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Senator Earle is Dead A GREAT PUBLIC CALAM ITY. The Untimely End of a Brilliant Career. Brief Sketch of an Upright Life. From The Areenvllle Mountaineer, ltuy22, South Carolina has met with no ir reparable loss. Tho death of Senator i Joseph II. Karle at an important junc ture in our public affairs, and when be had just entered upon tho threshold of an honorable and useful career as the i representative of his native Statu in the highest council of tho nation, brings us faoo to faoo with calamity that is foit In every uook and corner of the old commonwi alth. It i- not alone that the State is to bo deprived of his splendid abilities, though the loss in this respect is not to bo undervalued; it is not that ho is cut down on tho very verge of an enlarged usefulness, in which he had enlisted with enthusiasm ' and proper zeal for tho accomplish ment of high and noble purposes, nor is it altogether on account of tho valu able sorvico ho was expected to ren der as an Illustrious son of tho Pal metto State, reflecting credit upon the constituency which had elevated him to high position, and gaining distinc tion for himself while discharging pub lic duties in the nation's Senate. All these aro involved in tho sad blow which has fallen upon the State, but it . will bo recognized that in a peculiar sensu there is a vacancy among our public men it will bo difficult to re place. Senator Karle was conspicuous i for his thorough independence and ? complete, freedom from tho domination ( of other men, while courteously re ceiving at all times tho advice and i counsel of those in whom he confided, ; yet when the timo came for him to act he relied upon a judgment that seldom ( failed to reach right conclusions. Mis j admirable poiso and self-control, oou pl".d with a magnetic presence, at once J drew around him a host of admirers, ( and as tho years went by tho number Continued to increase until bo had per sonal friends and staunch supporters in I every section of the State. This was | evidenced last summer when tho peo- i pie for tho first time oast their ballots 1 direct for Unit d States Senator. Scarcely n precinct in any county that did not give him a good support, and it was his ;rongth among the voters 1 that sodocoivi '1 those who were count ing upon hid defeat by great odds in the first primary. lit; was known as ono that could be depended upon, ami bo was not the candidate Of any faction 1 orthe subservient tool of any man. He was sol-ily judged upon his merits and stood firmly upon an unassailablo re cord. Fivo years ago ho assumed a position in political affairs that would have consigned almost any man to obscurity. < Ho was conscious of tho rectitude of his purposes, and calmly bided the ' time when his vindication would come. Cloan and unimpeachable in a career that had gained him considerable emi nenco among his follow-cltizons, he had nothing to fear from the adverse criticisms which oarno inevitably to a tu'ui who expressed counter opinions to those held by many of his friends and political associates. Time would de termine whether he was right, and when the day arrived that thoughtful men v/cro seeking a loador who would provo acceptable Ina great emergency, Joseph II. Earlo btood out foremost among tho citizens upon whom could be rallied the hitherto warring fac tions, and to him thcro was a rapid accretion of strength and support that amply repaid him for tho apparent indifferonco and rejection of former days. Ho could stand out in tho whito light of investigation and go through tho refining crucible of the most soarching oxamlnatlon without so much as tho smoll of lire upon his gar ments. His judgment of '1)2 was en dorsed by a handsome majority of his follow-Uemoorats in '00. Senator Karlo had only a fow days of intercourse with his brother Senators, and yot bo mado an iudoliblo impres sion upon them as a man of dignified manners and courtly boaring, whilo tho single instanco whoro he was brought before thorn In a brlof argu ment for justlco and rl&ht sutllcod to glvo them a high ostimato of his Intel lectual capacity. It was frcoly pre dicted In Washington that bo would take rank among tho foremost in dc bato, and that his caroer would bo marked with honor to h's State. Among tho younger Senators, and belonging to the minority io far as shaping things for legislation is con cerned, It was yet recognised that he would make a most valuablo momber and render cxcellont snrvlco t> tho country. Tho sud .en Illness which caused him to withdraw from thoir sight servi d to show that ho was highly appreciated by tho Sonators without regard to political or fact'onal lines, and tho kindly inquiries after his hoalth wo-o much beyond tho mere conventionalities of the day. Those inquiries woro continued after his return homo, and there has boon muoh solioitude as to the final result when it bocatno known that ho was wrest ling with a foil disease that soiralngly j^^^^^^^^^b^a^m^^^^d^m^^ 1897. A SKETCH OF Ills l.U'K. Joseph Hayosworth Lu-lo ?m a na tivo of Groonvi la County, and wh-* born on too 30lh of April, 1M7. 11 Id ancestors wore among tho earliest s-.st tlui'8 in the vicinity . f what is now known as the city of Groenvillo. His f it i ?:? und grandfather owned nearly id tiiu northwestern section of tr.oeity. beginning at tho forks of Buncombe and liutberford streets, and the family homestead was located where the res idence of C. A. David now stands. Tho family burial ground is on tho original tract of land, b-syond the Sampson mill on the Buncombe road, and it was here that tho parents of Senator E irlo wero buried. Ho owned tho plot of ground which included tho cemetery. Senator Larlo's mother died urtieu no was three years old, anil his father a few years later. Loft an orphan at an early age, ho was taken by bis grandmother, and tho largo family of children wore scattered among rela tives hero and else whore, so that they were never together again as a family, and yet there was an uncommon alTee tion maintainedoetween tho.D,especial ly among the brothers who remained in In til is Stato. The Senator received his education at Kurman University, hut ho was not a graduate, as he ac cepted a position to teach in Claren don County, where be was unusually successful. In 1808 he was chosen to ho principal of the Chick Springs Academy, and while there he was dUo i)rgaged in the study of law, which ho bad selected for his life work. It was 11 matter of honest prido with him in after years that tho ties formed at Ontok Springs between himself and tho citizens of that community were nevor broken, anil among tho earliest advocates of his election to the United States Senate wero friends In that vicinity who know him as a faithful teacher, and who admired his dili gence and worthy ambition to succeed in life. After two years he was admitted to Ihe practice of law, and in 1870 ho located at Anderson, where ho was married to his cousin, Miss Annie Ltrie, daughter of Mr. John Bay Iis Lud'j, one of the wealthiest and most prominent citizens of Anderson Coun ty. He remained la Anderson four or live years, and there as elsewhere he formed attachments that were kept unhrokon the balance of his days. In 1*1") he removed to Sumtor, whore a part of his boyhood was^spent, and be gan a career that brought him into prominence very speedily. IL was a i-nnspicuous flguro in the campaign of ls7i>. and was recognized as a dashing ami impetuous loader of the invincible ?ed shirts of Sumtor Giunty. Ho was nominated for the House of Rsproson latives iu that campaign, but ho with drew shortly before tho election for reasons that were most oreditublo to him as a patriot and citizen who was anxiousto promoteharmony rather than exalt himself. When the Legislature had convened, and the dual govern ment was in operation, with the Wal lace and Mackey Houses contending for the mastery, the D>>raooratlo otH cials in Coiumhia summoned ?ve thou sand oitlz -ns to make a demonstration on the bcloagurod Svato Hou-e for the protection of the nohlo hand under Speaker Wallace, who wens threaten uu with extermination by a rowdj gang of negroes from Charleston, brought to the oapltol and concealed sit iin its walls for tho consummation of this diabolical plot. Senator L trie with a company from Sumtor was among t he lirst to arrive on the scene, and in the grey dawn of that memora ble morning ho was there with ono hundred stalwart men, who were arm ed with Winchester rifles, and ready for tho fray. Tho withdrawal of the Wallace House ended the dread appre hensions of tho day. In tho election of 1878 ho was choson to represent Sumter County in the House of Representatives, and in 1882 ho was elected to tho Stato Senate, whoro for four years ho served with ability and distinction. In 1880 ho was a dclegato to the National Democratic Convention in Cincinnati, which nomi nated Hancock for President, and in 1881 ho was a dolgeato to tho conven tion which nominated Grover Cleve land and Thus. A. Hondricks, sorving on the committee to notify tho candi dates of their nomination, which was done In tho city of Now York. Ho worked faithfully in tho campaign which followed, and was an earnest supporter of Mr. Clovoland at that time. In tho campaign of 1880 thoro was an unusual degree of intorostod man ifested throughout tho Stato in regard to the ohoieo of Stato otlicors. A largo element in tho convention fought vigorously for the promotion of young men who wero Imbued with progress!vo ideas, and among those who wero relied upon was Senator Karle, who reeoivod the nomination for Attorney General by a handsome veto ovor the ineumbont, Chas. Rich ardson Miles, an ablo lawyer and polished gentleman. In tho ollico of Attorney Gonoral, which ho hold for four years, he mado an unoxamplcd record, as tho oflloo did not cost tho Stato a dollar for special counsol dur ing tho two terms. Every caso was argued by tho Attornoy Gonoral, ox cept where arrangomonts had boon made prior to his induction into oftlco, and his legal ability was shown to ho of tho highest ordor. Tho State Democratic C mvontlon of 1888 developed a strong dosiro for a Iohangi of administration, contrary to tho precedents already established that tho Governor should servo four .years, and tho dissatisfied elemont, I under tho lead of Capt. B. K. TlUman, urged the nomination of Senator Earle for Governor as a moans of harmonl?, I lug the Democracy,.which was doomed by many as the bust mothod for pre venting tho split that came tWo years lator. Tho selection of Senator Earle si< a oandldata to oppose Govornor Richardson was undoubtedly In aoooiu with tho views of a majority In the eonvention, and his nomination for Governor was olearly within his grasp when ho arrived iu Columbia tho morn reply to tho (mostIon whether he would allow h'..> name to bo used' In tho race for Governor, ho was vory emphatic and pronounced against it. while < x pressing a high upproolatiou of the intended honor, and Baying that under othor oirouuutanoes ho might makea different answer. On being told that it deolded majority of tho convention 'a vored his nomination, lie explained tho position in which ho was placed, say lug that lie bad said to Governor - lllohard8on far In advanoe of the con vention that he would not oppose his nomination, ami that he could not break his promise, even though it wa* made on the Spur of the moment, to secure any posltlou in the gift of his fellow-citizen*, as it would be dlshonoi - ing his pledge. In spite of bis refusal, an effort was made to place him in nomination, which was only prevented by a declaration on the lloor of tin convention by his brother, Dr. T. T Karle, who was a delegate from Green vllleCounty, that he would not eervt if nominated. The. campaign of ' JOG ononed wltl tho "suggestion" of Cant. U. K. Till man*as a candidate for Governor by tb< state farmers' Convention, after tin manifesto issued by Capt. G. W. Shell. of this sort, und Judge Barlo wus nom inated in Ui" Bouond primary en tho nth of September by a majority of 3,319 votes. Ho continued to aot as Circuit Judge until tho Legislature elected bim United states Senator on tho 20th of January by a unanimous vote, and he was holdllig court at Florence when tho ballot ws* taken. Senator '".arlo just before the inau guration went to Washington, and when tho extra session was convened on tho 15th of Marcdi he was sworn in as a Senator from South Carolina? In A couple of weeks he was taken sick, mil from a stubborn attack of the i?rlp was developod other complica tions, which resulted in the advice of lis physician at Washington that a lOturn homo would he beneficial. For i month ho has been battling against he onoroaohmentSi of Height's dis >aso, which llnally terminated his life it half past live o'clock on Thursday Afternoon, surrounded hy his entire family, and in full possession of his consciousness that the end was at hand. it is not proper to intrude further into the family circle, than to say that Ulf domestic relations wero of t ic ? nippiest and sunniest nature. Ufa GENERAL JOSKPn IT. E A TILE. and with tho writing of which Tillman has slnoe claimed that ho had sum >? thing to do. The attack upon tho ad min istration with which Barlehad been con n-ctcd for four years, and tho charges vaguely presented but vehemently urged, caused him to enter the Held as a candidate for Governor. The mem orable campaign which followed is familiar to tho people of tho State, and when it closed with tho overwhelming nomination of Tillman by tho conven tion in September, 1800, Karle acceptod tbo result in good faith and refused to join a halting faction, as bo recognized tho right of tho majority to do as it pleased with tho public 0dices. Ho returned to the practicoof law in Sum ter, and remained there nearly two years lougor. For quito a while bo had been considering tho matter of coining back to his native county, ami in 1802 he purchased a beautiful hone1 in this city and entered upon tbo prac tice of law. It Was soon after com ng hero that ho a .vised against making any oppositw q to the ro-eloc'.ion of Governor Ti' man, practically refusing to ally hiinai if with either faction, and holding that tie- white people of South Carolina ought not to be torn asunder by faotlonal differences. His course in this instance al enated many of his former friends, hut he. stea l fastly main* talnod his position that organized op position to Governor Tillman onl strengthened bis following, whilst it injured tho State with outsiders who could not understand our family quar rel. Tin* Conservatives nominated John C. Sheppard for Governor and .las L. Orr for Lieutenant Governor Senator Barle adhered closely to the practica) of his profession, as tho scniot member of the firm of Barle <fc Muoney, aud built up a largo and lucrative, practice, which continued until ho was elected Circuit Judge In 1S!)?. IIif election was regarded as non-faotlonal, and chiefly duo from a political stand point to the uosition he had occupied for several yours, but it was also in recognition of his fitness and capacity for tho olliee, which was fully justified by tho fairness an ? justice of his course upon tho bench. A judicial ofllco was much in agroemont with bis disposition and temperament, and he was enjoy-! ing tho work devolving upon him wh* tbo campaign of Itt'Jti was oponed. Ho j had no thought whatever of entering politics again, and was not at all in clined to enter the fiold as a candidate for United States Senator, when solic ited by mombors of both factions, and urged to mako tho race for tho purpose of boaling tho breaches of tho pust. For several months after ho was ap proached on the subject ho was disin clincd to become a candidato, and his consent was only partially given at the opening of tho campaign in Juno. I It was not iinnl and conclusive, until j tho initial meeting at Manning, at j which time ho was holding court in1 Charleston. His pledge was in tho i hands of a forraor law partnor and trusted Irlond, Mr. H. O. Hurdy, of Sumtor, and through a misunderstand ing tho pledge was filed and afterwards withdrawn, but the matter was ad justed that evening and his pledgo duly accepted by tho chairman of tho Stato oxecutlvo committee. For olght or ton moctings it was impracticable for Judge Barlo to bo present unless ho hud chosen to uogloct official duties, and this ho would not do. His entrance into the campaign was on tho 13th of July at his old homo In Sumter, whoro his earlier triumphs in politics worosecured, and which was a good omen of success In this instance Prior to going upon tho hustings, ho issued an address to tho peoplo of tho Stato, In which among other things ho said: "In Stato politics I belong to no clique or faction other than the Democratic party." On national Issuns ho said that the monetary ques tion overshadowed all others, and argued that "gold and sllvoranould bo coined frooly and without limit at a ratio of sixteen to one as money ot final redemption, with equal logal ton dor power, without waiting for Interna tional agreement,"He discussed the our renoy and other issues upon an oxaltod plane, and the campaign so far as he was concerned was progressing without unusual innident until the mooting at ilennottavllle on tho 21st of July, when thero oume an insulting Insinuation from Governor Kvan*, whloh was promptly rosonted by Jifdgo Kirle, wl* gavo warning that a repetition "p i not bo tolerated. Three dojrt| 1 Fioivneo occurred the ep^(" culmlnatou In blow; andft()^ pated a gonewl rl?)halrman was concluded wltho^ ? ?*h -'' -Q?ljifl Comrh I 1 devotion to home and loved ones was a most excellent and conspicuous trait in his character, and the fondness with which ho guarded the sacred precincts of the housohnld was reciprocated by a reve**nnce and affection that were noted by all who over came within the channel) circle. U-sides the grief stricken wife, there are eight children who survivo him: Dr. Haylis II. Barlo, of Now York; Mrs. II. b\ liioo, of Barn well ; Mrs, T. Sioan Crawford, of Spartanburg; John H. Karle, who was his father's private secretary: Miss Nan Barle, Jos. II. Karle, jr., Mlssos Lillian M and Wilton O. Karle. Two brothers, Dr. Thos. T. Barlo, of this city, and Haylis .1. Barlo, of Flori da, and a sister who lives at Cripple Crock, 0 dorado, uro the survivng members of his father's family. Senator Barle was a member of the First Baptist Church, with which ho hec one eO.ineetod when a student at Furmaa University. Ho removed his membership to Sumter, whoro it re mained until bis return to Greenville liv< or six years ago Ho donated the, land for the parsonage at Sumter. SAM JONES ON THE POWER OE GOD. WHAT 18 DOWNRIGHT LOYALTY? His Prelude on the Coiled ion?i%n Harnest Bermoll iu Which Ho Strikes Some Sturdy lllows. Sam Jones, the noted evangelist, is conducting a scries of meetings in Au gusta, Ca., and is creating a t>tir in that city by his dlrcot and forcible bows at the sins of the day. His ser mon on the concluding sentence of the Lord's prayer is sti .king in its vigor and earnestness, and bis remarks at tue time of the collection were SO typi cal that we give them as a prelude to the sermon Itself: "Now comes the inevitable, ubiquit ous oollootlon. It haunt* some people. I wish everything in this world was free. You have free SOhools; you wanted free, silver, and some of you would like to have freo boarding houses. Some of your sons-in law have them. too. It's a hne thing to bo able to livo on your wife's father, ain't it? Somo time a man thinks bo's lost a daughter when he finds he's only got another kid. It's a lino thing, but if you over eat eh me living off my fathcr-'n-law or having my daughter's husband living on me, just hang mo. I'm like the woman who always was borrowing her neighbor's oruss kettle and when she got ono of her own sho said : Thank Got), I'll noiti er borrow nor lend.' All the aver ago girl who has leisure and a bleyclo ?uis to do is to run down somodudo and nil he'll have to do will ho to koe ) his hieyclo in repair." This morning l want to talk to you on a subject that, bus always been in teresting to mo and cannot fail to inter est every Christian. I moan to take as a text the last clauso of tho Lord's prayer : "For thlno Is tho kingdom, tho powor, and tho glory for over. Amen."' if you tako tho supornatural out of Christianity you will have only a sort of Buddhism and Confuolanlsm. And l have noticed that if you take out tho original fervor from religion you soon drift to Infidelity. Somo deny tho ex istence of God with their mouths and othors act like they deny lt. I love to be candid and if I act like I didn't be lieve It I wouldn't profess belief with my mouth. When proaohors lose their first fer vor they make good ess lyiste, good ora tors, but hardly goodproachers. "For thlno Is tho kingdom, tho powor and tho glory." I want'to talk to you, but I object to your going to sleep hore. I givo you boarding, but not lodging. If you want to sloop go to a hotel. Somo of these morphine eating sisters may he asloop wttu their eyes open, but I don't mind that so much. A morphine slstor. If I had a wife like that I'd go to Chicago where a man oan got a divorce six minutes aftor ho lands there. And I'd be a grass wld |Ower and sho'd be a dog-fennel widow. Do you know tho dlfToronoo betwoen a grass and a dog-fonnel widow V Oae hfaves hor husband and the other's hus ?fland leaves hor. I I'll illustrate what I mean by this I Jjiowor of God by an Illustration. For vjjicople will stay awake to hoar an llius jftratlon though they'll sleep through n the rest of tho sormod. Supposo 1 had M three dogs standing here, all ?qua-l 1 I weight, sUo and condition ? I othor side of thorn a boy and girl and I President McKinley, each with a bib : cuit iu their bands. The girl has ton grains of strychnine in bers. They all i/ive tlioni to the dogs?, und tliougb two of Uio dogs (risk around uflor eat ing tlicin tho tblrd dies. The dog was killed not by tho biscuit, but by the stryohnine in it. So with the power of Uod. The preacher doesn't do tlie work. It's the power of God. If wo are depending on human efforts wo are gone. If the power id there irood will follow, and it will kill .sin. Kor thine is the power '. God's Intinlto power ! if we bad a few peoplo hero with that power wo could shake this old city from centre to oircuinferonco. No doubt about it. When a Btortn centre 'sdisturbed ter rific results foilow. I want to toll you that if the praying people of this eity would disturb too storm centres they can make a great effect. Tho churches here are like a trolley ear. When you disconnect it from pow er tho lights go out and it won't move a foot. Hut put on the current and all will be right, if the ohurohes would only get connected with tho divine dy namo what a result they could achieve I Some of these old hureh members are as still as a Btone, They ain't moving a foot. Still they sing, "I'm going to my journey's end." It's a lie. They ain't a going. For thiuo is the power. This lias reference to citizenship and loyally. Nothing is despised like a traitor. All hate Benedict Arnold because he was an ollieer in tho American army who sold out anil wont to the other Bide. Don't you think a ohuroh member who leaves the ranks and go'-s into the dev il's gang is a traitor? The oid Presby terian sister who goes to the theater is one of these. She's tho devil's old bell ewe. Benediot Arnold, was a gen tie man compared to her. Loyalty ! Love, true love! If I was to spell love i out according to its meaning it would | be with the letters that compose loy alty, (.'-brist himself said that love de manded loyalty, "if any man says he loves me and keeps not my command ments the same is a liar and the truth is not in him." Loyalty ! Think of a deaeon, au el der or a steward of tho oburoh bo longing to the Commercial olub. He's gone into a hog wallow. What do you think of one who carries on gambling in cotton or stocks V Why, I had rather have my boy play seven-up for 10 cents with a greasy olu deck of cards. Broth er Ma.-bburn. w mldn'tyou rather have your boy 'i Brother Mashburn said he didn't know anything about gambling in stocks, and Sam, witli u smile, said : "Weil, you lion't know any thing about seven-up, either, do you ?"' 1 can't prove anything by these old preachers. If I was to asK them, if they were in the tabernacle they'd tell mo 'they think so.' How wo need loyalty in this country. The deaeon who doesn't drink, but rents his house out to a saloon keeper is no better In the siyht of God than tho dirty, lousy scoundrel who dishes out the liquor. Ain't he a dainty, a fel low like that, 1 like the man who is on the right side of everything. That's what 1 call loyalty. The- loyal man is right on the hquor question, right on tho money question, not charging 20 per cent, in terest on what he lends out, right ou every question. When a preaeher goes to a blow-out banquet and drthks some wine "not to be odd," ho has his gun spiked by the devil. And I'd rather make a new gun than i.nspike the old one. People don't respect this man. The saloonkeepers don't like me, but they respect me more than they would him. Some men have to drink for their of ten-trouble. It's mighty often, for it attaoks them about oneo every hour. Some men seem to have a ohronic ?tomaeh. Down right loyalty ! The Bible says, "Taste not, touch not tho aeeursed thing ;" and again. "Avoid even the appearance Of evil." Yet some Chris tians have a regular poach-blossoui nose. They don't drink, though. Loyalty, loyalty ; downright loyalty. Don't go any where that would lend any one to think you drank. See a woman around a punch bowl dishing out the stutT. I can stand a bull-necked barkeeper giving it out, but to sou a woman at it is intolerable. Society will begin to turn out in a day or two, and I'll trim tho old gals if they do. A woman who starts her boys to tho dovii by tho punch-howl is a feathorless goose, and a goose without its feathers is the goosiest no-account goose that ever was. May bo you say you don't like to come to hear Sam Jones bei auso you get your feelings hurt. Leave yo.r feelings at home. What business have you carrying your feelings around where they'll get hurt, anyhow ? Loyalty ! Kight every pop. That's what loyalty means. I'd rather get shot all to pieces while on tho right side than to go safo on tho wrong. If Augusta only had a loyal urmy it would soon win the city to it. 1 am for whatever is for God and the up building of tho moral charaetor. Get to work. PfiOAN CULTURE. A Texan Tells About tlio Value of the Tree and How to ltalsn It, Probably there Is no investment of so small cost that will yiold to large a revenue for the life time of tho planter and liiB descendants as that of growing a large pecan grove on tho farm. Not only tho value of the acreage contain ing tho trees, but evi ry aero of tho farm will bo increasod tn value if a grove of twenty to iifty acres bo planted. Comparing tho cost of planting of fruit trees, orange groves anil tho like, the expense of planting a pecan grove is tho least of them all. Not only that, but When onco planted, always planted, for when they come into bearing at six years of ago they continue to Increase their bearing until the trees aro thirty years old, but will bear during their long lifo of six hundrod years. The pecan trees aro vory hardy, being of the same family as the hickory and biack walnut, havo a deep tap um' and It is a raro sight to sou in our forests eithor a dead pecan troo or one blown down. Plan*.in ; tho p run treo In grovos as they do tnc oliv.? in California, 20x'20 foot apart, elvi b 1211 trooB to tho aero. Wo have reports from California of ollvo troos earning from 11,300 to$l 500 ? per acre The oil from thorn Bdlsat $1.00 pur quart. At seven years of ago they earn $$.00 to tho treo, and double that when they aro twelve years o'd. The ownor of tho largest ollvo grovo In California says these ostlmatos aro rather undor thar over. In faot, he said ho was almost af.-aid to tell tho whole truth, for fear he would not bo believed. Did I give his nnmo ho ? oulil bo easily recognized as ono of the*most reliable grower., of tho Pacific OOMti What Is true of tho ollvo is true of the Tex is thin shell pecan, wMob, with euitivat on and care, 'far exools the forest g.-owth. Wo have many wild trees or Handlings which aro under ou1 - tlvation with yields oLj|??!..t to fifteen bushels. Ui i Iu ?fl^ffifej^fflfft'1'-''" *h"-' earn from $50 t0$85 to tho Iron. Win, I2*i trees to tho aoro, and ylolds of only | fifty pou mis to tho troe, mill out 20 cents ; per pound, which choice nut-, should i easily bring, this means id,200 per acre. Count tho earnings but $2 to tho troo, ; means per ai re, which is not a I hail IncooiO when you can add to that I what can ho derived from cultivating the. same ground in other crops Pecan trees respond very liberally to cultivation, and can be treated same as any other fruit tree. Says an expe rienced pecan grower in this State : "Tho fullest successes I have seen have been obtained by treating the pecan absolutely as a fruit tro i from seed to harvest. No more costly mis* i takes havo I made than in trying u I follow nature in growing tho pecan. Every agricultural success has boon achieved by overcoming nature's of forts to defeat it. Tho lincst and most productive pecan trees I have seen nave been rained on well drained up land. The most rapid growth and earliest fruiting of pecans have been on sandy lands. Tin: grandest pecan trees are on rich alluvial soil. There can be no doubt hut that the best pecan groves of tue future will bo on well drained tillable land, though it may be a thrifty use to make of some less fav orable location. I would plant close together, or at least only a medium distance apart, and prune back to pol lards, anil get the largest proportion of new wood to a given area of ground, because the pecan tree can bo set closer together as tho fruit is only pro duced on new wood. ''Such experiments as 1 havo been able to make appear to show that the pecan tree can he pruned or trained to any shape desirod, wnether low spread ing, pollard or even Hat espalier. I do not know how it can be dwarfed, but hope to learn." Of lato year-- hortic?^..?...;'? nave been giving more attention to the dwarfing of fruit and nut troca and find great gain in so doing, as many ad vantages are gained thereby, in plant ing the pecan, after they are 2 or H years old, they can by heading in be trained to any shape desired, and so pruned that it will be25 or Uti years be fore it will become necessary to cut away any of the trei s because too near to others. As long ago as 185(1 there were found here In Texas dwarf pecan trees growing to the height of 10 or 12 feet only. Some were found growing in Georgia many years later. These dwarf pecan trees are not common, but show that they can be easily trimmed in any way desired. In u chemical test of the relative value of nuts for food, the pecan stands high. In sixteen ounces we lind there lire seven ounces of meals to nine ounce.-, of shell. Tue difference in the Brazil nut is u little larger, but only by thinnoss of shell. The nit ogenou matter, the fats, the carbo-hydrates, are all supplied, the II ivor of the ker nel very agreeable, and their use con ducive to health. Nut culture is just as legitimate a branch of fanning as the growing of any Held crop, and far more prolltubl ?, for when once in bear ing the income can be called upon an nually bolng really surer lhau a fruit uroo. .Modern progress has accomplished much In knowledge of tree planting, and shows tho necessity of cultivation after planting, as well as groat care it the beginning Patience must he ex ercised, for unlike the growing of crops which yield results in one or two years, any results of tree planting must bo waited upon for ^ longer period. Altogether the best, the cheapest, and safest way to ^et a p. can grove is to plant tho nuts ami transplant the young tree wnen about ono year old. All our h-st authorities on pecan cul ture are now fully agreed that the pecan cannot amount to much without a deep running tap-root, and that when the original tap-root is removed, a new lap root will never appear. Other toots will grow and tho pecan become a very ham.some tree, but without the original lap-root, results in fruit will be very disappointing. When pecan trees with tho lap-root cut are planted ami pecan nuts planted same day, the latter in given time will he three lim 8 larger than the transplanted trees, these merely managing to keep alive, nothing more. Speaking of increased land values by planting of trees, this story is loitl : "Two brothers bought some western wild land. Ono put up quite expensive buildings,but neglected fruit. The other built loss expensively and used the money in planting great variety of fruit, including berries, which give returns the year aft.< r sotting. This brother had many offers tu buy bis farm, and finally sold it for a largo advance on its SOSt, after having had the. pleasure of eating fruit of his own planting for ! many years. The expensive buildings of tho other brother cost too much to keep In repair. The result was that when sold it did not represent as much value, as its owner had put into it." See ! Herbert post. Fort Worth, Texas. A POET'S TRIBUTE TO T1MHOI). Tho Souiii Carolinian's Lofty Ideal and His Fidelity to Art. J.H.Randall in Augusta Chronicle. 1 road with Interest the article writ ton by Prof, lank on Henry Tlmrod. I knew the poet well. My .first knowl edge-of him was at Charleston, when I used to write poetry myself. Dr. John D.ckson Bruns, at that time, a brilliant young man, the friend and patron of the tuneful brethren, told me s vorai strange stories of Tlmrod's excessive sensitiveness. Ho seemed to bo ab sorbed in bin art, and wa? painfully hurt when anyone disagreed with his estimate of tho hardsolhigh renown. Ho could not comprehend how any in telligent hoing had the temerity to rank Hymn alove. Wordsworth. Ho Appeared to forget that thiswoild Is made up of contradictory elements, and that mun are to bo taken wise y as they are and not as we desire them to bo. Tho fact is, Timrod, full of the noblest genius, was not practical, and 1 havo soldom inot anyone BO singularly unfitted for combat with this world. Ho mado several heroic efforts to fit himself for life's struggle or to adapt himself to circumstances, but u frail constitution, delicate nerves, ideal longings and a spirit that constantly woro out the physical envolope, proved too much for him. Poverty and neglect, along with sorrow anil disappointment, wero added to his other agonies, ami so death was inevitable. I on? o mot him itt Mobile, in tho our v part of tho war, and ho unhosomod hlmsoif to mo. Wo visltod together tho celebrated lady who wroto " Boulah '?then Miss Augusta Evacs. Tlmrod was a viotim of oigbt-bllndnoss. Ho could notguldo hlmsoif after dark, and I piloted him around. Ho was tmo to his art to the last, just as Haynn was, and deserves to he ranked among tho first of our southern poets. In some respects ho was ossen tlally tho first. He wa;, in America what Keats was td England, and there is a oathetlo slmlA?rlty in their Uvoh A"d deaths,. It \k said that Governor repeated those verses <>f his whore, alluding u> t ho corn tug marblo mem orials to tho slain soldiers of tho South j hi* said . Aii'i Botnewhoro, waiting i'<>r its birth, The Bhafi is in tho stoilO. I havo thought betimes that South Carolina lias not properly appreciated this gifted man's tnotnory. lie do serves to bo cherished among her greatest treasures. Is it any wonder that some of the contemporaries of Titnrod, witnessing bis melancholy career, turned from the tll'lSO, and sought gainful occupations Intrude or prose, espeeialHy men of family who had no assurance that wives and ohll dren would be cared for by the public when they were wandering on Mount Olympus V Soir.o of these men, long surviving their song-brethren, do not rogrot their abandonment of poetry, for increasing years eliminate romance and make the inen; ambition for fame a vanity of vanities. Still the practical men, who once aspired to become what the world calls immortal as poets, ad mire tho lofty ideal of Tim rod and his fidelity to his art. They look with pathetic interest upon his record and would rejoice to see his memory rescu ed from the sordid things of earth. For my part 1 do not value as I once did thoso things that many men conti od for, and I know how empty they are, but it is impossible to contemplate what II -nry Tlmrod accomplished and not desire that he should be properly honored, loved and orovvnod. A PLEASANT SUM PIUSE, Charleston Wakes Up i > the Fact dial it Uns a Piano Factory and Now Wants Several More Things. Charleston Mows and t ourler. The greater part of this community were a.; much surprised as ploa.-en when they read the announcement yesterday morning that a piano mam) factory his been ad tit d it) our locul industries within the past few wot I and is actually making pianos for salt in other parts of the country. It is a fact, nevertheless. The story of the new enterprise was briefly yesterday, and Is a very Interesting one. There was no fuss and feather before or about its birth. There win no appeals for subscriptions; no meet mil's anil talks and resolutions ?aim more, talks afterward. It was a sur prisingly simple, matter?getting the concern on its foot and putting it to work. It beats everything, as the saying is Why, we might as well have hail a piano factory here all this time. All that was needed was to put up the small capital needed for one, ami hunt up Mr. Duston8tnith and secure his cooperation In the business Doubt less we could have got him, experione and all, twenty years ago, instead of list month. We havo recently got a box factory and a bag factory and a shoe factory and a hose factory in that way. We might get some more small factories In tho same way. Our pleasant sur prise in the. matter of the piano fac lory is suggestive. It suggests that we should look out anil advertise fin more Dustonsmitbs and Codys, with their experience in making things foi the wholesale trade, and Induce them to make several things here. Then art; lots of vacant buildings, even build ing sites avail ab'0, even below Linn street. We should try to have them occupied by more good looking young men giving shape to things never shaped here before. Possibly we might got a bleuehcry in this way. Possibly a spool tbroao factory. Possibly a wool factory. Possibly n furniture factory. Possibly a glass, or pottery, or pork, or beet sugar, or ,-tove, or cutlery, or button, or bucket, or agricultural implement, or some other kind of factory that w< have not now. Possibly we will not make an Intel ligent and earnest t ffort to get any om of them, but will wait for some other strangers from distant points of the country to come down and discover our natural advantages for theras'elvi.-. without aid or invitation or sugges lion on our purl. Wo shall set; what wo shall see. Ill-: WON THE PltlZR, The Married Man Whose Wife (Javc 1ftIin $.*> Mho Pound on the Floor. There were live or six of them sitting about the. stove in the drug store, anil they had been telling some, pretty tall stories, says the Detroit Free Dress. The druggist was a man of some hu mor anil invention and ho concocted a mixture of great potency and line flavor, composed of sp. frumontl, sac* obarum alba, cortex llmonis, oarophll lus aromatious and aqua pur a q. s This mixture he proposed toadmlnls ter to Whomsoever should tell the big gest story, and the party at once began to stretch their inventive powers to tho fullest extent. A toilet soan drummer was appointed judge, anil the. prize mixture, steam hot, sat in an eight-ounce graduated measure upon the edge of tlie stove. The colonel told a war story of the Milliehausen variety, the squire relat ed a hunting adventure, that evinced a decided penlus for evading tho truth, and the postmaster made a strong bid for tbo prize with a snake story big enough to make tilt sea serpent jeal ous. The 0th?!?r3 followed in turn, ami the last man, the major, entered tin competition. The major hail in his mind a remarkable narrative about a dog that ho owned that did some won derful things, and ho began his story in this way : " Last Wednesday morning I got up a littlo later than usual and wentdowi to breakfa-t. Most of you have sec that brown setter of mine ? he's a rood deal smarter than most men. Well, that tlog was in the dining room win 1 went in. As I t amo in the door my wife, who was waiting for me, said : John, When 1 went in to wake you up this morning I fount! this bill on the Moor. You must havo dropped it from your pocket when you undressed last night.' Then she handed mo the bill. Now, that tlog of mine was?" "Wait a minute," said tho toilet soap drummer, "you needn't go any further with your story. The prize, is yours. I'm a married man myself, anil that lie you've just told is ono that you'll never Improve on. I hereby rentier a decision in your favor." As there woro no single nun in the crowd not a voice was raised in protest against the judge's verdict. ?The longest brltlgo In tho world Is stated to "bo the new structure over the Danube, which exceeds tho length of tho Tay Bridge In Scotland by 2,(500 feet. Tho longest span of tho new I brldgo measures (122 feet. ?Nine-tenths of tho whisk brooms sohl and used in the United State-? aro ma4e fromjbrooro own grown In Kan sas. Mofrt of tho brooms are manu factured id. U?oheJ*er and other Eas terjMflKHH^^Hraw material comes <..?i hering* Va. . ? America bus ?(15,0 ?Rhode Island has 2,l ?Matno hat) boused 1,185,?. toe. -?Germany lias 1,000,000 tu. workers. ? America uses half the world's quinlnno. ?The (Jolted States contain 9,000, farmers. ?The cruiser Brooklyn will ropre* sen! the U 8. navy at the Quoen's J uhlloe in England. ?Thoro are one-half million women in this country classified as agricul tural laborers. ? The San .lose (Cal.) Fruit racking Company has forwarded a carload of fruit to South AI doa. ? A natural gas well has been struck at Waiton, Ky , ami a pipe line may be laid to Cincinnati, O., twenty miles distant. ? Natural gas in immense quanti ties has boon discovered In an artesian well at San Antonio, in the State of Texas. ?A French fishing vossel struck an iceberg off the Newfoundland Coast, and out of .1 men 00 board only 1 survived. ? l'he governments of Chile and Bra'/.ll have eutorcd into an alliance with a view to guaranteeing f peace in South America. ? investigations are being made of the cr*"raets of the Nile to develop elcctr! power for manufacturing and Irrigul.eg purposes. Mi-* Auuie S. Feck has succeeded in placing herself on record as the to -', woman to climb to the summit of Mount OrI'/.aba, Mox. It.s top Is 18,"'"> fe l above the sea. The only pearl farm in th n .?ustraiia. It covers a square I?j\'\ea 01 vaster n ii and 2 ?U VcsSeTs are i v. sting the crop. ?The Baldwin Locomo< if Phi ladt lphia, received six locomotives to be built *i ivornment Railways, of s I n is is the list order fro?n ' ?r a number of ye* ? In Kngland gaily give a eertii f death unless ho ha lie person at least forty-? 'efore death. Without euch icate no undertaker i? pormi uiry the body. ? A new episode has been added to the history of the bicycle. In France the other day two ladies wore stopped on the road by a bloyclo woman, who drew a revolver and forced I hem to surrc?.\.cr then tMuablcs ?A large manufacturing concern now in Germany, has completed irrangoments to transfer its entire tusirjoss to.Middlesex Co., N. J., to obtain the benefit of the American market and to avoid the high tariff. The present plant of the llrm employs about 4,000 persons. A few days ago the agent, of the company (dosed a con tract for the purchase of 000 acres of land, on which it i* proposed to found the village. Work will ho begun in a short time to clear aud drain the land. Thadden* Stevens was once opposed in debate by Horace 1! lynard, of Ten nessee. Maynard was very tall and straight, and bad long black ha r, whloh ho won; well down over bis coat collar nn.l which gave him But what tho appearance of an Indian. It was even rumored that i.e had setae aboriginal blood in his veins. May nard prided blmsolf on his scholarly .attainments, and at too close of I l< itadros? ho quoted one <u two Latin verses. Old J'had replied to Maynard'S argument in bis usual vigorous man ner, ami then paused for a few seconds, until ho had Boourod the attention of of the. entire IIOUSO. Turning to May nard, wh ) sat some distance behind him,be delivered this parting shot: "So much for the gentleman's English. As to bis Choutaw, 1 do not profess to un derstand it." KICCIONT INVENTIONS. V List of New und Useful lit vices for the Bonclli of Mankind. To prevent the spark.* from locomo tives from setting tires a new device is formed of an inverted cone placed over the smokestack, onding in a bent tube, into which an exhaust steum pipe pro ji els to put out the sparks as they enter the i.ube. In a newly patented churn for butter making two half-round dashers are used, the handles being attached to eccentrics on i shaft net in a frame work over the churn, turned by a crank or power, the two dashers work ing alternately up and down. , I'd prevent bicycles from being stolon a new lock is placed Inside a small ohambon on the back tide of the head, with a bolt turned by a key to tit a re cess inside the heaii, when the front wheel is brought in a straight lino with the frame. To prevent the stealing of combs from hotel washl'OOmsa new patent has a wire loop SOt into the metal baek of the comb with both ends of wire fas toned inside the buck to make a strong attachment for the chain to M hieb it is fastened. A bandy ladder recent y patented ha- the rung* pivoted te. the uprights at each end, the, inside of one of the up rights ocing recOSSCd to receive the rungs when the ladder is folded up for carrying, the ladder boing fastened when open by an N brace. Vot use as a penwiper a new dovlCQ has two parallel rod* fastened together by a spring hinge at one end, one rod containing a revolving convex piece of felt and the other rod holding a con CaVO felt, pad, the rods being b'-ought l .gelber by the hand over the pen. For the purpose of bracing stovo pipe* and holding the sections together a rod is placed Insido the pi|)0 connect ed with an anchor inside the chimney, the other end of the rod projecting outside the plpo at tin: elbow anil being litted with a thumb nut to tighten the pipe. a new patented stool which folds up has a metal hand attached by a vivet to one of three uprights, which uro fas tened together at the centre to open out and form three legs, the upper ends being rocessi d to hold metal band, over which is streicht .. ,. piece of can vas to form the s. at. A table for drawing purposes recent ly patented ha* a roller at each end of the table to hold the ends of a roll of paper which passes over the top and is held in place for work without pins or paste by nu ans of clamps at the onds, the table being fitted with all the latest drawing appliances. A C irman inventor '.as patented a device for preventing collisions bo tWOOn Ships, which consists of a tele scopic jib extending out In front of the vessel, which slides 'Inward when touched by any obj lot And completes an electric circuit to r/vorso the en ginos and turn the rumr to altori h