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VOL. XXV. BARNWELL SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER ». iqo»- JIO- 8 BII,I, ARP ON OLD HISTORY. He Goee Beck to Juliea Ceeeet aad Thee Toechee Andrew Teckeoe. Atlanta Comtimtlan. “ Fo the victors belong the litis was en old war maxim of the Romans in Julias Caesar’s day—and was akin to that other ono, “vae victis,” woe unto the conquertd. In 1831, when General Jackson was sweeping the fleld and removing from Federal oSce every Whig who Itad been ap pointed, William JL M ircy, who was in the United States Senate, defended Mm In a great speech and promulgated that maxim, “ To the victors belong the spoils.” Marcy was a very bril liant statesman, bet a very bitter par- York i should be appointed. There is an'salary of $900. Mias Youngblood is IS WASHINGTON TO BLAMRT eternal fitness of tilings that cannot the stenographer and Mr. E. W. Scre- He waa Governor of New three terma, judge of the supreme court, secretary of war under Polk, secretary of State under Pierce, and he need this maxim just aa far aa he waa allowed to. He detested the Whig party and defined an old line Whig to be “ a conceited gentleman who took a drink when he pleased and never voted the Democratic ticket.” This reminds mo of an old man 1 mei in Arkansas, who said to me, “ Mr. Arp, I’m gwina onto 80 years old—me and my old ’oman have lived together fifty- nine years and jined the same Baptist church the rev ws wss married end every year since then 1 have voted the Democratic ticket.' 1 • His politics wss a good part of his religion. I remember when the alienation be tween Whigs and Democrats was quite as bitter for many years as it has been between Republicans and Democrats at the South—social equality even in small towns was strained by politics. This alienation got into the churches Ikare Was no outward _ M * mauners, but H waa ilfaetad in variuos ways that the felt they were better than the for they were generally wealthy and educated aad owned slaves. Get of 166 students In our | Stats Ualveratiy in 1846, 130 of them of tl bus. 1 am stlli s He ld my father wee liefure me, bat 1 have always respected the grand aM Whig party of the teeth, end i its dtornptioo. I still re- wtih pride aad admimtiwe the of To mbs, Stephens, Bee Hill, Jso kins, Dr. Mtiier, Crewtod, Ber rtaa, the Hail* aad Holts sod lurys, for 1 kasw all personally and heard them oe tamp and la the forum. Bat the disruption had to ooms both la church and Stats. The Whigs could aot say laager stead were la—Northern Whig* eHimtod with fhotitioa-1 They I i civil war,aad from that l horn pleader aad oorreptioe. 1 do not meae to say that all Deamirau I «s patriotic aad hooaat nor that all | are unprincipled epd dta bs disregarded with impunity and no broad-minded man would appoint a negro as postmaster at Atltens or Augusta or any white man’s town. Why not try one at Canton, Ohio, or Dayton, or any other cultured city of the North? Why insult' our people with such Federal officials. They my t yon ’ove me, do that we are all brethren now, but as the poet says: I know that yon say that Bat why did yoa kick me downstairs ?’’ Now jnst think of it—and ponder it —what an opportunity for Mr. Boone- velt to win to him many millions of good people who have been long es tranged He can do this and not strain bis Republicanism. What a great tiling it it for a king or an emperor or a President to be loved by his subjects or his people. Whet a glorious reform it would be for all the conservative citizens of; the North and the South, the East and the West to wipe out the party lines and with one heart and one mind say to Mr. Roosevelt, sir, your hightoned, pure, patriotic and unpre judiced administration since the death of Mr. McKinley has commanded our respect and admiration. We there fore nominate yon to succeed yonrself. I believe It to be possible for this to happen. Keep on that line, Mr. Roosevelt. Put the l»eet men in office regardless of party lines and my old friend, Evan Howell, and I will back you, hut we will not flop over to the Republican party all of a sudden as Bob Lowry did. It will have to repent and apologize a long time before I will trust them and shake hand- across the bloody chasm. I’ve got tuck a long habit of being a Democrat that I'm too old to change, ttoh Lowry is much younger, end so is Roosevelt. Lowrv can turn Republican if be chooses and Roosevelt dan tarn Democrat, we dbo ,r t can. Bill Aar. KORBTBR CAUGHT THB PLUM. ven, a Republican, is a supernumerary on the pay roll of the office. The threegaugers are A. 8. Trumbo, J. H. Dennis and W. E. Boykin. They •re paid $6 a day each. Dennis is lo cated at Newberry and is an intlnerant. Boykin is a negro, yet has the very re sponsible poeiiion of representing the government at the Richland distillery of this city, where 600 boshels of corn are daily made into epirite. . Trumbo is located at the State dispensary and handles thousands of barrels of liquor. Tims it will be seen that Koester’s of fice it indirectly connected with the dispensary. In addition to the positions above enumerated, Koester will have the right to appoint two storekeepers to look after government property at dis tilleries, and tbsre are about twenty- five storekeepers and gangers at as many distilleries in the State. The majority of the distilleries are located in the upper part of the Bute, but there is a big one at Hamburg, near Augusta, and another at uamden, near Columbia. These facta are cited to show that. McLanrin, if designing to enter the President's official famUy, has provid ed well for the man who has been the most loyal to him. do if McLanrin purposes to fight it out in the primaries next year, these forty or more miuor, positions could^be used in the further ance of his cause. ^ The office of revenue collector is equivalent to that of tax collecor. It requires, or should require, the ser vices of men of business ability and of txperlsDce with the lew. For In stance, the government is allowed to impose a lax upon certain kinds of legacies. It is the doty of this effloe idr things and t know just what kind of. lyactse sre to 4** taxed. Then sre man^nipe poinu la lbs •aseiiuvn of the btP which re quire the work ol experienced poll ora. tt»s Civil T wsed la New r.% Id. Axsoa, said to Judge ■ that be could eot buitevs of stealing all that fork city, for Tweed the judge souled aad * My dear sir, yoa are too lauo- 4 unsuspecting to live ta this world. I am twice as old as you arsg aad my obaervaiioo has been that it is within the range of boealhUity to steal.” But what 1 the Democratic party I Is lees greedy rtha Republican. Shortly \fter war a Dutchman In Chattanooga ,-fc ' - - ■?r : ^ bonified” to find that one half of the bog wag gone. Ha raa around wild and was very much excited and declared that some mean old Minkin’ Democrat bad carried off one-ha If of his beautiful shote. “What t morning h« Hat ods half of < as von think he wss s Democrat?” a neighbor asked. “ Vy, of course he ves a Dimocrat—of coarse he vss—for a Republican would hav stole de whole knows of tits termioed to good men to political princi ’s it exactly. They want it slL But now is the time for a great re formation. Martin Lather broaght one in the chnrch and I believe that Roosevelt will bring one to the man agement of our national affairs. He rruption and has do le H) will appoint s regard! eas of their s. He will not be by that maxim of Mercy 's, is an ardent believer in civil eervice reform. General Grant, had the,law paeeed in 1873 to atop public plunder, but he couldn't enforce it end it be came a dead letter. In 1876 nod 1880 both partiea pretended to favor its re vival and they pot it as e plank in their platforms. In 1883 Congress passed the present vigorous lew on the sub ject, Imt party pressure ' evades it as much as poeeible end that unchristian, uncivilised maxim of (> to the victors belong the epoils” still prevails. The civil setvlce reform doee hot apply to ell the little offlcee, bat ie pretended to be enforced in the important ones. Thirty thousand railway postal clerks are eubjeetto it end the lew ia more rigidly enforced in the poetal depart ment than any other. Now we hope end have e right to expect that Mr. Booeevelt wiH see tirit that no objectionable postmaster shall be appointed in any town North or South. The postofflee is emphatically the people’* office. It ought really to be an elective office in every town and village. It is close akin to home end home affaire end the sacred and secret things of our homes. Men, women and children hav* a share in it and no one but a dad-hearted, aocommodat- la^saato or woman of good, reapectable in the oommunity He Haa Diatributioa of Large Patronage-A Lo. al PrieaA to McLanrin 11m Columbia correapoodeul of lb* Augusta Chruoicle says that Mr. Goo R KMater, who baa boao appoiau-d collector of loternal rovaous for teo'b Carolina, declared on his return from Waahiogtoo that be had formed no plana and doaa not know what will be his policy in appointing his depoiias, dorks anil other*. It is pr liable that lie will retire from active editorial of the Colambia Evening Record. He eta.as that he was not aa spplt- coat, and that his appointment was a sarprisa to Himself. He waa called to Waahiogtoo, aad tetarday evcaiag he spent an hour aad a half at the Wane Uoeee with lha President. When the matter of the vacancy cam* up the Prseideet offered K to Koester. The letter asked if there were eo possible chance for Blalock lo get lha place. Tbs President said there waa not, and Koaater the u accented it He haa not yet taken charge, aad has not filed a bond. He stated that ke woold spend some time stud) lag the duties of hU office. Us waa asked if there is aay truth In the minor MaLanhn la slated for a place is cabinet. In reply ha eski that wbila there la tome talk ol that kind m Waahiogtoo, he goes not know *u> thing aboot the matter. His own sp in due. In •W. Krter, who in the newspaper business here once, end Is on a paper in Washington now. When Blalock was tamed down Price suggested Koeeter’s name. Tl is believed in Colambia by many people that Senator McLaurin will get lace in the cabinet of Preeidenl velt, and that he has simply taken care of his friend Koester before hs leaves the political affairs of this State. Others think that this is but an indication that McLaurin will endeavor to captuie ell the Federal pan conge in this State. Koeater got the beat plum in the basket. The salary is $3,500 and com missions will increase that amount to $4,500. In addition be has the po ver of appointing forty or more deputies and clerks, whose salaries aggregate not leu than $40,000 a yeai. He ap points the United States ganger, whose duty it Is to test every barrel of spirita shipped to the State dispensary. The collector ol revenue in South Carolina ie a man much sought after. It is not known whet changes, if any, will be made in the clerical force. There is one negro clerk in the' Federal office here, end the ganger at the Richland diittilery is a negro. There ere three division deputies, one of them, A. C. Merrick, of Green ville, being e white man. The other two krerKduiand H. Deu, of Darling ton, the negro who is chairmm^f the Republican party in the State, and J. H. Fordham, of Orangeburg, who pre sides over the Republican conventions. These three division deputies get about $1,400 a year each. There are three office deputies lo cated in Colambia. Mr. George H. Hoggins U the chief. He has been act ing as sueceesor to the late Mr. Web ster and wash prominent candidate for the place which Koester has teenred. Hoggins has many friends in the State He went over to the Republicans about four yean ago. Capt. J, L. little, captain in the United States army dur ing the war between the Statu, and oh* of the soldiers sent here iq Recon struction days ie next to Mr. Hoggins. The other office deputy is Mr. L. M. Fooche,a Democrat. Rev. J. H. John ■on, colored, is the office clerk at i RooexTKLT Gavx Him the Fact*. —-'Tb« tii St ums I 'versa* Presided I R oeevelisaid a Washington news paper men, •• w** wbsu be was a Civil, tervicv Commissioner. 1 was carrying lb# bod for n morning newspaper aad was si ven an assignment to tee Mr Ko-osvslt touching some civil service question. When I reached the g*nUo- • home 1 was shown to lb* library and pretty soon Mr. Kuueevah walked in. Hs rams ta ms and gave me a and want right to business by saying; I’m glad to see yoa, bat sorry, my yoaog fn-nd, you represent the paper yua do. The editor of your paper is an infamous scoundrel and uamltigeted liar. Yea, air, that* a jest what he Is: but 1 know yoa can t help ic All Heaven nod earth cualda't keep bi o from botng just what be is. Re gond enough lo toil him 1 raid this. -Now, blase nwny and tell in* what yoa wish to Enow and I'U do tits beat 1 can by yoa.' And (ben, after delivering himself of hi* private opinion of my hose, Mr' Room vslt gave me all lha tael* 1 wish* d and the last word ha aatd to me was to not forget to tall the editor bis opinion wf him.” Aemy Lomes ik Paiurnwu'— The annual report of Major-UenaraJ Haory C. Cur bin, adjaiant-geoeral of the army, comprehensively reviews the work, condition nod needs of ifce military establish me nC General Corbin •nbmiu a table to |&QW His Only Excuse ie the Plea of Vanity—The South la the Ne gro’s Friend. New Orleans Times-DsmocrsL Severely as the President- has been criticised in the matted of the Roose velt-Washington dinner incident, the principal of the Tuskegee institute can not and should not escape condemna- tion. In accepting the invitation of the President, .Booker Washington could not fail to understand that he was doing that which wonld slay the hands of the Southern people who have watched bis career with interest and who have generously sustained him in his work of educating the negro along industrial lines. From the moment that .Washington began to execute his purpose at Tuske gee, Ala., it seemed to the white peo ple of the South that he had discerned the line of true development for his race; and a* they observed how pru dently and ho# capably he entered upon his life-work, they felt, and felt deeply, that he should be encouraged sad supported in all possible ways and by all poasiole means. How tffrctively this convicti n of the Southern people has been translated into fact is known by none so well as by Booker Wash mglon. Whereever be haa gone hrqugbout the South he has , been green*] with evidences of good will, of •y mpathy sod of intoliigeni support, aud his life haa l.een held up as an ex ample that might well he emulated by people of hie race. It is only fair to •late that the principal of Tuskegee had until n-ceutly behaved himself becom ingly; had shown sound sense aad a certain unfailing tact in his dealings wnh tile wluto race. He seemed to Cvovipcg thy vLrvaJ K I lam I Ri political negro doonuation quality, but to inen cai* I Jo-try, bone*tv aud thrift member* of bis race, lo coDtoiopUl tog bis aim and bis wo/%, the Soiitnern people were iociined to believe, and at irogib Aid believe, tiut this mao, Washington, had or •ken from the rack- •d ignorant and vici >u* negro leaders •ad had taken position on tbs vantage ground of reason, and the whits pwu pie of ths South treeled him wnh all . ha eouaideraii 3 hie cooduc* deanrvad rbrough*•uyhis carver, however, mem ber* •>! the while race made It uemis- takably clear to Bo»k*r T. Waaht too that though they e>mpaihiawd wi h • v-« wwahi liberally support h k, yet hs should clearly understand timt social equality of the races was not even for au loslaol, or «vua la an individual instaacu, to ha axpirvd enlistments at the ret* about i.uOO a month from now on uulil June, 1903. The question whether the regiments thus depleted in strength are tore main so, or be reornited to their full roeter, he saye, is one re quiring the very earliest consideration, tor if the latter is contemplated, It is already time to begin • pedal recniit- I he losses from all causes in the regular army and ths volunteers from July 1st, 1900, to June 30lh last totaled 16,924 officere and men in the former and 26,009 in the latt- r. The casualties to the troope in -the Philippines since the date of the first arrival June 30,1898, to June 30 last, were ill officers and 3,378 men killed, and 182 officers and 2,646 tuen wound ed. There raa be no doebt that Wash ing too eodervtood this fact aa thorough ly as be rvcogeiasd the diffsivoce ia color between the Africaa and the Caucasian recce; end understanding It as he did, there can bv entered la de feat* of hie actioa do plea other than the plea of vanity. The tnvttatioa came; the lamptaiioo swept Washing ton off bis feet sod oat of his head; be yielded la obedience to a Sanaa of per- soual conceit, and in doing so he neu- tRliaed the wise efforts of a lifetime •pent in aciuai eervice to bis rase and to his coaoiry. Ths South is ths negro's friend. Ie spite of terrible temptation to treat him ill, the Sooth ‘has treated him wall. While men and whita men’s money litve 0|>eoed the way to a wise effort to uplift the negro baa been The Governor of North Caroilaa Diacoeaea the Event. Governor Aycock, of North Caroline, hat. expressed his views xs iallows in regard to the dining of Booker Wash ington at the White House: “ It is a matter of regret to the peo ple of the South that the social ques tion has been raised by President Roosevelt. There is e genuine respect for the work Booker Washington has done, and his accepting the invitation of the President allows that he has not propei ly appreciated the feeling in the Son h. The Southern people are will ing and anxious for the advancement of the negro, bat they are not willing to overthrow their social sirnctnre President Roosevelt end Booker Wash ington have both ma e a mistake This reception by the President has raised anew the color line in the South and this is deplored. We cannot get beyond this'questi >n and solve the pio- blt-m of individual development. The true friend of the negro in the South regrets the action <rf the President The development of the negro is along industrial lines and this i« dependent, upon the altitude of the Southern peo- p e. And any attempt on the-part of Federal aithonties to force social • quality can but result in iniurv to ihe negro at a claae. Booker Washington ought to have known this fact even if toe President fid not. The act of th* P eaideot is injurious to the South aud to the negro. His cour»e rendt-rs it impossible for the South-rn- whits Republican to support him aud he c>*n trols Republican politics in ihe S »uih. 1 am endeavoring to secure the sup port ot ail ihe people for tba education of all children, without reganl to a AW the white citizenship u! the I’mmhIsoI Roo-eveU ha- hampered and t . preach “** ^ or larilt • of io- amoug the equality INDUSTRIAL AND GBNHBAL. . i . The entire clerics# force of Penn sylvanla Railroad Company waa vac cinated in Philadelphia the other day. The vain* of the present* at tba wedding of John D. ROCtiffeller, Jr~ and thq daughter of Serator Aldrich was eatimaUd at $700,000. Johq D. Rockefeller, Jr., had no wine or alcoholic beverage of any kind at his wedding supper—an unnsal rec ord for a millionaire’s wadding. The bronze plate aent by the Chilean government to oe affixed to the Washington monument at the Capital cannot be received for this purpose. It waa long ago decibed that nothing more should be added to lha shaft The police of Jersey City have o|md- ad a crusade agamat the galheiera of cigarwtumpa. These stumps are dried sod made over into cigars and ciga rettes, thus censing the spread of cei- tain dineasea—particularly tuberculosis and cancer. The hoard of health of P<itttvtlle, Pa , has ordered all women to wear short dresses. This action is baaed on the ground that the l<»ng dre«s- s, which •weep the pavemuot gather up al 1 the disease germs in the street, aud are thus carried to the homes of the wo rn* n. Mr James M Aertsen. ‘•the grand old man of Germauiown,'' and pr*-b- ab y the iddt-si (• hahilen' <>f Phhadei- |Uiii, has j iarc«-li brau-u hi 96iu birth- day. Bey U>.d a -II. hi deal he - III* facultie- are UDim|aiir»d, ao< be is a* alert aod vigorous aaany ouaioess man with whom he has to deal. on Li* want to go that meiry-go-’round for? ; Fan—So'* she coaid say aha waa sea sick. Folks might thick she’s bean aa atoa voyage, you know.—Boston Tran- •ctn*- “How was the preacher’s sermon this morning?” “ Rather shorter than usual. I got only one asp between his ‘Finally, be- lovsd ’ and bis ‘Now a word in do*, tog. —Chicago Trthune. A si guiar ewa* for d«tnage« is «,n trial id Philadelphia, biouxhi bv M — Edith Boone Mgeinst Kr«uk R. Fn- foe injuries alleged to nsve been »et»rds»| the effort* which are li mg made to educate the n gni !!• h*» furnished tba opponent- of aeg'o ado* call'n with an aArument of social. „ winch Ut.ari to meat. The ■“‘f 1 ** b .’ S «r*»P •‘“l Preside't is aieeeuriug life by war, ♦ hich is eiways aba •rati, *» life can oolv be cuoaidereii properly il lie whole aspect, aod the general -coo-ilii a of the United 8tales is that «tf peace. The chanto of the Tenth cevairy canoot furnish a basis for actioa on the part of lha President of the Untied Autos. Blood is thicker than water sod the Piesideel will uv* to leant ibis i—~ ” rvv*»ged lo -b»kiog hagffc Mi-* Bo*hs* declared that the bone- o< ber baud btoiexied her Injured band lo ih jury. The health eulhoritie* of Starke Count), lud , to cb*ckt so epid> iuic • f dipibena, bave ordered the killing o< every cai in the iuiected dietri t. ‘Je<* I have been found to b« suffering with the diera-e in its most virwleat type, sad Ute spidemic is aunbatetf to this source A snoilai epidemic a year ago, which hr* sight dea>h to many homes, UNCOLh OK SOCIAL EQUAUTT. 1 11 '• believed, Wea due to caU spread- Prestdaut Rousevrlt Ie said to lb# Infection < ach smaeeil at Southern iodiguatioo A memorial church has lately been for hi* admission »! a negro to social elected and dedicated on the sit* of • quality wnh the white mao. if be Jefferson Devia* birthplace in Fair- wants to get a good laugh over such a j view, Ky. A slab of Tennessee mar. fanusiic objection, hs should read the bin eel 10 the wall beer* this roecrip- of Abraham LidooIj la hia de- tiop: " Jsffeieoa Devi* of*Mwsls»lppi. with Douglass ia 1868, la the course of which be said: ** I a« aver have been, in favor of tog volar* ur juror* of nag rocs, nor ol qualifying them to bold office, nor la- tsrmarryiog them with white people, Sal IH A HUMOROUS YEIH. What did She—I love this excessively hot ^ he « VOQ ‘ Mr - lawman? Ho—No 1 can’t stand it. I 8® away If it continues. 8be—I do hope it will.-London Punch. shall Siilicns—To grt married in May is considered uui'icky. Cynicus—Still, if you get married in May you alwntg have something to blame it on.—Philadelphia Record. ‘‘That white cow,” raid the waggi-h ftrmer, “ m the one that gives milk.” “Alii” exclainie-i the city girl, ‘aod Uio-e brown ones, 1 suppose, „ive beef —Phllace phi* Press. want to be famons,” said the xre iht-marivrs i . any othe “I boy. iVell, voa’U have to be mighty carelul,” aoewered the faiher. “Ttiere more people who nuke fooie of irymg !•« f*u«u- ih to •at ”—Cbicag. Fuei ” Brother J ^ ^ ins'iy , p p? ’ asked to* B say- be ca«t his first ••Heal lb- l*»l rl> cti O H 1 m » h-Vt- Vi*u Voir I K illcky t> y . „ . ^ _ k* w dre ei^ oTrm^-h w r' io- quir .i br l i.a.^u -uiiu.irdel). — • ■•ikur* s *tr«m «a. » aod 1 wtii say, in additioa to this, that The Agricultural Fair James G. Blaine once said that the agricul tural fair la the farmer’s parliament. This is not so true now as formerly when speechmaking was a conspicuous part of the proceedings. We question if the agricultural fair has not de clined io power for good, to a greater or leas extent, by eliminating this fea ture that, waa intended to serve as mental stimulus as well as entertain ment, add the substitution of “attrac tions” of a decidedly different charac ter. The present day agricultural fair is largely baaed on (wo general fea tures—entertainment and exhibits. The first is made to serve the purpose of drawing people through the gates at 60 cents a head, and the other to serve the purpose of the exhibitors in advertising their wares. Both of these features may b«, and usually are, worthy so far as they go, but they do not meet the full porpoee of an agri r cultural fair.. We believe that a re- tarn to the farmer’s parliament idea as expressed by Mr. Blaine and a develop ment of this feature would be pro ductive of much good.—Colman’t Ru ral World. Toit year the California olive crop will approximate 80,000 tons of fruit. The yield of pickle olives amounted to nearly 1C,000 barrels. it is their interest, to see the eegro race in th^touth become what, within its limitations and by the providence of God, it ia destined to be. * Ever> effort in behalf of. the negro, directed along iutelligentwiih, ha* met lines and will continue to meet with, the ■> mpathy and •upp«'irt of ah mao “with straight hair.” Bat every negro'in the South must understand here, now, righ. off—once aod forever—that the Southern people will never, even for an instant, agree to the prop'*irioo that the black race ia socially the equal of the white race. In momentarily forgetting, or at least m blinding him self to that important fact, Booker Washington has chilled the sympathy of Southern men who had lilierally supported him. In yielding to a pecn liar weakness of hit race, the principal of Tuskegee baa measurably undone the goojl work he had accomplished. It is clear that the penalty of bis folly will fall moat heavily upon his own people. there is e physical d.fference between the white aad the biack race which, I b* levs, will forever forbid the two living together on terms of social and political equality—aad, inasmuch as thsy can not so live, while they do remain together there must be a posi tion of superior and inferior, aod I, as och as any other man, am la favor of having the superior position a*- signed to tha wbi!* race.” Thu pro- taut of the South against social equality of while men aad negroes is ia aeoor- see with the teachings of Abraham Lincoln, sad when Theodore UouUa v c It laimtejtjjo aapra ha was bora oo June 3, 1808, oo the ute of this church. Hs me a gift of the lot March 10, 1886, to Bethel Baptist Church as a thank offering to God.” “The town of Eaatoe,” says The Kcnebec (Me.) Journal, “ sends down thu story of niustyAwo potatoes which fill a barrel and weigh 184 pounds. Just to get aa idea of thslr size, count an ordLary-barro! of potatoes Maple Grove tails of a field at ooe end three- fourth acres which yielded 226 barrels of potatoes. Presque isle tolls of u •ingle potato, eleven inches loog and 'Weighing three aad a half pounds.” This will rank as a bad year for the fanners throughout Great Britain. Alike in England and 'lo Scotland thu acru-fua sown la wheat aad bar ej ar* imeltfer then they were bet year, sod haa ever placed in the Prueidehtiel chair, v-Ths Columbia UtaU. A Church or Hie Own.—Accord ing to a newspaper story, there ia h probability Uial Mr. John D. Rocke feller will withdraw from the church ha haa heretofore affiliated with in Cleveland, O., end build up another church, because of differences with the pastor of the old congregation Mr. R •ckefeller, according to the story, is patronizing a,young minister and pio- p-Aes to asaistl in esublLhing a church body for him. The idea of men who can afford it having churches ot their own is not new. Id Beaufort County, teuih Carolina, in days when plan ten UfH ‘ Prayer in a factory Is a novel idea J ray« tied i carried out by a slipper manufacturer in Worcestershler who has a chapel in his working shop.He is a religious worker in that city and believes, he says, that it is just as important to start out in the day with God aa it is to have sufficient etock oo liand for the making of shoes. Not many of his employes agree with him, evidently, or eis« they say their moaning prayers at home, for the morning chapel ser vices between 6,30 end 7 o’clock are sparsely attended. Every one is invited bat sometimes only three are present, in addition to the proprietor, who con ducts the service*. Perhaps ii the ser vices were held during the working hours the attendance would be much larger. For e time noonday prayer meetings were held alto, but increas ing business demands on the time of the proprietor induced him to abandon the noonday invocation and lengthen the morning devotions. The first fir* engine used lo tbif country was brought from England to Mew York in 17»1. " ~ ths rich- men of the country, a planter who wee an Episcopalian and the principal supporter of the parish chnrch, 81 Lake’s, and with-whom the rector made his home, got iuio e dis pute with his friend and guest- ou chnrch matters. As a consequence, the story goes, he built a chnrch, Methodist in faith—a denomination then just becoming prominent—and ran it in opposition to bt. Luke’e. is said that he would drive to the church oh Sundays and, taking bis stand in front of it, would call on those who were ou their way to worship at st. Luke’s to stop and hear his preach er. The church erected by the planter has long aince disappeared, bat the site of it is still known ns “ (jhurcb Hill.” The old Episcopal church edifice remains, but it is now the pro perty of * Methodist congregation. The old religion, like the old planters, has passed ewey from the locality.— Savannah N ewe. The •totement'now going the round of the paper* that the apple crop o( United States exceeds in value the wheat crop ie rather surprising. Ths average annual value of the wheat crop Is said' $306,(KX),000, while ti^ apples for the yeas 1900 an estimated at 216,000,000 barrels, which at $2 pe< barrel would come to $430,000,000. Two dollars par barrel ie probably a little high for the average, but et $1.6o the amount would still be ahead ol the wheat by $22,500,000.- laii<L Nofls the detune an mumpor- taut ooe. Ia many respects it leaves British agriculture in a more (eel | ed plight than for years. In Scotland the position is not so bad as Jf Eug- lan 1. * n No fewer then 1,100 pear* have been gathered from a Jargonelle pear true in tfie garden of Borthwlck Manse, Gorebndge, Bogtaod. The. tree was planted fortv-eight years ago, and has been pruned and tended for forty-one year* by toe Rev. Waiter Waddell, who has been tba iocomtmt of the pari-h dunog that period. It it trained against a went wall. Ths present crop is the largest it bat aver borne. The average weight of the peers is three to the pound. The young housekeeper often Aids it difficult lo prevent waste 'in ihe kitchen, dlninxroem and pao:ry. W tb careful thought the trouble will smooth itself out. Bread Deeds Jose watch mg. The biscuit may be warmed over and freshened by sprinkling them with cold water and putting them in a re <1 hot oven a few minutes. The left-over of light bread may be toasted, fried, •teamed, used for dressing or bread padding. I aim to atilixe scrap- of bread as fast aa thev appear; ,t U harder to make use of a large quantity l npver bake fresh, light oread unit the old bread It used. J The Episcopal Recorder finds pleas ure in the President’• choice of a church t “ We view with pleasure ih' -ight, referred to in the secular pres-, of President Roosevelt attendiug tb< little chnrch ot the denomination t to which be belongs in Washington We cannot, however, but view with rr> probation the had taste that edvertoe- what be doee While there, how he eo- ten and letwe the building, wbethe he joins in the hymns or not, and bo ie places a “ crumpled note ” m ih . ffertory plate. Such things belong • be private life of the individual *n urstj are not for public pom ne> • H *w utterly distasteful they mus b tba Piaeidant can certainly be gaug' •y the stern rebuke he admmistored l be thoughtless panoo who «t emptn to taka hie photograph a poo leaving church oa a recant “ Frank HiocktiKi tells a delight fill fl -h at -ry. A geutli m«n vktd a quns- iHio of a b •> who wa. fl.hiu<. Ths "oy muiubiwl *n | 0 n*4i cl te-p,, ** * hv , * MO l y-e sprat pDiuti?'* g 1 hllc Qisii. “ tYbai h«v« VHir fno.nh ? - Wui the hoy. M 7*h*t was the first iosta*es I aver reiuaiktd Mr. SiocklHi, io tilling tl* ttor v, *• w( anv b-xiy (sally •peaking wnh Iwitod breath.” ^ yuu in *—*®o»t for halt,” aa*wared !> Weil, as m«n has u> die anyway.” “1 duo't know about that How •horn ‘the youngest soldier to eelUt in the civil wart’^H# die. regularly •vary year or so Phliedsiphl* Press. Sambo—“ anr* Wher you get dal chick- Mark Anthooy—“ Neb bar you mind ’bom dat chicken. ’Taint your*.” “ H *w y u know ’toiu’i?” * ^ •"V * found hit Id youeh coup.” —New \ork Weekly. “ Supposing,” said Mr _ er during a pleasure trip oa •ioo boat, that i ware to tall hoard. Wbai would you do?” “ Oh I” exclalmeil Mr*. Barker, with • !••?» u I’d cry my eyas out” “I knew U. Fbai *• just like e wo- Alwaj* looking for a -way to nauen wore*. Can’t you eaa crytag wouldn’t do tha good, aod that U would oely water that much deeper?”— too Star. ■orfy to hear that, John. “ I’m Why?” “ Every time I drive you out, air, I hear people say: ‘Thera goee tha scoundrel,’ aod I don’t know which of ot they mean.”—Philadelphia Time*. “ I see since Packmen has been em ployed oo ihe yellow j<Miroals his fath er has refused to recognize Mm.” ‘* indeed I Whai dues his father d ?” “He’s serving a life term Sing.” at <{ttng “ He said he’d drown his sorrows in drink ” “ Weil, drowning men clntch at *trawa. I saw him abaoibiug a mint jullp.”—Phtia lelpbia Pro*. Mr. Dukani-—H .w do von account •or the longevity of MctbnseUh end i h« other pairiaich-?” ^ r - Gaagell—“ Ob, that was before *o many new disease* had been in vented.” “ Is Sydney Sp uggs putting on any airs since he cairn- into his fortuner 1 ” All* ? I think 'o; he’s bsd three •urgical operations ”—Uaicago Record- Herald. Lnthley—“ N •, he can’t stand as <nocb liquor as he used to. ” Tankiey—“i guess tiut worries him, »-h ?” Lushley—“ No, indeed. You see, it does not cost him so much or take him eo long to get e jag now.”—-Phil- •delphia Press. She (iodign'tuuyj—Bat you had no b .siucss to kiss met He—Ob, but it ws*n’t basinesA—it k *sv ptasearet—L'f'. “ And i. * y lasist upon kis*- "g the arid*-?” asked the somewhat I alou- bridegr ora. “Of course,” n-plied the W.etern '■sii*e, who hid just i*erf''Mued the' Q.Nirtaol ceietnoiiy. “You **e, (••ong bap, I sm dispeiiu’ uiem cranky cieatific iheones eb a* liases com- muicaun’ disease. I kissed over two i nod red bndee Iasi year an' ,1 ain’t