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PUBLISH4ED WEEKLY. WINNSBORO, S. C., WVEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY . 1902.ET NORTHERN SLAVE SALES. Many Fortunes had Foundations in Slave Trade. Bishop Candcr in Atlanta Journal. It is qnite safe,- in so far as this woild is concerned, to in dulge popular sins; but it is ex tremely dangerous to practice a vice that has gone out of fashion. The very people. who in the days of its popularity were most ad dicted to it, make the least al lowauce for it in others when it has ceased to be modish. This view of the South's con nection with slavery came to we the other day when I read in a Charleston, S. C., paper the ad vertisement of a slave sale in Boston, copied from a New Eng land paper dated about the ycar 1790, if I remember correctly. Our typical South bater re proaches us not because the South once owned slaves, but be cause we had them last. That is the head and front of our offend ing. Here is an advelisement from the Independent Chronicle, dated March 20, 1780: "To be Sold Very Cheafor no otlier reason than the Mt'ieof employ, an exceedingly active Negro Boy, med 15. Also a likelv Negro Girl , aged 17." Where were the parents of that boy and that girl? Ha I this ad vertiser separated parent, and J children already? 0:, was ha 2 about to do so? In The Continental Journal of January 4, 1791, appears the fol lowing: "To be sold, a hearty, strong negro wench, about 29 years of age, fit for town or couutry." From the same paper, Novem ber 25, 1779, is taken this: "To 'old, a likely gmae9.gij no fin u e sok, for want of em- 0 ployment, an e-ceedingly likely P negro girl, aged sixteen." It may have been that the ad- a -vertister of November 25, 1779, a and that of March 9, 1780, were the same person. If so, his stock had been~ reduced, it seems, to a one "exceedingly likely negro S girl" of the age of "swe* ixteen,' and she was rather slow sal.t lie was evidently not miochd to h give her to her" p:rents, if they sl were free, nor to present her to th eir master if they were still slaves. The relation of parent " and child it thus appeaiz cut no figuie in tiie plans of this thrifty saint. He wanted cold cash for w.arm human fleshi and blood. ii If this last c-ase seems lheart less,, what shall be said of- the next? It is of such an extraor- .1 dinarv natur-e I hesitate to 1rans fer it'to the coumns of a South eru . paper, lest I offend a just frecse of prop Iety. Cert::inly no) such adrei tisement ever appeared ini anv Southern paper (1m1ing all1 the days of slavery. I copy it'\. with apo'ogies. It is from The Iindependent Chroniele of De-. cembller 28, 1780. printed during the Chiiistmas Sscson, the gh :d kei note of which is "peaee onl enl th and good nill to men." It e read-: "A negro child. soon ex-. pected, of a good 1)1 ced, mnay b owned by any pe-rson 'uehi ng to take it, and money vwith it." The mother expoec'ant was not i to be parted with by hi miotor; shie was of to~o "good breed," perhi~aps. But the uul -ori chld h was niot to be permitted toi ~i vide attention with 1.er serviler cares, and' thus subtract from hfr i profitabl'ieess. That there mighlt a le as litt~e delay as possiblek about ridd~ing her of the ilcumi-h brance a pre natal advertisemient ~ " as used to secure an ownler. 31ot her aiod child were to be p Jartedl with all p).ssible haste after its birtl:; there wats 1:o timeC to lose. Slave l.ol' rs in the S--uth oft-u ~ bougt neroe that they d..d i.ot wvant andt sol! others that tue pYIref:err-ed to rit lin orI ( r' to 1)preserve unbroken~ f~iiies bat it any7 be s fely allirm d os this atdver-tisement pr1i)OSed was ever heird of or ever d rerut -f in the so.uth. It mayv well & doubted if it ever La .1 a pit alb-1 on tside of New England 21ny where~. ont- a net called Earth. L These advertisements show :learly where Mrs. Stowe and >ther New England writers of ier type got their ideas of slavery. liev fancied that the slaves of he South were treated as for nerly slaves had been dealt with n Boston. Their ghost stories vere compounded from reninis eiees of their own ancestor.. It is a fact that Massachusetts s the only state in America that :ver engaged in the slave trade 1 its corporate capacity. This rade it carri:d on with a process hiat Lad bondage at both en.1s of lie line; Indian captives were arried out and sold; whiie Afri an slaves were captured or pur lased and brought in. Dr-. Ioore says: "It will be observed hit this first entrance into.tbe lave trade was not a private, udividuad speculation. It was he enterprise of the authorities )f the colony." Cotton Mfather's "Magnalia" md the records of the colony are tuoted, passage and page Leing iven to verify this statemuent. Georgia prohibited the slave rade f! oa the first days of the lonv; while Massachusetts al owed it from 16-11 to I7S8-the oldy itself engaging in the. >usiness for a part of that period. xeorgia was a slave-holAing ommonwealth - for about 1.10 ears; Massachusetts for 147 -ears. When very tardily Massachu etts prohibited the slave trade >y the act of 1788, the act was areflly drawn so as not to abol ;h slavery, while prohibiting the' lave trade, and as a matter of .ct slavery has ne'ver yet been: blisbed by any act of the legis tu're if the state of Massachtry T~4~i allthisI'b . whom run far too easily to ride and who theiefore often 1caire the kndly help of friends Ad neighblois to keep them suit b! humble. but chiefly, to 4O this question: If sec ional m is to run againstoursouthern cestors and their children a rt of moral bill of attainder, hen (if ever) will it expire? And ien I wish to inquire further, m% the inhabitants of Massachu tts, the chief of sinneis anon ie American states in the inatter4 E slavery, escaped this bill of Ltaind-r, and when? The Last licard Of It. "My little boy took the crouip one' ght and~ sooni grew so hadl you could .ar hiimi breathe all over tiI. hiouse, We feared lhe 'wonid die, but a few )es of One Minute Cough Cureu .ieklyV relieved himl and( he wenit to cep. That' the lst we heardi of the oun. Now isn't a coaghtl cure like t'tvalual e''" One Minute Coughlt uire is absolutely Nife and :aets i, i~bonle~~hitil nd al other throa't i untg troules it is a cert~ a in eur:e er plawn to take. The little ones4 e it. MeMaster Co. WVaddell WVants a Charter. RevY. (?) D. J. 'iVaddell, a 'lored prea'rb-er and teacher nown in the Hartsville co~n miuty hafs written the secretary f State as follo ws: "mi]dlend Of. S. C'., -Jan. 3(0 0-1)2 Mr SeereV:Gr ofl 8hftr te o~th carohrn 'r 'kir' 'ill von rant me a chi ~ t r a5Sehpo! v tL~e name of w' ,vdeIiies jal insti'tute wh~ i i want toI s ;.t riddeu daif S C Chetstear ld co. and if 'you wil .gant me charter leaCse wxrite audiet ie now at once and the cost of it ojing that vou w-ill gr'ant it to w~ as'it is muuch needed i wait otu aus. Rev. 1). J. VWaddell )irect Hartsxiine S. C Box 95. The Clerk's Wise Suggetr-m!, I hav~e latchly been mu'.ch troub41ld th dyppsia, bi~el c nio s mach,"' writs M. $. Mean, k -ain 1'rm tit of Attheboro,'\ Ma_ "I o'ubt et hardly anyth'ig wnho 0) 1uc'ering -everal hours. My clr 1r.d -I t ry.~ Kodsd Dep.ri1a ure isI ou don't have to 'ie-t. I't. 'llth dj~ fod von) wVant but don't ov'rl0 he toach food (la'4.'1 ( 44 'u THE GREATEST fiEnRCANr In'the World is Marshall Field of Chkago--A Retiring Individual. 1char(Id Lithir am ;n i Ain's(. Marsl all Field is the sphinx of the mercantile world-colossal, e-wesome and sileit. We are as fnmiliar with the charactceristies of the giants of business-land as we are with their names. We Fpeak of J. Prpot Morggn and the trusts in thi same breath; tle very name of RoCkfller has become ole;ig:, uous; Carnegic openiga fre(sh barrel of saLve. an;d with Aiddin like magic erecting paa:-es of blarning. We kaow thC Story o Gould and his mnoa-4e trap, anl forgive him munci, for thei sake of his Navgter-heroine; we rim m ber with pride the achievements of the first Astor ud bia;sh for the self-exp.triatd d(escendant; the vi: ties of th. h<>use of Van derbilt iake us forget its fialt,; the n'amues of Girarl, Peabody, Cooper and Chldds touch tlie well springs of our patriotism and hu manity and flood aid inspirijngecol . bat in'the - ng list of can wmilti-muiliolai*eW nianies th. have 1101 or no sig nificauc-io the averag rNdeer. fIncoXspicuous amuoug'ethese is the-mne of Mir-hall Field.;' ii1en.dom beard outsde of Cii ago, except in mercantile c iT YetMarshall Field is the gredt est merchant in the world, and, possibly, the third richeAt; man i the United States. As an individual he exists o0-y io'a very limited iumber of Asi ne'ss Associates, friends, crouies ad-relatives; to,- masses of the people, even those in is hom1e, city. of Ch1i.,h ,nous detnan'd for the workl's orhers-Dr. Kiig's New Life ?iils. For . Constipation, Sick Fleadache, :i:iousr~css, or any Lrouble of Stomach, Liver orj Kidneys they're unrivalel. Only 5c at McMaster Co's dru store. TH E MARCH DELlNEATOR. During ithe past Year The De [ieator'Ifacilities for obtaini.;I he firt information of what is bing done in the centres of sd[Ilon have ben greaL~y ex endud, and it now coniniads re ources that, perhaps, are not possible to aly other magnaine. ome of these results are shown u the March nuuber, where is >resented the first intimatien of the srng m:odes in garments of dit kinds and illiuery-- the work f somei of the most Lotedl de ~iners of Paris, LA1tondo, \ien 1a. l New York. T be litera&ry fea Lures of the A.Lic numuber pos-. ess high qai. lit; and great inter st. 'The first pap. -r oa Pi t'ril miot'uaphy, by J. C. Abel, shows t!e posil~i iies of the muara in a'reries of ;rntiau1 anspes, the work of wAll nown leaders in th itpl oto)graL hie woild. Dr. WV. L. Sacage, the noted phyvsie:d di-ectr, con rib utes an article ou Gym asin Work for Womnen, with remairka dle pictur'es taken iron li fe. In e t fries of Aathor, Loocs, \Miss Langhlin tells the staries of G3oige Eliot with the g::atest :ban and delicoesc; while another sseutially lit. a y papi'er is Dr. Ellio t's llee;ilec 1(ous of Mar:a Wh ite (Mrs. James iPo.sell Eowll). A novelette by Aca hellat Keneaty, wi:hi pictures by 2. M. Ashe, and a dlgtu pastoral Vby San F. Unlock, 00mp jrise th fiction for grown ups, whi;e the children will enj'y the further adveAtures of )uimple Cheek 'nd the Musical B3 owniesC. 'Ihe hous hold Ce partmnt in :uhs house furnishing, iilus tratedi cookery an.d new an.1 ecoomiei .I ries , dl(enen, i MCcice, etc. The b est and mo-t famiou~ comn paal in thec worll1 to colnquer aches a:n d hill pa: n s Cu es Cuts, hiems lhu n15 and Druis, 5, schl ines IdIanuma ti i, miast ers Piles. MJilions ot JAoEs sold yeatly. W os wonjdrs* isl Boiis, Uleervs Fe ins, sk; in rm ons2. It cnres or* no) pay. %)e at Mc :aister1 Co's AS YOUNQ3 AS*OU FEEL. People Get Old by j'Thinking Them sclve*O. Suces People grow 1 by thinKing theInselves old. hen they ieach the age of 10, 5. 60 they in agi u tha;t theypok l1 ke otheis of the s;me a and that they Foon will be ess, unfit for work and un1b* perform their wonted daties 8 surely as they tinb-k this' ill come true, fur thoUt creative. How mniv t-f us Say with Job, "IIe thin W greatLv feared 1s come upon The time w ime w eChil dren will not.- hlowed to cele bate their bi ay; whe n they will know that r thinking them selves youig, 'ey will lem1n.6 young, and thi they will cease to grow old W thtey ceasc to bleve in oldLe. The body is built up of beifs, and %ur con victions are st*l ed upon eveiy fibe.r of our be, s. What iVe Le lieve, what we'1iink, that we are; so people wgo emain young it spirit never grir eld. Not one o-aundird students, .of wLom the"rrter was cule, under ')iivCr c d 1ll hnes, at .Ma.vant eve r thoughlt of himi as,. an 01 I map athoughi he had !ton passed' eig-htieth lbirth drhy. ~ils t was so young ..mJd he \vas Sbuoyaut, so fresh "aid full o e tih;t we always tihough. D in as one of our selves ivacity. and joyous ness w ious. You eould not, s )resence five mit-ute fee-ling brigi Lter and'. t-. The genial ,doc inedicine, vliman ere,.- - ~ullness, depre ezally diso:der hsmtt.De\ ittle Ealy Ris stimulth . ,open the bmvels and relieve th ' dition. Safe, peedy and thorou h1fey, never zipe. Favorite p'I . 'cr Co. Hon. J. LM. Curry, Mho is g)ing o represent this coautrv at the accessia . of Alfonso to the thro'e of Spain, has a Nivid recol aection of the .morning the future ki:g was Uor. lie and all the ither foreign represehtat ives were s; lt for to eome to the royal p;lace posthaste, in full hess. -Thither Mini-ter Curry wea1t, and lie was usheed into the queen's bedehamber, where all the court was aSemle'd. The chamnbe1 was larg -, and curtains cocealed the ro' al i'ed. Soon1 a courtier appearedl fromuI)l beind the curtain anud cri, 4 out, "Lorg live the, king!" It n as a hoy. Then camei a lady in waitiag, bearing a hup silveri pltter, on which lay theoJuby king anid laces anid frills. >Th e diplo9 ats formed in a semicirc'e, and the court lady, b'ea~r the infant monal ~, galsed n:o.d. the line to permit the ofnin~is to gaIze upjon theachild. .She lhad grot but half wayeround whled th~ y'ng - 5ir set up at lustv how!, andi shae beat a hsty ietient b hindth cairtint But the frja ties had been compied wit .1 ind\ Miniten Cury took his lei.--F 1ree Lance. "i~i Ige.t; did you e il the bors? ;-fugM an ()i n!!e thi every' them Oi cud think lof, hut Li fe. You can znakeyourhar t rnd as tou',h as wire by lst twcealiong as . ordinariy would. NIamess G~il makes apoor lookin;: bar ness lire new. Made of IN pure, heavy boried oil..es pecially prepared to with sand tho Weather. Bold everywhere / i cas-al sizes. Mae bj STAHUARD Oil. Co. Shredding Cown. The modern method of harvest ing corn has. not been. generally adopted yet in any portion of the South. Wa.steful methods that have always prevailed, and are still prac-ticed-..-The blades are sornetimes -tripped from the stalks br hanid and cured for fod der, lt overience has shown that this f ler does not pay for the h-bor of gathering and curing. The eats are snatched from the stalks, thr;wn in small heaps, and afterw ris a wagon comes along and the ears picked up, thrown into t!! wa on and hauled away. Th1e o:h:tL h:alf of tl.e crop is left to br:ive the weather an I be corS':Ued Wind and rain; and if any part of it remains when plowiln' tine comes it is piled and''1 Lumed to the detriment of th.e soi! The modern w-y is to reap the coin, as well as the wiheaJt, ad in much tb same n.nt r, the machfe detting the stalks and tyvag in bundles, ready to be set up in sh-ocks.- The ears may be epe;ted at -any time husked and snielle4,.or the husk ing and shelling ca' be done as needed. The stalks, entire, may be en ed aAd stacked and makes excelient fod ler. Or the whole baitch can be ron through a shredder and made into hay, when it will be eaten up clean by the stock. Oen reason for not savin the stalks is there is not live stock enough on the faim to consume it. This is another piece of bad inanagemeut. There is whers the farmer's profit should cdme from. Saved [Him From Torture. There is no more agonizing trouble Qman piles. The constant inhing and ig make life intolerable. No edfortable. The torture is Witch Hazel 865 ~surr bleeding pilesand could find nothing to help me uutil I used DeWitt's Witch Hazel salve. A few boxes eornpletly e'ired ie.". Beware of counterfeits. eMaster Co.. The Designer for March con Waos, amog other attractive fea tures, thrt'e short stories -The Relenting of Senator Marsh," "The New Dress," and "What Happened to Miss Milicent," the last for juvenile readers. In fancy work this number is replete, iviig instruction in embroidery of the tatest style, lace woik and ro2hlt. Sugg-stions for enter tinments are given in "An Irish Potato P;otv" and "A Green Goods Sociable," also in the little pielor drama, "The Calf in Go!d," to be enacted by amateur Thes pi;ns. "What Women Are Doing" is a new and interesting depart re.it, so, too, are "Toilet Table Che " anad "In Motherland," the Stites of which index their ch'tr ,teter. Amorg the special fashion featues are many diesigns for 'Dit irgeric," in addition to th-usual modes of th~e month for aduii' andl jnvenles. An expert milhi'er by ai of pictures and text tells 'just 4ow to make two falbionable spring bonncts, and tl'e ab'e writer of "Points on DressmaLki 'j" insth:acts amateurs in lhe omkire of exqris~to under wear. "Book Note:," "Fashions and Fabries,' hints on etiquette aed numerou0.)is saY'ory recipes for ooke rs are also ijel.ledl in the ist of seasonable and valuable itene. Stops the Cough and works oif the Cold. Laxative Bronio-Quinine Tablets cure a col.Iri one, day. No Cure, No Pay. HOW a:i-Monlest tlar May Get Ahead. No rule t it a man can adopt will bring greW'r reward than this-to ;abst->in fiom the use of alenbo! as a beverage. *A drink-: ingro shou'd have no place ais wlhere. Evem y honest man a ii) des!5ires w' k' can obtain it In at wnges snfinient to enable him to lay aside eno~ugh for a omipetence ini~Ihis old a ge-that i. if he blas a L'o). wife to help 1.ii sae i. Tn~i isnothing l so impnoi t-int a:s a giod mani gn; wif. Sh is the great' st al to savi ng an l g. ttmog ahead. M/T Erly isers fmonus tittle pills. 4 ROYAL Baking Powder Makes the bread more healthful. Safeguards the food against alum. Alum baking powders are the greatat Smnacm to hault of the present day. LNOVASBM UAIO ow*i CO.. NEW VOCt. At tichokes for Hogs. With corn at a dollar a bushel and liable to go higher, farmers are casting about for something as a subs&itate as a food for hogs. 1r. Henry 1). Boozer of Kadesh, this county, believes that he has foand a substitute in the Jerusa lein artichoke. Last spring he >lanted a patch of half an acre. Eight hogs have been running on this for two or three months, with no other fIsod, and keeping fat, and the patch is not near ex austed. In his 'arden he plan ted two or three iows in not very rich earth. From each stalk he ets about half a peck of the artichokes. Ho thinks good land and cuhivation -will -get a peck from the stalk. The artichokes are best if planted in March, but can be planted any time in the spring or fall.-Newberry Observer. For Over Fifty Years. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has beeo used for over fifty years by mil Xons . of mothers for their children 'th crfect success. will relieve the poor little su Immediately. Sold by all druggists in vcry part of the world. Twenty-five !ents a bottle. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrur," nd take no other kind. 1-1-17 Will Fight Kll!. Mr. Bryan rmakee no conceal ment of his intention to fight Hill. Ie says in the Comwoner: "An agent reports that one emocrat refused to subscribe for rhe Commoner because he had ead in some paper that Mr. Bryan had gone over to the gold bugs and was booming Hill for president. If the aforesaid demo rat read the Commoner he could ot be deseived by such absurd umors. Those who take this aper know that the editor either has boomed, is booming, or will boom nnyomne for the emocratic nomination who was gainst the party in 189G or even toubtful." Clara-It's a thrilling story, sn't it? Maul-One of the most thrill ng I ever reatd. I couldu't skip ore thian half of it.-Detroit ree Press. Tousands Have Kidney Trouble and Don't Know it. How To Find Out. Fill a bottle or common glass with your ater and let it stand twenty-four hours; a sediment or set - tling indicates an ~ 0unhealthy condi tiona of the kid neys; if it stains - / your linen it is * evidence of kid ney trouble; too .- frequent desire to - pass it or pain in - -- ' -the back is also onvincing proof that the kidneys and blad der are out of order. What to Do. There is comfort in the knowledge so often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, the great kidney remedy fulfills every wish in curing rheumatism, pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of the urinary passage. It corrects inability o hold water and scalding pain in passing It, or bad effects following use .of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go. often during the day, and to get up many times during the night. The mild and the extra ordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highuest for its won derful cures of the most distressing cases. Ii you need a medicine you should have the best. Sold by druggists in 50c. and$l. sizes. You may have a mple bottle of this wonderful discovery and a book that tells more about it, both sent a absolutely free by rnail, address Dr. Kilmer & Home or Swamp-Root. ., Binghamnton, N. Y. When writing men muadng ths enemu offar in this paper.