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THE PEOPLE'S_JOURNAL VOL 12.-NO. 3. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, SIPTEMBER 4, 1902. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR AS'L1NI)II) FARM EXIIIIIT. The South LcndN the Nation In Fnrmiing Indusitries. Farmers of the country have moved South, are moving in that direction and will continue to move in increas ing number. Their chance today is in the South. Figures covering the past twenty years, as anialyze(l by the Southern Farm Magazine, proved it. The ad vance of the South agriculturally in comparison with that of the rest of the country appears in the following per centages of increase between 1880 and 1900: Population..............43.8 55.5 Number of persons engagod in agricul ture........ ......6.8 81,1 Value of farm property..72.5 66.7 After deducting the value of pro ducts fed to stock and the amounts of money spent for labor and for fertiliz ers, the proceeds of the farms rep resented at the close of the twenty years period, 25 per cent. returned on the investment in farm property in the South an(1 14.2 per cent. on the invest ment in the rest of the country. These are the conclusions of an elab orate survey of Southern farm progress in an article in the September issue of the Southern Farm Magazine, which says: " In the twenty years under review the value of farm property in the South Increased from $2,290,364,321 to $3, 951,031,632, or $1,661,267,311, an ad vance of 72 per cent., and in the whole country from $12,180,501,538 to $20, 439,001,164, or $8,259,399,026, or 07 per cent. The values of farm products as given are the value of gross pro ducts. They include the products fed to stock. A clearer idea of the relation of products, or the income of the farms, to the value of farm properties or the investment, is to be had by deducting from the gross value of products not fed to stock the amount of money paid for labor and the amount for fer tilizer, which in manufacturing might be classed as the free capital. The remainder, in the absence of figures for insurance, taxes, etc., may be re garded as fairly representative of farm incones, and the proportion that it is of the value of farm properties may be regarded as fairly representative of farm incomes, and the proportion that it is of the value of farm properties may be considered the rate of interest on the investment. " Here the showing made by the South is emimently satisfactory, on the whole, for upon its fled investment of $3,951,031 ,632 it received $988,905, 593, or 25 per cent, while the whole country on an investment of $20,439, 901,104 received 03,331,300,617, or 16.2 per cent. The percentage in but one State-Maryland-waa below the percentage for the whole country, the District of Columbia hardly being con siderable in this connection because of the investment represented by govern ment properties. The percentages in other States were as follows: Mississip pi, 42; Alabama, 41.4; Georgia, 34.6; Arkansas, 34.5; South Carolina, 33.8; North Carolina, 29,6; Louisiana, 27.3; Tenneseee, 24; Florida, 23.9; Texas, 20.4; Kentucky, 20; Virginia, 19.1, and West Virginia, 16.7. The rank of the States in net value of products was: Texas, $190,889,813; Kentucky, $94, 616,675; MississippI, $85,894,304; Georgia, $79,102,630; Alabama, $74, 3177,969; North Carolina, $09,276,708; Arkansas, $02,733,020; Virginia, $02, 073,225; Louisiana $54,369,232; South Carolina, $51,928,852; West Virginia, $34,101,289; Maryland, $20,719,119; .Florida, j$13,00,004, and the District of Columbia, $(;25,937. " in every one of five typical groups of States in other parts of the country the percentage of the investment as thus estimated is below the average for the country, and of the nineteen' State~s in those groups, but four Maine, witih 19.3 per cent.; Vermont, 16.9; North Dakota, 17.5; and Kansas, 17.3-are above the average, the per centages for the other States, including two below u,he lowest percentages in aby State in the South, being South Dakota, 16.8; Nebraska, 15.6; Ohio, 15.3; New IIampshire, 15.3; Con necticut, 15; Rhode Island1, 14.8; In dIana, 14.7; Missouri, 14.0; Now York, 14; Massachusetts, 13.7; Now Jersey, 13.7; Iowa, 13.4; Pennsylvania, 12.p1s and Illinois, 12. " The value of lands with improve-. ments increased 67 per cent in the South and 62 per cent in the whole country; of implements, 120 per cent in the South and 84 per cent in the whole country, and of live stock, 88 per cent, in the South and 95 per cent in the whole country. Of the total In creases in values in the South, $1,661, 267,3 11, the increase in the value of lands, $1,237,240,620, was 74.7 per cent; live stock, $332,574,735, was 19.9 per cent, and implements, $91,451, 966, was 5.4 per cent, roughly calcul ated. Of the increase in the whole country, $8,269,399,026, the increase im the value of lands, $6,417,660,716, was 77.6 per cent; of live stock, $1, 498,592,99)6, was 18.2 per cent, and ol implements, $343,255,915 was 4.2' per cent. " Gratifying is the exhibit here made. It reveals the capabilities of the agricultural South. It is the golderi side of the shield. But there Is anoth. er aide. It is really just as golden. Circumstances, however, for which the South is not entirely responsible havc blurregi it andl( redluced Its attractive ness toemporarily. Upon it Is writter the story of half-cultivated or neglecte< opportunities. " The one to thme proper situation fo the South Is given in a study of th value of certain crops per acre. T[hI total for the country was $14; th hIghest for the distinctive Souheora crop was $80 per acre for sugar can This large average, however, was di to the exceeding profit in Hawaii, LL average for sugar cane in Louisian being $52. The average per acre f< tobacco was $51, for rice $22, for co ton $15 and for peanuts $14. " For general crops, the average pc acre was $7 for wheat and oats, $8 f< corn, hay and forage crops, $9 f barley and llaxeed, $13 for orchar fruits, $16 for rye, $33 for Irish potn toes, $36 for sweet potatoes, $54 fo miscellaneous vegetables, $81 for sma fruits, $134 for onions and $170 1< nursery products. " The South is awakening to the elc quenco of those figures. It is secur in the advantage it has in its speci crops. It has (lemonstratod that it ca raise crops common to the countr which bring more money per acre thai cotton, tobacco, sugar or rice. It re mains for it to enter into its own. TUnNED JOKE ON THlE BoYs..-Dr Woodrow Wilson, who has recentl3 been chosen president of Princetoi college, is a man of groat tact and con siderable native wit. A former studen of that institution tells a story whici he regards as indicative of the way it which he will hold the students in leash by ready wit and a genial smili instead of trying to awe them with hih dignity. When darkness lent cover to the project on the evening of the (lay o which the announcement of Dr. Wil son's election was made, some of the more boisterous spirits organized a cel ebration, and, having requisitioned horns and a green grocer's stock of head lettuce, descended upon the new president. At the first toot of the horn he knew what was coming, but before bedlam could break loose )r. Wilson was out among the serenaders, grasping each one by the hand and thanking them individually and collectively for their congratulations, pretending not to see the lettuce heads, which the students made desperate efforts to keep out of view and to get rid of. When the students recovered from this unexpected overthrow of their plans some one shouted: " What's the matter with Woodrow Wilson?" And the answer came loud and clear: " He's all right. lIe's a brick." The students then marched away singing. " For he's a jolly good fel low," and carrying their lettuce heads with them. Tii1. SJN1o NAVAL Ovr1cEi. The oldest living officer of the navy is the most sensitive of any in the service about his age. He is Rear Admiral Thoma 0. Sfridge, retired. No one except the admiral, seemingly, knows his exact age, and he will not tell, When he entered the navy it seemi not to have been the practice to take the (lay, month and year a midship man was born, and for that reason the records made no mention of these dates. The records show that the ad miral was burn in Ma,isachusetts and that he was appointed from that State January 1, 1818, many years before the establishment of the naval academy or the inventicn of rifled guns. Mid shipmen of his (lay entered young and, allowing the admiral to have beer fifteen at that time, hie is now ninet,y. nine years 01(1. if he lives until nexl January it is believed lie will turn thu century mark. The admiral dislikes to have any ont mention, his age to him and as far as th< retiring age is concerned lhe believes i should be seventy-two rather thai sixty-two. Washington is his home where lie has lived since his retire menit, more thanm thirt,y years ago His eldest son is Rear Admiral Thomam 0. Selfridge, Jr., now about sixty-sa years of age. There is another son comimandler in the navy. TRiEATED IN his TURN.-" Yoi can't always go by ap)pearancea," sain a prominent hotel keeper as he sat o1 the porch the ot,her night with a fes choice spirits. "'['here was a fellos hero a few (lays ago who earned th reputation of being the meanest ma: in this sectioni. He was never know: to spend a cent either on himself o any one else. A few of the boys d< cided to make him open up and wen after him one evening. By dint c persuasion they succeeded in coaxim him into the bar, where one of thei stood treat. The mean man took cigar and put it into his pocket. " There were three other fellows i the crowd besides thme mean man an each of them treated in turn. Or friend took a cigar each time and pm it io his pocket, making him foi cigars to the good. The boys by vi rious broad hints and stage whiei convoyed the idea to treatee that I was expected to do the honors, as was now his turn. He smiled, bein an agreeable sort of a felow, ac said: " I g(esd, boys, it's up to n now ; have a smokce," and reaching ii to his pocket, he produced thme foi cigars and handed one to each. Thi *as the limit, and the boys prompt filed out." A wheelbarrow with ball bearings h; been p)ut on the market by an Oh firm. CASTORIA For Infiants and Children. The Kind You -Have Always Bougl B ears the . BlanadieZof D. SOME FACTS ABOUT COINS. I LO io Government TIsca Money on I (ol and1(1 Haer Metalu are .Profitable. The Boston Heril says: A strange ir thing about our coining system is that a ,r the government loses money in coin or ing gold, but makes a big profit in d coining pennies. For instance, in a - $10 gold piece there is exactly $10 r r worth of gold and 10 per cent of copper t, - -put in to harden the precious metal r ---besides the cost of minting. A silver piece of money is about half profit, but the penny pays Uncle Sam D best of all, as the blanks are purchased r 1 at the rate of $7,300 per million. That '1 is, the United States government ob itans for 7 3-10 cents the copper 0 1 blanks, which by the process of stamp- f - ing are transformed into $1 worth of pennies. What becomes of the millions of pennies coined each year by the gov ernment is an unsolved problem. To 1 supply the demand the mint at Phila delphia must keep on turning out now pennies at an average rate of 4,000,000 U per month. This useful little coin hasitisbenig,ocur,inaopr its beginning, of course, in a copper mine. By the procon of emelting the copper is separated from the iron or lead or silver in the ore and is bought by agents, who sell it to a firm in D Waterbury, Conn., who are under con tract to supply the government with T copper blanks-that is, pennies un stamped. At Waterbury the now S copper is melted and mixed with tin and zinc, according to a recipe pro scribed by the treasury department at v Washington, and then hardened into W bricks. These are cut into slices the re thickness of a cent and the strips are passed through machines with punches that work up and down with enormous pressure and atamp out the little round disks just the size of a p :my. Those blanks are put up in strong boxes and sent by express to the mint at 1'hila- L delphia, where they are stamped with the head on one aide and the denomi nation on the other. In 177 was coined a New York A cent. The obverse bears a bust sup- Ti posed to have been intended for Gen. Washington in the costume of the Continental army; encircling it is the motto, " Non Vi Virtute Vici." The reverse has the figure of Liberty, seated on a pedestal, holding in her B right hand a staff surmounted by a liberty cap and in her left the scales of justice. Around the coin are the words "'Neo Eboracensis," with the date in the exergue, 17d6. The Vermont cents were coined for A four successive years. One variety (. .as on the obverse an oye with rays W extending from it, which are divided by thirteen stars; around the coin are the words, " Quarta Docima Stella;" reverse, the sun rising from behind 0 the mountains, a plough in the fore- S ground, with the legend, " Vermont Ersium Res Publica," with the date 1785. Another type has on the ob verse a poorly cut head with the words, R " Vermont Auctori," on the reverse Jc " Indo et Lib," with the date 1788, Si: Another, with the sam legend, reads, W " Et Lib Inde, 1788. The Connecticut cents bear date 1785, 1786 and 1787. The obverse has a heard with the words: " Auctori i Connec," on thc: reverse a ligure of M Liberty holding a stasff in one hand an olive branch ini the other, surround ed by the motto: " Inde et Lib," and A' the dlate. There are many varieties of A; this cent, all of which are very poorly B executed. Fi Without date is a cent having on P one side the motto: " Unanimity is 1R the Strength of Society," encirciing a hand hoiding a scroll, on which is in scribed " Our Cause is Just." 110 verse fifteen stars in the form of a triangle: oni the stars are indented the C initials of the several States, Kentucky E heading the column. This was struck J~ at Lancaster England, in 1791 for cir- ~ culation in America and was called the M K{entucky cent. Pi In 1787 the commonwealth of Mas- 'M sachusetts ordered from its mint a V I copper coin, having on one side an r Indian with his bow and arrow, near 3 his forehead a star and aroundl the coini 1 the word " Commonwealth;" on the 1 other side the American eagle, holding r in his right talon an olive branch, in the lef t a bunch of arrows, on its breast n t a shield, on which is inscribed the a f word " cent " and around the edge of g the coin "Massachusetts, 1787." IIalf 1 cents of the same type w.ore struck. a This coinage was continued for two years, but uponi the adoption of the 1 constitution of the United States,~ d which prohibits the several States *r from coining dzhoney, the mint was it abolished. The mint was established 8 r by vote of the Massachusetts Assembly ~ -in 1780, and $70,000 In cents and half s cents were ordered to be made. Part I e of tile works and machinery for the ~ it mint was erected at Boston Neck and gpart in Dedham. SAfter more than 400 years it appears a Sthat Cuba has not yet been entirely i discovered. Much of it and many ofr i ts treasures are yet unknown, accord. in lg to the recent report made by Gov ernor General Wood. lie says that after the centuries of Spanish oc acupancy there are large portions of the oIsland that havre never even b)een prospected and practically remain un discovered, so -far as knowledge of what they contain goes. Oregon, the voting population of which was 40,000 In 1880, and is now 100lo,000 has no larger representation _under the new Congress apportion mont than under the previous one -hat Is, two members. Washington and California each gain ne membe. TURINED [OSE ON HER FE A Womnn'H Iden for Cooling ( in a Hot Climate. A Phoenix gentleman who recent returned from California relates an i in cidont that occurred to him that mi n be of benefit to Phoenix women wi V. can not go to the coast, but who d td sire to,avoid the effects of the oxcossi, e- heat as much as possible. The gentl 1, man in question is an extremely mode ; married man, and it was only an ove n wholming curiosity that helped him ii d to the secret about to be imparted. On the way home he occupied - seat toward the roar of the coach, an Y a lady, who also had a ticket ft - Phoenix, sat opposite him and or - seat ahead. IIe noticed that the fu 1; thor they traveled the more uneasy th -" lady become. First she tried fauin - herself vigorously, but finally gav 'I that up in despair, and resort,ed to hc d handkerchief, with which she incem santly mopped her face, removing poi - spiration, paint, complexion and every thing olso that was not rooted in th cuticle. Just bofore reaching Maricopa th lady squirmed around a great deal r looked out of the corner of her eyes t '" see if anyone was watching (and ther was, but she didn't know it), thei il pulling off her shoos, she removed ho - stockings, turned them inside out aum put them on again. By this time the modest Phoeni: ' man was mostly eyes, and what wasn' eyes was curiosity. lie felt, that h had to have an explanation of the we mlanl's conduct, and t,here was nlo on1 who could give it but the woman her self. lie approached her, therefore begged her pardon, and said that h< seldom took the liberty of inquirin into other people's business. " Ilovi ever," he continued, "I just witnessed the lightning change act that you per formed, and curiosity has prompted mi to inquire the reason of it." ) The woman blushed a little on (lie covoring that she had been watched 5 and then said : "You see I am goin t down to Phoenix, and it is very hc 8 down there' In fact it 1As been gel h ting hotter every mile for the last thre 5 hours and my feet were literally burn - ing up, when I lecided that regardlo 7 of conventionality I would have t turn the hose on them."--u rizon t J 4 publirtn. l IHI WAs S-riLL DEAD.-Man 7 politicians pride themselves upon thei memory of faces and incidents in thi 8 lives of those they meet on their tour in quest of votes. A certain Maiu Congressman is of this class. II _ thinks it is through his ability in thi line that lie has been able to retai the hold that lie has had for a long tim 2 on his constituents, lie. seldom foi f gets a man, and whether the visit i made to his oflico on business relatin 5 to the postmastership in the largei city in his district or in regard to 0 pension for a poor widow, lie alway ri 5 members the visitor and knows hi 0 when next they meet. 0 It chanced that some little time ag< - two men, father and son, entered hi I office to see him in regard to som business they had with one of the d4 1 partments at Washington. The Mair 0 Congressman was very courteous all heard them through. Several month 1laiter the younger man called again. -" Ilow is your father?" was the fIri 7question asked. " lHe 1s dead(," the young mnn r pilied. '7The sympat,hy exp)ressed b)y tI 'statesmaii was (leep, and( the your qman wont away believing that, t: Congressman was a much larger mr ,thaii lie had before regarded him. Several mont,hs more p)assedl by at Sthe t,wo againi met, this t,ime at a rai 0 road station. Wishing to show h 0constituent that lie remembered hin: h le walked up amid saidl: " Good morning, Mr. B1--. ieo' is your father today?" "Still (dead," saidl the coiistituont. 1The Congressmian stammered a fea wordJs andl madle a hasty retreat. A NiKmno 1'A'rno'r.-Not,able amor .the colored heroes of t,he llevolut,i( 15was brave Aust,in Dabney, of Georgi r, Iis owner cravenly refused to shoul a flintlock, but the negro offered o3 nlist and, after some (discussioni, tl ollicers enrolled him, lie was one lthe heroic band who faced the chart of the 71st IIighland regiment 0 lilacketock's farm, and turned th tocrack troops of ICurope in open fIel gwith rifle and musket against tl -bayonet, and at Kett,le Creek Dabn< at wa swerely wounded. After the w er lie was pensionedI by the United Stat egovernment,, and received grants Ve land from Georgia. For gallant servi by in the field lie was freed by an act (the State Legislature, andl his val er paid from the public funds. (Gratei nto the whit.e family who nursed h when wounded, lie earned money he edlucat,e their eldest son, and w< with joy when the youth was admiti to the bar. Riding into Savannah at hs pension he humbly fell to I ed =rear of the white men he bore cc Spany. Governor James Jackson, hi self the owner of many slaves, a Dabney, rushed out, shook his cc panion In arms by the hand, and I .him lodged in his " quarter," or re- of houses where the servants Lived. Ia, There Is a point near the famn ofStony Cave, in the Catskill mountal where ice may be found on any day to I the year. This locality Is locally kuo a as the Notch, and is walled in on L'heo ,pldes by steep mountamns, some1 ter. which are more than 1,000 feet hi I[;YWARD AND TAIBERT IN SECON>) RAC: 4atiIIer and Evans for tl United States Senate. The primary election has resulted second race for Governor betwo( ). C. loyward, of Colloton, and % asper Talbert, of Edgolleld ; a secot Cee for the United States Senate b) Noon A. C. Latimer, of Andorsoi ud John G. Evans, of Spartanburt )r Lieutenant Governor betwec oin T. Sloan, of Richland, at rank B. Gary, of Abbeville ; for Sc tary of State between Jesse 'J anutt, of Spartanburg, and J. Harve tilson, of Sumtor ; for Adjutant Glei ral between John D. Frost, of Rici nd, and J. C. Boyd, of Greonville or Comptrollor General between ( . Walker, of Greenville, and A. 'I )nes, of Abbeville ; for Itailroa ommissionor between W. Boy vans and B. L. Caughman. U. X. Gunter, Jr., has been nom wted for Attorney General ; IR. I mnnings, of Fairfield, for State Trrea or ; 0. B. Martin, of Greenvillk r Superintendent of Education. Mr. Geo. S. Logaro is nominated fe )ngress in the First district, ; Got '. Croft and G. 1). lelliuger rui er in the Second ; Wyatt Aikou an r. IR. F. Smith in the Third ; Joe Johnson nominated in the Fourth E. Finley in the Fifth ; It. 13 arborough in the Sixth, and A. i )ver in the Seventh. The summary of the votes for th rios oices which is appended here th is the oilcial declaration of t 3ult: SENATE. liott, . . . 13,65 fans, . . 17,81) ailphll, . . 13,21; 3nderson, . . . 13,77 hnstone, . . 13,55 timer, . . 22,97 Totel, . . 95,11 (10V EItN011. asel, . 17,68 ayward, .36,55 IIIbert, . .IM1,21 Ilman, . . . 16,31) mmeI;rman, . . . 6,5 1 Total, . . . 95,36 LIEITIENANT OVEINOR. ease, . . . 19,27 Iry, . . 35,41; Un, 39,77 Totui, . . . 14,51 SECETARY 0F STATE, istin, . 22,39 mtit ..34,1:3 ilson . . . . 38,1131 TlOtal .4 . 4,54 ATTOINEY (IENElA.. inter . . . 51,58 "Vensn . , 43,07 Total . . . 914,65 CO1PTIOLLEI.RII GENERAJL. rooker . . , 18,4Q nes . . 24,81j arpe . . . 21,78 alker . . 211,32 Total ..... 9431 SUt'ERItNTEN)ENT ON' Ei)UCATION. eMahman . . . 45,89 artin . . . 48,81 T.LoLal . . . . 94 ,7' ),lUTANTl AND) iNSPECTOl)t (EN EllAl yer . . . . :.9 ~ost . . . 3 ,4 itrick . . . 20,0.1 ause . . . :3,81 Total , . . . 95,00 RIAILHOAD COAMIStlSIONICit. minser . . . 8,9: mnghmnan . . . . 1 8,41 I vans . . . 20,1's pson . . . 7,h7 mnardl . . . . 51 obley . . . 15 ,2' ilon . .. 10,11 !oling . . . . 7 ,2~ Total . . . . J4 ,5( Two CAUsEn OF CANUER.--Of 1l ie ills that flesh is heir to there one more justly dreaded than cance painful and1 lingering disease fi 'hich no adequate remnedy has y een found. IL will be remember< iat in an address before a Medic ong(ross a year or so ago King IE rard of England expressedt the ho fiat a diligent effort would be ma a discover some means of checkii his dreadful malady. Recent inves ations point to the conclusion th no of the causes of cancer Is improp nod and drink. That cancers of ti ips and mouth are caused by excessi moking is now a fact established1 he case of Gen. Grant andl others, a1 L has been intimated that canc aicrobes have been found in certa lile-smellng foreign cheeses, for whi omo fashionable people profess ave a great lhking. So far as t nalady is traceable to causes like the he remedy to be applied is simple a asy, viz, to smoke moderately, if 11, and to let all moldy and docay .rticles of food alone, no matter ~ourmets pretend to like them. The final estimate of the wheat el f India for the season of 1901-2, oently given out by the statistical iartment of the government of Ind ~ives the yield as 6,000,000 tons 2,240 pounds. President Loubet has promised visit Algeria, which has not seei chief magristrate since 1865. visit will probably be piaid next Eas T IT WAS NOT 8OEASi14Y DONJ ir Ieiry Clay'N Correction Am t the Work He did in a Trial. ly James Sandusky, who is an old an n- well-known traveler, and who hus re ty cently settled in Chicago, while com to ing in from I'owee valley on the olec o- tric line yesterday aftornoon, told at ro interesting story about IIonry Clay - the great Kentucky statesman. Mr It Sandusky in his youth lived in Mr, r- Clay's district during the time when 1- Henry Clay was at his primo as a law. yor. a "A man was once being tried foi d murder," sid Mfr. Sandusky, " and ,r his case scemed hopeless, indeed. Ile e had, without any seeming provocation, murdered one of his neighbors in cold o blood. Not a lawyer in the county g woul touch the caso. It looked bad e enough to ruin the reputation of any r barrister. "The man as a last extremity ap pealed to Mr. Clay to take the case for him. Every one thought that o Clay would certainly refuse. But when the celebrated lawyer looked in ( to thi matter his lighting blood was roused, and to the great surpriso of all he accepted. 4" Then came a trial, the liko of t which I have never seen. Clay slowly r carried on the case, and it looked more and more hopeless. The only ground of defensO the prisoner had was that the i(murdered man had looked at him with such a fieree, murderous look that. out of self defenso he had struck first. . A ripple passed through the jury at this ovidenco. "The time came for Clay to make his defentse. It was settled in the mitmds of the spectators that the mant was guilty of murder in the first degree. Clay calmly proceeded, lay laying all the proofs before them in his masterly way. Thon, just as h1e was about to conclude, he played his last master card. '' (Jentlemen of the jury,' lhe said, assumimg the fiercest, blackest look and carrying the most undying hatred in it that I have over seen, ' gentle men, if i man should look at you like this, what would you do?' " "That was all he said, but that was eiough. The jury was startled, and some cycn quailed in their seats. The judge moved uneasily on his hench. After fifteen minutes the jury filed slowly back with a ' Not guilty, your honor.' The victory was complete. " When Clay was congratulated on r his easy victory, he said : " 'It was not as easy as ) ou think. I spent (lays and days in my room b). o fore tiho mirror practicing that look. e It took more hard work to give that a look than to investigate the most ob t scuro case.' "--Louisville Courier e Journal. IL.LrrrtnACY AMMONc Vo-runs.-'i'ho g census olico has issued i preliminary report on illiteracy among men of vot ing age in city and country districts in the census year 1900. The report int a cludes under the term " illiterate " those who can neither read nor write ', and also a small number who can read, a but cannot write. In the United States 0 ' IL whole, excluding Alaska and Ila - waii, the mal piopulation at least 21 c years of ago and living in cities hay d ing at least 25,000 inhabitant,s was 5, 's 885,(4h, of whom 330,223~:, or G per cent,. were rep)ortedl as " illiterate." it In the rest of the country the numb~er of men of voting age was 15,24,55, & of whomn I,94I ,247, or 131 per coat. were reported as illit.erate. TLhese 1o figures indicate that, illiteracy among g ad(ult males is loss than half as prova 0 lent inl the large cities as it, is ini tie h rest of the UJnited State. he dif ference, the report, sa, is duo largoly d to the fact that t,he urbain p)opuilati(in I- of the counitry is massed in the North Seorn and Western Stat,es and illiteracy , is less frequent, there than in other parts of the country. V The report says : " As the dlifference between tihe large cities and the rest of the country V in the Northern States is affected l)y the presence In the cities of large numb)ers of illhterate immigrant.s, so in the Southern Stat,es the same dif gference may be affect.ed b)y the pre nseiice of the negro population. a. Among the native whites the dif r foene between the population of LOlarge cit,ies in the Nort.h and ini t.h 0 South in the matter of illiteracy are comparatively slight, but in the small Sor cities and rural districts of tho tSouth a considerable per cent, of the Sadult populat,ion have not acquired thme elements of book education." ar A leading merchant in a .Southern es city, speaking of his cust.omers and of the classes into which lie divides thenm, cc says thlat inl thle best class lie plauces of tile women teachers, and teachers in uo the public schools are the best among uil them. Not that they spend the most, im for most of them are careful in their to expendit,ures; but they know what pt t,hey want and get it without uselesu ed parley, giving the least possible trouble, to The womlan teacher buys what she is he able to pay for and is prompt in paying m- her bills; and bemng straightforwart m- and to the p)oint hlerself, there is n< sw temptation in hecr presence to deceive mn- to overstate, to understaAo, 01 to Sal iad anythinig diferent from the facts. ow ThIe largest tree in the world is sal to have recently been discovered i1 Africa in the region of the Uppe )mi Nianza. Its height is said to be hal ns again that of the tallest trees mn Cal m' fornia, anid its thickness double thi nof the largest giant redwoods. all Seventy-eight profit-sharing scheme of affecting 53,520 work people, were th openrat.ion laat yar in this con. b GANTT FOR o SECRETARY OF STATE. Mr. J. T. Gantt, who is a candidate a for the promotion to the office of See rotary of State, deserves to succeed in this election, and doubtless will be . elected, because of the excellent record he has made (luring a four years' in cumbency as assistant Secretary of State. Mr. Gantt has been at all times faith ful and efficient, always at his post of duty, and over willing and ready to go, if need be, beyond his duty, to serve those having business with this im portant oflice. Ie has systematized and improved the records, opened new records and in dicos, and adopted the most approved lusmess methods in this work. His four years' experience in the office has qualifled him to carry on the work without hitch or hindrance, and to poimt out needed changes and amend ments to the corporation law of the State, the enforcement of much of which devolves upon this office. As a result of his work the receipts of the oflice have increased ten-fold-over forty thousand dollars having been turned into the treasury to reduce the burden of taxation last year. That work in which Mr. Gantt takes most pride, however, and for which he is best known, is the attention ho has attracted to the valuable records of the State, ai the steps to preserve them, for which he is responsible. Realiz ing this fact, the State commission re qjuested him to prepare an exhibit for the Charleston Exposition, and the splendid display in the State building resulted. The exhibit was secured by Mr. Gaantt largely from rubbish in the Stato IIouse. It is upon this record that Mr. Gantt asks the votes of the people and he de serves election.-Dorchester Democrat. WISmLuEm WIIL' Tie WOnKED. .John Tanson, the joiner who did odd jobs in a Scotland village, was em ployed by a schoolmaster to do some repairng. The worthy pedagogue himself was suporintending the opera tions, whilo John gayly whistled whistled " Yankee Doodle," and kept timo to the tuno with the plane. " I say, John," says the school master, " if ye maun whustle, can ye no whuadio t% iiair Godly tune than that?" " Very wool, dominie," rpturned the joiner, and lie slowly moved his plane up and down to the mournful strams of " Old Ilundred." The domini watched him in silence for a few minutes and then in a gentler tone whisperkd: " I say, John, did the guidwife hire ye by the (lay or the job?" John slowly finished the verse he was whistling, then he laid down his plano and replied: By the day, of course." " Gin that's the case then I'm think ing ye had better stort 'Yankee Doodle' again." An effort is being mado in Sweden to use electricity in agiiculture. A seed field is covered by a network of wire, anid a strong eloectric current is turned on during nights and chilly days, but cut of during sunny and wamm Weather. The.Woi 'ms Greatest. Cre'for Dlafaria - X n i ne Johnua*- Chl a.n avy ronik , A ttin t, o naal'gpIoison-. t,lo',,.l ns.iuoi uixa trc an Malaunri puoilning. Thme antkiot* fto III JOHNSON'S TOWIC. tsts 50 Cents If it gut'as.J h. W. -IPAIIIKn, Pickens, S. 0 (Groonvillo, 8. U. II ayneswor'th,PIar'ker' & Rbinson, Al iv3orey8-at-Ldaw, Pickenalt U. H., - - South Carolina I'raetico In all Courts. Attend to a tE,"Monov to loan. IVY M. MAULDIN, Attorney at Law. PickensB. S. O, Practico in all theCourts. Office over Earle's DrugStore DR. J. P. CARLIsLE Greenville, S. C. Office over Add isons Drug Store, ap12-19tf. ANDERSON BABB, 'Contractor and Builder PiFekens, S. V. WM. P. CALHOUN. Attorney at Law, ~113 West Conrt St. GREENVU&EU, 8. U l Practice in all the courts, State and federal.