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m >r -a ,'iS® tfsm, vol- mu- BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1890. r——: r'* . . • < y w /? THE MIND DON’T NEED REST A CHANGE OP MENTAL FOOD „ ' v REQUIRED. I Bill Arp rclln How He Seoaree Men * —tnl Kent When He Grows Weary „ With Study. » The mind doeesn’t need rest, tor It will not reet, but It needs a change of mental food. We cannot at will stop thinking, but we can give our thoughts a more pleasing direction and that is rest. And so, when I get tired and perplexed reading and ruminating about the war and the negroes and political corruption, I take a day off and commune with nature and her wonderful works, which are ever be , fore us and around us. It is even a rest to hear it thunder and to watch the gathering of the clouds and wel come the by drops of rain that fall upon the steps. When the lightning is flashing and the thunder stroke comes quick and sharp and near, we retire from the veranda and for a little while humble ourselves undqr the mighty nand of God, and thit is rest. Then' let us not worry and perplex ourselves all of our<wak<ng hours about things which are afar off, but take shelter aud comfort at homo. Let us change the dtbt and it yill rest fls mentally and physically. My good father was a philosopher and would say to|me, “ now, my son, I want you to hoe these potatoes and when you get tired you can weed the onions for a rest.” Professor Mitchell, the great astronomer, told me that when his mind was weaVied with long and per plexing calculations and his eyes were tired of figures, nothing relieved him more than a gam? of whist with his wife and children. It was a delightful reak But my sweetest rest is a frolic with the little grandchildren and listening to their innocent discourse. There are two llttlb girls of three and five years, who visit me almost every day and climb my koet-s and kiss my old rough cheeks, aud e*y that I am not old nor ugly and every nl'bl 1 help their mo ther put them to bed and tell them the sanst-o,,j about Jack the giant killer, an J toe bean vine and the wolf and .the pigs and little Red Riding Flood, and what I did when I was a li;lli- boy. It, and by the monotooe of my voice becomes their lullaby and the little eyes c|oso and the tittle heads fall iv- ron my shoulder and they are off for its larid of dreams. When the fat her has to go to his drug atore every siigbianoldgiandpaisaheip to a tired mottier, and 1 am thankful that I am yet fit for that. ~ I saw a psir of old-fashioned blue birds today and felt like the friends of my youth had come beck. Some year* ago they di appeared and I have won dered what became of them. A jay bird with only one leg comes every dey to the fountain to drink, 1 am trying to make a friend of him. but be Is very sty and suspicious Some cruel boy bit him with a sling shot, ( reckon, for 1 see them sometimes in the back alley trying t > get a shot at my pigeons Maybe mat jaybird will meet that boy io purgatory. Boys are as m< an about killing birds as our government is about killing tbe Filipinos. But this Is a Cbrlstlnn country, and, 1 reckon, it is all right. These pigeont that have a happy home at my bouse are an Interest.ng study for the young people. We have about a hundred of them, and some of them are ever before us as we sit on the veranda. They are of many colors, from almost black to a pure snow white, and at all hours of the d«y they gather at the little hy drant fountain in the front yard and drink and then fly away. The pigeon is the only bird that drinks by draught or suction, as we do. All other oirds raise their heads and let the water run down by gravity and then dip the bill down for another drop. Pigeons do not feed their young with worms or bugs, but tbe old birds digest their food Id their own craws into a curd and eject it into tbe mouths of their young. Bence it is that every young pigeons or squabs generally die when they are glvm away. Pigeons are not exactly polygamists, but tbe males have no particular mate and they will feed the young of any mother. Indeed, they do most of the feeding. They are not gallinaceous nor raxores. Now let the young people hu t up those big words They can walk, but cannot hop. Moet'all other birds can hop,' but can not walk. Of course, pigeons are pigeon-toed,-wnd so are some folks we Jinow. A pigeon-toed girl generally wears long dresses. Then there is ’a language called pigeon English. It is really pldgen English, for pidgen is a .Chinese word and means business, and pidgen English is a mixture of phinese - and English and of signs by which business is transacted in the ports be tween natives and foreigners. The migrating butterfly is moving southward. For two weeks past one or more have been seen at all hours of the day on the wing passing through our grove. My neighbors far and near tell me they are passing their homes. It is a good, large, yellow butterfly of uniform size and shape and color. They do not come in pairs or flocks, but singly and not often in sight of each other. They all come and go in the same direction and do not stop a moment nor pause to suck tbe honey from a flower. Well, now I have counted them by the clock as they passed and made five in a minute through my five-acre grove. That makes 300 in an hour or 3,000 in a day. If, then, we count 600 to an acre in a day 100 acres would make 60,000. Ten thousand acres would make 6,000,000 for a single day. How man. more acres do they pass over and how many more days ? Think of it and the books say they are going South to winter and die. They laid their eggs up North before they began their long journey. From observation I should say they average forty miles a day. It is not a rapid flight, but is unbroken. What a singular creation is this and who can tell why and the wherefore. Nature Is full of mysteries and won ders. , My dally mall brings many Inquiries ajid some of them I cannot answer □g some of them I A Constant Female Reader ” wants to know how the moon influences the making of. lye soap and must tbe pot be stirred backward or forward. W.U, I gave it up and referred the writer to Aunt Betsy Hamilton. Another in quiring mind wants to know why mules tails are shaved and their/ manes clipped. I have referred him to Uncle Remus, but I interviewed some of my friends and one said because It im proved the looks of the animal gave the mule a git-up-and-glt appear ance. Co be said It was done so oould tell ’em from a horse, for it was a reflection on a horse to be taken for a mule or for a mule to be taken for a horse. An old farmer said it was done to get rid of currying and cuckle- burs, and thereby please the negroes who had to plow them, but Ujvas mighty hard on the mule , in fly time. My friend, John Anderson,-nays that an unsheared mule is a very unsightly beast. Jim Jeff had one that he raised and neveritould have trimmed. When the mule was twelve years old Jeff got tired of her aud triwd towwap her-W tp his neighbor, btegall, for a horse, but they couldn’t trade. -.Then he of fered io sell Kit to Stegall for 175, but he wouldent give it. Not very long after that Jeff comes to town and a Tennessee horse trader got hold of him and gave him an old chunk of a horse for his mule. Kit was put under the shears forthwith. She was clipped and rubbed and washed and groomed and in a few days was transmorgrified into a very respectable looking animal. Stegall wanted a mule about that time and the Tennessean sold Kit to him for $100, but he didn’t know it was Kit. Next day Jim Jeff had business over at Stegall's and Stegall took him to the lot to show him what a.fine mule he had bought. As soon as Kit spied her old master sb j nickered and trotted up to him and put her bead affection ately upon his shoulder just as she used to do, and Jeff kissed her on-the note, and said : " Kit, why Kit. is this you ? Bless your old soul. I ouirhtent to have sold you. Stegall, I will give you $75 for'her just because she loves mo so.” Mules are curious creatures, but they fill a longfeit want and never strike for higher wages. Tbe mule and the'Pegroarea happyepmblnation, and when the jpegro is departed tbe mule will go. too, 1 reckon. My neigh bor, Morris, has a very fine mule and about six months ago this mule tried to pick his teeth with his bind foot, and got tbe shoe fastened in his mouth on a broken tooth Mr. Morris worked an hour to unloose it, and then called in the neighbors and they worked with ropes and levers, but couldenL All of a sudden, while Morris was standing by thinking what to do next, the tooth Drake with a re pert like a pistol, and the mule’s foot flew neck egainsl Morris's sblnlpne and broke it all to pieces. Be was down In ued for three months and goes on crutches now Such is a mule. . Be has no pfide of ancestry, but be lives long and happy. 'Bill Akj*. THE LATE GOV. PERKY. HE ASKS CONGRESS TO ACT. Ht» Ancestry Mkeich of and Birthplace—-A His l-arly Hone. The Oconee News has the following article la lie last issue of especial in terest to many of our r aders : Richland, Oconee County, is the can ter of a circle of thirty muss in diam eter around which are the birth place# of two, ani once the homes of three of the greateet men of all the South, if not of the whole country. Fifteen mile# due east of this place is the form er home of John C. tbe same distance Calhoan. A bout the AFFAIRS IN THE PHILIPPINES. Aohnrman Telle the Condition at the Preeent Time—Sixty Different Lan guages Spoken on the Islands. President Schurman has returned to his office In Cornell University, and has gl^en out the following statement to the > ssociated Press on Philippine affairs: "It is very important that the public should know tht actual facts of the sit uation. Things are* what they are, and the Americans should understand them, whether they agree with or run counter to the public’s wishes. FFrst. It requtres sbtre effort ~to realize the vastness of the archipelago, which, extends in a triangular form, from Formosa to Borneo and Celebes, through sixteen degrees of latitude. Never going out into the Pacific Ocean on tbe east, nor the China sea on the west, I made a circuit of two thousand miles, all south of Manilla. This given come idea of the difficulty of maintain ing an effective blockade, as tbe coast line of all the islands embraced in the archipelago is many more thousands of miles. > . "Second. The multiplicity and het erogeneous nature of the tribes is some thing astonishing. Over sixty^differ- eot languages are spoken in tbe archi pelago, and, though the majority of the tribes are small, there are at least half a dozen having a quarter of a mil lion members. Tbe languages of these people are as distinct, from one another French and Spanish or Italian,-so that the speech of any one t>ibo is un intelligible to_ its neighbors. These tribes are all civilized and Christian* ized, but small uncivilized tribes, among whom .the Igorotes seem best known la America, inhabit the moun tain* of Luzon and f jrm a large part of the population of Mindanao, in this island also there Is a large Mohamme dan population, which is Independent of the MiibAmmedans in the neighbor ing Suiu archipelago Third. It is the Tagalos, inhabit ing some of the provinces about Manila, who are resisting the authority of the United Stales. Other clviliz-d Filipi nos are neutral, except where they are coerced by armed bands of Tagalos, ho telxed upon their governments during the making and the ratification of our peace treaty wi.h Spain It would be Incorrect to assume, however, that thewe tribes are allies of ourn. I ney are not. indeed, they are not P.bout suspicion of the white race, of which they have had experience only through Spain. But tney are men of intelligence end properly, and the masses, when not stirred up by the Tagalos, recognize the ndvantag* to them of American sovereignty end so remain neutral, ailtougb robber bands, from time to time, descend from the mountains to plunder end burn tbe es tates of oeeoefel inhebkteou on the plains. "Fourth. The insurrection, though terlouf enough, ns experience has proven, U not a nauooal uprising. In deed, there Is do Philippine nation. At 1 have already said, there a muitifa rloua» collection of tribes having only this in common, that they belong to a little north of Westminster la woere Joseph E. Browns nation than the Inhabitants of tbe con- was born and lived to early manhood, and fifteen miles south is the birth { lace of Benjamin Franklin Perry. be writer paid a visit recently to the Birth place and home of Perry in hla early manhood. Gov. Perry was born on the banks of Little Caoestoe creek, just one mile from Tugaloo river, %nd JO miles from Hatton's island, where he killed Bynum la a duel that has been well kept before the public. Benjamin Perry, the father of B. F. Perry, was born in Sherburn, Mass , in 1761. His mother, Anna Perry, was the daughter of John Foster and Eleanor Hollins, born in Union, S. C., in 1777. Benjamin Perry dlei in 1842, hia wife died in 1648, and both are burled at t^e old homestead, where Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Long now live. Beside their distinguished son, Ben jamin Franklin, there were born unto Benjamin Perry and- Anna Foster Porry, two sons and one daughter, Fi-ster and Joslaih and a daughter, who married a man named Hunt of Florida, and who is siill living. it is interesting to trace this family to the present day : Foster Perry had three sons and one daughter. Tbe eldest son, Waddy Thompson Perry, was killed by a stone from the hands of arun-a-way negro. John Porry now lives near Walhalla, Clark lives in Texas and the daughter, Harriet married vVilliam J. Hix, of Fair Play, now deceased. Left two daughters, the one is now the wife of Mr. J. W. Shelpr, oL Walhalla, and the other was the wife of Capt, J. R. Earle, of Walhalla. She died some years ago. Joaiah Perry had three daughters only. Emma, who married Capt. J. G. Hawthorne ; Sue who married Mr. T. D. Long, and Anna who married Mr. Ya’rboro gh, of Fairfield. Mrs. Long inherited the old home place of the first Benjamiu.Perry, bet grand father, where she now lives with her husband, Mi*..J. D. Long. - This 4s a very pretty place. A high hill overlooking the country all around. Hills and valleys and vast wooded lands. ^ West the cold clear waters of tbe Chestoe run, south ana tost rolls the Little Choestoe down from the north hills, and at the confluenod of these two creeks you see the rich low lands where youn^ Perry worked as a common field hand. The' same fire place where he read and studied by torch light is there. You may sit there if you wish, raise the window, and akthe nice breezes blow in on you from tbe red* hiilg of Georgia, and as the roar of the'river just one mile away brings a calm to ypur soul, you may wonder if young Perry ever saw anything of his future laid out oefore him. It is imagined that he did. A great many men may build air castles and live only to see them fall, but still It Is evident that many of the great men have hid a premonition of their future. We know not what others may think, but if results prove anything it must be acknowledged that B F. Perry was one of the wtnenl men in the South in 1860. the Mnlny racej archipelago Tne InhabitaoL of no more constitute a tioentof Europe do. "Fifth. The United States having aa- snmed by a treaty of peace with Spain sovereignly over the archipelego be came responsible for the malotenence of peace and order, the administration of justice, the security of life and prop erly among all the tribes of the archi pelago. This is an obligation which Intelligent Filipinos, not less than for eign nations, expect us to fulflll. Nor will the nnl'onal honor permit us to turn back. In taking the Philippine Islands we annexed great responsibil ity. The fact tfawt the responsibility is heavier than most people suppose it to be is no excuse for failure to dis charge it. I repeat that tbe Philip pines question is essentially a question of national honor and obligation.” In reply to an inquiry whether any- Ihlag was now left but to fight It out President Schurman said : "In my opinion much good would be done by a declaration on the partjof Congress of the form of government to be established in the Islands, or, better still, let Congress establish a govern ment for the Philippine Islands and have- it put in force in all parts and among all tribes hostile to the United States. This would serve several pur poses. It would distinguish between our friends and enemies, and treat tbe former according to their deserts. It .would also give to our enemies a dem onstration of free government on the American plan, a very important point when it is remembered that the Taga los claim tcTbe fighting for their liber ty. And P had better call attention to the fact that the government which is well adapted to one tribe may need considerable modification to be availa ble for anotber.’’ Asked about the capacity of tbe FiU iplno peoples to govern themselves, President Schurman replied that they had no experience in self-government except in municipal affairs, and even these were subject to the control of the Spanish authorities. He thought, however, that each tribe might, sub ject to the supervision of a wise gener al government, manage in the main its own municipal and provincial affairs. Supervision from Manilla would vary with the position which the different tribes occupied in the scale of civiliza tion. President Schurman seemed firm in the conviction that some form of home rule for each of the tribes and under the watchful supervision of a general government at Manilla was the solu tion to the problem. " I have great confidence in the peo ple of the Philippines,” he added, "and much sympathy for their aspirations. A race should be judged by its best products, and an educated Filipino, of whateve.’ tribe, and each city has its educated men, whl bear comparison with an educated man of any other race. Among tbe masses one often finds ooniclousness of Ignorance and strong desire for education. The ar chipelago will not be revolntlonfssd 1c a generation, at Japan has been In respects, but then Japan had thousands of years of national legisla tion behind her recent transformation. Nethertheless, considering tbe marked intellectual capacity of the Filipinos and their admirable domestic and per sonal virtues, imagination cannot easily set the limits to their progressive ach.- ievements under the inspiration of Am erican civilization, and while Ameri can sovereignty means this blessing to the Filipinos, it is, beyond doubt, the one thing which can save the archi pelago from division and appropriation by the great nations of Europe. The United States will hold it together, and with American democratic ideas train and elevate the people to an ever-increailng measure of self-gov ernment.” - , , Ul 4 * CAPT. LYSANDKR D. CHILDS. Sudden Death of the Prohibition Leader at His Summer Home in Saluda, N. C. The sudden death of Capt. L. p. Childs, of Columbia, took place on Tuesday night* Sept. 12th. at bis sum mer home in Saluda, N. C., where with his family he has been spend'ng the entire season, and was seemingly much improved in health. He has been in failing condition for severs! years, but was greatly benefited by bis stay in tbe mountains. The following sketch of his life is taken from the Columbia State: Lysander D. Childs was born In Lin- colnton, N. C., July 6, 1855, a son of Lysander D. Childs and Nancy Hoke. Tne former was born near Baltimore is 1811, und when 18 years of age came to North Carolina, wnere he was mar ried in 1839. He was a successful man ufacturer and banker in this city up to tbe time of bis death, which took place Nov. 26. 1879. The mother waa a daughter of Cbl. Hoke, a wealthy and* prominent citizen of North Carolina. Nine children were Born to them, of whom only Wm,G. Childs, tbe present president of the Bank of Columbia and Columbia, Newberry and Laurens railroad ; and Augustus Childs of this city survive. Their grandfather was Dr. Eben Childs, a native of New York, who moved to North Carolina during the latter year* of als life and uied there io 1M6U, having obtained great eminence as a physician. 'Capt. Childs received his final edu cat;on at the Carolina Military Insti tute in Charlotte, N. C. He has en gaged chiefly In agricultural pursuits daring his life, having large (arming interests in both tbe upper and lower portions of tbe Slate and splendid plantations not far from Columbia at tbe time of bis death. Be started out io tho insurance business here in com pany with R. A. ’Keenan under the tirm name of Keenan A Childs. In- 1876, the firm having be«-n dissolved, he turned bis sllenlion to agriculture, first by bimself and tben With his brother. Mr. W. G. Childs, raising bay principally on tho extensive p.nuUtion below the city on the Congaree cover ing several ghoimaod acres, left him by bis father. Tbe reputation of the "Childs Bay'* is now known ail over the blate.,-He went Into tbe fiacbi- nery busmAs for a short tinre, but soon gave It up and attack to fsrmlng, also going into stock raising. Juiv 13, 1881, Capt. Childs married Miss Bessie Springs, daughter of Maj. U. A. Springs, And four children were born to them, Lysander D., Jennie B., Margaret Maiweil and Richard Austin Childo. Capt. Childs was a devoted husband and father. Capt. Childs' military education par ticularly fitted him for any military position be chose to AIL A* captain of the Richland Volunteers of this city he brought that organization up to a high standard of proficiency In the manual. After holding the command for a long time he resigned. When the reorganization was made after the Darlington war disbandment, Capt Childs in order to revive the old com mand look an active part in the work and accepted the captaincy only to again withdraw when the organization had-been brought about. In 1888 be entered the field of poli tics. Be first served two terms in the lower house of the general assembly and then declined re-election. Though he held views on the liquor question later on contrary to those of his con stituents he was several times re elected to the general assembly, ever alive to the welfare of his people. His strength in thecountv was-rcraarkuble and he was invariably elected at the head of the ticket- He retired from politics at the conclusion of the session before tbe last. The "Childs Prohi bition Bills,” of which he was the fa ther, and the fights o»er them, will ever remain prominent features of South Carolina legislative history of the period from 1891 to 1898. Capt. Childs was a strong Y. M.C. A. man, and was one of those to whose efforts the formation of the Columbia associatioh was due.' He was one of the leading Metho dists of the State,, having been elected (though tbe youngest among t$em) a delegate to the general conference held in St. Louis in 1890. For many years he was superintendent of the Washington Street Sunday school in this city, and he.was an officer of tnat chutchy of which he was a devoted member, He was connected in au official capa city with at least two of the city’s leading banks, not to mention many other business enter prises': ■ He was ever a devoted member of the State Agricultural and Mechanical society, and labored always for its sue- ce s. From ’95 to ’96 he wus president of the society and under his manage ment the fairs held then were amongst VICTOR BLUE SURRENDERS. Captured by Cupid and this Wedding Will Occur Next Month. Winning honora in war ta sometimes an easier undertaking than winning a wife, says the ^Charleston News and Courier. Lieut. Victor Blue, United Slates navy, a worthy son of South Carolina, has demonstrated the faoli however, that it was a double game in which he came out triumphantly twice, and the newspapers are talking of his engagement to Miss Eleanor Stewart, of New Jersey Mias Stewart is a niece of Capt. Philip H. Cooper, of the navy. The New York Journal has printed the following regarding Lieut. Blue and his love-making : When Capt. Philip H. Cooper, now commanding tbe cruiser Chicago, was the superintendent of the Naval Aca demy, five years mo. the red gown that his niece worl made the cadets say that they were in love with red. It- made a beautiful contrast of colors when she walked on the lawq and under tbe elms, her little hand resting on the dark sleeve of her uncle's arm. 'Not only the cadets, but the instructors and the detailed of ficers were haupier when she, was there. She was reserved and youthful. The discipline inspired awe In her ingen ious mind. She was a visitor at the Academy for a week or a fortnight that was always too short. For months afterward her admirers—that is, every one—saw her only in charmed me mories . Her uncle said to her, in bis au thoritative manner that the habit of giving orders bad provoked: " Do not become tbe wife of a naval officer, Uts Is, because of bis vocation, a noble fellow. He would be an ideal bus- band. " But—women are ever unfortunate —the Ideal husband shall not be a husband. Be is on a ship, in a yard, I or in an office where bis wife cannot I be happy. He is the slave of a machine that never relents. " He has given bis life to his coun try. A wife might divert him from that, and make him neglectful, or not divert him from It and make him un happy. "Marry a good, honest farmer, or the corner grocer. He has no greater duty than uovolkon to bis family im plies. He Is at home or nc*r home al- wnye." Lieut. Victor Blue, returning from revolutions in Central America, from the battle of Managua, in Nicaragna, from travels In Africa, charmed Capt. ! Cooper and bis nleoe. , He came to tbe Academy to see his old friends and ask their advloe. Ha I wan to go on tbe Thetis to taka a sur- | voy of. Southern California. He bad | to make a map of tbe country. Uls conversation was inurttu ntf ! and varied. Son of Col. John GU- | Christ Blue, of the Confederate army, ( raodson of Col. John Blue, of the ^nroflMfi, great-grand son of Capt. I John Blue, of tbe Revolutionary War, ami of Capt. Joba Gilchrist, of the j British navy, be wee intensely Ameri can. A South Carolinian, he retained the severe, graceful gesture# and expren- sions of the old planters. He talked of the Pvranmlds, the Sphinx In the de sert, Palestine, the modern Capital* Of Europe, tbe seas and the dikes with captivating internet. Hn walked with Capt Cooper and his niece 00 the lawn, under the elms, and the cadets remarked then that Minn Stewart listens^ to him. Capt. Cooper must have said to her often then : " M»«*ry a farmer or the, corner grooer. He Is always at home or near It." Lieut. Blue went to his work on tbe Thetis, was stationed for two yearn at Honolulu, became commander of the Alvarado. In the war against Spain he had the most-dangerous missions that he could have desired. As executive officer of the Suwanee he had to cover the first expedition of the United Staten to thd Cuban insurgents. Ha asked for one gunboat to fight two gunboats and got it, but the Spaniards refuse his chal lenge- He ran on a reef about Cape Frances and was there a. facile prey to the enqmy for twelve hours, but escaped. H0 ran the gauntlet of five Spanish gunboats In tbe Bay of Buena Vista, but landed aud raised the American flag on Cuban soil at Gomez’s outposts. The Suwanee was revealed by helio graph signals to the Spaniards. It ran imost into a gunboat and passed it in the night. It uaptwred two coast guard schooners in an inlet. Then Lieut, Blue achieved his greatest feat. Hn explored twenty-two miles around the city of Santiago and reported the unknowable—the fact that Cervera's fleet was in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. * Miss Stewart read these things in the newspapers. Lieut. Blue asked Capt Cooper a month ago if his niece remembered him. He had thought of her in fighting for America. She had wept, laughed, blushed. Lieut. Blue was invited to Morristown, N. J. The date of the wedding Is a secret But rn intimate friend of Miss Stewart Is to be her brldesmalcTon October IT. Lieut. Victor Blue has won another victory—over Capt. Cooper’s advloe about marriage thin time. the society. In 1896 be was re-elected to the presidency, but gave way in 1897 to President Lore, v». l,,> Was later succeeded by the preset** president, Col. Cunningham. Capt. Childs was a man of sterling character, and bis deeds of charity wilMong live in-the oiemory of a peo ple to whom he endeared himself. In using even as good a remedy as Alligator Liniment we must not only have faith, we must apply the compound and rub it well in. D will do the curing if you apply it right twice or three times a day. Long standing cases of rheumatism and neuralgia and otLer painful troubles have been cured, it may cure you, anyhow if you feel dissatisfied you can get yonr money bank, bold everywhere. ' — —Music caused the death of a beauti ful three-year-old filly at Florence, Ala., the other day. A farmer drove his valuable young mare into town and as he -wras driving up the principal street a brass band suddenly struck up the most successful in tho history of Rl blatant music. Tbe mare had never beard any sound like that before, and so startled was she that she dropped dead in the shafts of the trap. A veto: binary surgeon who examined the.car- cass declared that the mare had'died of heart failure, due to excitement, caused by the sound 6f the unaccus tomed music of the brass band. —Queen Victoria, it In reported, has sent to Emperor William a prised copy of her family tree, showing King David at the top. A pet idea entertained by the Queen Is thet she is descended from the Psalmist through Zodeklah’n eldest daughter, and It is said that Emperor William’s conviction of dlvlae origin is greatly due to bin grandmother’* Joible. . —_ THE OOTTONU'SITUATlON. Tbe Opinion ot a New York Firm of Got ton Merchants In Regard to Crop Prospects. . The cotton trade on either side of the Atlantic is basing Its opinions upon foundations so entirely different in character, that It is not at all strange that the markets move on different planes of action. One need only In dulge in a casual reading of the foreign newspapers to become aware of the ImporUnce attached to Mr. Neill’s opinion abroad, and the utter disre gard of any information tending to show that the Impression conveyed In hls^August circular Is not the correct forecast of tbe coming crop. The foreign spinner, In the face o^the best all around trade demand ever known, disregards the probability of any re duction in supply. The report of the Agricultural Department is believed to be without any basis whatever, and it In. further believed that beneficial and sufficient rains have fallen through out Texas, and thaVthe prospects are good for a large brop everywhere else. Against these influences there is the undeniab e fact that a drought has prevailed over Texas fo* more than a month, with the temperature higher and the rainfall leas than during any August that the Cotton Exchange has record ; that a reductien in acreage througnout the cotton belt is admitted by every candid observer, and that the use of commercial fertilisers in the upland country wan largely decreased, whether these factors have any effect upon the production and yield ot oot- ton, tbe future will decide ; if they do not, tben we will have to admit that the conclusions of a generation are valueless. The situation today presents a direct antithesis to the situation in Beptem ber, 1890, when tbe great decline In cotton began. Then the spinning world in the face of a panic, just vis ible, and the prospects of n crop be- >oud an prt cedent at that time, was a large buyer. Now the (lade and con sumption of tbn world are beyond the wiliest dreams of a year ago, while the crop prospects cannot be com pared with those of that time aor of last year Why, tben, does not cotton advance? The reanon In to be found In tbn losses Incurred during the past three seasons in holding cotton. ,V ben in August we nailed attention to the marvelous consumption, we were regarded as op timistic, but we may refei our readers to such a wall known authority as the Flnaaclal Chronicle for confirmation of our views. A study of tbe govern ing wnathnr ooeditlooe ovnr Texan for many years lad us to fear that the heavy rainfall of June and July marked tne approach of a period or extreme dry weether, and we believe our friends will agree that our viaws on both these queetloe* have proved correct. We now feel that tbe advance from the prloee thee ruliag does sot adtqu- elely represent this change ie the coaditione and wn believe that every large crop estimate will be reduced to oae below the coosuosplioa of the world. Hubbamd Bros. A Co. Tillman, Talbert and Yocmans. —The Edgefield Advertiser gives the following information about the Senato rial race : When we said last week that it was about settled that Talbert, Tillman and You mans would be candidate* for the United State# Senate, we ipoke with out tbe slightest intimation from eith er of tho parties named, but only gave the oar rent rumors. Tbe people have about settled the matter among them selves that they want and must have a triangular race, three contestant# in 1900 fur the Senate, as was the case when McLaurin wan elected and when Earls won elected. There are a good many people la South Carolina who are tired of Reformer aad Ceneervatlve, and want to vote for a good sound De mocrat without regard to past affilia tions, while there are others who will stick to the old rack, fodder or no fod der. Since writing the above wn see tne name of Duncan mentioned for the U. 8. Senate and also another galoot, whose name ban escaped us. So It may be that the people want this time a qulnquangular race Instead of a_trlan- gle. What we tinned out to say and to emphaslxe wan that, so far an we know, no one has authority to announce for Edgefield County that Talbert It Or Is not a candidate for the United States Senate, or that Youmans is—that Till man Is, goes Without saying. ITEMS op GHNMHAI* Quaint and Oartaus Gathered irons Partou —In Scotland there are 198 w_ lea, an against Ireland’s twenty- England talling-up with as ins cant nine. In 18(ft the United dom turned out near 60,000,000 of whiskey—and drank more hall of it I —Sir Moses Ezektai, of Rome, Italy, the well known sculptor, who in visiting In Cincinnati, was during the civil war In this country, a member of Urn cadet corps of Virginia Kllltary Institute, and took part with the corps la the bat tle of Newmarket. —One woollen mill at Knoxville, Tenn, has a paid-up capital of 1660,000, works 800 hands, and sells Its excellent all-wool castimere# In Cblchgo and tha ' Eastern markets. The big woollen mill at Braunfels, Texas, places its cloths mostly in-Boston. —By therwlU of the late George W. Clayton, of Denver, it Is provided that his entire estate, of more than 06,000,- 000, shall be devoted to the establish ment of a new university in that city, to partake of the characteristics of Ger ard College, Philadelphia. —A United States marshal on August 28th arrived In Chattaanoga, Tens., with the Rev. Thomas J. Payne, a venerable Baptist minister, of Benton, Polk County. Mr. Payne was arrested the day before in his pulpit, charged with making moonshine whiskey. —United States Senator Hansbor- ough, of North Dakota, acquired bin education in a newspaper office. la 1870 he was an apprentice in the composing room of the San Francisco Chronloic, and gradually worked bin way np until ha became news editor of f A Remarkable Enginering Feat. >—During the last three months what Is pronounced by experts the most re markable piece of electrical engineer-' Ing in the country has been accom plished after three years of labor and some six hunlred thousand dollars ex uded in tbe enterprise : that Is, the nta Ana river, which comes out of the San Bernardino mountains, has been bridled, and its power is now transmitted to Los Angeles, some 82 miles distant. In a vrord, 9,000 horse power is made to propel machinery, move street cars and illuminate and even beat buildings in Lon Angeles, besides furnishing illumination and E >wer for several villages—as Red- nds, Riverside, Colton and Ontario— between the mountains, and the en gineers seem to agreed that the most remarkable feature In this develop ment of the power the Santa Ana river is the transmission of electricity of a high voltage over 80 miles of wire with so little loss of energy, the com pany finding, Jn fact, that it can send electricity of 33,000 roltn, having a working efficiency of 4,000 horse power, a distance of 83 miles with a loss of but 10 per cent. After doing its work in the production of electrical energy, tbe mountain stream it gathered Into a conduit and led down the mountain sidA to irrigate the orchards groves in Ban Bernardino valley. —Albert Perry and Minn Emma Moyer, of Perry, Okie., desiring to bn married were unable to crone a creek swollen by tbe rains, on the other side of which the minister lived, so they went to the edge of the bank while the minister stood on the opposite bank and shouted the service at them. paper. —Edward Walsh, for 33 years a po liceman at St. Louis, died recently wish the record of never hnvtng once been brought before the polios board and was never known to draw a revol ver or billy in making an arrest. Ynt he walked one of the rowdiest wards of the oity. —Tnere are to be no docked horses Ie Colorado. A law has been passed making It unlawfnl to Import any horses with docked tails, as well as Illegal for a horse owner to so mutilate any animals bs owns. A linn of not less than $100, or thirty days’ imprison ment, in the penalty. —The wife of a Wellington, Mo., farmer dropped an earring ehlie feed ing her chickens Inst week, and the jewel was quickly gobbled np by oae of tbe fowl#. Unsble to pick out the pertloqlar chicken, she killed them all, one by one—twenty-seven la number— but failed to recover the earring. Then •be began to look around and dlnoover- ed It In the gram where the old hen had dropped It. —RepreseoUlire Lacey, of Iowa, In troduced a bill la the last Congress end secured it* passage through House, enlarging the scope of United States fish oommlmloo’s so ee to include the propagation aad protection of game birds. Ha will re peat hie effort# la that lias thin wlatar. There Is some doubt whether game birds oould be ae well loosed after la this way an fish, although a govnra- meat b.rd commission oould doubtlnm do something, and might preveatthe Introduction of uadnnlrabln blrdn. Tha department of agriculture ban aoi yet expressed publicly aa oplaloa as to tha merits of Mr. Looey's bill. _ _ 4P Benefit or Wide Turn.—The following paragraph from a raoaat bulletin of the agricultural deperv meot ought to be kept la sight: " Wide tires are road-makers; they roll and harden the surface, and ovary loaded wagon becomes in effect a road roller. Nothing so much toads to tbe improving of a road as tha ooetlaaed rolling of its surface. Toots raoaatiy made at the experiment stetioos la Utah and Missouri show that wide tires not only improve the surface of roada, but that under ordinary nI rerunstnnoee less power Is required to pull a wagoa on whloh wide tires are used.” ♦ « n m t m i h I'H-miihki Enveloped ' In flystery The tap, tap at midnight when the house is otherwise wrapped in silence rivets the attention of the startled hearer. It is mysteriooA therefore interesting. That - is why detective storiee are so fascinating. Thera la always an element of mya> tery and to clear it up in the object of the story. 7 I THE IVORY QUEEN By Norman Horst is on# of the moat 1 ing detective atoriee penned. The aoene ^ laid In A suburb of Chicago amd the tale ia America# Ik every way. It la foQ of om- ettement amd la told. Wa have tha aerial rights the ' it ta tWa Watch lor The Rrst