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The Liberty Bell. In connection with the coming of the Liberty Bell to Charleston, the following history of the bell as given in The State will be of great interest at this time: The bell was cast by Thomas Lester, Whitechapel, London. The bell arrived at the end of August, 1752, and was hung. Early in September, however, it was cracked by a stroke of the cla pper .without any other violence and thereupon recast by Pass & Stow, two "ingenious workmen," in Philadelphia, and hutg April 17th, 1753. In the recasting the same metal was used with the addition of an ounce and a half of copper to the pound to make the bell less brittle. The. same form and lettering were preserved with the substitution of the names and place and year of recasting it now bears. It was recast by them, the first casting not being satisfactory, and the same year again huug in -the State house. T ".e bell is 12 feet in circum ference around the lip and 7 feet 6 inches around the crown, it is three feet following the line of the bell from the lip to the crown, and 2 feet 3 inches over the crown. It is three inches thick in the thickest part near the lip, and one and a quarter inches thick in the thinnest part toward the crown. The length of the clapper is 3 feet 2 inches, and the weight of the whole is'2,080 pounds. It is lettered in a line encircling its crown with the sentence: "Proclaim Liberty Throughout all the Land Unto all the Inhabi tants Thereof," Lev. xxv., v., x. Immediately under the sentence, also in a line encircling its crown: -"By Order of the Assembly oi the Province of Pennsylvania for the* State House in Philadelphia. Pass & Stow, Philadelphia. MDCCLIII." The model of the bell was one cast by order of Henry III. in the early pait of the thirteenth century in memory of Edward the Confessor, which was hung in the clock tower of Westminister, and was named St. Edward, but gone rally known as the "great Tom of Westminister." The ringers of the bell were dward Relly, 1753-5; Davi 1759-76 (September 15), The Cham ringer of the Proclamation of In- Table dependen-ce. The last ringer of J. H.'3 the bell was Thomas Downmng, Cacd -1827-36. thanda The Liberty bell~ has been re-a moved from the building on four them v occasions: the first, during the whens revolution, September, 1777, when mouth it was taken on a wagon to Allen- whou ar town, Penn., ad we tknthe pre from the city to Newv Orleans, For sa] January 23, 1885; Chicago, April 25, 1893; Atlanta, October 24,1 'IR. B4 1895. This trip to the Charles ton exposition is therefore the A Rezi fifth in its history-.y The frame has never been taken b from the building from the time Atm it was first placed there in 1753,A except for a short time dr'-ing Ladie the restora.tion- in ,1898, until the tacket present time. s On July 8, 1835, the bell tolled ps for the last time. John Marshall amn died in Philadelphia on the 6th try day of July, 1835; his remains ler were on the day of the anniver- ackno sary of the first proclamation of addin< the Declaration to the people pof borne to Virginia for burial, and These~ during the funeral solemnities the Janua bell, while slowly tolling, parted editor through its great side, and war ece silent henceforth, forever. The- tem. crack came without warning, themA. Children Especi2MIy Liable. une Burns. bruis's andl cuts are extremle- Roll f, lypainful and~ if neglected oftent re suits in blood poisoninlz. Chii!dreni art' and2 .especially liable to such mi-haip" be- Itself. cause not so caleful. As a1 remedy De- dates Wit t's Wit ch H-Iazel Sailve is ufl(Id -ohi D)raws out the. tire, stopls the( 1pi, soon ot heals thle wound. Beware o counte,'- mcny. feits. S'ure cure for piles.* 1Deit's ands v witch Hazel Suidve, euredl myi Il- of of th: eezemxa after t wo pnysicri ! gve her up)," writes Jamnes Mock, N. W< lster, moder Ind. "The soies were so ba-h oe of the two to five dlresses a~day." McMastec "Ou Co. ......- previo RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES. went i he w< Two-Thirds ofthe Glovernment Reve- His di nues Paid for WVar Purposes, able." Oar Timne4. During the next year it will Mis: cost $610,000,000 to r aa the -Gener; United States governmnent. Of attend this amount $411,000,000 will go legisla to the army and navy and for five m pensions. There will be no lack the e of money to meet these expenases, oppor for the estimated receipts are $712,000,000, and a further reduc- A _ tion of the surplus is proposed duced by a reduction of the war taxes, an apm exclusive of the tax on beer, to- bronze bacco and tea. six grE ... .. lng To Cure aCold in One Day Jones Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. tire ba All druggists refund the ,money if it modor, fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature isl acho.n 2ac. commt A JOKE ON BILL ARP. Says That He is Not the Father of the flonticello Paper man. They seem to have a large juicy joke on Major Charles H. Smith, the Caitersville, Ga. I philosopher, so well known as Bill Arp. He writes to The Constitu- ] tion about it as follows: But, Mr. Edito-, I am still per plexed. My Christmas pleasure i has been marred somewhat by my < pity for the poor credulous de- 1 pendent women all ove.r the land who are dupes of that Monticello 1 man. Every aay brings more letters from those who have long < since sent the $25 to my son at < Monticello, Fla., and get nothing i back. They say they trusted him because he was my son. Many I of them begged or borrowed the $25. for they could not get the 1 subscribers and so they made up : a list of names from their ac quaintances and then they went to work on the endless chain I humbug and got other wemen to l send money and be duped. Now, Mr. Editor, I beg you to 1 put it in large type and p--int it in red ink that Joel Smith, of I Monticello, is no son of mine, noP 1 do 1 know anythirg of him or his i paper. I saw a late issue in 1 which he boasts of having 40,000 subscribers which I suppose i means $40,000 that these de pe adent women have sent him. i He promised thein $20 a month i to write three hours a day and ] some of them sold their jewelery < and other precious things to raise the $25. Mr. Editbr, do please. lend your colums to stop this fraiI upon our poor southern womren. And now we see that anothe, end less chain paper has stavted in Athens, Ga.; These frruds are lz.A ing-alg discredit upo, poor wo men. I enclose a sanple circular. Please stop it. Kili it. Crush it. It is worse than tne cherry tree swindle. Bill Arp. P. S.,-I w-yl give $10 to find out who sta ed that lie- that the Monticello/man was my son. I have rec -ived at least 50 letters sayina "Your son at monticello," etc. They make me tired. I had thr e from Texas this morning. B.A. A Good Recommendation. I"rain's tomach and Liver and a is almo'st invariably to those ada ive once used them,'' says Mr. the sy: 'eber/a prominent druggist.of porting , I~wa. What better recoin- At ai ton could any medicine have. r -people to call for it when that is re.necd of such a remedy? Try tion of (hen you feel (lull after eating, and itI ou have a bad taste in your in futu fcel bilious, have no appetite or ~oubled wirh constipation, and that we certain to be delighted with see the mpt relief which they afford. re lo, eby McMaster Co. y )K TO THlE AMiERICAN PEO- Whel PLE. sitting --- 4:year-i rkable Editorial for the People ened hi :he People, Which flay Breed ing ove SSound Thinking, necktie ntervals during the past shirt fr ears the editor of The ing his ' Home Journal has at- pockets the "cramming", and unresis1 ing" systems so prevalent time Ii] the schools of this coun- paper,,; ach editorial given to this the hov : has brought hundreds of is in a tmost of them not only and tha wedging the wrong, but come t] as well, strong and sad playing to the statements made. don Til letters were kept. In the ---__ y issue of The Journal the ' page is occupied by brief s from sixty-eight of""""" They are "dedicated to erican parent," and classed !ngo hree heads: "A Roll for and sing5 ors to Ponder Over," "A string.C r Parents to Think Over" discordan ~Roll Which Speaks for is ok There are no names, to flytweh or localities mentioned. well while g but the unsought testi- ",*r",eak f a few out of the thous- are thous: 20o are suffering the silence over the< i"sorrowful tribute to the~rsylc ischooling." Hero is one of tea-fi itv-eight: sideration poor .little boy, just field Fe s ~to Ius passing away, thesafest: to a delirium of fear that est way to uld not got his 'marks.' corrhea, ead was something piti- Inc**om backache -- --- - eral weaki Mildred Lee, daughter of win bea 1 Robert E. 3 ee, recently at the r< d a session of the Virginia ta ure and the senate took ing with mtes recess in order that called re mators might have an ear muity to meet her. tainty. B: Regulator solution has been intro- happy tho n congress providing for women. ropriation of $12,000 for it ca d tablets commemorating Sold in dr t naval victories, begin- for si ab vith those of John Paul Al di in 1797 and closing with toai wo tle of Santiago bay, "Corn- tilE BRAD eWinfield Scott Schleyj REGULAT( The coming of Southern Railway's Good RAC train bas, we believe, done re to arouse nterest in the s IecL of better lighways than an ing that has ver been attemp along this ine. It has not o afforded a raluable object less in the prac ical work of road, building, but t has put the peo to thinking >n the problem of , to secure >etter roads. This thought has A. turally burned to that class of Uy which the state alreadyOW d ontrols-its convicts. And. th >pinion seems to be forming N ome rational, practical plan tilizing tilis labor to this en . he one to be first considered. The Journal frankly ad bat it has not as vet give t natter sufficient thought ible to advance a definite I o what is bpst along th ut it has been impress he he suggestion at t ovicts to build a be iem of public high roviding arefully considere ade prac uch a system can and at the ically self--' m the objec dae t'% ich are, ob iousl'i this public iusla- E in stripes. hel '' 5o* benefit .Thedgi seems o ,is in -emovdg the convicts from com e m-ov nwith honest, free labor; a >etl-aition while clearly objec onable, is no easy one to solve. Other states have tried to solve his problem in various ways, but ; far with indiffeant success. f, as claimed, to tu'rn the whole ystem over-to the Oork of build ng modern roadways is the solu. Lion of it, we take 'it that every >ne will welcome such an arrange ent. The proposition to make -tbe systei self-supporting by con. ucting a clothing, shoe and too. factory and a farm in connectior with the system, where all lon, term, decrepit men and womei convicts may be employed i producing. supplies for the entir system, and for thispurpose alone seems, on the face of it, to be on way of rea oving the convicts, a ja_ v ould era be.possible ConJ he same time of making intefl tem practically self-sup- well, .farme y rate the matter is one Al oing to occupy the atten- vited our people from now on, ay even be made an issue us e legislative elections, so a sv may reasonably expect to im her solution reached before 2. g.-Atlanta'Journal. ay . ...- seh<( 0] i you see a young man htiv n a parlor with the ugliest Jan~ues ld boy that ever fright- Jamai self in a mirror clam uer-pan r his knees, jerking hisinti out of plai.e, ruffling his ed ofr nt,.pulling hiis hair, kick- d. 1I shins, feeling in all his Mas1te~ for coppers, while the bing victim smiles all the e the cover of a comic au may safely say, that In 'ling boy has a sister who ernm romAi leet. away, Colni .t the youn man doesn't Publi iere just. r the fun of Dabr with her rother.-Lon- sity c b-Bits. . ing 11 iss: sauKE A EUOAT E '8 MUS(C NSTRUMENT color Icondit ~ne is s t and lovable, to 20 life's ng on a joyfu harmonious Only )ut 0 order or unst g, there 5 enr'ol e a d unhappiness. J st as there Tr not imalrtsicsother isoneke' alt, . wonanf migh~t s well try only ~o':t wirtgs asto feel well and look The the orga ,s thtt make her woman blach :: diseas -. She must be1 healthy e can't b -heathy outside; There sclioc inds of wo nei suffering silentiv 21 rea e. eEnry. ii.-taken mode -" Carol ce. Whil tiere is no'aif more than a m Ast woman. h coih it only t importan e. Every other'\ con- j2 y' should give say before it. Brad- of S( ale Regula r is a mned cine fopld ls. It is .ndquick- .\avera cure leu. - yeairs fa~ling of hiis nervous- . adache, miss] and gen- I~here less. You en ~onished gH~ yu have eriment- - Vox other so- i'7 ,t asking T / 0m1 hasnede j'j '' ITY less fi) . sandsof 17 4 ' J~ Wnat it t4J4 TI) or ohers shoal for you. '' ug stores - b'1 -'~J pensE ule. Mean tal Ian en tei~ wthe li FiELDter pri Women a5 Well as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upon gomnd r courages and lessens ambition; belutYtsoon and cheerfuln%e kid disappear whif order neys re ou or dise rouble has Kidne~o prevalent Sbeconot uncommon that Inild to be born forted with weak kid a s. If the child urin .es too often, if the h or if, when the child urine scalds thedien it should be able to reaches an agige, it is yet afflicted with control the Upend upon it. the cause of be .,ettinFis kidney trouble, and the first r the diffic7 be towards the treatment of step shortant organs. This unpleasant these s due to a diseased condition of the trouA and bladder and not to a habit as s ki' people suppose. ,e omen as well as men are made mis table with kidney and bladder trouble, nd both need the same great remedy. The mild and the immediate effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It is sold by druggists, in fifty cent and one dollar sizes. You may have a sample bottle by mail free, also pamphlet tell- Eome of s=aeP-ot ing all about it, including many of the thousands of testimonial - letters received from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilner & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., be sure and mention this paper. A Great Opportunity for the Farmers cf the State to fleet in Their Inter est. Seeretarys office, State Agricul tural and Iechanicel Society of South Carolina. Pomaria, S. C., Jan. 2d., 192. The spring meeting of the above society will be held in the auditorium on the 'exposition grounds. Charleston, on the 5th av of February next, at 12 o'clock m. In consequence of this meeting, this day has been set aside by the exposition authorities as "Farmers' Day," and the general attendance oftlie farmers of the State is expected. In addition to the interest at taching to the meeting and the exposition3, the Good Roads Con vention will convene in Charles ton on the 3d and continue through the 7th, February next, -a -those a' - ading the meetings ;. o"e society can also take in meis~of the Good Roads ess. is i Ie quite an ~sting convention and one 'orth the attendance of all members are urgently in to attend. ne time ago miy daughter caught ecold. She complained of painisBni uenst anid had1( a bad cough. I .II cr Chambrl:in's Cough Remie- U1 orIig to direc'tions$ and( in two he wa wvell and ab~le to go to I have used this remiedy in myv fr the past seven years and never known it to lail,'" says Pre derat, mierch n t, Annato, :u, West Idia Islands. Trh-, in the chest indic .tedl all ap ing attack of pneCu.Wonia, which i11s anee was undEoubtedly ward by n Camberlain's ('ough iReme t *ouc~tinay tendencicy of ai )ward pnectuonia. Sold by Me School Statistics. an address before the South ~ducational Association at bia, "The Problem of Our c Schools," Dr. Charles W. ey, president of the Umnver *f Tennessee, gave the follow iportant statistcs: 1900 the states south of Potomac and east of the sippi rivers containedl 00 white and 2,495,000 ad children of school age (5 Tears), a total of 6,401,000. 6 per cent of them were I ed in the schools in 1900. verage daily attendance was 0 per cent of those enrolled. average child white and togather, in the south's 1 at all, stops after he has d the third grade. In North ia the average citizen getsfl .6 years; in South Carolina, ~ ar.; in Alabama, 2.4 years Dg hoong, both private and This pi .. In the whole south the digestar g citizens gets only three food. 1 of schooling of all kinds in 13s O entire lif3. Have we not stomact narv work enough to do thousan t urt O~'OWn doors without cure at t Cuba, Porto Rico or the pcren i pines to find it?" Dieting ------It cari Know What You Arc Taking y u take Grove's Tasteks~s ChillPpad 'beaue(:iO the formnulaa plainly'Te 1 1 o everl CV]'ott le showing that it )l fro and Qiinine in a taste nii. No Cure, No Pay. 50e. U i broken dam at 'Portman ; will be repaired at an ex- IN A f 75,000 or $100,00 with a tim the company will lunC auI ;ne to supply electricity for Thankfl rts and sotne smtller en- tation fo: ses in Anderson. The Orr oldstan t mill has bot:ght a largel THE:1 e to ru its machinrr t OUR ENTIF -AT JEATILY RED -FOR 1 y';fl jMLzUi. TBIIA --FCI .SPOT CA; J. o.I I WANTTO E -A LO BU6GIE5 AN FC Young Mule D. A. Cr --WAS AWARDED T( It is High in QL and Low in Pr $35.O sy Payments if FOR SALE B 3. T. MV~ttlhed pepsia Cure' B ~sts what you eat. paratond costais all of sthe anl efTi ivesinsant relief and neve monish [s o an t. The mst sensitive desi s of dyspeptics have been held at fr ation of gas on te stem net, a nnecessary Pleass ntrto tae vf t t help istratiol but do you good ofDee 4 eon~ete~ 12-31 DER TAKING ~~~ ul stoc f ( s Bui3 amount Coflis, constantly on hand, innds, a I for pst ptro lae andu .ii les thai a s are in the future, at the or comn ttended to at all hours. J. LLIO TT I 0. 75O ZE STOCK IJED PRICES E 5H ONLY. 3OAG. EXGHANGE r OF D 5URREY s & Horses. -awford. afaloyit~ Co.ug acn You Desire. 2s &~ Soui. rs of Administration E OF SOUTH CAROLINA, joUNTY OF FAIRFIELD. R. Johnston, Eq., Jusdge of John W. Lyles, C. C.P, >f administration of te estate art, otherefore, to e a d htors of the said ayBae in te Court of Probte, to b Fairfild Court Ho~ South in the forenn to so a se t no b e hented. ber, An omtini 219h0da S. R. JOHNSTON ~NEY TO LOAN. on first mortgaes of amn yiens in instalmets in not five years, and no brokerage iissions ca~gd Ap~ to or A. E. DAV, Mntoie 8,