Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Vi. vii. The Cotton Crop in Texas. St Louts Republic. The last seven days have gone-ally improved tlte outlook for tho cotton crop. Tho best prospect, as heretof . r lore, came irom i cxas, where picking ims begun regularly in some sec* lions, ami where one report says the . ^ crop will bo the largest for 10 years, despite decreased acreage. Needed rains have fallen in Arkansas, whore, although the crop is late, it will he about as large as last year. There is a bettor outlook in the Memphis district, whore the lateness is the worst fault of the crop. This is due mostly to the recent Hoods. In Mississipi there has been too much rain, and ? l.? ? 1 4 ouiiii; ijiidi n'i n it'c'i i inu jiwul l> nut fruiting ns it should. In Louisiana there has been a cessation of the continuous rains, followed hy cloudy weather, which lms prevented rust and shedding, so the.situation there is more cheerfui, In South Carolina there is little change from the unfavorable conditions heretofore reported, which make the crop late and poor. Reports of boll worms are more frequent than a week ago, but all say their work will not do serious damage at any point. Caterpillars are heard of in both Mississippi and Alabama, but they have not done much barm. The Carnegie ConflictThe Homestead trouble is discussed in Social Econimist, by a writer who has evidently given the subject of labor much thought and study. He regards the IIomesteau strike as something more than a mere quarrel between Mr. Carnegie and his workmen?an industrial crisis, and in reply to those who see nothing in the affair but a violation of the law, says Unit "to troat the struggle between employer and employed strictly by existing law would be to cast tbe present hack into the dim rules of the past. Apart from the fatal fact that it cannot bo (lone on account of the magnitude of the forces and interests involved, it is not for tbe interests involved, it is not for the interest of society that it should be done. The new movement of employees is an evolution, and as such society is interested in its success, and cannot afford to navo it fail. To insist upon the extreme enforcement of law regarding the rights of property, or upon anything else contrary to this, is to obstruct the advance of civilization itself, and fores the use of violence to accomplish what otherwise would come by the silent forces of social evolution-'' Attention is called by tho writer to the fact that, during the four hundred years preceding 1825, Eng?lisli law made it conspiracy for work, 'ufingraen to associate for the purpose of raising their wages, and he adds that "if English laborers had continued strctly to obey the letter of this law, they would probably still be working twelve hours a day, and be liable to imprisonment for demanding a change or daring to nsk for higher wages." The writer concludes from a re view of the economics and history of the Homestead trouble that ''the issue was an economio one that might have boon adjusted by strictly economic methods; and that the real cause of the riot was the ignorant l' failure of the company to recognize that an economic solution was possible and would bo the best for all pardon; and a determination to insist upon an antiquated resort to force to establish legal rights outgrown by the advance of society." LK8SON8 OF TIIK STRIKE. "The Carnegie conflict has shown that in order to secure this several measures are necessary. First of all must, of course, be an unqualified V enforcement of the rights of proper^ ty. This is a fundamental necessity to social freedom and progress, and should therefore be made absolute and complete. No industrial conditions whatsoever should be set up as a defense for the destruction of property. In fact, property rights and personal safety must be held abso lutely sacred, and this laborers must religiously recognize no less thaii napi'aiists. But to secure these the fullest opportunites for economic competition must be guaranteed. This involves, first, the recognition of trade unions as a necessary part of the industrial organization of so? ciety, entitled to the same legal status and support afforded to organi CONWA1 zed capital. Second, that the refusal of capital to treat with labor organizations, and especially to institute lockouts for the purpose of foreingVvorkmen to disband their unions, shall be regarded as against public policy, to be discouraged by the courts and disfavored by legislation as against the interests of the State. Third, the entire rosponsibili tyoi protection to lite una property ' shall he in the hand3 of the community, and no capitalist shall be permit- i ted to employ private troops under j any circumstances, except when cal- | lea upon to do so by the authorites for the purpose of strengthening tlie ordinary police machinery of the ' community. Fourth, that in all cuses 1 of industrial disputes, laborers shall j have the sarno right peacefully to dissuade laborers from taking their places that employers have to induce 1 them to do so. This, indeed, is no- 1 cessary to the efficiency of tho strike, < and the strike must be recognized as being a part of the competing ma- ' chinery of modern industry, as it is. ' ! There is no other method as yet demised by which the competition of I laborers for a higher, because better , jhi, sunns can uc secured, and as ( such the strike is of incalculable value to tho community. Those who see in it only a disturbance and disorder look at the surface alone. Hut those who look below the surface will discern the method of the gradual rise of tho ancient serf to the modern laborer and of the modern laborer to tho condition of a cotnfor- ' table, reasonable and intelligentciti- i /,en?one corner stono of public prosperity." Went About Coin" Goodu Miss Nightingale, in her beautiful tribute to that remarkable woman Agnes E i/.abeth Jones, testifies thus to her thoroughness not only in her special work, but in preparation of her work. One woman has died?a woman I attractive and rich and young and witty; yet a voiled and silent woman, distinguished by no other genius but the divine genius?working hard to train herself in order to train others to follow the footsteps of Iliwi who wont about doing good. Of alt human beings I have ever known she was, I was about to say, the most free from desiro of the praise of men. Hut 1 cannot say most free, for she was perfectly free. She was absolutely without human vanity; she preferred being unknown to all but (}od; sho did not lot her left hand know what her right hand did. After recounting her vast work in the great Liverpool workhouse Miss Nightingale says. In less than three years she did all this. And how did she do it? She was not, when a girl, of any conspicuous ability, except that sho cultivated in herself to the utmost a power of getting "through business" in a short time without slurring it over; real business?her Father's business. Sho was always filled with the thought that she must be about her T??fir? ? I tuiiti o Hiiniliuns, HOW Urtll UliyUIlC undervalue business" habits? As if anything could be done without them! She could do, and she did do, more of her Father's business in six hours than ordinary women do in six months, or than most of evon the best women do in six days. Hut, besides this, and including this, sho had trained horself to the utmost? she was always training herself?for hers was no holiday work. Hefore she came to us at St. Thomas' Hospital in London, for a year of training, sho had been at Kaiserworth (the great trainingschool in Germany,) and had spent some months with the Hiblc.women of London. She was our best pupil she wont through all the work of a soldier, and sho thereby fitted herself for being the best general we ever had. She had no care of praise in her at at all. But, or rather because of this, she had a greater power of carrying her followers with her than any woman (or man) I over knew. And sho nevor seemed to know that she was doing anything remarkable. Raising and Buying CowsIt can be shown conclusively, says the Iiural and Workman, that a cow can be raised for less money than one can bo bought, and just as certainly thai one can raise a better cow than he can buy. This should be obvious at the first thought, because no man will sell a thing?oven a cow?for less than it costs him, and if one man can produce a cow for a "He True (o Your g\ B/"CTT~HI certain profit another man should; wul also, when a dairyman gives his miud to the improvement of his stock by selecting the best and breed, ng carefully lie cannot fail to proluco betterjeows than another who 3nly takes ordinary care?or, let us jay, exercises ordinary carelessness? in raising his caWes. A calf is to be considered and thought of and prepared for before it is brought into the world, and perhaps the most important part of the business of roaring cows is that preliminary to the birth of a cow?its breeding, in fact. Rut if the stock is poor to begin with, the produce will be poor; but if one has but poor i sows, and will yet select the best and take especial caro with the produce of these ho cannot fail to effect a great improvement in course of time, and with patience and persistence. Hut how much time is saved by making a good beginning, and to begin well should bo the aim of everv owner of cows. The first step in the improvement of a dairy herd is the introduction of a good bull, selected for its inherited qualities. Then one has a foundation to build upon. The rearing of the calf should begin as soon as itsfombryo, and is done through the dam. The dam should be kept well fed, kept docile and petted, so that her disposition maybe gentle and friendly. Her, milking capacity should be encouraged in every possible way, and extended to within a few weeks only and not more than six months at most, of the birth of the calf. It is ft maxim among breeders that the dam confers upon the constitution peculiarities the mental, or rather instructive, characteristic, while the sire gives the form and other qualities. Charcoal and its UsesCharcoal laid flat, while cold, on a burn causes the pain to abate immediately; by leaving it on for an hour the burn seems almost healed, when the burn is superficial is valuable for many other purposes. Tainted meat surrounded with it is sweetened; strewn over the heaps of decomposed polts or over dead animals it prevents any unpleasant odor. Foul water is purified by it. It is a great disinfectant, and sweetens offensive air if placed in shallow trays around apartments. It is so very porous in its "minute interior" that it absorbs and condenses gases most rapidly. One cubic inch of fresh charcoal will absorb nearly 100 inches of gasous ammonia. Charcoal forms an unrivaled poultice for malignant wounds and sores, often corroding away dead flesh, reducing it to onequarter in six hours. In cases of what we call proud flesh it is inyaluable* It gives no disagreeable odor corrodes no metal, hurts no texture, injuries no color is a simple and safe sweetener and disinfectant. A teaspoonful of charcoal in half a glass of water often relieves a sick headache; it absorbs the gases and relieves the distended stomach pressing against the nerves which extend from the stomach to the head. It often relieves constipation, paiu or heartburn. Which Willlou Do? Which will you do, smile and make others happy, or be crabbed and make cveryboly around you miserable? You can live among flowers and singing birds, or in the mire surrounded by fog and frogs. rhrt siinnnnt. nf Vinrminnan whiMi -unn n " ?" can produce is incalculable, if you will onl) show a smiling face, a kind heart, and speak pleasant words. On the other hand, by sour looks, cross words and a fretful disposition you can make hundreds unhappy almost beyond endurance. Which will you do? Wear a pleasant countenance, let joy beam in you eye, and love grow on your forehead. There is no joy so great as that which springs from a kind act or pleasant deed, and you may feel it at night when you rest, and at morning when you rise, throughout the day when about your daily business.? 2exas Advocate. If the weeds have possession of the bed this Fall, you can hardly expect a good strawberry crop next Spring. If the "first class'' farmer would maintain his rank he must keep on studying and learning all the time. Word, Your Work ami Y< [JRBDAY, The Idlers' Influence on the La-t bor ProblemSouthern Cultivator. Porlmps the very worst influence of the idlers, however, is to be found in the oftect of the spectacle of their lives mi vvlinf i? enllml llm problem. ' " 1'he labor problem' is really the problem of making the manual laborers of the world content with their lot. In my judgement this is and insoluble problem. No discoveries or inventions will ever j solve it as long as population continues to pross close on the available | products of human industry. The ; causes of the dissatisfaction of tho ^ masses with their condition may change from age to ago, but tho dissatisfaction will continue, and the blame will be always laid on thosoj who have a larger share of the world's goods than others. But there is no question that the existing discontent is, and not unreasonably aggravated J ) nn hv the spectacle of the ojoymcnt by the growing idle class of the benefits of the social and political organisations, witiout any contribution worth mention to the trouble and cost of maintaining these organizations.' Tho taxes paid by the annuitant or rentier class, says 10. L. (lodkin in J^orum are but a trilling return in reality for the security they possess for person and property. The workers of the world provide them with , police, with courtj of justice, and means of travel?in short, every agency which makes their enjoyment possible, sums in cash which they would hardly pay to a good club, liesonably or unreasonably, the masses resent this more and more. It gives more envy an air of rcspcctablity and rationality. They say that even if a good defence may be made for inequality of conditions bassod on inequality of capacity and services, there ought not in truly democratic communities be any people who render 110 service at all, and who allow others to till, and spin and weave, and plicc, and light, and teach, and invent and discover, plough the seas and dig the mines for them, while they look 011 and draw their ouartorlv dividends aud spend them in childishness; that we shall liovor have social peaco till every man has a fair share of tho social burdens. - ? Jumped in the RiverFriday afternoon, while tho kcopera had a party of harmless white male lunatics enjoying a walk , near the bridge, four of them made a break for liberty. Two of them wont to the river bridge, when one reconsidered and came back. The other begged a nickel, and went across into Lexington county, and escaped. The others took up the outer canal bank and the keepers went round on this side heading them off near the penitentiary. Seeing their cscapo cut olT, the two men jumped in the river noar the old quarry and bogan swim mingout. Finally one was persuaded to come back, but tho other went out to a rock in the middle of the river and informed tho keepers that if they wanted him they would have to get a boat, and come out for him, and take him back like a gontloman. This they had to do.?Tho State. Managing a Husband. "Wo hoar a great deal nowadays about the management of husbands and tho' matter is discussed as if, like embalming tho dead, it was one of lit a 1/vof ? ?%?? t Aft LL1 M?1 n aL I ?? vno iwou ai ? j i tuo juuwuiu j in "At Ilomo With tho Editor,'' in the August Ladieft* Home Journal. ''But I notice that tho women who are agitating the question are not the gentlewomen of this country. No my positive friend, you who will riso at this and say thet those other women are under tho subjection of their husbands and are afraid to speak. This is not so. These women have found a warm and ten dor ?lace in the hearts of their mankind, 'hey have found the secret of "managing a husband," and you have not. 1 iv 1 v < . rraie an von JiKe, agitate an you wish at club meetings and at women's gatherings, but the secret will not thus be found. The place to learn how to manage a husband is r.ot at the meeting of your club, but in your home at the side of your husband and with your children. "That's the old fashioned Moa," said a positive woman contemptuously the other day. Yes, thank God it is, my friend, and it would be better for the happiness of hun I Mir Country" septem: dreda of women to day if they would 1 bo a little more old fashioned in this! I respect."?Ex. |c ~ t IP!iinii..luinp and Sniall-Pnv. < .WIIIU M W M I w W M MM VIIIHM I un The following account of the euro of small-pox with lemon juice is [ given by Dr. James Moore, a sur- ji goon of 1 ronton, Ohio. It is of 4 great importance at tho present time. 1 I was taken sick April 14 with what I supposed was a severe cold, \ having had my hair shingled the day I previous. Friday, 14th, I was quite j feverish, with severe pain in head t and hack. Sunday, lGth, 1 was no ' better. Sunday, fever somewhat ( reuueed, 1 presume by the aid of j aconite, which had boon administer- ( ed to me by Drs. Ilorris Dunn; 1 eruption very distinct underneath the skin. Monday morning, 18th eruption j j unmistakably that of small pox. j Tuesday morning, eruption very abundant, crop increasing rapidly ; j in si/.o and number. Wednesday j morning a very dense crop all over | face, forehead, scalp of head, nock 1 and soles of feet. Upon the arms* , 1 hands, legs and body they were prot 1 tily even distributed, but not so ] closely packed as upon tho the above i mentioned parts. P?y evening I was 1 suffering intensely from those upon ' the seal p. Dy It), 'JO tho pain was ( almost intolerable. My nurse hail , retired and <\as sound asleep in bed i behind me. My feet wore so tender that I dare not let. them touch the foot-bat of the bed. My head I could not suffer to lie upon the pillow. 1 lay raised upon my elbow, my neck resting upon my hand. I nuu t>y mis nine uecoine so nervous | I dure not sluit my eyes from fear of . . soemir unpleasant visions, l'ulsc about 90. I had upon the table at the bedside a pitcher of water and a drinking glass, a box of scidlitz powders, and one ounce of chlorate of potash. I had also at my bodside a paper of lemons and also one j of oranges. These were all the agents i j within my reach. I recollected that lemon-juice in sufficient quantify was a sedative and would lower tho heart's action, and by so doing might relieve mo of those unpleasant visions. I thore; foro squeezed all the juice 1 possibly Anillil nil f nf mm nf llwi lnmnnu in(n j the glass, to which I added about I two spoonsful or water, and drank ! it. I then opened the rind and sucked tho balance of the juice. In about twenty minutes I took another lemon, and used it in the same manner. In a short time I felt very cold, as if I wore lyining proximity to a large mass of ice. My pulse had dropped to 00. I shut my eyes to sco if the unpleasant visions were gone. 1 not only found that they j were gone, but by placing my hand upon my head I found that tho pox on my head had gone also. My head was bathed with profuse perspiration and 1 felt better generally. I felt so well pleased that I took a little more lemon juice. 1 kept my pulse At from sixty to sixty-seren i for thirty-six hours, when all erup-I tions had disappeared from my skin. ! .1 then bid good-bye to the lemon juice and small pox. So strongly am 1 convinced of the power of lemon juice to abort any and every case of small pox, if administered as 1 administered it to myself, that I look npon it as a spe jcillc of as much certainty and power in small-pox as quinine is in intermittent fever. 1 therefore publish (my experiment, hoping every ' physician having a caso of small; pox will givo it a fair trai|. Protecti on and the Farmer. Speaker Charles F. Crisp, writing i on "Protection" in tlio American! Journal of Politics for August, argues that the tariff upon every article imported into this country is a tax which the consumer of tha* article must pay, and for which he is to no considerable extent extent recompensed by the stimulation to home industry which may have been induced through the protection afforded by this tariff. That prottction has been the chief factor in the development of our manufacturing industries and that it does protect, .Judge Crisp freely concedes. He even goes so far as to say that about ninety per cent, of the manufactured articles used in this country are now produ: ced by the domestic manufacturers; I and more s the pity, ho seems to think . for "the result is our people pay a BHTR H, ISO richer prico for such articles in the Vmorioan market than is paid for :orrosnondinir articles in other conn ric.s where the tariff is much lowor >r where there in no tarili at nil." t Hut it is not so much this "higher >rice for articles of domestic inanu- ^ acture'' to which Mr. Crisp objects is that our protective tariff laws, 'have not created a home market for f he millions of farmers engaged in 'nising corn, and wheat, and cotton. | Pwo thirds of the raw cotton raised n this country finds its market in Liverpool. There it. comes in com- ' Petition with cotton mudo by the cheapest labor iu the world?the coo- | y labor of India. The Liverpool narket regulates not only the price >f cotton there, but the price of cot- ( <on at home. The same is true of ; >ur surplus wheat and of our sur-; 1 )lus corn, when we can export it all. rho tariff furnishes to these no home | narket, and it affords to those cnga- , ^ed in their production no protecion against the competition of the pauper labor of Europe or of India. Who, then, reaps advantage and : wealth from our presont enormously ligli protective tariff laws? Tho only , ruthful answcj^thatcan be mado is , hat a few manufacturers who may Ijo aptly termed a privileged class ire the only ones who profit by a protective tariff. "The school to which I belong believe that essence of justice and fair ness in the collection of taxes from the people is equality. If a system could be devised which Mould help everybody in the country, then it might be called just. If the system wo have is no inherently woak or so peculiar in its character that the millions of producers of cotton, the millions of producers of wheat and corn can have no benefit, but only injury from it, in the name of justice let us modify that system and adopt ono tinder which they can have some sort of chance in the race of life. They offer a sop to the farmer l>v putting a duty on his products, when the truth is, and they know it, t hat no dntv can do tho miser of corn and of cotton and of wheat any good whatever. " Any party that is in earliest in reference to helping tho farmer or any other class of laboring men will reduce the tariff; permit sonio reasonable competition in the market; destroy trusts: accord equal privileges to all and special privileges to none, (livo the farmer free salt; give him free bagging, in which the farmer of the West sacks his corn, and with which the farmer in the South wraps his cotton. Give him free iron ties, with which in the youth lie binds his cotton, and with which in tho West lie bales his hay. Give him some reduction on his woolen clothes, and 011 his cotton goods. Wcoan not increase the price of thoir product !>y protective taritT duties, but we can decrease to them tho cost of production and the cast of living by reducing the tariff on thoso articles used to make thoir crops and on tlioso articles of necessity which all families must use." The Parting of the Ways Wilkins and Watkins were collogo chums and close friends. They had been hard students and had taken little out-door exercise. When they shook hands and said good-bye at the end of their college career, tlmy were in impaired health. Both had dyspepsia, liver troubles and troublesome coughs. Wilkins had plenty of money, and decided to travel for his health. Watkins was poor. "I must go to work for living," said ho, "but I'lll try the remedy that Robison talks so much about?Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. ' lu less than two years Wilkins camohomein his coflin. Watkins, now in the priino of life, is a bank president, rich and respected, ar.d weighs 200 pounds. "The {Golden Medical Discovery'saved my life at a critical time," he often says. "Oh, if poor Wilkins had only tried it!" For weak lungs, spitting of blood, all lingering cougs, and consumptoin in its early stages, it is an une equaledjrcmcdy. Kvinoiubcr That Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic will euro chill and fever, billions fever, malarial fever, Swamp and Hemorrhagic fever, also new ralgia and LaGripp< and if it fails to do so your money will be returned. For sale by Dr. E. Norton and G. A. Croft, Conway, S. C. Prune Syrup and Senna is the best of all laxatives. For sale hy Dr. Norton. liiicklon's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guarntced to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Dr. E. Norton, Conway S. C. Choring is more satisfactory than loofing. , ' i g. JNo. 8". The HorseAmerican Farmer. A light horso for ordinary work vcars best. It is better to tamo and teach than ,o break horses. It is a great rolief for a horse to ?..f . ,tY 11 ?..s\t I. #? mi Ann vu ?% wuv ikii nvMi Tako a barrel of water into tbe leld for your horses. Shoes make a horse's as well as a nan's foct tender. Arc your halters so tight as to prevent the horses from gaping? It is easier to keep a team in good condition than to make it so. With straw, bran and oil meal make a gooJ grain ration for a horse. It is said to bo almost impossible to get with foal a mare having heaves. Steady work is often a necessity or a mare before she can begot with foal, ( lose stables with the accumulated manure injures the health of the horses and colts. Never whip a horse when lie is frightened. He cool yourself and ho will soon gain confidence lie even more particular in feeding and watering your team than you arc in caring for yourself. Few horses are naturally balky. They acquire the habit through the fait of those handling them, Don't draw your hames too close at tho top; hotter have them wide so as not to pinch tho horse's neck. Do not give tho horse too much watery and slushy food. Its stomach is too small, and the demands of its system too great for such watery and innutritions food. It takes a groat deal of discretion to handle a whip in training tho colt ?more discretion than whip a good deal* I f a plow horse's shoes bo looso tako them olT carefully and leave tho feet bare in the soft earth. Many horses will not ncod shoeing again until the ground has frozen. A good looker that cannot go very fast will sell for more money than a Blabsided, crooked-legged article that has brush enough to go to the races and wi 11 a few dollars at country fairs. , While suckling the mare should do no hard work, and if she is taken off her pasture at all she should be well feu at very short intervals, and the foal fed with her and allowed to suck very often. Always make a roeord of the time that the horses are bred and when | they aro due to foal, This should | be done with all breeding animals. Don't cheat the blacksmith by letting your horse either go without shoes or leaving them on until the hoof has grown out over the shoe. Nothing is more unsightly in a good looking horse than the so-called "wind puffs/' A groat many remedies have been proposed from time I to time, but with no very great suc| cess. 6 0$^ A Little Girl's lOxperleiiee ill t\ Lighthouse. Mr. ami rs. l.orcn Trescott are ! keepers of tlie (?ov. Lighthouse at 1 Sand Bench, Mich., and are blessed with a daughter, four years old. Last April she was taken down with ; Measles, followed with dreadful i Cough ami turning into a tever. Doctors at homo and at Detroit ' treated her, but in vain, she grew ! worse rnpully, until sho was a mere "handful of bones"?Thon sho tried Dr. King's New Discovery and after the use of two and a half bottles, j was completely cured. They say Dr Kings New Discovery is worth its weight in gold, yet you may get a trial bottle free at Dr. h\ Norton's Drugstore. 5 , It Should he in Kvory House. J. B. Wilson, 371 Clay St., Sharpsburg, Pa., say8 ho will not be without Dr. King's New Discovery for 1 Consumption, Coughs and Colds, that I f An .....I lua i.'ifa .iiaa . 1. I .1 IV \v II I 4 IIIO TTI1U > "IV WilO UllUMlUIIt'U ! with Pneumonia after an attack of "La Grippo," when various other remedies and several physicians had done her no good, liobert Barber, of Cooksport, 1'a., claims Dr. King's Now Discovery has done him more good than anything he ever used for Lung Trouble Nothing like its Try it. Pree Trial Bottles at I)r. E. Nortons Drugstore. Large bottles, 50c. and $1.00. It is said that one ounce of cream of tarter dissolved in a pint of water, drunk at intorvals when cold, is a oertain never failing cure for small pox, and will euro the worst case in three days.