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p* S. ? MANY NEW ' J ^ BRAKES BEC0] Interest in tlie output o? bicycles for 1898 does not begin and end with the new bevel gear that is attracting so much attention just at present. The new chaiuless comes as an experiment seeking popular favor, anil the number that will be in use at the close of next season will be very small when compared to the number of chain wheels, although with a reduction in price and more perfected details the bevel gear is undoubtedly the coming wheel. The bevel gear will not be the only ' jib HAN6CR * % , I . n rj . * - V J new feature in bicycles for next year. Chain wheels are too popular, and too many of them are in practical use to be cast aside in an instant for 1 the new high-priced affair. A year or two ago most of the cycling public was made up of people who could afford to pay the steep prices demanded b> the manufacturers for their products. Since then times hare changed, and keen competition has become rife, v:.l i i li 11.. l -1 l: l which urns urougm tue cuai ui uicyciea down to a level that makes it possible CHAIN ' | ADJUSTMENT ^ I RCAR I " HUB . for almost anybody to bny them. And wnn increased nuaiDers mere 10 uu rucreased demand for a cheaper price and , better quality. Outside of the chainless variety, bicycles, in all probability, will be cheaper next year than ever before, } " ? while details in construction will receive more attention than formerly, for many have learned from bitter experience that low prices, good qnality and simplicity must be combined to insure successes in bicycle construetion. -Fixity of pattern has been put forth as an explanation by some for the present chaotic condition of the cycle trade. And it is true that in the present type of bicycles manufacturers think they have attained that point when departures will be in the nature of retrogression rattier than improvement. I A local maker has perfected an arrangement of a hollow axle containing ? 1 a .1 ?: ?.;n. 0111 HUWfUClil \% 1CH? UUiiig u? aj nuu the necessity of frequent oiling of the bearings; has devised an eccentric chain adjustment which regulates the chain's tension without disturbing the alignment of the rear wheel; has provided dust-proof buttonholes in the bubs, which permit of spokes being taken out and replaced immediately, and dispenses with the wrench for adjusting the handle bar or saddle by providing simple but at the same time ! * N fcV ' * ' ' V '.V ' - . * J v - ' v . x % -- : _ THINGS ' | IN BICYCLES. # MING POPULAR. radically new contrivances for holding the seat post and handle bar stem in place. To regulate the height of the handle bar it is only necessary to turn a collar, which action w ill leave the handle bar free to slide up or down. Reversing the operation secures the handle bar in place. The saddle adjustment is manipulated by pressing a small lever which projects from the side of the frame. This action will incline upward a tapered eccentric disk inside the seat post tube, freeing the post. cs When the lever is released the pressure on the saddle renders the adjust ment firm. As both handle bar and seat post tnbes are slotted to receive the internal adjustments, they cannot be inserted oat of line with the frame. And these are bat a few of the good things that the manufacturers have in store for the riding public next year. There are to be gear cases galore. Up to this time few makers in this country have made any attempt to fit gear cases to their bicycles, chiefly because there has not been a very large demand for them. The much-mooted question of power transmission will resolve itself in the minds of many riders, whose analysis of the subject does not comprehend its strictly mechanical phase, ipto a study of internal gearing solely a mitigation of the nuisance of mud clogged and stiffened chains, a reform which gear cases alone could accomplish without sacrificing the many points of superiority which the chain possesses over a combination pf bevel gears. Unless some unexpected discoveries are made which will greatly improve the best of present chainless patterns, a chaindriven machine will be preferred as possessing fewer disadvantages, especially as the addition of a gear case will be an effectual remedy for one of the principal drawbacks which bevel gears are intended to overcome. There are several new designs of handle bars on the market. One in particular has a device which will ah-1 sorb the vibration before it enters the bar. The bar is rigid in steering and is also rigid in climbing a hill, as the pull tends to strengthen the spring by which it is fastened to the head.? New York Journal. The Locuit Bran Tree. On account of the high price of forage for horses in South Africa, and also of the small supply, an enquiry is being made as to whether the locust beau tree cannot be acclimatized in f< CENetML/ jiyVrew*oFtj 11 Hancer.. ) _ T 11 Hub i Cape Colony. The carob or locust ; b?an bears a long pod, which makes excellent food for horses, and is at the ' same time more portable than forage, I and it is for these qualities that it is j ilesired to introduce it. The carob is a tree much resembling the apple tree ' and flourishes in the couutries around j the Mediterranean. The pods have ; been imported into England for horses. The Arabs and Moors use the sweet pulp for food very largely. The locust tree of America is quite distinct from this. The Rev. Dr. George C. Baldwin, of Troy, X. Y., has been marrying couples for over fifty years, and his list is said to have reached a total of 3000. L - ' "? v . 1 y >.. - '** , Tf Tr r- ' '- * ' * . " ' i * leaves Better Than Lightning Rods. The green leaf is the best conductor of electricity?that most powerful and destructive of all the forces of the earth. To guard our homes and public buildings from its destructive action, we erect our lightning rods, whose sharp points quietly drain the clouds, or, failing to do this, receive the discharge and bear it harmlessly to the earth. But ages before Franklin pointed the first lightning rod t<^ the storm, God has surrounded the dwellings of man with a protection far more effectual than this; for since the creation of organic life every pointed leaf and blade of grass has been silently disarming the clouds of their destructive weapons. A twig covered with leaves, sharpened by nature's exquisite workmanship, is said to be three times as effectual as the metallic points of the best constructed rod. And when we reflect how many thousands of these vegetable points every large tree directs to the sky and consider what must be the efficacy of a single forest with its innumerable leavi>3, or of a single meadow with its countless blades ACombi- ^ I \ NATION . If bell yosrh ^ brake /J v * MEW IHANDLEJ BAR of grass, we see how abundant the protection from the storm is, and with what care Providence has guarded us from the destructive force.?London Echo. China'* Great Wall. The great wall of China tf as recently measured by Mr. Unthank, an American engineer. His measurements gave the height as eighteen feet. Every few hundred yards there is a tower twenty-five feet high. For 1300 miles the wall goes over plains and moun tains, every foot of the foundation,, being solid granite and the rest of tha structure solid masonry. Henry Varley, London'u B utcher-Preacher He left the cleaver for the pulpit, built a church iu London, England, and is now preaching to large audiences in this country. He is considered one of England's foremost evangelists. Crime aml|A?u Dr. W. L. Moore, chief of the weather bureau at Washington, who is both physician and meteorologist, states that during the months of January, February and March 1200 suicides were reported in the United States. In July, August and September there were 1600. There were 1500 murders and fifty persons lynched or hanged during the three cold months, and 2500 murders and 113 hanged or lynched during the three hot months. Investigations are being conducted in | I regard to the connection between crime and atmospheric conditions. The waters of North America are stocked with 1800 different varieties of iish. A Thoughtful Woman. First Farmer?"My ole woman is ther most thoughtful aud generous soul alive." Second Farmer?"Dew tell?" First Farmer?"Why, when she goes through my overalls after market day, she jes' keeps out a quarter fer me ter gije missionaries on Sunday." * * ' v.i ,, ~ ^ i . -j ' / ' ! KB RUHR.. Governor Ellerbe Wants to Remain in Office Another Term. HE DEFENDS DISPENSARY LAW. He is in Favor of Amending the Law, and Drop the Froiit Feature, Ete.-Horrible Murder in Horry. Governor Ellerbe has declared his I candidacy for re-eieetion as governor of the State, and in. advance of his annual message to the general assembly, he has seen fit to present his views in regard to the liquor question. ; He also strongly expresses himself in regard to criticisms that had been made of his official acts. Last week he gave out an interview. In regard to a state-; ment in a Charleston paper that he had told Newbold not to surrender, the, governor says: "I am getting heartily sick and tired of such dirty flings and insinuations. It seems that a gentleman has no protec-1 tion, but has to submit to such slander- j ous insinuations. "There seems to be a common under-1 standing on the part of certain people to destroy the dispensary law, and they falrn advantnnn nt' all nnfnrtlinateOCCUr rences to use them against the law. ; Since I have been Governor I have tried fearlessly to perform my official duties, ! and will not be swerved by idle clamor or senseless criticism. ' The most difficult problem that confronts us today is that of the liquor traffic. The dispensary, I think, is the best solution of the question, but as the ' courts have decided that the dispensary is not a police regulation, I am in favor of amending the law so as to make it a police regulation by eliminating the profit feature, and if necessary not sell it as a beverage, but only fox medicinal and sacramental purposes. "Those who advocate high license have surely not read carefully the decisions of the oourts, for in the case of Seott vs. Donald, the court advanced I the view that the State could prohibit, j they could inspect, but could do no ; more. If the dispensary is not a police reguKtion, and the State cannot control the liquor under the dispensary law, it certainly cannot do so- under high license. Besides, under a high license , system it would, in a few months, de- j generate into the open barrooms. "I propose to go before the people j on my record, and, if necessary, to ad- > vocate the policv just outlined. Some of my enemies "have said I might be re-elected because of the unwritten ! law to give a governor two terms. *1 [ want it understood that no one need : keep out of the race on this account, and I would not have it as a mere matter of precedent if my efforts did not warrant an endorsement. "If I cannot refute the numoyus charges that have been made against me, and cannot show to the people that I have honestly and faithfully tried to tha dnftAti nf thft nffin) F da not care to "be re-elected." A BLOODY KKliUKU. Many Murders Fallow Simon Coop- , er's Inituguratlon on Jan'y 1. A special to the State from Sumter, says: The year 1897 hAS been a blcody I one in Snmter county. The number of ' homicides that have been committed in the county already average more than one a month up to the present time. The public will remember that on Now Year's day the arch bend, Simou i Cooper, killed Grant Davis at Magnolia ! and seriously wounded several others, and in a few days after butchered the i Wilson family and the negro, Preston i Smith, making a total of live for him i and was subsequently lynched himself; i Henry Cooper killed by J. J. : McCoy at St Charles, 4 justifiable; i Jerry Mack killed at Elliott's i by John Blaylock, acquitted; h Jim Boone killed by Henry Carter, J1 penitentiary for life; Harvey Taylor I killed at Brogdon's by Lyons Williams, acquitted; Ben Hill killed at 1 Bishopville by Ben Britton; Alex Haynsworth killed at Scarboro by Henry Burrows) W. J. Lee killed near Bishopville, supposed to have been j killed by Charles Williams, now in 1 jail; Mingo Thompson killed in Sumter, j This does not include the number of ( those who have met violent deaths, such as by lightning, cut in gins or killed by ! railroad trains, etc., but only a list of homicides, the names of the parties ; killed and by whom and the result of t the trials where trials have been held. , As far as the information obtainable , goes, the number of homicides in Snmter county equals or exceeds that of any other county in the State. ' As the record stands, the number* is ( appalling, and unless something is done ta pat a stop to this wholesale killing | and to brin? the guilty ones to jnst deserved punishment those who hold haman life so cheap Snmter connty will 1 soon have no right to claim the title of a > civilized and law governed community. I One of the boya ;n Fickens read ! about Edison's electric, separator for iron oro, and by means of a pocket magnet he has.discovered ?hat about 50 ( ner cent of the sand about Glassy i' Mountain is the best quality of iron. Pickens may tie as rich as Firming- 1 ham. and just be in need of tire to make , the fact know n. I, Xear Denmark. Harry Moody, col- j ored, was shot and killed by George ' Wilson, also colored. The quarrel w as about a woman. 4*> Yorkville is to have electric lights. Elmer M. Iincker, Jr., of this State, assistant attorney in the interior department, has resigned to practice law in Washington. iM W. C. Bagnal, of Manning, committed^suicide at the Calhoun hotel, in Charleston, by taking laudanum. The Citadel cadets have decided to , have their annual winter hop on December 14. John Ryan, 'ir.; one of the richest and most widely known men of the . South, died at A tlanta, after a protract- 1 ed illness caused by paralysis. a- ^ !' * *v *' * '' . '. ' * ' s /-. waiiwflwis. A Boy Murdered in Horry County, His Body Buried in the Woods. THE DISTRICTS REARRANGED. Tillman Says He Hears All Kinds of Political Mutterings In Regard to the Approaching Stat? Campaign. A special to the State from Conway of the 24th says some time ago Chas. Stevens, who lives near lied Bluff on the Whiteville road, went with his sons, Guy and George, to the beach fishing. On Monday George started home in an ox cart with his dog running along behind him. About 10:30 he passed Wampee and there was a negro, John Butler, walking behind the cart with a gun on his shoulder. About 1 p. m. the negro came back by "Wampee riding in the cart with the dog tied on behind. Stevens had disappeared. Butler stopped at the store of Wm. O. Thompson at Wampee and offered to trade ox and cart to him. I Butler claimed to have bought the team from Stevens, but found it slower than he thought Butler did not make a trade, so he drove off in the direction of Star Bluff. Last Saturday X>aniel Stevens, a brother of George, went to the fisheries and not seeing his brother, asked about him. His father>said that he bad left for home on Monday. This was the first time the boy had been missed. The father thonght he was at home and the mother thonght he was with his father. A search was immediately began and kept up through Saturday and Sunday. On next day the neighbors joined in the search and the dead body of the boy was found near Warn pee, between the road and the river buried under some leaves and trash with a load of shot in the back of his head. Stevens had about $23 in , his pocket when he left the beach. The negro has not yet been captured, but it is supposed that he went to North Carolina. If he is caught he will probably be lynched. Butler was a bad character. He was to have appeared before the magistrate for stealing. The Register's Charleston correspondent says: There is said to be an organization among the criminal classes of the city for the protection of those of its members who get within the toils of the law. The membership is said to be large and constantly increasing, which mokes it a dangerous newer in the community if all the reports are trae. The aim of the society is all possible protection of its members, in the employment of legal talent to defend them when the members are brought up in the court house as well as affording other necessary means of protection. Senator Tillman while in Colombia last week, in an interview with a State representative, said: "I hear of all kinds of political mutterings in the State in regard to the approaching State campaign, but have not heard what is gcing on. He says the dispensary is all right: if Judge Simonton's decisions as to the O. P. question are sustained he says he does not fear anything from them. He feels confident that he will get his dispensary bill through Congress at the approaching session. , He remarked, however, that he did not I feel any uneasiness that Judge Simon- . ton's position would be sustained." After Jan. 1 next, which it now very close at hand, the registration laws of South Carolina will be on velvet That was the way a lawyer expressed 'it to a representative of the State. The reason for this statement is that on and after that day the simple educational and property qualifications for the franchise will be all to remain of the ' suffrage scheme devised in the late constitutional convention. The "understanding clause" will on that date become a thing of the pbst, and in the future no legal pitfall will stand in the way of the stability of the suffrage article. E. A. Webster, the new collector of [nternal Revenue for this State, has assumed charge of his office. He has rearranged the revenue districts, putting Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood. Laureus, Newberry, Oconee, Pickens, Saluda, Spartanburg and Union in the third district Mr. Webster has removed the Democratic Deputy Collectors and appointed the following In charge of Hie three districts: First-J. H. Fordham, colored; Second?Edmund Pease, colored; Third?Anson C. Merick, white. A national park at the Cowpens battle ground in Cherokee connty is agitating the people of Gaffney now(i and they will make a strong effort to' have tho next congress authorize the purchase of the property and to have it improved in a manner credit-1 able to the government and our fore- | fathers who fought and fell there, senator McLaurin favors the park and will work for it. Cheraw's fair wasadocided success in every particular. Large crowds attended from the adjoining counties and from a distance, ana the exhibits were complete. The horse and bicyole races were up the staudard, and,everybody went to their homes with nothing but praises for the hospitable people of old Cheraw. Senator Tillman made a speech. Xewbold has been taken to Spartanburg by Sheriff Dean and placed in jail. He says he will in a few days give to the press a full and acurate account of the killing of Mr. Turner. One of the bqys in Pickens read | about Edison's electric separator for . iron ore, and by means of a pocket . magnet he has discovered that about 50 per cent of the sand about Gla-sy Mountain is the best quality of iron. Pickens may be as rich as Birmingham, and just be in need of fire to make the fact known. Near Denmark, Harry Moody, colored, was shot and killed by George Wilson, also colored. The quarrel was about a woman. Yorkville is to have electrio lights. V .. f ^ If KICKED (I IfFf. I 4 Phiiadelphians^ Whc Engaged toi Work in Phosphate Mines. ^ NEWBOLD HAS SURRENDERED* Beware of Uncle Sam?Stabbed His 4 Father to Death?Students Vaccinated?Other Palmetto Chips. * ? The Columbia State of the 23d says: * ' About a week asro a narty of fifty Phil- "*' adelpbians went to John's Island, on the Carolina coast, to work in the phosphate mines. They now say they bars had more than enough of the experience and want to get home. Yesterday Harry Edwards and three of his companions reached Columbia, and Edwards visited the reporters to tell of his troubles and to go for the people who got him to go to the mines. Ed- ~ wards claims tl at he was offered $1.80 per day and more if his work proved satisfactory, but he did not make half that , 4.".d that he was fed on a few crackcx* and bacon and got no dinner at alL He said that he and his companions wanted to leave the mine, but could not get away, c 8 every avenue of escape was " > 1 _J It- 1 ?UUUOU, ttUU LiV DOCillCU UU? vTyl *UU idea that some of the guards were negroes. He said.that he tramped to 8a* v&nnah and from there to Denmark* where he began his railway trip to Columbia. Edwards says there are many others _ at the Bnlow mines, where he claims ^ to have worked, who would like to get away. Edwards and the entire Fhiladelphia contingent are Americans, and he says the trouble is the people wanted were Italians who would consent to work under the conditions to which Its objects. The story is not a new one; ahd many of the mining companies find that aftff they advance money for the nftners to come South on, that they skip and go ? to working for some other company -J and thereby evade working for the . }>, money advanced for the passageto the . ibices. It is on this account, it is said, the men have to be watched. Edwards applied-at police headqnar- '*5 ters for assistance in the hope of getting S back to Philadelphia, \ He is carrying a couple of bolls of cotton as soovenirs 0/ his experience. ?~ State Detective Fewbold, who killed W. U. Turner in Spartanburg on the ... :i 10th, gave himself up last week, and will more than likely be taken to Spartanburg and placed in jail to await hie rial at the next term of the ooart for that county, which meet's next March., , Cut in the meantime he will apply for bail. As to the story of the killing Newbold has nothing farther to saw than has already been published, which is that he claims that it was a oaee oI accidental killing. He said that he had ,, no intention in the world to kill a mm he had never seen in kit life and that & ' was an entire accident He said that if he had wanted to kill any one he oonld have killed a dozen and have gotton on the gronnda of self-defense, ae ha has taken arms away frcn* people who , have attacked him. In the United States Court, dt Col- . nmbia, no bill was found in the case of R. W. Hoi lis, who was oharged with opening a letter addressed to a Mormon in Fairfield oouoty. The facts clearly ~i indicated that the letter was opened by > mistake , and the jury i# looked on ft *, and act id accordingly. The Mormons believe! Mr. Hollis Lad intentionally opened the letter,in order to see what were their plans, it being supposed that he was violently opposed to thochurch. . > Ho bears a most excellent reputation and no one, except the Mormons, ever ' / supposed thst he knowingly opened the letter. At Columbia, last week, in the United Ststes Court, a young white* ' ' man, na mod Frank Goes of bpertanbuog, was charged with breaking into a postoflice in that county,. ana the grand jury finding a true bill the P*i?ouer pleaded guilty. He is about years old, and .Tndge Simon ton took In consideration his yonth when sentencing him. The sentence was thst ho be confined in the penitentiary at Washington for three years, and to pay i a fine of 8100. " O# - ; " ?. JtiBm Adolphas Coker. a man about 45. of Clarendon connty, was whipping a , young son 10 years old, when Boaey Coker. the oldest son, to whom theehild appealed, told his father not to hit hia brother another cut The aider Coker declared he would whip the boy when- 1 ever he felt like it, and struck him another bioiv, whereupon Bosey sprang on his father and indicted six wounds with a Icng-hladed knife, from tho effects <?f which Coker died. Tho ton has been arrested. \jm It is reported in Charleston that tha ^ Wando Phosphate Company lrjd been bought by v.he Virginia Fertilizer Com- i pany of Itichmond.. The price issaid to * iiave been S40.000. Mr. W. B. Chis holm, of the Berkeley Phosphate Com- 'i pany, is the agent of the Yitginia Company in Chsrieston, and negotiations have been under way for some time past Mr. Cbs.rles K: chardson, the president of the Wando Company, went to New York last week, where, it it reported, he consummated the deal. # The students of the Sonth Carolina College have all been vaccinated by Dr. Taylor, according to the recent instraction s. There is little danger of small pox, bat the authorities think ik ' ? best to be on the safe side. Governor Ellerbo expected to go to Hock Hill last week, bnt he could not ' do so, and he will now wait until the middle of this month before going to the Indian reservation to make hia in-. ; quiries as to the condition of the In- diarrs and what had best bo done by the State for them. Mr. W. S. Mouteith has bought the old Congaree Mill, at Columbia, for the negro cotton mill, bat he is not able at this time to say exactly when operations ' will begin. The machinery haa bean 1 purchased and is on the way to Columbia. / '' r S' J firaraf ,j itir '1' r