Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LOVE AT' LONG RANGE. Cbarh • O'Mipr* wm an operator In IT.w Ycrkoa^ne tide of a quadra- piexed wire raining to Chicago. The operator on th* corresponding aide in Cntcago was Miaa Amy Davidaon. Both were expert, and the manner in which they kept their meaaage hooka clear eXoiteA the admiration of their, cbiefa In taeir respective offices. O'Meara waa a handsome and intelli- gipt g#«hig Irishman, with jet black han 1 lad muataohe and great, soulful biue eyes—oae of the kind of men who seem almost unconsciously to possess the power of fascination over women. After having worked the wire to gether a few months O’Meara and Miss Davidson became well acquainted». although, of course, neither nad ever seen toe other. They had abundant opportunities for conversation In the early morning before the rush of busi ness of the day began and in the late afternoon when the rush was over. There is sort of telepathy in tele graphy, as ail telegraphers admit, and tneir uertainly was In this case. Lung before any word of love had passed be tween them each had become conscious of a tender regard for the other. O'Meara could recognise In an Instant toe touch of a strange hand on the key in Chicago, and Miss Davidson was as quickly conscious of the change when any other than O Meara’s band manip ulated the transmitter in New York. There is as much that Is distinctly characteristic In the manner In wblcn telegraphers form the do s and dashes as there is in the manifold forms of cbirography. • One morning Amy complained of feeling ill. *1 am afraid,” she said, ‘ that I will have to give up and so home. I would do so surely If 1 could afford to lose the time. My headaches dreadfully. Dear me! What would my mothtr and sister oo If I should be come really tick V They have no one to take care of them but me.” There was a tremulousness In the dots and dashes which plainly indi cated to Q Meara that the girl, a thou- »and miles away, was weeping softly, as indeed she was, with her band rest ing wearily against the resonator con laming the sounder. He replied : "Try te-ntlek it out to-dny, dear. We will take It eesy, and perhaps you wifi feel better by to-morrow. At eoy rate, don’t worry. ’ It was the first time ha bad used any term of endearment in their loter- c jurse. and she was very much affected But she brightened up a tittle and managed to struggle through the day's worm. Neil morning O'Meara found a strange operator at tba Chicago end of tha wire,and wbao he Inquired for Miss Davldnon be was told that she was ! vary Ul. Tba poor fellow raalissd now, if he never bad before, that be w»« deeply In love with n woman he had nevar seen. He became sc fretful aed Irritable as to excite comment among tba others In tbe office. *• Wbat on earlb la tbe matter with O'Meara ' aaked cup of tbe operators on tbe opposite side of tbe “quad V of tbe mao who sat at tha next Inslru meat. “ 1 guest he's in love with that Chicago girl who is tick,'' was the | reply. • Oae morning the answer made by i the Chicago operator to O’Meara's la- i quiry as to Miss Davidson's coodltioo codlained but one word—" Dead !" O’Meara uttered a klad of moan, and bit head fall upon bis desk. When one u( the chieit arobned him, he found ! the young man's face flushed and his ! eyes bloodshot. O'Meara was seat home, where he remained for weeks' suffering from a severe attack of brain > (ever. When at last-be bad recovered and returned to the office to report for duty, tbe chief told him to take his usual teat at the Chicago quadruple!. 'If you'd just as lief give me another I'd ^rather bare it,” O'Meara "They told me you were-dead, aid I believed it. The shock nearly killed me.” • "It was meialy a rumor, I’m happy to say, but when 1 came back to work I was greatly depressed at hearing you were so ill. Now wb will both be well and happy again.” "I will never be thoroughly hippy my darling,” O'Mearn replied, “ until you nfe my wife. I nm coming out there soon to claim you. May I i*” “ Diar me I How can you with to marry a girl whom you have never •een ?" > This was another Instant of tremu lousness In transmission. " That’s all right,” O'Meara said. “ I’m willing to risk It if you are. I’ve known and loved you n long time; evou If I haven’t seen you. Can I come for you ?” ‘ I gsay be ao homely that when you see me you may be terribly, disap pointed. I may have red hair and frecklea, a east in my eye and a terri ble faumoon my back. Could you stand all that ?” “Yes,” replied O'Meara, “If you could stand my bald bead and red nose. 1 ' There waa more of th<a pleasantry, and then Miss Davidson seriously agreed to marry her distant lover. After many more conversations on the wire It was agreed that Miss Davidson and O’Meara should meet at a half way point, Pittsburg being finally selected, where they should be mar ried. Tmi course was chosen in tbe hope that the coosummation of their peculiar courtship could be accomplish ed secretly, thus avoiding tbe good natured, but embarrasslcg chaffing of of tbelr fellow operators. ■ But that wire oo which they made tbelr arrangements ran through tbe Pittsburg officer where there were automatic repeating instruments. Ao operator standing beside tbe repeaters one day overheard tbe final arrange ments, beard tbe description each gave.'he other by wblsh to insure identification at tbe depot, and tola alt about it to tbe PitUburg operators, | who thereupon determiaeu to make 1 the occasion of the wedding loterest- [lag. A committee was appointed to t watch tbe meeting of tbe couple and j to prepare for a reception. O’Meara arrived at Pittsburg a day ! ahead of Misa Davidson, as bad been agreed upon, and was at tbe station on ' the following day when her tra'n I pulled up from tbe west. His heart | waa beating wildly as be scanned tbe , alighting paMOQgers, »n<J be wm too > preoccupied to notice that he was j being watched by half a dozen young men. Nor did bq notice that be wm ob- | served closely oy a tall, bronze haired • and decidedly handsome young woman who bad alighted from a Pullman car j and was standing la tbe shadow of a baggage truck loaded witb Iruoks. ' There wm a smile oe the young wo man's face m she finally stepped for ; ward and touched O Meara oo the I shoulder. “ How d’ye do.-Cbarlle she said. “Are you realy Amy?” he cried, grasping her outstretched hands-la both of bis. “You told me to look out | for a short, cuny hatreo girl, with a | limp in her left foot, and 1 gave you an accurate description of myself.” “Natso very nocurate, though,” she laughingly replied “You didn’t toil me half bow good looking you are." it wm evident to the walchors, who now came forward, that they were pretty vail satisfied with each other. The committee introduced themselves and announced that the couple were to be conducted forthwith to a hotel, where, at 8 o’clock that evening, they were to be married. This arrange meet wm carried out, and during tbe evening the PitUburg operators and their wives ard daughters attended tbe wedding reception and supper at the hotel. LADYSMITH It Will be Known on Hlatorj’s Paxes as Tbe Scene of tbe Greatest Hero ism of Modern Times. Whlls walking along the street not long ago your correspondent accident ally heard a young man say to his elderly companion. 'It Is a good thing that these wars break .out occasion ally ; they make people read more and then learn facU about foreign coun tries that they bad never beard of be fore.” This Is true, to a certain extent, of Ladysmith, Natal, for there is prob ably no city in tbe world the name of which Is so frequently seen in the col umns of tbe dally newspapers, yet about which there is so little known outside of tbe fact that for tbe past few months it bas been the base of General White's operations in South Africa. We hear of Kimberly because of Us mines, and of Durban because It is an important African seaport; but until recently little bM been written about Ladysmith. ^ .. . . There Is a pretty bit of romance at tached to the origin of tbe name Lady smith. Ottweveplag, many years ago, during tbe Peninsuiar war, two young English tffleers were visited by two young and beautiful Spanish girls of good family who begged protection from the dangers to which war exposed them. , Tbe officers, being naturally gallant, which accomplishment wm probably quickened by the extraordinary beauty of tbe two refugees, secured them tbe protedtion and shortly afterward Sir Harry Smitb, one of tbe officers, fell desperately In love with one of the young ladies and made her bis wife. -Suosfquent events made Sir Harry figure conspicuously in tbe affairs of tbe growing little town and when it came time for tbe place to be officially recorded tbe village was called Lady Smith in honor of the wife of the gal lant Sir Harry Smith. Ladysmith Is one of the most Impor tant towns In Natal, it Is situated in tne midst of a rich wool district and hM a dry and bracing air that Is very deTTglitfllt Ml eterarioa » several thousand feet above tbe level of tbe sea, and tbe border of beautiful hills which Forxsts to Prevent Floods.—Tlrt ¥ with Chicago aay more. There was a twinkle in the eye of the chief as he said : “You* used to do some fioe work on that Chicago * Ire.'" •* Perhaps to.” O'Meara replied •adly, “ but I bad a fine operator to work with." “ WelV* said the chief, “ that’s a fine operator there yet—the same one, I believe, tnat was there before. " "That cannot be—for she Is dead This with a great sob. “ I think you had better return to tbe old wire, tor the present at least,” the chief said. ” Thao, if you are not satisfied, I will transfer you to some other circuit.” O'Meara walked slowly oyer to his old place to relieve the man who was at that moment r< oeivlog some mes sages from Chicago. As be neared the insirument and heard the characters coming with a dearly loved and faml liar sound, his heart almost stopped beaming to overwhelming was the surge of emotion. He listened a moment until at the beginning of another mea- •age came tbe signal of the sending operator* “ A. D.” “ Who, In heaven’s name, Is there in Chicago,”' be almost sboutei,' "that dares to sign ‘A. D.?’" “ Amy Dfividson* of course,” was his friend’s reply. "Don’t trifle with me,” O Meara cried- “ Amy Davidson Is dead !” “l$ot Jiy a long shot,' 1 said the opera- ,tor, making way for O’Meara. “It •■was only a rumor that some chuckle headed ass accepted as a fact. Sbe-baa been back at work for two weeks or more. From the manner in which sfie bas Inquired about you every day 1 should Imagine tbatahe takes an In tereet in you.” When be sat down before the In strument, . his hand trembled so that be could soaroely form the dots and dashes to ask : ” “i» that reaUy yon, Amy?” Ha gave his own signal, "O. M.” “ Yes,. Charlie, and I’m so glad you »re well again.” Her reply waa as fluttering as his questloo had been tremulous '. „ Borne of tba operators in the New York office wondered at seeiag a young maa sitting at an Instrument with tears of joy streaming down his face, white la tha Chicago office there waa earprlae because a gin waa crying and smiling at tha same time. When ha recovered his aqutaimity, O’Meara said i tfitl*' CORPORATION TOWN. la Absolute Rnler Private Owner- Where One Man and There la on •hip. / v * Springfield Republican. Probably the most remarkable town in the United States is Falser, S. C. Though a flourishing, progressive bus iness centre, with a population of over 6.000, it bas no city government, .no councils, no mayor and no police. In spite of this extraordinary condition of affairs, tbe city bas the reputation of being one of the' belt regulated cities Id tbe country. It bas been in ex istence 17 years, and presents oae of tbe most Interesting phases of study of the municipal problem that ever confronted the student. It has no newspaper, oo courts, no lawyers, oo saloons, no theatres, no politicians, and in tbe ert re population of G OOD not one face Is black. There is no private ownership, everything in the city, land, buildings and manufactur ing industries belonging exclusively to tbe great corporation which establish ed tbe town. In its entire history there hat never beeu a single murder committed, and tbe city baa never ex perienced a strike or any kind of labor disturbance. Tbe antecedents of all persons coming into the town m re sidents *nd employes are carefulif In vestigated, and only those bearing un tarnished reputations are permitted to remain.- Tbe town has several fine schools, there are a free circulating library and reading rooms, which are free to every resident. The citizens are Industrious and thrifty, and in tbe only bank of tbe town have Invested over $1UO,OQO of their savings. One man has supreme authority over tbe entire town and its Inhabi tants. This man Is the president of tbe comuanv which founded and owns tbe IoijHd —Edison A. Smytb. When Interviewed for tbe Mail and Express recently, Mr. Smytb remarked : "Our sy.tern d^es away witb all tba evils of politics and office seeking. Of course, you might argue that ll vesta •.great deal of power In the hands of one man aod that the abuse of this au thority might result In daagwrous con ditions. Tire re Is a certain element of truth In that, but w« have been living \ ISITB .*T CANTON. BAS KNOWN PLACE LONG TIME. He Telle About the Proeperlty of the People—He Onoe Made A Trip to Canton on Horse beck Which Ha Will Never Forget. A * It- looks like every township aod county and section has got something peculiar to Ueelf that ^valuable for human purposes and helps to sustain the people and make them prosperous. I was ruminating about thin because I have just visited Canton, a small re tired village of 2 000 people. I have known Canton for fifty years and have the a good reason for remembering it. Boon after 1 was married my father-in- law, Judge Hutchins, asked me to ride over there and deliver some important legal oapers to the clerk of the court. ... under this system for 17 years aod our partly surrounds tbe city she ter. It to clly U one of tbe best governed In tbe a great extent from severe winds tael. n..- «in.—. . great unobstructed, might damage to tbe city. Tbe greatest danger that befalls the district from climatic conditions comes during the rainy season. Ladysmith Is situated, M it were, oe a tongue of land which protrudes into tbe Klver Kip, a imall Innavigable body of water, which frequeally ovetflows, leaving ruin and disMler behind. These over flow* are nsuelly accompanied by ter rific thunderstorms end generally oc cur daring the rummer. Borne Idea of the disastrous results of these storms can b-t gleaned when it is mentioned that they are le striking, similarity to tbe thunderstorms and hurricanes which visit tbe coast of the West India Islands almost annually. Tbe citlacos of Ladysmith, la times of peace, are an Industrious people and tbe city boasts many public buildings and business interests, tbe latter of which are connected with tba govern ment railway which bas extensive re pair shops at Ladysmith. Tbe labab Hants, as Is generally supposed, are oot all Dutch or descendants from tbe early Hollander settlers, but are com posed almost rqually of | country. Our cltlxens ere not burden do irreperable | exorbitant taxes, neither are they compelled to mniotain useless end expensive officeholders. E/ery one in Felzer must work for a li.log, aod lime serving politicians and tboee who live* at tbe expeese of other pie give our town a wide berth, to this fact that I ascribe a great mcMure of ou- success, for 1 em firmly coovloced that.most of the lawlessness which exists in great cities proceeds directly from the pernicious Influence of the politicians. " While Pe zer Is essentially a cot ton town, this 1s not our only Industry, i Them am, besides the four great cot ton mills, an oil mill, • broom end I mattress company aod a savlags bank. | The Pelxsr manufacturing company bears all the expenses Incident to tha | operation of the city, and does all the I municipal work inquired, including lighting, tbe sanitary work and tba street cleanlpg end repairing. Eight hours Is the limit of e day’s aork, aod we keep Saturday balf-ooliday all tbe I year rouod. Our employes occupy j «ome 90U or more cottages, built for tbem by the company, aod eacb is sur- | rouudeu by a large garden. Large descendant* of | Le °a!!5 l P“ lur » "" «»l0Uined for tbe cettie, * °" n con sist of cow*, horses, sheep aod goats. Many of our citizens own tbelr own horses and vehicles. The public school system is highly efficient, end the schools em kept open ten months In a year. Tboee who .. . work at tbe mlile>*m rsquired to leave reach it* destination only by pansiog their work at some staled time eacb through Ladysmith, thus making tbe we ek H> order to receive Instruction, city quite e commercial center. Tbe Education is compulsory, aod our western branch of tbe government rail- *y»tem Includes all grades. Every natives. But them am, however, very few natives In the Immediate city. • Tbe nearest seaport town to L*dj- smith is Durban, and It Is hem that must of tbs freight for tbe eastern part of tha two Dutch Republic* is landed. From Durban the freight cen probably soon the public by ao attempt to reforest a, large portion of the Conemaugh water shed to preveor further damage from Ireshets. Tbe Johnstown Water Com pany, which coo trots 5 000 acres of mountain land, has asked tbe divLioo of forestry to devise e plan by wbteh the area can be recovered wish timber aod tbe too rapid run-off of tbe rain fall prevented. Tbe region is peculiarly liable to freshets, owing to its geological char acter and the removal of Its Umber. The noyr historic catastrophe, which swept away $)4),000,000 In property aod half as many Uvea a* the battle of Get tysburg, was but m exaggerated In- stance of many similar fljods. This tendency bas been Increased by log ging off tbe timber-mod clearing num erous farms, so that tbe rainfall flows quickly from the surface, causing high water at one time and tbe drying up of springs later. The Jbhoetbwn "Water Company has bought up many of these fayms and torn down their buildings, and how wishes to expedite tbelr return to the fomst. The tract Is In a sandstone re gion, much broken, with valleys averag ing 350 feet In depth. The timber consists of hemlock, oak, locust and asb, with soma beech and poplar. Tbe openings are from twenty to fifty acres. —Charles M- Scbwab, who is now president of the Carnegie Steel Com pany, went to work in tbe Carnegie Iron Works at Pittsburg, twenty years ago at a stake driver at a salary ot $1 a day. Today he draws a larger salary than the Presldentof the United States. He is only 37 years old. Do Yoa Need An Eleeaeto Belt? For th* past ten ‘years, Dr. J. Newton Hathaway who ie recognized as the great est of all ou? specialists, hM been perfect- practice, one which he ouuld furuilh M a part oT hl* iyileizror trWTasjm affdYrhlcTi he oould conscientiously guarantee. He now announces that be hM perfected euch a belt, which Be be'ievee to be the only perfect Mh made, it « light, hpndeome, of great power, and with new attachments, which makes it suitable for even case. Ha la prepared to furnish this bait to all J anta a ho need it and who apply to him tnmmsnt, atamsrelv nominal charge. Writ* to Dr. Hathaway to-day, telling all about vour case aod h* will wnts you about tha belt, and if you daeire tha belt will ba earn C. 0. D. fur inspection. Address,Dr. Hathaway A Co.. SJM South Broad street, ,0a bile the southern branch paesee through NewcMtle and Lang's Nek, where the British suffered to terribly In 1881. , .. Tbe most important of tbe public buildings of Ladysmith is tbe Town Hall, which Is a pretentious and sub stantial structure of Doric style. It It constructed of the blue whin-tone and white freestone typical of toe districts surrounding Ladysmith, aod surmount ing tbe ball is a tower fitted witb a clock. This clock strikes every hour, apd tbe tones of the bell are so clear and silvery that they can be beard on a perfectly still day by people labor ing In districts several miles from tbe city. Another building, prqbably le«s in teresting to violators of tbe law, is the prison, which adjoins the fort, then there are tbe.post-office, a public li brary. a court house and several ^(Lurches of the Catholic, Lutheran Dutch Reformed, Wesleyax and Con gregational denominations. At present the picturesque beauty of tbe broad level plain In tbe vicinity of Ladysmith, between the bills aod tbe town proper, U marred by the presence of thousands of white tents, and an in teresting feature of General White’s stay at Ladysmith Ijm been tbe active drilling, marching and countermarch ing that have taken place daily in the camps surrounding his headquarters. The town hall and churches are to day used as hospitals, to which are brought tbe soldiers wounded during tbe frequent skirmishes which take ‘place In tbe vicinity. Although the streets of the city are paved, tbe pavings cow are io a dan gerous condition and It is «u*y difficult to make one's way through the once beautiful avenues. The waterworks system, which wm Introduced into Ladysmith several years ago at a cost l wasio ride his fine saddle horse “Lee” end be told me where to stay all night. So I kiss ed afy pretty voung wife good- by and made an early start for tbe .$nirty five mile jonrney. I wm a good rider and Lee wm a free traveler. Up hill and down hill and on the levtl stretches he never broke his eMy pace, making about seveo miles an hour, and it wm just tweteeo’clock wheal reach ed Canton. While I wm feeding the hone aed rubbing him down 1 began to think how lonesome it would be to stay there all night and bow lonesome my young and pretty wife would be all solitary and alone by herself and no body with her to comfort her. I looked at Lee and be looked like be, too, would rather go back to where*be came from. Bo about 1 o'clock I remounted aod set bin ears towards Lawrenoeville. He seemed all right for many miles, but slacked up when a few miles from borne and we got there just m tbe fam ily were sitting down to supper. I saw my wife's smile of pleMure aod l saw, too, tbe judge’s look of surprise and dlapleMure. He rose from tbe table aod went out to look after hia favorite bone. 1 then began to reallxs that seventy miles In a day wm a long ride for a hone and tbat f had done wrong. Next morning I wm up by daybreak to look after Lae. He wm all Mght and m game a* aver. Tbe judge never said anything hard,.but be looked grieved. He, too, went out to look alter bl* horse aod when be came back said: “I reckon I bad better give you tbat bone or never let you ride him again, for If I | you are to kill.him 1 would rather be i would be youn than mine.” Tbat Is si* ; be said, and It was enough. Sometime , after that he did give him to me and i be wat tbe gamest, proudest aod beat } horse I evsr owned. Hut I never rode him seventy miles in a day aay more. 1 never think of Canton now but wbat ibe memory of that episode comes over me Wall, I would ride a hun dred miles In a day now to reach my home and my wife, but It would be oo a railroad. Canton is tbe county seat of Chero kee —a large county, tbat wm tbe hove j of tha Cherokee Indians until 1836. The name comes from Cbera, which means fire, and tbs Cherokee* were known among tbe tribes m tbe pro- ! pbeis of divine fire. There were sev eral ladlan towns In this region and tbatr chiefs were known m Stop and Cbtckeo aad Laughing 0*1. Tbs region around Canton Is rich in minerals Gold aad copper and Iron I aod marble abound In her hills. Some | of these have enriched many men aod tbe pursuit of tbem have ruined many more, but lately new processes of min ing have made the results more certain and now Northern aod English capital bM given fresh vigor to the work of digging, crushing, quarrying aod re ducing the ores ana finishing tbe mar ble. Marble work Is especially being extended aod new quarries being open- J d. I wm told only a (aw years ago udge wGober and a few , associate* ' bought a marble quarry not far away for $3 000 and were recently offered 125,000 (or it and refused It. The Geor- I gia Marble Finishing Company bM ! planted nsar tba depot very extendve rka that em^qy over 100 hands, all relations of the metals and make onra 90 to 1. They bad b >tb silver aad gold in great abundance, for Zacharlah eaith : “ They heaped qp silver m tbe the dust and gold m tbe mire in the streets.” 'And Moees salth Abraham wm rich lb silver And gold. . |, In the long ago I used to know the good people of Cantow, but they have all passed over the river. Tbe Mc Afees, McConnells, Wheelers, Grish ams, Tates, Brooks, Rusks, Mullins aud Dyers. Some of their ecus and daughters are there etlil and gave me generous welcome, aud I was pleased to pat tbelr littlo ones on the head and say be a good hoy and mind your mamma. ’ I saw the old time-honored Canton homq of Joe Brown, the place where he lived when, like Ctnclnnatus, be wm called on by a committee and in formed ihst he had been nominated (pr Governor. — Oid Joe made his start right here in ,C*ntob'teAchlng school. Years ago I met General Ira Foster and be said :- "Yes, I knew Joe’s parents before he wm born. They were very poor. His Aunt Sidney did my wMblog when I was a young mao living io Dsblonega. Jos cultivated a little patch of hillside land with a pair of bull calves ard every Saturday hau:ed something to town to sell and lake back something to the family. In 1839 I wm riding to Cantoa. in a buggy and overtook a young man walking in a very muddy lane. He bad a striped bag hanging over bis shoulder and looked tired. I asked If he would not get up and ride with me. He looked down at his shoes and said he .wm too muddy. But I In sisted and he broke off a splinter from a rail and cleaned the worst of the mud off and got io. I learned from him tbat be wm tbe same Joe Brown aod wm going to Canton to get something to do. And be did. They made him up a school and he taught It. I have kept my eye on him for t jrtv years and be 1* still a wonder to me.” As I surveyed the time-worn prem Ises I ruminated on his eventful life. How he rose and rose aod rote again and osver fall. Everything tbat MidM touched turned Into gold aad just so every political effort that Joe drown made wm a suooeea. - - ■ ■ 1 recalled bis long controversy with Bob Toombs aod how flaally he de nounced Too mb* io tbe pr*M as a liar a scoundrel and Toomb* sent a friend to Mk him If bis church rein lion* would prevent him from accept ing a challenge, and old Joe replied “Go tell him to try me,” end Toombs never sent It. 1 recalled tbe time when Henry Grady wm discussing witb Toombs tbe advantage or dlsad vantage of a young man with a colleg late education and said: “There were »ome very, great and sucoeseful men who never had anr education to speak of. There was Patrick Henry aod Henry Clay aod Tom Benton and there wm Joe Brown, who waa so poor la hie youth be bad to plow a bull. “ Plowed a - bull you say,*’ said Toombs. “ 1 never beard tbat of him, bat If It wm so you may set that down to his credit Henry, but it wm a dis grace to the bull.’' But I am planned le remember that these two great aod notable men made friends bifort.they died. Old Father Time Is a good doctor aod mellows us all down. Bill Asp. their rights aad Ubaiif, more they are praaaad tha l imous a front tbay will i “I have reed wbat is said of tha Frae State troops, I cannot believe they wiu take a different view of tha situa tion. They faal, as they d<d tbat their exlsteaoa as a Irea people will be ended if tha South Afrtcea re publics should suooaaib. Tha dbotaatea on the way to Bloemfontein are grad ually more and more aamerof serious. If the Veal river be crossed our people hate the formatioe of tbe country entirely la their favor. As J said before, arbitration has al ways been onr motto, and I think tha republics would not be everts to that rinclple still. Should Eaglahd show* erself intransigent the •fleet oa tha two republics would be aa increaslag determination to strain every aerve la defending thefr independence. Than, toc»,_the sympathies of the Dutch po pulation In South Africa would be gradually more and more aroused in our favor.” KRUGKK'a aTIRRING APPEAL. rhat Past Victories the Lard Is oa Tbelr Boers are Ready for students who manifest particular apti tude are selected 'for advanded educa tional courses. Women are furnished tbe same facilities as man. “ We have no local newspaper, and we don't want any. Oar readiqg rooms subscribe to 25 leading dallies, which are sent here from all the prominent cities and contain all the information tbat is necessary to keep our people io touch with t^p .outside world. We have no law oeurfiff because we don’t need any. Our bltizon* live in peace and friendship. They do not quarrel : they have no financial claims against b other, aod tba trifling occasional erences which occur I am able to decide myself. If we allowed one lawyer to lire here, another would soon move io to fight him, and tbe result wou'd be discord. We bave no aider- men, no courts, no municipal councils, no police. Tbe residents keep tbe peace and get along comfortably, with out them.' We have -no drunkenness- because we don’t permit liquor within the city limits, and drunkenness furnishes more than balf tbe business of a police force.” worxs ii HW8 — of them young men. eacb dine ing an slectnc belt, suitable to use in his,- .of $130,000. has been cutoff, aad opera tions la tbe more recently erected gee works have been iUip6Ud£d. There are only three hotels In tbe town, and these too are used m hos pitals, tbougb in times of peacs very satisfactory acoommodatloas can be obuined at these bostelries. There are many keaumd| spo s surrounding Ladysmith tbat wpre used for pleasure grounds, but those upon which camps are not pitched era the scenes of tha bloody combats that occur almost dally, tha aawa ot which English mothers wives and awaathaartMiwait with bit- tar aaxtety. —“The Russia,” one of the leading newspapers of St. Petersburg, has a vigorous article on the text that Eng land’s adversity Is Russia's opportuni ty. ’’ England has fettered Russia by many treaties. The moment has come to br,eak these fetters. Now is the time to pay pff old scores. Europe has many and heavy debts to settle with England. England did not scruple to torn to her own advantage Russia’s weakness after the Turkish war, so Russia should not hesitate to avail her self of the opportunity presented by s difficulties in Bouth Africa, ere Is no time to be lost. Russia must not wait for tbe promifed reor ganization of the English military sys tem. If she does her hour will have passed.and Itloo late.. , l._ —The new law requires tbat horse- shoers who want to ply their calling In Michigan must take out certificates on or before March 22, up to which date they cau register without the ex- amtaatlou that will 'hereafter be re quired. * —There is a wodban whose pastor re cently asktd after her health. -Her reply was: “I feel very waM, but! always feel bad when I feel well, be cause I know I am going to faal won# aftarwards.” _ STf . @radj A _a very courteous Boston gentleman, is tbu manager and said he wm pleased to •ay that these Georgia boys were just as ready to learn the art of working and finishing marble and just as quick and skillful as any be ever controlled. 1 watched them at work in tbe differ-' ent departments aod wm proud to see their urogress. This Is a large plant and the marble wm seen- In ail Its stages from ibe great blocks just from tbe qukkrles to the most beautiful of finished monuments and columns and building blocks. Thera were hundreds of them and were all to ffll orders prin cipally from the Nortb and EmL It takes forty-eight hours to run the gang saws through one of those huge blocks. The saws are of tbe hardest steel, out have ho teeth. They are moved rapidly by steam power and work through sand and water. Some of the men are working with mallet and chisel and ^uma 1° turning Iqthes and some are poHsfiiliff on the hol'lzon- tat planes of Immense revolving wheels that are flooded with water and sand. Everything there is up to date and la a great impruvement on the old me thods.*—“Up to date” Is new an ex pressioo that Is heard everywhere con cerning machinery. I hearl It at Ea- ■ley at the Iron and steel plants and I heard it in the cotton mills of South Uarollna. All machinery now must be up to date or it will be rejected. The pty roll to the workmen 1% this ooe marble plant is 9500 a week, and most of this U spent In Canton. Just so It is with the gold mines not far away. The gold mloing companies are making money by up to date processes and Cantoa gets a good share of that. It is now .certain that a cotton mill is to be built right awav, for an order bas beeu given for the looms and spindles, ali up to date, aud as soon as tbe sprluj opens tbe work of building tbe irlng mill He Declares Show that Ride—The Peace. A special to the London Times from Loarenzo Marquez, dated Sunday, March 4th, says persistent reporu con tinue to arrive tbat the Transvaal re public has opened nagotlatloos looking to the securing ot' peace. On tha other hand, it is asserted the Boers will make a stand at Gleoooe and Lalng’s Nak and that In the meantime en trenchments at Pretoria are being ex tended In anticipation of a siege. A :■ tep- r.nZ Jf' “ dent. It (I aaBlB. add mending the Boers in northern Natal waa hurriedly arranged on receipt of the news of General Csonja’s surrender. Until Thursday night the confirmation of the surrender wm withheld from tbe public. President Kruger sent a fervid religious appeal, with orders that it should be read by all the officers to the burghers urging them to stead fast and strive In the name of the Lord, for unlaM they had faith In Himjoow- ard ice would set in and their posi tion would be hopeless the moment they turned tbelr backs on the enemy. Their pMt victories, he declared, showed tbat the Lord wm oo their side. Tne president beseecbed tha burghers not to bring daatructloa on tneir progeny. Continuing the special says that a high authority in Bloem fontein declares that in the event of a repulse of the Free State forces, the latter will retire towards the Transvaal and unite with tbelr brethren there, maintaining the struggle to tbe la*t. The New York World bM received from its correspondent in Brussels the following signed statement from Dr. W. J. Leyds, the Tranavaal’s diplo matic agent in Europe, on the present situation and tha outlook In the Boer war: “ I never had any doubt m to Preol dent Kruger’s desire to settle matters of difference In an amioable marner. His fervent wish for arbitration, often expressed, sho vs clearly tbat be wm ready to accept an honorable, impar tial solution of all the diffloultlea. “It is perfectly sure that a proposal of iuterveatlon to stop the war oo such a recouolllatory basis would, notwith standing the advantages gained by tbe republics, find him ready. He never wanted aed does not now want war. He wants peace, but would not, and narar will, sacrifice the independence of tbe republic. “ Much bM been mads In certain THE ILLICIT BALE OF LIQUOR. President George Washington to Dsal With Moonshiners Blind Ttgsrs. Maj. Tbos. W. Woodward, of Fair- field, haa a valuable old document which Is a proclamation IsauM by Pres ident George WMhlngtoa, calling oa the officers of tha law aod good oltl- zjds to aid In suppressing the Illicit sale of liquor. Tba document is printed, apd ia in a remarkably good state of preservation. Following lathe proclamation : By the PrMldent of tbe United States. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS certain violent aad un warrantable proceedings haVtolately token pace tending to obatguct the op eration of the laws of tha United States for raising a revenue upon spir its distilled within the same, enacted pursuant to express authority date- gate In the constitution ol the United States: which proneedlnga are ant slve to good order, contrary to duty that every ol titan owes to his country nod to the taws, aad of a na ture dangerous to the vary belay of the government: And where.'* such proceedings are the more unwarrantable, by reason of tbe moderation wbloh bM heretofore been shown oo the oart of the govera- ment, and of tba disposition which hM been manifested by tha Legislators (who alone bave authority toss the operation of laws) to obviate < of objection, and to reader the laws as acceptable M possible : Aad It is tha particular duty of tha] tire “ to toko care that tha laws bn fnithfully executedand not only tbat duty, but the permanent interoate aod happiness of tha people require, that every legal aed necessary step shduld be pursued, M wall m to pro- vent such violent aod unwarraatebto proceedings, m to bring to justloa tha infractors of he laws aod sscare qbo*. dleoce thereto: Now therefore 1 Georg* WMhlng- too, President of the United States, do by these presents moat aaraestiy admonish and exhort all 1 it may concern to refr from all unlawful oombU f iroceedlngs whatsoever hariag for ob- ect or tending to obstruot the opera tion of the laws afordeald ; laaemooh ' m all lawful ways and maeM will ba strictly put In executloo for bringing to. justice the lafmotors thereof had securing obedience thereto. And 1 do moreover charge aad re quire all courts, magistrates aad offi cers whom it may oonoern, accord lag to tbe duties of their several offloea, to exert tha. powers in them respectively vested by law for tbe purposes afore said, hereby also enjolued and requtr- ng all persona whomsooror, M they tender tbe welfare of tbelr ooaotry, tba just and due authority of govern ment and tha preservation of the pub lic peace, to be abiding and Moisting •reor/r ItotB i the Seal of the Uaitei States to to affixed to these precasts, and signed the same with my baad. Done Mils fifteenth dny of September,In the year of our Lord ooe thousand seveo hua- dred and ninety-two, and Of tha Inde pendence of the United Stetet t seventeenth. GO. WASHINOWnt By tbe President. Th. Jjefpkbson. . The KBeley Cure Inventor.—Dr. Leslie E. Keeley, toe inventor of tha’ Keeler cure for drunkenness, who died in California the other day, waa a na tive of New York State. Hia youth wm spent in Michigan, whaooa he came to Cl' oal Colic then ml army m surgeon during the civil war. Late la 1866 he moved to Dwight, where for thirteen year* he pttrst a lucrative medical practice. Early in his career m physician he ooooefved the idea that inebriety wm a disease of nervous origin aod wm curable. For several years he worked on this the ory, and eventually betas a system of treatment on patients at Dwight with the “ doable chloride of gold Md so dium.” At his Institute he treated people suffering from' the drink, co caine, cigarette and other habits. Of bis patients abac 17,000 were physiol- ans. It ia estimated that about 4 per cent, return to drink. The aystea con- sit ta of four weeks* treatment of hypo dermic injections of the gold cure given fenr times daily, together with a tonic which la taken from time to time. A Keeley League was formed of tha “ graduates ” of the cure, of which there were more than 30,000 mem tors. o Chicngo to attend Rush liadl- lege. He graduated in 1861 and •nllsted in the United States war. IIL, sued will begin. Mining- for gold and siivar..&~ L quarters of General Crooje’a capUuie- reokon, tbe oldest industry In the world outside of agriculture. Moaea tells us that in the Garden of Edea there wm gold, and It wm good. Gold and silver very soon began to bea bimetallic our- reucy. Abraham bought a burying gronnd with 400 shekels of silver that wm current money with the merchant aad it wm remarkable that a silver shakel was worth 60 cents and a geld •hekel worth $10. That taent very far from 16 to I. Maybe wa had fall back on lion. Crooje is one of our finest gen erals and his loss will certainly be felt, but tbere are others. Experience bM shown what generals like Joub^rt, Meyer, Dewet, Delarey and Botha oaa do. Most ot them are mea who on during this war bave token uomm of oar forces. They came forw the spur of the moment. — John Campbell, of Warren, Ohio, a first cousin of the Preefdeat, aad fam iliarly referred to aa “.Untie j ‘ A candidate for poetmaeter nt 1 He ia the proprietor of a f house and ia said to beer a i close resemblance to the 1 HU father w deat a mother.