The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, April 27, 1898, Image 4
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to the Seat--empj;~ --
Jane.
In this dEca
Gcd in th: - U
ear at dz:
prayer: P
that ro
hear
zintin, . Sc s
of buidi' 11Z e : may a mau a
sublime lif- . -C - .en dm
cathedrais. St. Pa.' i -. Pet' '
and sich o-f tc~ :3Ta a empl
and Alambra d &ae
monumEn!s t 11-. : those
who bui'l T!1. B3- r - dr
than any a:chI tnev e -:,r ed or an
transep' w'-doW th- .y.r illuminec
or any Co: ni-n calumn 1.7 e-- e
crowned or ay ,- s they
ever elabormd :s e ear.
Among the m -: ,;';i'u'and sssc
uous physicl o u tim"- have
been those wio a ae . Cn -eime
to ihe examinat'ioa e r .nd tie
study of i's .orc, ez, ~:s ita "cor,
its 2anals, its--- s - g res
its inltricci. as cn oln its
divine Ya'i- ad y- ' i- w tae
another thousand -r cefere the
world ccn-es to ai?f adeuate appreei
ation of what Gd.d r -n ne plan
ned ard eec-dt. e InEuite and
overmstErZ arcie::re Of the hu
man ear. The C. oi'.: ible,
and the mi-coe -reaks down
in the t.ot t explcraLuon.
The cartilage w ic' w call ihe ear ,s
only the storm door of we great tem
ple clear down cut of sight ..xt door
to the immortal soul.
Such Ecientisis as HoAmbol'z and
Conte and Da B'ainville and Rank and
Buck have attempted to walk the Ap
pian way of the 'human ear, but the
mysterious pathway has never been
fully trodden but by two feet-the
foot of sound and the foot of sod.
Three ears on each side tae head-the
external ear, the middle ear, the in
ternal ear-but -ll connected by most
wonderful telegraphy.
The external ear in all ages adorned
by precious stones or precious metals.
The temple of Jernalem partly built
by the contribution of earrings, and
Homer in the "Iliad" spears of Hera,
"the three bright drcps, her glittering
gems suspended from the ear," and
many of the adornments of modern
times were only copies of her ear
jewels found in Pompeiian museum
and Etruscan -vase. But while the
outer ear may be adcrned by human
art, the middle and the internal ear
are adorned and garnished only by
the hand of the Lord Almighty. The
stroke of a key of yonder organ sets
the air vibrating, and the external ear
catches the undulating scund and
passes it on thrcugh the bonelets of
the middle ear to the internal ear,
and the 3,(00 fibers of the human
brain take up the vibration and roll
the sound on into the soul. The hid
den machinery of the ear by physiol
ogists called by the names of things
familiar to us, iike~ tuac aammer, some
thing to strike; like the anvil, some
thing to be smitten: like the stirrup
of the saddle with which we mcunt
the steed; like the drum, beaten in the
march; iike the harpsirings, to be
swept with music. Coi~e~i like a "snail
shell" by which one of the innermost
passages of the ear is actually called;
like a stairway, the scund to ascend ;
like a bent tube of a heating apparat
us, taking that which enters round
and round; like a labyrinth with
wonderful passages into which the
thought enters only to be lost in be
wilderment. A muscle contracting
when the noise is too loud, just as the
pupil of the eye contracts when the
light is too glaring. Tue external ear
is defended by wax which vi.h its
bitterness disconrages insectile inva
sion. The internal ear imbedied int by
~what is far the hardest bone of the
human system, a very rock off strength
and defiance.
The ear so strange a contrivance
that by the estimate of one scientist it
can catch the sound of 73.000 vibra
tions in a second. The cuter ear tak
ing in all lainds of sound, whether the
crash of an avalanche or the hum of a
bee. The sound passilng to tbe inner
door of the outside ear halts until an
other mechanism, divine mechanism,
passes it on by the bonelets o1 the
middle ear, and, coming to the inner
dcor of that secoxnd ear, the sound has
nio power to come farther until an
other divine mechanismn passes it on
through into the inner ear, and then
the sound ccmes to the rail track of
the brain branchlet and rolls on and
on until it comns to sensation, and
there the curtain drops, and a hund
red gates shu-, and the voice of God
seems to say to all human inspection,
"Thus far and no farther."
In this vestle of the palace of the
soul how many ki :gs of thought, of
medicine, of physiology, have done
penance of lifelong study and got no
farther than the vestibule. Mysterious
home of reverberation and echo.
Grand Central depot of sound. Head
quarters to w.hich there come quick
aispatches, part the way by cartilages,
part the way by air, pa-t the way by
bone, part the way by nerve-the
slowest dispatch pianging into the ear
at the speed of 1,Ct2 feet a second.
Small instrument of music on which
is played all the music you ever
heard, from the grandeurs of an Au
gust thunderstorm to the softest
breathings of a iute. Small instru
ment of music, only a guarter of an
inch of surface aia thie thinness of
one-two hundred and fiftieth part of
an inch and that thinness divided in
to three lay er s. In ti-at ear musical
staff, lines, spaces, Lar and rest. A
bridge leading iromt it e outside natu
ral warld to the i aside spiritual world;
we seeing the aburzient at this end
the bridge, but the log of an unlifted
mystery hiding the atmrent on the
other end the bridge. Whispering
gallery of the soul. Troe human voice
is God's eulogy the ear. That voiace
capable of producing 17 592,180,044,
415 sounds, and all that varjeby made
not for tue regalemnt~ of beast or bird
but for the human ear.
About 15 years ago, in Venice, lay
down in death one whorm many con
sidered the grma:est muical composer
of the century. Gtraglng all the
way on to 7o years of ag to con
quer the worlds ear In that same
attempt to mass:er - iuman ear and
gain supremacy ont this gate of
were 'cugrht ny mzir:., Gluck arnd
Weber, and b Bosoe and Meyer
beer, by Rossti -nd by not roil of
German an Itai:an a-a Eerch corn
posers, some~ o! :.u: te battie
leaving ther ~' oGd on1 '-i Keynotes
and the n'ascal scres. ,eat Datile
fought for the ear-fo'. h b
with or-gan p pe, w -ta rume: wi
corneta-pstoL, win v anc
br-szoa adsi rt v- d' go dweapo'
of the oe tra;- rw eaer and
cath,.drai Ld Ceu-..my of m'usc e
fortr~ts fr i eces fr t e r
L. a.i
but t.e !ui~cians ofa. ^. h
tu h' * ' r
ogh t for th~ maVt t-ry fthe:utr
c a -,a. anLd the d-:, :ie oz tile st ta
Sou. aLd the Thermopy o tru h
C , ---CI:C, -S.
cad euc
For iihe c ng t ofteer :.d
he rad -I eitFer e im :r1 Vod en LI' i
OnL until undier th :c gea ern a
strain of hearlig h11s oxsa er-or;ia of
th ep "Creation" per"'e be s e
rit Cu to ie bur f.tv
Sc Co V h worl d j1 Iy -S
piec e ten baios
:9 ece 5- E
T o on42cuer L;
on from th '
can, .d c
I allowed In th-e or "
a-er the.a: n
Iwhen he le 'L to a~ Z
drad march our EC i C a
andU timpia in " the n~~r e
evrry Eser mo r0.
To cou'i-:r the ear -uak-ag -ais
gate of IGe immer.al ci nehu
cormpcsed his gieat *S " - .7 ,
iZg the staves of te msic on ti
of fare in a restsauan~t,
until he could leave as a lesc tL:
world over a thcutand maguile
compositions in usic To c -
the car and iane ti s g &!e of
castle M ztrt struggitd u ro
poverty until he came to a paup a
grave, and oie chilly, we af n
th-e body of him woo gave to the w ar a
the "'Reqiea atd the "G
Symphony" was crunch.ed in o h
top fo two other paupers into a grav%
wbich to this day is epit.apuless
For the ear everything inel.l acu;,
from the birth hour wnen our eartu
was wrapped in swaddiing clothes cf
light and serenaded by otner worics.
from the time when Jabal thrummed
the first harp and pressed a k-3 of the
first organ down to the music of this
Sabbath day. Yea, for the ear the
coming overtures of heaveo, for what
ever other part of the body may be
left in the dust, the ear, we know, is
to come to celestial life; other wise,
why the "harpers harping with their
harpa " For tte ear carol of lar an-d
whistle of quail and chirp of cricket
and dash of cascade and roarof tides
oceanic and doxology L-f worshipIa i
aszembly and minstrels chera b c and
archangelic. For the ear all 'andean
pipes, all flutes, all clarinets, all haut
boys, ali bassoons, all b:ls and al
organs-Luzerne and Westminster
abbey and Freiburg and Berlin and
all the organ pipes set across Christea
dom, the great Giant's Causeway for
the monarcls of music to pass over.
For the ear all chimes, all tickings of
chronometers, all anthems, all dirges,
all glees, all choruses, all lullabies,
all orchestraion. Oh, tae car, the God
honored ear, grooved with divine
sculpture and poised with divine grace
fulness and upholstered with curtains
of divine embroidery and corridorAd
by divine carpentry and pillared r.ith
divine archiecture and 'Thiseled in bore
cfdivine nmasonry and conquered by
procesions of divine mar s baing. Tne
ear! A perpetual point of inrrt
tion, asking How? A perpetual oint
of apostrophe appealing to Cid
None hut God could plan it. None
but God could build it. Nore bu'.
God dould work it. None but G.xi
could keep it. None 'out G~d could
understand it. None but God could
explain it. Oh. the wor~ders of the
human ear !
How surpassingly sacred the hu
man ear:! You htd better be careful
h w you let the sound of blasphemy
or uncleanness step into that holy ci
holies. The Bible says that in the
ancient temple the priest was set apatrt
by the puttin ! f the b~cod of a ram
on the tip of the ear, the right ear of
the rriest. But, my friends, we need
all ot us to havc the sacred touch of
rdination on the haoging lobe c
both ears and cn the arches of the ears
on the eustachian tube of the ear. on
the mastoid cells of the ear, on the
tympanic cavity of the egr, andi on
everything from the outside rizn oi
the outside ear clear i2 to the point
where sound steps cif the auditory
nerve at d rolls on do wn ito th un -
fatomable depths of the immzortal
soul. The Bible speaks, cof "dull ears,'
and of "uncircumcised ears,' and o'
"itching ears," and cf "rebellious
ears," and of "open ears,"a d of those
who have all ine organs of hearing
and yet who seetn to be deaf, for it
cries to them, "He that hath ears to
hear, let him near."
To show how much Christ thought
c the human ear. he one day n;et a
man who was deaf, came up to hii~n
and put afinger of the rigat hand iuic
the orifice of the left ear of the patient
and put a finger of the it f: haud into
the orifice of the right ear cf th' pati
ent, and agitated the tympanua, and
startled the bonelets, and with a voice
that rang clear thrcugh into the man's
soul cried, "Ephthatha:" and the
polyphoid growths gave way, and tae
inlamed auricle cooled off, and that
men who nad not hear d a sound fcr
many years that night heard the wasn
of the waves of Galilee against the
imestone shelving. To show how
much Christ thought of the human
car, when the apostle Peter got mia
and with one slasa of his s word drop
ped the ear cf Malchus into the dust
Christ createi s, new external ear fsr
Malhus corrseponding with the mid
de ear and the internal ear that no
swo d could clip away.
And to show what God thinks of the
ear we are infcrmed of the faot that
in the millennial June which shall
roseate all the earth the ears of tue
deaf will be unstopped, all the vasou
lar rowths gone, all deformatiou of
the listening organ cured, corr ccied,
chaned. Every being on earth wili
have a hearing apparatuts as perfect as
Gd krnows how to mQake Pt and all
the ears wi be ready fo tha gseat
symphony in which all the muscal
instruments of the earth shal'l play
te accompariment, natons of eatin
and empires of heaven ning it, eir
voces, together witu the deep aa's
the sea and the alto of the woohan
te tenor of winds. aind the bar'i.one
of the thunder, "Hlleluiah!'srgn
up meeting the "Haillih~d
scending.
Oo, yes, my friendr. we n b e
looking for God too far away :ns:ad
of looking for him eco~c by id i
our own crga-:ism: Weu go 'up .n 0
the observae~ a' dL( losz i..:
telescope and see God in J uubur a
God in~Saturn and God in' Mars o
we could see more of hi nougnth
microscpe of an aur:s- N\J ngi
satified with only onerienad
in France it has been S' Uloud and
Versailles and the Tuileries sani l
Great Britain it has been Wi mdsor aLd
Balmoral and (0:borne. A~ uler d..
not always prefer trae i'r r. Ta
K'n of earta uod heaven may na
ager casties aud grea:.r palau-s, but
Ii do not thin: there is ariy Lne more
carioud.y .-rrught the in t ann
ear. 'Tae baven of heave as cv. 'ot
- . 'a -
n
- er
crr
!0
:1T,
e '. aon
or
znver'c s : a ra1. ca r -i
C4-lpasXyn u. i. : cX: dana
Lesa :e Cr~ 1- !he 1 di1 -'L L
rive nYc c- . enlythk
* e e r l I 's, jaSt aS
e vil as -vhea 15yar siee was
_c i scarletv~r, and her moth
er hard 1'er whLe aS midnigat she
IaS0 for a rnk o waar. -H:
that elaed te uar sh linenrot
hear: c
WVhen a scti prays. God does uot
sit bolt u ri:ht u ail the . ayer travels
:;nmensitv and clims to his car. The
B~oie sas ha bends clear over. In
more thin one place Isaiah said ie
bared don 'Lis ear. In more than
o: e pace the psalatt said he inclined
hisear, by w h I come to believe
(xA, "'pts LIs ca so closely do;vn
to rur lis that he can hear ycur
fai"tt i' r. t i not G.d away
cr1 up y-nte r; i. is Gd away down
hre close up, so cloze up that whtn
Iyou pray to ni-.m it ;s not mere a whis
I-e tha a s A, yes, he hears
the caUtive's siug and the plash of the
orphan's tear, and the dying sylla
biles of te snipwrecked sailor driven
on the sktrries, and tie infant's "Now
I lay rm doawn to sleep" as distinctly
as he hears tue : ortissiino of brazen
bands in the Dasseldor festival, as
easily as he hLars the slave of artillery
when the 13 scares c. English troops
open &l their baUtteies at once at
Wa"terl He that planted the ear
Cr
Just as sometiates an entrancing
stai o muasic wi.: aleger la soar
ears for davs after yoa hive heard it,
and j'c as a sharp cry of pain i on::e
her iiie ? ra~sfg arough Brllevue
csp ia cluto n:year K-' weeks,
Stijtr s aeard lsrny in the
su- thts mets haurcs cue's ears ier
ays, so God to. c2ly nears, bar nolds
the songs. '2 j.prey ers, tile groans, the
worinp, the biaspxe my. how we
have aii wondcred at the phonograph,
WLCi cods to: oaly the words y tu
utter, tu: the very tones of your
voice. so that 100 yecars from now,
that instruwtent turwed, tne very
rords you now u-.ler and the very
tone otfyour voiee mil: o. reprodunew.
Afl:.ttg par'o.;-r'pl But mcro
'oSe: is Qxis Lc) -a s'0 holdC, to
I A r, Iefr dehul'' enctour
avftf .i Io e' ai spe5cLot
Be~te i~n ist A a ay fron.
I sn. B t er p:. auOder ti: 0 St
c. B-- ta a'e t !xay fro ald
h..ra u. 13G:9.::1 ane
oo'y. Be'te e t.:ecra"e.. rtime
a-d eteriyto ):5 p~anad tas
ea. -> aa' . "L f c'idl 'ell see p
ai 5Fia 5?. p.:c~i - am hipd eaing
fl -L eCd asen adL hard tue song
o: tnt' wora~? - a:.. :? was sa s-wee:
he neda~nagt 7zu mant. .ne
-ee uS.Aid-, --m a a . paradise of
& d.adtesn a aear is tile
sutie n f te 200 L er afl
"t.ut' ru of Lu ce~tesiA: :L?.c Raus
Seau W..ened ad g up la toe m:d
'a'st - , as c?. ?? -e cold, WrotL
dUWU a s. ? i 'uasc t at be
LaU near. n weuuer.ui tulne
sd at'Ja- :- *iay 1.Ot oitonc
and to m a . dia'ac, t". a gic
rous resi-y Wue wecoi'1 to tie
ngh:. ci death 'and " lie do fn t) Gur
hs: oteepa- ''e' e- rS realIy De
Laven:'rt t u :.a sags anad
the antxrms and ta aruts azid te
dO~Oogiesta ha s.i clm0 iae musi
cal laduer oa hea enly gamnat.
M-JY3 GcNERAL L'-E
n;iU I 2 .0 I~ LivIiOJ or Caps
I'. alt;.
at General Lee"v::.. uatoq'estionl~y
bI made aa m: r geutrati tezUnited
divisio- (or cru la Cub He will
lave f: au..:: \;--u''" '"" -aa if
o ordere.1- 'i-r-o r un 'ime
da~k a-o cevin :aomIassCU
C sm t' t::-' m0. La ien
azia ifthe\ r,:ai. ft t..s fou? be
u1h - ,.uyh' " woul e
ndi a d ct ':ata LZ wire toe
Secretry ar 00 1Q, u asn:C
Is'r. ' h e2 s p- ibl
cloih -.W'::e tan' 'e wouluV
rE.:wa sn c.,stm unra 'sune
-!,.-Y U J.t:.:IN Oi- THi
t'ESENT SEASON.
G ,tLce .,t Lie Westle.- Aljo-Wizt the
; t rcm .. '. Obseiv~e All
o er:. :e shGiw ;i to Ex!ating Con
Th.e ncnd weekly bul'elin of the
c of -.he weatler and crops of
Slate of the t re e t season v.as is
-o ae T aa-: it is as follows:
ie xeek was cool and etnerally
fl\v-ra) e f-r ' rowi crops. owing
a irei low pth: te pp:r
-as L _ f was observed on
oroins, over 'he grcater por
:. ' tLe SLtae and thin ice in the
ex.am rns portion, but no per
eg-p, I'aie a'e was done by tre
I re Th. The nan -Lem;erature vas 56
dgrws wh-ic .s 8 degrecs below the
io-al. he weekv ranke of tem
7,rature w.s between a wximua of
7. n the 11h at B ackville and on
16 h at C~ntral, and a minimum
33 on in, 13:h1 at Walhalla. The
o ds~s of the week were warm
aLl
The wcek's raiulail 7%s quite evenly
u'ed cy,:r the entire State and
light, althou.h sutliaent
~e ne-ds of all crops and to put
ojnd into gojd condition for
*ig. In Laurens and portions of
urrouding counties farm work was
n:ered and delayed by the wet con
d ici of the soil, tut elsewhere the
Sd idO interiero or interrupt work
: .rv er.eni., while over the south
a-tarr prortions the ground was dry
and Lhe rain needed and proved very
ver placts, representing all sec
L o t :j0!he Sta e, reported one inch
o o ra in, and J less than one
irzc1. The average for the State was
o.77 and the apprcximate normal f..ar
the same period is 0.8 inch.
Tre week gave 61 per cent. of the
nas b'e bright sunshine, ranging from
;52 to 013 per cent. of the possible, but
cloudiress varied greatly over the
State. The prevailing winds were
cold westerly, and from light to
brisk in force. On the 14th thunder
showers occurred at a number of
places, accompanied by small hail,
wiich. however, did nodamage. On
the same day a flurry of snow was
observed in Greenville county.
The week was characterized by ccol,
windy weather and some rain, the
rst two conditions were unfavorable
and the last favorable. Vegetation
made little growth exept on the im
mediate coast, and even there the
nights were too cool. Over the cen
tral and western counties frost formed
on two nights, which while it did not
freeze anything, did materially check
all growth of vegetation. However,
the wee. ended with good, growing
weather and a noticeable improvement
;n the appearance of field crof s.
Except where interrupted by rain,
plkniing operations advanced rapidly
during the week, and up'and ccrn is
aboat all planted in the more easter
ly counties, and from half to twc-thirds
finished over the more westerly por
tions. Ge rmination has been slow gen
erally and stands poor except in Eige
field. where excellent stands are the
rule.' Corn that was cut down by frost
shows signc of recovery, but neverthe
kss much replanting is necessary on
that account and because of seed rot
Iting in the ground, and also on sc
count of the ravages of cut worms and
oirds in places. Early planted corn
is receiving its first workings. It ap
p-aars that a somewhat larger acreage
will be devoted to corn this year than
last.
While some cotton has been planted
long enough to come up it germina'.es
slowly, and that that was un last w e rk
will need to be replanted. Planting of
cotton has been fairly begun over the
whole State, but the bulk of the crop
will be planted bet veen this and the
25th, if the weather permits, as the
ground is generally prepared for it.
In the more easterly counties planting
is generally less than half finished over
the central and western coun'.ies, Re
ports vary as to the area to be planted
in ctton, but it appears that a full
cron will be planted and that it is high
ly ~manured. Sea-island cotton is
coming up well, growing nicely, and
more being plante d.
The work of transplanting tobacco
ias bren begun in Kershaw, Claren
don, D arlington, Fiorence, Wiliamns
burg arnd Horry counties, and will be
come general this week. Plants are
plantiful and large. More commer
cil manures will be used on tobac.:o
lands than in previous years, and the
acrage is considerably enlarged, esp aci
ally in Florence county, and probably
over the whole tobacco district.
The outlook for a heavy cats crop is
very promising, and from three local
ties only wer e unfavorable reports re
ceived. The frosts of fast week and
the cool weather of this made oats
look y ellow in places, but it has agood
stand and is stooling well. The wheat
prospec:s are good. Rye is heading
and is being cut for fcrage in places.
The reports on the fruit prospect are
more aetinite this week, but do not
change the conditions as stated in the
ens, Greenville, Soartan burg, Gaffney
and portions of York and Lancaster
the bulk of the peaches and plums are
killed, but there are localities where a
fair crop is left on the trees; in the
next tier of counties the bulk of the
fruit is safe, but there are many lo
caitzes where it is almost entirely de
etroyed; still further eastward it was
only in exceptional cases that fruit
wvas damaged. Figs may oe an excep
rion to that statement, but it cannot
yet be determined. The peach crop is
practically safe ; apples, pears, grapes
and wild berries were unharmed.
In the Florence truck district about
onetnrid of the early vegetables were
destroyed by frost and some fields are
being plowed up. L arge shipments of
seasonable vegetables continue from
Cnarleston, and more northorly truck
districts.
Melons are growing poorly and re
ports from Barnwell indicate a re
ducal acreage in that county. Seed
are scarce there.
Gardens are growing slowly and
need warmer weather; pastures are
very poor generally. Ribbon cane
was not hurt by last week's frost.
Considerable sorghum being planted.
J. W. BAU-ER,
Section Director, Columbia, S. C.
Cadets r ;:de- Se .vice ,.
The following message from the
Seperintendent of the South Carolina
\tilitary icademy was sent to Gov.
E i-ierbe Wednesday:
His Ex-celency, Gov. W. H. ilerbe.
Declaration of war with Spain being
now an assured fact, I am authorized
totener ad you the services of the
llesadof the 56 cadets who have
remained loyal to duty, for sucn mili
ary work in the State as tho exigen
ei s of the times may render necessa
ry. Their preaecessors have done the
same in two wars.
Assair CowaRD, Supt.
G jvernor Eteerbe replied as follows:
Col. Asbury Coward. Sunerintendent
Citadel Academy. Charleston, S. C.
Your telegram received. Tender
L ce pied. -Will call upon oficers and
e..dts o! the South Carolina Military
' Li ECOA ' U - CN
En a Ga(Ives - !'c -1T:;'n1 it% iS
Ca -shd o! War.
Oe of the zreatest difflcultics Spa-r
will have to conterd with in this war
is her weak facilities for a coal supply.
She.has little coal in Cub3. ,and could
not get it with her main fleet if she
had much. Her coil supply at Porto
Rico is very limited There is plenty
of coal in Spair, but to transport
enough of it safely across the sea and
to find a secare coaling station is a
very diliult pirobleo. A warship
cannote arry enough coal to Eerve it
for any great leny:ix of time. and
Spain wl hav& a i ard task in finding
places ware she can rtfr:sh her ccal
supply.
The British colonial< .e has noti
fled-all the British colonies that coal
must be considered cotr.band of war.
This decision vwss rovcked b7 a re
Q lest for informaticn forwarded by
t'oe British colonies in West India.
They are so mear Cuba fni Porto
R'co that they are ha le to 'e called
on fcr coal by ihe Spanish warships,
and tney want to know how to act.
The ruling f the British authorih'es
in this case follows the p:-ccdents
since coal has bcc.rue the motive pow -
er of warships. Under international
custom a belligerant ship may take, n
in a neutral port only enough coal to
carry her to the next friendly port,
and itnmust be takin avowedly for
that purp:se.
Th's riling cp:rated strongly
against tne Confederate cruisers which
would have been ev-u more effective
than they were ii they could have
,I ways obtained coal. We have the
bEst facilites for suppiing our ships
with coal and great supphls of it will
soon be placed by the government in
in the south Atlantic and Gulf ports.
If Spain should find lorself on this
side the Atlantic without coal or the
et ance to get it in sufficient quantities
her ships would be at our mercy, and
this is a con.ingency not unlikely to
occur.
MILITIA MAY FIGHT.
Volunt63rs Wil be Appartiot.i in Fru
pnrtIon to Popu'4 :on.
A6jutant General Watts Thursday
afternoon received a letter from Sec
retary of War Alger through Senator
Tillman, reassuring him that not only
would South Carolina be given a
chance to fight but that every state in
the union would be given a place in
the picture. Seeing in the papers a
few days since that troops would be
ordered from New York to Charleston
and that regiments from Massachu
setts, Illinois and Pennsylvania had
also been called upon, General Watts
wrote to Ser ator Tillman saying that
the South Carolina Militia were ready
to help defend the nation and especi
ally were they anxious to protect their
own state. It is probably from this
that the report that the governor and
the adjutant general would tender
the president the services of the state
militia, originated. Following is the
letter General Watts received Tnurs
day af ternoon:
War Department,
Washington, D. C.. April 19, 1898.
Hon. B. R. Tillman, U. S. Senate.
Dear Sir: I have your letter of the
16;h instant, inclosing the patriotic
letter from Gen. J. Gary Watts. The
first call for an increase in the army
will be made i pon the national guard
of the states, each being allowed to
furnish of its militia a number pro
portionate to its population of the to
tal number required. You will see
ho w necessary this is in viewa of tne
fact that the entire nat.onal ,guard
throughout the country is anxious to
ser ve. You can rest assured that there
will be no favoritism in this matter,
and every state in the Union will ha
given an opportunity to serve under
the fsgrin event of war.
Very truly yours,
R A. Alger,
Secretary of War.
t pare The Birdi.
' Feathers and Fashion" is the title
of an excellent article by J. C: rter
Beard in Demorest's Family Magazine.
Lie says that future generations will
wear the fur s of domenstic animals and
the plumage of barnyard fowls, for
there will be no other furs and feath
ers to wee-. Through the wholesome
slaughter of birds of beautiful plum
age, they are fast te::oming extirot.
We quote: "England imports more
than twenty-five million of dead b:r.ds
every year in order that their corpses
anti feathers nmay adorn f: ? i nab.e
women. In all Eairope, three hun
dred million a:e annua'.ly as cruficed
f~r this pu p :se. in Chicago one
dealer has received in one season
thirty-two million humming birds
and three hundred thousand other
birds of different varieti s " The
beautiful egrets, or snowy white he
rons, whicn furnilh the fashionable
aigrette, dwelt formierly in thousands
of the s wamps of our Southern States,
but are now almost exterminated.
The delicately beaaitiful plumes, so
much prized in milltnery, are worn
by the birds only during the nesting
tescn. Thus every aigrd.e stanas
for a home broken up, parents slaugL
t:red and little ones left to starve.
But sentiment is not all. There is a
practical view to be taken. We quote
aamn: "The natural and only effec'.
ive check for insects is the birds.
Every average insectiverous bird de -
stroys at least two thousand four hun
dred insects every year of its life. The
great majority ot birds are insectiver
o:2s. The oaly one condemned as ac
tually useleiss and pernicious is the
English sparrow" All others are the
friends of mankind-c specially of the
farmer, gardner and fruit grower. It
is said that insect life is already on the
increase because of the wholesale
slaughter of birds, and in places makes
human life almost unendurable.
Forto Rica.
It is probable that Spain's loss of
Cuba, which is now inevitable, will
be followed speedily by the lcss of
Porto hico. Though we hear very
little of this island it is a very valuable
and attractive place. It is the fourth
in s C of the Greater Antillies and
contains 3,500 square miles. The
population is between 800.000O and
93,000, about one-third of whom are
negroes,- while nearly all the others
are of mixed blood. Porto Rico :s
quite as fertile as Cuba and produces
as great a variety of crops. The cli
mate, however, is not as good as that
of some of the provinces or Cuba and
for a great part of the year is very
warm. Of the 18,000,000 square miles
which Spain once owned in the west
ern world she has lost all but Cuba
and Porto Rico and these will not be
hers mu::h longer. Eistory does not
show an Equal it stance of rapid ni.
tio ial dec iar.
Ti Flee: Closely Guarded.
Additional precautions have been
put in force at Key West to insure the
safety of the big ships since the reso
lutions of congrESs were adopted. All
decklights on oerd the New York,
Iowa and Indiana, wvhich lie out of
Key West harbor, are now extinguish
Ied until 8 p. in., when the battle por~s
are screwed on and the formidable
warships can hardly be seen from
each others's deck, except when an
occasional searchlight flashing arour~i
reveals their dark outlines. Thsides
this ureelntifn, tt e night patrol has
hn doutbla.
TiL- Ii:licnembers of li'KvaXs
means committee of tbc hCuIe
have ractically completud the prepara
tion cf the revenue neasure which
vill be passEd to raise revenue su til
cient toprosecute the war. The mem
bers propose ti t the present genera
Lion shall bear the burdens of the war
and prccetdirg upon that theory they
have prepared a bill that will raise b:
tween $100,000,000 or $120,000,000 ad
ditional revenue per annum. The till
will provide for an additional tax of
$1 ptr barrtl upon bet r. Oa manu
facturtd tobacco at d snuff tt mL
nal revenue tax will be increase d fro-a
six to twe:ve ceals. T-.e incresse on
cigars at d cigarettes ia;s not betii ab
solutcly fxcd, but i; pirocab'y Yill b:
$1 on all claTss. The pr.ypoiitioa
which the senrae placed on the Lariff
bil, b..it which went cut in con ference
toallstccks aud transfers of ccrpora
tios is embcdied in the measure to
gether with practically all the scheIe
of internal revenue taxation of the act
of 18, whichinciludes a stamp tax on
a'! ceck S, drafts, aLda all inStrumts
f 6asiness-(mortgages, loans and
bonds); a tax o pateut a d proprie
tary mediines and a tax on telearapa
messages and express packages is also
incorporated in the biul. Tnissci:eme
of taxation is estimated to raise $35,
OCC,00. The tax on proprietary at d
patent m(dic.nes will oe two centson
packages cr bottles retailing at 25 cents
or under and fcu- c:nis on those r:
tailing abova that price, Tne tax on
telagraph messages will beone cent cn
all messages whica cost 25 cents or lezs
a -.d 2 cents on all ab:,ve 25 cents. A
duty of 10 cents per pound is pLctd
upon tea and 3 cents per pour d upon
coffee. Dotitd waters are to bear a
tax similir to patent medicines. For
the pressing r eedsof the government
the secretary of the trEasury is given
the general powe: t. issue certicates
of indebtedress payable in one year
and to bear interest not to exceed 3
per cent. The secretoy of ;he treas
ury is also author.zed to borrow on
the credit of the govez-ament by popu
lar subscription a loan of $500, 000,000.
This lcan is to be placed through the
pcstoffices of the ccuntry, the sub
treasurits and governmeit deposi
tories in low rate bonds which are to
to be sodit at par. They are to bear
three per cent. in.erest and to be re
deema ble after five 3 ears at the option
of the government and to be due in
twenty years. The principal and in
tarest are to be payable in coin.
o ath tarouitad ahare.
Secretary of War Alger is reported
as saying that if war is declared there
will oe an immediate call for 50,000
of the voluntary soldiery of the coua
try. It is interesting to know what
this call would mean to e,%ch state
based upon enlisted militia of the
country. According-to a table recent;;
ly prepared by Adjutant General
Austin Cirbin, of the United States
army, a call for 50,000 volunteers
would demand from Alabama, 1,000;
Arkansas, 633; California, 1,623; Colc
rado, 465, Connecticut, 1,226; Del&
ware, 194; Florida, 493; Georgia, 1,
973; Idaho, 229, Illinois, 2,550 Ldi
ana, 3,190; Iowa, 1,075; Kansas 561;
Kentucky, 594; L'.u.siana, 1 229;
Maine, 656; Mar3lnd, 920; Massa
causet:s, 2.290; Michigan, 1,3C5; Mir
nes ta, 840; Mississippi, 790; Missouri,
1.164; Montana, 227; Nebraska, 540;
Nevada, 162; New Hampshire, 7c3;
Ne v Jexsey, 1.87; Nsew York, 5,706;
North Carolina, 708; North Dazota,
38; Onio, 2.644 0 Oegon, 634; Penn
sylvania, 1,047 Rhode Island, 452;
south Dakota, 278; South Carolina;
2,662; Tennessee, 6.3; Texas. 1,244,
Utah, 193; ermont, 344; V.rginia,
1,205; Washington, 324; West \'r
ginia, 386; Wiecnsin, 1,205; Wyom
ing 205; Ariz ma, 223; District of Co
lumbia, 521; Ne w Mexico, 159, and
Oslahoma, 220. This will be the first
insta'lment. Should the war last any
length of tim3 there will be other
ca 1s. So none of our troops wi o are
spoiling for a dight ned ge uaeaIsy.
Sc Ifh:ing in ouba,
The last reports sent from Cuba to
t'ie state department by our consuls
give information which confirms the
most distressing reports of suffering
among the people. Tne country oe
lievedt for a long time that the news
paper stories of the conditions in Cuba
rere greatly exaggerated, but Senator
Proctor's power~ul statement of what
he observed in the unhappy island
and subsequent reports :rom txust,
worthy sources have convinced the
pub~lic that the worst had not been
old.
The number of the destitutes in
the pro vince of Havana alone is plac
ed at 150,000 by General Lee. Tue
number of people who were driven
from their homes and deprived of
means of subsistence by Weylecr's infa
mous order is probably one fourth of
Cuba's entire ponulation. The only
aid our government has given these
starving people was an appropriation
of $12,500 for food, but much more
than that has been contributed by
private charity. Tae newspapers
have been very active and efficient
in this work, and it is due to them
more than any other agency that the
course of starvation in Cuba has been
cnaecked. Those who are in a position
to kno n declare that at least 200,000
people have died of starvation and
idiseases that famine brings since Wey
ler's murderous older was issued. A
government which inflicts such misery
upon its people should be wiped from
the face of the earth.
Fo:L.tei Paraap ys.
Irn time of peace prepare for war
scare heads.
The Easter egg is seldom as fresh as
it is painted.
Grasshoppers and grass widows
jump at the first chance.
The farmer who raists poultry is al
ways tgreofgoodl crops.
The doorlbell never ?sks questions,
but it requmres many anewers.
When a widower courts a widow
they are both in favor of a new trial.
There is no limit to the age at which
a man can make a fcol of himself.
Men may come and men may go,
but the Lat-umbrella joke gces on
forever.
The majority of the world's idols
will be shattered at the crack of doom.
Painters are seldom of a military
turn, but thaey always stand by their
coilcre.
A bad toy teldom gets his badness
from his father; the olo. man generas
ly hangs on to all te has.
L-ove isn't blind. A girl in love can
see ten times more in the otbject of her
affections than any one else can.
History repeats itself. Joseph of
the many-colored coat cornered the
corn market, and now our Joseph fol
bws suit on wheat.-Chicago News.
Anther tahme -ostured,
A dispatch from Key West says it is
believed there that the prize captured
by the diagship New York is the Al
fons Xtl., the mail steamer due at
Hiavanna today not the warship of
that name). The Spanish ship tried
to run away, but the Ne w York gave
chase, fiimg shot after shot. until the
Spanard hove to and surrendered.
Tl.e punish Flo K
The Spanish ricet which is reported
to have sailed from the Cape Vcrde
Islands for the United S:ates Thairs
day is compczid of twelve vessels.
i".cluding four armored ships, three
torpedo boat destroyers, three torpedo
i.UI IL
r a- th ' F eOZmsOt 'a Che D-m1c1at
Aticle I. There shall be one cr
more Democratic clubs crgarnz d ia
each township or ward, esr-h of which
clubs shall have a distinct title, "The
Democratic Club," and shall
elect a president and one or more vice
presidents, a recording and a corres
pondiog srcre'ary and a treasurer. and
shall have the foliwing working
c:)mmin~ees, of not bs; than thre:
members each, viz: A commIttee on
rekistration, an executive committee
and such other committees as to each
club may seem expedient.
Article II. The meetings of the
cl-b shall be frcq:ent after the open
Ing of the canvass, and some member
of the club or invited speaker deliver
an address at each mecetiug, if p:-acti -
cable. The clubs shall meet on the
fcurth Saturday in April and the couu
ty convention on the first Monday in
May, respectively, of each election
year: Provided, that the county ex
e utive cmmittee may name any
oiher day riti.in the same wcek fc~r
such c'ub meeting by givir,g at least
two week:' notice by adv-r:isement in
county papers. E 4ch cou ,ty shall e
entitled to double the number of de
legates in the State Convention as it
has members in the General Assem
bly.
Article HI. The pruident or Sve
membars shall have ;o 7er to cali an
extra meeting of the club, and at such
extra meeting one-fourth of the mem
bers shall constitute a q-iorum for the
transsctioca .f bu-iness.
Article IV. The clubs i eac. cun
ty shalh be held tiogether and operate
under the control of a ccunty execu
tive committee, which shall consist of
one member from each c:ub, to be
elected by the respective ciu->s. Tne
executive committee, when elec'.ed
shall appoint its own c fficars, f -x,3ept
the chairman, who shall be elected
by the county convention.: who shall
not necessarily be members of said
committee, but a vacancy in the mem
bership of the co-nmittee shall ba fi;kd
by the club through the loss of whote
member by death, resigination or other
wise the vacancy cccurs: Provided
that any cfficer so elected who is not a
member of the committee sball not be
entitled to a vole on any question t
cept the chairman, and then only in
case of of a tie vote. The tenure of of
fice of the executive committee shall
be until the firat Mondy in May of
each election year, at which time the
county c nvention shall be called to
gether to reorganize the party. Every
Presidential election year coanty con
ventions shall be called by the county
executive cmmittee to meet on the
first Monday in May, which shall elect
delegates to a State Convention called
for the purpose of electing delegates
t> the National Democratic Conven
tion and to elect the member of the
National Demccratic Executive Com
mittee from this State. The State
Convention shall be called by the
State ExEcutive Committee to meet
every Presidential election year on
the third Wednesday in May, and
every State election year, county and
S:ate conventions shall meet on the
first Monday in May and the third
Wednesday in May respzctively.
Article V. County Democratic Con
ventions shall be composed of dele
gates elected by th neveral lccal clubs,
Ione delegate for every twenty-five
Ivoters, as shown by the poll list made
Iat the preceding first primary election
in an election year, and one delegate
for a majority fraction thereof, with
t'ie ight to each county convention
to enlarge or diminish the reprisen
tation according to circumstances.
Tne county conventions shall be call
ed together by the ('lairman of the
respective executive committees un
der such rule, not inconsistent with
the constitution nor with the rules
adoptedi by the State Demonratic Ez
ecutive Committee, as each county
may adopt, and when assembled shan?
be called to order by the chairman of
the executive committee, and the con
vention shall proceed to nominate
and elet from among its members a
president one or more vice presidents,
a secretary and a treasurer. Any
county convention may permit or
recognize the formation of a new club
or clubs by a ma. j)rity of its members.
In all cities with a population of 5,000
and over there may be two clubs in
eaci word ; they shall be organiz ed in
obedience to tois constitution, as are
the c'ubs eles There in this S:ate, at d
il trgar:iz ig said clubs they shalt
have representation in the county
conventions respectf ulyfsssaid convel-*
tions shall dcelare in acc >rdar c with
the provisions of this constitution.
Ar.icie VL. For the purpose of
nominating candidates for (.Governor,
Lieutenant Governor and all other
S'ate officers, including solicitors in
the respective circuits, a ad Congress
men in their respective districts and
United States Senators and all county
officers, except magistrates and mas
ters and supervisors of regiit:a'.icn, a
direct primary election shall be held
on the last Tuesday in Augnst of each
election year, and a second and tird
primary eaca two weeks suc.:essively
theres fter if necessary. At this ele
tion only Democratic white voters
who have been residents of the State
t welve months and the county six days
preceding the next general election,
and such negroes as voted the Demo
cratic ticket, in 187d, and as have vot
ed tbe Democratic ticket continuously
since, to be shown by the certificate 01
ten white Democratic voters, who
will pledge theme sives to support the
nomisess of such elections, may vote,
provided, that no persn shall be al
lowed to vote except is r ame be en
rolle d on the particul e ub list at
which he offers to vote at least five
days before the lirst election. Each
club shall have a separate poljing
place for primary election.
The club rolls of the party sh a e rn
stitute the registery list and shlad b
open to inspection by any memnber of
the party, and the elec ion un 'er th is
clause shall be held and r ste
under the Act of the Genzeral Assem
bly of this State, approved December
22, 188S8, and any subsequent Acts of
the Legislature cf this State. Th.:
State execut~ive comnmittee shall meet
on the Friday after each pimary, or
such other time as ni b ie designated
by the chairman to e a os the vote
and declare the resut, e o all State
c ticars, Congressmen atmd Unied
States serators. All conteY~ 'or all
nominations at primary i tions
sal1 be heard tirst by the ca v x
ecutive committee of the eL a I: irt
which s uch irregulari's tr ar hanr
cczurrt d, an i may be re+ i--e t
Sa'.e e e a l-e ecomiot ee n se ac
tion sn Oc caun:ed our may canLi
date who doss not dlie with the chair
m n of the State ex-ecutive eomittee
or with the respecive chair.nen cf the
executi.-e committees, a niedge in
writing that he will abide the result of
such primary and support the nomi
nees thereo', and that he is not nor
will he br'ome the c:.ndidate of any
faction, eittez privately or publicly
suggested, other than the regular
Dmocratic nomination; provided fur-I
tuer that no candidate snail be declar
ed nemicated unless he receives a ma.
jrityc(f the votes cast for the cl& :
or which he is a candidate shall b.
filed on or before the day o! the ti:
campaign areeting cf the coun'y ci
POWDER
AbsoLutely Puro
Article VI. The :ihee-' or me Staie
Convetion~ sby. bed ie-vc
prESident frc.,n E~
district, twvo c: .a -. .:- .c r
er.
ArtiLcle VDH. f-_:10 x cutire7;
commit-ee s n, :, clmpo el of one
member from eac:iut'. lo be cl-c
ted by tte c v cv tio-s on the
year. When a ctd s*id. e-.eeutive
cornmittee s' il cho.eis onu ctisers,
-i0: reccssasrily memrbters teereol prior
, said electioS. Pvided, taat any
,).icer so ehc'.d 7-,o s rO: a member
ofi he commit'ee s a Lnot *e entitleda
t) a vo:e on any q-es.1- n. except the
chairmea, ard :iea o in a c se of
a tie vote. Tae S:a'e extesive com.
mite shail meet at tPe call of chair
man or any five m -embers, aLd at such
time and place bs he or uney may ap
point. The member of the nauonal
Democratic Eecu.ive Commitce fro.n
Scuth Carolina shall be elected by the
May State Convention in 1896, aLd
every fcur years ihereafter, and when
elected shall -oe ex clicio a memc-ar d9
the State executive committeo. Va
cancies on said executive cormmittee
by death. resignation cr otherwiie,
sall be filled oy tae respective coun
ty ex(cutive committees. The State
executive committee is charged with
tie execution and direction of the pol
icy of the party in tmas State, subject
to this constitution, tie priniciples de
clared in the platform of p:inciples
and such instruction, by resoluuon.
or otherwise, as a S:at- Covetiotn
may from time to time adopt, not in
consistent with this constituiuon, and
shall continue in oui for tvo years
from the time of electioi, or until
their successo:s have been elected.
Tne ccmmittee shall nominate Presi
dential electors, and if any vacaac
occur ja tLe State tinke: of electars,
or of member of the ntlional ex:cu
ive committee, by deatn, resignaton
or other cause, the committee shall
have tne p3wLr to lii tze vacancy; ail
by a majority of the whole committee.
Article IX . The vote in thie respect
ive counties for all cf the State odi
cers, Congressman and Unittd States
Senator snall be tranmuted by thle
chairman of tne respectiva ccu ty ex
ecutive comlmittees to the chairman of
tne State executive ecommittee as early
as practicaole after eaca Frimary,
who snail proceed to ca'-ss Lne ou
and declare the resui.
Article X Wnea sue S~a:e Conven
tion1 anemoies it sna.1 s called t'o or
der by the chairmn of tne S~zte exe
cutive committee. A tenpjrary chb~ir
man shall be naemaated aad elect
by tae Convention and af~er its or
ganization the Ciave.auon snail pro
ceed immedia:eiy to tae execnoa (f
permanent clixis aad to the trans
action of busmneas. When the bus
ness has conclud:.d i. snail adjura
sne die%
Arutcie X[. Before the election in
1896, and each eiec.ian Lflereaf ter, the
State Democraic ex:eu~ive comm t.ee
shall issue a caui to aui candidates for
State oliises to address tae people of
the different catl-iues of ume dla'.e flx
ing the dates of ine meelings, and alho
iaviting tee candidAteJ foru: re
UjitedS.ates Senate and for sjuettars
in their resoettive distric;s aad cu-~
cuits, to ube pseat and aditress ..ne
people. At suca meetings only mne
candidates above set for.a should Oe
alioned to speaa.
Article X[L. It shail be the duty of
each count x:cu:.se commitee to
appo:nt meeunags la Lneir respec;ive
counties to be acdressc by the canci
dates for the GieaerhI Ass:memy ann
for the cijferenm e aay ali as, all or
wnom ex:ep; magis tra es, am;:~rs a i-t
supervisors ot reim :a.us on su oc
eLct:.d oy prima.r-e~ u n ia: iiar 1:
da3 in a.ugust o: exea entc.on yeau
under the samne ru.s aad. reutauius
nereinot f re pra t'lee.
Aiuele X Ait. E sua C aay dLiega
tiun to a $;ate G r:ni m. sa
po r to fiiaauf v.Cc u eer..
be amendeu or alts.ea i.ta r
any cjnven.ua eL~iies. ne ti.Xany
that purpose, in:: c~ui -er w me ~na
apecuy :hi: cna.?e~s to o mad:r.
Aru~cle X\~ Au~y c.uai.y all.ng ur
reuasing to orgaumz. ui~d.r LtO yrua
ionls ot this coastutut.on sfni not
nave representatn iu min: 6 ;ite .
mncrati.: Goneaion.
D. H. rompkins,
Cnairman State D'ia~em exiire
C-ommiatee.
U. X Ga-nter, Set.::rsy.
ACALL FOR VO-UJNTEcRS.
[s Wtii bi Aet~ir z..d by Oagrees a 1a
Fe~w Days.
Representative Hall o'J '..a, chatir
nan of t ae nlous cJmmita: oa ann -
tary affairs, intrcdue:d ic:.wJay an
administration bi I: aathoez ng thle
Prts.der t to i.s a call for valuntet rs
to th: nuni-r of 6 tu erC 7m 0U00 men.
It was consiilred at oce oj LtIe coan
mittee and its pas ace wi De expedi ed
as rapidly as p ssible unai m:1 ;ake
effc. imEdaaely up)La te Pr i
dent's approval. Its tera~s salautuor
iz~ Inth Presid.e.t to call 0 t ie v-sri
ous 8ates fc~ r ioas in maig uy -.
aggregate, 2'y readcng i u's way'
ii..tead or specitic'ily lo'an to ' can?
ing ouit the variouis 6:an-?riti, wa
acli several embrassiag~ i~.aaica
ties, a main o:.e being ite Cc:t.
.inal inhOitiOn ca eneiig dw~e
mlitia out of tue ceuntryv, whijie volun
ters so called for can be oxd:red diu]
where. It i i:e v Ohat it te st.UQ
Ion develops i-to such grave p:opc'
lons as is noy' e- xpete a secona c'Ii
for 100,00 CTjuv.;ers rwai Oc sk-:d
oy the Presi '-s. -e.retary Akgt r,
now that we are on the ,-erge of wa~r,
as deel ed no; to mace paulic m a.Ve
nents of troops or any ne -S i>t
might be of advantage to an eey
SAios which c~g j :s. a~rsved at S..
Juna N. F., r~pr; caia sighteda
uysterious stmner off Cape Rsce.
Sne is schooaer rmgta, nas t co a its
-:out yards, and ?s a a .. - :m