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*- o pulll ion i I How the Common JTolJu in Knjtlftnd mro Kept in VnaenlnKeby the Titled Gentry. “ Eh, we’re e soft lot I” eeld a farm er’s son to an acquaintance of mine in England, In reference; to the way in which the jrocatlonless, but titled, sue- oesson of (be old fighting lords have taken the people by the throat and de prived them of their land; and all for eign onlooken will certainly agree with him. If U> permit 600 men to hold as a game preserve for their amuse ment one-third of a country inhabited by nearly 40,000,000 human beings—if this is not a mark of SOftpess, where will you find it ? But it is something if the farmers are beginning to see their folly, though down in Devon shire some of them are still actually pulling their forelocks to their super- of old. It is hard'to see how a 1 cotter with the spirit of a man in lim can look up from his cheerless dwelling, wl|b its windows mostly walled up long ago on account of tbe window tax, to the 27,000 window- panes that blaze along the front of Hardwick Bill, and not ask himself the bitter question why his fortune should be so enormously Inferior to that of the owners of such princely plaoes. Ruskln said he could not live in a country without castles, like America. If he meant ruined castles, I think his choice a good one; other wise not. An American can hut in wardly chafe and fret over the inso lent notices continually confronting him, to the effect that Lord Se ana So owns this stream, or that Druidic mon ument, or such a wood, and forbidding any one else to enjoy it. I f it were only the private grouuds about his dwelling, there would he notuing to say; but when two or three men aie S eekly allowed to own half the woods, reams and mines of a country, we be gin to ask what service is rendi red in return for such a costly gilt- And when we learn that in most cases no service of any value is forthcoming, we ass ourselves of what stuff the English are made, or by what spell they are para lyzed, that they endure such a thing.■ It 1s true that we are fast getting into a similar condition here in the new world. But our selfish grabbers con ceal more carefully the outward signs of their appropriatioas. In England it is the earth itself that Is seized, and no concealment is possible. But— *' Earth laughs In dowers, to see her boastful boys harth-proud, proud of tbe earth shich Is not theirs." i 1 talked with cultivated Englishmen aad Intelligent cottagers on the sub ject, and found they ridiculed tbe pre tension* of the titled folk; yet their secret respect for vested rights and accomplished facts makes mem un willing to disturb the existing status. Especially hostile to reform are the “ proputty, proputty, pruputty ” Farm- •r Dobson*, who always “ voate wi’ squire an’ rhoorch an' staate," and on whom, in consequence, "quoloty smolles.” la the public square at Ulpon is a tall monument erected by William Alslable to himself during his life time. The key to such an 'phenomenon lies in the word "flun keylam.” He belonged to the family of the Marquis of Ulpon, who owns pretty much everything above ground thereabouts. The inscription states that Alslable paid for the shaft; but, to save his feelings, a cynical world is further informed that the town or dered the fiatterlng inscription to be carved. • In M16, before the corn law injured the farmers’ prospects, it happened ’ that the rich soil of Northumberland produced such a foison of wheat and other grain that tbe farmers decided to expend a part of the proceeds in raising a shaft to their landlord, Hugh, buke of Northumberland, and In- eSrlBea on it the wordiT* By i ful and united tenantry." It stands there today in the village of Alnklck, jMar the great castle of the Percys, and goes by tbe name of “ Farmer’s JPolly.” I noticed it had on it the old canting war-cry of the Percys, " Espe- 'raaoe en Dleu." But as the Scot- killing brigand, Harry Percy, relied oa his sharp sword more than on his Odd, so the particular representative of Emerson’s forty thousand thieves mtlp landed at Hastings to whom the farmers had put up their monument rallpd more on the modern substitute fo^ the sword—pounds, shilling and AeKbe—and, finding his tenants so flueti of money, proceeded shortly to their rents, whereat a great arose all tbe country round at ipense of the slmple-wltted rus- rson nown. The intlmute union between church and state is well exemplified by the 4 relation of the Gladstone estate to the village church at Hawarden. Here in the midst of the Glad|tone lands, four or five miles in extent, are the ruined castle of bis wife’s ancestors and an enormous modern castle, the late statesman’s residence. In front stretches away ap upland park, dotted by oaks, beeches, chestnuts, ash aad threaded by streams, with here and there a heavier belt of timber and blue vistas of far-off rolling land. Here the "Grand Old Man" lived in an atmos phere the very opposite of disquieting, every influence conservative and mak ing for repose—immemorial customs, ancestral park, antique castle, coat of arms on his own hall, and near by the village church and churchyard. The village and'the church are but appen dages to the great man’s place. A fountain in the main street at the tur- retted entrance gate commemorate his 50th year of residence. Think qf his walking every morning during those fifty years to prayers in the church, and so old-fashioned in his piety that he would never travel*on Sunday ! I -am standing in tbe graveyard of this church of which his son is vicar. I have just read in the porch a notice requesting the visitor “ not to go away wunout some short prayer (!) for the clergy and people." An Ul-soundlag bell iv giving the last taps for morning prayers, and a young and worldly- looklng priest, shovel hat on head and. prayer bdok in hand, comes on the rutf from the vicarage near by to officiate in the services. You may call tnls all horrible English cant, if you choose ; but there it is, a fact to os reckoned with. Generally church and village are the property of the neighboring lord or gentleman; the priest is his aopointee ; and the priest’s bishop is one of the law maker* of the realm. Do you not see how an attack on prlma- geniture and the land system is an at tack on religion at the same time f Do you perceive the secret of the preser vation of both ? * One always knows when he is ap proaching one of the old feudal estates by the park-like landscape on every hand. The lair of the owner is some- whtre near the center, usually out of sight from the road. If, in addition, the ear-splitting me ow of a peacock is heard, rely upon it that a parvenue has come Into possession, whose name may be Smith or Jones, though be has bought and wears the title of a lord.— The Conservative. feKKVKU Him IlKiUT.—" Anything wrong asked the hotel clerk of tbe drummer who had just got home from tbe east. " I was thinking,” was the reply. M I rode from Buffalo to Toledo with the prettiest girl I ever saw." " But that didn't hurt you. Who was she ?*’ " Can’t tell." " You didn't introduce yourself and get her card in return ?* " No.’’ " No particular trouble, eh ?" solid- tiously Insisted the clerk. " Well, it was this way," replied the amusing traveler, as he braced up for tbe ex planation. " She sat opposite me, you know, and I tried for an hour to catch her eye. She simply ignored me, and gazed out of the window. Then 1 rose and handed her a magazine, but she declined with thanks. Ten minutes later I bought the latest novel out, but she said she didn’t care to read Then 1 bought some fruit, but she would acoept none. She also ignored me when 1 tried to draw her .outon music. " But you persisted ?” “ Oh, yes; that is, I was about to make another attempt to enter into conversation when the train esms to a halt at a town, and the girl beckoned jae over. I was there in gq instant,, and with the sweetest smile you ever saw she asked if I would do her a slight favor.” " ’With all my heart,’ I hastened to say. "‘Well,’ she said, smiling evdn more sweetly, suppose you leave the train here and take the next one that fol lows, for you have made me dead tired, and I feel like taking a nap.’ ’’ “ Good gracious,” whispered the clerk. ' " Yes, sir,” said the drummer, as he reached for a cigar, " and I want to go up to my room and sit and thlnk'and try and figure it out. Perhaps it’s time I left the roa^ and settled down at home.’’ the " northern farmer, new iff a very different man from old-style Hodges. The new asks soorntuliy, " What’s a born ? If tbe gentleman to be born with a skiver spoon )utb, tbe farmer has a certain ot for bis wealth. Many i of poverty and oppression ibed bis brains. But those thinking and they are on irs of honest men. Let the roe look to it been so craftily en- ’with the feudal system that tbe jports the other. "The nobt- itry and clergy,” " tbe lords " and the lords temporal,” fall together. Henoe the l>position of the titled folk t» shment. Hence also the re- on the part of the people to land question. To abolish (tare or confiscate the game i would be equivalent to melt- the communion plate and the graveyards. From Wp they have been praying for their feudal lords, | of whom Is royalty; and it their religious feelings priest, unhorse the royalty. -The pat humbler members’of makes himself useful and forms a link in tds the big land- commonality. The vil- Iways has a paradiscal .superior to the rest ptoe as the castle tff ft. Livings are and occasionally a km, eg a vicar has a "More haste, less speed,” and "has ten slowly,” are proverbs born of ex perience that some things can’t be hur rled without loss and waste. That is especially true of eating. The railway lunch habit, "five minutes for refresh ments,” is a habit most disastrous to the health. You may hurry your eat ing. You can’t hurry your digestion and the neglect to allow tbe proper time for this important function^ths beginning of sorrow to a busy* man. When the* tongue is foul, the" htftfd' aches, when there are sour or bitter risings, undue fulness after eating, hot Bashes,, irritability, nervousness, irres olutlon, cold extremities, and other annoying symytoms, be sure the stem ach and organs of digestion and nutrl tlon have " broken down.” Nothing will reestablish th^m in active heal thy operation soquloklyM Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discqvery. It streng thens the stomach, nourishes the nerves, purifies the blood, and builds up the body. It is strictly temperance medicine, containing no alcohol or other Intoxicant. Given awayr Dr. Pierce’s great work, The People Common Sense Med • Adviser, is sent free on receipt of ips to pay expense of mailing only Sead 21 one-cent stamps for tbe paper covered book, or 31 stamps for cloth binding, to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N» Y. - \ —An English machinist has dis covered a new method or process or coloring iron. It entirely prevents rust, even though the metal be brought to a red heat. And a Hungarian ma ohinlst has discovered a method of spinning wood pulp so that it can be converted into clothing. A fellow can get a wooden suit now without going to the undertaker's establishment. Secretary Hester's Report Says the Total Was 9.43e,410 Bales—South Carolina Leads In Manufacturing. Secretary Hester’s New Orleans cot ton exchange annual report wne issued a few days ago. He puts the cotton crop of 1899 1900 at 9,436,416 bales, a decrease ot 1,838,424 under 1898-99. Of this he says that Texas, including ndian Territory, shows a falling off of 964,000, the group of other Gulf States, consisting of Louisiana, Arkansas, Vi.Btilsslppl, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Jtah and Kansas, 400,000, and the At lantic States, consisting of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carollra, South Carolina, Kentucky and Vir ginia, 475,000. He places tbe average commercial value of tbe crop aV.38.55 dollars per bale against 25.08 dollars last year, 28.62 dollars year before last and 36.76 dollars In 1896-67, and the total value of the crop 9363,785,000 against $282,773 000 last year and 9322,- 553,000 toe year before. He caMs at tention to tbe fact that tbe money value of the ootton crop just marketed in 981,012.000 over tbe 1898-99 crop, which was .1,838,000 bales more. He nits tbe total spindles in the South at 11,267,163, an Increase over last year of 1,315,071. These Include 1,418,497 new, not complete. The net gain in the number of Southern mills over last year has been 113,-making tbe total new 663, and the consumption has been divided as follows : Alabama,, 147,922 bales, an increase of 15.159. Arkansas, 2,380 bales, a decrease of 802. Georgia, 339.110 bales, an Increase of 67,303. Kentucky, 27.539, an Increase of 697. Louisiana, 16,420, a decrease of 1,606. Mississippi, '22,550, an increase of Ijt. — Missouri, 4,148, an increase of 180. Nort” Carolina, 435,686, an increase of 53,209. boutn Carolina, 497,146, an Increase of 53,166. Tennessee, 37,747, an Increase of 3,431. Texas, 18,037, an increase of 1,978. Virginia, 48,427, an increase of 3,339. Total cooMtmptlon o( cotton in tne South 1,597,112, an increase of 197,713 bales. In reference to the general manu facturing industry of the country and iu comparative progress North and South, be says that up to within sixty or ninety days an active demand pre vailed for manufactured goods, and notwithstanding the material advance In the price of tbe raw material, due to shortage of tbe crop aad light supplies tbe world over every available loom and spindle In the country was busily engaged. Tbe Chinese difficul ties brought this activity to a sudden halt, but not uLtil the amount of cotton consumed had reached a figure in ex- of any year on record. He puts the consumption of Northern mills at 2,30U,U00 bales, which, together with that of the South, makes an aggregate for tbe entire country of 3,897,1)00 teles against 3.589,000 last year, an increase of 308,000. Mr. Hester further remarks that, taken as a whole, the year has been a irosperous one for both tbe manu acturer and grower of cotton. The large increase in manufactures Is de veloping more strongly the necessity for an increased outlet in the way of exports, to which mitt owners have re cently been giving marked attention. He contends that the check caused by tbe troubles in the far East is an object lesson showing that we have reached a point where this country can not ab sorb tbe quantity of goods manufactur ed. The tendency, be says, is strongly In tbe direction of domestic spinners working up tbe bulk ef the cotton grewn in the United States into yarus nd fabrics. That this is a revolution wtotch ten «et_: hr so “-strongly, *nd especially la tne South, that it i^oer tain in the long&un to prove iUccbis ful. In his special report on Southern consumption, made up from actual re turns of all the mills in the South, he says tbe facte In relation to consump tion and increase of spindles during the year are phenomenal. Nearly every Southern State has entered the field and in all except Kentucky and Missouri new mill* are being erected and numbers of others are projected with certainty of building in the near future. Year by year old and anti quated concerns have been dismantled or remodeled and the Southern cotton factories of to-day are of the newest and latest Improved machinery capable of performing the best and greatest amount of work at a minimum cost. How the indjstry has advanced he shows by yearly comparisons from 1890-91, showing an Increase from 336 mills in that year to 663 on September 1, 1900, a gain of 327 mills. He goes on to state that interesting as tbe above showing Is, the facts are even better emphasized by tbe record of spindles and consumption In tbe South, comparisons ef which are carried back as far as 1860. - They are : Year. 1860 ' 1870 1880 1890 1895 1900 . These figures, more than could columns of words. They indicate that the Southern people are in the field of manufactures to stay,, and with the advantage on their side, It Is only a matter of time when most of the raw cotton produced In the South will be ponverted in manufactured form adja cent U) the ootton field. In time every Item of useless expense between the producer and consumer will be eliml- nated and no source capable of pro- those of the East, U one that may be adjusted when necessity Imperatively demands. ' One of the most interesting features of Mr. Hester’s report^is ^showing of the world’s consumption m American cotton for the past two seasons, which he puts at 11,022,000 for 1889-1900, and 10,768,000 for 1898-1899. He quotes a dispatch to him from Mr. Thomas Ellison, at Liverpool, the distinguished statistician, in which that authority places the surplus mill stock in Europe, of all kinds of ootton, at the close of August, 1900, at 530,000 bales, 80,000 of which be credits to the mills of Great Britain and 450,000 to those of the con tinent. Of these totals Mr. Ellison ap proximates the English MtUs. hold 64,000 American and tbe continental mills 332,000. Mr. Hester makes the total visible and Invisible supply of American cotton In tbe world on Sep tember 1, 1900,1,118,000, against 2,896,- 000 last year, a decrease of 1,778,000, and the total visible and Invisible supply of ail kinds of cotton in the world dn September L 1900, 1,723,000, against 3,701,000 last year, a decrease of 1,978.000. He figures out that ap proximately there are 134,000 bales of old ootton now left over in tbe South ern country, including the stocks of Southern mills, and approximates the actual growth at 9,101,000. He gives receipts of new cotton of tbe crop of 1900-1901 at delivery ports at 22,620, and says this is considerably under tbe average ot new ootton marketed in August during the previous five years ARTHUR 81C WALL 18 DEAD. office seekers are dolag Weekly but they are still blowing the same old J* 0 ’* 1 ’* tk« darkies, and the tar t* - I that the white primaries will prove a in failure. There are men running for office as Independant* who rely mainly on the negro vote, and can’t be elected without it. Suoh men ought to have contempt of every good citizen. They ought to have oontentfpt for themselves, d I reckon they do. Tbe negro who sells his vote Is not half m depraved tbe white man who buys it. Bat we will know by waiting,, apd if the proves a failure, then let us the Hardwick bill or something / ti led the Lord protect office seekers. Bill Arp us OUR PARIS EXPOSITION LKt TER The Democratic Nominee fbr Vice President In 1IMSU Expires at Hie Snmtner Home. Hon. Arthur tewnll, tbe millionaire ship-builder, ttho was Wm. J. Bryan’s running mate in 1896, died of apoplexy on the 5tb Inst, at his' summer borne near Bath, Me., In the 65th year of his age. His fortune Is estimated at >5, 900,000. Arthur Sewall was born in Bath, Me., November 35, 1835. He came from a family illustrious on both sides of the water. Tbe first Sewall to ar- rivsK la tbe United States settled In New York In 1724. Dummes Sewall. tbe great grandfather of Arthur Sew wall, removed to Bath in 1762. He purchased the large tract of land which forms tbe Sewall estate and on which sunds tbe big shipyard of Arthur Sewall it Co. The firm was established in 1832 by William D. Sewall, and the first vessel owned by It was tbe Diana, a small trader. From this beginning the houst. has developed to its present proportions— the ownar of a huge fleet of tbe largest tailing merebaotmeh afloat. In the 77 years of its existence tbe firm, has buhl and owned over a hundred vessels, trading In nqarly every port In tbe world. William D. Sewall was suc ceeded In 1854 by bis sons under tbe name of E. A A. Sewall, shipbuilders and commission merchants. Later it became Arthur Bewail A Co., Mr. Sewall taking into the brm his Willtnm end nephew, Samuel 8. wall. Mr. Sewall was president of Maine Central railroad from 1884 to 1893, was president of the Hath Na tional bank, and was an active officer or director in nearly every corporation In B*tb. He became active in politics in 1888, when he was elected Demo cratic national committeeman. The nomlnetion for vice president In Chioa- E i in 1896 came to him as a surprise. e was delegate to tbe convention acd left tbe hall before the balloting com menced. While on board an Illinois Central train bound for downtown be overheard a man who had caught the train as it was leaving Sixty-third street tell another passenger that Arthur Sewall had just been nominat ed for vice president. He bad never met Bryan, and upon his arrival at his hotel was taken over to and introduced to tbe ’ et. — gr — ~~ Mr. Sewall was married In 1859 to Miss Emma D. Croaker, of Bath. He has two sons, Harold M. and William. Harold M. Sewall left the party of his father in 1890 and joined the Republi can party, giving as his reason the failure of Democratic administrations. He was minister to Samoa tmd to Hawaii under Prealdcnt Harrison, and was appointed special commissioner to Hawaii by Preeideut McKinley in 1898, and is prominent in Republican politics in Maine. son Se th# , Wftje Northerners Hate the Soath Any Way |" Some of our --The Negro Qneettoa Mot In Ik We thought that maybe the late New York and Akron riots would even, . . . , up things, and the South haters up in God’s country would call off the dogs, I A llul# wbU - k r * ,ew wlU >yi horn. They are bard up, however. Some of the hounds have lost the trail, and all are scattered and there is no keynote to rally them—tbe bugler’s don’t harmonize. Some said that the dot in New York was owing to a corrupt Democratic administration in that city. The Akron horror called for another solution, and now they boast that they saved the nigger, but if it had been down South he would. have been lynched with Sam Hoee P rlm »i7 tortures. A late paper rent me as f 1 * ra a marked copy says that Southern J** 1 ®! - . and ma mobocracy has crossed the line and is J tam unprlnclpl affecting tbe lower classes up North, just as a contagion spreads in unhealthy | regijns. It all oomee from the South, and there is uo quarantine to arreet its S rogress. That's bad and sad Lst's ulld a wail. But seriously we must w|rn our good negroes not to cross the line. It is dangerous. Keep away from Pana and New York. Stay at home and cultivate our cotton and corn and let politics alone and you are la Idleoees Is your curse. If way I would re establish the old patrol system and make every tramp negro carry a pass or take a whipping. , I would empower the town marshals and the country constables to arrest every vagabond on the highway and If he oouldent give a good account of Llmself he should be tied up and dressed down We old meu know that one good Whipping has more effect on a bad negro than five years In the chalngang. Even a banging is glory, for they are going straight to Heaven. Last Saturday night a tramp negro cut the slat from tbe blind of Mr. Cary’s house and opened it and crawled in and stole his paternal gold watch and his pocket book within three feet of his head, while he wae sleeping. No doubt he was armed, and would have shot Mr. Cary had he waked up and resisted. The negro took a night freight and was a'rrtested at Kingston, and the watdh was recovered, but be got away. We have got to do something with these tramps. Oar chalegangs fall eaough. I repeat it, that no good Industrious negro it la any danger in tbe South, nod they know It. Jim Smith is the biggest farmer in the State, and ha says there Is no labor in the world equal to that of well regulated negroes, and he knows. _ Hat tbe spirt* of mobocracy is not confined to the race problem up North. The lynching last Saturday nt Glllmao, la Illinois, was against an old, defenseless white woman—n doctrees, who wm suspected of causing a young girl’s death by malpractice, bat who had not had a trial, aor had any intention to harm tha erring girl. Jt mob of 250 men attacked her bouse le the night, and sba defended herself and her home and killed aad wounded m many as she could. They mortally wounded her and burned her house. What kind of civilization is that? Why dident they hunt up the man who ruined the girl * Our civilisation down South bM always protected women, no matter what they did. We will not hang them for murder, for even old Mrs. NobUs wm sent to the chalngang. Oar women must have protection from white brutM and black fie ads, and we would have rejoiced if somebody bad have given that scoundrel, Dr. Wilkereoo, who ran away with his wlfa's sister, a hundred iMhM before he wm turned loose in Atlanta. That wm a good oaee for a little mob law. If the law oolld not reach him tha Ush would. Poor, helpleM, pitiful wemaal How you have to suffer in slienoe and l]ve and (jjp with your wrongs] .Paris, France, Aug. 27,1900. This Paris Universal Exposition is, of cour*, not the iMt. There will be many others of greater or leM magni tude. They are even now projected. Expositions are also, like everything, subject to the law ot avolution. They are changing, changing. This on# is both tbe most frivolous and the most ■erlous of them all, but tha world aa one may look at it this moment, is both frivolous and serious in a greater ffe gree than at any time in history. It is probable that a hundred or a thousand years hence, the historian will have something to say about these expoet tlons. If the Crusades were a ctvlllz log force, why not the exposition, these crusades of iadustry, of art, of thought? It It possible that the his torian will refer to the Congress of Re llglons Si the Chicago Kipoeltloa, and to the various congresses that meet in Paris m of more Importance than ail the wonderful mechanical IndexM of material prog These reflections came to me iMt week at a reception givea by M. Lou bet, president of tbe French republic, to the thousands of dtligates of tbe ta nous ooagreeees bow assembled la Paris. To enumerate these ooog with the programmes of the queetlone they will discuss would require more space than the limits of this letter will allow. Tbay will perhaps not say any thing orally that hM not been written or that may not be read, but who can doubt the contagious enlightening and stimulating InfiuenoAof thousands of luarned, serious and earnest mes aad women striving, however Mindly and lamely, for Improvements, betterments, ideals. We slag the praises of steam, of elec tricity aad oLthe greatest of all, print ing, but the greatest their combined work accomplishes is to make such ooe- moglltan congresses possible and id pro ute tbe time "wbea tha war dram ill throb bo longer, when the battle I sgs will te furled ta tbe parliament of man, the federation of the world." The garden party givea by M. Loe- bet, the praoident of tbe French re- t ub lie, WM of gigantic proportions here wm no sunshine, the eveoiag wm cloudy, no fllrtntloM under the trees, no malicious gossip, ao laughter in that sarioM assemblage. The spec tacle wm historic, iMlraotive and de cently recreative, worthy of the dis tinguished penoaagM who had come from the four ooraers of the world to discuss most difficult problems aad has ten the maren of human progress The) arrived about tha same time, great crowd silently collected about the gatM of tha garden, aad waited with patience. There wm do protest from the North against the South, brought together la the crush. Dialects from the Neva and from tha Guadalquiver were intermixed in this cosmopolitan river which flowed’tefore the presldea Columbia. 8. C., Bepa.4,1900. The weak eadtog 9 a. tfcptaater 3d, wm much cooler than tha two pre ceding weeks, bet ooatl ‘ ‘ thaa usual. There wm a 01, on two datM, and a 69 dagreM on September 1*1. The rainfall wm geaa State, bet wm light oner northwestern portion. Many points ind from one to nearly fonr laches of rain, thoroughly relieving tha droeght, while generally the rainfall nninmtnd to somewhat tae thaa aa lack, which although beneficial wm iMsflolaaL The general condition of eropt In greatly improved, although the ratee came too late to help corn, which hM not improved at all, aad *tnbbi* oorn will be e failure. Fodder polling, and cutting oorn are finished over the eMt- ern, and nearing completion over the western counties. Early cotton shows no improvamaat. and will do no more than maturathn crop of bolls it now boarn, bat Into cot ton is again growing, blooming, aad 1 rutting. Shedding bM nr aeon, and there is less premature opaalag. Baa Ulead ootton hM attained hot half its usual sim, and to blooming to the top. Picking oottoe to general and la Irving pushed since the cooler weather set ia; some fields have bees picked over onoe. There to a complaint of scarcity dtra " ./•fl of picker*. Th 'ha rice harvest to 1th few exceptions, tbe yla very antlsfaotory. Upland rice will fnlinra. Pom, sweet potatoes, i pastures, and fall gantaae good effects of tbe reout turnip sowing hM become general The groand Is In condition lor fal plowing, and preparations have begun nt piaoM to send a large rains, aad fali of gram this autumn. It ii ■ is that crops short this the opinion of T nil kinds will bn vary Bryan on Holla anb Brabb.—The' Democratic candidate for President a few days ago made one of bis oheraa- terlstlte speeches at a oouaty fair In Shepherds town, W. Va. Mr. Bryan nod his party took breakfast at tha historic country place known m Baile- *ue, which faoM tha Anile tern belli* field across tha Potomac. Hon. W. L. Wilson, nx-postsMstrr , Grovar Clavalaad, snat old constituents strongly Mr. Bryan, saying that sicks vealed his aitaadeaoa. Mr. Bryaa expressed his being able to address a of farmers. He wanted to know how any farmer could bo a Republican. It wm easy to understand how tha head of a trust or aa army mrairaetor eoald be a member of that party, ha said, but m for tha farmers, they warn ant trying to gat their hands into ethar pouplb's pockets, bat to aaads o it of their pooka prosperous othar oiaasM might be, farmer wm not a sharer of iha Bryan of tha parity, currant crop, in this matter wps a fallacious reports la ti lag tha prospers agricultural nlMMS " They always exaggerate the poasi- bllitlM of a good crop,” ha said, h aad - novar taka la to ooaslderatioa tha Uktt> II hood of a bad crop. And after tha farmer bee tebea ibeee obaeoee be passM between the bolls aad baMB of wall street. Tha bails horn him, tha tears bite him aad whan ha in thrash with them hn hM to mast tha gaidhag. A good crop Is mada praising the Republican party, ted crop to ‘ Mai IVS this proposi a suggestion Number. 295,359 I 338,860 561,360 ..rrrn 1,819,291 3,177,3101 6,267,163 he remarks, show be expressed in ducing profit omitted. One large mill writes him that during the year it con sumed nearly 6,000,000 pounds of raw cotton, which it purchased in the seed, ! [inning and using the staple direct rom the gin, without baling. " This to possible in a great many parts of tha South, and while It Is no* resorted to, is one of the items showing advantages that could be gained under slreM of competition with other seettons and oountriM. The Item of local freight rates, which to said to havs militated against Southern factories In favor of " A Full Dinnkr Pail.”—This to the favorite expreMion of the Republi cans in the present oampalgn, and to used to satisfy tbe working people that their condition ought to make them supremely happy. Mr. W. J. Bryan wm Mked a few days ago in West Virginia to discuss lion, and in response to from the crowd, he said : "The gentleman Mks me to say something about the dinner pail. Tbe Republican party is Trying to escape a dtocusslonjof its attack upon tbe foun dation prinolples of government and when a laboring man accuser the Rs- pu&ican party of an attempt to destroy the declaration of independence, the only answer to that you have got a full dinner pall and while you have got plenty to eat, you should be satisfied. I want you to remember; in the first place, that you cannot satisfy a man by simply giving him plenty to eat, and in tbe second place I want you to count the cost of what you have to buy m a laboring man and measure it against your wages and see if the trusts have not raised the price of whafyou buy more than they have our wages. The Republican party no plan for the betterment of the perouanent condition of those who toll, but has permitted the great branches of Industry to be monopolized by few.’’ — your bM —The Chinese may not be civilized, but occMlonally they are pretty smart. A gang ot asaaasinz, after shooting an officer at Canton, threw a bunch of silver dollars in the street and made their escape while the crowd wm scrambling for the money. — Queen Victoria it contemplating a trip u> Germany, m she to anxious to see the Emprete 'Frederick. It 1* prob able that the Queen will leave Balmor al early In October for Frledrlchahof. tyrannny or hto faithless marriage vows. For her ehlldraa’s sace she keeps silent and barles her secret in her bosom. I know of men who made fame while living, and on whose monuments fulsome epitaphs are chiseled who disgraced and dishonored the name of hnstead. 1 know some who am not dead who are doing the same thlag now. A woman chained to an unprincipled man to the most helpless creature upon earth. Prometheus, bound to the rock and the eaglM eating bis heart, wm not worse off. Blackstone says there to no wrong but hM a remedy. He wm mistaken. Women have a thousand wrongs that are remedllMs. What kind of remedy to divorce off separation or alimony ? It to tha heart that to brokea. It to love and honor that woman wants, and wm promised her at the altar. If, m a last resort she leaves him, he struts around and claims thnchlldren. "The children are mine," be says. The man who says that Isa conceited fool. In the first place he does not know for certain That he to their father, and if be to, he made no sacrifice to be so. Ail the pain of motherhood is hers. All the tender care and nursing and night watching and generally all the prayers for their safety and good conduct are hers, while he 1s at bis bank or store or office or shop or maybe at his club or billiard table. There wm a time when the wife wm the husbands slave, according to the-law, and tbe children Were hto property, and It to hard to eradicate that idea from some men’s minds in our day. Woman hM been called the weaker vessel, and men the lords of creation so long that it won’t obliterate. Girls, be careful to whom you chain yourself’for life. Better sew or be a shop girl or a typewriter or a school teacher or live with kindred or friends and do housework than take any risks. Marry a young man who has good principles and. good habits, and not much money. The love of money 1s still the same old curse, and most of the young men wan* to» make it by short cuts and dishonest practices. " Get money, get it honestly, if thou canst/'but'at all events, get money,” to still their motto. The eager, grasping pursuit of money to the ourae of this age aad generation. Huntington to dead, aad left hto millions behind, and hto boast wm that all men were t iurcbMable, and when It wm to hto ntereat he bongbt them, whether they were legislators or CongreMmaa, or without frtattoffT ’M< E&utet and'i L'tutet surrounded by their civil and military houMholda ia the hail of the aids-de-camp, received their guMte, The affatelity of the hand of the nation to these trying dreamsMOoes 1s wall known. 1 say " trying," for, Indeed one hM to be the most amiable and hospitable of men, for it to no small un dertaklng to receive 10,000 gnMte Neltber M. nor Mme. Loubet showed any fatigue, and they did not deeert their post of honor until the arrival of the Shah. Monzsffer-de-dlna did not have on hto Sunday clothes. He wore on hto head throughout the entire fua- lion hto ordinary Mtraohan, aad wm followed by distinguished persons of hto suites, who did not leave him for a moment, but it occurred to me that hto smile wm happier, than usual when be offered hto arm gallantly to Mme. L?u- bet. When I remember the sad and careworn face of this potentate of the Orient on hto arrival in Paris, and when i see now- the animated counten ance with whichlt regards everything, I fear that bis subjects will not know him on hto return to Teheran. Persia hM millions of people but few newspa pers and notone la a thousand of hto subject* will know that hto life wm at tempted in Paris. Perhaps the most statesman like criticism of Paris and the exposition that hM yet found public utterance to that made by Professor GeddM, ot Ed inburgh, secretary of tbe International Educational Congress. Paris, Professor Geddes points out, is not. a mere city of ploMure. It is one of the great culture centers of tbe word and to of no leas commercial than aesthetic importance, for it line on the Intersection qf impor tant trade routes. But commerce to not more her mission at this moment than education. At this moment she 1s an enormous temporary university. Thousands of wandering aoholars, as they did in the middle ages, have come to her to learn m well m to' teach and she is realizing the largest, side of a world’s summer school. That tha affects of the exposition will be far-reaching and enduring, it is impoMlble not to believe. ^ ^ ^ ^ . -^Dancing to not an amusement mo nopolized alone by the young abd fri volous. Mrs. Phoebe Crabbe of Nor walk, Conn., 11 103 fears old and she la suffering from rhanmattoor brought on by that amuse meat. Uncle Billy Kip- perly of Fort Seott, Kan., who to TS, broke hi* leg recently doing a fme teU-ty controls th# cannot be time, for If It te n monopoly on rain would go ap." Candidates fob State executive committee at I log last wank appointed the 1 Democratic oandldatte the Bryaa and Btevennea ticket (mm this Stat#: A* Large—R. D. Lee, o( Sam tar; R. Hart Mom, of Oraagebur First District—M. W. Slmmooo, Ad am's Ran. Second District-W. W. Will lame, Alxen. Third Diatrlot-Cola L. Blea*e, New berry. - —■ Fourth District—W. MeB. Sloan, Co lumbia. Fifth District-W. H. Pollock, Che- raw. Sixth District—M. S. Caatey, merton. ^ Seventh District—George Tapper, Summerville. —The latest political the report that tlou In .HOInny has acme oat squarely for Bryaa, aad hM written a letter urging,aU Demo crat* to support the nominee ot the party. Heretofore Mr. Olnny had been placed ia the expansion" no a* wall a* in the "gold " column of Dm mocracy. If the report bo Iran, Mr. Olney’a conversion to saaond only ia importance to tha oaasaMoa which would be caused should Grovar Cleve land announce hto allegiance to Bryaa. Mr. Olney haa bean considered by many m the stroapoat man ia Clave- land’s cabinet. OUR GREATEST Foe 30 years Dr. J. Newton hM so successfully es that he to at the head of hto His exclusive nu Varicocele and Of knife or caul ail cases. In the Vital Forces, and Urln Potooni eases peculiar to snoosaMnl. Dr. > readily