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<f>ov Jomili) Stovn. U.NT MARGARH'i; IIY 1IKLF.KA MAYNARI) IN Till*. " STANDARD." " Well. Clara, perhaps you are right. l>o as you think iiost," sai?l Mr. Grunt, as lie took down his overcoat and prepared to go out. That was the way in which discussions between Mr. and Mrs. Grant usually ended, disproving the old assertion that a woman will always havo the last word. This evening Mr. Grant had hern longer in reaching that decision than usual, and it did not seem quite satisfactory to him. for ho stood a moment with his hand on the knob, and then came hack to his wife's chair. " Well !"' she said, somewhat impatiently. "Of course," he said " you wouldn't think it was host unless she was entirely willing. Hoinombcr, 1 owe a great 1 deal to Aunt Margaret." " Well, I am sure any l>ody would say vou hud repaid her well." 'Sly dear." Mr. Grant began, but she was apparently unwilling to reopen the question, and hastened to ->4?> . i in ?ure silo will lie Willing, Uobert. Don't worry about that. Louvi? it to mo to manage. Of course, tboro is no hurry." "Oh, no." ho, stihl, "110 hurry at iill," ami then ho had gone. " Well," sho said, with si look of relief, as the door closed behind him, " so fur, so good. 1 won't way anything to Aunt Margrrot until next week when Uobert is gone. 1 hope she will not be unreasonable." In her pleasant room across the hall j Aunt Margaret sat in l.er low rocker ! before the gruto. Her hands wcro I busy with her knitting, but her thoughts were wandering in the past. How distinctly she remembered wailing bark boats in the meadow brook, playing Robinson Crusoe 011 its tiny island, and hunting the Spring llowers. Then the happy school days brought a smile to her lips, and aw she recalled the | apple-boos and ijuiltingw, the picnics and winging-wehools, her room soemed tilled with the presence of the friends i of her youth who had shared in those merry-makings. Again they were gathered in that very room at her ulster Funny's wedding, and the walls | re-echoed with music and laughter. Now thoy have vanished, all hut I one, the one in all the world to her then, and ho sitting hy her side. Ah, that was sixty years ago: or was it only yesterday V llor wedding dress was almost done, and the preparations for the wedding feast wore begun when Fanny and Fanny's hushand sickened and died, leaving two little hoys, .lames and Robert and Margaret hud said : " Wo must wait a little, .John." One year, two years passed, and now lohn was going West. ' You will go with me," lie pleaded. Could sho go and leave her aged father, her mother stricken with paralysis, and the little orphan chil- j dron ? No, John, 1 cannot go, but 1 cannot ask youuto wait for mo any longer. You are free. Good-bye, good-bye." ; Is that a tear glistening in the lirelight ? Then came a long, montonous stretch of years, broken only hy sad events, the d rowing of .I antes, the death of her father and mother, the news of t John's marriage, lint the daily labor was lightened by love, and though the joy and hope of youth were gone, peueo t<H>k their place. Then Robert married, and brought his wifo to brighten the old home. Very Hweet and gentlo she was, and . Aunt Murgurot wept us if for her own i daughter when bIio died a few years after. Ilut she had little time for tears. There was a baby boy to bo eared for. How winsome and misehiovous ho was, and how the years which had whitened her hair and wrinkled her brow and bent her form had given him strength and manliness ! How empty the bouse seemed when lie went away to col lego ? , And then his father hud brought homo another wife, and sineo then? i Ah ! the lire has burned low, and the ! stocking Is done. "Good morning, Aunt Margaret; I I thought 1 would bring my work and j sit with you for awhile. How pleasant this room is. It is just such a room as ! Mrs. Rogers' library, where 1 visted last Fall. Hers is all linished and furnished in hard woods ; all that side of the room is lined with book cases. Her writing desk stands hero, and the * library tablo there. It is just such a room as I have alway planned to have, some time,'' and Mrs. Grant chatted 011 of other things. At last she spoke of the Home for the Aged at Clayton, and said: " I was telling Robert the othor day that 1 thought you would enjoy it better to live iu an old ladies' home. The 0110 at Clayton is very nice. The matron and all the attendants aro so kind I am sure you would like it. You could take down all of this furnituro you % wanted, and your pictures to hang on the walls to make it seem homelike. Of course it would lie some expense, but Robert said ho would bo glad to meet that."i She had talked on, keeping her head Inmt over her work. She had not noon the look of blank amazement pass over Aunt Margaret's face, leaving it perfectly white, but who heard a stilled moan. "Oh, Aunt Margaret, ure you having those rheumatic twings again? Whore iA the pain this time? sho asked lightly. " in my heart." said Aunt Margaret, making a pitiful attempt to smile. 'Oh, I hope not. Rheumatism of the heart is very bad. That is one thing I told Robfcrt: at the homo you would always haVo the best medical euro and nursing." "And then you could have your library." said Aunt Margaret, slowly. " Why, yes, perhaps I could, but I don't want you to think?" "No," said Aunt Margaret, "I know you don't, and 1 don't want to, but how can I help it?" Mrs. Grunt made a number of buttonholes in silence, then she said: "Well, what shall i toll Robert?" " You may tell him I will go whenever he wishes mo to," the feeble voice faltered. "Very well," said Claru, in a relieved tone. "I thought you would think it was best. Suppose I tell him the first of April." " The first of April, why that is next week ; Jot me stay a little longer ; just a few weeks." 4ft Verysaid Mrs. Grant, folding up her work : " probably the twentieth would l?o better. Robert has to go to GlAytOr then on business. But I am afraid I trtuo tired you with m.t long visit ; 1 must go now," As the door closed behind her Aunt Margaret leaned her gray head on th? Jtttdo baforc her upd |%n-Ht into toars.i 4". ^ ?.' # % "To think it should come to this." she sobbed, "that 1 should bo grudged a room to die in. Oh, Kol>ert, Kobert." At last tho toars ceased, and lifting ' hor head sho looked for a long time ] out at tho greening hills, hehimi which for nearly eighty years she had soon the Him set. : then, turning sho looked from the other at the white monuments gleaming through tho trees and mark ing tho post where so many she had loved and eared for rested. " There is room for tho old woman there," she said, bitterly, and tho tears started bittelyr, hutsho kept them buck, and lying down on t he lounge fell Into a troubled sleep. And tho days camo and went, each bringing nearer tho twentieth. Such short, sud days, and yet she sought to hide their sadness in her heavy heart, and busied herself packing and makinc iii'niiiu'iiiiiinu f?? * And Robert was deceived and thought she wished to nuiko the change ; and when Clara's heart reproached her. sliu thought of her library and said : "She will soon get usod to it and then she won't mind. lhit though she said it over and over the morning she went away, it was long before she could forget the pathetic hopelessness of her last backward look. When Robert returned his wife asked him hut few ouostions; and when she would have talked over with him her plans for furnishing the library, ho only said : " lh> as you think best." And once when she laughingly asked: "Are you not afraid I will make it cost too much?" he sighed and answered : " i am afraid it has cost too much already." Young James was away at college, and when he hoard that Aunt Margaret had gone to the Old Ladies' Home he could not understand it. lie wrote to her and to his father, and neither of their answers satisfied him; but other matters claimed his attention. fn June he was graduated with honors, and a few weeks after, his marriage with Klsie Kiu>w I ton occurred. The happy couple took a bridal tour among the mountains before settling down to housekeeping in James' native city. They planned their return joui'ney through Clayton and stopped over a day to visit Aunt Margaret. Lisle had heard Jumes speak of her so often that she was quite prepared to love the little lady who welcomed her so warmly. Aunt Margaret wanted to hear all their experiences and plans, but James could got her to say but little of herself. Sho enjoyed the day so much that it was hard for her to say goodbye when the time came for them to leave. " it soemw as if you ought to be go iiij? homo with us, lumtio," saidJames. There was a wistful look in her eyes, but. who did not trust herself to speak. They were obliged to wait awhile in the reception room where they met the matron. " Yes," she said, in answer to a remark of Klsio's, " this homo is a great bene lit to many an aged woman. Some who are left in circumstances of extreme destitution are supported here by their friends. A number of our rooms are endowed for the use of the very poor who have no friend willing or able to pay their expenses. Others are left with some property hut without any family friends, and are glad to pass the closing years of life here, where they receive the care and attention often lacking in a hoarding house. ' llut there is another class here for whom 1 feel sorry. There are old ladies here who were deeply attached to their homes, but whose children or grandchildren do not want the trouble of curing for them. There is no stigma attached to providing for them as there would he in sending thorn to the poor house. Hut it is hard to transplant old people. Of course we do all we can to make them happy, but nothing can make up for the old, familiar scenes and faces, nor take away the bitterness of the thought that they were not wanted." Jamesand IClsio looked grave, but at that moment their car passed, and the conversation was interrupted. The following evening they stood in the library at Father Grant's, looking out as Aunt Nlargarot had so often done at the sunset. " What a beautiful scone," exclaimed lClise, ."and what a beautiful room," she added : hut James answered: "1 had rather see it as it w;.8 when I went away. It was Aunt Margaret's room ; poor auntie !" and ho sighed. After a few days they went to housekeeping in their own homo, a little farther down tho street. Very busy and happy they were arranging their iwrniiuro, hanging pieturos, unci deciding whoro many of the pretty wedding gifta should he placed. At lust it wuh till done but one room. I'Yom the lirst Klsie hud said that her plan for that room was a secret, and .lames had laughingly declared that she could not keep a secret two days : but it was not until the morning of the third day that she came behind his chair at the breakfast table and whispered something in his ear that made him catch her in his arms and kiss her as he exclaimed : 44 Do you really mean it, IClsioV" All the breakfast timo they discussed her plan, and .lames pointed out all the objections to it, but Klsio had an answer for each one, and ait last ho saiid us his father had done, but in a very different tone.: 44Do as you think best, dear." A few days after James wont to Clayton. When he caimo back lato in tho evening Aunt Margaret was with him. She was very tired, unci after a wuriii supper, im?io tooK nor oil to bod. Then she eamo back to hour James' account of his day. "It was all I could do to persuade her to come," ho said, in conclusion. "I don't know as f should havo succeeded if you hadn't sent that little note, but that settled it. After she had road it, sho leaned back in her chair and said, with the tears running down her cheeks: " Sho wants mo, she wants me. Thank God, I shall die in Camden, aftor all." " " l)io !" said Elsio, wipping hor own eyes, "she musn'ttalk aboutdyingyet." ' ' When it beeamo known that Aunt Margaret had returned to spend the remaining yoarsof her life with .lames I and Elsio, there were many comments. Robert Grant kissed the youug woman fondly, and said : " God bless you, my daughter," while his wife declared that it was the most foolish idea sho over heard of, and prophesied that Elsie would soon regret it. But her prediction was never vorilied, though for live years Aunt Margaret gradually grew moro feoblo, and needed moro care, and Elsie was obliged to givo up many of tho ploasuros of society on hor account. Thon tho day came y/hen sho bent to catch tho last whispered words of blessing. Standing at tho open grave, she seemed to hear tho words : " As ye have dono it unto the least of these, ny brethren, yo havo dono it unto j ino," and returning f,o hor home, hallowed by precious memories, she folt [richly repaid forovery sacrifice. Hum, r / TllliSTATE CONVENTION (CONTINUED I'KOM l-'IKHT PACK) of Domocrucy at their raothcr'8'knoe : mon who hud thoir tenets handed down to thorn from thoir fathers; mon who imbibed Democratic principles from thoir mother*' milk. Tell mo that those gray-haired biros could bo falso to South Carolina. It comes with i>ad grace from any South C&ro vw n'uu vii in mm um nuiuj is not safe in our hands. Thoro uro some citizens in South Carolina who look upon uh an attaching a tail to our Democracy. We are not qualified Democrats. Wo hauo tiio principlcsof our fathers, which must l?o preserved at all hazards. They had ruuched that stage when Calhoun Doiuocracy was oxoinpliticd in its highest form. The home of the Democracy was in the South and West. It was naturalTlioy found the opponents of .lolTorson. Ian Democracy, which means "equal rights to all and special privileges to none." in the North and Eust. Thoro, too, wo find the effort to centralize government. Now what is our Democracy ? 1 make the prediction that in J81Mi tiio South and W est will bo called upon to redeem the Democratic party from the yoke of the money sharks and the money power. A great deal lias been said by people outside about attaching tails to our Democracy. lie saiil in the end they would die believing that this appendix was the cause of death. Mr. Evans went on to say that several years ago thoro met down in Ocala in the State of Elorida a body of honest yeomanry of tiio country, not as politicians, but as men representing the agricultural interests of this country. They adopted those principles known as the Cicala platform. Wo who are an agricultural people sympathize with them. It is our right to do so. We endorsed their principles before: you have endorsed him to-day, and I endorse thorn now. (Applause.) Then lie wont on to show his hearers that certain people who criticized thorn did not know what tlioy were 1 talking of. Hut, said ho, let me show to you that the Democratic party when it met in Chicago endorsed these very principles. They were true, proper and represented the true Demo i!racy. I now propose to show you that the Democratic party has Incorporated every one of these principles except one in its platform of principles or enacted them into the law in Wnshing{ ton. We demanded that the amount of circulating medium he rapidly ineoroasod tout least $">() per capita. The Democrats in their national platform j demanded that some relief should ho I given the people. How could relief come hut by in! reusing tho circulating medium V "lie ! referred to one or two other similes ! on nat ional issues and then went on to J say that they demanded the free coinI ago of silver. This had been done in suction 7 of the national Democratic ; constitution, hut a dilToront construe; tiou had beofi placed upon it and the j agricultural classes cheated out. Then there was the principle of naI tlve ownership of land. This was section 0 of the national platform. | They demanded that one industry j should' not he huilt up at the expense j of another. That was section f> of the same document. They demanded a tariff for revenue only, yet they had been given, through tho money inlluenco, a hill hut litslo better than the McKinley hill. They leavo the high tariff there because the farmers' needs i are not catered to. We demand a graduated tax on income. The Democrats had already enacted such a law, and it, was going to make a Republican out of every Democratic man in the Northwest; ( and yet these men, who say that you are not Democrats, support a man who j voted against this provision. They had demanded thatall national , revenue he limited to the actual expenses of the government; that was in the Democratic platform. They had demanded the government ownership or railroads. The Democrats had ncvei* demanded this, hut they had adopted tho government control of railroads. This they did when they established tho interstate commerce commission. ^ They hail demanded that Congyffss amend tho election laws so as tomavc United States Senators elected by a direct vote of the people. This had been enacted into law by tho Democrats. Was this not. n,?m.w>i..iti.iV All the demands, hjivo tho sub-Troas! ury demand wore one and the same tiling. They had demanded the subTreasury or something better. Indeed, all else wore tho same as the nrinci! ploy in the Chicago platform, it was the duty of the Democrats to endorse these principles, 1 stand on tho Democratic platform?Ocala platform?let it cost mo what it may. (Cheers.) I have said this, because it has beep thrown in your faces that you are not Democrats. rle wantod to see all the people united and invited all honest people to come in with them. There is but one party in South Carolina and that is the white man's party (cheers) and the man who opposes it cannot stand hefore the people as a Democrat. We area united pooplo. "If I thought," said he, 41 that my nomination and election meant tho destruction of our civilization and the irreparable damaging of my native State, 1 would ask you to take back your nomination and ask God to put out the spark of life in my hroast." Mr. Evans said considerable hero about true patrotism, "If elected Governor I will he tho Governor of the whole pooplo and seo that the will of the majority is carried out." (Cheers.) I congratulate you on tho way you have stood together. lie believed that tho dispensary law was tho best solution of the liquor nnnMnm ...w? 1 |>I VD1UUI, nuu WHO Ull) Ulliy IlM'ilUS 1)1 throwing off tho yoke of tho whiskey ring. " I will onmrco it to tho letter, if elected Governor." Ho thanked tlioin as tho Democracy of South Carolina for his nomination, and pledged his word, his hand, his heart and his head, that, if they stood by him, tho proud banner, which they 1> laced in his hand, should qeyor trail n the dust so long as ho was Governor of South Carolina. As Mr. Evans closed there was prolonged applause. A letter was road from Dr. Timmor1 man stating that sickness proventod him from being present, and expressing his appreciation. English Spavin Liniment removos all hard, softer collouscd lumps and blemishes from horses, blood spavins, euros, splints, swoonoy, ring-bono, stifles, sparins, all swollen tn roots, coughs, otc. Save $.10 by the uso of one bottle. Warranted the most wonderful blemish euro oyer known. Sold by Sloan Jiros., Druggists, Uroenville, S. C. It.will astonish you how quick .John son's Magnetic Gil will kill all pains. Sold by Carpenter Bros., Greenville, S. C. " "" ( ) HISTORY OF THE COTTON PLANT. ? h INTKKIvSJ 1N<J DOCCMKNT PItOM 1 ClilOMHON COIilAXIK. I " ('ot t oil Oi'iKillUtOd ill I III* l .asl i(H I P <*io\vlli and Manufacture for Many Yearn Confined lo India?llerodotum * and lMiny Wrote About It. ' ti The authorities of Clemson Col logo 'l i havo Issued a deeply interesting bulletin on " Fertilizer Kxporimenta with ' > Cotton," including a historical sketch, a comparison of varieties, the elassifi- ' 1 cation and grade of crossed varieties. ?J ' Tho historical sketch is prepared hy * John N. Hook, and every farmer and u ' every man, no matter what bisoccupa tion. can read it with profit: ^ > Cotton (Cossypinmi The order t<> i which this bo Ion if s is Malvacou1. Okra vv i and the hollyhock are embraced in the i same family. The word cotton is dorived from the Arabic word koton. tl Skinner, the etymologist, says cotton vv is so called from its similtude to the fy > down which adheres to the quince, V Mulls cydomis. < b ' An examination into the history of the great materials designed hy Provi- K donee for human clothing dovolops the tl remarkable fact that not one was assigned to Kurope. Asia was liberally f-r supplied, receiving all -cotton, flux, w the silk worm?and its mountains are " known to have been the home of the ' ',! sheep, which frequently attain the ti size of the fallow deer. Silk was !iist ' made in China, and the produce of the | ' silk worm was first brought China to . u tot 'onstuntinoplo by two I'ersian monks : tl in the reign of Justinian, A. I). jit Flax is indigenous in Kgypt and also in ! America (Clavigero's Mexico, pp. 2"?, j 2d.) Of tho four staple libers used in ; f'1 ciotn making, cotton and flax aro of ; vogotablo origin, whilo hilk and wool ; aro animal products. In this provl-'1' dential assignment, to Africa and America wore given flax and cotton. 1" Cotton was known to the ancient w Asiasticrt and ICgyptians, and it is said h; to be the spontaneous production of all " intor-tropical regions. Columbus, Ma- |{ gcllan, Drake, Cavendish, Dumpier, and indeed, nearly all the early voy- N agors and explorers, concur In representing that they saw cotton growing C< wild and in great abundance in the West India Islands and on the continent. Columbus found in St. Salvador, ;{1 where ho llrst landed, the women dressed in "short cotton coats,'' and vj bis crew exchanged caps, boads and u, other toys for "cotton yarn." The growth and manufacture of cotton for many centuries were confined exclusively to India. Herodotus, the aj father of history, who lived -115 years jrt before Christ, writes : " The inbabi- H( tants of that country make their clothes of the product of a certain plant, y which, instead of fruit, produces wool ul of a liner and better quality than > (j, sheep." l'liny, who lived A. D. 75. inr ..Mil 1,1 forms us, there grows in upper f1( Kgypt, near Arabia, a shrub called gos- jH syphon, by others xylon, from which ^ stufl's aro made that we call xyllna. It j,] is small and boars a fruit resembling sj the filbert, within a downy wool, which is spun into thread." The same author. ... spcnkingof the production of th'o island j,, of Tylos, in the Persian Gulf, mentions " Wool-bearing trees thut hear a fruit like u gourd and of thosiyoof uquincc, .? which, bursting when it is ripe, dis-l[] plays a ball of downy wool, from which are made costly garments, of a fabric ,n resembling linen." A late writer has also observed, that us flax could not bo w successfully grown on the soil of Aim- w bin, and the climate too hot for the lin'e (j. Hooee of sheep, that cotton must huvo been utilized for the purposes of clothing in (he infancy of the human race. The Hebrew writers make po q.llu- ? sion to the wool-bearing shrub. in A Greek and I toman literature only the slightest notices of it are to be found. v This omission seems to be due to tho fact that the nations, bordering upon the Mediterranean, were utterly unacquainted with the populous countries beyond the Indus. Virgil, in the second (Jeorgle. must beyond nil doubt have referred to the cotton plant when he says : "Shall I sing of the groves < 'of jrthiopiu hoary with soft wool, and j how the Seres comb out tbo dolicato < ! II 'ere from among the leayos." Prince i of tbo Latin poets, it was ho who was i commirfsionod by the authorities of bis j country to employ bis pen in the inter- , est of agriculture, that ho might in-1 j spire new life and enterprise into the j ! work of the. husbandman, as woll as en- ' liven it with tbo charms of poetic nuni hers. The silence of the writers of the middle ages, in regard to cotton fabrics, wnilo describing tbo vestments I then in common use, loaves us to infer that tbo cotton manufacturing industry was passing through an interval of temporary suspension, and that woolen, Jilicn and silk constituted the material from which the customary cloth- i ing of the people was made during tlmt 1 period. llut Governor Soabrook ways, m Ncarchus, Alexander's Admiral, do- th scondcd tho Indus .'127 years 11. C. and af observed that "The Indians wore gar- i incuts, the substaneo whereof they were injido grqwing upon trees: j bn and this Is indeed llax or rather some-' I)I thing much whitor and liner than Max." j sw And, " it is certain, however, that at ? the timo of the Iieglra A. 1). 022 cotton cloth was a common material of dress." Cotton in its wild state, and especially in tropical climates, is said to be a perennial shrub. Marco l'olo, the | confidential agent of the Tartar conqueror of China, who yiuitcd many countries, " saw cotton growing aburi- j dually in Mosul, opposite the ancient l Ninovah, in Persia, and at Guzzcrat. In which latter place it was produced from a tree six yards high which bore 4 twenty years." As cultivated in the Houth, however, it is only an annual A plant. /jK For four centuries the herbaceous IM cotton of India was grown in the gardens of China for the beauty of its jg Mowers, before receiving any attention for domestic uses. That great emu ire, re with all its knowledge of the arts, was .)C remarkably slow in developing any * progress ip the cultivation ?>f cotton, as a staplo crop ; while its people were tho *? original manufacturers of silk, paper nc and sugar: the first to become ac- w< quainted with the properties of tho }H, magnet, and tho composition of gun- , uowileiv --? " ... 'j ? \**)u v.i i jr Jt^u VIM* . lands of China that had boon dovotod to tho production of cotton wore an- fti propriatcd to tho raising of corn, in v< consequence of the alarming scarcity " of provisions, by tho aupronip authority. Of tho two kinds of cotton cultivate J in tho United States tho groen seed or short staple cotton is derived from tho Herbaceuna or Herbaceous cotton, and Hirsutuin or hairy /^.moridUn cotton ; tho long staple or black seed cotton is derived from tho Arboroum or troo cotton (Barbadenso.) In 1792 tho growth of cotton was little known in this country. A? a commercial article it was doomed to l>o of little importance. There was a taw against tho importation of cotton from til America. Tn 1792 the entire crop was 1X8,828 pounds. In 1842. u half century J later, a wonderful revolution was mi- C coinplished in the cotton husbandry of tho United States, tho crop then amounting to 785,221,800 pounds -and Cfl I most within tiio porlod of anothor tilf century the yield of cotton in the United States aggregated the enormous 1 mount in round numbers of 7,<KX>.<XH) f bales with an average weight of l">0 minds per ball . < Cotton is most successfully cultivated otweon .">0 find !l"i ilnifffirtu !- ? - ? ,, . 1UM VII 'UH" ido. Hut Covornor Seabrook says in is "Memoir of the (Jetton l'laut": It is a well authenticated fact tliat in ' 7.'W us far North us the Ubth decree ^ Dttonon the 'garden scale ' was raised 1 the vicinity el Katoti in tlio County c f Talhert, on the Kustern shore of tho hosapouko Hay. About forty years ^ fterwards it was cultivated in St. t lary's County, Maryland, and in tho [orthern county of Capo May in New * cr.-ey, also in Sussex County, Delu- j ore* . ,, f '1 lie wonderful .< 1 iseoverlos and i uvea- ( ons in this country and Kqgland in ^ io operations of card spinning and crying cotton the "Water Frame" ( y Arawriglit, tho " Spinning Jenny " y I(argreuves and tlio "Mulo Jenny" { y Samuel Croinpton, togothor with ; io American saw gin by I'Mi Whitney, avo iiirtli to tho ootton husbandry of io United Stutes. "Of tlio great divisions of tho r lobe," remarked Mr. Haines, " Kuropo .i as tho last to receive the cotton man- ji fuel are, and Kugland was among tho j tst to engage iit that branch of Indus- | y. So immense is the extent of the ( ritish cotton manufacture at this time j 8!t.'?), t hat the yarn spun in a year ^ ould in n single thread puss around io globe's circumference -Oli.TTt times; v would reuch 1 times from the earth ^ tho sun *. and it would encircle the M irtli's orbit X$ times. Tito wrought v ihrics of cotton exported in one year ould form a girdle for tho globe, puss- u ig cloven times round tho equator." | ho distalT and spinning wheel iiavo j itVfi imnftnnt m." Ui.? ;i ., . , r ?/ .4 V x/??w VI l? I'll V III 1/1 11" I I" | > J 111*13 ivo come this pondorous machines 8 lilch perform their tusk us if guided / thought, und ^ With wiry tooth rovolvlng curds t; olenso the tangled knots and smooth the raveled lleeoo ; w ext moves the iron band with fingers line, 1 ombs the wide eard and forms the p eternal lino." 1, Some one has said that he who would 1* now all about cotton must, like Lord L aeon, take all knowledge for Ills pro- o nee. The inlluenoo of the industry I [ion the welfare of mankind is beyond V imputation. It alTeots our habits and I' linions?our laws and legislation. It t< outes a vast eommoreo with wonders '1 , every stage of its manufacture. It I marvelous to contempluto the arts b deuces and financial power involved I i one single branch of this industry S 10 art of cotton printing. "There N e t he madder and other vegetable L yes, the brilliant coal dyes, and the 1 otalllc mixtures to make the dyes lJ ist; all tbo elements which the chem- C t controls must be studied in turn? S loir produce, collection, preparation, h lending use and efTects. The de- V gner searches through all nature for itterns." The skill of the engraver, b itll bis tools iiikI rwnnnii il? > ? ~ ....v. w\/|'|'vi vj iiiiuvm n, ifl ii rought under tribute. Tho groat ,aplo of tho South, will we ever utilize u > their highest development tho vast l> nyers and opportunities involved In s< lis great Southern industry? F For many of tho historical faets horo b entioned, the writer is indebted to c< io 4*Memoir of tho Cotton Plant," d ritten by W. B. Seahrook years ago, t< ho was afterwards (Governor of South s< irolina. ii Hiovkhsinci tiik Oudeu ok Things, j, A special dispatch from jlomer, la., says: A case that has puzzled Hj 10 physicians of this community was (j( as ended today in a singular manner. tj bout a week ago an old man named H1 reatherow wns attacked with a vio- 8l nt spell of hiccoughs, which kept up t) itil the old fellow was convulsed with fsterla. Everything tliat medicine us capable of was done to stop the af- y jn, but it continued until the doctors :spairod of saving his life. Mother- ^ it's mother-in-law had hoard of nn d-fashioned way of curing hiccoughs , id she determined to make use of it. no in hand alio managed to creep, C( ithout being defected, under the bed .)( wbloh Wotherow lay, and when she y{ id tho*old man were loft alone for a U] omcnt she pulled the trigger. In her m fi tat ion she forgot to aim for tbo y >oor, in which the load might bury ' self in safety, and instead jet tbo dis- *,| targe tear a hole through the mat- Vi ess on which Wotherow lay. Tbo >wder burned tbo sick man's toes. yi ul in a rage ho sprang from the bed, ' id drugging the woman from benoath || oeocdcd to give lior a sound beating, jj. i his anger Wethcrow forgot all lout bis hiccoughs, and when the y tutors called, expending to sec adying ans ho was dining, and thoy had only (j, o mother-in-luw'sr bruises to look c{ * * w "Do you lovo rnor said tiie paper p, Lr to the sugar. " I'm just wrapped ,1( > in you," replied the sugar. " You ^(] reet tiling 1" murmured tbo paper bag. p, woman-noon ^a8 't8 own sl)CC'a^ medi- tl cino in Dr. ricrcc's Fa? h< \ cry woman who tl or overworked, Pj every woman 1 \ ) who suffers m ' from any "fe- c? male oomplaint" or sp weakness, needs just ^iat rcrno<ty? With it, * every disturbance, ir- J,* gularity, and derangement can be w rmanently cured. in It's an invigorating, restorative tfc nic, a soothing ftnd strengthening U) rvino, and the Qrxly medicine for omen so wife ?nd ?ure that it can (j< i guaranteed. In periodical pains, la splaocinents, weak hack, hearing- 1? >wn sensations, and every kindred Imcnt, if it fails to benefit or cure, >u have your money back. Is anything that isn't sold in this ay likely to bo "just as good"? It isn't the usual way?it's | /} just the re(V~\ verse ? to pay a patient n! < when you'wi can't cure ; Never- l>( iclcss, that's what's done by ? io proprietors of Dr. Sage's atarjb Remedy. They prom2 to pay you S500 if they * in't cure vour catarrh. q ... NOMINATIONS WERE NOT MADE. ri:miH that wuiti: hot com I?JjIKI> WITH. L'he Conference of Independent !>??? ?ik'I'iiIm Asked l'??r Hie Itcniinciutloii orthodentin Demands?Tho Keenest Wuh Doiilod, mid tlio Call i>< Issued for Another Conference. Tho convention of Democrats which issembled under tho call of Thomas >V. Carwilc, chairman, met in the city if Columbia on tho 17th inst. Thirtyine counties wore represented and a ?ii._t? -? uiiiiiiiu?r.> ruiiiorcnco wi. I. ! !, at vlilch tho fullest unit freest i- .1 - sioti <w)k place. Naturally tho most itn>oi*tant question beforo tho conference vas us to tho udvisubilltv of nominalng 11 State tickot. The majority uvored u ticket at tho start, and the lebuto only changed that purpose for ho time being. After a lout:, earnest and exhaustive liscussion, a resolution solving tho troblem to some extent was adopted >y a vote of 120 to 104, which postpones, without abandoning, nominations, 'l'lic ote by counties to table the 1-solution vas as follows : Veas ?Anderson, K; Barnwell, 0; lenufort. H; Chester, 8 ; Chesterfield, mi !; Darlington, (J: rldgelield, J: Fair- ,u ield, H; Florence, 11: Creenville, "?: lainpton 1: llorry, -: Lancaster, b; ni> /aureus, 2 ; Lexington, >; Marlboro, 1 : f" Jeonee, <>; Orangeburg, 2 ; I'iokons, 2; JV1 Uchland, 0; Sumter, I: I'nion, 2: b Villiamsburg, 1 ; York, 0?104. f"1 Nays?Aiken, 8; Anderson, 1 : Barn- ,,l! /oil. a- rt.?..ut-? ' * , . ..v. . vaanusiou, i ; Lk> ?lurendo:i, 0; Burlington, 2; Edgolicld, J'.0 : Floronco, 5: Georgetown, 1: Groanillo, 4 ; Hampton. 1; Horry, d: Luui*- sir ills, 5; Marlon, 1; Newberry, S); Or- ?:i .ngoburg, 10: Pickens, 3: Richland, 0'UH ; Spartanburg, It: Union, 0: York, ha m. ?oi At 2:15 o'clock the convention ascmblcd with General Johnson Ha- tlv ood, of Buruwoll, in the chair, and Ml V. P. Crawford, of Chester, as score- pf, arv. ?*i>? The following executive committee rus elected : ! Aiken, A. P. Butlor ; Anderson. M. __ \ Tj'iblo; Barnwell, Mike ltrown; teaufort, 11. W. Richardson: Berko- Co jy, S. P. Smith: Charleston, F. C. int 'ishburne ; Chester. T. Butler Woods : < dicsterlield, W. F. Stephenson : Clur- ine ndon, 10. B. Hodges ; Colleton, blank: en aldington, W. C. Crokor Fdgellold, He V. F. Allen : Fairlield, John LI rut ton : voi 'lorence, J. B. C. Wright; George- lid >wn, J. B. Steele: Greenville. S. A* adi "ownos: Hampton, W. F. Martin: tin lorry, C. P. < juutlobuum : Kershaw, adi lank; Lancaster, John C. MeDow: tin .aureus, W. L.Gary: Lexington, C. yoi .Bradford; Marion, , I. W. Johnson: tin Iarlboro, (). C. Roper; Newberry, no leorge W. Mower; Oconee, G. W. 'ratt; Orangeburg, M. O. Dantzler: wl 'iekens, R. G. Gaines; Richland, J. G. tie apors: Spartanburg, J. L. Carson ; v'0i umter, .1. C. Singleton ; Union. L. J. cai Irowning: Williamsburg, M.J. Hurst: 'ork, G. W. S. Hurt. The following resolutions, offered J y Thomas W. Carwllo, of Kdgeeld, were unanimously adontcd : 44 Whereas, Men prominent in the j (Tail's of the State claiming to be , ^ omocrats, some of whom arc now 'j joking nominations for high (dllces as omocrats, have declared themselves u ound by tlio principles announced at a ,. onvontion hold at Ocala, on the 3d ' [IV of Dflnnmlini' I WOO .... , ..-.WW, iio (uuamouni ? *' ) all their political principles, what- ,lujcvor, which principles arc centraliz- ^ ig in their tendency and opposed to H01 ioso of the Democratic party. " And, whereas others so now claim- ^r, ( ig to be Democrats have allied them- K 3lves with members of a now party " iylod the Populist party and have ? ? celared themselves ready to abandon V' 10 Democratic party whenever at ( 11 opportunity favorablo to the mo iccess of the so-called party should ing resent itself, her ' And, whereas, under such circum- ?)u amies it oecomes tlio duty of the ()lj' emocratie party of this State, through t s ollicial representatives iu conven- 'n 011 assombled, explicitly to declare its ^ osition in rogard to these disturbing illuenees, q u Resolved, That this convention, Q' miposed of loyal Democrats from all iirts of the State, demands of the conjntion to assemble on the 10th instant lt tidor the call of the executive com- Jj litteo of the Democratic party of the ^ tate as heretofore organized, ex- ' iieitly to declare the true and loyal v leglance of the whole Democratic i Etrty of the Stato of South Curo-l M na to the principles and organl- 4 ition of the National Democratic uo arty and to repudiate aud reseiend L< 10 action of the State Convention of y< 192, adopting the Ocala platform as 1 nit of tiio Democratic party of this ?. tato. " Unsolved, That the convention also muuuls of tho said State Democratic (| mvontion to be held on the 19th of ? aptembor to nominate no one to olllco y ho is not in full accord with the uq rinciples of the National Democracy, n )r one who acanowledges allegiance k > tlie said Ocala platform or to the 1: rinciples of the Populist party. ? " Resolved, That the nomination by i ic convention on tho nineteenth in- J\ aiit of any candidate for any olllco at n, 10 hands of tho Democratic party 2, 1 aiding alloglanco to any other than io Democratic principles and policy, Lv mil absolve all members of tho Demo- Lv < atlc ]>arty in the State from obliga- Lv on to support such nominees at the Ar moral olcction whether or not they . , , irtioipatcd in the recent primary cctlon. . ijV j " Kesolved, That an executive com- Xr itteo consisting of or . member from tch county be appointed by the re- Lv icctlve delegations, which coinmittco Ar 1 iall be charged with tho duty of tho . , sttor organization of the Democratic \ irty and tho presentation of tho fore- , >ing resolution to the convention , hlch meets in Columbia on tho 19th Ari stant and with recalling this convon- Lv! on at such time as thoy seo lit prior Ar tho 1st of Qotoher, 1894.'' Tho demands of this conforopco wore '* \ lly presented to the pemoOfatlO State ' juvouuuiion 1110 luth inst., and wore jjV | id on tho table. Thereupon, the fob a,win)? call wan issued for tho reassoming of tho conference on tho 2oth LV st., when it is expected that nomina- bv i una will be mado : 'iV SPARTANBURG, S. C., Sept. 20, 1804. A^. To tho Members of the Domocratic eg,, ?|\ JAPANKSB N mi) ip sjhd^ ijv *$3sy c ure r K Now nnd Complete Treatment, oonMatlntf oi lottt JPl'OSITORIKH. Capsules of Ointment and tw< p m ?xes of Ointment. A novor-fntllnp Ourn for Pile* ] every nature and degreo. It iuakos an operation s., th tho knife or Injectlonaof CArbollo acid, which V,IM o painful and seldom a pernianeut cure, and often UK suiting In death, unneoeseary. Why endure pin de terrible dleenee? We guarantee. 0 n >xes to oure any oaee. von only pay for P , ncflta received. II a box, fl for $5. Sent by mall. ' joranteoe Issued by our agonta. J ftN^TIPATinW teurod-invented, j UriO 1 IT A I IUW by Japanese Liver Pellets _Jl o groat LIVKR and STOW AOfl IIKOUI.ATOH and ,OOD l'lIltlFIKH. SmAU, mllu and pleasant to IT A ke, especially adapted for chlldi-at)'* \t?o. CO Dose* cente, aUARANTKEfl lamed only by \RPENTF.R BRC8 , GREENVILLE, 80 ^ # ? V* 4 4* , ?--JL1 " BMfrlHIft l|pFi3j fV^jgjk A NARROW^SCAPE! How it Happened. rim following remarkable event In a lldy*f o will Interest the reader: "For a long time I <1 a torrlblo pain at my heart, which flutrctl almost incessantly. Iliad no appetite d could not alee p. I would bo compelled sit up In bed'and belch gas from my atom* h until I thought every tnluuto would tx? y last. There was a feeling of oppression out my heart, and 1 was afraid to draw it II brentli. 1 couldn't sweep a room wltht sitting down and resting: but. tlmnb m, ny tin* help of New Heart Curo nil that past and I feel like ^iotlior womau, Hee using tho New ller W (jure 1 had taken Terent so-called rcmeulc.f and been treated doctors without any benefit until I was th discouraged and disgusted. My husband light me a bottle of Dr. Miles' New lleart re, and am happy to say I nover regretted as 1 now have a splendid appetite and op well. I weighed 12S pounds when 1 bon taking the remedy, and now I weigh 130V4. i elYoct in my case has been truly niarvels. 11 far surpasses any other medicine I vo ever taken or any benefit I ever revod from physicians."?Mrs. Harry Starr, ttsville, i'a.. October 12, 18'J2. )r. Miles' New Heart Cure Is sold on a poslo guaranteo by all druggists, or by the I>r. les Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind., on receipt of ce, $1 per bottlo, six bottles15, express proId. 'I Ids great discovery by an eminent icialist in heart disease, contains neither iutcs uor dangerous drugs. Sold by Carpenter Bros.. Druijfjlst nvention (assembled on tho 17 th it.): lontleuion : Having- parried out your itruolions and presenp-d tho Demonic resolutions and Enunciation of moeratie principles toiPbo State conHf iitn mmonn!.. - * /? -* * f wiixHud^ ui vyinuuioiu on tno ,h inst., and having demanded the option of tho same by that body, and 3 said convention having refused to opt the Democratic declarations jroln contained, 1 hero by call upon n to again assemble in convention in j city of Columbia, on Tuesday night xt, at H o'clock (2">th inst.) I'his call is made in strict compliance tb the instructions and tho rosoluns adoptod at tho Democratic conation assembled on the 17th iust. I mostly urge your presonoc. .1. L. CAliSON, Chm'n Ileal. Kx: Committee. IOIIM t:. caimous, Soc'y Dem. Hx. Committee. ? Ill) % ^ -* lev. Samuel !<\ Smith, tho author of Iv Country, 'Tis of Thee," recently enrated tho sixtieth anniversary of > marriage, lie and his wife rosldo n-u.y ju ^owioiH/'entro, Ma^. I'vvo woman recently accepted inviions to speak at the Kentucky Sunyr School Convention. Hearing of s, two olergymcn, who had also conited to speak at the convention, iceled their engagement on tho >und that women uro forbidden by i Holy Goost to speak in public. J ACCAM AW Li N l>\ 3TEAM KRS. r The Steamer will leave her wharf .'oiivva\ evry Vonduy and Wednesday ruing for Georgetown at lo'cl ok.touohall intermediate points. Aral will leave wharf at Georgetown every Tuesday I Friday morning lor < onway at 4 lock, touching all intermediate points. > 1'. M'N El L, Gen't Ag't and Tress* Cony, 8. i. A. MUNNEltLYN, Agent,Georgetown, oheduie of Local Mail Routes. I' no NO. 20273.?From Gulivants Ferry > Conway, mail arrives 1.4&pn>,on Mona*, Wednesday and Friday; leaves at 30 p ill on same days. Mail closes at ,95. UTE NO. 202H0.?From (J on way to ltiroray, N.C., mail arrives at 4:30 p m on u> sday, Thursday and Saturday; leaves t 5 p lii on same days. Mail closes at ;">5 p m. ITTE NO. '10281.?From Conway via 'orr.ey, .lordanville, Gideon, Lubuna and jturn, mail arrives at 7 put on Tuesday, Inns lav an t biilurdny; leaves at 0 a m n Monday, Wednesday and Friday. .Mail Inunu n? <l > ? Dl'K NO. 20282.?From Conway to Lito River, mall arrives at f> p 111 on Monay, Wednes av ant Fridays leaves at 7 m Tuesday, Thursday ana Saturday, lail rinses at I) p in. UTK 20283?Front Conway to Port arroMui, mall arrives daily at 12 nt; ntvcs daily at 1:46 p nt. Mail closes at 10 pm. TLANTIO COAST LINE. WILmington, Columbia A Augusta IT. * Condensed schedule, in olTect Dec. 85)3. TKAINB OOINO SOUTH.?NO. 55. i Wllnvngton it 20pm .hadbourn 6 5<>pm , 1 Marion . 6 50pm Florence 6 50pm / I * MO. 6(1. I I Floreuce 7 iopm / I 'urate? 8 28pm J| Jumper 8 28pm |! Columbia? lo<H)p*i ! 9 iii>. 58. j p Florence 7 45am I j (u otter 0 20am 'It, Mo. 02. > a iumter 9 53am J fj joluinhiar 1105atn >10 rUAlN;PhOlNO NORTH.?NO. 51. I'oluitthia .. 130am {** luniter 5 57am '/* Sumter *?< -? II warn Pr*'J? Flbrenco 7 lftam Hv.io MO. 63. J foluinMa 4'2Upm j SuiPtir 8'86pm I ? NO. 69. Jilt. tiumtcr .6 46pm F Florence 6f?f?pm '| no. 66. || j Florence 7 40nm I Marion 8 33am I I liarlbourn &>'2<>am t Wilmngton 10 lOnm1'; f(?. 6*2 runs through fron ' har'cston vlo itral 11 ail road', leaving Lanes 8.44 u m, ailing 0 '20 a in. \ n mi"" ?i.> .i.hmih" 'octiarTcs'.on,8. C.f t/ Central R. It., arriving Munnisg 8 p n>, 1 oh 8.U |i m, Clx-vleaton 10.40 p in. ' rain oH Manchester & Augusta K. K. I res gunner, daily ?xeopt Sunday 10A0 ? \ arrives Ttimlni 11.00 a.m. Returning re Rimini 12.80 p m, arrive Sumter 1.40 [ rains on llnr'evllle It. H 1-avo Harts* ^ daily except Sumter, at ft a m. ariirFlovds ft 25 a m. Returning, leave ys 9.45 p m, n rlvlog at Hnrtsv.l o' 10.1ft \ . F. Divine, Gcn'l Supt. . R. Kinly. Supt. Tra?v-. '. M. F.mf.u.son, QopM Agent. tYKSWORTH & PARKER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, * Malij SV - - 8. O S H rtJ