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JOB WORK. TH 18 OFFICE ?S THE PLACE TO BRING IT TO IF YOU WANT STYLE. HY JAYNJE8, SHELOK, SMITH & STJSOK. TO THINK OWN SELF BB TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS TUB NIGHT THU DAY, THOU OANS?T NOT THEN BB FALSE TO ANY MAN. WA?i?IAliltA, SOUTH OAWOL?NA, I>EOI<3M?J?lt 10. 1808. ALL KINDS OF COMMERCIAL PAINTING AT T^J8?FFI0E POSTERS, PHAMPLET?, BLANKS, AC. KHW SBBIKS, NO. 87.-VOWMM XMX.-NO. ?O. 0011(111)0118 In Porto Rico? United States Consul Hanna, at San Juan, Porto Kico, writes to tho Department of State as follows : "I am receiving hundreds of lottois from all classes of pooplo in tho United States, asking about Porto llico. Most of these persons say they intend coming to Porto T?ioo for work or to go into business, ami they want to know all about tho country. Togo into detail and answer all those hundreds of letters would require tho services of several dorks ; but I have said to nearly all theso inquirers that no Amorioan seeking work should como to Porto Rico. I have also said to business men in thc United States that, in my opinion, they would be disappointed if they earns here now to establish themselves ; that t' o timo had not yet arrived for an American to go into business in Porto llico. I believe thc timo will como when this will be a good field for tho investment of American capi tal, and when nearly all kinds of bu siness conducted in an American stylo will bo profitable ; but that time will not como until the island lias American government, until tho laws of the United States are enforced and tariff changos made. Then, I be lieve, this island will take on new lifo j but our people who think of doing business in Porto Pico should bo made to understand that tho ex isting high duty on American pro ducts prohibits their shipping build ing material, machinery for factories or plantations, ote., or establishing any kind of business with profit. Most of our business men who have como hero simply look the island over, pronounce it rich and possess ing golden prospects for the future, but decide that it is too early to in vest. The American press should inform our merchants and business men of the true situation." . " ~ ? - Taxation of Costs. Tho law conceroing oosts is in confusion and lawyers and oourt officers do not know whore they aro at in tho matter of taxation of costs. Ooo Legislature hammers at the law and tho Supremo Court under takes to construe it and another Legislature comos along and tri?fc io make improvoracnton tho law enacted by tho Legislature and declared by tho Supremo Court, hut only adds to tho confusion. It is to bo hopod tho Legisloturo will overhaul tho whole struoturo and pass a plain and just law on tho subjeot, so that ovorybody will know on what to baso calcula tions. A great deal of this confusion in tho law concerning costs arises from tho patriotic purposo of politicians in tho Legislature to ingratiate them selves into tho favor of tho voters at other people's oxponso. Thoy havo tried to logislato lawyors out of ex istence, and havo tried by tho same process to starvo printers, and aro now trying to koop good and compe tent men from holding oflico. Tho laborer is worthy of his biro and a just compensation for publio sorvico will not hurt tho tax-payer. It is wrong to ruin the small oflico holders and squander publio money upon big officers and pot institutions.' If tho good of tho tax-payors is to be con sulted let economical measures hegin whore they will amount to some thing.-Ptekens People's Journal. If you fool Dull, Languid, rrokon Down, Debilitated, havo Weak Stomaoh or indigestion, uso Dr. M. A. Simmons' Liver Medicino. ? - - ? The corn crop of South Carolina this yoar is estimated at 17,600,000 bushels, against 15,308,000 bushels last year. You will find everything in the Dry Goods, Shoe and Grocery line AT NI ELD'S. I guarantee my prices to be witli the lowest. All persons indebted to me or owing accounts turned over to me by K. O. Wright must call at once and settle, ?s I must have my money. fi ? Good Hard and Soft Brick for Sale. ompany ANO TKTJJ THEM YOUR WANTS BEFORE BUYING. THEY HAVE A COMPLETE LINE AND WILT, SAVE YOU MONEY. THEY SELL THF. SYRACUSE PLOWS. ALSO CHATTANOOGA CANE MILLS AND PLOWS. &? Illili OSBORNE'S A u:;i? .in, fla. Actual BIitiMM, No Test Hook*. Short time, Che?i> board. Send for Catalogua. if you dosiro attractive Job Printing of any descrip tion Bend it to tho Courier Job Office. Bri of s and Argumonts : : : : a Specialtj Kuli and acloct lino *?f Capes and ^ Notions. $ liftdios* and phildron'8 Undor- ,jh wear a Bpeoinlty, Call and examino my stock and fi ?ot price? boforo buying. You can navo ninney by dolnfc ?<>. Vory respectfully, MRS. E. M. CUDW?RTH. Dr. G. G. Probst, O E NTIST, Walhalla, S. C. Ofllco Over Carter Merchandise Company's Store. IlOUJtS : HMO A. M. TO 1 P. M. AND 2 TO 0 P. lt, Mardi ?24, 181)3. DR. I. F. J > E3 N T I S rX* , Soneoa, S. C. ?-OKFIOK DAY? MONDAY, FRIDAY'AND SATURDAY OF EACH WEKK. May ll), 1808.-ly STOLE 1 RAILROAD. _-1 How Col. T. HU Sharp Took Eng! nos and Cars Across Country; A frequent visitor to the Grand Hotel, Colonel Thomas R. Sharp, now connected with tho engineering department of the Blaek Diamond Roilroad, enjoys tho rare distinction of having pioked up bodily and trans ported aoross country during tho War of the Rebellion ninetoon loco motivos, ovor a hundred freight oars and a vast quantity of railroad iron, all of willoh did effoctivo sorvico for tho sido of tho South. Even to rail road mon and engineers the feat is ?till so romnrknblo and difficult that wherover ho goes Colonel Sharp is ?dmirnhly looked on and roferrod to is tho man who succeeded in steal ing a railroad and bodily oarrying it *way with him. Tho opportunity for tho raid oo jurred in Juno, 1861, when the Con fedorato forcos under Gonoral Joseph IO. Johnston occupied Harpor's Forry, mid controlled tho Baltirnoro and Ohio Railroad from Point of Rooks, ? fow miles Routh of Harper's Forry, Lo a considerable distanco West of Martinsburg. Tho Union forces, under General Patterson, were between tho Poto mao and tho Pennsylvania lino. Be tween tho hostile lines and yet within tho grasp of tho Southern forcos ran tho Baltimoro and Ohio road. Mar Linsburg, only thirty-eight miles from tho nearest Southern railroad ind but eighteen miles from Win ahester, whioh the Confederates held without disputo, was tho terminus of ono of tho divisions of this groat trunk lino, and its shops mid round houses woro filled with engines and joaohes. THE ORI?AT HAID. Colonel Sharp was Captain and leting Quartermaster in tho South ern army, and ho conceived tho idea )f raiding tho Mnrtinsburg shops md hauling tho engines and oars )ver tho piko from Martinsburg to .Jtrawsburg, Va., whoro thoy could io placed on tho tracks of tho Mn lassas Gap Railroad. Tho engines woro dismantled, all mt their drivo wheels, tho forward mds being placed on a heavy truck undo for tho purpose, with iron-shod sheels. Forty horses in a team vere attached to each engine. Jack icrcws wcro used as breaks in going lown hill, hoing fastened to tho en gine framo and plaoed sidewise igainBt tho drive wheels and tight mod or loosened ns necessity aroso. Tho work of transportation was ?ecessarUy slow, and tho oavalonde, .villi horses four abreast and strotoh ng out for 100 feet along tho road, 'urniched a startling spectacle, doubt ess never beforo scon anywhoro. Sometimes tho distanco between Viartinsburg and Winchester, cigh .ecn miles, was mado in ono day, but ho avorago time from Martinsburg ,o Strawsburg was three days. . Tho engines wore put together igain as soon as they reached Straws )urg, and thoy and tho cars woro ib!o o render such aid in transport ng troops that it is questionable whether tho second hattlo of Manas ias, or Bu'! Run, would have termi latcd as it did if it had not hoon for ,ho increased transportation facilities moy afforded. Tho engines wore aftorward tnkon ,o Richmond, and whan that oity ?vas threatened thoy woro removed ,o Raleigh, N. C., and did valuablo lervico to the Confederacy through Hit tho war. ARMOR FOH TJIIC MERRIMAC. It is related that nomo of tho rail* .oad iron that was included in tho quantity carried away by Col. Sharp formed tho armor whioh mado tho Morrimao tho destroying terror of ibo United States Navy, and which, ?Ut for tho providential arrival of tho Monitor, must havo sunk nt will every Federal gunboat whioh sho at tacked. Some of tho stolon property was recovered by the B. &? O. road aftor tho war, and so high ? regard did tho management have for tho genius of Col. Sharp that ho was made Mastor of Transportation of thc road, a posi lion ho nold for a number of years under President John W. Garrott, who was also at tho hoad of the road [luring tho war.-Cincinnati Com mercial Tribune, April 0, 1808. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Tho Kind You Havo Always Bought Boars the /Hp Signature of U??W?? A colored woinan living on Con gressman Stokes' place? a few miles from Orangeburg, left hor young baby in tho yard whilo sho attonded B call at tho dwelling and when sho returned only a fow minutes after wards sho fonnd that tho haby had boon killed by a largo hog whioh had tho run of tho yard. The body was horribly mutilated and the child sur vived but a short time. Tho hog ls a notorious "chicken oator," but no ono supposed he would attack a child, The War Beoord, Following upon the nows from Parla that the Spanish oommiealon ors had aooeptod the domanda of the United Statoa> the Now York Jour nal lu..; prepared aome intoreating statistics, plaeing in contrast tho ooat of the war to tho two Oountriea, and the comparativo resulta from it. Wo ouoto below tho intoreating figures from tho Journal: WHAT 1'IIB UNITKD 8TATK8 I.08B. Maine,.$ 2,600,000 Ont ot war, .... 200,000,000 Indemnity to Spain, . 20,000,000 Total* , . . ... $222,600,000 WHAT HI'AIN LOSRS. Cuba,.$ 800,000,000 Philippines,..... 460,000,000 Porto Rico, .... 160,000,000 CoBt of war, . . . 126,000,000 LOBS of commerce, . 20,000,000 Thirty ahipB loBt, . . 80,000,000 Total.$1,076,000,000 Lives lost by tho United Statoa : About 258 mon killed and about 1,324 wounded. About 2,000 men died in oamp. Tho figuroB do not inoludo tho 266 sailors lost on tho Maino or tho mon who havo died of fever aftor hoing mustered out. LiveB lost by Spaiu-About 2,600 and 8,000 wounded. No official state mont of Spain's looses has boon mado. Spain had tho satisfaction of blow ing up tho Maino and killing 206 Amonoan sailor??. It cost hor : Twenty-one war ships. Two armioe defeated and capturod. Cuba, 41,055 square miles and 800,000 inhabitants. Tho Sulu Islands, 950 square miles and 76,000 inhabitant* Tho Philippines, 114,820 square miles and 8,000,000 inhabitants. Stray Islands and other groups. A year ago Spain governod over 10,000,000 pooplo outside of hor own limits. Now she governs less than 200,000. llccent Dovolopmonts lu Sohool Sanitation. Tho drinking cups of Behool bouses havo, for a long time, boon recog nized as a moans of spreading diph theria and othor contagious disoases. For tho last quarter of tho school y oar of 1897 tho Now York oity schools oxoludod 4,188 childron, and of this number 205 cases woro for ailments which were liable to bo com municated by tho uso of a common drinking cup, for diseases suoh as diphtheria, soarlot fovor, wh ooping oough and tho mumps. Of othor disensos moro or less liable to bo spread by tho samo means wore measols, ohickon pox and 702 con tagions diseases of tho eyes. In tho samo rolation to the adults aro tho drinking cups and tumblers used in public placos whore persons afflicted with consumption and all kinds of contagious diseases use tho cup or glass indiscriminately. Tho Sanita rian recontly doacribod an ingo nious drinking fountain invented by a citi zen of Koohootor, N. Y., which, if it carno into general nee, would soon supplant tho use of cups und other drinking vessols in pubho places. It eonsists of a marblo podestal about 3? foot high, capped with a funnel shaped basin 12 inches in diamotor. Upon applying pressuro to a lovor at the baso of tho basin a jet of wator shoots up from tho contro of tho basin ii?to tho mouth when held over it. With a little practico ono's thirst may bo abundantly satisfied without tho intervention of a drinking vessol of any kind. Tho jct is arranged so as not to spatter. Tho device admits of no eontfict of the lips with the jct pipo or any othor portion of tho apparatus, tho water flowing through tho supply pipo, through tho jot direotly into tho mouth, and al! tho waste into thc bowl, whore it imme. diately Hows off by an escapo pipo. None is allowed to aeoumulato. If it is to bo uHod by small childron, woodon steps at ono sido onablo even tho smallest child to obtain an ado quato supply of wator to slake bis thirst. Wofford Collogo has adopted tho plan of working on Saturday and taking Monday ns a holiday. Fac ulty and students both thought it would work hotter and they aro Will? ing to try it. " i ' --- Tho United Statoa govormont. will pay .tho widow of tho late Col. J. IC. Alston, of the lat S. C. Regiment, a pension of $6 per day for tho re mainder of her natural lifo. SUBVKk* OF O?E COUNTRY. The Extent of Oor Colonies? Tbeir] Population? Their Climates and the Greater United States* The islands we take number more than 2,000-they have never been counted, and still loss have they boen accurately surveyod. But the best statistics available yiold thc following results SB to areas in square milos : Cuba,. 45,000 Porto Rico, ?... 8,560 Hawaiian group, . . . 6,040 The Philippines,. . . 114,000 Tho Sulus,. 1,000 Tho Carolines, . . . 1,000 Guam in Ladronea, . . 500 Total, . . . , . 171,000 Cuba is about tho sizo of Now York, Ohio or Alabama. i Porto Rico is a little smaller than Connootiout. Tho Hawaiian Islands are some what smaller than Now Jersoy, tho largest island, Hawaii, being about twico tho sizo of Dolawaro. Tho Philippines oovor a land spaco about as groat as Now York and tho New England States together. Lu/.on, on whioh Manila is situated, ?8 not much smaller than Now York. All the now depondenoics togothor aro about equal in aroa to tho Now England States, Now York, Pennsyl vania and Now Jersey. TUM POPULATION. In annoxing lands wo annex popu lation also. These aro as follows : Cuba - 1,600,000 ; 05 por ' cont white. Porto Rico-1,000,000 ; 00 per cont white. Hawaii-90,000 ; 25 por cont white Philippines - 8,000,000 ; mostly Oriontnla. Sulus, Carolines and Ladrones Mainly barbarous. Roughly, wo annex about ten mil lion people, of whom 90 per cont bolong to moro or ICBB inforior races. Kli?OUKCKS Ol' N1CW P088K88ION8. Tho rosourcos of our annexed ter ritory, Uko thoir aroa and population, havo never boon calculated with accuracy. Cuba produces sugar, ooffoo, to bacco, cocoa, cotton, indigo, rioo and fruits. She has forests rioh in rare woods, and mountains abounding in iron, coal, copper, marblo and pre cious stones. Tho forosts and tho mincB have been soarcoly at all worked. Only 10 por cont of tim arabio lands aro now undor full cultivation. ?Soven per cont is wholly unreclaimed, and 4 per cont of tho island's aroa is unexplored forest. Tho imports of tho islands woro roughly estimated for 1894 at $50, 000,000, and tho oxports at *95,000, ooo. Porto Rioo'fi products are substan tially tho same ns thoso of Cuba. In 1890 tho island imported $18,000, 000 worth of goods and oxported *J 0,000,000, Hawaiian oxports consist almost wholly of sugar. Its exports amount to ?$15,000,000 a yoar, and its imports amount to $7,000,000. Tho Philippines produco sugar hemp, tobacco and copra. Imports about $11,000,000 a yoav; oxports about $20,000,000. Tho Sulus produco teak and san dalwood. No statistics of oommoroo exist. Tho Carolinos aro inhabitod by Malay flshnrmon and produce noth ing of value. Tho Ladrones aro in Uko condition. OUU NSW CMMATKB. Wo havo ali?o annexod now oli mates. Thc Philippine*, aa all travoiors ngrce, havo a climate in whioh a man from tho temperate /.ono can koop alivo only with tho greatest diflloulty and can keep woll only by never for getting for an instant to guard his health. Malaria is tho lot of all who dwoll thore. Tropioal fovors, tropical plagues, such as smallpox and lop rosy, thrivo and proy upou nativos and nowcomors. Tho mr ia hot ns well ns moist, and only tho most rigid comors from tom porato eli matos aro ablo to resist the universal, innato and incurable idle* ness. Of Hawaii we alroady know muoh --a gorgoous beauty of sky and earth, a paradise in whioh lurks lep rosy. In both theso domains the enly possible labor that is commercially productive is contract labor not dis tinguishable from tho harshest slavery. This faot is duo chiofly to tho olimato. In Cuba tho soml-tropioal olimato makcB conditions tolorablo only by tho acclimated hy inheritance. Rosi dence all tho year round in the Cuban cities and plains is imposable for tho white raoes. The boat sud tho dis eases bar the white labo\o?\ Rorto Kloo, oallod "the most healthful of the Autillos," is a de lightful winter resort; but white men from tho United States will never live there longer than for the brief winter season. As a whole, the new climates added to tho long-ostablished Amerioan varieties are not attractive to the healthy, vigorous white races. These raoes will not labor in them, will not thrive in them, will not voluntarily live in them. And they stunt and weaken and ravago and render indo lent and savage the ri a ti ve raoes. niaOKK-HUT BKTXKR? YOB, it is undoubtedly a bigger, a greater United StatcB. But Ts it a otter United States? With thoso areas in tho Asiatic hemisphere como 8,000,000 of Asiatics -yellow, brown and blaok. With all these areas, near and far, come peoples alien in blood, allen in thought, alien in habits, oustoms and manners. A few of them in tho Wost Indios ave oomowhat akin to our homo nogroos, who constitute such a menacing race problem ; but oven that kinship is slight, remote. And these new people will bo Americans, oi ti zo ti s of tho United States at onoe, porhaps. Are they not entitled to tho rights guaranteed to us by our constitution ? Do they not come in under our Declaration of Independence, with its sweeping assertions of univorsal equality and of no govornmont without tho con sont of tho govornod? Was it wiae, is it wiso, to add theso probloms, inseparable from tho incoming of these now Asiatio, South Sea and West Indian "Americans," to our prcBont problems ? Aro wo or aro wo not enlarging our commerco to any groat extent ? Is this enlarge ment commensurate with tho enlarge ment of our difliculticB? Bigger-yea. Groator-yos. But bettor?-New York World. DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED by local implications, as thoy cannot | roaoh tho diseased portion of tho oar, There is only ono way to ouro doafnoss, and that is by constitutional romodios. Deafness is oauBod by an iullamod con dition of tho mucous liniug of tho Eaata obain Tubo. Whoa this tubogots indamod I you havo a rumbling Bound or imperfect | hoaring, and whon it is ontiroly oloBod doafnoBO is tho rosult, and unless tho inflammation can bo taken out and this tubo restored to ita normal condition, hearing will bo destroyed forovor. Niuo casos out of ton aro oaused by catarrh, whioh is nothing but an infiamod condi tion of tho mucous surfaces. Wo will give ono hundred dollars for any caso of doafnoss (oaused by catarrh) that cannot bo oured by Hall's Catarrh Curo. Solid for oiroulara, froo. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Tolodo, O. Hall's Family Pilla aro tho best. Tho Farmors' National Congress. FORT WORTH, TKXAS, December I 8.-Among tho resolutions adoptod by tho Farmers' National Congress j to-day was ono favoring aid in con structing tho Nicaraguan Canal, gov ornmont control of tho same andi favoring tho development of the boot sugar industry. A committco to engross tho resolutions and pre sent tho sarao to Congress was ap pointed, composed of Messrs. Clay ton, of Iowa, Cnndidgo, of Massa chusetts, and Evans, of Colorado. President Hoard was added. R?solutions recommending tho Eassago of laws providing that grain o separated from soods of noxious woods, bofore being put on tho mar ket, was ordored forwarded to the) proper authorities. Tho congress also passed resolu tions favoring tho loaso or salo of arid lands so as to mnko thom taxa blo and asks tho United Statos Con gress for Increased appropriations for | rural freo mail dohvery ; favoring national legislation to do away with the privileges accorded to original) paokagos of oleomargarine under in ter-stato commerco law ; prohibiting tho branding of dairy produots wita tho nnmo of tho Stato or Territory hi whioh thoy aro produced, and urging the necessity tor instruction in tho prinoiplos of agriculture in publio sohools. Tho rcBolutions urge harbor im provomonts in intorstato commerce as woll as for national defenses. Aftor somo livoly competition Bos ton was choson ovor DOB Moines and Donvor as tho plaoo whore tho noxt Bcssion will bo held. Tho congress thou adjourned sine die Housekeepers will rojotoo to leam that Arbuckle Bros. havo reduced tho pr ico of rofl nod sugars and that tho othor roflnors will follow suit and go them ono bettor. When trusts fal) out and fight onch other tho publio gonorally is bonofitod. -.. ? ?.--. Pain in Hoad. Nook, Shouldor, Back, Front, Sidos, Hips and Limbs aro readily ou?-ed by Simmons' Squaw Vino Wino or Taolots. Tho Morning Nows states that South Dakota has adopted the refer endum, that is, if tho Legislature passes any law objectionable to the people, a potition may bo oiroulated and if flvo por cont of tho voters sign it, the <?'?,?, must be submitted to the people for ratification. This is Setting the government into tho ands of tho people, Makes the food wore deli INCREASE IN STATE TAXATION. One Hundred and Fourteen iThousand Pcllars In Fourteen Tears. COLUMUIA, S. 0*, December 7. The tax question is at all timos of tho utmost moment. It has novor been a more momentous qnestion than at prosont, with tho low prioo of cotton. Thoro has boen a good deal aaid on the subjoot of taxation and how it eau bo reduood, and whether it is lower now than in previous years. With a view to giving the faots about tho interesting eoonomio quootion, tho records wore searched to-day for the oxaot foots. Tho tax levies were obtained from a bound copy of tho tax announcements published by tho Comptroller General and colleoted in tho land oftico of tho Secretory of State. The figures aro given for tho last sixteen lovios, whioh gives a pretty fair idea of how things hnvo been running and what. State taxes have bonn paid. In conn^otion with tho tax lovy tho taxable valuation of property is given as the tax lovy is, of course, oasod on tho valuation of property paying taxes. In 1890 tho taxablo property in the Stato amounted to $150,602,451, and it has now risen to $178,287,100. This moans an in crease in tho taxablo proporty of twouty-threo million dollars, or ovor ono-oighth of tho ontiro taxablo proporty. It will bo woll iu studying tho tax question to consider tho tax levy in connection with the assessed valua tion of property in tho Stato. Tho tax lovios aro os follows : For tho Stato tax Enaotod and lovy in yoar. approved. mills. 1888.Dooombor28, 1882 . 4\ 1884.Deeember 24? 1888.? 1886.Deoomber 24, 1884.ii J 1880.Docombor 24, 1886.61 1887.Docombor 24, 1880 . 41 1888.December 24,1887.6 1880.Dooomber 24, 1888.61 1800.Dooerabor 24, 1880 . 5f 1801.Dooomber 23, 1800.4* 1802.Dooomber 24, 1801.4} 1803.Deoombor 24,1802.(>.} 1804.Deoombor 24, 1803 .6 1805.Docombor 24,1801.44 1800... i.... March 7, 1800 . 4* 1807.March 8, 1807 .5 1808..... .Fobruary 10, 1808.5 Tho total assessod valuation of all taxablo proporty is as follows For tax Total property yoar. valuation. 1884.$160,611,880 1885. 140,073805 1880. 144,472,181 1887. 141,074,847 1888. 141,040,070 1880. 145,280,843 1800. 160,002,451 1801. 168,262,000 1802. 108,871.227 1803. 170,242,201 1804. 173,508,200 1805. 100,448,041 1800. 170,755,474 1807. 173,871,181 1808. 1" 3,237,100 Ky multiplying tho amount of tax able proporty by tho rate of tho lovy it will bo soon that the amount of taxation in 1884 was $720,880.77 ; in 1890 it was $700,660.87, and in 1898 it was $869,355.00. A faot, worthy of notico is that thc valuation of property in 1801 ovor that in 1800 was, in round numbora, $18,000,000 while tho total inoreaso in valuation sinco 1891 has boen less than $6,000, OOO. Tho chief loss in rovenuo in rooont years has I wn through tho falling off in tho rovenuo from phosphate roy nlty. ?.?>? Your Danger Now Is from tho overworked condition of tho livor and kidnoys whioh aro unablo to oxpol impurities from tho blood. Thi oausos rhoumntism. Hood's Sarsaparilla lias boon wonderfully successful in our lng this disease. It neutralizes tho acid in tho blood and permanently ouros tho ?ohos and painoB whioh othor modiohios fail to rolievo. Hood's Sarsaparilla is tho host winter modioino bocauso it purifies, enriches and vltf?????? the blood, it givos help just whoro help is needed, lt tones the stomaoh, stimulates tho 'ver, and arousos and sustainer' tho kid atys. It wards off pnoumonia, fevers, bronchitis, colds, coughs and tho grip. The MothodlsTwar Claim, WASHINGTON, I). C., Dooomber 8. -A lottor from tho council of tho Southorn Methodist Bishops was submitted to tho Senato by Vioo President Hobart to-day. Sonators think that no furthor aotion oan bo taken, Tho Bishops propose to return tho money awarded tho Methodist book oonoorn on its war olalm if tho Se nato thinks improper statements woro made to seouro tho paseago of tho appropriation. Tho responsibi lity of asking for tho monoy baok is put on tho Sonato. O JBt - JG? *B? w3s~2Etj 3C jfh* . BM? ts* _y* lb? Kind YOB Hava Always Bought Btgwuw of Tho groat topio of oonvoroution among Columbian? now is th? estab lishment of a paid fire department. Tho olty has grown to such an ox ton* ..non a service ia nooeacavy. URE ?tfous and wholesome IB ?O., KEW VORK._ Badly Mixed. Our government bids fair to con tain, at an early date a groator mix turo of races than its founders oud ovon tho fathers of tho prooont gene ration over dronmed it would havo : indians, *. 260,000 ?? Colorod in Amorioa, . . 8,000,000 Chinese in Amorioa, . . 100,000 Hawaiians, . . . . . , 100,000 Porto Ricans, . . ' . . 750,000 Pillipinos of various yollow and black broods, . . 8,000,000 Total,.' 17,200,000 In addition to this vast host of people, so dissimilar from tho white rac?, wo have about 9,000,000 for ?ign-born population of European origin who aro assimilable in groator ?r loss dogroo, but not yot wholly Assimilated. Ono of the foundation stones of ?ur govornmont is that it obtains all its just powers from tho condoi o? tho just govornod. Wo havo roached a point whore svo must eithor knock out that Btono >r run torriblo risks. Tho territorial 3xpansion theory has a catohing sound to many oars, but it involves probloms which wo havo novor yet jontonded with. It also inoroases mmonsoly tho number of pooplo of nferior roccB whom wo aro to at iOmpt to raise to tho levol of intol igont citizenship, and tho dismal failure we havo mado already in this ino is quito enough to justfy tho ;ravo apprehensions whioh aro en tertained as the result of our new md sweeping departure from first ?rinoiples.-Columbia Record. If troubled with Dizziness, ..Furred Tongue, Bitter Tasto in Mouth, Bloatod (Tooling after eating, Constipation, or Jlok .Uondaoho, uso Dr. M. A. Simmons' diver Medioino. Dennis McLaurin, a colored man, lied last week in Marlboro county in iis 101 year. Ho and his wife re named on tho old homostoad of mte-bcllum days until their former >wnor died a few years ago. Donnis ?vas a lifo-timo Democrat, voted tho Domooratio tiokot immediately aftor ibo war and oontiuuod to do HO until iis death. Ho woro a rod shirt in 1870, and was color-bearer of tho pod shirt company of his township, md maintained tho respect and con idenco of his whitd neighbors, many >f whom attended his burial. Those )ld-timo nogroes aro rapidly passing, md ono thing is noticeable, tho ante bellum servants aro soldom con lootod with tho race troubles, and iro raroly soon in tho courts aB lofendants. Curo Stomaoh Troubles, Cold Fcot and lands, lCxcossivo Menstrual Flow, with iimtnons' Squaw Vino Wino or Tablots. Miss Holon Gould is n good and generous woman. In addition to argo money giftfc to the government iho presented Bibles to Bovoral luin ired Now York soldiors, writing in mob, with her own hand, "Happy is .hat pooplo whoso God is ibo Lord." W. T. Youmans, Luray, S. C., writos: [lavo used Dr. M. A. Simmons' Livor Vf edioino 10 years. It has cured Enlarge-/ neut of tho Liver and Insomnia. Think t as far ahoad of Zoilin's and Blaok Draught as day is ahead of night. McCormick Women Angry. Tho Ladies' Domooratio club of ho town of McCormick, S. C., hold t mooting Friday afternoon which iVns in session ono and a half hour?, iointf pr?sided over by Mrs. J. W. T?nnings. During tho mooting thoy JxproBsed their belief that tho oiti .ons did oxaotly tho right thing in .idding tho town of Tolbort's pros moo. Thoy further oxprossod their ntontion of novor again Bpoaking to myono connooted with tho Tolbert .ifair. Thoy would havo burnt Tolbort in ofllgy but on account of ho Bteady downpour of rain, it was jostponod until a moro acceptable ,imo. To sottlo tho Stomaoh and Ovorcomo ;iio Nausea of Prospootlvo Mothors. tako iimmons' Squaw Vino Wino or Tablots. . '. 1 -- From all ovor tho Piedmont belt jomes tho gratifying nows that vast mantitioB of whoat (vas* for this loason) are hoing sown. King Cot ton has Btuck many of his viotims mdor tho; fifth rib, and many of ihoso wl?o uro yot ablo to move will 'orsake him at last, and dopond on loraothing ol?o for a subsistonoo.