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THE TR UK SOUTHRON, Established Jose, 1369
Consolidated Ans. 2, 1881.1
SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25,. 1891.
New Series-Yoi. Xl. No. 17.
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?aa be bad in Sumter, at short notice, and io
tbe tjfty best class of work, at the shop re?
cently opened by the undersigned on Liberty
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Conntry, and first class workmen sent to at?
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NOTICE.
IN PURSUANCE OF TEE LAWS OF
this State notice is hereby given that the
Bishop villi Railroad Company will apply to
the Legislature of this State at its next ses
' ?on for authority to extend tts Railroad m a
general North or North-westerly direction as
far as the North Coro!iua State line, and also
to extend ' said R-iiircad from Atkins io a
Szotb or Sooth-easterly direction as far as !
?orne point on the North Bastero, or the Cen?
tral Rail rc>ad of Sooth Carolin?.
P. L. BRIDGETS.
President B. R R. Co.
vAugost 13, 1891. _aog.26-v
LD. JOHNSTON,
SUMTER, S. C.,
r -THE-?
?rae?ieal Carpe&ter, Contractor
AND BUILDER,
XXT'OULD RESPECTFULLY inform the
W citizens of Sumter and surrounding
?conntry that he is prepared to furnish plans,
and estimates on brick and wooden buildings
.All work entrusted to him will be done
first class.
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SUMTER INSTITUTE.
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crop, so parties cao be certain of having their
wheat prepared not only for their families but
can sell the surplus. First class whe^tand oat
seed: and General Merchandise for s .ile at Cane
Savannah Store.
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Assembly of this State, at its next cession,
for? charter of a* Railway Company, to ran
from tho city of Sumter ii the State ot South
Carolina, through the County cf Clarendon
jna toe town o! Bethlehem, through the Coun?
ty of Williamsburg via the town of Lake City
and through the County of Horry to the towo
of Conway in this State. Said Railway to
be kcown as ihe Sumter, Lake City and Con?
way Railway Company.
H. W. MACKEY,
J. B. EDWARDS,
M. H. FIELDS,
ADAM YOUNG,
ADAM BOYD.
Sept. 1, 1891.
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"I use Castoria in my practice, and. find it
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"From personal knowledge and observation
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for children, acting as a laxative and relieving
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OFFICE HOURS:
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Sf ut 8
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4 pril 17-o
Bradycrotine Only a Headache Cure j
Miss Claude Girardeau Writes
From Boston.
NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY, *)
BOSTON, MASS., Oct. 10,1891. j
We have lately been answering ques?
tions printed ou little slips of paper, as
to the why and wherefore of our cooling
to the Conservatory, and I had to con?
fess that my first real knowledge of ?it
came through a full page advertisement
in the Century about two years ago. It
was a most fascioatiog page, with its
pretores of the Conset vatory, and I read
it over a great many times and thought
to myself how jolly existence could be in
such a big place-au island of a very
rounded'life,, with the ocean of a big city
aboutit. We reached Boston in the
night and how we craned our heads out
of the carriage windows as the myriads
otliguts flashed by, and how often we
said to each other, "This is very like
Charleston, isn't it ?" And so it is
in spots ? There is a business street
I forget its name, but it is an important
one, and probably bas a "name for every
block. Boston fashion-tb&t migbt be
the Eist Battery, with its weather?
beaten *^hop froDss, its unevenness, its
air of prosperous dilapidation and its
smell of ship-stores and oid iron end
strange merchandise that women like to
say their husbands deal in. Tb en along
the quiet courts of B?acou street, near
the S?ate House, with their atmosphere
of "retired respectability,*' you cnn
ea8?lty imagine yourself in oar old City
of the Sea, only the Battery is far more
beautiful than the Bay-especially a
Bay with its back before il?
But there is nothing iu Charleston, or
in any of our beautiful Southern cities,
like the Conservatory. There are a
great many buildings like it-of course,
for it was nothing but the cid St James i
Hotel, given over to esthetic uses when
the tides of fashionable and business life
left it stranded up town. But its archi?
tectural design could not be better
adapted to its present use than if it had
been the original purpose of the de?
signer. Then there is so much open
space about it. Franklin Square full of
trees and wi:h broad walks radiating
from a fountain, is iu front of us An
old cemetery, also full of lovely trees
(not to mention the tomb.-) is at the
rear ; and the building lilts its seven
stories above the adjoining houses, so
that we, who prefer a sciggery io the
mansard, have a most charming, dream?
like view of the city with its tall chim?
neys aud spires, and an occasional
glimpse of the river.
The rooms are all as cosy as possible ;
nicely carpeted, with furniture uot solely
for use, and walls whereon you may
hang anything, provided you do not use
pins! We use mucilage. There were
some exceedingly tempting cracks mak?
ing a convenient tracery over our tables
and stands that we immediately took
advantage of. thinking the pin-heads
would not show. But they did. I must
say our housekeeper kuows her business
thoroughly.
To go in'o the halls at any time of
the day is to imagine oneself in a
lunatic asylum. Such a weird, un?
earthly mixture of sounds from the four
or five hundred rooms. Pianos, organs
(pipe-orgaue, if you please) violins,
'cellos-every imaginable musical in?
strument (except. I believe, the barjo !)
is going at full tilt, and you run back
into your owu cell aud practice franti?
cally too, because the ?nore noise each
one makes the less her neighbors dis?
turb her ! There the walls are thick,
and after awhile you rather enj >y the
din. Things are always lively here
The air is crisp and tingly, and the
new comers enthusiastic to study and
see as much of the city as they can.
After a time the enthusiasm for sight?
seeing dies down, but the determination
to study sinks in and you work-work,
and the eu J gets farther and father away
in hopes perspective, and you would be
entirely discouraged if }ou could not
look back as well, and see how far
off in the opposite direction the starting
point has dwindled. If happiness con?
sists in the struggle to reach something
that always eludes us and yet urges us
onward, then Conservatory students
must be happy. For that is what the
study of music-or of any art-means.
It was Goitschalk who said that there
were three things that made life worth
living-the first kiss of love, the color
blue, and the chord of the diminished
seventh The harmonious trio-love,
light and linked sweetness! Weare
permitted the study of the last as long
as wo like in the Conservatory. For
the Recond we can go to the Boston
University, where under the sanction of
the N. E. C., we can study anything
from mathematics to medicine.
We raved over Scharwenka last year,
as everybody did who had the pleasure
of heating him play ; so figure to your?
selves our delight this year at finding
that there was auditioned to the Faculty
of meo who ranked wrth h'm, Carl
Sta?ny, of Frankfort, and Feriuccio
Busoni, a Florentine (with a Swedish
wife,) who has studied in Italy and Ger?
many, cat ried off the Hubenstein prize
and comes with a finning halo of
European reputation as a virtuoso, from
the Imperial Kussian Conservatory I
And he is only twenty seven years old
Before he gave his first recital iu Sleeper
Hall we used to catch glimpses of him
in the main corridor, and one of the
girls said he looked more like a bud?
ding nihilist than a great musician
But when we heard him play ! lt was
the playing of a wizard. Such exqui?
site delicacy and power, such perfection
of technique and such repose. Ho
does the most astonishing things with
all the calmness iu the world, and makes
you feel as if they were mere bagatelles
compared to what he could do if he
really chose to exert himself.
I don't think there is anything half
as fascinating as suppressed power. It
is so much more thrilling than tremen?
dous effort. It gives the imagination
such unbounded scope. I do nut speak
of ?he Stasny recital because I want to
quote something I read lately I hat ex?
actly places the two men musically-so
it seems to me. Every real artist,
"execution artist of the highest order,"
must have talent, emotion, intelligence,
technique. "In case of emotion being
the stronger, the conception will be a
subjective one. The artist will treat
the work as though he himself had com?
posed it, subject to bis owo feelings.'7
Such an artist, is Busooi,
"On the other hand, where a per?
former's iotelligence is the stronger, Ins
cODcepticu will be an objective one.
The artist will treat the work exclu?
sively in the spirit aud character of the
componer, making the composer's ideas
the object of bis attention." Such au
artist is Stssny.
We cannot get away from ourselves,
after all, no matter what our ideals are.
We detect temperament in tecnique and
betray our disposition in the playing of
a S'iale To borrow still further from
the authority before quoted : "There is
a great difference betweeo the touch of
one pianist and another-a difference so
apparent a really great pianist may
fchow hi? superiority in this respect by
the striking of even a single oote."
To one who has not siudied piano this
is "foolishness." But strange to say
the very limitations of the instrument
make it all the truer.
The bulletin-board in the elevator is
always full now Tho weekly programs
are delightful. Pupils' recitals on Mon?
day evenings, faculty recitals on Thurs?
day evenings, lectures by eminent peo?
ple, literati, scientists, specialists of all
kinds on Tuesday. Lectures during
the week in the afternoons by Mr. Stone
of the Art Department, and Mr. Elson
whose rank as critic may be imagined
when he tells the public after hearing
the first performance of ' Cavalleria
Rusticana," (by some of the best musi?
cians in America) that Boston as 3et is
"provincial'' as regards op^ra !
A few weeks ago Mr. Kelley, head
of the College of Oratory, gave a pre
seatation of his Tableaux d' Art io
Sleeper Hall The tableau company
have a new costume this year, a Greek
gown of white silk, and very beautiful
did the girls look posing under the
vivid scarlet, green and yellow hydro?
gen lights against a back ground of the
richest silk plush drapery in deep red
and sea blue. The expression of differ?
ent emotions by tfye company was par?
ticularly fioe, and as I heard one of the
most enthusiastic of Mr. Kelley's pupils
exclaim : "lt is the finest teaching sys?
tem in existence !'"
Boston is certainly the Hub, and the
Conservatory is right in the middle !
Long may it wave
CLAUDE M. GIRARDEAU.
Four Hundred Millions of
Silver !
The Treasury of the United States
had in store on the 1st of October,
1881, 348,3-11,193 silver dollars;
?15,848,6*20 in the form of subsidia?
ry silver ; silver bars to the value o?
$41,579,253; trade dollars (bars),
$2,394,260-total, $409,161,326, or,
in round numbers, $400,000,000
The government furthermore, is in?
creasing this immense store by buy?
ing seven additional tons of silver
every working-day in the year.
Now what does $400,000,000
worth of silver mean ? Slated in fig
mes, or expressed in words, it con?
veys to minds as ordinarily constitut?
ed no definite idea other than that of
an incomprehensible something, en?
dowed with certain potentialities
possibly for good, possibly for evil.
Yet silver is a physical .entity, pos
sessit g the properties of length,
breadth, thickness, cap^c'ty to occu?
py or fill space, and weigh*. Let us
apply these properties to the ?400,
000,000, and note some of thc results
of such application.
Coined into dollars, the product
will weigh over 22.000,000 pounds
avoirdupois, or 11,000 net tons, and
if its movement, is desirable, will ne?
cessitate for so doing the" use or 1000
railroad freight cars carrying eleven
tons each, or 2200 cars eanying five
tons each, or 5500 two horse wagons
canying each two tons.
A cubic inch of pure silver weighs
about 0.38 pound, and a cubic foot
about 657 pounds. Hence the ?400,
000,000, if melted into :t solid mass,
would occupy some 33*500 cubic feet,
which in turn would make a solid
column of pure silver a foot square
and about 6J tnilrs high -the Wash?
ington Monument being 550 feet
Assuming a load of 100 pounds per
man, an army of 220,000 men would
be required to carry the nv ss, and
would make a file, in close order, 80
miles long, occupying 30 hours in
"passing a given point," allowing
nothing for halts or ..rests.*'
The Treasury counts its silver by
weighing it, which is the part of wis?
dom, in view of the fact that a man,
counting at the late of 200 dollar
pieces per minute, steadily for eight
hours a ?lay, Sundays included,
would be ki>pt busy for considerably
over eleven years.
Piled one upon the other the
$400,000,000 would attain a height
of 675 miles; and placel side by 6i'de,
they would carpet a room 50 feet
wide and nearly 24 miles long.
Great, however, as is the mass of
silver at present in the "treasure
houses" of the government, it is be?
ing steadily increased by the pur?
chase of 54,000,000 additional ounces
every year, or at the rate-as i-efore
stated-of seven tons for every work
ins? day of the year.-David A.
Wells, in Harper's Weekly.
"I have never known a case of fever
where the patient was free from suspi?
cion of having tak?'0 bad water, and 1
have known crowds of healthy men
made ill of malarial fever by indulging
for one day in pond water, albeit iced
My father had his springs kept in good
order in all of his field", and malarial
and typhoid fevers wero unknown
a.-?iong his slaves. * * We have
changed ali that, and, in the same quar?
ter, they drink what they please, and,
year after year, I have known fever to
be in every house at one aud the same
lime. Impurs water kills and disables
ten parsons wht're strong drink destroys
nne, fatal as that is."-Harry Ham?
mond.
Mis John Jacob Astor, who was
Miss WiTi..g of Philadelphia, delighted
all the Asfors on Sunday by giving
birth to a Hoe boy, who will be John
Jacob Astor, the fifth. He is horn
worth $150,000,000, and his arrival is
important in kiping together the fa m
i'y milli nu. Mrs. Astor was married
February 17th last, the wedding being j
one ot the fioe&t the eountry bas ever j
Silk Culture
An Important Industry Tint Should
Receive Attention.
To the Editor of Tne Standard.
1 will thank you very much if yon
will re-publish the accompanying
article title first issued by the
Women's S.Ik Cult ?ne association, of
Philadelphia, of which I am a member.
I have been so ambitious to estab?
lish silk raising among country
women and children as an auxiliary
to other Florida produc?s, that 1
would like them to know some.of the
obstacles against which we have
contended. Believing that the time
will come and is hot far off when
manufacturers of silk will be obliged
to depend upon home raised silk I
still entreat our people t<? plant and
cultivate the suitable mulberry, so we
may be prepared when that time
comes to answer the demand. Tariff
is the evil, so we must wait, not for?
getting that it was silk, with oliveB
I etc , etc . that enabled the French
peasantry to aid so promptly in the
payment of debt to Germany. Flor?
idians, especially the women and
youth of our state, I entreat of you to
propagate the mulberry.
ELLEN C LONG
Through some strange inadver?
tence, and the ignorance of many
congressmen of the value of silk cul
ture in this country, and in the haste
of congressional business which over
whelmed the last few days ol the Fif?
ty First Congress, the bill in the
hands of the senate committee for an
appropriation to the Agricultural
Bureau in behalf of silk culture was
st- and- d. This may seem au unim?
portant statement to be made to those
who ate not inf'/:med on the various
interests that cluster around the cul?
ture of silk.
In our country during the last few
years the first movement of the Wo?
men's Silk Culture association was
simply a philanthropic one to add
another industry in the homes of the
agriculturists all over the country.
Its rapid progress, and the enthusi?
asm with which it was received by
such, was the best evidence of its
necessity, and as long as mere experi?
ments were attempted the increase in
the progress continued steadily up?
ward ; every state in the Union, ex?
cept those of the extreme North, be?
came to a greater or less d'gree ex?
perimentalist?. But the conviction
gradually developed itself that, to
.make this a money returning scheme,
better supplies of food fur the silk
worm must be found, and the mul?
berry trees must be systematically
planted. Fully alive to this fact and
receiving very meagre support from
the citizens, the association made
application to congress in 1885 for
the fostering care of tin's industry.
The success of this application
brought $15,000 to the Agricultural
D?partaient, which enabled the de?
partment to allow the association the
amount of $2,500 to advance their
? work and better reach the thousands
I of people with whom they were in
correspondence upon the subject.
In the meantime the government
j had turned its attention to the distrib?
uting of silk-worm eggs of the best
foreign species ; this farther in?
creased the need, and the desire of
thus entering into the industry to en?
large their operations, and through a
more liberal support the following
year of $5,000 direct to this associa?
tion, we slatted the really necessary
demand of supplying trees to those
interested in the industry. . This por?
tion of the work has just begun to
take shape, and thene experimental?
ists are systematically planting or?
chards or hedges of mulberry trees to
frrtber advance the industry and in
crease the product.
Time only in the slow process of
nature can develop the growth of
these trees Jo a state of perfection
admitting of ful! leaf picking, lt
will therefore be seen that this indus?
try in ii.s quiet pi ogress toward matu?
rity has been nipped in the bud by
the failure of congress to appropriate
money for its support. During the
early years of the association the sup?
port for general purposes came from
the citizens in private contributions,
but, looking upon this as a national
effort for the good of the whole peo?
ple, after government money carne to
the aid of the association, it was
deemed advisable not to ask for pri?
vate subscriptions, ami now the asso?
ciation finds itself unable to pursue
its work and unwilling to again call
uptfn those who formerly sustained
us.
This work is represented by four
different centres-the Agricultural
Department at Washington, the Kan?
sas State a siciat.on, the California
State association and I he Women's
Silk Culture association of the United
States, at Pin'lad el pl ila Referring to
the woik done by this one station in
Philadelphia, we Lave had since
organizing upwards of 60,000 corre?
spondents ; at present we receive
about 1,200 letters of inquiry annual?
ly ; we have purchased from those
cultivating silk 12,000 pounds of
cocoons ; have sold 1,7.00 pounds of
rooled or commercial raw silk ; have
manufactured 2,000 yards of silk
goods ; have made forty silk United
Stales Hags ; have made large 'quan?
tities of silk fringe and ribbons; have
sent cabinet exhibitions of the vari?
ous products of the silk industry to
every state agricultural society in
the Union ; have sent exhibits of out?
work with rool and reeler to nearly
every large exposition held within
the last decade } have exhibited out?
work and reeling in England and
Scotland ; we have numerous de?
mands from industrial and high
schools from all patts of the country
for cabinet exhibits of the woik as
object lessons for their pupils ; have
setit out thousands of circulars and
instruction books ; and within the
last three years have distributed 40,
000 mulberry trees throughout the
conn'ry, thereby laying the founda?
tion for the corning si.k culture ; we
have instructed American girls in the j
art of reeling, and have tiros become i
a rebo?l of instruction in thc art vf^
silk culture. Thia covers only the
work done by the Philadelphia
braneh.
We have not the complete reports
from the government, the Kansas or
the California associations, but we ?
realize that such a large and interest?
ed number of persons have already
entered upon this work, who look to i
us as the market for their product of I
cocoons, (the manufacturer not hand?
ling the cocoons until reduced to J
raw silk by the process of reeling,) <
that the action of the government in t
cutting off from the national depart I
ment and its sub-stations the power i
to continue the work, recurs at a <
very inopportune time; money has <
been spent, trees have been planted,
the expectations of the people have .
been encouraged, and even promises i
made to assist the people in dispos- ?
ing of the product until private, cap?- 1
tal may be invested in reeling, all j
proves that a most unfortunate end i
has been reached A very few
thousand dollars would enable even
our statiou to fulfill the obligations
of the government to the people.
These suggestions d') not cover the
facts of the loss of money which has
been expended by the government to
arouse and interest tiie people, which
they now suddenly terminate.
A recent letter received frot?; the
department of agriculture, at
Washington, states that they lia ve
800 ounces of seed to dispose of, thia
being the season for distributing seed, ?
and encloses with it two communica
tions, which follow :
UNITED STATES )
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, >
WASHINGTON-, D C., March 12. '91. )
Congress having failed to make
any appropriation for the encourage?
ment of silk culture for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1892, the experimen?
tal silk filature of this department
will be closed and no mote cocoons
will be purchased.
We have on hand a supply of silk
worm eggs, which will be distributed
to those who dieirethem. If in view
of this change of plans, you wish
some sent to you please fill out and
return the enclosed blank at once.
Yours respectfully,
J. M. RUSK, Secretary.
UNITED STATES )
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, y
WASUINGTON, DC. )
Supplementing my recent circular
with regard to the purchase of co?
coons, 1 beg to say that not only will
no moie be purchased by this depart?
ment, but that we cannot find that
any other market will exist in the
United Slates, except at Peabody,
Kansas, where the cocoons produced
in that state will be bought by the
state silk commissioner, lt does not
appear, therefore, that any market
will exist for cocoons of this year's
crop produced outside of the state of
Kansas
My only reason for distributing
eggs this 3Tear is that we have them
on hand, and it has been thought that,
if you could not derive any profit
from rai&ing them, tl-ey might be
made a source of instruction and re?
creation. If you conclude not to
raise them it will not be necessary to
send them back to us, as you are ai
liberty io make any disposition of
them that yon see fit. Yours respect?
fully, J. M RUSK, Secretary.
The value rf these 800 oz of seed
would be upwards of ?1,600, which
the unfortunate neglect of congress
forces the agricultural department to
lose. This is poor economy, when a
few thousand dollars would enable
the department and ita sub-stations to
have pressed forward in this honest
and much needed industry. With a
constant cry from the agriculturists
for a greater variety of crops, with
emigration constantly increasing, the
necessity for agricultural develop
monts, with a commercial and manu?
facturing body sending out of the
country from $25,000,000 to ?30,
000,000 annually for raw material to
supply their busy looms, a call for
support to keep this industry before
the people until we can offer our own
native law material to the manufactu?
rers does not ?'Tin unreasonable.
This association feels it will be neces?
sary for them to close their work, un- ?
iess some method may be suggested
by which they can continue it until
another cong;o s may take belter
care of their industrial appropriation
billa.
During the year 1890, out of $5,
000 appropiiated to this association, i
$3,772 37 went back to the people in ?
the pinchase of cocoons and the dis- i
tribut ion of trees and the teaching of ?
reelers, leaving only a balance of >
$1,227 63 for the distribution of liter?
ature and the general expenses of <
their own office. It will be thus seen i
that the work ha? been economically 1
pei formed and we have a good show- I
ing for the expenditure ofthat money '
of which we were the almoners. <
The association, with much regret, 1
will be obliged to instruct the people I
all over thc Union of their inability 1
to further receive their product, and <
of a cessation of the wot k throughout
the slates as far as any centre for the '
purchase of their cocoons is con- ?
oct ned.
lt may perhaps be well to say a \ <
few words to the public in explana- ?
tion of why theie is no centre for the | f
purchase of tlte product of the silk j 1
raisers, which is a lack of the filature i t
in the United Sta'es. Cocoons are *
of no use to the mamifacturer until c
they have pass* d through this pro- j "
cess ?>f reeling and, as tl?e reeling j r
filature is not in existence, except at j 1
the expel intents! stations, and lhere I
is no fund to continue ibes** stations, >
the silk cul tu lists find no outlet for ? c
their crop
It is with great regret that we
come before the people with this c
statement. There is no reason for a
this, except that then; is no Hind to ?
continue the work, and the promise? j11
of the government have failed in j '
fruition. At this juncture the nnm-11
her of silk growers has increased I
above that of any ol her season, and : v
this makes the situation most nnfor- j
tonale, ;rs it shows an increase in tho !
interest and a failure to meet this, as ^
an economical and progressive gov- r
ernment should do, and by the failure
of a few men to decide in its favor,
the steadily progressing work of an
industry will be lost.
lt may be well to ask, are there not
some capitalists who are disposed to
invest money for the preservation of
an industry which is world-wide, con?
stantly in demand and the need sure?
ly increasing. Thiswou'd ultimately
pay them well and save the industry,
as our country uses more in quantity
L>f silk goods than any other one na?
tion in the world. We scud out of
the country $25,000,000 for the raw
na'erial and the deman 1 for this pro?
duct is constantly increasing and will
continue to do so with the increase of
population. Snch an enterprise
??ould not only end in drawing to
itself this $25,000,000, but would
establish throughout the length and
breadth of agricultural districts a
pure and wholesome occupation for
many hands that are now idle,
WOMEN'S SILK CULTURE ASSO'N
Bhering Sea.
An Agreement Reached by Great Brit
oin and the United States-The
Matter to be Submitted to Arbitra?
tion.
WASHINGTON, NOV. 10.-The public
was taken into the confidence of the
Diplomatic branch of the Government
this afternoon in thc continuation of the
hearing beguu yesterday before the
Supreme Court in the case of the Cana?
dian sealer W. P. Say ward, seized for
illegal sealing in Intering Sea. and the
first announcement was made that the
prolonged diplomatic correspondence
between Secietary Blaine and Lord
Salisbury had resu ted in an agreement
by which, with tlie consent of tho Sen?
ate, the long pending dispute over the
seal fisheries in B?ering Sea will be
definitely settled
Solicitor General Taft, who was ad
dressing the Court, made the first inti
matiou that correspondence between
the two countries had reached the
point of an agreement upon arbitration.
He stopped at this point, and when
Justice Gray desired nonie more t xplicif
statemeut as to whether the agreemeut
upon arti ration bad been actuary
reached, the Solicitor General hesitated
to reply, and intimated that perhaps he
had revealed more than he (not being a
Cabinet officer, and being authorized
to speak only on legal questions) should
have done. Attorney General Miller
himself not only substantiated all that
the SolicitorNGeneral had said, but went
further and announced (hat ;he Govern?
ment had effected an agreement This
was practically the first announcement
made as to the progress of the Bhering
Sea negotiations since the last corres?
pondence W38 made public, showing the
difference of opinion between the two
Governments as to the points of arbitra?
tion.
lt was surprising that the News
should first come out iu argument in
court, and the Attorney General was
asked after adjournment if he could
throw some light on the subject. It is
true that an agreement upon arbi ration
has been reached, he said. "Yes,'' he
added, "the matter has been settled
between the two governments, but is
suvject to ratification by the Senate."
"What are the points of arbitration?"
"I cannot say any more than I said in
court. Why don't you go to the State
Department 7" "Yes you can state as
a fact that agreement bas been con?
cluded."
Statement made by the Attorney Gen?
eral to a ref resentative of ;he Associated
Prers is that the President wi?.l submit
to the Seuate an agreement in the
nature of a treaty between the United
States and Great Britain, by ?hieb the
parties bind themselves to accept as
final and conclusive the definition to be
given by arbitrators of the exact rights
nf the United States in Bheriug Sea as
well as to pay any awards or damage-*
i-uff trcd by the oation which is declared
to have held the true contention. It is
also presumed that arbitrators h^ve
been selected, but none of the cfficials
seem willing to discuss the details of
the agreement, for the reason that it.
bas to be submitted to the Senate for
ratification, and therefore comes under
the executive session rules of the Sen?
ate, which require secrecy to be ob?
served.
Government Control of Rail?
ways is not Profitable.
SKDALIA, Mo., Nov ll.-In the na?
tional farmers congress today Congress?
man John T Heard, of Missouri, de?
livered an address on railway transpor?
tation in which be said it was a subject
:)f supreme importance to the farmer.
Some relief had been found rn the rail?
way commis-ions. Another method of
jontrolling rail road corporations in the
interests of the people ?as through the
national railway commissioner. Some
believed that rail road> should be placed
under government, management. Gov?
ernment' rail mading, be believed,
would bo a gigantic failure. Io the
?rs6 plaee the government would have
o buy the rail reals, and that would
:ost ten thousand million dollars.
That would be a practical impossibility
)ociuse there was in circulation only
11,500 000.' 00.
H C Brown, of G iorgia, endorsed
?verythin.g that lizard had .??aid. Geor?
gia, he said, had tried the State ownor
thip of railways Georgia owned the
Western A Atlantic railway. Under
he State control rates w^re high, tbs
ervice was bad and the deficits we e
rxtraordinary. The S ate found th it it
ras too expensive to run its own rail
oac lines and the road was leased.
Tneer private control the road gave
.nvr rites, gave better service, paid
jv3 OOO a month rental, and made mou
y for tts lesses.
Ju-i?o lloss, of the United States !
ouit, has sentenced three Yuma Indi- j
ns to d~n h for the brutal murder of zr. j
.ld modieiue man of their tribe some !
souths ago. The medicine msn had
ailed to bring rain when r< quested by
lie Iribe to do s), and, according to the
aws of the Yuma tribe, such feiiure
?a.; punished hy dea?b.
A trill convinces I lie mo f sk?ptim'T. C'rr
iilry prepared, p'eisuit to the triste, DeWai's
Joupli und Consumption Curt- is a valable
et?edy. W. li G. ii a-.d ? Ce.
Review of the Tillman Ad?
ministration.
A Observer" Corrects fin Error
and Adds Some Caustic Essentials.
To the Editor of tl:*? Greenville News
Io last Friday's issue of your paper
you say : "The one important reduc*
tion of expenses we DOW recali was made
by guipen ?ing work on the State
house." Are you not giviDg "the
present democratic administration," as
E iitor Bob Hemphill is always careful
to call it credit for rather more than it
deserves? Did it suspend woik oo the
State bouse? If yeu wiil examine
"Ao Act to Provide for the Completion
of the Maia B?lding of the State
[louse." Ac:s 1881. page ?21, you wilt
fi lid that it c~eates the governor, secre?
tary of state anti comptroller general a
commission, tn let out the work therein
authorized, and that it specifically pro?
vides that the appropriation made by itr
"shall only be uped rn completing the
construction of the main building, and
shall not be used for any portion of the
work not absolutely neeesr-ary for the
preservation of the said main building,
aud for lightning, h^atrg and sewer?
age of the building.,f The 6ame pro-^
vision in substance is made io the amen
datory Act of 1385, page 15-1. The
Act of 1886, page 658. provides for
cariying ou the work in accordance
with the two preceding Ac:s. The
Act of 1887. page 867, of 1888. page
24, of 18S0. page 312. and, wonderful?
ly to relate, the Act of the *'reform" leg?
islature t.f 1890. make appropiiations*
to complete the work.
An examination of these various Acts,
of the concurrent resolution o* the gen?
eral as:-embly passed ia 1882, of the
messages of Governor Thompson of
1881 and 1885, and of the reports of
the Sta e home commission made from
year to year, will j-bow that the legisla?
ture started oat to complete the mai?
bui'ding according to the original plan,,
and that an appropi iation of only ?3,
COO was needed to nVis.h it when "the
present democratic administration" foote
charge of the goTtrntncnt ( au we
properly say that it suspended a work
which wa- practically completed when
in weut into power ?
Are not these about the only recult9
so far of the great "movement" of
1890?
1. That many unworthy men have
been elected to (fices that they never
could have attained iu a normal condi?
tion of affairs ?
2. That our people are hopelessly di?
vided, and that the democratic party of
the State is io serious danger ?
& That we have had the spectacle of
an open air inauguration at an addi
? ional expense of several hundred dol?
lars ?
4. That the man to whom the State
was largely if not mainly indebted for
its redemption in 1876 has been kicked
out of a position ia which he had done
and was capable of doing great good for
his State and the South for no other rea'
son than that be wGuld not crawl on bis
belly and lick the feet of the "dominant
element ?"
5. That the State has lost a consider?
able sum in phosphate loyalties, and
has become involved in unnecessary
and expensive litigation ?
6 That high character, pre-emioenfr
ability and distinguished services to the
State and democratic party do not seem
any longer to be (malineatious for ao
office, and nothing consists but loyalty
to Tillman ?
7. Thaf oar six rer e nt. State bond*
have de; recited fi om about 103, jasfc
before the famous March convention
was held, to 95 at the present time, or,
to tpeak more accurately, 97 including
a fraction over two per cent, of interest
now due ? A CLOSE CBS?UTER.
November 9'h. 1891.
City Finances.
"Tax Payer" ts about right in bis
diagnosis of the fituation of cur muni?
cipal finances. There is no use io shil
ly shallying about it. We can't eat
our cake and have it too. We can't
have the conveniencies and attractions
ot a city without paying for them.
Whenever a cut can be made without
impairing the efficiency of any depart?
ment it cogbt be made directlv and
fearlessly, but ?here is no sense ia
cheese-paring or makeshifts. If an
extra rax is necessary let it be put on.
We waui a clean, wholesome, attrac?
tive city where people will like to lire.
There has not beeo au improvement
here which has not paid. We are be?
ing kept alive and growing now by tba
school, water works and other local
enterprises in which we h^e invested.
Let the council go ahead. People
will kick against iucreased taxation?
That is one of their privileges as Amer?
ican citizens; but they will not go
away ; or if they do advantages we can
offer v.ith modern improvements for
residence and business wiil bring other
people to take their places
We mast move this town and keep it
moving While we stand still and
groan ovor a few dollars and fear to
spend a emt for anything we will nev?
er get anywhere.
A good, live, bust'iog cry council,
not afraid of ifs shadow and a few g'>od,
live, hustling business men not afraid
to talk out and act and willing to pull
together, can make Greenville boom
right, along, despite short cotton crops
and low prices.
The worse the cotton business gets
the more we should look about ??r some?
t'?iag to take i s place and the more
earuistjy we should st;ive to make our
C'ty independent of il -Greenville
Sc v's.
??-o ???? -
"An honest pill is the bohlest work of the
apothecary." De Witt's Little Early R:sei9
Cure constipation, bilonsness and sick head?
ache. W. H ?ilHIand & Co.
- - -
You n?ay cough ?nd conga and conch and
cou?h >!:>d eo?iuh hat you w?M not, if yo?
ink;' DeWitt'a Cough nnd Consumption Cure.
W. U. Gr!Irl*nd A Co.
55nck?cn's AraJca Salve.
The Beit Salve in the worl i for Oats, Braise*
Sores. U?cer?. Snit Rheaia. Fvvsr Sores, Tett?r,
Chapped Ranas Chilblains, Ofns aud all
Skin Eruptions. an? positively cores Piles, of
no pxy required It is trunrai;t?"e.J to give per?
feet aatbfacti?n, or tc?.-,ey refunded. Pries
25 cen ts per box. For sale by J. F. ?7. Tf?*
Lof me. cr
- - v ? ,i mi -
Many Persons are broses
flora from overwork or household cares.
Urowii's Iren Bitters Pehufidsth*
svstem, ai<1s ?^gesrion, rf nieves excess of bil#?