Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ Try, Try Again. ./ if oi-ti*g h lcsHon all should bead s Try,try,try again : 11 5t first you don't succeed, Try, try, try agrin! ''?j?voiir courage well appear; 1 ? fB>\i only persevere, Y?will cou(iuerruevor fear ; ^ Try, try, try again! Twloc or thrice though you should fail, Try again I Ifat)a8tyou would prevail, ' Try again ! Wbeq you strive there's no disgrace, Though you fall to win the race; Bravejy, then, in such a case, Try, try, try again ! Let thjj thing be e'er so hard, fry again! I one will surely bring reward, _ I'ry again 1 That wufch other folks can do, Why wjth patience may not you ? ? ?ry, try, try again ! ?Antlwr Unknown, TtlHjwKVrtlKK AN? CHOI'S. The Dr?';UK|lt Ended anil Crops im proved oy I ho Welcome Itafllft. Tho fc>iiowiug Is I ho iv port of ? \e weather bureau for lite week undi g August 21); Too principal feature of las*, week's weather Wai the exeefcalvo roluKll ovor the greater portion ??f the StifO. The drought that nail i?oi sioiml o\ or the westA,.n H?j nortuotu counties throughout July aud the two weeks In August wau tbxruughty reliever, t d vegetation; of all kim.s revived, t nd crops again look promising. The rams came too lr^te to benefit early corn to any groat extent, but late planting is now an assured orop. The rain catno in a succession of gentle showers, t x oept in Edgi.fieid County where Holds were washoti> to sonu extent, and in Greenville wjhere there wore two heavy washing raW It was romarakblo that the heaVy rains had but a slight effoot on th\, rivers ard no freshelb were even threatened anywhere. In tho eastern Portion of the State the rains were alt 0 heavy aud caused g reat Injury to fodder which was already pulled and to ?U3uch on tho stalk which is said to be ratting. Cotton also was injuriously afljeoted by the rains, as the flowers thtU get wet fail to fructify and tho squarW aned ; the reports in dicate that thilb Wtt8 the case, and the orop that woul\d have put on from the 14th to the 17tli( inclusive, is lost. In this connection, attention has been called to the fa|ct that such portion ol fie orop that p,uty on after the 20th of August is not etirtain to mature. The rainfall jWaa won distributed. The average of thirty-eight stations is 3.23 inches and! the normal for the same period i? approximately 1.47, the .ainfalllmyingibeon in excess of the rnHHHtm1 llvel' tills "Uli tire S_tate, except at Yema8ee. The week had a favorable tempera ture, with no excessive heats o?* cool nights ; the daily range was bolow the usual owing to tho yreat amount of cloudiness. The highest temperature reported was Do" at Kingstree on the 13th, and the lowest 04 at Greenwood on the 15th. Tho average mean tem perature of the week for the State, deduced from 30 reports, was seventy nine degrees, and the normal for the samo period is approximately seventy nine degrees. The duration of sunshine varied between 24) per ceut. and 9? por cent, of the possible, the least cloudiness having occurred iu Marlboro county and the greatest in tho western unu central counties. The winds wore generally light, except that in Greeuvillo county in the vicinity of Heid there was a severe local storm, with hail, that destroyed considerable corn by breaking it oiT. In general. It may bo said that the average condition of all crops is better and more promising than for some weeks, with the Important exception > of cotton, \.hioh in tho eastern and central portions jf the State has taken on rust and is shedding too freely. These reports are not confined to any county, but are general, and even lii olude portions o.t the western counties. Over the western half of the State, however, there was a marked improve ment in the plant in most places, so that, taking tho State as a whole, there was little change in tho average condition of the staple. In the lower part of the State It is beginning to ? pen. The bolls appear to be of good size and the bottom crop heavily fruited ; the uncertain top crops looks promising, but Owing to the lateness of tne entire crop, there is small likeli hood of muoh off it reaohlng maturity. Iu places the I plant is growing too much to weed. |Sea Island cotton ap pears to bo thriving. The late rains/ have given the ground enough moisture) to insure late planted corn, and in all; parts of tho State its condition would; be truthfully depioted by calling It sup erlatively fine, bottom &m&hjkM:yu.r. particularly line crops. jKvostorn portion of the .State Hrn was too ripe, to be much Hfl by the rains, but is never Bh fair Orop. Tho total oiop H a very large one. Foddor SB was general, as the weather Htted, but much fodder that was B was damaged, especially in Hgchurg and Hampton counties, ?tne eastern portion of the State bSfes^yen some on the stalk was Hr^wa counties molasses uiak Bcv hWygun, and sorghum is ripening H \eraTTy. The condition of the corn Bf* itr but very uneven. 1 'ens are doing well as a rule, and are growing better than ever-after the heavy rains. Early peas are ripoulng, I and some are already on the market. Turnip sowing will now he pushed as tho ground is iu the best eunuition for quick germination. Turnips al B ready planted aro growing rupldly. ? The wet weather has oauaed aweet ? ijoUttoes co run too much to vine, no ?fesaltatiug trimming ; but their condl Mnion generally la greatly improved. Wm. Along tho count lato sweet and Irish H potatoes will soon be gathered. WS The riee harveat will aoon begin, A and rieo In gonoral appoara to be head ? ing Unely. The weather for rice haa Ihnen uniformly favorable the ontlre HVioaaon. |B * The proepoota nro that ihere will be H L largo orop of pea-vine and second ?f growth of meadow hay. H_ ' ?Judge Townaend haa iaaued a rule ?^Au?;uim.t tho commiesionora of &dge ? hold (Jounty to tihow cause why indlct WBiucntH ahouhl not im found against ?^tboin for fraud and ralsapprlatlon of B county funds. W^W ?Antonio Macoo. the Cuban revolu Htlonary. leader, <a a mulatto and a Hinan of great culture und refinement. Hftle la woll educated und la aald to ho HLu-upulourtly neat In hla dress, i^-The President haa iaaued an ordor ^knding tho civil service rules to in Hoall or Intern auid pressmen In the. ?HlM^antlvo doparL^Htu^^^^0g| tS Kfwo men jfl |A York tM Ate IramIn ? A New Woman of the Right Sort. BRILLIANT TRIUMPH OF A MIS SISSIPPI QUEEN. How This Southern Olrl Smashed a Political Hi Ii??Her Ijove for Father and the Truth. lTho Intent " new ' woman is^a bril liant daughter of the conservative old State of Mississippi, who, during tho exoking days of the past week .when all eyos were oenterod upon the Demo cratic State convention, was herself a central figure, and, with no intention whatever of a pun on her name, was a deolded power. " New " you may call her by courtesy perhaps, but she is old in the sense of being womunly *, and it was no desire whatever for persoual aggrandi/.omeut which led hor to enter into the whirlpool of politics, but was, in?tead, that sweetest of sentiments, a* daughter's love for her father. The story oomes to me from Morid ian, where one of the most oxoiting State conventions known to the Demo cracy of that famous old State of ohivalry has just come to an end. Al most every county in tho State had a candidate en<i everv candidate was on hand with his friends and activo workers. Exoitement ran high. Many diutiug jished men were there and the haha that resounded with the match less eloquence of Prentts?, MoClung, Lamar and Davis were converted into lobbies where the politicians were at work. It was a convention notable in many respects, but notable and uniquo was it from the fact that for the tlrst time in the history of any Southern State a woman took au active part in a political canvass. That woman is Miss Kathorine Markham Power, of Jackson, who so successfully conducted the canvass of her father, J. L. Power, , for Secretary of State. Everybody is singing praises and tho most expe rienced politicians are tolling of her work, describing it as being truly mar velous. Miss Power is a young woman who has, by reason of her exceptional per sonal and mental (jifts, been widely known since entering the state of young womanhood. The daughter of a father born in the Emerald Isle and a mother in whose veins ilows the blood of the passionate South, Miss Power's qualities are, perhaps, " more mixed" than is Utual In one frail frame. Tall, slender, dark, "with shinning black orown " adorning a beautiful head splendidly poised and eyes of a marvelous depth of color, she is a typical specimen of Southern wo man l ood, physically, mentally and so cially. As a girl :vMes Power was a student brilliant ana ambitious. While still very young sho entered Mifis Baldwin's seminary in Stanuntou, Va., where she studied throe years, comiug home at last with numerous rolls of parchment and a little badge of gold given for " excellence in English composition." In that lay the guide of her future. Her return to her native city might have beon marked a social triumph had her tastes been iu that. But they were for more serious pleasures. While full of lifo and all the qualities that give youth and happiness, even as a child, Miss Power was fonder of a hook than of a card, more partial to drivos through nature's gardens than to a dance neath Maring ga~; and to quote one near to her, in I'm it. -I y fonder of "reading ' men and the stories they have to tell, than of listening to them, no matter how prepossessing the nar rator or romancer. Immediately after her return from school this brave girl entered her fa ther's otllco, ho then bolng editor of The Clarion, the otlicial organ of tho State, since which time she has tilled every position in a nowspaper office from proofreader up to editor. Stio^ls now editor and proprietor of Kate Powor's Review, tho only paper on the gulf coast ownod by a woman, edited by a woman and published for womon. This paper has had a phenomenally successful oarreer, having attained the fourth place in circulation among the State weeklies and having kopt up an oxaltod lit irary standard. Three weeks ago, while in an ex hausted condition from the summer's work, Miss Power loft homo for a va cation. She had been^absent two days when recalled by a telegram announc ing her father's serious, perhaps fatal illness. Iu great distress she returned to lind the father, who has beon more of a brother and companion to ber, ly ing at death's door, hope having been abandoned by family and physi cians. But not so with tho daughter. For nine days and nights she never left her father's bedsides oxcept to go to her study and with her younger sisters take up the pen in her father's defense in the canvass then at Its hottest for state *iinees. Power was a candidate for Secretary of Stato. His illness, coming as it did in the midst of his canvass and before he had visited more than a half dozen counties, soemod to put an end to his ehances, he having two, young and very vigorous oppo nents. The position of his daughter was difficult in the extreme. Grieved al most to dlstraetion because of her fa ther's sufferings, she still kept horself so well In hand that never for one hour did tho work of Hooding the State with circular and personal letters fal ter. She had in this most able assist ants in her brethors and two younger sisters, willing to exeeuto her decision In the direction of tho canvass. At tho most oritical time In his ill ness certain complications aroso In bis own county by which it seemed that the county would b<j wrested from him for some political ressons. ' Miss Power was for davs helpless, her father's death being probablo at any hour; but when, on Wednosday before the county olection on.Thurs day, tho beloved father passed tho .?M.i,., this girl with a lion's courage in a tender woman's heart, kissed tho bruw of her fathur and with that kiss as a benison, started forth on hor lal>or of love. After travoling in a day ono hun dred miles by rail and road combined, visiting every one of tho 125 dolegates to the county convention at their homes, and returning lato at night to tho bedside of her father, sho would upend several hours planning tho next day's correspondence to t e executed by her sisters. Unce during the week of Intense heat sho covered sixty-two miles in one day in a jumper. Her course was d gnitlod, her rocoption royal and every deference paid by the men, and though many a strong man would have fallen under the strains of travel, heat and work, this girl know no fatigue, nor was ever heard to mur mur. I u toss than five days sho had visited every preoint in the county ex cept four, and this (allure was due to an unfavorable ohange in hor father's condition requiring hor presence near him. And, through it all she never let her father suspect that there was any fight in the county, putting her absence 'down to important business Of_her OWn, lost It. InnrnwMo^iU lllr^j||g , havo their way they would never ob ject to tiueh "politics" as they heard from her. Exceedingly womanly and gracious in appearance, this girl seems equally charming* in a palace, and in a little log oabin home. The genuine spirit of courtesy aud kindness that is one of hor chief attractions served hor well in this work, and the fact that throughout her life sho has been able to recognize true manhood, whether in jeans or broadoloth, and do It honor, was as good as a life's superficial train ing iu tue school of politics. Her work did not cease in Hinds, but into every county sho could reach she went, never heeding her own 'com fort, but getting up at all hours of night, riding on palaco cars, in freight ca booses or on work trains to make hor points. It is said of her that she so filled the crew of a certain freight with admiration and sympathy that the conductor waited his train at the various stations one day until the del egates could bo talked to, thus aiding her to covor five towns iu one half day. Her work as a canvasser ended, sho sat the day of the convention in a pri vate otlice surrounded by the best and brainest men of Mississippi, directing with a clearness and wisdom that amazed those who obeyed her behests the convention work. No man in Mississippi could have dono tho work bettor, and very fow as well, as it has been dono by this bravo and loving girl who says, " 1 havo only two weapons it. this hard light?my love for my father, and tho truth." Telling of the way they worked, Miss Power suid to the friend who tells me the story : "The desk in tho library was nevor Vacant. Ono of the girls would write until the 2 o'clock a. m. trhin, then rouse my brother, who would lly to the train on his bike, mail the hundreds of lotters, maybo, and, returning, tuko his place at tbo desk, working up the early morning mail. At (> o'clock this was sent oil', and an other sister took hor turn until tho 10 o'clock mail went off. After thut, "all bauds" fell to giving such time as tbey could spago. And thus, in those four wooks of ceaseless nursing, with u pa per on our hands also, aud latter my constant traveling, tho children sent out thirty thousand circulars and wrote twelve hundred letters ! Pretty good work for .1 uly. don't you think?" Mies Power gives, a funny descrip tion of the stage fright tbut attacked her when she first ossayod to election eer. " I thought I should faint," said she. '? Everything swam in a sea of biaokness before me. The tloor wont up or tho roof camo down ; my knots shook frightfully, and my usually glih tonguo clave to tho roof of my mouth ; and as long as 1 live I shall rogurd tho clever merchant who camo forward and broke, tho ice by inquiring for my father's health as my deliverer ! Ugh ! it muk?s mo shudder to recall it." That is one sceneo ; bore Is another : " If you like excitement," says Miss Power, in describing tho momont when success came, "you should havo beeu in the capitol when they nomi nated papa ! Tho noise of tho shakiug building, tho echoes of the thunderous applauso and tho unending stream of men Hying back and forth'made a scene of raro excitement. And at last, when, as I sat at? the desk In my headquarters and beard Hying foot rush down tho hitherto deserted hall, and hoard my brother's voice, acd know that the bat tle was over and that victory was mlno, I thought I should die of suffocation ; I could not got my breath. And then, singly, in couples, trios, dozens, scores aud mobs, the men who hud stood by me camo to toll mo the news. Aud, ah, they told it gladly ! Sonio sti ong men laughed, and others, stronger, cried. Some knelt right thero und thankod tho divine Father for His aid: and at last, whon I had proudly clasp ed every honest hund in all that throng, f started homo to toll tho news to my father and mother : and us I How along with ono of tho grand young sons of Mississippi, who, forgotful of cares and troubles of his own, had stood ulose at my side and in ado a magniticout light, full half a huudred men, bosldos ladies and children, fol lowed mo into this glad homo, where 4 tho children 1 in their joy had forgot ton the bitter, toilsome weeks, and where my father, though still, 1 thank God, unconscious of tho bitter light on him, bad that in his eyes as he reach ed out his arms to me that mado tho horrible month just passed change, all at onco, into the happiest of my life." Miss Power, who has mado this val iant fight, was oarly appointed as one of tho directors for the State of M'siis stppi for tbo Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition, and, while she has had to employ most of her time othorwiso, she has boon working diligently throughout tho State in tho interost of the exhibit from Mississip pi, and she is conlidont that ovon now Mississippi und her women will come nobly to tho front with a creditable exhibit._^ THE OtiBBfSON TROUBLE. Dissension Among the Faculty to be Investigated. Columbia lte^islcr. Sonotor Tillman, in speaking of the "troubles" at Clemson, said thoro was no doubt about It that thoro wore dissension among tho faculty, and that tho board, would investiguto them, and intended to do so before this, but tho trouble was nobody would make any direct charges and therefore the board could do nothing. Sonator Till man is however a tirm beliovor in President Craighead, and whon ho spoke of dissonsions 'he meant that some of tho professors didn't liko him and wore creating all the talk about "trouble.' The board would liko very much to settle tho whole matter and would welcome any direct information. Tho board will thoroughly investigate and if there is really uny reason for the disagreement the proper remedy will be applied. Senator Tillman, however, denies that the board of trustees have been seriously quarreling, fie says they naturally differ as to the best way of conducting the school and they speak out their minds on thoso suhjcots and the usual wrangle naturally follows, but that it all. Gov. lOvans also says the whole businoss is due to certain professors, but that it might bo well to stir up the board also, some of whom appear to act solely fro n a bt lief that by opposing wnat Tillman wants, they thereby show thoir Independence. It appears then that the so-calle.l trouble, is not serious enough to affeot the wel'a "o of the college. Thero Is hard ly a laculty in tho country where dls senlons and differences do not oxlst but nobody pays any attention to them. I hit Clomscn being a oolloge vor which a big political tight was made it is natural for its opponents to lay f;r?at importance by otherwise trlvai n ddorits. ing along serenely at that young and promising State institution. In fact Senator Till man indioat id that there would have to be some Important changes before he would feel assured that the oollego would be prepared to do successfully the work laid out for it. And from what he said it is very evi dent taat the board of trustees have been cognizant of tbis for t>ome time, for an investigating committee has been appointed to seek out the cause of the trouble, and the Senator stated that the committee would have met before this but that other engage ments prevented his attending the meeting. The committee will meet within the next ten days or two weeks .probably. Senator Tillman said very much that would prove mighty interesting read ing, but the Senator farbids its publi cation. What Senator Tillman did sav for publication, however, was as follows: "Thore is surely trouble and lack of harmony and unity in the faoulty at Clomson. A committee has boon ap pointed to investigate the entire mat ter, and what I want Is any thread that will lead me, and the committee of which I am a member, to any evi dence that will ox pose the trouble and the cause of the lack of unity. A houeo divided against ?tself oannot stand, but you must remeuibei that there are many excuses to be made for the shortcomings of the board and faculty, because of the magnitude of the work, the newness of the college to every membor of the faculty and the diversity of the work done. "Tho last meeting of the board at CloLuson was, 1 can say, a stormy ono. There is always wraugling at the meetings, the members are a hard hoaded set of men and always oxprebs thoir views. The way to aid the school, however, is to let Its friends criticise it and not its declared enemies, or, If its enemies then let them produce evi dence to substatiate the indictment and gives the names of the parties Mak ing tho charges of whatever nature, so that the committee can summon them before It uudso, if needs bo, open up the whole thing. " It is quite clear that dither Mr. Craighead should not be president, or some of the professors should not hold their positions." Turning to Mr. MoMaster, who had written the article to the State on the college, he said : " You may prove to boa benefactor in that you have broken the ice in a thin place, so that now wo will be enabled to find out whore the trouble lies." che a i* fruit canneries. A fan ni ii". Dm tit for Ten Dollarn? Valuable Suggestions Huset! on I A poricnee. The Seaboard Air Lino is greatly In terested in tho development of the territory along its line, and is eontant ly on tho lookout to receive and give such information as will accomplish the object aimed at. Their agents have all received instructions to co operate with the people in devising plans for tho general good of thoir respective sections, and are respond ing heartily to the instructions re ceived. They frequently hand out cir culars containing important informa tion, and in many other ways contri bute to tho upbuildiug of tho places in which they uro located, Tho Newborry Voice prints the fol lowing lottor on fruit canning, which was in response to a circular from the industrial department of the Seaboard Air Lino : Prosperity, s. c. July 25,1805. Gentlemen: Y air agent at this place, Mr. Cavinaugh, handed me one of your circulars on canning ; would like to give my experience in that line. I am a tinner by trade and for several years had beon making my own cans, and by the use of tho cook stove and a tinner's soldering iron putting up our own fruit, Which was a slow process, but as I could make my own cans, liked it better and thought it cheaper than g'ass jars. Hut when the Prosperity Canning Co. started I worked with thorn two seasons as capper and tipper, and becoming familiar with the busi ness I could see no reason for it costing so much money to can fruits and vegetables. So last season I concluded to try mjf'hand. I made my outfit my self, as I am somewhat a carpenter as well as a tinner. For the boiler I uso 20 Galva iron 36 inches by 9 feet In lengtli. The. sides, ends, and parti tions I made of 2 by 19 inch poplar, making tho boiler 8 foet long, .'I foot wido and 18 inohes deep in threo apartments. Ono for scalding toma toes, one for exhausting and one for processing. Tho crates, trays, &o, I also made of wood, which is much lighter to handle than Iron. I uso a crane for lifting tho crates out of the boiler which is very simple, and 1 think is an improvement on tho ono in your circular. The furnace for heat ing tho irons I made of sheet Iron some larger than a tinner's furnace. Tho whole outfit, holler, cratos, trays, and furnace I can make for $10. I have built threo outfits this season for this section of icountry, and I feel sure that others will go into The business next reason. I am doing all I can to en courage tho industry, ar, I am sure it pays. Hotter goods eau bo put up, as more care is taken, in these small canneries, &0. I put up twenty-seven hundred three-pound cans of tomatoes last season, and sold every can in New berry County, and could not supply the demand. The farm I think is the prop er place* for the cannery. Tho time for canning is generally a loisure time with tho farmer. Ho ean work up his surplus fruits, vegetables, &c., with his own help, not only giving work to his laborers at a time when there is no work on a farm, but saving the fruit and vegetables that would otherwise bo wasted, and making a profit out of them (or himself, also supplying his table with fruits and vegetables during tno winter and early spring whon ho would he unable to supply It from tho garden and'orohard. If a farmor did not wish to go into tho busloess alone or does not havo sutllclont forco to run it ho oan got his nolghbar or neighbors to join him and oach oan as much for tholr own uso as they would nood and supply Lhoir homo market vory profitably. Anyono wishing to go into the canning business and wanting furthor Information or any oxporienced person to start thorn, I will tako groat ploas suro in furnlmlng olther as far as I oan, if persons writing me will enclose stamp for reply. Very llttl? experience is necessary to loarn how t, > oan. llcspcutfully, 8. L. PlLLKRb. Mr. Koller?' letter spouks for itself. It is explicit, and shows the farmers bow to save tholr surplus fruits and vegetables. If it does not awken an] Interest In the oanniug industry, we shall bo very rauoh surprised. Mr. Kellers has furnished Mr. 8. P. Grot well with an outfit, and ho Is now hard at. work oannlng and tells us that he is well pleased. It Is not too late, if ?action is taken, to get an outfit L for the present fruit and m crops. Others besides Mr. BLiiave purohaeed an outfit ?ftws, but wo havo not had Ro talk with them. BILL AEP ON THE FASHIONS. NOT IN FAVOB OF THIS BALLOON 8LKRVES. He Apprectate? a Good. Figure? Op posed to. Mother Hubbards and Tiiiin Lacing. I don't believe that tho most sensi ble woman In the world oan be wholly indifferent to the tyranny of fashion. If they don't fellow it near they do afar off. Woman seems to be built that way and I reokon she can't help it. The men have beeu fussing about it for ages, but it don't do any good. Some say that the devil is at the bot tom of it, and that fashion is woman's besetting sin and is the devil's trap that he sets to oateh them, but I don't believe It. I've notlcod my female folks making thoso big sleoves and I know they have bad no bad effect on them. They go to churob all the same, and to the missionary meeting, and tho Sunday school and Bing in tho choir, and are just as kind and in dustrious at home as they over were. Now the big sleeves were really right pretty and becoming until they swelled them out of all reason, and now thoy are horrid. For about a year tho stylo of woman's dress has been prettior than for many yen r.- before. It fit bor person and showed the grace of hor form "and mo/omen t, but this balloon sleeve business is deforming her some. I don't think it will last long. But I will compromise on most any fashion except hoop skirts. 1 never was re conciled to them and never will be. T lemember whon they came into fashion, and they were quite decent and well behaved, but in course of time they got bigger and more wider and spreadier until a man dident havo much showing on a sidewalk or tho street cars, and a woman with a full grown tilter on couldont got into a ohuroh pew with any grace. She couldent loan up against the counter in a store, but bad to stand oil a foot or so to keep the tilter from rizing from a horizontal to a perpendicular. That was away back boforo the war when George U. Prentico was ruuning The Louisville Journal, and he wroto such a saroastlo poem about them that the Ladies got ashamed and reduced their circumferonco. But they came back again a few years ago, though not to euch un extravagant extent. I was a young man when they first oomo and the rage was so infectious und universal that poor folks who couldent buy them got tho boys to mako thorn of white oak splits like they made the cotton baskets. But they were right cool in summer time, I reckon. They looked very cool when there was a breeze. This balloon sleeve is no now thing, though I don't think thoy were over quite so large as thoy are uow. The prophet Ezokiel took a dislike to thorn about 2,UO0 years ago, for he says, " Wo to the women who sow pillows to their armholos." They werostutTed, I reckon. But Isaiah made a clear sweep of all kinds of fashions that prevailed among thoso Hebrew women. He proclaimed a curse upon " tho tinkling ornumonts about their feet and their cauls and round-tires like the moon," and tho chains and brace lets and mufflers and bonnets and head bands and tablets and earrings aud changeable suits of appoarol aud big ornaments and rings and nose jewels and mantles and wimples and curling pins and glasses and hoods and veils. Pretty hard on them, wasn't it ? The poor creatures dident have much left, not even a dress to change in when company eauio?not a ring nor a nosogay. I remember those "round-tires like tho moon," like tho now moon whou it is about three days old. I wore one whon I was sweet sixteen. I was as trim and pretty as a girl and hud to act a girl's part in a play on tho btage on commencement night. I was to bo a fashionable young lady and Bill Maltble or Jim Alexander, I've for got which'ono, was tho dudo. Some of the girls made mo a round-tiro, which was then called a bustle. All the womon wore them, but I think mino was a triile larger than tho avorago It held a half pock of bran and made my hindgoar stick out a foot. As 1 wriggled about with my long train dross a rude boy slipped up behind mo and dropped a quid of tobacco on the bustle, which caused much laughtor. That bustle was as big as a big man's arm and tapered down at both ends, like tho horns of the moon. Some women wore them nearly as large and tho hump behind would huvo made a comfortable seat for a small boy. Sometimes tho stuffing leaked and you could truck the girl all around town by the bran she dropped. A town hog would keop fat on it. Some times they came untied and dropped off, which was very mortifying. One day I picked up ouo in tho store where I was clerking. I hung it up in sight, but I never could find the owner. But in course of time bustles went out an.l when the humps came back again thoy woro not made by that kind of a round tires, but made of a stiff grass cloth that was crimped up and gave a more graceful slope to tho dressing. It was a kind of dorsal opaulotte and was sometimes made, of religious IIOWS papors, suoh as Tho Christian at Work or Tho Evangelist. I don't believe that the ladios laco as much as thoy used to. I huvont seen but one girl in a long time who oxcited my fears, and I am still con corned for fear she will break in two, right at the coupling, or becomo un coupled some of theso days. A good healthy-sized waist is absolutely neoos 8'iry to a healthy wife, and nobody but an Idiot would marry a woman with a divt-daubor body. Novortheloss, I like to soo women fixed up nicoly with corsets on. In faot, with anything on ! ave Mother Hubbards. Speaking about theau old-tiuno writei'm who wore so bard upon womon reminds me of a phlllipioof Nathaniel Ward, the author of the first code of Massaehusotto law. Ho win a preach or, fc<>o, and riddled the lashionable women of that timo after this fashion : "When I hear a uuglperous dame Inqulro what dress the queon fs in this week or what is the nudlastertian fashion of the court with the dosiro to bo in It at all haste, I look upon her as the very gizzard of a tri lie, the product of a quarter Af a einher, tho on tomo of nothing; moro litter to be kicked than honorod or humored. Some of these women have to little wit or virtue that they dlsflgu-o themselves with exotic garbs that ulsmantie their native luster and transolouts them into gantbnr geese or lllshapen, illshotton sholl tiph or Egyptian hieroglyphlos or wear dralles on tho hinder part of their heads, having nothing on tho forepart. I can make my elf bick comparing tho splendor in whioh our gentlewomen used to ho dressed with the gut-foundered gooeedown where with they aro now surcingled. When I see any of them accidentally I can not oleanso my fancy of them for a month after. 1 have been a widower for twelvo years and puip^sod to look around for a yoke fellow, but when I consider how these women have tripe wlft.-d themselvos with their olod ments it works sorely 1 tupon my I omach. The tallois ought not to be I ted about by such miiuic Mursuosets? nor make fiddle oases for futilous women's fancies?the pettitoes of in firmity?the giblets of perqulsquiliae toys. I point not my pen at thoso women who follow fashions slowly?a liight shot off?but at those light heeled beagles that lead the chase? these ape-beaded pullets which invent antique fool faugles moroly for fash ion's sako." 'I'llis Is only a sample of his spleen. No wonder he couldont find another woman who would marry him. No wonder his wife died young. But If anybody wants to shoot some more small shot at woman's fads ar.d fashions and can't find laoguuge enough in the dictionary, lot them read Ward on "The Frivolities of Fashion," but look out for lockjaw. Women's long v\ alsts and short skirts and men's long hair seem to have demoralized him utterly. He wants tailors and hat'hors compelled to do their duty. Bn.L. Altr. SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENT. A Neheim? to Induce Immlnrrutlon? A Corporation Wlileh Proposes to do a ftreat Deal lor the Hontli. The following circular letter has boon seat, out to a lurge number of citi zens in this State: Doar Sir : Capital, whioh for years forced tho tide of immigration to tho West, strenuously resisting all efforts to divert it Southward, is now turning its attention to tho latter section as affording the best promise for invest ment. Immigration will follow. It must be intelligently controlled, guided and disturbed. In June. 181)4, a number of patriotic Northern and Southern business men formed the " Southern Exchange As sociation," a non-stock, disinterested institution, to aid in directing and dis tributing sottlers, as well as facilitat ing tho movomentof capital, encourag ing the establishment of manufacto ries aud iucroasing aud improving transportation. The plan of that association was a mixture of sentiment and business, with patriotism predominating. It was tho result of ideas not then suf ficiently matured ; and the outcome was satisfactory in that there ,vas accumulated, in Now York, a ?rast amount of information both as to prop erties, resources aud possibilities of tho South and inquiries from tho North and from abroad, hut without available means of accomplishing results. This failure accrued from tho inability of our pooplo to establish proper bureaus in the South. They could not afford to glvo their time and labor to this without reasonable com pensation. This association served, however, to provoke thought that is about to crys tal i/.e into an organization based sololy upon business principles, to bo known as the Southern Development Corpora tion. Only a limited number of South ern States havo" as yot boon given op portunity to come within the scopo of this movement, ono of which is South Carolina. This appointment in itself demonstrates that South Curolina is highly rogarded as a field for opera tions such as are contemplated, and t also moans tho prospect of rare bone fit to this State. In ordor to finally secure tho place thus offered her among profered States, It is necessary that she subscribe at least $1(),(K.)U in profered stock of tho corporation. Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Ten nessee, Kentucky, ' Louisiana and Arkansas are promptly availing thorn solves of a Similer opportunity and South Carolina cannot remain in tho background. lu a recent communication, Capt. Hugh K. Garden of New York, says : "AK mute in tho opinion that the establishment of a market In Now York and Chicago for Southorn busi ness enterprises can only ho done by tho combined effort of tho Southorn people interested in tho subject. Now York will respond when it is satisfied by a substantial Southern combination for that purpose, that tho South de siros such a market. It will take i.o interest in the matter otherwiso : and while Individual effort accomplishes something horo and there in tho Sjuth, tbo wisest businos-s and liuancial men declare that a vast amount of money und energy is now being wasted in that direction by individuals and firms which, if combined to establish a market where capital and settlers are to be found, will bring groat prolit to tho organizers and rapid development of the South. This is tho opinion of such men as William Butler Duncan, Frederick P. Olcott, Stuyvesant Fish, William Clarke, Chauncoy F. Black and a host of other Northern men of equal prominence. One of these gentlomon said ho would bo one of twonty-fivo tosubscribo $5,000 to $10, 000 each to the capital of a company organized upon u proper basis to carry out such a work and that under broad, vigorous management It would suc ceed. ? " An agent at the South will ho ox peoted to bring to tho company the most attractive business in his terri tory ; an agent at tho North will bo oxpocted to bring to tho company the best people who are looking for or can bo induced to mako investments in the South of any character or description "The Now York aud Chicago ofllo i , will bo places for arrangement and display, and for affording accurate n formutiou respecting tho business which is offered. After various conferences with East ern capitalists atd Southern business men, and a very careful consideration of tbo whole matter, wo feel convinced that the proposed corporation will ac complish its purpose aud that tho in telligent business men of South Caio Una will appreciate- the enterprise hh a good Investment, independent of the great good to result to our State. We therefore bog that you will bestow upon the enclosed | iM>p< ctus enrulnl study and give uh your co-operation as woll as a subscription, which, you will nolo, is conditional. Yours truly, J. T. Bakkon, Columbia, S. C, A. C. KUKMAN, Croonvlilo, S. C, A. M. RICHARDSON, Columbia, S. C. ?General John B, Imbodon, tho famous Confederate cavalry general, died on tho 15th inst. at Abingdon, Virginia. Ho was a native of Augusta County, V?.. and a graduate of tho Virginia Military Institute. He rep resented thut county in tlio Legisla ture. At the beginning of tho civil war ho roisud a company and ontored the Confederate army. Ho roso rapidly to tho command of a cav-ilry brigado and participated in all the principal battles. After tho war he engaged largely in mining and railroad enter prises. He mot with frequent reverses, however, and died a poor man. Ho was seventy-five years old and had beon married four times. His lust wife and several children survive him. ?New England has a greater pro portion of wago earnors than any othor seotion of the country, in Rhode Island the proportion roaching42 per oent.. or nearly qne-half of the entire population. Tnls*romnrkablo state of things Is due to -the employment of wtaen ani ohlldremln tho mills. A STRANGS 8TOHY. Abraham Ldnooln in Claimed as a Nutive of North Carolina. The following strange and unlikely story is printed in the Carollua Spur tan : According to promise, L give a brief state moot about the birth placo of Abraham Lincoln, hoping that future investigation will be made. Theresas been much speculation and more exaggeration as to the birth placo of Abraham Lincoln thau any other groat man in the annals of his tory. Barnes, in tho history of tt o United States, says on page 215 in a foot note, " he was born in Kentucky, Feb 12th, 1805?." Ho also says " Abra ham Lincoln's father was unable to read or write." This sounds very much like fiction to those who know the real (net . as to his native heath and tho intellectual acquirements of his father. From tho best ov idonco obtained here Abraham Enloe was tho father of Abraham Lincoln and lived in Hey wood County, N. C, at the timoof Lin coln's birth ; but this part of Hoywood has since boon cut off to Swain County. Abraham Enloo lived on Oeona Luf ta river now in Swain County and ac quired considerable property, consist ing of slaves and a large body of land in tho fertilo valloy of Ocona Lufta. Mr. Abraham Enloo was intelligent and educated for his day. He was tall and dark complected, with rough fea tures, aud was the father of live 6ons, all of whom bear the same prominent characteristic physiognomy. The mother of Abraham Lincoln was Nancy Hanks, a native of North Caro lina, aud was employed by Abraham Enloo as a domestic. Mrs. Abraham Euloo soon became joalous of bor do mestic girl, which resulted in the re moval of Miss Nancy Hanks to & Mr. Moody's on Jonathan's Creek in Hoy wood County, a distance of about Ifi miles, where she remained until tho birth of u son, which she named after his father, Abraham Enloe. The re moval of Miss Nancy failed to reoon oilo Mrs. Enloo. Their domestic troubles grew from bad to worse until Abraham Enloo omployod a man to carry Miss Nancy and her bubo across tho line into Tennessee where she lived with one of his "olatives until 8 le married Tin mas Lincoln. Thus me namo of Lincolu was ougraftod to the already sir namo of Abraham, which over followed him to tho Presi dential seat. Westly M. Enloo is now the only living son of Abraham Enloe and lives in Swain County, near the old homestsad and elaims to be the half brother of Abraham Lincoln and thoy are as much alike as twin broth ers. Ho is an intelligent, prosperous, good citizen. Thomas Lincoln, tho step-father of Abraham Lincoln, was a distiller in East Tennessee Valley in close prox imity to tho Kentucky line, and had some thrilling experiences in shipping tho products of his industry. Thoro is an abundance of proof all supporting those statements. I publish this that an investigation may bo made and tho true history ho brought to light. THE DUTY OF TUT, STATIC. Tliu dire ol'ilie l'oor ami die Neglect of Means for Preventing Poverty. Evon during tho hard linaucial strain of tho past two years tho groat ma jority of those who havo suffered have beeu those who have never been taught to do anything, or at least never ooen taught with u thoroughness that makes instruction convertible into terms of dollars and cents, bread and butter. Tho generic problem of the race is to keep soul and body together, and the school problem is first of all to put tho rising generation in tho way of making the junction of tho two pos sible. So long as tho State assumes tho care of paupers it is the duty of tho State to uso its best moans to prevent tho existence of paupers', and one of tho most diroct moans to that end is tj soo to it that all tho children in tho State are thoroughly instructed in reading, writing and arithmetic, aud uro substantially trained in the practice of some form of remunerative handiwork, writes tho Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D. D., in a vigorous article on " Compulsion in Child Train ing," in the S -ptomber Ladies' Home Journal. Thoro is work enough to be douo in this big world by people who uro willing to work and w ho know how. The idea of immense wealth secured by some process of linaucial legerde main has so pervaded the general atmosphere that a sulllcioncv has coasod to satisfy and a young man resolves either to speculate his way to fortune, or to steal some one's else fortune, if both theso expedients fail, to turn professional idler and subsist on oharity. Tho incentive to substan tial equipment for the struggle of life is thus withdrawn. If I w< re the State I would compel ovory child to acquire tho means of an honest livelihood, oven at the risk of the whip, and then if having acquired' that means, ho failed to avail Of it to bis own maintenance, I would commit him to the workhouse and keep him at hard labor there till ho experienced a change of heart. There is no respecta ble consistency between State's caro of tho poor and Stato's neglect of stringent means for preventing tho existence of tho poor. If a govern* ment ought to bo " paternal " to the < xt'ii o! feeding paupers it ought to bo "paternal" to the extent of oblig ing possible or Intending paupers to be able to feed themselves. Tho root difficulty in all this matter is tho in disposition of parents aud other con stitutcd authorities to make Horums business of lay log substantial founda tions in tho early years of our young people, boys and girls. One of tho chief sources of misery umoug tho working el asses' is the wife's Ignorance of the duties that belong to her. She is ignorant of them because she has never been compel led to learn them. If we could split half of our pianos into kindling wood and pluck the strings out of three-quarters of our harps and banjos, and sot our young girls to the practical task of becoming proficient in a self-sustaining way upon some lino or other of remunerative in dustry : it would bo a great bonsion to society in general, in whatever direction we look and whatever im provement wo seek to olTeot, we come back to it again and again that the end is determined by tho beginning, and that tho foundations of all public bet torment have to ho bo laid in tho child ren. .-_?)^.?* ? II. 11cinema ii, Milwaukee, writes : "Ono box .lapanese I'llo Cure li'*s cured me of a case of 28 years standing, alter being treatod by Now York's best physicians." Sold by Carpenter ltros., Urcenvillo, S. C. ?Tho State authorities are thinking of cutting the foroo of whiskoy consta bles down to a doze* or more seleot men and have them tako in the State TO TI1K WOMEN A Circular Issued by Hie Hoard o Ijlldy M a it i. ,ii .. Tho board of managers for tho South Carolina rooiu in tho woman's builditt at the Atlanta Kxpositiou havo sett out a circular to tho wouicu of the State saying : " Tho women of the board feel that It is tho privilege of evory^other wo-, man of tlio State to share with the in a p rsonal interest and right in t'ieirj; room ; therefore they wish as u any ?*.. possible to contribute to it personally You are asked to send lib cents i stamps or dimes in the cnelosod e volope." This is to create a fooling amongst tho women of tho State that each one has a right and ehuro in their room and tho board wish auy woman who* has not had a circular sent her and would like to contribute her mite to send it to the treasurer, Mrs. W. C.1 Bonot, Abbeville, S. C. A very desirable location has boon secured for tho South Carolina room, and plans for a most attractive ex hibit have boon perfected. It is so situated as to bo specially Conspiott.O'Ui and wo want it to attract tho ad mir tion as well as tho attention of all. is so desired now that tho women of Stato co-operate in this patriotic on" Besides thero is tho consideration a creditablo display will undoub bo of bonolit to tho Stato geuoral it will induce outside investment by capitalists who will visit tho exposi tion for tho purpose of locating and engaging in various manufactures '"r.jigf industries. Wo wl?h to display jM best productions from Held and faM vegetables and fruits, preserved^B piekoled, and specimens of \\<JLwk and ingenuity iu wldeb^^-aB excel in artistic work los, paimiug, etc., besidesou^H torie relics. ^MkXmW All this display will -j*j^B^^Wio.,?! ^\\yn\\Jk*9m*mm^^^J^lW^\v leime-, ft in one o^B ^Wtt culture and re?nomclW^MlW'^ffinen. Ii is hoped that tho women of the Stato will respond at ouco and lose no time in making ready their exhibits. The chairman of the board will appoint a lady iu eacli county seat of the State to take charge of tho collection und forwarding of exhibits. A list of these names will be published later. Tho railroads will take exhibits to the woman's building free of charge. Express charges on all loan exhibits will bo r ild by the board of woman managers. Every reasonable care will bo taken of all articles loaned, and ospuoial guards will be placed over them iu Atlanta, and every precaution observ ed for their safety from injury or Uro. The most valuable relies and paintings will he in a lire prool building. So wo hope UOOnc will hesitate to send any old and valuable relies that will add to the rare collect ion. Already a hu ge number of such have been tendered. All modern and Ingenious work is much desired. Prizes will bo awarded by tho hoard of managers to the host work in tho various departments. On application to tho lady agent at each county 80/ . tags will bo given and directions fii nished to each exhibitor us to the la St way to send her articles. CATSUP AND PICKIjKS. Items of Interest to the HoilSCWilV) at this Season. A correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle gives the following Informa tion for housekeepers : This is the time of tho year when housekeepers, especially the fanners' wives, delight in making pickle-, p,ie-^ serves, joilio and catsup, for Wie win ter's provision. It i a souvco of end less delight to . lew tho shelves of fruit after it is prepared in tho self-soaliug jars. A more economical way is dust ing raw egg, over brown paper, and fastening securely over tue jars to exclude air. Several of my neigh bors who have, inadcibomo-made brown sugar from the ribbon cana* syrup : have utilized quantities of that for their preserves. Of course the fruit does not look light and clear, but it is sweet and as the little children say, "puts a good taste in the mouth." For the special occasions, loaf sugar or granulated is preferred. Apples and peaches, nlicod ve-v thin and dried In the sun. is a fa.... o.e. oc cupation, not forgetting to previously pare their . Then there are the fruit and vegetable butters, the wild goose berries and muscadines, make rieb, slightly at id jellies to be eaten with meats. Vegetables gathered and placed iu strong salt brine will keep fresh all the year. One of the best rccoipos for "tomato catsup," and which I have been asked repeatedly for, is known to ine as "Aunt Mami&'S Catsup,'' and for the benefit of numerous readers I will glvo it: Onogallon of ripe tomatoes. 1 quart of vinegar, I tablespoons of mustard, 1 tablespoon of cinnamon, 1 !>ablospoon of spice, I tablespoon of cloves, (ion ions chopped line. Mash the tomatoes in the vinegar with tho onions, place, over a slow lire until the tomatoos aro thoroughly cooked : strain through the. sieve: add to the other ingredients: have, the spices ground : put over a good tire until tho mixture becomes the consistency of paste. When cold hottlo and seal with scaling wax : add a few drops of olive oil, just before sealing. It will keep perfectly for years, if kept in a dark placo. I will also give an excellent receipt for swoot cieumber pickles : Take 2 dozen cucumbers out of brino, cut into quarters, soak in water for 24 hours, tiio? in.il 1 J. hour in I 2 gallon of vinegar to winch mid ~ ouj% of sugar, I tablespoon of cinnamon, i tablespoon of cloves, I tablespoon of celery seed, I tablospOOU of black pep per. It is considered stylish to have it almost black with spices. Wien cool exclude tho air and it is ready for im mediate use. ?New York Journal : Hero's a man named Kipp boon killed by lightning in tho big storm of throe nights Ugo. Got up when the storm was u< Its height aud vent to the window to close it. It is an old saying, koop away from tho draughts while lightii nlng Is going on. Don't know anything about It, hut always told that it was II had thing to get In a draught. IS ittor shut down a window before the .-lone gots to work. One thing sure Kipp was killed. Might have been killed if ho had been in any other place, but. it so happened that h" wm? ??' an open window and in a draught. Whon traveling, always take a cuke of Johnson's Oriental Soap with yoi ; diseases are often caught from using hotel soap. Sold by Carpenter Uros., Greouvillo, S. G. ?Tho ouo-cent-a-niile rate has been offered by tho railroads lor the occa sion of tho Stato Fair. ?It Is (ho intention of tho Stato to make an exhibit of tho diaponsary at At anta.