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The VOL. XXV. —‘“jr A ROMANCE IN STAID OLD CHESTER Business Men Sign Petition Urging the Presided to HoliTUp Young Crawford’s Commission. - The Young Lady Had Bought Her Trousseau. But the Day on Which the Wedding Was Set the &room- Elect Declined to Dowttin South Ctuolma, at one of the oldest aud most aristocratic towns in the State, there is a sad little love affair that promises interesting develop ments. Indeed, this little romance, which is somewhat in the nature of a tragedy of hearts, has been carried to the attention of the War Department in Washington. Details are now being awaited, and all kinds of pulls are being worked to punish a dashing young army officer for jilting one of the pret tiest and sweetest girls in the Palmetto State. To appreciate this pathetic heart narrative, the x?&d?r will have to go back to the beginning and follow me through. It ia a- touching story, in which love au i disappointment, court, ship and tinai rupture forced poor little Cupid to bow his head in humiliation over bis failure to unite two joung throbbing hearts, and, in popular par- [ lance, to “ go way back and sit down,” j Chester is a quiet little town on the Seaboard, Southern and Carolina and North-western railkoads up iu '.he northwestern part of South Carolina. It is a drowsy place, where kat)did» argue disputed points in big elm trees on hot summer nights, while young lovers with -.bat ardor born and nur tured by a balmy Southern elim% ten- iuly wqo on broad verandas where Jways. dreamily beneath bonevawkU; BARNWELL SOUTH' CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21. iqqI- ^ r- " ' '' I IlffB'J ! summer hammock. It t« a m.i town. IB fWflfiitl flrTTfitl!? census to cemma. Few outsiders Up tbeie ; .nobody over moves I its people are lanrelp descend original *etilers, and everybody I to everybody else—a great fami to apeak, on sufficiently < terms to require no mvitatm Being an old town, its people the creaking old veranda late at night. But a time came when they had to part for a while, at least. Ambition, which a certain historical character was enjoined to “ fling away,”, filled the young man’s breast. He was seized with a desire^to be something, to io something that would arouse the ad miration of his fellow townsmen. The big broad world lay before him and the opponunily now presented itself to show what sort of stuff he was made of. Ediling the Cluster Lantern did_ not afford any broad field for the dis play of genius. Besides, it was tame. News of an iutererti.qg character sel (Tom developed in Chester, an<T even if a live story fiew in at tl.e editorial window of the Lantern, friendly rela tions, family ties and other pulls pre vented the editor from going into such details as w<Mild interest the limited number of subscribers and set the town to talking. So young Crawford welcomed the announcement that war was ou with Spain. lie was full of the baltle fever. VTsions of charging up hillsides against the enemy, gallantly planting ihe stars and »tri|>es on • tottering fort, or hav ing heroic reports sent to Washington bout bU personal valor fired him from head to fool. lie must enliet. His country ueeded turn right then, and coulduT well get along wit lout him.—Army" life was pictured la hHT WM'Xji sidlb'-dashlU-' of swnrdianil fWWT!rol , a!lff?^rrr.‘ (Tift.itnTma r eai*s at night. Hi* engagement to Um fawe.i wo- hfld a few reinaiks to make about thef romance the other day. Now, general Corbin is something of a lover himself, He recently fell % helpless victim to the Love-God’s shafts and took unto himself a sweet young Wife. So he is in a position to know what it means to be allowed to fellow the dictates of his own heart, Geueral Corbin believes that young people’s love affairs are purely private and personal matters and neither the have often wondered why lying was the Ten Command- shalt not steal ” is War Department nor any other kinc of department has any business med dling with them. He admitted that charges of the character referred to bad been preferred against young Crawford, whose name is on the eligi ble list. “ He called upon me some days ago,” said Areneral Corbin, “ and made what seemed to me to be a man ly, frank and complete statement of his side of the question. I was much impressed with his straightforward ness. It does not seem to me, how ever, that it is within the province of the War Department to mix up with the love affairs of a prospective officer. u It occurs to me that if the young lady in • question has reasonable grounds for her contention, that Mr. Crawford declines to lead her to the altar, her recourse would naturally be through a civil court of her own State,” Assistant Secretary Sanger, when seen, was extremely reticent, and, in fact, would only go to the length of admitting that the papers in the case were before his department and being given very careful consideration. He expressed deep regret that tie matter had been aired in the newspapers, and further said that the statements pre- seining the parties to the conlioversy »“U.d, wider no cirrumatancca, be given cut. • his purse from out his pocket, but would kis' him before he left him,” He diagnosed the man correctly, for he was turned ont of office soon afters for embezzling the public money, and everybody was sorry for him because he was so generous wi.h his plunder. - Stealing from the public crib seems to be a higher grade of Crime than lying, though it takes lying and hypo crisy and deceit to accom{yiish it. I THE CONFEDERATE not fo: bidden in ments. “ Thou The foregoing story wai ^ the Richmond ’I'tnir *7 Slid there, but “ thou sbalt not lie ” is not there, and yet it is accursed all through the Scriptures and is the last sin re corded in the last chapter of Revela tions and in nearly the last verse. “For without are dogs and sorcerers, and whoremongers and murderers and whosoever loveth and niaketh a lie.” According to David,* that sin did not leave very many to enter heaven, for he says, “ I said nr mine haste all men are liars/’ The old Scotch preacher took it for a text and his first remark was, ** Ah, David, me tnon, if ye had waited until now )e might have said i! at your leisure.” Lying is no doubt Ihe most universal stf among mankind, but it is graded an<Fliot always a sin. Stealing is always a sin, but lying must be malignant or harmful. Paul sent Titus to Crete and wrote to him that he would have a bard time in establishing a church there, for the Cretans were all liars. Crete is Can- dia now, an island in the Mediterra nean, inhabited by Mohammedans chiefiv, and travelers say that they are no better now than they were it St. Paul’s day, for they are not only liars, but thieves. England used to have laws to punish common scolds, common drunkards and common vsgabonds, but none to punish common liars, for they are generally harmless. Every* com- rntmirf bas one nr tWd and they keep n Adopted for Perfecting the Rolls ot Soldiers From this State. An important meeting was held in Columbia on the 31st of October, com posed of a joint committee of Con federate Veterans and Sons of Vierana The meeting was for the purpose of considering the vitally important mat ter of the completion of the Confed erate rolls of this State. Much ear nestness w%s manifested by the mem-' hers of the committee, all realizing lha't the time for the perfection of the rolls has arrived if they are ever to be re vised and corrected. At the time the meeting was held it was impossible to give details, and hence the publication of the following complete report made by the secretary of the meeting: There met on Oct. 31, pursuant to the call of the chairman, Gjn. Zimmer man Davis, the joint State committee on detail of enrollment and organiza tion appointed pursuant to the resolu lion adopted by the late State conven tion of United Confederate Veterans, providing that by individual and or ganized effort there be obtaiued as soon as possible “ a correct and com plete enrollment of all persons who served in the army or navy of the Con federate States, and that this enroll ment be along geographical lines by Lbe township and county from which the peryon entered the military or naval service of the Confederacy, or io which he resided after sucb service ceased. ’ ’ - The meeting having been called to order by Gen. Davis, he announced that the commandant of the South Carolina division of Uailed Confeder ate Veterans bad appealed the follow lug «... muntUe wf has been made in front Washington t special dispatches narrow e>-ca llua an>iM«d at tl m/haimm jvntT^Tn nnntmir anu rwnm: I floed. collared and proud < ago. Fore cavalier bloc thraojrb their veins, while tb' 0>n blot! llir |nf black families in nn ibe p.ac rl’ I m d Ilk »t of lb i for g«... 41 tour liogef 'i - ' r k'T sbee of be oouos Chester is a pu t Clous Old botnet, i appearance, ha from father to have been U e i parties, where l ad out for a bar these parties u ding aonouuct wards. Ib Chester tb life. Feople kn The children I each other ; bei ••rij ***; fTc |ether and dual under lbe*ebad<>w homes. Thus i year, and Che sleepy, dingy, where nobody i everybody, having retired on a com petence, believes in. having a good time socially to-day and lettmg the Borrow take care of its If. This la the atmosphere to winch were roared Willie Crawfor^ fnnl Rl. '4yu?ca LWvglasb: Kbit) Wftl BitsstTl with brains, a heart, go<fl blood and anu u! 1 I1I.I! 3 in l Ihester hai 1 A ireadv be 4-o an President Rpoaevelt baa decided tfiat ia akin i iiouim e*i. Che |i •aril ■M wonlfi 1 N i bard. ' a man who J lIU a girl ia not entitled to illy. ■Ml j Bui . duty hfifutl l Io tft. - He mi UBl go. | apjHi minx rni in tbe an ny, as such too- Dgeu 11*1 J | Th« sir la* l night • lUtftlJ her is r A4 a *ad ; du4 l ttiAjr be proper!) t ermed ungentle- to t If*. 1 |”°® S and panin K WAI i ind< S*M b 1 maul V a0*1 coiit rary io tbe he»t interest are rr- .* , weet s orrow.' H. >w mi m 'tear* j l ot ,U ie *< r Mr ice. He has* therefore ir In nr-1 • * r « sba 1, bow IUA $j y vows of 1 loyalty i IftlU ird to 1 aniiotut former Lieutenant i flu !«• w« r t IDAfit •, bow VUAI nr times hr HWorr WUn ism 1 *. Crawford, ofik'berter, O.C., iuml trr no 1 In twilf 'b’uc Si Min i i _ K iu ittie Of 1 U 4t ban, a *4-i LOUd in utrnaul in lb* regular l*aiti .DC 1 lira 1 u \ »•: Filiutu rS c <hi hi r ob b«-r of armv an.i KStiatli d tiu s gtrt's fneods, rain. 111 • | bis ttfeJUjcfa its f.*r a n non •mt. li i lot re- who ha i made a di I'trrtuinrd fi^bt Then there are liars—Mars of the some uncommon first magmtude Kslad. IXol I In* v purled, »the Fbihnisne*, a vagi ru 1 •belt sud be Welti it? 1*ml aIiijt lu ] In of it on)v i iv* been bat*'le< 1 down 40 Vru •o<l mile* away ax if full i Son. Sonic i 4 them «»f iA^Oi’IIN. 1*4 flit m rAi&it’ 1 l»»< k t o her. scene of fatuotw > b*<u#e. I brnr w«r* mmU m| b\ lUAfl) , ibi ml M a „j L'uptd Invariably ('imp a irtH AIMftrftl Httl Ihrr vest, aud nteiul licit of wrt re full of li • ti iernesa and le Allb * tnally litokvd fi ,f W4rti* a oil •hr rrwd At •d re-read them, t u« kr*l tmeuu sbortlv after- ib« m awajt ivi ’ AW«I prrfabp* kt ■•ed them 1 em|i4» or bi* ■ An!y t Mike ere ia deligblfnl > aortal Mraolime \ •uug Craw! ford i lulio- i«*w who eat. h Oil ker are if lof brave ry, au >tl hu make mud |*( come •weelbearl is with ' f •mr (Arne tat k to Wa-bi ogi**n * He l* at an wa<i no'Oifiu led for pr *n . The >w up to matu ntv t *• ■ hfitfiJ i*IA4iablO( M* KiuU y Mae p PI|Mr* :iy we4l and Mill * d two Ing to pu b Uj ^ a number or tw o Ibe low of tbe old (•mi \ 1 gallant Cafoltid an, who he* I (4*011 1 KlAck t guns on from. tier remains th )(•■ t*. home some tl IVWUc began. lttie btfo-e. whr d ibe imspitable tlttli i tnwu.j While here Jt mu; Crswf. >rd Ob' ’Allied •hat much mom BY, but leave of ab«enc< t to gti I to t'l heeler It^aAlL At U There I Crawford • i fu*c l l whom h a ••u.d bs wav of hi nol ws. Iimh • th« roil •pjeonttnenl aioet young I foci that he ag woman to I , and tbeie| •tarle io ihe it had iand fi n< t Munctu'uaen, Joe Mulbattan and some I Chicago editors and preachers. Some of these get into the pulpit and make up pathetic stories and thrilling inci dents to emphasise their stgmons and create a senaalioo. And there are I thousands of little white lies, society I tea that have to be told for civility’e I *ake—dies that flatter and plea*e the viMtor. the cortootcr or lha patient. All these are spokeu lies, hot there are as many acted lies io trading, such as concealing the trmh anil putting the best on lop. - In fact, everybody, he# mors or less except children and fools, must of us mean no hat in by it. My old partner used to sav that some . man Danis, chairman, Charleston e T lii. Wain—ysr hi Marty HiwOeh <>r I Hemphill of Abbeville; Jaa. A. Hoyt, Greenville; W. H. Edwards, Cbesterp im j J. L. Coker, Society Hill; Theo. Kuhn, ** * Orangeburg. Geo. Davia further announced that be had requested the auxiliary com- •nuue of Uie 800a of Veieraos to mcei io joibt aessiou with the above stated committee of Veterans on detail or en rollment and o^pnizatiou, to act as a joioi comm Geb. of the ! .ei^eupVti all of these gentlemen who were presenl, signified' their pur pose of complying. It was also Resolved, That Gen. Zimmerman Davis, with the commandant of the Hjons of Veterans, be requested to pro pare and submit a memorial to be signed by each member of the joint committee requesting the Legislature to appropriate $800, if so much be necessary* for the purpose of purchas ing the necessary county and township record books, stationery, stamps, etc. for the prosecution of this work. Upon motion the committee then adjourned. It will be observed that no definite number has been fixed as the member ship of-each township committee. The township committee may be increased as the size of the township and work to be done may require, so that there may Be one or more members of the township committee appointed for each village, neighborhood or city ward, as may be required to accom- dfsh the enrollment. The impor tance - of this arrangement is apprecia ted when it is noted that the central idea af the convention’s plan is for the names of the Confederate sailors and soldiers to be- enrolled from each neighborhood, village and ward into the township enrollment book accord- ng to the neighborhood, township aid county from which the Veteran en tered the Confederacy’s setvice or in hich he resided after such service ceas d; so that Veteran’s homestead or site of homestead (or r eighborhood where he resided) may suggest Vet eran’* name for enrollment. The organization of township or neighborhood camps of Veterans and sons and daughters of Veterans sug gested by the State convention** reso lutions will doubtless prove a valuable aid to the work. Htt wHTTie every \n Hit fitaht amt ivir Ilk kho nwa.pnOo reaaonably and confidently ho|»ed that every native born' raaidwot of every n< ighberhuod will deem It a privilege and pleasant duty to render the town ship committees prompt and zealous aid in the enrolling of the name* of their own Veteran fathers, brothers, sons, husbands and neighbors. Greenville Invfths the People of 1 to the Good Roads Convention In Da- comber-The Great feed of tk* fnth On behalf of the citizena of Qruen- villo un invitation ie extended to the people of South Carolina to viait ogr city during the week beginning day, Dec. 16th, when the “GooaL. StHicial ” of the Southern Railway be here for the purpoee of bnlldiig sample roads and holding m with the view of teaching the iu practical road building. This la i only point io the Piedmont where the train will stop to do work, and everyone who can do ought to take the opportunity of leant, ing for himself what can be done in the making' - of roads with necessary machinery handled by men who nru expert( in the busineea. So much has been said and written in regard to this subject of good road* that the people of the Sooth are prae- ticaliy m thorough accord with the idea ihat good roads are an acquisiuon and benefit io any community. Every one is convinced that the lack of good roads is one of the greatest drawbacks to the growth and prosperity of South, aud to supply this lack Is of the most serious problems before 1 to-day, A net-work of main roads built under scientific direction with durable and permanent material will alone meet the urgent demand of our rural districts and market towns. The lines of nrm Mtitioo are being drawn more closely 1 ' 1 r ) year and the margin of profile are growing more slender In quence, so Uiat it it imperative to ploy every element looking to 1 rrued production and cheap diasribn- ioc of ihe crops that are grown PU the sn<rwhich are to be consumed An lumKTANT Dim ••vkry.— Martin, in the current number of Butler Hagood, commandant hx-r’s Weekly, announces a Ulacovary >nt <4 Veterans, being present, | which will be read with very great in tmraiml k Mi Ik. -..kl— I-. announa*cd that be bad a|i|M>iutt'd the | lereel by the public at large as According known his I ABOUT LYING AND STEALING Bill Arp on the Sins of the Present Day - The Different Kinds ot Liara. W< jh rty metro •k t . at tl New I. l!i, si- U- is* ttu .fi .roily bad most ed a TTiffalT ents were representative Carolinians and proud as they were cultured. Crawford was a bright lad. He de veloped rapidly in mental alUfinmeuts and gr< w up to be a fine-looking youth. He possessed a iplenmd physique, was exceedingly handsome, a frank, manly fellow with a clear honest eye aud a high open forehead. Everything was in his favor. He received a good edu cation and everybody took to him. When he grew up to manhood he was j tenant Crawford sent a polite but firm ■mu claim m» i Mis* Dongla*s happy. All her weddjng e hoe i ma !e up; a'nd n v* ral of h int'mate friends had been all 4icep at. a bewildering mesb of laces, Tn.lKJUS an I other* fiun-y things sug gestive of a wedding. Many handsome Txt iTiTT R.Triiiii was in rcadinets for the nu|'tia%. The gryom-elicl spent the evening before the wi ddmg day with his lair bride- elect, and the whole town-was agog over the marriage. Exactly what passed between the young lovers on their last night togeth er will probably never be known. Of course, there were su*|u.iops that there was another wotuau in the case, aud all that, but ibe next morning Lieu- th« lb n of grr to be upuon city ii said: * peslilt- lie trea k»i R I. iaa Jeffe at title *.” Tbs pbuidercd, ahei I>al, State or nations thousands of men who from me, but would st< an •>ver- York* evough for a to rale a great brtv-d more :rows, for at •* The growth nual to good tury u a thin* r it lie munici- TbCre are vould not steal ■I the mouev 1 mighty c*< of heaven •ax return who shall who shall that s|*ral and swearet Ifettni-Mi Ii I I* shut nut a lie to their •ays, “ Lord, in I by iabernacle; wail m Thy holy bill—he tb the truth iu bis bean to bis own hurl and ir men w* u >r swearing for D ivi.| hi cuat \t *i q d. ibholdini is as l>ad as i wiUthtddiug w | io the church a* : whet is due to the State | Healing from it. And bat a man ought trwgtve be belong* to is almost committee of Sons of VHerons auxil- (in scirmirtc circle*, uuy to the rntnmiUee of Veteran* as wnter, two well follows: D. II. Means, chairman, Co- chrmista, Dr*. Or grr z and llalethazard, I lumbia; Milledge Bonham, Abbeville; have recently learned by acrtdrnt that E. U. Auli, Newberry; Frank Weston, btoxide of sodium will punfy iorioaed | Columbia; August Kohn, Columbia; U. air sufficicoliy to enable persons to M. Davis,Columbia, Ww. Aiken Kelly, breathe it over aud over again without Sumter, J. E. Xormcnt, Darlington. Iharmiul tffecia. Henry VV. Conner Charleston, li. A. This discovery was reached by seal- I u, sp.vcy, Ccoway; ('has. G. Dautxler, tog up animal* in air-tight receptacle* Orangeburg, and E. J. Walsoo.Coluoi- along with lump* of btoxide of sodium, hia. I nsiead of languishing ihe animals The committees in joint session were fouud no difficulty In breathing what- called to order by Gen. Z. Davis, chair-1 ever. Encouraged by (his disclosure mao, who asked that Mr. D. II. Means the chemists decided to carry the ex* be made tecrefhry, aud K was so or- pertmrnl still further, and accordingly ulatiuo of any section ia intereatad whatever may contrihutata Ihmfwswil, and ft ia clearly deiaoostraiad that good roads are a prime factor in the develop ment of the country, while providing the greatest economy ia bringing the producer -and consumer together, so dial both classes will profit l>f easy and cheap iraosportatioa over oar public roads. How can we secure bettor ramie la the Nuwih f This ia the question u> be discussed by practical m«a la ihe fi m4 Roads convention which will ha hald in thla city while the rnad-saaktag ■ .*eing dem*•nstratod on the French | streets. JL h. liar- II at to this t liaee n sees .try that e vary tus morul and fiaaa- popular with the men ; the girls all liked him, and it is said be had no dif ficulty in making Ms way straight to their hearts. With women he was gen tle, lender, thoughtful, considerate. He seemed to understand their whims and vaoides and his (lersuasive manner and fluent tongue made mailers smooth sailing in love affairs. Had he the in clination he would have made a reck less, disastrous flirt. lie wrote well, talked well, danced like a dream and had polished manners. In evening dress he was striking in appearance. Si ange young ladies visiting Chester ard gliding over the ball-room floor with him in a ribbon figure at the ger- i could not help gravitating towards iduring the evening. Crawford was rded as the catch of the town, reral nets were set for him by fair riina girls, but be fell in love with Douglass. She was a home girl, knew her, and they crilted towards ch other slowly but surely, until they ae necessary 40 each other's hap piness. Many an evening they sal out on the veranda planning their future amid a sweet summer silence undis turbed by anything save the periodical chirp of a lonesome cricket and the clear note of whip-poor-will, sqyatting uatJuliltanL field, houra AfUrlha-guft. ners had gone in. Days and weekspassed. There were rumors of a marriage in the drowsy little town of Chester, and every body s«$med interested in <the event. The young lovers strolled together, gather ed daisies and tried their rortunes with the old familiar love-me, love-me not, along side th^raiiroad track ; drove to gether in the afternoons and said good night ba&eath a bjg, weird moon si/i note to his bride-elect's mother, say ing he did not love her daughter and could not marry her. The ceremony was called off. It was a sad blow to the fair Carolina girl, whose cheeks were aglow with luppinecs the day bo- fore. The humiliation was keen and painful. She was heart-broken. She put away the wedding garments, re turned all tbe presents aud went to Raleigh. Young Crawford said he could not bear the..4hought of making two lives wretched by marrying a woman whom he found he did not love. .. He left Chester, but the community was aroused against him. It seems that many took the heart-broken trirl’s part. Business men signed a petit on to Ihe President, urging him' to with hold the appointment of Crawford to the position in tlie armv for which he had been recommended. Then the story of the sad little romance came out, and even some of the form* r friends of the dashing young army officer de clare that he acted iu bad faith. The heart of a maiden who loves in tensely is a delicate, sensitive thing. Mias Douglass scarcely ever appeared in public after her lover jilted her. Hej' f.tce showed how she had suffered; oiues bo mixed'up that nobody knows whose money it is. -It is just as it was two hundred years go, when Swift wrote: real a silt as that <•( Ananias, it is-stealiug from God. Nothing that a tut'iiiber of the church can do •<» readily fixes his chancier as a t hnsiwn as Id* willingness to give all that he can according tp bis means. Tithes and offering* have come down to u* from t sin aud^&bel in air unbroken hue. t ain was a bad man, but he paid hts |mhes. He was the flrti liaronrecord iiTtTttty SS SB S B Then (here arelue lies puIrfisHe? every day iu the great dsatyn^nputv**: political lies,commercial lies and medi- uAjIreetoeattblhe ignorant and un- mentand found diversion in the rollick ing army life. His name is on the eligible list for appointment as lieuten ant in the regular army, but be has to wait for this honor until the charges preferred against him by the business men of Chester, who are atandiug by tbe fair would-be bride, are investi* gated by that slow aud ponderous organization - known as the War De w partrnent. No less an important per ing through tbe honeysuckle vine on tonage than Adjutant-General Corbin Great tlcas have little (teas upon their backs to bite'em, And little tlcas hare lesser fleas, and so on ad infinltuoi." * There is one comfort about all this public plunder. The money does no l go dead. It has to be invested an gives employment to labor. A mil liana re can’t eat nor wear out much more than I can, nor will be lock up his money and -let it rest. ‘ Not long ago I asked a clever Noithern man why it was t at the rich people who pay the most of the taxes let the pen sion steal go on so long and get bisger every year? He smiled and said: “Why that pension money goes mostly to the poor and we get it back sooner or later. It is our cheapest way of supporting them, especially when we have your help.” 1'oor Garfield. In his last mes sage he lamented that the pension rolls had got to the alarming sum of $30,- 000,000, but said there was comfort iu knowing that it was obliged to decrease from natural causes, for death was the comiuotr lot aud the pensioners were rapidly decreasing in number. He was mistaken. They have been multi plying ever since he 5 was killed, and now it takes $150,000,000 to pay the roll. Public plunder would not be so bad if it was done in the open. What ag gravates us is that it is done on the sly through corruption, through bribes, franchises, charters, licenses, sal tries •and schemes. It always vexes me to see the cook hiding something or her chil I carrying off a bundle on the sly An editorial in Town and Country says: “Some - day, when regulary in stituted systems of aeroplanes flit rap idly and safely from London to Nem -btt4~C>rawftTrfPvrtratrbacfrratTtrTgi^|'aTTrUtoti^ But they we all so kmd ' going home, and so willing and so good- to the children that, we saw wood and say nothing. They remind me of what a blind phrenologist said of a public of ficial in Rome while feeling the bumps on his head. He did not kuo'w .him at all, but said, “ This man is kind-heart ed and good-natured and would do you a favor if you were iu distress, but he |fiofu& There were present /.imtn^nnau Davis, J as. A. Iloyt and Tbuodore K hu ot the Velt rans; D. il Mean*, Militdge L. U*>nh*in, E. II. Anil, W. Aiken Kelly, lltnry W. Conner, D. A. Spivey and C. G. Dantzler, of the Nona. Upon suggestion oT Gen. Zimmer- man Davia il waa ordered that Gen. C. 1, Walker, commandant of the South Caro iua division, United Confederate Veterans, be added to the committee they lowered a man into the water with a diver's helmet upon hie bead lined with bioxide of sodium, bu^without any tubular cuaoeciioo with the upper air, and .they found that the man under these circumstances couid- brealbc for an indefinite length of tune without embarraasmeut In explanation of this apparent con travention of natural laws it is said that bioxi sodium absorb# of Veteraos. and that Butler Hagood, ■ C nRuandant of the United Mona of pftwnferti i^w ■Vma— mmmnUl*f mix fee of Sons. Upon motion of M. L. Bonham it sus,Kct.bg; some reporter, lie to show I ° f lh,, ibtir diligence in 1 bu-inesa. H.gh , W, h the * ,d wf the comm “' coloring, veneering, varnishing are es-1 *■ U sential ■qualities in a reporter, whether ' U1 e his journal be white or yellow. He must he atlilUe, even though it has to be taken back or modified the next day. And so the world wags on and I “ T ibe people have become so accustomed to lies that they make allowance for everything they hear or read. • ‘ When the historian wanted to cap the climax ot General Washington's noble character he wove in that little story of the cherry tree and made tbe hoy to say: “ Father, I cannot tell a li$.” And so I hope that all our little boys will grow up to be tiuthful men. Don’t go behind the barn and smoke a cigarette, for that is telling a lie to your father. You can tell a lie by wiukiug your eyes or pointing, yojr linger or concealing what you dortrom your parents or your teacher. If you do wrong own it like a gentleman and you will have their respect as well as your owu. But the downfall of Tammany was no defeat of the New York Democracy —for there were as many good Demo crats as Repub icans on that fusion ticket, and they will help Low to clean out the Augean stables. So let the procession proceed. Bill Ahp. flying macbmes will be as common 'as automobiles are today, we will look back upon the fiifft years of the'preseut century and they will seem to us as quaint und primitive as do now the early day of the nineieenlh century, when the only travel was by - the cum bersome stage coach over wretched roads, aud when a journey of one hun dred miles from home was one to be will steal. If' he found a man asleep long talked about and prepared for as alone in a room at night he would slip an adventurous undertaking the 8oulh Carolina division of Confederate Veteran* and of the commaudani of the South Carolina division of the United Sons of Con federate Veterans, be empowered to appoint a committee consisting of one one son of a Veteran for each county in tbe State, whose dnty it shall be by individual and organized effort to enroll the names of all the Veterans from each county, and that the president of the Daughters of the Confederacy for South Carolina be re quested to appoint a-member of that oaganization in each county to act with these county committees. It was also ordered that tbe committee for each county be authorized to appoint town ship committees. As representing the Daughters of. the Confederacy there were present Mrs. Thomas Taylor, president of the Daughters of the Confederacy of South Carolina; Mrs. Richard O’Neale, pf Columbia ahd Mrs. Isaac G. McKissick, of Union. Upon motion of Mr. Dantzler, it was Resolved, That the thanks of the joint comtpittee -of the South Caro lina divis on of United Confederate Veterans aud Sons of Veterans be and are hereby tendered to the United Daughters of the Codiederac, for their, zeal in behalf of the Collection and preservation of rolls of Confederate Veterans and that they be~and are hereby respectfully requested to co operate with the committee in all ef- -sotdrers of- the Confederacy enlisted' from this Slate. Also upon motion the following were appointed aconmiltee to be present at tbe convention of the Daughters of tile Confederacy in Sumter on Nov. 27th for the purpose of ^ddressiog the Daughlera upon the work in hand und soliciting- their co-operatioft: - Gen. Zimmerman Davis and Maj. J. L. Coker, of tbe Veterans, and Mesars. Bonham, Aull and Means, of the Sons. caiboo from the carbonic acti'ga^i close quarters, such theaters and hoapitala^ The Fan-AFaiurk.— The Atlanta Constitution says: Tbe management of the Buffalo enterprise counted upon at least 16,000,000 paid admissions m order to make eons meet, but when tfifi gates of the great fair were clusedfor the last tjme it was found that the attendance aggregated only 8,200,000 admisst.ns, including passes. Thefigtil output of the Exposition was rofiBhing in the neighborhood of $l0,0O<Mm0. From the gate receipts only $3,500,000 was realized against an exposed revenue of at least $8,- 000,000. Of course, something was realized jiom concessions, but alto gether 4jp|qBxposit ion represents a net loss of dwIMj $4,000,000. Rad weather during the eiiriy spring prevented the Exposition from being ready on time, and this handicap kept the crowds back -at^ the beginning. Then the tragedy resufettg In the President's death considerably reduced the attend ance at the cloUfii^* Buffalo naturally feels disheartened over the financial failure of her great EYposition, but she has the satisfaction of knowing that her enterprise was an artistic success iu the meet critical' sense of the term, and that in many respects it was even superior to the 'World’s Fako«t Chicago. Though she has been ■^-to very great expense she has greatly fittmulated American en terprise and the good effects of her great Expedition will probably be felt for many yeera to come. „ , T'jjSST'- HU I jgi „ o , Freit Wellbouse, of Kansas,'has 1,- 210 acree of orchards, and his apple crop this year is 60,000 bqghels. H» is known as tbe “Kansas Apple King.” 10^1875 he was an earner of day w ages. smallest tree in the world is the d birch. Its he.ght is less than three inches, yet itf covers a ra dius of two or three feet. Orgauiaed must be laid down to aacura lha aimed at, and it w riliaea shall give hfc real support to menauraa which are landed for lha h#w«fit of aiL Good i maaa a direct bsnafit to •rery (arwMr, ihere i* no plan that will do more le auhsnee tbe valua of land# and i rural rommouiuee then | w«-3-roasintrteJ highways, an b« f-’Uixi to coo in Bo la i <' i.n utnirot and ha p [ ■insas of a I |M*pulali«»o, and ■ ha lei this slate of affaire on lasting ben* tit* upon Un for the prosperity and the farmers arc growtn and waailc «4 th ir DvighbuM, While there ie | the advantage* of good iu r ainy very UiUe ' th* mem curiQf this desirable result, and the proposed convention ought IO tract men from every walk of Ufa, i dally those who are engaged ia 15? tie practical knowledge and appliaauae for aa- Th* burden of cohstractii HffBlllflonff 1 any particular ciaae, apd work of road-building ia a necessity, there ia alao an Imperative requirement ip providing the ways and means for constructing roods a poo an equitable and just basis. This can b* ascertained by discussion and demon stration, and hence the propriety of organizing Good Roads associations while giving instruction io practical road-building.' Both of tiiaae object# will be attained in the coming of the “ Good Roads Special ” next month to Greenville, and such an opportunity is rarely given any people at so moderate a cost. The citizens of Greenville are "»»*■. ing full preparation for the daiion of the buodreos and who are expected from every quarter of the Statf, and in addition to the hotels aud boarding honses, the private families are asked to take boarders for the week in order to provide for any extra demand on this occasion. James A. Hoyt, Cbm’n, J. F. Richardson, < A. J. 8. Thomas, J. R. Horton, Jas. T. Williams, Jr., Press Committee. Greenville, 8. C., Nov. 15, 1901. In St. Louis the nut cracking indue* try gives employment to a considerable number of persons. There are three plants in the city, each nut being fed individually into the crusher. After the shells are cracked the nuts are windowed by an air blast aud the meat is picked from tha cranked sheila by hand, women and girls being employed for this part of the work. ■ A Kansas editor published this not’ce the other day for the guidance of delinquent subacnbeis: “If you have frequent headaches, dizziness, fainting spells, accompanied by chilly cramps, corns, bunions, chilblains, epilepsy and jaundice, it is a sign you »re not well, hut are liable to die any minute. Pay your subscription a year iu advance, and thus make you solid lor a good obituary notice,”