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ESTABLISHED 1865 NEWBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1894. PRICE $1.5J*A Y BILL ARP'S ROUM THRBUST. Es Is Down in Florlds, and Must Have Newberry in His Mind When He Talks About Water Works. [Atlanta Constitution. I Gainesville is a beautiful town, but is not ripe. The people do not pull tether. They are not "discordant, belligerent," as Daniel Webster said, but they do. not harnionze on public matters. They lack an unslfi6h, enter . prislng leader in whom everybody %,.-would have contidence. They have been trying for three years to build waterworks and can't do it. Towns have character just like individuals. Take Cedartown, in Georgia, for in sLance. Half a dozen of her best men determined to have waterworks and electric lights, and within twelve months they had both established and _ everybody is proud. These men sold their town bonds at par in New York about the eame time that Atlanta sold hers for 95 cents. Both plants cost less than $50,000. Now Gainesville is a larger and richer town and has three times the trade, but her people do not pull together. Atlanta is the most re markable city in the South for her perfect harmony in public affairs. Her newspapers quarrel, her preachers get into bitter controversies, her society falls into scandal, but her commercial people are a unit for Atlanta. They spend money like water on public en ,.terprise. They have cheek enough to invite the world to come to Atlanta and the$ dare to rival Cnicago in an exposition. In the office of The Con stitution there is every year conceived somenewienture that willdraw thou r andkof people there, and straightway all theewspapers and preachers and tnercants and manufacturers and rail roads .fall into line and the movement isa success. Gainesville is the center of Florida's best agricultural region. More long s tapte cotton -is grown in this region than any other. Larger areas are put in uihbages, lettuce, and potatoes for Sarlyshipment to Northern markets. :.raWberries are grown in fields instead eftcbts. They were shipping while is 'there. These early berries bring p gents a quart at.home. It is a lovely surfounding country and is not at all -dent on oranges for a support. I -vis the guest while there of an old , end who. wia.With me in the last ite ma ,1egislature in Milledge dle slurin he dark reconstruction sI eks are white now, bdt there is the old rebel fire in his Seye. I wonder how many Georgians are left who remember Major Teach remember him as a co-member of that body? How we did talk and talk about those perilous times and about those who are dead. Dead! We could hardly recall.batfa dozen who still live. Old Father Time seems to be cruel and re lentless.. I met another old friend at Archer panof God who, for twenty years, ~eached -at- Cartersville and had to a rtere fbr'his health. Rev. Theo i VSe tib and his good wife are S ioarrfems.Chester, S. C., to Cedar ~eye . nd they are lovecl.wberever irewn. 3Moving from Cartersville to Flofrida saved his life. There is no doubt iboiit that. Thbe .truthb is, it a mnanshoald live all his life in Florida one lug would do him, and he might have been built that way, especially if he Hived near the gulf coast. I went from Archer to C.dar Keys, which twelve years ago was the proud em porium and trade center of western and middle Florida. Ocean steamers come in there and all roads pointed to CedarI Keys frem the Tampa and Leesburg and Ocala country. It is sad to bear -the history of a ruined town-ruined be mighty progressive power of It is tbe same old story. Tnlt." Cedar Keys is commner-, e.tlly dead, but there are still a few good people holding the fort. Fish and' -olysters are still shipped in large quan tities, and the cedar pencil factories give employment to a hundred hand. It is still quite a resort for invalids who testify to it delightful and curative e limate. I visited some phosphate plants in .this region around Archer, and it looked like a solid business. Great banks of the lump pbosphate are seen along the raiiroads, waiting transporta tion. The lump phosphate looks like stained chalk and is full of the remains Kof animal life. Mining it gives employ meat to thousands of people, white and black, but all the dirty work is done by negroes. They get their dollar a day every Saturday night and gamble it away Sunday. They are uncertain, unreliable and take no thought for to mIorrow. Ben Akermoan, of Carters yille, Is in charge of a large plant and says that some Saturdaysbe quit s with fity. negro men and does not know whether he will have fifty or five when Monday comes. They go and eome like tramps. He became so dis gusted with them last week that he went up to Cartersville after negro slabor that he knew. He came back with thirty and says he bad rather *-have one North Georgia negro than a dozen of these Florida tramps. This -phospbate business is just immense and is on the increase in that region. Some impjrudent ventures have come to grief, but it was not the fault of thbe phosphate. I was told ofone plant that cost $20,000 to get started getting out $1,500 worth and then the bottom fell out. The phosphate was only a small pocket and no more co-uld be found on the property. But most investors are now very careful what they buy. They have many tests made and pits sunk, but even then the pockets will some tmem nn.enpetedly give out. Returning from Archer to Clearwater I tried a new road known as the short cut to Tampa. It is a short cut and goes through a lovely country along by Blue Springs and Dunellen-a long moss and lake country, with orange groves alternating. It crosses the orange belt near Lacoochee, and I expected to get off at the crossing, for the law says that all trains imust stop at eross ings. When I told the conduatrr to put me off at the crossing he respect fully declined and said his train never stopped there; that it slowed up a lit tIe, but I must get offat Macon, which was two miles from Lacoochee. Well, I never fight a railroad, of course, and so I got off at Macon, which was no town--no nothing, but a station, and so I took my heavy valise in one hand and my cloak in the other and turned tramp myself for Lacoochees If you never walked two miles in Florida sand you don't know anything about an up bill business. It is on a dead level, of course, but it is worse than climbing a mountain in North Georgia. My valise got heavier and heavier all the way. I sat down or laid down every hundred yards and looked behind me to see how far I had got, and ahead of me to the distant spires of Lacoo4ee. I had two hours' time to make it in and it took nearly all of it. I sank down in Mr. John's hotel piazza and faintly asked for water. I tried to appear calm and serene, but I couldent. My legs had grown shorter and my arms longer than they had been in ten years, and I trembled all over like a whipped school boy. But old Father Time is a good doctor, and by the time I got a good dinner I was ready for the train that brought me to Clearwater again. My candid opinion is that I am too old for this sort of business, and if Mr. Plant wants me to ride on his short-cut again he must issue a special order to have me dropped at the crossing and the Orange belt must have me carefully picked up when it gets there. The railroads ought to be made to have a good station house at these crossings, with chairs and couches to recline on and ice water and the morning papers. But now I am at rest again. I found seven cousins here from Louisvitle, Ky., and some other friends and ac. quaintances. The town is filling up and the boarding houses are on a strain, but if anybody else wishes to come rooms for them will be provided. This is the place and we are the people. BILL ARP. WEBER WAS SHORT. The Ex-Sehool Commissioner of Charleston County Behind in His Ofrce-The Shortage is 81,237. [Special to Atlanta Constitution.] COLUMBIA, S. C., February 14.-A great sensation has been created in South Carolina by the announcement officially given out to-day by Superin tendent of Education Mayfield of the defalcation of John L. Weber, schoo) coimissioner of Charleston County. for several years. The amount of pec* ulation is $1,237. The shortage extends over several years. Why it has not been discovered before has not been ex plained, but there are insinuations thai other Charleston officials may be i m plicated, and that further startling de. velopments may result. Weber was connected with The News and Courier, and was at the same time school commissioner. He recently re signed both positions and accepted the position of professor of English litera. tre in Trinity College, North Carolina, Since he left the State, the defalcatiot was discovered. Weber not onl3 raised sQhool pay certificates by insert ing figures in the legitimate amount but got trustees to sign others, whic~ were to pay for school supplies, which he alleged to have purchased. Raving complete confide.nce In him, they signed the warrant for small amounts usually, which he afterwards "raised.' WEBER QUIETLY ARRESTED. The matter has been known in offi cial circles for some time. Recently Governor Tillman telegraphed Webei to come to South Carolina, which he did. He was quietly arrested in Char. leston and gave bond and returned t< Trinity College. The exposure wai made public to-day and the evidencE seems indisputable against Weber Unless he skips his bond the peniten tiary is undoubtedly his lot. Weber is highly connected in thi State. He has a wife and two smnal children.. He got a good salary as newspaper man and as commissioner but his downfall is attributed to higi social aspirations which he did no have money to keep up, to gamblini generally and dealing in futures. The Jury Acquitted Himn. LSpecial to The State.] DARLING'TON, February 13.-Ed Nixon, a colored man, was tried to day for selling whiskey. The Jury ac quitted him. He was defended by Mr C. S. Nettles. *Sing a song of common sens', A mind that's full of t7/, A man who knows a thinigor tw< And shows it in his eye-. Who's well aware the medicine That's best for you and rme Is always Dr. Pierce's Medi ical Discovery. You canl escape just iabout one-hal the ilb. that flesh is heir to, by being ready for them. When you feel dull lansid, "out of sorts" generally-thel you may kuew that some of them ar coming. Don't let the- get any further Brace the system up with Dr. Pieree's Golden Medical Discovery. That pre rents as well as cures: It invigorate: the liver and kidneys, purifies and en riches th'e blood, sharpens the appetite improves digestion, and restores healti and vigor. THE FARMER{S' ALLIANCE. Interesting Facts About the Condition of the Order in the United States-A National Officer Interviewed. [The State, l4th.1 Col. D. P. 'Duncan, the secretary of the National Farmers' Alliance, has, just returned from the annual meeting of that body at Topeka, Kan., and he gives much information about the meet ing and the general condition of the order, as shown by the reports present ed from the different States. The most interesting feature of the information afforded by this offleer yes terday was the announcement of the exact strength of "our noble order" in this State, as shown by the official re port. The Alliance has all along been considered an important factor in South Carolina politics, and it will sur prise a great many to know that the president of the State Alliance reported that there were 15,000 members of the order in this State who had kept their dues paid up to date. He further re ported that the entire membership of the order in this State, as shown by the rolls, was 38,000. Col. Duncan says that twenty-four States in the Union were represented at the national gathering by thirty five delegates, and several. States sent in full reports. North Carolina report ed a membership of 26,000 paid up men. Col. Duncan says there has been no real increase in the membership of the Alliance, viewed as a national order, during the past year, but that it has held its own better than they thought it would. A great many had gone into it expecting a hasty business revolu tion. He says the Alliance is now pretty strong in the following States: North and South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala bama, Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Jndi ans, Michigan, Colorado, South Dako ta, California, Iowa, Missouri, Nebras ka, Kansas, Oklahoma, Utah and Illi nois. The secretary says it is in a much stronger and more healthy condition in the South than anywhere else. He says this is due to the fact that in a large measure the Alliance did not, in the South, leave and go into the Populist party, as it did in the North and West. Some States thought that it was an order for political purposes only, but now their ideas have been changed, as is shown, he says, by the following address ibsued to the Alliance people of the country by a committee on the good of the order, of which the new president,Marion Butler, of North Carolina, was the chairman: To the members of the N. F. A. and I. U., and to all whom it may con cern: Since the inception of this grand or ganization there have been those who thought that when some political party championed our political demands, tbat then the mission of the organiza tion was endied. This belief is based on the belief that a political party will tage care of the interests of the farmers. This is a fatal mistake. Besides, it is proven by the acts of every other class of citizens (except politicians) that they do not rely on parties alone, but organize for influence on any and all partic's. Every wealth producer of America should ever keep thbe following truths before him: First-That sooner or later all politi cal parties are controlled by politi cians. Second-That politicians never serve any cause or class of citizens from a sense of justice, but always through policy, fear or gain. Therefore, the class of citizens repre sented by the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union can never hope for or secure relief or justice from any po litical party, not even from one that claims to champion and endorse its every p,rinciple and demand, unless they maintain an organization that will ever stand as an effective support to the man and. the party that dares to do right, and a constant menace to those who dare trifle with the rights and liberties of the people. Hence the Supreme Council solemnly warns those who are true to the principle. of the Alliance that they would make a most fatal mistake if they gave up the organ ization which is the only power that can force those reforms through any political party, and if indeed we were living under a perfectly just govern ment to-day, the organization would etill be absolutely necessary as a great moral force to keep it so. But our supreme Council calls upon you to ever remember that the organi zation has a great mission to perform outside of political reform. If the wealth producers of America are to keep pace with the march of civilization they muss do it through social and intellectual contact. We have not only grown in mind and heart by such association and contact, but we pool our intellect for the mutual advancement of our best interests. We desire political reform to enable us to carry out the mission. Therefore, in conclusion,the Supreme Council appeals to every one who be lieves in the principles of the Alliance to stand by and extend the organiza tion not only to secure the benefits that come from organization, but also to malle certain that some political party shall enact their demands ibto law. Col. Duncan says that the Alliance is much stronger in South and North Carolina than anywhere else, owing to the excellence of the work of the ex changes. He says the exchanges have ,been ding better work in these two States than any other in the United States. He says the Alliance, as a body, in tends to keep clear of politics. Alli ancemen, Col. Duncan says, intend to vote for the best men-that is, men who favor their demands and measures which they think for the best interests of the country at large. DEATH OF DR, SLOAN. The End of a Long Useful Life-He Served His People in the Pulpit for Nearly Fifty Years. [Abbevilie Press and Banner, 14th.] After a long illness the Rev. H. Thompson Sloan, D. D., died yesterday at his home in this county, at an ad vanced age, beloved and respected by all who knew him. During nearly the whole of his min isterial life he served Cedar Spring and Long Cane congregations in this county, and it was only within a very recent period that he ceased to labor with them. Dr. Sloan not only has an irreproach able character, but his life and teach ings were such as to command the love and confidence of all people, of every class and condition. While he was te nacious for the right, and contended strenuously for the exactions of all the tenets of his Christian faith, yet he was tolerant and charitable towards those who saw the light from a differ ent standpoint, or who in their own life, lacked something of coming up to the requirements of the highest stand ard of the Christian's life. In service to the Fathers he recognized the broth erhood of mankind, and ever sought to bring all men within the fold of the Christian faith. While: he enlisted in the Master's cause under the banner of the Associ ate Reformed Presbyterian church, he was a Christian in the broad and true sense of the word, and from his youth up be lived a blameless life and a de voted servant of his Redeemer. He was remarkable for his stability of character and steadfastness of friend ship and devotion. If he ever missed attending commencement at Due West in the fifty years of its existence, we have never heard of it, and be was f,r possibly forty years, one of the trustees of that institution. He will be buried to-day, and we will know no more of him, except as his works do Jive after him. as o the C A mos esimben wel-nw itie p s. nues well-know butno esial stoie tocin e ualaiywtthQee'En glsh Sesreoredt avespke ofanivai daghe .aV ineiae an faote,uonwoeedcto muhmoe h0ad enlvse,ah tik. I -av ste.ay reu-dt ciu sada-ones.Nr os h spok, a oneof hos deigtfl ea so fTheier, ofpinal tairess o gret Eatywh has been on- ut studin the s ofueos awneighor. bnThestiableghtorirear tochy wher glish. his reprtetulor haveatokena orfeence.valid daid,te as indeicte,a veyand of her:pnwoe dcto "Pehap one hady eenfavseds the [ost cote ondon he acildrn.I News Aso bn living tat t Rottwei mem Ges hery familysthavemitte accusoed hey aveint thelw. Teatied toth which lady They hae been hare in covetion fatete upperinnherbmai ciosrsanal-wongs. s"Horgeswer followin riesatsetoheugsbabgfar Adwll-now (Artcieofthe woan of the West En,siiaryunaila.wt It nicetieshof ithe propries lagay,t spo,at Honedof thsprie det, teas tuted the oue of neihor.' CLEVELAN D'S POLITICAL CHARAC TEit. "Is He a Snceess as President?"-An Af fi rmative View by James Jeffrey Roche. (From Donahoe's Magazine.] "We love him for the enemies he has made," said General Bragg, at the convention which nominated Grover Cleveland for the Presidency. The sentiment reflected; the speaker, rather than the man of whom it was spoken. Mr. Cleveland has made enemies it is true. As shrewd old Simon Cameron said, "A man who makes none is never a positive force;" but the indiscrim inating words of Bragg offended many who were not enemies of Mr. Cleve land in any save a political sense, and who exercised no more than their just right in preferring some one else for the party's candidate. Tennyson more wisely and nobly says, "Love reflects the thing beloved;" and the truest friends of Mr. Cleveland love him, not for the enemies, but for the friends he has made, for the hos tile or indifferent whom he has con verted into loyal adherents by his sim ple integrity and manliness. It is is safe to say that, if he has personal ene nies, they enjoy a monopoly of their unsatisfying passion; he does not hate them. Of one who pursued him for years with bitter unceasing malicious vituperation, he has said, without a particle of any feeling, but that of won der, "I do not know why Mr. So and So hates me. I never injured him in any way." For the "enemies" of his policy be has only respect, proportioned to their sincerity and courage. When John Boyle O'Reilly, a loyal democrat but frank critic of his party always, died, in 1890, Mr. Cleveland wrote of him: "I regarded him as a strong and able man, entirely devoted to any cause that he espoused, unselfish in his activity, true and warm in his friendship, and pa triotic in his enthusiasm." Yet no man had more openly and bravely eriticised the President'a policy in many directions. Mr. Cleveland is accused of being self-willed which means either "firm," if you admire him, or "obstinate," if you do cot. In this quality he re sembles Andrew Jackson rather than Andrew Johnson. The difference be tween the two is as wide as that be tween bravery and rashness. He has made many mistakes-lots of them; and he will make many more. When we have all have grown wise enough to select a chief magistrate who can be. depended upon to make none, we shall have no need of a su perfluous functionary. The theory that the king can do no wrong, which finds expression in the contemporary literature of every European nation only to be reversed with startling promptness after the king or queen has ceased to be-has its opposite in our own country. Here the President not only can, but dQes, commit no end of wrong; and not until he has been comfomtably dead for. a long time do his enemies begin to admit that as Washington was not an aristocrat, Jefferson a French in fidel In disguise, Jackson a disguising usurper, Lincoln a heartless combination of knave and buffoon, Grant a; mercenary tyrant, and intriguer, and so forth and so on, ad nauseam. Contemporary opinion of a public man, even when its honest, is apt to be the most misleading of all guides to the truth of history. Least trustworthy of all is the contemporary caricature, which has as much influence on peo ple who do not not care to strain their limited minds by trying to read or think. Thanks to the Thersites of the cra yon, brave and honest A braham Lin coln was known to milliom of his countrymen as the "Illinois Ape"; Grant, the most magnanimous can queror that ever lived, and the most generous eulogist of his comrades in arms, was pictured as a designing Cae sar, arrogating to himself imperial power, and claiming all glory for his own behoof. I have before me a cop per token, dated 1834, bearing on one side a design of a hog, and the legend: "Perish credit; perish Commerce; ffown with the banks;" on the other a por trait bust of the inscription "MY sub stitute for the U. S. Bank; MY experi ment; MY currency; MY glory." The bust is that of Andrew Jackson, who had as much thought of being a usurp. er as of being Grand Lama of Thibet. The heavy wits of our own times are equally addicted to using the sarcastical "MY" and "ME" when they wish to ridicule a man with opin ions of his own, only they use rags in stead of copper to immortalize their satire. The President was obstinate on the silver question, and he is obstinate on the tariff question. Obstinacy may be a merit or a fault, as it is employed; but it is a blessed quality when used for the settlement of an economic question wherein the worst of all things is indecesion disturbing all business and driving the country into a condition of panic. If congress would pass a tariff measure of any kind, settling the matter once for all, the country wouldl soon adjust itself to the altered condi tions. Trhe trouble is, that the Presi dent's firmness of purpose finds no re sponse in the co-ordinate branches of the government. He has been obstinate on the Ha waiian question, which he has regarded in the light of international morals rather than in that of international law. Suppose that, instead of having been eleci'ed President of the United States, he had been appointed presi dent of a geat corporation. Suppose, further, that on taking charge of his office he had found proof that his pre decessor h-.d inc-ased the wealth of the company 6y grievously wronging a weak business neighbor who, how ever, bad no redress in law, or even "equity." A merely shrewd man in such a case would let the matter rest. An honest one would at least try to undo the-wrong, even though he of fended his stockholders. The sharpest critics of the president in this matter are fond of invoking the shade of Marcy to put him to shame. "Oh, for one day of Marcy," they cry. Let us take one day of Marcy, or, speaking strictly, a day which was the sequel of the ex-secretary's policy and directly inspired by him-the 1st of May, 1857. 1 confess that it is not a day which awakens any patriotic pride; but it is worth while recalling as a precedent with the Marcy stamp on it for anything that Mr. Cleveland may have done or attempted in Ha waii. On that 1st of May, 1857, in the harbor of San Juan de Sur, Nicaragua, a man of American birth who had been lawfully elected president of Ni caragua more than nine months before, who had been recognized by President Pierce and his successor in the White House, *as compelled by Commander Davis, U. S. N., to surrender his strong hold of Rivsa to the Central American Allies, his sloop of war Granada to Commander Davis, and himself and men to the custody of the same officer. William Walker came home a nominal prisoner, but with what offense accused or by what right arrested has never been satisfactorily explained. His for cible deposition from the presidency of a nation with which our own was at peace, furnishes a precedent for those who stick for the letter of the law and are not satisfied with mere moral argu ments. Commander Davis insisted on res cuing men who were in no danger and did not want to be rescued, even as Minister Stevens insisted on protect ing American interest before his friends in Honoluli had asked for his inter yention. Should the adherents of Queen Lil luokalanf chance, however, to over throw the existing provisional govern ment, and an American vessel of war be on the spot, no doubt the defeated forces would find shelter and protection under the American flag, and the min ister or captain who refused them both would be properly regarded as a das tard, more sensitive to international law than to national honor. I cannot see in what particular the filbusters of Cuba and Nicaragua were not just as worthy of support and re spect as those of Hawaii. The pro fessed horror of the latter toward the "paganism" and "immoralit;" of the ex-queen, and the artful appeal to Christian sympathy, are only some new eatures in filibusterism, which has degenerated very much, as a fine art, since 1860. The allegation that Mr Cleveland has been influenced in his Hawaiian policy by a desire to "please England" is only one of the many absurd criticisms passed upon him. It is quite conceiva ble that England sho'uld be anxious to please the President of the United States, for reasons political and com mercial; but why the head of the greatest nation on earth should court the favor of a foreign and rival nation, passes comprehension. The wiseacres have a theory, and it is that he i's so cially ambitious. ,This yrofounid hypo thesis falls to the ground when we re member that Mr. Ward McAllister has already officeially recognized "the Clevelands" as eligible for admis sion to the immortal Four Hun dred, though, strange to say they have displayed no alacrity in using the privilege. Hitherto, so far as their aocial duties permitted, "the Clevelands" have been content to enjoy their domestic privacy and keep it as private as possible, both in Washing ton and at Gray Gables. The PresL dent of the United States, whoever he may be, does not need the hall-mark of any aristocracy, foreign or domestic, to settle his position. In justice to the whole line of presidents, it must be said that, while there have been among the'in men of good, bad and indifferent character, there has never yet been a sno.b in the White House. The president has not always been happy in his choi2e of representatives of the United States abroad. Mr. Phelps was not an ideal minister to the Court of St. James; no more was his prede cessor, Mr. Lowell, who was a republi cau appointee. A more tactful man than Mr. Cleveland would have avoid ed the mistake of sending an anti Catholic minister to the Catholic Court of Spain, and defender -of the papal patrimony to the Quirnal; but it is not to his discredit that those considera tions never entered his mind in choos ing both men without regard to their religious beliefs or affiliations. The cot'rteous Spaniards raise no question abot.t Mr. Curry, though the less gra cious Italians did refuse to accept Mr. Kieley. The best office in the gift of the administration, that of consul general at London, has been given to an ex-Fenian, in the same spirit of atter indiff'erence to any considerations save those of ability and good service. It is hard to imagine the greatest mas ter of tact and the richest possessor of "magnetism?"in our day doing as much. Yet the magnetic tactician failed of his dearest ambition simply and solely be cause he lacked his rival's predomi nant quiality of innate, uncalculating honesty. Is Cleveland to be recorded among the great presidents? That is a ques tion for history to answer. He must certainly be counted among the suc cessful ones. No other has achieved a second term after having been once de feated in a contest for re-election. The A people believe in him, and that is the highest tribute to the honesty and sin cerity of the people, as well as to the man whom the people have so honored. Neither he nor they, I think, have any illusions about their respective posi- e tions. They recognize the fact that in g him they have found a plain, unas- a suming, honest and courageous man who does his duty according to his best u lights. He, I am sure, looks upon his high office only as a sacred trust, to be executed, not for his own glory or emolument, but solely for the good of ? the country. He is neither infallible nor immaculate; but he is brave and r upright, and he has the faculty of "sticking to it," which is the key to success. JAMES JEFFREY RoCHE. Woman's Age. a [Lady's Pictorial. b Is it worth a woman's while to be in accurate about her age? Does she not rather lose nowadays by -lessening the number of her years? Assuming that 0 her object hitherto in setting back the hand of time has been to render herself more attractive in the eyes of the op- d posite sex, it must be obvious to the close observers of the men and manners of to-day that it is not the maiden of e "bashful fifteen" nor the girl of sweet a twenty who finds favor in the sight either of the gilded youth or the man of the world. The threshold of woman- b hood no longer invites 'them, sweet b seventeen is out of date, immaturity is d not attractive. It is nowadays only the woman who has "arrived" who can fascinate the pessimistic youth of the period; it is only the experienced matron who, un derstanding the faults and follies of A man, can render herself a sufficiently reasonable companion to him when he comes to years of discretion.. The t "bread-and-butter" miss, thecompara- t tively inexperienced maiden, nay, even the very young matron, are hope- b lessly "out of it" at the present. It is b the hour of maturity, and the woman has triumphed over the girl. She may now be anything over thirty to hold 8i sway, provided always that she keeps b herself thirty in heart and face. She must look attractive, she must have a the power to attract. She must poess b tact and judgment, and then she can snap her fingers at time, and boldly set down what she.likes on the census paper. At all events she need no longer b dread the attainment of her third de- t cade, for it is then that her reign be gins. Not until then does she begin to understand the management of man. He does want to be regarded as a school girl's ideal, to live on bliss-and kisses, ; and eternally play the jeune premier. He wants companionship. He wants E to have his faults recognized and open ly discussed, and he knows that with ~ her ripened experience the woman will I not expect too much of him, nor Invest IE him with a halo of romance, neither a has she mere matrimonial designs upon I him. bo she has outrivalled her younger sisters, even her own daugh ters, and thus need she no longer fear ~ the taking of the census and the revs- t lation of her age.t How 3ZHuIonaires Enjoy Life. We can't all be millionaires, but all r the same every one of us likes to know t how life on this sphere looks to those C who possess a superabundance of this I world's goods represented by six ci- a phers following a numeral, small or large. In "Life as Found by Million- i aires," published in Demnorest's Maga- ' zine for March, six well-known multi- 9 millionaires give their views, and as a their portraits accompany their senti- a ments, a perusal of the article is almost f equivalent to having a personal inter- ' view w'ith each; so if you would like to know how it might seem to be a mil- C lionaire, be sure to read the artidie. t Dogs will have their day this month ' at the smart dog-show in New York, ~ and the article on "Dogs of High De- t gree," profusely illustrated with specd. mens of the fashionable breeds and C portraits of some noted prize winners ~ is quite apropos, and furnishes a fund I of information to-those not posted in C dog lore. In "Poverty's Cry," the ' suffering from poverty in New York is C most graphically depicted in the illus- ~ trations and text ;"InexpensiveHomes" K furnishes numerous hints for those de. t siring to build, many illustrations of t picturesque houses and distinct plans t being given with it; all the story mat- ~ ter is excellent; the departments aret full to repletion with interesting and a helpful information; every woman will want to read "Society Fads" and b "Chat"; and there are over 700 illustra- s tions. This is a fair sample of the live matter that is furnished twelve times a year, for only $2, by the publisher, W. t Jennings Demorest, 15 E. 14th St., a New York. t Who Will Settle It? How much is Leavenworth? E How fast does Chicago? Who is it Councils Bluffs? - And who laid Buffalo? e Oh, whomi does Syracuse? What sad sights has Racine? Why throw that Little Rock?s Who painted Bowling Green? I -Kansas City Journal. How heavy is Washington? . --Washington News. How can we Savannah?p -Columbia Journal. Jr Who said he'd Havana? Who would Haverhill? How far can Milwaukee? ( Who aid Nantucket? NEW COUNTY GOVERNMENT BILI4 Question as It Goes Into Operation. x. The Result of Hasty Legislation-The Attorney General's Opinion. (Special to News and Courier.] COLUMBIA, February 14.-It was gen rally unJerstood that the new county avernment bill would go into effect fter January 1, 18>5, but there seems > be some very bad legislation mixed " p with that intention. In the first ction of t he bill there is this provision: - That from and after the first day of anuary, 1895, all Acts, parts of Acts r Sections of the General Statutes rela ng to the election, duties, powers and ights of county commissioners be, and ie same are hereby, repealed." Then i Section 6 comes the fatal statement; treads: - "Section 6. "That all the duties, owers and privileges now the same re hereby devolved upon the township oards of commissioners, and township oards of assessors are hereby abol hed." As will be seen the tovwnship boards f assessors are abolished and no pro ision made for their successors-at this me. Then Section 7 goes on to say ew this work of assessing is to be one: "SectIon 7. That alu the duties, pow rs and privileges now devolved on the >unty boards of equalization be, and ie same are hereby, devolved -upon ie county boards of commissioners, ad said board of cgualization Is here y abolished, and the members of said aar(l, while performing thedutiesnow . evolved upon the county board of ualization, shall receive the same )mpensation as such boards now ceive., Suppose Governor Tillman were to ppoint-the boards as provided-in. the et. There is this obstacle. Section 8 rovides "that the county supervisor, >gether with the chairman of the >wnship boards of commissioners ,in ie several townships appointgd by the overnor, shall constitute the. county Dard of commissioners, of -which said aard the county -supervisor shall be alirman.' " The law provides that the county ipervisor, who is a member of-this oard, shall be elected next November, d the question is whether the board ithout that official would 'be a legal Ddy. The time is short for action, .and it rould&seem that the bet thing is to ike a common-sense view of the mat 'r and avoid technicalities- and iet Angs run along as at present. The estiofi, however, arises-will interested iwyers look at things in a disinter ted and common-sense way? Thanks > the June Bugs things appear to be i very much of a angle. XPLAINING A JUNE BUG BLUNDEE. Attorney General Buchanan ias indly come to the rescue of the June tg legislators. He thinks that county atters can legally contincie to jog long as at present. The following is is opinion upon the matter: COLMBIsa, February 13, 1894. His Excellency, Governor B. E. Till an-Dear sir: Your note asking if Le Act approved January 4, 1894, con mplated the immediate devolation of be duties of township and district oards of assessors upon the officers I 2entioned in such Act received. In eply would say that If .Section- 6 be ken and construed by Itself, a mere ursory examination might leave the inpression that a hiatus exists, but an xamnation of the whole Act, giving - fect to every section regardIng the terdependence of every provision, ill show beyond all doubt that the ot contemplated the change "from ud after the 1st day of January, 1895," s mentioned in Section -1, providIng or the appointment of county super 'Isors. Section 7 provides for county boar*ds f commissioners and section 8 declares at "the county supervisor together rith the chairmen of- the township ards of commissioners In the several wnships appointed by the Governor all constitute the county board of ommissioners, of which said board be county supervisor shall be chair ran." It is to be remarked that there annot be a county board of commis ioners without the appointment of the ounty supervisor. So their coming to existenice as such board is to be seasured by and co-xistent with the ime of his appointment, beginning at be same time. Now let us see the ime of his election* or appointment ud the beginning of his duties. See ion 2 declares that he shall be elected t t be "next general election for State ficers," and at every general election iereafter, whose term of office shall e two years and until his successor ball have been elected and qualified. Section 1 provides for the abolition of be offices now known as county comn issioners, devolving their duties upon be county supervisors, etc., "from and (ter the 1st day of January, 1895" low it is very plain to be seen that uchcounty boards of commissioners, a be created dependent upon the elec ion of the supervisor, cannot come rto existence until after the next gen al election, at which general election L is to be voted for. The term of the card of township commissioners by iection 5 is made co-terminal with that f the Governor, by whom they are a cinted, and such section is also to b ead in connection with Section 2, bowing the r appointment for the me term. As a result of this construction I gave the honor to report that, In my adgmpyt, these officers do not come 2to existence until after the next gen ral election, until which -time the resent machinery of connty. govern ent continues. liespectfully, OsMUNSD W. BUcHANAN, Attorney-General. The question is whether the Supreme ~ourt will agree with Mr. Bnh.nnn icae the nointisraised.