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VOL. XVI. LP URENS S. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1904. THIS CAPTURE OF AGUINALDO. Funston'o Daring Exploit?The In suruent Chief Is Taken In His Mountain Retreat. The capture of Aguinaldo, insurgent chief of the Filipinos, was effected on the 23rU of March. He was taken in his hiding place among the mountain fastuesscs in the province of Isabella. (Jen. Frederick Funston, of Kansas, is the captor of Aguinaldo, who was betrayed by an otlicer of ins staff and was inveigled by treachery into the snare set for him. The capture has been fully confirmed, and the war department lias becu in formed by (Jen. McArthur that lie holds the leader of the insurgents as a prisoner in Iiis own residence at Ma nilla. The details of the capture have not been received at the department. President McKinley very naturally is much gratified that the chief niovor in Hie insurrection has been taken. It has been the opinion <.,'. the military authorities for a long time that Aguin aldo was doing more than nil the other agencies combined to keep the rebellion in the Philippines alive, and every en ergy was directed to compass his cap ture. It is rather a remarkable tribute to the daring und resourcefulness of General Funston that long before he made the capture he was selected as the ollicer who might accept it. It was the intention of General Fun ston some time ago to return to the United States, hut by direction of the war department he was detained in the Philippines in the hope that just such a contingency as did arise should give him the opportunity to test bis prowess. Both the President und war department were fully informed ot the trap laid to capture the insurgent chief, and the result of the expedition has been anxiously awaited for several days. The disposition of Aguinaldo. now that be baa been apprehended, will be an interesting one for tin; administra tion to determine. The possibility of bis capture at any time always had been kept in view and that of his future has been u matter of discussion by the officials in Washington. It is not be lieved, however, that any definite line of action was ever determined upon in regard to the matter. The. attitude of the government for a long time past has been one of comparative indiffer ence to Aguinaldo's capture, it having been determined to crush the rebellion without regard to his whereabouts. His recent activity in directing the course of operations against the Amer ican forces probably brought about the recent change In this attitude. As the lender of an insurrection against the United States government Aguinaldo may lie tried and executed, or a lesser punishment meted to him by executive clemency, or complete annesty extended. While the question of punishment lests with tho military authorities, it is believed the President will make the matter ono for determi nation primarily by the authorities in this country. Tho province of Isabella, where the capture of Aguinaldo occurred, is on the island of Luzon, about 2U0 miles northeast of Manila and about seventy Uvo miles north of Haler, on the east ern coaat, which place was made mem orable by the capture of Lieutenant Giltnore and his party from the gun boat Yorklown in April, 1890. Isabella province is wild and mountainous, especially along tho coast, where the high range, known as the Grand Cor dellinas Oriente, extends for a hundred miles or moro from north to south, tho highest point of the range being but a few miles from the shore. Rugged trails in some places bat a foot or two in width lead across the mountains frequently crossed by rush ing streams, aud where these ovcitlow their banks tho trails are waist deep in mud. It was to this uninviting district that General Funston and his small band went a short tune ago. It was a part of the island that had never been visited by American troops. General Funslou's plans as outlined in a dispatch from Manila to the As sociated Press a few days ago, were to make the trip over tho Isabella moun tains to Aguinaldo's biding place ac companied by Surgeon Harris, Captain Newton, of the Thirty-fourth infantry: Lieutenant Admire, of the Twenty second infantry: Lieutenant Mitchell, of tho Fortieth infantry; six veteran scouts and a company of native scouts, all picked men. They were to be land ed by tho gunboat vicksburg on a re uioto beach north of Haler and wero to proceed overland guided by a former otlicer of Aguinaldo who had betrayed to Funston tho Filipino leader's abode. To deceive the enemy it was arrang ed that Aguinaldo's representative, who had given tho information to the Americans, should lead the native scouts and assum- i character of in surgents still loyal io tho rebel cause. I They wero to wiako it appear that they had captured General Funston and other Amorican ofllcers of high rank, and were bringing them into tho camp of tho insurgent chief to be delivered as prisoners of wnr. Then was to come tho daring part of the plan. The pre tended prisoners wore to throw aside their assumed character and meta morphose themselves from prisoners to captors, seize Aguinaldo, beat down any opposition that might show itself and hoid their prisoner. To carry out tho programme required a long march into the interior, and never-ceasing caution to guard again treachery. The troops in New Vizcaya and New Ileija and tho gunboats Vicksburg and Albany wore ordered to co-operate with the capturing party. The news of Aguinaldo's capture in dicates cloarly that tho plans of (Jon er al Funston wore carried out suc cessfully. Tho present plan of tho war depart ment contemplates maintenance of an army of 60,000 men in tho Philippine* until order has been completely es tablished under tho proposed new elvi fgovernment and tho garrison can safe y be reduced to a poaco footing. Then are now about 05,000 troops in th< Philippines and China, and tho origin id plan was to maintain au army o 00,000 meu in the Philippines until a stable government hud been establish ed. The plan was to replace tho vob untcors, DUtnbering about '2?,UUU, with regulars t<? an extent sufficient to keep up all existing garrisons throughout the archipelago, but it has been found to be Impracticable to do so under ex isting conditions within the short time intervening before the 1st of July next, when the ontiro volunteer army must be disbanded. The failure of the plan is due to the lack of available officers in Hi is country to organize the new regiments authorized by Cotnrress and not so much to the dilliculty of re cruiting the regiments THIS I.KAI.KU Of TltK INSUKUKNTS. Aguinaldo, probably more than any warrior of the latter day, has won ad miration from tho public by running from the enemy. Whether bis conduct bus been attributed to cowardice or the part of valor that is in evidence when superior forces are in front has not been definitely settled in tho American heart, but Aguinaldo has been admired for his obstinacy, his refusal to; show himself, and, it might be said, ins good fortune in keeping out of range. The rebel chief is yet in the middle of the thirties, said to be Strong physi cally, though small of stature, possess ing a clever bend and cool in times of peril. The fact that he was betrayed by a member of his stall" cause many to believe that ho was unpopular, rul ing with an iron hand, an object of plots and schemes ; others, more char itable, may say it was only a fortune of war and that he was the victim of treachery in his own camp because his followers knew better tl m he that tho end was at hand and resistance was folly. .Sentiment?that popular force that swells in every American heart?doubt less is for Aguinaldo today. Few there would bo who would consent to capital punishment. .Sonic theie are who re gard him as of little danger. It is said his strength has been broken; his in. Iluence gone. For the preseut, these speculations as to the man and his fate will he of interest, to say the least. Of his fam ily, his life, his war doings, little is known. He first came into promi nence as insurgent chief. THE .MAN WHO MADE CAPT1 HE. (ieueral Funston comes from light ing blood. His father was a soldier bo* < fore him. Being disappointed at get ting a cadetship in West Point, Fuu- i ston was educated at the Kansas State I University. He served on several government expeditions in tho West, i At the time of tho Cuban insurrection i be served with the, natives. : The first time Funston attracted i general public attention was in (ho Philippines as a colonel of the Kansas , Volunteer regiment. In April 1809, , he was campaigning in North Luzon. | The Filipinos were in strong entrench- . ments at Coluinpit, which is situated , on the north bank of tho Kio Grande. In the face of a slinging fire, General , Funston and his nervy Kansas regt- | uieiit swam tho river, carrying with them a large rope. This rope was lied . to a tree on the enemy's bank and was ! used as a k,ind of lorry to drag over | boats loaded with soldiers. With these reinforcements Ceneral Funston made a fierce assault on the trenches of the , enemy and routed thorn. The Filipi nos, after retiring some distance, re- . formed and another battle eusued, in , which they were again forced. I In 1000 General Funston got pos- j session of a number of letters indicat ing Aguinaldo's treachery and intlmat- , ing that he was receiving encourage- , ment from people in the United Stales who were unfriendly to the admini- , Btration. Atone time m his tirst expedi- , tion (ieueral Funston was close upon Aguinaldo, but the wily Filipino knew | the country better than the Americans and escaped in the mountains. THE HOPE OF THE WORLD Bill Arp Talks About Family In fluences in Good Government. The family is tho most important In stitution upon tiie earth. It is the hope of tho world. Its influence is i greater than that of kings, emperorB or cabinets. Parents and children gathered around the hearlbs-to.ies in separate families make up communities, and they make States and nations and choose their rulers. As tho families arc, so is the government?go d or bad ?men?unmarried men are merely individuals and feel no great responsi bility outside of their individual com fort and welfare. But parents are concerned for their children. We live for them and would die for them, con scquently we want good government that will protect them. Hut it is not every family who feels this deep con c;rn. From my window I see the homes of my neighbors and can count on my lingers those whose presence is a safeguard to tho community, and the rest are of but little consequence. If they were to move away it would not add to our peril. So it is in all com-< munitics. The few protect the many. So it is in church and Stato. Twenty members of our Legislature control its leglation. Ten members ol an average church membership give the church its character. Sodom was destroyed be cause ten good men could not be found. If all men wero good we would have no need of courts or pri sons. Hut for every church that is set on a hill there is a jail in tho valley. 1 hear tho preacher calling and the bell tolling fiom the one, and imagine 1 hear the devil callimr from the other, and ho cries out as tho sergeants did In the old muster language, Oh, yes ! Oh, yes! All who belong to Captain | Satan's company parade here." \nd! tho people are going and coming dl tho time, some to one call and moro to the other. But as tho devil can't be beard afar off, bo goes about calling, and even invades the sanctuary and calls aloud while the preacher is pi each ing. " Man never erects a house of prayer 1 Hut what the de?il builds a pulpit three, i And 'twid !>? found upon examination The devil has the largest congregation " I His pulpit is always at the rear end ? whero tho young people lovo to sit. i and you can tell how popular ho is b) ? tho number who sit there. I was ruminating about this familj t institution and its grout importance in the world became 1 have boon read ing about, it in the Apocrypha, which is in one of our family Bibles. I heard a preacher say once that u Hildo with the Apocrypha in it should not stay in his house. Well, it took 1 ,S'2(> years to exclude it from the Protestant Bible, and most of it is in the Roman Catho lic Hible yet. What is called a sacred canon was not established until tho sixteenth ceutury, and for centuries before that almost every great theolo gian luul bis own catalogue of inspired books as he believed them. For 300 years only ten of Paul's epistles were admitted. The Hook of St. .lames and Uie Revelation of St. John wen excluded. So were Esther and Daniel and Jonah in the Old Testament. Luther tried to have Hebrews, and James, and Jude, and the Revelations of St. John excluded, but failed. But all differences of opinion seem to have been harmonized at the council of Trent by all Christiaus and the Apo crypha was left in, not as an inspired part, but to be read for religious in struction. In lH'Jfl it was excluded from the Protestant Bible, but it remains in many of the old time family Bibles and i^ in one of mine. I dare to peruse it sometimes, especially "The Wisdom of Jesus tho Son of Siracb," which is called Ecclesiasticus, which has Ufty chapters and is as full of maxims aud morals and instruction for the family as are the Proverbs of Solomon. Ad dison says thai if this book had been left in thu canon, or if it had the nai.ie of some great Greek philosopher, it would have commanded the admira liou of mankind. To my nnud it is the condensation of wisdom for family government. It is as pointed and pun gent as anything that Solomon over wrote. This Jesus was a better man than Solomon. He lived and wrote 300 years utter Malachi, the last of the prophets. In the close of his narra tive concerning Moses and the propp cts, he says of Solomon: 44 Ry Iiis body be was brought into subjection and didst stain his honor and pollute his seed and brought wrath upon his children, and his kingdom was divid ed." I never did have a profound ad miration for a man who said, "Itoj >ice, Oh, young man, in the wife of thy youth, and be thou always ravished with bei love," and then goes olT and marries 300 wives and lakes 700 con cubines. His precepts were good, hut Iiis example was bad, very bad. My ioctrine bus always been that a man lias no more right to two wives than a woman has to two husbands. Let him itand by bis marriage vows. This is the injunction of Jesus, the son of Sirach. As a sample of his wisdom let iuc quote: " A man that hreaketh his wedlock, laying, 'Who seotli me; am 1 not ;ompassed about with darkness,' he lOrgetleth that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than he sun." " Blessed is ho who hath a virtuous -vife, for the number of bis days shall oe doubled." 44 A silent and loving woman is a ^ift from the Lord." " A fool will peep in at the door of die house, but he that is well nurtured will stand without." 44 Do not banquet upon borrowed uoney." 44 Commend not a man for his out ward appearance, for many kine;s have ml down upon the ground, and one that was never thought of bath worn Jie crown." 44 A friend cannot be known in pros* gorily, and au enemy cannot be hid in adversity." 44 Use not much the company of a woman who is a singer lest thou be captured with her voice." "Rejoice not over thine enemy when tic is dead." 44 Lend not to him who is higher [bau thyself, but if thou lendest count it lost." 44 Sit not down with the wife of an Dthcr man in thine arms, for it will bring thee to destruction." ?4 My son, help thy father in Iiis old ige and thou slialt have Joy in thine own children." 44 Have no fellowship with those who arc mightier and richer tha.i thyself, for how can tho cm then kettle and (he pot agree." 44 When a rich man spenkctb every man holdeth bis tongue and extol it to the clouds, but if a poor man speak, they say, 4 What fellow is this?" 41 Build not a house with another man's money, for it ia like gathering stones for tho tomb of thy burial." 44 A thief is better than a common liar." ?44 Accustom not thy mouth to swear ing nor to the naming of the Holy One." 44 Against him that is niggard of his meat Iiis neighbor shall murmur. 44 Keep a sure watch over a shame less daughter lest slu make thee a laughingstock and a byword in the city and a reproach among the people." Whether this book be inspired or not, it is full of devotion to God and gratitude for His goodness. The Old Testament Hebrews canon was made, jo and closed before this Jesus lived or perhaps Ecclesiasticus would have been ombraced in it. It is certainly entitled to as much consideration as Solomon's Song, for there is not a vul gar or lascivious expression in it. This much about the Apocrypha will answer some inquiries I have received, two of thom from preachers. I have a long letter from my old friend, Hisliop Turner, concerning that recent publication of William Hannibal Thomas; that hill of indictment against the negroes of his own race. Ho de nounces Thomas. His opinion is that some learned while man wrote the book and paid Thomas for the use of his name. He says this is the opinion of those in South Carolina who know this scapegallows. He says 44 I am well acquainted with him; knew him during tho war in front of Richmond, where some Soul lern hero shot off one of his arms, and it is n pity ho did not shoot his head off. He is now receiv ing an exorbitant ponsion from the United States government. If there ovor was money paid to a dog, it is paid to him. If the white people oi tho South knew half as much about hi* rascality and villainy as ho has told mo, they would seek his blood. II our proaehcrH aro so bad as ho rcpre scuta them, what did ho slop for ant The Blood needs a Spring Cleaning as much as the house. All the family need to free the blood from the humors that gather during the winter months,in order to keep the appetite good, the complexion clear, maintain health, give streng th to the entire frame and double the pleasures of life. Jof}it$toi}'& Quart Bottles has been the standard blood cleanser for 30 years. Your parents used it?your children and grandchildren will find nothing better for its humane purpose. No other remedy comes in so large a bottle lor the price?a full quart for only one dollar. Don't neglect your b^jf-Ti when so small an expenditure will accomfffijSh so much. There is no substitute?though pl/nty of imitations. Get the genuine. Sold by-tSuTdruggists. Made only by THE MICHIGAN DRUG CO., Detroit, Mich ? For Sale by The Laurens Dru? Co , Laurens. S. C join the party of Ute devil. He was ! one of the preachers of the devil. lie was one of the preachers of my church and will he until hell opens her arms to receive Imn," etc., etc. 1 have been following Bishop Turn er's course ever since the war, and have never known aught against him as a manor a Christian. In the year 1800, when our people at Home were, under the oppression of a Spanish captain, one Do h Mesa, Bishop Turner acted as a mediator and tried to make our condition more tolerable. He made a speech at Heese's Spring, near Home, that we all commended, and ? lid his utmost to prevent that Span iard from exercising his loul domina tion anil tyranny. Hver since then his pen am! voice has been for peace, between the races. I am pleased to speak of him as "my friend." Hii.i. Alii', GHOSTS DROVU THI?M AWAY. The Occupants of an Old Home Flee in Terror. The llicbmond Tinies says Hod. ghosts have caused a Northern family, who have lived near that city for live years, to give up theii beautiful homo and go back to Buffalo, N. V., from whence they came. The stories which the former re sidents of the old place tell of the sup ernatural manifestations are calculated to shake the nerves of any one at all inclined to believe that the spiiits of the dead revisit the, scenes of earth. The sincerity of the. belief of the re cent occupants of the propeity in the stories which they told of .he. wonder ful manifestations witnessed in the old house is attested by the fact that on last Friday they lied to the railway station and boarded a northbound train, not even taking from the. house a change of clothing. K very tiling?clothing, furniture, bric-a-bruc, books?is in the house to day, and will remain IhoiO for some lime lo come. It ie pretty ccrluni that the owners will not return lo claim their property. The whole story is one of the most remarkable ever heard in Richmond. It has excited great interest. The, portion ol the city lying nearest the beautiful old place is naturally most interested in the strange 8tor,) of the supernatural, which, if not true, was so strongly believed by those who thought they saw tbo tearful appari tions that they fled in terror, and ere this br.ve put hundreds of miles be tween them and the home in which they npent several years of happiness. The story of the ghost is not very well connected. It was not generally known until two or three days ago, when the agent who sold the occupants the property received an intimation that all was not ri</ht at the boms toad. 'J he next day he was visited by tbo widowed mother, nenrly seventy years years of age, and her son and his wife, who lived with her. They were in a stale of great excitement, indeed it was some lime before the agent could understand the causo of the trouble. The ladies and I he gentleman wore absolutely corroborative in their stones. They said that the former owner of the place, a gentleman who has been i dead twenty years, or more, and who was one ot the best known meu in this i section, was driving thein from the I plaeo which used to bo his home. He F appeared to them every day and every ? night. In form he was terrible. The 1 memory of his eyoa as thoy appoarcd to tho ladies and gentleman almost drove I hem distracted. They described them us darting blinding lire, Hashing with a light at once dazzling and ter rifying. Tho daughter-in-law seems to have had the most intimate acquaintance with the supernatural visitant. Hut the father and mother tell stories equally thrilling. Upon one occasion ei young lady from Goochlaud County was visiting the home. A day or two after. her arrival the young lady in a greatly agitated tiaine of mind told her hostess that the spoil of the form-1 Cr owner of the house had appealed to . her and told her that a treasure was buried near the house, describing tlie location with utmost exactness. The lady eotiid hardly describe to the agent the scene which followed. Sin; said the spirit of the man who had owned the place at once sprang upon the young woman ami it seemed that he would kill her. Her eves pro tuded from her head and she was al most strangled when Hie spirit released her. A day or two aftei, the spirit, which was not visible to the young lady, led her to the hriuk of the well at the hack of the house and she was on the point of walking blindly in when one of the family to whom the spirit was plainly visible, seized her and dtagged her back. On Thursday morning of last week, according to the story which was told the agent by the young man, he dis covered that the spirit was on the point of springing Upon the little baby in the crndle when the father seized it and dragged it away. Many other stories of the visits of the spirit were told. Tho tenant of llio property said ho always told then) that if they would leave the premises forever he would cease lo trouble them, lie vowed that he could not rest in his grave so long as Northern people lived in his home. The agent laughed at nil these stories, of course, and finally induced his visitois to go hack to their home. They and been gone but a few minutes, wheu they returned in greater agita tion than before. They declared that the spirit of the overseor of the former owner of the property had met them some distance from the house and warned them that if they entered the mansion again they would be torn in pieces by Iiis employer. The man and women were in a slato of groat, terror. The gentleman de clared that he. would never etiler the house again. The agent tried to dis-i suade him from Iiis purpose lo desert his pretty home, but in vain. The upshot of the a hole matter was that the agent loaned the gentleman 8U>0, and when the shadows of night fell I about the old mansion the aged moth er, her son and wife, and their child rcn were being taken rapidly away from the scene of what was to them a most terrible experience. The lligbt occurred on Thursday. That night the old house was deserted. Friday morning the agent employed a man to sleep in the premises. Bright and early tho next morning the agent went out to see how how his man had spent I lie night. The latter declared be had never rested bettor. If he was I distuibed last night nothing was hoard from it. While going around the premises the agent found that the occupants of tho property had dug several deep holes in the cellar searching for treas ure, and a pit, perhaps forty feet in depth, had been sunk in tbo yard, alBO put (loWD in search Of buried gold Ol silver. The family were all spiritualists. They had BOIUQ kind of maohiuc, used to lioip them talk to visitants from the spirit world. The whole story i* in every way most remarkable and wholly inexplicable. A great many white pet sons are interested. The darkies of the neighborhood nie most wrought up. Oiu- negro woman is said lo have succeeded in getting a hundred dollars from the owners of the property under promises lo drive away the ghosts. HISTORY OF VACCINATION. How the Discovery of the Pre ventive Virus Was Made and Applied During the eighteenth century it was common talk among the country people of England and Scotland that | milkers of cows never bad the small pox. At a lime when this disease was one of the scourges of Europe such a fact naturally attracted attention. Physicians in the cities did not regard the country notion as worthy ol uo e. When an epidemic threatened tbej OCUlated healthy persons with sin pox virus to give them the disease. Then it was treated from the start under favorable conditions. The chief effect of the method was to make the inoculated person certain he was to be seriously ill, while the uuiuoctllatcd might possibly escape. Jonathan Ed wards was one of the famous victims of inoculation. It was left for an obscure country physician, Dr. Jonner, to recognize the scieulitic importance of the farm trnditiou about the immunity of milk ers. By his experiments in 1700 he proved that inoculation with cowpox virus carried protection against small pox, lie wrote a pamphlet on his ex periments and sent il to tin; Koyal Col lege of Physicians in London. The manuscript was relumed with a con temptuous reply. The discovery was of too great importance not to make an impression, and during the liftb year nfti r this first vaccination Jennor and other doctors vaccinated 111,000 per sons in Eugland. In spite of the success of the pro cess there were many in the early pttlt of the century who doubled its etlicacy. 1 The experience of the last thirty years has demonstrated the value of vacci nation beyond the possibility of doubt. In Chemnitz, Germany, a city of 04,000 1 inhabitants, there was a sniallp x ; epidemic in 1*70 71. About ;*i-l ,0(JU ' of the inhabitants had been vaccinated. Only 1.8 per cent of them contracted : tin: disease. Of the un vaccinated 1 more than 40 percent wore ill. Among I the vaccinated less than 1 per cent of : the eases resulted fatally. Among the ; unprotected the percentage was above !>. Statistics of the armies in the ; Franco-Prussian war show the same : general results. The German soldiers ?? were carefully vaccinated, while the ; French were not. During a wide- ? spread epidemic of smallpox the Ger- i man lost only 450 men from the disease, ' while the French lost 23,400. In ? [general it bus been shown that the < ilaugerof infection is six times as great and the mortality sixty eight, limes as * gronl in unvacciuatcd as in the vac- 1 t- nat d. ? VaOC'tintlon is compulsory through- I Ut m st of Europe. In Prance the < iVJT Is loosely enforce d anil The Lon- i ion Daily Mail is authority for the t state n-ut tliat 14,000 Frenchmen die * annu \ from the disease, while il ? i.ones off only 110 Germans ayeat. ' The parent of every child born in < England must, within six months after I the child's birth, have il vaccinated by ] a registered medical practitioner or by ? the public vacciualor. In case ;i parent believes vaccination will be harmful to . his child he can secure exemption by l taking oath before two justices of the i peace before the child is lour months old. By such stringent methods as i these England ami other countries have prevented the recurrence of those epi demics which were so disastrous a cen tury ago. The case is one where the ounce of prevention is worth several pounds of cure. 'mm ? ? ? ?^M?????? The South offers excellent advant ages for successful dairying. It has the climate and the soils that produce the most luxuriant growths of pasture, as well as forage crops, and to this may lie added the additional fact that pastur age in one way and another way be secured through at least nine mo lbs of (ho year. A wide variety of ciops for ensilage may be grown, and the length of the growing season will en able these crops to reach maturity be fore being turned into the silo. In stead of paying high prices for land, us is the case in the North, it can bo purchased at much lower figures. Pun ning water is pure and abundant. The markets are good, there being a loenl market lor much more than is produc ed at the. present time.??ioutl>cr>t Farm Magazine, In various parts of th( South much hope is expressed for the success of the laiest organization of cottou?gro?vors, designed to induce harmonious, action for tbo maintenance of prices of the staple. The plan looks to the careful collection and compilation < f statistics of the acreage, condition of the crops at various stages, and the publication of special information about the status! of the market. This is well and good if it can be done to the satisfaction of several thousand growers, or of n Milli ch ut number of them to influence materially the ciop movement. Sup port of it, however, must not be per mitted to weaken the impulse toward raising one's own necessaries at home. ?Southern Farm Magazine, Up to the loth lost., the. Stale Mc o mer had received this year $71,153,18 from the SR* of fertilizer tax tags I/ist year up to ihe same date, only 860,688.35 had been received. The in -crease is $11,084 83. As the lax is 26 [cents a ton, this shows that 47,030 1-2 I more tons of fertilizers have been bought for use in this Slate this year than last. OA?TOHIA Baun the ?A ^? ^ Vou Have Always ftfMtan FACTS ABOUT PRISSIDF.NTS Interesting Statement Regnrdini the Lives of Our Rulers The death of ox-President Hnrrisoi directs uttoutiou Blrongly to tho Pres! dential ollice and the lives of its in cumboots. Washington tliod within less than three years after his retire incut ami during the term of his suc cessor, John Adams, whilst .lohn Adams outlived Iiis three successors ? Tho uas JefferdOU, James Madison and Jam es Monioe- and was present, as history tells us, at the inauguration of his son, .lohn (juiucy Adams, in 1820, and died during the piosidcncy of Ins ?oll, .lohn Quiucy Adams, at the ad vanced ngo of ninety-oue years, ou July 4, 1820. No other ex-President reached such an advanced age, or sur vived so long after leaving the Presi dential ollieo, tor more than a quarter of a century elapsed between John Adams' retirement from the Presiden tial ollice, in 1801, and his death, July 4, ls^ti. Thomas Jefferson reached the ripe age of ughly-tUeo and survived more ? hau si vcutceu y> ars alter his l'lesi dentia! term ended, dying on the same day of John Adams, his immediate predecessor, July 4, 1820. James Madison died in 1830, or more than nineteen years after he left the Presi dency. Mr. Monroe died at seventy three years of age, in 1831, within about six years alter Iiis term ended. John Quilicy Adams died at the age of eighty-one. in 1848. Mr. Adams died in tho hall of the House of Represen tatives at Washington, of which he had been for many 3cars a member after his term as President ended. Andrew Jackson died at the Her mitage. To mi., at the age of seventy eight, 111 Juuu, 1845, or just about eight yeais alter his Psrm as President euded, whilst Marlin Van Buren lived to the ripe ;>L'e ol < Igllty and died at Kindcrhook, in New York, in 1802, or just twenty-one yours after he was President. William Henry Harrison, his .successor, died in ollice at the ago of sixty-oighi, and J din Tyler, who succeeded him, died al the age of sev enty-two 111 Itichlii'Jlid in IMJ'J, or m arly eighteen\e us after he passed OUt Of OlliCO. .lames K. Polk died at the age of ?fty-cight and within one hundred days alter his term had ended. Zachary Taylor died in ollice al the age k<f sixty-six at Washington in ls>0, after servilm uhout one year and three months as President. Millard Filhiio;o died at the age of seventy-four, and lived about twenty inie years alter Ins teiei ended. Frank lin Pierce lived about twelve years ifter he went out of 1 fllce, and died it the age of sixty-live, in 1800. James Buchanan died in LsOS, or seven years ifter goiug otu of cilice, at the age of seventy-seven. Abraham Lincoln was issassinutbd during Ins second term, il the age ol llfty-six years. Andrew lohneou, Mr. Lincoln's successor, oied hi 1S75, jusi ms v? ars after leaving the Presiden y. at the age of sixtv ioveu. Mr. Johnson at the limoof his leath was United Stales Senator from Tennessee, (hneral Grant, who next same to tho Pn-id. ucy, |dicd in isv;?. I little over eight years alter the end if his Presidential term, and at the IgO of Sixt)-three. Hayes passed out it ollice as President 111 1881 and died in ISO.'!, living neatly twelve years dter his term unded. Gnrllold was diet by Guitcau, aud was President mly about six months, and if alive .o-day would be only seventy years >ld. He has Ik i n dead very nearly LWOUty years. Arthur lived about a year alter he went out of the Presi lency, dying al the age of llfty-six, And now General Harrison is dead, just eight years ?f?r bis Presidcutial Letm ended, and al the age of sixiy uight years. TltC youngest man ever chosen Pres ident was Grant, at forty-eight, and llie oldest nun was William Henry Harrison, who was sixty-eight. Only live Presidents were over sixty years at the time of the inauguration?John Adams, sixly-lwo; Andrew Jackson, sixty-two; W.U. Harrison,sixty-eight; Zachary Taylor, sixty-live, and James Buchanan, sixty-six. The average of life enjoyed by ex-Presidents has been a little less llian tell years after pass lug OUt of power, whilst the average age at which Presidents have entered upon their ollice has been about lifly three years aud eight mouths. Mc Kinley was just about the ago of fifty three when inaugurated, President Harrison during Iiis ad ministration ol lour years had the unique distinction of signing acts for the admission of six Steels into the Union?'North ami South Dakota, Montana, Id iho, Washington ami Wyoming. No oilier President signed acts admitting so many States. Presi dent Cleveland, who preceded and succeeded him, signed only o'<e act for the admission of a State, that for the entrance of Utah into the Union in l800. It may be observed that the six Sides admitted into the Union 111 1880-00 dining Harrison's adiniuisira tion and which now have twelve United States Senators, had altogether, according to the United Stales census of 1000, lCS? population by 160,000, people than the Stale of Virginia. Of the twenty-four Presidents of the United Stales one-half, or twelve, were horn in Virginia and Ohio, Virginia belog tiio birthplace of seven and Ohio of live- - Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, William Henry Harrison, .lohn Tyler und Zachary Taylor being born in Virginia, whilst Grant, Hayes, Gnt'flcld, Harrison and McKinley were born in Ohio, and I three, Andtew Jackson, .lames K. Polk and Andrew Johnson, W01U born in North Carolina. And BO it hap pen', thai of t he twenty-four Presidents three Stales ? Virginia, Ohio and North Carolina have the honor of being the birthplaces of flftCOO of them, ?ltichnwnd Z'imcs. The room in the Stale House which is to be used by the Daughters of the Confederacy for their relic room is now being cleared out fov their U80. OA.ST'OXl.IA.. Bear? tho ^ ^ You I'3'8 Alwa),s B?UgM GKRMAN K \l I V. ? >UK ot Nuskuu Si., New Verk. INDUSTRIAL AND GKN^RAL ? Rhode Island still romains the most densely populated State in the Union. ?The population of London has in creased to the extent of 100.000 since issi. ?There is ten grown nnil gathered in Japan that sells for as much as $10 a pound. ? It is estimated one third of the dwel lers upon earth are habitual users of tobacco. ?The Salvation Army has its good H808 In Boston the organization sells coal for three cents a basket to the poor. ? Heavers have become ho numerous in the southern part of Colorado that the ranchmen want them killed oil to save their property. ?On a level macadamized road a horse can pull (!,270 pounds, but where Ihere is a grade of tea feel to one hun dred feet his limit is 1,030 pounds. ? A wise and venerable Boston lady is quotod as saying that "Christian Science may be very good for the cure of complaints, but I doubt if it is good for disease." ? It is the opinion of experts that the opening of China and Siberia will dis close large deposits of gold, and that Asia, after awhi'c will furnish a large part of the world's supply. ?The Supreme Court of North Caro lina is called on to decide whether or not the fact of a colored man voting the Democratic ticket is sufficient provoca tion to justify his being expelled from the church. ?The Waterbury American says : " People who are appalled at the thought of a liquor license fee of $1 OOP ought to consider thocase of Fall River, where 'he liquor dealers are trying to see if they cannot get the present fee of sfll.OUU re duced " ? Somebody once asked John Allen, of Mississippi, why he continued in Con gress when he could practice 'aw and make a great deal more money than the amount of his Congressional salary. " Well," drawled Allen, " I admit $.*>,000 isn't much, but it comes along powerful regular." ? Aaron I). Weld, of Boston, is prac tically the sole owner of Ludlow, Mass.. a town of 3,000 inhabitants. Mr. Weld is president of the Ludlow Manufactur ing Company,? concern which furnishes employment to nearly all the laborers and which pays nine-tenths of all the taxes collected in the town. ? Moro than a year ago Robert .1 Black was elected mayor of McKccs port, Pa , by a majority of one vote. The election was contested and the con test has teen going on ever since, hav ing cost up to this time some $K),uo0, which will have to be paid by tho con testant unless he finally wins his case. ? By a vote of 1112 to 20 the Massachu setts House of Representatives rejected the proposition for extending suffrage in that State to women. The majority against the suffragists was the largest for many years, and was somewhat re markable, In view of the fact that the debute, which covered two days was also one of the longest. ?Arizona now claims the oldest settle ment in the United Slates, and is telling St. Augustine and Santa Pe that they are at least a half of a century behind her little town of Tucson, the county seat of Plma County, where there are about (1,000 inhabitants on the identical spot settled by the Spaniards in the middle of the sixteenth century. ? In sending to Oeorge Brancroft a specimen of the pork raised on his farm in Vermont, Mr. Evarts wrote this characteristic note, which was found preserved among the historian's papers after his death: "Dear Bancroft: I send you two roducts of my pen to day ?my usual ha f b:trrell of pig pork and my eulogy on Chief Justice Chase." ?The women of a fashionable church in Bayonno, N. .1 , are wiping out the debt of that house of worship in a novel and curious manner. Bach has her "self denial bag,-' and whenever she thinks of new ribbons, candy or any other little luxury, she denies herself the plcasuro and puts the price of Hie articles in the bag instead. It is claimed that the church debt is rapidly diminishing. ?Congressman Cushman, of Washing ton, is put down in tho Congressional Directory as a Congressman at large, his State being without definite Con gressional districts This rein uds him of a story, He was once approaching a town, where he was hilled to make a speech, and stopped at a house on the outskirts to get a drink of water. He mot the farmer's wife at the well. " What is the political sentiment around hero?" asked Cushman. "1 dunno," said the woman : " I don't go to political meetings They say there is a Congress man at large, and I think the safest thing for folks to do is stay homo " CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. 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