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THE OREENYI^B MOONSHINER. DULL HE LOOKS. Opportunities to Study Him at the Uultad States Court—He Speaks a Langusge Aboundinic in Words Prortng HU EoKliah Descent. Special to the New York Times. Greenville, 8. 0. March 3.—The United States court (or the district of South Carolina, .which meets here three times a year, affords a fine op- ' portuaity to study the genus moon shiner. The makers of blockade whis key are everywhere in evidence. Thev lounge awk wardly.on the benches of the court room ; they restlessly pace the corridors ; they throng the sidewalks and sit on the curbstones, chewing to bacco and discussing the proceedings of the court. The vacant lots of the town are fult of their wagons, one and two horse vehicles, sometimes" canvas-covered. Beside each wagon stands a bony mule or horse, or a patient and soyaggy little steer, munching fodder and "shucks,” and lazily whisking his tail at the flies. Some of the wagons con tain the wives and babies of the owners and among the wheels one sees many hounds and gaunt, nondescript curs, dozing In the snade. - The moun taineer is independent of hotels. When he has a journey like this to make he takes his family along, sleeps in his wagon, and does his cooking lu primi tive fashion on the ground. The moonshiner of the mountain re gion of North Carolina, South Caro lina, Georgia and Tennessee is a type found nowhere else, which has been well studied by Charles Egbert Crad dock and a few of the .-bort story writers, but which still passesses for lovers of the picturesque an unfailing attraction. To the s’.ranger he appears at first glance a very ordinary individ ual. Be Is generally long, lean, slow of speech, mild in manner, rough in dress and deportment, and apparently dull in intellect. But once bis con-'’ fldence Is gained, he proves to be an interesting character, lu his bumble home, which u asuslly a d«ubU-room foog cabin, he is industrious, fairly honest, kind to his wife and cnildreo, and aometlmet .deeply religious, fond of music and dancing, and bis conver sation is by no means dull. The stu dent of language will be delighted with bis quaint speech, abounding as It does, in archaic and obsolete words banded down without the aid of books or manuscripU, and so near'y for gotten elsewhere that even English philologists sometimes fail into the er ror of classing them as American pro vincialisms. Nearly always his tur name thews'him am an to be of share of the proceeds when he regain ed hia liberty. At the next term of court he would appear as a witness, while one olJkl* fellow conspirators took his placet ta the prisoner’s dock, and the work went merrily on. It Is thought that this method of swindling th# government has now been largely checked, but many hnignificant cases still consume the time of the courts and increase theij^expenses. In ihe court rdbm the moonshiner does not appear to ad vantage. Here, unless something of unusual interest Is goirg on, the scene is dull enough. Tne day is' warm and many of the spectators are dozing in their seats. The lawyers, the jurors, and the wit nesses look not and tired. Only the defendant in the prisoner's box is wideawake and anxious. As the wit nesses take the stand one may find some Interest in noting their peculia- a e titles of dress and speech. Many of ( ' yae the men wear no coats, their only gar ments being a shirt of "hickory stripe” and a pair of homespun jean trousers— " copperas breechesin the mountain vernacular. Some of the younger ones are barefooted. The women one sees are unattractive, sallow, wrinkled and bent with hard labor at the plow, the boe, and the loom. Even among the girls, a rosy, blooming face is sel dom seen. , As a rule the witnesses are cool and self possessed. They may be ignorant, -but they do not lack sense and shrewdness. Next to living with him in his home, the best way to study the mountaineer is to visit him in jail, after tbe court has adjourned and bis friends have gone home. He Is then much more ready to respond to advances from straegers and to answer the questions of the curious. At first, however, he is .suspicious and reticent; but once convinced that ycu are actuated mere ly by scientific . curiosity and that you are not a secret emissary of the de spised "revenues” be will be perfectly willing to talk. Tbe Greenville jail is strongly built of huge blocks of Kentucky limestone. The cells are cloeed with steel grst> : logs drawn across the doorways by means of a screw and a crank operated from tbe outside. Tbe only windows are narrow slits In the wall, covered with heavy wire. netting. After e session of the court the building is crowded. Prisoners are there await ing the transportation to other county jails, and there are generally five or •ix, whose sentences exceed one year’s imprisonment, and who will be sent to the <->ujo state penitentiary at Colum bus. Tnis is wbat tbe mountaineer dreads. A few months in the home jell, where he can see his family and Irle&ds and receive from them sup piles of food, clothing and tobacco, is very sick, jeot a few when the exercises of two of over the 100 miles, his time in-the jail In Atlanta when be heard that his baby at home was He brooded over the sub days and then one morning, prisoners were taking their in the yard, made a ladder his companions and went wall. After walking oyer he reached home, only to find that the baby had been burled the day before his arrival. He again set out for Atlanta, and. in a few days knocked at the door of the jail, ask ing to be readmitted and excusing his unceremonious departure on the round that when he thought of his by and its mother there in the moun tain home alone and helpless, he "jest had to go.” GEN. UKANT AND THE BUTCHER. tor Conkling’s Decision ^bont e Value ofa Fast Trotting Horae. When Gen. Grant was president be was fond of fine horses, as everybody knows, and drove the fastest trotter in Washington. It was his greatest plea sure to go out on the aqueduct road, which is a dead level from Georgetown to Cabin John Bridge, and let his horse out to its full speed. People who knew his habits used to go out there sunny afternoons for the novelty of seeing tbe president of tbe United States driving at a 2:30 gait. But a butcher in Wash ington hmi a-horse that ftould beat the president's, and very often be appeared on the road to show his animal’s speed and annoy the president.' de would hang around at the end of the aqueduct bridge until tbe president’s light bug gy and stylish stepper bad passed, and would follow them until he reached a wide place in the road. Then he would let his horse out, and tbe butcher’s cart would go bounding along until he bad thrown dust in the president’s eyes for awhile, when he would slacken up and let Gen. Grant go by only to pass him again and again as often as he pleased, without the slightest regard for the pride or the office of tbe chief magis trate of this great nation. Gen. Grant was a very patient, self- contained man, but I doubt if anything that ever occurred in his life annoyed him so much as that butcher. He was compelled to abaodoh the road which runs along the top of tbe tunnel that brings the wateV from tbe upper Poto mac to Washington and heek other drives in order to avoid bis tormentor, but the villain still pursued him, and used to hang around LaFayette square in his oul butcher’s cart so that he could follow tbe president in any dt rectloo be might take. Finally Gen Grant took Col. Condit Smith into hit confidence act! asked him to negotiate descent, and he has preserved U nlm- • . ,ou ™7 tbe aihor quietly for the purchase of tbe horse, moment, but a trip which was accomplished for THE GOLD CURE WAS DISCOVERED. THE LATE DR. LESLIE E. KSELEY. The Discoverer of the Famous Rein cdy for tbe Drink Habit—A Sketch of Hie Remai kable Ltle. The discovery of the gold cure for the liquor habit won a world-wide re putation (of Dr. Leslie E. Keeley, who died a lew weeks ago in Lpe Angeles, Cal., where he had built a winter home. For many years he had been a sufferer, and heart disease Is stated to have been the cause of hit death. Leslie E. Keeley was born in Pots dam, N. Y„ In 1832. His father was an old-fashioned country doctor, but a man of wide reading and full of eccen tricities. Leslie was sent to school, and was regarded as an apt scholar, but iVwas his custom as a child, when school*hours ended, to hurry to the vil lage tavern, where the arrival of the stage coach was alwavs awaited by a crowd of villagers. The driver would pull up his team, throw his reins to an obsequious hostler, and hurry Into the barroom. Young Keeley would follow, and, with tbe crowd which attended, listened with open ears to the news which he oracularly doled out. The stage driver was young Leslie Keeley’s hero, but one night his nu merous admirers Invited him to the bar too frequently, and bis steps were uncertain. The great stage dfiver sank down on (he ground, and wept into a stertorous sleep. Keeley watched him until morning. From that night tbe boy bad a sort of mania to watch all men wbo were addicted to drink, and it is related of him that night after night he would follow and care for tbe villagers and visitors wbo drank too hard. He was laughed at, but he stored iip the various charac teristics of the drinking men and the apparent effects which liquor had on them. W Pen the boy grew to young man hood, having earned a little money, he came West and added to bla experience by a residence in New Orleans and sev- tbe Missouri and Mlssls- eral trips up . _ Sippi/iver*. li» camu u> Cniuagu auU , aod lA (BwlUerlapd entered as a student in Kush Medical work has also bae Ing men of drunkenness. The Tribune sent a reporter. He came home and wrote up what he bad learned. Mr. Medlll was not convinced and he sent another reporter. Dr. Keeley said to him : V ■ - ■ ■' r " Please tell Mr. Medlll to send me six of the worst drunkards he can find, and in three days I will sober them up and in four weeks I will send them back to Ctloago.sober men ; and, un less of their "own volition, they will never seek liquor. At any rate, they , , . _ w will never HiYi need or necessity «orlal of O. M therefor.” other citizens of The challenge was accepted and the six men were sent. The general suc cess of bit experiment was exploited in The Tribune and Dr. Keeley re garded this as having much to do with the success of the Keeley movement.* Other newspapers took up the move ment also and exploited it. In 1891 Dr. Keeley visited Eirope. Luther Ltflln Mills spoke at a meet ing in London, at which Canon Farrar presided, and the result was the open ing of tbe Keeley institute of London with Dr. Oscar C. De Wolf, for many years health commissioner of Chicago, as the president. It has since been in creased In its influence and prosperity. Dr. Keeley held that his work was like Pasteurs and inquired an educa tion of tbote who administered it—that la fact it was a now school of medi cine. But he yielded to the arguments of his friends and allowed Keeley in stitutes to be opened in various parts of the United States, It, however, being a sine qua non that tbe physician in charge must be a regular graduate of an accredited medical college and must prior to bis appointment as a Keeley physician take a course of instruction at Dwight and pats an examination be fore receiving bis credentials. Five States have passed laws recognising tbe Keely treatment and providing for State aid to Ikoee unable to secure it for themselves. There are local insti tutes in fourteen States where pbyil* claus educated at Dwight' are ia charge. Dr. Keeley was recognized by the State university of Missouri in 1882 by the conferring of the degree of LL D , and. France, his sen recognised-* He The Massachusetts Senator Presented a Negro Petition ItMmltlog to the South Caroline Senator. In the Congressional Record we find the following official report of an Is* cldent in the Senate, which Is likely to be.ome famous as another clash be tween Massachusetts and South Caro lina. Mr. Hoar said : " Mr. President, I present the me- Atwood, M, D., and the U n l tecpRfcates—i suppose colored citizens—complaining of the language used In regard to their race on the floor of the Senate by the Senator from South Carolina [Mr. Till maoj, and praying that the Senate will he tide of now The Istfajrette oognlmed ae Good Pew tradespeople are yet asqi with the new dollar, jast out of the United States mint, known M the La- United States mint, koowa «• the La fayette dollar. This unique ooia, which sells for 12, aad which will te ar paired tbe old English passloants love of personal freedom and of homt;, and his unquestionable right to defend the latter, ever against tbe powers that eldeiof tbe world. He has known men to go there and die—the free spirit of the mountain men oenoat stand long confinement, steady work, and the be. He Is English also in bis readines. rWcors.ol a Northern climate. Pneumo- to resent an Insult, and though he may or consumption is apt to liberate lie occasionally, it Is never safe to in- Iw* 111 before his time expiree, form him of tbe feet. j Someellmes, however, it happens The moonshiner has a great respect that death and justice are both cheated, for the law—with a few Important res- I One of the most noted moonshiners in ervatioos. Ail the statute books in existence cannot persuade him that be has not a perfect right to make hie corn into whiskey and to sell It with out Interference in tbe thape of re venue taxes end deputy marshals. This view of tbe matter, as explained by himself, is quite simple : Besides e few vegetables and fruits, corn is the only crop he can raise with bis slow ox or steer on the few spots of arable lend belonging to him. This he can •ell for 50 cents per bushel after haul ing It from 15 to 40 miles over tbe worst roads in. the world. The same bushel of corn will make tbre-s gallons of whiskey, which is easily trans ported. and for which, If he is success ful In dodging the " revenues,” he will receive from three to five dollars. Tbe lews against murder end man South Carolina, and one who was Im plicated in the killing of several offi cers, was sent up to Columbus for li:e After two or.lhrei years’ imprison ment it wa» thought (bet he was dying with consumption, and tbe president pardoned him in order that he might die at home. That was ten or taeive years ago. But today Major Redmond, “ l mi bale and sound, is stilt mating whit- key ia a licensed distillery in Wal halla, a little mountain loan in South Carolina. A famous brand of " moun tain dew ” Is sold under his name, and Ills lithograph portrait adorns the heads of the barrels. From tbe outside of the jell the visi tor cen see the sed ebd wistful feces - of the prisoners pressed against the netting of the narrow windows, and here he will sometimes meet their ho have come to converse become too inquisitive, when a neigh bor turns'intormer and reveals to other officers the oiding place of a ‘‘still,” and oocas ion ally even when a stranger, whose business Is not plainly evident and legitimate according to mountain ideas, ventures too .far into the highlands. Long experience with officers of the law, and with tbe dis guises assumed by them has rendered tbe mountaineer very suspicious. A stranger on tbe mountain roadsls close ly and constantly watched. By an in- gec.ious system of signalling—a sort of wireless telegraphy—his coming is heralded far before him ; and If he seems too curious, or if chance leads him too near to some rude distillery concealed in a ravine, he may be quiet-. ly "abolished,” and his friends will never hear of him again. In tbe ethics of the mountain region no disgrace at taches to imprisonment for any of these offenses. Most of tbe men in every old moonsbinlng district have been in jali for one or more short terms, but no one looks down on his neighbor on this account. Like sickness and death, it is simply a misfortune to which all are liable. Besides the manufacture and sfcle of blockade whiskey, the mountaineer has one other Important source of income —the treasury of the United States. Considering the trouble ana risk to which he is subjected by the Impor tunities of government agents, he thinks himself fully justified in draw ing from tbe government all the money he can get bla hands on. Often, there fore, he becomes a professional wit ness. One dollar and a half aAday, with mileage, Is no small ma)tm* to the man who barely sees more than 1100 or $200 In a year. t It wm said a few years ago that treat abuses had arisen In the United >tes courts of the Southertt afoun- tatn region from this source. A num ber of men having united In a con spiracy to defraud the government, one of the number would be reported . for some, ffljfoor ...jlgletlon of the re venue laws, tha^est summoned as wlt- 'nesses, and eveoprben tbe case went no further than the grand jury there was money for ell. If it oeme to trial an acquittal was the usual result, and tbe amount received by the conspirators was large. But, the ways of a jury being mysterious, in rare Instances the defendant wa# convicted In each an event, he cheerfully served his two or three months In jail, receiving bis Tbe next morning Senator Conkilng sod Senator Jones, of Nevads, were in vtted to inspect tbe wonderful animal, aad accompanied Gen. Grant to tbe White Bouse stabies just south of tbe state department. Senator Jones de clined to express an opinion as to the merits of the animal. He •aid that he claimed to kuow all about mines, out had never set up as an expert on horses: but Mr Cockling wbo probably knew less, pretended to exemioe tbe animal with great care. He looked at his feel and twisted his tali; he inspected bis hoofs minutely, gazed steadily for sev eral moments into tils eyes, rubbed his* legs with a knowing air, and finally, turning to Gen. Grant, remarked, with an air of judicial authority : *• Imighty fine horse, Mr. fresi- ^t 1 would rather have the •5oo.” : 5 ‘ Thnt s exactly said-,” retorted Gen. what the Gmnt. butcher on the lower floor the grating has been cut with n file, leaving an opening large enough to admit a-hand and a pint bottle of whiskey or other small article, and the priaoners find It a great coovenlepce. In return, for the favor of their conversation they some times ask the " outsider ” for tobacco, whiskey or newspapers, or request him to write letters for them to wives, friends, and sweethearts at home. Here, It may be remarked, is one of tbe few places where one may hear the "we ’uns” and "you ’uns” so often quoted by writers of alleged Southern dialect. The jail has its traditions, and these are known to all tbe mountaineers. It is so strongly built that nothing short of dynamite could effect an exit, but yet there have been prisoners who es caped. Tbe most noted of these was " Little Bill ” Howard. He was a stupid young’ fellow, of medium size, rough In manner, and surly in speech, and no one supposed-him capable of planning to escape os he did. His story It only one exemplification of tbe truth, which officers of the law fully recognize, that the mountulceer is not such a fool as he looks. Howard was covicted of the murder of a man named Ross, who was sup posed to be ao informer, and was sen tenced to be hanged. He made his escape only a few weeks before the Mme set fur bla execution. It is, or was, a custom In Greenville to permit the wives of ^prisoners to visit them In jail and sometimes to spend the night. On this occasion Howard’s wife, a stout young woman, was brought by her fatber-iu law to spend a day and night in j ill with her husband. Ashe lived thirty miles up the mountains, the old mat) wished to start home very early in tbe morning. So befofe it was fairly daylight the old j slier was called up to let out Mrs. Howard! He did so, as he supposed, but on enter ing tbe jslla few hours later he was astonished to 'find Mrs. Howard, dressed in her husband's clothes, la the cell and the condemned man gone. Not knowing what else to do with her, the authorities later In tht day re leased Mrs. Howard. " Little Bill " remained In hiding for a few months, but was at last cecaptu^ed, obtained a new trial, and was acquitted. A more pathetic story it told here, though the incident to which it refers occurred in Georgia. A moonshiner from the mountain region was'nerving The Farmers Ann Cotton.-•The Columbia correspondent of the News end Courier ssys: The State Alliance is to bold its an nual meeting bare on the *;uond Tues day in July. .When asked if the Alli ance was not practical y dead a promi- t member aod a leading faron ttOTMaiaii college in 1860, and was therefore In his second year when the civil war be gan. He volunteered, and as a medical cadet was assigned to duty at JcfTdrson barracks, near St. Louis. Tbe medical officers in charge were glad to have an ardent young man to relieve them. But Cadet Keeley aaakened them when he reported to them that the barracks sod the whole*camp were in such condition that ao epidemic of ty phoid fever mlght.be expected. Cadet Keeley did more. Be sent a communi cation to headquarters, and the result was a sanitary overhauling. Then Cadet v Ke«ley was made ao assistant surgeon, U. S. V., and placed in com mand as medical officer of the bar racks. Surgeon Keeley was ordered into ac tive service as a brigade medical direc tor. He arranged his staff, had Incom- petent men discharged, and organized a system of caring for the wounded hlch contained toe essence of the plan) now in use the world over. When the war was ended young Keeley returned to Rush Medical col lege. Ha was graduated in 1866 and looked fbra place to locate. Finally he decided on Dwight, Livingston County, III., and he settled down, as an all- around country doctor. He was suc cessful. For years he drove his team over the prunes and the farmers testi fy to his ability. The Chicago and Alton railroad ap pointed him division surgeon, and when tbe terrible accident near tbe Summit occurred Dr. Keeley was first at band. When tbe relief train from Chicago with a corps of physicians and surgeons appeared on tbe scene Dr. Keeley, without any real authority say? his presence, organized them Into definite anion. During was Invited to visit Turkey and Egypt, and while In Mexico received honors from President Diaz. Use of his old filends, Colonel Nate A.R»ed, thuaue scribes him : " Dr. Keeley was a born autocrat. He brooked no interference. Dad be gone upon the stage he would have had few if any superiors. He had Shake speare and tbe Bible almost at his tongue's end. The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage Invited him to speak in his tabernacle in Brooklyn a few years and lt> required two companies of o, policemen to clear the street so that tbe doctor could enter. Slmlllar throngs greeted him at Montreal and Quebec. * ” But it is not only among tbe vic tims Af alcohol and drugs that the death of Dr. Keeley will be mourned. There are many others. He was a many sided man. Be was quick to see tbe suffering and" Tret for thenT* An importunate beggar upon the street would by him be refused, and then he would turn back and beetow his alms, giving his companion nn excuse, ‘ he may be suffering.’ An article in a Chi cago paper, telling about some suffer ing family, wae sure to be followed by a letter from Dr. Keeley to his Chicago representative (o look the matter up and If it was a genuine case to re lieve it “More than •20.000 was thus expend ed by Dr. Keeley, and hundreds of men who went to Dwight heartleee, home less and penniless, were not only given free treatment, but also were given board, clothes, transportation borne, and helped to employment out of the doctor's pocket.” turn back the tide of lawlessness weakening, as the memorialists say, the respdet of the people for law and order and undermining the Constitu tion. P'•• " The memorial Is accompanied by a letter asking me to make some re marks in the Senate on the subject when It Is presented. I suppose that the rules of the Senate prohibit such remarks at the time of presenting n petition or memorial, and I have tome doubt whether a memorial complain ing of language used upon the floor of the Senate would be admitelble under our rule were It not, as In this case, accompanied by a prayer for legisla tive relief. " I move the refe<^enoe of the me morial to tbe oommittee on prlvllei and elections, and It seems to me tl when the committee report, either by any form of proposed legislation or by denying the prayer of the petitioners, then wail be the proper time for de bate. " I desire, however, to call the atton tiop of the senior Senator from South Carollla to the memorial, and I shall aik tbit, as the memorial Is very brief, it may be printed in the Record.’ There being no objection, the memo rial was referred to tne oommittee on privileges end elections end ordered to be printed to the Reoord. Mr. Hoar •u beeq eently -said . " Mr. President, 1 presented e me morial tbU morning, calling attention to the general nature of he contents end to the fc^ueat that I should dis cuss Jt, and stating tbe reason why I could.not do that upoe-Ua presentation. I asked that tbe memorial might be printed In the RAcord. 1 observe, on looking at It more carefully, that mere are some sentences in it which are, I think, contrary to the parliamentary rule, aad 1 asked that the order that the memorlel be printed In the Ksoord be rescinded." * The Washington correspondent of the News and Courier supplies the In teresting details of what took place between the presentation of the petition and the subsequent remarks of Mr. Hoar, which were doubtless ; incited by his enforced interview with Mr. Tillman. Tbe correspondent says: Senator Hoar baa iocurred the dis pleasure of Senator- Tillman by lend ing himself to a party of colored men in value In a lew years, there were only 60,000 of them tesned. Is, In nine oases oat of tea, tarand beck over every counter with the dte- datnfut remsifcr^Ht flMfbe »«ood dollar, but It don’t go here.” Ie the first place, it Is unlike ear coin the United Slates ever iaSaed. lt Is the same la size as the old silver dollar, weight as much aad has the trne ring when tossed oe a ooaatar. But It Is the first coin the govsramaat ever Issued that bat a smoky, or oxi dized appearance. On one side It bears the busts la profile of George Washington aad Lafayatte, about which Is Inscribed, " United fBlAtao of America—Lafayette dollar.” Ok the other tide Is a representation of the equestrian statue of Gen. Lafayette that Is to adorn the pedestal of tha monument to be planed la Parte. Around this statue Is' ineprlbed: " Erected by the Youth of tifUalted States In Honor of Gen. Lafayette- ■ PerU; 1900.” After •ellleg the 80,000 coins for 02 < each, the premium, amounting to Ifiu.OOO, will be glvea to the monument fund. Some nmusing incidents are related showing rebuffs to the sew dollar. "I rushed la to an elevated railway station the other day," said a bank cashier, " sod unconsciously put down a Lafay ette dollar. My train was at tha platform and I wee oa a rash to catch it. ’Oh, come off—pay your (are P shouted the ticket ageel At first 1 wee angry and Impatient. Then 1 found I had pat tp my Lafayette dol lar. The agent sooraed It. I missed my train, but saved my dollar, lor which I paid $2.’’ Id a spirit of jast oas of coins wna handed to a i*j to make a personal attack upon the ’iten Fork” Senator through e & ordered! He looked at the sola, threvrlt dowa' two or three times end saM i M Hera, barai earn# eereee. Wbat d’ya you taka ma for, aaybow f" The sense dollar wae offered to a beg gar oe Perk Row. " 1 beg year par don, sir, I am haagry aad want a law peonies to buy bread, ha said. Look- eg at the proffered dollar, the tramp’s face assumed ea ex press ioa of eeora aad resentment " deh !" ho said, lushing It beck. "Do yoa mean to nsultme Y” end the pro leading beam factor put tha dollar hack la hie I pocket. ,"My friend, IPs all I have ead I am as hard ep ao yoa are, lor It won’t pass,” he said. Tbls gentleman goffer was asked about the purchasing of fertilizers by tbe farmers this year. The privilege tax receipts already amount to almost as much tbe whole of last year’s receipts, being over tlS.OOU greater than at tbe same time last year and indicating that tbe farmers are going ahead and using as much fertilisers as ever. Tbis gentle man said that, while tbis seemed to show in cold figures that the farmers were rea'ly buying more fertilizers than usual tbis year, he did not think that they were. HA thinks it is due to tbe fadt that the farmers are buying their fertliZers very much earlier than usual, and cited the instance of a mill that bad sold out its supply as early as February this year, whereas it had not sold out last year until the lastof April He also noted that the farmers were really not paying more than tbe 10 per cent advance on last year’s price, which they agreed upon In ail their antitrust meetings. In a few instances, here add there, small farmers had been caught napping by jobbers, but as a general thing the bulk of tbe sales hftve been within the 10 per cent advance. He went on to say that there would un-‘ doubtedly be a large crop of cotton planted this year and be thought there was bound to be another season of *good prices, come what may. The South Carolina crop, however, he does not expect to be as large as the planting would indicate. He says he has never known a big crop to follow a wet win ter, such as this winter has been. in tbe Farmers Bcyino Fertilizers.— The Columbia State says that tbe farm- Carolina don’t seem be 1 rre of South inveetlgifi the effqpte of alcohol and other drugs He had convinced himself that there was nothing in the claim tbkt heredity had anything to do with either.-He believed that while a neurosis might be entailed upon descendants, they were not upon necessity liquor offdrug users. His position made a hue and cry among phytiqlaDs. Dr. Keeley’s experience in the army and in his railroad connections had convinced him- that alcoholism was a disease and could be curAQ. He began to experiment. He found that alcohol attacked' certain nerve forces. The salts of gold years/ago had been used, and he experimented with them. To an extent they were dangerous. An old farmer who had'been one of his patients for years started on one of his numerous "drunks” and tried to kill himself. He wanted to die and reviled the doctor for his resuscitation. He had drunk up the value of two farms and was rapidly making away with a third. Dr. Keeley saw his opportu nity. " Would you rather die than go on drinking ?’’asked the doctor. —There is building in Santiago^. Cuba, one of the most complete church plants to be found anywhere. It Is for the new Baptist church, recently or- ganized there, and is located in the very heart of the city. The starting of it was an old mansion, the open court of which has been atiliz&d as tbe site for an auditorium, which is wholly new. The size of the church is 50r70 feet, and the material is of brick, de corated in colors to make the^bulldiog' Cuban, and not American. Other parts of the foundation, constructed from the old mansion referred to, include-pas tor’s residence, three large school rooms, and a lawn sixty feet square, with a fountain The congregation to worship In it is m a prosperous con dition, and steadily growing In mem bership. About a dozen of its original membersVrere Immersed immediately below the famous San Juan Hill not many works after the engagement. thl8 x ’’j|nd-Dr. Keeley nod followed it with You bet.” Then take gave him a pill, three others. There was trouble, and the dose was too strong, but the old farmer survived. He saved his third farm and died long afterward a sober man. This convinced Dr. Keeley that he was on the right track. He wrote to several hundred well known physicians to ascertain what they knew about the effect! of salts of gold. A few respond- ed/and their Informptlon was meager. Dr. Keeley compounded a prescription and sent it out with a request to phy sicians to gtye it a trial. Many sent in a reply that it was a success. He then opened an institution at Dwight, late In the ’80s, and gave up bis general practice For two years he continued, but his succes-es were only -about 60 per cent. He was not satis fied, and so he closed the businea* and went to Colorado. A few months later he returned to Delght, having found by study and investigation an impove- ment on bis methpd of treatment. During the yeair 1890 he began to aa- cure public recognition, but It was not until I$91 that he really achieved promlnce. In some way It came to the ears of.Joseph Medlll, of the Chicago Tribune that a country doctor wan cur- gorOus resolutions ndt fertlli z jrs this year would indicate. It has been freely predicted since the price of cotton jumped-up that tbe State would the coming seaeon plant a larger acreage of the fleecy staple than ever, and unless figure-* count for noth ing preparations are being made for the planting of a big crop for next fall's marketing. . It has been mentioned that t£e rail roads bad not noted any falling off thla season, but there was no way here to ascertain the exact shlpmente. There are some figures available, however, that are significant. The State chargee a tax on each ton of fertilizers shipped by factories in and out of tbe State, and the tax tags have to be bought by the companies and affixed before the shipments can be made. According to the sale of these tags the farmers are either buying far more fertilizers this year than lapt, or else the factories have good reason to believe that they will. Last year the amount received from the fertilizer tax for the whole year was •66,123.88. Last year up to March 12 the State had received 010,- 393.75 of this total. This year up to March 12 the State treasurer has re ceipted for •58.775 85 worth of tags—an amount almost as large as the total for last year, and •18,382.10 larger than last year’s receipts up to this time. —The Tugela, or Startling river, across which tbe Boers and British have fought each other back and forth several times, if the longest stream In Natal, and .Is described as picturesque and magnificent. It rises on the Free State side of the Mont aux Sources, in the Drakensberg and at once leap down 1,800 feet, with a fall broken only by one or two ledges and reputed to balhe highest in the world. It then tears through a' great canon^for two miles and is joined by several rushing moun tain streams. The first Important trib utary to tbe Tugela is the Little Tuge^ la,(which flows in from the south. Then comes the Kiip river from tbe north— the>tream on which Ladysmith Is sit uated. —A new Instance of electric street railways being used for freight pur poses is found In Cleveland, where stone Is being hauled foom a quarry eight miles distant. Flltesn thousand pounds’ capacity freight oars are used and the work a one after tbe cloee of the paaeengee traffic. ^ Filch Fork” Senator through a Sena torial petition. During the morning hour In the Senate to-day Senator Hoar presented e long petition, slgeed by e number of oelored citizens, wbich severely arraigned Senator Tillman by nsme, for indecent language again*! the negro race during a recent debate In tbs Sepate. The petitioners claim that the language used by Senator Tillman was a disgrace to that honor able body, calculated to jDQrrupt the morals of all wbo associate with tbe se nior Senator from South Carolina In presenting the petition, Senator Hoar remarked that be supposed that the petitioners were citizens of the State of South Carolina. Senator Tillman was not In the Senate when the petition was pre sented, but, his etteotloa being palled to the subject, be took the petition from tbs cierk’s desk and ascertained Its contents. He found that the signers of the petition are oelored men res Id Mns| 0t 'lta< stated. With e determined expression on his face, the South Carolina Sena tor went over to call the venerable Massachusetts Senator to eocount for the somewhat questionable part he had played In tbe transaction. The conversation that passed between the two Senators wee In subdued tones, for Senator Allen, of Nebraska, was try ing to untangle his reoord on free silver, which some careless newspaper correspondent bed snarled la one of the Nebraska papers. It was easy to ob serve that Senator Tillman was angry, as he bed a right to be, and he looked end acted as If he was giving Senator Hoar a good-sized chuox of his rough- and-tumme mind. The Massachusetts Senator was evidently trying to furnish a satisfactory explanation for having presented a petition making such a violent attack upon a brother Senator, but he did not appear to be meklng e success In that direction. There was a look of trouble upon his well-bleach- ed face, and a decided flush of red passed over his countenance at Inter vals as If to puncuate the vigorous re marks Senator Tillman was making. It appears that Senator Tillman charged Senator Hoar with commit ting an act that was cot only cowardly, but beneath the lowest grade of Sena torial courtesy and dignity. Hp charged that it would have been more manly bad Senator Hoar made the attack on his personal responsibility instead of shielding himself behind a petition signed by persons unknown to the Massachusetts Senator. The in cldent passed for the time being with out any public demonstration on tbe part of Senator Tillman, but the inci dent is not regarded as closed. Tbe Cannot Bear the Light.—There Is a most latsrestlag woes being ireeled by several •osoiallsts of Philadelphia. She la a Miss Ford, of Morrlstowa, N. J., a 4a- sosadant of the Fords la Washlsgton made hie while Is that part ol New Jersey, thirty veers she has l the dl dare direct rays bright I* lighted. ’• and. of aay sveaiagn retires sort el constructed te the gas cloaked umbrella especially ward off rays of light' she verse. Thas she sits tor seeing those to whose she charms with har faad of bright teres ting things. Not to a hours, aot sight Is affested—It Is aa Z3Z of aav woman 60 yearn jst: simply cannot bear the light to i her. Diffused sunlight ns a rule not trouble her, but a tiny rav Ulaml- natlng a nearby object upsets her slcal system aad Is followed by tack of nausea. Tbe sun which brightens aad all the world Is to har a dread wtelMr,' whose benign sparks m Ight to! aerlptlon. The vigor aad vitality which this remedy imparts to tha Aa- South Carollna~Senator Is naturally in- it on t dlgnant on tbe subject and make/^Grandmother” Hoar irtable some day. be may feel un- comfor —Henry E White, letter carrier In the Cleveland, Ohio, postoffioe service, Is a nephew of Gen. Sir George Whits, who was cooped In Ladysmith, South Africa. Mr. White was bornlnStal bridge, near Sonthapipton, England and went to Clevalaad nineteen years ago. —Charles Franklin Spragne, a coa lman from Massachusetts, said ETworth *20,000,000, Is satisfied with two term* la Congress and proposes to retire from public life. ogers. So seaeltlve has Jites ■ • Irritating •Beet of -■ ■un’n my invade >er ngs, or tint tbe window tffMu, she Is —*“■ mmediately thldwa Into a nervous spasm. The physicians attribute condition to stomach trouble, and that It may have orlglnall^bes by exposure to the sun. press. aad Mx- ■ A childless home is a cheerless 1 The maternal instlaot exists la evary woman, aad when it te nngralllsd the Is deprived ef much of the of life. It often happene easness is doe to some cause whieh eta be removed, tend often le removed ty the use of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pra- loete womanly organs, pate them te a mad health, the laok of condition of nori which Is often tha solo obstaotlooto maternity. Every woman should read Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser, a book containing 1006 pages and 700 illustrations. It te seat aatlra- ly free on receipt of stampeto pay ex pense of mailing only. Send 21 oi cent stamps for tbs paper volume, or 31 stamps fur oloth i Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, 063 Street, Buffalo, N t Y. —Mrs. Minerva Blake Howland, tha only ."real ” daughter of the Ai Revolution, wbo lived In New died there a few days ago. She 96 years old. Her father was Realm Blake, who enlisted from Derby, Ooea^ In the company organised by Captain David Humphreys, afterwards aa atde- de-camp on Washlni igtoa’s staff. Do Tow Need An For the pest ten years, Dr. J. Newton Hathaway whale recognized as the great est of all our specialists, has been pwefect ing an electric belt, suitable to Wse tn his practice, one which he could furnish as a part of his system of treatment, aad he c could conscientiously now announces that he has n bait, which ha believes to he perfect belt made, it is light, of great power, and with now« whicji makes it suitable for He Is prepared to furnish this patients who need it and who i for treatment, at e merely nem Write to Dr. Hathaway tp-dag, about your ease and he will will tbe belt, aad if ye* sent U. 0. D. te ti Hathaway A Co.. M Atlanta, Oa. :-zs!2 4