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mvsn LAURENS, S. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1896. ? PASSED OVER THE PRESIDENT'S VETO. THE ItlVISIl AND ill 111 (OK B1VK* IS A Iii? RIGHT. A Complete Answer to Cleveland's Extraordinary Charges?A Strong Presentation of the Faots. Tbd report of the committee on ?. rivers and harbors, recommending the p?esage of the river and harbor bill, "the objections of the President to the contrary notwithstanding," was presented by Mr. Hookor, Republican, of New York, chairman, and read. The repot t states that of the 417 items of appropriations contained in the bill all excopt twenty-seven are for pro jects contalaed In bills which have heretofore become laws, and whioh have been for years in process of con struct-on by the government. No new projects were added to the bill of 1894. It will thus be seen, the report states, that the principal work of theoommit tee ha* bice the investigation and ex amination of improvements to whioh CongresB has repeatedly committed itself. The river and harbor bill of 1890 appropriated $25,000,000 and plae 1 ed certain works under the contract system, whioh involved the additional expenditure of $15,000. It appears, therefore, that by far the greater number of projects appropriated for in this bill were also appropriated for in the bill of 1890 and whioh are not yet completed. The report explains that the bill was referred to Gen. Casey, then chief of the United States engineers, who reported to President Harrison that only eight of the items seemed to be of limited or local benefit. The gross amount appropriated for these items was $72,000. Prom this it will be seen, the report continues, that the larger part of the projects contained in the present bill passed tho scrutiny and received the approval of Gen. Casey and have gone unchallenged until now. The bills of 1890 and 1892 were ap Kroved by President Harrison and the 111 of 1894 was permitted by the pres ent Exeoutlve to become a law by limi tation. The committee impeached the Pres ident's declaration that many of the objects for which the money is appro priated are not related to the public welfare. They assert that tho bill was carefully prepared after exhaustive hearings, and that they scrupulously avoided making appropriations not in the interest of commerce. Referring to the President's criti cism, that not a few of the improve ments have been so improvidently planned and prosecuted that after an unwise expenditure of millions of dol lars new experiments for their accom plishment have been entered upon, the committee says that it has often occur red, after a project has been adopted in accordance with certain defined plans submitted by the engineers, that the interests of commerce required that a greater and more effective im provement than that first contemplat ed should be made. In such cases it had long been the custom of Congress to order from time to time new esti mates to be made with a view to en larging the 80opo of these projects. In making appropriations for these en larged projects the bill often directed that the money appropriated should be expended in accordance with the mod ifications of the engineers The committee believe, therefore, that tho President may have Inferred from the language so used that the original plans had been improvident and illad vised and the money wasted, when the money expended upon the original plans was judiciously expended ard would have been expended even if the modified plans had been originally adopted. An Instance of these modifi cations is found in the case of tho har bors at Baltimore, Portland, New York, Wilmington, Delaware, Savan nah and other plaoes. A careful re-examlnatlon of the bill warrants the committee in asserting that there is no foundation for the President's statement that the bill oarries appropriations for work which private parties have actually agreed with the government to do in consid eration of their occupancy of public property. Referring to the President's further criticism that the bill contemplates an immediate cash expenditure of nearly $17,000,000, including $3,000,000 carried in the sundry olvil appropriation bills fur contract work, the committee as sert that the President is in error and that only $12,621,000 are to be expend ed during the two fiscal years ending June 30, 1808. The statement is also mado that the bill does not appropri ate $02,000,000 for contract work, but only -$59,016,009. It is also shown that if all the contracts authorized by the bill are promptly entered into by the, Seoretary of War the maximum amount that oan be expended in any one year is $10,612,000, and not 20,000, 000 as the President asserts. Referring to tho President's further criticism that the appropriations for the smaller sohemes not covered by contracts which will fall due two years hence will not be less than $30,000,000, the committee say that the next river and harbor bill will only cover the cost of prosecuting those smaller works for the two fiscal years ending In 1900, and that no additional appropriations for the smallor ones will be made for the year 1898. Passing to the President's accusa tion of extravagance, the committee show that the average appropriations for the past six yoars have been $16. 000,000 a year, while inoludlng the present bill and the two others for the remainder of this oentury the total amount for those six years will only average $13,000,000 a year. This Is based partly upon the ground that the committee's experience with the con tract system in the past, together with other Knowledge, Justifies the belief that the contract work whioh will be distributed over a period of six years, and whioh amounts to $59,000,000, will be completed tor at least 30 per oent. less than the amount stated, or, in other words, for $42,000,000. The report repeatedly emphasizes the committee's approval of the con tract system as being less expensive to the Government, and securing more prompt and satisfactory results. This system is tho distinctive feature of the bill, and tho committee strongly re commends Its continuation. The re port adds that no good reason has been assigued by the President why the House should recede from, its action With regard to the moasure. "It must not be forgotten." the re* ?dort conoludes, "that if this bill should fall there are hundreds of useful pro loots of improvements that have been in process of completion for a number of years, and against whioh the most captious critic could urge no objection, Which would be suspended, whereby great waste would bo incurred and t;reat loss sustained. Notwithstand ing ail that has been said against the bin your committee assert that If it should become a law It would yield ?hm?, actual substantial boneflt far.tiers, the producers, the const joe rnor jhaet? and the bush ests of the country, and contribute largely to it* prosperity." There was an i<n"?ually largo num ber of members in their scats, and they listened to the report with oloee atten tion and applauded it warmly. Mr. Hooker stated that, in the opin ion of the committee, the President's veto raised every possible objection, and itwaa the intention of the commit tee by its report to answer them. He said that many gontlomon had spoken to him about discussing the veto, and if he had consented to give them all the time asked for it would run over three or four days. The matter was one for the House to determine; if it wanted to engage in debate, well and good. In order to test the sense of the House on the question, and without ex Erossing any opinion as to the desira illtyof tbo courso indicated, he would ask the previous question on the mo tion to pass the bill. (Applause.) Mr. Dookery, Demoorat, of Missouri, and several other members were on their feet demanding recognition. The former with great vehemence' of man ner denounced the course of the gen tleman from New Yor<c (' .-. Hooker), shouting: "The gentleman agreed with iino yesterday that there should be opportunity for debate. It is unjust, unfair and unmanly to out us off this wav." _? Mr. Hooker seemed about to yield to Mr. Dockery's demand, but many mem bers interposed with or lea for "the reg , ular order," and the vote on ordering the previous question was taken. It resulted : Yoas 179, nays 60. Mr. Doekery demanded the yeas and nays, but could muster only 40 mem bers to second his demand, not a suffi cient number, and that announcement was greeted with derisive cries of tri umph from friends of the bill. . The Speaker put the question : "Up on reconsideration, will the House pass the bill, the objeotion of the President to the contrary notwithstanding ?" Whereupon Mr. Doekery made an other effort to secure a hearing. So mildly as to be almost pathetic he in quired : "Upon the question of passing a bill over the President's veto there can be no debate under the course pur sued by the gentleman in charge." The Speaker : "When the House of Representatives has so voted there can be no debate." (Applause.) Mr. Doekery : "And it has so voted. Stifled debate." And he sank into his seat amidst general laughter. The vote was then taken on the pas sage of the bill over the President's veto, the Constitution requiring that it should be done by yeas and nays. There were 220 yeas and 60 nays. More than two-thirds having voted in the affirmative, the bill was declared to have passed. The following Democrats voted to 6ass the bill over the President's veto : iankhead, Berry, Buek, Catchings, Clark, of Alabama, Cobb, Cooper, of Florida, Cooper, of Texas, Culberson, Cummings, Denny, Dinsmore, Ellett, Elliott, Fitzgerald, Kendall, Kyle, Lat imer, Lester, Little, McCullooh, Mc Millin, McRae, Meyer, Money, Ogden, Owens, Price, Robertson, Sparkman. Strait, Talbert, Torry, Turner, of Georgia, Tyler, Underwood, Washing ton, Williams and Wilson, of South Carolina?39. The negative vote was made up of the following : Democrats?Allen, of Mississippi, Bartlott, Bell, Blaok, Clardy, Cockrell, DeArmond, Dookery, Erdman, Hall, of Missouri, Harrison, Hart, Hendrlcks, Jones, Kleberg, Lay ton, McGulre, McClellan, McDeamond, Pendleton. Richardson, Sayers, Shaw, Sorg, Stalltngs, Sulzer, T?te, Tuoker, of Virginia, and Walsh. Republicans ?Allen, of Utah, Anderson, Andrews, Baker, of New Hampshire, Brown, Calderhead, Connolly, Grout, Hager, Hainer, Hepburn, Deighty, Llnney Long, McCall, of Tennessee, MoClure, Melt, wan, Pearson Pitney, Soranton, Settle, Shafroth, Sherman, Strode, Tracowell and Updegraff. Populists? Baker, of Kansas, Boll, of Colorado, Kern and Skinner. Mr. Stroud, of North Carolina, was the onlv Populist who voted for the bill. There were comparatively so few votes in the neg ative that it was found impossible to Kair absent .members in favor of the ill. A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE. Dr. Pope Will Not Run as an Inde pendent?Thinks His Lifo in Dan? **er. To the Republicans of South Carolina: As tho announcement of my oandlda oy for governor may be misunderstood, I desire to say that It is subject to the action of the Republican convention. If that body should see proper to nom inate some one else for the position, I shall bo bound to its action. The posi tion is not a b<>(i of roses. I have been informed by the oliiof peace officer of a county in tbe ftp-country that I will not be allowed to speak in his county : that I will be killed if I attempt it. Red-handed murder is to be added to the crimes committed by some of the dominant element. Free speech is to be stifled at all hazards. No man has a right to teach Incendiary doctrines. All men have the right to speak upon the issues of the day. It is the truth that hurts and the people of the State will sooner or later near it and act upon it. If oalled upon by the conven tion to do so, I shall in my feeble way give the people my views without fear of the result. It is only a question of time' when a large majority of the white people In this State will em brace Republicanism. Tho teachings of that party are for honest elections honest government, a sound currency and for protection to Amerioan indus tries ana American labor. For tho information of a certain county editor, whose name is mention ed in connection with an important office, I will say that he need give him self no uneasiness; that many white men, yea thousands, as good or better thao he Is, will vote for me for govern or, and for the information of another who classes me as a great officeseeker, I will say that in 1891 I offered Gon. Kllorbo and Mr. Tlndal that if they would join me In going out of the Re form primary that It would not inure to my benefit, but to that of General Ellerbo, but they refused. I would also remind him that I oould have been secretary of State had I withdrawn from the race for governor, and as late as August of that year. I believe I could nave been Stato dlspensor?yet I refused all of the attempts to take me out of the raoo for governor. Did this look like I was an office seeker ? With this said, I shall not further notice newspaper criticisms of my course. I would say to the editors of newspapers, some of whom claim to be Christians, "Be just and fear not; let all the ends thou atmest at be thy country's, thy God's and truths'." Respectfully, Sampson Pope. ?Mr. W. D. Barnes, a young white man who lives a few miles east of Cainden, waschet In^hls neck.Saturday night by John ,T. Bradloy, a drunko to man Bradley was oarelessl filing the pistol and says he di ' it was loaded. Barnes Is n THE CAMPAIGN AND THE PRIMARY, STATES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES ARRANGES THE .DATES. Schedule of the Campaign Meetings ?New Rules and Regulations for the Primary. The State Democratic exeoutlve committee held a special meeting on the 5th inst. to make arrangements for the campaign meetings and to provide rules for the government ol tbo primary. Hon. D. H. Tompkins was in the ohalr, and Mr. McSweeney offered a schedule for the campaign, which he satd had been prepared with groat care, and whieh was adopted almost without ohange, as follows: Manning, Monday, June 22. < Kingstree, Tuesday, June 23. Georgetown, Wednesday, Juno 24. Conway, Friday, Juno 20. Marlon, Saturday, June 27. Monok's Corner, Monday, June 29. Charleston, Tuesday, Juno 30. Walterboro. Wednesday, July 1. Beaufort, Thursday, Juiy 2. Hampton, Friday, July 3. Sumter, Monday, July 13. Camden, Tuesday, July 14. Lancaster, Wednesday, July 15. Chester. Friday, July 17. Yorkvlllo, Saturday, July 18. Chesterfield, Tuesday, July 21. Bennettsvllle, Wednesday, July 22. Darlington, Thursday, July 23. Florence, Friday, July 24. Barnwell, Motday, July 27. Aiken, Tuesday, July 28. Edgefleld, Wednesday, July 29. Saluda, Saturday, August 1. Lexington, Monday, August 3. Winnsboro, Tuesday, August 4. Columbia, Wednesday, August 5. Orangoburg, Thursday, August 6. Nowberry, Friday, August 7. Laurens, Saturday, August 8. Union, Monday, August 10. Spartanburg, Tuesday, August 11. Greenville. Wednesday, August 12. Pickens, Thursday, August 13. Ooonee, Friday, August 14. Anderson, Monday, August 17. Abbeville, Wednesday, August 19. The new rules were then adopted as follows : The following rules shall govern the membership of the different subordi nate Demoeratio clubs of this State, the qualification of voters at the pri mary elections held by the party, the conduot of the primary elections to be held on the last Tuesday (the 20th day) of August, A. D. 1800, and the second nrlmary hold two weeks later, if one be necessary: Rule 1. The qualification for mem bership in any subordinate club of the Demoeratio party of this State, or for voting at a Democratic primary, shall be as follows, viz : The applicant for membership or voter, shall be 21 years of ago, or shall become so before the succeeding general eleotlon, and be a white Democrat, or a negro who voted for General Hampton in '1870 and who has voted the Democratic ticket con tinuously since. Provided, that no white man shall be exoluded from par ticipation In the Demoeratio primary who shall take the pledge required by the rulos of the Demoeratio party. Tho managers of eaoh box at the primary election shall require every voter in a Democratic primary elec tion to take tho following oath and pledge: " I do Bolmonly swear that I am duly qualified to vote at this oleotlon according to tho rules of the Demo cratic party, and that I have not voted before at this election, and pledgo myself to support the nominees of the party." Rule 2. Every negro applying for membership in a Democratic club, or offering to vote in a Democratic pri mary eleotlon, must produce a written statement of 10 reputable white mon, who shall swear that they know of their own knowledge that the appli cant, or voter, voted for General Hamp ton in 1870 and has voted the Demo cratic tiokot continuously since. Tho said statement shall be placed in the ballot box by the managers and return ed with poll list to tho county chair man. The managers of election shall keep a separate list of the names of all negro voters and return it, wich the poll list, to the county chairman. No person shall bo permitted to vote unless he has been onrolled on a olub list at least five days before the said primary election. The club lists shall be inspected by and certified to by tho president and secretary and turned over to the managers to be used as the registry lists. Rule 3. Bach county executivo com mittoo of the Demooratio party in this State shall meet on or before the first Monday in August of each election year and shall appoint throe managers for each primary eleotion preclnot In their respective oountles, who shall hold tho primary eleotion provided for under the Demooratio constitution, in accordance- with the nets of the General Assembly of this State regulating pri mary elections, the constitution of the rules herein set forth. The names of such managers may be published by the chairman of each county executive committee in one of moro county papor.i at least two weeks boforo the eleotion. Rule 4. Eaeh voter In said primary shall vote but two ballots, on which shall be printed or written or partly printed and partly written, the name or names of the person or persons voted for by him for eaeh of the offices to bo filled, together with the name of the office. The tickets to be voted shall he in the following form, with apace.!) to suite the different oountleB : U. S. Senator. Governor. Lieutenant Governor, Seoretary of State. Comptroller General. State Treasurer. Attorney Gonoral. Adjutant and Inspector General. State Superintendent of Education. Railroad Commissioners. For Congress???-Dlstrlot. For Sollotor-Judioal Clrouit. State Senator. House of Representatives. Sheriff. Judge of Probate. Clerk of tbe Court. County Supervisor. Coroner. County Superintendent of Eduoatlon. Treasurer. Auditor. No vote for House of Representatives shall be counted unless it contains as many names as the county Is entitled to representatives. Rule 5. The managers of eleotion shall open the polls at 8 o'clock a. m. and shall close them at 4 o'olock p. m. After tabulating the result, the man agers shall certify the same and forward the ballot box, poll list and all othor papers relating to suoh eleotion, by one of their number or by the execu tive eommltteeroan to the ohalrman of the respective Democratic county executive committee within 48 hours after tho olose of the polls. Uulo 0. Tho county Democratlo ox ecutlvo committee shall assemble at their respective court houses on tho morning of the second day of the eleo tion at or before 12 o'clock m., to tabu late the returns and declare the result of the primary, so far as the same re lates to the members of the General Assembly and county officers, and shall forward immediately to the chairman of the State executive committee at Columbia, S. G, the result of the elec tion In their respeotlve counties for Congressmen and Solicitors. Rule 7. The protests and contests for county officers shall be filed within five days after the eleotion with the ohalrman of the county executive com mittee, and of the executive commit tee shall hear and determine the same. The State exeoutlve committee shall hear and deoido protects and contests as to United States Senators. State officers, Congressmen and Solicitors, and ton days shall be allowed for filing the same. Rule 8. Candidates for tho General Assembly and for county offioes shall, ten days previous to the primary elec tion, file with the ohalrman of the county executive committee a pledge, In writing, to abide the result of the primary and support tho nominees thereof. Candidates for other offices shall file suoh pledge with the chair man of the State Demooratio execu tive committee on or beforo the 22d of June. 1896. No vote for any oandidato who has not complied with this rule shall be counted. Rule 0. In the primary elections herein provided for, a majority of the votes cast shall be necessary to nomi nate candidates. A second primary, when necessary, shall be hold two weeks after tho first, as is provided for under tho Constitution of tho party, and shall be subject to the rules gov erning tho first primary. At said sec ond primary, tbe two highest candi dates alono shall run for any one ofllco, but if tbero are two or more vacanoies for any particular office,-.thon doublo the number of candidates shall run for the vacancies to bo filled. For in stance, in a race for sheriff tho two highest shall run. Rule 10. In tho event of a tie be tween two candidates in the second primary, the county chairman, if it is a county office, and tho Stato chair man, if it is a Stute office, for United States Senator or for Congress, or for Solicitor, shall order a third primary. The question of a majority Vote shall be determined by the number of votes cast for any particular oil ice and not by tho whole number of votos cast in tho primary. Rule 11. Each county executive com mittee shall furnish the managers at c?cb. pio?iuct two ballot boxos, one for United States SonatutMtogLState offi cers and the other &i?atr*gres8men, solicitors and county officors.*"*"""" v Col. Noal moved that the chairman of the committee prepare ta address to tho committees calling on t(hem to take such steps as would sec'i.,.0 the registration of every white man \n faq State. Adopted. JOHN PIEKCE'H IAJCK. A Stone Which Ho Started to Throw at a Cow Brings His $250,000. San Francisco Examiner. John Pieroo is a Tombstone, Ariz., miner, who up to a your and a half ago had difficult work to provide tho neces sities of life for himsolf and family. Ho is now in this olty with $250,000 in gold coin to his eredit. It is another story of a lucky find of rich gold and silver bearing quartz. Pierce Is the name of tho now oainp just coming into prominence about thirty miles northeast of Tombstone. It is made moro conspicuous because in addition to its great ore richness it is about tho only gold camp in tho territory. Already there aro 500 peo ple there and empty houses from Tombstone are being taken thore bodily. An English syndicate has organized with a million and a halt of dollars, and It is said that there Is a prospect of the new camp rivaling Cripple Creek, in Colorado. Pierce was seen at his hotol soon after his arrival a few days ago. Ho tells an interesting story of his dis covery and of his sudden change In position from a man without a dollar to one who can be considered fairly wealthy. Ho Is a Cornlshman, about fifty years of age, with little or no education, and who appears totally un aware as yet of what his fortune can do for him. "About four years . apro." said he, " J took up a claim about thirty miles northeast of Tombstone. There was a water holo in the mountain, and I took the place in order to got tho water so I could raiso a few head of stock. There was not much to be made from it, and as I was broken down from hard work with a pick, my folkB had to help out in the living. One day, about eighteen months ago, I was driv ing the cows home at night and was upward of four miles away from my ranoh, when in crossing a little ledgo where thoro was an outcropping of rock, I stooped down and picked up a piece of stone to throw at ono of the cows, when I noticed how heavy It was. " Upon a closer examination I saw what looked like gold quartz and I took homo sovoral pieces of the rook and horned It out. Tho result showed considerable gold. I wont back and got moro rock and took It into Tomb stone the next day, and an essay showed me that I had found a rich mine. The lodgo whero I picked up the rook was not over 400 foot from a road that had boon traveled for years. It was just luck I found it." Pierce went on to stato that as ho | had no money himself, ho had to do all tho developing work on a small scale. He managed to take out several tons of ore and ship it away. Tho reBult from this shipment was ovor $3,000. With this amount of monoy he sunk a shaft and oponed his claim so that it was possible to ascertain the extent of the ledge. After this work had been accomplished somo parties from Silver City, N. M., oamo alone and bonded the property for $250,000 on a yoar's time. Bofore tho yoar had expired they sold the bond to an English syndi cate for an advance of $100,000, and when the year was up, whloh occurrod last weok, Mr. Pieroo got a draft on San Franolsco and he at once came to tho oitv to trot his coin. Prior to two years ago Pierco was a broken-down minor ?a man who had nover had to exceed $10 at one time and who was having a hard struggle to make both ends meot. Now ho has a quarter of a million dollars, all in gold ooin, and like most men in similar oiroumstanoos, does not know how to spend his money. Iiis wife, befoio making the strike, had to go to Tomb stone andhelpoutthe family exohequer by doing suoh odd jobs of house clean ing as she could find, while the son, a young man now twenty, herded cattle on the ranges. Besides one son, he has a daughter, who was given the ad vantage of the publio schools of Tomb stone. His entire family accompany him to this olty, and as it is thoir first visit away from home, they are enjoy ing thornselve?. / A STRONG PLEA FOR THE WOMEN. V.I I.V. A III* ON If KMT FOR <MA SR US. The Hard Lifo of Working Girls?The Insincerity of Society Folks. Let tho good work go on. The shop girls of Atlanta are now allowed to sit and rest their weary limbs for a brief time when not waiting on customers, and their working time is out at 0 o'clock in the evening. This a reform that means muoh to them, and our sympathetic people will all thank the Chamberlin house for starting it. The girls have not demanded it nor have thoy uttered a word of complaint, but wo know that they get tired, very tired, and sometimes they aro sick and some of them have work to do when they get home. But they never strike ?no, they bad rather suffer and en dure and always look oheery and try to bo happy and contented. I have won dered why they did not organize and ehoose their leaders and sometimes get on a strike and walk out and make demands on their employers like the men do. No, thoy will not do that. It is not their nature, and for that reason, if no other, those who employ them should bo all the more considerate Every shop girl and overy shop woman has an Individual history, and could tell a tale of sorrow or misfortune, and some of them would be intensely sad and pathetic if written and published. Many of them belong to that class who have seen better days?many are or phans?some have a widowed mother or an invalid sister to support. All are depondent and have no bright rirospects of bettering their condition n the years to come. Some of them are not strong, and often go to their work with a hoadaoho or a heartache, but they must not complain?sad faces or sick faces or very homo'y ones are not wanted. I know four sisters who are shop girls at difToront places. The eldest is only sixteen. They have neither father nor mother nor brother, but they live together and work by day and comfort each other by night. Some merchants are hard-task mas ters ; " only a shop-girl " is their mot to, and their sorvlco is worth what it will bring?that muoh and no more. They tlx the prico and keep it there. There is no promotion in wages. I know one who kept a girl down to $20 a month. She was ro?ned, diligont, conscientious and popular, and had boon reared a lady in all respects, but she was only a shop girl, and out of moager wagos must pay for her board and clothing. Not an hour did Bhe over loso?but by and by she was offer ed $30 by anothor house, and then, and not until then, did her employers pro pose to increase her wages to tho same amount. Why did they not do it bo 75Te"??-J know anothor large, woalthy house that kept a J'oung man for three years, promising at inTSfS^^to raise his wages, but it was only a pronI:so. At last ho quit and sought othor busi ness, and then they offered him nearly doublo what ho had boon getting if ho would come back. That is what the prophet calls "grinding tho faces of cucrpoor." YVUy * ~nn i)iinn rr'-"p life and health away by fecoiny uoV ufT" hope until it turns to despair V Only a shop girl ! A young lady who had once been independent was Jorced by the common calamity of th\oto hard times to become a shop girl?and she told me th it tho hardest thing tu bear was tho stately coldness of her former friends?the lack of familiar social recognition; when thoy traded at the counter thoy hardly know her?they said good morning, but not in the sweet old way. After Job had lo3t his property, he said: "But now thoy that are younger than I hold me in de rision?whose fathers 1 would have dis dained to set with the dogs of my flock." It is tho same old story of social in sincerity. A man never knows who aro his friends until misfortune over takes him. 'Thank heaven ! thore are somo exceptions to this rule, and these shop girls do sometimes llnd somebody to love them and share their sorrows. Thore is nothing more unbecoming to woman, than her disposition to rulo money' into her social sot and rule poverty out. No real, woll-bred lady will do it. My observation is that this foolish vanity is generally indulged in by the sboduy aristocrats?those who have nothing else,to their credit except money?those whose fathers got rich by questionable means. Peachtreo is lined with many such, and so aro tho fashionable quarters of all c'tles. This folly is mainly a feminine ono: the men arc not given to it; no man dares to Bnub another because of his povorty, or his humble origin. With men thoro is no aristocracy oxcopt that of intel lect. It is related that when Uouglas and Lincoln mot for tho first time on tho hustings Douglas, who was a groat aristocrat, said ho had not tho honor of an acquaintance with his opponent, and, in fact, had seen him but once, and that was whon he was selling whiskey behind tho bar in a cross roads saloon. When old Abe roso to roply, ho smilod from oar to car, as ho remarked. " That's so, my fellow citizens. That is the only time I over saw him until now. Ho was on ono sido of tho bar and I was on tho other. Ho took a drink and I took tho monoy. Wo are about oven on that score." What's tho difference? A nico, swoot, woll-mannorod girl or young woman who waits on tho customers in a largo dry goods houso is on one sido of tho counter and a rieh aristocratic lady is on the other. Ono had monoy, tho other had goods and they exchanged? that's all. Which is ahead in thocomody of life and which will bo ahead whon tho play is onded and final judgment is rondored ? With ono life is a fash ionable farce ; with the other a strug glo for bread. " Glvo us this day our dully bread " Is hor morning prayer. The position of thoso working girls is a hard one at best, but kind words and fair wages soften it down groatly. They bog for theso place* and got them, but why womon should not bo paid as much as men for similar sor vloe I cannot understand. My infor mation is that they are paid about half and tho employer's oxcuso is that com petition is very groat and as othors out rates they must do eo, too, for la bor is worth only what it will bring? and a woman's labor can bo had cheap er than a man's. That is not a good oxouse. It is not to tho interest of tho employer to got labor on such torms. Twonty dollars a month will not keen a young woman in good health and good clothes and leave anything for a siok mother or a child, or for a doctor's bill. A big-hearted, generous man will inquire into the condition of every female] employee he has, and as far as possible mako it his own con oern. They are, as it wore, his wards for tho tlmo, and he cannot esoape the responsibility. Before tho war there wore no shop girls, but for thirty yoars this great transition has been going on, and now the South, like tho North, is full of working gh-ls. Tho children and grandchildren of thoso who once were proud and independent are now forcod to become their own bread winnora. Thero is no perception for them. It 1b dally food for dally labor. The rich are growing richer by short outs aud questionable means, all of whloh in HHMaBaVHHa^Ma&d?j. their last analysis come from the earn ings of the toilers and grind the faces of the poor. Widows and orphans whoso husbands and fathers left them stock or bonds in a great railroad have lived to see it wrecked by unscrupu lous schemers and by the time the wreokers had done with it tholr stock and their bonds were worthless. Daniel Webster got a fee of $10,000 for making a speech in the Myra Clark Galnos case and it was noised by the press as an enormous fee, but now a common lawyer gets $50,000 for brlng ng tho money of a wrecked railroad into court. An incorporated company accumulates a million dollars surplus and asks the court what to do with it. There was no light, no'contest, but the lawyers who took the decree aro awarded $75,000 for bringing the money Into court. Receivers and lawyers fu-ry upon the carcases of corporations ike buzzards upon tho carcases of brutes, and but little is left for credit ors or stockholders. TkcBe are the things that fill tho people with distrust and disgust and paralyze Industry and intimidate capital. I know a lady and sho is sitting near mo now whose father left her $10,000 of stock in a railroad in Alabama. It was good stock and had good prospects, but tho schemers got it into court and had a receiver appointed and It was wreck ed and sold to the bondholders for a song and she lost everything but the certificate. When she comes across It now among her archives I hear her humming that sweet old song, " This world is all a fleeting show." But let the working girls cheer up and always look on the bright side. If they can't get married lot them look around and. see how much misery marriage brings ?how few women are happily mated. Encourage a cheerful disposition, and if you can't be happy, be as happy as you can. Trust In the Lord and do good. It Is not all of life to live nor all of death to die. There are many blessings that cost us nothing. I never pass my noltrhbor. Mrs. Piftld'? front yard that Is radiant with beauti ful flowers but what I think how cheap they are to me. It is a good idea to sometimes think of that poor little boy whoso mother covered him with straw ono bittor night and put an old window shutter on tho straw to hold it down. "Mother," said he, "it isn't every little boy that has a shuttor to hold down his straw?is It?" And there is somo comfort in a Persian provorb that says: " Blessed are they who have but little, for they shall not bo envied." Bill, Am\ HON. JOSHUA IiKVEltlNG. A Sketch of the Prohibit tun Nominee for the Presidency. Baltimore Sun. Joshua Levering is ono of Balti more's most highly respected citizens, as well as one of her most prosperous businimen. He is a member of the importing anJ--exporting Arm of E. Levering & Co., ongfc?cl eblolly in tho Brazilian coffee trado, the |houso having branches at Rio Janeiro and at -?Santos. The members of the firm are Joshua Levering, Eugene Lovering, his twin brothor, Loonidvs Levering, Frankling W. Levering, and Eugene Levering, Jr. Since 1884 Mr. Levering has bcon a member of the Prohibition party, hav ing before that time been an Indepen dent Democrat. In 1884 ho voted for St. John for "resident. Ho was chair man of tho Maryland State Prohibi tion Convention in 1887 and again in 1893, and a delegate to tho national conventions of 1888 and 181)2. Ho de clined to allow the use of his namo for the Vice Presidency in 1888 and, in fact, also in 1802. His friends insisted in the lattor year, and on tho first ballot ho received a majority of votes, but on succeeding ballots the voto was changed sufficiently to nominate Dr. Cranfield. k Mr. Levoring has been vico prcsl \dent of tho State executive committee lor several years, and in 1891 was the candidate, for Slates Comptroller, re coivlng 6,443 vote?. Previous to the Stute Convention last fall he refused tlu\ use of his name as a caudidato for Governor of Maryland, but, boing nominated by the Convention by ac clamation, he at last consented to allow the nomination to stand. Ho received over 7,700 votes. In 'church and temperance work Mr. Lovoring holds as prominent a position as he does in the business world. Ho has been a member of the Eutaw 1 'luce Baptist church sinco its erection. In the winter of 1857- 58 he was converted to the Baptist faith and baptized by tho late Uov. Richard Fuller into membership of tho Seventh Baptibt Church, becoming a constit uent of Eutaw Place Church upon its organization, in April, 1871. Sinco April, 1881, he has been duporinteu dent of the Sunday-school. With the general denominational intorosts of hl8 church, both North and South, Mr. Levering has always boon identified. One of the origina tors of the American Baptist Educa tional Society, in \1888, ho has boon its treasurer sinco in organization. He has also been vice (president for a num ber of years of theXAmerican Baptist Publication Society\ and also of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is presldont of tho boa>rd of trustees of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary ft Loulsviuo, Ky., and a member of tho international com mittee of tho Young Men's Christian Association of tho United States and Canada. Of tho Young Men's Christian As sociation of Baltimore ho has been president sinco 1885, having boon each year since that lime, unanimously re elected. Since 1887 ho has boon pres ldont of the Maryland House of Re fugo. Ho Is a director of tho Mary land Trust Company, and of tho Provi dent Savings Bank. On Soptombor 12, 1845, Mr. Levering was born in Baltimore, boing there fore in his 5l8t year. He enjoyed tho privileges of prlvato schools until 1861, when he entered commercial life, beginning at tho bottom of tho ladder us a clerk. In 1800 he was taken into partnership by his fathor, together with his two brothers, under tho name which is still presorvod. Eugoro Levering, Sr., fathor of tho nominee, dlod In June, 1870, since which timei tho business has beon conducted by his sous. ?Mr. G. Walton Whitman has fully rnado up his mind to tako tho stutnp In tho coming campaign as a oandidato for Guvornor. His platform will bo death to tho whiskey trafllc (aj a bev erage), death to competition In matters of higher education, in which tho State is a party ; the best system of public sohools possible; industrial ed ucation as loading features of Ulemson and Winthrop colleges, with literary courses Atting thoir studonts for enter ing colleges of higher learning . no discrimination in legislation in ftwor of or against any class or profession? towns, eitles and country to stand on tho samo plane as to legislation am. the enforcement of law ; onmlty and strife te be discouraged; honest elections. Prosperity of the Southern States, INDUSTRIAL 1NTRRKSTS look ing UP on all SIDES. Cotton Spindles to Reach 4,000,000 In Number by the Knd or This Year?Tho Southern Peach, Pear and Watermelon Crops?Western Trade Seelcln** Southern Ports. Mr. Richard H. Edmonds, editor of tho Manufacturers' Record, who re cently returned from a trip to the South, in an interview with a reporter for The Baltimore Newa aald that throughout the entire South there was a marked tendoncy to improvement, which was especially noticeable in its industrial interests. " Along the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Norfolk and Western rail roads, stretching from Hampton Roads out through West Virginia," ho said, " thero is everywhero seen a very decided increase in activity. Tho output of coal is increasing; now mines are being opened ; timber lands and coal lands are being purchased for development, and tho evidences of improvement cannot fall to impress anyone who investigates this territory. " In the Central Soutb, the Caro linas and Georgia, thero is no abate moot In tbo activity in cotton mill building and in the extension of exist ing plants. By the end of the prosont year the South will havo about 4,000, 000 spindles, representing an aggro gate capitalization of nearly $125,000, 000, against 1,700,000 spindles with a capital of $01,000,000 in tho consus year of 1800, thus showing an incroase of ovur 100 por cent, in tho number of spindles within bix years. " Business inattors in Atlanta are showing favorablo results, as tho out come of tho Exposition, and statistics Bhow that moro building is now boing dono in tho city and of a higher class of residences, as well was business houses, than evor boforo. " In South Georgia tho peach and watermelon and pear crops aro now safe, and investigations show that tho peach orop will bo tho largest ovor produced in tho State. Tho aggre gate value of tho fruit crops of that district for tho year is boing estimated as high as $7,000,000 or $8,000,000. It is calculated that tho fruit und molon crop of Georgia will this year furnish from 15,000 to 20,000 carloads of frolght to tho railroads. k "Tho immigration movement into that territory is extremely active, and plans uro maturing for considerable colonization enterprises, in addition to these already In operation, including the brluging of German ahd Scandina vian settlers, as well as of tho North ern and Western people. Along tho Georgia and Alabama Railroad, which is largely owned in Baltimore, thoro aro somo half a dozen colonization un dertakings, In addition to tho Fitz gerald Grund Army movement, whioh has already settled ovor 8,000 Westorn people on tho. 100,000 aero tract of land purchased for thut purpose last year. ? ."Probably tho most marked im provement and one indicative of tho moht wide-roaohing Influence upon in dustrial matters is seen in tho Alabama Iron and coal districts. Birruing\.L^? is taking a decided turn for tho better, and within the lust few weeks half a dozen important enterprises involving investments of about half a million dollars have been put on foot, while two extensive steel plants are practi cally assured. " Tho Birmingham Rolllng-MUl Company, ono of the oldest and largest concerns in tho State, has decided to build a steel plant with a capacity of 200 tons a day to furnish steel for Hb own works, and this will bo construct ed without regard to any outside finan cial aid. Tho $1,000,000 stool enter prise projected by tho Tennessee Coal ?Iron and Railroad Company is assum ing tangible shape, although no time has beon set for tho work of construc tion. "The output of coal Is tho heaviest in tho history of tho State, and, not withstanding the low prices which still provali for Iron, tho production Is very heavy, and nearly all of tho furnaces of the State aro in blast. "Another nutable evidence of the general upbuilding of tho South is the trend of Western trade through Southern ports to Europe. During tho last nine months New Orleans has exported 10,000,000 bushels of corn, against 2.000,000 bushels for tho cor responding timo of the previous year. New Orleans, by the way, will shortly bo In advaneo in some respects of every city in tho world in its shipping faci lities. "Just below tho city a new shipping point has been established, where $2, 000,000 or $3,000,000 has boon invested in building a grain olevator, cotton warehouses, four of tho most powerful cotton compresses in tho world and docks and piers for steamship pur poses. At this point wharfago is en tirely free, thus Offering great attrac tions to steamships. " A belt railroad owned by tho same company connects with all railroads entering New Orleans, and freight trains destined for that point are hand led as soon as they strlko the belt railroad with compressed air locomo tives, thus avoiding tho danger of tire with locomotives running in and out between cotton warehouses. This necessarily brings about a great reduc tion in the cost of insurance. ? Not to be outdone by this move ment, tho Illinois Central Itailroad is spending about $1,000,000 in tho build ing of another grain elevator and ad ditional bhipping facilities, and this company will als" furnish free whar fago, so that Now Orleans will practi cally bo a free port before tho ond of tho year. " At Galveston there Is a heavy grain movement as at Now Orleans, while at Sabine l'ass. Tex., an olevat r and other shipping facilities are behg built to bo ready for tho opening o: a direct railroad line betweon that poi t and Kansas City, which will be com pleted about September 1, and upon which $10,000,000 have boon expended in construction work during tho last three years, tho road boing something over 700 miles loin/. li At Mohlio an elevator la undor construction; at Peusaoola the Louis ville and Nashville is building an elevator and extensive shipping wharves ; Savannah und Charleston are inunhing for Western trade; I'ort Koyal Las exported nearly 1,000,000 bushels m corn slneo tho llrst of tho year, and Norfolk and Nowport News, as all Haltiinorcans know, uro devoloplng a groat exporting business. 'VThe wholo outlook,'" said Mr. Ed monds, "indioates a broad and solid development of thoontiroSouth. Its ir> d ust i' i st I Interests aro pi osporing and ex pandlng, notwithstanding tho general complaints of hard times throughout other sections. The farmers are less in debt than at any time since the war, and while they aro preparing for a large cotton ei op, this year's cotton will bo produced ut tho lowostcost ever known " Moroover, thero is a vory inWkcd inoreaso In fold mining inUffostjk^gL whilo much money has in times past boon recklessly squandered in specula tive gold enterprises in the South, there is a good prospect for a solid and substantial development of gold in to rests. The groat decrease In the oost of reducing gold ores which has come about within the last two or three years makes available the vast quantities of low-grade ores fouud all the way from Virginia to Alabama. ''One of the recent processes, which seoms to be meeting with success and which if permanently successful pro mises to have a material offect upon the South, is now in operation at Blaoksburg, S. C. At that poiut well known capitalists have expended about 9200,0UO during the last two years in/ experimental work and finally in i\St$* bullding of an extensive plant for. treating sulphur et ores. At this plant, which 7s now running night and dayjr all the Ingredients of the ore aro saved, ' and it is estimated that these blpro ducts will pay the cost of operating, leaving the gold as clear gain. " One of the most important features of this is the low cost at whloh sul Ehuric aold is being produced. This as induced a combination of fertiliser companies to build a $100,000 fertiliser plant a few hundred yards from the tulphurio-acid works, and thosulphurio acid is carried In leaden pipos direct from the aold chambers to the fertili zer woras. <> "It is thought that this will bring about a reduetion In the cost of ferti lizers, which may have a considerable infiuouco upon agricultural inturests, whilo helping to develop the gold* mining interests of the South." -? ? ?, THE lill-li 18 NOW A LAW. The Senat o ^Passes the rR?vol^niul Harbor Hill By an Unusual Ma jority. The action of tho Sonato In regard to the passage of tho river and harbor bill is as follows: A contest for the right of way arose as soon as tho Sonato met. Mr. Vost (Dom., Mo.), who in tho absonce of Mr.' Fryo is in ehargo of tho river and har bor bill, sought to havo the President's voto of that message taken up. This was opposed by Mr. Petti grew (Rep., S. D.) iu charge of the Vndian appropriation bill conference roport. Mr. Vest urged that tho suspension aud possiblo destruction of tho work of improvement of internal waterways was of more moment than any other one subject savo that of tho national honor. It was imperative that tho question bo settled pow, so that if tho voto was sustained It could be deter mined whether another river and har bor bill was to bo framed. Tho bill and veto wore takjsn up by yeas 38; nays 10. The negative voto was cast by : Demo crats?Hat/5, Chilton, Harris, Palmer, Vllas?5. /^Republicans?Brown, Mor rlll, Pettlgrew, Pritchard, Toller?5. Total 10. Tho message was then read. Mr. Vest said the voto contained statements which, howover much ho might respect the high oftlce of tho President, ought not to go unchal lenged. Tho Senator did not quc&tiou tho President's veto prerogative, but tho framors of tho e<>n-t it ut he; -.??y^wr. had intonded that this'power shoultt^^-" exoreised in the ordinary affairs of thoV, government. It was to bo a powor to 5"?wextraordinary affairs of tho gov ernment. It w as to bo a power to meet extraordinary emergencies, when pop ular passion had led to hasty logisla-.f; tion, or when a constitutional question/', was involved. Tho early presidents,/^, who stood nearer to tho constitution, , exercised tho veto but several times; twice by Washington, five by Madison, and never by Jefferson or John Adams. Mr. Vest then analyzed tho state ments of tho veto concerning extrava gance. Tho President had, ho said,, stated that the bill made direct appro priations of about $14,000,000, while In fact thoy aggregated $12,008,000, a dif ference of $1,39V, 100. This was hardly characteristic of tho effectiveness of jj tho catenations of Mr. Cleveland, who never had served in a legislative body : and seemed to havo a tendency to min imize tho responsibility of u legislator to his constituents. Mr. Vest took up other Items, show ing that the totals were loss than tho President's statements would indicate. Tho Senator said as to the general ehargo of extruvaganco that in view of tho vast interests involved, the extent of the country and the fact that the river and harbor bill covered two years, this measure was comparatively reasonable. There wore items opon to question, yet as in all legislation this was the result of compromise. Mr. Vest had addressed a letter to General Craighill, chief of engineers, asking for the facts as to that state* racnt of tho President that he bad loarned from ollicial sources that the bill contained appropriations intended to servo private interests. The Sen ator said General Craighill mado no reply but in response to a telegram an swered that the letter had been "re ferred to Secretary of War for instruc tions." Up to this date no information had been received. "So that for reas ons best known to the administration," said Mr. Vest, bitterly, ' it is consider ed best not to go into details on these charges, but to indulge in general and rhetorical declamation as to the alleged extravagance and favoritism contained in it." Mr. Vest said ho believed one of the President's charges applied to tho Brunswick, Ga., harbor, one of the best and most economical improvements in the country. The Senator spoke of the* cheaper rates of transportation result ing from improvements at the "Soo/* New Orleans, Baltimore, New York, Hosten and elsewhere. In the plat form upon which Mr. Cleveland was first nominated was a strong plank for waterway improvements, and his early messages indorsed those improvements. Mr. Vest prophesied that in the near+ future legislation would bo directed tO$ further developing internal commerce*: and cheapening transportation. The Senate passed the river and har-" bor bill over the President's veto by o? to 5, and the measure is now a law. Those voting' in the negative ,wero Messrs. Hate, Chilton, Hill, Smith and Vilas?all Domocrate?5. j ?The Manufacturers' lloeord an- ': nouncc? that, to turn attention to tho 1 mineral rosourc-H of the South and to B aid in the intelligent Investigation of what may or may not ho of value, l*>*j has arranged with Mr. CharlesCatlotK? ohcmist and geologist, of Stauiitott2#,'i Va., to mako superlicial examination of samples of oro, or suspected onpV' froo of charge Thoy will he reported In tho Record witn a word of explana tion as to their value, if any. Tho simples should bo sent direct fcOVMr Catlett, with mail or express charges prepaid, and the name and address of tho sen ior on tho package, a*bd oare should bo taken to solcct an average sample. A small quantity will suffice, Tho arrangement is a liberal ono on the part of tho Record, and-may Ue of service to nomo persons In .South (Tnro 11 na who have lands wir eh thoy ho'iove io contain valuable deposits, bu?^^^ lyiot- know how to have the O^flfl decided wlthour. imnirring^gj?| t\e expense^* ih^r^i^m^