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AWFUL CRUELTIES Ml th§ Christians. tJVDXROO. : z* Snmects of the Bnl- Belnc Inhnmanlj Treated Mast Per Exor bitant Taxes. The Sfv, Dr. Malcom MaoooU, dean of Blpoo, In England, made some blood curdling charges against the Turk In a recent sermon preached by him at St. Mark’s. Marylebone Road, London, and reported In “The Church Times. N , Among other things the meaning the hospitality tax. Every Christian householder throughout Turkey is bound to give three dayr by the Turks gratuitous hospitality to every sulman official or government traveler who asks for it, and official Is s very elastic tdrm lq Tuskey. It includes soldiers, Includes police, who are among the greatest sooundrels on this earth; it Includes Judges, Inspectors and so on. The Christian householder r j? ^ nousenoiaer ^vcnty-one occurred is obliged to give three days hospital* xhq |q Massachusetts ■ Ity to these men and their followers. cannon said: Nou^let me try to give you an dlea of what that tyranny under which the Christian subjects of the Sultan groan Is and always has been; and let me beg yon to understand that In what I am oowgolng to say 1 do not exaggerate on# atom of their misery. Every state ment I make, you may take it from me, is an understatement Qf the facts. I do not base my allegations on the tales of travelers. I base every asser tion which I am now about to make UB authentic documents. 1 have read, I believe, without exception, every re port of the British consuls in every part of Turkey from the year 1844 till now, and also every account given of the condition of the Christians of the Turkish empire by British ambas sadors in Constantinople, and with these I have compared the consular reports of France, Italy and Austria and the dispatches of these ambassa dors. I do not make a single assertion beyond these authentic documents, and lb what I am going to say about the permanent law of Turkey, as of every other Mussuluman state which 1 wields IndependenrBwayr - !' take my facts from the taxtbooks of the law of Turkey Iteelf. The first point is this, that the Christian subjects of the sultan—-and remember when I speak of the Chris- tlao subjects of the sUltan you must draw a clear distinction between Christians who are living in Turkey as subjects of other powers and Chris tians who are subject to the sultan. All the nations of Christendom have so little confidence in the honesty and justice of the Turkish goverment that they have their own consular Jurisdiction and ^beir own postofficeA. in Turkey. British subjects, or the subjects of any other Christian power, are not under the rule of the courts of Justice in Turkey'. They are under the consular Jurisdiction of their^own country. The Christian subjects of the sultan, who are the descendants of those Christians whom the sultans oonquerad long ago, have no rights at all, but such as those which 1 am about to describe to you. In the first place, It Is against the law of Turkey for a Christian subject to the sultan to carry any arm, either a dagger or a pistol. Again, no Christian subject oan give evidence Id a court of Justice against s Mussulman. The evidence of Christians is not admissible against Mussulmans in any part of the Turk* tab empire. The result is this -that 100 or 1,000 witnesses who may be Christian subjects of the sultan may aee a woman ill used, carried off by force into the bouse of a Turk, or slain, or relatives trying to rescue her alalo, and they cannot-prove the crime because, (bough there may be a thous and oredltatfie witnesses, their evi ls rot available against a Iman, and no Mussulman will glvAevldenoe against a corellgionst in favor of a Christian. every Christian in Turkey is liable to a^poll tax; that is to say, every ChPIIQqn in Turkey is liable'to pay a tax for psimissiou to live during that year. If tb^ tax is not paid at the end of the yeaKhis life U forfeit. The law la unlvemhsthough not al ways put In force. Ahd let me say thla when talking about the Christians nob being permitted to carry arms. Though the Christians are ndt^allow- ed to possess any arms, and therefore are not admitted into the army^r gendarmerl of Turkey, every ma Christian, from the time he is time months old, Is obliged to pay a tax for Immunity from military service. He is not allowed to be a soldier, but he Is obliged to pay a tax for not serv ing In the army-or gendarmerl. The taxes of which i am speaking now are the taxes which the Christian subject of the sultan paya in addition to the taxes which the Mussulman pays in common with him. All the taxes juc farmed out to Je ws and others, and the '‘farmer of the taxes goes his rounds, and be insists, as a rule, upon bribes in addition to the legal tithe, and when be does not get them, he does not allow the harvest to be gathered until the bribe Is paid; and during that time he and his retinue of followers are quartered on the in habitants. The Christians also are liable to force service whenever their MuBBtritnan landlord or goverment de mands It. Again, they are liable to all kinds of personal insults and in dignities. They are obliged „to wear a sombre dress, to distinguish them from the Mussulmans, and they are not allowed to bathe In the same pub- v lie baths or to draw from the same wells as the Mussulmans. They must live In a separate quarter of the town or village from the Mussulman. The terms commonly applied to them, not by a popular fanaticism, but in sober, deliberate, official documents, are "dogs’* and “bogs.” Also in legal and official documents the death of a Christian is called his “damnation,” because the Mussulman believes that a Christian at death is damned. Now, I will quote one of the ordinary official burial certificates given the Christian subjects of the sultan before a member of the family is allowed to ha boned. I have seen it, and 1 give vou the literal words. They are these: t< To the priest of the Church of Mary: This Is to certify that the Impure, itrid, stinking carcass of Zared, I yesterday, may be concealed That was given by i of the district, and it Is the form of such documents. British ambassadors have ust these insults, but most cruel of Turkey Is TbCy choose the bedt bouses In the village or town and demand the best rooms, and when the shades of night fall they order the men out of. the bouse and have the women at their mercy. This rule is universal. You will find it in the reports of consuls, and you may remember that during the Armenian horrors of 1894-’95 the leading newspapers of this country, “The Times” among them, .sent special correspondents to AtffienTff tO report on the facts, and 1 ‘The Times’s” special correspondent asserted—and I have quoted his words in a letter to “The Times” newspaper Itself a few days itgo—that after very mioute and careful investigation in a large district of Armenia he found that there was not a single Christian woman in the district who had not been dishonored before she was married. That is the condition of the Christians through out the whole of the Turkish empire. Let me give you another example of how this hospitality tax works. 1 now quote a correspondent of another leading English newspaper, a paper which Is by no means unfavorable to the Turkish government, but whose writers and correspondents are honest Englishmen who will tell the truth. He was in a certain town in Ttirkey which was inhabited by Cbristrams. An officer of police arrived and de manded three days’ gratuitous tiospP tality. All these villages and small towns which are Christian have a. hcad^nan appointed by the sultan to be responsible for the conduct and taxes of the community. The officer of police found that by the connivance of this man—at least so he suspected —some of the most beautiful girls of the place had been sent away before his arrival. What did he do? After be had .-unsaddled his horse and sta bled It he ordered a Christian standing by to bring the saddle out. It was Christmas day. The head man was pretty well to do, and he was dressed in his holiday attire. The officer of police ordered him to kneel in the mud. He had the saddle put on his back, and a bridle with a bit in it put into his muuth, and he mount ed him and rode him round the place, taking care to ride him, In his best clothes through all the puddles,and af ter his ride forced grass Into his mouth and compelled him, whip m hand, to eat it like a beast. Taking all the taxes together, the amount of taxation that the Chris tians pay Is, according to the reports of the consuls throughout all Turkey, 87 jier cent, leaving them 33 per cent, of Wie produce of thetr labor and; toil to live upon, and, in addition to that, they have to pay bribes, and in some places their poverty is such that in some families they have only two or three suits of clothes between them, and some of the family are obllghed to stay in the house while the others go about In the two or three suits that remain for use. Yon hear people sometimes speak of the toleration of the Turkish government. Let me tell you what the toleration of the Turk means. It is a crime for a Mussul man. a crime punishable with death, to become a Christian, and it Is a cap ital crime for a Christian to convert him. It is a crime also Xor a Chris tian to dissuade a fellow Christian from becoming a Mussulman. The Christian subjects of the sultan are not allowed to build any new places of worship. They are allowed, gen erally after paying bribes, to repair the old religious buildings^ which they had when the sultan took posses&iun' of the Country. They are allowed to repair the old Jmlldlngs, but not to remove them beyond the spot, on which they originally stood, nor to In crease their dimensions; they must not have bells to their places of wor- , and they must not sing loud ough to offend the ears of Mussul man in the neighborhood. I nientiuned Just now that the ChrlstiAnn are obliged to wear sombre dresses ti>qnark their deg red a Won and to distinguish them from their Mus sulman neighbors. Let me relate, as an example of Imw that law Is carried uut, an Instance related from the capi tal of Boslna, nowNx'oupled by the Austrians, when it wi»<nnder the sul tan's administration. ibsjs the report of a British consul uamcKk Holmer, published In one of the Hlue..Books. It describes a Christian wedding par ty. The bride and bridegroom had carelessly, and thoughtlessly dressed in gay colors, in violation of the law which condemns a Christian to wear any but sombre and coarse clothes. While the service was going on in church, Mussulmans were seen to gather round and to collect the fagots near the church, and when the bridal party came out they fell upon the bridegroom and bride with their yata ghans, or short AWords, and hacked them until half deadt then they took their still living bodies and threw them on the fire, for which they had prepared the fagots, and burned them to death. That happened in the cap ital of Bosina in 1867, and is reported by a British consul. - nv wio xtaoTxooum i • y - -- ■won of Mywtory. Hm Pnt Keren- tjr-fbur Persons tq Dentb. When he killed the Van Wormer boys in the state prison at Dannemora last week State. Eleotridan- Edward F. Davis finished his seventy-fourth execution by electricity? Of theee in this stater Massachusetts and one !n Ohio* the transfer at these unclaimed arti- says the New York Sun. This man, who Invented the electric chair, owns the patents on It and Is the only man who oan be absolutely depended upon to conduct an execu tion without a bitch, Is remarkable In other-respects. Thus, whenever be goes he flocks by himself. He rarely speaks to anybody unless be is spoken to first and then be is found to be a most affable person, more than anxious to talk about himself and his work. He will cheerfully answer any ques tion put to him, no matter bow per sonal it may be. About his work be is absolutely cold blooded. He looks plea. x At the last "old boas” sale In Green ville a prominent gentleman bid In several weal the r beaten trunks. at a, nominal figure which, had been ori ginally consigned tonMaJor Wood, U. S. A., Aiken, S. C. This is not the real name, Which, for obvious rea sons it is kindly courtesy to leave In oblivion. - ' When the trunks were opened there was reveal* d a pathetic story. The Major who had served his country well and bravely for many years, bad at last succumbed to the mortal foe, con sumption. He was granted a leave of upon an execution as a matter of busl- and due ^ uth ^ woo *** ness, nothing else. In this be re minds one very much of little Joe Ames***— w«tr^, _ Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung The \ lenna Aroeiier Zeitung re ports the seiture of Armenian church property a BaflU' and the killing of a large number of Americans. The soldiers fired ten volleys Into a crowd of men, women aod children, killing 130. The Americans then took refuge In a church, And fired at the soldiers, who thereupon stormed the building and 'butchered all who were inside. The exact number is not known. The old sexton was bayoneted as he was ringing an alarm bell. After the fight the goldiem btvoucacked in the church yard. < A Blit Job. Editor Watteraon of the Louisville Courier-Journal very emphatically de claim that the Panama csqal project was nothing more nor less \ than a gigantic Job from beginning to end, by Which S40,000,000 was to be divid ed between French and American UUeves. - Atkinson, the old Tombs hangman, who was as obeerful 'in eiecutioner as one would care to meet. “My dear sir, I do not kill these men,” said Mr. Davis Just after the Van Wormer execution to an inquirer. “The people of the state of New York acting through a judge and Jury, kill them. I am aimply the Instrument of-the law. I work the machinery by which the State of New York takes the lives of murderers.” Davis Is a little gray-balred man of 6). Ask a New York politician who is the hard est man to find io the city and he will tell you Tim Sullivan. Ask a state official at Albany, especially Superin- ndent of Prisons Collins, who is tire it man in the state to find {uad rill tell you Davis. * - DaVls is a living mystery. He slips from place to place, never maintain ing residence in a given locality for any length of time and rarely letting anybody know where be is. Every once in a while ^ appears suddenly in Albany, maps out bis work for the next few months, and then goes away again, whitbe^ nobody knows. He can be absolutely dependedyupon how-' ever to put in appearanbe at the state prison where there is to be aq execu tion several days before It is time to take place. He goes right to the death chamber and gets everything In readiness, and after the execution be goes away as silently and as mysteriously as be call.- The state prison pays Davis 1160 for each -man he kills. It has tried re peatedly to' buy bis patents, but be will not sell. If be should die there arc probably plenty of men who would he able to work bis apparatus, but it would be more or less an experiment, even. If an electrician willing to do the work oould be found. Davis’ mysterious movements are attributed by some to a fear of assassination. Davis wfcs asked about this recently and laughed heartily. He receives many threatening letters, be said, but he pays no attention to them. The night before an execution Davit goes to bed very early and Jeaxas word that every precaution is to be taken not to have any noise around his room. He sleeps like a top and wakes up bright and early. His works In the death chamber, outside of preparing the apparatus, is very slight He looks on while the keepers strap the men In, then puts bis hand on the switch and turns on the current. He never leaves the switch after the first shock until the man in the chair is officially declared dead. Very naturally some people^bave an aversion to Davis because be is the state executiouer. Far from being an noyed by this, Davis Is rather amused. At a recent execution Davis took din ner at a hotel near the prison. M. Adolph Godot, a French physicist refused tosifcAt the table with him, prefering to wait until. ^ he was through. Davis calmly ate his din ner, reading his paper the while, and then smoked two cigars while the hungry boarders waited for him to get away. Davis has no assistant. He does bis work alone, and unpleasant as the work may seem, he certainly do^ it well. FA6S HIM AR0UHD. “OLD HOM” The bv a GreeavUJe Mm. S There Is always mystery about the contents of the sealed packages sold at the “old boss sales.” Freqqently the “sells” are two fold, bringing In comedy, hot occasionally there Is pathos and life tragedies passed on lnt" II the and In- health, but at Aiken he died. These trunks were shipped to the Major, but did not reach Aiken until after bis death. _ 1 / One trunk was filled with a small but very choice library of books, the subjects naturally dealing principally with war and warriors to the taste of the soldiers. Another trunks con tained a number of relics, cUrios and small bits of bric-a-brace which been gathered together during travels of'a man of education taste. The personal possesions, eluding the uniform and the sword which had seen service in the late war were the pathetic contents of an- otbef trfthk. It was a ahlpment of things so closely personal, things which it wo^ld seem so natural that the family of any man might treasure, things which loved ones would always desire to possess and keep in memory of the dead, that the gentlemen Who purchased the trunks for the mere freight was reluctant to retain them. He wrote to the War Department and told of his purchase and asked if he could be put in communicatiou with tne family of ,tbe deceased Major Wood ^witb a view oif restoring what was evi- dently lost property. -The answer came promptly, giving the address of the,widow and laconi cally adding, “Widow refused ship ment unless War Department paid freight.” This was the tragedy. The sad tragedy of a man who died alone, wb<»e Cherished treasures had passed ThLq the bauds of strangers, who car ed only for the intrinsic value. Love less aiKi alone, the story the trunks told, a heartless woman whose vows were no more than ashes tossed to the winds was the story the trunks told. Poor Major "Wood, who can tell, but all can guess.what life held for him whose wife waAso nearly a pillar of stone that even Datih, the leveler of all anger and hate, cbuld not touch the heart of flint. —Greenville News. bad tny other dlM*»e, and,their strength is being drained away without their knowing the cause, ed, and learn the cause of your trouble. Send for free booklet on Varleocele. HISTORY EEC JNSTRUCTI0N Col. Farrow Will Write ol Soutl i ■■ Carolina’s Redemption. It will be gratifying to know that a reliable history of the Reconstruc tion and redemption of South Carolina is being prepared whichwill vindicate the State atad let the world knot? what our people had to endure under the carpetbag rule. It will be seen from the following lettler that Col. John P. Thomas has turned over the data he had collected to Col. T. Stobo Far row and urges those friends who were assisting him in getting up data on the subject to turu said data over to Col. Farrow aod aid him lq his woriq. Col. Thomas’ letter follows: : , yy ^ Columbia, S. C M ^©ct. 24', 11903. Col. T. Stobo Farrow, Columbia, S. C. Urged by friends, l-have'been ar ranging to write the history of Recon struction in South Carolina from 1865 to 1876—eleven baleful years, embrac ing the times that tried men’s souls and women’s hearts as the Confeder ate war never did. In that second war—wherein the pen was the only weapon that oould be mad) effective to redeenr the State and save our white civilization—1 thank God that no South Caroliuian fought harder and more persistently than I'with voice and with pen as the records will show. And I suppose that no survivor of that war koows more than 1 of the inner am} the outer spirit of that struggle from which Sotlth Carolina emerged with the whiteness of her soul preserved. Hence l did contem plate writing a history which I to make the vindication and the justi ticatiou of a prostrate State, and th glory, too. But informed by you that you have already made considerable progress in said history aod that you propose to make your history of the Recoostructiou period in South Car olina thorough.aud comprehensive— then tender fn“payment “a • nd believing furthermore, that you rn by another party to his » re well equipped for your work, I hereby yield to you the field of opera tion in this matter. All the material that I have bearing upon the subject matter—including the bound files of The Columbia Fnoeotx and Weekly Gleaner asso- Josepb 'The Bankers of the State Warned About One W. R. Morrell. The South Carolina Bankers elation through its secretary, Norwood, of Greenville, the following letter received from' Emslie Nicholson, of the banking firm of Union: : . ‘ “DesrSlr:—For the information the association it might be well for you to report the following swindler, who, It appears, has been operating In this vicinity, and who Induced one of our customers to cash a check for him which proved to be forgery. “His plan of operation is to ap proach a merchant, buy a small bill of goods, and check drawn order, apparently certified by the bank on which it is drawn. ( “In the case which occurred here, be gave bis name as W. H. Morrell, and presented a card giving bit ad dress as Spartanburg and respresent- ing that be was with the A* T. T. company. The check purported to be drawn by W. A. Dickson on the First National bank of Morrtltown, Tennes- ssee, and was apparently oertlfiid hy^ said bank. i •'* • „ | “The following description of Mor rell may be of some service: "Name, W. R. Morrell; residence, Spartanburg, S. C.; nativity, U. S.; occupation, with American Telegraph and Telephone company! criminal oc cupation, forgery; age, 25; height, about six Oat; weight, about 170 pounds; complexion, medium dark;! 1 color of hair^ medium dark; eyes, wore glasses; clean shaven. ’ * * -“From what our customers has been able to learn since the above occur rence, this party has also been operat ing In Spartanburg.” . ^ Why DaWe D > Vital statistics classified shows the respiratory organs to be Lbefseble point in man. Diseases of the lungs are out, of all proportion in fatality. Take Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein for coughs, colds and consumption. At Dru^gista, 26c per ijMU- J? and The South Carolinian under mf editorship from 1868 to 1878 —F&hall turn over to you, and I beg all friends of mine, who had expected to aid me in furnishing the data of historic matter, to turn said data over \ Th* *p*cl*>l«t U nowlirdlrpenaftbla. In nll wnlkiof 1U* th*r* 1« » d«m»nd for th* who con do one portlculor thing better thon ony one elefc. ond »uch o toon 1* on* who ho* •onflnod hi* andeovor to, jukTcentered oil of hi* energy *ad ability on the epeetolty he hoe choeen for hla life'* work. .. \ Early 1ft my profceelgnal career { reollaed that Chronic IMeeeaw were not beliW fl*** Ik* o tentlon which their ImportanceworronUd. 1 sow that these dleeoees required * spool*! gl* nos* which the bosy practitioner coaid nerer acquire, for more than twenty yeora I hare**- Toted myself exclusively to the study and treatment ol these diseases, and the fact that pkfri- clans recommend me to their patient* 1* an evidence ol my eklll and *hMty tn my special line. 1' five special counsel to physicians with obstinateand obscure case*. ' 1 have devoted particular attention to ehronlojUseaees of men and women, and no other class of disease require* more intelligent and expert treatment Jt is a tact that a majority of men owe the seriousness of their condition to Improper treatment, and a fallnr* to realise th* Importance of placing their case in th* hand* of a skilled and expert specialist: > Nervous Debility HATHAWAY. Recognised as the Leading and Most Successful Specialist tn His line tn the United States. Overtndnlgence, Indiscretions and excesses are not the only canes* of an impairment of sexual strength. Such a deling*. _ meat frequenUy come* from worry, overwork, menial strain, etc., which gradhally weakens and Injure* the system before the unfortunate victim realise* the true nature of hie trouble, nervousness, weak back, dlsstnese, loss of memory, snots ba#of* the eyes, despondency, etc., often ere the first symptoms of an Implslrtnentof manly vigor, and tf neglected serious results are sure to follow. 1 want to talk to every man who ha* any of tl symptoms of weakening of his'manly fnnotlons. I can promptly correct all Irregularitl**, under my ekllirul treatment you will have restored all of the strength and glory cf your hood. Whether you consult me or not, do not jeopardise your health ready-made me the body are Involved, and only a: booklet, “ Nervous Debility and Its Family of lUs. n her yon coneult me or not, do not jeopardise yotfiT health by experimenting with medicines, free sample*, to-called qulok cures, etc.. as AKe most delicate organs of Involved, and only an expert should he entrusted with your eaee. Send forfrt* My cure for this disease is gentle and painless, and often causes no detention from business or other duties no cutting or Cangerons surgical operation. Improper treatment will reeult in serious injury. 1 give each ual attention, and treat Us every requirement. Kvery obstruction is removed, and all discharge soon rorenees la allayed and the canal heals up promptly and permanently. Send for free book on Stricture. ■icture nd rorenees I Varicocele It involves IndlvM* This disease Is the enlargement of velneof the scrotum, which fill with stagnant blood, causing a constant drain Upon the vitality. HffiM_ form certainty just as quick as consistent with It weakens the entire system and saps away all sexual strength. medical science. ~ ' law wivwrv*, vnsuoaaafi an wumvaaaav 1 cure this disease with th* i lunf- blr i Co: me to me at once if yon think you are afllat- Blood Poison . . I \ 7 * - This horrible disease Is no longer Incurable, and when I haow iepsyshas - * ^ bones, falling hs say that I can cure the most sever* chee I do so my treatment has accomplished. If yo.u have sore*, pimples, blotches, Core throat, pain* In the ailing hair, or any symptoms which you do not understand, It is important that you consult me atoooe, and twill tell you frankly whether or not you are an unfortunate victim, twill guarantee to cure you without the use of strong aadlajarloaa drugs.ln a* quick.>f not quicker, time than any knowq treatment. ’ My cure4* a permanent one, and U not mere patchwork, aad the " irsdu *—*—. ^ “ jai “ will be eradicated from the system forever. Send for my free booklet, “The Poison King.” !>■_____ ISf— Women who suffer from the all man LllS6dS6S OT Women method of,treatment. wfcJeh avoids all ISIsJViw wwwqssvii down pains, backaehe.WregularUlea, to health thoussndf oi suffering wi Chronic Diseases ailments peculiar to their "necessity regular!ties, leuchorrc Send for my free booklet ou Women's Diseases. lar to their sex are cored by my gentle and painless (y for surgical operations. If you Suffer from bearlng- hea, etc., write me about your ease. I have restored My specialty also Includes all other chronic diseases, such at Rheumatism, Catarrh, Diabetes, Bright’S Disease, Stomach, Liver and Kidney Diseases, Piles, Fistula, Rupture, Paralysis, Locomotor Athxla, St. Vitus Dance, etc., nod all who want skillful, expert treatment should write me about their case. My otto* Is equipped with the most approved X-Ray and electrical apparatus, so that my patients get the benefit of the latest discoveries of Heme T reatment I Invite eve treatment r- V- — _ veryone to consult me without charge, and will refund railroad fare one way to all wl T If you cannot see me fta person write for symptom blanks and full Information about cesxful plan of home treatment by which I have cured patients in every State la the Union and in sountries. Correepondence confidential. ^ J. NEWTON HATHAWAY, M. D. " _88_Inman Blinding, 22j S. Broad St.. Atlanta. Ga. ho my*** A FOOL AND HIS MONEY. The Three Card Game Played on Hartford Man. ——— „ Two strangers who are alleged to have swindled G. S. Burnham of Hartford. Conn., out of $5v000 through a three card name, are hein# sought by the poltce authorities here and in other places tonight. Burnham re ported his loss this afternoon. He is a well-to-do retired farrqer about 65 years old. One of the strangers said his nariie was Brooks and -that he was connected with a bank in Torrington, Conn., while the,other represented himself as a southerner, who had come north for the purpose of finding his sister in Winsted, to whom he was to pay 030,000. Haying learned that his sister was dead, the sputhernAr said he was reckless as to what became of the money. He offered to show Brooks amd Burnham how to play the three ca"Td game with the result that Burn-. ham was induced to draw $5,000 from the bank and put It In a tin trunk to gether wjth a roll alleged to contain •10,000 whjch the southerqfer placed as his part of the wager. Burnham was given the l(ey for the trunk and the men drove to\|yest Partford, stop ping at a secluded place In the woods where the giSme began. Burnham won, and receivihg the"iyunk started home alone. ^It was nob until he ar rived home, opened the trunk and found R empty that he rearmed be had been duped. Geo A Wagener, Pres. Geo Y Coleman, Vice Pres. IG Ball, Bec’y & TreM Coleman-Wagener Hardware Company, Successor to C. P. Poppenheim. 363 RING STREET, - - - ^ CHARLESTON, S C THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION, WHY DOES Nat THE UP^ COUNTRY GIVE CHARLESTON HER ENTIRETRADE IS, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT KNOW CHARLESTON HAS THIS GREAT ADVAN TAGE OVER HER-COMPETITORS. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO 18 TO COMPARE RATES. From Nkw York, N. Y. to , Charleston, S CJ Will the up-country buy cities? - Classifications — pkr IOOlbs. 1 2 3 4 5 6 50 40 34 28 23 17 Pm carload. — Nails, 12c per 100 lbs. from Charleston if they sell cheaper than othe Killed by » Limb;' Capt John C. May, a 'planter, member of the board of curators of Kentucky university and one of the most prominent men in the -central part of Kentucky, was killed Wednesday Vilght al*out 35 miles south of Chattanooga. While climbing a precipice of Lookout npountain a heavy limb «.f a tree fell,'striking him on the heajd and throwing him from the bluff. He died before .medical assistance could reach him. He was prospecting for coal. Would Not KIm Her. A Chicago wife called up the police station and demaned the arrest of her husband because he refused lb kiss her. Here is a conjugaT' contingency that may as well have "a legal prece dence first as last. ~ Wilson’s Freckle Cure. uteed to you. With best wishes for the success of your much needed patriotic volume., I am, , Yours sincerely, Jno. P. Thomas. Ool. Farrow was a member qf the 1. State Democratic Central club during the campaign of 1868, of wblcb Gen. Wade Hampton was tbe president, a member of tbe State Democratic ex- wbioh Issued tbe call "for Straight-out Democratic con vention which .nominated Hampton and Slmpeon for governor and lieuten ant governor, leading to tbe redemp tion of tbe State In 1876; a member of the State prem from 1873 to 1883, and chief clerk of the State senate from 1971 to 1886. It will be eeen that Ool. Farrow has bad unusual od- portuqlties for becoming familiar with all the Incident* of Abe Reconstruc tion period and la peculiarly fitted for the history of the reconstruc tion.—Tbe State. to remove Free k 1 e s n Burns, Taos, Moth and Pimples also as a toilet cream Money r e- turned if it fails- Price 50c. Trial size 25c. 5c postage. If noU*okl by^our^nig^ist^write Charleston. 8. G- High Grade Pianos, Best Organs. • Tbe Quality, Terms and Prices will please. Call or write Malone’s Music House, Established 1884. Opposite Y M C A, COLUMBIA, S. C. ♦♦♦♦♦SSSSSSSSMOWW Hsa sa m BOTANIC iBLOOD BALMS Tk* Creel Tetted Remedy far the ipeedy and fterauuMBt cur* of Scrofula, Kheuna- tiam. Catarrh, Ulcers, Kcscma, Sores Erup- tsoes. Weakness, Nervousness, end a3 MOOD MO SKIIJDISLUSS. It is hy fa/ the best beildinf up Tenic aad Blood Purifier ever offered to th* world. It ■takes new, rich blood, imparts renewed vi- , tatty, aad posse sees almost miraculous r heahn^propeu-es Writ* IW.B»*fc .1 | If act kept by your localdrufrist, seed I ^efiara lariebottie, er 9s^a for w bottles, id medWa* will be eea COLUMBIA LUMBER & MFC CO COLUMBIA f c Uk The guignrad Brick Works, 1-’ \r COLUMBIA, s. c: 9 Building and Re-Pressed Brick. Special shapes to or hr.. Fin Prof C ra Cotta Flue Linings. Prepared to-flll orders for thomnlt «- vM » ••a-#**! Prepare yourselves to meet the demand for Stenographers, typewriters x and bookkeepers. Write for catalogue of MACFEAT’S BUSINESS COLLEGE, Columbia, S. C. W. H. Macfeat, official Court Stenograplier, nresident. - - Are Yon Coining tq the State Fair; 1 If you come we, want you to call in at our Handsome Store and make oar uaintance. You can have yeur mail sent yon in our care, and while In the we will take care of your packages. , -■ .v-.. • ST. estate Fair officials promise to have this year the biggest Fair on record' and theCity of ..Columbia will do her share In providing amusements Don’t fprget the date* Oct. 26,27,28,29. ^ acmem*. lwi i \ . P. H. LACHICOTTB & CO., Jewelers, Mg'* M*»n »t ■ COLUMBIA, 8 « Fo unded in 1850. MEDICAL 8TTJDXET8. Write for Free Catalogue of the MEDICAL DEPARTMENHUNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE. Curriculum included twenty-three lecture courses, each followed by a thorough review quiz; seven laboratory courses, and three hours of elioleal work dally. N^w building elaborately eqipped with modern apparatus and appliances. Tuition $65.00. Address, J. Dillard Jacobs, m!d.. Sec 841801,111 Marfeet Nashville, Tenn. Rrfp t buYi l d ng , r e-pr ess ed and Ul ILtIV FANCY SHAPES. ; : -7 ,-:L—STOCKS ' PROMPT SHIPMENTS _Z1__ —^"—GEGRGiA-eA^ROLTffA BItICK C0., •— —7- Howard H. Stafford, President. WRITE FOR PRICES. AUGUSTA, Graduates 4,483 G. A. GUIGNARD, Pres. G-A. ATKINSON, Sec. & Trea. ITHE COLUMBIA SUPPLY CO., - will be glad toangwer and correspondence of any person using Machine it We carry 3 grades.ojf RuhberJielting, 3 grades of Leather any Gandy Belt Alin Wood Pulleys, Pipe Fitting, Valves, Shafting, Hangere, Roffling and ever* thing else In the supply line. You save money by writing or caillM on ua 7 ' COLUMBIA SUPPLY Oa, Columbia, 8 ~ jarette 1 All.Drug and Tobacco lablt I . : . Habits. Cured by ICeeley In«titnt:e, of CL 1329 Lady St. (i>r P. O. Box 75) Columbia, 8. 0. Confidential oorrespon*- L-ime, Oeyiient, r>l»»ter. Terra Cotta Pipe, RoofingPaper, Car lots, small lots, write, Carolina, Portland Cement Co., Cbtrlesion, ft. C* s avcMoney, • ave Time, ave Bother. Buy your Paints, Oils, Var nishes, and Brushes, Sash, Dotiis, and Blinds from &UD BUILDERS SUPPLT CO. 615 Plain St _ Columbia, S C CHARLES a LESLIE, -—Wholesale Dealers In H CUD Cl 1854. 1900-’03. ^ 6RKBIYIUE PBIIIK CDLIKSI Green v 1 Us, 8.0* ■■■.■•A*## Oyi 8 A 20 Market St.. Cbarleston, 8.0. of College of highest grads, courses and tpecUh. Faeult Greatly improved equi mountain water. Oil equalled. For catak writ© . E. G. Jambs, 1 )men ts itfullf Produce Poultry, vt at. * - Fish packed in barrels and boxes lot ountry trades