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CHEAP SCHOOL BOOKS SECURED.
Successful Finale of the State Board's Er
forts-Proceedings of the State Board
of Education-Action on State
School BletorIes.
[The State, Nov. 1.]
The State Board of education has
succeeded in reducing the prices of
school books very materially. and the
fight for cheap books has been won.
Yesterday the proceedings of the meet
ing of the Board, held Friday, were
given to the public. The most impor
tant features thereof follow:
Mrs. S. S. Clarkson of Eastover, Miss
Anna M. Henry of Greenville, E.
Dreher of Lexington, Rev. R. R. Varn
of Fairfield and S. C. Scott of Eastover
were granted teachers' State certifi
cates.
ClipAP BOOKS SECURED.
Superintendent Mayfield made;a re,
port of the result of his efforts ituN6ro
,::--Alb5jO wing being mere
synopsis:
.Gentlemen of the Board: At your
m'eeting In April last you appointed
me a committee of one to look into the
school book question for this State,
with a view to securing, if possible, a
reduction in the pri.es of the books on
the State list, and to make suggestions
of plans whereby the books might be
procured by the children of the State
at the agreed prices. I immediately
entered upon the work assigned me.
At our meeting in July last I was
unable to make a satisfactory report,
because of the fact that I had not been
able to hear fully from all of the book
houses whose books were on our list,
and you asked me to continue the
work, which I have done, and am now
ready to report. This report would be
too long were I to incororate the re
plies which I received to my letters. I
content myself with making some short
extracts from some of the letters and
presenting the figures, which will show
for themselves. From them it will be
seen that a considerable reduction has
been made from the original prices.
I take up the American Book Com
pany first, as it has more books on our
State list than any other house.
I give the present retail price and
also the former retail prices, that the
difference may be seen at a glance.
"Mr.W.D.Mayfield,State Superintend
ent of Education, Columbia, S. C.
"DEAR SIR: We give you herewith,
a list of the books publibshed by us
have been adopted by the State
B .uacation for use in the.
schools uth Carolina. Ap
pended to each book is our regular list
price at which it should be retailed to
pupils throughout the State.
Very truly yours,
AMERICAN BOOK Co."
List of books published by the Ameri
can Book Company, adopted for the
use in the schools of South Carolina:
PREsENT FORMER
READERS. RETAIL RETAIL
PRICES. PRiCES.1
.Appletonl's First Reader.. .18 .24
Appleton's SeconldReader. .30 - .38
Appleton's Third Reader... .38 .49
Appleton's Fourth Reader .50 .65
Appleton's Fifth Reader.. .90 1.17
Harper's First Reader...... .24 .24
No change for others .. ..
Swintoni's PriIner and First
Reader.................. .2 .30
Swinton's Second Reader. .35 .40
Swinton's Third Reader.... 50 .56
Swintona's Fourth Reader. .65 .75
Swinton's Fifth Reader.. .90 1.05
Swinton's Sixth, or Classic4
English Reader......... 1.05 1.25
The prices of all others the compara
tive reduction being about the same per
cent. as the above, are as follows:
Supplementary readers-"Cats and
Dags, and Other Friends," 17 cents;
riends in Feathers and Fur," 30
t.s; "Neighbors with Wings and
a," 40 cents; "Some curious Flyers,
- rs and Swimmers," 40 cents;
Coin'WaWjs and Hoofs," 54
quickly and surdIy-i1s.
udian Co'rn Paint.
ra"1i~~nd ft''s Stories,"
, 1;. Hroic ijeed~. app
te!atries of our Country," 40 of
Stries o the Olden Time," 54 seer
"Ten E'vets in yiSoI, r4tl
willrS' nton's Word Primer, 15 o
elenton'S Word Book of En- c
18cnts . tir
p'ellng, Webster's Primary, 48
pictionare--Sho 72 igb Ct
ts; A cadhemic, .0
ry, a Standarde iher op, $1.2l;
(istoresr Uitedoe,2 ctates,; eo
~ra His o 6 cents itns
Unifomtedctats, runs
triar of this copn' thWrld'sl
densedpsame,l9o;iestlineic
Pracucalt,?68.bsmall
(shortr cour e dozen our cents; -
the iM1 theior copany'fs dalern
F. JChenv &Co., doite at a dis
th iyof'~Toledo, Coudost prices,
afoesid,an t tHNDRE jon that
oeahand every ct regu
terht acanot beC cure by
of al'sCaa RANJ. C HEN tha
obefore me and subscenl
pwrencethis 6th day of Deni
ber A.D- 8. .W.GLEASON,.
~ota3ry Publi
F sAL
hals Catarrh Cure is taken il
na yancous surfacs ofn th yst<
ondF Jr tH~ &io ., -Toledo,
. odby Druggists, 75c.
RETAIL.
FORMER PRESENT
PRICES. PRICES.
Reed & Kellogg's
Graded Lessons in
English...... .... 42 40
Reed & Kellogg's
Higher Lessons in
English ............. 70 65
Reed's Word Les
sons..................... 40 25
The first book formerly cost the
dealer 36 cents; now it costs him 30
cents. The second book formerly cost
the dealer 60 cents; now it costs him 50
cents. The third book formerly cost
the dealer 25 cents; now It costs him
20 cents.
You will see that dealers can afford
to sell our books at the mailing prices,
as there is an ample margin of profit,
and that the mailing prices are cer
tanly very reasonable.
-A-extract, from a letter from D. C.
Na Co. Bosend~glena stating
hat Hi. . e'-eMWNglieh will
>e sold for 24 and 40 cents respective.j,
Lnd bound in cloth at 26 and 45 cents.
qr. Mayfield says: The former prices
o retailers were 31j and 45 3-5 cents for
he smaller and larger books respect
vely. A very large extra discount is
llowed. Formerly they received by
6i per cent. Allowing 25 per cent.
>rofit, they should now retail at 29 and
iO cents respectively.
Messrs. Ginn , Co., write that they
re forced to give a discount of 161 per
ent. to dealers, but are willing to make
t 20 per cent., "thus enabling the dea
ers to retail the bookq at wholesale
>rices." They say there is a demand for
& paper back form, and if several coun
es desire this edition, a further dis
.ount of 20 per cent. can be given.
'hey intend to re-establish a depository
'in some important centre in the
outh."
Mr. Mayfield's report quotes a letter
Yrom the University Publishing Com
>any, showing that his request was
idently misunderstood. Mr. May
leld's comment is: "This house has
nade no reductions. I have received
io reply to my last letter."
The J. B. Lippincott Company has
nade no reduction. Mr. W. J. Duffie,
)f Columbia, the publisher of David
on's History of South Carolina, has
,aced that book at 50 cents.
Mr. Mayfield's report continues thus:
'As to the best means of securing to
,bildren of the State the books at retail
>rices proper, I suggest the propriety of
)reparing an official bulletin to be
lng up in a conspicuous place in each
chool in the State, giving'kis tbe
)ooks on the Sta. list, with publisher'e
)ries annexed, together with a iftate
nent to the effect that if the books are
iot furnished at these prices by the
ocal dealers of the State, they can be
)rocured of the publishers, postage or
pressage paid, on receipt of the cash.
"It might be advisable for the county
chool commissioners to communicate
withthe local dealers and thereby get
he names o fthose who will -agree to
ell the books at the fixed retail prices to
be children .of their respective cbun
THE BOARI/S ACTION.
Professor Johnson submitted and the
sard passed a resolution of thanks to
dvr. Mayfield for his successful efforts
o secure cheaper books. The resolution
mlso says:
That as this is a public matter of vital
onern to the whole people, State
superintendent Mayfield be and is
3ereby requested to use every means
n his power to spread this Information
bhrough the State..
Miss Ella Bell Shirly wasexamhined
ms an applicant for a State teacher's cer
ificate.
STATE SCHOOL HISTORIES.
In regard to the adaptation of the
iew State school histories, Professor
diorrison offered the following resoln
M. which was adopted :
o8 154 That the St.ate board fully
help us. Y016-portance of thestudy
,a history and ob
esl ut you a..increasing in
reciates te 1 ty you wi.different
be South CaroLz That
es with pie are th furnish .
st shownl hi suec benerlly.
trs and the peopl oet,ea tist'%.
ile the board cant, lat this pre-.
sistently with t lat andpe
Lent, add to the present State bad
n on this sbe to ofhier boare
es teahesandsctbuins of the
tefre sthool the to make South
te fre schoo an tht the law requires
uth Carolina historytobtagti
p ublic schools.
'Special to Register.1
NAR~' ovember 5.-.M4ichael
CAALES, bteknw as"the O'Kelly,
wellyt known itcans di ed here to
wlay now ait hav b een the only
ay. tia in Charleston 'who never
wantician public office. Ke was an al
round politician, wi wriegliet
no party, and usdtcrcie aeaic
sqibs for the papers, chance.g hewa
wherever he saw a ch orce sHe w
the proprietor of large iron wrs0
East Bay.
sht Iato the Ri-PSreents ca.
jSpecial to The State.]gh
8 S C. Nov. 5.-Last ngt
Uthoe pa-e r train bounld for Col
t s eardUnion, some miscreant s1
hogh the palrnab,i hc
wse owpae.It is not supposed ti
window psnwho did'the shooting kn
ofbePdetspreci te
Y' outrage should be perpetrated.
The combinationl ofingredid.fo1
1Ar's Pills renders them tomn c
itive as well as citharie. For'
ebnthey: are the tb-st medicL:n
)of costive habt,asthy D
'.rat action-of thijbowels,
- 14ting.
HISTORY OF THE WADSWORTH
ESTATE.
The Benefaction of xorgotten Philanthro
plat Now to be Realfzed in Laurens -
A Scattered Property of $300,000
-Serious Distress Likely to be
Caused-Some Innocent
Purchasers.
[Greenville News.j
The "Wadsworth poor school fund'
and the Wadsworth estate have beeu
heard of by many people in this State
but the story that surrounds them i
not familiar.
Inasmuch as the estate concernr
many Greenville people and many
'others in nearly every county in tht
State, the story is repeated below:
Thomas Wadsworth died in Charles,
ton about the year 1771. He came t<
America from England when a younj
man, first settling in Massachusett
and later in Laurens County, in thih
State, near Milton. He became im
jnenely wealthy, owning thousand,
'o-acre of and'and.hundreds of slaves
After living in L&d%e1inounty man3
years he moved to CharlestiA, _"d weni
into the mercantile' business with e
Mr. Turpin, the firm being Wadsworth
& Turpin.
When he died he owned lands frow
the mountains to the seaboard of South
Carolina, principally in the counties ol
Laurens, Spartanburg, Greenville,
Pickens, Anderson, Newberry, Lexing
ton and Orangeburg. After abundant
ly providing for his wife and mother,
for he had no children, he left aboul
34,000 acres in various counties for a
poor school fund. The property was
not to be sold. Everything was left io
the hands of a board of trustees, com
posed of five men. The trustees wer(
to be elected every two years by the
white freeholders of Dunlap's battalioo
of Laurens County and the school tc
be supported was to be located in th(
battalion.
In Mr. Wadsworth's days the coun
ties were divided into battalions in
stead of townships as now, and ther4
were four battalions in Laurens Coun
ty. There were also fo#,r 4a Cereenviile
Deeds for the lands were left in the
hands of trustees and are now in tbe
possession of the present trusteem
eleeted last February by the white vo
ters living in Dunlap's battalion. A
school house was built in the battalion
now Hunter's township, and has beer
in use ever since, although the vast es
tate has not until now, yielded enougt
to pay a teacher's salary. The trustee.
rented the lands for a while and finall3
leased -them*for terms ranging frn
fifty to ninety-nine years. The mone3
received was loaned out and much ol
it was lost. Some of the leases wer(
renewed by other trustees, but a num
ber of them are beginning to expire and
a distressing state of affairs is in storc
for numbers of people now in posses
sion of the lands.
R. G. Wallace and WV. H. Workman
two of the five trustees are in the city
and are looking up the part of the es
tate located in this county for the pur
pose of selling or. settling in some man
ner. An act of the legislature a short
time ago empowered the trustees to sell
the lands and re-invest in lands ii
Laurens township, near the Wads.
worth school.
The trustees find by old records ii
the register of mesne conveyance':
office that there are about 1,400 acrei
belonging to the estate in this County,
Over 300 acres of it are located about
two-and-a-half miles from the city, and
the worst part of the story is that about
forty-seven persons own the property
and that there are over twenty house:
on it.
Persons to whom it was leased and
re-leased years ago sold it to unsuspect
ing and careless persons, and there i:
not much doubt hut that many peopki
will have to suffer. Part of the land iF
in the possession of Capt. Willian
Goldsmith. Much of the same land lies
in the Sandy Flat section of this coun
ty. No property in the city is includ
ed in the estate and real estate owner:
here will breathe easier. In one trael
in Spartanburg County there are 1,8(
I'h.was said at one time that the towr
and Aon *was built on the property
A fZ Oder, eefreed the property ther
bt the con1W"0- -i1e- About one hun
frm further trou&e " acres east of tbh
dred and twenty-fie g c1gtate, and th<
town, belonged to the a stees som<
owners settled with the tr - ed comn
time ago by paying a fair pric wn
prm.Wherever the present ta
proshe fought the matter in cour
hes have lost. This would tend to
frighten all who have any interest in
th t property. -ti iyltl n
One gentleman inthis nd ate ofier
vested in some of tilad Ast overe
and he is now worried -- l oe th'
State, wherever there is anyofh
' lad1heewl be uneasins and nc
a few may lose their all.un o a
The trustees of thefn o a
hut3,00 oni hand. They propol
ao pus mtters to a settlement and ir
creasethe fund. They have plannedi
bul two more school houses in Unr
lap's battalionl, one at Crass Hill a!
eat Mountville. The Wadswor
etate is now valued at between $204
000 and $300,000 at a low estimate.
Would 'You Be Attractie ?
a You must be healthy. .Would y
be healthy, always keep wihf rna
o laan Pellt,mh perfection of p1
a i!Headache, biliousness, constil
in a r.tdtnuea*Y ni
f timulating~ healty ai The be
) oe ierPel iillYgfoial heb
it-I i ndnoneof the ofrO
American Election Days.
[New York Evening Post.]
About ninety years ago William Bris
bane, a cultivated and patriotic citizen
of South Carolina, while staying in
London, witnessed in that city two
elections for the members of Parlia
ment, attended with the familiar scenes
of violence, of bribery, and of coercion
of voters which English u riters have
J described so picturesquely. In his
journal of travel, part of which has
been published, along with severe criti
cisms of this British mob law at elec
tions, Mr. Brisbane naively says: "How
much more preferable is our method of
electing members of the Legislature in
South Carolina, where the electors give
their votes by balloting, in doing
which bribery is cut up root and
branch." At that far-away time, when
the whole population of the United
States was but a few millions, we have
no doubt that Mr. Brisbaue's views
were shared by intelligent Armericans,
North as well as South. The ballot
was to them as an emblem of sanctity
as well as secrecy. In the soil tilling
tcn-munities of the simple time, with
every voter. independent, a property
qualification, and wealth and social
rank very nearly equalized, bribery
fell to its very lowest ternis, and about
the only election "trick" we find as
passing a plot of land by deed so as to
qualify men for the suffrage; while
election violence was all but impossible
in a nation of stolid and law-loving
farmers.
At the end of almost a century since
Mr. Brisbane's words were written, the
changes in American temper and meth
ods at elections, and in the "cam
paigns" which precede them, are a
most suggestive study. In that study
nothing is more impressive and cheer
ing than the persistency of the princi
ple of "order" at our elections, in con
trast with our mother land. For a
number of decades after the opening
of the present century, British mob
rule and head-cracking at elections
covtinued almost undiminished. Even
now, at any general British election,
reports of rioting are not uncommon,
and on one of the Bradlaugh voting
days in Northampton a few years ago,
a large body of troops had to be trans
ferred to the city to aid the local police
against an anticipated outbreak. Con
trast with this those quietudes of an
American voting day which have
never ceased to amaze the De Tocque
villes and Bryces. It is'true that for a
while -during, the. middle.of our .cen
tury, and in our large cities where they
hod but few voting places, the inevita
ble crowds at the polls led to serious
disorders. But the simple mechanical
invention of small election districts has
made our election days in cities as
quiet as a Sunday. So that, essentially,
the long record of election-day peace
has been unbroken throughout the
country's whole history. Exactly
why, with much the same Anglo
Saxon tempers as our kin beyond sea,
and besides with so many rough voting
elements of other races to be restrained,
we have so long and so successfully
maintained peaceful elections, is per
haps hard to say, but the creditable
national fact remains. Even our Irish
voters poll their ballots decently in the
United States, while they break each
other's heads and fill the hospitals in
Cork.
The American election day, however,
when we leave its quietudes and com
pard it with the same occasion in the
ancestral time, becomes much more
sombre. Looking back to the early
decades of the the century, we find un
doubtedly defects enough. The Fed
eralists and Democrats were obstinate
in their partisanship, and often utterly
blind. Politics cut deeply into their
social life, and the Yankee Federalist
inn-1eeper who put out the sign "No
Democrats entertained here," an ex
ception to the rule of partisan bitterness.
The political literature of the time, and
especially the party newpaper, was
savage and truculent enough to make
the organ of to-day seem gentle. But
more than offsetting all these, there
were none of the sinister forces which
now converge so powerfully on one of
our election days. There is, in truth, a
sort of evil grandeur when we view the
magnitude to which these forces have
grown, as our national constitution
-has, during half a century become big
and diversified. There are the party
machines in nation, State, town, city
and wards; hundreds of assistant or
'anizations, not formerly within the
pa..ies, but co-workers with one or the
oheK~ them; literary bureaus often
owing 'and political clubs number
iess, all focu'g their energies and
trickeries upongth1e polls. What used
to be a very sYknple and essentially
honest voting act of' our communities
has now become an enormously comn
eplex thing, against whose elements of
bribery rod terrorism and falsehood
the contest for a pure ballot has gone
on like the battle of the big guns
.0against plate armor. Strangely enough,
- too, with all quick American aptitudes,
lwe have followed our mother country
Sbut slowly in purifying our elections
- by secret ballot laws and corrupt-prac
tice acts. The great wave of ballot re
form which, in three years, has swept
over thirty of our commonwealths did
~unot come until an Australian ballot ha
l,been tested many years in England
s and until corruption of our cwn ballol
~'had run to a towering height.
tsThere i.' no more fruitful source o
disease than vitiatd bloo Ithin
s -oy and if not imnmediately coi
retdby the ueof Ayer' sSpSlr
erBe warned in time.
REVIE WING RESULTS.
Democrats Just Miss Control of the New
York Legislature-Decisive Alliance Do
feat in Kansas-Nearly a Clean
Sweep in lowa-Republlcans
Have the Massachusetts
Legislature.
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-Associated
Press returns on the legislature gives
the following results: To the senate the
republicans have elected seventeen of
their candidates and the democrats
fourteen, and in the thirty-second dis
trict Dr. James T. Edwards, indepen
dent republican, nominated by repub
licans opposed to Senator Vedder and
endorsed by the democrats, is elected.
To the assembly sixty five democrats,
sixty-one republicans and two inde
pendent democrats are elected, the
latter being county democrats who had
been endorsed by the republicans in the
twenty-second and twenty-fourth New
York city districts respectively.
KANSAS.
TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 5.-Returns
from 99 of 106 counties in this State
show the defeat- of the people' party in
7.5 counties. In the judicial districts in
which elections were held seven repub
licans, two democrats and one alliance
man were elected. There were combi
nations between democrats and repub
licans in three judicial districts, all of
which were successful. Jerry Simpson
was the only alliance congressman who
succeeded in pulling his county ticket
through. The republicans and demo
crats are congratulating each othera A
old time republicans predict that the
campaign of 1892. will be between the
old parties.
REPUBLICANS SAVE THE HOUSE IN
IOWA.
DES MoINES, Ia., Nov. 5.-The prob
able plurality for Boies is over 8,000.
The rest of Boies' ticket will probably
carry the State by 4,000 plurality.
The senate will be democratic by 26
to 24; the house will probably be repub
lican by 56 to 51.
WORSE AND WORSE IN OHIO.
COLUMBUS, 0.- The latest figures on
Tuesday's election with nine counties
estimated and a few others unofficial,
made by the State republican commit
tee, place McKinley's majority at 20,
486. The republicans now claim from
48 to 50 majority on joint ballot in the
legislature.
DEMOCRAT WOOD WASN'T IN IT.
MADISOX, S. D., Nov. 5.-Jolley, re
publican, is probably elected to con
gress over Smith, independent, by8,000.
Less than 40,000 votes were cast in the
State. Wood, democrat, cut no figure.
REPUCLICANS CONTROL THE MASSA
CHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
BOSTON, Nov. 5.-Complete returns
make the next legislature stand; Se
nate, republicans, 23; democrats, 17;
house, republi3ans, 150; democrats, 87;
probhibitionists 1.
Congratulations have poured in upon
Governor Russell from all over the
country. Ex-President Cleveland was
one of the first to extend his "most cor
dial congratulatfs." Other messages
were received frar.i Governor Abbett, of
New Jersey; Gen. F. J. Underwood,
the Atlanta, Ga., Journal; ex-Secretary
of State Bayard; Governor-elect Flower,
of New York, and many others.
SRERMAN ON THE OHIO ELECTION.
MANSFIELD, 0., Nov. 5.-Senator
Sherman was seen at his home to-day
and asked his views on the election.
He said :
"I am induced to believe that we
have won a great victory. In many
respects it is but an indorsement or echo
of the fight of 1875 upon the financial
question. President Hayes and my
self then made an issue for the honest
dollar, and this election in our com
monwealth only shows how the peo
ple of this State are true to the best
elements of all life. I do not mean to.
say, however, that the tariff has not
played an important part in the game.
So far as the Republican party is con
cerned, this result in -Ohio fixes the
silver question as one of the issues of
the next Presidential contest, and de
cides it, so far as this State is con
cerned.
"I am convinced that a free coinage
bill will be passed by the Congress
which meets in December. I also be
lieve that such a bill as will be framed
will be vetoed by President Harrison.
That will naturally make free silver
the feature of the next presidential
fight. In fact, it will be the leading
issue, upon which there are vast
differences :>f opinion in both parties.
I doubt very much whether the De
mocracy in national convention will
proclaim for free coinage. If they
should, there will be no other issue of
significance in the next campaign.
"I am not at all disturbed as to the
result in New York. In my mind, it
simply indicates the fact that Mr.
Platt's power lies in the great city,
and that the country districts are get
ting a little tired of the intrigues of the
metropolis and wanted to make that
fact manifest. I don't think it will
have: any bearing whatever upon the
next presidential contest."
M' KINLEY'S MISJUDGMENT.
CANTON, 0., Nov. 5.-Maj. McKin
ley said to-day, in speaking of the
Ohio election : "I am convinced that
the judgment of our citizens does not
approve of the constant agitation of the
tariff issue, in the face of the fact that
it can accomplish nothing. It must
surely be ap'parent to all alike that the
conditions without which effective
legislation is impossible do not exist.
!The Republican Senate and the Re
- publican President are bulwarks
Sagainst which free trade forces dash
powerless; aud with no immediate
prospect of a change in these condi
+in, the only result of the continued
agitation is to disturb business and re
tard enterprises which the new law
designs to encourage. In spite of all,
the law is working its way, and from
being on the defensive, as a year ago,
we are now on the aggressive. When
business is already good our people
will not long tolerate movements
which disturb it in the face of the con
ditions I have named, and you will
find the Republicans and Democrats
alike will call a halt on the men whose
stock in trade is not fair, square argu
ment, but juggling misrepresentation
of the same. Ohio has gone Republi
cab, and I accept the result as indi
cating that this State stands by the
Republican party with full faith in its
protective principle as embodied in the
tariff law; and, more than this, Ohio
stands, as she always bas, in favor of a
rull dollar and a sound currency."
ENGLISH OPINION OF M'KINLEY.
LONDON, Nov. 5.-English views of
the American elections seem almost
confined to the result in Ohio. The
success of McKinley is looked upon as
a distinct grievance in the manufac
Luring districts, and especially in Brad
ford and Sheffield, which places have
been disastrously affected by the Mc
Kinley act. The defeat of McKinley
would have been hailed with delight in
Great Britain, and he would have pro
bably figured in some of the Guy
Fawkes cremations, which are tradi
tional to-day throughout England. In
the average English opinion, McKin
16y is an ogre, actuated by relentless
hatred of Great Britain rather than
desire to benefit the United States, and
the Londoners would not be surprised
to find his counterfeit among the
waxen collection of wicked people that
is famous on both continents.
SOME PRESS COMENTS.
[New York Herald.]
They argue, and very naturally, that
if Tammany has acquired influence
enough to travel from New York to
Albany and shows a determination to
exteLd its journey to Washington,
something muqt be done to check its
great power and patronage. The same
battle cry which has been raised in
this canvass will become the cry of the
future-"Down with Tammany." It
would be a grave calamity, therefore,
to be compelled, next year, to throw
the national issues aside in order to
fight a defensive battle w .th Tammany
as our handicap.
New York Times: New York will be
in the Democratic column next year,
and it will supply the candidate. It
must be a very blind politician that
can't see that.
New York Sun: The appearance of
John I. Davenport yesterday in his old
role serves to remind the Democrats
of New York of the debt of gratitude
they owe to Arthur Pue Gorman.
Davenpert was the real author of the
measure known variously as the Lodge
bill, the Hoar bill, and the force bill.
He planned the extensive scheme of
Federal interference at the polls, which
would have been the law of the land
to-day but for the inestimable service
rendered by the Senator from Mary
land.
Senator Gorman is a Democrat and
a great Democratic leader.
New York World: The services of
Grover Cleveland to the Democratic
cause in the campaign in this State
was very great.
Putting aside all false notions of the
dignity that is supposed to hedge about
ex-Presidents, he presided and spoke
at great gatherings of Democrats with
the earnestness of a thoroughgoing
party man. Wherever he appeared he
evoked much enthusiasm, showing the
strong hold 'which he has upon the
popular confidence.
The ex-President's warm endorse
ment of Mr. Flower as a man "who
will administer the great office to which
he will be called independently, fear
lessly and for the gc.od of all the peo
ple" no d abt gave him many votes.
The Atlanta Constitution: The
Democrats are to be congratulated
on the resnlt of Tuesday's elec
tions. They have not only increased
their normal majorities in States that
are conceded to them, but have held
their ground in States which they cap
tured last year. They honld Massachu
setts and Iowa, and this is in the na
ture of a decided victory. If the Re
publicans had recaptured these States,
the result would have been regarded
only as the natural reaction from. the
tremendous upheaval of last year. That
the Democrats have succeeded in hold
ing them shows that the principles of
the party have taken a strong hold on
the minds of men who have heretofore
opposed them. This is more than en
couraging. It gives rise to new hopes
of success in .1802, and ought to
strengthen the Democratic party in all
that pertains to harmony and unity.
New Orleans Times-Democrat: The
Democrats have good cause to congrat
ulate themselves over the result of the
elections, for ir, shows that the tidal
wave of last year has not exhausted it
self, and that many former Republican
States must be placed in future in the
doubtful list.
St. Louis Republic: In its bearing on
national issues the result of yesterday's
election is significant and well defined.
It means that next year's Presidential
contest will be fought squarely on the
issue of protection on the one side and
tariff reform on the other. And this is
a consummation most devoutly to be
wished by Democrats.
Memphis Appeal: The nail driven by
the people in November, 1890, has been
clinched in November, 1891. We may
regret the failure of the gallant Camp
bell in Ohio to win himself, and we
may wonder that public ssntiment has
been so debased In Pennsyvania thALt
the party of Quay and Bardsley should
again succeed. But so much has been
gained and made fast that the day Is
one for thanksgiving and praise, and
for vows of greater zeal, in order that a
year hence the harvest may fulfill the
glorious promise.
Atlanta Journal. The results of yes
terday's election prove some things
very clearly.
It is evident that the united Democ
racy can elect its national ticket next
year if it will do two things:
1. Nominate men who command t'ie
confidence and respect of the country.
2. Make the tariff the main issue.
With a good ticket and a sound plat
form, the heart and center of which
shall be a low tariff plank, we can not
only carry New York, New Jersey,
Connectizut and Indiana, which have
hitherto been sufficient to insure Dem
ocratic victory, but we can hold Masa
chusetts, Rhode Island and Iowa, and
make Illinois, Michigan and Wiscon
sin very doubtful. If Democrats take
heed of yesterday's lesson they will win
a great victory next year; if they shut
their eyes to it they will have to endure
dafeat as the penalty of unpardonable
stupidity.
JERRY SIMPSON IN NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLBANs, Nov. 5.-Jerry Simp
son, the "sockless statesmen" of Kan
sas arrived in the city to-day and will
lecture to-night in the interest of the
third party movement in this State.
Mr. Simpson made a score of speeches
in Ohio during the recent campaign,
and is surprised that Campbell was de
feated. He is disappointed at the small
vote cast for the third party candidates
for governor. In his own State, he
says, the fusion of the Democrats and
the Republicans injured the Alliance
party, while rainy weather kept many
farmers at home.
A FLESH-EATING PLANT.
Remarkable Narrative that an EngLUsh
Naturalst Has Taken Home.
A curious story is told in the Review
of Reviews about an alleged flesh-eat
ing plant that has been discovered in
Nicaragua. The story is quite circum
stantial, and, if it is really true, speci
mens of this remarkable plant should
be brought to New York, for they
would certainly prove an immense
attraction.
Mr. Dunstan, an English naturalist,
who has recently returned from Cen
tral America, where he passed two
years in studying-the .flora and 1auza
of the country, is responsible for the
story. Dunstan says he was exploring
one of the swamps which surround
Lake Nicaragua for botanical and
entomological specimens when he heard
his dog cry out, asif in agony. Dunstan
ran to the spot and found that a fine,
rope-like tissue of roots and fibres had
enveloped the poor animal, that was
yelping as if in great pain. The plant
or vine which had made him a prisoner
seemed to be composed entirely of bare,
interlacing stems, resembling the
branches of the weeping willow denuded
of its foliage. The stems were nearly
black and were covered with a thick
viscid gum that exuded from the pores.
Mr. Dunstan drew his knife and
tried to cut the poor beast free. He had
great difficulty in severing the muscu
lar fibres of the plant. When he had
finally extricated the dog he saw to his
astonishment that the animal's body
was blood stained, "while the skin
appeared to he.ve been actually sucked
r puckered in .spots." The animal
staggered as if completely exhausted.
While he was cutting the vine the
twigs curled around Mr. Dunstan's
hand, and it'Trequired considerable
force to free his hand from the clinging
grasp of these twiggs. His flesh, where
the twiggs had touched it, was red and
blistered. The gum which exuded from
the vine had a disagreeable odor.
Dunstan says the natives hold the
plant in the greatest horror, and call it
the "devil's snare." They told the
naturalist many stories of its death
dealing powers. -He was able to dis
cover very little about the nature of
the plant, owing to the difficulty of
handling it, for its grasp can only be
shaken off with the loss of skin and
even of flesh. He belieyes that its
power of suction is contained in a num
ber of little suckers which jerdinarily
closed, open for the reception of food.
If the substance coming within reach
of the plant is animal, the blood is
drawn off, and the carcass or refuse is
then dropped. "A lump of raw meat
being thrown tp,it, In the short space
of five minu . he blood will be thor
oughly drank offand the mass thrown
aside. Its voracity is almost beyond
belief."
This is a very curious story. There
are a good many Americans now at
work on the Nicaragua Canal, and Mr.
Dunstan's graphic narrative should be
submitted to them for verification.
Water Being Sold.
COLtcMRts, Ind., Nov. 6.-There is
no more prospect of rain than there
was two months ago and everybody
views the situation with alarm. Wells,
streams and ponds are completely ds y
in this entire section, and since the fif
ties nothing like this has been known.
In many inland towns, like Charles
town. water is being sold.
WATER FAMINE THREATENED.
NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-Not for years
as the supply of drinking water for
this city been so low, nor has the dan
ger of a genuine water famine been
greater than at present. Commissioner
Giroy says that if there is no heavy
rainfall soon, the water would only Ii&
fifteen or twenty days more..
SEvENTEEN AND A HL MJLUNS.
The Increase in Assessments of Taxable
Property This Year.
[The State.]
Yesterday the final reports of the re-,
turns and assessments of real and perso-.
nal property in theState for thepastyear f
were received by the Comptroller Gen
eral. The offcial figures for mostof
the counties have already been given;
The figures as now completed foot
up $168,262669 as the total asasment
for the year 1891. Last year the total
was $150,603,451. The total increase
over last year therefore is $17,660, -
A good portion of the Increase Isdoe
the raise in the assesments-of railroad
property and on corporations.
A c" Service TeG.
A North Carolina farmer propounds
the searching questions below to his
brother farmers in the "Tar. Heel
State." They will be found appUcable
to all sections of the country. The
questions get right down to the milk
in the cocoa nut.
Do you know that the farmers of
North Carolina spent over $3,000,000
this year for fertilizers for cotton.and'
tobacco?
Do you suppose they will be able to
get enough extra for the crops to pay
the bill?
Do you know that wore than $3,000,
000 worth of fertilizing material has
been washed away this rainy season
from your barnyards because of neg
lect in looking after your home-made
fertilizers?
Do you suppose that the- land, of
North Carolina Is a dollar's worth
better off because of the$8,000,000 spent
for fertilizers for sale crops?
"Don't you know that field you are
"resting," as you suppose, by allowing
it to grow up in weeds, is ripening alot
of seeds and making more nut grass
roots to bother you next year?
Don't you know that if you had.sown
that field In peas you would now have
a great crop of pesvine hay to cut and
feed this winter?
Don't you know that-the feeding of..
that hay would bring you your money *
back In the animals fed, and leave you
a lot of manure that will pay you bet.
ter than the bought mixtures?
Don't you know that crimson clover
seed scattered on this pea stubble willU'
give you a growth fo tura under next
spring that wouldgive you moreeoM,-.
cotton and tobacco than five .tmes its
cost spent for fertilizers
Don't you know that |the constant
culture of the soil in cotton, yeatWrr
year, with a little fertilizer to makea
crop, is making your land: poorer-alU
the time?
Don't you know that whatever
makes your land pcarer, makrs you
poorer also?,
Did you ever hear of a farmer who
got rich by buying ferilisers merely?O
raise cotton with?
Did you ever know .a farmer who <
made his land rich by an intelllgent~
course of cultivation who did not.get
"well of" asfastas hisfarm dd?
Did you ever know cow-peas or ek
yer to bring a man in debt to.acom
mission'merchant?
Did you ever know home-made ma
nure to fail to improve your land?
Do you know of a farmer who baas
too much of It?
Did you ever-know a coi injured by
a comfortable stable and plenty of(hay? 4
Did you ever know aman to get rch
in any business who did not study it,~
and have faith in it, and give his whole
time and energy to it?
Don't you know that the biggest tas
the farmers of North OCaolna pay to
day is the fertilizer bill, the waste of
home-made manure, and the washing
away of fertilizers from fields kept bare
of clover or grass?
Don't you suppose that somebody,
somewhere, makes a profit in raising
the pork you send money to Chicago
for, out of your cotton crop? --
Don't you suppoe somebody, some
where, makes a living and perhaps
grows rich, growing the wheat your
our is made of, which you buy out of
your cotton crop?-I
Don't you suppose that somebod5y
somewhere, makes money by raising
the beeves which the butchers in Nort -
Carolina towns have to send to Rich
mond to buy?
Don't you kaow that you could raise
all these things here, and, in raisngr
them, raise more cotton on a few acres
than you now do on many? - -
Do you see how high prices are going
to benefit the farmer who has. fresd, ;
meat and manure to buy and only one
tiing to sell?
With cotton low down and wheat -4
high, how is the man helped who
raises no wheat?
What if butter isawfully high-priced
in our towns, while our farmers hav
no cows, or nothing to feed them on if
they have, while somebodye some
where else, makes money by feeding
cows and shipping butter South?
It -'u know all these things, don't
you se that bad farming has more to
di with farmers' troubles than any
ting else he has to endure, and there
is no doubt that he has muhto cary
aside from this?
According to the latest sttst
there are 340,625 miles of railway on
the earth, oftwhich 130750 miles or44 -
per .cent., -are In the.Unted Stam.
Germany, the leading railway country -
in Europe, has24,343 m~rne
93; Great Britan and I1 St ;~~
Russia, 17,82, and
miles.
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