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VQL- XIU _ LAURENS. S C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1897. NQ QO AMERICAN COTTON GROWERS THE PROTECTIVE association FORM! PLAN8 TO KE?UCK THE COTTON Acic KAO K ?a OENERAL ORGANIZA TION FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. The American Coltou Growors' Pro (COtlVO Association met on the 20tll lost., in Memphis, Tenu., ami was called to order by President Ilcctoi 1). bane, of Alle ns, Ala. Many delegates wore present, in cluding prominent planters from Ar kansas, Tennessee, Texas, Akhamu, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi. Immediately alter the delegates were called to order President Lane deliver ed an address in which he explained why I ho convention had been called. "Cotton today is selling at less than !i cents," he said, "and this means (bo insignificant sum of K) cents a day for the labor of the man who is distinctive ly the cotton grower. I make this statement deliberately and defy a suc cessful contradiction." Continuing Mr. Lane said: "Under prevailing cond.lions, the product of our toil is no longer adequate to our subsistence. Prevailing prices are be low the cost of production. With n sur plus of several millions annually which is an able coadjutor of I ho col ton hear, tht! law of stipi ly and demand has been displaced, and in its stead interposes the result attained by this commercial fakir and IhmflalU at list. "Statistits show that there has been a great falling . It in speculative gam bling in cotton futures in the last sev eral years, consequent upon the small crops, for ;is the visible supply dimin ished the power of manipulation in creased." President Lane made a strong plea for a reduction of I he cotton acreage, saying that over-production fosters ma nipulation. Py destroying the annual sut plus the law of supply and demand will prevail; comp >titlon will intervene, and the cost of the piodUCliotl of this commodity, which is a fair standard of ils value, will be the basis of its price mark. Alter the president had delivered his address, the usual committees were ap pointed and the morning session was devoted to the reception of delegates and to organization. Among the more prominent delegates present were, the lollowing: Governor Eagle, of Arkansas; J. W. Print, Iluutsvillo, Ala.; Capt. L. W. Lovosquo, Arkansas; Capt. Jerome Hill, St. Lotus; Col. W. W. Stone, ex-auditor of Mis sissippi; Col. Charles Scott, Mississippi, and McNeil Bond, Tennessee. The sessions of the convention were held in the ball of the Poabody house. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the vicinity having been visi ted by a severe sleet storm, which, later, turned into a cold rain, the at tendance was a representative one. After President Lane's addlCSS had been discussed, the lollowing perma nent Officers were elected: Chairman, Hector I). Lane, of Ala bama; secretary, .1. Chatham, Tennes see; assistant secretary, Sol Cohen, Mississippi. A committee on resolutions, consist ing of two delegates trom each State, was appointed. The meeting then ad journed until 2 o'clock. At the atleinoon session a general discussion of tho sit nation was had in which all the delegates look part. Dr. D. M. Crossen, of S. C , a dele gate from the convention of growers Which was held in Atlanta, was intro duce I ami addressed the meeting, after which an adjournment was taken until 8 o'clock that night. When the delegates were called to order at the night session the commit tee on resolutions presented the follow ing report, which was adopted: Believing that the best thing this meeting can accomplish will be a per manent, organization of American cot ton grower-1, your committee respect fully report as follows: 1. We rc-aflhm the principles an nounced by the association at its meet ing in Memphis in January, lS!l(i. 2. We. respectfully submit, the fol lowing constitution and declaration of principles, and urge their adoption as the basis of a permanent organization, to be extended to all of the States and counties in the cotton country. Article 1. The name of this associa tion shall be the American Cotton Growers' Protective Association. Article 2. The object of ibis asso ciation shall he to educate the cotton growers of America as to their rights and duties, and to devise ways and means for the improvement, of their condition. Article 8. We adopt the principles announced by the association at its meeting at Jackson, Miss., January 0 and 10, 1895, and at Memphis in Janu ary, 1800. In order lo carry them out we shall strive, by the. thorough organi zation of all the cotton growing Si des, counties and districts, to unite all cot ton growers in an earnest effort to re duce the acreage of cotton each year, bo as to insure a fair value oi pi ice to every grower. - This organization shall take no pait in national, State or local politics, and wiil permit no persons to use it for personal advancement or purely political purposes. Tills association shall aim above all, to teach American cotton growers: ] To reduce the cost of the produc tion of cotton. 2. To practice the princi, 'es of thrift and economy; to enable him to escape debt and make his cotton a real "mon ey crop." 8. To make all I?8 own supplies at home, to the end that the crop, when produced, may ho all his own. 4. To hold his crop each year until he can ?eil it to tho best advantage. 6. To build fac tories for manufac turing cotton goods near the cotton Heids, so that ho may receive the larg est returns from each annual ciop, and tint the home markets may bo built up for all oil or farm products. Article 4. This association shall elect a vice president from each of the cot ton states who shall be the president for his State. It shall ho the duty of the State president to effect a thorough Organiza tion of ah the cotton growers in their States, counties and districts. To this end the State presidents shall call to their assistance tho commissioners of agriculturo, und the illrcctora of the agricultural oxpefintont stations an?! the profossuis of agriculture, using, as fur as possible, existing organizations of farmers whose aims nro not anlag oni> tic to tins association. A11 ulc .">. The presidents of the State association shall constitute the execu tive eonimlttoo of this association, of which the president of this association shall la- ex nfltcio chairman. It shall he the duly of said committee to assist the president in promoting 'be work and objects Of the association J to ail vise the Slate presidents with regard to the work in their Stale, and to direct the operations of the secretary of tin" asso ciation. Tula committee shall also pre pare the constitutions and by-laws of tho States lo he submitted to il at its next regular meeting and il is author ized to pre are, publish and dissemi nate literature in advocacy of the ob jects of the association. In order to do tlii>, the executive committee is author ized to taisc, by subscription or other wise, as it may deem best, sulllcicnt funds to pay I he expense of this publi ca ion and distribution and a reason able salary lo the secretary of the asso ciation. Article d. Tho secretary of the na tional association as the secretary of the executive committee shall work un der its direction and receive such com pensation :is it allows. lie sh ill be elected by the executive COUimb CO and shall hold ollice lor one year. Article?. The executive committee is authorized to select a lrcm>urci to hold ollice lor one year und to report to il and through it lo the association. Article S. There shall be no initiation fees from the members o' the associa tion and no olllccr except its secretary shall receive a salary. The Stale asso ciation shall decide as lo the compen sation to be paid their own ollicer. and shall determine the in tins to he used in raising funds. This association sug gests to them tho advisability of mak ing a levy of one cent for each acre >>t cotton put in each year by each mem ber, the funds so raised lo be cxpend <"\ lor pro,noting the objects of the association within I he State and c uni ty where it is laiscd as shall bo deter mined by ihe local association. Aftor further indorsing tho anti-op lion bill lntroduco'1 iu Cor gross by Representative stokes, of South Caro lina, a resolution was passed suggest ing that the fanners in every county in oacll State moot on the first Monday in February anil proceed to organize. L'ho following olllccrs Were then elected: President, [Irctor 1). Lane. Ala bama: secretary, Richard Chcalhani, sditor of the Cotton Planters' Journal, Memphis. The convention ad journed si.ie die, subject to the call of the president. FORTY PER CENT AT FARMING. Mr. Henry Parker, who, with bis brother, owns a DO acre, farm near Lu anda Ala., has told the Times, of lint [dace, how be has succeeded at farm ing. " Wo made,'* said he, ?< last year IU per CCllt. profit on the place. And it is of considerable value because we liavo unusually good accommodations du the place, among other things an exceedingly nice country house with iitlthouscs, etc. We get money from COWS. We have live Jersey cows, from which we sell the butter and the in rrease. Wo sell 200 head of hogs a i year, many of then as pigs, others WUCll grown. We make fodder and hav, and last year got good money from Wo bushels of peanuts. We raise greatquantities of sweet potatoes. And ilo you know that you can't buy a sweet potato in Harbour ?counly now, and they aie worth DO ecu's a bushel ! Ii is true. I nm shipping potatoes from Nashville. The fnrmors gel impatient and will not bold any par! of bis crop for a rise. Think what a magnificent thing it would he now to have several hundred bushels of potatoes ? We have sold already $22 worth of new Irish potatoes. We get go d returns from sugar cane, and $0 in the last month or two from cattail millet seed. We raise field peas and all kinds of vegeta bles, of com so, w"o raise oats and corn, hut only to feed our own stock. Wo made lasl year over 40 percent, on our larm. And some people will say thai our store helped us out. And so it did. We sold the product of the farm largely through the store, but the store g t a profit, '' ho net proceeds to the farm after deducting the value of our services as storekeeper from the amount gave us a profit on our larm of over lojpcr cent, on its etilirc cost to us.''?Farm Magazine, What Widb Tikes Do.--Elaborate tOStS of the draft of wide and narrow tired wagons have just been completed by the Missouri Agi icullurnl College experiment station, extending over a period of a year and a half. These tests havo been made on macadam, giavel and dirt roads m till conditions, and on the meadows and plowed Heids of the. experiment farm. Contrary to the public oxpcctnlion, in nearly all cases draft was materially lighter when tires (') inches wide, were used than with tires of standard width. The load hauled was in all cases the same, and the diaft. was carefully determined by means of a self-rccoj'ulng dynamo meter. The beneficial effect of the wide lire, on dirt roads is strikingly shown in some recent tests at the sta tion. In a trial, when a clay road was so badly cut into ruts as to be almost impassable for Ii" Iii vehicles and ploas uie carriages, after running the (> inch tiles over this road 12 times, the ruts were completely tilled and a Mrsl-elass bicycle path made.?Columbia (Mc.) Herald. Prof. Win. it. Brooks, of Smith Ob servatory, Geneva. N. V., "cports Hie observation of a great group of sun spots approaching the sun's disc. The group is visible to the naked eyo through,smoked glass and may be well deilned with small telescopes. Meas urements show this dhturbanco to be 600,000 miles in length. Tho greatest drawback to swine breeding is the liability to loasoi from epidemic diseases, yet tho great pro liligacy and rapid growth of hogs ren der it possible to soon recover from theso losses and still como out ahead of oven tho fast horse men. j How ttntau tail to Hie Hogs, You would have thought thorn very OOmioal looking had you soon Jackson and .Johnnie Skilling as ti)ey appeared to Mr. Jordan, the afternoon lie went down by their house to look after his logs, lie was a Lumberman and store* keener in a littlo village in Arkansas ; and their father and mother lived in a small log shanty on tho river bank, near where he tied his rafts. It was the day before Christmas. While the weather was not as cold as it is in Chicago at thih seasou of tho year, the sight of Jackson and Johnnie made Mr. Jordan shiver. Their father would rather hunt than work, and was away now, no one knew where, nor when lie would return. They often enough had little to eat, and as for clothing, they wore such cast-off garim nts ol older people as they could pick up. Jackson had on a very dirty straw hat, tho top of which iwas nearly split off, whilo bhrougb tho crack his red hair sliono, not unlike lire under a partially lifted BtOVO-lld. Johnnie's head piece was a black fi It hat many sizes too large, which he had adapted to his uso by tearing off the rim where it looped down ove r his eyes. Their shirts were much worn and ragged, but being very large, tho many folds anil creases helped to keep tho weather out. They bail no coats. Their trousers averaged pretty well 5 having boon out off for au nmer?use, thoy were short, but made no for this in width. Their hare feet und legs wero reddened and chapped by the cold, raw wind. Mr. Jordan had been busy some time examining his logs and seeing that tUey were properly fastened, so that he would have nothing to worry about while eating his Ohristmas ?linner ou 'ho morrow. On looking up, he saw Jackson and Johnnie, with hands in tiie holes they called pockets, gravely atohing him from tho bank above. Nu.v it so happened that Mr. and Mrs. Jordan had had a discussion about tho Skiliings that very morning; and in spito ol their comical appearance, the sight of these children made Mr. Jor dan uncomfortable. "What do you want hero?" he called. " Go and put on your shoes and stockings.'' Johnnie stood on one foot, and tried to warm the other by holding it against the supporting leg. Jackson, being older and wiser, didn't. Ho had tried it, and had found that it only make tho leg colder while tho foot got no warm er. Ho looked down at his feet a moment, and then slowly drawled, in tho way his father talked. " Wo uns ain't got no shoes." "Go in the house, then, where Jit is ' warm," said Mr. Jordan. 'Tain't much warmer in there," piped out Johnnie, patting down his foot, and standing with his knoes bent ! a little, like Jackson. Mr. Jordan looked over tho ti p o the hank at tho house. Through tho 1 open door ho could see Mrs. Skllllng crouched over a feeble littlo tire in tho big tire-place. " Why don't you shut the door, and J keep tho wind out?" ho askod. " It don't'pear to bo no use," said Jackson. J The clay chinking between tho logs had fallen out in many places, and the wind could enter freeiy through the j .?racks. Most of the panes in the win dow beim.' broken, il was covered with 1 tin old shawl, which drow in and out * with the draft. It was plain that the apen Joor was needed for light. Mr. Jordan could say nothing. He had found that with this chibs of people Iiis \ words wero thrown away. They know ( nothing bettor. Laziness and iuipio- ' . vidonOO had become lixed habits anil j they could not realize that they were ' at all responsible for their poverty. 1 They could not see any particular uso in striving for anything better. Just hero, Johnnie, who had been squirming restlessly, nudged Jackson, j and whimpered hoarsely, "Ask him now, quick." Jackb' n cleared his throat and said ' hesitatingly, " 1 reckon there ain't no uso in wo uns ex pectin' any Krismus, is there, mister? Mam says there ain't." Thero was a wistfulness in Jackson's cono that betrayed a hope that he would bo contradicted, a wistfulness which made Mr. Jordan tool yet moro uncomfortable. " No, thero isn't any uso," bo said shortly. And ho went on up the river, where ho had somo other logs. But all tho way up, and ad the timo ho was there, those children scorned to follow him, and Jackson's mournful cyos and Johnnie's eager face seemed to ho watching him. In spito of his elforts to pat these children into the class to which ho applied such words us " lu/.y," "shiftless," and "good-for nothing," und so get rid of them, ho could still hear Jackson's wistful voice Had he answoro 1 tho boy fairly P Thero was a short cut through tho woods which ho might have taken j when ho went buck, but for somo reason he did nottukoit. instead, lie followed the river bank down to the Skilling shanty, pretending to himself that ho wanted to see his logs again. Johnnio and Juckson was picking up drift-wood for the tire, when ho went by. They wore shambling along toward tho house with somo wot sticks in their arms, hut stopped to look at Mr. Jordan as ho camo near. Ho noticed that their hunds and el news woro rod and chap ped, liko their foot. For some unac countable reason, tho sight of these two forlorn tigures, their rags whip ping in tho wind and tho water dripping upon them from tho wood thoy curried, irritated him, and ho broke out, half angrily, addressing Jackson us tho older and moro responsible of tho two : " Soo hero, b;>y, Christmas doesn't como to people who won't work. Why don't you take an ax and chop somo good wood, instead of picking up that worthless stuff V" Jackson dropped his wood, and stared at Mr. Jordan In surprise. Ho could not understand why Mr. Jordan iiouid ho displeased at the way ho got his wood. It had ncvor occurred to him to get in any other way. That was the way hin father had alwayB dono. Hut toe reason ho gavo Mr. Jor dan was that ho had no ax. "Go down to the mill, then, and borrow one," continuod that gontlo man. "Toll the man there I sent you. Got son o clay and stop up those cracks, then go In tho house and shut the door. Do you supposo that Christmas will come to a house that looks as if no body lived In It, let alono Christian peoplo ?" This was a now thought to Jackson. Ho had always supposod that things just happened In this world. Mr. Jordan seomod to think thoy thom solvos woro to blamo for Christmas not coming to their houao. Porhaps ho was right. Ho was a very rich man, in Jackson's oyos, and had ovorything ho wanted j his words wcro worth con sidering. Maybe it was because their father did not work that ho and Johnnlo had to go without so many things that other children had. i Maybe Christmas was one ol these. Maybe he himself might do something. Ho could not understand why Mr. Jor dan was displeased with him, hut the faet that anyone took enough interest in him to be displeased with htm, aroused a new sensation. Ho gazed steadily at tho house. It didn't look like the houses up in tho village, where Christ* mas oame every year that was a faet ; but perhaps ho could yet Qx It up in time. Johnnie, who always did as Jackson did, stood and stared at the house, tOO. Hut his feet became cold, and in trying to stand on one leg again, he fell over against his brother. This aroused Jackson, and ho stat ted olT down the river at a brisk trot, Johnnie, of course, trotting after him. Arriv ing at the mill, ho borrowed an ux of the man in charge, and also got some wldo shingles from those scattered about. With these, ho covered the broken panes In the window and took down the shawl. Then ho chopped some dry limbs from a fallen tree near tho house and building up u rousing tiro, shut the door. Next he and Johnnie, vising shingles for trowels, brought clay from the river bank, and tilled up all the cracks they could roaoh. It was surprisingly warm and comfortable in .the house, when they went in. By this time It was nearly night, and they had to hurry down to the mill to return tho ax When they Came back, Jackson stopped to look at the bouse again. So did Jobrnie. Jackson surveyed their work in silence, but Johnnie spoke tho supreme thought of both when he ked : "Do you spt.se Krismus will COITiO now, Jackson ?" Jacksonshook his head despondent-1 ly. "I reckon Krismus done inrgoi 1 wo uns for good," ho said. H it bit-I eyrs belied his wort's", ihiy w r either shining with unwoi t- U pride in his work or lit by a spin k "l hope. After freeing bis mbid t" .1 ick^or, Mr. Jordan thought he fe t bi i it, but it was for a short time not). Ho kept thinkingof the two forlorn li mi ? e e; o i the river bank, all the aft .r. o ? . lie Ktid over, ' lazy," "shlttle&o," and " good-for-nothing," a groat main times : but that did not seem to Hel| much. He did not fee I at all comfort able. Finally, he did up a huge pack age of candy, nuts and raisins, anil laid it one side on tho counter. He then felt better. A man oa.no in and bought some shoes for his children, who were about the si/.o of Johnnie and Jackson. Mr. Jordan laid a dupli cate pair of each of those sold by the side of tho candy. Ho felt so much better that ho went on adding to the pile, one article at a time, lirst eome stockings anil warm woolen shirts, then !v large piece of bacon, und at last a saek of ll mr. Mrs. Jordan In the meantime came in to get some rais'ns for her Christ mas pudding, and seeing these bundles, ttskou whom thoy wcim all for. IIj tried to make her believe that ho ex pected somo ono in to buy them al ready done up. She smiled doubting ly, but sahl nothing. It was late when Mr. Jordan closed the store that night, yet the moon was still above the tree-tops. When he bed home Mrs. Jordan was still busy getting ready for her usual large number of Christmas visitors. Her Uhristmas dinners were events looked forward to longingly by many of her poorer relatives and neighbors. They balked over their plans for the morrow, mil the presents for their little rosy 3 bee ked girl. Then Mr. Jordan read idie newspaper through. Mrs. Jordan was still busy. Mr. Jordan grew nor i*0U8 and looked at his watch, he look Bd out of the window; the moon was hi low the tree-tops now. Ho went to Idle door, and scanned the sky anxious ly. It looked "ko rain, off In tho north-we&t, he uolioved ho would go down and take another look at bis logs. If the river rose, ho might lose some ;>f them. Mrs. Jordan, who happened to bo peeping out soon after that, sasv a man come out of tho back door of the store. There was still light er.ough for her to soo that he was carrying something like a sack on his shoulder and a bag, or basket, in his band. He looked and acted like a thief, hut strange to say she. did not arouse the neighbors ; she only smiled to herself when she saw him slip away into the woods, toward the river. As a rule, Jackson diu not get up, early, but on Christmas morning the light was just struggling in through tho two dirty, unbroken window-pams, when ho suddenly sat up and looked round the room. He had been dream ing that Christmas had at last come i* them, as he heard other children de scribe its joyful event in their well kept homes. Ho got up and groped his way over to the lire-place, and threw somo wood upon tho slumber ing coals. A ruddy blaze soon lit up tho room. Ho looked eagerly around. It was tho same cheerless, dcsirti-1 place. Not a trace of Christmas could he find. He wus bitterly disappoint! (1. He had hoped against fear I but tin y would not bo missed this tim< ; ?> it n was no use expecting anything, even when they worked for it. Wn.tt Mr. I Jordan said might be all right lor rich | people, hut it did not apply to tlx m | Ho choked down Bom< t dng thai came up into his throat, atnl fjuring ho was going to cry, opened tho door tog3 away by himself. As ho oponod tho door a larg-^, in - gainiy object slid down and bumped against his legs, while a lot of little bundles rolled about him on the 11 >or. I Jackson's eyes grew big with wonder j when be saw that the something which had hit him was a sack of Hour. Tin y opened still wider when ho found some socks and shoos in ono of tho bundles, but when he came to a package which had broken open and ho saw the eand/, nuts and raisins scatteretl on the Uoor, he knew what had happened. " He's OOme I Johnnie. Mam, re's come I" ho cried. " Krismus has come ?sure I" HI l, I, A ltl*'S TKA VKIjH. Ho Moots With Divers and Sundry Accidents- mid WIlnoHHcd a Mar ringe Ceremony on a Train. It W59 a lovoly train?that fast mail from Atlanta to Montgomery?cars all I now and bright and clean, and wo mado tho run of 175 mtlon In five hours. Tho wheoln soomod to slide and glide along tho rails as if moving upon ico : not a jar or shook, and all wont soreno until wo nearcd Opellka, when sud denly there was a terrific crash at my window and the largo plate glass wss shatterod by a sto..othat somo liend had thrown with forco and violenco. A socond later?yes, a fraction of a I second?and I would havo roeolvod j tho blow in rny faeo. Tho broken glass ! was shattered ovor mo and in my face, I and a sharp fragment Htuek in my I flngor. Kind fato or Provldonco pro* ! tooted mo, for I had noacoldont policy, j Hut I consider mysolf tho Injured por ; son and had a mind to telograph Governor Johnston to eall out tho militia, for wo had crossed tho Alabama line. When we roaohod the town our conductor put detectives on truck of the rascals, und I hope they will catch them. When I trot to Meridian it was night again and in going to tho hotel 1 found tho pavement torn up part of the way ami before I was aware of any impedi ment, I stumbled against an abrupt rise and fell far aud wide on the un feeling brick. It seemed to mo I could not stop falling and my oorporo stty spread out in a horizontal attitude. I lost my cane and my spectacles, but a kind-hearted man ran out of his store and helped mo up and we found them. You are the third man that has tripped up there tonight anil the city council ought to have a lamp and a watchman here. 1 : kinned my knee I pan and got my host clothes all dirty, and once more 1 consider myself the I injured person, for 1 still had no ac I eideut policy. Today, when our train stopped at ' Vioksburg, a lot of preachers got aboard on their way to tho synod und some of the nice indies of the town eumo down to meet some lady friends on tho train. It took them a good While to exchange salutations and kiss good by all iround and suddenly tho train moved off and gradually gained speed of motion and tho nice ladies ran hastily to tho door and down the stops and made? a leap for tho platform. I never saw such a spread of feminine forms and garments in my life. They both fell violently forward face down wards w ith ail four of their limbs ex tended, and 1 know the shock must havo broken every stay in their cor sets, it grieved me, for I know they are hurt, but the train never stopped to eeo, for the conduc'or supposed lh< s i ladies were passengers and not vinltoru and bad gene forward to look after other matters. But I am obliged ?o consider these ladies the injured pi rsons. It won't do for ladies or old .il- ii to h up from a moving train. When we on 8-e?l the great Missis rip| I liver iinu i ad resumed our jour in y ihe train ^'.?,?,<? d to take on a ioting couple who ???? ro eloping from ?ion- pari-n'.s and were going to get Mwitrhd as soon us ''-y reached the ti?t (.onrtbougn own. They had Uuilgf'd llioo'O people ny mossing the eiv r 01 ut-kilf and to wuvn the train leached tho t<> n the \oaog man hurried to the e et k and not a license while nur train waited Im* him. They JSdn't know wbern to liud a preacher, but tl i re Wi l'i in tv or Ii ly aboard dur train ami kind fr'ond* tugvested that they b.; inaerii d in the n. r or jar that was HtMclli ? . So t...i \ chose jur Jimmy II l.ln.u ', who u-ud to prcaoh in ('a?ier?v 1; , ha', .s now located in VlCk?huiv. 11 ? pot It v. Jimmy Junes to as?ist I i n and wu I the train was going irty miles an liour tho happy uouplo were joim rl together in ttio bolj hoods el mat'i nony. The two JlmmUu ki.-- d the air young bride, and whv n *u UM t '; ? lastbound train the couple boar n d it unl returned to their anxious parent* There was nothing in the way ol I heir narriago savo their youth, for the ,'oung man is of good habits and goo i amlly, and tho girl is as sweet us a jink. Hut these preachers are a bright and oily set. They kept us laughing all die way to Monroe, where tho Bj nod ncets. Going to toe church courts is .heir greatest recreation. Hut I am dred to night, for 1 have traveled 100 niles tO-day and must stop for the pre sent. Hit.I. A HP. M18SIK AND MAMMY. L'retty Incident Witnessed on a New' York Street Car. S'cw York Mail and Express. A boulevard ear was crawling along lear Sixtieth street tho other day when a tidy, comfortable' looking legress, placid and white haired, iwelled the passenger list at the eer ier. Slio carried in her hand u littlo jasket covered with a nupkin snowy is tho fros .work on her woolly lock. Jlher passengers wero a few school jirls, a benevolent gentieman in drab, Mid a lovely woman of tho ricli olivo type, superbly gownod, a Daily Pros perous air about her, and that easy, icttled grace that marked a warin, ripe vintage of .'t? years ago. Seurcoly had tho winsomo old negros? seated he-self opposite to the dive Juno than hcrguzo seemed rivet? d ;m that queenly face. Her tboi y features ri llected serious mental agita tion, a curious mixture of hope anil doubt, as she gazed lixodly, lost to every other surrounding. At last she DOUld hear the strain no longer. Plac ing her little basket nervously on the seat beside her, she approached the olivo beauty with her heart in her month. "'Skuso me, lady, but?" Hero she turh'i bor breath und courage. "Hut you'mind me 60 pow'ful of my sweet itHe missio from do good ole days in Tenncs?" S ie got no further. Tho olive god dOhS turoedf*th080 WOndroUS dark orbs in 1 on t he fond eld questioner ; a sud uen smile of rom niscent j >y made t i in sparkle, like a pair of Kohinoors, and v- i' '? a HOUl htirrlng "Why, Maiuii) and with the blissful aban o in of girlhood, tue goddess bad one ur n around that faithful ebony neck and Hit' i'Uii r about her ebony waist, while, b r shapely '.end rested in that ? gracious In 1 o > '* where it had nclled to peacefully in the tired days of Inn i stro. And n.ainmy ? The dear old crea ture w is too urushed by happiness for KU ds. She could only hold tier lovely ohargu In i er Im d ? mbraee, whllo lier body su lived to tho fancied cadence of a lid why, and the unfor gotten, mos eal " lloai?> I" t> I n-ftly at intervals from hortivuro.ini; lips. Tho boauty's ? yes n re ino.ied, Her soul had floated b ok on the i/o s mer wings ofchildi.oid till it rested amid tho heavy frugra.no? i f niagn 1 i.-. saw the double row of J u><?*m*s that lined tho roadway to thi . i t Southern home ; heard tho songs from the darky quarter as they died a ???ay in to o s down tho cotton Held along the r v.. r i wlllowed ?h?re. A solemn, hut respectful, nllonoo j settled on tho beholders, ?ome g:./.<; 1 In open-mouthed amnz in m; too benevolent gentleman in drub wiped ? bit of molHturo from his glasses; not' a BOhool girl giggled. Then came the siivugo cbing of tho ear boil, and tho winsomo traneo was broken. The beaut*/ brushed a tear away, came back to tho world again, and mammy and hor " llttlo missie," close togeth er, chatted low and lovingly of dear, dead days. Uoan you fret 'bout mo gettin' homo, honey : diu olo darky ain't gwlne tor think 01 nothln till sho sees yo' babloB," were tho last words hoard from mammy, as sho followed her gorgeous missio from tho car. Tho machinery of tho commonplace again revolved. All heaved a sigh, and all wore mellowed for tho vision ?a cameo in black and whlto?of loyalty and love, that laughed at flosb tints, a rare, too-pausing glance at tho ono oasis of tender, fadeless green In the sad Sahara of the old slavory days. AG A INS JV CONCEALED WEAPON S. A Proposed V iitoitUmout to Mako tho Law Morestringent. Greenville Mountalncor, Deo. 25th. Hon. Joseph A. MeCullougb, a member of the Legislature from this county has been giving a good deal of time and attention to Iho preparation of a bill on tho subject of carrying concealed weapons. Mr. MeCullougb has drawn up a measure which ho thinks will meet tho requirements, and ho will introduce it in the Legis lature next month. The bill is much stronger in many respects than tho law now on the statute books, und it is likely to receive favorable attention from tho law-makers, nearly all of whom will have suggestions on this lino. Tho bill contains.a. provision for which there has been a demand from various quariors. The penalty for a violation of the law is lixed at a lino of one hundred dollars and six months imprisonment, without any alterna tive. Mr. McCullnugh lias boon con sidering the advisability of Incorporat ing in the bill a provision prohibiting tho wearing of a hip pocket in the rear of the trousers or coat. While this will not be in the bill as now drawn up, if the suggestion meets with the approval of enough of the legisla tors, it will he added. The bill In full is as follows : Be it enact d by the Genoral Asseln bly of the State of South Carolina: 1. That, an act prohibiting the carry ing ofoonoealed weapons and providing a penalty therofor, and lneor| orating a count for the violation of tho samo in indictments for murder, etc., approved the 17th day of February, A. 1). is'.i7, bo aud the same is hereby amended by striking out the words, "and not less tban twenty dollars, or to he imprison ed not more than thirty nor loss than ten days in tl'c''?cretlon of the court,' lines ?, 10 antl II. and insert in lien thereof the follow! ?: "and tobe im prisoned for a i ? loo i f not. less than six months i... n ore than twelve months la t !.<- oh erection of the court." so that th ? S'kid s etion when amended shai r?; d in. 'i Hows: S( o 1. Bo t in-.etcd b. the Genoral Assembly of ihoS'.ut' of South Caro na any poreon e.vi i j big a pistol, dirk, dagger, Blin^ u a , metal knuckles, razor or other dcauly weapon usually used for the iiillloi on of personal in jury concealed about hla person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before a court of competent jurisdiction shall forfeit to the county tho weapon so carried coo ? alee, anil be lined in the sum of not more than one hundred dollars and he on prisoned for a period Jof not ie-s lhan six months nor mere than twe've months In the discretion of the. court Mot dng herein contained shad be oon sM U"d t? apply to persons carrying cm, -' ;i'?m1 weapons upon their own pi'.-noM s. That httld act be further amended by Hilditit! th?reto seetlona to bo known us i?i etn??i? ',) 4, ? and <i as follows! S e. ?1 I hat any person desiring to carry a concealed or other deadly weapon fo?" a temporary purpose may do so hv npidylng to the Clerk of the Court of O mm on I'ieas and make alii davit as to ids purpose and reason for s ? applylm . v hieb application shall he tiled by the < 1 rk, and if in bis opinion sufficient rettfons exist theretor, he shall grunt t ? said person a permit to carry said Conccah d weapon for a pei ioil not exceeding thirty days and shall enter the name of the said person upon a cook to be kept by him in his office for such purpose to he open to the inspection of too public: and tho said Clerk shall at the same time pro vide such person with a badge to be worn on the outside lapel of the coat, or other conspicuous place, during the period of the said permit; and if any per son to whom such por mit shall bo grant ed shall fail or neglect at all times to have said budge on tho outside lapel of the coat or other conspicuous placo in full view, then said person shall incur tho penalty hereinbefore provided. Sec. I. It is hereby mado the duty of the Bheriffs, constables, police, officers of towns and cities, and all other of ficers of the peace, to search any per son for concealed or other deadly weapons whenever they aro satislied such person is carrying tho same in violation of the provisions of this act: and whenever any person shall make an affidavit sworn t< before any officer authorized to administer oaths that he knows or is Informed und believes that any person is carrying a pistol orotht r deadly weapon concealed about his person contrary to the provisions of this net, tho otlicorH aforesaid are hereby authorized and required to search the person designated. In the event that the alii lavit afore said is made upon it,formation and belief the deponent must state therein I the source of bis information and the ground of his belief, and if it should develop that the person searched by j virtue of said alii.lavit. had no pistol or other deadly weapon upon his person as prohibited heroin, tho person mak ing such affidavit s'udi be liable to ar rest as for a miedoruoanor; and if it should appear < n his trial that such affidavit was made without sufficient cause of oxcu-o i through malice, then such p r-oo mo corivlotcd shall he liable to the pi nalty I or< Inboforo pro vided. Inoasoany 1*1 ??> -m aforesaid shall refuse or nogl > to iDako the search heroin rcquirjd, aft^r iho affidavit pro vided for horoiti smnileaud delivered, he shall also . i e til j-ct to tho same punishmi nt. Sec. 5. It is hor by made tho duty of Secretary of the State to get up the design for the b.idgea tobe, furnished under Sec. it of this net, and the party to whom it is furnished shall pay to the clerk of tho court a fee of one dollar; fifty COntSOf which is to go to tho State Treasurer In payment of said badge ami the other to the said clerk for his costs in granting the pomlt and filing r od rceor ling the papers. See. 0, In ease any person shall be convicted of violating any of tho pro vsion- of thin act und there should up p it i* in it'gating circumstances in ox tenuut.ion thereof) tho jury may bring in m ep'-olnl vorc lot n com mending sain li i - n to the morcy of thOiCOUrt, and the court may in Its discretion rcduee v lid line und imprisonment as it may t ?'!?!{ \ |?o j istlce of the particular ease d in mds, and may also ImpOSO a tine wiiii >nt Imprisonment, provided that tho o i irt shall certify on tho record its opinion that extenuating circum stances d I exist. Sec 7. A11 nets or parts of acts incon sistent w'.to this act ho and the . ame aro hereby repealed. ?The Stato pension hoard will moot In a few days to get blanks and other matters roady for noxt year. Some trouble has boon experienced In get ting hoards to sorvo in several of the counties, and Comptroller Oonoral Kpton thinks It would perhaps ho as well to appoint entirely now boards. The present law ho thinks Is as per fect as any auch law can bo, and with a few slight changi s ho thinks It will work to tho entire satisfaction of ovory ono. A Mi?ton?TAMPEDR Herd of 15,000 Cattle Killed By Tlieir Followers, Ono of tho most desperate stampedes of eattle ever witnessed by a Texas cowboy, says Rev. .J. II. CranUH, of WacOi Tex., occurred in l>>T<> on the prairie in the center of which now stands the town of McGregor. Fifteen thousand eattle and L'"> cowboys partici pated in tho exciting event. Mr. Cranlill was not a participant, but he tells the story as he got it from an eye witness, in The independent. Late in the afternoon of July I there had been a lively ?hunder hierin that made the eattle nervous. <\t 10" o'clock at night, however, they seemed to he sleeping profoundly. Then the narrative pro ceeds as follows : "The stars wore all shining and ID ore was no cause titull for tho arous ing of tho herd. They appeared to got up all at once, with a singlo pur pose, and tho roar that was heard beamed to coino from a singlo throat. The Wilson brothers and their cow boys who were sleeping in tbe camp rushed to their ponks, who were grazing with the saddles and bridles on, and as fast as tho bits could be replaced in their mouths they mounted and galloped to tho flunks of tho new disappearing mass, headed in tho direction of the Hiezos river." The usual course on such occasions is 10 get in front of the herd?a risky pieee of work?and start it to running in a circle. This attempt was made in lb is case : " Some cattle can outrun others, and in this case there was a bunch of about fifty fully 120 yards in advance, and toward this leading group the two rescuers rodo. Of the leading group also tome wero faster than others, and this group ran in a diamond shupe, with two Immense atuers hading all. When Air. Wilson and his companion reached the two leading steers they lagan shooting their revolvers close to them, and in that way the hunch was made to oblique, and as too lead ing bunch of eau.e obliqued the main btampede obliquod, and the first step in 'milling' Had been taken. Uy Ibis lime the cattlo were getting tired' Nearly live miles had been covered and the breath of the leaders was coming short and painfully : hut they were rushing on, because the front cattle at this time knew as a matter*of fact their only safety was in keeping up the run. Those behind weiecom ing, and they were in the majority, and too leaders were compelled to run. There was real danger for the forward members of the stampede. "In the; involco articles contained in tie.: regulation 'outtit' there is always some kind of stimulants; and but for tiie stimulants contained in Mr. Wilson's outfit, it is possible that the stampede would have been halted without disaster. He had a Mexican along, ono of the best cowboys in the southwest. This Mexican and his horse always reminded those who saw him ride uf tho fabled Centaur. He rodo far forward and bent over, so that he and his horso appeared to bo one animal No horse, however, rugged, "wild und woolly," had over been able to unseat him. This Aztec had been to the little brandy runlet too often, and had tilled and emptied his tin cup with surreptitious intoxicants, so that his usual excellent judgment went away. When ho succeeded in getting mounted, after having fumbled with his bridle a good deal, he was far in the rear and the stampede had gone past him, so that when ho overlook tho rear end, he passed to the front on the other side, and road on the w rong Hank. When he reached the iiead of tho herd he was just iu time to defeat the maneuver then under execution of bending the moving imiss from a straight line to a semi circle. Revolver iu hand, disregarding the other men, he began shooting in the faces of the wild steers; and the cll'ect of this was to straighten the run and bring the advance straight toward a precipice This precipice was a wash in the prairie, forming a deep ravino fully thirty yards wide ; and in a shorter time than it takes to tell of this con trotemns, the head of the column svas pouring over, a horrible cascade of beef plunging madly into destruction while lleeing from an imaginary danger. " When Mr. Wilson and his lieuten ants saw that it was impossible to save their cattlo they saved themselves by dexterously turning at right angles at full speed anil riding out of the way. Tin y next returned to the Hank ami held a council of war. A few seconds decided them, ami all hands com menced shooting into the herd, the object now being to build a breastwork of eareassi s and sa\o the r nr end from destruction that had overtaken the front. The gully was nearly full of cattle, by this time. They wero snort ing and bellowing, era.-hing and tear ing, and still heaping up: and when tho tiring hi { an the woundod ones tumbled over on the others, and in a short time the gully like, a sunken road at Waterloo, was bridged by carcasses. The held surged up in billows, like an ocean, and bent now, because it could Dot do otherwise. The semicircle was formed, and Wilson and his men crossed tho gully below and rode around the opposite side and reorossod; and in a short time they had the cattle halted, forming an incomplete, letter O, and there they stood, blowing, bellowing, shivering. All hands re main-d on watch ad night, and in the morning, when a count was made, it was ascertained that 2,700 head wero missing. Tbero woro afterward 2,700 pairs of horns taken from that gully. It was called Stampede Oully for many years afterward, and perhaps will always, with some people, bo re membered by that name." SI i< idi OF MIS9 UKItltKllT. Temporarily insane Prom Injuries ItCCClved lly Falling Proin a Horse Several Months Arn. Miss L dla Herbert, daughter of tho ex-Secretary of the Navy, Hilary A. llerbort, of Alabama, committed sub eide on the morning of Doe. iMst by throwing herself from tho third story of her residence in the most fashion* ublo part of Washington City. Her father was not at home at the time, being on his way from Alabama. The sudden death and tragic features surrounding it wore a great shook to the large eireleof friends Miss H( rhort had made in tho course of her life In Washington as tho daughter of a popu lar Ke.prosontativo in Congress from the South, and later as ono of the cabinet circle of ladies when she pre sided over her father's household dur ing tho four years ho was Secretary of the Navy under the last Cleveland ad ministration. Tho following authorized statement has been made by a gentleman familiar with all of the. facts of the suicide : " Miss Herbert, at tho timo of the occurrence, was suffering from acute I melanobolla. It developed scvorpl '? weeks ago as the final result of Injuries received by bel?g thrown from her horse last spt ing. " The melanobolla was not insanity in the sense of being accompanied by delusions. At the same time thoro wus profound depression, und us is always the ease in this typo of diseaso, there was great danger that suicidal tendencies would develop. For this reason nurses were provided to main tain the closest watchfulness. "No suicidal tendency developed, however, until yesterday, when for tho lirst time Miss Herbert made an at tempt to get out of the window, but was restrained by the nurse. This led to additional caution ami two nurses alternated in constant watchfulness of the patient. She was at all times rational, quiet and gentle, and it was supposed the diseaso would yield to treatment. "Early this tnoinlng the nurse on duty noticed a small Bpotof blood on tho bed covering, und Inquired what it meant, but the invalid endeavored to push it by lightly. On making an in vestigation, however, the nurso found that the under bed clothes wore saturated v ith blood and that Miss Merhert had SOVored the artery of her wrists with a pair of goissors. Fueling that the im. rgency was great, tho nurse bastom d to tho door and called an alarm. In this momentary with drawal from the bedside Miss Herbert leaped out and Bprang from the win dow. The plunge was made head foremost s(> that she. lighted on the top of her head o" the ic phalt pavement. This injury alone was sulliciont to have caused death from concussion and it was doubtless the immediate cause. Aside from thL a cursory examination indicated that tho skull was fractured. The severance of the artery also would have resulted fatally. Win u the physician reached her, Miss Herbert was still brea'hing but died about an hour a(t< r the leap." The coroner returned a verdict of SUioido ihiring temporary Insanity, As the facts in the case were el ar ho deoided that an Inquest was un necessary. Her death was traceable directly to SU accident whilo horseback ruling in Alabama about two months ago. She always bad been entbusiast eally fond of riding. HI ll While paying a V sit to her old home, started out en day on a horse that had not bi en well broken. It F'-umblod end she was thrown violently to the ground, BUStalning severe injuries to her back. She was brought back to Washington, but re covery was exceedingly slow, and It was not until last Sunday that she was able, to go out of the house. On that day she went driving for the Urst time since the accident, and I Jr. W. W. Johnston, the attending physician, noticed considerable improvement. Miss Leila Herbert was the eldest of OX-Scorotary Her bert's tht'OO children, ar.d was a charming ftguro in Washing ton society. She came with nor father to Washington when he was elected to Congr ss and at once took charge of his household affairs, making tho Herbert home one of the most attrac tive and comfortable in Washington from the spirit of true Southern hospi tality which gave it an atmosphere of its own among fashionable bonu s. When her father became secretary of the navy in President Cleveland's second administration Miss Herbert was called upon to take her place In the circle of cabinet ladies, where she met with success the heavy social re sponsibilities placed upon her youth ful shoulders. Socially she was ex ceedingly popular and her presence was sought at all gatherings. Her social triumphs h( re were repeated in Ltirope where she went to attend the groat naval demonstration of Kiel. Within the past year she had not en joyed robust health, but this only in duced her to redouble her devotion to outdoor sports and exorcise, and it was while regaining her health by outdoor riding that she met the ace dout that indirectly result :<1 in her death. 1?K< >H IBI 1 K >\ ADIIUKSS. A Call Upon the Legislature to Obey the Will of I ho People. The following is the platform of the State Prohibition Convention which met in Columbia on the 2<>th of May, 1802 : We, the Prohibitionists of South Caro lina in COIlVOnlion assembled, how be fore Almighty God and acknowledge Him as the guide and ruler in all true government. I. We arc unalterably opposed to the liquor trnlllc -a tralllc by w hich at least $5,000,000 are annually taken from our already Impoovishod people to be squan dered by the liquor dialer and gambler; by which our courts are kepi occupied with criminal business, our jails filled with prisoners, our penitentiary with convicts, our poor-houses with paupers, and our asylums with lunatics; by which which many of our boys, alter being educated, are tin titled for business and utterly ruined, and many of our girls degraded Into servants of drunken hus bands, while the parents suffer with untold misery; and by which our civilization is demoralized and the very Church of Hod hindered in its work in brief, a I rattle against the intellectual, social, material, financial, moral, educa tional and religious interests of the peo ple. We therefore earnestly favor . id I will work for the enactment of such laws I as will prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors for use as a beverage in our Slate. Si, We cordially invite the co-opera tion of all Democrats in this laudable effort for Slate prohibition, irrespective of the opinion on other issues as al ready made up 111 the State. On the issue thus squarely presented the people, at the primary election August III), 181)2, voted lo.ooo majority for prohibition, Out of a total vote of 88,482, ;o,.,::."> votes were taken in tie prohibition boxes, lu,:::!s in favor, 80,1 againsi a. in tue eight counties Wltfv gave majorities against prohibition tho majorities woro small ranging from 113 to 502 excepting in Charleston County whoro only 284 votes wore counted for prohibition and 8,038 against it. The total majority in these eight counties was 5,107, the other "J? counties giving an aggregate; ma jority of 15,738. The people ask. (1 for prohibition, and were given the dispensary. I The prohibitionists have not shifted their ground since, nut stand on the same platfor i as In 1802, and call upon the legislature to comply with the de mand which was then Hildo, and which has never been modified by any vote of the people since. This is tho whole question. The people ask for bread, will tho legislature continue to give thom ? whiskey ? ??-. ? ? A man wllOSO homo had been broken up by death, said Badly: ".My smiles I wasted on thoso who cared not for them; my frowns I carried home to those wl wore grieved by them but ah I it is over nOWI" Alas', that oilier me . I Storing Up such memories for ' *' selves.? H entern Recorder. them