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OTHE PEOPLE'SJOURNA OL PICKENS. S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 10:. LY BIIL ARP AND HIS CHILDRIS: He Has a Good Time Watehin the Grandchildren Play Wit Their Toys. ThiIt Christmas is like "longtheie sweetness long drawn out" at or house, for the boys have gathere from the four corners aind brough their love and their rations with then, Now York brought a huge box of de corations for the Christmas tree. . was beautiful beyond description Dolls of silk and satin and paper, a covered with glittering spangles-littLi angels with pearly wings suspended1 b, threads of invisible rubber, golde harpq and hearts and wreaths of SpIul glass in rainbow colors-scores of littl waxen candls to illuminate the scene Oh, it was like a fairy vision, an every limb and twig of the stately lont leaf piuc was burdened with Christ mas gifts for old and young. Ther were twenty-four of the family present and it took half the night to untie am unfold the surpiises, for all were re membored over and over again by oh Santa, Yes, all, even to the venerabih old patriarch--the "4Paterfamilias,'" th antique ancestor, for he brought ie ball and a monkey jack and som( candy, because he had heard uitt was the boy--the only boy-about tli house. But later on I discovered silk cap and a pair of slippers, somi handkerchiefs and an inkstand tl':iI A little giandiebldren can't, spill ti out of if they do t urn it over. Little Mary Lou, who is Jessie' child, got so many (olls and pre' things that she looked tired and, draw mug a long breath, said: "Ganpa, it', too much, and I can't hardly stand it.' There were toys and books, and vase and perfumes, and baskets and gloves and jewels and other gifts too inuer ous to mention. Mexico brought a beautiful hand-woven Castilian shaw for my wife, and she struts around a, lithe and gay as Eden's garden bird "My boy brought it fromt Mexico,' she says, forty times a day. 4 Aly boy and my children" are always on the til of her tongue. Well, that's all right They are her boys, sure enough, and she knows It. There may be some doubt, sometimes, about who is the father of a child, but every body knows who is its mother. Downstairs has all heen clothed with mistletoe and holly. Geraniums from the pit are placel al around, and some beautiful rose lift up their lovely forms from beautifu vases that old Santa Claus brought. Bunches of mistletoe hang from ever? chandelier, and every time, these merry mischievous girls linei me standing under one, they slip up unawares and elaim a kiss. EvenI Mrs. Arl, lost bet normal dignity and, coming slyly be hind me, suddenly wrapped tC drapery of her Castilian shawl around me and claimed a mistletoe kiss from my con nubial lips. But the old marble clock that for niearly fifty years has stood upon th< ii ie ticking the moments and re cortag the hours as they pass did not stop on Christmas night, and at mid night the happy group retired to rest and happy dicais. Next day camc the feast-the Christmas dinner. Every leaf wits placed on the lome extension table. At eacl end was a large well, browned, well-done turkey, and all thc intermediate space crowded with luxti. ries for the inner man and woman, Eighteen of the family were thei wel. come gtuests at the table, while six oh the infantiles surrounded a smaller ont nearby. I never asked a blessmig iit: a more grateful heart, for Provideonce has been kmnd, and since lust wve mel no afihiction or calamity hits beflleri us. Vorily, the lines have fallen to t In pleasant places. Would that all out kindred andi friends-yes, wouldi thai every family in the land-the rich anc the poor-coutti have a like happy an< unclouded Christmas. As I suirves the happy scone it is enough to lool upon the serenity of the matenal an. cestor as sheo gazes fonidly upon lbei boys-yes, her boys, who have com< so far to give hiet joy and comfort. Oht ye boys -ye young meni andl middhll agedl, whom fortune or fate has ire moved far from a good old1 mothter'm tender care andl solicitude, don't forgel her yearnings and if yoti cannot, go t< lien at least once a year, wrnite to htet every month and comnfort hter witl your loving letters. The patpers ar< full of crimes of all descriptions, bu. In my opinion, there is none that. wil miore surely provoke the cuirse of G~o than for a man to neglect otr (liet rc his mother. Yesterday the boys with their mnothi er atnd sisters visited the old home stead-the farm in the cotuny, wvhern our children grcew up to manhtood am womanthood--wherc those scattere< boys worked and plowed and plante< and reapedi where they had sown where they labored hard by (lay amil hun'ed coons anid 'possums by inight where they wvent to the naboi ing mnil and fished ini the p~ond while the gr is was grinding; where Carl and Jessim went to school andI crossed the creel on a slender footlog, and gathered htawv and maypops and wild strawblerie oi 0 the way. T1hese boys and their sister wanted to revisit, the 01(1 scenes am drink water from the same 0o(d gush Ing spring. These boys wanttedl to se the 01(1 meadlow where the big tree stood in their majesty-the oak tree that we had niamned for Roscoe Conh< ling and Bhlaino, andl the big sycamor that was namedl for Voorhtees, the tLi sycamiore of the Wabash. They wanted to see the old1 barn yard where they used t~o tease old Pett the Merino ram, and incite him to rea on bie hind legs and run to butt thter as they preu.ented1 their posterior. in A tund provoking manner. Soim niim. hay got, out of him way -inst time, but ever and anon they <hdout and he sent them on their winding wn) scratching the ground on their allfours, They wanted to see the grave of ol( Bows, that good old (log whom they loved. I did not go for there was im. 1 room, and as I am the boy, I had to r stay at home and take care of .Tessie's I children. t Well they came back in due time and it was amusing to me to hear them tell how everything had change(I with t In these dozen years; how the house ,seenied to have Batik into the grountd a I foot or two and the farm had shrunk Stip and the fields were smaller and the , hills lower and the shade trees short i cned at the top. I've been through all i that before, and was not surprised. Ii terspersed with our daily ant itightly pleasures we have music, good music, classical music of the great masters and minstrel music with choruses from all the band and even my wife, Mrs. Ai p, was constrained to play the " Caliph of Bagdad "1 with her first I born daugh1ter-her daughter. Music is our family's gift, for they all play on something, and all have voices ior har mony of sweet sounds. This gift, I suppose, comes from their mother, and her touch upon the ivory keys is still as delicate as when she was a lassie of sixteen. I used to think that I, too, had a melodious voice, and soletimcs would venture to hist the tutie in Sun db ' chool wlen the tune hyster was I- It 1i1 and, like the crow who tried to t; .g, I thought I dd it finely. No. oody else ever told in so, and one day my wife said that my voice was a little ,jracked and if she was me she would not try to raise the tunes in the church any more. It was a re'elatioi that shocked me, and I. have never sang in church since, or anywhere else. There are voices in chin cl choirs of the same kind, but nobouy will tell them. They are called falsetto. Farewell Christmas-farewell old Santa Claus-while we all rejoice, let us not forget tlat Christmas comme ilorates the birth of the Savior of mien -the nativity of Kris Kringle, which means ' tie little Christ child." It is Ivell enough to rejoice, but we should at. the same time ictlect and be grateful. B 31.1. A n'. THROWING OFF THIS MASK. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion and the Railroads. N. Y. Financial (ironiele. Dec. 1, 1Poo. In a decision rendered this week Ile Intertate Commerce conimissioln has thrown off all (sguisc and has revealed the animus which is cont rolling its course and action. The framers of the interstate law intended that the com mission shiould act in an impartial manner, deciding cases before it st rictly in accordance with their merits. The board has from the first acted as if it were the champion of the shippers, and as if its chief Iunction consisted in harassing and embarrassing the rail roads and tiling against them when occasion offered. But while tle Comn mission could not conceal the bias it felt, its itteratnces at least have hither, to been couchled in Judicial and unob jectionable language, thus preserving a semblance of impartiality. This week, however, it has finally thrown precaution to the witids. The South ern Railway company had asked for a reheat mg in a case involvinig relative rates to Lynchburg, D)anvilte, etc., which had been dlecidled against it in the sprmiig. In its petition the com pany claimed that to ohbey the decision of tho commission woutld mvuolv'e a loss to it of $433,000 per annum, and that as no( div~idlend had beeii paid on thie company's eo emon stock of $120,000, 000 (tuting 1899, to insist upon0 cutting off that amount of revenue per year would he) tantatmouint to dtepriving the owners of tie stock of their property withbout dtue pr~ocess of law. Thelu com-. mission makes an attempt to dlisp~ute the figures of loss given, and ttien goes on to say that the stock was issued as part of a reorganiza tion scheme und~er whlich the comlpanty came into exist, ence, that it, (does tnot appear that any thing wvas ever paid( upon such stock, and fi nally (apparentIy to clinch a weak argument) ''that it (lees not rest in the~ whim fl (a rieorganiizationi comn mittee in Wall street to impose a tax upon the whole Southern counitry." The allusion heic t~o the "wuhiim of a reorgantizatiotn coimmittee"' in "Wall street" is not~ only irrelcyattandl in ex ceedtingly had taste, violating every trule of official propriety, hut in thes in feretice which it seeks tbo convey is a gross mis representationi of thie facts of the case. There was no occasion for lugging in (lie reorganizationi commit tee at all, andt we' can conceive of no reasBon for so do(inig, eixcept, ai desire oni I thie part, of some of the muembers to pose befcre the country as foes of the railroad and( fianicial interests. The reorganization committee was not, on riau), and~ if (lie comimission (teemed thme capittalizationi of the Southern rail way excessive and1( wanted to maumitain its position with reference to the rate qjuestioni, a dlecorous statement to that effect would have answem ed every pur pose0 andu have shown that t he hoard I still had somne regaird (or its otl'icial pto sitioni. Inistead, the comumissioni seeks ito cast aspersionis uponi a biody of meni who in reorganizinig (lie old( itichmond ai an West Point Teiminal compiainy andi( - Its constituenit piroperties rendered as important a plic( service as was ever I rend~eredl uind~er similar- circumustainces by a like body atnywhiere in the coun try. As a maitier of fact, the reorgan , tontomittee, insteadl of being pil r horned, should he held up to public alp proval and praise. They accomplished s a task which seemned wellnigh hopeessm - -a tasic which several previous com-i a mnittees formed for the same nurnoaa had been obliged to abandon becaus of its onerous character. The imputation that this conimitteo which carried to success an undertak ing whieh everyone else had abau doned, sought by the reorganization 4t impose a tax upon the whole Sout her country" is absolutely without an' loundation in truth, and has nothin1 whatever to sustain it. When thest people took hold the properties consti tutimg the present Southern railwa) system were a physieal ias well as i financial wreck. The service was bad and the costly way In which it wa' rendered forbade the possibility of cheaponing the charge to thie public The reorganizers provided the meanm for rehabilitating the sy-stem, an(] poured millions upon millions into it for its improvement and (<evelopment, Now at last the territory served by ihe lines hap a railroad service worthy of the name. So far from having im. posed a tax upon any portion of thi Southern country, we venture the as sertion that the South today, as the result of these efforts and expendi tures, is being served better and cheaper than at any previous period in its history. The statement that there is no evi dence that anything was ever paid oi the coimon stock of the Southern railway is of the same baseless char acter. The stock referred to was issued in exchange for the stocks of the old companies. Everybody in tle finan cial and railroad world knows that the terms were not liberal. Indeed, the organization was a peculiar.y drastic one. Leaving out, of account what may have been originally paid oil the old shares, the reoiganization managers levied heavy assessmentt on these old stocks, and also on sone classes of honds, and the security-holders had to pay these assessments in order to get itny representation in the reorganized company. Tie Richmond Terminal shareholders had to pay S10 per share and the East Tennes-ie, common stock holders had to pay $7.20 per share; aid besides3 had tfheir holhings reducet 10 per cent. So hard were these terms considered that many of the security owner.s sacrified their holdtigs rather than accept them, and the reorganiza tion syndicate had to step into tie gap. If the interstate commerce comimlissoin does not know all this it is inexcusab)ly ignorant on a most importamt subject, coming directly within its province. And what bienefits have the security hl-ders who came in under the reor ganization scheme received thu1s far? They have 1111d no dividends upon their holdings of common stock, and today six an(] a half years after the reorgani zation , they find these shares quoted in the market at the munificent figure of 17. Whien,, therefore, the managers of the company soulght to protect these shareholders against, the action of the interstate commerce commission inl threatening a large reduction of tle company's revenues, they were evi dently doing only their duly. The commissioln in denying the request for a rehearing might at least have re frained from injecting abuse into the refusal. SI_;lGvrTON FOll 1900. Nearly half a million people from other parts of the world have coi in to tie United States during the year 10010, seeking piermianient homes. The dhetails of the imig'ration (during the tetn months ending with October, gathered by the imigrat ion IBureau, atnd puihIed by the Bureau of Statis tics, indicate that the immigration for the calendar year will reach about11 400t,000. (Of this nuimber, more than 100,0t00 'camie fromu Austrma-Uungary, ani..ier 100,000 from Italy, andh nearly aniothier 100,000 fromi Russia; while the U nited K ingdlom furnishes more t han 5,0,000O, of w hiich numbiler 40,000 are from Irehmnd. O f thle 4160,000 imn migrants, fully 450),00t0 come fr om Europe, il te but about 4,0001 or less tan I per cenit. come fr om the tropies. The indisposition of mani in his migrations to s el a colder counitr than that to which he has been ac. cuistomied is dlistincetly perceptiblde ir the hiistoty of our imnugI~rationi. Ini all the years in which dletailed recordhs of the counitry of origin of the millions 01 imnugranits wvho have conie into t h Umnted States have been carefulla kept, the tropics have seildoml sent at average of more than I per cent. 0: the people seeking permaiient homei in the Unitedi :-tates. This tact is es pecial ly emphasizedh, however, by th<( record1 of the year just enided, sinice it otfers the first, opphortunity to observ< whether or not the citizens of the is lands now controlledl by the Uniite States iniciate a dlispositioni to trans for their residence to this country. The fact that (lurimg that year the immitigration from Oceania, Iudia Arabia, Africa, South Amierica, (Jen tral America, tand thie West Indies comibiniel-the enitWir trop)ical territora (ot thle world--amiountts to less thiat 4, 000 people, or less thani 1 per cent. o. the total immtigration, in'licates the unt willingniess of the average citizen C) tropical lands to tranisfer his residenict to even so mild a climate as that whieh the Soultheni part of the U nitedl State: offers. The futlher fact thait during~ the year 1900 the total inumhcr of imn migrants conming from the Ilawaitat and Philippitne Islanids into the IUnite< States was less thani 250 indicates stil furthet the unipopularity of a clinmat< suich as our own, even whieni joinel with the material proispieity such a exists ini no( other parit of the world wvith natives of the tropics. Governor McSweeney has ordere, an ehection for a successor to Nherif Kennedy, of Abbeville, who was kille. last week. D ONE, HUNDRED YEARS AGO Sone Advantages Which A Modert Man Has Over ilis Predecessor One hundred years age' a man Co1l( not. take a ride on ia steamboat. lie could not go from Washingtoni t( New York iII a few hiours. le had never heard of a P1ulhnani palie car porter. Ile had iever seen an electric light or (Ireamed of an electric ear. Ile coulI niot make a cake of ice a-9 big as a lump of ougar. Ile could not cool hiuself under an electric fail or warm himself at a steai radiator. Ile could not send a telegram. ie couldn't talk through the tele phono, an( lie had never heard of tile hello girl. Ie had never seen a shirt waist or a rainy day skirt. Ile could not ride a bicycle. lie could not call in a stenographer and dictate a letter. lie had never received a type writtet commllullication. No matter how grave a crime le committed, lie never could be electro cuted for it. Ire had never lieard of the germ theory or worried over hacilli and bacteria. Ile never looked pleasatit before a pliotograplier or had his picture taken. le wouldn't have known a complex lens from a gin tickey. He had niever heard of Neptune iId Ceres. Ile couldni't, measure the (list alie be tween the stars. Ile knew nothing of the chemical composition of the stars. ie had heard of oxygen, but wouhl not hiave understood an allusion to li(uiid air. le had l2ever heard of the molecular constitution of matier, or tle conse'rv ation of energy, and di(d not know that lie was descended from a monkey. lie could not predict a rain or an nounce the (o1ig1 of' a cold wave or it cyclone. Ile was aware that there was such a thing as electricity, but looed upon it as a germ. Ile never heard a plionograph talk or saw a kiietoscope turn out a prize tight. Ile never saw through a Webster's Unridi(lge(l Dictionary with the ai( of a Roentgen rav. Ile had inever taken a rile hi an elt vator. lIe had never imagined such a thing is a typesettitig mac('hnio 01 a type writer. Ile had iiever used anything but a wooden 1)0w. He had never seen his wife using a sewing niachine. le had never struck a iminteli on his pants or on anrythinig else. ie hiail never ulinirg u1p against a gas post. lie had never seen a scarcihglit or drunik a cocktail. Ile cotl(i't take an anaesthetic ind lave Iis leg cut off without feeling it. Ile kiew niothiing of geology because geology knew nothing of itself. Ile had never visited a free library. Ile had never purchliased ia ten cent lagirzinre which would have been re gar(le(l as a miracle of art. nie could not buy a paper for a nickel and leairn everythmng that hadl hap pened the (lay bef ore all over the worhil. Ie hand never seen a AleCor'mack r'eaper or a self binding harrver'teir. lie had never crossed an ir'on bridge 0or traveled ini a public omunibus. ie had never sanledl thiroungh the buez'7 canal. lie had never used a decadly explosive or triedl smokeless powd~er. In short there were several things that lie could not (10 and( sever'al things he (lid not know.-Memphist Crou cml-AI penl. Foux)ix:s or WEvA r 'i -Farrmeirs know~ full we'll that they aire the found ationi foir much of the prosperity of thle e ounitry. Careful finnieirs nrever' ma~ke a p):-edication wtithouit a1cquainting~. threniselvtes thlorouighhy with the out look for' the farm. An increase in cr'ops calls at, once for' wlditions to thle rolling stock of railroads, arnd this de rmaind, bringing iron rand steel ramnu faictures, ininrg opertionis ad rillied or dlepend~eri, indultstr'ies into fr'eer ae tion, gives employment to hnuindreds of t housarida of meni Whol mu st look t c the farmis for food1, and who spend otheri por'trons of thneir earnings ini ways which per'mit id ustr'ies of widhe extent arid gr'eat var'iet y. Nart ional pro~sper'ity, originaitirng ini the farrms, i. made possible by tire expaning use of agricultural miachniners, and thiourth the farmris mnay not aulways f eel immnedh ately the furll ffets of good times. they share them nlt im-nit ely.-.Swuther'n It may be strated as arn irndispurtsble truth that, no manti ever' succeedeld nat farinrg who was arshamrred of hirs crops says the Southeurn Farim Moria .ine. A main whose farm is so) poor or whnost tiliage is so bad t hant his crops art worthrless had b~etter' abandon fius call mganet a~t somiethiing ('lse. If hi' land rs poor lie sholdh~ cimiichi it. If hn( neglects t o work his cr'ops well he isr fai ltreo alr'eadly. Tlhe're is an int enrsi pleasure to the imtelligent farmer to s( dlirecct the oper'at Iions on his farmr as I produltce crops of' which he will bii pr'oudl. lIe thlen rejoices in hnis vocation. ila ii ind is ever On t in aler't for iiew improvceents eithner fo H orthiizin g his soil or for cultivating hr t The aggregate losses by fire in th I, city of Coul'ambia fer the past yea were *58,87a OUR FUrURE DEVELOPMEN' The South to Raise Fift-en Millio Bales of Cotton and Manufactur Five Million Bales ii 1910. 'rogroless ma111de by the Soul in cot Lon manufacturing during the vast tei yearis is likely to be duplicalted durin; the Iext tell years if certilill coniditiol ire met. The outlook in this directiol is disciussed tiat length ill last week' issle of the Maiufacttirers' Itecord b' Dr. (Charii'les V. Dabley, forlmerly a1' sistait 6ecretary of AgicultIire, Ion presidetit of the ivuersity of Teies. fee, a11ni recognize1 as all ath ority ill lllatters affectinhg fite inilustlrilil an11d agricultural advlance of the South. In his. paper hle conltends1 thlat un1due weightl shiould nlot he givenl nakturall re Sources, but that . tie eop1le who Wil must convert then into wealth niust also ht coniidered. Amoig the itural r. sources lie reckois tle soil mit chinalc of tie 8ut1h, the best ill tle world for the growiig of cot toil ; its wal er-power from rivers ruiniig est ward, south ward andl( wYestwilrd from1 thle Appala111 clinan Mioun tains to be Iu st-I directly or hirouglhi eleeltic tranmissioii; abun dant coal from 417,000 plire ul1es of workable fielis, of which less thani a tlousaid tjtlare iles h n eo been dl.. veloped up to the preseiii tme, antd an equtable climate, in which are the dc desired colitionS for (hi imiost relined kinds of Cottoll 11ufu11:n1g. lIe Ln1111dS that to these lnat ual Iresoulces lust he added ti an intelIligelit :uit rea sonablily chealp labor, large ly mIale till of young" people, and oil tha pointl hie says: It is well known that the while people of tle Piedimont sectio ll of ie South form all excellent lullacitri ill. popujlat ionl. Th'ey come froml anIl in telligent antd kirlly race, who learn rapidly to be skillful mtchatiies. With proper training they Inake as <xpert Itllians as can be found allywhere. Ther,1i111 es; opportu1mty for' unliis am 1onl this doliestic popultioll; tihese mills are eiwie largely by local )eopk and mmlitied co-operat ion promiss itI keep out the v'icious walkiig delegaut aii ill his kinld. The negro as 1ne beel much t-td in tile iiil so fair, hiL 111re 11 little doubt bull that he will b. emplo3 ed ill particular mills or in Ilosi lines of m1lantitacturillg whichel reu(lice ehoape' lahir, with less ability to tbink 'Tlie iegro is by niture nill illita iv< eI eat ireT a1l rap idly learI'nsx anyll poce Iti tiat is sln%' I m 1. IlIe is thus wvl a apted to 11l thoise..' forilms of manufaec ture that < IOt lu reiuirl. origlal.y ol ftourethouaghlt. ''le only thmii1'g that11, w' ieed ill th South for un almit i;i1ilitme eaan monl of, cottlen nollillucit illg, is 114i01n calpitlal and mlitore echilical e.xperts hoti in the busitwaiss and it (lie maiu tacIuri:ig <el'riiinuts. The ca ii I will be fortlicoming, as it always is, as soo as i the men ai e found to take 'art of it aid ise it. The Soulleli peophl are -tetting richier evei y yea-:r, and will undoutdliy.inv'est their spare meials in) cottol millt as fLast as it a-eumuiiilah's. T1he great need if tihe Souhli to-day is mlenl t) org'ar.ize and11 conduct thle busii 11e.s of .1adetu trin, iu especially men who know how to build n111d per ate the cot toill 1ls tiem 'elves. TII 1ovelelint f tec ical educat ion, anif especially tha t for textile schools, is going1. to sup ly the lise ex perts at an I early3 time11. O )urI 0 cnc~luin then01, b5 that th onl )11y thlin gs we nIeetd in 01rdei ti oper'iate0Ii~ ininy miore cotio nu i s ii: the ~South I islt'E m or l eucatlion for th'Le miassos of tile ieole, frion wheom iht labor'er wXI'ill be drauwn1, an more11)1 tech ical tralinling for' the youngi~ men wh<t Idre to buliti anid operate the mills. Al these tlan igs are sure I' ly l coming, am~ they all betoken ihe prodligitous detvelopl the nOx t teln years'. more0 t hani ~ )01 ell en. of' all thte co)1o0 co0l~ nsu iln thlei woridalit inl1manufac tui'e about 7 1per ('ent. of it, whIle till Northeirn Slates Iimnulaetur'e abutlit. 1. per1 cent. WVith Cilmu aiid A firiea both (opened~ Lt) 0our trmie, wviith te canll en 1betweeni thle At Ian tic and1 l'aci fic, I lirt phesOy that ml teii year lth le Stilltheri (ftate's wilmilo ave( treie t he numbe oilLt thet co(ttonl of the workI, wh ich Ii thit. tillot will he at least 20,0J00,001l hales. The So11 hi Ii:1ufact ured abonu I ,500)I,(i00u bales h;i't yeari; this melansx aliliwing foir imlproveineInt iln iniini~ ory, that slit muilst prepareii lto anumfacI'i turle 5,000,00tt0 bales, ha11lfi h jriprel crop~i, by I1910, whfen shle will be pro ali g'rowinig at least 15,tJ00,000) Wheni we' coniderO her1 1put progres: alii her miagniifiu'ent reources'0 ill con1 lied tion with the ii opein:iig liiup Lfit E'ast, and the genIeral utlvaiinemn of1 eivi liz utilol, we cannii Ot Oxpect an ------.'--.~.. .. llev . A. Toomer1' Porler, 1). 1).,t i.' founder01 and1( unt1l no0w the pr11Inial < ilie ce lebrat ed mi)il i tay academy I Chiailehstoni wVI ihichbaris hiis nameli', h trot ot t hat inistitti Onl. Dr1. Porter, addition li binig old( and1( in bail heaft is los ig his ('yesighlt, and thiese a the reasons for his action. TI aIcademfly palsses inito the hands of tI Ep~jiscopal church of Stuth Caro~hlna. D r. II. ilaer, of' (harlIeston, died l the 2nd inist. lie wa',s eixly'sov, years old and)1 one d' thle leaidin~g m)1 in the Methodist church0 i in thliis Stal rle was at lebre'w by birtih and a blig a ly eduicated man. He was possesset gr'eat force anid st rength 01 ch~aract and( was a power' in the church and a secular affairs. lie was a wholesi r andi rtetail druggist, and had met w~ mar'ked suneoe in hoainna, r THE CFNTURY IN COTTON. u The Outlook for Our Chief Staple e Is One of Great Pronise. One of the strikin developmenits of ie South halt,; beeni inl t-he increaied . prodiction and 1n1u33ifatcture of cotton. At thls, centiry mile-stoine we are tatk ing backward gahnce at the progress we have made, and to the South gel era lly aiythinig relative to cottoni is In Ie esting. Iln the New Year's isstie of t1e o4 ew York Worlk( appears the fol lowinig: '(o thu Editor The World: The close of Ili presen. century sIlggests a brief review of the cottonl inidustrty of this couitr.,y, the reimrk i)l( gowh of which--from a Cejroy of about, (),(t0 hales in the yeiir 1 790 will he shown by i ,laice at tle fol 'aowingi figuriies: Too l produmitction- Mls IS833 18 '1 ...........2 0 1821182 .................... 183.1 181 . 00 t 185..... ................... 2 5,1o0 186 --1( 61.................... :34.(100 1870) l~'l .....................I 350M00 188 1 -1881 .................... 6 (1 0 1811-18,1 5.. 2 (100 18N 114910 ................... it 27 .01(3 1899 9 0.................... 120,00 Tbe inc1c2t'(3 e ill lit-odui3t 3331 j3 istill 11101.1. 1IVI311-k1iC3htv it' %'.e vo0333tid'r that lit 1 0) ilie % u. ' . li 25 I. it Iout. 22.5 ill1 . . . 1,5,20 it 1131(1 il(3'C313321 1to 26'0t j41i3imf, 18S3 II1) 0 :3(; s)li t elidilv)11 ilvreiic'ii j(114 1 1 1 Vi iveii.~l~, 113or t(3 1 i tiio' i33''431e It it ii3tu' 11. . ..eeti .eli0ed The oinr piodcing proction is 1t l 114 to$l3 tiarkale f w e Wit de the Ill" 11. eiiwe v'iew Nv it h eq u'l it i) (31 i 1l8i e hee wije1it e' ile ws aiiouitg i pl-tIdy. iy .150 the (lilal1ltI (* or .oltolt ('03511ii'(- I i tt (i3. Ni~lt I c's3 es 111.1t1 30o,,('1 I):lecs, m3 ha7 it iea icn';3.4 to 1 100pu0110 tI, I 35t1 1 pond11 i, r3m;-,)03) hichIe rh. w ih ha viteidi 1i ea very iual the, ly tile aer1a1 et 11w reoelit itdustnal (311 tf supply the orSld11 it. matera4)l, we24 vie ith equal11:3 itereist andTriethe ra pid(-, ie) o11fk o sPinning11 . id -ty I n t( 0185 t he. to aItlityl of co(itImon is o c'n -1t1 it is ill 117it h, intr14) 1,1 t! o 1,0 0 00 als. a lat y a e11 o kin 14o 1thce m1 34111 a11 mint.d to . ,' ) a WI~L..AAM V. iItNO , 3 T' ext ia I i i r r y The re sl1 f th re t 14 Ilidt rial is illeI /3 34 11' U43313144t I ith N ni ng of the ()r33i3 ti nx3 r:ket i his p1-11111ts a new avns it of' all wa 1 illt 3)3 1343 ' ! iV t~ 13 1'(4 11 l H~. Iv t 114 1' w3bli hou 1O Wongoolsi:Ill intas n lcw e i tl, the ontlook for theul cotton will 1hk its c( uyl til ln f eli or! 3I3A3'1331 'lt Wt .. 11 l. e. 'I'le lilding (If' thek N3 11 311 (:3 will It1(. all.,t41114I' Supert'3 i t 11 ilh tile Y rkl(C)j~l333lII ol ti he io is. It i I H1( 1ha tro e f )tIh e Or lhe Not-Il, ork t 'tnd Nl'',chawe in he (lhe o itl tin, h it i n t s1'I'hineg a1t for pr'olikibpeI I illtvselli3 3 tfie w ill mt ll1 hie *-f il t whlit - cnostr. I t he n w 'entur Sou hward the34 ilr llof Irogres '1t431'(3 is ;1lll4I~3Iit 3) 1 33(II 3lvr 14)3 I33(1k I iopla take4 :it co Is andI , r111d 1 i 11l ofthe Nci aron o 1nal ill bt' n that orI ren fato 's4 it ;the devegelomult~l cti 13 , I . I 1 1 s 11 r.1 v tl that es ep1111 of I thle NrhI ast and N ie have (lie fotnah e, hntin 1;4erbg: about1 fo prof35 itale investinen3131t they3 will( 1311' popurliot ul api(33' 11l1, aan3l thereis nfol l('s so i l al i \~ f Rdviultages 1113 f3('i:e g a' nt 3 MajI. .lhn W Thomas,'I pre'siden4t3 of 1 the31 Nashvil33. lCha33tt. oa an t foitI3ight u3sine 3 man, has13531 truthfully conspllir ing factor (m,3 13 the"tur growth 14 of 1.t1h Ihectin .13 ltl of th( ite States. "' t. The( 13alm 0ity3 of1VaiI thesol' thle -Soth 1.13t fedI ie (4 imes.I01 :t he popula 11( 2.13 The433 h i i ar4a3o i tls coal31 i ll 811inbfrests4,. 0sqar ilst'i have(3'II~ st1uun ( Iof wokale 1thic3kness3.ma "'x1 3.33 oT laie rI ~e I tityl of1 l ron 11.1 re331 S443) Thle alllItyy easo oflt the111 cheapness1t.3( of 10a13 ad i ron1131 ores, to1( 31 make1 theap irone wie 1s no the1( Wstatulrd bas33 ittis a l ter of1 11iviliza-1( 133' l3 11333113 f3.3U)tie141 u "V 1. Thtt~e341 nati adateore331 the(033 "~ 151. Tilag (3x33t1ent3 of forts a0t31al e 1ithousae (in of 1 indutres t1131hat3 will.3 naturally spring1133 from3 the3' presence of 11a3 31 3 1( 141(s 3he1Railway lievie . The tralin3 .C consis-d of42:( four33 Pullman b ar and32( an1h424 11" A Whi(lantic " lye 31ngine.313 o'h train3)31 31 r 1131.3 attemp to3 make3 1134 33314 lot time. ac 3(t ly 133bree minutles 1am33 for)t3v-one ) ( ee-1 I i nts3'.f Fo 11 he lIast,3)1 00 feetC' 2f0tha 3s d33tanc tel e b44314$ Il 1ke wer1e. appie, s13ow ing dowen for~314 a tIn 81nler1 hood.2 The2IISL ir4 t four13333 andl~ hree-tuarter mt ile by run tinl. threed minutes5 and3 I tiht seconds. ho!'huthem31. Tettldsac a coeeda N eaeo ihy.h Al ~ No v -. crop :7' \ can be grown - without Potash. Supply Pot prolits will b( arg; without S o t a sh your Cr) xvill be S.ltl ) )\', \1.. \ A 1. i w i) " J3 't -w\ ' rk. STATIC NEWS AND NOTES. wathered From Our IExchangea and Other Sources. Tl It( \ Cu111 ry wvas uishered In in hrleton bY ihe pealing of the chimes I ol St. MIichiael'i l'rof Jon L. 1resily has been lite relectied to 1i.1 the chair of (reek and tvimau at I.rSkinle ('ollege. (iiifiney ani. Laurens are preparlig 0 aive the residence, bui1ness hiouses 1iii vaa.11 11, hIs iitobered. I .tiutenanliit Gove rnIor Scarborough uIs oriired an elvection for at successor > t or Mili in, of ILimpton. A r'%ward of -4-20v has been offered y Govrnior Mc~weeneiy for the arrest 1, the lKingstree di)ensiary robbeis. Thit liquor stles il Lairens for two ays dting ti Christmas holidays ient over $2,000, while thatit a.\bue Hile wts about $2,Ou. Conway Iceently hid the I irgest fire li hier listor3. Two tre3s, a re uence aid 3everal smaller buildings rere burneid. The cause of the fire is i-t linikioiwn. Flom tile time tle privilege tax im Itil-Lilizcts was inii.rateti tils tax l11 1 iedctt I tie Stat e T ,'.106 IS. The aeI aotrmt re ceived aduring thle Tile Newsn and Coturi.et ha,, published le dititih heit of I lit whites inl Cliarb s )n for teilt year n1o0. Thiiere was 316 shitc p abotite the mge of :1 who la VV ditd there the L. pa-t 3 talr, most, of lieml at Anl :Idvanlced ne The total nmbel' Of inquCests helId luring tie year just Closed by the 'oroeri ~ of C at tilaCiounty Was 85, hvided ats follows: Muiders, 26; Irmvmitigi, l158; ai restilts of railroad ebidlns, etc., 15; burning, 4; mis 1l11ouls, 8; smuitite, 3; accidental h oiniiil, ; e Xloion by 1 n1111), 1; util1iibe 1omicides, 4. Col. Lmis Du lhois, an old and dis ltiiild citizenl of Chat (ied m1 th1 1 St tilt. Colonlve Du Blois, who vaii SGli )vars old, had hee-i in faling ilihh for some Lime. Ite was born Liiil edciilatc- I ini lranoce, but mi 1800 :ainec lo this8 counitry to live. lie wats 3 elose f rienid of G~en. Rt. E. Leo andit Ic b ani itn pilrtalt positWi) oll il-cted Vit th Ile (.iicllfedrate gtvernllunt. A hLlDtAliKAliLB MACIllNE. A phonol~tgraph~ that shoults so loudly hiat every wtord can1 be1 hieard at dis ance oif tenI nuiehas beenl~ci tested al IIliIhton, Eland'tit. You enni whlispetr I senitenc: into thet Irnaebine's smii repealt, i inl toe i thatl at11 Ie molre decafen ig than11 th sh 81rieks of ai liner's steam -aren. Yet e~very wtord( is perfectly Irticubiit et, and Ia shith iandt writer ten mhe is away can take down the mnes sages ats ealsily as if y ou were dictating iThie ma~ebine i is the in venltion of Mr. lloraec L. Short, of BIrighton. In apj pearanlce it is merely anl (ot dhinry ph;>noligraphii, with a large ti umpijet, mieasing i 1. tourl feet in lengtht. Inside fthis11 trumpet tihere is It small aind de lien~te p.Ite of iniechaiinim thiat looks somei~tthing like ai whiistle. This is the I itgu of tihe malcin~e. Inisita of the recoinds being taken onl waX Ii te usu0:d manneiir, a sap-h ph ir iceiede is made1( t., cuIt ihei. (d05ts It-preISeniitin~g thi sound11( Vi bratitons oni i a lveri eyh1nderc, and1( when the iieedhle traivel. oiver the meital a) secondi Liml thle vibrations13 cautse the wfIitle top miahel thus ji11 becomesIi a8 ilking sirti whliichI transform th1181le lhuman11 voice ir aL deafeneing'- riiar. Thec expeirimenlts were made u& ibc th vit's ()) k, Bi ghtoun, where U. in ventOr has woriksliops. The 1i1, 833 ltrmet was p1tle on1 the roof of thew inhoriatoriiy, and3( wats made to repeat a unobertlit of senItenitces. At a dtiitan4ce of111 3en miles thet soundit wats plainly heardii by a large number ot people, every wordt beinug erf'ectly dlistiet, and11 at a second trial, with a favorable wind, it was foulnd thiaL an unkiowni messai~ge couthld be tauken down mn short i intd itt ia distaince of tw~dy iiiules. Over the water the souds'will ear iry still fartmer, tand iuin;r favorable (lii cumsitanlcesl they igh~(t easily be heard by peirsons on a vessel fifleen umites ou1t at sea. Placed~( onl a light wouiild give a verba! wariiing thait would be wt'lilitely ilioro eltecuv'i than1 the toghtins1 paid detonatura at present in use.~~.Lathn 'TelegraLph.