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XUT MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1901. No 9 A WARf WELCOME Ex-ended the Old Veterans to Columbia by Her LEADINO NEWSPAPER. An Ardcle that Brings to Mind the Neble Sacrifice Made by Carolinas Scns and Daughters. The following was the leading edi torial in The State on last Wednesday, which was the first day of the Con federate reunion in Columbia: It is almost a waste of words to wel come Confederate soldiers to Co lumbia. There esn be no shadow of doubt that every man who wore the gray is welcome to that city to which the wearing of the gray has always meant so much. This is the city in which the War Be tween the States mnay be justly said to have originated. It was here that half a century ago the representative men of South Carolina used, as now, to meet and counsel together. Then, as now, there were differences of opinion on political matters. Few doubted the right to accede but many considered it folly to do so. At length the seces sionists prevailed. The convention which first assembled in Columbia, as the body representing a sovereign State, settled that. Afterwards there was no more division. Secessionists and their former opponents were united in resistance to the attempt that was made on State sovereignty and local self-government. The expediency of secoession was no longer the issue. Pol *icy had given place to principle, and when principle is at stake the men of South Carolina have until this day been true. War having supplanted debate. Co lumbia once more became the centre of Carolina activity. It was here at the capital that the first regiments were assembled and from here that they went on to the fields of Virginia; some there to die, some to suffer wounds and sickness and others to re. turn unharmed to fight other battles for their State. What days those first days of war must have been in Co lumbia! We cannot dwell upon the topic now and here. Ozher hands more worthy have written cf those times. Then came four years of carnage, four yeara of fighting and daring, of en duiance and sacrifice-four years that seemed a century when me4sured by accomplishments and yet were all too short to do what Southern hearts dared All this time, Columbia was still a centre of activity. Here were stores and factories, foundries and many a minor induttry, alt working day by day to send to the soldiers the aims, the clothing and the equipments that were so badly needed. Here were hospitals and ihere were homee ever ready to re ceive the sick and wounded returning from fields of battle, near and far. The end began to drawn near. Sher man's mighty host approached mearer and nearer. Defended by an insuf ficient band-than which none has ever been more true-the capital of South Carolina must finally fall into the hands of a vandal enemy. Columbia must be abandoned to her fate-aban doned by one who loved her as his own and whom she has always loved as well -Wade Hampton. Retreating before vast odds he saw his neighbors' homes first shot at and then set afire. And soon Columbia was in ruins. Thie next ten years-What of them? Columbia was made the scene of the wildest political deviltry and the rank est debauchery that ever disgraceed an American commonwealth-punishment for the part South Carolina had taken in the defense of rights guaranteed by the American constitution. But these things could not long be endured. The day of revolt came, the hour of the white man's emancipation was at hand. And the leaider,-who was he? None other than than same old Co lumbian, the one who had led his men in many a fearful charge; had lost his all and more; had stood as Columbia's defender until defense was folly and hai surrendered only when h's chief and friend, the noble Lee, said: "We cannot fight longer'' Tc day Columbia's weleme is extend ed to the sureivors of a lost cause and it is extended by Wade Hampton! In vincible in war and incorruptible in peace! When he speaks the words that tell his old cmrades his home city is glad io have them here, he speaks the sentiments of every citizen whose pulse beats time to Columbia's heart throbs. With an energy, an enthusiasm and a will never equalled in this city, our cit izens have gone to work to prepare for the veterans' coming. They have tried to provide plans for them to sleep com fortably, with plenty to eat and a little something to drink. There will be quite enough to keep them interested in their' conventions and their receptions, and it is Columbia's earn~st desire that all shall be pleased. If any veteran does not see what he wants, let him ask for it Then there are the ladies. The wives -who are still the sweethearts-of the boys who left home in ,61-'65. The wo men uho keit stockings and shed tears, p raying and hoping, while the men were fighting. Tfhey and their daugh ters-the spcn: ore-will be here, too. As long as t.aroit a is Carolina they will be the chief attraction on every oc casion they may grace with their pres ence. The Sons of Veterans are scarcely less welcome. Theirs is a great heri tage. And to preserve the history of their father's deeds, to protect the fair name of their native land and to cher ish the lessons it teaches is a sacred duty. The war was long sir.ec over, we are a united people and there should be not one remnant of bitternees between north and south, yet men would be less than humn who did not want to tell of the daring and the devotion to duty which their fathers mrade imrsortal. The "story of the glory of the men who wore the gray"-this is a story worth telling. This is no mean city which welcomes you today, veterans. It is a city that kas lain prostrate under the cornquer er's heel, a city that has been robbed and plundered by vandal hands, a city that was rszad by the victor's torch. Those things Clumbia sufferEd in the same cause for which you cffered your lives 40 years ago. But today this we! came comes to %cu, not from a city of devastation and desolation, but from one that is alive and growing; a city that is full of energy, ambition and en thusiasm. Its lovely residence streets are lined with the houses of enterpris ing citizens; its business streets are scenes of activity and movement; its depots are crowded with passengers and freight; its stores and its warehouses are packed with goode, and its cotton factories are models for the world to copy. This is the New Columbia. Bailt upon the ruins left by Sherman, it is going to be the metropolis of the State very scon, and some day, perhaps, the metropolis of this section. It is a town worth visiting and a town that is al ways glad to have visitors, yet never were visitors more welcome than those who will tramp its streets today-the men who followed Lee and Jackson and Hampton! CAN'T BE ENFORCED The Anderson Labor Contracts Are Null and Void. Magistrate Wilson at Anderson had a case before him last week involving one of these slavery contracts about which we have heard so much. It was the case of the State vs. Alex Williams. Mr. L R. Watson had paid $150 to get Williams out of jail and Williams signed a slavery contract to makaa crop with Watson. - He broko the contract and Watson indicted him. Messrs. Bonham & Watkins renresented the Stato and Q-aattlebsum & Cochran the defendant. After hearing the case Magistrate Wil son rendered the following decision, up on the rendering of which notice of ap peal was served. Oathe third Fa of January, 1901, Alex Williams. being indebted to J. S. Fowler for $150 bound and hired him seli to L. R. Wsteon to~ work for him for the year 1901 to secure the payment of tie said $150. From the evidence before me Alex Williams has neglected and refused to perform the work re quired of him in stid contract and now L. R Watson has pro-ecuted him for violation of cotract. This is a crim inal action to enforc3 or punish a lab orer for violating a civil cintraot. In order to render a laborer liable crim inaily for violation of a civil contract the contract must be such a contract as is set ou.: in the s:atutes. Section 288 of volume 2, revised statutes, pro vides what nut be set out in a can tract to rencer one liab'e criminaily for its violation. Firot, tuc a onract mu-t clearly be: for-h the eoLdtions upon wiiut the labor-r engages tj we-rk. be ona, the lkn6La of cime. Third, the amount of niouey to be paid. FKurtn, and when. This contract dies contah. the length of time the laber:.r is to work but it is impossiole iur me to under stand upon wiat coacitions he is to work. Nor is it poesioie for me to de termin-c from the cou:rict what wages are to be paid Alex Williams, and no time is mentioned when any wages ar to ce paid him. In fact, there i3 no promi-.e in the contract to pay him any wages at all. For theise reasons I de cide the defendant is not gurity. This: contract not being such a contract as1 renaers a laborer .iable to t unishrment criminally for violating. Again, this contract is one of those contracts inI which the laborer agrees to bind himself< to be loeked up and whipped, etc. Such1 a contract is opposed to public policy I and is therefore null and void, and the deferndant cannot be punished for viola- I ting a nuil and void contract. It was argued that while these provisions op posed to public policy are null and void the other parts of the contract are- stSil in force and binding. This is not- an action requiring me to separate the void provisions from the valid provisions if there are any such, but simply to punish a laborer for violating this contraot as a whole and therefore 1 hold that this contract in part and in whole is abso lutely null and void in so far as this prosecution is concerned. The defen dant is not guilty and is ordered that he be discharged. B. F. Wilson, Magistrate. An Alligator Story. A most remarkable encounter with1 an alligator occured in the 8alkehatchie: river near Yemassee. According to: your correspondent's informant, him self anx eye witness to the incideaxt, Mr. Eugene Walker, of Yemassee, who is a man weighing over 160 pounds, went in the river for a swim, leaving his companions, four in number, on the shore, from which point they watched the anties of the expert swimmer for a considerable length of time. Suddently Mr. Walker raised his left hand high in the air and his friends on shore were horrified to see a huge alligator fastened thereto. The swimmer, who is de cended from a long line of fighting an cestry, none of whom ever lost a fight or paid a forfeit, was nothing daunted by the fact that the Saurian had him somewhat at a disadvantage, and he soon succeeded in landing the latter. It was found necessary to complete ly sever the reptiles head from its body before Mr. Waiker's hand could be re leased from its cavernous jaws by means of pry ing themn apart with a stout stick. The "gster" was ascer tained, upon actual measurment, to be 5 feet and 8 inches in length. Mr. Walker's hand, while considerably la cerated by the reptile's huge teeth, is not nearly as badly injured-as it would very naturalry be supposed would have been the case. Waiting For Jim Johnson. A feud leader, who had about exter minated the opposing faction and had made a good fortune for a mountaineer while doing it, for he kept his men busy getting out timber when they - wern't fighting, said to me, in all seriousness: "I have triuwmphed agin my enemies time and time naam. 'The Lord's on my side and 11 gits a better and better Christian ev,:r' year. A preacher, riding down a rve camie upon an (old mountainleer hiag in the~ bu~hbes with his rifia. "What are you doing there, my friend?" "Ride on, stranger," was the casy inswer. "I'm a-waitin' fer J im eh son, and with the help of the- L-ad .l'a gem,' to blow his dam head on."j HW TO KEEP EGGS. A Method That Will Psererve Them Reasonably Fresh. The News and Courier, of May 6, says the question of how to keep eggs reasonably "fresh" for a considerable time is one which concerns far mcre people than the question of how to keep the Philippines or Cuba, and as many, perhaps, as any one general househoid problem that might be stated, and it is one of never failing interest The United States department of agrieulture regards it as being of enough importance to warrant attention in a GovL rnment publication, and answers it according'y in Farmers' bulletin No. 128, just is sued from the Government press, which is devoted to the general subject of "Eggs and their uses as Food." We give the substance of so much of the document as relates to the particular question in hand. Oae old domestic methoi of preserv ing eggs, it is noted, is to pack them in oats or bran; and another is to cover them with lime water, which may or may not contain salt. The results of ofsuchmsthods are not uniform. Some times the eggs remain fresh and of good fliavor, tnd at other times spoil. Recent ly in Germany twenty me:hods were tested, the eggs being kept for eight months. Those kept in brine were all bad, because of the salt having pene trated the eggs. Of those wrapped in paper 80 per cent were bad. The same proportion of those preserved in a silu. tion of s3:icylic acid and glycerine were unfit for use. Seventy per cent of thoEe t rubbed with salt. and the same propor tion of those packed in bran; or covered with paraffin, or "vsraished" with a so lation of gfycerine and salicylic aeid, 8 were bad. Of those sterilized by plac irig in boiling water for twe ive to fifteen 8 seconds half were bad. Half of those treated with a solution of alum or put -0 in a solution of salicylic acid were bad. t Forty per cent of those "varnished" with water glass, collodion, or shellac were spoiled. Twenty per cent of those packed in wood ashes, or treated with a solution of boric acid and water glass, cr with a solation of perman- e ganate of potash, were bad. Those a "varnished" with vaseline, or preservad t in "lime water," or in "a solution of water glass" were "all good." Of the last three, and successful C methods, preservation in a solution of e water glass is especially recommended. 11 For the reason that lime water "some- 5 imes" communicates to the eggs a dif agreeanle odor and taste, and s, "varniAhirg" the eggs with vaseline sonsumes too much time when ttere is b a laige quantity to ba preserved. e "Water giavs." or sou le glass, it is 6 noted, is tae p-palar uae for pass d ium silicate, or fur bocium si.lca.e, ne commercial article often bea g E nixture of the twe. The commerCial L LruOle is usea for prcserving egst as i, ib t nuch cheaper thaa mne ohemi.ally par.. u] Lrticle. It is coMmonly boid in two orms. a liquid aDout tne consistenuy J f molasses, and a powder. The atrup form is someumes sold at wholesale, as E ow as one and three quarter cents a g pound, but sells at retail as high as ten 3ents a pound. A solution of the t. proper atrength for preserving eggs is c niede by dissolving one quart of syrup hick water-glass in ten parts, by e: neasure, of water. If the powder is e ased less is required for a given qiantity >f water. "Much of the water glass h >ffered for sale is very alkaline, and d should not be used as it will not keep c eggs well." Only pure water should be E sed in making the solution, and it I ihould be boiled and then cooled before tj nizing with the water-glass. The c. iolution should be carefully poured a >ver the eggs packed in a clean and G iweet vessel. Wooden vessels should b se "thoroughly scalded" for such use. fi Phe eggs should not be washed before t packing, and when packed should be e cept in a cool place. One gallon of the "solution" is enough for fifty dozen eggs, if they are properly packed. TJhe shells of eggs so preserved are apt to 'crack" in boiling, which may be pre rented by punctaring the big end with a pin before boiling. The School Book Question. I The Committee appointed by the (fon- ~ ~ederate Veterans in Columbia in the r natter of the school book question re ported as following: 1 The committee to whom was referred a :he memorial of the University Publish- D ng company respectfully submits the ~ following report: -This committee finds, upon careful ~ investigation, that an injury has been 1 lone both to the University Publish- 1h ng company and to its books and busi- 0 ess. At the last annual reunion of b he South Carolina division, held at d breenwood, in this state, Certain pre ambles and resolutions were adopted in 5 referene to the proper books to be ' sed in our public schools. No attack a alhatever was made by said prembies e and resolution upon the University ~ Publishing company, or upon its schoolV books. h All statements, therefore, which tend a be show that the United Confederate ~ Veterans of South Carolina had in any b way assailed Holmes' readers or Han- ~ sell's histories, or any other of the 0 sompany's publicatious are entirely un tuthorized.r Ycur committee therefore recoin ends the reaffirmnation by this con ention of the same preambles and re solutions which were adopted by the ast annual reunion, held at Green wood.t 0. L. Schumpert, t W. E. Jam- s, C Wade H. Manning, (Committee. a A Blind Doctor. c Chicago iq to graduate a blind doctor. George 8. IDubbins, who has been blind for eighteen years, has been given a degree by the Chicago H3me~pa:.si.c ~ edical College. To secure his de.gree y Dr. Dobbins took the four-vear coursec in medicine, supplying his lack of sighlt U with a wonderiul memory. He is now about to b gin a post graduate coursie? in his work, and at the canelusio of a ta:; he will enter upon the practic e .,f medicine. This is a critical time in farming. Everything depends on the start, and y the start of the crops of this year is net 1s altogether ra-isfactory. Work has not a ben interrupted by the weather to any r marked degree, but the recent cold ( weather gave a decided b:.ekset to I imn tring to come up. ' THE STATE REUNION Great Gathering of Old Confed erate Soldiers. THOUSANDS IN COLUMBIA. Meeting of Old Comrades In Arms Who Bre.veiy Fought Under thie Stary Cross Columbia, May 11.-Special: Five bousand survivors of the armies of the Jonfederate States came into Carolina's )eautiful capital hero gathered to talk f war times, to exchange greetings ;hat bad not been passed in years, and o show the psople of this graat ,ountry that they are not ashamed of he part they bore ur der Lee and Jack ion and Johnston and Beauregard and lordou and Hampto-e and their other ;reat leaders. The numbers here ex ,eeded the highest estimates of the nost enthusiastic. .Barring fair week, t was the largest gathering seen in Co umbia in very many years. DECORATION OF THE CITY. The entire city was covered with olors; not all colors. but the beautiful ed and white of 'the Confederacy. ?lags and emblems cf every kind per ainina to the Confederacy wero to be een floating gayly from almost every vindow, store and residence, and hough the prevailing colors were red nd white and the most of the flags 7ere Confelerate and State flage, a treak of blue was often to be seen hung eside the red and white, and numbers f Union flgi were .sprinkled among bose of tthe Confederacy. The new ity Hall and theatre building was the iost beautifully decorated, and the -,tls were all thoroughly bedecktd, ezides all buildings on Main street. i-y private residences were ornament d with flags and bunting, and the city t largo presented a beautiful sp3otacle ) Southern eyes. OPENING EXERCISES. The annual conventiou of the South larolina Division of United Confed rate veterans openei n the new Co imbia theatre on Wednesday evening. lore than 2,000 people were present. The tpeakera occupied front 3ats and the place of honor was given > Lieut. Gen. Wade Hompton. Just ,hind hi:n -at Mr. W. A Clark, wno eorted Gen. Hampton, Governor Ma -veeney c.me in iviai Gaa. J. B. Gir o., I yor Earle ceme in with Justce oo. Mr. Au,;uta Kohn wi;h Mis i zashi Lamnpen, Uniief Jastic Me ver wi-;i Gea. Wed, Abocia.e Jstice, ry nd Jees anc. many ,ther Gis Lauisii2d Carouiniaus were on the 'e. Gen. . 1. Waiker and kijt Umes i. Hoames, Uere in froat seat, i Capt. W. D. S.ariing of Camp limp on had charge of the great achering. Tne op. ning prayer was offered by ie Rev. Dr. JameE Woodrow of this Mayor F. S. Earlo *eloomed the vet rans and other viciItors to- tha capital Lty. Thea Commander Starling said that e and the camp hali selected the mast, istinguished Veteran, a member of the imp, to respond in behalf of Camp [ampton to the welcome. Slowly Gen. [ampton's name was called and then iere was a mighty roar of applause iat made the very welkin ring, and gain and again the applause went up. en. Hampton arose and again the yells roke forth once, twice and more and I nally when quiet came the singing of ie Doxology follo wed and was render i with feeling. GEN. WADE HAMPTON'S SPEECH. Gen. Hampton spoke out, and it was ith clearness and decision, and once c awhile with a show of youtnful fire. moe in awhile he looked around to trds the box in which uat his daugh er, Miss Daisy Hampto, and Mr. Mc auffie Hampton. Lieut. Gen. Wade [ampton spoke as follows: My corn ides, I have heard that rebel yell be re and I wish that I could respond to now, as it was once my pride to do, od tell the brave men who were around te to go in and win, but time has tarked many a mile stone on iy march to my last resting place. 'erhaps there are some among you here ho knew the old Philips Legion. The eutenant colonel of that legion was ne of the best fighters of the legion, uit he was not much on grammar or' till and once, when his legion was in inter quarters, he sent an officer to in pect and drill them. Well, they were ot accustomed to quick time, on foot ad the old general compromised by iying, "Their spirits are good, but ieir winds are short." Now that is ~ ery much the condition of myself. I ave had a very severe attack of grip e ad that has left me very much in the , tine condition as those men. By the ~ y, that recall another incident. Whent iey came to South Carolina, at the last the war, they nore sent down near ranchville and were put one night to :lieve some mihitia, who always camp along a branch, and the day after .u~y camped there he found the Lderais Lad climed up the trees of the ~ K.amp and fired down upon their breast urke and next moroigg they went in ie branch and comminced droppingt 2050 Yankeen like ducks. One Yankee fljed out, "What troops are those?" le said, militia; and he said, "You a~re -- li..r. They are not militia." ly comrades, I will say friends, be-5 s.use I am a fi e id of every comrade ho has been t;rue. You are moy secnds and I have been appointed by se osmnp, whicih hionors me my bearing iy name, to retur n thanks to you for I ozig, to we lcome your here, as I de ~r them, fcr myself, for every brave ~an in Ublumnbia, for every noble and .ristie woo-an who still clings to the I utu .which in -pire~s i's. I welcome you. I cid the mayor ias extended to you the< -etdow of the cie;. You are wecome n~d the freedom of Columiia is offered: ouL and I ann surse that in no other ace in thec world, in the South, could I ou feel a brigiiter welcomre. I have a een miny of amy old men from Georgia< od other S:ates. We are honored to-t igtc by having an old co'dier, Gen. :i Krdon, from Georgia, with us. He i as come to do honor to Colambia where I e helped us so much in 187t6 and all : of you who were in the cavalry will join me when I say we were always glad when we knew Gen. Gordon was leading his men (Applause.) He is here and I, for you, thank him for the horor he does. Now, my friends, I can say nothing more to you. I have come from a sick bed that I might meet you, and tell you I have never forgotten the old lang syne, when we camped together. * I can never forget those days. They say our cause has been lost; but a just cause never dies. It will live forever, and I paay to God that in the hearts of all the men who fought so bravely they will remember that though the cause on earth is lost, it will long go down the pages of history as one of the noblest and-greatest struggles and made by the noblest army that ever trod this green earth. At the conclusion of Gen. Hampton's brief speech there was an outburt of applause. Commander Starling gracefully pre seated Gen 0. Irvine Walker, and there was an outburst of applause for Gen. Walker, for he is the man above all who has made such a Reunion pos sible. Gen. Walker said: Gen. Walker, cammander of the division, responded to the address of welenme. He spoke strong and clear and could be generally heard. He re tu:rned sincere thanks for the splendid weloomo and magnificent hospitality ex tended the veterans. He spoke of Co lu:nbia's devotion to the cause and con ritulated her citizens that they had builded from her ruins a city whose pros perity was gratifying and whose con ,inued growth would eventually make he r the metropolis of the state. He re !erred to the faot that Columbia was the ::th-place of the division. At the first neeting there were fifteen camps repre ieated by twenty nine delegates. Now ;here are 135 camps with hundreds of ray-haired de!egates. Qen. Walker then read the tribute to :he dead and to the women cf Sou:h s2rolina, which was responded to by :he assemblage. A LADY ORATOR. In a few appropriate word3, he intro xced Miss Elizabeth Lumpkin, who ielivered the adaress of welcome* to the :iaorgia veterans. Miss Lumpkin took the crowd by torm and her reception was seemingly he heartiest ovation of the evening. 13r remarks were well timed and replete ith noble sentiments. She spoke with olear strong voice, and her delivery vas faultless. In ner address directly o the veterans, after dcolaring4hat she eyed them all, the whole assemblage ose en masse and checred her to thei cho Whern she declared, with rreat ramatic fLi e, that it might be Mne uns of vterani wead forge; th veG ran3 and taeir cauze, buL their daugh er& never wowd, the euthueiass wa, rathout boutds. Though a daagh-r of ieo.g.a, siie paii a glowing trioute to I.u-rn Carolina, and in cio-ing, cailed to veteraab the cva.1irs of tLe eartE. Vhen kie bow. d er adua, tho,e abou; Le stag, htartiy c.ogva:u ated her on Ler efforts. The v'teraj-i cheered and 'heered, arid Mise Lumpkin bowezd hei ,ckcowltdgments Amoig those who extended their con ;ratula:iuns was General G(rdvn. Oa LAs appear.ance he was recetved with vo f.r aus cIees and there were load calls or him. GEN. JOHN B. GORDON inally rose and eaid: "I am not a Carolinian, but I'm a ~eorgisn, and can prove it by this en ire audience." Much applause and heering going on, he said: "1'm stand ng to-night on South Carolina soil, and n the very hearr of hearts of Southern hivalry. More than that, I am stand ng in the presence of the very greatest nan that it has ever produced in all ine, (great applause,) and I mean no 'ain flattery. luse no unmeaning words hen I say that, taking htim as a private itizen, as a soldier upon a hundred loody fields, as the hereof Reconstruc ion, worse than war and the gory field, tanding to-day in his might like the nountains on your own northern border ith the very clouds around his head ,nd dust of the past at his feet, without ne stain in his life, without the possi ility of a doubt, I pronounce Wade lampton the chief of men, and now my Jonfederate brothers, I want to say hat it has been my fortune to stand be ore some great armies in this country ,nd in foreign lands, but as God-is my udge, I believe that a Convention of lonfederate Veterans is the noblest ;athering that everwet beneath the stars nd it requires no piercing vision to ead upon the brow of every. man here resent the four leters, H, IE, R, (J." Gen. Gordon received little less than a ovation, and for the few moments hat he spoke threw his whole soul into rhat he had to say. Gen. Walker then presented GEN. A. J. WEST, OF ATLANTA, rho delivered the formal response of relcome on the part of the Georgia Vet rans. It was a fine speecn. Gen. Vest's running retrospeot and review f the great battles and leaders of the rar was eloquent and forceful, and im pite of its wealth of detail was listened o with breathless attention. His re iew of the life and services of Pei .ent Davis. the hero of Buena Vista .nder the Stars and Stripes, the man rho watched by the cradie and grave of he Confederacy, who was chained in a .ungeon for his loyalty to constitutional ight, and who wrote the epitaph of the 'storm-cradled nation that fell," was eard with enthusiasm. The leading hought in his peroration was that the louth's tremendous lots of blood and reasure had not been in vain, but had eeure:d an honorable peace and a splen .id heritage for future generations. "It s better to have fought and lost than sever to have fought at all." DR. THIORNWELL's ADDRESS. The annual address for this reunion rad been assigned to the Rev. James i. Thornwell, of Fort Mill, ohsplain of he South Carolina Division. The im sense crowd had become a little rest ses, the exercises had been a little onger than expeated, there were signs fa thund er-torm, and when General 'Vest coo 2luded quite a number of the udience left the hall, and th-re was omei confusion. Dr. Thornwell there ore concluded to abridge his address, , it would be pubolithed in full in the taily papers, It was an appeal for jus ice to the Confederate sildier, his notives and his character. It urged pon the younger men of the South the uty of preserving the memory of their athers from asersion and the canse for which they fought from misrepre sentation. This closed the evening's exercises. THURSDAY'S DOINGS. The business meeting of the conven tion was called to order at 10 o'clock a. m. by Gen. C. I. Walker. Dr. Thorn well, the chaplain, made the opening prayer, and Adjutant Holmes called the roll, nearly every camp being represen ted. Gen. Walker made his annual report, in which he referred with gratifi "ation to the increased number of members, and paid a tribute to those who had died during the year. The report made reference to a pro posed change in the constitution, which will prohibit any one or any camp or any city where the reunion is held from inviting any guests to the cotvention except one connected with the Confed eracy. This was enthusiastically adop ted. The resolution was brought forth by the action of Memphis in inviting President McKinley. While there was no objection to his being present other wise it was considered inappropriate to have so distinguished a guest in one who had fought on the other side. General Floyd was introducid and made a most eloquent address in which he heartily commended the work of the Sons of Veterans, who are trying to preserve history, Resolutions to that effect were introduced and Colonel Reed, of Georgetown, and Major Har din, of Chester, were appointed a com mittee to wait upon the Sons. Col. 0. L. Schumpert of Newberry, nresented a memorial on behalf of the University Publishing Company, in which the action of the committee on text books which appeared before the state board of education in reference to text books was criticised. The company claims that its histories especially were misrepresented; that they are fair to both sides and give both sides; that for one to be well educated in history both sides of the great confiLet should be known. The memorial was referred to a committee consisting of 0. L. Schum pert, Gen. W. E. James and Wade H. Manning. Aninvitation was read invitiag the veterans to be present at the unveiling of the Chicamauga monument. The invitation was unanimously accepted. Major James F. Hart presented reso lutions, which were unanimously adop ted, thanking Gen. Walker for what he had done. Gen. Walker then announced that he had arranged with Gen. Hampton for the convention to call on nim at 5:30 in the afternoon. The veterans accep ted the invitation with much enthusi asm. On motion of Col. Croft, the sponsors were acred also to go. Gen. Walker presented to the con vn-tion a beautiful wreath mwe of pal aietto leaves in the shspe of a iLrs mhoe whiica was :.he handiwork of Mr. W. Swaffield. of Columbia. It is de L-igned to be plac.d on the moaument at Chiekamauga It was ace-pted, asa the thatiks or the couvention were ten dered Mr Swaffield There beid'g a vacancy in the trus teeshio of the Jefferson DAvis memo rial. Dr. B B. Teagu3 was unanimous ly e:ected The terin had expired and thus the vacancy was created In the afternoon the convention, sc companied by the spon-ors, and es caried by the Sons of Veterans, pro ceeded to tbe home of General Hamp ton and there presented 'heir respects and their good wishes. The Daughters of the Confederacy assembled also at the residence, and the Southern Cross of Honor was there conferred upon the old hero. In the evening the theatre was again filled to its utmost capacity-the occa sion being the presentation of the spon sors. These young ladies seated on the stage formee a scene of striking beauty. Addresses were made by General M. C. Butler, Capt. James Armstrong of Charleston and Mr. F. H. Weston of this city. "Jimmie" Armstrong was at his best-his speech abounding in wit and pleasantry. The convention of the Sons of Vet erans assembled in the afternoon, and the Reunion ball, under their auspices, took place in the hall of the House of Represetatives atsnight. There was a large attendance from all parts of the State. TRIDAY'S PROCEEDIN0S. The State convention reassembled in the theatre and much business of especial interest was transacted. The feature of the meeting was the atten dance of a large body of boys and girls fromn the graded school who sang several of the war songs of the Confederate States-"Dixie," "Bonnie Blue Flag," "Maryland, my Maryland.". There was a tremendous crowd and the enthu siasm was undiminished. The Sons of Veterans met and con - eluded their business session. This being Memorial Day in South Carolina (the anniversary of Stonewall Jacksan's death at the Wilderness in 1863) there was the customary recogni tion of the day here. There was a pa rade of the veterans assembled. An escort composed of the local, militia the Governor's Guards and the Richland Volunteers-was- commanded by Col. Wilie Jon s, Gov. McSweeney and his staff heading the column. The column of veteran camps was headed by Gen eral Hampton. Next came General Walker and his staff. Proceeding to Elmwood Cemetery, I the soldiers gathered around the plot containing only the graves of dead Con federate soldiers. Simple exercises were had-a prayer by Dr. Thornwell and the singing of an appropriate hymn. Then the girls and boys covered the soldiers graves with beautiful flowers. Then the Southern Cross of Honor was crnf erred upon each of a number of members of the local camp. The conferring of the Southern Cross of Honor is a new feature of such occa sions. The idea originated with the Daughters of the Confederacy who c~n fer the crosses upon those who went through the war and worthiy upheld the Southern cause. Besi e veterans the cross is conferred upon worthy sons of deceased veterarns. The rames of all upon whom the cross is conferred are depositad in the Confederate mu seum iof Richmond. The closing feature of the great Re union was the reception to the spon sors in the hall of the House of Repre sentatives. It was largely attended I nd geatlye njoyed. A 6OLDIERS HOME NEZDD An Advocate of the Scheme Pres: Fects and Figures. To the editor of The State. Excuse me for asking once more I a little spee to say a word for a Soldie home. Of courie details must be li for the law making department, but: it be understood that the pension sa tem, or outlay, is not to be disturbe The proposition is to build a home I the destitute, helpless and homeless. hope that when the matter comes up the State camp that the old thread bi argument that the old soldiers prefer pension to spend in his own way w not be made. Who would think for moment of forcing an old veteran to to a soldier's home in order to get he from the State? Oh, no, so long as : has a place he can call home give hi a pension and let him stay. But wh are we doing with thoso who are todl on the road, or in the poor Lous Where will they stay while spendii their pension allowance? Rememb the proposition is strictly for the d( titute, helpless and homeless. Some one jamps up and says the o veteran will not care to go a distan from his old friends and home in ord to get into a soldier's home. Whe ever a man reaches that point whe there is no one able or willing to gi him shelter, he will not care how far goes. I doubt if the number would excei 200, perhaps less, in the State th would come under the requiremeni The cutlay need not be very great, px haps $25,000 cr $30,000 would furni buildings, with moderate annual appi priations. I believe $100,000 mee the requirements, annually, for the hc pital for the insane, with about a tho sand inmates. Bat can South Carolii afford to count costs in dealing wil this question? These men didn't coui costs forty years ago when same 1 these very men were of the first to alij themselves along the Potomae fro Harper's Ferry to the Chesapeake. Then, this outlay would be requir for only a brief period, in 15 years on a few thousand of all the hosts, nori and south, of over three millions men, will be left. If anything is ev done it must be done now. We can't depend upon volunta: contribution. All difficulties have bei overcome in other States. Georgia h: given over $600,000 t her soldiers sin 1880. Rememoer that we plead fort] desitute, helpless and homeless. 0 G. Thompson, Private Co G. 33, S. 0. Infantry. Laurens, 8 C , May 7. 1901. AN EXPERT PENIAN. Forty-Six Thousand Words Writti on a Postal Card. Rila Kit-redge. of B-ifast, Me., char pion 6m.%am wra r of tne ;&orld, has r -u-* d -roM te neld, leaving hiarecord i 16,0JU0 words written witn a comm< sCtee pea aon an orulicary poital caw for ambiti us miscrooopic penman Lqual or oea . Up to Lwo years ago I wrote a great de-id. but now being withi a f -. r monbs of 90, h* has givenup ti lanjrious praettce of writing volumi upon smali csrds, his hand being le s.eady atd his ejye less brigit than in h Dest as. Mr Kittredgo has long beein famot Eer his penmanship. He is a Vermont< by birth. His practice of miniatui ihirography begin early in life and mar a time he has gone without his din< eather than leave unfinished a piece work. His first serious competitive effort wi made in 1837, when some one sent to ti Belfast Journal a postal card upc which 600 words had been crowded, at defied any one to beat it. A few da: afterward Kittredge banded in a post; card upon which he had written 1,0( words' and this being beaten he pri duced one with 3,000 words. The 3,000 word postal card ended i iompetition, but Mr. Kittredge kept c irowding his letters and words i smaller space, turning out in successie iards bearing 6,000, 10,000 and 20,00 words His finest work was done 186 when he wrote 46,000 words upon an o: linary postal card, and the entire tea of tha New Testament, about 181,00 words upon four postal cards. He has written several presidentil inaugurial addresses upon postal car and has always considered it easy I write the Lord's prayer eight times wit] in the space covered by a five-cent nic] e1. He wrote one of Gladstone speeches upon a postal card and sent to the statesman, who wrote a letteri reply, thanking Mr. Kittredge and prail ing his skill. Mr. Kittredge never used any magni Esing glasses or other aids. He hi always worn a pair of ordidary specti :les such as most elderly men use, an all his writing has been done with a yrdinary steel pen and common blac ik. He has competed with man would-be champions who have use nagnifying glasses and sharp-pointe aard lead pencils, and he has easil ieaten them all inaspite of their advar :age in the matter of equipment. His writing is distinguished by it yeauty and the artistic arrangement an iniformity of the letters. .Esch lette s separate and distinct, and some ramned specimens were shown at th laris Exposition. He says that hi iyes naturally magnify.-Nations Watchman. Hanna As a Humorist. Senator Hanna is a great humoria -when he is apparently most serious le declares with hands raised t leaven that "the Dingley tariff is noat perfect werk of tne human in ;enuity," and that "we are not goingt ake off the metal schedule and al ow the Nova Scotia Steel Company 'or instacce, to dump its products int f ew E gland." This is surely mona yoly protection's last ditch. We ni oregor need a tariff to guard our marke gaist Earopean ecmpetition-in fact ~e are undersellirg in its own marke ad in the markets of the world. Fatal Accident. Ai elevred trarnsay used by th Savaneahi Qu'ao comnpany at Savannal o convey guno from its factory t1 neamers at the Pia:.: System wharve illapsed at 3 oc ek Wednesda: dfternoon. The small train used i. he traffie, and its crsw, were participat ad to the street, 40 feet below. Edwi: W'lliams, colored, was instantly kille' sud E:l. Montgomery and David Gaine ,ot colord, were badly injured KILLED AND RiAB.O its By a Young Man Who Confesses '01 the Crime to rs' et HIS SWEETHEART. d. or Two Fellow Workman Were the I in Victims. They Were Way re a laid and Shot to Death ill - a by the Murderer. goA dispatch from Greensboro to the "e Atlanta Journal says the facts in re m gird to what was probably the foulest at murder ever committed in North Car olina have just come to light in Chero 3? kee county, beyond the Blue Ridge, near the Tennessee line. Seventeen er months ago Charles Mason and John . Sherman, two white men, left a lumber camp in which they had been employed Id in Cherokee and were not heard of again Do until their skeletons were found a few er weeksago. . Working in the Cherokee lumber r camp with Mason and Sherman was a re young man by the name of Charles Dunboye, who bore a bad reputation. Under the promise of marriage, he s id duced the daughter of a mountainee, and as a result of his perfidity his guilt as a murderer has now come to light. r- The young woman states that on the ih day of the disappearance of Mason and Sherman she saw Danboye arm himself t4 with a revolver and take the trail over . the mountains in advance of his two 2. fellow workmen. a Several days later, while in a confi ;h dential mood, Danboye, swearing his It sweetheart to secrecy, told her that he )f had waylaid and killed Mason and Sher man. He added that as soon as mat ters became quiet he would marry the girl, since the money he had secured d from the bodies of the men he had mur dered would enable them to set up ;h housekeeping. Upon the strength of the young wo 3r man's affidavit, a warrant was issued for Dunboye, but he eluded the officers and has not yet been captured. It is n believed that he is in hiding in some of I the almo3t inaceessible-mountain passes se near the Tennessee line. A Big Family. The will of the late Geo Q Cannon, of Salt L-ke, Utah, was filed for pro bate Friday. The will disposes of an estate approximating $1,000 000. The estate is divided into two p.rwe, thefirst part, consisting of gilt edged securivies n worth $200,000 iais is to remain in trust unul 4eorge Q Oannon's young-, es: child, now ninc jears of age ataius I- majority. Al of &be thire thrt e chil e- area of President Cannoa are 'iv.n an A acre ot iand frm ne- Caunon 'arm and rA $2,000 in cash, on attaining majority er -d a mrrage the balance of the $200,000 'o to be avied among the enildreu waen ie the youngcbt child b.comew of age. 1n Wai:e puiygamy was recogniz.d oy tne e Mormon enucn Mr. Uanioa had four * wives. To thtseare miled tneir homes, a provision alo oing mads for their is maintenance during lite. Tae remain aer of Presidens Canno'sessae va~ue~d is as $800,000 and consisting of 33,000 r acres of farm land, interest in flur ~e mids, irrigation companies and stock in i nanks, ow., passes into possession of ~r the George Q - Cannon assoisrion of f whicn President Cannoa's cnildren and his nephew John M. Cannon are srtock as holders to be held in truss until the Le yougest child is forty years old. n d Tied and Killed. A dispatch from Valdosta, Ga., says 0 news has just been received there of . the. lynching of Henry Johnson, alias "Gator," near Moniac, between there e and Jacksonville Friday night. Tue a day Johnson- fired at a young white ,, man named Foraker. The load of bar a rel rivets barely grazed him. The No 0 gro was captured at Crawford, Fla., e and broughs back to Moniac. He con e. fessed the shooti'ng and said that he it intended to kill Faraker. He was held o there for offisera to come after him and Friday night a mob gathered and car d 'red him to the swamp, where he was Is tied to a log and-shot. The lynching o occurred just over the Florida line. ~. The Negro is said to haveobeena holy .terror. It is thought that he intended a~ tc assassinate Foraker and then rob the t commissary where Foraker was clerk n ing. Not By Fire and Sword. It seems that the Turks do not take more kindly to Christian missionaries than do the Chinese. One of the Con stantmnople .newspapars says: "The Chisin missionaries are anarchists who are undermining the foundations of the Ottoman Empire. They are Giiowari who presume to advocate a heathen's belief in opposition to Mo ~hammedanism. In future missiiona ries will not be allowed to open schools. The government will retard their so tivity where ever possible." - Terrific Explosion. e A terrific explosion occured at the Henery colliery near Wilkesberre, Pa.,. 1Five miners were frightfully mangled by powder and many were injured. One of a number of empty cars which were being pulled up contained ten kegs of black powder and one box of giant powder. The car dashed into the drum 'at the head of the slop and the powder by conoussion. The drum and head machinery were torn to pieces and the up of the elope was wrecked. Has been Raised. -| The board of education of the Metho >dist Episcopal Church, South, met at t Nashville last week, Bishop Galloway presiding. Dr. J. D. Hammond, record ing secretary, reported that $1,500,000 ordered by the general conference as a thank off ering for the Twentith cen tury had been raised. Seven persons were burned to death while asleep in a tenement house at South Chicago. A freight train of sixty-five cars, which was standing in front of the buiding and which, it is claimed the crew refused to move, blocked the firemen, whxo were unable to get-near the burning building until B it was too late.. The train crew was arrested and iebing hld witout bail.