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> ■ J * » Uitest Circulation in the County BROWN BESS. Mil BrowM •be ■ "I with I ooald ■aid Sa«7 Rom riming bed juat washed. "Oh, Susy I* cried her brother. " What la the world do yon want to •all Brown Bees for?" her mother aeked, looking op from the dough she 1 1 ooald go to the academy, mother, for two more terms,'’ woe the answer. "Then perhape I could—get the school at Corners." " Noasenee, Busy. I need you to help me," her mother said. "Keeping school Is a thaaklem business.” “It’s money,^ said Susy, " and I do long to help myself, and you, too. Money will ao everything that needs to be done." " Yes, that's a fact,” spoke up Tom, "and there’s lots want* to be done. Fd like to clear that Uve-acre lot for potatoes and corn, but I can’t do It.** "Andtho houM wants shingling,’’ her mother said, plaintively her care worn countenance taking on another shadow. M The front door’s got a crack all the way across," Tom spoke up again, "and there ought to ben fireplace In granny's room. Then there’s the barn; It's all we oando to keep the hay dry." know all that,” said Susy know the house Is getting to be scarecrow, and the barn Is worse, and that's why I want to be earning. As for thcshlnglM, I should think you ooald put thorn on yourself, Tom ; yes, mm! mend the roof. "Where's thesblngUs?" Tom asked, In bis matter-of-fact way. "Where’s the nails? Where’s the hammer? Hie old one Is broken past mending. And where’s the money to get them with, I should like to know ?“ " Sure enough " Mid Susy, " unless I could earn It. That's why I want to •ell Brown Bem." " And If you do sell her you won’t get much.’’ Tom said. " She’s *9 full of her tricks—the oraslest colt I ever "I a fa " I’m more and more afraid to have ride her,” her mother said. " But you should sell her, there’s the mort gage to be paid In October." “If I sell her.” Mid Susy, quietly, " it will be to finish my education.” " That’s always your cry,” her moth er went on, - le plaintive tones; " no matter what’s needed ; but I s’pose we must give la. Bad as the roof Is, It shelters us. What would we do with out a h juse over our heads ?'' " I’d Mil the cow,” put la Tom. "And then grandma would just about starve," the mother supplement ed. Susy turned away from the table, angry and grieved, but she said noth ing, only ran upstairs to her own room After helping her mother about the house she donaed har sunbonnst and ran into the barn. Tom was rubbing down Brown Bern, whoM bright, glomy cent shone Ilk# Mtin. “ Much M I can do to take earn of her," Mid Tom. "She waste a regular groom who would break her of her aaety little tricks. See how she throws her heed up, and look at bar eym flash lag fire. Are you going to tbn store ? Mother waste sugar and molasses and vinegar—and I’ve got to go In the "Yes, I’m I dread ' Brown Bess that’s thn first thing pay.” That and the mortgage." said Tom. " Well, I’ll naddle old Dick." Bust mounted to the bock of the slow old cart hone with gloomy fore bodings. It wm a warm September day. Even in thn midst of her anxiety thn beauty of the ride to HUlston soothed and delighted her. Every de tail of the way wm familiar to her, yet when she came to Silver Ledge falls and mw the white spray iMplng ilta rooks and dancing among > nhe stopped old Dick nod ring thn scene ns If she had It before. a voice said be- , I’m going,” Mid Susy, “though It, the bill Is so large. If I Mil Bess that’s the first thing I’ll porulng, lie T she exclaimed, with didn’t hev you comlnp." The falls are so loud. I mw and followed. Going 70a at thn band to town ?" " Ym, Charlie," she made reply, and la spite of herself her voice held n cu rlews tremor. . - "You’re worried over something," he said, the keen lover’s nynn noting the shadows, "Yse, Charlie, a little—the same old trouble. I want to Mt things to rights—and—It’s hard work," she said, la n low voice. "I knew It. Why won’t you leave nil Umm matters and oome with me * The houM Is waiting for you—and no am I. Susy, darling, make up your Be held out his hand, n look of unut terable love making his rugged face beautiful. " If father had only lived," she said " But you know It Is Impomlble now Charlie. I oaa’t leave mother—not yet —and I must finish the course at the B nondemy, and keep school at least a year before I get things straightened out.’’ He gave a long, low whistle, then urged oa his hone, but stopped again till Susy oame up with him. "You know I’ll wait for you, Susy, as long as you naj. but It’s rather hard oa me, as Pm forehanded and ready to marry. Sasy, oome, make up your mind. My house is a large one. I’ll taka your mother and granny. Tom own run the old farm, and—” "What! Let you support me and thn dually, too? NeverP and her "I would never permit olpeted a quMtioe of that sort, but she answered, after a moment's Inde cision : ' - " She Is fond of tbklng her own hand (ometlases. No, Mir. Lee, If I find If hard to manage her. she would never do for your little girl.”.. "Ah, Fmnorrj for that, Mias Susy,” mid‘the storekeeper. "But I known a turn who wants a spirited horse.' What would you Mil her for ?” J "I leave that to th« purohaeor,” Susy made answer. "Papa paid 175 for her more than a year ago, and I wouldn't waat to take less than that, (or I need the mqaey very much," she went on, "and if you will be so kind as to take aa Interest la the matter—" She stopped, hereyM wistful. " Why, of coune I will,” the grocer responded, "m send my boy to your house with the groceries, and he can bring the horse back with him. If anything Is done In thp.way of a sale 1’U let you know at once. - *' Susy thanked him and went on her way home. As she came la sight of the houM, an old-fashioned, two-story building, where dilapidation was ren dered plotureeque by a profuM growth of Ivy that covered the front porch and much of the exterior walla, she felt more ooaifortable m she thought over her prospects. In Imagination she had her mother quite reconciled to all her plana, her sonool life amured and all things going on swimmingly. For who knew but that Brown Bom jplght bring her !li<X),.she was so splritedAnd handsome? Work and home aMmad brighter. The grocer’s boy oame for the none, and though It wm hard parting with the pretty creature, Susy, la expecta tion of reeults, bore the separation bravely. " Can’t we take a little of the money you getyto shingle the roof?" her MOtheif asked as ths hone wm led away '"And you still thinking of going to school ? Ain’t you too old ?" " I’m not 18 yet,” wm Susy’s aMwer. " Many girls go to school till they are 20." " And there’s olothM, to think of, dresses nod bonnets and shoes.” " Oh, they’ll be provided," SMy Mid, with a little laugh. " An’ winter’s oomln’—aa’ It’s. two or three mllee to the ’cademy,” her mother went on, each time throwing a more plaintive cadence into her voice. " Tom’s qjothes are* terribly patched, an’ mother needs flannels. I ain’t so MBS. AmP TABMi A VACATION BILL TELLS ABOUT MSB TRIP. His Wife HaA a Pleasant Time Until the News Game that Ha Wae Sick -Her Visit Was Shortened Thereby. My wife, Mrs. Arp.hadent been away from home for two.yean. It Is said that a setting hen never gets (at, but theM human hens do, and so the girls thought their mother ought to rouM up and go somewhere and take a rest. It wm a great undertaking to get her off. It took a whole wMk to get her apparel In fint-olasa condition tor she waeent raised on common olothM and wonH'WMr them now, especially when •he goes abroad or to church. We finally got her off, though the train llkad to have left her while she wm My Inf goodby and kissing all the little graoAhlldren. One of the girls went with her, but I wm to sootier around at home. Two weeks wm the time she gave henelf, for she says that Is m long m anybody ought to stay any where on a visit, for sonH times folks wear out their welcome and don’t know It. In foot one week Is the MfMt. She went to Home, where our oldeet boy and his family live and where she lived for twenty-Mven years. Some of her early friends are still there and they oame to see her, of course, and talked about the dear old tlmee until their eyes got teary and they drew their Chairs a little dOMr and were merry and sad by turns m they talked of the living and the dead. On Sunday she went to the Mine old church and sat In the Mme old pew and drank In music from the Mme old organ, but the preacher and the choir were changed^ After Mrvioe she wm forced to hold s reception In the vMtibule, where old friends and their children and grandchildren gathered around her, the friends to greet and their chlldrefi to look upon thels matron of the olden time of whom they had heard. Yee, this wonderful woman who so gently dominated her lord and iCMtar and kept him so sweetly sub dued that he llxed the subjugation. She spent a delightful wmx and the programme for another wm already arranged when on Saturday some bird of the air told her that I wm sick and •he oould hardly wait for the evening train. I had been sick, very sick, but the orlsls had paseed and for fear she might hear It and cut short her stay 1 wrote her that I wm getting well and to finish her reet. She Is not that kind young m I wm onoe, but I ain’t sayla’+of a woman or wife, and sure enough •bout myself, on y it g kind spare you," and the Hum In ir« weak face deepened. rlsh you oould see It m 1 to the academy,” Susy ever goln' to gat 1100. 1 than lucky if youjget 160 1, mother,” said bney, de busy, desper- 3, Pll “ ' anything 1 o’ bard to •] har mothei " Mother, I wish I do. I must go made reply. It's the opportunity of my life. Bull tall you what I will do. If I gat 8100 for Brown Bom I’ll dlvlda nvnn. Fifty dollara would go a long way, wouldn’t ii ?*’ “ Wall, yee, 160 would get every thing wn need," wm the reply. " But K u’re never golb’ to gel 1100. You'll more "Well, u ntely, " if 1 only gel $60, I'll divide even. It will be 830 00mmg In n^nry month If I only get the school." " I don’t sm’s there’s any chance of that," said her mother, with a woe-be gone face. Day after day Susy waited, but ao word oame about Browa Bees. Tom declared that he believed there wm no prospect of Mlllng her, but one day Charlie Grant drova up to tha houM his face (airly baamlng. " I thought I’d bring you the news, he said, as he oame in the bright living-room. "Have they sold Brown Bom ?" Busy Mked, her voloe trembling in Her ex cltemenl to bMr. " Well, yee—that is, If you’ll take the price they offer," Charlie made answer. n Oh, I hope It’s a hundred,” sale Susy " A hundred !" laughed GharUe. "Is that what you value her at? Lucky for you that I wm In at thn bargain That hone will be worth thousands of dollars before long. The man who bought* her trains horses for the race coune. He bM discovered remark able qualltlM In Brown Bom as trotter, and Is willing to give you 81,000 for her." A thousand dollan ! Susy stood for a moment llk^ a statue; then she flew Into the kltcbfcn, where her mother wi r "Well, wllllngneM would lot you Susy, I’ve declared my to help you, If only y< me,” said Charlie, “ bu won't, don't look so si and worried, my daring,' It's worth ■•rving and saving for Mven yean if I can only win you at ImI for my wife." " Oh, Charlie!" she said, brokenly, "your love is prloeleM. Only bn pa- M IH try, and keep on hoping," ho •aid, and they parted at the store. Tha grocer mat har with a smile. Everybody llkad SMy. No girl more gonial than sha under ordinary olroum- •tanoer bat to-day har »• har maaaar preoccupied. " Mr, Lea, I have made up my mind 80 sail Browa Boao,* aha said, after •be needed. "Do that wants a 80 sail Browa Bom,' getting tha things •! jot^know anybody Ha l Going to noli Browa Wall, I wm thlaklay of baying for my Allot. D nhesafn na, do you think T" thn pula, fehe had aot anti- making the dally batch of bread claiming : " A thousand dollars, mother! we’re rich! Brown BeM Is sold for a thou •and dollara I You won’t have to work hardtbls winter. Tom can get two suits 01 olothM If he wants them, and buy the flve-aore lot.'' Grhndma'can have all the fire nhe needs; the roo •hall be shingled, the mortgage paid off and—and—’’ What am I to have?” Charlie Mked, m she stopped, out of breath he having followed her Into the nltchen She turaed round, and, blushing beautifully, held out her hands. He clasped them both and drew her to his bosom. "What do you think of this mother?’.’ he Mked of the glad-hearted woman at the bread pan. " Susy Is to bo my wife." “ Why, I think it’s n good deal better than keeping school, ” snn said. Not a Wkloomb Addition.—A couple of tourists who were journeying on noneback In the rural district of the South had ridden many miles when they oame to a small log osbln, out of hloh children of all sixes and agM oame swarming out like bees from a hive. • The tourists were tlrod and raven ously hungry. Hailing an old negro at the cabin gate they told him that they had oome to take dinner with him. " Ye* Is weloum, gemmen !’’ he said. " I ain’t got much to eat, but Fll do the ve’y bM’ 1 kin fo’ you, gemmen.” _ en raising his voloe to a shrill, yell, he Mid : __ HI, yo’, JudM Iscariot, 70' run catch a chicken (m’ es yo* lalgs can carry yo.” " What do you oall that boy ?” Mked one of the tourlste. " JudM Iscariot, sab.” " What did you ever give him such a name m that for ?” " Dat’s a Bibla name, sab, an* it hM a moanin’. All de Bible namM hM a moanin’ sab. I’m got fo’teen en dey’s all got Bibla namM, oMe de Bible name* bM a moanin’, tab." " What Is tha meaning of JudM Is cariot ?*’ The old man wm ittj reticent about giving further Information, and it re- ivlred a good deal of persuMion before finally said: * • Wall, 1 11 tell yo’ sab. Hit's like dis: Yo 1 see I’d had fo’teaa ohllun befo’JudM Iscariot wm hewn, an’ fo’ teas chlllunls a mighty big fam’iv fo’ a po* man tar raise en keer to, thoutbabln’ nolmo’nowhen JudM Is- oaHot oame erlong I gib Tm dal name m you know da Bible say it’d be batter fo* JudM Iscariot If he r d aebber bewa.”—Detroit Free Pr— by it wl like the Aad 1 phla R quillty more Is get ■rful about 0 p. m., I happened to look out of tbe window and mw her oomlag up the lawn Ilka sha feared I would die before she got here. Thea I bad to tell her m bow I wm taken down oa Wedneedny, for my namn old kidneys got belligerent again and wrMtled with me and threw me, aad I had vertl go and lumbago and embargo and my eye balls ached and how the doctor treated me heroically aad scandalously and dosed me with something every two hours—all different-and nobody can tall what cured me. But all’s wall that ends wall, and now I am in for another lease. Df coune an old wagon will break down ever and anon aid hM to be patched up and kept greased, or It can’t go. By and 111 ail collapse and turn to dust the ooe-hoM shay. Aad now here oomM Tha Philadel phia Record just to disturb my traa- eod aggravate me Into using Dguage oa those Yankee edi tors. I have already used up all my adjectives on Boston and never dreamed 1 would need any for the Qtaker City. Tbe Reoord pretends to be a Demo cratic paper, but it hM got a whole column about the Andersoovllle prison and Its horron, which It says have created a sentiment that #111 last as long M time, and how the poor creat ures were shot down like dogs and starved, and had to dig wtlls twenty- five feet deep with their bands anti scraps of shells in n vain effort to water to drink, etc. Well, It Is nw to read, hut I would like to know where those shells came from—must have fed tbe boys on oysters. Ym, Blaine charged all those hor rors upon us In n terrible speech, and Ben Hill replied to him >d one of the greatest speeches of hli life nod re futed every charge nod did It from the war records and proved to the wcrld that Grant aod Stanton and Lincoln were responsible for every death and all the distress that occurred at Ander- soavllle. They utterly refused to ex change prisoners with us when im portuned to do so for the sake of hu manity, for Grant said that our men in Northern prisons would go back to fight ing again. We begged them to send us K tlons and medicine for their men d told thepi that both might be dis tributed by their own officers and sur geons. They refused to do this, and of course, their men died like sheep, for we had no medicines and our own ra tions ware corn meal and salt pork. But those prisoners had just what their guards had. Ask the guards who still live. Ask Captain Hudson, of Marietta, one of the bMt of men, and he will tell you that the prisoners had everything that he did and there wm no inhumanity, but pity and sorrow for them and indignation at the heartleM- neM of their government Read Percy Gregg’s chapter on this Andersonville and you will wonder that such indif ference to the misery of their own sol diers oould be found In any government upon earth. Mr. Gregg declares that If the gfeat powers of Europe had have known it they would have been horror struck—that the authorltiM at WMhington were really the murder ers of thnir own soldiers and they had the kindred of these sol- a scape goat of ’ poor hanging him after a mock trial. And yet a man who signs himMlf an Atlanta Yankee wrltM me an Insulting letter and tells me to hold up awhile and let the YankeM alone, for the war Is over. Well, then, let him oall pff ils own dogs and write to his people to stop their Um about Andersonville and about the negro, and let us alone. will quit when they quit, and until they repent and apologise I will cry aloud and spare not. Solomon says that a slanderer Is a coward and I wouldent reply to their slanders If it wm not a maxim of the law, that silence under accusation Is a partial confeMion of guilt. And let me tell you, my brethren, >hat tbe fire still burns la the boeoms of the Confederate veterans and their children, and if dlsMter and conflict oome again to the people of the South It will not be saved by the politicians or the mongrel money-lov- people of the olUM, but by the oro vt #UBir vwai 1 to appease the 1 diers by making 1 Wirt and bangle, S him. Bat enough of this for this time. I see advertised a medicine that is war ranted to overcome that tired feeling which sotnetioBM overcomes a man, aad I’m going to buy a bottle and try It, for tneM Northern slanders make me tired half say time. And m I read "them I unconsciously' w htaper that’s a He, that’s another lie and another. David said: I* And I said in mine hMte that all men were liars." He might have said It at his leisure If he had lived up North till. now and read the Northern daily papers. And we spe that McKinley hM ap pointed another negro postmMter in Alabama. Tried to shove it on him, but the negro wouldent aooept It. That’s the man our bootlickers were slobbering on while he wm matching through Georgia. May the Lord have mercy on us and protect us from our own politicians. Bill Arp~. P. 8 —A poor old woman of DallM, Tex., wants Information of her brother, Lucius Marcellas Campbell, 6f Bullock, County, Georgia, who volunteered in 1861 and wm mustered in near Savan nah and served four years In General Wheeler’s cavalry. He died some ears ago in Texas and his little chll- ren are entitled to a pension under the laws of T«xm. My old friend, Gen eral Cabell, begs me to v see if I can find any living proof of this soldiers, ser vice. If he hM sny comrade who knew him, let him write to me. B. A. YORK'S CHAMPION WHBAT FARM One Thonsand Bushels Raised on ^finety Acres—Dry Weather Ont Down the Yield. The Yorkvllle correspondent of the News and Courier says h Probably the largest quantity of wheat ever raised on one farm In York County wm threshed iMt week, on the farm of Mr. F. B. McClain ; and, while the average yield per acre bM often been exceeded in this section, still the result Is very encouraging when ail the circumstances in councution with the preparation of the land, the weather, etc., are taken Into considera tion. * Last year almost the entire farm wm planted In cotton and corn, and an extra large crop wm made, but owing to the low price of cotton the profits of the year’s work were not satisfac tory to Mr. McClain, and he concluded that he would try wneat. The stalk crops were not finally gathered until about the 1st of December which Is con sidered full late for wheat sowing, but nevertheleM the land wm prepared, and the seed wheat pvt in the ground, the work not having been completed u#tll about the middle of January, owing to continued wet weather, which rendered It ImpoMlble to proMeute the work of seeding without interrup tion. Ninety acrM In all were sown, end the yield, meMured, was »13 1 2 bush els. The standard weight of e bushel of wheat is 60 pounds. A number of meMured bushels were weighed and each oee tipped the beam at 66 pounds. On this bMls, and It is the commercial one, there were 60,181 pounds of wheat, or 1,000 bushels, which makes the average yield per acre 11 1-9 bush els. Tbe varletlM sown were "Virginia red chaff" and "purple straw. A number of experts have pronounced the quality m being m (1 ne, If not tbe flnesi, they have ever examined. One special patch yielded at the rate of 40 bushels to the acre. The ground was carefully measured with a tape line, and the wheat with a standard half- bushel measure. There was a smell fraction over'threa : fourths acre of the ground end 31 1-2 bushels of wheat. The fraction over three-fourths of an acre wm not sufficient to have pro duced more 1 1-2 bushels. Pert of the 90 acrM wm good lend, part average, and ten to fifteen acres poor. On tbe latter Mr. McClain did not expect to raise over seven or eight bushels to the acre under favorable conditions, and did not realize over five, his object in sowing It being to place himself In position to sow peas on it after the wheat wm harvwted, and thus improve and build It up. He said to your correspondent, In discus sing the matter, that he reasoned this way : " That land will not pay mu#b if town In wheat, but If L do not sow It tbe chancM are that 1 will put It in cotton, therefore, I will sow it In wheat and follow with peM. In the end tbe land will be better and, while the wheat may not pay, the Improvement ■TATH NHW8 AND MOTHS. Political and Industrial Hon of Value to Our Readers. —Spartaaburg County Is to have her twenty-fourth cotton mill. - The second artMian well hM been dug at Oamden 626 feet deep, moetly through solid granite, and a good sup ply of water obtained. —The contracts have been given out for the erection of the buildings for the oil mills at MeCormick and LowndM- ▼llle. Both mills will have about twenty tons capacity. , —Constable 8. T. Howie, who hM been stationed in Columbia recently, hM been transferred to CharlMton, where he will have charge of the con stabulary In that city. —Adjutant General Floyd calls at tention to the fact that nearly-all the military oompanies are effleered by Citadel graduates, and that this should have a wholesome influence. —It Is currently reported that tbe purchMer of the Highland Park prop erty In Aiken is Mrs. A. M. Richard son, and that her reason for buying wm to prevent the erection of a hotel In front or near her cottage. —The city of Marion, 8. C., is one of the most progressive towns In tbe South. Its banks and corporations are flourishing. It hM an Immense tobacco crop, and It hM not a store, dwelling, or house cf any cla»s vacant. —It is stated that the executive committee of the Haihpton memorial fund has purchased for 81,500 a third of an acre lot at the corner of Pendle ton and Barnwell streets in Columbia, on which to build the home for Gen. Hampton. —Hon. Francis H: Veston, of Colum bia, who,is Gen. Bonham's successor m division commander, is making pre parations for the coming Chester con ral pop- gifted Id the common people—the honMt, (ear 1cm yeomanry who make up our rural ulatlon. Dr. Andrews, that and noble Northern man, toll people of Chioago aad again at New Orleans that the Supreme Court of the nation had decided that every irlnolple we fought for wm just aad egal aad justified by the/,constitution, and Percy Gregg says they dldeet dare to try Mr. Davis for treason, for they knew that no court would convict y a of the land will. In regard to the net profits on this crop your correspondent is not pre pared to make an accurate, detailed statement, but will give an approxl mete estimate which will cot miss the exact coat materially one way or the other. Tbe total cost wm mot far from 8425, which amount includes expense of preparing the laqd, fertilizer used seed, sowing the same, harvesting twine, hauling, fuel used by engine h threshing, etc. On this basis the net profit' is at least 8475, m the wheat will readily bring $1 per bushel. Three-fourths of the straw was acci dentally burned by sparks .from the engine used In threshing. Its com mercial value wm in the neighborhood of $100. There wm no rain of sufflcleut volume to wet the ground on which the wheat grew thoroughly after April 10, and ft Is generally estimated that this cause alone decreMed the yield not only of Mr. McClain’s wheat, but of all In this section, not less than 26 per cent. The Texas Flood —The weather bureau hM Issued a special bullefDt on the recent flood in tbe Brazos River district, TexM. The bulletin is accom panled by a map and tables showing phenomenal rain falls. Prof. H. A. Hazen, in an introduct ory article, says : " It must be said that after allowing for all the conditions we still have a most serious difficulty in accounting for such rains, which are analogous to so called cloudbursts, about which almost nothing is known.” 1. M. Cline, the Toxm forecast official, says In his report that In places the river wm more than twelve mllee wide. The damage to crops hM been very great. There wm a large acreage in cotton, corn, sugar cane and other orope. Cotton planters have suffered most. Sugar oane plantations in the Bresoe bottoms hnve suffered much. In some places half the crop hM been destroyed. Farming Implements, stock aod many of the small tenant houses in the bottoms have been wMbed away. Total losses judging from reports and other available Information, will ag gregate nearly 810,000,000. Aotloo hM already been taken by some farmers to plant other crops where cotton and corn have been de stroyed. Some cotton will be planted, but to what extent cannot be even ap- S roximated. It Is dMired to make tbe letriot self-sustaining m soon m pos- who have InterMts River consider thfa pursue. out n circular letter to the camps in re ference thereto. —Mr. Frank L. Littleton, speaker of the Illinois house of representatives, hM written tbe seretary of State for Information concerning tbe history of the Hanna family which lived on the Pee Dee during the revolution. One of them, John Hanna, an ancestor of Mr. Littleton, moved to Illlno<i In 1806 Tbe family built Hanna’s mill on the Pee Dee. * —Capt. Thomas Moorman, of Com pany L, Second Regiment; will receive a lieutenancy In tne regular army. He Is a son of Mr. T. 8. Moorman, librarian of the Supreme Court, who received a telegram announcing that Captain Moorman had been decided on ai one of the lieutenants. He Is considered to be a very fine soldier and wm very popular with his men In the regiment. —Governor McSweeney hM received the offer of an appointment of a bene ficiary to the School of Industrial Art and Technical Design for Women, an Incorporated school in New York city. It may be such an opportunity m some poor woman wishes, and if any one wishes the appointment U would be well to communlrste with Governor McSweeney. The scholarship does not include board or materials. —Governor McSweeney refused to grant a pardon to Joe Llsenbury, of Chesterfield County, who was convicted of bringing l.qnor Inte the State, and who pleaded that he did not know tbe law. Goveraor McSweeney also re fused the pardon of L. F. Shuford, who wav coavlcted In July, 1896, of attempt ing to ravish a six teen-year-old girl In York County. He wm sentenced to six years In the penitentiary. —Rev. J. L. Vavs' family moved last week to Belton, where they are to re side In future. Mr. Vms recently pur- c^aseed a homo at that place. Mr. V a*v hM not made public his plans as to tbe future, but It Is understood that he will remain In charge of the or phanage at Greenwood until the meet ing of the Baptist State convention in December, when he will again tender his resigBAllon as superintendent and will Insfot upon lie acceptance. —The State Farmere’ Alliance will hold its annual met-ting In Columbia on the 26th and 27tb of July. The county trustees and the board of direc tors of the State Exchange will meet at the same time. There Is nothing special to come up at this session of the State Alliance, except to consider what can best be done to revive the interest in the Alliance. President Wllborn hM applied for reduced rates for delegates to the Convention. "LEND A HELPING HAND." Mr. J. B. Blake, Jr., lecturer of U»e State Alliance, delivered an intereat ing address of an hour’s length at the Atlimce rally at Seneca oh the 4th Inst, on the subject, "Lend a Helping Hand,” of which the following Is a brikf synopsis: - ‘ After expressing his grateful ap preciation of the nouor of address ing them, he congratulated the audi ence on the fact, that the occasion which convened them wm held under the auspices of the Farmers’ Alliance, and that all classes and professions wore extended a hearty welcome to commingle together in social inter course and thus with words of glad some greeting, to lighten the cares of life and strengthen the bonds of hu man sympathy which makes the world akin. The occasion forcibly demon strated some of the objects of the worthy organization, which were the cultivation of that hanponious frater nity of spirit, that earnest-sympathy and devotion which obliterates all prej udice and animosity and cultivates a loftier and nobler conception of the duties of life. It is an Alliance of the people and-for the people—an Alliance for the uplifting of humanity and the refinement of home—an Alliance for the purity of society and the mainten ance of government—an Alliance for the protection of the weak, against thg oppression of the strong—an Alliance for the advancement of all that is grand and worthy in social and na tional life. He paid a generous tribute to the fidelity of the farmers of Oconee County, who had been the earliest ad vocates of the order and who had ventiou and will in a lew^Aays seqij^ through all vicissitudes^pioven true to its principles. These principles did not interfere with the rights of others, nor had the Alliance sought to raise any prejudice between themselves and those engaged in other occupations. . The social, fraternal and financial features of the organization would uot be discussed hy him, as its past his tory wm familiar to all ; but as those principles underlie the success of the agricultural interest, which constitutes the basis of our national prosperity, so trom the standpoint of patriotism and statesmanship he emphasized the fact that it was not only the right but patri otic duty of every Amencan cilizeu to lend a helping hand in advancing the interest of an organization fraught with such vital codsequences to society and the country. The great social, economic and in dustrial questieus now confronting the people, deserve the serious considera tion of every thoughtful citixen, and upon their proper solution depend the perpetuity of our government. These issues will test our virtue, our patriot ism and our appecialion of self-govern meat; and the history of all countries have proven that the preservation 01 that equipoise between the induslna interests of the country, between the prominent elements of civilUstion, is essential to all natioual prosperity. And no one of these interests can doin- nate another with safely.. In our country that equilibium is seriously threatened with destruction. While our Tail road and manufacturing inter ests are undergoing marvelous devel opments, and cities and towns are rapidly springing np in every direction, agriculture, "the art of all arts, the science of all science, the life of al life,” is languishing and decaying. While such is essentially the case wifih the cotton producer of the South, it is also applicable to the grain producers of the West. This condition of affairs could not be the result of ortrproduc- lion, when millions of people are suf fering for food and clothing, the neces saries of life, hut is the result of legislation of Congress, and the monop olistic combination of the money power. While diversification of Crops should be practiced, and all farmers should make the farm self-»usbiining, aod- raise their own hog and hominy, yet such a course is uot a panacea for all the ills that confront us, for under the present iniqqitous financial legisla tion, the population is tapidly dividing into two classes, the extremely rich and the extremely poor, a condition of affairs dangerous lo ihe life of any re public. The country is drifting into the hands ol trusts, monopolies and combines, whose tendency is to sub vert the law of supply and demand, and consolidate capital in the hands of a few who exercise Uie power thus given them, to coqtrol all our Amer ican industries, and exact tribute from every consumer with no limit but their own arbitrary will, and no measure but their unbridled greed and daring. No product of lanor escapes their ra pacious grasp. Food and raiment, earth and air, aU are tributary to its power, and when the people of this great country enter theirsolemn pro test against such criminal exaction, they are told "it is business, help your selves if you can.” Ills to meet these conditions that the Alliance has formu lated certain demands which are famil- to all, and which if enacted into MONEY IN THE GOAT. There may be a great future for the goat in this country—and outside the pages of the comic papers, too. The Department of Agriculture has taken the goat up seriously. It says there is big money in him. He can feed him self in summer on uplands worthies for any other purpose and in few years he #111 have cleared the ground of bushes, briars, Fortune for Mrs. Talk age.— After little more than a year of wedded tllss, ihe Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage finds himself the opulent husband of woman with a brand new check for 8180,000. The check bears the signa ture of officials of the big hoop trust, and represents Mrs. Talmage's Interest lb the Lindsay & McCutckeon cotton tie mills. Several weeks ago Thomas G. McCutcneon and James H Mo Cutcheon, active members of the plant, were approached by agents of the hoop combination, who offered 8660,000 for the concern. Then and there the deal wm settled. Mrs. Talmage's partln the transaotion rests upon the fact that she Is a daughter and heiress of James McCutcheon, who wm the founder of the old firm. She it a sister of James B. and Thomas G. McCutoh eon. When she married the well known divine she wm the widow of tbe late Charles Collier. The wedding took place in Allegheny over p year ago. The Rav. W. J. Robinson offi elated, and it wm the social surprise' of the year. Now Mrs. Talmage brings to her clerical husband a for tuns. I —In his 4th of July oration at San Antonio, Tex., Hon. Joseph Balle; •aid: " If William McKinley woul step down from the presidency and William J. Bryan take his place at the helm of the nation, ..the war in the Philippines would stop in forty-eight hours and there would be no excuse that destiny made It necessary for us to take forcible possession of an alien people and rule them with a military despotism against their will. A peo ple sufficiently civilized to fight for liberty are entitled to enjoy it, and William J. Bryan would not rob them of this God-given right.” —The attendance at the teachers’ meeting at Loe Angeles, Cal., was 15,122, the largest In the history of the National Educational Association. —The timber on 30,000 acres of hard woods at Atgoma, W. Va., is about to be cut at the rate of 35,000 feet per day. It is estimated that five years will be spent in finishing the tract. —Los Angeles draws Its electricity from a turbulent mountain river ninety miles away. The 12,000-horse power runs street care and machinery, and supplies the city with light and heat. —Colonel N. M.. Dyer, who com manded the Baltimore at tbe battle of Manila, did net graduate from the na val academy, but served six years on merchantmen before^ entering tha United States navy. that tbe inr law would remove the dangers threaten us, aod it has shown in past what can be accomplished by co operation and united effort. The gemle snowflake that falls upon the mountain is liarmless and helpless, till it accumulates and forms the mighty avalanche, which carries havoc in its downward rush to the valley below. The little rivulet trickling from the mountaiif side, makes the mighty wa ters which carry upon their bosom the commerce of the world. So it is with united strength and numbers. Napo leon said, "God gives victory to the heaviest battalions.” With the efforts of ten million patriots, true and tried, united by a common interest and ac tuated by a common purpose, the great heart of the nation would again throb ■with renewed life and vigor, and move the mighty engine that w.opld set to music the wheels of industry that would bring peace ana joy and glad ness to every Amencan home. Then to every lover of home aRa country, he would appeal to stand in one solid phalanx, and lend a helping hand to the Alliance in the accomphshment of this worthy end, that, we may again become a grand and glorious and people. happy The agricultural schools of the United States have 30,000 pupils. all the undergrowth, mullein,/ dock, iron- weed. etc., leaving it ready for the timotny and. clover. In winter he will thrive on cornstalks. He 4s a much hardier animal than the sheep, the Department of Agriculture says, and much less trouble and much less ex pense. All the farmers who have gone into goat raising are contented" and even enthusiMtic over the results. Dry i tskin is in brisk demand in the ew York market at 40 cents a pound. The Angora goats are "good milkers,” their fleeces bring a good price, their flesh is good eating. "I have raised a ewe goat,” writes a South Carolina man lo the department, "that will give foul quarts per day of as good milk as any cow on my plantation, and the feed of one of my cows will keep twelve goats.” Like reports come fsom Texas, Missouri, Kentucky and other States. "To a person who hM never seen the results of the presence of An goras on brush lands,” writes an Iowa goat raiser, "a ride through my pas tures is a revelation. Where, three years ago, the ground was densely covered , with undergrowth of hazel, crab tree, oak, bnckberry and other brush, it is now growing the finest blue grass. I have over 600 acres jrhtch have been reclaimed, and the value of the land hM been enhanced, at least $10 an acre.” One of the de partment’s correspondents smacks his lips over (Angora) gout flesh, pro nouncing it finer than mountain mut- * ton. t — , M A Good Plan For Students.—The Secretary of Agriculture has about per fected a plan whereby graduates from agricultural colleges can come to the de partment and do poet-graduate work. Many of the agricultural colleges throughout the country are turning out every year good meu, who are often pre vented from continuing the valuable hops of special work which they pursu ed while in college through inability to continue their studies', 'llie Secretary’s plan, which hM received much careful thought aod consideration, will make it possible for such young men to spend a year or two la Washington, working « under the direction of the hands of scientific divisions. It is not expected, says a correspondent of the Now York Sun, that they shall undertake any original work, but carry on such inves tigations m may be amigned to them^ It is proposed to pay men of this kind a nominal salary, barely enoghh to cover expenses, the pay being not so much to induce them to go to Washington as to afford an opportunity for deserving youug students to advanve in the spe cial fields they have chosen while in college. Farmers in Madison county, Ind., are having great trouble in securing harvest hands to take care of the wheat. Leading farmers are offering $2 par day and board for help in the fields. The price named is tbe largest offered for like help in 20 years. The De la Vergh Refrigerating Com pany, of New York and Chicago, hM been awarded the contract for building the $500,000 ice plant for the troops at Manila. The pint cloth of the Filipinos is made from the fibre of the pineapple leaf, and the cloth is very expensive. What .. Tbs dreadful headaches which wames safer mesa niaeteea * oat of t that there _ more tremble than headache. There is priv ably eome aa- healthy Mad!' ttoa of the del icate offaatssi of womoollooo aad often added t# this the digestive fsaa- tiona are oat of order; these two conditisai cause nearly all the headaches beta which women safer. There are two great remedies specially adapted to these aihuenta inraatca by the chief consulting physician of the Hseoot Invalids’ Hotel sad Surgieal Insdtata of Buffalo, N. Y Dr. R. V. Pieree. Hi* world-renowned “Favorite Prescription" is the most successful medicine ever known for the care of distinctly feminine ailments and his "Golden Medical Discov ery” is the one enpremely effective cure for digestive difficulties. ' Taken in conjunction they rejuvenate the nervous system and debilitated wotacnc giving strength and capacity tethe nerve-centers; renewed power to the bleod-msking glsade and energetic force'te the entire * A lady living In COehoctoe Co., Ohio, T. Stanton, of Blissfield, writes: “ ‘ * WMk nets very had for nearly three dragging down pains in snd shove my hiss men dreadful pains ia the back and toe of head (iueras though someone was HI" ' the hair). Had no ambition,-would 1 a few day* then would have to lie ti_ . loag time. No tongue can txprras the i I endured. I hao much paio al 1 doctored moot of tne time with aa good a physician as there is ia the state, but had no ease on 1>.when 1 was quiet and off my Mt and iugluuiT™ p ‘ inin - ,?rh ** d - WUm impounda, 1 twelve bottles of the ‘ favorite PrstcripUeo' and seven of theXpolden Medical Discovery.' completely n oT weak ng health, -ve-ceot# .bio. irs. I had ftmalo jwnrs. Rag »r hire aid nd top of my liftiag me hy Id try ls work le bed fora the seiktiag monthly pe- in my hea r. Pierce's medicines I weighed res very pale and weak. I tack ' favorite tisthroug Ail medicines that I am cu Where constipated col-.. Pierce’s mild snd agreeable lets ” should be occasionally ni Motion with the “Prescription. .FOR ALL PAINS Sent by prepaid ftxpreM on receipt of Me. ALLIGATOR LINIMENT OO. Charleston. II. G. __ OHBOHHrS ^