Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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«r, ♦ # VOL XXH. Bllrlr AMP OH TKM MOHMOV0. HOT? ==t=±=5===aefc I V ^ BARNWELL.SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 31 ^ .J ’tr.'W r^~-m ■ ■ Uw Hi* D«jr • Mylwry to Um G«or- The*® Mormooa ®r« « mratory to » iMjar«i«la> rhloh U*Mother child born of the Eaglcad fMcUolaci, where ell •h thing* originate. It la done o the dootrlne of free lore, that —8,000 mile* from boat* lea a eommotion among oar people and l don’t underatand what they are after. Are they really mlaaloeariee •eat oat from Utah to propagate their religion, or are they rellgtoae tramps who dad this >aa easy way to lire. They compass sea and land to make a ajogle proselyte and remind as of the ttr reaching seal of theJeealteof the sixteenth oeatary. The Jesuits went to the haathan of all ooaatrlcs who had cot heard Of Jesas, bat these Mormons go to the Protestants in enlightened Christendom and seek covertly to un dermine their faith. They work upon the weak minded and fanatical and only make converts by destroying the peace of the family. No wonder that the good people of the oommunlUea d-lve them out and maltreat them. I have no ‘reaped for proeelyters la a Christian land who would aeex to draw their converts fron one Christian church to another and sow discord In a .emlly. M was ruminating about this Mormon which Is 1 Mother child born of ths lsm£ Eoi New 0 ah devlli akin U pd there half a century ago, originatew pretty generally accepted and la not^oesa't find hla affinity when If a man d • he finds her afterwards, he marrlea^i|o on swapping around, and they keew me from there and one Joe Smith cat to find a Bible under a day pretended-taa placed there by an big atone. It *1 golden leaves, and he angel and had l it, for it was the last was told to readme must preach It to will of God and | copied the writiog the people. He M u the gold, but the and wn* going to^ Uxik the_golden leaves away. Well, that omo foiT_T fools enough to start a new departure la rrllgloa and because the good people »• home made fun of him, he and his followers moved to Peansylvaala, where he had more visions and the aogel gave him a pair of magic epeo- tactee and a Urim and Thummlm, and talked to him behind a ‘ourtsln, erd John the Baptist visited him and gave him the Holy Ghost and the gift of prophecy aad supernatural powers. Prom there he and his followers went to Palmyra, N. Y , and had the “ Book of Mormon " prio ud asd organised a church with thirty u members, ana Smith oast a devil out of a man named Height. But Palmyra got too hot for them sad they moved to KtrtlMd, Ohio, be cause the angel said so. But Klruaad got too warm for them aad they moved u> Missouri sod founded the olty of Zioe. Not long nfter he went bnck to K inland on a visit aad they tarred aad feathered him, but bis persecution gave him sUergth and followers and tney bet it aoburcb tears aad celled themselves the Letter Day Salats, aad started a bank aad flooded ths ooustry with wildcat money In she same of the Lord. Th-* leader* were arrested aad Indicted for murder, tree eon, burglary, arson aad laroeny, but were allowed to sec ape from jail li-ave Kirtla^l with their From there they went to guided by aa angel, and founded the cktv of Nauvoo. There they built saother onuroh aad seat mleslonarlrs to to moke o Javerts, aad they mads mem. Nauvoo grew up rapidly Salats soon sum be red l.Mvf!, Md of that old lost John Brown, whom Glddlngs end Beecher nod Garrison made a oafs-paw of to Inolto (he staves of Virginia to Insurrection aad to pro voke them to murder and arson aad fl*. The, furalehed Mm with 1600 a gold aad all the rifles and ammual- Mca ho wanted, and so ho took up Ms rssldsaoc near Harper’s Ferry and for ‘ J . families, llllaou, (wo years Uvsd there aad plaanod Ms bloody aad treasonable scheme. Fred Douglas visited him there aad advised Mm to wait, for the fruit was not rips. But tits old fanatio believed the Lord was with him aad wouldn't wait nay longer, and so one dark night he aad his little hand Of twenty-two deluded followers surprised and overpowered the guards aad took ths arsenal and thee calmly awaited the uprising of the negroes. But the negroes would not rise. Most of them were attached to their masters and their families and would not. Join the traitors. Tney soon came to grief. John Brown was wound ed, his son was killed and most of his followsrs. For forty long yaart the graves of seven of them have been un molested, but John Brown’s soul, they my, keeps marching on and so it does seem to, with the seooad and third generations of those who have hated ne so long and so bitterly. They lent Brown to Kansas during the dark and bloody days and there be and hi* followers, among other outrages, called five lead ing Southerner* from their bed* onb dark night and aasastlnated them. Brown said It was God’* will. For twelve years he nevel* lost sight of his chief aim, which was to start an insurrection in Virginia and let it spread all over the South pntll every tlave-bolder was murdered. And this la what the North made a martyr and a demigod of him for. Our own Robert E. Lee, a United States army officer, officiated at hi* capture and trial. Jefferson Devi* end John M. Mason, of the United State* Senate, were appointed a committee to make a report upon the Invasion and declared It of no significance ex cept a* showing the animus of (be North toward the South, nd write* me A "T" ’• l *a can get and execution. Nowher^*- era man ha* written hi* Di*u>iJ’ Three have been written from a North ara standpoint by enemies of lie South. The fairest account will be found In '‘Appleton’* Biographical Encyclope dia,’^ but even this one, which was written by Hlgglotcn, U tainted with the same old animus that justifies everything so abolitionist ever did against the South. It dots look like that forty years of time aad the free dom of tbs negroes ought to have mol lified our enemies and retired old John Brown and fils follower* lato oblivion, but It has not, Md now they are tr»ns ferrlng their bones to a more congenial soil aad will have grand ceremonies over their burial. McKinley bee been Invited, and as two of the sevea were negroes. 1 reexoo he will go. Maybe the devil has got them keeping postoffloe somewhere In Bads*. Bill Arp. who wishes to • true history GffiNMRAIi AND BISHOP. HAS MO HANDS Ah Iniereetlwt Sketch of the LUh awd Services of Gen. Ellison Gapers. . The following sketch of dec Ellison Capers t orn the pen of Mrs. A. I. Robertson appeared In the June num ber of the Confederate Veteran : Ellison Capers’ ancestn settled about the year 1690 In Christ Church parish, on the seaboard of South Carolina. Grants of land from the “Lord® Pro prietors” are on record In the State ar chives to William Capers, dated 1694. Capers islaad aad Inlet are named for this familyT William Capers, the grandfather of Ellison Capers, was one of Marlon’s captains In the Revolution; his father, William Capers, was a dis tinguished and eloquent divine of the Methodist church, and one of its fint bishops la the South. His mother, Susan MoOlll, of Kershaw County, was of Iriah descent. Ellison Capers was born in Charles ton, October 14, 1837, and his early { euth waa passed In that city. His ither removed to Anderson County, and yosng Capers was appointed from there to the arsenal In Columbia. In 1859 he married Charlotte Rebecca Palmar, of St. John’s, Berkley, and moved to Winnsboro, 3 C., where he taught the Mt. Zion academv. He was later elected professor In the Citadel, with rank of second lieutenant, in which position he earned the love and respect of the cadets and his superior officers. He was then made major of the First regiment, South Carolina Volunteer Rifles, for the Confederate service, and assisted Gen. Pettigrew In the organisation and drill of that splendid command. He was constantly on duty with his regiment, and com manded the light battery on Sullivan's island during the selgeand bombard ment of Fort Sumter. When Col. Pet tigrew resigned to go to Virginia Msj Capers was made lieutenant colonel. He resigned that position in 1861, and joined Col. C. H. Stevens In forming the Twenty-fourth South Carolina vol unteers. He did gallant service with that reg iment om^he const of South Cerollna and at Wilmington, N." C., during 1862. On James Island he led a gallant charge, In which the One Hundredth i-lxpglmcnt wm routed and 22 of their number SILVER MURE TO WIN RACE. Salih mayor aad lieateaeat general, la 1842 ha was at ihs vary height of hla prosperity aad took a head la pollllos. In 1848 he had another revelation from the angel aad was advised to take some spiritual wives. Aooordlagly he took two mar ried woeaea, the wive* of Dr. Foster aad WU 11am Law, two of hle-ehlef sup porters. Of oourse, this raised a rum pus aad Fueler aad Law started a news paper against him aad published the affidavlte of slxteea women, who charg ed Smith aad hla bead mea, Rlgdoo, with Impurity aad immorality. Smith thee destroyed the press aad Foster aad Law had to ly for their Uvas. They appealed to the courts aad had warrants Issued for him aad Rlgdou aad seventeen others. They war* ar il la jail. Th# governor • Morgan Say* Every Dr niourat aad Every Btmetelllet Will Vote lor the Democrat to No ml The Vashiagtoa Times contains the following authoritod Interview with Senator Morgan from its special oor reapoadeat at Anniston, Ala.: “ I think that the De more ratio pstrty la the Chicago platform," eald Sana tor Morgan, ‘gave a free, full aad ^aar ex press loo of the Democratic creed governing a number of eobjeete ingnt to would leave the country, but the peo- i them pie were so exasperated with they went that night to the jail and broke down the doors aad shot Smith aad his brother to death, What kind of a story In that to found the Mormon religion upon. And yet these Mormon elders have the cheek to travel through this Southern land to propagate theta spurious faith among 00 Bttt°ltalth , s wife and his son Joe aevar did accept the revelation as to spiritual wives,and the soa reorganised Mar monism at Plano, 111., where he Dubliehee The True Batata’ Herald, aad Is la all that region the acknow ledged head of the Saints of the true MoroMNi church. The polvgamlsta ware all axpeHed, after suffering by whipping and house burning and other —»ixu* by mob violence. They taoved la scattered bands to Utah aad ohoae Brigham Young as their leader. He was s xealous advocate of polygamy and showed hla faith by his works, for When he died lu 1877 he- loft soveatoea wives, sixteen sons aad twenty-eight Mtgbters that ha acknowledged—be- tee a dumber of others who acknow ledged him But l these Mhrmons who are sojourn lug la our land dealer# that potogteti iSftSS.'asHiih » tbiok we ougEt to abide by that plat form, without aay emendm*at Or modi fiontloa. I shall bn entirely satisfied with aay nominee who will tlnoerely aooept that platform as the basis of hie political administration. Mr. Bryan la th* leader of the party on the silver plank and he will be the logical leader on the Issue that will be formed. If the Republicans succeed, as I suppose they will, le passing their currency bill. It the Republicans insist upon ths egal enactment Of the single gold standard, sliver wfUl be the predoml Bating U*a» o' the next campaign Th# Republicans will xtaempt to ola- ulse the purpoee #ad effect of their legislation, but the real question Ml be this: Shall the ooUmga of she *i\ ver dollar be prohibited .£0'fee tag£l tender power Umltftf fe> IfO in oaa pa/ meIrf”DB thaT question I have UtU* doubt that every Democrat and every bimetallist In the United Staten wiU vote for the Democratic nominee I f. la It Garb aad to Berviag a I Columbia State A. R. Fowler’s sentence has beau commuted by the Governor. He Is now serving a three-year sen tenon lu the K ltenttary, hiving bean convicted of jery in Greenville lu 1897. He be- f un serving his eentenoe lu February, 896. The Governor has, uy request, commuted hla eentenoe from Imprison ment la the penitentiary to servitude on the county chuin guug. Ill heulth la the cause assigned. Sentenced for forgery, and yet he has no hands with which to write! Seemingly au anomaly, but naverthe- lest true. An ex-Presbyterian minister In the garb of a felon. When Fowler oommited the forgery of which he wau ooovloted, he bad one hand with which ti» write, but now he can write jusVas well with none. « When he first arrived at the peniten tiary the management was puzzled to know what use to make of a oonvlot with no hands. He was first put to work protecting the strawberry from the i tbp Eng- was m- hlt left leg, tured. At SeceMlooville Ool. Caperstiiaoks of Gens. Evans and SimVfe-tet very brave services he rendered. In 1863, with Gist’s brigade, he was or dered to the relief of Vicksburg, where be was In a bloody fight. He oom mended the left wing gf the brigade from sunrise to midday, In which be received a severe wound In I Md his hors? was killed. At Chtckemauga he was again se verely wounded. In 1863, at Daitoc, Ga., he was promoted to colonel, end served gallantly at the bend of his regiment He commended the brigade In the selge of Atlanta and at the bat tle of Jonesboro At this battle the oom man,ling general oom pH men ted him and the brigade on their splen did deportment against Sherman’s as Mkttll- In the bloody battle of Franklin, Tenn., Col. Caper* was a third time •evetely wounded. la February, 1865. he was promoted to brigadier general. He was assigned to Gen. Johnston’s army In North Carolina, and placed in command of his old brigade. He was la *11 thing* faithful, serving his coun try devotedly After the Caper* was for South Carolina, and such was the extreme exlgeaoj of those times that he remained In that position even grout war, In 1866, Gen elected secretary of State h wi exlgeaoj oed In while studying for the Episcopal minis try, In which he was ordained In 1867 bv th* Kt. Rev. Bishop Davl*. He fees tendered bis rsslgnation as secre tary of Slate, but It was declined bv Gov. Orr until the Legislature should meet, aad Gen. Capers held the great sestl of South Carolina until July, 1868, when he.turned It over to F. L. Card oaa. a negro roprosontative of Radical usurpation. In 1882. at a Democratic convention, Gan. Capers was nominated, without his knowledge or oooeeat, State super intendent of education. He positively declined to aooept the position, deem lag it luoonsUtant with his ministerial duties. Slnoe then he bus given him self np wholly to hla aaored oalllug. Hie mlUterv training from boyhood la the arsenal and citadel, and Ini ao- B tehee from the ravage* of h sparrows. Afterwards b signed to other bits of work he Is a very useful laborer in the hos iery mill, being able with hla stumps of arms to carry yarn and finished stocking* from one part of the build ing to another. The case of A. R Fowler has been the subject of many newspaper com ments, but It Is a tele which Is very ro mantic even when twice told. He was not always without hands, but lokt his left band about five years ago as a result of sn accidental dis charge of a gun while out hunting. He was subjected to censure at the time, for he had butu few days before taken out an accident policy, which he had not received, but the first premium on which he bad paid. The insuranoe company contested the payment of toe polhy, and It* position was sustained by the courts. He claims that at the lime he was eooompanled by a friend. *JtQ. testified that the loss of the heod was Wccidental. They were riding In a buggy and the gun was discharged without his touching It. The member was taken off midway between the wrist and elbow. The right hand was also lost In a similar manner. Two years ago last Novemi^r. while acting ns M Insur ance agent \a Union Couotv, Tennee- he was hunting with a friend, John H. Dnvls. They were silling v\ g fence ben a covey of partridges suddenij flew up. He reached down for bis gun, catching it with his one hand by the muzzle. It oaugbt on ths fence aad waa discharged, taking off his only hand close to the wrist. The hi torv of the forgery case, as related by Fowler at the time of his lacaroeratloe, is, of course, somewhat mitigating In his favor, but he make* no denial of the forgery. , About three years ago ne contracted 1th a gentleman In Greenville, Mr. H. H. Livermore, for the purpose of obtaining a charter for a mutual In surance company to he established In Texas. According to his statement, Mr. Livermore was to advance 11,000 aad Fowler was to give his note for that amount until the charter could be obtained. He was arrested for forglbg the endorsement on the note. The eo- dorsemeot was that of his brother-in- law, Mr. J. D. Harris. Fowler admitted forging the endorsement, aad, after sentenoe, appealed to a higher court. On Jan. 19, 1898 he waa Informed by his attorney that the nppestl had been dismissed. Fowler says that he then wrote to the sheriff tailing him that ho wm ready to go to the penllen claims that the sheriff had ropl! he (Fowler) would have to pay way- He stayed at home, s only one night away, until Bmltn, of the penitentiary guard, same for him. And It was charged that he think a silver man will be elected Pros* idsnt “ I think fee United States govern ment la doing everything that is re quisite to erush out Agulnaldo’s Insur rection. There oaa be no doubt that Agulnaldo’s munitions of war am sup plied by some oomhlnation somewhere on the const of Alla. That combina tion Is fighting th* United States for a mercenary and malignant purpose. They are counting upon popular senti ment la Vb« United States to recall the American troops and make terms with Agulnaldo. That expectation U utterly vain and without any foundation In fact. The people in this ooustry are sat isfied with the res Its already accom plished by this war. They are deter mined to press it to a successful con clusion. We deplore the revolting feature/ Wa regret that inooeout men are being led to their , death by Agulnaldo ana his selfish advisers, but that la only an Incident In the sup- ireesion of any insurrection. am of the opinion that Mr.- Root tk going to make an admirable seore- * war. He Isa very able man very fine lawyer, and beseems be involved la aay of th* oom- plications that have caused disturbance la army circle*. "There will beao difference of opin ion among the Amorioan people la re gard to the war. Both leaders of the two great political parties—Mr. Mo- Kinlay of the RepubUoam gad Mr Bryan of th* Democrats concur that tbafrar mastbb prosecuted ton sao*. • sstoa. No political the Ulltod states g Its sansssl attempt to napprees the Insurrection to the PbUlppiaus will bo suatalaud by the American peo ple, and I pss satisfied that th* Demo- erstio gfirty oaaaot be lad late that at- mlUterv training frt nrseaal and citadel, * service inveal fields of battle have led him well for fighting "the world, .ih* flf*h and the devil.” For 20 yearn be was fee well beloved mlolster of .fry jMwiMtnln parish of Greenville, bTcThT;^ oninF UTCoruJlbto *• rector of ote Trtally, **d for Bt * y**f?Jlnf a book, a history of E the people of that pariah wore blessed remarkable that be la having the nfidauM of hi* strong d ^ statement to that yat gentle head i la hie ever ready ^buS yet gnat sympathy la all power of eloquence as and hU tlon m all others' la which he hM tlon served. . . Ellison Gapers has never ministered out 6f hla own dtaceee, with the exeup- tlon *f one year spent In Selma, Ala., where the people became very devoted to him, aad at hix consecration sent him a magnificent bishop's ring aa a testimonial. He lives la Columbia, la one of the old time houses of the plaoe, spared from Sherman's fire, and the one In which Gen. Lafayette was enter tained on the occasion of hla visit to Columbia, in 1826. Here the bishop evaded the law aad attamptal to «* cape from being brought to the peni tentiary . Fowler Is a native of Greenville County and had a little farm up there. Hla sentence Is (or three year*. When his term shall have expired he says he will return to his farm, try to make money enough to pay hla debts and then If he succeeds la reinstating him' self Into the confidence of the people ha will resume the duties of the min istry. Fowler attended the college nt Clin too and says that he spent a while at the Columbia Theological seminary He is now, or has recently been wrlt- m life. It can write effect •otll it was demonstrated that _ a pea4P (be stub of his right he could write as rapidly and as ex peri bookkeeper with 'A • .AKffi WffiMp STORY. A Wouderfml Plant With Which the are •aid to bo ^ \ Charleston Nsws and Courier. The horticultural department at Glemaon Collage la making; an experi ment with the growing of a rather re markable weed which haa been known, thoogh la a quiet way, for years la th* upHWuntry. It Is down In the lists as "The Rattlesnake's Master,’’ and Its good properties are said, to he snob that a snake might bite a man to its heart’s content, and got only a jolly in return, provided the weed Is used In the proper kind of way. The "master” r ws In Anderson County, as well as other sections, and recently it was given care aad attention by Professor DoPre, th* horticulturist at Clemson. To the heat recollection of people who know the wood It was brought to this State from Texas, though It is more than probable that it was thriv ing hare when Texas wm not on the maps. Some years ago a man from the Lone Star State came this way with a weed, potted and blooming, In his oaravan. “It la a great thing,” he told the people, "and m long m you have it about you will never need whis key for snake bites. I discovered It accidentally one day,” he went on to say, "aad I have never lost It since. Driving along the road onoe I saw a snake light which wm oetng bitterly conducted by a black snake and a rat tier. It wm fierce while It lasted, and It wm a peculiar affair. The rattler wm retting in ’ome rather swift punishment on his opponent, and •very now and again the black viper would dart off, stop a moment by a green bush, and then come back to re new hostilities. This wm kept up. Five times I saw the snaHe go to the weed, and then I decided to Investi gate. I went over to the side of It, and the next instant the snake raa up and began biting viciously at the weed, and m soon m ha returned to the rat tler I jerked the weed up by the roots. Three or four minutes later the snake came back for his health restorer, bit It wm gone. You should have seen Its aatlos. The snake wm wild. It jumped aad darted and made terrible strug- gles and lunges to find the weed, but It wm missing. In Ism than three min utes the snake, finding that lu ally was goes, tumbled over and died "In th* meantime the rattler wm lying quietly, overcome by the Hero* struggle. 1 thought I would try the experiment further, so I out a •mall pleoe of the root, put It between the prongs of a long staff, and jabbed It toward the rattler. From his half aleeptofc r^Ulon It Jumped up like a man shot. He wm drunk, or crazy,' and made a dtspera^ effort to get away. But I headed lt«* K*ery di rection it turned It wMmSv w i t h strMge weed, and finally It tnougu. best to give up th* struggle. Then the snake deliberately twlsud lu head aad jabbed the poleoeed teeth Into lu neck aad a moment iMer wm dead. It wm a clear case of •uTolde." Aftei this wild story the weed wm a welcome guest In any garden. mao from Pendleton said the other day that the fecUM related must have been true, for on one occasion he took pleoe of the ' master” through the mountains and tantalized with It a big rattler until It died. Other storlee say that years ago, the Indians living In thp up country would capture big rat tlesnakes and stand a bite for ten cenU, aad then escape pain gar by eating pstrtlcles of th* cele brated weed. It wm said that this wm oaa of the side shows at Indian gatherings and none ot the tribe seemed to fear a sting or a bite so long as the precious antidote wm about. 111# worth of th* weed hM been vouched for by so many good and repu table citizen* that It hM been given a plaoe In the gardens at damson, with a view of making 1U fin* qualities bet ter knows In snake countries. Th* only drawback U that the weed Is not of any value la killing snakes seen In dreams, though It might be used m a plank In the plntforih of probltion peo- people who do not Ilka the Idea of mea oarrylag whiskey lor "snake bltt,” ofu HU POUT AND LAW DRINK. Reegr Account off Btow a LUhLooc a LtfeLo Taking two of hla i from fels State eaa war. Alt a will obtain tber- Order BaJ By direction of B. MoBwaeaoy, g mendor-la-ohlof of the SU fol lowing < members hf hi and respected i Adjutant ate J. W. Floyd, of Assistant adjoin general, CM. Jam lead county. « Quartermaster MauldT Com Wilson, of Englaear-i lamberg i •pends those happy days* which oaa be •pared from the exacting duties of his high office, loved and honored by aty the people. —An Atchison woman had a husband and a house to care for, aad her dutiae kept her mind occupied aad she wm always wall. Her husband died, left her some money, and It had the effect of cutting a boat loose and totting it fftlft: she wanders around from point to point, Is dissatisfied, asd having a great deal of time to think about bar self, la siok half the time m a result This hM happened la so many eaaes fa toblson m to create the belief that a omaa is happiest whoa she hM sue to grumble about hla thro* fiAJ* —"As uolM,” exclaims Ish'maaUto, "th go to pig for which ought* tho South. 1 ' Farad to Taking a Drink. Lancaster Bsview. Editor Hugh Wltom, of the Abbe- vllto Press aad Baaaer, says ha is "one who never drinks liquor asd oaa who. during a long life, hM never failed toll* th* militia or •trike at th* liquor traffic.” Everybody who knows Mr. Wlleoa eaa vouch tor the correctness of his statement He is pre-eminently a teetotaler. __ Is but one iMtenoe oa record whore brother wm ever known to drink, and It wm taken on that •ion at th* earnest insistence tors Hull, Langstou aad oaa other members of the State pj elation who ware present , Jr When the association met in George town some years ago, Editor Wilson wm one Of a party of jonrnaltete who landed In that quaint old town oM night after all the hMh booses had closed. The hnngry editors oaavaseed the town over In a vain search for sup per. Finally, m a tost resort they en tered a small, dingy looking saloon kept by a Jew, and with tears la their eyM proceeded to unfold their tale of woe to the proprietor, who proved to be a man of. much sympathy, but of little supper. However, he spread be fore the starving pencil pusners th* best he had In his shop. The menu consisted of some stale oeer, a lot of musty Passover bread and a miscel laneous assortment of able-bodied her ring. Shortly after dispatching hfs portion of this remarkable meal, Edi tor Wilson developed aa unmistakable case of the deepest sympathy for that unfortunate animal which the Bible tells us swallowed a man. which wm by oo oieans surprising. In fact, the only woeder to that every member of the party did not promptly die on the •pot. Well, In order to relieve Bro. Wil son’s evident distress, his anxious com panions. backed by their host, Insisted on hto taking a little liquor for hto "stomach's saxe.” Ha took It, hut the fiery stuff had soarcely disappeared from view before the brother’s tempe rance anatomy began to show its odd water rMtn’. Its protest against a dial of slops, antiquated Passover bread and strongly Mea ted herrln’ had been mild In oom par toon with the terrific revolt which it at*onoe proceeded to Inaugurate against the red liquor. It ■1 it ply raised one* M well as every thing els* la sight, causing the brother to svea lose hto well digested speech which he was to deliver before ta* as sociation the next day. Yes, that wm Hro. Wilson's first aad tost drink. By the way, speaking of Bro- Wl • S n, we are reminded of h | first vtolt Lancaster ago, whea everybody in to^, V-i»*k Elm fora the teospel nobody doubted, aad the only debatable queetioa wm m to what deaotn(nation he belonged. Even nto former acquaintance* did not at first reoo n't* him, so stilklogly clerical Is bis appear too* becoming m the years roll round. Though Bro. Wltooo is sot a preacher, be to good enough to make one We have of tea wondered why so model a man as ha hM never married, living too, m he does, la a community noted for the faeetaatiag beauty of It* women. Bis failure to wad may poe- ibly be due to hto absent mind which to said to be so great that h to kaep a shining beaver to every of hto b Bamberg eouaty. Surgeon maker, of 1 Paymaster Tllmaa, Jr., Judge ad Gunter, of Spartaul Chief of ordloaaoi of DarUngtooi A Id s-d e-Camp: Gaffney, Cherokee < Ja*. A. Hoyt, Jr., Lieut. Ool. J**. 8.1 bounty; Lieut. OoL < burg county; Lieut, LeooMter county i Sullivan, And) Willis J. Dai Lieut. Col. Ji county. By ordoff Of the J. Adjutant and; or oi —There are 1,009’ ths Atieatio oc month, soma of I —A farmer m resided la tea Ireland, died fee < year. He wm a rtm arfnl physiqa* withrir« a r Derate la '“•‘h body mh len? —-**» • „„ —Tb* estimate crop of the Ualted 1 tb* third beet oai the seowad bw With aa aggregate bushels v( wheat, an prosperity of 1!~ ■ —A ooMlderebi* la a cr I m inal court at! le Canada, says tffio Whea Matte to they often do. WEEKLY CROP ffiVLURlN. .... Brand op Sremons. Smith, who lives on the West side, had til hair out short 1m( week. And m toalth bad been wont to wear it rather oag the difference In hto appeal to marvelous. The day after It wm oilt he met Green. He hadn’t seen Jreen for over a year. Green hardly new him. "And, by Jove," exclaimed Gre«n tinting to Smith’* white tie, "yo ok almost like a preacher.’’ Smith's feature* stralghteneu ie •elves out. "Then you havu’thehrd?” , "Not a thing,” answered Grcon "I see." replied Smith, who is lawyer. In the proper sepulchre "Yoa, I am preaching now.” "The—tile—wall, you don’t claimed Green. «0, Come and hM i - p next .i i». if i eaa,’' stammortd Green a ex- I hopo you'll swerod Smiw. sever feat wa are not alwa; Aad beside#,* he add of a good aer: Journal. ' d M lor ala world. you’ll heafite ■a—Chicago Columbia. 8.0., Aug. 22,1899. The week eaalng August 21. 1899. contained a few days with normal temperature, but the week averaged about 2 degrees hotter than usual, with'# maximum temperature of 99 at Greaawood. The passage of a hurricane off the ooMt gave fall ly good rains over the eontheaetera third of the State where, in oogeeqaence, crops are doing wall but over the central, western, ant northern counties there ‘ wm prac tical lj no rain, aad all crop#—staple field, forage and food—are falling rapidly, and their condition to very low. • Th* passing of the hurricane caused high BjrtheMterly winds, which were dettir .sfctei- to. crops la thejfftorior, and Jamaged rfooQjy whipping out gn at, Maw down trr aad caused to 1 cotton. No f i high ttdM. he reports oo cotton are not en i raging m the crop over the greater jrtlou of the Stela haa deteriorated •om rust, shedding, premature open ng, aad too early maturity, Th* lint to abort, holla are sutell, and no top crop making. It to opening fMt, and. E lcklng to general. Sea-totoad eottw i doing well; It to opening and pick ing hM begun. Early oom to poor nod beyond 1m fiovemeat. Late oom stands In urgent need of rain to make even aa ordinary crop. Fodder pulling to finished plaoM aadtender way etoavher*. Tobacco harvest to awbt finished over the western districts, whore It to drawing to a.. olose. The yields are geoerauy satisfactory, bnt wCHte firfi •till troublesome. Rloe to banding W< tions harveetiaf is tUmw way, ouse. some six or night la ter ; otherwise be would never know where u> led hi* hat. But there to thleg th* brother Mver forget* to do, and tnal to, to get out oa time week one of tho beet newspapers pub lished lu the South Had trr Advantage or Him.—Me D. of Bastes, a constant devote# of the wheel, wm recently visiting la oaa oi the small towns of Western Me sette. He wm taking a spin about its streets shortly after hto arrival, whoa h* wm rue down, m he claimed, by a Negro aad knocked off hto bteywe. The fall aot only ruffled hto dignity and hto clothes, hut broke hto skin aad hto wheal. There combined Injuries sand* a broach la hto plaetdlty, and ha a stone aad threw U with ac curate aim at th* colored mas This imlraotioaof th* resulted la hto arrest and la lion la th* local court of iMtioa. , "I wLU fine you 16," said the jfidgw. "Hava you anything to eny f "Nothing,” "except that fallow. ’ That remark will cost yoa 16 rejoined Hto Honor. D.’s temper wm not Improved by this fresh dtoPsaMtton of laotioo, where fore the bitterness of hto plainly apparent. * to oom* nigh la \ served. "Five dollars for ly responded tho beaeh. "Have po* m.rr’ 9 ""' daat; "you bare th* I The his -If Mr. ill be the solve feat 41 yean. If halo re< the tret Via* Pi terms elae* J _ T _ served from 106*1 hare bees only who j putw mmj • replied IX, uamolllfied,. I wish I had kilted th* ...fflu- . , tid nbich of Sevan. rdntlves nn,; frif,, * .**>'* <!»d to •♦-a her j, rwnductlijf * pro-v,,,*,, I.onx H'siK-h by R«*v. Jo- “'i» v _ in •ougUrljeir biu-. diiif »„ ( i r. rn oororjtobclng and •light inju^ *•«*- ' Simple Mulyiplicatkw.-"! damage resulted, j,«o palre# ■tiirMfin. w ' "ThtolMfta dogjtRoep old < ° I know its boy. J n*u>, ” •“Inxtou, D <J r+lr:iLg («*•(, J” 1 WTOai nudor, without i P AS AA4#«Pfii