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* ' . p' - ' ' - : * '. . ~ . w/- m ' ^ 1 - . p W)L LIV, WINNSBORO. S, C., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 21, 1900. , , NO. 31 v; | === ,. i i~ ... i ? -- 11 ?? 1 1 - ?- f WTTT3 ttab-dabo Au WAT} J T\T?TT\717" 11f TrpTT TlATT7TJTl * "IN HiS STEPS." t I A Christian Daily Paper at Topeka, I Kansas, for a Week. REV. MR SHELDON IN CHARGE Slang'or Sensational News, The New Editor Writes His Ideas of Christian Daily Newspaper. A dispatch from Tokeka, Kau., sajs when the Rev. 0. M. Sheldon came to The Capital office Monday morning at 7:45 he first proceeded to open a stack of ietteis on the business managers desk. Next he held a conference with I the memWs of the staff of The Capital and instructed them as to'the work of I the day. No special assignments were | made, but all reporters were told to avoid the use of slan&. "You must not use the word Fop in reference to a certain political party," said Mr. Sheldon. "The wordmnst be ^ spelled out in full, 'Populist'" Mr. Sheldon selected as the mo3t important article to appear on the first page of to-morrow's issue one dealing with starving India. The article quotes k letters from several preachers in the i Congregational ist, the Advance and the f> Outlook on the need of help. Mr. Sheldon introduces the article with a signed statement appealing for the aid for the starving and showing that a contribution of 5 cents will feed a starving fam [ ily for a day. "The War Spirit" is the j. - second article of importance on the first page, and it deals with the barbarities of warin general. "Prohibition Tested" is the third article on the first page. Kansas State officers are quoted on the subject Gov. Stanley and former Govs. St. John, Humphrey and Morrill'declare > that prohibition at its worst is better | San license at its best. Under the last I large head on the first page is an app peal from M. M. Banner, secretary of the Young Men's Christian association at Denver, for contributions for a home for consum ptivea in Colorad o. This ap_ pe*l is printed without comment from Sir. Sheldon. The second page of the paper is given up to editorials, the third to the telegraphic news of the day with all sensations cat oat, the fourth to j local news, and the fifth to contribute article? on religions topics. This prayer appears on the editorial page under the head, "A Morning Prayer and Ilesolve by Bishop Vincent:" . 4iI will try this day to live a simple, sincere, serene life, repelling every thought of discontent, self-seeking and anxiety, cultivating magnanimity, selfcontrol and the habit of silence, practising economy, cheerfulness and helpfulness; and if I cannot in my own ^ stength do tliis, or even with a "hope of success attempt it, I look to thee, 0 ' Lord, my Father in Jesus Christ, my ?3jjU)nr, and ask for the gift of the ^ ^Jjllowing is Mr. Sheldon's leading editorial: T)j?amKa? tV,o rtronura nf TKfl VUW VII MV*v v* Topcka Daily Capital asked me to assame entire charge of the paper for one week and edit it as a distinctly Christian daily.' I have accepted ihe invitation on condition that I receive no financial compensation, and that a share of the profits be used for some benevolent work, and named the week beginning Tuesday March 13, 1900, as the week for the experiment. With the hearty co-operation of every person connected with the paper and with the help of the wisdom that 1 have prayed might be given me from him who is wiser than any of us, I shall do the best I can. 0"lf a thousand 'iiJereut Christian men who wished to edit Christian dailies should make an honest attempt to do so, the result might be a thousand different papers in very many particulars. In other words, these Christian editors might arrive at different con CJ USIiUiiS iu liUC mb^iyiCMkViVu Vi nunv AW ^^Christian. It is, of course, the farthest BBTr.om my purpose to attempt to show |fV>V a dogmatic way what is the one gpf^hing that Jesus would do ia every f^foase. ->The ouly thing I or any other W: Christian man can do in the interpretation of what is Christian in the conduct of this paper is to define the term 'Christian' the best that can be done after asking for divive wisdom and not judge others who might with equal desire and sincerity interpret the probable action of Jesus in a different manner. i With this understanding of the conduct of the paper this week I will Btate in. part its general purpose and policy. i_j "First?It will be a newspaper. The word 'news' will be defined as anything ~ AVAnfa t.Tiof: nnK. ill tuo TfOJ'Vi .uawj w * VUWJ wuuti vuv lie ought to know for its development v and power in a life of righteousness. Of ^necessity the editor of this paper or of -? any other with this delinition of 'news' will determine not only the kind but the quantity of any particular event that ought to be published. The importance of one kind of 'news' compared with another kind will also determine the place in the paper in which the matter will be printed. If it seems to the editor that certain subjects representing great causes that belong to the profondest principles of human life are the most important, they will be given the first page of the paper, whether they are telegraphic items or not It gk-might easily become the settled policy ^cf a permanent paper similar to this to consider the detailed accounts of unusual battle.as of less importance jto the reader than an account of the usual daily destruction being caused by "liquor. The first page of The Capital will contain what seems to the editor to be the most vital issues that affect -? _T_ -1 . fiumanuy as s waow. "Second?The paper will be non-partisan, net only in municipal and State politics, but also in national politics, I do not mean to say that a Christian daily cannot be partisan. This is simply my interpretation of 'Christian' as applied to this part of the paper's life. "Third?On the liquor question the paper will advocate prohibition of the whole liquor business from Maine to California and all around the globe. By prohibition I mean the total extinction of the curse of making, selling, buying and drinking intoxicating liquors; its extinction by legal enactment, by personal total abstinence, and by every form of State, homes, church and school ; education that Christians can devise, j '"Fourth?The great social questions I of the age will be given prominence. The selfishness of mankind in every form of greed, commercially or politically, will be considered as of more serious consequences to us as a people than many other matters which too | often engage the time and attention of mankind. 4'Fifth?The paper will declare its abhorrence of war as it is being waged i today not only in Africa, but in the Philippines and everywhere else. "Sixth?On the matters of 'finance1 or 'tariff' or 'expansion' or matters of public concern which have to do with i x-l _ J:*. t measures oi tins cnaracier, me cuuor i has personal opinions which may or I may not be voiced in this paper. IP he gives expression to them it will be in I no dogmatic or positive maimer, as if I he knew what the whole Christian truth was concerning them. In regard to many of these questions, I do not know what is the Christian answer to them. , In regard to others, my study of them j has not yet resulted in convictions that ! are strong enough to print. I do not : wish to declare through this paper a palicy concerning certain political measures which are not clear in my own mind. ''Seventh?The-main purpose of the paper will be to influence its readers to seek first the kingdom of God. A nation seeking the kingdom of God first of all will in time find right answers to all disputed questions and become a powerful aad useful nation. "Eighth?Editorial and other articles written by reporters will be signed by the writers. The exceptions will be small items and such local and telegraphic news as in its nature does not require signature. There will be no Sunday paper, but instead a Saturday evening edition suitable for Sunday reading. "I wist to take this opportunity to thank the many friends everywhere who have sent me words of encourgement. It has been impssible for me to answer them personally. I also wish to express to the most of the Christian correspondents who have sent me as surance of their prayers for this week's work my deep acknowledement of the source of whatever strength I have felt in preparing for a task which lies beyond the reach of and merely human effort. May God bless the use of this paper to the glory of His kingdom on the earth. * "Charles M. Sheldon." ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND LIVES Is What the Spanish-American War Cost this Country. "The Spanish-American was has cost this eonntrv 100.000 lives. This statement was made to a Savannah Morning Neiys reporter by Health Officer Brunner. When asked to explain what he meant by his apparently very extravagant statement Dr. Bmnner said that he did not refer to the several thousand soldiers, who were killed in battle or died of wounds and disease in camp and hospital daring the war, nor particularly to those who has succumbed since being mustered out, from diseases contracted during their service in the army. "I mean," he said, "that the war has .jsulted: in the deaths of that number more than would have died otherwise by reason of the dissemination of infectious diseases, some imported from tropical countries and others engendered by the assembling together of large numbers of men in camps under unsanitary conditions. Every army camp 1 proved a centre of disease which had 1 disastrous effect upon the community 1 in or near which the camps were situated and the seeds of which were af- : terwards scattered to other commuaities. 'The encampment of the troops at Savannah was a mistake from a sani- 1 tary standpoint," said Dr. Brunner. '"Ihave no desire to see another such encampment here. The sanitary con- | dition of the camps here was undoubt- : edly good and the men enjoyed better [ health, perhaps, than at other camps, but the effect upon the health of the : community was bad. "When I came back here from Cuba : last spring," said Dr. Brnnner, "I was ] astounded at the heavy death rate 1 which had prevailed during the several I preceding months. I could account for ! this on no other basis than that it was 1 due to the presence of the troops. This ( theory was confirmed with the depart- 1 ure of the troops from Savannah. As the troops departed the death rate de- ] creased and by summer it was down 1 to normal again. The mortality fig- 1 ures for Savannah for the first five 1 months of 1899, taken without expla- 1 nation, make a poor showing. The fig- 1 uers for the remaining months of the ! year compare favorably with the figures for previous years." 1 Bodies Brought Home. 1 The bodies of three enlisted men of the Second South Carolina regiment, U. S. V., who died in Cuba, have- at last been delivered to their nearest kin and , buried in their native soil. Soon after . his arrival from Cuba >ith his regi- ; ment. Col. Wilie Jones set to work to have the bodies of those of his men who died in that country removed to their native soil for burial. The three men , of this regiment who died in Cuba were: J. A. Eptmg, Pomaria. Co. L; R. N. Mac Kay, Ridgeway, Co. L; Thos. S. Trivett, Virgil, N. C., Co. F. Cel. Jones says says: ''These poor soldier boys died in camp, near Habana, of , fever, contracted in that hot country, and were three of the best soldiers in , the regiment." Theii bodies have been , received by their friends and buried at their respective homes. Drew Lots to Kill GoebelA dispatch from Frankfort, Ky., says: A letter received by State's Attorney Robert B. FrankHn says that Bransfield Bertram, sheriff of Breckinridge county, who recently died of pneumonia, revealed on his deathbed a i plot of which he had knowledge to murder William G-oebel. According ! to the story twenty-five men drew lots ; to determine who should do the killing. Twenty-five beans, twenty-four white and one black, were placed in a box and each of the twenty-five men drew a bean. The man getting the black bean agreed beforehand to kill the Democratic aspirant for governor. CHANCE FOR BRYAN Mr. 8ayne Tells How the Republican Party Lost Its Grip. PORTO RICAN BILL DID IT. The Georgia Editor Thinks the Democrats Can Knock the Grand Old Party Out of the Bex Several months ago Mr. Ohas. J. Bayne, editor of the Augusta Herald, went to Wa9hington.and since then he has been writing letters regularly to his paper. Up to a very recent date Mr. Bayne in his letters predicted that the Republican party would have a walk over in the next presidential campaign but recently be has changed considerably, and now'Beems to think that the Democrats have the best chance. The fact that Mr. Bayne is a Palmer and Buckner goldbug, and is on the ground at political headquarters, makes his opinion valuable. Writing from Washington under date of March 14 he says: "It may be safely asserted that never before during a period of equal brevity has there been such a shifting of great national principles. It has been a formtive period, and the tfhole country realizes that issues are now being developed which are to furnish the slogans of future contests between the two great parties?the only two parties which can ever be worthy of the name and * ? i . . # i4 i; position ot a distinctive lacuonaimm. 4*1 have previously fcndeavored to trace the disintegration of the old party lines, with side lights drawn from the respective attitudes of "the men who control" in tbe Democratic a*ad in the Republican ranks. I have tried to show that whereas at one time it was a disgrace for a man to go to the polls and openly, boldly vote the Republican ticket, the common sense of the country has so far prevailed against silverism and many other measures closely identified with the demo-populist platform that the greatest good to the greatest number of patriotic Americans is now their paramount consideration. Factional lines have But little to do j with the situation. 4''These thoughts are inspired by a readjustment of so-called party lines now going on which cannot fail to attract attention?which, indeed, will form the basis of the contests in politics for many years to come. Fortified by its friendship, recently expressed in statutes, towards the gold standard, and secure in its advocacy of expansion as the "manifest destiny" of a humane people?not to speak of . the commercial advantages to bo derived from securing the-markets of the Orient for our ten cents cotton?the Republican party had a walk-over. "But we may as well be candid among ourselves. While one party may have as much to redeem it as the other, the blunder _of imposing a tariff on the products of .forto JKico bas dis-1 rupted the Republican party. There are no milder terms which will adequately convey the meaning. It has caused a hurrying to and fro at the white house, where private consultations are held. It has alienated a great many of the strong friends of the administration and jeopardized the middle west and northwestern states, who want free trade. It has done more than that. It has made it distinctly a question whether the present "powers that be" can carry the country. liA month ago it would have been more than folly to ask who would be the nominees of the respective parties. Perhaps it is still fully to doubt that McKinley will be the unanimeus choice of the people who have placed him in power. But the disruption to which 1 have referred is growing, nevertheless, : and there are good grounds for assuming that ex-President Harrison, incarnation that he is of the Force bill, which is a red rag to the Southern bull, may yet become a factor in the conven- < tion to be held by the Republicans in : Philadelphia next July. He has stated in plain terms that it is our 'plain duty,"?to quote Mr. McKinley?to give free trade to the Porto Ricans, and in departing from the terms and provisions of the constitution we have departed from right principles, as he 3ees them. 'The gum of it all is that the Republican party has lost the cinch it had a few weeks ago; that the Porto Rican tariff, imposed at the behest?the command?of the sugar, oil, tobacco and rum monopolies of the country has split the Republican party in twain aod that the breaking up of party tiss which hitherto has been chiefly on the side of the democratic partyj now marks the transformation of the other camp, and no man knows what will be the result. Charles J. Bayne. Shoots a Doctor. A dispatoh from Richmond, Va., says news reaches there of the shooting and probably fatal wounding at White Plains, 'Brunswick county,' Sunday morning, of Dr. W. H. Temple, by Rev.' J. E. Riddick. The latter is a wellj known Methodist minister and claims that Dr. Temple, who was attending his wife as her physician, had. insulted her. Riddick was arrested at once and lodged in Brunswick jail. Temple ^vas shot in four places. The Spartanburg Herald says: "Rev. J. E. Riddick, the principal referred to is well known in Spartanburg, iie is a graduate of Wofford College, was a classmate of Mr. J as. Cofield, of this city, and during his college days was identified with the most cultured element of this city." Military VandalismA correspondent of the Evening Post,* writing from Manila under date of Feb. 2, says: "When Gregorio del Pilars body was found American soldiers stripped it of every bit of clothing, taking the rings from the fingers and a locket from the neck. Not a stitch of any kind was left on tfte body everything being taken for souvenirs. For two days the body was left by the roadside uncovered until its ordor was offensive and some Igorrotes were ordered to oover it with dirt. Among the things taken were his watch, money, a gold and a diamond ring." HORRIBLE FAMINE IN INDIA. Scarcity of Water and Food and Cattle Dying by Thousands. To the Editor of The State: Allow me through the columns of your valuable paper to call the attention of your readers to the terrible famine that is now affecting our fellow beings in India. Giving to the absolute failure of the crops, there is a condition of destitution and wretchedness, involving millions of the population, such as India has never known. There is a scarcity of water as well as food, and as the cattle are starving by thousands, there is produced a situation, horrible beyond descripiion. The government has started a system -of relief work which, by the end of March, will cost $19,200,000. At present about 4,000,000 persons are obtaining assistance from this source. About 22 000;000 persons io British territory and 27,000 000 in the native states, making 49,000,000 in all, are now beaffected by the famine. The relief secured by government works is barely sufficient to sustain life, and even this reaches but a small-per cent of the population. At least 40,000.000 of . j .l:U iamisrnng men, womeu auu cuuuicu ?ju entirely dependent upon the help sent them from abroad. Bat beside these, are more than 100,000,000 in other sections who will be affected more or less by the terrible famine. Oueof the missionaries to whom we have been forwarding relief funds writes Jan. 4th: "Many of the people have deserted their homes, and droves of them, haggard, hungry and distressed, stroll from T>lace to place begging for a little food * * * * I never saw anything so awful "as the suffering of the starving. I shall never forget the groans I hear. The people are mere skeletons and are dying fast. Oh! if the people of America who are blessed with abundance could see, and to some extent realize the great and urgent need ef these starving millions, they would surely do something for their relief." Another writes: "I feel sometimes that I would never laugh again when I see the suffering and the people dying. Who can describe tho suffering, woes, tears and groans which result in the lingering death of multiplied millions? * * * * The sharp, cruel paDgs of starvation are prolonged through weeks, and even months before death comes to their relief. Go where you will, scores of starving natives are seen wandering about the country seeking food." This condition of things will grow worse as the months go by, as there can be no crops raised before the close of the year 1900. The missionaries inform us that two or three cents a day will save a human life. I earnestly appeal to the citizens of Columbia tO'hetd the heart rending call of these starving, perishing millions, and send them promptly out of their abundance, what relief they can. 1 am sure that it would be pleasing to God, if the pastors of the different churches would brine this matter be fore their congregations at an early day, at some convenient opportunity. I have made arrangements to remit promptly all contributions that may be left at my office, to perfectly reliable missionaries in three sections of the famine district in India, who will prudently and wisely distribute the funds to the best advantage. John M. Pike, Way of Faith office, 1104 Taylor Street. AN INFURIATED D2VIL. Norwegian Murders His Wife, a Little Girl and Stabs a Woman. ^ * TIT 1 1? _ A. TIT _ L Ufliast weanesaay at nasmagiou, D. C., in a paroxysm of inexplicable rage or possible insanity OJof Pallesob, a Nowegian, stabbed and killed his wife Josephine, murdered little Julia ! Hengesbach, the 3-year-old daughter of Charles F. Hengesbach, a mail carrier, and murderously assaulted the child's mother, Mary Hengesbach, Wednesday afternoon in front of his home, 1121 Twcnty-fonrth street, northwest. Mrs. Hengesbach now lie3 near the verge of death at the Columbia hospital with seven stab wounds in her body, inflicted by the infuriated Norwegian. Palleson narrowly escaped being stoned to death at the hands of a rvf mtizens which congregated about the scene of the killing, and only the prompt arrival of the police prevented him from being roughly handled by the people. The motive for the crime is not definitely known. Ihe only key to the situation is furnished by the man's 4-yearold son, who told a policeman that his father had been sick and that his mother tried to get him to take some medicine and that he got mad. Palleson struck his wife with his fist while they were in the parlor. She immediately ran out and Palleson followed her into the front yard, where he stabbed her near the heart, killing her almost instantly. Mrs. Hengesbach was in the house with her child to have some dressmaking work done when the trouble occurred. and as soon as she saw what had taken place she called for help. This angered the man and he mad6 a lunge at her, but, missing her, stabbed the child, who died some time afterwards. Mrs. Hengesbach snatched up her child in her arms and started to ?? ' ^ -i ^ run. one naa aimoss reauueu. me dinner when Palleson overtook her and stabbed the helpless woman frightfully on the arms, face and breast. Palleson is 35 years old, and a painter by trade. Sentenced to be Hungr. John. M Warn pier was sentenced at Gladeville, Va., Wednesday to be handed for killing William Jenkins at Norton, Va., three weeks ago. Wamp!er is a leading busines man of that section and Jenkins was a prominent attorney. A Irirnrdnm for a cure . You need not pay so much. A. twenty-five cent bottle ofL. L. & K. Will drive all ills away. See ad. and try it?never fails. A HUT TIME. Not in the Old Town, But in the United States Senate. \N EXCITING SCENE. Thp Disrnc^inn r\f Quav Rill Causes Bad Blood, and Compliments Were Exchanged *' by Senators. "I assert most emphatically that when the senator s3ys I told him I should not-speak on this subject, he does not state the truth." This was the sensational retort made in the United States Senate Thursday by Gallinger, Republican, of New Hampshire,.to a statement jast mide by Mr. Penrose, Republican, of Pennsjlvania, who was seeking considera-tion of the Quay resolution. Senators were astounded, and the au ditors it ihe galleries quivered with. excitement. There had scarcely been the slightest intimation that the debate would take such a turn. For nearly three hours the senate had under discussion the bill appropriating $2,095,000 for the benefit of the people of Puerto Rico. "I do not know whether I do speak the truth," hotly replied Mr. Penrose, or whether the senator from New Hampshire failed to tell me the truth." M^r. Gallinger retorted that the whole proceeding of Mr. Penrose was unmanly and beneath his notice. Here is the incident in detail: Mr. Penrose pleaded for a few minutes in order to make a statement, and when this was granted he asked that Via Tpsnlntinn in regard to the seating of Hon. M. S. Qaay as a senator from Pennsylvania be taken up, saying that he was satisfied there were senators who were seeking an opportunity to so delay a resolution as to render it impossible to secure a vote during the present session. He continued by saying that while other important matters demanded attention the fact must not be lost sight of that the great State of Pennsylvania was being deprived of its just right of two votes upon the floor of the senate. The question must be decided in the high tribunals of the consciences of senators or upon the low plane of politics, which had in the past characterized such proceedings. As he took his seat Mr. Penrose cast his eyes in the direction of Mr. Gallinger, asking that a time be fixed for a vote and remarking: "I look squarely at those who are creating these obstacles." Mr. Gallinger rose and stated quietly that he had been trying for six days to get an opportunity to speak in opposition to the Quay resolution, but had ;bee? prevented by other business.. He } atilf*' desired to speak and he knewmany othei senators who wished te be heard. To this statement Mr. Penrose re' died that Mr. Gallinger had told him that he did not expect to talk on the Quay matter. "He may have changed his mind," Mr. Penrose continued, "but he most emphatically then told me that he wonld not speak." Mr. G-allinger was on his feet before Mr. Penrose concluded. "I assert most emphatically," he said, "that when the senator says I told him I should not speak on this subject he does not sta'3 the truth." He went on .to say that Jlr. Penrose had come to him in an "imperious way" and asked him whether he intended to ask to be heard, and that he, (Gallinger), had told him (Penrose) that he was not entirely decided as to whether he would A* WAf " D^taa. ui uuu "I don't know whether I do not speak the truth or whether the senator from New Hampshire failed to tell me the truth," was Mr. Penrose's response, but he was, he said, very confident of of his position. To this Mr. Gallinger replied that it was "unmanly and beneath his notice." Mr. Hoar then came forward with a proposition to fix a time for a vote, and the two senators who were party to the heated colloquy said no more on the subject. There was objection to naming a date, and Mr. Hoar postponed his request until tomorrow. Newspaper Borrowing. Here is the latest story of the man who is too stingy to take his home paper: "A man who was too economical to take this paper sent his little boy to borrow the copy taken by his neighbor. In his haste the boy ran over a $4 stand of bees, and in ten minutes looked like warty summer squash. His I. i _ j? xi v cries reacaea ais raiuer, wuu rau tu ma assistance, and failing to notice a barbed wire fence, ran into that, breaking it down, cuttiog a handful of flesh from his anatomy, aDd ruining a $4 pair of pants. The old cow took advantage of the gap in the fence, and got into the cornfield, and killed herself eating green corn. Hearing the racket, the wife ran out, upset a 4-gallon churn full of rich cream into a basket of kittens, drowning the whole flnek. In the hurrv. she dropped a $7 set of false teeth. The baby, left alone, crawled through the spilled milk and into the parlor, ruining a brand new $20 carpet. Duiing the excitement the oldest daughter ran a*ay with the hired man; the dog broke up eleven setting hens, and the calves got out and chewed the tails off four fine 6hirts."?Kansas City Journal. Seryed Them JELigkt. "Here is another illustration," remarked one of the officials of the operating department of the Seaboard Air Line recently of the fact "that persons who persist in throwing stones an^ other missiles at moving trains must sooner or later come to grief. "The case in question is one that' occurred last December. The conductor on one of our vestibulcd trains reported a widow light 'broken out by a stone thrown into the train. It is likely that few railroads in the country are as per sistent as the Seaboard Air Line in following up such miscreants, and this case which started with, barely no evidence at all, has just -wound up in court proceedings before Judge Bu-; chaaan at Laurens, S. C., with the result that three negroes, Joseph Ball, Thornton Boyd and J. Leak, respectively, were proved guilty of this charge, and sentenced to two years in the South Carolina penitentiary." . J i / ji Over Four and p Half Million in Cotton Mills This Year The record of South Carolina in the matter oi the projection of new capital in cotton mills since Jan. 1 can no longer be classed merely as wonderful; it is phenomenal, and indeed it is to be doubted if there has ever been such a spurt in any industry during the same length of time in the world. Surely the cotton mills are coming to the cotton fields. They are being moved from thier old nests, but the people at home are building them and puttiDg their money into them.. The rate at which cotton mills are being established in South Carolina just now means that the State is in the midst of an industrial revolution the like of which has not been known in the history of the State. The cold figures, officially recorded, in the office of the secretary of state, tell the tale more forcibly than it can be presented in any other way. They show that South Carolina at her present break-neck pace will rot be long in standing at the forefront of the manufacturing districts of the country. Taking into consideration Thursday's new mills, and the fact that there have been 10 Sundays since Jan. 1, the daily average of capital put into cotton mills since the opening of the year is very nearly $71,000. On Wednesday the papers filed in the office of the secretary of state showed $300,000 put in new mills; Thursday the jump was a greater one, .being "$450,000, making very nearly a million dollars of new cotton mill capital in two days. This drives up the total capitalization of new mills since Jan. 1, including the Easley mill, chartered a fev days ago, to the stonishing total of $4,525,000, over four and one-half million dollars, j Thursday's official record was as fol lows: A commission was issued to the ( Iceman mills of McColl, Marlboro , county, the capital rof. which is to be ( $200,000. The corporators are F. P. . Tatum, T. B. Gibson, A. W. Morrison j Charles Iceman and A. K. Odom. , Then a charter was granted to the , Alpha cotton mills of Jonesville, Union ] county, capitalized at $100,000. The ( officers are W. L.- Littlejohn, prsidenfc, j and J. J, Littlejohn, secretary and j treasurer." The Anderson Yarn and , Knitting miUs filed with the secretary | of state notice of the increase of its . capital from $50,000 to $200,000, and } the changing of the name of the concern i r* ! it e ? to tne .tuversiae Manufacturing com- ( pany. TJiis means $150,000 of ne?/ j capital. If the compaDy continues in ( the knitting business it will perhaps x have the largest knitting mill in the [ south.?The State. ; KNEW HTJfllAIf NATURE. j Hqw Lawyer Hackett's Insight Stop- * ' ? <y' .1 n-'j f-'- I -? * r '-> ' l ped a Fooliah'LawsTiit- ?~ A good lawyer learns many lessons i in the school of human nature, and 8 thus it was that Lawyer Hackett did ^ not fear to purchase'a tract of land s which had been "lawed over" for t years. Some of the people wondered why he a wanted to get hold of property with 0 such an incubus of uncertainty upon ? it. Others thought Jthat perhaps he wanted some legal knitting work, and j Would pitch in red hot to fight the line fence question on his own hook. That's what the owner of the ad- a joining land thought. So he braced himself for trouble when he saw Hack- v ett across the field one day. Said Hackett: "What's your claim c fioro jnrwau aq tn this; "I insist," replied the neighbor, "that your fence is over on my land ? two feet at one end and one foot at r least at the other." "Well, replied Hackett, "yon go a ahead just as quick as you can and set ? your fericc over. At the end where j1 you say that I encroach on you two feet set the fence on my land four feet. ! At the other end push it on my land * two feet." "But," persisted ihe neighbor, "that's twice what I claim." "I don't care about that," said Hack- , ett. .'There's been light enough over f this land. I want you to take enough * so you are perfectly satisfied, -and then j" we can get along pleasantly. G-o ahead * and help yourself." The man paused abashed. He had 0 been ready to commence the old strug 13 gle tooth and nail, but this move of ? the new neighbor stunned Mm. Yet he wasn't to be outdone in generosity. * He looked at Hackett. 1 "Squire," said he, "that fence ain't 1 going to be moved an inch. I don't ^ want the land. There wan't nothin' in f the fight, anyway, but the principle of 1 the the thing."?Lewiston Journal. His Proper Place. A few days ago Franklin J. Mosea i was arraigned in the district court at c Boston on the charge of larceny, s Thirty years ago Moses was a Republi- i can scallowag and during the recon- 1 struction period held the office of gov- t ernor of South Carolina. Ee svas a c conspicuous figure in the army of north- c ern adventurers and scoundrels, who t came south at the close of the war for f purpose of plundering a helpless people j and having acquired the habit of steal- c ing, it appears that he was unable to i shake it off. After the overthrow of i - * i n .i n i? i_ carpet-Dag -rule in ooutn uaronua -ue i went to-Massachusetts where he has i since led a very checkered and unenvia- t ble career, figuring in numerous dis- r graceful escapades. He ia now, how- t ever, in tae hands of the law for steal- c ing, and it is te be hoped he will be I sent to the penitentiary, which is the t proper place for him. - I Money in Electricity. J In a recent address before the Montauk club, of Brooklyn, Charles W. Price stated that over $300,000,000 had been invested in electric lighting s in the United States and that the total I horse power required iti the electric S lighting of Greater Xew York was not d less than 200,000 horse power, and that 1 in the last thirteen years since the birth ( offche electric railway there liad been 1 an expenditure of more than $1,700,- r 000, and that now any one could travel I by electric cars frcm Paterson, N. J., d via New York, to Portland, Me., with t only three insignificant interruptions I which collectively amounts to less than a fifteen miles. I lull jaVAAUAi} UI I? "? An Officer Tells of the Terrible Times * .* During Spion Kop Battle. ^ For real ghastliness, for a glimpse into the gory realities of war and the horrors of battlefield the private letter of a young British medical officer at Spion Kop printed in the London Daily Graphic, can scarcely be beaten. "I selected a pass," he writes, "overhung by steep clay banks on the top of which I got up a Red Cross flag. Cases ?now began to pour down from Spion Kop on stretchers. The Boers opened fire on us, and three bullets went into the fire, knocking the sticks about. The reason for this fire was not the Bed Cross flag, but owing to some Tommies who were strolling over to it, either to take cover there or to see what we were doing. I promptly ordered them away. A few minutes after Boers let fire five shells in quick succession in my direction, but they fell short and did no harm. This, sort of thing went on round me for the rest of the day, but I always kept well in the shelter of the bank. "From this time till 10 o'clock the next morning the wounded came through my dressing station, as the pass was the only exit from the hill. I saw every case and some of them were mutilated beyond description. "Fully 330 wounded and dead who had died on the way passed through my hands. The cheerfulness of the wounded struck me as remarkable? men with shattered wounds smoking their pipes, and although starving, not a grumble did I hear. Many a poor chap shot in the morning in the front trenches who could not be reached, lay in the blazing sun all day. One old colonial in T^horneycroft's, with a gray beard, walked down leaning on his ; rifle; he was a mass of wounds?one ooi> />nf fmn<tVi Ktt <? Vmllof. ilia aliin Deck and chest also shot through, by : others, and his back and legs torn by shell. He came in and said he just Iroppea in to let me take his finger oft, i is it was so shattered he could not pull the trigger of his rifle as it got in the w*j of the next finger, which he could ise, for he wanted to get back up the [rill to piy the Dutchmen out. Of jourse I would not let him go back. The Dullet wounds are beautifully clean, just a little round hole and as a rule do aot do much damage, as they often go ; ihrough the bone without shattering it, ind they don't bleed much. The shell wounds are hideous. "It was frightfully dark aud I put )ne of the lanterns on a stick as a di ecting light to my pass; one of a group >f soldiers returning to the hill tried to un away with-it and I would have lost t only I snatched up a rifle from a rounded man and shouted I would ihooOiiin if he did not bring it back, le dropped it and ran away, and it eent out; but I got it again." Shortly iter this both lanterns went out and I lad a,'pretty bad time, as the pass ?ften got-blocked with, JwoundficL:- J?itally 1 could send no more wounded t .cross the drift and had to stack them a pith the dead in rows on the grass. I t ollested all the wounded officers on ( tretchers around me and gave them >randy and a hypodermic of morphia. "The morning light began to dawn bout 4:30 and lit up the ghastly faces ^ if the patients around me. My men iow got a fire ready and got some more ieef tea and coffee, and I had some myelf, the first meal since my dinner the lay before, and after giving the woundj an rnkll t oanf f ^am ati fvla i U 2UUIC dO nci^j X vu^ui VIA VMV ^ mbulances across the drift. - ^ "Commandants Botha and Burgess, v rho were the Boer generals, came now n the scene, the former, who was the hief general, was a smallish, thin man, . rith yellowish beard and hair and had magnificent rifie, carved with his r lame and a text from the Bible. He iad a couple of mounted kaffirs, carryog his ammunition and water bottle, Jj nd an interpreter. Ho seemed, howver, to understand English, though * ie refused to speak it, but now and hen said 'ccrtainly,' 'certainly.' There" rere quite a number of German officers. ! heard one of them had been killed. * ?hey let our men search the dead for ? heir identification cards, letters and aoney. It was veiy sad to see the hings we found in their pockets?love etter, Christmas cards, little pocketiooks with accounts, half finished let- = n l i? i l T> 1 J.J I ers, several 01 ine uoers nauueu m ittle things they found?a check for Os, a purse with money, etc. Some | I the officers had trinkets round their Leeks. One poor chap had a locket rith a spray of white heather and we lad to cut his name of his shirt and >in it to the locket as a means of idenification. I am sorry to say that a tumber had had their finger cut off to ;et their rings, but the Boers said that hey did not see who did it, and were sdignant." Will Be CompletedThe State capitol is to be completed n accordance with the terms of the act f the general assembly. The commision, of which the members of the sinkng fund commission are members, met Diursday and it was not many minutes >efore it was almost unanimously de- s tided to proceed under the act,v the t inly vote against it being that of Sena- i or Mower, who holds that the sinking I nnd commission occupies- the same s >osition as a trustee. The presentation t >f a little law in concise forn^ by Attor- t ley General Bellinger convinced thenembers that the sinking fund com- g nission was not a trustee, but is the J ninisterial agent of the real trustee, c he general assembly, and as .such had c to right to question the act's validity, j rat could only do what the trustee or- t Lers it to do. Thus -the stumbling i tlock was rolled from the path, and t he joint commission ?ot down to the c rasiness in hand, taking the first step a owards the commencement of the s Fork.?The State. , 1 ????????? - /j Young Peffer Commit Suicide. e t M?f v n:t.? \i? A uispaicu iiUiil X\iiU9<t3 Vivjr, iU.U., J ays J. Sherman Peffer, son of the Ion. W. A. Peffer, former Ui-ited states senator from Kansas, was found iead in bed in a^rpoming house in East c Sight street- Wednesday afternoon. \ )n the bureau was found a box that c tad contained- morphine and a note f eading; Father I don't like to do what 1 ! am doing but I am tired." In the i lead man's pocket were fcand several t ypographical union working cards, r le wa? about 30 years old and was a S i linotype operator. He was not t :nown to be despondent. c VYlifl rUWJ&ft * v - & Extinction of the Boer Republics Demanded by the Troops. v BLOEMFONTEIN OCCUPIE0. ???? v : The Boers Profess Satisfaction With the Conditions. They Say the British Shall Never / . Reach Pretoria. The British war office officially announced tie following Wednesday , afternoon: ' 'By the help of God and the bravery of Her Majesty's soldiers, the troops under this command have taken possession of Bleemfontein and the British flig now floats over the presidency, which was vacated yesterday evening by Steyn." Delarey, the Boer commandant, wires that in his battle Saturday the British force was estimated at 40,000. The fam/\n a ^ awa* fit A luvuj u uaiug viigauwj uuv uvnvi vx waw British army, were under Colville in the fight. The^first assault was repulsed, only two Boers being wounded. The second assault was made on the hills to our left. These hills were_ of . great strategic importance. Appreciating this, I and 300 men defended the position from 9 o'clock in the miming-~ until sundown. The burghers fought v 1 like heroes. and three .times repulsed the massed British, who kept relieving their tired men. Erery , attempt to storm was defeated. At sundown there were not fifty yards between us. The _ British lost heavily. A later dispatch says the British lost seventy killed and three hundred wounded, . ' A dispatch from Pretoria says the _ reply of Lord Salisbury was ^received there Wednesday. The publication of ' the dispatches of the two presidents caused a great sensation here. The cr0nA73l strtininn ia fliaf +Via nraaiiianhi selected the right moment to make suggestions for conclusion of pence. The federal forces are content with the excellent results. The British have'suf- - r Eered tremendous losses. A dispatch from London says the soldiers, of Roberts1 army hailed with joy the report that Lord Salisbury had > . refused any overtures for peace except mconditional surrender. The men 'eel that they have broken the enemy's strength, after tremendous efforts and lardships and the loss of many oom ads and they demand as revenge the ltter extinction of the Boer republics. The New York Journal prints this rhich it says came as a special from Pretoria, Tuesday via Berlin, Wedneslay: 1 "The burghers will only ceaie ighting with death. Oar forces are eturning to our.first line of defenee on >ur own1 soil. .The NataL campaign ?as longer in our favorthan_we expectd. IChe British wijl never reach Pre' . oria. The burghers, Steyn, Joubert ,nd myself as well as all others an mi ted. There are no differences. rod help us. "Kruger." ONE KILLED. 052 WOUNDED. i Pemteniary Guard's Desperate *ncounter With Convicts. Tuesday morning five convicts, all iegToes, made a desperate effort to verpower and kill the one guard who ras with them?Mr. Abe Harling?Mid scape. The guard after a straggle rith his assailants killed one of them; rounded another and prevented all but ne from escaping. The story of the fair is thus told by one familiar with he facts: Early yesterday morning Guard larling, with five convicts, was sent to > ome land near the city rented by the lenitentiary from Mr. J. M. Roach. [heoonvicts carried rakes for the par* >ose of cleaning off grass, and other hings from the land. They worked . long very well and nothing unusual ^ iccurred for some time. The guard ? ras standing close with the convicts, riien one of them made a quick move rom the rear and throwing his arms ,bout the guard's body pinioned his , ,rm3 to his side. Another convict lamed Houghton took away the guard's * !un and all of them Had rakes upraised eady to disable or kill the guard and scape. Houghton tried to work the. ;un, but failed, not knowing how to: landle it It was his intention to hoot the guard, who was in the meanime struggling with the conviet who Lrst caught him. The qther negroes took a hand in the pine too, and some of them struck the ;uard with the rake, but though outlumbered and being considerably used ip he made a great fight In * the itruggle he suoceeded in drawing his nstol.rand he shot Houghton dead. ^ - ' Dhe other convicts began to scatter md run when the guard, again securng his gun from the dead negro, voened fire on the fleeing convicts. 3ne, Dave Barton, lie winged under - .. , .he arm and he gave up. Two others earing they might receive a bullet, w' lalted and surrendered. Another, iwifter than the rest, ran on, and hough several shots were fired at him le sacceeded in escaping. Guard Haring rounded up his captured convicts md took them back to the peniteniary. The body of the dead convict ras also taken there. Houghtovhas always been a bad*n%jo. He escaped from the gang in Edgefield some time ago and was resaptured in Aiken. This cans has been ioing this work on that particular >iece of land and it is supposod that hey made their plot to escape the light before. Guard Harling was not >adly hurt by his experience. No set if convicts will hardly ever make mother plot against hjm. _ under imilar circumstances. The corofter leld an inquest over the body of the ^ lead negro Tuesday afternoon and izonerated the guard from all blame in he matter.?The State. Will Fight to the End. A dispatcfyf?t4 President Kruger iated Pretoria, March, 13, 8 p. m., ia Berlin, eaysr^^Jhe burghers will inly cease fightMg'with death. Oar orees are returning in good order to * ine of defense on our own'soil. The __ . "r s'atal campaign was longer in our favor ,han we expected, Tlie British will " . lever reach Pretoria. The burghers ?4 - 5teyn, Joubert and myself as well as all he others are united. There are no lifferences. God help us." * -r* -MM