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The r ' " VOL. XXIV. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY’ 4, ,ooi. TUC enilTU NOT TH RF P FPIIRI AIMf/Fn “uJcr eiistmg comtition**. The He- husbands and fathers; am] just so his- I nC oWU * *1 liW 1 I W DC rVCrUDCIOrVMl^LLy. p u i ) ij Cau party cannot eslabli.-h itself tory r. peuts itself all along the genera- THK WEST VIRGINIA STORM High Tariff Legislation a Menace to Our Material Prosperity. * ? • - TRUSTS AN ENEMY TO SOUTHERN BUSINESS INTERESTS. WHAT WE MOST NFKU IS ACCESS TO THE MAHKET8 OF THE WORLD. Editor Constitution: Your recent admirable editorial on the tarilf <n its relations to future party policy, must be my excuse, if any be needed, fpr this communication. We have heard much of late about the elimination of the negro .question front Southern politics, and the conse quent upbuilding of a strong Hepublt- can parly in the Southern States, based, as the rumor runneth, on the further ance of our material interests—as though adherence to Democratic prin ciples would retard our progress. Assuming for the sake of argument, and that only, that the r ace issue is elimmated, and that the Southern peo ple are now entirely free to pursue their “business” interests, they can scarcely be expected to sacrifice those interests by adopting the'economic policies which, from beginning up to this date, have characterized the Re publican party. It is a serious mistake to sdppo'ac that rentiment alone has controlled in making the North Republican and the South Democratic. Aside from war passion, now, happily, abated, the Re publican party has always adopted an economic policy that was distinctly sectional and hostile to the South. Its Aral task was the abolition of slavery, ami no aooner was that accomplished,. at fearful coat to the South, than it Me gan iu high tariff policy, which was a less often, hut equally effctlite, method of carrying ou ao economic Wat against the South scarcely sur passed to material btnUhip by the lie- (■Hi *•* pi ’''I p.. M * : -UM SoqUi tisis luct-pltqr>rV>oU.J« shale of fl.VO.tssi.iJtJ' annually totbcf.m- tuon treasury, only to tee tariff i;ate on these manufactured cot tons "would not be of any practical value, no maittr how high you might fix it on paper. No man can devise a tariff scheme that will materially Jielp a heavy exporting industry- operating under the laws of competition. If it can undersell its rivals in foreign markets, it can certainly do the same thing in its home market with freight charges in its favor. Our manufacturers of uucolored cot ton goods ate, therefore, iu the fame situation now with the growers of raw cotton, and in that ^act there is much hope for those"patient plodders of the soil who have toiled so long to m ike others rich. And they arc not with out other prospective allies, for every ihJuslry that reaches a vigorous ex porting development becomes facto, an economic enemy of a high in the South by proclaiming a mere sentiment of renewed biotherly love, which we fully reciprocate, nor by dis- Iribuiiug a few Federal ofiices. It w^l have to change its economic, policy, the distiugaishiug characteristic of which is now a high trust-breeding protective tariff that is antagonistic to the South’s business interests.and also to thulnational welfare. - Wiluam II. Flkminu. Augusta, Ga., June ID, IDOL BITE ARP TAEKS ON SUICIDE Due to Unhealthy Condition of Mind—Chopping Wood a Sure Cure. Atlanta Constitution: The increasing prevalence of suicides ( indicates an unhealthy condition of ittmd and body, and I have thought that if the man would quit thinking about his troubles and go to Chopping wood or digging in the garden, or even go hunting and get up a good circula tion he would feel better and conclude j|>eo to iiv«.oti a - while longer. The. body affects the mind and when the blood tariff, excepting always, and, of course,! in the veins gets thick and sluggish those brigands of commerce, the trus 1 s ■ And the secretions become Stagnant, that are able to crush competition at . the mind gets diseased and morbid, 1 the emotions ate out of tune and the man actually believes he would find lest ainl peace in death, it is strange home and exact for their goods a pre-1 miuru in the home market over and ' above the price asked iu the foreign | market. No two industries in the South are j more directly antagonistic to the Re- ; publican high tariff than cotton grow- : ing mid cotton manufacturing. In view ot this Net, how strange it seems | that tin- new movement toRepubn-t canize the ^>uth should apparently In- [ fathered by tbr cotton mill prvai'tPUt* of our neighboring3URP* of North ami 1 that any man of education or rcline- mepl duld t fiteXalD -in h an unreason able hops. W hat did the schoolteacher ot Dothan accomplish by killing Dr. McNeil and himself? Where is the schjolleacher now? When two en emies tight a dm < «r< \c. It is isMsiUic, loo, mat me a. TieWnltoTUrlooms m.ri Mrc loll . lanes it Mol Mil ding mostli >outn holdet Ci i li l e | mm' thing u^nr pany has si IV »ii a i'l maps ly i he per cor- that ih* bo w*n lh« ID ao Ui thi I heir spii d? l>o lin y ■igbs> lor.- of ui\en? tths >mpli*li by.ki then htUkeir. rmw ahotit it. The Democrat) tbc beyond her N*rd rr« Being in the ml {-u'-.i* aii aonty, she could 1 offer do •Dcceeaful re- market* < atomic. What 1 Previoa* u> tb e civil war the average | Dtf a|ii| tanff rale vane *1 frutii •• |n f rmi. lo i i lively ir ITito, to jn per < roi. Ill to lOjirr Iflkffl laael cent la l(t2w < kt loan a*.the “Tanff of b* HI Iff i tH Abouitnalton*” j , to 21 p*r cent, in of Teal 1**I2, to 27 per i rent* in 1^7.-and to That r ffVp* *** 1 i" 1 <17. ere ui lb TW n naar tb- s tiepahUcna tanff of , krta Vrr |M*.| ( ebuol 3b per rent., of IMM5 | •lot ll OM ray ■ krv« .*1 tariff fav< •f Ui. 1 m tr* vty i ii uW IK in 1 Is not and both are kilted, it* meet in the other •hake hands r renew emirs**, thav aia not l <hw* the young man illug his sweetheart they not then >Wn— ane - * As Hamlet r to (tear the :vri dc tions. It grieved me that 1 cquld not attend thy; centennial and "commune with the alumni and rejoice with the young and feel lonaly with the old. Then there is old college and new college, and the chapel and the campus, and the two halls that are still unchanged. 1 wonder how many hoys have occupied the old room that Briscoe and 1 lived in for two long yeais? I saw it in the picture and felt like it was still my room. 1’he. ailanthus trees (by a mis nomer called the tree of heaven) grew close to our windows and extended their nauseating odors to the dormi tory where we slept, and the hoys all along the line complained, hut the faculty said it would soon pass away, and the trees were imported from China, the Celestial Empire, anfl they were called the trees of heaven. Ho one dark night tha boys (not 1) got ast a and girdled them and they died and went to heaven in China, where they came from. . For some months I roomed in new tollege, and so did our tutor, w ho was cross and -never smiled, for lie was an old bachelor—peace Ao hts ashes. He wouldeut let me nor Chess Howard play on the flute alter study hours at night, nor let Ren Mosely and Dick F.irmcr play on the fiddle. Said it an noyed him, and so some of the hoys (u«t 1) got some old cannon halls from the armory ami away iu the dead hour of night. When deep sleep faiteth upon a man or a tutor, they rolled a six- pounder along the long hail 200 feel right by his door, which was about 1 midway. When it got to the other aWl *.y; then the end another boy sttppcd out anil rolled through the •u*k« i iu the luwu it ttack again, and this rolling grid rum- i ou,, d bundled-* cut off front Hm bliug was kept up for a lime until lln-rc I t* in ft' 111 '* 11 ami iln- hotel wa' fast to (be tele| h<>ne poles Uy llumlr* ds of TW An Eye-Witfteaa Describes the Destruction of Keystone a Min ing: Town. *s The following story is told by an eye-wink0*s of Ihg great Hood in West Virginia; . . » o Keystone is the metropolis of the Klkhorn mining country. It has hut one narrow street, and because of limited space many buildings were built on piks or walls over t^e Elk- horn, or close up against the moun tains. The town follows the meander- iiigs of. the stream for a mile. “ On Friday at 11 o’clock the storm struck the mountain, and lot six hours ram descended in torrents. At day break the thousands of peojde along thu Elkhorn and its tributaries rea izeit what a great Hood was u jam Ahem, hut they little su-nected the disaster scon to follow. By D a. in. the narrow valiey was a- raging, seething, angry torrent. Houses, barns, bridges, tills, livestock and-humau beings were swept away by the mighty current mul dashed on the rocks or trees HMow. . “1 w&s ail eye-witness of the <lisaster at Keystone," beingH ^uest a' the Na- tkiual hotel. This hotel laces the mouniain, willi a narrow spdl h^iweeii it and the building on the npiuntain Hide of the street. At the first want ing many of .the inhahiiants, took re fuge ou the iuouutdin side overlooking the town and river. More than lOO l»eoplc, however, remained iuJhc lowu to look after the women and children who <fi<l not csca|»e early. The bridge ending to tin- <k |sa was soon »wt pt angry waters, ru rod h»|.|wn«<i just a Ual they thought would ! hap|M*o. The tutor ha>l o|>eiie<t s c rack I line bed We mouu- made mean* were town to a honsiilcrable depth. Had it uot been for the jamming of three or four buildings at the upper end, near the suspension bridge, no d« ubt the entire property of the town wohld be a ti lal loss. Just opposite Calhoun’s buildings, on the other side of the creek, all houses were entirely swept away, including the most of Belcher town. Property is undermined and badly damaged at Burke. The whole fill, ou which the two tracks pass through Keystone," is entirely gone, Pack and all., The wagon bridge and the coal company houses on the com pany’s side are also gone, and the building known as “The First Chance” saloon is demolished. Many persons had narrow escapes with their lives, and men, women and children suc ceeded in escaping through water, waist deep> while others were carried away. Mr. Abbott succeeded hurescu- ing a man named Lockwood by fasten ing himself to a post by means of a rope and making a dive in the swift water just as Ijockwood \>as sinking Irom view. Many similar rescues were made. iu his do >r, and when h«- ttall coming for the tilth time hear*I the he slipped savci the mu i Hut Idy, Mir. .tit* tnjiti llllf w t< uwt mdihuly uud ^wp[nd foot and pi* ktd it up ami took 1001. * hi. r •Ti*r« t many I* sight of fro t their I**» ‘l siwt plain ** • r. * KlFIMIIoN- Ol A R\(I1K+S»K.— Brevity is the soul of wit; wit is the levity of the soul. The women may look at wicked man a ilh horror, but there are a lot of good men that they never look at at all. Woman is man’s jiaslure; man is wo man's passion. A woman can never have much mind and euk it, too. * I hove noticed that a woman very ■el< Om hump* her head very hard when she Uinta away. If all the women in t^r rhurrh spoke right out iu the middle of the meeting sod l«*id what they were thinking nbonl all the nug« U silling on the roof would dr up dead. ^ V ou can always tell just whalV ImmiihI to haji, an to a fuui till some- fhilreotsMie tuakwtgwys ton womau. n never think it n sin when ytwt new uaio rtvei y to * Alu re that wr Tt mi MM* )U*l D bat the buy a <it«A li i h- mri anti drow u*-*l. n--n*« • ; Im by not run away waul tM* lot they had knot he r our' lu «<1 »i»«l mmtx •1 in ih* iin.-hi\ *u.a || |o tb« WlMtol* — the t ft* ctlli i, . i... t. In doe t imr th ry with *ti rvami (Tg w*>nt* n an-l tbc braoebea. j in lb< rel ao*l sent it alow ly • m ibe r milt. Hurarw, ralffe and ott Hi W« ^ aeewwe 1 11 ir ba ttway aiul U •!*» l-jbd n ot atimiaU m* ui d.»au la droves and « ll, ill Inf f ll bla door. i.iui*>>> h* Stepja r«J gl) »lrui •. tai fur lile. t aiii*l lid r lun«*u*i> «H|I 1 U \ igbt fi • wd bie r»a*»i a show* -d ^ Thr N oik and tt rstero railr* Ibc I tffff eliM «i mtitil uiiit th 0 i a 1. H« i seized II ■lib li le HU al !h •r# gate Way au«l m* »u^bl f Id hhI a raigbtnay d ••plied it ibaii a Ulliv* **f tiack Dow lus m 1 I* ly the in h enteat plcnaure muni I g*t in hravrn wnl the walls watching n r pines rubber, dvt of which iu dog to get even mI larrotnas Very a* a *- wh •miug, was whi< at r<aw halrr u ml aav. ahflWT gl par rent. ol i*.*;, i This l Mil* in ii i Iasi 1 * s a* Dt > Pit 4lt ■H At •\mr •1 ir UUa •, t M • Vt4l*| m •! U|« failytl. Ill L wmM tt%m* +ny Umk min' llMf idle rt«u Ilf Mr* l*« ha* he«- rarnnu !•» she prudnrU, who to equal favor mm Is to be tare. The Kc North- in map tanff -bill m the smuih will |«lc ou e.|ual Our U s|*r* s to grab our W hat* v«i liave denv clause i»l th tq taxation. i >4 rase 4 the tear* >11 fo art, I u rha raver 1 km mu- li ai. t a. U I hi the >g *1 i pa** a 1 v t.rgm part i*i- Nuith. >wn the id trying Th 1 fn u \ w< **-Uth undue i refer dy «lu \ t tusy niity l' DCC Xc not dua lu dom on the | Kouthcrn |ieo|de our social, tiniii any nrt (null r*f th thru cia .1 by ot baht uf w i»- geuerali'rti of i in Ida, bqt to and material cu ft* !• «HJ Ih al* mi ir ext 'usc i «nr*t«nl ie tariff eye] • 1 UlNtU u*. unit*** v |*ermau* re permi 1 ihctu U> Trad*. i in R§ Uu ii auaivnu. c1auge of pnalta: it. * * The Ilamiltoii Ban doe nu ; industries. ■ esaiuom' . growth. reated utt ' scieliliti ic basis, ahhougb was ro ti)|tclle*l to m»k*- tl - sacrific* * for tbii i national i lt ( r n a gummv Uie >onih lie heaviest good t'» the eunchnient of the North. But in nn—i lines w* have now paaee-l Uyon-I the ntpge o( “infant industries,” and the national welfare no longer demands such sacrifice. It is an economic wrong! and ought to bi‘tor any free people an intolera ble injustice that they should be taxed to protect an industry that sells its products in foreign couutries cheaper than at home. Why should we pay a goods coming into a country lessens premium iu order that our trade com- the exchangeable value of goods going petitors may get a discount? . viromuent, created by forces o|M-raling before thaLgenetaimn was born. It is im|-orUnt in this connection to bear in mind one of the simplest and plainest truths of political economy, namely, that a tariff ou im|>orU is in effect a tax on export*. Whether a given tariff rate on im ports produces an exactly equivalent burden on exjiorts may be open to doubt, but that a tariff tax levied on 1 M< wb hr l S tarns- i do well taiood id t M*W* d Dtaty, by hair Man uf a for New- a pun them in larva p co- SE NATOR VEST ON THB DOO. Friend* I True lb ermi *!)• | i rrc« ’ •« i f > i ftUC h« u ii*un (if th which 4*l«f •4 N . i i * ktuiniJKi lit rail r.|*araiM*a of lata a: t barIrstna,” and it la to “ lbo i air rest of •ret tarmrr to ataka aa >sm crops ” wheat and ate n*>w being bar- out of the same country is not denied, so far as I am aware, by a single rep utable thinker or writer on the sub ject. Any business man can make his own practical application of tins truth. From that iruth it ueAsaarily fol lows that a tariff oivimports falls with special severity on those particular in dustries which furnish the experts given-iu exchange for the imports. What industries have borne this special burden? in 1820 agriculture furnished 81 per cent, of our lotal exports, and with slight variations it-^strll furnished in 1880 as high as 82.25 per cent. One ©f the mUt important items was the South’s great contribution of her raw cotton, which from the first was es-'- sentially. an exported product, add. which was greater in proportion than the exported product of any other sec tion. , It is easy, therefore, to fix the status of the cotton grower as a burden-bear- el under the tariff. But in recent years we have turned To illustrate, Southern Russia is now entering into competition with us in the” production of cotton. But American steel rails to equip a road iu Russia to open up cotton lands can be bought iu the English market cheaper than those same rails can he bought m the American market to equip a road through cotton lands in Georgia or Texas. The steel company is only one of the many thus sheltered by the tariff. These trusts, like the serpent m the fable, are biting the breast that Wann ed them into life. Our government expenditures are too colossal and our industries built up on protection scaffolding are loo many and too insecure for us to,.talk serious ly now about demolishing the tariff gystem, hut common sense and com mon justice cry out for reform of its abuses. The Republican party, judged by Us past, is not competent for this work. ItrWould be difficult for good Ameri can citizens to find better employment to manufacturing our raw cotton, and just now than knocking bricks off the have already gone beyond the capacity top of the tariff wall, of the home market. In 1D00 ojjr ex- By all means let us have broad con- noits of uucolored cotton goods, aiich ceptions, independent thought, and " as we generally make in the South, free discussion to the end that W amounted to *13,229,443. may find out the truth for the goo* ., Of the same kind of cloth we im- the countryTather than pf party. - But ported only *357,04, a mere bagatelle, independence of thought does not re- showtng not only that our milU need quire ua to become IL-nnhl.r..,. no protection in this line, but that a dope it permit such was COB did s the Ik-sI the must heroic thing that he could do. It was the very intensity of grief and repeuianee and ha* uo parallel in ilUMlcrn suicides, for most all vf them arc selfish or revengeful. It was like the Rankin of Saul, or of the ancient gcneials when defeated in battle. - Tbe most alarming feature about these suicides of«our young men is the* indication taal they are uot "helieve'rs in the Christian religion. No sane man will take his own life if he believes in heaven and hell and a future state of rewards and punishments. ^_Ile will be afraid to. The influence of modern fiction.ou the youthful mind has much to fto with it, for a great deal of it is tainted with atheism and infidelity. Even some of the standard writers, such as Hume aud Disraeli had left their had impression. The latter threw a dark shadow over life-and sajs that “ youth is a blunder, manhood a strug gle and old age a regret.” Is it uot far better to take a more hopeful view of life and say like the poet, Horace Smith: “The world is verv lovely! Oh, my God, 1 thank thee that I live.” Or to say like Ixmgfellow— “ Lite is real—life is earnest, A nd the grave is not its goal.” It if easy to diagnose a poet’s tem perament or a philosopher’s by his writings—some are gloomy and some are bright and cheeriul. I was rumi nating about these young men who have just graduated at my alma mater anil tbe other home colleges, and won dering how many of them would prove a success in life and twenty j ears hetnte exclaim with the poet, “ (4B7 aiJrGxxl, UUK UIVLI n, MUU we ■ (*l . „ HI like the modern *<ti«i it* hm ml uL m >« >y n 1 is to keep tb from cotnmifl ing-suicide. It divert their miud* from the strain of trigono metry and calculus and conic sections. I‘roeres* in the order of the day in col leges as in -everything else. One hundred and fifty years ago old Dr. Johnson said to Boswell, “In our great schools there is less flogging than for merly. Consequently, less is learued there. 8o what the hoys get at one end they lose at the other.” Now there is no dogging anywhere, and the teachers and professors are thankful if they escape it from the boys. • Bill Anr. m.t tw.atrt. {oTTifinffi next thirty day. It W field that the Ions of I IK-lglllHU IiimmI ol »ix lltiY raff is IhtHigbl life will I y. »The o* 'all ula" umti cast. » Tie.its s*iM fur Ml? t Blue* I he in the coal tradc- e !«>»* a* a The Forests' of Maine.—An empty thread spool may be a very in significant article, yet the making of it has assumed such dimeusiQD* in Maine that it may be classed as one of the leading industries iu that State. Tbe sawing of spool bars is a J|yidred in dustry, and no less than 15,000,000 feet and exported annually, chiefly to Scotland. Maine is a well wooded State, are many of its timber varieties such as yellow birch curly maple, brown ash, white pine and spruce, are rapidly coming into favor with house decorators and furnishers. Until quite recently the woods native to the State were little known, but of late years there has heeu^increasing activity in the way af erecting plants exclusively devoted to wood working. This in creasing activity has its drawbacks, for the State is but small, and the sup ply will no 1 , last, and what will become of a irrosperous industry when the raw material is no longer to be had re a problem which will have to be tackled I thank Thee that I live.” Fifty-four by some forestry commission, and that lears ago I wa*.aL Athens, in the class i® a comparatively short time. of''47, aud of the forty-two then living i ^ 1 ^ there are now but half a dozen left. 1 Raspberries arid blackberries require Many of th* m lived ami died and made a well drained soil highly fertilized, publicans—nor no signs. Some of them aaw trouble They do best when the ground is transformation ’ and some made good citizens. go-«l mulched. will suffer almowi inn result of the washed <>ut tracks and damage to their machinery. A gen tleman from the stricken section gives an> explanation of the repoil first cir culated, that great musses of human bodies were to he seen. Iloaling around in the water. It seems that there is a grave yard between Norlhfork Junc tion aud Keystone, which towns are about a mile apait, and at which point the.8torin was very severe. This grave yard is near the bank of il.a river which caused the great. destruction. When the flood came the graves gave lip their dead and added greatly to the bodies seen. Tazewell, Va., also 8iifTerc|j from the cloudburst. The house of I’aris Van D)ke, four miles west of Taze well, in a gorge of the mountains, was wash :il it way. Van Dyke beam the roar of wafer and started home from the field. When a short distance f rom the house he saw the water rrediin down the mountain sales, teanng up and t wisting off giant trees as if shiuhs, the water leaping forty feet high and traveling with frightful speed.. Van Dyke rushed for the house to warn his family, hut the .water overtook him and swept the house and all its inmates away. Two children, five and seven killed, their 1 he Ih-M iwc them in — good »* Mr. t ar i*l# »a\ *: -‘Salcct now from tire loal oi luut atiukl and oats m otic nr jpwra-^tmhnk^lMa. Ai«u salad A .!*,/« n *fieAv*i ach, aud presc ill lion a* you can. also urged to begin “ Exhibits of all other cro^ ly corn, tobacco, rice and |M>tatocs,” Mr. Carlisle explains the first steps preparing exhibits of these crops, concludes : “ I/el us ail act and |wc for im in H« The fanners preparations When All Other He Remain*) Ifaater. One of the most eloquent tributes ever paid to tbe dog was delivered bj Senator Vest, of Missouri, some year* ago. He was attending court in a country town, and while waiting for the trial of a case in which hs was in* lerested he. was urged by the attor neys in a dog case to help them. He - was paid a fee of *250 by tbe plain^ff. Voluminous evidence was introduced to »how that the defendant hed shot the dog in malice, while other evidence went to show that the dog had attacked tbe defendant. Vest took no part In the trial and was not disposed to speak. Tbe attorneys, however, urged him to make a speech, else their client would not think he had earned bis fee. Being thus urged be arose, scanned the faceof each juryman fora moment, and said: “ Gentlemen of the Jury: The beet friend a man has in the world may torn against him Knd become bis enemy. His non or daughter ihat be has reared with loving care may prove nngratefnj. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with owr happiness and our good name, may be come trailers to their faith. The money that a man has he may loae. It flies away from him, perhaps when he nerds it most. A man’s reputation miy be sacrificed in a moment of tll- cousidcred anion. The people who are prone to faU on iheir knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone ot islk-e, when failure setups its dowd upon <»ur bead*. The om abeolaMty unselfish friend that man can have la ibis selfish world, the one that •laaeru him, the one that never uogfhtefnl or l rear be coos, is bis A mao’s dog stands by him la peiilj and in poverty, in health and 1 Mrfcnsas. He wfll simp «• the ewM gioand, where thu nlntry winds blew, end the eoow dtivee fiercely, If ewly he mey be neer hie wieslei *e side. He wUl hlM the bend that hi no food 1 offer; he will Ihh the woeode and •usee that cease In eoeuesler with the ruegbeeaa af the world. He guards the sleep of hie peeper mee^r es if he mmrm m Briar*, m b«o all oilfcar frtaa4i ti#tert ha rtMaia*. H b»e riches take wings sod repwiaimw falls In pieces ha m e* Qieteat to hie brew as the eon to its juwrweya through the heei ** If ferieee dnvea ae reilrast is the world, fnei bum*, the feahial - higher pdsllege lhaa that <4 pauviag h*w>. lu ewnrd ■laager, to fight agaioet his Asm When the leei aeeae ot ell a<>d iloQih i#k** the meets, m Me os brace, and hie body is hdd away ihe r*4d gvwnwd, no metier If aff i Heads parewa ti air way, there by grosesulf will the nobis deg he fen hu head between hie pi sad, hnt open to alert eeuhfainai, laiii.fu end trne even to death.** Then Vest si down. He had spoban in p tow vases. eilkoni a gesture. He made ao referenee in tl the merits uf the ease WI iim*hed judge and jury were their eyes. The jury filed eat, hi —mnt entered jntth e verdict to few of •he plaintiff lot fi&OO He had sued fur ydOU. It le e*t n said the! eense Ot the juror* Waled to hang the defen dant. Kih • ATION4L Kiromi A v%» arena wire aw sat for oduanltoani rw- f wm is under nay to Taxi and other I srts of the South end buulhwel. ll u* prupuecd .to make the edersltooel I)stem umre praaUsai than it la at pro- *— ui. 111*0. ji. H.. (irabbe of O vilie, Trx., president of nrd uf in<iustrial edocauoo, is 1 act quickly an# vigorouMly in getting up cxbibiu.’’ uri: Mill ITiobrcrs. —More than half the cotton goods exported from th*; United SUtes last year went to UTiina, and this trade is increasing every year. The Chinese market is evidently worth cultivating, not to the 'exclusion of (rude wiih all other conn, trien, not by force of arms, but by the gentle arts of peace. Minister VVu, Ambassador of the Chinese Empire at Washington, has accepted an invitation to attend the Exposition at Charleston next winter, anil as he is a wise and able men, whose point 6f view is broad and whose ideas are practical," there is no doubt that lie will take notes of what lie sees hereand make use of his notes afterwards. The milh of South Carplina do a large business with China, apd the.manufac- turers uf this State will find it to their inlerest,to make a brave show of their products, so that this distiiiguishedTep- resenlative of the Chinese Empire may be given an opportunity to find out I bead uf the movement. Mr. Grubbs conu-nds that tbe present system le not adapted to tbe conditions nod needs of Uie people. Hs believes that iln development of his section of tbe country demands jnduatoii) insU action, ie wants tbe schools and colleges to urn out fewer journalists, doctors, awyers and tbe like and to educate more good mechanics and business men. The movement for educational reform was begun y>me time ago in exaa with an effort to provide by State appropriation for the industrial training of girls. Then the Southern x ard of industrial education was or ganized for the purpose of putting the whole school system on a mote practi cal basis. e years old, were instautlv , , - biains being dashed out against the j what the Southern milts have to offer rocks and timbers. The bodies were i to supply the needs ofnis people. washed to low lands. A link girl,! m ■ m eleven years old, holding a young sister in her arms, was carried two hundred yards. Trie sisters tossed on the waters aud when rescued were uncon scious. Another member of the family died on Wednesday afternoon, and Mrs. V'an Dyke is stil! unconscious and cannot live. * * ’At Keystone ill. street-* are washed and debris is everywhere; floors of the •Seme people are alwajs fussing .with the weather. If it rains they pine for dry weather, and if it is dry they quar rel with the dust. If it is cold they pine for summer, and when it is hot tricy long fur. winter. What is to be done with such people?^ buildings stau-liug are covered with mud, and water has been al) oyer the The average man doesn’t need a sou, to make a woman t Kve_ him; all he needs is a swelled head. A statistician asserts that wheo 350 years shall have passed the density of the earth’s population will he so great that each person will have only two-* thirds of an acre. He estimates thfe present population of the earth at 1,* 800,000,000, and says that in 2,250 it will be 52,073,000,000. The weather is most too hot warm for such exten* sive figuring; but not many people worry about what will be the situation here 350 years hence. We have troubles of onr own. As a fair indication of the popularity of the rural free delivery, at'the open ing of one route in Indiana, although it occurred at the busiest season of the year, many of the farmers came to town (some of them from ten to fifteen miles) to get fanu boxes at. $2.60 apiece, so as to be ready for tbe carrier. Miss Breckenridge, daughter of Col. W. C. P. Breckenridge, who recently attainial the distinction of being the first woman admitted to practice b* fore the Kentucky Court of Appeals, is a bachelor:of science, a master of science and a doctor of philosophy.