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_ THE _PEOPLE'S JOURNAL VOL io.---NO. 3. PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, SLHTEMIER 's,100. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR (0the Readers ol' We invite you to I and boys wear 01ur. linle of Men Our Bioys' Knlee Aleu's n'its fron A coImle)CtC line felt and stral The best $3.50 Every thing in I line of unlaur known to the We will take ple best stock of section, and t Yours truly, SMITH & E GREE RUBBER TIR We put on the best at S You are cordially invited to ex Fine Carriages Wagons Our Prices Are.Right. The Greenville G. W. SIRRINE, Supt. - - - WEATHEIt AND OClOP REPORT. Weekly Bulletin of the Weathe.r Ilu- d reaua for South Carolina. t UO IUM IA. S. C., SCIt. -1, 1100. r The week ending 8 a. m., September l 3d, was much cooler than the t wo pre ceding weeks, but continued hotter " than usual. There was a maximum of 101, on two dates, and a minimum of 59 degrees on September Ist. 9 The rainfall was general over the State, but was light over the extreme northwestern portilon. Many points t, had from one to nearly four inches of rain, thoroughly relieving the drought, t, while generally the rainfall amounted to somewhat less than an inch, which although beneficial was insullcient. b The general condition of crops isa R greatly improved, although the rains a came too late to help corn, which has d not improved at all, and stubble corn will be a failure. iVodder pulling, and E cutting corn are finished over the cast erm, and nearing completion over the ~ western countites. L~arly cotton shows no improvement, and will do no mere thant mature the crop of bols it now bears, but late cot, ton is again growing, blooming, and r fruiting. Shedding has ceased, and C there is less premature opening. Sea i island cotton has attained but, half its ' usual size, and is blooming to thbe top. a Picking cotton is general and is being a pushed since the cooler weather set In; f some fields have been picked over once. There is a complaint, of scarcity A Th rc harvest is general, and a with few exceptions, the yields are very satisfactory. liplandi rice will be a failure. Peas, sweet, potatoes, sugar cane, pasture~s, and fall gardens show the ~ good effects of the recent rains, and turnip bowing has become general. The ground is in condition for fall plowing, and preparations have b~een I begun at, places to seed a large acreage of grain this autumn. It, is the opinion of correspondents tlbat crops of all kindd will be very short this year. CA Ni)I A'lI'ns 'R iA !i'Oits. -The State executive committee at its meet ing last, week appointed the follotving D~ecnocratic~ candidates for electors on tho Bryan ami Steovenson ticket from thIs State: At [Large-IR. D). Leo, of Sumter ; H. hlart Moss, of Orangeburg. lFirst Dilstrict-M. W. Simmons, Ad am's Hun. Second District, W. W. Williams,. AlIcen. Third DI)strlete-Cole L. ilaso, Now berry. lPourth District-W. MeU. Sloan, Co, lumbia. lRifth District-W. 11. l'ollock, Jhe raw. SIxth Distrlct-M. S. CJantey, Sum-, merton. Seventh Dletrict-George Tuppori Summnerville. -The surface area of the Chinese empire is eighteen times greater than that. of Grat lraein. -ome to see us for any thing that ImenI Is Suits run from $4.00 to Pant Suits $1.50 to $t.00, I $1.00 to $7.5o. of Viie's and floys' liat, in both v goods. hoe made for inen. rnderwear, among which is the best dered white shirts and colored shirts trade for 50 cents. 1sure in showing you through the good@ inl our line in the Piedmont he prices are all right. 'RISTOW NVI LLE, S. 0. -10 RT NOTICE. 1mie our Sulimmer Stock of Buggies, and Harness. Ou'r Lioo M~Are Guaranteed. Uoach Factory. - H. C. MARKLEY, Proj.. SERvEu HUM Itwiur.--" Anything 'rong ?" asked the hotel clerk of the ruminer who had just got home from 10 east. " I was thinking," was the reply. "I )de from Bulfalo to Toledo with the retteet girl I ever saw." " But that didn't hurt you. Who as sho ?" Can't tell." You didn't introduce yourself and et her card in return ?" " No." "No particular trouble, oh ?" solici ously insisted the clerk. "Well, it was this way," replied the raveler, as he braced up for the ex lanation. " She sat opposite me, you now, and I tried for an hour to catch er eye. She simply ignored me, and azed out of the window. Then I rose nd handed her a magazine, but she eclined with thanks. Ten nminutes stor I bought the latest novel out, ut she said she didn't care to read. 'hen I bought seome fruit, but she !ould accept, none. She also ignored ie when I tried to draw her out on lusic. "IBut you Persisted ' " Oh, yes ; that is, I was about to lake another attempt to enter Into onversation when the train camne to a alt at a town, and the girl beckoned 15 over. I was there in an instant, nd with the sweetest smile you ever aw she asked if I would do her aslight " 'With all my heart,' I hastened to " 'Well,' she said, smiling even more weety, suppose you leave the train ere and take the next one that, fol aws, for you have matie me dead tired, nd i feel like taking a nap.' " "(Good grahious," whispered the lerk, " Yes, si,," said the drumnmer, as he eacheddlor a cigar, " and I want to go p tophVy. rqpm and sit -and think and ry' sud figuio it out. Perhaps it's time left, the road and settled dlown at lome." -An 10nglish miachinist has dis ov'ered a new method or process or oloring iron, it, entirely provents utt, even though the metal be brought o a red' heat. And a H ungarian ma hinist has discovered a method of pinning wood pulp11 so that it, can be onvorted into clothing. A fellow can ~et a wooden suit now without going o the undertaker's establishment. OULt GAItEATICST RPECUIAIAS~T. F'oi 10' years l)r. J. Newton Hathaway uas 50 1:'cedfully' treated chronic diseas ' thiat,bue is acknpwiedged today to stand it thb head-of his- profession in' tis line. (is .exclusive iettiod of treatment for V'arf60ce-inn S~t(ricture, without tne aid if iknif# dy cantory cures in 90'per cent, of ili cases. I n the treat-ment of the loss of VltMn Forces. -Nervioun D)isorders, Kidney n(1 tirinary Complaints, Paralysis, Blood P'ofsonink, ithedhnatiern, Cathe'ri, and dlis Jases peIculiarto ' pn Me As equally mdlu.'r.'ataway,s practice is inoNO than dityrble Vhat of arfyothuer spec. I'alist. Cases ,rg nounced helpless by other physiciasre diy yield 'to his treatment. Wiehmtdyflyabout your case. Hie makes no charge for consultation oi advice, eikber at, his oilece or by mall. J. Newrton H athaway. M. I)., 22% BIoutht rand atroot. A tlanta, (Ia. T11% C07o'TON CitOP 011 1899.11900 Secreanry lqiestor's Report Hayt- tihe ''olal W'as J,4341,4iu Bales--south Carolina LAtIS in MantI'acturing. Secretary Hoster's Now Orleans cot ton exchange annual report was issued a few days ago. He puts the cotton crop of 1899 1900 at 9,436,416 bales, a decreate of 1,838,124 under 1898-91. Of this hi says that Texas, including Indian Territory, shows a falling oil of 964,000, the group of other Gulf States, consisting of Louisiana, Arkansas, MIusissippi, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Utah and Kansas, 400,000, and thbe At lantic Statos, consisting of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky and Vir ginia, 475,000. He places the average commercial value of ti crop at 38.55 dollars per balo againt,. 25.08 dollars last yeAr, 28 62 dollars year before last and 36.76 dollars In 1816-67, and the total value of the crop $363,785,000 against $282,773,000 last year and $322, 553,000 the year before. H calls at tention to the fact that the uoney value of the cotton crop just marketed in $81,012,000 over the 1898-99 crop, which was -1,838,00U bales more. He puts the total spindles in the South at 6,267,163, an increase over last year of 1,315,071. These include 1,418,497 now, not complete. The not gain in the number of Southern mills over last year has been 113. making the total new 663, and the consumption has boon divided as follows : Alabama, 147,922 bales, an incesase of 15.1511. Arkansas, 2,380 bales, a decreaso of 802. Georgia, 339,110 bales, an increase of 67,303. Kentucky, 27,539, an increase of 697. L suisiana, 16.420, a decrease of 1.605. Mississippi, 22,550, an increase of 2,656. Missouri, 4,148, an increase of 1P0. Nort,- Carolina, -135,66, an increase of 53,209. soutlh Carolina, 197,140, an Increase of 53,16. Tennessee, 37,747, an in-ease of :1,431. Texas, 18,037, an increase of 1,978. Virginia, 481427, an increaso of 3,339. Total consumption of cotton iln tile South 1,597,112, an increase of 1117,713 hales. In reference to the general manu facturing industry of the country and its coiparative progress North and South, he says that up to within sixty or ninety days an activo demand pre vailed for manufactured goods, and notwithstanmlinlg the material advance in the price of thbe raw uaterial, due to shortage of the crop and light suppiles the world over every available loom and spindle in the country was busily engaged. The Chinese dillicul ties brought this activity to a sudden halt, but not irtil the amount of cotton consumed had reached a figure in ex cess of any year on record. lie puts the consumption of Northern mills at 2,300,000 bales, which, together with that of the South, makes an aggregate for the entire country of 3.897,000 bales against 3,589,000 last year, an increase of 308,000. Mr. Hester further renarks that, taken as a whole, the year has been A, prosperous one for both thei mana. facturer and grower of cotton. The large incrcase in manufactures is do veloping more strongly the m1dussity. for an increased outlet In the way of exports, to which mill owners have re cently been giving marked attentton' He contends that the check'6aised by the troubles in the far ldast Is an 6bject lesson showing that we have rehohed a point where this country can not 4b sorb the quantity of goods manufact'ur ed. The tendency, he says, is strongly In the directior. of domestic spinnens working up the bulk of the cotton grown in the United States into yarus. and fabrics. That thIs Is a revolution which has set 1in so strongly, and especially in the South, thbat, It, is cer tain in the long run to prove success ful. In his special report on Southern consunmption, made up from actual re turns of all the mills In the South, ho says the facte in relation to consump tion andl increase of spindles durIng the year are phenomenal. Nearly every h-other'n State hasR entored the field and in all except Kentucky and Missouri new mills are being erected and numbers of others are projected with certainty of buildling In the near future. Year by year~ old and anti qjuated concerns have been dlismantled or remodeled and the Southern cotton factories of to-day are of the newest and latetimproved machinery capable of performing the best and greatest amount of work at a minimum cost,. How the Indastry has advanced he shows by yearly comparisons from 1890--9l, showIng an Increase f rom 3:36 mills in that year to 663 on September 1, 1900, a gain of 327 mills, lie goes on to state that inteorestIng as the above showing is, the facts are even better emphasized by the record of spindles and consumption In the South, cornparisons of which are carried back as far as 18(10. They are: Year. Naumbnr. 18(60........... ............. 295,359 1870...........................38,6 1880........................... 561,360 1890 .......................1,819,291 1895 .............,..........3,177,310 1900 .......................6267,163 Trhese figures, he remarks, show more than could he expres.sed In columns of words. They indicate thbat the Southern people are In the fleld of manufactures to stay, and wIth the advantage on their side, It Is only a matter of time when most, of the raw cotton produced In the South will be converted in manufactured form adja cent, to the cotton field. In tIme every Item of useleos expense betweeIn the producer andl consumer will be ol1lmi nated and no0 source capable of pro ducing prolit omitted. One large mill writes hIm that during tnle year IL con sumned nearly 6,000,000 pounds of raw cotton, which It puLrchlased in the seed, ginning and using tlie staple direct, from the gin, without baling. This8 Ih possible In a great many parts of the South, and while it Is not resorted to, le one of the Items bhowing advantages that could be gained uinder stress of competItIon with other sections and countries. The item of local freIght rates, which is said to have militated against Southen factories In favor of those of the iast, is one that may i adjusted when necessity imperatively dotands. ' One of the most; Interesting featuros of Mr. Lestor's report is a showing of the world's consumption of American cottoti for tho past two seasons. which he puts at 11,022,000 for iM19-o00, and 10,7t8,000 for 1898-1899. ie0 quotes a dIispatch to him from Mr. Thomas l'llison, at Liverpool, the distinguished statisticuln, in which that authority places the urplus mill stock in .'uropo, of all kinds of cotton, at the close of August, 1900, at 530,000 bales;80,0U of which he credits to the mills of Great, Blrtain and 150,000 to those of the con tinen. Of these totals Mr. 'lilson ap proximates the E'.ngllsh itills hold U-1,000 American and the continontal mill :1:1 2,000. Mr. Hester makes the total visiblo and invisiblo supply of Aimorican cotton it tho world on Sop temier 1, 1900, 1,118,000, against 3,896,. 000 last year, a decrease of 1,778,000, and the total visible and Invisible supply of all kinds of cotton In the world on September 1, 11100, 1,723,000, against 3,701,000 last year, a decreaseo of 1,978.000. lie figures out that ap proximately thore are 111.0U0 bales of old cotton now left over in the South Ern country, Including the stocks of Southorn mills, andi approximtates the actual growth at 11,101,000. lie gives receipts of new cotton of the crop of 1900-11101 at delivery ports at 22,620, and says this Is considerably under the average of new cotton markoted in August during the previous live years. AltIlUlt SHCWALL IS D)EAD). rhe Deniocratic Nominee fFor Viee Presleont in 1806 1apires at His Sutaumuor Home. Hon. Arthur Sewall, the millionaire ship-builder, who was Win. .1. Bryan', running mato In 1890, died of apoplexy an the th inst. at his summsuer home near Bath, Me., in the 05th year of his age. His fortune Is estimated at $,, )U0,000. Arthur Sewall was born in Bath, Me., Novemtber 25, IS35. He came from a family illustrious on both sides of the water. The first Suwall to ar rive in the United Stiates settled in New York in 1734. I)umntes Sewall. the great grandfather of A rthur Sew wall, remtovCd to alth in 1702. lie purchased the large tract of land which forme tihe Sewall e-tato and on which stands the big shipyard of Arthur S.?wall & Co. The firn was established in 8:32 by William 1). Sewall, and thu first vessel owned by it was the l)iana', a small trader. Prom this beginning the housi. bas developed to its present proportions the owner of a huge lect, of the larges-s sailing inerchantion alloat. In the 77 years of Its existence the firn has built and ow nt.d over a hundred vessels, trading n nearly every pprt in the world. William 1). Sowull was sue cooded in 1851 by his sons under the name of l. . A. Sewall, shipbuilders and coinussion merchants. Laater it became. Arthur Sewail & Co., Mr. Se0wall taking into the firm his stn Wriliam and nephew, Samuel S. So wall. .Mr..:.Sowull was president of the Maline Central railroad from 188-A to 1893, waA piesident of tite Bath Na Lt'Ul-AikM-, and was ain active ollicer c. ireqlor i--nea.rly every corporation in sth.q Le.,acane active in pliltics i .1888, when, he was elected i)amo dratic- naOUnLi cooimlitteeman. The nouination'1yr vice poresident in Chica go.ipe.1896 catuo',to him as a surprise. SR; W~1.pgto..thbe convention ard left th' ialI h'ofar' the balloting coin iced. Whild on board an Illinois Contrai'train' beund for downtown he overheard a map who had caught the prala. a4 .it .wes .leaving Sixty-third strottt toil afVother passenger that Artitur Sewall had just been nomtinat ed for vice pr-esident. ieo had never met Bryan, and upon hIs arrIval at his hotel was taken over to the Clifton house and Introduced to the head of the tIckct. Mr. Sewall was mtarriod in 18591 to MIss lEmana D). Cronker, of Bath. Hie has two sons, Harold Mi. and William. Harold M. Sewall left, the partyv of his father In 1890 and joined the Itepubli can party, giving as his reason the failure of Democratic administsrations. lHe was ministeor to Samoa s.nd t~o Hawaii under President liarrison, and was applointed special cornmIssioner to Hawaii by l'resideat McKinley it 1898, antd is prominent ini lt'3pubicean politics it Maine. " A '1'nlL lD~IN:i l'A1b."-This is the favoriteo explresslon of the lI epubl)1 caits it the present camp~aign, and is used to satisfy the working people thtat their condItion ought to make them supremely happy. Mr. W. .1. Bryan was asked a few days ago In West, Virginia to discuss this pirolposI tion, and in response to a suggestlin from the crowd, ho said: " The gfentlemsan asks sme to say something about, the dinner pall. T1he R~epublican party Is trying to escapn a discussion of its attack upon the foun dlation pirinciples of government andi when a laboring man accuseai the li publican party of an atteompt to destroy the declaration of independence, the only answer is that, you have got, a full dinner pall and whIle you have got plenty to oat, you should be satislied. I waitt you to remember, in the Brst place, thait yout cannot atisfy a mtan by simply givitg hint plenty to eat,, andl in the second lace I want. you to count the cost of what yout have to buy as a laboring man andi measure it, against, your- wages and see if thbe trusts have not, raisedi the price of what, you buy more titan they have your wages. The lioepublican part~y has no plan foir the biotturnit, to(f the permanent condition (if those who toil, but ha's permltsed the groat branches of Industry to be mtonopoli zed by a -Thte Chinese may not bie clvili zed, butt occasionally tnecy are pretty smart. A gang of assassins, after shooting an oficot' at Canton, throw a buntch ol silver dollars in the street andl made their oscapo while the crowd was scrambling for the money. -Qa.~cen Victoria ia contesmliating a trip to Germany, as aho Is anxious to see the l'mpress lerederick. it is prob able that the Qateon wi ll leave Ilalmor al early in Oc(br for- leriedlihshar ILL AlP F"AVOtS A WAl,. Northornerm Hate the South Any Waty .-iho Negro Question Not fin It. WO thought that maybo the latO Now York and Akron riots would even up things, and tIO South haters up In (od's country would call olf the dogs, but they are still blowing the same old horn. They are hard up, however. Somo of the hounds haum lost, the trail, and all are scattered and thero is no keynote to rally them--tho buglor's don't, harmoliz-. Soni said that the riot in New York was owine: to a corrupt, Democratic administration in that city. The Akron horror called for another solution, and now they boast, that, they saved the nigger, but if it had been down South he woild have boon lynched with Sam Hose tortures. A latu paper ient mc as a marked copy says that Southern mobocracy has crossed th !Inc and is affecting the lower classes up North, just as a contagion sipruads in unhealthy rogiuns. It all comes from the South, and there is no quoat antine to arrest its progress. That's bad and sad. 1, it build a wall. But seriously we must warn our good negroes not to cross thbe lin. It is dfangerous. K00ep away from Pana and New York. Stay at home and cultIvate our cotton anI corn and let politics alone and you are in n6'danger. Idleness is your curse. if I had my way I would re-establish the o(1 patrol system and mako every tramp negro carry a pass or take a whipping. I would empower thu town marshals and the country comstables to arrest every vagabond on the highway and if ho couldent, gIve a good account of hilseilf he should be tied up and dressed down. Wo old moa know that one good whipping has more elfect on a bad negro than live years in tbo chaingang. blvcn a hanging is glory, for they are going straight to Heaven. Last Saturday night, a tramp negro cut the slat from the blind of MI r. Gary's house and opened it and craw led In and stole his paternal gold watch and his pocket, book within three fOot of his head, while he was sleeping. No doubt he was armed, and would have shot Mr. Catry had ho waked up and resisted. The negro took a night freight and was arrestd at K ingston, and the watch was recovered, but lie got away. Wo havO got to (10 somethilg with thtse tramps. Chtr chaingangs are full enough. I repeat it, that no good ind ustrious neg rto Is in any danger in thu South, and thoy know it. .J im Sinmith Is tibe biggest farmiie' in the State, and he says thro Is no labui in the world equal to that of well regulated negroes, and he knows. But, the spirit of mobocracy is not eontilned to the racC prIolICm up North. The lynching last Saturday at Gillman, in Illinois, was against an old, defenseless white woman-a doctress, who was supeetud of causing a young girl's death by malp ac.tllce, biu, who had not had a trial, nor had any intention to harm the erring girl. A mob o! 250 men attacked her house In the night, and she defenulcd hurself and her home and killed and wounded as many as the could. They mortally wounded her and burned her house. What kind of civilization is -that ?' Why dident they hunt up the man who ruined the girl ' Our ci vilization down South has always protcuted women, no tuatter what they did. We will not hang thitm for murdor, fOr even old Mrs. Nobles was sont to thu chaingang. Our women must have protection from white brutes and black liends, and we would havo rejoiced if sometbody had have given that, scoundrol, Dr. Wilkerson, who ran away with bis wifu's sister, a hundred lashes hefore ho was turned loose in Atlanta. That was a good caso for a little mob flaw. If the law coul d not rceh himi the luish would. P our, helpluss, lpitiftil woman!l How you have to sulfer In silence and liveo and (lie with your wrongs unavenged. How many hearts are breaking now because of a husband's tyranony or his faIthblessness to his marriage vows. l''or her children's saico she keeps silent, andi buries her secret in her bosom. I know of mion who madec fame while living, and on w hose mnonumet s fulsome epuitaphs are chiseled who dl sgraced anrd di ishonored thu name of husbandi. I know someI whio are not, dead w ho aro doing thi same thing now. A woman chainod t~o an unprincl pled man is thu mos, hulpless creatu re upon oarthi. iPrometheuts, bound to the rock aud tihe eagles eating his heart, w as r ot, worse oIf. Bllackstone says there is no wrong but has a remnely. lie was umistaken. Women have a thousand wrongs th it, are remnediless. Wimat, kind of roemedy is ivorco or seiparationi or ali mony ? It is tibe heart tht, is broken. it, is love and honor that woman wan ts, and was promised her' at, the altar. If, as a last, resort, sho leaves himo, lhe strut~s arond andl ci lins the ch ild ren. "The child run are mine,'" lhe tsays. Thel imn who says that is a concel ted fool. I n thu fi rst place lhe does nut, k now for certain that be Is their fithmer, antd if ho is, ho moado0 no sacri lice to lbe so. Atll the palin of mothberhioodt is heirs. All the tender care and nursing and night watching and generally all the prayers for their safety and good conduct, are hers, wilie he ii at, his bank or sltor'0 or ollic or shop or maybe at, his c'hh or billiard table. There wabs a tbuo when the wife was thu husbands slave, accordIng to the law, and theo children wer~e hmis piroperty, andl It is hard to eradicate that Idea fromt som0 mnn's minds in out' day. Woman has boen called the weaket' vessel, and men the lords of creation so long that it, wom'. obliterate. G irls, bo careful to whom you chain yourself for life. Hotter sow or hie a shop gIrl or a typewriter or a school teacher or live with kind red or fends and do housework than take any rIsks. Marry a young roan who hias good principles and good haitiits, aind not much money. Trhe love of mooney is still the same old curse, and most of theo young men want, to make It, by short cuts and d ishionest piractices. "~Get money, get it hontestly, If thou canst, hut at, all events, get money," Is still their motto. Thme eag'er, grasping p)ursuit, of money is the curse of this age andI generation. Iiuntington Is dead, and left his mnill ions hoh1)intd, andl~ his boast was that all men were p urchaable, antd when It was to his nteres the bought them, whether they wore legilantors otr (onressman. or judgue of thet courts. ie spoilt millioi that way. Some of our ollico scekoris are dolr tb HamDe thing oi a smal baIlo--buyli votOs-yes, buying negro votes. TI whito primary dident nominate thou and thoy have renigged and reniggere A little whisky and a few dollars w secure the darklep, and the foar that the white primaries will prove falilure. Thore are mon running f< oflico as independents who rely main on tile negro vote, and can't be olect, without it. Such men ought to ha contempt of every good cit.lzon. Thi oug hit to havo conte III pt for themselve and I reckon they do. The nogro wh riells his voto is not half as doprave ats th white 1111n Who buys it. lit: wo will know by waiting, and if ti, prinairy proveo a failuro, then let u have the Hatdwiek bill or somethin better, an m1ay the bord protect, I from unprincipleId ollic sookorm. OU Pi'AS PALI ItX'OStI 'iON lii;VI TCi I'A Rli,, i''ranc , Aug. 27, IDUO. 'Phis 'arit Universal lxpositlion L of coure, not the last,. Ther will t mnaty others of g rate'r or eIVss milagln tudo. They art Oven iow lroject(.. Elxipti.tion" are alsio, liko ovorytibin, tulbj ut, to the law of evolution. Th. are changilng, ehan g ing. Th is one hotlh th most fri ivoloui antd the lilt) tierious of tehom all, but tile world I one may look at it tils miouont, Is bol frivolous antid torio'it iIn a greater (I groo than at any Lillo in hietory. It probable that a hindred or a thousar yours hence, Lltu Iitoriln will ial% somothing it) say about tbeso expos tiont. If tih Cruiado4 were a clvill: Ing foreO, Why not th expositior thise crtisades of industry, of art, ( thotighlt ? It is p)oti bi) thitt, tile hih torian w ill refer ta the Congres of I t lIionls of th1 Ch icago Ex poiltlon, an to tile various congresses that Iliot I l'aris as of more, importance Luan an 1,b10 wonderful Ilebhian teal inidexes t ilaterial prog ress. These reflections cale to m la wok atit reception glvol by M. L utube presidon t of thbO 'renich republic, t. the tloullands oti ala. gtes of ti.t. iL rious coIgret-(!S n12OW assem1 bled I I 'als. TO enumeitritt thbese coigrosso With th progranimeOs of tilt question they will tihscuss would require nor space than ilthe iilii of Lbis lttor wil ,llow. ihy whi perhaps not, say any Lhing oraily that hais not hoLn writto Otr tIat imLay not hb read, but, Who CIa doubt, L11h contagious onlilghitening anl sti iitlating intlhio of thoiuisands . learned, serious and earnest, m1eu anl women striving, however blindly an lamnely, for imIll provillunts, otbetturIllnt We sing tIhe priakies of stian, of Ole ,ricaty aId of the greatest of all, plin Ing, ist tile greatest LIhIr combi ne work accomplishes is to inake sucth co umoptilan congresised possabio and tol prI ImoLO tbe 41iiO " when thbe war dui Will throb no longer, wilhl thLie htt,l Ii tg-i will ho furled in thu parliamter of man, th federation of th worild." The grarden party iven by M. ioi bet, the president of the L'rench ri public, was of gigan tic proportiou There was no ullNhilne, the eunil was eloudy, no Ilirtations under ti trues, no InAal icios gossip, no lutighto in that, serilous assmlilago. Tile spe tacle was historic, instructivo and d cently recreative, worthy of tihe di tingyuished per-ionages who had con from the four cornors of the world discuss most dillicult problems and hu Len tile maren of human Irogret The) arrived about tho same till1e great-crowd sileintly collected about tl gates of the garden, and waiteed wi pIationco. There was no protest fri the North against thle South, broug together in thbo crush1. Dialects fi the Nova and fromi tile G uadahajuiv wor~o inteormixedl in tis cosmopoliti 'river which flowed before the preside of the repuile within tile limits whit had been assigned without, tumult at withbout, frictioan. M. Lou bet and Mm Iatbot, surroundedl by thboir clvii ar military households in the hlai of Li idsi.t-e-camp, received their gutest, TPhe atlfab~ll ty of Lthe head of tile natic is thbese trying elreutinsances IN we known. I saty ' try inlg," faor, I ndet 01n0 has toi be the mlost, amanle1a ant haospuitLabla of m10n, for it isa nio smiall u 0 adortatk Ing to recaolvye 1),000J guesta Nolitheir M. nlar Mmo. iaLoubt, showei any fatiguei, atind Liiboy ulId not, dese. tihei r po~ast of h onaoriI uti I tile arri vai thet Shah.~i M ouzatifer-du-dlinc didl i have on his Bunday clothes, lie war on his headt thlrouighout, tile 0ntLire ful Lion hits ordinary astratchan, and WI faolloweda by dilstingtiished plorsaons hliN Nutos~, wha) dhid not, leave imx for mlomenti, btit, Iocurred to me thait bi smtIle was happier than usual whlen I olloredl his arm gallatntly to Mvin1). L) but,. When I remembe~i)Lr the nad ar careworn face of this poteantate of ti O)rientL aon his arrival in l'aris, ai whe lie sei nlow the animateod couinto anace with which It, regaral devery thin I fear that his subjects will ntL knct hui m on his return to Teheran. tFors has millions of people bat few neOwsp pairs and not one in a thousand of 11 subjects will know that his life was a tempIted in P'aris. l'orhapsa the inost statesan-lik criticism of 'atris and the e.xposltlio that has yet found pubhie utntorancoi thait mtade by l'rofelssor Ge'tddles, of i't lnburgh, secretary of the I nternatona E~ducataial CJongr'es I'ais, I 'rofessa Goeddes paoints aut,, isl not, a amere cityc pleasure. itI is oneof! t great cultilr conters of tile wtorat and li Isof na lea commilaereial thian aesthlatic Iiportance for it lhes on tbe intersectlion af ampoi tut, trnado raout0s. Flut, commerce not, maorot her mission)I at, this mnomoea thian ed neatian. At Liihis mnaomen lt sh1 is an1 enormous14,0 temilporary unaI vorsi t,1 Thiousandts aof watndoring schlolars, a they id in thaei miidle ages, hlave eom. to her to larn ats well as to teuch an silo Is real zing tuhe latrgestL side of worl's sumimor school. That t i elfee of the ex p)iLtin will be far-raoachin anti Indlu ring, IL is impossible not, believe. -1 anclng is not an amusement, mi nlopolized alonio by the young and fr' voloius. Mrs. i'hoaobo Crabbe of No watlk, Conn., is 103 years old( amnd sihe su1 feri ng frcain rheumatism ibrouight a. by that amusoment. Uncie Uilly Klj perly of l''ort Scott,, Kr~n., who Is 9; broko hIs heg recently dloiag a hoari pe. I To All Our Ig d. 4 Pickens Friends. >r ly )d to >y We want to say that we intend this 19 tall to have the best line of Shoes and 0 d Dry Goods ever shown in Easley, and t at prices the same as you pay in Green. ville. Our Easley store will have g everything our Greenville store has. 18 You know our stock is the largest in Greenville. therefore you know what you can find in our Easley store. t We are agents for some of the best shoe factories in the United States, and we will sell them at the lowest '( possible price. Mr. .1. Melton King. our manager, asks all his friends to give him a call Y that he may let them see what lie can tdo for them in suppiping their wants in DIry Goods, .shoes, etc. It will save you a long ride to Greenville. le has many things that lie is selling at d bargain prices, and invites inspection. 1 Keep youir eye on this space and it will save you many a dollir. Yours truly, R. L. R. Bentz, 4 Cash Dry Goods and Shoes. J. MCLPON KING, Manager Easley Branch. Greenville Store,............ --. Corner entrance, 201 Alain St. 8 ADW-Agenmt for lButterick Patternse.M The Following Goods to'go BELOW COST! 3 All Latest Style. H. No Old Stock. C Lo L. Iadies'$3 (KmTan Oxforde at ........ $200 Ladies' $2 00 Tan Oxfords at ........ $150 A Latdies $1 nm;Tran and Black Oxfords $100 a o M isses' $1 25,Tan and lilack Oxfords $1 00 0h Children's $1 00 Tan and 111k. Oxfords 80 III lin rPRIDE &t PA'ITON, in 'a 106 S. Main Street. S5 ilrs t door above d Lipscomnb & Rlussell's - IIIAN ON BULLS AND BEARlS.-The n' ihmocratic candidate for President a ifew days ago made one of his charac temristic speeches at a county fair in dShephiherdstow, W. Va. Mr. Bryan and hIs party took breakfast at the - hIstoric country place known as Belle dvue, which faces the Antletam battle field1 aciross the Potomac. lion. W. L. )fWilson, ex-postmaster general under ~tGrover Cleveland, sent a letter to his Soldi constituents strongly endorsing 'Mr. Bryan, saying that sickness pre 5vented his attendance. )fMr. Bryan expressed his pleasure at a heing able to address an assemblage a5 of farmers, lie wanted to know how 1( ainy farmer could be a Republlcan. It -was easy to understand how the head id of a trust or an army contraotor could le be a member of that party, he said, id but as for the farmers, they were not n- trying to get, their hands into other g, people's pockots, but to keop others' 'w hands oit of their pockets. Hlowever la prosperous other classes might be, the a- farmonr was not a sharer of that pros. 'a pority H~oro Mr. Bryan related the L- current replorts concerning his oat crop, claiming that the exaggeration o in this matter was a specimen of the a fallacious reports in the East concern e ing the prosperous conditions of the agricultural classes. " They always exaggerate the poasi rbillties of at good crop," lhe said, " and never take into consideration the like llhood of a bad crop. And after the a farmer hias taken these chances he Spasses between the bulle and bears of -Wall street. The bulls horn him, the 2ears bito him and when he is through Swith themi ho has to meet the goldbug. SA good crop Is made the occasion for -. praising the lpulican party, while a 'e bad cro' is taken as ai punishment for C voting the Domnocratic ticket. The (I 'laim is a',most made the ite ublican a partLy controls the rainfall, ut this a cannot be true, for if it were it would gbe a monopoly on rain. The price o0 woui'.i go up." -The Chinese have on the inside i- walls of most of their houses large col e- ored1 pictures, showing the eight stages is of purgatory to which they may be n consigned for committing various >- crimes. One represents the fate of the I, Chinaman who gives false weights and i- measures. lie is taken by demons and hung on huge honkq.