Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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;< - .. ;yw -* * \yli ftgQf ' ' ?V?L .5 ,'s , " V - \ -4 > ' HAD A HOT TIME *' V-" The Rector and the Vestry Have a Battle in Church. V; _ UVELY FIST FIGHT In One Of Philadelphia's Churches in Which the Rector, Several of the Vestrymen and Even Some Women Were Active Participants. The Trouble Had Been Brewing Fpr Several Months. * A rough and tumble fight Sunday morning, March 31. in which the rec . tor. several Vestrymyn and even some women took a hand was the culmination of the trouble that has for months been brewing in the congregation of Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal church, Marlbordugh . street west of Guard avenue, of which Rev. E, G. Knight is rector. It was after Rector Knight had preached on the text. "Let not your /"heart be troubled," and in closing had delivered the message, "Peace be unto you," that the fight occurred and all of those participating had partaken of holy communion. The real battle took place in the vestry room, located under the chanel in which the beautiful morning service had just been held, and started over the claims for the morning collection entered by accounting wardens representing the two factions into which the congregation is divided. The trouble was expected and was Sulled off on schedule time, when eorge Shegog, who, still claiming his right as accounting warden, having been elected to that position on Wednesday night by the faction opposed to the rector, started to take the collection from the two silver plates that had been carried down to tKo voctru rnnm hv frlin rpotnr onH placed on a table preparatory to separating: the envelopes from the coin. Shegog left the main auditorium during: the recessional hymn and was waiting in the vestry room to claim the money. He made a reach for the money, but as he did so he was grabbed by J. H. Watkins, who also claims to be the accounting warden, having been elected by the rector's faction at a separate meeting on Wednesday night, and Jacob Davis, Sr. The two men grappled and pummeled each other at a great rate. By this time several of the other vestrymen had taken a hand in the fray, and the rector, wearing the vestments that he wore in serving the communon, was soon in the thickest of the fighting. Chaos reigned, while the women screamed. The fight, a running one, was kept up from the vestry room to the Sunday school room, then through the hall to the choir room and finally back to the vestry room. At one time Rector Knight and Shegog had each other by the throat, and again as many as four men were hammering Shegog as he lay on the _ floor. The rector's faction seemed to have the best of the fight at the wind-up, while to the rescue of Shegog came his 18-year-old daughter, Alice, who dramatically demanded that the rector take off the vestments of his office and not disgrace them any longer. Sobbing bitter, she cried: "I will stand by my father until I die. Let me go to him. He needs me at a time like this." With the young woman was her brother Harry, a nusky lad of 16 years, who gave and took punishment like a soldier. Several mixups were pulled off before the fighters were seperated. Rector Knight was exceedingly nervous after the affray, but beyond admitting that the money was in his keeping he declined, as at all times during the trouble in his church, to discuss the matter in any of its phases. Shegog made threats in the hearing of all present that during the jfnjcccuiiiK? in cuuri,, wnen tne case will be called to prosecute the rector on the charge of embezzlement of church money, there would be some starting revelations that would not only disrupt the congregation but unfrock the minister. The trouble centers around the Easter collection of 1906, and has brought much discussion into the church. At that particular service George Shegog, then accounting warden, whose duty it is to take charge of all moneys, was not present, so the pastor took charge of the cash collected. When Mr. Shegog asked for it later Mr. Knight declared that the Easter collection was the' rector's fund and was always given j to him personally. This began a lengthy dispute and finally Mr. Shegog appealed to Bishop Whitaker that he should force Mr. Knight to pay back the money, which amounted to $1,060. and- also remove him from the rectorship. The bishop refused to interfere and the rector was arrested on a warrant sworn out by Shegog charging him technically with embezzlement, and when brought before Magistrate Kochersperger he was held in $1,000 b:\il for court. it is believed that the fight of Wednesday, will result in the complete disruption of the congregation, which now numbers only about 100. Bishop Whitaker, whose requests for the cessation of trouble in the church has been to a great extent ignored by both factions, will probably now take a hand in the affair that will tend toward its untangling. Declined to Talk. President Roosevelt d At lined to make any comment or discuss for publication the declaration made by John Temple Oravee, of Georgia, at Chattanooga, Wednesday night that Mr. Bryan should be the forthcoming national Democratic convention nominate President Roosevelt for another term. ' 3* * I DON'T WANT HIM. DnftamcA la Treasury Department Object to Colored Associate. I ?' Wilson W. Cooke, colored, of Orangeburg, lias created more or leas a sensation in Washington, and has become ah Issue in the Treasury Department of the Government. Cooke was unt*. recently instructor of manual training in the State colored college at Orangeburg. He is well educated and especially well posted in architecture. He la said to have gradnatoH In o tAi?knU?l ?M ? WBWU VWUUIVAI OUUUI. Tue office of the supervising architect of the Treasury has been very short of draftsmen to work upon the plans for the joany new buildings authorised by Congress a year ago. It Is usually the custom of the supervising architect to employ draftsmen temporarily without asking the civil service commission for "a list from which' to make appointments. A month or so ago the supply of trained men became so scarce that a call upon the eligible list of the commission was necessary. This list revealed as Is customary three names. There was nothing to Indicate the color of any of the candidates and Cooke was chosen from the list. The minute he entered the office the white clerks were dumfounded. ne was a negro and would have to work alongside of about one hundred white draftsmen already employed. There was trouble at once. The white draftsmen got their heads togetheY and talked It over. One man. a Virginian 1 anded In his regignation without delay. The others immediately drew up a petition to Secretary Cortelyon asking that the negro be changed to some other place or dismissed from service. Mr. Cortelyou Is a very diplomatic man as well as a good pollution. He didn't do a thing to the petition but stick it In a pigeon hole and say nothing about it. He didn't even send word back to the white clerks that It had been received. He didn't want-to be accused of making further trouble for the administration on the negro issue and so he did something that is not positive. The clerks are still agitating but they don't know what-to do. Two or three others have handed In their resignations and quit the service miuer luuu worn hiuiikhiuc ui i/uone, against whom there Is nothing except his color. All the snubs that can be directed against him have no effect on Cooke. He holds to the job, does, his work correctly and will probably remain where he Is unless he falls down in his work and gives the head of his office an opportunity to recommend his dismissal. Christian Intimacy. Because too great "Christian intimacy" existed between the Rev .Solon H. Bryan and Miss Ellen Newby, of Millen, Ga., both are involved in a scandal that will be aired before the Methodist conference when it next convenes. It appears that the Rev. Mr. Bryan was preparing Miss Newby for work in the foreign field and that he took more time for his teaching than was deemed necessary, by his wife and members of the congregation. They declare that he was seen going and coming from Miss Newby's millinery parlors at all times of the day and night. Finally the wife objected and was given a sound beating for her pains. The pastor was arrested by neigh bors on the charge of wife beating, but the wife repented and bailed her delinquent husband out of jail. Bryan has been suspended from his conference and will have to stand trial. When approached concerning the affair Miss Newby said: "Only a 'Christian intimacy' existed between Mr. Bryan and myself." But the people of the town refused such a plea, and are of the opinion that the intimacy went a little to far. It is a pity that such men cloak themselves with the garb of a minister, and by their acts bring reproach upon the sacred ministry and the church. And it is astonishing how many men do it. The misdeeds of such men, unfortunately, lessens the respect of the people at large for the ministry. There was a time when a minister of the gospel was looked upon as being different from other men. The fact that he was a preacher carried weight with it, and he was regarded as a good man because he was a preacher. But that day is passed, and preachers are now judged after they are known, as other men are. The rascals who have entered the ministry has made this necessary. But we thank God that a large majority of all the ministers are cleanhanded, and would rather die than bring reproach on their holy calling or the church to which they belong. It'l mi ? 11 ibjt * II*"jr IX'OVP. Earnest P. Bickell, head of the Chicago Bureau of charities, believ- , es he has found the reason why men j leave home. He has been investiga- j ting the cause of wife-desertions ! for over a year. He names the j chief cause as the lack of means to j keep a family in anything like com- j fort with the present cost of living, 1 which he says is a great deal morp < than it was a few years ago. j Bickell's report shows that there s are 20,000 deserted wives in Chica- \ go, most of whom have been left to j shift for themselves because their \ husbands find that they cannot pro- j vide for them. This is true in a 'special manner when the husband is father of a growing family. In such a case he finds that while his moder- 'r ate earnings were sufficient to keep him and nis wife, they are not j enough to support them and their i children- * Yet one hears the cry of prosper- * ity on all sides. But when the mat- < ter is investigated it is found to be 1 a myth, and that there is really no t prosperity, except for a few. It is i said the farmers ought to be pros- ? perous because cotton is worth twice I as much as it was some years ago. 1 But it should be remembered that v everything the farmer buys costs 1 about twice as much as it use to. 1 Consequently he cannot buy any r more With his ten cent cotton than ' he could with his five cent cotton, s This applies to all other callings. c P .A .: * ANOTHER MURDER^ ? T=r ?* Willie Radish Killed at Colleton by James Price. Prico Insulted the Sister of Redish and When He Interfered Price Shot Dead. Willie Redish, a young man living at Colleton, a few miles from ?ranchvllle over in Colleton County, was I shot and almost instantly killed last! Saturday afternoon by Jim Price, of the same section. It seems that Price insulted the sister of Redish and that when he Interfered Price shot him in the head. Redish died from the wound in a few minutes. When the murder became known the people were very much Incensed against Pric- and if he had been caught in the section where the murder occurred he would have been handled roughly. After the shooting Price left and endeavored to make his escape. He bought a ticket for Jacksonville, Fla., and took the train at Hranchvllle, going by the way of Blackville. But Mayor Warren of Branchville was on the lookout for the murderer. He communicated with the Chief of Police at Blackville. who arrested Price Sunday morning at that place. He was carried to Branchville and turned over to Mayor Warren, who, in accordance with instructions from Gov. Ansel sent Price to Walterboro via Charleston in charge of Constables A. R. Byrd and Sallie Byrd, and they landed him safe and sound in the Walterboro Jail, where he will stay until he is tried. As stated above Price was making his way to Jacksonville, Fla., as he had a ticket for that place in his pocket when arrested. After leaving Branchville he got as far as Blackville and, while waiting on a train going south, he went to sleep in the waiting room. The officers were hot on his trail and in the search of the room Price was discovered and captured. Price was perfectly cool and did not seem to realize the enormity of the offence of which he was charged. He did not say anything about the killing of Reddish, but said that he did not run away to avoid a trial but he was afraid of the crowd. Constable Maxsey, of Colleton, went to Branchville on Sunday for the prisoner, proposing to take him back to where the killing took place and then on to Walterboro, but Mayor Warren, hearing of the feeling against Price in the section where the killing took place, communicated by phone with Gov. Ansel as to the best disposition. On the advice of the Governor Mayor Warren then sent the prisoner to Walterboro as above stated. Mayor Warren acted wisely, as there is little doubt that Price would have been handled roughly had he been carried back to Colleton, the people of that section being very much incensed against him. , Price, in talking with Mayor Warren, claimed that he shot Redish in self defense and that he regretted the afTalr very much. From what can be learned Price was under the Influence of whiskey and probably cursed Miss Redlsh in a dispute between her little brother, and himself, over rent it is said, young Redlsh claimed was due his father by Price. Young Redlsh, who is of a prominent Colleton family, leaves a young wife aud a host of friends who deplore thiB occurrence. Greek vs. Bulgaria. Macedonia is the scene of a bloody contest between Greeks and Bulgarians. These two nations declared war against each other six months ago, but as several hundred miles of neutral Turkish territory lay between them, an actual state of war has been impracticable. This anomaly of hostilities does not prevent the Bulgar and Greek from engaging in actual strife. There are thousands of roving Bulgarians and an equal number of Greeks in the buffer state, Macedomi i i i? ma. x nese nave espoused me cause oi their native lands and are engaging in a war of extermination on about the same scale as characterized the bloody feud between Turks and Armenians. The result is that every time a Greek and Bulgar meet there is a tight to the finish. The stories told by those who escape are harrowing in the extreme. One of the favorite modes of attack by the Bulgarians is to catch the Greeks, while they are in church. In a recent slaughter they destroyed a church by throwing bombs into it when it was crowded. Greeks were killed in great numbers. As the survivors were rushing from the church they were killed as they left the church door. Only a few escaped and these had their tongues torn out or were maimed in some other way. Both Greece and Bulgaria are socalled Christian nations, yet they are carrying on a war, the cruelties of which would cause an Indian to blush, if such a thing was possible, Neither of them could tell what they aic at war auoui, or wnat IS to De gained by it. Some way should be found to put a stop to such a war. Why don't the adjacent powers interpose, and teach the foolish Greeks ind Bulgar a lesson in common sense. If one nation don't feel like undertaking the job, let them all join in and do it. By some means ;his most foolish war should be stopped. A (arcAt County. The Newberry Observer says: 'Orangeburg is a great county. Thursday'sTimesand Democrat pubished reports of fifteen state banks n that connty, aggregating a capial of nearly $400,000 and deposits of lbout one million. And these are >nly state banks; there are national ianks also, which are not included in ;his list." As the Observer say? Drangeburg is a great county, but ihe bas no national banks within her >orders. There are only two other )anks in the county besides those vhose reports were published in The Times and Democrat two weeks ago. The deposits in the banks whose state- < nents we published was nearer two nillion than one million as the Ob j erver has it. The Times and Dem- I crat. 1 ' y. ARRESTED ON SERIOUS CHARGE Former Orangeburg Man Charged With Am unit on Negro Woman. T. D. Mitchell, who at one time lived In thla city and was on the city police force has been arrested on a serious charge in New Brooklyn, near Columbia. The charge is that he attempted a criminal assault upon Emma Lowman, a young negro woman in New Brooklyn last Saturday night. We take the following fact? relating to the case from the Columbia Record. They were brought out before the magistrate who heard the case, and granted Mitchell bail. It seems that Mitchell followed this negro woman to her home and as she was entering the gate he grabbed her by the arm and attempted violence. Mitchell, as he grabbed hold of her stumbled over a board in the gate and fell into the yard. This prevented him, it is said, from carrying out his purpose. The matter was at once reported to the town authorities but Mitchell was not arrested until Monday. Mitchell denies the charge and claims that it is a made up affair between this negro woman and a white man of Brookland,. who "had it in" for him, and devised this plan of getting even. The Record says "trouble was narrowly averted Saturday night in Brookland when the matter became generally known. Negroes were very indignant and threatened trouble and Mitchell came across the river into Columbia and stayed in this city all Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night and went back to Brookland Monday morning when the woman had him arrested." Mitchell was a witness in behalf of J. H. Tillman when he was tried for the murder of the late N. G. Gonzales. Later on he was charged with others of stuffing the ballot boxes in Brooklyn and tney were all convicted and fined. The Record further sayr, last Bummer he was arrested one Sunday afternoon for gambling in the woods near I^exington and was fined $15 or sentenced, to conflnment in jail for tbree hours. So it seems that Mitchell has gotten into considerable trouble since he left Orangeburg. Mitchell toys^'It is a hatched up plan on the part of two white men In Brooklyn 10 dispose of me in some manner and to Ret even for a minor matter and to do this they cocked up this scheme with this colored woman, She is a woman of the worst sort and bears a disreputable name in this town. I am going to fight the matter to the end and will prove to the people of this place and Columbia that I am not guilty of the charge under which I have been bound over to higher court." The Record says when Mitchell was arrested he seemed to be surprised. He was not in the cutsody of the magistrate long before Mr. P. H. Stallings and Mr. C. T. Weed, two citizens of Brookland, appeared to go on his bond. The bond was fixed at |3 50 and was promptly signed by Messrs. Stallings and Weed, whereupon Mitohell was released. The charge against Mitchell is a very serious one and should he be convicted of it he would undergo a long period of imprisonment. He does not say who the white men are that he claims put up a job on him in collusion with the woman, but W? suppose their names will come out in the trial. Roosevelt seems to be seeing all kinds of political spooks these days, or is he only stooping to the word heeler's tactics to gain political sympathy. Hemphill sixty years old. Never. If the genial Major stays on earth as long as Methuselah did he will still be less than sixty years of age in spirit and good fellowship. Ex-Senator Burton, of Kansas, who has returned to his home from prison, is said to be sharpening his tomahawk for Roosevelt's scalp. He blames the President for all his troubles. Capt. J. D. Browne died in Columbia on Sunday night. He was a galant soldier of the "Lost Cause," and by his death South Carolina loses one of her most loyal and patriotic sons. Peace to his asbes. If Roosevelt is not a candidate for a third term how can there be a conspiracy on the part of the great financial interests to defeat him? This is a question that even the faithful Loeb can't answer. The political contest in Ohio is not a contest between Foraker and Taft but a contest between Roosevelt and his enemis led by Foraker. As a choice between two evils we hope Roosevelt will win. The new dispensafy law is quite a bonanza to the press of the State. Every county has to call for liquor bids through at least two daily papers and one weekly paper. This amounts to a neat little sum in a year, two-thirds of which goes to the dailies. President Roosevelt says Harriman is a liar, but he does not deny that Harriman raised a big campaign fund for the Republicans in 1904. He knows better than to do such a thing as that. If he did, Harriman would put him in the Ananias club by hauling the record on him. The Socialists have announced that for the present they have abandoned effort to carry certain States, among them South Carolina. The Socialists had out a candidate for governor last year in this State, and he polled three votes. We do not , blame them for quitting under the circumstances. The Rev. John Johnson, D. D., died at his residence in Charleston on i Sunday night. During the war he 1 was a Major of Engineers in the 1 Confederate army, and engineer in ' charge at Fort Sumter for fifteen ' months, covering the period oI its , heaviest bombardments by the ene- t my. It was through his energy and | skill as engineer that the Confedera- < tes were enabled to hold the old fortress to the last, and his name will be forever linked with the successful defence of Charleston, a defence that was and is the wonder , and admiration of the world for ( heroism and endurance of those who t took part in it. t * f. ** s# THE GOLDEN AGE ^ We Are Living In It But Do Not Know It Some Reflections on the Past, The Present and the Future and Its Lessons. It has long been the fashion to scold farmers for their disposition to be dissatisfied. Every penny-a-liner in the line has denounced them as "chronic grumblers." On first thought this may seem to be a serious reflection. but after closer analysis it does not appear so formidable. By the operation of a natural law it is impossible for any of us to be entirely satisfied with present conditions. If there is no discontent there will )??? no progress. It-Is dissatisfaction with conditions which gives life to the great reformers. It is because they do not like things as they are that we have the great reformers in religion and politics. , The farmer who Is content to go as his ancestors did is certainly not i desirable acquisition to the world of agriculture. It is that class who wear out the land, who deteriorate the stock, who never learn aad never forget anything. The improvements are brought about by those who suspect there is a better way. He knows that it has always been the custom to do so and so, but, like the iconoclastic Hamlet, he bluntly declares that the custom is better in the breach than theo* servance. He determines to change things and strike out on uew lines. In this resolve we have the germs of reform, the vanguard of all improvement on the farm. Without impatience with the state in which we live it is manifest that there would be no desire to improve. This impatience, however, while it stimulates us to surpass preceedlng generations, disposes U6 to overate their happiness. It is unreasonable and ungrateful in us to be constantly dlsconted with, a condition which is constantly improving. But in truth there is constant improvement precisely because there is constant discontent. If we were perfectly satisfied with the present we should cease to contrive, to labor and save with a view to the future. Another curious illustration of the operations of that mystery of mysteries, the human mind if found in the fact that to our dissatisfaction with the present is Inn Ihn ?- * " ,...v vu? ituucmt iu lunu a 100 lavorable estimate of the past. Though the times in which we live are infinitely superior to anything ever known to the world, there is an irresistable inclination to imagine that our own period 1b inferior to others that have gone before. For the life of us, we cannot escape the tendency to place the golden age in tne past, whereas wisdom would suggest that it is esential to progress that (his goal of all our struggles should i?e placed in the future Thus we would look forward to it as a prize to be struggled for, an ideal to be reached, Instead of taking the disheartening view that the beBt had already been accomplished. In always imagining that times past were superior to time# present we are under a deception similar to that which misleads _the traveler In the ouuura aeseri. ueneath the caravan all Is dry and bare, but far In advance and far in the rear is the semblance of refreshing waters. The pilgrims hasten forward and find nothing but sand where an hour before they had seen a lake. They turn their eyes and see a lake where, an hour before, they were tolling through sand. A similar illusion seems to haunt nations through every stage of the long progress from poverty and barbarism to the highest degree of opulence and civilization. Rut if we resolutely chase the mirage backward we shall find it receede before us into the regions of fabulous antiquity. George Washington, the richest man of his day, did not have so good a bed to sleep in as that now at the service of every one of the thousands of farmers who read this. There were no comforts in the kitchens of Madison or Jefferson which would not now be spurned by every farmer's wife, with the latest range or cook stove, her neatly arranged pantry, her ice box and her convenient pump that sends water through all the house. A hundred years ago noblemen in England were destitute of comforts which millions of modern farmers now consider the commonplaces of existence. Depend upon it. the golden age is all around us at this moment, but this does not militate against the proposition of this article, that discontent is the result of a natural law without which there would be neither individual growth nor national progress. A DREADFUL WARNING _____ Has Thrown the Colored People Into Consternation. Consternation of the most aggra- j vated type has reigned at Summerton ( for some time. It seems that about t a week or more ago a deaf mute near ( there for the first and only time in s his sixteen years of existence was hea d to speak by reliable members of his race, and these are the words that fell fro.n his hitherto unused tongue: "Tne Lord is goin' to rain down fire and brimstone." ,, It is not known by whilt phenomenal. chance his lips were unsealed j after all these years of silence and allowed to utter this prophecy. Reliable segroes have attested to the facts of the case, and when the story got abroad amongst the negroes of Clarendon county it did not fall to have a most profound effect upon them. Some regard it in the nature of a Divine utterance, while others say that before many days the hoys tongue will be loosened and he will make strange and fearful prophecies of the j wrath of th? I^rd which will be poured out upon this evil generation. a The colored man from whom The \ News and Courier correspondent got v the story was in tears of genuine e fright when it was suggested to him r that the boy's words were full of ieep significance. It will be many lays before the full effects of the miracle will wear off, and while it is felt the churches of the negroes in that section will be crowded with lenitents and mourners, who read a lreadful warning into this event. c< b Would Be In Liinbc. g The Kansas City Star says: "If President Roosevelt could send a P Jnlted States Senator to prison mere- t: y because of a persosal prejudice a ioes anybody suppose that Foreker ind Tillman whuld be goiag around, is chipper as they are? , THE SALVATION ARMY. Some Statistics Showing the Work That Is Being Done. The Salvation Army all over the world is holding a week of special prayer. The army has departments in many lands, including India. Africa and Japan. The work in this country has beca fruitful of much good. The statistics of the Salvation Army show that in this country there are 727 corps headquarters and 104 outposts. The total attendance indoors last year was 11.140,732 and in open air meetings 1,677,280. There are 4,294 local officers and bandsmen, 80,455 junior companies and 4,124,745 War Crys sold. There are 65 industrial homes, accommodating 1,686 people. There were meals given to 1,318,044 men and beds sunnhed to 463.550 The following summary shows the remarkaable work claimed for the Salvation Army in the foreign field: Countries and colonies oc cupied 63 Languages in which salvation is preached 3 0 Corps and Outposts.. .. 7,684 Officers, cadets and employers 20,079 Training Homes 31 Accommodation of same.. 1,631 Local officers 45,339 Bandsmen 19,498 Number of periodicals . . 68 Circulation per issue .. ..1,086,490 Social institutions 766 Accommodation of same. . 22,54 7 Shelters and food depots. . 205 Accommodation of same. 20,024 Prison gate homes 15 Accommodation of same. . 449 Satisfactory cases per annum 1,542 Rescue homes 107 Accommodation of same.. 2,751 Satisfactory cases per annum 5,554 Land Colonics 18 Acreage of same 29,252 The Salvation Army workers are not pessimists, but are always happy and always cheerful, although their work is among the poor and needy onH 111 Tho fnllnwlnir ctntlutlna It would seem, would tend to overawe them in their efforts but they go plodding along. CURES ALL SKIN TROUBLES Sulphur the Accepted Remedy for a Hundred Years. Sulphur is one of the greatest remedies nature ever gave to man Every physician knows it cures skin and blood troubles. Hancock's Liquid Sulphur enables you to get the full benefit in most convenient form. Do uot take sulphur 'tablets' or 'wafers' or powered sulphur In molasses. Hancock's Liquid Sulphur Is pleasant to take and perfect In Its action. Druggists sell it. A well known citizen of Danville, Pa., writes: "I have had an aggravated case of Eczema for over 26 years. 1 hnve used seven 5 0-cent bottles of the Liquid and one Jar of your Hancock's Liquid Sulphur Ointment, and now I feel as though I had a brand new pair of hands. It has cured me and I am certain It will cure anyone if they persist In using Hancock's Liquid Sulphur, according to directions. 'Butler Edgar.' RURAL CARRIERS Am Allowed to Carry Packages Under Certain Conditions. On nnd after July 1 the pay of rural carriers on the routes In this county will be paid $900 per annum. mis snould enable the carriers to be fairly paid and to have the means necessary to pay for the maintenance of their horses and vehicles. A carrier is entitled to carry any package in bulk larger than that which the postoffice department will take, but he is not allowed to receive remuneration for his services from the person who, sends the package. In all cases he 'must collect for his services from the recipient of such package. If a carrier was allowed to collect from a merchant who desired to ship goods to local patrons by means of the carrier it would influence the carrier to try to increase the business of the merchant having such facilities for delivering and at any rate would cause people to buy at the store of juch merchant, because it would be convenient. This would necessarily work a hardship with the merchant who did not employ the carrier as a delivery agent, and for that reason it is best that ail packages carried by the carrier which do not conflict nor compete with his regular mail business be collected for at their destination. EETTEK l'AKTY. \ Suggestion for a Ciood Evening's Entertainment. Boys and girls, as well as those of arger growth, will greatly enjoy having their wits sharpened at a "Letter Party," and for this the following ?et of questions to be answered by >ne, two or three letters is merely a juggestion: Name a beverage T Name a common bird J ] Name one of the human organs I What is jealousy NV Wj ho* 4a it in V* fT ,IC%V to *v tw 0U|M ton uiuui ? Alt Name u summer dress goods PK Name the Condition of winter lavement IC Name a county In England SX Name too much of something XS ] Name a sailor's response II 1 Name a creeping plant IV i Name a kind of pepper KN ( Name a void MT Name a composition 8A Name a mournful poem LEG The Truin Fell. One person was killed and about , 5 Injured in a wreck on the St. John ' uiry and Lake Champlain railroad, ibout two miles east of Hardwick, "t., Thursday. The entire train, a * westbound passenger train, with the * xceptlon of the locomotive left the alls and plunged down a 40-foot em>ankmcnt. j We Have ! One 26 Horse Power Talbott, secoi ently been overhauled. This Engine I e a great bargain for anyone who Is 1 ine. We are headquarters for anythii lies and prompt attention will be give rusted to our care. Write us when y nd be sure to get our prices before ] Colombia Supply Co., "SPRING CLEANING" RHHKDKD. The Bodjr Requires it Juit\f* Much as the House. ?0* "You look sick this morning." "Yes I woke up with a dull headache. a coated tesgue and that dark brown taste In the mouth." "Dltn't you have pains In your joints and muscles." "Yes. As my old negro mammy used to say, 'I have misery in my Joints. "Better take a bottle of Rheumacide, old man. "What does Rheumacide do?" "Why Klieumacide 1b the most powerful and effective blood purifier in me woria. 11 sweeps an tne germs and poisons out of the blood and 'makes you well all over.' " "Brer try it yourse'V "Sure I take a couple of bottles of it before spring begins. Give my blood a spring cleaning. And Rhcumactde puts me in such fine 6hape that I never have that tired feeing." "Well, I am going to try this Rheumacide you say is the best ever. "Thats right. All the druggists sell it. Better get a bottle today. You Btart to get well with the first dose. The proprietors say that Rlieumaride gets at the joints from the inside and makes you well all over. And that the truth, old man." CURES ALiL SKIN TROUBLES AFTER TWENTY YEARS Man Turned Loose After Being in Prison that Long. Gov. Hoch, of KansaB, one dny last week decided to parole "Wilde Sells" who haB served nea-ly twenty years in the Kansas penitentiary, for murdering his father, mother, sister and brother in March, 1888. Sells stoutly maintained his innocence. It was argued in his defense that he was u sio.tly lad of thirteen years when the crime was committed, it had been a physical impossibility for him to have committed the crme. Speechless and Pnraly/.ed. Summoned to the office of Dr. John W. Ballard, of Logansport, Ind., supposedly for a friendly call, H. F. Stoughton, a farmer, found Ballard and others assembled as a lunacy board to Inquire into his sanity. "My God, John, would you send me to the mad house?" he screamed, then fell iinrnnRoli nn fmm his phuir VVHun resuscitated, he was speechless and totally pntalyred. Intelligent treatment at your home BY One of the grsetest mistakes made by peop'e residing in the country and uiaii uiwni ia their fat ure to c nault the experienced specialist for their deep-sen ed or chronic di? rders. Inej suffer al ng day alter day, shortening their lives by months and years,either throu, h ignorance ol what the apecin ist could do for them . r the belief hit special ireatiii nt would requite tbeir removnl to the city. It ia not neoeeta y that you ahonld real e in the aame city in order to receive benefit of our apeclal treatment. We Lii i e all i ufferers from deepseated. I nf-sia* oing troubles oI Heart, ji I I O. i n * uuii|i, ovoui-cii, ouvpir, i.ivor, Bladder, <ilo<>d, Nerves, or diseneen p<>ouliar lu either a r, to write or call upon ua and learn what we have done for others similarly nttlictod, and what we can < o for tbeni. _ There >? no charge 'or thia oontu'tation, and it ie worth your time and effort whetbet you decide to begin treatment or not. For mo e than twentv years, I, and the specie bats asm ciated with me. have given our entire tine, tli- ti^iit and study to th* cure of the deep seated chr nio or aervous disorders, w hich ^vf baffled the less experisnced allund physician. Wr atever you may think your ailment is, it is not probable that vmi can he quite sure of your own diagnosis or that of the ordinary physician. Or you may write us, first, in entire confidence, if you ch> ose. Soma craes do not reed a personal visit, although always adv >ahle. Bend f' r our booklet on "Brain and Nerve Exhaustion " Mailed free in imprinted wrapper. Dr Ha? away A Co., 22^ 8. Broad St., Atlanta, G*. Please s od me inunprinted e'-velope, your book for n en, for which there ie no charge and which d?>ea not place me under any obligations to you. Name Address Name of paper Pianos and Organs At Factory Prices. Write us at once for our special plan of payment on a Piano or Ortran [f you buy either Instrument through us you get a standard make, on* that will last a life-time. Write MALONES MlJo-C HOI'SK, Columbia. S. C. OFFERED WORTHY ^^7' YOUNG PEOPLE. Wo matter bow limited yonr means or ednetton.lf yon desire athorough business traino| and good position, write for our - OREAT HALF RATE OFFER Bnooeos, Independence and probable FOR. "UNK guaranteed. Don't delay - write to day, "be OA.-ALA. BUS. COLLBOE. Mecoo da Por Sale nd hand Engine, and which ir.;s reIs in flrFf "lass condition and will in the market for such a size enlg in the i-ay of machinery supin to all inquiries and orders cnou are in the market for anything placing yolur orders elsewhere. ^Alnmbia, S. C.