Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL VOL qN0. .' PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTMBER 21, 1899. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. THU~ MIND) DON'T NIEDD RUMI A HANGE 01b MINTAL FOOl tCEQUlItED. 1111 Arp I'(1ls How lie SecurCs MCI] tal ltest Wlion lie Grows Wear: With Study. The mind do tosn't neod rest, for I will not rest, but. it needs a change c mental food. Wo cannot at will sto thinking, but wo can give our thought a more plaing .lirection and that I rest. And so, when I got tired an perplexed reading and ruminatinj about the war and the negroos ani political corruption, I take a day o and commune with nature and he wonderful work i, which are ever be fore us and around us. It Is even : rest to hI jr it thunder and to watcl the gathkinA g or the clouds and wei como the big drops of rain that fal upon the stops. When the lightninj is lashing and tho thunder strok, comOs uteiinl sharp and icar, w, retire fi om the v 'randa and for a litth while lun.hio tlorseclves unde:r th4 mighty nand of Gol, and that is rest Then lot us not worry ana perplo; ourselvo" stl 1 of oet waking hours abou tbin's whiebi are afar off, but, takt shelter and comfort at bone. Let u: change the diet and it will rest u: mentally ant.d physically. MJy goot father was a philosopiher and woul( say tolme, " now, my ,on, I walt you t( hoe these ;titatotes and when you go tired you can v-ed the onions for i rest,." Proeussor Mitchell, the- grea astronointr. told ie that when hi mind was%)earled with long aud por plexing calculations and lis eye. were tired of figures, nothing relioved hin more than a game of whist with hih wife and children. It was a delightlu rest. But my sweotost rest is a frolic witi the little grandehtidren and listoninj to their innocent, discourso. Thoro ar< two little girls of three and live years who visit mc almost every day ant climb my knees and kiss my old rougi checks, and say that I am not old no ugly and every night I help their mo ther put them to bhd and tell them the sameo old stories about Jack the gian killer, and the bean vino and the wol and the pigs and little lied ildinj aood, aini vtat I did when I was; little boy. By ani by the monotone o my VoIce hecomes their lullaby and th little eyes im;oio and the little head fall over on mny shoulder and they ar otT for the land -f dreams. When thi father has t, go -o his drug Atore Over, nigh t an old grandpa is a help to a tirel mother, and I am thankful that I an yet fit for thtt. I saw a pir of old-fashioned blu birds today and felt like the friends c my youth had comic back. Some year ago they disappeared and I have won dered wht became of them. A jay lird with only (in(-- leg cifonm cv'.r: day to the fountain to drink. I an trying to make a friend of him, but h is very sty and suspicious. Sonicr.e boy hit him with asling shot, I reckot for I see them nsometimes in the bac alley trying to got a shot at my pigeon. Maybe that jay bird will meet theit bo in purgatory. Boys are as mean abou killing birds as our government I about killinatho leilipinos. But thi is a C'hr-istiau country, and, 1 reckor it is all right. Those pigeons tha have a happy home at my house are a interestin g stuuy for the y .iung peopl< We have about a hundred of then and some of them are ever before u as we Bit on the Vuitnludb. They are many colors, from almost black to pure snow w hite, and at all hours the day they gather at the little h] drant fountain in the front yard an drink and then fly away. The pigec is the only bird that drinks by draugl or suction, as we do. All other birn raise their heads and lot the watc iun down by gravity and then dip th bill down for- another drop. P'igeor do not food their young with wor-ms c hugs, but the old bir-ds digest the food in their own cr-aws into a cut andi eject It into theC miouths of the young. Hence it is that every youni pigeons or squabhs gener-ally die wixc they ar-e given away. Pigeons are n< exactly po.'ygamists, but the malh have no par-ticular mate and they ii feed the young of any mother. Indee they do xio5of the feeding. Th arec not gallinaceous nor raz'or-cs. No lct the young peole hu t up those hi wor-ds They can walk, but cannot ho Most aill other bilrds can hop, ' but ca: not walk. Of course, pIgeons ai pigeon-toed, andl so iarc somel folks i' know. A~ pigeon-toed girl generall wears long dresses. Then there is - language cal led eigeon English. It recal ly pid gen Nngiish, for pildgen is Chitnese wor-d andi means butiness, at * ~ ~ )phlgent Eingl ish is a mixture of Chine: and ICogl ish aind of signs by whic business is ti ansacted in the ports b tween natives and foreigners. The mig rating butterlly is mnovir south ward. For two weeks past 01 or miore h ave been scon! att tall hour-s the day on the wving p)assing thrt.-l our grovc. My neiglhbors far- and no tell me they are passing their hono It is a good, liarge yellow butterfIly unifor-m sizo~ and shape and colt Trhey do not conmc in pairs or flock but singly tand not often In sight oach other. They all come al go In the sauro direction andl do r. stop) a tmomlent nor- pause to suck t honey fromn a ilower. Well, ntow 1itha counted them by the clock ats th p~assedl and malde five in a mini through my ive-acroe gr-tve. TI malkes 300o In an hour or 3,000 in a di I f, then, we count 600 to an acre in day 100 aorca would make (60,000. T1 thousand acres would make 0,000,( foir a single daty.- How many mc acres do they pass over and how ma mor-e days ? Think of It and the boc say they are going South to wini alnd die. They laid their- eggs North beforo they began theIr lo jour-ney. From observation I shot say they averaige forty miles a day. Is not at rapid flight, but, is unbroki What a singular cretiton is this a who can toll why and the wherefo Natur-o is full of mysteries and w< ders. My dially mail11 brIngs many inquir and sone of theo il cannot answ "A Constant F'emale lteadcr " wal to know howv the moon iniluences t makIng of lye soap anid must the be stirred backwaird or forwat-d. W. Sgave it up and teferred the writer . quiring mind wants to know why mules' tails are shaved and their manes ) clippod. I have referred him to Uncle Remus, but I interviewed some of my friends and one said because it Im. proved the looks of the animal and y gave the mule a git-up-and-git appear ance. Cobe said it was done so you could tell 'em from a horse, for it was a reflection on a horse to be taken for f a mule or for a mule to be taken for P a horse. An old farmer said it was 8 done to got rid of currying and cucklo 8 burs, and thereby please the negroes I who had to plow them, but it was mighty hard on the mule in Ily time, My friend, John Anderson, says that an unshearod mule is a very unsightly r boast. Jim Jeff had one that he ralsed and never would have trimmed. When the mule was twelve years old Jeff got tired of her and tried to swap her off to his neighbor, Stegall, for a horse, but they couldn't trade. Then he of fored to soll Kit to Stegall for $75, but he wouldent give it. Not very long after that Jeff comes to town and a 'Tennesco horse trader got hold of him and gave him an old chunk of a horse for his mule. Kit was put under the shears forthwith. She was clipped and rubbed and washed and groomed and in a few days was transmorgrified into a very respectable looking animal. Stegall wanted a mule about that time and the Tennessean eold Kit to him for $100, but he didn't know it was Kit. Next day Jim Jeff had business over at Stegall's and Stegall took him to the lot to show him what a line mule he had bought. As soon as Kit spied her old master sh3 nickered and trotted up to him and put her head affection ately upon his shoulder just as she used to do, and Jelf kissed her on the nose. and said : " Kit, why Kit, Is this you ? Bless your old soul. I oughtent to have sold you. Stegall, I will give you $75 for her just because she loves me so." Mules are curious creatures, but they fill a long felt want and never strike for higher wages. The mule I and the negre are a happy combination, and when the negro is departed the r mule will go, too, I reckon. My neigh bor, Morris, has a very fine mule and about six months ago this mule tried t to pick his teeth with his hind foot, f and got the shoe fastened in his mouth on a broken tooth. Mr. Morris worked t an hour to unloose it, and then called f in the neighbors and they worked L with ropes and levers, but couldont. i All of a sudden, while Morris was e standing by thinking what to do next, 3 the tooth broke with a ropert like a pistol, and the mule's foot flew back I against Morris's shinbone and broke i It all to pieces. He was down In bed for three months and goes on crutches now. Such is a mule. He has no f pride of ancestry, but he lives long s and happy. BILL ARP. THI LATE GOV. PERRY. IHis Ancestry aid Birthplace-A 3 Sketch or His iarly Home, The Ozonco News has the following ' article in its last issue of especial in turest to many of our r aders : Richland, Oconco County, is the cen ter of a circle of thirty mites in diam t eter around which are the birth places S of two, anI once the homns of three of 1 the greatest men of all the South, if L not of the whole country. Fifteen t miles duo cast of this place is the form er home of John C. Calhoun. About - the same distance a little north of a Westminster is wuero Joseph E. Brown was born and lived to early manhood, and lifteen miles south is the birth place of Benjamin Franklin Perry. The writer paid a visit recently to the birth place and home of Parry in his d early manhood. Gov. Perry was born n on the banks of Little Choestoe croek, t'just one mile from Tugaloo river, and s20 miles from Hat on's island, where 'ho killed Byuumn in a duel that has o boen well kept before the public. 5 Benjamin Perry, the father of 13. F. ~Perry, was born in Sherburn, Mass., .rIn 171. is mnodher, Anna Perry, was the daughter of John F'oster and 1r0Floanor Collins, born in Union, S. C., gin 1777. Benjamin Perry dioc In 18-12, b"lia wife dIed in 1848, and both are tburijed at the old homestead, where Mr. and Mrs. T. D). Long now live. Boeside their dIstinguished son, Ben jamini Lranklin, there were born unto Benjamin Perry and Anna Foster WPerry, two sons and one daughter, F oster and Josiah and a daughter, who marred~ a man named Hunt of F'lorida, -and who is still living. e I t is interesting to trace this family o to the present day : oster Perry had .three sons and one daughter. The .a eldest son, Waddy Thompson Perry, wssas kIlled by a stone from the hands a of a run-a-way negro. John Perry now lives near Waihalla, Clark lives in CTexas and the daughter, Harriet, mabrried VWilliam J. Bix, of F'air Play, now deceased. Left two daughters, the one is now the wife of Mr. J. W. gShelor, of Walhalla, and the other IC was the wife of Capt, J1. R. Earlo, of of Waihalla. She died some years ago. h Josiah Perry had three dlaughters tir only. Emma, who married Capt. J. G. 5- 11lawthorno ; Sue who married Mr. 'T. of D. Long, andl Anna who mnarriedl Mr. r-. Y'arboro ghi, of LFairfield, 5, Mrs. Long inherised the 01(1 home of place~ of the llrst Bonjamlu Perry, her )(d grand father, where she now lives ot with her husband, Mr. J1. D. Long. he This is ab very pretty place. A high ve hill overlooking the country all around. cy ilills andi valleys and vast wooded te lands. West the cold clear waters of at the Chostoo run, south and ast rolls by- the Little Choostue down from the a north hills, and at thbe confluenca of 01n these two creeks you see the rich low 100 lands where young Perry worked as ro a common hlold hand. The same lire ny place where lhe read and studiled by ks torch lIght is there. You may sit er there if you wish, raise the window, up and as the nice breezes blow In on you ng from tbe red hills of Georgia, andl as tid the roar of the river just, one milo Itaway brIngs la calm to your soul, you in. may wonder if young Perry ever sawY nd anything of his future laid out oefore re- him. It Is imagined thabt he (lid. A in- great many men may build air cabsties and live only to see them fall, but still los it Ia evident thait many of the groal or men have had a premonition of thou its future. he IWe know not what others may think >Ot but if results provo anything it muit 11, be acknowledged that B. F. Potrry was to one of the wisest men in the South ir In. 1800. HF ASKS CONGRESS TO ACT. AFFAIRS IN THE'Ii I'lIPPINES. schuriman Tells the Conditionl at the Present Time-Sixty iflIorent Lai guages Spokenl oi the Islands. President Schurman has returned to his ofilce In Cornell University, and has given out the following statement to the tsociLated Press on Philippine Wfairs : "It is very Important that the public should know the actual facts of the sit iation. Things are what they are, and ,he Americans should understand ,hom, whether they agree with or run ,ounter to the public's wishes. "Fir'E. It requires sowre effort to 'calize the vastness of the archipelago, vhich extends in a triangular form, rom Formosa to 13ornuo and Celebes, hrough sixteen degrees of latitudo. sover going out into the Pacific Ocean )> the east, nor the China Sea on the vest, I made a circuit of two thousand niles, all south of Manilla. This gives omo Idea of the dilliculty of maintain .ng an effective blockade, as the coast inc of all the islands embraced in the irchipelago is many more thousands of tiles. "Second. The multiplicity and het 3rogencous nature of the tribes is som1o hing astonihing. Over sixty differ Int languages are spoken In tbo archi pelago, and, though the majority of bho tribes are small, there are at least half a dozen having a quarter of a mil lion membore. - The languages of these people are as distinct from one another as French and Spanish or Italian, so that the speech of any one tribe Is un intelligible to its neighbors. These tribes are all civilized and Christian ized, but small uncivilized tribes, among whom the Igorotes seem best known in America, inhabit the moun tains of Luzon and fbrm a large part of the population of Mindanao. In this island also there is a large Mohamme. dan population, which is independent of the Mohammedans in the neighbor Ing Sulu archipelago. "Third. It is the Tagalos, Iihabit Ing some of the provinces about Mantila, who are resisting the authority of the United States. Other civilized iilipi nos are neutral, except where they are coerced by armed bands of Tagalos, who seized upon their governments during the making and the ratilication of our peace treaty wituh Spain. It would be incorrect to assume, however, that theae tribes are allios of ours. They are not. Indeed, they are not wihout suspicion of the white race, of which they have had experience only through Spain. But they are men of intelligence and property, and the masses, when not stirred up by the Tagalos, recognize the advantage to them of American sovereignty and so remain neutral, although robber bands, from time to time, descend from the mountains to plunder and burn tho es tates of peaceful inhabitants on tho plains. "Fourth. The Insurrection, though serious enough, as experience has proven, Is not a national uprising. in deed, there Is no Philippine nation. As I have already said, there is a multifa rious collection of tribes having only this in common, that they belong to the Malay race. Tne inhabitants of the archipelago no more constitute a nation than the Inhabitants of the con tinent of Europe do. "Fifth. The United States having as imned by a treaty of peace with Spain sovereignty over the archipelhgo be came responsible for the maintenance of peace and order, the administration of justice, the security of life and prop erty among all the tribes of the archi p)elago. Trhis is an obliga'.ion which intellIgent FilIpinos, not less than for eign nations, explect us to fulfill. Nor wvill the nationaIl honor pcemait us to turn back. In taking the Philippine Islands we annexed great resplonsibil ity. The fact that the resp~onsibility is heavier than most people supplose it, to be is no( excuse for failure to dis charge it. I repeat thalt the Philip. pInes question is essentially a qluestion of national honor and obligatio n." In replly to an inquiry whether any thing was now left but to light it out President Schurman said: "In my opinion much good woul be done by a declaration on tile plart of Congress of tile form of governImenlt 0< be established ini tile island(s, or, bettei still, let Congress estaltishl a govern ment for the Philippine Islands an' have It put In force In all parts an among all tribes hostile to tihe UnItet Btates. This would serve several pur poses. It would distinguish betwoci our friends and enemies, and treat thi former according to their deserts. I would also gIve to our enemies a dem onstration of free government, on th American plan, a very Important poin when it is remembered that the Taga los cla.im to be fighting for their libel ty. Andl I had bettor call attention t the fact that, the government which I well adapted to one tribe may neo considerable modification to be availa ble for another." Asked about the capacIty of the Fil ipino peoples to govern themnselvei President Schurman repliedl that the, had no experience in self-governman exceplt in municipal affairs, and eve these were subject to the control of th Spanish authorities. Hie thought however, that each tribe might, sutl ject to tihe supervision of a wise genor al government, mnaigo in tihe main it own munliipal and~ provincial affair: Supervision from Manilla would var with the position which tile difforer tribes occupied in tihe scale of civili tion. P'residenkt Schurman seemedl firm I the convictIon that some form of homn rule for each of the tribes and unde thle watchful supervision of a genera government at Manilia was tile solu tion to the problem. "I have great confidence In tile pot p)10 of tihe P'lhilppines,"' he added, ''an much symupathly for thi r aspirationm A race should be judged hy Its bel p~roducts. and an educated Filipino,c Iwhlateve:~ tribo, and each city hlas I1 educated men, will bear' compariso with all educated mian of any othe race. Among thue massus one ofte flnd1s consciousness of ignorance an strong desire for education. The al chipelago will not he revolutionIze I ir. a generation, as J1apan hlas been I somn reannets but then Japan ha thotsands of years of national legisia- i tion behind he- recent transforiation. Nothertheless, considoring the marketl intellectual capacity of the Pili p1Inuo and their admirablo domeitic and per sonal virtues, iinaglinatioti cannot easily sot the limits to their progressive ach levements under the inspit ation of Anm crican civilization, and while Amei can sovereignty ieans this iesIsing to the Fillpinos, it Is, beyond doubt, the one thing which can saive tho archi pelago from division and irpjwopriation by the great niations of Vulrnope. T'e United States will hold it togother, and with American democratic ideas train and elevate the people to aI evcr-increadlng measure of Sef-go'v crnmcnt." UAPT. LYSANDEL ). CHILDS. Saditlen Death of the Prohibition Leader at lils u n uier lmo in Saluula, N. C. The sudden death of Capt. T,. 1). Childs, of Columbia, tooS place on Tuenlay night, Scpt. 1It. at, his sum iner home Ini Saluda, N. U., where with his family he ias boen spend3ngf the entire season, and was seemi ing ly much inproved in health. lie has been in failing condition for sev erl ycars, but was greatly benelited by B. stay in the mountains. The fol loN i n sketch of his lifo is taken from the Columbia State: Lyia nder ). Ohil ds was born in Lin colnton, N. U., July 65, t smn of Lysander 1). Chtilds and Nancy HJoke. Tine former was born noar Ilitimno in 1811, und when 18 yeani of ago came to North Carolina, w.'cre he was mar1 iel in 1839. [113 was a successful mnan ufacturer and Iniker In this city uip to the time of his tdeath, which Look place Nov. 26. 1879. The mother was a daughter of Col. H1oko, a wealthy and prominent citizen of North Carolina. Nine children were born to them, of whom only W n. G. Child ;, the present pi-esident of the Bank of Columbia an(l Columbia, Newherry and Laurens railroad ; and Augustus Ghilds of this city survive. Their grtnudfather was Dr. l'hen Ci hids, a mat iv of New York, who movod to North carolinma during the latter ycars of his life and died there in 18130, having obLni'net great, emii nence ans a plyntiinL. Cant. Childs reccivei his Ii in al ed u cation at the Carolina Niilitary Inti tute In Charlotte, N. C. lie has en1 gaged ciielly in agricunlt-nli pursui during ih is life, having ha-ge farming interests in both the upp.rn amid lower portions of the State and -plendhi plantations not ,an f rom Coluibia at the 01imo of his death. 11i startCd out, in the Insurance buhin-i r nom pany with R. A. Keenani inder the firm name of Keenan & Childs. Il 1876, the firm having been lissolvei, he turned his to agriceulture(, first by hnolf amt the-n with his brut,ht.,r, A9'i. WV.GU. CU-ilih, ?...iti g o)' g1 principally on the extensive plantation below ie city on tihe Conga-ee cover ing everal Whouand acres, left iminn by his fathor. The ie putation of tie " Childs Hay " is now known all over the State. He went into the macni nory business for a short time, bul soon gave it up and stuck to firiming, also going into stock raising. July 13, 1881, Capt. GCilds ilmrried Mnls Bessie Springs, daughter of Maij. R. A. Springs, and four chilmdren were born to them, Lysander i., Jcnnic I3.. Margaret Maxwell and iticiad A.u!,tiin Childs. Capt. Childs was it devotoJ husband and father. Capt. Clilds' military edIetioln par ticularly fitted him for any military position ho chose to fill. As captain of the Richland Volunteers of this city he brought that organization up to a high standard of proficienCy in thie nmanual. After hold inig the coinmaind for a long time he resigned. When the reorgatnizaton was made after tibe DarIlington war disbandmient, Capt. Ohilds in order to rev ye thne old com mand took an active part, in the work and accep~ted thne captaincy only to again withdraw when tihe organization had been brought about. in 1888 he entered tine field of poli tics. Lie lirst served two ternms in the lower house of thne general assembly anid then declined re-election. Thnoughrl he hlId views oin the liq1uor question later on contrary to those of hiIs con stituents he was severai tinmes re elected Li) tine general assembly3, over alive to thne wol lane of his peopflo. lli strenngtin in thne coun ty was remiarnaaIle and lhe vsas inivar-ibly elected at thne iheadm of thne tic ket. IIin retirned froin poli11tics at tine concluin ofl tihe sessnin befiore thne las~t. Thei '-Giik l'roi -bition Hillfs,"' of whfichi he wa-, thne fa thor, and tine lights over tibein, wsii Sever nremin oriin nn' t feiturnes n South Canrolimna legislat li lhtory in -the peiod fromn 19.i1 toi IN Cant,. Clilds wans a stronng Y . \i. I A. man, and was one of thbose to whnos olforts the formation of the Columbnin -association was due. dHle was one oif the leadIng M eth<i (though the youngest among thtemn) delegate to the genneral eon fenene holid In St,. Louis in 1-100. Por mia'n yesa lhe was suipeintendent, of thn Wiasbington Stireet .-unday schooli this city, andl he was an olliceri of thn church, of which h. was a dh.voti memnber. lie was con nected ini an iilinti cam city with at least, two oif thne city loading banks, not to me n tin man ohrbusiness cnter-prises. He wvas even- a de'votedl member hnn the State A gricultur-al anid M :lbannicai society, and labo-ed always for its emin ce a. F'rom '9)5 to'91 ine waisIit pren of the society anid uinder Ih t mniin'e ment the fairs field then we. 4mnnnei! n the most successful in thibo i -torny 0 the society. ini l@G ihe was.-r I-h r to the presidency. bunt vain a :t ,i 1897 to President Inn 1e, w b n at .aucceedled by tine present piresidernt Coi. Cunaninghama. . Capt. Cii ds wa, a rmani of sorl.1in: d charactecr, nmd hti, denln of chnarit, will long liv. Inn tint mieimory of an pint tlc ton whIom hnc cearnei Innmn:lf. iS In usiing ceen as good a remedy am n A llgatIor Lii nnmni we inulst nod on I rn have faith, we mu. apiply tihe ncompsoun n and rub it, well inn. In vill di thne cunrm dIf you appnly it righlt twmvice or thInreen tinies dlay. 1,oing staniny1 caseis of rhe mnatmar aind ineunralgniaiu an oher paniinfuil trunbl< d hnave been euired, ii mnay cunre you, ainyh o n If you tool dlisatiticil you cain get you dl monne back. Hnod nenrywhere. VICTOL B3LUE SUltiRENDEiS. Cap~tiied byN Cupi(I an4 the Weddiling ' Will Occur Next Ilontil. \\'ining honors lin war is sonetimos all 'ager unldertaking than winning a vife. )ays the Charleston News and t Cauicer. Licut. Victor Blue, United f St.ate- navy, a worthy son of South c Carolina, has demonstrated tho fact, t 1ow(Vl'. tIt it Was a double game in ; w hie he ciame out triumphantly twice, d and th. newspapcrs are talking of his t cIi.al!gmellnt to Miss I 'cleanor Stewart, I of New Jlertse.y Miss Stowart is a U niece' of Capt. 'hilip LI. Cooper, of the imvy. s Th'ie New Vork Journal has printed l the following regarding Lieut. Blue f and h i* love-making :f \\heln Capt.. I'hilip 1. Cooper, now i C011unan111ding the cruisor Chicago, wa I the supoirntendent of the Naval Aca- d dtny, !ive years ago. tile rod gown tha' his niece wore made the cadets t :ay tla, they were in love with red. I It made a beautiful contrast of v color. whenti she walked on the lawn Mat unler' the Cims, her little hand rtm-Lingz oin the dark slove of her uICe'S m111. Not only the caLdets, but ib intrvuetor3 and the dotailed of iter, were happier when bie was lhe re. slie was reserved and youthful. The discipline inspired awe In her ingon. ilous mind. Sie was a Visitor at the Academlily for at week or i fortnight i thLt was always too short. Por montubs 1 i(trrard her admirers-that is, every I one -s'aw her onIly in charmed me- 1 mlorieus. Iler uncl said to her, in his au tlhoritative manner that the habit of giving orders had provoked : " Do not helioleu the wife of a naval ollicer. lie is, because of his vocatioll, a noble fellow. lie would bo an ideal lius bland. "But-women are ever unfortunate -the Ideal husband shall not be a husband. Uie Is on a ship, in a yard, or in, all oilico where his wife cannot he happy. lit is the slave of a machine that never relents. lie lihs L iven his lifo to hIs coun try. A wife might divert him from th at,, tind make him neglectful, or not livert himiii from it and make limin un 1p) py. " Marry % good, honest farmer, or the corner grocer. le has no greater diuly tilan ievotion to his faintly im plies. lie is at home or near home al way:. LAeut.. Victor Blue, returning from revolui0ons in) Central America, from the battle of Managua, in Nicaragua, from traveis in Africa, charmed Capt. Cooper alid ils nicC. lie Caen to the Academy to see ils old friends and ask their advice. 1le was to go on tbo ThetIs to take a sur voy of Southern California. le had to rnake a Imkap) of the country. Ills convorsat.lion was interesting and varIed. Son of Col. Join G;Il chrhit Blue, of the Conuederato army, gratudsoni of Col. John Blue, of the kWar of 1812, great-grand-son oi Capt. John Blue, of the Rtuvolutionary War, and of Capt. Johin Gilehrist, of the British navy, hie was intensely Amer A South Carolinian, lie retained the sovere, g )raceful gotures and expros sions of tho old plantors. lie talked of tihe 'yranmbili, the SphInx in the ie ert, l'alestine, tile Inodern Capitals of Europe, io soas and ti, dikes with (aptivaiting interest. 11 walked with Capt. Cooper and lls niece on the iawn, undier' tile olms, and the cadets rtmarked then that Mi0ss Stewart lisiteneld to him. Capt. Cooper must have said to her often then : " Marry a farmor or the cor11,er grocer. lie is always at home or Ilealr it.'1 laieut. Blue wvent to his work on tile Thetis, wais stationed for two years at [1 onoluciu, hecamno commander of the A lvaradoi. In the war against, Span lie had the mlost, dangerous mlisionfs thait he could have dlomireid. As executive ollicer of tihe Suwvance he had to cover bhe first expledition of the United States to tile Cuban insurgents. He auked for one gunbo~iat to light two gunboats and got it, but tile Spaniards refused his chal lnge. lie ranl on) a roef about Cape F'rances anti was there a facile prey to the enemy for twelve hours, but, escaped. lHe ran tbe gauntlet of five Spanish gun~l)bts In the Bay of Huena V istab, but landled and raised the American ilag onI Cuhan soil at, (Gomez's outp~osts. Thel( Suwanee was revoaledI by hello I!raih Ii lg nals to the Spanilards, it ran1 imost Inlto la gunboalt and passed it, in mei sight. it capitured two coast 1uar il ~h oelo~inr inl an inlet. Th'len I .ieut. blue a.shiieved his g reatest feat. li e x ploredl twenty-two iles around the city otf Santiagol and reported the - unknoiwahlle--the fact that Gervera's5 lihmt wa- inI the halrb)or of Santiago do .\liss Stewart read~ these things in -the nuewspiapers. I Acut. B lue asked ICapt Coope r a mionth ago if his nie~ce remliombiolred him11. Hie h ad thohught, of her in lighting for Amoerica. She had V' wellt, laulghled, biilshedi. fLout. Blue Wa w inlvited to) MorrIstown, N. J. IlThe dtot (If the wedding is a secret, t' iut rn I nthnlate friend of Mass Steowart, I is to he IUherides maid on October 17. Laieut,. V i.totr blue has won another - vlctory--or Capt. Cooper's advice ilabot, miarrinlge tils tIme. MusNic lausedl t he death of a bonuti Ifill tlibroc-yeabr-Oldl illly at 'iorence, Ala., thbc other day. A farmer dirove h iis II valblo2 youin ar into tow n and as lhe was d1riving iup the princip~al t~reet a btra'is ha~nd suiddenhy struck upl its blIatant mulisic. 'The mare had never h leard any sound lIke that before, and a( startled wabs she that she dro >ped decad In the shafts of the. trap. A vote rinIary surlgeon w ho exainled the car casa$ declared that tile ma~re hlad died oIf heart, failure, dlue to excitemnent, cauli4d by the sound of the uinaccus -tomode~ miusic of thle brass band. -Qoun Victoria, It is reported, has Ssent to l'mperor Wiliam lb prized cop.) y of her family tree, showing Kin g Davit :1 at the tolp. A po~t idena onterta Ined b) 4 thle Queen is thabt she b, descended f ron a the P'salmist th roughl Zudekiah's eldes dIuaughter, and it ik said that Emperol v William's conviction of divine origi r Is greatly dlue to his grandmother' foihle. TIHUI OOTTON -SITUATION. 'ho Opinion of a Now York Firm of Ootton Merehants in Itegartd to crop Prospectm. The cotton trado on either side of ho Atlantic is basling its opinions upon Dundations so ontirely different in haractor, that it is not at all strango bat the markets move on different lanes of action. Ono nleed only in ulgo in a casual reading of the loreign owspap-,rs to become awaro of the mportance attached to Mr. Neill's pinion abroad, and the uttor disro ard of any information tonding to how that the impression convoyed in is August circular is not the correct irecast of the coming crop. Tle eroign spinner, In the face of the best 11 around trade demand over known, isregards the probability of any re uction in supply. The report of the gricultural Department is bolieved o be without any basis whatever, aid t is further belleved that beneticial ,nd ieu flieient rainls liae faliln throug h ut Texas, and that the prosp)(etsi are :.)od for a large crop everywhere lee. Against these 11111nuences t.ho1re is the indoniab o fact that a drought hat Prevailod over Texas to - more than 6 month, with the teIperatlrel hligher mid the rainfall less than during any \ugust that the Cotton IxliChaigo hao ecord ; that a reduction in aureago ,brougliout the cot-ton belt is ad mcitted )y every candid observor, ani that the iso of coninercial ferthizers in the xpland country was largely dereased. Whethor thebe factors have any elTeet aipon the production and yleid of cot Lon, the future will decide ; if they do not, then we will have to admilt that the conclusions of a generation are valucless. The situation today presenits a direct antithesis to the situation In Septoi ber, 1890, when tho great decline inl rotton bogan. Then the spinning world in the lace of a panic, just vis ibie, and the proespects of a crop be yond all precedent at that time, was a large buyer. Now the trade and con sumiption of the world are beyond the wiiJest dreams of a year ago, while the crop prospects cannot. be com pared with those of that time n1o' of last year. Why, tLh ni, does not cotton advance? Tho reason is to be3 fton rd in thte 10s5es incurred during the past threo seasonn in holding cotton. . lien in Aulguist we called atteontion to the milarvelours consumption, we were regarded as cep timistic, but we nay refeo our readers to such a well kniown authority as tLhe Linancial Chroniclo lor eor lirmation of our viows. A study of the govern ing weather conditions over Texa for many years led us to fear that the heavy rain fall of June and July marked tne aplproach of a period of extreme. dry weather, and we believe our friend, will agree that our views on bet h these q utestions have in v'.:d corrct. We now feel that the ad vnune fromi the prices then ruling does not adequ ately represent this change In t-i0 conditions and we believe that, evei3 large crop esti mato will be reduiced tio one below the consumption of the world. HIUBBARD 11110). & Ci. TilLMAN, TAbli1KaT AND) YO-UM)AN.-i. -The I'dgeleild Advertiser give. the following in formation about the Senato rial race: When we said last week that it wa-t about sottid that Talbert, Tllimn and Youtmans would b) candidates for tile United States Senate, we spoke with out the slightost intimation from eith or of the partie named, but only gave tihe current rumors. Tl e )h01)1 ii ave about, settled the imattor among Ltibm selves that they want and must have ai triangular r-ace, three contestants ini 1900 for thbo Sonate, as was the case when McLaumrin was electedl and wheni Eli-e was electedl. Thore are a gooi! umany pieoll oin South Carolina w noe aro tired of ltoformer andl Conoirvativye, and want tol yote foe- a gooed -oundi )e mocrat, without regarid Li past allil ia tions, while there are others who weW stick to the old rack, fodder oir tie fodi der. Since writing the aboveo we see ti name of Duncan mentioned fer the U. S. Senateo and also another- galoots whose name has eseaped us. So it, ma; be that the people want thIs tuune qfuin(uanguilar race Insteoad of a trian gle. What we started out to say an< to utmphaslze was that, so far as w< know, no one has authbority to announct for Edgefield County that Talbert Is C) is net, a candidate for' the (Jnite3d Stater Senate, or that Youmans Is-that, TIil man is, goes without saying. A l(NMAltK(A1LE E'NuINI'~rttNu Ii'EA'u' -Duc~rling the last, th roe mronths what h prono~uncedl by eJxports the most, re markable plece of electrical ongieer lug in the coun try heas boen accom plished after i hroo years of labor atnd some six hun 3red thousand del lia ox peonded In thie en ter-pri'e ;~ that Is, the Sanita A na river-, w hichb comes out o1 tuhe San lHernardino mou ntalns, ha: been brIdled, and its power is now transmittoed to Los A ogelos, some 8: iles dIstant,. In a word, 9,000 hor-se powoer Is madc Lto propel eOnachI nery nmove street eat-s and ill umi inate and even heat buildings In Lois Angeles boesdes furnishing ill uminatioln and power for several vilages- as lied landls, ltiverside, (Jolton and Ontario between the mountaIns, and the en gineers seem to agreedi that the mios remarkable feature In this dlevelop. ment of the poewer- on the Santa Ani river is the transmission of olectricit: of a high voltage over 80 mile~s of wir, with so little loss of energy, the cm pany finding, in fact, that .it can sen electricity of 33,000 volte, having working otlicloncy of 4,000 horse powei a dIstance of 83 miles with a lose of bi i101pcr cent. After doing its work the production of electrical oncrg; the mountain stream is gathered In1 a conduit and led down the mountal side to Irrigate the 'orchards ai groves in San Bernardino valley. -Albert Perry and Miss Emn Moyer, of Perry, Okla., doslirIng to married were unable to cross a crec swollen by the rains, on the other alI of which the minister lived, so th< wont to the edge of the bank wh ile LI a minister stood on the opp1osito ban anl shnnter1 the nevice at them. Bring Your Cotton to Greenville. Or if you Rell ekewliere come to Mahlion & A rnol's New Store to buy your Dry (lomia and Shoes. and you will realize st ill more for your cotton. This Now St re is rapid Iv heing recognized as Green ville's i reatest mtore, it Dry Goods and Shoo Store all mider one roof, occupying over 4000 squ1lare feet of floor Space. This store is a revelation to the people in kno Iking out high prices, and offering to tIhe pe(ople reliable goods lit cheap goods irices. ihe people its a rule are aixious to ~t So give niq a trial if you havent already, ..11t we will Iow to yolu that we can m:ke it to your interest to trade with us. 111r l'all 4 lelinr ou Wedlnesday last was a rlanlt slte4O.. Piles of goods were \V )St te Pace, Twenti"i varis line Sea Islaiids$1.00. Twenly yards tine yard wide Ileaching $1.( 41 Twenty vards1" goodl custom ln e 1111101%00. tleavy :all \\ mil UIe Twill IFlannel 12'/e. liet er giods 15 ito 5 e. White l'lai:el for the ('hildren 12% to )t1e l4t 8 ilich h00 cotti Flannel only l-'ive tm san(d yards good heavy cotton Se-lotol hov Jeans1f., to 20c. Biest .Jeans ()nl\- 26e. Sline llt W0e t 'a Cimeres olly 25o. MAHON & ARNOLD, NO. 21n UPPElR MAIN STRFITj J. 1. AoIA & no.'s OLD STAND. Ag~ent s for Mc( nti Batzar P'atterns, 1T5-MIS OPe G ECN.1d(A l INTUlM8T. Qmaini ht and ('llriouis Paragraphs (Gat here tifrom Vatrioui Sources. -I n colhd there are 193 distiller i %-, as gains)t Ire(landlt's twonty-nine land tail liig-up with an insigynili clint tine. In 1897 the United King o(m1111 tunet out near l')0,000,000 gallons (if wiiskey-ial drank more than half of It I! -One woollen ill at Knoxvile, Tinn, 1-, at paid-up cital of $650,000, WorIk., 800 htnds, aid sel Is its excellent all- woll caiimetes in Oh icago adl the a martsld. The bIg woollen itmill lt, liraunfels11, TexaIs, tplaces its clothls tmosetl y in lI oston. --Ihy the wvill (If the late George W. Clay LIon, of Dehnver, It is provided that hI~ is nirme state, (If more th an $1,000, - (10), Illhall beIl deOvo ted to the establIsh men it oIf ai ne~w11 un ii ty in that city, toI parttitke of the c:iharaetoristics of Ger ari- Colle-ge, lhihlo1lphia. --A tU itel ~il ates marllshall on August .tlh ariveil iln Cha ttan~ooga, Tu'nn.,~ with tile l(ev. ''homias J. Patyneo, a y' venerab)d lo Bttist mnitster, (If lIenton, i I oflk County. MI r. PaiynLe was at-toted -the' daty he fore in hIis pulp ~)it,, charged I w it1h ma11ki1ng moonshi11ne wh iskey. 3 UnI ted States Seniatot' IlIansbor (1oughi, (If Noth D~akota, acquired1 h Is ' ducation in a new,,tpaperC offico. In 1870 he wasH (n appren31t1ee in the comfposinlg room(11 oIf the Stan l''rancisco Chronicle, and gradalhly wo(rked hisa way upI utiiIlibe bIeamoi niews editor of the -Ed watrd Walsh, for 33 years ai po Ilicemnan ait St. l(iuis, died recently with the record of never having once bohon brouigh t before the poli1co board andtt wasi netvIr kntownl to draw a revol ver or' blily ini making an arrest. Yet ho walked one of the rowdiest wards (If tile city. -There are to be no docked hoesde in Colorado. A law has been passed m'ak ing It utnlaw ful to imphort any htorses? with (doed tails, as well as illegal for a hotrse owner to so mutilate any animals he owns. A fine of not less than $100, or thirty days' Imprison mientl, is t1hIpnat~y. -The wife of a Wellington, Mo., farmer droplped an carring while feod lng lior chickens last week, and the L juwel was quIckly gobbled up by one - of the fowls. Unsble to pick (out the A particular chicken, she killed them all, f' one by one-twenty-seven In number a but failed to recover the earring. TLhen Sshe began to 101ok around and disacover (1 ed it In the grass whore the old a hen had dropped it. '-lepresentative Lacoy, of [owa, in ttroduced a bill in the last Congress n andt secutred its passage through the House,050 enlargIng tho scopJo of the o United Sttes fish comiotisshin's wvork nso as; to Iitcluide the prtopagation and1 protection o1 tftae birds. Ho will ro pleat his efforts In that lino tis winter. TIhorto is somoli doubt, whether game a birds could he as well looked after in )this wiay as fish, although a govern ~k ment b~rd commrlsion1 could doubtless Ic do lomnethng, and1( might prevent the y5 litrodutiton (If undesirable birds. The o depar-tmenOt of tagriculturo has not yet k Iexpressed p)ubicly an opinion as to the merits of Mr'. Lacey's bill. 0