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Gods boundless iove and arching s: Above us when we wake or sit'. Above us when we smile or W.-c Above us when we live or die. God's tireless love. Beside i e Of her sick child the ni The Heavenly lat her evr Unweary watci lie s i God's patient love: M is ,: By hearts that su:fer in the Tioubted-yet waiting i l a i light Shall show how all things n"' 1o good. God's chageless love: The wanderins one Forsakes, forgets, dishonors, yet Repenting, going home. is met With no reproach-"Welcome. son." God's endless love: What u0li I,. When earthly shadows flee ;1'" For all eternity's briyhit Thy. The unfolding of that love A GILDED SIN.' BY CHARLOTTE M. BREAIE Cn'rarn7 V. As Veronica descended the broad staircase she lookel in astonislent at the brilliant scene that met her gazhe on every side. T he shining lights- the wealthof evergreens, holly w't h lovely! laughing crimson berries, the gracefuh laurel with its shining leaves, t he da rk stately fir and the mystical nist ietoe it was all like a dream to her. lier heart warmed as she gazed. if t ms was an English Christmas. then night Heaven bless Christmas for evermore: Every one had something kind o sav: there was a smile on every face. light in kindly eves, masic in the sound of kindly voices. She thought that while she lived she would never forget the words, "I wish you a happy Chrismas: and the speakers. the kindly people so tender and true of heart, were t ie cold reserved English who her aunt had told her were accursed: She looked at the noble faces of the men, faces that told of power and skill, of courage and self command: she looked at the fair blonde faces of the laughing girls and the graceful wbmen: and she thought that the English were a great people. greater than the old stately Venet ians. There was not even a tinge of envy in her heart as she noteI the lovely younger girls. She was quite uncon scious of her -own picturesque beauty, of the poetical loveliness of her face. the grace of her figure clad in its trail ing black robes. Amongst those fair English girls she looked like a gorgeous passion fower the midst of white lilies. She never forgot the Christmas din ner; her first in England-the grand table with its costly silver and delicate glass, the profusion of flowers and fruits, the sparkling wines, the laugh ter, the general air of happiness, while outside the wind wailed among the leafless trees and the stars shone in the Christmas sky. She saw Katherine with her bright laughing face and her handsome young lover following her like a shadow. Presently Sir Jasper came up to her. "Do you like our English way of keeping Christmas, Veronica'." he She looked at him. "It is more beautiful than anything I have ever seen," she replied: arnd then he turned abruptly away. for she had looked at him with dead Giulias's ev1es. "'Veronica!" said a low deep voice. She turned quickly and saw Lord Wynleigh standing by her side. "I have come to ask you if you are pleas~d. Walk with me through the rooms. You have not vwished me a happy Christmas yet!" "Then I will do it now."~ she said': and Lord Wynleigh raised her hand to his lips. "Katherine has been telling me how dearly she loves you, and how good you are to her." "I love her better than anything or any one in the wide world," she replied. He looked half sadly at her. "I have to come." he said. "to ask you for a little share of that great af fection which you give to my peerless Kate. I will deserve it. 1 will give you the true, honest, frank. kindly af fection of a brother to a sister. Will you accept it?". She looked up at him. "I am bewildered," she said. '-What have I done that Heaven should give me so much--what have I done? Only a few months since no one loved me, now-" "You accept it then?" interrupted Lord Wynleigh. "If you want a friend, you will come to me; if ever you want help of any kind you will remember that on Christmas-day you promised a stalwart brother to let him stand be tween you and the world." "I shall never forget," she said. -And Lord Wynleigh left her stand igby the door of the conservatory while he went in search of Katherine. Veronica was unutterably,. happy: into her gray dull life such threads of gld were woven that she was dazzled bythem. She had hungered and thirsted for love; now it was lavished upon her. She stood on tihe same spot still unconscious of her picturesque loveliness, watching Katherine and her lover, and as she watched them strange sweet possibilities of life came fioating to her. She had thought of herself so long and so often as one apart' from others, as one for whom life leld no pleasures, no hopes, now was the dawn of a golden morning, now the sweet vague delicious fancies that thrill the heart of ayoung girl thrilled her. It might be that in the golden far-off future such love as Alton s for Katherine would fall to her lot. Per-I haps her life too would be crowned by that most pure and perfect gift-a no ble love. If heaven had such happiness in store for her "I am afraid," said a deep musical voice near her, "that you will take cold--there is quite a rush of cold air here." Veronica looked up suddenly. A tall stately figure stood between her and the light: dark gray eyes were looking into her own. She saw a handsome., noble face. a proud. princely .head covered wic clusters of fair hanirIt was a face that from that moment stood out clear and distinct from all other faces. The gentleman smiiled at the half-bewildered expression of the dark eyes. .. "I must introduce myself agam, he said. "Sir Jasper introduced me to you just before dinner, but I was one of so many, 1 cannot hope to hav e been noticed. You do not remember mec "No," she replied. "Sir J asper mn troduced so many people to me at once. and English, names are hard to remem ber. I should be glad if you would tell me yours," she added with some: little hesitation. "You will say that it is a: strange one perhaps," he said. "I am Sir Marc Carvl.~ "Sir Marc~ Caryll,'' she repeatea. "I shall remember that in con neceion with the patron saint of 1'enmee-St. Mark." She could not tell why, but the name seemed to sink into the depths of her heart like the echo of a song. Then: she looked at him. and decided that. although she had seen some noble men., he was by far the handsomest and noblest. There was an air of comnd. of power, of authority about him w~l bich pleased her. Hie looked like a m1an whose will was strong and relent less.. whose purpose was tixed, whose judt ment was clear and decided. Se'lf-re liance, courage, bravery-all thos.e qualities were written .on. the fur handsome face, that had in it at tinies a woman's sweetness and the sunphi-. ty of a child. A swift sudden t bought came to her that a life wculd be safe in those strong hands of his-honor, fai ame, everything might be intrust nmy charae hat :e Oha ouini ' a ok ens Ihp orcn n. fc. 3iss i yt haL~ : mi an exam l ha te tas nght -it wa the eginigi ii be unick love - charalcteizedl "1Oin: her more ot r ari han her. mnothetrs. -a own ih i houl ever tire 01 Shei med wth him she15'I tailked to i~n uor . I (1n oneamued glance foi ow ed I lem--,..h* With her dlark Vene ~in beuti he wit his; Saxon comehcl . s 1 lher seeme to have.( forgotten hie world'. * nce* ircr took her10C he 'reat we st ern widow in tihe broad erridor. a i V~ ing asidet ie hang Lok. .. di Cy nt ha~ 1want y'ou Ttweih, p't ry of an Eglish Chist \eroia cried out in w onder ant 've .1 Th sky was of deep', dark Sthoml ess biue: the moon was full md shone wit h a clear silvery light; :he eart i; 1::'' wh ite stil, and beaut ifu dethe pal clea*r beams: the hare crost made the tall ientiess t rees lool iarker .tand the hoar-frost shon:e in ih Ltight of th moon. The wind wailec flO mogti hei rees. heuI lIng I heir t al - H ow heautiful: she cried.r "Trhere Kit Inoin in. all \'enmice so fair as this 1 t ough I here was 1)o poetry in Eng land: but it is-full of it. This look. --Yonu'ii t ry to love England?"lK "I do love it without t rying.'' she re Olied. 'Icouild almost fancy therr \vas some1 myvsterious ressa wihy m3 heart should have warnied so great ly to it: it seems more my home t hal Venice ever did." lIe was looking intently at her witi his dark gray eyes. --ou will not wish to returnm t< Venice I hen? You would be conten1 to remain in England all your life?' She raised her beautiful face: th< dark eves looked at the blue wintra ight-sky, at the fair white earth. a the quaint shadows the moon mad< through the t rees: and then she turnen to Sir M1are. "Yenice would seem a prison to m< after this.'' she said: and as she said i1 he wondered why lie looked so brighr and pleased. "I should like yon to see my home, he remarked. "It is. 1 think, evei more beautiful than Queen's Chase. 1 is called Wervehurst M1anor. and i stands in the loveliest part of Sussex We have music there-nature's grand est. The sea lies at no great dist ance and far away to the right stretches ehain of hills. on which the light o the sun lies low. 1 have a passionat love for my home.. She was'silent. He went on. "And 1 live there. Mi1ss di Cyntha all alone. Can you imagine that?. have no mot her. no sister. There is large household of servants but I an quite solitary. I want what the poct call an angel in the house." "What is that?"~ asked Veronica. --That is English for a wife," he rc plied: and the beautiful face droope< before his. Hien heart beat: a strange pain, tha was yet half pleasure. seemed to thbril her innocent soul. "I must leave you," she said hurried lv. "I$~ amqutenre that Katherina --Wereyougo 1 follow.' declare< Sir MIarc: and for that evening at leas he kept his word. KILLED HIS BROTHEE.-fI-L AW. Fatal Termiinationi or a Family Few in William1sb)urg. A specinl dispatch from Scrantor to The State says: S. W. -James. prominent farmer of the High Hlil section. of Williamsburg County, wai killed Friday morning by L. C. Myers his brother-in-law and a wellknowr young planter. The shocking traged; was made known at Scranton on Fri morning when 3Myers came to town and stated that he was on his way t< Kingstree to employ counsel and sur render himse:.f to Sheriff Graham When seen by this correspondent Mers declined to discuss the affair sa~ying he preferred to remain silen1 until he could consult counsel. Th< bomicide was the culmination of family feud which has existed fo: several years. There was no eye wit nesses to the killing. MIy inf'ormatior is that Myers and James had a disput Thursday about a dividing fence Myers -forbade Jiames to interfere witl the fence. Friday morning they mel and renewed the quarrel. .Jamecs ad vanced on Myers with a fence rail Myers shot .James and broke his arm causing him to drop the rail. JIame: continued to advance, and when it reach Myers struck him a stunning blow on the head with his gun. break ing the breech. James fell. anm Myers beat his head violently witi th~e gun barrel. .James;'head and fact was horribly mutilated. He lived onl3 a few hours. The parties are well con. nected. and are prominent in this see. tion. hue tragedy is deeply deplored. A itenmarkalyle Case. A special from Chicago says practi eally dead for eight and one-hall hours. the heart of itridget D~emnpsey a patient in the county hospital. ha: Inally ceased beating. All action o! the respiratory orans of the womar had ceased and the physicians in at tndance pronounced her dead. The heart actio~n. which apparently hac died away. grew stronger a few mo ments afterwards, and injections 01 nitr glycerine and other sti mulants and artificial respiration wer used,but inetfectually. Sill the puisationis 01 the heart continued wvith regularity while the woman remained to all othe, indicatons lifeless. Dr. J1. 1I. Mus tard. of the hospital staff. pronuniced the case Land rv's paralysis. one of tht rarest diseases; known to mnedica: .ieic. Thei diseaise is primari!) paraysis the res pi rattry orgns, wxhich does not act i nmmediately or the heart. The rieari woman wams rears ol age andi entered the inustitu to Iw week agoC nto be i tateri fI uberclar meiniitis. A Deadly Stroke. Wiiamr Colenimin. H enry Conwell. eorge [Iratchier and Dratcher's broth. Ir er'e killed by ligh teninug whik: 'icin potatoes early T1hursday miorn n 0 tflman.s arm. I\welve umile: ;eutwest of .herman Texas. The dieall fell in a pile and nearlb very hoe in thenm was broken. Thb :lotilng was ~t nlear ' all burned fron: Tw hrp earthqumake shocks were flt at ! rtb tnd. )regron. Sunda2 nigzht. one at sap. mn., andi another al 1 a. m. 3o damnage was dlone. N EW 113I R _ RESOR7 White Stone Lithia Springs Will Ope! July First. A MODEL OF ARCHITECTURE 3iniute De.criptioa oi'This Beaut i1'ai itesort Whose Waters Are Attracting; Attention Ev erywhere. White Stone Lithia Spring.. Spar tanburg County. .June 21 --Special: The prospcrou s Piedmont section of this State is full of surprises. V,ealth. energy and push have easily placed her in the front ranik of the new south. The transformation in the past 20 years of the apparently barren red hills into fertile terraced fields: the building of almost innumerable cotton factories. and surely as night follows the day, came the uphuilding of ham lets into towns, towns into cities, an increased population. Along with this tloodtide of prosperity came the educa tional institutions, the dissemina tion of knowledge, culture and retine ment. The up c untry has always been the mecca to which the people of the lowiands in the eastern and southern portions of the State turn their steps in the summer to escape the malaria prevalent in those sections. and the names of many of the old and familiar watering places are household words. But 'tis said the best is always saved - until the last, It was left for Harris the only "Jim" Harris to discover and utilize the best health giving water not only in the State, but perhaps in tie south. White Stone Lithia springs are only one and a half miles from Rich Hill. a station on the Southern railway ser en rniles from Spartanburg and 20 from !Enion. Formerly it was known as 'Kirby spring' and although in a general way it has for years been known simply as a "tine spring" by the natives, and beneficial results were obtained by drinking its waters: its true medici nal qualities were never known until the property passed into Harris' hands and an analysis was made. The water abounds in sodium chlo ride, lithium, sodium mangnesium and iron bicarbonates: iron, potasium sodium. calcium and lithium sulp hates. Also alumina and silica. It is considered a very pure mineral water and containing lithium salts makes it a valuable water medicinal ly. THE LOCATION. These celebrated springs will be connected with Rich Hill by a railway, the roadbed of which is now all grad ed and the work is nearing completion. The distance is only a mile and a half. WHITE sTONE LITHrA sPRINGs. The springs are surrounded by high hills whose summits rise in some places to a perpendicular almost a hundred feet. The stream juts out of a tissue in a massive rock which towers high above it. An inch pipe has been in jected into the rock through which the cool sparkling water flows, rising to an elevation of four feet. The outpour is at least two gallons a minute. IThe natural pressure is so great that if the piping was "reduced" to a fourth of an inch the stream would rise to a height of :30 or 40 feet. This is remarkable in the mountainouS up country and is said to be the only one of its kind vet discovered. THlE B~oTTLING4 WORKs. Fif ty yard below the spring has been erected a neat and picturesque brick building, 30x40, where the water is bottled, plain and carbonated, and shipped to all parts of the United States. The water has already obtain ed a wide reputation and the daily shipment now amounts to from $150 to $200. It is claimed that on account of the softness and lightness of the water it retains its gas longer than any other mineral water on the market. This has been already tested and hence makes it in great demand by all deal ers. AN IDEAL sUIMER RESORT. Uut to appreciate it, to get the full benefit of the water, one must visit the spot, breathe the pure at mosphere that comes direct from the Blue Ridge Mountains, enjoy the magnificent scenery and drink deeply of the life giving waters. Heenture has done her most ar itierna Surrounding the spring ris thee everlasting hills" whose shady side and sequestered dales can not be surpassed in picturesque and romantic beauty and between whose base tiows the dancing. babbling bro. THE NEW IIOTEL. To visit this place an opportunity lwill be given the public after the first .of JIuly. On the summit of the hill just wvest of the spring and not 150 yards distant is almest completed a new brick hotel said toube more elegant in construc tion and appointments than any other of its kind in either of the Carolinas Ior G;eorgia. DEsCIUIPTION OF BL'ILDI NG. The hotel is built of brick and painted a deep red with white enamel ed window trimmings and Venetian blinds made of mahogonized birch. The building is 286 feet front and 204 deep. it faces the east and from the main building extends three long "s" toward the west. The main olice. ~toxi0, is In the centre with three galleries extending enitirely around it. forming a rotunda 40 feet in diameter. Two circular stairways, feet wide. extend to the fourth or ball room door. .1utst in rear of the ofice is the dining room. 40x00 feet, with a handsome metal!ic ceiling. The oonm is lighted by 408 electric lights. There are 10 eluster light and those on the borde- are 18 inches apart withI tw rwsrning up the centre ('n each -ide o)f the room. C nnctedl with the di:ning room is ne of the best epuipped kitchens, e~ery thing in which is of the lates~t and most approved pattern. U'nder the kitchen is installed the new t00 ligts electric dynamo. T he (old storage and provision room i amply large and will hold me.at eouh to last a month or imure. In the basement of the north wing~ *wil be the pool and billiard rooms, *barber shop and stcwart's otlice. hn the first door of the north wving~ n each simde of a 12 foot hallway are sui~ts of rotms. each having at least two la rtt. windws with ceiling 13 ee ligh. This applies not only to t~e rooms in this wvi ng. but to all the ,thr 15 r.:oom,. in the bhildnug On 1; urdicast 4uei of LiiJ- wing Is ine of the parlors. whieh is 30138 eet. The second !or is similiar to he lirt except the parlor. which is o.x2-1 fcet. '11he' south wingie is virtu ally a dupli -ate 1f t he 1 nor-th it except the addi in of the ball room on the fourth loor. T1his mattntieet ''dance hall" s 4tix1 2o and has :15 large Vino(IsV. It i :is n electrie ligdhts in tih form ) 1 w: stars and tour maltese crosses. In tie rear of the ball room are :icely e(i pped refreshment r'oms. Th'iere art. 1.11O feet of piazzas t~t iAru the bildin All are I2 feet wide. Tihey belt the front of the main buildig!4 and twoM side wings Of 'he tirst imid se-cond stories. On im third story there is a dainty sky parlor in front of the rotunda and in close proxi mity to the IJall room. Eight hun dred feet of hallways permeate the en tire building and the roon-S are all fitted with water and electric con veniences. The wiinscoting and all wood work is linished in ivory and enameled gold. All the furniture is of ouarter-sawed oak and white en ameld brass bedsteads, A large force of hauds are now pushing the work to completion for the . uly opening. A landscape gardener is engaged beauti fying the grounds. but on account of the magnitude of the .work it will be a year or two before his work will be completed All sorts of amusements will be provided for the entertainment of the guests ard "Jim" Harris stakes his reputation that no one shall go away dissatisfied. A GRAND SCENE. A little more than a mile from the spring is Rich Hill, the highest point between Columbia and the moun tains. from whose summit can be seen the smoke of 1) cot:on factories, viz: Union 141. :'o miles: .lonesville (1), 10 miles; Pacolet ('i. 5 miles: Gaftney (1). 18 miles: Cowpens (1), ; miles: Clifton (31. 7 miles; Glendale (1). 3 miles: Spartanburg (u), 8 miles. It is a beautiful sight and when once seen can never be forgotten. Frank P. Cooper. U. X. GUNTER, JR. Who Is a Candidate ihr Attorney General. By John Bell Towill, Editor Bates burg Advocate and Member House of Representatives for Lexington County. Appreciating the importance of the office of Attorney General, and feeling the necessity of the proper nan for that position. It is with gratification that we note the positive announce ment Ci Assistant Attorney General U. X. Grunter. -Jr., of Spartanburg county, as a candidate for that posi tion. We have known U. X. Gunter, Jr.. from his boyhood, and we always knew him as a bright, industrious and stu dious lad, never forsaking whatever duties that may have been at hand. He.showed a persistence and determi nation of will of which few young mei can boast. His character as a boy was solid, influential and moral. Since manhood these traits have remained the same in kind.- but each has been polished. moulded and beautified b' his constant contact with books, men and experience, ie has never been enticed from his active work into the ields of pleasure and idleness, but by ability. application and determinatior F. X. (;tNTER J.i. occupies a high place today in politics for his purity of motives, sincerity 01 purpose and independence of action. N r. Gunter. the son of a Confederate veteran, was 'born and reared in the town of Batesbnrg, in Lexington coun ty, and has spent his life co-operating with his feilow count rymen in labor ing for the welfare of his native State. After completing his high school course under such prominent men. among others, as E. II. Folk., Esq.. now a suc cessful attorney of Edgetield,. and Dr. A. .J. S. Thomas. the finished editor of the Baptist Courier, he entered the South Carolina College and studied law under that powerful founder of lav. Dr. Joseph D~aniel Pope, graduat ing wit h highest honors. After being adlmitted to the bar he began the practice of his profession and soon his ability as a lawyer was recognized by those wvho came in legal contact with him, for sooni Attorney General Barber appointed him to the position of Assistant Attorney Gener al. which position he held to the end of the termt. When ion. G. Duncan Bellinger came into otlice he realized that MIr. Gunter was tihe right man in the right place, and he retained him in his same posit ion. to which he was reapointed by General Bellinger. mak ing three times that his honesty. abili ty and experienlce as a lawyer and his it egril y as a cit izen has been recog nized by the heads of tihe legal depart met of the State. As Alt.orney Genera~. Mr.G(unter has made a record in keeping with all other positions he has ever held. Since act ing in that cipacity Mr. Gunter has arguedl on be 1alf of the State more than half a 1 undred cases before the Supreme Court. many of them involv ing the miost intricate and~ puzzling quest ion of law. and~ he has been success fll inl eighty per cenlt. of the cases. The records shtow t hat during this pe riod1 le hlas atppearedl before the high est tribunal of the State in about one hundred eases. mnotionls. etc.. with a recorid sulrpassedl by 1no other pract it i oler in tihe S at e. rThe motlsi important dutty impose5d upon thle otree of A.t torney G;eneral is iat ot advising pulic ollicials. Every writ ten opic ion given by Mtr. Gunter has been publishled in t he annual re Ports of 1 lie At torney General for tile iniormlation1. inspect ion aind criticism of hle public. Some of these opinions have involved (quest ionls of vital inter est to thme ublic, and ini no instance has a single opinion rendered by Mr. Gint er been reversed by b e co'irts bit sflst a ined1 absol utely. A mong those now recalled was tile famouts school chrt opinion. whereby inl an 01)inion1 to the State Siiperintetdent of E'duca tion MIr. G untet advised tha t the pay cert iticates issuedi for school ctharts were illegal, thereby saving 1) the fre school futnd nearly onie hitndretd thmous and dollarIs. .\nother was~ an optuon to tie effeet t hat schiools~operatedl un dcr tile general free schoo! law could not charge incident al fees of st udents, hut must operate free inI fact~ as well as nam. Thrme too na ws snd n ioid by the 8ENA'TOUIA1J kACE. The Candidates Outline Their Views in a Pleasant Way. NO ABUSE OR PERSONALITIES. The Issues Seem Tame at the Opening But the Candidates Will Probably Warm Up Later. t The first senatorial campaign meet ing which was held in Columbia, I passed ot quietly. The candidates are agreed on issues. and all made good speeches, a respectful hearing being accorded them by the audience. t Evans and Henderson are the favor ites. Latimer was the first speaker. He complimented Columbia on her pro gress of recent years. He said there is no issue in this campaign, it is a matter of personal choice. le stands on his record and attacks the Republi can policy in the Philippines. le fa vors commercial expansion, but not territorial expansion. le is opposed to ship subsidy, which is a tax on the poor for the benetit of the rich. Ile favors a repeal of the iniquitous mer chant marine law. a repeal of the pro tective tariffs, on articles sold in for eign countries cheaper than here and strict supervision of corporation and the Isthmian canal. lie stands by the State and national platform. The next speaker was Henderson. He has nothing personal against his opponent, but wants the campaign conducted on a high plane. In pro gressing let us keep to the "old bed rock of Democracy." The race prob lem is yet to be settled. This is a white man's country. The reserved rights of the State, as construed by the supreme court, are our guarantee of liberty. The fight of the people against the Republicans and the cen tralization government is illustrated by tariffs and trusts and imperialism, all of which are Republican measures. The United States must champion peace and trade. Mr. Johnston has always stood by Columbia, from Sherman's burning till new. He helped to build the col lege and open the canal. With the Isthmian canal the South Atlantic and Gulf ports would become centers of Asiatic trade. The South has the advantages of position, producing the products, and shorter by railroad transportation. If the ships are sub sidized the South cannot complete in commerce with wealth of Northern corporations. Filipinos have the same love for liberty as Americans, we should make them friends not sub jects. Mr. Elliott favors every plank of the Democratic platform and the advan tages of Columbia second.- He spoke of the facilities of the Congaree for commerce and the fertility of the soil. He has always wanted to open-the Congaree and develop Columbia's wa ter trade. He has always been inter ested in harbor and river improve ments, the excellent conditions of the South Carolina skilled labor, the cli mate and natural resources. He has always performed his duty to his State in peace and in war. Mr. Hlemphill would not talk about past progress, but inquired into the future. In the Phiiippines we are for safing the principle of the consent of the governed. The Philippines are mostly barren and uninhabitable, not worth keeping. The Philippine war costs every year as much as all South Carolina's citzens are worth. W~e have treated Cuba betters than the Phil ippnes. We should release the Phil ippines and help organize a govern ment. European nations do not want the Phili ppines. He is opposed to ship subsidy, but promises his best services if elected. Mr. Evans rejoiced at the unity be tween factions. He feels he was al ways right. He fought McLaurin's Republicanism four years ago. Has always been a thorough Democrat. The su'bsidy bill is dead, even the Re publicans are ashamed of it. It died with "Johnnie McLaurin. The inter ests of the producers and the manufac tures are identical. Young men should take prominent part in politics. Some were deceived by commercial Demo cracy. Expansion is accomplished and we must face it manfully. The burden of taxes falls on the poor con sumer. The D~emocratic party should bring relief to the masses. About Drinking Water. The supply of drinking wvater for the family should be tested at least once a year, says the Health Magazine. Water that at one time is pure and wholesome may become too impure for use, yet it may besvithout color. and have no odor or taste to show its dangerous qualities. A simple test of drinking water is the Meisch sewerage test. Fill a clean pint bottle three quarters full of the water to be tested, and dissolve in it half a teaspoonful of granulated sugar. Cork it and set it in a warm place for two days. If du ring this time it becomes cloudy or milky, it is unfit for domestic use. If it remnains perfectly clear it is prob ably safe. Be careful that the bottle is absolutely as clean as you can make it, and the sugar pure. The second test is also a simple one. Obtain from a trustworthy druggist about -> cents worth of saturated solution of perman ganate of potassium. Add about five drops of this to a pint bottle of water. This will turn the water a beautiful rose purple: if there is any consider able amount of organic matters, the the color will give place in the course of a few hours to more or less dirty reddish-brown. If the color of the water in the bottle remains for twelve hours unchanned from the rose purple it assumed when the permaganate of potassium was first added, it may be considered free from organic contami nation. THE race war which has been in progress at Eldorado, Ill., since May 29 when a mob attacked the colored Normal and industrial institute, stiln continues. The homes of the colored citizens have been stoned, warnings sent the occupants to leave the vici nity, and shots tired into their homes late at night. Many through fear, have left. Many sacriticed their homes, and in some instances their crops. Only live families remain, and two of them will leave at once. T HE Augusta Chronicle says " cala mities are of such every day occur rence that a little matter like the killing of ten people by a cyclone in Minnesota goes almost unnoticed. We have had such a surfeit of horrors lately that it takes some heart-rend ing disaster like the Chicago holo caust to attract the attention of the traing public." (pre (d Cou t Likaiise ithe' iii voiving questions of taxation. salaries of otficers. etc.. have been ihrarlably sustained when the que tion involved has been tested. Probably no lawre' iii the State is more fainlHiar with duties and fune l ions of the various departinents of State and their relationship to eaci )t her. This has been acguirc(d I :t udy. 01)Servation and experiellce. and is very essent ial to t he oilice of t he legal ad visor of the State. This ac :outs in a great measure for the com olete confidence bestowed upon Mr, ;unter br the various State orlicers and the jndiciaruy. There is another unanswerable rea son why the present Assistant Attor ney (eneral should he entrusted with tho office of Attorney General. By direction of the General Assembly. and in pursuance of the terms of the platforms of the State and national democracy, the Attorney General has instituted suits against the continua tion of wealth to monopolize the neces sities of life to squeeze the life blood of the people. Whatever may be the immediate result of these suits, there is no question that the efforts already made have done a great deal to stagger corporate greed and will result in good by strengthening the laws and encour aging the people and the law makers to further efforts with a hope for final triumph. Mr. Gunter has been active in the people's behalf, and as he is essentially a people's man, being un fettered by corporate prejudice, always arrayed on the side of the public, with no obligations to corporate combina tions for past favors, he is well calculat ed to carry on the tight to rest rain cor porate greed and insolence when in violation of law. Believing that there is no reason why the present Assistant Attorney General should not be promoted. he is respectfully commended to the Demo cratic voters of South Carolina as a candidate for Attorney General. Destruction of 1Birds. One of the first lessons impressed on children-at leastit used to be so was that they ought not to kill the harmless songsters nor rob their nests. There is a good deal of juvenile litera ture having this worthy lesson in view. It is a lesson that cannot be too deeply impressed upon the child mind. Cruelty to birds, or to any thing that has life, debases the youth ful disposition and makes it hard and callous to sutfering; encourages selfish ness and meanness and heartlessness; destroys the sentiment of kindliness and sympathy. Who can teach these lesson better than the mothers and sisters and teachers of children? If they do not nobody will. It means a great deal whether they do or not. The small boy that inflicts needless pain and death upon a pretty and in nocent bird may thus sow the seed of murder in his own heart that may develope into the killing of a human being. But we do not intend to preach or even to moralize further than to say that a dead bird on a woman's hat makes a very incongruous combination-a bird that has been killed to deck the head of that portion of humanity characterized by sweet ness and kindness and sympathy. Isn't it an anomaly that the strong band of the law must be invoked to protect the birds from the women? Yet it is sc. Before her vanity many of the pret tiest birds are disappearing from the face of the earth-butchered to make a woman look prettier. So great is the destruction that in some states, notably in Illinois. stringentlaws have been adopted to prevent the exter mination of the birds, and milliners are subject to prosecution if they sell the dead birds or have them in their possession. What sort of an impression wuuld a woman with a dead bird on her hat make in talking to a small boy about the cruelty and wrong of killing the pretty songsters and rob bing their nestsy It is very noticeable by lovers of birds that many of the best songsters are disappearing from this part of the country. Same attri bute this fact to the presence of the pestiferous English sparrow. But the small boy and his sling-shot and, back of him. the woman with a bird in her hat have had something to do with it. The above article, which we clip from the Newberry Obsever. we commend to our readers regardless of age or sex. but should be read spezially by the ladies and the boys. Make Comira-Ies of Thiem. Let there be the closest possible comradeship between parents and children. Let it never, for an hour, cease. Never gi re your young people any reason for seeking sympathy in contidants outside the home circle. Re call your own childhood and youth. Enter into the lives of your children heartily. Let them have the informa tion they will surely seek somewhere if not gotten at home. Anticipate their natural curiosity by discreet re velations from time to time. Teach them modesty and purity and how to avoid evil companions. If they have an especial bent in any direction sympathize with it and encourage it. Nature is the best guide toward a suc cessful career in life. Try to see things from their standpoint. The more you do this the more will they learn to look at things from your own standpoint of greater knowledge and experience. Hold their confidence as a priceless treasure to you and to them. Let nothing separate you from their loving trustfulness, let nothing mar the beauty of the closest possible intimacy. Blew Them Up. About 25 miners were at work in a mine near Wiliamston. Va.. Friday evening when a crowd of strikers armed with rifles, demanded thas they should come out Upon the min ers' refusal to obey their commands, the strikers threw a quantity of dyna mite into the shaft, which exploded, killing five of the men. As soon as the survivors came out of the shaft the strikers tired upon them, injuring several. but none was thought to be fatally shot. Assaulted and Murdered. A dispatch from Meridian, M1iss says every otticer in that section is guard ing the roads and trains looking for the assailant and murderer of Miss Bartield. at Lusk, Choctaw county, Ala.. an interior point. The young woman was found with her throat cut and the evidence showed that she had made a desperate tight for lif and honor. AGAINsT THLE RAILROAD.-The2 su preme court has decided the very in teresting case of Mr. Win. Kibler of Newberry against the Southern rail way, sustaining the lower court in its holding that the railroad can charge only 3 cents a mile straight fare and no 23 cents excess. Mr. Kibler was put off the train between Newvberry and Helena because he refused to pay 10 cents for one mile and 23 cents ex cess. He immediately brought suit against the railroad for $400, and af ter a good deal of fighting has been given that amount by the court. The case has been twice to the supreme court a nha auea goodn dal1 of interest. 'fjTE OF AN IOWA DESPERADO. [e 1;h.-, the Sh.eri fl and ii n!:: 6i f Shot to )eati by a !\.,e. ()e of L1'_ w.rst shoothu a s:S ver wsitnessed in Jefferson.1 10s.VL. k lace car!; S unda . restiting Ir:n [n tteml to arrest 1! ':ace 'i" n.a on peace warrant. icr soue breach of ti'e pene.l last venii a wa:rrat wa., .wort. out for hipiman aad pl cJ ia thl,. hands of larshal John Swearingden for service. )r. G. H. G rimmell. Shipman's family hysician. went ahead of the marshal o attempt to have Shipman surren -r eaceably. Shipinan agreed to tie proposition, but when Sweari nuc:: ,nd Deputy Sheriff Fred KendAll geared at the door he warned theni ome in under penalty of death. Swearingden, undaunted, started o pull his revolver for the purpose c ntering and Shipman fired a load of hot, striking the marshal in the lower >art of the face and killing him in tantly. Dr. Grimmell and the de >uty beat a hasty retreat, leaving the >ody of the marshal on the porch. Sheriff Aiderson immediately went o the scer.e of the shioting, deputiz ng a dozen citiz ns to asist him. lundrecds of pe.pl:e gAtlaered near shiuan's 11n e and for turee hours vatenied the b.ttl. Five haudred 1ots. were poured into the large t,vo tory house. Sa.ipman repl,'ing from vindows. cellar-way and door. The ire coln)eLy were e.L1:. oat and btnes May volunteered to put a hose u the cellar ai', drown Snimna'i out. ~Iay accmplished his work. Wit Ship nan tirei upon id.n iruin t.,: cellar, :ausinig h".n to rei re:t. About 11 o'clo.k :Dipman appeared Lt a window and rifty shots were fired tt him. It then became quiet inside tnd Shipman's body was found on the loor full of bullets. Only a high wind rom a direction that would have car ded the flames'to the town prevented ,he buildings from being fired. A Sad Story. A special to The State from Smoaks. n Colleton county, on Friday last gave ;his information: "The body of an inknown white man was found by >ome negroes in a secluded spot near ,his place Tuesday evening late. He lad been dead for some time and, was iot recognizable, having been very adly disfigured by buzzards, and it ,as by means of these that he was round. Magistrate Wilson was noti ed and on Wednesday held an in luest. It was learned from the tes timony taken, that it was the body of L man giving his name as Henry Bears tnd who had said he was from Colum >ia, S. C. He was passing himself as m preacher, and from conversation held ith him. it was evident that his hind was unbalanced. Dr. J. M. Strickland held the post mortem ex Lmination, but could find nothing to ;how that he had met with a violent leath. The finding of the jury was that he came to his death from causes 2nknown to the jury, but that their delief was that his death was from :atural causes, as there was no evi ence of foul play. The community is very much wrought up over the ;hastly find, and an effort will be made to find out mtore of this man." The State says Sunday "all mystery surronding the matter was dissipated when the grief-stricken mother of the victim was seen. She lives here in the ill district. Henry Bears was rear ed in Hollow Creek township in Lexington county. He was 35 years f age. lie was first married about ight or nine years ago, and lost his wife and child. Then he married again ad some time ago his second wife left him and went to the bad. She is now somewhere in this city. Her conduict unbalanced the youang man's mind and e became intensely religious. lHe went to preaching and preached here for a while. A bout four weeks ago he left here announcing his intention to walk through the State preaching from~ loor to door. This was wvhat lie was :oing in Colleton county when death came and ended his pitiable career. He was always a Christian and a sober, industrious man, standing well with all who knew him." It is supposed that the unfortunate mnan was men* tally unbalanced. Free Scholarships. The following Scholarships will be awarded by the South Carolina Fed. eration of Women's Clubs: Converse College-Five Scholarships, each valued at $100 a year, for foul years academic work in College. Presbyterian College for Women Columbia. S. C.-One Scholarship val' ued at $I00 a year, for four years aca Semic work in College. Winthrop College-Two Scholar ;hips in regular course, one of free tu tion for four years. the other a loan cholarship from President Johnson, tmounting to $30 per year for fou: years. Greenville College for Women-One cholarsh ip of free tuition. Chicora College-Greenville, S. C. :)ne Scholarship of free tuition. Mrs. Ida M. Lining's Training school for Kindergartners-Charles ton, S. C.-Two Scholarships of free :uition. The South Carolina Kindergarter ssociation Training School-Charles son, S. C. One Schoiarship of free tu tion. Mrs. I. A. Smith's School for Young Ladies-Charleston, S. C.-One Schol irship of free tuition. Examination June 20th. Alumno Club School of D)omestic science-Louisville, Ky.-One Schol Lrship of free tuition. Miss Ida McCullough's School for Tirls-Walhalla. S. C.--One Scholar ship of free tuition. The examinations for these Scholar ;hips will be held in each county July [th and 12th. All applicants must ile their names before July 4th with Mis~s Louisa B. Poppenheim, Chairman Educational Dept. S. C. Federation of Women's Clubs. 31 Meeting Street, Charleston, S. C. Got Her Baby Back. Thirty thousand miles traversed in earch of her kidnapped baby and the inal recovery of the child in Madras, [ndia. has been acomplished by Mrs ~Iarioni Thornton Egbert, a Chicago 'oman. Part of the time in the dlis uise of a nun. Mrs. Egbert hunted r almost two years over America ind Europe, spending tho'usands of' ollars in the pursuit of her daughter. he little girl was kidnapped by her ather, D~r. J. W. Egbert, who came o Chicago all the way from India to ;ain his child. The abduction took )lace at 55th street and Madison ivenue on the afternoon of September . 1900. The news of the recovery )t the child was received here Sunday ron Mrs. Egbert. The Assistant Postmaster General Iadden has issued a notice that on nd after August 1 postal cards treat d by enameling, bronzing or other :ong nmroce wil n o be-rcognized. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHSa Mrs. Whyte-"She learned to speak French in six weeks." Mr. Whyte "I wonder how long it will take the folks over in France to learn to un derstand her."-Summerville Jour nal. Easily Explained.-"I wonder why the baby cries so much," said the young mother. "That's easy," an swered the bachelor uncle. "Why is it ?" demanded the mother. "Because it is a baby," replied the uncle.-Chi cago Post. The Humorous Cannihal.-"If you in:r:d c dine on us." <-ueried t.he * .r, . mariner. "why did - you t : '.it a fsilla: ?" "'. Because .. : - 1ppp.r our food before ... - . ried the cannibal. 1 W :::.. i. : ie:-ord. 1 s !':.:lr.-Mrs. Gaddie-"My hus h:, Mr\ s-> ..: pshcd. His buttons are f:..,-: e:.; c' Mrs. Goode (se verely)--ierhapsthey are not sewed on proprely." Mrs. 'Gaddie--"That's just it. lie's awful careless about his sewinr."-Pliiladelphia Press. Mrs. Wiggins-"If woman were given the credit she deserved, I .on't think man would be quite so pri nent in the world's history." Mr. W.-"I think you're right. If she could get all the credit she wanted he'd be in the workhouse."-Pear son's Weekly. "Good morning, sir," said the so journer in Jayville; "have you got. any porpoise shoe laces?" "No, I ain't, Smarty!" promptly replied the* storekeeper; "think yer funny, don't ye?" "Eh?" "Oh! I know what;Y porpus is, an' it don't wear no shoes."-Philadelphia Record. City Hunter-"I see you don't al low shooting on your farm." Farm er-"Oh, never mind that sign. It only applies to my neighbors. They hit what they shoot at. Hunt :ovr the farm as much as you. want. to, and if you hit that brindle bull in the. south pasture I'll make. .a reason - able settlement."-Indianapolis New Deep-Sea Mine Found. Capt. Strand, of the Santa Ana, which has just arrived at Port Town send. Wash., reports having' found a Jeep sea mine of unusual richness. When he weighed anchor at. Nome a considerable quantity of .mud' was' brought out, and some of the miners aboard prospected it with .the result. that several small nuggets of gold were jou::d. the largest of -which was worth one dollar. The Santa Ana as' arwhored one sud a quarter miles from shore in tix fathoms of w:ter, and the; captain expressed the opinion .-that with a deep sea dredge a large amount: cf gold could be secured. Homicide in Augusta::. A special from Augusta say com meat on one homicide had- not sub sided before Augusta was stirred by another. Sunday night talk of ethe Norris-Williams affair has given place to discussion of tfte shooting otfosiph W. Trommerhauser, of Summelle cousin of Police Ottcer Trommerville, suburb of Augusta. For several days Trommerbauser has been drinkingend Sunday afternoon tired at amero'mo man with a rifle. Constable aie learning that he was at home,wetp arrest him. Trojmmerhauser-*astst~ ting by an open window., and paw the oticer approaching. and as he ineated. the house Trommernauser.eacled Z1dr his rifle and leveled it at the ~ofer. Hackel, seeing the rii., qiickly dr'ew his revolver and tired thirough the win dow at Trommerhauser, the bbullet striking the latter att the base of the. chin, passing up through the -brain,. killing him instantaneously. Hacke1l surrendered to county detectives andte was to be given a preliminary Moffday.~' Trommierbauser was generally, very quiet and peaceful except when drink~ ing, when lie was unruly and- fussy.' Butler Kinard Bu:-ned. A special from Newbery says Sun day afternoon news was received that the house on Mr. H. H. Evacs' place, several miles f rom that town, had been destroyed by tire. Upon'inv~estigation it was found that Mr. Butler Kinard, the only occupant, had been burned up in the house. Several gentlemen from Newberry went out, with the coroner but the correspondent wasma able to learu the verdict of the jui'. Rumors are afloat to the effect that the old man was robbed and murdered and the house burned. Conflicting: stories were told by the hands on ted place about the time the fire occulired. SNAKEs AND WHISKEY-The editor of A merican Medicine ruthlessly. smashes a long established theory.. Hie says: "There is not on record an authenticated case of snake bitecure by whiskey. Plenty of individuals bitten while under the- influence of whiskey have died, and large amounts of alcohdl have -failed to save ,life in many cases. Only about one in six of those bitten by venomous dies. The' remaining five are cured by anything they happen to have taken Stimula tion is very excellent, but the -giving of wvhiskey to drunkenness by lower ing the restive vitality hasundoubted 1y been a causative factor in. many death supposedly from snakes bites that would otherwise not have occur-. ed." Thus perishes another popular illusion and with it the correlated utility of both snakes and whiskey. GOOD ADvICE-A leading farmer makes these timely remarks: "With cotton at 7 cents this fall it will-take two pounds to pay for one pound.--of bacon and about 17 pounds of cotton to pay for one bushel of corn. Surely at these prices the farmer can never expect to be anything but daown trod den. Now farmers. let's. see if we can't do a little better this year. Say our grass and raise more supplies at home, thus removing our smokehouse from the west to our doors and in the end we will h~e better off." IT is almost a forgotten fact that; we once had in this country a politic:. party of anti-Masons. This anti-Mn sonic party had a ticket in the tield a the presidential election of 1832. Wu> iam Wirt of Maryland was its candia date for president and Amos Ellmak" of iPennsvlvania its candidate for v1. prsient. This ticket of the an~ Masons carried one State (Vermoli' thus getting seven electoral votes. Frightened by the rushing of ft automobiles and the blare of th..: horns a horse ran away at Readii.. Mass., dashed through the gates -. the railway crossing and an expr train strtick the team, killing alh .y and seriously injuring another boyrw the owner of the team. The autom;' b~ilies crossed the t-racks safely :.l rushed on throughu the town wit!:- .: a pause.. Tne~ police at once sent . an alarm to all nearby places with request that the persons driving .a