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— T ir ' *':4 v 'f-0 BlUy A.RP ON TBB WSATBC^R He Diactuses the Winds and the Hains and Touches on Politics. •/.i' / <;•. nv-. i.’v ‘ • • . Atlanta Comtitation. The ilemenW are unsettled. The wind seems be veering southward Roosevelt kheps on saying kind words about us and the Republicans are in & state of apprehension. The G. A. K.’i made the first assault on him because he dared to exalt the bravery and patriotism of our people; but he an swered them back nobly. Add now they are in consternation because he invited Clark Howell to dine with him The City of Shushan is perplexed. It looks like there is a power of good political fun ahead ot us, and we can’t be worsted. McKinley wanted to be kind, and fiey wouldent let him, but my opinion is that Roosevelt is going to run the machine according to his emotions. He is a man of emotions— good, generous emotions—and our emo tional nature is the best part of our nature. That is the reason that wo men are better than men; they are more emotional. A selfish man, a greedy man or a politician “ per se ” have no emotions. They plot and scheme for personal advantage. Ham let said that a politician it a man who would circamvent God. They bribe and deceive to gain their end. But Roosevelt is outspoken, candid and fearless. The politician’s utterances are cautions and come from his bead; Roosevelt talks from his heart, and if he feels like inviting Clark Howell to dine he is going to do it without con sulting Mara Hanna or the G. A. K.’s or for a moment consideiing what the party will say about it. 1 like Roosevelt because be has a wife and children; in fact, he has been married twico and has two sets of it ifl right tf u>« wife good to the chlldien of the first wife a* she is to her own. Our nearest neigh bor for long years had three setajrf children. Colonel Ba)ttd, a widower, with two children, married Mr*. Hand, a widow, with three children. Two more children were born to the last marriage, and all was peace and har mony iu that household. This reminds me of another famiJv, where theie were three *eta, and they didenl har monise, and one day when they were quarreling in the back yard the wife came mnaing in and emd to her hus band •* John, yoa’d better go oati yonder with e switch; your children and my children a e fighting our child ren.” 1 am pleased to learn that our Presi dent is coming to Georgia next fall and will visit his mother's old borne at Heewcll. Think I will meet him there and show him around, for almost everybody else is dead but me that was there wheu his mother was a girl. 1 wilt show him where w« boys played bullpen nnd town ball, and where his uncle half J)an or half of his l'ode Dan and 1 played sweepstakes and Dan always woo my while alleys. Yes, 1 will show him sround. Bat that colony of fine Savannah people, all blooded slock, are not there now. There were the Kings and Dunwoodys. who were in college with' me. Not all the King boys, of course, for there were nine of them, and only one sister for the wholes crowd—a beautiful girl. I .haven very dear cousiu in Birming ham who has nine girls and cue son. What a pity that those two families were not neighbors and cotemporaries so that the children could have mated and intennarf*ed. 1 like families with —nr rrT""" lf m vt or UMU, '4 1 aMMliUVlVl ■ jor hold a 'public officehe train. Wu ct^legc boy» knew himi well id Athens wheu he was first a drug clerk and next n doctor, aud^we let him pull our teeth just because lie was so kind and genial. Well, now I have written all this about Roswell because our President’s mother lived there and married there. I like to speak of him as our President, aod I don’t want any Georgia paper to call him Teddy or to make sport of him in cartoons. Some idiots think these caricatures of our Presidents are very smart and funny, but the i>eople who have respect for t^e high office think they are shameful. You can’t de grade the man without degrading the oflSce. But we will have to wait some time on Mr. Roosevelt. You can’t always sometimes generally tell, as Cobe would lay; we must wait and see how long this south wind blows—“ the sweet south wind that breathes upon a bank of violets,” 4s Shakespeare says. Aud we are the violets. We have both hope and confidence, for a man of emotions can’t go back upon his an cestors nor the place of their nativity. The Bullochs have been houoied in Georgia.' More' than one hundred years ago we named a county tot Gov ernor Bulloch, aud we wouldent mind naming another for his great great- audson. Georgia has never had a resident, and we will be proud to have even half of oue, especially the maternal half—most all great and good men have bred after the dam. Bill Aiip. GEN. HAMPTON FOR SENATOR State Chairman Thinks the Place Should be Offered Him Unan imously. Columbia State. Oet 7. unsni was jpiaa >ha P, i. gium mi usssmsa chairman of the Democratic party in this State, who has been* an avowed candidate for Senatorial honors, which 111 set the people and ih* politicians ol the Stale to thinking and talking. Col. Jouee withdraws from the race, aod in doing so makes the suggestion that the other candidates for Senator M-l-eu (st* seal step aside also, and let the pomw^n be unanimously ten dered to (»en?~-Wed» Hampton, the most noted figure today in South Carolina’s political and war Uteiory. It is a proposition tiiat will startle many at the first, but its eppiopnate- and merits will be ceitaio to com. maud much cooeiderali<Hi from the |ieople of the State. what Col. Jooea says of the mailer in his statement: '•I have concluded not to eutcr the race for the United States Senate next year, because 1 feel ihst 1 cannot gtve up my home boaiueae interests, unless there be a special demand for it. 1 have a very large per-unal acquaint ance with the Democsats of thu Stale. Judging from letters received end many personal intern- we 1 feel satis- fled that my chances for the nomina tion to this distinguished position would have been fully as good ee the! of any candidate who*e-name is now mentioned.in connection with the Sen- alorehip. 1 would have no political fear to run against any man in this Stale except two, namely, Senator Tillman and Gen Hampton, because I believe either of them could beat me or any other man in the State. By the way, I think the very beet solution of the Senatorial contest would be for all of the young men who are now eandidates for the placy, to an been manifested in regard to Mr. Hemphill’s views upon the proposition to.make Gen. Wade Hampton the sue- cessor cf McLaunn, he was interview ed on this point. Mr. Hemphill expressed the highest admiration for Gen. Hampton, but said he had not fully determined upon his course, particuharly as Mr. I.a timer declines to withdraw in favor of Geu. Hampton. Mr. Hemphill stated that his candidacy was not altogether of his own motion, and before giving up the fight he would have to confer with his friends. He had just come from Spar tanburg and declares - that he has met with encouragement wherever he has been. He seemed tJ think that what ever he might or might not have done, the action of Mr. Latimer would pre vent any further action among the candidates to withdraw in favor of Gen. Hampton. CONGRESSMAN LATIMER Has announced definitely that he will not withdraw from the race. An in terview given by him to a Washingtotf" correspondent runs as follows : “ Representative Latimer, who is an avowed candidate for the Senate to succeed Senator McLauriu, refuses to consider seriously the magnanimous proposition of State Chairman WUie Jones, who is also an aspirant for Sen. atorial honors, that all of the candi dates withdraw iu favor of the ' Grand Old Man,’ Gen. Wade Hampton. “ > There is not a man in Sooth Car-, olina,’ said Mr. Latimer, * who has greater respect for Geu. Wade Hamp ton than I have, aod I would go as far as any other man to make his declining years comfortable and happy, but I cannot ugtee with Col. Jones’ sugges tion to drag Geu. Hampton back into the excitement and turmoil of political life, ' -”‘U’a that his disability arises from injuries received iu the service of the State. Whatever was the individual opin ion of the members composing the State Pension Board, they endeavored in every instance to be governed by the law and evidence before them. In this connection I desire to call at tention to the condition liable to ex ist in this State at an early date. The establishment of a soldier’s home by the State may require for each inmate of this home au annual expenditure of $200. The inmate may be a worthy, decrepit soldier who did not receive bodily injuries in the service of his State. On the other hand, (he State will expend $10.60 for the soldier who lost his leg and has been for 36 or more years a cripp’e, and today is practically bed-ridden, who remains at home to be cared for by an aged and devoted wife, or friends. I believe that the soldier in his home county, with equal dis abilities, is entitled to the same con sideration as the soldier who is an oc cupant of the home at the capital of the State. I he ve no objection to make to the soldiers’ home. I merely call atten tion to these facts, with the t hope that when an Act is passed creating a sol diers’ home, it will be so safeguarded that the small sum that the State of South Carolina is able to spend for her veterans will not be taken ftom the needy pensioners and spent where at best only a few can enjoy it. At this time some very old and de crepit soldiers in this State who re ceived no injuries in the army, get only $14.70, and from the standpoint of equity and justice, to take one of these men, place him tn a soldiers’ home and spend $200.00 annually on him, aod leave another at hit home and give him only $14.70, savors of inequality, to say the least of iL. live* in Ih-half of Geo. Hampton, lli has a magnanimous flavor, which may J ap|«al to the sentiment of a nnmberof people who are not entirely acquainted with the actual conditions entering into the Senatortal light in South Car olina. Col. Jones has an assured posi tion, which pays something over $5,000 a year, aud he doubtless realises that be can Intnlly make the Seuatonalship in the pending contest, so in a burst of sympathy and zeal for Geo. Hampton he prop ass ihai all of Hi*: other randi er* was doubt as to whether $100,000 UO of *150,000.00 was appro priated at the Ikst session of the Gen eral Assembly for ppnsioaa AA^tcr consultation w^felhe 'Other i linn be rs of the 8 talc ivllnn Board, I addressed a letter to tbs Attorney General, setting forth the facts and asking that he give an opinion as la ike amount of the appropriation. Be fore be answered this communication, the State Treasurer expressed himself as unwilling to honor my warrant* for 3,036 ; Class C, No. 4, 5,146 ; totiti number, $5,183—$18 each. state hoard. • The first meeting of the State Board occupied five dkys, the time allowed by law. For this they received $2 per diem and five cents per mile. At this time we' were not more than half through with the work, and it was necessary for them to returu. The second meeting occupied several days aud for this additional service they were paid an amount sufficient to cover their expenses. The members of the State Board have individually nnd collectively ren dered me every assistance possible iu thh work, not only at the regular meet ings, but at any and all times. Capt. Starling, the resident member of the Board, has come to my office when re quested, to confer and advise with me on questions which have arisen. In this way he has given to Uie State sev eral days’ work for which he received no compensation, and made no charge for it. Owing to the illness of Dr. Griffin the surgeon of the State Pension Board, Dr. L. K. 1’hilpot was asked to act in his place, and rendered service to the Board, ami very generously contribut ed his per diem to the Confederate reunion in this city. COPIES OK PENSION REPORT. The public printer is authorized to print onlv 600 cbpies of the Comptrol ler Gereral’s report, but in the case of insnrance, and it will doubtless be the same with the pension report—1,000 copies were not more than enough to supply the demand. I ask that you make provuioo for the printing of ad ditional insurance and p nsion reports. J. I*. Durham. *. Comptroller General. Ex Officio Chairman State Pc ition Board. -v dates, 'who have already stripped I G»e $150,000 00 oo account of the fray and have commenced their, * T * n l ^ e Attovoev General was vr I npininn that 1 should drew warrants PICKENhVIIAV MUSTER. A Place of Importance in the Hal cyon Days of the Paat. “ The Idler,” a contributor to the Spartanburg Journal, gives the fol lowing reminiscence of Old I’ickens- ville, which will be relished by our readers: One old Southern institution, how ever, has departed for always. The chaugis of the manner of life, the de velopment of the country, the concen- Iration of amusements and organiza tions in the towns, large and small, are the reasons for its going. That was the muster. It is gene but not its me nories. 1 have heard the older peopk talk of musters and my Irish blood has been raised by numerous re miniscences. I have heard old men tell of the great crowds, the gay dress, the gorgeous drunks and the glorious tights that used to be features of the gatherings at the general muster grounds iu the up-country. The militia was the pride of the .Stale and it was thick with generals aod colonels and majors and there was vast pride in these and the minor offices, and the wearers of epaulets aud titles “ did strut pow’fuT.” After the reviews— often by the governor—the tun would commence. The neighborhood bullies would go against each other and 14 fist and skull tights” ensued thick and fast. It was cowardly to use a knife or pistol and the man who did lost his social slrmliog. Brandy and honey was the favorite beverage and the result of the mixture of that seductive draught with enthusiasm, July sun and miliunl am bition is not hard to imagine. Cider aud ginger cakes were the delight of the sober element and great article* of trade. There were mighty fighters in those limes an I the stage-bouts of fray aod bsve commence canvass, shall step aside so that Geo. Hampton tnav lie induced to come out of retirement and again take up the lrial* aud reapooailHlitiea of politics. I am frank to say that 1 will not give my consent to ihst proposition ; aud 1 do not believe Geo. Hampton and hie beet fr.ende sanction lh% move made by Col. Jones.* ** Col. Will* Jones expressed himself as delighted at the manner in which the people of the Stale have received bis suggestion that Wad* Hampton should be elected to the l nited Slates No us Is. He aisled that he had receiv- j ed uiany letters from over the State and had beard a great many leading men express themselves, aod in every j instance the suggestion had been re ceived favorably. Regardless of for mer (tarty alignments the people had | shows an eagerness to do honor loj Geo. Hampton. He bad not heard from Gen. Hampton directly, bat bad j li.Q, for that amount. The Attorney Gen eral under these circumstance# de clined to give the opinion, and sug- 1 grated mandamus proceedings to settle 1 the question. It was argued before the Supreme Court, which decide.I that $100,000 was the amount appro- I priated for 1801. 1 proceeded to die-1 bare* the pension fund In accordance with that th ciaion and issued war- ranis on the basis of $100,000-00. rKNSIOS KM OKI**. 1 have endeavored to make this re port full by giving the names of each applicant, with poeloffice address, the company aod regiment in which be served to the case of the soldier, end the company and regiment of busbaud in case of the wul>w. Since complet ing this report ^1 find by comparison with the old reewds tn the office, that some widows in their application for a pension, have given the company aud heard indirectly that if the people so I regiment of their hatbands entirely willed, the old warhouse would go back different from the com|>any aod regi- into baruesa. THE STATE 8 PENSIONER* ment given by the husband nl the time he applied for a pension, eight or ten years ego. XX A Stort ok Gen. Morgan.—One of the mi|K interesting stories that 1 find in ^|^ihl war scrap book is that about the capturd of John Morgan by the home guard in Rabun County, Georgia. It was published in The Athens Wiitcbman in lHt»4. Th# story as given in the paper is as follows: “ An inckleiit connected with the remarkable escape of Morgan from bis Northern imptisonmenl came to our knowledge the other day, which will repealing. Having made applica te two respectable citizens of Cley- Kahun County, for e night's lodg- j mg aod lieen refused because they I thought he was an imposter, a third, who bwl seen him before and recogniz-1 ed him, invited him to his house, | where be spent the night. In the mean time It had been currently re ported tn the village end vicinity that an imposter, pretending to be John Morgen, Was at the boose of Mr. —. »• Next morning about twenty of the •• Home Guards' assembled, and under the direction of their efficient captain, arrested him. Us quietly submitted and assured them that If be failed to prove his identity he would accompany them to Atlanta. About this time one or two ceollemen wbo had seen him recognized him, satisfied the Home Guard* that they had captured the veritable John II. Morgan! Of course he waa at once released. Before leav ing he addressed the crowd briefly, commending in the highest terms the vigilance they liad displayed, aJv.ung them to arrest all persons who could not give a satisfactory account of them selves, and closed with th# playful re mark that twenty men had accom plished in Rabun what it required usRml—dfr-. *c. ■ ■ Iiyiaic of the fiddle played by a fiddler added' to the ebarm day nnd sank th<*iu The people who did sinew of the country end they were simply e little rougher and more en thusiastic in their sports, then we, I heir descendants, aie with ours. One of the most famous of these old muster grounds and gathering places of all the tribes wee IVkentviile, which wee e hundred or more years ago the court house town of the pert of the Male now comprising Anderson, Oconee, IScke— end parks of Uraea vill* and perhaps other counties. IVkeosvilie wise piece of importance, and was pel haps the woolliest potm on the nmp. In fact it came to be dis reputable and Anally became little more a name and a memory with many odious features. There were e num- , Hatty Hits.—So many bmo a neglecting business to march aroui in parades that the women have cm to be proud of themaelvea. This is the season when eeilnif l taken into the cellar, aud ex( rave over the rows ot jam of ] and pickles. A town doesn’t lose its country ways entirely until the yonng people living in it stop giggling in the back sent* at public entertainments. The merchants complain that every woman who returns from n trip calls to tell them how much cheaper tfrtwge away from home, and they are getting mad about it. Whet a man has had bad luck, and takes his wife to live with his son-in- law, there is great indignation for the son in-law, but never notice any indig nation when a young maq takes hie family to live on his wife’s father? Anything that can be piled onto an old man seems to be all right. The most severe critics old-faahioned l>eople have are girls between twelve and twenty years of age. It is n rare girl wbo does not alien ate her teal friends by being too much of a princess from sixteen to twenty. When it is annonneed that a woman will entertain informally, it means that she will buy things ready-made at the baker’s. So many women think they hate done their whole duty toward a m*i» if they pot a wet cloth on his head when he has a headache. When a man’s wife flatters him, it may cost him th# price of e hat, but when other women begin it, it may cost him everything he ha*.—Afettse* Glut*. ' ■ Fm A Good Jokk on Hkmklf.—The •ays that the ex- Jrf(s oC J [Phljadslpliia Ledger r—J— * I1AMM WSFWJU EJWMI IU1UM VI UUIUM. mg feature# of the t, telling a story on herself. Not' s deep id memory, locg ago a woman cf fashion ga Bd tbi* were the vei . elaborate luncheon. As that beside IS* hundredth man would ever think of *ot very gave a veiy Senator’s wife seated off her giovee aha noticed her set s stout, elderly | ly wealthy, obvtou-lv who didn't know and just as obviously unwed to the way* of polite Indeed, she presently turned Senator's wife aod qoofeased it. “ I goes* yours is the only face I know, except Emily's Users,’* dtcating tbs hostess. •‘She's my niece. But I knew vou th* miaul* I set eves on you.. I eaie to myeelf. ‘There’s Mrs. Senator Blank,' aud I itDO* it” 44 IVrhape you'd I before,” said th graciously. “ 1 think you are from my irkmely society, to the Yee, 1 me,” admitted th* 44 bat 1 ain’t ever seen you 44 My picture In th* thesT” said th* Senator's wife, who had appeared in the pubtte luenti ber of killings there in the first half of, iiwbaud’s State, era you not f” the last century end public bangings had an enormous at tendance, killing and banging were associated la those days before the gentle expedients of koaaniiy and self defena* came into fashion. Hors* thieve* fared badly. There were some remarkable fights, some being pitched bailies be tween renowned biilltee. Drinking, gambling, bores radog, chicken fight ing andfother sport* still in vogue, but more quiet, were indulged in with frontier earnestness, and many • lories of financial and moral ruin bad their beginning there—and the fast days and funous nights are inwoven in tragedies that long have darkened up- country homes. - # . Pickuneville, as I remember it froi first eight, in my child hood days, uy of late That's It,” eagerly. “ That’s jast know you as soon as I been seeing you in the sines for months, end, say. i wen; ask you, confidentially, is that soup good as you any it let” The New York. E says: “ It appear* of the Bine Grass State have together for the purpose of thwarting the will and interferii j m A .'.(L ft ■houTdent be eligible to gerto Congress or the Legislature. It is not possible for bin to feel deeply concerned about the perpetuity of government. It is the children aod the grandchildren we fathers are living for.. Au unmarried man lives for himself. He may be smart and morel and well educated, but, as Kipling says, he can’t uuder- • stand the paternal anxiety. All those Roswell bo> s were manly and well favorecT. Tney made good preachers, good soldiers, good archi tects aud manufacturers and were good citizens. Foor Tom King had his leg shattered at Manassas, and as soon as he could walk was in the field again and was killed at Chickam&uga. He Was a bright, cheerful, handsome man, and everybody loved him. Old Bar rington King sent North for a teacher and got oue by the name of Eels, but the boys dident like him, They said he was a hypocrite and an abolitionist, i and was just fooling papa. They called him Slickfish, and guyed him until ho was sent back to where he came from Colonel Bay aid married Barrington King’s sister, the widow Hand, and moved to Rome, fle was a courtly entleman, a descendaut of Chevalier >ayard, aud his grandfather, was Nicolas Bayard, a French Huguenot. He was a cousin to the Senators Bayard of Delaware. He was au expert swordsman, and loved to show you the back stroke by which his ancestor, while flying from some troopers, slow ed up his horse and, as they came up on the gallop, cut their heads off one by oue with this same back stroke. Oue of hie granddaughters, Misa Flouda Seay, has recently weilded a Mr. Tracy, of New York, a nephew of B. F. Tracy, who waa secretary of the navy. One of Mrs. Bayard’s daughters married Biahop Quintaid, druggist, doctor, preacher, dbldier, chaplain and then bishop. He got a beautiful and dutiful wife, and everything elee he asked for. Kind-hearted and lovable aa a woman, he always carried a satchel full of cake and candy for other peo ple’s children when be traveled on the cept the position and let the old gen eral be elected without opposition. “Witbotit any reflection upon any candidate now in the field I believe that Gin. Hampton's views on na tional politics meet witb the approval of practically all the Democrats in the State. Such a happy and gracious event as the selection of Geu Hampton at this pailicular time would make the Democratic party of this State abso lutely irresistible and save us of much agitation and feeling when there is so much else for our people to do. “I happened iu 1877* to be oue of the six Democratic boys who carried Geu. Hampton on our shoulders from the platform where he was inaugurat ed through the streets of Columbia to the hotel, and today again it would be my great pleasure to cooperate iu slevating him to this high position, be cause I believe it would be for the good of the great Democratic party of my State.” Coming as it does from the Btate chairman, the proposition is oue that is of peculiar interest. That it will meet with the unanimous approval of all veterans in South Carolina goes without saying, and there will be many who are not veterans who will approve of it. It is of course impossible to forecast the course the other candi dates will pursue. Oue thing is cer tain, however, and that is that should Geu. Hampton, the man who redeemed the State from negro rule, be sent back to the Senate the people of South Carolina would be represented on all the important issues by one who has ever beeu true to his people iu time of war and in time of peace.' To seed him beek as a crowning glory to a long and useful life would be a compliment, indeed an act that would show to the outside world that South Carolina ap^ predates a eoq. who has done for her what nothing she do for him can repay. . MORE ABOUT THE 41 HAMPTON MQ.Y&- Bugges- MENT.” -_l" The Colombia State aays that Mr. John J; Hemphill was in that city#oa the 9th inst., and aa some curiosity has teresting tions. Comptroller General Derham baa just issued his annual Pension Report to'the General Assembly for the year 1001. The report is quite au elaborate piece of work and shows the number of pensioners in South Carolina on the roll by counties aud classes. — -Columbia, Sept. 14. •• To the Honorable General Assembly: f* submit herewith the annual pen sion report of this office for the year 1001. Under the Act of the General As sembly 1000, the State Board prepared blank applications for the applicants, and rules for the guidance of the County pension boards. For the in formation of members of the county boards in the btate and others to whom this report will be seut,jl have in cluded the pension law and rules. The Board, under the terms of the Act, ruled that a Confederate .soldier or sailor, totally disabled by paralysis could not be traced to such service, aud the cause of paralysis could not be traced to such service. They also con strued the law that a soldier or sailor, totally disabled by paralysis, was eu titled to a Class A pension, not with standing the fact that he received no wound or bodily injuries iu service, and the cause of paiglysis could not be traced to such service. They also con strued the law that a soldier who lost a limb in the service of the State or Con federate States, and is now a wreck physicallyy could not be placed iu Class A, but was*entitled to Class B, there being nothing to show that his physical condition was the result of injuries received in service. In some instances applicants were blind, but where there was nothing to •hew that their loss of sight was (he result of wounds or injuries received in service, they were not placed iu Class A. It seems that under this law the un fortunate Confederate soldier who totally psral) zed ix favored above another unfortunate soldier wbo totally disabled, and yet unable to show approted by the petition boaid of this I halls county, it is not surprising that a mis. take or error that escaped them, should not be detected by the Slate Board. •! hope all those interested will furnish this departn ent with information rela tive to pensioners that will tend to cor rect any errors or irregularities. DISTRIBUTION OK PENSION FUND. ■ The following i# the number of peu- siouers iu each class, the amount of them and the total • Class A, 36 ($86 each) $3 456.00 Class B, 200 (119 60 each). . ... 3 830 00 Class C, No. 1. 470 (114.76 each) 6 909 00 Class C, No. 2, 3,030 ($14.70 each) 44 629 20 Class C, No. 3, 615 ($1470- each)••• 9 040 50 Class C, No. 4, 2,146 ($14.70 each). . 31,546.20 Total number of pension ers, 6,503 $99,500.90 I again call your attention to 'the fact that in distributing this money a soldier 60 years of age who was not wounded ur injured in service fares the same as the wounded soldier, and the widow whose husband was killed in inttle or died while in service, and who has lost her husband within the ast two years. . I suggest that Class A, B, 0, No. 1, and Class C, No. 3, receive the full amount of their peusioos, that is $96, $48 and $36 per annum, and the other pensioners, the soldiers over 60 years of age who were not wounded onjn- jured iu battle, and the widows of those who died since the war, share in the balance of the appropriation pro rata. TUerirdsuTt ioTTror,"WlUTour present and $150,000, would be as fol- roll, lows 36 Class A $3,456.00 200 Class B. 9,600.00 470 Class C, No. 1 16.920 00 615 Class 0, No. 8..... ....... 22,140.00 Making a total of 1,321..... .152,116 00 Leaving $97,884" to be distributed pro rata among the soldiers and widows over 60 year* old, Class C, No. 2 Behind th^Times.— 44 It isn’t my fault,” declared the bachelor. 44 1 would have been married long ago if the fates hadn’t been against me. I simply gave up When 1 discovered that the race was too swift for me. Thcrj was a time when all my future was centered in a certain young lady wh » lived in this city. But I had a detested rival who caused me a good deal of un easiness. At last I resolved to settle the matter; so I dressed myself in my best and made for the girl’s home. Say, but I was boiling mad when I met my rival at the door. Something told me that be was on the same errand, and we stood there and glared at each other until the girl’s -mother came to the door and informed us that the young lady bad gone to a neighboring town to visit au aunt. “ As I turned away I chanced to no tice a back passing. I knew that there was a train leaving town for the town where the girl was, in a few minutes, and it gave me an idea. Makiug a dash for the hack 1 jumped in and shouted to the driver that I would give lim $10 if he would get me to the station in time tp catch the train. Then I waved my hand to my rival as long as he was in sight, and chuckled to myself at the success of my coup “ Well, 1 arrived at the town, found where my friend was staying, nnd call ed without loss of time, as L had an idea that my rival would be up on the next train. “ Say, I hope to never get married if that miserable fellow hadn’t called her up by telephone and settled the whole thing before I had even caught my train.”—CMcaj/b Journal. account *f a local legend connecting it with his SalAnic majesty; scrubby pines growing near by furnished sight and walla that the nervous might as sociate with the past. A few houses then remained and the race track could be defined. A few hundred yards away, un a tract of granite, there were dungeops cut in the solid rock; that is where some of the old-time teirors ‘were kept, under the old jail. 1 hear this i* all changed now. The dungeons aie no more and tbe granite las been blasted for building rock, ieveral years ago an enterprising far mer tore up the face of the earth and isd a terrific battle with the jointed grass and was rewarded by gaining a magnificent cotton field. The old shacks have disappeared. A mile above,on the Southern Railway, is the iroeperous town of Easley, and a cot- ton mill has been built there with a Bcttleme.il reaching almost to the pre cincts of Old Pickensville. The “big muse ” of the place, once the hotel, e, 1 believe, standing and is the resj dence of Wm. A. Neal. A quaint theory was once advanced about Pickensville. The tearing up of the “Tom Bell” grass was followed, it is said, by an extraordinary outbreak of trouble in Easley, a mile above. The town was torn by factions and the churches were made scenes of war. An old citizen said that the “ Tom The Sultan of Turkey has six sons ant seven daughters, wbo are kept in the securest seclusion, tbe former never (having the grounds of the house in which they were born. lucky’# conditions to be i indignant sense of the grose^alaatio* of this agreement. There ram In the Stale—the figures nr* taken from the returns at the latest election—486,908 qualified voters. This means that under the agreement of the distillers there will be only 59 galloon, or 479 pints, for each Kentucky gentleman’s cousumptioa daring the coarse ot the jearl Divide these figures by the 866 day* of the year and the resalt is ehock- iugl 1am than two pinta of whtakey a day for each! Well may one ah Od er at this showing and aak: ‘ Where will the hand of the oppromor fall next?’ ” Preai lent Roosevelt ban riven hie hearty approval to the scheme tor building a bridge acrom the Potomae river, which wUl include n memorial arch in honor ot the late President • McKinley; The Washington G. A. &. posts and the National Memorial Bridge Association propose to hold a public meeting at an early date to for ward the movement. President Roose velt has promised to write a letter to be read at tbe meeting. A citizen of Wilkins burg, Pa., owns au old lottery ticket which rends aa follows: No 257. Presbyterian Church lottery. Authorized by law. This ticket Bell ” had mercifully come to Pickens- will entitle the possessor to such a prise Mrs. Helen Geotge, of Pa., claims to be 126 years eldest child (a 99. Franklin, old. Her ville and formed a tough cover and that the devil was covered in. His theory was that the tearing up of the “ Tom Bell ” let the devil loose and hence all the trouble._ ^ . Dr, Thurston, who is much more home in the mazes of theology than in ibe amenities of social life, hot long ago was introducing to a younger cler gyman, a handsome widower, a former parishioner of his own, no longer young, and extremely sensitive to the fact. “My brother,” paid Dr.Thurs ton, leading the lady forward while hie face beamed with genuine affection, “this is Miss VlMiln Jennings, one of my old sheep ’’—Harper’s Magazine. as shall be drawn to its number, If demanded within twelve months after the drawing; subject to 20 per cent deduction. M. Wilkins, president of the board of managers, Pittsburg, Junes, 1807. At Cotta, iu Saxony, persons who did not psy their taxes last year are published in a list which hangs op In all restaurants and saloons of lbs city. Those that are on the list neither meat-nor driakst i under penalty of loss of I a Th* oldest veteran to march in parade at. the last Grand Armyi was John A. Reed el Decatur, lad., wbo is 103 years old.