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VOL. XVI. LAURENS S. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER in, 1Q0U. No ? 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 ~r\ f~j~\ R, CARLETON QAINES lias \\ II 11 vt'r-v na,i memory for (aces. \\// ills frlcuds complalu that hu \y/ passes them upon tho street J \_J LI without recognition, and, on the other hand, In attempt lug to avoid this error, he has (some times accosted strangers in circum stances thnt were extremely erubar rasslng. The young man has a cousin, Miss Jane Henicuwny, a tall, graceful girl, with a profusion of dark hair and pret ty brown eyes, which, however, one Is obliged to view volled by eyeglasses, for Jane Is somewhat nearsighted. She lives in Trenton, but often goes to New York shopping or visiting her ' many friends in that city. Thus it would not be surprising to meet her uuy day In the shopping district of New York. One may meet a great many pretty women lu that region, and It Is said that certain feeble minded creatures go there for that purpose. Surely a man must bo daft who would do It. for the shopping woman Is too completely un der the dominutiou of "the llxed Idea" to be of Interest to uuy but a student of hypnotism. She rushes along the sidewalks In n state of trance, and the luckless man who gets In her way will thereafter view the all devouring trol ley car with gentle unconcern. Gabies was In the shopping district atrlctly on business one afternoon, and near the Intersection of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue he fancied that he saw Cousin Jane. She was proceeding westward with that relent less fixity of purpose that characterizes the shopper. Galnes overtook her and laid a mildly restraining hand upou her arm, for it seemed to him that she was about to plunge out upon the crossing and collide with a loaded dray. "Don't run over the poor cart horse, little girl," said Guincs; "ho has trou bles of his own." She uttered a nervous cry und sprang away, but he fancied that she was only startled. "Pass over those bundles to me, youngster," said he, "and we'll navi gate the crossing together." At this moment ho caught the ilrst fair glimpse at her face. Where were the eyeglasses that always perched up ou Cousin Jane's nose? Where weru the baby dimples and the smllo of seraphic good will? This lady was a very haughty person. Sho froze him with the disdain which seemed to sur round her llko an utmosphere. With her face averted, as If the sight of him would be too painful, she waved her left hand ns one who cries "Avauntl" The next moment, with head in air, she swept ueross the avenue In front of a moving ear and so close to the fender that even the hardened motor man turned pale. How Galnes got away from the spot he never knew, but It Is Ids opinion that he crawled down through tho trolley slot, for surely ho felt small enough to have done so. Of course he was entirely innocent, but a clear con science Is a poor consoler at such times. Thu central fact In nature was that one pretty girl must forever think of him as the lowest form of anthropoid, the "masher." Galnes had the misfortune to possess that fatal gift of beauty which you read about In old fashioned novels. He was ouo of those conspicuously hand some men who always get the discredit YOU CAN'T HKLP IT," SAID HUB. of being vain of their looks, though they may provo by every act of their lives that they uie more modest than the lowly violet. Galnes wat. aware that If ho bad been inslgulucbnt and ugly the lady In question might buvc paused to bear n:i explanation, but that did not consolo him. He took tho Incident very much to heart and ludeed felt so bad about It that he could hardly bring himself to attend n social "function" to which he was bidden for that evening. It really did not seem to htm that a man so disgraced as he was lit to go Into society. Htlll he eventually mustered up the courage. There were a good many people in the big ?Iiaw mg room at tho Blngbam souse, Washington square north, when (biincn made bis appearance, some what late. Presently ho 'omul himself m a corner with Jesslo Illnghnm and became aware that she had something of great Importance to communicate "Natalie Clalr la here,' said she, with the air of a small hoy announcing that the circus has coino to town. Mlsi Clalr was a young woman whom Galncs bad CO times narrowly missed meeting. Two years ago, when the Clairs were about vo come to New York to livi-, Galnes had heard so Diucl) aboutTNatalle that ho hud begun to dislike her. Many girls in his social set knew her, and they all declared that he and she were "made for each other." The basis of that view, so far us he could discover, was that sho was tall and dark, while he was tall and light, and that both of them hud tho reputation of being very cold, reserved and hard to approach lu friendship or dlrtntlon. As a rule ho did not like girls who were cold and reserved. Suffering from a chronic embarrassment him self, he found It hard enough to get along with girls who were Jolly, talk ative and open hearted. Moreover, to be slated as a girl's admirer beforo a fellow has met her Is enough to kill all chance of liking her. Uulnos was glad when Natalie went abroad with her mother, Instead of coming to New York. Within two weeks he had beard that she was home again. And now It seemed he must meet her. "There she Is," whispered Jessie Blngham. "Isn't she perfectly love ly?" Qnlnes glanced across tho room, and bis blood became lee water. Ho had always regarded himself as a peculiar ly unlucky man, but that Natalie Clalr, of all people in the world, should prove to be the heroine of the Twenty third street adventure struck him as a little the worst blow in even bis ex perience. "Of course I should be greatly pleas ed to meet her," said he, and his voice sounded In his own ears us If It were being ground out of a phono graph. "Hut there's no hurry. Any time will do." "What nonsense!" exclaimed Jessie. "Of course you want to meet her this minute. And they're bringing her right over hero!" Qalnes perceived that Jessie spoko truly. A half dozen young people, with the most obvious Intentions, were gen tly steering Miss Clalr in his direction. She, however, seemed to be wholly un aware of their purpose until she was within six feet of him. Then she start ed as prettily us a frightened deer. Qalnes looked anxiously Into her face, and when he saw that he was recognized he felt as one upon whose shoulder the huud of the sheriff Is laid. It was all over In a moment. Karly In his life Calnes had been Introduced to a Boston east wind, and once, when a boy, he had been locked In an Ice house as a Joke, hut Miss Clalr gave him a new sensation. No one else ap peared to notice the chill, though It seemed to him that all New York must be shivering. He dared not say anything to tho point among so many people, and so he mumbled the ordinary nonsense while waiting for a chance to escape. That wus not to be, however. Ho saw Miss Ringham going one way and Miss Somebody Else going another way, and there was no way at all for hlui. He simply got left lu the corner with Na talie Clalr, and If It hud been dono on purpose It couldn't have been dono bet ter. A man of tact and assurance would have found no difficulty In saying the right thing, but Galnes lacked those qualities, and his faculties were in a panic. "The situation is somewhat difficult, Miss Clalr," he said. "You must be strongly prejudiced against me, but? but"? What utter nonsense! Why couldn't ho say straight out, "I saw you on Twenty-third street today and mistook you for my cousin?" He know as well as anybody could that that was the right thing to say. But tho words didn't come to him. "You can't help It," said sho; "nei ther of us can help it now. Let us for get everything that happened befioro we met tonight." And then she looked around with a frightened eyo for somebody to come und take her away. Galnes felt ns If the black cap had been drawn over his face. Ho had had his chance to speak, and It bad passed. Evidently Miss Clalr, knowing tho cir cle In which he moved, had decided to, tolerate him, perhaps even to bo silent, about what she believed to be his black1 disgrace. If Jane wero ouly there, bo could1 have pointed to tbo resemblance and' hnvo told his story with a good grace/ He had heard that she was expocted later In the evening. He would reserve', bis defense till then. Somehow ho escaped from Mlss> Clare, and Immediately, to fortify his SOUl, hu mentioned to a number of per-] sons that, In his opinion, Miss Clalr Strongly resembled his Cousin Jane. Tho first two or three had never no ticed It. Gntnes began to be alarmed. Ho ran from one to another. Appar ently there was not a human creature present who had the eye to see a trace of that likeness upon which his fato depended. So It seemed that Jano's coming ? would only heighten the Im probability of bis tale, already weaken ed by delay. Many of tbo people whom ho ques tioned spoko of a strong resemblaueo, between Miss Clalr and Ollvo Trask, a young lady whom Gaities had met sev ernl years beforo. Would It bo possible to substitute her In this story? Ills ac quaintance was Just sutllelent to war rant htm lu addressing her. Ho couldn't call her "little girl," but prob ably tho fact that ho had used those words would not como out in tho ex planation. A sudden resolution seized him. He would take the risk. Fearli g that his courage would ooze away ir he hesi tated, he sought Miss Clalr at once. As luck would have It, be found her with Jessie Blnghaiu and Olive Trask. To his great delight, Miss Trask greet ed him very cordially. His courage mounted higher. "Miss Clalr," said he boldly, "I think there'll never be u better time than this to set myself right for the unfortunate mistake l made this after noon. When I Bpoko to you on Twenty-third street, I mistook you for Miss Trask, whom 1 have known some years. It was very embarrassing, of course, but you kindly promised to for get lt. I think, however, that a full explanation"? "I promised to forget It!" exclaimed Miss Clalr. "Why, nothing of tho sort ever happened. I never saw you be fore tonight, and when I spoko of for getting I referred to all the silly things that our friends have said about us. As to the Incident on Twenty-third street, I fear you will have to take your apology to tho young lady whom you actually accosted, if you can And her." There was a moment of awful si lence, and then Miss Trask came to tho rescue, boldly If somewhat In discreetly. "Well, as Mr. Galnes thought It wnn I"? she began and stopped, not know ing how to finish her sentence. Galnes groaned. At tills critical moment who should, appear hut Cousin Jane! Sho was ball ed as the deliverer from an awkward situation. "Oh, Miss Clalr,'' sho exclaimed, "I am so glad to see you again! 'See' Is "JAN'K," OBIBO OAIKBS. "YOU HAVE RAVED MY LIFBl" hardly the word for me tonight, for I've lost my eyeglasses, and you know I'm half blind without them." "How did you lose them?" asked Galnes, rejoiced to suy something that was safe. "Why," said Jane, "I was coming out of a store on Twenty-third street this afternoon. There was a dreadful crowd, and a brute of a man brushed against nie and caught the chain of tho glasses on a button of his coat. The chain broke, the glasses fell, and tho bruto stepped on them. And would you believe what the creature did?" He asked me to go to an oculist's with him and let hi ID buy mo u new pair. I lied, but the fellow followed me all the way to Sixth aveuuo. I could set* him out of the back of my bead, It seemed. And Just as I was about tu cross he spoke to mo again. Ho said"? "Jane," cried Galnes, "you have sav ed my life I The muu who bad been following you wus not the one who spoke to you. It was I." "You!" sho exclaimed. "Cau this be possible? Of course I didn't look at him, but his voice"? "What did he say?" demanded Galnes. " 'Don't run over the poor cart horse, little girl.' Little girl! Fancy ltl" "And you thought It wus I, Mr. Galnes." said Miss Trask Icily. "Well, upon my word!" "No, I didn't," said Galnes, with deep humility. "I thought It wus Cousin, Jane at the time, and later I thought it must have been Miss Clalr. Hut ev-' erybody said they didn't look a bit alike, whereas you and Miss Clalr? you know?I?I?though,, ;-ou wouldn't mind"? Tho sentence ended in something so llko a sob (hat all tho girls laughed. And then they agreed that ho had re established his reputation, for he was. proved to havo been guilty of only a little white lie, which lu society entails no penalty. And they also agreed to keep the, story secret, but It would havo puzzled you an hour later to havo found any one In the house who had not heard It Importance of Reiclatrattem. The breeder who laughs at registra tion and affects Independence of It may us well sit down, learn bow to nurse dlscomflture and study *he uses of a wlrfte flag which he Is suro to neod lat er on, says The Sheep Breeder. The history of the antlrocord men Is too well known to need repetition. One by ono they have yielded to tho Inevitable and Joined the registration ranks If tot no other and hotter reason than to pro tect themselves' and their animals against unfriendly doubt and criticism. A poor registered sheep may not be any better than a poor one unregister ed, but bo soils for twice as much on a certificate of puro breeding. The scrub may occasionally get Into the record as the devil sometimes gets Into Christian society In the guise of church member ship, but registration In the main Is a guaranteo of puro breeding and 1s de manded by the buyer as a matter of protection If for no higher reason. The breeder does not live who In these days and in this country can long success fully maintain standing for his flock or herd without, the guarantees and amen ities of the association r^gtetry. Endive Is a useful sale? and should be more generally grown In private gardens than It Is at present, as It may be had In lato autumn and win ter when good lettuce Is scares. Although not difficult to grow, jmt It must receive fair attention to gat the plants to produce heads worth the trouble of blnnohlng. Its culture Is similar to that of lettuce, but It takes longer to mature and does not require as a rule as muoh water, says John iHobso" In American Oardsntntn. TH K CO WON CROP Olf 18in?.iuoo Secret ?ry ilostor's Ileport Nay* the Tot?! Wah tf,430,41U Haie* South Curolina Leads in Maniilac-iuring. Secretary Hester's Now Orleans cot ton exchange annual report was issued a few days ago. Ho puts the cotter, crop of (899 11)00 ?t 9,430,41(1 bales, a decrease o( 1,838.424 under 1898 00. Of this ho says that Texas, including Indian Territory, shows a falling oil of 1)04,000, the group of other Gulf States, consisting of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Utah and Kansas, leu,unu, und the At lantic States, consisting of Aluoama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky und Vir ginia, 17;",,000. Ho places tho average commercial value of too crop at 3s",,"> dollars per halo against- 26.08 dollars last year, 28 02 dollars year before last and 30.76 dollars In 1890 07. and the total value of tho crop $303,785,000 against $282,773 000 last year and $322, 553,000 too year before. JJo cabs at tention to the fact that tho money value of tho cotton crop just markotod In 181,012,000 over the 1898-99 crop, which was .1,S.W.000 bales more. Ho puts tho total spindles In tho South at 0. 207.103, an increase over last year of 1, :316,071. Those Include 1,418,497 now, not complete. The not gain In tho number of Southern mills over last year has been 113, making tho total dow 003, and tho consumption bus been divided as follows : Alabama, 147,922 bales, an iucrsaso of 15.150. Arkansas, 2,380 bales, a docrcuse of 802. Goorgia, .'130,110 bales, an lucroaso of 67,303. Kentucky, '27,530, an incruuso of 007. Louisiana, 10,420, a docroase of 1,005. Mississippi, 22,650, an Incrouse of 2,666. Missouri, 4.148, an increaso of 180. North Carolina, 135,080, an increaso ol 53,209. South Carolina, 497,140, an incrouse of 53,108. Tonuo8see, 37,717, an increaso of 3,431. Texas, 18,037, an increaso of 1,078. Virginia, 48,427, an Increaso of 3,330. Total consumption of cotton in iho Soutli 1,507,112, au Increase of 197,713 hales. In referonco to tho general manu facturing industry of tho country and its comparative progress North and South, he says that up to within sixty or ninety dajs an active demand pre vailed for manufactured gouds, aud notwithstanding tho mutorial advance in the price of the raw material, duo to shortage of tho crop and light supplies the world over every available loom and spindle In tho country was busily engaged. Tho Chinese dlHtouh ties brought this activity to a sudden Halt, but not m ill tho amount of cotton consumed had rouched a flguro in ex cess of any year on record. Ho puts tho consumption of Northern mills at 2,300,000 bales, which, together with that of the South, makes an aggregate for the entire country of 3,897,000 bales against 3,580,000 last year, an increaso of 308,000. Mr. Hester further remarks that, taken us a whole, the. year has been a prosperous one for both the manu facturor and grower of cotton. The largo uicrcuse in manufactures is de veloping more strongly tho necessity for an Increased outlet In the wuy of exports, to which mill owners have re cently boon giving marked attention. He contends that the oheok caused by the troubles In the far Kast is an object lesson showing that we liuve reached a point where this country can not ab sorb the quantity of goods manufactur ed. Tho tendency, ho says, is Strongly in the direction of domostic spinners working up I he hulk of tho cotton grown In the United States Into yarns .ml fabrics. That this Is a revolution which has set in so strongly, and especially in tho South, that it is cer tain In tho long run to provo success ful. In ids special report on Southern consumotlon, made up from actual re turns of all the mills In tho South, he says tho facts in relation to consump tion and Increase of spindles during tho year are phenomenal. Nearly every Southern State has outorcd the held and in ail except Kentucky and Missouri new mills aro being erected and numbers of others aro projoetod with certainty of building In tho near future. Year by year old and anti quated concerns havo been dismantled or romodeled and tho Southern cotton faotorios of to day aro of tho nowost and latest improved machinery capable of performing tho host and greatest amount of work at a minimum cost. How tho ind .istry has au vanned he shows by yearly comparisons from 1800-01, showing an Increase from 330 mills in that year to 663 on September I, 1000, a gain of 327 mills. Ho goes on to stato that Interesting as the above showing is, tho facts are evon bottor empnasi/.ed by tho record of spindles and consumption In tho South, comparisons of which aro carried back as far as 1800. Thoy aro : Year. Number. 1800. . 205,350 1870 . 338,800 1880 . 601,300 1800 .1,810,201 1805 .3.177,310 1000 .0 207,103 Theso figures, ho remarks, show more than could ho expro.-sed In columns of words. Thoy indicate that tho Southern peoplo aro in tho Hold of manufactures to stay, and with the advantage on thoir side, it is only a matter of timo when most of tho raw cotton produced in tho South will be converted in manufactured form adja coot to 'lie. cotton hold. In timo every item of usoioss oxpenso botwoon the producor and consumor will bo ollml nptod and no sourco capable of pro ducing profit omitted. Ono largo mill writes him that during too yoar it con sumed nearly 0,000,000 pounds of raw cotton, which it purchased in tho eood, ginning and using tho staple direct from tho gin, without haling. This Is posstblo In a great many parts of tho South, and whilo it Is not resorted to, is one of tho Horns showing advantages that could ho galnod under stross of competition with othor sections and countries. Tho item of local freight rates, which is said to havo militated against Southern fnctorlos In favor of those of tho Kast, Is ono that may lie adjusted when necessity imperatively demands, Ono of the most Interesting features of Mr. Hester's roport Is a showing of tho world's consumption of American cotton for tho past two seasons, which he puts at 11,022,000 for 1880-1000, and 10,708,000 for 1808-1800. lie quotes a dispatch to him from Mr. Thomas Ellison, at Liverpool, the. distinguished statistician, in which that authority places the surplus mill stock In Kuropo, of all kinds of cotton, at tbo close of August, 1000, at 530,000 bales, 80,000 or .vliicii ho credits to tho mills of Groat Britr.in and 460,000 to those of tbo con tinent. Of those totals Mr. Ellison ap proximates tho English mills hold ti-1,000 American and thu cuulinental milla .'t.'hJ.UOO. Mr. Heater niakoa tho total viaiblo anil invisible supply of American cotton in the world on Sep tember I, lt?uu, 1,118,000, against 2,890, 000 lust year, a decreaae of 1,778.1)00, and tbo total vluihlo and Invlaiblo aupply of all kinds of cotton in tbo world on September 1, 1900,1,723,000, against 3,701,000 last your, a decroaso of i,i?7?.ooo lie tigurcs out that ap proximately thoro are 134 000 bales of old cotton now left over in tbo South ern country, Including tbo stocks of Southern mills, and approximates tho actual growth at 0,101,000. lie gives receints of new cotton of tho crop of 1000-1901 at delivery ports at 22,020, and says this is coiididerably under tho averugo of ucw cotton murkoted in August during tho previous live years. v it i ii r u SBWALL IH DKAO, Tim Democratle Nonitiice Ibi- Vice President In imoo Expires at Hm Summer Home. Hon. Arthur Sowall, the millionaire ship builder, who was Win. J. Bryan's running mato in 1890, died of upoplexy on tho 5th inst. at his summer homo near Bath, Mo., in the 05th year of his ago. ills fortune la estimated at $.">, OUO.OOO. Arthur Sowull wus born In Bath, Me., November 25, 18.'lf>. Ho camo from u family Illustrious on both sides of tho waier. Tho lirst Sowall to ar rive in tho United States settled in New York in 17:14. Dummoa Sowall. tho groat grandfather of Arthur Sow wall, removed to Math in 1702. lie purchased tho largo tract of lund which forms the Sowall estate and on which stands tho big shipyurd of Arthur Sowall & Co. Tho firm was , catabllshcd In \W1 by William D. Sowull, and tbo first vessel owned by it was tho Diana, a small trader. From tliia beginning tho house has developed to its present proportions ? tho owner i)l a huge Meet of the lurgeat sailing merchantmen afloat. In the 77 years of Its existence tho firm hua built and own..d over a hundred vessels, trading in nearly evory port In the world. William 1). Sowall was sue cooded in 1854 by his sons under tho name of K. St A. Sewall, shipbuilders und commlsainn merchants. Later it became Arthur Sowall St Co., Mr. Sowai' taking Into the firm Ins son William and nephew, Samuel S. So wull. Mr. Sewall waa president of tho Maine Central railroad from 18^4 to 1893, was president of tho Bath Na tional hank, and waa un active olllccr or dlreotor in nearly every corporation in Bath, lie became active in politics In 1888, when ho was elected Demo cratic national coinmitteeman. Tbo nomination for vice president In Chica go in 1890 came to him ua tt surprise. He waa deloguto to tho convention aid left the hall beforo tho balloting com menced. Wime, on hoard au Illinois Central train bound for downtown ho overheard a man who hud caught the train as It wus leaving Sixty-third street tell another passenger that Arthur Sowull hud just been nominat ed for vice president. Ho had never met Bryan, and upon his arrival at his hotel waa taken over to the Clifton house and Introduced to tho head of the tlckot. Mr. Sowall waa married In 1859 to Misa K-nma D. Croaker, of Bath. He hua two son-, Harold M. and William. Harold M. Sowall left the party of hie father In 181)0 and joined the Ltepubll nan party, giving as hla reaaon tho failure of Democratic adminlatrutloua. Ho was minhitor to Samoa and to Hawaii under President Harrison, and wua appointed apeeiai commissioner tti Hawaii by Hresido.it McKinley In 181)8, and ia prominent In Kopuhllcun politics in Maine. WBATHBR AND CROP RKPOItT. Weekly Bulletin of the Weather Bu reau for South Carolina. COLUMHIA. S. C, Sept. 1, 11)00. Tho wuok ending 8 a. tu., September .'Id, was much cooler than tho two pro ceding wooks, hut continued hotter than usual. There was a maximum of 101, on two dates, and u minimum of 59 dogrooa on September 1st. Tho rainfall wuj general over tho State, but waa light over tho extreme northwestern portion. Many points had from ono to nearly four inches of rain, thoroughly relieving tho drought, while generally the rainfall amounted to somewhat less than an Inch, which although beccticlul waa insufficient. Tho general condition of crops la greatly Improved, although the ruins camo too lute to help corn, which bus not improved at all, anil utubhlo corn will bo a failure. Fodder pulling, and cutting corn are tinished over tho east ern, and Hearing completion over the western counties. Karly cotton shows no improvement, and will do no more than maturo thu crop of bolls it now bears, hut lute cot ton iaaguin growing, blooming, und fruiting. Shedding bus ceased, and there is lets premuturo oponlng. Sea Island cotton has attained but half its usual Hi/..-, and is blooming to tho top. l'lcklng cotton ia general and Is being pushed since the cooler woather sot In; some Holds havo boon picked over once. Thoro la acomplulut of scarcity of pickers. Tho rice harvest is general, and with few exceptions, tho yields are very satisfactory. Upland rice will he a failure i'oas, sweet potatoes, sugar cane, pastures, and fall gardens show tbo good elToets of the recent rains, and turnip bowing has bocotno general. Tho ground Is in condition for fall plowing, and preparations have boon begun at placos to seed a largo acreage of grain this autumn. It is the opinion of correspondents that crops of all kinds will ho very short this year. OUIt GKKATKST HPBU1AM8T. For 20 years Dr. J. Newton Hathaway has so successfully treated chronic diseas es that ho ia acknowledged today to stand at the head of his profession in this line, His exclusive method of treatment for Varicocelo and Ktricturo, without tbe aid of knife or cautery cures in 00 por cunt, of all cases. In thu treatmout of tho loss of Vital Forces. Nervous Disorders, Kidney and Urinary Complaints, Paralysis, blood Poisoning, Khoumatism, Catarrh, and dis eases peculiar to womon, he is equally successful. Dr. Bathaway'a practice ie more than douhln that of any otner spec ialist. Cases pronounced helpless by other physicians readily yield to bis treatment. Write him today fully about your case. He makes no charge for consultation or advice, either at his ottioo or by mail. J. Newton Hathaway, M. 1)., :HI, Houtb Hroad etraot, Atlanta. Da. <????Sp-?a ' ?? CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of I BILL AH1? FAVORS A WALL Norther item Halo tho South Any Way - The Negro truest lou Not In It. Wo thought that iniiyhe tho iato Now York mid Akron riots would oven up things, and tho South haters up In Q od's country would call off tho dogs, hut they lire still blowing the sumo old horn. Thoy are hard up, however. Some of tho hounds hu/u lost the trail, and all aro scattered and thero is no keynote to rally thetn?tho bugler's don't harmonize. Some said that the riot In New York was owing to a corrupt Democratic administration in that city. Tho Akron horror called for another solution, and now thoy boast that thoy saved the nigger, but If It had been down South he would havo boon lynched with Sum Hose tortures. A late paper sent me as a marked copy says that Southern mobocracy has crossed tho lino and is allecting the lower classes up North, justns acontagion spreads in unhealthy regions. It all comes from the South, and there is no quarantine to arrest Us progress. That's bad and sad L :t's build a wall. Hut seriousiy wo must warn our good negroes not to cross tho line. It is dangerous. Keep away from l'ana and New York. Stay at homo and cultivate our cotton and corn ami let politics alone and you aro in no dangt Idleness is your curso. If I had my wuy I would re establish the old patrol system and muko every trump negro carry a pass or take a whipping. I would empower the town marshals and tho country constables to arrest evory vagabond on the highv ay and If he eouldent give a good account of him..elf he should bo tied up and dressed down. We old men know that ouu good whipping has nu>ro effect on a bad negro than five years in tho chalugang Even a hangiug is glory, for they are going straight to Hoaveu. Last Saturday night a tramp negro cut tho slat from tho blind of Mr. (Jary's house and opened it and crawled in and stole his paternal gold watch and his pocket book within threo feet of his head, while ho was sleeping. No doubt ho was armed, and would have shot Mr. Cary had he waked up and resisted. Tho negro took a night freight and was arrested at Kingston, and tho watch was recovered, but lie got away. We have got to do something with these tramps. Oar chaingangh are full enough. I repeat It, that no good industrious negro is in any danger In the South, and they know lt. Jim Smith Is the biggest farmer In tho Slate, anil he says there is no labor In tho world equal to that of well regulated negroes, and lie knows. Hut the spirit of mobocracy is not confined to the race problem up North. The lynching last Saturday at (Jillman, in Illinois, wkk against au old, defenseless white woman?a doctress, who was suspected of causing a young girl's death by malpractice, but who had uot had a trial, nor had any Intention to harm tho erring girl. A mob of 'Jut) men attacked her house In the night, and sho defended herself and her home and killed and wouuded as many as bho could. They mortally wounded bor und burned her house. What kind of civilization is thut Why ilident they bunt up the man who ruined tho ;.,ii 1 v O.tr civilizuliou down South has always protected women, ao matter what they did. We will not hang them for murder, for oven old Mrs. Nobles was sent to the chulngang. Our women must iiave prot?. ctlon from white brutes and black llunds, aod wo would havo rejoiced If somebody had havo given that scoundrel, Dr. Wilkerson, who ran away with Iiis wife's sister, a hundred lashes before he wus turned loose in Atlanta. That was a good easo for u little mob law. If the law could uot roach him the lash would. Hour, helpless, pitiful woman! How you have, to aulTor in silence anil live and dio with your wrongs unavenged. How many hearts are breaking now because of u husband's tyraunny or his faithlessness to his marriage vows. For her children's sarfo she keeps silunt and buries her secret in her bosom. 1 know of men who made fame whllo living, and on whose monuments fulsome epitaphs uro chiseled who disgraced and dishonored the uamo of husbund. 1 know some svho aro not di ad who aro doing tho same thing now. A woman chained to au unprincipled man Is the most hclplcds croaturo upon oarlh. Prometheus, bound to tbo rock and the eagles eating his heart, was cot worse olT. Blaokstone says thoro is no wrong but has a remedy, llo was mistaken. Womon havo a thousand wrongs thut are remediless. What kind of remedy is divorco or separation or alimony '. It is tho heart that is broken. It is love and honor that woman wunts, and was promised her at tho altar. If, as a last resort sho leaves him, ho struts around and claims tho children. "The children aro mine," ho says. Tho man who says that is a conceited fool. In the first placo ho does not know for certain that ho is their father, and If bo is, he made no sacrifice to he so. All tho pain of motherhood is hers. All tho tender care and nursing and night watching and generally all the prayers for their safety and good conduct aro hers, while ho is at ins bank or store or otlico or shop or maybe at his club or billiard table. Thoro was a time when tho wife was tho husbands slave, according to tho law, and tho children were his property, aud it is hard to eradicate that Idea from some men's minds In our day. Woman has been called tho weaker vessel, and men tho lords of croation so long that It won't obliterate. Girls, bo careful to whom you chain yourself for life. Hotter sow or be a shop girl or a typewriter or a school teacher or llvo with klndied or friends and do housowork than take any risks. Marry a young man who has good principles and good habits, and not much money. Tho love of money is still tlie same old curse, and most of tho young men want to make it by short cuts und dishonest practices. "Got money, got it honestly, if thou canst, hut at all events, get money," Is still their motto. The oagor, grasping pursuit of money Is the curso of this ago and generation. Huntington Is dead, and left his millions behind, and Iiis boast was thai all men wore pnrelm 'alee, and when It was to his lntei i ? i ho nought them, whethor thoy wero legislator.! or Congressmen, or judges of tho courts. Hospont millions that way. Some of our office seekers aro uoing the same tiling on a small scale -buying vo' )b -yes, buying uegro votes. Tho white, primary didont nominate thorn, and thoy have roniggod and roniggorod. A little whisky and a few dollars will secure tho darkles, and the foar b* that tho white primaries will prove a failure. Thoro aro men running for otlico as independents who rely mainly on tho negro voto, and can't be olectod without lt. Such men ought to havo contempt of evory good citizen. Thoy ought to havo contempt for themselves, and 1 reckon thoy do. Tho nogro who sells his voto is not half as dopravod as tho whlto man who buys it. Hut Made from most highly refined and healthful ingredients. Assures light, sweet, pure and wholesome food. Housekeepers must exercise care in buying bale* ing ixnvders, to avoid alum. Alum powders are sold cheap to catch the unwary, but alum is a poi bun. and its use in food seriously injures health. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO . 100 WIUIAM ST., NEW YORK. we will know by walling, and If the primary proves a failure, then lot us nave the Hard wick bill or something better, and may the Lord protect us from unprincipled Oltioo seekers. Bill Am*. OUR PARIS EXPOSITION htOt TKlt Pan is, France, Aug. 27, 1900. Tili? Paris Universal Imposition in, of course, not tlio lust. Thoro will bo many others of greater or Ions magni tude. They uro ovou now projected. Expositions are also, like everything, subjeot to the law of evolution. Tboy are changing, changing, This one Is both the most frivolous und the most BerlOUS of them all, hut tho world us one may look at it this moment, is hoih frivolous ami sorluus in a greater de gree than at any time In history. It Is probable that a hundred or u thousand years honCO, the historian will have something to say about these exposi tions. If tho Crusades were a civiliz ing force, why not the exposition, these crusades of Industry, of art, of thought'.-' Ills possible that tho his torian will refer to the Congress ol It >? liglonsol the Chicago Exposition, and to tho various congresses that moot in I'uris us of more importance than all tho wonderful mechanical Indexes of matorial progress. These rellcotlons came to me last week at a reception given by M. Loubot, president of tho French republic, to the thousands of delegates of tho va rious congresses now assembled in Paris. To enumerate these congresses with the programmes ol the questions they will discuss would require more space than the limits of this letter will allow. They will perhaps not say any thing orally that bus not boon written or that may not bo road, but who can doubt tho contagious enlightening and stimulating influence of thousands of learned, serious and earnest men ami women striving, however blindly and lamely, for Improvements, betterments. Ideals. Wo sing the praises of steam, of elec tricity ami of tho greatest of all, print ing, but tho greatest their combined work accomplishes is to make such cos moplitan congresses possibioand to pro mote tho nine " when tho war drum will throb no longer, when tho battle rt igs will ho furled in the parliament of man, tho federation of tho world." Tho garden party given by M. Lou I hot, tho president of the Fronoh re public, was of gigantic proportions. Thoro was no sunshine, the evening was cloudy, no flirtations under the treos, no malicious gossip, no laughter, In that serious assemblage. The spec tacle was historic, Instructive and do contly recreative, worthy of tho dis tinguished personages who hud come from the four corners of tho world to discuss most dlllloult problems and has ten tho m?ren of human progress. The> arrived about tho same time. A greatorOWd silently collected about the gates of tho garden, and waited with patience. Thoro was no protest from tho North against tho South, brought together in tho crush. Diulects Irom tho Neva and from tho CuadaUjuivur wore intermixed in this cosmopolitan river which Uowed beforo tho president of the republic within the limits which bad been assigned without tumult and without friction. M. Loubot ami Mine, l.ouhot surrounded by their civil and military housobolds In tho hail of tho uids-do-camp, received their guests. The alTabailty of the head of tho nation is these trying circumstances Is well known. I say ' trying," for, Indoed, one has to he the most amiable und hospitable of men, for it is noo'uall un dertaking to rooeive 10,000 guests. Nuithor M.nor Mine. Loubot showed any fatigue, and thoy did not desert their post of honor until tho arrival of the Shah. Mou/.alYor-dc-dlno did not have on his Sunday clothes. Ho wore on his head throughout tho entire fun tlon his ordinary astrachan, and was followed by distinguished persons of his suites, who did not loavo him for a moment, but it occurred to mo tliut his smile was happier than usual when he offered his arm gallarily to Mine. Lou? bet. Whon I romombcr the sad and careworn face of this potentate of the ! Orient on his arrival In Paris, and 1 when I see now tho animated counton ? anco with which It regards everything, 1 foar that bis subjects will not know him on his return to Teheran. Persia l as millions of people but fuw newspa pers and not ouu la u thousand of hin subjects will know thut his lifo wuh at tempted in 1 'urls. Perhaps tho most statesman-like criticism of Paris und tho exposition that has yet fo\ind public utterance Is that made by Professor Geddos, of Ed inburgh, secretary of th^ International i'Mucatlonal Congross. Paria, Professor Goddes points out, is uot a mere city of plousure. It in ono of the great culture centers of tho world and Is of no less commercial than aesthetic importance, for it lies on the intersection of impor tant trade routes. Hut commerce is not more her mission at this momout than education. At this moment sho is an enormous temporary university. Thousands of wundering scholars, as they did In the middle ages, havo come to her to learn as well as to teach and she is realizing the largest side of a world's summer school. That tho elTocts of tbe exposition will bo far-reaching and enduring, it is Impossible not to bei love. StiitVKD Him RlCllT.?"Anything wrong ." asked the hotel clerk of the drummer who had just got homo from the east. " I was thinking," was the reply. '" rode from Buffalo lo Toledo with tbo prettiest girl I oversaw." " Hut that didn't hurt you. Who was she V" " Can't toll." " You didn't introduce yourself and get her card in return ?" " No." "No particular trouble, oh ?" solloi tiously insisted the clerk. " Well, It was this way," replied the traveler, as ho braced up for tbe ex planation. " She sat opposite me, you knew, and I tried for an hour to catch her eye. She simply ignored me, and gazed out of the window. Then 1 roso and handed her a magazine, but sho declined with thanks. Ten minute" later I bought the latest novel oat, but she said she didn't caro to road. Thon I bought some fruit, but sho would accept none. She also ig lorod me when I triod to draw her < ut on music. " But you persisted ?" "Oh, yea; that is, I was about to make another attempt to enter into conversation when the train came to a halt at a town, and the girl heckonud me over. 1 was there in au instant, and with the sweetest smile you ovor saw sho asked If I would do her asiight favor." " 'With all my heart,1 I hastened to say. " 'Well,' she said, smiling even more sweetly, suppose you leavo tho train here and lake tho next one that fol lows, for you have made me dead tirod, and I feel like taking a nap'" /- " "Good gracious," whispered tho clerk. " Yes, sir," said the drummer, as ho reached for a cigar, " and I want to go up lo my room and sit and think and try and Ii 'uro it out. Perhaps It's time I left tau road and settled down at home." Candidatks kou BtiKOTOits.?Tha State executive committee ut Its moot ing last veek appointed tho following Doiimcratt - candidates for electors on the Hryan and Stevenson tle.kot from this State : At li-krge?It D. Loo, of Sumter ; B. Hart Moss, of Orangoburg. First District ?M. VV. Simmons, Ad am's Hun. Second District W. W. Williams, Alicen, Third District -Cole L. Hloase, Njw berry. Fourth District W. McH. Sloan, Co la in hi a. Fifth District? W. H. Pollock, Che raw. Sixth Dlstr! ;t M. S. Cantoy, Sum nterton. Seventh District- George Tuppor, Sum morvllle. ?Tho surfaco aroa of the Chinese empire is eighteen times greater than that of Great Britain. CA8TOTIIA. neari the ll ? Kind Vj'J Have Always Bougfit