The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 21, 1894, Image 4
(Pur jTomilti Stovu.
How Nellie Lost a Lover.
It was noticed among' the friends of
t.eorgo f.sine that, for some cause unknown
to them, a sober hue hud fallen
oil his thoughts. The reason was interred.
and eorroetly. Arrows from a
pair of bright ?yes had wounded hinl,?
and the pain found no abatement right
nor day.
Cicorgo Lane was no blind lover,
ready to risk all consoquencos in pursuit
of an objoet; but a sensible young
man who counted the cost. And now
ho was counting up the cost. This
was the reason of his trouble.
An intimate friend, holding him by
the hand one day, said :
" (Joorge, my dear follow, what has
come over you V Are von in love ?"
' Yes," was the frank reply.
" You are a strange lover to look so
woebegone. Where rests the trouble V"
" There is much beyond love,'' said
I .line.
" Yes."
.uurnuge ana mo cost oi Living."
44 Truo. But you liuvo ft good salary,
llns tlio young ltuly nothingV"
44She has a father who is doing an
excellent business: but the family live
at an expense which must cover all, if
not more than all the profits."
44 Who is the young lady'/ I will not.
t>otrav your confidence."
" The youngest daughter of Abraham
West."
44 Hardware merchant '/"
" The same."
' 1 know her, and a sweet girl siro
is. Nelly West. Why, George, she's
the very one for you. 1 congratulate
you."
44 You needn't then, for I am not
witless enough to hare my neck to the
lialtor of inatriomony, if the act is to
bind me to a perpetual serfdom."
44 What do vou mean '/"
44 Simply, tliat the manner in which
Mr. West has raised his daughter,
unfit them for the position of wives to
young men of my condition. They
have the education, the tastes and the
accomplishments wo desire, and must
have: but their habits and expectations
are fatal dowries for iin5" poor
young man to accept. They have no
fortune to bring their husbands, and
yet must bo supported in comparative
elegance. The idea of useful employment
does not seem to have eYitored
their minds. Work, in their view,
involves something of degradation.
Ah, well ! 1 must dismiss a fond
illusion that was sweet while it lasted."
44 Nonsense, George," replied the
friend. 44 If the young lady really
loves you, she will adapt herself to
vour circumstances. Nolly Is a charming
girl. Press your suit, and after
quilling her consent talk over life's
sober realities with her. She has
sense and right feeling, anil will
readily comprehend how much of
hanpinesa is involod in your prudential
ideas. A woman who loves a man
well enough to marry him, will cheerfully
accommodate herself to his circumstances."
" Accommodate !" said the young
man, curling his lip. " I don't like
the word. It hurts my pride."
" Pride is never a good counsellor,
tioorgo."
" My manhood, then. It hurts my
manhood, A young woman, without a
dollar in the world, accommodate herself
to the circumstances of a young
man whose inenmn is t.u'dvn lunwl, ..<!
a year ! You can't reconcile me to the
ease under that plea."
"While I think," answered the
friend, " that George Lane is a little
too high-strung for the case under consideration,
I know Nelly very well,
and think her a sensible girl. True,
the way in which her parents have
conducted her home education is not
favorable to just views in life. But
love is clear-sighted and stronghearted.
Take horr out of he present
false relation to society, and she will
make you, 1 am sure, a good wife in
every respect."
"No. Kvon as I talk with you, and
listen to what you say, 1 grow more
resolute in my purposo to recede from
a dangerous position. If Nelly was
alone in the world, 1 might act differently.
But look at the case as it
stands, and soe what risas are involved.
There aro two older sisters, both
married; and their husband's noses, to
use a homely phrase, are well down
upon the grindstone, and likely to remain
there. Already both have gone
through the ordeal of a failure in business
; and no wonder, for, not being
able, as clerks, to maintain the
domestic establishments they were
foolish enough to set up in imitation
of other people as silly as themselves,
they must have stores of their own,
from the incomes of which to draw
more liberal supplies. Both aro
clerks again ; but how thoy manage to
keep up appearances as thoy do, passes
tny comprehension. I have mot their
wives a few times at Mr. West's, and
they hold their heads high. I am
nobody in their estimation ! Why,
the Jewelry, laces, and other showy
things they Haunt in people's eyes so
shamlcssly?cost more than my year's
salary."
M But you have nothing to do with
^&iS8c ladies," interposed the friend.
"True, and 1 don't mean to have
anything to do with tliom. But the
case woild have another bearing were
I a brother-in-law. I would have their
bad influence operating on my wife.
She must have as lino a house' to live
in. as tine furniture, to display to her
friends ; and my nose must come down
to the grindstone, like the noses of
their unfortunate husbands. I've gone
over the matter twenty times, or more,
and cannot see it differently. It won't
do, and there is no use trying to ha
inonizo things that arc utterly incongruous."
" I seo how it is," answered the
/riend. " You have large caution."
" A in I not right ?"
' Perhaps so. But lovors, whose
hearts are so much interested as yours
seems to he, are not apt to throw
prudeniial reasons of this character
in the way of their happiness. They
are usually inclined to take counsel of
Jove alone."
" I have seen pictures of Lovo blindfold
; but I think blind Love a false
god."
u As you will," said the friend.
" But this I know : If my heart was
interested in Nelly, I would never
abandon her on the plea you have
udvuneed ; at least, not before I was
well assured that the falso life, which,
by a kind of domestic necessity she
has thus far led, Jiad so fostered pride
and vanity as to deprave her understanding.
Be well assured, George,
that in tltis you sin not against your
own heart, but the maiden's."
'' 1 spent an evening with her last
week," was replied. " I went with
my mind more than half made up to
let my lips betray my feelings. It so
happened that she was not alono. A
young lady was hor guest; a sprightly,
outspoken, critical, rather sharpleagued
girl of eighteen or twenty?
smart enough for twenty, and thought
loss enough for sixteen. People
things wore talked about with a
flippancy and freedom neither charitable
nor delicate. Among other subjects.
the marriage of a friend was
discussed, and the well or ill of the
case settled in a manner that made my
checks burn.
44 M never thought Amy the simpleton
to gel married in that mean kind
of way, remarked the young lady.
4 She must have wanted a husband !
.If a man can't do better by mo than
that. I'd advise htm to give my door a
w ide.i'^'th,'
44 Nelly 'tlhS^hed at her friend, and
returned a feV-riescnting words that
stung me to the qt.v., niuThe present
of a ring by the young m. ? 1 .. J 4
remarked upon. Nelly said it was an*
emerald, but her friend pronounced it
green glass, adding, that nothing but
a diamond would have suited her ideas.
1 waited in uncomfortable suspense,
for Nolly's response. It came, in these
words:
4 4 4 Nothing but diamonds, for me.'''
44 Thoughtlessly said, George ! Only
t hoilL'ht lessl v MJiid Vim lutn ti??
! riously tho light speeches of girls
who often talk without thinking, just
to hour theiusolvoH talk."
"If it was josting," answered Lane,
"the subject was unfortunate at the
time. Hut, this was not all. Nelly
said mifhy other things connected with
the subject of their young friend's
marriage to a poor young man who
could not afford her a 'respectable
place in society,' that it would be folly
til me to forget. When I left her house
that evening, 1 drew a veil over her
image in my heart, and have tried
not to lift that veil since. No word or
intimation of what was in my heart
have 1 passed to the young lady, so
that I can turn from her without dishonor.
Heaven send her a happy lot
in life!"
Tho voice of George Lano faltered a
little on the closing sentence. He was
fully in earnest. Slooro deeply than
ho had imagined was the heart of
Nolly interested, as her pale face,
dreamy eyes, and quioty manner long
afterwards witnessed. Hut he did not
return. Two years afterward sho
married, beginning life with a young
husband just in business, who drew
from his light capital two thousand
dollars to furnish his house in a style
suited to the social grade in which sho
had been moving. In three years, extravagant
living had consumed more
than all he was worth, and under the
pressure of a " tight money market,''
lie failed and was sold out. Nolly
being forced to go back, with her
children, to her father's house. Tho
husband, in a lit of desperation, went
oir to California, and died from sick
ness Him exposure.
In tlio meantime, George Lane, who
could never ohliterate Nelly's imago
from his heart, continued to live a
single life. lie was now in business,
and grudnully accumulating property.
The death of Nelly's husband, and in a
few months afterwards the death of her
father, awakened anew his interest.
L'ity and sympathy began to drop fuel
on the smouldering lire of love. He
knew that she was poor and dependent;
and learned, incidentally, with pain,
that since her father's death she was
living with her children in the house
of a haother-in-law, who was not able
to support his own family. That one
still dear to him should be thus dependent,
and, as lie felt, humiliated, hurt
the young man. lie could not bear
the thought, and begun turning over
in his mind one suggestion of means
after another, looking to her relief.
Hut all considerations of delicacy and
propriety were in his way. lie felt that
he could do nothing.
One morning he met her in the
street. lie was walking, with his
eyes on the pavement, when, looking
up suddenly, he saw hor approaching.
She was poorly clad, and had a handle
on her arm, which Lane recognized at
a glance, as work from a store. Their
eyes met, and rested on each other.
Lane made a motion as is 1 e were
about to speak ; hut Nelly moved on
with quicker steps. 10re the veil fell,
he saw an expression in her eyes, and
in hor changed and wasted countenance,
that lilled his heart with the
tendorest and saddest feelings. What
a history of sulTcring was revealed !
Was this the Nelly of a few years past?
It was: but Nolly chastonod, roll nod,
subdued, and sweetened for a purer
and truer life.
The rest need not he told. If Nelly
lost her lover when skies were bright,
she found him when rain was falling
into the dark days of hor life, and
when painful experiences had made
her vision clear.
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1<X Y1?'T IAN < < >TT< >N.
The Shipments to the I'nlted States
Surprisingly Large.
;->ome mots that will doubtless
surprise persons interested in uottoif
growing and spinning are contained
in a report to the State Department by
United States Consul i'entield at
Cairo. He says tho shipping of cotton
from Egypt to the united States,
casually considered, seems as anomalous
and superfluous as tho "sending
of coals to Newcastle," but the records
show that Egypt is aggressively competing
in a small way with us, not
only in Europe hut at home, in supplying
raw cotton, and the consumption
of Egyptian cotton by New England
spindles has grown from nothing, 10
years ago, to more than 40,000 large
hales, equivalent to 00,000 American
hales, and valued at $3,000,000. The
Egyptian cotton area, which was about
803,552 acres in 1*112, now equals 1,072,541
acres?an astonishing advance.
It is asserted that the use of Egyptian
cotton in the United States is in
no sense inimical to our cotton Interest,
for it is used mixed with our own cotton
in ways that would not he possible
for an unmixed product. Tho Egyptian
cotton plants this year are strong
and well rooted, and the crop bids fair
to exceed 1,000,000 American bales.
Consul l'onfield says that should the
projected schemo for perennial irrigation,
long considered and now almost
assured, he authorized ami carried
out, tho amount of arable soil in Egypt
can bo doubled. With Egypt's cotton
crop thus augmented, Southern Itussia
entering the Hold of competition, overproduction
in India imminent, and the
market ruling lower year by year,
cotton economists and theorists in the
United States have material for serious
reflection.
l'AT'8 CKKTIKICATK.?" i hop?, Hor,
you will assist a p<x>r man whose house
and everything-that was in It, including
me family, sor, was burned up two
months ago hist Thursday sor."
The merchant to whom this appoal
was addressed, while vory philanthrojiic,
is also very cautious, so he asked :
" llavo you any papers or certiilcatc
to show that you lost anvthing by the
lire V"
" I did have a certificate, sor, signed
before a notary public, to that effect,
but it was burned up, sor, in the house
with me family and the rest of me effects."
I TIIK Ft'TURR OF TIIK SOUTH. |
Hon. <'Iiuiiiiccy 1'. Black Hujh Our
(iiotttoht NVimI In Population?Muterial
Progress t In* Domiiiaiit Factor
In Huntliorn Idle.
H:iItImoru Dally News.
The Hon. Chuuncoy F. Black, exLleutonant-Govornor
of Pennsylvania,
was in Haiti more yesterday completing
his arrangements to assume personal
charge as president of the Southern!
Immigration, Land and Title Company ,
lately chartered under the laws of Virginia,
with its hoadtjuafl.e? -if? Multlinoro.
The duties,cfv?IA' position will
keep Mr. Hluck almost constantly?in
Baltimore, bringing him into close
identity * itll tlie elty's business aud
vliVanclal interests, and practical ly
making the distinguished Pennsylvania!)
a citizen of Huttimorc.
Mr. Hlack has been working over a
year in uniting a number of important
and wealthy Interests to carry out a
carefully-planned movement designed
for the greater development of the
Southern States. His efforts have resulted
in the formation of the Southern
Immigration, Lund aud Title Company
for the purpose of locating colonies
of the better class of immigrants
from the North and Northwest, as well
as from ICuropo, in tho South, and the
securing of capital for Southern manufacturing
enterprises and for handling
large Southern properties. Mr. Hlack
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Iiiin In-1'UIIIO twnvuiy IIIKjrUHlUU III
Southern development, and looks on
the existing southward tendency of iin
migration as a shifting of population
toward that section that will heroine
one of the most astonishing features of
the country's growth. Speaking of the
South to a News reporter, Mr. Lilack
said :
"Through iny political duties, which
have been national in their scope, I
have been led to watch and study
Southern conditions. A superficial attention
at lirst. determined mo to a
closer investigation, and my experience,
added to being constantly thrown
in contact with Southern men of affairs,
enabled me to estimate properly the
opportunities and possibilities of the
Southland. I was brought to realize
the tremendous strides being made in
that phase of the Smith's advancement
its material progress. This busovorshadowed
all other considerations, political
or social, and is now the dominant
factor in Southern life. Kvcry
class and every section is permeated
and penetrated with this spirit of progress.
Day by day more attention is
being devoted to material things, and
business principles arc shelving old
and picturesque customs which, however
pleasant and attractive in themselves,
are out of place in this busy
cycle of the world's growth.
" The South is not alone in this movement
toward industrial and material
development. Other sections and other
countries are in the race of progress.
Nature has lavishly gifted the South
with a marvelous diversity of resources,
placing it superior to any other
like area in the world in natural
III. 1.-4.112 * I ! 1 1 ?
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tinuous action is, however, nccossary
to provo this to tho world. Cotton,
i iron, timber, coal and all other cssou*
; tial resources for a country's life and
growth the South has in supcr-abnn(luuco.
Such is its wealth. Its poverty
lies in its lack of population. It wants
and must have more people. To operate
its factories, open its coal mines,
and equally, if not more important, to
| till its lands it has need for and can assimilate
all the sober, industrious immigrants
it receives. The more conI
sinners thus added the more indepenj
dent will become its factories and
i farmers and the more solid will grow
i its business interests.
"Tho present is the ripest time for
i immigration to the South, Baltimore
i should share in every stop foi ward the
South makes and I am glad to see that
the citizens have under way a project
to hold a grand Southern exposition in
Baltimore in 1 Si>7. Such an exposition
will attract the attention of men and
money both at home and abroad and
will he a groat help to the South and a
wonderful stimulus to Baltimore."
Mr. Black added that lie and his associates
would contribute all in their
power to add to the success of the exposition.
With Mr. BIuck in this enterprise
are associated Mr. Julian S.
I Carr, the millionaire tobacco mnnu1
facturer of Durham, N. C.: Mr. M. Krskino
Miller, the largesteoul land owner
in the Virginias; Mi1. C. B. Oreutt,
president of the Newport News Shipbuilding
and Dry-dock Company; Mr.
John Skelton Williams, banker, ltieh
mond, Vu.; the lion. John It. i'roetor,
ox-Slivto geologist of Kentucky and
president of the United States Civil- i
Sorvieo Commission; Mr. Ilonry VV.
Fuller, general passenger agent of the
Chesapeake and Ohio It.vilroad Company;
Mr. W. A. Turk, general passenger
agent of the Llichmond and
Danvillo Kail road Company ; Mr. Hdwin
Fitzgerald, trallie manager of the
Fast Tennossee, Virginia and Georgia
1 tail road Com puny ; Mr. Frank Hammond,
president of the I'copies' Bank
at Greenville, S. C.; Mr. .lames U.
.lackson, banker, Augusta. Ga.; Mr. |
Alexander A. Arthur; Mr. William A.
Clark, the New York millionaire copper-mine
owner, and others. Mr.
Black will devote his time to the active
management, of this company, which
promises to become an important factor
in Southern development.
A dvicr, toGiui.S.-?A woman doctor,
says the Washington Star, said the
other day : " Oh, thfcse girls ! They
are always coming to me pitoously
complaining that their skin has no
color, and that it is not even clear
white, but pastry and gray. I have
given them advice and advico, but it
seems to do no good. They will not
follow direction. I will toll you what
they ought to do ; maybe you can impress
it. on their minds. Now, seo that
sallow-faced girl eating candy ! Her
face will be pastry just, as long as she
thinks sweets are better than roast
heel, cake moredoiieious than potatoes
and preserves to be given the preference
to healthy soup, ttho upsets her
stomach, and then wonders that her
face, which is the thermometer of her
stomach should change as it does. To
get a clear skin she must eat properly,
exercise well and keep her temper in
good order. A clear white skin may
bo perfectly healthy, but a pasty one
is not; There Ih not a bit of sense in
recommend in a a wn?l? ..n,.,..
r, .. vw viv ui mi:
skin, for tho trouble lies below. Yrisit
your doctor and follow bis instructions
to the letter, for ho knows your wouk
points. Live properly, take plenty of
exeroiso, sleep in a cool, well-aired
room and dross comfortably. My word
for it, you will bo a different being insido
of a month, unless your ancestors
arc to blame for inherited ills.''
?" Your editor deserves a great deal
of credit for his efforts in behalf of
youreity."
" May bo he does?but there ain't!
a inorehant in town will givo it to
him."
Carpenter Bros., Greenville, S.
Druggists} recommand Johnson's Magnetic
Oil, tho great family pain-kiler,
internal and external.
*
a i?ki mam:nt kxposition.
T|h> National Capital to llnvo IVinuiiipiH
I In i !?l i a n * t<> |-,\hili|t tfio l*i o,
?l lifts and ItcKOiirccH of t lie Count r\.
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Senator L'utrlok Walsh, of Georgia.
I believes there should bo a portnancnt ;
national exposition in the city of Wash- 1
ington, and lie has introduced a bill,
which was referred to the Committee
on the >r>triot liL Columbia, malting '
proi^jffiiiary provisions for such an es- 1
lablisbment. The bill declares that ''a
permanent exposition be established at
the Natioi ill Capital, in which the produets
and resources of the several
States and Territories of the I'niou may
be fitly and properly displayed." It provides
for the appointment of a com ml 8*
don, consisting of t he Postmaster Genoral,
the Secretary of the Interior and
the Score ary of Agricultural, *o report
to Congress a plan for the establishment
and maintenance of such an
exposition, and of a suitable building.
The commission is to advertise for
competitive plans for the building, and
is to appoint a secretary. An appropriation
of $7,500 is made for the expenses
of tbo commission.
Senator Walsh is very enthusiastic
upon the subject of this project, lie if.
a firm believer, to begin with, iu the
future of tbo South, and one of tbo
most earnest advocates for tbo sirup
ing of improvements. Tho bill which
ho introduced to-day is tho result of
observations made by him during the
progress of the Southern Immigration
Congress hold in Augusta, Ga., from
which he has just returned.
"This bill," he said to-day to a Star
reporter, " is intended to supply a
need, and give tho people of the country
an opportunity of examiningelassitted
exhibits of the products and resources
of the various Stat< s. Washington
is rapidly becoming a central
point, in which all the States are interested.
" As a contribution from each commonwealth
would he necessary for the
I establishment and maintenance of such
an exposition. Washington isi the only
place where the enterprise could he
suitably located. I am satisfied tlie
best way to induce settlement in the
South is simply to give strangers an
opportunity to become thoroughly acquainted
with the great advantages of
tlie section so blessed by nature in
every way. It is unfortunate that the
railroads convoying tourists to the
South pas t hrough someof the poorest
land we 1 ave, and the impression is
thus given that the soil is unproductive
and the country unattractive. As
a matter ( f fact in many sections a man
can sit on his porch every day in the
year, and took can graze in tiic field.
We have tho most reliable labor in the
world, and it is fast becoming the most
expert. During the linaucial stringency,
wh eh has caused so much (lis
iii i .-?n in iiiu mil ill, iviiii illllHI lilic greui
clamor from labor for larger rewards,
wo have bad but littlo trouble in
tho South. You will find no Southern
laborers among tho followers of
Gen. Coxoy.
"lump ad thiCt tho Southern Immigration
Congress had an opportunity
to observe for themselves tho natural
advantages of a country which I love
and deligl t. to honor. Tho South extends
a cordial invitation to capital
and labor onid in the development of
its womlci ful resources of Held, forest,
mine and factory. There is no proscription
i n account of race, color, religion
or | <>1 itics. Good citizens and
thinking men can find recognition
there as well as elsewhere.
"I am deeply interested in tho project
of est; blishing a permanent exposition
at the National Capital, and I
want peop e from various parts of the
Union, as they come to examine the
bounties and attractions of this magnificent
city, to become inspired with
broader and grander ideas as to the
wonderful resources of the Union in
which they live and with a patriotic
pride thai will lead them to make
stronger exertions to work out a
mighty future for a country that enjoys
the blessings of liberty regulated
by law.
" This if undoubtedly the place for
such a building. There is, indeed, no
other place for it. Tho exposition
should be housed in a great building,
an imposing structure under the care
of the Government. There can he
nothing th it would confer so much lasting
benefit upon the people of the
Union as this great interchange of i
ideas and exhibits. It would bo u constant
object lesson, touching the people
of the United States, as well as of
the entire world visiting this country,
as to the munificent and unrivalled resources
of America. There is not a
thing that grows in the forest or is
produced from the soil, the mino, or
the factory, or the mill, that would not
bo appropriately represented in this
groat national building which would
present in compact spaco and in the
most ample way the enormous resources
of our country."?Washington
I Star.
Wokk or the Red Ckoss.?Miss
Clara Harton and the Red Cross staff
have closed the field of relief at Beuufort,
S. C. The sea islands with their
population of do,000, after nine months
of hard work, arc loft in a condition to
support themselves. The cyclone of
August, 1destroyed over 2,000
lives, devested 15,000 acres of land and
ruined 0,000 cabins. The people have
been fed. the 0,000 cabins rebuilt, over
100 miles of ditches for drainage have
been dug and roads and bridges have
been cons ructed. At least 15,000
acres men of land have been planted
this year than over planted before of
the famous sea island cotton, which
has heretofore been about the only
product, ui d which left the small land
owners and laborers in debt and practically
in t ?e power of the merchants.
Under M ss Barton's management,
nearly 28,OK) acres of food crops have
been plant* d, and, as a result, the population
of t he islands can depend on
their own food crops and are independent.
< hit ideof the (doth ing and other
supplies, a great part of which was
contributed, the amount of money expended
by i lie society has been about
$52,000. Miss Barton at present is in
( ' I im clt'st < in ... :i 11 <>ri in t train ovtioiiallAn
A TltlBI'TK FROM THK NORTH.
The Womb rl'ul Orowtli mul I'roKrpwt
of I lie South n?t Di'iilctrd hy a New
IIiikIuiuI Senator.
Washington, I), Juno 14.?In
the port ion of his speech devoted to
the schedule of cotton manufactures,
Senator Chandler said: I f tho bin Imjcoiucs
a law, t ime will toll whotheror
not the manufacture of tho highest
tirade of cotton goods can survive tho
reductions of duties made by the pond-1
ing bill. I shall wait tho result, but
with many apprehensions. Any roduction
in existing rates is unncccs->
sary and uncalled for by any hound
public consideration. There are many
reasons of wise public policy for the J
protection and development of the
manufacture of cotton cloths in the
Southern States. The South needs diversified
industries to promote that
growth to which her material resources
entitle her to attain. The condition
of that section at the close of the
war was indeed lamentable. All values
had been destroyed, and nearly all :
the property itself had been destroyed. I
pi... : ? i " ? 1
i in- ii-i ii iiiiuiiu uiiiiiH neeessarii\ remained.
but they wore unfeneed, nilfertile,
uncultivated, and of little or no
money value. Kow buildings wore in
existence except dwelling' houses, and
those were dilapidated. Horses and
cattle were scarce and tangible personal
property hud almost disappeared.
The railroads were nearly all distressed.
with bridges gone, rails worn
out and ties rotting, stock shabby and
insullieient. Millions of slaves who
had been rated and valued us property,
had become free. Whatever values
there may have been in these slaves?
and it was nominally a vast amount?
had been lost by their owners. The
hanks and corporations had become insolvent.
The value of all the credits
which survived the war was insigniti
cant. The paper money of the whole
South was good for nothing, and of
gold and silver they had none. Surely
never was a bravo race, after a devastating
and unsuccessful war, which
brought myriads of the strongest and
most stalwart men to bloody death, and
forced grief and despondency into
every household, left in a more pitiable
condition than wore the people of the
South at the close of the war of tho rebellion
in 1 Mho.
Hut the recuperation of the Southern
States during the twenty-nine years
since they found themselves in such a
sorrowful ease has on the whole boon
rapid. The growth of the cotton and
its sale at tho North and in Muropobas
brought much money to that section.
Tho former slaves have labored intelligently
and with assiduity and have
accumulated property for themselves
and their cmnlovnru In mlilirinn "
prosperous agriculture the vast mineral
resources are boing developed. Above
all, manufacturing, which in 18(>1 was
inconsiderable lias become an industry
of vast importance. The New South
so graphically described bv the accomplished
scholar and veteran editor t he
junior Senator from (ieorgiu, (Mr.
Walsh) has become a hopeful reality.
Newer, higher and better prosperity
lias come to the land oneo depressed
by the existence of slavery and all the
concomitant evils which surround it and
follow in its course.
In this new South the development
of the coal and iron industries is perhaps
the most marvellous, but the
erection of cotton mills giving profitable
manufucturesof cotton is a striking
evidence of the many changes which
the war has brought to the Southern
country. During a recent trip to Ashovill*.?,
N. C., I passed through one section
of that State which was nearly
filled with cotton mills all in busy motion.
Mr. ("handler quoted from the bulletin
of the seventh census relating to
cotton manufactures to show tlio
wonderful growth of the South, particularly
in Georgia, North Carolina,
and South Carolina, iii'the manufacture
of cotton in the decade from 1880 to
1800. lvdativoly the growth in the
South was much greater than in any
other section of the country in capital.
The total increase for the country was
70 per cent. Now Kngland, which had
much the largest part of the capital,
only increased 55 per cent. The
.Middle States, which stood next in
capital, increased 71 per cent. The
Western States advanced 71 percent.,
hut the Southern States advanced 200
per cent. Now Hampshire increased
its capital only 34 per cent., while
Georgia increased her's 170, North
Carolina 277, and South Carolina 301.
In the number of operatives the inerenso
in New Hampshire was I*<.20,
in Georgia (ill.l, in North Carolina
101.50, and in South Carolina 200 per
cent.
The ratio of increaso was even
greater in the South than elsewhere
resulting fi om overwork. Slits will rn
main there for live or six weeks.
?The prohibitionists of Havershill,
Massuchusi tis, have a new schemo to
attempt to prohibit. They propose to
run a saloon on their own aeeount,
and charge the minimum cost, whiskey
five cents a glass and heor two cents a
glass. Th< y will operate until the
saloons gi\o up business then they
will close up and only resume when
the saloons reopen. This open and
shut, busin ss to continue until the
saloon men give up the light.
E. Nulty of St. I'uul, Minn., writes:
" Was eon 11 nod to bed for weeks, doetors
could do mo no good ; Japanese
Pile Pure entirely cured me." Sold
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Try it.
1 Li vuv IIIOIUB <M amnion OI UOHOn Used,
amount paid for cotton, value of total
product, value of product per capita,
ami total amount paid in wages. In
the item of average wages per capita
the inercaso in the South was less than
in any other section.
Comparing the statistics of cotton
manufacturing in Manchester, 'N. H.,
his own city, and Augusta, Ga., Mr.
('handler showed that the percentage
of profit was much greater in Augusta
than in Manchester.
lie then procoodod : In this connection
I will read a short extract
from the Washington i'ost of Juno 11,
1804, credited to the Atlanta Constitution.
It is as follows: "All through
the dull seasons of the present financial
depression the Southern cotton
mills have been running on full time
and yielding greater dividends than
those of their Northern competitors.
The 1). A. Thompkins company mill at
Charlotte which was mentioned as an
example in these columns a few days
ago is so crowded with orders for its
lino numbers that it has tp run night
and day. The cotton mill is destined
to ho the most powerful faetoi of Southern
prosperity in the future. When
we manufacture our leading staple
and sell the product of our mills to
homo and foreign markets this will be
the richest region on the globe."
Tho Senators who represent States
wherein these prosperous manufactures
are situated should remember
that thoro are other sections where
the mills are silent, the workmen idle,
their families destitute and gloom and
sadness prevails.
mam -?
- Sain Alston alias Dullie. an psenni-fl
penitentiary convict, was captured
Inst week in Lancaster County. Tin
arrest was made by Cliief Morgan,
of Chester, who went over to the negro's
home where lie had boon living
unmolested for eighteen years, and
after arresting him the negro ran for
his gun when tho chief opened firo.
The ball entered his back and struck a
rib. Though blooding profusely he
soon got medical aid and was in line
traveling condition in a few days
Alston was convicted of rape in '7b and
was in tho penitentiary only a feu
months when lie made his escape, lit
win carried back to Columbia.
?The .lames I). Nance camp of Confederate
Veterans in Newberry hatone
hundred and ninety members.
CLRVFJi VNI)'S SICKNESS.
Ills Physician Advises llim to Keep
t^iiict 11 Few l>n.\s.
Washington, Juno 12. 1'resident
Cleveland ha* sutlered more or lets
Srom dysentery during tho past throe
work-s and the excessively li??t weather
that has prevailed during the past
two days has aggravated his trouble,
so that to-day, by the udvieo of Surgeon
K. M. o'Kielly, of the army, who has
been in attendance, the 1'resident denied
himself to ali visitors, except the
members of his cabinet, tvho held their
regular bi-weekly meeting in his oftice
from 11 to I o'clock.
Mr. Cleveland expected to go down
the river on Friday afternoon for
another cruise on a iight.hou.-e tender
with Captain Kobloy Kvans. The
doctor advised him not to pi until the
disorder was entirely cheeked and
since that lin e, though the I'resident's
health lias grown no worse, the
prevailing hig ii teniperutur' has been
very debilitatiug and the doctor has now
insisted upon the teninorarv alv.ndnn
incut of too enormous am ?unt of
tedious detail work with whim Mr.
Cleveland is always busied, and until
ho is poifectly well, till- patient, under
tho doctor's orders, must deny himself
to 1110 numerous visitors who absorb a
[ largo part of his time. Unless tho
, I'resident is much improved in tho
| noxt few days, it is very likely that ho
will go away from Washington on a
brief visit to Gray Gables in order to
recuperate, and it is thought in such
an event that he will make use of tho
dispatch boat Dolphin, which now lies
at the navy yard ready to sail at a few
hours notice.
Washington, ! I. Hy advice of his
physicians, Pros'butt Cleveland has
about decided to take a short outing
down the Chesapeake Day. The attack
of summer complaint that has
kept Mr. Cleveland closely eon lined
to his rooms during tho tho last few
days has yielded to treatment, and
wit.lt the exception of slight weak less
ho is quite himself again. His physicians.
however, thought that a four or
live days' trip down to salt water
would entirely restore his usual vigor,
and so today the President consulted
with Captain < l Uu light bouse
board, who will accompany liiin, as to
tho availability of a trip on the lighthouse
tenders. It has not yet been
deiinitoly decided us to when they will
leavo hero but a decision will be
reached tonight.
An Ankcdotk ok wk.slky. ?A
farmer wont to hear John Wesley
preach, llo was a man who cared little
about religion : on tho other hand he
was not what wo call a had man. I lis
attention was soon excited and inverted.
Wesley said ho would take up
mruu topics 01 tnongm ; ne was tulKing
chiolly about money. His lirst was,
44 Got all you can."' The farmer nudged
his neighbor, and said, ''This is
strange preaching : I never heard the
like before; this is very good. That
man has not, things in him : it is admirable
proaohing." John Wesley discoursed
on 4* industry," " activity,"
44 living to purpose," and reached his
second division, "Save all you en*;."
The farmer became quite excited.
4' Was there ever anything likothis !',
lie said. Wesley denounced thriftlessness
and waste, he satri/.ed the wilful
wickedness which lavished in luxury;
and the farmer rubbed his hands as he
thought. 44 All this I have been taught
from my youth up." And what with
getting, and what, with hoarding, it
seemed to him that 44 salvation " had
come to his house. But Wesley auvanccd
to his third head, which was,
44 Give all you can." 44 Ah, dear ! ah
dear," said the farmer, "lie has gono
and spoiled it all !"
Mahrikd a Nkgro.?Jennie Mayo,
of Middlesex, Vt., was married to
Thomas Strong, of Castleton, Vt., last
Wednesday. Tho bride is a wellknown
young society woman of Middlesex.
and tho groom is a negro porter
at the American house in Saratoga.
The marriago coromony was performed
by the pastor of tho African Methodist
Kpiscopal church, and was witnessed
by half a dozen people. Lust summer
Miss Mayo and her mother went to
Saratoga and registered at Congress
Hall. Miss Mayo, who is about twentyfour
veai'S old. became iicrninintrwl wil l,
Strong mid soon tho utTcction between
thorn ripened into love. About a month
ago Strong returned to Saratoga for
the season. Miss Mayo had been kept ,
apprised of his movements. Tho two t
met in Saratoga and were married.
Four years ago Strong's sister ran
away with a white man and married
him.
Mrs. Mary Stolt/fus, who died nine
years ago at Nashville, Tenn.. weighed
about 12f> pounds, and when her body
was recently disinterred it weighed
over <100 pounds. Tho body had been
potriiied.
- (>110 of tho first covenants that
every young man ought to mako with
himself is that ho will never run in
debt.
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of scientific men. Everything
else being equal, the smaller
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comfort.
They do not shock the system,
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nature's own way.
They're put up in scaled glass
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Peculiar in the way they're sold,
too, for they're guaranteed to give
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A RETIRED BUSINESS WOMAN.
A Page From Her History.
The lin|M>r(unt experiences of others are
Interesting. The following it no exception:
"I had been troubled \>ith heart disease 'if
years, much of that tlmo very seriously. K<?r
live years 1 was treated by one physician continuously.
I was In business, but obliged to
retire on account of my health. A physician
told mv friends that I could not live n
month. My feet and limbs were badly swollen,
and 1 was Indeed in a serious condition
when a gentleman directed my attention to
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had been cured by the remedy, and was
again a strom;, healthy woman. 1 purchased
h bet tie of t he Heart t tire, and tn less than
an hour after taking the first doso I i'<^uld
feel a decided Improvement In the circulation
of my blood. When I had taken three doses I
could move mv tinkles, somet him; I had not
done for months,and my limbs bad bona swollen
so lougthut they seemed almost putrilicd,
lieforo I had taken one bottle of the New
Heart. Cure tho swelling had all mine down,
and I was so much belter Unit I did my own
work On my recommendation six others aro
taking this valuable remedy." Mrs. Morgan,
BCSi W. Harrison St.,Chicago, III.
l?r. Miles' Now HeartCure, a discovery of an
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6. oxpress prepaid. It is positively free from
all opiates or dangerous drugs.
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AN AIJOMINAltlilC FAKH.
The Falsehoods Concocted by Disappointed
Curiosity Seekers.
The Washington corrcspoudsnt of
tho Atlanta Journal exposes the merciless
falsehoods in circulation about little
Ruth Cleveland, and shows there is*"
not the slightest foundation for tho
alleged rumors:
Tho stories recently circulated in
tho papers about Baby Ruth atTord a
rather interesting study ol human
nature. It seems hard to realize that
U~.l .. f -.. il.
uuyouuy iur mo inure purposo ol yratifying
spite would bo capable of assailing
a child?even though it were the
olTspring of thoPresident of the United
States. Vet it is true that certain persons.
because they were not permitted
to see the littlo girl, for the object of
44 writing her up.*' have deliberately
procured the publication of statements
to the elleet that Baby Kuth was deaf
and dumb and an idiot. The stories
have expressed an artfully simulated
sympathy for tho mothei, who is alleged
to have secluded the child in order
to conceal her infirmity.
Now, the writer is able to state from
his own personal knowledge that these
tales are fabrications as baseless as
they arc base. There is not even a
germ of truth in them. They are made
up out of tho whole elotli to gratify
personal malice of the vilest description.
The truth is that Baity Kuth is
bright, quick, alert, and in all respects
ahead of most children of her age.
She will be three years old next October.
Site is a great chatter, healthy,
merry and the pride of her parents.
A dirty lie of this sort can rarely bo
traced to its source, because the person
who starts it carefully covers up tho
beginning of it. It, is easy to set coiner
stories about people in public places.
However incredible in the nature, they
arc eagerly snapped up and circulated.
Henry Cabot Lodgo has taken tho
trouble to trace the yarns which arc
current about George Washington, attributing
immorality to the Father of
His Country, lie has found that nono
of them date back farther than thirty
years. About that time one man, who
was a pioneer in that line of business,
invented a few such tales about the immortal
Georgo and circulated them for
his own amusement. Thus it appears
that even the benefactor of a nation,
who has boon dead for nearly a century,
is not safe from wanton traducers.
The Darlington Affair.?-Tho
presentment of tho grand jury last
week at Darlington dealt with various
complications that aroso from the recent
tragedy in that town. The correspondent
of tho News and Courier
makes the following statement:
Assistant Attorney General Harbor
was here to havs the ease of tho State
against certain citizens for firing into
tlie Charleston, Sumter and Northern
train on tho day of tho tragedy rfiroporly
presented. After hearing tfie evidence
against seventeen of our citizens
in thiscaso tho jury presented true
bills against " Capt. .lohn C. Blackwoll
and others" for this olTence. It will
he renu inhered that at tho time of tho
tragedy Me London, who was wounded,
was carried to jail by Sheriff Sea
uurwuKii, no nuving neon dolivored to
the sheriff by tho Darlington Guards,
J who had been in charge. On the day
after the killing unknown parties wore
allowed cntrnnut to tho jail and McI
l.endon was spirited away.
Full particulars concerning liis es1
capo were published at the time, and
all details wore given, even as to how
his" mustache was trimmed and bow
the change of his upparol was otl'ectod.
This matter was brought to the attention
of the grand jury and they gave
it most careful consideration. As tho
result Sheriff Scabourgh and his deputy
were presented for allowing McLonnbn
to mnKo such an oxit from durance as
lie did when charged with the <?rav?>
crime <>f homicide, and W. .1. W.
Skinner and Simpson Skinner were
also proi-ented for having aided McLoudon
id affecting his escape.
Tho jury was composed of mixed
material, with a majority of Tillmunites.
and gave this case long and most
careful consideration. The action of
the jury seems to have been fair and
non-partisan.
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