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rlHE ?EOP E'SJR V LI v. . . . VL9.--NO. 26. PICKENS S. C., THlURSDAY, JULY 20, 1899. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR MIEWOR8. MORGAN AND PUGH. 11 18 BRYAN AND ANTI-BRYAN. Senator Morgan Wants a Man to Suit the East-Ex-Senator Pugh Sticks to Bryan and t ree Silver. An interview with Senator Morgan, of Alabama, has created a sensation in political oiroles, because he does nob favor the renomination of Bryan. It has created much more of a stir, coming from Senator Morgan, than it would from most Damoorats. Of course it has given rise to all kinds of specu lation, prominent in all being the sug gestion that Morgan's friendship for Gorman may have had not a little to do with his talk. Senator Morgan is quoted as follows . " I very much fear that the D3mo cratic party of the East and North cannot be brought Into harmony with the Democratic party of the South and West until we have a candidate who is recognized for his wisdom and his will ingness to follow tWe instructions of his party when his party has the p ower to issue Its instructions through legislation. "I am a free silver man. I believe the free coinage of silver is right and that the country will not prosper as it should until silver has been restored to its proper place as one of our money metals, but at the same time I do not overlook present conditions and the situation that oonfronts us. To win we must be reasonable and wise. There can never be force and power in our party until we have united 16 as it was in the days when we stood solidly urder one banner and fought our battles against a common enemy. The quee tion that cught to give every member of the Democratic party concern is : How can that condition of affairs be restored ? " My personal views may be of little imp )rtance, but I have an idea which, if worked out, would, I believe, bring the Democratic party together and get out every vote In the country for the man who would be nominated for President. In my opinion we should nominate a man who would ha willing to say to his party something like this: " 'When my party is able, in Con. gres, to pass a free conage bill, I will not veto it, but will permit it to be come a law. Whatever my own opin. ions may be, I believe the combined wisdom of the men of my own party in -Congress is better than mine. It might be possible that I should not, personally, think a free coinage law the proper thing to enact, but if your representatives in Congress believe otherwise, if it is your judgment that such.a Iaw will be for the best interests of the country, such a law, when en acted by yoa, will stand.' " A man who will make such an an nouncement and live up to it could easily, I am sure, be elected by the Democrats to the presidential office. " Then, if the people saw fit in their respectijve districts to elect advocates of the free coinage of silver, we should have it. We would not have a repeti tion of that deplorable incident in 1894, when Pregldent Cleveland, repudiat ing his party and all that it stood for, vetoed the bill passed by both houses of Congress providing for the coinage of the silver bullion held in the treas ury. "When Mr. Cleveland eent that veto to a Democratic Congress he committed himself to the single gold standard and became no longer a Damocratic Presldent, elected on a Democratic platform. "Wb must get rid of Yhat we might call fanaticism and act like sensible men. Wnen we do this, Democracy will again become triumphant, and we will all work together in harmony. I belicvo a man can be found who, while not an extremist on the silver ques tion, will follow the will of his party expressed in legislation, and that, after all, is the way, and the only way, in which to settle this groat question. All the talking we may do on the stump will not bring about free .coin age, save only that in educating the people we may elect silver men to Con grsIt takes votes in Congress to brn sto free coinage, and after we have cast our votes that way we must have a President who will permit our will to stand. Until we have the votes we are fighting the air. Why, then, not nominate a man in whom the Democrats of all parts of the country have confidence, and then go about the business of electing free Bilver men to Congress ? " I could name several such men, but that is nob my province. It does not require a marked degree of greatness to make a good President. Common sense is of much more importance in that position. "I was discussing this question with some friends coming up from Virginia, and they all agreed that loyalty, abili ty, tact and common sense wore better factors in making a good administration than too high a degree of what is known as statesmanship. Pierce and Polk were not brilliant men, but they --were .good Presidents. I wish they were here now. " I permit no man to outrank me in loyalty to the cause of free silver. I taught that doctrin& when some of the tWon ,now controlling the Democratic -parby were yet unborn. But I see the uselessness of the party, North and South, being divided and continually -pulling the one against the other on t his money question. I believe tho suggestion I havye made would go a great- ways in once more uniting the * party, and that is what 1 want. "I want to see Democracy once more united and the principles of Demo * racy triumphant, but there is little use in endeavoring to accomplish it through impracticable means and me -thods. "I care not so much to know whether our candidate is a radical free silver man at. heart as I do to know that he will abide by the decision of Congress, if the Democrats have the power to put their policy into the statute books of the country. That is the test." EX-BENATOR PUGII DISAO~CES \VITH HAIS FORME~R COILGEAG1U.. asked ifh a edteinterview of -his old colleague, Senator John T. Morgab, on the question of what sort -- -of man the Democratic convention should nominate and what sort of plat form it should adopt .next year,. in-a crease the strength of the Democratic party in the election of a President. " 1 have read the interview and was greatly surprised and mortified," said the ex-Senator. "Senator Morgan says no man can question his fidelity to tve free coinage of silver, or deny the no cessity for its restoration in our monay system. " The question he asks and answers is 'How is this most important result to be accomplished?' He answers that the first and indispensable thing to be done is to unite-' bring together and solidify the divided and antagon istic elements of the Democratic party now existing in the East, South and West on the money question '-and, secondly, that such union can best be effected by nominating a man who has no ' extreme ' views and has expressed no 'extreme' opinions on the coinag6 question. "I do not question the sincerity or honLsty of Senator Morgan's convic tVons, but 1 feel constrained by my sense of duty to the Democratic party and the country to enter my earnest prote't against and condemnation of Morgan's interview. " What are we to understand by an 'extreme position on the money or coinage question Y' Is that part of the Chicago platform extreme ? Does an indorsement of the Chicago platform put a Democrat in an extreme post tion? What shall the next Democratic ,onvention do after it shelves Bryan ? ro be consistent the convention should amend te platform of 1896 as to get the party out of its so called present ' ex. treme' position on the coinage question and p'ace it in harmony with the con licting elements, and ospecially so as t to accommodate itself to the elastic I and broad gauge position of the new t 3ominee on the coinage question. How E is such a feat to be accomplished ? " My conviction is,' said ex-Senator Pugh, "that if theconlicting elements I A the Damocratic party can be united and brought into harmonious action on a ,he coinage question, which is a mani- a est impossibility, by shelving Bryan 1 and making a new platform, broad 1 mough to take on and sa-tisfy all gold itandard advocateg, and be endorsed f >y any nominee who may heve to rc- 1 iounce his life-long opinions against 'roe coinage and pledge himself to ap )rove any bill on that subject the De nocrats might pass through both I aouses of Congress, the party cannot )e very much divided, and can cer iainly be very easily united, as it would ihow itself withoutany fixed principles >n any subject. " If the Democratic party would so >ure more strength by trusting a no- t ninee who had been a lifelong enemy t >f free silver coinage on his pledge to I valve the veto power and approve I uch a bill if passed by the party that c ilected him, it would be a spectacle % inprecedented In history, but it would a >rove there would never be any free t ,oinage of silver if such a President r vas elected. e "Whatinfluence would a Democratic I resident with gold standard convic- 1 ions that he waived to insure his elec- V ion exercise in this great oflice ? t Nould he be silent pending a free ' ainage bill in Congress ? How would A ie distribute his appointments? How t nany DemocratB who had urged '] 3ryan's nomination and favored the 'hicago platform would receive ap )ointments ? "No, sir, it is a grave mistake of my ild colleague. I have had much poli ical experience. I have watched par ies and know their history. - My poll ical career has ended, but I am as nuoh as ever devoted to the Demo- t ratic party ar.d its principles as do ,lared in the Chicago platform. " I believe that William J. Bryan is he best organized and wisest ana most t eliable Democratic statesman now a lying, and ho is now better established a n the confidence of ihe American pee a )le as such a statesman, and is now ' tronger than ho ever was, and can be slected when nominated, as he will urely be, by the next Damocratic na- e ionai convention. " As to the next Democratic plat- e orm, with additional declarations against the manifold trusts growing >ut of the existence of the gold 1 'tandard and prohibitory tariff du 1ies ; also in favor of a vigorous rosecution of the existing war In I he Philippine Islands until peace I and order is established and the gov irning power and jurisdiction of the [Jnited States Is fully recognized a 1,broughout the archipelago ; also thata eace and order and the governing power of the United States is to be astablished, not for territorial exp~an sion or dominion of tlae United States,t but for the sole purp~ose of securing to the people of those islands better and more stable government, with all the | rights, liberty and privileges they show themsedlves by trial to be capable af exercising and enjaying in a condi-' tion of independent self government."1 THE s D usTRUCTION OF~ SPRUCE.-Ir 1810, according to George T. Craw ford, a forestry expert, there stood in the mountain districts of New Hasmpshire about 1,800,000 acres of primeval spruce forest, carrying about 10,000 feet, board measure, to the acre, or 16,000,000,000 feet in all. The demand for spruce for paper pulp, added to the- amount re q~uired for lumber, has reduced this area to 280,000 acres. The consump tion :of spruce for pulp is increasing at bho rate of 15 per cent, a year. Tno mills of Now York and New England make 720,000 tons of paper-pulp oach year, requiring more than 700,000,000 square feet, board measure, and st'rip ping 160,000 acres of forest land. Thi's rapid destruction of the avail able supply of spruce has lmnpressed up On mill-owners the Necessity of taking vigorous measures to secure new growth. The wasteful and wicked policy has prevailed of cutting the forest clean, not, leaving even a sapling standing. A now system, enforced in some of the tracts, will. save for rep~ro ducing the forest all trees of fourteen inches and less. Unless something is done to prevent the dlestruction the sup~ply of spruce will soon be exhaust ed.. -Ex-S3onator George F. Hlamlin, of Kansas, is the son of Europe Hlain, and had three uncles whose names were Asia, Africa and America. Vice President Hannibal Hamlin was the son of Africa. ROBER'T BONNER, PRINTER. 1118 INDUSI'tY AND SAtGAUITY. ie Becamo the Greatest Advertiser in tihe World-Thne ljo(Iger Was a Revelation to the Country. The career of Robert Bonner, who as publisher of The Ledger becamo the greatest advertiser in the world, Is one illustrating sagacity and indus try. He was born in Iamelton, Ire. land, in 1824, and came to this country at the age of lifteen years and began business life as an apprentice in the omposing room of The Hartford Cou rant-a printer's devil. His hours were from 6 o'clock in the morn ng antil 6 o'clock at night, and his wagee 'or the first year were $25, for the iecond $35, and for the third $45, with >oard and clothes in addition. He re ired from business several years ago North several millions, and only two rears ago, in the preface to his cata ogue of trotting horse stock, he wrote : " Since I began purchasing trotting iorses I have expended about $600,000 n this way. To those friends who lave criticised me for having paid so nuch money for horses I may be par loned for saying that I have given 6way a much larger sum than that for 'eligious and benevolent purposes." The Now York L-3dger in 1850 was a mall financial shet known as The derchants' Lcdger, and Robert Bon ier was a printer employed upon it. le had saved a little money, the pro )rietor wanted to sell the paper, and VIr. Banner bought it. He ran it for 6 while as a mercantile paper, thou urned it into a family story paper. le had a genius for advertising, and he way he advertised The Ledger was revelation to the country. Fanny Porn was the most popular voman writer of that time, but she kad never written for newspapers. She ad just sold 6.000 copies of a book, ind Bonner paid her $100 a column for story of ten columns. In telling of his story in later years, Mr. BInner aid : " Nearly every newspaper in he country published my extrava ,ance In paying $100 a column for a tory. I got $50,0CO worth of adverts ng out of the arrangement, and the oeople began to ask for The Ledger. 3afore this I had trouble in getting he news-stands to take The Ledger. .fter this they were glad to get it." He paid Henry Ward Beecher CIO 00 for his novel, "Norwood," and $2.000 a year to write from half to hree-quarters of a column a week for ['he lo-dger. He had Edward Everett, t that time tha leading statesman of he country along eertain lines, writ ng a series of articles for the L3dger. lo secured Mr. Beecher by sending a heck for $2,000 in the first letter he vrote to the great divine proposing a reekly letter. Mr. B-ccber's reply to his was: " I am almost dumb after eading your proposition, and must lear my head before I say a word." leccher accepted, however, just as Averett did. At that time Evereutt ras giving lectures around the coun ry to secure a fund for the purchase n reservation of Mount Vernon Ir. Bonner offered to give $10,000 to he fund if Everett would write for 'he Ledger. He spent $,250,000 in advertising his aper. He thought nothing of buying page at a time in the leading dailies. 'he circulation of 'rhe Ledver reached 00,000 copies. When It got to 150,000 opies he fired a salute of 150 guns in ,ity Hall pack, and started in to double he circulAtion. The Ledger adver isements were unlike those of any >ther publication. Mr. Bonner be hoved that if all advertisements in a >aper were displayed it was equivalent 0 no display. His advertsements vere always original. In those da/s 1 would secure as much advertising pace as $4 can buy now. He made he Herald publish a sixteen-page aper one day. It was printing eight ages, and1 Mr. Bsnner asked What pace he could have for a " big ad." ' Ali the space you want." the publish. r said. " All right, FIl take the ,hole paper," said Mr. Bonnor, and an xtra eight pages had to be added to bold .the news and the other advertise aents. Mr. Bionner bought Dexter after ho ad made a record of 2.17k on the luff ale track in 1867. That night he virote to a friend: "I saw Niagara nalls this morning for the first time, mud came down here to Baffalo this biternoon to see that other -groat won ler, Dexter, when he trotted in the inprecedented tIme of 2 17I. You cnow I always like to have the b St hings, and inasmuch as I could not my the Falls, I concluded to do the next best thing and buy Daxter. lie, vili go into my stable on the 10th of next month." The horse cost him $35,000, and Badd Joble said he would have the horse ack In three weeks, because Mr. IBon ner couldn't drive him on the road, D~oble was wrong. Mr. Bonner drove D~exter and later he drove Maud S anti 3unol and the other crack trotters he >ought, and every horse he purchased neant so much more advertising for tim and his great pr-operty, The [Ledger. Until he turned the publication of Ghe paper over to his sons, who have since turned it lute a monthly, owing to the keen competition of the Sunday newspapers, Mr. Bonner's sole interest in life was The Ledger. He~ had the story paper instinct largely developed. lie read with his own eyos every worn printed in The Ledger as long as he Ictively managed it. Hel read all wnanuscrlpts submitted and selected all those which ho deemed available. The contributor, no matter how humble and modest, no matter wheth sr a beginner or an established author with a hyphenated name, was always1 aourteously received ait an outsido desk by the propriotor, who advanced from a private office to retura a smory or de Liver a chock. "I'm sorry we can't in the second, handing over a check, "Fetch us another story.'' There was no waste of words. Horaco Groeley, N, P. Willis and John G. Saxe were among the contri butors to The Lodger in their time. Charles Dudley Warner was one of Mr. Bionner's earliest friends, George W. Childs one of his latest. D)r. John Hall, of whose church, the Fifthn Avenue i'resbyterian, Mr. Blonner was always a stanch niilar. was oe of his intimate friends, and ho grieved great ly over the clergyman's death. Mr. Boaner's stable backs up against the ' church, and they say that the former owner of the church property refueod to sell to the organization, but said that if Robert Bonner wanted ht's land for any purpose whatever, why of course he could have it. Mr. Bonner bought Maud S. in i83o a from Commodore Vanderbilt. She t had made a record of 2:1i, and underi Mr. Bonner's ownership she lowored t this record, but never in races except against time. In 1885 John Murphy drove her to 2:08t, and at that time K she was considered a horso marvel such as the world would never again produce. He paid $40,000 for Maud S. y and the same price for Sunol, which he bought from Leland Stanforl only e to discover that the horse was lame. e "I am going to cure that horse with- e Dut letting Stanford know," said Bl3u- 1 ner. " If I tell him he will send my 0 money back to me and I shall be ob- e liged to return Sunol. Bat if I curt, the horse I know I shall have a priz." i ie cured the magnificent animal, an( A in treating Sanol he developed the U veterinary germ that afterwards made v him the leading authority of the coun- a try on horses. When a horse went lame in the old h days they used to " fire" him or they would souk his hoofs and put on poul- b tices and "treat" the hoof The horse a would get better, but in a few days was U worse again. Tnen they " retired" and so on, until the horse either was c well or went lame forever. In curing A his own horse Mr. Hanner made tie a remarkable yet simple discovory that Ij most lame feet were caused by the un- LI even paring of the horse's hoofs as tle a shoes were put on. The horse had to t walk on the side of his foot; after a - while the foot became lame, the knee b lot twisted and the horse was useless l for service. So, Mr. Bonner perfected t % system of horse shoeing which is in b general use today, and about which he was willing to talk for hours with con Fenial spirits on his stock farm at rarrytown. " 1ulancing the hoof " is the keynote of horse-shoeing. 3 Maud S. was the pride of Robert t Banner's heart up to the (lay of his t death. He owned other trotters, many t that cost him more money, nany that t had beaten her mark, but he loved the a old mare a-d spent many hours with her on the road and in the box stall at L Ficoetwood In the old days, and later at h Tarrytown. He had been offered S fabulous prices for the " Q.ieen of the I: rurf," but would never consider one of It them. le would not trot his horses t for money, though he wanted to own 1 the fa.stest horses in the world, and h his ambition was gratified. lie bred n Macy's Hlambletonian, the sire of Bas- c que Banita, the ifrst American trotter s to beat all the records that had ever b: been made In Europe. There were t also bred at his farm Cartridge, 2:141; I NMajolica, 2:15; Cheyenne. 2:1.1 In- i stant, 2:14f, and others rtill faiter, but t wvith no public records. Mr. Banner's wealth was said to he t 15,000,000. In 1887, when he turned 4 )ver T-bu Ledger to his sons, he gave r to them property wornh $2,000,000. n All three sons are married-Andrew 1 illen, Itbert fdwin and Frederick. t Wil ENGLAND is AFRAID UP' Rus. 1 3iA.-Oae important roaeon why Eng- r aid ought not to assume an olfTnsve it attitude towards lIussia, if it were it >thorwise desirable for her to do so, is V the weakness of her army. A war with f, lussia would not he a naval war. it, f would necessarily 1) a land war, and England, it is well known, with her \ present force and ier policy of volun- f tary enlistments, could not put m1ore 1 than thlirty thiousand men into Chlinai Trhis was asserted only the other morr. ing in the llouse of Commons, and tile e government did niot contradict tile statement. Indeed, it is perfectly well understoodl that, it rests on thle autihor ity of Lord Wolseley himself. It is hardly worth while to enlarge upon the deplorable situation in wichl Eng land would find herself if eh wore called upon to face lRussia Witih a force of 30o,000 men. Rtussia has probably already many more troops than this in Manchuria. The result of a war, then, between Russia and Great Britain, undertaken under existing conditions, would be the total destruction of Brit ish commerce in China, and the invas- E ion, and p~osibly the temporary loss, o>f India. And in considering the pos lible effect of such a war we must bear inaImind the attitude of the pleople of India towards tile imperial govern-. y mont, wh'icih is thlat of discontent, ox r pressing itself in riots. Surely such an attitude would be of immense assist- i ance to Russia in the invasion thlat t would lmmediately follow the breaking i out of war over China. The facts a whlichl British statesmen are facing are r stern and threatening, and what clamor there is inl I~ngland for dealing oiens- ,j ively withl R3ussia is the clamor of a ignorance-an ignorance that may noti be dissipated until its vlctimls are aroused and informed through thei awful surprise whi<.h is sure to follow the first shoak of arms.--Harp~er's Weekly. TH11 K iss IN SUIooL.--The ki ssing'I bug is getting in its deadly work in irwington, Ga. But It isn't, the same kind of a bug whlich has recently aroused the whole scientifie world. It assumes a more practical kind of form. D~uring the exercises incident to the commencement season dlown in irwilng ton there was a play on tile boardi re quirIng one of tile young men to kiss 0110 of the young ladies Hie must, hlave matie it, too realistic, too ~iiowa A bbott,-like, for the young lady's broth er made it a personal issue after' the performance was over and is now under' a $250 bond to keep tile peaco, while the kisser is supposed to be on is way' to the Philippines, whlere kissing comes chleap~er. --The Philippine problem is summed up in tis week's Independent by theO Lion. George I<'. Ed munds :" l'lrst let -.1 know the wholo truth of what has happened, and then pernaps the advo cates of glory or dominion or trade or civilization and religion advanced by the cannon and the bayonet, an'l sup ported by the blood and treasure of our people can point out to us how these are ' the waiys of pleasantness and] the paths o ni nae." BILL AIP'S 1I1IART IS SAD. 'he tecent Death of Two Good Old Frienids-Ho Speaks of Them an ti'e Beet of Mosn. Simon Peter Richardson and Henry I. Plant, two more of my friendw, have %lion asleep. They were not my near nd dear friends, but they were friends ) humanity and I am human. I know iom well and was always pleased with aolrapreseneo. It is a good sign when ou are glad even to meet an acquain ince-a good sign for him and it is a ood one for you when your acq uain inces meet you gladly. Simon Ptoer Lichardson ministered here several oars and I was always choered with is presence and leartid something I Id not know. ie was a walking edu itor, a man of wit and wisdom and of reat philanthropy. Sometimes h ut to the quick, but his knife was :isrp and lofU no ragged edges. I re All an incident that illustrated his %rnest readiness to reply to a man ho refused a little charity to a very oor blind wonian who wished to go to tlanta to liave 1).-. Calhoun remove a itaract from her eye. Simon l'etor ory earnestly relat.d her condition nd her extreme poverty and said, Pleae givo me half a dollar, only alf a dollar." The merchant replied, No, I can't do it. We merchants are led to death by these country people rd we havo got to stolp. I toll you ucic Sinon, we are bled to death, Ml Must exetuso m." Simon Potor oked at him as if he wore amazjd. t .fter a brief allence he said, " 3!ud I re You? Lot me show you something." [u took ol his long linen duuor, then I nbuttoned the wristband on his left rm, rolled up the sleevo and pointing I two little scars near the elbow said, A long time ago a fool doctor tried uo 10ed me and made those scars. H1e issed the vein and got no b!ood, but le scars are there. I am afraid that t,h experience of a good many p)o le who ask a little charity for the 1)or. They get no b!ood, but leave a Mar 4 We who saw the point smiled audibly. 'he im irchant's faco reddened under le sarcasm. He suddenly pulled out iu money drawer and handed a dollar the old man, and said : " Give this her. I don't want any of your ecars bout 111e." Tile iast year of his sojourn here inclo Simon took a vacation and visited is old home on the lo-3 I)o river, In aih Caroilna. Wht:n he roturned * told mo exultingly of the good timo e had and about a wonderful revival jat occurred In his old home church 1 greatest revival he said that he ad wit.eosed for many years. " How Iany converts did you take into the bureh," said 1. " The first week," Aid he, " we never took in nary one, ut we turned seventeen out and purged bi church. After that 0he Lord leased us and there is many a church a this part, of the country that needs he same medicine." Uncle Simon left his 'mpression upon he popl of every community in rhich he lived. le was an earnest ian, a strong minan, a man of convictlons nd was perfectly fearless in maintain. ig them. Woe to the Infidel or scep c or agnostic who encountered him. oo to the man w ho declined to go to burch because he didn'th fool the need reilgion. No doubt we have as good en now, but the preach-er are rare any denomination who aro his eq uals convincing and converting forco. Vith 1'aul h could say, " I have ought a good light. I havo kept the 61 th." Mr. l'lant's photograph is before me. Vhat a broad, attractive, human-hlkuj %co. Thore is nothing of awe or solemn ,y in his features that would int,imi ate the applroachl of the humblest of is race. "Knowinug that thou wabt an ustere man" did not apply to him. Elways digrniiied, always self-poised nd earnest, he soemed as much con erneod for others as for himself. 1ie vas frank hut careful iiintueoch, gen al, uncompnlaining and~ never worried ver business cares or disappointmnents. Iis last letteor to me1, wr'itten in iFebru ,ry, was an autograph and is a model if good old-fashion~ed poernmanship). It s a large, open, honest hland without blot or erasure, tile l's all dotted, and he t's all crossed and quotation marks whlere thbey should be. In speaking of mis health. lhe says :" I have been ufforing, but, am yet on deck and pro ared in a moderate way to attend to ay dutites and in some measure bo of eonefit to the people." I nave taken note of him for nearly aif a century and know of no greater Jian in the line of piublic progress and ubli benefaction. Many millional ros ave acquired fortunes from apecula lon -speculation that robbed others. lany have built on the foundatIons hat ethers laid andl some have, wrecked ailroads and private enterprises on urpose for their own profit,, but Mr. 'lant made honest plians in early life nd has b~y slow and sure degrees ox-| anded and matured them. llo has dded to values not only of Ils own >roperty, but to that of commu~llnities and States. lie hlas provedl himself an unselfish friend to the South and von the love and admiration of ouzr )eople. Shlakespearo says, " The evil ,hat men do liven after thomn. The f'ood is oft interred with their hones." 'hat is not always true. In fact, lie night as truly have said, " The good ,hat tmen do lives after thorn." Good leeds are like the circling waves that rently move to the shore when a stonoe s cast Into a pool. They never lose heir influence. The good that Mr. alant has (lono for the people has not >oen buried with him, nor will he be orgotton for generations to come. But, the comnmandl is to '" Clore up! Jlose up '" rheol 01mten die and others tel) into their Places-and the world noves on. " Close up"4 is heard all doug the line. "Friendl after friemnd dleparts4, Whmo las noct lost a friendt ? Th~e e Ia not utmn ine ee of hearits iTat lhas unot here art (eni."' Bmi1r Auit'. -Mini Anna Gordon, Secretary of the Women's Cbrittian Tenmperance Union, gives it as her opinion that here is less drinking in public than ahore used to be. Hut elim thinks that " there has seemed to be an increase af drinking at home on tLe part of some people who have boon in Europe and have put, in practic here what ih fu nnd ahenoad." ITEMS OP GENERAL INTEREST Quaut anid Curious Paragraphs Gathered rrou Various Sources. --Sanator W. E Chandler says he has not changed his views on the finaucial question, but stands firmly for bimet alism as the great ned of the coun try. -" Fighting Bob " Evans was in hi early days the Nimrod of his Virginia countryside. No one could.I bring home as many rabbits or birds, and no one Lcould break a colt as well as he. ----tolonol N. M. Dyer, who com manded the Baltimore at the battle o Manila, did not graduate from the na val academy, but servet six years or nerchantmen before entering the Duitod States navy. - -In a letter just received from Sur loon Beek of the Thirteenth Minae iota, now in the Philippines, he sayi Jhat, in the 1,100 casos of wounded sol liers who had gone to the hospital at he time of his writing there were only hroo casos of amputation. -A statuto of the late United Statea ienator Z'bulon 13. Vance is to be )laced at the eastern entrance to Capl 01 Square, Italelgh, N. C., opposite ho monument to the Confederate dead, rlho Stato Ligislature appropriated I,5,000 for it and privato citizens added 3000 to the amount. -Senator W. A. Clark said in an in ,erview last week that he owed his uccess in life entirely to his early ox erionces on his father's farm in lenn ylvaniA. "I learned that hard work," to said, " was necessary if a man vanted to live. The trouble with most )oople is that they don't realizo this." -.John Kates, of Lowor Alloway, N. I., who recently had hatched out a :hicken with three legs and another ,vith fout logs, now has a third with nly one log. All are doing well and Kates hopes to complete his collection >f freaks by securing more ono-logged rowls to even matters up on the couni >f legs. -The increase of insanity in civil izid centers of population !s appalling A half doz n now asylums have beer buit, in and about London in the las lozum years, and each one is filled al nost as soon as completed. The num >er of insane in Landon Institutioni ilone now reaches an aggregate o iver 25,000. -The DeXKaib Avenue Methodist 'splscopal church has brought sult 6gainst Goo. S. Kolk. as the t.dminis ,rator of Jane Doese, who died in Da :em bor, 1807, alleging that oho obtained $077.0i from the ehurch during a po iod of years by fraudently represent .ng that she was a pauper and in need if aid for support. After she died there woro found In her apartment various sums of money aggregating $381 75, a bank hook showing a halanec of deposits in the llrooklyn Savingi hAnk amounting to $1,000 and ancthc bank book showing a balance of $160. -Mrs. C. W. Goodlandor, the young wife of the Mayor o' Port Scott, Kant has attracted much attention by an in novation she has introduced in the lin of assibting hor husband in one of hi most onerous public duties, namely providing for the noody poor of tht uity. She spends cortain hours caci day driving around the poorer quar tors of the city and personally investi gating claii for assistance, and nc indolont or undesorving person gets am Lrdor from her. She permits no soca function to interfere with this work The results of her enterprise are being antlipated with great interest. -A novelty in summer schools is of fored in Missouri this year. The Stati university has given instructions aloni the lines~ familiar in such schools dur ing the vacation season for a goot w hile past,, and it, now adds new course in horticulture and agriculture. Pre sident Jese holds that some attentio should be given in the public school c an ag ricultural State to studies of sjil climate, birds, Insects and plant life and he points out that the filds, for ests and highways in the country an the lawns and pubice squares in th city and towns furnish all the labors tory facilIties which are needed fe such studies. -Governor lIoosevelt shortened th sentence of John Howard, a convict I Sing Sing prison, because the prisoni constructed two large jpep organs ft the chapel, workIng two years on i job, and thus saving the State an at ount of money estimated at aboi $5,000. The organs were finished abo two weeksu ago, just as Howard's so tonco expired, and he was release The organs were g reatiy admiro< When it came to trying them last Sut day it transpired that they only looke like what they purported to be, an despite all the electric pumps woul not, give forth a sound. ieoward faile to leave his future address at, th prison when he dopar ted. -A remarkablo freak of lightnin oscurred at East lBrookfield, Mass., th~ other d ay, when a sudden shook restore to its old-time vigor the left arm ( Eli iForhoes, which had been useless fc thIrteen years on account of rheume tism. While he was sitting at th windlow a thunder shower came up an with it woro two sharp liashes of ligh ning. With one of the tremendot crashes Mr. F~orbes felt a sharp prici ing of his flesh and tingling in hi bones and with a jerk his left arm sht viuolently forward from its crampo position. T1hae shock was over in a flas and Mr. Forbes felt his left arm bristl with the viltality and tingle with vigo Tio his delight he found he could ur the arm at' well as ever. -Attorney General lBellinger he received no end of applications f( positions in the engrossing departmea of the general assembly. lie reques the statement made that all applicoan are merely wasting paper, ink am stampms in writing to him, for he is nc preparing to change the entire plan appointing those clerks. All applic tions will have to be made to theo so citora cf the respective circuits. T ap~pointments are to be left to t solicitors, but requirements will put in that will result in obtainli clerks who write good hands and w can spell bocrrectly. This has be found to be an absolute necessity a some kind of examination ia likely be provlded before an appolntmo will be nnrm.ma The More People Know -OF THE NEW STORE. The better they like it. They like the fair and square way we do business. We have only been before the people about th ree months, and in that time The Now Store has made many friends through its money saving policy. You like to trade where every thing is new; where prompt, polite and courteous salesmen servo you ; where you have plenty of room to trade. There are untold advantages in trading with us. Last but not least, here you can at all times buy the best for the least money. Some Special Values. 1100 yda Standard Calicos only 34c. 1000 " l'ledmont Dellis 41c. 1200 " good heavy Bleaching only 5o. 600 " good check Nainsook only 5e. 500 " 10-4 Shooting only 10c. I lot large ready made Sheets only 49e. 1 lot ready mado ['illow Cases only 5c. Genuine Dongola pat. tit shoe only $1. I lot two yards wide all Linen Damask only 493. 1 lot araio Linen Towels only 10c. I table 32 and .10 Inch Lawns only Sc. 1 case Ventilating Corsets only 25c. Come to The New S'.oro to do your trading. A Word About Shoes. During the past ton days we have recelved a car load of shoei. When our stock Is completed there will be nothing to equal It in the State. We are going to have the business. gW Remember we are agents for the celobrated McCall Bazar Patterns, price 10 and 15 cents. Make it a point to visit the New Storc at the first opportunity, at J. H.Morgan & Blrother's old stand. MAHON & ARNOLD, 211 Upper Main St. GlWICNVIL-LE. WICKLY CHOP BULLETIA. COLUMIA, S. U., July 11th, 1899. There were a few very hot days dur ing the week ending July 10, but the average temperature was slightly be low the normal. The range of tem porature was between 53 and 100 do graes. There were frequent showers durin the week, especially over the central and eastern counties, where In places t~h grundlatoo wet. Over the north conralandwestern counties, the show ers were very few, light and local, and many places are suffering for rain. itain which began falling after moost of the reports were mnailed, may have af forded relief. Over the greater por tion of the State, the moisture condi tions are now very favorable. Somne damage was caused by hail and Shigh winds, but it was contineed to small areas.. r R31ports on cotton, while not wholly favorable, are very promising. The e crop is small, healthy, clean and bloom a, ing freely ; lice continwe to infest it, r in places, but are doing no serious in r jury. A few report the plant growing o too much to weed, others as not grow 2. lng at all, especially on rod lands in it the western counties. Sea-island cotton it never looked better. a. Trho corn crop continues to suffer I. from bud worms and the larger corn [. stalk-borer. Drought has also affected . the crop seriously over large areas, but d on the contrary, in places, the crop is a very fine. Old corn Is practically all dj laid by. S Tobacco Improved somewhat during a the week, althou gh in placesamore rain Is needed to develop the upper leaves. Cutting and curing has Deuumc quite general. In Marion County the a crop) Is turning out very well. i ltice is doirig well, although eator 'pillars 'still infest it, at a few points. r Thei early rico is receiving its last flooding. On some lIanltations, water B for flooding is not yet available. LlSweet potato slips continue to be set out, peas to be sown, and the second a crop of Irish potatoes to be planted. -Sugar cane and sorghum vary in con e dlition, but generally look promising.. 't laying continues on the coast mead-. Iows. Little or no fruit, save a low hi apples, anywhere in t~he State, except * grapes, which are plentiful in the western counties, but are rotting e badly. Melons are being shipped ia large quantities to the Northern ,a markets. t AS FoCnAnSTORIA d For nfantsand Children.' of The Kind You Hlave Always Bought a Bi Iears the Sie gaur of, be_____________ 20 Oh yesl Alligator Liniment relieves ya and cnres Rhecumatism, Neuralgia, Back id ache, Bruises, and all pains. Its guaran ted to give satisfaction, so you run no t~o rIsk. D~on't let dealers try and sell you o something else. There is nothing as good as Alligator Liniment. sold overywhere,