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CUTTING DOWN SOMS TRNB0 CAN’T FOOL wirs. kOSA OF TANNENBURG. | __ :: ; la a jrraat aton* oaatle In (ha mldat Ot (ha deep pine foreaU of Germanj, lived, a great many yean ago, knight of Taanenburg, and hla daughter, Rota. It waa la the daya whan (ha lawlaaa noblea of tha country were conatently quarreling with ene another, each burning bia nelghbor’a grain and ateallng hia cattle wille the owner waa fighting in diatant wan. Tha oaatle of Tannenburg waa like all oaatlea of that time, atrongly forti fied and aurrounded by high walla and a deep moat. In an upper room one warm aummer day, Rota and her father aatotogether. The knight had juatoome home from the wan, badly wounded, wad Roan, a fair-haired girl of 17, aat by him working over her gayly colored ta pea try. * • f ‘Fatner," ahe aald. “Tell me the atoryof how you got the chain round your neck." Roaa had heard the atory a hundred timee before now, but ahe never tired of hearing it any more than the old knight of telling It. ''When I waa a page at court,” began the knight, atroklng hia long, gray beard, “a great tournament waa given in honor of a French prince who came to visit our emperor. There 1 aaw your mother for the fint time and ao lovely wae ahe that ahe waa elected to be the queen of beauty, and waa to give the prise, a golden chain, to the victor. I loved her from the moment 1 aaw her and her boauty gave me auch atrength and daring that I came out firat In the games, much to the chagrin of the young baron of Odenwald, who opposed me fiercely in the tourney. He waa like myself, a suitor for the hand of the queen of beauty, and when 1 finally won her for my bride he awore that he would have his revenge on me.” "But,” interrupted Hoaa, "his caaile is only fifteen miles from us, and he has done ua no harm yet.” "Yes,* aaswerad her father, "that waa many years ago, and be has now a young wife and two children, but be still hates me bitterly and ” A loud clamor in the courtyard Inter rupted the atory 4 and on looking out of the window to their consternation thev saw the very man they were apeaklng of, the baron of Odenwald, and his sol diers marching up to the castle doora. The kaif ht’s soldiers were still at the wars and the few old men left to guard the oaatle had been easily overpowered by the fierce baron. Rosa ecreamdd with terror. She heard the tramp of armed feet coming up the stairs. In oame the haughty baron of Odenwald and ordered bia men to bind and c rry off the wounded and helpless knight of Tannenburg. in vain were 1 tone's tears and prayers The unfortunate knight waa hurried off, Kota turned out of the oaetlo, looted, and then loosed up, the poor girl left weeping and dls- guests flew from mout& to mouth. Bo excited wete they all that the nurse maid forgot her precious charges, the baron's two little aona, who were play ing in the courtyard, while She gossiped with the scullery maid over the com ing event. A bright blue and yellow butterfly flew aoroaa the yard, and away wont the two children after it. The butter fly settled for a moment on the edge of the bucket dangling over the well; The eldest of the children clambered up, stretched out hla little band to reach the gay plaything, lost his bal ance and fell In. 1 The baroness at the window aaw and fainted at the alght. Men and maids rushed up, and among them Roaa. Down into the dismal depth of the well they peered and aaw that the little fellow’s coat had caught on a sharp atone projecting halfway down the well. Rosa saw that tbeooat was already beginning to tear; that there waa no time to be lost, and, jump ing lotq the bucket, told the men to let her down gently till she reached the boy. Boon the child was safe in her arms and the bucket with its occupants, carefully brought up to the mouth of the well. It was not many hours after that the baron of Odenwald, sitting in the great hall of the oaatle With his guests, heard the story of his son’s narrow escape from death and of Rosa’s plucky act. "Bring the girl here!” he com- inanded, and Rosa was brought in her rough peasant dress contrasting with the gay costumes of the knights and ladles in the ball. - "Girl,” said the baron, “you saved my son’s life. Ask what you will of me and I will give it you.” "Baron of Odenwald,” answered Rosa, bol-ly, ■"there is one favor i will ask of you. Give up your prisoner, the knight of Tannenburg, to m£I” "No, no! Not that!" .frowned the baron. A murmur went around the hall from the guests—"your word"your hon or”—and the baron turned pale with chagrin and rage. Ry bis order the wounded knight was brought up frpra the dungeon. Astonished and almost blinded by the bright light he gazed around him whilst Rosa quietly put her hand in his. / "My daughter, what does this mean r' be said. . "His daughter,” murmured < the guests once more. The whole story then cam^out, a re conciliation was affected between the knight and the baron and the property of the former restored to him. Some days later Rosa and- her father' sat t^t^her in ao upper chamber of Bill Arp Bays the Old Lady Find Oat When She Is -Not Will Con- <<Mr. Lincoln said, " You may fool some of the beople all the time—you S ay fool all of the people eonsa of the me, but you can’t fool alt the people all the time.” That’s so, 1 reckon, but I will add that a man can't fddl his wife at all. She catches up with him by instinct. My Wife has been away to Rome and so I took advantage of her absence and. had two trees cat down. One was dying at the top and the other was crowding two other trees and doing no good. ■’But she is utterly hostile to cutting down a tree and so I have to do it while she is away. One of them was cut down low to the ground and after every chip and twig was cleared up I had grass put over the place where the tree waa. I was going to do the other the same way, but f got sick and she came home prematurely and there was the stump grinning with its fresh cut edges. I was getting better, but ’when I saw her coming I took a horizontal attitude on the couch and tried to look sick and sad and melancholy. It was two days before she noticed that stump and when she called my attention to it I told her that it was an old stump and had been there for years. She never said anything, but there was a doubt ful expression on her tranquil coun tenance. If there were no grandchil dren around here I could get along, but they let the cat out of the bag every time and lam the victim. "I don’t remember ever seeing that stump before, ” said she, but I persuaded her that the late rains had colored it. When she found me out, I assured her that the tree was hollow and was bound to die soon and that Its proxl mlty to the other trees prevented their expansion and that expansion was now the policy of the country. " Yes," said she, "I suppose a e must cut down the smaller trees so that the larger ones can have more room. We must kill off the Filipinos for the same rea son. I wonder how many of the poor creatures they have killed. If our people kill a black brute down here, they make an awful fuss about It, but they are killing thousands because they are defending their native land. It Is all very rtraage to me.” I don't like some of our Governor’s late utterances. The daily paper prints in big lines that he said the man or men who lynched a negro were now and they are going to have it. and that is human nature-in all civilized countries and is to be commended rather than oondesqned." And so iwt Governor Candler recon sider and take back, if he said it. He can with propriety teach us patriotism and the purity of politics, but his " obtler dictum,” as the lawyers call it, on our guilt or innocenc# before God is "ultra vlres’V-lt is beyond his juris diction and hence goes for nothing. But we arc all getting along pretty well. Two weeks ago it looked like starvation whs staring us in the face. The garden had dried up, the corn was perishing away ; everything save cot ton had withered, but the trains came in with the dog days, which this year began on the 20th, and the change is wonderful. It looks like a miracle of grace. Verily, God moves in a myste rious way and, as the poet.says, " Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.” - Our second crop of garden vegetables is better than the first. We did not count on any more beans or squashes or cucumbers and the tomatoes were nearly dead, but everything Is on a boom. Our roses are more beautiful than ever before and every morning I fill the vases with a fresh supply, and my wife smiles her sweet rewards. Verily, we cannot foresee what a kind Providence has in store for us. Now, if the Philippine war will be honorably closed and our northern brethren will apologize and be reconciled to us, and our negroes will behave and vote the Democratic ticket, we will all be happy. Bill Ari*. A LOSS Td THE STATE. in an upper . _ the castle, the knight with tha glow of as guilty In the sight of God as the returning health on bis face. Rosa In a | negro hey Ijocbea. Surely he dldn t pretty little silk gown eod the brown ' »ey that. The reporter must have •tain completely disappeared." I misquoted him ageln. It does not "Father,” said Rosa, "this Isa happy sound like blor There is no such ending after all of the story of the gold- theology la the books. If God had not eo chain” i ha** P-* 1 * a, * rl * “P 00 U *' 0 anybody "Yes, dear," answered her father. | might have slain him Moees bad to i began the story, but It was my breve [ provide cities of refuge for tboee who little daughter who happy termination ' brought It to this —The Record. WEEKLY CROP UL'LLKTIN. Columbia, 8. C., Aug. l&tb, isw. The week ending August I4ih, IWU, K e e continuation of the excessively weather that has prevailed almost accidentally killed anybody, lest the avengers of blood should pursue and overtake and slay them. The avengers of blood were rsccgoized factors to the administration of the law. What would have been the punishment of tht-se black brutes la Moses's time for their outrages we cannot imagine, for with the lews no such crimes were , All Bigot she wandered th daekj> on forwetUil she * JwJ _ „ „ # MV? 1 Ukeo without oeeeasloe since the openttr of lhl * ** BO • uoh cr ‘“ e >• and Days passed by lh# crop mmm. The weekly h»eeo |'• koowo among ttem An a race sea .urged to tee her aad perhaps help hli dlagly, can day she i her father cece i to escape. Accord 1 egfy, one day she stained her with bruwnberry juice, changed bar own pretty drees for a peasant's coarse cotton gowa, aad with a large banket of mushrooms on her arm, started off for the castle of Odenwald. The eentlnei, seeing <fcl> e harmless little peasant girl, let her past over the drawbridge and through the castle •ales. She walked up to the porter's lodge, where the porter's wife stood la the doorway scold log her children The baron of Odenwald was extremely food of mushrooms, aad the basketful wae soon bought aad paid for by the porter’s wife. "Will you not stay with me aad help me look after the children and cook the food for the prisoners F’ she asied after a few moments’ chat with Kosa. "I need e young, strong girl like you and will give you a new drees every year if you will stay. Rosa accepted this offer eagerly, and her duties, none too light, began that very day. She had to light the fire In the morning, dresi the children, help the porter’s wife cook the moat ua savory soup for the prisoners of the castle and do many other things. One day the porter oame to his wife aad told her that he was obliged U> go away with the baron for some days eod that she would have to take the prisoners’ food to them, besides cooking It. "No, Indeed,” replied his wife promptlv, "there are murderers eod thieves In thone cells and I will not go near them.” "Let me go." begged Roaa. "I will do It for you/ "Vary well,” said the porter, rather ■unpriced at her request, "come with me and I will show you how to unlock the doors.” Together they went down a winding flight of stone steps, opened a door heavilv bolted and barred and down a long dark corridor, dimly lighted by the porter’s lantern. On one side were 'small stone cells behind whoee Iron gratings wild, cruel faces gleamed in the light of the passing lantern. Hide ous oaths and fearful laughter followed them, and Roea shrank, frightened, to the porter's side. "Do not fear them,” he said, "they cannot possibly escape. This man, however, is good and gentle, and you can go right Into his cell.” He stopped in front of one of the gratings and held up his lantern. Hosa T s heart beat fast and loud. There, on a wretched heap of straw, lay her father, asleep, pale and emaciated. She longed to call him, but remembered she must be silent before the porter, and they left him sleeping and walked back through th« long corridor, bolting the heavy door behind them. The next day Rosa took into the pris on the bowls of unappetizing soup, pushed ene under every grating and finally oame to her father’s cell. Un locking his door she rushed in and knelt by the sick man’s side. "Father ! father! ' she cried. "Rosa!” exclaimed the knight, recognising his daughter la apite of the brown stain and rough dross. He took her in his arms and a (her they wept over their terrible ortune. Then Roea told her, father ail her adventures since hr hit been I the crop season. The weekly temperature was about t degrees above I the normal. Thunderstorms occurred oe the fllb. loth aad lllb, quite generally over the State, with, however, localities that j had ao rain or lesufflcieet amounts, ' while generally there wes enough, aad j in Colleton and Kdgefleld counties ex cessive rales occurred, le the latter county, at Poverty Hill, nearly w leches 1 fell during two showers, flooding hot- j tom lands, and damaging crops there on High wteds and kail also did some > damage by blowing down corn, eod i beating down other field crops. Army worms continue to destroy young com aad grans, end were report- | ed from more counties Ibaa last week, but their number is apparently de creasing. Horn worms oe tobacco beve spread over three counties end are very troublesome Early cotton is opening over the ea tire SUM, aad picking has begun in iooallllee. There in somewhat less shedding than last week, but rust is spreading. The bottom crop is e heavy oneTthe middle ciop very poor, hav ing been shed, while the new growth is putting on a top crop in places. - As a whole, its present condition cannot bo said to be promising, nor, yet ex tremely poor, both conditions prevail ing according to locality. Sea-Island cotton shedding tome, still blighting, in well fruited and beginning to open There is general Improvement in corn that has not reached maturity, with a few reports of exceeding fine crops, but the contraiy is the rule Fodder pulling is well under way, and being finished In southeastern counties A fair yield of fodder has been saved. Tobacco cutting and curing is about finished in the eastern districte. The quality of the crop has been further injured in places by excessive beat and worms. In the western districte cut ting has only began. Rice is heading and some is ripen ing, while harvesting has begun on a ■mall scale. Many report upland rice very poor. Sugar cane; sorghum, peas and plnders doing w«U generally. Turnips being sown, and lands prepared for fall truck crops. they are the purest people la their do mestic relations Husbands are loyal and true and kind to their wives and wives to their bu*b*nds ; children ere obedient to their parents ead effectkio- ete to one another. But here among us are a numerous people who seem utterly devoid of those family virtues that are the safeguards of all good government. Within the last thirty He Did ’ Good Service in War and Peace, and Fonoded a Charity Which Will Keep His Name In Per petual Remembrance. Dr. J. C. Maxwell died at his ho in Greenwood on the rdth-inst. had been in failing health (or so time, and the people in Greenwood have been watching with the keenest lntere-t every change in his condition. He was the recognized leading citizen of the town, and the whole community join in mourning for one who has long been the idol of his people. Dr. Maxwell was 62 years old. He wes born in Mississippi, but reared peer Greenwood, in the vicinity of which his long and useful career has been spent. He joined the Confederate service as a private, was promoted to a captaincy, and afterwards was ap pointed assistant surgeon and later chief surgeon of his brigade. He served in the State Senate for ten4 rated years. He was the founder of the' - ■ Connie Maxwell Orphanage. J. C. Maxwell was d native ot Missis sippi, but came in early youth to Abbe ville County. He was an orphan boy at 6 years of age without money ; was educated by his grandfather anu was graduated from Frskine College at Due West, Abbeville County, before the war. He studied medicine and was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, having been prepared for his entrance to the University by Dr. J. J. Marshall, formerly of Abbe ville County. At tbe commencement of tbe war be volunteered as a private In Company F, 21 South Carol inn regi ment, com maned by Col. Kershaw, and was promoted for gallantry until be became captain of the company Col. Kershaw was made a general Dr. Maxwnll was promoted to the position of brigade surgeoe, which position be held to the cloee of tbe war. • Since tbe war Dr. Maxwell had been continuously engaged la tbe practice of his profession, and was generally re- cognlz.-d as one of tbe most prominent MRS. LUCY HOLCOMBE PICKENS years they hav • grown from childhood Mid most thoroughly competent pbysi to masaood and have become infinite |y worse than tbstr fathers and moth ers were while In slavery. There are more bastard negroes in and around this elty than loose born in wedlock. They are not mniattoes, but they are Death ot the Fansosu Widow ot the War Governor of South Carolina. A. W. Butt in Atlanta Journal. , The death of Lucy Holcombe Pickens, widow of Francis W. Pickens, ex minister to St. Petersburg aad South Carolina’s war governor, recalls a life Vbat as striking as that of Kate Chase Sprague. What the latter was to Washington in her palmiest days Mrs. Pickens was to the Confederacy, and in fact to the entire South. Unlike Mrs. Sprague, Mrs. Pickens retained her power and Tnfluenoe to the ingt. Her word had almost as much weight in tbe politics of her State at the close of her life, had she oared to exert it, as when, known as Lady Pickens, she presided nt the executive mansion in Columbit during the eventful days of tbe Confederacy. Born aboqt the same time as Kate Chase, the two entered sontety at Wash ington and for a few months were rival belles in this city. It U a strange co incident that both should have died almost within a week of eaoh other and that their last days should have been spent In homes of the same name. Edgewood was famous before the war, and pictures of it now are to be seen on tbe walls of many Southern homes. It is one of tbe last homes to be left standing that so perfectly typl fies tbe old South. With its ten rooms fronting on a long porch, its wings in the rear and countless little houses the remnant of tbe slave quarters, the home of Governor Pickens is an object of veneration among the Southern pso( and of great Interest in the Northerner who seeks the climate of South Caro lina in winter. Tbe private graveyard of the family is in sight of the house, and here the Pickenses and their households have been buried for generations. The old place has been kept in order to this time, and it was the wish of Mrs Pickens that It should remain undl vlded, as left by her husband, until her youngest grandchild should come of age. — ... It was the boast of Governor Pick ens that he had married the two most be utlful women of tbe South. HL first wife, tbe mother of Mrs. Butler, wife of General M. C. Butler, was famous beauty In her day. It was not until his daughters were grown that be sought a second wile. When he proposed to the beautiful Lucy Hoi combe ebeiold him tbe would marry .him if be secured the mission to St Petersburg.- Buchanan had just been and from him Governor Pickens sedflred this post, and shdtily after took Miss Hblcombe as his bride Weaftby, beautiful, with a grace and charm incomoarable, Mrs. Pickens at I onoe took an exalted place at tbe czar’s I court. Both she and her husband were conspicuous persons, and' as a witness of their popularity there stands today In Edgewood a marble bust of the old | czar, with ao inscription carved upon Its base by the Imperial order It during their stay In St. Petersburg that the only daughter. EjgeniaOlga Nova, better known as Djuscbka, was born j The christening of lb-* Infant was i | royal affair, the Duchesses Oiga and ’ Nova standing as god mothers to the little one, and tbe czar bim»elf being After ' prevent to bestow bis blessing upon the brigadier | the South Caroliniau left the Rueelao court to throw bis fortunes with those of bis Stele in tbe Impend Ing coofl.ct gifts were exchanged In parting, and tbe portrait of Mrs Pick ens was presented W> tbe tzar by her husband and Is still pointed to In one of the royal palaces In Russia as " tbe beautiful American." Before reaching thle country Mr. Pickens was elected Governor of South Carolina, and bis wife at once assumed a part In the political history of her Stale, which made her one of the most Happenings on Friday.—Moscow burned on Friday. Shakespeare born on Friday. Mayflower landed on Friday. Baatile destroyed on Friday. Lincoln assassinated on Friday. King Charles beheaded on Friday.^ America was discovered on Friday. Julius Ciesar assassinated on Friday. Washington was married on Friday. Queen Victoria was married on Fri day. Napoleon Bonaparte was born on Friday. . . - Battle of New' Orleans fought on Fri day. Battle of Waterloo was fought on Friday. Battle of Bunker Hill was fought ea Declaration of Independence signed bn Friday. Joan of Arc wan burned at the stake on Friday. negroes of (all btood- Tbe moral de | generacy of toe race is alarming. Tbe j State convict# and county convicts now aggregate orer four thousand, and all j of them have oome to maturity since tne cloee of tba civil war. Tbe morals of tbeee negroes gete worse ana worse and meir outragee upon white women more frequent od more brutal. Our people are shocked and whisper to one aooth r, who wMi be tbe next victim. When the savage lodiaas burned me borne# and lomabawxed the women and children our forefathers pursued them by day and by nlgbt and bad their revenge. We have a people among us -many of whom are worse then savages, and every man among ua whq is loyal to his wife or mother or sitter or daughter is an avenger of blood and should never stop until the brute le caught and slain. For each there are no cities of refuge aotlno horns of the altar for him to lay hfcW of. This is one crime that makes a man an outlaw and tbe people have no more fear of provoking tbe vengeance of God than did Governor Candler when he was leading his brave men against the enemy and crying at the top of his voice, "Shoot 'em, boys 1 clans in the State In 1876 be wes elected to tbe State Senate from Abbe ville County as tbe successor of J ere Hulllogebeed, tbe Radical member, who died before bis term of office bad i .... . . ,. ^ . , expired, and did faithful work for the ecateMdlM flgar^ la tho^C^feder- reeloratioa of tbe Slate govern meat. I la 1878 be was re elected to tbe State Senate, nod la 1882 be was again re turned to the senate after a heated campaigt and by a narrow majority at tba Democratic primary elections. la" tba State Dr. Maxwell rendered ef ficient services, and enjoyed tbe con fidence and respect of that body. He was a nard worker and a conscien tious representative of what be con ceived to be of the highest public in terest He was a liberal friend of edu cation, and w*» one of tbe foromoet advocate# of me appropriations made for tbe eupport of the State Ualvs^lty nod South Carolina Military Academy, it wae also due to his liberality that the “Conble Maxwell Drphqpage" waa eetabllehed at Greenwood, S. C. REFUSED TO HAVE A DOCTOR. Shoot ’em ! Kill the,laet rascal come me !” —The committee in charge of the ^ arrangements for ’ the laying of the oarrlad off, until the sound of the great I earner-stone of the new Federal build- ball of the oaatle coming dim aad muf-1 ln ff in Chicago next October made ar- fled through tha dark dungeon walls rangements to invite Ex-Confeierate warned bar that it waa time to go back I generals aad officers to attend the to tha porter's wife. Twice every day Roea brought food to tha prtymars, and thus saw her father. Escape, however, wes not pos- albia. Tbe wails tyere too guarded, aad at the days slipped by the poor kaight (raw worse aad Roea dee- Owe mornlag the with Boise aal basy oaatle was filled movement. The m was to return large company ofj ceremonies. The list includes seven lieutenant generals, aineteen major generals and one hundred and fourteen brigadier generals. —Eastern Washington is a prairie country, subject to the extraowofheat aad oold, while the climate of Wee tore Washington- controlled by the Japan current—is mild and equable. The mercury sever drops to set*, aad 8Mn the shade la summer is aaaeual. The tight* are always oooi aad restful. oo, boys; Come on and follow He never thought of giving them a trial by jury nor of being guilty of murder. Let governors proclaim in their perfunctory fashion-let preacher* and judges speak ex cathedra (torn the pulpit and me bench, our people will lynch a brute ae soon as they can catch him, and It Is no sign of lawlessness, either. You caunot find in any Slate better citizenship than in Early county, and my letters from friends who live there defend them most heartily from all their slanderers. If you wish to hear the truth, just sound (he common people—the country peo ple, the working people, who live in the peril of these outrages—the peo ple who are too poor to move to towns or cities—the people who are of all people the most obedient to law—the people who serve on our juries and work the roads, and nurse their sick neighbors and bury their dead, and who gather at the bumble chdroh on the Sabbath day and worship God. These are the lynchers for this parti cular crime and always will be. if a thoughtless, reckless element joins them it cannot be helped. The people of our county of Bartow, I suppose, are a fair sample of the people of Geor-, gia. There has been but one hanging in twenty-two years. We have no white citizens in the ebaingang, no body ever shoots or fight* In our streets. Sometimes at long Intervals there is a small fight between lawyers, in the courthouse, while court, is in session, and the judge on hand to stop it, but nothing more. But nine out of ten of our grand and pctit.jurlee would lynch e negro for this crime as soon as they could catch him. Ex-Governor Jones, of Arkansas, has got sense— common sense—and he says: "Ail mis stuff abont the law’s delay provok ing lynching le the merest noi when this crime is committed no man ■tope to mink or to care whether the brute will be tried next week or next year. They want vengeance right The Daughter ot Faith Cure Parents Died Without Medical Attention. Several months ago Mr. and Mrs. James Lide moved to Darlington, 8. C., from Atlanta, Ga. They were be lievers j^d teachers in the doctrine of faith cure. The husband was employed as a clerk, wbUe Mrs. Lide did active work in faith curing. Recently she visited a young man who had fever and persuaded him to give up medicine jmd doctors and " trust in the Lord.” Be did so, and nearly died, his family calling in the medicine men again.-. Several weeks ago the little twelve- year-old daughter of Mts. Lide was taken 111 No doctor was summoned, but " faith ” was put la control of. the case. The little girl continued sick. Dr. R L. Edwards nailed to see it, having been sent for by q friend.'' He was admitted to the pick room, but was not allowed to administer to or pre scribe, although the child was in a critical condition. The little one waa reported better, but Saturday night It died. Arrange ments for the interment were made and the body was placed in a coffin. Sun day morning the matter was brought to the attention of Coroner Dargan, and he was asked to hold an inquest. A jury was impaneled and went to the Lide homestead to view the remains As the jury reached the house the pallbearers were putting the little coffin in the hearse, but the cor oner . had all proceedings stopped. He opened theooffin and allowed the jury to view the body, after which the coffin was again fastened up aad the funeral carried to an end. Coroner Dargan,adjourned the in quest till Monday, when testimony wae to be taken in the cqse. The jury has been selected from among Darlington’s business men. There Is much feeling In the town on both sides. The sup position is that the jury will find the death of the child resulted from crim inal negligence. Don’t delay, begin at onoe to relieve that pain or ache, if the remedy you are using don't do itf try Alligator Liniment. This liniment will relieve quicker, prove more satisfactory, is not greasy, or sticky and is guaranteed to please. It curse rheuma tism, neuralgia, backache, bruises, burns and all paint. Bold svarywhsre. Her s«ay and Influence was such that it used to be said that if the Con federacy failed, South Carolina would berseif establish a monarch), and the Governor’* family should be declared the ruling boose. This woe in tbe be ginning, when South Carolina felt su preme, and Inspired by the beauty and grace of the Governor’s wife, tbe heated imaginations of the Huguenot element aaw only a step from the secessiun to the establishment of'a monarchy. It Is known however that Mrs. Pickens dis couraged any such wild gossip of the ball rooms, and it was her iofi jeoce, as much as that of any one, which held South Carolina In the single path mark ed out for her by her statesmen at the time of the Confederacy. Tbe title of " Lady” waj bestowed upon her in her State, and to htrold friends only she was known until her death as Lady Pickens, a* she was to tbe whole Con federacy in the day of the war. >Sbe was an important factor In tbe affairs of South Carollaa* during the war period and no council of state was held without her Influence being con sidered^ It was . due largely to her that Sirath Carollaa became resigned to the reconstruction as It did after the bloody battles of the States. She ad vised her people to accept the Inevi table with good grace and to devote their titne to the cultivation of their wasted lands. She set the example of farming with the negroes on shares. On her plantation at Edgewood xht was loft a widow soon after the war closed. Her negroes bad remained with her husband and at his deatb they continued to serve his widow. On the night of his death the dying states man addressed the negroes on the place from a window and told them to re main at Edgewood always and to their care he would leave Mrs. Pickens and his daughter. They were true to their trust. The oldest ones became bis pallbearers and with the exception ol 1 three, who have since died, they acted In tbe same capacity for her daughter, who died about’five years ago. ' Her home, Edgewood, became a'poli tical center during these dark days. Her advice and counsel was sought not only by public men of her own State, but from statesmen throughout tbe South. She kept in touch with every ques^ibh pending in Congress which in any way affected her section of the country and often oome to Washington to.? lend her assistance to some cause which was vital to her people. Her influence was always used for good. In her declining days she waa still beaut! ful. At the age of fifty her hair would touch the floor when she was standing. She never lost the exquisite contour of her figure, which was lithe and S raoeful. Her face was as clearly recian as the Mile, de TEnclo* end she wore her. hair so as to. accentuate the classic profile. She never lost the friendship of the royal house of Russia. At the marriage of her daughter, the son of the old cser sent a casket of jewelry to her as a token of the esteem us which fier mother had been held at court. This daughter wae her happi ness and finally her orowaiag sorrow. Strong, athletic, a perfect horsewo man, yet her health gave way early in life and she died five years ago. Mrs. Piokeae has sever reoorered (roes the blow. Mrs. Pickens wee one of the charter members of the Mount Vernon eenooia- tion and ban saver felled until this spring to be present at their annual gathering*. Her friends on the board had noticed her decline end .when she failed to arrive this year they all felt . the end was near. The room which she fitted up at Mount Vernon will stand as a monument to her love and devotion to that spot. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.! CUCUMBER PICKLES. No. 1. To 100 cucumbers add one pint fine salt dissolved in' boiling water and poured on them hot. Let stand 24 hours, turn off and rinse, then dhh kolve in boiling water a piece of alum the size of an egg, pour on hat, let stand six hours, pour off and rinse, and then scald cider vinegar enough to cover the pickles; and one-half ounce each of cloves, cinnamon and white mustard seed, with one cup sugar. Pour over cucuiqbers boiling hot. No ,2. Pick cucumbers’not over two inches in length, wash well end piece close together in a glass can. Heat cider vinegar (a pint is enough for a quart can if the cucumbers have been closely placed,) into which one-half teaspoon salt and one teaspoon pepper have been put. Pour over cucumbers boiling hot and seal at once.- No. 3. Cover cucumbers with boil ing water and let stand 24 hours. Popr off, and to one gallon vinegar add one teacup salt, two tablespoons each of alum, cloves, allspice, cinDaipon|and mustaid. Let come to a boil and pour over cucumbers while hot. Put in a jar, cover and set in a cool place.; If good vinegar is used, they will keep perfectly the year around. No. 4. In your jar, tub or keg, place in alternate layers of cucumbers and horseradish leaves, with mustard pods if obtainable. Make a week biine and cover with cold vinegar. After a week drain off, and cover again with fresh vinegj&, into which such spices as you wish Have been placed. Where objec- tidn is made to the use of alum, the recipe can be used, omitting the alum. It tends to harden the cucumbers. Quaint and Curious Parugrapha Gathered from Various Sources. —Roger Q. Mills, of Texas, Is spend ing bis declining years making money In true " robber baron ” style. A part- Of his farm he has sold to the Standsrd Oil Company for $342,000. —A trusted young bank clerk In At lanta was obliged to take a two weeks vacation. An examination of his books proved blip a defaulter for $1,600 and the bond company arrested him hrNew York. He wa*-"a bright fellow and so ciety leader.” —William L. Elkina, who 1* at the head of the great syndicate controlling the street railway and gas privileges of a large number of cities, began life as an errand boy in a grocer’s store. Mr. Elkins is a native of West Virginia, and Was born in 1832. —Almost every nation, with tbe ex ceptlon of Great Britain and tbe United States, Is overtaxed to meet tbe expenses of maintaining its army and navy. France runs behind to the amount of 1100,000 000, Austria has an annual deficit of 980,000,000 Russia of t50 000,000 and Italy of 130.000,000. — The Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany haa established a pension .fund for the benefit of its employees. Com pulsory -retirement Is fixed at the age of 70 years. Employees who kave served thirty year* will be entitled to participate in the fund, allowance* to be baaed on length of service and wages paid.. - Tbe Illinois Central Railroad Com pany is constructing a freight car yard at New Orleans which will have twen ty-eight miles of tracks and will hold 3,000 cars. The yard 1* being sn ar ranged (bat cats can be distributed from titereceiving point to any other polallJf^ gravity. This will snve an Immense expense for switching cars in. Several saloonkeeper* in Manches ter, O , nave adopted a ooigl ’method to keep loafer* away from tee fronts of ihtlr places of business oo Sunday^i' Early every Sunday morn I n K ^tbe^wiy* ^ormrig paper at breakfast and on my A Way To Read The Newspap ers.—It is easy—perhaps just—to criticise the newspapers of the day, both for what they do and for what they do not contain; but there are few of them that do not hare something worth reading, and it is commonly not the light and frothy matter which the intelligent reader glances over before breakfast or on the way to business. Hut every one has odd moments, and there aVe waits in the whirl of the wheel of industry, commerce, professional occupation or stu ly. A Chicago man who has been "interviewed” by one of the news])apers of that city tells bow be utillizes those odd moments: f*'I glance ovei the head-lines in the dow sills and door stere are frqph coals of paint. This prevents the loafers from dropping into ao easy pos ture, and they move on to a more Invit ing n sting place. —Manila haa just bjen cleaned for ibe-firel time since the reign of i’blllp II, and, having recovered from tbe first shock of tbe proceeding, tbe natives now begin to approve its results and to look with favor oo the authority which could work such a miracle. It will make the city a much pleasanter and healthier place to live in than It has been heretofore. —Tbe house in Washington la which (’resident Lincoln died is being reno vated to preserve It from decay. Con gress at Its late session having appro priated 94.U00 for that purpose. The building will not be altered, but only such repair* made as may be necessary to protect It against tbe elements. Tbe room In wbleh Lincoln died will not be touched Tnis modest Utile houae is yearly visited by thousand* of tourists from all over tbe country. —Italy Is protecting berseif system atrca.ly against hal.'tlorms by firing cannon. Several hundred villages op tbe slopes of the Alp* and of the Ap ennines have established firing sta tions, where two or three cannon are nept which are fired at a signal from the weather observer. The result* are said to be astonishing. In none of these villages did bail fall this sum mer, while jelgnborlrg districte have suffered from the usual number of storms. —The Widow of George De IQUb, a grandson of Baron John De Kalb, of Revolutionary fame, I* about to-brlng suit for l.^IUU acre# of land lying near Chllllootbe, tbe former capital of Ohio. Uaree De Kalb left a son, Sebastian, whose son George went to Cincinnati and died, leaving a widow, who has found papers showing that she is en titled to the land which, in view of tbe distinguished services rendered by Bsroo John Dj Kalb, was set forth to him and his heirs forever by the gov ernment. —Tbe costliest blc\cle in the vorld has just been finished at a gun factory in Vienna. It will cost more than $27,500. The owoer is a rich South African diamond king and mine owner, who will present the machine to hts wife on her next birthday. At the last Vienna Exposition it was admired by the thousands. This South African millionaire was eo struck with the exquisite beauty of the wheel that he bought It, and hpd it Inlaid with pre cious stones and diamonds on every possible part. y —Major George Webster, of the 4th United States infantry, returned from Manila op sick leave last week to Fort Sheridan, Chicago, utterly broken 4own In health and nearly blind. He speaks dubiously of our prospects in the islands, saying they are no place for a white man, and that more troops will be required there than the gov ernment is preparing to rend. He speaks of the Filipinos as a brave and gentle people, and of the insurgents as possessing plenty of men; bnt only a comparatively small number of guns —Rev. Henry Crawford Tucker, a -primitive Baptist clergyman, 25 years old, who died recently in Florida, built the first log cabin on the site of Talla hassee, and was the first settler of that place. HI* wife was the oaly white woman In that region. • There were hostile bands of Indians and runaway negro slaves in the vicinity. Mr. Tucker was a native of South Carolina. He settled in Tallahaase; seventy-five veers ago He wae thrice married, his children numbering eighteen sons and fourteen daughters. His descend ants, at the time of his death, aggre gated 714. ' —A clerical gentleman, just returned from Havana, says that when he first went to the islands dishonesty was almost undnown. Dwellings and the sohoolhoura were left open with no fear that their contents would be dis turbed/ Nowadays it is different, and it is better to close doors at night or things may be ml sed tbe next morn ing. ■ The>p«ople have little or no idea of money, except to spend It reckieneiy. Or throw it nwny. Some of the nsuivea, whose ehief wealth wae in land, have way oown-towu in the car,” he says, ‘•reading only what is of immediate in terest to me in my business. When I see an article on some matter of gen eral information, I dip it out and put it in tuy pocket unread. One pocket of my coat is given op to these dip pings. ' ‘ "When 1 have to wail in a dentist’s, lawyer’s or doctor’s office, in a barber shop, or anywhere else, I pull out one of mv dippings and read it In this way I have always romething to read in which I am really interested.” ’lliis works a triple advantage to the man who practise* it. It prevents this waiting time, which in a week may amount to hours, from beiog wasted; It stores the mind with a great deal of information and the product of dis cussion, and it prevents the vice of merely idle reading. It is worth the I wins of everybody—or at least of everybody who has a place in hi* clothes for one to maintain a flipping -pocket, and to devote it rf|hly and exclusively B> good articles from the press - latest report* from some forty cities aud town* show lh»l ao era of almost unprecedented building activity has set te^lespite the high and advandng prices of iron, steel, lumber, glass, (taint and other material. WOMEN’S SECRETS. There is one man in the United States who has perhaps heard more women’s seflets than any other man or woman in the country. These secrets are not ae- creU of guilt or shame, but the secrets of Buffering, and they have been confided to Dr. R. V. Pierce in the hope and ex pectation of advice and help. That few of these women have been disappointed in their expectations is provea by the' fact that ninety-eight per cent of all women treated by Dr. Pierce have been absolutely and altogether cured. Such a record would be remarkable if the run treated were numbered by hundreds only, put when that record applies to the treatment of more than half-a-mi]- lion women, in a practice of over thirty years, it is phenomenal, and entitles Dr.' Pierce to the gratitude accorded him by women, and the honor paid him by the profession as the first of specialists in the treatment of women's diseases. Every sick woman may consult Dr. Pierce - by letter, absolutely without charge. Every woman’s letter whiqh contains her secret remains her secxM. It is read in private, answered in private, ancfflts contents guarded as a sacred con fidence. That no third party should enter into this secret, all replies are mailed, , sealed in perfectly plain envelopes, with out any printing or advertising whatever, upon them. Write without fear aa with out fee, to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffolb, N. Y. JDt. Pierce’s Favor ite Prescription makes Weak Women Strong and 4 ,Siok- Women Well Sent by prepaid^ 'IptofMc ^ IN1M1NT OO. Charleston. 8. C. otaoRNrs been cheated by scheming offered them about oae-balf of (halt loads, a men who tho value , . ..