling the one against the other on this money question. I believe tfye suggestion I h ve made would gtr a great ways in once more uniting the crease the strength of the Democratic pa-ty in the election of a President. " I have read the interview and was greatly surprised and mortified,” said the ex-Seoator. "Senator Morgan says na man can question his fidelity to tbe free coinage of silver, or d my the ne cessity for its restoration in our money system. “ The question he asks and answers Is : * How is this most important result to be accomplished?’ He answers that the first and indispensable thing to be done is to unite—’bring together and solidify the divided and antagon istic elements of the Democratic party now existing in the East, South and West on the money question’—and, secondly, that such union can best be effected by nominating a man who has no ‘ no question "Ido not question the sincerity or hon sty of Senator Morgan’s comvic- t'ons, but I feel constrained by my sense of duty to the Democratic party and the country to enter my earnest p rote it against and condemnation of Morgan’s interview. " What are we to understand by an ‘ extreme position on the money or coinage question ?’ Is that jiart of the ' extreme ’ views and has expressed ' extreme ’ opinions on the coinage “I want to see Democracy once more united and the principles of Demo cracy triumphant, but there is little use In endeavoring to acooknplish it through impracticable means and me thods. "I oare not so much to know whether our candidate is a radical free silver man at heart as I do to know that he will abide by the decision of Congress, If the Democrats have the power to put their policy into the statute books of the country. That Is tbe test.” KX-SKNATOR PUGH DISAGREES WITH HIS FORMER COLLEAGUE. Ex-Senator Pugh, of Alabama, was naked if he had read 'the Interview of hia old ^colleague. Senator John ' T. Morgan, on the question of what sort of man the. Democratic convention ahonld nominate and what sort of plat form it should adopt next year to In- Chicago platform extreme? Does an indorsement of the Chicago platform put a Democrat in an extreme posi tion ? What shall the next Democratic convection do after it shelves Bryan ? To be consistent tbe convention should amend tie p!fctfo-m of 1896 as to get the party out of its so called present ‘ ex treme’ position on the coinage question and place it in'harmony with the con flicting elements, and especially so as to acoommolate Itself to the elastic and broad gauge position of the new nominee on the coinage question. How is such a feat to be accomplished ? " My conviction is,” said ex-Senator Pllgh. "that if the conflicting elements of the £>emocratlc party can be united and brought into harmonious action on the coinage question, which is a mani fest impoesioility, by shelving Bryan and making a new platform, broad enough to take on and sttisfy all gold standard advocate*, and be endorsed by any nominee who may hrve ton*' nounce his life-long opinions against free coinage and pledge himself to ap prove any bill on that subject the De mocrats might pass through both bouses of Congress, the party cannot be very much divided, and can cer tainly be very easily united, as it would show Itself without any fixed principles on any subject. . ' . " If the Democratic party would se cure more strength by trusting a no minee who had been a lifelong enemy of free silver coinage on his pledge to waive the veto power and approve such a bill if passed by the party that elected him, it would be a spectacle unprecedented in history, but it would prove there would never bs any free coinage of silver H such a President was elected. • "What Influence would a Democratic President with gold standard convic tions that he waived to insure bis elec tion exercise In this great office ? Would be be silent pending a free coinage bill in Congress ? How would be distribute his appointments f How many Democrats who had urged Bryan’s nomination and favored the Chicago platform would receive ap pointments ? ” No, sir, it is a grave mistake of my old colleague. 1 have had much poli tical experience. I have watched^Mtr- ties and know their history. My poli tical career has ended, but 1 am as much as sver devoted to the Demo cratic party and its principles as de clared in tbe Chicago platform. ** I believe that William J. Bryan is the best organized and wisest ana most reliable ‘ Democratic statesman now living, and he is now 6etter established In the confidence of the American peo pie as such a statesman, and is now stronger than he ever was, and can be elected when nominated, as he will •UtflljJhOj the ncxvDjmocratic na tional convention. "As to the nfcxt Democratic plat form, with additional declarations against the manifold trusts growing out of the existence of the gold standard and prohibitory tariff du ties ; also ih favor of a vigorous prosecution of the existing war in the Ph^ippine Jslands until peace and ordsg is established and the gov erning power and jurisdiction of the United States is fully reoognifeed throughout the archipelago ; also that peace and order and the governing power of the United States is to be established, not for territorial expan sion or dominion of the United StMes, but for the sole purpose of securing to the people of those islands better and more stable government, with all the rights, liberty and privileges they show themselves by trial to be capable of exercising and enjoying in a condi tion of independent self government.’’ The Destruction of Spruce.—In 1870, according to George T. Crawford, a forestry expert, there stood in the mountain districts of New Hampshire about 1,600,000 acres of primeval spruce forest, carrying about 10,000 feet, board measure, to the acre, or 16,000,000,000 feet in all. The demand for spruce for paper pulp, added to tbe amount re quired for lumber, has reduced this area to 280,000 acres. The consump tion [of spruce for pulp is increasing at the rate ol 15 per cent, a year. The mills of New York and New England make 720,000 tons of paper-pulp each year, requiring more than 700,000,000 rd measure, and strip ping 160,000 acres of forest land. This rapid destruction of the avail able supply of spruce has impressed up on mill-owners the necessity of taking vigorous measures to secure new growth. The wasteful and wicked policy has prevailed of cutting the forest clean, not leaving even a sapling standing. A new system, enforced in some of the tracts, will save lor repro ducing the forest all trees of fourteen inches and less. Unless something is done to prevent tbe destruction tbe supply of spruce will soon be exhaust ed. ROBRRT BONNRR, PRINTER. BIS INDUSTRY AND SAGACITY. & -Ex-Senator George F. Hamlin, of Kansas, is the son of Europe Ilsmltn, and ha4 three uncles whose names were Asia, Africa and America. Vice- President Hannibal Hamlin was the aM of Africi. He Became the Greatest Advertiser in the World—The Ledger Was a Revelation to the Country. The career of Robert Bonner, who as publisher of The Ledger became the greatest advertiser in tbe world, It one Illustrating sagacity and indus try. He was bo^n in Ramelton, Ire land, in 1824, and came to this country at the age of fifteen years and began business life as an apprentice in the composing room of The Hartford Cou- rant—a printer's devil. His hours were from 6 o’clock in the morn ng until 6 o’clock at night, and his wages for the first year were $25, for the second $35, and for the third $45, with board and clothes in addition. He re tired from bqftness several years ago worth several millions, and only two ypars ago, in the preface to his cata logueof trotting horse stock, he wrote “ Since I began purchasing trotting horses I have expended about 9600,000 in this way. ' To those friends who have criticised me for having paid so much money for horses I may be par doned for saying that 1 have given awsy a much larger sum than that for religious and benevolent purposes.'’ The New York Ledger in 1850 was a small financial she^t known as Tbe Merchants’ Ledger,«nd Robert Bon ner was a printer employed upon it. He had saved a little money, tbe pro- rietor wanted to sell tbe paper, and Benner bought it. He ran it for a while as a mercantile paper, then turned it into a family story paper. He had a genius for advertising, and the way he advertised The Ledger was s revelation to the country. Fanny Fern was the most popular woman writer of that time, but she had never written for newspapers. She had just sold 6,000 copies of a book, and Bonner paid her 9100 a column for a/story of ten columns. In telling of tnls story in later years, Mr. Renner sauK. " Nearly every newspaper in the country published my extrava gance in paying $100 a column fora story. 1 got 960,Oil) worth of advertis ing out of the arrangement, and the people begsn to sak (or Tbe Ledger. Before this I had trouble in getting the news-stands to take The Ledger. After this they were glad to get it. He paid Henry Ward. Beecher 930,- 00O for his novel, "Norwood,” and $2C00 a year to write from half to tbree-quarters of a column a week for The Ledger. Be bad Edward Everett, at that time tbs leading statesman of the country along certain lines, writ ing a series of articles for the Lodger. He secured Mr. Beecher by sending a check for 92,000 in the first letter he wrote to the great divine proposing a weekly letter. Mr. Boecber’s reply to this was: ”1 am almost dumb after reading yodr proposition, and must clear my bead before 1 say a word.” Beecher accepted, however, just aa Everett did. At that time Everett was giving lectures around the coun try to secure a fund for the purchase anl reservation of Mount Vernon Mr. Bonner offered to give 910.000 to the fund if Everett would write for The Ledger. He spent 9,250,000 in a<N£rtlslog his paper. He thought nothing of buying a page at a time in the leading dallies. Tbe circulation of The Ledger reached 400,000 copies. When it got to 150,000 copies he fired a salute of 150 guns in City Hall park, and started in to double tbe clrcuLtton. Tbe Ledger adver tisements were unlike those of any other publication. Mr. Bonner be lieved that if all advertisements in a paper were displayed it was equivalent to no display. His advertisements were always original/ In those da/s 9h would secure as much advertising e as 94 can buy now. He made Herald publish a sixteen-page paper one dav. It was printing eight pages, and Mr. Bonner asked what space he could have for a " big ad.” " All the space you want:*’ tBb pkbllsk said. "All right, I’ll take the ole pap$r,” said Mr. Bonner, and an extra eight pages had to be added to hold the news aad the other advertise ments. Mr. Bonner bought Dexter after he had made a record of 2.17i on the Buffalo track in 1867. Thyt night he rote to a friend: "I saw Niagara Falls this morning for the first time, and came down here to Buffsrio this afternoon to see that other great won der, Dexter, when he trotted In the unprecedented time of 2 17L You know I always like to have tbe b, st things, and inasmuch as [ could not buy tbe Falls, I concluded to do tbe next best thing and buy Dexter. He ill go into my stable on the 10th of next month.” The horse cost him 935,000, and Bjdd Doble said he would have the horse back in three weeks, because Mr. Bon ner couldn’t drive him on the road, Doble was wrong. Mr. Bonner drove Dsxter and later he drove Maud S and Sunol and the other crack trotters he bought, and every horse he purchased meant so much more advertising for him and his great property, The Ledger. Until he turned the publication of the paper-over to his tons, who have since turned it into a monthly, owing to the keen competition of the Sunday newspapers, Mr. Bonner’s sole interest in life was The Ledger. He had tbe story paper Instinct largely developed. He read with his own eyes every word printed in The Ledger as long as he actively managed it. He read all manuscripts submitted and selected all those which he deemed available. The contributor, no matter how humble and modest, no matter wheth er a beginner or an established author with a hyphenated name, was always courteously received at an outside desk by the proprietor, who advanced from a private office to return a story or de liver a check. "I’m sorry we can’t uae this,” he would say in tbe first case. In the second, handing over a check. " Fetch us another story.” There was no waste of words. Horace Greeley, N, If. John G. Saxe were among hutors to The Ledger in Charles Dudley Warner was one of Mr. Bonner’s earliest friends, Gqqrj Childs one of his latest. JEfcjoha Hail, of whose church, the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian, Mr, Bonner was always a stanch pillar, was one of his space The intimate friends, and he grieved great ly over the clergyman’s death. Mr. Booner’s stable backs up against the churcb, and they /say that the former owner of the church property refused to sell to-the organization, but said that if Robert Benner wanted h s land for any purpose whatever, why of course he oou Id have it. Mr. Bonner bought Maud S. in 1880 from Commodore Vanderbilt. She had made a record of 2:111, and under Mr. Bonner’s ownership sue lowered this record, but never in races except against time. In 1885 John Murphy drove her to 2:081, and at that time she was considered a horse - marvel such as the world would never again produce. He paid 940,000 for Maud S. and the same price for Sunol, which he bought from Leland Stanford only to discover that the horse waa lame. "I am going to cure that horse with out letting Stanford know,” said Bun ner. " If I tell him he will sem^my money back to me and I shall be ob liged to return Sunol. But if I cure the horse I know I shall have a prize.” He cured the magnificent animal, and in treating Sunol he developed tbe veterinary g4fm that aftM*wards made him tbe leading authorlMof the coun try on horses. ^ When a horse went lame in the old days they used to “fire” him or they would soak his hoofs and put on poul tices and "treat ” the hoof The horse would get better, but in a few days was worse again. Tnen thty " refired’’ and so on, until tbe horse either was well ur went lame forever. In curing bis own horse Mr. Bonner made the remarkable yet simple discovery that most lame feet were caused by the un even paring of tbe/horse’s hoofs as the shoes were put on. The horse bad to walk on the side of his foot; pftera while the foot became lame, the knee got twisted and the horse was useless for service. 80, Mr. Bonner perfected a system of horse shoeing which is In general use today, and about which he was willing to talk for hours with con genial spirits on bis stock farm, at Tarrytown. ” Balancing the hoof ”li the keynote of horse-shoeing. . Maud B. was the pride of Robert Bunner’s heart up to tbe day of his death. He owoed other trotters, many "that cost him more money, many that had beaten her mark, but be loved tbe old mare aid spent many hours with her on the road and in tbe box stall at Fleetwood In the old days, and later at Tarrytown. He bad been offered fabulous prices for tbe "Qjeen of tbe Turf,” but would never consider one of them He would not trot his horses for money, though be wanted to pwn tbe fastest bones in tbe world, aad his ambition was gratified. He bred Macy’s Hambletoniao, tbe sire of Boe- que Bonita, the ffnt American trotter to beat all tbe records that had ever been made in Europe. There were also bred at bis farm Cartridge, 2:144; Majolica. 2:15; Cheyenne, 2:144; in stant, 2:144, and others still falter, but with no public records. Mr B toner’s wealth was said to he 915,000.000. In 1887, when he turned over Tne Ledger to his sons, he gave to them property wornh 92.000.000. All three sons are married—Andrew Allen, R>bert Edwin and Frederick. er Why England is Afraid of Rus sia—Oae important reason why Eng land ought not to assume an offeos vj attitude towards Russia, if it were otherwise desirable for her to do so, is the weakness of her army. A war with Russia would not be a naval war. It would necessarily be a land war, and England, it Is well known, with her present force and her policy of volun tary enlistments, could not put more than thirty thousand men into China This was asserted only the other more- ing in the House of Commons, and the government did not contradict the statement. Indeed, it is perfectly well understood that iLrests on the author ity of Lord Wolseley himself. It is hardly worth while to enlarge upon s j sloe;>...4, Eo#- and would find herself if the were called upon to face Russia with a fjrce of 30,000 men. Russia has probably already many more troops than this in Manchuria. The result of a war, then, between Russia -and Great Britain, undertaken under existing conditions, would be the total destruction of Brit ish commeroe in China, and the invas ion, and possibly tbe temporary loss, of India. And in considering the pos Bible effect of tuch a war we must bear In mind the attitude of the people of India towards the imperial govern ment, which is that of discontent, ex pressing inert in riots. Surely such an attitude would be of Immense assist ance to Russia in the invaslen that would immediately follow the breaking out of war over China. The facts which British statesmen are facing are sterq and threatening, and wbat clamor there is ip England for dealing offens ively with Russia is the clamor of iguoranen—an ignorance that may not be dissipated until its victims are aroused and Informed through the awful surprise which is sure to follow the first shock of arms.—Harper’s Weekly. 4 The Kiss in School.—The kissing bug is getting in its deadly work in t rwlpgton, Ga. But it isn’t tbe same ind of a bug which has recently aroused tbe whole scientific world. It assumes a more practical kind of form. During the exercises incident to tbe commencement eeason down in Irwing- ton there was a play on the board ra qulrlng one of tbe young men to kiss one of the young ladles Ho must have made it too realistic, too Eonma- Abbott-like, for tbe yoang lady’s broth er made it a personal issue after the performance was over and is now under a 9250 bond to keep tbe peace, while the kisser is supposed to be on his way to the Philippines, where kissing comes cheaper. a Willis and the contrl- thelr time. BILL ARP’S HEART IB BAD. Tbe Recent Death of Two Good Old Friends—He Speaks of Them as ths Best of Men. Simon Peter R; ,hardton and Henry B. Plant, two more of my friends, have fallen asleep. They were not my Mar and dear friends, but they were friends to humanity and I am human. 1 knew them well and was always pleased withj their presence. It is a good sign when you are glad even to meet an acquain tance—a good sign for him and it is a good one for you when your acquain- tances meet you gladlv. Simon Peter Richardson ministered here several years and I was always cheered with bis presence and learned something I did not know. He was a walking edu cator, a man of wit and wltdbm and of great philanthropy. Sometimes he cut to the quick, but his knife was sharp and left no ragged, edges. I re call an incident that, illustrated his earnest readiness to reply to a man who refused a little charity to a very poor blind ^oman who wished to go to Atlanta to hav* Dr. Calhoun remove a cataract from her eye. Simon Peter very ^rnestly related her condition and b&r extreme poverty and said,- " Please give me half a dollar, only half a dollar.” The merchant replied, ” No, I can’t do it. We merchants are bled to death by these country people and we have got to stop. I tell you Upcle Simon, we are bled to death, you must excuse me.” Simon Peter looked at him as if he were amazed. After a brief silence he said, " Bled are you? Let me show.you something.” He took off his long linen duster, then unbuttoned tbe wristband on his left arm, rolled up the sleeve and pointing to two little scars near the elbow said, ” A long time ago Afool doctor tried 10 bleed me and made those scars. He missed the vein and got no blood, but the scars are there. I am afraid that is tbe experience of a good many peo ple who ask a little charity for the poor. They get no blood r but leave a We who saw the point smiled audibly. The merchant’s face reddened under the sarcasm. He suddenly pulled out tbe money drawer and handed a dollar to the old mao, and said : "Give this to her. I don't want any of your scars about me.” Tbe last year of his sojourn here Uncle Simon took a vacation and visited his old home on tbe Pee Due river, in South Carolina. When ne returned he told me excitingly of the good time be had and about a wonderful revival that occurred In bis old home church— the greatest revival he said that he had witnessed for many years. " How many converts did you take into tbe church,” said I. "The first week,” said he, ** we never took in nary one, but we turned seventeen out and purged the church. After that the Lord blessed ng and there is many a church in this part of the country that needs the same medicine.” Uncle Simon left his Impression upon tbe people of every community in which be lived. He was an earnest man, a strong man, a man of convictions and was perfectly fearless In maintain ing them Woe to the Infidel or seep tic or agnostic who encountered him. Woe to the man who declined to go to church because he didn’t feel the ieed of religion. No doubt we have as good men now, but tbe preachers are rare in any denomination who are his equals In convincing and converting force. With Paul he could say^‘‘I have fought a good light. I havP kept the faith." Mr. Plant’s photograph is before nsp. What a broad, attractive, human like face. There is nothing of awe or solemn ity in his features that would intiml' Jate tbe approach of the humblest of his race. "Knowing that thou wast an austere man” did not apply to him. Always dignified, always self-poised and earnest, he seemed as much con cerned for others as for himself. He was frank but careful in sneech, gen UtL.uncomplaining and never worried blisiness cares or disappointments, lis last letter to me, written in Febru ary, was an autograph and is a model of good old-fashioned penmanship. It Is a large, open, honest hand without a blot or erasure, the i’s all dotted, and the t’s all crossed and quotation marks where they should be. In speaking or hi* Jjealtb. he says : " I have been suffering, but am yet on deck and pre pared In a moderate way-to attend to my duties and in some measure be of benefit tq the people.” .1 nave taken note of him for nearly half a century and know of no greater man in the line of public progress and public benefaction. Many millionaires lave acquired fortunes from specula tlon—soeculatioo that robbed others. Many have built on the foundations that others laid and some have wrecked railroads and private enterprises on purpose for their own profit, but Mr. Plant made honest plans in early life and has by slow and sure degrees ex panded and matured them. He has added to values not only of his own property, but to that of oommunltley and States. He has proved himself an unselfish friend to the South and won the love and admiration of our people. Shakespeare says, M The evil tbat^men do lives after them. The ood is oft interred with their bones.” 'hat is hot always true. Ih fact, he might aa truly have said, “ The good that men do lives after them.” Good deeds are like tbe circling waves tbat gently move to the shore when a stone is cast into a pool. They never their Influence. The good tha^Mr. Plant bas done fortbe people has not been buried with him, nor will he .be —The Philippine problem is summed up In this week’s Independent by tbe Hon. George F. Edmunds : "First let as know tbe whole truth of wbat has happened, and then pernaps the advo cates of glory or dominion or trade or civilization and religion advanced hy the cannon and the bayonet anl sup ported by the blood and treasure of our people can point out tons bow thoso are ’ the ways of pleasantness and the 1 paths of peace.' ” ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. CROP Columbia, 8.0., Jnly Uth,1898. 'here were a few very hot days dur ing the week ending July 10, bat the average temperature waa slightly be- low the normal. The range of teas* the greet need of the oou^J perature wm between 53 and 100 de- There were frequent showers during the week, especially over the central and eastern counties, where la places the grouad la too wet. Over the north central aad western counties, tbe show ers were very few, light aad local, aad many places are suffering for rain. Rain which began falling after most of the reports were mulled, may have af forded relief. Over the greater por tion of tbe State, tbe moisture condi tions are now very favorable. Some damage was caused by hall aad high wlailfc bat It wae confined to small areas. Reports on cotton, while not wholly favorable, are -aery promising. The crop is small, healthy, clean and bloom ing freely; lice oootinue to Infeet It, le places, but are doing no serious in jury. . A few report the plant growing too much to waed, others aa not grow ing at all, especially on red lands In the western counties. Sea Island cotton never looked better. The oorn crop oontlnnea to suffer from bud worms and the larger oora stal k- borer. Drought baa also affected the crop seriously ovar large area*, but on the contrary, in places, the orop is very fine. Old oorn is practically all laid by. Tobacco Improved somewhat daring the week, although In places more rein Is needed to develop the upper leaves. Cutting and curing baa become quite general. In Marlon County the orop is turning out very well. , Rice is dolcg well, although' cater pillars still Infest it at a few points. Tbe early rioe is receiving its lest flooding. On some plantations, water for flooding la not yet available. Sweet poUto slips continue to he set out, peas to be sown, and theaeooad crop of Irish potatoes to be pleated. Suffer cane and sorghum vafy la con dition, but generally look promising. Haying continues on the coast mead ows. Little or no fruit, save a lew apples, anywhere In she State, except grapes, which are plentiful la the western ooaatles.^kmt are rotting badly. Malous arsPnelag skipped la large quantities to the Northern markets. go Tl Quaint and Curious Paragraphs Gathered from Various Sources. ■ »-v, —Senator W. E. Chandler says he hat not changed his views, on the financial question, but stands firmly for blmet- try. —“ Fighting Bob ” Evans was In bis early days the Nimrod of his Virginia countryside. No one oduldbring home many rabbits or birds, and no one could break a colt aa well as he. —Colonel N. M. Dyer, who com manded the Baltimore at the battle of Manila, did not graduate from the na val aqademy, but served six years on merchantmen before entering tbe United States navy. —In a letter just received from Sur geon Book of tbe Thirteenth Mlnue- sota, now In the PblllpplSee, be says tbat in the 1,100 cates of wounded sol diers who had gone to the hospital at the time of bis writing there were only three cases of amputation. —A statute of the late United States Senator Z ibulon B. Vanoe Is to be placed at tbe eastern entrance to Capi tol Square. Raleigh, N. C., opposite the monument to the Con federate dead. The State Legislature appropriated $3sB00 for it and private citizens added IS.jQOO to the amount. —Senator W. A. Clark said in an in terview last week that he owed bis success in life entirely to his early' ex periences on bis father's farm in Penn sylvania. " I learnad that hard work,” he said, “was necessary if a man wanted to live. Tbe trouble with most people is that they don’t realize this.” -John Kates, of Lower Alloway, N. J., who recently had hatched out a chicken with three legs and another ith four legs, now has a third with only ooe leg. All-are doing well and Ketes hopes to complete hie collection of freaks by securing more one-legged fowle to even matter* up on the count of legs. —Tbe Increaee of Insanity in civil ized centers of population 's appalling. A half dozen new asylums have been built In and about London In the last dozen years, and eaobqpe Is filfed al most as soon aa 00mpiffled. Tbe num ber of Insane in London Inatltutlone alone now reaenee aa aggregate of over 25,009. ’ r ./ —The DeKalb Avenue Methodist Episcopal chureb baa brought salt against Geo. 8. Kelk. as tbe adminis trator of Jane Boose, who died in De cember, 1897, alleging that oho obtained 9977.04 from the oburch daring a pe riod of years by fraudeatly represent-, ing that she was e pauper and in need of eld for aupport. After she died there were found in her apartment various sum* of money aggregating 96^4 75, a bank book showing a balance of deDOoiie in tbe Brooklyn Saving* Bank amounting to $1,600 aod aocther bank book showing a balance of 9360. —Mrs. C. W. Good lander, the young wife of the Mayor o’ Fort Soott, Kane, has attracted much attention by an in novation she has introduced in the line of assisting her husband in one of bis most onerous public duties, namely, providing for tbe needy poor of- tbe city. She spends certain hours each day driving around the poorer quar ters of the city and personally investi gating clafmr for assistance, aod no indolent or undeserving person gets an order from her. She permits no social function- to interfere with this work. Tbe results of her enterprise ere being aatlclpeted with great interest. —A novelty in summer kbhool* is of fered in Missouri this year. The State university has given instructions along tbe lines familiar in such schools dur ing tbe vacation season for w good while past, aad it now adds new courses in horticulture 1 and agrloulture. Pre sident Jesse holds that some attention should be given In the public school of an agricultural State to stud let of soil, climate, birds, Insects aad plant life; end he point* out that tbe field*, for sets and highways lo the country and the lawns and public squares in tbe city and towns,f|irnlsh all the labora tory facilities which are needed for such studies. —Governor Rooeevelt shortened the sentence of John Howard, a convict in Sing Sing prison, because the prisoner constructed two large pipe organs for the chapel, worklpg two years on the job, and thus saving the State an am ount of money estimated at about 96,0(0. The organs were finished about two weeks ago, just as Howard’s sen tence expired, and be was released Tbe organs were greatly admired. When It came to trying them last Sun day It transpired that they only looked would failed to leave his future address at the prison when he depai ted. —A remarkable freak of lightning oecurred at East Brookfield, Mass., the other day, when a sudden shock restored to its old-time vigor the left arm of Ell Forbes, which had been useless for thlrteenyears on aooount of rneuma- tlsm. While he wss sitting at the window a thunder shower came up and with it were twosbarp flashes of ilght- aay it transpired maitney only 100 like wbat they purported to be, despite all the electric pumps w< not give fprth a sound. Howard fa forgotten for generations to oome. ut tbe command is to " Close up ! Close up!’’ Tbe old men die and others step into their places—and the world moves on. "Close up” is heard all along the line. “ Friend after friend departs, Who bas not lost a friend 7 The e is no union here of hearts That has not here an end.” ' Bill AEp*/ —Mias Anna Gordon, Secretary of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, gives it as her opinion that tbqre is less drinking In public than thetoused to be. -But she thinks that has seemed to be an Increase ing at home ' on the part ol people who have been in Europe have put in practice here wbat nlng. With one of tbe tremendons 7 nestle* 01 lie tbe tremendt crashes Mr. Forbes felt a sharp prick ing of bis flesh and tingling in his bones and with a jerk his left arm shot violently forward from Its cramped position.^ The shock was over in a flash and Mr. Forbes felt bis left arm bristle with the vitality and tingle, with vigor. To his delight he found he oould the arid as well as ever. — Attorney they found abroad. General BeUlnger has received no end of applications for positions in the engroselng department of the general assembly. He requests the statement made that all appllca are merely waiting paper, Ink and stamps In writing to him, for he Is now preparing to change the entire plan of appointing these clerks. AU appli lions will have to be made to the soil eftors of tbe respective circuits. The appointments are to be left to the solicitors, but requirements will be put in that will Basalt in obtaining elerks who write good heads and who can spell correctly. This has been found to be an abeolute aeeeseity aad some kind of examination to likely to be provided before aa appointment will be confirmed. Raising Mkn in Georgia.—During tbe recent visit to ths army camp la Savannah Gen. Joseph Wheeler was .entertained by e party of Northern men at tbe De Soto, when, in the good humor of efter-dluaer cigars, one of ’the gentlemen said, laughlagly: "How is it, general, tbat the sleepy farms of the South produos|iueb whirl wind fighters in such small paekages?” "Well/’ said the little general, puffing at a large men’s cigar, "I believe I’ll have to give yqp the answer an old ‘cracker’ woman onoe gave me whea I asked bar a similar qaeetloa. Not many years ago 1 bad oreaeioo to make a saddle journey through the plan barrens of Georgia, where most every body is a ‘cracker’aad mighty shift- lees. On* day, however, I rode lato a little community that ■ boWed such signs of thrift a* to be quite out of keeping with the general character of the barrens, I do assure you, geatiemea. I rode up to e oabla where a gaunt eld woman stood la tbe doorway, aod asked her who owned these little farms that farm that were so well kept " ‘That farm oa the left belongs to my son Jabtz,’ said sba, ‘and the next one to my boy Zalim, aad the next to my lad Jasen, aod the next to my boy Potlphar’s place and—’ "‘Hold on, sister,’said I. ‘How did you manage to raise such a fine lot of boys way off hero in the woods?* ’Well, stranger,* she answered, *1 am a wldfly woman, and all I had to raise ’em 00 wen prayer and hickory, bat I raised ’em powerful frequent* ” Pension Frauds—The discovery of a fraudulent scheme In Memphis te secure a pension for a woman as the widow of a soldier who was not only not marred to the soldier, bat bed met him only onoe in her Ufe| is doubtless but one of thousands of such abuses that have escaped detection. la this instance it to stated that the papers were made ont In due form with elaborate detail aod witnessed aad sworn to as the law requires. So ole and just a case was apparently that the examining board were about to recommend the grant, which called for a payment of abou} 96,000 In back pensions, when the commissioner, bj Instituting a special investigation, made tbe discovery of the fraud. When fraud m one oase is discovered only by such extraordinary and special effort we may well., believe that the government has been wickedly Imposed upon la thousands of other Ini Commissioner Evans Is d work In fighting pension frauds, and the more exacting and severe he oaa be in this matter the better servloe he will render.—Nashfllle Banner. Why the South is Poor.- A pound of raw cotton Is worth about fi oenta. When it Is spun and woven Into fabrics it is worth from 26 cents to $1, according to the figures of a Boston oorrespondent of the New Orleans Picayune. Massa- obu etts has 8,000 spindles and annually manfactures 1.260,000 bales of oottoo. This oottoo she boys from the South at 5 cents a pound. After she has spun and woven this oottoo she sells a very larfepart of (t book to us at 25 cents to iia pound. That to why Massachu- setti to rich and Georgia to poor/- "The South,” aays the Picayune, "hews the wood and draws the water; It does the drudgery of producing raw material for the North to manufacture aad gal rich upon, jit to this whloh keeps tae South poor aod always will, until tha Southern people shall their owa products.” —Waste of time is Hie most extrava- gant and ooetly of all < Ob yasl _ and cures Rheumatism, Mi ache. Braise*, and *41 teed to give setlsfemloa, so risk. Don’t let * ‘ ‘ something else