JAI.ANNING II 1887. NO. - chroniclingamerica.loc.gov · in December, and every store is full,...
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N i.- - C IV . I 1) k Y A. -. -) .- 2 JAI.ANNING ('LA N I M)N &() NTY S. C., WE)NESI)AY MI II 2 1887. NO. 14. 0:-11 1 CA11N- i du ines% t lo Ltev. su c - T d , tem -Ad Expen.ive Loain, Wem't Answer -vesof at 11izer. The following article on the subject of cotton planting, from the pen of a Wateree planter, appeared in the Colum- bia Register: "What man is there, A ye z. k for bread will give you a stone; if you ask for a fish, give you a When the early Virgini:a eeui's ap- plied to the authorities at home.,c ior some consideration in the matter o- clmrchcs and schools, suggesting the benefit it would be to their souls, the reply of the profane regency that governed the Vir- ginia planters was: "lDaMLU your seals, plant tobacco." Change tobacco for cotton and you have much the !amne re- ply practica~ly given to the por devil Who is trying to niake an he;t hiving by cultivating the kindly soil of South Carolina. "Make cottons is tae reply to eveiy application for ad es that are necessary to carry on this 1usmess, as things now stand, by those who con- trol the money of the count.y. N cot- ton, no advan~ces, diversified agiculture, grow grasses, raise stock, whe;, barley, oats and rye. You improvident, thrilt- less devil, call yourself a farmer, and plant cotton to buy cverythinrg else? True, and pity 'tis, true: and v,ny is Im MS thus? Simpl- because thias pwevr that rules the country absolutely tinas Its; interest in having cotton plantedA to the exclusion. practicaily, of c 1r thig else; and under the pressure of that laws the farmer has his financial hie W: out of him as completely as er v e Spaniard did the best blood of Aztec :.i Inca in the mines of Mexico anlPeru. The emancipation of the Southern; negro left nothing in the hands of the planter but his lands, with lit ie or no market value, at least not eaough to make it a legitimate basis of imercantile credit. The national banks refused to lend money on the security of real estate, their charters forbidding. T,e banks found it better for their interst to get as far from the planters as p.ible, and interposed the commissicn erchat between them, who acted as kers tor the bank, while making theiroen (c. ne out of it. The bank gives acounoda tion to the city mercluut, the ec to such firms in the county' lus cross-roads as suit their purp A. at last the farmer (be he of na.y jiu% the nigger with his ox takes It as can get it, with the conuian ecdet - of "so mauch cotton." The cotton comet>, but under this svste:n the planter is always left. He drags a lengthening chain. When he started after te war, we assume, he had something left. How' many of that class have anytning now If he has, how long wil! he lop it? It is buta question of time and t ti:- Who or what is to blame for this? No individual certainly. He who propers while the planter at the cther end of te, Iine goes to the wall, does it hu fair and open market, taking advantage of the -soundings made to his hands-for "the stars in their courses tight aginst Sisera"-his (the capitalibts) holds the cards tiat wins, and controls the situa- tion, as the Jews did Europe in the Mid- dle Ages, by having all the money and all the credit. The man who gets money at six or -eight per cent. and lends it at fifteen or' twenty or twenty-five (getting it often, in the first instance, upon the collateral pedge of real estate of the man he lends' i to) must go upas other goes down.' So, then, as far as we can see, this dis- crlmrnationl in the price of money to the planter, is the handicap that weighs him down. He makes his staple pretty much to the exelusion of everything else, with money, that costs him anything from 12 to 25 per cent. one way or another,' whilst the man who buys it, carries on business with money that costs in New York or Liverpool 5 and 63 per cent. less. Those who handle cotton maeke money out of it. Go into the streets of any of the country towns in the cotton region in December, and every store is full, and doing a roaring business oni and out ofT cotton, while every pound of it cost the man who made it more tihan it tsold for. It costs $6.00) to pick a bale of 5>00 pounds- This alone pours into the country cotton marts a very large amount of hard cash in the space of two and a half months. Add to this the seed cotton traflic, and you have some- thing that accounts for the '-milk in the cocoanut." So much more can be made by those who have money, by lending it in advances to the man wiho makes the cotton, than by planting, that even planters themselves, who miay have it, let it go that way. The tendency seemli. to be the absorption of all the large estates in the country, by the wealthy city capitalists. TZius is as natural as inevitable, and in many cases the soner this is done thebetter for all conicerned. They know how it is themselves.1They have the means 0f overcomaig the diificulties of the sitaation, and niay sue- ceed. We wish themn l. i n fault of theirs that the old systemi of the South should pass away, and the old estates of the country be carried on by an "absentee system" like. a sugar eitate in British Guiana, or a t-a K'arm en the slopes of the imalaya. Iree ab ie- quires a huge amount of nr± n . r to move and control it.. .a. i e . said, in old times, that theI. plner no business with banks.~, hi e a uart of his vested cait -a necessary support asU e!.a5o business where a umber oi sano t r employed, al .iin cait is y e while those us.. th aI d eoe0 it at short nerious,- and 1ea1 t a it with. adtvgto the A ir d or rower. No so' n i th us a reasons gie. n e une,a itv say when we atiir: t hat noal pr perous ''an jivedayw q planters up~on ourau a a before the a. TheUn e Often the successful nor. ,a:hwisu got rich i uon thee1atrd ing interest, and was don with peca .tion. it was so in co)ttluu, neeC aln- sugar. There wa s a staLbility about th iled tL English landed interest: l Aow wphting is essentially a comnercia IpeCn:tion. The cash for hands, mont bv month, successful or not, Lmtl paid in full, with no crop, and nothing to pay with, there beiug no reserved cauital. This brings things to a alt a' once. One who cannot control capita" on a legitimate basis had as well under take to work a mine. or run a factoiry o a line of ocean steamers on a twtlve months' credit, as to plant succeesiully A merebant with little or no caital, bu1t a good business reputation, can g- goods on such time as enables him t carry on business with sales to mee L J cred'its. He is part of a systemP of eredits, and does a legitimate busines with it. There is no hegitimite system if credit inl planting. The length of hime before he can realize and thte un- certainty attending all its operations and results, put the planter out of thet pale of commercial credit, which mi-ans gettig money upon the same terms as Other non doing business with him. Unless C does that, the rest goes fe nothing. Farmers muay meet and re- selve, and all the sct-may g to the LegisIature, and, if vou choose, 'make Rome howl;" but unless that difficulty ;s remmed 2it theiy are out of the ring. "Paul may pla-t, and Apol'us may water," but there is no imierease at 2 per cent. a month. Tie tariff 'd State taxatioii have in a sense nothin to do with this desperate condition of things. A- our LAd friend Don Qaixott used to say to his trusty stuire: "These are but tarts and cheese- eakes, frikd Sancho, to that grim giant over yonder;' and our giant is no wind- mill e ither. Fair priced money w_-uld ven now co:;ie too late to the most who have been plaiiting cotton since the war. Like the succor sent to the famiishing Irish in 11 S, many were too far gone. though still alive and conscious, to be helped by it; and the most terril duty imposed Uponth coimm;issioners who distributed the plrovisions, wa: to pass by those whose features indicated so hopeless a condition that it did not warrant giving them, though craving for it, that relief which would save others not so far gone. So, again, we say the thing has gone on long enough, and gone so far that, really, the best for the country at large would be for the capitalists Awho over- shadow the land with this, in the aggre- gate, enormous debt to pass seme sort of an "Irish encumbered estate bill, realize, take possession of all estates," so perptuaiWy Muird and put them a lo.'t wvith the means thiy and no inlse .ve, and so take a bmden from he s r t nor"'na't-e class f mnv. iui e to p cotton n liens-andhit 'i What is oing to hapen i!!Mppn.and whtthat i wVoutl not, we will confess, be diticult to sy,. 'oty n will be madc, no fear. The middle and upper country oi South Carolina is as good a region to make it in as anV inl the cotton belt. take it all round. The labor is now well in hand and only requires the knowledge of the freedman's ways and requirements, with the money to meet them, and experi- ence has taught this to the men who have been dealing with them ;f late years t', do good work. This; middle ay:i iioer country of South Carolina has the cliimate, oil and weai lying onder the shelter of the .Blue Ridge on the North and West, with the warm cur- rent of the Gulf Stream bathing its Eastern shore, it is a veritable garden for those VIho are able to avail them- selves of its advantages, Out not upon the systen now pursued. That is doomed, and no hand can save it. The sooner it goes the better. Clear the wreck and let the strongest hold the round. Out of "chaos" conmes "cos- ins." Bad as the best may be, nothing is worse than holding on. The dry rot ermeates the whole system, and can have but one ending. 'fhe Dutch, when hey had the monopoly of the East india trade, burned the su~rplnsage- or their spices to keep the mar-ket at a pay- ing standard. Let those who are able to plant cotton legitimately do so. Let themn take examp~le from~the D~utch a wise people, reduce the cotton erop and handle more money fr-om the smalhl crop than thme large one, to say nothing of in- idental benetits coming from cuitivating provisions. Make half a crop of cotton one year, and it will give a healthy tone to the market for an indefinite period. WATrEn.E. C.amdi2en, S. C. .1 'atheti 0 nc(idenlt att se'i.- The brief story of the relief of the British ship Baron Blantyre by the steamship Baltitmore condenses enough of incident to furnish Clark Rlussell or somec other skillful writer of sea stories the basis for a thrilling narrative. What could be more harrowing than for starv- ing men to see, as the crew of the Blantvre did, their signal of distress un- ieded by a passing vessel except so far as to drop provisions overboard. which the farmishinig men were too weak and fetble to securle, being compelled to see them ihcating away on the waves beyoni~d all hope of reacb? Iu the height of thei' ditress the Baltimore hoave in sight on her way from Liverpool to this city, and humanely respontding with all Posible speed to the appeal for assist- :'. ce, sent over the waves of an angry ',a a boat to their succor. But for the tinely arrival of the steamship t he crew~ of the Blantyre would probably have peri he.ITheir condition being aggra- -td by h knowvle-ge that they had rovi-a oalboar. ic imth-v were eun ca t et b-cae, ci"g salted, the une em Ja. i ien- '- i-* tur -h. s :saa e tiofth The delicate t1. of Iea a - one- the proceing .broughtv byMrs Mar ke aaint use Va.nderbur Sh' hi family in the sant m;.- were sorely woundued, ud r denied the whole story and asened thatt that he was the victim ->f -'i.4ir. The judge didn't thinkl sei 11 1L t I S :0 Ih thtt.e is no lIior. romatic region than that bieyoLd ti Bhie Ridge mountains, in North Caroli- na, whe- 4thLe wolk and the indian vA play thir part, as in the Iays f eariy sctteuvw I t. In J]ackson couty a vast tract o Iead -, owned by tie Cherokc, the seasteri and" of thiS once power ful tr'be 1baving th'er their -iief e-tate. Sit. 1d by a coz tue tcher uight, in a conmltt lioom inl tho CLtpitol, Senator Elias rlated- a curius story. He said thtin 1'2 a St:dwart mio1u- nernimed 1imrick, who n to that tirei had managd to :AoI( the Far and its tt::natut featnres of volbiuntering or beirg eniscripted, brought busoni wife with him from Swain county into Jackson county, and made his home in this quiet and lovely cove in the Indian reservation. M'onths passed. The pair were de- voted. The young wife expericced all the delihits of a thoroughly primitive existence. But this was not to last. There was a regiment of Cherokees in thle service of the State, under the com- mand of old Colonel Thonas. One day an officer of this regiment returned and found Iamrich in the cove. The latter was conscripted and hurried to the front. His wife next heard from him in North- ern Virginia. Letters were infrequent, messages seldom came. In 1864 the wife-to whom a pair oi twiuns, a boy and a girl, had been horn-- learicd that her husband had disap- peared; that after his name on the roll of his company was only that dreadful entry. "missing. In 1805 the war ended, and with it" close came to her the news that her hus- band had deserted-gone over to the enemy. Year after year passed. The wife kept the vigil of love and wearily waited for the missing husband, who never came. Thore were wooers enough, and "the widow," as she was called in the neigh- borhood talk, had what were theie con- sidered good oifers. One patient lover named Bowers, thrice rejected, perse- vered, and in 1876 won the prize of his dovotion. He brought his effects to his wife's home in the cove. Ten years more passed and 1886t came. Not one word of the long lost first hus- band had been heard since the returning soldiers brought news in 1863 of Ham- rick's desertion. True as the wife's de-, votion was to her second husband, she had yet a wvarm spot in her simple heart fr the first, and in her rude. uncultured wav she even weve a half romance out of the grea t and apparently unenuding imystery of his absence. One brigh'at day last sunmmer a stranger c ame to Bowers's home in the cove. The place wts in most respects like it was in 8w63, for changes in the mountan wilds are made slowly. Bowers was not at home. The wife was now a buxom woman of forty years, far tidier in ap- pearance and with much more natural grace and sprightliness of manner than the average woman in that section. The stranger asked who lived there. lHe was told "the Uower, family." in a hos- jpitable manner he was asked in the house, where presently came to their mother two children, one of six, and the other of nine years. At dinner time the family received two more additions-a young ian and young woman, about twenty-three years of ge, exceedingly alike in face and manner. The stranger asked, "Who are these?" "They are Hiamricks's," was the reply of the good wife; "my children by my first husband." People in the moun- tains in many eases lovcd to talk-in fact, are not infrequently garrulous- and in half an hour the wife had told the story of her first marriage and the deep mystery which had enided it. The stranger listened attentively, and just as the story was concluded Bowers came in. A~ neighbor came in, and soon1 karned the story, too. The wife bustled about, of course, excited, but not in tears. Ham- rick and Bowers talked together. The neighbors, after the manner of neighbors all the 'world over, told the news to people within reach, and next day these came to hear and see. A few, veryv few, had a remiembrance of Hlam- ricki; ntvivid, but faint, for lie had lived in that section but a little while, of course. Presently somie loquacious neighbor said to Bowers: "Well, what are you going to do about it?" "About what?" was the reply. "Why, about that man Hlamriek. He's yoife'shusband." Thspta new face on the matter. Bowers had not thought of it in that way, neither had the wife. She broke into tears. There were at dozenl peoplei the house. All were listening and looking with rude curiosity. The house seemed cramped. Bowers said: "Let's go outdoors." Ali went. No sooner had they arrived in the sard than the wife went to Buwes and thew her armis about himn. At this whatever mantiiness there wo- in H-amriek eaeu: t' the sutrfatce and as.ertd itsel. -1id: "fl1 tell vou what lil do, l"eple don't want to m'ke no di-sturbace an i g ight back whLere I came from. That was all lie "aid. The crIow. haili spoke, halt nodded assenat to te propo- sition and plia in one. Right there, under the trees, the. matter was tixed as if in court before a~jary. Hlamrc sai ie was5 sati'n., ::I acciared tha fls time~i 1e w.ouh g 0'-orgod. Ie told te peole, hi 4. w i, cildtren, all thug an en'mah alau t T.here t I wa 'u ettele. in1 the. itua- tin, as ini th, subl ject, ev. eryIti ingthat had iat, wihu il t hars ;ugtioofntmet ..Tnc nieighbors did not spra Ii E, new rveryxi iunch untside their own eiei ne .iorhod talk No one thua'.nt ..e ini did, in a way' jut as- roa'ie, aough~ ju:-t as real, as ev.; thin el-e. A neightbor of towers had whatt in that contry is known as "'a failing out" with lm about a cider press. Out of these trivial a~lairs grow quarrels, lharsh ords, nay, blood-lettidg and even This trile Bowers s new-made enemy was of another-i staimp of man. He knew of the H amrick matter, but a few months "ge e'ttled. Sk last October he went to th couity seat and there gave to the salii(r1 a71rad j1uryman the infor- miatin it li wers Was violating the stat i unlaw fully living with a wo- m D .1 th-.I t'e wo.an. h"ad also Vio- r was f sitution. Bowers nd'v arr Cl. and Senator E , W in'v- '.putv in 2ll.that r- gio. c.. .ugt ito dfnthei n Thet m..d w)A, d givn bond foir 1is pp; e court, rode many miles after -Lwr Eli.s" and toild him the whole. .:ory. T..e a mau of culture, was astoni.id -it the story thus unrolled before his vys. Court met and the lawver 1:- :j is elo quene aid per- suasionqtss;. H jll the whole story- of the*.1 .': td vie tie long vigil of love, th idg up of the first husband for dead, the remarriage, the return of the leLg lost hnsband, the verbal agree- ment that he should return to the far northwecst and all remain as it was. The narrative had its effect upon the rudest n.ind; but the law had technical- ly, unnuowingly Jeen violated; it must be tehically enforced. So there was a technicl v*er'diet of guilty, with a recom- menda""in to the mercy of the court if the parties lived separate and apart. This was Lawyer Elias's chance, his opportumity: he seized it. He told Bow- ers that he and his wife had best go out of thiat neigliborhood, and that they might 1-iv together; that the verdict was only t ec, and the judgment a mere forl, aLd that in the future the law would not again disturb them. Thev acted on the suggestion, re- moved to Macon county. and now live there at peace with all the world. Only a few weeks ago the sou was married, and in the spring the girl will become a bride. So Senator Elias told the story, a true story ill all particulars, which has in it all fLe elements of the fanciful and the unreal, and is yet just as true as the fact, known of all men, that the great peaks of the Blue Ilidge raise themselves sky- ward in Western North Carolina. The Southern Womnen in the iral. It is really a matter of iudiiference whether or not a society leader is in- digenous to the soil, or whether she is imported from some foreign clime, but usually there are certain peculiarities of ither complexioni, dress or manners that prevent a stranger from mingling in New York society for any lengt of time without betraying her foreign extrac- tioll. New York soeiety, thLd is the ultra-i ah' liou:able, may Ie very excl1sive, but it iS, nevertele., composed of heterogeneous parts. In additai to the foreigners who are admitted ito its charmed cirele, each section of this country contributes its quota of mem- bers, and the distinctive characteristics of each one are as noticeable to a close observer as the foreign and conceited ways of the British nobility, or the mincing daintiness of the ovcr-toppish Frenchman. We have Westeiners and Southerners who are easily distingnished from the genuine Gothamites, although they have been so closely connected with New York society. in its doings for years past they are generally recognized throughout the country as geiune New Yorkers. The Southcrn women are counted allong the imost beautiful and cutvted, and theLi soft voices and gentle mianners have won -for them much praise, especial- ly this 'winter, during which they have been prominently to the front as enter- tertainers. Everyone who meets MIrs. Algernon S. Sullivan is charmed with her gracee of manner and beauty, al- though few know that she is Southerner. 3irs Erockhoist Cutting is one of the; most popular of matrons, and is a Vir- ginian by birth and rearing. Mrs. Bar- ton Harrisou, as is well known comes from the same State. She was a MIiss Caryv, andi is conniecteai with the F~air- ixes and Randolphs. Shie represents the literary women of the South. Mirs. Edwatrd Leecs C'fey. whose pretty daughter Lucyv is just now a very pronu- nent igiure in society--as the authior of a play-also hails from the Old Domin- ion, and 3Mrs. Willard Ward, of Mladi- son occasionally gives such delightful recitions, is tile daughter of the late .udge E-rskine, of Alabama. .At her hiouse thle representatives of Southern families are usually met. MIiss lBisland, a friend (of Miss Ward. dates back her family traditions to the last Suoanish G'oveinor of Louisi1na.-New York Let- ter. The F lor ida ear tur-ned the convl'.ersa- tion 'f the hom'e bonud Congre"'ssmen- to lols, of Florida -Jones inamnoratus- un.,ep hi non and' 11 di noicm bach t 'W'ing'ton1 1' -rve out his Cere~im teu. I'or -'0 iS, 'aid"Call, his iorier colleague, th'e other da, h iL'l cLme back:-:i politi- cai iae - rul. And h iardly uts the al ittl; marble hmumblier' fallenl in I :mcen :de when the'(~' Goernor~ of Florida ap- poined Lis sullccess'er. 11he new\ Senator nemy be a very table mian, but hie will not at first attract the' attetionl which Mr. Jonbes did in' the early days of his Sena- torial career. An Irish ship l-arpenter, working at thle bench by the sidle of slaves, he gainled an edlucation by the~ light of ine knots at night, andl rose to emnuee; was~ eleted to the' Unilted States Seiate, whiere lhe wasI', in ntet, '±ne of te ales of icotitut debaer~S Luddniv wt)ithoutlnotc tile uroe 'ia(e I islewmapers , with inctheren etne eireuClasdshenes, ha~ve caused inany Seoa- to rs to b eiNe that. like DeaA Swif', J'ones 'i s -dlug-atopi."-CorXrespondeuln':e I t ., 'vr lady' wih a briigh:, iiien 'e, wlhbih invariab.l; theu~eof r Harters Irou ow i,. how I o i to IL. -rem pemne.:lc- ill tlo. The temperaice educationl laW 01 \ur- mont, enacte in 18'J, with no specilic provisions and no penalty, has proved weak and too indefinite to secure the de- signed object. The W. C. T. I. of that State voted to petition the Legislature of 1SS6 for -. more stringent statute on this subject, and enaged Mrs. 31. H. Hunt to th- charge of the campaigu. The new bill was modeled after the national law,"but wa' amended in the SenatM with a1 -ing')1:z clause. in spite of the lolbb conbinations against it, this bill w-s Sk-iliniiyv carried through both hlouS's With : a landnsome majority. At thirty minutes past flive o'clock Tit-day evening the Governor returned the bill toC the Senate with a veto ies- sWe based on the Senate amendment, which he declared "unconstitutional.- The Legislature was to adjourn at S o'clock thp nest morning, but was to have a night ;Cs-sion. The irrepressible vitality back of this movement evidently knows no defeat. Another bi:1 leaving out thc unconstitutional clause was framed and presented to the Senate at 11 o'clock that evening, and under a "suspension of rules" it passed both houses and was signed by the Governor before three o'clock the next morning The enemies of the bill went home after the veto was read, thiuking it was killed, but Mrs. Hunt and 3Irs. Perkins. Presi- dent of Vt. W. C. T. U., stayed through the night session; rallied the friends ii both houses to a new support of the re- constructed nmeasure, and the sun rose on a complete v ictory for the temperance. education of all the children in the pub- lie schools of the Green Mountain State. The new bill, now the law of Vermont, is as specifie as the one vetoed, with a strong penalty for non-en forcemnent. Mrs. Hunt gives great credit to Mrs. Perkins for hearty co-operation in Mont-. pelier and to the W. C. T. U. ladies who rolled up 12,000 petitions so signally crowned with victory.-Norfolk County Gazette. A Vermont paper says, "The gratitude of the State for this valuable legislation is due chiefly to Mrs. Hunt. Discour- agement with her called forth Lr -, plans.. Seeming defeat recalled other like scenes: that ended in victory. Her experience furnished a precedent or warning in every emergency. Tireless in activity, unshaken in faitli, and invincible In courage, she conquered defeat at every stage The following is a copy of this new law: AN A-r to provide for the Study of Scientific Temperance iin the Public Schools of the State of Vermont. It is hereby enacted by the General Assembiv of the State of Vermont: S;:-rrox 1. In addition to the braneheS in which instruction is now required by law to be given in the public schools, in- struction shall also be given as to the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics and special instruction as to their effects upon the huma v syst-m in connection! with the several divisions of the subject of Physiology and Hygicne. And such subjects shall be taught as thoroughly as arithmetic and geography are taught in aid schools. Such 1I instructiou shall be iven orally to pupils who are not able to read and shilt be oivn by the use of text-books in the ease of pupils who are able to read. And such instruction shall be given as aforesaid to all pupils in all public schools in the State. Siec. 2. The text books used for the instruction required to be given by the preceding section shall give at least on- fourth of their space to the consider- tion of the nature and effects of alcoholic rinks and narcotics; and the books sed in the highest grade of graded schools shall contain at least twenty ages of matter relating to this subject Text books on Physiology in use ini the chools at the time this act takes effect, hich are not in accordancei with the equirements of this section, shall be hanged for books satisfying the re- 1airments of this section, except when revious contracts as to such text books rc now in force. Six. . Each teacher of a pubic school in this State shall, before lodging he school register with the district lerk as provided by section ;2. or the ievised Laws, certify therein whether nstruction has been given (in the school r grade presided over by such teacher) s required by this Act; and no pubhe- noney shall be paid over to the treasurer f a union or other district uniess thl egister of such district contains the ertiicate of the teacher that instructin as been given as required by this Act. Srcc. 4. All Aets or parts of Acts her- ofore enacted ireferrinig to the study of Physiology and Hygiene, which shall ive special pronminenice to the etreet~s of stimulants and narcotics uponm the human systm, or to the selce-iion of text bookt :t be used in the pursuance- of that study are hereby repealed, except thos~e re- lating to the examination of teaecrs~in this branch. Sac. 3. This .\et shall tak~e ef'eet fr in itspassage, butt shiall nlot aply to tic ivision of the public schmool mnoneys~ ade in 18$7. Lm.:vi K. F-';r.ai.i:, i.rs sident of the Sejiate. Speaker House of liepresi ntative. Ac-iou: l: Novemibere :th, 1 -,. Emi~:N .sez:a J. Oc:'t,-ELI, ( ove:-nos. The National dr ill w hich i- to taec lace at Wash1ington \[ay :7 to romises to It-- a grau -neet I ponng th t.im -i sih 'rgi to iuing thyi; x1~- diiirnit S~ h ciLie ote bigad. mulA regne. forty-tiv compi (SaLe oi nfty; -e batiin, !iit-en light Buxi a iv mii ne-gii'~ un platoot in s.. tirt-en corps .chool cade et-s 1ie r.m mnta l baudsi an the ru o *f tho dili'erent States repre. etd review thle troopis. Iliavlraie rIos theLiuvitatlions have beenl rived i fran the Governors of MlinnesotaGeri dhio, Dtelaware, 31arlanud. Loiia~na New Jiersey, .Iowa, South (Carohmn: \othi Carolia and M\ississipli. 1:e hition s W 1a.1 4l-~r th a iE in the Next 11hirtN . Icars--Thenl Co1:.w., thei (V-ro;ln tile l li m e.u . The Rev. Mr. Baxter, editor of the New York Christian Herald, preached three times last Sunday at Harris's Museum on the "Coming of Christ and the Begiiing of the Millenium." Large audiences were present. Mr. Baxter has been s1pcaiking on the same subject t.ron1u'ut the country. He is about o'.i ye"rs oki, rather tall, and has bushy dark hair and beard. Many of his hear- ers, particularly women, went away look- ing serious or frightened. His text was Daniel's vision of the four beasts one of which, he said, repre- sented the Babylonian empire, ene the Medo Persian empire, one the Grecian empire, and the other the Roman em- pire. He predicted the formation, by great wars and revolution, of all the countries of C:esar's original Ronian em- pires into an allied confederacy of ten kingdoms ruled by ten sovereigns, as represented by the ten horns of the wild beast in the seventh chapter and twVenty- fourth verse of Daniel, and the subse- quent rise among the ten sovereigns of an eleventh sovereign, who will be the little horn as represented in the beast and who will first appear in Svria. The allied kingdoms will be Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Greece, Egypt, Syria, Turkey and Bulgaria. in the nmeantim Germany will have been co- quered by France and will be a part of that kingdom, which will then be ruled bya king. In conquering Germany Frince Will be aided by Russia or by a socialistic revolution in Germany. She wll be led by Boulanger, who is a man of destiny. When the ten kingdonis are formaed the sovereign represented by the [ittle horii will gradually increase his power until he becomes king of ti.e ten illied nations, and finally the imperial nti-Christ. He will be a representative of the Napolcon dynasty, the greatest warrior tI at ever lived, the e-:aftiest 4atesman :mivl the most successful Leader )f inca. America will be subject to his lominion. He uill not conquer this :onutry by bringing v:i.t armie: here, but will succed by means of his fasci- aating enu., which will win hinm count- Less adherents, such as socialists, hihil- :sts. spiritualists and RLoniai:nts, who will eventually get control of ie whole: younitry. Mr. IAxter prophesied that all these :hings will coic to pass during the next :hirteen years, after whiih will come the illenii of a thousaw! years. The ;reat wars and re'lus and earth- juakes will begin in a year or two, and si lethe mo thAurrine the mt de- i ,h L ha-s known. By i81o the ten kingdoms will have been du~cd. all conutries outside .Ciesars >riginal ite:an upires will be sepa- ated, at least legislatively, from the ten ingdoms ini- the "Lonian empire, reland and India and the colouie-s will ', separated from England legislatively, f not entirely. The eleventh king will irst attract atteltion1 by a seven years' ovenant with the Jews, and in about .Wo and a h:df years thereafter lie will dvance from 'being merely Kiag of Vria to be head of France, and then be hle supreme sovereign of the world. He vill be the anti-Christ during the last I fee and a half vears. With regard t6 his reasons for fixing :he time for the great crisis, he said that rhatever ditfirences of opinion have ex- sted among expositors as to the mere letails oL 1-roplietic interpretation, more han a hundred of them have fQreshown n their books that it will probably take lace between now and 190. Having rrived at the threshold of this crisis, we chuold their prop~hetic anticipatioins sig- aly ; critied and conftirmed by the tartlin" signs of thy times-uolitcal, >eial and religious-el ustering around hiIs period. In iew of these predictions, MIr. Bax- er told his hearers that they will be ivig' inols paradise if they '1o not repare for approaching events by say- ng thir souals by so living that uuay bet ton thi" e'ect. That done, all they vill have to do will be to wait to see if vihat he sams will not come true. Alonmg the sides of the museum galle- :ies were vivid paintings of the prophe- de.and over the stage was anmap of Europe. *lr. Baxter illustrated his re- ~aksb pointing to the p~ictur~es and :raing- on the nmap the dominions of the dlid nations. Collections were taken to par fs or the museum, and copies of~ ir. Baiter's book wvere sold and the >rice of h'is paper was announiced. a.;as a::ewi~ni in .na. lKefere Gov',ernor Gaordoni left fir New York aplicvation was made to him to siie a wa rranit for the. ares~t of M1 *T. ios' afomer citizeni of lidiana, anid hieele on the ground that it wasL ani hoirt to uise the priocess5 of the laiw to :llee a debt tt was- stronigly con- eat ier the Gov~ernor left a regu- er rqui~tia froma tie Governora of tuianacam ior culosue. It wa not gultiv'nr."ented. out the conuisel for rui.tin woulad naot bei honor' d be- :au,>e the (Gum era'or was absent anid the :qi si itionl was coiitested . ite thi sonr left a requlisitionl was. miade by lovenor ( ord(on oin the (Governior of~ South' Caolinba for W\. S. S'ider. :iarge withi an otrence in Augu:.ta On ibhuiz previously signed . Govenor Ric~ard'on, of South Carolina, umade a rlstonl on ( overno'r G, on fe 'e ibuii let. f' r a pairty ini C'e 'onutv ad.tw esd on' the sa'' goud ispat.I h. t'' sigbanks, so tia tey. can .'a1 v.'i ut day LTe the' conuty ' n i' i mi Ix i lr-i dAi WOMEN BOUND TO VOTE. They Will Demand that the Militia be Called Out If Necessary. (From the New York star.) The women's suffrage committee of Brooklyn made public the following open letter to Governor Hill: Hon. David Hill, Governor of New York State: Sin:-At a mass meeting of the women's suffrage committee, this eve- ning, it was unanimously resolved as follows: "That we request the Governor of New York to recommend that a law be enacted during this session of the Legis- lature to protect the women in this State in exercising their right to vote on next eleetion day. During the last election day we were intimidated, threatened with imprisonment and bodily harm. If the Legislature fails to make a law for our protection, we have resolved to de- mand you to call out the State militia to protect us at the polls, thereby prevent- ing riot and bloodshed." Respectfully, E3mA BECEwITH,. President. A. C. HALL, Secrerary. S. TwITCHELL, Ch'n Ex. Com. .Mrs. Twitchell said that a bill was to have been presented in the Legislature last night, making it the duty of election officers to register and receive the vote of every woman of 21 years or over who shall present herself for that purpose. Womian suftrage in Wyoming. One of the prettiest and most prominent members of fashionable society here this winter is a lady who has the proud distict- ion of having voted for her husband when he ran for Congress. The lady in question is Mrs. Joseph Carey. wife of the delegate from Wyoming Territory. Mrs. Carey, while in no snsea "'strong-minded" woman is an ardent believer in female suffrage. She has seen the practical working of the systemi in Wyoming. and pronounces as absurd the common argument that the right of suffrage unsexes a woman. At an evening party recently where Mrs. Carey was giving utterance to these senti- ients, Senator Wade Hampton blandly in- terjected the remark:- "But, of course, you always vote as your husband instructs you?" MIrs. Carey's black eyes snapped inerrily as she replied:- "Indeed we do not. The first time .my husband ran for office I voted againt him and my mother supported him. The next tine we both opposed him. In each case we thought the other man would make the better ollicer. I mention this to show you that in our family, at least, the women use their right of suffrage about as they' please. 1oreover, the conferring of this power upon women has a good moral effect, es- pecially upon those whose husbands are politicians. You may believe that where every woman is permitted to vote the wives of politicians are very chary about undly criticising the other women. To do so means the creation of enemies -for your husband, who can work him a great injury if they choose. It is a powerf'l cheek upon the tongue: I assure you."-Wash- ingtnv Letter. Goiernor Tilden's Sister. - The sister of the late Governor Tilden, of New York, Mrs. Mary P. Pelton, died on Saturday, without ever receiving a cent of her brother's bequest. MIrs. Pelton was 78 years of age, and had been enjoyingfairly good health until within the last ten days. A special request to the executors to hurry tip the execution of the trust, so that she might enjoy it during her life time, was made some time ago and met with no re- sponse. Mr. Andrew Green called upon Mrs. Pelton a short time ago and offered to loan her' sonme money to meet any pressing necessities, but 3Irs. Pelton replied that she diid not care to borrow any money, but would like to have what her brother had left her Mr. Samuel .J. Trilden, Jr., called upon the executors a short time ago and urged them to arrange the trusts of his Aunt 3Iary, Aunt Lucy and his mother, all of whiom were old and sowewhat feeble, in order that the might enjoy their brother's bequests during their life time. He said: "Never mind about the younger folks; we cam shift for ourselves." The old ladies were very much disappointed to think they have been treated so shabbily by the executors. The death of MIrs. Pelton may possibly bring them to their senses. The friends of the family say the heirs have been treated by the executors more as mendicants than as ssers. nieces antd relatives of the dead statesman and millionaire. Not 11i, Mnthe:'. Washington society has been grinning over the blunder of one of its number- a woman not unaccus'tomed to blunder- ing. however. She made a call on the newly-made wife of the Secretary of the Interior. The servant ushered her into a salon, where a stately person in sombre raimeut and of austere mien received her. After the usual exchange of social amenities the visitor glanced around ex- peetantly, as if looking for some one; then turning to the hostess, she said: "I presue you arc 3Mr. Lama mother, and I would like also to see the bride." --'1adanme," replied the stately dame, "I am 3Ir. Lamar's wife."-Detroit 'Tribune. The Fall River News says: Who would have supasosed that print cloths made in South 'Carolina would be used by the American Print Company in this city? Yet such is the fact. It is heavy cloth that is called for in the trade, therefore it must be used. One of the faills in the niills in the city is now preparing to make this class of goods, of which none is made here at present. The weight of the cloth is four yards to the pound. --- toston newsp)alPer tells howv thor- oughly the young women of the Hub sujoy~ t Shlelley readings, and appreci- st'-Lthe poetrvy. '' "Go thou to Rtome," bea the reader. "Don't 1 wish I .u' "He goses right to the heart." \iter 'a long~ silence in the corner, while ic melodious voice of the reader seemed to' bring at forgetftluess of all earthly loings to the club: "Say," whispered a Ytoung Iady', ''isn't he lovely?" "Who, the readler?" "No." "Shelley?" "Why, no'; tile young man with th~e primrose :"ektie. I'm just longing to know him. ie's a daisy." ''ausedi by tihe siun Irying to set by thet new
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JAI.ANNING ('LA N I M)N &() NTY S. C., WE)NESI)AY MI II 2 1887. NO. 14.
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tem -Ad Expen.ive Loain, Wem't Answer-vesof at 11izer.
The following article on the subject ofcotton planting, from the pen of a
Wateree planter, appeared in the Colum-bia Register:"What man is there, A ye z. k for
bread will give you a stone; if you askfor a fish, give you a
When the early Virgini:a eeui's ap-plied to the authorities at home.,c ior someconsideration in the matter o- clmrchcsand schools, suggesting the benefit itwould be to their souls, the reply of the
profane regency that governed the Vir-
ginia planters was: "lDaMLU your seals,plant tobacco." Change tobacco forcotton and you have much the !amne re-
ply practica~ly given to the por devilWho is trying to niake an he;t hivingby cultivating the kindly soil of SouthCarolina. "Make cottons is tae replyto eveiy application for ad es thatare necessary to carry on this 1usmess,
as things now stand, by those who con-trol the money of the count.y. N cot-ton, no advan~ces, diversified agiculture,grow grasses, raise stock, whe;, barley,oats and rye. You improvident, thrilt-less devil, call yourself a farmer, andplant cotton to buy cverythinrg else?True, and pity 'tis, true: and v,ny is ImMS
thus? Simpl- because thias pwevr thatrules the country absolutely tinas Its;interest in having cotton plantedA to theexclusion. practicaily, of c1rthigelse; and under the pressure of that lawsthe farmer has his financial hie W:
out of him as completely as erv e
Spaniard did the best blood of Aztec :.iInca in the mines of Mexico anlPeru.The emancipation of the Southern;
negro left nothing in the hands of theplanter but his lands, with lit ie or nomarket value, at least not eaough tomake it a legitimate basis of imercantilecredit. The national banks refused tolend money on the security of real estate,their charters forbidding. T,e banksfound it better for their interst to getas far from the planters as p.ible, andinterposed the commissicn erchatbetween them, who acted as kerstorthe bank, while making theiroen(c. ne
out of it. The bank gives acounodation to the city mercluut, the ec
to such firms in the county' lus
cross-roads as suit their purp A. atlast the farmer (be he of na.yjiu%the nigger with his ox takes It as
can get it, with the conuian ecdet- of "so mauch cotton." The cotton comet>,but under this svste:n the planter isalways left. He drags a lengtheningchain. When he started after te war,we assume, he had something left. How'many of that class have anytning now
If he has, how long wil! he lop it? Itis buta question of time and t ti:-Who or what is to blame for this? Noindividual certainly. He who properswhile the planter at the cther end of te,Iine goes to the wall, does it hu fair andopen market, taking advantage of the-soundings made to his hands-for "thestars in their courses tight aginstSisera"-his (the capitalibts) holds thecards tiat wins, and controls the situa-tion, as the Jews did Europe in the Mid-dle Ages, by having all the money andall the credit.The man who gets money at six or
-eight per cent. and lends it at fifteen or'twenty or twenty-five (getting it often,in the first instance, upon the collateralpedge of real estate of the man he lends'
i to)must goupas other goes down.'So, then, as far as we can see, this dis-crlmrnationl in the price of money to theplanter, is the handicap that weighs himdown. He makes his staple pretty muchto the exelusion of everything else, withmoney, that costs him anything from 12to 25 per cent. one way or another,'whilst the man who buys it, carries onbusiness with money that costs in NewYork or Liverpool 5 and 63 per cent. less.Those who handle cotton maeke moneyout of it. Go into the streets of any ofthe country towns in the cotton regionin December, and every store is full,and doing a roaring business oni and outofT cotton, while every pound of it costthe man who made it more tihan it tsoldfor. It costs $6.00) to pick a bale of 5>00pounds- This alone pours into thecountry cotton marts a very largeamount of hard cash in the space of twoand a half months. Add to this theseed cotton traflic, and you have some-thing that accounts for the '-milk in thecocoanut." So much more can be madeby those who have money, by lending itin advances to the man wiho makes thecotton, than by planting, that even
planters themselves, who miay have it,let it go that way. The tendency seemli.to be the absorption of all the largeestates in the country, by the wealthycity capitalists. TZius is as natural as
inevitable, and in many cases the sonerthis is done thebetter for all conicerned.They know how it is themselves.1Theyhave the means 0f overcomaig thediificulties of the sitaation, and niay sue-ceed. We wish themn l. i nfault of theirs that the old systemi of theSouth should pass away, and the oldestates of the country be carried on byan "absentee system" like. a sugar eitatein British Guiana, or a t-a K'arm en theslopes of the imalaya. Iree ab ie-
quires a huge amount of nr± n. rto move and control it.. .a. i e .
said, in old times, that theI. plnerno business with banks.~, hi e
a uart of his vested cait -a
necessary support asUe!.a5obusiness where a umber oi sanot r
employed, al.iin cait is y e
while those us.. thaI d eoe0it at short nerious,- and 1ea1 t ait with. adtvgtotheA ir d or
rower. No so' n i th us areasons gie. n e une,a itvsay when we atiir: t hat noal prperous ''an jivedayw qplanters up~on ourau a a
before the a. TheUn e
Often the successful nor. ,a:hwisugot rich iuon thee1atrd
ing interest, and was don with peca.tion. it was so in co)ttluu, neeC aln-
sugar. There wa s a staLbility about th
iled tL English landed interest: lAow wphting is essentially a comnercia
IpeCn:tion. The cash for hands, montbv month, successful or not, Lmtlpaid in full, with no crop, and nothingto pay with, there beiug no reservedcauital. This brings things to a alt a'once. One who cannot control capita"on a legitimate basis had as well undertake to work a mine. or run a factoiry o
a line of ocean steamers on a twtlvemonths' credit, as to plant succeesiullyA merebant with little or no caital, bu1ta good business reputation, can g-goods on such time as enables him t
carry on business with sales to mee L Jcred'its. He is part of a systemP oferedits, and does a legitimate busineswith it. There is no hegitimite systemif credit inl planting. The length ofhime before he can realize and thte un-
certainty attending all its operationsand results, put the planter out of thetpale of commercial credit, which mi-ansgettig money upon the same terms as
Other non doing business with him.Unless C does that, the rest goes fenothing. Farmers muay meet and re-selve, and all the sct-may g to theLegisIature, and, if vou choose, 'makeRome howl;" but unless that difficulty;s remmed2it theiy are out of the ring."Paul may pla-t, and Apol'us maywater," but there is no imierease at 2 percent. a month.Tie tariff 'd State taxatioii have in a
sense nothin to do with this desperatecondition of things. A- our LAd friendDon Qaixott used to say to his trustystuire: "These are but tarts and cheese-eakes, frikd Sancho, to that grim giantover yonder;' and our giant is no wind-mill e ither.Fair priced money w_-uld ven now
co:;ie too late to the most who have beenplaiiting cotton since the war. Like thesuccor sent to the famiishing Irish in11 S, many were too far gone. thoughstill alive and conscious, to be helped byit; and the most terril duty imposedUponth coimm;issioners who distributedthe plrovisions, wa: to pass by thosewhose features indicated so hopeless a
condition that it did not warrant givingthem, though craving for it, that reliefwhich would save others not so far gone.So, again, we say the thing has gone
on long enough, and gone so far that,really, the best for the country at largewould be for the capitalists Awho over-shadow the land with this, in the aggre-gate, enormous debt to pass seme sortof an "Irish encumbered estate bill,realize, take possession of all estates,"so perptuaiWy Muird and put them
a lo.'t wvith the means thiy and noinlse .ve, and so take a bmden from
he s r t nor"'na't-e classf mnv. iui e to p cotton
n liens-andhit 'i What is oing tohapeni!!Mppn.and whtthat i
wVoutl not, we will confess, be diticultto sy,.'oty n will be madc, no fear.The middle and upper country oi SouthCarolina is as good a region to make itin as anV inl the cotton belt. take it allround. The labor is now well in handand only requires the knowledge of thefreedman's ways and requirements, withthe money to meet them, and experi-ence has taught this to the men whohave been dealing with them ;f lateyears t', do good work. This; middleay:i iioer country of South Carolinahas the cliimate, oil and weai lyingonder the shelter of the .Blue Ridge on
the North and West, with the warm cur-rent of the Gulf Stream bathing itsEastern shore, it is a veritable gardenfor those VIho are able to avail them-selves of its advantages, Out not uponthe systen now pursued. That isdoomed, and no hand can save it. Thesooner it goes the better. Clear thewreck and let the strongest hold theround. Out of "chaos" conmes "cos-
ins." Bad as the best may be, nothingis worse than holding on. The dry rotermeates the whole system, and can
have but one ending. 'fhe Dutch, whenhey had the monopoly of the Eastindia trade, burned the su~rplnsage- or
their spices to keep the mar-ket at a pay-ing standard. Let those who are ableto plant cotton legitimately do so. Letthemn take examp~le from~the D~utch awise people, reduce the cotton erop andhandle more money fr-om the smalhl cropthan thme large one, to say nothing of in-idental benetits coming from cuitivating
provisions. Make half a crop of cottonone year, and it will give a healthy tone
to the market for an indefinite period.WATrEn.E.
C.amdi2en, S. C.
.1 'atheti0 nc(idenlt att se'i.-
The brief story of the relief of theBritish ship Baron Blantyre by thesteamship Baltitmore condenses enoughof incident to furnish Clark Rlussell orsomec other skillful writer of sea storiesthe basis for a thrilling narrative. Whatcould be more harrowing than for starv-ing men to see, as the crew of theBlantvre did, their signal of distress un-ieded by a passing vessel except so far
as to drop provisions overboard. whichthe farmishinig men were too weak andfetble to securle, being compelled to seethem ihcating away on the waves beyoni~dall hope of reacb? Iu the height ofthei' ditress the Baltimore hoave insight on her way from Liverpool to thiscity, and humanely respontding with allPosible speed to the appeal for assist-:'. ce, sent over the waves of an angry',a a boat to their succor. But for thetinely arrival of the steamship the crew~of the Blantyre would probably haveperi he.ITheir condition being aggra--td by h knowvle-ge that they hadrovi-a oalboar. icimth-v were eun
cat et b-cae, ci"g salted, the
uneem Ja.i ien- '- i-* tur
-h.s :saa e tiofth
The delicate t1. of Iea a- one-
the proceing.broughtv byMrs Markeaaint use Va.nderburSh'hi family in the sant
m;.- were sorely woundued,ud r denied the whole story and
asened thatt that he was the victim ->f-'i.4ir. The judge didn't thinkl sei
11 1L t I S :0 Ih thtt.e is no lIior.romatic region than that bieyoLd tiBhie Ridge mountains, in North Caroli-na, whe- 4thLe wolk and the indian vAplay thir part, as in the Iays f eariysctteuvw It. In J]ackson couty a vasttract oIead -, owned by tie Cherokc,the seasteri and" of thiS once powerful tr'be 1baving th'er their -iief e-tate.Sit. 1dby a coz tuetcher uight,
in a conmltt lioom inl tho CLtpitol,Senator Elias rlated- a curius story.He said thtin 1'2 a St:dwart mio1u-
nernimed 1imrick, who n to thattirei had managd to :AoI( the Far andits tt::natut featnres of volbiuntering or
beirg eniscripted, brought busoniwife with him from Swain county intoJackson county, and made his home inthis quiet and lovely cove in the Indianreservation.
M'onths passed. The pair were de-voted. The young wife expericced allthe delihits of a thoroughly primitiveexistence. But this was not to last.There was a regiment of Cherokees inthle service of the State, under the com-mand of old Colonel Thonas. One dayan officer of this regiment returned andfound Iamrich in the cove. The latter wasconscripted and hurried to the front.His wife next heard from him in North-ern Virginia. Letters were infrequent,messages seldom came.In 1864 the wife-to whom a pair oi
twiuns, a boy and a girl, had been horn--learicd that her husband had disap-peared; that after his name on the rollof his company was only that dreadfulentry. "missing.In 1805 the war ended, and with it"
close came to her the news that her hus-band had deserted-gone over to theenemy. Year after year passed. Thewife kept the vigil of love and wearilywaited for the missing husband, whonever came.Thore were wooers enough, and "the
widow," as she was called in the neigh-borhood talk, had what were theie con-sidered good oifers. One patient lovernamed Bowers, thrice rejected, perse-vered, and in 1876 won the prize of hisdovotion. He brought his effects to hiswife's home in the cove.Ten years more passed and 1886t came.
Not one word of the long lost first hus-band had been heard since the returningsoldiers brought news in 1863 of Ham-rick's desertion. True as the wife's de-,votion was to her second husband, shehad yet a wvarm spot in her simple heartfr the first, and in her rude. unculturedwav she even weve a half romance outof the grea t and apparently unenudingimystery of his absence.One brigh'at day last sunmmer a stranger
came to Bowers's home in the cove. Theplace wts in most respects like it was in8w63, for changes in the mountan wilds
are made slowly. Bowers was not athome. The wife was now a buxomwoman of forty years, far tidier in ap-pearance and with much more naturalgrace and sprightliness of manner thanthe average woman in that section. Thestranger asked who lived there. lHe was
told "the Uower, family." in a hos-jpitable manner he was asked in thehouse, where presently came to theirmother two children, one of six, and theother of nine years.At dinner time the family received two
more additions-a young ian and youngwoman, about twenty-three years of ge,exceedingly alike in face and manner.The stranger asked, "Who are these?""They are Hiamricks's," was the replyof the good wife; "my children by my
first husband." People in the moun-tains in many eases lovcd to talk-infact, are not infrequently garrulous-and in half an hour the wife had toldthe story of her first marriage and thedeep mystery which had enided it. Thestranger listened attentively, and just asthe story was concluded Bowers came in.
A~neighbor came in, and soon1 karnedthe story, too. The wife bustled about, ofcourse, excited, but not in tears. Ham-rick and Bowers talked together.The neighbors, after the manner of
neighbors all the 'world over, told thenews to people within reach, and nextday these came to hear and see. A few,veryv few, had a remiembrance of Hlam-ricki; ntvivid, but faint, for lie hadlived in that section but a little while, ofcourse.Presently somie loquacious neighbor
said to Bowers: "Well, what are yougoing to do about it?""About what?" was the reply."Why, about that man Hlamriek. He's
yoife'shusband."Thspta new face on the matter.
Bowers had not thought of it in thatway, neither had the wife. She brokeinto tears.There were at dozenl peoplei the
house. All were listening and lookingwith rude curiosity.The house seemed cramped. Bowers
said: "Let's go outdoors." Ali went.No sooner had they arrived in the
sard than the wife went to Buwes andthew her armis about himn.At this whatever mantiiness there wo-
in H-amriek eaeu: t' the sutrfatce andas.ertd itsel. -1id: "fl1 tell vou
what lil do, l"eple don't want tom'ke no di-sturbace an i g ightback whLere I came from.That was all lie "aid. The crIow. haili
spoke, halt nodded assenat to te propo-sition and plia in one. Right there,under the trees, the. matter was tixed asif in court before a~jary. Hlamrc saiie was5 sati'n.,::I acciared tha flstime~i 1e w.ouh g 0'-orgod. Ie toldte peole, hi 4.w i, cildtren, all
thug an en'mah alaut
T.here t Iwa 'uettele. in1 the. itua-tin, as ini th, sublject, ev. eryItiingthat
hadiat, wihu il t hars;ugtioofntmet
..Tnc nieighbors did not spraIi E,
newrveryxi iunch untside their own eiei
ne .iorhod talk No one thua'.nt
..e ini did, in a way' jut as- roa'ie,aough~ ju:-t as real, as ev.; thin el-e.A neightbor of towers had whatt in that
contry is known as "'a failing out" withlm about a cider press. Out of these
trivial a~lairs grow quarrels, lharshords, nay, blood-lettidg and even
This trile Bowers s new-made enemywas of another-i staimp of man. He knewof the Hamrick matter, but a few months"ge e'ttled. Sk last October he went to
th couity seat and there gave to thesalii(r1 a71rad j1uryman the infor-miatin itli wers Was violating thestat i unlaw fully living with a wo-
mD .1 th-.I t'e wo.an. h"ad also Vio-
r was f sitution. Bowersnd'varr Cl. and Senator
E , Win'v- '.putv in 2ll.that r-
gio.c.. .ugt ito dfnthei n Thetm..dw)A, d givn bond foir 1is
pp; e court, rode many milesafter -Lwr Eli.s" and toild him thewhole. .:ory.
T..e a mau of culture, was
astoni.id -it the story thus unrolledbefore his vys. Court met and thelawver 1:-:j is eloquene aid per-suasionqtss;. H jll the whole story-of the*.1 .': td vie tie long vigil oflove, th idg up of the first husbandfor dead, the remarriage, the return ofthe leLg lost hnsband, the verbal agree-ment that he should return to the farnorthwecst and all remain as it was.The narrative had its effect upon the
rudest n.ind; but the law had technical-ly, unnuowingly Jeen violated; it mustbe tehically enforced. So there was atechniclv*er'diet of guilty, with a recom-menda""in to the mercy of the court ifthe parties lived separate and apart.Thiswas Lawyer Elias's chance, his
opportumity: he seized it. He told Bow-ers that he and his wife had best go outof thiat neigliborhood, and that theymight 1-iv together; that the verdict wasonly t ec, and the judgment a mere
forl, aLd that in the future the lawwould not again disturb them.Thev acted on the suggestion, re-
moved to Macon county. and now livethere at peace with all the world. Onlya few weeks ago the sou was married,and in the spring the girl will become a
bride.So Senator Elias told the story, a true
story ill all particulars, which has in itall fLe elements of the fanciful and theunreal, and is yet just as true as the fact,known of all men, that the great peaksof the Blue Ilidge raise themselves sky-ward in Western North Carolina.
The Southern Womnen in the iral.
It is really a matter of iudiiferencewhether or not a society leader is in-digenous to the soil, or whether she isimported from some foreign clime, butusually there are certain peculiarities ofither complexioni, dress or manners that
prevent a stranger from mingling inNew York society for any lengt of timewithout betraying her foreign extrac-tioll. New York soeiety, thLd is theultra-i ah'liou:able, may Ie very excl1sive,but it iS, nevertele., composed ofheterogeneous parts. In additai to theforeigners who are admitted ito itscharmed cirele, each section of thiscountry contributes its quota of mem-
bers, and the distinctive characteristicsof each one are as noticeable to a closeobserver as the foreign and conceitedways of the British nobility, or themincing daintiness of the ovcr-toppishFrenchman. We have Westeiners andSoutherners who are easily distingnishedfrom the genuine Gothamites, althoughthey have been so closely connected withNew York society. in its doings for yearspast they are generally recognizedthroughout the country as geiune NewYorkers.The Southcrn women are counted
allong the imost beautiful and cutvted,and theLi soft voices and gentle miannershave won -for them much praise, especial-ly this 'winter, during which they havebeen prominently to the front as enter-tertainers. Everyone who meets MIrs.Algernon S. Sullivan is charmed withher gracee of manner and beauty, al-though few know that she is Southerner.3irs Erockhoist Cutting is one of the;most popular of matrons, and is a Vir-ginian by birth and rearing. Mrs. Bar-ton Harrisou, as is well known comesfrom the same State. She was a MIissCaryv, andi is conniecteai with the F~air-ixes and Randolphs. Shie representsthe literary women of the South. Mirs.Edwatrd Leecs C'fey. whose prettydaughter Lucyv is just nowa very pronu-nent igiure in society--as the authior ofa play-also hails from the Old Domin-ion, and 3Mrs. Willard Ward, of Mladi-son occasionally gives such delightfulrecitions, is tile daughter of the late.udge E-rskine, of Alabama. .At herhiouse thle representatives of Southernfamilies are usually met. MIiss lBisland,a friend (of Miss Ward. dates back herfamily traditions to the last SuoanishG'oveinor of Louisi1na.-New York Let-ter.
The F lorida ear tur-ned the convl'.ersa-tion 'f the hom'e bonud Congre"'ssmen- tolols, of Florida -Jones inamnoratus-
un.,ephi non and' 11di noicmbach t 'W'ing'ton1 1' -rve out his
Cere~im teu. I'or -'0 iS,'aid"Call, his iorier colleague, th'e other
da,h iL'l cLme back:-:i politi-cai iae - rul. And hiardly uts thealittl;marble hmumblier' fallenl in I :mcen:de when the'(~'Goernor~of Florida ap-poined Lis sullccess'er. 11he new\ Senatornemy be a very table mian, but hie will notat first attract the' attetionl which Mr.Jonbes did in' the early days of his Sena-torial career. An Irish ship l-arpenter,working at thle bench by the sidle ofslaves, he gainled an edlucation by the~light of ine knots at night, andl rose to
emnuee; was~ eleted to the' UniltedStates Seiate, whiere lhe wasI', in ntet, '±ne
ofteales of icotitut debaer~SLuddnivwt)ithoutlnotc tile uroe
'ia(e I islewmapers ,with inctherenetne
eireuClasdshenes, ha~ve caused inany Seoa-to rs to b eiNe that. like DeaA Swif',
J'ones'i s -dlug-atopi."-CorXrespondeuln':e
I t .,'vr lady' wih a briigh:,iiien 'e, wlhbih invariab.l;
theu~eof r Harters Irou
owi,. how I o i to IL.
-rem pemne.:lc- illtlo.
The temperaice educationl laW 01 \ur-mont, enacte in 18'J, with no specilicprovisions and no penalty, has provedweak and too indefinite to secure the de-signed object. The W. C. T. I. of thatState voted to petition the Legislature of1SS6 for -. more stringent statute on thissubject, and enaged Mrs. 31. H. Huntto th- charge of the campaigu. Thenew bill was modeled after the nationallaw,"but wa' amended in the SenatMwitha1 -ing')1:z clause. in spite of thelolbb conbinations against it, this billw-s Sk-iliniiyv carried through bothhlouS's With :a landnsome majority.
At thirty minutes past flive o'clockTit-day evening the Governor returnedthe bill toC the Senate with a veto ies-
sWe based on the Senate amendment,which he declared "unconstitutional.-The Legislature was to adjourn at S
o'clock thp nest morning, but was tohave a night ;Cs-sion. The irrepressiblevitality back of this movement evidentlyknows no defeat. Another bi:1 leavingout thc unconstitutional clause was
framed and presented to the Senate at11 o'clock that evening, and under a
"suspension of rules" it passed bothhouses and was signed by the Governorbefore three o'clock the next morningThe enemies of the bill went home afterthe veto was read, thiuking it was killed,but Mrs. Hunt and 3Irs. Perkins. Presi-dent of Vt. W. C. T. U., stayed throughthe night session; rallied the friends iiboth houses to a new support of the re-
constructed nmeasure, and the sun roseon a complete v ictory for the temperance.education of all the children in the pub-lie schools of the Green Mountain State.The new bill, now the law of Vermont,is as specifie as the one vetoed, with a
strong penalty for non-en forcemnent.Mrs. Hunt gives great credit to Mrs.Perkins for hearty co-operation in Mont-.pelier and to the W. C. T. U. ladies whorolled up 12,000 petitions so signallycrowned with victory.-Norfolk CountyGazette.A Vermont paper says, "The gratitude
of the State for this valuable legislationis due chiefly to Mrs. Hunt. Discour-agement with her called forth Lr -, plans..Seeming defeat recalled other like scenes:that ended in victory. Her experiencefurnished a precedent or warning in
every emergency. Tireless in activity,unshaken in faitli, and invincible Incourage, she conquered defeat at everystageThe following is a copy of this new
law:AN A-r to provide for the Study ofScientific Temperance iin the PublicSchools of the State of Vermont.It is hereby enacted by the General
Assembiv of the State of Vermont:S;:-rrox 1. In addition to the braneheS
in which instruction is now required bylaw to be given in the public schools, in-struction shall also be given as to thenature of alcoholic drinks and narcoticsand special instruction as to their effectsupon the huma vsyst-m in connection!with the several divisions of the subjectof Physiology and Hygicne. And suchsubjects shall be taught as thoroughly as
arithmetic and geography are taught inaid schools. Such1I instructiou shall beiven orally to pupils who are not ableto read and shilt be oivn by the use oftext-books in the ease of pupils who are
able to read. And such instruction shallbe given as aforesaid to all pupils in allpublic schools in the State.Siec. 2. The text books used for the
instruction required to be given by thepreceding section shall give at least on-
fourth of their space to the consider-tion of the nature and effects of alcoholicrinks and narcotics; and the bookssed in the highest grade of gradedschools shall contain at least twentyages of matter relating to this subjectText books on Physiology in use ini thechools at the time this act takes effect,hich are not in accordancei with theequirements of this section, shall behanged for books satisfying the re-1airments of this section, except whenrevious contracts as to such text booksrc now in force.Six. . Each teacher of a pubic
school in this State shall, before lodginghe school register with the districtlerk as provided by section ;2. or theievised Laws, certify therein whethernstruction has been given (in the schoolr grade presided over by such teacher)s required by this Act; and no pubhe-noney shall be paid over to the treasurerf a union or other district uniess thlegister of such district contains theertiicate of the teacher that instructinas been given as required by this Act.Srcc. 4. All Aets or parts of Acts her-ofore enacted ireferrinig to the study ofPhysiology and Hygiene, which shallive special pronminenice to the etreet~s ofstimulants and narcotics uponm the humansystm, or to the selce-iion of text bookt:tbe used in the pursuance- of that studyare hereby repealed, except thos~e re-lating to the examination of teaecrs~inthis branch.Sac. 3. This .\et shall tak~e ef'eet fr in
itspassage, butt shiall nlot aply to ticivision of the public schmool mnoneys~ade in 18$7.
Lm.:vi K. F-';r.ai.i:,i.rs sident of the Sejiate.
Speaker House of liepresi ntative.Ac-iou:l: Novemibere :th, 1 -,.Emi~:N.sez:a J. Oc:'t,-ELI, ( ove:-nos.
The National dr ill w hich i- to taeclace at Wash1ington \[ay :7 toromises to It-- a grau -neet I
ponng th t.im -isih 'rgi to
iuingthyi;x1~- diiirnit S~ hciLie ote bigad. mulA regne.
forty-tiv compi(SaLe oinfty; -ebatiin, !iit-en light Buxi a
ivmii ne-gii'~ un platoot ins..
tirt-en corps .chool cade et-s 1ie r.mmnta l baudsi an the ru o
*ftho dili'erent States repre.etdreview thle troopis. Iliavlraie rIos
theLiuvitatlions have beenl rivedi franthe Governors of MlinnesotaGeridhio, Dtelaware, 31arlanud. Loiia~naNew Jiersey, .Iowa, South (Carohmn:\othi Carolia and M\ississipli.
1:e hition s W 1a.1 4l-~rth aiE in theNext 11hirtN . Icars--Thenl Co1:.w., thei
(V-ro;ln tile l li m e.u .
The Rev. Mr. Baxter, editor of theNew York Christian Herald, preachedthree times last Sunday at Harris'sMuseum on the "Coming of Christ andthe Begiiing of the Millenium." Largeaudiences were present. Mr. Baxter hasbeen s1pcaiking on the same subjectt.ron1u'ut the country. He is abouto'.i ye"rs oki, rather tall, and has bushydark hair and beard. Many of his hear-ers, particularly women, went away look-ing serious or frightened.His text was Daniel's vision of the
four beasts one of which, he said, repre-sented the Babylonian empire, ene theMedo Persian empire, one the Grecianempire, and the other the Roman em-pire. He predicted the formation, bygreat wars and revolution, of all thecountries of C:esar's original Ronian em-
pires into an allied confederacy of tenkingdoms ruled by ten sovereigns, as
represented by the ten horns of the wildbeast in the seventh chapter and twVenty-fourth verse of Daniel, and the subse-quent rise among the ten sovereigns ofan eleventh sovereign, who will be thelittle horn as represented in the beastand who will first appear in Svria. Theallied kingdoms will be Britain, France,Spain, Italy, Austria, Greece, Egypt,Syria, Turkey and Bulgaria. in the
nmeantim Germany will have been co-quered by France and will be a part ofthat kingdom, which will then be ruledbya king. In conquering Germany
Frince Will be aided by Russia or by asocialistic revolution in Germany. Shewll be led by Boulanger, who is a manof destiny. When the ten kingdonis areformaed the sovereign represented by the
[ittle horii will gradually increase hispower until he becomes king of ti.e tenillied nations, and finally the imperialnti-Christ. He will be a representativeof the Napolcon dynasty, the greatestwarrior tI at ever lived, the e-:aftiest4atesman :mivl the most successful Leader)f inca. America will be subject to hislominion. He uill not conquer this:onutry by bringing v:i.t armie: here,
butwillsucced by means of his fasci-aatingenu., which will win hinm count-
Lessadherents, such as socialists, hihil-:sts. spiritualists and RLoniai:nts, who
willeventually get control of ie whole:younitry.Mr. IAxter prophesied that all these
:hings will coic to pass during the next:hirteen years, after whiih will come theillenii of a thousaw! years. The;reat wars and re'lus and earth-juakes will begin in a year or two, and
silethe mo thAurrine the mt de-i ,h L ha-s known. By
i81o the ten kingdoms will have beendu~cd.all conutries outside .Ciesars
>riginal ite:an upires will be sepa-ated, at least legislatively, from the teningdoms ini- the "Lonian empire,reland and India and the colouie-s will', separated from England legislatively,f not entirely. The eleventh king willirst attract atteltion1 by a seven years'ovenant with the Jews, and in about.Wo and a h:df years thereafter lie willdvance from 'being merely Kiag ofVria to be head of France, and then be
hle supreme sovereign of the world. Hevill be the anti-Christ during the lastIfee and a half vears.With regard t6 his reasons for fixing
:he time for the great crisis, he said thatrhatever ditfirences of opinion have ex-sted among expositors as to the mereletails oL 1-roplietic interpretation, morehan a hundred of them have fQreshownn their books that it will probably takelace between now and 190. Havingrrived at the threshold of this crisis, wechuold their prop~hetic anticipatioins sig-aly ; critied and conftirmed by thetartlin" signs of thy times-uolitcal,>eial and religious-el ustering aroundhiIs period.
In iew of these predictions, MIr. Bax-er told his hearers that they will beivig'inols paradise if they '1o not
repare for approaching events by say-ng thir souals by so living that uuay betton thi" e'ect. That done, all theyvill have to do will be to wait to see ifvihat he sams will not come true.Alonmg the sides of the museum galle-:ieswere vivid paintings of the prophe-de.and over the stage was anmap ofEurope. *lr. Baxter illustrated his re-
~aksb pointing to the p~ictur~es and:raing- on the nmap the dominions of thedlid nations. Collections were taken
to parfs or the museum, and copies of~ir. Baiter's book wvere sold and the>rice of h'is paper was announiced.
a.;asa::ewi~ni in .na.
lKefere Gov',ernor Gaordoni left fir NewYork aplicvation was made to him tosiie a wa rranit for the. ares~t of M1 *T.ios' afomer citizeni of lidiana, anidhieele on the ground that it wasL anihoirt to uise the priocess5 of the laiw to:llee a debt tt was- stronigly con-eat ier the Gov~ernor left a regu-errqui~tia froma tie Governora oftuianacamiorculosue. It wa not
gultiv'nr."ented. out the conuisel for
rui.tinwoulad naot bei honor' d be-:au,>e the (Gum era'or was absent anid the:qisi itionl was coiitested . ite thisonr left a requlisitionl was. miade by
lovenor ( ord(on oin the (Governior of~South' Caolinba for W\. S. S'ider.:iarge withi an otrence in Augu:.ta On
ibhuiz previously signed .GovenorRic~ard'on, of South Carolina, umade a
rlstonlon ( overno'r G, on fe'eibuii let. f' r a pairty ini C'e 'onutv
ad.tw esd on' the sa'' goud
ispat.Ih.t''sigbanks, so tia tey. can.'a1v.'iut day LTe the' conuty
' ni' i miIx i lr-i dAi
WOMEN BOUND TO VOTE.
They Will Demand that the Militia beCalled Out If Necessary.(From the New York star.)
The women's suffrage committee ofBrooklyn made public the followingopen letter to Governor Hill:Hon. David Hill, Governor of NewYork State:Sin:-At a mass meeting of the
women's suffrage committee, this eve-ning, it was unanimously resolved asfollows:"That we request the Governor of
New York to recommend that a law beenacted during this session of the Legis-lature to protect the women in this Statein exercising their right to vote on nexteleetion day. During the last electionday we were intimidated, threatenedwith imprisonment and bodily harm. Ifthe Legislature fails to make a law forour protection, we have resolved to de-mand you to call out the State militia toprotect us at the polls, thereby prevent-ing riot and bloodshed."
Respectfully,E3mA BECEwITH,.
President.A. C. HALL, Secrerary.S. TwITCHELL, Ch'n Ex. Com..Mrs. Twitchell said that a bill was to
have been presented in the Legislaturelast night, making it the duty of electionofficers to register and receive the voteof every woman of 21 years or over whoshall present herself for that purpose.
Womian suftrage in Wyoming.
One of the prettiest and most prominentmembers of fashionable society here thiswinter is a lady who has the proud distict-ion of having voted for her husband whenhe ran for Congress. The lady in questionis Mrs. Joseph Carey. wife of the delegatefrom Wyoming Territory. Mrs. Carey,while in nosnsea "'strong-minded" womanis an ardent believer in female suffrage.She has seen the practical working of thesystemi in Wyoming. and pronounces asabsurd the common argument that theright of suffrage unsexes a woman.At an evening party recently where Mrs.
Carey was giving utterance to these senti-ients, Senator Wade Hampton blandly in-terjected the remark:-
"But, of course, you always vote as yourhusband instructs you?"
MIrs. Carey's black eyes snapped inerrilyas she replied:-
"Indeed we do not. The first time .myhusband ran for office I voted againt himand my mother supported him. The nexttine we both opposed him. In each casewe thought the other man would make thebetter ollicer. I mention this to show youthat in our family, at least, the women usetheir right of suffrage about as they' please.1oreover, the conferring of this powerupon women has a good moral effect, es-pecially upon those whose husbands arepoliticians. You may believe that whereevery woman is permitted to vote the wivesof politicians are very chary about undlycriticising the other women. To do someans the creation of enemies -for yourhusband, who can work him a great injuryif they choose. It is a powerf'l cheekupon the tongue: I assure you."-Wash-ingtnv Letter.
Goiernor Tilden's Sister. -
The sister of the late Governor Tilden,of New York, Mrs. Mary P. Pelton, diedon Saturday, without ever receiving a centof her brother's bequest. MIrs. Pelton was78 years of age, and had been enjoyingfairlygood health until within the last ten days.A special request to the executors to hurrytip the execution of the trust, so that shemight enjoy it during her life time, wasmade some time ago and met with no re-sponse. Mr. Andrew Green called uponMrs. Pelton a short time ago and offered toloan her' sonme money to meet any pressingnecessities, but 3Irs. Pelton replied that shediid not care to borrow any money, butwould like to have what her brother hadleft her Mr. Samuel .J. Trilden, Jr.,called upon the executors a short time agoand urged them to arrange the trusts of hisAunt 3Iary, Aunt Lucy and his mother, allof whiom were old and sowewhat feeble, inorder that the might enjoy their brother'sbequests during their life time. He said:"Never mind about the younger folks; wecam shift for ourselves." The old ladies werevery much disappointed to think they havebeen treated so shabbily by the executors.The death of MIrs. Pelton may possibly bringthem to their senses. The friends of thefamily say the heirs have been treated bythe executors more as mendicants than asssers. nieces antd relatives of the deadstatesman and millionaire.
Not 11i, Mnthe:'.
Washington society has been grinningover the blunder of one of its number-a woman not unaccus'tomed to blunder-ing. however. She made a call on thenewly-made wife of the Secretary of theInterior. The servant ushered her intoa salon, where a stately person in sombreraimeut and of austere mien receivedher. After the usual exchange of socialamenities the visitor glanced around ex-peetantly, as if looking for some one;then turning to the hostess, she said:"I presue you arc 3Mr. Lama
mother, and I would like also to see thebride."
--'1adanme," replied the stately dame,"I am 3Ir. Lamar's wife."-Detroit'Tribune.
The Fall River News says: Who wouldhave supasosed that print cloths madein South 'Carolina would be used by theAmerican Print Company in this city?Yet such is the fact. It is heavy cloththat is called for in the trade, thereforeit must be used. One of the faills in theniills in the city is now preparing tomake this class of goods, of which noneis made here at present. The weight ofthe cloth is four yards to the pound.
--- toston newsp)alPer tells howv thor-oughly the young women of the Hubsujoy~ t Shlelley readings, and appreci-st'-Lthe poetrvy. ''"Go thou to Rtome,"bea the reader. "Don't 1 wish I
.u' "He goses right to the heart."\iter 'a long~silence in the corner, whileic melodious voice of the reader seemedto' bring at forgetftluess of all earthlyloings to the club: "Say," whispered aYtoung Iady', ''isn't he lovely?" "Who,the readler?" "No." "Shelley?" "Why,no'; tile young man with th~e primrose:"ektie. I'm just longing to know him.ie's a daisy."
''ausedi by tihe siun Irying to set by thet new
