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THE NEWS IN BRIEF FORM. Hems of News ol the Past Week Gathered from Various Sources. Nearly 14,000 oars of fertilizer have been shipped from Charleston this season. The Interstate Trust Co., of Green ville, has been formed with $100,000 capital. The young ladios of Manning have petitioned the local merchants to dis continue selling cigarettes. Several members of tho Calhoun Light Infantry at Florence have been court martialed for non-attendance at inspection. Small fines were im posed. J. E. Boyer, who was once ar rested and subsequently discharged on account of the Brookland fire, has been again arrested and will bo prosecuted on the charge of arson. At a taxpayer's meeting in Green ville the proposition to vote $125,000 in new bonds was approved. There were some opponents, however, who think that $80,000 would be suffi cient. The first frying size ohickens came on the market to-day. They were bought by one of the dealers at 27 A cents each and are being sold at 3C cents eaoh. They are not grown chickens, either - just "mediou frys."-Anderson Mail, April 24. Passenger train No. 39 killed i flue pair of mules belonging to Mor gan & Austin, at the orossing of th< American Spinning Company, Green ville, on Friday. The preliminary survey of a rail road to run from Saluda Cour House, S. C., to VVards, twelve miles has been completed. Capt. C. S Dwight, of Columbia, was tho engi neer in charge. Frank G. Bigelow, president of large Milwaukee bank, and forme president of the Amerioan Banken Association, loses vast sums in spoon lation, and isxshort in his accounts million and half dollars. An inspector has reported tho dil penser at Fort Motto ono thousan dollars short in his accounts. Tt accursed stuff will besmirch the ropi tation and ruin the characters of a who handle it whether in the dispel eary or open bar. The officers of the South Carol ir division of the Southern Cotton A sooiation have taken up the projei of using cotton bags for fertilizer groceries, etc. The movement w; started hy the wholesale merchan in Charleston. As an evidonce of the prosperity Wofford College, tho trustees ha1 recently decided to put up an add tional building for a fitting school, cost $20,000. Evidently tho instit tions supported by tho State aro n< dangerous competitors of Wofford. The ladies of the Civic Improv mont League of Anderson will ere a $1,800 fountain on the publ square of that town. It will be cast iron, about 10 feet high and w be lighted by electricity. It will 1 dedicated to Robert Anderson, tl Revolutionary hero. The trustees of tho Columbia F male College are putting up a han some building at Hyatt Park, a s burb of Columbia. The eornersto was laid Monday with the boautif Masonic ceremonies. Alargocrov was present. The great struoture well underway. The walls are i and the roof is on the main buildin The cornerstone is a marble blo< bearing tho Him. 'e inscription, "C lnmbia Female lx>H 'ge, 1850-1005 This year's celebra on of Memori Day in Phil adolph ir viii be mark? by the participatiop ii the exercisi in an official capacity ora Con fed? ato leader, Gen. Fitzho^ h Lee. Tl will be the first time ii the histo of the Grand Army in 1 n ?ylvati that a Confederate genei 'S o' livered a Memorial Day oi H under the auspicos of a Granu post. Baptizing Proves Trap to Catch Wary Negro It was gi von out recently that six residents of " Sunnyside," a color settlement within the city limits Savannah, Ga., would bo baptized the Ogeecliee eanal. . The health authorities had been r sirous of vaccinating ?. Sunnysidi but could not catch the inhabitant , Apprised of tho baptizing, a h dozen policemen wore ou hand u they rounded up the sixty proeelyt the preacher, deacons, on-lookers a all. City physicians administer the virus and tho procession mov on to the canal. No Bread for the Poor. 'No homo, no home," plead a little girl, At tho door of a princely hall, 8 she trembliug Btood on the polished steps And leaned on the marble wall. Uer drosB was thin and her feet wore bare, And tbe snow had covered hor head. "Ob! give mo a home," she feebly cried, "A homo and a piece of broad." "My father, alas, I nover kuow," Toars dimmed tbe oyes so bright, "My mother sleeps iu a new-made grave; 'Tis an orphan that bogs to-night." The night wore on and midnight came, The rich man dosed his door; And his proud lips ourled with scorn as he ?aid : No broad, no homo for the poor. "I must freeze," she oried, as she sank on the snow, And strove to cover her feet, Uer tattered dress all covered with snow, VIM, covered with snow and sleet. Tho rich man lay on his velvet couch, And dreamed of his silver and gold, While the little girl lay on a bed of snow, And murmured, "so cold, so cold!" The uight wore on past the midnight hour, And the drifting snow still fell ; And the earth seemed wrapped in a wind ing sheet, That came like a funeral knell. The night wore on and the morning oame, She lay at the rich man's door. But her soul had fled to that realm above, Where's there's home and bread for the poor. -Ella Burns. Mr. Kirksey's Recommendation. Mr. Kirksey writes: I give a positive guarantee with every box of Kydale's r.- omach Tablets and Liver Tablets I sell, ano have never been asked to refund the money in a single instance. I have used these tablets in my family with best re sults, W. L. Kirksey', Morganton, N. C. Uydale's Tablets are prepared by the Radical Remedy Company, Hickory, N. C., who authorize every dealer in their preparations to guarantee every box or bottle of their medioine they sell. Wal halla Drug Company. Die of Hunger with $900,000 to Credit. A recent dispatob from Black Uiver Falls. Wis., says : The Winnebago tribe of Indians is facing a miserable end, though it has $900,000 with tho National Government to its credit. Tho red men are dying by scores of consumption and are a heavy expense to several towns. According to a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, it is believed the towns in which sick and poor Indians reside must pay for their care, as they would for any indigent citizen Sick ness prevails and hundreds of dollars are being needed to treat the decrepit warriors. Resident Indian Farmer A. P. Jones is authority for the statement that consumption, unless stopped, will soon kill the whole tribe. It is said that little attention is paid to the marriage rites among the Indians in this vicinity, which has resulted in demoralizing conditions. Good Farming. We, the people of upper South Carolina, live in the best country un der the sun. Head this from the Easley Progress of Wednesday : Speaking of good farming, H. B. Byars, who lives four miles west of Easley, made last year 0,445 pounds of seed cotton on three and one-fifth acres of land, that eighteen or twenty years ago was considered worn out and would not make one-quarter of a bale to the acre. He made this ootton by thorough preparation and the use of about 250 pounds of standard fertilizers per acre, and the variety of seed planted was the Russell Big Boll. It ginned out 2,304 pounds of lint and about 4,000 pounds of seed. Byars has re duced his acreage this year about one third and the use of fertilizers one half. . . ---f?.ttr,,\l\ -IU'I/' A Big Hog. W. Melvin Thornton, of Nn borg, in tbe lower part of the county, has perhaps the biggest hog in the State. Ile is a barrow, Tamworth breed, two years old November 5, 1904. He measures 41 inches tall, 8 feet, 8 inches long. He is too big to weigh. He weighed 640 last Septem ber, and is now conservatively esti mated at 900. Mr. Thornton had a big ono last fall ..that averaged 120 pounds gain per month for three mohths. He expeots this ono to reach 1,200 by August 1, and to gain 100 per month for three months. This breed does not reaoh its growth under six years; Say, let's havo that county fair ?-Hartwell Sun. Thero arc no less than 640 agricul tural societies scattered over Servia. It's a poor graoe that doesn't make a man graoious. Farmers' Alliance Litigation. [Jos. L. Keltt, in The State.] The d?cision of thc Supreme Court dismissing the appeal from Judge Gary's order, directing tho Master of Kiohland county to adver tise for creditors and stockholders of the Farmers' Alliance Exchange, ap pears to be based upon a question of faot raised by my testimony that there are no creditors of the ex ohange, and the statement of Wi. L. Donaldson and J. C. Colt's attorney, who deolined to submit proof of the alleged claims while Mr. Donaldson was present at the referenoe. I desire, for the benefit, of the stockholders, who are numerous throughout the State, to refer to the following extracts of the report of the committee on litigation to the county trustees : "The directors, cannot recognize the claims of Donaldson and Coit as valid, and no others have been pre sented. * * * The. direct.oT have no desire to dishonor the exchange by an effort to avoid payment of any just claim. * * * On the 26th of May testimony was taken by John S. Verner, Master of Richland county. * * * M. L. Donaldson was present, but much to our regret and disap pointment he did not undertake to prove his claim. * * * We say to you, gentlemen, that there are no creditors of the Farmers' Alliance Ex ? change, and we will defeat any claims I that are presented. We oare not where or when alleged claimants file their claims, the courts are open to them, but in justice to ourselves, in justice to you, and in protection of the bene ficiaries you represent, we protest against the stockholders filing their claims with the Master." A full meeting of the county trus tees, to whom this report was made, adopted the following resolution unanimously : Resolved 3. In compliance with the request of the committee, we pledge ourselves not to file any claim in court unless it becomes necessary after final adjudication." The Master of Richland county . advertised for claims, notwithstand ing the appeal, but we have had no notice that Messrs. Donaldson and Coit wish to undertako to prove their claims. Their failure to meet the issue is the real obstruction. We are ready at all times to welcome and meet these alleged claims when an opportunity is offered, but we will resist an attempt to smuggle them through the court. OVERWORKED KIDNEYS. Murray's Buchu, Gin and Juniper is proser?>?-d and endorsed by eminent physicians. It cures when all else fails. Prevents kidney disease, dropsy, Bright's disease, otc. At all drug stores. $1.00 A BOTTLE. Or direct from THE MURRAY DRUG COMPANY, Columbia, S. C. Facts About Time. Time is hard to define. According to the best poets time has a heavy foot, a tooth, a forelock and breaka ble legs. It travels in divers places ; it ambles, trots, gallops, runs, rolls and stands still ; it has whips ; it crops roses. So far it seems like a horse. But it has a forefinger, also a reckless hand that writes wrinkles. This explodes tho horse theory. Furthermore, time flies. Hence "a bird of a time." Time is money; be ing also a bird, time is a gold eagle perhaps ; money is the root of all evil and procrastination is the thief of time. Therefore, procrastination ia (1) a ohicken thief, (2) a good thing. The wickedness of time is beyond question. It is vindictive; UI wasted time," mourne Ring Richard, "and now doth time waste me." Time waits for no man. Time shall throw a dart at thee'. Time robs us of our joys. Time will tell. Time is un thinking. Time presses its debtors. Time is out of joint, and well may it be, considering what a nuisance it is. j Time is a sea, a sandy beach, a shoal and an abyss. Also it isa whirligig, which seems odd when we recall that time is quiet as a nnn. Tirno is good, bad, high, fine, rough, hot, Christmas; spring, waltz, corn? mon and lovely. Among good times may be mentioned quitting lime and dinner time.-Newark News. --i... ---. The first solid car of strawberries was shipped from Conway, S. C., on April 21. i EVBRYTH AT PRICES Plows, 4i cent? straight. Little Joe Han Colo's Pluutors, $(i.7?. I Sash, Doors and Oils and Lead. 4 ing. j& Mill Su; Stoves anu Rang We have the goo tomers are friend MATH ESC Wi ******** The South the Land ol Young Men. The South has come into its own again. A few years ago we were saying that the Southerner was not and never oould he a business man. Ever since the Civil war the business of the South has been carried on by Yankees, Germans, Jews and scatter ing Scots and English. The Jews, always alert in business, have been in the majority in the retail trade, and with Germans and Yankees have controlled the wholesale business, the financial institutions, and the manufactories. By a fallacy which time is disproving the failure of the native Southerner to achieve busi ness success was set down to inhe rent lack of capacity. His failure was really due to causes extrinsic and accidental. At the close of the Civil war, only the few Jewish residents of the South had much money. The Southern soldier was not discharged when sent home to convalesce from wounds and disease. Upon recovery he was again in the ranks. He did not serve three months, nine months, two years. He served four years. The largor part of the men who fought in the Southern army carried lead and disease ever after. It was this impoverished, discouraged, stricken people whom the outsider distanced in the race for money. Unused to commerce, the Southerner not only saw the property repre sented by his slaves pass utterly away, and bis lands ravaged and his houser burned, but he saw men alien to his region anticipate him in the dawning opportunities of a tardily returning prosperity. He became an onlooker in the land his blood had watered. Others garnered as a re sult of bis impoverishment. But not so now, for the young Southerner is forging to the front so fast that it now is more likely that he will crowd the strangers oat than that they will seriously rival him. He has taken a leaf out of the book of his rivals, and by the taotics which have been at least as great a faotor in their suocess as any other in arriv ing at prosperity. The Southern tandem wedge is boring holes in the lines of the opposition. The young Southern men, often mere boys of twenty-one and twenty-two, are run ning the banks, the stores, the hotels. They are exploiting groat tracts of land, feeding vast forests into the saw mills.VJThey Are the railroad men, the promoters, the brokors. Oil wells gush at their behest, towns riso at their command. By men under thirty the greater part of the busi ness of the South is now being done. Tho Northerner who thinks of emi grating to thc South because he be lieves he can surpass the nativos in business capacity, will find foemen worthy of his steel-keen, untiring, and full of the nerve and enthusi asm of youth. The South is the new part, the young part of our do main. The west has become staid and middle aged. The young man has come to the front in the South, and with him the South comes into its own once more.?--Leslie's Weekly. 1? tim?. Bold hy rtmifulut?. ?NG FOR THE TO 5UIT YOUR POO Koystone Adjustable Weeders, $10.25 owe. #2.05. Caldwell Cotton Di CU max Planters, $3 25. larb Wire, ?2.W per One Hundred Pounds Blinds. Blacksmith Tc .> Harness. ^ Rubber a pplies. j& Wagon and Bu? es. * ds and our prices sell thei .s. " SEE THE SAW." 3N HARDV ESTMINSTER, S. C. Guessed H\ Name by Town. "1 saw a obap tbe other day in Washington who didn't know his own name, and made me guess it for him," said Geoffrey Lambey, of Savannah, at the Eutaw House, says the Baltimore News. ?No 1" "Yes. It happened this way. I was visiting a number of the govern ment buildings, and among them, the big mint. Thero was a small party of us standing around the guide while he explained the methods of making and counting money. One girl behind the oaged partition was just then counting a roll of thousand dollar bills as big as a small cannon, and the sight somehow inspired me. I turned to my first neighbor and said : "'That wad would start a civil war iu Georgia.' "Then it turned out that he was from Georgia, and we were glad to meet each other. We went the reBt of the route together, and when we separated I said : "'By the way, my name is Lambey of Savannah ; what's yours?' "Well, sir, that chap stood there like a man in a trance for fully a minute. Then he said : "'Blessed if I know ! Why, con found it, I knew my name this morn ing ! It's a town in Texas-what's a town in Texas ?' "I suggested Galveston, Waco, Houston-every town I could think of-but none of them fitted him. Finally, I said : "4 Austin ?' "You ought to have seen his eyes brighten up. " 'That's it,' he said ; 'my name's Austin-Henry Austin. I'm a thou sand times obliged to you !' And he shook hands with me like a roan who was just being congratulated." A Cold, A Cough-Consumption. A brief told history, but true, Rydal o's Cough Elixir will prevent this happen ing to you. It will check tho progress of a cold at once, prevent the cough be coming deep seated, and thus ward off consumption. This modern scientific remedy Kills the germs that cause throat and lung diseases, and by its stimulating and tonio effect upon the respiratory organs holps nature speedily restore these organs to robust health. Walhalla Drug Company. -( Hit the Town Marshal. Charleston, April 26-A special from Piokens says that W. K. Tay lor, town marshal at Calhoun, was dangerously and perhaps fatally in jured this afternoon while in the dis charge of his duty. It is claimed that while Taylor was endeavoring to arrest a young man named Baker the father approached and struck the marshal on tho head with a hoe, frac turing his skull. .-~-rt-**s-i-H Long Crook Dots. Long Creek, April 29.-The Long Creek march is over. It waa a great thing for tho children. Henry Lee is over the measles. That is good news. Miss Frances Moore is no better. Miss Bennie Hunt, who died with measles Friday,' was buried at Double Springs Sunday. Mr. Conley is better. Bl bi s. At a mass meeting held at Hamp stead, Texas, oalled to petition the Governor to send rangera to enforoo the local option three men were killed and two others wero severely wounded. FARMER KET BOOK. DftU?ok's Woodors, $9 25. roppers, $9.60. Riding Cultivators, $25 to $35. iols. J& Paints, ?nd Canvas Belt ggy Material. & n. AJI our cns VARE CO. THREE PAPERS A WEEK FOR $1.S?. By a dubbins; arrangement with tho Charleston Semi-Weekly Nows and Cou rier wo are offering that paper and Tho Keovoe Courier for $1.50 per year. Tho Koowee Courier is recognized nqt only as the best paper in Oooneo county, but it is rated among the best county papera in South Carolina. The Semi-Weekly News and Courier ls an excellent jour nal, published on Wednesdays and Satur days, gives the detailed news of South Carolina as a special feature, and carries the full Associated Press dispatches from al! ovor the world. The combina tion of the two papers at $1.50 gives our present readors, as woll as nev? sub scribers, an opportunity to seoure two of tho host papers in the State (three papers a woek) for 50 cents moro than the regu lar pi-ico of oithor. Let us send you two of tho very best papers in* South Carolina, for almost tho price of one. Clubbing Oder Four Papers a Week. On April 1st tho Atlanta Constitution bogan tho publication of a tri-weekly edition-Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri days. Wo have made ai rangements whoroby wo can furnish our readerB The Koowoo Courier and the tri-weekly edi tion of tho Constitution-four papers a week-for $1.75 por year. We are now able to furnish the Wookly Constitution and The Keowoo Courier at $1.40 per year. Subscription to both papers to bo paid IN ADVANCE. A Twice Told Tale. We wish to repeat wb?t we have said once before in these columns, that El liott's Kmnlsiiied Oil Liniment is the best Liniment ever produced for use in tho family and ou animals. Best for rheumatism, lameness, stiffness and sore ness of joints or muscles. Best for bruises, contusions, sprains and swell ings. You got a full half pint for 25c.t and got your monoy back if it docs not do all it is recommended to do. Wal halla Drug Company. Senator 0. H. Platt Dead. Washington, Conn., April 21.-United States Senator O. H. Platt, of Connecti cut, died here to-night. Tho immediate causo of bis death was the hreakitiyjkpt an abscess, which had formed in tue right lung. Strangulation followed. I The Senator waa conscious and appa rently without pain until the last mo ment. Tho deceased was a distinguished statesman and Republican. VERY LOW EXCURSION RATES, BY SOUTHERN RAILWAY, To the Following Points: Kansas City, Mo.-Southern Baptist Convention, May 10-17, 1006. Rate, ono first-class faro, plus 50 cents, for round trip. Tickets on salo May 7 to ll, inclu sive; final limit May 23d, 1005. iflBp St. Louis, Mn, National Baptist SR vorsary, May 16-24, 1005. Rate, one first class faro, plus 25 couts, for round ti ip. Tickots on salo May 14, 15, 10, with final limit May 27th, 1005. Asheville, N. C.-South Atlantic Mis sionary Conforenco, May 17-21, 1005 Rate, one first-class faro, plus 26 cents, for tho round trip. Tickots on sale May 16th and 17th; final limit May 23d, 1005. j Fort Worth, Texas-General Assembly Southern Presbyterian Cburoh, May 18-20 1006. Rate, ono first-class fare, plus $2.00, for round trip. Tioketa on salo May 15, 16, 17; final limit May 31st, 1005. Toronto, Ont.-International Sunday Sohool Association, .lune 20-27, 1005. Rate, ono first-olass fare, plus 50 cents, for round trip. Tickets on salo June 10, 20,22,23, 1005; limited June 30th, 1005. Hot Springs, Va.-Southern Hardware Jobbers' Association, June 0*9, 1005 Rate, ono first-class fare, plus 26 oents, for round trip. Tickets on sale June 3, 4, 5; final limit June 13th, 1005. Savannah, Ga.-National Travelers Protective Association of Amorica, May 16 23, 1906. Rato, ono rtraivolass fare, plus 50 cents, for round trip. Tickets co sale May 13th and 14th; Anal limit May 20th, 1005. Savannah, Ga.-Fourth Annual Tfour namont Sonthorn Golf Association, May. 913,1905. Rato, oho first-olass faro, plus] 25 cents, for round trip. Tickots on Wm May 7, 8, 9, 1005; liroitod May 15th, fm\ Tho Southern Railway is tho mont] direct lino to all of the above pointsj oporating Pullman Blooping oafs*! KfjW back vostibulo coaches, with superb dm] lng car service. For detailed information ! apply to any tiokot agent of this coin] 1 pany, or R. W. HUNT. D. P. A., Charleston, S. C.