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P5^' ^asm ^ 1 .' ' 'ir''">'y-T^dSSSBSSBM f^Sc- r*' '. '"'" .. * .;- v\;i:.^gS^g| h .~~r 'v"^_'*0'" : -: L"" W_ ? - ?" ~?????^??????^ ??? - - ' - - ' ' ' ? . ? ________________? VOL LIII WINNSBORO. S, C., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 9, 1899. , NO. 52 ^ T T ^ T ^ ^ ^ 4 *r7'" ^ a^aw rrrno f o nrnnAioc ir? I sftT^raRS' back pay. i nrmcTfixr w A PUT?n |r PHLLIPPINE WAR. !] Fundamental Principles Involved | in Question. SUGGESTS WAY TO "LET GO" j ] President Can Summon Congress J ?to Guarantee Filipinos Inde- j flg| pendence on Same Terms 1 Kw i m as the Cubans. Rrr . T -o J: ??? PJii'lin. I IMF YV m. 0.vDr)au uui;us;co J. un.j, ^ Jpine question in this week's Xew York t Independent. He says: ( "The Philippine question is impor- ? tant because fundamental principles are involved in its discussion. There | are two sources of government, force ? and consent. Monarchies are founded 1 hpon force, republics upon consent. 3 f "The declaration of independence as- ^ serts that governments derive their just j powers from the consent of the gov- j Bp ernea, and this is the doctrinc to which ^ we have adhered for more than a cen- t tury. It is the doctrine which has dis- j tinguished us from European countries s f and has made our nation the hope of ( ; humanity. The statue in New York t harbor typifies the nation's mission. i I "If the doctrine set forth in the de- j claration of independence is sound, t how can we rightfully acquire sover- j am* flio Wlininnft!? bv a war of t eigilUJ VtVi w*v r _ conquest...;If the doctrine set forth - in i the declaration of independence is i sound, how can we rightfully purchase i sovereignty from a Spanish sovereign i whose title we disputed in Cuba and . whose rebellious subjects we armed in 1 the Philippines? "In the resolution of intervention } congress declared that the Cubans were, i > and of right ought to be, free. Why? < " Because governments derive their just ] powers from the consent of the gov- < erned, and Spain has refused to re- ( spect the wishes of the Cubans. If \ the Cubans were and of right ought to \ be free, why not the Filificos? i "In the beginning ol tne apanisn < war congress denied that our nation had < any thought of extending its territory i by war. If we then had no thought of ] (securing by conquest new territory in i the western hemisphere, why should ] we now talk of securing in the eastern < heminhere new races for subjugation? ] "An individual may Jive a double < K life fijfen only one life is known, i I Wheit 'jx lives are known he can lead only one life and tliat the worst. A j republic cannot enter upon a colonial ' policy. It cannot advocate government ' by consent at home and government by i ^ force abroad. The declaration of inde- i pendence will lose its value when we j proclaim the doctrine familiar in Eu- t ^??gpg koscy f.bati ?i ^' ments are round in shape, about 13 < inches in diameter and fired out of a i cannon. 1 ^ "For more than a century this nation < Br has been traveling alorg the pathway ] which leads from the low domain of j might to the lofty realm of right, and j i its history has been without a parallel i in the annals of recorded <.<aie. vvnat ] will be our fate if we turn backward ] and begin the descent toward force and \ conquest. < JCIt is not sufficient to say that the I *' ~ p <.1. r lorciDie annexation 01 me jrnmppiuc islands is a benevolent undertaking entered upon for the good of the Filipinos. Lincoln' pointed out that this has al- ] ways been the argument of kings. To use his words, 'they always bestrode , the neck of the people, not that they j wanted to do it, but because the people . were better off for being ridden. '{ "It is surprising that any believer in ; self-government shoald favor forcible ] annexation, but more surprising that ( omr rtno o/hrt in the Christian i religion should favor the substitution ( of force for reason in the extension of , our nation's influence. ] "If we adopt the gunpowder gospel , in the Philippines how loDg will it be ] before that principle will be trans- ! planted in American soil. So long as ! our arguments are addressed to the rea- . son and the heart our progress is sure, but can we, without danger to Christianity, resort to the ancient plan of injecting religion into the body through bullet holes? "The question is frequently asked, What can we do? Nearly two months ! elapsed between the signing of the treaty ' and the beginning of hostilities in the , Philippines. During that time the : president and congress might have , given to the Filipinos some assurances of independence that was given to the J r Cubans. Such assurance would have , prevented bloodshed. If tae doctrine ! of self-government is sound the Fili pinos are entitled to govern themselves, AAT* WATTT nrArm co ttUU LUC UiC3iUCUt tau uv/n yiuuiwv them independence as soon as a stable ! government can be established. "If the president is not willing to take the responsibility of enforcing the doctrine set forth in the declaration of , independence, he can call congress together and let them take the responsi- ' bilitv. v A special session would be less expensive than the war, not to speak of i the principles involved. "Our natiou is protecting the republics of South America from outward in- ] terference while they work out their j destiny. We can extend the same doctrine to the Philippines, and, having rescued the inhabitants from a foreign yoke, we can guard them from molesta|? tion while they develop a republic in ( the Orient. They will be our friends 1 instead of our enemies. We can send ] school teachers to Manila instead of 1 soldiers; and the world will know that : there is a reality in tbe tneory or gov ernment promulgated at Independence Hall and defended by tiie blood of the 1 r^vnlrj firm arc fatTiprs," : His lamp Burned Low. The captain of the British steamship Grlooscap, which arrived at Philadelphia Thursday from Iloilo with a cargo of sugar, reports that on April 2, when passing Cape Melville, Balabac -island, one of the Philippines, he found the light house keeper without provisions and unable to light his lamp because" he had no oil. The Glooscap furnished supplies and reported the fact to the British consul at Batavia. The natives ; of the island, ,the captain says, had all : been killed by Spaniards. DESOLATION ON FLORID! COASTThe Town of Carrabelle Laid in Ruins by a Hurricane. The town of Carrabelle, Fla., a prosperous port on the Gulf of Mexico, is eported almost completely destroyed sy a terrific wind and rain-storm which passed through that secttioa during Wednesday. Many boats which were :n the harbor have been wrecked and nost of the long wharf is gone, together with large quantities of naval stores. A.t Lanork, the houses, pavilion and aoats have been destroyed. Unconirmed reports say that the steamer Cre>ent City has been lost between Apalajhicola and Carrabelle. Several persons are reported drowned at St. Mark's. A. few houses were destroyed at St. reresa. The Mclntyre, Astmore and Curtis mills suffered feverely. A passenger train on the Carrabelle, Tallalassee and Gulf railroad thirty-five niles below Tallahassee, was badly ivrecked but no one is reported killed )r injured. The turpentine interests !n this section are greatly damaged and nucn injury has been done to:he crops. The wires are down south of here md railroad service to the G ulf ports .s suspended. The storm was one of ;he hardest that ever passed over this section. It came directly up the great jrulf *..d starred northward. For hours ,he wind was terrific, blowing at a high 1 * nil* A , t. ! ate a;.a tne rainieii in torrents, wasung away many bridges, endangering ;horoughfares and railroals. The ;torm reached the coast Wednesday norning and there was no cessation un:il far into Wednesday night. The ffires and railroads have been so interfered with that the results of the storm ire just beginning to reach this city.-I Hong the coast the fishing industry ias been severely interfered with. Many Tallahasseeans are at the various resorts along the coast from vhich no reports have come and the 5ond:tions at these places is causing nuch anxiety. Parties who returned m the wrecking train which went to 3arrabe!le Wednesday morning report :hat the country along the route shows ;he effects of the storm. The train ivas compelled to rua with great caution jwing to the condition in which the storm had placed the roadbed. The i 11 _ j. 1 .V ?? ;mer naa Deen over tne traces ah iua,u> places. Passengers on the train which ^as wrecked say the train was blown :rom the track. The city of Apalachi;ola at the mouth of the Chattahoochie river is entirely cut off from communication and nothing can be learned from ;here. A new trestle over the Ochlocknee ?< AT/iT*. f TTT?/% TtTOC T"ll AT17TI QTUQV i .lVt/1 Al i'lOIU LJ iVy II UJ M. ff ?J I File wrecking train which went out i FTednesday into the storm devastated :erritory. found over 200 trees on the :rack in a ran of thirty miles. General Manager Crittenden who had charge of ;he train, says that every town along rhe line'is desohted. Iloteh, houses, jhurches, saw mills, wharves and pavilions were in many places blown from ;heir positions and in several instances jompletely wrecked. There are many rumors afloat Wednesday night as to the loss of life. One mill hand is known :o have been drowned at Mclntyre. One man was drowned at St. Mark's, but umors place the loss of life there at 15. Lt is not believed here that any lives were lose at the numerous summer re sorts but reliable news is unobtainable. Uoal uii lor ifarns. A girl of 11 years turned over a gallon of boiling liquid on her leg and foot. When the stocking was removed the >kin came with "it, and the pain was in-1 tense. I tore a strip off an old sheet, jnd having put nearly a pound of soda :>n the limb, wrapped the sheet about it in such a manner as to exclude the air, bound it armly, saturated it well with joal oil, and in 15 minutes she sat with her foot in a chair and joined in the jther children's play. In two days she was in school, and in two weeks the limb was well. A barefooted boy stepped on fire, and was almost in spasms with the pain. I bound on soda ind coal oil, and in less than twenty minutes he was asleep and had no more pain. I know it is the best remedy for burns. President's Cousin Pugnacious. J. N. McKinley, a first cousin of President McKinley, was arrested at Fitzgerald, Ga., Tuesday afternoon on a peace warrant. The warrant was sworn out by .J. M. Fickler, a neighbor and G. A. R. comrade, McKinley and Fickler live on adjoining tracts of land and have had trouble before. Mr. McKinley moved to Fitzgerald from CanIod, Ohio, about two years ago, and is a, farmer. He is charged by Fickler with using threatening language against him and also with seeking to have Fickler's pension discontinued. Mr. Mc ivioiey has given bond to keep the peace. Petition for a Time. Ninety prominent citizens of Athens, Gra., will present a petition to the city council at its nest session asking for a change of time and that all public clocks uc set citucJL caaiciu ui wcatwu time. The town now operates by what is known as sun time, being just between eastern and central time. The town is sitcated on the line which divides the temporal sections of the country. Afraid of TJs. A dispatch from London to the Assorted Press Aug. 1 gave the substance af a message sent by the Rome correspondent of the Morning Post to his paper. He said: "According to news received here, the victory over Spain md the growth of imperialism in the United States has led the South Ameri can republics to talk of un alliance against the United States, aud it is alleged that the preliminaries of such an alliance have been concluded between Brazil and Argentina. Poisoned Children and Suicided. Mrs. Mary Stevenson, of 203 Clinton street, Detroit, Mich., Tuesday afternoon poisoned her two children, Emma, aged three, and Ella, aged six, with morphine and took a dose of the drug herself. All three are dead. Mrs. Stevenson was in straitened circumstances aud despondency over this is supposed to have been her reason for killing her babies and herself. QUARTERLY REPORT Text of the Report of the Legis-, latiye Committee. COUNTY AND CITY PROFITS. The School Fund Gets About <CO/"\ rtrtn TIiq Prnfit anH I I BW I ( vi i h UIIM Loss and General Accounts. The report of the legislative committee on the dispensary of the aftairs of the Stste dispensary for the quarter ending June 30th, was completed Tuesday and forthwith filed with Governor McSweeney. The report shows that the quarter resulted in a profit of $30,341.50 to tha credit of the school fund of the State and of $3-1.241.68 to the towns rnd counties. Here is the text To ELis Excellency, M. B. McSweeney, Governor, Columbia, S. 0. Sir: We, the committee appointed by the officers of the general assembly to investigate and examine the books and papers of the State Dispensary for the year 1899, beg leave to submit our report for the quarter ending June 30, 1899. TIL. - -1_ - - I J 4.1 JLne 510CK. UQ UaUU Wits tttli.CU uu o uue 30th by Mr. D. F. Efird, representing the committee, and Mess. L. J. Williams and T. C. Robinson, representing the State board of control. An inventory of liquors, supplies and machinery and office fixtures was exhibited and taken as submitted. The committee met July 24th and examined the books and records for the months of April, May and June, we found on record vouchers for all expenditures. We append hereto the following statements: First?Assets and liabilities. Second?Profit and loss acconnt. Third?Cash statement of receipts and disbursements: All of which is respectfully submittted. Appendix:- D. F. Efird, A. C. Lyles,. Members of the House. Since uhe close of the quarter above examined we find that $25,000 has,been paid over to the Stat$ treasurer ais per voucher on file in this office, to the credit of the school fund. D. F. Efird, A. C. Lyles. Qaarterly statement of the Stats dispensary for the quarter ending June 30, 10QQ J.U&& ASSETS. Cash in State treasury June 30, 1899 $ 63,050 17 Merchandise in hands of dispensers June 30, 1899 196,249 32 Merchandise,'(Inventory of - stock at State dispensary June 30, 1899 159,619 27 Supplies. (Inventory June 30, 1899.) 38,087 65 Teams and wagons. (Enven- < tory June 30, 1899 64 00 Machinery and office fixtures, (Inventory June 30 1899 2,550 00 Contraband, (Inventory June 30, 1899.) 392 75 Real Estate 35,300 27 Suspended accounts 2,320 15 Personal accounts due Stats for tax advanced on bonded spirits, empty barrels, alcohol, royalty/ on beer, etc 6,622 96 Total $504,256 54 LIABILITIES School fund $436,667 08 Personal accounts due by State for supplies, whh? kies, wines, beer, alcohol etc 67,589 46 Total liabilities $504,256^4 Statement of profit and loss account fAr miart.Ar or>r?in?r .Tnnp SO. 1899. PROFITS. Gross profits on merchandise sold dnring quarter.$ 74,10b' 10 Discounts on purchases 3,246 70 Contraband seizures 1,95145 Permit Fees .... 10 50 Profits from beer dispensaries from April 1st to June 12th 7,754 77 Total gross profits $ 87,069 52 LOSSES. Supplies?Bottles, corks, labels, wire, tinfoil, lead seals, boxes, nails, sealing wax, etc., used during quarter $ 17,477 20 Tear and wear of machinery 9iin rvffi^e fixtures 29 55 Constabulary 14.137 06 Breakage and leakage 267 60 Freight and expres charges. 14,375 82 Labor 3,151 55 Insurance 640 84 Expense account? Salaries, traveling expenses of inspectors, per diem and mileage of members of State board, per diem A'f In/VlfloflTTfl j duu iimccijc ui icgisiauib examining committee, office supplies, repairs, lights, teregrams postage stock, feed, ice, printing. revenue stamps, telephone rent, etc 6,093 39 Litigation 366 65 Amount of liquors taken from the Blacksburg dispensary on April 4th, 1899, by soldiers 30 50 Amount of whiskey taken from the Varnville dispensary on April 11th, 1*99, by soldiers o 01 "Worthless porter and ale at V oh San ten's dispensary, Charleston, destroyed by county board of control.. 23 65 Loss by robbery at the Bish opyille dispensary April 28, 1S99 143 84 Total expenses $ 56,728 02 Net profits on sales for quarter, passed to the credit of the school fund 30,341 50 Total $ 87,069 52 I Net profits paid to towns and counties by sub-dispensaries for quarter ending June 30th, 1S99..$ 34,241 68 Cash statement for quarter ending j June 30th, 1899: RECEIPTS. I i Balance la State treasury March 31st, 1899.... 32,438 91 April receipts.$ 98,945 52 May receipts.. 108,114 71 Jnne receipts.. 87,311 54 Total receipts for quaiter.. 294,371 77 Total $325,810 68 DISBURSEMENTS. April disburse ments ? yo,St>b 725 May disbursements 112,402 43 June disbursements 55,489 36 Total disbursements for quarter $263,760 51 Balance iu State treasury June 30th, 1S99 63,050 IT Total $326,810 68 TB OSE SOLDIERS' CLAIMS. Gov- McSweeney Gives a Statement Concerning tie Contract. The following statement was given the press from the executive office Wednesday: ' A few days/ago Gov. McSweeney stated that he would not interfere with the contract made by GciV. Ellerbe for the collection of t:ie back pay due the soldiers in the late war. For the inforA " 1 _ T? K _ mation of those concernea uov. moSweeney has secured a copy of the contract fthich Gov. Jbillerbe made with Messrs. Evans and Townsend from Mr. W. Boyd Evans and is herewith given. "These claims have to be paid through the governor's office, but in order to put them in proper shape requires a great deal of labor and it will be decidedly better and simplify matters for all claims to go through this one source. "The following is the copy of thecontract furnished by Mr. W. Boyd "Columbia, S. C., April 15, 1899, "Whereas, certain claims of the State of South Carolina against the United Sta*-->q for mobolizing of South Carolina volunteers in the late war with Spain have been suspected by the war department because said claims have not been presented in due form, I do hereby employ C. P. Townsend and W. Boyd Evans to properly prepare the said claims anl collect all pay for volunteers from this State and hereby agree to pay them as a commission for such services fifteen per cent of the amount collected. W. H. Ellerbe, "Governor. "Gov. McSweeney will aid in any way possible to assist th e soldiers in getting their pay." Tea Raising. Dr. Charles U. Shepard, who is in charge of the experimental tea garden at Summerville, S. C., has made a re port to the secretary of agriculture covering the progress made up to date. He says there are now about 50 acres of land under tea cultivation and that 3,I 000 pounds were sold last year at a profit of 25 per c^nt. It is estimated that when all the plants now growing arrive at maturity they will yield 10,000 pounds annually. Dr. Shepard exprefs? ? ?? ? r%4- fliaf fflO LUC UpiUJLUll LUC xavu uaau vjulv WUU plants lived through last winter, when the most intensely cold weather in the history of the section was experienced, is a guarantee that the weather conditions will prove satisfactory. The labor problem, he pays, has been solved by establishing a school for the education of the Negro chiHren in tea picking. The quality of the tea also has proved satisfactory. Of the black tea he says: "It has a distinctly characteristic flavor, and, like some of the choicer Oriental teas, its liauor has more strength than its color indicates." The green tea, he says, has attracted keen interest in the trade and among the consumers, and he adds that "Oriental teas can hardly famish the like in this country."?The State. Good Advice. "Burdette gives good advice, as follows: "There are young men that do not work, my son; but the world is not proud of them. It does not know their names, even; it simply speaks of them as old so-and-so's boys- Nobody likes them, nobody hates them; the great busy world doesn't even know that they are there. So find out what you want to be and do, son, and take off your coat and make a dust in the world. The busier you are the less deviltry you we apt to get into, the sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter and happier your holidays, and the better satisfied will the world be with you." Cure for Lockjaw. Here is something for the doctor's scrap book: A resident of Asbury Park. N. J., says that he has cured | eleven _cases of lock jaw by hot water treatment. His instructions are: "Put the patient in a bath of warm water and place in it one pound of mustard. Immerse all except the mouth, nose and eyes. Cover the head with warm cloths, then add hot water until the temperature reaches about 110 degrees; if the patient can bear it go to 120 degrees. and keep patient in until the jaws open, which takes usually about | twenty minutes. I have had to keep patients in forty minutes." Sacred Grass, In Boston it is regarded as almost a crime to lie down on the saured grass of the Common and twenty-one unfortunates who slept there on a recent hot night were wakened early in the morning by a squad of vigilant policemen and marched off to a magistrate. Each of the victims was fined S3?the price of a night's lodging in a first class hotel. A Deep Hole. The deepest hole in the earth is at Schladebach, near Ketscau, Germany, It is 5,735 feet in depth, and is for geologic research only. The drilling was begun in 1880 and stopped six years later because the engineers were unable with their instruments to go deeper. i UAKL1SLK itfMJiS. The Veteran Educator Tells How He Was Educated. WHAT ARE COLLEGES TO ME. Some Words of Wisdom From One Whose Knowledge Comes Frr\rr? Fvnoripnr.p. Pearls of Thought To the Editor of The State: Colleges endowed or unendowed are valuable only as they endow raen and women. If every college now in our country (400 in round numbers) had amplest outfit, in all needful buildings, apparatus, salaries for professors, there would, still be a great question pending. How can all this money and money's worth be changed into Christian manhood, and Christian womanhood? In building a large factory an expert can predict how many yards of cloth it will yearly send out, and also the general worth of the frabric. It is not so where human minds, hearts and character are involved. Suppose, however, that every college sent out yearly its l.-irge class of thoroughly educated men and women. A rich stream of good influ ences would certainly De pourea mo the current life of our great, restless, growing nation. Yet the prospect would be very gloomy, indeed, if no other causes were at work to help us. We need and must haye more good influences at work than all our colleges can possibly give us. Perhaps some parents are becoming almost provoked at the frequent allusions in our papers to colleges, their work, and their needs. The nan#?r mav he laid down with the feeling, "What are colleges to me and my children?" # No parents should hastily conclude that their children will never have access to a college. An intelligent thirst for education and a persevering spirit may bring the improbable to pass. Recent statistics show that college stu dents from farms are more numerous in proportion in the Sooth than in other parts of the conntry. But our purpose now is to speak to the parents whose children will never go to college. Your children are not shut out from a useful career even if shut out from college. A . good common school education is taken for granted. This you must give them. Kemember the word common does not necessarily me^n cheap, inferior, insignificant and worthless. It means general, universal. Air and water are common. But they are not worthless. The world needs a CTeat manv neoDle to do commc general things. TLis does not mean insignificant or degrading work. It means the work that is absolutely necessary to hold up the vast structure of society; such work as the great Majority of humact beings must do though it attracts no special notice. "I expect to be a common man, standing in my common lot, bearing common burdens, and doing common duties, as a_private good man ought to do." Would an expression like tins betray a weak, cowardly, ignoble spirit? "Faithful but not famous." This is the best epitaph in reach of the greet mass of human beings. To be famous is, of necessity, denided to the multitude, jast as great wealth is denied them. A nation of millionaires would be a nation of paupers. All men becoming famous would end in no one being famous, all being on a dead level. A common education, when it meets the requisite material, may bring forth an uncommon man. This has often happened and will happen again. The generous instincts and aspirations of -Anna* mninyaa oya *vw/vrri/1 on frsr Kt7 VllC law. And by a las? equally sure many college graduates are common men and do common work. But we come back to the great truth that boys and girls may be fitted for life in its broadest, healthiest, most necessary sphere, its widest range of duties, achievements and enjoyments by a good common education. This places them on that high flat table on which the great majority of the world's population must live. And on this populous plain, after all, there is more contentment more real haDDines than on the few higher peaks where the light and heat strike so fiercely' Habits of truthfulness, justice, selfdenial and reverence form a large part of a good education, and these may he found elsewhere than in college campus. They may gro r readily and rapidly in the humblest home, on a small farm, owned or rented. The parents may resolve that they will not send into life an ignorant, unsubdued, selfish, dangerous boy or girl. As parents, you are already interested in the kind of teachers your children will meet in the school room a year hence. See to it that they have good -teachers now at Ti/vmo Soo trt if fliai lifft the WW VV AW ViM>" atmosphere, the routine, the constant spirit of the home is teaching good lessons of abiding value. Bishop John H. Vincent bear3 this testimony to his home training: "My father made a point of holding his children to the use of good English. * * * To this habit of parental carefulness I owe more for what little knowledge of English I have than to all my teachers and text books put together. Living for several years in a community, where the worst pro vincialisms prevailed, I was kept in a great degree, from falling into habits Tio-co K<?or> liar*} in nmV/U JIU TTVUAM U?TV MVVW ? I after years to correct." This is an instance of what may be done in one very important respect. Families, like colleges, are valuable and fill their high mission only as they endow men and women. A very small minority of the families supply all the college students of our land. The colleges need all the thousands of homes from which no student will ever kpock at a college door for admission. These homes need the colleges. The country needs both. When you read the next appeal for colleges, do not let it annoy you. Lay the paper down with a silent prayer for colleges and take up your home duties with new zeal, self-respect aad hope. A quiet, happy day in the home life is a fair page in the history of that family. It will leave associations and memories to be recalled tenderly a half century after the family circle is broken and scattered! The quiet homes of the land take their place with the churches, colleges, LiiU JJiCDS auu KJLXXUL 5^a4/ ugvuviv^ **. building up all that is valuable in our social, political and religious life. And the home is generally what the mother makes it. A French writer says: "Woman carries the destiny of the fam ily in the fold of her m-.ntle." There is great truth in thst striking expression, whether that mantle be of royal silk, calico or homespun. The late president of Yale university, answering at some length the question, '"How was I educated?" closes with these words: "The children of a household erow ! more easily and naturally in the religious life, not when the parents are always talking about it and pressing it upon them, but when the atmosphere of the house is ?o full of religion that they do not think of living any other life. And, in the same way, when parents make their children shtrers in a true intellectual life possess by themselves and make the house full of the sense of the blessedness of knowledge, 'the minds of the children will surely be awalfA t.n knowledge and will be educa ted as the years go on. * * * And so my answer to the question, 'How I was educated ?'( ends as it began?lhad the right mother." Jas. H. Carlisle. Spartanburg, S. C., Aug. 2. TEE GREEN EYED MONSTER A Young Man Takes a Letter of the Woman He Loved. He broke down and exclaimed: "I loved that girl better than'anything in the world, and I could not stand for that fellow to come to see her; that's 1 T 3-1 ii. J) A _ J i.1 1 wny JL aid it. -n.au. iiucreu^ nauga au interesting tale. The man who had uttered the words has just been bound over for trial at the October term of the United States court iD Greenville on the charge of stealing and destroying mail. This man was W. T. Crouch, a young fellow about 25 years of age, from Silver Street, Newberrv county. It seems that he was desperately in love with Miss Minnie L. Werts. Mr. William Eddy of Newberry, a dry goods clerk, knew Miss Werts and had called upon her several times. This made Crouch very jealous and one day?June 7 last, according to the officers?he saw a let ter in the postoffice addressed to Miss Werts, bearing the Newberry postmarks. ' It is alleged that he could not resist the temptation to take it. Anyway a few days afterward Mr. Eddy got abetter signed with the name of the young lady reading thus: ''kind friend: "I don't care for you to call any moor at all." In a few days Crouch told the young lady there was a letter at the postoffice for her. She went to the office and asked, but could find no letter. Later on she went down to Newberry and there her friends asked her why she had treated Mr. Eddy so badly> telling her of the note he had gotten from her. That was a revelation. Soon Mr. Eddy called and Miss Werts was shown the note, which she immediately declared she had not written. Miss Werts at oncereDcrt^d the matter to the postal authorities and Post office Inspector J. F. Oldfield went to Silver Street. He charged Crouch with the theft of the letter, but the youog man denied it. Finally the inspector made the young fellow sit down and write from dictation. He read him the letter written Mr. Eddy. When it was finished an examination showed the same capitalization and chirography and the word ''more" was spelled "moor" as in the Eddy note. .The inspector promptly arrested Crouch who maintained his denial, on the charge of violating section 1431, U. S. Postal RegulationsTuesday Crouch was brought to Columbia by the inspector and James M. Davidson, chief clerk U. S. marshal's office. He was taken before Commissioner Henry F. Jennings, where a preliminary was waived and the prisoner was released on $200 bond. "While at the commissioner's office he broke down and uttered the words at th3 beginning of this article, which have a pathetic interest to all who have felt the pangs of the green-eyed monster that is considerately called Jealousy.? The State. Bad Country for Negroes. Three Negroes who arrived in Pana, 111., Friday weic set upon by sympathizers of the union miners, pelted with stones and missiles of every character and driven out of the city. In the party who assaulted the blacks were a number of the wives and sons of the miners. One of the negroes was badly 1 T\ --it- 1 used Tip. JL/LLTing tile CUmpiUSUr,y CAUUU3 of the Negroes, it is claimed by their assailants that they were fired upon four times from Springside Mining company's tipple, but none of the shots took effect He Was a Coward The Adjutant-general of Iowa is in receipt of Manila advices that Capt. A. r ri t? c. l. t JDurton, 01 vjo. ?>, ruiy-urst juma from Villiska, has been suspended for cowardice and is now at Manila awaiting a dishonorable discharge. Barton was principal of the schools at "Wyniore, Neb., when the war broke out and disappeared, going back to his old home at Villisca, la., and taking the captaincy of the company. He is reported to have deserted the troops in an engagement and hid in a ditch while the company went into action without him. Gave Him Ms Blood. PiVo nrmrvm ,?f hlnnd. drawn bv a **,v J ~" " suction pump from the arm of a friend, coursed through the veins of Ex-Judge Richard Prendergast Wednesday as he lay on a cot at the Chisago hospital, where for nearly a month he has been | under treatment for anaemia. The transfusion of the lifcgiving fluid was decided on as a last resort. The young man who heroically gave part of the contents of his arteries is John Morrissey, employed in the offi.-e of the judge. uia water npes. While digging a trench in front of the federal building in Park Row, New York, the other day, workmen unearth ed a section of the first water pipe ever laid in that city?part of the system for which Aaron Burr secured a franchise from the New York Legislature. The pipe consisted of hollow chestnut logs, laid end to end, and was in excellent condition. Information of Special Interest to First iiegiment MenMr. W. Boyd Evans has been making very good progress with the necessarily slow work of getting the claims of the soldiers of the First reigment who served in the war with Spain in proper shape for presentation to the United States government. Among the members of the regiment were a number who remained in camp prior to the muster out. These are entitled to a montYs nav. Mr Evans recently addressed letters to all these men on the muster rolls asking for the proper vouchers. He has succeeded in locating all of them save those given on the following list, the amount coming to each man being given; this list the county papers are asked to republish, and the men are asked to communicate forthwith with Mr. Evans at the governor's office, this city: Private James "W". Nelson, Clinton, $15.60. Private David Y. Kirkpatrick, Union, $15.60. Private Jno. H. Buist, Spartanburg, 815.60. Private Jos. S. Lyons, Clifton, $15.60. Private Henry L. Simmons, Newberry, $15.60. Private Wm. P. Maynard, Charlotte, N. C., $15.60. Corporal Ja3. Casey, Union, $21.60. Private Eariy A. Patters, Pelzer, $15.60. Corporal "Wm. W. flobinson, Columbia, $21.60. Private Churchill Jaekson, Spartanburg, $15.60. Private Wm. Baldurk, Pelzer, $15.60. ' n -\r t> . _ nj rrivate cam ui. xveeves, vjuiu.miw?, $15.60. Private Jos. L. Pepper, Abbeville, $1-5.60. Private Win. T. McDonald, Abbeville, $15.60. Private Jos. B. Cooley, Columbia, $15.60. Private Albert Turner, Spartanburg, $15.60. v. Private Frank Harper, Columbia, $15.60. Corporal Wm. L. Ormsby, Laurens, $21.60. Private. Henry C. Price, Jr., Parksville, $15.60. Private Henry C. Richardson, Columbia, $15.60. Private Whitfield A. Hayes, Pelzer, $15.60. Private -Tiios. B. Kenman0 Greenville, $15.60. Private Rowley B. Smith, Greenville, $15 60. Private Chas. Hensley, Greenville, $15 60. Private Julius E. Land, Greenville, $15.60. Quartermaster Sergt. Benj. H. Kendrick, Greenville, $26 50. Corporal Thos. E. Price," Greenville, $21.60. - - . Corporal Geo. T. Baker, Anderson, $21 60. Private Jno. Baseman, Greenville, $15.60. Pn'TTofo .To<a filnHa Snartanhnre. $15.60. r Private Portius D. Brown, Charleston. $15.60. Private Jqo. R. Rns.?nm, Spartan^ burg, $15.60 Private Bad Ree3e, See ward, N. C., $15.60. Private Frank B. Jones, Rock Hill, $15.60. * ; Private Frank B. Reed, Chester, $15.60. Corporal Jno. H. Harris, Enoree, $21 60. Al\ /*V1 To fnm 1 iivatc ) AUWMUAJ $15.60. Private Jas. E. Baffin, Marion, N. C., $15 60. Private Marion Brubaker, "Rock Mart, Ga., $15 60. / Private Wm. Morgan, Spartanburg, $15.60.?Columbia Scate. Hope They Will Succeed. A sensation was created in the session of the African Methodist Episcopal presiding elders' council of Georgia and Alabama. Thnrsdar nifflit at Birminff ham, Ala., when the committee on the state of the county reported a resolution recommending that a committee be appointed by the council to set before ihe United States congress the deplorable condition of the Negro population in several of the southern States and to petition for an appropriation of $100,000,000 to start a line of steamers between the United States and Africa in order to enable all Negroes who may desire to do so to emigrate to Africa. Bishop Turner of Atlanta, who presided, explained that he did not desire the government to carry emigrants free to Africa, but take tnem direct ana at reasonable cost. He said European immigrants are landed in this country at from $10 to $15 each. "But," said he, "in going to Africa one must go via England, thus crossing the occean twice at a cost of $100." Canadiar-^ashiers Decamp. A sensation caused at Montreal, Canada, last Tu^S&ay by the announcement that the Villa Maris bank, one of the oldest institutions in the city, had suspended payment. The cause assigned is defalcations on the part of a /? o o t or V T omiflnr n r? rJ T TT R0r- I wuv VadUlV/Aj jl * JJVUiiVUA Hiuva V. AA* UV* bert, the paying teller, both of whom have disappeared. The amount of the shortage is $58,000. Big StrawberriesRecord Breakers in strawberries were grown this past season. Six berries raised by Mr. A. T. Goldsborough, of New Jersey, were sent to the Secretary of Agriculture and found to weigh an average of three and sis one-hundredth ounces each. The six berries filled a rmarf Vinv and InnlcAf^ mnrs HIta tr?ma. ~ v, toes than berries. One Boy Kills Another. Oil Mrs. Carter's place, seven miles from Edgefield, Willie McManus, 7 years old, and Richard Mims were playing with a loaded pistol and it went off, killing the latter, the ball entering the rgiht eye and penetrating the brain. The coroner's inqnest was formed and the jury brought a verdict of accidental killing. Both boys were negroes. Captured and Shot. A dispatc- from Santo Domingo says , two of the assassins of President Hen- i reaux have been captured and shot. j uun.vuui/1 Penitentiary Investigating Com* , mitiee Preparing its Report. WILL ADVISE PROSECUTION. ? * ,'4* ? - ? - The Committee Hoias max uou Neal is Due the Penitentiary $llvOOO. Report to Governor This Week, The Legislative Committee which has been investigating the penitentiary finished its work at Greenville, where it had been in session several days, Thursday morning CoL W. A, Neal, ex-superiniendent of the State penitentiary, presented the following list of Tito liaYiilifiea fn SffttA* Cash collected and not turned over to penitentiary: J.T. Fowler $ 500 00 ^ W. L Hammond 500 00 Fowler & Hammond 539 00 W. W. Russell, note 600 00 Collected from TV. T. Magill for brick sold at DeSassure farm 40 00 Commissary account 6 years.. 573 00 5 book cases at $12.00 each.. 60 00 1 hat rack 10 00 6 small tables, at $2 each... 12 00 1 bedstead 1000 Painting furniture at home.. 10 Q0 700 bushels cottonseed at 15 cents 105 00 fJheftk nnnaid 172 00 _ ' .rv13,13195 ' . ; The investigation so for has developed nothing new at this session. Col. Neal on the stand said that he had not presented the carload of briek to Tillman, and denied a written statement of the latter that when governor lie had used his carriage horses in his farming operations around Columbia. Tillman had said, too, that Neal had bought a $700 sugarcane mill from him and had paid but $100. The senator seemed to think that this accounted for Neal's showering kindnesses upon him. This Col. Neal denied. Col. Neal as above stated conceded ^ that he owed the penitentiary $3,197.27. Wednesday there was another item added, $387.17, for oats from J. J. Fretwell. This makes CoL Neal's debt; $3,584.44 as conceded by himself and attorneys. However, the committee claims that he, is involved for $11,090. They contend tnat he owes the peniM iaa ? :_j. _J . , . lenuary n,?w xor convict uue ui ?.- y . ^ ^ dition to the $3,584.44, asd a few smaller items, which Col. Neal has overlooked in his statement The committee will not submit its report at once. The report was written Friday, bat will not be sent to Got." McSweeney until the st aographerean make a transcript of the additional evidence submitted at this session of the committee. It is, of course, not known what the committee will recommend, but there is good reason to believe that thfe governor will be asked to institute criminal proceedings against CoL Neal for malfeasance in office, aad also that steps be taken by the penitentiary authorities to collect the shortages as well as the open accounts against Senator lillmaa, ex-Governor Evans and others. Do? DaviL ?m ??# ? What are the "Dog Days?" There is an opinion that if it rains the first dog day it will rain forty consecutive. days. The belief seemed to originate in Mediterranean countries that Sirius $. or the dog star exercised a baneful influence over animal life and conditions. This dangerous period began when the v star and sun rose together and continued an indefinite period. Bat owing ~ to the precession of the equinoxes this does not occur until August 10, when the greatest heat of the summer is cbawincr tn ft Hnsfl. Modfirn almanac makers differ as to dates. Some place the dog days, July 3 to August 11, while others say July 24 to August 24. . Frequently Struck. It is almost a weekly occurrence for the Washington monument to be struck by lightning, the shaft being so high that it attracts every bolt within a wide radius. There are no less than- 180 lightning conductors fixed in the cap of the great structure, and each of these i i .i i i i _ _ <1 _ leads to a ttucK wire wnicn carries me electricity down the inside of the shaft It is said that if the conductors had been placed on the outside, as on other / structures, there would be many acci- ' dents and the handsome structure would be scarred and chipped by the frequent bolts. Willing for a Fourth, The London papers are famous for queer advertisements. A "Personal" which appeared in one of them reads: / - "Wanted?A respectable gentleman? widower preferred?to marry the housekeeper of an aged gentleman, who has ' been an invalid for years and who respects her as a good and true servant, whom he would like to see in the happy state of matrimony before he dies. She has had three husbands, but is willing for a fourth." Slew His Head Off With jjynamite. A special from Cumberland Wis., says: Christ Wold, a fanner nearPoskin lake; committed suicide by blowing off his head with dynamite. He placed a quantity of dynamite in a hole in the ground, laid his head over it and touched off the fnse. Near by was found a scrap of paper on which was written: "Here I go and the Lord go with me." His head and one jarm was completely torn away. Wold was 30 year3 eld and leases a wife and family who are unable to assign a cause for the | deed. Four Were Killed, The fast mail train on the Chicago V and Northwestern railroad which left Chicago at 10 o'clock Tuesday night left the track at Kate Shelly curve, >/ just east of the Moines river bridge at 5 o'clock Tuesday morning. The engine and all the cars were wrecked. The following were killed: Engineer John Masterson, Fireman Arthur Schmidt, Postal Clerk G. G. Stone. J. J. O'Brien, a jjostal clerk living in Chicago, died rf-er reaching Boon#, la. Six were injofW. a m