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EMPSON MILUS. ?Htcr Hipp Lo YOL. ?. LAI KENS C. LIM S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1886. big job of Clothing _Baltimore Fir?. THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. SOMI'! BUUGKSTIONS ON A VKUY IM POKTAN r M it.? ic T. A ltevlew ?>r (iu> Arguments Used Against Our 1*1*080111 system ot I* ubi Iv Cd noni Inn. To thc Editor of tho Nowa and Gouri or: Tho question how wo cnn best odu cite young men in order to lit thom for lifo, and for it? two-fold (struggle, partly against the ml verso forcea of nature, partly against the ever increasing intel lectual and industrial coxnpotiti? o of other trained communities, should mos! deeply engage every thoughtful and patriotic citizen of tho State. As tin's duty to tho rit.ing generation is ono of the gruvcat that can possibly arise itt tho whole category of individual, social and oivio responsibilities, il. should ho ap proached soriously, gravely, oarnostly, reverently, with an entire freedom From prejudice and passion, and ?tu eye singlo to tho ascertainment of truth, Unfortu nately the question of education han not heretofore been considered in this earn est, patriotic spirit. The present controversy (it eau scarce ly he called a discussion) over the best methods of education of youth in tho stu .lien "pertaining to agriculture aud tho mechanic arts" lads fair to go tho way of nil others of its kind, and to ho decided not on its merits, hut in accord? ance with the way in which it alfeots conflicting individual or local intoiests, Now if tliin discussion were unimport ant, so that no great harm would n snit from a decision in any direction, tho public could ail'ord to leave a few dis putants to fight it out. But inasmuch os South Carolina hos always been, and most probably always will bo, au agri cultural State in spite of booms and tariffs and other alleged *'diversifying" influences, so that her ehiof wealth will bc derived directly from the ?oil by tho toil and sweat of a largo pro por Iii n ol her people, it is munnin st ncc? ssity that this problem of tho improvement of hor extracted industries be solved with cor rectness and solved with dispatch. Ju tho tierce competition of tin day the State has no time to loso, ll lt ll blunder nany bo worso than i crime. A fabo step may'cotjl h? r thousand of dollars directly omi millions in its eon Borjuenoos. Sho is, therefore, comp Hod to avoid apathy oil ono hand and too great haste on the other. She nut ' nol promptly, but she must act wisely. She must be nure she is right and tuen go ahead. I sincen ly hoja; that, tho dis cussion ol this question will become general. Fall aud free debat?' ii the safeguard of a republic The sovereign people may be trusted win n they ut dor stand, bul a people misled is a danger ous tyrant, i give crodil for sim rity and honesty of purpose to all who !? ivt thus for hud anythiug lo say upon thc subject. I toko it for granted that tuoj have no desire to prop1:;rab; ern r or to win their eau SO in any other way than by sound reason based on undisputed foots. Nevertheless tho publie demain s in ih own interest that those who assume to teach must lirst thoroughly aoq uni themselves with their subject; or t al ti they fail in this, then mistakes um ! be pointed out by somo one oise, in the interest of t ruth, 'iud ot' ii serious, em did, dispassionate discussion of this im portant measure, I desire to com ct -ona of the errors ol' fact, express or implied, that hove orepl into tho discussion. lt hos recent ly been slated by several persona and newspapers that nu leas the Stale establishes a special agricultural college she cannot scouro the bom : ol tho Congressional "Hatoll Act," which appropriates $15,000 a year for agricul tural ami scion ti ?o exp?rimentation. Whether this is true or not cnn be soon by reference to tho following sections ol the Hatch Aid as passed: "Section 1. I!'1 it enacted, ?Ve., That in order to aid in acquiring ond diffusing rniong tho peopli ol tho United Staten useful and practical information on MI!? joots connected with agriculture, there shall bo established under dirt otu u of thc college or colleges or agricultural departments of colleges In each Stale or Torrito-iy established, or which nun hereafter bo established in accordance with tho provisions of an Act approved duly '2, 1802, a department to bo known and designated tia on agricultural experi ment station: Provided that in any Statt or Territory in which two .'such col logon have been or may bo BO Ofltoblishod, thc appropriation hereinafter made lo such Sbite or Territory shall po equally divid ed between such colleges, unless the i*ogislaturo of such State or Territory shall otherwise direct." "Section H. That in States having colleges entitled under this section to liic benefits of this Act and having also agricultural experiment station? istab liahod by low separate from ?aid col logo?, such States shall bo authorized to apply Hiieh bendita to experiments al stations t.o established by such Stales; and in caao any State shall have estab lished under the provisions of said Act of July 2, aforesaid, an agricultural do pin tm,-nt or experimental Htation in eon nection with any university, collogo ot Institution not distinctly un agricultura college or school, and such State shah havo established or ?hall hereafter estab lish a Beparate agricultural collogo oi school, which shall have connected thei ew it ii ntl experimental farm or sta lion, the Legislature of such Stab; ma) .vpply in whole or in part tho appropria ?ton by this Act modo to such separat, agricultural college or sohool, and no Legislature ?hull by cont rivet, express or implied, disable il ell from so doing." Section 1 directs tho appropriation lo bo maxie to "any collogo or college? oi agricultural deportments of college?,' and Section H odds that in caeo thor, shall bo a separata 'agricultural expori mental station tho Legislature ia author izedl (not required) lo apply tho fund t Vt, And in CAM; a separate agrionltturt Vlfj liege shall bo thereafter ostabllahoi mo L?gislature may appropriate tl. whole or ? part of this money to frttol oollego. This oxtract shows loaf* there ia n W&nani whatovtr for tho statement Ibu a separate agricultural oollego is n pi? roipiiaito for on apir ipriation. Th Stat? of Now York which has a sopu*ab experimental station, and an agricultural J ?? ?-.Ti^.yyT.T^iw. tj- iiinitrajj-.i-iuarB.M?Hi annox to Oornoll University, has just by Aol of tho Legislature given thu appro priation to Oornoll. Tho Hatch Act ?H thereto; : removed from the arena of debato. Mr. H. li. Thomas, of Wcdgottold, in a letter to the News ami Courier, dated April 23, 1.S77, said: "Now if this coun ty ia an average, then out of the $-10,000 appropriate i | to tho Colloge and Oitadol ? tho tanners pay 030,000 a year to edu cate lawyers, doctors, preachers and sol? diors, wbde nowhere in tho ?Stale can a farmer's boy gel a practical agricultural and mechanical education." Dunder county is not an average, and tie.' farmers do ?ot pay three-fourths of thu State UtXCS. tl they did no one would grudge them tho hard-earned wealth that those taxes represent; and, besides, it makes little di l?e renco what class pays the most taxes so long aa ? ach individual bears his just burden, for tim State is au aggregation of individ?ala, not of eta ses. Hut when such a state ment forms tho justification (d' tho charge that the farmers aro swindled, it should not be made unless known to bo true. The report of the comptroller general for last year i page 100) gives a statement af the State taxes, the only source from which comes tim appropriations for the College and the Citadel. From thia re port ii taken the following tmuuuan, : Total State funds from taxation, royalty, li censes, .Vc . . ... $706,312 laxes paid by railroads, nal catato in cities and towns, personalty in Charleston and Co lumbia.$208,008 Phosphate royalties 100,000 Incense fees. 4,005 Bal. from other sources $100,001 This balance, about 10 pot cent, of the total revell?n-, includes not only taxes naiil by farmers, but all country prop? .tty, and all personalty in towna and mies outside of Columbia, owned by i'heis Hum farmers. Tin se would ofl'ect du- taxer, paid by farmers under other lea ls. Scarcely a pound of river rock s used in South Carolina and the royal ty is, t boro fore, paid by the mitiiug .ompunies or by foreign consumers, rbis statement is sullioiontly accurate to .how that, tim fr.:mers do not pay tbrce 'olirthS ot Hie taxes. Tle-re aro so many bettor reasons than .his why farmers should have full con adoration that they can well afford to lispense with li. In the second part of the sent-nee ploted the writer is again in error; lor IS neither tho College nor the Citadel SOntaillS a special department in theology ir in medicine, it cannot be said that he State "educates preachers and doc :ors," unless the writer means that a {Choral literary, scientific and polite mlturo is intended for punchers, doc tors and lawyer.' alone, and that farriers' loni cannot or ought not derive any ad vantages therefrom, ile could liol con scion ly tale- any such position ho un just to the farmer and Iiis son. l iven ivoro there no technical agricultural in struction in the College, tho sons of [armi rs would still enjoy in common with all others that general training which is of the utmost importance in m tbliug its possessor to cuter into this tierce intellectual competition now luging throughout the oivilizod world, thc want >f winch training oom pels the fanner's jon or anybody else's son to hike a back teat or bo run over. But the Slate does lunch more. Not inly giving tho fanner's son that broad ..ulturo he cannot secure in a low grade pecializcd school, she provides for lum i separate department, in which he can di o obtain special technical, practical raining. Students who desire to bo joule lawyers are shrewd enough gen erally to take a thorough neild, mic course and finish off in tin* law depart uent, and farmers' sons should ut least receive the same kind of preparatory ?raining in order to lit them to cope willi these alleged "enemies of their race Again, us military training is one of lie. lentil res in all separate agricultural tollegCS, tho Citadel should not be re viled for training "soldiers." AH it i-- still a mooted question what constitutes a practical agricultural adu lation, it can only be argued, not proven, whether this State gives such or ?ot. But tho fuct is that Hu- plan ol ttdnontion provided i?y South Carolina ls n tho same linc as that given by twenty four States in the I nion, audits legality ls recognized by Congress, by Legi lu ure- of States, and by a large majority if tho people of the Uit'iou. The charge that tho farmer's son can not obtain a practical mechanical educa tion can be directly disprovd. Thirty >r forty students (luring the past year liavc been engaged iii tho workshops of the South Carolina College, and when ti.ey shall have completed their course they will know more about ordinary wood and iron work than many of tim ;arpenters and blacksmiths in tho State, liesides being thoroughly trained in mo .balneal drawing and in tho theory of machinery, kinematics, mechanical technology, ?vc. it is a question of taste whether it is bettor for the fanner's son, ar lawyer's, or doctor's, or preacher's non to pay money in college to learn how to fork manure, cut wood and oho]) cotton, without knowing how to handle tools, or to permit him to acquire the details or unskilled labor ut home, and learn at college how to frame buildings, weld tires, sharpen ploughs, rig up ma? ohincry and do othor skilled operations which woupi otherwise entail a loss ol time and money. Tho i\ii8?i?Mipi>i Collogo pursues tho former course; tho South Carolina tho latter. M annal labor is required ill both places, tho only difference being that the South Carolina Collcgo gives that train ing which cannot bo given at home, while the Mississippi Collogo, during it seven years of exodenco, has taken no stops to give instruction in tho uso ol toole, or other skillod mechanical labor. As already said there aro between thirty and toity students in tho South Candi.m College acquiriug this practical mechan ical training. Tho charge, then, that the farmer's eon cannot sec ti IM this train ing must be charitably ascribed to shc*r ignorance, but to ignorance hardly ex cusable, since a half IIOUI'H visit to th? Culb ge or Ovo minutes pcrnsal of it catalogue would havo dispelled it. i>. Columbia, B. C. "Crass widow" is a misleading tem. Buch widows aro never grevu. ri- -?MI ???umiiwiM.ni III in Wiirri:si.AVi;HY IN COLONIAL TIM KS. Kedouiptloiiera or Tenn Slavo8--Free AVlilcrs UIMI Indented Servituts, (From tho Now York Post.) Many persons who consider themselves familiar with thc history of this country aro not nwaro that in tho last century white mon, women and old ld ron were held in bondage; that tho colonial laws in favor of such servitude were as ex plicit and severe as were those in sup port negro ."?lavery. Such white persons owing a personal service to individual masters were generally known as "tenn slaves," though their legal status was represented hy tho word "redemption er." isaac Weld, Jr., in his hook of travels in America, published in tho last cen tury, asserts that it was tho custom of shipmasters at Rotterdam and tho 1 lause towns to inveigle tho people on to thoir vcssols, under promise of free passage to America. On reaching the colonies un nouueoment of tho arrival of mechanics and laborers would bo made, and per sons in want of such would Hock to tho shops, and tho poor Gormans would be sold to the highest biddors, tho capt lins pocketing tho proceeds. Rcdemptioners constituted in tho early pnrt of tho eighteenth con tu ry a peculiar feature of colonial anxiety. They were recruited from among all manner of people in tho old world, and through lliin channel Europe ompliod upon America not only the virtuous poor and oppressed of her population, but tho vagrants, felons and dregs of her Communities. There was thus establish ed among tho settlers a society that, in ninny places, wa? almost imbued with a moral pestilence. Among the rcdemp tionors, however, were a fair proportion of sturdy souls, strong in purpose and endeavor, who appreciated tue great opportunity created for them by this complete change of lifo and country. At the expiration of their t rm of ser vice many, by thrift and industry, ele vated themselves to respectable posi tions, and were absorbed in the middle class. There were two kinds of rcdemption ers- "indented servant i," who had bound themselves to their masters for ll term of years previous to leaving tho old country, "froo-willers," who, laing without money and desirous of ?migrai ing, agreed with the captains of ships to allow themselves or their families lo bo sold on arrival for the captain's advant age, and thus repay costs of passage and ot li? r expe nses. 'J.'he former indented servants were oftou trapped into Ha ir engagements by corrupt agents at home, who porsundod them all under false promises of tender and humano treat ment, and assurances of remunorativo employment at the expiration of servioe, which would insure a competent provis ion for tho remainder of their days. Thc emigrants often discovered on arrival that the advantages to bo obtainod in Amorica hud beon painted by tho agents in much too alluring colors. Frequently their mostC4S forced thom to most rigid labor and exorcised an unnecessary severity. Tho froo-willors suffered even worse treatment at tho bands of shipmasters and agents. They woro led to believe that on arrival in America their services would bo oogerly solicited by persons who would gladly pay the costs of their passages; which being only Cl), tho ?migrants would soon boablo to repay, tho emigrants would soon bt able to repay, ami thus bc able to secure thoir liberty and all the enjoymont ami pros perity that the 110W country olo red to adventurers. Agreements wen. entered into whereby those dolude?! ones bound themselves, that if, on arrival, they did not succeed within a certain number ot days in securing employment on their own terms, they could bo sold for a t> rm ot years to defray the olllirgCS for their passages. Alas! tVj "free willora," with raro exceptions, hod a rudo awakening on reaching tim colonies. Undor thoir agreements the captain had a legal hen on tim persons of the omigrauts until the ship charges were paid: consequent ly they wi rc not allowed to go on shoi'O, but were exposed to view on deck to the people who e imo on bonni iii search of servants. Except in cases of extraordi nary qualitioations, vojy hw of them were happy enough to make their own stipulations, and they found themsolvct sold for several years of tedions labor and servitude. Tho terni.? of conditions of servie? differed in tho dilVoront colonies. Among tho archiven of tim Pennsylvania his torical Society aro some original bonds, or agreement?, between ship captain! and rodomptionors. From thom wi learn t liai th?: usual price poid in thal colony for three years' scrvico was C2-J ls. and dd. When his tinm had expire? a man was entitled to receive two stliti of clothes, ii grubbing lu e, a wcediUf boo nnd a now nxo. Children sold foi from ?S to ?10, and thoir masters wen required to see that they were taught t< read and write, and hail at least om quarter's schooling. In Now Jersey -according to "bruni inj and Spicer - no white servant) i sold or bound after seventeen years o age, could servo above four years. I undor that agc, they were to be free Ol reaching thou; majority. At tho expira tion of service their master woro oblige? to supply thom with two good suits o clothing, suitable for ii servant, on good felling axe, one good boo, am se vt o bushels of Indian corn. A serAnn was to be immediately freed in case 0 being so abused by master or mistress a to result in tho loss of an oyo or a tooth Tho laws against uiding rcdomptionist to escape were v?>ry severe. A line o ?5 was imposed for offering assistant in such cases, and tho aider ami nbotto was obliged to mako full satisfaction t master or r.iistrecs for all loss, dam.q; or cost sustained by tho absence of t search for the runaway. Any ono wli concealed or entertained an absoondio redemptioner could be lined at tho ?Iii orotion of the court, arni be made to pa ten .-.hilling., to tho owner for cooli da he bad harbored tho servant. It was not unoommon for thrifty (le mans, who woro possessed of cootie money to pay thoir passages and to d fray tho first cost of settling to ailo themselves to bo sold advantageous! and on favorable terras. This wan i order that during thoir servitudo tin might have an opportunity ol learnii tho language ami of growing familn with tho manners, customs and instit tiona of tho country. lu looking buck on the pcculiaritk changes pud gradations of society New Jersey's colonial day, it ?B curious to nulo how tho well-to-do emigrants who brought with them or purchased after arrival redemption servants, often lost the prestige of their alllueueo; beiug unable in the new country to maintain their rank ami influence. Their humble servitors, however, inured, by hardship and labor tu tho store necessities of colonial existence, prospered and throve. The bond people, after staving thoir tim?-, acquired ?ami and homes by dili gence and saving; it was not uncommon, in tlie second generation, to find them talcing precedence of the children of the .'na 1er who had owned their time during tho first years in the country. Tho alttuent immigrant, having been accus tomed to case, proved unequal to thc struggle, and his children, through fundy and ignorant education, rapidly deteriorated. Tho Cotton Muvouiont. The New Vo.k financial Chronicle, in its review of the movement of tin? cotton j crop for the week ending on tho night j of August 12, Buys that tho total receipts have reached 7,270 bales, against 1,400 bales last week, 2,081 bahs the pre cious week, and .">, J'.?? bales three weeks since; making the total receipts since the 1st Soptembor, 1880, 5,213,'1-18 bales, against 5,01 t.??T bales for the same period of 1885 ti, showing a decrease since .September 1, 1880, of 101.100 bales. Tho exports for tho week reach a total of 12,521 bahs, of which 1 1,055 were to Clreat Britain, M to Franco, ami 1,125 to the ie.-,t of the con ti non t. The t dal visible supply of cotton, ns made np by cable mid telegraph, for the week was as follows: Total of (weat Britain stock 000,000 bulls, total of continental stocks :'.il, lot)-making a total of European stocks Of 1,001,1(1!) bides. Th?' total visible supply for tho world is 1,81-1,-P.MJ bales; of tins number 728,000 are American and id!'., IUD East Indian, otc. Tho imports into continental ports for tho week have been 15,000 bales. Thcso ligures indicate an increase in tim cotton in sight of 51,102 bales as compared with tin- Btuno dide of 1886, un increase of 1-1,072 bides as comps red with the cone: ponding dato of I88?. Tho receipts at interior towns for Hie Weeli were 7,'J7't bales. Old interior stocks wi re decreased 1,708 bales, and were 33,251 bales less than at the same period 1 isl year. Tho receipts from the plantations, being the actual movement, not including tho OVOTland receipts nor Southern con sumption, of cotton that reached the market through the outporls for the pas! wee!, woro 0,125 bahs. The total, receipts since 1st September, 1880, wcro i 5,1811,355 bales. Tho actual movement j from the plantations was only 0,21'.) bahs, the balance being taken from the stocks at tho interior towns. South-rn spinner.-,' takings to 1st Au gust have been ?101,000 bahs as against ?108,000 bides al tho same time last year. The Chronicle says, in reviewing thc speculation in futures during the week: "Tin- speculation in cotton for future delivery at this market has been some what inactive for the week nuder review, and tho principal feature in the decline in option.- for this month. No very im portant influences have la-en at work. Crop ace nuts im\e improved, owing to the fall of needed rain over a consider able portion of Texas, and a partial clearing up in Georgia and tho Caroli nas, where the downfall had been exces sive, Liverpool reports have reflected a very unsettled market there. The buriau n port, made public on Wednes day, was luther bottor than was generally expected. On Saturday tho next crop ruled slightly dearer, but the improve ment was lost on Monday. In the course of Tuesday and W ednesday there was a decline of 80 points in August option.-., while the next crop gave way only ."> to 7 points. There were unac countably full receipts of old cotton at New Orb ans, which hadan unfavorable ctlcct upon values for prompt delivery. On Thursday an early decline, under weak Liverpool advices, was fully recov ered on a demand to co ver contracts, To-dav au early decline was followed by variable unsettled values. Cotton on the spot, under freer offerings and de clining prices, has been fairly active, both for export and home cortsuniptiou. (?notations were reduced l-lOo. on Mon day and e. on Wednesday. Friday, at a further decline of I-Iflo., there was a very large business for export, and homo spinners bought fairly'.'' I el tho Hoys ll, lp, Why is it that the boys are Allowed to sit around a house doing nothing, while their overworked mother is struggling against naturi- and fate to do tho work?" Only the other day we saw thr*e large, able-bodied boys lounging about the house, not knowing what to do with themselves, while theil mother, final am' palo, was trying to do the work for a laihe family and company alono. Not a boy's work to help about tin- house? Why not? ls there anything about washing dishes that w ill injure him or which ho cannot learn to do well, or about making beds, or sweeping, or set ting the bible, or washing, or ironing, or cot.king a plain moal? On the con trary, there is much to benefit bim in such work, the most important of which is the idea that it isn't manly to let the "wcaker vessel" c.o ry all tin: burdens, when it is possible tor strong, young han.ls to help. Most boys would gladly help in the house if they were asked to do no, and were taught how to do tho work proper ly. Many a smart boy wants to help his tired mother, but doesn't know how boyoud bringing in tho wood and thc water, and shoveling a patli through the snow. This done, she tells him to go and play while she plods wearily on. Not a boy's wot kV For shaine! It is it positive harm to a boy's moral char acter to allow bim to think it right to bc idle while IUB mother ts staggering under ber burdons. LotU.be lioys help, and) those who Can't got help "for love or money,"as they often write to us, win seo their troubles disappear.- Philadel phia Methodist. No ono should be guilty of traveling to or from tho mountains of North < ar olina without going nt least ono way via tho O n at All-llcahng Mineral Spring in Gaston county. A tilica?, Haid to bc Texas feyer, han broke.i out among the cattle In the neigh borhood of Oswego, N. Y. COST OK A 8WKLL WAH DUO UH. Kxltorbltnnt Prices Which the New Vork Tailors Ohurgo for Good Clothes. NEW YOHK, August 18.-I have hoard a half dozen inen say recently that they found they could save money hy going to Loudon to buy their clothing, lt ii true of actors particularly, who aro obliged to have a large number of Bllits on hand, but the economy is just us evident among less extensive puichaseir. Herbert Kelley went to England this year for the sole purpose of replenishing Iiis wardrobe. "One can get good clothes on thia side of tho wat? r, undoubtedly," he said, "but the trouble is they cost triplo what they do in London. A oraok tudor ber.; charges $20 for a pair of trousers, and that sum will buy three pair in Eug land." The tailors of Now York an; constant ly growing more oxhorbitant in their prices. Thcie aro of course huge i m poriuma or bazars where clothes are clipped out like siioe peg.-, and sohl liku hot muffins, but it goos without saying that well dressed men do not patronize them. A mun to tarn the distincti ?tl of I pronounced well dressed in New 1'ork must exercise great care not to dress too much or too highly. Ho must >p< id considerable sums upon his attire, bal nothing like thc amounts set down ol Lato in numerous articles that arc going about in tho daily papers concerning tho cost of a well-dressed Now Yorker's wardrobe. Th?! statement that Ut least twenty thousand men hore spend five thousand dollars a year on their cloth ing causea an uchiug void to replace one's heart. Tm not au expert on clothes, but realizo tho absurdity of that report. Suppose? man buys eight suits of clothes a year, which is an extraordinary number, the cost would bo about as fol lows: Two frock suits.. SJ lo ( )no evening sui' -H. 120 Two business Bind. IU0 Three cutaway suits ...... ~7<> This would call for less than 8800 ol tho $5,000 a year, loaving tho overcoats, yachting Hannels and underwear to come out of the trilling balance Even nuder these conditions a mun would have from 15 to '?o fits in his wardrobe, for they would accumulate rapidly with one coming in every six weeks, in sober fact a tailor who succeeds in yanking what tho gamblers calls a "merry little live "undord" oat of a customer regards bim with reverence, respect and affec tion. There is u limit to ..neb ulterior and interior trappings as ovorgaitcrs, scurfs and linen. A thousand dollars a .. eur will dress the Prince of Wales ol' tim most impressive of I nion or Knick erbocker Club nun. If ho buys bis toggery in London bah' tho sum will brill; tlu> .-Hine results, though I tln>: ougb.y believe that there are better tailors in Now York Hain across tho water. Two men who sat on tho rad of a yaohtthu other day were comparing tho prices of their yachting Hannels. Tho younger of them, who had just re turn? d from a six years' term at Oxford, said t?) the other: "VYhut did you pay for that white suit?" "lt was mudo to euler, " said tho otln r, surveying Iiis Hannels complac? utly. "Tho cont and trousers were made by my tailor for S15, und tho shirts were 87.00 to order." "Well, this ou tilt," said the Oxford man, stretching out bis athletic legs n id exhibiting Hannels of fur better texture and lit thnn those of the other mun, "cost, including shirt, trousers and coat, made by a crack London tailor, jast si I in our money." That's the reason it pays to go abroad to buy your clothes. A .Mum mot h Turi Ul. While thc steamer Flora Tomple wai cruising mar the anappor banks, yost? r day, about tlfteen miles off shoro, Capt, .Montcalm Broward observed an im meuse black object llontillg on tho sur face of the water. Upon approaching ii ho discovered that it was an immens* turtle of some sort, whicji was lazihj sleeping on tho surface of the water Tint captain secured a harpoon, am when near enough ho dexterously threv tho weapon and succeeded in fixing i firmly in the buck of tho monster. I was fourni impossible to raise this motin tain of Kosh to thc boat, so that tin captain attached a hawsor to tho har poon, and taking it in tow, brough! i up to the city, arriving at Decotto's wooi yard about five o'clock, when t lu: luigi object was hauled out upon tho si on where its great size soon attracted i largo crowd who gazed with wonder a tho strange visitor. Tho weight of th? captain's catch was variously estiman ? to bo from 1,(HH) to 1,500 pounds; i measured across tho anterior fully cigh feet two inches, was seven feet twi inches from thc end of tho nose to th tip of the Uni, and perhaps eight fool il ci rc um fe renee. The captain called hi cutcha tortoise, but tho News-1 h rah man identified it as a peculiarly splondi specimen of tho trunk ?>r loather^ turd (Sphurgis Carlaoea.) This great sc denizen inhabit** tim gulf stream alon tho Atlantic shores and olsowhoro. I docs not have a shell, but is covered wit a leathery skin, with seven longitlldlm ridges, lt is the largest of tho turtl tribe, and is of no value as food.- Jacl sunville (i'la.; News-Herald. Timi Wonderful Uobbitr. Some Weeks ago an item concerning remarkable turkey gobbler, who had take upon himself the offices of a mother, a poured In this paper, and wo promised give thc result oi his performances. <i Saturday wc met Captain J, V. Georg tho owner of Hu- now famous gobbler, m ho said ili:il he put him to sd on seven tn key, nine guinea and nine hen eggs, th thc turkey eggs broke during tho procc nf incubation, hut that al the proper til he came elf the nest with nil the gllino und chickens, mid Hint he cnn IK- si en his farm, a few miles from Aiken by i who doubt thc truth of thc story. Capta i George nays. thc gobbler trents his bro< ! with thc most mollie ly attention, mid th they arc all doing well. -Aiton llqc&nttr, Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Polio! aro porfcol preventives of constipation. I closed in glass bottles, always fresh. 1 nil druggists. Medical roturas show thal 70,000 perse died from cholera in thc northwest p vinces of India during June and July. k' .i>. . rr *rx.v. ,xci .??.-? **TJVT!?S?.V. f mmiT.r. t?. Ml?M?ATII l oi i: i ititi.}.: \?; (Vt ID*. I \ * uluitibla Uralinitou'H'IVrrlblo l?x|H.?rirnci' Knurl..,I Oli lin- ( ar iiinl Dm,'; nt a IJiuirli r ol H Mlle. Mlllcdgr Darn, n brakeman on thu Cine lotto, Columbin tittil Augusta Railroad, is lying ut Iiis lioiiio i" tko scttlouuuit beyond tho depot, bruised sud gushed from un ac eldon t willie coming from Charlotte this moriilug, Ho was on lop of tho ems ?is thoy passed Ridgeway, and us tho hiidgo this sluo was approached, ahout 'l.2tl, ho al tum plod to hui <'H du hittites. Standing with his hark tl.i brid gu and turning tho wheel, hu wu? unconscious "I danger. A cry from the foi ward hi .!; tun un, .'Watch out, Mi! ledge!" was tinhcurd, ttud tho hack of his neck was curried fairly against ibo slr nc lure, knocking him between two cars, whoio he became histoiicd, ids fool drag ging on tho I ruck, l-'ur II (plaiter of ii mile I. was (ranted iii lids way, when ho was suddenly lo. st ned and foll upon the tia ;k, fol; rt col) cars puadng over him. At intervals ho was struck on Ibo head nod huck hy Ibo In:.lo- hi nins us tho ears rolled (in, o.\| c'li.-ncing the most ngoni/.lng pain ::l ouch blow, lIe*\VU3 Conscious enough lu know wini! was going on, rind suffered ..: ll' lng death in 'he con-taut lour Ol being crushed to u pulp. i> was wonderful I bul ho (scaped with fe. li was due probably to the lorinution ol ihe truck, Darn has hoon connected with Ibo rail road for tlc: last fourteen years, and !i ii) always been ti > a pa hie workman. Captain .Viii-,et liad him pluecd in the cub ut,tl brough! to Cohiml?In where Dr. Rowe intended him. v. hones aro broken and his injuries mc not considered fulul. Iiis head is coveted with bruises, his body scarred, and his knee-- swollen to au unor mons size. Ile sutlers; much pulu and is unable io move- - Columbia Daily llecovd, A H y'isl lil. MIK DI Kl) A I:I:?.< \ el in Hil Koo III Was fou ml So vint Til Ol UMIKI Dol?ais iii Honey Mini liomin. A Boston special says that from a beggarly little room ut tho roar of No. 71 Albany street, in that city, Mrs. Marj Smith was removed to Um City Hospital (Saturday night, where she died before morning. She was seventy-six yeats old, uno. without doubl tho most wi'ot?lt edly dr I d ? .? .dine in al! UostOU. H. r room waa miserably lil thy, and her olothes wore little 1 tba Liiun old rags kept together by .-'.rings. ?Irs, Smith ivas 11 professh ?jal beggar, and il wai while limping nb. ut on le v 1 daily rounds in search < i charity Satur day that she wa? knocked doWU ut i run over by a careless butcher hoy -it the 1 comer of Howard and Hudson streets. ' Somebody removed li? f to hi r homo mid notified tuc ponce ami lind lier taken to I the City Hospital. SllO W0S not badly I hurt, hut bi r udvunced yours and In t oufcobled condition resulting from long yearn ol'privation co d i not withstand the shook, lleforo ike di, d sllO Sahl something about her luonny and asked tili-.t J jil wy e" I. liai ?. , l.'olO. Ul i not iiie.l. Tho hospital attendants behoved the poor creature was wan luring in lu r mind, 'lin-; mor .1!";, however, word was sent lo tho lawyer, winn they wen. surprised to hear that the olel woman had recently niadc u will and was worth i soverai thousand doll irs Thc police were not ?Hod and an ofllC< r j detailed to search thc miserly ?, dgiugs. Opening the door of tho oiel womau's room, a foul ide.- greeted bim ami a! dozen rats disappeared loisuri'ly into their hob s, 'i'lie ollicor l eg.iii I.is search by ripping open tho Hrs! of tin two old | mattresses, when, to bis surprise, several ? handsome gold ami silver ceins rattle.! down on the door. Tho sawdust, chips and husks with which thc mattress was studed, woro poured out into a pile be side the heel. Scattered among tte- ohalV was a h.illili of bank notes. Ofllcer franks polked over thu pilo um! saw that : many ol' the bills were rolled up into \ wads und tie-1 Ailh greasy strings. Ho cut these with bis knife, .md counting the wealth found 80U0. On the WU I over thc bod hung un old petticoat. Mi ohanically thrusting his ii.md into the ! pockots he drewoti! a hard rag. Opening this 870 in bills lay in his hand. On a peg near by was another petticoat. As thc oflloer grasped it to replace it on ti." hook hu felt a haul bunch ol .something inside tim lining. Cutting thu threads with his ki,itu, a little bug dropped out and st", in sin.ill silver coatis rolled off oil tho door. Inside the door auothi i dirty nrtielo of aj)parol hung, lt was Scniolicd, and in thu lining was found .secreted a targe pocket book. Sowed into this WOl'O bills of various d?nomina tions amounting to >i'K (Ju the Hour lay a mattress black wit ii dirt and tilth, and rolled up and tied with a piece ot eloihes linc. Inside this, and wrapped carefully m a dozon nows papers, was a package of United Stab s (io vor muon t bonds of tho issuo of 1887. bearing four pct cunt, interest, and amounting in value to six hundo d dollars. Down in tho corner of tho hag were two bunk books of tho Franklin Savings Hank, inch showing a deposit of one thousand dollars. Continuing tho search, a black dn s was found, and in various parts ol' the lining,wero discovered, sowed tn sepa rately, Hf toon dollars in lulls ami silver, lu a bureau was found OUO hundred und tilly dollars in gold coin. 'the entilo amount, of money and bonds amounted to botwcon six un? seven thousand dollars, which was turned over to the police authorities. Itel.ile IV.m?en. From the (torios of eye witnesses the conduct of tho women in the railway accident ut Chatsworth was extremely creditable. T. se who died met (leith with heroic bravery, and those who W( re fortunate enough to escapo did so only after rendering those about them nil Ibu aid poshible. There aro some who ore n udo strong by great dangers or emer gencies. The Chatsworth women arc of this sort and dozens of them had baldly ! extricated themselves from the wreck boforo they busied tkuinselvcH caring for tho w ounded and smoothing the pillo .vs of thc dying. Thc attending physicians uttri >nte tho recovery of n great immy of the wounded solely to tho ministering care of the noble and uiiselllsh women, -Chicago News. The Nationalists in Dublin ure jubilant over thu Olndstonlnn victory in Oneslrift They declare that tho government cannot proclaim thc National League In the fneo of a defeat which completely changes thc political situation. A COAL CREEK LEGEND. TUE QUEEM STOIC Y OF A LOST SILVKK MINK, Willoh Is Guarded by Monsters-An I ml lum? Neighborhood's Odd Uellef-A Vein of SU>er"A loot Th lok"? A Yarn n? la a Yura. CLINTON, Iud., August IO.-Iictweon Clinton, Ind., and tho Illinois lino ia a hilly bit of country through which Hows u J it tli? .stream called Coal crook, lu tho hills aro valuable coal bods, lying gener ally only a few foot below the surface of the ground and cropping out many places. Tho log cabins of miners and poor form?is, with here and thorc a slouy held of corn and oats, aro the only signs of civilization in thc wild neigh borhood. Thu people have a remarka ble story to tell to any stranger who may ehance to penetrate into their territory. They (irmly believe that there is a vein of puru silver "a foot thick" in a certain hill at the side of tho crook. This rich vein of metal, they say, ox tends under thu bcd of tho creek and then is lost beneath a high hill on tho other side. No white man, now alive, has ever seen this treasure. Many years ago, however, an old niau, dressed in rugged garments, and neting as if he had los! his wits, was seen occasionally in tho neighborhood, and it was believed ho know tho secret of tho mine. Tho old niau, after remaining in thu hills two or three days and nights, would disappear as mysteriously as he came. When any ono questioned him about the mine, ho would shrink from them and say: "It would bo death for mn to tell." The people believed that this old man dug up what silver he could carry away away and then departed, only returning when ho needed more. Ho has not been su n tor a number of years, however, and it is thought that he ia dead. Thu mine so the story runs -is hid den from human oyos by the power of Indian magicians. Furthermore, it is protected by two grim guardians-a gli nt lion and a snake ono hundred feet long. Thoro aru many people in that vicinity who say they have seen the lion and the snake. As they arc never known to leave any track behind thom it is be liovcd that they are ghosts. Thu pcoplo say that when thu Indians were driven put of that country by the white settlers tho magicians of ino tribe killed thu lion and the snake and left their ghosts to guard tho mine. In order to furnish these ghosts with a hiding place the In dians set lire to a bed ef coal, which cropped out of the hill near by, thus forming a dcop cavo, which is there to thia day, and which no one baa ever tiered to explore, lu this dark bolo tho two ghostly guardians are bound by a charm. The snake, however, ia per mitted to leave tho den once every year, while tho lion has tho same privilege accorded il once every lour or live years. .. : uoh times as they are free they roam abroad and create terror for miles around. Th ? snake was last seen in the summer ot 188? by a mau named Murphy, who with his little son was picking black berries .n tho woods. The father and sou ran away as fast as they could; in faot, no one who has ever seen thia won derful serpent ever did anything in ita proseneo except run away hom it, so ?ir as any uno can now remember. The lion, however, has been hunted. John Fletcher, a larmer, ono day about ton y otra ago saw the lion in front ot him. lie ran to a neighbor's house ami got a gun, a companion and a pack ot hounds. They followed the lion to a thicket, in winch it disappeared, Tho hounds on catching sight of tho beast lirst bristled up, and then turned tail and ran. Tho hunters also beca nie frightened ai d went homo. Mrs. Hocket, when a little girl, saw tho lion sitting by a stump on a hill near her lather's house. She begun to scream and her father ran to her. lie could not see tho beast and told he. that she waa afraid of a stump. Ho gc an axe and cut down the stump, but the lion still sat there, lt tinnily wont away. A few years, inter Mrs. Hookott's sister saw an animal "like a big, woolly dog" running down :\ hill by her side. Presently sho saw it was a hon and ran away. About tou years later Mrs. Ilockctt her husband, and one ol' two other per sons, while going along a lonely road at night, heard an animal breathing in a thicket a few foot away. Before they had time to get badly frightened they heard the animal rise above thc tops ol' tho young trees and then crash down into* tho bushes several hundred feet away, A few more of these tremendous leaps took it out of hearing. They did not doubt but that it was the lion. Tho spectral BUake is described as be ni!' black in color and os largo around as t Le boily of a man. Thc people bohovo that tho charm by which it and tho lion are held will become powerless in a fow more years, and that they will go away and never return. Then the lost silver mine will bu found. The white man, who formerly visited tho mine, is sup posed to have received from tho Indians a charm by willoh ho could control tho guardian spoctors. Whon ho died tho Beeret was lost, In the above, baro statement tho curi ous belief of the Coal Crook dwellers is given without adornment of any sort, ito value lying in the simple faith with whic h tao people of that locality accept it as the truth. The story roads like a relic of some mediaeval tale of enchant ment and fiery drugons, which in somo strange manner baa boon transplanted on American soil. "Say, why is everything Kither nt sixes or at sevens?" Probably, my dear nervous sister, bo caute you are Butlering from sonto of tho diseases peculiar to your sex. Von have a "dragging down" feeling, tho back ache, you arc debilitated, you nave pains of va rious kinds. Take I>r. H. V. Pierce's "Favorito Prescription" and bo cured. Price reduced to one dollar. Hy druggists. Thc tenants on the Ponsonby estate In [roland have engaged a civil engineer to supervise 11)0 construction of works of defensa In preparation for tho expected ovictfons. Barricad?s are being erected and tronchas and drains made, avid hi case of emergency the farms will be Hooded from the bog. S??KH??rtti >r.Yxs?Wttln