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VOL XX. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL i, 1897. How Mr. Santay Composed a Hp that IT WAS DONE BY INSPIRATION. Its Original Name Was The Lost Sheep, But Mr. Moody Changed It The itorjr of the.“ Ninety and Nine " illustrate* aptly how great an effect may grow out of a small cause, and what surprising 1 ower may be exerted In the world by even so tr tl .or a thing ana byma tune. The other day. just before his departure for Celt fern I a, Mr. has key talked to me for an hour or more about the ** Ninety and Nias." and could bare yoae oe, ao doubt, for hours longer wtiooet eshaaeUag his ■emori** sad *c« rduUs roenected with thin most remarkable revival swag The ** Nlaetv awtf Niee teal maa's age. fnr it earns late the la the Mail ef l<K J, a few meathe Me Mwady aad Me. haasev Vegas Nr test revise nempatga fa t-g Per Is r— m«asae they had iahwrtsg la hretraad eag e«es K4ll0 Ik A *+++4 •# %M0 When it wns all over Mr. Moody came down from the pulpit, and, rest ing a hand on Mr. Sankey's shoulder, looked with wonder at the newspaper clipping. “ My dear friend,” he said with emotion, "where did you get that song ? 1 never heard anything like it^’ "That,” said Mr. Sankey, ‘‘lathe hymn I read you on the train—the one brings back HU own.” And although he tried to drive these words out of bis head they kept ringing there all that night nm tha next day and for days to come. And then, somehow, they got into. his heart and began making trouble there. And do what he would he could not forget them. The outcome was that two weeks later this hard-headed reprobate (so he was generally regarded) went to a prayer And thus the tune of tbe^ "Ninety meeting In the-very chureh whence and Nine” was born into the world, a these words had come to him, and tune which has gone literally around arising to his feet told the people what the world. And as it was sung that had happened and asked them to pray day in Edinburgh by inspiration, so it for him And from that day he be ll as been written down in the hymn came a zealous member of Mr. Moody's books, and so it has been sung in the congregation, and opuld not do enough many languages, and no note or chord io;*how hU gratitude for the change of it has ever been changed, nor would that had been wrought in him. For Mr. Sankef consent to the slightest eight or nine years he served Mr. change, not to please all the musical Moody as his power# best permitted, critics in the world. carrying trunks back aod forth be- "The critics say they can see ooth id tr tween the station and the seminary, in the tune of the ‘‘ Ninety and Nine,” attending to the malls and making Mr. Saakey, smlllag. “They himself useful in other ways. And ‘t account for it* success; that is whoaever Mr. Sankey. woo la 00 me to critics, with their rules and Northleld this man would come for- theories, make ao allowance for in- ward and grip bis band aod ask him to spiratloa of the soul.” please slag the *' Niaety aad ttlee." It U lots resting to note that la tha One day bo lay on hie deathbed, it I real geltertag which thrilled at u. • was again a Sunday aflsraaaa. —i it rvt vtaglag of the '* Niaety aao Nias ~ happ*aed that this day was was a weataa. bark la eae ol the gal- ' appointed lor the laying of the lertstk^wbe wns made very happy by slue# ef the new CeegregaLoea tie sing.ag of these words staee ahe'ehereh. Aad ngais Mr Meudy *e< re-•^n*se< la them the very vvnev!eogdset’ng a great cpra atr aMwting erttAna three years before by bet 1 bet this Usae Mr Ssaa- y Ieoh ea part. Aha after to lag m* r* y scaled ta the weagrsga Mer Stiockini Traialj In UphU. A SOlilClTOR'S DBADLY BVLLBT. tag t/- » tto As M dpt She t< ’•eg" •g raw we* a** tea sbs tr is aad lhaab a, hat tha « L S.. • * S ms t* s sa nsto to hms Mis Victim Died Almost Instantly After Being Shot—A Single Wit ness to the Deplorable Affair. A sad and unfortunate homicide oc- carred in Edgefield at 6 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon. Solicitor J. W. Thurmond shot and killed W. G. Har ris, h drummer for The Murray Drug Co., of Columbia, S. C. Mr. Harris is a nephew of Collector of Internal Revenue Townes, and a son of W. G. Harris, a prominent oitixen of Edge- fled County. The trouble, it seemr, arose out of the fact that while Mr. Thurmood was a member of the State Legislature he recommended that Governor Evans appoint a gentleman named Glover as magistrate Instead of Harris, the old locum bent and father of the deceased. Since Mr. Thurmond has been solic itor be has had nothing whatever to do with recommend lag applicants for po st Uous of magistrate, but uader Gov ernor Dlerbe's administration Mr. Harris, ess tor was again an applies* 1 bat Olaves, who we ■ c. ..zt>. . / l. ... Kvaas. was I. eppi tstod by Kliarbv Mr. W. G t*arris, denaamd. seemed to thtsh that 'talfolhnr Tbeemwsd was tto •trvmental a bnvtag (ideasaad ahowt d hwlhsttar Tharmaad this the bridf walk. He wns not on the wm along the ditoh tha aidawalk. Thurmond was in his door. That is what I saw, sir. Harris is dead. Well, life was in him when we got him in the room;’ It Qoald not have been longer than flva minutes after he was shot before we got him to the room. I do not know who saw the diffculty beside myself. He was undressed in the room. 1 saw several things removed from his pSifOa^ watch, his pocketbook and loose change, scrapbook and knife; several memorandum books, and twenty-fire dollars in the pocketbook aod ninety cents in change and a bunch of keys. Flask partly filled with whiskey. It was about half full, about a half-piut Sash.' I did not see any pistol. I examined bis grip of clothing. "Did you see Mr. Thurmood when he firedr " Yes, sir, he shot from the door.” " If be had a pistol oould you have seen It?" " Yea, sir. I saver saw Harris draw near should be continued, At MT • Ik4fc4 • ■ * * • ■f OhMMM I «• ta idra** M* plWf ■ ■M 4 •atoat 1 • flora la ito dreg ta# i •aaval » i 4 m A LyaaO B Uf *, aaabwf II * Mppt ♦ ItleaoM 1 hog toaodrtok 1 IU Ntotoj ■i ta fo t(BB 4 vtoy hen foowwag* Ttor- gOsMlwal Bto 144* dg ffmaai (iy tofi 9to t yorO Aad aa Iptata 1 Bta t 4n4I %■ 4i a ofKoa Mo waa 4* 4 MBWil * »a> itata tain r i as aabk wtoa M* Baa- K to* matofowa. 6 ' « (Mi ta ta Mm •ur pealed. Senator Turple, Democrat, of In diana, made an argument in favor of a constitutional amendment, to make Uaited State# Senators elective by b popular vote instead of by State Legis latures. He summed, up his argument in theMurords: The pending amend ment flKfli strict accordance with the great precedent of progress and ad vancement cet forth in the preamble to the constitution. Our purpose is to form a more perfect union by bringing the national legislature in* complete accordance with the legislative assem blies of the States; to establish by granting to the voters of the States that equality of suffrage which the present system dentes; to perpetuate the bieesings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity by a further aad nobler recognition of duties and rights inharent in all citizens; ao that lbs supremacy of tbs people, never gain said, no often with lips confessed, with the tongue asserted aad maintained, shall at last be aad becosne a vital threelv • ' ' foroe, a living preeeoee, a taet aMM- I did aot.” plisksd In the government of tbs Re- Mrs Aaeie Abbott, ike Ueorgta pabilc. This will give to our past its el-«trie woadsr, being duly swore. I fail meaaiag, to tbo future hope yet «... a: My is Mrs Annie Abbott 1 more akoaMM. aad for the presell It It was at Us hotel I boa t kaow the would piece a fixed Mar ta taas galaxy sums of It Edgefield Meuse, I believe i *f progress visible ib ail --- > - f - - mo of torty thruugheut the world I void sou eutirviy to the eeroor to a I ——- Hstfo path gulag dava. I saw »**» T4ml , u <>«, fiiliis^s whoa he leread enseteg ^ * •■•e t^at path- Be dM out stow all ■ '■ euruor uf tae urtoe *Ssr« the efifoe ea — . — - - ^ — _ Did you beer Mr. Harris make any —Falsehood may have its hoar, it has no future. —Tea is gathered from tha plant four times a year. —Dancing is taught in many of public schools in Scotland. - 1 —— —A Jersey man married five wivea, and they were ail redheaded. —The party who won’t forgive is the one who is always in the wrong. \ —Washington city contains In ite streets and squares over 70,QUO trees. —A matr'f&aglng for office always fancies himself invited to be a candi date. —Brass can be kept beautifully bright by occasionally rubbing with vinegar. —Forty-three popes relgaod daring the butldlag of Si. i'eter • cstbedrai. ilh Africa has aad 1,000,000 Itaai*. —Only God one tail fc delag Is pros right —If ws see owUlag ■t 7&O,0fi0 by eae taey will geod la as. ill set ho likely ts see ■PH Itft | # PM Ipf* H ri ■ HH ^ I *"^4 1 * *4 • ess T5 mm** • ibhi IMP* pHp ! 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Thosb are goldva j aomusts ia the wangslat’s work. 1 Heeding down from bis pulpit toward Mr. Sankey, who sat at bis right by the littlo melodsoo. Mr. Moodv said : "Mr. Sankey, hnva you nnttning to sing on this subject as a solo?" Mr. Saukty hesitated. He coqld think of nothing directly >n the sub ject except the twenty-third Psalm, which bad already been sung three times that day by the congregation. They must have something else. Like a flash It came to him: "Sing the song you found on the train.” But his secondjthought was : " How can 1 sing a song without a tune?” Meanwhile the audience was waiting in silence. "Sing the hymn you found on the train, came the thought again, this time imperatively. I wonder how' many men would have dared such a thing as this at suafna moment. Mr. Sankey opened his liule scrapbook of solos, found the newspaper slip which he had cut from the paper, laid It before hintfon the rack of the melo- deon, and then, after a moment of silent supplication, struck a full chord and began to ting. What notes he sang he did not know, nor what chords he played; be took 00 heed of harmony nor of the laws of musical progression, lie was not thiakiog of suen things. He was tblakiag of that poor, torn sheep ea tbs bleak otbuataia side, aad of the good shepherd who searched S str«Ug I* tog’ 1 a J ie* wo (rout of tb* •ss a greet ouch chagns early for ptftobwn, ob have keen crl i foaUefi Be else aad an • igv now H< sec*, aad sis alre will tlaat saaar tod VI Ham has always toon ae ana espoct bia 1 is a aea ef ripe haowledg* ef ave I kirn ia good stead ■tod M wuas p et’-sra 1 mi that, a Um irv held Ik the opra air ia eburvh. Tbea there 1 scramble to get out with ■ among thane who had 00 good seats. AfUr a spleedld service of prayer aod exhortation Mr. Moody turni d to Mr Sankey and asked him toeing for the first time ia America the hymn which had bcco #o wonderfully Mcdm*! wad pruttv ha'ily cut up in the —Near itaibarfordloa. N. C-, Mat Davis aad a man named Matthews aet aad were dleputiog the depth of the river, To satisfy themselves, tbay undressed and rml in, but still could not agree, whereupon thev got out their knives and went at it hut Mat hs good si It throng k to ins i hewagk ito l itodMtoto in England, the "Ninety and Nine And, seated on n narrow platform it front of the ^church, with his little melodeon before him, where it bau been carried from within, Mr. Sankey began to sing the familiar wyrds. it was an impressive moment: the people stood with heads bared filling the wide street before him-and stretching away on either side as far as he could see. Still under the spell of Moody’s power, they listened as the evangelist of song lifted up his voice. It was a beautiful summer’s afternoon, those late still hours when evening is coming on and nature is so beahtiful. Mr. Sankey sang as perhaps he had never sungkbefore, and the music of his voice swept-across the valley on the.calm evening air, sounding over the Connecticut river, flowing at their feet, and was heard on the hills opposite a mile away, and there in a cottage oa one of th«M hills sat a man who was in a state of aager toward his fsllowaaa, oat of Sorts with everyth fog. Ho wasa woll-kaown •baraetor la the vieially ; ha did aot boiler* aseh to ohorcbfwtog, aad j V h, Uevod. I*a*t of ail. la Moody aad , ta , ■ to* to rogargsd a* arraat cfiWif towaaow b* fc-adff* we I a* 1 Mr Mssatoy *»• year* tofow* I a^*, ad satoo ap stos vah btotojaa Aad too idato toafi t* fact* and oa the head, Davi* receiving revera! ugly gashes. Matthews was carried homo and is not expected to live. Davas has not been seen since. —There is more rain from Septem ber to March than from March to S pternbetv^Tjecause the temperature of the air is then constantly decreasing, and there is, therefore, a greater con densation of the vapor, into wa^r, which falls as rain. Between March and September, on the contrary, the temperature of the air is constantly in creasing, and, With this increase, its power to bold vapor. Hence, there is less precipitation during that sea son. ’* —The Pennsylvania prison report has some interring statistics celat- ing to the condition of the convicts in the p«nal institultoos of that State- In 1896 there were received In the penitentiary 623 convicts, of whom 492 had attended tbd public schools aod -<8 kad been tie total who was nearest to Mrs. Annie Abbott, 1 pupils la private sebooia. Of J, oaly 91, or less than II p»r ere il live rale, while four-flftbs enure seaberr had raooivod oaofit fro* tto pobiie otfara- tystooi Clearly wkai poor aay lofodaoaitoo as a toWtoatNatof H fisc* **> saps*r toad lllltorary y adyoaod of ortoto at mbs* • *as • s a Aotfwsaa, Ma aaa as aot •* A-sffk ~ m i bore aoeor hoard of ha ha* tag a a ear re I with aay svo, aolttor have they eeer heard of hfo carrytag a i> •*'-<• ahuet ha psnoa Hoi Ml tor Tkeraoad was to have toea here week after Best, at which lias the eeert of seseioae ooaseaee le sprleg doe. There are three aurdsr oases toe docket. What will be doae about a prosecuting officer at the com ing i*ra, remain* to be seen. The coroner's inquest on Thursday resulted to the usual non-committal vordict, charging J. Wu. Thurmood with the killing of W. G. Harris. Tbe most important wltnesres wore Capl. D. 3. Dubose the sound « better known as the Georgia Electric Wonder, whose performance was given in Edgefield the night of the shooting, it will be seen from their testimony below that they disagree as to whether Harris had a pistol. Other, witnesses testified that the two men had engaged •in a political discussion, a short time before the shooting, in the store of Mr. Lynch. Harris made some comments on Thurmond’s political position but the talk waa ended by Thurmond’s leaving the store. The following is some of tbe evidence : The first witness was Capt. D. S. Dubose, one of the best known citizens of J$Jgefieid. He„lj>td : Last evening, neaa-6 o'clock, T was coming down the street. Harris overtook me at Uroomd. We walked dowo, aod got opposite Tburmood's office. Thurmond was staadlag ia bis door. Mr. Harris addressed Mr. Tbur mood I moved os. aad Mr. Harris said : '‘Captain, 1 am fotsg oa with you." 1 tod toea. I sepfeaa, paatod ea tae er three stops I »• *1 • he to I to4 a w Mm® fMi ■*■»* W see-*, Is eertag Ito •■aa tag, la pseatda for a «•*** > day* eg* ta ea aimoad eaeoMad j ef posaaaa, bel toeee to 1 age esmld to I d«aeae*sfoa ef tto cl*U ear* ee law j arraaged. aad aa eae aaald toea toe | •d tie admieielraUaa Tto mailer j h**rt to ehyeeS. I refer to some aveetai aaM ep la toe sbaee ef a resoleUea | eed ffsred 9 sea tor Altaa dtreetleg to a sf toe sa »*d parqp a ato ►toe toe kafilb of aM ef dravtog tadetged eae sldto ta half 1 employees (miproeoopiet*) of aaimal idfiustry ia fo oummittoe oa Mvll sore too to ieqalre is to tbo dismissal of soae half dosoa of the bureau ustry is Houth Omaha. Nebraska. His aaeertioa was that the dismissals ware for political rt-aeons. Senator Gplllnger, Republtcao, of New Hampshire, did not favor the proposed lavestigation, because it would bring out so many hundred other like grievances; aod Senator Hoar objected to it on the same grounds—-saying that such a herculean task should not be thrown on any com mittee at this special session. Tbo civil service law, as administered, was characterized by Senator Gallin- ger as " a monumental humbug.” He favored blotting out the law and re turning to a condition of things that would " give to every roan and woman an equal right to hold office with eveay other man aod woman.” This declaration of principle was ap plauded by the galleries, and the gal leries were appropi lately lectured by the Vice President on that breach of propriety. Instsncec of absurdity in civil service examinations were fur nished by Senators—Sepator Galllnirer Din ■ mentioning the requirement of would- be compositors. In the government printing office that they should hop twelve times on one foot; Senator Wii- son saying that civil service oxamlaa- tioos had baea ordered to his State for a cook ia lit# popltoatiary, aad a saw yer oa as India# raporvatloa; aad even dooator Hawley, who tod cam tor of the Boom oommiltoe which rsporSsd tto ia* ertgieaiiy ituag that tto ia* tod foilaa lato _jpd gtetag to oa Ilk afapaik bslpiato Ki Umo to ass rtody, at head, if Impaeaaioao keroas of maay fieids will ask for sbs 1 tor aad broad, ft has oc curred to me that la making the ebaaga for the said improvement of tbo ooaditioo of the poor of the county you might provide for the erection of a long narrow building, with a fireplace in each room, aod a long piaxxa in front, and set it apart for these old sol diers who served their State and coun ty in the bloom of youth and young mpnhood, and who for the next tow years will suffer for tbe bare aodfo sltles upon which to subsist. You will say, no doubt, that this is a poor return for valor, but it is tbe only thing that it seems can be done, if this can be. It would be a home*for the ex-soldiers of the county at the ex pense of tbe county in the absence of a general home for the soldiers of the State at the expense of the State. Should Richland County lead off in this high and patriotic matter it might be that other counties in the State would follow, and the obligation of the oommonwealth would be discharged < in aciatt —“*“■—_ ' '■ ppl If you conclude 1 not to remove the eleemosynary buildings now occupied, maybe you oould erect a building as described above on the same lot for this purpooe. Yours very truly, R. S. Despobt —Tto crakllag sound ni w>d wood or coal is can isqnid spate 1 nod la the | oy toe whfokttlei -la freshly if- I by the Jr > Mat la 9%. Li 1 toll bay aad ef Ito wining wid to torn tone von I ia Main# at tto begia- aiag of March tana over before at then aaoa ia forty-five years. —It has been proven by lastaala- neoua photography that a horse at fall trot sometimes has its four feat off tto ground ail at oooa. —Some one called Richard Steele the vilest of maakiad. He re tor tod, with proud humility, *' It would be a glorious world if I were.” fi _Aj' —For Inflammatory rheumatism, dis solve into a pint of sweat oil, ona ounce j of pulverized saltpetre, aad thoroughly rub the parte effected. —A law has been passed iu Wal- deck, Germany, forbidding the grant ing of a marriage license to a person addicted to the liquor habit. The name of Maine was gives to that state descriptively since is tto original charter It was considered "tto Mayne land of New England.” —How full of blemishes our charac ter must to If it oaanot be made to appear presentable without one ting mud upon every good name around ttsl Tto largest bell ia tto world, tto famous " Giant of Giaats ” at Mopoow. a circumfereaoe of 68 foot, ia 21 feat high, aad weighs 443,772 poaada. Three mm la Praam to sea who oould drink tto 1 One swallowed 12 quarto, tto aa d 7. All three dladi Vi 1 of a -A