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vol. xvn. lathens, s. tt, wednesday, august 6 1902. \ 52. THE SENATORS AT LAURENS. A SPICY MKKTINO- IN 8?MK KKSPICCTK. The CumlldateH for Ckhk^h Have a Tilt After the Others Had (iouc. Uqportod for tlio innren? Advertleor. The six candidates for United States Seualor spoke to an orderly crowd' of four hundred voters Thursday at Huhnes Spring Park, belonging to.the Laureus cotton nulls. Sovorai eollo-, quics spicod the diseussion of national questions, but no sensational incidents occurred. Ex-Congressman John J. Jloiruprnll, of Chester, was the lu st speaker intro duced by Chairman Pet Smith. " Bar forol80l," Mr. llcmphill said, ?? the white South Carolinian was worth three tunes as much as a Massachusetts man and four times as much as aVNew Yorker. Tho wealth of the North then doubled in ten years so that now the ?South is poor and tbo North*lft incom parably richer. Tho groat problem is taxatiou and systems of taxation .unfair to the South are what demand correc tion. 1 neiden tally Mr. Hemphill touch ed on i lie. agricultural lieu law declar iug that it, by which " the merchant ran the favmer charging him thirty or forty porcout., was one of the worst statutes over enacted. ' Running ihn farmer ' is tiio right namo, for when i the hen is given tho farmor ' mutt run' sure enough and all tho time. I do not Oriticize tbo merchant. Ho is com pelled to charge high rates and those who pay out make up for tho losses of tho merchant on thoso who do not. Rut tho law itself is wrong." W. L. Gray, a leading merchant in Laureus, inquired : ?* Were you ovor in.the Legislature?" Hemphill: "Yea sir, in 1882." Gray : " Did you in troduco any measure to repeal this law ?" " 1 voted to ropeal it," re plied Mr. Hemphill. " Tho United States," Mr. Hemphill continued, " paid twenty millions for the Philippines and it has already cost six hundred millions to get possession of thorn. The Republicans at ono ses sion of Congress appropriated live hun dred and thirty-eight millions more of money than ever the Democrats did in any Congress. No government has ever made money out of colonies which it had to conquer. If wo want to in crease out trade we should make friends and net euemies." Here tho speaker contrasted the commercial relations and thoir growth of Japan and the Philippines with this country. " My opponents think tho ship subsidy bill dead, but I have never hoard of any thing tho Republicans would not do to help their party." Denouncing the bill, he declared that Americans should be allowed to buy ships built anywhere in any market aud sail them under our own flag, which wouhVgive us an .American merchant marine. EX OOVKKNOIl KVAN8. Ex-Governor John Gary Evans, of Spartanburg, followed in a speech devoted chielly to the tariff. He had rather moro applause than any other speaker. He referred to his campaign against Senator MeLaurin in 1807, de claring that he saw then that McLau nn was tending towards Republican ism. Witli tho late Senator Irby he spoke ou every stump in tho State, making a fight for Democracy which nobody else would make. "These gen tlemen opposing say we are all on the same platform, but it has. taken them five years to learn the difference be tween a Democrat and a Republican." ?? President RooBevelt," he 'Baid, ?'not only entertains tho UubU aud tho monoplics, but ho entortained a nigger at his table with his family, striking at y.mr civilization itself." ThiB brought the first vigorous eheer of the day. "Referring without calling his name to Mr. Latlmer, he said that those who favored a " business policy " and not fighting the Republicans would merely give the North an excuso to take moro out of the pockets of the South, while the South was given only a sop. Senator Tillman never ceased to light Republicanism and he got more out of Congress in a year for his constituents than any other man got in twenty. (Cheers.) Roferring to the distribution of seeds by Congressmen, he insisted that the farmers1 taxes paid for tho soed. He thon mado a conven tional but able low-tariff argument, ex plaining with apt illustration hew the protective duties worked hardship to .the Southern agriculturists. CONOKK?SMAN I.ATI M Kit. u I am the only farmor candidate against these five lawyers," was Con gressman A. C. Latlmer'a opening. He said that Col. George Johnstono had chat god that he claimed to have mado a speech against the ship nub. sidy bill in Congress whon as a matter of fact he was in Columbia, and called on Congressman J. T. Johnson then on tho stund , to say whether or not he delivered such a spoech on the day named by himself. Congress man Johnson, aaid that he did. Mr. Latimer denied another charge of Col. Johnstone's that he had voted for an appropriation for the Pennsylvania Railroad, saying that he had voted for a bill to force the road to pay higher tax.ua in the District or Columbia. Mr. Jiiitimor then declared that it was folly to talk tariff to a South Car olina audience when all .were agreed about it. " We can't chango the in iquitous tariff while the Republicans are in power. I do not favor a lie* . down policy or a morphine policy, bat 1 believe In acting with an object in view, and getting what I can in a prac tical way for my people, in seeds or . appropriations. Ail tbo revenues aro raised by the war tariff or the xwar revenue bill." Mr. Latim?r then recited what he 'had accomplished in obtaining appro, pnation8. Mr. Latinier recoived some -applause. MR. J>. 8. nKNT>KRSON. Ex-Slate Senator Dan S. Hcndor hoii, of Aiken, after telling of his long Democratic record, said that while a Congressman should get seed and ap propriations and what he could for his po^siituvnU, ho should be able to stand up on the floor of Congress and ?peak to the whole nation on great questions. Tito Philippines is a live '?question and whoever is elected Sena tor will have to meet it. '.The Filipl I nos uro entitled to independence. JJo "i''e< (he cost of it, to hold them in volves tho dangor of the country drift ing to a strong military government. He denounced the trusts and referred with satisfaction to Jndge Simonton's decision lemanding the fertilizer trust to the State courts. KX-CONGRK88MAN JOHN8TONK. Ex-Congressman Qeorgo Johnstone, of Newboiry, began by saying that he merely inquired of Mr. Latimer about claiming the delivery of a ship subsidy! speech on the 21st day of May in Con-J greas when ho had seen him in Co lumbia on that day. He produced tho printed copy of the speech pur potting u> have been delivored May 21. Mr. Latimer charged him with falsifying the record, but the copies distributed from Washington justified his inquiry. Mr. Latimer, interrupting, aa'.d that tho speech was delivored on.May 27, H typographical erroi had been made and he oxhibited a Congressional Rec ord. ^ Col. Johnstone: "That's on the im migration bill." Mr.. Latimer : " That's a lawyer's quibble," "Mingled crioi of " Lati mer " and " Johnstone." " Mr. Latimer defoated mo," Coi. Johnstone said, " on the Bub-treasury issue. He went to Congress and nev er introduced a bill on tho issue which elected him, there was so little in it." V Mr. Latimer says that it is useless to discuss the tariff in South Carolina. Shades of C ilhoun, l-rowndes and Cheves?not discuss the tariff to a South Carolina audience, but rather the sending of nut-grass roots and pumpkin seeds I (Laughter and cheers.) If to obtain appropriations from Kepubiicans is the thing, would it not be wiser to send a Republican to tho Senate ? Mr. McLaurin could get more from the Kepubiicans than any other man in the South." Mr. Johnstone olosod amid applause. Col. William Elliott was the last speaker. " While those other gentle men," he said, "have had plain sailing I have always had a contest on my hands, year after year with negro Kepubiicans of tho Black District. When the jute trust threatened tho farmers I was tho first public man to call attention to it and advise farmers to combine against it." Col. Elliott said that he disliked to talk of himself, but it was necessary as he was not well known here and told of his part in defoating the Crum* packer bill, in the cotton mill hours of labor agitation and for livers and har bors. " In providing for deepening the waterways your cotton is brought nearer to tho ocean and you are given the benflt of cheap water rates." He expected to advocate the Appalachian Park reserve. " From the mountain forests come the rains that wator your farniB and I shall labor for their preser vation." When Congroas threatened to interfere with cotton manufacturing m tho South by regulating hoots of work, he had telegraphed to representative manufacturers, which brought them tc Washington and so the measure was defeated. The Senatorial candidates left for Greenvillo on the midday passenger train and the candidates for Congress spoke to a diminished audience. THK CONGRESSMEN. Kx-Congressman Stanyarno Wilson, of Spartanburg, led off in a speech in which for tho most part ho discussed his record, devoting a few minutes, howevor, to the discussion of national lesuea. Ho related rapidly notable achievements of his six year term in Congress, and alluded to his work in the State Senate to regulate hours of labor for factory operatives and tho railroad commission bill which he framed. Concluding be said: 44 It is an unpleasant matter, but 1 must refer to the question of burled factionalism. We agreed, Mr. Johnson and 1, that factionalism should be buried in our 1000 contest. In that campaign I never referred to Reform or Conserva tive. I favor harmony when it is genuine, but not tho kind that is a sham and a delusion. A few nights before the primary Mr. Johnson went to Columbia, where two-thirds of the people were Haskellites, and drew the lines on me and changed four or five ?hundred votes, so that Columbia went against me. He cannot complain when I point out the falsity of buried fac tionalism of that kind." Congressman Johnson spoke of his ambition from early boyhood, 41 when he played lap jacket with Chairman Smith," to go to Congress. 4,I believ ed I worked harder to go than any man ever did and when t was elected I promised myself to work as hard for my people as I had worked to be elected." He told of his record and said that it rarely fell to the lot of a new Congressman to got through as many measures as ho had. He had secured $00,000 for a public building at Spartanburg and the establishment of numerous free rural delivery routes. 44 As for drawing the lines," said Mr. Johnson, 441 did not once speak of Keform and Conservative in our last campaign." Mr. Wilson here came to the front of the stand and said: 44Mr. Johnson, let's got this matter straight ?what did you aay in Co'mmbla?" Johnson: 441 said to the people of Columbia that I was as much thoir friend as you and bad boon their friend when you were fighting them." ? Exactly?you knew they would understand you, that you referred to my having been a Heformer and you a' Conservative." "Why as to that," said Mr. Johnson, I?? of coarse everybody in Columbia knew that much without my saying so. You yourself drew the lines quite as much that year at Pacolot when you asked at a meeting there, " Where did Johnson stand when I was fighting with you people for rotation in office?" Neither of tho speakers recoived much applause, but there woro frequent expressions from the crowd indicating that the fooling wao strongly In John son's favor, which was natural, this being Johnson's old home. In the interior of tho extinct crator Aso San, about thiity miles from the city of Kumamoto, in Japan, 20,000 people live and prosper. The verti cal wall of the crater is 800 foet high. The inhabitants rarely make* journey into the outer world, but form almost a little nation by themselves. LAST WORDS ?F OHE AT MEN IBUI Arp Take? Consolation From Dying Words of Daniel Webster. Atlanta Constitution. "1 still live." I was ruminating about tho last words of great mon, and those of Daniel Webster always im press mo with peculiar force. On the very confines of eternity, on tho briuk of tho everlasting change that he knew was at hand, his groat mind seemed to be studying and waiting for the mo ment of his departure?waiting and watching for tho separation of the soul from the body, and wondering how ho would pass the crisis. Thero was no fear, no droad, as he calmly whisper ed, "I still live," and immediately diod. His body died, and what was the next vision of his great soul tho world would like to know, but it is for bidden. I thought of all this not long ago as I seemed to be drawing near the end and approached tho confines of that undiscovered country from whoso bourne no traveler returns. I was serious and solemn with expectation, but was not alarmed, for my faith is that my Maker will take care of me and of all others who love Him aud try to do right. All that troubled me was the separation from those I love and thoir grief at my departure. Two months is a long time to be a child again without vital force onough to walk alone. But 1 have passod tho crisis, and though weak and nervous am on tho up-grade, and can walk about tho garden and carry tho little grandchild in my arms and givo him (lowers and feast on his smiles and oaressos. Well, that is enough on that line. You readers can dud sermons and prosy commentaries on sickness and death on another page. "Carpe diem." Let us enjoy the day and be thankful that wo still live. But to drop rever ently from the sublime to tho ridicu lous. I recall that when I was young a number of us wore quoting the last words of great men such as Seneca and Plato and Calvin and Luther and one said: " Well, you know what Daniel Webster said?" No, we did not re member and he replied: "Why he opened his great big eyes nnd looked at his friends who were weeping around him and whispered, ' Boys, don't cry; I am not dead yet.' " Forty-one years ago last Sunday the battle of Manassas was fought. It was the drst battle of the civil war and made a deeper impression upon those ongaged in it than any other. Coin par od with the great battles that came after it, it was almost insignificant, for thoro was only four hundred and seventy Federal killed and three hun dred and seventeen Confederates. The Federal account gives sixteen hundred of their army as missing. That is a mistake, for by four o'clock they were all missing. Our cavalry couldn't find them, though they followed their trail of discarded guns and haversacks for miles and miles. Thoro never was such a rout and such a panic during tho war. We didn't have enough wa gons next day to gather up the scat tered munitions of war, and it took McDowell a month to call in his army of twenty-seven thousand men and re organize. But in the long run they got even with us and a little ahead, and tho Grand Army is still bragging how four of them whipped one of us in four years. That's all right. We are satisfied with our record and it grows brighter as the years roll on. Anuo Domini will tell. Tho other day my doctor said I must take some exercise and he took his mother and mo up the river road for a fow miles to the ruins of the Coopor iron works. It was a wild, weird, ghostly place on the banks of the Etowah, where once wero rolling mills and foundry and furnaces and flour mills and tan yards aud hundreds of cottagOB, where happy laborers and mechanics lived. But Sherman's army burned and destroyed everything, and since then most of tho crumbling walls have fallet, and the trees have grown up in their midst and wild vines have climb ed the trees and nothing is visible but rums and the sad spectacle of a cruel and brutal war. But this is one burn ing that, according to the rules and usages of war, was justified, for those iron works wero making cannon for tho Confederacy. It was the lone some chimneys of tho poor all along his line of march that marked his bru tality and proved his assertion that "war is hell." But no more of this. While view ing these ruins ray memory went back to the time when .loo Brown was Governor and ordered that 5,000 pikes be made with a spear point and a side blade curved downward like a reap hook and a long handle in a socket, so that our boys might take 'em coming and going. If thoy didn't run we were to spoar 'em, and if they did run we wore to overtake 'em and hook 'em back. That's what old man Lewis told me, and he was the master mechanic who made them, and he still livos near, here and is in his 88th year. I saw him today and he steps light and spungy. Ho is an Englishman. "Mr. Lewis." said I. " whv didn't tho Geor gia tjoys use these pikes?" " Woll, you h(mi," said hq, " the. old army of tlcers who were drilling our boys at Big Shanty looked at these pikes and said to the Govornor; 1 What will the enemy be doing with their guns while our I toys are rushing on them with these pikes? They will shoot our boys down before they can get to them,' and they made so much fun over the pikes that they were refused. West Point wouldn't have anything that was not used a*. West Point." And so the further manufacture of pikes was stopped and those that were made are nan scattered all over the country as curios for museums. A slstor of-mine s?ys she saw" one of thorn nob long ago in a museum in Boston. But ?tili I don't see why spears are any more out of order than bayonets when a desperate charge is to bo made. "Charge bayonets!" la in tho West I'ohit tactics, and why not 44 Charge pikes?" They are an awful looking weapon, and if they were coming at! me and my gun was to ralsa Are 1 should drop it and run like a turkey. 1 had rather he boved with a bullet tban stack lik* a bog. But it ti^all vror now, and We havo beaten our spears into pruning books according to Scripture and will not learn war any more, except when the mulatto* and niggers refuse to give up their lauds to us. We want more land for territory and moro niggers for subjocts. But I hear the dinner bell and must go?not to partake of the feast, but to say grace - and preside and inhale the savory odor of roast lamb and green corn pudding and look at the poaches and cream for dessert. They lot me do that aud give mo nothing but soup aud rico for my share. My tomatoos aro now in their prime and it pleases me I to gather them in tho early morn. My largost weighed two pounds, lacking two ounces, and was a beauty. It was working thorn in tho hot sun and then filling up with ico water that laid mo up. Bill Auf. THK TEXTILE INDUSTRIES. South Carolina Uns the First Pluee in the South as to the Cotton Mills. The United States census report on cotton manufactures, gives South Car olina the first placo in tho South among tho cotton mills. It gives the compara tive strength of the leading States to bo in 1900 : Spindles. Looms. South Carolina_ 1,481,810 42.0G3 North Carolina. .. .1,133,483 20,409 Uoorgla.... 817,846 19,398 Alabama. 411,828 8 549 Toxas. 48,766 1,018 Tho report shows that the product in South Carolina is socond only to that of Massachusetts in valuo m cloths, sheetings and twills, and that tho valuo of the product in South Carolina of cloths, sheetings and twills is $20 ? 723,010. The census bulletin has th.j remarkable and cortainly moht inter esting statement: " It was not possiblo, of course, to account for all the exports declared upon tho clearing of vessols for foreign ports, since a considerable part of the domestics sold abroad aro mado for the home market and are purchased for sale in other countries after they have passed wholly out of the control and the knowledge of manufacturers ; but, so far as tho managers of mills arc able to trace tholr products, they furnished goods for export during the year 1800 1000 to the value of ?15,307,602, or about tlve-oighths of the value of cloth exported during tho fiscal year. Almost 00 per cent, of the total value repre sents tho product of Southern milts and nearly 37 per cent, tho goods of Now England. It is an interesting fact that South Caroliua, which was historically and politically during the .yeai a preceding the civil war the most conspicuous champion of a policy fa vorable to the exportation ef raw cot ton, upon which tho planters most re lied, and opposed to the fosteriug of manufactures of cotton, spun, in its own mills in 1000 a quantity of cotton exceeding the half of its own crop and exported close upon one-half of all tho. cotton cloth reported to the census as having been dispatched to foreign countries. Tho exact percontago of South Carolina of the total export re ported was 45.6." The Atlanta Journal, in commenting upon the census ropcrt concerning cot ton statistics, has tho following pocrti nent comparisons : If anybody had predicted twenty years ago the* by ibis time the South WOUld have u. .ained her present im portance in tho textile industry he would have boon laughed at. There has been nothing in tho same line any where comparable to this advance in the part of the country that has been called slow by those who either know little about it or intentionally misrep resent it. The actual facts and figures tell A story of the South'a progress in textile manufactures during the last two decades that is moro eloquent than any words that could bo used on the Bubject. The official figures of the last census show that the capital invested in the South in the textile industry was but $25,379,140 ; in 1880 and by 1900 had grown to $:i40,840,166. Tho capital in the same industry in New England in 1880 was $201,601,147. In 1000 it was $624,809,302. Thus while the capital ip the toxtilo industry of the South had Increased 478 per cent, in tweny year* that of New England had increased only 106 por cent. The actual and relative increase in the value of the textile products of the South was quite as romaTkablo. It grew from $25,038,246 in 1880 to $114,887,068 In 1000. I Tho figures for he New England milla wore $310,542,. 352 in 1880 and $412,875,075 in 1000. The value of the textile product of the South increased in twenty yoare 348 per cent, and that of Now England only 82 per cent. ? The increase of tho whole country in theso two items of capital invested in the textile industry and the value of its product for tho period mentioned was 142 per cent, for the former, and 415 per cent, for the latter. f In 1880 the .tavestmonts in the In*, dustry in the Sotili represented 0 per oent. of all in tibo country, and In HKH) 14 per cunt. I.? the same period tho proportion of the value of the products in the South advanced from 4 to 13 per cent, of the total for the country. The South haw gone much further forward in the textile industry than she was in June/ 1900, when these figures wero taken. The next census will have a report to Make of Southern industrial progress that will bo even more marvelous than that at which the I world is now wondering. Governor Cummins, of Iowa, is one | of inc. best: authorities in that State upon fwrostry. He ha* mastered , tho subject thoroughly, having originally taken it up some years ago as an amusement and havi ng stuck to it ever since. CASTOR IA The m Yes Han Alvwjs Boiighl J9 Vor Infants and Children. Beam the A VICTORY FOK llKLLtINGKR. The8uit Against Alleged Trust Kemundcd to State Courts. Char lee ton K veiling Pott. In the United States Circuit Court today Judge Simoulon banded down bis decision in the case of the Stalo of South Carolina against the Virginia Carolina Chemical company, granting the motion of the plaintiff for the re mand of the caso to the State court. Tho decision is a victory for Attor ney General Bellinger. It will be re called that several months ago Attor ney General Bellinger brought action , against the Virginia-Carolina Chemi cal company, in the ltlchland County court, under tho auti-trust act, allegiug that the company was purchasing and acquiring a monopoly of the fertilizer industry, contrary to law. The ~attorneys for the company moved beforo Judge Buchanan for a 'transfer of tho suit to tho Federal court, alleging the act to be in deroga tion of the constitution of the United Slates. The judge refused the motion, but the attorneys secured copies of the proceedings and filed them in the circuit court and later Judgo Simouton hoard the arguments on the motion of Attorney .General Bellinger for the remand. < Judge Simonton's decision is lengthy, containing many law citations. The court notes that, accompanying tho records, there is no order of the State court removing the suit. " But from admissions," continues the court, " made at the . bar and from the whole tenor of the armunonts. it up pears that the absence of the ordor, removing the causo, was-not based upon the insufficiency of the bond, but upon the legal ground'that tho case made by the plaintiff, does not raiso tho Federal question on which adsue this court can take jurisdiction. The, question involved in this discussion is grave. und besot with difficulty. Th? State has the right to have the case brought by her, tried in her own courts, unless the constitution of the United Slates has secured to the de fondant the right of protection in the Federal court," Jtydgo Simoaton ruled that the Fed eralquestion .did not appeir on the face of tho record, and ho waa bound to go by tho nv-rord and remand the enso to the State . uni ts. ' The decision shows that tho act of tho'1 Legislature contained no mention of tho constitu tion of the United States, and no righto, claims, privileges and immunity of Federal statutes / which would bring the act into any relation or -conflict with the Federal law. The court states, however, that a Federal question might he raised hereafter in the State courts, and in such an event a direct appeal can he takon to the United States Su preme Court from the State Supreme Court. ' ^ATwrVrtn Sickki*.?Ah important point in successful sheep management is the water supply. While good water is a groat thing in growing all kinds of live stock, it is especially so with tho sheep, which is not only a dainty feed er but a dainty drinker, and will only take bad, staguunt water into its stomach when driven to it by thirst. Not only will it suffer for the want of drink when the supply is bad, but it is subject to more diseases, usually para sitic, that have i heir origin ju polluted water, than any other of the domestic animals. Where the iftocks .got their supply from surface water courses liable to pollution of alt kinds, aick Bheep may be expected with the ag gravation that it is oftbn impossible to determine what is the mattet with the animals or what to do for them. .With euch a source of supply, also, a rainy season, which washes the soil from long distances and brings down ac cumulations of 111th, ia likely to increase the amount of obscure disease in the flock. It is also no unusual cause of ?scours, in lambs. ? We generally look for the cause of scours in the food, but quite as often it is due to impurd water. Everybody is familiar with the disturbance in tho human family, particularly in hot weather, which fol lows the use of bad water.- The stomach' of the lamb, and ? evon tho sheep, is quite as susceptible to dan gers from this source as is that of tho shepherd. < We often see flocks on fairly good pastures, that ought* to do w?1' r-vfar'a* fefed is concerned, show ing a lack of thrift and a -gonoral'dull ness fory which *there seems to btf at first blush no apparent reason. Very often 'an examination of tho water biipply will reveal tho cause. i The art of making laco by hand in well developed in Paraguay. It was taught the natives two hundred years ago by tho missionaries, and has boon transmitted from generation to gen eration, till it is now quite general throughout the Republic. Some town* are devoted to making a certain kin f. Of lace. In one town of H,O0<> or 0,000 inhabitants, almost all the wonvu and children, and many of the men, make lace collarettes, handkerchiefs and ladies' ties. Another town makes lace embroidery and others drawn-thread I work, such as centre pieces, tray mats, tea cloths, doilies, etc. The designs 'used in making the lace are taken from the curious webs of theeemi* tropical spiders that are so numerous there.- On this account it is called ".nanduti," an' Indian name, which moans spider web. The latost record broken Is that for the highoat duty on foreign made dresses. A fair traveler recently ar rived in New York With gowns which wore anpraisnd at a value of over f85, 000. For this modest little wardrobe, which, by tho way, occupied some twenty trunks, the lady was mulcted by the customs authorities to the nice Utile tune of ?40,000. . 1 respectfully announce myself as a candidate for re-election as Railroad CnmmlHslonor. Conscious of duty well performed, I request support. J. C. WlLliORN. BRYAN 18 NOT A CAN BID ATM Ho Think** a Private Cltieen Has Greater Honor Than a King. On Saturday afternoon, in the pre sence of an audience of 4,000 persona assembled in ihe amphitheatre of the Mountain Lake Park Chautauquan As sociation, Md., Wrn. Jennings Bryan discussed tho problems of government. Mr. Bryan prefaced his address, which was of two hours' duration, with a denial that he will again seek to be come the national standard boaior of the Democratic party, his denial being contained in the following phrases: " I hope you will give me credit for the possession of a higher ambition than to be satisfied with the ofllce of President of the United States. I am too domocraUc to covet an ambition that only a few in one generation can share. I prefer Uno honor of "being a private citizen, an honor greater than that of a King." Throughout his discussion of the momentous problems now engaging tho attention of the two great political parties Mr. Bryan occasionally lapped a vein [ of quiet humor that generated smiles on many countenances. " You will recall," ho said, " that tho Republicans have had two telling chances at me, and on this occasion I would seek one at them. In dealing with the theme of 'Problems of Gov ernment' 1 shall .endeavor to inject enough religion to suit a Republican and onough politics to carry favor with a Democrat." Mr. Bryan stated that primarily it was his purpose to deal with the moral phaso of the eubjeot. He declared that the partisan discussion of the tariff, free silvei, the trusts and im perialism had been dragged down by campaign orators into the mire of dol lars and cents, lu civilization, which Mr. Bryan defined as the harmonious devolopmout of the human raco, morally, mentally and physically, ho regarded the cultivatiou of the moral element*.? a paramount issue and de clared that JWstory supported his con tention that .moral decay had preceded the ruin of every nation that had fal len. ?* A nation,,'", aaid Mr. Bryan, " is strong only in proportion to its moral excellence." < He declared that the present Ad ministration had devolopoe a tendency to amend God's holy ordinances, <? Thou shalt not steal," "Thou .shalt not todi," " Thou shalt not covet," etc., by adding an apologetic clause, " save orfcen done on a very Jorge scale." Keforeuoe cvas.made to tho Philip pine questions djid tho couduct of the American soldiery in 'suppressing the uiautrcction. l?e denounced ," im perialism " at great length, then re verted to tho currency question, pro claiming himself as devout an apostle of free silver as ever. Ho further denounced what he toru'ted the plutocracy of wealth, the tariff find injunctions, and said that the only possibility of suppressing anarchy rested in the education of the people to love their government. Mr. Bryan staled, with marked em phasis, that if ho had the power evory article ^manufactured by trusts would be placed upon '< the freo list," al though he sincerely doubted if this strenuous and radical measure would wholly frustrate the trusts. A Ni?w Railroad Deal.?It is an anr/ouuood from Baltimore that tho Seaboard Air Lino Railroad Company has bought tho South and Western Railway. The latter is a new com pany, under which two or more roads will be consolidated. It owns the Ohio River and Charleston Railroad, which it is proposed to extend from tho cool fields of Southwest Virginia to Lincoln ton, N. C, where, according to tho plans, connection is '*> be mado with tho Seaboard Air Lino. The scheme 'for this development was financed by the Union Trust Company of Baltimore. Tho promoters of the scheme announce that the routo plan ned will be the shortost lino from the Virginia coal - fields to tho Atlantic const and the South. The proposed road will bo about 27f? miles in length, but it is thought that the mileage will bo increased by its ex tension in a novthorly direction. Con nection may be made with the Detroit Southern at Iron ton, Ohio. Tho De troit Southern operates from Detroit to Wollaton, Ohio, via Limn, 343 miles, with branches 80 miles, a total of 408 miles. Tho Ohio Rive r and Charleston Road extends from Johnston City, Tenn., to Huotdale, N. C, a distance of ?4 miles. It was originally the Tennes see section of tho Charleston, Cincin nati and Chicago project. The Caro lina portion of this road was built from Camdon, S. C, to Marie , .N. ?L 171 miles, and is now known as the South Carolina and Georgia Extension* and is controlled by tho Southern .Railway, i The Ohio River aud Charleston was recently sold by Samuel Hunt & Co. tol the ?ouih and Woslern, of which Georgo L. Cartor, of Bristol, Tenn., Who organized tho Virginia Irou, Coal and Coko Company and the Virginia ami l^outhwestern Railway Company, is president. Stock growing is certain to become ewe of the leading industries of thej South. The progress that has recently bi?n made in this direction has dem on strut cd that the .Southern farmer is I waking up to the possibilities that can be achieved in this direction. The abundance of water and grasses, the mild winter season and the short sea sou in which stock have to be fed make a combination of advantages that can not be surpassed anywhere in the world. Gov.'Smith, of Maryland, has ap pointed a commission of three to pur chase a bust of Rear .Ldcuiral Win field Scott Schley to be placed in the new State ciipitol at Annapolis, in accor dance with an act passed by tho State legislature at its last session. ? A JBIT O X -A. ?" Baantbs, , f(P ft* Kin J Vh Htip Always BonaM SlfMtUTO H Noutu and South in Slaykky Da vs.?Edward Everett Hale in hia *? Memories of a Hundred Yoara" (now being published serially in The Outlook, and Boon to appear as a bookj, tells tho following anecdote which illustrates very neatly tho dif ferent ways of looking at the political aud commercial aspects of elavery in the fifties: Mr. Henshaw was secretary of the Navy in one of the Southern Oabinets. He was one of tho leaders of the Demo cratic party in Massachusetts; one of the men " who kept that party con veniently small," so that all its load, ers had Federal oil lee a. Mr. Henshaw was one of tho early railway men, a man of foresight enough and courago enough to know what modern civilza tion would demand. It was long bo f >re the war that ho was in Norfolk, Virginia, consulting with some of the leaders there as to tho opening of com. municatlon wostward from their mag nificent harbor. As he rode with one of his Virginian friends ono day, the Southerner said, " You abolitionists say *) this or that. Henshaw dis claimed tho word. Tho Democrats of that day kept their garments very clear from such stains. The Virginian laughed. " I know you make your distinctions. But we call you all abolitionists." Henshaw would not laugh. " You are quite wrong," ho said. " Wo aro as loud of our ways as you are of yours. Wo manufacture cotton aud wool and shoes and iron. Wo send our ships into ovory ocean. And if, to maintain slave labor, you choose to let your magnificent cataracts go to waste, to let your coal lio un burned and your iron unamelted, to 8end your timber to ua for our pur poses, and never to build a ship in these waters, some of ua, I assure you, aro very much obliged to you." This was enough, aud the Virginian said in reply. M Wcli j Mr. Henshaw, pray do not think that wo arc all damned fools." Newport News and its magnificent ship-building make the ^comment to. j day on that anecdote. OABTOHIA. B?4r? th? The Kind You Have Always Bought gTllK ?U&AL St ?Mr. Bran cstabliBk in thai Sta in spoaking of ono, ho said, " The common school subjects will bo taught, of oourso.. But cooking, the cultivation of school gardens, a half-dozon forms of remun erative handicrafts, a school library, a mother's club, and a fortnightly insti tute for Iho toachors of the county will bo somo of tho features of this school." Yea, verily; why not? Why not include in the work of the school so much of the work of the community as tho chuV dreu can approciato and oir^ioy in their own cducatiou ? A sob <oi is u place in which children should live and movo and have their being. It should reflect the larger lifo without and prepare its pupils for a bottor life iu the future by holping them to livo a truor, more uortnal life in the presout. Thai which is Iroatcd with respect iu school, whother it bo arithmetic or grammar, cotton picking or hog rais ing, religion or politics, will raroly be au object of-contempt after school. Timo and experience will olimin-'o what is useless or harmful in tho c r riculum and methods of bucIi expeii* mental schools.?Tho World's Work. Added now to the joys of smokiug is the knowledge thai smoking may pre vent Boiuc diseases. 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