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*Tl-\ /-i <-\ > -. . i i< "s n tT r*v! 1 lilC I ClliU I'tllJilOi J BY HUGH WILSON. EvEH\vpJicoiTiI GEORGIA AMAZEO BY A NEW MID AFRICAN PLAN T. A Story Jrom Atl ?n?? that Il*nds Like * Fakr, ?nd Which V?> Vnblish for What Xt ?8 W( rth?A Gr? ?t Tlilrj; If Trn*. Thp Atlanta ccrrefprndent of t>'f New York Pun $2y$: It has been 1*ft toAdolph Kvie, an English Jew, who is cow, if alive, in the Kloncyke region, to revolutionize cotton growing in the South, to change the method of 8 *%wir1u/?1iii? r>f 1>i(a orM'fst mor,P7 CrPT) i in the world, that brings 136,000,000 annually to the picducers aside from ? whut accrues to the transportation . companies, tha factors, dealers in fu- 1 tures, manufacturers, and merchants * From a few tetd brought from the 8 hfart o? Equatcrisl Africa three Tears J ago enough ccttcn has been gro^n to prove beyond adcubtthat he has been s the means of sclvirg ihe problem of | profitable produc-ion, which has lone pu2zled the p- litical economists of the J country. In spite of all that has been j said and written the fact is still patent to the thinking rr.sn that cotton is j still king in the South, and the c^m ; rripmiol wnraifh ie mnrp firrnlv seat- d on his throne thsn ever before in the history of t^e v nrld. One day in t;?c autumn of 1S9-1 a trave^r, broi zed a:>d bearded from the effects of the tropical sun and a long sea voyage, about 45 ypnrs old, robust and sinewy, signed "'Adolph Kyle, England," on the hotel register at the Kimball House and ordered his romewbat cumbrous luggage carritd to his room. He was soon surrounded ^ by a crowd of curious colonels, who "were acxious to learn what particular brand of spi:ifs he sffectfd, and, icci dentally, something of his antecedents and whether cr net he bad auv spare cash to inves'. in suburban lots or mining schemes. Partly through natural garrulity ard partly through a desire to gratify ihe manifest curiosity of tbe colonels, he began to relate scraps of his adventures among tbe jungles of Central .arnca ana 01 ice remaruaoje signu> . and scenes that came under his obser f vation. He regaled thf m with hunting V stories, tales of the slave trade, which made their mcuihs run water, and of J the wonderful vegetable productions * of that region of eternal summer. 4'In December, 1S92, I joined a party of prospectors," said he, "and we c set out on a tour of exploration to the c country of the Congo. It was an ard * uous undertaking, full of perils and 3 privations, but we were all young En ? Jishmen who had started out to seek cur fortunes, and we bad all to win ' and little to lose, and for many months *-9 wandered about the jungles of a Ctntral Africa, meeting with the sav- ? age tribes and passing through strange scenes innumerable, such as may be ? seen only in that wonderful land. .v "One day along in 1893 we pitched 1 niii> pflmn nn mitslrirta of an Afri- S can village, about twenty miles south \ of the equator and 1,000 miles from \ the coast. I observed growing near .k the camp a thicket of enormous cot- ? Ion plants, twenty feet and ever in height, and covered from bottom to a / top with snowy pods and blossoms. ? I It attracted my attention because of L the abundance of the plant, which was ' f limbless and bore its pods at the base 51 of the big, broad, fig like leaves and , only a few inches from the stem of ? the plant,which shot straight ud from the ground and appeared like a young 0 tree. I "I tried io learn of the natives what use, if any, they made of it, but they s seemed utterly ignorant of its utility. a I bad seen cotton growing in Egypt, 0 and the similarity of the plants caus- D ed me to thick to myself that if this 0 plant could be introduced into a civil- c iz?d cottc n growing country,and could P be made to grow as luxuriantly and r fruit as abundantly as it did there in ? the primeval wilds, it would make the a f ^nun 4V?A o ?? I P iuibuuo ui tut iuau wiiu juuuuuttu it. "I cut off a section of the plant that 5 had more than six hundred pods on it ^ by actual count, and was more than twenty feet in height The section wss about eighteen inches long, and c had sixty five pcds open on it, and I v carried it away3among my luggage as a a curiosity. At first I carefully wrap ? ped it in a piece of antelope skin and packed it among other souvenirs of j1 our wanderings. We were then on 1 the return journey to the coast, and P on the way up we were up>et in a tur ^ bulent stream by the overturning of a raft, and all our btlongings were s thoroughly saturated. 4 In drying my cotton stalk I smok ? ed it slightly, but I preserved it in a ? Diece of dressed shark fkin to protrct it from the salt water and air on the voyage to the Cape. Arrivirg there I ( did not like the turn all'iirsTsad tak- * en, so I resolved to visit America * xne oniy relative 10 me worici tnat 1 * know of is in the service of the BafF- * k in's Bay Company, and I am now on * my way to that part the country in search of him. I inherited a little j? money, and having no home ties ] * have resolved to graify my taste for j travel. J1 "I noticed in travelling through ' this country that your principal crop c is cotton. Now I have carried that v piece of cotton for many mouths, and it has travelled ti.CCO milts of land e and sea, so that 1 doubt if the seed t will germinate; but I want to give it t to some gcod fellow, who will experi- t rcent with it and see if it can be natu c ralized in a cjtton growing country, ? where civilized methods cf cultivation z are understood. r "There is a man living in this coun c try who has devoted many j^arsto < the study cf the cotton pJar.t," said j one of the colonels, wbo had heard ihe story, ' and he can tell you iu a c fewminut.es whether it can be grown I in this country or not." ? 'Send for him and I will mske him c a pr<sent cl the cotton," said the trav ? eler. s A rote was dispatched to old Thnm * as A. Jackson, who lives not far from <. the citv, and on the next day he call- i ed on Kyle at his rooms in th? Kim- f hall. Farmer Jackson is an East t Tennesseean, was an aid de camp to a r Confederate general in the war and i left his native land because of the ( W bostilitv of the Brownlow faction im- < i mediately after the war. He is a man i ' of large experience in cotton growing s and has a .liberal education auci an eu i quiring turn of inirid. Lie has beep t studying the history of the cotton i plant for years, and as soon ss he laid * eyes on the withered staik thai hi d t been carried so many milt3 he saw s that it wss of a different genus from the shrub cot'.on of South America or th*> arr.u*?1 plant of Aufli'siii*. Hp had a long talk with Kyle and i!le the nthercol'rnei'? made light oi Lbe .vtorv. .J.vks"n Ji> ten#rci v*>ry at tentively and ficillv ca'ri.'d olFibedi lapida4td sW'.'iir;'-:; io 1!.i; p ?ir lilt larm am-ng the reddest r.f the ret aills of Georgia. Carefully fa*1 pi"k?.i ilift leaves from the s:?l: -n l:.ckso! cotton, o'nservirr that many of trie cods or bolls contained Qvi cells end nsteatf cf four, which is the rule vritt ,he ordinary cotton. Out of the 2Cf iet"d secured fifty seven ^rrminnted ir he garden plot wh*re he planted ttieri: n the spring: of 1805. The cfnrrlir rklfintc enw rflliolv sell putting forth, at first, au crdica y pair of leave?, and immediate!} tbove them a second lea', which grew >ut from the stem about twoirches, Then followed a joint, at which r :luster of "squares" cr buds appear:-d, he leaf stalkcontinuing a?d terminal ng in a broad, thick li-af, while th? )ortion between the clu&te>' of buds ird the stalk thickened to thy sizgoi l lead pencil, forming a support foi he heavy bolls. Tae plants grew tc k teiaht of twelve to fourteen feet, mtting forth alternately the genera, eaf and the fruit bearing lraf all lb# vay to the top, and continuing in full oliage till the frest fell, except tha he low.vr leaves dropped as the boll; natured, so that by tha time the cot on was open snd ready to pick the eaves had disappeared, leaving onlj he snowy balls ready to be gathered, ree from trash or plant stains XUU U J v CI J UCOU LJL1VJ UV4 Vf. V irid cotton men from a long distanc; ametoseeit Every se^d was care ul;y picked out by hand and in 1S9( here were enough to plant half av icre, less thirteen squire feet, a? neasured by a cotton expert frorr 3aliimore. The land composing Jacic on's litlle farm is not at all adaptec o cotton culture, and the farm hac >een conducted as a grain g.owiu^ md dt?iry establishment for years Jut from that half acre Jickson pick d a little over 2,000 pounds of seei1 :otton. It was not carefully ginnec >ut it yielded 800 pounds of the iinesl int cotton ever grown in Georpia, ,'ivinj? 40 instead of the usual 33 1-J )ourds of lint to the 100 of seed. Experts said thai it rivalled the inest of Egyptian cotton, and was su >erior in many respects to the far amed sea Island product. TheClail< >pocl Cotton Company sent an agen! ltraand offered to gin the cotton in the special machinery operated by he company, so as to give the fibr? a horough lesj, but Farmer Jacksor Ifclined the offer, and saved the seed :arefully, selling a few at the eno>* nous price of 5c?nts apirce in pack ges of one hundred to some enthusi stic plan'err who wished to give the eed a fair trial. Resold the liat foi 5 cents a pound when olher cotton ?as selling: at 5 and 5 1-2 cants a icund. This year he planted six cres, and he has to-day the most mas;lificent field of cotton ever seen in ieorgia. On account of the absence if limbs the cotton can be planted -ery closely, and the crop now growing is on poor land, with a stiff clay oii, thirty-iuch ro ws aad the stalks hirty inches apart. It stood a pro racted drought of eight weeks, and he hard clods turned up by the plough a cultivation are still tumbled about he water furrows. But in spite of 11 that the stalks will average about ix feet in height, and are heavily ruited from the ground up. Oa one rere sixty fine bolls, of which fortyeven had five calls each. Three rows selected at random in iiferent parts of the patch showed ifty three plants in the throe sections f ten feet each on an average of ighteen to ihe ten feet in distance, 'he fruit on one of these sections howed that there are nearly four ana half bales of cottoa to the acre now n the ground, and the crop is not early made, it is still growing vig rously. The best stalk in a fi.ld of orumon cotton. growiDg nearby, was ilucked up by the roots aDd set in a ow with the mid-African exotic. The omparison was ridiculous, a id the ispari'.y in the appeartnee of the two ilants was enough to dishearten ihe lost invetir<*te mori-- a<;o broker ia ieorgia. Tna cotton is creating a great sensaion, and planters and mill men are oming from miles around to view the wonderful field of cotton that has the ppearnce of a bit of jungle trans lanted from some tropical clime to ni-ociint Irtoitir>n qninnff flip rftH liils of Georgia. It is probable that he Lowdl mills in New England will lurchaso the entire crop and give it a horoush test in the manfacture of ho finer grades of goods for which it eeras pro eminently adopted. Farmer Jackson planted with the xpecLation of gathering eighteen talcs, and his neighbors laughed ai tim. It now looks as if he were good or twenty-four bales, and if the oresr?t crop at harvest time fulfills half be promise of thegrowing plants and urns out half what its admirers h^pe or, this legacy of the wandering JV.w viii revolutionize cotton growing in he South. Adolph Kyle left here wi'.h thr ex iressed intention of visiting Baffin's iiy and Alaska. He has not been leard of for more than a year, alhough during his stay here he made he acquaintance of many influential :ilitzens, to whom he promised to *rite. Farmer Jackson is not spying much >1)3ut his future intentions, but he ajjysa rush of distinguished 7hi ors, cotton gro wers, expert cotton myersand mill men from all over the :ouatry during these summer days, md more than one exhaustive mat?a :ir?e ariiule is in the course of prepa ation, with elabrale illustrations, dislussinsj the peculiari ies of the won lerful cotton plant from the Conge ungles. Some idta of'this prolific colton, as sompared with the old sorS, may be iad from the fact that teu bolls to the ila'k is regarded as a fair crop of the )ld cotton on the Georgia uplands iad these will jitld 1,100 pounds cl ie^d cottrn to the acre, generally twe aid a half to threa acres wingrcq iir rl tr? rirnrliiopfl j? ROD nniirnl H >!h l'hf r* ~ ~ r~? icw cotton, on the other hand, prorai ;es to yield from three to four bales to ,he acre wjth cireful cultivation, and i very siirpie cilculation will show ,he difference between ulantinsr 22,)00,000 acres to gef. a 9,U(J0.00U bak rc-p and the planting1 of 1,000,000 t?: secure the same result. Oae of lh< I'.dlks grown in 1895 ?ras fourteen and i half feet high, and bjro 185 bolls Speculation is wlid in regard to tht nseibililies of the new cotton, and Fr.ckson's little pa'ch of crounu is tin nost fascinating spot in Georgia these iummer days. TUB COTTON IN SOUTH CAROLINA. A few dajs ago The News and (Jou f rip.r rfooWed ft letter from Mr. A. 1 . Plumer Burgess, a prominent drug f" j j; 1st, of Summerton, S. 0., Mr. Bur-1 1 nrpcc cci<l 4,Mr. J. 1?. Furse, ima? within tw>j Smiles of tiiis v,iac?, has srv.ny of the j I ' famous Jacksoa Africin cotton. The 1 11s^ed ^as vTPn bim bv his brother, f Air. W. G. Furse, of App'.e'on, S C , who grot it in person from Mr. Jackt son, of Atlanta. So the pedigree is all 1 right, acd the 'goods are straight.' I i went out to see il yesterday, and ini close you a sample of the staple. T^e i cotton is now in pretty condition, ; greying ia Mr. Furss's garden. Oi ] , ore stalk, wh":ch is now eight feet high and has seven big limbs at the ' r bottom, tbrre are now ninety well d?- ' veloped crown bolls, and enough , young bolJs and shapes to mako with i a late frcst 150 bolls. Oa another , stalk, with two branching limb-, j there are seventy grovrn bolls. A stalk ' i not io well dtsveloped has no branch ? ing limbs at all. The limbs are all F ri^ht at the bottom and are several 1 feet long; they seem to ba vtry easily ' > detached from ths parent stem, as wa3 ; , shown where one had been knocked Ijoff. This would be unfavorable to ? crowding or late ploughing. Thereat ' I of the st?Ik has no limbs as such, but t bolls are oa little stems from one to 5 three iuchfs long, three and four bolis putting out from the end of this 3 stem. r "The bolls are of average s:z?, and , to all appearances are similar to the usual cotton. There is nothing new I or unusual in either stalk or foliage. ) The habit of Growing limbless varies with kind of cultivation. One stalk 5 having 'gotten in the grass1 having no i iimbsateil. It seems that if given 3 room and good cultivation it will i. throw out several limbs, and degener - ate into a usual limb cotton. 1 "The test made this year is not a I fairtne for farming purposes, as it ? must be grown in large quantities and with some fertile*rs to prove its quality s, compared with our Peterkin I cotton. The idea that it will do better I in proportion on poor land seems riist polled, as the stalks getting the best Jnnlficotinn ^nri in a better Dart of the 1 garden sr<3 much better fruited and developed than thoss nearer the edge, s where it is always poorer." WEATHERAND CROPS t The Conditions of the Stato'* Fsrmlnj; 1 Interests, i The following weekly statement of : the crop and weather conditions for [ this section hasbsea served by Dire3t or Bau6r: TEMPERATURE. Trie temperature conditions during - the pa9t week were slightly above the ' normal, bat the departures were small i on any day. The normal mean temperature for the State will decline : during the presant month at the rate of 2 decrees a week, caused, chiefly, i by cooler nights. The mean tempera ' ture for ihe week was 79, and the normal is about 76. The highest reported was 100 on the 29th of August at ' Beaufort, and the lowest 59 on Ihe 30th of August at Cheraw. At a few 1 stations the maximum temperatures reached to or above 90 on several days i and the minimum temperatures ranged generally between sixty and seyenty. The rainfall for the week was gen erally light and confined to scattered i showers over various portions of the Stat a during the first part of the week, the latter portion being without rain, except a light shower on the coast. Riin is needed over the greater pori tion of the State. 1 Twenty-one places reported meas uraments of less than 1 inch, ten of from 1 to 2 inches, and one more than two inches, the latter being Kingstree ' with 2 48. The approximate normal j Al 1_ 1 OA 1 t v, r\t I or IUO WCtJK IS J. OU, ?UU b o oou ui all measurements 0.69 The greator portion of the State received no rain i or merely light and insufficient amounts. i Hail accompanied the rains of the 20.h over much of Berkeley, Colleton, ' Ch*rJeston, Hampton and Beaufort counties, doing considerable injury to cotion and rice. Oa August 30th hail tell at Biackville, Greenville, Hope Station and Liberty; on the 31st atr i Camden. There occurred few high winds, but ' they did to material or wide-spread injury. ' The sunshine was generally in excess of normal and averaged 82 per cent, of the possible, but cloudiness increased over the eastern portions of the St&to during the latter portion of the week. CHOPS. It is the unanimous opiniou of all correspondents that the cotton crop 1 ?ii i_ L ii? ii iL. wm i)8 luucn suiaucr iunu tuc uuuui tiori of tho plant during July atd the first two weeks of August promised. 1 ; The loss in condition is greatest over 1 tbe central and eastern counties where ' the August squares and young bolls 1 1 nearly all drooped off, and where the 1 plant is, for the most part, apparently ' dying, with no appearance of ,a top 1 crop, and where rust was most p'reva- 1 lent. There is, however, less shed1 ding and rust this week than last. 1 1 Over the western counties, the injury 1 to the crop was not so marked and 1 ' many fields continue to bloom and ' put on fruit to a limited extent, espec ' ially on late cotton. Cotton is open- , ing rapidly and picking is general, J widi labor enough available, general- ! ! ly, to keep cotton picked out as it opens, except in places where laborers ' i ?re scarce, and the lint is liable to | i damage from storms should any oc- ] cur. A heavy rain in Union county damaged open cotton materially. The! September picking will be large audi iw places include about half the crop ! on the stblits. Sea Island cotton con> tinucs to look very promising with ! comparatively little shedding during 1 i the last wee k. > Cora is maturing rapidly and late > corn is turning out batter than antici- 1 ! patcd. As yet no corn has been housed ' fodder pulling is about liuisbed ex ! cent from very late corn. The weath > er favored curing and housing the 1 fodder in I ha very best condition. 1 ) Cutting pea vino i>ay made favora j ble progress and the crop is a heavy ' > one generally, although i>i places the 1 1 leaver, are falling oil' excessively. r Cutting: grass for hay is also well un- i dcr way and large .yields are reported i ) of trood quility and nicely cured. ! > The rice harvest is bw-ing pushed i 5 and much of the early e*op is cut 1 I and stacked. Hume, report rice ripen, irg irregularly with many unfilled i ; heads, but on the vrhole the rice crop : [ approximates a full average. First 1 i new milled rice received at Charleston : ; on September 21 from the Georgetown district. Much rye is being sown, in Chaster [for winter pasture. riLLMAN NOT VERY DEAD, j* fc THE UTE SENATORIAL PRIMARY ai STRENGTHENS HIS HANDS. iE m IClit of Gfitlit Hlid Irby-Two Loniiu linvn bom Taken from hts Sbonldara?McLan- SI m rla rot a Too', but a Fsleod; that's Bet. tf.r bl C ? Jot! Ohl. writing to the Atlanta Con- ai s'JtutioD. in sneaking; nf the late pri- u mary, says Tillman is far from being j'c politically dead. Ia reference to the ^ question, "Where does this Senatorial iE race leave Tillman?" he s<vys: ? There are indications that the questison as being asked pretty generally r( throughout the country. Able corres- ^ pondents here at the Capital of the l(j. State have had that question fired at ,cl them from inquiring managing edi- ^ tors whoso sanctums are located In ^j. different cities of the North, and some of thrse inquiries have been so worded a as to indicate a belief on the part of jj the senders that McL'xurin's endorse- ^ menfc was a black eye to the doughty g chief, whose power in South Carolina fi V*oa lioan co ffrAQf, A ? IJCl* UVWU wv ft- LI Just what have been the replies of [( these saveral correspondents I am not a. in a position to know; but the "where ^ does thi3 leaves Tillman?" phrase of n the South Carolina situation is inter- ?. esting to the people of the South, as 0 well as to the Northern editors. n The answer is natural and pertineut; the question is clear to one who ^ will study the conditions here. |{ This endorsement of McLaurin t] strengthens Tillman's hands. g A great many peoplft will not agree a with this analysis of the situation. Si Tillman's enemies talk of it as the a begianiagof the end of Tillmanism, ^ and point to the indignant outbursts of Evans and Irby as evidences of this. u They tell you that McLturiu's friends -j have been suspicious of Tillman all j, the lime, and that the latter stayed t| here and fought for someone man in- p stead of going out of the State to keep from taking part in the Gght. They a talk of opposition from the Evans and p Irby factions as well as the Conserva- ? tives, and point to Senator McLaurin's statement in the Constitution as mean- ^ ing a declaration of war from the new D Senator. ' j This is the analysis which somepeo- k pie will cive the South Carolina situa- ii tion. and with these the wish is father ii to the thought. Tiiey are talking si from the purely surface indications tl and arf> arpnine from wrong Dremi sea. C They are all wrong in the cotclusions ei which ihey draw with regard to the t( McLaurin attitude, for they are all li wrong in their premises. True there c< was a disposition on the part of some w of McLaurin's friends to wonder if s( Tillman was going to keep hands off h as he had promised, particularly in view of the strong effort Erans was tl making to create the imoression thai ft he was the chosen one; but the returns n very promptly dispelled all doubts on d, that score. They show that Tillman ft certainly let Evans paddle his own ia canoe aiid they show that Tillman's J endorsement of McLaurin's tariff Dosi w lion helped the junior Senator. True, al Tillman did not openly endorse Mc es Laurin, but he did strongiv defend e| his own tariff votes, and did say that c* McLaurin's position on that question w was identical with his own. Not an T open endorsement, but more valuable es to McLauriu. is Nor was McLaurin's reference to lm "man mtin oh/vi+oH lmiHpsfc fnr I w KUO iJUWU nuu ouvmi.w%* Tillman and reform" in any sense a n criticism of Tillman, as some of the latter's enemies have constructed it to w be. He was not criticising Tillcnan, hi but the little fellows who have attain* tr ed some sort of prominence by hanging to Tillman's coat tails That was legitimate criticism of McLaurin's opponents, and the people of South Car- ^ olina have endorsed it. " True?reverting again to the theory *1 of ihe A,nti-Tilimanites?Tillman will M lose the support of the E7ansand Irby Pj "factiors " For this sad blow ha has " ?ood renson to be profoundly thank- " CuJ. These are two political sins which * the people of South Carolina have ~.J held against Tillman, and he is well " rid of litem. To have had to carry e< them in the past has been a burden, and I am sure Tillman feels a load has " been taken from his shoulder in their retirement from public life. Neither man would have been heard of but ? i i tr for Iiiiman; nenner can nopcj m uc ? political factor in the future. They ^ may fight Tillman all they choose; tc Lheir opposition will b:jne6t, rather than injure, him. In a broad sense it is far better for a Tillman to have as his colleague in the fj 3enate a man who is there because of q his o wn merits rather thaia a4 'mo too." ^ No political tool can e?8r be of much w real value to his maker. It is the rule, g though there may be exceptions, tbat ^ the tools are men of little power, ]e though .they may be man of merit; ^ thai; when they utter wisdom they are a, criticised as being mere mouthpieces, C]' and whatever tney say adds nothing ? to the weight of tbe same declaration jy when it falls from the lips of their g principals; that whatever of folly they ^ may utter, of whatever mistakes they jj may make are at once charged up C( against those principals. The "mo too1' is an element of weakness, not.^of strength, to the political boss, however strong he himself may be. Conklicg would have Ji won his fight against Garfield but for M tne cartoonists who made Piatt a "me ai Loo" puppy tap-giug at his heels; now bi by the same token Davenport is mak- A Piatt ridiculous by me-tooing him w with with little Quigg. si Tillman had a "me too" in Irby, and ir tried a year ago to make one out of w Evrans. If he is a devout man he fr should mi.ss noopportuuity to send up re thanks to the throne of grace for his si failure. Tnat was the best thing that w 1 ? * U. --w* Unimr* ?-* n f nroo 1 V rias ujppeueu luuiui?ueiug, ?o . u? the forerunner of the utter aanihila h Lion of Evans in this primary. This se should complete Tillman's happiness, h livans says Tillman advised him against making this race. That is but xnother evideuce of Tillman's wisdom, . iad his failure tt) take that advice is " tout another evidence of Evan's weakoess. v McLaurin is nobody's "ra^ too." D Ele savs in the Senate the tool of no {J man. lie is to be a real factor in Ir South Carolina alf-tirs, and his friend e) f.inp wiii oe vuiuaaie. lucmurm is jj friendly with Tillman. This does cot mean tiiat liio two men are to bs allies in everything, but to have the friend h, ship of .McLaurin will ba of more val sj ue to Tillman than would be the fawn- n ing worship of men like Evans and ai Irbv. Tillmau retains this friendship ci for McLaurin, and his friends know ta that while Tillman was true to his ta promise to keep '"hands off," so far as o stive participation went, ^atever of icideutal influenoe h? excrmd vas ir McLaurin; he gels rid of Evans i -.^1 1 -Utt mki.tk io a /?nin nrrnl h />A1inf. 1U JLi \JJ y YV UXU11 agd 11 * VI . AJ. V^/UUU ig as such. Of the three things wh;ch his eneiies hold most against him. he is well t d of two. The third?and the chief j n in the eyes of thos^ who fight him ? iost bitterly?is the dispensary. That j a very live issue in South Carolina, | nt in no way did it enter into this i impaign. Some Conservatives who 'P not at all conservative in their dis- < ken o" their actions refused to vote ( ir Mt Liurin because ha voted with , illmfin frvr what, is lrnnwn ns the Lftt i tier bill, and in doing that they sim- | ly showed their ignorance of the proisions of tbat amendment to the al:ady existing Wilson law; but with lat exception the dispensary question id not in any way enter into the impaign. What figure it may cut in lllman's future campaigns it is for le future to say. Old Prof. Galphin, who was the tost faaious educator of South Carona before and following the war,and hose fame extended throughout the outh was wont to brag greatly of the imous public men who had received leir education at his hands. It was a >ng list of Sanators and Governors nd leaders of the old regime, and he ad good right to be proud of the ames. "But," he would always add, the smartest boy I ever had is living n a farm in Edgefield county. His ame is Ben Tillman." McLaurin's splendid victory is a andsome endorsement for Gov. El- j ;rbe, who appointed McLaurin to fill ( le place made vacant by the death of l enator Eirle. He was able to make j high class appointment and at the j ime time confer an honor on a friend, ( nd was naturally deeply interested in j tcLaurin's success. t ] The Senator's physical breaK-down ndoubtedly made him many votes. < 'he character of the fight that was b?- i ig made on him was understood by t le people, and that desire to see fair < lay which is so strongly imbedded in 1 ae heart of every Southerner created j feeling in his behalf with many peo- ] le who bad been indiffarent as to the j asult. When he fell, and it was seen < lat his life had been endangered by j lis pri'z) fight, campaigning, his op i onents came in for * much criticism, j ust now there is much discussion of nock-down-and dra? out caaapiijjn- < jg which has been so long in vogue ] 1 South Carolina, and if there is any j ib3tance to what is being said now, * - ? - ? : J A iac sijij or campaigaiog is uuuuicu. tertain it is that the man who resorti not only to misrepresentation, but ) the lowest of mud-slinging and vilfication. were turned down; he who inducted a clean campaign, using the eapons of the otner3 only when ab )lutely necessary in self-defence, was onored. South Carslina has seen much of lis campaigning in the past. The ishion is to charge it all up to Till- J lanism, biit these methods far ante- 1 ate Tillman, and a knowledge of that j ict makes the predic!i3n that the end < in sight a rather hazardous one. t ust no^ the people ara talking that ( ay. The joint debates were slimly ttended and there was no such inter- 2 it in mud slinging and hurling of 1 aithets that there has been in other i itnpaigns. Still this tendency to- s ard peace is probably temporary. ? here are men here willing to proph;y that the end of such campaigning i in sight;, but the millennium has i ot been reached, and these prophets j ill probably forget all about it by t ext year. ] However, one thing is C3rtain. It t ould be well if these prophets were < onored?and folio wed?in their coun- 1 'T7 J Farman'a New Prealaent. j The board of trustees of Furman j niversity met Wednesday night at j le Columbia Baptist church, and unaimously elected Professor A. P. ? [ontague, of Washington, D. 0., resident of Furman University of } reenville vice Dr. Charles Manley, ( ho resigned several months ago. | rofessor Montague is a Virginian by | irth but is now a resident of the na- ( onal capital. He is a celebrated j lucator and a scholary gentleman, t ad the university has added lustre to < le time-honored institution by the j ddition of Professor Montague to its ( iculty. P/ofessor Montague was | orn in Virginia, and is a graduate of ( le University of Virginia and the } Olumbian University of Washing- , in. He is 43 years old. , A Had Moc?ialto. David Pearce, a well known ranch- 1 lan near San Gabriel, Col., is dying j om Doison from the sting of a mos- ' uito. He was cleaning an irrigating 1 itch at nightfall on his property and ' as frequently stung by mosquitoes. ' [e continued at his work and went ? ome. A mosquito sting back of his 1 ift ear irritated him more than others, ext day it became somewhat painful ] ad on the following aay the pain in- 1 reased. From that time the wound * rew worse, and for the past few days I [r. Pearce has been unconscious. ( [is head has swollen and the back of is neck is much enlarged. It is beeved that the mosquito must have ; :>me from the malarial spots in the . itch. A Urinal Aesault. 1 Miss Sallie Chapman, aged twenty, 1 ving with her brother in-law, J. C. 1 [clavale, in Macon, Ga., was assulted j ad brutally outraged in her bedroom 1 efore daylight Wednesday morning. . nine year old girl was in the room 1 ith her, but was so frightened that 1 le could not give alarm. Miss Chap lan does not know whether the man | as black or white. Sbe was so 1 ightened and so terribly hurt by the ] lan's brutality that she became insen- ' ble and has not jet recovered her J its. The poliCvj are working, and j le wno'e town is wruugin up iu ? * igh pitch of excitement. This is the j cond assault of a like nature in the J ist two weeks in this city. ' liurmul to Daath. ( Two children of Joseph Crcery, a j :)y and a girl, aged, respectively, ten 1 nd twelve years, were burned to death \ Wednesday afternoon at Fairmont, a 1 iburb of Richmond, \"a. They were j laying in an outhouse, where a lot of av and shucks were stored. In some unner this became ignited and death isued before assistance could reach ' icm. 1 i 1'. T. Birnum once said: "If you i ave ten dolkrj to put into business, < jend one for the article and the other s iue for advertising. I can out-talk t uy man but a printer. The man who i in stick type and the next morning < ilk to a thousand people while I am i ilkicg to one is the man I am afraid | r, and I want him for my friend," t EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS. s' iv RhIm Tbit ar? Now Applicable Fo First Time. The examinations of applicant fo eachtrs' county certificate will bi ield througout tbn State on Friday j?p.ember zi. Tiie ioiiowing ruiei uiopted by the State board of educa ,ioa are applicable now for the firs ;ime: Every applicant for a county certifi iate shall stand a satisfactory writtei jxamination before the county boar< af education, on uniform question prepared and furnished by the Stati board, the examination to be held ii ill the counties on the same day, or h jhall present to the county board j full diploma from some reputabL chartered college or university of thi 3tate, known to be of good standing No certificate shall be issued on a di ploma showing that the holder ha only completed the course of som _ i j L a. ^ e _ i . IL particular aepirtmeni 01 a hcaooi; mi iiploma musi show that the fall col lege course has been completed. Only two grades of examination juestiom shall be prepared and far aished for the county examinations There shall be out two grades o teachers' county certificates?a firs grade and a second grade, the latte Deing divided into class A and class 1 ?this not to affect any certificate nov outstanding. To obtain a first grade teacher: county certificate, the applicant shal stand a written examination on firs grade questions, prepared and furnish jd to tne county board of educatioi oy the State board, and shall make i general average of not less than 8 per cent, and not less than 50 per cant :>n any one branch. The count; aoari may also impose oral tests ii reading and language. T<* obtain a second grade teachen :ounty certificate, the applicant shal stand a written examination on quee tions prepared and furnished to th jouaty board of education by the Stat' board, and also such oral teats in read ing and language as the county boar* nay impose. To an applicant stand ag an examination on first grad questions and failing to obtain a firs ^rade cjrtificate, a second grade cei Lificate class A, shall- be issued if th applicant makes a general average o fo per cent., and not less than 45 pa jeni. on any branch; and, if the ap 3lic|pt makes a general average of no less uian 60 percent, and not les3 thai 10 per cent on any one branch, a sec jna grade cartificate, class B, shall b issued. In estimating for a sicom ;rade certificate on first grade ques Lions, Algebra need not be included f it would be to the applicant's ad van ;age, it may be included. To an ap alicant standing an examination oj second grade questions, a second grad :ertificate, class A, shall be issued i ;he applicant makes a general averagi )f not less than 80 per cent, and no ess than 50 per cent, on any on iranch; and if the applicant makes ; general average of not less than 70 pe 5ent. and not less than 40 per cent oj my one branch, a second grade certifi ;ate, class shall be issued. No person shall be permitted to tak< in examination who is not at least li rears of age, and before taking an ex imination each applicant shall pas such oral tests in reading and langu ige as the board may impo38. A first grade certificate may ba re lewed by,the county board from whicl t was issued. If, however, a teachers nstitute or summer school is held ii ;he county, a first-class certificate shai lot be renewed unless the holder at :nnds th? institute or summer school >r shows some'satisfactory raason fo lot doing so. A second grade certificate, Clas3 B shall not be rewarded unless the hoJ ier attends a teachers' institute or sum ner school, and in such case it ma; je renewed. A second grade certificate, Class E shall not be renewed. The county board shall issue to eacl ipplicant making the required pe jent. a certificate signed by each mem rer of the board ana under the seal o ;he office of the county superintenden education of the county, and show ing on its face the per cent, made 01 ;ach branch and the general average 1'fte certincaie snati run ior iwu year from its date, and the holder shall b ieemed competent to teach in the put lie schools of the county. No certif jate of qualification shall be granted b; my county board under any circum stances to any person who is under 1 years of age. The county board of one count; may recognize a certificate issued b, the county board of another county but in such case they shall registe the name of the holder, county fror which issued, date and number of th 3ertificate, and when so registered i shall have the same force as if issue< in that ounty. Eich county board shall keep register, in which shall be recorde ;he name, age, sex and postolfi^e o ?ach person to whom a certificate i granted, and also the date and grad of the certificate. Whiskey Still RaldecU The Columbia Register, of Tuesdaj says that Revenue Officer Hal Rich irdson returned to Columbia Monda; night from Swansea on the South bound Railroad where he made a sue :essful raid of an illicit whiskey dis tillery. The Register goes on to sa; Lhat at the last term of the Unitei 3tates court, a party living eight mile west of Swansea was indicted for run uing an illicit still, but he was acquil Led of the charge. Ollicer Richaretsoi went to Swansea, and proceeding t the plac9 where it was alleged that ai illicit distillery was in full blast. I was soon discovered that the still wa in complete operation. The owners o the illicit still were not present whej Moj. Richardson made his appearance [nves'.igation developed the fact tha new tanks and copper lined vats wer largely in evidence, and tne revenu jilicer proceeded to capture the entir mifU Tho rlicfillflrv had been in oc oration for some lime, and twent zallons of apple and peach brand; were distilled every da?, llsady cuj tomers in Lexington were patrons o he illicit concern, and the evidenc is that steady sales have bsen made. The Fries to bi Reduc?ci. The statement is rnada that the Stat Board of Control intends to reduc ,he price of liquor to a minimum wit] is small a proiit as is consistent witl ,ho management of the business, am jperate allairs on this basis for awhile *nd if the sales of the original pack x?e agents increase to such an exten is will materially interfere with th< conduct of tne business, then th3 boar* mill M/inmniAnH fr? fhf> nfixt lePlsla ure an elimination of the profit fea ,ure of the law. -?ar>.-y-'OX'^W* " hundreds may perish r IN THE MAD RUSH TO THE KLONDIKE GOLD FIELDS, r ? I* - - - - .. T w Kuinjrinjr, ?ibxtbuou HUU mg ivitable If the Present Bate of Influx Continues any Longer?The Situation Det scribed as Appalling. The United 8tates Treasury Departi ment has made public the following i letter from a government official now a at Dyea, ojn the way to the gold fields, 0 stating at the same time that the 1 writer whose name is withheld, had e bean twelve years in the service and i was thoroughly reliable. The letter 0 says: s I deem it my duty to write you on a subject that does not come strictly within^ my line of duty, as it trench s cs somewhat upon the functions of b the treasury department. I have had 8 a long talk with Mr. Ivey, collector ef customs for Alaska, who is at present at Skaguay, three miles below here. a Tha Bkaguay trail is the most largely used 07< rbnd route (though by no i. means the best) to the Klondike. Mr. f Ivey informs me that there are now it between rid a water and the lake somer thing like 4,000 people and about 2,000 3 hni":?5 Tha />r?mmanual. r?f nno rtf t.h? r vessels now at Skajjuay states that sixteen vessels are chartered to land >' cargoes ftt thit plac9 between now 1 and the 15th of Septembsr and that it the number of passengers will average i" 200 to each vessel, m akin g 3,200 more i paopla who will attempt to go in this * fall. I have talked with sama of the 0 most experienced traders and miners ; in this vicinity, and they are unaniY mous in the prediction that not over 20 a percent, of this vast number will get through to Dawson before winter ?' sets in. The other 80 ner csnt. will 1 be caught on the trail, and those who ' survive and get back to tidewater will e have to winter at Skaguay or return a south. If the rush continues two 1 weeks longer, hundreds will inevitai bly perish on the trail, which is extrefaaaly dangerous after the first of 0 October. t The postmaster and Indian trader at ' this place (Sir. Heron) states that e more than 5.000 men have gone up t the Chilcootpass during the past thirty 't. r days, and that 700 of them are still > this side of the lake (21 miles from * here.) Vessels are arriving every day 1 or two, and at the present rate of in: flux another thousand will enter the 0 trail by September 10. Mr. Heron is 1 nf tho nnininn that. Tint mnrfl that) 20 >- out of 100 will gee through, and he ; says this trail is far more dangerous - than the Skaguay after the snows set >- in. He says if the rush continues ana other week the resultant loss ef life a will ba appalling. I attach the greatf est importance to what he says, for the b reason that it is to his pecuniary int terest to have as many as possible 0 come this way; yet he advises an ima mediate stoppage of the stampede. p It is difficult to suggest a way to 1 stop this in-rash of paople, but Mr. * Ivey intimates that it the inspection rules of the treasury department were 5 properly enforcad it would materially 3 decrease the number of passengers on - the incoming vessels. Nearly every s vessel that arrives here brings twice - as many passengers as the law allows it to carry, and many of them are con demned craft which have been fitted i up for this trade. Mr. Ivey ' will no aouoi aioace presem mo iacta uuumi ed above to ttxe proper authorities, 1 and I merely give them to you for i* your information. The situation is appalling, and it is r impossible for me adequately to describe the mad rush for ihe gold field. . 1 had no conception of its immensity until I saw it. I have talked with * several men who have recently arrived J here from the Klondike, two of whom leit there less than thirty days ago. <? They unanimously agree that while there is a rich gold held there, the i facts do not justify the present stainr psde, and they say there is bound to - be much suffering and actual starvaf tion. Provisions are already scarce t and tae prices of many articles ab30lutely prohibitory in the case of a man a of ordinary means. ). My usual good luck has attended s me here. Mr. Heron, the postmaster, e is an old Montana friend, and he has >- made it possible for me to go forward i. Tn^ian nomim of nrAVflilinO' ' ujr iuuuu 7 rate (37 cents per pound), taking prei cedence over hundeds, many of whom 8 have been here two or three weeki, awaiting their turn. He assumes me 7 he can make the way easy for me at 7 the lake in securing a boat, etc. S31 ? feel comfortably sure of going right r through. Q The mail facilities are very bad e here, as the pjstoifbe department has it not made any allowance for the rapid i growth of postal business. The postal authorities here are powerless to cope a with the mass of mail matter, and I d have doubts as to whether this letter f will reach its destination. I am fore3 ed to close this letter to catch a boat e which is about to leave, I am leaving 'J ? tttUi/iU T dial] hatra UI1S&1Q SOILLO tlllll^S WUlbU * umtw to include in my next letter. ', The Deadly CroulDg. l" A Philadelphia and Reading wreck* 7 ing engine crashed into a wagon at a l* grade crossing at Frush Valley, a few miles above Reading, Pa., Tuesday ! night, and three lives were lost. The 7 dead are: Evans Heister, aged 45 d years; Wan-en Faust, aged 10; Leon s Faust, aged 7. All were instantly [ killed. The boys were sons of Allen Fau3t, a miller of Bsrkely, this coun11 ty, and Heister, wh'o was in his em0 ploy, was driving them in a covered a wagon, with a load of flour for deliv^ ery. The presumption is that he did s not hear the approach of the engine. * The bodies were horribly mangled. o ,m Confessed on His Deathbed. t A special from Bancroft, Mich., e says that Harry F. L-jadley, of Roche ester, N. Y., died there Wednesday, e Before his demise he stated that he i- had been guilty of killing a Miss Em in R<v?hester. and of embezzle y ment fron a Rochester fire insurance i- firm A correspondent in Rochester f interviewed Charles T. L?adley, fathe er of the deceased. He acknowledged that the man was his son, but knew nothing: about the crimes committed. q Wild Horses a Nuisance. e Wili horses have become so much a of a nuisance in Northern Arizona a that Attorney General Francier has i been asked if they cannot legally be , slaughtered. That vicinity has been - overrun by several large bands, hun* J-J .... t dreds in number, uuorauueu ?uu uui claimed by any one. They have rap\ idly increased in number and have - become wilder than deer and vicious - as well. The matter has been referred to the live stock board.