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/CAPITOL OF SO Facts A/bout .3^din? plet 0 ? ?olumbv The splendid granite edifice which is the official domicile of the State of South Carolina,i after, having been 50 years in building, io at last nearing completion. Designed originally to cost $5,000,000 and intended, as some of the political patriarchs of the State aver, to serve as the capitol of the Southern Confederacy, ifc is to-day but a semblance of the oonoeption of John R. Niernsee, who designed it. As it stands, it has cost the State of South Carolina $2,500,000. It is in timately associated with many tragic incidents in the State's history, and has become already one of the histori? structures of the country. At the session of the General As* cembly of 1850, while the State was in the throes of the first great agitation of the secession question, which end ed in the affirmation of the right of a State to secede, the legislative com mittee on the State house repoi ted that the State records were in dagger of destruction by fire, and recom mended that a fire-proof building be ereoted for their safe-keeping. In consequence of this report, the appro priation bill that year contained a clause authorizing the use of the pro ceeds of the sale of lots in the city of Columbia for this purpose. No bill authorizing the erection of a pew State house waB passed, although it is clear that it was the intention of the leaders at that time to provide for the erection of a creditable publio building. Judge O'Neal gave the credit to Hon. Benjamin Hunt of "leading the legislature imperceptibly into the scheme of building anew State house." The cornerstone of a two-story building wai laid December 15, 1851. This buildibg was erected on the square then pceupied by the old State house, iron iug on Main street, the old building then standing a.t the cor ner of Senatfe and Assembly streets. It was a midist structure, intended to serve as a ling of the projected capi tol. It wasUbout completed at a cost of $250,000 hod some of the records had been re loved to it, in the sum mer of 1854, vhen the commissioners in charge nc teed cracks in the door and window .robes. These - defects, becoming mo| pronounced, the com missioners . endpyed John R. Niern see, then r?ding in ;Baltimore, as consulting a&iiteet. Niernsee had designed the^mftfesonian > institute and many otheVamous buildings, and was one of themremost architects of his time. ?rclteet Niernsee abso lutely condemn! the struts tore, aud' under his advioait was razed to the ground, only a pltio.n of theioiinda-. lions being leftlwhich now remain . under the west rail of the present capitol. It was ten that Niernsee designed the structure which now stands, the General Assembly giving sanotion to an issufcf bonds for the "continuation" of tl construction of a new State capitol The adjoining square was purchase A and the build ing located upon its puent site. In anticipation of %e approaohing great conflict the work was feverishly pushed until the war plptioally stop ped it. A tramway w? constructed to the granite quarries % the river; and hundreds of labonU were em ployed quarrying and tpssing the huge pieoes of granite reqfted. When the work of building was Aus rudely stopped, the talented araitect ex changed his. drawing , inst&ieots for the sword, and did valianAprvioe in the army of the Southern Cofederaoy. On that momentous day tmhe peo ple of this State, February ?, 1865, when the army oommandedHy Gen. W. T. Sherman reached thfieights across the Congaree River ov?feoking Columbia?at Casey's?MaycsQood win surrendered the city, Jmt was absolutely dj^euseless. Notwioatand ing this defenseless condition A city was shelled and the n?w capitJUitk its white walls completed to thdjl?ize lipe^was the mark of every/gftjer. Several shells entered the barAjn dow openings, and five struo?he building, but made little impreVhn upon its massive walls. V - The old State house was one of?e 1,400 buildings destroyed by (ft Sherman's army,, and .the granit A the southeast corner of the new on tel was flaked off by the fire which A stroyed the old building. At tfl time there was a large quantity L drassed marble and other material fd the building on the ground. Th ar?hiteot estimated th? value of thn . destroyed by,. Gen. Sherman at $700, 000, besides the mutilation of th beautiful marble in place on the fron and rear porticos wh?ch is st?ll appai ant. A min? was prepared uader th building to completely destroy il when a report reached the city that wing of the arrnv ahove Cidumbia hi been attacked by Hampton's cavalrj Gen. Sherman ; ordered the powder rif UTH CAROLINA. I Now Hearing Com ion. r % State. moved, with the remark- that it would be a Uschis wagte of ammunition, and that he would "leave the people bo -poor that they would never com plete it," hastening his departure from the city, then in Smoking ruins. Work oontinued in a desultory man ner until 1890, when it was entirely discontinued, until the session of the General Assembly of 1900, whioh ap propriated $175,000 for the additions now being made, undor plans of Ar chitect Frank P. Milbura. A dome was adopted in lieu of the granite tower originally intended to surmount the structure. The granite work upon the old build ing is pronounced by experts to bo without exoeptioq tho finest in the United States, not excepting the splcpdid buildings of the national government at Washington. The massive square pillars in the lower corridor are hewn from a single block of granite, and are finished in the best manner known to stone outters. It was intended that the entablature of the front pediment, whioh was actual ly quarried and on the grouud at the close of the war, but was never dress ed, and during the reconstruction period the.' legislature donated a por tion of it for a monument to a negro politioian, when it was out in two. This is said to have been the largest piese of granite at that time ever quar ried in the United States. During the disgraceful period whioh followed the.war, when the people of the North were endeavoring to secure tae politi cal rights of tho negro by overriding those of the intelligent and property owning people of this State, all mate rial on the grouud small enough to be moved was "appropriated," with all [other property of tho State, by the scalawags aud thieves then in control of the government. One hundred thousand dollars was expended in "furnishing" the State house with desks, etc.. that would have been ex horbitant at one quarter of the prices charged, and included such items as a silver plated water pitcher for the governor's office at $1,500, cuspidorn at $18 eaoh, and other articles in pro portion. ? majority of the membara of the House of Representatives could not write their names, while a ma jority of the members of the Senate wore in the habit of settling their per sona) 'accounts by orderB upon the contingent, fjond -of ' the Senate. In cluded in necessary "oupplies" for the General Assembly were enormous quantities of champagne and whiskey, which was freely dispensed in the lit tle room on the right as you enter the gallery of the Senate. 'It was in this room that John J. Patterson, eleoted to the United States Senate, declared that thero would be "five years more of good stealing in South Carolina," whioh became a Democratic slogan. The beautiful Corinthian columns, cut from a single piece of granite, are noteworthy , speoimsns of the stone cutters' skill, while the massive foun dations of out-stone containg many inverted arches to distribute the weight, are marvels to modern build ers. The building was first ocoupied by the General Assembly of 1869. Dur ing the exciting events which followed the campaign of 1876, it was literally bombarded by the opposing political parties, and two bodies eaoh claiming to be the legally eleoted. House, of Representatives and eaoh with ' its complement of officers, meeting in the Banie r?oriS?the hall of the House of Representatives?a pitched battle watt iminent, until the recognition of the* Democratic speaker by former Repub licans gave a deoisive turn to affairs. Scrofula, Ulcers, Cancer, Skin Troubles. At Last a Cure?Trial Treatment Free. Is your skin palid, palo or blood' thin ? Are you easily tired or as tired in the morning as when you went to bed ? Is there loss of strength ? Are you all run down ? Aches and pains in bones, joints or back ? Weak eyes or stye on the eyes ? If so, you have the poiaon of scrofula in your blood, and the least sickness, scratch or blow will bring 10 the surface all the horri ble symptoms of this terrible blood disease?ulcers, awellings,eating sores, foul breath, bumps or risings, boils, abscessed, white swelling, itching skin humors, eruptions, aohea in bones, joints and musoles, cancer, catarrh, etc. If you are tired of doctoring, taking patent medicines and are not cured, then try B. B. B. (Botanio Blood Balm.) It is made especially for obstinate, deep-seated blood trou bles, and cures the worst cases after [all else fails. B. B. B. makes new, ich blood and tnvilds up the weakened tody, stops all the aches and pains and [mais every sore, giving the rioh glow ? health to the skin. Over 3,000 duntary testimonials of oures of lood and skin diseases by using B. B. Thoroughly tested for 30 years. >rge bottles $1. Trial treatment [e by addressing Blood Balm Com v. Atlanta. Ga., Describe trouble free confidential medical advice m. For salo by Hill-Orr Drug Co., bite & Wilhite and Evans Thar An Irish Hemorrhage. _ Billy Stuart is our with a brand-new yarn, and it is a good one. Mr. Stu- i art, with a number of bachelor friends, lives on McMillan street, near Woud ?awu avenue, East Walnut Hills. He usually takes a constitutional short walk each morning, and not long since noticed that the upper parts of the telephone poles in the vicinity of his residence were being decorated with coats of vivid green paint. One morning as he was passing one the poles an Irishman seated on top carelessly let drop a can of green paint. 1 It struck the sidewalk, and was lib erally spattered about ; none of it, however, by exceeding good luck, be smirched the immaoulate trousers of Mr. Stuart. A moment later another Irishman appeared upon the scene and noticing the green paint spilled all over tho sidewalk, looked up and anxiously in quired of his comrade aloft : "Doherty, Dohert y h&v' ye had a hemorrhage ?"?Ginoinnati Enquirer. A Death Bed Recognition. "Uncle Jimmie" was aman who had a reputation for "tightness" in busi ness affairs which clung to him the entire 80 years of his existence. When he was stricken with what proved to be his last illness, a neigh bor came to see him who had heard he was near unto death. The family was gathored about the room in various stages of grief?he had not been an overly kind husband and father?and the sick man lay on the bed with closed eyes and labored breathing. "See if he knows you," said the wif?, tearfully, to the neighbor, who tiptoed to thp side of the bed and leaned over the oooupant. "Uncle Jimmie, do you know me?" asked the neighbor gently. A de?p silence hung over the room. Finally "Uncle Jim" slowly opened his^ey?s and fixed' them, intently on the questioner. "Know you?" he echoed feebly. "I reckon 1 do! There's that gallon of vinegar you owe mo?" The neighbor had to acknowledge the recognition was complete.?H. C. Wood in Lippincott's Magazine. ?- m o m - Value of Corn Stalks. Corn may be grown for the stalks only, some day, and uot for the ears. Wouldn't it be funny to be experi menting for an earless ccrs? That is what it is likely to come to if the uses of the corn stalks keep on developing. Just now it is neck and neck between the stalks and the ear as to which is tho more valuable, so the wise farmer is making good money selling his corn stalks instead of burn ing them. The uses for corn stalks are very many. The agricultural department has made publio a bulletin showing that they may be used for these among other purposes: A paoking for warshiys; a high grade of writing paper; the basis of a smokeless powder; and a cattle food made by grinding it to a powder and mixing it with cheap molasses. The new food is pressed into cakes under a hydraulic press and ean be shipped as easily as bricks or cord wood. For feeding ' it is broken up and mixed with water. Aotual tests have been made and samples have been aent to agricultural stations in Europe. Reports from'all sourees are very encouraging. This food will be particularly valuable for. our eavalry in the tropios, and the food cakes can be made at minimum coat i? Cuba and the Southern States, where thousands of tons of low grade molasses goto waste :annually.?Kansas City Jour nal. - ill.? ? mm ' A Good Recommendation. "I have noticed that the sale on Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Ta blets is almost invariably to those who have once used them,1' says Mr. J. H. Weber, a prominent druggist of Cas cade, Iowa. What better recommen dation oonld any medioine have than for people to oall for it when again in need of such a remedy ? Try them when you feel dull after eating, when you have a bad taste in your mouth, feel bilious, have no appetite or when troubled with constipation, and you are certain to be delighted with the prompt relief which they will afford. For sale by Orr-Gray & Co. ? An effort is to be made to remove a large red oak tree from the wildest section of Arkansas to Forest Park, St. Louis, without injuring it. The tree is 160 feet high and twelve feet in diameter at the base. A double tramway will be built from the tree to the river, where it will be floated and towed to St. Louis. It is esti mated that this will occupy six months. Prickly Ash Bitters cures the kid neys, regulates the liver and purifies the bowels. A valuable system tonic. Evans Pharmaoy. ? Dr. Price?r"Your husband's trouble is melancholia. Now, you'd help him materially if you'd only ar range some pleassnt little surprise for him." Mrs. Sharpe?"I know! I'll tell him you said he needn't bother about paying your bill until ho feels ! like it." The Fanner and His (hen. * An old farmer in Arkausas has tour c oxen which he uses for farming pur- \\ poses, and named them Presbyterian, h baptist, Episcopalian and Methodist, | t respectively. When asked why he gave them such j ^ queer names, he replied: "I call this ox Presbyterian because he is truo blue and never fails; pulls through difficulties and holds out to the end; besides, ho knows moro than all the rest. I call this ox Baptist bo cause he is always after water, and seems though he'd never get enough; and then again ho won't eat with the others. I call this ox Episcopalian because he bas a mighty way of hold ing his head up, and if lus yoke gets a little too tight he tries to kick and crawl clear out of tho track. I oall this ox Methodist beoause he puffs and blows and bellows as he goes along, and you'd think ho was pull ing all creation, but he doesn't pull a pound unless you continually stir him - ? ? mm ? The hymn, "Nearer, My God, to Theo," which President McKinley | murmured in his dying hour, was | written by Mrs. Sarah Flower Adams, j who was born in 1805. It was a re- j cord of her own religious experience, and was written as a memorial of an swered prayer, probably without any expectation that it would be of public service. It was furnished, with thir teen other hymns, to Charles Fox's "Collection of Hymns and Anthems," published in London in 1841. ? Why do not cows sit down to rest the same as dogs? "Why docs a- j < dog turn around three times before he lies down? Why does a cow get up from the ground hind end first and a horse fore end first? Why does a squirrel come down a tree head first and a cat tail first? Why does a mule kick with its hind foot aud a sheep with its fore foot? ? Edward Beaupr?, of the Province' of Assinibpine, Canada, claims to be the tullc?t man in th<> work*. His exact height, i- seven feet : u and three quarter inches, and he is still j growing and expects t'< reach the ' eightrfoot mark. Ho is twenty years I ohi, wears u No. '1\ shoo and a No. 21 j collar. i ? 1 But 1 dou't see why your wife j was angry with you for buying your self a new hat. You say it was ouly two dollars and a half." ''That's all'; but you see, she had her heart set on one for herself that she said was only eighteen.'' . ? In 300 years the average length of human life has been doubled. In the sixteenth century it was between eighteen and twenty years; at the close of tho eighteenth century it was a little over thirty years, and to-day it is over forty years. ? Kate?"Martha deolares that the men are all alike." Edith?"Then you can't blame her if she takes the first one that comes along. You may depend upon it, that's just what she will do." ? Love laughs at so many other thing besides locksmiths, according to daily news reports, that it surely must keep up a continual giggle. Lightning i.rtd Wi?ov/c. all my forty years' expert- I neb with trees and planta," said a 'pll known gardener, "I have yet to I ear ot" a willow tree being struck y lightning. Spruce trn?>, white-: ood and pine trees almost seem to ttract the electricity. Oak and oth r largo trees and even many small roes nre often maimed and killed. 5ut willow trees seem, for some rea ort, to bo immune to death or in ury in this shape, and I have never een or even heard of a tree of this amily which lightning has ever truck."?Cleveland Leader. Respect of Elders. Respect of elders is the paralysis if the young. The young have a nance of clear vision, but in this, dossed country they only see what heir elders expect them to see. only hink what their elders expect them o think. So they grow into elders vho learn nothing with years but :c save themselves the trouble of blinking. Listen to the grave talk )f your elders, and you will hear lasncd newspaper.?-Julian Sturgi? n "Stephen Calinari." ? Some under dog-* seem to chew tarder in that position titan when hey are on top. ? iV man always feeU contemptible ffhen he lets a girl kiss him against ter will. ? The world was made f.>r mm and nan for woman. ? The mau who wants tin- earth nvariably gets it?when he tiios. ? "When you have it it's prosperity; vheu the other fellow has it ir,'* luck. ? About tho time a man ???ts used ;o being a husband he has tu begin to ret used to being a father. neiBtftsn Rheumatic pains are the cries of protest and distress from tortured musc!e , aching {'oints and excited nerves. The blood ha= tecu poisoned by the accumulation oi waste matter in the system, nnd can no longer supply the pure and health sustain ing food they require. The whole systcn feels the effect oi this acid poison ; and not until the blood has been j untied tuul brought back u> a. healthy condition will the ache:, and p?iha cease. Mrs. Jamci >V .!, r ; ; Ninth street. N. T'. Washington, C.;*vHtc.4 as i >M : "A fev, months ago i hudati ttacls of Scie . Rhc?tua tisminitswor??. form. The pain wast > intense that I became completely pros, trati-1. The attack was an unusuallv severe one, mid my condition v us regard* edits being very danger ous. I was attended by one of the most nWc doc tors in Washington, who is also a member of the fac ility of a lending medical College here. He told me to continue his prescrip- ..?.. , tions and I would tret well. After having it filled twelve times without receiving the slightesl benefit, I declined to continue hi9 treatment ani longer. Having heard of S. S.S.t Swift's Specific] recommended for Rheumatism, I decided, nlmo&i in despair however, to give the medicine a txiul and alter I had taken a few bottles I was abie t< hobble around on crutches, aud very soon there after had no use for them at all, S. S. S. having cured tne sound aud well. AH the distressing pains have left me, my appetite has returned and I am happy to be agaiu restored to perfed health. Sthe great vegetable purifier and tonic, it the ideal remedy in all rheumatic troubles. There are no opiates oi minerals in it to disturb the digestion and lead to ruinous habits. We have prepared a special book on Rheumatism which every sufferer from this painful disease should read. It is the most complete and interesting book oi the kind in existence. It will be aent free to any one desiring it. Write our physi cians fully and freely about your case. Wfl make no charge for medical advice. ^ THE SWIFT *PEC!F!C CO., ATLANTA. OA. Mnaumnn.unBM mix. ACHING KIDNEYS Urinary troubles, Palpitation of the heart, Conetipatloa and atom* ach diaordert, yield at once to Prickly Ash Bitten It is marvelous kidney tonic and eystem cleanaer, atrengttaena the tired kidneys, helps digestion, vegu lates the bowels. PRICE, S1.00. OLD BY ALL DRUQQIGTG. EVANS PHARMACY Special Agents. READ THIS CAREFULLY. WHAT a delightful seuse of pride ther*- is in the ownership of a? WHEELOCK ? OR - iVERS &. POND PIANO! Well, that's but natural, and shows a well developed discrimination and su perior artistic conception. Come see a tew sample* at our place. Study then carefully, compare their loues, one with the other. Plenty here to select from no difference what your taste may dictate. Prices regulated entirely bj quality. We have mere? Sewing Mach.in.ee Than we have room for. Several kinus to select from. If you've the roon and ueed we will be glad to arrange the preliminaries THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE. Slightly Disfigured but Still in the Ring ! YES, we have dhfiured the Hayea Stock considerably the po?t six wtekf but still have tome Bargains left in? shoe s. Hats, Pants and Notions of all Kinds. I am adding on a Stock of? ~ Groceries, Sugar, Coffee and Flour. Try a Barrel of Bramford, Clifton or Spotless, and am sure you will b pleased. White Wine Vinegar 25e, per gallon. C M. 5UCHAKAN, Masonic Temple. CHA^ pk Kl). <;. bbowx, Pres. nul Trotif i t.-vn k .v. bui:btd?k, r;?i?orln*. dent, OFF ICK OF Bl RKI?S, S<1 rotary, ANDERSON FERTILIZER COMPANY, - MANUFACTURERS OF - All Grades Fertilizers, Acid Phosphates, ? AND IMPORTERS OF ? German Kainit, Muriate of Potash and Nitrate of Soda. Wc use Tennessee Kock, which ruus higher in Bone Phosphate than any other Rock in the Country. WHEAT GROWERS, TAKE NOTICE ! And Enter your name for the following Prizes : First Prize Oder. First best yield on Six Acres of Wheat? One Fanner's Favorite Grain Drill, worth $70.00. Second best yield on Six Acres of Wheat? One Ton Standard Guano, 8-2 A?1. Third best yield on Six Acres of Wheat Half Ton Standard Blood Guano, 8-2 A?1. Second Prlvso Oll'or. First best yield on Three Acres of Wheat? One Ton High Grade Super-Phos., 10 per cent Ava. i Second best yield on Three Acres of Wheat? I Half Ton High Grade Super-Phoa., 10 per cent Ava. I Third best yield on Three Acres of Wheat? Half Tou High Grade Super-Phos., 10 per cent Ava. Third ??rlzo OlVer. First best yield One Acre of Wheat?One Ton High Grade 10-2 Acid Phos. Second best yield One Acre of Wheat?Half Ton High Grade 10-2 Acid Phos. Third best yield One Acre of Wheat?Half Ton High Grade 10-2 Acid Phos. The following terms must be complied with by those entering contest : 1st. You must fill out the blank hereto attached, sign your name, and cut out this advertisement in full and return to us. 2ud. You are to choose one disinterested ucigbbor, vre are too choose one, and the two aro to choose a third. You will enter the name of your represen tative in the blank space found below. od. The tbrco men named will act in the capacity of judges, measure the land designated by you, which must be in one body, see that nothing but the Brands of the Anderson Fertilizer Company aro applied for fertilizing, and finally to measure the wheat when threshed, place the result in a sealed en velope and mail to us. 4th. None other than the products of the Anderson Fertilizer Company shall be used by those entering this contest on-land designated. yth. All contestants must fill out and sign this advertisement, and return to this office before the first day of December, 1001. 0th. Each winner of a prize is required to write out in detail how tho re sult was obtained by telling us how the land was prepared, with what imple ments, how much fertilizers and grade wcro applied to the acre, what crop grown on the land previous to sowing the wheat, when planted, and anything of interest that will show the best method to produce wheat in this State. 7th ? .S. C,. 1001. Anderson Fertilizer Co., Anderson, S. C. Gentlemen : 1 will enter the contest for one of the three prizes offered by you for the best yield in bushels threshed from.acres of wheat as per terms set forth in your advertisement hereto attached. I name . .".as my representative. (Sign here) . 8th. The three judges of each e< utc&tunt should bo in - neighbors. .State j i:i blank space left l'or same, whether you arc contesting for the Six Acre or ; Three Acre or One Aero Prisse. After all results have boon received by us wc j will name a day, not later than August 1st, 1002, to com par o results, in the presence of such contestants as may be here, and award the prizes. Yours truly, ANDERSON* FERTILIZER CO. DIRECTIONS?One every night. " 25c. By mail. EVANS PHARMACY. A Well Furnished Home la not necessarily an expensively furnished one, as at TOLLY'S hand even sumptuous, FURNITURE is procurable without great outlay Not that we deal in knocked-iogether made-to-sell sort, but because we are content with a reasonable profit on really good articles of Furniture Our best witness is the Goods them selves. Yours truly G. F. TOLLY & SON, The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers, Depot St., Anderson, 8. C. o H 0 Q < 25 O < M H m ta o B ? M S > & 2 S ? " ? ? > H o :? 8 g H O ?3 te CELEBRATED Acme Paint and Cement Cure Specially used on Tin Roofs and Iron "Work of any kind. For sale by? ACME PAINT & CEMENT CO. Reference : F. B. GRAYTON & CO., DruggiBts, Anderson, S. C.