The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, March 26, 1903, Image 4
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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
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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.
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hkia n
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