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TO THINK OWN SELF BK Tit UK AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU OANS'T NOT THEN BE F A. LS H TO ANY MAN. NEW SKUIHS, NO. 138.-VOLUME M.-NO. 47. JACKET? We call your s Ladies' and Oh to see my Ladies' J . My stock of Ol If you want a for. I have the ins plete line of samph THE COMING LEGISLATURE. Some Mailors That Will Demand Considera tion-Tho Judicial Circuits. Columbia, Novombor ll.-Tho Gen eral Assembly wheu it meeta boro in January will havo no really a?rions propositions to settle While thoro is a groat deal of legislation loft over from yoar to year, tho consensus of opinion is that thoro is abundant legislation on tho ulatute books and that tho least dono tho bottor it will bo for tho Stato at largo. Tho new General Assombly will havo a larger proportion of now lawmakers than has over beforo boon in such a body. Tho usual quota of ro-eleoted tnembors is absent, and no doubt tho young and now nu.! tubers will think that their great ness depends upon tho number of bills offorod and now and novel schemes pro posed, starting with amendments to tho concealed weapon law and ending with amendments to thy Constitution. Naturally tho amendments recently votod upon will como up and consumo considerable timo. Somo will want to go right ahead with tho necessary legis lation, taking for granted that tho Court? will pass ovor tho error made in tho enrolled resolution and tho ballots, wbilo others will want to let tho question go before tho pooplo again. At all events this will bo ono of tho foremost questions to como up. Thoro will bo tho usual legislation pro posed as to now Judicial and Congres sional districts. Year after year bills aro offered pro posing the reorganization of TUB JUniOIAI. CIRCUITS, and that tbero bo ton instead of eight circuits. Tho scheme adopted by tho hist Con caral Assombly of providing for special terms of Courts, on petition of a majority of tho members of tho bar of any county, Booms to havo worked very well, and a good deal of tho congestion in Spartan burg, Cherokoo and otbor counties has boon relieved, and if tho lawyers would take advantago of this statute and have their work roady for tho Court whoo it assembles there would not bo so much complaint and such a perennial demand for additional Courts. Tho census (loos not indicate that South Carolina will got an additional Congressman. Somo who havo figured on tho rolativo incrcaso say that thoro scorns to bo no chance for an additional Congressman from this State. Tho usual PROPOSITIONS TO Kl 'MSTMCT tho Stato will bo mado, and tho usual fight against any chango in tho districts, if tho Stato is not to got another Con gressman. Tho tight against any chango bas heretofore to a largo oxtont como from tho Congressmen in office or those who have mado tho races in tho districts as they havo been standing. Tho IIouso, as will bo remembered, passed tho Pat ton redistricting bill, but tho Senate killed it. It makes very little di ff oro nco to tho averago citizen how tho districts aro arranged, but it really does seem nonsensical to havo shoe-string districts in this day and timo, and havo part of ono township in ono district and tho re mainder of a county in another district, and divido up counties so as to completely nullify their influence The demand has boon for somo timo for the districting of tho State upon county lines, and it makes but little di ff o ronco how tho counties aro divided as to districts, hut there is no longor any uso to cut up tho counties ami put part of a county in one district and part of tho same county in another district. Ono of th ? arguments that will he used against redistricting is that there will bo no uso to attend to tho redistricting at this session, as there will bo no general oleotion or primary, and that tho same work can bo done at tho session of 1002. Fairs in South Carolina. Columbia, November lil.-This is a year of festivals in South Carolina and those already hold havo proved successful. Camdon, Walhalla and Seneca had their festive times dur ing tho summer. Spartanburg bad a pretentious street festival, lasting a week, three weeks ago. Then Co lumbia joined forces with the State fiiir society ami brought 86,000 peo ple to town in three days. A TEXAS WONDER, Hall's Great Discovery for Kidney and IMaddcr Trouble. Ono small bottle of Hall's (beat Dis covery euros all kidney and bladder trou bles, removes gravel, cures diabotes, seminal omissions, weak and lame backs, rheumatism and all irregularities of tho kidneys ?md bladder in both men and women. Regulates bladder troubles in children. If not sold hy your druggist, will be sent by mail on receipt of $1.00. One small bottle is two months' treat ment, and will cure any case above men tioned. Dr. K. W. Hall, aolo manufac turer, 1*. (). Hox (t'2(t, St. Louis, Mm Send for testimonials. Sold by all druggists. ST. LOUIS, Mo., oct. 20, 1800.--This is to certify that I have been cured of kid ney and bladder trouble with one half bottlo of tho Texas Wonder, Hall's (heat Discovery, and can fully recommend it. G KO no R H. M AWDsi.KV, Clerk Hox Oftloo, St. Louis Post Oflleo. ildren's low and mei ackets at $2, and O lildren's Suits is con new Carpet come ir jide on the Carpet a] 3S always on hand. A Stato Thaaksgiving. Vory Httlo is known in tins section about Thanksgiving Day. Tho namo of tho occasion is known, but as for it hoing a gcnoral colobration, that has to como. 1 Govornor McSweonoy bas dono bis share towards rominding tho pooplo that th oro is a Thanksgiving Day, but bo has to cull ou bis nowspapor frionds and got thom to publish tho proclamation, and does not givo tho nowspapors a chanco at that prosperity that r so gonorally her alded hy allowing spaco ratos or consent ing to tho publication of tho proclama tion ns an advertisement. But Governor McSweonoy knows that bis nowspapor friends will help push a good thing along and so hero is the proclamation: rHOOI.AMATION. fti tho providonco of God wo havo boon sparod as a people and a Stato for another year. Peaco and prosperity, health and happiness havo been vouchsafed to us. Wo tiavo not been visited by plaguo or pestilence. Tho labor of our hands has bcon attended with success and tho Stato has grown in material wealth. Now manufacturing enterprises havo sprung up and wo aro fast becoming a groat manufacturing pooplo. Tho husbandman has been pormitted to plant and to roap, and enjoys tho fruits of Ins labor. Tboro is good fooling among all our pooplo, and progross in all good and worthy doods is ovidoucod on every hand ; our colleges and schools aro (tiled and tho cultivation of tho hoad and tho heart is kooping paco with tho material development of tho State. To tho end, thorofore, that, wo may, with thankful hearts show our apprecia tion of tho many blossings which wo en joy and tho tondor caro of our Heavenly Pathor, I, M. H. McSweonoy, Governor of tho Stato of South Carolina, in conform ity with tho proclamation of tho PrcsD dent of the Unitod Statos, do horoby ap point and Bot apart Thursday, tho 2l)th day of Novembor, 1000, aB a day of thanksgiving and prayer to bo kopt and observed by all tho pooplo of this State. 1 advise that all public offices bo closed and all private business and labor of every kind cease, and that our pooplo as semble in tboir respectivo places of wor ship and givo thanks to Him who is tho giver of ovcry good and poi feet gift for tho bood timo and tho harvest, and that they beseoch Him in humility to con tinuo His goodness and gracious forbear ance. That they also remember tho poor and tho fatherless, for wo aro told that it is moro blessed to givo than to rocoivc, and every gift to these will go to our credit in tho groat book of romombranco. In testimony whereof 1 have horouuto set my hand and caused tho groat seal of tho Stato of South Carolina to bo affixed. Dono at tho Capitol, in tho city of Columbia, this 10th day of Novembor, A. D. 1000. M. It. MCSWKUNKY. Hy tho Governor: M. H. Cooper, Secre tary of Stato. During tho morning Govornor McSweo noy received a message from tho Now York World asking for "ono sentence on the host causo for thanksgiving." Gov ernor McSweenoy thought bard about tho matter and called in somo of his newspaper friends for advice Ono of them suggested this roply : "I havo boon re-elected OoVorhoT of South Carolina." Another suggostod, "Plenty of home raised hog and hominy in South Caro lina," but all of these pleasant Hes woro turned asido ami Govornor McSwocnoy sent, thc World this roply: " Poaco, pros por I ty and good fooling throughout tho country." When Govornor Mcsweeney dictated tho reply ho said ho thought moro of bis homo Stato than any other, and that such was tho condition in tho Pal motto Stato. -Columbia Corrospondonce Nows and Courier, November 10. Dewitt's Little Karly Hitters aro tho best liver pills over made. Knsy to tako and never gripe. J, W. Holl, Leprosy's Sproad in tho East. Mr. Stapleton, writing to the Tem ple (London) Magazine on mission work among lepers, makes tho fol lowing appalling statements: "India lias about half a million, ('bina probably as many and Japan 200,000 registered oases of leprosy. Tho moment leprosy appears in a man, woman or child banishment ia irrevocably decreed. There is no pity or compassion, for lepers, young or old, are turtled adrift as unclean things on tho highways and byways and are dependent for substance on the casual doles of food thrown to them. In India the leper loses caste which is regarded tho worst doom. In Japan ho is treated with the greatest cruelty. Tho same is true in China, Tho lisper thero is often put to death by lire without com punction, and religion has not a ray of hope for him in tho next world. ~* . *- - f?en. C. I. Walker is figuring on ORtnh Halting a largo printing and bookbinding house in Greenwood-ono Bindiar to that of Walker, Kvans and Cogswell, ? f Char leston. ? AND C? jhe following : dium priced Jackets hildren's Reefers at iplete, and the pricei i and see what I cai nd Carpet Furnishin o. w. : Narry Another Rcpresontativo for Us. Director of the Census Merriam ha? called the attention of tho Presi dent to tlio fact that the figures on tho population of tho United States, tho total of which has been an nounced, aro in such shape that they will bo at tho disposal of Congress when it meets for any action it may desire to tako in tho direction of a reapportionment bill. The reappor tionment following the count of the twelfth census will become operative by law in 1903. Starting; with a ratio of 1 to every 30,000 inhabitants, there were C5 Representatives in the 1st Congress. This ratio under the tenth census reached 101,011, giving a House ot Representatives with 325 members. The eleventh census in 1800 gave a population of 02,622,260, or an increase of 12,500,000. With this the ratbp was increased to 173, 901 people to each Representative, and at this ratio the House numbered 350, an increase of ?1 members. Tho latio under tho new census will probably reach '200,000. With an increaso of 14,225,404 shown by the present census, and letting majority fractions of tho apportionment ac count for an additional number, as has been thc custom, this would make an increase of 18 members in tho next House. Reapportionment on this basis would leave but four States that would lose Representa tives. They aro Maine and Virginia in the East, and Kansas and Arkan sas in tl?e West. They would lose ono member each. Any ratio smaller than 200,000, which would save them their full representation, would, it is thought, mako an un wield ly addition to tho membership of the House. NO CUT INT RKPBKSKNTATION. Senator Martin, of Virginia, has expressed the opinion that no at tempt will be made at tho coming session of Congress to reduce the representation of the South. "Wo have too much business on hand," ho said, "to leave any timo for work ing out party spite. The sentiment against reduction is as pronounced in the North as in the .South." -.- -f .-. Does lt Pay to Jtuy Cheap ! A cheap remedy for cough; .md colds is all right, hut you want something that will rolicvo and cure tho more so vere and dangerous results of throat and lung troubles. What shall you do? (lo toa wanner and moro regular eli mate? Yes if possible; if not possible for you, then in either case take tho ONLY remedy that bas boon introduced in all civilized countries with siucoss in aovoro throat and lung troubles, "Ho.schcc's dorman Syrup." It not only heals and st i mu latea tho tissuos to destroy the germ disoaso, but allays inflammation, causes easy expectoration, gives a good night's rest, and cures tho pationt. Try ONI bottlo. Recommended many years bj all druggists in tho world. For salo by J. II. Darby, Walhalla. Broastplato Caso Settled. There will be peace in Marion county, and thc famous "breastplate" caBO is disposed of anti laid away on tho shelf where other war furniture* of that pattern belong. That tin actual steel housings used by J Dudley Haselden will adorn his an OOStra) home and be pointed to with prido by his descendants in the misty future, is another question. Tho Ilascldens anil tho Seller have so many relatives in Marion county, most of whom are very woi thy people, that it wa? considere* tho part of wisdom to settle tho mat ter out of court without stirring u bad blood. It was generally believe that the antagonism caused by con fliet of testimony and the bringing out of tho story about tho stet breastplate that saved Dud loy Ha selden's lifo would rc ut in anothc shooting scrape. Tho Attorney (?enera! was called to .Marion to prosecute the case because ttolieitoi .Johnson was related to thc defend ants. On the presentation m ado b leading citizens of Marion, Mr. [ic linger decided to withdraw the prose cution. His desire to do this wt strengthed by having a paper pr* aoiited, signed by all the participants On both sides of the ease. In th they agreed each to select a friend to arrange an honorable settlement of their differences ; these two re) rcsentatives were empowered to se loot a third man, if needed, and tin Haseldens and the Sellers bound themselves on their honor lo abb by their ac'ion. Thoro is no pleasuro in lifo if you droad going to tho tab!? to eat and can rest at night on account of indigestion Henry Williams, of UoiinvillO, Ind., says bo suffered that way for yours, till IK commenced tho uso of Kodol Dyspopsi ('uro, and adds: "Now I can oat any thing I like and all I want and slo soundly ovory night." Kodol Dyspe sia Onie will digest what you eat. .). W. Hell. - - ? -?.?*- ? ? In tho general election in Charleston (lov. McSweenoy received 1,7(1! votes, sovon moro than rocoivod hy any other ' Stato or county candidato. ; and Capes. Ask . $ X. 3 will surprise you. i carpet your room Lg Business. Gom BAUKNIGHT. Boat Plows Through a Mass ol Corpses. London, November 13.-Tho Globe this afternoon publishes a letter from a Belgian gentleman who has been traveling to Pekin via the trans-Si berian railroad. Ile describes, nuder dato of September 6, what he saw in tho Amur river. His account surpasses in horror those previously published. "Thc scenes I have witnessed dur ing tho three days since the steamer left Blagovetcensk," he says, "are horrible beyond tho power of de scription. It is tho closing tableaux of a fearful human tragedy. TvVo thousand were deliberately drowned at Morxo, 2,000 at Habe and 8,000 around Blagovotchcnsk, a total of 12,000 corpses encumbering the river, among which were thousands of women and children. Navigation was all but impossible. "Last week a boat had to plow her way through a tangled and mangled mass ot corpse lashed together by their long hair. Thc banks were literally covered with corpses. In thc curves of tho stream were dark, putrid, smelling masses of human ilesh and bone, surging and swaying in tho steamer's wako and wash. Thc captain vainly ordered full speed ahead. Thc sight and smell will be ever with us. "From Blagovetchensk to Aigun, 45 kilometers, numerous villages studded the bank, with a thriving, industrious population of over 100, 000. That of Aigun was 20,000. No one will ever know the number of those who perished by shot, sword and stream. Not a village is left. Thc silence of death was around us, thc smoking ruins of Aigun on thc right, with broken down, crumb ling walls and shattered, rootless houses." When you want prompt acting little pills that never gripe uso DoWitt's Little Karly Risers. J. W. Roll. Woman Assaulted by a Negro Burglar. Chicago November 13.-A negro burglar forced his way to the apart ments of Mrs. Orrin W. Potter, wife of thc millionaire steel man and banker, in her home, 130 Lake Shore drive, shortly after 1 o'clock this morning and when discovered in the act of applying a sponge saturated with chloroform to the nostrils of his victim, struck her a fierce blow on the head with a slungshot. Thc shock of the blow rendered Mrs. Potter unconscious and the doctors who were called fear that she may not recover. Boforo the blow was struck Mrs. Potter gave a shrill scream for help. Her daughters were awakened and summoned the police. The robber escaped without securing any booty. Shortly after thc doctor arrived Mrs. Potter revived long enough to give a description of her assailant, but again lost consciousness. She said sue thought the man was wear ing a mask ami he looked like negro. Ile was about 30 years old ami well dressed. Had not Mrs. Potter been awak ened by the robber it is thought ho would have succeeded in securing many thousands of dollars worth of jewelry. Her room is away from those of the other members of the family and it is thought he would have been able to work unmolested. CURES WHERE Alf EISE FAILS. fil Host COUKII Syrup. Tmiteft Uood. UM f?? In tinto. Sol.l tiy (IriiKKlstt. fl CONSUMPTION Largo Profit in Tobacco Growing. "Mrs. J. IO. Brockington, of King? stree, S. C., says thc Florence Times, "planted ten acres in tobacco thu year, and when she had the first bar graded sho wrote to Mr. Ii, C. Com mander, of the Florence warehouse, to come up and look at the crop and asked him to take the crop for $1,000. I le ad vised her to grade and ship it to him and he would send he: over $1,000 for it. Up to date Com mander it Jackson have sent her check for $1,425 and she still has about 3,000 pounds on hand. She sold 1,782 pounds to-day for $339, about 10 cents average." Nearly $1,500 for a ten-acre crop and mort yet to come. How many cotton farmers in tho State can match Mn Brnckington's record ? - - . -1 A special to the State from Barn well mentions a rather peculiar se ries of cases in which inanslaycrs, though acquitted, died a* the hands of men. James Bolen, who killed . mc Merritt ami was acquitted, was killed by H. B. Carroll. Carroll was acquitted and was in turn killed by I). I*. Johnson. Kow Johnson has been acquitted, and it remains to be seen whether bb shall die in his bed or in his boots. EXPANSION DID IT. Hero lt an Earnest, Eloquent Analysis of the Republican Victory. 1 make bold to diffor with tho our rent Democratic estimate of the cause of Tuesday's tragedy of bal lots. I think that the ghost of freo sil- 1 vcr struok less terror to the soul of suffrage than tho living issue of giv- 1 ing up what our arms and blood have wo*u in tho Pacifie seas. 1 I believo that Tuesday's ballot was 1 an expansion victory, and tho re- ' suit solidifies my conviction that tho 1 sentiment of this country is over- ' whelmingly for expansion. Silver iu this campaign was a 1 shadowy ghost that revisited the po- 1 litical battlefield only during the palo glimpses of tho moon. It had ' no terrors and it scared no votes. Tho vital, breathing, present is sue-tho paramount issue if you will-was tho commerce of China 1 and tho Pacific ocean, and tho trade 1 winds blew the ballots in a storm to- 1 wards tho party that stood for these ' colossal facts. 1 This is a commercial ago-moro's ' tho pity. The dominant thought of : the world is trade and accumulation. 1 Moral ideas mako scant headway 1 against vast and commercial inter ests. And when tho moral ideas aro ! challangcd hy the missionary fervor 1 of both liberty and religion, and tho 1 commercial interests are patent and towering, tho result of tho poll bat tle ouglit nover to havo been in doubt. It is easy to seo this now as ; it is all over. It should have been ? clear before. ? J do not think that tire Kepubli- : can majority, groat as it ?B, fully illustrates the strength of tho ex pansion sentiment. Thousands of expansionist!*-and I am ono of them-followed tho 1 Hag of Democracy for the issues that it carried which seemed greater and deeper than any commercial j consideration. The normal Democratic majority < in Georgia is about 05,000. The re- 1 turns this morning indicate about i ?10,000 majority. Tho '25,00v- silent voters in my judgment, aro ex- i pensionista. And behind these arc some 25,000 other votes that would follow the tlag to tho Kast, if they 1 could go without treason to Democ racy. I believe that the thinking South is for expansion. There is every material reason why it should be. No section of the Republic has so great a commercial stake in tho trade of the East. We have been war-wasted and poor. While the East ern and Middle States have rioted for half a century in prosperity, we have travailed in the struggle for re cuperation from poverty and desola tion. To our staple and material pro ducts the open markets of China and the Pacific islands make the indus trial light in the East. They shine with golden promise to our farms and factories and mines. More than this. Tho establish ment of our national power and in fluence in these Pacifio seas is tho only possible guarantee which tho futuro holds for the completion of the Nicaraguan canal. That great enterprise has been for '20 years the plaything of lobbyists in the Houses of Congress. Tho American flag in the Philippines makes its completion imperative and sure. And when that im pe lal waterway links the two imperial oceans of the world, these Guli and Southeastern States become the geographical cen ter of thc world's commerce-with all the measureless impetus which that tremendous fact will give to her seaport cities and to her inland trade. What people, thou, have so vast au interest in tho "flag in the East," as wc have, and if materialism he tho god of this age, is it any wonder that votaries should follow in thousands whore his mercenary banner leads? Mark you, I do not say that the South is in favor of imperialism as Air. Bryan defines it. There is no endorsement herc of colonies of slaves and of pro-consuls enriched with spoils. All the instinct and traditions of Cowpens and King's Mountain would rebel at that. Hut there was somehow the per vading hope that the McKinley policy, in its fuller evolution, wouid conserve all these Republican ideals, and on thc other hand, thc pervad ing apprehension that Bryan in his strenuous zeal for liberty, might loose the substance whilo he bound tho shndow. Since, then, tho policy which wraps our highest interests has won -without co-operation or consent it is high time that the business South should speak its mind to thoso who represent it in tho national legisla ture. We are free now from thc immediate fealty to party which bound our tongues. Our political cairne has been staked and lost. Wo arc at liberty to find ourselves among new conditions. Thc way of our material welfare is plain. Lot ns summon our public servants to help us "work thc road." Let us make basti; to "make friends to ourselves of the mammon ol' unrighteousness, that when wc die they may receive us into everlasting habitation." For Bryan and his groat battle there is increasing love and admira tion. No cause in tho republic has had an abler or a nobler leader than the cause and thc man just fallen by the ballot. Timo will vindicate the cause and tho man who fought its battles. Somewhere, somehow, at somo time ho will riso again. To me his worth is undiminished, his prestige all unbrokon. Ile is tho last tribuno of tho com mon people, and ho is grandor and dearer in defoat than he would havo boon in viotory.-Hon. John Temple Graves, in Atlanta Nows. -?? King Cotton's Latest. It has boen discovered that cotton seed hull? moko a superior paper and this, if correct, will add another lau rel loaf to thc crown of King Cotton. But this ia not all. Hero COUICB Pro fessor Thomas, of New Orleans, who alaims, with apparent certainty, that bo has, as a chemical expert, discov ared a method whoreby cotton seed oil can supplant or successfully com peto with linseed oil. As over #250, 1)00,000 worth of linseed oil is con sumed in this country annually, tho importance of this discovery may bo easily understood. The hist process of Prof. Thomas was to remove Ibo gum from the oil. This ho accomplished, but tho oil, uven in that condition, would not tlry. This difficulty was finally over come and now wo are on the evo of having a cheap substitute for linseed oil, which soils for 76 cents a gallon ordinarily and lias reached at times nearly ono dollar. Experiments made by painters with Prof. Thomas' oil have demonstrated its superiority to tho linseed oil in common uso by painters. This must prove of inter est to cotton oil men, and they may put themselves in communication with Prof. Thomas. Meanwhile old King Cotton finds himself moro and moro of a monarch. At one period, ho was supposed to have been dethroned, but his triumph is all the greater for a little down fall. Long live, tho King 1 How's* Tills 1 Wo oiTor Ono Hundred Dollar? Howard for any caso of catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Curo. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. Wo, tho undersigned] havo known F. J. Cheney for tho last 15 years, and bo liovo Him porfectly bonorablo in all busi ness transactions and (iuancially able to carry out any obligations made by their linn. Wost & Truax, Wbolcsalo Druggist?, Toledo, O. Wabling, Rinnan & Marvin, Wbolc salo Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon tho blood and mucous surfaces of tho systom. Price, 7?)C per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials freo. Hall's Family Pills aro tho best. Stato Hospital for tho Insane. There is one public institution in | South Carolina that is well patron ized-thc State Hospital for the In Bane. The daily average attendance, if wc should so speak, last year was barely over 1,000, but this year the average will bo over 1,010 a day. Mr. August Kohn says in tho News and Courier that the records "show that the great increase has been since 1870. This is accounted for first by the large increase in thc negro population of thc hospital for the insane until 1870 the coun ties had to pay the expenses of pa tientB Bout to the hospital, whereas, now tho Stato hears thc expenses directly and the county authorities feel very m neb freer to unload pa tients on the State, and they send patients on there who ought to lie kept at homo or in tho poor house, if no other place can be provided, Tlie problem of housing all of these patients is becoming quite serious and the State will have to take care of the situation soon and provide qu ar tors instead of building here and there to meet present needs. It has only been by close economy and scrupulous caro of every cent, that Dr. Babcock and the board of regents have been able to come out anything liko even at the end of each year with the appropriations made.-An derson Daily Mail. You can't afford to risk your lifo i.y allowing a cough or a cold to develop into pneumonia or consumption. Ono Minuto Cough Cure will euro throat and lung troubles quicker than any other preparation known. Many doctors uso it as a specific for grippe. It is an in fallible romodyior croup. Children liko it and mothors ondorso it. J. W. Roll, -~* # ?. -- Codifying tho Laws. Hon. J. E. Brea/.eale, State, code commissioner, is now and has been for some time busily engaged in compiling the State's laws. Ho ex pects to have his work completed and in tho hands of the printers in ample time for tho whole to be sub mitted to tho next General Assembly, which will bc called upon to pass upon it. This work is not only ar duous and tedious, but it requires great care. Mr. Brea/.eale's knowl odgo of tho law and his experience as a legislator, as well as his familiar ity with such work, is sufiioiont to instiro an accurate and satisfactory codification of thc multitudinous acts of our legislative bodies.-Anderson Daily Mail. -_4 ? -, Save Your Money. One box of Tutt's Pills will save many dollars in doctors' bills They willsurely cure all diseases oftbe stomacb, liver or bowels. No Reckless Assertion For sick headache, dyspepsia, malaria, constipation and bilio usness, a million people endorse TUTT'S Liver PILLS - ~* . ?~ The powers insist that they must seo tho Chincso officials who lead in tho Boxer movement at tho gold leaf, which is tho means that the princes of that country tako to entci eternal lifo. Dead Men's Feasts. Among tho thousands of bodies smolder, og in tho pottor's field of] this city there is not one of a China man. So jealous aro tho local Celes tials of tho hereafter that they permit I no dead follow to go to his rest in ' disgrace. Thoro is something of sel fishness in this, as well ns altruism, I for each feels that with his love for | gambling, and tho consequent uncer tainty of fortune, he himself may dio without money, and that if any ono is allowed to go to the pottor's field it may he himself. A Chinaman will die in peace if he haB tho assuranco that his bones will ono day reBt in tho homo land. This eagerness to go homo even in tho bone ?B at tho bottom of all thc chari table work of tho six companies. That none may feel that bia body isl tho object of charity, the companies take caro of all, whotl) ?r rich or poor, and thc aamo formalities aro gono through with whatever the fortune of tho dead man may be. , New York Chinamen aro buried in Greenwood or in Cypress Hill. In each of these cemeteries a plot is Bet | aside for thom. In Greenwood tho plot is of perhaps an acre in extent. It is fenced witli iron. As ono en ters thc gate he comes upon a large I marble slab some livo feet high. It j bcarB thc names in Chinese charac ters of the three societies that main tain tho grounds. It is Hanked with littlo marble stones, a foot tall and eight inches wide, each at tho head of a grave, and each bearing the name, age and date of death of a de parted Celestial. Most of the stones bear other inscriptions that tell brielly some pathetic incident in the I lifo of the person WIIOBC body lies] below. All the stones, and especially the big one, are stained with the smoke of incense and with the grease of thousands of roasted chickens and pigs that have been left there to feed tho souls of the dead in their long journey to tho land of the hereafter These souls may linger about the front gato of Paradise, even if they arrive from New York, hut they may not enter until they satisfy the gate man that their bones are in China. New York Mail and Kxpress. Pain back of your eyes? Heavy pressure 'n your head? And are ?ou sc .times faint and dizzy? s your tongue coated? Bad taste in your mouth? And docs your food distress you? Arc you nervous and Irritable? Do you often have the blues? And are you troubled about sleeping? Then yourliver is all wrong. Butthere is acure. 'Tis Pill? They act directly on thc liver. They cure constipation, bilious ness, sick headache, nausea, and dyspepsia. For 60 years they lifivc been the Standard Family Pills. Prk? 25 cents. All Druggist*. " I havo taken Ayor'a Pills regularly for ?tx months. Thoy liavo eurea mo ??f a 8ovoro headache,and I can now walk from two to four miles wit lion t K''t t Inf; tired or out of breath, something Iliavo not buen alilo to do for many yeitrfl." Si K, WAI.wornt, I .Inly 13, 1800. Salem, Mass. I Tho Orphans' Day. Thursday, November 20th, is the orphans'day ! Give, brother, with all your heart, because thc Lord has blessed you. There are plenty of orphanages to remember, help your own, and then remember Unit there aro two hundred orphans at tho Thornwoll Orphanage, Clinton, S. C., drawn from every Southern State and somo Northern, and oven from "thc isles of tho sea." They are from many denominations of Chris tians as well as from non-Christian parentage. Bot eft of parents, they are alone in the wicked world, for gotten, perhaps, in the localities from which they came, but loved and cared for and trained for future use fulness by faithful teachers and ma trons. Taught a trade, and given mental training as well, they leave their orphan homo to care for them selves. Send your spare gifts to the Thornwoll Orphanage, Clinton, S. C. - -- If you want the best Hour in this conn try buy Roxane, highest patent and Raker's Choice fancy patent, and you will kcop poaeo in your family. .J. iv J, S (Carter, Westminster, S. C." Profils'Ol tho Disponsary. Columbia, S. C., November 1(>. The official report of tho legislative examining committee as to the con dition and operation of the State Dispensary for tho quarter ending August Hist, has been filed with the Governor. The committee speaks highly of the new management and tho system employed. The assets wore $626,829, including among tho main items $142,608 cash in bank ! $100,080 stock on hand in the State Dispensary ; $210,141 merchandise in hands of county dispensers. Kx penscB ami losses were $65,647 ; gross profits $87,272. Some inquiry is made as to what Senator Tillman's pitchfork did for Bryan, One thing certain, a pitch fork is not worth a continental against such a landslide as that of the Otb of Novemhor. A Horriblo Crimo. John Tindall King, n white man about forty-fivo years of ago, of An derson county, living near Piedmont, wa? arrested inst week and lodged in jail, charged with tho horriblo orimo of incest and assault with intent to ravish. Tho crime waa committed with his sixteen-year-old daughter. Ho practically admits his guilt and says whiskey did it. His family connections aro among the promi nent people in Anderson county. Thoro was much indignation among King's neighbors and lynching was discussed without excitement, but it was finally decided to let tho law take its co MSO. Wo aro now receiving ono of tho largest and host selected stock of dry goods, dress goods, shoes, hats, clothing, bard ware, crockery, glassware ami grocorios. Como and got bargains. J. & J, ?5. Car tor, Westminster, ?3. C. ----* ? -? Ono Brothor-in-Law Kills tho Other. Houston Joyner, of Kastovor, has delivered himself to tho sheriff of Richland county. Ile shot and killed Wash Hodges at Eastover, S. C., ono morning last week. Tho mon arc brothers-in-law and had blood had existed between tho two for some time. Short Notos. The anti-Sunday funeral question is being warmly agitat3d in Louis ville, Ky. Two counties in Georgia went Re publican. Tho South is not so solid after all. There ?B a report in circulation that Bryan will turn Presbyterian preacher. In a light in a church yard at Clifton, S. C., on November 11th, Pasco Bradley was killed and Thomas Gibson wounded. Tho row caused great excitement. The Chief of tho Naval Bureau says that this country needs a great many more men to man the ships. Wo have good ships, but aro Bhort on men to run them. As an evidence of prosperity in the country the attention of thc peo ple is called to the fact that Stand ard Oil stock has advanced several points since the election. President McKinley has commuted to life imprisonment the sentence of J. M. Hanson, an Alaskan Indian, condemned to death for the murder of Hurt and Florence Morton. Fire totally destroyed tito plant of the Appleton Manufacturing com pany of Geneva 111., on November 15. Loss, $(260,000, Thc company manu factured farming machinery. According to despatches from Se bastopol tho C/ar of Russia's illness is due to poisoning. The report says Nihilists obtained access to thc im perial kitchen and mixed poison with Iiis food. The machinery in thc new Samp son mill of tireen ville is about all placed. Tho smokestack will bo completed in a couple of weeks. Then 10,000 moro spindles will ho humming in the suburbs of Green ville. lion. Soaborn Wright, avery ablo and consistent leader of the temper ance movement in Georgia, has intro duced into the Legislature of his State a bill providing for a State Dispensary law similar to that now in force in South Carolina. ll. It. II. Alb-rt Edward, Prince of Wales, at thc request of tho no ble Queen, his mother, has consented to set his face against thc docking of horses' tails. Groat is the influence of royalty ! It can be mado to servo a good purpose at times. N John Scaley, treasurer of thc Gal veston, Texas, relict fund, makes the following statement : Donations re ceived from October '25th to Novem ber Kith, $118,861, of which $6,771 was received through Mayor Jones. Previously acknowledged, $1,110, 808 ; total to date, $1,158,719. All the church folk of Richmond, Va., are interested in tho decision of a Jewish and Baptist congregation there to celebrate Thanksgiving Day by a joint service. Some time ago the Grov? Avenue Baptist church, one of tho most costly churches in Richmond, was destroyed by lire. Many offers of places in which to meet were tendered the congregation, and it was decided to accept tho offer of Beth Aliaba congregation there. The Jewish congregation in vited the Baptists to meet with them on Thanksgiving Day and the offer has been accepted. No creed will be knowi. al this joint service. Postumster General Emory Smith has framed his estimates to be sub mitted to Congress and will ask an aggregate of about $121,000,000 as thc appropriation for the entire ser vice for tho liscal year ending Juno :io, 1002. This includes an estimate of $8,600,000 for tho rural delivery service. By the close of thc fiscal year 4,800 rural delivery routes throughout the United States will hilve been established, and the gene ral extension contemplated for next year will involve about 4,500 addi tional routes. both makers and circulators of coun terfeits commit fraud. Honest mon will not deceivo you into buying worthless eotintorfoits Of DoWitt's Witch lla/.ol Salve. Tho original is infallible for cur ing piles, injuries, COZOlha and skin dis eases. J. W. Holl. Tho appropriation for rural freo deliv ery mail service, which tho Hostmastor Honorai will ask from Congres? for tho next liscal year, will ho upward of ton and a half million dollars, as it is pro posed to extend tho service to all parts of tho country.