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A WOKK OF LOVE. " i The South Must Erect a Lasting Monument in j HONOR OF PRESIDENT DAVISThe Daughters of the Confederacy Have Assumed the Lovirg Task of Ra:sirg ihe Funds. Mrs. Augustine T. Smythe, of Char- : Jetton, ha* is^u-.-d the following circu- j lar to the Daughters of the Confcdera- i cy iu South Carolina, and has also re- j quested its publication in our columns: j ChsrlpstOD. S. C., Nov. 20. '99 j To the Ofirers and Members ot j Chapiter/ South Carolina Divi?ion, I Daughters of the Confederacy? J Ladies: At the late convention of the Daugh- j ters of the Confederacy, held in Kichr j mond, it was determined to accede to the r- quest if the Veterans and assume the responsibility of erecting the longdelayed monument to Jtfferson Davis, -r. .t .L_ jrresioeut' ox mc \,uunuu?>v. This decision was not ivac! ed without careful thought and (iiscussion; all the deiegatts rtci'gtiized the weight thus laid upon the association, but they also realix-d that upon the acceptance of' this burJen of responsibility i>sted the hope of au early accomplishment of the work propose*! The Hon. J Taylor E lyson. m^yor cf Richni"iid, Va., ai>d president of the Jt ff<.rson Davis Monument As-ociatiou, came before the convention aua by his explanation removed any impression that indifference or inertness on the part of ibe men had occasioned the j proposal to transfer this work to other hands. D.fficulties arising from earlier and very expensive plans w<re such that this change had become urgently ad visable. The following letter from Mr. E'lyson gives a lull report of the present condition of ine Jefferson Davis Monument A-sociation: Kiebmond, Va., Nov. 13, 1899. Mrs. 3. T. McCullougb, Cbairmau Jefferson Davis Monument Committee, U. 1). C ?Dear Madam: The Jefer*on Davis Monument Association was organized in 1890 and chartered b>' the General Assembly of j Virginia. At the meeting of the Uui | ted Confederate Veterans in Charles- i tnn S n._ in Mav. 1899. a resolution I was adopted rtque&ting the United Daughters of the Confederacy to assume the responsibility of the completion of this monument and authorizing the Jeffer&ou Davis Mauument Association to turn over any funds in thtir possession to the Uuited Daughters whenever tht-y should comply with the request of the Uuittd Couiederate Veterans. 1 had the honor on Fiiday of submitiin^ the question for the consideration of the convention of the Uuited Daughters of t htn i r> ct>uwiAfi "in (,'UC v/VUi^w?iuvj J VUV.U AU a u this city, and they adopted a r< Solution by which they consented to comply with the request of the Veterans and endeavor to raise a sum sudicieut to erect a suitable monument to the President of the Confeueiate States. It is my pleasure to be able to report to yuu that we Lave in our trea-ury the Bum of twenty thousand, fuur huudrrd and sixty-five dollars and 31100, ($20.465 31.) which we will turu over tc jour treasury whenever rtquested by jon to jo so. Our asSuoiatiou has no debts of any sort and you will take up the work without any embarrassments on account of any action previously I takeu by us. The idea of the United I Confederate Veterans ".fas that' we should turn ov?.r to \ou the fuuds we a*.*1! tKof r'nil WAn I ^ t'jl'D 11 r\ tliO Jaavo a:. juu TIUUI i tuixv ^y ?.uv work as though it had never been beguu. You were at liberty to select such design as )ou might think proper, cboute Mich a site ia or near the city of Richmond as you might, prefer and erect a mouument at such time and at ?uch cost as the Uuited Daughters might deem best. i beg leave to renew the assurance | ieretofore exicndtd that any assistance j that the membi-rs of the J^Strson J Davis Monument Association may be j able to render to the ladies will be j mos: cheerfully given. We believe j that under your energetic and luving j direction the task i>f ouiidin^ a mouu- i Cient to JtfFerbon Davis will soon be j completed. You is respectively, J. Taylor Eil\soa, Fresiuent. W. D. (Jhtsterman, Secretary. By vote of the convention as executive committee was formed, called the Jefferson Davis monument committee Af tho TT (1 r?f>rio<srinir of a rripm I bt-r lrom each Slate. This committee organized immediately by the election of Mrs. S. T. McCuIiousib, president of the (iraud Division of Virginia, U. D. C-, as its chairman, aud Mr. J. 8 Ellett, of Kicnmond, the bjunded treasurer ot the Jtfferson Davis Monument Association, as treasurer. With this committee is associated an advisory board of live gentlemen, members of the J-.ffersou Daws Mouument Association, the Hou. J. Taj lor Klljson. chairmau. The South Carolina delegation selecttd me to represent the State on the executive committee, subject to the approval of the Siate Diviaion, which was given at its convention iu Greenville. As jour representative on that committee it is my duty tc beg that jour chapter will, as soon as possible, take stej.8 towards the accomplishment of the object set bef??re us by our ass^cia- ! irmr i,f pr^fxii.ff a mnnji sttont Tr? *1 J>ff^rson Davis, President of the Con- 1 fede;ate States. All other appeals seem weak when compared to this, and I entreat that all other plans for work may be temporarily set aside until this duty be ! fulfilled. in honoring the memory of President Davis we build a monument to the principles of the government he j represented?principles, which are now being acknowledged as n^ht even by many who fought against them. liie task before u? is not unduly heavy. Authotiues say that a suit- j ablta monument can be out uu for $50.- ! 000. With stroug, concerted action on the part of Southern r'niien succes will be sure, and the D<a? liters of ih Confederacy may well feel that their organization has not been in vain if it j can be made the means of bricgiDg j about a coo&umtuation so heartily i wished for *11 who revere the mem- j orv of the "Lost Cause." The committee v\ili be very glad to i hear of auy effort on the part of Your I chanter 10 raise funds for this rnouu- | meut and if auy further information or suggestion in njy power is desired ; pkase call upon me. Mrs. Augustine T. Smythe, Member for bouih CaroliLa of Jtfier- 1 son JDavia Monument Committee, U. i). u. i South. Carolina 2?ust Help. The following adlress to the Daugh ters of the Confederacy in South Caro- i lina has just been issued by the presi- j dent of the South Carolina division. It i will doubtless result in accomplishing j much fur the cause so earntstly advu- ! catea: To it,e Sleuth Carolina Division, tnited j Daughters of the Confederacy : Dear Ladies and Fiieuds: With the j * ' -? --- - - i ~ ,.e i piup'tSc or iannenug me uuu aim the Diughttr.- t l the C"bfid^racv, ai.d >eiidt!it' for*aid a. iij?S?age from the i.?-hrc aid iuii d of our women, I a-k J \our ibcul^viCe for ihe ?r->t words I address to \cu from the iSije of houor to which \ou have called me if my u.itid were nut s > full of the diguit.v aid Sf-Iei cor (f the |?roj- ct which I pn-.-ent to jou for coiisidt-ratiou, in this letter. I mitt! l stop to j^peak of the peiS' Dal t-stiuiatiou 1 have j for the posiii-m I occupy by your *ood | ivi:l ai.fi i-in.!< (>. I i\i,i aiiow uy-elf to j say that a s-tatesmaii olcc remarked to Mie < i.ut a j'ubiio h< ut'r is art artr oppurtu i:y for u.wre thoroughly serving th- pu''*lic. I b.luvc I 8ha:l be doing this in placing before }ou my exception of j :he strongest, aiott enduring ana far- j reaching work in which the Daughters ; of the C'?bfet:* racy can engage uutil it shall be completed. The Jefferson Davis monument has been accepted as our work. I would recconmu-i.d that we wake ic The work of the Daughters of the Confederacy. The flowers we throw upon mounds, i - i the medals we oesxow iu scnucu.", crutches we put under the soldiers' arms are our wa}side fibers. These j-erviees rcl.tx the heart, er-g ige sympathies, enlist many wojkers. The)' gratif> all, aud are ri^hc elairns upi>D us Ever> stroke of the artist's biush tells in his picture?not ot-e, linht or heavy, but would impair perfection if missed. Our sweet charities, our It cil interests, our home monuments, our dear little care of graves are the delicate shadings which enrich arid complete our wonderful picture?The Confederacy. S'ill we must have in it the big, strong tone which is idealized by these tender touches. That is the founua'iou of their excellence. Search in all directions, among the graces of feeling, or into the "deepest L" I J ? r> d Otpiu oi UlUUgm, auu v?c U.ULKA the tea of geueral endeavor, the cable, upon which we rely to send ou? mes>ane into the lives of future men and women. W hat is the message? Not to tell them tint men died and women soff red. but to tell them what they died and suffered for, and that we pas> Seres' Kights on to them for them to live for. How shall we en-ure the endurance of uur mcs-a*-? How si care it aaaiust fKo ,.f rim and defeat of ob- I livion? You shall not always be heie to decorate graves of heroes', but we can leave behind us a witne.-s in stone ?reared to face the whole world? which would testify our reverence for <-ur statesman and our confidence iu their creed .Tne Jtffers'in Divis monument is. not the memorial of maD, but it i? the concrete rec id of the political fai'h of the Southern people exemplified in that Mie man. You see by the minutes of the convention of the Daughters of the C<?nf< d>-ra' y r. ceatly held at Greenville, that this woik has been rei-ommtiLided b> c >nvention to the chapters. I add to this my personal recommendation, leaving it in your consideration. Stucerel> I a n yuurs, Mrs. Thouias Taylor, Pr-s. S. C. Div , D. C. SILVER REPUBLICANS Wish, to Get Anti-Imperialist Republicans Into Their Camp. The Silver Republicans ia onference at Chicago Tuesday and Wednesday planned, it is announced, to ally themselves with and to make use of the "anti-imperid!ism:' agitation especially m eastern States where the silver issue does not attract. Cooperation with Edward Aikinson's following will be songht. The purpose <>f the siker Republicans is to gain, if possible with this new issue; a foothold- in eastern j States so that their pariy can more i truly claim to be a national onraniza- ! tion aud thus become a m ire tffective | whip for holding the Democrats to the Boaa and 16 to 1 Hue. This is one reason why the Silver Republicans want to hold a big national convention of 2 GUI) or more delegates next year Continuation of this plan was received Thursday i'n m Fred J. Dabois, former sena'or from Idaho and chairman of the Silver Republican executive committee. ' There is no place for the Republican auti-imperialists of New EuglaDd \nd the coast to no except into our party," said Mr. Duboi?. '"The assured composition of the United States senate for several years couvinces them that silver legislation cannot be p?S;>td for miuy years yet On anti imperialism and kiudrtd questi jus they are as ODe with us. I am satisfied they will come to us. I cspect tu see former Gov. Buutwell of Massachusetts, Elward A kiuson and men like them sitting as delegates iu our c 'n^entioa. "We have planned for a big convention of 2,000 or more. Our convention, if hp.l.i at the same time and place as tbe Democratic convention will be a powerful stimulus a^aiast aDy concession by iba'. party to the forces of unriabteuusness. We have not much to fear on this score however. We are pretty well satisfied that the Democrats will reaffirm the platform of 1896 and nominate Mr. Bryan. That will be enough. If, However, they should seek to evade or subordinate the silv-r issue, we 11 not be their allies. Ia such cas-e we will do what many silver Republicans wanted to do in 1S96?establish a separate organization and Dominate a separate ticket." Will Bun Into SavannahIt is announced that, ijommencing December 10, 1899. the Southern Railway Company will opperate through train ecrvice ove?its own line via Columbia, Perry, Biackville and Allen dale, S. C., into and out of Savannah, Ga. Commencing that date its through car service will be opperated in connection with the Plant System south of Savannah, Ga., and the Florida East Coast Railway, to and from points on the east cost ot Jtloricla, witn d'rect connections to and from Key Went, Fia., Havana, Cuba, and Nassau, X. P., via Miami. FJa., ia connection wiih the F.orida East Coa?>t Steaajship Line; ana ia connection with the Piant System south of Savannah to and from other points in Fiorida, including points on the west coast, with direct connections to and f.om Key West and Havana, via Tampa, Fia , in connection ] with the Piaui Stt-am?hip Line.? I WashiDgton Pust, Nov. 10, 1899. WILL raEEZS TESK OUT. Tlie Black Delegates Too Expensive a Lnxury. AT- "FTonrtr PacriA a member of the Republican National Committee, it is announced will offer to the committee afc its next meeting, two weeks distant, a resolution recommending a change in the ba>is of representation in future Republican Xa'i->nal Conventions, on the ground that the pnsent baMS is unjust and unequal, and that this \l justice should be remedied. The resolution propose0, as stated that the new ba>is of re re^entftion ' ' ' 11 ^ ^ ! t> L shall be 'our a< le^ntes at urge jor rmzu Siafc. and ot*e additional delegate f.?r ach ten thousand votes, or majority fraction thereof cast at the prec diria Presidential election for Republican electors, and four delegates from each orjrnni2-d TYrri'ory and the District of Columbia. If' the plaa is adopted by the ("odvention, it is explained, the total number of delegates would rt-mai" S94. as at present, but the number from Arkansas, A'abama, Florida. Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Sou'h Caro lina would be rcduced from 129 under the present apportionment to 49?a A c* - J ?l:J loss <1 fcU to tne atarea caajeu, wuue other Southern States would lose heavily. What is the "injustice" and "ine qu<lit>" in the present arrangement, which it is proposed to correct, is not indicated or suggested in tho dispatch, and must, therefore, be inferred. We are not in the confidence of Mr. Payne and other Republican leaders and pro moters of the proposed change, and cannot, thenfo.e, ppeak with authority fur them, but it will be noted that the change mainly affects the representation of the Southern States in the Re?vi:?_ i'i?n.>^r.t!nn TcV>i/?ri if-. reHnnps I'uuuirau vuu?tu?.?u4VM , by oyer a hundred delelates, and that the reduction is mo?t sweeping in the ranks of those from the Cotton States, and the Black Belt of those S ates, and of thosefr<?m the State of Arkansas, which has the largest olack population of my State outride the South. In view of these facts, the most natural, as it is indubitably the correct, inference, is that the change is designed to have the effect it will hare, and that the condition it is meant to reform is that or the presence of so large a number of negroes and colored men in the National Conventions of their party Why they are unwelcome, it is not f->r us to ?ay, of cour.-e, but possibly tb? white leaders of the party regard it a? - J- | an "IDIIlSllCe IU WlUtl su mauy w uic i party conventions to help to choose Re publican Presidents when so few of them are allowed to share in the spoils which the Presidents dispense, and ! deem that the best way to correct the I "inequality" in the ranks oF ne^ro delegates aud of negro officeholders in high places is to cut down the number of the former. Arid then, again, it may be considered tfar it is an ''injustice" to the Republican candidates fur national honors to b^ compelled to bid agains' each other in buying up, say, 150 Southern delegates, white and colored, in every C?>uvention, when they rnisiht easily be rid of two-tnirdsof t' at numVi^r hv nrnnoSfd t>lan. and so be spared a proportional wear and tear of mind and the expenditure of much cash. There is tomething in that. The comtemplated change will cot oul\ relitve the leaders of emb*rras-ing com: any in the conventions, but wiil be of an economical character brides It will c'OubtlcSs be adopted with sin c#?re if secret enthusiam. News and Courier. RAKED IN THOUSANDS. Anothe:: New York "Get Rich Quick" Concern Goes Up the Flue. The New York Herald says White's hnrfan sometimes known as "Charles H. White's bureau " aod a "'get rich quick" concern, located in the cotton exchange building, vanished with its managers on Sunday, and it is estimated that credulous depositors are out of pocket more than $200 000. White's bureau was in many respects similar to the Franklyo syndicate, operated by William F. Miller. Like the Franklin syndicate, it offered tremendous dividends to depositors, professed to be legitimate and to be an old established couceru, professed to have the strongest kind of recommendation from banks and bankers. Lise the Franklin syndicate, it managed its business without any inquiries being made by the police. It had accounts in several down town banks, aod drafts from its customers passed through the banks without any questions being asked, except in the instance of one bank. Like the Franklin syndicate, it paid out "dividends," to depositors presumably from the money placed on depo-jit in order to lure larger gudgeons. Finally. like the Franklin syndicate, its backers took alarm and disappeared * ~r .*1 I.a. Wltn a large quaiiwiy ui utuer pcujuc o money. White's bureau was operated by iwo young men who went uoder the name of H) man. Oae of them gave the name oi C. H. Hyman, and he is uoders-tood to have been the "0. H. White'' whose bureau the concern purported to be. The ''bureau" began business in the latter part of September. It sub-let two rooms from another tenant on the fir.-^t floor. The offices are very handsomely furnished, and are partitioned off into smaller rooms. rnomi'itorj ww (imnlntp^ and i'lauj w-r.wrfv-, when the business was first established an enormous quaatity of letters and circulars wttfe sent forth. The firm inserted advertisements in newspapers all over the country, promisiog that White's bureau would make money for anybody who would send his cash on to New York. Tbe advertisements were as alluring as green <ioods circulars. The circulars and advertisements soon began to have the usual effect. Letters began to come in from all over the country. The mail to the bureau grew to such proportions that the sus picions Ul luc cuycuuicuucuu Ui uuc cotton exchange building became aroused, and he made an investigation. He could not find out anything about the busy young men, ezcept that tl.ey professed to be doing a general investment business so they were permitted to remain. It is impossible to make any estimate, based on reliable figures, as to the amount of business that White's bureau did. It was unques tiooably very large. Taking into con- I siderarion all the banks in the city, the I business represented Dy drafts alone would be somewhere between $80,000 and $100,000. The bulk of the business done by White's bureau, however, was done through registered letters, pos;office orders and express packages. The business by mail reached all over the country from Maine to Florida, and from the Atlantic to the great west. A GAMBLER'S RUSE. tiiwrts maue hi i^sw jui* n? Break the Market. WORK 05 BUCKET SHOPS. Anonymous Advertisements Appear in the Newspapers Predicting Slump in Cotton On Account Big Crop. "Wednesday the York papers published an advertisement readicg as follows: '"Cotton?Immediate and scnsationa' break certain; exports sure of crop <f 11,00(1,000 tremendous slump iu evitable. Crisis has b^eu reacheo fOm h, carryiug enormous qumtiiies ors.im margins. Staving pyram ded from G cei.is up; short iutcfe-t entirely tliiui nated. To whom are bulls to sell? Market un irldly and unsafe, i^ell cotloii for 100 points purH profit. Further particulars, address 'Truthseeker." This was followed Thursday bj another advertisement reading: '"Ooiton?My prtdiciou of a slump was immediately followed by a 16-poitn break, sho<riug precarious conditiou ol uresent market. Liverpool and Mem phis were hf-avv tellers. Ncill, the ablest cotton expert in the world, is more positive than ev^r that yield will not exceed 11,000, UUO bales. Market i^ hone}combed with stop orders. It i^ but a question of hours when they will be reached. Information soon to . be made public as to cotton held by interior w/ll send January below 6 50 Fall information and facts given. Address 'Fruthseeker.' " We do not know who the author of these advertisements i-?, but it is rumored that they have been inserted in the iuterests of a groupof bucket ihops whose customers are heavy long of the market, ana whose only possible salvation is to bring about a break that will wipe out margins. We think the pub lie ouiiht to be brought to an understanding of the situation. Piivate fahlp^ rn frnm I-ivernnnl Thursday ad vise an advauce there of 2 Gi as a result of the good trade, demand and ththealthy condition in Manchester, which it, is stated, promises to contiuu-*. Thrre is, therefore, no reason wnj owners of coit.on should expect an} lower prices than genuine trade con dititions justify, or be terrorized int<selling by anonymous advertisements Price, McCormick & Co. A Railroad Massacre. oocfkiMlnf} T?ilffj!r> #>Tf!rP3<3 flT) I the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway, while standiDg outside the station at the Van Winkle street crossing, at Paterson, N. J., at 7 54 Wednesday night, was run into by a swiftlr movine accommodation train, bound trom P.'iiiip'bu'g, N J., to Jeise\ City. At least mx people were killed aud there are now twenty injure i at the hospital in Pateison, of whom some will probably die. while some of thos not seriously i?jured were able to go to their d-stiuat'on-. The dead are: Mrs Mary Roe, wife of David Roe, of' Ithaca. X. Y , and t*o daughter.*; Walter Weibro ck. Cornel! Coll^ee, Irhaca, N. Y ; Miller Craie. New York city; uuknowi. woman. The body that was thought to be that of a boy proved to be the yount daughter of Mrs. Roe. All the bodi-> hav? been removed to the morgue. Th< Buffalo exprrss was waiting for a local traiu to m->ve that had been delayed at the ftatiun, and the Phillipsburg accommodation was following the exprc>3, but a short di>tance behind -rzer O'jrj r\f rhp prnrPW VCfTt- I broken to pieces, njosrofthe pa^senger.on them btiDg either killed or injured The engine of '.he PHiJipsburg train was completely wrecked the eugioeer and fireman <scaping by jumping Those killed w?re: Alexander Craig of Scanton, Pa., [ business maaager of the Siiranton Tribune. Ester Craif, his wife. Ether S. Craij, their 15 year old ! daughter. Jessie Craig, their 11 year old daugh| ter. I Mrs. Mary Bert Roe, wife of David *"* ATi vr \r itoe or noaca in. x . Walter Jacob Walbrook, 19 years old, of New York city. Mr. Waibrook was a studeot at Cornell. The accident wiped out the (Jraig family. They were on their way to spend Thanksgiving with relatives ia Brooklyn. December Weather. Tha -P.-kl 1 ?Trin<r prw/*rinfr a nprirtd of twenty-eight years; have been compiled from the weather bureau records at Charleston for the month of Dec. Mean or normal temperaturj, 52 degrees The warmest mouth was that of 1S89, with an average of 60 degrees. The coldest month was that of 1876, with an average of 44 degrees. The higest temperature was 78 degrees on December 11, 1669. The lowest temperature was 13 degrees on Dec. 30, 1880. Average precipitation for month, 3 26 inches. Average number of d-ivs with.01 of an inch or more, 9. The greatest monthly preceipi'.ation was 7.91 inches in 1887. The last monthly precipitation was U.03 inches in 1889. The greatest amount of precipitation recorded in any twenty-four consecutive hours was 3.46 inches on December 9 and 10, 1835. The greatest amount of snowfall recorded iq aoy twenty-four consecutive hours (record extending to winter of 1884 85 only) was 0.01 inch on December 6, 18S6. Average number of clear days, 13; partly cloudy days, 10: cloudy days. 8. The prevailing winds have been from the northeast, 15 per centum. The highest velocity of the wind was 5s) miles from the southeast on December 17, 1888. Sampson Praises Hobson. In a speech at Brockton. Mass , recently Admiral Sampson said: "When the North Athn'ic s-quadron was ordered from K<:y West, Hobson was sent aboard the New York to inspect the ships and find their weak places. He found a number that would have been fatal had they remained and had the Spaniards b?en good shots. When <fTfA Uft/1 kftan Q.infiflrrrt o nm a 4-1 m cx T >T c uau uii uauiia^u OUOJS biuic J. decided that we should blockade the harbor by sinking a large ship in it-. He worked three days and three nights before it was done. Hobson always had my unbounded trust. He *as always brave and did his duty, as he is j x . J __ r J _ ~ doing it ujuay. jl uo not uenevs a, word of the stories circulated about him. If I had another such task to perform, such as closing up the harbor of Santiago, I would detail Hobson to do it." # CUTS LIKE CHEESE. Bermuda Stone Which Can Be Quarried With a Hand Savr. Nature has made it easy to build j hnns?s in Bermuda. The entire jrrouD i of islands is made up of coral rock, j so that every man can have a quarry in his back yard if he cares to dig deep enough. This stone, when first cut, is soft and white, so that it "cuts like cheese/' like the wood of the famous j "one-hoss shay." and can be got out I in square blocks with an ordinary ; handsaw. On exposure to the air, : bovever, it soon becomes dark and ! hard enough to break the teeth out of : the saw that cut it so easily from it3 I Led. As there is no lumber In Bermuda oxcopt that which is brought from Canada at considerable expense, stone is used for nearly tlie entire house. | The walls are laid of blocks about eight inches by six, and two feet in length. Window sills and door jams are ulso sawed out of stone in the proper shape, and even the roof is covered with stone shingles, which are made by simply setting a block of soft, fresh stone on edge anri sawing it into thin slabs. Both roof and walls have to be kept whitewashed, or the stone would crumble away, hard as it finally becomes; but with this precaution it lasts a long time. There is an old coral stone-house on Harrington Sound which is considerably over 200 years old. Coral Islands are formed by the coral polyps, or insects, which build up reefs tr> ;i limit the level of the sen. and then i dip. On the rough surface of these J reefs seaweed clings. The wind and ; the waves work together to grind up their substance and pile it in heaps of sand, which finally solidifies into the rock which can be cut so easily. The freshly broken stone mnkes admirable road material. Even the rubber tire of a bicyle will crush a piece of it fiat, and the rain soon solidifies it in that shape, so that the whole roadbed, new stone and old together, becomes like a smooth track cut in solid rock. Lucky Dredging for a Plnmonrt. Dredging has been successfully resorted to in recovering a valuable diamond rin?: that was lost in Petaluma creek. Recently the owner of the ring was standing on a bridge Just below Petaluma, across an arm of the creek, when his diamond ring slipped from rtis linger ana ien tnrougn a cracs in the bridge and into about eight feet of water. The stone in the ring cost, without the' mounting, $S00. The owner hated to give it up, yet he did not kDow how to go to work to get it out In his perplexity he applied to Capt. John Hackett a man of experience in dredging though on a somewhat larger scale than hunting for so small a thing as a ring. The loser of the ring had been thoughtful enough to mark the place in the bridge where the ring fell through. Hackett rigged a small clamshell bucket, to be operated by hand, with a rope this was dropped through the bridge at the place marked, and a bucket of mud 1 1- -L * ~ was urougui uum uk uuuuui vj. mc creek. It was taken to the bnnk and washed out. A second and then a third was tried, and in the third was found the ring. ?Stockton Independent Maklnc Colored Soldiers. . In the early days of colored troops in the regular array it was essential, to get the best results, that they should serve with white troops, so that discipline could be enforced when necessary. It was a decidedly risky experiment to attempt making soldiers of such people. They needed the object lesson of contact with white troops. Naturally of an imitative disposition, the colored man took the white soldier as his pattern, carefully watching every gesture and movement with inquisitive concern. Recruitod from the most dangerous and shiftless of the freed negroes, they were naturally lazy, and disinclined to do the work required of them. They spent all their leisure time in gambling, drinking and quarrelling. Every possible punishment employed In the discipline of frontier posts was inflicted upon them. They were stood on barrels, they were "bucked" and gagged, they were 111?11 vj net i vjuc uitu heavy planks tied to their backs, bearin?: the word "gambler" in chalk. Everything was done to discipline them, every means taken to make soldiers of them. Powder. The first smokeless powder that I made in England was made in exactly the snme manner as the French. I had obtained a quantity of true gun cotton, that is, tri-nitro-cellulose, (known sometimes as insoluble gun cotton, because it cannot be dissolved in alcohol and ether like collodion cotton di-nitro-cellulose.) Some of this powder, when freshly made produced fairly good results, quite as good as those produced by the French powder, but upon keeping it a few months the <rrains lost their transparency, became quite opaque and fibrous, and it then burned with great violence. Investigation showed that about 1 to 2 per cent, of the solvent was still in the powder when the first tests were made, whereas the drying out of this last trace of solvent had completely changed the character of the powder. I then added to this powder about 2 per cent, of castor oil. with the result that the castor oil remained after the solv IIJIU uctfii uuiiiiJicierij icuju>cuf ov that tlie powder would keep any length of time: indeed, powder made at time (1SS9) is good to-day.?niram Maxim. Thn " Terrier." In ecclesiastical law a terrier is a book which is supposed to be kept in every parish and in which there is a record of the sources of its revenue, and particularly of its lands (terrae in Latin, terres In French, whence the word terrier). Of course it is the duty as well as the interest of every person to see that the terrier of his parish 5s well kept, but the duty is often leglected During the early days of lie incumbency of a parson who was lther fond of sport lie received from s bishop a formal letter of inquiry n several matters, to which he was . quested to give answer. When he ame to the question: "Do you keep a terrier?" the good-natured parson replied: No; but I have two well-bred pointers, and your lordship is welcome to one of them if you to have it." WvT-.ns.?Here is a hint froai Vick's Magazine that is worth remembering: J Don't pull up weeds and thea leave I them on the flower bed or throw them down in the path, for the next rain will make many of them grow again. Always take a basket with you and go "marketing" in the garden every day for weeds, and when you have found one (you may possibly fied two or three more), account that you have found a treasure and consign it to ttie compost heap. iTou will soon have no need oi investing a fortane m "Baaler's Chemical Fertilizer,'" because you will carry online and enterprising chemical works of your own. My lazy neighbors marvel at the fineness of my potting soil, after I have sifted it, but it is mostly weeds, I make the raising of weeds a business. I like weeds. They make grand flower.*. Gojd weeds, like ~ ~ ~ ^ o y*n I Tl/? An AS. gUU'A iuuiauo, uiu * JUV %. - v ? Law Examinations. It is ordered that the examination of applicants for admission to practice law in the several courts of this State be held in the supreme court room at Columbia, S. C . Wednesday, the 13th j day of Dec. 1899, commencing at 5 o'clock p. m. i A CURIOUS CUSTOM. PUNISHMENT OF ANIMALS THAT WAS ! FORMERLY IN VOGUE IN EUROPE They Were Sometime* Fat to the Rack in Order to Extort Confession?In Other Instances They Were Buried Alive?Pigs Hanged or Barned lor Murder. Beasts were often condemned to be burned alive, and, strangely enough, it was in the latter half of the seventeenth century, an age of comparative enlightenment, that this cruel penalty was most frequently inflicted. Occasionally a merciful judge adhered to the letter of the law by sentencing the cul prit to be slightly singed, and then to be strangled before being burned. Sometimes tliey were condemned to be buried alive. Such was the fate suffered by two pigs in 145G, "on the vigil of the holy virgin," at Oppenheim-onthe-Rhine, for killing a child. Animals were even put to the rack in order to extort confession. It is not to be supposed that the judge had the slightest expectation that any confession vrould be made; he wished simply to observe all forms prescribed by the law, and to set in motion the -whole machinery of justice before pronouncing judgment. "The question," which in such cases frould seem to be only a wan ten and srp-irfluous act of cruelty, was nevertheless an Important element in determining the final decision, since the death sentence could be commuted into banish ment provided the criminal tad not confessed under torture. The use of the rack was therefore a means of escaping the gallows. Appeals were sometimes made to higher tribunals, and the judments of the lower courts annulled or modified. In one instance a sow and a she-ass were condemned to be hanged; on appeal and after a new trial they were sentenced to be simply knocked on the head. In another instance an appeal led to the acquittal of the accused. In 12GG, at Fontenay-aux-Roses, near Paris, a pig, convicted of having eaten a child, was publicly burned by order of the monks of Sainte-Genevieve. In 13SG the tribunal of Falaise sentenced a sow to be mangled and maimed in the head and leg, and then to be hanged, for having torn the face and arm ' 3 J '1 ?iu TT/V?A or a cnuci ana causeu us u?u.lu. j~lcj.<= we have a strict application of the lex tallonis. The sow was dressed In man's clothes and executed In the public square, near the city hall, at the expense to the state of ten sous and ten deniers, besides a pair of gloves to the hangman. The executioner was provided with new gloves in order that he might come from the discharge of his duty with clean hands, thus indicating that as a minister of Justice he incurred no * '? TT/a tit<3c nnt ?Uill li-l MiCUUm^ v/iwvi. aav t. bw a common butcher of swine, but a public functionary, a "master of high works" (maitre des hautes oeuvres)' as he was officially styled. In 1394 a pi? was found guilty of "having killed and murdered a child in the parish of Roumaygne, in the county of Mortaing, l'or which deed said pig was condemned to be drawn and hanged by Jehan Pettit, lieutenant of the bailiff." There is also extant an order Issued by the magistracy of Gisors In 1405, commanding payment to be made to the carpenter who had erected the scaffold on which an ox had been executed "for its demerits." On the 9th of June, 1576, at Schweinfurt, in Franconia, a sow which had bitten off the ear and torn the hand of a child was given in custody to the hangman, who, without further authority, took it to the gallows green and there "hanged it publicly, to the disgrace and detriment of the city." On the 10th of January, 1457, a sow was convicted of murder, committed on the person of an infant name Jehan Martin of Savigny, and sentenced to be banged. Her six sucklings were also included in the Indictment as accomplices. "but in default of positive proof that they had assisted In mangling the deceased, they were restored to their owner, on condition that he should give bail for their appearance should further evidence be forthcoming to prove their complicity in their mother's crime." The Knowing Sfcnrfc. A painful moment on board ship at sea is that when some poor mortal, who has died on the voyage. has to be laid away in the bosom of the deep with the simple ceremonies of an ocean burial. A vessel carrying a dead body and passing through waters frequented by sharks is almost sure to be followed by one or more of those fishes if it does not out-speed them. Rather than bury a copse while sharks are following the 'vessel the captain will sometimes have a body Dlaced In the ice chamber and full steam put on the engines until the hungry fishes have dropped astern completely In one case at least a body was actually cremated on board by the captain's orders because of the sharks. But sharks are not often obstacles to prompt burial, and. generally speaking, when death occurs at sea the body is slipped into the water at night with none to witness the proceeding but a couple of the crew and the captain, wno reaas an aunugiueui m iue ?ci ?Ice from tbe Prayer Book. Tlie Oldest Clocks. The oldest clocks of American manufacture "were made by Gideon Roberts, of Bristol, Conn. According to the best authorities, no clocks were manufactured in what are now the United States prior to 1S00. at which time Mr. Roberts first placed his timepieces on the market. His clocks were made with the greatest care, and much time was spent in perfecting them. They were all of the style commonly known as "hall" clocks, about In Ti at <rh t Vwnrfenmolr OiA ItCli iu MM Ishod and a recognized separate piece of furniture in which the owner always took great pride. A Real A novel sort of window glass has been Invented. Persons on the Inside of the house can see through it. but it Is opaque to those on the outside.. Bnt a Rail way Will. The Kurds and Cossacks believe that Mount Ararat is guardcl by an unp.irthlr beins. and that no man can ascend tbo peak and live. Ginning Machinery. o The Smith Pneumatic Suction Elevating, Ginning and Packing bystem Is the simplest and most efficient on the market. Forty-eight complete outfits in South Carolina; each one giviDg absolute satisfaction. Boilers and Engines; Slide Valve, Automatic and Corliss. My Light aad Heavy Log Beam Sa* Mills cannot be equalled in design, etficienev or Drice bv any dealer or manu cajturer ia the South. Write for prices and catalogues. V. C. Badham, 1326 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C, r b -ou Royal Elastic J>- IS GROWING IN" PC SIMPLY ] i! i- *vr Mi It \>hi h'CO'iH iU'l'pf. \ It is the odIj i'ericct Mi <rc-?. Li is j-bsoiute.-^ a- b-ah orbunt. ()L:<> tj \ r!A - E h r?-l \ i: urn iitif ? >:< I>*'V O'tr !?-t wMtif 1! <le* Mj?>i . wii b< ir\joui I-i-.-a <i aic dots : i i tann Took the Premium at Colur of $40.00 Hair Mattresses, Kr-t. Royall & Bor mm SEEN ; the BEAR ! the BUFFALO j the ELEPHANTj These and the EMPIRE SQUA1 ?. .-sw.J from stock in.q 1,000JOil [Owing to early purchases v/ Wrapping Paper. Bags, Twines Columbia St; 5Wholesalers of Paper. FAMOUS QUARRIES | Hose of Red Pipestone Surg of in Hiawatha. Less than a mile from the bustling little city of Pipestone, Minn., are three freaks of nature that will well repay a visit from the lovers of the curious and the beautiful. The first Is a waterfall, or cataract, which when the stream that feeds it is swollen by melting snow and spring rains is a miniature Niagara, and in point of beauty rivals many of the famed waterfalls of the East The second is the famous Red Pipestone Quarry, the sce^e of the opening of Longfellow's I bei> .tiful poem "Hiawatna," ana uie third is a group of immense rocks? also spoken of In "Hiawatha" as the Three Maidens?that have stood for ages as a landmark to guide the Indians to the only spot In the known world where the sacred pipestone could be found. The waterfall, quarry and Three Maidens are all located on the Indian Reservation, which is one mile square, adjoining the corporation of Pipestone 4-U HPT-*/-v wACArrn f!nn h^lrtT)<*Q OU Lilt: liUl tli. J.11C IWCIIUUUU to the Dacotas, or what is better known by its French name as the Sioux Nation, but it is claimed by the Yankton Sioux. Several years since a determined effort was made by a committee of citizens of Pipestone to purchase it, as they did not want so large a tract of land so near this city lying Idle, but the Indians would not part with it for love or money. The next best thing to do was to see if something could not be done with it even if it romflinpd in thp Indians' Dosses sion An application was made to Congress, an appropriation of $30,000 was obtained, and a substantial school bailding was built on one corner of the land. The school has proved so successful that a second building, the size of the first, is being built to accommodate the ever-increasing number of pupils. The poem of "Hiawatha" begins: On the mountains of the prairie, On the great Red Pipestone quarries, and any one unacquainted with the neighborhood would naturally suppose that it was hilly, to say the least. On the contrary, the couatry is quite level, there not beins even what in Eastern parlance would be called a"small hill" in the neighborhood. The quarry lies in about the centre of the bed of what Is apparently a prehistoric lake, and when first discovered the stone cropped out of the surface, but the continual quarrying for ages has es tended the quarry about sixty rods toward the south, and it is now necessary to remove from six to eight feet of scale an dirt before the pure 6tone is reached. No one but the Indians are allowed to quarry it, and every summer they come in squads from distant reservations to get supplies of the stone with which to make pipes, knicknacks and ornaments that they carve out of It, both for their own use and for sale and trade to the white man. They also licqucuLij sen cue otvue IJU luc ivu^u to the white men, who. with turning lathe, can work it up much better than they can. The stone is known to the scientific world as eatlinite, beins: so called in honor of Catlin. the celebrated historian of the Indians, who was the first wnite man to set eyes on -the quarry, while gathering material for his 'History of the Indians of the Northwest," In 1S36. Macfeat's School of SHORTHAND ?ANT.? TYPEWRITING COLUMBIA, S. C. This School hag the reputation of beinz thf Dot business institution in the State. Grad uates an> holding remunerative positions ic aercantile house*. bankiag. insu^nce. rea ?st&te. railroad office. &c., in this and othe? States. Write to W H. Vliflfaat. Stenographer, Colurahia. S C. for terms, etc . ____ ._ - .j, - '.'T 1109 Plain Street.'1 v Between Assembly a-id Mala Felt Mattress j )] LiJLiA K1 ! i DA I L i . -j k W&k ' 'M, "3 BEC.A USE - J !t ib?* oios' elaj,ic maf-r-*- irnl* -ft. It is bett-T tliMt: the b?F! hair mwrw. l> m t v?-t r?bi g <?ML.'tr -oh i, ?'-a r *-J. 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