Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More of Lees Interest Con densed Outside the State. The steamer Arkansas was sunk in a collision with another steamer off the Massachusetts coast on Sunday night. One life was lost. A tornado passed over Central Ok lahoma and part of Indian Territory on Friday. Two persons were killed and ten others were injured in the town of Owl, I. T., which was almost destroyed. Resolutions upon the death of Gen eral Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, were adopted by a rising vote of the Mass achusetts house of representatives. General Lee visited the Massachu setts h.ouse of representatives just prior to his death in Washington. The police of New York telegraph ed to Norfolk, Va., to arrest Susie Edwards, colored. The negro left a 9-year-old girl in the baggage room on the pier in New York and failed to call for her before the steamer sailed. Later the girl lapsed into an uncon scious state and was taken to a hos pital, where she died. President Roosevelt on Sunday night at Glenwood Springs. Col., en trtained at dinner his companions on his three weeks' hunt in the Rocky mountains. After the dinner the pres ident bade them an affectionate fare well and promised that all would live forever in his fondest memory. * In a street fight in Terrell, I. T., be tween Jo Mattehws, a farmer, and Bruce Roberts, Matthews was instant, ly killed. Matthews had objected to the attention of Roberts to his daugh ter. The night before he learned they were married, and, meeting them in the public road, fired on R berts, frightening the latter's team, the bride being injured in a runaway. The father took the daughter to his home. Later he and his son-in-law met at the livery stable, and Matthews was killed. nOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Throughout the State. A destructive fire, originated by lightning, has occurred in Cameron. At a large meeting of the Orange burg Cotton Growers association the plan to use tion bags instead of burlaps was heartily endorsed. Arrangements are being perfected for the meeting of the State Press association at White Stone Springs July 11-14. Ex-President Grover Cleveland was the guest of the Winyah Indigo society, of Georgetown, at its 192d annual banquet on Friday night. Thomas Howze, the son of a prom inent business man of Union, was found dead in a gasoline house in that town on Friday mornig. He had spoken of being sick, and it is suppos ed that descending the few steps in to the tank pit the fumes of the gaso line overcame him. As a result of the establishment of a New York branch of the depart ment of immigration, Commissioner of Immigration Watson is nowv pre pared to fill any call for any amount of labor witin sixty hours. The of fice has been simply swamped with applications from every section of the country, but especially from the northwest. A young white man named Daniel Driggers, living about four miles -from Mant.ing, attempted suicide or Friday afternoon by drinking w~his. key and laudanum. He was discover ed in time to save his life. Drigger! is only about 18 years old, and says he intended to kill himself simply be. cause he was tired of living. He is -well grown for his age, but has only one leg. One day a beautiful girl lookee out of her window, and saw her rud< brother on the pavement, walking about with his feet in the air. "Tom,' she said reprovingly, "don't Tom,] wouldn't do that, Tom--indeed wouldn't." "You wouldn't?" replie< the rude boy looking up and speaking with marked and malicious emphasis "You wouldn't? By Jacks, you could. MR. CLEVELAND ON WOMAN'S CLUB'S. Woman's Best Club Is The Home The Lash For Wife Beaters. Grover Cleveland, twice President of the United States, has an article on --Woman's Mission and Woman's Clubs" in the current number of the Ladies' Home Journal. He says, in part: "One who can remember a mother's love and a mother's care in childhood, or who has known in later days the joys a devoted wife brings to the life of man, ought to be able to calculate upon general experience so largely tallying with his own that he need not fear protest or dissent in treating of the scope and character of woman's mission. It is a melancholy fact, however. that our subject is actually one of difficult approach; and it is a more melancholy fact that this ap proach is made difficult by a dislo cation of ideas and by false perspec tives on the part of women them selves. To those of us who suffer periods of social pessimism, but who. in the midst of it all, cling to our faith in the saving grace of simple and unadulterated womanhood, any discontent on the part of woman with her ordained lot, or a restless desire on her part to be and to do something not within the sphere of her appoint ed ministrations, cannot appear otherwise than as perversions of a gift of God to the human race. "The restlessness and discontent to which I have referred is most strong ly manifested in a movement which has for a long time been on foot for securing to women a right to vote and otherwise participate in public af fairs. Let it here be distinctly under stood that no sensible man has fears of injury to the country on account of such participation. It is its danger ois, undermining effect on the char acters of the wives and mothers of our land that we fear. This particu lar movement is so aggressive, and so extreme in its insistence, that those whom it has fully enlisted may well be considered as incorrigible. At a very recent meeting of these radicals a high priestess of the faith declared: -No matter how bad the crime a wo man commits, if she can't vote, and is classed with idiots and criminals and lunatics, she should not be punished by the same laws as those who vote obey.' This was said when advocat ing united action on the part of the assembled body to prevent the execu tion of a woman proved guilty of the deliberate and aggravated niurder of her husband. The speaker is report ed to have further announced as ap parently the keynote of her address: 'f we could vote we'd be willing to be hanged.' It is a thousand pities that all the wives found in such company cannot sufficiently upon their minds to see the complete fitness of the homely definition which describes a good wire as 'a woman who loves her husband and her country, with no de sire to run either;' and what a blessed thing it would be if every mother and every. woman, whether mother, wife. ister, or maid, who either violent ly demands or wildly desires for wo men a greater share in the direction of public affairs, could realize the ev erlasting truth that 'the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.' "There is comfort in the reflection that. even though these extremists may not be amenable to reformation, there is a fair prospect that their manifest radicalism and Lheir blun: a vowal of subverting purposes will ef fectively warn against a dangerous widt. acceptance of their theories. "The real difficulty and delicacy of our topic becomes most apparent when we come to speak of the less virulent and differently directed cil movemens that have crossd the ever tenor of the way of womanhood. do not include those movements which amount to nothing more thar woman's association or co-operatior in charitable, benevolent and religiou: work, largely l'ocal in its activities and in all its qualities and purposes eniry fitted to a woman's highesi nature and best impulses. I speal more especially of the women's clubs of an entircly different sort whici have grown up in all sec+rions of oui land, and which have already becom< so numerous that in the interests a: their consolidated management National Federation of Woman' lubs have been created. I speak al THE PACIFIC MUTUAL Life Insurance Cnmpany of California Organized 1868 on "Old Line" Plan. Read what one who is recognized au thority on the subject, has to say: "Of late the magazines and daily papers have ' much to say by way of criti cism of certain Life Insurance Compa nies, and especially with regard to the Legal Organization of such Companies, and of the manner of their control. These CRITICISMS do not apply to The Pacific Mutual, but DEMON STRATE the Truth of the Assertion that 'for POLICY-HOLDERS The Pacific Mutual has the BEST Legal organization." It is not controlled by ONE or Two men, having no pecuniary interest or responsibility save as policy holders, or recipients of salary; But it is contro'led by a BOARD of fifteen Directors, not mere dummies, but Stock holders in their own right, holding a large amount of the Company's stock, and Policyholners as well. The Direc tors of the Company are men of high Financial and Commercial standing, and are by LAW made RESPONSIBLE for the acts of the Officers of the CORPO RATION. "The Company has a capital stock of $500,000 Fully paid up in GOLD coin, but while this Capital and the Stock I holders' responsibility afford to Policy. holders the GREATEST possible Secur ity, it Costs participating Policyholders NOTHING, but every dollar paid into the Company by them and the ACCU MULATION thereon, is applied to their BENEFIT. There is no Other LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY trans;; acting business in America whose Pol icyholders, by Legal enactment, are so Safe-guarded as are the Policyholders of The Pacific Mutual." Call on or write to me, ROBERT NORRIS, Genl. Agt. for S. C., Newberry, S. C. Office over Post Office. so of the vast number of associations less completely organized, but no less exacting of time and attention, whose professed purposes are in many in tances the intellectual improvement or entertainment of the women com posing their membership. Doubtless in numerous cases the objects of these clubs and associations are shown in such a light and are made to appear so good, or at least so harm less, that a conscientious woman, un less she makes a strong fight against self-delusion, may quite easily per suade herself that affiliation with them would be certainly innocent and perhaps even within the dictates of duty. The danger of self-delusion lies in her supposition that she is con sulting the need of relaxation or the duty of increased opportunity for in tellectual improvement, when in point of fact, and perhaps imperceptibly to herself, she is taking counsel of her discontent with the humdrum of her home life." After considering the woman's club as a weapon of retaliation upon man for neglect of his home and suggest ing that the retaliation may fall upon the innocent as well as the guilty, Mr. Cleveland says "it may safely be as sumed that among those who are most disturbed by the growth of wo man's clubism the sentiment is uni versal that man's neglect of woman is a dastardly offence and that the whip ping post for wifebeaters would be a wholesome feature of our crimninal law." He goes on: "I am persuaded that without exag geration of statement we may assume that th.ere are woman's clubs whose objects and intents are not only harmful, but harmful in a way thai directly menaces the integrity of omi homes and the benign disposition and character of our wifehood and moth erhood; that there are others harm less in intent, but whose tendency is toward waste of time and perversior of effort, as well as toward the for mation of the club habit, and the tol eration or active patronage of less innocent organizations; that there ar< also associations of women whos< purposes of charity, religious enter; prise or intellectual improvement ar< altogether laudable and wor:hy Leaving this latter class out of ac count, and treating the subject on the -theory that only the other organiza tions mentioned are under considera tion, I believe that it should be boldi: declared that the best and safest cini for a wo~man to patronize is; hei Why Rob Yourself of More Than 3 Cents per Pound On Cotton? Do you want to get from 10 to 11 cents for cotton next fall while other cotton only brings 6 1-2 to 7 cts? Do you want to. grow cotton that will bring a difference in price sufficient to more than pay for the picking and fertilizer? In fact will almost cover the en- I tire expense of making!the crop? If so, I can furnish you the seed. Every ten bales will bring $125 00 to $150.00 more than other varieties. 50 bush els will plant 50 to 60 acres, should make 40 to 50 bales, put in your pocket from $500. 00 to $750.00. One year's experience with these seed will convince you that this state ment is true. I am planting I only Florodora this year. Well bred Berkshire and Poland China Pigs for Sale. J. A. BURTON. Fourt of t Choice Tern Just RE While it last Best Patent, cottc Best Half Patent, Best Straight $5.: Best Fresh Meal I Best Grits, sack $ Everything guarantei MOSELE Just a OF' Time, I We wish to call your Spring and Summer C A dollar expended with us will d We offer the trade our best effort best. 'The prices the lowest for th< We offerlsome dainty Mercerized in price from ioc. to Soc. yd. We have nice line Knickerbock Diities, Ducks, DeLaines and otb are dreams for waists or dre&ses. Riverside Plaids, Southern Silks, C Our Shoes are built to wear. Q1 sell Groceries. Get prices and see S. S. Bi Procilpe3 COME Soc IWhenever you start out on a * This plan will save you man' * time. if we haven't just wha - We shall not urge you to buy - goods as soon as youcan. It every way to make selections + MAYES' DI Dr. R. M. Kennedy, DENTIST. Newber,, - - S. C. OVER NATIONAL BANK. Just received 2 car loads of Buggies. I car load of Wagons. and a lot of up to-date and first class Harness. All to be had at REASONABLE PRIGES at A T. BROWN. h Car hat essee Flour ceived. s it goes for n $6.00 cotton $5.35 25 5 cents. 1.75 d fresh and all right, Y BROS. Minute OU R lease.' attention to our line of >ods. double duty. Try it. sin selections. The styles are the best goods. Waistings, Skirtings, &c., ranging uitings, Brousse Stripes, Callalettes,. er dress goods. Our Tussoh Silks heviots. Cottonades, &c r as Shirts are beauties We styles. Yours at xious to pleast-. rge Co. N AND SEE: shopping tour come here flrst@ unnecessary steps and mnuch* tyou want then look elsewhere@ btt we do wish you to see our' will be to your advantage in* before the final rush begins* UG STORE.*