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THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL VOL -NO. PICKENS. S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1.N A SENATOR'S QUAINT HUMOR The Ship Subsidy Debate Un livened by Unique Arraignment of Democrats. Senator Plettus, of Alabama, has de livered a notable speech on the shilp subsidy bill, wihich was replete with quaint humor, and was a uniique ar raignment of Democrats who would vote for the bill, which he urged ought not to paes because of the millions it would draw from the treasury by violating a principle jimhedded in the constitution. Mr. Pettus spoke in part as follows: The suns demonstrate the wonder ful intellectual force of' the framera of this bill and their clear comprehetision of commeircial advantages, resulting from having your own lawyer to write the laws for you, so as to fit. the awi to the facts and circumstances of your case. The moral part of the transactioti, if any, may well be referred to r. P.aley or one of his successors. I will only say it might be a little like the con ment on aln ex-Senitor from Alabama, who was then ill the law practice with a partner-both great lawycis and good ien-real leaders at the bar. They practiced in the wire-g:ass coun ties of Alabama. In the summiner 1865 cotton was selling as high as 50 cents per pouid. " The Yankees" (I merely <iuote) wanted the cot ton and they took the cotton. From one old farmer they took over 100 bales, merely on the plea that they needed it in their business. Tihe ex Senator and his partnei (Colonel C,) were employed to rcover the cotton. but about that time Colonel C. weit off on business and the ex-Senator was left to manage the case aloiie. lle, was equal to the task, or alimiost any other, if ability was the thing needed. There were no courts. So the ex Senator went to the leald milit ary officer of that "province" and recover ed the cotton and received his fie. I you had ever heard his voice (deep as a church bell, earnest almost to ad. juration, with will power in every tone) you would know why that cotton (lid not go into the (live for ''capture(d and abandoned property." Colonel C. returned, sad and p'Jor, repeating over to himself, to keep u) his courage Ia there, for honest poverty, That hangs its head, and a' that.' The coward s:ave, ve pass him b)%, We dare be poor for a' that For a' that and a' that ; (11r ' ofi s 'obscure, and a' that; The rank is bt tile guinea's stalip: The man's tile gowt; for a' that. This Colonel was not accustomed to being poor, nor did ihe have any 'long ing" for the beauties or blessiigs of poverty. Ile went to his otlice anti met his partner, who hatniedc himl) $2,500 without saying a word. "What am I to do with all this money ?" de manded the Colonel. t4 That is yoilr half of our fee in the cotton case," answered his partner. The Colonel counted over the money with great gravity, yet solemniily smil ing, and hen lie had finiished the count he tuinied to his pai tier and with philosophical solemniity reaiarked, shaking his head: , Well, well, we have escapeI tihe pooriouse, but are we not rubbing up ag-aint-t the walls of the penitentiary ?" [12aughter.] Mr. President, '' I tell tile tale as it was told to me." Tt is old, and there tire other versions. TJhe bent ticiaries tinder this bill, if it passes, canl never be In danger of the po~orh~ouse. There is a very unusual and cirafty methiod in this bill ; the subsidy must first be contracted for, andl~ the con tract is to be0 made by tihe United States of tihe first part, acting by the Securc tary of the Treasury, and the ship owner on the other part. Tile pui'pose in framing tihe act so as to operate by contract and not directly is twofobi. The first purpose is to prieferl f'avorities, whose ships are dlistinctly poitedl out by3 dlescription, pai'tly linlished~ andi with an established trade. andl hart ly to be btuilt iln foreign shlipyard(s, withi cotriacts for theiir buildingtil, filedt two years ago, illegally, in the othice of the Secretary of the Treasury, as I have hei'etofore e3xp)lmied. The second~ purpose05 is to fasteni liability on lie Utnited States biv a con tract, which, the shipowners cl'aim andl~ this bill p~rovidles, can not be chlanged or violated without imiri)tiing tihe obli gation of the contract. This is a r'adical dlepar'ture from the ordinary coui'se of legislationm. For example, the Congress fort' ears lhas beeni enigaged every sessiotn in graintiing authority to railroads and1 othbet' corpo rations to build br'idges across thle navigable waters in the States anid Territories. These grants of atthority to build bridlges always almount to a contract between the Unhit ed States andl the bridge ownter, because the United States always r'equiires that the government shall have the right, to use the bridge as a post, i'oadl andI high way, so that tihere is a considlerationi foi' the grant. Thlese briidges are Very costly, some of thlem costing over 8100,(000 and some of them costinig over' $1 ,000, 000. Yet the Congress alwvays puts inito these bridge acts the clause resei'ving the right on thle part of the govern iment to amiend 01' repeal the grant at any time in the future. We are all accustomed to see the bridlge bills repor'tedl by tile junior' Senator from Missouri [Mr. Vest], and lie, with flhe eye of' an eagle andc courege untliniited, sees at a glance tile omission of the r'epealinig clatise, as well as the vics in other' bills, and1( points out such vices so clearly that the blind are madle to see them. Last Saturday a Senatoi' from North Carolina, with '1' se ~~h~tis opftics keeni To se wht isnot to bie seen fomud whnee the Sator. fro-m - -' had slipped up1) an1(d Olitt(ed to put I the clause for the repeal, as he sup. posed or guessed at. In consequelice, the bill was amended so as to put ii the repealing clause. In that way we had two repealing clauses in the same bill, and this morning tho Senator from Missouri modestly suggested that lie did not tliiik two repealing clauses ought to be inl the same bill, and by a legislative turn back the bill now has but one repealing clause. These bridges are considered of vast im"portaniee to commerce inl States and Territories, an1d to the United States as a goverInenlt; but Congress has manifestedl an absolute determination Iot to a low any of these bridge acts to be make irrevocable; so Congress can at any time repeal any bridge act and tius make the bridge an unlawful structuie, and force the owners to pull it down. Here, lowever, these favorites, ship OIw'er.5, are to be lrotected an(d made secure by ai irrevocable contract in tend(d to secure to them this most ex travaganlt bounty tihrough the long years named in the )ill. Now, suppose the Congress should dem it wise to repeal this act, and had reserved the power to do so, what would thlie shipowners lose ? Nothing in the worbd but tihe subsuly. 'I'heir sllips would still be thei owi, to be used as they chose to use thiei in any lawful trade; they wouldIl have no cost lv structures destroyed by the repeal of the bill, as the bridge owneirs would have if thei' bridge acts were repealed aft er the bridges were built. So it is 11111e milallifest that tle bene1 liciaries under this b)ill, if' it pases, iare to) be declared prime favorites of thie nation-far more 'var than even the transcontimen tal railroads. Mr. President, tlere is soimethiniig r'alically wrong with tlis bill. ''lhe julior Senator from South ( :a rolina, withi very marked abiity and with the enthiisiast ic heat of a convert, listinguished himself over all his as sociates inl advo'cating the pas',age of tlis" bill. Soulth Carolina has inever been fam11ou1s for tle graceful case with w hieli she surreiniders her rights or her opilniois or the giround on whii she Ihad takeni hier stand. I call General lackson to Iiovc that South Carolina imlaintained l her rights, as she claimed them, with a fiirmness amounting to obstinacy. Calhoun may testify thal, hier opilniols were iever surrenilered by .iis State in his I-v an.1 geieration. And let Elliott, on the ruins of Fort Sumiiter (wlose modesty and brave en dlurance will f rever honor Sout i Caro lina), and let the patri(t soldiors, tile " Palmette, l e*giment " (the equal, if not supe: ior, of' any othier recgiment [l it e r 'fougt for tihe United States), mar1lcling 4' the road to death as to a festival " ,ider G eneral Scot-let all 'ay how South Carolina held the roud 011 which she hal taken hei Anid. But times change and men change witi the times. There was a time when io D)emocrat could vote to make this bill a law, because that party (e laired such imeasures repuignit to the Coniti itution, and declared for " fair Play,' for equial riglits to all ad special priivilezges to iole. Tihe jIni i.r Senator from South Caro una14 in adVoc:ting this bill gave as a beaiuti ful anid ini'.er'esting picture of the iproIved and still imiproving condition of thle South in crtin ind(usties, an :1 we all rejmice that thei(se industries arie priosperous0 and11 multiplyin'g. The farimeris and theiri businIess are lnot, so fortunate, for t houghi not as miserably ecumbered~c'CI as they hav'e been, thle mortigage curse is still upon thlemi, and (lie tax curse is gr'owinug from had to worse-especially the Feder'al taxat ion which has beeni growinig larger and lairger-foir the plain purp'lose (If eni abliing the Congress to pass8 meurelslI like this, which gives $t0,000,000 each yeair for twenty-live years, amounting iii thle 1i~Ziregaite to 6225i,000,000, to coi porat11ions and other' shipowners. E~ver'y dollar of all these millions must Coelii out of thle p(ckets of' the peo(ple. Yet , so f~ar as I ('aln uinder'stanid, no farmeir, as such, wiltlihe benefited to thie amoiiunt oi(f one cent by thIiis moni bti'ouis extriavagaiec. '[tie (lily right to einact th hillIIiI is thle fact statedh by lie wise man, "' Th e ichi ruleth overI It hias been a fashiion of sonie thirty years' standinhg, when a stiatesmian in our11 part of thie world has made up his nnnd to tu his back on his p~arty' and~ his pe'ople hie begins by priaisinig trade and( comme~iirce and mannufactories as more imporIitanlt Ihan all ol her branches oif iiil ustry and111 this~ leadls to the coin cl nsion , in hiis nimd, that, all otherci in dlustiies and man k ind( genei rally shoul be tm xed foi' the "' proteetion "' amd suppihort oif thieeo miost impor'tant, in dustiis, as lie calls t hem. Thleni it is ani easy thlin g fo hIi' m to con vin1ce him sell' that (lie o1pinionsof1 t he protected( classes are of' more1 vatlue than thle op~inionls of " All (lie worl and (lie rest oif mankind."' Finally lie an nounces t hat he has abandoned all hiis prlovintcial pirejud ;cci anid become a bi'oad-iminded Amnei'ican , andit intenids thereafter to follow the brioadl way of a statesmani. Mi . l'resident , if a I'r'esbyter'ian palstor' shoul preach to hmis conigrega tion to t he effect that the only safe roadl to (lie promised land went through baptism by immersion, somie chdei' of that church whose '' stocking had ii (1eep, dleep tinge of blue "' would bc cei'tain to say, " if our' pastor is I h'resbytni~ iane has a baneful Baptisi ias." .So, if a ])emuocrat should( declari1e thu wisdom, good policy, and1( imiparitia: tifiairess of' this bill, somie plain D~emo, crat might be tempted to exclaim, " ii able 'Radical' proclivities.") Or this plain Democrat, if lie was in the habit of thinking in the language of the Bible, would probably say, "1 Ephraim is joine( to his idols. Let him alone. Mr. President, before we all get into this broad way of the broad-minded Americani statesmen-of taxing and e gminstdin g tlree-fourths of the people for the pirp(se of fostering an( pro teeting at class-it would be a prudent c p ceaution to look ito a the book " and try to learn " where we are sit , anI to what place we are going. We can get the needed information by rea(ling Matthew vii: 13, as my preach- c er cites it. L A broad-iminded American statesman I sonic years ago was understood to t mean a very great ian, hselping to i govern this country, but in these years c it mcans i mian too big to stanId inside s the Constitution. 1 Mr. lresi(lent, 1855 was the "Know- 1 Nothing year," and our thanks are r tiue to the Master that they never had c but one year. In that year the Know- c Nothings took all Alabama-as they t sippose(l. Winston was Governor, I an( lie was the Detnocratic candidate for re-election. c Slhurtridge was a canlidate for Gov- f ernor also. Ile had been a Democrat; s but whiat lie was ilten the people did a not know. We lial never seen a livo i Know-Nothing, thought everybody a anl the newspapers were mnostly talk- 0 ing about them, an(1 Shortridge was I suspected of being one. These candi- v dates met for the first time in Ifunts- r Ville. Winstol spoke first, and lie had I musch to say against the Know-Noth- s ings anId their secret way of planning a an( plotting, though he declared that I lie h1a( never seen a live Know-Notli r itmg. S1 Shiortridge followed. IlIe was tall t and hianlsoime. Ile stood looking a o .(c( id It Winston, then said%, "1 Gov- a ernor, you say that you never saw a c live Know-Nothing. Look here," C placing his hanl on his breast, "IHere I is a live Know-Noting." ti "4 Yes,'' replied Winston, in a siarp, I ringing voice, " a live Xlnow-Nothing, t anI a ad .)Democrat." And the people said, "1 Amen." [L aughter.) .j BILLI1 ARP HE4PS THE YOUNG.' They A re Asking Questions and He Takes the Place of Books. . I feel pleased and honored to re ceive letters every day fron young girls an( boys over the South asking for information on - soic subject or for help in a school debate or fot a start in i composition---just a start. These young people are generally from the country, where books are scarce ai( their eagerness for knowledge and mental improvement is' very gratify- s ing. I wish that I was three or four meien so that I could respond to all their letters an( comply with their requests. I reply to as tmany as I can, but I cannot take time to write com. positions, even if it was right to (o so. One boy begs sue to write him a c speech, a humorous speechl, and winds up by asking me please to write two, so that lie tuay take choice. We see that some of the good ladies C of the Atlanta Wo'man's Club are mov ing to supply-the country schools with small libraries of good books and the Southern lHailway has dlonated ni :at boo0k cases for them. This, of cour-se,. is foir Futlton County, but it is as move in the right, direction and will, na~ doubt1), stimulate the ladies of other townis to (10 the same thing. ~It iA the y very best thinig I have heaird of a wo mans's club doinig. The desire . for books t o read is almost universal among the young people of the rural dlis icnts, and1( they shouldl be encouragedl. .e llooks am-e chiesaper thani eves- before known, and cheap bookcases can be had for- a few dlollars each. I sam not sit all intimate with Mr. Casrnegie, but if I wvas I would( whisper ini his phlilant thropie ear5 and1( suggest that lie turnt his attention for awhile to the towns and villagt s and let the big cities alonec. Our Car-ter-sville Womuasi's Club is struggling har-d to keep tip thesir little 1 libr-ary, but at-e not e-couraged by the mens of the town. Their books aira out all the time, and~ as-c read and re-read by matny of the children w~hose fathers (1o not give a dlollar to help malinltaini the librar-y. This may be thoughtless ness, and so I have sicugested thamt thte ladies go ar-oundt anid see who wyill give 50 cents or 25 cenits, or evens 10 cenits a month to keel) up the suply3 ands pay thieir- roomi i-ent and1( inicidetal exp~en ses. Of courmse the character of the books must be thoroughty conisidered. Nothing sectionail ot tirashty or sensai tional ; bitt only those that> " -point a msorsal or adomrn ai tale.'' Every pubmhlic school shld~i have a burminug commini tee, suchl as they hasve as F'orsyths, Ga. A br-ight boy froms Alabaima wr'ites that his name is ,Johnm Jomies, inmd ii ants to know whsent anid how lie got it ; says his fatheri and granid-fathier-had thme same siamie, but they dliedl without tellinig whcere they got it.- Ile says hits schooltmate is inmed Will liigginboth saim and( he, too, wanits to kniow where his snaume camne frouu. I adirie their cager cuimosity, fosr outr mna uce is our sgmboard andl every boy ought to knmow wvho put it up sand~ wvhat it reads. Of courise it is too big a thing to tell munch about names in a letter like this, but 1 must tell Jsack amnd Hill1 about their-s. Jlohin is as 01(1 as the Chiristian ecra, and( mfeasi5 "' Whom Jeho~vahi loves.'' I knew a masi very well who lived near lRome, and~ his four sons wvere naimed Miatthiew, Mlarnk, Luke anid .Johin, andi lisa tiwo daughters were namedl Mlary antd Afartha. Thsese goodl old-time people had great rever-ence for the 1ible amid 1Bihln nams. (mnn of my rathler's custoiersi was iiamxed Shad- I rack Bogan, anl his thr.ce sons were Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego. A nother customer, David Allan, nam %d his son Absalom, and for a wonder ie was a good boy and imnade a good nan, and his father, David, had no >casionl to say " Oh, Absalom, my te 101), lly s011 I"I Well in course of time the people il- ju reased and multiplied so that their N ,hildren had to have two names, so ts IY o distinguish them, and so John's bonl Vas called Johnson inl English, o'.lohn lols in Welsh. After awhile it be- d :mtte .ohn Jones. The Joneses are all I( >f Welsh origin. The Welsh were a ju >rave, religious people, aud fought the co Einglish for many centuries. They Ill iever did submit until they were prom- h< sed that no king should rule them, ex- g ept on1e born on their soil, and he is hould be called the prince of Wales. 'Tl Cing Edlward's son happened to be of orn at a beautiful little Welsh town amed Caernavroa, and the Welsh aie- e cpted him ats their future king and ra alled him the priCe of Vales. anwl te hat is how tile title started. lie was sh, Eiug Edward II. till Now, there was another Welsh way ,r f (istinguisling tile soil from the athier. The little word "1 Ap " mean1s tl on of, and it used to be written John t!, p Jones, but ill course of time the tit ,ttle middle word was dropped. I1t is a little singular that away back ill the all Lnth century the Welsh people who ar ad been fighting each other ill civil shi mars for two hundred years at last e lado friends and chose )avid ap fu lowell for their king, and t(e had at ye on namued Evan. 1le was a good man, 'dr nd his subjects always called fim lowell Da-Howell the good. That iust belour Evan of The Atlanta Con- tit titution. I Ik has just b)een hid outall ,ho bese years. I see that the chamber of f commerce gave a bliquelt yesterday fo nd EVan) Howell responlded to the toast sh Good Fellowship." That suite( him i xactly, I know, and had I been there (I would have told how hiI great anues' f r or' was called the " D1a ' and was the re tst kifg of Wales. I clled him over m4 he telephone this mforning and said th 11c110 1)a!" and he aiwered "llere!' Now, about lill Iigginbotham. if' 'hat is old Anglo Saxon, aid means j mlounitain ark. The old 1nme was of icken. Probably the old ancestor took is namie from an1 ash tree that shaded j as house. Names were scarce, ald by 0cople took their -surnames from oh- - ects of nature, such as hill, fountain, th ale, peak, pine, plant, oaks, chestnut, Ii, ;rub, twigs, branch, wiiater, pool, m1oon, of tar, cloud and so forth; or from their W4 ceipations as baker, farmer, carpen- re pr, mason, millee, gardener, granger m1d all of the family of smiths who at ver'e the smiters of iron aid silver and pl old. All who were detalled to watchi or an iivading c)eiemy were called c miters or 8miths. John Siiith wias to riginally John, the smiter, Captai i oin Smith was an illustrious type of di hat class. When iames were too w) ang to proiounce readily, they were . bortened up. Peter, who livel at tie t even Oaks, was called Peter Svnoaks; ofi lien Peter Siooks, and that's how our thi Ltlanta friend came by his nlame. CO The niame Coward was originally fr ow herd-a herder of cattle-ant was att 0t improved by the change. Th tile u djutant, of our brigade was linam)(d shl oward, and the ariy had no braver c oldlier. le lost an arm! sit Cic'ka- shi ominy. Ile always sigmeth his name 1), l.Coarldj'L ge'1, and1 being asked of rhy 1)0 did not sign his full name, ye aidl : Well, my first nme, unfortu-. 1) ately,- is Adamil, and1( it is not quio1 so10 ad to 1he a coward' a1s it is to he ai-dam li owardl. ' th A few centuries ago every civilized or ation hlad to adopt a1 pr!eflx or a sutlix m~ Onas to prevenlt tile con fus9ion of names10. a1t 'h~e EnglishI athded son to mlost of thir~l m1 ames, as Johnsori, Wilhlamnson, ,Jack 0on, Thiomfpsonl, etc. Th'ie Scotch pre- m xed with Alac. lhe Irish with AMac y r Alc for s01n and( 0 for grandson. er 'he Frenchl took D~e or Dui. Th'ie Nor'- li, 11ansi used Fitz or Ills (from Latml of ci ihmus, a son).) The Rlussianis took v'itch tli rom tihe saime word. T1hen there are many0 nlicknam~les to el' >c alccounlted for, suchl as 11 ob0, lHill, OLa )ick, Jack, Jim, Sally, Polly', Betsy, fr ste. I dlon't know how theseO starteda mut some of them camel out theO col lier-.1) 0s of Fngiland andl the0 (qua~rries of Vales, for every minler has a1 nick ame of Nosey, Soaker, Shanks, .lig eror s omlething easy to call. I had it sChloolmate whose name wats Mielville d f~oun1g. One dlay he was trylug to (10 I suim in Fellowship at the blackboard sI md( wvrot-e down! what lhe intendd-- LI l'o-D -but it looked like todl, and~ the LI eaicher sid, "' What (14 you 1mean1 by , 0(1 ?" That wa~s enough for (11e boys- m ['hey began to call him Tod ,sand t hey e, lever quiit, anld he wvas kniown as Tod0( I Y'oung all hlis after life-.a llut the girls sire not, so much01 inteor- Li astedt inl names, for almost5 every gill ixpects to chang e hors when'l tihe righlt y'oung man11 comies adl"ng. Shis 1n ot :bligedl to marry a man11 Ilned Cruik thanks or Snoozlefanter or Hlogg, buat c< I've k-iown thiemi to (d0 it, and1( they lid very well. BaRi~ A it '. P'. .-In my last letter the typea mnade me1 to say 26;,000 Con federate eI sohheitrs. It should be 7t0,000-all told fromi tihe begininlg to theo~ end. of0 11he war. Ii. A. h A tax on cats is the latest scheme of o the Frenich sportsmen, who are about. a to present to thle Chsimber of D)eputies dI a petitionl calling for 911ch an1 impost. v The tsax, thbey say, w~old~ dhiminish tile g numb~er of undesirable cats whuich play v havoc with small birds anld game. c A horse can1 pu1h llihre tons on level steel rails for every toll he Canll on 01 , an ordinary high rnadl. AWS R1IATING TO JURIES. lianges Made by the Legisla ture-Of Interest to All the Peo ple. 'Pho Legislature passed tiree illport it measures relating to the jurv sys In of the State. ()Ie of these was r. Domininick's bill to validate all rics for the spring term of cout iether drawn regularly or irregular Another was tiat introdicet by iator Appelt to further regulate the awing of gratd jurors, etc. Tle law w requires six members of (he grand ry to be drawn tt the fall term of urt to serve for the ensuing year. Case a judge is sick and unable to Id court, or inl case of other contin iCies, there may be complication8 to the selection of tile grandi jury ie net. which will remedy that state ufair s reads: Section 1. 'iat whenever for any use, such ats tile jtillhing of tile ar Or, oi here being 110 court at the fall 'mIi, t here Ias ieretofore been, or aill liereafter be, a failure to draw I IInames of SiX members of any tind jul) for any count v to set ye onl grndil(I jury ftoir that Couity for tile Al enisuling yetar, as rqiuirvd by law, LI'e shall be draliwi, at tile proper ai for drawin.g tile grald jury, IS Iles fron. the jury box instead of 12; (I IIe said IH peisons, iwIlose names so drawn, shall be sumoned, and ill serve as the grani jur lor the alr ill cluestionl, and( shiall be (lhe law t grand jury for such county for tliat ar, and( until thleir Succe4ssors be nin, uillimoned adI qualiied ic to la w. Sec. 2. That wh'ien the judge, en led( to presile, fails to aittell and to IId tile fall or last terml of the toilit Comm111on lplh 1s IIII(I a Cnide1r11l Sessionis 1any county, tle clerk of tile eoutI all liave the right, and is required reby, to make the drawing from the tgoing grani jury, that is to say, uill the grandl jury for the theni cur lt year, of tile inmes of the six mbeis who shall serve as a part of e uranI Jury for tile tlell ensuilig ar, with the same force anil effre as the. namillIes of the said six grand rors h1ad( been drawn inl the preselice tile lr'esidiig jtudge. Thle most importantl 01hang- inl the( ry sstem will he that,' brouglit alo 'ut the measure iitrod uced Iby- Mr. -ofl, of A iken. IL merely reguhites U mt11d11( of - strikingo'" imailes flroI ts preparetd in trials ill '.he (out common pleas3. This act, whieb~ is aipprove(I by the Governor 1"eb). 15, Uds: Section 1. That ii Ilie tri of all tions ait law inl the coutl of .onunen(,I as, andh issue orlered to li' nit'ued the judge ill cquity cases in sail urts, it shall lie the duty of the clerk furnisli tile parties or tlir attorileys ti I list of 2o of tle ju rors to be a wi and selecte(d by ballot firol file ole number of jurors who are Ill til (hance, the Iname ouu i Of aitd lists to be illmbCered from I to 20, al be stricken by numbers in tle same1 manner as L i'egular pane-1ls of jurors ill sail Irts haive beein lieretoforeforied, >Ili wlicli said list tile parties rI, their or1neys shal alteirnatively strike, til there shall be but 12 left, whill ill collstitute the jury to try the se or issue. In aill casesC tile pilaint i all havei the first strike ; ii in a 11 'il cases here alt er triied in thle courits ctliominl leasu of this State any rty shall have the right. to denmand a net of 21 coinpit'teiit and( 11 ipart ial rora from whichl to stri kt a jury,' lien thle list afboresaidl is pirepiaried by (1 clerik and1( pre'sentedl to thle parties thieir aittorneys, object ins for ca use .1st lbe mailde befoire stik inug awl1( if y' object ions ate sustainedtI lie clerk ist IIll up lie list biefore st rickeli See. 2. Shoul the jiury chlargedl with y' case lie (debiyed inl remiler'ing their I i ict, 5o thait they coil no~t be 1e t to be dhrawni from in maluking the t to formi a seconid jury, the lthtIle ark shahll'esenlt to the parties 01r cir attorneys3' a list eoin taimniig the mnes of 24l jurors to be drw b1WIiIy thie ~rk from the r'emlaining jurtors mn the torneiCys shall anlternalit ely stiike, as (ovitled in setionil 1 tif thlis act, until a re left, which shall eons ltiute thle Sec. 3. in all caft's (if dleflIt, whler may he necessar'y to hiave th verClt'I ct (it a jurIy, orl ini the tial of tases hien the parlties ori thieiir attorneys all1 waive thle rieht to sti Ike a1 juriy, e clerk 81sha lllner' the directiion of e jilige, dra'1w and1 emipaniel a jiury), ho 8111118 111 shall pas1upn1uchmaters as5 ses,1 ori the tial c f such casies, when e' par'ties have waivedl tile r'iLht to rike the jur iy, as9 stalt ed ini tis ist' becc. 4. Th'lis act shall1 go intoi eiffect 1(d le of force oni the first (liy ol iptembier, 1901.(iacsl' Sec. .5. All at1 or partsofatin mnsistent with this act bei and1( thic mec is hierebly r'epeialed. TJhiere are timies when calttle ge oked from swallowing a i'aw Jiotato) other subs)tan1ce. T1o rem'Iove thi istr'ucI ion there is nothing better IhIan x feet of gardlen hotse. Elevate thI cadl, opein the mouthi and1( pass the eni the hose dlown the throat. If no iff enioughi to force thle ob structi1 OWln inito the sitomachi, pass ia buigg; hip) dlown inlsidle the hose and hires etly, bult firmly. Grease the hios tell before using, and feed soft feed tI nI animal for a day or' two afic hioking. Trhirty thlousandl peo~ple in the U'nite< taltesl miake their lhymg fromi the grow ng silk indluntry. SWIFT TRIAL IN FLORENCE. Twenty Minutes Only to Dispose of a Famous Lynching Case. 'le Florence correspIoillit of the News anl Courier, writing under tle 4f Feb. 18, says that .Judge Watt1s made a record-lreaking trial in the case of the State vs. John IlAvigston, charged with asault with mi I(lit to ravish, and of issatilt and battery with iitent to kill, and has set tle pacc for all othe: .Juilges in South Carolina ti) follow inl the trial of " btirutes " char'ed wlith meb crinnes. L.ivingston vas brought to Florence at, 9.30 'lock, a r'aigel inl (yen court pleaded gui Ilty ; scnatenced t1) tenl years at hard labor ml tilh Ileiitentiary, and was put aboard of the taiin, aid was oil the way for tle pu111te1ntary to en ter upi~onl serving his sentence at o'clock. J ust t wenty minutis. Even tie citizens of Florence are wonderin g how quickly and quieily it was donke, but it was (one. IIveth'eleACb.ss atid IA' inlghton1 is now doling time inl the pen t e11t ill 1. Jitlge vatts decided to have Living ston brought here for trial,and gave ati order to Sheriff IBurch to go to Ciolum hill and brinlg Livitgston here. lIe a1lso empowered the heiil Cto appoiiit a sutlicient number of deputies to as sure tihe safe arrival of the prisoner, to see that he was notharnied while hiere, and to see that lie was safely returned to the 1wnitentiary. Sheriff Burch im aiediately apoiinted about twenty-live deputies, among whom iere lawyers, doctors, mueirchaits and otAher business mt't, and notitied themiil to tme(et Traini ., tiia ('441 tiibia, at tile lrby street criossting, ivar the court house, properly al ieil tI, care for tie pitsoner during his stay inl -lor"1tene. .it .5 ti lie party of deputies were otni h.ind. la vmegstoti was taken ditrect v from thle train 14o the court house, the .Judge invin- had the lcourt opened early, to ther e w oui he no delay. and tile prisitert wasi im tmediately arraigned. livingcost on wltena askedby tlie clerk: GUilI 41t it ga?113? A nswer'ed inl a stern voice : I ati it '''Nt The .Itdge then told Living StIon that linder ordinlariy citcuistancies Ie wonl eept I lie Ilea of guilty made at would make tile sentence light, but owing to the fact that ie had Itl the count.y antid State to ain eiotniioiis vxIl've ill capturig and rarin.r for himt) to save a lynithintig, which would have hatppeind had tile h-iw not have sicuie coitrol of him, and the fil't thalt he woih li ve m14-eiptish ted his )ri'pose but for 'ai< ireitinataices, aid a1s a lessoni to o0thir.i lo 11n:iy it temilt such a wicked dol, le wouhl ee him the highiest selntlncc tIle law voulh allowm', atld le thetreulpi seni teiceid hiti to the S : ate wiltentialry foria teirm of1 teoi years at hiutt labior. TIe itecssary Inpper vere iiiole (ilt, aid the sheiril aiil dipities pro'celedd to thle irby street staitin, wher tho I raini fto ( iohnthia was In watitoig. Livnitigstoil is the iegro who as1sault e'l the daughte cr of the keep'ler of the national cetliltery tiar' FlireIe last fall, .vith mntent, (o commilit, a mlore hei IIOUs cimle, bit was bravely tesit and finailly I ied, bt, ias purisuied t ll catre.Irepa.rationls hadi heen mad1fe to lynch hiu, when tite authorities spirited himl away to the pe-nitentiary it. (oluibia, whetre lie has leen con fined lot' safepling ier sinice intitil It wvoiihl have beetn easy enouilgh for' the slif f 14o hav~'e broughtI 1,ivmtigston hter'e aitil kept himt ini jail, tot' there woubilt have been ino dlemonistratio or110 troul, bu'.liiIt lhe act iont of .J udtge Watts is heariiL tly' commliiiend(1ed even bi y sotme of ihose wh Iwe i're mtost eager' it hoiltl ing dIown' the two niegroues. Ilow 'To Ii TuA'i' A Ilo'itsi;.-A farm exchiange, Hpea kinig oft a muan 's at wheni lhe didn't, watnt to) be eait.;ht,says' such an ('ti is aboui~. thle moilst lunihap py tanit you enn~ ind. And it is trite. Htt why doi not, all hoise ownters teach theit' hitses to cotmei to t hemi, when ini the tipa tre '? It is ta very eay lthinug 1(o (do, ail oflen wvoul save a vast amtiout, oft t'oubhe. T1he propier' time tot suchl Iteach inug is whleu the~ aiuimal ia co itt it tnot dontel t henrifi is a htorse t hatI was b)ought an n111tot taisedt, thle thiung to dto is to be gentle with it at all ttimes, andI~ pet tt wheni e ver I'occasion permcniits. Theni if the hortse wiill eat sulgar', it' one will carry a few Inumps ini his pocket andi~ give the hiortse on e occiCiona lly, it will soont get so it will comite unilen~lti to get the sugar'. IIf it. (does tiot, catsugi'a, thoutgh miost hor'ses wvill, a little corti, salt or somtte thet' t1hg thatt horses generally like, will do. By utiftortm kindness am(1lie cotti inuatioin of such treatment for a while, altmost any horse will connt whieni calledl. T1hiere are somec peopl)1 who luave the foolish habit whenitaIk. ig off' the brtidie to tunt the htorse in to pas5ture', of str'ikitng at it wIth th( hmritdle to make it, run olft. That, i tile way mauny horses ai'e laught, to ht4 Itard'l to clatch. A tit it outght tievet' tt be done. Tbci v ahie of' a horse is gi eatly meirensed b~y gettleness atml intellhgene, atnd it iughtI by ailt tmeans to bie fostered. IDempse lI5( 1are, thle ichest, nt-gr'o in Eastern: Virmgiia ~, who recetly dIiedl, owne ii 0000,ttt acres oif goodI farmii I alan. lie hadl pr'epar'ed a im arble for' hits tetitmtuns. Iiar'e, will wold n( tot assocW iate w~ lit negroes, c:her'ished thle atmbition thint hiis on e d1augh1ter' shoult d becoimt the ife of a white miatn. *Whlen shte miarriied a tnegt'o the 0111 tan awas eit ushedl. Hie refused to ree ogniize bet' and1 left the bulk of his | propety to whIiite frien . til~Hare ouce app)jliedt to a surg otn to i'emove niegre Io f11)1 romt hiis veinus. ,4 . F.very Coltol plJan t-r 1hoif wri t i liro r vila bl ;tI lu Izist ri td )~a 1 11 1 t. ,L ." ) t to (u tu . t is ;entfr . I~MA N i i '. P l.. p ., ap. N. V'. ILSSON t o TnI.: 'Titt, U rs.-Bradford Peck, a wealily business man or Lewistoni, MAaine, has taken up the idea that the syst(ein of co-operittion in socialisto t:might in BIellamv 's famo.is book, " Looking Backward,'' iN the true principle (if civilizatiou, and has or ganized a society on that basis at Lewiston. lie says that (he depart ment stores and trusts have taught. the world that carrying on business on a very large scale is miuch more econom ical than doing it inl a sminall way, and all lie little establishments trying to get the business from each other. le is trying to enlist the men of great wealth, lRockef'iller, Carnegie, Vander bilt amnd others, in 'he enterprise, and to establisllh a universal system of co operatiol to giadmally absorb the gov eriinent, and inl the name of all the people, carry on all lines of businiess evrywhi re. No one canl own any real estate, accordig to his plan, but everybody will have some work to do which they canm best (do, and g11 will have ill abidallce of the comforts or life. It is certainly true that the t rusts are Ite'aching the world that the co-operative system is the economical way of dloinog bIusiniess, d1111d also mak ing it impossible for people with small mieaans 1i) carry on business success fully; anld it is also true that the ten denicy is towards socialism, but we hardly thin k that Mr. Peck will be able to bring his system to Completion inl his lifetime. SimI i JSTHInUTION.-ThO farmers of the comitry should not he disappoint ed if they do not. receive their Con gressional garden and flowor seed at the usual time this year, for the entire seed distribution 1hats been delayed several weeks because of the failure of two cailoaids of peas and1 beans to put i- :1n appejaranlC'e at the (ep)artment. Somehow ill shipmeit. these two cars have gone astray and cani not be locat. kil. As the six varietics of seed put ill) in each package would not be complete without the ipeas and beans, it has hmn decided to ho( li) the distributioi illitil i complete assortment canl he umade. If tlie missing cars are not located inl a short time, a new con signmnent will be ordered. TIhere has bieen a correspionding delay in the dis tributmon of flower Seedls. The coin tiact for this variety omf seedls was this lycar' awardedl to a foreigner, and he has so far failed to make his shipment fi oml is sour-ce of suppl1y in Europe. It is not, anticipated that there will bo imuch more dlelay, ando it is hioped the distribution of both ilower and garden seeds may lbe commiencedl in a few weeks. By law tho Southern States ar~e fIrst suplhiedl, other States being recognize m~I i the order of their clim ate, thbus making the Northe ni States thme last to receive seeds. Prof. Massey, of North Carolina, is ahigh authoi ity on cow peas, andh says lie gets the best results to i land by letting the peasl remai killed by frost andl then plowingth und~er amnd sowing thle land in rye. We believe that isi true; and~ theni if the . rye is ploivedI undter when about knee high it will be sure not only to help the sod permanently, but miake the crop planted on the land very nmuch better, whatevei the crop maiy be. If lbowed under ati that stage, rye S rots and it will keep the soil aiid moist all sunmmer. .John Scott, in theo Commiuom (luontes from a .1 udge of the States Supieme C ourt: "'You ters 'ire mnalsiing a fatal matake I holding fort h before men, as pU nently as the previous genieration the ret ribut ive jastice of God., have fallen inituo a sentimental styl rhmasodizinig over the love of God, ou0ar notapealinig to that fear of . uuepunmish men t which your Lord and aster made~l such a prominlent, lemen(2t ini [his preclihinig. And we are seeinig the effects of it, ini the wide spreadl~ of dlomiiiIzattioni of private . .virtuei and corrupltionl of p~ulic coin science throughout the land. Such is the rapid demand for the Innmber thaI white pine is rep~orted to be rapidly <lisappearing. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought lera the