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71 PUBLISHE WEEKLY.WINNSBORU; . C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE i I, 1902. 84 PUBLISHED WEEKLY. I1EiMORIAL DAY. T p following 1iee wA.S w-ritten by Lewis s. Henderson, of Newberry, whose iothA was Miss El A Milling, o3 this county. It i, published by re quest : Tlie pcople of..Newberry are coming To the froni' as they :dways do, To honor the Confederate soldiers That were killed by the boys in blue; The boys that are sleepin*ancl shruded In the old I ime ('oiifaderate gray, Shall receiv. the respect of our eountry O. this memorial day. The day set :.part b. tAe people, The 'day of whiel you often have read, The day to prepare our flowers For our Confederate dead. The day for u ..to remember The day -hat saered we say, The day that brings to our menory The heroes who died in the gray Then let us asseimble and praise them, 'Tis all that we mortals can do, And trust our heavenly father, For he already has carried them through, And bade them enter his kingdonm That kingdom that fairer than day, And be heahld of the wounds that be fell them, While in Confederate gray. - Then let us go forward this morning To the place where our soldier boys rest, And lay our garlands gently Over their upturned breast, And ask a blessing from heaven To come down upon us to-day, While we wreathe with flowers the places Where our Southern heroes lay. And while we praise the departed, We shall not forget the oit who Are still here with us in Dixie, After serving their country so true; They deserve a part of our praises And a part of the flowers so fair; To be plucked from the soil of Dixie For our surviving heroes to wear. Then let u. observe the occasion, Memorial dav are but few, And we don't have the pleasure so ofteu Of paying our tributes to, The boys who fought for old Dixie Both those who are living and they, Who gave their lives for their country, -;:Ayel." remeniber tl:eiu well to-day. - ICTURE BY BULWER. . Vlorro.s of Volcanic-: Dutburst as Tpld - in FamcuS Novel About Pompeii The horror of a terrible vol cauic eiuption is vividly por trayed by Sir Edwarct Butwer Lytton in his novel, "Last Days of PompeiT" from historical material embellished into a run ning story. He writes as follows of the eruption of Vesuvius, which, in 79 A. D., destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Hercula neum: The eves of the crowd beheld, with ineffable. dismay, a vast vapor shooting from the summit of Vesuvius, in the form of a gigantic pine tree; the trunk, AM blackness-the branches fire!-a fire that shifted and wavered in its hues.with every moment, now fiercelr luminous, now of a (lull and dying red, th it again blazed terrificalIV forth with intolerable -'glare! 'J hen there arcse on high the universal shrieks of women; the men stared at cach other, but were dumb. At that momet. they felt the em~ th shake beneath their feet; and, beyond in the distance, they heard the crash of falling roofs; an inst-nt more and -the -)uutain cloud seemed to roil towatrd them, dark and ra-pid, - like a tc-rrent;- at the sa-me time it C-ast forthi froml its bosom a shower of ;:sl.es mixed with vast -> fragr.ents of burning vines-ove-r * the de olate streets-over the amphittheatre itself-far and wide -with many a mighty splash on the agit:ted sea-fell that awful shower! Each turned to-fiy--each dash ing, pressing, crushing aga'nst the (,th-er: Trampling recklessly over the fallen-amidst groan fs; * and oaths. and prayers, and sud den shrieks, the enormous crowd vomiited itself forthi. Whither should they thfl? Some, antici ptng to t-ond earthquake, has tend t thirhomes to load tht-mselves wi t ni,ostly - goods and cescape while it wvas vet time; pthers, dreading the showers of'- ashes that fell fast. '-torrent upon torrent, over the streets, rusLed under ihe roofs of the ut arest hounses, or temp,1les, or sheds--shelter of aykd for prottection from the terrors of the open air. But darker and larger an.I ightier sp readl the cloud above them. It wa*s a sud den and more glastly night rulh ing upon the i e Ihn (f noon. Amid the~ othier lhoriors the mighty mountain now cast up columns of boil:ng water. Blent and kneaded with the half-burn ing ashes, the streams fell like seething mud over the streets in frequent intervals. And full, where the piiests of Isis had now cowered around the as, on which they had vainlyi .ht to kindle fires and pbhr iise, one of the fiercest of tht deadly torrents, mingled wit. mmense fragments of scoria, poured its rage. Over the'b d fort of the priests it da d; thlat cry had been of dea thais' lence had been of eternity! The ashes--the pitch stream-sprin *ed the altars, covered the pave nt and half concealed the ivering corpses of the priests! Meanwhile the streets were al ready thinned; the crowd had hastened to disperse itself under shelter; the ashes began t6 fill up the lower parts of the town; but here and there you heard the steps of fugitives crunching them w arily or saw their pale and hag gard faces by the blue glare o the lightn'ng, or the more un steady glare of torches, by which they endeavorell to steer their steps. But ever and anon the boiling waer or the straggling ashes, mysterious and gusty winds, rising and dying in a breath, extinguished these wan dering lights, and with them the last living hope of those who boie them. The fugitives hurried on; they gained the gate; they passed by the Roman sentry; the lightning flashed over his livid face and polished helmet, but his stern features were composed even in their awe! He remained erect and motionless at his post. That hour itself had not animated the machine of the ruthless majesty of Rome into the reasoning and self-acting man. There he stood, amid the crashing elements; he had not received the permission to desert his station and escape. The cloud which lad scattered so eep a mnrkiness over the day had now settled into a solid and impenetrable mass. It resembled It ss even the thickest gloom of a night in the open air than the close and blind darkne.s of some narrow room. But in proportion as the blackness gathered did the ligh'tnings around Vesuvius in -rease in their vivid and scorch ing glare. Nor was their horrilble beauty confined to the usual hues f fire; no rainbow ever rivalled their varying and prodigal dyes. Now brightly blue as the most azure dept of a southern sky aow of a snake-like green, dart ing res~lessly to and fro as the Folds &. an enormous serpent aow og a Aniid and intolerable crimson~ gging forth through the colirgfo smoke, far and wide, anN lighting up the whole city froni arch to arch-then suds lenly dying into a sickly paleness, ike the ghost of their own life! In the pauses of the showers you heard the rumbling of the ai th beneath and the groaning waves of the tortured sea; Or: lower still, and audible but to the watch of intensest fear, the rinding and hissing murmur of he escaping gases through the basms of the distant mountain. Sometimes the cloud appeared to break from its solid mass, and, by the lightning, to assume guaint and vast mimicries of h ^o of inaster shapes, strid4ng s the gloom, hurtling one u e other and vaLishing i o the turbulent abge ol -sh 4;o that. to the eyes 'and fates af the afrighted 'wanderis, theu . substantial vapors were as the bodily for ms of gigantic foes--the agents of terror and of death. 'he ashes in many places were already kneeue p, and the boil i:g showers e 1i came from the steaming breath of the volcano forced their way into the houses, becaring vith them a strong and suffocat5g vapor. In some places imense fragments of rock, hurled upon the house roofs, bore down along the streets masses of con fused ruin, whic.h yet. mor e and more, with every hour, r>bstLucted the way; andl ds the dav advatnced the motion of the earthi was more sensibly felt-the footing seemed " slide andl creep-nor could chariot or litter be kept steady, et n on the inost level ground. The groans of the dying were broken by wild shrieks of women's terr--now near. now distant which, when heard in the utter darkness, were rendered doubly appalling by the crushing sense of helplessness and the uncer tainty of the perils around; and clear and distinct through all were the mighty and various noise; from the fatal mountain; its rushing winds; its whiding torrents; and, from time to lime, the burst and roar of some. e fiery and fierce explosion. 1 yer as the winds swept b owng aing the street they boie sharp streams of burning dust and such sickening and poisono.p vapors as took away, for the instant, breath and consciousness, fol lowed by a rapid revulsion of the arrested blood and a tingling sensation of agony trembling through every nerve and fibre of the frame. Suddenly the place became lighted with an intense and lurid glow. Bright and gigantic through 1 a carkness, whit closed around i'1RG the walls' hell, the moun tain shone-a ple of fire! Its sksgit seemed riven in two, or rather, above its surface there seemed to rise two monster shapes, &ach confronting 'each, as demons contending for a world. These were of one-deep blood-red line of,. fire, which lighted up -he C whole~atmosphere far and wide; C but below the nether part of the E mountain was still (lark and C shrouded, save in three places, I adown which flowed, serpentine t t and irregular rivers of the molten lava. Darkly red through the 6 piofound gloom of their banks e they flowed slowly on, as toward the devoted city. Over the broadest there seemed to spring a cragged and stupendous arch, from which, as from the jaws of hell, gushed the sources of the udden Phlegethon. And through a te stilled air was heard the rat- 9 ling of the fragments of rock, z &nrtling oie upon an'otheras%the^y' were borne down the fiery cata racts-darkening for one instant c the spot %,ere they. fell, and V suffsed the next in the burnished I hues of the flood along which they l loated! S And meekly, softly, beautifully q lawned at last the light over the f trembling deep!-the winds were sinking into rest-the foam died a from the glowing azure of that delicious sea. Around the east a thin mists caught gradually the r rosy hues that heralded the ~ morning: Light was about to resume her reign. Yet, still, dark nd massivein the distance, lay F the broken fragmerts of the de- i troying clacM4. from which red .treaks, burrig dimlier and more i, betra3ed the yet rolling tir , of the mountain of the 256orched Fields." The white all~i gleaming columns that 1 nd' iorned the lovely coasts r o more. Sullen and dulld we le shore so lately crested ~ yrcities of Herculaneum and Pompeii! The ailings of [the deep were snat ~from her em brace! Ifappy Time In Old Town. e "We felt very ha.ppy," writes R. N. Bevill, 'Old rTown, Va., ( 'when Bucklen's ,Arnica Salve 1' wholly cured apr daughter of a ad case of scald head. It do- a ights all who ,it for Cuts, t Corns, Burns, ',Boils, r Ulcers, Eruptions. I ble for s Piles. Only 25c j aster Co.'s drug store.d A PaIr ofS Ls. t A bachelor, says an exchange e* bought a pair of socks and found attached to one of them a paper is with these words: "Tom a young o lady of twenty and would like to 1, orrespond with a view to miatri- c mony." Name and address were il given. The bachelor wrote and t in a feyi days got this letter: Maa married twenty years ago. 3 inmerchant from whom you bdtg ose socks evidently i (lid nbt ertise or he would 11 ae so~ them before. My ' mother I ed me your letter and said possibly I might suit y ou. Isam eighteen." My little had an at tack of whoop ng coughd was thratened with pneumonia but for Chamberlain's 'ough Reni we would have had a serious time. it. It also s'aved him from several severe attacks of croup. H. J. SyicKFADEN, editor World Herald, Fair Haven, Wash. For sale lo MMater ('o. ;nmson -%wver. Crimson c;6 be sown luring the late er and fall, .ither bM itsel . at the last i orking of cor ' cotton. Ad rantage should. :ayf be taken >f a faiorable sson for seeding his crop, aa' it spreuts very luickly iid -sily. When sown )y itse itfis better always to )repare<Jaz4 intended for crim ion cl oas early as can conve enientIe.done. and then wait or a 'good ram. As soon as )racticable, after a rain, run a igt harrow over the ground to )reak the crust of the soil; then ow the seed and cover with a moothing barrow, brush harrow r roller: A great many of our ruckera make it a rule to seed ,rimson clover on all vacant land s soon 4 the crops are taken off. t is not at all necessary to re >low for crimso.n clover; in fact, I t is better not, if the land is easonably clean and.nottoo hard >r compact. Running a cutaway i >r sharpt-tootLed harrow over the and will, as a rule, give sufficient )reparation on land where crops iave ben recently taken off, and >etter stands will be secured than f the land is freshly plowed. One f the principal reasons why I rimson clover sometimes fails to I ;ive satisfactory stands is on ac- i oupt of being sown on freshly >lowed land, which does not seem I o be compact enough to protect he little rootlets against the hot, I ry spells .which we sometimes xperience in the late summer nd fall, and on this account it is I inch better to seed on land that as been plowed sometime pre- i ious to seeding. In addition to its great value s Dr past urage, early green forage t ud hay, crimson clover is un- 1 uestiosnbly one of the best soil c nprovere the farmer c~n use. It of,nW*adde the_rti,itof he soil, but puts the land in ex- t ellent condition for the crops c b1ich are to follow it. IL also a revents the winter leaching of I ud, conserves its fertilizing con- t tituents, and will increase the t uantity and quality of crops i )llowing it, wherever-it is grown. c ts use is increasing very rapidly, a nd it is only a question of its l ierits becoming fully known, s hen it will be appreciated and t onsidered as one of the most c :nportant crops for farmers every here. The value of crimson clover for c asturage alone should commend for universal use as it furnishes iore and better pasturage during he late fall, winter and early f pring than any other crop. s Vherever sown largely for pas- ~ arage the sowing of rye or bar y with it will prove of decided e enefit. The crop can be grazed e uring the winter, the cattle or beep taken off it the end of arch, and a full crop made after ards, which can also be used for ay or green feed, and then iti i1 leave the land in very much f etter condition than before the r rimson clover was sown.t Sow at the rate of one peckr 15 lbs.) to the acre, anti, where I racticable, sow at different times< stead of sowing the whole crop t one seeding, as in some seasons< e earlier see ' s give bettert sults, while in ielr years later eedings do the be.st. It can be] eede d from first .of July to mid le of October, makinrg its full rop arly the following May, so< at the crop can be taken off or I lowed under followed by orn or otber s er -;crops, the 1 ield of whi ' e very much creased w ' wixj a crop i f cimsog.lover .?h seed is W in- price this year and as itt osts very lig4e tg. sgl per- acre,, Sshould be mo're ]ergely used j han ever before.. For Over Sixty Years. 1 Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has eex' used for over sixty yeanrs by mil1 ions of mothers for their children rhile teething, with perfect success. t soothes the child, softens the gumis, 1 ays all pain, eures wind colic, andi Sthe best remedy for diarrhoa. It l~ill relieve the poor little suffe?rer imediately. Sold by all druggists ini very part of the world. Twenty-five ents a bottle. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soo'hing Syrup," d take no other kind. 1-1-17 "In polities," said the Cynical lodger, "spot cash will buy many n unoted reputation." Special to The State. Ridgeway, June 3.-When the appointment of a successor to Senator McLauiin becomes a matter of consideration for the .Y governor, the citizens of Ridge-' way will submit the availabiltby of her formf r townsman, R. Means Davis, prof ssor of political his tory at the South .arolinua l lege, for the un te of Senator.hip. W no Df any appoin rW orat wo be more appropria e or popular k Although Mr. Davis has not been identified with iy faction tt in the political coui e- of events o in the State during the .past 10 P Fears, cn account of his regard t or the proprieties while holdi 3 position of tiust in a Stat ;titution, his connection as a .uemb r of the Democratic execu- b :ive committee during the strug- ai ;le of the reconstruction period, S ave him a reputation and in- w luence throughout tl.e State that a, re not excelled by any who may b: >ossibly be mcntioned for the c ,onsideration of the governor. His studies in the ground work fr >f politics, and in the course of 0 vents in his native State since he first settlements to the present imes, poreemitently fit him to "epresent South Carolina in the , ;etate of the United States. His Democracy is that of the stamp >f the founders of the patty, and e tot adulterated or contaminated sE vit modernisms that have affected c: o injuriously the success of his rc arty in the past decade. n, While not an orator in the h, isual signification of the term, ii dr. Davis is a vigorous and apt s peaker and debater, and 'at all a imes his efforts aie marked as y thorough preparation and s leep reflection. His attitude and opinions f i gf ,m pmoe s ques ions now engaging the atten ion If cougress wuuld refit ct honor p nd gain influence in the senate n or the State of South Carolina if hat are so much to be desired at his time. Gov. McSweeney b could find in Ir. Davis the man fo f the hour, so to speak, and no a t of his admiuistration would C ecome him more, be so univer ally acceptable,-:nd at the same ime amore deserving in the re 0 ipiei.t than his appointment as C uccessor to Senator McLaurin, hould his rt signation be received, f Prof. I. Means Davis. P h, Ready to Yield. "I used DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve A ,r piles and found it a certain eure," . siys S. RI. Meredith, WVillow Grove, )eI. p,erations unniecessaoy to cure 0 ies. Theiy always yield to DeWitt's - 'itch Hazel Salve. Cures skin dis ases, all kindls of wounds. Accept no ounterfeits. McMaster Co. Doesn't Take Initiative Step. Congiessman Finley said on Vednesday, that so far he had iled aplilcations for about 65 ural delivery routes inm rict. Many of these eady been surveyed and esta - ished, and others are.n process f investigation. With the routes rea.dy established and in process f investigation in Yoik county, he outlook is that there w.4j pretty thorough count le. :t should be understood th~ ilr does not take the . ive in the establishment of free lelivery routes. TIhat is a mat er witii the people of a givetF errtory. They imus tget u )etition that is required by the ostoffice depai tment, a blank 'or whieb Mr. Finley is glad to urnish en application, and after he petition is properly signed he nakes it his business to se . t receives all the consideilation o which it is entitled. Of courst t does not follow that every oute petitioned for can be es ablished. Thlis matter is gov ~red by va rio us? considerations ithe office of the se~ ndent >f rural free de:iv ~ m.any etitions are tun for ood yons, while -th fail vithe itisfact* etplanation. -or iEnirr You Kpow What You Are ~jing ihen von take Grove's Tastes Chill ['onie because the formula is plinly rinted on every~ bottle showing that it s simpy Iron and Q'iininle in a taste s, form. No Cure, No Pay. 50c. Your Kidneys. rnhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Mlood. All the blood in your body passes through our kidneys once every three,minutes. The kidneys are your - blood purifiers, they fil . ter out the' waste or impurities in the blood. If they are sick or out of order, they fail to do s their work. Pains, achesandrheu matism come from ex - cess of uric acid in the blood, due to neglected idney trouble. Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady eart beats, and makes one feel as though iey had heart trouble, because the heart is ver-working in pumping thick, kidney oisoned blood through veins and arteries. It used to be considered that only urinary -oubles were to be traced to the kidneys, ut now modern science proves that nearly E otistitutional diseases have their begin ingPn kidney trouble. If you are sick you can make no mistake y first doctoring your kidneys. The mild ad the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer's wamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is on realized. It stands the highest for its onderful cures of the mast distressing cases ud is sold on its merits f all druggists in fifty- sb mnt and one-dollar siz .You may have a" Lmple bottle by mail - Hm or swampsooc. i. ee, also pamphlet telling you how to find it if you have kidney or bladder trouble. ention this paper when writing Dr. Kilmer Co., Binghamton, N. Y.j The Pickens Journal gives the llowing information ss to pro ressive farming in that county; Those who have used shredding Lachines in Pickeni county are alling hay tt good priees and mn count on their supply of bar >r ready money. Another thing otice(1 is that in the neighbor Dod of a settlement .shredder, ie people have more and better :ock and cattle and -better I nds the results of attention to':tke ,. roduction of stock feed ana -o ;ock keeping." How to Avoid Trouble. Now is the time to provide vou:: in's Colie, Cholera ian<. iarrhoa emede. It is almost certain to be (dled before the suniner is over, and procured now may save you a trip to wn in the night or in your busiest ason. It is everywhere admitted to the most successful medicine in use r bowel complaints, both for children ud adults. No family can afford to without it. For sale by MeMaster Rev. A. Coke Smith, a native f this State and Until rec(ntly a ember of the South Carolina onference, has been elected a ishop of the Methodist Episco al Church, South. Dr. Smith as the reputation of being a rilliant and eloquent pulpit rator and a profound theologian. t the time of his e!evation to ~e bishopric he was a member the Virginia Conference. GCmiienough foraenybody! ALL HAVANA Fl LLER FLORODORA"BANDS are of same value as tags from STARK"DRUMMONYNuA IEA GOOD LU6 OLDPE ACH &11ONE1 -~RAZORend. ~ERIC GREEWVILLE Thbaccon