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nr » J ■i VOL- XXIV- BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 28, I90 i. _ ■ I I t \r NO- 36 A SENATOR'S QUAINT HUMOR The Ship Subsidy Debate En livened by Unique Arraignment of Democrats. < Senator Peltus, of Alabama, has de livered a notable speech on the ship subsidy bill, which was replete with quaint humor, and was a- unique ar raignment of Democrats who would vote for the bill, which he urged ought not to pass because of the millions it would draw from the treasury .by violating a principle imbedded in the constitution. Mr. Pettus spoke in part asfoUttWs: . ——— The sums demonstrate the wonder ful intellectual force of the framers o! this bill and their clear comprehension of commercial advantages, resulting from having your own lawyer to write the laws for you, so as to lit the ani to the facts and circumstances of your case. The moral part of the transaction, if any, may well be referred to Dr, Paley nr one of bis successors. I will only say it might be a little like the com ment on an ex-Senator from Alabama, who was then in the law practice with a partner—both great lawyers aod f owl men—real leaders at the bar. 'hey practiced in the wire-gia»s coun ties of Alabama. In the summer 1805 cot loo was selling as high as ZO oaots per pound. The Yankees" (I merely qu.de> wanted the cot ton and they loos the coUou. From one old tanner they look over lUU bales, merely oa the pica that they needed it in their bus'oeaa. The es- Senator aod his pannet <> oluoel t .) were easployed to recover the cuttua. Not about that uasc Coteuel C. went off od tmaloeea aod I he ri-.'senator was | left to manage the rase si km. ti* was eqaal to the task, or almost auv 1 the thing needed, juris. >0 like ci- had slipped up and omitted to put in the clause for the repeal, as he sup posed or guessed at. In consequence, the bill was amended so as to put in the repealing clause., In that way we had two repealing clauses in the same bill, and this moruing the Senator from Missouri modestly suggested that he did not think two repealing clauses ought to be in the same bill, and by a legislative turn back the bin now hits but one repealing clause. These bridges are considered of vast importance to commerce in Stales and Territories, and to the United States as a government; but Congress has manifested an absolute determlnaUqu not to a low any of these bridge acts to be make irrevocable; so degress can at any time repeal any bridge act and thus make the bridge an unlawful structure, and force the owners to pull it down. Here, however, these favorites, ship owners. are to be protected and made secure by an irrevocable contract in tended to secure to them this moat ex- travagaut b »unty through the long Tearv named in the bill. Now, suppose the Congress should deem it wise to rtqieal this net, and bad reserved the |>owcr to do so, what would the sbiftowuen lose 7 Nothin{ in the world but the subsidy. Their ships would still be their own, to be used as they chose to use them in any lawful trade; they would’have no coat- If strurtuns destroyed by the repeal of the bill, as the bridge owners would have if their bndge acts were repealed after tb< bridges were budt. Hm it is made maiflfsal that the bene- I flciaries under ibis bill, if it pws-t-s. I are to be d«c.ared prime favoriiee of the sat too—fas mors dear khan able ‘Radical’ proclivities.” Or this plain Democrat, If he was in the habit of thinking in the language of the filble, would probacy say, “ Ephraim is joined to his idols. Let him alone. . Mt. President, before we all get into this broad way of the broad-minded American statesmen—of taxing and grinding three-fourths of the people for the purpose of fostering ami pro tecting a class—it would be a prudent piecaution to look into “ the book ” and try to learn “ where we are at ” and to what place we are going. Wo can get the needed information by reading Matthew vii: 13,08 my preach er cites it. A broad-minded American statesman some years ago was understood to m6an a very great man, helping to govern this country, but in these years it means a man too big to stand inside the Constitution. r ~ Mr. President, 1856 was the “Know- falbt customers was named Shad- DAWS RELATING TO JURIES. 8WIPT TRIAD IN FLORENCE* rack Bogan, and his time sous were bhadracx, Meshack afid Abeduego. Another customer, David Allan, nam ed his son Absalom, and for a wonder he was a good boy and made a good David, had ho man, and his father, C Ftp ti ■ ion At Ff* . it rp as t# ebtttfy Thwtw ware m Hw—lor w«si u> safe* offkwr at that **provwcw" aaU rwc* •d tbs amt«m ami rss.ilvd klw f« • yww bwff wwvr bawwi bse vwtew t Jw a cbwrrb ball, swrwaak alwmat u* ad fWfwtlBW, wtih will powwr iw wTwrj laws) ywa wwwM kwvw wty tb*i cwUaw 4*4 wal fa MsWk lbs 4ivs few 1 *<ayawra4 aw4 abawdawsid uswwasiy t’«dawslt . nrtafwsd, ami awJ t*ms. rsMwlius «>*»» kw btmaatf. la baaw am-Aesaawaawaw— * * «• *basa> las bwwam * .sast* Ta#t ba»a> *m bawi. aad a t**a> * TVs wraasd » a«s ss tma * mb by - w • dam aa wm* ftss • »ap» Ssa • mai m*4 a »ba* iAUf MM 9 iMnw naff# 9 MMM» Vba saaa m kws iba a* tbe trai >nilnwqUl railroads. Iff I*r*eid*s it, then 1 is inmcihing radically wroug wtti th H rtci. Tbs jm.r Mptf 0 r fram twath t arnttaa. with % r f \ IH 4 J t>t) •in tie sad with the ea‘ha»i k99ll9 l#c si <•( ■ r uAert, Nothing year,” and our thanks are due to Uie Master that they, never had but one year. In that year the Know- Nothings took all Alabama—as they sup|K»ed. Winston was Governor, and he was tbe Democratic candidate for re-election. Shvrtndge was a candidate for Gov ernor also He had been a Democrat, but what be was then the people did not know. We had never seen a live Know-Nothing, thought everybody aod tbe newspapers were mostly talk ing about them, and Shortridge was suspected of being one. Tbsse candi dates met for the first tune ia Hu a te xtile. Winston spoke first, and be bad mock in say against lbe Kaow-Notb- tnge aad ibetr secret way at planning aod pkHtiag. though tie declared that be had never seen a live Kwow-Noib- mg. -wpHHwmpmMi shortrt-lgs followed. He wen end beod«uass. lie stood looking a *wd si W inekua, then seelz ** Gov. * * 0 r • - me 1 an •*■( are IrSj Mff '• bff M9«l 99*4 rwi f 194# of 19 9MM M htm B9i w« IM %m 4' 19949 'I IM ( tJMH|kl9f*} ‘ J I9M I Me l#W It is eM. awd Tbs beBtfirl l pasass, can 1 l> -wboBas. aftftvual aad < ; iba sabmfly to>.Jtmd Iba mst are 4 I r mm then ertei mvesl rally must Tbe This L«dewa betaw Bane, wa tag see tb« gov set,. U« M mat liss amn #4A0R wttfkMW 'uaohJ* : rtkdi 1 wttM half af awe fee Iw aaewersif hie wartm Tbe ( akawai s»iws with great gravity. lag. aad b*a Ik < mat be leraed aith pbvlesefdllcal • sbeka-g bks bead bere sm sped the wa wat rabUag ap Iba aaaiiasUary r but. 1‘iaatdtai, waa laid ta ma.** are atbar wrstoov. aadst tbm MU, if I be ia daager at tbe There w a vary mtihod ia tbss btil _ tm .U> agurmieJ tract ta to be made by Iba L ailed of tbe Aral pert, acting by iba fierra- tary of the Treasury, and tbe ship owner on the other pan. Tbe purpose in framing tbe art to as to operate by contract and not directly is twofoio. The first purpose 9 to prefer favorities, whose ships are distinctly pointed out by description, parUy finished and with an established trade, and partiv to be built in foieign shipyards, wi>h contracts for Ihtir building, filed two yean ago, illegally, in the ottice of the Secretary of the Treasury, as I have heietofore explained. The second purpose is to fasten liability on tlie United States by a con tract which, the shipowners claim and this bill provides, can not be changed or violated without impairing the obli gation of the contract. This is a radical departure from the ordinary course of legislation. For example, the Cougresa for tears ha-t been engaged every sessioiain granting authority to railroads and other corpo rations to build bridges across the navigable waters in the-"States and Territories. These grant^of authority to build bridges always amount to a contract between the United States and the bridge owner, because the Uuited States always requires that tbe government shall have the right to use the bridge as a post road and highway, so that there is a consideration for the grant. These bridges arc very costly, some of them costing over $100,000 and some of them costing over $1,000,- 000. Yet the Congress always puts into these bridge acts the clause reserving the right ou the (tart of the govern ment to amend or repeal the grant at any time to the future. We are all accuetotned to see the bridge bills reported by the junior Senator from Missouri [Mr. Vest], aod he, with ‘ the eye of an eagle and courage unlimited, aeea at a glance the OUiiaaion of the repealing clause, well aa the vices in other bills, and points out such vices so clearly that the blind ara made to see them. 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Ifcdl ff tfff f*99 fill luff §Ko 1 fl #ib4 919100). wtCk 9fMOf« Jb live Ki pier tog I t# 9 IIF9 Ml M 4M9l )uy eg. Dei •v«r aew a k hara, 1 m bie t.raaot. “Hero IfftoJ itUm k ti |l| 9J 1M9 rMt#f \\ •* A || F9 i ; 999l*f94. M99M9 99991 19 9 9 \ A9999 occasion to say “ Oh, Absalom, my •oa; my son I” - ~ - Well in course of time the people in creased'and multiplied so that their children had to have two names, so as to distinguish them, and so John’s son was called Johnson in English, or John Johns in Welsh. After awhile it be came John Jones. The Joneses are all of Welsh ongin. The Welsh were a brave, religious people, and fought the English for many centuries. They never did submit until they were prom ised that no king should rule them, ex cept one born on their soil, and he should be called the prince of Wales. King Edward’s ton happened to be born at a beautiful little Welsh town named Caernavrna, and the Welsh ac cepted him as their future king and called him the pnnee of Wales, amt that is how tbe title started. He was King Edward II. Now, there was another Welsh way of distinguishing the son from the father. Tbe little word “ Ap ” means sou of, aud it used to be written John ap Jones, but in course of iraae the little middle word waa dropped. It ta a Utile singular that away back iu the tenth century tbe Welab people who had been lighting each other in civil wars for two hundred years at last made friends and chose David ap Howell for their king. and Im bad a too named Evan. H« was a good man. aod his .subjects always called him 1 tlt< ^ Howell Da—HuweU the good. That t That moat bafour Evan of Tbe Al'anla (.00 „istaattue. ID* baa joai baea l**d oat all laff tboaa years. 1 see that tbe rhandier | of comet* rev gave a ha*.quel yesterday and Evan Howell raoputslad iw I be t.aat wood Fellowship. That snltod btm rtartly, I ki*ow, end bad I been there I would have taM bow btv great eerea lor waa called the •* Iks ** aad waa the leal king ef Wales. I called him ••ear Iba ieUpb<me tbw morning ea>l said “Hello Da" - aad ba aavwered ••HereV* Now, about Ndl H’ggt»»r<otbam That Is aid A agio its bob, aa*d me so* a ark. The obi as ate waa Changes Made by the Legisla ture—Of Interest to AH the Peo ple. The LegiaUturu passed three import ant measures relating to the jury sys tem of the State. * One of these was Mr. Dominick's bill to validate all juries for the spring term of court whether drawn regulaily or irregular ly. Another was that introduced by Senator Appelt to further rqgulate the drawing of grand jurors, etc. The law now requires six members of the grand jury to be drawn id the fall term of court to serve for the eusuing year. In case a judge is >-ick and unable to hold court, or in case of other contin- • '.im-, >< Stag. mi f • ■ad SM b««w tad m A at tim whirl s. anas ka bad sad as ml—laa ml bald Iba lagan bn whta a*> I Mwurrat cnwM tbta btU S law, bacswnr vwab maaaarr* ra^ <wii--a. and darls Inf vaaat right* la FiM# I bat pi igaaai rd far pass, ibaag* s ua*a a maka da- lbs ** fair preial •taM ia a | aaaa 1 aaa tba SMwatrj SM tba tv asgvraa Bicntai tail In* | a tab that amn aw that 1 can* tbair kettvra and iwaavaia. I rnpry funr a- ■ tbair Isi ft a 1 u> TW ll99 M AUl 191 ol j i ti i if Aklv«4r i« A99 pnjF9«l A94 tbff .Nutilh rw joi* • l ff • I i»fuAp9rt*9§ TATMMr* A9kl iaasaaataab las fiam *xoatb t am* tikia bill gave aa s eating ptctnra of lbs uaprav tag cuudilMM in certain ladastnaa, aa 1 1 that Uisaa tadnalrtaa am and multiplying Tbs tbair buMuc** ara not so BULL ABF BBLPt TIB TOUWO y sis Ashing Qwsstlasm aad He Tabes tbs Fines at Bsaha 1 Del pmsasd and bsmaand in vw svs let tee* every dnv Trnm young • i* and bays swsv tba basrb aakiag s IsfMvmnman an sasaa enbwsa at s b*la* Mk n sebani Salmi* ss far a 11 m jnat a Man. apagan* rally Imm am Karra far knowledge and rmsnt a vary I waa tbme at *g rsvpowd imply nub aa many as 1 can, bwt 1 cannot take usas la ante cum- j.oat. fi*. even if It waa tight la da ao Owe bay begs me ta wttta him s s bmaamwa *paacb, aad wtads ap by mkiag ma please la writs two, aa that be may take cheers. Ws ass that rotas at tba good India* sf ibe Atlanta Woman's Onb are mov ing ta kapply tbs conn try acbwds wub small Ubrariaa of good books sad lbs Bsniitsrn Railway has down tad a at nook rases lor them. This, of conns, is far Fulton vonaty, bat R is a move in tbs right direction aad will, a 1 dunt*. sttmulals__mt__Jlllk fdolbs Sams iking It ia tbs vary best thing 1 have beard of a w<v mao’a dab doing. Tbs dssirs for books to rend ia aimoal universal among tbs young pcopla of tbe rural dia- tncta, and they abould be enconraged. liooka are cheaper than ever before known, and cheap bookcases can be had for a lew dollars each. 1 am not at all intimate with Mr. Carnegie, but if 1 was 1 would whisper in his philan thropic ear and suggest that he turn his attention for aw bits to the towns and vtllagts and let the big cities alone. (Jur Cartersville Woman's Club is struggling bard to keep up their little library, but are not encouraged by tbe men of the. town. Their books are out all the lime, and are lead and re-read by many of the children whose fathers do not give a dollar to help maintain the library. This may be thoughtless ness, and so I have suggested that the ladies go around and see who will give 5U cents or 25 cents, or even 10 cents a month to keep up tbe supply and pay jilieir room rent and incidental expen ses. Of course the character of the books must be thoroughly considered. J Nothing sectional or trashy or sensa tional ; but only thoqe that “ point a I moral or adorn a s tale.” Every public school sliould-bava a burning commit tee, such as they have as Forsyth v ,Ga. A bright boy from Alabama writes tlj&t his name-ds John Jones, and wants to know when apd how he got a .u vii btakn*. !*rababty Ukv aid nnemsarutuk b*s noma ftam an nab Una Iba* vbadvd b*v bowat. Namaa warn vaasaa, aad ;jMoyl* tank tbvtf aarnama* jseta at aaiaav. *wcb m kul, I •laW. paak, ptaa, ptaat, aaka, ebaasaat f ram ab (•wauia, , . Mar. I < tx * 99999 vmb tbai . nacn, wmm.pam and and an f**ctk A at ft Iona an bakar, farmar, carp*a. miilv., favdanar. graag*r aad ail at tba family af tmtlba wWd warn tba Maltarv af Uwa aad ailvnv and I guid All wba wava dvtaitad la waKtk | fav an invading aaamy w«r* raliad MMitar* at amMba. lubw tMaHb * mm ortgtnnly Jobn. tba •mnav, Capama Jfd>n NaMb waa aa tUaatvkowi lypa at 1 bat etasa. Wbaa aamm wtra Uw long la pvaaotmaa rvadtiy, tbvv watt •bavtawad up. I’vtar, wba Mvna at U«a Havaa * Wba, waa callad 1‘vtar Bvaaaka, ibra IWtvr banaba. aad that v baw awr AUaatn frtaw* ram* by bm wama Tba aama tOwafd waa ocygtaaiiy cow bavd—a bardav at ratlin aaa waa nat impfaytd by iba ebaagv Tba adjauat at amt brigade *aa aaaaid Coward, and tba ar iy bad no braver aoUmr. Ha laM an arm nl Cbwkn- bomiay. Ha aldaya atgna I hi* nam* A. Coward, adj*lg«aT, aad balag naked ahy bo did not algo kia fall name, Well* my Am aama, uaforta gencies, there may ba complications as to tbe selection of the grand jury. Tbe act which will remedy that state of affaits reads: Section 1. That whenever for ahy cause, such as the quashing of the ar ray, or them being no court at the fall term, there baa heretofore bead, or •hall hereafter be, a failure to draw the names of kix members of.any grand jury for any county to act ve 00 the grand jury for that county for the Ihco ensuing year, aa required by law, Ultra shall be drawn, at tbe proper time for drawing the grand jury, 18 names from the jury box instead of li; aod the said 18 persons, whose names ara so drawn, shall be summoned, and shall serve aa the grand jnry far tba year in quaaUivt, and shall ba Iba law ful grand jury f«* such county for that [ year, and until Uietr sneruaaora ba drawn, vtimmooed and qualified accord* when the judge, en titled to preside, Luis to attend and In bold lbe fall or laat term of tba eowrt I of common picas aad general soaaiuwe I for any county, iba clerk at Iba eowrt •bait bava tSa right, aad Is required hereby, to make tba drawing from tba owtgetag grand jury, iba! kt u> my, from tba grand jury far tbe tbea car- rent year, at iba aumea at tba all membete wba shall serve as a part of tba (read jsry for Iba tbea 1 aaa tag year, wMb tba same force aad effuc* as if tbj as awe af tba mad aaa gmad juror* bad beau drawn to tba p rues ara af tba praasdtag jedge- The m ot tmpwrtaat ebawg* In tba jury *) •tarn wtu ba tbat b*agmhk_! ay ib* measure muwdacwl by Mr Cruft, ef Asbaw. It merely regelates Iba metbed af ** striking" aumea from lots prewared m Utala ta Ufce court aldf <»'Wmoa poaa. Tbm act, which ^ wa* spprevedby iba tisverwar Feb. Ik, ramfia: nsctMW 1. Thai ta tba trial af all actions as law ta iba cdbn af eammew pleas, sad taswea ordered IW ba iramud by iba ka vqaM« caaaa in said ke tba daty af iba clerk evens, it i> I ta feramb Iba partkaa ar tbetr attamaya lb a U*t af IU af Iba buern la bn drawn aad aalactad by betiet from ma wb**ta a am bar at jarur* who are m at- laadance, Iba namaa af antd I lata la ba nam bared f ram I u> fifi, aad ba atrtckaa off by aambere ta iba aama area ear aa tba regular panels of juror* la aatd courts bava beat* hareiafors|farmed. from wbicb sekd IM tba parviaa or tbair attoraaya shall altaraalivaly suiha, aatU ibrra •wall ba bat It left, which II c jwMiteta tba jury ta try tba ar isaaa. In ail caaaa tba plaintiff ■ball bava tba Aral atrlka, acid la ail civil cases brraafier triad ia Iba courts of com moo pleas of this Mala any party shall have iba right to demand a Twenty Minute* Only to Dispone ot a Famons Lynching Case. The Florence correspondent of the Newt and Courier, writing under date of Feb. 18, any a that Judgu Watts made a record-breaking trial in the case of the State vs. John Livingston, charged with assault with intent to ravish, and of assault and batter)' with intent to kill, and has set the pace for all olbei Judges in South Carolina to follow - in ilia trial of “ brutes ” charged with such enmea. Livingston was brought to Florence at 9.30 o’clock, arraigned in ojien court ; pleaded guilty ; sentenced to ten years st hard labor in the penitentiary, and was put nboard of the train, and waa on the way for the penitentiary to en ter upon serving his sentence at 9.50 o’clock. Just twenty minutes. Even Ihu citixens of Florence are wondering how quickly aad quietly it was done, but it was done nevertheless and Liv ingston ia now duiog time in the peni tentiary. Judge Watts decided to have Living ston brought here for tnal, and gave an order to Sheriff Hurch to go to Colum bia aod bnng Liviogstoo beta. Ha also empowered tbe sheiiff to appoint a sufficient number of deputies to as- sur« ibe safe arrival of the prisoner, to see that be was not harmed while bare, aod to sea that be waa safely returned to the penitentiary. Sbariff Burch Im mediately appointed about leeuiy-five deputies, among whom weir lawyer*, doctors, merchants and otbet men, and notified them to meet Train 54 from Culambia, at tbe Irby croaaiag, sear tbe court armed u> bl| stay la Florence. «*tfi.li ibe puny of depeure were «m hand LtnamSne wa* taken divert.v from iba irate to | the court bona*, the Judge baring bad tbs coart opeaed early, ao lbore would bo no ddav, aad iba prssuwor waa Ma med tetri y arralgaad. livtagaten ehoe aabadby tbs cMM OaMlv nvnatgmhyt I Aaswored la • Morn veam : M 1 j getity f" Tbe Jadga thealaM Living Moa that aatier ordinary ctrrnmsaaaceo be weald accept tbe plea ef guilty aad n»eld make ibe mate are Ugbt, bet eelagteibe fart tbea bo tbe enaaty and Mate la an n _ far him to save a Iyer blag, ehkh have happened bed ibe taw •ennred eoelrc** ef bMfi« and ibe tbat be nanid bsve parp*** bm f*r cerSatn el a* a lumen le mbeea ffbe emy tempt anrb a give bim ibe b^gbai t aenuaes tbe Inn woeM allow, aad be eared him In Ibe A Aw a term ef lea year* at hard Tbe end the abertff aad tbe Irby traia far Cetombta van an trmu Liviagatrm la tbe n»gta vbe ed Ibe deagbaer ef tbe keeper ef Ft flail, nttk latent le eemmM a I bravely •nelly Aad, baa Lesson or The Thu <ts.—Bradford Peck, a wealthy buaioem men of Lewiston, Maine, has taken ap the idea that the ayatem of co-operation la socialism taught in Bellamy’s feaoxs book, “Looking Backward,” la the true principle of civilisation, and bee or* E n'zed a society on that baaia el iwiston. He aeys that Ibe depart ment storm aud trusts have tanght the world that carrying on buainem on a very large scale ia much more econom ical than doing it in a amall way, and all the little establishments trying to get the business from each other. He is trying to enlist tbe men of gtent wealth, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vander bilt and others, in 'he enterprise, and to establish a universal system of co operation to gradually absorb the gov ernment, and in the name of all the people, carry on all lines of basin em everywhere. No one cab own any real estate, according to his plan, hot everybody — which th« have an a life. It trusts are co-ope rati way of di log it iiup means to fuily; and deacy is hardly tk able to bt in ki the court burnt, properly .* for the pneooer dartag j ***4 reace. <*tfi.U tie panv 1 MV " Heed I of tbe cos ed if the giee* tons tbe bvrvd as I bey have here, tbe mortgage enrse is still upon ibcta, an I itje tax carve is growing ftoa> bad to worse—especially the Federal taxation fibkh baa been growing larger aod larger—for the plain purpose of eo- ahliug the Congress to pa** measures like tlii*, which gives #9.000,UU0 acb ytarfor twenly-five years, smounltng iu the segregate to #225,000,000, U> corporations and other khipowners. Every dollar of all these millions must come out of the pockets of the people. Yei, sd far ns 1 can uuderstaud, no farmer, as such, will be benefited to the amount of one cent by this mon strous extravagance. Tbe ouly right to enact this bill is the fact stated by the wise man, “Tbeiich rulelb over the poor.” It has been a fashion of some thirty years’ standing, when a statesman in our part of the world has made up his mind to turn his back on hts party and his people he begins by praising trade and commerce and manufactories as more important than all oiher branches of industry, and this leads to the con clusion, in his mind, that all other in- dustiies and manl&ud generally should be taxed for the “ protection ” aud support of these most important in dustries, as he calls them. Then it is an easy thing for him to convince him self tbat the opinions of the protected classes- are of more value than the opinions of “.All the world and the [t; says his father and grandfather had rest of mankind.” Finally he an- the game name, but they died without noUhces that he has abandoned all his telliug where they got il. He says his provincial prejudices and become ,a schoolmate is named Will Iliggiuboth- broad-mmded American, and intends : am and he, too, wants to know where thereafter to follow the broad way of his name came from. 1 admiic their a statesman. Mi. President, if a Presbyterian pastor should preach to his congrega tion to the effect that the only safe road to the promised land went, through baptism by immersion, some elder of that church whose “slocking had a deep, deep tinge of blue V would be ceruiu ta say, “ If our pastor is a Preabyteiian, he has a baneful Baptist bias.’' 80, if a Democrat should declare tbe wisdom, good policy, and impartial fairness of this bill, some plain Demo- eager curiosity, for our naue is our signboard - and every boy ought to know who put it up and what il reads. Of course it is too big a thing to tell mucb about names in a letter like this, bul I must tell Jack and Bill about theirs. John is as old as the Christian era, and sneans “ Whom Jehovah loves.” I knew a mao very well who lived near Rome, and his four sons were named Matthew, Mark, Lake and bad to ba a coward aa it M to he a-daiu coward. * A few ceclaries ago evary civilised nation had to adopt a prefix or a suffix so aslo prsveouhscoofasiouof nqmes. The English added son to most of then names, aa Juhnson, WUii<un*on, Jack, son, Thompson, etc. The Scotch pre fixed with Mac. The Irish with Mac or Me for son and O for grandson. Tbe French took De or Du. The Nor mans used Fits or fiis (from Latin of lilius, a son. j Tbs Russians took vitch from tbe same word. Then there are many nicknames to he accounted for, such sa Bob, Bill, Dick, Jack, Jim, Sally, Polly, Betsy, etc. I don’t know how these started, but some of them came out the cbllier- ies of England and Uie quarries of Wales, for every miner has a nick name of Nosey, Soaker, Shanks, Jig ger or something easy to call. I had a schoolmate whoso name was Melville Young. One day he was tryng to do a sum in Fellowship at the blackboard and wrote dowd what he intended— To-D -but it looked like tod, and the icacher said, “ What do you mean \) tod ?” That was enough for the boys. They liegan to call him Tod, and they never quit, and he was known as Tod Young all his after life But the girls are not so much inter ested in names, for almost every gir expects to change hers when the right young man,comes ahng. She is not obliged’to marry a man named Cruik- shanks or Snoozlefanter or Hogg, but I’ve known them to do it, and they did very well. Bill Arp. P. 8.—In my last letter the types made me to say 260,000 Confederate soldiers. It should be 706,000—all told from the beginning to the end ef the war. . B. A. _ A tax on cats is tbe latest scheme of the French sportsmen, who are about to present to the Chamber of Deputies a petition calling for such ao impost. The tax, they say, would diminish number of uodesirabls cats which havoc with small birds and game. jurors from wbuh to strika a jury When the Uet alorteaid M praperad by tbe clerk and presented to the parties or their attorneys, objections for cause must be made before striking and if any objections are sustained ibu clerk must fill up tho list before stricken. Sec. 2. Should the jury charged with any case be delayed in rendering their veiukt, so that they could not bo pres ent to be drawn from in making the Iron bis, but the M heartily of iboee who lag dowa the two negroes. hat to form a second jury, then the clerk shall present to the parties or their attorneys a list containing the nsmes of 24 jurors to be drawn by the clerk from the remaining jurors in the same manner as provided in section 1, from which list the parties or their attorneys shall alternately strike, provided in section 1 of this act, until 12 are left, which shall constitute the jury. Sec. 3. In al) cafes of default, where it may be necessary to have tho ver dict of a jury, or in the trial of cases when the parties or their-attorneys shall waive the riirht to strike a jury, thR,clerk shall under the direction o ' the judge, draw and empanel a jury who shall pass upon such mutters as may be submitted to them in default cases, or the trial cf such cases, when the parties have waived the right to strike the jury, as stated in this sec tion. . Sec. 4. This act shall go into effect and' be of force on the first day of September,1901. Sec. 5. All acts or parts of acts in consistent With this act be, and tfie same-is hereby repealed. / * ' * ■ — 7' x There are times when, cattle get choked from swallowing a raw potato, or other substance. ^Td remove the obstruction there i^ nothing better than six feet of garden hose.. Elevate the bead, open tb^ mouth and pass the end of the ho$r<lown the throat. If not stiff enough to force the obstruction down into the stomach, pass a buggy ip down inside the hose and press gently, but firmly. Grease the hose day. to wi knows | a ready market and is 1 died to large quantities. D medicinal virtu**. Tbs How to Treat a Hoaex.— K farm I *****?* thas* rooSs la exchange, ■peaking of a Rian’s afi* March, when tbe sap iadowu tempi to catch a horse in a pasture The me has the reputation of being when be didn't want to La caught, says ^ produce a greater weight of such an one is about the tnoet unhappy meAt i 0 k shorter tune from a certain man you can find. And <t is trneTBut quantity of food any of oar other why do not all horse owners teach | farm animals. As UinstraUve of this their hoi ess to come to them, when in n mey be mentioned that while a well- the pasture 7 It is a very easy thing fed, comfortably-quartered pig will in to do, and often would save a vast U-eMe in weurbt at the rate of one amount of trouble. The proper time pound for every five or six pounds of foi such-teaching is when the animal ^ food which is consumed, an ox ra ts a colt; but if not done then, or if it qdtree to consume from twelve to Of- is a bone that was bought and not teen or eighteen pounds of dry food raised, the thing to do is to be gentle (depending on the material used) In or- with it al all times, and pet it when-1 o er tq ptodnee the same weight of ever occasion permits. Then if the horse will est sugar, if one will carry a I few lumps in his pocket and give the horse one occasionally, it will soon get so it will come unbidden to -get the sugar. If it does not eat sugar, though I most horses will, a little corn, salt or I some other thing that horses generally j like, will do. By uniform kindness and the continuation of such treatment meat. Prof. Massey, of North Carolina, is a high authoi ity on coW peas, and he says he gets the best result* to tbe land by letting the peas remain till killed by froet and then plowing them under and sowing the land in rye. We believe that » true; and then if the rye is plowed under when abont knee . «_ 11 , * u n 1 high it will be sure not only to help for a while, almost any horse wili come U* ^ p^^uy bot ^ the when caned. There are some people planted on the land very much who have the foolish habit when Uk- whata , er ^ crup ^y If tng off the bndle to turn the horse in- low ^ uader * (tut B £g e , rye soon to pasture, of striking at it wah the AQd u wlU k eep th? Mil porous bridle to make it run off. That is 4nd moi8t ^ 8ummer t ; the way many horses are taught to be l v hard to catch. And it ought never to John Scott, ip the Commonwealth, be done. The value of a horse is quotes from a Judge of the United gieatiy increased by gentleness and I States Supreme Court: “You tninis- intelhgence, and it ought by all means | lers are making a fatal mistake in not to be fostered. Dempsey Here, the richest negro in Eastern Virginia, who recently died, owned 2,000 scree of good farm land. He had prepared a marble vault moaument an. I handsome coffin for hts remains. Hare, who weuld not associate with negroes, cherished ambition that his ons daughter should V I become the wife of a white man. well before using, and feed soft feed to When she married e negro the old John, end his two daafbters, named Mary and Martha. These food cfat itUfhl be tempted to excla'm, “ IT old-time people had treat revereace fe« he is * Democrat, he has most remark- the Bible end Bible name*. One of my ao ordinary high road. animal for e day. or two efter . b^q VM eiaahed. He ref used to me choking. | ognlse her end left the balk of has A horse can pull three tons on lever* Thirty thousand people in tbe Uoiud ' property to white friends steel rads for every too be can poU 00 States make their living from the grow-1 applied to a sargvoo to 1 his vutoa. holding forth before men, as promi- uently as the previous generation did, the retributive j istice of God. You have fallen into a sentimental style of rhapsodising over the love of God, and you are not apjiealing to that fear of future punishment which your Lord end Master made each a prominent element in His preaching. And we are seeing the effects of it in the wide spread of demorahuitoa of private virtue and corruption of public science throughout the ■ tog silk industry. ■ IM. 4 * ' 1 4 -i ’ I ■i ■ I , T,