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VOL. XVII._ LAURENS, S. 0, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1902 NO. 23. A Y?AR OP DEVELOPMENT. The Progress . f the United Htatee Never Equalled by any Nation. Dun'a Review of January 4, 1902, has the following summary of the progress made iu a business way by the Uuited States during the past year: Most marvellous of all tho pheno menal evidences of advancement in business during the year was the prog ress made in manufacturing. It ia im possible to be too extravagant in de lineating the movements of iho indus trial world. Never in the hiatory of tbia or any other nation ha8 auch de velopment occurred wilbiu the apace of a twelvo-month. The expansion of productive capacity was enormous, the improved methods of work and or ganization were conspicuous, wise eco nomies were introduced, but more than all other factors that made for permanent prosperity was the conser vative resist mice to price inflation. After the reaction of 1900 the level of prices remained depressed for aome months, but gradually reaponded to tho increasing demand as exceaaive accumulations were absorbed. From a condition of glut there arose almost i a famine, greatly exaggerated by the I stubborn strike. Some idea of the I changes iu size of supplies may. be I found in the comparison of furt ce H Stocka of pig iron, us pubhahed in the Iron Ago, which amounted to 548,603 ? tons on January 1. These flgurea ? steadily declined throughout tho year until only 223,462 tons were held on December 1. Aside from the alight fall duriug the ? peri (1 affected by the strike there ap ! pears almost a steady gain in produc tion, closing with the maximum quan ta tity on hand. Judging by the amount I of business alieady placed for 1902 the I current year's yield may not unreason P ably be expected to surpass seventeen million tone. Output of rails was be yond all records, yet contracts for 1902 already assure another high water mark of probably three million tons. All records of output for bard and Hoft coal were surpassed during 1901, despite the scarcity of cata that re tarded operationa. A feature of great advantage was tho expanding move ment, which reached more oncourag ' .g proportions than in previous years. In t?n months the value of shipments was 919,087,353, against $17,820,864 / the year previous. Coke ovens made a phenomenal record, establishing a new high water mark of weekly output - at 244,529 tone late in November. I While 1900 waa the beat year ever experienced by domestic agricultural i inteiests, the opening year of the new fe century was in many ways more pto | fltable, and the two together have put 1 the farming population in much the I moat saliafactory poaition in the na tion's history. Formerly the season of harvesting and crop-moving brought ?heavy borrowing of funds at the Mast, ?but interior conditions have changed ?to auch au extent that Western banks Fare londora at New Yoik and Chicago, I and while there is atill a large move I ment of money away from the East I during the fall months, it ia of funds I that were held here for the account of ? Interior correspondents. There is a [ steady tendency to enlarge the acreage ? sown in the leading crops, yet supplies ' do not increase, owing to the better demand both for home consumption and export. Heat and drought cauaed a serious curtailment of the corn crop, which proved the moat important event of the year. Whilo this influence na turally induced an advance in price that practically prohibited exports and thus seriously affected foreign com. merce, it waa by no mean an unmixed evil, since the return to growers waa even larger than in a year of normal production, while the enormous yield of wheat was absorbed by Ptock feed ing and foreign consumers in pi ice of corn. Hence, instead of a low price-for wheat in proportion to the heavy crop, there waa maintained an even higher average quotation than in tho short crop year preceding. Meats naturally reflected the expen sive position 'odder and it was gratifying to n?kiee that exports were not materially reduced by the high level. Cotton pasaed a season of wide varia tions in the early months attaining the highest Dries of the dicade, but falling back tharply as the spinning situation was rendered unfavorable by exorbitant raw material. Crop estimates were also far apnrt, causing irregularity and a tendency to await more definite in formation. The outlook grew . much ,J$n cheerful from* the producers' v int of view when the closing month V /ought a higher price than 8 cents. Expanding crops of sugar had the effect of lowering prices, white com petition of rollner? caused a still larger fall in the finished product, to the great \ benefit of consumers. \ Petroleum was less fluctuating, the extremes of the year being 6.90, and 7.65 cents for refined in barrel cargoes. Extensive fields in the South wore developed, winch tended to hold prices down. Export? of staple products reached a new high record, notwithstanding the lower average prices of od and cot ion and the scarcity of corn. The crop year opened with a new recoid of wheat and flour exports, amounting to 34,180,880 bushels in August, far sut- [ passing any previous month, while* fur five months ending NovemW.N 80 tho aggregate was 120,928,102 bushchw--' In the year of big things it was nat ural that new high records should be recorded in deposits and loans. f inanc ing of big syndicate operations and unparalleled stock market dealings combined to raise tho total of loans and discounts to $914,028,000 on February 15, against 1825,830,000 on September 16, 1900, the top point of that year. On tha same dato deposits attained their eenlth at gl,011,829,000, com pared with WH,810,800 on March 4, 1899, the record prior to 1901. At the time of more than a billion deposit* the haiikn uuiy feeiu in actual cash 9266 ,084,700, or $12,802,430 above the 25 por cent, legally required. On March 2 there was a new deposit re cord of ?1,012,614,000 but loaiw did not attain their maximum until March 9, at $918,789,600. The > ear of 1901 brought almost a uniform decline of silver throughout the entire period, culminating in Bales during December at 21-9 Id in London and 54 cents at New York. It is found that but two months on record, August and September 1897, found this metal selling as low. At that time the bottom was touched at 23 3 4, or about 2 cents an ounce lower than the record of 1901. UH IS NOT BILL ARP'S SON Joel Smith, of Monticello, Pia, la No Kin to Him and He Don't Know Joel. ? Atlanta Constitution. Our Christmas is over, but the me mory of it will linger long. Most ull the kith and kindred gathored .*.t the old homestead and brought love and gladness with them. All the far away oys save one were here and I uever saw them bo happy before. Of course we had prepared a Christinas tree lor the little ones aud Santa Claus came down the chimnoy nnd filled their stockings and then filled the tree with beautiful presents aud decorated it with gorgeous ornaments. That anxious expectation and wondor of tho little ones is all over, but the oil mansion is still wide open and running over with happy children aud grandchildron and Moore'? first verse was changed to 11 'Twaa tho night aftor Christmas -tho rooms and the ball Had tho holly and mistlotoo still on tho wall, The Christmas troo stands in tho parlor forlorn, Its beautiful hangings all given ami gone." Next day wo settled down to music aud song aud the quiet enjoyment of all the good gttis that Christmas brought, includiug turkey Mid oysters for diuner and turkey hash for break fast every day whilo the boys were wilh us. Thcso boys arc ull natural boin musicians nnd whut wilh the piano and tlute aud violin and half a dozen sweet voices we had a choii of our own, and when they got onto the "buzzard lopo" and other hilarities the gills formed a ring and danced and pranced to concord of sweet sounds, and ail of n sudden the maternal an cestor lost her self-coutrol and j lined tho procession aud bowed and curtsied and chased all and held out her bauds invitingly to mo. What could I do but accept the uxorial banter and as 1 was about to take her hand in mine and fly round, she Hashed her Poca hontas eyes and declined my soft ap proaches. She flirtod away on her No. 2 feet as gay as a girl and wont coquet ting with one of the boys. That's the way she tieals me now in my antiquity. Time was when she was glad enough to take my hand and keep it and dident dare to play coquette at my expense. But now I am discarded, andquo I re tired from the ring singing that pathetic old song: "I'm the last roso of Bummor loft stand ing alone, My lovely companion has loft mo and gone." But the frolic is about over and the children have settled down to the calm oijoyment of their dolls and horns and other toys and are still happy. The day before Christmas it was a touching sight to see some of the old men slipping around slyly in the stores.buying pretty things for the homo folks. I met my good brother Yarbrough waddling along about dark with some bundles and under his arm a new umbrella. He said tho umbrella was for Htzekiah, his faithful servant who had lived with him all these years, and was true nnd tried and had never owned an umbrella. That was good and kind and was proof enough that Brother Yarbrough belongs to our old set and had sla/es to serve bun "befo' de wah." But, Mr. Editor, I am still perplex ed. My Christmas pleasure has been marred somewhat by ray pity for tho poor credulous, dependent women ail over the land who are the dupes of that Monticello man. Every day brings more letters from those who have long since sent the $25 to my son at .Mon ticello, Fla., and got nothing back. Thoy say they trusted him because he was my son. Many of them begged or borrowed the $25, for they could not got the subscribers, and so they made up a list of names from their ac quaintances and then they went to work on the endless chain humbug and got other women in to send more mote and be duped. * Now. Mr. Editor, I beg you to put it in largo type and print it in red ink that Joel Smith, of Monticello, is no son of mine, nor do I know anything of him or his paper. 1 saw a late issue in which he boasts of having 40,000 subscribers, which I suppose means $40,000 that these dependent women have sent him. He promised them $20 a month to write three hours a day and some of them sold their jowelry and other precious things to raise'the $25. Mr. Editor, do please lend your columns to slop this fraud upon our poor South rn women. And now we see that another endless chain papor has started in Athens, Qa. These frauds are bringing discredit upon the pressend distress upon poor women. I inclose a aatnplo circular. Please I stop it. Kill It. Orush it. It is worse than the cherry tree swindle. ? Bjt.l Anr. P. 8_I will give $10 to find out who started that lie that the Monticello man was my ton. I have received at least fifty letteis saying, "Your son at Monticello," ulc. They make me tired. I had three from Texas this morning. B. A. Governor Odell in his message to the New York Legislature, takes strong sround against the opening of saloons on Sunday, lie also discusses local option as a settlement of tho liqUor question. GASTORIA Vor Infante ?nd Children. Till KM You Haw Always Boaghl mn GOOD ROADS PROBLEM Mayor Tolly Favora Federal Aid as Suggested la Greenville Tho following interesting letter from Mayor Toi.y of Andorson, deserves tho attention of the citizens of this Slate : To the Editor of Tho News and Courier: 1 have road with some in terest a recent article in your paper from Dr. D. A. J. 11 of Paiksville, concerning tho Go* d It. ads Conven tion held in GrccuvlUe, aud I would like to add soino words of my own. I regard the couvenliou hold iu Greenville as having beeu in many re spects the most important hold in this State within recent years. It was im portant, not so much in point of iinme-. diato visible lesults, but ou account of its aims and purposes and tho ultimate good that will bo accomplished, and on account of the representative class of men who were iu attendance. Tho Im portance, tho neco8aity, of good roads cannot be over-estimated, but has too long been underestimated by tho peo plo of the Stale, and it is hopeful and encouraging to see such an awukened and widespread interest being taken in tho subject. It is vciy gratify tug to sec at Greenville eucb men as Gen. M. C. Butler, the Hou. A. T. Smyth, of Charleston, Mr. F. II. Hyatt, of Colum bia ; Ex-Governor Mauldfn aud Solici tor Ansel, of Greenville \ tho Hon. D. C. Heyward, of Walterboro; Congrcas man A. C. Intimer, and many county supervisors and municipal otlicers from d.fferent pans of the Slate?meu of all clauses of political opinions and of all walks of life?met together for a com mon purpose. I say it was an cucour ing sign and great aud lasting good is hound to come out of it. I think one of the moat important actions of the Convention was the adoptlou of a resolution asking our Senalois and Representatives in Con gress to work for Federal appropria tions for tho improvement of public highways on the samo plan that ap propriations aro now made for the im provement of rivers and harbors. It cannot be denied that good public highways aro as necessary to the wel fare aud growth of tho country as im proved rivers aud harbors, and that a vastly greater number of people will bo benefited thereby. It may bo argued by roiuo timt it would be too great an undertaking for tho government to go into the business of improving the public roads. Here aro somo facts that will completely answer tbis objection : When it was flrat proposed, some ten or fifteen years ago, to give the people of tho country free mail delivery such as enjoyed by the people of tho cities the idea was laughed to scorn. It was declared that it would bankrupt tho govoinment. Yet the rural mail delivery system is going into operation all over the coun try, and wherever it has been tri id it has been found to woik suc cessfully. There is but plight in crease in tho cost over tho old system of having many country postolllccs, with tho star route mail riders, aud in somo cases iho cost is even loss nnd tho service is vastly improved. In Anderson County there are now some thiug like twenty daily rural mail routes. There is no farmor in the coun try who lives further than two miles from a daily delivery route and he can havo his mail delivered wherover he places his box, while tho majority of tho farmers have their mail delivered every day at their doors. I have not the exact figures at hand, but I nm told that the system is practically self-sus taining and that the free delivery sys tern, instead of being a burden, is really if anything a saving over the old method. I do not believe that Federal appro priations for public road improvements will provo at all burdensome, but that it will bo the wisest possible expendi ture of money. In addition to tho good it will do in developing the interior of tho couulry it will distribute some of the government appropriations among a class of people who havo never ic ceived any of tho benefits of it and whoro it will do tho most good. A snifdl appropriation could bo made for Federal roadbuildtng say in each coun ty, aud this, supplemented by Stale and county and possibly even town ship aid, would in a short time give to tho peoplo of this country such a sys tom of public highways as the world has never seen. I was greatly impressed with this scherao when it was proposed at Greon villo and I have thought about it a great deal since. The more I think about it the more heartily in favor of it do I become. I behove it will moot with tho approval of any man who will givo it consideration. 1 hope The News and Courier and the other papers of the State will take up the question and agitate it, and I want to see our Sen ators and Representatives in (.'engross ocmply with the resolution adopted at Greenville. I hope there wilt bo a large allon daoco at the meeting of tho Good Roads Convention which ib to be held in Charleston ou February 3. Every one who was at Greenville should go to Charleston and so many moro as can possibly do so. The question of good roads vitally concerns the whole Stale and if we will continue the good work commenced at Greenville much practical good can be accomplished. G. F. Tolly. It has just ho< n annouueed that Qon. H. W. Carpenter was tho donor of the $100,000 presented to Columbia Uni versity some time ago for the fopnding of a cbait of Chinese language and literature. The note which accom panied tho letter of donntion'raid that the money had been saved from to bacco and whiskey. Gen. Carpenter says that expression has been greatly misconstrued. Most people, ho as sorts, have construed the statement to mean that the money- had been earned in the tobacco and whiskey trade, while he intended to say that he had saved the sum donated by total absti nence from tho use of lobacco andwht? I.~t indigestion dyspepsia biliousness and the hundred and one simi i lar ills caused by impure blood | i or inactive liver, quickly yield j i to the purifying and cleansing j : properties contained in torsaparilla QUART BOTTLE. It cures permanently by acting : naturally on all organs of the j body. Asa blood-cleanser, flesh- j builder, and health-restorer, it | has no equal. Put us in Quart i Bottles, and sold at $i each. "THB MICH.(1 AN BRIKI COMPANY." Detroit, Mich. 9 T?ke Uverettcs for Liver Ills. ajC, ^ For Snlo by the Liuri na Drug Com paDy, Laurenn, S. C. SETTING A GOOD EXAMPLE. South Carolina Cotton Mills Are Taking Care of the Children 1/ L. i'arham in A Hanta Journal. That the Southern cotton mills are doing something for tho moral uplift ing of their operative? cannot bo do tiied successfully. Tho 'Jliftou and Cxlendalo mills err ploy about 2,2100, paying them annually |300,000.;i The raanageineut has expended largo sums of money for the education of the young. Able teachers aio employed, often at tho expense of tho mills, nnd the echo< >la are open nine mouths in the year. Churches havo been ireeled Where tho operatives may worship as lliey see lit. Five stores aro operated uear tho mills where, the operatives may buy their goods actually 111 com petition wilh cash storos, and they get them on credit the snmo as if they paid cash. Tho motto of the proprie tors is" tho greatest good to the great est number*" Tho operatives arc en couraged to save their earnings and in every other way mado to feel that they havo something to live for. The (taffney Manufacturing com pany is auolhor i.lustration of whal milt men aro doing for their opera, lives. At Gaffncy tho tenement houses are neat and well constructed, some of them of brick, and scrupu lously clean. The company stores arc put there for tho convenience of tho operatives, no checks used whntever, aud tho operatives aro not compel led to buy of them. A free school is op. crated nine months in tho year for the children and the cxpens s paid by tho mill owner- . The Courtenay Manufacturing com pany at Nowry has also erected neat cottages, all lathed and plastered, painted inside and out of uniform color. Everything is being done for the comfort of tho operators. The mills are lighted with electric lights, steam heated and in summer fresh air is forced all through every lloor, thus insuring an agreeable temperature throughout the year. A free school is maintained nine months in tho year at the company's expense. Finally, tho l'clzer Manufacturing company is also doing a great work for tho operators in their immcuse mills. They havo a 8100,000 school building, tho teachers furnished free; beautiful churches of all denominations, nnd a library building with 0,000 volumes in it, and a 1 irgo number of papers and periodicals, furnished free by the com pany. Compulsory education obtains at these mills. Tho head of every family working in thoso mills signs an agreement boforo getting oiiiployineut ilie. first clause of which says that all children, members of any family be tween the ages of flvo and twelve, shall enter tho schools maintained by tho company, and shall attend every school day during the year unless prevented by sickness, etc. As an additional in ducement children who attend school ovcry day, receive a roward of 10 cents at tho end of each month. Lectures wilh stcrcoptican pictures are also pro vided, and are of tho highest ordor of illustrative ontortainment. There is no company store, and operatives buy whore they please. No liquors aro sold in Felzor, and tho people have emphatically voted ogniust dispensa ries. Piedmont is still anothor illustra tion, and there nro many others scat tered throughout IliO Stalo. Lot tho reader reraombor i hat tho story of tho awful noglect and bad troatmcnt of children by mill operatives is conjured up by sentimentally <%nd labor agita-. tore to work upon tY0|^; ipathy of tho credulous public. V !)" are no doubt some abuses, but nifL '?'nors uro fast coining to roalizo tht . ra iod treatment of their labor help p( ?i?>oth in tnonoy and the consciousness t'f helping to up lift tho poor who leave the farms to tho negroes and go to town whero schools and Hun-.'.in s, free libraries, j parks and pleasure grounds conduce to .their pleaauro and thoir educational j advancement. Henry Watteraon, the vetcian editor of The Louisville Courier Journal, 1b one of the hardest working men in the nowapapor profession. Though well advanced in years, ho gets to his olllce every morning at 7 o'clock, which ne cessitates very early rising, as he lives twenty miles from Louiavillo and drives to his olllce behind a spirited pair of Kontucky marcs. This is from a tombstone near We tumpka, Alabama: "Honri Hlltor Demi Hitler Emmi Hitter, Sweet Po toto, Cream Tartar, Caioline Holtwick, infant daughter of Bob and Sukoy Catlin." It was i ho name of a Hti lo negro girl. OAOTonXA. THJ5 PHILIPPINE PROBLEM The American Constitution <?ml Creed of Liberty Are Being Sorely Tried. Sooner or later wo must reach no ultimatum with tho Filipinos. Already the island and their incidents have cost us nearly 8500,000,000 II >w long tho people of this nation will consent to pay out a half million of doll us every day to prolong ibis experiment in imperial colonialism is on uiiguess able conundrum. But that they wil. tiro of it eventually is certain. What uro we doing iu tho blande, anyhow? Certainly wo arc not pacify ing them with dispatch and decorum. True, overy once in a whilo the accom modating typewriter of tho authorities over there announces that " ihn war is over," but before the typewritten as surauco gets fairly ulloal tho cable brings, news that the furtivo and pug nacious Filipinos have bobbed up in a fresh locality and boloed a platoon of their pacilicutora. Forty thousand soldiers is tho minimum force that so oxpeiienccd and honest a lighter.ns Genend Chaffee considers adequate to maintain evcu tho present guerrill i campaigns iu tho islands. Ho docs not venture to say how many would bo needed i > really hold tho inhabitants in leash and peace. Tho truth seems to be that wo are to havo war on our hands in the archipelago just as lung as wo seek to reduce it to suhjectiuu and to the processes of our policy ol Auicricnuiznliou of tho iuhabilunts. Our experience is almost sure to be i hat of the Dutch in their conquest and possession of Java. At last wc will havo to abandon tho government of ihu pcoi lo to their own wills and me thods, leave them totl.eirowu domestic cubIoiu8, iiiBtitutiouH nnd pursuits, aud ourselves hold only the seaports, whereby to profit by tho trade aud tri bute that we can compel tho natives to ijivo to us alone. We can quarantine them against tho world and their only commerce must bo wilh us. Ueyoud that wo will always lind it difficult, dangetoii8 and disastrously expensive to go. Thus fur, if reliable reports bavo been made by our statesmen and si 1 diers who have becu in the isluntls, we have mnde little progress in commend ing to tho Filipinos our typo of wettern civilization. Wo uro slowly finding out for ourselves whut the Spaniards, alter three hundred years of clToit, could hnvo told us at lirst bund. A majority of thoao Malaysian tribes uro undoubtedly us uncivilizublo us the American ludiuns. The imposition upon them of tho restraints nnd re quirements of our civilization is tho imposition of u bondage of death. It means the slower, porh ips, but equally sure extinction of tho Filipino as it did of tho West Indian under Spain and the North American Indian uuder our own dominance. Instinctively the Filipinos resist the proceests that they kuow will end in their destruction us a people. Turbulence, lawlessness und barbaric wurfaro must always attend our policy of benevolent assim lalion. Nor are wo entering upon a promis ing career of Chrisliuniztitiou among them. Tho Roman Culhtl.c friars, who are more adopt in tho art of con verting the heat hen to Christian for mularies than we, have but a meager fruitage to bonst from their century long efforts with the Filipinos. Those o'f them who uro professed Cntholics uro not eager candidates for our Pro testant prosolytism hud those of them who udbero to the Mohununednn re ligion are likely to yield oven less to our western Christian cults than they have to the friars und tho fuith of Rome. In the cducu iouul Held wo huvo bo gun with n system und an enthusiasm ridiculously in excess of tho demands of tho situation. Our plans are about on a par with those of an exuberant drummer trying to induct the tropical native into a suit of woolens, Waukon fatt shoes, an ulster and a plug hat Mr. Fred W. Atkinson, the Ainorlcau superintendent of education in the is hinds, makes a very futile report of his (?labor ue, endeavors' to SOt lip the, MaS aachusotls pub'io school schemo in the archipelago. At tho head of the Springfield High school, with ample means iu contioi, with eager, intelli gent, aml.il ions VOUUg Americans for material, Mr. Atkinson was conspi cuous US an educational ei t crpriser. Uut in tho Philippines ho has run his nose against a hard proposition. A 'housaud American teachers; us inupt \ the onvironinont to which they have bo u transplanted na polar boars would bo ki Florida, ihoy are floundering abou. in discomforts and disgust?, yet fatuoiitdy trying to cram modern educa tion into the Filipino kida according to the strict rules of Froebol. Poalallo/.i and Horncu Mann. Tho civil governments which our academic commission aro organizing appear I) be fearfully and wonderfully devised to produce rather than rcduco chaos. Their lo^islativo features would givo Solon a pain in tho neck and cause Justinian a nouralgia uudcr Ins bump of equity. Tho Filipino is tho slave of ingrainod tribal traditions a- (I prac tices, or el so tho truculont product of tho Latin idea of absolutism in gov orn ment. As a drilled nu>l commciidablo citizon he is ns imitative as a monkey and as repetitious as a parrot. Our effort to i ivest him with self-govern iug authoiity and a sense of democratic refponsibi'ity is a freakism that pales any proposition that evor blew olT tho proliUc polltioal prairies of Kansas. It is bound to end in abortions of govern ment that will humiliato us in tho eyos of the wh ile world. What to do with this groat brown elephant that we bought in at the Spanish bankrupt sale is a question that is now up to Congress. The eu preme court, as far as human appre hension can understand its deliver ances, has said that Congress, repre senting the legislative sovereignly of the nation, can adequately legislato | tha system that shall obtain in theso Island possessions. The question hangs yondor in thecapitol, swaying between the raagnetio poles of imperialism on tbo one band aud a probationary pro tectorate on tho other hand. It chal lenges the American constitution and tho American creed of liberty alike for a rational and ju t settlement. That settlement will affect our owu system oven as vitally as thai or the Philip pines, but what will it be??Atlnuln Constitution, QUESTION OFI.RUCIPROCITV. A New Solution Suggested lor the Chinese Problem Atlanta Constitution. Kev. T. P. Crawford, the oldest mis sionary to China, who is now visiting in Atlanta, bus been a missionary to China for the past fifty years. He has grown old in the service, but is still activo' and proposes to return to the (bid next spring. Dr. Crawford re turned to America in June, 11)00, hav ing been forced lo lly ior his life iu order to escape from the boxers Ho was located at Tai An Fu City, in the interior of Cbiua. Ho is thoroughly familiar with the situation in Chinu ami uinlerst uuds the Chinese character well. Hoi greatly interested in the immigration 1 iws, which promise to be an inteiesting qut&.ion before tho pre sent Congress. " I have thought over tho Chinese immigratt n matter for a long time," said Dr. Crawford, "and have given the subject deep Study. I have reach ed conclusions and have theories that 1 believe are practical. The question is rue that cannot he setll-.d in a day and must not be entered into with un duo haste. " in the province in winch I wta lo cated tbera aro :j(>,u00,<)00 Cinnamon and tho area of this pio/inco is no greater than the State of Georgia. Every available inch of land there and in all oilier parlB of China is in a high .state of cultivation. Chinamen who possess as much as 8 acres of 1 tnd are regarded as well to-do. T1'- great majoiily have less than lb mny ucrcp. They are crying for land, ihey uro iho most capable agriculturists in tho world and arc. a patient, law-abid ing people. 44 Now wo ore going to send our cot ton to tho West, hut what arc wo to toko from them in rolurn? Jf wo go ahead and gob! lo up everything in sight it will leavo them poor, and poor customers are hardly desirablo. We niu?t endeavor to reciprocate by build ing up this pcoplo and making them wealthy. They n o crying lor land to cuhivate and we have this lo give them. In the Southern Slates there are thousands of acres of land that would inak ? excellent 1 ice fields if propeily cultivated. The while people cantiol cultivate it and the negroes will not. The hills of Georgia are as rich as any section of China, and will yiold the same crops that arc hai vested there by Ohineao farmers every year. Why not h t tho Chinaman come here and culti vate ibis land, thereby helping thein se ves and helping us? " I do not even suggest that the doors of the country lie throwu open to tho Chinese pcoplo. On the con trary, my thory is to have each State that warns Chinese farmers to decide upon tho number it will take, by legis lation or otherwise, and icquest the national government to admit that utimber. Congress can pass laws con trolling these aliens so that they will live only in the States to which they come. 1 would oppose permitting them to congregat*) in one State or city. They should be leased a certain num ber of acres of land for a long term of years. They will bo glad of tho op poi Utility and much good would result both lo the immigrants and lo this country. Tho matter could bo regulat ed so that only able-bodied and indus trious Chinamen could take advantage of tho law and none of tlic riffraff would drift iu. You can sec at a glance i hat the question is a, great ouo and ono that needs be given careful con sideration. *? As a far.ner, the Chinaman is one of the most industrious creatures on earth. Ho raise* two crops on his f,u m overy >ear and does this year after year, livery bit of ground is en tirely under cultivation and it is a mis take to Lit ink that nee is the only edible raised there. Wheat, millet and sor ghum are equally as populur and ore raised in a climate that corresponds with the climate in Georgia. " Mine are, of course, only tho views of one man, but after having been in Cluua for the past lilty years and knowing the Chinaman as 1 do, I am convinced that the theory 1 have men tioned is one thut it will he will lo in vestigate, even if nothing ever comes of it. There is a pleasure in woikiug for what you believe to be right, oven if your 1 tbors nro lost, and honest labors uro never without results." Had II is Suspicions.?Tim Murphy bud run up a email bill nl Iho villigc shop. Hu went to pay it and wantod a receipt. '?Oh, we nevor give receipts for these small amounts," grumbled the proprie tor. 44 Sue, I will cross your account off the book." And lie drew a pencil diagonally across it. There is your receipt," ho added. ?? Do ye umuo that that settles it?" ask tl Tim. ?? Certainly." 44 And ye'll niver bo asking for it again?" ?? We'll never ask you for it again," said the other decidedly. ? Faith, thin," said Tun, "and I'll oo after kupiu' ino money in mc pocket, for I haven't paid it yet." ? Oh, Well,'' was the an?ry retort, 44 I can rub that out." ?? Faith, and 1 thought as much." Bfti.l Tim sly ly. Tho propiietor of ihnl otubiishnient now issue? & receipt for tho sintil est amount ? London Tit Hits. The Wo? i Greatest -? ^ ij Cure for Malaria X For ?11 forma**uf Malarial polson ig take Johnaun'A Chill and Peva.1 Tante. A taint of Malarial polaon *-a: in ?JtSlQ ycir fciofxl mortnsmlwry and fidlur?. IHcmxI mo<IU Ineacan'tcur? .Malarial poisoning. Tho antidote for It la JOHNSON'S TONIC. ?tot * bottle tu .I n y. CoMs 50 Cent? |f \l Gurt?. "Pleasant Dreams" Cries the young maid to her mother, as she retires to rest. 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IN A HUMOROUS 'VEIN 44 Divorces," said the man who wanted to talk and philosophize, "cost more than marriages." 44 Certainly," said the practical man; 44 why not? They are worth more."? Life. 44 Do you happen to know anythtug of your matter's whereabouts?" at-ked a wife who was looking for hor hus band. 44 I'm not sure, mem," said the careful servant, 44 but 1 think they're in the wash."?Youth's Companion. Miss Trill?I love to hear tho birds sing. Jack Downright (wnrmly)?So do I They never attempt a piece beyond their ability.?Tit Rils. 44 No," declared tho Frco Thinker, 44 I will never havo any faith in hell " 44 True," replied the good mi>n, 44 if you aro lo havo any faith nt all you had better have it here."?Catholic Standard. 44 Mr. Meekton's wife said yesterday that she was never going to speak to him again," said the woman. 44 You dou't say so 1" exclaimed her husband. 44 Is sho angry, or trying to bo consideiato ?"?Washington Star. 44 Now, Johnny," said tho Sunday* school teacher, ?4 you may tell us what a prophet is." ?4 Why," replied .lohnuy, 44 it's a fel low that's always looking for a chanco to say 4I told you so.' "?Philadelphia Pi ess. ?'Well, what aro you sneering about? You don't sei m to have much faith iu tuy good resolutions." 441 was just wondering if you had taken tho pr.viug contract for the next world."?Rrooklyu Lifo. 44 Undo Claronco, what's tho dif ference between a fad and a hobby?" 44 Will, a fad sometimes gels tired and let's go; but a hobby never does." ?Puck. Chemist (to poor woman)?44 You must tako this medicine lluco times a day, after meals." Patient?44 Rut, sir, 1 seldom get meals these 'ard times," Chemist (passing on to next custom er)?44 Thon tako it boforo them." 44 Sorry for you, old man," said the Job's comforlor. 44 Or. Prico will keep you under his care for at least a week." 41 Why," exclaimed the invalid, "I'm not so ill as all that." 44 I know, but the doctor's wife told my wifo 8ho had struck him for n now dress."?Philadel phia Record. " Yes," stidthe aristocrat, 44 1 wna indignant, and I wroto him that tho clandostino rinrriugc of our son to his daughter was a blot on (he fumily escutcheon, and his only reply was to send mo an advertisement of a new brand of soap he is just putting on ihe market."?Chicago Post. ?? Your friond Jigloy failed in tho woolen business, didn't he?" 44 Yos, he was a yarn munufacturor, and he's started up again in tho same hue." " That so?" 44 Yea; he's press agent for a circus now."?Philadelphia Pross. 44 So your husband died while you were abroad?" said tho hostess. 44 Yes," replied tho young widow of old Mr. Skinflynt, with an appropriate ly mournful sigh, 14 poor John has gono to his final roward." I 44 Heg paidon," said the hott, sud denly, ,4 that reminds me 1 must go1 down and look at the furnace lire."? Philadelphia Press. Hudyard Kipling says that ho was once presented to a young lady who almost immediately began to whimper, a id whose oyos wore so full of tears that he felt compellod to ask If she wcro ill or if anything woro the mat ter. Looking at him botween her sobs, the disappointed maiden broke out: " Oh, 1 thought you were so tall and so haudsome I" " I hear O'Brien is working again," said tho barber. ?? Yes," said tho bailiff. He's work ing for the traction company." 441 thought it was for the teiepf company." ' 44 No, the traction company J^^^j MORE COTTON to the acre at less cost, means more money. More Potash In the Cotton fertilizer improves the soil; increases yield?larger profits. Send for our book (fron) explaining how to get these results. GKRMAN KAU WORKS, <93 Nassau St., New York. they call the street-car company." " What do they call tho telephone company ?" "The distraction company, I guoss." ?Chicago News. Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, and Governor Shaw, of Iowa, woro onco stumping Kentucky, aud after a suc cessful meeting wero piloted to a bar room by tho Kentucky colonel, who had them in charge. ?? What'll you have ?" he aekod Sonator Fairbanks. "A little cold Apollinaris," was tho reply. ?? A-ul you? "said tho host to Governor Shaw. 44 I thick I will have a glass of buttermilk." The bartender turned to the Kcntuckinu. 44 What shall I give you, Colonel?" ho aeked. Tho Kentucky gentleman heaved a long sigh. 44 Under the circumstances," he said, 44 I think you enn give mo a p5 - co of pie." FROM A BACHELOR'S VIEW. The beet way to avoid marital mis understandings is to avoid the wholo marital business. To sympathize with those who aro dowu in the world it is necessary for you to get down there youiself. A woman who will ask another wo man to show her how to do tatting al most thiuks enough of her to be her friend. Ver?atihlv is not a woman's strong point. Before ruarringc she sighs to thiuk how happy she is going to be, ai.d afterward she sighs to think how happy f<hc thought she was going to be. The way to get a woman to forgivo you is not to forgive her. Generally you can get an idea of the enthusiatm a woman puts into a spanking by iho way f-ho jerks out her basting threads. The average man who gives advice is liko a road post?ho doesn't tell you to stay where he is, but to go whero ho points. A married man's trouble begins when he is engaged. It isn't on what income ono can get married, but on what incomo ono can live after getting niarriod. No woman can ever account lor her husband's lack of interest in her diplo ma and tho photograph of her llrst suitor. The way to convince a woman you love hor is to sit in abstraction for a long time and than say with a start that you were thinking of the first day you ever saw her. The surest way to get rich is to quit I being poor. Force of habit has a good deal to do with the way some peeple go on loving each other. When a lucky man gfcts it into his head that he is a great man, ho is duo to lose his luck. It's worse to bleach your hair than to wear a wig, but you could offer a million dollars reward for a woman with hair on her he d who would agree with you, and you' never find her A Nkw EmuALMINO Fluid.?Tho Memphis Medical college has for sev eral weeks been experimenting with an embalming tluid Tor which great possibilities arc predicted. It is as sured that ttiis discovery is superior to tho embalming preparation used by tho Egyptians, for while tho infusion will preserve tho subject for all time, hu manly speaking, as did that of tho ancients, it prevents the shriveling up that was inseparable from Egyptian embalming and it docs not call for tho swaths and bandages in which all Egyptian mummies rverc encased. The principal experiment up In this time has been upon the body of a dog, which was treated thirty days ago. Todny it looks as natural as iu life. It is rigid, but in a perfectly natural poso. There is no traco of odor about it, nor is there any other visible symp tom of decay. Tests of the tluid have been made by tho demonstrate at tho Memphis col lege, and ho is so well convinced of its practical utility that ho will uso it for the preservation of all tho cadavers used iu the college The tluid petrifies the. body. Neither arsenic nor strychnine is usod in tho preparation. The. land speculator* will soon be in .clover *n iho Philippines. There are over {) ,000,000 acres of land in the Philippine islands, and, while it is im possible to say with any accuracy how much of the land Is owned by private interests, it is belioved that at loast r>0 per cent, will come under tho class!, flcatlon of public domain. It. II. Hays, a member of the Bj? sition committee for (}reei^woibdt> eat" ty, has sorao pieces of timber foujo or Exposition which wero gottyn out a whipsaw some years ^.rovlonV 1800. This timber is sound and . track of the whipsaw is diatlnc shown. ' V?Tte Kind Yoo Htw Ahn;? Bug* 1