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ffe $ A VALIANT SON OF FRANCE. < 1 HE FOUGHT AND DIED FOR DIXIE < His Grave and Unostentatious Mono- j ment in the Little Churchyard at < Flat Rock in the Blue Ridge Moun- < tains. (By Miss Claudine Rhett, Historian, Charleston Chapter, D. C.) Under the hush of the Blue Mountain Bhadows, where the tall peaks raise their heads heavenward, in majestic silence, pointing upward, and lifting hearts to the Eublime verities of life, and the nobler aspirations of eternity, may be found a grave in the little churchyard of St. John's Chapel, at Flat Bock, North Carolina, upon whose unostentatious monument is inscribed |^v these simple words: Charles de Choiseul, Died in Virginia. June 19th, 1S62. A stranger would scarcely pause-be/ side this granite stone, except perhaps % casually to note the foreign name, unless familiar with the history of France, MmomWinir how hroadlv the WUOU) lv.uuviMvvi.Mfi ? _ .. m de Choiseuls have written it across the pages of the past, he might wonder by what strange fatality a member of that. distinguished family should have been laid to rest in this remote country cemetery, so far removed from the turmoil of the world. Should this visitor be sufficiently interested in the apparent incongruousuess of these circumstances to ask one of the older residents of Flat Rock for an explanation of the facts concerning the fate of the man who lies there, he would learn that this spot of ground is the most interesting and to be reverenced in their lovely churchyard; for r?- here repose the mortal remains of one who surrendered the anticipated inheritance of a high social position in his own country for the still nobler title of Confederate hero and martyr of the Lost Cause. Charles de Choiseul's younger brother now lives in La Belle France, and I enjoy% the rank and privileges pertaining to the title and estate he has in/. herited, whilst he to whom they should hy right of birth have belonged, instead of being Marquis de Choiseul, " Sleeps well, life's fitful fever o'er," where Southern mountains keep faithful guard around his last bivouac. Thirty-seven years ago he was interred in this rural Protestant cemetery, but the memory of the fallen soldier survives the lapse of time, an ever living reminder of the grandeur of the spirit of self-sacrifice at the call of dutj. Col. de Choiseul was born in France, but having lived nearly all his life in this country, when the Confederate war begun he came promptly forward and offered his services to the State ol Tunisians, being prepared as an adopt - ea son 01 me wuu w uw tw Dixie." The following letter, written by s comrade- who shared the dangers oJ the field with him, gives some idea oi the militar v career of this French nobleman, who belonged to Stonewall Jackson's corps and fell in that great general's celebrated, valley campaign New Orleans, La., May 25,1698. Dear Madame: I will give yon whal I know of the late Col. de Choiseul, who was a practicing lawyer in New Orleans np to the time the war broke oat and foreman of a volunteer fire company, called the American Hook and Ladder, No. 2. From that com pany and Columbia, No. 5, was organ ised the. American Rifies, afterwards .1 Company G, of the 7th Louisiana Vol nnteers. The American Rifies and twc r other companies formed a battalion J called the Sumter battalion, wit! Charles de Choiseul as major. In May 1861, this oommand was sent to Cam[ P'v ' Monroe, La., and there was formed the 17th Louisiana regiment, with Harry T Hays as colonel and Charles de Choiseu ' as lieutenant colonel. June 7 this re giment was mustered into the Confeder ate service and was sent to Lynchburg / Va.,and from there to Manassas, when "we encamped until July 7,1861. O t f&r July 18 the battle of Bull Run wai fought; then followed Manassas, Sial Town, PorfRojal, Middletown, Win . - Chester, Cross "Keys and Port Republic where our lieutenant colonel was mor y?>v tally wounded. He was in commanc of our regiment when he was shot CoL Hay8 paving teen badly woundec PS-r the beginning of this engagement :V > / Ooi. de Choiseul was with the regi xnentdn all of the battles above men Kg- Jjgsr tioned, and was a true gentleman anc p a brave soldier*. Yours respectfully, mrfr' .> . J. J. Cumpsten. s " Capt. Y. J. Walche, President Camj No. 1, United Confederate Veterans ; ' Army of Northern Virginia, alsc writes: ^ Dear Madame: In reply to youi letter I beg to say that I knew the Colonel personally, who was a thorougl mr\ gentleman and a gallant soldier; anc gj ' I well remember the battle of Por1 f"" " Republic, because it was largely ? Louisiana victory and we lost heavily in all the regiments of our brigade. j belonged to the 6th Louisiana, and this j/ . regiment, with the other Louisiana V regiments, except the 7 th Louisiana, made the attack on the enemy's left, while the 7th Louisiana and two Virginia regiments attacked on the right: therefore we were not together at the time CoL de Choiseul was shot, but 1 - remember that he took command after <3oL Harry T. Hays (afterward our eft . brigade commander) was wounded and - that the lieutenant colonel was wounded at the head of his regiment. It may appear strange to you that J cannot give you more particulars, but that very evening, after the battle had been fought and won, our army, under Gen. T. J. Jackson, took up the march to join Gen. Lee before Richmond, and arrived there in time to take part in the Seven Days' battles around that city, hence there is some difficulty in tracing up tbe facts about de Choiseul's death and burial. 1 Col. de Choiseul was engaged in all the battles in the Valley, and his regi1 ment, and indeed all of Jackson's : trcope, well earned their name of "foot cavalry'' by reason of their rapid movements. Gen. Jackson's fighting was hard and successful and in all this - - < campaign Col.de Choiseul stood out as not only a brave officer, but an ideal volunteer soldier and Southern gentleman. Yours respectfully, Y. J. Walche, Capt. (late) Co. I, 6th La. "Vol. Reg., C, S. A. Should one care to learn something about de Choiseul's lineage this know13 ??? l- ktr iaait. Ultty 'jc coonjr a^.v^un wuj iwaing into any French biographical Lstory,-where he would be informed tnat " Etiexme Francois de Choiseul rose to the rank of lieutenant general and was 'V created Due in 1758, and minister of foreign affairs. Later be became prime minister of France and was foremost among the directors of French policy until 1785. He was a man of considerable ability and, although of a haughty * ' disposition, had very courteous manners. Other members of this family were eminent; but hone ever reached his position of const quence or possessed ilia vast wealth." So much for the by-gone days in far away France ! Some people, evsn in a Republic, regard such an snctetry as a proud and enviable inheritance, and indeed it was an important possession; but nobility of h . art is even more to be admired than the no oil icy of a worldly title, and therefore, de Choiseul deserves to be remembered more for what he did, when a great emergency arose, in the sixties, than for simply having been born a nobleman. Having identified himself with the fortunes of the South, when the dreadful trial of war came he boldly took his place under banner, and following his immortal leader, Stonewall Jackson, from the! battlefield of Manassas to the She nan-1 doah, shared in the glorious success of the remarkable valley campaign, which is the wonder ;and admiration of all readers and critics of modern warfare. As a soldier he performed all hid duties bravely and well, and died, ' v. . , ' 17 _X-' . - . * - *; _ : * v A "-* * charging at the head of his regiment, vith the shout of victory ringing in his jars. Time flies swiftly, but there are [riends at Flat Rock still who can recall a beautful afternoon in the month of June, 1862, when all nature smiled, aBd the sun's rays shone brilliantly upon field and valley, when a little company gathered at St. John's Chapel. The Blue Ridge Mountains rose like a mighty barrier around, as if they might keep away all rude sounds of war's alarms, and the excitements and heartaches experienced by those who who were exposed to the fury of the contest; but in spite of this strong screen, even in this calm retreat, pain and care had found an entrance, and the declining orb of day, glinting through green boughs, cast its latest beams upon a coffin and an open grave, for the Confederate officer who had fallen in battle. Port Republic was many miles away, yet his devoted old servant had, in spite of numerous difficulties, brought his master's remains and his horse to his family, and, most pitiful of all, a slip of paper upon which the dying soldier had, with failing fingers, endeavored to write a few words of farewell to his Bisters. Alas ! this message 'had to be divined, as only some undecipheral lines met the eyes of those sorrowing ones. The solemnly grand burial service ol the Episcopal Church was read; s hymn softly sung, while the birds twittered a sweet chorus aloft and a fainl breeze rustled the foliage around; thee the dead was gently lowered to hit final place of repose, beside the toml of his mother, Sarah, Countess dc Choiseul. All present realized that a life't tragedy was there brought to a close as the feet of Charles de Choiseu would never stand upon the hearth stone of his ancestral chateau in th? land beyond the sea; that his exile was now a perpetual one, and sadly thei turned from his grave pondering ovei all the chances and changes that g< to make up the sum of human hopes joys and disappointments, for truly th< end of this man's efforts seemed t< have resulted in a hard fate. Yet you may rest in peace on th> quiet hillside, de Choiseul, for you lot is not to be so deeply deplored afte all! From the most ancient days i has been adjudged a noble death t< fall in the rush of battle, dying for i ' country that is loved ! Another, it i true, occupies your place and statio; in the world, but when you became i ' soldier and manfully performed thos duties that were assigned you th higher part was chosen, you won th 1 love and honor of all true hearts, an 1 your memory shall be perpetual 1 crowned with immortal laurel. When winter comes soft white flake [ of snow fall with caressing, tende touch upon the granite so gray (? covering for a Confederate soldier) an i pale mooonbeams steal lingeringly b at night, glorifying this simple grav with their shinlrg radiance; then sun mer's glowing sun. shines in effulgei . ardor through the long sweet dayi ' where the sleeper calmly waits for th ' Judgment Day, when all evils will I remedied and his right place awarde ' him, for, perchance, the untitled n< bleman was, in truth, the noblest < r -n .v. J- HUAU,,! tui b!19UO ViUViBOUl iuio> McKINLEY'S CUBAN POLICY. } The President Will Appoint Ge Wood to Govern Cube?The Mi] > tarj Will Give Way to Civil Law. ? The President's program with r< 1 gard to Cuba is now known. It coi ' templates the retirement of Gei } Brooke from the military governoi * ship and the substitution of a civ I government, with Gen. Leonard Woe l" at its head. January 1 is likely to 1 a red-letter day in Cuban history. G that day in 1898 Spain played her la ' card in the effort to hold the island i 3 setting up an autonomous governmen 1 On January 1,1899, the Spanish ha 3 came down and the American went u } over Cuba. On January 1,1900, if tt President can carry out the plans h > has now in mind, the existing miiitai J -government in the island will gh 1 way to a civil government, and Cut | will hav6 taken its first long stride c 1 the road toward independence. This is not a new plan of the Pres dent, but one he has had in mind f< ' several months. The complaints fro, 1 ail sides about Gen Brooke's inadi quacy for his present duties have bee incessant, and it has been obvious thi } some remedy must be applied soon c ' half the labor spent in putting the 1 3 land into a better moral and sanitar condition would have been throw [ away. 3 By the best unprejudiced judges | so-called cabinet with which Brooh J has surrounded himself has proved 1 dead failure or worse. It has retarde J rather than helped the work of regej eration. The President has been n luctant to t&xe any steps wmcn oouj 1 be construed as humiliating to Gei k Brooke, but the latter has done as we 1 as his natural limitations of mind an 1 temper would permit, so it was decic " ed, after mature deliberation, to 1< ' Brooke be undisturbed until the tim ! came for dispensing with military rule ; and then to quietly let him pass ou [ simultaneously with the order c things which he represents. As has been said, Gen. Wood i ' marked for the civil governorship. 1 was a hint from the President tha ' higher honors were in store for hit ' which induced him to turn his baci upon tbe offers made him a while ag to return to the United States and en tet private business. He made plaii to the President at the time that dil Acuities beset him in the governmen 1 of Santiago province with the govern ment of the whole island in its presen h;nd8, but was advised to bear the an noyances patiently a while longer. The entire island of Cuba needs tht work of an expert military engineei The fortiiications will require over hauling, especially as Cuba, even if in dependent, will be under our profcec tion and remain a military outpost o this country and the chief base fo operations in defense of our Sou then coasts in the event of another foreigi war. There will be harbor improve ments also of great extent and impor tance. Why Ladysmith Was so Named.Ladvsmith, which has been brought in to such prominence since the outbreak of the Boer war, was named after the wife of General Sir Harry Smith. HIi marriage was a romance of the Napo leonic wars. When the British undei Sir Arthur Wellesley, afterward Dake of Wellington, were driving the French out of Spain, Henry Smith was a cap tain in the British army. One nighi he and another young officer in a Span ish town which the British had just oc copied were visited by two beautiful Spanish girls of high rank, who beggeo their protection in the alarming cir cumstances in which they were placed, The protection was, of course, given, and Captain Smfth fell desperately in love with one of the girls, and subsequently married her. Afterward he became General Sir Harry and she Lad> Smith. Sir Harry wa9 employed in South Africa after it became a British possession, and his came is perpetuated by the town of Harrysmith. just across the Orange Free State border from N&tai. ?An exchange says a gentleman invited some friends to dinner, and as the colored servant entered the room he accidentally dropped a platter which held a turkey. " My friends," said the gentleman, " never in my life have 1 witnessed an event so fraught with disaster to the various nations of the globe. In this calamity we see the downfall of Turkey, the upsetting of Greece, the destruction of China, and the humiliation of Africa." CAPT. SMYTH IS THE KING. ; BILL ARP'S VISIT TO PELZBR. He Was Amazed to Fiud a Town Larger than Cartersville?Without Any Officers, Lawyers, Editors or Saloons. A few days ago I received a letter from a frieDd and it was pcst-marked Pelzer. He said I was wanted there to talk to the people, and he ventured to fix the day and the compensation for loss of time and waste of tongue. I had never heard of Pelzer nor could I find it on my antiquated map. But I did find it on one of late" date, and supposed it was some small village that had a cotton mill and a dam on the Saluda and some tenement houses. Nevertheless, I accepted the call, for tne oner was iiDerai. xne nexi man brought a similar invitation from Piedmont, another mill towns only six miles from Pelzer. So I journeyed from Atlanta to Greenville, and there changed cars for my destination, which was only twenty miles away. It was night when I reached the place. My good friend, Mr. Padgett, who is the democratic postmaster, took me to his house. I had not seen the town, for it was quite dark. " What is the prospect for an audience?" I inquired. "Very good," he said. "I think you will have several hundred people out to hear you." " Why, how larg6 is your town? What is your pop llation ?" " About 7,000," he said. I was amazed. A town twice as large as Cartersville and I never heard of it and it is not on my map. He explained by saying that it was only twelve years old, and had four large cotton mills that employed over 2,000 operatives, and consumed nearly 100,000 bales of cotton, and the company owned some 3,000 acres of land, and all the houses and stores and churches and several miles of the river. "Did you advertise me pretty well ?" I asked. " Oh, yes !" he said. " We church folks told it to everybody we met, both in the town and in the country, and they all said they were coming." "Publish it in the papers ?" said I. "No, no. We have no papers " here, and no printing office. W e didn't even have a poster or a hand bill, but t we talked it a good deal." Well, I listened and wondered, and my confidence was shaken. After a bountiful supper and a little mixing up with the children, we went to the large church where I was to hold forth, and Q found it already pretty well filled. In " a brief time I stood before more than 500 people, and was inspired to make f my best effort, for I had an orderly and attentive congregation, and we all y fell in love with one another. I never have had a more gratifying lecture oc? casion. Next morning was spent io !; viewing the city and the mills and the I library. The merchants carried immense stocks in large stores, and there y were many nice residences for the managers and heads of the various de 1 partments, but they were all built ane are owned and leased by the mill com ' pany. This company owns and con trols every foot of land and everything d that is on it. Captain Smyth, o Charleston, is the king, the c?ar, i '* big-hearted, brainy man, and every body respects and loves him. He is i son of that celebrated Presbyteriai minister of Charleston who during hb ministerial life, was a notable man ii religious circles. I remember that he was one of my father's friends. " Wh< n. is your mayor ?" said I. 44 We have ii- none; no mayor nor alderman, n< municipal corporation, no marshal noi police. Captain Smyth runs the B" town. Everybody who comes here foi Q" employment is investigated carefully a* His antecedents must be good or he can't stay. We have no lawyers noi editors; don't need any. We allov ,a them to come in and look around.1 >e 44 Did you know that I was a lawyer ?' ^ said I. 44 Oh, yes; but we learned tha 3t you had quit the practice and reformed and so we invited you." " 4T don't see any negroes about here,1 ? said I. 44 No, we don't want them P There are a few, but they live outside 16 Some of them cook and wash for us |e but Captain Smyth don't want us t< "y mix with them or depend upon them r0 He wants everybody to depend upoi >a themselves as much as possible." 44Anc ,n so you have ruled out lawyers, editon and negroes ?" 44 Yes," said he, 44at< l' there are no saloons or blind tigers oi )p cigarettes." 44How about doctors?1 111 I asked. 44 Oh, of course we hav< State dispensary at Columbia ? I say by no means. While I admit that such scandals are calculated to in* jure the dispensary, and especially so as there are men who have fought it from its creation from personal and political motives and who are eager to lay the blame upon the system and not upon the officials, yet my faith in the system has never been shaken and I still believe that it is the best solution of the liquor problem that has euer been adopted. The people of South Carolina are too familiar with the good results of the dispensary as to wish to destroy it on account of the rascality of some of its officials. You had as well argue that the banks should be closed on account of the absconding of the cashiers with the funds, or that the State Penitentiary should be abolished because of the recent shortage of the superintendent, as to say that the dispensary law should be repealed on account of the misconduct of the commissioner and other dispensary officials. I believe that as a thunder storm purifies the atmosphere so will the recent exposures of misconduct clarify the dispensary system and that good will result thereby to the people. I also believe that the welfare of'the dispensary will be advanced if a special committee, similar to the one that investigated the Penitentiary, be appointed at the next session of the Legislature whose duty it shall be to turn on the search ? doctors; yes, we nave two doctors anc sn one dentist and four preachers, al select, and one photographer." Th< >r company has a good public library anc 8" pays a man to keep it. y I visited mill No. 4, an up-to-date n mill in all respects. It is operated bj electricity that is generated two milet 16 distant at some falls of the Saluds :e river. This mill amazed me. No coa J and no steam. It is 128 feet wide and " 528 feet long and is four Btories high l" In one great room I saw 60,000 spin 3" dies turning. In two others there d were 1,400 looms. It requires 1,10( J: operatives to attend to this miul, and it takes 56,000 bales of cotton for s d year's supply. Just think of it. The superintendent, Mr. Guy, had the elevator to stop about half way up be6 tween doors so that I might have s 3> good view of the machinery and the busy boys and girls in this spinning " room. This room he called his children's room; not the children's room, 8 but my children's room, he said, * Scores of little chaps not more than ten years old who looked their love for n him. They were the brightest and s healthiest children I ever saw in a 0 mill, and earn from 25 cents to 60 cents ' a day. Many of the grown girls earn P from 60 cents to $1.25 a day, and the average pay of them all is $2 cents. * This is good wages, for their work is * easy and healthy. The rooms are * never too hot or too cold; for the temp" erature is kept uniform by fans and heaters in the basement. No grease 0 or fatty matter is used on the machi. '. nery?nothing but pure mineral oil* These ch.ldren are required to leave ' the mill at certain periods and go to " their public schools, which are sup* ported by the company. I visited the r school and found 300 of the pupils 1 gathered in the large room to receive 1 me and listen to a brief talk about my old school days and some words of en* couragement to cheer them up. Mr. Guy, the efficient superintendent of mill No. 4, is an Augusta man, and has . been in the mill service for forty-four . } ears. In the packing room I observ ed that all the bales are marked to 3 Shanghai, China, and I heard that 3 China is the best customer of Southern . mills. That government used to buy r from New England and old England, j but they buy all their goous by weight k and not by the yard, and in course of . time John 6ull and the yankee got to I mixing white clay with the starch to . make the cloth weigh heavy, and so . they turned their trade down South, [ where people didn't adulterate every[ thing they make to sell. Said Mr. . Guy to me: "There is no sizing in these goods except that made of pure boiled corn starch." Nearly all the capital in these great . mills is from the South; and there's . millions in them, for Piedmont is on - the same river and is only five miles ( away and has two large mills and L another is going up at Bel ton, a few [ miles below. In fact, the traveler , through upper Carolina is hardly ever out of sight of a smokestack. In a few years that State will consume all the cotton that is grown in it. What a glorious prospect. All around Pelzer and Piedmont the i farmers are prosperous ; for they have a regular, eager market for everything they grow, and I saw their wagons coming in on every road. I visited Piedmont and stayed a day and night. It is a dublicate of Pelzer, though not so large; having about 5,000 people. It is most efficiently managed by Mr. James L. Orr, jr., a son of the gover* Inor and stateman. Be, too, is a king and a czar, and his word is law about averything. He is respected and 1 loved by every man woman and child t in Piedmont; and the stockholders ^ have nothing to do but look on and re- t ceive their dividends semi-annually, i Piedmont is more elevated than Pel- 1 zer, and the views from her hills are 1 charming. And then her flowers ; oh, i the beauty of them. Out-door chry- i santhemums and roses were in all i their glory. Mrs. Richardson sent my 1 wife a box full by yesterday's express i that excelled anything that I ever saw i in a conservatory. She gave a caution i to the expresssman in these lines on ! it. - . but? LHJA . " If you desire to climb the golden stair, Handle these flowers with exceeding care. If you expect to play the golden harp, Speed them with safety to Mistress Arp." The lyceum and public library at Piedmont is an interesting place to visit and is liberally patronized by the workers in the mills. Connected with it is a home made insurance or benefit association, a kind of savings bank where for a deposit of ten cents a week the family of the depositor gets forty dollars whenever a death occurs. This is of course to provide for fjneral expenses and a decent burial. In this library is the finest collection of Indian relics I ever saw anywhere. Fortunate people to have such philanthropic guardians. Old Father Pelzer does not live there, but he is near enough to keep a fatherly eye on these numerous children. He is a Charleston millionaire, but lives at his up-country home, not far from the beautiful Mill City that he founded and which bears his name. Just think of it, my Georgia friends; 60,000 spindles timing in one room, and 1,400 looms weaving in two others. Why should not every cotton growing county in Georgia, yea, in South Carolina, do likewise. Our county produces ten thousand bales annually and surely our farmers can build a mill large enough to manufacture it and double r,oi,,o rill Abp. 1VO T0&UV* ? BELIEVES IN THE DISPENSARY. Mr. A. Howard Patterson, of Barnwell, Does Not Realize that Corruption and Political Intrigue are Inseparable from a Great State Liquor Monopoly. To the Editor of The News and Courier : Owing to the recent dispensary scandals there is a great hue and cry being made, by its enemies, that the law should be repealed. As one who has always been in favor of the dispensary system I believe that now is the time fou its friends to speak out. Before one commits himself against the dispensary he should consider the matter from every standpoint. Supyoee, for instance, that the dispensary law is repealed at the next session ol the Legislature, what are you going to put in its place ? There are but three ways, under the Constitution, to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors in South Carolina: One is under the dispensary system, the second under the license system and the third to prohibit the sale entirely, except for medicinal purposes, Consequently if the dispensary law U repealed you have either to substitute the license system in its stead or prohibit the sale of liquor entirely. While prohibition may be desirable, and I for one would advocate it if ] deemed it practicable, yet experience has taught us that it cannot be en forced and that it would virtually mear free liquor. The evils of the license system we have seen and I hope will never be forgotten?when every town in this State had two or more bar rooms, witb gambling hells attached, going night and day, debauching the youth and impoverishing the homes of our land Common sense tells us that if the license system is adopted that the con stitutional restrictions, such as nol selling after sundown, not allowing liquor to be drunk upon the promisee and the other good features of the dis , 1 J V- I ) U? 4.U, ) pensary law wouiu uo iguurou ujr mc . barkeeper. Whenever you place the j sale of liquor in the hands of a private I individual, whose interest it is to make 3 as great a profit out of it as he can, he I will violate the law. r Upon the other hand what are the ? general results of the dispensary law 3 Although it has been fought from 1 the time of its enactment, and everj 1 obstacle has been thrown in the wa> 3 of its enforcement, yet I believe that 1 I can truthfully say, without fear of contradiction, that It has reduced the 3 consumption of liquor and the commisj slon of crimes arising from the use ol j it 50 per cent. Look at tne towns oi k our State before the adoption of the [ dispensary system, and remember how [ common it was for drunken men to be upon the streets and what an unusual ! thing it is now. ) Take the town that I live in, for in) stance, and see what effect the dispenI sary law has had upon it. Under the i license system we had four or five bar > rooms, generally with gambling dens ) attached, and almost every one ol . them was the scene of a murder and k numerous bloody fights. Since the ai doption of the dispensary law there has > been one homicide committed in this 1 town, and that was not due to liquor, and there is now not a gambling house | in the incorporated limits of the town* ' Prior to the passage of the law rows , and fights upon salesdays were common occurrences, now they are rare. | Christmas now seems like Sunday, i before it was a day of drunkenness and debauchery. I have no doubt that the | experience of Barnwell has been that of most of the towns in the State. The dispensary law has relegated to the rear all of the allurements of the license system, such as the handsome glass mirrors, the billiard and pool tables and the card tables, and worst of all, the social habit of tr ting, which has caused the ruin of more young men than^ny other feature oi the old bar room system. It is not necessary to mention other good features of the dispensary, as those already named will cause men to hesitate before adopting the license bystem, which, once it is inaugurated, will soon degenerate into the old bar room with all of its attendant evils. Let us look at the dispensary from the point of view that is cow agitating the minds of the people of this State. Should the system be abolished on a/wmntnf the recant scandals in the ights and make a thorough investiga- I ion concerning the management and workings of the State dispensary, and g :o expose all misconduct and rascality, f any, of the officials, and that their eport be followed by indictment of ( ;he guilty parties. I have too high a egard for the character of the people of south Carolina as to believe that it is 1 impossible to select men to manage the State dispensary who will not steal and be bribed. To repeal the dispen- 1 3ary law for any such reason would be < a disgrace to the honorable name of ] South Carolina. We have any number , of business mea in South Carolina who ' can fill all the positions under the dispensary law and who, upon the expiration of their terms of office, can leave the same, like Caesar's wife, above suspicion. There are some weak points in the dispensary law that have been made apparent scandals which should be corrected, one of which is the granting of beer privileges. They are directly contrary to and in violation of the very spirit and object of the dispensary system. They are nothing more nor less than bar rooms and in the large cities they are said to be adjuncts of "blind tigers." There should be no distinction made between whiskey and beer; both should bo sold only by the regular county dispenser. The idea of delivering beer, as cow practiced by beer dispensers, to consumers at their places of business, thereby encouraging the consumption of liquor, is repugnant to the law and obnoxious to its friends. Therefore they should be abolished by law. The recent dispensary scandals have also shown the danger of allowing the names of liquor houses and their private brands to appear upon the labels of the dispensary bottles. It is but an open door to fraud and corruption. Nothing should appear upon the label of the dispensary bottle except the brand of the State dispensary and words or marks showing the kind of liquor, the grade, price and that it has been analyzed. There is nothing new in this suggestion, as it is but returning to the rule adopted by the board of control under Governor Tillman's administration. There is no reason why the name or brand of the house from which the liquor is bought should appear upon the bottle. The dispensary law was not adopted for the purpose of advertising liquor houses. Prohibit the appearance of these private brands and names of liquor houses upon dispensary bottles entirely and mill khcrphu nrflVP.nt dishonest JVl? " "? r commissioners add dispensers from boosting1 and creating demands for the liquors of particular houses. My object in writing this letter is to expose the fallacy of the argument of the enemies of the dispensary that because some of its officials have done ' wrong that, therefore, the whole system is rotten and corrupt and that it should be abolished, whereas the facts , show that the morals of our people ; have been improved under the dispensary law and that to repeal it would be retrograding to the old bar room, 1 which was the bane of the State. I be' lieve that the dispensary will stand ' the storms of the future just as it ha* 1 weathered those of the past, and that safeguards will be thrown around its management that will prevent the re' currence of the scandals referred to. A. Howabd Pattjurson^ J Barnwell, S. C. , THE COUNTRY EDITOR [ | A Kansas Newspaper Tells How tc Grow Great and Powerinl in Poll tics. > The real power, political and educa tional, in the United States lies in the L country press?but it is not the country t editor who exercises it. You may think 1 that funny, but I have been there anc know whereof I speak. I pulled the le > ver on an uld Washington hand-presi for many years, was printer, devil, edi - tor, solicitor-just what the large ma ! jority of them are today. I said I edit > ed the paper?I thought 1 did, but the ' fellows who controlled the city dailie* > really edited my paper. The position* > they took on all public questions founc > a reflex in my paper. They did mj > thinking in that way. I had the read > era in the county but they really controlled them by controlling my mind? > or lack of mind. More people read the ' country press today than read the me t tropolitan press, but because the coun' try bumpkin never reads books, never r investigates for himself has, no convic tions that he is afraid will hurt the - party, he is merely a tool in th6 hands > of the cunning few who control the city - press. The country editor has the pow' er and in the local field does the work I that makes the President, Senators, > Congressmen, Legislators and county ' officers, and then ne is afraid of these i creatures he has made! He works . harder than most anybody for all he ever gets out of the public crib, while those he pushes into power gobble thousands and even millions. He is i Afraid that if he takea a nultioc net in ' harmony with these fleecers, they will > take away a litttle work from him that : he earns in the public service I The . country editor seldom reads books. All his ideas come Irom the papers he reads, and as every one of these, like himself has an ax to grind, they are continually deceiving them. Here and there you will find one who is more of a power than the others. They are the > men who do not crouch to the official creatures they have made. The unread fellow does not know that the other gets his power from book study but recognizes the superior influence. The difference between men is the difference mostly in what the mind reads. The country editor will humble himself before the Congressman or other 4'superior" being hoping to get a little office. Were he wise he would make the officer humble himself, for the editor really has'in his hands the political power. Any editor with ordinary natural ability, by reading books on political economy, both sides, can make himself felt all over his State, even with.a small county paper. Those who have never read such books as " Wealth again9t Commonwealth," "A Co-operative Commonwealth," "Progress and Poverty," " Equality," "Municipal Monopolies," and others referred to in these works, are not fit mentally to edit a paper and are never heard of outside the narrow circles of their county. If you Are editing a paper, if you are posing as a public teacher, and want to be something, you can do it by investigating all sides of ali public questions and the knowledge gained will also give you the power to use it. Why be a nothing when you can be something? Do you suppose that Greeley, or Bowles, or Franklin or any of the other names that have helped to mould the world would have ever been heard of had they only read papers and not the best books ? Modern Armies.?To subdue a weak nation in the Philippines the United States has sent forth an army of 75,000 men, equipped with all of the latest modern implements for slaughter and all of the appliances of science. To subjugate another comparatively weak nation, we are told that the army which the British government has sent to South Africa is the largest that ever crossed the sea. It comprises 80," 000 men, and 10,000 more will be sent shortly. There are now 50,000 soldiers of the United States in the Philippine islands, and 15,000 more are either on the way or ready for embarkation. The duke of Wellington had only 20,000 British soldiers in the struggle with Napoleon. Sixteen thousand fought with Marlborough at Blenheim. Twenty-six thousand men were sent under Lord Raglan to the Crimea, 40,000 to India under Lord Clive, 30,000 to Egypt under Wolseley. The maximum force of Englishmen engaged at any one time in suppressing the revolution of the American colonies was about 36,000. . , . ?i I KILLING IN PICKENS CO. ITRANGEI/Y MYSTERIOUS AFFRAY >ne Man Shot to Death and Another Badly Wounded?The Slayer Surrendered and is in Jail. [he Greenville Mountaineer. Dr. Tho8. F. James, of this city, was rilled in the Six Mile section of Flckens Jounty on Wednesday night. His son, Samp James, was desperately wonnded at the same time. There is an element of mystery about the affair, and the reports reaching this city have been very meagre, the Six Mile section being somewhat remote from railroad stations and telephones. The killing was done by Sam Lanier, a young white man, who has surrendered to the sheriff of Pickens County. Lanier's wife seems to have been primarily the cause of the trouble. The presence of the vouncr man with Dr. JamM is against the theory that there was undue intimacy between Mrs. Lanier and the senior James. The probable explanation is that whiskey was the first element of the trouble, that section being reported to be infestedi by blockade liquor, and Dr. James seems to have rested under the imputation in that section of being an informer, as he was formerly connected with the revenue service. Dr. James, as he was commonly cal'ed was well known In this city, having resided here at two or three differenl periods and coming here frequently when living in Anderson County. H< was about fifty-five yearsiof age and wai a native of Anderson County. He be fan life in very humble circumstances ut acquired considerable property Many years ago he commenced opera tlons as an "Indian doctor" and becami quite notorious on this line. He wi never regarded as a regular practitionei and so far as is known he acquired hi medical education during an enforce* sojourn in the West. He practiced ex tensively in Anderson and Picken Counties. Lately he moved his famil; to this city, but spent most of his tim in Pickens, on a farm near Six Milemoui tain. Several years ago Dr. James wa a deputy marshal in the revenue servic and was known as a dai-ng raider and keen seeder. He leaves a wife an eight children. The burial was at S: loam church yesterday afternoo i. Bob James, a son of the deceased, r< turned yesterday from the scene of th tragedy, having come the larger part < the thirty miles in the nir;ht. He hea^ part of the testimony a. the inqne and talked with his wounded brothe His story removes some of the won features of the case as regards D James. The story he got is that D James and Hamp went to the borne < Sam Lanier, who is a tenant on the place, to spend the night. Lanier ax his wife, who is a mere girl, had a qua rel, and Hamp in attempting to stop j got into a difficulty with Lanier. Han was stabbed three times, once in tl left arm and twice in the side. Tl 1 physicians think the knife penetrate ' the lungs. The woman insisted th she was going to leave the place and j 1 to her fathers, ard disregarded all x 1 monstrances. She went out and hitch 1 up Dr. James' horse. Hamp was gettb ' weak and Dr. James took him to tl buggy, and the two men, with the w man, went to the home of Tyl Eades, Mrs. Lanier's father, 01 mile distant.. Arriving at the hon the woman got out first and start to the house. As she got cle of the horse and bnggy two shots we > fired from behind a pile of laths, a ft * feet away. Hamp was hit in the he and face by several shot and could n . tell accurately about the shooting. ] did not hear his father groan or ma 3 any noise whatever. j When Tyler Eades reached the bngj : he found Dr. James dead on the sea . having simply fallen hack, his he m hanging over the rear of the bugg ' Two loads of No. 3 shot struck him _ the breast and in (the face. The brei * was horribly torn up and the eyes we \ shot entirely out. Lanier told Ead ' what hh had done. Hamp says the gi ' was not at Lanier's house when the in j commenced and it is said tobeEadi gun. The shooting occurred about oj | o'clock at night Hamp James' condition is despera " and his brother thinks his chances f ' life are very slight. The stabs are 1 " worst wounds. The woman testifi ' that Dr. James stabbed Hamp and th ' she was dragged by the James into tJ j buggy, but got out before reaching h father's. Little is known of Lanier, ' came into that community only a ye ago. He and his wife have not hvi ; happily during their short married life WHY THE STABS DID NOT FAL An Explanation of the Change in tl | . Program of the Meteors. Prof. Otis Ashmore, of Savannal Ga., writes the following explanatic as to the non-appearaace of the meteoi as foretold by the astronomers : That the Leonids have not appears in greater numbers at this time is r< markable. While the data concernin ifllCir ULM1W3 CUivC UiV/HiUU OIO UUfc BU fieiently determined to make accural predictions concerning them, astrom mera had good reasons to expect much greater display than has yet o curred. It is still possible that a will have a considerable shower, bi the chances are against it, and the lessen every day. Among the pr< bable causes of their non-appearanc are: First, the earlier ones may hai passed through the meteor stream i day time, when even the most brilliac display otherwise would have bee completely masked by the sun's ray It takes the earth only from four t eight hours to pass through the metec stream, and it is quite possible for th earth to pass through them in the da time. If this has beeii the case it] likely that a portion of the earth t least was exposed to the edge of th raising stream during the early dawi This may have been in the ocean, o in sparsely settled land areas. Again, there is some reason to thin that the leonids travel in severs groups along their common orbit an that at this return the earth sllppe between the separate aggregation without collision with the main bod; of the meteors. Another possible explanation lies ii the tidal effect of the sun's attractioi which constantly tends to disinte grate the meteoric mass and distrita ute the meteoric matter uniforml; around the -orbtfc The earth at eacl return would intercept a less numbei of meteors in this thin stream. The* little bodies for thirty-three years havi been exposed to various disturbing forces along their path, and a verj slight change in their orbit would sent them clear of the earth's path. In Savannah, where an exoelieni body of observers was organized to re cord every phase of the expected shower, about sixteen distinct leonidt I were observed on Tuesday night and twelve the night following. Ever these results are not without value, foi negative testimony is often valuable in astronomy as it is in law. mi * _lui. v j.Lie low mcbcuro wuiou iiavo uoou observed came to us laden with the testimony of their long experience, and the story even of these few accurately observed and interpreted may mean as much to the student of astronomy as that of a host of celestial witnesses. ?In Russia, the leonid diplay caused a panic in many places. It was believed that the end of the world had come. Churches were open all night long, and hundreds of thousands spent three nights in the open air, fearing earthquakes and a general cataclysm. There are rumors that in some villages Russian parents murdered their children to relieve them from an expected worse fate. There was rather a brilliant meteoric display between 2 and 5 o'clock Thursday morning at Berlin. SENATOR APPELT'S PLAN, How the Dispensary Law May he made Efficient?The Vexed Liquor Qaestion Will Come Before the Legislature. Charleston News and Courier. The recent shooting- affair at Sellers, following so closely on the Ouzts disclosure in Columbia, has set everyone taking about the dispensary and its management. The general opinion of South Carolinians mot with in the hotels of this city is that the entire population of the State has become disgusted with the long array of scandals and gore that besmear the record of tbo " great moral institution." Of course there was a large element in the State which has been opposed to the dispensary from the start, and recently this element of opposition to the State's rum traffic has been greatly augmented by auditions from the ran its or those wno orce nuBeotay Bufjpui ku it, bat have cow become nauseated. Men who really thought the dispensary the very best thing that could possibly be devised for controlling the whiskey business have changed their opinions during the last few months ; and are now for its abolition or modi | fication. Among the prominent men of the State who have recently visited Charleston was Senator Appelt, of Ciareo; don County. The Senator is a mat > who keeps abreast of politics in the ; State and when asked if, in his opinion, there would be any change in the die ' pensary law, said: 9 " Yes, I think there will be a modi' fication of the dispensary law. I at ' tended the State Fair and met quite i * number of my colleagues, and to a mar they were of tbe opinion that a verj 3 material change in the law was neces 8 sary to meet the demands of the peo * pie, and also to meet existing condi 8 tions. Well, I hardly know what will h 1 the.change, but unless the General As " sembly abolishes,the present system a 8 Columbia the people,pn my opinion wil y abolish the members of that body jus ? as soon as they can get a whacra l* them. 8 " 1 am sincerely of the opinion tha 6 the dispensary plan of supplying th * wants of liquor consumers is the mot r wholesome. It has done an immens l* amount of good in the rural commun ties where the law had a fair chanc< ** I do not believe a better plan can b e adopted for small towns, but in a cit * with a cosmopolitan population? ~ people made up from all nations?tb 3t dispensary law as now on the statul r- books cannot be enforced, becacu " sentiment is almost unanimous] r* againstit. Why here in Charleston r; stranger would hardly know of the e: ?' istence of the dispensary law. Blit ** tigers are everywhere?the State ge !U no revenue. neitner aoes toe county < r" city, nevertheless large quantities lt? liquor are sold, crime resulting ther !P from, and your Court expenses a 16 piling up a burdensome tax upon tl property oirning class. To my mil ^ it is the silliest of bosh total* aboi at enforcing any la# in a common! 5? where those opposed to the law a charged with its execution, and tl 0d juries often made up of men some *? whom are engaged in the illicit sale de liquor. ?* . " No,T have no matured plan atjw er ent. I have seen it stated where Sen ae tor Tillman favored abolishing ti f? present board and to create a boa ed consisting of the Governor andoth p State officers. I am opposed tosuoc 116 plan and will >ote against any bill i posing the duties of running the d ad pensary on the Governor. I favor so f1 mitting the liquor question to the pc J? pie; that is, for the General Assemb *? to provide means for holding an eh tion on the same day in every counl & a choice of three tickets to be vote *3 Dispensary, prohibition or high lioeni ad In the counties voting for the dispc 7' sary, for the entire management, pi ^ chasing, etcy, to be put into the han 181 of a local board, composed of the may* |re county supervisor and a non-offic 68 holding citizen, who shall be appoint 111 by the Comptroller General, or, sa 188 the foreman of the grand jury. The 08 should be a provision in the law p< tte mitting the question to be voted i whenever onethird of the voters of 16 county petition for the same. By tl dr plan the town, the county and Jti "J State 'would have a representative < ed the board to lookout for the respc ** tive interests. Then I would impose < ae the Comptroller General a supervise 6r power over the finances oftheinstit 88 tion. If prohibition is carried the should be a sufficient public centime 9(1 to aid the local officers in the enforc ' ment of the law. Then with "hi| liosnsep the licensing power, tJ licensees and the police power won regulate and enforce the law. ThJ in my opinion, crudely outlined, is solution of this vexed question and oi that would bring about a renewal i respect for law, so grossly lacking : communities where a law is obnoxious Ml _ ? ?The following petition to Congrea b- understood to "have been prepared 1 Ex-Senator Edmonds, is receiving'tt f. signatures of those who are opposed te the administration's Philippine poliej " We, the undersigned, citizens of ti a United States of America, especial q. petition your honorable body to brii re about an immediate cessation of host 2t lities in the Philippine islands, and i iy announce to the people thereof wit (j. promptitude that it is the purpose < >g the United States not to interfere wit re their aspirations for independence, < n to subject them to onr authority, hi tt only to aid them.in setting up an ind< ,n pendent government of their ow B. choice and to protect them agaim $ hostile foreign interference, and to m ir sist them with the military and navi e forces of'the United States so far i v may be required in the maintenance < [b order and security until such a goveri ? ment shall be established." e ?Ezra Wilkinson, an eccentric real b dent of Sharon^ Mo., has just con r pleted the construction of a lour-stor brick dwelling' for himself onde * ground. The roof of the house is oni j level with, the street, and the wbol <J structure stands in an' excavation fort; ^ feet deep, lined with stone and cemeu 8 ?the house walls bsing separated fror f those of the pit by a four foot areawaj Wilkinson Jives in constant dread c 3 cyclones, and he designed his nove 3 dwelling with a view to making i wind proof. It is said to have cost hln $20,000. 1 " x ?The beer which is consume f throughout the world in a single yea ^ .would make a lake six feet deep, thro 3 and three-quarter miles long, a mill ? wide or 2,319 acres in area. In thi T vast lake of beer we could easily drowi I all the English-speaking people, to th< number of 120,000,000 throughout th< ? > '?<* ah va AnnlS friuA a Haai ? OliVllO WVft ??* 9 V* *? w WWM ft** w ?f wvi . bath to every man, woman and child al [ the same time in the entire continenl , of America. L ?By the falling of an aerolite, sever 1 miles south of Crescent City, ?11., th( ' residence of John Meyers was partiallj wrecked and the neighborhood was panic stricken. The meteor came from [ a point in the sky a Jittle east of south ' and struok the north end of the house, tearing away a part of the upper story. The aerolite buried itself in the ground about three,feet from the foundation of the house. ?The tobacco growers in Florida will increase the acreage in tobacco next year. The Cuban and Sumatra seed for cigar leaf are the kinds best adapted to the Florida soil. Tobaooo is the chief agricultural product in the northern and western portions of the State, and the crop is far more profitable than oranges were before the great freeze of several years ago. ?W. C. Coleman, a negro, has started a large cotton mill at Concord, N. C., which has 5,000 spindles. Mr. Coleman is said to be the wealthiest representative of his moe la America. % ' , v f - - ? . , - //t' "? TWO AMERICAN SCOUTS. How Valiantly They Fought and How Bravely Tliey Died. William Dinwiddle, in telling in Har per'a Weekly the story of the death of William H. Young, leader of the United States scoute, from wounds received at the attack on San Miguel, P. L, on May 13, says: ? The scouts in their desperate hurry to capture the town, have not sent a man across this stream to feel whether - - - M the enemy does not lie there in iorce, ready to pour in a deadly crossfire from the opposite bank. Single shots only, from sharpshooters, come over the water from the bamboo houses be* yond, as the tramping men in single file pass the more open spots on the road. A vanguard of the enemy holds the road commanding the narrow bridge, and three or four more intrepid spirits are firing from the loop-holed stone church tower at any scout who dares approach the opposite end of the causeway. " 'Every one of you fellows keep away from that bridge! You'll get killed if you try to reach it ? Keep under cover!' cried Young. 41 He is right; it is a hot plaoe, and any man or small body of men attempting to cross it is apt to be wiped out of , existence. Then the approach is bad for a distance of forty feet on either . side of the entrance?the road bare of i. houses?giving the enemy a capital > chance to kill troops before they can , get to the bridge. 41 'Wait a minute and I will see If I can't get to that stone post and look . around. Yon men stay here' and, with . the words, Youag makes a rush for the i only place of concealment, behind the i corner pillar of the bridg 3 railing. The j road is cat up in little patches of dost, . which leaves gouges in its hard sur. face before and behind him, but he is . untouched as he crouches behind the a broad column. He peers from the side - of the post a moment, and then brings t his rifle slowly out and np. His aim is i low and short, evidently at some int snrgent head thrust out from a buildI ing in the street beyond. " Young had nine notches on his gna, ,t each one representing immmiea ma e his gun captured?nothing else counted it ?and whether or not he might have e added the tenth notch no one knows, i- fie stepped out from behind his cover, j. and was straok fairly In the knee bj a e ballet from an insurgent Remington, y The great handsome fellow, six feet a four inches in height?the man with te iron nerve and most marvelous daring. ? the man whom Gen. Lawton admired ; ie for his commanding spirit and oold, [y calculating, unimpastioned bravery^ a which made htm a natural leader?lay r- where he fell, with a leg so frightfully id shattered that he could not move. The ta greater pity of it was that Tonng was or a civilian, not a soldier. He had coma of to the Philippines in seareh of gold e. and fortune, and had been drawn into re the vortex of war because, as he exie pressed it, he ooolda't keep oat of the id scrap. Into the new-old* life he had at thrust himself with keen relish, bat the ty game was against him, and a hero paid re the fall penalty of war in death two ie days later. of " Harrington, the silent man-hunter of of the Qregona, who lived completely . within himself, and foaght with the eooute always far in the leaji of every a. one else, rnshed out from cover to. the lie assistance of Young, heedless of the rd raking ballets. 'Go back, Harrington, er you'll get killed here,' pleaded Young, ta ' Tm all right, old man! I'll take care ax- of myself. is- " Bat Harrington heeded not, and, ib- though a small man, he slowly carried to- the wounded giant back to theaover >ly of the houses. There was much oatxj ward rivalry between these two mealy, the sort of rivalry which exists between d: comrades who .?re Jtoth desirous of ie. winning a reputation for being fearless in- of death?but deep in their hearts IP- there lay hidden the bond of mntoal * da respeet and admiration, though their jr. ltpe eften formed the expretsl?e words, 'That fed will be killed yet.' Bd "Tears stood in Ifrxringfcm'e eyes as, y kneeling down, he unwound his firstre aid dressing and- tenderly bandaged -? "?V n.Anl?tdSrT>m )f- iflS BHMICrai uutui . - ? on sorry, Young? And the faoe contorted a with pain, cleared and faintly rallied Lfg as Young replied : 1 You're good stuff, ' tie Harrington/ They graaped bands In on their last band-shake on earth, and* e. moment later Harrington and the on scouts had charged scrota the bridge, ry and the handful of insurgent* left fie* q. hind were flying before them, some falling mortally wounded as they ran. nt Two days later Harrington lay dead on to- the open field near dvk ludro and rh Young breathed his last in the hospital ie at Manila.'* ^ ^ [fl' ?In Norway the average length of _* life is greater than in any other coonr? try on the globe. Pn ?Miss Avery, a Boston girl,, has ? Jramed the glove which Admiral Dewev touched when she shook hands" > with him. 8? The Democratic party wrold ask ^ >y nrthing better than that Henna re*- -! >' ie main the dictator of toe Republican ~ k> party in next year's campaign. [q ?In Franoe 1,600 oompantes^ave ! been organized for the manufacture of ^ tg automobiles. They have tons far if turned cut 3,250 of the ^ofw carriages to ?an average of about two for each ooaji oern. of ??T have called to collect that little^ " account whieh has been standing over two years." " Hum 1 Don* you think " after trusting me all this time you art *" showing indecent haste in rushing me "J for payment all of a sudden ?** a- ?"My good woman." said the clergyd man to the sorely tried matron, " did ig you ever try heaping ooals of fire on )f your husband's head?" "No^yoa? i- riverance, but Olve throw* a lighted lamp at him once or. twice." [J ?A Florida man .has just succeeded i. in hatching an ostrich egg in an iny enbator. This is the tyrst sqooeeeftil - effort of the kind in thkicottBtrr, though it has often been tried fitCMu* e fornia. It took 41 days, for the bird to y come through. _ 1 -Rev. Elijah Kellogg, the author Q of "Spartacus to the Gladiators," ' '?*-11 V ..IV?. U ?A> MftlHt Known aj au ooiiwiw/*, w uv? ?wv . 1 90 years old, but be" continues to \ minister to the little church in Harps- * ?aj * well, Me^ where he went In 1844, after 1 his graduation from Bowdotn and Andorer. d ?George Bartle, who reoently died v . * r in Washington,* and had been known b as keeper of the mat seal of 'the Un3 ited 8tates sinoe 1852, was always ready b to exhibit that treasure to visitors ana a would gladly nutke for themjts imprint 3 on paper, but would nerer, in any cir- iHf 3 cumatances, allow snehan imprint to ^ r be carried away as a souvenir, always 1 carefully destroying it. t ? THE VICE PRESIDENT DEAD. /? I " j Vice President Hobart died yester' day morning at his residence in Pater* 1 son, New Jersey, After a protracted ill- ' ness and much suffering. Mr. Hobart ? fl IrnAWfl AvtAflsivAlv in vTloiitiCS until he was nominated for office which he filled most creditably, as he was a representative of the business interest* of the North, being a men of large wealth and extensive connections with leading corporations in New Jersey end elsewhere. He wasmoeh ree pec ted by members of both political parties for his fairness and ability as presiding officer of the Senate, and in this capacity he was faithful to hie ' duties even when physically unable for their discharge. His reputation as -a man and citizen, did not suffer on account of his entrance into official Ufa. ?Greenville Mountaineer. 'M