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ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,1893. PRICE $1.50 A AR SIGETS IN4 CICA00. The Bustle and Life in the Great City as Interesting as the ExpoSItIOn-She Delves Deeply and Her Sky Scrap oe are Expressive of an AspI ration that Should Ele-ate Her to a Bigher toral Pane. The scope of the Exposition I em braced in my letter last week. The trip to Chicago deserves some mention because it is the scenic route from the South Atlantic States. Leaving Ashe ville, the beautiful scenery on the French Broad was passed by at night in the local train to Paint Rock, where through the courtesy of CoL Wrenn of the E. T. V. and Ga. railway, elegant Pullman vestibuled cars awaited us, to take us to Knoxville and Harriman, and to run as a special train also to Chicago by Col. Edwards of theQ. & C. and -Col. McCormick of the Monon route. Capt. E. A. Hoover, the adver tising agent of the latter, with Mrs. Hoover and her sister, rode with our party from Cincinnati to Chicago. The magnificent bluegrass region of Kentucky I entirely missed seeing ex cept by moonlight, which was not very satisfactory. The French Broad and its grand scenery, extending about eighty miles from Pigeon River to Asheville, was a grand attraction on my return trip, with just space enough in half that distance for the rairoad on the margin of the pla6d stream gently gliding through the,gorge-the great thoroughfare of the mountains. We also had grand mountain scenery from Harriman, Tenn., to the High bridge across Cumberland river, span ing Its channel 295 feet high, having crossed the mountains through twenty se7ep tunnels each in length from an eihth-to seven-eighths ofa mile-all at rapid apeed and no .stifling smoke from the monster compound engines - thanks to good railroad manageme nt. The level lands and black soil of In diana,as one approaches the Windy City, was a novelty to many of us who are accustomed tc look upon the red hills of South Carolina. A small lake near Chicago, was the largest body of water we had seen since leaving Broad river, as we passed the Ohio at Cincin nati at night when we were all asleep. From Cedar Lake we got a glimpse of the Ferris wheel and as we got nearer to the city the white buildings of the Exposition could be seen. Mr. Dar rows earried our train t1irough from paint Rock to Chicago and gave us all the dots as we wentalong. The Press As sociation presented him with a hand -some gold-headed cane. He was the most pleasant conductor I ever saw. GREAT IS CHICAGO. Mr.Darrowssaid to me at 2 p. m., thatehad reached the suburbs. It was 3.30 p. m. when we got to the depot, and the train was making an average speed of twenty-five miles an hour at the-time. So we at once got an idea of the Immense size of Chicago. It Is fifteen miles in width, and one of its thoroughfares, Halstead street, is thirty-seven miles long. We entered 4 the city parallel with this street. SThe city itself is just about the size of N,ewberry County. Its million and a half of inhabitants who occupy its vast area depend upon the Northwest for their food supplies. The truck farms in the suburbs do not amount to much. The?iwere manf attractions in the -eity. Indeed, Chicago is as interesting to the stranger as the Exposition. . On Wabash avenue, where we first stop 'ped, there was no great bustle, and we wondered what part of the city was it that it was difficult to cross at a corner or board a street car without danger to life and limb if one was not exceedingly cautious. Our entire party had an experience of this kind on State street when we visited the type foundry of Barnhardt Bros. & Spindler. It was at a time of the day when the flurry and bustle of the street was at its height, and while trying to keep clear of the street cars in crossing at the corners, we would almost collide with one or more of the hundreds of vehicles moving briskly up and down the street. You just had to elbow your way around them like in acrowd. Tbe gentleman above named, how ever, treated- the Association very nicely. Type-making in all its details was seen at their foundry-from the melting of the metal with natural gas conveyed in a pipe line 200 miles from Indiana to the finishing of the tiniest letter. The firm also served refresh ments and gave us a compliment ofa boat ride to the Exposition by the lake p route. They do not belong to the type trust, and they treat their employees kindly. This is much to their good sense and fine judgment. The lake route to the Exposition groundshas nodust and few cinders, but the view is confined to narrow limits L smoky day. If Chicago has one thrgms than another it is smoke. And if she has3 .ONE REDEEMING FEATURE -and she needs more in many respects -it is the stiff breeze that springs up from Lake Michigan and drives the smoke into Bosierdom early in the day. Chicago is about twelve miles from the Indiana boundary line. This breeze was one of the refreshing things even at the Exposition grounds and at night it was very cool in Au gust. I think the Press Association enjoyed the most charming weathei the Fair had up to that time. On a smoky morning I visited the Fort Dearborn monument erected t< Kcommemorate the Indian massacri of white settleis in 1812. The monu ment is bronze and cost $435,000. Fifty fee from it stands the lifeless and limb less trunk of a cottonwood tree enclosed with an iron railing. At this tree and towards the fort, the monument mark ing the site of the latter, occurred the dreadful massacre. One representation on the monument is that of an Indian shielding a woman and her babe from the tomahawk-an occurrence in that event of history. In lodging in the city the visitor has the opportunity of seeing more of Chi cago than by staying near the Exposi tion grounds. The trip to the fair can be made very quickly by foar different routes, namely, the Illinois Central, along the lake front; by the boats; by the elevated cars; by the cable cars. The car lines seem to be making more money than anything else in Chicago. Their combined capacity is 110,000 pab sengers an hour. The quarter of a mil lion pt ople at the Exposition on Illi nois day wer3 handled with ease and safety. Besides the immense number of peo pie daily carried to the Fair, the cable cars were crowded with country folk riding all day long up State street, and transferring at 35th, and back the same way. A nickel will pay for twenty five miles transportation on the street cars, and you can ride on horse cars, electric cars and cable cars. In going to LINCOLN PARK, the cable cars run. under Chicago river because they can't go over it. I would rather go under It than through it, and then- you would scarcely escape con tamination. It is the filthest, most sluggish stream I ever saw or heard of. I saw some big big steamboats sail out on Lake Michigan from this river, and the specific gravity of the stream must be increased by its filth, for the boats looked too big for the volume of water In its channel. At the next World's Fair, Chicago could make sensation of this fluid stagnation by cutting It out of the river with an axe and exhibit tng it in barbed wire pens. It would not run away. Too solid! But before that time comes around, the sewerage of the city will be conveyed thirty miles from the city, on the west, to a river by a canal upon which millions of dollara are now being spent. If you must take look at Chicago river, do so before you visit Lincoln Park. In such a beautiful place, ad miring the work of nature and the art of man, you -will forget all about the river. It is a very large park, con taining 650 acres. In its zoological see tion is to be seen a larger collectioi of animals, birds and reptiles than the celebrated- zoological gardens in Cin cinnati or Central Park. I had no guide. I did not know at first it was a park. I attended church in that part of the city, and just thought I would take a rest on the grass under the trees just like 1 saw thousands of folks - do ing-although I had no beer to drink nor lunch to eat. There in flowers, though they toiled not like the lilies of Solomon, In their varigated colors on all sides, you could read "Lincoln Park." The waters of Lake Michigan as they are seen fr6m the eastern side of the park form a vista- of bluish, velvety green, stretching out on a gentle upward slope. The lake wherever seen looks higher than the city, and scientists declare that It is gradually rising every year. Thousands of people spend the Sabbath in ihe park. it is difficult to realize when Sunday comes. I rode six miles to get that "reserved seat" on Sunday in Grace Lutheran church on Belden avenue, in which vicinity the serenity of the Sabbath more abounded than on Wabash avenue, Monroe, State and North Clark streets I traversed In going~ to church. The saloons, shops, and streets venders were doing a big business, judging by the Immense, surging crowds of people. By luck or accident, four of our party lost our way and tramped through a portion of South Park -next day on our way to the Exposition. We were repaid for the trip when some marvelous designs in living, blooming- flowers burst upon our dis gruntled thoughts. Three pieces were remarkable for their arrangement, namely, "Monday, August 21"-calen dar of the day in twenty inch letters; large globe with map of. the world very plainly outlined; Gates Ajar most beautiful of the three. The first was set in has relief on the sloping lawn; the second elevated on a pedes tal of flowers; and the third suggests its own arrangements to the most cas ual reader. There are some buildings in Chicago from the top of which the lake recedes. The CHIEF SKY SCRAPER is the Masonic Temple, twenty stories high, and its observatory making twenty-one. The elevator shoots up past the twenty floors, where offiees are leased for various occupations, and a stairway ?.scends to the observatory. From this height the large buildings six, eight, ten stories-all around look like woodsheds. At least that is whal a Chicagoan told me the Auditoriumi so appeard beside the Masonic Tem' pie. The Auditorium and its towel is eighteen stories. The Masonic Temple is a buildingq-no tower aboul it like the 'Auditorium building (oi the World building in New Yori where you must crawl through a scud. dy hole to get on top). The founda tion of the Masonic Temple is twenty seven feet deep down upon a rock, through a portion of which one of th4 tunnels under Lake Michigan extendi eight miles to give the city its wate: supply. The other tunnel Is four milei long. Some other big buildings no, being built have a foundation thirty seven feet deep-laid with solid stee: embedded in concrete. On Van Buren street, contractors were moving a brick building with a stone foundation.. The building is as large as the Crotwell hotel in Newber ry. It was in the way of a new ele vated car line and must be moved. The contractor gave a guarantee to move it a distance of three hundred feet with out a crack in the walls or the least Injury in any part for $110,000. It was raised up with one thousand jack screws and its peregrination was going on at the rate of twenty fePt a day. There were no cracks in it when I left. Similar buildings are being whirled around to get them out of the way. Nothing like it is to be seen elsewheie In the universe and the foreign digni taries visiting the Exposition look on the sight with wonder. Is it any wonder that such a city could place the Exposition on a such magnificent scale? It cost $22,000,000, and a Chicago bank cashier told me that $16,000,000 his city put in the World's Fair would be a big adver tisement for her-they neverexpected to get it back any-other way. I could tell a Chicagoan from a vis itor every time. He talked up his town. The last. chap I saw the night I started home did it, and he w.-s somewhat tainted with anarchism. Yet with all her bustle, enterprise and feats in civil engineering, social and moral malaria hang in her atmos phere like a deadly pall. A large class of her inhabitants respect no Lord's day, no home-circle, no marriage vow, have no purity of thought, no right living, but ever striving for the al mighty dollar, and living in sensuality and the mire of moral degradation. I never saw a moze terrible illustration of this than the reception given the SALVATION ARMY one night at the corner of Thirty-third and State streets. As each Salvationist would pray in a loud tone in order to be heard above the noise of the crowd, I saw boys four and six years old mock and scoff them in their religious exer cises, and mothers by example were teaching the children in their arms to hail them in the most insulting man ner. The Salvation Army, with its songs and United States flag and mar tial music, was a novel and ludicrous thing even to me, and I looked on with curiosity, and listened to the prayers each one uttered in his or her turn, but I felt like giving those boys and their mothers a lecture. MIDWAY PLAISANCE, crowded with a curious throng from morning to late at night, had some interesting features. There is a stereo typed sameness about the appearance and manner of the Asiatic people there congregated, and it is not worth the time nor the money to visit their "en tertainments." You can see the natives of the East in their squalid, dirty at tire, and if you have learned anything at all of their custorms from books of travel, the sight of them ought to be satisfactory. The Ferris wheel is in Midway Plaisance. It is one of the remarkable things at the World's Fair. Its diam eter is 264 feet, and a ride on it takes you 261 feet in the ai'r, where you have time as it moves slowly around to take a view of Chicago and the Exposition grounds. Your vision is lost in the dim distance before the full scope of the city can be taken in., but you can get a splendid idea of the Exposition buildings, and overlook some of the things in the Plaisance that scarcely deserve closer inspection. The cars thirty-six in number-which carry you up in the air are half the size of a railway coach, and are swung on pivots so that they are always on a level as they go around. There are chairs 10: sit upon, but one of our party-the Press Association took it in a body laid himself down upon the floor as we went arourid, notwithstanding the fact that not a single accident has occurred since the wheel was erected. I read the other day, however, that it got stuck for four hours. The passengers up there in the air must have enjoyed it to the utmost. The wheel cost $390,000, and has been sold for $500,000 to a company on Coney Island, where it will be removed. Its shaft,-the largest ever made in the world, was forged out of solid steel. It is 45 feet in length, 33 inches in di ameter and cost $30,000. The wheel has taken in altogether $300,000, and on September 1st began paying the Exposition twenty-five per cent. of the gross receipts. Its receipts are now $8,000 per day. Fifty cents is charged for two revolutiocs, which are made in forty minutes. I could have gone around several times more. It was ex ilirating. Two engines of 1,000 horse power each drive the machinery which turns the immense wheel, its move ment being transmitted by a chain belt from a double set of four wheels two above and larger than the lower wheels. It is run very much like the propelling power of a bicycle. The wheel at night presents a beau tiful sight from the elevated railroad as you are leaving the Exposition grounds. Its 1,400 incandescent elec tric lights show the circle of the wheel well defined against the horizon in in brilliant illumination. Midway is a great sideshow of the Exposition. It is a wide street a mile long, and the different shows are on either side. A stroll through the street ought to satisfy the visitor that nearly everything there is overrated by the criers. They make strenuous efforts to entice the crowd. I saw the Ameri can crier make three attempts to get a crowd into the Persian theatre. He was desperate in his efforts to make a stampede for the door amid the music and the shouts of four of the actors. Thr wna no Persian dance that after noon, however, and shortly afterwards tLa star actress-a woman of even features, f!ashi-g black eyes and brown complex*on, low in statue and of neat appearauce-was smoking cigarettes at the rear entrance. The effects of the financial stringency was even to be seen on Midway. The Javanese vil lage, one of its most quiet and inter esting sigh's-had thrown np the sponge and notified the Exposition managers that it vould not pay the toll of twenty-five per cent. on its receipts -the same as charged the other shows. The Press Association viRited the Dahomey village in a body. It was interesting only in the fact that we saw there a party of negroes with a dialect of their own, but with scant attire, and using American cooking utensils and gambling with Americae pasteboard for pennies tossed them by the visitors. The women of Dahomey were stouter-looking than the men, but had no appearance of being the fighters in their army. The men are infatuated with jewelry. One fellow, engaged in washing dishes, wanted a lady in our party to give him a large brooch she wore. He was rollicksome in an effort to make his desire known by gesticulation, chattering like a magpie and showing his white teeth. We did not waste valuable time by waiting two hours for the Dahomeyans to give their native dance on the platform in the center of the village. The German village, the Irish village and the Streets of Cairo are three things in Midway that are worth seeing. The Streets of Cairo contains twenty-four pieces of architecture direct from Cairo itself, all set;up and so arranged that on entering the place you feel like you are breathing an Egyptian atmosphere. There the camel drivers are raking in the shekels a~nd also the small boys who run the donkey transportation. The Egyptian donkey is a very small animal and easy to get on and off. It is the camel that takes the fancy of Americait girl, and ride she would and ride she do(s tolthe amusement of the bustling throng in the narrow streets. Dismounting the camel causes the fun. The animal in kneeling to be relieved of its rider would get down upon its knees, and up and down, in a wave-like motion, its humps would go ! Then before the . fair rider was scarcely aware of it, the Egyptian driver would grasp her with both arms around the waist and plant her feet upon the ground. The trips upon the camels and donkeys were made by all types of the American woman and the children In quick succession, as the drivers with shiuts woutd. peed the beasts from one end of the street to the other. This programme,would be kept up all day. There were other attrac tions-jugglery, ancient religious and marriage rites,i the mummy of the Pharaohs in the days of Moses, all to be seen at extra fees. The entrance fees to all the Midway shows amount to $13.75, but the theatres and gardens inside the villages further increase this sum to $30.25. With the exception of those noted above, and possibly a few others, Midway is an aggregation of fakes. Americans must see everything going on, however, and Midway is thronged all day with a curiosity-seek ing crowd. ' W. P. H. sWAN's TALE OF WOE. He Complains of bad Treatment While in JaIl--Governor Tillman Gets Mad and Talks Very Large About It. [The State, 13th.1l The following letter from the most widely known of the State's liquor spies was received yesterday morning .t the Executive office, and it made Governor Tillman pretty hot, as will be seen from his remarks below on the subject: .."CHARLESTON, Sept, 7, 1893. "Governor B. R. Tillman. DEAR SIR: I came out of jail yester day afternoon, after being most bru tally treated. My bedding was sent and was refused by the jailer. I was put in a room with four burglars and thieves. My bed was a narrow bench with my coat for a pillow. I have to report to the United States marshal daily. My instructions are to make no cases or arrests. Very respectfully, "C. B. SWAN." HOT SHOT FROM THE GOVERNOR Swan seems to be giving the State authorities a great deal of trouble, but he has been acting all along according to orders, an'~d the Governor stands by him. When Governor Tillman was asked yesterday what he had to say about this latest development, he said: "Well, it didn't last long enough to do anything but show the animus of the jailer and his friends, I publish this letter as a warning that if that kind of a thing is tried here I will see what can be done by the Legislature or somebody else to make that crowd down there know that the State con stables have not been just picked up from the scum of the earth and are to be respected, and that the jailor in re fusing to let him have his bedding in there is simply acting as a dirty tool of a dirty crowd, and if he has any re gard for his job he had better not try it any more. The sheriff is responsible for his employe's conduct, and if he can't be reached by a jury he can be reached by a legislative committee." Are You Nervous? Are you all tired out, do you have that tired feeling or siek headache? You can be relieved of all these~ symptomni by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, which~ gives nerve, mental and bodily strengtt and thoroughly purifies the blood. I1 also creates a good appetite, cures id gestion, heartburn and dyspepsia. HOOD's PILLS are easy to take, eas) in action and sure in effect. 2-3 cents a SOME THINGS HE LIKES. Sam Jones is Fond of Fast Horses and Fast Trains-Extract from One of His Sermons. Up in Kentucky, where I have preached, they have tried to get me to preach against three blooded horses, but I don't do it. I like them. I tell you when you walk out and look at blooded horses you see something. You know I believe Nancy Hanks is a greatly superior being to Sullivan and Corbett. Your old mules can get into a lot and kick the filling out of one another like Sullivan and Corbett, but when it comes to getting there in 2: 06 it takes Nancy Hanks, and I believe Nanks is a higher bred animal than Sullivan and Corbett. I am candid in what I say. I like go. I like it. I tell you when you walk around these race tracks and look at these blooded horses, when you see five or six thor oughbreds prance around, nervous, waiting for the word, and finally tosee them leap and lunge with nostrils dis tended and musc!es quivering and see them at last come in on the home stretch neck and neck and every horse doing his level best. God bless you, f will go one eye on that, preacher as I am. But I haven't seen a horse race in twenty years, and never expect to see another, I don't. I will tell you why. Not that I don't like thorough bred horses, but I can't stand the dirty scabs standing around betting. I have seen some of those fellows. If you don't bind them up they are going to turn to razor-backed hogs. I like blooded horses, anything that will get up and go. I want to see Cartersville rise up in character and manhood and start to nobler achievements and grander liv ing. I want to see that. LIKES A RACE. I love to see a race. I always did like a race. Wnen I was fifteen years old there wasn't a boy in the town that could out run me. I don't like to get myself left, never did like that. I don't know what it is in a man, but there is something in it that makes a man not want to get left. I want to head the procession. I was going in on the Ohio and Mis sissippi railroad some time ago-going into Cincinnati, and just seventeen miles out of Cincinnati the Big Four comes around a curve and runs paral lel for seventeen miles, and after our train came to that point I looked out and saw the Big Four train, and there it was coming right along with us, and I reckon we_ran a mile. I could have held the hand of the man in the car opposite to me, and we didn't run far. I began to feel we was racing and I loooked around and saw everybody else feeling it, and it didn7t take me long t6 determine that everybody else was feeling it. We was racing. Now, you couldn't have pleased me better. Well, we ran along for a mile or two right along together, neither gaining on the other. Our grand old engine had fourteen cars, counting four sleep ers, and the others had a small uengine with six coaches counting one sleeper. Their little engine picked up and I saw the rear sleeper of that train was passing on by me and I said well we are beat. It was no race at all, and I f:elt bad too. I never did -like to get left. It is something in me, I can not tell you what it is. Some of you fellows remind me of the old darky who had an old mule that just could put one foot before the other and a fellow came up and said, "Uncle, have you passed anybody going up the road on a bay horse?" and he said, "I meet as many folks as any man in town, but I never has passed any in my life." He never passed any thing. God bless you, some of these fellows in this town have met as many fellows as anybody, but have passed nothing. Directly our grand old engine com menced getting in her work; there was a little decline in the track, and with every pulsation I could feel her getting there, and as the momentum increased we had gotten so far ahead the little engine was playing along by my side, and I sat there and looked at the little fellow and saw the parallel rods play ing up and down, I said, "'Good-bye, little fellow, you will never get there now." I sat there and looked at that little engine. The fireman was throw ing in the coal and he threw in three or four scoops of coal into the furnace of the little engine. Then I saw the engineer shut off thie water from the boiler and I saw him draw the noise lever still one notch higher and I saw him catch the sand rod and shake it and take hold of the throttle and jerk the little engine wide open, and the little engine seemed to lay down and the sparks just seemed to fly from every inch of her, and she began to recover the space she had lost, and she had run four or five cars ahead and I thought she was gone sure enough. But di rectly our grand old mogul engine be gan getting in her work. I felt her mighty pulsations, and directly we were getting the space back, and di rectly that little engine way playing right at my side again and I said, "Good-bye, you are gone this time," and we were running, it seemed to me, tat very minute 70 miles an hour down that track. The same old fireman was heaving in coal, and I saw the engineer again shut the water off, and I saw him again raise the noise lever and tussle at the throttle a minute or two, and the sparks were flying from every inch of her, and she seemed to be rolling all over and began to get ahead and beat the race, and I said, "Goe it; good eve nng" and took off my hat. I had rather be beaten by a first-class fellow than to just beat a little pup. ON THE ROAD TO HEAVEN. As I look around on my way to heav en I say I do wish I could see the grand old Presbyterian church and her grand old engine start away and see her move out, and see the grand old Methodist church out in line, and the grand old Episcopal church and the grand old Catholic church, all these mighty engines of power with their freight out on the track, with their throttles pulled wide open, the track sanded, and the sparks just flying, from all over there, each trying to beat the other, and as we roll on towards God a mile a minute and look down the river and see the old Baptist and Christian steamboat coming up the river just as fast as they can come. Oh, my Lord, help us to whip the fight, win the prize and wear the crown. Get up, shake the dust off and be a man. LEGENDS OF NEWBERRY AND VICINITY. BY PROF. F. MUENCH. No. 3.* How They Kept Their Faith. Oh Spirit of the olden Time, 'Mid modern life and foreign clime! How weirdly, how endearingly Thy proofs, thy traces speak to me, - And bring to mind Fond memories long left behind! Long missed and unexpected quite They broke on my astounded sight In this scarce-known, world-sheltered nook, Like old songs found in some new book, Revised may be, Yet same in charm of melody. Here hundred fifty years ago, -:Exiled by war and famine's woe, A fortune-beaten, soul-tried band Found refuge 'mid a foreign land, Their only wealth TheirFaith, theirindustry, theirhealtb. And e'en from the beginning here, Through many a long and weary year, War's scourge laid waste 'gain and again The homes and fields of these brave men And spoiled the fruits Of all their labors and pursuits. Yet they prevailed! and as they bore Through War's wild woes, they tri umphed o'er The tempting lures of Peace as well Her race for gold, her pleasure's spell And free from strife, They-kept their simple modes of life! Nor did their virtue die with them: As costliest heirloom, dearest gem Their off-spring., prize its charm and tread The pious path their fathers led; And wouldat thou doubt Behold the proofs displayed about: The Village-Church, spot most revered, To old and young alike endeared, Hence kept unchanged in style of choir Of chancel, pews, and e'en the spire That points on high Its tapering finger to the sky; The well-kept fence,-the well-tilled farm, The cottage breathing homelife's charm; The speech replete with heart's' con tent, The welcome's kindly sentiment, The board of cheer That entertains the strangers here! And though by force of fact, since long They have discussed that dear old tongue, Reserving but its mystic charm Of legendary lore,-what harm! The better part Remains their's still: Faith, Truth and Heart! This is the mother-country's trait: Calmly to labor and to wait And hold the true essential fast Through trials and storms long as they last, In perfect trust That.*God will prosper what is just. *No.1 of the Series entitled "Love will Abide" was published-in the edi tion of August 2, of The Herald and News, a few copies of which may be had on application. TAKEN BACK TO NOETH CABOLINA. The Sheriff Takes the Old Abductor Back What the Officer Says. . [The State.] Sheriff Monroe, of Rowan County, N. C., arrived in the city yesterday morning for the purpose of taking B. H. Wood, the old white man captured here Sunday last charged with the ab duction of little Luola Coley, back to North Carolina to answer to the in dictment. The Sheriff says the feeling in North Carolin.a is very strong against the old man, and he will likely get the full ex tent of the law for his crime. He says Wood's quarrelsome disposition has always made his reputation bad in the county. He says Wooo left an estima ble wife to run away with the little child. All the people in the county think that Wood forcibly abduicted the child, and that she did not act of her own volition in coming away with hin. He says the child's father did: all he could to trace them down, but, being a poor man could not follow them about tho country. The sheriff left with his prisoner last evening. If you have sick or nervous headache, take Ayer's Cathartic Pills. They will cleanse the stomach, restore healthy action to the digestive organs, remove effete matter (the presence of which de presses the nerves and brain), and thus ies eeody relief. ARF ON "FUTURES." Dealing in Futures Is Gambling,-But He Does Not Think It Affects the Peo ple to the Degree that Bishop Keener Asserts It Does The Getting of Riches. Let us tote fair with the figures. Bishop Keener says in The Nashville Christian Advocate that "the mercan tile world in the South is now controlled by the wholesale gambling and massive rrauds of cotton fatures;-that the centers )f New York, Liverpool and New Or leans have yielded to this colossal 5cheme of hazzard until the production )f the staple has no effect upon its mar ket value." He says that "during the past three onths there have been sold in New York and elsewhere 56,000,000 bales of 3otton." This would be224,000,000 bales or the year's crop. All this, he says, 'Is purely imaginary value except the 3,000,000 bales that were raised and this deal cotton that was not made would vield $7,840,000,000, and this is the Iguring against which the planter has o make headway. All the gambling lens in this country and in the Baden Badens of Europe are child's play ompared with this huge monster that nvelopes in its coils the fortunes and ven the lives of myriads." Gambling in futures isa sin. Betting )n anything is a sin, for it is a mode of Yetting something for nothing. It is lemoralizing in the extreme and re 5ults In ruin to thousands of-those who mgage it, but I cannot see how deal ng in futures affects the price of cotton, br in its analysis it is betting whether t will go up or down. There were no 56,000,000 bales bought or sold, neither real or ideal. The speculator says to the bucket shop: "I'll bet you that :otton will go up within thirty days ind I will put up a margin on 250 )ales." "All right," says the bucket hop, "put up $500 and I'll take the )et." Cotton drops instead of rising d the $500 goes up the spout and the peculator is a sadder but not a wiser man. Another speculator bet the other way, perhaps, and won, and of course e tries it again. The shop will bet either way, and like the dealer in a ,aro bank, always comes out ahead In ,he end. The shop has no interest to ull or bear the cotton. The shop knows ts consumers snd the average of all ,he bets, and can hedge to suit it. Now that is the way I understand it. [t is no getting up a corner on cotton. [t is simply backing a man's judgment ith his money. That $500 was the take; and while it represented 250 )ales, it was really the value of only Ifteen bales. This solution would educe the bishop's figures from 56,000, )00 bales to 3,400,000 bales as the amount lost or won' in three months. What it has to do with fixing the price [ cannot see. Liverpool still fixes the price and has the India crop to help Sx it and it seems to be uniformly fxed every year in proportion. It is he farmers really who fix the price when they fix the acreage to the crop; England-America agents still examine sarefally and cautiously into the crop condition of every county in the South. England knows the condition and ex tentof the crop in BartowCounty better to-day than any farmer in it, for she does not rely upon one source of infor mation but on several. There is not a buyer or dealer in Georgia who does not rely upon the last reports sent him from some great house -in New York that is connected with English or New England mills. I caniot see where the bucket shops come in or how they can inuence the price. Millionaires like the Inmans put large moneys in cotton every year and make money, for it is their business, and they understand it, but they run no bucket shops, nor do they make colossal fortunes by specula tion. They back their judgment with their money and are able to hold their purchases until there is a point. I re member a Charleston coffee merchant by the name of Samuel Farrar who made in thirty years a million dollars by dealing in.coffee. He had a large map in his private office, and it was checked off in years and months and days, and the price of coffee for every day was marked, and a green line marked the ups and downs, the rise and fall, and it was a very crooked line. Then there was a straight red line that split the difference and showed the average price for the year. Brazil wai the market where he bought. If the crop was short he made allowancee for it and raised the red line according to his best- judgment and his most reli able information. "I buy," said he "when the price is below that line. ] sell when it is above." Just so it is with shrewd men everywhere. I believe there is too much odiun heaped upon rich men, too much malig nant abuse of money kings and million aires. I reckon we would all get ried if we could-even the preachers. Il grieves me to hear some of these politi cians trying to array the poor agains the rich and to stir up strife and bitter ness among the people. It did not us< to be that way. Men who prospere< were respected in my young days-re spected by everybody. Riches were no onsidered a sin. The Scriptures spea] approvingly of Abraham and Job ani Solonon and tell us of their gree wealth, and how the Lord blessed their I believe that there are good men nol who are rich and they do good wit1 their money. If they did not I don know what would become of the poe and suffering when pestilence or famin or storms afflict them. But there seems to be a feeling of ur rest and bitternessamongcertainlclass( Iall over the country. Somebody i making the working people believe that they are imposed upon by the rich and by the government. I see in a Rome paper that they have organized in Chulis district, in Floyd county, "a bread brigade," and have 400 members and they have signs and grips and pass words, and have sworn that they "will have 10 cents a pound for their cotton, debt or no debt, and they will hold It at the muzzle of a Winchester." Surely that can't be so. Is it possible that the spirit of anarchy and communism is taking hold of our people? Bread bri gade! Why, there is not a farmer In Floyd county who is suffering for bread. There is none in this county. Corn is abundant everywhere. It used to roll in here from the West by the carload, but it don't come now. There are hundreds of farmers in Bartow who will have corn and fodder and meat to sell. Our farmers are better off to-day than any other class in the community. They come and go when they please. They have health and strength and good water and are never visited by storms orpestilence, such as have lately come upon our sea-coast. They have cattle and hogs and chickens and eggs and "garden sass" and the schoolhouse and the church are not far away-what a pity they cannot for a little while look in upon the poor of Europe and havetheirhearts touched with gratitude that they live in this blessed land. Labor is too hard upon capital-too threatening-Loo exacting. These may seem strange words for me to use, but they are true. I am as hostile to mono polies and trusts and combines as any body, but when I read of these great strikes in a time like this, it shocks my sympathy. What are these organiza tions anyhow, but monopolies. The watchword of most of them is "if you don't pay so much, we will quit and when we quit nobody else shall take our places." That did not use to be the law and how it comes to be the law now, I cannot understand. But we are gratified to see such kind relations between Mr. Thomas and his employees on ourroad from Atlanta to Nashville. That is all right and we hope it will continue. The mystery is how a railroad can pay Its men at all while our whole financial system.Is paralyzed. There is hardly enough. ftight business now to pay for the axle grease. One day last week there were only seven loaded cars going North over this great road, so I was told. Be low Atlanta thereisnothingtoloadad yet the lease of the Western and Atlan tic costs $120 a day. Railroads and factories. have their troubles, and but few make a fair rateof interest on their cost. The wonder Is that any sane man will invest in them where strikesand violence prevail. Now, I do not wish to be misundev-. stood. I have respect for-all the organi zations where they respect these rights of other people, but when those em ployed on' one road say to theirem ployers you shall not carry any freight that comes over another road where there Is a strike, their demand shocks the judgment and the common sense of mankind. When the strikers asal and Intimidate others who would glad ly work, or when they allow violence to bedone and the track torn up and the locomotives disabled,. It is simply an outrage upon the law of the land and If persisted in, will surely bring this government into a monarchy like those of Europe, where It takes a stand ing army of half a milion soldiers to protect citizensanlitheir property. The very class who are now Importunate for the government ownership of railroads should remember that strikes are not tolerated among governmentemployes, neither in the army or naval or public 7 works or the railway mail service. Strikers do not dare now to stop the locomotive and the car that carries the United States mail. Well, of course, these brotherhoods have an answer to all this, and-I have read it alL Papers and periodicals come to me weekly that breathe out enmity to capital and are tainted with coin munistic principles and in my opinion these publications are doing a world of '. harm. They are educating the work ing people to the idea that there should be a division-a division. In the awful days of the French revolution three communists went into the Bank of Rothschilds and cried "liberty, equality, fraternity-we have come for our money." The Jew said "all right; I have 60,000,000 francs in the bank. There are 60,000,000 peoPle in France; here are yours,"? and he threw three francs upon the counter. "Now go tell the rest to come -on and get their's," said he. But we have not come to that and I hope we never will, it becomes all our considerate people, whether poor or rich, whether employers or employed, to be reasonable and tolerant, and to respect the rights of others and teach others so to do. .BILL AEP. It isn't in the ordinary way that Dr. Pierce's favorite Prescription comes to the weak and suffering woman who needs it. It's gtanteed. Not with words merely; any medicine can make claims and promises. What is done -with the "Favorite Prescription" is this: if it fails to benefit or cure, in any case, your money is returned. 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