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THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL VOL 9.--N0. 7 PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 9,1899- ONE DOLLAR A YEAR RRMA1UCT1IUX bCHJLMJ A SRAM. STANYARNIE WiLSON'S VIEWS. Tihe Supreme Qourt Would Not Sus tain the Plan to Cut Down tihe South's Representlon In Congress. Special to Atlanta Constitution: While it Is the general belief that nothing tangible will over come of the proposed effort to cut down the repre sentation of the Demjcratic States of the South in Congress, the proposition has nevertheless attrncted much atten tion and has giver rise to no little dis cussion among public moo. There has been a general study of the problems prosented, particularly by the representatives of those States which have adopted the-to the Re publioans-obnox ious educational tests, and these men have had many inquiries p ut at them by their leas immediately interested collenarnes. South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana are the States whose consti tutions or election lnws are most ob jected to by the Republicans-at least by those Repalicans who are engaged in the present agalftlon-and the Rep resentatives in Congress from these States have had many inquiries fired at them during the past week. One of the most prominent members of the South Carolina delegation is Congressman Stanyarne Wilson, of the Spartanburg dintrict. Mr. Wilson, I who is one of the best known lawyers of his State, has naturally had occasion to study the election subject a good deal during the past three or four years. He is a firm believer in the validity of the constitution and election laws of t his State and does not hesitate to give reasons for the faith that is in him. I asked Mr. Wilson what he thought of the proposed reduction of the South's representation in Congress. "My first impression Is that this Is C but another illustration of the sinner's realization of the truth of the biblical philosophy that 'whatsoever a man 1 soweth, that shall he also reap.' The Republican party sowed the wind when it forced upon the people of the South I the suffrage amendments of the con- 8 stitution; it has been reaping the 1 whirlwind of increased Democratic f representation in Congress and the electoral college for the last quarter of a century. "The consequences of those amend ments have been most disastrous to that party and the rapid development -of the South necesiarily portends to them the complete and unalterable as cendency and dominance of the Demo- u cratic party unless something like that they are now talking about can be ac- t complished. "In every Congressional and Presi dential election the Republicans are confronted with the mighty vote of the t solid South, far outnumbering the n equally solid vote of the New England 0 States. Every election is a supreme a struggle for them to ca-ry New York, a Illinois, Indiana and a few other doubt- d ful States. If the South's representa- a tion could be cut in half then perma- c nent control of the government could t be practically assured, and it is not sur- t prising, therefore, that some of their . eaders and some of their papers should advocate such a revolutionary step. It a is their only salvation. p "They realize their stupidity in J Aidopting those suffrage amendments. sl They were unable to look into the fu- t Sure. True, they were able to make t the negro vote valuable to them for a h few years while the South was being L robbed by the carpet-baggers and the free-booters, but they failed to calcu late upon the operation and the inevit- f, able effects of the eternal law of white t supremacy. And now they are ready, f having begun to realize that the white h men of the South have redeemed and d disentralled their States for all time to come, to accept the so-called disfran- e onisement of the negro in order that ~ the representation of the Southern ~ Statem may go with their quondam pro tege and instruinents. "They have lost all sympathy for the negroes and are glad to see the 'dis- C franchisement.' 5 "It is not difficult to discuss their t hopes and wises, but it is extremely aI difficult for me to see how they can ever be realized,'' continued Mr. Wil- t son. "In the first place if Congress C should attempt to cut down the repre- U aenlation under the provisions of those C sections of the fourteenth amendment which they are quoting, the act could not pass muster before the supreme e court of the United States. That court r has decided, over and over again, that dl suffrage is not a right, but a privilege' or franchise' and further, that it is I subject wholly and only to State con- v trol and legislation, with this single e qualification or limitation, namely, that E heSaeshall make no discrimination 1 as to the suffrage of its oitizens on ac. a count of 'race, color or previous condi- d tiou.' No man can claim the right to / vote, as against his State's Jaws, unless that discrimination is made. If the State does not accord him the right to c vote, he cannot, under the deoisions, a claim that he has been denied a right t which he never had, or that such im- d aginary right has been abridged. c "The State has the power to place e any restriction it chooses upon the ex-a ercise of suffrage by its citizens in the c Way of regulation, registration, educa- t, tional qualification and so forth, just s as long as that restriction is not based ~ upon 'race, color or previous condi-i "If a State should im pose such illegal ~ restriction or abridgement, whether by constitutional convention or by act ofr Leg islature, such a law would be a nullity and consequently could not deny or abridge any right to any one. Therefore it would follow under the decisions that that part of section ? of the fourteenth amendment is in effect a nullity. If representation can only ~ be reduced by a State's denying and abridging rights it had no power to deny or abridge, there can be no re duction or representation. The de- 'y cisions leod inevitabiy to that result. "Any 'disfranchisement,' as these a editors and politIcians prefer to call it, IJ or denial of suffrage or abridgement of suffrage, that would come within the terms of that second section would itself be absolutely null and void and a incapable of entailing any conse- a quences." Mr. Wilson believes that entirely I outside of the legal question, there is" " nira tne supreme court coukt safely be relied upon to undo any legis lation by Congress reducing represen tation. But as a matter of possibility,' said he, "I do not think that such leg islation will be attempted. The Ite publican party, in the first place, bat able lawyers both in the Senate and House who would discountenance such effort; it has also able politicians whc would not like to bring upon their heads and names the condemnation o country and of posterity; it will have but a small ma'ority in either cham ber of the new Congress and it is hard ly within the reahna of probability that a suflicient number would reepond tc the party lash to carry through both bolies a measure of such high-handed robbery. Indeed, it will be hardly pos. sible for the fifty-sixth Congress t( make an apportionment based upon v census not yet begun, and unless all signs fall, the fifty-seventh Congress It going to be safely democratic in the popular side, if not in both branches. "No act could be framed which could with even approximate accuracy make proper reductions for each of the States. "You must remember that good old Massachusetts, pious Connecticut and ther Eastern States, as well as as some :f those west of the Ohio, have their suffrage qualification which shut their 31tizens off from the polls by the hun )reds and thousands. "The Australian ballot, which is a ievere educational test, prevents other housands from voting. The Empire state, New York, would have some hing to say; so would the great >Torthwest. "So far as the South is concerned, ,he attempted reduction would be a ittle premature. Mississipi, South Jarolina and perhaps Louisiana would )e the only States whose constitutions ould be pointed to as refusing, by heir educational tests, suffrage to any onsiderable number of their citizens. .eorgia, North Carolina, Virginia, 7exas and other States of the South Lave not, for instance, joined the pro ession. "No, the scheme is illegal and im Iracticable, and will vanish into thin ir just as will its twin apparition-the iroposed interference with Southern actory labor by Congress for the ben fit of the Northern mille." GEN. HAMPTON A C6M1MER.-The ,olumbia State gives a very interest ng incident of Gen. Hampton, which courred a few days ago, as follows : Though Gen. Wade Hampbon, one of he few surviving lieutenant generals I the Confederacy, is within a few says of celebrating his 81st birthday, ie performed a characteristic feat a ow mornings ago, showing he has lost Lone of his old time dash and courage. [is feat was Indeed very much like hat of Wheeler's at Santiago though iore difficult of performance by reason f the fact that the aged warrior has cork leg, and had no tree limbs to Id him. It was yet very early on Sun. ny morning when one of the servants t Gen. Hampton's residence near the ity came to him and informed him hat sparks had fallen upon and ignited be roof of the house, which was then urning. The old general without ermitting any of the household to be wakened hastened out and himself roceeded to climb out upon the roof. teaching the blaze he, with the as stance of his servant, managed to ex Enguish the llames. It was not until ae breakfast hour that any of the ousehold were aware of the fire or of 2e aged soldier's risky but effective limb upon the roof. The incident was not known to but )w of the general's friends until yes 3rday, and they are -9 proud of his )at as of any of those daring charges e led during the Avil war. In a few ays he will celebrate his 81st birth ay at his home, and no doubt the ccasion will be made a very happy ne for him by his friends and ad 11: ers. A WORD FOR THE (CIETTE.-The igarette baa -never had a good word aid for it. This has not hurt the ma erial welfare of the cigarette to any ppreciable extent, but it may have urt its feelings. Now the turning in be long lane has come. In Camp ~hurchmari, Ca., a man was dying of neu moi. The tale is told that he raved a last cigarette smoke, and the hysician said ho might as well have as not, since it was only a matter of iinutos when he would be beyond the each of earthly distractions. The ylng soldier accordingly had the nail in his coffin," which lhe desired. [e inhaled a few breaths, was seized !ith a violent Mt oI coughing and is ow on the road to recovery. 'I'he isale may well be true. A thing that stinks ke the cigarette ought to combino 11 the curative powers of a whole rug shop.-New York Commercial Ld vortiser. -A simple remedy for a sudden hill is to drink a cup of as hot water s can be swallowed, but if it isn't ob sinable or the sufferer " would rather le than take it," as is sometimes the see, then resort to a simpler method, hat of inhaling three or four breaths nd expanding the lungs to their full stoextent, holding every time tihe in aled air as long as possible and then lowly letting it forth through the ostr i l. In so doing the inflation of the ing sets the heart in such quick me lon that the blood is driven with nusual force along its channel., and o runs into the tiniest veins. This adiates a glow down to the toes and nger tips, and sets up a quick reaction gainst tile chill. Trhe whole effect is D stir the blood and set it in motion as eom rapid exercise. -J. Frank Wheaton, a member of he present Legislature in Minnesota, the~ first colored man who ever eat in bat body. He was elected by a con bituency of 9,000 voters, only fifty of !hom are colored men. -i t has been said that all the mean ets of his life are quickly brought ofore a drowning man. The same might be said of a candidate for office. A counterfeit dollar may pass all right for short time, but its sure to be found out t last. The genuino dollar has the U. 8. overnment back of it, the genuine Mili ator Linisntent has the guarantee of its lakers. Money back ii it don't give satis. iction in the treatment for Rheumatism' [ouralga and an painaat...sl vob.. I FROM ROCKIRS TO THE GUI THlE WONDERS OV ItitOATION The Indlian Verritory Making Greal Progress Under the Lead of Whit( Moi-The Now Texas A State ol Pronise-Cold Woather in New Or leans. Ualtimoro Sun. Mr. Rtichard H. Edmonds, editor ol the Manufacturers' Record, who It traveling through tho South and Southwest with Mr. Jo. n E. Soarles, the noted New York linancior, write. from Hot Springs, Ark., to his brother. in-law, Mr. I. S. Field, of Baltimore, telling of some of their experiences. The letter is as follows . "Since I wrote you from Denver we have had an interesting and varied ex porience. All of it, however, very pleasant. Leaving Denver, we stop pod a while at Colorado Springs. We gazed on Pike's Peak, some 14,000 feet high, but, remembering rather forcibly that the mercury was making love to zero with a great deal of carnestuess warmth, I might say, if such a word wore permissible in this casc-it was deemed a little wise to defer our trip to the top of the Peak to some, more propitious seasen. "From Colorado Springs wo went down to Holly, Prowers County, Col., to investigate the greatest irrigation enterprise in this country, and one well fitted to rank alongside of govern mental irrigation work in Egypt and India. In that part of Colorado gen erally known as the arid region, agri culture without irrigation is practi cally impossible, but with good irriga tion the Irnd blossoms like the rose and propo' ty worth a dollar or two an acre before the introduction of irriga tion advances to $25 and $50 and $100 an acre when once a good and perma nent system of Irrgator, has been de voloped. To tell you of the yield of fruits and vegetable and grain on irrigated land around Holly, even if supported by affidavits, might test my reputation for veracity. Prcsuming that my reputation in that direction is moderately fair, I do not want to put it to the straining point. Even tuougli Mark Twain declares 'Be good and you will be lonely,' I prefer to hold on to the claim for truthfulness. "But coming back to Holly and Its irrigation interests. Soveral years ago Mr. Searles and three New York friends undertook the reorganization of a small irrigation enterprise which had failed before its work was well under way. They bought it out and then concluded to enlarge its scope on a scale commensurate with the advan tages of the country. What they have done deserves to rank as one of the greatest enterprises of the day. They purcbasvd about 150,000 acres of land in what is known as the Arkansas Val ley of Colorado, and though it is really the valley of the Arkansas river, it has an average elevation of about 3,000 feet above the sea level and stretches out for miles in an almost un broken plain nearly as flat as the prali rios of Texas. Realizing that the safety of irriga tion depends upon an unfailing supply of water and that sometimes the river might be too low to furnish enough to meet the needs of farmers, they de termined to introduce storage reservoir system. While this is very cottly it insures a regular water supply, and thus adds largely to the value of the land. Aftor full investigation they found some natural basins above their property and, securing this land,under took to develop what is probably the most extensive reservoir system ever built for any private onterprise in this country or abroad. Their riesorvolirs now cover 14,000 acres of ground, and in some places there is an extrome tremo depth of 910 feet of water. In the winter time the overflow from the rIver and melted snow from the distant mountains are turned into the r'escr voirs, thus furnishing a full supply of water for an entiro year if the river should be low. These reservoirs will carry a reserve suppIly suilicient t', cover with water 180,000 acres of land one foot deep. You can lgure this out in gallons if your fancy runs that way. On the prop~erty the company has 350 miles of canals speedily built andl head gates and dams constructed as~ though intended to last until Gabriel blows his horn. There are also i100 miles of teloplone line. Those ligure give you somue Idea of the magnitude of this property, which is owned abso lutoly by Mr. Soarles and three asso elates, and u pen all of this gigantie undertaking there are no bonds and no debts. The local manager at Holly is Mr. M. Wiley, well known to many Baltimorians, as ho lived in Baltimore for some years, and numbers among his friends many of the leading people of the city. As you know, the Colorado .people talk a great deal about the clearness of their atmosphere and are always tell ing of how visitors are deceived by imagining that dlistant mountains are only a few milee away. One story that illustrates this is that a tenderfoot from the East, shortly aft'r his arrival, ar.d before he had learnedl how dec-p tivo are distances in that climate, au nounced his decision at the break'ast table to take a walk to the mountains, which he supposed to be two or three~ miles away. No one told him that thery were thirty or forty miles off. After breakfast he started, and though lhe walked hour after hour' the mnountauins seemed to bei ever receding from him. Late in the afternoon a tr aveler met him at the side of a ditch a foot or two wide busily stripping off his clothes. When asked wbat he was doing the tenderfoot said : "I am preparing to swim the river." "Swim the river?" said the traveler. "Why, that is not a river ; it is only a ditch a foot or two wide, and you can step over it." "Oh, no,'' said the tenderfoot, "you can't fool me twice in the same day---this is a river ten miles wide." [3ut enough of Colorado. From Houly we went through Indian Territory, but Indians were scarce. The white man prediominates, and before the advance of Angkr-mSron methods and civilIza tion the Indian is dloomed to see his power steadily wane in that great re gion. It is a rich country; rich in ag riculture and in some minerals; it has vast coal weath, and a couple of million of tons were mined last year. The territory is increasing its cotton production rapidly, having raised over 300,000 bales last year and promising, so its people claim, to raiso 1,000,000 bales ivo years hence. At prcsont a w hite mitan cannot secure a deed to any land, and it is rather in toresting to see a place like Muscogee, for instance, with 4,000 or 5,000 whites busy at work doing an immonso trade, two or three banks in operation and new buildings going up, without any one having a dcod to the property on which he has built. In a year or two the Indiana will be able to secure indl vidual titles to lands, as their lands, in stead of being hold by the tribos, each one getting, according to the tribe to which he belongs, from 150 to 100 acres. This is for every indian-man, woman and child -and so a family of half a dozen may got from 1,000to :,600 acree. This is a pretty strong inducement to encourage large families. Then In dians can give titles to the land, and the white man will soon own most of it. From Indian Territory we crossed Oklahoma and then into Texas-tho Stato of all States in size-and, ac cording to the vlows of all loyal Texans (and all Texans are loyal), the State of all States in every particular. Texas 18 too big to talk about. It is so big that when its people wanted a now Capitol they could afford to give some Chicvgo capitalists 3,000,000 acres of land to pay for it. Thus they had the capitol without putting out any cash, and as soon as the land passed from the State to private parties it became taxable. In this way the building of a State house at a cost of $2,000,000 or $3,000,000 proved to be a sourco of revenue to the State. Of course, it owned 3,000,000 acres of land less, but as it had about 100,000,000 acres or so lying around loose it could cut off 3, 000,000 acres and never mis it. How big is Texas, did you ask? Well, I won't try to tell, but when you are in the northern ond of the Stato you are closer to St. Paul, Minn., than to the southern end of the State. They tell a story of a man down there who had a reasonably large ranch-not one of the big one, just a moderate-sized one-on which the front gato was twenty tailos from the houso-a very conveniot evenlug walk for lovers who want to swing on the gat3 before saying good night. As to crops Texas is now raising about 3,500,000 bales of cotton, nearly 150,000,000 bushels of grain, having long since taken the advice of a friend of the State, who in early days said : "Raite more corn and less - and a wide diversity of other orops.'' The old Texas, the Texas when the best man was the one who could shoot first, passed away years ago, and now it is a State of magnificent business in terests, of great energy and enterprise and of a splendid civilization-a State of education, of religious advancement and with a future of glorious promise. No wonder every Texan is proud of hia home when he sees its vamt resources and ever-increasing advancement in all that makes a country great. As you may imagine, we found some cold weather in Colorado and Texas. Pot a couple of weeks it would have been a treat to see the thermometer register a few degrees above zero. We became very much accustomed to zero weather, but as our car was always comfortable night and day, and, hav ing only four on board, were never crowded, we have had a jolly good I time. When we stopped for a few hours at small towns a di ivo over the prairies with thc thern-oactor fooling L around zero Uecame a rather pleasant t feature. It was not until we got to Now Or- r leans to attend Mardi Gras that we c really suffered. We knew it was very t cold as soon as we reached that city and that the air was peculiarly sharp I and penetrating. Still we were trying i to believe that we wore not very cold, when a~brother-in-law of Skelton Wil- ( liams, living in New Orleans and known as an absolutely reliable man, told us la all seriousness that it was so cold that with ai bIg lOn fire in his diiningr room hot coffee froze before he could finish his breakfast, and had tor be served as coffee ice-creamn. The temperature -of our feelings immediately dropped, and t len anoth or man came along and told of a friend who had taken a glass of beer which had froze inside of him and caused a sevor-e attack of pneumonia. We grew still colder aind decidled to loave New a Orleans before we frce.t iteaching Memphis Saturday night c we tacked our ear to the Hot Springs train1 and came down here to sp~end Sunday. it has been a glorious day of brilliant suntshin11, with nmot the faint- 'j est sp~eck of a cloud since sunrise, and e a warmth of air which, addeid to a hot minasrai water baith, has once more started our congealed blood into circu latIon. -The fatherly achool directors of Kane Township, SchnylkIll Valley, PennsylvanIa, are hound that there shall be no flIrting among the pretty young women teachers in their district. They have under consideratIon a clause to be inserted in next year's agree ments by which the school ma'ams shall bind themselves not to receive marked atontion from young men unless they have the consent of the preside~nt andl secretary of the board. The gir ls must also give their wordl of honor that, they will not marry (during the school term.t -The Southern Passenger Associa tion has just knnuod a circulcr authoriz ing rates to the Confederate Votoranb' limunion at Charleston on the dlatte M1ay 10-13. The rate named is I cent,~ a mile in each dircection. Tickets will be on sale from points within a hiun dred ilies of Charleston May 9i, 10, 11 andI 12, goodato return uint il May 18. lie yond a hundre'd mnics, they will only be soltd May 8, 9 and 10, butt good to> return until May 21. -France hats more persons over 610 years of ago than any other country ; Ireland comes next,. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Uirnaturaof 1 2$A NIW ItAIbLROADS;,IN TH H STATH. Teio Chali'rtr Granitel aidlcao a levival in ItailroatI Construct ion. The Columbia correspondent of the Charleston Evening Post says that railroad building In South Carolina is to have the biggest revival known in recent years, judged by the number of new charterb granted by the Goneral Assembly just closed. According to these charters there are eleven new railroads projected, having in round nunubers an aggregate length of 500 miles. In almost every instanco the lines are bhlort, but a study of a rail road map w ill show that their object in each cate is to connect, with one of the big systems of the State, so as to create comn petit ion with its rival systems. The big lines are already in operation, and these will fill in the gaps and serve as feeders to them. On the whole the Pee l3eU Is the most favored section for theso new roads. ILt has long been under the do minmation of the Coast, Line, but by the construction of several short lines pro poses to tap tilo Seaboard Air Line, and In this way enjoy the benefit of the two large systems of railway instead of one. One of the now roads just chartered, which will be maost instrumental in doing this, Is the Carolina and North ern Hailroad Company. Its proposed 1 route 1s from Laumberton, N. C., where connection with the Seaboard Air Line will be had, to Marion, a dIstance of forty miles. The road would traverse a section lying betweCI the LFlorence and tho Wilmaington, Columbia and Augusta railroads, both of the Coast Line system. Prom Marion the Char ter gives the road the right to extend to the coast. Georgetown, a distance of seventy-live miles, is the objective point.. This latter part (if the road would onen uip an immense section, (qual to three counties, in which there le not a road. A kindred road to this is the Marl boro, MarIon and ilorry railroad. It proposes to make its connection with the Seaboard at Hamlet, N. C., almost paralleling the Cheraw and Diarlington from there to Bennettsville, and from the latter place to continue its line to MarIon. Its character gives the road bie right to extend its line to Conwny and l'ort liarrelson, thus bringing it to tidewater navigation, but it is a questiod if the road will be projected beyond Marion if the Carolina an! Northern extends its line co Ge-orge town. Were the road built as contem plated in its charter its length would be about ninety miles. The Bennettsvillo and Osborne is a short, road, just eighteen miles long. It extends between the two poitits named, and is a shorter way to get a connection with the Seaboard Air Line than the route contemplated in the chartt.r for the Marlboro, Marion and Horry railroad. If the road from Heui nottsville to Hamlet Is built, then it it, improbable that the road to Oborne will be constructed, as each has the Mamo object and would pass through virtutlly the same territory. The Conway Seashore Railroad Comi any Is a corporation of Conway buli- t less men, who have already begun. ( vork on a road thirteen miles in length 'I o run from Conway to the beach. h chey proposic to put upl) a big summn icer- s lotel, but the priune object is to ut ilize b 0,0U0 acr-es of wooded lands. This a arge tract of timber land has remained il mtouched up to the present time on d ,ccount of it being impossible to get, w he timber out for shipment. ThIk t allroad will cause tihe establishment si I one of the biggest, Ilnumber ai IIls in i1 he country. u The Wilson andl Summerton, or a-, g te charter calls it, thc Northwestern I( tailroad Company of South Carolina, t a thirty ilies of road from Sumterca to fi 'amden, now in coum se of construe ion by the Atlantic Coast Laine. It ,Ill give Camden two railroads inustead l fone. The North and South Caroliuna Hail oad Company is by3 far the biggest, e ailway chartered( by the last Genoa-al n, tasombly. T1he road is to run from h Vadcsbor-o, N. C., to Camden anid g hence to Columbia. The length of b; he road in this State will be about s ighty-liv yemniles. It, wIll auni dilago- t ally through Chesterlield county, y r'hich is almrost without a-ailroads, n, ca-oss to Camidena, and to thbe capital of g he State, throughout its whole length t, peoning up a terrItory which is mnor-e c need of raIlroads than any othber b cetion of the State But, to add to its ft m por tance are ts ou tsid e con n ce tion s. f< hli road will traverse North Carol ina, d unnecting w ith thbe Atlantic tand D)uan- a liie at Miltom, N. C. The Atlanatic o1 nd D~anv iile is ai road ow ned by l'aag- n ish capital ists, andl rnis f roan Nor folki{, r V'a.. to Dianville, thence to Miltont, N. d 3. The immense benaeits of the cona- ta struction of thIs road are thbena readily t sooni. It gives Coluniia aanother bigh aystem passinzg throu'Iih one of thbe v ichest sections of the State, giving to t. icr anot her outlet, andl at, thme samae t imzo, brInging her into touch with a i oction of the State whIichi the pr-esenit, oundabout way of areachiing makes it t ulmzost Iampossible1 to have anythiing to a Tlhe South Carollra and Geor gia 0xtension RailIroad Comapanay was si.ub- t >Ornaly fouight in the Senate. The a ou tbh CarolIia and G eorgi a ha a ob,- d ained control of the Ohi lti ver and S harleston railroad, wichdaa rn:, fr-omb ;armden to lBlacksburg. . It Is from the latter Place that, It, Is ow p~ropiosed to bi ld a line of twen ty l riles to Galiney, thbence to Clifton and ti partainburg. As Mr. A rcher- and other w rieonds so u Kgently Insisted this short, i ie' woulo a nabie thbe Soutth CarolIia I rid Georgia to compott with the el iouthern rail way, and woulId fr-ee tbe hb ianufacturinag section of tebI ledmaont w roam tho dIiscrimnination of a single tI allroadl. Ca Th'le peoplea of Un Ion, New berry, Sa diI uida and Elgelield, too, ar-e alhve to is lie Iampor tancu if rail road emnpi leti - bi Ion. T1heo Unioni azd Auegu-,ta rai aoad hi iill hr. a lIncm of about twenty miles bie- ti wa- U~11n ion and soime linrt on tho ci Kanboard A e LIaie, probabihy Whlilt- ci nI re's. At this poinlt the r-oadl will be a-t xtendod under the name of the Whit- r1 ario, Newherry andl Augusta railroad. bl ho route proposed( is that followed by w he old l'hree C.'s. If completed the a oad would run from Unzion to Newher. I y, through the conter of Saluda amnd b Gdgelloid counties, rand by the contyi. eeat to each and on to Augusta. TI whole line from Union to Augus would not be over 100 miles in longt aind would pass through a section ba ly In neon of such a road. Tie people of Union have on foot pla to build a road from that town I lebnn Springs. Tihe distance is onl sixteen miles, and this, too, would gh them another outlet. The mattor Is j the hands of the most ontorprisl men of that town, and it would not I surprising if work woro not soc started on the Union and Glenn Sprin ra il road. The last and the least of the seoveri railroads pla)nned Is the Duo West an Donalns. It will be only four mlt long, but will give Duo West railwa monnoction with the rcst of the worlk 1'ho road when completed will b )perated by the Southern. hoW IS TillS FORt HARMONY 1ill Arip Gets Upset by Northeri Laiteratutre--Alfa Golden Wedling This Monthi. David saith, " lerc, not thyself be amuse of evil doers, for they shall b mt down like the grass and withei iway." And Solomon saith, '' lIo tI ittereth blander Is a fool,' and some )ody else saith, " Avenge not thyself >ut wait on the lord.'' it, takes all o bis Scripture to quiet a man nowa lays and to keep him calm and serene know t1hat I am old eough to ho 1 >hilosoplier, and therefore sh ouild no ct1 had men dilsturb my tranquility nit it fatigues iy imdlignation to rent meo of these Northern Leopublicai lewspapers. I read an oditoria 'esterday whieh said that every Senat ,or who voted against, the treaty was 1i ror the hull where lenedict Arnol< And de tierson Davis had gone. Accord o g to Solomon .h at man is t fool, an it doesn . become me to get Ilad witi % fool. My great concern is that h w ill make fools of the (00,010(t dall readers that h is papJer boasts of, for I is a fact that mtos), People, hank o their favorito itper next to thel -hurchi or religious cwnvictions. Ti bondency is to make the 600,000 believ that Mr. Davis was a traitor, and thi is (quivalent to oaying that I and a lontiederatu veterans are traitors, an that makes me and my wife to fret bi -ause of evil doers, whi0h David sa) wo must not do. We te trying ju: now to poseo as moek and humble pi iltrchs iike Moses and to cherish n resentments, but it is hard to do unle wo quit reading Northern literaturt Another editorial in thbe same pape says that Dewey says that " in times ( war the I)imocrat are traitorm, and i tim1es of peace thbey are fools." Whi kind of a ,nan is that who edIts thi puper-that McKinley organ. I te YOU, mly breth ren, there is no use i L'rying peace, wihen there is no peaci it is like a eampmeeting revival wher 1 undreds are converteld for a fo lays and thon lapse and relapse int ,heir samoe old waiyH. ilandshakinj 611d promises don't, signify geniuin :onveresion. A few years ago Henry Grady elec ihied the nation, and, as John Tmtph irav s said," loved it into peace.' 'hose words are upon hi; monu1mont, ut wihere is the peace ? It d ident, last ix months. ile was hardly burled efore tho Northern press bogtun o us gain hoht, the nitgger, and they kept ,p 1diigently until NcKinley came own here and said kind words, and e. gave h1 im a lovefe! st and the nation as harmon!zed, and the wise men tid, "lehold, how sw eet and pleasant , is for brothbren to dwell together In iity." And now all of a sudden the ratI ~lepublican organ shake its gory >eks and 8ays8, "t . ieorsonl lvis was Ia 'ai tor, and lie Is in hllI.'" llow is that >r harmony ?" Ilut, the Scriptures say "'wait on the l1 >rd"' uand " I have seen the wIcked ourish like a groeen bay tree,'' andl so reckon we will have to0 wait. I re iembn er when 11orace Gireel y's paper as juist as5 malignant, and yet the old imn went secutrity on .Jehferson D~avis's otud and0( got Ithim out of the hi Ithy dun doln w here General Miles had fettered imk, and1( I 1east Ilutler, who stole our poons, signed~ tihe b)Ond w ith him. &i bere 1s no0 telling what, will happen 1I 'o wIll only wa1it. I 'like the ltt iovement of the good 1)eople of lPitz, erald. It looks more like hiarmnony 'Ian anvthing I have seeni sInce the Ivil war. 'Ilho mon~f who wore th( Iuc and the gra) !Lnd their sons5 havt >rmeod a iliItary corne.uy and asked ri i corpo)ration atnd an outfit, for the afense of our State and to keep peaco home and2( presetrvo law and -dIer). That Is real o td lasting frater i ty. The fact, Is, thbat tic Northern en have ever east, their fortunes jw n Stuth and1( dom ici led with our Lopile but what, they fell in love wIth 10)m, antd the longer they stayed tihe utter they liked us. I think I will sit litz ~gera&ldI and)1 pay1 tmy respect~s athat,\ Yattkee colony5, antly mIp ny hat, :) tha lt mt)ili tary comt)pany. We give a ordli at welIcotme to all Northern'l p00 Ic wh c11 ome to stay, for thtey are thle 0est people( the y hatve got, up thei re, 0( d i it)hInnin out, thir~ I good society ii ghlty fast,. Peools and fatnatics don t arte to comne andi that fellow who edits 'lat pbaper woouldet c ross the lIne for ttillion dollat's, unless lie camoe In inguiise. We woutldent, h1urt, him1, for (IOtloon say lie Is a fool, but, our stll Pys might annoyl~t) him nd mnake his ,ay unOpleasant,. I r'ejoice to se1) that North Caroilina to ha ive a proporty andl an ed uca Otial qua'i1.3lietion for every voter- - hite and0( black. When Georgia fol ws suit to o1(1 lip Van Winkle and 'mnislana and( South Galrol Iia we can oct, a respectable logIslaturo and a~ve a dlog law pas~sedI and give to lows the right, of sulfrage on taxa 1)n anrd to all1 women the sa~me rights tteerninog the educatIon of our chil 'en. W hat a monstrous Injustice it to choose women for our teachers, it exclude them from our school Jards or fromn any choice in the selec on. We tmen consign to their tender uro and training our little ones, but tin the exclusive right to elect or Iject at, our pleasure and to make the ales alnd rogula.tions a~nd choose the )oks for them to teach. lhut all this ill11h0 refor'med In due or ur.due time nd they will hamve to wait on the Lord, reckon. Many reforms have already een made withIn moy memory concern ig the fe malo sex, but. more na want to ed, and I would like to see them made Ia before I die. L, Well, I am weary of writing and will I- dismiss the subject until after the wedding. My folks made me address a most of the invitations and there were o 500 of them and each one had to be ad y dressed inside and outside and it made 3 me tired to write near a thousand n names. When they ordered the 500 I g was amazed, for I couldn't imagine we w had that many friends who felt inter n estod in our antiquity, but they kept g on adding to the list until the pile was exhausted and the postage broke met it and now all that vre can say to our d friends is that if any have been omitted is please to hold up your right hands and y come any how. Standing room will be [. free and air and water abundant. The o 7th of March will soon be here and our children have determined to gather at the old homestead for the last time, perhaps, and to rejoice with us in the goodness of the Lord. The children are the promoters of this golden wedding and my wife and I are trying to be calm and serene. BILL Anp. HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK, Queer Event. Caught a,id Chronicled By Newspapers All Over the Land. New York San. The meanest thief on earth has turned up-or rather hasn't turned up -in Battle Crook, Mich. Ie broke 6 Into the house of a colored man who had died during the day and stole the suit of clothes he was to be buried i in. SLittle Johnnie Bixby, a three-year I old, of Jackson, Mich., swallowed a - six-inch brass chain one day last week, t and got over it without any pathetic I obituary poetry being written about - nim. 1 A Chicago woman, after eight at i tempts at suicide by hanging, has at i inst succeeded. y The weather was so cold in Kansas t last week that a negro who broke out n of jail over night came back to keep r from freezing. U A Londoner, who doesn't smoke, but n always takes a cigar when he dines 6t out at dinner, has a collection of fifty ii years' accumulation, all daly labeled d and dated. 3- Mrs. Lottle Bunker, a Chicago wheel '8 lady, has a record of 19,000 miles for it last year and 4-4,000 milbs for the last 6- three years. She became Mrs. Bunker o befor3 aho iook to wheeling. 3 An icoboat, going at the rate of a mille a minuto up in the Bar Harbor r neighborhood, ran ashore among the J rocks and didn't kill its crew. They n picked up a cord of toothpicks, but no 1, iceboat. t A Ballville (0.) school teacher has i been asked to resign becauso he pun i Ished his scholars by making them 1hold their noses in a small ring which e he had drawn on the blackboard. The v punishment came under the head of L " cruel and unusual." 3 One firm in Kentucky has this sea 3 son shipped out of the State 138,000 turkeys, weighing ,600,000 pounds. Most of the them went to Boston. A slot machine concern in Youngs town, 0., says that its prolits last year on 200 machines was $15,000. A Philadelphia man, patterning after a Now York woman, committed suicido last week by locking himself in a trunk and taking poison. i, chopping down a hollow tree near Covington, Ind., the other day, the choppers noticed a peculiar odor of gas, and tossing a lighted paper into the hollow, there was a flash and a jar, arid the tree was destroyed by the Ilames. it is thought a root penetrated a natural gas pocket. About this time last year Alexander Bailey, a little old Uoosior of 88 sum moers, living near Ililisboro, Ind., mar ried Miss Jennio Scott, aged 67 years, and last week Mrs. Baleoy became the happy mother of twins, it is necd less to remark that Mr. Bailey ia tile proudest man in the wild and wooly west. Shleriff Palin, of Oldham County, Ky., is thrifty. He has a sweetheart in Jlfo~rsonyllio, Ind., and having oc casion to go over there last week to borro'w a scatfold to hang a negro on up in Oldham, he concluded he would kill two birds with one stone and save an extra trip) and expenmo, and married the girl, lie returnedl with his bride andl the scaffold. An Atchison printer, hack from the army, in setting up a musical program for a Kansas symphony show, got Mo zart's Twelfth Mass on the bill as Mo zart.'c T.;:olff.h Massachusetts. In lIne with the~ discussion arising frequently as to the chianging of the climate in this latitude, it may be stated that last week a mani died ia Newark, N. J., of hydrophobia, and a Louliilleo, Ky., jury sent a man to the lunatic asylum as the result of suzd stroke. A n interesting young man of Lima,. 0., last week shot his swoetheart, his rival and hImself in the order named. ills act would have been more com mendable if he had begun at the other endl of the list of fatalities. Tlhe F'ebruary mooeting of the Opti mist club of Cincinnati was presided over by its president, S. M. Ji'elton, in New York, over a long-distance tele phone. Hie peorformed all the functions. of t-he oflice successfully, and several' respionises to toasts were made by absent members in the same way. Each guest had a telephone receiver by his side at the table. The club was not charged full rates for the service, hence it retains its name. The X-ray was tried on a little girl of Paulsboro, N. J., who has been treated two years for nasal catarrh, and a gutta-percha button was dis covered in 'her nose. She is better now. An octopus has appeared in Kaw Val ley, Kas., in the shape of a protective cominon of farmers to hold up the priee of potatoes. A Cleveland, 0., jury has just die cided that 11 o'clock is as late as a young man should sit up courting his girl. That jury is evidently composed of fathers with daughter-s. A Kentucky farmer aged 80 years has announced himself as a candidate for the Legislature. An Order for 100,000,000 feet of lum ber has been received at the Vancou ver, 13. C., mills for railroad construe tion in China. It will take six years for the millsat ill u .