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40q s VHE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL L o.---N0. 8. .PICKENS S. C., THURSI), MARCH 2, I900- ONE DOLLAR A YEAR THE GREENVILLE MOONSHINER. NOT SO DUIaL AS HE LOOK. Opportunities to Stiuldy Him at the United States Court-Iie tfpeaks a Iangiuage Abounding in Words Proving Ils Enllilsh Descent. Special to the New York Times. GREENVILLlE', S. 0. March :;.-The United States court for the district of South Carolina, which meets here three times a yar, alfirds a fine op portunity to study the gonus moon shiner. The makers of blockade whis key are everywhere ii evidence. They lounge awkwardly on the boncho of the court room ; they restlessly pace the corridors ; they throng the sidewalks and sit on the curbstoncs, chewing to bacco and discussing the proceedi1gs of the court. The vacant lots of the town are full of their wagons, one and two horse vehicise, sometimos canvas-covered. Beside eachi wagon stands a bony mule or horse, or a patient and scraggy little stoer, munching fedder and " shucks," and lazily whisking his tail at the llies. Some of the wagons con tain the wives and babies of the owners and among the wheels one sees many hounds and gaunt, nondescript curs, dozing in the shade. The moun taineer is independrnt of hotels. When he has a journey like this to make he takes his family aiong, elo.ps in his wagon, and doce his cooking iii primi tivo fashion on the ground. The moonshiner of the mountain re gion of North Carolina, South Caro lina, Georgia and Tennessee is a typo found nowhere else, which has been well studied by Charles l,' bert Orad (lock and a few of the Abort story writers, but which still passesses for lovers of the picturesque an unfaili.g attraction. To the stranger he appears at first glance a very ordinary individ uVl. He is generally long, lean, slow of speech, mild in manner, rough in dress and deportment, and apparently dull in intellect. But once his cun ildence is gained, ho proves to be an interesting charactor. In his humble home, which is usually a double-room loog cabin, he is industrious, fairly honest, kind to his wife and children, and sometimes deeply religious, fond of music and dancing, and hIs conver sation is by no means dull. The stu dent of language will be delighted with his quaint speech, abounding as it does, in archaic and obsolete words handed down without the aid of books or manuscripts, and so nearly for gotten elsewhere that even English philologists sometimes fall into the er ror of classing them as American pro vincialisms. Nearly always his sur name shows him to be of pure English descent, and he has preserved unim paired the old English passionate love of personal freedom and of home, and his unquestionable right to defend the latter, ever against the powers that be. le is English also in his readiness to resent an insult, and though he may lie occasionally, it is never safe to in form him nf the fact. The moonshiner has a great respect for the law-with a few important res ervations. All the statuto books in existence cannot persuade him that he has not a perfect right to make his corn into whiskey and to sell it with out interference in the shape of re venue taxes and deputy marshals. This view of the matter, as explained by himself, is quite simple : Besides .a few vegetables and fruits, corn is th6 only crop he can raise with his salw ox or steer on the few spots of arable land belonging to him. Thia he can sell for 50 cents per bushel after haul ing it from 15 to 40 miles over the worst roads in the world. The same bushel of corn will make three gallons of whiskey, which is easily trans ported, and for which, if he is success ful in dodging the " revenues," he will receive from three to live dollars. The laws against murder and man slaughter also are nulliled by tne moonshiners when deputy marshals become too inquisitive, when a neigh bor turns informer and reveals to other officers the hIding place of a "still," and occasionally even when a stranger, whose businesa is not plainly evident and legitImate according to mountain ideas, ventures too far into the highlands. Long experience with officers of the law, and with the diis guises asaumed by them has rendered the mountaineer very suspicious. A stranger on the mountain roadsis close ly and constantly watched. By an in ger'lous system of signallin'g-a sort of wireless telegraphy-his coming ii heralded far before him; and if he seems too curious, or if chance leads him too near to some r-ude distillery concealed in a ravine, he may be quiet ly "abolished," and his friends will never hear of him again. In the ethics of the mountain region no disgrace at taches to im prisonment for any of these ollenses. Most of the men in every old. moonshining district have been in jail for one or more short terms, but no one looks down on his neighbor on this account. Like sickness and death, it is simply a misfortune to which all are liable. Besides the mnanufaceture andl sale of blockade whiskey, the mountaineer habs one other important source of income -' a treasury of the United States. C ..asidering the trouble andl risk to which he is subjected by the impor tunities of government agents, he thInks himself fully justified in dIraw ing from the government all the money he can get, his hands on. Often, there fore, he becomes a professional wit ness. One dollar and a half a day, with mileage, is no small matter to the man who rarely sees more than $100 or $200 in a year. It was said a few years ago that~ great abuses had arisen in the Unmted States courts of the Southern moun tamn region from this source. A num ber of men having united in a con spiracy to defraud the government, one of the number would be reported for some minor violation of the ro venue laws,-the rest summoned as wit nesses, andl even wben the case wont no fanor than the grand jury there was n.' for all. if it came to trial an acq %l was the usual result, and the am o ereceived by the conspirators was ). But, the ways of a jury being Jsrious, in rare instances the defend, *:vag convicted. In such an event, E serfully served his two or three m .,In janl re,-lving hi. share of the proceeds when he regain ed his libory. At the next term of court he would appear as a witness, while one of his follow-conspirators took his place in the prisoner's dock, and the work went merrily on. It Is thought that this method of swindling the government has now been largely checked, but many insignificant cases still consume the time of the courts and increase their expenses. In the court room the inoonshiner does not appear to advantage. Uere, urlese something of unusual interest Is going on, the scone Is dull enugh. Tno day is warm and many ef tne spectators are dozing in their seats. The lawyers, the jurors, and the wit. nesses look not and tired. Only the defendant in the prisoier's box is wideawake and anxious. As the wit nesses take the stand one may iini some interest in noting their peculia ritles of dress and speech. Many of the men wear no coats, their only gar ments.being a shirt of "hickory stripe' and a pair of homespun jean trousers " copperas breeches " in tho Imlountailn vernacular. Some of the younger ones aro Carefooted. The women one sles are unattractive, sallow, wrinkled and bent with hard labor at the plow, I the hoe, and the loom. Even among ( the girls, a rosy, blooming face is sUl- I doin econ. As a rule the witnesses are t cool and eelf possessed. They auiy 1) 1 ignorant, but they do not lack sense 1 and shrewdness. I Next to iiving with him in his home, I the best way to study the mountaineer is to visit him in j til, after th, court v has adjourned and his friends have I gone home. lie Is then muci mL r I .ready to respond to advaneos from L strayhgcrs and to answer the quostions of the curious. A. first., however, hev is suspicious and reticent ; but once I convinced that you are actuated m vre ly by sciontific curiosity and that you t are not a secret emissary of the de- t splised " revenues" he will bo perfectly I willing to talk. 1 The Greenville jail is strongly built v of huge blocks of lientucky limestode. I The cells are closed with steel grat- t ings drawn across the doorways by means of a screw and a crank operated . from the outside. Tiho on'y winiow t are narrow slits in the wall, covered t with heavy wire netting. After a c session of the court the building is r crowded. Prisoners are there await. i Ing the transportation to other county n jails, and there are generally live or dI tix, whose seitences exceed one year's t imprisonment, and ,vho will be sent to U the Oqio state penitentiary at Colm- i bus. This is what the mountaineer C dreads. A few months in the home r jail, where he can see his family and ( friends and receivo from them 8)up- c plies of food, clothing and tobacco, is y a matter of small moment, but a trip v to Ohio is like a journey to the otlher' side 1of the worid. le has kno in men to go there and die-the free spi rit of f the mountain man cannot stand long i corlinement, steady work, and the ) rigors.of a Northern climate. nCum1io- s nia or conbumption 13 apt to liberete e him before his time expires. that eath and justice are b)th cheatej. One of the most noted woonshiners. in South Carolina, and one who was im- I pilcated in the-killing of severa ofli cers, was sent up to Columbus for i16 After two or thres years' imprison ment It was thought'that he was dying 1 with consumption, and the president I pardoned him in order that he might t (lie at home. That was ten or twielve years-ago. But today Muajor Iedmnod, hale. and sound, is stil' making whi. key in a licensed distillery in Wal Dalla, a little mountain ton n in South Carolina. A famous brand of " moun-, tain dew '' is sold under his name, and his lithograph portrait adorns the heads of the barrels. - F romn the outside of the jail the vil tor can see theo sad and wistful faces of the prisoners pressed against the netting of theo narrow windows, and here he will sometimes meet their hriends 'who have ,gome to converse witni them. In one of the middle cells on the lower floor the grating has been cut, with a flie, leaving an opoening 1 large enough to admit a hand and at pint bottle of whiskey or other small article, aa d tile -prisoners find it. at groat, con~vnienice. 1n return for the favoir of their conversation they some-t times ask the "' ouitsidor' " for tobiacco, whiskey oir ne.wspapers, or~ relquest h imt to wvrit, letters for them to wives,r frienk, -and 'sweuthearts at home. Heart, It may be remarked, is one0 of s the few places where one may heart the "~ we 'uins " ,and. "y you 'lies,' so1 ofterf' quotell by writers of allegedi Southern dialect. The jail hua its' traditions, and these are known to all the mountaineers, Itt is so strongly built that nothing short of dynamite could ell'ect an exit, but yet thero have been prisoners who es-I caped. The most, noted of those was "' Little Bill " Howaird.. lHe was a< s.~lp-i young fellow, of' medium sIzeo, rough in manner, and surly in speech, and no one sup)posed him capable of plannuing to escape( 118 he did. His story is only one exemplilication of thei truth, which ofllicorsof' the law fully, recognizo, that the liountaircer is not such a fool as he looks. H:oward was. covieted of the murder1 of a man named R~oss, who was sup posed to be an informier, andl was son tenced to be hanged. lHe iiaide his escape only a few weeks beforo the, time set for his execution. It is, or was, a custom in G reenville ton permit the wives of pi'isonoers to4. vh~it themt in jail and sometimes to spend1( the night. On this occasion Howar'd's wife, a stout young woman, was brought by her father-in-law to spend a day and night inl j iil wit-h her h usband. A ho lived thiirty miles up the mountains, the old man wished to start home very early in the morning. So bofore it was fairly daylight t 'o old j iler11 was called up to let out Mu. 1. Howar'd. lie did so, as he supposee, but (on enter ing the jil a few hours later he was astonished to find Mr's. Howard, dressed In her husband's clothes, in the cell and tihe condeononed man gone. Not knowing what else to (10 with her', the authorit~Ies later in tihe day re leased Mi-s. Howard. " Little 11111" remained in hiding foir a low mnonuhs. but, was at last recaptured, obtaiine'd i' new trial, and was acequitted. A more pathetic story le told her i though the incident to which it refers occurred in GeorgIa. A moonshiner from the mountain region was serving [is tue In the jail in Atlanta wl h heard that his bahy at houe I vory sick. lie broodI-d over the s j30t at low days and thwn one m1ortIh when tle prisolners wer taking th exercises In the yard, mado a'lad of two of hIs collp:au ions and w, Ovor the wal . After walking o 100 miles, h rcieled home, Only fnd that the baby had been burled I lay beforo his arrivod. He again out for Atlanta, and in a few di knocked at the door of the jail, a Ing to be readinitted and exeusing 11 iceremonIT1111ious departure on I lround that wheII h10 thought Of baby and Its mother thero in tle In1o Lain lomve aion and helples, hie "j intd to go." :AldN. GICANP AND) THE' BUTClia, :enator Conkling's Declsioln Abt the0 Value 00'a FaLM Trotting 1lorsi When GeLn. Grant Was pr'esident is fond or line htrses, as everyi netiows( and drove tbe fstesit trotLe" WashIington. It wAs his greatest )l uru to gO olt oil the liqueiduct, ru v h ih is a dead level front Georgeto o Cabin John Bridge, and tet, his ho ut to its full ipeed. I'Vople w ho kni is habits used to go out there sut fternoons for the novelty of seeing I resident of the UInited States drivi ta i2:30 gait. But a butcher in Wai ngton had a horso that cruld beat I ,resident's, and very of ten he aopem in the road to show his animal's sp lid annoy the president,. ,e Wot ang around iat tihe end of the aquedi ridge Until the pregident's ighbi 'y al.y styIish 6tepper had passed, a Vou!d follow t-hiei until Ie relceldlI ideu place ii thLim road. Tiheni he wom it it[Is horse out, and the butcher's ci 'ould go bounding along unt.l ho h Irown dust in the )residetL's eyes I while, WIhI h1 would slacken up a it Gen. Grant go by only to pass 11h gain and agtain as often as ho pleast 'itliout the slighte.t, regard for t ride or the oibe of the chief mag rate of this great nation. Gen. Grant was a very patient, -w otaillod man, but I doubt if anythi iai ever occurred in his life annoy ill so mnuchl as that, butcher. IIe . onipeiled to aband1onl the road whi 1n10 along the top of the tunnel li rings the water from tle upperl' P .ac to Washington alnd s3k OLtI rives in order to avoid hlis tormllellt Ut the villain still pursued himin, a sed to bang aroun d J AFlytte sque II iS old butchr's cart o that. ould follow the president in any ection he might take. Finally G< rant took Col. Condit, Smith into l omidence nard asked him to negotlh Lietly for the pureliaio of tbo hur 'nich Was accompliiied for $500. The next morning -Seiator Conkli nid Senator JcOnes, of Nevadn, were ited to inspect the wondorful anim nu accompaniod Gen. Grant to I Vhite Ilous stables just ,outh of t tate departmuent. Senator Jones i lined to express an opinion asi to t lwrits of the animal. lie taid that ;aielid to Icaow i lllhoul. mines, ad never set lp) a, in ex pert on hors ut Mr. Conklin- who probably kn u5s, pretended to examine the anin ilh great care. Ir'u looked at his f, nd twisted iis tail ; bo inspected oofs minutely, gazed steadily for s ral moments into hils eyes, rabbed I ogs with a knowing air, and finai urning to Gen. Grant, remarked, w 11 air of judicial authority " It's a mighty (ine horse, Mr. I"( 0nt, bUt I would r-ather' have t 500." " That's exa'tly what the butci aid," retorted Gen. Grant. '111K AuICNIRRS A ND COTTON.-1 1olumibia correspondent of the Ne nid Courier says: The State Alliance is to) holdi its 1 ual meeting here on thie ' cond TPu ay in July. When asked if the A lnee was11 not liraetical'y d ead~ a plrol lent memberJt3 anid a1 leading farr Ciplied teracly: "'Not b~y right 50mal Lhis gentlema~n was askced abouti ulrchasiog (If fortillzers by the farm hls year. 'rhe privilege tax recel ,lready a:nount to ahlmost as much be whole of last year's reeiplts, be ver $18.000) grLeater i.han at the sil meo last year and indicat~Ing that armers are going ahead and usino 011ch fertilizers as ever. This gene nan said that,, whilo this seemed how in coild ligures that the farm ~ere rea! 1y bulying inore fertil1Iz. han usuaIl thuIs y'ear, lie didL not thi hat thley were. Hie thInks it is duc lie fact that the farmuers are huy heir fertliz.:rs very ,Iuc earl ierl ti 15ual1, andi cited the inst atnc of a nI haLt ha 5 oid out, its supply as early 'ebruary this year, w hereas it had old out1 last yealr until thbe last of A p he also noted thalt the farmers w 'eally riot paying~ more than the 10 writ advance 0n last year's price0, wIb hey agreed upon Ill all their' antitr fleetlings, inr a few instances, here here, small farlmers had been CanU iaping by jobhors, but as a gent hing tlhe lk of the sales have h :'ithin tho 10 per cent advance. enit on to say that there would loubted ly be a large. cropi (If cot lantecd this year and hie thought th ras bound to be another season of g IriCes, come what may. The So Jarolinai crop, howover, he does sp)ct to h0 aLs large as the plant ~ouldl indicate. l1e says he has ne nown a big (rOI) to follow a wet v erml, such1 as9 this wVintor huas been. -''hcroe is bi)Uld Ing in Santii Juba, 0one of tile mfost, comoplete chiu iplants to he foulnd any where. It, Is Lhe newI Bapjtist churllch, recently anLlized there', and is located In eryP3 heart of the cIty . The stari il It was an 0old manLsion, the open c< >f whichl has1 been1 uitiliz~ed as the for an auditorium, which is wvh mw .The size of tbe church Is 5(t eiet. and tuhe mater'Ial Is of brick, CCrated in) color5s to make. the build Cuban, and not, Ameirian. O)ther p (I the found11atio(n, construicted fr'om~ >11ld mansionII rferre1.d to, Include1 tor's residtence, three1 large ec! 'ms, and a lawn sixty foot roqu .11h a fountain. TLhe congrega to worship in it IA In) a prorperous ltion, and stead ily growing in im bership. About, Ia dozen of itse orig members were limersod Immedia below the famlo sSan Juan Hill manywee after the engagement. ien HOW THI GOLD CURIE Vito WAS DISCOVJ4i[It LI I) 1i, i'Ut L AT'E Di, laj lIIl' . t i i,;y IUr The Discoverer o1 the lFamouims t il nut rt cdy for the Drink 11abitt - A Ske-c to 01' IllS 1elmlt kablo 'lite. ,he The discovery of the gob ci ur ho 30t the liquor habit wo' a world-wid I., l putation for Dr. Leslie '. K eeley, w hi died a few weeks ago In Lors Aigelep b Cal, where he had built a wint-r homei For many years le had been a ut~fferer his and heart diecase is stated to hav, 1" ee1 the ceiiUC Of his death. L0Iialio iE Kuely was born in Itut dam, N. Y, in 1S:i. His father wit an old-fashioned country doctor, hit MI. man of wide reading and till of etee tricities. Leslio was sent to1'cl Mt anti was regarded as an apt ;chohm but it was his customi as a child, whin lie school hours ended, to huiirry to the vil ily age tavern, where the arrivitl of th. .stag coach was always awaited bv crowd of viliagero. Tne t ver wonC ItIll ul) his tOami, throw his r'eiti to a' o i)bse quious hostler, anti hut'r ry into to I'Sk! barroom. Young Keeley wooid ft 1h w 0 and, with tie crowd wihich attihl de n listeined with open ears to the nw.-. which he oracularly dolet ou t. The stage driver was youn I h eeley's hero, but one nil.glt li, tln. merous ad mirers i nv itetd him to the bar too. frequontly, and his Aptzp ud were uncertain. The gr.a .' d driver sank down on the grion id. niu et, went into a stertorous sleep. K (h.. ovatehcd him until nornii . rmli that night tbe boy had a sort !f .an ia a to watch all men who were aid t.d t Id drink, and it is related it him that % night after night lie would riow and ad care for the villagers anid vhitiur, w lit Or drank too hard. le wvas aughAicd at, i but he stored up the varions ebarac m teristics of tAhe drinking meni1 and1 the R, apparent effects whieb liquor had oin hie th1011. is. When the boy grow to younr mnt bood, having earned a little money, he If. e'amo West and added to his experietc ng by a residence in New OrIeans and sIv e'd eral trips up the Missouri and 'I is. a sippi river". 11. came to Chicago and el entered as a student in HIusi Medical at college in 1SO 1, and was therefore in o his second year when the civil war be 1r gan. -110 volunteered, andt as a medical >r cadet was ass igned to duty at Jeflfreonn Id barracks, near St. Louis. The medical TO eolicers in charge wero glad to have he an arnicIt yoiune man to relieve then. I i. But Cadet Ktelev awakoned them . len lie reported to them that the ,i barracks and the whole camp were in ILC uC tondition that an epidemic of ty *e phoi. I fevelr might h.e expected. Cadet Kt-ley did m1iorIC. li itia emumuiini Catlion to headquarters. andl th result li was a .anitavy overhaliing. Then al. Gudlet 'ley wa nade, an asistant lie surgeon, 1;. S. V., anI placetd in com he mand as medical Olicei of the oar c.- racks. he Surgeon Keeley was ordecretd into au 1e tive serv ice as It b'igtdC muedical diree )mt toi'. He arrt'varlcd hi f. l i i ii com es: petent men dischi aiged, and org an iz_.t ew a system of caring fo' the wouniet jai which cont-Ained tne esseneo of thi St plan'; now in usec le world over. His When the war was enided y11un1 v. Koeley returned to l.eish Medical col SiH lege. 11.3 was graittuatd in 1861; and 13, looked for a place to locato. Finally he Ah decided on )wight, livingston (uty, Ill., and lo settled down, as an ail I. around country doctor. He was sue he ces::f i. For years lie drove his team over the raries aind the farmeurs test,, er fy to h is ability. The Chicago and Alton railiriad tp pointed him division Hurgleol, aind vhen the tercible accident near the he Summit occurred )r. eeley wa: firist WS at hand. When the ridtf frai fIroni Chiicago wIth a cor'psof physIiians ant mn- .,urge~ons aplpeared oni thi:e sene liir (!-1 liely, w itliout any real aut hority lh- sai~ve his piresence, or'ganiitiz themi inti i- tdtlin Ito aation. ietr, During all these year's Dr. 1K*eele -had been intensely inteested in thi ,ho invetstigationi of the vtrii'us pha-es oi Lit' the c tfets of alcohol and otheri dra ~gs IlLS He had convinced himsoelf that ther, aswas nothing in the ehtim that, bered ita nig had anything to do wvith cith .i. Ho mei believed that, while ia neuotisis miiigh Sbe. entai led upon0 decscenodants. the aswere not, upon necessity liquor or d rug sors.en His position muade ax hue ano to ely among physicians. 00 Dr. Kee:ley's experIence In the armni 31' and in his r'ail road connections hat nk convinced himit that alcoholism was to disease antd couldl be cured. He biegan tig tot experiment. lie foundi that ialcool tiattacked ei'uirtalii nerive foi'ces. T1hi .1 alts of gold years ago hiad been used, a~ aind ihe expeiimentedi with them. T( iitt an extent they were danurouis. Ait iii' ild fai'mer who had beent one iof hi ire pa tieints foir yeoars *tar'ted on one of hhi pn nuerous " di'unkts" and ti'ied to k ii ic hitmself. lie wanted to diit antd revilei uist the tdoctor' for his r'esiisclittion. 11< tid had drn k uip the value ofI Lwon farim hi .and wias rapidly minlg away with Aen '-ity, 11 .''Vould yourahrdehn oo tun- dr'inkinig 9" asked the doctor. ton .You bet." cre "IThien take this,"' anti ii'. isoele nod gave imi a' pill, and followed it, witl ith Lihree othbers. There wias tiroub le, ani not the ios t wats too etig,rong. bt, tubo ou~ "g farmnor stirvived. lie saved his, thir' ver farm i anthd died long after:wardl a :,obhe Thib coivincetd l~i'. Keeley that hi was on the right. track. Hie wrote Li go, severab.hunilred well kno1w n ph y.slt'ian rub to ascertain what, they' knew about ti for et flt L of salts of gold.- A few resiond or. eod. anid t hteir in formaation w as mei age'r the I) r. Keel ty conmpouinded a priesicrito ing ianad boti 30i1:t, with a request to phy ourt sicianis Li) gi vt it it trial.- M any ent Li site at rep3y that it was a success. allIy lie thehi iiponed ani inst iiulon a, 70'~ i)wight, late In the '80b, and [gave ii de-. hiis general practice. Foir Ltwo y ear. h lng continued, lbut hiis siucces es wer'e on0 Arts about, hO per' cent. llo wa riot iathi the tied, anti so lit closed the buine-, an mas- went to Colorado. A few mionth, late 10)0l be retourned to I) Night ,i hav'in g foami tre, by study anti investigation ani ii ~impov ion ment on1 hi Is mothbodt of treatimenti . 200- D~uring the year' 180 lie began to st omf- cure publIIc r-ecognitLion, tbut it was n. inal until i1%l that hie really achieve tely promince. lIn soms wray it came to th not ears of Joseph Medlli. of thes (Ch1.' Trelbhn that a coni..om dlot was enii ing 11on of drunkonnesos. Tho 'ribun, ' , et roporter. 10 camino home and w rote up what he had learned. Mlr. Medill was not convinced and h sont nofther roportor. 1)r. Keeley said to " i wase toll M r. Modill to seond' me ix of the worst drunkards ho can ind, Adllo in thr.- days I will sobor thcin up am i fit hour wceks I will sond theni noe. to C;icago sober 11en : and, uu-I f heir Own volition, they will ni er Cet k liiqulor. At aly rate, they w ilnve' 1have tilod or nececsi ty T1- chvilunge Iis ancepted and the I 1.x m V0en were sUnt. 'hIei genIerI SUc-0 of liai eX)eriment tVWas exploited r nThe Tribune ani Dr5. Keeley re ard lis Is havii 11111ch to do with nc macero of the Ifeley Mmvment. t ('ber newspaper; toik up tle Inove mnlt also and iexploited it. t h) In i I )r. Keely' vi,-ite kl .11010. 0 Ilat0her Lilliln Mills Sipoket At lb mee1t-1t in' 1 o i iton, at, v Iw ich CanIii' ir ided, and Lhe ren-ult Wi- thu oIpen Ig f thi- l-ley ins1L;Jt L o f LombIn 1t11 lr. ( )car C. Ie Wolf for tuaay yeatrz; hlth commblt tionler of Chicago, t. ats the pretsident. It has einece beenl in en m-i in itsi jinec anld pgro l prity. l!. Keeley biht Lhat his work wi-, iikv I'-tu' andl nt iuiredI an eduCa tin1 Of tho'c who admiiuistered it-1hat i. fact it was a new zc-lool of imiudi Ieviw. But hie yoilded to thin argumente of his friends and allowed Kueley i1 --titute4s to be opened in Various parL Of the Unidtd States, it, however. h1li t a ine qua nion that the plle .ian it) chairgel imust ho it reguiiar grad uato of an aCerUd iIed mudicalI college 01 and ImIst Iprio to hiis aplpintment;t-, s aS ItIKeUlUy phyeluli Ltake at course (if instruction it iwight and pass anl (Xtlination he forero recciving his ' credentiis. [live Stat'.& 111ve pazsed laws recognizling the Keely treatMelt alnd provit(ivg for Stato aid to thote nu1able to secure it. for themselves. Thcre ar locali inti Lutes in fourteen LatLs where physi cians euicated a. iht I aigii1 litre in Dit. Kley wts rogidy the State unvriyo lmuiin 1I by!h3 the confriing Of Om degrC of I,1j 1) , And in IS it thd tl:l n i-, w-ork has aLI"( h l -n rec gnze . 1 11e was invited Lto vinsit Turkey and lQypt, i anid Wile in Meitxico lece-ived! lionors from i'resildent Divi.. I I of 1h1 i old Sb uds, Colonel Nate A. I 1 d, tiiU. (10 scribe-3 him : " l)e. eUelcy was a horn auLoclt. 11i brooked no0 initerfore'nCe. ILa heb lt gone upon the btage hie wouhi htave, haldL low if ainy sllpriors. lit- hItd Shia ke Spear( and tile l Hile ailmo-t at hi: tontgue's end. Thu, '4v. T.'u, Witt, b Talugb ivited im to spcai hi h 1. taberlnnecle lin Broolyn a fewyar tagpol and it raptiiin i litwo coilii eit s Of policemenvi to car the 'tretI so tLhat the doctor COUIld entueil. ';imIill iar thronigs greuted h11n .0, Nlontlreal anda I Iait, it is not. only tllong tlh , vic tins Of ltohol and druw: that, the( dthtl of D~r. LeeleJy W il tjhkmured There ari ma o othIe,-rz;. Il- wa t inanly-sidet) m1an. lit. waskz quiick to e the nul-ring and fecI for tl.heil. An 1 imporLunate ieggar upon Li.A Mtreet would by him ho refused, and ti en he would turn hack allt bestow his aillms, 1iving his ctoipallio ill Xeu, ' I ilay hi Lilflering.' A n article in a Ci eagoI paper, teling about somel c t-utl f Ir- I ing flmily, was .ure to be followed by it letter from Dr. tK o)ly Li his Chicago rpresentative to look the matter ill and if it wis at genu'ine eihe to re !ieOV it "More, tIhan F420,000 wav thus -x pond - ed by )r, k lclAy, ard 111111dreds Of Ilen who Went tLo Dwight heartle.-, hoimie lcss and penniless. Wert, not Only givel freeo treatmelnt, bat alzso were, givenl board, cloth , trans p Iortation home an11d helped0( toI eml)oymen~10t, ouit of tbe dioctor's. poc)ket.' T'ho Coi rluila St atte say.L itt Lihe farm-Ii 0r o5(f SouthI C. rolinaI (lonl't seeto bL)e ligihtinig the fertilizer trust, as.- har asit 1.hei11r viglor'ous r'esolutIions inoL LtI use hait beiin freei.i lyredlictedi ,,ince( the prceofLcottn jt~iupe up1 thait the Stlato wol ilhe I coint i seasoni~i plat a i lirgP.~Or aereage~ (If the Iileecy stal LI than'Li II ing prepartiiionis are' beuing madbte for thie planiting (If a1 ig cr'op for neOxt fatll's marlb1'keting. it, has1 bodCn mentioned31 that1 thbo rai - .0ronde had not noted any13 fill i ng (hf ti sone:>n, but thereP. waLs nol Waly bolre t~o as5cernini i the eat, shiipmllents. There areO 5(ome figu res avible thI, howevyer, tiihit tire s!gn ii ficaniilt. TVim i State chia rgies a ta on 1)ach~1 Lon (if fert L ibzerp. i lpped > hy factorius in) anid out oIf the State,I anrd the tax tags havtoi beI houohlt by thle compn~iesI3 and11 atlti d before te tube satie (If thlei.e tags thei~ fatrnorsi areh year thani last, or' else tie factiorlie. have good re.snt eiveta ,* yea was0i I 42:t.e S It :1-t, yiear lv I tl NMairch 12~ thei Stte hadbiIltI reci.d it lu:st ofiti lttl. IIaThiill Leaup. 1' havtni foueght each:1 lotherl baici tind forth Na tal and isu diesribhell as picitureaie - and omilleentiL i t rises on the I'reo . Stat. 'didl of thle Mont aulx Sources, in 11 the itaken..berg and itt Oniehileap down I i 0) feet , wit La 1 fall briloken (only by lii Ione orLwI'led.ges andI rpuJte Ld Lto1) Lbe he hig~!hest, in Lii world. I t thu en trs L thrughI~i a grea~it catnon for two iiies and hII joi ned by seveoral rushlin lg mouln - ta1in streams. T1he first, importatnt trih utarliy to tile Tugela isi the L ittle TIagi'i ita, whicoh flows in from tile southL. 'lThen (comes the 1K 1 p ri ver fromE tihe north I Ithe btream~ (in which I /.tdysiiih i V.t uaIlted. --A neOw inr~tano (if elietic street, poses Is found in Clievelndt, wheriel Sstono is being haulledi fooml at iuarry''3 e ight miles distant. Fi f teen thiousand~~l e pounda' capacity freight ultrs are usedl o and t.hn work done after tile elone 'if, t-ihe pasanng r a c.. '11.1 aN aliiS h(AR T) TASKt. Lhl ii laItHHfteaiat ttH Stimnat oa I'i'psoiggIegi a Neg'o 14lhtigj loi4s'litinIg to) tile Smith Carolina Senatoi. In the Conigrkssionlal 1lveord we finid he following ollicial report of an in. -ident in the Senlate, w11heh is likely to )1.;omoni famou011-4 i1anlthe' elat'h In veen olsa h sett-a d ("t tart: I na. Nilr. Hlowr Said. I Mr. P resident, I p'reeint tie mic loriail Of Q. M1. ALtwoodI, M. D)., andl thLr citiZenI'S of the t'ni ted State:- i ippose colored eitLizens--complining f the languae used in regard to their aco on thu lloor of the Senate by tl llatol from South Carolina I 1r. Till )anl. and )raying Liat tihe SZIiiitO will .irni back tie tide of lawleSse8s IlOw 'eiiken inaig, its tho i orlo ialists ay, lo respoet of the peoplo frl laVw and ider and undermining the Conb Litu dn. " ITe neiorial is accoipaniied by i Ittr a:ki ng me to mak01 somie r i o 'he S''in i the -ubj "et h ' n t i - presented. I Ufmzt-c that uIe f the SnatO 01ihiitL sIcii m.'1iark at Lti tinte Of preseantIng it i' ItOin tr inel iai'il. wid I hive someji lublt. whotherl at nno-moril eomPlainl I,'' of langu'iage nedupon the !I lor. of t le, St'nate wvouhi he adnii-,sib'e untjecl ar ride wetr it ti . as in th e cae, l!eomngp l Ii c Ii )~y 10 1 -a %y k-r " ( II-r .b rig . I ti ve i ithe releren'ciee uf th ile i Id to thek conlunit~tee ()n privihe t 11d ele, ionls, mind it -wentis to tile that )ien tite ei 1iitvee i m.it, eli liIT by ny ta of proposed legishIion cr ( y] ilying t he pra lyer f the ptetitioneri. lh-In N'.el 11bt I c I w pripeir tutin'e for de till-. " I de.re, hoWev'r, LO cal i tie atten in of th. senior Slenator froni Soth arolinia to the miemorial, and I Thahl -c that, as the memtnorial is very brief, i n'ay he prinitd ill Li the litcori." There being lit) objecition, the liiemo ial w1, referred to the ei i m iii ittee on rivileges anl elections and or-dered ) h.e printed ill the leceord. Mlr. lloar ihA'equent1 ly aid : " Mr. l'eesiielit, I lmreseanLted a ile lorial .Hlis morning, 1:alling attentionl > the( general n1'.,ure of its conitents, til 1in the rapidic't, tlat I -htmuld dis us it, andl ltati:2 ,, hO reason why I uhd not do that upon its presntion. nt! ked tnhat t me' uimnorial linight he rint,i'd in the terodNI. I ObsUeVe, on >.K ing at it morlide Carn'fiilly, t hat there re sim11 0 ent~'ne inl it whiIh are, I link, contrary to th ineilamntary le. and I hiA ti at Lhe order that it! n nori ic I ri td in the Ii'oril resucinded.'' Tetiti li. Washingo *iorretliiunet tofi ' . 'I I Iti l I III t'Q j, ii-leait.l (ay. INw and Cour it i er uppih thi il. lestili nilk tlleiiit Of what, 1)ag pae itW en 1t1 -. III're.,c 1t Latione of the etition and thenahl i t :. reii-,-or fi .\l. IbI ir, whiebli w r--t iuh nieitd by i t enfo id intliLiviev' with itvei'cl ii' igiici tiuitoi th Il.~jn, by nir.ic Ti'ni' Thi reni eneiLlthgit~ t nae i, he ner e li-ar han incur ed 1i: di -at >ie fe of :iieator Tial b y ltenli nev him-elf to ai party Of uolorud men ilin tnk ta-it per ig al'. i < upathonnihe ' Ihltn rk Slmtor through a SCena O aO et'itio '. Iirig . the trninge lour inthei( Semlikina to-day Selnator ear ipreente l petit ainit, iglnd >y t unumber Of Colored ieitzen0 which eiverely arraigild Senator Tilaa n, by 11nm1, for i tde eniIt,io nuae a lain d he negro raeo duingij at recent, debate: n - ite enatc. The ptitioner s laime halt 1he lang'inige usedCt byN Sen~ator' 'oiin in was I dit race to that, honlor ble body, cliculaed to n -crrupt abo iorais of af.l'wl'o alsociatL with the ice ior stenator fromt Sout~h Carolina, in[ oreseting thie tit,ion, Senato er oar e.mrked that he supposd t I tho otitionfers were citizulin of the State if Smuth Carolina. I snte w.~en Lthe Lpnetition wa 'pre (2ent1ed, buntin , hist attetion bitei alle Lo .iithe~ Iu j le , h i e brasIok t wh s p tt-y fromo hea airIk'I dsk and~'i 11 f~e rtiee iI it ' onten1ot, 801110un i t haolit the Wignersll.I to th pond iitm hard iohi-Id ine reid iig inIni Wasrhig'.u ieit, and not. hiiisu consittiuaeifnnwts lu Senator a hd si~tiid ith avidently rined' Lii pre-mi on ht'ati e, nthe Smiiaithi~r taol-inai iea ilat I ii iibu ts iSentor a t, accoth i form ha lyin hat iii~t~lran.s'aei' Thei nversat-iln I' than pnased between 1,bu Saw- inator waspi nnt thbdavi ,Orns, fr Sneato Alenof Nebrlaaaa, wasi Iitry-ig lng toac utatgl ws rot rdl olwnd 1r', nrrespodety had inald i n on o.fi ,be Ntibraka L apert I VOliit Va eas betoa oh marvy tha' Senaton T1lman wa aingry ii, itan act~dhas i er wast gisn~-hing lentyr letr a gfa sizied ii. ihnk o ai-f ehindrough Ientor v~lta evidently jtry'iisnnkni tofunh the~n a ttntittac o iibrottb'r Pe nan-r mtlheid nt fppe' Lito nn bemaing a'il umcatn in that, . dl'iirecto nThere i wasin (mltok ofi truhieunil is wtellhixaeb-1 cl fwin , and. c d idi the -uhjt . i h of riiid a hitdni'ver hi countenanc' itii inr al- it Iifl' t (cun. a- thevigorou rVnie ark ti- nato~Ir T iilhna was mak-ning.t it app ettors vl hatriSenaor c rilbenan -n atnntactc tha asi nou~tl' t on owrd :agiedafa tn-n't itsoul havet been1( o bittc Won h~~)~tis peso at eposib i lt, ptoition signe byngaersnai uinkowni~ Li) roth C aoh)Ia iiatrf ac uay n Save money by buying 'our Dry Goods and Shoes 1,0111 6111, IBS1y BrOOch Store. Our buyer' is now'in New r secing bargains in all Ibes 1 n a few days we will have everything you can call o from a pin to an Ele-' 'hant. We vill buy as complete a tock of Dry Goods, Notions a1(a Sho e.s as you will find n any .store' in 'a town .ten inies as large as Easley. I ncourage us to keep~the Jock utp by bIuying alljyou :an frmoi our Easley store. Jiur prices will always be as ow as any house in Green ille will Or can sell at. We shall Ihave many bar )ains to oler which we will romn time to time mention 11 this paper, so watch this pace. When in Greenville call in Lnd see is. We are always ip to date, and will give you1 mock down prices. Yours for huSiness, R. L. R. Bentz, t D Ii rv ano d :l Shoes. Manager Iasley Branch. Ireenille Sor...... ...... .'.Com- nrace 2..3ainSt Ih man wli Ii\ o isesC to hisi oppjor tuntities is theI ,wesn manl O~I. I lore's th Io (pportn (larsaleof AIe us atnd I 1adies' Iin tic l Wearc~ at speull prIices~ is drawt ing1 to our store) thIose who1 alp pcin' I )nto le ad tlity.~ Pwm~D~ & PKITON, 106 S. Main Street, M4d) irst' door above LipsHcomb1 & R~uesslls'. --Mrst. Minorva nllako Hlowland, the only '"real " daughtoer of the Ameorican 1(tevoltion, whIo live V1in NOw Hlavoen, dlied there a few dlays ago. Sho was tt yearsi oldl. tier father was R{ouben nlake, who entlIsted fromt De)rby, oonn., in the comnpany organized hy Captain Dlavid H-umph reysi, afterwar'do an aido dcamut p on Wash ington'si staff. Doi You Need1 An Electric Holrt ? Fr the past entas, IDr. J . Newton f Lathawa iy who is~ recogn ized( as t he great ;nIIa eletin hi elt, "iitale to use in his prae(ili'e, one w ichii'I tIe IouLu~ ; "Oinh as a) par1 ofI hiR ystie of t reatmienit, ann Ihichi he ,ould consicienitionialy guarantee, Hie now. annlonneies that he has peorfected Bsu -h a( bet, winch hebliee t oCjvi be)1) the onti' per ifect bel t made(I . It is light, handsome ofgreat, power, anid with new attaciLhments, wh icb makuei it snitablle for every ease. lie is pi'i~repare to furnishi this belt to alt patients who needU~ it andtu who apply to him for ' roe miient , aut a merely nominal charge. \\ rite to, D r. I tathaway to-day, telling all abou voo1yi r icase and~ lhe wvill write you about tte belt, and if yon desire the belt wvill be sent i. U. It. for insapectioni. Address Dr. 11att baway & Co..', S2 outht 1road street, CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Ktnd You Have Always Bought B3oare tho 8lgmatut6ol 1 fi' 77