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VOL. XXIV. BAKNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST \ iqoi. NO”47' ACTION OF STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Senator McLaurin Invited to Resign. The Vote Very Strong in Favor^of His Abdication. The State 1 lemocratic executive com mittee held a special meetiugou Thurs- . day night to make arrangements for the primary election in the Seventh Congressional District, which was fixed for the 10th of September. The meet ing proved to be one of the most inter esting held in many years, as a resolu - tion was offered by Mr. Richards, of Kershaw, severely condemning the course of Senator McLaurin and ex pressing the conviction that he ought to tender his resignation. The debate which ensued was quite animated and exciting, and the resolution of Mr. Richards was passed by a vole of 21 to 5. Mr. Magi!) offered the following reso.utions 44 inasmuch as this commit tee is charged with the policies of the party”: Resolved, That in addition to taking the regularly prescribed oath to abide the result of the pnmary. that all Can didates for Congress in the nmcutl pri- kmary pledge themselves to support and trs of Congress, th must abide the people’s decision. If that oath is in the constitution you cannot add to it. Are we come to Mc- McLaurinism and anti-McLaurinism ? The committee could not control party policies. If it comes to the prevalence of the doctrines announced by the apostle of Commercial Democracy in this State then I for one don’t want public office for it would mean sacrifice of principle, but that is not it. You know that every man knows these resolntibns are intended for the Senatorial election. 44 If any member will say .that there is a suspicion of any candidate, then I will vote for it.” Mr. Magill disclaimed any intention of reflecting on any candidate in the district. This body was the guardian of Democracy, to act for the two years between conventions. Democracy at this very moment in South Carolina is being asssiled. It was well to be plain. If the State and national conventions cannot define Democracy, what one mao among us can rise up aud say, 1 will define it for you ? Cr say that ship subsid) is Democracy ; free silver is not. We are created to watch the -dvocste a* runuiM rs of t , U v ■. , .... . , . . ,»• Ifemocracy. 1 hsre »a nothing in these principles and doctrines of Hie l>emo-1 , , • crane party as promulgated in the na Ufofltl “mo ih resolutions that cannot be subscribed same shall have been regularly changed by a convention of the party. • Resolved, fu/thcr, That the caudi dates shiilt pledge the niseivr* to sup :i to by BOV tree !>emocrat. It J.xmiy lor cowman to say the suprems moo. lie said tbai if M T.iunu port the Mima u >f the pert) i aftMM. Mr. Appelt ha d Do tI»Ct Mkl ohjectloM to iBeee reaoiuL OS. but h< ‘ CvUbl no neci-esitv lot this. Thr • rule# eel forth the pledge There wi no need now for addiiHb 1A 1 pledge*. lit toUf uf the *« Won uf lb* ast Mate n imvetitfcMi. be an tor Tt’lnta hail told him then that there was i b« 9 Or*easily f JHil in the naUoual D no-c re* y. Wbite be differed With s>i u ie fl lebds I he wnt nut going oUt of the |< arty.' He W* HI 1«J Ml|s~ port any plalfuri >r nnihmtl Itoaww rattc pan nn^bt *!>A km. IhM be would uuU. the him < own Mica#. There wan bo ft 1 •CM+llJf ft* e nn mhli* Uoaai pledge- Mr. Megt“ sat* 1 ibi* * tt t Jay of advancemml There w a* n«4htim IB tbeer resoluli uiA in c* urii. il n.ih tU# coos ’ ii uiloo or i u en of lb** | [•am lit w Tor one man to say the supreme court ha* aot decreed the law. To put this oath on is not doing violence to any candidate. This is no secret, •tar-chamber proceeding. The case has arisen. Mr. remit When a man gets off the platform what are you going te <(o with him f Mr. Magill : leave him on the ground where he Iwloogs. Mr. 1‘atrtU wauled U> know if the • ••snmitlee could recall senator Mr leu- nn for in*tanre Mr. Magill had noswrh idea. They 1 mui’t <>niy act **!■ the lamp ti rxpen- nice.” and that was why he wanted NUI >u ' xl-■fHed. Mr tends qoottd the roostitute uo. Th. r it inn i tbo refused to take this i until ha* n«* r ijbt to run iu U Ike Itomocr ate. pni Ihs* any man bold i u_ •lutlni See Out nn rufd with the 1 fc-mucreiit POitV i • • | nut be allowed to run ia the prto ital Mr.Ap| ■ell said nt l rv*>*iut il uf tbit cuoiiiullrt could am* tud and n*] i«l tu • > tha euottttntio o of the party. T be c otn- nutlet cou ild add Uo thing U take nothing f r < win It. Mr. Dia 1 was op|« used ty tin t m min* Itoue brcai ■sc they U led i*oe I \ uogt ttt- man dowi l Io polio es agree rd ou ! long ago and tk tat tuay be ihatigt* i. A| :*iu. d<> mao »h ouid be Ik -d by a« "tUi nt. Mr. mui ilh said lb it-re eer t i six Coo* did a mi n The Mate Far away yet and there •Ungcrmi* rnemice lurking in the ibe Worst kind of enemies. . kin ben aaid if these Were in* d n> hit MclAunu. cvunc mi and v. lie mni and ( i>t believe in l)iag H hru thr t-sue carries the discussion into a wider field. I want to say here and now that McLaurin’s friends have two means of redress.* This year when things start ed out we were told that we weie go ing to have peace and harmony for one summer at least. But “peace and harmony” won’t come when there are sneaks and thieves and traitors going around and hiring Hessians and dis tributing gold and buying up newspa pers. I am fully aware of what I am saying, and I know whereof 1 speak.” Senator Tillman (turning upon Mr. Appelt)—I knew that you belonged to him heart and soul. . Mr. Appelt very plainly declared that he had always been a very warm personal friend and supporter of Mr. McLaurin and that he had beeu equal ly as warm a supporter of Senskor Till man and had suppoited him as loyally as anyone else, and he did not care to impugn Tillman’s motives or have the Senator impugn his. Senator Tillman remarked that Mr. Appelt must have thought that the cap fit him, for he hal said nothing concerning him. Referring again to McLaurin’s proprietorship of Mr. Ap- pell. Senator Tillman ■•aid: “Oh, it is understood that you have been “My Dear Appelt" to him for many years." Mr. Appelt—Yes, to you as well as to McLaurin. Thera was a bit more of croMiiring between Tillman and Apjielt am f Till man continued: * -• ‘•But the laaue is not as to men; in stead it is one of Republicanism and that if XcTjautfu had come squarely out be would have had •ome respect for him; evyo now claim- loa to be a liemorral, he goe* lot'bar- iolte add abuse* Ilamuciecy by the Tory name. Kven the Hepub.icau j*a- pers of the country said that the doc trines that he advocated were pure Republican doctrines. His fnrtids are going np and down the State crying these dortniye. Me I Auvtn M bound to the I ie mortal H' party by hts pledge, bound to lf> to 1 or bust and all that if you will. What I want now is for >*>u to |>asa this rcs- oiuinm and lot nU Itamucteia go forth labeled, to that they may be known to PEACH CROP OE.XHR UNITED STATES. Mnator man sent I iiiman Cottgn tould r ■ II o4De out. Hr our t'ongruaa- c omee up be I opposed the one-sided slap ns opiwsed the reeolut were sim|4y addinona a man wanted to be i id do so in spite of oaths gresumen lb regular oath ; it of a man tiding addditional oath re now a bo had tai^en the was no use to require an unrspired term an e lor it resolution beiauae of rbararter * Mr. l*emtt tircauee they verbiage. If traitor he wou It looked as if-1bete was a suspicion that some candidate in the seventh district would he a traitor. He saw no reason for this. If the resolution is intended for another purpose they should make the issue squarely. Mr. Khhards said that while he in- I tended to vote for the resolution, be | thought iba resolution indirect, and therefore offered the following here as. the lion. John I- McLan- I nn. junior United Staten Senator elect 'd to represent the State of South Car- misrepresent the pony drees that Mel a. rin ha him and ail hie friends efforts, legitimate sod segues the etectmo of « ucrate to the nest State was for the |<cople to Mtd his faith to the p convention, perchamc, kept true to lleimM rat \ ole themselves con. in Noveml>er and t Mr. LHa! said the rti eaitl Hint I by the IIcoki escnt ami tui Another r* d would bn fo to use all the I illegitimate. I mmrrt ia -oOV( hear I *rns- iq< It aad he If the lioi Ini rmey lorn thr I •iwak at thr M’tify the wrm I ihi*commitu ight to pass the r nr Mcl.aunn w< st> what was Utuughi, hati n< lulioii and MnaitM pay uo aiteuiioo to ^ nee to waste time. Seualoi Tillman -Certainly not enpect him to do so. Mr. Uleaae said be favoreil of the resolution, but the otbci did not. Mr. (iuntcr— l^t'a set, ie that Intion cut in tinlf? (Ijiughter.) Mr. Blcaee said that he wav ’ >ttld the ne-l half ialf he reeo- tlling Under Scientific Methods the Yield Is Quadrupled Per Acre. Washington Special to News and Courier The peach crop of the United States will amount this year to about 75,000- 000 bushels. It is the fruit on which this couutry prides itself most, and re cently the gigantic industry it repre sents has been transformed by the in troduction of various new and scienti fic idea's. Most important among these is an ‘‘intensive” method of culture, by which one acre is made to yield more than used to be obtained, reckoned in bushels, from four times that area. It is in Michigan that this idea has has been carried broadest, its most es sential requirement (apart from care ful Ullage and rigid pruning) being a well-nigh ruthless thinning of the fruits on each tree. To the old-fash ioned grower the notion of cutting off three-fourths of the peaches just when they are beginning to develop teems absurd and even outrageous; yet in tins way more bushels are actually ob tained than would be produced if ihcre was no such interference, and the in dividual peaches are very much finer, bringing a far higher price in the mar ket. By such mi ant a maximum of 1U bushels to a tree, or HtiO bushels to the acre, is secured. Now this is business, and of a kind to aiRmivh the planters of ibe old •c&mWr -Aw HBponant—pomt wfwmfrt is that the number of seed (t. peach stone*) produced‘is only one- fouilh cf the normal, and, inasmuch tbrir development is the greatest tif all drains npon the vitality of the tree, (using up incidentally large quaniue* of (Mitosh ami phosphorus acid from thr soil,) a prod table saving is effected im idr it tally, regularity of yield from season to season ia promoted. The greatest enemy of the peach- grewtr ia front. A peach tree ia a born fool, and on the slightest provo cation in the way of warmth it per mits its bods to expand, in the mia- ist. n notion that gentle spring haa ar rived. Then romee cold weather aad it ia nipped, with disastrous finaneisl results to the planter. Down South this kind of mischief to even worse than to the North, because of ! waiui spells that arrive during the I ter. , It h*« liven ascertained that trouble 4 ibs soil wsv bs militfaled to a coo iderable extent by spraying the twigi I and dqrmaut buds with a solution »f shile-wash, lbs affret being l> bold j hack the blossoms. Using white, ihs I buds and twigs thus coated reflect the •uo's rsys, instead of absorbing them, aud ihnr temperature being not per ceptibly raised, ripen ng to rttarded. In celd latitudes the trees are some times bent over horizon tally close U tbs ground during 'he winter, and covered with straw or earth io protect them. This is the age of increasing luxory, and people nowadays are willing ty pay almost any price for exceptional! choice fruits. In winter as much as 91 a piece is often paid for peaches and gardeners in this country are try mg to introduce some of the intensive horticultural the sin- .t. THE NEVER ENDING BATTUE. gree of ripeness is decided. In former days peaches had to be picked some days before they were quite ripe, so as to allow for transportation, but at pre sent, thanks to the refrigerator car and fast freight, this is no longer tiecessary, and the fruit is left on the tree until it has come to full maturity, being taken just before it begins to soften. Each picker is provided with a small canvas bag marked with his number and containing tickets bearing the same number. He puts oue of the tickets iu the bottom of each basket as he begins to fill the latter. Thus, it auy basket on reachiug the assorting table is found deficient in any respect, as to the quality of the petchea or otherwise, it is known at once who is responsible, and a “field inspector” gallops away on his horse to adminis ter a corrective rebuke to the individ ual at fault. For each gaug of pickers there is a certain number of helpers, who fetch the empty baskets for refilling and “tote” away the newly filled baskets, carrying them to the intersecting avenues, where they are placed upon low wagons for transportation to the vacking house. This building is an immense shed, a loft overhead afford ing space for the storage of empty baskets and crates, while below are long tablet, at which stand young men and girls who sort the |»enciies. This to expert work, the fre^t being trans ferred to canvas trays and sorted into three grades—“Extra," “No. 1” and ‘'tXyVDds.’' All peaches that are loo ripe for shipment are put aside for the evap orator, while decoyed ones go to a dboip, I** he destroyed later be- fire. Other hands pack the fruit, as fast as it is graded, in Imeketa and nail them up in cratea, six 4 quart baskets going in a crate. There is a final inspection, and the crates are loaded at wan! thr refrigerator effr, which to sealed wp, not to be opened again until the Northern city is reacbqd, where the merchandise to to be sold. The ul- oal |iain* are taken to make the lime as short as possible from the tree io the ear. and under urdmary circum- stances not more than an boor elapses tie for these things, and is all absorbed after the fruit to picked before the ear ' ia the sucieea of hto businre# whatever it ia. If he hati been mails alone there would have been no birds but bussards, no flowers but dog fennel. sad—the garden es* a Bill Arp Declares That Life la One Continual Struggle With Its Ups and Downs Atlanta Constitution Life is a continuatWuggle—a strug glo to better our commton—to keep even with the world or to get a little ahead—a struggle to pay these darn little just debts, as Sam McCamy used to call them—a struggle to rjiie up and educate a family of children—to giatify their reasonable desires and keep in hailing distance of society. The average young married man has visions of getting rich, but by the time three or four children come along his best ambition is to keep even. The struggle is ou him. A young mother has no ambition to get rich, but she does wish her childten to rank with the best at home and abroad—at church and achool and picnics and parties. She doesn’t mind living in a cottage, but muat have some nice furniture iu the parlor and the hall where visitors are wont to come. When things get old and familiar she hints at a new carpet or a large squaro rug or same lace curtaine hanging from gilded bars over the windows, something that to new and up-to-date, and her room need* renovating with the three “p’e” plaster, paint and paper. Why should n't she T That room is her home, or it to her prison in some cases.. Nbe haa to sit in it and sew in il and nurse in it every day aa<l hsr cnucal ajra. seei of decay—every spider web the celling— every worn carpet or the rag or lb« every brbken gb the cni tare and floery. It should never be forgotten b/ the young husband that it Ml woman’s nature to love ornament and beautiful things. It wee for her that God made the flowers and clothed the earth with graae and tpadr birds to studded the beuveae with The average area earns Ihh Itl- Giey,” or some book that haa fewer pictures and more truth ? G But blessings on the good old-fash ioned country people, who have no fix ed charges to pay—none hardly, and the unfixed are not bought from the butcher or the baker, nor are the dry goods altogether regulated by the fash ions of the town or city. They raise their own supplies of flour and meal and lard and chickens and eggs. When company comes they call up Sinda and tell her she will have to kill another chicken, and that is the end of it. Of course, they must buy sugar and coffee, but they maki their own jellies and jam and peach pickles from their own fruit, and can beat Dio Lewis on cher ry taru fnd apple dumplings and chick- eu pie. Just go to a farmers’ clnb one time, if you would know what these substantial country people can do in the way of a picnic. . - But I like company, and when U comes it to a real pleasure to spread before them a feaat of good things and finish up with ice cream and «akr. I like such things myself and am sura to get them when company cornea, for my wife came from the old fashioned stock that always echoed the militia captain’s order when be exclaimed to his “ ’Tention, company I” Pay to) your company. When Napoleon css in Egypt and about to fight the great battle of the Pyramids, he addressed hto troops aod •sid : “Soldiers I forty centuries are 1 looking down upon you from the heights of those pyramids." And so raKnroT forty rears an upon you from w aiymiw - . . .. , - . IHgl, “Soldiers end fiy speck and the laufp smoke on . j owo Forty yean ago from li-S, huU i. IU pl~ I ler that the children have made. A good mother can’t raise up her children without some wee" and tear of farm- sing th< pr • DU platiorm should be allowed to run. That wa* the only badge of Demo cracy. Mr. Appcll seid suppose a Democrat wanted to go before the people and convince them that the Kansas City platform is wrong ; woirid they in this free country rule such * a Democrat out ? Mr. XV. D. Evans said that the man who wav elected to siu^eed Dr. Stokes would succfeed a tiilomau. If a man could not take this ‘oath he ought to go where he belongs. He was sick and tired of the talk about what constitutes Democracy. If any man wanted to go to Congress to succeed Stokes he must be a 1 lemocrat—one about whose Dem ocracy there could be no question. Mr. LaFitte said there were trpe and tried Democrats in this Slate who would stand here ami proclaim that they would not swallow 16 to 1. All should be allowed to go before the peo ple and let them judge. We are all white people. If he had the Congress -man’s job in his pocket he would take it out, aud throw it down and stami upon it before be himself would swal low 16 to 1 if he was a gold standarc Democrat. ^ ^ Mr. Tatum said he was from tfie Seventh district and favored the reso lution. Auy man opposed to 16 to ' would never see the inside of the halls if Congress from that district. Mr. Appelt wanted to know why not put voters on the same exclusion basis Mr. Tatum said if a man wanted to vote the Republican ticket be could do it, but there was a way to do it. Mr. Bellinger said he looked uj>on this resolution as a most unfortunate thing as much so as that resolution against McLaurin introduced in the general assembly. It was admitted, he said, that this is the first time a radical departure had beeu made.* If the Democracy is in danger it should stated. He had heard uo charge f taint in this district. He despised political hypocrisy. Was there a sus picion that any candidate would .use Hanna’s money to buy vote*. Would any one ol them go in there traitorlike? No. We are trying to formulate an oath lot *Ks next campaign. Isn’t that trueg That* am muss who would not have Men the light of political day if they had not appealed to the people because they were und ut convennoos. If the white people weal to go into ignoied the njUional Democratic plat- nu ami thereby misrepresented bis Bute and hit Democratic constituency who elected him. Therefore, be it Resolved, That it is the sense snd convictions of the Hlate Democratic ex ecutive committee that Senator J. L. Mclaurin, from the standpoint of hon esty sud self-respect should tender lus unqualified resigostion immediately. Mr. Richards said he was aware that the Legislature had failed to pass such a resolution, unwisely introduced. He thought Uiat action was a refiection upon the distinguished senior Senator from South Carolina. He said.he and lie people felt that McLaurin was trail ing the Democratic fiag in the dust and he was man enough to say so Mr. Appelt moved to lay bbth reso lutions upon the table without debate Senator Tillman said he hoped no oue would attempt “to gag us here.” Mr. Appelt disclaimed any such in tention. Senator Tillman said that in debate a short time ago a circumstance had arisen that led to the tender of-tfte res ignations of McLaurin and himself, and all knew what followed. “Now we here in this room arc either Demo crats or we are not. We are the rep resentatives of the Democracy. Had v^McLaurin, had this man, cast his vote in the United States Senate in accord ance with the will and desire of the people of this State ? Who will dare stand up here and say that he has done so ? But I know something about R. He has voted on important matters with the Republican • party, since the treaty with Spain was ratified by his vote. Is this what you call Democra cy ? And is that what you call a Dem ocrat ? I have remained quietly in my seat and seen him confer time and again with Republicans. Now we are the engineeis and we are in charge of the Democratic train and we must guide it safely into the Democratic sta tion. The emergency has arisen and we must act here and now and see the train safely through. We must pro tect the party interest from treachery.” Senator Appelt interrupted to Mk not wit liog to vote for the resolution request ing bis resignation, as the committee had no right to do so, as he. viewed it. He moved to strike out the words ask ing for Mcl^iurin's resignation.- Ml. Cunningham moved to table thia proposition and this was done. Only three seemed to vote for the division of the resolution. Mr. Appelt renewed his motion to table the whole Richards motion and Dr. Smith seconded the resolution. Senator Tillman demanded the aye and nay -vole upon the question and wanted to settle the whole thing here and now. As the vote was being taken Mr. Glenn arose when bis name was called cummoolv trained fiat against walls is filled and *eale»i. Methods equally expeditious are practiced everywhere, though condi tions vaiy more or ires with the local ity or productiou. ItolaWare haa an exceptional advantage in being so near to New York, i’fctladelphta and ther great cities on the Eastern sea board. Immense quantities or peaches are canned ia Delaware, a single factory at Scaford uuog 3,000 boskets a day io this way at the preeenl time The people employed to peal the fruit are nearly all women. Iu Michigan there to a wonderful peach belt, whjch rune along the east ern shore <>f lake Michigan for a dta- lance of 1*0 miles; from 15 miles south of St. Joseph to the north shore ef Traverse Bay, and varying iu width from 5 to 10 miles. Uulikc Georgia and Delaware it to a region of rmall orchards, and this to one reasoa why the “intensive” method of culture al ready described has been so admirably develo|>ed id that part of the country. Next to frost the most dreaded foe ealiielv incurable. When i) great battle of the civil war. It was I Suodsv then, and ft to Mioday now. To thoee engaged in it that battle 1 seemed to be the greaieet of the war. It was the first aad mads the deepens Impression, for our boys had nsvar been in a light aad did not know what they could do. Not oae in fifty had ever seen service Sgainet aa enemy, but they wets ready aod eagar for the battle, aod < n that day they snaged the wreogs of half a caoiary—«od moved them selvae hsress aod paUiota. For weeks old Jus Johnston hoi bean ptoying battle dour aod **rxi‘lt rnnt with i’attoreeo between Wiachastar and llsrpar's Perry- Oae day fotlai^ soo would give a dare as far as Chorion town end fall bar* without a fight. Anotuer day Johnston would give * dare as far m Hurkletowa aad fall 1 without a fight. Our boya 1 eouraged. Hut shea the at night to march to kotw they were Io Join aod tight. Kvsry order was n«>t a drum wae baatsa -not a' allowed to move. The camp-Arse left burning and uoly Kirby 8*aiih was left behind with bit brigade lot] with I’aitcrson aod keep him finding out the army was goon. But Kirby slipped off later, taking the ears at iivrasburg, end ha got to Maoasaaa Just in time for the tight. ItottersOo left behind without a foe, but he with southern exposure, or on gcethses|tbe only thing to do it to dig up the affected trees and plant others ia their By this means the trouble has - fba world wild, Aad man. tie hermit, tmhed tdl •••man rattled - Bat the straggle to on him—the struggle to maintain ami pleas*- the wife aod the children. The responsibility to hto aod be feels it, for Ihs rearing of a family io a respectable way to the biggest undertaking id this lift, lie can’t do this and get rich boieelly, aod he altnwki aot wish to. Riches gener ally dwarf a man in his belter emo tions and prove a curse to hto children. Of course, any shrewd man can get nch.if be will make a bog of himself— if he wnl do as the rich miser said be did—“buy nothing that you are obliged to havd.” P The ambition of every-man and wo- never b und u out til. .s*iunlay night— m*n i« to belter their condition if poe- t*a» late—too lets to follow and help sitije. This to laudaltle and right. McDowell. When 1 was young there was po glass That midnight march will never ha window to our little bedroom -only a forgutteu -that lording the broad aod “ ahttmii i l I ight, no steel pert* or rn'Mchei, no MifW ' iff tmys-up to thHr armpits and liold- clothes nor sewing machinee, but in a mg up tbeti guns to keep their powder / bettered his ton- dry. It look four hours to make that a foot or so away from the wall, .and all the branches are cut away except a few, which are compelled to assume certain patterns, frequently geometri cal. Then moat of the fruits are cut off as soon as tel, only a dozen, or pos sibly a score being allowed to develop. A peach tree thus treated is nothing like a tree, but the few peaches that mature upon il are marvels of beauty aud juiciness. Half adozenof them in a cotton lined basket fetch $6 or 96. The peach seems to have come from China originally, being introduced into Europe by way of Persia. This year there are 291 recognized varieties nn places. been vripfd out to a great extent both in Delaware and Michigan, though there are always short-sighted plant ers who are reluctant to resort to so radical a method of fightiag the plague the market in this country, some new and gave the following as bis reason 8lrain9 haviD ^ been inlroduC ed directly for not voting: “I did not v °t e f° r f ro jn cid na . Just as cultural methods this committee to ask Senator Me- k, i|liproved 8 o varieties of un- Launn to resign his seat iu the United | que8tloned superiority h<ve gained States Senate for the reason that the constitution of the party was tix$d by the people and the people, will decide themitterin the next primary.” When Mr. LaFitte’s name was call ed he did not vote. When the roll had been concluded he rose aud said: “Record me as voting uo; I did not know the question.” The votewas then taken and wasde dared 21 to 5, the motion to table be ing thus lost. These voting aye were Messrs. Ap pelt, Perritt, Dial, Smith and Miles. The Richards resolution was then adopted. prominence, and there is no question that our best peaches to-day are far superior to any that were obtainable about fifteen or twenty years ago. The average size is much increased for one thing. The peach season in the North has been greatly lengthened by the intro duction of Southern peaches, largely from Georgia, the shipment of which to Northern markets has been render ed practicable and profitable by the modern refrigerator car. At the pres ent time immense tracts in Georgia are occupied by peach orchards, a Mr. LaFitte again stated his position ®'3o' e o Qe 0 J P 1 ^ 8 i,D ^ •»< *■ ■ I r;ro n 3 Th b .“— said to represent the “extensive.” It is thought, says the Mobile Reg-1 method of peach culture, as opposed ister that one-third of the Louisiana to the “intensive.” In July, which sugar plantations will use oil instead of is their busy month, they employ veri- coal this year. The number would be tAbje armies nf laborers, and on each larger, but for the fact that the planta- plantation is a big packing house, with tions had made their contracts for coal sidetracks connecting with the main for the season before the full value of railway line. At important centres of the Texas oil was "shown.. It is prob- the growing industry are huge ice able that by next season all the sugar storage houses, bjiilt by the refngera- plantations in Louisiana will be using tor car companies, with every conveu- oil instead of coal.. J ience for icing the cars which are to carry the fruit northward. It ia claimed that the Britiih have J A plautation of this kind i» divided lo«t the right of free speech. Incidents by straight avepues into rectangular Senator Tillman if bethought the com- showing this condition are found in the patches like city blocks, and to each . .. . j al_i. ... .. .• » . : .^ kj. .t ■ l .-i. _ii,,.iiwi • .rivsn number of A Singular Escape— A man re ceiving the full force of a heavy stroke of lightning and yet living to tell the tale is something believed impossible by-many of the medical piofession. Such, however, was the experience of Elmer L. Carpenter during the storm at Sharon, Mass., recently, says the Boston Journal. The shaft of lightm ing entered his upraised left hand passed the length of his arm, down bis breast and through his left leg. Along its burning pathway it made a deep llesh wound the entire length of the body, as if some one with a knife had made a vicious slash. When picked up the man appeared to be dead. After hope hati been given up as one from the dead he returned to life.* Mr. Car penter was in the stable harnessing a horse. His hand was on the stable door when he was struck. Mrs. Carpenter and her year-and-a half old baby were in the stable when the lightning struck, but were not in jured. r 44 As soon as the stable was struck,” Mrs. Carpenter said, 44 1 rushed over to where my husband was. His clothes were tom open from shoulder to foot, as if some one had run a knife down them. When I reached him his clothes were on fire, but I put out the blaze. The strangest thing is that his left foot was entirely bare, bis shoe and stock ing being gone, and no trace of them anywhere. We havenH found the shoe anywhere since then.” few years my lathe dition and bnilt a better house aad gave his childreu a good education, And then I married and bettered my condi tion and my wife and I undertook to ratoe a flock of children on a higher plane than we had been raised on. We have succeeded pretty well, but it has been a continual straggle, especially since the war. It is hard to l^eep even. There are so many new inventions, new attractions that lessen labor or give pleasure that the temptation is very great and a liberal man is liable to get in the fir of the old fellow who said he was about even with the world and was ready to die for he owed about as many as he didn’t owe. It is these fixed charges that keep a man ever embarrassed. Fixed charges! That is what the railroad companies call them—expenses that are regular every mouth and do not vary. I was ruminating about the fixed charges in almost every aspiring family in a town or city. My own for example. There are taxes and fire insurance, say 9120 per annum, or 910 a month ; water, 91.50 ; gas, 93.50 ; telephone, 91-50 ; cook, 910 ; washing, 95; church and Sunday school, 94 ; newspapers, 91 ; wood and coal, 9H ; ice, say 91 for an average ; postage and box rent, Now, all these make 946.50 of fixed charges per month, not including cost crossing, for meu' move alqw and cau tiously io shoaly waters, but by sunrae they were eighteeh miles from Win chester and by Friday night they were near the battle ground and McDowell did not know it That wae military strategy. That was old Joe’s plan— the wiliest fox that ever faced or fool ed a toe. Tbit is a fitting day for the veterans to sing his requiem. __ Bill Arp. spcmlt. for annual repairs i(ig. And so much more Dr. Wiley, chief chemist in the de partment of Agriculture calls attention to the anofoakms fact that while.va rious States have laws forbidding the adulteration of foods, there to no na tional law regulating the matter, so that food which is adulterated ia New York State can be taken to New Jar- **>- ^ -t "to 4 *• 1 waaiius, •»«•«.»«*• uaar of keeping a horse and a cow, aid there to 5 pe; on the dwelli[ _ than half of the income goes for fixed charges that seem io be unavoidable. Of course, we can dismiss the cook and do without the telephone, but we do not wish to, for both are great com forts, especially when company comes. We have long since dismissed the horae aud the cow. Now, wheie do the food and clothing Come frum, for it -takes more for the unfixed things than the fixed. Then there to some th'ng wanted almost every day for charity. Book agenta come almost ev- tij day and excite our sympathy, but we liave long since cut off that ex pense. One came yesterday that had General Miles for one of the editors. Il shouldn’t stay ia my house. Those Northern Mtbhahers seez te thtok we A Slight Dekictt.t-A weather, stained, creaking wagon drew up in front of a photographer’s establishment in a Georgia town. Beneath its body a lean bound came to a standstill. Stra(>mgl ou behind Was an armful of (odder, and from the whiffletree swung a clanking wooden bucket. A man clad in jeans trousers, home spun shirt and guiltless of coat or vest, emerged from the vehicle’s anterior ex tremity. His length of limb, of face, of articulation, stamped him as one of nature’s own. Settling hto soft slouch hat on the back of bis head, he ad justed his lone gallus and gave the lines to the wife and baby within. Behind these, from the dome of canvas be- jn—l-yciid, peered, big-eyed and solemn, 9 ‘ numerous editions of the lord and mas ter, merging one into the other wilh almost imperceptible graduations of size. -© Entering the shop, the stranger pau^gd before a case of Sample photo graphs, and pointing to one, said, 44 Mister, what d’yer charge fer takin’ [deters like that ?” 44 Three dollars a dozenj” replied the clerk. Thrusting his hands into hto pockets, he turned thoughtfully toward the wag onful of offsprings. 44 Wall, I reckon I'll have ter wait a bit,” he eaid softly, to himself; 44 1 ain't got but ’leven yet.” wa I s -.-t pledge provided in the party eoaautw bn-Aeon election, the attack* upon mm * anti-war meeting* tod the inability of itor Tillman aaid: “I am not the Bishop of Hert ford to obtain a discuss mg pledge reaolatiou. -1 public hall wherein Mias Hobbouse the important subatuu e moj recite the sufferings of the Boer juat been offered aad which woomu. being taught to judge with done ac curacy just when a peach is toady te be plucked Every peach has its sun ny side and Ua shady atde, aad tt » by lbs ban of the shady aide that na de salt of it in the "tate of New York borne adeliermtiooe are harmful, while others are aot; among the homines Urt the have Ueut Victor Blue, whoaa scouting operations around gsnltogo resulted iu hto being the first to detect the pree- eoce of the Spaniel, fleet io tbs harbor of