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THE PEOPLES JOURNAL. VOL. 7.---NO. n- PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 897. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR BILL ARP SAYS COTTON IS STILL KING HE TELLS OW IT WAS FIRS' SPUN. 11s Mother Used to Pick koed froni the Linit--The Advent o' the CottoE Gin, the Spinning Jenny amid th Power Loom-A itovolution it Comnierce ati Maiuifaotures. "Cotton is king!" I don't know who irst, stid that, but it is a fact. It is the most usoful and miost impor-tani product In the world mid has the mos't 1niliunco on its cornmorce. I was ru muirating ahut this becauso of sons.. lotters of inquiry 1,tat frot timemo t time I have rect-ived concerige o t toil. The last, onl(e from an old friene, Coionol Saxon, says he cannot learn from the department at \Vasiington wbon cotton cloth was first imported to this country. And Q.o I will venture a tfew remarks on this subject in general, for it is fuil of remarkablo facts and illustrates tnu kindness of providence to His creat tures. Providence is always kind anu whetnver we need any'thinig Hlu un locks another door of tiis treasury and says here it is. There is no doubt t alt al that the cotton plant was created "in the begining,"aind with a de-ign for th uise) aind bent fit oi nankind waen it should be neo 'eti. At tentiena WaS aottraitctted to it away back in the centuries. 10our hundred ano fift-y years befIre the Cmi mistian ura HIrodotus w rote aLbout it a i p nt bearing neoces more dlicate and beau tifiul tian thosu of sheelp aid of to. Ind(ials using it for the lanu fact r. of cloth. FromIt Ildia it Wi. itrtuLueC- tu into Greece and R01110 and Caec:ar useid it for his arnmy tints aid Cuveied Llt forum with it. The cotton fabricb of the Uindoos have been excelled only by thu m19ot 1 r ee1t1mciLCInery of IOU crn tines. We read of a Hindoo pt-in cOss who cale Into a cou rt recepron and tho ilng said, "Go homeo-go home, my c. i I-3uti atre 'iom) d, ceutiy cover ed "-and site replied, b"al.tur, I have seven suits o,!' I'Ut to y wore uIt %1uton, muslint so thin and delicatu that the king mould set., throt-gh them. The famuous niiusins (If Dl cea, in Calcutta, Were 4aled " wt b (if w oven witiu," and when a piece was laid upon ti e dow-covered grass it was not uiscerni blo. Imagino the wondcr of the fabrics when there aits not a spindle, but the distaff and only a loom that the weaver cartied'ahout with him setting it up under a tree atnd digging a hole in the ground for his feet to work the treadlic. But the inanufacture of cotton for the common people was smothered during all these centuries and only wool ano flax were uaed for ciothing. Thu an cient lEgylptians used it to somic extent, spinning it with the distaff and weav ing it with the primitive looms, but the pwant was not cultivated. It was indigenous to that country and ,the fluce was gahored from the wild stocks. It was not until the tenth century that the cultivation began and that was by tho Moors in Spain. The Venuotiuans engaged in it in the fourteenth century and the English in the early )art of the cighteentai. But Its use was very limited, for the sced wore in the way. But, now coties the evtlution of cot ton ; the revolut" n that in a few ytars made it king. Notthing so wonderful has ever tranpi-jired in commerce and mianufacture. There was a coujune tiot of the th-ce things that we re ni-eceiSary to bin tg about this ri volut tion: The- cotOon gill )y W3,thitune, in 17i13; 'l h i. ia. Atg j ty l Ark v rig lit, in 1787, ato i-e l-ower ho mi by C-.r; aboumt the i-an to n I anutsd gave an ini: piu se to tie grn .iIt th ad use unta mani ufacture of e.ett that- was prgnaznt w ith great ri '-uit1-. Om' of of thee resultis was IA-i- ixintg o' shvey 3' ai elttli in safe or. prlli..L1.le to t'tteno taget ther itmH' aitili~lti IoU the Norm-tuiti it States. i3ut of coui1 82, it tooik sever..l yuars for those invyen tiotns to Ia comle geiterally ints.duci !. My titthI c3-told ime thiat, i- ilate a-- -118 s it s 41 piukitng tunf -ct d frmi the tcottun 113 aroun1d- te tire. Sht ii w atn )t0 m in trying to & x' I ini lt (ttquant3 Si soU ed. '1Thi- va-. mn lb.,t Ciiity this State, nitro t , ntaii was problht l moinabhle latw suas'. and~ hi pin, w in wvab for (only3 tt h g tn t sin 6 d petcolon wias nott in gteeraliute ftor manyt .- nii after it wias invetn ed. My3 later ut up) tihe first gin it Gw'innet.t. Couty 1 .1828, andiu steed eVt 4-n w as hbaited - i t fromt all thu adjaren~tt country. Prme vious to the use0 of the g in it was comn sidered a fair da~y's work to suooJ enough to make a poundr~ of lint. itt the gin with two attendants pickedl -100) e' poutndis in a daiy. At thtat ti me time old-fashloned sp)1ininlg w he< I was in general use and a dayiu's work for the spinner was six cuts-a ecut being I-I0 rounds otn the reel, but the lit-st spint nling jonniy with one atteondaunt d id eighty titmos as much and did It, bitter. Later on it (lid 2,000 t~Imes as muon. Th'ie saving in weaving by the power l0o1m was in similar- proportion and hence It suddenly came about that ten mien could do time work of ton thousand, No wonder that Hlargravcs and Ark. wright wore drivon from their home by the spin notrH and spinsterS. Excuse me for tolling the girls just hero that ta spinster' is thn fominino for spinnor atnd used to mnean a maiirriagontblo girl who had1( made hotrself chtgiblo andi fitten to be married by spinning and] weatving enough 'hloth for bour ownm trousseau, ,anid sheets anti coverle-te for' the bed arnd table cloths and nap ktins for tihe table. This was the dowr3 she( brought her husband. Hut thie< Inventors went to Nottingham andl( puil up theitr mills andl madei a monopl)y o tilh bsinetSS. Tho1uy and their absoei attes grow r'ich so fast that they dletor mined to excludoC all mankind from ac quti-ing -a knowledge of their inven n.onis. Tiht dooirs wer-o kept locket and13 t.ho~ opt-tative ai vSorn to secrecy New Eniglandl tried In vini to htey tie right andi could not compete with. E'ng lilt yarn's. But dolivorance was not, far o1! Samuel and John Slator, who had worked for Arkwright in England for seVen years, saw large money on this side the water. They came and brought with them a full knowledge of all three of the inventions and how to use thetn and how to build a faotory. Of course they mt with a warm ro .ception, and in 1806 they erected a mill and )lanted a town and named it Slatervillo. They soon made a fortune. When John died he left his millions to his son and when John, Jr., got ready to dio he hequeathed a million to our Dr. Hiaygood in trust for the education of the negroes of the South. It was a gift fit to be inade, for the fathers and mothers of theso negroes grew the cotton that made the Slaters rich. The Slator.s not only spun their yarns but wovo them, and the cloth was eaI led homoswpun, because it was woven at home and not brught from Eng But, although cotton was now king commercially, it was ranked socialily by other fabrics. It was not so be'.u.11 tiful as silk nor so strong as flax nor so warmi as wool, and hence for years it was woven only into the comn mon fabric for the common people. ''hie calicos that were imported from t Calient in Turkey were spun with a . diOiTf and woven in the old-fashioned hand lIon. The nank-en cloth that ene from Nankin in China was riade' by a similar process. 1 remember that iy fnither, who was a merchant., boui'ghit. noe of that nianikeen when I was a lad and my mother made ml a pair of pants and a rournd jacket out, of it and I was proud and yellow. It Ws not until the 4's when the ine' fabries, sich is munlins and lawns, wreli md, of cotton. In 1842 a ma chine was invented of so del cato a na ur'e that a singl- pound of cotton W11is tpun to a length of 1,100 miles, anl iin 1851 some cloth of o quisito fine ness was wovon cxnressly for' a dress for the queen of England and Nas exhibited at the Crystal 'alace fair in London in that year. But it is .till asserted that not machinery has , Sver sirpassed the hand work of tihe Hindus and that Montezuma presented C(irt, z with robes of cotton interwoven with feather work that rivaled the del cacy of the li nent painting. But notwithstnding the inventions d of the spinning j -nny and the power loom, our country peopl ' continued for years to spin and to weave their own cloth, and the femaic slaves were made to do so by their masters. The .pinning wheel wars the first to sur r'ender and the factory yarn, or "spun truck," as it was called, cane into genei al use along in the 40's. In a few year: more t' j home-made loionI had to go, and s' ot the war the wheel ind the loom I.tve ceased their music ' ;n the homes of our people. t 1t was not unt il after the cloe of the war of 1812 that even the Northern onoiiple bought anv cloth from EIngland. Until about 1816 10nglAnd had none to sril or export, but from that time until 1824 the exportation increased very rapidly and almost paralyz- d our Now England mills. Hut in that year and in 1828 and 1832 Congress placetd a duty of 25 per cent. ad valorcm on all English cotton goods, and this protec tion greatly revived our own nimanufar' tures. Thistarit'f was reduced in 18-10 and the outside given a fairer chance to compete. But cotton is still kine-king in the Southern fields and In the factories and in the carrying trade of the oceran and in Liverpool and other great mar kuts of tr0 world. Wnetier we maker large crops or small ones, it is sti!1 t 1, greatest factor in the vorld's cornfort and prosperity. Long live the kirg ! BILL AnP. ONIE Ot' LINCOIN'S STOHIFS.I' - Il li.e 1"into of' tile Man Whoir Tr'iiedto ?0 At iertiso Gun ampowdler at PrayerI Meetinig. The~ io 1 .w inrg anecdote by Linuco'ni i. count ed by' Ge.n. Horace P-orter in , h-s ''Camripaigoing wit.' Grant,"' in the Apr I Cettury. It was told duir in L lnuom n's visit to tire fr'ont, at City a l'om nt.: in the cour'no of the conver'aation I I i htl sveuhnn he poirk e of tihe impi jr-ve menmt ini arms and antriitni iti ion , and rof tse newi pod,i ' lprepar-ed for the i5 Irnch guns. lI I*a-id ibe had nehver' si-ri i. '- latht r iii tuult, bit, lai undrerett.i ir, diI red very iinih fion any other li'..eri thnat h-ad evr-*ieen nei'i ed.I 0 d 1110 l iiit I li-nil-n ned to nr v in nmy t-rnt, ita ; el ir ii it In b lh hard lit-ern a' 0st riIll~ beneqarier aTs a ('uriosit.y , arnd liit. I e ta.1Il ibrl-g it to himu. Whei I -rtlit <i with a g iin of tire p)owder nut. h- a z , f a w alniut, nhe took it, I 1t.'n' it, over in his hiandt, andi afteor. x iir ning it cairefuriny, said : " Well,v t' salir air'gcr ti in the 0 00wderi we p urwd( t, boy in rmy shoronting days. 1It lei-niids mec of w hat occurreou once in t Saingamnori' County. You see, thoere e wt r'e very few nlewtspapers the i, randt thie ce int~r'y storekeepers lad to resor't 1 t~o some1( other mearrs of ad ver'tising l, neti' wares. I f, for instance, Lihe I pr'iaceie' hrappier d to ho late in coin- a rig to a prayeri meetig of an even irg,y the shopkeepr'- wou:d if ten putt in) ti time while tihe perople wero waiting byr nrotifyrig them of ainy ne w arriv~aL of an atr.rrart~ive line of goods.i SOne eaven inrg a moan r'ose up andt said :* r'eth reni, let, ime take otcaion tii to say, while we'r'e a waiting. that, It have just receIved a now i nv'ice of I sportin'r pow d-:'. T1hen grains arie so smrali you kin sea'eely siso 'emi with tire naked eye, and pol1ished upl soiI fino you I kind stand up and comb youtr' ha'r mi< front of one 0' them gr-ainis j 'et like itI was a lookIi' giast'. Hope1, you'll como down to my stor'o at the criossroadsF and examine that powder for your selves.' . " When ho had got about this far a i'ival powaor merchant In the meeting, who had been hoiling over with in dignatIon at the amount of advor'tising the opp~osition powder was getting. 'ulmpedleup and crIed out,: * Br'ethren, hopoe you'll not believe a single wor'd Brother Jones has been sayin' about that powderi. I've been down thar arid seen It for myself, and I piledgo you my wolrd that tire grains Is biggo" than the lumpsl, in a coal pile0, and any of y'ou, brethren, ef you was in your fit turn st-ate, coiuld pult a har'l o' that, powder on your shoulder and mairch - quar' through the sulphurious ft ,mrei sr'r'oundin' you without tihe least, dan ger of an oxnioslon. " GR[AT FLOOD IN THE MISSISSIPPI RI V[ ]'HREATENIC) OVI'IFLOW C TOWNS AND CITIES. III Previous Itecords9 are Broken Destruction, Suitfering antl Deat in the FloodeI Diutrict s---Iistori Spots i Danger of Being Swer A way. NEW ORLEANS, La., March 30. ho next fow days the greater part c he Yazoo Delta, the fertile land Jong the Miesissippi, and contai nin , population of 150,000 porsons, will b inder water after tho most desper'aI ght over mna1do again st t1,b might iver. The Yazoo Delta Ivees wei upposed to b0 th strongehL and bet n the river, having resisted nu111mo; oods. Por- the past few weeks 10,00 rin have been at work on them. Tti tate of M ississippi lent the peop!o t ho assistauco inl i ts'owor, and sent th en'uitnt.lary convictsi to tiu lgvoes t el) hold thbem, and the I1lnois Cer ral and ot~her railroads gave their al( ,lo. Up to Sunday It was b. lioved tha lih levees could he hoId, bit, onl Stnda he ir' biak occutred at D eet it ianttoi, seven miles l),Iow Grve Iile. Yef trday followed a secont reak I'. PlerthlshIir ie. Latt 1lit, an y two m1ore1- aI Ier-'ly op)osAt erIan1:as City, at Mound and Stop' Mudiiv. These orevasses are now enell roin 1.000 to 2,000 feet, wide, and pour Ig a stream nearlv as large ats th. ludson into tuo Yizoo delta. Thi rater froti heu three crevasses hav lot in one volume, and are now poui mg over plantation after plantatio nd em'tpt.ying into the Sunflower an azoorivs. The inhabitants are fleeing for thel ves, leaving all behind. Cattle, horse nd other live stock are drowning b lie thousands, and heies and barns ar oing washed away like drift wood. I ; estimated that fully 2,000 peopL re already honuless and at the mere f charit.y. The waters have aread iaeied tifteen miles inland, and th estruction of hundreds of more farn ouses i6 inevitable. Uatrve y Kiermer and two sons, whI tt -mpte.d to siave some stock, ha moirz boat oveiturned and were diro-n d. It is also repotd that Alr'. Joh larshall antd a son, who were alon 2 a hut two miles fiom the break 'eO unable to escape and wer r-OWnt-d. The historic plantations of Jc ferso )avis and his brothjer. Jose'ph Davi: Ix miiles below Viekblburg, are doomte i become a sea of Watt r and Eitrut ion. Sixty-two miles ht low Vick 1urg, is the historic plantation of Gvt ral Zachariab Tuylor. With 11 breatuned rise of three more feet ill be a total ruin. The houtehol oods are being removed and tU took driven to places of safety. Tli ittie churi 'ch upon the plaitation, i ehich J. I Davis was married to Gei ral Taylor's daughter, is threaltent (it de:truetion. The water has Sul ounded it to the depth of two feet. .J ACKSON, M arch 30.-From th e gro iizoo telta comes a wail of dibtret nud the cry of " the levees hav roken " is heard throughout our va -y of the Nile. Three fresh break ave been reported today and trog bese inimene Vo1Limes of water atr iiirying diesttruction to thousands o appy tomles anid devastating a fertilI teritlry as is to b found on th loel. So far' no loss of life except 1 ometie aninals ias betn r'e porttd uit it tay he by nmot ning, as the gre ounds of (itith wi lich protect I tI oiriishiig cities.. of Grienvilte. 11e' are, bror eville, Ar'eota, leriarli's 1i'' oing ..(Pk ande oth--rs aire watm oiak. d, mushIy and liable to give wa 1The feour ht eneks thact have occuet'e av'e II 'nede, orc will II cud before i'e act rog tht Ye zoo, perhapsiii a week honlec ihe ceuitic 'a cf Biol ivart, WVain lgier ;iarikey, Yaz'/ it) and1 poritieons it' eta it whteeb atre ciniis~ted the finest, ei. on farms in ta e werld. In t.:,is ove' .owed( di airiet, the St ate( L I-a le ht i!eei piotildhicei, upone whi'b wit oet.ii andtl i'orni the. lati r bin e i tie condia.!onit. lThe t'reate i. ui cir dor the city of Grei c i. I, wh, Ci huo iis2 it, is, ini lhe' i ti~cw of roe' iii Irwined~ lhv t bendl of lb lou ii a breaik octcuri ini thte inniied it tdicinity. '1Ttu btreets oif the city ai 2 'e.t, hb'low tb CSitituit oif tihe leve o that, a br'eak on1ce form-t d, the' ,outld ho nto way of sioppitng the Niu atra, and ever'y htouis in the plar ~ould he swept, fr'oim itsfoundations ani lie remaing inhabitants huriled int tor'nity. Feearinzg such a catatrophe 'ose w ho coulId have imigrated to Lh Ills, butt thoutsatnds still remain. Tihe breeaks that occurried today at octh above andl blow Greenville, 1 ntd 25 miles above, so that the watt ~Il l pass to the r'ear' of the city. Th'f treamns onl the delta all llow from Lih Ivoer and dow)Vn the opposite sidlo of th alley. T1ho topogr'aphyjof t.hc countt s level butt sloin rg gast, away (rot he ivir for 4ci'0 mti les in sotme places1 he Yttz/oo, andt~ it is dlown this str'cai lie ovtirflow water' must go to agai tacit the M ississipipi. 75 or' 100 milk outh of where it bad left It.. Thobeusant >f pie'ople, whiteo and black, still liii hto levees and are miaking a desporaet (fortt t(o hold w.'hat, r'emains. It is ifc and2( deathl i'ruggle andl~ for th Is rei r'n there is no rest night or day. Ti: iestion has been asked todaliy, .lor t pay to maintain tho great Iev< sy'stemi and eold farmteriS dleclar'e it (dot riot. t hat life antd buisiness we rc mot criitai n 41) year's ago whltten noinc e. pecttedI anyth ing butt an overtloiw art preparul i feor it. Thoughl t hie leoder orcis oef thbo eeita hiave' 5p'nt miillioi inlOro int perifect ng Luhe p)rese5 system, le ry batlI of cotton pr :tucod in this gr'eat dlelta pays a Li if $1, whicht crecates a large sitm a etual ly for leveeo peurp'~o'. iThare ai dloubtecas matiny whlio aft'r th i willi Iionvlintced that, Lthis el per blo meOtIL' be more profltably ex p 'n l.d. lice iover, the crisis Is on toni ht and 1 morning It is probable server'a oth breaka will hwa oc.m...m The wa R. is reportedigh than evor before 'known from leimpils to Vieksbtirg. JACK SON, M iss., A pril L.-A dispatch r from (Jirenville sa3s : Reports come hourly from all polUts in the floodod districts show the situa tion is rapidly growing worso. There - are now somo 25 towns and villages 1 more or less overliOwed. Greenvillo will got considerable wit c ter, perhaps not as much as in 1890, r, perhaps more. It is Il I a mattel' of Conjieturo. The bottom lands are full of water from rains before the breaks n occurred. The city Is now an island, situated in 8a wilderness of water, which surrounds 9 it on every side. As yet the water is 0 not in sight of the town, but, is at the e 131anton gin, half a i6leI north , aid It Y the Montgomery place twoi mile's south. lf 13aok bayou, Wiliains' hayou, D -!r t erock and rish take are all out of their banks. A meeting of the city ouonel i is beilg held II t his writinog itt Ite mayor's office to take the nweeaItrv Ateps to e ward the safety of the amnil.. and for Iuch re-li ef as canl bC alforded to the tlood sufferers. CONSTAMIS TO BEn TRIi-3), t - _ Thet Sutits Ag-,ituw ,l 1,r 11 ml Ages in f izirig LIiior Uliawilly Will Now In Tried. Judge Si: onton has tiled a decision in the Unit' '4 Stat'ls Circuit C'urt., in whieb he hS refused the maotion made by Assistant Attorney General Town send to set. asido the order of arrest, against the Stitt - constables chaltroed with sul'zing liquor in transit. It will be recollee-.ed that J udge Simonton issued an order for the airrest of ('on stables Scott and Htarlin i* fo' s.-izing ia s- ipment of liq uors consigned to .\lr. 1'i'kowiltz. A few days l;ttr a similar Soder was issu d atainst, Costiables SIla] ling and Roach fll capitluing whiskey Imported by William Beck roge, which ho climed was for ir sonal use. TIh is was also sieizd hofore it had bee'n drlivered to the consigtnee. The plaintiff Bee kroge, in th com plaint fileoid on hi h buhalf, i.stteid that he find shipped to his own addrc s from Savi nnah, Ga., to Charleston, S. C., a i.runk containing two caseb of Wiine wine, four ga Ions of whiskey, two ga) 1ions of Ul tfornia port wine, two hot -i le- of malh t whi k' Y, products of a St ate other than thlt State of Souith Carol ina, ! >500 cigars, four do,zen oranges, ig.t cens of peaches and one pair of fine dress shioes. All of t' ese intended for a vedding festival, his own iarriarc, at Charlehton on the night of 271.11 Jan nary, 1897. That the goods reuehed jChrleston on the evening of the *thb .Jan.uity, and that thbe dt.findants un. law fully, etc., ent-ied the olliee of the Sou.hern Exprese Compn y, in the city of Charleston, up1)on1 arrival of goods in the city in due o rLse of tritnsportation, d and wh ile aid go iere in t.hcesteiiv C of the ext-ess company in course of e tansportation, and before delivery a thereof to the consignee, etc., took and carried away the samtin. d The decision of Judge Simonton says the defendants put. u) as their defense that they were acting as State con stahles. -i question," says the court, "is 8 whether such defer so protects the* con stables," and recites the disp.nsary ltw ts to under what conditions the constastblies may maiko seizure. The opinion of the) Sipremie Co'urt inl the casv of Donald aintScot' is re - fi-rred to to show wht~rv the ( -1na:ct with the const tL .o0 of the Unit, d States ciies in. II erueo, the avt.e o' the defendants. in ta kin ' the Bliekriee liquor out of the t S'o e- Si)on oW a iofnt onl C1r1ri, r, tith - xpre.-s co01many, Da ot, one (if the .dt~Ie: wthich I hfe conl. tah s vouipr. t hougit wstrda, h yog t. w eas1 tamtni th '.-. o nsbe, the~f de G'ehits, et dI tidhor tnh-rto ltti .11 M iii n 't 1h , i f rdt s tt s y d it . g i i such order st , lor wichil' it (iuit was noit au | t'or i t y.' ~ ~ i n i~tt~ymii The Virt iia they in t'asesttha, of (1',index.ee agIi itais.aGreyni w, c is rited1 ..lar a.l s pilt, Cdi to sw p' tht, iltn 'an mains thith-endhis righs not ia 'h' e St 'fi, b. scaiid iit ilnnt, he eh'tie to0.' at S iat c5sf itaith' arityxempt. from ixictuitwie raoh'yo tre coeitoabh-, howe Vt'u duen it ry tath 'cannot so e-ra Jin- i'a in n t cilllin thibte hnd ifia e ofium'ton Warie, 00 byeen iiirai iiibiil fhv I' h i' i e-t atht tyeI~'gis the Supri' i e urty clAr y untlawuln tI' ai ii hle -xeudS thy tedon sarylo law. tovwhat citiz- I)is pOl)tl(in hisl ~ prop' s:ano mn avidlabity his right wit iahi Thi el defen Voatteupo the ab~t1it , iemmufin i fromvid j~hi inq iry ofi' ver oneich whota'arno auhot roml te te.cutive framh ofd themoernon-te howeveriul elneit tis ofatthes xcuntry, poitsesthedno schi power ihmiThem ptor-, e nhihyi itsra twntedoublte mroe Sof arrestiiasonly pri' inthndfo o ri1rec nt wha to acs suhrest Oall it"app'lty. Aditted utte eisalu d 'ays tIs decision, i'annosthea ))otoht' n rAllper'oif re enititethesm ia inivdl iberti)dhy andt~ ritl'he~ maie a tahied,'I if when f'' violate The jCdicialo sx trmns Oari forbidden tovst henal-11 1)0,i0s uponindividual tofenders. Sni' a politily inrs'iititui in"'o his c'houty,. . Stn'tmiate and Iederal, prtnilIstainst ale, v- .nit iin thg dotineofII Sasltism,~ pure, iy sunt plad nakedI andy ref munism1 r wichns eit twin,~ the doaubletiprogend of the ende eviltbth. JOHN WILKES BOOTH A COMMON ASSASSIN No IIElROISM IN Ills UlCED. Ilency WIattlersoni T1'alks With In terest. A bout the Slayer of' ,incoln -lie lins No Doubt thaat Booth Was Killed. Smith Clayton inl Atlanta Journal. Talking with Mr. Henry Watter bonl thu other day, I put tills question to him : " Do you think that in the coming getieratiolUl the descenhdiants of I he men who now' v xeCrato the ineinory of A braliai Lincoln will look uipon John Vilkes Bootl as a B3rutus ?" " N-:ver," said Ie, " thero was not hi Ing of the 13LuLus about B3ooth. lI ' was it tL1 liug playeI', Who becaie worked u) th Lord only know. why, and broodled over inatters unt-ii in a momntii of desperaion Io killed Lin Coll." " Booth," continuedI he, " wat ntothi ing butt a common assassin. 11 be liings to Lie cliss of as&assi ns, to wh 1 ich IvILI.al, n ho killed ILtury the IX Of -. iee, the imin who kiliud the Duku de Horri in Paris, and GUiteuii, who kill -d Gat-ield, bUlonged." "You don'tothink, thoen, that Booth's montive wais patiiotismII, ats he under clot d it,?" "Oi, no, I do not. I think that he wIas incUpalie of r-ising to that height. 1Ih was morbid. lie may have thought that the killing of Lincoln would do the South good, but I doubt evon if tLhat strongly inliuenced hi i. As a illatter of lact the kihinig of Lincoin' benietited liobody, iior any sectiol. It wvas the work of i 111an, icapable of reautzing the elorimiity of the crimu. WiIi cI lie had set Olit tocommni it." - ilooth (tid not know what ho was dloi- tl then1 ?" " Oi, I don't say that. He evidently knew that, lie was killing a mtian-knew that, that man was President Li icoli -what, I [ineanl to bay is, that, hu had li cl)ar cnceIt1n of his Li CiIOUs t-1o conttIonI, w hateve of wIha iniglit he tlbu awful cons(mieqnceS of Liibut act,." IIe had weighed it, had he not?" " Well, Ie lid brooded over it in at morbio w:ay. 1Ils head was ftl l of the idea of iti l ileolli, hilt the conldi Lion of ih is rain on the subjcCt was coifiled, mih xed." " llow do ou account for tihu way iti whic he uid it-the, drainatic fea " As I have said, iooth wvas a strol inlg playei . He had the dramatic iii isi.ieit. It was natural for him to he showy in anytL.ing he did, after the manner of his profession. Th is, I Lhink, iccotitits lor the Limu and oe CasiOln selected for the as8,aSSi nation, t Che uCretumL inCes siurruunding it." " )iun't ht show bravory ?" NO, not, bravery-but deoperation. It was not thu cool, deli berato act of a brave mnan. It was the act of i mnan1 milade de,perato by brooding over in agined wrolings. Li neol n had done notliing L ieserve deatli at BooiO! hands-It, inl his fOmish desperatio. IuOth ima&giled that L1 Wcol n was y Ing the tyrant-utI)lf, in a IMatter of fact, n0 eiiIneter 12i hAIitory was fu'tiie' from tyranliy thall Lincoln. " lie was tiu friend Iof the vory see Lion, the Sot-b'li, Which oth fancie(i that he repreIesented when ho killed bim I. I t, Wae t10 very worst act tWatt, Could hav heel Comnitted for the Soith. " oloth Could not see th is-and his fody brought, ti ring Oln ti people wi1 would never havu indursud such a caua. 1 s killing." " oth lhad inotin Ig I1rsonal again st " Noth ing tiibat I ha lve ev. r hear'd. wais It ' " lIe haid no( mnotivo. Ilie shiyi ini, aginied Lbat he huad a miotivec. Thaiit is n~y view."' "Ii I s ind wasl no5ht sound iihen ? "I L~in cik imt.. Iliv as insaino on thu sub j -t, (if ikill ing llncoiin. I Liihin k that be ifneitedl this mif i at hifliimity from hiis famer~l, JunIiuls I3ruitus lIoothi. l~e was niot, al .yals at, bimcself."' "It, is sa1idi thaitl hie iin ag ineid at Liimes that hie was I chiard tho Th'iaird---bt, I have nie ver htelard that, hie wats a crazy "NI)-nrot 'xineLly ai lu natie--buit on - ha b h celi it, for theI L 1,ime. I Lhink Liiat, aiid th at, h is m ind w as riot, altogethur sound,1 i lien lie ki ulld in coln."' "I f ti hat 11. truel, I uolth was not re bponisibli ,'or' his aict y"'. " I' ii upS not-but, nothIng could1 have i'avedl limli, I imaligine, so wvroughit upi was the pub~llic inid against him. 'Thou~gh If hie had been captuLlred, in st. aud of k illedI, we don't, kinow what woldli halvel been.I done i i Liimu." " T aancs aire Lthat, like GuitLuau, lie wouhd ihavo heoun hanged ?"' " iuppoise so)." "I .\my people think Iloothi is st~ill liviniig---do you1 ?" " Wh, nlo, I ha lve niever had the1 ii( liteist doub1 lt that, lie was killed. I )eter .\ lay, who know Booth fromi his !,os boii'd up ---knewv him iO intiaely (xaimii d the boily mos-t iae's a:lt1 it- wni- brotughtL tI \Vashington. Ili conmu10Ion 1 wias, 'Th'iIs is J1olin WNil ke, lBoot.' vinc4 inlO and1 everybhody cisc Lthat, llih wats killed. Iut, lot inc give youIi ano ther1? str'ong and intLuresting rea.-in for thIiinking him diiead. " Job h i nrri atL, " h1e con i tined , " a couni ryii bov, wias sitting in ai restaul ranit in- --naot Rochester-what's thtat othi, r piar~ iup thbat way ?"' ";yracu-i- ?" "Y'o, Syraceuse, Now York. John Surra'itt wae' -itting in there eating his break fast . Iho fpickedl up a Palper and there was ian account, of the asseassina ioni of Ltie m- cin. "'h is is, no lace for me,' cxclaimed, Surratt. " ie took the train and it was not long before he was9 ini Canada. lie (lrossed the ocean as so0n its heO cou11 caitch ai v.s- I, iand went to Romno where het j ined( L~u L'apail '40ua~v'es, Il he . str -3ed his ii Ity ahouit ias rompliete y ats it couil be dlestroy-d . lie c-uhl niot have chosen a shirewdlcr way of hiding from a the .o.--nmena And ATTEI "Too Good IZI.'' I'lT IS. Weo proposO (or as soonI thekreaIfter ats wive o tealenu are hav inr Live t,housand ticl are ud given out we will glv< g.reatt'st nuii n her of ti .cke ts, t,rati to tho, ami1ouitl of . on d< ItrO 'ntit led to a ,icket. It s its I he ceivapst. Underhuy and undersell sh our Iry Goods and Not,ion-4 I V isit uts anld get, Our prices true. Yours to sai New York I I'atsy, S. C., Marhel , 18. yet the United States gove'llrinent fo''roted him out, in short, order and he was brought, batck to Wasshington. " Now, John Surratt, Was an obscire ild ividul. Ito waI'Ls an1 unknown. Biooth was a Well I known man. There wits nothinlg alout. Surratt to at,tract, a second 10n0e. 0ltot.h was nt only - halib-ollic 'm a ll, line Was it very tri k 3in lookinml Iinan). I.. Would have attract ed attention in anly crowd. "iSurat, a utnkilown, was cag n, .N. the govet'ni llit "o qulickly I tiilii easi ly. iI1nihough he had I.-d lo a for.. (1ounltry an1d stink his iticntlity coLImI lutuly, ther' is no cornmer of the gloht In which loothI. I well kinowin ual v. ry st rikilig iall. vollid hiave ue.s fully hititd n for ltly ' I.l' m th of ti alie." " ll X le Ill b'r, uilolu 'gh 1 , that ltotm, h wa's4 Itn nottor. 1111(k erst'ood Mbo ar't, Wf Simake-up ' itatd that it wits part of Ii: profeL-Ssionl to chanmge his identity ?" I re llmeillme r LL1 that. Ald still slty that, i ca.. not, how aritically he may have changed his appearaleL l( how many im.es. I car not, hOw often he itlay hmyive destrouyed his i denLtity, 31o' inl how lImlDy IMlauCs. "ChI ailgc Of liltIle, Cbuaullg of iit' atce. cttant, changing of plhie, I do not believe Would hvic' sayed hill). "So alert, so detcrinieiLd was Lhiz, goveriliil't," sid Iu, 'so IL tive, s nueroli u 'O1s and SO skilled its dte'vctives, Itad so thorollghlv ill sympath y Wer'e utli le' governinints it t.h s1! al-c thm itt iootl wolId have been caglighI. " Thie world was hutitaing for Iooh.m. There wits no Corne' of it, inl wiielhi hi' coul ide." McNeliNLNE IS A I)l'EM(itAT. I'hle Simpilicity Now Ililing aLI (lte White( 11ionse Offonils thie lvashin able Society inl Wasiingtont. Senat.or Tiihilal, tiln I 11eent visit tto the Watitt.e Houst, is si:6d to have re ilIked that tih PrI'ritdient at lLast, time tutins Imwevil Ing t terC tht' frneis atll'racling inuchl ait-Itent~ion stti-1Inen eeries he itationl a-, in ti, y i re- t1o l y of thlu-Isl -ilt o b Ie o iaout -, i llicial L.tI 11ion is. th-idmdly in matrke'd coont,rast' to t-he~ rigid( fornality ..itih wicht malt, L.er ol,(f tal:t I)ch tICguetto were ti'eatuti tuing n, tiht la adini3straion11). TI'm ., IS shoiwnI perhaplsit ill n1 waty lilre openily thii inil thme 3isatLtr' tf roling out for' at dive. Oni Sumintay the I 'les idti and) itmlr s. Mc'I\ imnly wenit for, a dr'ivc in thir~l open carr''I'ig, atc co)mpant~iedI by t,bio htter's aunt, NIles. Saxtmn. Thei. eletC of fatsh ionablo soc i ey wenI': dutIly hiorrii lled to) observe'' CC(dCnt, satt withl his' hack ItIt horlutS. Accor'dinig to l'eshhi-Iuti etqueltto, as inangtru'atedi by tilt Iai'e Il'esident t b y I tl l'e s i e n tt C l Ie , vl n d thi sj a s h u lds thbat, tile I l'resiident, of tlo- UniItd Statt,cs almust r'e veIrs Libe rut le of e t.Ii L etto 1,bo3 worldi over' for pi-' vauItm 1) imlitas. caiage' Jfir st., evenr tk ing prteedenClce oIf his wife. Alore1I'over',(,e1 inuit Iccupy)3 thler, Lth I l'r'm-ident should( be the11 time firlst, Lm alilht, fr'oiimhis catrriag.. Whenr Lhheret are' (other ladies in thbe canr'iat'e with him the wife oIf time I 'resitdenit should It(ccup ly time seatt bm m'ide htiim, anmd invar'iably the othiber occuiipants shnoulId sitI wih thir13 ham:k to1 Lthe hor1sCs. Ho twevCer, eac:h I1'eC: ient inay makel~ hiis OWn) etiIette. N Nice customs Coiurttny toi gret K ings." Mrts. Mclinley follow.s the 1 l'r,.,hilnt, Ina this agreealoi in formlnit y us re-' gards~ thm re ICCpio o)11(f callIerms atI lhe has becn lnt mpeia~zl petrsonf dlegaited~ toLm tib i dty (If anlswer 3inhg thle manitty nottesn Lt a pour in onl her', requ llesting thmat a~ sp'cil time het set for, eallsi uipon atccouts~t for tiibo fact, thmat, nt it fe w (of those detsirousll of tis I toor huavej so far' filed tI Irecev reC p ies03 to their l'vtery one) no1w undetir.stands that via tio ait clnpt to (conforml to the mld~touIs motciatl dutties of time Wh'Iite Imiue. 'TherlCfefr, whien Mr's. Me Kinlecy is not, feelin1g sumlienuttly well to) reemve'' compm any, ev(In though she IImy hiave made1( appIIointmenft with cmr liii 5o, ,lme )'ieS out for3 a drive ins'.ezd kip iTi is trutltst-edi11 (hdtt of Ill forminfg the~ d isapIpoit~f Ld orl( s I~hat Mlrs. McIininv ' haIth rndo aod1i TTION. 'o Be True," on the 11t-6, day of Septemhor, ite tickets ar.e takIo'n up) to oier a $75.00 SUlIUY. Wo eL sItick of and witen they to thec cuistoniir' holding the the Siu rry. E',very imo you 0har' it any departmtent, you hall be our' lm to Sell .) 1 1' ap all bo our ilott r, especially in and know that what wo say is '0 you miontey, acket Store. LJY ~id & NALbL, Props. hnttpurative for hor to go for a drivo and thbus cancel the social cogagelonts for the afternoon. Mrs. 01lney, M rs. dohn G. Carl islo and Mrs. fliarmion, who havo, of Course, h;en duly drilled in the strict rtles of flielal etiquotte requirel of obsor vance by his Cabinct, from the ex 'resident, recently wrote that Mr's. \ltK iiley set ai tioe at which they n ight call upon her. Through sono 'ianuce the replies to tthose mtOIes failed i each the three Cabinet ladies men . 'd.This, however, did not deter h111mt frontmealling at titho WitIto House. irs. Iobert Mlcee0o, daughter of ex I'resideit, L.1 arrlison, wvas among tho -'al lers 1y, Special appointment last b'vitla', With severall mi' embetrs of the ti tra-ceiety iHt,, and was disappointwtd at. not, sovhi', M rs. MceK inley. Thle l'rosidetts wifu liad ftiL unequal to eittainti itg intd oors for soeial diuties, aid o Went, for. a drivo with the IPres ilent aid a Itparty of friends to Witness tl. drill at Port lyer. - . - - . .. WAYSIII)lC GATHERINGS. [tits of Ittamor anti Naggets of Ta'uth I 'or (Ihe Alti uflde. -e calitious itt speech, but ptromnpt - j glh of ttuilki makes a pound of WaItsh ington wits six feet two iilt's i' Ewigit 1. Wh en11ho gtnt, is weIak the prej'd Jiite la strong. ----Why are hogs liku trees? Because th-y root for a liviiig. Nearly it qiarter of all cases of insanity are h ereditary. --\spar'guts is the oldest knowit plant that has bee useda fol. food. - A I'lysiciani sIy. til guim-cl wing 1 hit, Ipoudu Ches rItitles atid defo rmis tie face. -W\athin ytoni1 k-it- w Io) fea'. I o fu t Int tlt' xd ials and 1-:n1g] ish tmen, tid is n., 1.t0,tttu0 barr'ielh uf salt were oh turned i 143 tyear*. -- ''ht hult 'iest st ato of Me xic lt is1 Ch1 i hntn, wih ni n ar'ea of nearly ---A netgr'o doeL'ttor in tin A labamait towni hits iat thu tolp of htis professionail cardt : " N'o piay, not citre."' -'iTe conisum ttptiont otf soap itn Inrd Ia tine ou nc per htead atnnuial ly. ---Ont an aver'ag.e there ate 10. boys born int every I100 girls ; butt more boy3s die in intfanity Lhan girlis. uiiliiuies hatve not sense of stmell. Craes kepit out of 'heir sight are nievei detected by tiem. --A gotd dleal olf ox port testimotny appilears to he only that, of men who kitow how to testify exportly. --It's whetn her loiver wa~nte LI) kiss her, ''for, every year shte is old,"' that a iii is ltrnt by confitI ctinig Omotionsl. -A cre inatt ed body13 Ileaves at residuumt i oif itnly ci ghlt (i nces ; aiill blesideos is restored to te gaseous elemonts. --In ferti Iliing frutit t;rces it should be re iniomthe red that the roots ox tend as far ats the br'anchies tithat shadt~o themif. - -I)arini' ,t declared LhaL insanity i not, pecuiar' t humttaa beingsp. Ilt ait'~tted that aimials often becomot in - J'The pOoer of horcuil ito, ai nlow ex half potund of it wvill r'emiovt, 30 tons of stonett. 0,iTheii on17Li tOO a1 Li) of oxperi ene aks i wfinohsconfitdence ito tell her ho is nt miaking any monitey. --Ini Scotlantd chtocolato dtrops fillied w'.itht whisky are forcing the once polttIat' hiupperint- t lozonges out of the mar~iket. -To( sp)eLn a thoughtless word aiginst te good name of a fellowmtan is, to comm it a sin of no ordinary mag naitudoe. -The Manassaht socioty Is a pecutliair or'ganiation In Cilago comphosed1 of coilorted mfoni who havo marriod white wives. -11'm who is falso Li) a proseont ditty brieaks a thretads in thbo loomit, and( ill find a flaw whten ho may havo forgot Len Its cautso. ---Marr'ied mten have been1 heoard to t'onar'k that talk ing Lth rough ai hat Is far' antedlatedl by being talked to Lhr'ough ta nighitealp. --Te iit a ry actadem iy ait West I '.ino ha Six'y-oute pro'df'issoir and 296 . l ih t aind teim naval aeaetomny at, Antnapabs has~ sixt~y-seven professors and 243 studonts.