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! in iiiiiii- onau.' :j t 1 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. ^?J BAMBERG, S. 0., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1899. . nom ABT.TSRUTI 1 ftQI. D-a-mo -r I CE | ITEMS OF GENERAI, INTEREST. KcKINIsEY TO VIRGINIANS. * 8 j A TRIBUTE TO THEIR GREAT MEN ? 1 The President Referred to the Old Dominion in War and i'eace-The Great Historical Events at Yorktown and Appomattox. The launching of the torpedo boat Shubrick, built in Richmond, Va., and named in honor of Commodore Shubrick, a Southern man, was a notable m event in the history of Virginia, and ?r the occasion was honored by the atten- ^ dance of President McKinley and mem- 8t: bers of his cabinet. The launching of Jf ?"?Aopo and thp the doat was a gre? t euvv^<e| boat was duly christened by little Miss jfn Carrie Shubrick, of Rocky Mount, N. I ?P C., a great-grand niece of Commodore fl?j Shubrick, with the u?ual formalities. The President was introduced by the mayor of Richmond, and responded as | "a follows: I na "Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen: I ^ 1 am glad to meet my fellow citizens I of Richmond and join with them in I jl this interesting celebration in honor | ev of the launching of the torpedo boat I tu Shubrick, built in this city of Ameri- a can material, by the labor of American f arj( workingmen for the use of the Ameri- . can navy. I congratulate the bu rs ? and workmen upon this evidence of I c;_ their skill and industry, so creditable 27^ to the manufacturing company and so Yo highly commended by the officers of atj the government. j u This is not the first contribution I which Richmond has made to our 180i ?1?onninnari the war- I IU1DI1UXU uaTV? muv vM ?-_ ship Texas with all her machinery, boilers and engines, which were tried Ma and tested with entire satisfaction in Ri< the brilliant naval engagement in the vir harbor of Santiago, when that gallant. wj] vessel so gloriously. assisted in the de- 8pc strnction of Cervera's fleet, winning a to 1 memorable victory and hastening an ing honorable and enduring peace. 1 heartily rejoice with the people of this ? great city upon its industrial revival tur - : and upon the notable prosperity it is gra feeling in ail of its business enterprises. int, Ton are taking advantage of the com- anc mei cial opportunities of the hour. You im> are advancing in manufactures, extend- enC] ing your markets and receiving a de gac served share of the world's trade. ^<3 M What can be more gratifying to us g0V than the present condition of the coun- pri; try ? A. universal love of coantry and ^e a noble national spirit animate all the 8ioj people. We are on the best of terms with each other and on most cordial relations with every power on earth. A ' We have ample revenues with which to conduct the government. No deficit An menaces our credit. Money is a bun- bi dant in volume and unquestionable in G value. Confidence in the present and , faith In the future are firm and strong. . j The people are doing business on businoes principles and should be let alone ?encouraged rather than hindered in J7* their efforts to increase the trade of the , * oountry and find new and profitable markets for their-products. Manufactaring was never so active and so uni- p versally anjoyed throughout all the SUtos. Work was never so aouuoau*. . v The transportation companies were never so taxed to handle the freight ce? offered by the people for distribution. w?, The home and foreign markets contri- 1 bate to our prosperity. Your locomo- PJ} tlves go to Russia; the watch cases from my little oity of Canton go to Rfr Geneva; the bridges of Philadelphia spaa the Nile, and the products of the American farm and factory are carried P* upon every' sea and are found in most of J , the ports of th*> world. " In what respect would we change p these happy conditions with the prom* ise8 they give of the future I The business activity in every part of the Py country; the better rewards to labor, the wider markets for the yield of the soil and the shop; the increase of our Pe shipbuilding not only for our govern- J~e< meat but for purposes of commerce; the P9r< enormous increase of our export trade ^ in manufactures and agriculture; the *rr greater comforts of the home and the PJ happiness of the people; the wonderful ^ uplifting of the business oonditions of P01 Virginia and the South, and of the br? whole Country, mark this not only an 11 era of good will, but an era of good yea timet. It is a great pleasure to me to yea stand in this historic capital and to Pf* look into the faces of my countrymen . here assembled and to feel and know that we are all Americans standing as ? f2 one for the government we lo*e and *r.le mean to uphold, united for the honor ? of the American name and for the ? faithful fulfillment of every obligation which dftional duty requires. I can- ? ? not forget in this presence to make my ~ 1 acknowledgement to the men of Vir- , ginia for their hearty and patriotic J.le nt th? tmvernment in the war Pr Up|MM ? w ?- K with Spain and for he continued and unflinching loyalty in the suppression ?f? of the insurrection in Luzon against the authority of the United States. 80 They came in swift response to the ef\ call of country?the best blood of the ?. State, the sons of noble sires, asking of fat* service at the battle front where ?rs the fighting was hardest and the dan- fac ger the greatest. The rolls of the Vir- F10 gin la volunteers contain the names of "01 the bravest and best, some of them the *?r descendants of the most illustrious n?? Virginians of its earliest and latest times. They have shed their blood for ter the flag of their faith and are now de fending it with their lives in the dis- ln tant islands of the sea. All honor to the American army and nary. Ail honor has been shown the men return- Pr ing from the field of hostilities and all iet honor attends those who have gone to take their places. Co * My fellow citizens, two great his- ^ torical events, separated by a period of u, 84 years, affecting the life of the republic and of awful import to man- th kind, took place on the soil of Virgin- J ia. Both were participated in by Vir- ? ginians and both marked mighty epochs in the history of the nation. The one was at Yorktown in 1781 when *? Oornwailis surrendered to Washington, which was the beginning of the end of __ the war with Great Britain and the % dawning of Independence and union. ? The great Virginian, sage and patriot, k- illustrious commander and wise states- Jr ? n*Mt installed the republic in the fam- j:. ily of nations. It has withstood every " f - shock in war or peace from without or f f within, experiencing its gravest crisis *- w. The other, at Appo i U U19 WIU mattox was the conclusion of that crisis, and the beginning of a unification now " happily full and complete, resting in the good will and fraternal affection of g" one toward another of all the people. c Washington's terms of peace with Cornwallis secured the ultimate union of the " (oolonies; those of Grant with Lee the f perpetual union of the States. Both events were mighty gains for the hu- J man family and a proud record for a f nation of freemen. Those were tri- ; nmphs in which we all have a share ; z both are common heritage. The one made the nation possible, the other 0 made the nation imperishable. Now 0 no jarring note mars the harmony of 5 the Union. The seed of discord has no ?*- sower and no soil upon whiofc to live. The purveyor of hate, if there be one left, is without a follower. The voice 1 l t $ sk rhich would kindle the flame of pas-1 [on and prejudice is rarely heard and o longer heeded in any part of our eloved country. ' 'Lord of the universe Shield us and guide us Trusting Thee always; Through shadow and sun! Thou hast united us. Who shall divide us ? Keep us, oh keep us, I The many in one.' < "Associated with this great com- i on wealth are many of the most sa- 1 ed ties in our national life. From 1 ire came forth many of our greatest c atesmen and heroes who gave vigor f orlnrv tn the republic. >U Til TUV WIH ~ J ? , )r thirty-seven of the sixty-one years I ana 1789 to 1850, sons of Virginia oc-11 pied the presidential office with rare I i lelity and distiaction, a period cover-11 g more than one-fourth of our na- v )nal existence. What nation can is ve a greater heritage than such! "3 mes as Washington, Jefferson, Madi- n a, Monroe and Marshall? Their Jy eds inspire the old and the young. I w Ley are written in our histories, [o iey are a part of the education of I b ery child of the land. They enrich I g s school books ol the country. They I p i cherished in every American home I c; d will be so long as liberty lasts and | h 3 union endures. 1t< 4 My countrymen, the sacred priB-isi ties proclaimed in Philadelphia inltl '6, advanced to glorious triumph at 181 rktown, made effective in the form-1 ai on of the Federal Union in 1787, bus- i c< ned by the heroism of all our people IB every foreign conflict, sealed.. in I b emn convenant at Appomattox court ? ise, sanctified by the blood of the (tl n of the South and of the North at w nila and Santiago, and in Puerto [fii 30, have lost none of their force and hi tue; the people of the United States ot 1 meet their new duties and re-|fe insibilities with unfailing devotion I ju these principles and with unfalter- w : purpose to uphold and advance hi :m. I h< ' Standing near the close of the cen-1 th y, we can look backward with con- [ tb btulations and pride, and forward! 0 the new century witn oonuaeace tr 1 courage. The memories of the past ta >el us to nobler effort and higher lit leavors. It is for us to guard the red trust transmitted by our fathers tb I pass on to those who follow this be eminent of the free, stronger in ite M ociples and greater in its power for Oo execution of its beneficient mis- wi > " ? ar BOUNDED CONFEDERATE LAD dc ?... ca Incident at the Battle of Williams- ^ org and a Beautiful Tribute to Dr. jQ rier. y0 The Associate Reformed Presby- tb an has published many just and de thy tributes to ite late editor, Dr. bi; M. Crier, but the following will be of d with great interest by all of his nds, especially his comrades who ce e the gray. It has been written by do Joseph JEL Twichell, a prominent P*1 igregational minister of Hartford, ov in., who is distinguished both as an "J hor and as a preacher He has re- m tly returned from Europe, and ell tea as follows : an he news of Dr. Grier's death struck ** with grief as well as surprise, for I wi I him in very warm esteem, and tn ardently hoped to meet him in i life. In fact there were few things S* II so much desired, or had antici- vo id with so much pleasure. During m\ civil war, in my youth, I was chapi of the 71st Regiment New York be Volunteers, in the Army of the 1*1 omac. He wu among the wounaea ? Jederate prisoners who fell under tb care after the battle of Williams- or g in May, 1862. Though he was ro j a boy in age, he so impressed f? with his intelligence and with b manly fortitude with which he ca b his sufferings, that I spoke of he i at considerable length In a letter Jol tten home to my father in Connecti- 8ic 1 was with him only two or bli bo days then, and 1 saw him no rii e; but 1 never forgot that bright cii re boy. w< i was, 1 should say, seven or eight fai rs ago, (but, no, I find it is ten th rs,) when I had been pastor here an rly or quite twenty-three years, it t a gentleman named Courtenay fil n Charleston, once Mayor of that on r, came to Hartford on a visit .to wl inds in my parish. On meeting an i one evening, 1 asked him if ke ta >w of such a man in South Carolina in iV. M. Griir, explaining the-reason ho ny question. All 1 could tell him, wi dentify the person, was that he was I j son of a minister and that he lost ar \g at Williamsburg. To my delight, as . Courtenay at once replied "that he w< sw all about him. Accordingly he TJ ceeded to give me an account of m i; of his high standing in point of th olarship and of character; of his bi inence as a preacher, Ac., Ac., and ai lis honorable position as president w: Brskire College; all of which it k( ttified me extremely to hear. ' In t, I almost wondered that it was so *r ch to me to hear it. But it showed ot n deeply that wounded lad had inested me and was lodged in my me- g ry. After that he was often in my iB >ughts. I got out my old army lett, which my father had preserved, m 1 read again what I had said of him ^ 1862; and feeling strongly moved dl 5 re to, one day I transcribed it and, ^ th'a note of explanation, sent it to V( . Grier. 1 have now before me the 8] ter he immediately wrote me in d ply, beginning, "Yes, I am that ^ nfederate bey who lost a leg at llliamsburg, and who received such irked attention and kindness at your ^ nds, and at the hands of other Fed- _ si soldiers." But he had to own r at he could not separate me in his Q collection from my comrades, which, c course, was not surprisi g, for g liknd him and manifested + J od-will to Mm; sod besides he was _ en very weak and full of pain. * From the time we thus after so long g t interval resumed relations, so to f eak, there has been an occasional in* j. rchange of letters between us; but, t i I hare said, we have not met. He 1 >ped I would come South, and I hoped t 3 would come North sometime, to ^ ve us the chance to loo* one another 1 i the face again. But it was not to e 3. The last time I wrote to him was ] > tell him that my son was adjutant of , le Third Connecticut Volunteer regi- . lent, enlisted in the United States j srvice for the war with Spain, sad j 'as in camp at Summervilie, South , arolina, and to ask him, should he , ass that way, to give the young man a ' nlL He straightway answered that 3 case he had the opportunity he cersinly would do so. In January I ran own to pay my son a visit there, and hought of going to see Dr. Grier; but nan to limit my absence to the days etween two Sabbaths, and there was Had I known?but, ah, we tever know. God grant that I may neet and greet him in the better counTJ 1 m ? ?Thunder can be heard at a distance of fourteen miles. A WAR STORY OF BEM, ARP. HOW HUTCHINS SAVED HIS MEAT. _____ Bid it in the Hearth of an Old Blacksmith Shop?Advice to the Cottontot* A friend writes me from Florida (hat bacon will not keep well in that jlimate, and that the old settlers say t always gets rancid. He wants to enow if there is any remedy for this, ifes, I think so, unless hogs fattened >n pinders are different from those attened on corn. Thia reminds me of a war story. In 1864 my wife and half a dozen lit- J le children found refuge from the foul nvader at her father's plantation on he upper Chattahoochee river. There ras no white man there or near there ave her old father, Judge Hutchins. ?here were about a hundred negroes, lore than half of them too old or too oung to work. Food for our soldiers , ras getting scarcer every day and ; rders came that every farmer should e tithed?that is to say, he should ive up to the government agents a ortion of his corn and meat and beef . attle. A mounted detail from the | ome guard was sent out with wagons ( ) enforce the order and gather in the j ipplies. There was nobody to resist t lem, for everybody was in the army j ive old men and invalids and women j ad children. Late one evening a g impany of thirty men came to Judge } LUtchins's house and rudely informed t im that they came for bacon and beef c ittle. The judge very calmly told c lem he had none to spare. For a 8 hile they parleyed with him, but a lally demanded the key to his smoke- g luse. My wife and children and two 8 ,her little grandchildren listened in ( ar and anxiety. They knew that the $ dge was a fearless man, but there 8 ere so many well armed men against ^ ;m, the odds were fearful, and when t 5 refused to give up the key, they said ^ tey would .arrest him and break down t ie door ^ Then he pleaded with them in a s embling voice and said to the cap- I in : "Here is my daughter and her AOU liUCU Oil noo\?uiu? vu vuv wmmvm* w, ochee. Tne burial of Sir John Mcx)re ^ u not more silent. In January, 1865, y joined my family at the plantation ? id not long after the judge famished ^ i a good male team and wagon and tl a returned to oar home in Rome. 0 tie day before we left Ills hospitable ansion be opened the cache and found 0 to meat all sweet and sound and we 8 ought a good portion of it with us ^ id it was as precioas as gold. My t Ife says the charcoal purified it and h jpt it from tasting old or rancil. t Now then I have answered my h iencUs question. He must get up an- t .her civil war and hide his meat in ? le hearth of an old blacksmith shop. ( arth and charcoal are both good dis- c tfectants and preservers of flesh, and e I was in Florida I would pack my g eat in charcoal, not dust, but small % rushed coal. Before putting the meat & [>wn I would powder it from a pepper t dx with borax. Borax is almost uni3really used now. It is sure death to & rippers and other vermin, and a i rnggist told me that the sale of it had i lcreased a thousand per cent within i ae last five years. t When my family got home we found l flat it was not good to live by meat ] lone and we had to send down the t iver a hundred miles for a few bushels 1 f corn and hid it near a mill in the ] oantry, because the outlaws and de- j erters were patrolling the land and 1 aking everything they could find. A. | ood friend brought us half a bushel of < aeal at a time on the sly, and so we i >ot along.. The memory of old Rowand Bryant is still precious to us for Lis kindness in those days of tribula- i ion. It is encouraging to know that Armour & Co., have not abolished all i he smokehouses in the land, nor Irawn our home made meat into their nighty trust. Our farmers are generally raising their own meat and )ring a good deal to town to sell, and ? ' M *V ?4. Iq.H In nilPAr By WHO OAJfV wuav wuumj i0ku m ind belter than any that comes from the packing houses of the west. Our dome market is well supplied by our Farmers with almost everything that is good to eat. Beef, pork, butter, chickens, eggs, potatoes, turnips, cabbages, beans and apples are in great abundance. Of course we can't have mutton, for the negroes must have dogs and the candidates must have negro votes. I lost eight fine Merinos in one night and my neighbor, Mr. Dobbins, lost three hundred in five years, and quit the business. But with all our drawbacks, our people are on the upgrade. Seven cents cotton has helped greatly, and if our farmer will eut down the acreage still more, it will bring 8 cents next year and leave more 1 land for wheat and corn. The South ;tle helpless children and here are o fo others whose mother is dead and * eir father is in the army. I have n it four sons and they are in the army, a y two sons-in-law are there. Here p l this place' are fifty or sixty negroes u bo are too young or too old to work, n id it is a struggle for us all to live, a am alone and getting old. I have a ine my share for the Confederacy and * nnot do more. Now I know that h ?u can overpower me or kill me and tl ke away the little meat I have saved lj r these helpless ones, but let me tell w >u, captain, the first man who goes to r< at door to break it down will be a si ad man before he can do it" His h ftck eyes flashed as if lit up by sparks o fire and his voice no longer trembled, h a was desperate. . Lightly he as- 01 nded the stairs, where he had two w uble-barreled guns well loaded, and L anting himself by the window that a erlooked the smokehouse, he said, d Now break that door if you dare to," si id the percussion lock went click, u ick. The captain looked at the door n d then at the judge. There was an oi rful silence for a few moments. My o! fe and children had heard it all and w ambled. Some of the negroes had t< thered at the cabin doors, and old n m dared to exclaim in a low, husky gi ice, "Better not?better not?old p use kill you?kill you shore." The captain suddenly reconsidered, rr Dome, boys," said he " it's getting fc fee, and there ain't no n>e in fighting g out a little meat. We can report ai e case to headquarters and if we are dered back we can try it again, I ckon." Without saying goodbye or rewell they left. That night about midnight the judge T lied up old Jack and Virgil, whom > knew he could trust, and had the ints of the meat and a part of the le8 carried quietly down to the old g tcksmith shop on the bank of the ^ rer. With pick and shovel the adore and earth in the old hearth a jre soon excavated and a chamber y, shioned that would hold acd hide a ousand pounds. It was buried there s d the hearth was covered just like ~ had been. Some scattering charcoal Jfi Led in the spaces and some was left t] i top and the black old basket placed y lore it long had been. With shovel ^ d wheelbarrow the surplus earth was ken down the river bank and tumbed D 3 of ah f hu rihattft. em farmers ought to form a might, trust and regulate acreage and price Our own county could regulate itse1 by organizing and combining with th' local banks. Our average crop is 10,00i bales, and at 8 cents a pound woulc bring $400,000. About one-half of thi: could be carried and held by the more wealthy producers. The other 5,0C( bales could get an advance of 6 cents t pound, or $30 a bale, from the bank: on warehouse certificates. This wouic take only $150,000. Even $25 a bale would pay ths cost of production and leave the margin for the producer, and this would rtauire from the banks only $125,000. If every county was tc do this a 10,000,000 bale crop would jump to 8 cents within sixty days. That's the way to meet trust with trust and defy the speculators. Why can't it be done ? Bill Arp. THE WONDER OP THE WORLD. The Telephone is a Faint Resemblance of the Voice that Moses Heard on Sinai. The wonder of the world is the telephone. Everything' else can he accounted for and explained, but when explanation is made in full of how the telephone works, the mystery still re nains, for, lo, the voice of a friend lundreds of miles away comes soundog beside one, as though face to face, tnd the fact is made clear that there s a divinity in that voice that disance, and roaring storms and all the ;lamor8 of a mighty world cannot break me tone of. It is as when the Infinite poke to Moses on Sinai, as when, after 11 the clamors had passed, the still mall voice smote upon the ears of the eer and he knew that God was nigh. )ne asks a question, his own voice rho mnm in whinh hft its, but a moment later out of* the arkness a voice replies, and he knows hat his question has penetrated all he space for hundreds of miles, and hat the answer has come and brought rith it all the tones that love or friendhip would demand for identification.. t is easier than formerly to believe hat the prayer preferred is recorded n the receiver of eternity and in some ray is proof of man's dominion over ot only the earth, but all its elements, nd that he has been from the first ossessed a of divinity which is sufficient 3 command and make a servant of lere matter, that his place is, after 11, only a little lower than the angels, nd that when the environment of this rorld shall be cast off he will find that astead of death being a close it is but ie opening gate to a higher and freer ie. We hear a bell, and a voice that e have not heard for months or years 58ponds, and so we know that voice is till, with all the old tones, to be eard. Who shall say that when anther summons comes we shall not ear voices that we thought had gone at forever in whispers, hear them ith all the old rythm sweetness? listening, there is brought to us the lusic of an orchestra playing- hunreds of miles away. What music iall we hear when the final key is >uched ? The storm, the interposing iountainp, the boom of cataracts r the roar of rushing trains?none f them interpose any barrier; hat will be that music that will come ) us when all the barriers are reloved and upon our sublimated ears trikes the far-off mighty, but incomwabiy sweet refrain i What is going on ought to exalt ten, it ought to make them humble, >r why- should such specks as they be Lven the blessings and the glory that re bestowed upon them ? THANKSGIVING DAY. he Governor Galls Upon the People to Give Thanks for Abnndant Blessings. - - - ~ 1 l J VI. Governor Mcsweeney au issueu uio rat Thanksgiving Day proclamation. ; is brief and reads as follows: The people of this State have been bundantly blessed daring the past ear. Gratitude is one of the Chrisan virtues. We should give thanks t all times. Men too often forget the oodness of God. There should not nly be gratitude in our hearts, but aere a>*e times when we should give isible evidence and audible expression ) that gratitude. We have been remarkably free from estilence and scourge. We have been ermitted to plant and to garner.- The sins have come and the earth has ielded her fruits, and we have been Uowed to enjoy the labor of our hands. Ve have made progress in manufaciring the products of our fields and ur forests. It has long been customary to take ne day out of the three hundred and Lxty-five when we shall cease from the oils of our lahot and render thanks to he Giver of ail good for the many ilessings we receive. To the end, herefore, that we may with thankful tearte show our appreciation of the ender care of our Heavenly Father, I, 1. B. McSweeney, Governor of South Carolina, in conformity to the prolamation of the President of the Unitid States, do hereby appoint and set >part Thursday, the 30th day of November, 1899, as a day of thanksgiving md prayer, to be kept and obsei ved >y all the people of this State. Let all public offices be closed and dl private .business and labor of every clna cease and let the people assemble n their accustomed places of worship rnd render thanks with grateful hearts o their Creator and Preserver for the ilessings of life and liberty and happiiess which they daily receive. Let die people on this day also remember die fatherless and not forget that the poor and the needy ye have always ind that we are told by Him who made die great sacrifice for us that it is more blessed to give than to receive, and by [>ur own deeds of charity prove the sincerity of our gratitude. In testimony whereof I have here unto set my band and caueea tne great aeal of the State of South Carolina to be affixed. Done at the Capitol, in the city of Columbia, this 31st day of October, A. D. 1899. M. B. McSweeney. By the Governor: M. R. Cooper, Secretary of State. ?" The new preacher converted ever* man in town, except Green Bill,'1 said the old inhabitant. " He didn'l want to leave with one soul out o' the fold, but Bill held out to the lasi minute. Findin' there wuz no othei way, an* wantin' to make a clean re cord, the preacher got Bill up ag'ln the side of a house an' took a fenct rail an' knocked the devil out of him !' ?The British troops that are belnj dispatched to the Transvaal have t travel almost as far as the Amerirv troops that are sent to the Philippic e It is about six thousand miles frot Southampton to Cape Town, and th ! scene of operations is from three hue ! dred to one thousand miles inland frot that point. y TKIUUTiS TO UIK5. ?M.v.J&Jtvx<i o. i. f A LOVELY AN ifTOUCHING SCENE. 3 ) 1 Beautiful Eulogy by One Who Knew 3 Both Mrs. Pickens.and Illustrious i I Husband?Two Great Friends of ) the Confederacy. J The following is a brief outline of I the excellent address delivered by Rev. Dr. L. R. Gwaltney, at the me' morial services at the grave ot the late Mrs. F. W. Pickens, the services being ' conducted by the Ladies' Memorial ( Association of Edgefield. Dr. Gwaltney is the beloved pastor of the Baptist church in that town, and a man of brains and eloquence. The speaker said in part: I appreciate the honor of being thus aaBircittKSU w ibu me xucmui iai uwiuvj of Edgefield in the touching and beautiful ceremony of this quiet hour. Dead must be the soul that is not warmed to generous enthusiasm; cold and hard as adamant must be the heart unmoved by tender emotions on an occasion like this. Forty years ago, at this season of the "sere and yellow leaf," I entered this village cemetery to take my part in burying an honored citizen. Since then there have been many changes. The order of nature has continued in its unchanged course. The sun has come forth daily, "rejoicing as a strong man to run a race," and more than 500 moons have waxed and waned in their appointed orbits. The planets and stars have kept their courses and stations in unimaginable space, the binding sky has keld in constant embrace the sweetly coy, yet faithful horizon, "seed time and harvest have remained," the increase of fields, and herds, and flocks has been yearly gathered for the toiler's use, spring and autumn flowers, bright gifts of heaven's lavish bounty, have come in their season to gladden our senses with perfume and beauty. All these have continued "as they were." " Not so, cot so " with the children of men. They must "come and go," their [ earthly places knowing them no more forever. Alas! that he who was made lord of all things that live on earth, that he mast be stricken from the seat oi dominion and stately Honor. How many hundreds, during the last forty years, have come to their graves in this cemetery I know not, but I do know that many noble eons and daughters of a noble ancestry sleep around us today, and you, their children, do well to cherish with becoming pride the memory of their faithful lives. It is becoming in you to rejoice that such lives constitute a heritage which no decrees or schemes of men can take away. Nor should we repine when we think of the happy past in which our lives blended in part with the lives of those we honored and loved. I know it has been written, " sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things." I do not quite believe it. Some memories of happier things are linked with unutterably sweet and precious emotions. True, "the tender grace" of the years that are dead will come to us no more, but we drank their brimming cup of joy as they passed, and now we remember them with an ever increasing wealth of tenderness and chastened bliss, as much a soul-feast as were the brighter things of those happy days. I need not call the names of the noble dead whose dust you might find beneath this almost sacred soil. "The world holds record" of their names and deeds, their dauntless courage, their lofty patriotism, their fidelity to every generous impulse and conviction of duty. I will venture to say that not another single acre of this broad continent cherishes in its embrace the dust of so many heroic men and gracious women. They had their faults, all men have, but high sentiments of truth, and right, and generosity, and loyal devotion characterized their speech, and adorned their private and public walk. This day and this occasion will justify me in making mention of two who sleep so well their last sleep beneath our teardlmmed eyes, Francis Wilkerson Pickens, and his worthy consort, Lucy flolcombe Pickens. They were cast in no ordinary mould. Not often have superior dignity and manliness, beauty and grace been com1 ? n /tAmrvant/tfiakin As UiUCU. in oai vuij wuipauivu^ui^i am minister from the United States, this honored son of South Carolina carried his Texas bride to the brilliant court of St. Petersburg. Amid its splendor and its brilliant galaxy of eminent men and beautiful women, no scant courtesy and honor was shown to these representatives of republican simplicity and strength. They might have remained there, beloved and honored by the noblest of continental circles, spending a life of ease and ideal earthly happiness, but when perils threatened their beloved State and scarcely less beloved Southland, these patriots turned from the riches and pleasures of court life and hastened to cast their lot with " their own," preferring to suffer afflictions with them rather than enjoy the safety and charming luxury of European life. True, such sacrifice others have made, but such sacrifice thousands have been unwilling to make. Noble souls stand linked in sympathy and high endeavor, whether they be of peasant or princely blood. As "war governor" of his native State, Hon. F. W. Pickens stood among the foremost in unmoved steadfastness, in passionate ardor, in uncomplaining fortitude, in glowing patriotism. His devoted wife was not one wbit his inferior in steadfastness, in ardor, in fortitude, in patriotism. When the civil war ended, many citizens of the South moved from their country, their States, their old neigh-1 borhoods and former associations. Governor Pickens elected to abide the fortunes of his neighbors, and work with them for the reconstruction of j government and social life. How well j he served in this regard is known to I those who still survive those troublous j times. After his death, Mrs. Pickens became deeply interested in the effort to erect a monument on our public sfuare to the memory of our Confederate dead. A memorial society was formed i under the inspiration of her fervid . patriotism, and she was elected its J first president. The fast revolving , years closed the life of her only child, 1 the beloved Douse ha. Then, widowed _ and childless, she gave her love and eni ergy to the one aim of completing the 5 monument, and thus blending her own , name imperishably with the names of the men she honored as patriot heroes. I Why this noble enterprise has so o long lingered in its accomplishment, d I know not. Her deepest and strongest >. desire was to complete It before her u death. It stirs the generous heart e with deep regret and sadness that this t- desire was not fulfilled. She has fallen n ere her self-appointed work was finished, but this work has been com mibieu to wurbuy uuu muuiui uguuo. I commend to your cordial support the president and members of the Memorial Association. Citi2ens of Edgefield, join heart and hands with them, and flnnish the marble shaft that shall tell your posterity how the patriotic women of Edgefield loved and honored the "men who wore the grey." These women, noble in themselves, and ennobled by the task they will accomplish, and we, their coworkers, will soon finish all the to Is and sacrifices of life. We linger and work yet a little while beneath our bright Southern sky, and we also shall find our resting place in this little " city of the dead." "Through sorrow's night, and danger's path. Amid the deepening gloom, We, soldiers of a heavenly king, Are marching to the tomb. x Our labors done, securely laid In this our last retreat, Unheeded o'er oar silent dust The storms of life shall burst Tet not thns lifeless in the grave The vital sDark shall lie: For o'er life's wreck that spark shall rise To seek its kindred sky. These ashes, too?this little dust? Oar Father's care shall keep, Until the final trump shall break The long and dreary sleep. Then love's soft dew, o'er every eye Shall shed its mildest rays. And our long-silent dust snail rise, With shouts of endless praise." 1 i AH INTERESTING 8TORT. One of the Original Corps of Surveyors Tells A boat the Building and Equipment of the Old South Oaro- j Una Railroad. I The August* Herald gives the fol- 1 lowing story as related by a pio- 1 neer railroad builder, which the ( young folks will read with great in- J terest: 1 Dr. W. W. Smith, of Williston, S. ( C., holds the distinction of being one of the corps of surveyors who built the < first railroad in the United States?the t old South Carolina railway. He was 4 born in Barnwell County, South Caro- 8 lina, in 1813, and is, therefore, 85 years c of age. He is both a minister and a * physician. - ( According to Dr. Smith the first rail* ? road in the United States was the ( ? 12 v oOUtQ Carolina nmruaui wtcrwaru called the Charleston and Augusta c Railroad, running from Charleston to a Augusta, a distance of one hundred and g forty miles. d Dr. Smith was one of the corps of r surveyors of the road, beginning at x Charleston in the year 1826. He says t that they were seven years building 1 the road, and that he helped in the b work throughout that timev .The road I was completed in 1833. k Below are given some of the facts as 1 furnished by Dr. Smith : . c The first motive power used on this v road was wind, utilized in sails made r of cloth on the cars. a Dr. Smith is the inventor of the lever x switch. Before his invention they r moved the rails by means of wedgee. p In building the road a heavy grade i was encountered at Aiken, S. C., where x there was a stationary engine that a pulled the cars up the grade by ropes 1 and windlass. There was a double t track at that place and a car loaded 1: with rocks furnished the weights to I help pull up the cars. i ' The locomotives had two smoke- f stacks, one at each end. In going to p Charleston one of the stacks was used o and in coming back the other. d There were no spark arresters, and p everybody along the route bad to x watch their property to prevent Its e being burned up. b One hundred miles a day was good t travelling in those days. d When night came on all hands struck c camp and waited for daylight to come I in order to proceed. t The track was oomposed of ties and t 32-foot stringers, on which a band of t iron about like a common tire was p laid and nailed down to the wood. t A track walker went ahead of the o engine every day to knock down the v " snake-heads," or nail heads to pre- c vent accidents. The dread of the en- s gineer was the," snake-heads " or nails c protruding above the iron rail, for they were prolific source* or accident*. Tne t conductors collected the . fares from p the outside, walking on boards about c like the open street cars are now ar- t ranged. I Edward Boath and Nathan Colder- I banks were engineers on this prlmltire i road. They died a few years ago. I There were no conveniences on the I cars as in this day and time. The cars p stopped at stated intervals for the con? I vemience of the passengers. i The mail facilities were meagre and i very primitive. A split stick served t for a mail bag,. as letters were put in p sticks and handed up-ta the conductor, g and weie thrown out thetSma^ay. t Dr. Smith introduced the p?n->qf 1 having the outer rail on a curve made ^ higher than the other rail. i The coupling links were made of j wood, so that when a car ran off it c would break and save the others from c running off. ] TrUtam Tupper was one of the pre- 1 sldenta of this road and introduced i some novelties during his administra- 1 tion. ( He had the cars remodelled and 1 shaped like a barrel. This was done i so that in case they ran off they would roll down the hill and not hurt so many \ passengers. It was thought they could l be rotfd back with the same degree ] of ease ] There was afterward an effort made i to shape the cars in order to " split < the wind," thus increasing the speed, j One of the great mogui engines of i the present day would have crushed i the track beneath the eartk. i A Call to Pbohibitionists M r. I A. C. Jones, of Newberry, chairman of | the State Prohibition executive comI mittee, has issued the following call 1 for a conference this week: To the Prohibitionists of South Carolina : It has been suggested to me by a number of Prohibitioniste that a conference be held in Columbia during Fair week and I have decided to request the memben of the State ProW < KUtnn AYA/MltfVA ftfflanittAA. thft PfO* ? UlUiVlUU VAWV?*?. - w hibition county chairman of each county, the president or head of the temperance organizations, and as many of the ministers of the State who may be in Columbia, to meei with us on Thursday, November the 9th, at 12 o'clock noon. I expect to be at Wright's Hotel and will arrange for and notify our friends where the meeting will be held. A. c. Jones. Chairman State Prohibition Executive Committee. ?A cat in a Strand trivern in London has become intemperate through | drinking wine spilled by waiters, i ?There is a cafe in Venice which i has never been oloeed night or day for . 150 years. Mrs. Eddy Declared to Be an Importer and a Moot Prosperous Humbug. , Worcester, Mass., Beacon. When some weeks since, we commenced our investigation of the life, reputation and character of the .socalled discoverer and founder of Christian Science, we had no idea we should wind up in bog and quagmire. We had assumed Mrs. Eddy to be a person of some culture, of pure and spiritual life aspirations, sincere in her belief, and nothing worse than a fanatic. We not proceeded far before we became doubtful of the accuracy of our preconceived opinion. To be sure, we had no facts upon which to base an intelligent opinion, and were disposed to be, so far as her claims did not exceed the limits of credibility. We believed in tnh* ji woman of pood character and rather exceptional ( hypnotic power. We cloee oar investigation, which has been very thorough and entirely . judicial in character, not with doubt of 1 the accuracy of our earlier views, but 1 with confidence that we entirely mis* 1 judged the woman known as Mary Baker 6. Eddy, and that she, while ' definitely claiming to be the equal in 1 nature and in power of Jesus Christ, is 1 in almost everything his precise op- 1 posite, is insincere, dishonest, full of deceit and falsehood, unclean of heart, < impure of life, venomous to the last de- 1 gree, despotic and arbitrary almost be- < yond belief,?an exceptionally clever 1 charlatan, who has built an immense fortune upon the credulity of hosts of j Innocent dupes. ( We had no other purpose in looking t Into the character and antecedents of i Mrs. Eddy than *the discovery of the c truth, and it would have afforded us genuine pleasure to have been able to j say, as the result of our inquiries, that y ihe is the saintly, Immaculate, even c llvine person her followers believe, [t is with regret, but with entire con* 0 idence, that we affirm her to be none )f these things. . We allege nothing that is net sua- J septible of iegal proof when we say ? hat years ago Mrs. Eddy was a spiri... . i . ,?.. ? .? .u. a various points and weave cloth. THe old loom is still in existence. It was i made of white oak and all the parts j are decayed except the beam, which is eight inches in diameter and eight feet long. ?Mr. W. E. Curtis writes from Bolivia that there are no cats in that country. The back fences and wood sheds most have a lonely time over there. uailflt, MKIO^ S pruiuiaoub paiir iu uud v ipread of spiritualistic views (she lenies this now, but her denial is an 8 intruth); that she received the ideas, ipon which her so-called Christian ? Science Is baBed, from a man named ? Vjimby, to whom she has very defi- ? litelyandonequivocably time and again tredlted them over her own signature, 6 .nd whom she extolled as onq of the a greatest men the world had ever proluced (she now repudiates her former epeated statements and maligns the nan whom she formerly praised); ? hat her claim to revelation of abeo- * ute truth from God which she em- ? odied in her book "Science and * lealth,' is wholly fraudulent, and *1 mown to her to be so; that the book r a perfect mosaic of the thoughts of a there, haying been written largely g rith scissors and been thoroughly h evised, punctuated, rendered gram- a natical and consistent with itself as si nuch so, at lfcast, as her stubborn igno- h fence would permit by literary skill, cL lurchased and paid for,?pages of it * *"* - - 1? ----- nnhllihwi rriiten uy uuicr immo ??> fc| altered.; that for years she has been p ddicted to the use of morphine, tak- g ng it regularly in substantial doses; p hat falsely, pretending to be in good m Loalth and possessed of the use of p acuities in perfect condition, she is, ? fact, in the most feeble health, with acuities greatly impaired; that her a i re tended religion is merely the basis , f a religio-commercial enterprise con* H iucted upon strictly business princi- J* ties, and has made her a very rich wo- * nan; that pretending to lore her r nemiea, she hates with unspeakable " tatred those, who, haying yielded to ? ier influence, dare to throw it off and isregard her wishes; that /holding ompietely subservient to her will a * arge number of men and women n hrough the use of the fortune thus * raudulently accumulated, through ?J heir belief in her supposed power to u tunish her enemies by means of men- * al influences exerted in-collusion with T thers, she terrifles into silence those P rho could of their own knowledge dis- 6 lose her absolute depravity of charcter and the fraudulent nature of her G laims. p To such an extent does this fear go ii m*n? VmHatii Mrs. Eddy to hare w innlshed her enemies by causing their n leath, or the death of some member of tJ heir family. One of her former be- r: Levers, at one time moot intimately in 1 ier confidence, has recently told as, tl rith bated breath, of four death she teliersd to hare been caused by Mrs. & Sddy's mental power exerted upon * people she believed to be hostile to u ier, or apon some one dear to ihem, $ rhose death woold inflict pain. We 8< ore astounded, simply astounded at c he absolute terror with which some a eople regard this supposed power s if Mrs. Eddy. She claims to be able b o raise from the dead, and her fol- * owers believe she has restored to life; m4J| she possesses the power to make h dive,"Tt "logically follows, as these peo- " >le believe, shejft&Beaaea iixe power^o leatroy life. We hare never in the ? jourse of our experience encountered J latefulness so intense as* that of this alee feminine messiah, who, proclaim- ? ng love of her enemies and having f leunded a religion upon the principle d >f love, "treats" her enemies in the h .'rantic and hideous hope of her making n ihem feel the pangs of hell. The whole thing is explainable to is only as a business enterprise. The * 'raud pays; it pays most substantially. 0 ~ <1 U-A K. Jw a f eopie are moii ohi.; g unou -r pealing to high sentiments, by the r rague nee of meaningless terms. If F ire hare varied in opinion regarding * Mrs. Eddy since the commencement of * our investigation?feeling at one time 8 that she most, be insane and irreepon- ' iible, and at another that she is only 1 Insane as abnormal depravity coupled 8 with unusual shrewdness is insanity, we have finally arrived at the fixed oonviction that not insanity, but wick- a edness alone explains her. * Greed, t true love of money, the love of power, 1 vanity and utter link of scruple in the t accomplishment of her ends, these t things explain, and fully explain, the 1 life, the character and the accomplish- t meats of Mary Baker G. Eddy, the 1 most successful impostor, ths most 1 prosperous humbug that ever lived. j ?Miss Nancy Hanks was the mother of President Lincoln. A story goes the round, that she had a loom which she carried around with her on trips she would make from her home in Larue County to Stophenport, HI. rinpinw her journey she would stoj^at ??? Quaint and Curious Pwtgnphi Gathered from Various Sources. ?Negotiations will soon be opened at Madrid for a new treaty between the United States and Spain. ?It is useless to acquire knowledge unless you have a little common sense with which to season it. ?General Wheeler thinks a brigade of cavalry could be advantageously used in the Philippine war. ?The death roll of the army for thirteen months, it is officially reported from Washington, numbers nearly 7,000 men. **. ?The Supreme Court has decided that an Indian chiefs eldest son is entitled to all the property and title of his father. > \ g ?President McKJnley has been invited to visit Nashville on the return or the First Tennessee regiment xrom the Philippines. ?It la now possible to telegraph from San Francisco to the Klondike, a Canadian government line having been strong from Bennett to Dawson City. >. $ ?There have been more than 6,100 suicides in this country during the g? past twelve months, which breaks ;he record for this or any other oounary. ?Germany is the third greatest iron jouniry in the world, and yet a twentieth of its entire output of iron ore - ^ somes from the Krupp mines and is nanufactured in the Krupp works. ... '<$& ?Miss Grace McKinley, who was fradnsted last dune, at Mt. Holyoke college, taking the highest honors of he class, will spsnd the winter at the White House. She is the Presidents ' ?-?q2k liece. ?The grave of President John Tjlsft M n Hollywood cemetery, of JEUehznood, .?43lj fa., is at last to be marked by a moansent, which will be of granite and ittingly inscribed. Only a handsome oegnolia tree now marks the grave. ?A woman in Pennsylvania who ias 25 children is being given some rominence in the newspapers. The Wilmington Messenger says that Mrs. irchie Gordon, of Granville County. forth Carolina, had 27 children, ml ons. ?In commenting on the great lees ' v f the 15th Massachusetts at Gettvs urg, 313 out of 606 men being mar- ' ally wounded, the Des Moines State iegister says: " In those days, howver, it was the best soldiers en earth gainst the best soldiers on earth." ?It is expected that in the next sesLon of Congress Senator Clark vtil be :&mgfl mong those to urge that territorial M OTernment be granted to HawaiL 'he Western multi-millionaire has i ; lade large investments on the islands nd intends to build a summer home ?Mr. Edmund O. Osgood, of Angelis, New York, has just celebrated his L; M olden wedding. Cataracts formed en is eyes at the age of 17, and when he tarried he was totally blind. Twentyx years later an operation restored ^J|| is sight, and he saw his wife andohilren for the first time. ?A former private, Harry Hall of ic 1st Colorado, who did dnty In the kilipplnes, says that there is a fine eld for lawyers in the archipelago. < [all has enlisted in the regular army ad will go back to Manila, his puroee being to study law and to perfect, imself in Spanish at spare moments. ^ ?The town of Essen, which has 100,X) inhabitants has just been admitted ito the ranks of German cities. The )wn was made by the Krupp gun orks, which was started there by the randfather of the present owner {Al ed Krupp) la 1810. There are 41,000 nployees, and there has never yet sen a strike* ?Mr. R. A. Moore, president of the sxas Tobacco Growers' Association, sports that he in in correspondence 1th six or eight oigar factories which mtemplate moving to Houston within ie next three or four months; and he itimatesthat within, the next three ears that city will have factories emloying from 1,200 to 1,500 cigarmakarture of the iVentteth'Kansas Reg* nent, notes the curious thing that hen the men turned in their arms lost of them turned in Mansers, when ley wsre charged with Springfield Ifles on the books of the regiment. 'hey had cantered the Mausers from . eastern sky will be especially beautiful at midnight. ?A woman in Indiana received a letter the other day that had be**'', mailed to her in June, 1880, by a'Oalt^ 5;? ^ foraia friend, who died five years ago. The letter had been misdirected, and has been meandering around the conntry for ten years seeking proper destination. It was sent several times to the dead letter office, covered by ad- . dresses and postmarks, and forwarded again in fresh envelopes. It reached the owner yellow from ages and the news was somewhat stale. The letter | contained a money order for $2 that time has outlawed. The department .~j 1 will replace it with a duplicate. yl tie Filipinos. ?Miss Frank, a woman of Beacon, [inn., 07 years of age, took a rery an* rilling ride the other day. She tried ?climb over a stock train while on s tie way to chnroh, when the train" bartedwlth heron the hampers and arried her to Willmar, thirty miles way, in fifty minutes. She arrived tfely, with, her Bible in hir hand, aving ridden between the cars all the ray. ?A big Western oackiug-ooiieertt as embarked ifi the tmsinees of separsing the whites and yolks of eggs,' anning them separately, freeiing hem- and unloading them oa the Soma thiatw rinun tiirm irn - at up in ? two-gallon can, which is xactiy the nsmber that a case holds. Vhen a baker usee thirty or forty oz?n eggs in a day it takes time to ireak the eggs and separate them. 'he new plan saves time. ?The imparity of the water in the liasissippi River, from waich the oity f St. Loais is supplied, will compel the doption of filtration as a means of emedy. This work is made more imperative by the nearing completion =of he Chicago drainage eanal. It is protable that legal proceedings will be in* titated by the city of St. Loais to present the opening of the Chicago canal tnlees the sewerage emptied therein r ' hail,have first been submitted to some efficient process of purification. ?There are reasons for anticipating i possible disappointment on this reurn of the main body of November aeteors. The meteors have been scatwring daring the last sixty years and M the planet Jupiter has had a hand in , die vandal work. But there JkoertalB : ^ bo be a meteoric shower, which will be robbed of some of its splendor by. bright moon. The maximum of the display may be expected soon after mid- f night on the morning of November 18. " ysgS nnrfnir th? miHdlii of Nnvmnhnf th* ."V;