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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-04-10

The sub treasury plan would re
quTc the building up of warehouses
i'll every county. This would cost
! S5O,00O,000. Some will say that big
sum will kill the plan. If it was
$50,000, 900 orpcnsions, or rivers and
harbors, 1T wouldn't b" too much, but
1T IS too much to give the farmers of
the United States.
You can get the S50,OOO,0O0 out OF
the SlO0,0O0,000 surplus left to re-
deem the treasury notes which Con-
grcSS has declared are not to be re-
deemed, and these millions are lyIl:2
Idle III the vaults. There arc S25.-
100000 i'll fractional currency, which
the bankers won't handle. because it
IS too small. Give us the Fragment
tary and ragged currency. Ap-
plausc.
When the crops arc harvested YOU
could take them to these warehouses
and store them, pay the actual OK
pcnSc or storage, insurance, etc. The
agent would then issue so per cent.
advance upon the value Of the pro
ducc, and still leave 20 per cent. for
future use.
LIN lHolllFIli your cOllOn goes INTO
the warehouse it is impossible for the
spectators to get hold of it. This
would keep prices more equally
steady. 1t would be there for twelve
months. and within that time the
farmer would be brought face to face
with the consumer. and it would keep
INN out of the hands of the spccula-
tors 1t would ut once put IN end to
corners, combinations and trusts.
Cheers.
We have been asked. what if we
don't sell i'll twelve months! Then
the agent would sell and settle with
us.
This currency put in circulation
would make about $50 per rrlpita and
put us back to the good times in
1868
The crops are stored in the ware
houses. the agent ISSUES certificates
When they are sold out the ccrtiti-
Gates are burned. This would make
the currency flexible. giving us money
with which to handle each crop and
retiring some when not needed
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-04-10
TROUBLE AT TRTON.
Soutn CnrOlinians Invade North t:urolinu
and Rrscu" II Negro fr' III Custody.

S""tn C"rolininns Invade North GuroIinu
and Nrsc"" " Negro fr' III Cmstody.
TryOn city. on the AShcvillr Il.
Spartanburg road Just over the line
III North Carolina. was the scene Of IL
| riot last Sunday. The trouble is
said to have started with the arrest
and imprisonment in the town lock
up on Saturday evening, of Holland
Durham, II notorious negro and re
putcd desperate character. Durham
was locked up for disordcrly conduct.
On Sunday party, friends of the
! imprisoned negro from Greenvillc
county, entered Tryon with the an
nounccd determination TO rescue
Durham. They were fully warmed and
succeeded III their purpose, bearing
the prisoner off in triumph after bat
tcring down tn" guard house. There
were nine or ten men in thc rcscuing
party and their names arc given as
follows: William Durham. Warren
Durham, Luther Durham. Mark
Durham, Babe Durham. Babe Pace.
Jim Durham, Hugh Rodgers and
John y. Gibson. Against this force
was opposed John 5. Fisher. who
acting III the place of the town mar
$hal, Is. G. Poole. Of this city. and
William Weaver. The three men
were fully armed. but they did not
succeed i'll BATTLING the rcscucrs. On
their way ont of town. the raidinr
party fired rccklcssly into IL church.
by the roadside.
The people OF Tryon are highly
wrought up over the matter and are
anxious to run the law breakers down
if possible. Rcquisition has been
made for the men and us soon as the
papers arc returned active efforts
will be mattr to capture them. The
aflam cnllS attention to the condition
III which the town of Tryon is placed
by its peculiar situation near the
State line. Criminals and law break
ers OF both States make bold to carry
on outrageous exploits, like the res
cue of the negro. Durham, in the ccr-
tamty that they have only to get over
the line to escape the clutches of the
officers.
Holland Durham. the negro who
was rescued by the white men, is
Siud to be II bad character, having
shot two mon and having escaped
from custody after conviction of high
way robbery. w. M Durham. the
alleged leader Of the rcscucrs, who
lives in the upper part of this county.
Is Sald to have killed two men already.
one i'll PickcnS and one in Grccnvillc.
--Grccnvillc News.
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"The Old North SIntr.'.

A spirit of enterprise seems 70 be
abroad III North Carolina. We hear
more OF the old North State in the
newspapers now than formerly; some
OF the smallest and most insignificant
towns are looming up and compelling
recognition by their push and pluck.
and an industrial boom is visible
everywhere, The resources of the
State are vast and mcXhauStiblc, and
they are now being utilized in the
most practicable way to her advance
ment. The State papers contain
more industrial news than any other,
and seem to have entered into IL
compact to foster every enterprise
that is Startcd--no matter where,
and to keep North Carolina well be.
fore the world. This is right She
is simply keeping III line with the
industrial procession, the march of
the South in this era of progress; the
South shares in her prosperity and
congratulatcs her people on the work
they have accomplished. They arc IL
busy people and their future is u
bright one. There is life in the old
North Statc!-Atlanta Constitution.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-04-10

A family in Whatcom, WASH,
not liking the taste of the water they
were drawing from their ninety foot
deep well, "ent a man down to in
spect it's depth. The well was in
tolerably good condition, but q dead
Indian was hoisted out.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-04-10

The largest and heaviest locomo
tive ever constructed was made by
the Baldwin Locomotive Works for
the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany last year. 1t weighed, with it's
tender, 225,000 pounds. The ordi-
nary weight is from $4,000 to 1G5, 900
pounds.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-04-10

Sowing to the crowded state OF
our columns this week." apologies Il
Texan c(ItOr, I'VE are compelled
either to abridgc our European dis
patches II omit altogether the ac
count Of the exciting cock fight at
Grizzly Shorts ranch last Wcdncs
day: In this emergency We have
decided to leave out Il portion of the
name of Bismarck's successor as
German chancellor 1t will appear
in full next week if it bursts every
chase in the Office"
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-04-10
CAUSE OF THIS POVERTY.

Not SO much the want of industry
on the part Of our people, The very
large increase in the products from
the soil, annually, with q decrease in
tho number Gn the South) engaged
III agriculture, set, this charge to one
side.
Not 80 much the want of u diversi-
fled agriculture, rs the statistics show,
for Just where diversity most obtains,
there our people are more seriously
and extensively involved.
Not SO much the want of economy,
rs any observing man can see. Our
people are not extravngant in dress,
diet. tools, and Implements. Very
few have means to indulge in the lux
mies, or attempt to do so.
Not 40 much on account of the
calling on business in which we are
engaged, for if any one fact be clearly
established it is that agriculture and
It's kindred industries are the basis of
wealth and prosperity in this country,
and from this fact, wish to make this
statement, that unhampered, with q
far and equal chance at the markets
OF the country, with currency that
would equally accommodate, and facili-
tate the exchange of our products for
those wepurchase, without that bane.
full discrimination in transportation
in favor of large cities and against
small towns, and several sections, the
farmers of Georgia would in two de-
eades be the wealthiest class in the
State
The financial policy of the govern
ment, the system established by
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-04-10

1t is whispered in Washington
that Bridget Swccny, u trusted old
servant of the Tracy family, set the
fire which cost several of the family
their lives in February, while un-
dor the power of an insane impulse.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-04-10

In the formation of single loco
motive steam engine there arc nearly
5000 pieces to be put together, and
5hese require to be as accurately put
together as the works of n watch.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-04-10

Premier Crispi, of Italy, is mil
lionaire, although thirty years ago he
was one of the poorest of the rcvolu-
tionary eXiles.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-04-10

The Hon. S. j. Randall is now
able to attend to his correspondence
and hopes soon to resume his duties
in Congress.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-04-10
IIX-pricst Bowie Acquitted.


a special dispatch othc Baltimore
Sun says: "Ex Priest j. j. Boyle. of
the Church Of the Sacred Heart
Raleigh, +. g.. was acquitted Satur-
day night Of Il charge OF ussaulting
Miss Geneva Whitaker. aged seven,
teen years, Il member OF the congrc.
cation of which Boyle was assistant
pastor. This was the second trial of
the case. In the first one Boyle was
found guilty and was sentenced to be
hanged. he appealed to the Supreme
Court OF North Carolina. and WAS
granted the trial which ended in a
verdict of not guilty. Evidence WAS
introduced Saturday tending to show
that cries for help from Il person in
BOylc'S room could be heard in the
church. Miss Alice Upchurch tcsti
fled that she was in the church while
Miss Whitaker was in Boylc'S room,
and that she heard no calls for help.
There WAS IL great audience in the
court room. Boyle was calm and
collected and employed much of his
time reading newspapers. McsSrs.
T. {. Fuller, George II. Snow and
X. ii. Battle presented the case for
the defense, while Solicitor ArgO
closed for the State. The Jury rctir,
ed shortly before ten o'clock, and after
two hours dclibcration returned the
verdict Not guilty. In spite of the
Judge order there was IL wild burst
of applause from hundreds of tmOats
in the crowded court room at the an.
nounccmcnt of the verdict, and this
was kept up for five minutes People
crowded around Boyle and congrat
ulatcd him heartily. Then they be
gan to call on him for speech, but
his leading attorney mounted Il table
and loudly announced that Boyle
would not make II speech. He went
Immediately back to jail, where ht
remained till Father Charles, of the
Church of the Sacred Heart, came fol
him in Il carriage and took him to The
rcctory us his guest"
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Stopped His PaDcr.

Nowadays, when II subscriber gots
SO mad, because an editor differs
from HIM on some trivial question,
that he diScOntinucS his paper, wo
remind him of the late Horace Gree
ley, the wcll-known editor of the
New York Tribune. Passing down
Newspaper Row, i'll New York City
one morning, he met one of his read
crs, who exclaimed:
Mr.. Greeley, after that article you
published this morning, [ intend to
stop your paper.
"Oh, no." said Mr.. Greeley, "don't
do that"
yes, sir; my mind is made up; I
intend to stop the paper"
The angry subscriber was not to be
appeased, and they separated. Late
III the afternoon the two met again
when Mr.. Greeley remarked:
"Mr. Thompson, am very glad
You did not carry out your threat
this morning.
"What do you mcan!"
"Why, you said you were going to
stop my paper, didn't you?"
And SO did. went to tho Office
aHu lltu Noll pupcI SlOppeu
"You are surely mistaken have
just come from there, and the press
was running, and business was boom
ing
Sir" said Thompson, very pomp-
Ously, II meant, I intended to stop
my subscription to the paper"
ooh, thnder!' rcjoined Greeley,
81 thought you were going to stop
the running of my paper, and knock
me out of living. My friend, let
me tell You something. One man is
Just one drop of water i'll the ocean.
You didn't set the machinery of this
world in motion, and you can't stop
it; and when you are underneath the
ground things upon the surface will
Wng on the same as ever"
The production of gold in Cali
fornia began in 1849, the yield that
| year being $9,OOO;OOO; in the+year fol
lowing, $4O,OOO,OOO, and $5S,OOO,OOO
in 1850. The total gold product of
that State to date is estimated at ST.
IDES n0nnnn
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-04-10

After being in session three days
and hearing fifty witnesses on the
anti-Tillmm demonstration the Uni
versity council yesterday summoned
and individually rcprimmdcd each of
the twenty three students involved.
Fifteen OF the twenty three stu
dents are from the country, eleven
being SONS of farmers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-05-16
A SIGNIFICANT CONTRAST.
Massachusetts and Iowa Serve to Point a
Moral.

Massachusetts and Iowa Serve to Point
Moral.
Ever since Nov. S, when The Indianapo.
organ, sounded the key note of the Re.
publican policy in dealing with the sa-
loon problem, the Republican press has
been steadily falling into line behind The
Journals leadership. All over the coun.
try high license and local option laws
have been receiving the most extrava.
giant praise, while Prohibition is being
more strongly condemned than ever be.
fore. Massachusetts, and Iowa are two
good representatives of these two poll.
cies. Massachusetts has high license
and local option law and Iowa has Pro-
hibition. Both have almost the same
population; each has large foreign ele.
ment and the enforcement of laws is in
the hands of the same party.
In the year ending 1888, under high
license and local option, Massachusetts
arrested $4,000 persons for crimes, and
committed to her jails 1000 criminals.
Prison and Jail reports show that 80 per
cent. of all her criminals were drunk.
ards. During the same year the commits
sioners of jai!s asked for over million
dollars to enlarge her prisons. During
the same period Iowa, with Prohibition,
arrested but $4,000 for crimes, and her
total commitments were only 83S. Fifty.
five jails were reported empty and many
others nearly so. Thus, under high Ii
cense and local option, Massachusetts,
furnished criminal to every 80 in pop.
ulation, while, under Prohibition, Iowa
had only criminal to about every 1900
population. 1t is such contrasts as these
that insure the ultimate abandonment OF
high license and local option measures
and the adoption of Prohibition.-Con.
necticut Home.
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AM ! PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE
ITO BE coNTINUED.l

Demorest Pushes the Question Home
Through The Bermuda Colonist.
What the law makes it can unmake
with the ballot in his hand, who casts it
on the pretext of restriction or regula-
ton only, is equally guilty with the
saloon keeper for the crime and misery
that result from the licensed barroom
The man stumbles Just as drunk and
as vicious from licensed and gilded bar
as he does out of the lowest den farther
down the scale; nor is it true that the
reduction in the number of saloons Sc
cares diminution in the amount of
liquor drunk. Laws in favor of the man.
ufacture and sale of intoxicants are the
great bulwarks of this crime producing
traffic; hence it is plain that drunkards
are made drunkards by law.
Were there no legaliZed drink shops
there would be fewer drunkards, and the
consequent pauperism and crime COM
mon today would be greatly diminished.
The earnings of millions who go down
to degradation and death by means of
this vice would pay many times the
revenue required to carry on the govern
ment, and the labor question would
be solved in the elevation and
prosperity of the people. Truly
there is no greater crime, no greater
treason to the country, or any treach-
cry SO dangerous to the best inter-
ests of society, as the sanction of the
obstructive liquor traffic." which could
and should be outlawed by the ballot.
Then shut up and outlaw these promoters
of crime and misery-the open, legalized
bars-by the political action of the peo-
Pile, and better civilization will surely
follow.
Let each voter ask himself, "Am I
guilty of completely with this crime?"
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ward. She rose slowly at first, and then
with sudden buoyancy that brought
her head above the surface, and she
breathed again. A swirling current
bore her along, and stretching out her
arm she caught upon the point of a rock,
upon which she was able to climb,
though the waters which were retreat
ing after the influx of the wave
which had cast her into the pool
strove to draw her away to death. She
hung there trembling for an instant till
the rush of an oncoming breaker warned
her to climb hurriedly upward. Fortu-
nately the jagged rocks were like stairs
under her feet, and before the next wave
broke into the cave she was beyond it's
reach.
She saw it pourin below her, cleaning
with phosphorescence and lighting up
the place with a dim and CHASTITY gloom.
On dashed the wave into the recesses Of
the cavern, shrieking as it went; but
loud above the noise of the water arose
a great voice as of a giant within,
who roared in anger at the invasion of
his dwelling. And a second voice
mightier even than the first mingled in
the tumult, The cave rang with the
terrible shouting and laughter and the
walls shook to their foundations. These
are the voices of the demons, thought
Sho Mai, and she fell fainting with ter
ror upon the rocks.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-05-16

from her. At least the garments appro-
pirate to her sex had been laid aside and
N their place Sho Mai had donned the
attire of a young male student; and as
sho stood before her mirror she gazed in
wonder at the beautiful, strange youth
who looked out at her.
'Our daughter has been tractable in
al things" said Wong Che foo. ''She
will see that we have planned wisely
for her future. You have already told
ser that husband would be chosen for
her. Go now to her chamber, and if she
be not yet asleep tell her that our choice
2as been made and bring me word what
ihe rep,.es."
and while the wife of the ex-Prefect
went to do his bidding Sho Mai passed
rom the house and stole down the dark
and silent street on her way to see the
world.
"Our daughter did not answer when 1
called her name," said Madam Wong
Che foo, returning. Doubtless she is
asleep. did not enter the chamber, for
1T seemed unwise to disturb her slum-
bers. Tomorrow will be time"
Tomorrow, then, let it be-" said
Wong Che Foo, and having bade his wife
goodnight he sat down again at his desk
and thought with pleasure how he should
do that for which twas already too late.
Thus we lay plans and gaze along
smooth highways of the future, which
our feet shall never tread.
\
Meanwhile Sho Mai pursued her way,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-05-16
has been washed up on the

companion has been washed up on the
rocks"
He released her hand and left her
there alone, while the light, struggling
through the doorway, cast strange
shadows from the rocks and the swell
of the ocean burst in with a terrifying
sound. 1t seemed a long time before
Lii Xiii returned, but at length he ap.
peared out of the shadows and stood
once more beside her.
Il have found no trace of him." he
said. ''We shall see in few moments
whether he is still beneath the water"
Glow can we see into this fearful
depth?"
wait" said Ii Xii; s'there will be
light soon," and as if in answer to his
words sunbeam shot down through
rift in the caves roof and fell directly
upon the water before them.
''The sun has passed around shoulder
OF the mountain" he said, in explana-
ton. "Lookr'
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-05-16
CHAPTER I.
SHO MATS FLIGHT.

SHO MATS Flight.
Sho Mai, daughter of the ex-Prefect
Wong Che foo, went out alone from her
fathers splendid mansion in the city Of
Paoting to see the world. She fed from
home where every luxury surrounded
her and from the care of loving parents.
No childish grief nor petty disappoint-
ment such as will sometimes weigh down
the mind of the young with unreason-
able sorrow urged her to this course.
She fed from the common lot of her sex,
from marriage and the thousand re-
straints which the customs of the EN-
pire throw around all women. There
fore it was in the guise of a youth, in
the garb appropriate to student, that
she left her fathers house and sought
for knowledge and adventure.
Sho Mails remarkable determination
was not suddenly formed; it grew up
steadily in her mind through many
years. To her had been given that edu-
cation which is ordinarily denied to
women. She had been trained from
childhood under the best instructors,
and she had seized upon knowledge with
mind of wonderful brilliancy and dis
elimination. At sixteen she had bet
ter command of mathematics, of sciences
and of the classics than most young men
attain during collegiate course, and
she had the wisdom to see that she had
only tasted of the spring which forever
flows out under the frowning rock of the
truth as it is in nature. Her ambition
was fixed upon delving nearer to the
mysterious sources of this spring with
an ardor which is gift from on high
and can not be frozen in the heart. She
knew that if her life was nodded after
the fashion of the time her pursuit of
knowledge must cease, and she resolved
that this should never be.
Thus it happened that while the ex-
Project Wong Che foo sat in his library
one night discussing with his wife the
future of their child, the object of their
solicitude was at that very moment
taking her future into her own hands.
Il have at last found young man
worthy to be the husband of our child"
said Wong Che foo; and in the chamber
above Sho Mai shut her white teeth
together, and, as if the words she did
INV ASuA "SiS SUN piCooCo pun ACE
heart, she muttered: II will have no
husband; 1 will be no mans slave"
HE is poor in fortune" continued the
ex-Prefcct, in the library, ''but wha
does that matter? We have no son
This young man is of exemplary char
acter and of distinguished mental en-
dowment. l will adopt him, and when
he has married our child the estates
which possess will be so disposed that
they shall descend upon him and Sho
Mai, his wife, when we are gathered
with the dead.'
81 care not for wealth." said Sho Mai
to herself, as she paced her chamber.
81 want freedom and the power to pur-
sue knowledge wherever it may be hid
den in the great world"
''Sho Mai should be wife of whom
any man may be proud" the ex-Prefect
said. 81 have caused her to be in
structed in the knowledge of books, and
you, my wife, have trained her in the
gentle accomplishments of women"
And while he spoke Sho Mai was, as
one may say, tiinging her womanhood
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CHAPTER II.
THE VENGEANCE OF THE GODS.


The little cabin in which Sho Mai
found herself was very far from being a
luxurious apartment. 1t was dark, mar
row and bare; but had her accommoda-
tions been much worse, there would still
have been but one thing possible to Sho
Mai, namely, to lie down upon the hard
floor and fall fast asleep. She had
walked many miles during the night,
and neither anxiety nor physical dis
comfort could keepher from the slumber
which exhausted nature demanded. She
slept as calmly as if in her own bed at
home, and when, as evening drew on,
the sound of the unbarring of the door
awoke her, it was some minutes before
she could realize how great change
had come over her life from sun to sun.
The bronzed face of sailor appeared
in the doorway.
"Come on deck" he saidi "the captain
wants to see you"
Sho MAJ obeyed with alacrity. AS
she stepped upon the deck she saw that