The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 29, 1894, Image 4
?ur jTatmlij Stem
The Mysterious Portrait.
A STORY OF JAPAN.
In tho littlo Japanese village of Yowcuski,
a looking-glass w ?s un unheardof
tiling, and girls did not oven know
what they looked like, except on hearing
iho description their lovers gave
of their personal beauty.
Now it happened that a young Japanese,
whose daily work was to pull
along those light carriages such as
were seen at tho last Hurls exhibition,
picked up ouo day in the street a
small pocket hand-mirror, probably
dropped by some English lady tourist.
It was, of course, the lirst time in
his life that Kiki-Tsum had ever gazed
on such u thing. He looked carefully
ut it, und to his intense astonishment
saw the imago of a brown face, with
dark, intelligent eyes, aud a look of
awestruck wonderment on its features.
Kiki-Tsum dropped 011 his ltuccs, and
gazing earnestly ut tho object ho held
in his hand, ho whispered, " It is my
sainted father, llow could his portrait
have come here ? Is it, perhaps, a
warning of some kind !''
lie carefully folded tho precious
...v u: . 1 ) 1.. .....1
vi vcisuia; ii|# hi iii? iiuiiut rriiii:i, tiuu
put it in thelargo pocket of his looae
olouso. When ho wont homo that
night he liid it away earolully iu a vase
which was Hoaroely over touched, us
he did not know of any safer place in
which to deposit it. lie said nothing
of the adventure to his young wile,
for, as he said to himself, " Women
uro curious, and then, too, sometimes
they are given to talking."
For some time Kiki-Tsum was in a
great state of excitement, lie was
thinking of the portrait all the time,
and at intervals he would leave his
work and suddenly appear at homo to
take a look at his treasure.
Now, in Japan, as in other countries,
mysterious actions and irregular proceedings
of all kinds have to he explained
to u wife. Lili-Tseo did not
understand why her husband kept
appearing at all hours of the day.
Certainly he kissed her every time lie
came in like this. At first she was
satisfied at his explanation when he
told her that he only ran in for a
minute to see her pretty face. She
thought it was really quite natural on
his part, but when day after day he
appeared, and always with the same
solemn expression, she began to wonder
in her heart of hearts. And so
Lili-Tseo fell to watching, and she
noticed that he never wont away
until ho had been alone in the little
room at the back of the house. She
hunted day after day to see if sin
could find some trace of anything in
that little room which was at all unusual,
but she found nothing.
One day, however, she happened to
come in suddenly and saw her husband
replacing the long blue vase. lie
made some excuse about its not looking
very sternly, and appeared to he just
setting it right, and Lili-Tseo pretended
there was nothing out of the common
in his putting the vase straight.
The moment he had ironu out of the
house, though, she was up on a stool
like lightning, ami in a luoinent she
hud lished tho looking-glass out of the
vase. She took it carefully in her
hami, wondering whutovor it could
be, but when she loooked in it tlio
terrible truth was cleur. What was it
she saw V
Why the portrait of a woman, and
she had believed that Kiki-TsUin was
bo good, and so fond, and so true.
Her grief was ut first too deep for
any winds. She just sat down on the
floor with the terriio portrait in her
lap, and rocked herseli backwards and
lot wards. Suddenly a lit of unger
seized her, and she gazed ut tho glass
again. The same fuoed looked at her,
but she wondered how her husband
could ud in ire such a face, so wicked
did the dark eyes look : there was an
, expression in them that she cortuiuly
had not seen at tirst.
She had no heart, however, for anything,
and did not even make any attempt
to prepare a meal for her busbum..
She just went on sitting there
011 the lloor, nursing the portrait and
at tho saino lime her wrath. When
later 011 Klki-Tsum arrived, he was
surprised to find nothing ready for
their evening meal, and 110 wife, lie
H-alked through to the other rooms.
" So this is tho love you professed
for mo ! This is tho way in which you
treat me, before we have even been
married a yeur 1" I10 heard a voice say.
44 What do you mean, Lili-Tseo
44 What do 1 mean 'i What do you
mcun ? I should think. Tho idea ol
your keeping portraits in my roseleas
vase. Here, take it and treasure it,
for 1 do not want it, the wicked, wicked
woman !'' and hero poor Tili-Tseo burst
nut. pfvinor
1 cannot understand," said her bewildered
hubbund.
"Oh you can't?" alio said, laughing
hysterically. " I can, though, well
enough. You like that hideous, villainous-looking
woman better than
your own true wife. 1 would say nothing
if she wore at any rate beautiful :
but she has a vile face, a hideous
face."
" Lili-Tsco, what do you mean?"
asked her husband, getting OAasperated
in his turn. " That portrait is the
living imago of my poor, dead father.
I found it in the street the other day
and put it in your vase for safety.'
Lili-Tseo's eyes Hashed with indignation
at this lie.
" llear him !" she almost screamed.
" He wants to tell mo 1 do not know a
woman's face from a man's."
Kiki-Tsum was wild with indignation,
and a quarrel began. The loud,
angry words attracted the notico of a
bonze (Japanese priest,) who was passing.
" My children," ho said, putting his
head in at the door, " why this unseemly
anger? why this dispute?"
"father," said Kiki-Tsum, "my
wife is mud.
" All women are so, my son, moro or
loss,' interrupted the holy bonze.
"You wore wrong to expect perfection.
It is no use getting angry ; all
wivos are trials."
" .\iy nusbund has the portrait of a
woman hiddi n in my rosc-leu 1 vase."
41 1 swear that I love no portrait but
that of my poor, dead father," explained
the aggrieved husband.
" My children, my children," said the
holy ix>nze, uiajeatically, "show me tlx
portraits."
Tlie bonze took the glass and looked
at it earnestly. He then bowed low
before it and in an uttered tone said :
44 My children .settle your quarrel and
live peaceably together. You uro both
in tlie wrong. This portrait is of a
saintly and venerable bonze. I know
not how you could inistuke so holy a
face. I must take it and place ii
amongst the precious relics of our
church."
So saying, the bonze lifted his hands
to bless the husband and wife and then
went slowly away, carrying with him
the glass which had wrought such mischief.
THK TARIFF AND COTTON.
n
The World'* Actual Supply To-day Im
110 More I liau It wan Ij?h? War?The
Planters Should Keep the New Crop
Acreage Down If they Want to tiet t
lletter Price* Next Fall. C
[Alfred 1$ Sbepperson in The Exchangee.]
At this time a year ago twenty millions
of cotton spindles, being nearly
live millions more than all the spindles
of this country, were idle in Lancashire.
and yet the prico of cotton was
about l& cents iter pound higher in all
the markets of the world than it is
to-day.
The conditions in Europe have essentially
changed from lust season, and
the European spinners are now doing
an active business and consuming 25,000
bales of cotton per week more than
at this time last year.
The present American cotton crop
has been marketed with such rapidity
that a 1 >out 75o,(XK) bules more have
come into sight than of the previous
crop at the corresponding period of
last season.
While our receipts have so greatly
exceeded those of lust season, yet our
exports have been nearly a m i 11 ion bales
greater than for the corresponding
period of last season, and tho stock of
cotton at the ports and in tho enumerated
i 1111 ci(>r 111 w 11s is m-iii'lv "(Id 000
hit!08 less than a year ago. Tho burdon
of tho larger crop movement has '
heretofore boon transferred from our
markets to those of Kuropo.
It is the prevalent Idea that there is
more cotton in the world to-day than
there was a year ago. but this is a fallacy.
and tho world's actual supply of
cotton is no more than it was last year.
Tho visible supply of cotton is about
22"?.(H)0 bales more than at this time
last vear, and my friend. Mr. ICllison.
of Liverpool, estimates the stocks held
by the Kuropean mills as (>(5,000 bales
more than a year ago, making the total
excess of visible and invisible supply
over last year about 2110.000 bales. In
tbis calculation, however, no account
is taken of tho stocks held by the
American mills, and there can be no
I question but that our mills hold at
least 200.000 bales less than they did
at this time a year ago. This deficit
in the stocks of tho American mills
wipes out the entire surplus of the visible
and invisible supply.
Since the beginning of this season
tho American mills have taken about
300,000 hub's of cotton less than for tho
corresponding time last season. The
reasons for the inactivity of our mills
are not far to seek. They are in consequence
of the linancial troubles of
last year and the depression in all
branches of business, caused by the uncertainty
in respect to the legislation
of Congress upon the tariff question.
The spring trade for the mills lias been
practically ruined, and tho outlook for
a good fall business is not encouraging,
as the present fear is that the delay in
Congress in its tariff legislation will
scriniwlv in intuk f Iwi foil ???/l/% 01w*.?l.l
wx,. .W..V7. J ill j III V VilU 11(11 I I UUVm I J I II 'II 111
wine tariff legislation be promptly enacted
it is almost curtain that our spinners
would do a vory active business
and would bo liberal buyers of cotton
to the end of tlio season, because the
mills themselves hold exceedingly
small stocks of cotton and the merchants
throughout the country hold
very limited stocks of goods.
It must be evident, however, that the
mills will pursue their present handto-mouth
policy of buying cotton until
the matter of the tariff is adjusted.
The stock of cotton in Liverpool is the
largest ever known, and this fact must
exert a depressing influence upon ?lio
market, notwithstanding the fact that
Kuropcau consumption is larger than
ever before.
While the priee of cotton is very low,
and actually below the cost of production
in many sections of the country,
yet the outlook cannot be regarded as
favorable to a permanent advance in
the near future. The season for planting
the new crop is fast approaching,
and the probable extent of the acreage
of the new crop will soon be a very important
factor in the situation.
It seems to me that nothing could be
more unwise than an extension of cot- ,
ton acreage by the Southern planters
at this time, for nothing would so
surely tend to depress prices and to
prevent the advance which should
come with the revival of general business.
Cotton is so low now that manipulation
lliav easilv ennse 1 emiincai?? ml
vuneo between now untl the time for
plunting. Planters should not bo deceived
by this, because it does not look
as if there could be any permanent advance
until present conditions are very
essentially changed.
Following the advice given by a distinguished
Southern Senator, (the Hon.
James Z. George, of Mississippi.) in an
open letter to the Southern planters,
published about a year ago, the planters
of the South raised during last
season a much larger proportion of (
food products than for many years pre- ,
vious.
The course of p?iees for cotton during
this season has fully vindicated the
wisdom of this course, for had a larger
acreage been given to cotton it is certain
that values would have fallen even
below the present low prices.
Whatever expansion of acreage there
may be at the South this spring should
be given to food crops, and cotton 1
should be made u surplus or money 1
crop, just as it is in India and in Egypt. ,
I do not permit myself to doubt that
the South will continue the policy so 1
wisely adopted last year and, therefore,
i confidently look for better prices 1
later on. 1
New York, March 13, 1894.
Diamond Cuts Diamond.?Apropos
of an article in the Wilmington Mos- ,
sengor concerning the lamented Colonel
Ililman, one of the brightest
lights of North (Carolina jurisprudence, ,
Dr. H. II. Smith tells of a iittle incident <
in which Colonel Dodge, Governor |
Swain, Colonel Ililman and Colonel j
Dues wore concerned. There was a (
big case on trial in tho superior court ,
and all these distinguished gentlemen ,
wm'O interested participants. I
While Colonel Dodge was addressing i
1,'iu jury vyojonoi milium got on these t
linos: i
Horn lies Sum I tod go who dodged all i
good, 1
And never dodged an evil ; c
Hut alter dodging all lie could
Ho couldn't dodge the devil !"
When Dodge took his seat he was <
shown the skit, and picking up the pen s
ho wroto : I
" Here lies a Ililmnn and a Swain, t
Their lot let no man choose *, 11
They lived in sin, they died in pain : |
The devil got his Dues !" ?
Thirty years afterwards, when Governor
Swain was president of tlie Un y
iversitv of North Carolina, he used 1'
tell this joke on himself.? Atlanta j,
Journal.
? Raster doy falls this year on "Lady '
Day " for the lirst time in the history
of the United Stales. Tho last tinu /
these two days fell, together was in o
1742 and they will uot again clash un- J
til 1751. p
*
KOSSUTH DEAD. 1
The Aged Hungarian Patriot Is No 1
More?Sketch of IIIn IAIt?.
TuKIN, March 20.- Louis Kossuth,
ho Hungarian patriot, died at II '
I'eloek to night. ,
Kossuth, tiio leader of tho Hungarian
evolution, was born in IK02 in Monok, I
n the County of Zcraplln, in Hungary. 1
lis family was of noble rank, hut his i
mrents were poor, lie studied law at
die Protestant College of Sarospotak,
ind practiced llrstin his native country
mil afterward in l'esth. In 1832 he
;ommenccd his political career at the i
liet of I'resburg as editor of a Liberal
taper, which, owing to tho state of tho
aw, was not printed, but transcribed
mil circulated. The subsequent publication
of a lithographed paper led to
lis imprisonment in May, 1837. He
.vas liberated in 1840, and again bo. nine
the editor of a paper, in which
lie advocated views too extreme for i
many of the Liberal party among the
nobles, but which took strong hold of
people in general, especially the youth
>f the country. In November. 1817, he
was sent by the county of l'esth as
deputy to the Diet, and soon distinguished
himself as a sneaker, be
joining leader of the opposition or
Liberal party.
Me advocated the emancipation of
the peasants, the elevation of the
citizen class, the freedom of the press,
besides many other liberties heretofore
unthought of, and after the French
revolution of 1848 openly demanded an
independent government for Hungary
und a constitutional government in
the Austrian hereditary territories.
To bis speeches must in great part
be ascribed not only the Hungarian )
revolution, but the insurrection in
Vienna in 1848.
On the dissolution of the ministry
in that year he found himself at the
head of the Committee on National
Defense, and prosecuted with extraordinary
energy the measures necessary
for carrying on war. To put an
end to al' the hopes and schemes of the
moderate putty ho induced the
National Assembly in 184b to declare
the independence of Hungary and that j
the Hapsburg dynasty bad forfeited j
the throne. Ho was appointed provisional
governor of Hungary, but being
disappointed in his hopes for the
intervention of other European powers, [
and finding the national cause jeopard- j
ized by the arrival of Russia on the
scene of action, ho endeavored to
arouse the pcoplo to a more desperate
effort. The attempt was vain. Find- |
ing that the dissensions between him- \
self and Geogei, the commanding
general of the army, were damaging !
the national ease, ho resigned bis |
dictatorship in favor of the latter.
After the defeat at Temesvar, in ISP), <
ho was compelled to lleo to Turkey,
where, however, ho was made a '
prisoner, nut. though his extradition!
whs demanded by both Austria and
Kussia. the I'orto resisted all their
demands.
In 1 HT? 1 ho was liberated and Mod in
an Atnorican frigate to England, i
where ho was received with respect i
and sympathy. In December of the j
sumo year lie landed in New York and ,
met with a most enthusiastic reception.
lie lived on Statcu Island until
the next summer, when he returned to j
England, and there ho chiefly resided !
until the Italian war broke out against.
Austria, when almost the whole of the j
Hungarian emigrants left for Italy
with Kossuth. lie has led a quiet n
and uneventful life ever since in Turin. j
An Easy Mkthod ok Kkkpino 1
WAUM.? 1 should like to call attention
to an easy method of warming j
one's self when other and more common
means are not available. I allude
to warming the body by merely taking 1
deep inspirations.
On one very cold afternoon of this
winter, though walking briskly along,
I was uncomfortably cold ', feet and '
hands were very cold, and my ears so
ehi led as frequently to require the
application of my heavily gloved 1
hands. In addition, the whole surface '
of the skin was unpleasantly chilled; (
"creeps" ever and anon running up .
and down my spinal column and radiating
thence over the body and ex- ,
treinities; in short, a condition that j
every reader has doubtless many a '
time experienced. I then began taking
an exercise often employed before *.
with benefit: deep forced inspirations, 1
holding the air as long as possible
before ex pulsion. After a few inhala-j ,
tions the surface of my body grew j '
wanner, and a general sense of coin- 1
fort pervaded me. Continuing, the
next to feel the elTeets of tlio olYort ,
were my previously frigid ears; they j
grew agreeably warm, and within the
time required to walk three blocks, at
tho previous pace, hands and foot partook
of the general warmth and 1 felt
as comfortable as if the same length
nf time had been passed by a glowing
lire. '
oni.y Kino Kaglk Kvkr Captuk- .
Kl>. ? A most remarkable bird of the \
tropics was one of the arrivals here on <
the steamer Acapulco from South ,
America yesterday. It is called the ,
king eagle, because of a thick tuft of
feathers that stand out like a crown .
about its head. It is white all over cx- ,
eept the back, which merges into a ,
yellowish gray, with a few brown feaih- (
L>rs. Though only six months old. the (
eagle already stands about three feet .
high, and is in other respects a giant
nf its kind. Its legs are as big around
as a baby's arm. Accurate measures }
have not been taken, as no one cares t<> ,
get in the way of the formidable talons ,
mid powerful beak.
Tho specimen was caught in Keuu- j
lor, near the highest point of the ,
Andes, and is the-property of Kosceo ,
Howard, of San Diego, who shipped it .
up from Acnpi.lt o. It is consigned to }
J. 1). Hunker Co., and they expect i
to have to ship it on to the Smithson- |
ian Institute within a week. They say i
ho bird is the only white king eagle )
vor caught. The eagle stands in a ,
rate about, fmia he fiu,.
J I
10 made the trip up. One live chiek- ]
in every three days forma his diet, and j
.here is nothing the matter with his
ippetite, as appeared "from the way In N
ipped to small pieces tho unfortunah .
n n burnished yesterday. ? San Fran |
:isco Examiner.
LONDON, March 21 Dr. Nether- '
difTo, the oculist, to-day told Glad- *
tone that the cataracts forming ovei J1
lis eyes mitfht rondev him blind before j
hey reached a condition to ho ope rated '
ipon. Ho named three months as tin '
irohahlc lapse of time before the op a
ration.
? There will bo no more postal notes. ,j
Ioney orders are substituted. Foi ,
rdors not exceeding $2.f>n the eharp< i
i three cents, and the fee increases (1
ntil it is fifty cents for sums over $7.'? v
nd under *I<K). The new system is to r
like otTeet July Jst. ,
A. Golden, Dru^uiat, Hirminttbam, 1
via., writes: "l'leaso publish soon .<
f the testimonials I have sent you for |>
apaneso Pile Curo." Sold by Ourpon- t.
or I3roB.# Groonvilio, 8. C. c
HOW TIME CHANGES OPINIONS.
Interesting Items About Cotton anil
ItM Culture in South Carolluu. '
Cotton was early sold in Charleston,
l'he packages In which it was put up
varied in weight from one to thirty
pounds. In 1787 the fleecy staple was |
taken to the City by the Sea from Or- .
iingeburg, Newberry, and, perhups,
from Union and sold at two peneo a W
pound to tho merchants, who resold I
it mainly to the ladies to make "patch- '1
work bed-quilts." About the year v
named two or three bags, each weigh- t
ing near a hundred pounds of seed cot- s
ton. were packed in the store of Wade- v
worth &i Turuin by Samuel Maverick t
and Jeffrey, a half blooded Indian.
[This Maverick, by the way, claimed
to bo the first person that made sugar 1;
in South Carolina. About the year t
1800 he planted some ribbon cane, pur- o
chased in the lluvunuh, in the lot to i
tho east of the present orphan house, o
It yielded 300 pounds. Tho euno was a
pounded in a mortar and the juice boil- t
uw in uwii poisp 1'
These bugs wore wont to Kngland as I]
a sample und experiment. The put t ies i
to whom they were sent wrote that the li
article was not worth producing as it t
could not be separated from the seed, c
In 17!) 1 Dr. James Otis l'rentiss |
planted cotton for market near Or- fi
ungeburg C. H. Hither in that year s
or the next Colonel William Thomas, i
the Revolutionary soldier, planted t
cotton to sell at Ucllville, in St. Matthews
parish. In 171M) cultivators of o
this crop appeared in several parts of f
the State. Anion# them was Samuel c
Folder, of Orangeburg. John Mayrant n
and Asbury Sylvester lirst grow cot- o
ton in the high hills of the Santco in o
the year I7U8. A yerr later Oeneral t
Wade Hampton introduced the plant li
into Richland district; gathered over a
liOh bays from GOO acres. t
General Hampton was the first man a
in South Carolina to use water as tlie 1
propelling power of Whitney's cottton
gin. Ffty years ago Colonel Wade e
Hampton wrote Whiteniarsh It. Sea- (
brook : " When Whitney's gin was t
axhibitcd in Georgia, none hut women t
were permitted to enter the room. An 11
ingenious young mechanic at length i
introduced himself into the apartment d
in woman's apparel, and hy a minute t
examination of the mAeliino, satisfied
himself that he could not only imitate 1
but improve on its construction by 1
making it more ellicicnt. This di?- 1
covery was communicated to my father 1
by Generul Gun, who spoke so con- d
iiucntiy 01 me capacity of this indivi- r
dual that uiy father was induced to c
visit at iiis residence in Georgia. This i
visit resulted in a contract for three I
gins, applicable on a largo scalo of op- t
rrutions, and they wore unquestionably
the first over driven by water 1
power." c
It has boon written that General t
Hampton's gins wore furnished by an i
ingenious artisan of Georgia assisted t
bv William Munson, of Itichland. g
These gins woro roughly constructed ; t|
still they were models for others made ?
in 1 !S<? 1 by William Munson and .lames
Boatwright, of Columbia. These were I
the first machines of home tnunufae- i
ture. General Iiamptoti was not, how- u
ever, the first to use the Whitney gin I
iti South Carolina. Captain James t
Kirkland, of (''airfield, put up one near t
Montieello in 171)5. e
How to dispose of the cottonseed was I
a perplexing problem to some of the v
early spinners. It was considered h
worthless and carelessly thrown on <j
the ground like saw dust. The hogs s
ate the seed and died. Then it was s
put in pens like shucks. The pigs
got the seeds out through the cracks n
und soon went the way of their elders. I
As a last resort, and hoping to get rid t
[>f the " nuisance," the seed was dump- 'J
L'd into the creeks, but in low water an
ulor was generated which was so offensive
as to create a strong feeling of
prejudice against the further culture
if the crop.
The fear of " overproduction " is no
new thing. Ninety years ago an !
ipinion prevailed that the supply '
if cotton would soon exceed the de- '
inand. A planter at St. John's Col- 11
leton, looking at his first crop, the pro- ?'
luctof a few acres, after it had been
Doused, exclaimed : " Well, well, I ^
un done with the cultivation of cotton!
Hero is enough cotton to make 11
dockings for all the people in Amorea."
u
These items are taken from an essay 1
>n the cotton plant writtten two score '
ind ten years ago by an Kdisto Island
ijiuuiur, \v 11 n inai'sli 1S. Sea brook. ''
iftcrwards governor of our State,
whoso very words and sentences have 11
urn freely used.?VV. S. M. in Orangejurg
Enterprise. . I
m - si
MiHNisNlppi lloilHO-lloatH. H
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The house-bouts, it appears, are u
mrvival of one ufhong many kinds of n
boats which were very much more ti
numerous upon the great river before tl
the era of steam navigation 'than ii
steamboats are now. Among the f(
surlier forms of boats were the famous j|
" Kentucky llats," or " broad-horns,"
ind family boats of this pattern were c
in early modilicution of their general u
plan, which was that of a strong-hulled u
irk, long and narrow, and covered r,
with a curving roof. I have read p
that "family boats of this description, o
fitted up for the descent of families to p
the lower covntry, were provided with ti
i stove, a comfortable apartment, beds, t]
iti'ul arrangements for commodious i>
iuibitancy, and in them ladies,
servants, cattle, sheep, dogs, and p
poultry, all flouting on the same hot- p
oin, and on the roof tho looms, c
doughs, spinning-wheels, and domestic p
mplements of tho family, were curried f(
lown the river." Fulton, Clermont. ()
which proved its usefulness as the lirst w
iracticuble adaptation of steam-power p
,o water travel in 1807, must have
jeen quickly copied on tho Mississippi, ^
'or iuone list of notable passages up t<
hat river 1 have seen a not of a trip H,
?y a steamboat in 1811. Hut long w
liter that, the barges, skill'horse-boats, ti
)road-horns, anil family boats must ni
mve remained very numerous. They p)
loated down stream with the current, lu
inil were pulled up again by means of
vheels worked by horses or cattle,
mil In' tin. .....i i
j uihi mow prOCCSSCS
mown as warping and bushwhacking. w
\ boat which was warped uj> tho river jj
;cpt two row-boats ahead of her. carry- (.(
no hawers, whieh wore pulled in as .j.
ho bigger vessels were thus hauled j|
bong. When the length of ono cable
md been pulied in. tho other boat ^
tad fastened tho othei cable far ahead. ,u
aid so the vessel "inched'' alone '
gainst the live-mllo current, of the
treum a littio more quickly than a (
iouso moves when its owner has j (
leoidod to inovo it down a country ]()
oad to u distant cellar he has day for j ,
t. It took a day to go six or eight ^
uiles hy that method. Smaller boat
k'i re propelled acainst tin* current by
owing, f ailing, or poling them along;
nd when 'he wait r was high an< M
vorllowed the banks, I hoy bush* a <
/hacked up stream that is. they di
mlled the vessels along by hauling on A
1 iaiirhes tuat brushed the sides of M
raft.?Harper's Mugaflioe, pa
NORTH CAKOIdN A'8 INDIANS. i
merest Ing Facta About the Rand
of Old Cherokees in the North
Htuto.
. 11. Boone in Biblical ltee-rder.
There uro in Western North Caroina
about three thousund Cherokee I
udiuus. When tho United States
government decided to romovo tho
ndian tribes west (in tho Indian
territory), they sent a military force
vi111 transportation wagons to gather
hem up and take them to their re*
ervation. Many of them were unwilling
to go, and hid themselves in
he forest until the removal was over.
It was ascertained by tho United
itates congress that a considerable
>ody of them were left behind, and
hey settled upon them a reservation
if Tu.OoO or 80,000 acres of land situated
n Swain county, N. C. They do not
>wn the lands in severalty but they
re protected in their ownership so
nut uiey cannot be dispossessed of it.
Sueli head of u family can select u sufieient
quantity of lund for his wants and
mprovo it and the improvements give
dm a title to hold it Ids life time and
runsmit it to his children. Hut ho
an sell his improvements and the
lurchaser has all the rights of the
ormer settler. The lands of the reervation
are vory good, and much of
t is in original forest, and is heavily
imhered with very valuable timber.
They have a government of their
wn. They elect a chief, who serves
our years (1 think), and they have a
ouncil consisting of seven. They
nuke laws for the regulation of their
wn tribal affairs. Hut they are
iti/.ens of the state, and are entitled
o sntTrugo and are amendable to the
itws of the state. They have churches,
ud have some native preachers among
hem. They are nearly all Haptists,
nd have a Haptist association. They
lave very good school facilities.
The United States Government has
stablishcd a school at Cherokee
formerly called Yellow Hill), which is
;cpt up by the Government, and then
here are three other schools (probably
nore now) scattered through the
eservation. The Cherokee school is
lesigned to be a training and indus
rial school.
These Indians are rather uvorso to
lard work. Tho men are fond of
uniting, and the squaws are frequenty
to be seen sauntering about with a
ittlo bag on their shoulders. They
lig roots and gather herbs and barks,
athor than till tho soil. They have
apacity for learninir ?omn thin?r?
emarkahly well. They can generally
earn toning, to recite, to draw, and
hey are very fond of being exhibited.
They are very imitative. The writer
wid twenty of the girls in .fudson
ollcge in Hondersonville, N. C., for
brer years, and they soon learned to
mltato the white girls so perfectly
bat a stranger could hardly distinguish
between them. They were
inito fond of playing jokes in that
iircction.
A large per cent, of them are mixed
dooded. In some instances they arc
nixed with negro blood, but most
generally with whites. Many instances
wive occurred where white men have
narried squaws to get the benefits of
heir reservation. Quite a number of
uses occur in which white women
lave married Indians. The ex-chief,
vlio died about a year ago. Chief
kiiiitli. married a white woman. Three
if his daughters were with us at Judnii
college. Lottie Smith was eouidored
a beauty.
They do not seem to increase in
lumber, owing mainly to emigration,
t is quite common for them to go to
he Cherokee tribo in the 'Indian
territory.
til 10 ti:n i'i<;k (ton r tax.
Ilw Repeal a Democratic Demand.
If tin- Democratic Congress fails to
epeal the ten per cent, tax on State
ank circulation, it will be false to the
ledges of the Democratic party, and
nworthy of the confidence of the pcole
that nlaced it in nowor.
This tax is iti violation of tho Contitution
of our country, and is opposed
i) tho theory of Democratic govorntent.
The object of taxation is for revenue
:> support tho Government. Every
iti/.on who is familiar with the histry
of this legislation knows that it
uts never intended for revenue, but
>r prohibition. it was a measure
hat had but one purposo?to make a
larket for Government bonds. So
>ug as it continues, the South and
Vest will be bound hand and foot by
he money power. As between free
ilver coinage and free banking, the
lOUth would be infinitely better oil
rith the latter, than with tho former.
The Government has no right to
lake banking laws that are prohibiive,
and that prevent the people of
he States from engaging in free bankig.
It has no right to impose a tax
>r revenue that establishes a monopoly
1 banking.
Tho tax of ton per cent, on the eirulation
of State banks is a fraud and
cheat upon tho States. It never did
nd never will raise a dollar for
avenue. It was intended to proibit
tho people of tho States from
ngaging in freo banking. It was
ltendcd to establish a monopoly in
he Government. For thirty years
his law has remained upon the statute
ooks.
The Democratic party is pledged to
s repeal. If this oppressive and injuitous
tax is not wiped out hy this
'ongress, our party will bo false to its
ledges, and by its failure will have
irfoited the confidence and respect
f the toiling millions whoso interests
ill have been sacrificed to the money
owor.
For two-thirds of a century the
tates exercised the sovereign right
> control and regulate their banking
^sterns, and the Democratic party
ill havo proven itself false to its (radioes
and convictions unless the pledges
lade to tho poople in tho Chicago
latform, on which President Clovo.nd
was elected, are rodeo mod.
umin vjnronieio. I
Last Wednesday and Thursday (
ero the two days, according to th? i
ohrew calendar, which arc to b. 1
d? brat.ed as the festivals of I'urim ]
his event commorates the saving o) '
10 entire Jewish race from destruc ]
on by the wiso Queen Lather during <
ie r?-ign of Ar liaise ruth, King of l'ersu t
id Media. 11 is customary to celebrat.. J
lis fact by inaugurating a t erics o \
yfnl festivals, such as a carnival <
asijuerade, music and dancing. The j
wisii houses will bo illuminated, am j
yfnl niasqueraders, dreseil in gro- ]
Mjue figures, make merry the heart
all. ..
- Gen. Stephen D. Leo of Tupe'o,
ss.. is urged by his friends to becon o j
candidate for Congress in the 1st \
.-triet. now represented by John !
lien. Gen. Loo is president of the J
ississippi Agricultural and Meohnni*
) Col logo,
I
TIIK BOOMING SOUTH.
Capital CoinitiK to Cotton?Important
Immigration IncrcuHe.
Baltimore, March '22. The Manufacturers'
Record in reviewing the
business interests of tho South for tho
wot k Huya : Re porta from all parts of
the South indicate that tho general
businoaa outlook ia very promising,
though tho volume of trado tines not
yet aiunv any very large increase.
But, if judgod by tho southward trend
of capital and immigration and by tho
evident increase in organization of
new enterprises, the South is entering
upon tho most prosperous era of its
history.
Tho immigration movement especially
is one of most noticeable of the j
i times, and throughout the North and
West tho desire to move South seems
to ho assuming proportions of national
importance. Special reports from Now
England show more disposition than
ever before to invest in Southern cotton
mills and a manufacturer of that
nvjv^vivm H'lifi till? illlll T UOl U I'OS I vlM'Ol'U
that a Dumber of large mills will be
built in the South by New Kngla'.d
pooplo.
Among the more important industrial
enterprises reported for the week are a
company capali/.ed at $0,(500,000 to
build a town and develop shipping
facilities on i'atuxct river, NId.; a
$100,000 company organized to ship
purytos from Blackburg, S. C., to i
Baltimore, whore a large manufactur- !
ing plant will bo established : a $200,00(j
company to establish an artificial
ice plant in Baltimore in connection
with the skating rink project: a lumber
mill ami a shoo factory in Maryland
; a $.'>00,000 tobacco companv ; a
shoo factory and a canning factory in
Virginia", a $.'500,000 natural gas company
and a tannery in West Virginia.;
a $-00,000 lumber exporting combination
; a $320,000 cotton mill company:
a $.">0,000 oil mill ; a compress and
several cotton gins in Texas; an
electric power plant, saw mill, quarry
aud cunning factory in Georgia, etc.
The {Manufacturers' Record has compiled
from the census bulletin just issued
the statistics of manufacturers of
the South in 1800 as compared with
1880, which shows an increase in capital
from $257,244,500 in 1880 to $0,591,008,817
in 1890 and an increase in th?
value of product from $457,454,777 in
1880 to $917,589,045 in 1890. The miniborof
hands increased from 30">,467 to
588,528 and the amount of their wages
from $75,917,471 to $222,118,50"). Adding
to the value of manufacturing
products the value of mining product !
and the total for tho Snnili i>, i?oo .i...- I
$}M(),000,000, or inoro thun two ami a
half times as much as the average
value of the South's cotton crop.
COIjL'M Ul/V'8 POSTM ASTMlt NOM1n
\ti :i>.
Colonel William Wallace Catches the
l*lnin This Time.
The nomination by President Cleveland
of Col. William Wallace, as postmaster
at Columbia, was announced by
telegraph in that city on Monday evening
of last week. As was to be expected
the nomination has caused considerable
discussion. Col. Wallace is an
old and gallant Confederate, a life long
and favorably known resident of Richland
County, but his prominent connection
with the present dominant
State party creates the prejudice
against him. lOvon his opponents on
this score feel that he will make a
good ofllcor. The Register of the 21st
has this to say on the subject:
"Col. William Wallace, the newly
appointed postmaster of Columbia, received
congratulations on all sides yesterday
on his appointment to the position.
Colonel Wallace has thousands
of friends who arc glad ho has gotten
the place and who do not take any
stock in the kicks in some of the Columbia
newspapers. They say that
Colonel Wallace is as capable as any
man who made application for the
place and that ho will he just as satisfactory
to the business men of Columbia.
A number of business men were
heard to express their approval of the
appointment yesterday and there will
he no opposition from that source.
Colonel Wallace was congratulated
by I'ostmuster Clayton and the two
had a talk over theehango of the olliee.
Of course it is notknown exactly when
the change will be made. Colonel
Wallace will probably be in readiness
as soon us he is confirmed by the
Senate. When the Senate will reach
the ease is not known. Colonel Wallace
has already received a largo number
of lllinlipiilinnfl t,\\> J4!~ ! - * 1
?rr..v,.?v.vMio iui |/v;oitlUU^ in tUU
postoftiee, but ho will not consider any
of these until lie tfets into harness and
sees what changes, if any, ho wants to
male*."
?Hardly half as much fertilizers
have been hauled olT this year as last
in the Sellers section of Marion County.
As a consequence more corn and loss
cotton will ho planted In this section <
as compared with last year. An i
example worthy of general imitation. ,
A RETIRED BWESS WOMAN. ;
A Page From Her History.
Tli# Importiuit oxpprloncos of nt?,? ??
wuvia HIV I,
iniorostiriK. Thofollowing Is no exception:
"I had boon troublod with heart disease 3|
yoars, much of that tlmo very seriously. Fo* ji
live years I was treated by ono physician con- (
tlnuously. I was In business, out obliged to
retire on account of my health. A nhy- c
itctan told mv friends that I could not live a c
month. My foot and limbs wero badly stvoU
Ion, and i wits Indeed In n serious condition
E'hon a gontloman dlrocte<l my attention to
>r. Miles' New Heart Cure, and said that his
ilstor. who had l>oen atlllcfed with heart disease,
had boon cured by the remody, and was
ivgaln a strong, hoalthy woman. 1 purchased
It nottlo of tho Heart Curo, and in less than
in hour after taking tho first do.se 1 could
Tool a decided Improvement In the circulation
>f my blood. Whon I had taken threo doses I
jould move my ankles, something I had not
lono for months,and my limbs bad boon swollen
so long that thoy scorned almost put rifled.
Before 1 had taken ono Imttlo of tho Now
tleart Cure tho swelling had all gone down,
tnd I was so much bettor that I did my own "
fork. On my rocommondatIon six others are h
aking this valuable romody."--Mrs. Morgan, f
169 W. Harrison St., Chicago, 111. ^
I>r. Mllos' Now HoartCuro, adlscovory of an ?
milnont specialist In heart disease. Is sold by j
ill druggists on a positive guuruntoe,or sent ,,
yy the Dr. Miles Medical ('o.,Klkhurt, ind.,on <
ooelpt of price, It per buttle, six hot ties for V
16. express prepaid. Itlapositively freo from <
til opiates or dangerous drugs. ci
BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. C
|
(mi
i?f/A4
TrO.l/AW /.V SOCIETY
?often need the strengthening support
of a general tonio and nervine.
They're tired out or "run-down."
rru:? :? r -l
J. Ilia in i I t-ijucilMy II1C rcsutt or
" weakness," and it makes life miserable.
Are you weak, nervous, or ailing T
Then Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
brings you special help. It's a
remedy prescribed for delicate women,
for all the derangements, disorders,
and diseases of the sex.
For regulating and promoting all
tho proper functions, building up
and invigorating the entire system,
and restoring health and strength,
this is tho only remedy that can be
guaranteed to Wneiit or euro, or the
money will bo refuuded.
For every case of Catarrh which
they cannot cure, tho proprietors of
Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy agroe
to pay $5<)0 in cash. You're curod
by its mild, soothing, cleansing, and
healing properties, or you're paid.
Tiik Piiospuatm Royalty.?All
who arc interested in watching tho
movement in South Carolina phosphates,
and the working of tho territory,
will iiud the following tigurcs,
showing tho amount of royalty received
by tho State Treasurer since
tho great hurricane struck tho territory
tho latter part of Inst August and
paralyzed tho industry, of special
interest: m
November, 185)11?Amount of royalty *
received $7,151.1)0, from tho Farmers'
Mining <lompany.
December?No royalty received at
all.
.January, 181)1?From tlio Coos aw and
Beaufort eompanios $."1,273.01 was
received in royalty.
February?The total amount of royalty
received was $1,008.94. of which
the Coosaw company paid $750.10 and
J. C. Nelson $252.84.
March?Up to date the only royalty
paid has been by the Coosaw and
Beaufort companies. The former lias
paid in $3,074.50 and the Beaufort company
$1,983.73.
It is thus seen that the business has
been almost at a standstill, and that
the State treasury has not been deriving
much benetit from the territory.
The work is about to be resumed, however.
anil the outlook is much brighter
fortlie future.?Columbia State.
?
?Th > Montgomery Advertiser has
resurrected an old copy of the Weekly
Flag . ml Advertiser, published in that
city Friday, December 1. 1848. On the
second page of the paper tho local
cotton market is reviewed and cotton
is quoted at 43. 4if and 5 cents. Thosame
paper quotes cotton at Liverpool
at an advance of three cents over theMontgomery
price. But steam transportation
has changed all of this, tho
dilTereiico between the Liverpool and
Montgomery markets being now only
13 cents, equal to lit cents in favor of
the producer. In a crop of 7,500,000
bales this small item of lit cents, made*
possible by modern shipping facilities,
amounts to about $(10,000,000 to tho
cotton planters of the South.
?The Atlanta Constitution says:
' It is impressive to consider that tho
men employed by the railways of tho
United States constitute n hniiv w i...
J *" h"
as the active army of Germany. 7)1 per
cent as largo as the active army of
Franco, 53 per cent as large as too
active army of Russia, and larger than
the active army of Italy. They are a
body larger than the standing army of
Austro-1 lungury. inoro than six times
as large as the standing army of Groat
Britain, and more than thirty times as
large as the standing army of the
United States."
?The United Statos Senate has
passed a bill for the restoration of the
books of the Beaufort Library Society
of Beaufort, S. C. It provides for the
duplication from tho library of Congress
of books equivalent in number
and value to replace those taken by*::
United States officer in 1862 and subsequently
destroyed by lire. It also
passed a bill appropriating $40,000 for
an equestrian statue to General Francis
Marion of the Revolutionary Army, in
Uoluinhiu, S. C.
?Tho Emperor of China is now
studying the English language, which
tio predecessor of his has over done.
The number of missionaries, which
,wo or three years ago was about 1,300,
lias now reached nearly 1.600. There
ire live imperial scientific colloges. as
.veil as three missionary universities
ind seven missionary colleges, each
Illod with students.
It will astonish you how quick Johnion's
Magnetic Oil will kill all pains.
Sold by Carpenter Bros., Greenvillo,
4. C.
If you are worn out. rundown and
lorvous, Magnetic Nervine will restore*
,'our health. Sold by Carpenter Bros.,
Jreenvillc, S. C.
You will bo pleased with tho mild
ind lasting effects of tlio Japanese
dver Relicts. Try them. Sold by
Jarponter Bros., Greenville, S. C.
?N?*al Dow, tho ^rcat tomporanco
imitator, colobratetl his nineteenth
lirthdav on Tuesday, March 20. tho
ivont \v;is obsorved throughout tho
sivilizcd world.
MAGNETIC NERVINE.
xJ^lEll '* ,0'<' written
nJ&W*guarantee to euro
Smm>~rnA NervoueProstritlon.
Fits, DIzV'
ftavtftlSr wi >UJ nes?,Headache* .i?A
JM ~//t x Neuralgia nndWiKo-*
t. j -rfr/A. tygjk ' fulneas,caused by ox^cesslveusoolOpium,
x Stfr W XV. Tobacco and Aloon
r. - r\p?t '' A hoi; Mental Depress
BEFORE - AFTER- Blo^( 8oftenln?ol
10 Brain, causing Misery, Insanity and Death;
arroness, Impotoney, Loot Power In either *ex.
'romnture Old Age, Involuntary Losses, ca .i/< f
y over-indulgence, over-exertion of tho Hraln and
rrorsof Youth. It gives to Weak Organs their
atural Vigor and doublet* tho Joya of life: cures
ucorrhoea and Female Weakness. A month'* treatlont,
in plain package, by mail, to any addre**, <1
or box, fl boxes $6. With evory |A order we glvo n
/ritten Ounrantee to cure or refund the money,
irculnra freo. Guarantee issued only by our oxr
usivo agont.
lARPENTER BROS , GREENVILLE, S C