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Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05
Tie star spangled Banner.

Waterbury Republican
$500 The Star Spangled BanBsl
ss+*- needs reconsi~UctSng Ol
- Washington birthday Pres.
- ilent Cleveland signed tas
bill admitting Washington
afopfana, Ncrth Dakota and
South Dakota into the union, nakine
forty-tvTo states in TIE sistsrhood and NJ
firing fortv-t<o stars n tie hiGe flel.
II TIE rational emblem When Genera
Wsabirzto. was snz1gnrated there sssFe
only as many states IN tne uaica - there
are lines in tbs paragraph
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05
We Should Say Queer.

Capital-Commonwe alth.
This is very queer legislature, re-
marked member of the house last night
to the Capital-COmmonwealth reporter.
early in the session the house spent a
whole day in discussing an item Of $500
for clerk hire at the state normal school.
Tonight it passed the bill making an APP
preparation of S243, 600 for state print
ing, devoting just three minutes to the
IiII -
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05

The balance of trade was against the
United States for the year 1888, the first
year in the past ten, the excess OF I'M
ports being little more than $20,ooo,-
600. The falling off III the exports OF
grain that still prevails is not a good
augury for the restoration of the balance
to our side in the near future, but the
present indications from the wheat crop
are that what the agricultural communl-
ty nay lose by depression in the price OF
that cereal it will recover in the in
creased Weld.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05
ingalls, at the White House.

1t is pleasant 10 note that Hon. John
J. ingalls, was the first to welcome Gen.
and Mrs. Harrison to Washington. SEN
ator ingalls, has not moved conspicuous
" in the presidential circle for two or
three years, but 1t wouldn't surprise us a
bit to hear. after the renaissance, that he
had become the belle of the season His
beauty is of the hssom, willowy type.
and he hath, when once aroused, what
Audreys pumpkin lover termed a pretty
xylt
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05

As an eXparte statement the showing
is creditable one to that party but I'M
accompanied by a counter showing is
misleading and consequently unfair,
The following table for the same years
as the above shows that the ratio of gain
in the popular vote for the Republican
party has been fully equal to that of the
opposition, and that it is just as strong
indication of popular disapproval of the
Inu tariff or free trade dOctrlne:
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05

There used to be an adage in the early
DAYS of labor agitation in this country
say twenty-five years ago. which read
eight hours work, eight hours play
eight hours sleep and eight dollars a
day.n The laboring men in mass con-
vention in New York on Washington S
birthday modified the adage to this;
eight hours for work, eight hours for
sleep. and eight hours at large. The
absence of any demand for a specified
money consideration is quite noticeable,
as things 90.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05

General Harrison has appointed dis
tinguished colored man of Ohio by the
name of Marshall as his official steno-
grapher. This Is the first instance where
a colored man has been given such a
position in the executive office.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05
4 Smart Boy.
Boston Globe.

You see, my boy, that even the loco
motive, the rugged iron horse. seldom
lasts over thirty years, from being a
constant smoker" said q wise father 20
his tempted son. "Yes, dad" replied
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05

the boy, "but ii don't seem TO work that
way with some of the noble chimney
we have read Of that have stock il over
three hundred years" Readiness of
reply in young people is always enter.
fainIno
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05
BOTH SIDES OF TIE QUESTION.

A Democratic paper makes the boast
that the Democratic party has gained
steadily on the popular vote since 1884
1t also claims that the result of the
advocacy of low tariff for revenue is
illustrated by the increased vote of
the twenty years since 1868, and cites
the following table to exhibit it:
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05

During the last two years the levy was
at the rate of 4. l mills on each dollar OF
the states valuation, and left little sur
plus. The levy for the next two years
will meet the demands and leave good
working surplus.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05
aaily eagle
MARSHALL MURDOCH. Editor.

Private Secretary Lamont wrote to
Representative w. L. Scott. asking the
house of representatives not to concur IN
the senate amendment to the civil ap-
preparation bill, which gives him $6,OOo
The house refused to strike out; how
ever, the valiant colonel will not be com
PEELED to accept the money, though II
will be rare exception if he does not.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05

The Chinese are evidently moving to
the front. They have built a railroad
and the cars are running fast enough to
make their pig tails stand out at right
angles. 1t is at once marvel and a
lesson. This road has been built with
Chinese capital by English engineers, and
it has been pronounced frst-class in its
construction and appointments. There
are fifty splendid bridges along the line,
the longest spanning river GOO feet
wide. The rolling stock includes two
luxurious saloon and sleeping coaches
for distinguished passengers, and eigh-
teen ordinary passenger coaches. The
frst-class fare is only cent and half
a mile, and the road is already doing a
rushing business. Its commercial sue
cess is siad to be already assured, and
one of its most enthusiastic friends is the
Viceroy Ii Hung Chang, who ten weeks
ago was whizzed over the line az the rate
of 35 or 30 miles an hour. 4 little while
ago the Chinese tore up line OF railroad
and pitched it into the sea as an '.engine
of the devil" Now there is an entering
wedge eighty-seven miles long that Is
destined 10 revolutionise the empire.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05

The four greatest railways IN the
world in respect 10 mileage are: Atehi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe system. 1,55o
miles; the Pennsylvania system, $50
miles; the Missouri Pacific system. 9,1l5
miles; the Chicago s. Northwestern sys-
tenn, 7,oS2 miles. The Canadian Pacific
system comes only eight IN the list with
4. go miles.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05

With the increase the party will re-
ceive hereafter from the new states Just
admitted, all of which are known to be
strongly Republican, and with such an
administration as President Harrison is
certain to make during the ensuing four
years, there is precious little encourage
ment for our friends the enemy. 1t viii
be indeed a marvel if the Republican
party should fail to retain control of the
20 vernment as long as it did beginning
with 1861.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05

The tax levy for the year 1889 and
1890, as laid down by the ways and
means committee and adopted by the
legislature is as follows:
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05

Blind Boone, the colored musical prod
ICY, is astonishing Kansas audiences at
present.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05

The loss by the late Fredonia frs
amounted to $4,000.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-05
Black Dress Goods.
White Bed Spreads.

Extra fine Marseles
prices
$3.50 $500 $3.50 $500 grade guaranteed to be
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-07
THE -FOUR NEW STATES.
An Interesting Study-The Growth of the
Great Northwest.
New York Herald.

The four new States-North Dakota,
South Dakota, Montana and Washing
ton-which have just been admitted to
the Union make a very interesting
study. .,z
No other government in any part of
the world can have the experience
which we are now passing through.
The sense of growth and increasing
strength which we enjoy is extremely
exhilarating. One by one these great
stretches of territory lying in the
Northwest, the West and the South
west are being populated by pioneers of
our own blood and nationanality.
Physicians, tradesnlen, lawyers preach
ers and artisans who found no outlet
for their energies in the crowded and
sufocating cities have poured over the
millions ofacres beyond the Mississippi,
formed governments, knocked at the
door of the republic and been admitted
to equal State privileges with ourselves.
First, as to area. The two Dakotas
cover very nearly fifty million acres
each. South Dakota is larger than
| New Y York, New Hampshire and Mas
sachusetts. There is enough more to
make six or eight Rhode Islands out
of.
Montana is one of the gigantic States.
She is bigger than New York and the
whole of New England, with New Jer-
| sey, Delaware, Maryland and North
Carolina thrown in.
Washington is about the size of each
of the two Dakotas, half the size Of
| Montana, and has an acreage that
would cover Maine, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts,, Vermont and New Jer-
| sey.
At the end of the last century ia
nous Englishman visited this coun-
try, and on his return wrote book
about us, as nearly every foreigner
does. He declared that the Allegheny
Mountains would forever bar our pro-
gress. They were wall that must
always keep our population on the sea-
board, The West, he declared, would
remain an undeveloped territory.
! What would he say if he could return?
Second, as to population. Tidal
waves have been sweeping Westward
during the last twenty years. In 1860
the two Dakotas had 4,S37 inhabitants;
in 1870, 14,1S1; in 1880, 1917; in 1887,
100000. Such an increase is we'll nigh
incredible. Montana had within her
borders eight years ago a9,159 persons;
herestimated population at the pres
ent time is l75,O0O. Washington had
in 1880 1915 and eight years later
100000.
The West is clearly the field for en-
terprise. With shrewdness, energy,
genius, hardihood, these four States
have carved out their own magnificent
fortunes and have not yet exhausted
themselves by any means. Their fu-
ture is grander than the prophets OF
earlier days ever dared to dream.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-07
The name at the bottom of the article

The name at the bottom of the article
gives promise that the article itself con-
tains much hard common sense grace
fully, strongly and compactly ez-
pressed, and the promise is fulfilled.
Mr.. Wallace reviews the history and
present condition of the free school
system in this State. He shows that
additional taxation for school purposes
is impracticable and inadvisable while
the present average school term of three
months makes the schools inefficient
and causes dissatisfaction with them
which endangers the entire system.
The school district plan will do for
cities and larger towns, but it is useless
in poor or sparsely settled communities
where no reasonable extra taxation
will pay teachers Of the right kind for
sessions of the proper length.
X x
So far as we can see the plan is a
credit to its authors head as well as
his heart. 1t is simple and straight
forward and we can discover no serious
flaw in it. Of course there may be cases
under such law where the people Of a
district will be unable or unwilling to
supplement the school fund.- and the
schools Will be clesed or left to the mer-
cies of teachers who will work for $40
or SIS a month. Butsuch cases will be
exceptions and will become more infre-
quent with time, and the possibility or
probability Of their occurrence should
not hinder scheme of general advan-
tage to the great majority of parents,
children and teachers. 1t is, further
more, likely that there will be much
protest by those in better circumstances
against being forced to pay to educate
the children of ether people. But we
all have to do that, anyhow, and
ought to do it. Our social and politi-
cal systems are based on an interchange
of generosity. The rich man has to
help support paupers and lunatics with
whom he is in no manner connected;
the poor man has to do jury or military
or other duty although he has no pro-
perty for the law to protect. 1t is not
likely that in any community there
will be many persons who will refuse
to educate their own children because
they can not do it without educating
the children of their poorer neighbors.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-07

Wnlcn DelOng 10 themselves. LII tuIs
way they also become hinderers instead
of helpers. They think that they be-
lieve in the inspired lesson, "Bear ye
one another's burdens, and so fulfil the
law of Christ" !; but they get only one
side of 1T, availing themselves of its
privileges in their need, without ever
putting themselves under its require
ment on themselves. They believe in
others bearing their burdens, but they
have no thought of bearing the bur-
dens Of others. The other burden-text,
"Every man shall bear his OWL bur
den," they seem'to be wholly ignorant
of. Yet there are loads which none of
us have a right to shift to other shoul-
ders than our. own. We have no
right to take their time to at
tend to our affairs, when we are
quite able to attend to our own
affairs, We have no right to expect
others to solve our little perplexities,
and help US bear our little trials, and
sympathize with us in our little disap-
pointments, when we are just as strong
for these burdens as our friends are.
We ought to cultivate self-dependence,
to think and plan for ourselves, to
meet our own questions, to do our own
work with our own hands. Especially
should we shrink from needlessly be
coming burden to those who love us,
or~ho are patient enough to be will
ing to help US. We should at least
seek to help our friends by not hinder
ing them unnecessarily with our cares,
We should learn the gospel ofself-help
even if we do not get into our Life the
other hemisphere of Christian duty
the unselish side of brotherly help.
And there are many others. There
are those who hinder others by the in
consistencies Of their own lives, and by
the wrong examples they set. There
are those who hinder by their ugly
tempers, by their selfshness, by their
greed, by their thoughtlessness, by
their want of heart, by their ambition
and their pride. There are those who
hinder, even when they try to help,
by their lack of delicacy and tact.
There are many who try to comfort
others, who only make worse the hurt
which they would heal. fit were pos.
sible to eliminate all the needless hin.
dering of others there is in peoples
lives, this alone would add a large vol.
une to the total ofthe worlds happi.
ness. Then if all the hinderers could
be made to be helpers, social mil
lenium would have already dawned
Let all Of US do our part to usher in that
day. At least, let us have q care tc
help by not hindering. &:
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-07
but those who have compared the man
uscript with other published almanaes

but those who have compared the man
uscript with other published almanaes
say it is perfectly correctly one.
How this unlettered man, could un-
derstand the movements of the earth
and the heavenly bodies is the strang-
est of all his surprising achievements,
and must remain one of the mysteries
known only to him who created man
fearfully andIwonderfully, and breathed
into him the spirit of life, On one oc-
casion he was asked if he could tell the
contents of a pile of brush by some
person who thought to rig him. and
his reply proved Old Tom to be at home
where figures were concerned.
eyes" said be, "put it in water and
measure the water it displaces and you
will have the solid contents"
His measurement of land by simply
walking around it, no matter what its
shape, and making his own calculation,
have been proved to be correct, ana
there are those who would take q sur
vey made by Old Tom in preference to
one made by compass and 3 regular
surveyor. Outside Of his peculiar gift,
Old Tom Cubbsge was q sad failure,
and he died as he had Ived-as poor
and sbiftIess ae T,is mountain i1eiphb bOrS,
He did not even own the small piece OF
land upon which his hut was built,
save by the nights Of squatter, and
work to him was an unknown and an
unsolved quantity: Yet he was q
quiet and a contented man, and was
never better satisfied than when copi-
.ously supplied with apple-jack OF
mountain dew. He would do the sum
given him by way Of pay for the liquor,
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-07
A ROE I cHINEsE roURIsr.
Il Yen Pang, the Wannansker OF China,
Visiting New York. -
New York World

Baron Ii Yen Pang, distant cousin
of Lii Hung Chang, the Premier OF
China, who is considered the Wanna
maker Of China arrived here with q
small body guard ofsecretaries and. In
terpreters from the. West, via British
Columbia, last evening. He is not only
a big man financially, but physically.
as well. he is 50 years old, nearly six
feet high, and straight as an arrow.
His financial agents in this city are
Messrs. Wing Wo Chcng, 35 PeH
Street, and Sim Qnong, 80 Mott Street,
and he is at present stopping with
them. He said that for years he had
been told of the wonderful city of New
York, with its rich Americans, and he
decided to take a trip around the world,
to visit New York and other places of
interest, and atthe same time allupon
his financial agents in Australia, Bonn.
bay, Mandalay, Burmahs Honolulu.
San Francisco and Victoria, b. C. His
headquarters as q wholesale dealer in
general merchandise of the worlds
market are with Kwong Lun Hal, San
Yin Lien end Wing Yuen Wc of Hong
Kong.
AL of these firms are using Ii Yen
Pang's money in their business, for
which he gets only percentage Of the
net proceeds. He has been on his tour
for about seven months, and has Visi.
ted Burmah. In Australia the baron
learned from the British customs off,
cials that passports were necessary for
Canada and the United States, and to
obtain these he returned mediately
to China for the necessary documents.
In order to get the several secretaries
through they were promoted to the
rank of mandarin attached to the body
of the baron. :
Ii Yen Pang is very pleasant and
jolly old man, but he does not ningle
with his countrymen here, being KEEP
by his friends in the inner recesses o.
their establishments, and he is only ap.
proachable to those having business
with him.
It is said that at least 81, ,000, 600 Of The
baron's money is invested with Chi
nese merchants of the United States
He speaks bitterly of the existing
! treaty, and says that on its account he
| will not invest any more money here
The present impression in chinesf
mercantile circles in China, he says, i
that ageneral boycotting of American
merchandise will undoubtedly be car
ried out. He will remain in the city
for few days to see New York. he i
said to be worth nearly $4,000, 900.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-07
MORAL
A Bloody Array

is often the result of "bad bloodn in a
family or community, but nowhere is
bad blood more destructive Of happi-
ness and health than the human sys-.
tenn. When the life currents foul and
sluggish with impurities, and is slowly
distributing its poisons to every part OF
the body, the peril to health, and life
even, is imminent. Early symptoms
are dull and drowsy feelings, severe
headaches, coated tongue, poor appe-
tite, indigestion and general lassitude.
Delay in treatment may entail the
most serious consequences. Don's let
disease get strong hold on your con-
stitution, but treat yourself by using
DR.. Pleree,s Golden Medical Discovery
and be restored to the blessings Of
health. The Discovery is guaran-
teed to cure in all cases Of diseases for.
which it is recommended, or money.
paid for it will be refunded.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-07
a MATHEMAIICAL WONDER.
Ignorant Old Tom Cubbage and His Aston
Ishing Feats with Figures.
New York World. +:

WooDvILLE, Va, February 13.-
There died here some time ago one of
the most remarkable characters the
Blue Ridge country of Virginia ever
produced. Old Tom Cubbage, as he
was known, was the mathematical
wonder and the pride of the Blue Ridge
people. His feats at figures and his
calculations were indeed wonderful,
and like Blind Tom, the musical pro-
dizzy, lis powers were intuitive and
innate. Old Tom did not know
figure or a letter and never went to
school for an hour in his life. He was
a rough, ignorant and untutored native
of the hills, and yet he could solve.
almost in moment, any problem read
to him from the text books or from the
papers and give the correct answer. He
would add a column of figures of any
possible length, subtract, multiply or
divide. and do it SO quickly as to sur
prise the scholar who tested his re-
markable powers.
His answer sometimes will include a
dozen or more figures, and knowing
absolutely nothing about the hume
rating of them he would give the
figures beginning at the right, and ifa
mistake had been made or a wrong
figure purposely introduced by the per-
son taking down his answer, old Tom
would discover it at once and give the
correct one. He knew nothing of the
notation of numbers, and his whole
knowledge was limited to the giving of
his answer, figure by figure, as fast as
they could be written from the right to
the left. Persons of fair education, who
tested old Tom, say they could never
stump him, though they hunted for the
most difficult problems in the books,
and believe he could give the correct
answer to any possible sum. Problems
involving squareiand cube roots, COM
pleting the square Of equations were as
readily solved by him as simple addi-
ton, and yet were you to ask him'what
cube root meant he would tell you he
didn't know. No one knew the way
old Tom did these things, indeed he
could not tell you himself. He was
simply SUI ge7aeTis, and the only one of
his kind ever known to the people Of
the Blue Ridge.
Old Tom went once to the University
Of Virginia upon. the solicitation of
some Of his admirers, with view to
his education there in his particular
line, but after astonishing the profes-
sors by his great gifts and having done
all the sums given him by the students,
he declined all profers made him and
returned to his hut in the Old Rag and
to the company of his dogs and his
rife.
The greatest work of this strangely
gifted man was the calculations and
computations for hundred-year al
manac, made entirely by himself and
reduced to writing by one of his neigh
bors. This work was done by him
mentally, and included all the eclipses
as we'll as changes of the moon, and
was calculated specially for the part OF
the State IN which he lived. Tt was
J; never published owing to the outbreak
of the war at tie time ofits completion:
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-07

A purgative medicine should possess
tonic and curative, as well as cathartic
properties. This combination of ingredi-
ents may be found in Ayers Pills.
They strengthen and stimulate the
bowels, causing natural action.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-07

Almost miraculous are some of the
cures accomplished ytheuse Of Ayers
Sarsaparilla. In the case of r. i. King,
Richmond, Va, who suffered for Al
years with al aggravated form of scro-
fula, Ayers Sarsapariiia effected aston
ishing results.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-07
from the Greenville News. I

From the Greenville News.]
William H. Wallace, of the New
berry Observer, has long been regarded
by his brethren of the Press, who are
best qualified to judge of his work, as
the ablest editor in this State. He is a
modest man and his light does not
shine from the highest hill, but the
men who do newspaper work and know
what it is know that no cleaner, better
or stronger work comes under their OBJ
servation from anywhere than that
which they fnd every week in The
columns of the Observer.
For this reason a letter from Mr..
Wallace. printed in The News and
Courier of Monday on the subject Of
the public schools Will demand atte.l-
ton and careful consideration.