The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, September 13, 1900, Image 1
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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
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