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THE HOME CIRCLE. Some Helpful Thoughts for the Young Folks CULLJD FROM OUR YXCHANGIS All the Youn People Who Read Tbts Paper Are Particularly Invited to Read This Colurnn. In life-nt death Hearts need fond words to help them on their way; Need tender thoughts and gentle sympathy, Caresses. pleasant looks, to cheer each iassing 'day. Then hoard them not until they useless be; In life-not death, Speak kindly. living hearts need sympathr. THE OLD CORN SONG. Oh, what has become of the old corn song That used to float ,Iong As to the quart-r, at close of day, The merry ield hands took their way, A glad and happy throng? 'Twas the national song of the rural place, la the good old days or crace; And the fellowship and the common joys Were shared by the master and the boys, And beamed from every face. The blight of freedom has done away With the fine old day. And the mutual ives that were brave and strong Are down in dust like the glad old song, Where the darkies used to stay. Oh, when shall the corn song come again Over hill and plain? And an echo falls frt-im the silent land, "Nevermore, while the world shall stand, Shall we hear the sweet old strain." In Dixie's subsoil, calm and deep, Tne old boys sleep: Master and men in a common lot; And the song-the song of the corn is not Where the sedge and catbriers creep. MADE 1I A CHILD AGAIN. Daniel Web:ter 1 oking back to an incident in his fifteenth year, whon his father was taking him to a school six miles from the home, vrites: "On the way, my father first intimated to me, his intention of sending me to college. The very idea thrilled my whole frame. He said he then lived but for his'children and it I would do all I cculd for myself. he would do what he could for me. I remember that I was quite overcome, and my head grew dizzy. The thirg sppear: ed to me so high, ar d the expense ano sacrifice it was to cost my father so great, I could only press his hands and shed tears. Excellent, excellent parent? I cannot think of him, even now, without turning child again." Cut this out boys and paste it in your scrap books. * * . A WORD TO THE GIRLS. Nothing adds so much to the at tractiveness of any one as a deferen tial manner toward older people, and especially toward one's parents. Nothing can take the place of it. It is more to be desired than are the smatterings of "accomplishments" in the catalogue of girs' schools and col leges. The modern girl can have all the freedom of action, all the learning our seminaries teach, and be free from many of the former restrictions thrown around them, without in any way losing the charm of sweet maid enly ways, or forgetting the plain rule observed by well-bred people. The young ladies of the present have, all kinds of clubs--literary. sccial and athletic. They should form one more whose basic principle should be to treat their elders with resptet, and at all times and at all pla::es exercise those old time and lovely traits of character which spring from unsel fishness, refinement and gentleness of manner, and restore to the moderD society world what now seems to be one of the lost arts. * * RETURN TO THE FARM. The Augusta Chronicle says it would be a good thing if many young men who left the farms, in hard times, would return to them. in this era of prosperity, when the farmer has us all in his power, to a considerable degree. An intelligent young man with in. dustry and thrlit, can do much better farming, especially when his family hold landed estates in the country. than by clerking in cities, with their demoralizing tendencies. Col. Bob Ingersoll was a sad infidel and said many ugly things and helped under. mine many a weak brothers faith, but now and then, he uttered true and beautiful and wise sentiments. Among the latter, he once said: "iYcung men, I would rather have forty acres of land and a log cabin on it, and a woman I love in the cabin, with a grassy path leading down to the spring where the water gurgles from the lips of the earth whistling day and night to the white pebbles a perpetual song-with holly hocks growing at the corner of the house and morning glories blooming over the low locked door -with lattice work over the window so that the sunlight would fall checked over the babe in the cradle, and the birds, like songs with wings, hovering in the summer air-than to be clerk of any govern ment on earth." * * * THE FAsIIIONING OF EVE. According tc a Hindoo legend this is the proper origin of woman: Twashtri, the god Vulcan of the Hin doo mythology, created the world. But on his commencing to cre-ate wo man he discovered that with man ho had exhausted all his creative materi als, ard that not one -solid element had been left. Tnis, of course, great ly perplexed Twsashtri and cansea him to fall in a profound meditation. When he arose from it he proceeded as follows: He tookI The roundness of the moon, The undulating curves of the ser pent, The graceful twist of the creeping plant, The light shivering of the grass blade and the sienderness of the willow, The velvety softness of tbe flowers, The lightntss of t be feather, The gentlegaze of the doe, The frolics~mness of the dancing sunbeam, The tears of the cloud, The inconsistency of the wind, The timidne~s of the hare, The vanity c f the peacock, The hardness of the diamond, The sweetnems of honey, The cruelty of the tiger. The heat of the fire, The chill of the snow, The cackling of the parrot, The c;'oing of the turtle dove All these he mixed together and formed woman. Then he presented her to the man.! * * COUNT YOUR BLEsSINGS. Thanksgiving Day invariably brings rau t a season of reflection and ret peton which is wholesome and6 right. After the year's busy tol. when the barvest has beca gathereu, the holiday time is jut alead, and rew ventures are in pro pct, It. is well to pause and take an inventlkry of all that we dare call our own; to measure our gains ani to manrk out failurts; to bow beforetbe irreparable past and to face the future with cheer ful hope; to furget the small annoy aces aud to richly enumerate the 4!ys; to give thanks urbounded for all 0, count your blessings: You wil. be surprised at their number and their beauty and their sweetness Count them agaio, name them one.by one, and y. u will find yourself sinrg iug aloud your soEg of thanksgiving Do not let that day of enforced drud gery, that hour of disappointment, (.r that night of anxiety check thl count. Perhaps they were bles ing too, we have no right to say they were not. Whn the counting fl s think of the glories of asunshiny day, the breath of the wir.ds, the drip c' ihe rain, the pulse of the heart. the joy of love, the touch -.f a hard, tbE voices of little children. R, mmb the throb of cxpectation, the saI.sie; wish, the real z d desire, the r=irn'o of prcrmise. Rtcall the sumner past. the round of happy days. sleep with out fear, food and rai neut and home Open your eyes and your heart to the snowkeg: of "Heavenly ble: sings wtbout number, greatly falling C! thy head." Think .n these thi-gs *-nd see what GA bath done. DEFERENCE TO THE AGED. Why is it that so many girls and young women of the present are no' po'i e to older people? Up to a few years ago, one of the distivctive traits ut retinement and good breeding among young ladies was the notice able dcfcrence they always showed their clcIers, and to neg'ect to do so was to write oneself down in toe sc cial scale as an underbred person, and one who e people were either suobs or igncrint of sooial etiquette. The deter.ence and almost reveren tial manner of young peop'e toward older persons they met was one of ,* e attractive traits they possets d. Girls vied with each other in payius the proper attention to the hostess of an entertainment, on seeing th-at lder ladies had the best seats, anz were properly looked after whereve: they met them. For some unaccountable reaso1L this has all been changed of late years, until now )yiim.nz lao:es treal older people very much as they do furniture, namely, us- them whet, they have need of them, and igrore their ex'stence at otner times. T t do not hesitate to eijoy the h-:spitaI y of a hostess to the fullest, witl:o,*w as much as saying a word to her ex cept that perfunctory sEntence wheD ie3ving off: ''G ud night." Tnis same forgct-uloess of what ought .o be done and said nas invaded the home cicle. Many girls alluv tVeir mothers to do all kinds LI ser vices for them, and permit them to deny themselves for their dargater's comfort without so muoh as saying "thank you," in recognition of her services. Of cours.-, this is inexcu.1 ably rude and very unkind. But who is to blame more than the parents who submit to such rudeness, and who have allowed this condition of affairs to become chronic and almost general? There ought to be a mcs radical reform in this respect, and it cannot come too promptly. * * THE DANGER OF DISCOURTESY. I think that It vwas Rev. Stopford A. Brocke who once uttered these wise and true words: "Tne power oi being able to keep a household from fretting and complaining and from violent tempers, the power of being able to encourage, nourish and stimu late the freedom and growth of others, is gained from there having been built up in the minds of all in the house, as the first motive of life, the great Christian law-Christian because en tirely human-'Think of others more than of yourself and of others' hap piness more than of your own inhap piness. Of this law the best detinition to remember is a word of St. Paul's. In honor preferring one another.' This 's true courtesy. It is its very flwer; t is the essence of Christ's teaching set to music in daily 1 fe. It will bhing out all tne good in ot hers; it will bring out what is best in yourself; It wih make your boma Ii te very heaven." Of all the mischief making elements that creep into mans N oases, discour tesy is one of the m-st common and most fatal in its results. When a wife begins to speak sharply and rudely t-' her husband, and when she finally descends to the low estate of "nag ging" him, she is in a fair way to lose both his love and his respect; and when a husband begins to be less courteous to his wife he is in danger of losing both her respect and love. The rock of discourtesy is the rcck on which many a matrimonial bark has stranded. If the father and mother are discourteous to each other, it is not to be expected that the children of the home will be gentle and polite There is no greater imitator than a child, and there is no one more alert. The child takes note of everythin'g, and it is susceptible to the general at mosphere of the home. If the father is fault finding and generally irritable the child is likely to be of the same disposition. If the children are not taught coutesy in the home, it is not to be expected that they will be cour-' te us outside of the h'.me. What l i he Dierence? In the recent meeting of the Georgia State Baptist Convention Ex- Governor Northern, who was president of the body, made a clarion call on the Georgia Baptists to turn their backs on worldly amusements. He very truly said that whatever evil tends to the spread of intemperance in Georgia finds its origin in the home. He said in a ringir~g voice: "What is the difference, w 1l you tell me, be tween the man behind the counter dealing out liquid damnation. as it is alled, for pay. and the woman beau tifully gowned at the recepticn stand itg behind the beautiful punch bowl handing out in fancy glass intoxi cating beverages without psy? What is the difference, will you tell me. be tween -:he men wh, meet in the back room c! a saloon and put outn th~e watcmm~. while ti ey play for silver in the shape of coin and gaudily gowned women gathered in the draw ing room to play fr silver moulded into the shape of acup'? In God's names, brethren, le:'s get our v~onen o dedicate their homes to God." What Gov. Northern said to Georgia Baptists applies with eq::ai forrs to South Carolina Baptists. Me hodikt. or the members of any otter churc. He indulges in very plain lanigu:age nd asks a pointed questi.n. Like Gov. Northern we can't see any diifer mene in the cases he cites. and if there| Is any difference in the principle we| woumm lie to hae hm pointedi out. I THE SOLID SOUTH Will Never be Broken as long as the Fifteenth &MENDMENT STANDS AS A LAW. So Says Senator Tillman in an In tervit w wit h a Correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle in Columbia. When I met him here by appoint merit as be was passing through Co lumbia on his was to Trenton, Sena tor Tillman was in particularly good <pirits, and chatted pleasantly anC entertainingly concerning the lessons taugbt by the results of the national election and the political f-uture Of thi South. Though when he touched or certain pha;.es of the negro questior the corners of his mouth went dowr projmptly and with marked ene-gy his ey es fls' ed and his voice deepene d -ato that tone of interse earncstnes: ur which he is so famous, says a cor respondent of the Augusta Chronicle. Asked what he thought of th 'solid Sauth," and whether he san any immediate hope of breaking it Smator Tillman declared with em phasis that the solid South woulr -ever be broken as long as the Fif eenth amendment is allowed stard. "The South is solidly Demccratib ct in the broader sense that th: term democracy is understood in th' poliLics of the whole country," h; aid, "but in the narrow sense that he Anglo-Saxon intelligence of the south s:.lidly and always unyieldingl% ,tands for white supremacy. O course, this situation is unforturate, 3rsMuch as the resul s are intellectu -11y stiltng in the discussion of and -onter'tion for the broader principles if government and of civilized life But there is no immediate hope of jaanging theseconditions. Every ef fort put forth by the -m'sguided philanthropists and vicious politician, f the North with their impracticabk aotions about the eQuality of man, io oreak tbe solid South, only seals that )OL d of union as with hoops of steel, .ind the problem will never be solved iutil the North lets the South alone VA) solve it. "If thes dreamers of the Nortb. vorking in corjunction with tbei, reedy political brethren dn't stop i drIling in this matter there will he .e, -war and terrible massacre. FoR olitical equality means social equali y, and social tquality means misce. enation and the mongrelizing of the people of the South, with the result hat the white intelligence of the outh will degenerate to the level o! .hose S' uth American republics whos. istory has shown them to be wholly Lud invariably incapable rot only o; .elf-government, but of acquiring property, the distinguisbing chatrac Seristic of the white man, and un villingness to respzct law and live in a quiet and orderly manner. "Once let the wedge be driven in just the least bit, once recogniza the political equality of the negro and socal equality will inevitably follow, and tbe races will merge by marriage between the better class of negroes and lower class of whites. Those coundreily, trifling white men who nave lost all self-respect will scruple to marry the daughters of negro men who have ar'quired property. Then will the sluicegates be opened, and here will~be no stopping the mon grelng of the white intelligence of tt? South. This in an unthinkable condition, an impcssible consumma tion. "Tnere is only one solution of the negro problem," he continued, "only one way of eliminating the crime of rape and freeing the land of the re sultant crime of lynching-the com plte stiblection of the negro under stringent laws and police regulations. As long as he is allowed by law to vote and run about the country without restraint there is no checking the crime whic~h he commits. And the North is gradually coming to that view of the matter." In this c )nnection Senator Tillman told of his experience in campaignir-g in the West, and mentioned a number of Illinois and Indiana towns which will not allow the negro to live in them. "The North is gradually getting educated con the negro question; the little taste these people have had of uffy has made them less tolerant of his weaknesses than the people of the South even. The patriotic intelli gence of the North recogn'z~s that the South has a great problem on its hands and is willing to let the South solve it." The overwhelming defeat of the national Democracy does not in the sig'il est degree, in Senator Tillman's opnin, re ik et the North's agreement with President Roosevelt's negro policy. He attributes the Republi can siccess to the general prosperity of the co;untry and the personal popu larity of Mr. Roosevelt. Senator Tillman is not feeling blue about rr duction of Southern repre-; sentation. Hie said: "I have talked to many of th~e brigtest and most capaible newspa per correspon'dents at Washingon and they all pooh-pooh the idea, and1 from many of the leaders of the Ra pubican party I leiirn that it is n->t the intetntion to attempt any such thing. Those greedy Yankees who ti want to reduce the South's represen- 1 taion in order to decreas3 our power ad inxluence and increase their own,t forget, in their selfishness, in arguing 1 for representation in proportion to voting strengtth and the number of 1 pople participating on government, hat their own representation is based' r largely on herds of foreigners who are ostantly pour!ng into the North. who know nothing of our history ors nstitutions, and w to are less capable, in a sense, of voting i itelligently and mow~ less about the needs of this 1 ountry and are less patriotic thai e the negroes themselves. They forget a. he history of the world in contend- -e ng for their idea of the equality of a. They forgzet that not half the r vhite men of Europe today, leaving Rus~ia out of the cou at, are allowed a o vote, not even those of the so callied imied or constitutional monarchies, ~ niversal suffrage is an idle dream. I .nd it, is dangerous and deadiy poison sl o free government." e "What of the immediate future of f, the Democratic part3 ?" "The darkest hour is always just efore day. Tnese sort of defeats not nfreuentiy presage great victories p for the party. Tnings looked blacker a in 174 and again in 1892, the periods f f greatest Democratic successes. t The Republicarns are drunk with suc- t ess and a long ho'd on power. They will be certain to misiniterpret the l i )ur time will cime if we are true to >urs elves and to American ideals. "Anybrow, the South can neither be seduced nor bullied into change of at itude. Democracy with us means wvhite man's rule. It has meant that md almost nothing else for almost :hirty years or more. Republicanism ias just as surely meant negro equali y with all that that implies. But those who think the recent election mrdicates that the North is solidly R >publican on this issue will have a rude awakening if they attempt to .arry out the idea. I may be mis taken, but I sball wait equanimity to -ee the test made. The South mean time will stand by and maintain its Anglo-Saxch civilizition. To para phrase the language of Martin Luther it Worms: 'Tuere we take our stand; we can do no otherwise, so help us A N.LW PENSION FRAUD. nother Scheme Gotten Up to De fraud the Colored People. It is evident from letters received by several negroes in this country and ther places that another eff rt is be og made by some sharper in the 'orth to swindle them out of some ,oney in ti'e hc pe of securing a pen dion. These frauds, which are as old .s the war itself, are not only being wvorked here in c'vil war cases, but here are also efforts being made to -atch them on the Spanish war fake. it will be remembered that a number .f negroes from Columbia enlisted and . much larger number were turned town at tte enlisting otfce for failure to pass the examination. Letters are neing received from someone not only by those who were turned down, but Llso by :hose who never even applied, .inting that money can be obtained irom t e government for them by an agency in Washingt n. The Columbia .Iecord says Assistant District At -orney Melton is now on the loookut or som : cases of this character, and f any evidence is secured there will :e some prompt arrests. "We had a case of pension fraud in Greenville at the last term ol court." .ie said. "A sbarper had represented o a number of negroes that the gov ernment intended sendirg a train load of provisions to former slaves and eterans of the Spanish war in the South. He also hinted that a share ,f these provisions could be obtained -y those who were neither veterans or laves, if everything were left to him. All be required was the money to pay the freight, and he got enough of that to ship a train clear acrcss the conti nent. We sent him up for eighteen -nonths. I would be very glad to so *-ure some further evidence in these new frauds that are cropping up, and if there is much of It I will prob ably have some arrests to make." Making A Newspaver. Cut his newspaper out of the life of the average man and you will create a gap for which the combined con veniences and luxuries of modern civ lization will hardly compensate. He looks forward to a quiet hour with his favorite paper with the same avidity which marks the approach of his din ing hours; in his mind's eye one as suming almost as much importance as the other. Yet how many people of whcse daily existence the newspaper is suchl an indispensable adjunct, think once a year of the men who make it? What do they know of the sleepless vigi lance of the men who keep a trained inger on the pu'se of public events, whose minds are edudated to the deli. eate task of discriminating the re spective values of the day's develop. ments, or who ho.ld themselves ready at a moment's notice to brave fatigue rebuffs and failue in th-e collection of the news to be served to the publhc in coherent; accurate form? Many of those who even come in contact with the news-gatherer in his regular rounds, do not regard him with un mixed feelings of respect and esteerr. So long as his cross-examination is directed at other folk and things, it is well. But when the exigencies of his duty (and duty and fate in the newspaper man's,. vocabulary are synonymous terms,) compel him to turn his investigations in their direc tion, his enterprise sometimes seems to take on the nature of impertinence nd they are ready to label his insis tence intrusion. The men who keep you in touch with the history of the titues, whether it be history making in Asia or this State, are just as 'human, just as sen itive to the little and big things of ife, just as fallible as yourself. If you followed what was said in the loregoing paragraphs you will admit uhelr calling is one of vast dignity ad Jimportance to themselves and she people that| they serve, even bough the relotions be disguised and mpersonal. They are public servants n the most intense application of the >hrase and their activity Is a check rn large and petty evil and injustice, uch as is furnished by no other hu nan a ency.-Exchange. Says Wife Talks Too Much. Dr. George W. Currier, president >f the Nashua, N. H., Trust Comn yany, as instituted divorce proceed ngs ariinst his wife, who was Annie alch of Boston, alleging extreme ~ruelty. Neith r will talk about the ceci fications but'it is understcod that he chief alhgation against her is ~arruity. Mrs. Currier is Dr. Cur iers second wife and was married to 1lm twelve years ago. Sirnce that ime she has resided in one of the doc or's houses in Manchester street. hhrough Dr. Currier has not lived here for nine years, he has been a requent caller. Mrs. Currier declares he does ncot care for alimony but stil oves her husband. She says he will arry again while she lives. Dr. Cur ed Is 60 years of age Nomination of Crum. The president has again sent to th~e enate the nomination of Crum as col ~ctor of the port of Charleston and e outlook is that the nomination ill be con firmed. It was to be expect d that the president would do what e has, because to be consistent with is position as to political equality of tizens regardlcss of color he could at do otherwise. Not to have reno ainated Crum would have been to cknowledge that he had stood by him efore the election only for political urposes, and while that most probab had a great deal to do with the tad he took, it could not be expect d that he would make an open con assion of the fact. A Misunderstanding. A Missouri paper wound up a comn liment to a young schoolmna'am with good word about "the reputation r teaching she bears." The next day be young schoolma'am met the edi or and chased him down the street ith an umbrella, and at every jump the road she screamed that she had ever tauet a she bar in her life. A GREAT CHARITY. The Connie Maxwell Orphanage and What it Fas Done DURING THE PAST FISCAL YEAR. An Article that Will Interest All Who Are Interested in the Work of Caring for the Orphans. Pcrhaps the institu-Ion which Is dearest to South Carolina Baptists is the Connie Maxwell Orphanage, lo cated at Greenwood. The Rev. Atha T. Jamison is superintendent of the orphanage, and his board of trutee, was able to make a glowing report of his work this year. The following extracts are from the thirteenth annual report of the board: This has been an annus mirabilis at Connie Maxwell Orphanage. The like has not been seen there before, nor Is it likely that another year shall soorn eclipse the one now brought to a close. NEW BUILDiGS Since our last report to this Con vention a new cottage for the foreman of the mechanical department has been erected near the Woods building. A. two-room store house 20x40 feet has b en built near the superintend ent's home. A new barn has been erEcted for the cows. It accommo dates our eighteen milch cows and there is room for as many as twenty six. A small barn bas been built at the Maxwell farm, the need being im pe-ative. The Maxwell building, provided for in the will of Dr. and Mrs. Maxwell, is nearly completed. Its cost will be abut $12,000. Toe funds are sup pljd from the Maxwell estate. The Maxwell building, two stories in height, of red brick, contains eight school rooms 22x32 feet each. and also a parlor in which will harg paintings of Dr. Maxwell, Mrs. Maxwell and lit tle Connie Maxwell. The handsome Library building in the centre of the grcunds is the reali zation of the proposed plan of Mrs McKisAck, as outlined in our last re port. The house Is 26x48 feet, very ornate in appearance, containing an entry way, reading room and book room. It is of red brick and granite, beautiful within and without. It is known as th6 E. P. P. McKissick me morlal library. A splendid brick office was built last spring and paid for by Mr. John K. Durst a member of our board of trus tees. This handsome gift is in keep irg with his steady devotion to Oor nie Maxwell Orphanage. The build ing contains a general afce 20x2Q feet, a private office for the superin tendent, a store room for school sup plies, medicine and a vault with wall 20 inches thick, with steel door and bank combination lock. FINANCIAL. The Convention at Sumter a year ago resolved to raise *15.000 for the Orphanage during the present year. We have received $12,982.20 In con tributions. We are unable to ac count for- the backward step thus taken, unless It be that the people have an Idea that the orphanage has now come into possession of the Maxwell estate, and is not greatly in need cf money. We take occasion to state clearly that the money that has been put into houses with the Max well legacy has greatly Increased our expenses and in no wise diminished them. Gifts of merchandise have come to the orphanage from many individuals, churches, Sunday schools and souie ties. It is estimated that $1,5e3.15 was sent In clothing and dry goods, and $1,345 95 in provisions, making a total of 82,918.10 in gifts of this character. The Maxwell farm has yielded good profit this year. It furnished the or phanage wlth 400 cords of wood, 450 bushels ot corn, 500 bales clover and pea vine hay, 500 bushels of wheat, 75 bushels of pes; melons, potatoes, beef, pork and turnips. WOEK DAY. Following the instruction of the Convention last year our superintend-| ent appointed another work day this fall. It has been a very great suc cess. Tbe amount realized In cash has been $1,493.99, as against about $700 last year. PRESFNT PEESS~biG NRED. We have had considerable anxiety on account of the scarcity of water and the low depth of some of the wells, some of which have gone dry. The scourge of typhoid fever in the or phanage of our North Carolina breth ren, the months of nursing, care and expense, and the numter of deaths among the children should warn us in time. We should be wise and fore stall such trouble. There is one method, and evidently only one that will bring -permanent relief. That method though costly may prove the ceaper In the end. A deep well of, say 350 feet. sunk through granite, would give an abundant and unfailing supply for all time, the water wou'd be absolutely pure and safe and there wuld b3 no annual expense involved. The large family now resident at the orphanage makes It a questionable matter as to whether we can afford to risk the use -of a surface supply of water. In order that all the people may see jst how much property we now pos sess we present the following exhibit: Six homes for children..$24,000 Four cottages for cficers ... 4,000 Chapel-..-. ...........-...... 1,800 Barns........... ........ 1,800 Store room...............-..300 ffie.... -.. .....-. ....... 1.300 Library-....-. ...-... ...... 2730 Dining room................800 Woods building and equIpment 3,500 Seven small houses.. .. .. ... 1,000 Mior buildings....--..-..... 1,200 Books......-...............300 Nine horses and mules..-...... 1,200 8 Cows and several yearlings and calves.................900 ogsand pigs...............140 [mplements,.fencing, etc. .1,000 19 acres land at $100..-.-.-..11,900 00 acres land at $30..-.-.....12,000 City B nk stock..-..-.-..-.-... 00 Blythe note-...-...........1,000 . L. &Mfg Co note..-..-.-.-. 500 . P. Kirg stock..-....-....... 1,000 . L. & Mfg Co stock..-..-.... 300 reenwood Mill stock-......-.. 3,0001 rendel Mill stock..-...-....-300 . & M. Bank stock......... 1,000 Bank of Greenwood stock... 800 noree stock..-..-.. --..-.-.. 500 Seaboard stock..-....-.-..-.-.. 200 3urkhalter note..-....-....-.. 1,265 eel note..................1,069 ew note..................1,10 IN GEEAL. There are at present 155 children at 1 he orphanae the capacity being THE IUTAWVILL3 LYCHEBS. Feur Men Committed to Jail on the Serious Charge of Murder. As a result of the preliminary hear ing at St. Georges last week of the famous E-tawvlle lyrcbirg case. Andrew Martin, Bennie Martin, Town Marshal Palmer and Constable Esdon have been held on the charge of kill Ing Kitt Bookhart. A great many witnesses were eammined but (n Thursday Solicitor Hildebrand put up his star witness. This witne-s was a. C. Edwards, the young man who worked and lived with the Martins, and who was one (f their number. Edwards Is a y ,ung man-he hardly looks the 22 years he claims. Soon after the tragedy, Elwards, who was a central figure in the whole affair. says he was persuaded by Lewis Mar tin-the father of two of the men Implicated, to leave the community and keep out of the way. Evidently it was thought that if Edwards left the country things would quiet down, but Governor Heyward took an ac tive part in the case, and disapp'>inted the expectations of those concerned. It is a long story and need not be repeated, but Edwards went to S.:lici tor Hildebrand and made a confes sion, in which he Implicated his for mer companions. The result was that the vi arrants were served, but in some way Paney Martin was arrested instead of Penny Martin. The Mar tins are all related, and Piney is a first cousin of Penny. and Piney did the pining in the Penitentiary, while Penny was enjoying the luxuries of ten-cent cotton. Edwards was on the witness stand for a short while. He apparently told the truth. His story was concise and without any eff irt at effect. He stuck to his original account and Maistrate McCoy evidently believed what he said. It may not be such testimony as will convict, but it seemed to have the ring of truth. Confessions, implicating friends, are not the best sort of evidence, but per haps the State will, when the time comes, have corroborative proof and forge such a chain of evidence that it cannot be broken. Adger Butler and Piney Martin were promptly released, as Edwards insisted that neither of them was at the river or participated in the kill ing; but Penny Martin, he said, was there. Magistrate MCCoy has acted throughout the case with firmness and clearness. He is evidently a man of force and convictions, and does what he believes right. After the hearing it was suggested that he might be made a Judge, sad he suggested that such would hardly be the case now, if he had to depend on the votes of Berkeley County. He did not say much durirg the progress of the case, but when be said anything it was" final, and perhaps his decision, which fAl lows, is as gond a summary of the evi dence as can be made. EDWARDs' TESTIMONY. H. C. Edwards said that he Is 22 years old. Was living in July last on Mr. Lewis Martin's place. He knows Palmer, Eadon and the others named in the indictment. He swore out the warrant before Maj istrate Wiggin'i in July against Keltt Bookbardl. Tue trial of that case was on Monday. Ater the trial Be okhard was put In the town kokup by Constable Esdon. Wit was there on the street with all of the parties under indictment. Andrew Martin sent down street and borrowed some money and sent Edwards (the witnews) to buy some whiskey. He bought one quart of corn and one pint of rye whiskey, and took it to t-he store of W. E Jackson and there gave it to Andrew Martin. All of tem were present. Eiwards r'nnained with them until after dark when he left alth Adger Butler and Piney Martin and returned to his hi' me, about fiye miles in the country. Butler ana Piney Martin left Edwards at his (Edwards') gate. The witness said that he went to bed and remained there for about three hours and then he got up and went l.ack to Eutawville, where he ar rived about midnight and th- n saw Benn's and Penny Martin. They were not on Main street. The witness then went so the artesian well to water his muk(. Palmer and Eadon walked up. Penny and Bennie Martin also came up. They stood there a few minutes and Palmer and Eadon went on to the guardhouse. Bennie Martin pickad up the grate bar and put it In his buggy. Penny Martin was in the buggy. All of the party went on up street by Eisdon's house, the witness riding along behind the buggy. Andrew Martin got in the buggy. Eadon and Palmer came up in a buggy In which they had Keltt Bookard. The party with Bookhard went tciward and to the river. HOW THE XUEDEE WAS DoB. Eidon got out of the buggy and told Boodhard that his "time had come;" they had "arrived at the Biver Jor dan." Palmer said get through with It quick and then Ben Martin got the bar of iron out of the buggy and he and Penny tied It to Bcokard. Pal mer went up the bank of the river and came down with a boat. Bookhard told Eadon that he would work for him the balance of his life for noth lng If he would let him cff this time. It did rain that night. No knives were used so far as the witness knew- When Palmer came up with the boat Bennie, Penny and E adon carried Bo. khard down and placed him across the bow of the boat. Palmer was on the stern of the boat and Bennie Martin got Into the boat. They pushed off about 25 feet and tried to shake B..,khard i-f the boat. The witness turned his back and heard no noise. When he looked back no one was on the boat but Bennie Martin and Palmer, who then came ashore. Bennie Martin got out of the boat and Palmer took the boat back up the river. The witness then said that he went to Eutawville and thence home on his mule. The others went homne in buggies. Bennie Martin put Palmer out of the buggy at Eutawville-and followed the witness on home. El wards said that he then went to bed. It was late at night. He went to his work the next day. He stated very epatically that the folowing were it the river when Bookard was drown d: Palmer, Eadon, Bennie Martin, Penny- Martin, Andrew Martin and himself. Adger Butler was not in the party. WHY BE LEFT HUTAWVILL.E. The witness remained at Martin's ill of the following week. Mr. Lewis artn told him It would not be well or him and that he must leave there md go to Charleston. The witness sompled with Mr. Martin's request ad went to Charleston. Mr. Lewis Martin came to see the itness In Cuarleston the Wednesday fter the inquest. The next day hej ame up to Ridgeville and stayed1 here a day and a night. Mr. Pnik [artn came to Ridgaville to see him., 160. Their ages vary from 3 to 16 years. Several have gone out during the year, having secured approved po itions. There has not been a death among the children since January, 1896, nearly nine years. Surely this is a remarkable record. The reaper has spared all the chil dren this year, but be came very near them and took one of their fond and devoted teachers. On January 24th Rrs. Nannie Wroe Carpenter fell a victim to disease and went home in aeaven. G. B. BuzLL, President. The report created favorable com ment by many members. DEATHS OF BENEFICIARIES J. G. Carter, S. B. Sawyer, M. N. thomason and Mrs. Jane Hutchins, ben.icliaries of the relief board, have -ied during the year. When the veteran secretary of State missions arose to present his annual report the Convention was visibly moved. Dr. Bailey is now an old man, but still retains his vigor and alertness. Under his leadership the State mission work has been carried forward as with ten. league boots. The Connie Max vell Orphanage ,howed a most remarkable condition of affairs, very gratifying to the con vention. "Would Have Killed Him " According to the Boston Travtler this Is what the Yale boys would have done to the negro student that pre sumed to play foot ball with them on the Harvard team had he stayed in the game. It seems that when Har vard and Yale played their annual match game of foot ball recently the former institution put a negre boy forward as one of its players. Selected by his Alma Mater as a fitting repre s-ntative of her sporting interests, he dared to meet on terms of foot ball equality the white ycuth of New Eng land. They did rot do as young gen 6lemen of other sections of the coun try might have done, refuse to go on with the game. Outwardiy they ac cepted the darky as a proper and worthy opponent., but secretly they made up their minds to maim or kill him. Here is the heart-rending account of the incident as we find it recorded in the Boston Traveller: "There is not the slightest question but that Yale's players tried to disable Matthews. rhey hammered anti slugged him so hard that he was knocked out and had to retire from the game. There is but little doubt that they would have killed him if he had stayed in. One player grabbed the negro around the n- ck and twisted it so hard that Mat. thews's life was In danger. Yale took it as an insult because Harvard offer ed an alleged affront by insisting on playing a negro." The Traveller goes on to say that "Princeton tok th same attitude against Dartmouth a year ago and slugged and kicked the negro Dartmouth player so hard that they fractured his ribs within five minutes and forced him out. Princton and Yale's positions are that they are white men's colleges and that Harvard can fnd plenty of good white men to play without insulting them by play ing n-groes." "In other words," says The News and Courier, "we are told that the students of Yale went to work to lynch a student of Harvard in the presence of 35,000 spectators and in one of the most civiiized, intelligent and law ablding? communities of New England. The crime committed by the negro was merely one of presump tion." That Is true, but, as The News and Courier goes on to say, "all in all the incident is a most instructive and edifying one, and we recommend It to the thoughtful attention of our ne grophile neighbors. It Is unfortunate ly true that certain prople in the South mane up their minds to lynch negroes on occasion, but they never go about it in the underhanded and peculiarly reprehensible way employed by the students of Yale. When in the ands of a Southern mob there is never an) doubt in the mind of a ne gro culprit as to what to expect, but this little Harvard darky, it would ap pear, did not get what President Roosevelt might term a "square deal." He thought he was goir g to partici pate in foot ball contest, while in re ality he offered himself vicariously for the star part in a lynching bee." Lived Cheap Died Rich. There is 8159,000 in special public beqests in the will of Charles E French, a retired drug merchant, whose death occurred In Boston within a week. There is alko a gift of the residue of his estate, after satisfying those bequests and several personal bequests, to the Boston Provident Association and the Associated Chari ties, the income to be used for individ uals worthy of charity. The city of Boston is to get $98,0.00 all told, the purpose .being to promole good scho larship in the public schools and to take care of the Colonial Burial Grounds, the old state house and the oldest and largest trees on the Com mon. . The testator's home was in Commonwealth avenue, but he was found dead in an offi.e building he owned in Boylston street. Mr. French eted as jinitor and elevator man be sides scrubbing the floors. He boasted of living on 21 cents a day. Use to Them.. About 1,400 earthquake shocks are recorded yearly in Japan, the land of earthquakes, says Baron Dairoku Kikuchi In .an exhaustive treatis. "Recent Seismological Investigations in Japan," just published for private circulation. The number is not as for midable as it would appear, however, as much less than farty are sensible. Since 1875 fi'teen earthquakes have occurred sufficiently severe to cause loss of live or sorious damage to prop erty. In October, 1891, took place tne Great Nuno Owari earthquak, in which 7,000 people were killed, over 17,000 injured and nearly 20,000 build. ngs destroyed. In 1875 the imoeria government commenced the spatemal tic observation of eathquakes. Of the 223 large shocks recorded siuce the earliest times, 47 had their origin in the Pacific 17 in the Japan Sea, 2 in the Inland Sea. 114 in'and and 43 are obscure._________ Gives Up Hope. Senator Latimer has given up hope of the passage of his good roads bill t the present session of congress It bas been said that economy is to be Ihe slogan of the session, and in every uarter where effort has been made to btan support for the measure the ueston of legislative extravagance 2as been raised. The bill will die at he end of the session. Killed N'o Trainer. Charles Hendricks, a lion tamer, acerated by a huge lion during an ~xhbition at San Francisco, died Frn lay. The accident happened during be performance of a trick in which ,he liou was made to jump..through a aper hoop. The trainer slipped and* as attacked by the hugh beast which ore his leg frightfully and caused a 1 Witness went from Ridgeville to Au gusta with Mr. Pink Martin and stay ed in Augusta with Mackey Martin, son cf P.nk. From ther he went to Dunbarl on on the Coast Line between Orangehurg and Augusta. Mackey Martin took him to Dunbarton and got him a j b in W. T. Bagg's saw mill. Frum Lhere he went to O:ange burg. W *tess saw no wounds ir. flcted up on Keitt Bookard, with knife or sticir. Kett B okard did notcry out. Eion said, "We hava come to the River Jor dan." Butler was not in the party g :Ing to the river. "Do you know why Keitt Brookard was kiled," the sl:ctor a ked. "B- cause he bad threatened my life and Pinny Martin's life," was thi answer. Piney Martin had told vittess this Bafore witness left for Charleston, L-wis Martin gave him $15 and agreed to take the crop. Cross-examiaation by Mr. Dennis: "Y. u were Feti g the part of the In nocent man "that night?" Answer, "YEs, sir." What are you acting today, the traitor, the cowardl?" Ob jected to by Mr. Hilderbranci as an effort to discredit the witness. Ob jection sustained. M-. Dennis brought out that "Piney" Martin was n6t tak ing part in the lynching, and the so lictor agreed that "Pirey" Martin should be released. "Penney" Mar tin, a son of Alfred Martin, and not one of the Martins in arrest, was at St. Jullans and not "Piney" Martin, who is ason cf Pink. Witness declar ed that the reason he bad the negr. arrested was on account of wores that they had on a fishing frolic.. WHY HE SuRENDEEED. He replied in answer to searching q-iestnc ns from Mr. De-inis that he had g -re to s-e Suliciter Hilderbrand in response to suggestions from T. B. McCants, cousin of the witnecs De-. nied that Demaio had visited him at Dunbarton, and Demala was not at s licitor's office when l-e went there. Demalo c Lme a day cr so afterward. He was s-ibjected to severe question ing by which Mr. De :nis tried to get Edwards to say that he had been cf fered some irducement to give him sef up. Witness answred negatively. Mr. Dennis wanted to know if witress wou'd give himself up to solicter mere ly to get himself into trouble. Mr. Hilderbrand suggested to witness to tell about his sister begging him to give himsalf up. Mr. Dennis inter posed a violent objection as the wit ness was being cross-exam'ned and this was prompting him. Magistrate Mc(oyeb'ought out the fact that wit ness' sister is a .emter of the house hold of their 7e'ative, M-. McCa'ts, and jAined with Mr. McCants in ad vising witnEss. EIwards declared that he did not drink any of the liquor the night of the kill:ng. Is not a teeto taler, but did not -drink that night He had made a statement in Solictor a lderbrand's offic to F. P. Demalo Had seen the solicitor at thejeniten tiary two 6r three times.,- Demao had called him into the offIce of the superintendent of the peniteatiary and had got another statement, bu bad not made him any promise of his liberty. Mr. Dennis asked If Mr. Lewis Mar tin bad not told witne.sto go to Char leston and get out of the way cf the negroes, who weresweartrg vengeance against Ed~wards. Witness answered 'iyes." "The State of South Carolina offers nothing further," said Mr. Hilder brand at this point. Mr, Dennis having concluded th-e cross-examination. Mr. Bild-rband stated -that he would not argue the case asthemagis. trate Ia fain lhar vwith the facts. .After a-gument by Mr. Dennis for the prisoners IMagistrate McCoy said he would have to commit Palmer, Eadon, Benny Martin and Andrew Martin, and that he, would. releaser Adger Butler and Pmnr-y Martin. DIsPOSITION OF PEIsONERS. He turned the four prisoners over - to Sneriff Morrisoa who will put them in the j ili at Monck's Corner ,unlessa ordered otherwise. The prisonersh have_ a horror of the penitentiary even% within comfortable quarters and good% fare, relatively speaking. SheitN Morrison described the j il at Xonck'sa Corner as a one story .log house 15 feet by 30 feet, with five cellswi m-. and a fence six feet hh dcln the place. There is another house 1i the ench( sure, a cabin with onerom about 20 feent Pquare, which couldb. ) used for the accommodation of t prisoners Sheriff Morrison feels ue that they will not try to escape. I-s deed he seems to hive a very good opinion of the prisoners and not a lit-> tle sympathy for themi. The three older Martins were hr.~ at the preliminary -"Old Ma" Lewis, Pink and Alf. Pink's boy Pay is how out o'f trouble and Alf's :boy - Penny is about to get into it.Thr is no telling how much money, not to speak of worry, this case will cost the Martins. It is reported on relialed authority th it they have raised S1,000 already. And they are not wealthy The four prisoners r~imanded to jil were taken to Char est-on, where tiheyM will be jailed pending the decision "of Sheriff Morrison, who left for Colum bIa to see Governor Heywad in regard to the refunding of money spent by the sheriff in this casa. Henry C. Edwards, in charge -of a penitentiary guard, left by private conveyance on a drive ci 14 miles to Brarchville as soon as he had testified. There Is hardly any necessity for him to fear the Martins, for they are quite busy looking after themselves. E3 wards was taken to Columbia from Bran-chville. The next term of court.wlll be held at Monck's C :rner ab Jut the 12th of February. in the meantime the pris oners will ask for ball. Solicitor Hil debrind wired Gov. H eyward to know if the prisozers should be returned to the- penitentiary. Gov. Heyward re plied that the prisoners are now In the custody of the sheriff of Berkeley - county and the governor has no right to order them sent to the penitentiary since the preliminary has been held. A Timely int. The Fairfax Enterp ise says: "I1am a Demnocrat,-one of the people be leving in the right of every human. being rto life, liberty und the pursuit of happiness. With these convictions I suggest to my brother Democrats of the State Press that they make a new departure and reinstate the grand old party in power by making woman's right to the ballot the great issue in the next election. Standing as they will then do for the rigrhts of half the people, success will be a certainty." - Took Thema In. At Charleston on Wednesday Bev. &. E. Cornish came to the assistance 3! the police department in providing or Mrs. F. M. Bolger and child, who nad been turned out of their house er non-payment of rent and had been aken care of during the nig-at by the - lepartmnent. Tne woman claims that ie was deserted by her husband, and eft with no means for the support of ierself and child. Rev. Cornish will 0 se f-w ar e at his chnrcr home.