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THU PENSION MATTED AGAIN. Comptroller General Jones Hopi les to Gen. G. I. Walker. (Tho State.) - My attention has been called to a recent article In The State In which Gen. C. Irvine Walker charges that there are a large number of fraudu lent and unworthy pensioners on the Confederate po1.sion roll of this State. He asks the Legislature to create the office of pension Inspector, in order that such officer may visit the vari ous counties, examine into claims and prevent the placing of names improp erly upon tho rolls. Inasmuch as 1 am ex-olllclo chair man of tho Slate Pension Board, 1 feel called upon io taue notice of bis article, and to show that there ls no ground whatever for tho reckless Charge that there ls general fraud in the giving of pensions to those not entitled to receive tho same; that it prevents worthy veterans and widows from receiving all that the Stato In her generosity awards thom. The administration j)f the pension laws in tills State is entrusted to ox Con federate soldiers, with the excep tion of the Comptroller General and the Pension Clerk. The State Pension Board consists of the Comptroller General and three Confederate soldiers and a surgeon, and they are elected by the Confede rate veterans at their annual reun ion. Thc present State Board ls as follows: A. \V. .Iones, ex-ofllclo chair man; C.apt. \V. H. Harden, Chester; .lohn Ab rons, Charleston; R, D, Flen nfiten, Columbia; Dr. William Wes ton, Columbia. The conni y boards aro composed of lour Confederate soldiers and a sur geon, elected by tho Confederate sur vivors in each county. All aplleatioiiB for pension must Hrs! be approved by tho county boards and then arc passed on by tho State Hoard. The Confederate sol diers can be trusted to conduct the interests of their comrades as far as lt is possible to do so. The care with which they endeavor to perform their ftu.ty ls shown by the hundreds of applications they dis approve which never roach the State Pension Hoard, and even among those that do a large number are an nually disapproved. While there are charges made at various times that mimes have been fraudulently placed upon the pension lists, tho Comptroller General and State Pension Hoard always promptly! investigate them, and it. ls the mark ed exception when such charges are su bs tan tia teil. Although the State Hoard ls in ses sion only five days cadi year, yet these Investigations are cat ried on at all times during the year, when necessary, by the Comptroller Gene ral and resident members of the State Hoard in Columbia, without, any compensation or expense to the pen sion fund. Gen. Walker cannot specify any Instance where parties have been shown to he fraudulently on the pen sion roll and allowed to remain there. Gen. Walker in his interview states thal of his own regiment, the Tenth South Carolina, there are names on the pension rolls, and that of those ;il), or one-third, were never members of that, regiment. In a conversation la the Comp troller General's ofllco he instanced only one of these-L. T. Venties-as being on the foll of Charleston coun ty. However, an examination of the application filed by Venties shows that William 10. Huger, formerly ser geant major of the Tenth Regiment, swore thal he knew Mr. Venties of his own knowledge to be a soldier in Company IO, Tenth Regiment. H may bo that Gen. Walker was mis taken in lils recolle Hon as lo who belonged lo lils rog! mo ni and relied A 50-ccnt bottle of given in half-teaspoon doses four times a day, mixed in its bottle, will last a year-old baby near ly a month, and four bot tles over three months, and will make thc baby strong and well and will lay the foundation for a healthy, robust boy cr girl. FOR SALK UV ALI. DRUOOISTS Kein'. 10c., linnie of paper mid titi* n.t. f< r onr beautiful Savings Pank and Child's Sketch. Honk. liaoh bank contains 11 Good buck Penny. SCOTT Sc BOWNE. 400 Pear! Street, N. Y. GOVERNMENT TO H AVK FARM. Lund Has Ileon Purchased In Flor? once County for Trial Gmunds. Washington, Feb. 23.-A govern ment experimental farm will be es tablished at Tlmmonsvllle, in Flor ence county, South Carolina, and work will bogin at once. Such, at least, is the word sent to-day hy the bureau of plant Industry 01 he 'e partment of agriculture to Roprosen tatlve Ellerbo and Representativo Lever, members of the House com mittee on agriculture, both of whom have been active In their efforts to bring-?rbout tho establishment of this farm. Tho farm to be established at Tlmmonsvllle is to be used in exper iments In the culture of tobacco. It ls located In the older tobacco section of the State and after Investigation by the department of agriculture has been selected as an especially desired locality for a farm of this character. Tho work will includo experiments in crop rotation with special reference to the relation of the other staple crops of the section to tho yield and quality of the tobacco. It is believed the experimental work at Tlmmons vllle will bo a groat benefit to tho great tobacco belt of tho State in which Timmoasvillo ls located. Tho necessary arrangements for begin ning work on tho experimental farm will be undertaken at once. upon the Incomplete rolls filed in the office of the State Historical Commis sion. These rolls were not made up contemporaneously with tho enlist ment and services of the members of tho companies, and are known to be notoriously incomplete, containing very few data to the names. (len. Walker will be asked by the State Houston Hoard to furnish tho names of the other 21) pensioners of Company B, Tenth Regiment, in or der that an Investigation can be made at once as to his charges. Con. Walker expresses surprise at j the number of Confederate pension el's being greater than his estimate of Hie surviving soldiers of this State, based upon the membership of sur vivors and camps, ile should re member that while these camps are doing a noble work in maintaining the traditions of tho pas!, there are many Confederate soldiers who wore just as ready to die for their coun try and yet have not heralded their service or their virtues by joining such camps. They rest satisfied in the consciousness of duty well done. I would much prefer to take the rec ollections of the Confederate soldiers who made tho affidavits tis to the qualification of tho pensioner in pref erence to wild guesses and estimates. Again, while South Carolina was Hie first State to secede and did not wait on other States to como to her aid, yet she treats all volunteers from other States on the same basis as she does her own sons, and grants pen sions to soldiers of any State who fought In tho Confederate cause, who can establish that fact. So Con. Walker evidently overlooks the fact that a largo number of pensioners are from other States-In fact most of the Southern States aro represented on our roll-Virginia. North ( aro lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama i Mis sissippi, Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. Most of the other Southern States do the same* thing for South Carolina veterans now residing within their borders. Por instance, in Cherokee county lhere aro between 30 and 40 from North Carolina alone. In Spartan burg and York also a great many, and so on in other counties. in order that tho public may have full informal lon tho pension report of the Comptroller General is pub lished with the name of every soldier, his company and regiment. Copies of the report are distributed among all the boards, to the members of tho (louerai Assembly and to the public generally. They are subject to exam ination hy all, and whenever a name is found that, ls suspected of being improperly on the rolls, if the matter ls reported to tho Comptroller Gene ral. lt will receive prompt Investiga tion. The creation of Hie office of pen sion inspector would be, in my opin ion, a useless expense, and entirely out of place when no Confederate sol dier can be placed upon the roll with out proof of service and the approval of their comrades. Tho old soldiers, who receive a mere pit lance from the Slale, can ill afford lo have any of il paid out in Increased expenses of ad ministration. The amount is not suf ficient lo Justify a further reduction by increased expenditures for useless officers, Confederate soldiers, or any camps, or the public generally, are invited to examine the pension rolls of ibis State and are urged to call the aUen tion of tho Comptroller General to any fraud or any name thereon not entitled lo a pension, with evidence tending to provo tho charge. Such Informal ion will bo carefully consid ered and acted upon, A. W. Jones, Comptroller General, and Bx-Officio Chairman State Pension Hoard. AllOUT WHIPPING IN SCHOOLS, Judge- Prince Delivers Abie Clinrgo to Hampton County (?rund Jury. A dispatch from Hampton suv:;: The Court of General Sessions con vened boro this morning, Judge G. ?. Prince presiding, and quite a quan tity of bush.ess was transacted. The charge of Judge Prince to the grand jury was a gem of logic and reason. He. sppke at longth of the condition of schools, the schol system in South Carolina, the necessity of some su pervision by the members of the grand jury, and recommended some material changes In the 'present com mon school system, which would give to the teachers and to superintend ents of education higher salaries, and then getting better men, and gottfng them from other States If they can not be found in South Carolina. He told the grand jury that If they found any pupil In any Behool in the country who could not be whipped by the teacher, because of the fact that the parents of the child had forbidden whipping, that they, as grand jurors, should present the names of tho trustees of such school In order to hold the name of such parents up to public scorn. The Charge Of Judge Prince, will, no doubt, have Its effect for the better in this couu|y. Two Negroes Arrested for Crime. ? Orangeburg. Keb. 23.-Tuesday night John Moorer and .lohn Clover, negroes, were lodged in the county jail, having been arrested charged with the murder of a negro woman and child In the Providence section of Orangeburg county on last Friday night. This horrible crime, that of mur dering these unfortunate negroes and then burning the house in an attempt to hide their criminal acts, caused a great deal of sensation. The case has been pushed by Mr. Shuler, who lives In that neighbor hood, and he thinks he has the guilty parties apprehended. One of the prisoners, the younger, states that he was In the house at the time of the shooting and was the one that tired the house, but the other engro, who ls accused of the murder, says he was at home Intoxicated and stoutly de-' nies having any connection with the murder. Everybody's friend-Dr. Thomas' Eclectic Oil. Cures toothache, ear ache, sore throat. Heals cuts, bruises and scalds. Stops any pain. Hoys Shoot Sister's Caller. Spnrtanburg, Feb. 2 2.-For shoot ing and wounding Earl Wade last night, Claude and Carl Walker, both under seventeen years of age, were arrested on a warrant charging them with assault and battery with intent to kill, lt is said that the shooting took place ns Wade fled from the home of the young men's sister, through the hack door and yard. The sister, lt is said, ls married, but she and her husband have separated, and she was alone at the house when Wade called. According to the story told by Wade he went to the house upon invitation of the young woman, thal he found her nlonc, but that soon the Walker boys came to the door and knocked; that hearing the sound, the woman blew out the light and told him it would he best for bim to run. When he had gotten some distance from the,house, says Wade, the boys discovered that he was Hoeing, and following hitn in the yard, opened lire. One had it shotgun and the lit tle bird shot entered all parts of Wade's hack. The other had a 4 4 callbre pistol and fired at bim Ave times, but missed each shot. Claude and Carl Walker have hoon ai rested. Wade says that he did not know the young woman well when he wont to see her., in answer to her In vitation. Leaves $21,000 to Churches. The will of .lohn Kelti Wannamak er, who died recently at his home near St. Matthews, was recorded last week. His splendid real estate hold ings were known ol' all mon, but his cash stored away In banks, was a great surprise to the general public, and leaves lils fortune at a consider ably larger figure than was anticipat ed. His only son, of course, will get the bulk of his property. Besides minor bequests the Methodist church Of St. Matthews gets $20,000 and the Baptist church $1,000. He talked his business to no one and made no pi eleni ions to wealth during life, ex cept the Indulgence in fine horses and mules, which was his hobby, Fork and Ileana for Tuberculosis. Rutland, Vt., Feb. 23.-Slr Eiram Maxim's now theory that Boston baked beans and pork make the best diet for persons in tho Incipient stngos of tuberculosis Is being tested at thc State sanitarium hero under tho direction of Superintendent Phillp D. Bartlett. Benns and pork will bo served dally, beginning to-day. NATURK TKLdLiS YOU, As Many a Walhalla Header Knowe Too Wrell. When the kidneys are sick, Nature tells you all about lt. The urine ls nature's calendar. Infrequent or too frequent action; Any urinary trouble tells of kidney Ills. Donn's Kidney Pills cure all kid ney Ills. People In thig vicinity testlfv to this. Mrs. Mattie A. Dodd, 229 W. Mar ket street, Anderson, S. C., says: "I would not be without Donn's Kidney Pills in the- house, as I found them to bo very beneficial. My kidneys were weak, and 1 was bothered a great deal by too frequent passages of the kidney secretions. Donn's Kidney Pills did me moro good than any other remedy I had previously used and therefore, 1 highly recom mend thom." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, Now York, sole agents for the United Stntes. Remember the name-Donn's and take no other. Local News from Townville. Townville, Feb. 20.-Special: S. R. Fant ls visiting relatives In Texas. Miss Helen S pea res and Arlie Hol land were happily married Thursday, tho 16th, by Rev. T. C. Llgon. Mr. and Mrs. Holland left for Atlanta di rectly after the ceremony. They will make their home at Plains, Qa., near Americus. Miss Janie Gaines has N returned home after spending some time with friends In Charleston and John's Is land. Miss Nita Bruce, of Oakway. Is visiting her aunt, Miss M. A. Bruce. Josse Davis, of Sandy Springs, spent Saturday and Sunday with D. C. Holland. Mr. and Mrs. Fd. King, of Ander son, visited relatives here recently. J. K. Cheek and family are visit ing relatives at Buford, Ga. Miss Lucile Johnston ls spending a while with her brother, J. V. Johnson, in Anderson. Miss Valina Smith has gone to New York city to visit her aunt, Mrs. M. A. Horton. C. C. Harris and Jeter Campbell attended the district convention of | the Knights or Pythias at Donalds on tho 16th. A new girl has arrived at the home of H. W. Speares. R. H. Price and J. C. Boggs made a business trip to Atlanta last week. Mrs. Wm. Burwell visited relatives in Anderson recently. Mr. and Mrs. Lundie Richey are spending a while with Mrs. Richey's father. S. R. Fant. They will make their home at Fair Play. Mr. Jamison, of Greenville, ls at Townville representing the Hood Mu sic House of Greenville. Born, unto Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Fel ton, on January 21st, a daughter. W. M. Riley, of Anderson, visited Mrs. D. C. Holland last week. Oliver Milford and Miss /adie Hol land visited Otis Holland, In Ander son, Sunday. Uncle John Williams, a highly re spected colored man, died Friday, the I Otb. 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