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THE EOPLE'S JOU.RNAL. VOL 8.---NO. PICKENS. S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1898. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR GOOD ADVICIE TO PARMERS. Udcde Markets and New Methods Needed-The Country Cannot Be com9, Prosperous Alone Through t Agriculture. lion.-W. A. MacCorkle, ex-Governor ofWest Virginia, who made a national reputation for- the great work wbich ")I4ifd in ; the - development of West Virginia while Go'vernor, contributes - Jary ndmber of the South n Arn Magazine, of Baltimore, an unsuailly interesting and striking dis '9uesion of . Southern farm conditions, t -find' bowdhe agricultural intereste of the South can aldne be made p.-os Jperous. - Obvernor MacCorkle says: "The I farmer.is -not in a good way in the % .South." The totals of his labor, taken 6 - s a whole, are enormous, but the farm ereisenot. the g iner, and the South ( does not profit tW her enormous yields as she should. She is another exam pie -of the proposition that a country cannot become rich: andestrong through agriculture alone. The loom, the 1 apef and the-afnvil mutt go together. t 6ev.ered they bat furnise tto raw ma- 9 i fpr other and more favored com- v lihtnities. Transportation, the factory and the* Urm under wise end estab A.1ished ltws :cai' make 'tii South an- t "indiu)rial impire and the Southern farmer a I'ighty power in the world's qff airs." * sPkpcaqisng $he situation, he says: Wo cannot live under such conditions 'pi bvd existed. The Southern pro- ( ducer must change the mere raising of -the Ataples. snd sek other products f6r his farm. le cannot do this as things stand wfth hini today, for with a y long haul and no close homq market he eoa 0ct do uth'ef'Wise than raise the $th '#-f'. leavy'farming. It needs no e argument, but simply. the re-expression I t ejea ent that the glor3f of. the r .tiier~h fcrrur' to come through a d change of meth As looking to the di- I versitlicatidn'of's product. How shall ' do thie? There is one way, and t - jTig t, enlarge our horizon, liberalize 1, our laws, .turn our faces to the East, welcome Aastern and Northern capi- D tal, establish by the side of the water- d fall and in the midst of our cotton t fields, entht6ne on our iron mines and t loqate in the midst 9f our magnificent y -forsts the Failroad and the factory." 0 Discussing the farm situation in New ,Pnglend and the lessons to be drawn a fr6m it by the South, Governor Mac- fj COrkle states that while in New Eng, v land this summer he made a careful -b investigation-of the situation. By rea- a son of.. cheap Western land, vast t changes in the economics of transpor- a tjon, greater fertility of soil, there was 0 produced in New England some years P ago a tremendous, farm depression. Great n6mbers of -farmsrs, who had 81 not been able to understand the change n that,,was taking p lace, abandoned tue 40 ,id went West. They did not d grasp the situation, and thought that b 0' they could not profitably raise the a agreala Jn competitioU with the West there *as no life for 9he New England t farmei; but in the last. fifteen years a 0 ryelous change has itaken place in ,e ageicultural districts of New Eng- 0 l'-They have found out that they 1 dannot compete with the West in the a owing of the heavier grains, in the c W{ g-- of -beef, liogs and sheep, and , wisely they have turned to now fieids' s of agriaulture.. The teeming manu facturibg towns demand poultry, eggs, e butter, fruits, vegetables.and the thou- t sanmdll frukits that can be profitably e grown ad $cent to a great population. t The result is sliown'in 'a few llustra tions. In 1865, the beef.-product of Massachusetts was $8,188,564; in 1885 it was $718,932-a loss of $7.00o,000. But t these figures, which - seemed to indi- 1 cte groes4atruction of the agricul- 1 tural inteLrests of Miasachuseitts, wey offset by the incrossae in milk, to which farmers turned their attention when they found the change that was taking place, and in 1885 the value of the milk product was $10,312,762, while in 1865:. it w as only $1,956,187-a gain of $8,350, 575, making up the loss on beef and having $1,000,000 to spare. And last - year, or in 1897, the milk product tvs s worth $16,000,000. In 1897 the value of the vegetable product, due almost altogether t'o the growth of madufac turing cities, was moro than $16,000, 000, while stra.berries and cranberries brogg t~ over 1*2,000,000. idotwithstanding the naturally poor1 bai ..fFhe Neev England States, the hgbstaereago value of farm products o*bjiovb.d'-lands is found, in Massa chusetstt, Rlhode Island and New Jer seg,'th'r~e' States in which .you are1 nover out'of the sound of the w'-.irr of thie wheels of the etory, while the .lowest value of far. roducts'per acrO of iniproved land is in the purely agri oujltural Staties.. -Governor MacCorkle then illustrates his point with one case, of which hugidret'is could be-given, based on the - establishment iu' his own State of a factory employing eight hundred men. .In the, - community the result was an absolute dhange'in the whole agricul S~taral situation. The boys instead of going west becamn'6 operatives in the * factory, a town grew up, every class of ' small farming gave the best resuits, at least $100 a year of farm products was required to feud the operatives, or $40, 000 as a total. The variety of products raised iincluded eggs, beans, peas, fruits;,'egetables, melons, small fruits -and many other articles. One farmer made $1,800 clear profitgast year from * ~ his melo'n crop,, 'n~e than he had made in all his life as 'i. heat and corn pro ducer. Another turned his attention from wheat and corn to poultry and sold last year 1,800 chickens and $1,100 * worth of tr/uck. He points out that to seeuro these' great benefits the South ern farmet must unite. with the most, progressive element in every com inunity in.securing v-iso legislation, to attract the attention of capitalists and enlist their co-operation in the build ing. of -factories, tho .developmnent of mi-nes and she. construction of rail - ioads. . Auld '14 -closing Governor. hiacCorkle addes "I. spdak with all siu1erity and maypaakaan unpialatable truth when I say that one of the chief oppositions to our success as a great manufactur ing and diversified farming section Is that, witbout intendin'g it, our Jlaws have been, constituted in the fear *rather than the love of oorpJorate enter prises. Iet us removethis barrier by liberal legislation and invite the rail roqdpsnd tacet(iles. Gnipit il for them ill not covae except in incorporated orm. Mp .atural advantagos will iot suflce. With the liberalizing of ur laws will come capital, manufac ories and railroads; with the railroads bfd manufactories will come the frul ion of the hopes of the Southern farm r. Under our soft sky he will see round him the waving of the corn, ihe nodding heads of the cotton bolls, ningled with the orchard, to gladden bid delight the email farmer. The uot 'from the manufactories will fall in.the. green land, and the whirr of he wheel will gladden and delight very valley. The rush of the looomo ive will bring to us the civilizing in lu ence of other lands, and amidst hie erennial crops the Southern farmer vill dwell in happiness which is denied iny other tiller of the soil." )UR RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND L Formal Alliance is Not Wanted Judge Day Tells About the Work of the Peace Commission. Judge William R. Day, president of he pekce commission at Paris and late ecretary of state, received a warm welcome to his home in Canton, Ohio, hich took the form of a banquet ,ivent by the Stark County bar asso lation. Hon. W. A. Lynch, who was Judge )ay's law partner - in their younger Lays, but who now devotes his time Irinoipally to railroad managements, as master of ceremonies. Judge 4eorge E. Baldwin, one of the oldest ractitioners at the local bar and a very otimate friend of the guest of- honor, elive'ed the welcoming address, to rhich Judge Day responded, and he iaid a high tribute to the legal frater ity of Stark County, closing with an icquent reference to President Mc [inley, a member of the association, eciting his devoting to the country uring the war and the incidents lead ng thereto. He then spoke as follows of the mat era which took himself and his col sagues to Paris : .. " Recognizing that there are certain iatt*rs which may not properly be iscussed on an occasion of this kind, I hing I may nevertheless say something D my brethren of the bar of the ovents ,hich have occurred in the period of ur separation. "i II were called upon to state the iost gratifying circumstances of our )reign relations during the war, it rould be in the uniformly cordial and earty friendship of the English before nd during the struggle. Observing he obligations of neutrality and never topping outside of the requirements f international law, we had the sym athy' and good will of that great ower. I don't believe either nation seks or would be benefited by a for lai alliance. " Nevertheless, the existence of cor ial relations between people kindred y blood, speaking the same language ad having the same ideals of civil berty and good government is a fact he potency of which can hardly be verestimated. " I have been asked about the work f the commissioners viewed from a %wyer's standpoint. I think I may say omething to you about it. If in excess f the proprieties of the occasion I ihalL ask you to treat it in a profes ional confidence. On the 12th of Au ust the protocol of Washington was xecuted. It may be said to have been he preliminary contract whose final xecution was to be embodied in the reaty. " As to Cuba, Puerto Rico, minor Vest Indian islands and an island in he L-idrones, it was capable of execu Ion by a simple deed of cession of these slands, except Cuba, where final re Inquishment of Spanish severetignty was required. " As to the Philippine islands, their lisposition, government and control vas left for final determination in the reaty. I have often been asked how t was possible to make progress in a ommission hating equal representa ives from the two nations. " Whilst this fact did not prevent he fullest discussion, the United States iaving made all the concessions which t believed just and fair, was obliged o insist that its terms be accepted. [he publications of the proceedings vill show that nothing can be farther rem the truth than to assume that the Jnlted States adopted towards Spain a )olicy of ' stand and deliver.' "The American commissioners heard vith respect and endeavored to answer vitn firmness every position advanced >y the Spanish commission. For better, or worse, the work of the commission irs is done, and needs but the. ratifica ion of the president by and with the ionsent of the Setiate, to becomie the lupreme law in the land. It cannot be Smatter of regret to any American hat the rising sun of the new year be 1olds the ensign of our glorious re )ubllc. floating from the walls of Morro, vherelfor so man-y years the royal ban ser of Spain 'has looked down upon so nuch corruption, misery and shame. 'onight not one foot of American soil -emains under Spanish domination, nd the people so long oppressed are ~o have a new birth of freedom. This .5 not the time nor place to discuss our polley in the far east. If this treaty hould be ratified, it brings to the [Jnited States title to -the archipelago ;o be dealt with as the American peo ple in their wisdom may see fit. In :mo thing I think we are all agreed that when the line of our duty has oeen tetrmined, it must be discharged as becomes a groat, free and liberty-lov Ing nation. Whether or no, we have so willed, the days of our international isolation are past. it does not follow that the advlce of the immortal Wash ington to avoid entangling alliances is less potent today than when the words w ere w ritte n. " The American citizen has a right to go wherever trade and enterprise may legitImately seek an outlet for the product of American thrift and lndustr3, and there must follow, if need be, the overshadowing protection of the flag.". -The poor man must go out and .wocather the storm, while the rich man can stay at home and storm at the weather. -It is claimed that a new glass has been invented which is porous, and will be very valuable in promoting ven tilatin RECORD OF THE DISPENSARY. rhe State Board of Control Promises a Full Exhibit of its History Hunting for Placos on the Board. Col. T. L'rry Gantt, of the Spartan burg Evening Star, has been to Colum bia recently, and tells what he heard at the capital. Great interest is manifested in what bhe Legislature will do about the dis pensary lIw but the general impres lion is that the present law will be left practically unchanged. The prohibi bionists throughout the State are thor. oughly organized and are confident of ovorthrowing the dispensary, but the advocates of the dispensary system have a decided majoroy and say the law is is in no danger whatever. The State board of control, so re ports say, v'ill make a statement to the Legislature that will produce a profound sensation. One of its lead ing members remarked to the Star editor that it was right the people should know the full workings of that institution from the day it opened till the present hour, and they were now gathering facts and figures. They pro pose to show just m hat the dispensary has done each year and where every dollar received has been expended. They will show how the cost of liquor to the State has been largely reduced in spIte of the fact that the tax there on as been Increased 20 cents per gallon. They will also show that con stables and county dispensers alone are Dosting $60,000 a year, more than the salaries of every State official com bined, and more than South Carolina pays to maintain any three of her edu cational Institutions. The members of the State board are wanaging the affaire of the dispensary In a sraight-forward, business-like manner and will court the most rigid Investigation of their every transac lion. They will show how they have brought the dispensary up from a losing venture to pay to the public school fund of our State $20,000 every month and besides an equal sum to the 3ities and counties. It Is a mistake about Governor Eller be opposing the dispensary or even de diring Its control to be put back in the %harge of the State House officers. 3overnor Ellerbe was elected on a 3lean out dispensary issue, and he in ends to stand by the pledges he made ,he people, and stand by the present aw. He will probably recommend a ew changes, but they will be imma ;erial. We receive this information rom a gentleman in close touch with ihe Governor. There will be two new members of ihe State board to elect, one to succeed dr. M. R. Cooper, and the other Mr. Douthit, whose term has expired. ['here is no doubt about Mr. Douthit's e-election, for as Captain Webb, chief yookkeeper, remarked, "Douthtt Is ihe Corliss engine of the State board, md whenever there is any hard or dis 6greeable work to do he voluntarily as umes the task." Mr. Simmons, of Col eton County, will also be a candidate, bnd he is very highly spoken of. The riends of Mr. Cole Blease, of New )erry, say that he will.also enter the ace It is conceded that the contest for he superintendent of the peniten iary lies between Col. Neal and Mr. arifflth but there is not a shadow of a loubt about Col. Neal's re-election, aud bie will go in on the first ballot by a iecisive, r ajority. Col. Neal has dis 3harged his duties satisfactorily, honestly, fearlessly and to the best in erest of the tax payers (of our State. In spite of the low price of cotton and the seed sprouting in the boll, reduc ing the grade of that staple raised on he. State farm, an:d the further fact that the majority of the convicts are now given to the different counties, Dol. Neal will turn into the State treasury before the Legislature meets B10,000 In cash, besides expending more than that sum in permanent improve ments on the property. Gol. Neal, as avery man in his county knows, is one of the most progressive and successful farmers in the South, and he would not have accepted a State office but for. the fact that he wanted to move to some city where he could educate his large family of children. Capt. Wharton, of Laurens, is a me.mber of the board of penitentiary directors and has opposed Col. Neal for reelection. Capt. Wharton remarked to the editor of this paper : " AR every one knows, I was elected to my present position against the protest of Neal, and I was his open and avowed enemy ; in fact, Col. Neal did all he could to prevent me taking my seat as a member of his board. It was my in ten'tion to become a candidate against him for election, but after being as sociated with Col. Neal so long and in timately and closely, I have become one of his most ardent friends and staunchest supporters. It was my duty aud intent to watch Col. Neal's every movement, and if there was anything wrong or crooked about, the manage meat of the State penitentiary to publish the fact to the world ; but I know whereof I speak when I assert that there never breathed a more fair minded, honest, incorruptible and clear sighted business man than W. A. Neal. He watches the expenditure of every nickle niade from the Stat~e funds, and I know he has saved the tax payers the salary be has received ton times over. Our board of direc tors is composed of honorable, high minded and responsible business men and the entire madagement of the State penitentiary comes under our di rect supervision. If there had been anything crooked about the business since Col. Neal has had charge of it we would have discovered and report ed the same, for it was our duty to look loito every transaction. Col. Neal has aliready been vindicated against the old charges made against him by a un animous vote of the Legislature and this investigation will be clinched when he comes before the ensuing sossilon of the Legislatuxre for endorse ment. I will not say vindication, for W. A. Neal has done nothing to de mand vindication." -It is said that Secretary Hay owns an autograph copy of President Lin coln's famous Gettysburg speech. -Senator Baker, of Kansas, is a con tinual smoker and is rarely seen with out. a cigar or a pine. THE COUNTY COURT SYSTEM. The Views of an Advocate of Info .riot Courts When lie Was in the Legislature. The Greenville Mountaineer. On the question of county courts Hon. B. M. Shuman has submitted his views in the following form. Mr. Shu man has given much thought to the subject in all its phases and his views are prepared with his accustomed thor oughness. When he was a member of the Lngislature he prepared a bill to esiablish county courts, but it was not introduced owing to a conilict with the constitution which was then in effect. Mr. Shuman says: "I believe that it is generally con ceded in Greenville County that the courts of common pleas and general sessions have not the time to attend to all the business coming before them. In consequence of this many cases are continued from term to term of these courts, and many civil cases stand for trial for a year or more be fore they can be reached. In fact in Greenville County the business men of the country are practically without a court for the trial of litigated casse, for it takes nearly all the time that the circuit judges have to try the criminal cases, and a great many of these where light offenses are charged are con tinued from term to term for want of time. "It is the first duty of a civilized State to provide courts for its litigants, but in Greenville County this is not done, because lour present sy-item of courts is inadequate. Disputed rights of property go untried, and dishonest litigants who are in possession of the disputed property or money, avail themselves of the slowness of the courts; to enjoy and withhold property and rights to which they are not enti tled, and honest litigants and suitors turn away from the courts in disgust, because after much loss of time and expenditure of money, they are told "your case will have to be continued to another term of court," and perhaps at the next term of court after weary waiting the same statement will be made to them. "The necessity for relief is apparent and pressing, and it seem to me that a county court, such as Is contemplated by the present constitution, would be best suited to give the desired relief. "Some have suggested more circuits and more circuit judges, but this it seems t-) me would not give the relief that a county court would give; be ause the only way in which more cir cuits would be of any benefit would be to give the circuit judges more time and thus enable them to prolong the term of court in each county ; but the termE of court in this and other large coun ties are already too long, both on ac count of the great strain which very long terms of court impose on th( judges, solicitor and other officers o the court, and the increase in expenst caused by long terms. "What we need is court more fre luently and shorter terms. In this way the jail would be cleared more fre. Iuently and the expense - of dieting prisoners confined in jail awaiting trial iaved, and the pay of witnesses would be very much reduced. Witnesses have to attend the term of court constantly from the beginning until the case in which they are summoned to attend has been tried, and this sometimee hal) pens one week from the beginning o the term, sometimes two and some, times three weeks, the witnesses al appearing on the first day of the tern and drawing pay every day until th( case in which they attend is disposes of. At the last term of the court o general sessions here some witnesse drew pay for three weeks. This im poses an enormous burden on the coun ty which would be very much relieves by horerterms of court. The court ofgeneral sessions and common plea would not under the system of inter changing circuits by the judges si more frequently than they do now evei though we had a greater number o circuits. "My idea of a county court is tha i. should have jurisdiction in all ci im inal eases except those g~efn by thi present constituuon exclusively to th< court of general sessions, to wit : Mur der, manslaughter, rape, or attemp to rape, arson, common law burglary bribery and perjury and except lar ceny, receiving stolen goods and broacl of trust, where the amount alleged ti be stolen or respecting which there il breach of trust exceeds one hundre< dollars, anu that it should not be allow ed to impose a sentence exceeding liv, years at hard labor in the State peni tentiary ; and that it should have juris diction in all civil actions where thi amount or property claimed does not ex coed one thousand dollars, except tha it shoul~d not have jurisdiction to try case in chancery or to try the title t real estate. "It shsould be presided ovce byI judge paid a salary of from one thoue and to twelve hundred dollars per yea and should have a prosecuting attor ney at a salary of five hundred dollar per year. It should be a court of rec ord and should have stated terms fo the trial of oases once in each monti The constitution provides that th juries in inferior courts shall be comn posed bf six men. The jury in a couni ty court would, therefore, have to b composed of six men, and all cases I such court will have to be tried by. jury unless jury trial is waived by th defendant in a criminal case and th parties in a civil case. "A box sabould be provided in whici the names of one thousand person qualified as jurors should be placci during January of each year as is nov provided for the courts of commnoi pleas and general sessions and eighteel names should be drawn from this bo: once in each month and thei pesons e drawn summoned to attend the nex regular term of the county court. Si; challenges should be allowed the de fendant in criminal cases and two ti the State and in civil cases two to eacd side. The pay of witnesses and juror should be fifty cents per day and flyv cents per mile. "The rules of practice, pleading an procedure should be the same an. thos inte courts of common pleas an general sessions, arid the appeal shoul be to the Supreme Court ; and th clerk and other offiers of the circul court should be the ofilers of the conr ty court. The prosecuting attorno should be oleoted by the people of the ceunty, aLd the judge also. I do rot believe that the people will a.ways elect the best men that offer for these positions, but I believe they will come as near to it as the Legislature or the delegation sent to the Legislature from the county." THE CULTIVATION OF RICE. The Chielf Obstacle to Urowing ilce In the Up-Country Has Been Over oen0. The Spartanburg Evening Star has asked Col. T. J. Moore, one of Spartan burg's most successful farmers, why be did not plant rice on his bottoms, and lie replied that the principal reason was the difiloulty of getting it milled. He had the rile fever some years ago, and tried his hand, but did not succeed in getting a itand, and he then planted the land in corn. We asked him if he thought it could be grown successfully here. He replied he had no doubt about it, and there were hundreds of the richest kind of bottom lands emi nently adapted to it, and fit for nothing else. le said he had been investigat ing the cubject recently, and had even gone to Taylor's station, between Greer's and Greenville, to interview Mr. Alfred Toylor, who has grown rice and who owns a mill for cleaning it. M1r. Taylor told him he had been an enthusiast on the subject all his life. The difllculty with him was not that he could not raise the rice satisfactor ily, but in the matter of milling it. tie had commenced in a small way, cleaning with mortar and pestle, then had put up twelve mortars in a row In a water mill, operating the pestle by crank shaft. After wearing out his machinery he quit the business until lie heard of a mill in Georgia which it was said could clean satisfactorily. He bought one and found it not a suc cess, and again quit the business. He then made a machineof his own which failed to work tatisfactorily. Three years ago he bought the Eu golburg mill, which has solved the matter for him in his old age. He was milling fourteen bushels per hour, and was receiving the rough rice from An derson, Pickens, Oconce, Greenville and Spartanburg by railroad, and by wagon from all around. Col. Moore asked him about the cultivation and yield per acre. Omitting what hesaid as to cultivation, he said two years ago he had Mr. Freeman and two negro tenants to plant an acre each. Mr. Freeman worked his rice, went to his cotton and corn, and stayed too long; that when he returned the rice was so poor a stand and so foul, that he wanted to plow it up and plant in corn. He, however, worked it out, when it began to grow and branch out so that the stand soomed all right. In course of time he cut and shocked, like we do wheat. On the acre he had one hundred and ninety dozen, which re quired a two-horso wagon to haul to the thresher in nine loads. The yild was eighty bushels and ten loads of hay as good as fodder, some of which was sold at fifty cents per hundred pounds, and that the whole of it could have been sold at the same price, if he had had a baler. The other two acres yielded eighty and ninety-one bushels respectively. When asked about the danger from overilows he pointed out a patch oa the river, which had been overflowed several times while grow ing, and was completely submerged once when in full heal, with no serious constquences so far as he could see. In fact, said he, you want water, and plenty of it, which fact will appear when it is considered that In the low country the first thing they do after i putting the seed in the ground -is to cover the field twelve inches deep in water for seven to ten days, then i dry off, then put on water again, completely covering the rice, and when it grows out so as to make -the surface green, to draw it offT; then I| after some dry growth, the long water -is put on-which means to say that the f field is flooded about twelve or eigh teen inches deep for sixty days--after which it is dried off and harvested. -it ns (2ol. I'iouru'a 091AIA0f, f i takes'2 Sthat much water, that we need not fear freshets and rains, and one would be - erfectly safe in trying a patch of low, I. wet ground subject to overflow. Lie means to try his hand In a small way - this year to demonstrate further the feasibility of its successful culture. H~e says it Is easier to got the water on his Sland than It is to ditch it, so as to dry I for corn.- Quite a number of men in his neighborhood will plant an acre, and he thinks he could lot out a good many acres. If enough men will go Into the business to justify it, he w ill b uy a mill and put it. in operation at -Moore's this fali. He says the trouble t with the tenant who owns his own h rse, or mule or cows, is that he is 3 generally short on long forage, which the rice straw would correct. Somne i parties who have raised it tt ink that -it would pay to grow it for the straw r alone. i TIIE SE~AtnOAnD AlIn LININ.-Tlhe re - port concerning too proposed purchase r of the 8eaboard and1 Roanoke R~ailroadl -company, parent corporation of the 3 Seaboard A ir Line system, is oflicially -confirmed. The syndicate which has 'bId for the property is .com posed of 3 iBaltimore, iRichmond and New York 1 caplitalisits. John Skolton Williamsi i president of the Georgia and Alabama L Railrotad comp~any, is the moving spirit 3 in the transiaction, and it is understood that he will be president of the comn pany when control is transferred to the syndicate. The price agreed upon is $ 200 a share, which is $75 a t-hare more than was offered for a controlling in terest in the property two years ago by Thomas P. Ryan. SA member of the syndicate says that it, is the intention of the now owners t' to continue the company as an inde Cpendent system, though he admitted -that a line might ultimately be built from Atlanta, the Snaboard's Southern terminus, to Montgomery, where con 8 nection would be made with thbe Geor Sgia and Alabama. The distance be tweon these points is 175 miles. This I would make a through line from a Washington to Jacksonville. 1 Others have boon disappointed in Jini o monte, there are good and bad, none1 equal t to the Alligator Liniment. D)on't keel -your Rheumatism or- Neuralgia or othen ,pain. Rub It out with Alligators Lini BRYAN AND CLEVELAND. These Leaders of tho Democracy Have Similar Views of Colonial Acquisition. Wm. Jennings Bryan addressed an immense audience at Springileld, Ill., a few days ago. Touching the ques tion Df annexation, Mi. Bryan said: "The party that was willing to oppose the gold standard because it was w rong ought to be good equgh to oppose an English colonial syhtem because it is also wrong. It is astonishing that any man living in this age of the world in the United States should uphold the doctrine of securing land by conquest. Blaine was against it In 1890. And a year ago last Debember the President of the United States sent a message to Congress, and in that message he said: 'I speak iot of forcible annexation, be cause that le not to be thought of ; and under our code of morality that would be criminal aggression.' My friends, there is a great moral question in volved, decolared so by your President; a code of morality is in question, and according to that code, forcible annex ation is criminal aggression. "1 say, give independence to the peo p)e of Cuba, not because we promised it them, but because they fought for it and have a right to it whether we promised it or not. Why cannot we apply the same principle to the Philip pinoe? Why should we purchase a title to the Philippines from Spain? We declared that Spain did not have any title to Cuba. When I buy the Filipinos 1 went to deal directly with them and I want to pay more than $2.50 apiece for them." 10x-Prsident Cleveland, in reply to the request of a representative of the the Associated Press for an expression on the question of expansion and an nexation, has said: " I do not care to repeat my views concerning the prevailing epidemic of imperialism and territorial expansion. Assuming. however, that my ideas on the subject are antiquated and un suited to thnea progressive days, it is a matter of surprise to me that the re fusal of certain natives of our now pos sessions to acquiesce in the beneficence of subjecting them to our control and management should in the least dis turb our expansionists. "This phase of the situation ought not to have been unanticipated, nor the incidents naturally growing out of it overlooked. The remedy is obvious and simple. The misguided inhabi tants of our annexed territory who pre fer something different from the plan for their control which we propoen or who op pose our designb in their behalf should be slaughtered. The killing of natives has been a feature of expansion since expansion began, and our impe rialistic enthusiasm should not be checked by the prospective necessity of destroying a few thousand or a few hundred thousand Filipinos. "This should only be regarded as one stage in a transcendantally groat movement, a more incident in its pro gross. Of course some unprepared souls would be lost before we had the opportunity of Christianizing them, but surely those of our clergymen who have done so much to encourage ex pansion could manage that difliculty." THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW. The Inexorable Reaper Knocks at ihe Doors of the Palace ani tihe lut Alike. Life and death are great mysteries. The unexpectedness of death, and the singular incidents leading to it are curiously revealed in the following statement : An intimate of the late Calvin S. Brice tolls a story connected with the last days of that financier's life that reads like a romance. Less than a year ago Birice's contildential man died. A careful inventory made by Brice of his securities showed that almost all-mil lions in amount were missing. Hie feared they were lost or hypothecated, he knew not where or for what. Con sequently he, was In a frame of mind. It dild not topi~jo rest.r0. Mats e4AaV1 i'nii~y ivhe'nhe was informed by an in surance company with which he was seeking to renew his insurance and take out a larger policy i.hat they de clinnd the rIsk, their suirgeon reporting that the financier was a victim o. Bright's disease. One day ,oon after he received this information Birico received an intima tion that led him to believe that his deceased clerk had made u.se of a box in an out of the way safe deposit com pany in New York city. A visit to taat institution disclosed a vast quan tity of gilt-edged securities, a find that lifted a load from the financier's mind. Roturning~ to his oflice he was met by a high ofilelal of the insurainco com pany, who stated that his (Brico's) ap p lication had in some unknown way become mixed up with others filed the same day, with the result that the wrong report was attributed to Brico. Tbco real report of the physician on BrIce, the ofllcial of the insurance company said, showed that the finan cier was physically sound as a newly minted dollar. The insurance ofilcial stated his comnpony's desire that Brice should renew his policy and increase it to any amount. Thbis the financier did increasing it by *250,000. The wave of good fortune running at flood tide on one day so pleased and elated Brice that he invited the insurance ofl10ial, his own new secretary and one or two others to the Waldorf-Astoria and, in: celebration of his good fortune enter tained them at a most cloborate dinner. On his way hamo Mr. Brice contracted the cold, culminating in pneumonia that sent him to his grave. The Low Price ol 1Raminds us of the fact tha to remind you of the fact tha market for wheat, I also ha Caps, Dress Gloodls, Silk a Hosiery and Underwear. I have a first-class line of ( description. Call and see mn W.A. HAP REV. JOHN B. ADGER, D. D. The Death of a Venerable Presbyte rian hiinister at Pendleton, The Charleston News and Courier records the death at Pendleton on jk4 3rd lost. of the Rev. John B. Adger JR. D., one of the oldest and most prOlf nent Presh terian divines in 800th Carolina. Dr. Adger was 88 yesr*. age and the greater part of h4 it was spent in active missionar church work. For more than 0 years he was a missionary a'n and left there in 1855 on accou t I broken health. Dr. Adger, was a remarkable. Wan and had a wide and varied experience before he finally retired from his pul p It at Pen'dleton. He was born .on ecember 2 1810, and in early life wO married to Vise Etizabeth K. Shrews bury. It was soon after his marriage that he went with his wife to Smyrna, and graphic stories cane to this coun try of his work there. Not long after his return to this country Dr. Adger desired to return to Smyrna, but the Northern American board, which had charge of the appointment of mia sionaries, refused to return him be cause Mrs Adger owned a slave. This created considerable stir at the time.r In Charleston Dr. Adger had the mission on A nson street, between Cal houn and George streets, but his health was failing him and he retired. Later he went to Pendleton and assumed the pastorate of thu Presbyterian Church. Dr. Adger was also a professor in the Theological Seminary at Columbia be fore and after the war. Since the war he lived in Penlletou and gave his time and his talents to his church and his flock. Mainly through his efforts , and aid the old church was abandoned some years ago and a new house of wor ship was erected. Dr. Adger was among the few survi vors of the older generation of the Adger family in Charleston, and he left many relatives in this city to mourn his death. Dr. Adger was a native of Charles ton, and the News and Courier speaks of him as follows: He waa one of the most able theoloj glans in the Southern PresbyteriaK> Church. In his early ministry served his church as a missionary Turkey, and for years was a profese in the Theological Seminary at Coh bin. In later years he had been vented by bodby infirmities front active prosecution of ministerial v but up to the last he was in full p. sion of his splendid menta),. fact' and kept in close and y -,% touch with the world's rdliglou gress. He was a fine teacher the pulpit he was always maste' text. He did not believe in sent methods, but always spoke as be the oracles ofGod. He was a deep convictions, of sincere pt warm sympathy. He had pa beyond the limit of human 1ife ready and waiting for the great > which came to him finally as r* refreshment come to the wead 4 oiler after a long and toipu-Jfl' Ho walkcd in the paths 'rghtoo all the days of his 114t) and Ie world better than he found it for his work 'mple, bett his patience u Tering, bet his faith, whi ver faltere. better for th'p spirit of persev which continu ed with him to th -The of cials of the Rusk pe tiary at ort Worth, Tex., ann, the succe's of experiments with I. coal for fuel in making pig iro few days ago a small furnace was at the pcinitentiary and a run iron made, which conclusively that the raative lignite answered as well for fue:l as the expensive charcoal which the intgtitution bad been using. Trha. there arts large deposits of lignite in Texas Is ther best part of the discov ery. -Col. CharldN Marshall a lawyer of Baltimor .-.is writing a life of Gen. RoA&9.,ttt . Lee. upon whose staff he served during the whole civil war. Col. Marshall wrote all bhe official re ports of the Army of Northern Vir ginia, and, with Gen. Horace Porter, arranged the terms of surrender at A ppomattox. -The Grand Army men are not unanimous, by any means, in favor of McKin:ey's proposition concerning the care of the Con federate soldiers' graves. A third of the members of the U. S. Grant P'ost in New York voted against endorsing McKinley's Atlanta speech a few days ago. -General Henry Douglass, who was chief of Stonewall Jackson's staff, is said to be engaged1 to General Grant's only daughter, Mrs. Nellie Grant Sar torns. This is the best way to reunite the country. -Gen. Wheeler carries a handsome gold watch which he picked uy at San Juan. It evidently belonged to a Span iard, but the owner could never be dis covered. -A girl is usually willing to strike a match if a man has money to burn. -Some men are willing to pay cash for everything except their debts. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Alwas ought Bears the ; ignature of Cotton..ess we shonid sow plenty of wrheat,:and I wish t I have a car load of Acid, the bost on the ve a ntice line of Dry Goods, Shoes, Hale, nid Velvet Trimmings, Ladies Kid Gloves, irocerles and Canned Goods of almost every o and I will treat you white. 4ILTON, EASLEY, S. C.