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The Work of the Bed Cross. Miss Clara Barton Speaks About the Sea Islands.. To the Editor of the News and Cou? rier : If Qo other services call fer my pen this morning, it would be a suffi? cient motive that it comes to thank you for the graceful, manly s ud cordial note of yesterday, which trill always holds its place among my treasures of elegant literature, asking for a per? sonal audience for your correspondent for some facts concerning the work which bas recently been brought, to a close, after one of the most prolonged sessions of relief known to any field of disaster. I was the more willing to j g cant this, to speak plainly and can { didly with bim. leaving bim to handle j the subject in hts own way presenting facts as they appeared to him, for the reason that I intended before really, leaving your vicinity to say a few words for myself, if you will kindly give place J to them in yeer journal, vbiih throagh - all our sojourn here bas been not only our stay and support, but the brave, fait bf al exponent of the truth, justice i and humanity to its constant readers throughout the Srajte.. lt is little to say that-wk bout t?e strong, honest supper* given in o otes o? no uncertain sound, bearing in every line the cour? age of its convictions, of the Charleston News and Courier, no work of relief of this great disaster could have lived and been carried to any success. I was also more than willing that your correspon? dent should present the details, giving such facts and figures as came to his mind to ask for as being of interest to your readers. Very naturally wrong impressions would be given in a hasty writing, as names representing entire districts are spoken of as single islands. I recapitulate in order that nc apparent errors remain. We have certainly no desire 'to swell the number, they are large enough ; our effort has always been to keep them down. The rations issued have been as fol? lows : St. Helena, 6,724 persons; Ladies' Island, inciudiog Cooaaw, Corn, Morgan and adjoining smaller islands, 3,500; Hilton Head, including the twelve islands tn the group and adjoin? ing mainland, including Blufftoo, 2, 875: Faqs Island, ?&J ; Port Koyai r Island, 4,668 ; Kean's Neck, situated on the mainland, including Coosaw and Pacific phosphate o^stricts, 1,437; Hutchinson fsj&d (h^nctj-inclu^og Benn&t's^nd^?isseltoro Points, Fen? wick, Seabrook, Bird's, Sampson and other, smaller islands. 3,238 ; Edisto, Wadmalaw, Joan's and adjacent is- j lands, ?.?OO. The above figures do not include the special issues on the mainland of 34,000 tn number nor the regular labor rations of 0,500, which is a double ration. 1 I say that I was more than willing to leave all this needful detail to other 1 hands, inasmuch as the subject which * I desired to present is of a different na- 1 ture concerning the general points of 1 welfare and, may I say. reputation of ; South Carolina, and addressed to the 1 people of all this grand and goodly 1 State of old renown. Proud and c DIV- < air?os, all the world knows that it must ! be bard and distasteful for her to ac- 1 cept help under any considerations, ? and it is only in the fury of an ele- 1 mental rage as when the earth crumbles 1 under her, or the seas roll over her, 3 that any one essays to attempt it ; aod i it was for the reason, if no other bad ; been needed, that I came personally to 1 stand among my workers, and see to it ' that the Ked Cross, at least, bear in all j it did a demeanor of delicacy and re? spect, where it must extend its aid. I 1 believe it has done this. It cannot be necessary to repeat at this late day that I was asked by your Governor to accept the charge of the relief of the sufferers of the sea island, of whom it was said there were thirty thousand who would need aid until they could raise something to subsist upon themselves This was accepted with great hesitancy, and only in view of the fact that no other body of per? sons in all the land appeared to assume the responsibility, and with tbe cordial, unselfish and generous support of the advisory committe of Charleston and Beaufort, to whom our earnest thanks are due, the work bas been carried on to a successful conclusion. It later de? veloped that sn equal number of per? sons, both white and colored, residing on the seagirt coast of the State, now known as the "mainland," were nearly as destitute at the islanders, and many of them equally storm swept. Finding these people appealing to us, and well knowing that, in the depressed finan? cial condition of the entire United States, we could not safely take on this double charge, we memorialized the South Carolina Legislature in Novem? ber ; the people, also under oar advice, petitioned for a little aid to get them through the winter. The Governor also recommended the tuggesdoo. For some reason, .which we never knew, no response was given. We never questioned this, but redoubled our exertions to meet the wants as they j came by single rations issued upon ap? plication, nntil our books show an is? sue up to June 1st of over 34,000 to the needy white and colored on the mainland of the State, from Charleston to Savannah. No applicant, unless de? tected in absolute imposition, and this I after having been repeatedly served with all he needed for the time, has ever been declined. Our thirty thous? and sea islanders have received their weekly rations of food, they have been taught to distribute their own clothing, | making official report, and have done I it well. They are a well-clothed peo pie, and over 20,000 garments have j gone to the mainland. Thousands of little homes have been rebuilt, or n paired aod are occupied. Over 24 miles of ditches have beeo made, n claiming aod improving many thous ands of acres of land ; nearly five ton of garden seeds, producing all varie tie of vegetables to their well-fenoed gar dens of from a quarter of ao acre *o on acre and more for each family, wit 800 bushels of peas and beans bav been provided. These seeds have beet distributed on the islands and to ever applicant from the mainland ; l.OOl bushels of Irish potato seed, 400 bushel of which went to the mainland; 1 80( bushels of seed corn, 800 of this distri buted oo the mainland Those provis ions, with a revival of the phosphate industries, the fish in the rivers au( their boats in repair, have served t< make the 30,000 sea islanders, whoa we were asked to take charge of oim months ago. a prosperous and self help iog people. They koow this and real izu that they can take care of them selves, and we eau but regard any at tempt at throwing them again upon th< charities of the outside world as de moralizing; misleading and fatal t< them, aa a self-supporting and indepen? dent class of industrial people, and s matter which should concern the State whose wards they are It was under this conviction that 1 passed to your correspondent the peti? tion which I observed he bas published, copies of which had been sent to me by persons who refused ro sign it, for the reason above oamed, as harmful to them and unjust to others. The charge proper of the Red Gross is given np, only when the people of the Islands and the right and wholesome spirit of self help considered that they were ready and able to care for themselves and generally offered to share their scanty rations with the less fortunate un the mainland I hope never to forget the teuder tone of these pitying voices, as with a generosity worthy the highest type of Christian benevoleoce, they repeatedly rang oat; "Oh, gib it to dem, wes can get along with a little lesa " The so named mainland is another matter, and one with which we have legitimately nothing to do, and fail to see how it bas, or has had, legitimately anything to do with ns The odd bits of painful relief whieh have beeo drained from us from time to time have oct pro? perly served it. Among the small farmers-aud rice growers there must be people still in the need of help; not only the negro who through all the generations of serving, and your pater? nal care for him, clings to you with a teoder solicitude which you cannot throw off, and would not if yon. oould, bot your own race aod color as well. People of Sooth Carolioa ! Let me for ooce put by ali official relatioos srbich I may hold to any Organization, forget relief, forget everything bot the simple iodividual fact that we are peo? ple of one common country, which should be the grandest in the world, md which rests with us alone to make it so Remembering that I know no sectioo, that in the labors that have some to me, the nations of the world md their strange tongues have become my own, that for thirty-five years I bave known no home in this country, but its capital, which our 65.000,000 may all claim as home, that all States ire alike to me, that the glory and good name of one is to me the glory of di, that the neglect of a duty in ooe, tts failure to reach the high water mark of action, either individual or general, is to me the failure of all ; io this light let nie, I pray yon, brothers and sisters of South Carolioa, speak this little word of caution, and pray this little prayer of love and devotion before I leave you I realize the throes of internal disses sioo which are rooking you from cen? tre to circumference. I deprecate this as you do. I see how impossible it will seem to you to take note of any lesser matter till this seething, bubbling pot of political discord is still ; and yet, brothers and sisters, it will be for your credit that yon turo a single glance at this little strip of misery, degradation and want hedging you like a sea wall, and take some concerted and elevated step to wipe the spot out. Don't let politics touch it, they have had enough to do with it already, but give the re?os of thought aod action for one day a little humanitarian effort, State and National respectability, nay, pride if yon will, and the thing will be done. Surely South Carolioa don't want to see ber name go out on the beggars' role for her few water-soaked poor. The blood of the Piockneys, the Rntledges, the Marions, the Laureases, the Elli? otts, the Horrys, the Pickeos aod Ho? gers aod a score of others equally illus? trious does oot williogly io ordinary times appeal to the Knickerbockers to send them bread, whilst their thous? ands of dollars go oat day by day io senseless hurrahs, aod at night io mean? ingless bonfires ! Toro, ob, South Carolinians, Ameri? cans, proud Americans 1 Set your feet opoo this little disgraceful waot aod stamp it out. Let me leave you with a consciousness that you have taken up the remnant of work I have left, aod will do it so much better and grander than I have, that I shall blush as I look back at mine. Release as well another woman's hands, toiling faithfully for months on the same field, and honestly asking help from all the land. Remember that it is the Christian martyr blood of the Mathers that is coursing in her veins; she can do no other, and no less. Come to her aid, good people of the j State, take the burden from her tired. ! j trembling bands, and let her rest. Finally come to your own aid, and let me leave you feeling that the best 1 aod the grandest star in the diadem of States gleams on the brow of South Carolioa. CLARA BARTON Charleston, S. C.. June 24 1894. NOTICE. LANDS FOB SALE. I. One lot with two story dwelling, new house, on Washington Street, between Cal? houn and Republican Streets. 2 One lot, with dwelling house, on New reet, formerly property of M. H Wells. St3. One lot in the town of Bishopville, on Denni? Street, formerly property of C. S. Davis. 4. 90 acres of laud consisting of two tracts, one ot 20 acres and one of 70 acres, on Provi dence road, six miles from Sumter. 5. 250 acres of land, 3 miles east of Sumter, formerly owned by Miss Julia R. DeSchamps. 6. 40 acres of land on Turkey Creek, for? merly owned by W. W McKagan For particulars applv to A. J. CHINA, Jan. 24. Pres. Sumter B St L. Assn. Maiu Street. Next to City Hall SPECIAL ATTENTION Given (o Compounding Prescriptions. J. F. W. DeLORHE, -DEALER IN Agent Toilet Soaps, Perfumery and all Kinds ot Druggist's Sundries Usually Kept in a F'irst Class X>x*ULg; Store. Tobacco, Snuff fand Cigars. Garden Seeds, &3., also Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Glass Putty, &c, Dye Stuffs. Physician's Prescriptions carefully compounded, and orders answered with care and dispatch The public will find my stock of Medicines complete, warranted genuine, and of best quality. Call and see for yourselves. Highlit Calls Promptly Attended To. THE WORLD'S GREATEST TYPEWRITER. The Machine that took the only award for Typewriters at the State Fair, Nov. 8,1893. "NO MACHINE COULD BE ANY BETTER. IT IS PERFECT. Private statement of one of the Judges. THE ONLY AWARD WAS ALSO MADE -TO US FOR TYPEWRITER SUPPLIES. ? County Agents Wanted. J. W. GIBBES & CO., GEN. AGENTS, COLUMBIA, S. C. The '94 Model just out is Unrivalled. NOA. 29 I wish to state to the Farmers of Sumter and Clarendon Counties that I have gotten in a car load of McCORMIC REAPERS, SELF-BINDERS, MOWERS and HAY RAKES. It is a settled fact that theMcCormic Co., makes the lightest draft and most durable Grain and Grass cutting machinery made in this or any other country. Our prices are very low and terms easy. Write to me for catalogue, wbich will be mailed to you free of charge. It contains cuts of all machines and gives full descriptions of them. GEO. F. EPPERSON, Agent. SUMTER, S. C. Mch 21 Office at Epperson's Livery Stable. ALSH & KOMP AN Y THE LEADERS, -Have a New Feature IA Bargain Counters On which will be placed all remnant lots of SHOES In which most of the sizes have been sold. On this counter from time to time will be placed -Some exceptional Drives. Don't fail to come and look over, you might find your size, and if you do not we will sell you a pair from the shelves almost as cheap. We have a full stock and we must sell them. Our line of Dress Shoes for Ladies and Gents will please anybody. WALSH & CO., Monaghan Block - Sumter, S. C. April 18. Say ! You Bee-Keeper ! Send for a free sample copy of Root's handsomely illustrated 36-page, Gleanings in Bee-Culture, Semi-Monthly, (Si.00 a rear) and his 52-pages illus, catalog of Bee Keeper's Supplies free for your name and address on a postal. His A B C of Bee Culture, 400 double-column pp price $1.25, is just the book for you. Mention this paper. Address A. ?. Root, the Bee-Man, Medina, 0. "OED RELIABLE" LINE. South Carolina Railway, PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. In affect April 8, 1894. SCHEDULE. Lv Charleston, " Summerville, " Pregnalls, " Branchville, " Bamberg, " Denmark " Blackville " Aiken Ar Augusta Lv Augusta " Aiken " Blackville " Denmark " Bamberg " Branchville " Pregnalls 11 Summerville Ar Charleston 7 15 a m 7 52 a m 8 28 a m 9 10 a ra 9 53 a ra 10 08 a m 10 25 a m 11 27 a m 12 15 pm 6 30 a m 7 14 a m 8 10am 8 25 a m 8 39 a m 9 20 a m 10 05 a m 10 45 a m 11 30 a m 5 30 6 15 6 58 7 42 8 28 8 42 8 58 10 00 10 45 3 40 p m 4 27 p rn 5 28 p ra 5 44 p ra 5 58 p ra 6 25 p ra 7 28 p ra 8 05 p m 8 45 p ra Lv Charleston 4{ Summerville " Orangebnrg " Ringville Ar Columbia Lv Columbia " Ringville " Orangeburg '* Summerville Ar Charleston 7 15am 7 52 a m 9 46 a ra 10 32 a m 11 15 a m 4 20 p m 5 05 p m 5 56 p m 8 05 p m 8 45 p ra 5 30 p m 6 05 p ra 8 32 p tn 9 20 p m 10 10 p m 6 50 a ra 7 57 a m 8 30 a m 10 45 a m 11 30 a m DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY Lv Columbia Lv Ringville Ar Camden Lv Camden Ar Ringville Ar Columbia 8 35 a m 9 35 a m 12 50 p ra 2 30 p m 5 15pm 6 15 p m Through sleeper on train leaving Charles? ton 5 30 p m, for Atlanta. Train leaving Charlestoo at 7.15 p. m. bas connections for Charlotte, Raleigh, and Wilmington, via C. S. k N. R. R. Connec? tion made from points on. the C. S. k N. R R. for A Han ta and the weet. Through trains bet wee o Charleston and Walhalla, leaving Charleston 7 15 am, and arriving at Charlestoo at 8 45 p m. For further information apply to agents, or E. P. WARING, Gen'I Pass. Agent, Charleston, S. C. J. M.TtraxKB, Superintendant. C. M. WARD, General Manager. Atlantic Coast Line. NORTH-EASTERN R. R. OP S. C. CONDENSED SCHEDLUE, TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Dated jun|No. 35| |No. 23 17, 1894. !*| I * No.53 * LeFl'nce. " Ringst. Ar Lanes Le Lanes. Ar. Ch'n. A. M. ?3 10 4 20i 6 10 A M. P. M.! * 7 451 - 9 02.1 9 23! P M 9 23* 7 05 ll 18} 8 40 P. M.I P. M TRAINS GOING NORTH. |No. 78|No. 32|No.52| 1*1*1*1 Le. Ch'n. Ar Lanes. Le Lanes. " Kiogst ArFl'ncf * Daily. No. 52 runs through to Columbia via Central R. R. of S. C. Train Nos. 78 and 14 run via Wilson and Fayetteville-Short Line-and make close connection for all points North. J. R, KENLY, J. ?. DIVINE, Gen'l Manager. Gen'ISup't. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. Atlantic Coast Line* WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA R. R. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Dated June 3. 1894. |No. 55j No. 58) L've Wilmington. Leave Marion. Arrive Florence.. Leave Florence. Ar've Sumter... Leave Sumter. Ar've Colombia. N?. ?2 rans through from Charleston via Central R R. leaving Lane 8:48 A. M., Man ning 9:25. A. M._ TRAINS GOING NORTH. I No. 51 ?No. 53| Leave Columbia. Ar've Sumter. Leave Sumter.M.. Arrive Florence. Leave Florence... Leave Marion. Arr. Wilmington. ?Daily. fDaily except Sunday. No. 53 runs through to Charleston, 3. C., vii. Central R. R., arriving Manning 6:22 P. M., Lanes 7:00 P. M., Charleston 8.40 P. M. Trains on Manchester k Augusta R. R. leave Sumter daily except Sunday, 10:50 A. M., ar? rive Rimini 11.59. Returning leave Rimini 1:00, P. M., arrive Sumter 2:10 P. M Trains on Hartsville R. R. leave Hartsville daily except Sunday at 5.30 a. m.. arriving Fleyds 6.00 a. m. Returning leave Floyds 8.40 p. m., arriving Hartsville 9JO p. m. Trains on Wilmington Chad bourn and Con? way railroad, leave Chadbourn 10:10 a. m. arrive at Conway 12.30 p. m., returning ?eave 'Jon way at 2.00 p. m., arrive Chadbourn 4.50 p. m. Leave Chadbourn 5.35 p. m., arrive at Hub 6.20 p. m. Returning leave Hub at 8.15 a m. arrive at Chadbourn 9.00 a. m Daily ex? cept Sunday. JOHN F. DIVINE, General Sup't. J. R KENLY, ?en'l Manager. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. leap ?LE. SAMUEL HUNT, Agent for Purchaser. In effect April 9, 1894. CAROLINAS DIVISION. NORTHBOUND.-(Dwily except Sunday.) LT Charleston. S. C. R. R. Lv Augusta. Lr Columbia., Ar Camden. 33 .15 a m 50 a m .35 a m .50 pm Lv Camden. 1 Ar Kershaw. 2. Lv Kershaw. 2. Lv Lancaster. 3 Lv Catawba Junction.' 4 Ar Rock Hill.! 5. Lv Rock Hill.I 5 Lv Yorkville. Lv Blacksburg. Lv Patterson Springs. Lv Shelby. Lv Rutherford too. Ar Marion. 10 pm 10 pm 30 pm 45 p m 45 p m 15 p m 45 p m 30 pm 45 pm 04 p m 15 pm ll 8.00 8.37 9 10 11.10 1.00 a. m a m a m a m p m Lv Marion, (R. & D. R R.) 1.46 pm Lv Round Knob, " 2.26 p m Lv Asheville, " 4 08 p m Lv Hot Springs, " 5.36 pm Lv Knoxville, ( E. T. V. & G.) 8.00 p m Ar Louisville. (L & N. R. R.) 7.15 a m Ar Cincinnati, (Q. A C.) 7.20 a m SOUTHBOUND.-(Daily except Sunday.) 32 12 Lv Cincinnati, [Q. AC] 7.00 p m Lv Louisville, [L. & N. R. R I 8.00 p m Lv Knoxville, [E T V. k G.] 8 00 am Lv Hot Springs, [R. 4 D.J 12.44 p m Lv Asheville, " 2.30 p m Lv Round Knob, " 3.52 p m Ar Marion, " 4 33 p m Lv Marion. Lv Rutberfordton. Lv Shelby.. Lv Patterson Springs Ar Blacksburg. Lv Blackshurg. Lv Yorkville. Ar Rock Hill. Lv Rock Hill. Lv Catawba Junction Lv Lancaster. Ar Kershaw. Lv Kershaw., Ar Camden. S. C. R. R. Lv Camden. Ar Columhia. Ar Augusta. Ar Charleston. 6.45 6.56 715 7.45 9.07 9.45 10 15 11 00 12 00 12.50 1.05 2 00 a m a m a m a m 2.30 p m 6.15 p m 12.45 a m 8 45 p m 4.45 pm 6.10 pm 8.23 pm 8.39 pm 9.06 pm Dinuer at Kershaw. CONNECTIONS. Camden-WithS. C. Ry., for Charleston, Columbia, Augusta and all points Sooth. Lancaster-With Cberaw k Chester N. G. R. R., for Chester. Catawba Junction-With G. C. ? N. R. R. Rock Hill-No. 33 with "Vestibule Limi? ted" on R. & D. R. R., arriving at Charlotte 8.30 p rn, Washington 7 20 a m, Philadel? phia 10 46 a rn, New York 1.23 p m. Yorkville-With Chester & Lenoir R. R. Blacksburg-With R. ? D. R. R. for Spar tanburg, Greenville. Atlanta and points South, and Charlotte and points North. Shelby-No. 32 with Carolina Central for R., also with Stages to Cleveland Springs. Marion-No. ll with R. & D. R. R.for Round Knob. Asheville and Hot Snrings. SAMUEL HUNT, Gen. Manager. A. TRIPP, Superintendent. S. B. LUMPKIN, Gen. 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