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HOME CIRCLE. Som? Helpful Thoughts for the Young Folks CULLED FROM OUR EXCHANGES AU the Vouuf? JPeoplo Who Read" This Paper Are Particularly Invited to Road Thia . Column. In life-m>t death- . .. Heart* need fond wc rda to help thom on their way} 'Need Oin'."?r thoughts and gentle sympathy, Caresses, pleasunt looks, to cheer each passing i j day. Then hoard thon, not until they useless be; lu li fi?-nut death, Speak kindly, H vint; hearts need sympathy. # ? ? T.nK OLD COHN 80NO. Oh, what has become of tho old corn song hat used to float along j As to the_quurtor, at close of day, ' The morry Hold hunda took their way, k glad and happy throng? 'Twas tho national song of tho rural place, In tho good old dnys or grace; And tho fellowship and the common joys Wore shared by tho master and tho boyB, 1"<t bennicd from evory raco. blight of freedom Los dono away ?3 'tithe lino old day, , f And tho mutual lives that ?ero brav? ?nd Ul' strong of t'3 down in dust like tho glad old song, -<?to tho darkies used lo stay. C ,, >h, whon sha i I tho corn song como again iver hill and plain? itoiioid an echo falls from tho silent land. e ?Novormoro, while the world hliull stund, , .ll wo hour tho sweot old strain." slr . g' Dixie's subsoil, calm und deep, ..De,' lxjys Bloop; -J?ifllrop cr and tuen in a common lot; tllO ll ll pr song-tho song of tho corn is not McLeod ol'00 ",,d ^tbrli'rs nnd Reva E * * li. Baker, ot A CHILD AGAIN. Dunlap of Clio U oking back to an Yorkville, and T. Esntb year, when the station Inside th hi m to a school handsome vases of clifli v? rites: ' On and hot house planta ' intimated to purity and innocence. ending me to 1 ,"/ , R A thrilled my ibo order of cxerci>ie t,hon lived E. P. Tay If 1 would do Rev. J- I. ?e would do ]3ur I remember and my p otU 11 . Morris Rev. tell thc ?ments" In 'schools and col glrl can have all of action, all the learning i aries teach, and be free from ?ny of the former restrictions thrown around them, without in any way losing the charm of sweet maid enly ways, or forgetting the plain rule observed by well-bred people. The young ladies of the present have all kinds of clubs-literary, social and athletic. They should form one more whose basic principle should be to eat their elders with resp;ct, and at times and at all places exercise ose old time and lovely traits of oharacter which spring from unsel fishness, refinement and gentleness of manner, and restore to the modern soolety world what now seems to be one of the lost arts. RETUltN TO TUE KAUM. The Augusta Chronicle says it would be a good thief, if many young men who left tho farms, In hard times, would return to tliem. lu this era of prosperity, when the farmer has us all in his power, tn u considerable degree. An intelligent young roan with in dustry and tbrl ft, can do much better farming, especially when his family hold Janded estates In the country, than by clerking lu cities, with their demoralizing tendencies. Col. Bt.b Ingersoll was a sad infidel and said many ugly things aud helped under mine many a weak brothers faith, but now and then, ?ie , uttered true and beautiful and v\lsesentiments Among the latter, he once said: "Young men, I would rather have forty acres of U nd and a log cabin on it, and a woman I love in the cabin, with a grassy pith leading down to the spring where the water gurgles from the lips ol tho earth whistling day and night KO the white pebbles a perpetual song-with holly hocks growing at the corner of the house and morning glories blooming over the lbw locked door - with lattice work over the window so that the sunlight would fall checked over the babe in the cradle, and the birds, like songs with wings, hovering In the summer air-than to be clerk of any govern ment on earth." TUB FASHIONING <>K EV IC. According to a Hindoo legend this is the proper origin of woman: Twashtrl, the god Vulcan of the Hin doo mythology, created the world. Rut on his commencing to cn ate wo man he discovered that with mau he had exhausted all his creative materi als, acd that not one solid element had been left. Tnls, of course, great ly perplexed Twashtrl and caused him to fall In a profound meditation "When he arose from lt he proceeded us follows: He took The roundness of the moon, The undulating curves of thc ser pent, The graceful twist of the crceplrg plant, The light shivering of the grass blade and the slenderness of the willow, The velvety softness of thc Howers, The lightness of the feather, The gentlcgaze of the doe, The frolicsjmness of the dancing sunbeam, The tears of the cloud, The Inconsistency of the wind, The timidness of the hare, The vanity of tho peacock, Tho hardness of tho diamond, The sweetness of honey, The cruelty of the tiger, The heat of the lire, The chill of the snow, The cackling of tho parrot, The cooing of the turtledove All these lie mixed together and formed woman. Then he presented her to the man. * ? * COUNT YOUIt 11LB83INQ8. Thanksgiving Day invariably brings about a season of reflection and ret rospection which is wholesome and ========== Ight. After the year*? busy toll, ?vhen the harvest has been gathered, ;he holiday time tis Just ahead, and sew ventures are tn prospect, lt is well '? pause and take an inventory stall that wo dare call our own; to measure our gains and to mark our (allures; to bow before the irreparable past and to face the future with cheer ful hope; to forget the small annoy ances and tc richly enumerate the joys; to give thanks unbounded for all. 0, count your blessings! You will 06 surprised at their number aud their beauty and their sweetness. Count them again, name them one by one, and yeu will find yourself sing ing aloud your song of thanksgiving. Do not let that day of enforced drud gery, that hour of disappointment, or tbat night of anxiety oheck the count. Perhaps they were blessings too, we have no right fo say they were not. When the counting flags, think of the glories of a sunshiny day, the breath of the winds, the drip of the rain, tbe pulse of tbe beatt, the joy of love, tbe touch of a hand, the voices of little ohlldren. Rememb.r the throb of expectation, the satisfied wish, the real'z jd desire, the rainbow of promise. Recall the Bummer past, the round of happy elajs, sleep with out fear, food and raiment and home. Open your eyes and your heart to the knowledge of "Heavenly blessings without number, greatly falling on tby head." Think on these tbirgs and see what God bath done. * * * DEFKItKNCE TO THE AGED. Why ts lt that so many girls and young wumen of tbe present are not poll o to older people? Up to a few years ugo, one ot the distinctive traits ot refinement and good breeding among young ladles was the notice able deference they always showed their elders, and to n<jg'ect to do so was to write oneself down in tue so dal scale as an underbred person, and one who:e people were either snobs or igncruit of social etiquette. The deference and almost reveren tlal manner of young peop'e toward older persons they met was one of the attractive traits they posset-sod Girls vied with each other In paying the proper attention to the hostess or an entertainment, on seeing that older ladles had the best seats, and were properly looked after wherever they met them. For some unaccountable reason ,jls has all been changed of late liOv. until now young ladies treat Insurti-?pi? very much as they do satisface namely, use them when after your -:ed of them, and Igrore CROiat other times. T .ej "The*!' 61 J?y kbe hospitali _'jhe fullest, without Z7 TT*"T. word to her ex Throbbing ,entenoe wncn Js4oa nighvv forgetfulues^vof what )e done and said has^uvaded usc cicle. Many girls va)low 't! elr mothers to do all kinds of ser vices for them, and permit them to deny themselves for their daughter's comfort vv i I ii o u t s > LT MCI ? as saying "thank you," In recognition of her services. Of course, this ls Inexcus ably rude and very unkind. Put who is to blame m ire than the parents who submit to such rudeness, and who have allowed this condition of I affairs to become chronic and almost! general? There ought to he a mos1, radical reform in this respect, and it fanout come too promptly. # * TOE DANQKIt OK D18COURTK8Y. 1 think that lt was Rev. Stopford A. Brooke who once uttered these wise and true words: "Toe power of being able to keep a household from fretting and complaining and from violent tempers, the power of being able to encourage, nourish and stimu late the freedom and growth of others, is gained from there having heeu built, up In thc minds of all in the house, as the first motive of life, the great Christian law-Christian because en tirely human-'Think of others more than of yourself aud of others' hap piness moro than of your own inhap piness. Of this law t ie best detinitiou to remember ts a word of St. Paul's. In honor preferring one another.' This s true courtesy. It la ita very ll iwer; 't is the essence of Christ's teaching set to music in dally 1 fe. It will hiing out all the good in others; it will bring out what ls best in yourself; lt will muko your horns like very heaven. Of all the mischief making elements that creep Into many douses, discour tesy is one of tho most common and most fatal in Its results. When a wife begins to speak sharply and rudely to her husband, .and when she finally desceuds to the low estate of "nag ging" him, she is in a fair way to lose both his love and his respect; and when a husband begins to bri less courteous to his wife he is in danger of losing ooth her respect and love. The rock of discourtesy is the nek on which many a matrimonial hark has stranded. If thc father and mother are discourteous to each other, it is not to be expected that the children of the home will be gentle and polite. There ls no greater Imitator than a Bhild, and there ls no one more alert. The child takes note of everything, ind it ls susceptible to the general at mosphere of the home. If the father is fault finding and generally Irritable :ho child I? likely to bc of tho same lisposltlon. If the children are not .aught coutesy In the home, it is not xi he expected that they will be cour ,ei us outside of the h'ine. * What in til? IMffereneo? In the recent meeting of the Georgia State Baptist Convention Ox-Governor Northern, who was resident of the body, made a clarion ;all on the Georgia Baptists to turn heir backs on worldly amusements, 'ie very truly Bald that whatever evil ends to the spread of Intemperance n Georgia finds Its origin In the home, le said In a ringing voice: "What s the difference, wid you tell me, be ,ween the man behind the counter lealing out liquid damnation, as it is ?ailed, for pay, and the woman beau ,(fully gowned at the rcccpth n st?nd ig behind the beautiful punch howl landing out lu fancy glasses lnboxl latlng beverages without pay? What s the difference, will you tell me, he vecn tho men who meet In the beck oom of a saloon and put out the vatchmin while they play for silver n the shape of coln and gaudily rowned women gathered In the draw ng room to play for silver moulded tito th. shape of a cupf In God's tames, brethren, let's gel our women o dedicate their homes to God." iVhat Gov. Northern said to Georgia '.aptlsts applies willi eq :al force to South Carolina Baptists, Methodists, tr the members of any other church. Ie indulges in very plain language md asks a pointed question. Like iov. Northern we can't see any differ :nco In the cases he cites, and if there s any difference in thc principle we vould like to have them polntod out o us. THE SOLID SOUTH Will Sever be Broken M Long at the Fifteenth AMENDMENT. STANDS A8 A LAW. So Sayn Senator Tillman In an In." terTieW with ? Correspondent cftbc Au?uflt? Chronicle in Columbia, When I met bits here by appoint ment as he was passing through Co lumbia on tis was to Trenton, Sena tor Tillman was in particularly good spirits, and obatted pleasantly and entertainingly concerning the lessons taught by the results of the national election and the political future of tbe South, Though when he touched on certain phases of the negro question the corners of his mouth went down promptly and with marked energy, his eyes flashed and bis voice deepened Into that tune of intense earnestness for which he ls so famous, says a cor respondent of the Augusta Chronicle. Asked what he thought of the "solid South," and whether be saw any immediate hope of breaking it, Senator Tillman declared with em phasis that the solid South would never be broken as long as the Fif teenth amendment is allowed to stand. "The South ls solidly Democratic not ID the broader Bense that the term democracy is understood lu the politic'} of the whole country," he said, "but in the narrow sense that the Anglo-Saxou intelligence of thc South solidly and always unyieldingly stands for white supremacy. Of course, this situation ts unfortunate, inasmuch as the resuhsare intellectu ally stifling In the discussion of and contention for the broader principles of government and of civilized life Bub there is no immediate hope of changing these conditions. Every ef fort put forth by the m'sgulded philanthropists and vicious politicians uf the North with their Impracticable notions about the equality of man. to break the solid South, only seals that bord of union as with hoops of steel, and the problem will r ever be solved until the North lots the South alone to solve it. ' If these dreamers of the North, working in conjunction with their greedy political brethren don't stop m driling in this matter there will he raise war and terrible massacre. For political equality means social equali ty, and social equality means misce genation and the ruougrchzlng of the pe iple of the South, with the result bbat? the white lu'elllgence of tbe South will degenerate to the level of those S. uth American republics whose history has shown them to be wholly and invariably incapable t.otr only o? self-government, tut ci acquiring property, Hie distinguishing chirac teristlc of the white man, and un willingness to respect law and live lu a quiet and orderly manner. "Once let the wedge be driven in just the least blt, once recognize the political equality of the negro and social equality will inevitably follow, and the races will merge by marriage between the better class of negroes and lower class of whites. Those scoundrelly, trilling white men who have lest all self-respect will sc: uple to marry the. daughters of negro men who have a quired property. Then will the sluicegates be opened, and there will be no stopping the mon grelizlng of the white intelligence of the South. This in an unthinkable condition, an Impossible consumma tion. "Taere is only one solution of the .negro problem," he continued, "only one way of eliminating the crime of rape and freeing the land of the re sultant crime of lynching-the com plete subjection of the negro under stringent laws and police regulations. As lung as 'ie Is allowed by law to vote and run a lout the country without restraint there ls checking the crime which he commits. And the North is gradually coming to that view of the matter." In tbls c innection Senator Tillman told of lils i-xperlence In campalgnirg In the West, and mentioned a number of Illinois and Indiana towns which will not allow the negro to live in them. "The North is gradually getting educated on the negro question; the little taste these people have had of Cully bas made thom less tolerant of his weaknesses than the people of the South even. The patriotic Intelli gence of the North recognizes that thc South has a great problem on Its hands and is willing lo let the South solve lt." Thc: overwhelming defeat of the national Democracy docs not in the slightest degree, lu Senator Tillman's oplni' n, ri (lt ct the North's agreement with President Roosevelt's negro policy. Ile attributes the Republi can success to the general prosperity of the country and the personal popu larity of Mr. Roosevelt. Senator Tillman ls not feeling blue about reduction of Southern repre sentation. Ilo said: "1 have talked to many of the brightest and most c:ip:ib!e newspa per correspondents at Washings n and they all pooh-pooh the idea, and from many of thc leaders of the Re publican party I leim that lt ls not the intention to attempt any such thing. Those greedy Yankees who want to roduce the South's represen tatlon In order to decrees] our power and Influen?a and increase their own, forget, In their selfishness, In arguing for representation in proportion to voting strength and the number of people participating on government, that their own representation ls ba ed largely on herds of fortlgnets who aie constantly pouring Inca the North, who know nothing of our history or Institutions, and who are less capable, In a sense, of voting lt telligently and know less about tho needs of this country and aro less patriotic than tbe negroes themselves. They forget the history of tbe world In contend ing for their Idea of the equality of xian. They forget that not half the white men of E'iropo today, leaving Itus-iia out of the count, are allowed o vote, not even those of the so called lmlted or constitutional monarchies, Universal suffrage ls an Idle dream, ind lt ls dangerous and deadly poison LO free government." "Wliatof the Immediate future of .he Democratic part>?" "The darkest hour ls always Just iofore day. These hort of defeats not nfrequently presage great victories 'or tho party. Tnlngs looked blacker n 1874 and again in 1802, the periods )f greatest Democratic successes. The Republicans arc drunk with suc cess and a long hold on power. They will bc certain to misinterpret thc real cause of tho recent victory and mr time wll! come If we a:g| true to )?n-elves and to American lflBals. "Anyhow, the South can Sutberbe seduced nor bullied Into clmwo of at titude. Democracy with fl. means white man's rulo. It has maut that ind almost nothing else fdj almost thirty years or more. Republicanism bas just as surely meant neg? equali ty with all that that Implies. But those who think tho recent, election Indicates that the North i's solidly Republican on this Issue will have a rude awakening'if tn ey attempt to carry out the idea. I may be mis taken, but I shall walt equanimity to see the test made. The South mean time will stand by and maintain its Anglo-Saxon civilization. To para phrase the language of Martin Luther at Worms: 'Tnere we take our stand; we can do no otherwise, so help us God I?? _ - A N?.W PENSION FRAUD. Another Bohemo Gotteu Up to Do fraud, tho Colored 1'eople, lt ls evident from letters received hy several negroes in this country ard other places that another cir ?rt ls be ing made by some-sharper In the North to swindle them out of some money In tho hope of securing a pen sion. These frauds, which are as old as the war Itself, are not only being worked here lo civil war oases, but there are also efforts being made to catch them on the Spanish war fake, lt will be remembered that a number of negroas from Columbia eallsted and a mucl larger number were turned down at the enlisting office for faiiuro bo pjss ho examination. Letters are being received from someone not only by those who were turned down, but also by those who never even applied, bloting that money can be obtained from the government for them by an agency in Wasbtngt n. The Columbia Record Bays Assistant District At torney Melton ls now on the loookut for some cases of this charaoter, and if any evie nee ls secured ther? will be some prompt arrests. "We had a case of pension fraud in Greenville ab the last term of court, he said. "A sharper had represented to a number of negroes that the gov ernment intended sending a train load of provisions to former slaves and veterans of the Spanish war In the South, lie also hinted that a share of these provisions could be obtained by those who were neither veterans or slaves, ll everything were iert to him. All he required was tire money to pay the freight, and he got enough of that to ship a train clear aorcss tho conti nent. We sent him up for eighteen months. I would be very glad to se cure some further evidence In these new frauds that aro cropping up, and if there is much of lt I will prob ably have some arres.s to make." Mt-itioR A Ncwsiiaoor. Cut his newspaper out of the life of thc average man and you will cr?ate a gap for which the combined ?on vCuiouces and l??ulles Ot m?dem civ ilization will hardly compensate. Hs looks forward to a quiet hour with his favorite paper with the same avidity which marks the approach of hls dln irg hours; in his mind's eye one, as suming almost as much importance as the other. Yet how many people of wb.es: dally existence the newspaper is such an indispensablo adjunct, think once a year of the men who make lt? W-.j t do they know of the sleepless lance of the men who keep a trained linger ou the puisoof public events, whose minds arb educated to the deli cate task of discriminating the re spective values of the days develop ments, or who hold themselves ready at a moment's notice to brave fatigue rebuffs and fallue in the collection of the news to ba served to the public In coherent; accurate form? Many of those who even come In contact with the mws-gatherer In his regular rounds, do not regard him with un mixed feelings of respect and estetrr. So long as his cruss-examlnatl'm ls directed at other folk aad things, it is well. But when the exigencies of his duty (ind duty and fate In the newspaper man's vocabulary are synonymous t'^ms,) compel him to turn his investigations in their direc tion, his enterprise sometimes seems to take on the nature of Impertinence and they aro ready to label his Insis tence Intrusion. The men who keep you in touch with the history-of the times, whether it be history making In Asia or this State, are just as .human, just as sen sitive to the little and big things of life, jii't as fallible as yourself. If you followed what was said In the foregoing paragraphs you will admit their c diing Is one of vast dignity and Jr, portance to themselves and the p opie that} they serve, even though the relotions be dipgulsed and impers nal. They are public servants In the most intense application of the phrase and their activity ls a check on largo and petty evil and Injustice, such ES ls furnished by no other hu man agency.-Exchange. Sn} M Wiro Tullen Too Much. Dr. George W. Currier, president of the Nashua, N. II., Trust Com pany, has instituted div? ree proceed Inga against his wife, who was Annie Walch of Biston, alleging extreme cruelty. Neith r will talk about the specifications but lt is understood that the chief all? gat ion against hor is garrulity. Mrs. Currier is Dr. Cur rier's second wife and was married to him twelve years ago. Since that time she has resided loone of the doc tor's houses In Manchester street. Although Dr. Currier has not lived there fur niuo years, he has been frequent caller. Mrs. Currier declares she does not care for alimony but still loves her husban.i. She says he will marry again while she lives. Dr. Cur ried ls 00 years of ago Nomination ot Crum. The president has again sent Lo the senate thc nomination of Crum as col lector of the port of Charleston and the outlook is that the nomination will be confirmed. It was to be expect 2d that the president would do what tm has. because to be consistent with tils position as to political equality of citizens regardless of color he could lot do otherwise. Not to have reno minated Crum would have been to acknowledge that he had stood "ry him oefore tho election only for political purposes, and while that most probab ly had a great deal to do with the itaod he took, lt could not be expect v.l that lo. would make an open con fession of the fact. A MlHurnlorataiidlnR. A Missouri paper wound up a com pliment to a young sohoolma'arn with i good word about "tho reputation for teaching she bears." Tho next day tho young sohoolma'arn met the odt tor and chased him down thc street with an umbrella, and at every Jump In the road she screamed that she had uever tauget a s'ae bear in her Ufo. The Connia Maxwell Orphanage and What it Fa? Done i DURING TEE PAST FISCAL YEAR. An Article that Will Interest All Who Are interco tc a In tho ".Voik ul Colina; for the Orphan?, Perhaps the Institution whloh is dearest to South Carolina Baptists ls the Connie Maxwell Orphanage, lo cated at Greenwood. The Rev. Atha T. Jamison ls superintendent of "the orphanage, and his board of trustees was abie to make a glowing report of his work this year. The following extracts are from tbe thirteenth annual report of the board: This bas been an annus mirabilis at Connie Maxwell Orphanage. The like has not been seen there before, nor 1B it likely that another year shall soon eclipse the one now brought to a close. NEW BUILDINGS. Since our last report to this Con vention a new cottage for the for?a an of the mechanical department has been erected near the Woods building. A two-room store house 20x40 feet) has been built near the superintend eno'8 borne. A new barn has beeu erected for the cows.- It accommo dates nur eighteen milch cows and there is room for as many as twenty six. A small barn bas been built at I the Maxwell farm, the need being im-1 peratlve. The Maxwell building, provided for in the will of Dr. and Mrs. Maxwell, ls nearly completed. Its cost will be about 912,000. Tne funds are sup pl Ucl from the Maxwell estate. The Maxwell building, two stories in height, of red brlok, contains eight I school rooms 22x32 feet each, and also a parlor in which will harg paintings | of Dr. Maxwell, Mrs. Maxwell and lit tle Connie Maxwell. The handsome Library building in j the centre of the grounds is the reali zation of tho proposed plan of Mrs. McKls-lck. as outlined in our last ro port. The house is 20x48 feet, very ornate in appearance, containing an entry way, reading room and book room. 11 in of rod brick and granite, beautiful within and without. It ls known as the E. P. P. McKlsslck me morial library. A splendid brick o ni ce was built last spring and paid for by Mr. John K. Durst a member of our board cf trus tees. This handsome gift ls in keep lng with his steady devotion to -Jon nle Maxwell Orphanage. Tho build ing contains a general J tu co 20x20 feet, a private office for the superin tendent, a store room for school sup plies, medicine and a vault with wall 20 Inches thick, with steel door and bank combination leek. FINANCIAL. The Convention at Sumter a year I aeo resolved to raise (15.000 for the Orphanage during tho present year. We have received 812,082.20 in con tributions. We are unable to ac count for the backward step thus taken, unless it be that the people ! have an Idea that the orphanage lias I now come into possession of the Maxwell estate, and ls not greatly in need cf money. We take occasion to j state clearly that the money that has been put Into bouses with the Mux i well legaoy has greatly Increased our ! expenses and in no wise diminished them. Gifts of merchandise have come to the orphanage from many individuals, churches, Sunday schools and socie ties. It ls estimated that 81,563.15 was sent in clothing and dry goods, and 81,345 95 In provisions, making a ! total of 82,018.10 in gifts of this | character. The Muxwell farm has yielded good profit this year. It furnished the or phanage whh 400 cords of wood, 450 bushels ot corn, 500 bales clover and pea vine hay, 500 bushels of wheat, 75 bushels of peas; melons, potatoes, beef, pork and turnips. WOllK DAT. Following the . instruction of the Convention last year our superintend ent appointed another work day this| fall. It has been a very great sue cess. The amount realized In cash lu.s been 81,493.99, as against about 6700 last year. PRESENT PRESSING NEED. We have bad considerable anxiety on ae count of the scarcity of water and the low depth of some of the wells, some of which have gone dry. The scourge of typhoid fever In the or phanage of our North Carolina breth ren, the months of curbing, care and expense, and the number of deaths among the children should warn us In time. We should be wise and fore stall filch trouble. There ls one method, and evidently only one that will bring permanent relief. That method though costly may prove the cheaper In the end. A deep well of, Hay 360 feet, Bunk through granite, would give an abundant and unfailing supply for all time, the water would be absolutely pure and safe and there would In no annual expense Involved. The large family now resident at the orphanage makes it a questionable matter as to whether wo can afford to risk tho use of a surface supply of waler. In order that all the people may see Just how much property we now pos sess we proseut tho following exhibit: Six homes for children.82-1,000 lour cottages for oflljers . 4,000 Oh? pol. 1,800 Barns. 1,800 Store room. 300 Office. 1,300 Library. 2,730 Dining room. 800 Woods building and equipment 3,500 Seven small houses.. 1,000 Minor buildings. 1,200 Books. 300 Nine horses and mules. 1,200 18 Co *s and several yearlings and calves. 000 Hogs and pigs. ... 140 Implements, fencing, etc. 1,000 119 acres land at 8100. 11.900 .100 acres land at 830. 12,000 City B rtnk stock. 600 Blythe note . 1,000 G. L. ?6 Mfg Co note. 600 J. P. Kir g stock. 1,000 G. L. & Mfg Co stock. 300 Greenwood Mill stock. 3,000 Grendel Mill stock. 300 F. & M. Bank stock. 1,000 Bank of Greenwood stock. 800 Enoree stock. . , 500 Seaboard stook. 200 Burckhalter note. 1,265 Neel note. 1,009 Dew note. 1,160 IN GENERAL. There are at present 155 children at the orphanage, the capacity being LOO. Their ages vary from 3 to 10 (ears. Several have gone out during ibe'tfear, having secured approved po d tiona. There has not been a death (myng the oblldren since January, i?uO, nearij niuo years, surely this A*a remarkable record. < Tho reaper bas spared all the chll ireh this yea?\ but be came very near jhora and took one of their fond and levoted teachers. On January 24th Sirs. Nannie Wroe Carpenter fell a rlotim to disease and went home ia leaven. G. B. BUELL, President. The'report created favorable com ment by many members. BKATH8 OF BENEFICIABLES. J. G. Carter, S. B. Sawyer, M. N. rnomason and Mrs. Jane Hutchins, Oem Helarles of the relief board, have ?ied during the year. - When the veteran secretary of State missions arose to present his annual report the Convention was visibly moved. Dr. Balley is now an old man, but still retains his vigor and alertness. Under his leadership the State mission work has been carried forward as with ten.league boots. The Connie Maxwell Orphanage showed a most remarkable condition of affairs, very gratifying to the con vent ?on. ..Would Have Killed Ulm " According to the boston Traveller this 1B what the Yale boys would bave done to the negro student that pre sumed to play foot ball with them on the Harvard team bad he stayed in the Rame. It seems that when Har vard and Yale played their annual match game of foot ball recently the former institution put a negro boy forward as one of Its players. Selected by his Alma Mater as a fitting repre sentative of her sporting interests, he dared to meet on terms of foot ball equality the whit? youth of New Eng land. They did not do as young gen tlemen of other sentions of the coun try might have done, refuse to. go on with the game. Outwardly they ac cepted the darky as a proper and worthy opponent, but secretly they made up their minds to maim or kill him. Here is the heart-rending account of the incident ac we find it recorded In the Boston Traveller: "There Is not the slightest question but that Yale's players tried to disable Matthews. They hammered an I slugged him so bard that be was knocked out and bad to retire from the game. There is but little doubt that they would have kiiied him if he had stayed in. One player grabbed the npgro around the n ok and twisted lt so bard that Mat thews'8 life was in danger. Y*le took it as an insult because Harvard offer ed an alleged affront by insisting on playing a negro." The Traveller goes on to say that "Princeton took thc same attitude against Dartmouth a year ago and Flogged and kicked the negro Dartmouth player so bard that they fiaotured his ribs within five minutes and forced him out. Prinotor and Yale's positions are that they an white men's colleges and that Harvarc can Und plenty of good white men te play without insulting them by play' lng nt groes." 'In other words," says The Newi and C DU ri er, "we are told that tbi students of Yale went to work V lynch a student of Harvard in tb presence of 35,000 spectators and ii one of the most civilized, intelligen and law abiding communities of Nev England. ".The crime committed b, the negro was merely one of pre ump Lion." That is true, but, as The New and Courier goes on to say, "all in al the incident 1B a most instructive am edifying one, and we recommend it t the thoughtful attention of our ne grophile neighbors. It is unfortunate ly true that certain people In tb South ina KO up their minds to lynd negroes on occaal-tn, but they neve go atout lt In the underhanded an peculiarly reprehensible way employe by the students of Yale. When In th hands of a Southern mob there I never anj doubt in the mind of a ne gro culprit as to what to expect, bu this little Harvard darky, it would ar. pear, did not get what Presiden Roosevelt might term a "square deal. Ile thought he was goirg to partie! pate in foot ball contest, while In rt allty he offered himself vicariousl for the star part in a lynching bee. Lived Cheap O cd Rioh. There ls 8159,000 in special publi bequests In the will of Charles I French, a retired drug merchanl whose death occurred In Boston withl a week. There ls also a gift of tb residue of his estate, after satlsfyin thoso bequests and several person! bequests, to the Boston Provider Association and the Associated Char ties, the income to ba used for indivh uals worthy of charity. The city < Boston is to get 898,000 all told, tl purpose being to promote good sch larsbip in tbs public schools and 1 take care of the Colonial Burt Grounds, the old state house and tl oldest and largest trees on the Coe mon. The testator's home was ! Commonwealth avenue, but he w, found dead In au office building I owned In Boylston street. Mr. Front ( cted aa j inltor and elevator man b sides scrubbing the floors. He boash of living on 21 cents a day. Uso to Thom, About 1,400 earthquake shocks a recorded yearly in Japan, the land earthquakes, says Baron Dairo! Kikuchi la an exhaustive treat "Recent Seismological Investigate In Japan," Just published for priva circulation. The number is not as fe midable as it would appear, howevc as much less than tl tty are sensibl Since 1875 ti'teen earthquakes ha occurred sufficiently severe to eau loss of live or nor loos damage to pro erfcy. In October, 1891, tock plo cc t Great Nuno Owarl earthquak, whioh 7,000 people were killed, o<s 17,000 Injured and nearly 20,000 bull lngs destroyed. In 1875 the imper] government commenced the s ps tom tlc observation of eathquakes. Of tl 223 large shocks recorded sluce t earliest times, 47 had their origin the Paclflo 17 in thc Japan Sea, 2 the Inland Sea. 114 in'and and 43 a obsoure._ Gives Up Hope. Senator Latlmor has given up ho of tbe pissage of his good roads ti at the present session of congress has been said that economy is to the slogan of tb? session, and in eve quarter where effort has been made obtain support for the measure t question of legislative extravagar has been raised. The bill will die the end of the session._ Killed HI? Trainer. Charles Hendricks, a lion tami lacerated by a huge lion during exhibition at San Francisco, died F day. The accident happened duri the performance of a trlok in whi the lion was made to jump through paper hoop. The trainer slipped a was attacked by the hugh beast whl tore his leg frightfully and caused ihook from whloh he did not reoov Furniture, Sewing Machines d household furnishings of every description ie; all grades from the least expensive to the highest quality of goods? Everett, Stultz and Bauen Packard, Harvard Sterling And other makes of Pianos. : $15, $25, $35, $50 $75, $100 and up. TWO SPECIAL SALES NOW ON, , S. 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The Fairfax Enterprise says: "1 am a Demoorat,-ono of the people be Having in the right cf every human being to life, liberty uno the pursuit of happiness. With these convictions I suggest to my brother Democrats of the State Press that they make a new departure and reinstate the grand old party in power by making woman's right to the ballot the great iBSue In the next election. Standing as thoy will then do for the right*) of half tho people, success will be a certainty." Took Thom In. At Charleston on Wednesday Rev. A. E. Cornish came to the assistance of the police department in providing for Mrs. F. M. Bolger and child, wbo bad been turned out of their house for non-payment of rent and had been taken caro of during the night by the department. The woman claims that me waa deserted by her hm band, andi not be & welding ?in your life, I expect to left with no means for the support of herself and child. Rev. Cornish win jare for her at his church home. Every slrk Woman who oarnestly doilies to recover her health should writo rae, describing how oho B'ifTor8, and I will point out to her * simple un .H..; nf permanent cure. At any raia lt will not cost ii>yt?iing to And ont how I pro DOBO to cure your disease, sn j urge that you write mo without delny. Thousands of sick women have cured Uiomsolves up in this way. Out of tho ripeness of twenty-five year? ex perience as a specialist, I hnvo developed an entirely n< w system of curing chronic diseases and it adapts itself especially woll to the cure of disensos of women, to which I have given special atudy all my life, 1 will understand your case, and understanding it, I will readily lind the means of cure. If thu goneral run of doctors havo failed, if patent medicines ?iat seem cheap, but aro really costly in the end have dono you no good, Olen 1 am moro than certain that I will cure you, for stubborn cases iro tho ones 1 want to hear from, I will cure you fifty por cont quicker than by, the old method, and give you such a treatment as will not only cure your disease, brit build you up thoroughly and make you fool bettor in every way. I want especially to hear from women who havo troublo with Oio womb, ovaries or ner vous syntonj. who suffer from leucorrhea and menstrual difficulties, disorders of the blood, weak heart, headache, neuralgia vortlgo, stomneh trouble, rheumatism, skin affections, kidnoy troubles, any disease of tho ?u-oat, lungs or urinary organs. To such as Uione, 1 will gua mutee speedy and completa recovery by my now original mothod. At say rates you should investigate tills matter for thor, and if you will writo mo regarding your self, I will study your case and report to you fully how to bo cured. All thin will cost you nothing. I will also inclose a booklet ttt my own writing poing into all tho spocial diseases of women with symptom*, causes and effects, freo of charge. You aro at no expenso what ever, so If you really w.nt to bo cured and hoar from J. Nowto 224 S. Broad St, Atlanta, Oa. Try to ?rito mo today. n you soon. My prixate address ls n fJ-.>,?o.nv; M. D., 83 Inman Bldg,