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VOL.' XXV. BAKNWELL SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 9. ,qq2 ) THE PHILIPPINE PROBLEM _____________ , ♦ The American Constitution and Creed of Liberty Are Being Sorely Tried. Sooner or later we must reach an ultimatum with the Filipinos. Already the island and their incidents have cost us nearly $500,000,000 How long the people of this nation will consent to pay out a half million of dollars < very day to prolong this experiment in imperial colonialism is an unguess- able conundrum. But that they will lire of it eventually is certain. What are we doing in the it-lands, anyhow? Certainly we are not pacify ing them with dispatch and decorum. True, every once in a while the accom modating typewriter of the authorities -over there ■ annonnoea that ,** tho war that is now up to Congress..- The su- ireme court, as far as human appre- lension can understand its deliver ances, has said that Congress, repre senting the legislative sovereignty of the nation, can adequaUly legislate ho system that shall obtain in these aland possessions. The question hangs ronder in the capitol, swaying between the magnetic poles of imperialism on the one hand and a probationary pro tectorate on the other hand. It chsl- euges the American constitution and the American creed 6f liberty alike for rational and just settlement. That settlement will affect our gmru system even as vitally as that of' the Fhilip- lines, but what will it De?—. Constitution. U over,” but before the typewritten as surance gets fairly afloat the cable brings news that the furtive and pug nacious Filipinos have bobbed up in a fresh locality and Indeed a platoon of their pacifleators. Forty thousand soldiers is the minimum force that so experienced and honest a fighter as General Chaffee comiders adequate to maintain even the present guerrill i campaigns in the islands, fie does not venture to say how many would be needed ti really hold the inhabitants in leash and peace. The truth seems to be that we are to have war on our hands in the archipelago just as long as we seek to reduce it to subjection and to the processes of our policy ol Americanixation of Ute inhabitant*. Our experience is almost sure to be that of the Dutch in their conquest and possessioo of Java. At last we will have to abandon the government of the people to their own wills end me thods, leave them to their own domestic customs, institutions and pursuits, and ourselves hold only the seaports, whsteby to profli by the inrtrTOTTTr huts that we can compel the natives to give to us atone We can quarantine them against the world end their only met be with as. Heyood we wttt always find it diAcull, sad disastrously expansive to go. Thus far, if reliable reports have been made by oar etalesmen sad e> I die re who have heea ta the islands, we have made iittis progress ia commend- tag to the KUip«aoe our type of western civUtaatioo. Ws are ekiwly flad ag out for ourselves what the ft pea lards, after three huedred years of effort, could have Uftd us el first head. A majority of those Malaysian tribes are uudoubtedly as eadi illaMs as the A Bier can Indian* Tbs impoamoe of the restruiaia aad re al our civiiuatioa m the impueiOea of a bondage of death. It means tSs slower, perh tpe, but equally sure exUactlou of the Filipino as it did of the West led me under ftpuia sad the North American Indian under our own dominance. Instinctively the FUlptnoa resist the procaema that they know will end in their deeUucuuu as a people. Turbuieace, lawlessness end barhanc warfare must always attend our policy of beuevi lent aaeim laliuu. Nor are we eutenng upon a promis ing career at ChrtauanuaUou sox them. The Human Catheter friars, who ere store adept ia the art of coo- vert tag the heathen to Cbmtua for mal tries then we, have but a meager fruitage to boost from their cenlury- luog efforts with tbs Filipinos. Those of them who are pndeseed Catholics are not eager caadidatee for our Pro les laal proeelyUem sad those of Iheui who adhere to lbs Mohammedan re- ligtou are likely to yield even lees U> Chmeitau units, thsa lhe have to the friars and the fdiUi of STATED LIQUOR BUSINESS- la the educational field we have be gun with a system end an entoutiasu ridiculously in excess of the demand* -of the lit nation. Our plant are about on a par with those of an exuberant drummer trying to induct the tropical native into a suit of woolens, Wauken- fast aboea, an ulster and a plug hat. Mr. Fred W. Atkinson, the American superintendent of education in the is lends, makes a very futile report of his elaborate endeavors to ret up the Mas sachusetts pub'ic school scheme ia the archipelago. At the head of the Springfield High school, with ample means in control, v with eager, intelli- ’ gent, ambitious young Americans for materiel, Hr. Atkinson was conspi cuous as an educational eiterpriser But in the Philippines he hu run his nose against a bard proposition. A thousand American teachers; as inapt in the environment to which they have been transplanted as polar bears would be in Florida, they are floundering about in discomforts and disgusts, yet fatuously trying to cram modern educa tion into the Filipino kids according the strict roles of Froebel, Pestallozi . and Horace Mann. The civil governments which eur academic commission are organizing • appear to be fearfully and wonderful^ ■ devised to produce rather than reduci - chaos. Their legislative features wouic give Solon a pain in the neck and cause Justinian a neuralgia under his bum of equity. The Filipino is the slave ingraiaed tribal traditions and prac tices, or else the truculent product of . the Lgtiu idea of absolutism in got era. meat. As a drilled and commendable citizen he is as imitative as a monkey and as repetitious ss a parrot. Our effort to invest him with self-govern ing authority and a sense of democratic responsibility it a freak ism that pales any proposition that ever hi w off the prolific political prairieq of Kansas. It is bound to end in abortions of govern- -Atlanta A YEAR OF DEVELOPMENT. Annual Report oi the Directors of the State Dispensary. The annual report of the Slate btfard of directors of the dispensary for the year Jist closed has been made public by the chairman, I<eon J. Williams, and is as follows i To his Excellency, M. B. Me- Sweeney, Governor of South Carolina: Ve have the honor to submit to you, for your information and also that of the General Assembly, this, our repoit of the business done by the dispensary during thr fiscal year closing Novem ber 30, IMl: Examination of the various acrouut* attached hereto will show that (be total amount of cost of liquors, wines and beer,etc., purchased during the yuar amounted to $1,017,073 4:!, ex clusive of sales qf fresh bear by beer dispensary. The net proflu (to the State) for amount of the school funds flH0.MlS.i5. The nel prod s ihsl Bsv* been as-' signed to the counties sod towns, di vided equally, are $4J4,iH5H7 which nukes a UHsl net pn lit ut $515 24m. 12 or the year on account of the schoo fund end towns and counties. tffe have lor some time felt a ven ous need of more ware bouses ami tffice loom, and also for a sahraad umouidious fireproof vaall for the storage aad preservation of oytr perma nent records. Consequently we have roost reeled moie storage ceparny also s couveaieat two story office buddiag with a eamieodious aad ep to dale fireproof vault, ebirb has coet $14.404 81. buaelee other petty ■» irovemenu. The Act approved Feb ruary III, IMS), I orb-os us to make then 10 per cent profit uti ec- count of the school fund*. aad the past rear we heve made ou that account mi round figures *'ugr cent, which leaves only a very saseti margin with which to mu the busiDoes, and while it M true that the school fund is roestdorable. aUng at praaeal to $<il 1^154 3ft, it is availebte very slowly for payment to the schools, as that is our only work mg caidtal. We are gratified to be able to show l»_a high percentage of net proflu the total hustneen done, especially as the prices ol liquors have been very high ou account of the price of grains, while ws hats ant made any advance in the pnee to the consumer The system seems to be ia very thorough wo« king order ia fcll its details. Respectfully submitted: L. J. Wil liams, Chairman; II. H. Evans, A. F. II. iHikae. StalO Itoaid of Dim lots. Coder ibe Act of the legislature the iovernor is required each year to ap point two experts to examine the books and occounU ol Jbe Stall; tits- a r. pya suuersed FROM A BACHELOR'S VIEW. The Progress rf the United States Never Equalled Ay any Nation. Dun’s Review of January 4, 1902, has the following summary of the progress made in a business way by the United States during the past year : ^ Most marvellous of all tho pheno menal evidences of advancement in business during the year was the prog ress made in manufacturing. It is im possible to be too extravagant in de lineating the movements of the indus trial world. Never iu the history of this or any other nation has such de velopment occurred witbiu the space improved methods of wort and or ganization were conspicuous, wise eco nomics were introduced, but more than all other factors that nude JToc, permanent prosperity was the conser vative resistance to price inflation. After the reaction of 1900 the level of prices remained depresaed for some months, but gradually responded to the increasing demand as excessive accumulations were absorbed. From a condition of glut there arose almost a famine v greatly exaggerated by the stubborn strike. Some idea of the chnnge* iu site of supplies may bu founu in the comparison of furnace stocks of pig Iron, as published in lbs Iron Age, which amounted to 54H.IM3 tons on January 1. These figures steadily declined throughout the year until only 223,402 tons ware bald on December 1. Aside from the alight fall during the pen d affected by the strike there ap pears almost a steady gain in produc- tioo, dosing with the maximum quan- tlty onliirtJr”.THff|ti!|f hy IBV ifitobm of business aheasly placed for IWli the current year'a yield may not unreason ably be expected to surpass seventeen million ions. Output of rai • was be yond all rerorda, yet coatnc'.s tor 1MI2 already assure another high water mars of protiably three nstllioe too*. AH rrronla of output fur bard and soft coal Were surpassed dutiag l'ail, despite the scarrity of cats that re tarded operatiwaa. A feature of great advantage was the expanding move ment. which reached more encourag ing proportions ih to ia previous yean lo ten month* the value of shipments was fI.;t53 against $l7j*20j**t4 ibc year presmua. Coke uveas made a phenomenal record, eetab-taking a new high water mark of weekly output at 244.529 tone late ta November. While IMM) uas the beet year ever espertenred by dmteettc agrn e'lural nteieete, the opening year of the new century was ta many wat ■ more pia- fltablr, aad the two together haee put, the farming pop* I el too ia much the most aaliefaciory pxeilioo in the na- lion's b is tort. Formerly the eeesno of harvesting and crop-m<>ving brought heasy borrowing of fnuda at the East, hut inter unparalleled stock market dealings combine d to raise the total of loans and discounts lo $914,623,000 on February 15, against $825,830,600 on September 15, 1900, the top point of that year. Oh thq same date deposits attained their zenith at $1,011,329,000, com pared with $914,810,300 on March 4, 1899, the record prior to 1901. At the time of more than a billion deposits the hanks only held in actual cash $265 684,700, or $12,852,450 above the 25 per cent, legally required. On March 2 there was a new deposit re cord of $1,012,514,000 but loans did not attain their maximum until March 9, at $918,789,600. The year of 1901 brought almost a uniform decline of silver throughout ihe entire period, culminating in sales during December at Jl -94d in [.ondon it la found that but two months on record, August and Septemlier 1897, found this metal selling as low. At that lime the bottom was louebed at 23 3 4, or about 2 cents an ounce lower than the rtcord of 1901. UE 18 NOT BILL The beit way to avoid marital mis understandings is lo avoid the whole marital busiueas. , To sympathize with those who are down in the world it is necessary for you to get down there youtself. A woman who will ask another wo man to show her bow to do tailing al most JLbioka enough of her to be her friend. *”*■ Versatility ia not a woman's strong point. Before marriage she sight to think how happy the is going lobe, and afterward she sighs to think how happy she thought she was going to bu. t The way to get a woman to forgive you is not to forgivs her —*ry enthuala-m a woman puts Into a spanking by the way she jerks out her Joel Smith, of Monticello. Fla, Iu No Kin to Him and He Don't -Know Joel Atlanta Constitution. Our Christmas is over, but the me mory of it will linger long. Most all the kith and kindred gathered at the ol 1 homestead and brought love and gladness with them. All Ihe far away boys save one were here aud 1 never saw them so happy before. Of course we had prepared a Christmas tree l <r the little ones and Santa Claus came down the chimney apd filled their stockings and then filled the tree with beautiful presents aud deco r ated it with gorgeous ornaments. That anxious expectation aud wonder of the little cues is all over, but ihcol 1 mansion is still wide ojten and running over with happy children and grandchild ren and Moore’s first verse was changed to "T was the night after Christmas -the rooms and the hall Had the holly and mistletoe still on the wall, The Christmas tree stands in tho parlor forlorn, Its beautiful hangings all given and gone.” Next day we settled down to music aud song and the quiet enjoyment of all the good gilts that Christmas brought, including turkey i.nd oyster* for dinner and turkey bash for bresk- fast every «TJy while the boye were with us. Tbeoe boys are all natural bom musicians and- what with the piano and fluU. and ^riolin and hall a dozen sweet voices we had a cboit of out own, and when th« y got onto the “buzzard lope” and other hilariliea the gills formed a nog ami danced aud pranced to concord of sweet sounds, ami all of a sodden the maternal an cestor lost her self-control and j lined IMli mWd sr hand* i hereto, to be’ submitted to the fiegts 1 store, rtich an examination was m ule for the first time iaet year, and the Governor has commieeioned the two experts who will do the work this year. OnetaMr. Z. A. Searsoo, of Haropr ton, who served on the Aral examina tion, and the other it Mr. J W v Jones, of Columbia, who is considered one of the most careful and painstaking ac countants jn the city. These experts have been instructed to report to the Governor on Monday morning and enter upon their work, which will con sume about thuty days. conditions have changed to sech e • extent that Western hank* ere lend- e at New Yotk and Chicago, and wh li there 1* still a large move- mrnt ot mosey away trues the Fast deMac the fall axxiih*, it is of funds that Wire held here for the account of interior rorrrspondeate. There is e steady tendency to enlarge the acreage sown m the leading crops, yet supplies do not increase, owing to I be better demand both for boose consumptioo end export. Ileal ami drought caused a serious curtailment of thp corn ciup, which proved the m >st important event hasting threads The average mnn a bo gives advice ie like e raadpost—be doaea’l u II you to stay where he ie. hut lo go where he pusaia. A iearned man e trouble begins when he is engaged. It M l oa what income one can get married, but oa what income one can live after getting married. No woman can evar account lor her husbaad'e tack of tale reel ia her diplo ma ami the photograph of her first euilor, Hm way lo convince a woman y--e love her ie to ait la abeirarlidn for a I long imm aad than my with a start I that you were thinking of the first day I you ever mw her. The sareet way to •»* rich is to qelt being pour. Form of habit has e good deal to do with the way sums peapls go oa loviag each other. When a larky mao gsta it into his hood that be is a great mao. ho *0 due lo I as hie lack. It'e worm to bleorh year hair than to waar a wig, bat yen could offer a mill ion dollars reaayd for a woman with hair oa her he J who would agree with you, aad you' never fin I htr A Naw Kuhalnim. Kuun—The Memphis Medical college has for sev eral weeks been ekperiaMOting with so embalming field for which great poeaibililies ere predicted. It is as sured that thia Aiecovsry is superior to the embalming preparalloc used by the Egyptians, for whil-: the infusion will preserve the subject for all time, hu- No Bomanck In It.—“It must have been quite a year ago, said the general delivery clerk at the poatofiice, “ Uiat a man came in one day and in quired for a letter in bis name, and he looked much disappointed when 1 could find none to hand out. Since that day, up to a week ago, he has been coming twice a week, most always whefl 4 was on duty, and as no letter for bioi ever arrived 1 had considerable curiosity regarding his case. In fact, 1 built up a romance around him. 1 took it that he might have separated from his wife iu some distant town, and was hoping to hear from her and make up the quarrel, aud I actually came to feel bard toward her because •he refused to write. It seemed to me that the man was lailiug iu health as he lost hope, aud now aud then 1 gave him a cheerful w rd to brace him up. A wtek ago I saw bis nameon a letter, and next lime he called I passed it out with the rt maik: “ ‘Here is your long expected letter at last and I hope it contains good news.* " " i - He stepped away from the window t to read it, and after a few minulei he came back to say: “ I didn’t get it.' “‘What was U?’ ‘“Why, I sent to my brother-in-law in P'ttaburg almost a year ago to tor ment that will hamiliate us in the eyes row a dollar to buy some porous plas of the whole world. ten, nod he writes me that he can’ What to do with thia great brown 1 w« II spare it, and that I’d beUer u elephant that we bought in at Ihe mustard plaster, instead!’’’—Detroit Spanish bankrupt sale ie a question Fiee Press. ■I ■ turaily'linHtieed an attVance in, price that practically prohibited exporta end tbut seriouily affected foreign com merce, it was by no mean an uomixed evil, since the return to growers was even larger than in e jeer of normal production, while the enormous yield of wheat waa absorbed by stock feed ing and foreign consumers in pltce of corn. Hence, Instead of a low price for wheaf iu proportion to the heavy crop, there was maintained an even higher average quotation than in the short crop year preceding. Meats naturally reflected the expen sive position of fodder and it was gratifying to notice that exports were not- materially reduced by the high evel. Cotton passed a season of Wide varia tions in the early months attaining the highest price of the decade, but falling back sharply as the spinning sitnatlon was rendered ttnfavorahle by exorbitant raw material. Crop estimates were also far apart, causing irregularity and i.v speekiog, did that of the cnaaru all an.l bekl out her invitingly to me. What coul! I do but accept toe uxoriel banter an.I aa I I was about to take her hand to rmn< 1 aou fly round, ahe lUahed bar Puea- ! hoolae eyes and declined my toft ap j pnmshca. (ihe flirted away on her No. J feet as gay a* a girt an l went coquet ting with one of the boye. fbaTe toe | way •be tieals me now in my antiquity ! Time wee whm the was glad raoaah L» lake my hand and keep it and •ImIv nt dare to play coquette at my espenee. I But now 1 am discarded, ami eo 1 re- ! tired from the ring emgiag that pathetic . old e«>ag: * J **Tm the tail ruse of Maser left eiaad- isg aloes. My lovely eompaaiok h«e left me aad goes.* Hut the frolic it about over sod the children hew settled down lo the calm a ij-iy meal of their doll* end horae mid other toys end ere etui happy. The day before t hrtetmee it wee e touching eight to eee enoM of ! the old men •o|>ping around vlylf in the •lores baying pretty things foi toe haeae folks. 1 sal my good brother Yarbrough waddling along abojl daik with aume lei ad lee and under bi« arm a new umbrella. He aatd the umbrella wee for II« zrkiab, hie faithful servant who had lived with him all these jean, aad waa -true and tried end had never owned an umbrella. That was goid and kind and waa proof rooegb that Brother Yarbrough tieluaga to oar old set and had elarea to sarva him “b to' de wah.” But, Mr. Editor, I am aiiil perplex ed. My Christmas pleasure ha* been marred aomewbai by my pity for lbe poor eredul mis, dependeol women ell over the land who ere the dupes of that Every day brings GOOD EXAMPLE. South Carolina Cotton Mill* Arc Taking Care of the Children. L I, Partnm In * ttanta Journal. That the Southern cotton mills are doing something for the moral uplift ing of their operatives cannot be de nted successfully. The Clifton and Glendale mills enploy about 2,360, paying them annually $300,000. The management has expended large sums cf money for the education of the young. Abio teachers aie employed, often at the expense of the mills, and the «cho< l* are open nine months in the year. Churches have been (reeled where the operatives may worship as they rce lit. Five stores are operated near the mills where the operatives may buy tbeir goods actually m com petition with cash stores, and (bey get them on credit the same aa if they paid cash. The motto of the proprie tors is“ the greatest good to the great est number.” The operatives are en couraged to save their earnings and in every oilier way made to feel that! they have something to live for. The Gaffney Manufacturing com pany is another ituatralion of what mill men are doing for their opera tives. At /Liufftuty~ the tenement houses are neat aud well constructed, some of them of brick, and scrupu lously dean. The company store* are put there far the convenience of the operatives, no checks used whatever, and the operatives are not compelled to buy of them. A free school la op. erated oms months iu the year for the children and the rxpens ■ paid by the mill owners. The Courtenay Manufacturing com- (mmij at Newry has also erected neat cottages, all lathed and plastered,] painted inside ami out of uniform Aukir.i. F.xatjthtag a tgrinffihw It of HUMOROU0 THIN. “ Divorcee,” said the wanted U> talk and philosophize, “coat more than msrriageaj’* Certainly,” said ihe practical maa; They are worth more.”— IT “ why nut? Life. “ D-» you happen to know anything of your inavter’e whereabouts? ’ asked a wife who was looking for her bna- band. “ I'm not sore, mam,” aaid tha careful servant, “ but 1 think they’re itygihe wash.”—Youth’s Companion. -I love to hear the birds Miss Trill sing. Jack Downright (warmly)—8o do I. They never attempt a piece beyond their ability.—-Tit Bit*. “ No,” declared the Free Thinker, 1 will never have any faith in hell.” “ True,” replied the » good man, “ If you are lo have any faTlh at all yon had heller Lave it here.”—I’-iphAlic .Standard. “ Mr. Meekton’s wife said yesterday that she waa never going to apeak to him again,” said the woman. “ Yon don’t say so I” exclaimed her husband. “ Is ahe angry, or trying to be coo lid eiate ?”—Washington Star. “ Now, Johnny,” said the Sunday- school teacher, “ yon may tell ns what a prophet ta.” “AVby,” replied Johnny, “ it’s a fel low that’s always looking for a *»*«"** to say 'I told you so.’ ”—Philadelphia Pi eee. ■ - about? faith ia “Well, what are you i You don't seem to have my good resolutions.” “1. was just wonder!ag if yon taken the paving contract for the next world. ”—Brouklr •klyo Life. that waa inseparable from Egyptian embalming and it does not call for (he swathe and bandages in which all Egyptian mummies were encased. I'be principal experiment up to this time baa been upon the body of a dog, which hhffi treated thirty daya ago. Today it looks as natural as in life. It is rigid, but in a perfectly natural There is no trace of odor about t, nor ia there any other visible symp tom of decay. Tests of the fluid have been made by the demonstrat .>r at Ihe Memphis col lege, and be it so well cpnvinced of its practical utility that he will use it for the preservation of all the cadaveis used in the college.. The fluid petrifies the body. Neither arsenic nor strychnine is used in the preparation. • Had HisSuspicions.—Tim Murphy bad run up a small bill* at the vill ige shop. He went to pay it and wanted a receipt. “Oh, we never give receipts for these tendency to await more definite in-, ,, . „ ,, , -. formation. The outlook grew njuch » ra8l if™ oun ^’’gr umbled ^ Pf 0 P n «- 'nl from the nroducers’ lor * “ See, I will cross your atcount more cheerful from the producers joint of view when the closing month wrought a higher price than, 8 cents. Expanding crops, of -sugar had the effect of lowering prices, while com petition of refiners caused a still larger fall in the finished product, to the great benefit of consumers. Petroleum was less fluctuating, the extremes of the year being 6.90, and 7.65 cents for refined in barrel^ciargoes. Extensive fields in the South were developed, Which tended lo hold prices down. Exports of staple products reached a new high record," notwithstanding the lower average prices of oil and cot ton and the scarcity of corn. The crop year 'opened with a new recoid of wheat and flour exports, amounting to 34,130,380 bashels in August, far sui- passing any previous month, while for liVe m >ntbs ending November 30 the aggregate was 126,928,162 bushels. In the year of big things it waa nat ural tbit new high records should be recorded in deposits and loans. Financ ing of big syndicate operations and off the book.” And he drew a pencil diagonally across it. “ There is your receipt,” he added., “ Do ye mane that that settles it?” asked Tim. “ Certainly.” “ And ye'll niver be asking for it again?” —■ “ We’ll never ask you for it again,” said the other decidedly. “ Faith, thin,” said Tim, “ and I’ll ho after Rapin’ me money in me pock^i, for I haven’t paid it yet.” “ Oh, well,” was the angry retort, “ I can rub that out.” 1 V Faith, and L thought as much,” sakI Tim slyly. Thfr propiietor of that establishment now issues a receipt for the smallest amount—London Tit Bits. Governor Odell, in his message to the New York Legislature, lakes strong round against the opening of saloons ^n Sandiy. He also ducotaes local ptton as a sfttlement of toe liqu >r nUMfllm. since sent the $25 to my eon at Mun- liceilo, Fla., and got nothing back. They say they (rusted him bc<au«e he was iny son. Many of them b.ggcd or borrowed the $25, for they could not get the subscribers, aud so (hey made up a list of oamt's from their ac quaintances aud then >hey went to work on the endless chain humbug and got other women in lo send more more and be duped. -Now, Mr. Editor, I beg you to put it in large type and print it in red ink that Joel Smith, ot Monticello, is no son of mine, nor do I know anything of him or bis paper. I saw a late issue in which be boasts of having 40,INX) subscribers, which I suppose means $40,000 that these dependent women have sent him. He promised them $20 a month to write three bourn a day and some of them sold their jewelry aud other precious things lo raise the $25. Mr. Editor, do please lend your columns to stop this fraud upon our poor South rn women. And now we see that another endless chain paper has started in Athens, Ga. These frauds are bringing discredit upon the press and distress upon poor women. I inclose a sample circular. I’lease stop it.. Kill it. Crush it. It is worse than the cherry tree swindle. Bill Arp. P. S.—I will give $10 to find 6 ou who started that lie that (be Monticello man was my son. I have received at least fifty letters paying, “Your son at Monticello,” etc. They make me tired„ I had three from Texas this morning. B. A. The land speculator will soon be in clover in the Philippines. There, are over 90,000,000 acre* of land in the Philippine islands, and, while it is im possible to say with any accuracy how much of the' land Is owned by private interetu, it is believed that at least 50 per cent, will come under tbeelissi fication of public domain. the c Milfoil of the operators The mill* are lighted with electric lights, ktesm heaud and in sumcnei fresh air is forced all Ihrmigh every floor, lbos insuring an agreeable temperature IbroughiMit the year. A free scbojl la maintained nine months iu thj year at the company’* expeo**. Final'y. the l < elxi*r Manufacturing company w *1*0 doing a great work for the operator* in tbeir Immr use null*. They have a $ltMi,tMIU rcbool buikll r g, tbs leecbere furnubiJ free; beauliful rburr be* of all deoumi net tone, and a 11 lo ary buildiug uitb 6,iMiO volume* la n, and a I irge number of paper* pert-aliral*, furnished free by lb* I •any. I'uoipuleury eduretioo obtains at these mill*. The head of every family w«wk<ag ia I boa* mills signs aa agree meat before getting employment i be first cl aa*e of wbu heats that ell children, member* of any family be tween the ogee of five end twelve,shall rater the srboots maintained by the l ompeay.ead shall attend every school day during the year unless pn vested by sirkneea, etc. As ea eddilKmal in • luirnienl (bildreu who attend school ! • very dev, receive e reward of lUceai* at the and of aacb month l4cttt*aa ilh sir reopui an put urea are also pro ttded, and are of toe highest order of usirutive entertainment. There ss no company store, and operative* boy whir* they pl.-eec. No Itqaora ere *V>(d iu IVtser, sod toe peimle have imphaiM-ally voted against iiwpenau- ilea. 1*1011 moot is atill another illaelra- u in, ami there are many others scat tered tbrougbuul the HUM. l^at to* reader remember that toe story of the awful neglect end bed treeimeol of children by mill operatives is conjured by •sutimeotelwl* and tabor agiU 1 “ L'oeie Clarence, WW* farenc* between a fad aad • hobby?” -“Will, a fad aometimee gsta tired and let's go; hut a hobby sever f I’m k. Chemist (to must take toi* medicine three day, after meals.” Patient —“ But, air, I mi ala tors* 'ard Umea." ( hemiat (pamiog oa lo next ary— M Then take it befics “ Horry tor you, old ma Job's comforter. “ Dr. keep you You Price Will “ Whv,’ etrimmed ih* invalid, “I'm not ao ill as all that.” “ 1 to* doctor's wife laid struck him for a sew < phis Record. friesd Jlfiey ■ dtdoT Your w t*i “ Yea, he was s yarn and he's Maned up That aw?” Yes; he'* si fora •grot Prase. Philadelphia “ So jour husband were abroad?" said to* “ Yea,” replu <44 Mr. 8k i a fly at, with an ly mournful aigb, “ poor John Mr*. Jane Mansfield, a ccnuntmn of Lynn, Maw., lives in the oldest bouse in that city, which was built 250 y aai a ago. cri-dulcu* puhlic. 1 hera-are no doubt -ohm abuies, but mill turner* are feat coming to realiza that good trealmaul of iLnr labor lx Ip pay*, both in money and the consciousness of btlping to up lift the poor who leave (he farms to the m-gioes aud go to town wheie schi ols and chorriua, free librane*, parks and pleasure grouoda conduce *0 iht-ir pL&sure and tbeir educational advancement. Prof. Aloert Barnes, of the mechani cal arts and engineering department of Ck msou Ol ege, has just completed a locomobile in “ The Runabout.” Prc feasor Barues has the honor of being the first to construct a locomobile in ibis State, and is one of the first aud only ones to own one in the upper part of South Carolina. It is a gasoline auto, being propelled by a live horse power double cylinder gasoline eugine, designated to make from four to ten miles per hour on hilly roads, and will make twenty to twenty-live on level roads. The running gear is especially tdapli d to mountainous aud hilly aec- uous mch as this ia, having extremely ficxibl) gears. The gasoline tank car ries enough fuel for a twenty-live mile jluruey. Henry Watlerson, the veteran editor of The Louisville Courier Journal, is one of the hardest working" men in the newspaper profession. Though well advanced in years, he gets to his oflice every morning at 7 o’clock, which ne cessitates very early rising, as he lives twenty miles from Louisville and drives lo bis oflice behind a spirited pair of Kentucky mares. This is jfrom a tombstone near We- tampk*,- Alabama-:- - - *‘-Henri Hitter Demi Ritter Emmi Ititte-, Sweet Po- u>tCream Tartar, Caroline Bcctwick, infant daughter of Bob and Sukey Catlin.” It was the name of a Utile negro girl. - * , Congressman l^ever has introduced a bill directing the treasurer of the Coiled State* to pay the trustees of ftl. Stephens Lutheran church m Lex iuglon $2,000 for injuries done lo it by Abennao’s troops in 1865. deiilj, •lowo nod look at tbs Philadelphia Pr f?* fire.' Kudyard Kipling any* that bo waa ooc* presented to a young lady who almost immediately began to whimper, and whose eyes were so full of taaia that be felt compelled to ask if ah* were ill or if anything were the mat ter. looking at him between her sobs, the disappointed maiden broke out: >* Ob, I thought you wars so tall o handsome 1” »f “ 1 bear O’Brien is working again,” said the barber. “ Yes,” said the bailiff. He’s work ing for the traction company.” ‘* 1 thought it was for the telephone company.” “ No, the traction company ia what they call the street-car com pan v.” “ What do they call the telephone company ?” “The distraction company, I —Chicago News. Senator Fairbanu, of Indiana, and Governor Shaw, of Iowa, were •tumping Kentucky, and after a cessful meeting were piloted to a bar room by the Kentoeky colonel, who had them in charge. “ What’ll you have?” he asked Senator Fairbanks. “ A little cold ApollinarU,” waa the reply. “ And you? “said the kAat to Governor Shaw. “ I thick I will have a glass of battermilk.” The bartender turned to the Kentuckian. “ What shall I give yon, Colonel?” he aakad. The Kentoeky gentleman heaved a long sigh. “Under the circamaUnoM,” he said, “ I think you can give me a jfcMa*C#iaJ£ , - * 1 " Under the wilt of Mrs. Susan Cor nelia Warren, widow of Saaaual Downes Warren, a Boston paper manatactarer, nearly $1504)00 is set aside for eduoa- tional and charitable purposes. The trustees are empowered to expand $50,- 000 aa a peimanent foundation for an educational institoikm at aaah a ] as they may aaa fit, but Went Brook, Ma.