The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 25, 1897, Image 1
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VOL. XI.
TARIFF MESSAGE OF PRESIDED MCKINLEY.
PLAIN, DIlllTCr AM) l'OINTKI).
Congress is Askoil to Increase the.
TariIT Immediately?Thn Condition
of (ho Kcvemto Pctnuiuls Prompt
Act ion.
The following messugo from I'resldont
MclCiuley was sunt to CougrosB
upon its opening :
To tho Congress of tho United States :
Kogretting tlie necessity which lias
required me to call you together, I feel
that your a->om I) ing in extraordinary
session is indispensable because of the
condition in which wo find tho revenues
of the government. It is conceded
that its current expenditures are
greater than it-? receipts and that such
a condition lias existed for now more
than three years. With unlimited
means at our command, we are presenting
the remarkable spectacle of
increasing our public debt by bort owing
money to meet the ordinary outlays
incident upon even an economical
and prudent administration of the
government. An examination of the
subject (iiseloses this fact in every
detail and leads inevitably to tho conclusion
that tho condition of tlie revenue
which allows it is uujustiiiable
and should bo corrected.
Wc find by the reports of the Socro
itil j ui mi- i n nsury mat tuu l'livunucs
for tho tisenl year, ending .Iline .'JO,
18512,from all sources wore $425,808,260.22,anil
the expenditures for ail purposes 1
were $ 1 15,5154,806 56, leaving an excess J
of roceipts over expenditures of $5),5)14,454.66.
During that fiscal year $10,570,
467.518 were paid upon the public debt, .
which hud been reduced since March
1, 18851, $2551,076,85)0, and tho annual ]
interest charge decreased $11,084,570.60.
Tho receipts of tho government
from all sources, during the fiscal year, |
ending June .'10, 185)11, amounted to
$4(>l,716,56l, and its expenditures to ,
$1551,1174,887, showing an excess of re- |
ceipts over expenditures of $2,.'141,671. i
Since that time tho receipts of no ,
liseal year, and with but few excep- j
lions of no month of any fiscal year, ,
liavo exceeded the oxpenoitures. The ,
receipts of the government from all .
sources, during the fiscal year, ending ,
June 80, 185)4, were$1172,soj, pis, and its .
expenditures $142,665,758, leaving a ,
deficit, tho first slnco the o-umption of .
specie nayments. of $65),*05,200. Not ,
withstanding there was a decrease of ,
$16,7651,128 in the ordinary expenses of j
the government as compared with tho ,
provious fiscal year, its income was ,
still not sullicient to provide for its {
daily necessities, and the gold reserve |
in tho treasury for the redemption of ,
greenbacks was drawn upon to meet ,
thrm. lint this did not sutlice, and |
the government then resorted to loans ,
to replenish the reserve.
In l-'ebru iry, 185)4,$56,000,000 in bonds ,
were issued, a.ul in November follow- ^
ing a second issue of $50,000,060 was |
doomed necessary. Tlio sum of $117,- j
171.7515 was realized by the sale of |
these bonds, but the reserve was stead- ,
ily decreased until, on February 8, ,
185)5, a th rd sale of $62,515,400 in bonds (
for $05,110,244 was announced to Con- ,
gross.
fin. - s ? * . e A- \? - - - ' * *
iiiu ri!ui. i|)i.8 oi uio government ior
111?i fi-cul year ending June 30, 1895,
were, $390,373,203, and the expenditures
$433,178,420, showing a deficit of $42,805,22.').
A further loan of $100,000,000 was negotiated
by the government in February,
ISilO, the sale netting $111,100,240,
and swelling the aggregate of bonds
issued within three years to $202,315,400.
For the liseal year ending J line 30,
1800, the revenues of the government
from all sources amounted to $409,475,408,
while its expenditures were
$431,078,054, or an excess of expenditures
over receipts of $25,203,245. In
other words, the total receipts for the
three fiscal years, ending Juno 30.
1890, were insufficient by $137,811,729
to meet the total expenditures.
Nor has this condition sinco improved.
For the first half of the present
fiscal year, the receipts of tho government,
exclusive of postal revenues,
were $157,507,003, and its expenditures
exclusive of postal service $195,410,000,
or an excess of expenditures over receipts
of $37,902,35)0. In January of
this year, tho receipts exclusive of
postal revenues were $24,310,994 and
the expenditures exclusive of postal
service $30,209,389, a deficit of $5,952,395
for tho month, in February of
tills year the receipts cxclusivo of
postal revenues were $24,400,997 and
tho expenditures, exclusive of postal
service $28,790,050, a deficit of $4,395,059;
or a total deficiency of $180,001,580
for the throe years and eight
months ending on March 1, 1897. Not
only are we without a surplus in tho
treasury, but with an increaso in tho
public debt there has been a oorrcsi)ondin'r
increase in the annunl inter
est oh urge from $22 893,883 in 1892, tho
lowest of any year since 18(12, to $31,387,297
in 189(1, or an increase of $11,403,414.
It may be urged that even if the
rovenucs of the government had been
fciifliolent to meet all its ordinary expenses
during tho past thrco years, tho
gold reserve would still have been inHutlieient
to meet the demands upon it,
and that bonds would necessarily have
been issued for its repletion, lie this
as it may, it is clearly manifest, without
denying or affirming tho correctness
of such a conclusion, that the
debt would have boon decreased in at
least the amount of tho deficiency, and
busi ness confidence immeasurably
strengthened throughout tho country.
Congress should promptly correct the
existing conditions. Ample revenues
must be supplied not only for tho ordinary
expenses of tho government, but
for prompt payment of liberal pensions
and tho liquidation of the principal
and interest of the public debt, in
raising revenues, duties should be so
lovieu upon foreign products as 10 pre- i
servo the homo murkot, ho fur us po.s- I
Bible, to our own producers; to revive f
and increase manufactures; to roliovo '
and eneourago agriculture ; to incroaso 1
our domestic and forolgn commerce: <
to aid and develop mining1 and build- i
ing. and to render to labor in evorv i
field of uso'ul occupation tho liberal <
wares and adequ ito rewards to which I
skill and indust y are justly cntit ed. t
The necossity of tho passage of a tarilT c
law which shall provide utnpl) revonue,
need rot, ho further urged. The
imperative demand of the hour Is the
proe.pt enactment of such a measure,
and to this object 1 earnestly recommend
that Congress shall make every
endeavor. Ilefore other business is
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revenue to faithfully administer the
government without tlio contracting
of further debt, or the continued disturhanco
of our finances.
(Signed) Wm. MoKinlky,
i'resident of tiio I'nited States.
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lUIJi Alt!* IS AT WOltli.
IIIh Wife Keeps Hint Kusy to Help
llis Itlieuiuat Ihiii?A Iiocturo nit
Woman's llights ami Wrongs.
I like to work when I feel like it,
but my wife likos for mo to work when
sho feels like it, and so between the
two I have to work nearly all the time.
Yesterday 1 was grunting around with
rheumatism, but she took a notion
that it was a good day to take the verandah
trellis down and clean away all
the old dead vines, and thought, it
would help mo to get warmyl up by
exercise?and it did. Sho kn ws?sho
has heard mo try to play off pa grippe
and rheumatics before?-you. nn't tool
the woman you have been 1! lug with
forty-eight years?so 1 got the ladder
and climbed up to the top and cut
away the tangled web and trimmed
the running rosevinos and tho wisteria
and Virginia creeper and then tore
away the old canes and cleaned up all
the trash anil burned t. I4, was a big
job for the verandah is lifty feot long
iinci I had to move the old rickety ladilor
a dozzen times?several times I
got sorter 'dizzy and liked to have
fallen, but my folks don't believe 1 am
is old as I am, and they never will believe
it until 1 break my arm, or my
leg, or my neck. Then I reckon they
will be sorry.
A man never grows old to his own
family; no man is a hero to his own
servant. The servant knows him too
well, and just so my wife won't admit
that I am too old to be useful, and she
iteeps me trotting around. She gives mo
precepts and examples, for she is never
idle?makes up tlio bed, cleans up her
mom, puts out the washing and distributes
it when it comes in, mends my
dothes, darns my stockings, sews on
Lhe missing buttons, hides my best
pants to keep mo from working in
them and scolds me ever and anon
ibout my carelessness. She keeps on
making little garments for the grandchildren
and still finds time to boss me
ii tho (lower garden and go to the
Missionary meeting, and writes letters
to the hoys. She never reads until
ilmost bedtime, but next morning can
tell us all the news worth knowing,
tnd has her opinions about Cleveland
mil MeKinl -y and Lyman Abbott and
Dr. Hroughton and female suffrage. 1
cad to her the recent veto in parliament
about that and asked her what
she thought of it. "Well," said she,
' I don't care to vote, of course 1 don't,
>ut if female suffrage will lessen
einalo 'sulVoragc.' I iiopo it will pass.
It makes my heart bleed to read about
,heso heartless men deceiving and betraying
foolish young girls who trusted
them?what a pitiful sccno it was?
that ruined girl following that man
ind bis bride into tho parlor cars in
Atlanta, and in her presence upbraid
ii J5 mill v> i in ii in J ll i it 1113' i\lJU Jll^l
00k around all over this country tit
die young married women who have
icon abandoned by their unprincipled
lusbands, and now have to work and
>oiI and almost beg for a living for
themselves and their little ones. If a
jury of women could try these deceivers
and these faithless husbands they
would be sent to the chaingang, where
they belong, if a young man embezzles
some rich man's money and runs
1 way, the judge and the grand jury
tnd the newspapers make an awful fuss
ibout it and send telegrams all over
the ountry to catch him, but if he
ruins a woman and breaks her heart
ind makes a wreck of Iter life it is
hushed up and nothing is done. I am
lot a woman's-rights woman. She has
rights enough, but there ought to bo
tome way of avenging her wrongs."
That is a fact, and my opinion is
that her wrongs never will bo avenged
intil sho is not only empowered to
fote, but also to hold olllco in school ooins
and in the government of the
towns and villages. Tho ago of galantry
and chivalry toward women lias
Missed. This is the unfeeling age, and
woman has to shift for herself. Thirty
fears ago sho worked at seventeen
iccupations, and now at 1.10, und gets
ihout half price for her labor?half
ho price that tho men get who do it
10 better. I am ashamed of my sex,
ind I never buy a shirt for 50 cents
jut what I remember that a poor wonan
made it?made it in some garret ?
worked all day and part of the night,
" With lingers weary and worn
With eyelids heavy and red."
And yet these lords of creation pre,end
that if woman is allowed to vote
die will get down in tho slums and lose
icr purity. She is dow 11 in tho slums
iow and would get out if sho could. 1
i:iuw women wiiu arc iu wutk lor H588
,han a dollar a day and luivc tosupport
,homselvos and their little children
>ut of It, while their rich employers
lit high up in the churches ar.d say
linen and amen to the preachers pray?rs.
I know women, good women, ac ompllshed
women, whom men have
mined hy neglect or aoandonment, and
ill they can do is suffer and ho silent.
know women whose unprincipled
lusbands have been breaking their
narriage vows over since they made
,hem, and still they pass and repass in
,he community us gentl-Mien. But
,his is the same old story?who cares.
Now it is said that although the wonan's
suffrage bill has passed the
louse of commons by a largo majority,
t will he ignonimously killed In the
louse of lords ? why i should liko to
enow ? The lords are not a somite
whose ago and dignity might correct
lasty or unwiso legislation, but they
ire a pamperod purse-proud nobility.
I'ho most of thorn aro and many of them
lave as many wives as Brigham Young
iver did. nut the time Is near at
land when women will ho enfranchls;d
In m ire ways than one. The laws
>f marriage and divorce aro better in
England now than ours. Thoy are
joverned by the church?by the ecclesiastical
courts. It takes no littlo
Sat
OONWAY !
timo to yet marrlod. The matter is
i considered and discussed openly and
freely before un engagement is made,
it must be a union that is lltto bo made
and the bans must bo published and
announced from tlie pulpit for so many
, -.1 '
i Mimiiinn j;r?;vuius to HIO CCPOIllOliy.
, Consequently thoro arc no elopements
i ?no runaways, ami of course not so
many divorcee. Inconsiderate young
people used to runaway to Gretna
Green, in Scotland, at.d bo married by
an old Scotch blacksmith, but thoso
marriages were declared illegal about
forty years ago, and uow it is a crime
to be married anywhoro savo in the
church after the bans havo been published.
Great solemnity is attached
to the ceremony. Hut hero anybody
can run away with anybody's daughter
and bo married by anybody in any sort
of fashion and get loose whenever they
take a notion. The whole business of
marriage and divorco should bo romodellod
by Cong -ess and mado uniform
in all the States. It mitkos me
sick to read those divorco advertisements
(>f lawyers in Chicago: " Divorces
obtained without attracting
attention." Hut the devil is now unchained
and the thousand years are
out. Hit,I, AKH.
MISSED A CROWN.
An Interesting Chapter ut' South
Carolina History.
Boston Education Magazine.
South Carolina has had ono prominent
man of whom it may bo said, "Ho
missed a crown." An account of him
and his family forms a chapter of interest
in the annals of tho historic Halmet
to State.
Tho Middletons are not only ono of
tho most distinguished, but also ono of
the oldest of the Carolina families. An
account of them and their estates reads
almost like tho history of some noble
family of England. Boforo the English
had been permanently settled In tho
colony a dozen years, wo find Edward
Mulddleton a member of the council
under the Lords Proprietors. Ho was
born in England and inherited a large
property. His son, Arthur Middloton,
headed the revolution which throw oil
the rule of tho Lords Proprietors and
placed the province directly under the
protection of the English crown, lie
was afterwards Governor of the province.
Henry Middleton, son of Arthur,
was president of the Continental Conpress
in 1775.
The most famous of the Middletons
was Arthur, who was a signer of the
Declaration of Independence. Ho was
the son of llenry (just mentioned), and
was born at the family seat in 17411.
He received his education in (Copland.
In 177b he took the He'd in defense of
Charleston, and the following year he
was made a prisoner, but was afterwards
exchanged. At ono time during
the revolution he declined the Governorship
of his St te He died in 1787.
His home, tho Middloton Place (which
was in tho low country of South Carolina)
has boon destroyed, but the following
"pen picture" of the grounds,
nuhlishcd in 1888, will give tho reader
an idea of what a line place it must
have been:
"The old gates with their massive
pillars stand intact, but of tho homestead
itself only the chimneys and parts
of i ho walls remain. At Middloton
Place, an Englishman would feel at
homo even to-day. Many of the old
terraces and hedges remain as they
were a century ago, and tho ample
grounds, which are tolerably well kept,
have a decidedly English air. This
place is still in possession of tho Middloton
family."
During tho present century this
family has furnished ono governor to
South Ciirnllnft ' thftt wua llonru MI/I.
dleton, son of tho "signer;" ho filled
the ofTlco 1810 12, tiftor which ho served
in Congress, and was also, for several
years, minister to liussla. When a
young man, he travoUd a good deal in
Europe, and for some time during tho
French revolution was in France. His
death occurred in 1810.
Governor Middleton and tho late
Gov. Henjamin F. Ferry were both
members of tho Union party during tho
stirring times of nullification, and Governor
Ferry, in his delightful ''Ltominisconces"
(which can well be read
with pleasure and profit by many others
besides South Carolinians), has given
us a pleasant sketch of Governor Middleton,
with whom ho was well acquainted.
Among other things he
says:
"Governor Middleton told mo that
ho was personally acquainted with
almost every distinguished man in
Europo. lie saw Bonaparte in every
station which ho hud tilled, from that
of General of tho Interior to his scat
on the throne of France. Ho was on
termsof intimaev with him while hewas
General of tho Interior, and was in tho
habit of visiting his family. At ono
period of their acquaintance ho received
encouragement to address his
step-daughter. 'Little did I then
think,'said Governor Middleton, 'that
she would ever be a queen.'"
Am I not right in saying that Governor
Middleton missed a crown ? Who
can doubt that, had ho married Napoleon's
step-daughter, ho would afterwards
havo been made king of some European
country by tho great warrior,
and lie would undoubtedly havo rnado
a wise and just ruler. Wo may suppose,
however, that as Governor of an
American Stato ho was probably happier
than ho would havo boon as king
of some European country.
McDonald Fukman.
Kamsoy, S. C.
?It la related that about a year ago
a house in Wichita, Kan., was entered
by a burglar and a pockotbook containing
some money waa atolon. Keccntly
the owner of tho purso received a lotter
through the malls Inclosing a $10
bill and the following note : " A year
ago I stole a pocket-book from you
containg $00. I havo been sick and
remorse has been gnawing at my
heart, ao I send you $10. When remorse
gnawa again 1 will send you soino
more. Burglar."
^
? Aunty?I feel provoked to think
that you and your mamma wore in
town tho other day and went to tho
restaurant instead of coming to our
house for dinner. Why didn't you
come? Little Nephew?Wo waa hun-j
inn
3. C. THURSDAY, IV
Hie Cotton Growers' Protective Association
FA 11M MKS ADVISFl) TO 1)1 V Mitt
I FY CHOI'S
The Area Devoted to Cotton Will
Yield Moro l'rolltnldo Ket urns--T
he Ivind of I'roteotlon Needed for
Southern Farmers.
The following address wus issued by
the Cotton Growers' Protective Association,
which met a few days ago
in Augusta, Ga., and whicit advises
the growing of food crops as the surest
road to agricultural prosperity in the
South :
To the Cotton Growers of America :
The Cotton Growers' 1'rotoctive Association
of America, in convention assembled
at Augusta, Ga., on this loth
March, 181)7, again come to you with
an urgent appeal for co-operative action
in planting the crop for 181)7. It j
is a matter of extreme congratulation
that the appeal made to you in 18bf>
and 181)0 was so generally responded to
and that the crop of 18i)f>, made upon
the diminished acreage, did have (he
cll'ect of greatly increasing the prlc< ?
of cotton. The evn ? ' i..v,uei?
estimated to bo 8,400,000 bales short of
the crop of 1 >1)4, was in (ho markets of
the world worth more by nearly $80,000,000.
in the faeo of this result to
abandon the idea of diminished aeroage
would bo to sound the retreat in
the face of victory. It is the consenus
or opinion utnon^ the beat thinkers
tbnt if by any means the cotton crop of
America should bo held within the
limits of 8,000,000 to 0,000,000, bulos
per annum for live years, tho people
of these southern states would bo tho
richest and most prosperous agricultural
people in the world. How can this
be brought about? Tho answer is
with you. Wo appeal to your self interest
and patriotism to do all in your
power to keep down the production of
the staple. J)o not abandon the ground
you have jftun. Kight on upon the
lines laid down, make the cotton states
self-supporting, put more laud in
clovor and grasses for your hogs to run
on, diversify your crops, and when you
have done all thfs tho aroa devoted to
cotton will yield more profitable returns
than if you sought to increase
the number of your bales. Whilo the
reduction of the acreage to bo planted
in cotton for the solo purpose of reducing
the si/.e of tho crop may be impracticable,
the increase of area planted
in food crops must inevitably bring
prosperity to cotton growers, irrespective
of the size of the cotton crop.
There has never been a time in tho
history of our section of the country
that a movement looking to the increased
production of corn, hay, oats,
hogs and other food crops, was so important
and necessary.
It is felt by tho most thoughtful men
that wo are entering upon a year of
great uncertainties, and that oven a
small cotton crop may fail to give ado
qua to returns for its production. Tho
mtitterings of a storm are disturbing
values and unsettling all business calculations.
Tho prudent man will
trim hi* suits to moot it. With tin:
commerce of the country interrupted
by war?and war may come?cotton
would bo unsalable except at nominal
prices. Every consideration, then, of
patriotism, of self-interest and of prudence
dictates that you adhero strictly
to the rule of diminished acreage.
Earnest men are earnestly working to
lead you and to guide you into prosperity.
Do not let them labor in vain,
but cheerfully and hopefully respond
to their appeal.
in conclusion, wo dosire to say to
every cotton grower, whether his crop
is ton bales or one thousand|balos, bee
to it lirst that your place is self-sustaining?and
we mean by this to he
sure you grow on the farm an abundance
of corn, meat, hay, oats, peas, potatoes,
etc., for all the people on the
place, both whito and colored, if the
tenant will not produce these articles,
sell them to hi in and keep the money
in your own pocket, in place of sending
it out of the country. When you
have done this, or provided for it, grow
what cotton you can.
if every farmer or planter in the
cotton growing district will make this
his rule of action, and live up to it
conscientiously, it will accomplish the
result wo so much desire of making us
all prosperous and happy, whether
your cotton, which will bo a surplus
or/in anil f/,?. a hl.rl, ?? O.... I
v.vn .v.. ?? fe" ?' lun |M IW. YYl)
would urge you again to initio sure
first of a cheap, homo grown living for
all the people and ull the animals on
the placo, and then mako what cotton
you can.
Wo address our argument to each individual
farmer. Kvery farmer may
measurably control tho cost'of producing
his cotton.
JiOteach individual farmer resolve
in his own mind and without regard to
what others may do, to cut down tho
cost of producing his cotton. Iiy confining
his area to the best fields and
to the best parts of his field ; by concentrating
his skill, ills industry and
fertilizers on a smaller area ho will
produeo his cotton cheaper. Kvery
farmer knows that the better the land,
tho better preparation and cultivation,
tho moro liberal the amount of well
balanced fertilizers hoapplios per acre,
the less will bo the cost por pound of
cotton.
i'ut only tho best land in cotton and
corn and tho poorer lands In rye, peas,
oto. This will eortainly reduce your
crop product in the aggregate, but it
will much more reduce the cost.
Ho that, In any event, whatever
others may do, you will bo ail right.
THB DIPLOMATIC POSITIONS.
The Appointment of Ministers to
Hnglund and France?The Best
Places in the Diplomatic Service.
Tho President has made tho follow
ing nominations to be ambassadors extraordinary
and ministers plenipotentiary
of the United Statos : John Hay,
of Washington, I). C., to Groat Britain,
and Horace l'ortor, of Now York, to
Fr&noe, and Ilonry Whito, of Khodo
Island, is to he secretary of the embassy
at London. Messrs. Hay and
1 'ortor receive a salary of $17,500 a year.
John Hay is a native of Indiana, ">D
years of age, and graduated at Brown
nv/ro
I ARCH 25, 1B^7.
University in is.">x, and bojran the prac- |
tlco of law in Illinois in IBM. L'rosi-,
dent Lincoln appointed him assistant
Becrotary and kept him in that capacity
throughout his administration. lie j
Ituvuu i?n lillK'Ulll S iillJULUUb lllltl |
aide-de-camp and was brovetod lieutenant
colonol. Kntoring diplomatic
clrolos in tho sixties, iio was
at various times charge at Vienna,
lirst secretary at Paris, and secretary
of legation at Madrid. In 1870, Mr.
Hay connected himself with tho press
and for nearly six years devoted himself
to editorial work on a loading Now
York nowspapor.
In 1*7"> ho entered politics, taking
an active part in tho presidential campaigns
of 1870, 1880 and 188-1, being
then a resilient of Cleveland. President
Hayes appointed hint First Assistant
Secretary of State, which post he
tilled for nearly throe years. Since his
retirement from otlico Colonel Nay
has resided ehielly in Washington city,
where ho occupies a palatial home on
LaKayette avenue and has devoted
himself to literature with the greatest
success, some of his host known works
beiug "Pike County Itallads," "Castillian
Days," and a history of Lincoln
written in collaboration with John
Nicolay.
Colonol Hay has also been a frequent
"ei trihutor to the highest class of
peiiodicals, and to him has been
ascribed the authorship of the anonymous
novel, "The Dread winners,"
which caused such agitation in labor
circles.
General Horace Peter comes of rev
olutiouary stock, his grandfather,
Andrew Porter, being one of Washington's
most valued ollicers.
General Porter's father was David
Kittenhouse Porter, at one time Governor
of Pennsyvania and a prosperous
manufaetiiroiv llnmiw I .......
horn just sixty years ago in Huntingdon,
l'u. Ho whs woII cducatod in his
own Statu, nt Harvard and finally at
Wi st l'oint. Soon aft'r his graduation
from tho military acadoiny ho was
assign d to duty in tho South. Ho was
an ordinance export, so most of his
work was in tho military service on
tho stall's of McClollan, Kosecrans and
Grant, whoro ho earned tho reputation
as a gallant and foarlcss lighter, as is
shown by his brevets. Ho served in
tho Chickamauga and Wilderness campaigns
and was in the first assault on
Charleston, where ho was wounded.
General Grant was greatly attached
to General 1 *ortor and mudo him Assis- 1
tant Secretary of War while ho himself
filled tho secretaryship. Ho surrendered
his army commission in IST.'l 1
and plunged into uetivo business, being
first president of tho West Shore
railroad, vice presidentof tho I'ullman
Car Company, and associating himself i
with other great corporations in a
directive capueity. Ho is well known
in tho field of literature, hcing an
author of repute and much sought for i
as a public speaker.
Tho appointment of Mr. Henry
White to he secretary of Amor lean 1
embassy in Great Hritain is practically
a reappointment, as Mr. White had
hold this oflieo for eight years previous
to Mr. Cleveland's last adminis I
tration. He has been in London most i
of tho time sinco his displacement and <
the fact was brought out after his nom- <
ination that he had rendered Mr. Olnoy 1
important service in tho recent Vene
zuelan negotiations. The present sec- 1
rotary, Mr. Koosovelt, resigned somo <
Li mo ago. i
TIIK NATIONAL CAPITAL.
i
Notes About- Men and Tilings In and |
Around Washington.
The dome alone of tho capitol cost
$1,250,000.
Turnbull painted tlie four host his- |
torical pictures in the capitol rotunda. )
Tho state, war and navy building 1
was begun in 1S7I, and cost $10,000,000 I
to complete. i
The now naval observatory at Wash- '
ington is one of tho finest scientific 1
plants in the world.
General Winfiold Scott fathered tho
soldiers' home, which was established
by Congress in 1857. J
Tho Crawford bronze door of the ,
Senate wing weighs I 1,000 pounds, and
cost nearly $57,000. I
Ainsworth It. SpofTord has been 11- 1
hrarian of Congross sinco 1801. His <
salary is $1,000 per year. 1
Tho Congress of the United States '
has mot annually in Washington sinco 1
November 17, 1800. (
The hall of the Houso of Kopresen- (
tativos is tho largest legislative as- ,
sombly room in tho world.
The columns of tho eastorn portico (
of tho capitol are oaoh solid blocks of
sandstone, thirty foot high.
A marblo column surrounded hy a >
statue of Lincoln stands In front of tho <
district courthouse. 1
It costs about $100,(MM) a year to run
tho whito house, exclusivo of tho pros
idont's salary of $*>0,000.
Seventh, Ninth, Fourteenth.
and G streets aro rivaling I'onnsylvania
avenue as business locations.
Tho bron/.o propeller of his famous
llagship, tho Hartford, was cast into
tho statue of Admiral Farragut.
Tho lingers bron/.o doors at tho main
entrance of tho capitol tell tho history
of Columbus, and cost $28,000.
The capitol rotunda is nincty-flvo
feet six inches in diameter, and from
lloor to canopy measures I8.'l foot three
inchos.
Tho terraces of tho capitol were
only completed in 1801, tho total cost
of tho building footing up $14,466,000
Tho treasury building was completed
in 1869, at a cost of $8,000,000. It is
tho largest government department.
Pennsylvania avenue, paved with
asphalt, and 100 foot wide, is consider_
-1 A \ 41 * ' ?
eu mo unost parauo street In tho
world.
John Qulncy Adams designed tho
allegorical group, " The Gonius of
Amorica," on tho eastern portico of
the capitol.
Tho Socloty of tho Army of tho Tonnossoo
orectcd tho $60,000 statue to
Gonoral Jamos B. McFherson in Mcl'horson
square.
Tiio oos to til co department building
was erected in 18U0, and oxtonded in
1856, at a cost of over $2,000,000.
Ttio reclaimed i'otomac tlats will add
about 1,000 acres to tho mall, oxtonding
down tho river in tho form of a
' promontory.
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POWDER
Absolutely Pure. ,
Colobratod for its great loavening
strength ami heal thfulnoHS. Assures
tho food against alum and ail forma of
adulteration common to tho cheap I
brands. I
UOYAL MAKING I'OWDKK CO., (
Now York.
A WARNING 10 lilt CO I ION FARMERS. \
DO NOT INCItEASE Til 10 AOltE
A (IK. t
Tho Cotton Goods Trade Exceedingly
Dull ? Pood nod Enrage Crops s
Should ho Ample -Make Cotton a i
Surplus Crop.
The following letter In reference to
decreasing tho production of cotton
and increasing tho production of food
supplies is sent out for tho information 'I
of cotton planters. Coming from an
export statistician on tho production '
and consumption of colt >n, it ompliasizes
tho conclusions and justifies the ^
action taken by the American Cotton r
Urowers'I'retentive Association, which "
mot in Augusta on tiie loth inst.
Now York, March 12, 18517. i
Hon. Patrick Walsh, Editor Augusta c
Chronicle. t
My Dear Sir : Though our present I:
iwtt I mi im/ii* *t? \ 1 I ???.?lo.l.l.. -
.......... n 111 |I| UUUUI) mill CXCCCU
8,f>00,000 bales and the stocks in tho *
world's markets and mills at the end j,
of tho season may bo oven bolow tbo
moderate (inures at its commencement, ^
tbo fact remains that eotlon is half a ^
cent per pound lower than a year ago.
Tbo cotton goods trade is oxeoodlng- |
ly dull and prices at about tbo lowest. ^
Many American mills are running on
short time. My friend Mr. Thomas j,
Kllison, of Liverpool, thinks tbo Kuropean
mills will consume no morocotton
tbo present seat on than during Inst f
season. In view of tbo injury to ?
Itritish trade from tho plague and '
famine in India it is, in my opinion, c
even doubtful if last season's consumption
will bo actually maintained. In
llombay, tho cotton mills aro practical*
ly, closed, thus releasing more cotton !
for export to Luropo than bad boon estimated.
It is to bo added that tbo cotton '
orop in India will be largur than tbo M
estimates of several months ago. Our *
Uongress is about to moot in extra !
session to discuss a gonoral revision of 1
iho tariff, and tho uncertainty as to tbo (J
uutcomo of tbo matter will depress
every kind of business. The session
may bo a long one, and it is by no 1
moans certain that any kind of a tariff c
bill will be passed as tbo Republicans I
do not control tbo Senate. Tbo do- t
press ion in business on account of ^
uncertainty in regard to the tariff
would then continue into 1808. Those
lire the conditions which confront the
Southern farmers upon tbo ovo of 1
planting time this spring. It seems 14
to mo they indicate with a clearness ?
which admits of no question t it every H
farmer should lirst make provision for M
Ample food and forage crops before
jonsidering tho matter of cotton acre*
Ago.
In duly last, when tbo crop prospects
were so favorable that many people 4
predicted a yield of 10,000,000bales, the 1
price for November delivery declined *
;o nearly o 1-n cents, while middling 1
x>tton on the spot sold at 7 1-10 cents.
Had not tho severe drought occurred, t
the crop might easily have reached s
),f?00,000 to 10,000,000 bales and this ad- o
lltion to the supply would probably t
have resulted In lower prices by fully
:mo and a half cents per pound than
tiro current today. I think middling '
cotton would have sold at live and a v
half (f> 1-2) cents in New York and u
this would have been disastrous to 0
Southern farmers and a serious injury H
to the entire country on account of the M
disturbance in foreign exchanges, M
which would have boon caused by so great
a shrinkage in the value of our
cotton exports. I do not believe that
one planter In a thousand can produce
cotton so cheaply that he can sell It on
the basis of five and a half ("> 1-2) cents
a pound for middling In Now York
and get back even the cost of production,
to say nothing of any profit.
It Is woll for our Southern farmers
t'6 remember that tho cost of production
exerts no influence whatever on
the immediate market value of any
commodity. The present price is governed
almost entirely by the existing
conditions of supply and demand.
When commodities are sold for loss
than tho average cost of production,
that fact will necessarily curtail production,
and a diminution in price.
Farmers, however, cannot wait for 1
these processes as they are generally <
compelled to sell their crops promptly ,
in order to meet their obligations.
It is true that corn is considerably
lower in Chicago than it was a year k
ago, while oats and provisions are a
trifle lower and wheat and flour a lit
tie higher. Tho reduction in theprico x
of soino of these articles, however, |
should bo no reason for planting more |
cotton and loss grain, for of what avail l
to tho Southern farmer would be tho r
low price of grain and provisions if his |
cotton had to bo sold for so little as to j
?eave him no surolus monev in whinh
to buy thosa things? The world does
not need as much American cotton as j
can bo grown on the present acreage. ^
If all Southern farmors would raiso (
their own food and forage crops (In- (
eluding meat and farm animals) and ;
mako of cotton a surplus or "money j
crop" they would have in their own j
hands the amplest protection ugainst||
low j prices for cotton, Inasmuch as
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tho overproduction of tho staple would
bo avoided and they would nevor bo
forced to soil thoir cotton in the periods
>f its greatest depression.
Yours very ruly, StI
AM'UKI) II. SII EPPERSON.
? ?'
Is u dangerous disease. It may load
lireetly to consumption. Catarrh Id
mused by impure blood, and tho truo
.vay to ouro it is by purifying tho blood.
Hood's Sarsaparilla cures catarrh bemuse
it romovoH tho cause of it by |
nirHying tho blood. Thousands testify
.hat thoy havo boon cured by Hoods
Sarsaparilla.
Hood's aro purely vegetable and do
lot purge,pain or gripe. All druggists. v
?An error of a thousandth part of jOb
in inch in astronomical records may
noun a ditToronce of 200,000,000,000
niles in the distance of a star. ?
rtin-k Ifn's Arnica Halve. \
Tho Best Salve in the world for Cuts, /r
"tpuims, Seres, i."leers, loalt Khwuri,
'ever hiores, Totter, Chapped Hands, ..
'kilblains. Corns, and all Sk'n Krupions,
and positively cures. i'i'os r
i* pay required. It !s guarunted to
rive perfect satisfaction, or money rounded.
Price 2a cunts per box. For
ale at C. Norton's Drugstore.
? It is thought the output of tho
tool rail companies this year will bo
n tho noighhorhood of 2,000,000 tons,
>r fully three times the output of 1890. *
Wow t? <luro All Hkiu Discuses.
iiiinply apply "JeWAYNK'S OlNTIF.NT."
No internal medicine roHiired.
Cures tetter, i-c/ems, itch, all
iiMiptiens on the fa< s, hand*, iion?, ,Vc.,
saving tho skin clear, white and
icaltby. Its great healing and ouraive
powers are possessed by no other
einedy. Ask your druggist for
IWAYNB'I OiNTMRNT.
?Allowing tho horso to stand habtually
upon a dry board lloor often
auscs tho horse's hoof to become bH4v._
io. i\ unseen inoal poultice is the
out remedy.
The euro of Khoumatism has often
axed medical skill, Imt it' prevention
ms boon very ciyy by an occasional uso
f Simmons Liver Kcgulator. Itkoeps
lie liver well regulated, and thesystcm
reo from poison. Therein Isthosocret
f health. "1 have used It for years for y
ndigostion and Constipation, and also /
uund it gives one relief from a touch
f Kheumatism."?N. Hughes, Lords- J
mrgl N. M. * > ?
?Only 7b years have clasped slneo t
he first railway in the world was fin- *
shed. During that comparatively
?rlef period 400,000 miles hu^o boon
onstructcd.
Pilvs ! Pilotl! Helling I'llos.
Symptoms?Moisture ; intense itchng
uud stinging : most at night; worse
ty scratching. If allowed to con- ^
iuuu tumors form, which often bleed
.ad uleerute, becoming very sore.
i W AYN'K S C>I NTlit.NT steps the itoll
g and b!??uiug, heals ulceration, and
n most ousts rsutvti the turners. At
Iruggists, wr by mail for .70 cunts. Dr
iwayns ?v Wju Philadelphia.
?When a man is no longer afraid,
>ut is prepared to welcome whatever
omcs, because be sees in it the aplointmont
of a loving Father, why *
lien lie is in a happy statu.
Venderl'iil Smith American lllood
Cure
\
Quickly dissipates all scrofulous taints ?' .
ii the system, euros pimples, blotches
,nd sores on the face, thoronghly
leanses tho blood of bolls' carbuucles,
bscessos and eruptions, renders tho
kin clear, young and beautiful. If
Oil W O 11 I < I ziu/m iui ... I A I. ? 11
..wi..v* 1/iwwu wltn ttll
Lh train of horrors, do not fail to uho
his masterly blood purifier, which has
orformod sueh stupendous euros in all
uses of shattered constution and
opravity of the blood. Had health
ignities bad blood. Sold by K. Norton
)ruggist, Conway, S. C.
?Tho man who eomos to tho sta*
Ion two minutes behind tlimys* '1
oes tho train scudding cmt
thor ond, derives no satisfaction j
ho proverb, " Hotter late than n?
Children's Nightly Habits
)r. 10. Dechon's Anti Diuretic ' 7'
forth to you more thsn$l()0 ifv1
, child who soils bedding from in
nee of water during sleep. C'
,nd young alike. It arrest tlx
.t once. #i. Sold by K. Norton
;ist, Conway, S. C, I 'A Yd.
a
vl
inc. DC. 9 I
SPRING MEDI^rco
sSimmons Liver regulator.
orget to take it. Now is the th.
iced it most to wake up your Live,
sluggish l.iver brings on Malaria, PeW.
ind Ague, Rheumatism, and many other
lis which shatter the constitution and
vreck health. Don't forget the wora
regulator. It is SIMMONS LIVER
regulator you want. The word REG*
jlator distinguishes it from aii oihep
emedies. And, besides this, SlMMON%?*.?
.iver regulator is a Regulator of tlto 7
.iver, keeps it properly at work, that jrour /
lystem may be kept in good condition.
I OR TMIi I1LOOD take SlMA\0*S
.iver regulator. It is the best blood
nirilier and corrector. Try it and note
he difference. Look for the RED K A
>n every package. You wont find it on m
iny other medicine, and there is no other
.iver remedy like simmons LlVbU I
regulator?the Kingof Liver Remedies,
tip sure you get it.
S. If Zelliu Air Co., riilladclphia, Ptu
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