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Curious Facts.
Africa has seven hundred Ian

Africa has seven hundred Ian
guages.
Consuls were first appointed in
1855.
Newe Mexico has q messenger
boy named Gallop.
November was the ninth month
of the year at one time.
The man who sowed the first
field of potatoes in scotlan died in
1850.
Only one couple in 1900 live
to celebrate their diamond
wedding,
The feeding expenses of the
London (England) Geological
Garden are $500a week.
The tusks of all ordinary ele-
phant weigh about 120 pounds, and
are worth $500.
George ". of England left as a
part of his estate 800 pocket
books
Saturday, Sunday, and Monday
are the lucky days for marriages
in England and Scotland.
All the correspondence from
the Vatican at Rome concerning
church matters is carried on in
Latin.
The dogs in the United States
number 20,000,000, and it costs
100000 per annum to keep
them,
Potatoes were introduced into
Germany in 1710, into Russia in
1859, and into Scotland some
years later.
The bee can draw twenty times
it's own weight, can fly more than
four miles an hour, and will seek
food at q distance of four
miles.
Washington died shortly after
II p. m., Saturday, December IA,
1899, the last year of the century,
the last month of the year, the
last day of the week and within
the last hour of the day.
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A recent traveller in Morocco says
that for people who dress in white
and love to be very neat In their
personal appearance the Moroccans
are very Indifferent to the cleanli-
ness of their towns. Around the
most beautifully furnished houses
are heaps of refuse and the bodies
of dead animals. All the care of
the care of the people is centred
upon the interior of their houses.
They furnish them aa extensively
as their means permit, but what is
outside of their walls does not
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Bn-uu1 for ats,eris.

Upon Sunday morning, February
21st, a policeman patrolling his
beat in West Street, in this city
was astonishcd 'bya strange spec
tacle-a grouy of about 200 colored
people gathered upon the sidewalk
in the rain, who announced that
they were going to Liberia. They
comprised men, women, and chill
dren, evidently from the rural
regions of the South, clad, some
in primitive Sunday garb ,others
in coarse patched plantation
clothing. This assemblage proved
to be a band of emigrants from
near Muldrow Station, 25 miles
northwest of Fort Smith, in the
lands of the Cherokee nation.
On the afteNoon of the same day
another party of "a negroes from
Arkansas arrived in the city, bound
for the same destination. With
imaginations excited by articles
extolllng Liberia, which Bishop
Turner had written to the negro
Methodist papers, and by literature
which the American Colonization
Society, with headquarters in
Washington, had sent to the
Southern negroes, they were ready
to credit other reports, false and
greatly overdraw, upon the same
topic. These imaginative tales,
magnifed by repetition, have
inspired in the negroes of many
Southern communities the belief
that once arrived at New York,
they would be transported to
Liberia free; that upon reaching
that country each man would get
a bounty of $50, with an allotment
of good land; and that all emil
grants would be provided with
subsistence for the first six months.
Misled by such reports, these
negroes had been induced to sell
their farms, farming tools, and
livestock at the best prices they
could get, and with such household
goods as they could we'll carry
along, secure emigrant transporta-
ton to New York, where they
landed penniless-a charge upon
the charitable of the city. Com
passionate people took the helpless
waits in hand; and after much
shifting about, they at last found
food and shelter at the Stephen
Merritt Mission at No 20S Eighth
Avenue. Here they were fed and
protected until the next Friday
when, by orders of the Board of
Health, they were dispersed to
different lodgings about the city.
The ONLY means of transporta-
ton to Liberia is by means of a
small trading and passenger bark
which sails from New York to
Monrovia two or three timesa year.
1t can properly carry only about
40 adult passengers, the list Of
which is usually filed to the full
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HEED YE.
Lieut.-Goyernor Gary's Speech
to the Farmers of Abbeville,
March 5, 1892.
Mr.. Chairman:

Mr.. Chairman:
1t was wholly unexpected on my
part that would be called on to-
day for "a speech, but as I am
always ready to respond when my
;fellow-citizens call on me I will
say y few words.
When I recall the fact that this
lis Farmers Movement meeting,
and that the organization has been
in existence several years, the
question naturally arises, why are
you organized? The answer is
from necessity. In this age in
;dividuality is swallowed up in
trusts, syndicates and combine
tons, and you had to organize to
cope with them. What could in
dividual farmer have done with
the jute trust? Yet the Alliance
was sable to dictate terms,
& These, trusts, syndicates and
combinations extend to every de-
partment of life, and are an incu-
bus on our rights. They are not
Confined to The financial world, but
Heretofore took charge of the poll
tics of the country, and o person
Who was not in the combine was
generally afraid to run for office
unless some political chaperon had
taken him under his wing.
Two years ago we determined to
organize against the political syn
dicate in our State. and ] am happy
tossay we were victorious. AS one
of your public servants l will give
asshort account of our steward
ship.
After a heated campaign we sue
iceeded in electing to the highest
Office in South Carolina Governor
B: R. Tillman, and from the time
'hesentered upon the discharge of
tbeduties Of his Office certain 30.
caHe q Democrats have waged an
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Go QOC Seem 10 De the redsOuS.
They try to deceive you by pre-
tensions that they object to Till
man, when their real objection is
that they who have held power for
SO many years in our State, no
longer enjoy that pleasure.
THE FIGHT rs AGAINST TILLMAN.
Fellow Citizens: The fight is
not against Governor Tillman as
an individual, but because he is
the representative of the Reform
movement. I want each and every
one Of you to realize this fact fully,
that the fight is against the Re-
form movement; and every one of
it's sympathizers should feel that
the same fights againsthim. They
would make the same fight against
any other person who was not in
their political syndicate.
History repeats itself and we
find the same fight was made
against Patrick Henry and Andrew
Jackson when they espoused the
cause of the people. They were
called demagogues, and other ap-
probrious names in order to make
them odious in the eyes of the peo-
pie, but to no avail. They attacked
their private characters, and moth
ing was sacred from their calum-
NOUS attacks.
A young and handsome man
who was a crack shot with pis-
tol was made a catspaw to bring
on a fight with Jackson by insult
ing his wife, and lost his LIE.
They said SO many harsh things
against Jackson that a foolish man
infamed by the words of the poll
ticians tried to assassinate him.
The people did not lose confidence
in Patrick Henry and Andrew
Jackson, and when on one occasion
Jackson put a Judge under arrest
and was fined one thousand dollars,
the people through their represen-
tatives refunded him the amount
paid with interest.
POLITICAL RINGsTERs.
We find The political ringstera
always hand and glove with the
money powers and corporations
In virginia Patrick Henry ex-
posed the corruption practiced by
certain of the members of the
Assembly in using the public
funds contrary to law and its
President was ruined by the ex'
posure. Andrew Jackson after a
great effort succeeded in abolish-
lshing the United States banks
and its branches although the poll
ticians and persons interested ir
them said the country would be
ruined if they were abolished. One
of the objections against them was
the favoritism displayed to making
loans. In our time we see the ricf
corporations on the side of the
lsnolitical svndicota md trvinu IL
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chance every man now has to run
for office, whether he has the per-
mission of a political boss or not.
There may be boys who will come
to the front, reflect great honor
upon our country, and make illus
trious names, who otherwise would
never have been known, and many
a pretty bright girl may have rea-
son to rejoice in this tact. Hence
forth merit shall be the only critic
rion of success.
THE MARCH CONVENTION.
Those who have called the Con-
vention in March claim to be very
anxious to preserve the unity of
the party when their action is
compelled to have a contrary effect.
How can a heated, perhaps a
bloody campaign, unite the two
factions. I can tell them how to
have unity. Let them uphold the
standard bearers of the Democ-
racy, join them i'll the fight against
the Republicans, cease their COM
planning, and speak of the good
done by the administration, in
stead of always trying to critlcise
their standard bearers. They will
eventually find out their mistakes
as efectually as they found out
that a March Convention is not
irregular and undemocratic. Two
years hence if there is not bitter
campaign this year, the factions
will come together, and political
matters will adjust themselves,
without friction.
We would be willing to do
political justice to those who may
have differed with us.
We cannot however have har-
monious union two years from
now, if o heated campaign this
year entails q legacy of bitterness.
The friends of the Reform move
ment have shown greater desire
to do political justice than their
opponents. We elected Judge
McIver Chief Justice by unani-
NOUS vote, also Judge Norton and
Judge Fraser, all of whom are
political opponents, as is we'll
known to the present administra-
ton. I could mention other acts
OF this kind. fin 1882 we had in
Abbeville county a campaign as
bitter as the campaign two years
ago in the State. After the
primary election we all fell
in line and elected the nomi:
nees of the party; year after
year those lines were obliterated
and we have time and again aeer
those, who formerly opposed each
other, elected in the same cam.
palgn, and frequently supporting
those of the other faction. Ono
reasan Abbeville did not get at
wild as some of the other conntiel
in its opposition to the Reform
movement was because the people
knnyy that in n short time matter,
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Londoners are very much inter
ested in the discovery that the origi-
nal home of cashmere shawls is
not Cashmere, but Germany Large
quantities of German made ,shawls
are taken to India with limitations
of Cashmere marks on them and
sent into the into the interior and
sold as native products,
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make the government by the peo-
pies representatives failure. We
see the conspiracy on the part of
certain railroads to obstruct the
collection Of taxes, and as they
hold their charters by consent of
the people, it seems that such leg
islation should be enacted as will
prevent repetition of such con-
spiracy.
We also see an effort made to
foist fraudulent bonds. on the State
by parties knowing them to be
fraudulent, null and void, who are
opposed to the present administra-
tion. / am proud of Governor
Tillman's utterance when the
threat was made to hold him in
dividually responsible for refusing
to accept them and give possession
or the property.
TILLMAN's ADMINISTRATION.
1t has been asked what has the
present administration accom-
plished. It has lowered the taxes,
gained the Coosaw case by which
the rights of the State were pro-
tected, maintained the dignity of
the State, had made progress TO-
ward opening Clemson College, un-
til the work was checked by pre-
venting the State from receiving
the proceeds Of the sale of Agri-
cultural Hall, when the attempt
was made to pay the bid in fraud
ulent bonds by our political oppo-
nents.
We have In progress the estap-
lishment of an Industrial College
for our women.
We have, as far as possible un-
der existing laws, equalized taxa
ton, which can not be thoroughly
accomplished until the laws are
perfected. Lynching has almost
entirely been stopped. We have
given equal rights to all and spe-
cial privileges,to none.
Governor Tillman,s political
enemies were forced to compli-
ment him on his correspondence
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fore I always fell back.

fore I always fell back. You i
came near spelling my fun at e the iai
last moment. I disappeared Sas g
quickly as possible when / saw y;
you OH the hotet terrace. Your
recognition would have betrayed
me-"
aBut why did you follow US so
persistantly?" asked Rosman, but
stopped, for the glowing cheeks Of,
his daughter were his answer
Rohden also blushed slightlg,|
while he slowly drew nearer: III,
"Why? Because I had looked g q
too deeply into pair of blue eyes!
and could not leave! Don't be
angry, Mr.. Rosman; Adele's anx:sl
iety about my safety has betrayed!
us. We were coming to ask your
blessing when they fell upon me:1
Rosman did not look at all,
angry. Poacher Franz would not
have been welcome as son-in-.,
law, but he had not the least OBJ
lection to Franz Rohdan, and.
bending over his daughter he said;::s
"You bad childl Have you in.
tentionally made us SO anxious?
We're you in the plot?''
The young girl smilingly shook.
her head.
"No Papa. suspected, indeed,l
from the first day, that our guide
was other than what he seemed,
but I could not be certain as he
played his part SO we'll. In the
ravlne he threw off his incognito.
| land told me his real name."
Rosman looked at Miss Graham
and she looked at him; they knew
how the denoument had been.
brought about; but Miss Graham
looked indignant. 1t was in the
highest degree unbeconing that
they had kissed without waiting
for the fathers sanction.
This sanction followed in due
form, and Miss Graham was salts
fed. She embraced her pupil.
whom she had SO heriocally de-
fendca f-~r the nnacher and
shooil her i5@els Ha4a Tie
artis. an,! jild<s affelod eoagtst-
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tenticns ret,,if. tAe "n-
gagged couple. n. Borden Offered
no congratulations; he had with
drawn unobserved and mas no.
where to be seen.
Before the entrance of the hotel
stood the host surrounded by all
the employees of the hotel, while
the guests were collected on the
terrace. One of the initiated had
let the secret out, the news spread
like wild fire, and the whole
company looked with a mixture of
awe and delight towards the brave
squad that had so quickly captured
Poacher Franz and were now
bringing him in triumph. 1t was
remarkable that the criminal
wasn't bound, but walked arm in
arm with young lady and did
not look at all crushed.
"You've got him?" cried the
host, while the guests hurried
forward.
The Judge nodded, smiling, and
pointing to Rohden. eyes, we
have him-a distinguished poach-
(THE END
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If its sailing. The statement Of

OAs ~ LIZ 4SOs ~
of it's sailing. The statement of
this fact to negroes who have
taken the trouble to inquire,
however, has produced no evident
effect in preventing their focking
to New York., inspired with the
simple faith that if once they
reach this city, they will be, cared
for somehow, and sent on to Africa.
This unreasonable exodus, un-
like that which thirteen years ago
precipitated thousands of Southern
negroes upon Kansas, does not
appear to be brought about by the
complaint of unfair usage among
employers in the South. 1T is
rather a pleasing delusion spread
among q credulous people That
Liberia is Gland flowing with
milk and honey" in which one
may live Iu1uriously with little
work. To have seen this destitute
yet light-hearted people crowded
together in the Merritt Mission,
bewildered at the hustle of the
great city about them, yet con-
tented and merry under the
protection that charity has
afforded, lie to be impressed with
the fact Of their utter unfitness to
be colonists in q new country.
With the extreme unhealthfulness
of Liberia, the time and labor
required to clear the soil for
cultivation, the low rate of wages,
and the absence in such emigrants
of habits of self-reliance, the lot OF
those who should go there without
q useful trade and money would
be indeed deplorable.
Various plans have been
proposed to provide for those
negroes now arrived in the city,
one of which is the raising of a
fund to send them onward to-
Liberia. This course has various
objections, not the least of which
would be it's tendency to induce
many others of their race in the
South to sste.apt the sansS
emigration e4lallv aaprepared for,
The uade-i= ;;,g. @ish .hs result
so; s:ie--ess v&!ussle working
element 10 ~. t:on, and its
Introduction ~ = puhiic charge
iin Nsw IvrA, FOE ihosa already
arrived, it is probable that q
sufficient fund will be raised to
send back to the locality from
whence they came such as desire
to return and efforts made to
secure employment here for those
who choose to remain.
Prompt action in the direction
of checking this migration will
benefit, most Of all, the hapless
people deluded by false reports;
and the best opinion among the
most intelligent of their own
people inclines to such a course.
To send bac K to their homes all
who may arrive without resources
for African colonization, with the
diffusion of correct information
through all the newspapers and
church orgaization of this race,
will serve best to counteract the
influence of unscrupulous agents
seeking commissions from rail-
roads, or desiring to dispossess the
negroes from valuable lands.
CLARENCE PUDLEN.
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The Imperial University at TOXIC,
Japan, isprobably the largest in
the world, having an enrolment
of two thousand scholars and a
faculty of forty members. 1t is
under governmet control.
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aThe Petition of Right" was a
celebrated English statute passed
early lin the reign of Charles l of
England for the purpose of
restraining and limiting the acts
and prerogatives of the crown, and
securing the personal and civil
liberties of the subject.
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sTHOS. j. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR.
TO TILE END.
! very humble cot,

In a very humble cot,
In q rather quiet spot,
In the suds and in the soap,
Worked a woman full of hope,
Working, singing all alone,
InSa q sort of undertone;
with a Savior for a friend.
He will keep me to the end.
It's n song / do not sing,
For / scarce believe q thing
or The stories that are told
of che miracles of old;
Butt know that her belief
Is the anodyne of grief,
And will always be a friend
And will keep her to the end.
Human hopes and human creeds
Hayeitheir root in human needs;
And / wonld not want:tO strip
From that washerwOman's lip
Any song that she can sing
And hope that songs can bring;
/, For that woman has a friend
Who will keep her to the end.
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An English tramp, arrested and
brought before the justice of the
Petworth police court for the
crime of damaging some cut
clover by sleeping on it." was fined
by the justice, with the alternative
of going to jail for eight days.
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The democrats of the house
do not seem to think that there
is only one issue before the
people.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-03-24

Love is always a burden
bearer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-03-24
do not seem to be the reasons.

do not seem to be the reas0ns.
They try to deceive you by pre-
tensions that they object to Till
man, when their real objection is
that they who have held power for
SO many years in our State, no
longer eniov that pleasure.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-25

German Physician. graduated in Germany once
SO Z. Douglas ave Hours 2 TO II 4. TO and Z
10 D m. Rssidedce E0s y. Main st Diseases Of the
stomach and Abdomen and Female Diseases a spec
atty, fs-lu-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-25

The pianoforte was invented BY Bar
tolommeo Cristofori, a harpsichord
maker of Padua, Italy. who exhibited
four instruments in 1909. The honor
was formerly claimed by Marius. a
French maker. who produced piano in
1716, while German writers maintained
that Schroeder. OF Dresden. was the in
itistor of the instrument The earliest
date ascribed TO the latter's achievement,
however, is iii. During the present
century, however. an Italian document
was discovered. written by Marchese
Scipione Maffei Florentine scholar, in
III, which testlfes that Bartolommeo
Cristofori. of that city, exhibited four
pianos IN 1909. which statement was
originally published in The Giornale in
that year, accompanied by diagram Of
Cristofo7's action principle, employing
hammers, which constituted the chief
difference between the harpsichord and
the piano.
In Matfei's writings Cristofori's name
is given "a ''CrlstofalI," but this Is
proved 70 De an error. because inScrip-
lions upon existing psauofortes give the
name as ''Cristcfori Father Wood. an
English monk. living a, Rome. Is also
said TO have made 4 pi&aofoTte similar
~ CrisJoioTi's II Ill. which ne exhib-
tied in England. waere it attracted
much notice.
Crlstofoyl nd not remain idle after IN
trodEcing MS h-sJ instrument He De-
came prominently known - a maker.
but died IN 1881. En2T4tlvely pco,.-
Daniel Spilizae IN Popular Science
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