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I Cfc* SUotow (ftcurin. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING. - BY - JAYNE?, 8HELOR. SMITH * STECK E. T. J AYN KU, ?Ru- . ""M IDA. SMITH SUBSCRIPTION. S i .00 PER ANNUM. ADVERTISING, RATES REASONABLE. Communications of a personal character charged for as advertisements. SIP" Obituary notices and tributes of respect, of not over one hundred words, will be printed free of charge. All over that number must be paid for at the rate of one oent a word. Cash to accompany joanusoript. WALHALLA, 8. C. t WnNBNOAV.JVNBSI, IB03. Distrust of the Law. One of the most discouraging fea tures connected with our ratliur luxu riant orop of crime ia a growing lack of confidence in the process of law. This laok of confidence is settling into a deep-seated conviction on the part of no inconsiderable number of people that the courts are not to be depended upon in meting ont the proper punishment for crime. Thie is Bot to raise the question at all as to whether or not the oourts do actually deal out justice as it should be dealt ont. We may grant that it dees. Still we have the strong and wide spread conviction that it does not. Indeed, it is entirely common to hear the statement made, as soon as a man has committed anv crime, nar ; $ ticnlarly if he is a man of wealth and influence, that he is certainly guilty, bot co jury will be found to convict him. In a word, the peoplo are losing confidence in the very citadel which they themselves have set up for their protection-the law. Just three recent conorete in atanoea will illustrate theae general statements. A little while ago a negro farm hand in Darlington county killed bia white employer. The neighbors rose up in hot resentment, bent on lynching. But cooler judg ment and wiser leadership prevailed. They were persuaded to trust the matter to the regular processes of the law, and were assured that exact justice would be meted out to the offender. Tho negro was properly tried, convicted, and sentenced to be hanged. But Homo ?ort of influence was brought to bear upon.the Gover nor, who oom muted the sentenoe to life imprisonment. The result is that the confidence of this commu nity in the whole system of legal machinery is shaken. They say that they t runted to the law, and the law gave its verdict. But an outside power interferes and sets it aside. ?'Hereafter," they further say, "we shall take matters into our own hands, for the machinery of the law cannot be depended upon to protect us." So the temper of an entire community, in ita diatrnst, is so wrought upon that it is ready, when tmTr occasion offers, to mete out jus tioe after its own lawless method, jj Take another case. In Lanoaater an inoffensive youngman was shot down by a community desperado. The murderer was soon caught and promptly lynched. The Solioitor of the district, backed up by the influ ence and authority of the Governor of the State, set to work to appre hend the lynchers and bring them to trial. But investigations develops (j^fe fact that they are the "leading ^TOzens" of the community. We have read no more disheartening reading in a long time than Solicitor Henry's account of his earnest yet futile efforts to get at these "leading citizens." However, they said, in defense of their aotion, that they did it because the law itself could not be depended upon to infliot merited punishment. Once beforo the man whom they lynched had been tried for murder and acquitted, and they feared he might again be turned loose upon society. Yet one other case. A ybung ne gro man, confined in the guard house et Eutawville for a trivial offense, was taken out one night, oarried to the river, an iron weight was attaohed to him and he was tossed ont of a boat and drowned. Onoe again the Governor of 'the Stato, with com mendable enterprise, interested him sj^f in the matter. All thc forces of toe law were set to work, and a group "?f men were brought to trial before a jury of their peers. After being ont only about fifteen minutes, the jury -set them free. And what is the result ? Io that cornnninity, and, indeed, in others, men will fee) that they may make way with any who may offend them, especially if the offeuder be a negro, with the aasurar ^e that they will go free, uuwhipped of justice. Now, what are the conclusions from these three familiar oases? First of all, their necessary influ ence is to shatter the faith of men in the ttticieuoy of courts of justice and of all legal methods of righting social wrongs. Nothing oan be more distressing for a d?mocratie commu nity, with ita naturally individualistic tendeares, to take to itself the belief that the lawa wbioh it bas established as a safeguard are feeble, shams to be brushed aside with impunity by the rude, heedless touch of lawless neas. This belief in the ineffioieuoy and feebleness of organised law and all its machinery is the sorely inevi table road to aocial confusion and oivil anarchy. It leads to co item pt for the law and all constituted au thority, and invites individual orime and organized violence. A halt must be oalled. Social leadership of every sort must speak out. Public opinion and the oivio conscience should not slumber or rest. Both should keep intelligently and keenly alive to the - appalling danger that threatens, not only in these acts of individual crime and organized violence, but also in the deeper danger wbioh lurks in this growing distrust of courts of jus tice and the entire legal machinery that this free democratic society has ereoted for the protection of the orderly on-going of its life.-South ern Christian Advocate, June 1. $100 REWARD $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there ?B at least one dreaded disease that soienoe has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive oure known to the medical fra ternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treat ment. Hall's Catarrh is Cure taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucuouB surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the discaso, aud giving the patient strength by build up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have have so muon faith in its curative pow ers, that they offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J. CHKNKY * Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggist, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Nan Patterson Quirt Stage. Discouraged by the adverse criti cism that has greeted her reappear ance on the stage, Nan Patterson, broken in spirit and disheartened, severed her connection with "The Romance of Panama" Company, with which she was traveling, last Tuesday night, at Akoona, Pa., and left early next morning for her home in Washington. Miss Patterson waa greeted by a small house and the few women pres ent left early. The actress, with tears in her eyes, in an interview just before she boarded the train, Bald : "When I went on the stage 1 ad opted the only means left me to earn a livelihood, and I am awfully sorrj the people have so Reverely con demned me. I wanted to do right and could see no harm in going or the stage, which is ray profession. ! owe thousands of dollars, and don't know how in the world I am goinj to pay it by any other way. "1 believe much of the critioisn was due to the company with whicl I was traveling. It was not such ai everybody would care to patronize and of course I have had to stant the blame for it. I really did no know much about it when I signe( a contract, and rather than bear tin harsh treatment that I have beet subjeoted to I have decided to leavt the stage, for a time at least." RYDALE'S TONK A New Scientific Discovery for thc BLOOD and NERVES. It purifies the blood by eliminating th waste matter and other impurities and b destroying the germs or microbes tha infest the blood. It builds up the bloo by reconstructing and multiplying the re corpuscles, making the blood rich and rec It restores and stimulates the nerve: causing a full free flow of nerve fore throughout the entire nerve system. 1 speedily cures unstrung nerves, nervoui ness, nervous prostration, and all othe diseases of the nervous system. RYDALE'S TONIC is sold under a pos ttve guarantee. Trial Sil? SO cents, family six? $1.00 * MANUFACTURED BY The Radical Remedy Compati) HICKORY, N. C. Fon SA ric BY WALHALLA DRUG COMPANY. ; I A tatton In Advertising. , The practical joke on Sam D. | Jonen, the manufacturer, which baa , afforded so mach amusement in At? lanta, vividly recalls a prank played on tsaotly the same lines by Henry W. Grady 80 years ago. Henry Qrady waa at that time liv- . ing at Home and edited the Daily Commercial of that city. Following , the bard lines which always cncoin- ( passed thc pathway of daily journal ism in Rome up to the present hap pier time, Grady, although editor-in chief, was also one of the most dili gent advertising solicitors in nome. He made a special plea for the Rotins- . avilies, one of the largest business \ houses of the Hill City, who were rather soy and not overly disposed to be liberal in printer's ink. But they stoutly asserted that nobody read advertisements,and that it would 1 i not pay them to advertise their busi ness in the Commercial. Henry Grady stoutly argued the . other side, and finding the merchants , obdurate, finally left them with this ( statement: "Well, I will insert a small advertisement for you free in ^ the Commercial to-morrow, and if the i result does not prove that people do ^ read advertisements, and that adver tising pays, I will promi?e never to trouble you again, and if you'll prom- ' ise to advertise in the Commercial if the result proves to you that people ' do read advertisements ?" To this the Komma villes consented, and the editor withdrew. The next ' morning there appeared in an obscure oorner of the Commercial a bref j want advertisement declaring that the firm of Ko un saville bros., were j anxious to eeoure before the end of the week, as many oats of all kinds X and of all ages as they eould get to j their store. When the heads of the firm ! reaohed their office on the morning following the advertisement the 1 scene was one whioh they are likely j never to forget. Wagons were ranged for 10 or 60 yards up against ' the platform, whioh made entrance to ! their store, and men, women and chil dren, from the city and from the * country, with bags in their hands and ' oats in their arras, mounting way past the hundreds and up into the thousands, stood there olamoring for the attention of the proprietors to their answer to the want advertise ment Mr. Grady had inserted the day before in the Daily Commercial. Such an array or collection of cats had never before been seen in Rome or in North Georgia. Gray oats and black oats, tom cats and tabby oats, old cats and young oats, oats in arms, cats in baskets, oats in eages, oats quiet and cats mewing, cats with backs arcl.nl and cats softly purring, all there and waiting for the Rouns avilies. The news of the incident had sproad over the town and nearly one half of the population had come to see the Rounsavilles convinced by Henry Grady that advertising paid. It only romains to be said that out of the overwhelming mass of proof furnished by the farmers of Rome and of Floyd county, the Rounsa villes did not take long to discover tho truth of Grady's proposition, and the columns of the Commercial from that time forward were never with out the announcement of the big and prosperous firm that has done busi ness there for so many years. Two negro preaohers have been sent to the Atlanta Federal prison from Charleston for participation in pension frauds. Another negro preaoher has been indicted for this offense. Another Long Pastorate. In its issue of Dt ovmber 29, 1904, the Baptist Courier gives a long, and rleaerved, editoriul write up of Dr. C. C. Bro*n's pastorate at Sumter. The first Sunday in this year Dr. Brown and his church celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of their happy relations, as pastor and churoh, un lier the moBt auspicuous eirouni Btanoes. The Standard sends un feigned congratulations and Chris tian greetings to the beloved pastor and churoh. The Courier says that if there bas been any disposition on the part of either churoh or pastor to separate during these thirty years, no one outside has ever beard of it. This, too, when it was freely prophe sied when Dr. Brown became pastor, that the arrangement would not last long. A great church and pro at pastor have grown up together. This tells the whole story. The Standard guesses that utbe annual call" haa not obtained in the Sumter church, though the Courier joes not mention the matter. What ever we may think and say to thc i contrary, history proves two note worthy things beyond cavil : 1. Long pastorates are the fruitful ones in developing great churches. 2. ltTbe annual call" ia the implacable toe of long pastorates, and therefore sf great churches. In the interest at the can He represented by our shurohes, the Standard devoutly wishes that "annual call" folly would ;oine to an everlasting end among Baptist churches. "The annual call," whether intended or not, says to the sailed preaoher, "The church does not feel certain that you are the nan that we or God want to be our pastor, but we will try you one year, ind if things don't go to suit all our nembers you will be out, and can nove on." No pastor can do his >est work under such conditions. There is before him the constant temptation to say and do the things Lhat will secure favor for himself. Remembering that preachers are nu nan, and that moving is distateful :o them, as well aa expensive, it is lot very remarkable that many good preachers find themselves shaping their conduct so as to shield them selves, hoping that Christ's cause nay not greatly suffer in tho end. Vet in most oases they hope against reason. Every church ought to put its paator before its community in the >est possible light, and without the 'emotest suggestion of distrust of lim. It muat do this if he is to give he churoh the best possible service. \t the bottom of "the annual call" s the feeling that, if the indefinite sall obtains, the pastor will abuse his mmunity from "the annual call," by 'emaining with the church, after his j tsefulness has ended. This is a fear Ful imputation, unworthy of the io urce from whence it comes, and a ^ross injustice to God's ministers. All this, likely enough, has not oc curred to many churches and church members. To others it has occurred with a deep feeling of mortification and remorseful regret. "Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm."-The Baptist Standard. - OABTORIAt ******** The KM You Haw Always Bo-'jiht Upstart Money Loaned to the Various Counties. The Sinking Fund Commission has made loans aggregating $149,000 this year. This includes $5,000 loaned to commission to completo '?he State House and $5,500 loaned on collateral security. From the sinking fund created by payment of insurance the follow ing loans were made : Williamsburg county, \$5,000 ; Kershaw county, $5,000. From tho cumulative sinking fund the following loans wore made to counties : Clarendon, $3,500 ; Bam berg, $4,000 ; Fairfield, $7,400 ; Lan oaster, $5,000 ; Oconee, $8,400 ; Pickens, $5,400; Cherokee, $7,000; Greenwood, $11,000 ; Saluda, $5,500 ; Richland, $22,000 ; Hampton, $8,400; Berkeley, $5,000 ; total, $88,200. From the ordinary sinking fund : Sumter county, $8,000 ; Greenwood, $6,900; Laurens, $8,800; Marlboro, $5,900 ; Barnwell, $10,000 ; Williams burg, $1,200. Total, $40,800. There will be an all-day singing at th? Neville Baptist churoh on the fourth Sunday in June, conduotod by J. F. Mor ton, J. W. Reynolds, R. N. Smith and others. Thennblio is cordially invite to attend ana bring well-filled basket? and enjoy a day in song service. ) ?Vfcgcta?Ie Pr?paration for As similating IheFotidandReguia Ung thc Stomachs andBovrels of 1.M AN i S /t HI L l)Ki:IS Promotes Digestion.Cheerful ness and Rest.Contal ns neither Opium,Morphine nor Muterai. WOT NAR C OTIC. Tb**? JW <4tx.$mntm. * \ M<>C Sr* J' A perfect Remedy forConsllpa non. Sour S to mac h, D i n rr boca Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness nnd Loss OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature of _NEW YORK. yt t>' ni<>ii U\ v ii l-d 4 EXACT COPY Of WRAPPER. Farmers' Institutes. Clemson College, June 12.-Dr. P. H. Mell ts sending out the following oiroular letter: Clemson College is now arranging plans to hold Farmers' Institutes this summer in the counties of the State during the period between July 10 and August 5. Citizens who may desire an institute held in their community are invited to semi an application to the President of the College not later than June 20. Suggestions regarding the ag ricultural questions in whiob the com munity may be interested are also in vited. The institute at Clemson College will begin on Tuesday, August 8th, and con tinue for one week. Distinguished speakers will address the farmers on important topics during that week. The railway companies nave arranged to give rates of one fare, plus twenty five cents for the round trip from every i tation in South Carolina. Delegates to the Farmers' Institute at the college will please see that the local railway agent provides himself with the re duced tate tickets in ample time. OA0TOB.IA. Be*-* tu ^ The Kind You Have Alvrays Bo#t THREE PAPERS A WEEK FOR $1.50. By a clubbing arrangement with the Charleston Semi-Weekly News and Cou rier we are offering that paper and The Keowee Courier for $1.60 per year. The Keowee Courier is recognized not only as the best paper in Ooonee county, but it is rated among the best county papers in 8outh Carolina. The Semi-Weekly News and Courier is an excellent jour nal, published on Wednesdays and Satur days, gives the detailed news of South Carolina ns a special feature, and carries the full Associated Press dispatches from all over the world. The combina tion of the two papers at $1.60 gives our present readers, as well as new sub scribers, au opportunity to seoure two of the best papers in the State (three papers a week) for 60 cents more than the rogu lar price of either. Let us send you two of the very best papers in South Carolina for almost tho price of one. The Secret i Even the best housekeep coffee without good material, blended coffee euch as un sen counters won't do. But take t I JON COFFEE, the the coffee that for over a qi welcomed in millions of homet for a king in this way t HOW TO MAH DM LION col'"KKK. btcMuo to ?et b? Grind roar LION OOKFRK rother On. .xtr? for tho pot." Pint mix it with s littk ?dd whit? of sn ejrg (If egg is to be uMd M I let. WITH BOILING WATCH. 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