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s2 =7 iiNf. 544 t;i tewberr tern ESTABLISHED 18U5 NEWBERRY, S. C.. THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1889. PRICE $1.50 A_YEAR BILL ARP GETS HIS BREAKFAST. The Cook Quits, and He Makes the Eig cults and Tells How le Did It. [From the Atlanta Constitution.] "Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." No, we don't. I didn't know- last night that Mrs. Angelina Peacock wouldn't be here this morn ing. Nobody knew it until there was a tap at the door, and a voice said that '"Mrs. Peacock sent me to tell you she was sick-can't come no more for to cook till her get well." David sayeth, "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." That is so as a general thing, but right smart depends on whether the cook comes in =-he morning. No cook, no joy. Mrs. Arp wasn't well, nohow, so I persuaded r to be calm ar serene,_and let ne kfast; and so I~caled 'e, and we made a regular and had the best breakfast for a month. Mrs. Ange k.can't compare with us take a notion to cook. She t, but she is old ad rheu weighs about 250 pounds, and greasy while cooking nny before the wah. She lovely maiden that Gold about in The Hermit when Angelin-ever dear: 'eharmer, turn to see." was another Angelina. I used er her and wish that I was =when he clasped her to his e a division of labor, and splendid in preparing the meal. Carl fired up the store ed the cow and cooked the toted water and made up bis stood around generally and -while Jessie took charge of the and coffee and milk toast and eggs and potatoes. They fatter me up to make'the bis they do say that I can make its than anybody, though I ed a cook book nor attended on the culinary art. You see I instead of lard; I don't rub flour, but I melt it in a tin cup, r it cools a little I pour it in the ilk. After Horsford has been the flour, then sift it twice or mes and pour in the milk and mix thoroughly. Anybody e good biscuits that way. % ,:.ember of a family ought to w . There is no other f feeling independent. Let the it if she wants to. White folks be ashamed to admit that they t along without negroes. It is it to anybody to cook. -It is honorable as it is to eat, and is 'entific an<1 takes -more brains. n eat, but he can't cook. But it understood that I am not a g candidate for that business. I ant my family to feel indepen that when the cook quits it is of utter despair. Our chili ve never rebelled against these tic accomplishments. They can and milk the cow and make up s and make their own clothes, are alw'ays willing to do it when e is a necessity. I saw Carl milking other evening, aind a sweet, pretty ,who was no kin to him, was stand close by holding the bucket for im,and it did look so "confectionary,"' Cobes says, that I wanted a photo aph of the lactean scene. There was rand she had never seen a cow milked, and Carl had to explain to her the ipro cess-h)ow that one teat was for sweet milk and one for buttermilk anid one for criam and one for,.the calf, and the sweet innocent believed it, every wvord. But about this cooking business I amn not uttering the sentiments of Mirs. Arp. She is constitutionally opposed to getting up early in tihe morining. She is willing to cook dinner anid sup) per, b'ut has no liking for cooking breakfas.t au the dishes. She ientisly believes that the 'arkies were specially created for this usiness. She is no great admirer of .sing Solomou either and( sonmetimies hints that his respect for women and S children was very limited, for he wanted switches arnd thresh poles for the boys, and kept three or four hun dred wives to wait on him and his deti nition of a virtuous woman wvas "she riseth while it is yet night and giveth 2 food to her household." He actually wanted his wife to get up before day go to cooking, while he slept until .ie bell rang for breakfast. She thinks it enough for a mother to nurse and *worry with raising eight or nine chil dren, and after the crop is laid by she is entitled to rest, and I think so too. She shan't cook if I can help it. She has made a thousand lit tle garments and worked ten thousand button holes in her life, but, thank the goodl Lord, her eyes are not dimmed nor her Snatural force abated. No; she shan't cook. Our colored nabor, Mrs. Fletch er, always comes when sihe can, but she is raising a crop herself and can't make a full hand in our kitchen. But varie ty is the spice of life, and somehow I like for something to happen that changes the monotony of things and stimulate, our ePwrgies. I like for the cook to quit and the washerwoman to strike once in a while. I like for the bucket to get into the well or a young cyclone to threaten us. I like for my v;fodTsto come ofT and my under rng66i~ ts to get rugged, so that Mrs. Arp will be sorry for mec and beg me to buy sonme new clothes, and I can say withr a sigh, I can't afford, these will (do rie very well; it doesn't niatter how I look. I like to work in the garden while the sun is hot and hear Mrs. Arp calling fromn the window, "You had better come in the house; you will make yourself sick again working inl the sun." I like for her to hear mys terious sounds away in the night when deep sleep falleth upon a mau but not a woman, and when she punches me in the side with her elbow I get up and meander all through and around the house hunting for robbers and ghosts just to show her what a protector she has got. She is going to St Simon next week and I amu going to stay at home. Some of her ma-ied children are going with her and args going to chaperone the chaps or matronize the party or whatever you call it. I don't know whether she is going to lave in the salt sea waves or not, but I can see her now standing upon the beach and with extended arms repeating the speech of her school days: -li on, thou deep and (lark blue ocean, roll Tenl thousand fleets sweep over thee in vainh. Thou glorious mirror, where the Al mighty's form Glasses itself in tempests." * * Oh, she was a speaker, she was, and she iq a speaker yet. She speaks to me sometimes. I wish that every aspiring soul could go to St. Simons, or somewhere and look upon the sea-the ocean. If a man has a soul how it expands ! How diminutive he feels in the presence of this mighty work of God ! But hun dreds go there just like they go to a circus. They have no new emotions, no increase of reverence and no de crease in their own conceit.. "A primrose by the water's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more to him." Some people go through this world just like they were sticks. No love, nor hate, nor emotion, nor ambition, nor aim in life-no nothing but to live and eat and sleep and hear the n.s and as I pass them I can't help think ing of % stick. They had just as well never been born. They never reflect that the sun shines for them by day and the stars by night and for them the moon gives her holy light. For them there is seed time and harvest, and the birds sing and the flowers bloom and the earth is clothed in beauty. Why, even the dog that lies at their door was created for their comfort and protec tion. Let a man commune with nature and cultivate those affections and emo tions and aspirations that lead him to a higher life. St. Paul says that man was. made in the image of his Maker and but little lower than the angels. And Shakespeare says of him: "How noble in reason, how infinite in facul ties, in form and moving, how express and admirable-in action how like- an angel-in apprehension how like a god." But those kind of men are scarce. They don't go about in droves. rThere are just enough to prove what a man can be if he will. Young man, think of that, and don't be a clami or a stiek. If you can't be great, be good. DOWN ON DRi. M'DOW. T'iw slayer of Editor Dawsoni Expenled frorn the MedicaI Society. [Special to The Register.] (utL.sTrox, July 18.-D)r. T. Il. McD)ow, the slayer of Capt. Dawson, was expelled from the South Carolina Medical Society to-day. At a special meeting of the society the following resolut.ionis were passed: Whereas, it has been brought to the notice of this society that Dr. T. Bal lard MlcDow has been prov)~en, by his own confession, guilty of immoral, nuprofessionial and unugen tlemanly con duct, and that after dute notification the said Dr. McD)ow has failed to ap pear before the society to exonerate himsel.f from said ebharges: "Resolced, Thai*t he he expelled from this body. "2. That tlm secretary be( (directed to p)ublish a copy of these resolutions over his ofieial signature, inl tile thlree daily papers in this city and two re putale medical journals." WVhen Mc Dow graduated w ithi hon ors from the Medical College here, somle eight or ten years ago, he ap p)lied for membership to the Medical Society and wats black-balled. A cer tificate of membership of the Medical Society;is ,ousidered almost as much a requisite for a practitioner as a diplo mia. The certilicate of the Medical So ciety opens the door to the holder of every household in the State. Mc Dow's reputation was so shady, even at that early stage of his career, that he couldn't get into the society. His standing in his class, however, secured him a position ini the city hospital, and his marriage with the daughter of a respectab'le and wealthy German mner chant soon secured him a practice. .Just about a month before he killed Editor D)awson he finally succeeded in being elected a member of the Medical Society. Trwo days after his triumphal acquit tal, he sent in his letter of resig nation to the Medical Society. The society refused to reeive it. It is to the credit of the physicians of Charleston that they demand a hear ing of the ease. McDow knew the rules-knew that lhe could not be exp)elled from the society without a hearing. The society met to-day and adopted the resolutions given above. The. aution was unanimous. It was als6 decided that no member of the society should, under any circumstan ces, enter into a consultation with 'McDow. The veterans and honorary members of the Lafayette Artiliery are to hold a meeting shortly to discuss Surgeon McDow's relations with the corps. It is understood that all the honorary members of the Lafayette Artillery of this city, of which McDowv is the suir geon, have decided to resig~n from the company unless McDow is expelled. The honorary members, some thirty in number, have notiftied the company to that eflect. THE CHUILCH AND THE SCHOOL. A Mig Debate in the National FAucationi Association Between Bishop Keane and Mr. Meade of Boston. NASu[IfLLE, TENN., July 17.-Th feature of to-day's discussion before th National Educational Association wa the discussion of denomination: schools, participated in by Bishop J., Keane, rector of the Catholic U-nive sity at Washington, and Edwin I Meade, of Boston. Bishop Keane was the first speake He said: "The glory of the Christia nation is not in its ability to surpass a around it martial in prowess ana in th returns of trade, but in the intelligene morality, comfort and contentment < its people. A school is not made Christian school by taking up a gre deal of time in doctrinal instruction < in devotional exercise which woul otherwise be spent in acquiring secuh knowledge. What above all that nak it a Christian school, are the mior, atmosphere, tire general tone sui rounding objects, the character of th teachers, the constant endeavor of los ing tact, the gentle skill by which th light and spirit of Christianity, its le sons for the head, for the heart, for th whole character, are made to pervad and animate the whole school life < the child. "The intelligent Christian paren knows that what ought to be true < every nationality within the pale < Christian civilization is pre-eminent. true of ours; that the best Christian i sure to be the best American, and tha the school which aims at sending fort his child a m'odel Christian, in an equ: degree, tends to send him forth a mod< American.. But Christian civilizatio has for its natural foundation Christia homes and Christian schools. Agair therefore, the good Christian Anierica parent, if he is true to his principle, will be sure to choose for his child good Christian American school. Su picioua antagonisms and animositie ought never to be instilled in an Christian Church; and if they are, tha Church has not the spirit of Christ i it, and ought to be deserted. It may b said, is not the Catholic Church a least committed to the Christianity < the Hildebrand of the middle ages, an is it not, therefore, antagonistic to th Christianity of the nineteeith centur and of the Ameriean Republic? In th name of the Catholic Church, I answe that she is committed neither to Hild brand and the middle ages nor to policy of any manner, of any age what soever, because she is for all men an therefore, for all ages and for all form of social condition. "Look at the people of our countr, and we see them divided into tw classes. Onione side the Catholic Churc emphatically declares for Christial education; and with us all those nor Catholics, whatever may' be their di nomination, who believe in Christia: schools, and in them are giving thei children an education animated b' Christianity as they understand it. "On the other side are the upholdex and advocates of the national syster of schools in which Christian truth an duty cannot be taught. Can anyone i: his senses hesitate which of these side is for the welfare of our country?" Ed win D). Meade, of Boston, replie to Bishop Keane, and stated that th parochial school ,bas no proper plac in the system of A merican instructior The speaker quoted from an Englis Catholic dictionary prepared by Tho! Arnold, son of the great master of Ru; by, brother of Matthew Arnold, an faither of Mrs. Ward, author of Robei Elsmere. In an article on educationi the dictionary the authorsaid that ma is a complex being, so his edncatio must have several ends. The prime en is religious, and the Catholic hokd that man nmust seek religious know ledge at the hands of the only divine], appointed church, and tbat this is th highest authority in education. Th state may reasonably require that it citizens should receive such training a may restrain anti-social p)assions an p)romote the welfare, but the end pum sued by the church is p)rimkary, the p)ursued by the state is secondary. It was not bold nor honest in Card; nal Manning in his recent article t represent the conflict as between stat and family. The speaker quoted largel from Cardinal Manning's article,whicl he said, attemp)ted to represent th public school as a coercion and as a interference with famiily rights and th liberty of conscience. The whole polic of the Roman Catholic church, in em tablishing parochial schools in thi country, rests upon this coercion. Tb~ Roman Catholic school does have th same place in Americans the Episcopa school or any private school--the righ to open its doors, to make itself a attractive as possible and to invit attendance. It has full right to criticize the put lie schools, but it must not threaten. In conclusion, an aippeal was mad for a higher view of the State. Mr. Meade's address was receive with great applause, and at its clos the Bishop was called to respond. The Bishop defended Cardinal Mar nmng from what he characterized as th unjust criticism of Mr. Meade. He als stated that Pope Leo XIII. was mos ing alone the highest lines of the broat est education in p)lacing the churcl above the state. The Bishop said whenever we hav Christian civilization we nmust hav for its basis Christain education, whic can only be giveni by making school more Christian than they are, withou coercion or clap-trap, actuated sole], by common-sense princiles. Let us nail to our mathead .the bar ner of Christian education, and go on under its guidance to that blessed des i tiny the most sublime God ever gave to a nation-the destiny of our Aner iean republic. e The Bishop resumed his seat amid e great applause. Li THE VALUE OF COTTON SEE). rThousands of DoUars Hitherto Watted Can now be Turned into Proft. [From the News and Courier.] - Having noticed your late articles and n comments upon the value of the pro. Il ducts of cotton seed, and endorsing the e soundness of your advice to our farm , ers that they shall directly avail them >f selves of all that can be produced out a of them, I ask forspace in your columns .t for data and specifications tending to r prove the points you make. d In the matter of the value of the r hulls the facts as to what th-.y have s positively accomplished in fattening Ll cattle are incontestable. The exact proportionate value is made a known e known quantity by chemical analysis. Dr. Dabney gives this analysis as fol e lows :08 per cent. fats, 47.12 per cent. - crude cellulose, 38.67 per cent. carbo e hydrates and 2.49 per cent. proteine. e Their value as cattle food, as rated f from this analysis, is as 1.39 to 1.50 of, timothy hay, and 1.60 of grain, though t some users claim that the nutriment is If more available, and that practically ,f they are better for fattening than the Y best hay. s Their present selling price for this t purpose will average $4 per ton, though, 2 as compared with the items above, their .1 real value is more, and a higher price 1 ought to be and probably will be ob 2 tained. The inconvenience of their I bulk could be readily done away with by pressing them Into a condensed 2 form. , First as a cattle food and then as a a fertilizer, these hulls have been pearls - of unknown value, but.unfortunately s they have not been enough cast before Y swine. The raw seed contains abdut t 50 per cent each of hulls and meats. 2 The value of the decorticated seed or e meats, taking into consideration the t fact that their reduced cost of freights, 'f greater convenience in handling, and I their more direct availabihty in oil e manufacture will more than compen Y sate for the loss of the lint, is computed e on a reasonable basis to be twice that r of the raw seed per ton, or in other , words these meats from each ton of seed will sell-for as much-as is now real ized from the entire ton of seed itself. Since so many local mills are now in s process of erection in this State, the market will be a sure and accessible i one, and there is no room here as in the a case of the hulls for an advance over ' present values. Thus at the lowest es 2 timate our planters can get $4 more per - ton for their seed than they have pre - viously obtained. In this calculation 1 no allowance is made for the value of r the lint which remains on the seed after r ginning, and which, after being taken off by special gins made for the purpose, 5 yields an average of thirty pounds per I ton, worth from flive to six cents per 1 pound, $1 50 to 81 80 per toin of seed. 1 Of course this lint is valueless as cattle s food, and the hulls would not lose in value by its separation from them. I Thus common sense would seem to e dictate the provision of means for the e realizing of the profits pointed out, and .the utilization at home of all the pro 2 duets of the cotton seed will yearly .add thousands of dohiars to the wealth -of the country in which they are pro Iduced. t It has been well said that no country 2 offers a better field for cattle, stock, a hog and sheep raising than our sunny 2 South, and the only obstacle, the pro I vidling of a cheap food supply, seems to s be met by the never exhaustbible coun - try of "Great King Cotton." V It. w, G.,J.1 e Columbia, S. C., July 13. SVirginia Prohibitionis to Put up a Ticket. s -_ [Greenville News.] LYNcIIUnRa, Va., July 17.-Thle pro. t hibition convention met here to-day and niominated a full State ticket as -follows : For Governor, Thomas E. 3 Kyler,- of Lofidon County ; Lieutenant B Governor, WV. J. Shelburn, of Mont V g.omery County ; Attorney General, 1.Judge J. M. Quarles, of Staunton. e Time convention adopted the National 3 Prohibition platform. More Frauds in Fertilizeri'. s [Independent.] B The Pennsylvania Board of Agricul B ture' reports that a certain "complete 1 fertilizer," offered at $20 per ton, is t really worth, by analysis, only $1.22. S Another, selling for $21, has a manurial B value of just 71 cents. A third, whose price is $18, is worth but 17 cents. And -yet there are many valuable fertilizers, and they are furnished by trustworthy a parties. The only safe rule is to pur chase of reputable manufacturers or I dealers, after a careful study of'the e reports of the most capable official analysts. l vomnan's smiles and Woftian's Tears'. One to enliven, the other to soften the heart of mankind. An old bachelor - once said women were either "all smiles - or all tears;" but this cannot be true, for 2 what would there be "'twixt a tear and a smile." Women have enough to bear to make them "all tears" and enough e to hope for to make them "all smiles." e When afflicted with nervousness, "fe male weaknesses," sick,.headache, and the numerous diseases peculiar to their s sex there is necessity for contemplation, t and for "tears," but when they con ,sider that there isa sure remedy in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for all such "female complaints," there is res soen for "smniles." ANOTHER LUL A HURST. Wonderful Performance of a Magnetic Woman, also from Georgia. [Baltimore American.] Georgia has produced another lady who is as full of electricity or something very like it as was the wonderful Lula Hurst, of the same State, who used to throw big men around without much trouble. This lady, who gave a pri vate exhibition last night at Ford's to a few spectators, is Mrs. Annie Abbott, of Milledgeville, a petite body of only ninety-eight pounds. She is a blonde of twenty-three years and of a pleasing appearance. When seven years old, she went up to her father's chair one day and astonished him by saying she could lift him up. He laughed at the childish remark, but she put her hands on the chair and it came up from the floor. From that day it was apparent that she had more than muscular power. She showed her peculiar power in her own State at charitable enter tainments, but never thought appear ing in public until last February, when she was traveling in Florida with her husband, for her health, whien the managers of the sub-tropical exhibi bition at Jacksonville prevailed upon her to show what she could do. Since that time she has appeared several times in public In Georgia and South Carolina, and will do so again to-mor row evening, it is said, at Ford's. Last right there were half a dozen or so pretty heavy and strong men on the stage, but she was more than a match for any or all. A man sat in an ordi nary chair, leaned back on its 'rear legs, and when Mrs. Abbott simply put her hands under his ears, the chair and man jumped up about three inches. Five men were then piled up on the chair-the heaviest 216 pounds, and all the others over 160---and when she laid her hands on the big man's ears the chair jumped up again. She stood on une foot and let a billiard cue rest in her hands, without grasping it, and ,ne, two and three men could not push her over. The combired weight of the three nen exerting all their muscular power was over 400 pounds. She pushed them all about the stage. Heavy men iat in a rocking chair, and with her Engers just touching the back, they ould not rock. The 216-pounder and thers put their hands under her el bows and tried with might and main to lift the 98 pounds, but in vain. In aone of the trials could the men do mnything with her. Several years ago the was at the Hot Springs, in Arkan ias, when she was matched against rohn L. Sullivan, but the brute slug ger could do nothing with her. When the has hor hands on the chair or on my wooden substance, she waits about L minute, and suddenly the power onies, but the muscles do not become -igid. She says the feats never tire her, aut just before a trial she feels nervous md weary. She sleeps well after bhrowing strong people about. She must stand on wood and operate with wooden chairs and sticks. ~When in :ontact with carpets and iron she can 1o nothing, Recently, when exhibit ng in the South, somebody connected i. wire with her body and grounded it, md immediately she was powerless. When one pushes against her the im pression is that of the resistance of a wall. She looks quite delicate. She is m quiet lady, and very modest. Now it is a School Book Trust. The leading school-book publishing bouses of the country have formed a 30mbination for the control of the sale f educational works. The agreement Lmder which the combination is formed went into effect Monday. All of the mportant school book publishing Ln the country are parties to the agree ment. The main object of the comibi nation; it is claImed by publishing houses, is to reduce the expenses of selling their publications by chang ing the methods of competition among the different houses. Heretofore each publishing house has employed a num ber of traveling salesmen. From fif teen to fifty of these salesmen have been kept regularly on the road by each (>f the leading school book publishing houses. The salaries paid these men have ranged from $1,500 to $3.500 ayear. phis new agreement made by the different publishing houses will do iway with the employment of these talesmen, as one of the most import mt conditions of the aigreemient is that none of the firms which are parties to it shall send traveling sales men put to push the'sale of their publications It is claimed b)y the publishing houses which are parties to the new igreement that the combination is not in the nature of a trust, but is sim ply an agreeme~nt to reduce expenses f the introduction and to control the distribution of school books. Tfhe new combination includes all the members of the school book publishing syndi cate, which has been in existence for several years, and at the head of which was the Cincinnati firm of Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., Harper & Brothers and other firms which have been recently opposed to the syndicate are also said to be parties to the new igreemient. Harper & Brothers were mriginally members of the syndicate, but withdrew because of disagree ments with its methods, and have since been active opponents of it. Journanistic. DURIHAM, N. C., July 15.--Arranage ments have been completed foir merg :ng the Evening Tobacco Plant into a mew morning paper, to be called The 3lobe. Edward A. Oldham, a well tuown journalist, has resigned his posi ~ion as editor of the Charleston World, md will assu me complete control of the 2ew paper. The Grlobe will publish PURSUING THE PUGILIST. Governor Lowrey, of Mississippi, Sends a Iequisitioa to New York for Mitchell and Donovan. NEw YORic, July 1S.-Detective Norris appeared at the Tombs Police Court to-day with a requisition from Governor Lowrey, of Mississippi, call ing for the arrest of Charley Mitchell and Mike Donovan, who looked after Kilrain's interests in his fight with Sullivan. Norris has no requisition for Sullivan, Kilrain or Muldoon. Norris arrived this morning, and Inspector Byrnes detailed Detective Lanthier to assist him. Upon application being made for warrants for Mitchell and Donovan before Justice O'Reilly, the justice declared that warrants-were un necessary, as the arrest could be made without them. The two detectives then started out with the intention of making the arrest at once. WHAT DETECTIVE NORRIS SAYS. NW Yoi, July 1S.-Detective Nor ris, of Mississippi, now here, said to night: The reason I want to arrest Mitchell is that he is an Englishman intending to leave the country. I have looked for him two days, and have failed to discover his whereabouts. I was in consultation with Governor Lowrey in relation to the fight on June 28, 29 and July 3. I rode on Sullivan's train as far as Lexington, Mo,, and from there sent on assistants to the end of the journey. I am an expert telegrapher, you know, and was to keep Governor Lowrey posted on what was going on, but the wires were cut. Govenor Lowrey is indignant because the fighters passed through his state and then turned back and pitched a ring in. Mississippi. The de'tective says that nothing fur ther can be done in the matter until the Marion County grand jury meets in September. Then about eighty men will be indicted. Since his arri val here Norris said he has been en gaged in getting names, addresses and all possible information about the par ticipants in the fight, from the princi pals down. He denied the truth of the story that he was to get $250 for taking the Iilrain partysafely through Mississippi to New Orleans. GOVERNOR HILL WILL GIIAT REQUI SITIONS. NEW YORK, July 18.-Acting Dis trict Attorney Goff said to-day that requisitions for parties and p'rincipals in the recent Kilrain-Sullivan -fight had not yet reached his -office. The men, he added, who were identified with the fight when arrested will, of course, be turned over to Governor Lowrey, and it is certain Governor Hill will consent as long as the neces sary papers are shown. A BAD SCARE IN NEW ORLEANS. NEW ORLEANS, July 18.-1 having been reported here that a list of fifteen hundred names, including newspaper correspondents, railroad and telegraph people and spectators at the recent Sullivan-Kilrain fight, had been for warded to Mississippi, and that all parties concerned would be held to an swer for violating the laws of that State, the Associated Press correspon dent at Jackson was instructed to as certain, if possible, from Governor Lowrey the scope of the prosecution, whether or not spectators would be proceeded against, but the Governor declined to be interviewed on the sub ject in advance of the action or the authorities of Marion County. The Governor said, however, that he might have something to say on the subject in a few days. He thinks the report is exaggerated. This Year's Elections. . TFhe current year is notobly an "off year" in general politics. Only eleven States elect State officers tils year. Kentucky will hold a general election for State Treasurer on August 5. Elec tions in ten other States will take place on November 3. On that day: Iowa will elect Governor andl Lieu tenant Governor. Maryland will elect Comptroller and Attorney G;eneral. - Massachusetts will elect Governor and State officers. Mississippi will elect Governor and State officers. Nebraska will elect a Supreme Court Judge and two Regents. New Jersey will elect Governlor and State officers.. Newv York will elect State offlcers, except Governor andf Lieu tenant Gov ernor. Ohio will elect Goero and State officers. Pennsylvania will elect State Trea surer. Virginia wvill elect Governlor and State officers. Political interest this year according ly is centeredl in the elections of the newly admitted States, North Dakota, South D)akota, W\ashiington and Mon tana, which are now franming their Constitutions and will elect full State governmnen ts and Legislatures, which wvill choose -eight new United States Senators. Each new State will also elect a Representative iln Congress, ex eept South D)akota, which will elect two. The termis of noV United States Sena tors expilre next year, so the election of members of the Legislature this year is of interest as bearing on nation al politics only in cases where menm bers of the Legislature chosen this year hold oflice for two years. Thbe Senate elected in New York State will vote for a United States Senator in ]891 to suIcceedI the Honl. Wmn. M. Do Men Fear Death? Who said that men fear death? Who concocted that fable for old wives? He should have stood that night with Philip in the midst of a host of 125,000 men, in the full flush and vigor of life, calmly and deliberately making ready at dawn to receive death in its most hor rid forms at one another's hands. It is in vain that Religion invests the tomb with terror, and Philosophy, shudder ing, averts her face; the nations turn from these gloomy teachers to storm its portals in exultaut hosts, battering theni' wide enough for thousands to charge through abreast. The heroic instinct of humanity, with its high contempt of death, is wiser and truer, never let us doubt, than superstitious terrors or philosophic doubts. It testi fies to a conviction deeper than reason that man is greater than his seeming self; to an underlying consciousness that his mortal life is but an accident of his real existence, the fashion of a day, to be lightly worn and gaily doffrd at duty's call. What a pity it truly is that the tonic air of battle-fields-the air that Philip breathed that night before Antietam cannot be gathered up and preserved as a precious elixir to reinvigorate the at mosphere in times of peace, when men grow faint of heart and cowardly and quake at thought of death.-July Cen tury. Uncle San's Finances. The revenue of the United States Government in 1888 amounted to $6.32 per capita of population. The expendi ture of the government, not including payment of the national debt, amount ed to $4.47. per capita. The national debt per capita amounted to $17.71, and the interest thereon to 65 cents. The duties collected on imports amounted to $3.47 per capita, and the internal revenue amounted to $2.07 per capita. Woman's Inhumanity to-Man. SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, July 16.-The Rev. Wm. T. Lewis, a Free Will Bap tist minister, died here to-day in the City Hospital, a victim of woinan?s in humanity to man. He was born in England, and was graduated at Oxford with high honors in 1877. He came to this country, stud ied at Harvard, and was admitted to the bar and to practice in all the courts in Ohio. In early-manhood-he was connected with companies producing legitimate drama. His parents were theatrical people, and he had great love for the stage. In 1881, at Washington, D. C., he married Miss Ellie Johnson, an opera singer and daughter of George .W. Johnson, who for years. managed the old Madison Square Theatre. She was a picture of beauty and had a superb voice. Under the tutelage of Sidney Rosenfeld she graduated well equipped for comic opera. She appeared in "0li vette," "Mascot" and several of the lighter operas. In 1384 Mr. Lewis became a minis ter, and his wife was apparently a model Christian woman. Last October she left him, and has not been heard from since, although Mr. Lewis used every effort to discover her wherea bouts. He was a small, emaciated man, badly troubled-wvith asthma, and died heartbroken. Au Oriental Invasion. C[TY OF MEXICo, July 17.-Advices from Lower California state that a Chinese syndicate, who have bought a half interest in the Masac concession, regard the ore in the Realin mine as looking well, and miners will soon he put to work there, receiving as wages from $2 to $3 per day. Chinameri are already talking of importing Chinese laborers direct from China by the' pro jected.Oreinic Line to be, put on by Claus Spreckles, the sugar refiner. The syndicate have also bargained for ex tensive tracts of land to be used for market gardens, and for valuable fish ing privileges along the coast of the peninsula. All this will necessitate an investment of no less than one million dollars of Chinese capital. This will include the amount paid for the Real Del Castillo mining property, garden lands near Ensada, the colony proper ty, seal and shell fisheries and more valuable fisheries at the Southern end of the peninsula. He Made up His Mind. [Christian Advocate.] A story is told of a colored preacher whose church had become somewhat dilapidated. The minister succeeded at last in persuading the people to deco rate the walls, but funds gave out and they left a large recess behined the pul pit unimproved. The patience of the preacher gave wvay before this evidence of want of proper respect for the church, and at the close of his sermon one Sun day morning be very solemnly an nou need: "B3redren-Notice is hereby given that the Gospel will not be dis pensed wif in dis church any moa until this abscess behind the pulpit is fricas seed." A Prize of S1oo,0o0 Is a good thing to get, and the man who wins it by superior skill, or by an unexpected turn of Fortune's wheel, is to be congratulated. But he whoes capes from the clutches of that dread monster, Consumption, and wins back health and happiness, is far more for tunmate. The chances of winning100,000 are small, but eterp consumptive may be absolutely sure of recovery, if be takes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery in time. For all scrofulous dis eases (consumption is one of them), it is an unfailing remedy. It is guaranteed to cure yn all cases of diseases for whichI it is recommended, or money r4funded.J INVENTED BY A NEGRO. -' The Wonderful Cotton Chopper Used a Camden. [Special to the News and Courie] CAMDEN, July 17.-The cotton chop per patented by Taylor Belton, of Camden, and J. H. Johnson, formerly of Camden, now pastor of a colored Methodist chuich in Columbia, has proved to be a great success.' Both of these men belong to the colored race, - and the machine, of which they are the patentees, shows marked ingenuity:. on their part.. Their cllopper was pat-. ented some years ago, but for want of money the proprietors have not been'. able to manufacture it. After it was tried near Columbiatbis:, spring, Mr. Roache, of Columbia, and Mr. Kinwick, of Savannah, seeing the worth of the machine, bought an in terest or share in it-for $20,000. -All the papers tn the case have been exa ed by a prominent Camden lawyer, -and the transaction has been pronodnced bona fide. The manufacture of the cotton choppers will soon commence. and the machines will be put on sale in time for next season. Belton's latest invention is a, self pumping machine, which is alost a perpetual motion machine. The contri vance is put in a well and pumps.water from the time it is started until Itis stopped. The principle has been shown to your correspondent, but Beltonde- " sires it kept secret until a patent las been obtained. In about a week - model will be set up and thefeasibility of the invention will then be demvnj strated to a select few. - Those who have seen Belton's rorngl drawings of this pumping machine think the plan feasible, and one gentle man has offered to put up some n hey to carry out the project. The Lessons of Murder Trials. [Southern. Christian- Advocate.] " There have been of late years enough murder trials in South Carolina -to afford data from which her citizens may draw some general conclusions as to the relations of the courts and publi opinion to this'matter of man-kllirg The'first lesson for the people in this important matter is that, while the law forbids under penalty the carrying of Y concealed weapons, the juries through their verdicts strongly asseit the ne cessity of going armed, and give ar warning that he who fails ,to be pre-- = : pared against his enemies maf e no protection at their hands. - The law : is for the protection ofproperty pe ., but certainly not for the care and pro tection of human life. The second lesson is that every man is apparently considered the sole de- T fender of his own person. He may be. attacked by bullies or assassins -and overmatched when unarmed, yet it is-. his own lookout; and if he, as a man is not sufficient for his own-defense, or if with real manliness he refusis to make himself a walking armory, -he' does it at his own risk; for he may know well that law. will do nothing to protect him and the same to avenge - him. - A third lessen, set particularly for the earnest coyning' of murderers, Is " that they may ply their vengeful busi- e' ness with impunity. If they be fearful of the result of killing a man who Is distasteful to them, in the Ardinary way of street broil, they have but,to pick their time when no one is looking shoot down their victim, not even taking care that the wound bein front, -; and then go before the jury and swear it was in self-defence. They may b-r sure that the livid lips of the dead will - not open to contradict the most start- 7 lfng assertions, anid almost equally cer- - tain that the complaisant jury~- will' accept the pleas of excitemegt, comn- - punction and fear of injury as excusing - circumstances. Anoth'er highly moral ethical lesson, correcting the standards of civilization and religion, is that the life of a mur dered man is of little account; but the life of a man-slayer is so precious that a tender and compassionate jury can ~not bring themselves to shorten it. ~ Money and influence and splendid counsel, the press, as well as- the quib bles of the law .and the imperfections > of the jury system, all are worked to - the utmost to save every red-handed son of Cain that wreaks his hate in lawless deeds of death; while half hearted prosecutions and partial stat utes, framed to shield the slayer, make a weak pretense of vindicating the so called majesty of law and avenging the blood that cries to earth and heaven for justice. Such lessons the .people of South -, Carolina have been taught for years from the high precincts where justice - sits pledged to judge impartially and right the wrongs of the weak and - oppressed, and they have learned the - lesson, till ordinary killings fail to stir interest; there needs some unuisual - horror to bring about a change. .egany Dead, but StD1 Alive. ATLNT, Ga., July 16.-A month has passed since John Pickett expiated the crime of murder on the galows The memory of the event has besnreZ ' awakened in a remarkable manni-. report comes from Sumpter Counlty that Pickett is still alive and living in 2 that portion of the State; that after the hanging his body was taken in charge by friends, who woied successfully at ' re.suscitation. The story has created a ~ good deal or interest in this city, for if Pickett is still alive and is apprehended the question is whether he can be fu ther punished. He Jhasbea legally dead, andh'.C~S one unparalelenb~ State. .