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BY ?TAYNES, SHELOK, SMITH & STECK. ?!uW': ,", '.U ,7 " ' ! -- " ' -- TO THINS OWN SELF BK TRUE AND IT MD ST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU OANB'T NOT THEN BB Hf A l?SR TO ANY ?CAN. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, JAN. 2, 1901. NEW BBRIES, NO. 1M.-VOIiU?IH ML-NO. 1. Sold JSxcli "W . B Al Walli all The Bright Retrospect of an Oconeo Man. The Columbia State of Sunday, December 23, contained the follow ing regarding Col. Robt. A. Thomp son, Oooneo's senior member in the House of Representatives : "There was in the oity this week a man who, for many reasons, is the moat remarkable member of the re cently eleoted General Assembly. Col, R. A. Thompson, of Walhalla, will bo the oldest member of the House, so far as oan be learned. In faot there will bo a remarkably large number of vory young mon in the house this time. "Another distinotion whioh Col. Thompson will have is that ho is the only member of tho House, and one of the half dozen living men, who oan wak up to the marble tablet in Ibo State House, commemorating the j signing of the Ordinance of Seces sion, and say 4My name is written there.* "It was just 40 years ago this month that the Convention of Seces sion met in Columbia-just 40 years last Thursday since the ordinance was ratified and South Carolina struck boldly for independence. Col. Thompson was the next youngest man in that convention. Hon. R. C. Logan, of Clarendon, who died last year, was the youngest. Tho other survivors of that immortal con vention aro : Henry Molver, Chief Justice State Supreme Court ; Jas. H. Carlisle, D. D., President of Wof ford Collego ; Col. J. D. Pope, Dean of the Law Department South Caro lina Collego ; Chancellor Wm. D. Johnson, of Marlboro, who, with Inglis, Wardlaw and Carroll, sat] upon the chancery benoh ; Rev. Wm. H. Campbell, D. D., of Asheville, N. C., artd Capt. John H. Kinslor, of Lover, this county, who took a Rich land company to the war. Tho con vention was composed of mon of mature agc, and as that was 40 years ago, all but these few have passed away. Those who havo died since the memorial tablet in the S tato j House was erected two yoars ago, aro Hon. R. C. Logan, of Clarendon ; Wm. Porohor Miles, of Louisiana, former President of South Carolina College, and Leonidas W. Spratt, of Jacksonville, Fla. "Col. Thompson has still another distinction, he has been in the news paper business nearly half a century; A few years ago ho retired, but for 46 years ho was editor of Tho Koo wee Courier, ono of tho most repre sentativo county papers in South Carolina. It must be the mountain air of beautiful Walhalla that keeps him so halo and keeps his intellect so young and vigorous-for tho Colonel ls a Presbyterian older and repro sents a prohibition county. "Col. Thompson was looking around for a plaoe to stop during the Legislature. Ho said ho hoped ho would not be forced into the predica ment (then custom) of Col. William Sloan and otbor legislators from Old Pendleton District before tho war. They carno to Columbia through the country with a retinue of servants and camped out in tho northorn suburbs of the oity-in Cottontown. Here in their tented quarters they fpent the time, enjoying life to the fullest. (Note.-Wouldn't tho oily jBt?satimjtztt? ?sively t>y. J BC N 1 G- M T * a., S. O. tongued lobbyist of to-day be dis comfited if he had to approach a leg islator in a tent, where whisperings would bo unseemly and where se orots would be found out ?) "In commenting upon Columbia, the development of the hotel busi ness and the miraole of great publio carriers flying from Walhalla to Charleston in a day, in commenting upon these vast changes, Col. Thomp son said that the first visit he ever made to Columbia was via stage coach from Laurens. The route lay through Newberry and Lexington 'counties and the approach to tho oity was over Broad river bridge, whore it now is, two miles above town. Tho stage stopped at an inn just about where tho post office now is. This inn was a two-story franje affair with about a dozen roo mn, and kept by a man named Caldwell. "Those were the days when tho planters who raised tobacco resorted to a curious expedient to get their cropvto market. They would pack the tobacco in hugo tierces or casks, strongly bound and mounted upon an axlo. A tongue would be attached and tho farmer, riding astride thc lead horse, would drive his barrel wngon to market, sometimes 250 miles. There he would sell tobacco, barrel and all, unhitch his team and ride back homo." --?.? When tho stomach is tired out it must have a rest, but wo can't live without food. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure "digests what you oat" so that you can eat all tho good food you want wliile it is restoring tho digestivo organs to health. It is tho only preparation that digests all kinds of food. J. W. Boll. New York Hotels. The two famous Mills hotels in Now York, ono costing $500,000, tho mother $1,000,000, aro making money, although they ohargo only 20 conts a day ior lodging, bath and use of ! office. Meals aro 16- cen'ts each and they are good and abundant. The cost per day is only 05 conts. Tho Waldorf-Astoria cost $12,000,000, and is said to bo tho finest hotel in tho world. They also mako money. In it thoro aro 40 large, finely fur nished public rooms and about 1,1100 chambers. They employ 1,400 ser vants, or about one for each guest. A millionaire has a'suite of rooms in the building whioh, with meals served in his private dining room, cost $200 daily. So it seems that ono may livo well kt 05 conta a day at tho Mills hotels, or ho nay pay $50 to 100 a day at tho Waldorf-Astoria, if ho desires. A TEXAS WONDER. Hall's ta-cat Discovery for Kidney and Bladder Trouble. Ono small bottle of Hali's Qreat Dis covery cures all kidney and bladder trou bles, removes gravel, oures diabetes, seminal omissions, weak and lame backs, rheumatism and all irregularities of the kidneys and bladder in both mon and women. Regulates bladder troubles in ohildren. If not sold by your druggist, will be sont by mail on receipt of $1.00. Ono small bottle is two months' treat ment, and will eure any oase above men turned. Dr. E. W. Hall, sole manufac turer, P. O. Box 020, St. Louis, Mo. Send for testimonials. Sold by all druggists._ St. Louis, February 27, 10OO.~-Thle is to cortlfy that I have used ono bottle of Tho Texas Wonder, Hall's Great Discov ery, for kidney and rheumatic troubles, 'and cheerfully recommend it to others. Mrs. M. Rortoll, 9,080 Olive street, STOLE HER OWN 80N. WK? ol Samuel Miller, Son ol Former United States Attorney General, Plays Kidnapper. Indianapolis, Ind., December 27, Mrs. Samuel Miller, wife of the son of the Ex-United States Attorney General, who caused a sensation here yesterday by kidnapping her son, Sidney Miller, aged seven, was looated by reporters at 8 a. m. to-day at Lawrence, Ind. At that hour Mr. Miller was trying to prov?nt her leav ing on the 4.25 a. m. Big Four east bound train. Five years ago Samuel Miller and wifo, with their son, moved to New York and lived in the fashionable apartment house, Rutland, near Cen tral Park. The oouplo finally sepa rated, Miller returning to Indianapolis with the boy. The other desired possession of the child and seoured him yesterday. She drove to Law renoo, an outlying station, to take the train. Thorn she was found this morning, the boy recovered and and brought baok to the home of his grandfather, W. H. II. Miller. The most effect!vo little livor pills made are DeWitt's Little Early Risers. Thoy never gripe J. W. Boll. The Phosphate Royalty. Colonel Yance, phosphate commis sioner, is preparing his report for presentation to the Legislature. The royalty this year will not be as great as last on account of the shut-down of the three largest con sumers of Carolina Rook. Last year at this time there was on hand only 18,000 tons of rook, while this yoar there is at least 70,000 tons left. It is almost impossible for the rainers to get vessels for shipment of the rook, and as a result the royalty this year *will be about $25,000 compared with $80,000 last year. Had all the rook mined been consumed tho roy alty would have exceeded that of last year by several thousand dollars. The conditions will bo greatly im proved, however, the first of noxt year by the opening up of one mill in Port Royal and two in Savannah. The royalty derived from phosphate goes to the payment of the State publio debt. There is plenty of rock on hand for foreign markets, but freight rates have boen so high ship ments have been greatly reduoed. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, I LUCAS COUNTY, J HH< Frank J. Cheney makes oath that ho is tho senior partner of the Arm of F. J. Cheney ?fe Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said Arm will pay tho sum of Ono Hundred Dollars for oaoh and every casu of Catarrh that cannot be ourod by tho uso of Hall's Catarrh Curo. FUANK J. Cn ENE Y. Sworn to before mo and subscribed in my presence, this 0th day of Docombor, D. 1880. j A. W. GLEASON, I -~ * Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and act? directly on the blood and mu cous surfaces of tho system. Sond for testimonials, froe. F. J. CHENEY ?fe Co., Tolodo, O. Sold by Druggists, 7f>o. Hall's Family Pills aro tho best. - A Remarkable Case. The oaso of A. J. Dont, a young man formerly of this oity, is a sad one, though it possesses some remark able features. Ho is addicted to the morphine, cocaine, whiskoy and ciga rette habits to an extent that is won derful oven to the.medical profession. It is asserted that he takes 10 grains of morphine, 100 grains of cooaine, 1? pints of whiskey, 1.75 grains of atropine and 100 oigaruttos daily. His mind is little affected, but he roalir.es himself that ho must be ourcd or death will soon claim him. He is a son of the lato Sheriff Dent. His own story is that in 1805 he was injured in a wreok on tho Texas and Paoifio railroad, in Texas, and had 13 ribs broken, his heart knocked five and one-half inches out of place, one arm broken, and his palate and throat torn open. He lay in a hos pital for two or three months under opiates, and it was thus that ho con tracted tho terrible habit. Ile has a wife and two ohildron and made his way baok to his former home penni less. Some of his friends are sub scribing tc a fund to give him the Keely treatment, and arrangements will doubtless bu made to oare for his wife and ohildron in the mean time,-Columbia Record. Fatal Brawl In Kentucky. A Middlesboro, Ky., dispatch says that Frank Davis, "Buok" Chadwoll, Ktttopp Morgan and Riohard Davis quarreled at a dance at Walnut Hills, fifteen miles from here, and apitohed battle ensued. Fifty shots were fired. Frank Davis was killed, Mor gan and Diok Davie were wounded mortally and Chadwell was wounded slightly. A White Man Marred ? Nogro83. The Atlanta Journal, December 27, says: Within two hours after they were married Charles Johnson, a white maq thirty years of age, and Eleanor Moody, a bright mulatto woman nineteen years of age, occu pied cells at p?lice barracks, having been arrested by Officer Harper, of tho union depot just as they were preparing to leave the city for Cuba, whore tboy wore intending td* live. Both of tbe people say they are from Home. Johnson takes his arrest calmly and sayB he has done nothing against the law. He says be prooured a license- and was married by a Justice of the Peaoe on Marietta street in Cook's distriot. The woman says that she married Johnson to be rid of him, as he had made her life a burden for the last six months, insisting on the marriage. She says she is willing to leave him and never see hiin again if she could only be rolen sod. The oharge against both parties is suspicious. The deteotive depart ment was notified to look out for a couple, and this morning when a cabman called on Officer narper and told him that he had hauled a white man and a negro girl in his oab in search of . a preacher that they might bo married, the officer thought this was perhaps the couple the doteotivoa had been notified to look out for, and arrested them. It seems that Johnson and the woman had driven to the home of a colored Presbyterian minister on th? South side, whoso name oanuot be learned, and asked bim to perform tho ceremony. Tho minister, realiz ing the. difference iu race, refused and Johnson Uren ordered the cab man to drive to the office of a Justice of tho Peace. An inquiry at tho Ordinary's office elioted the information that a mar riage li con so for Charles Johnson and Eleanor Moody was issued this morning about ll o'olook. Bailiff, Kemp, of Justice Cook's court-, says that Judge Cook did not perform the ceremony. Notary Publio Shirley, in Cook' j distriot, states that he did not perform tho ceremony. Johnson says he was proprietor of a skating rink in Rome. Bryan Speaks in Lincoln. Tho Jeffersonian club of Lincoln, Nob., tondored William J. Bryan a complimentary banquet last Thurs day night. Bryan, in response to tho toast "Principles Livo," said that wbother or not ho would ever be a candidate for office again was a ques tion which muBt bo determined by events. He would be con Lent to aid in tho triumphs of principles while others enjoyed the honors and bor?' tho responsibilities of publio office "The presidency," he said, "seemed desirable because it would have ena bled him to give offeotive aid to cor tain reforms, but even a second de feat didn't lessen his interests in these reforms. If the Democrats aro successful in reversing present tendencies and bringing the govern ment back to its old foundations they would rejoice." Ile was confi dent the Democrats would ultimately win, "but," he added, "if the trend toward plutocracy oannot bo oheoked it is bettor still that wo should be defeated in a righteous undertaking than that wo should join hands with those who are ignoring the alienable rights of man." Bryan was enthu siastically applauded. Bald Spots Without hel.i, a h nhl spot never grow8 smaller. It keep? spreading, until at last your friends say, " H( 1 (ov bald he is get ting." Not easy to cure an old bald ness, but easy to stop the first thinning, essy to check the first falling out. Ui ness is madCi ised in time, bald wit poe s It stops falling, promotes growth, and takes out all dandruff. It always restores color to faded or gray hair, all the dnrk, rich color of early life. You may depend upon lt every time. It brings hcAlth to the hair. 81.00 a betti*. All frasfbtev " I have med your Hair Vigor and am greatly pleaded Tilth lt. I har? only uaed ono bottle of it, and yet my li*fr has stopped falling out and tia? started to grow again nicely." juuno WITT, Maren '?8,1899. nuns WITT. Canova, S. I)**. Wr?tm tha Unaior. If yon do not obtain alt tba benefit* yon .xpeeted from tbe nie of tbe Vigor, writ? t?*boctvr?boutit. ? 1 * ' A44r??f, Jin. J. O. AVER. ? Lowen, MM*. Subsoribo for the Koowoo Courior, Terracing Undi. The main objeot in torraoing land is to keep the top soil from washing off. When properly laid off they also serve as guides to assist in run ning rows on a level. But torraoing is only a make-shift at last. It is an expediency that should be resorted ? to until a better condition could be eeeurod. There ls level and rolling land enough in the Piedmont for our far mers for>jjieveral generations without plowing up tho steep hillsides just to wash away and fill up the streams and ruin the lowlands, These hill sides, if already cleared, should be e?t in Bermuda graos or permitted to grow up in sedge, old field pines and such bushes as will prevent washing. There ia no torraoing that will save land that is set np on its edge when it is cultivated every year. So it ie only the rolling lands that should be terraced. Very steep hillsides and lands nearly level do not need it. Terraces should be run on a level, The only exoeption is where there ie a sink or low plaoe in the field ; the terrace at that point might inolinc upward and bo moated an inch 01 two higher than the adjacent parts In that oase it is better to make thc bank higher so as to keep the BUrpim water from breaking over. In that way the swag or low place will soor fill up. ? At the end of terrace* where they have an outlet into i ditch or stream, il is well to gi v< just fall enough to draw off verj slowly surplus water when the rain are very heavy. This may preven the breaking of a terraoe by exc?s sive water. Torraoing should al ways be high enough to hold th surplus water. About half the terracing doe more harm than good. A tenan Home'' time ago was asked by a neigh bor why he did not stop a oertai wash that was starting. His repl was : jUIt's not my land ; I don' oare if it does wash away." Man land owners aot in the same waj If torraboB are not watched an kept repairod it is much better nevt to make them. In some fields nearl level wo have observed three tei races when there ought to be oni one and often none at all. We sa ono run about SOO yards right oh dividing ridge not long ago. It r< quircB judgment to lay off terrae* and constant watchfulness to kee them up. Many of the terraces are not lai off on a level. In the old days dow in Mexico the peons could lay c miles of irrigation ditches on a lev without the aid of instruments, so is said. But our farmers cannot te race a ton-aore field oorreotly wit' out a good instrument. There a oheap levels on the market, some which are not satisfactory. < nourse the best instrument is tl oivil engineer's transit properly use and, in the long run, it is the chea est. If the farmer will oarefully | over his fields, looate his terraces any one point, have all his stak ready, an engineer can mark off se eral milos of terraces in a day. Th when th's work is properly done th will. serve as guides for rows, or the farmer wishes to plow up his t< races he can make new ones.paral to the old ones. The triangle ma of two pieoos of light scantling ti will roach 12 to 18 feet will do f work if properly handled. Bear mind that if they aro not prope laid off and thrown up high and ca fully watohed after every hard ra it is better not to terraoe at all Carolina Spartan. - IIolp is nooded at onoo whon a porso lifo is in danger. A neglected cough cold may soon boco mo serious < should bo stopped at once. Ono Min Cough Cure quickly euron coughs 1 oolds and tho wornt oases or oro bronchitis, grippe and other throat 1 lung tronidos. J. W. Bel .-- -i>>? Three Cremated. In tho village of Sigel, Pa., ( house of John H?riger was buri last Thursday, and Mrs. Ilarriger t her two. little (laughtern, aged 1 and seven years, perished. WI Mrs. Ilarriger arose in the morn she discovered the house to bo fire, and oalled hor two sons, > escaped. Mrs. Harrigor ran stairs to where hor children w Blooping, and, catching her th months-old babe in her arms, th it from tho window. It sasl?i no injury. Sho direoted hor at lion to tho two little daughters, < wore overcome by tho fire smoko, and she perished with th At MoClellanville, between C teston and Georgetown, they hav artesian woll whioh is only 08 deep. It is an overflow woll and water is said to bo oxoollent. "MILKED" THE BANK FOR 9750,000. " 1 ? Milk Producer*' A?oolation Touche? Balli more Institution for Huge Sum. Baltimore, Md., Deoombor 28.-? The Old Town Bank, whioh went into the hands of a receiver lato yes terd?y, was surrounded by a orowd fowling for their money until a late hour last night. The bill for a reoelver chargea that Cashier Theodore F. Wilcox, witb otit authority and without the knowl edge of the di roo tor e, allowed the United Milk Producers' Association to draw large sams from the bank. The bank ha? been the depository of many retail merchants, It has boen regarded as a safo institution and tho failure was a surprise. Receiver li. L. Gill gave a bond of $1,500,000, indicating a loss of $760,000. The bank is not national. A run is being made on the Sav ing? Bank of Baltimore, the oldest and moat solid institution bf tho kind in the oity. The depositors will all bo satisfied. A* run is also being maida on the City Savings Bank. These are tho results of tbe failuro of the American National Bank, the Old Town Bank, and the dosing of the Economy Savings Bank. - <?> Slays Threo Men Before Giving Up. John Tiger, a full blood Indian, a ferryman on tho Arkansas river, two miles south of Eufaula, I. T., went to Eufaula with bis wife Christmas afternoon, and, while intoxicated, met L. B. Roper and threatened to kill him. Roper immediately struck Tiger with a board. Tiger went to his buggy and got a Winchester. He oame back to kill Roper, but failed to find him. Garaged, he prooeeded to fire at every ono he saw, shooting Jesse Beok through the hips and k:,,! g him. Ho then killed Dave Porter, a nephew of Chief of Polio? Porter, of Eufaula, and a mover, named Johnston, on bis way to Mis souri in a covered wagon with his family. Bud Taylor, aged eighteen, was shot through the shoulder and is not expeotod to live. Tiger jumped on a horse and tried to escapo. He was chased three miles when he jumped off- his horse, got behind a tree and began shooting. Deputy Marshal Johnson, who returned the fire, Btruok Tiger in the arm. The' murderer surrendered and was car ried baok to Eufaula. Tiger's arm will have to be amputated. Great indignation prevails over the free salo Of liquor and fire arms. J. T. Smith, who lives two milos south of Cheo?tah, booame involved in a quarrel with T. Thompson over the shooting at Eufaula and began shoot ing. Thompson was shot in the chest and oanuot reoover. Question Answered. Yes. August Flower still has the larg est salo of ?.:?y medicine in tho civilized world. Your mothers and grandmothers never thought of using anything else for indigestion sud biliousness. Doctors wore scarce, and they seldom heard of appendioltls, nervous prostration or heart failure, eto. They used August Flower to oloan out the system and atop fermentation of undigested food, regu late the action of tho liver, stimulate the nervous find ?iganlo action of the system, and tbat is all thoy took when feeling dull and bad with headaches and other nobes, You only need a few doseB of Green's August Flower, in liquid form, to make you satisfied there is nothing serious tho matter with you. For sale by J, II. Darby, Druggist. Wants to Remarry Every Decade. Reading, Pa., Deoombor 28.-C. Troxel, 30 years old, took out a mar riage license to-day to remarry his own wife. Ho is under the impres sion that every eovon years the body undergoes metamorphosis, necessi tating husbands and wives to wed again. Troxel's wife, however, re fused to be remarried. They have been wedded ten years. If you wish to sow oats in January or February, take land that will make ten to fifteen bushels of corn or five hundred pounds of seed cot ton and subsoil until it is seven to ton inches deop, with no day brought to the top, thon harrow with any thing that will pulverizo tho soil and sow any oats that oomo handy and oovor with a outaway or plow and you will roap a fair orop in duo soaaon. ?--? - Aged Couple Tortured by a Negro. A Mariotta, Ohio, dispatoh says that Abraham Johnston and wife, bo'Ji moro than 80 years old, were bound, tortured and robbin! uuoui midnight at their home, a short dist ance below Mariotta, on the Wost Virginia side, last Wednesday night. Their assailant, a gigantio negro, gained entrance to the house steal thily. After scouring all valuables, ho loft his victims still bound. Mrs. Johnson is ni m ont totally paralysed from tho shook and hor husband is injured badly, He may not reoover, IIIHHWMIH siiia Dispensary Robbed ol $1,800. - Tho Williamsburg county liquor dispensary, at Kingstree, is reported to have been robbed of $1,800 in cash Wednesday night. P. M. Player, the dispenser, ?B. alleged - to have discovered the loss next morn ing. This ia tho largest losa by rob bery incurred by. a county dispen sary since the inauguration1 of the dispensary. H. P. Crum, liquor Commissioner, dispatched an inspec tor to Kingstree. It is remarkable that the indem* nity bonds of the dispenser expired Dooombor 1st and that the State may suffer a total loss. Tho rather large amount of oash on hand repre sents the Christmas sales. A special from Kingstree says that the people there demand the resignation of the County Board of Control, the dis penser and all others connected with the dispensary at Kingstree. A number of country stores and railroad depots have been visited by burglars this winter, and the safe oraoking looks like the work of ex perts. Diok & S alley, of Bailey's station, have inoreased to $1,000 their offer of a reward for the oap ture of the burglars who robbed their store of $7,500 in gold last Fri day night. J. CO N S U M P T IO Ki v.. V Death ol Senator Mauldin. Major Wm. H. Mauldin died at his home at Hampton at 11.50 o'clock last Wednesday. Ho had been ill for a few weeks with fever. Major Mauldin was 62 years of age and was a son of B. Frank Mauldin, of Anderson. In 1876 he assisicd largely in the victory for Hampton and the white people and in the establishment of Hampton county. He was from the first one of the foremost men of the county in busi ness and publio affairs. He was one. of the lumber kings of Uu tate, In 1804 he was sent to the St - ~ nate and was re-eleoted in '08. Ho has been for several years a trustee of Clemson College. Thus Major Maul din literally died in harness in the service of the State and county. He was a deacon in the Baptist ohuroh for fifteen years. The widow sur vives with five ohildren : Major W. C. Mauldin, Joab Mauldin, Mrs. L. M. Boper, Mrs. Lightsoy and Miss Helen Mauldin. Preacher's Salary Too Small. Rev. Jas. A. Dunoan, pastor of Centenary Methodist Episcopal ohuroh, the largest congregation in Chattanooga, Tennessee, numbering 1,200, has asked to be released on account ol! salary being only $2,500, whereas Dr. Monk, former pastor, received $8,750. The last Rolston conforonoe exohanged Knoxville and Chattanooga pulpits, oooupied re spectively by Duncan and Monk. *?** Pupils in Schools In the State. The report of the State Superin tendent of Eduoation shows a total enrollment as follows : White boys, 60,948 ; white girls, 68,846 ; total whito enrollment, 127, 289. Negro girls, 82,74p 5 negro boys, 72,864 ; total colorea enrollment, 165,602. Total, both races, 282,891. Total average attendance, 164,209. Tho Georgia Houue of Representa tives has, at last, passed a bill pro viding for the acceptance by the State of the Confederate home that was built by popular subscription raised in 1889 by the late Henry W. Grady. The homo cost originally $45,000, and the idea was to present it to tho State simply on oondition that the State should maintain it for the benefit of the veterans. The matter has been fought over in nearly every session of the Legislature from 1889 until now. Tho acooptanoe bill oarries an annual appropriation of $15,000 for maintainanoe. ? ? ? ? ? The oity of Marion was visited by a destructivo fire Christmas night. Carelessness in shooting fire oraokere is assigned as the oausu. Four stores and contents were burned. Loss about $12,000 ; partially Insured. Tho fertilizer business ls reported the heaviest in tho history of thc department, amounting to 292,152 tons, The inspection tax amounts to $78,088.08. Congress has ratified tho oanal treaty. The. canal is to be open tc all nations and not fortified? Gen. Wade Hampton, at the age of 88, is still able to engage in a deer hunt, mau iij Freo Mair Delivery., Home arid Farm congratulates Us ooustituenoy ?n the prosp*nt of im proved mail fao?Htio? for rural cora munitie?. Ten years ago we began ' to eall for the extension of the freo delivery system to the farming com munity. The benefits will not be , fully recognized until they ar/*, ex perienced, buJt enough has been done to demonstrate tho valuo of tho sys topa. In his report tho Postmaster G oneral says : ?We aro now carrying the post office to the door of 81,000,000 of people massed in towns and eitles. The task before us is the more oom- ; plicated work of carrying the post oftloe to the door of abput 21,000,000, soattered over 1,000,000 square miles of territory. Its magnitude is not to ' be under-estimated* England, Franco and Germany make rural free deliv ery, their postmen going on foot, But England contains 50,867 square miles, France 204,002 and Germany 208,880. We are already covering with rural delivery a larger area than England,'all effeotcd within the past, two years. By the end of the cur rent fisoal year wo sh ali roach one sixth of the 21,000,000 to be served. What has already been substantially accomplished is oertainly oapable of six-fold expansion. "On July 1, 1899, there were 891 rural delivery routes in operation. Within the fisoal year, under an appropriation of $450,000, this num ber was increased to 1,214. On July 1, 1900, the appropriation of $1,760, 000 became available, and on Novem ber 16 2,614 routes had been located and established, 61,979 miles in aggre gate length, oovering 66,842 square miles, divided among 44 States and Territories, and serving a population of 1,801,624. The number of appli cations pending at that date and awaiting aotion or under investiga tion was more than 2,100-nearly enough to double the existing servioe and every day brings more. The clono of the present fisoal year will seo about 4,800 routes in operation, carrying tl)e mail dail/ to tho doora of not less than 8,600,000 residents of the rural districts. "The actual results whore tho ex periment has been tried are emi nently encouraging. Perhaps the most' interesting and instructivo of all the tests thus far made is that whioh was applied to Carroll county, Md. Instead of a fragmentary under taking, it was determined to extend a complete service, ooveriug the entire county, and accompanied by all the measures of retrenchment, on the one band, and of full facilities on tho other, whioh would give a fair illustration of what was practicable. Carroll county oovors 468 square miles. The experiment began by the disconVi nuance of 68 of the 94 fourth class postoffioes in the territory and of 88 star routes, and by the substitu tion of a freo delivery service with four complete postal wagons and 26 rural letter carriers in their own convey anees. So radical an innovation, natur ally at the outset, exoitcd some antag onism. But tho service proved so sat isfactory and tho advantages of uni versal delivery were so great that the opposition speedily subsided, and there is now an undivided sentiment of cordial approval and support." It is years now since this subject was first agitated. Now the Post? master General says, and says truly, "It oannot be abandoned when it has been onco established, and it oannot be maintained without being ex tended.'.' Free rural delivery in the begin ning met with the same opposition aroused when cheap letter postage was proposed, but tho very argu ments against it were a confession of its jnstioe and ne oe RB i ty, and already it has vindicated itself. Thero is no reason why dwellers in oities should have free deliveries four times a day within half an hour's walk of tho postoffioe, whereas farm ers and dwellers in the country, denied free delivery, have to give a day or a half a day to getting their mail from the office.-Home and Farm. 1 Many porsons have had the exporienoo of Mr. Peter Sherman, of North Slrat* ford, N. H., who says, "For years I suf forod torture from chronic indigestion, but Kodol DysnopBia Curo made a well man of me." It digosts what you eat I and is a certain euro for dyspepsia and evory form of stomach trouble.. It gives relief at once oven in tho worst oases, and cm?' t help but do you good. J. W. Bell; The residence of Capt. W. C. Humphreys, of Greenville, was par tially destroyed by fire last Thurs day morning. It is supposed the j fire was caused by a defective flue. I It was one of tho handsomest resi dences in the eity. Tho damage ia estimated at $2,600 y fully covered by insuranoo,