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This Bank nnder special provision of its charter exercises the office cf Executor, Administrator, Trustee or Guardian of Estates. SAFETY DEPOSIT DEPARTMENT. Fire and Burgiar prowt safety doposii for rent from $4 00 to $12 CO per year. EDWIN W. ROBERTSON, President, A. C. HASKELL, Vice President J. CALDWELL ROBERTSON, 2d Yice President G. M. BERRY, Cashier. F*Kmary 12?ly. When writing mention the Dispatch. ___? THE enim nmm im COLUMBIA, S. 0. % CAPITAL $100,000 00 SURPLUS 30,000 00 ESTABLISHED 1871. JAMES WOODKOW, President JOLIUS WAT KER. Vice President. IEROME H. SAWYER, Cashier. DIRECTORS?James Woodrow, John A. Crawford, Julius H. Walker, C. Fitzsimiqous, W. C. Wright W. H. Gibbes. John T. Sloan, T. T. Moore, J. L. Mimnangh. E. S. Joynes. This bask solicits a share, if not all, of your business, and will grant every favor consistent with safe and sound banking. ? 10D7 'ttuuarv wi7. io.'i ? ir. When writing mention the Dispatch. Saw Mills. 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Lexington, S. C. Remember that you can always fine Dice caodies, Cokes and fiuiis, at th< Baz.i'u:. CENSUS OF CUBA. CONDITIONS FAR SETTER THAN IN MOST SOUTHERN STATES. Two Whites to One Negro?Of 1.500.000 Inhabitants 140,000 Native Cubans and 55.767 Spaniards Can Vote Under Qualifications. "WasbiDgtoD, April 19.?Gan. Sanger today made public the compendious results of tbe Cubian census taken uDder bis direction. The figures are very instructive, and, in tbe opinion of tbe war department officials, fully justify tbe decision of the administration to allow municipal suffrage in Cuba at an early stage. Tbe officials are gratified to find that the native Cubans constitute so large a portion of the population; that tbe whites so greatly outnumber the blacks and that so large a proportion can read and write. In their opinion there seems to be no reason for the objection that the proposed basis of suffrage would result in turning the island over to the control of Spain. The total population of Cuba is 1,572,797, including 815,205 males and 757,592 females. There are 417,372 white males and 462,920 white females of native birth. The foreign whites number 115,700 males and 26,469 females. There are 11,898 male negroes and 122,740 female negroes. The mixed races number 125,500 males and 145,395 females. The population of Habana city is 235,981 and of the province of Cabana 424,804. The population of the province of MataDzas is 202,444; of Pinar del Rio 573,064, of Puerto Principe 88,234fcf Santa Clara 356,536; and of Santiago 327,715. Of the total population of the island 1,118,709 persons are set down S3 SIDgiP, iiOjOJi Ub uiaiucu, nunc 131,787 live together by mutual eon sent. There are 85,112 widowed person 3. Of the total population according to citizenship, 20,478 are Spanish; 1,26,307 are Cuban; 175,811 are in suspense; 79,526 are of other citizenship, and 615 are unknown. The Spanish by birth number 129,240. Of the children of 10 years of age and over, 49,414 have attended school. Of the total population 443,426 can read and write and 19,158 have a superior education. The table on citizenship, literacy and education is specially important as forming the basis of suffrage to be conferred. Because so maDv citizenships are still in suspense, and for other reasons, the returns are not complete, but the conclusion is drawn that there will be at least 14,00 qualified native Cuban voters under, the proposed basis of suffrage, and against this there will be 55,767 Spaniards whose citizenship was iu suspense when the census was taken, less the number who have since declared to preserve their Spanish citizenship, and plus illiterate Spaniards, not declared who are the owners cl property. It is not believed that there will be any great number oi the latter class, as the total numbci of illiterate Spanish males over 21 is only 27,426. The comparison shows a much greater preponderance oi Cuban voters than wa3 expected There are 1S7,82G white adult male: who were born in Cuba as agains! 86,083 born in Spain; 6,794 born it other countries and 127,300 colored. Males are in excess in the tota population except in Sintiago, thcugl the female whites outnumber ih< male whites, except in Pinar del Pio Among the negroes and mixed race! the females are in excess; whil< among the foreign whites the male: are largely in excess. The negroes are in the minority ii Cuba, constituting only 32 per c ut of the population, being the raos numerous in Santiago, where the; constitute 43 per cent. The native whites constitute more than cne-bai the population, or 58 per cent. Tlr proportion of children under 5 year is unusually small, but the proper tion under 21 is normal; about one half of the population. Only 15' per cent, of adults were married Nearly nine-tenths of the inhabitant were born in Cuba. Nine tenths c the children less than 10 yoars c age do not attend school; 43 pc cent, above 10 years are literate. ^ I Teacher?Sammy, you may dtfii: > the first person. Sammy?Adam. Remarkable Rescue. I Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfield, 111, makes the statement, that she caught cold, which settled on her lungs; she was treated for a month by her family physician, but grew 1 worse. lie told her she was a hopeless victim of consumption and that no medicine could cure "her. Her diuggist suggested Dr. King's New 1 Discovery for Consumption; 6he bought a bottle and to her delight 1 found herself benefited from first 1 dose. She continued its use and after taking six bottles, found her- j self sound and well; now does her I own housewoik, and i3 as well as 1 obn ri'na TT roo fit : 1 this Great Discovery at J. E. Kaufmann's Drug Store. Only 50 cents and $1.00, every bottle guaranteed. ? - He Disliked Foolishness. "My dear," said the young father, ; there is one request I want to make j of you." "What is it, deaiT' "I wish, dear, that you wouldn't j talk this baby talk to our child. It's j absurd. The idea of sayiDg 'kitchy- : j kitchy-kee' and 'whose wizzicuns is ! | oo V to a human being is little less ! than barbarous. Don't let the neigh- ; fcors do it either." "I'd try not to, dear," she answer- ! ed, patiently. "But it seems to amuse Do) jy so much " "Don't call him 'Dorjy,' cither, j i It's positively idiotic. His name's 'George,' and there's no U3e of starting him out in life with a vocabulary like a Polynesian national hymn." "Bui's he's a little fretful today | and wants to be amused." "There are rational ways of amus ing a child. You can sing to him." "I have been singing to him." Bargains! i i men's : I t We Have the Ri | i ! WHOLES I THE CUT PRII ;| i | 1700 Main f ji Mar<-h 7-12inot. Dots and Dashes. ? a.s>.> Health is another word for tera1 j perance and exercise. 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"Well, give him to me, and I'll eirg to him awhile/' She passed the baby over, and he proceeded to do his best with the torador's song and the Bedouin love song and various other selections. The baby persisted in whimpering. He continued to sing, and presently the little one began to smile. In a little while it was fast asleep. "You have quieted him beautifully," the mother admitted. "By the way, what wa3 that song you sang over and over again ? It seems so tuneful and lively. "Haven't you heard that?" he queried in astonishment. "It's from the latest comic opera, and it's a corker. The chorus goes: "Toodledy, foodiedy, up a dee ! Jimtnity, j immity, jiDgeree ! R'ggikj* j!ggeity, rummity-ho! Blimmity blarn, and away we go." j "I only remember the chorus; but I'm going to buy it and learn the ! whole thing by heart. Story of a Slave. To be bound hand and foot for years by the chains of disease is the worst form of slavery. George D. ! 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Send us your orders. Instead of some one else's name or recommendation, let your daily life be your own endorsement. A hotel exclusively for women is to be built in New York by the Women's Hotel company, chartered with 8100,000 capital. J. H. Lunsford & Son, Craft, Tex., say that Ramon's Pepsin Chili Tonic is certainly the best on the market. They have never known it to fail to cure. Have just orde:fed more and must have it. Tasteless and guaranteed. 50c. For sale by G. M. Harman. There was a considerable fall cf siow in central and western Kansas last week, in many places to the depth of ten inches. Statistics taken at Washington say | that there is more money per capital ; in circulation now than ever before j in this country. 1 Remarkable Cure for Rheumatism, j Kenna, Jackson Co., W. Va. j About three years ago my wife had an attack of rheumatism which j confined her to her bed for over a ! i month and rendered her unable to i walk a step without assistance, her ! limb3 being swollen to double their normal size. Mr. S. Maddox insisti ed on my using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. I purchased a fifty-cent bottle and used it according to the i directions and the next morning she | walked to breakfast without assis; tancein aDy manner, and she has not had a similar attack since.?A. B. Parsons. For sale by J. E. Ivaufmann. [ TAYLOR INDICTED. j He is Charged as an Accessory Before the Muder of Goebel. Louisville, April 20.?Information | has been received here that Governor Taylor has been indicted as an accessory before the fact for the murder of Goebel. The indictment was found yesterday by the Franklin county grand jury, after a stormy scene, which came near resulting in a personal difficulty between Robert Sutter, the Democratic foreman of the jury, and W. B. George, one of j the two Kepublican members. The vote of the grand j ury was ten to two for indictment, a strict party vote. After the grand jury had handed in the indictments, they were ordered to retire. Judge Cartrell then handed the clerk the indictments of Golden and Davis. The indictment of Taylor was not given out. * Garden operations are progressing favorable. Bargains!!! mows hi2tcs. SAVE MOM! e Very Lowest ! ! I | RETAIL. IN MERCHANT mbia, S. C. i 7 More Than Enough. t Johnny arrived at school in the morning five minutes late. He ex; plained that the clock at home was slow and that the street car had broken down with him on his way to ; school. ' Johnny," the.teacher said,"either of those c xcus 8 would have been sufficient, but the two together make a suspicious superabundance. You will stay in this room after school hours and copy out a page of your reader.'' The moral is that when you are late in keeping your engagement you should not come primed with too many excuses. | Bismark's Iron Nerve. Was the result of his splendid ; health. Indomitable will and tre! mendous energy are not found where Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels j arc out of order. If you want these I qualities and the success they bring, j use Dr. King's New Life Pills. They i develop every power of brain and i body. Only 25 cents, at J. E. Kaufj maun's drug store. absolutely "f Makes the food more del fiOvAL 8AKINQ POwr ? i m race ON THE VERGE OF WAR. Russia Demands a Concession of Territory Near Masampo. Yokohama, March 31, via San Francisco, April 18.?If the quick and steady dispatch of telegrams from Korea mean aught of a really scriou3 nature, the inference would be that Japan and Russia are on the verge of war. Outwardly, however, there is absolute calm. The present opinion of the community seems to be . that, oa fV.o pnrflinf in i nr^'i f n hip f]";P 14 vj tuw *U 4UV I WM V* V J vu V sooner it occurs, the better it will be for Japan, the latter with her great fleet, far superior to that of her enemy in those waters, would make short work of Russia's naval force and command the situation for the time at least, with all the advantages which an added prestige would confer. Russia demands a concession of territory near Masampo, or as an alternative, the island of Kotoku. Either would be a standing menace to Japan and one of the hardest of diplomatic fights is now on at Seoul. It is deemed by many to bo significant that the whereabouts and movements of Japan's fleet of eixty vessels are veiled in the greatest secrecy. That they will be within easy Strikinrr rtiotonno nf thfi usf?Pnf? nf Wflr'' may easily be surmised. The report of the Yokohama foreign chamber of commerce just made public is notable inasmuch as it calls attention in a very forcible way to the causes of the decline of Japanese trade, attributing it largely to the dishonesty of the native business methods and uttering a warding not against entailing a further loss of the nation's credit if they are persisted in. In business circles there is noticeably a strong tendency toward the formation of trusts. For a nation which has heretofore done business on the smallest and ou an almost purely individual basis, this movement, if carried out, means nothing less than an economic revolution of enormous significance. The Best in the World. Vila din's Cotl!?h lute cure for sick headache, dyspepsia, sour stomach, malaria, constipation, torpid liver, piles, jaundice, bilious fever, biliousness and kindred diseases. Tutt's Liver Pills Remedy is the best in the world. A few weeks ago we suffered with a severe cold and a troublesome cough, and having read their advertisements in our own and other papers we purchased a bottle to see if it would effect us. It cured us before the bottle was more than half used. It is the best medicine out for colds and cough3.?The Herald, xlndersonville, Ind. For sale by J. E Kaufmann. * John Bull Interested. London, April 19.?Keen interest is manifested here in the threatened Q/>f?nn nf thp TTnifed States against Turkey, particularly in view of the I sultan's recalcitirancy in connection with the increase of custom duties. The fourth collective note of the embassies objecting to the increase without a previous understanding with the powers was handed the Turkish government yesterday, but Turkey maintains such a firm attitude that suspicion is growing that | some covert influence is frustrating the effect of the note. Secret of Beauty I is health. The secret ofhcalth is the power to digest and assimilate a proper quanity of food. This can never be done when the liver does not act it's part. Doyou know t h is ? Tntt's Liver Pills are an abso | &UtlN > 'Ma Powder 'iJBE iicieus and wholesome FILIPINO DOCUMENTS. WERE CAPTURED FROM THE INSURGENTS BY THE AMERICANS. All Considered Important as Indicating Conspiracy io Attack Before Actual Hostilities Began?Overtures to Spain. Washington, April IS.?In further response to the Senate resolution of January 17 last, the President today sent to the Senate additional documents bearing upon the insurrection in the Philippine0. The papers are all important. One of them is a report from Colonel Armas Blanco of the Philippine army to the "General Commanding the Second zone," of the events of February 2, 1899, in Tonodo. He says that on hearing the alarm of fire he immediately order twenty men who had gathered to hold themselves ready, "that when the designated hour arrived they would be ready to go to Meisic, where the American barracks are and set on fire the houses about there in order to interfere with their coming out from the barracks as was agreed 1 upon in the meeting with Dr. Rosend < Limon. The result was that on ' marckiDg to the scene of operations < we found the calzada of Acarraga I 1 -j r i wa3 liiieJ witn Americans ana wun i them were a number of country peo- I pie who cried out, 'Brothers, to the i strife, for now is the hour.' This is i what men were saying to that crowd, j At the proper time they sounded the i call of our army 'advance and fire,' The eight of tbera threw us 1 into confusicD, for we believed that i all that we had prepared from the 1 beginning, as well as what we saw, ^ was prepared by the enemy and his spies." < He then ordered a retreat and when 1 they met the Americans, the Colonel ( says the latter gave bi3 forces two ' volleys. He adds that his men, with 1 their daggers, in a hand-to-hand 1 conflict forced the Americans to re- i tire. i Another letter dated at Tarlac, 1 October 23 last, signed by J. M. 1 Leyd commended an unnamed Fili- 1 pino officer who the writer says, ' he will go to Manila commissioned by our government to throw some dynamite bombs and setlfire to the houses or the principal buildings, and especially those occupied by the foreigners." Among the documents is an un signed letter to General Itios of the Spanish army dated a Malolas, who was in command at Iloilo, October 25, 1898, apparently inspired by Aguinaldo. In this letter the writer says that his desire is to "yet save from shipwreck the sovereignty of Spain in these island.'' lie then proceed;: "I am informed that you are considering surrendering the place to us or to the Americans; after six months of vigorous siege and of toj tal abandonment I understand how you can prefer us to the others. The way to make this surrender is to join us and proclaim the federation of the Filipino republic with the Spanish republic recognizing the chieftianship of our honored President, Senor Emilio Aguinaldo? a fraternal embrace will take place between Filipinos, Yisayans and Spaniards. There will be hurrahs for Spain and the Filipinos united as a federation re* * * ' .'.I. public; your troops win pass iuiu im? common army: you will be promoted to a Lieutenant General. Those who want to can go back at our expense and the flags of Spain ana the Filipiuos will float side by side. Ycu will give an account cf this 1 o Madrid and in the meantime we shall fight the Amciicaus together. We shall conquer and then we shail wait and adjust our future relations. The surrender of the heroic column you command is the greatest outrage which can be inflicted upon those valient men who have suffered the humiliation which their unfortunate companions suffer here; and you, the able and upright and valient Ganeral, j are you going to sign a treaty with ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of 73 cents per square of one inch s?ace for first insertion, and 60 cents per inch for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made with those wishing to advertise for three, six and thelve months. Notices in the local colnmn 5 oents per line each insertion. Obituaries charged for at the rate of ore cent a word, wLen they exceed 100 words. Marriage notices inserted free. Address G. M. HARMAN, Editor and Publisher. Americans? God preserve you from it, sir! Your transfer to ourside does no really involve treason to Spain, since the moment sovereignty passes to the Americans you are free to transfer your allegiance. This is in ac:ordance with principles of national honor and it would serve as tne nrst base or tne new alliance between Spain and the Filipinos and then from both come honor and applause for you as having been the one fortunate enough to effect it." But the preceding document and the one immediately following were on paper used in the private office of Aguioaldo, but neither of them bore any siguature. The second document in this connection, which is not dated, apparently a letter of instructions to Filipino commissions who were to accompany the American troops to Iloilo. They were told not to recognize the sovereignty of the American government aDd upon disembarking the commissioners were to prepare Filipino force to attack the Spaniards "some hours before tlin Americans pan r?1ap? " ~? .? r?? They aro told in case either the Spaniards cr Americans want to treat or make promises to "believe nothing and to pay attention to nothing, but to press the attack until you die or conquer both of them.'* If the attack should not take place until after the entry cf the Americans, the Filipinos were instructed that they must "continue to enter the city, preparing to occupy it, and take possession of the ground, but without firing a shot unless the Americans commence." In case the Americans should begin, the Filipinos were "to attack immediately, and not give up until killed." Ia this connection the Iloiloans were assured that the Americans were valorous only in appearance and would soon yield if met with valor. If the Filipinos should get possession of Iloilo before the disembarkation of the Americans, then the Filipinos were to "conceal themselves well in order to deceive the Americans and make them think that we are more than we are in fact. In this case,'1 bbe instructions continues, "let them approach, and when they are in due range of our rifles there should be a general discharge, so that as many as possible will be killed at once. We can culculate one of our soldiers aeing worth four of theirs, so that n the hour of victory after the comoat we should have less losses than iheirs." Another document relates to the jonference sought by General Otis c^ith Filipino leaders relative to the expedition to Iloilo, and says that General Otis tried to secure a deputation of natives to accompany the expedition in order to conciliate the insurrectionists there. There is a note with this document sayiug that General Otis had indicated that it was the purpose of the United States to annex the Philippines, but that liltj VJuilCI i&i (1U LLi111VU lUftU VUVAV UVAV two parties in the Senate. A proclamation signed by Again' aldo on the 24th of May, 1898, says: # ? "I see the Spanish government is unable to struggle .with certain elements which constantly oppose the progress of this country and now since the powerful and great North American nation has come, showing a disinterested protection which will enable us to secure the liberty of this country. I come to assume com- . mand of all forces, ready to assure the attainment of our revived aspirations." He said he would first establish a dictatorship and afterwards government with a cabinet. The papers are all translations of documents captured from the Filipino forces. How is This? ? ? TT?TY.-?11ora we oner one nuuuicu j Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. "We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, aud believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. WaldiDg, Kinnan & Marvin, Wolesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood aud mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Home and Farm. By special arrangements we offer the Home and Farm, the leading farm and home paper, published in Louisville, Ky., and the Dispatch for ?1.25. Those of our subscribers who desire to subscribe for the Home and Farm, can do so by sending 25c in silver or stamps to this office.