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>«***' v*r lUTolitWl** LocomoUoa. For tlM ••nrfltr ol th« Voun* Pobpio IfirOH II 01.1X111^ V01 A YALVB, Which l« Maid to b* Able to Rflfeot • MnvIoK ft t<e«at One* of the Coal CM»d f\(r Foeld. TIf Oolu m 1*1 a *State says . ;‘f he Itrooks inaproveS^Steam V'alye eom- panjr M of thatoitv has UtMt noli tied that the pattMit «»ttlee lias Hinted a. t < al lb waooe’Htu- the uontri vanoe yrfuch this company has sought to Ita^e pat poted. Tile allowance means that Ute autlmritles have acted favorably and that the latters fcttent will be is sued In a few days. — r fhe ralve which this company-haa .sv*-.-. i' 1 In its possession Is said hi lie one of the attest Inventions of recent years. The Inventor Is a machinist who spent 18 years in tlie Southern’s ■hops In Columbia, but, forrome reason his name is withheld.on the around that he blmsdf $j[i>&rnot for the pres ent want his Identity made public. The Inventor put his contrivance into the hands of a friend, Col. U. It. Brooks, who is the clerk of the su preme court, and the latter, with the advice oHlen. M. C. Butler, has lieen able to fret It patented. The object of the valve is to economize the use of coal and to Increase the speed of a locomotive. Colonel Hnmks lielleves firmly in Its practicability. tea reporter of The Slate-,he ssiid Wednesday! “We claim for it tbaf, rr— we can save from 20 to 30 per cent, of the fuel used on locomotives. We claim that we can increas*? the speed from^O Uim percent. This Invention will ((et rid of the ‘used steam' which Is called ‘back pressure’ and retards the progress of the engines as they are working today. The valve is very ^ simple In i ts coiuUrucUoo, so simple that evfery machinist who has exajntn- ed It Is. struck immediately with its dered why they never thought of it T When the application for a patent bad been Hied some time ago there was a protest from the attorneys of several inventors who were endeavor- Ing to perfect something of the kind and claimed the right of pri ty. Colonel Breoks went U) Washing- ton and was accompanied by Mr. JT B. Edwards, a practical machinist. is ■ The latter explafned the valve to the satisfaction of the patent office and, upon 7his showing, the “allowance" was Issued. At the suggestion of Gensral Butler, patents under the laws of all foreign countries have been uf th» CUHDtrj. ■o many young' psopli whd art thirsting fn» hbtorlcal knowledge writs to we for,help thaitjf feel en couraged and wllfinswer )tbelr In quiries as far as I can. Tlkese young liei^plo In the country towns, have, schools to go to. but they lack lMS»ks ,: ' reading liooks. cyclopedias, hiugra-. pliics, and If I was as rich as Carilegte 1 would plan a library of such Ixioks in evfery community. 1 would have a million sett dfsome Ktiindard cyclope dia printed for every sctiool, even If Oey cpNtrtifL’^ jOfilHon.dollars. -That would diffuse knowledge aumog tbe' yoiuig people amljln moie g<KW than j*fl lie is dniug in the big cities. But w.l)at we most need in the South are historical IsKiks that will be standard w I th J u»And relate the truth abouf the S<juth and secession and the Con- foderacy and slavery and the, war and M ]ano trsasoh in displaying ons flow: Time Is a good doctor and Tims keeps roiling on, My wife and I had anothof wedding lest Saturday-—and good friends were celling all the afterijonn m .. t» say good word* and congratulate us 4iii our long and happy married life, K irly In the_.mornbig,, while 1 my wife aiid the family were at breakfast, I came in late and slipping up behind her planted n venerable kiss upon her classic brow*. — , * ’’She half enclosed me In her arms. She clasped me in,a meek embtaee: , ONo she didn't, either.)' And (sending back her .head, looked - up And ga/.cd inttviny face. 1 ' Yes, she did that, for it took her by surprise. 1 hadqtfc* kissed her since the tlnit ( day of last June—which was lier birtlulay- Twice a year'satisfies •Aer now. Bill A up. THREE MEN KILLED !><>r <^(i<-Nt Ion. Lieut. 0. F. A. Weydlg,An officer in the German army and an official of the Agricultural Rcmite of Berlin, is registered at Wright’s hotel, lie is here f6r the purpose of Investigating -the cotton industry in this country and comes with a strodg^letter of re ference from the secretary of agricul ture atTWgaliTnglop, commending him to the courtesy of the planters and reconstruction. 1 hai a"1syc.lopedla that gave a whole column of apology for old John Brown and the pedigree of every Northern, .race horse, amino mention of John B. Gordon or Forrest or any of our Southern poets or authors or orators. I swapped it oil at half price for the International by iXidd, Meade & Go. The tributes In that work to . Dr. Davis and Lee and Jackson are all that could Is* desired and more than was expected.. : 1 wonder what has become of that great Southern publishing house that was projected in Atlanta some time ago. That is what we want and must have to perpetuate Southern history and defend our fathers and grand fathers from, the slanders of Northern foes. It is Northern histories, North ern novels and Northern plays that have already poisoned the minds .of, thousands of our young" people.._ Only yesterday 1 glaneed at a serial story in ah Attala paper and the first tiling 1 saw was a verse which read: 'CUi^l (Jars on a Death Trip la a Goal Mine. “John Brown’s body lies mouldering in ( h» gmtMMl, ~ - . But his sont keeps marching on.’’ In a Missouri paper-1 saw where a practicability, and many have wotu. yankee-troupe wers playlpg “Unc-k: The lireaking rtf a coupling, follow ed l>y t^f runaway of a string of .load ed coal ears in the Sunshine mlfie at SonCh Forlf., Fa.,-late 'I'hurwlay after noon, caused the death of threemen, the fatal injury of one, and more or less serious Injuries to mine others. The dead: Tony Border, of South I'ork, aged 'TfryekTsr*'— • Joseph S. Strank, South Fork aged SO years. Frank McClain, ot-dSbenttaid. '^T’ho injurfeST^" Ciiolijaugh, of SiiuGi Fork, spine hijufed and lirej&t crushed, will die. • Aliiert Faiit, of Soutli^ v ork, arm, ^eg and collar tione bnjkeiT, actions. William Barker, Smflh Fork, crush ed about head and body, will recover. A half dozen others whose names could not lie ascertained were liadly bruised. • ^ t The accident occurred about f> p. m. as the men were leaving tbe mine. A trip of about 25 loaded cars w* 8 being In^ad to the surface UO'n endless chain. When the clrs left the centre of the miije Jifteen ore men climbed aboard! All went wpll until the. trip Tom’s Cabin,^ And now a fool fel low from Wisconsin wants to get our Governors to appoint delegates to a . convention in Atlanta to determine reached a ‘ dip” about 100 yards frorh the race problem, and it is said that ^that man Spooner Is at the" bottom of*) Oilmlied It to get up a Presidental boom himself. 1 suspectecf there was In llie mouth qf tlic mine, thrfiec-fourths Mjj* ese’ S >pplled fo» by the company. A practical test of the yaiye -will be made In a few dafL “ Wg have ob tained, permission from the superin tendent of motive power of one of-the largest raiiroad systems to have an engine fitted with this appliance in ‘ _ order to. make calculations," said Ootonel -Brooks. “ When -we- into his office this superintendent ^glanced at tbe model and said, indiffer eotly, ‘Oh, I have seen 1 a great many valves like this.’ Mr: Edwards inter- jecu*d, ‘Von never saw anything like this in your life.’ That caused the railroad official to make a minute in spection, and he was so well sattstted that he ordered aq engine placed at our dispoXal when the patent shah have been secured. ‘If it will sa-ve us one per cent, of coal It Is valuable, but If It will save us 20 per cent, it is the greatest thing we could get hold of,’ the superintendent said to us. “The engine will be examined and tested as to speed, coal consuming capacity, etc., before the appliances continued Colonel ic Dwte .jtlil he. made to show the merits of the valve." The practicability of the valve must-be settled Jiefore any plans for the future will he made, but Colonel Brooks would like to have the poh- trlvance manufactured in Col u in Ida. The Hainan Body. A French ciiemist, of a particularly Inquiring turn, says the Medical Journal, has determined by experh inent that the body of an average man, of ^bout 80 kilos, has ail niggor In the woodpile, for these Northern politicians nevgr do anyf thing from patriotic, unselfish mo*- lives. Hanna’s scheme fell through and Spooner thought he oonid patch it up. But the South never was more aroused and united on the hegrfques/ tlou and will resent all Intorfercnce, 4ostantly Die mine slope waff* filled with shouts of the men as all of the can* with the exception of the first two commenced to back down tbe grade*. Slywly at tirst but with grad- uaHy increasing fpeed the cars ’sped whether It umifia fiom Washin^tiin nr Wisconsin. Wisconsin! What impu dence! A State whose foreign popula Hon is 62 per cent, of the whole, and of these there are, 88,000 vylio can't speak English, and only 760 negroes in the State and three times as many Indians. What.does Wisconsin know care aiKrtrtour mee pfotilenp Id the last few days l liave received three letters from young people want ing to know something aliout the Con federate Hags, what were the designs and who designed them. I wlish ttiat 1 could skeLcIi tliem and. paint them in this letter, hut all I can dojis todc- scribe them and give their 1 Mstory. There were four in all, but only two lived to see the end at Appomattox. No. t, or the “Stars and Bars," was adopted by tbe Confederate ('un- gress al Montgomery: TtirRtarJrwere on a. blue field and its red ami white liars made It look somewhat like the The train of the steep grade in safety, but a short distance “rojm.D»fe level track the hitching be Ween ^he second and third carshtoke. downwards, giving the men searcely an ot) port uni tv to iJmo~aDd themselves. When aboul^2»K) yards from where the liitcliing broke" the foremost car left the track and the remainder of the train pilled up liack of it. " " — . II KI.ISJ-'OK Til K INJUpKI). Those who had been- fortunate enough lo jump from the runaway cars quickly raii $o the "outside and told of the accident. Help was quick ly brought U> the men buried beneath the pile of wreckage, which filled the six-foot treading for a distance -of twenty yards! ' At a late hour Thurs day night the wreckage had been cleared away and the injured all taken out. Tb«‘('Inb AgaliiHi the Home.- «.! “Club Life vs. Home Life" was the Stars and Stripes, and sometimes was the late tragedies in that mistaken fur the I nited States flag; r and so General Beauregard designed. N uu and chemical elemenh* represented in the yolk and white of twelve hundred or- din&ry sized eggs nf the common Aea. I’roperly reduced, such a body would pidc or tnat. furniah 06 cubic metres of gas and sufficient hydrogen to fill a balloon with an ascensional force of 70 kilos. Normally, the human body contains iron sufficient to make seven large nails, fat for thirteen candles, car bon for sixty-five gross of pencils, phosphorus to tip eight hundred and and twenty thousand matches, to gether with the constituents of salt, fifty-nine lumps of sugar and forty- two litres of water. Would it not i»e well to use some tof our surplus popu lation th these ends. Let us diver sity our Industries. v I« i the MnnabiqeTln. The room should be sunny in all ail ments exhept a very few affections of kbceyfe, for sunshine is the best germ >yer we .have, and will make a more wholesome And sweet than disinfectant, fays the Scotsman, fowdays it is not considered neces sary to darken every sick room as it used to he. ft is more fashionable and much more healthy to let In sunshine all over the bouse than it is to close tbe blinds so that tbe furniture may cheaper and much not fade: it is pleasanter to have a faded carpet than It is to have a case of sickness, and the doctor’s and the nurse’s bill to pay The dark, stuffy room, whispering voices and tiptoe tread have passed way, fortunately for tbe patient. General ■iue-K. Johnson adopted it. and it was never changed, It was a blue cross, or rather an X studded with stars and set on a red Held. “No. 3. In May, 1863, the Confeder ate Congress adopted a national flag. It was a miniature battle Hag sfet on a white field that had a white at the side and at the bottom. But It proved to be a mistake, for it had too much white ahd afar off was mis taken for a Hag (>f i tr , ‘'*“ • And so on March, Tfpted No. 1 as the national flag This bad the same battle flag on * blue field, hut the white border was smaller and a red one put on Hie out- , truce. , 186.V'Congress* lWTHg“4i3- rrotrwsyp long, only about a month, but nevertheless it remains as the nation- very. al fiag of the Confederate States. But the dear old battle fiag No. 2 was the fighting banner of every com pany. Our wives and our daughters made them for the boys in g«ay, and many of them were smuggled back home again, after the surrender and still kept as household treasures. Our boys, the Rome Light Guards, had oue, and one night the young people gave a tableaux performance in the city hall to raise a little money to put some benches in the desecrated churches, for all the pews had been taken out and; converted iuio horse troughs for—Ute staff horses. Cine scene in the tableaux represented'a battle field where women were minis tering to the wounded aijd the dyintf, and one dying soldier, the ensign, had tills old tattered and war-stained flag grasped in his hand just as he held it when he fell.* i ^~ subject chosen by4.U*v,;fJeorge White- man from which lie recently delivered a sermon in Buffalo, N.—V. , —He re city, ami drew a lesmn from them that should lie remembered. Recent ■evetWwrite said nil vr IP.VCa Irtl kULWM- hrebgintTs life wdnch manT of'dhrf*- falv’s more prosperous^ people live. There is a growing got^leksness among many well to do persons. The type of depravity among persons In the higher circles is often worse than In the slums of the city. This gay god- 1 ay of living often manifests itself in what is spoken of as club life. 1 admit that cluhs differ in their aims, hut I beUeve that that which is mechanically called club life Isoppos ed to the interests of the Individual, of the church and tire nation. In re ferring SpeciiffyTo the Burdick mur-. der Ire said “a murder is committed in ow awl - i. {Bvon* revealed." These he said, have some fu! condition but the facts warranted the charge. He closed by saying. "America is fast following in the steps of the old Hainan empire, the home is despised; children are an encumbraiCe; a poodle dog is of more value than a baby. Wealth and pride consume the' life blofsl of the nation and aristo cratic weakness saps demodfatic vigor." This Is a ? true indictnaent, and unless sucli warnings as thesh are heeded our country will perish as did tire great Roman empire did. Thought less people will refer to Mr. Widfeman as a calamity howler, bui he 1$ not. Ure eoufage Jo denounce, the sins of those who are fkfli and occupy a con- spicious pla re In the public eye. The hope of tills great country is a fearless ministry and art Incomfptible press. „ The Spanish oomraandant of the post was there with his wife, and wlrei) Ire discovered the flag, got furi ously mad. He jumped up on his seat and yelled: ‘Take dat t’llig avay. A Close Call. f. B, Collins, an attorney of Niles, Midi., who had been seriously 111; ' went Into a trance Wednesday and trfa relatives supposing him dead, nnunoaed an undertaker, planed tbe remains In a casket several bomu later the undertaker discovered '•ercentible indications of returning OumffidhSffand bids fair to recover. '^TrTMff'r.:>rinr. ji ntlSBiiVjl dat is treason —dat is an Insult to me -and de United States. I send for my soldiers and 1 arrest the wjiole party." He ran wildly down the sUirs and across the street to hjs quarters and came back quickly with half a dozen Dutchmen in arms to make tire arrest. Ifejpaarched the young men over to his office, but paroled the young ladies juuttl he could hear from General Thomas, whose headquarters were in Louisville. I was mayor then and we When he had same hot words. He said finally be would release tbe young men until he could bear from General Thofnas. So I wrote to General Thomas by the matt:—He very graciously for gave us. very but warned da not to do so Ap^Honor Well Bestowed. The president Thursday announced Ure members of Ure board of visitors to the West Point Military jicademy as follows: Hon. D. B. Henderson of Iowa, Hon. George F. Baxter ofDolo- rado, Col. Ashury Coward, superioten dent of the South Carolina MiHlffTy tarlington of Philadelphia, Wm. A. Pew, Jr., of Boiton: tire Rev/Ernest M. Stiers, D. Dt> Nt. Thomas chnrch, New York, aad.J, G. Schmidlappof Clhcln- nati. 1 1 , 'Wi A Fatal Accldei A, At Fort~Wayne, InAt i freight train crashed into a furniture van of th^North Side Transfer Oomjaliy at the Sandusky street crossing, at Alle gheny,^Wednesday, wrecking the van killing two men. \ Two others i seriously injured. The van was fpletrty wrecked and three hotsea were kilted A tsrman Llsatsuant lest Hsts by ' Luf. ■ .... *• r tb* Berlin Xomtts W»M The kfexlekn Weeyll !• (jiJ upiug the Texas Crop* \ **ry Viewy of the »gro La- manufacturers in the south. - v . Like many of the officers in the Ger man army Lieut, Weydig is adistin- idore guislred Hjoklng fellow, being than six feet in height and as straight* as an Indian. Hisdife has been one of adventure'? and hq seems, to have formed a passionate attachmenV for southerners. He intended to leave the city yesterday, but was persuaded not to do so by the city editor of Tire State in order that Ire might visit the Olympia mill. . * He is at present locat ed at Sanz Bay, East Africa, and has charge of the experiments that the German government is making in tlial country in cotton growing. For the past five months Lieut. Weydig has lieen traveling in the south investiga- ing cotton conditions, and the result of these observations arc more than ordinarily interesting. "Tire south," said tire Hehienant, “need never have any feaf that any country In the world can grow cotton that will ju any way hurt her inter ests. It is perhaps superfluous for me to say that her sea island cotton is the finest in the world and sire has lands enongh to grow millions of more bales when she hqs mastered the labor goreruMot «aA tteb0te are famed for their cleanUoeM Ih the# lodustrka and In all .matters, ip fact. Mr. Wbatey fold tha lieutenant that mill owners were more anxlois tl)4Q the Butte goyeinisenUi for the welfare of their children in the mill and he|K>inted o it with some pride’ 1 Die churches and scho >ls that the m»i owheia maintain at their own great ekpense for the benefit pf th« .ppera-, tors, He said he hoped to see the age limit made 16 years. ' ^,‘We have Ure Interest,’’ said Mr. Whaley, “of our employes absolutely at heart and we are doing things dilly for their welfare that bring opr repu tation as business men seriously Into qi estion." Your average German Is a cold business proposition. He has something to sell and he wants his price f»r It. He pays ids workman his hire and the latter then has to look out for himself. So when Mr. Whaley informed the, lieutenant that he proposed to put up the best hos pital for Ids employes that his money could buy the latter’s countenance showed another wide latitude of sur prise. - ' ■; v He expressed Ids adbilratlon over and over -again for th«i remarkable mill and thanked Mr. Whaley very warmly for his kindness. The lieutenant expressed his great admiration and friendship for south ern people. “They are the mo^t hos pitable and delightful people that I Wave ever met," he said, “and.i have traveled much. New York is a-great city, but it is dollar, dollar, dollar there all the time and one gets tired of it sometimes. Every moment of the time 1 have spent lo- the south has been pleasant." The lieutenant ieffoing to take sev era! American young -men -back Lw Germany with him. He has already, engaged some” two or three and has in structions from Ure Iterlin Komite lo engage some more. They must he young men who are educated in the agricultural colleges that male a specialty of cotton production. Lieut. Weydig’s station In Gennim^Eist Africa is Sanr- Dayy btrt he will not return there for some months. He left the city Saturday morning.— The State. quesUqp.b "Your laborer in Africa Is nearly all negroes, is It not?” was asked. “Yes. 'Niggers, niggers; we have them, everywhere. 1 only wish we could send you a few million'of tliem.’’ The German government, as is well known, has no such sentiment about On the war between th'e north and south In German East Africa there are some 5,000,000 negroes and about 900 white ipeu. The negroes arejnevertheles.^ under absolute subjection arid for the -smallest Infraction of the hiws rrrthc colonies are most severely punished. «i |»rv j arc i paid small sums ror their labors, but It is doubtful if any slave masters ever liandfed negroes as do the German of ficials.' For all. that it is-exceedingly difficult to make them work, and Lieut.^'Weydig said that the smith had his sympathy in its laltor battles “I have," said tire lieutenant, “traveled more than 900 miles-Hn Africa without seeing a single white nurh, and 1 know tlie nigger." Tire negro in South Africa would be ahsolutely uncrintrifilirig if it were not for what' is called hy courtesy the law. As a matter of fact the law' is a few Gatling guns that now and tired mow them down IJke sheep if they nor thuye, latJfemnit. don’t make cotton. But that is neither, here nor thj and it was ,no^ a matter tb Weydig qared to discuss for obvious reasons. He only smiled knowingly when the Subject Was broached and said dial they were freemen, hot “were made to work." To the s »uth em negro of today tills will perhaps Ite a novel idea of freedom. Lieut ■Wcyrilg hart ,rf*ceJttto.3iMBafl -Duofer Washington *at" Task^cgee, said Ire thought he vyaa a fine man. He did not explain why he visited tire negro educator and. lire writer did not press the subject, but he gathered that it-was a matter of curiosity to see an educated negro more than any thing else, as it has not been reported re German governmentproposes milli to attempt to educate the millions of negfoes she now has under her rule. It is not that sort of a governmein.t. The German idea is that tbe nfegrb needs work was greatly inter ested in Ids recent visit to Texas. cases -aro|.±!Th«—Mexlcaivweevil. is. the—most serious thing that me t. making great inroadsjn Texas and it is only a short time when it will work up ill Tennessee and in other parts of the south, I fear. The Texas State gov- erument has already offered $50,000 for a remedy for this evil, and I think in time something will be found that will do away with the pest.,. It is certainly a very jierioufrjnatfotL' .111 the State of Texas alone 1 find that it caused a loss of $11,000,000 last year. It is a fine State and a great pity that it should be handicapped by the. pest" Mr. W. B. Smith-Whaley extended He sees things as they are. and he has ^ courtesies of the mammoth tMyni pia mill Friday afternoon and, gfekt was the admiration of'the German of ficial, not only for the big institution i tself hut Jpr foe ti reless ifoeTgy has enabled Mr. Whaley to build 19 cotton mills, among them, this one, '"title largest ' in the world—more than the great German government has even Contemplated building. ——— “Where is the largest <»ttorrmill in Germany ?" the lieutenant was asked. "In Salesia.” I “What te its capacity?" — -^-Fofty thonw nH aptndloy’l Mrr German official that the capacity of the Olympia was 100,IftO spindles now and that he contemplated making it just eight times as large as it was The latter was next little while and when be and. the writer had parted from Mr. Whaley he inquired rather anxiously what manner of man was he. The almost beautiful cleanliness of A HUGE SWINDLE In Which United Staten Officiala '' - ' ■ ary ImplIcaUd. A special dispatch from Wasbing- toaJqtlre Spartanburg Journal says the development that a Connection of government officials with' the get- rich-quick concerns was Alleged in charges filed with the president caused a sensation in Washington. ■As far as possible tire details cl the charges and the progress of the laves- cTF Iteing Repl si^reirhut in official cles the raatteris lieing discussed with mnglrJnterest. % _ it is said- that the plan pursued was the securing of name&'of shady concerns against which Hie govetu- ahout to proceed. . These ment was firms would then he approached with a proposition to put their business in a shape acceptable to the government fora certain stated amount down and a wfeekly or monthly payment. This being agreed to, the way was made Cures MEAD THIS ArETTER* ALMOST A mYraCLK- ;,*• j[. . Dm-low, 8.0., Auf. Mtk, MW- . 0*iitlemen :-In SaptPnbar. l»*v i took rheumtC.gm la s verT bad form, la a montb afMr tha diaaaaa-started I had to (tiva up my work snd.fo to rowTjWasi " bad. It contiauad to rrow #oraa until my anna and hr|da wera badly drawn, such ao that I could not use them. My leira wr . drawn back until my feet touched my hlpa. I waa as helpless aa a baby for nearly twelve mootha. Tha muaclea of my arma and lega were hard and ahrlveled up. I suffered death many times over Was treated by six different physicians in McColl, Dillon and Marion, but none of them eould do me any good, until Dr. J. P. Bwlfty, of Dillon, came to see me. He told me to try your * T RhicumaCidb." He got me one bottle of the medicine and I began to take it and before the first bottle waa used up I began to get better. 1 used five and a half bottles and waa completely cured. *’ " " 'HOD. HAr'* That wm two jrear« *fo, and my health has been excellent ever since. rnwnmnaknmam * J ^ T _ J s. tx.srswrvm** aa Kir fit no symptoms of rheumatism' I regard " RHTtJM AOIUI ” as by_ farthe bp** can not say too much for It. I hara on tha diarket. I i since and It has curt-d thrm. remedy for rheumatism on recommended H to others i Will any further, tbatl began to walk Innboutklx day* after I began to thke “ Rhiumaoidb," with the aid of crutches; In about three months after I began to taka It, I could walk as good* aa anybody, and went back to work again. Very truly, JAMES WILKM. rv" All Druggists, or sent express prepaid on receipt of Ii.oo.. t Chenlcal Co., - - Baltimore, fid. Cherokee Remedy oi Cnres Coughs, Cold*, Whooping Cough, LaCript'e slid .all Throat and Lung Troublt'S Made of Fure Sw*^ei Jirtni, leiu.and HQUey" Your Druggist shIIs itX5 find - r "• >Jul TAKE A L00 If r full line of Hardware is not Our sales-nt'ii are out. iR-tter than other, don’t hay ft. Goleman-Wagener Hardware Company 4 , ..4|l 363 KING St. ^lARLESTON, S. 0. rii< < l>le C'oniiKm itte i,akc est rAsrrXcmtBits ok High (.Ji'tic Pianos and Organs \is ttiif: Tac TJfflcagtt a id "Si Charles. Illinois. - * Oa'dt i.'i'W » MILLION IKILLARS, $2.0011.000. * of tn"li Douse, 2?’MvH' [ St.X •;irlestoB T ->lrCr ’ lIANOi AND ORGANS Sr 11 on Easy Terms. Before buying w «ft .or our catal g ic at 1 ter r ' Factory prices made. ( \ rju I in of S!"d M-. ic an ‘ small Musical instruments in stock. „ ' — J. V'. WALLACE, Manager. THE 'a -ttE COMPAIMY. ^ 77: : pll ' h. Bkr.iN. s. C. ‘ bUMBfeB & MFG GO 6A6H, DOORG. BLINDS, INTERIOR FINISH, MOULaD- ING AND LUMBER, ANY QUANTITY. \ Columbia, C. l-»M-l Uf .»A« II t.ll t-. 1.IK4'. -As a .map in a woman tT) he womanly, a’.woman expects a man I t be manlyftherefore. you need hardly yrpnder that sire prefers to he. w.mnsI —-k> —• —■ —- —r-^hiy a man wliose actions tell of deter clear whereby tire get- rich-qoick f<l- mlnatlon anri rcHolve ut one whose at lows continued operations without fear pf molestation. The amount alleged to have been secured from the shady companies is: not settled definitely by rumor, but it is averred by seme that it reached into more than a milion dollars, which were divided amorfinreertain few. It is averred hy others that tire sum total will he far larger than this, because tire operation included fully half a score Dr more of fly-by-night schemes in business, each ot which jyat> forced to contribute liberally. ' * The ihvestlgatif)n“ , T)y~onIer 'oFtTilf president will be pushed vigorously Fourth Assistant Postmaster al Bristow, who has charge of It, is ordered to go to the bottom of it,—no matter w.io may he Involved. General Tyner, whose"retirement was demanded by the president not because he was personally implicated in the scandal v but Itecause of his ad vanced age and tire desire to place a stronger man In his place, denies that there was any wrong doing In connec- tton witfi tiis office respecting the rights of “turf investment com panics” to use the mallsr ' 41» says-that. .Ure re. post- videncc in the report of the office Inspector to prove that cerns tfeere in the natureef lotte’ryor fraudulent in their efiysraeter, am* rse open to the tlrerefore the only course office was to allow them UK use the mails. ■ , General Tyner says that Harrison J. Barrett, his nephew by marriage, and formerly assistant in his office, had, as an-attorney, represented-“ohe of Ure turf companies, hut this was only after Barrett had severed his connection with the department, he avers. > General Tyner says he took up the cases of concerns alleged to bfe fraud ulent or on a lottery basis, and, after investigating, ordered proceedings dropped. He dictated a. letter an nouncing that no further steps would be taken, reserving the right,; how-, ever, in the, last paragraph of his let ter, U) reopen the cases. One com pany published this letter, omitting the last paragraph of warning and the department was severely criticised for lire issuance of tire letter in ques tion. Account* Hhort. ■ | I.,-.,if- .4—"-, $5,600 found in the accounts of the late J. K Campbell, county treasurer for Rich land. It is a year since the death of Oa'pt. Campbell, and the estate has Mr. R. M. Splgener, the treasurer the mills Impressed tfife visitor most waa in feeble health and had a great favorably and he frequenUy comment ed on the neatoees and attractiveness of the little homea hi the mHl village, compliment which Mr.- Wfcwksy appreciated, as the Ge^aao elected, has declined to take the office from Mr. E. J. Brenner, who succeed ed Capt. Qtwphdn, until, the cloud can be cleared. The late treasurer deal ot sorrow the last two years of bis life. His mental condition is advanced charitably as the .cause of the deficiency;—No o«eiaI statement can he obtained. titude is one of meekness and clnonie shyness, who stammers atM bluJus -whenever he ventuees to ad l revs h'; s 1 lady-love iii public. .Wliilc tlie liruid ! loyer is \v44rsllipping from afar, hom ing yft fearing that hisAvuriliip is un- derstotxl hy ids Ui.vinity. tlie more irtanly lover steps in. ai d l.» aimort combined with tender UrMlMlT liOOPIXU. courtesy aud-ti I wish to please, gains the prize, leaving j tire timid one to moan his loss in sil- ence witli a heart filled with the hit- v fair one might have been his. In love t rs women like masters, not slaves: they like to feel that Urey are bci-ng wooed, not that they are doink^ttrc wooing. Therefore, those young men who wish to prove successful lovers must cast aside all bashfulhess and timidity and must not only lielieve In the old hut true saying, “Only the brave deserve the fair,” hut must a-F up UTtr~ -— —~ " A Terrible DIsaMerK Tlfe steamer Mariposa, wliidi ajo rived at San Francisco (ine day -last k week from Samoa, brings-new* of me ^ I toXficnsivc to !.}<. . : E,isy Jo Kri p in y ;>:r Light aml_vei> di.iatii,! : pro* 1 and '<'iFh|>s Ni t ;iiTi rl.t'rt hy '• |,.ui .re. PhL.t vc^ - Ain ^ind J Fire-resistHig and oil-proof. Vermin will not attack if. All ready' to lay. Needs no painting or coating Will not deteriorate with ag< WRITE FORT’RK'ES SOUTHKASTliRN u.mi; io COMPANY. AH classes building mat 'rial, CHARLESTON, S. 4V- filch swept over Oumotu group of islands in Jan ary. In all over 600 lives were lost and the financial hiss-w ill exceed LMiu.- 000. The Pomoutu group of islands number about 100. Relief measures have been instituted and everything possible is being'done at Apia and other places iq the Samoan group to relieve the sufferings of the Pomoutu Islanders. ~~ A irkat to Aonr th» > .ruth about yoair ir tnbU, Mna tor any free booklets Itnd Mlf oxamtnxtlon blank*. Wo. 1, Nervous Debili ty (Sexual Weakneas), 2. Varicocele, No. i, Stricture, No. 4, Kid- .tey and Bladder Co— plaint*, No. I, Disease of Women, No. S, Tbe Poison King (Blood irolxon I, No. 7, Ca tarrh. These books •botodbeln the hands person affllct- r. Hathaway, lUtHor, Is recoR- ax tbe best au- aml gjjwitto Cypress Shingles. D*. Hathaway. r the these diseases. Write or senttfor the book y-u want to-day, and It will Iw sent you free, sealed. Address J. New ton Hathaway, M D 88 Inma Atlanta man Building 221 8. , Ga. v Broad St If you will haql them, wo wil sell at thd-following low prices \(Fx 2D ^3.75 per thousand. l x Ifi lland Drawn Heart Cy &3AI5 pep-thoufttmh- if you want a good roof, Now come right along. 7% riA Op. C. J. 0LIVER0S, -SPECIALIST- EYE, ,;A R, NOSE and THROAT. (• it of Spectacles Guaranteed. Omc* [ Spec tacit 1*24 and 1426 - Markm Street hkia n Columbia, S. C. 615 Plain St.,. w Columbia, H. C. Can lina Portland (VfrlPnt (Vi CHARLESTON k/CmtiU South Carolina. Carolina. „ Pager’s White Lime, Cements, Fire -Bricks, TerraCotta Pipes. ——. -27—-Jv, . • ..a. -V . •. u