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STORIES ABOUT_ AN OLD TRAGEDY. Trial and Conviction of Wm. L. Yancey Conflicting fclattmenls That Arc Not Surprising Newspaper cui respondents uro reviv ing the most noted tragedy of Green vilU; in its earlier days, and circum stauliai accounts arc given In which thoro are evident errors and eon dieting statements, hut which aie entirely ?x cusablc owing n> the fact lhai iliese correspondents arc writing from the memory of others. The killing of Dr. Itobiuson K irlo sixty-three year''ago might have been forgotl n or at least very dimly remembered even InGrceu ville were it not that he belonged n> an illustrious family, whose descend anis arc very numerous in the com munity, und that his slayer was Wil liam L, i.'ancey, who became a famous leader in the secession movement of 1800, mole than twenty years alter the unfortunate encounter winch ended Dr. liarle's hie ami which doubtless embittered Mr. Vnncey's existence long afterwards. Mr. Yancey's promi nence as a lawyer and politician in Alabama never diminished the noto riety of this sud tragedy, and in fact only added to the perpetuity of the story in succeeding years. A coi respondent of the Itiruihighnin Ayc-llcridd, who made a visit i<? Greenville not long ago, lias given the following ace tint of the liugcdy : ?? There mill stands in Main slrr.ol, Greenville, s. ('., Hie uneienl red brick court house of tireenvillc County, hi which iho iniinottnl Williuiu "... Vancey was tried, convicted and sentenced for tlio manslaughter of Itohertsou Kurie, then the hend of the famous Karle fam ily of South Carolina. That occurred about llfty years ngo, though I forget the exact date, and I haven'! got 1 >u IJose's ? Life of Vancey ' within reach at the moment," said a traveler last night. " While. I was in Greenville recently, a member of the Karle family, a learn ed young lawy r modestly proud of his illustrious race, related 10 me what I accepted as a family versiou of that fa mous tragedy, ami lie said it had never boon in pr.nl As the story ran, Van cey, dun a practicing lawyer, was at that time a taciturn but soincwh.u high* tempered ami impetuous man when Ill'OUsed, and was easily aroused al all limes. His f iend Kurlc's son, a young | hoy, one day offered Yalicey very of fensive rudeness in the public street, ' and Vancey thoughtlessly struck tin: boy a mild blow. 11 In a moment Vancey regretted tin act, though feeling ibal he had just cause lor it, ami he sought Karle and told him the circumstances, saying thai he was greatly provoked. His sense oi propriety, he said, required him to seek I lie falber of the boy and tell him the bioty in person. " Karle answered in friendly spirit, and said it was all right With him; Ilia1 he could easily understand how bis son's conduct as related by Vance*, might provoke a gentleman. Tin- two men separnteu on most amiable terms. Thai occurred in the morning. '? Ai noon Karle went home to his midday dinner, according to custom thai prevails still in Greenville, and to his astonishment he found Mrs. Karle in a high ?lato of excitement. The boy bad gone home and lold the mother nboUl Vancey having StIUck him, and she was passionately angry. It seems thai al llrst Karle, suughl to SOOlllC bis wife, Inn bIic played upon his feelings and soon got linn wrought up in ailger against Vancey. Finally his wile de manded that he should go down town ami have ii oui with Vancey. He armed himself and want. Nobody ever yet doubted Lbc courage of an Kailc. ?? Karle found Vancey at a famous tavern within a few paces ol the. COlll I house, on the site now occupied by the Grconvillu Duly New- building, and a violent [juurrcl arose al once. Almost instantly Vancey drew a pistol ami shot Kai Ic dead. ?? It was one of the greatest sensa tions in the history of a Mate fatllOUS lor sensational tragedies. Vancey was indicted, tried ami convicted of man slaughter, and sentenced to a tcim of imprisonment. After setting out of bis t.ouhlc he removed to Alabama, Reitling in the neighborhood of Mont gomery, ami almost al once began thai extraordinary career of political activ ity which more than any other indivi dual force caused the disastrous war bei ween I he Slates, the. result of Which he was not to live to see ! " The old courthouse in Greenville is a small two story structure of red brick, ami with its walls lour feel in thickness it is as substantial now as it w '8 when buili more ihm a c< nlury ago " The publication of the foregoing Slab muni, w hich h i hi en copied in a large numboi of newspapers, has brought oul the. following interesting article from l'rof. IV. A. Dickson, of Anderson County, who makes an ex tract from Dul'.ose's history of Win. Ii, Vancey\s life, whic h may be re regaided as fairly authentic in giving the details of the original dilliculty. Trof. Dickson writes : Kditors Intelligencer: The story of the JTancey-Entlo tragedy in Green vilU'- ninny years ago, winch appeared in the Birmingham Age Herald recent ly and which the Intelligencer copied last weok, does not tally with the ac e< unt contained in DuBose's ''Lifeand Times of Wil iani L. Yancey" in scv eral very Important paiticulars. Du Dose got his ineis relating tu the bora icidn and the trial of Yancey from the] files of TllK GrtKKNVILLK MOUNTAIN* /.Kit. Beoiamin P, Perry was in charge of tlie paper at the time, and he doubtless wrote the accounts from which DuBoie drew. The record as it appears in "The Lifo and Times of I William. I-. Yancey," a highly valuable 'contribution lo the history of the couu Iry, by the way, may therefore be ac cepted as authentic. Yaucoy was scholarly, taleuled, one of I be linest orators our country has produced, prolilic as sho has been ol these, and I believe he was thoroughly patriotic. He has been much inisrep icscntcd and consequently much mis tinduistood. It has been bruited till the years, the current set in motion by unfriendly tongues, that i'ancoy ran off to Alabama immediately after the tragedy, as il to escape the frowns of an outraged public, but the facts arc that he had been a resident of Alabama for full two years prior to the unfor tunate affair. Melow is what Mr. DuBose says, and ttic reader is asked lo compare il with Hie version which appeared last week. W A. ?ICKSON. Broylus, S. C, July 8, Isl?T. "Mr. Yancoy removed his family and his slaves to Alabama I he year after his marriage, spent tl e. winters there in the oversight of his cotton plantation ami returned with his family to spend the summers near Greenville for the sake ol health. "It would be unnecessary lo rclato here with particularity a deplorable ac cident which befell him, save that, in the heat of political coutlict in after ycai'8, bitter speech was made and much error was written of it. Early in September, 18I18, he rode to the inusut of a Luilllin company twelve mill s from OrCCUVillo, where, al ter the military exorcises, it was expeeted a (lobato Would he held between General Waddy Thompson ami .Judge Joseph N. Whitncr, candidates for the lower House of Congress. After the debate ended gentlemen, in coteries, standing on the ground discussed the prospects of tin' citudidatos. Vancey'a remarks so displeased a youth of seventeen, a liophow Of General Thompson, and a cousin <d' Mis. Yancey, Klias Kaile. that he replied hi a rude speech, lor which offence. Yancey boxed his face. Elms returned the single blow with ' one or more strokes of his riding whip. ' Bystanders at once stopped thu da 111 CUlty. blias became pacillod and Yan cey then spoke to him kindly, advising him lo tell his uncle what had been said, adding: 'I did not intend to !l;hl you, Klias, bin only to chastise your impudence ; I would rather give you Salvador (a favorite saddle horse) than to have a per-onal difficulty with you.' l>r. llobiuson M. Barlo, father of Klias, and uncle of Mrs. Y.iiiccy, several days after the OCCUiruUCO, and after ho had assured Yancey that if his son had acted with spirit in the affair he was content, attacked Yancey on ihc porch of a store at Greenville with a section of the handle of a grain cra dle as a weapon. Yancey, at the out set, began to retreat, step by Step, still facing his antagonist ami warning him repeatedly, as if reluctant to defend himself by the use of the weapon he carried. His bat had been knocked off, his shirt, bosom torn open and he had been forced lo the extreme edge of the porch, some two or three feet above the ground. lie then lired and mortally wounded his antagonist in the l< ft side Dr. Karle was six feet high and we lulled two hundred pounds, and declared oil ihc spot, 'Had Yancey not tired I would have easily whipped him.' "The case was put on trial at the term ot the circuit court at Greenville. The jioy brought in a verdict of man slaughter During the seventeen con SOCUtlve hours in which the trial pro grossed the prisoner retained perfect re pose, neither elated when the evidence was in his favor nor cast down when il appeared lo g > against loin. The uni versal lo&liinony was that Yancey had never before; been in any personal dilli culty in Greenville ; that he was uni formly polite and quiet ; that he had a very high sense of personal honor ; that he ha.l not provoked the trouble with Dr. Karle ; ilia tin. knife and bludgeon thai Barle carried when the attack was made were 111 the hands of jibe deceased threateningly presented j when the shot Was tired from Yancey's I pistol. ??October 2t>, following, the prisoner was brought hefor'j the court, Josiah .1. Evans presiding, for sentence. The Judge said the crowded slate of the house indicated an unusual interest in the duty before him, and he would de part from Ins ordinary rule of brevity in such cases to explain his mind. The prisoner's deportment, he said, since the affray on the muster ground up to j ihc moment of lliO difficulty with Dr. I Karle, was such as was to he expected I from one in his station ot life. No one I COllld believe th.it he had gone to that , piazza with any hostile feeling toward Dr. Kaile, or that he carried there the pistol that was in his bosom for the purpose of shooting the. unfortunate! deceased. The court could impute lo him no moral guilt. What happened i hero seemed lo be entirely accidental ami to he. attributed lo the angry and i xeited deportment of Dr Karle. The Judge explained I Hither that Mr. Y'an C :y seemed to have worn his pistol in Greenville because of habit acquired in carrying il while, passing through the Indian country of the Wesl. In con sideration of this practice the couri had made up its judgment. The sentence j was $1,500 fine and twelve mouths Imprisonment in jail. "Governor Patrick Noble remitted two-thirds of the line, and released the prisoner. Mr. Vancey then returned with Iiis family to Alabama." Maj. Perry was not only the editor of The Mountaineer when Yancoy became involved in this trouble with bis wife's uncle, Dr. Karle, but bo was also one of the counsel for the. defend ant, witli whom he was on intimate terms, and he has left on record Iiis testimony as to the character and dis position of his client, and givon a statement of the circumstances under which the fatal dilliculty took place( In his "KomiulBccnccsof Public Mod," which was published only a few years before Iiis death, Uov. Perry has nn interesting sketch of William I.. Van cey, from which we make the follow* ing extract : Mr. Vancey read law in niv ollicc two or three years, and we were for a much longer period on terms of meat intimacy. I knew hitU well and loved him most affectionately. He had many tare and uoblo qualities ot both head ami heart. Ho was full of genius and , talent, und endowed with high gifts of oratory. In disposition he was kind and affectionate, warm und m?ni?rnim and devoted to 'us friends. He was a very handsome young man, with a bright, ohcorfui face, ever inspiring confidence and good fooling. II? was lallen- under ordinary height and well proportioned, with great activity and strength. His manners wen: not only pleasing and polished, but really fasci nating, and no one. could be in com puny with him without feeling kindly towards him ; but with all his talents, at tractions and brilliancy, he was not a man of wisdom, or judgment, or sta bilily of character. lie had strong feelings and impulses, which generally controlled his action and judgment. He was a man of high spirit ami daunt ? less courage. His impulses and his passion involved him in a great many diHicul'.ies of a very serious: character. I remember, on one occasion, whilst be was reading law with me, having to rush between bun and Thomas P. daiitl to prevent their bring oil each other. They had commenced a politi cal discussion, which did not continue , long before they drew their pistols, and but for the interference of myself and others, would have exchanged shots in the street I In a quarrel with Dr. Karle, the uncle of his wife, ho drew Ins pistol ami shot him. The doctor died in a lew hours. Vancey was tried ; and convicted of manslaimhler. In this affair, however, lie <liil what few men of spirit might not have (lotlO under Iho circumstances. Tho dny previous he hud had a difficulty With Dr. Karle's son, who was quite ;i lad. Vancey sought the doctor and explain ed lo him the dilltculty with his son, Who seemed to he perfectly satisfied. The next day he was inquiring for Yancey with a bludgeon in bin bunds, Yancey went up to him in perfect good humor ami anticipated no difficulty. He gave Yancey the iie and diew his slick. Immediately Yancey drew his pistol, and presenting il, told the doc tor 1?) "lake it hack or take a shot.'' Dr. Kalle rushed towards him and Yancey's pistol lired ! Hut Yancey assured me, confidentially, that il was not his purpose to lire the pistol, and that he did lire it involuntarily under the excitement. He afterwards made nflidavit lo this (act, and I have never for a moment doubted the truth of the assertion. He was defended by Judge Wardlaw, Mr. Hurt and myself. His Sentence was line and imprisonment, which Governor Noble pardoned in a few weeks. FROM A BACHELOR'S VIIvW. No old maid over 40 can show a strange plumber over the house with out giving bim her opinion on love, religion and the Filipinos. When a woman thinks that a man is going lo kiss her against her will she generally diesses herself with two papers of pins less than usual. On a real hot day cupid seems to lock himself in a rcfrigator. There's no woman who won't be lieve sonic part ol llattory; a man be lieves it all. Children keep cooler than grown-up people, because they keep thinking about something else. If the best child could only look as innocent as the worst woman, nobody would ever know wdio ought to gel the w hipping. The ot.ly difference between the mail who thinks women can't fool him and the man who knows they can, is thai he gels, fooled a little oflcner. When a woman is very positive she is never certain. The longer a man lives the more he has to live for and the more he has lo live without. When a man gets married there is at least one woman that he loses all his influence with. Tho average man would rather have his wife act like the devil ami look like an angel than lo act like, an angel and to look like Ihc devil. Il always seems like a miracle loa man the way a woman will manage a lug hat, a long skirl, a bun lie and her religion in a high wind. A woman is " sweetly reasonable " when she is reasonably sweet. Kov. you neighbor and do good to them lliiit tell your wile what their husbands have lold them about you. When Kve bit into the omde she probably told the snake that sue was tired of forever taking her husband's advice. As far as appearances go, a woman will act more eoinfortahh while her heart is bleeding than she iloci when she hiiH a hang?uail. The first two months the man would take Ihc baby up in the garret and hid* it if he. thought Ins wife or the muse wouldn't catch him at il. The man is never old who, the longer he lives, lives iho more. Women are such n puzzle to men hc? c .use thoy are so much of a puzzle lo themselves. There is a certain way a girl fixes ? lamp when a man is coming to call on her which she calls " just enoUfftl lit." It nuikcH a girl awfully mad to CCticIl herself yawning and realizes that shti has caught it from a man lltat Bhe just hates. When a man hates another man 1 the worst, it is for the least rOASOO. when a woman loves a man the host, it is when nets the loast worthy.? N. Y. Press. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of HI 1,1, A IIP ON Till?; CONVICTS. lie is Deeply Concerned About the Increase of Crime and Im morality Atlanta Constitution. Next in importance to the education, of the children of the Stute conn s the careof the convicts, the lunatics and the tloaf and the blind. These are charges, fixed charges that rest every where upon the cili/.OU and taxpayer and cannot be avoided. A careful perusal of the last reports of ihc ollicei'S ol these institutions give US deep con cern, for their inmates arc iucrcasiug faster than population and tins iucrcasc indicates a growing degeneracy in mental, physical or moral condition Oi our people. These reports give much interesting matter lor there is hurdle a Stale in tlu Union whore similar in stitutions arc *<> ably and faithfully i Ulcered. Wo arc especially fortunate in having such a capable ami ex perienced man as Dr. Powell at the head of our sanitarium. The appre hension is that when hi; dies wo can not till his plat e for WO cannot Qud a man who has bulb his ability and his long oxperience. The saint: can he I said of I'rolt ssor Connor, in charge of the school for the that. These two arc veterans in tin: service ami have by their long and faithful WOI'k allayed all public anxiety about those instilu ; lions. ll.it. why should so many more children he horn deaf ami dumb than formerly, ami why should so many more people become insane'.' Only a lew years ago Professor Connor re ported III"), and now be has 215 in charge. Do folks keep on niarrsing theil cousins und will tin: law keep oil allowing it? As to the sanitarium, I there seems to he mi limit, nodiiuinu lioti of the rapid increase ami as fast | as more room is provided more still is wanted. Dr. Powell sports that on October 1, MOO, there wert: 1.7011 whites ami 742 colored on baud, ami the new ap plications now average, about six per llay, Of course :i any die and it is a Comfort to know that many recover llieir reason and are discll igcd. Two hundred ami liflynino whites ami ninety-four negroes were discharged last year. One hundred and lifty-six whites ami 180 negioes died. The doctor gives pleasant and easy employ meal to all who can and art: willi ig to work, lie is a philosopher of my own kind for be says he. has found Unit vvoik, manual labor, is more con ducive .o icsloration and contentment than any other medicine. Ciardcning, sewing, washing, canning fruits, etc., is dune on a large st ale. Much more of this is dom: than formerly ami the report shows an immense business, .lust think til last year's work -1,000 aprons, 2,000 bodticks, '3,000 chemises, 1 siio calico drcss.es, 700 homespun dresses, 4,700 pair drawers, 4,500 pil low cases. ?,(iiiii pair pants, 3,8U0,shirts, 1,000 undershirts, ami quilts by the scoie cra/.y (piills 1 suppose making a total of over 011,(1(10 articles made, by crazy women. Good gracious, what an industrious female family the doctor has 'jot. In ibis way In: has greatly reduced the cost of main tenance ami b rough I down the per capita lo si 17. Mm on the other baud, he has to be continually repairing or replacing something, for he says ?> in sanity means destruction and that the tendency oi a i.. m iutuber of patients is lo destroy furniture, crockery, beti ding, clothing, lights, sash ami some tunes tearing their rooms lo pieces." ><>w just imagine what an nrmv of lunatics we have. Cartcrsvillo is (pule a large little country town of '1.000 people, but three-fourths ol them are children under ago. We have only Hboul Sou grown-up people who are lit lo lie lunatics, bin here al the sau ba rium arc three nines as many, ami the number increasing every year. But the report of the prison commis sion gives us most anxiety, for thai Concerns crime ami involves the safety el our people. Com tilt lawless who fear not God nor regard man. Tin: maintenance of the sanitarium costs the S alt 8275,000 annually, bill there, is tine good Illing,, ami only one about the convicts, They cost the. Stale, nothing altei the trial, but on the con trary tins bring in a considerable rev enue, and under tin: IIOW system I Ins revenue is rapid!) increasing. General Evans, Mr ICnson and Mr. Turner In augurated this system only two years ago and it has already proved a siunal success. The State now has the abso lute control of all .Is convicts and lias purchased a large farm near Millcdge Villo, Whore the old men ami the boys and all the. women arc kept. Untier the skilful management of Mr. Poster ibe farm paid well the llrsl year, ami the convicts art: nearly as happy as liny were in old slavery times. Most of the aide bodied convicts arc leased lo fanners at good ptiecs, but the Slate provides guards ami medical at tention. Here is another army of J,"?00 to look alter, but these are not all. There are 'J,:5?0 more al work in the. county chningangs, making a total of l,0o0, id whom 8?8 arc White, ten arc white women and 21? are negro wo men. Of the State convic's for felony 007 are guilty of murder or matislaughl r, ?il."> for burglary or r bb r> or larceny, ?I'M for the usua crime. The rest are for most any other crime in the cata logue. M?sl of them were laborers, hut 1 note that twenty-seven did uoill ing and eighteen wen: preachers. muoiy per ccni 01 tue negroes mo he-1 twoeu the ngca of fifteen ami forty, and knew nothing of shivery. Only one per i'.i nt are lite old SlnVOS who are over sixty years old, Two hundred and forty-four of them are Buying a second term. Thir y are serving a ihild term and a f> w a fourth and fifth term. They BCOin to I'kn it. One thousand and twenty of these convicts are from throocounties -Fulton, Chat ham, and Bibb. As Thomas Jeffcr son said, "The influence of cities is pcstdentinl to good morals." It is I especially so with mgiocs. The large n ajorily of tl?e i. u 0 convicts arc liom the cities a id l.i >e towns. Twenty years a * > diero wi re 1,100 negro convicts au i oo percent of them were wholly illiterate, could neither i cad nor write Now we have 4,300 RHEUMATISM and CATARRH CURED -BY Johnston's Sarsaparilla QUART BOTTLES. IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH. A. Whole Futility CnrfJ. Mrs. C. H. Kingsbury, who keeps a miOinery and faney goods store at St. Louis, Oratiot Co., Mich., aud who is well known throughout tho country, says: I was badly troubled with rheuma tism, catarrh und neuralgia. I bad liver complaint and was very bilious. I Wits in a bad condition; every day I bo gun to fear that 1 ubould never bo a well woman; that I should havo to Settle down into a chronic invalid, and live In tho shadow of death. I had JOHNSTON'S SAK3APAH1LLA rec ommended to mo. I TOOK FOUB BOTTLES AND IT CURED ME, and cured my family both. 1 am very glad that I heard of it. 1 would cheerfully recommend It to evoi-y one. I havo tnkeu uannv other kinds of medicine. I pre.or JOll NSTON'S to all of thorn." HICUIOAN BKl'tt CO., DatroU. Mlofe. b\?r Sale by the Lauren a Drug Com P'iny, Laui*ona, s. C nogro convicts anil 54 per cent can read and write. How is that? Does education lessen crime or increase it? Mr. Stetson, the Stan- statistician ot Massachusetts, says it ?? increases crime not n litlio, but itnmemtelyV' and he proves it. It certainly does among the negro race in Georgia. It is curious to note that we have two counties in the Slate -White and Gilmcr?-that have no representative among the convicts. There are four Counties Town-', I'ii kens, Hanks and DnWSOl) -that have hut one each. There an', three counties-?Union, Mur ray and ItabllU -that have hut two each How is that tor good morals in oiu most Northern mountain counties, where the school master has not been abroad in the land to any alarming ex tent? No, the truth is that education of itself neither lessens nor increases crime. It deponds on the moral train ing that the boy gets either from his teacher or his parents or his eniiy as sociates, but it his environments arc hail his education makes him a more dangerous citizen, lor it enables him to cover up and conceal his crime or to esc; pc from punishment in some way. It is like throwing pea-Is before swine to give the vile and vicious an educa tion, but we can't pick them before hand ami so all must have a chance. Hut if I was a lawmaker I would put some penalties upon had citizens, upon the idle ami vicious, whether white or black. We do not allow them to have their names in the jury box. They cannot try a man lor crime nor set in judgment upon his civil rights. Why should such men he trusted with the ballot? Why no! let the same commission that makes up the jury box also make up the ballot box? if some good negroes got in and some had white men were left out it would be rewarding merit and pulling a penally upon bad citizens. Alabama and Virginia have this question before their Conventions and wo hope they will c insider it wisely and Live cn eouragi ment lo good citizens, whether they be while 01 black. Good conduct should bo the te~t. Ii is more impor tant than education or pioperty. Hi t u?? purge the bullet box just as we do the jury box. Purge ii once a >tar. Put such colored men a- Gassctl and Joe Drown lllld|fribble in and leave all such while men IIS I'at Hanks out. Don't shut the ooor forever on good negri >es. Mythe wny, I wish somcbo y would hunt up our conk and send her home. She is not a 14 sott led 'onnin," and is jusl gallivanting around till her spell is olT. I have to uot up before I feel like it and lite up the stove ami then call the girls and they gtd a g >od breakfast in half an hour. Hiscuit and codec and hominy and fried eggs ami beef steak art; good, enough for anybody, hut 1 will have to discharge our cook ami hire her over again and leave out the spell privilege. Iii l.l. A UP. ?- ? ? ? ? mwm The crop of winter win at, now being harvested, promises to be a record breaker. It will be nut only of unpre cedented quantity, but it will be ad mirable in quality. The Cincinnati Price Current gives some interesting liguros on the crop, and com pares thom With the record for previous years. It estimates thai the crop, with the markt table surplus now on hand, will am. mil to 770,1*00,000 bushels. The. visible supply in the United States on dune J'.i was S10,7'.Ki, (Kin, but tie available stocks at the leading interior and seaboard markets east oi the Hookies, on transit from the West lo the east and on the sea destined for Great Hritain and the con tinent on July -1 aggregated 71,081,000 bushels, against 7;\\;.i.V.I,(It 10 a \ear ago, and i"7,til0,1)1)1) oil duly 3, 1800. Tins means, of eourso, that the Price Cur rent's estimate for the 1001 crop is in excess ol 700,000,000 bushels. The c liiors of the Outlook give I ho lute Governor I'm give an unexpectedly high rating. ,4IIo was charged with having assailed the rights of propelty," they say, "hut no man in our tune has done morn to give concreto reality t<> Enuilsen's distinction between good wealth end bad wealth?between wealth hat is earned and wealth that ih merely capitalized extortion. The Ii Ii which he made, against, the per |)e nation of unearned dividends on watered securities will in the end make safer and Hiircr (bo payment of earned dividends Upon CUphul actually invest ed in nny form of industry. All over tl is country his el niggles have given c? urage to tho?e wh are. batthnu for the mniniuuancu Ol the. rights of the I common people." No greater economy C< old be prac ticed on the. farm than the building of good roads. ? . . ?MP) > # t - OA8TOIIIA. |CR0I , V ARE GROWING The United States Produces Nearly livery Needful Crop that it Uses. Stcrclar) of Agriculture Wilson predicts the mo>l glowing urn iu his tory for the agricultural interests of the country during the new llscal year which has just begun. Incidentally Mr. Wilson assorts llud if the Uuiled Mau- is given a few mouths more time any or all the for * ign nations of the world may form a commercial combination against the country with impunity, iio say- that before .Inly I next this eouutry, with its new possessions, Will he raising and produciug everything that it uses, and that if we so elect we can furnish almost any other nation ou thc-gloho. "We arc now pushing investigations and experiments along a meat many lines,'' .-aid Mr. Wilson in an inter view. "Our agricultural exports maintained their position in the llscal year just closed and computed with sonic years past increased appreciably. o One of the principal objec ts whic h this department has in view i.s to en able the people, of the United Status to produce! the agricultural products WO arc now purchasing from foreign coun tries. During the year IU00, for in stance, we bought hall as much a?rri cuilurul poods Ii? wo sohl; that to -ay, we sold nbout ,000,000 worth ami bought about ?420,000,000 worth, The principal product wu putebnsu frotu other nations is sugar. This commodity comprises nearly oue-lourih of the total of products imported, i he department in the past has been mak ing experiments to ascertain in just what sections of the country sugar can bo raised lo such advantage as lo obviate the necessity ol going to foreign markets lo complete our sup I ply. We .vant to raise beets, as there in lies the principal source of the su gar ptoduct. Within the I'nit :d Stales there will be over forty beet sugm fac tories in operation by next fall. Tiny Will be silualed in almost every Stale along tin- Northern border, from New York to California. 1 believe that within a few years we will pro lin e a.I the sugar we require and we will then be in position to ignore the foreign product. Our experiments have shown that the sugar produced from out quality of beet is much lieber than that manufactured in foreign coun tries. Our products, thcref re, will bo much more di!H?rnbln. '? When tins result shall bo nltniucd Iho sugar irust will, in my opinion, vanish, for ihe reason lhal Iho ll'tut rollnos imported brown sugar, while .til iho American factories will liuish the product ami place il in entin readiness lor sale on Ihe markets. ?? We are now succeeding admirably in ihe production of tea in ihe United Status," continued Mr. Wilson. Ii is only a question of a shorl time when we will he able to raise ml ihe tea de manded lor use in ibis country. 'The two lOUS of tea grown at Suinineiville, S. C, last year so well sutisltcd tile New York investors inlerested in the i idustry that they immediately formed a syndicate and bought <*>,mm) acres of land in thi! Male upon which lea will be grown. 'Phis department last year sent tea plants to every Gulf Siai< m the Union from the Carolinas to Cali fornia for experimental raising. We have just Ir ani from South Carolina that imported machinery in use there is able to make green ten from Hie black product in one hour. We do not yet manufacture such machinery in this country, but wo will got to lltnt later. Then there is no question con cerning the availability ol labor when we get to growing our ten on a large scale. There is any number of young puoplu who will seek employment as pickers of the leaves, as wage- will be good. We are now importing plants from China, (Joyion ami .1.1 pan, and we ptirposo raising the highest grade of product in ibis country. . " Three year- ago the department began consideration ol the subject of rice cultivation in the United stab s. Ai lhai lime we produced aboui 25 pei cent of what we consumed, and when we examined Iho situation wc found that there was a demand lor a much heller grade ol the product than was being grown here. Wc sen! an expert to Japan to look over the Heid i> 1 ihn man bmnd just what we were look in i lor. The result is that next yeai w? will gro?> an excellent guide ol net a class, in fact, which will equal I hoi ol any other nation produc ing lie g I a III. "The iiopnrlmci i is just now also l)Usi engaged in consideration of tl divci-i "i i ii< n is wliicli urc to bo promote i > on ,u w possessions. Wo have foumi u\>. .i investigation thai the po< p ? " tho now lands need agricul tural lusiruetlon ami encouragement This we pioposc lo give lllcin lo the best oi our ability. Tor instance, we must bu able 'o pio'luco largo tpiaiili ties ill bay in tin I'll lippines to feed the 13,000 horsi -ail mules which the Uuilcii Stales id now maintaining thcie. Tin iletuaml for fodilei is far in UXeeSS I 'In- b 'IHO supply, so that ii has l e? u I'ouml ii ecssaiy lo import ihr product. I In ought Hol lo be. 1 '.en is ample opp irltlllity lor laisinu bay and other food products for horses and ciiltlc in the I'hhtppiucs, ami steps a 111 be taken to relieve the situation. 14 Coli i i ? another product which we are looking afu i'i Our scientists aic invi >t Lial a. (ti ? eofl'oo outlook in our hiMilar po - ? ns, and we expeel 10 aci 'lupliah k m thing during this 11 eal year wInch i\ ill greatly encourage .!:? PldUiMiy. " Several years ago Ibis depart incut began to collect specimens of rubber. At present the l ulled Slates buys an nually #30,000,000 worth of ru her, but the outlook is that we will now be able to raise in our new possessions every bit of the product needed. It Will be produced in I'oito Kic.o, Hawaii and the Philippines, ami tin result will be, that people Using the com modity will he able lo save many thousands of dollars in Its purchase. Then ihcro lathe subject of macaroni wheats lo he considered. The macaroni which we have been manufacturing here in Iho pnsl is nol quho equal to iho Italian product, hut wo arc. OU 1 the right track, and it will nol bo long before we will be able t<> pioducc a grade that will bu superior lo that im? f^O^&L Popper Absolutely Pure Makes the food more delicious and wholesome _HQVAL OAKISQ POttPfR CO., NtW YORK._ ported hum Europe. The semi-arid regions of our couulry are adapted to I Ihe growth of macaroni wheat, and all nt the 10,000,000 pounds, of the pro duct which we now consume and which comes mainly from Italy will he shortly grown upon home ground. " As for spices, our new possess) >ns will furnish us with an uhundaut quantity as soon as wo can get the machinery of their production in full operation. '?Another important matter being considered by the department is the cross breeding of cottons, which oper ation, when completed, will rosull in the establishment of the Hue grade of the product which wo are mow hound to import from Egypt. A' out ?5,000, 000 worth of this rellncd commodity Duds its way here from that region ; every year, hut after we have (inished I our i xpcruncutal work in ibis direc tion we hope to be able lo arrive at a combination which will produce a class of cotton goods as acceptable as that from tiic re?ion of ihn n."ii.> 11 There is no doubt that tins coun try, within a row months, will hi- in position lo ignore every other nation on ihr globe in the matter of food pro duels. Wo will produce within tun own domain everything thatgOOS upon our table ami upon our backs. We will then be, commercially and in dustrially, almost independent of the other nations of the world. Herne, any trade combination which may be effected against us will count for noth ing. Whenever we get ready we can come pretty m ar starving any other nation. Therefore, an effective com bination against us will be an im possibility." it is not certain thai we are so much wiser than the ancient-', after all. "Cicero and Virgil and Horace ami all their compatiiots," savs the New York Tribune, "east a little light raiment over their shoulders in hoi weather, and il Honied in graceful waves. Their garments were sleeveless and without starch. They wop. no collars around their necks, no bauds upon their wrists, no Blockings and no hat, no close -boos. Their sandals were open to ah the winds that blew. And think of the Roman baths I No other city ever known was so lavishly supplied with opportunities for bathing, In even the most populous of the tenement districts of tin- Internal City in the times of Au gust us and oi the later Ctcsars there was all the water on tap at all limes which man, woman or child could do -irc. And no Roman head of a house hold, however small bis means might be, was compelled lo eudtirc discom fort for lack of baths." Prof. W. H. Lynch, <>f Mountain tirovo Academy, at Mountain Grove, Mo . is credited with leading more pnid-for newspapers than any other man in the United Stales. He suh s.ciihcs for 58 newspapers, six of tlicm dailies. 'Iii- Professor says: ,4I use ihe newspapers in my classes. The) are the hesl instrument in the world for teaching current history and geog raphy. The real drama of life ill its varied forms of commercial, political, and social relations must ho seen ami 1 arned through 'the minor of the worldthe newspaper. Every Friday1 morning in Iho academy is devoted to the reading of newspapers." Mrs. Matthew GilniOUl died sudden ly, Wednesday night, in Kichniond,\'n. A Washington Post correspondent writes : "She was a daughter of the late Kev. Abraham David Pollock, "I l ampiier Count)'. During the war. when a mere girl, she rode alone through the Federal lines and conveyed lo Coi, John S. Mosb) the news thai i he enemy was going lo make an at'tick upon the Confederates, it tinned out Unit Ulis timely w.lining saved the Southern army from defeat, (>n her mother's side Mrs. Giltnour was de I scended from the Lees and the Wash I inglons." Fifteen Iii.ms,ind acres of wheat J wove destroyed by lire on the Sth hist, at (iicat Hoild, Kansas. Tbc lite was Started hy an unknown man thrown)}! a lighted cigar into a Hold '?I wheat stuhblc. Everything was as dry as tinder and SOOll a destructive tile was in progress. All residents in the neighborhood left their work and ex hausted every known method for Ikdit | il)g fires hut to no avail, and it wa? late in the evening before the lire was under control. Iloughly estimated, 'the loss in wheat will aggregate "100, (inn hllshels, nearly all of which was in stack. Jacob S. Hogers, wdio died 8Udde.nlV from (he effects of heat in New York, was worth many millions of dollars, lie made, mosl Of his money building locomotives at Pntcrson, N. .1. lie wns over 7n years of age, a bachelor, with no kin neater than nephews and nieces. To Iii-? n Inlivcfl In' bequeathed - .! >n,imii. To I'aterson, wlmro Iii? money was chiefly made, he left not one rent, and even (dosed his immense works, while still prosperous, much to the detriment of the town. No trace has yet been found of the six bags of gold, each containing $5,000 in ?"J(? gold pieces, that were stolen last week from the ?*. S. mint at San Francisco. The gold disappeared on the Uli of July. The thud got a good haul, and it is peculiar that such a theft could be made from the mint. The towns of Hogers, Sprlngdnlc iiinl Envoitovillo, on the St. Louis tV San Francisco railroad, alone in l^'OT, -hipped 1,111 cur lottds of apples, w hich amounted to nearly #100,000. OABTOIIIA. Boftn tho Kmd Yen Hayn Always Bou?tit B,8-r ?^5???7 IN A HUMOROUS \EIN. Slubb? 1 mot Llarkoi and Bonder out at ttio races. Herker had on his loud greon suit. i'uuu?Did Bender have on any thing that attracted attention ? Slubbs? Ves ; he had a jag on.? Chicago News. '? I .suppose people around here raise their own vegetables?" ".Sonic do; others merely plant them." -Puck. Visitor -What lias become of old Scruggs, who used lo trade horses all the time ? Native Oh, Scraggs ? Didn't you hear about bun? He's made a for tune, now, and is so b'atne stuck up he won't trade for notion' but auty moblles any more.? Baltimore Ameri can. " This potato is only half-done, my dear," said he crossly. " Then only eat half of il, my love," she replied, affectionately.?Tit-Bits. " 1 understand," said Mrs. Mala, prop, " that you've boon building a line big church in your town." '? V?s," replied tho visiting clergy man, " it i?nT very ornate, but there, is a nave in our church that?" " Gracious I you dou'i siy so? I hope he didn't steal very much."? Philadelphia Press. " He used to be called a bad lot, but now he's, rich 1 suppose it's different." Yes, the rise in real estate made a new man of hin)."?Detroit .Journal. Johnny (ill the garden) Father ! lather ! look out of the window. Father (putting out his head) -What a nuisance you children arc. What do you want now ? .Johnny (with a triumphant glance at his play-fellow)?Tommy Brooks wouldn't believe you'd got no hair on the top of youi head. - Til-Mils. She?-Is your love for me real? He?How can you doubt it when 1 am down on my knees in my best trousers ??Fliegende Blaelter. Wandering Willie?I've seen belter days. I uster he in sassiety. Weary Waggles?So ye'vo never done nuiliin' all yer life??Smart Set. " 1 weally don't know, Miss Ethel? at?whethah I shall play golf and make a fool of myself this season or not, rioutcherknow." " Not at all necessary for you to play golf, Mr. ( huuibioy."?Denver Times, He?I asked your father's consent to our engagement by telephone. She -What was his answer? He?011,110 just said : " 1 don't know who you arc, but it's all right."?Fun. " What kind ol monument do you wish tor your husband ?" " Well,'' lephcd the widow, don't want uuthiti loo oxpcnsh c?just sotne ihin' Hohd that will hold him down." - Atlanta Constitution. " Why on earth, Lucy," exe'uimed Mrs. Wabash to her friend, 11 did you ever consent lo marry Mr. Fitzoogcr?" " Why," replied Lucy, slawly and apologetically, " 1 thought he'd do to begin with." ?Detroit I'rce I'ress. " What a dfcbi we owe to medical silence," he Bllid, as he put down tho paper. "(rood heavens!" she exclaimed, "haven't you paid that doctor's bill yet ?"?Chicago I'ost. A little girl read a composition be fore the. minister. The. subject was " A Cow." She wove in this con pli inenlary sentence. ; " A cow is tho moat useful animal in the world, ex i ept religion." ? Leslie's Weekly. " Harry i* so absent-minded. He went up to dress for a party once, and went 10 bed instead.'" [I'm ! that looks to nie like a lino case of presence of mind." Dunwell?I thought when you sold me this dog you said he was a good bird d< >g ? Ike Clodhopper?lie is ; you jes'try fecdin' him on fried chicken an' see. ? t )hio State Journal, Can I bring you up some luncheon, sir?" " What ! Luncheon already. Why, il doesn't seem more than fifteen minutes since breakfast came up !" Life. ,1 aggtl'S So he married the widow I 1 thought he had his eye on the daugh ter ? haggles So he had. Hut the widow had her eye oil him. -Tit-Mils. He They can photograph tho voice now. She -t-loo loess ! 1 hope I'll never live to sec a picture of the thii gs yOU say when your collar button drops down your back. 14 Do you think riches bring happi ness ?" asked one philosopher. '? No." answered the other. 14 Mut lue lack of them often prevents it." Washington star. ?l Reynolds," said Iho oldor member ol the linn, " how do you ?pell ? which ?' " 14 W*?h4?C-h," responded tho otber. *? Thai's whal I thought," rojninod tho older member, covertly scratching ii I " out of tllO word be bad WllttCU. (MliCHgO Tribune. Eternal vigilance Is the price of lib erty, and there is no prospect of ils being marked down ?Puck. OAHTOIIIA. I Bearathe /} Iha Kind You Have Always Bought