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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1899-05-06

ing attention to the production of
fine horses, such as bring BIO
prices, not only at home, but IN
foreign countries-gailcd horses,
hunting horses, fine carriage
horses. The southern people
have a taste along this hne and
will certainly succeed.
There are not enough dairy
COWS in the State, of course, but
encouraging progress is being
made in that direction also, the
secretary said. They have some
as fine dairy COWS as are to be
found anywhere. They make as
fine butter as is to he found in the
north.
"They keep sheep in the south,
but not enough" said he. "They
have not quite realized that it IS
peculiarly their privilege to fur.
nlsh early spling lambs for the
northern markets, where they sell
at a very high price.
"The conditions in the south
are entirely favorable to the pro
duction of the bacon hog. The
people in the great corn belt of
the Mississippi valley want a
market for their corn and feed
the hog as long as he will make
any gain. The producer of the
bacon hog, however, disposes of
the animal sooner, at n younger
age.
Gas soon as the southern peo.
pie give attention to the dairy in
dustry there will be a great in>
crease in its products.
The secretary made a point of
impressing upon the people of the
State the wisdom of increasing
their pastures, and of setting
their wood lots to work to pro-
duce grass for the colt and the
dairy cow, the mutton sheep and
the hog.
Great progress has been made,
he said, at the agricultural COL
lege. They are doing work there
that is probably not being done
anywhere else.
The department of agriculture,
for the last two years, has been
conducting nationwide expert.
ments to ascertain whether the
people of the United States can
produce their own sugar from
their own sugar beets. The mat
ter has gone so far that the secre-
tary has no doubt whatever of
the success of the industry.
About score of mills were run
ming last fall, another score is
being built, and in time complete
success will come and the S1OO,-
600, 900 now paid out for sugar
will be saved and kept at home.
The secretary is also sure now
that the people of the latitude of
South Carolina can produce all
the tea needed by the American
people, just as he was sure, two
years ago, that the sugar needed
for home, consumption could be
produced from the sugar beet,
independent Of all other sources.
NO RIGHT TO UGIINESS
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MIR. W. S. Carr, who was for
years clerk at Wright's hotel in
Columbia bnt who had to give up
his position on account of his
health, died Tuesday morning.
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Governor Ellerbe has ruled that
women cannot be appointed
notaries public. OF course they
can't fill that Office, for no gentle>
man could swear before lady. -
Florence Times.
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SOUTH CAROLINA
TO THE FRONT.
Secty Wilson Greatly Impressed
By Her Progress.
Talks in Washington. ValuabIo
Suggestions to Farmers
of the State.

cretary of agriculture returned
this morning from visit to South
Carolina, where he has studied
the conditions of agriculture and
of truck gardening along tn.
coast, the manufacturing indus
tries, the tea culture, the agricul
turaI college of South Carolina
and other matters of interest.
In an interview today the Sc
cretarY said that South Carolina
is making rapid progress in all
these directions The farmers
arc learning how to take better
care of their soil, how to fertiIizc
and cultivate it with more profit.
TIE diversitication of crops has
not extended so far as it should
or SO far as it very soon will, but
the people are gradually working
to that end.
Inc State manufactures about
one>third of the cotton produced,
and the most striking develop,
ment of South Carolina is perhaps
found in that direction. Home
enterprise, and to great extent,
home capital, has been utilizing
the great rivers OF the State in
the manufacture of cotton through
electric appliances. Wires extend
from the rivers as far as IA miles,
up TO the tops vi the hills, where
healthy conditions are found and
great factories costing as much as
million dollars are located This
work is going on and will continue
to progress until the State manu-
factures all the raw cotton pro-
duced within its limits. Eighteen
years ago, when the attention of
the South Carolina people was
drawn to the manufacture of cot
ton, $3.50, 600 was paid to labor.
Now the State is paying Sc, 6,OOO,-
600 annually, which Is about two-
fifths of all the manufacturing of
the southern States along cotton
lines.
The secretary said that with
little exception white labor is be.
ing used in the mills. In the city
of Charleston the experiment of
colored labor is being tried and it
is hoped the plan will succeed. 1t
is still an open question, however,
and is being watched with great
interest. He said that other cot
ton manufacturers will have to
take note of the progress being
made along this line in the south.
They are getting the very newest
machinery; their hands work pro
badly somewhat longer hours, and
perhaps for little lower wages.
The southern people seem to be
entirely satisfied with home labor,
and evince no desire for immigra-
ton. The farmers throughout
the State are getting better mar
kets for their products, receiving
a large per cent. of the $6,OOO,-
600 paid to the mill hands. This
encourages the keeping of dairy
COWS, the feeding of hogs and the
raising of chickens to supply the
demand of the factory people in
villages.
Mr.. Wilson said the tobacco
industry has been taken hold of
and is making good progress.
The people are studying this plant
and its products, in order to as
certain how they can produce it
more pro6tably.
The individual farmers are Qiy>
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MONUMENT TO MOSBY'S
MEN.
Were Hanged by Their Captors
and Federal Prisoners Were
Hanged in Retaliation.
Special to Baltimore sun.

Front Royal, Va, April 80.
The residents of this ncigborhood,
as, indeed, of the entire South arc
interested in the Mosby's men 5
monument which will he unveiled
here early next August. As al
ready mentioned in The Sun, the
finest site in the cemetery here
has been chosen for the monu
ment, now beng erected at Barre,
Vermont, whose character and
proportions have already been
described in a Sun letter from
this place.
Six of Mosby's command
Anderson, Carter, Jones, Love,
OVERLY and Rhodes-were hanged
by the order of General Custer in
the streets of Front Royal, and
Willis, another of the command,
was hanged at Galnes's Cross
Roads by Col. Powell.
+ The first monument to these
mems memory was a line of
seven gibbets on the line of the
Valley Pike, along which the
federal forces were accustomed to
pass. The seven were all soldier S
of Clusters or Powell's command,
and the inscription on that monu.
ment was writing, as follows:
'These men have been hung in
retaliation for an equal mum her
of Colonel Moby's men hung by
General Custer at Front Royal
measure for measure.
The inscriptions on the new
monument are as follows:
First Side-"Erected in 1899
by the survivors of Mosby's COM
mand in memory of seven CON-
rades executed while prisoners of
war near this spot September %,
1864"
Second Side-"In everlasting
honor of Thomas f. Anderson,
ii. &. Carter, David l.. Jones,
Lucien Love, William Thomas
OVERLY, Henry & Rhodes, Albert
&. Willis, 43d battalion Virginia
cavalry, Mosby's command, G.
S. A."
Third Side-''Dulce ct decorum
est pro patria mori."
Fourth Side Confederate and
Virginia flags crossed.
Colonel Mosby, after the retail g,
iation, dispatched the following
letter to General Sheridan:
November IL, 1864 Major
General Z. II. Sheridan, COM
manding United States forces in
the valley-Gener2l: Some time
in the month of September, dur
ing my absence from my COM
mand, six of my men who had
been captured by your forces
were hung and shot in the streets
of Front Royal by the order and
in the Immediate presence OF
Brigadier General Custer. Since
then another captured by a Colo.
mel Power on a plundering expe-
! dition into Rappahannock) shared
a similar fate. A label affixed tc
the coat of one of the murdered
men declared that this would be
the fate of Mosby and all his
men,
Since the murder of my mer
not less than 700 prisoners, in
cluding many officers of high
rank captured from your army by
this command, have been for.
warded to Richmond, but the ex
ecution of my purpose of retalia
tion was deferred in order, as fal
ss possible, to confne its opera.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21

perts, who-were skeptical in the begin
oughly satisfied have they become with
the practical usefulness of the invention
that there are preparing now large con-
tracts for similar pavements in other
European cities.
The glass pavement is laid in the form
of blocks, eight inches square, each block
containing sixteen parts in the form Of
checkers The blocks are fitted together
so closely that no water can soak between
them.
The advantages of the glass pavement
as developed so far are its resistance,
which is greater than that of stone: its
property as poor conductor Of cold,
owing to which ice will not form on 1t
readily; its resistance to dirt which does
not accumulate on it easily as on stone;
and It's quality not to retain microbes.
The Central Architectural Society of
France made report on the material
recently, in which it was said:
From the various forms in which this
material is presented, it's use can be read
lily determined for both practical and
decorative purposes. On careful eXami-
nation we find that the Garchey ceramic
stone is glass brought to special mole
cular condition. In certain sense 1t con-
stitutes a new substance, which To-
sembles fagstone, granite or marble.
This new product is obtained from
broken glass heated to temperature Of
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1850 degrees and compressed in matrices
by hydraulic force. The physical trans
formation Of the glass is due to devltri1-
cation under the process The phenom-
enon Of identification produces sort of
dissolution more apparent than real: for,
upon chemical analysis, the devitrIfied
glass is found to possess all the intrinsic
qualities physical and chemicaD of glass,
except the transparency, while taking on
ar entirely different aspect Further
more, glass treated under this new
method is made to resist crushing frost
and heavy shocks, and to stand hard
usage"
Apart from paving material, there now
is produced from old glass an excellent
building material, which is being used
for buildings and interior decorations.
much as Is cut stone. 1t possesses all
the intrinsic qualities of glass, except
transparency, and at the same time is
made to resist crushing, frost, heavy
shocks and stand usage
A proposition to erect a glass house-a
luminous palace-for the Paris exposition
next year, has been accepted, and the
building will present completely the pos
sibilities of glass as a structural mate
rial. M Garchey says that he feels
confident that within three years time
glass houses will be so common that
they will not attract the slightest atten-
ton.
The glass palace which he will build for
the exposition was described thus by
him:
lin the middle of a garden where
greensward is only broken by flower
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21
Hor1ocker Poisoning Case
Puzzles the Nebraskans.

HASTINGS, Neb, May 20. Miss Viola
tried to poison Mrs. Anna Morey, is still
Ill, or feigning illness Tho prisoner Is
certainly afflicted with some eilment. for
she ts5the mere shadow if her former self
She is bound to the district court in the
sum OF 5000, and she Will have to face a
trial for the attempted killing of seven
women. 1t Is hardly to be wondered ut
that she iSs prostrated. Some of her
friends denounce the prosecution for it's
attempt to asperye her honesty and the
charge that she Is malingering, while
others are Inclined to believe that the.
young woman is really feigning Ill health
for the sake of sympathy.
Is this beautiful girl really guilty of the
atrocious crime with which she is charg-
ed, or Is she shared in net OF circum-
stances which may bind her to penal serv-
ltude for many years, If not for life?
Few there are in Hastings who know.
Perhaps no one knows but Miss Horlock-
er herself. Were she to plead guilty the
question would be at rest. But In lieu Of
such plea this case must rest as one of the
many mysterious crimes of like nature
that have swept over the country since
Cordelia Botkfn murdered two innocent
women with poisoned candy in Delaware.
Mrs. Anna Morey is the wife of prom
1nent lawyer in Hastings, Junior partner
OF the firm of Tibbetts Brothers & Morey.
Miss Horlocker belongs to one of the best
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of thirty-five solid men with money and
property Throw a stone into the whole
flock of them and you are certain to hit
a man with every qualification for making
a good husband. And not one of them but
is pledged to marry a widow.
There are no limitations whatever, ex-
cept the wildowhood SO long as she Is
widow, whatever her age or weight,
any member of the Oak Street club may
wed her. But spinsters are barred.
There was man here few weeks ago
who married widow. He belonged to
military society Then somebody said
that everybody that had been married out
of that club had taken to himself a
spouse to whom the marriage business
was an "auld sang" Thirty-five members
of the society remained. They got to-
gether, organized a new club-the Oak
Street-with the constitution and bylaws
so framed as to bind the members, under
a possibly disagreeable penalty, to mar
rying widows. OF course the obligation
does not compel man to marry at all.
He can stay single as long as he thinks
it is to his best interest to do so; but
once he makes up his mind to be like
other human beings, he's got to patch
up the matter with a woman who has
had experience. The club does not lean
very hard on love- Give the widow her
due. says the club. and she'll make you
love her.
But suppose, one will say. that rnem-
Der breaks his pledge and weds some girl
who has never had a husband? Why,
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MISS VIOLA HoRLoCKER.

experiments. 1t took a long time for
him to get any one to consider his inven-
ton seriously, and when he asked the
municipal authorities of Lyons for per-
mission to pave the principal streets of
that city at his own expense he found it
hard to get them to assent. However,
after persistent efforts, he won, and a
few months ago he was authorized to go
ahead with his novel experiment
Perhaps such permission at least
without more convincing practical re-
suits to back it up, would have never
been granted in an American city But
the French are a nation of experiment
ers, and always ready and willing to
try something new. Louis Garchey, the
inventor. took a conservative advantage
of his privilege. He paved only a por-
ton of one street, selecting for the
purpose a crowded section of the Place
de la RepuINique, which IS crowded day
and night with heavy traffic.
Under his direction the pavement OF
ceramic stone was laid and finished in
November last, and it is now as sound
as when it was first put down. The eX-
pertinent has been pronounced by the ex-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21

Mistress Content Cradock" Annie Eliot
Trumbull. A s. Barnes & Co, New
York. For sale by the St. Paul Book
and Stationery company.
AS long as there are Americans there
will be love for books whose pages bring
us back to the men and women of colonial
days
Mistress Content Cradock" is a story
which might be read by students of
American history, to put them in closer
sympathy with the colonial period, but
it is interesting enough to be read by all
who enjoy a good book
The author dedicates the book to the
memory of her father, whose unfailing
interest in the early history of New Eng
land was not only tempered by enthu-
stasm, but leavened by knowledge.
One of the prominent characters in the
book is the brave Roger Williams, the
champion of the red men. A sweet Puri-
tan love story adds greatly to the inter-
est of this New England romance
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embroidered gravelly walks, lie palais
lumineux will stand. 1t will throw out
into the garden an ingeniously adorned
silhouette resembling jewel set with
phosphorescent tones imbedded in
green foliage and sward
1.-The principal facade, in the form OF
an immense portica roof surmounted
with spires, and a winged statue repre-
senting light, will be supported by heavy
columns The ground floor, reached by
a double flight of stairs, will be a large
exposition room. To the right and left
will be large glass basins In glass grot-
toes. In the interior Of the hall will be
five large openings, in which will be rep
resented the five DIVISIONS of the globe,
a quintuple polychrome vision; Europe
bathed In the dawn of the morning; Asia
basking in the golden light of midsum-
mer; Africa, with a sun burning I'm
waves Of crimson; America lost In a
midst of pale hyacinth and the tints OF
sunset; Oceanica in an atmosphere of la
PTS laZuli.
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old it is already famous and widows from
all parts of the state are writing for iu-
formation. The widows evidently believe
the club to be what persons addicted to
slang would call "a good thing" A NUM-
Der of widows in Pellin In) have formed
a club, and the Peoria club IS preparing
an excursion to Pekin. The Pekin relicts
will be inspected and the best of them
Will be snapped up at once. Widows who
are called Charming are not encouraged
by the club They prefer old widows. es-
peciaLy those who have many children
and no money for them the mem0er
shows his philanthropy and humanity ny
taking over widow. children and all.
But it isn't fun for these good men.
one member of the club is a coal dealer
His customers with manageable daugh-
ters boycotted him. Happily he had n
foil for this conduct The widows all
hocked to his coal yard. and his receipts
were increased, but yet he Is uneasy and
says 1t will depend upon trade whether
ne shall stick to the club or not
The club used to meet back of a drug
store, but the dispenser of medicines turn
ed them out because all his widow trade
left him. They did not want their posi-
bic future husbands to catch them. flag
rante delicto, buying face powder, cos
metics and such things
Whether the club Is to work a social
revolution or not remains to be seen.
Meanwhile the men at its helm are
George Richardson. president; c. b. L.
Jacobs. vice president, and ThorwaId
Burns. secretary.
have you finally tired OF paying $500
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'"The Rescue OF Cuba" an episode in the
growth of free government Andrew
:. Draper LII. D., president OF the Uni
Versity OF Illinois. lS6 pages; % full
page Illustrations. Price, 81. Silver.
Burdett AZ Co. New York, Boston and
Chicago.
This is i book which differs materially
from any other book which has been
written on the war of 1898. While the
story is told vividly-indeed, with note
worthy vividness-the main thing is not
the story. The characteristic of the book
is the presentation of the contest for
Cuba as an episode in the worlds strug-
gle for human liberty and growth towards
free government. Accordingly, the book
Is more than patriotic-it is warmly hu-
man: it frankly presents American pa
triotism as finding its best expression in
profound humanity. This is a remark
able feature; it is also a very salutary
trait In a book which is designed pri-
marty for young Americans.
But, though President Draper wrote
THE Rescue of Cuba" with the youth of
the country in his mind, it is in no sense
Juvenile in its tone or its method of deal
ing with the momentous questions of the
war with Spain.
Beginning with SPANS historic mis-
government, habitual to her from the pc
Rod of the conquests, it pOrtrays nar
spirit as the representation of the forces
of despotism, cruelty and corruption,
against which liberty has been struggling
since the Dutch first threw off her yoke.
Again, in the authors treatment of the
results of the war there Is temperatures
and breadth of judgment. He considers
expansion as an after-thOught of the
war. and not related in any sense to its
original impulse. 1T was to rescue
Cuba not to gain Puerto Rico or the
Philippines, that bound all sections and
parties of our people together in a sub
lime demand for a resort to arms" The
reasons which the author marshals to
justly the acceptance of sovereignty over
the Philippines are discriminating, ration
al and succinct.
The book has a distinct literary style,
and its descriptions of the military opar-
ations and the brilliant battles embody
some of the best writing that the war has
called out. THE dark blue shirts Writhed
forward from bush to bush, and, yard by
yard shortened the distance; sometimes
little dashes were made from one poor
protection to another, but every one Of
these short rushes was a deadly adven-
tUre;" such bits of graphic recital are
frequent and embeIlish the verile and
graceful style. The profuse illustrations
are worthy of remark; most of them are
original drawings by we'll known artists,
and, together with the photographs, make
an adequate combination which has also
the unexpected merit of freshness.
Fortunately the book has been with
held until. by the sitting process, accu-
rate history has Begin to be possible 1t
takes unique place as a well-rounded
account of the war in all it's phases-a
volume written with a genuine historical
perspective.
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tical insight OF law. and all legal papers
of the Office were drawn up by her in an
intelligent manner. She has few equals
here as a stenographer- Her letters and
legal papers were models. and she was
noted for her attention to business and
her accuracy.
She Is an engaging conversationalist
and had many admirers among her
numerous acquaintance. She never used
slang. Her home life was by no means
pleasant, and everybody knew that she
suffered much from the irritable DISPOSE
ton of her mother. 1t is believed that 1t
will be hard to convict her by jury in
this community.
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STREETS pAVED WITH GLASS;.
COme Next

PARIS. April 2S.-Wonderful results
have been achieved in France during the
last few months with glass. 1t has been
used experimentally for some months
as pavement in one of the busiest streets
in Lyons with such success that con-
tracts are being made by many cities
all over Europe for it to replace Belgian
block. In Paris an entire palace of 1t
is being built for the great exposition. Ne
material except glass is to enter into the
construction.
This material, which is so strong that
it can withstand usage under which
Belgian block crumbles away, was in
vented by a French scientist in Chagny,
Burgundy, where he conducted his first
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"The High Commission,

The High Commiss,on..' Fredericka,
SpangIer Cantwell. F. Tennyson Nicely.
New York; For sale by the st. Paul
This is a romance of the Spanish
American war, and. besides it's value as a
story of the present. it has not little
merit from a, literary point of view 1t
is an old story of love and war; but in
So, modern a guise and amid such soul
stirring. romantic scenes that it is one Of
the best Of such stories that has ever
been written.
Chiefly it concerns a beautiful young
widow of the South, whose lover is in
Spain at the time the war opens, and
who, afterwards. engages in the battles
in Cuba.