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voujmic xil, ?HRONieLE. S. C.. FRIDAY. Ai'HlL <>. l?0?. S3* N< >? J?. \STKR_ls the chief festi val of t'he Church, an.l of course, the Little Men arid Women alway3 look forward to It with pleasure. Festivals of Borne kind sconi to be necessary to all the members of the human racoj big <?r llllle; wwl nothing could be more natural than that there should bo one. et this time of the year, when na _ ture is waking up from her long win tor sleep to put on new life. Thero has perhaps never been a time when Uhore was not a celebration of some kind :it t!; ? end of winter, for people tnust express their joy in one way or another, evi n if it Is only as the littlo plrls do, when, at the first signs of ?prlng, they invariably with ono ac cord get out their skipping ropes, ?which may have been laid away and forgotten for eleven months. The word Easter is probably de rived from Eastre, the name of tho Cftxon goddess of spring, and It iq oasy to imagine that before our heath en ancestors were converted to Chri> tlanlty they v.aed to havo a great " eprlng festival In honor of the god tiess. With the advent of Christianity the eame Reason, when all nature sug gests Joyous thoughts, would natural Jy fce selected for the festival that commemorates the resurrection of Christ. tfhe learned men of tho Ohurch gave It -their most syrlous -consideration, until it was filially dociilod that Easter Day should be "the first Sunday after the full onooh which happens upon or next after March 21; and If the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after." No one I3 oxpeetod to understand this except the astronomers and mathema ticians, who discover and announce to the general public on wha? particular day Easter will fall each year. The only reason for mentioning this bewildering decision of tho Church Is that i t- g I v c 8 a hint of tho connection between Easter and rabbits. It must first be explained th?,t the rabbit la all a mistake, an.l tho animal that appears In our Easter pic tures and done In sugar1 in tho windows of the confectioners should really be a hare, instead of a rabbit. Tho hare 'has from time immemorial been the symbol of tho moon, and, as the moon decides the time of Eqster, it is Quito proper nnd natural that the hare should bo associated with this season.. In . Germany the Raster hare is almost as important a personage as St. Nicholas, and its habits somewhat resemble those of that much loved eaint. On the night befQre Easter a white hare enters the home of all children who have been gocd and hides in all sorts of out-of WOMEN AT TUB 8BPUL&HRE EARLY IN THE MORNING. At first there mi great disagree ment as to the exact day that should be $et for (his great festival. T^ho Jewish Christians wanted to have it at the same time as the Feast of the Passover, but others would not agreo to febat, and the result was that for hundreds of years different branches of the Church celebrated Easter on different days. It Is because a part of the Chtiroh did, at one time keep Easter at the same time as tho Jew ish Passover that the word "paschal" fa. now used in reference either Easter or tho Passover. Tho question aa to tlio particular day on which Easter was to be celebrated was dl? $yj?od Li Church councils, and all thft:W&y corners ai^iftfinber of beau* tlfuily colored eggs. iriyway", tjie children fln<] the eggs when ihoy hunt for them, and it would porhaps b& presumption on the part of any one w<ho Is not a German to express an* bplnion as to where they really ooma from. A rabbit Is no' - \ hare, although they are oottstaw. There la one cp&rked difference between ?hem. The baby rabbit, as all know who keep these little animals as pets, comes 'into ~ the world blind and hplplesa, while the baby hare has its eyes Often, from the. beginning, and is soon able to take care of Itself. It has b eea believed that U)0 hare never J closes its fyee, an<l that la on# rear ?on why 11 is cboaeu as the symbol of tho moon, which always ha* its oyes open and sees everything that ko*b ou at night. Just how the rab rlt error was Introduced Is not Known. It may have beeu all the fault Of <he oonfeetioueVs, who do doubt thought they could make candy without studying nature, and there fore neyet* learned that there waa any difference between a rabbit and A ha r0; The use of eggs in the celebration of spring is an ancient distort! for the egg haw always been the synt* bol of creation and ucw life. It it easy to understand why this Should bo, for every one knows that all the downy little chickena and djckllngs come out of eggs, as woll as a (multi tude of other blrdj that don't look so pretty because they are In such a hurry to sot out that they won't wait to put on tholr downy garments. The egg had been used in the Jewish Feasts of tho Paaaover, and w?hen the Christian festival of Kaster wuh estab lished its use waa retained with an added meaning, for it became the symbol of the Resurrection. There have been many curious ob servances In regard to Easter, In which hares and eggs are dying out,, while new ones are coming In, but the custom of wearing new clothes Is one of tho old ones that 1b n<Jt likely to die out. '/This practice has been so long and firmly established that in aome parts of the world there 1b a superstition that it would bring bad luck to neglect it. Even if therefore no ICaster festival the oomlng of spring would probably always Creato in the human heart a longing for fresh raiment. ' ' THE CHRIST OF THE ANDES. (Colossal 8tatue on Boundary Line Between Chill and Argentina.) See, where it stands In Its beauty, Where the oarliest sunbeams shine; Tall and stately and splendid; Tho Christ of the Boundary Lino! Forbidden the ovll Impulse That leadcth to pain and crlmo; United tho faith of nations, A compact outlasting Time! Telling the coming of Man, Who is bornkln the Image Divine; Llko a grand, full, chord of music, Tho Christ of tho Boundary Line! As we view this beautiful ftatue From the mountain paths below, As we iec Its Face .supernal ' In the |unbeams,nlatoat glowj ,.s; 'Twlxt erstwhile waring nation* Of a present peace the sign; A psalm and a prayer in marble} The Christ of the Boundary Linol AN EASTER PRAYER, So many eyes/ftear-bttaded,*. scarcely . *4. a Aft ? T : *' '* *> ^ ? ^ V Blw . ?-? : V : The gracious hopo arid promise of ? , the spring; Though leaf and * bud are rich in prophecr. They hare no tyion of ttfe bloaqom* lng. *'? Oh, Qod of pity! at this Eastertide, May all the sweet, glad Dromiie of the day Steal Into troubled hearts, and there abide ? Orant visions unto suoh at these, -we pray. HE 18 RISEN. Sweet the chime the I ills are ringing, Sweet the carol angels singing; . "Risen is our Lork most glorious. Over sin and tfeith victorious." JTe ls risen ? t*ty the story Wsft&f '-ttdtn Hls'.iMrtone -of glory ^ From the bond3 of death set free? ^ O, ferave, where is thy vlotory" Angels, strike your harps of glory; Waft, ye winds, the Joyful story, & J *Wtfll* wfthvfcapjjy, vqic^we sln& . TralAes to our risen King. V-"+ RAILWAY ; FINISHED Virginian Road Connects Nor folk and Deepwater, W Va BIG CELEBRATION THE SEQUEL Tba Great and Splendid Enterprise Financed by H. H. Rogers Given an Auspicious 6?nd Off. ? ? ?. ? ??? . Norfolk, Va., Special The opening of tho Virginian Railway, extending i from Sewell's Point, Norfolk, to Deopwatcr, W. Va., on the Kanuwha liver, a distance - of 440 miles, took fjlace last Friday with a most auspic ontj celebration here, made more no | table by the preHence of II. II. Rog ers, who built tho "Virginian'* at a cost of about $40,000,000; Bamuel Clements (Mark Twain), and sever al prominent New York financiers interested with Mr. Rogers in the un dertaking. The celebration ' festivities began with tho arrival early in the day of 025 people from along the line of the new syutem, on a Special train of 12 coaches and two Pullman cars. The day - was tilled with events of interest, tbe|' programme of enter tainment for the visitors including an inspection of the Norfolk harbor, the new Virginian coal piers at Ne well 's Point, the largest in the world with a dumping capacity into ship bottoms of 30,000 tons per day, and finally, a public reception to M<*. Rogers ami his guests. Mr. Rogers was the guest of honor at a $20-per plate banquet Saturday night. The Virginian Railway, -begun in March, 1002. was completed Febru ruary 17, lfli)0. More than one mil- | lion acres of coal lands iit West Vir ginia have been made accessible by it and the road has opened tip a. conn try never before enjoying railway facilities. Facta A>)Out New Railway. Ruilt by Ilenry H. Rogers at a cost of *40,000,000. Extends f>nm Bewails Point, tide water, Virginia- to' Deepwater, West Virginia, a d -dance of 440 miles. Work of construction started ; March, 19U2 aud the road was com pleted Febru ry'17, 1000. *??> Se wells P<uU coal pier is the larg est one in tho world and has a dump- I ing capacity of 30,000 tons a day. Section traversed bv the road one of the richest and. most productive in, the East. With n whcop and n hurrah, (ho echo of winch sounded along the line frcin Norfolk to Deepwater, in tho nipped ir.ountnins of West Vir ginia, *142 L^ilos west, Henry II. Rogers' Virginian railway whh of. ; ficially proclaimed completed and ready for business Friday . Mr. Rogers, the president of the road, as well as the man who fur nished most of the money and in spired the building of the road, was here to make the announcement. With him v ere his friend, Mark ?Twain, to see that all went well; his son, Henry II. Rodgers, Jr., and his. son-in-law, Urban H. Broughton. Hero as guestB of tho oity and ths Virginian Railway,' were 700 busi ness men from along the lino of tho Virginian, and mingling with theso were the citizens of Norfolk. Of course, the center of attraction was in Mr. Rogers, and then evorybody wanted to see Mark Twain. The celebration came to a close Saturday night with an elaborate $20 a plate banquet, given in honor of ;H- H. Rogers, at the Monticello Hotel by tho business men of Nor "folk. Among the speakers of tho evening were II. H. Rogers, W. JI. White, president of the Richmond, Fredericksbujg and Potomao RaiK -way, who. acted as toastmaster; Pre*-' ident W. W. Finley, of tho Southern Railway; Gtorge W. Stevens, of tho Chesapeake and Ohio; Alfred P. Thorn, general counsel of the South ern Railway; Governor Claude A. Swanson, of Virginia; W. R. Mayo, of Norfolk and Samuel L. Clemens, (Mark Twain.) The features of the evening wen ths brief speech by Mr. Rogers and A humorous, talk delivered by Mr. Clement, When thoso here from along tho line of the Virginian arrived aboard two trains at 8:30 o'clock Friday moiling they were conducted by va rious committees to hotels and cafes for breakfast. Then they wero taken on an excursion about the harbor, an oyster roast being served aboard thj) steamer used. A buffet supper wag -'serfed- at -tf.q Business Men's Asso ciation early in the evening and after j that everybody went to the theatre. Capture One of the Yeggmen. . AehevilU, N. > C? v Special. ? Newt reached the' town Monday night at 8 o'clock that Special Deputy Sheriff Frank Rogers, hail intercepted tho two yqrgmc* who. broke jail at Greenville, S. C., Satnrday night, at Craggy station, a point five miles bo low Aehevilln; that he engaged in a fierce fight with the two escaping men and thrt while capturing one he was badly ? .eaten up. It was stated here that Rogers at 8 o'clock, had one of the men nnder arrest; that the other one had taken his piftol and escaped across tfifffiMft'-' HITS THE OIL TRUST Kellogg fires Big Gun at The andard. ?. RESULT OF TWOYEAKS' SEARCH Brief of the Special Assistant to the United States Attorney General Contains 1,100 Printed J ? - ? In Argument Mr. Kellogg Doclaretl Rockefeller and Flagler Effected Combination to Securo Monopoly of Petroleum Trade. St. Lou Mo., Special. ? Special Assistant to the United States At torney General, Frank H. Kellogg, Bled his brief of 1 ,4()()_ print cd pages with the del k ?*??!' tlx* Fnited States Court of 1 1 1 i h city Monday and coin tnoneed his argument, ui'tei' two >cars of evidence taking, in the gov. trnment 's suit to dissolve -the gigan tic Standard Oil Corporation of New Jersey for alleged violation of the Hherman aet. Mr. -Killogg commenced with a rather full interview of the evidence -a ken by the government, before dis easing the law applicable to his ase. He told of the combination ef fected by .John I). Rockefeller, Wil liam KwckefVller and Henry M. Flag ler in 1871), conceived, lie declared, to effect a monopoly of the petro leum trade, both domestic and ex port. It was at that moment, accord ing to tlie Federal lawyer, that the illeged illegal conspiracy to monopo lize the. oil trade of the country was .'oik cived. Alleges Conspiracy. Later, said Mr. Kellogg. TIeury IT. Rogers, John 1>. Arehbold, Oliver II. Payne 'and Charles M. Pratt were Iftken into the conspiracy by the oth M* defendants. To tell more clearly the story of Standard Oil, tho special attorney general divided the alleged conspir icy into three periods ? the ft rut, from 1870 to 1882, when it was, he said, a simple combination, acting in lOrniony with its stock interests pcoled in the hands of three trus tees. From 1882, continued Mr. Kellogg, !o 185)5), the defendants' interests were in tho form of a trust controll ed bv nine trustee*. This trust, d?>* dared illegal by the Ohio courts, was liqniudated, and from 1800 to the present time, said Mr. Kellogg, eo.i duding that portion of Iur narrative, lias taken the form of a holding cor poration, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, controlling subsidary corporations in alleged restraint of trade or otherwise. Charges Rebating. After charging that the Standard Oil not only received rebate* on ull of its own oil but upon nil that ship* ped by the independents, Mr. Kellogg 1 told of the dissolution of the original trust by order of the courts of Ohio and its subsequent liquidation by tho trustees. Never had the government been able to ascertain the nxnet number of tho outstanding trustees' certificates ' nor who owned them, continued Mr. KeXogg, despite the most enrneRt ?each that could be made. That the Ohio trust wns never dissolved iii ?cod faith was another of the Fed eral lawyer's charges. Following this alleged liquidition, continued tho speaker, the Standard Oil Company of lfcw Jersey wns formed to do ns a corporation what the trust oonld not do. A Costly Contract. The formation of tho Corsicana (Texas) Refining Company and tho Intricate method by which the Man* hattan Oil Company, owning a pipo lino in Ohio, wni purchased through a? alleged aummy English company, was next described. Mr. Kellogg ?aid that tho real* consideration of the latter company's purchase was a contract to supply the chicago gas plant of Anthony H- Brady and E C. Benedict, cf New York, with gas oline for ten years at half tho market j price. That oontroct, stated tho speaker, was worth $1,300,000. Mr. Kellogg charged that in the formation or the original Standard Oil Company, cf Ohio, men eontrcl!? ing the principal railways of the country, necessary to the conduct of the oil business, were taken in ns stockholders. Tt wan incidental to the acquisition of the Brooklyn firm of Pratt & Co., | Mr. Keilogg said, that II; II. Rogers came into the Standard. "This original trust agreement was never made pubulic in t lie many Standard Oil investigations through out this country until the exigencies of this case forced Mr. Rockefeller to produce it in justification of that agreement,' ' said Mr. Kellogg with emphasis. 1 Mr. Kellogg Inld much stress upon the Standard's acquisition of tho 8e- ' curity Oil Company of Texos, with it* refinery, through another London concern. Especially did he condemn tbe big defendants' secret ownership of a majority stock holding in the WaUw-Pieree Oil Company, of Mis souri. Enormous Profits. Mr. Kellogg told of tha wonderful profits of the Standard Oil Company. For tbe ten years ending in 1906 tho concern had earned, he asserted, tht comfortable euai o? ^9^,226,525 up on a capitalisation of 907,250,000. SAFECRACKERS ESCAPE Two Noted Yeigaien Oct Away Trow Greenvill* County Jail. < ? i <???!? vill:?, Special. ? (Juruer Mwih', alius John Kutherford, alias John 1 1 1 it K if, alias Jake Moore, alius "(lohhler, " alia* 4,Teniie?oiee Dutch," who is nut' of t ho most no torious Ycujjiiien in the history of professional safe cia<kintf, ami his equally well known pal, (Jeoige I'ur lon, alias "(hicutfo Army," who has himself hi?n connected with more than a score if different robberies, es< aped fit in (he (ireenville county jail som? lima Saturday ni^ht while a guard watched at tlu'ir nr. Tin- liif-t n i'\i s tluil Hi*' guard had of their flight w* wlun ho went t<> their cell Sunday morning to hoc if they wrii' up. Tln> e.M'itpe cannot he accounted f< r and the authnritifri are at a loss as lo how (he men made, their cscppc w hi h' the gnrtid wnlelied only a few feel I roui I heir door Another Smallpox Death. Yorkville, Spi'flinl.? Mins Pugh, o daughter of Kiiby Pugh, who died I wo weeks ago nt the York cotton I nulls of smallpox, died Saturday I aijfcht from the sumo- diitfsise. A ne gro woman named Williams died Sunday morning from the samo cause. I^??I h parties lived outside the town limits. The* Williams wo man had beta washing for parties at the York mills and her father help id bury Kiihy Pugh. This makes six deaths, nil outside of town, Infeetel j laces are guatded. There are no cast s in t( v. n and the hoard of health is doing all it ean to arrest the ?prrad*~7if the dii-ease. There are four eases hilt none in town. Birhopvillo to Havo New School Building. Hishopvlile, Special. ? At a meeting of tic hoard < f trustees of 1 U.' Bish opville selu ols i? <*t lit lv held it was de< id( (1 by the lira id that the rap:d giowth ef the s< hools, hoih "high and yrndtd, lequiied more room lor the betterment of the schools, ami the hoard accordingly resolved to build another commodious school building which, in size r.nd workmanship, will j equal the present building, and to erect this liuil ling in the opposite part of town; that is, in the western portion of the town. Sabbath Obfervancc League. Aiken, Special.- ? Wednesday night a meeting was held at tlu* Kirst Bap tist church, and a temporary organ ization of a Sabbath Observance league wan elTectcd. Another meet ing will l^e held . next Wednesday night for perfecting a permanent or ganization. At the meeting Rev. Dr. McMaster, of Pittsburg, organizer for the eague, was present and de livered an excellent addross. The puipcsc of the league is to oreate a sentiment for the observance of Sun? day and also to enforce the existing Sunday laws as they now stand on , the statute books. Farmers Around Gaffney to Plant All Cotton. Judging from the amount of fer tilize! s which arc being hauled out from ClafTney this Reason the farm ers cf tie county must be preparing I to j hint everything in cotton. The i dcr.i-is say that their sales this sea i sen tire larger than they were at this time last year, p.nd some of our farm ers say that the season has been./so favorable to farm work that their work is much further advanced than is usual at this season of the year, which will likely havo t ho effect as they say of a much larger area be ing planted in cotton. I Will Meet In Greenville. Greenville, Special. ? The Southern Textile Association will meet here Saturday. Addresses will bo deliver ed by Mr. Lewis W. Parker, on "Tho Relation of the Overseer to the Mill;" by Mr. Hugo Koblongor, of New Brunswick, N. J., on "Sizing nnd Finishing," and by Prof. C. 8. Dcgg-ett. of Clemson College, on "Dyeing." Judge Twiggs to Deliver Memorial Anderson, Special. ? Judgo II. D. D. Twiggs, one of the leading mem bers of the Savannah, (Ja., bar has acceptcd the invitation recently ex tended him by the members of the Robert K. Lee Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, to de liver the principal address liero on the occasion of Moraoricil Day, May 10. Judge Twiggs was a gallant young officer in the Confederate army, nnd is looked upon hj? one of the leading attorneys cs well as one of the most brilliant orators of that I State. Aied Negress Burned. Laurens, Special. ? News has just reached the city cf ft horrible oe currcnce on. (he Wadsworth place, some seven or eight miles toutheftst of here. An old negro woman, 75 year* of ege was burned to death while burning up trash, and atubblc in a field* The. old woman, Robert sou by name, was ?lon? in tj>e field and her clothing caught fire; she tried to run home, but fell on th* way. i FIRE AT FORI WORTH Destroys $5,000,000 Worth of Property. SIX UVCS WERE SACRIFICED Fire IlrcRkH Out in Fashionable Real* dcnce District, (Jots Beyond Con* (rol Within Fifteen Minutes ? Dynamite Bffcctlvo ? Assistant* is Ruehc4 From NUgbborina Tcwns. Fort Worth, Tex., Spccial, ? Fan ned by a stiff wind, a fiio in tho southern portion of 1 1? in <*ity Satur day ftfti'ihi on swept over on area of ton blot Uh in length ond bo yen in width, destroyed property roughly (si imat t <1 in value to bo in excess of if."), 000, COO, and consul the death of persons. The lire, which broke out in a fash ionable resident district, VfflB beyond jill imtid within 15 minutes after it started, and wad r.<>t cheeked until dynamite was resorted to, four hours Inter. The spread of Hie (lames was not ehnked until they had eaten their way to the 'IVxns & Pacific Railroad resrvpt it'll en the east. <)i| tho south the liio w; s checked at tho Texas Po ntic pa?.jpi?;r'T station, this steel and stone structure forming iv bulwark tl'iat saved the wholesale district of tlie city, whidi nt one time was in im minent danger .of destruction. A patient nIkso identity has not been learned, perished in Walker 'a Hi1 nituri inn and thiee men were elcc tiffhted and their bodies burned to cinders in the Sawyer electric plant. Ileiheit Stacy was fatally burned in | an endeavor to s ive his dwelling, and , a fireii'aij^J'* II freiu a house top and was killed. It is estimated that 500 families are I'.oiiKlnss,' Many of these have pone to Dallas, where shelter has been offered. A parly of small boys carelessly handi ng ciyraetles is believed to hav e be n i lie cause of the fire. BULLY'S PLAN. Would Save Great Sums to Cotton runners 'I he Warchoueo Plan No Paith in it Say Augusta Cotton F.xchango Men. , Atlanta, Ha., Special. ? Daniel J, Suliv" the (.tie-time great cotton bull manipulator of New York was here Friday and set forth a scheme by which lie el.iims $15*000,000 tc $'25fl,000.C00 may be saved to tho ru<sers of cotton in the South. He said, "A minimum fund of *10,000,000, subscribed by the most conservative flneneiern of the United States, is available to be invested in such iron-clad securities as shall in sure tho ability and the responsibil* Ity of tho plan'n promoters to redeem their promise* and obligations to thq last detail. "The people of the South will ba (riven tho first opportunity to invent in this project, if. upon . receiving it, it commends Itself to their judg ment." Tho plan contemplates a chain of warehouses across the South suffi cient to hold one-third of the cotton crop and thcieby enable farmers to store their rotten and draw small amounts upon it to enable them to sell at w'll instead of by compulsion, A Savannah special of Sunday however, says the plan does not com* mend Itself to the cotton faetorien there. They claim that the schema? is net practiced or it would have been adopted already through tho For* mors' Union without tho aid of Sully, They claim that no improvement UUiy be expected from thin source, Killed in Duel With Offloen. JPiUgercld, Gu., Spccial. ? Robert t Oroshnm won killed eaily Sunday ;'-. morning; in ft pistol dud with Gbief of Polieo Iirubakcr pnd Patrolman Johnson. The man wa? being hunt* cd by the officers and fired upon then) frcin a hiding phco in ft dark nllt>y, T|io officers jointly opened Are and Oreshmn ftU with four bulls! wound*. Thrce-Ccrrercd Duel In Struts of Georgia Town. Ilnr.clhurst, Qa., Special. ? Eugene nnd J. L. Williams, brothers, were shot down on a street of this place by V. T. Stowers, formerly of Con yers, Oa.. J. T. , Williams being proba bly fatally hurt. Tho* brothers ore ? members of the firm of Jarman A Williams. It was stated that Stow ers had given this firm a check the bank would not honor; that Eugeno demanded the money and a fight re sulted. J. L. Williams went to_Mft_ 1jfc toe r>* WSjflRT il ia allegedr^tt Stowers drew his pistol. Whols Jury Panel Unfit For Serricei New Orleans, Spoeial. ? In the criminnl distriet court Thursday Judge F. D. Chretien dismissed the entire jnry panel onrnotio^ of Dis* . ... trict Attorney Adams, who charged tfcftt the panel as a whole had shown *+$ ? itself unfit fcr service; that although tho State presented clear casts ; against a number of aoens^d persons it wns unable to secure any convic tions before ito. jurors, T'