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•p VOL- XXIU BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL '2,1900. THE CAKRYING OP CONCEALED WEAPONS. PKARFUL HOMit-lOK RBCORD. The Need cf Lt’KUlaiton to Prevent Ptatol Practice From False Notions ofMsnbood and Bravery—A8tron|( Arraignment from the Bench. la opening' the court of general rot-loDB for-Ricli aud Cuoty, thermo* cii-ion was signalized' by Judge %*vt in a charge to the grand jury which calU the attention of the public very 1 forcibly to the crying evif of carrying concealed weapons, a practfbe that is 1 ur^ely responsible for th* terrible re- end of homicidt-sin tm- State. Judge Kenetsald there certainly is need for tome legislation longing to the reduc- ito 1 In the number of huoilcidhs that am ually occur in South Carolina/ the } e..r 1899 showlnq' a •otal of 242, which ’ Iran average nunaber. Tbe following is the chief portion of Judge Beneft remarks : "What is the cause, gentleman, of this extraordinary number of bomi- cioesY 1 am sure < ach one of you can assign certainly as one cause the deploreble custom of carrying pistols, . a custom carried to such an extent that. our State may be regarded an armored camp in times of peace. Our young men and boys, back and white, rich and noor, seem to think that their outfit is not complete without a pistol; some of our older men show a bad example, and I regret to say some public officials have on occasions been found armed in violation of the iaw. Pistols are carried not as a protection at night in some lonely roidor in some . remote part of tbe country during tbe day or in some dangerous neighbor- \ hood, but at public meetings, 00 the >. streets, at social gatherings, even at dances, even at daily labor, and follow ing the plough, and I add also even at i ourcfciaaj praw rju gt ,;g k *nd as for . . lb >se gatherings Kiowa as tne negroes' hot suppers, is there ever* bot supper without a cold corpse V The negro will Imitate the while man and Imitate him more successfully In nis vices and bis crimes than in his virtues. “ Mr. Foreman and gentlemen, It would be an inter.s*ing experiment if tbe court were al.tuis moment to order the sheriff and his bailiff* to search the pockeit of all in this Oodrt house now and see how many pistd.s will be found, carried on the person concealed even in tbe temple of justice. Gentlemen, as »ufoty as this lament able habit continued so surely will two or three hundred of our fellow citizens annually fill untimely graves, tbe vic tims of the pistol habit. It is a fear ful price to pay for the privilege of carrylag arms It Is not only unlaw ful to carry arms cooeealed upon the uereoe, but it is uechnstutn, unclvl Him! and still more shnu u tbe appeal be made to the youth of tbe country who carry pistols that it Is uomany and cowardly, and altogether unnece sary In a clvillzsd community. It causes our young men, no douOt, to hold human life very cueep, and It causes them also to have falw* ideas of bravery and true manliness, and it has lafused In the public mind wrong and vicious views of the right of seifids- tense. "Gentlemen of tbfe grand jury, how many corpses of meu slaip by the pis tol-carrying homicide have been searched in vain for the pistol, and yet the slayers have put up their plea of self-defense, and juries have acquitted them on that plea, because forsooth the defendantrtbe man slayer, testified that when he shot his victim bad put nis hand to bit hip pocket o. was about to place it there, and he wa* in duced to believe by that act that he h>id a pistol and was about to draw It. Be presumed, In other words, that he was in danger and acted, as he claimed, . In self-defense, if that presumption Is ^ to he regarded by petit jurors must we r I lawlessness, and unpunished violation of law eats like a cancer Into the body politic. Are we to confess, our ina bility to take hold of this frightful evil and to some extent moderate It. This Is a land of churches, Sunday schools and schools and colleges, of young men's Christian associations and all the means and appliances for Chris tian religion in all varieties and forms, perhaps to a greater extent than an other civilized'land, and yet In tl year of 1900 our reconj today cannot compare for a moment wlthTlhe record of auoient Egypt of three thousand years ago, for it was then tbe boast of Egypt that “ in times of peace none of our citizens carry, arms.” And here In tbe year 1900 I am safe in saying that the majority of the youth of our oedritry carry arms. No doubt there is a difficulty the way of our leglsla tu<*e—our constitution—the federal constitution—secures to the citizen the right to carry arms, but it surely can not be contended that the little devilish pocket pistol, tbe hip-pocket, the coat- pocket, the vest-pocket pistol was in the contemplation of the framers of the constitution when they secured to the citizen tbe rk’ht to carry arms. ‘‘Those wise fathers of the republic never intended to^leave as a legacy to posterity so bloody a curse. That con stitutional provision had relation only 10 the character of arms then carried by tbe soldiers in defense of their country and the huntsmen on the plain —muskets, rifl.-s, affords, cavalry pls- tsls, carried as brave men carry their arms,’openly. Tbe diabolical habit of concealed weapons had not yet grown ink) existence. It was to preserve the right to defend home, property, per son sol family and to defend theLCOun- try *011 tbe right to hunt game. It was for this purpose and. similar pur pose* that the constitutional provision was Inserted. He will betTwlse mao sod a benefactor to bis State who can •uggest to the legislature some law that can grapple with this evil or re duce it. There U ao doubt that a law might be framed making It a heinous crime and seriously punishable to manufac.ure, tell or buy or use or possess a pistol a certain s!xe, and tbe site might be made such that is would be iiipo.sible to conceal it upon the person and thus put a stop in a large measure to the carrying of concealed ueaUiy weapons, if something like this cannot be done then all that Is left for ns to do is to educate public opinion, to educate the minds of the Juries and to banish from the mind sof the youth of the country and tbe men ef the country tbe diseased notions of seif-defense, and tnus we may to some extent reduce the number of bomi cldcs and rid our land of the awful curwe. •* I nave already referred to the fact that sometimes juries are ooodemoi-d for went are supposed to be taisoar- nag.-* of justice and a failure to do what was expected. Tbe jury system has been very much discussed of late throughout tbe State, and in some i parts of th ’ State has been condemaed as being 1 ot as successful as it ought to be, and .1 has been even pronouoc- ' cd a* a failure. In my opinion such condemnation ia altogether unde served. Our jury law, our system of < trial by jury is good If only carried mtosfficu Our statutes require that | tbe jury is good if only carried into I jury commissioners shall choose so ' many nbm»t In their respective ooun | ties, moo- well qualified to serve as | jurors, men of sound judgment, and of | good moral character; there Is no ' county 10 this Slate that cannot furnish | a sufficient number for every term of court-men of good moral character, sound judgment and' well qualified to serue as jurors; if the names of such men are not pul in the box it is not ADMIRAL DEWEY FOR PRESIDENT. HIS POLITICS ARE UNCERTAIN. The Country ia Startled by Hia An nouncement—He la Wiling to Serve Jf the People Went Him. A special to the Near-York World from Washington made the startling announcement to the American people that Admiral Dewey has rescinded his decision not to run for President under any circumstances, and that after ma ture refisetloo, in response to earnest entreaties from all parts of the coun try, he ha* concluded to become a can- dlnate. To a correspondent of tbe World he spoke as follows : “ I realize that tbe time has arrived when I must definitely define my posi tion. When 1 arrived in this country last September I said then that noth ing would Induce me to be a candidate for the presidency. ‘‘Since then, however, 1 have had the leisure and inclination to study the matter, and have reached a different conclusion, inasmuch ur so many assur ances have come to me from my coun trymen that I would be acceptable as a candidate for this great office. If the American people want me for this high office I shall be only too willing to serve them. It Is the highest honor In the gift of this nation ; what citizen would refuse it ? "Since studying the subject, I am convinced that the office of President is not such a very difficult one to fill, his duties being mainly to execute the law* of Congress. Should I be chosen for this exalted position, I would execute the laws of Congress as faith fully as I have always Executed tbe orders of my •uperiort.’’ Admiral Deway did not state which parly's nomination h6 Will accept. The reporter asked : ‘‘On what plat form will you stand ?" and the admiral replied : " I think 1 have said enough afrthi* time, and possibly too much.’ A Washington special to the New York Evening Telegram says it has developed that the .announcement of Admiral Dewey’s candidacy is a psrt of tbe well-laid plan of Eastern Demo crats to bead off Mr. Bryan’s nomina tion. Tba Evening Telagram's special continues : , “The Admiral will not admit that there is any organization behind his candidacy or state whether he will like the Republican or Democratic nomina tion. Be told me today that he was in the bands of the Amertoan people and was as willing to obey or defend them as he bad been from his superior in the figgy. Be said: * have every reason to believe there is a popular demand for my nom- ioatior. I decline to say whether I am a Democrat or a Republican. - " ‘I want to be the people’s candidate. I Csaerai A- P« I fully realize that in announcing my | >ievon-«>o, | wBlingness to become a candidate that my trouble* are beginning, but a man woo has tbe interest of his country at bear* cannot escapr hia share of them, and I am willing to'rlsk ail that may come to me. “ ‘From every State in the Union and I from all classes of people 1 have re catted gratifying evidence of a desire fbr my nomination. The demand has oecome so general that I felt contraln- ed to give serious consideration to the matter, and although I had previously staled that I would.not accept the nom- I laalion, conditions Lave so changed In I tbe few past months that I cannot 'longer, a* a loyal American ciL’/in, will and obey toe will of the American either party who will express them selves in favo&Ot Ddwey for President. A great many are evaalva in discussing the matter, but with the great majority there is but onb opinion, and that is that nothing now can turn the tide from the two -leaders of tbe opposing parties—Bryan and McKinley. “NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN.” THERE IS SOMETHING IN BLOOD. Bill Arp Adds to His Store or Knowl- edge Dally—He Tells tpe Children What Will Interest Them. Store away knowledge ; get all you can. There is comfort in it. Goldsmith says of the village schoolmaster and his pupils: “ And still they gazed and still the wonder jpP8W« That one small head could carry all it knew.” I remember how I used to wonder how our Professo 1 ' Charles McCoy learned all that he knew about mathe matics and astronomy. Some years 'ago I heard Professor Proctor who was then the greatest living astronomer, lecture for three nights at Lake Weir thl fault f tbp law h«i «nt r.‘v th. P«ople if their decision should be that the fault of the Uw, but entlre.y ‘h* a tUluble CM( iidate for the Presl- fault of tbe jury commissioner* who 1 I i a pistol habitually must ha prestnfi'bif to have murder In his heart and is a dange^pus man to the peaoe of any community. When a blood-guilty man Is set free by the verdict of a jury, then the public, through the pres*, condemns the jury, speaks of mis carriage of justice, that the jury system la a failure ahd the like, not reflecting that the jury is only carrying into effect the public’iown mistaken view and Idea of self-defense. Water does not rise above its level. A petit jury la. part of the people, and It is not wiser or better tban the people from whom it is drawn by lot. It is futile to lay toe blame at the door of the t ury or the system of trial by jury, .et It He also at the door of all who are guilty of carrying pistols concealed upon their persons. 1 would not be little the right of self-defense. It is a good right; it is a God-given right, as well as a right recognized by the i&w of our land ; hut It is woefully misun derstood and most rashly and reckless ly exercised, until the biood of hun dreds .of men cries aloud from hun dreds* of graves for the vengeance courts have denied them. “IVo hundred and forty-three men slaughtered in Boutb Carolina last vear, and how many convicted ? Nlnety-nlvo. -• In other words, 144 men with their fellows’ blood on their hands go free, pronounced not guilty. There may be a few of these reported cases that .faave^ not been tried, but I am speaking In round numbers. In round numbers the fact stares us in the face that oniy oac of every three men who have been put in the dock charged with murder has been con victed either of murder or man slaughter. “Gentlemen, if It js always, or ne#ly always the intending murderer who is fortunately killed by the man who is acting In seU-defensr, will not the race of murderere soon be exterminated in this State at tbe rate q! 2U0 odd %.yeacY To put that question 1* to show the re- ductio ad abaurdum. “ I have said that self defense is a sacred right, but it i*’ not more sacred surely than human life and it is in be half of .the sanctity of. human life that I have been led to make the remarks 4 have jpst made. Is there no remedy; are we helpless ; is the law powerless ? Can no law be enforced to stop the pistol carrying habit ? Our leglsla tares have again and again endeavored to pass laws and have passed a variety Ottawa .r w j- j 1 .advics, either at fils office or by mail. ere unwortby of their 1 likes from whatever cause. The remedy for that l* to impeach tbe jury commission place better men -io oflije and not as* for a change of tbe jury law. If bad men are listed and their names put io the jury box It is needless to loot for good men to be taken out. • “Jury trial Isa priceless heritage. It 1* a protection of tbe poor man against tyranny and oppression. It is the bulwark of our liberties, esoeoially in a republican lot m of government; the protector of the weak against the strong and ti>u best guarantee of free dom that we have. It does sometimes miscarry, but it is human to err: that is no reason why the cry should be raised to abolish the system of trial by jury. Men who decry one miscarriage of justice, seem to forget that there are ninety and nine cases where ver dicts are in the criminal and civil 1 side, In which justice Is done. Twelve honest men, fair minded men, of ordi nary Intelligence, drawn from the ordi nary walks of life to try a case io court —that Is the system of wisdom. Noth ing has been devised that can be com pared to it as a means of doing justice between man and man and only cor ruption can destroy or injure the jury system.” — A Washington mill has taken an order from tbe United Staies govern ment for 500,000 feet of oednr for use at Manila. The first government build logs were'built of fir, but the white ants which infest that country ate it with apparent relish, and with so disastrous effects to the building that cedar will be substituted, it being claimed that the ant* will not attack cedar, It is also claimed by some that hemlock is ant-proof. Should this fact he proved* the question of a market for hemlock has been solved. OUR GREATEST SPECIALIST. For 20 yekre Dr. J. Newton Hathaway has so successfully treated chronic diseas es that he is acknowledged today to stand at tbebead of his profession in this liner His exclusive method of treatment for Var.coceie and Stricture, without tne aid of knife or cautery cures in 90 per cent, of all cases. In the treatment of the loss of Vital Forces, Nervous Disorders, Kidney and Urinarv Complaints, Faralvsis, Blood Poisoning, Rheumatism, Catarrh, and dis eases peculiar to women, he is equally successful. Dr. Hathaway’s practice 1* more than-double that of any otner spec ialist Cases pronounced helpless by other bysioians readily yiekFto. his treatment, "rite him tpday fully about-your case, e makes no charge for consultation or dency. “ ‘Beyond confirming my meqa of this morning there ent ’ ” The announoe- Is nothing IV up to the seventh heaven and I had to strain my mind to soar with him amongst the stars, but he magnified the creation and the universe and the Creator in such a way that f have not forgotten it and my reverence and awe and love for the Supreme Ba log has been greatly increased. I was ruminating about this because I have received a letter from a learned friend who thinks l should have told a little more about leap year and bow the Julian calendar got behind time ten days In 1,582 years and Pope Greg ory’s astronomer, Clavlus, made a new one called the Gregorian calendar. And how it says that ajl years whose date number is divisible by four with out a remainder are leap years aotess they are century years. These are not leap years unless they are divisible by 400 without a remainder. There fore, the year 2000 will be a leap year. But even this allowance will not exactly even up tbe march of time and we will lose another day In 3.524 years. Sir John H^rscbel corrected tb * by mak ing every 4,‘JOOth year a leap year and this would keep old Father ’Time all right for 28,000 years—nuf tad—we will not figure beyond that. Another respected friend writes an Interesting letter about Hugh Lawson White, once a candidate for the Presi dential Domination, and says a’tbougtf he was reared and lived and died in Tennessee he was horn in Iredell Coun ty, Not tb Caro, Ina. Bis mother was a Lawson, daughter of Hugh Lawson, and from that Lawson ano'-stry more distinguished people have sprung than from uny other we read of. Among their descendants are the Whites, of Tennes->oe ; Mr*. Stonewall Jackson, Mrs G nerai W. T. Sherman. Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Adlal Ewing ihe Ewings of Ohio and Tenuetsee; General Ewell, General Bende’>oe v of Virginia; the Lawsons, of G.* >rgla, and C jvernor Jared Irwin, of G orgia. AH of these were lineal descendants. Just think of It 1 What a divergence of fat* and fame and for tune that made of one blood Mrs: Stone wall'Jackson and Mr*. A. P. Bill. Mr*. General Sherman eas a Ewing and Mrs. Slorewall Japkso > wa* a Mor rison. Tbe writer says he has a copy of Hugh Lawson's will that was execut ed in 1706, and that his grave Is In an old churchyard between .Salisbury and Charlotte, and the headstone still shows the initials, ‘‘H. L.” Verily, verily, there la something In the blood that transmits character to several generation*. But the trouble Is that this ancestral blood becomes crossed and recrossed so often that it l* apt to lose Its viciue and become! .coot around their litUe funnel-shaped ground holes and ItetTectually destroy ed them. Just think of It—stryohlne costs 11.75 an ounce, or about $25 a pound, and that made 12,500 besides the cost pf the wheat. These cattle kings do thing* Oq a big scale. But It does look cruel and selfish to extermi nate such pretty, Innocent, little crea tures. I wish the children could see them. They ars about,ae Ur$e m fox squirrels and lopk like them excepting, the lack of a long tail. They burrow lb the ground andimake tunnels that com municate with their different homes. They throw up little circular rims or banks around their boles like the ants do, and you can see them from the trains perched upon the tops of tbe rims like little sentinels and suddenly they pitch down In the funnel like boys jumping off a springboard into a mill pond. There were some clever good-natur ed Michiganders and Micbigeese at my house not long ago, and we were asking conundrums and no one was to ask a question that he or she couldn't answer when It was given up by the rest of Uhl party, and so I asked a lady how a ground squirrel dug his hole In the ground without leaving any dirt around GEN. R. H LICE'S LOVELY How the Beantlfol Arlington Game Into (be Government's Foa- saeston—Thousands of Soldiers Art Burled There. Baltimore American. >, When General Robert E. Lee, of Con federate fame, left his beautiful man sion at Arlington and hastened to Richmond to -pseume command of the troops of hts native State at the out break of the civil war, he left one of the most beautiful and picturesque boihes of the'many for which the South is noted. The ty)use and land have been In possession of the government almost from tbe outbreak of the rebellion, It was when Lee resigned his commission in the Federal army and hastened to Richmond with his family that the Federal authorities, realizing that the war was on and that the national capi tal, standing so close to the borders of one of the seceding States, would be a chief point of attack by the enemy, determined to gain a point of vantage rder the chatauqua In Florida, and he lifted me Ahe top. When they all gave It up, I , m it were, *»ld : ‘‘ Why, be begins at the bot tom.” * “ But how dues he get there Y” she asked. “That u your question,” said 1, “ and you must answer it.” My next conundrum was why is It that when you hold up a guinea pig by the tall hit eyes wilt drop out? The ladle* all wondered and asked If It was so. “ Certainly,” said I ; “ it U a fact, but the trouble It that X guinea pig hasn’t got any tail.” Of course I put in these little jokes for tbe children. Tney are writing tome now ; every mall brings letters wanting compoaitlons or some help to write them, for school will soon bo out. I wish I had time to help them, but I haven’t, and 1 don’t know what they will do. My parents used to help me. and.4 got aioce-ycetvy w have helped our chfldren. It la an aw ful task, hut the girl or boy should try It. Write a few llaea and then go to mother. My wife still has the first composition that our oldest daughter wrote. It was on “ Snakes,'' and the first sentence was : “ A snake Is a very long Insect.” But don't give up and cry about It. Try and try again and you will feel so happy when It Is done Hi LI. Akh. OFFICIALS TO BE REMOVED. The Blied Tiger Llqeor Foetid in the Castom Hooae at Charleston—The Watchman Hu Hastened. The discovery of what tbe govern meat claim* to have been • Tull fledged blind tiger In the basement of the cue tom house has furnished the political and dispensary sensation of the week io Charleston. How this tiger happen ed to he there, with the officials claim- tog ignorance of It all the time, Is the deep mystery which tue State and Federal governments are trying to fathom. . It has been given out that the present collector and his deputy will be removed If It Is shown that they had the-11,000 worth of ilqeor stored In the build tog when tbe. contlaole* were refused admittance. This liquor as subsequently charged, was emptied Into the sew&s Saturday eight when it was aeeounoed that an Inspector from Wubingtoo had left for Charles ion to institute a thorough search. Two months ago U was Intimated that liquor for a wholesale Charleston dealer was being stored. In the custom house, where It wa* supposed to be safe from the constables. This talk got so common that constables were sent from Columbia to make an inves tigation, but when they called at the custom house they went, not allowed to go In and search. A guard wa* placec at the building, and io tne meantime Governor McSweeney and Senator H^MB. t by occupying the hills that border Potomac on the Virginia shore. Then and there Arlington passed Into the government's hands. It was used for hospital purposes during .the war, and latei”, at tbe suggestion of Quarter master General M. C. Meigs, made to President Lincoln, the magnificent Southern estate was^converted into a military cemetery. One san see Arlington House from Washington. It has a history which Is interesting. The house wa* built in 1802 by George Washington Parke Custls, son of John Parke Custls, whose widowed mother became Mrs Martha Washington, wife of George Washing ton. ¥>’ hen Colonel Cnstls died during the Revolutionary war, Waehlegton adopted the two children as his own. and thenceforth thay were^nembers of K lu*.Washing L>« i<ou*ehold at Mk Var- **100. When Washington died, how ever, young Custls removed to the Arlington estate. There be lived like Southern gentleman, entertaining friends of prominence and of fame, and enjoying distinction because of his close relation to the famous general who had adopted him as his son. It U said that among the distinguished men who were guests at Arllagtea LaFayette. who, when he stood In the shadows of tbe Doric columns that form tbe front portico aad gazed as far as‘he eye could see, oronouooed the scene as oae of the most beautiful be bad ever looked upon. Visitors today to the historic spot say likewise. Although tbe e*laie wa* held by th* government from the time It first took possession at tbe outbreak of th* war, tbe nation bad no title to It until It wm purchased for the paltry sum of $26,100, wbea ll was sold for oellequeat lazes. That was In 1864, before tbe end of the war, and tbe fact that it was purchased, lying la Virginia as It does, Indicates the deep abiding faith lhat Lincoln and his followers had for the successful outcome of the wav, for otherwise It Is not possible that they would have purchased the site to he used as a national burial ground, In which were to he Interred the remalee of some 16,000 men who died to pre vent tbe lend wherein the estate llei from beoomiog a foreign territory Years after the war was over, wnen the bluer feeling that It had engea dered had died out somewhat, Georg* Washington Costi* Lee, heir to tne estate under the Custls will, success folly established his title to the prop erty and a generous government end justed a settlement by peylng him the sum of $150,000. If one were to ask me what tb* most Impressive feature of the national cemetery 1s, 1 would at once reply that 1) is tbe regiments of headstones, all similarly ent, bearing the name aad veglmeot of the soldier sleeping oe THE WORK OF An Appeal to tb* Faimiws flew Go- Operation ta Hr*-uring Aocwrato In formation. To build up a great offloa Ukp th* Census Office In fifteen months frpm absolutely nothing to no efficient ma chine, employing aboot three thousand men In Washington and about fifty thou sand elsewhere In the country, is n dif ficult task, nod entire success Is out of the question. Tbe office naturally com pare# Itself with the stage of prepunt- tloa atta’ned at tha same period tea years ago, and tried by this test It has gained several months on its predaoea- sor. One of the problems before It Is how to pat In' the time thus seonred In such n way as most to benefit tha aansuii . ——... In the agricultural division tbe seed of time for preliminary work is per haps as great as anywhere In the Cen sus Office. Far me 1 s, as a das*, do not ceep their accounts as well as hbmu- fseturers, and the returns from farmers may occasionally Include serioussrrors which strained eye will ntonesdataet. Hence tbe (arm schedules moat be as- amined add such errors corrected be fore the tablap can be made np from them with safety. If a farmer report* that his land sown to wheat waa tea Seres and the yield fourthoosaad bash- els, It is clear that an average yield of four hundred bushel* to th* sore la In credible, and - mast be rejected Or cor rected In accordance with th* proba bilities. Sometimes the truth can be made out by an expert from compari son with euirle* in other part* of tha schedules ; sometimes oorrespoedeao* m ust be opened to settle th* doubt. All this ranks under tbe general head of verifying tbe schedules, aad the affrl- cultural dlvisloo plana to giro ail the time poaelble to the work of verifying each of tha million* of fi schedules. To accomplish this la time allowed, the wor¥of aeverai-hun dred clerks will be required, aad thay must have hard aad fast rules to guide them. For example, they might ha told : Whaa th* wheat reports show a product of over forty bushels to tha acre thay are suspicious and mast be laid aside for an expert to para upon. But any such rules most vary with tha sectloa of tba opnatry. A yield of twenty bushels la on* section might be more questioaabl* than a yield of forty t>u«tu-i* In another. Hand* thadlviaioa must fix la advaao* what is tMal of report* la each pert of th* 1 and for each crop that may be 1 as pro ha bis on their faxa aad aet re quiring special axamlaatloa. To gat ta* limits of probability for this pur pose for ta h oouaty la tha Uallad Matas, that it, th* maxlmam aad mlal- mm yield aad th* maxlmam aad axial- lum price which may b* accepted without verification, It th* objeetof *a extensive oorrespoedeao* bow batag carried on by the agricultural dlviaioa under the dlrecttoa of Mr. L. G. Pow ers, chief statist!can is charge of that dlviaioa. Thro* simple schedules have been prepared aad printed oa different colored paper la ordar that thay b* readily dlstiagul One of them ;ard*n vegetables, a tha third th* great staple ' a units other. f a fruits, aad field crops. Each asks about tha 1 of measure employed aad tha set price realized, and th* two more Im portant schedules, those for staple field products aad for vegetables, ask for the highest aad lowest yield of aaeh crop per acre. Thee* schedules are being mailed to promtaeat farmer* all over the country and la many lastaaoss returns have already baaa received. When the returna have been received and tabulated, a schedule will ha mad* from them of what Is to ha accepted as correct In each case and what Is to ha probed farther. The only aim of tha K ffice is to get what was really tha in- entlon of the farmer In naswarl of Washington correspondent tbe Atlanta Journal says : It develops that Admiral Dewey sent for The World’s Chief of staff and voluntarily gave to him the dictated interview. He did this because The World boomed him for tbe Presidency immediately after the Admiral’s ar rival In New York from Manila, and fie considered that The World wou£d be his principal newspaper support In his candidacy. As'to Dewey’s announcement there is much speculation as To the Influence behind him and as to bis real motive. U.* Is generally conceded that there was a time when he could have so in gratiated himself into the hearts of tbe Democrats of the country that his nomination would not. have been Im probably. When the Admiral arrived from Manila he was an anti-imperialist and thoroughly and avowedly in op position qo the administration policy of militarism. Since his residence in Washington, however, he has become so imbued with McKlnleylsm that be has an nounced himself In line with the Pres ident’s policy in the Philippines. He so stated as a memoer of the Philip pine commission.' This fact forever bars him from consideration by the Democrats at Kansas City. However, If be even would at ibis late day an nounce himself In thorough sympathy with all the Democratic-issues there is little doubt that he could be nomi nated second place on the ticket with Bryan. There is a story that the candidacy of Dewey ia the result of a conference between Gorman, Whitney and Mc Lean. This, however, cannot he con firmed, and McLean denies it. Anoth er and apparently the most plausible theory Is that there is an undercurrent i-n tbe Republican party against Mc Kinley, beaded by Senators Hoir, Proctor, Wellington and others, large ly.on account oLthe PreaWent’s weak ness as displayed In the Porto Rican matter, and that Tbe announcement of Dewey lain the interest of this faction, the Admiral himself being in favor of free trade With Porto Rico and alL other possessions, whether adjacent ur trans oc anlc. On none of tbe Issues will Admiral Dawey explain himself, hut general opinion ia that be is not aspiring to the Dsmqcratlc nomination. Proctor, of Vermont, declares that the Admiral la, and hlways has been a Republican, but holds personality above oouiff~(jn7 y ~b5 prevan t' called “ io and In breeding,” as marry ing cousin* or second cousins, but the doctors say that produces physical de generacy in the offspring and so whay can a map do but try to elevate himself 1 and not bank on bis ancestors. Colonel Campbell Wallace was a noble man and made bis own fame an! fortune, ana he told me that when he was a young man he took a notion that maybe hn JLxa-xuf descendant of Sir William Wallace, the great Scottish chief, and as hts father died when Campbell was a boy and told him nothing about It, he rode a hundred miles over tbe mountains of Tennessee to see a great uncle who was old enough to know about his ancestors, and theold uncle said : “ Now, Cam’, you bad bet tor let that pedigree business alone, for your great-grandfather was a powerful sorry man, and one day he stole some talers offen aflatboat and they cotched him and took him d6wn to the cane- brake and whipped him—they did shore.” “Since then,” said Colonel Wallace, “I have taken Pope’s coiyilet -for my pedigree.” ' . “ Honor and shame from no cqjrffffion rise, Act well your part. There all ill 1 honor I.#.* ” • - * . , ‘y lies. But I do like goed stock wbfether in man or beast or fowl or frultor flowers. I liked the Adams family and the Ran dolphs and Brecklnridges and Holts and many others because they held up Io long. My wife came from that Po* cahontas Rindolph-Bolt stock that had coal black hair and uark hazel eyes, and wore No. 2 shoes ancTstepped like a deer, and it was a good cross she made breeding back upon the Anglo- Saxon and Scotch-Iris 1 that my ances tors came from. There Is not quite so much “ Injun ” in our children as there was In her, but still there is enough to make them love their friends and keep one eye on their enemies If they have any. I was ruminating bow little we know qL.what is going on in many parts pf this great country.' Her'e Is a ’letter from an Alabama friend who has been living in Texas fqrjFenty years and hat charge of a cattle ranch in tbe panhandle, the sbaked plains region, and hq says he has 8,000 head of cattle to took after and their grazing ground covesk 170,000 acres. About half of it tr Infested by prairie dogs and they have become destructive and omoiver- ous, and are multiplying like the rab bit# of Australia, and so this fall the to search the place. This was deferred until Special Agent McAted could sup erintend the examination,. Oi*Sunday tbe constable*, accom panied by Mr. McAtee, went through the ‘building. What they found is claimed to have been positive proof that the tiger was there. In the base ment there was evidence that whisky .pad been emptied into tbe sewers, and in fact the constables found*the rem nants.of thirty-nine whisky barrels- bidden away in the garret. This liquor, the constables allege, was stored in the building just as they have said, and the officials, finding that they could not remove it with the guard outside, decided to empty It and destroy the traces. Unfortunately for them this was not done thoroughly, and the whole thing was discovered. A rigid examination is in progress and the government is trying to place the responsibility for the liquor being in the building where it belongs. The report will go to Washington and it is said that tbe officials may be removed if this report shows them in the bad light In which they are held by many people in Charleston. The custom house scandal got new life when It. became known that Watch man O’Brien had hurriedly resigned and left the city. . This was Intended to mean that he accepted the guilt of haying kept tbe Federal blind tiger, although his resignation Is not accept ed in good faith. It ia believed by some officials that this waa only the part of a plan to shield officials higher in authority. Special Agent McAtee, of the treasury department, is continuing the investigation 60 the O’Brien line and the matter will be sifted thorough ly. McAtoe’e import will be sent to Washington along, It Is said, with strong letters "from Governor Mc Sweeney and Senator Tillman to have the real guilty parties punished and not have one man picked as a scafto- goat. of it, of, these —&B. ^acentric Maine preacher was recently, dfiyloff along a country road and overtaking a young man tramping his weary way on foot Invited him to a sent in bis ^letRb- After he was com owners declared war upon tnem , . mixed 500 bushels of wheal with lOu j the dease woods, and white* of hi* ayes' up under the visor of his nap, and said, in sepulchral tones ; “Young min, Jtre you prepared to file ?” With So ear-piercing scream and a back somersault over tbe back They 1 of the sleigh the young man made for ' has sever been tlon as if welting Tor the com ih.i j jdgmeht. day. Think thousands upon thousands headstone* rising only a foot'and a half from the ground stand there to mark the graree of the fallen men. They reach In all directions as far as the eye can see. It Is a quiet spot, far removed from the city’s roar. No rushing bars or hurrying feet disturb the slumbirs of the dead. Unlv the towering giant oaks stand seRlnrls, and the wind means a constant requiem through tbelr branches. Tbe deep, sacred im*- pression ondEtoceivei Is deepened as one turns from tbe long rows of tomb stones and reads tbe solemn measures of Theodore O'Hara’s elegy,’ “The Bivouac of the Dead.” Stanzas of this sad poem are inscribed on bronze tab lets, which are placed here and there throughout the grounds. » ~ The muffied dram’s sad roll has it iattc heat. The soldier’s last tattoo; No more on life’s parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. Onfame’s eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. Nor wreck, nor chance, nor winter's blight, Njr time’s remorseless doom Shall dim one ray of holy lf|bi That gilds your glorious t.mo. —A San Fransclsco dispatch says that within a week tbn battleship Wisconsin, now. almost completed by the Union Iron Works, will go outrun a series of trial trips, fhe vessel's machinery has long been completed, and it has been given several tests. Tbe heavy gun* of her batteries are in place and mounted, the last of the four IH-lnch guns being placed lait week. So far all the working parts of the warship have g'ven every satisfaction to henbuliddrs, and it Is expected that she will be fully up to the standard of ly against his meaning what tha sched ule says, the uffiorwHTM^ HTUaim hy correspondence from th* supervisor, or tb* enumerator, or tha farmer him self what the read facts ware. If th* farming public will oootlaa* to cooperate with the heartlmass at* ready displayed, this effort will result In n more trustworthy oensus of farms than has aver been token. Farmers, as a class, are less able to cooperate than tbe repreeentotlves of nay other great Industry. Hence the Oaaana Office can do more for them than It ana for centralized lines of buslnasa, which can and do make their own lavaatlga* lions, and It will do Its bast to prasaat a full and nocurate photograph of this lending occupation. Tha director of the census urges every aaa Interested to aid the work. —An Associated Press dispatch from Santiago, indicates that the oolor 11a* la going to give much trouble la Calm. There was a convention of varloas political factions for the purpose of making nominations for approaching elections. Great car* had been token the battleship Oregon. —Electricity has superseded steam- ■■ _ _ M a« the motive power In rope mak lag at fortably seaiedlhe preacher rolledL thwj the Charleston, Mass., navy yard, the change having been made lart week. It is the first time electricity has been used for the purpose,, and tbe experi ment will he watched kith interest. Tba plant la the only one of the kind owned by th* government, and nearly all tbe rope used ia the service Is made there. to harmonize the differeaoa* of ring factions, and it was hoped that the work of the convention would be effected without friction. Bat it toon developed that the Negroea had an organized msj irlty and that they ware prepared to control results. Tha whites precipitated personal diffloal- tles and the qonventlon. broke np in n riot. Heretofore the color qaastion has not given a great deal of trouble in Cabs. The Spaniards treated white anl black Cubans with equal brutality; but now that Cuban liberty is ii\ pros pect, the Idea of submitting to equality of the Negroos Is repulsive to the white Cubans, and many of them are beginning to organise a movement looking to aDuexatlon to tha United States. . ^ —After four days of stormy debate the House on the 26th passed tha 1 appropriation bill. As passed tha is only slight 7 modified from th* form in xhich it cam* from tha oomalttaa. One of the last amendments adopted opens the soldiers’ ho mas to tha offloer* aad men of the volunteer aad regular armies incapacitated by service daring or xlnce the Spanish war. The chief incident of the day was a defeat*, of the war department bv Parker (N. J.) against tha charge of reckleas extra vagance In the fitting, of the transport Sumner made by Mr. Drlgra, of New York. bK