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VOLE 2.EOPLE'S JOUL _ VOL 12.-NO. 38. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER GROVER 'CLEVELAND ON PRESENT ISSUES. TAlf II FF RW F VOI M II IS TII K4llH' le Makes(C a1 Political Specclt IFor the FirMt. Time Since lie Went Out of 0111cc. C Ex l'residuent Cleveland spoke at a political meeting held in Morristown, u N. J., a few nights before the cam paign closed, and special trains brought i hiln(lreds of people from other towns u and cities. As it was his first political a speech since he left the Whito House six years ago, his (icliveranccs are in toresting if not important. Mr. Cleve land said in part: "I am especially pleased to learn st that talrifT. reform has been made the f principal issue in the canvass you have it in hand. Never within my observa- n tion or experience has there been a t time when this should be more earnest ly, persistently and honestly prebsei s upon the attention of our countrymen f than now: 8t " Of course custom dutios must Con- ai tintue to be the source of govern ment maintcnance until another plan * is (levi4ed; but a tariff, constructed for i the purpose of protection as its chief ut object, is at all times and in every t feature of it, an unjust and unfair at burden upon the masses of our people; cv but the bold and arrogant develop ients of its unfairness and injustice Je in recent years, and the new direc- Pr tions they have taken, ought to especially arrest the attention and ap prehension of every thoughtful, sober- tr mil(ded per1son1." (u Mr. Cleveland reverted to former al 1)emocratic tariff campaigns and quot- < ed, several paragraphs t rom his tariff message of 18$7: u it For the purpose of showing not only the acceptedf position of the Demo- b cratic party on the tarilT (ucstion, but t1 also (as suggesting tha material then ui available in attacking tariff iniquities. I. want, if I can," lie continuei, " to lead you to a contemplation of the ini- m qiities that have since accumulated to co the numerous additions to a vicious an1(1d d.angerous progeny born of tariff ti Iiceie an(1 iepravity, to the increased 11 nmat.(er,. I of successful attack, and to the present dut,y of all who love our a people more than self, to striko a blow Ps wienever and wherevor it is possible, c for our country's honor and emancipa ton. " For this purpose I hope you will as permit me to add one further quotation re from the same passage as follows: in speaking of the increased cost, m . to the conls1mer of our home manu factures resulting from a duty la1:d ' upon imported articles of the same i - deocription, the fact is not overlooked th tht competition among our domestic Cc prod{ucdrs sometimes has the effect of a keeping the price of their products be- as low the highest limit allowed by such pr dty. But it is notorious that this " competition is too often strangled by ou comibination)s quite prevalent at this i time and frequently called trusts, { ,Which have for their object the reg- e ulation of the supply and price of PC commodities made and sold by mmci "ers of the combination. The people re can hardly hope for any consideration si ;, in the opposition of their selfish th schemes. "Less than a year after this an nouncement of D)emocratic doctrine, it W was made a target for all sorts of at- as tacks in a Presidential election. The i .timidl wete assured that absolute free P' trade would follow Democratic success, t,hat the importers paidl the custom a taxes, andl above all, that if any re- 01 vision or change was expedienlt, it n should be entrustedl to the friends of theo tariff. Tihe people were persuaded U -to.coiitinue these friends in piolitical I -cuhtrol andl hiey forthwith constructed a new scheme of high protect,ion. Trhe P bill then passed was so full of abouni Snations and1 so plainly shlowedl the hieedlessness of its authors and benell ciaries and( their disregard of t,he in -terests of the people, that tbe voters ofd tihe land, though accustoined to yield- di ing to tariff delusion were promplt inh their revenge and condemnation. "It might naturally be supposed thiqt i so violent a blow as was then givena would ad(momiah, if it, did not reform, these piromuoters ( fiselfish tariff benefits. t This, however, was by uno moans in menit with their machinations. Te sulleniy surrendered control of govern mental policies and laid in wait for * their opportunity. The lamentable -conditions which quickly gave this op portunity are familiar to you all. I am not, hero to speak of D)emqcratie a ni..b.uisfortunes or miscarriage, but to call I attention to thl- unyielding tenacity of t high tariff, rapacity and arrogance and a -to thie mianner In which they grow and(l develop whenever t,hey have an opi portumity.t " Sooner than they had t,he least i reason to expect the friends of the tariff .or in other words, those who sought to I *grow rich Wvith government help at the expense of the people with their aiders I and ahett.ors, had turned over to themrn the work of again adljusting tariff rates. [low did-tliey approadh the task? Was' *it With a patriotic intention to benefit 1 * the masses of our pole and make I t.heir burdens lighter. This they wouldI hardly declare 'witbout a sly wink. .' -Was it even with the fear of the people 1 before their eyes? Surely nothing in dlicates it. Trhieir work was undertaken ,they -would have enteredi upon a jGilege-to .make the most of it. I hlvo..hearl it said upoin excel ont aul thofity t,haat eixpetant bom:ficiaries un -(dei' the existing -tariff laws-matte by >.~ ~a~4~wm0.. actually. allowed to ~ c~tiJ'ot&he ecliedulg by which-t bey ~xpected to profit Tis was quilte in keeping with the color and complexion >f the entire scheme. Evidence tbounds in and about it, and indicat ug that the welfare and interests of ho common people of our land were iot allowed to disturb in any un-, >lcasant degree the serenity of those having theiwork in hand. I believe his last exploit of the so-called friends >f the tariff in its revision, should mply satisfy any thoughtful citizen ibiased by interest, that the spirit of high protective tariff grows by in ulgence and mocks what it feeds pon, and that its progressive greed nd ruthlessness is becoming more and iore a menace to the w"lfare and appiness of our people. Iow long htas it been thought de mnt or even safe to cheat the con imers of coal by putting it on the a ce list, but dishoncsly providing for s custom taxation in another cun- ( ugly constructed provision of the law? I ow recently have the 'friends of the } rilf' had the boldness to perpetrate ich a trick and take the chances of f cing the people, when in the painful j ress of a threatened coal famine, it iould be exposed? r " I have called your attention to the et that in 1887 competition, which, e unrestricted, might modify the effect e )on our consumers of a high protec- ( re tariff, was spoken of as 'too often ranggled by combinations, quite pro- I lent at this time, and frequently v lied trusts, which have for their ob- t, et the regulation of the supply and p ices of commodities made and sold s members of the combination.' t hen this was written, I suppose the 1 ists and combinations mentioned as f, ite prevalent so far as they were at important, might have been count off by the fingers of the two hands. 3 hon the friends of the tariff last took a the work of its re-construction these a .sts and combinations had increased n the hundreds, The consequence of ai cir operations could not fail to be N derstood. It was as plain then as t w that a high protective tariff do ids them against forcing competition, e d that by agreed association and e nfederacy in production and price, ey defend themselves against compe ion at home. It was perfectly ap rent that under the broad wings of g ghI protection and fattened by un- c rned accumulation, they could col Etcently close their ears to the trouble- L me cry for easier living from the a cry day consumer. i: " The present tariff conditions have I sumed a complexion which not only f qires a check in its aggressiveness, a t actual amendment is at last ad- 1; itted among those responsible for 1 eso condit,ions. Such a (onssion i us made when a d1ozen1 or more re- t )rocity treaties were submitted to c e Senate, but theisinceri y of the con- d ssion and the honct. intention to c rrender the least advantage as long a it can be held, is emphatically (1i8- a oved by the fact that session after ssion of the Senate has passed with t taking the least action oa these aaties. .t "I need hardly refer to the preva- I ice just at this time among tihe sup- t rters of high protection of declara- i 111s and professions in favor of tariff r -adjustment. We hear it, on every t Ic. Whit does it mean ? It means c at they see the handwriting on the c ill as they have never seen it before. l aos it mean that they are sincerely 1 lling to (10 something for the people,f against 0old comrades who have here- 1 fore paidl well for the neglect, of the I Lop)le ? "How can we believe t,his when we f e still parad(edl up anId dIown before ir sight, the hloary-hleadecd, bloated ad malodorous old fraud and pretence at t,he tariff should be revised by it,s i ienids ? What hove these friends of I io tariff (don1 thlat they should again a trusted ? They hlave quieted t,he 10ople's fears and professed solicitudle r their welf are and p)romised t.o lead a aem to pleasant places, and now t,hat I oals and rocks have been struck, i tey seek by another promise t,o mend le Whlole affair andl retain the con II mnce andl trust of those they have do (ded. "I have supposed that my fellow tizens are t,houghtful on this subject d thlat their thoughltfulness has ledI aenm to desire an amIendmilent of ouri rift laws anid a rectification of the rong and injustice that follow in mcir train. I have attempljted to give rasons why this work should not be ritrusted to those who have so fully emonstrat,ed their insincerity and un Lness for the task." Samuel Wagner, aged 79 years, was 3at,cd at the dinner table, at his home r Easton, Pa., when a fly dIropped in > his coffee. HIe asked his wife for nether cup and Bile went to the itchen to get it. On her return she 3und her husband leaning forward on he table (lead. The sight of a fly in is coffee or any foreign substance in Is food hand always made him sick, nd his (death was duo to heart failure. Investigation of the sensational life nsurance frauds discovered in Loul lana is being pushed. So far six eases 1re saidl t,o have been unearthed. L'wenty-two fraudulent policies have teen tracked (down. The companies >a.ying the risks have lost between (75,000 and1 $100,000. The full exteont >f the business is not yet known. One Rtate agency has been closed and the agent has departed for scenes un mown. President 0. Stanley Hall, of Clark [Jniversity, has been studying the al tiost total absence of insanity among segroes. lie belIeves it is because, being -newer to civilization, the race has nrot run through so many (different arnd crucial experiences as the whitel ANNUAL, Ill'OR'T ON d STATE P1ENSIONS. ( The Coinptroller for tile State Roard<lMakeu Somte SutggeN- at tiontsi to the General Aessmbly. t The first of the annual reports of d State ollilcials for this year is about to i be issued by the public printer. It is si that of Comptroller General D)erham as p ihairmani of the State pension board. Ii In the letter of transmittal to the Gen- O iral Asembly he says: I submit herewith the annual pen- ft nion report of this oflice for the year st [1902: ci AIt'LF"CiAI. LMi( FUND. Under the acts passed at the last aI ession of your honorable body, the fr luty was devolved on the Compiroller p leneral of expending $2,000 artificial $1 imb fund for the benefit of those who Il Lad heretofore participat,ed in similar (Ii pyropriations. The amount expended b( or 87 approved applicants was ' i,- at 9.20. For your information I print list of the applicants with their state- P( aents, which gives reasons why they in, articipated in this appropriation. An 01 xamination of the Act and the appli- 1>I ations will at once reveal to you the at" ifliculties under which an oflicial labors al li (ealing with a matter of this kind. wI construed the Act to mean that ra (here a Confederate soldier had here- Ca ofore participat,ed in such an appro riation, he was entitled to his pro rata hare of the $2,000 appropriated from ie pension fund, and where they ade alidavits that they had hereto- '1 )re participated I approved their ap lications. I have attached under the head of [o. 8, a list of those applying for the rtificial limb w!:o were disapproved, th ad the rensons why. Under the head CI f No. 9, 1 give a list of applicants for N rtilleial limb fund, whose applications n rer received after the money was dis- fr ributed. An examination of these pa- of era leads me to believe that they are la ntitled to a sum equal to that paid to fo ther approved applicants-$?"i.98 r,, PENSIONs. l" ati This department has experienced tii reat difliculty in securing a proper ar lassification of applicants. If this 1 iatter is given careful consideration il y the various pension commissioners it n1d county pension boards, 1 believe a .' roper classification can be secured. ci n order to do this, it will be necessary si or each applicant to uke the blank of uit.ed to his or her case. We have pi 'eeu confused very much by county 1-8 oards sending in applications ap- ti roved, while at the same time tihe par- hi ies applying were *oi the pension roll tl f the preceding y.ar. Wherea slight p, ifference in the name of the post- ( >1ce existed, the State board was often la .t a loss what disposition to make of rc uch application. PENSION RE'ORT. I realize that the reports of to-day d .re the recorded history of the future. laving that in mind, I have not spared a ime or pains in furnishing the fulleal. al nformation possible. First, in this tc eport, after the introductory, comes S ho rules issued for the guidance of u ounty pension coinmissioners and ounty boards. Next the copy of the gl ension laws now of force; next a ta ale showing tihe total expendhiture of unds, numb)er of pensioners, and num aer of appiroved app1licanits for art,iflcia P imb fund, etc., etc., and( statement 01k xpenditure of stationery andl stamp P' undl, etc. I give a t,able showing th n mimber of pensioners in the count,y in 9)01; number who have since died, " vho have removed from the State, 0] hose transferred to other counties, who save been diropped by the county board, md those transferred to other classes. i. st,atemuent of tile neCw applicants, ir hose transferred from ot,her counties ) mud those transf erred from other class s, the balance showing t,he number and f liasses of tihe pensioners in t,hat coun y for 1902. To this is att,ached a list 4' >f the names of those who have died, 4 ~emoved from thle State, moved to n t.her counties, diroppedl by counlty r Joardl, or transferred to ot,her classes. With tis stat,ement before the pen- 1 110on comlmissionlers and counity hoards,' thiey will be able to do t,heir work in ab more satisfactory manner than poss- i bly ever before. PENSION FUJND) IN HIANDS OF CLIEItKSa At this OF COUstTr. g Athstime there are remaining in a thle hainds of some of the clerks of 01 court in the State balances of pension a funds. This arises from the fact that, I after the applications are passedl on by b the county boards and sent to the State h board, and even after the lists are i made up and the money sent to the n clerks of court, approved applicants za for pensions die. Where the (deceased I pensioner leaves a widow who is over a ri0 years of age, the State board an- s thorizes -the payment of the same to a the widow, but where the approved a pensioner is a widow, there is no one f, to whom this board can authorize the ~ clerk of court to pay the same. In some instances.it is claimed by,the children; in other instanCes b)y the par ties who wish.the same to pay burial d expmnses, for medicine and( other sup- .A plies. The board has acted under in- a structions from tile Attorney General's I' office, and have declined to instruct 0 the' clerks of court to pay thls money out other than as above stated. I believe that South Carolina has a pension law that will compare favor-i ably with that of any other State. The law is practically new andl untred, and tinte and experience is the onuly test, biy which it cani 1be properly judged. If, in your wisdhom and judgmnt, you (decide that, changes andl amendments are aein!fv twnear,y. I ak tht you o not entail on the Confederate sol lors and widows the burden of making ew applications, where they are now n the pension roll. We have to-day n the roll names of a good many who pplied in 1888, 1898 and 1900, and in it last instance they found it y illicult to make the necessary proof; 1 fact, parties heretofore on the pun on roll who at that time could make roof, are to-day unable to secure wit esses as required by the law and rules the State board. I wish to call your attention to the et that the appropriation of $120 for atlonery and stamps is totally insulli ent. An examination of any of the ports for the last eight or ten years ill show that this expenditure has nounted to from three to live hun ed dollars. Of courso under that 'ovisiont of the law which allows the ate board to draw oin the pension mnd for any necessary expenses in sbursing the same, a situation has en relieved which otherwise would )p this work entirely. Since the last meeting of the State nsion board we have sustained a lose the death of Capt. (. 11. MAleMaster, e of our members, who was both mnstaking and capable in his work, d whlelo he gave careful scrutiny to matters that caine before him, he i8 liberal in dealing with his con ties or their widows of the Lost Ruse. OW TO ATIlACT Sl'"Tl'I4EIS lie Agents of Railroads Need Co-Operation Fromt the Peo ple. The o outhcrn fi'arm .Aiuya.inc says at Governor McSweeney, of South trolint, is in correspondence with a ew York lirm relative to the settle ent in South Carolina of iarmers >m Finland. Two representatives the farmers visited South Carolina it summer, and they now seek in rmiation about the cultivation of gar-cane, cotton, tobacco, sweet itatoes, Irish potatoes, the cereals id difrent kinds of grasses, about uber an1d other matteis bearing upon rl uiit ure in the State. Clemson Col ge has published many bulletins bear g upon the information desired, and ie hop-e(d that the movement from nland may take form. But this in lent illustrates the value of posses n on the part of the Southern States machinery for quickly assembling and escuting in attractive formn just such ets as those (lesired by the prospec te Finnish settlers. South Caroliina 1s not such fan1 eq1tui11ment, th1ough e necessity for it is recognized there. )r instance, the Charleston E'cws at Couricr, referring to the article in at month's Southcru 1,rmw -11 Mwja:uic viewing broadly the work for immi ation to the South and its results, id: " What has been (lone, or is being me, and by whom, to turn ithis way part of the tide of new population id resulting 'prosperity' that appears be flowing into other States in the me section in such volumne? We ar's lable to answer the question, amo we ar that the answer would not be a atifying one if anyone could give it. llere is no report fiom any source o' nmigrat,ion' from the Noithi or ort,h west or anywhere else int,o any irt of t.he Stat,e, and we have 1no owledge of anly 'in fluence' b)eing em oyedl in thle effort, to indluce such a ovemnent, unless the land agents of 0 railroads which traverse the St,ate e so engaged. Certainly no oflier agent or agenlcy representinig the ~ate is dlevotedl t.o hie work. There none1 that is p)repared to give eveti iO most simlo informat,ion res.itdIin' dlust,rial and investment conciiti.flm any part of its territory when si ugh r st,rangers. An occasional dispatchi om Columbia reports that, a prosp(c r or hioimseeker ill some other part, the count,ry has written to the gov nor asking for facts conceriling such atters, and when such an inq(uiry is ceivedl by him it is always published r the att.ention of the public general.. .There is nobody in particular t,o homn to refer it. it, is 'cycryb)ody's isiness,' with results which are mani 1st." Thle NVews amfl C.ourier is correct in s belief that the agent,s of railroads ic act,ive in effort.s t.o bring immi rant,s into tho State, but those efforts 'ould be so much mnoro successful if icy were suistainied by local energies [ad b)y co-operat,ion of the Stat.e. Thlese 'inns are of a class which wouldl enefit, the Stat,e in making their omes there, andl once that were done would unidouibt,cdly indullce a larger ligration of an equnally desirable cle.. ient fromn ot.her Europcan nat,ions. ,et South Carolina, through its ollicials nd through its ind~ivi ual citizens, brengthen tile hiands off the railroad' gents in immigration work. Wi thmn few years there will lie no occasion' >r the. et-iticism which the News amdII 1ourier has8 justly made. it, is *ogtin'ated that,tho annual pro utdion di broom corn in 7,1fe Un Itod talps is 35,f,i1 tons. One'ton makes botst 100" ddzdn bro'oins, 40 that ti,h ossiblo yearly; outputys about 42,000,. 00 brooms. CASTOR IA Ypr Infants and Children. rhe Kind You Have Atways Bought Sigature of ARI FLOOD)S A iiI4I1SSINGs:? the Experiecee of nt Farliter in South lankota Withl an Arte Sian Well. At r. L. C. Burnett, a truck farmer of Nebraska, who has been studying the cflects of soil washing upon the land from which the soil is wushed est,imaten t that into the (uif of Mexico is poured every year from the lands of the 2 Mississippi valley rich soil enough to cover one foot (feel) 105,120 acres, and r he believes that the heavy rains in I Kansas and Nebraska this year des- t troyed more wealth in those States e than that represented by the millions a of Rockefeller. Ile suggests not o'1ly s tree planting to promoto a balancing v of moisture condition and for a preven- 1 tion of floods and washouts, but the n building of dams and temporary ponds (, and lakes to hold back the waters until ti they drop their fertile sediment. lie g has put his suggestions into effect on e his own farm, and says that he has al- e ready gotten from his neighbor's farina ti one foot of rich soil one rod wide and p six miles long, and he believes that if a every farmer in his county would hold cl back the water as he does, the count,y li would soon have 10,368 acres of the il linest neadow soil in the world. This experience of Mr. Burnett is tt worthy of imitation in some parts of ,he South. It iocalls the experience t( f a faimer of South Dakota. IIe s< lived live or six miles from the county- it loat, whei e a search was being made iH for artesian water. The wells in that ti part of the country are quite keep, and w trtesian water is struck in a sandstone b formation which comes to the surface hi where the Missouri river washes the 11 western boundary of the State. The w well in this particular county-seat had til reached a depth of 1,100 or 1,200 feet 11 without satisfactory results, when the ha :ncoming of winter compelled the ces- si iation of operations. The boring II inachi ery and tools, etc., were cover- H ed at the well's mouth with boards, I [nd shortly afterward were lost under if three or four feet of snow. One night t, the inhabitants of the county-seat a were alarmed by horrible rumblings and qluakings, and rushing from their b homes discover,d] that the well of itself p had br(.ken loose and was sending S forth a magniflcent stream of hot water. ac Befot o the flow could be captured mil- c lions or gallons of water had found ( their way down hill to the property of w the farmer six miles away, and had LI turned it inti' a lake. Hot foot, the V next morning he came to town and in- atl rltltuted suit for damages against the kt county-scat. As most of such suits, 'v thi' one moved1 slowly. Befot e it. had p (omet to trial t,he lake disappoar'd ai ti the farmer had determined to make an i' experiment in planting corn. That a season was an unusuahty hot and dry one. For miles and miles the corn i1 crot was a failure, but against the * short and puny growths or shriveled k stalks and blades of his neighbors' (r crops stood forth in miagnificent green p a luxuriant growth of the suing farmer's s crop. About the time for cutiing he at called upon .is attorney to urge him 1' to press the suit. " Aly friend," said + the lawyer in reply, " let me suggest tJ that you drop this suit, for I happen to ii know that the county is pm epmring to e sue you for thec dif erenco bet WeCei what,your crop will br'ing and what i: would niot have brouight. had your fa : not been iniatvertently tloodn i 1 .' winter by the town's artesimi ie I.'' -The irst, II~ M ' IX..itmen w ll ., N O labor in a 'otton Octory w . .cu. C hiarlesIton, S. C. 'J 1Im . n: oeul wasi ute.sat.ir factohry u id f: - iact~org)~soon. elosd dwn. llywavr, this Lest was not, anlie u:.dor favorable circumn s noces. Tac factoisy was situat,cd too h hwar thu wat,r It is a not,orious fact,V that negro labor is unri ehbe ailoni ~ water courses. Next to a watermlon-, a fish is the (dearest, thing to a negro's 1 hleart and( plalate, and whore the supply J of fish is abundant, the matter of living " is so ch)eap anal easy that tile ne(gro is indlifferent to regular, emlploymuen,. Besides, ini Charleston there are too P C mniy street, paradles, camp-mIeetingst, excursions, festivals arnd cheap tlieatri- I cals. 1t is (diflicult to keel) t.he negroI st,eadlily at alny sort cf work where such events so largely 1111 up life. A ' more dlecisive test of tihe fItness of'ne gro lab)or for cotton mills is now being made at, the Coleman coLton mill of North Carolina. Th'le mill is owhed anda operatedl by. regroes. Th6Ii siLte-'S in the .Piedmiionte section of the 8tate one mile from t,he cit,y of Conpord. Trho capitaliziation oft the mill is $,100,. '000, of -which s00,000 has5, been paid in. The subscribers to the stoel5 a're scattered throughout the St,ate ,..ahd nunwber ab)out 35i0. ',Dhe subscriptions vary from $825 to $1 ,000; and are pay: able1 in'. insazkuentg-Gunton's -Maga. ziie.. . -. -0 ,Walnut' sttumps L6av aesumed an' where an' - Ida firm hasieoqin , bpying all that It canj lay hands Ulion.LThe et,unip,of a tree, fei[edeieveral yearh aigo. 'cobs'e(fene,ly rongit inore than its trulik and. branches fognrl,li4Ti ugIier--and knatt.tr the QtumpUth e:bh ter t,he, prite. - it'is said th'pttl4c aluin'a e used in makind veoncerlag.imatertal used jat tke' zjpamifacture of high-grade fut'ritte J. 'P. -Morgan &, .Ao.,' dlurig gtrx present year are estimat,er to have 're ceived $42,100,000 in1 profltN f~' 2 gineeting. great. coim liations ''ho' greatest proflt 'w'as It riprot.,ohg thg' United States Steel--(Gorpoi-at op, hid this is p)ut at $20,340,000. g,Sv~ combinations are yet to be heirt i : ii1414 AR' IlAS A 0001) I'lTAl rite Negro Northt aned 'oitt A Grtcef'u1 Contipitinnt it Paid Hlin. M tanta Consatitnltionl. M1iy Northern friend who asked cm o hold up on the negro and let him g< ea-I has sont mec a clipping from f ewport paper and says: Here is oud text for your next letter. II cals as follows: " Newport, Octobe: 4.-At, a meeting of the school comi. iittee today, (leorgo Illlis and wife bjeetcd to having their son taught by colored teacher antd said that if their an was not admitted to another school 'here the techer was white they 'oubl keep hai at homle. 'Ihe coml tittee rfulsed to change lun tnd rditod the boy to i arretaLi as a 'una. Tihe fathier filed a plea of noI t iiilty atal the case will go to the high r court and be tested." ''hey have >l pulrory education there. I t seems it this teacher is the daughter of a reacher, who is the A merican consul , St. TI'>mas. lie is it loyal liepubli. in atid there is polities in it, and the Iv whitcs are inl the minority. She lay be one of the 100 that Watter mn is Lroublel about, and so I will irn over the text, to him. ''ho same mail that brought tme the xt, brought a letter from my grand mn, who is in the employ of the West gheuse Company, of I'ittsburg, anld an electric engineer andl is now put ug downt a plant at Utica, N. Y. lIe rites that his contractor had A mni >r if white mlen employed, but as bor was scarce ie picked up an idle 3gro aind told him togo to work. The hite m1en rebelled violently against, ts and threatenledl to ciuit, and so the gro had to be sent off. When I was ,t in Mississippi the barber wllo itvet me10 said he catmle down frotn linois on accotunt of his healti and as antlidel to fimd white folks down 're patronize legro h1'arbers, itntl that. one dlaret to open a shop in1 any wiw in Illinois he would he Imi-bbe,l id1 runl out of t,he place. Like 1,nlituO's ghost, this race pro lem will not lownu. It has as m;my)\" b1ases as there ate titmes alI plat is. tortly after the warl the Yankt:e hool marims hurried down here to ucatu the negro, but they soon tired it and went, back. Now ia ncgro 011nant has gone up there to teach eir white children. That is all ightt.. /e don't caro. As (aobe says: It's I optio)naly with me1.'' Now I will , the negro go dead for awhile. It. ill take iany years yet to si tIt-e the rohlemll, but, it will be A:tleid. h'le ol 1'aCes wt)rk togetiher very hritrn.n. lils ) :ti (*'I " I~ 1 it i l .e (ti l",ll '. aM.1 wYt: Pt 1'.t.0111 I,ad ir, Oiwr - I, i:loln, I wish I nItt e , tu C% unnuint iy htaul as mniy blossin)-! as Wi-. - j 1y No niike, nliunters nor mihel"sge1' ol f t oany uild--tno street. light,, no cussitg, no clones nor floods nor famine---no iistlenc;e, no fires. We havo gootd :hools, good churches, good preachers Id good humble congt ogations. very church has a nico coinfort )le h<one for tile prircher" atm1l e, is itu more for the preHid ig elder. We have a good sociable inltunit y ' i', -Iuckupl families. I.t 'vi .-to, .I .' I. lks put on any r., o .-l iw n. . i s. I visitedi them~ I am .tt.m i g strontg atirain andlu wlYtk i o, town liast, week for the fiIrst Ltime a th11 0e m1 >ttthts--wheno I came htoume 1~iyit 'if htok her list att me alnt sid: I believe yout witlI ontlive me *ye ." 'roin th e tne of tier votce I . thought taybo shte was madt( aibot,t it. We itve ' eatrly compldo ud t,he liniest courit. OUSe ini the State. 1I. is ini fitli iew frotm the winidow wherte I write, nd( I never get tiredl of luolpnog at, the eautifl domie that, shinis like silver i the suni. "' A thling of beautty is ta *)y forever."' (Our gairdein isJ now ilornetd with b)eauttful roses anid I. t Ilem every muorning aind my wife al. >ws tne to. send them to the pretty lri-no, I meanti to thle anucitent mioth-~ re in our neighborhood. . My 'wife is cculiar about, that. At nilght I have to hipej a' prett) issie with her arithmetic and algebri nid Latin. I get .stalled 'sonicitahe~s ut we generally get through all right, Vo have a telephone and'( my daugit er, Whot).lives ia mile itway, .has Onte elephtones here and1( outr lassie tcl ier 'over the 'phtic how Sto .dtq it iiometimes it takes many liguros, miii iplyinlg and( dividing, etc., andt if ther h a mistake. miade of only onle figur tear .the beginning it, runs -through t he end and gets bigger and bigger- a I; gos And so mty lassie is (diHtI: )iointed -bicaulse ihie did 11bL')et, tib msawer. Then I go -over all the.ilgurc faraf4il1y aind' find tl)e eirror, andi sh lits't toJ do over inatin. - - .!ust se,it, is with our'hahiM htittl cot ug.. If a little boy tel-fHis or t rios, the habai(ill grpov .pu himn ft; by the .tmnalt h ii.gr'own lie Wili t,e io.s. I,f a' boy it'p's kn ius with ,a fther boy and ceaets hitry he .gvi, g into a habit of 'chenting-ip p t,radeu at nob.osly. ,'vill trusRt hin.' Whe'i Tlo lion4inw'J n.the flt%t time a gan< date fdr.dflied,*Wds held,o fJit th wheubhe was a s~dhool boy Ie' tlb' knitefom,siiiboy niaTog it up and take aWhippinsg.: -r&n<1 so. said thitit Iqniftgeory was just' a~ go cal 1l8egbuto U.v k nown -polttor Who wbuld at L,ives and lie, too. tifo otersdayed4iat was as ple)asant it jii uneite40 Th -fat6n d yds~ aftd7 she :Gajhbun--.wy h0f t itni 4th. funeral bi. 00 . Harris. After that sad mission was over they joined with our local bar and - our Judge and visited me in a body in my sick room and did me special l3onor. For a while wc exchanged wit"and wis (dol anl pleasant aneCdotos. I shall not forgot their kind and grateful visit as long as I live-such things. are worth being sick for. And we had a baby show yesterday at my daughter's home. She has a line little boy a yeal old who is begin ning to walk and talk. So she gave a dining to two young mothers, who each had a little girl a year old and they, too were learning to walk. It beat the Atlanta horse show to see the three little tots tottering across the roorn as merry as larks as they tried to show of', sometimes 'colliding and falling down-thuen up again and on another round. It was a pretty'fl.iNn('their mothers were proud and happy. A young mother is the proudest creature on earth. She is always calm and se on1e."' BILL Ant'. FARM ING BY E1ECTRICITY. Modern Mctho(ta to He Applied to Texus Rice Fields. Twenty-flive thousand acres of rice land .irrigated by wells operated by electricity from a centra'l power-house; free power and free seed - for tenants, tenants piaying one-half the crop to the land-owuurs, and sending the tenants' share of the crop to the central mill to be milled at current rates; light to be furnished at nominal cost by the een tral power-house; no farm of less than 20) acres, and no tenants who have not proved themselves capable farmers; tenants to have the privilege of plac lig their half of their crops in the hands of the- mill a marketing agent. The project is"that of U. W. IIahl, of Ilouston, Texas, and is outlined as folloWs in the New Orleans Times I )omocrat: ''.ianl irrigation is (ependent Uponl surface watei- supply, which is sul)ject to drouth. In such times, if the water in the canal be low, or the supply from the canal is fed or limited, the farmors furtliei' from the pumping plant (1o not are as well as those nearer the plant. "' 'lhroughoul, the 25,000-acre tract owned by the 'corpor_ttion, test wells at frequo it intervals of distance have proved the existence of, a water supply whiich gives iidications of being cer tai anld nexhaustible. The supply is relatively near the surface, and rises inl the wells to within about ten feet of tib surface under. norm'd condi tions, and it ig presumed that even in severe droudi the suINurface pressure will mioltain the water in the wells at a depth uit a few feet' rutt~ i than "lThe tenants must supply their own farming implements, stock, etc. The corporation will furnish the power for the puliips, the connections may be made to operat,e the pump or pumps on each farm by either the tenant or by the powerhouse on application of the tenant. " It is probhle that the power-house will also supply electric light for all telatt who want such lights, the ten a-ts paying a nominal price. Light can be furiinishe( at sna11 udditional cost to the power-house, and the cor oratl.ion will rely for its protits on its im per cent. of eachd t,inant's product ai.nl tle prolit at current rat,es of mill ing all thie tenants' share of the aggre gate crop. "lThie projoet is co-operative, but, niot honeientet and iio land will be let e atiy tenanut who is not financially 411(1 otherwise capable of operating a 3O0-aicro farm Tue present plan is to let, farmus (of from 200 to 300 acres. " The p)ower-house will supply pow-. er for the mill as .well as the pumpls. "'Professor Knapp recent,ly pointedl out, that, tihe ob)stacle in the waiy of ex tenision of'...t4c-.,rice-growitng industry was tile (diflculty of guaranteeing an ad(equhate irrigation 'Supply f rom the stirface streams,' said Mr. Hahl. 'We have solved this problem. Subsnrface water rising to within ~a few feet of the surface, electric power to lift it to ititutes were held and were attended . by over half a piillion farmers. The institutes were" held sin forty-three State6 and T.vrritories. D)uring tile 1,.st, three-years.the progress has been if aiqythirhg greater than at alny profi ouis tine-th'oiigh tieexact figures are tiot y6, Collated.' It ia safe to say that now in this, coun try over $200,000 is b)eing spent ahnual'ly for farmers' in s,Tftue.s. " very bourbon- whiskey distillery im Kentycky," says a Louisville die patch to' the 'Chicago Chronicle, "nulmbering over 100, is closedi down, lhie-distllersi saying the price of corn - is so. hlighi . that they cannot afford to o o#erate the plants. They will wait, Suntil'th&riew corn is put on the mar e kct. This condhitAon~ has caused an in -creased gempnd for 'bourbon whiskey, .app, pruices are ad'ancing every (lay. SWttl th.lrat..month the price of all tthe standlard.brama'has gone up nearly' I ei cosjt~ DiredtMj :Go - . .Roberts, of the dI UmteS48o ilj, has made a final at est,a o.0 the proiluction of gold and .allverT thiN'%iit'ed States in the year at 1%Y-, thib*3uout being $111,705,100. E' The:vgiigg of. gold ,produced was $78 .. e 660,9.0,. ai of' 'silver $33,128,40&. e Thl ffioi1i torbbn enormous sum to a afi5troI*gega.rth In twenty Stat'es ?al,Irrik.p,ee, blit the farmers of a is .,in 21,tattake'l*I owa produce from tbebf firblee~hat amount In value every year. asix Enigements have been made for dW ~c ugghe hosadBoer families 4 , p..itso1rit bbut sixty miles from ut, 'cIt"l s a- ---