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BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 28, I90 i. _
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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
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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.
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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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Carolina, with—
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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-
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and multiplying Tbs
tbair buMuc** ara not so
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svs let tee* every dnv Trnm young
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far knowledge and
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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
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b*s noma ftam an nab Una Iba* vbadvd
b*v bowat. Namaa warn vaasaa, aad
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Iona an bakar, farmar, carp*a.
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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
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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. /
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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
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