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Quite a crowd went with the team to Walterboro. The ladies are all hoarse yet from the cheers? % 17 to 5 in favor of Ehrhardt. Now the ladies say they want our boys _ just to make fancy plays enough to win the game when they play late in the week, so their voices will not be \ hoarse on Sunday and Sunday night, so "they can talk bo their best feli lows in their sweetest tones. Like the cooing of a dove you know. f ________ ^ Some little excitement Sunday 4 night. Some of the darkies remarked: "Have you noticed how dark and smoky it has grown in the last few moments?" Others went out and saw the smoke and made quite a to do about it, getting scared all the time. The comet was the cause un> doubtedly. Investigation showed th^t the smoke came from the freight locomotive which was being fired after cleaning and refilling the boiler with fresh water so it would be easier on Monday morning to raise steam. The comet has taken all the interest away from the railroad project in this section. I The committee has decided to sell the Mt. Pleasant parsonage and lot of fifty acres of land. This is a fine property for some one wanting to bu^~ a nice dwelling and outbuildings and a lot of fifty acres of land near enough to town, and rural route delivers mail and takes same up every ? day. A fine property, cheap at $2,500 or $3,000. Can't be duplicated i for the last amount named. Look at if if you are in the market. * Mr. Charlie Brown, of Barnwell, spent one night in town last week on his return from a trip down the country. He had some fine horses and mules with him. Charlie will trade ' with you. All you have to do is talk up to him. w n The closing exercises of Ehrhardt high and graded school will be held on the 26th and 27tlj. instant. On the night of the 26th a play, "The Onlj^. Girl," will be given by the pufJils. An admission fee of 25 and 15 cents will be charged?money to be used for school purposes. The exercises on the night of the 27-th will consist of songs, music on the piano, jlrills, pantomimes, and declamations. A , medal will be given to the best declaimer. Other medals that have been offered and certlfi1 cates and promotion cards will be given at this time. No admission will ' be charged to these exercises. The I public is invited. JEE. College Student Found Dead in Bed. - Davidson, M^iy 12.?Samuel O. Fleming, of Laurens, S. C., a senior and one of the most prominent men in the college, died here suddenly toi day. Mr. Fleming had for some weeks . been in bad health. The senior examinations were going on and he had been working very hard, and it is thought that the overwork caused heart failure. He was left by his room mate, and some friends about 4 o'clock this afternoon in his room where he lay down to take a nap about' 7 o'clock. 2They went to his room as he did not go to supper and found him dead. Mr. Fleming was one of the most popular and prominent men of the college. He ha4 for several years been one of the honor men of his class and had always taken a very active part in all things pertaining to college life. He was a universal favorite among the students, and so the whole student body is in a gloom. \ Mr. Fleming was a member of the Signa Alpha Epsilon fraternity. * ? : r . V "OLD TIMER" WRITES. The Beaver Hat Has Gone and Sc Has Man. Wanderer's Rest, May 16.?Correspondent from Jenny's, what is mar thatethou art mindful of him? He has lost out, the beaver is about extinct, and the beaver hat of stove pipe height and large dimensions is cast into oblivion and man witl tViam WVion man u-nro lore-o anr tall hats then the wife was proud oj him. How she smiled when she introduced him to strangers and how he smiled and gracefully bowed tc feel that he was thus honored by his spouse, and there were giants ir those days noted for politeness and intellect, in fact all that made woman proud of him. Now all is changed. The beaver is gone and beavers alone could furnish the material tc make a man out of him. Now he has only a makeshift for a hat as nothing .else will take the place of the old time beaver. Thus woman saw hei chance and from the litle terrapin shell bonnet she has evolved' a hal that for size and splendor has sc dazzled the eyes of men and filled them with awe that when one honors him enough to be seen riding with him he has to lean far to the right and all humped over and looks and feels like thirty cents; she sitting erect looking so sweet but stern, as much as to say: "Ah, my time has mm /-> T'll 11CO V\ irvi " T n tho old Hav< V/ViiXUi X IX UCV lliUi i-U VUV v*\* ? the fair sex were in mortal dread oJ a mouse. Now she actually wears rats in her hair. Tliose days she musi have a chaperone. Now she goes forth to conquer and she does. Ther she looked up to the man as a statesman, now she looks down in pity or the puny, stoop-shouldered spjall hat pigmyri)y her side. How clearly Byron could see when he wrote: "Woman, lovely woman, thou My comforter my all, How cold must be this bosom now When e'er thy smiles begin to pall." And now the lord of creation sends forth no sound of protest but he humbly bows to his fate and calmlj waits for the day when he must tend to the children, keep house, and dc all the odd jobs now done by his superior half, with no show for a better day. He will meekly listen to the madam of the future giving him minute orders and directions how and what to do while she goes to the stock exchanges of the great cities of the ^gorld or to the klondyke to superintend or inspect some great mining scheme, or to Africa to hunt new diamond fields, or to some great church, State or world conference, tc devise some means to make better 01 more helpful or obedient husbands; and the poor fellow away back at home nursing a "Sick baby or scalding his hand or blistering his fingers trying to turn a hoe cake, will after getting through the chores for the day go to bed and dream of the absenl one and write something like the lines below and head them ONLY A DREAM. Last night I dreamed of you Tho' you are so far from here, And in that dream I saw you, O, tell me are you ever near? There were no smiles for me dear, As in the days of long ago. Only a sad face so pale and white Was all you had for Joe. Last night* I saw you, You came silent and grey, Only one look you gave me, Then you glided from me and away. Thus the same old story over, In this dream I had of you, The smile you give to others, The frowns to one that's true. Last night I saw you only, Not him that was by your side, 'Twas a dream only, dear one, And you I do not chide. Farewell, it was only a dream, We may never meet again, I wish you success, sweet heart, But my heart is filled with pain. Only a dream of you love, How sad I feel as I write, Good bye, a kiss to you, sweet heart, Good bye and good night. So now you see where man is soon to be, all because the beaver is gone and man's big hat with him, and as his spouse makes laws or long speeches, or gamble or clinks the glasses that holds the rock and rye or champagne, he is gone, for he took the beaver to make his hats, and left his wife barrel hoops, scraps of all kinds, and odds and ends of silk, and stuck a rooster's tail feather in her hat in derision. Now she^beat him at his own game1 and while he groans over his fate he alone is to blame. But then, man, he loves her still and always will. OLD TIMER. The Denmark Realty Company is delivering the goods. Try them if you want to buy or sell real estate or stocks. C. H. MILHOUS, Manager. IN THE PALMETTO STATE > SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS KINDS IN S0U1*H CAROLINA. State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading?Paragraphs Abont Men and Happenings. Hilton Smith, city jailer in Columbia, was fatally shot by a negro late ^ Tuesday night while attempting t'o ' w-1 nl-rt o n o rrocf T>ifl eVlAA+inO' AO uiaxv^ au ai i vet* j. oxivv/viuq w curred near the city hall, three shots taking effect. Blood hounds were put > on the trail of the negro. The scheme to form a new county ^ from portions of Aiken and Edgefield, with North Augusta as the county seat, has been revived again, and last week a petition calling for an election was presented to Governor Ansel. An election on this same proposition was held some years ago. L Commissioner Watson, immediate. ly after the adjournment of the t conference at Clemson College, . announced the appointment of } Mr. W. B. Aull, Jr., of Pendleton, I Anderson county, to the position of , assistant analyst under the new comt mercial feedstuffs and seed inspection laws. 9 I The general conference of the > Methodist church, South, now in ses5 sion in Asheville, N. <5., finished elect> ing bishops last week. The seven ? elected are as follows: Collins Den' ny, Tennessee; John C. Kilgo, South 5 Carolina; W. B. Mur^ah, Mississippi; t W. D. Lambuth, Tennessee; E. D. ' Houston, Texas; R. G. Waterhouse, 1 Virginia; J. H. McCoy, Alabama. { At a meeting of the State Demo. cratic executive committee in Co. lumbia Tuesday night, Col. Wilie Jones, who has been State chairman of the Democratic party for a number of years, was re-elected to this position for the next two years. A schedO+n+A r?-*r\o i rrr? TMAofinora nroc , uic \J L guibu V/auipaigu ui^vbiugo nuw , also arranged by the committee, and r at these meetings candidates" for I State offices will address the people. Fire in Lumber Yard. v Century, Fla., May 16.?Five hun, dred men were thrown out of work and the entire town was threatened I by*a fire which this afternoon de, stroye-d the plant of Alger-Sullivan , Lumber company and several nearby residences. The loss will reach $500,000. The following were injured: P Carey Hall, white, leg broken by jumping from upper story; Cam | Browder, badly burned about face . and hands in effort to rescue Carey; James Green, burned about face and hands and badly bruised; Thomas [ Cuyler, seriously burned about body. The plant will probably be rebuilt . at once. It was partially insured. Midway Musings. > ' Midway, May 16.?Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Taylor came over from Cameron in their handsome Buick car to spend the last week end with the family of H. B. Murphy and other T?A1 oflTTAO x ^xati t v^o. Mrs. S. J. Walker has returned from an extended trip to her son, Dr. Gilmore Walker, of Chattanooga, Tenn. Mr. J. B. Smith is working with an insurance company and is out of town this week. The Baptist Sunday-school gave a most enjoyable picnic at the river on Ascension day. Plenty of ice-lemonade and good things to eat and everyone enjoyed the day. We are glad to state that Mrs. H. R. Dunsing, who has been ill, is improving. Midway school will close on the 10th of June. Mrs. Metz Herndon, of Bamberg, spent Thursday with Mrs. M. A. 1 Steedly. 1 Mrs. Lizzie Hughes, of Orangeburg, ' visited her daughter, Mrs. A. R. 1 Dempsey, last week. 1 Little Sadie Murphy, who has been 1 quite ill with fever, is improving. D. M. Two Children Burned. i Waterloo, May 16.?The home of Tom Cunningham, colored, was burn; ed last night at 10 b'clock, together "u Viio Aihil/lmn Vi r\ nroro W 1 til IWU Ul lllO V/lliiui^u, n uv n V* V asleep in the house. Cunningham and his wife had gone to church and left > the children asleep in the bed. No : one sseems to know the origin of the ' fire. Absolutely nothing was saved from the house. i LOST HIS FAITH IX WOMAN. ? Uniontown Merchant Will Not Wed Just Now. ** Gannon Thomas, 51 years old, a merchant of Uniontown, Pa., who T procured a license to marry Carrie Eelle Brown, a widow 42 years old, returned the license, saying that it was worthless, as the widow had ? fr flown after persuading him to buy 3.1 her trousseau and advance her a good ly sum. of money. The cotirtship C1 covered 12 hours. She said she ^ras cc going to the hotel, but instead was m speeding to Pittsburg. "I will trust w women no more," he added. "One st I had to work for me in Uniontown fil ran away with $500, but this one has almost broken my heart." gl fa Murillo's Boy. ' vi More than two hundred years ago a tc little dark-eyed Moorish boy rapped ^ at the door of a stately house in ai Seville, Spain, and asked if the master was within. ; The attendant ushered him into a 4 st large room where a grave, sad-looking man was talking to a group of young artists. They were all listening atten- ' tively, for the man was the greatest . painter of his time?Bartolome Esteban Murillo. fJ bi "Well, my boy, what can I do for you?" inquired Murillo. s( "I heard you Vanted a boy to sweep your room, grind paints, and wait ai upon you. I have come for the posi- f tion." p "Well, you can have it, you littie si monkey. And you can go right to work?" tl In this way little Sebastian Gomez ai was introduced into the studio of the d gr^at Murillo. He remained there un- w til he was fifteen yeafs old, doing all & the odd jobs for the painter and his ^ pupils, and taken very little notice w of by any of them. ir C There were a dozen or more of these young painters studying under tc Murillo?gay, showy fellows, and dis- ?J posed to be somewhat careless in their work. Often the great Murillo was S1 obliged to lecture them sharply for tc their shortcomings. ^ One morning, when they had been ^ worse than usual, he scolAed them unmercifully. "You can never expect to become painters," he said, "if you do not put more care and labor into your work. Why, Sebastain yonder, who ' knows nothing of colors, might do ? better work $han some of you." ^ Murillo intended it for a sharp re- w buke, and the young painters so ac- p. cepted it. Their faces flushed with ^ wounded pride, and they promised to do more efficient work. No one paid B any heed to the poor Moorish lad who had heard the words and who was R blushing as furiously as some of Mu- 0j rillo's pupils. Q. The next morning when the pupils cc assembled, several of them noticed a that their pictures were not as they had left them the previous night. "Hello! who has been here?" cried curly-headed Vincenzo, one of tht> o! brightest of Murillo's pupils. "Some oi one has put a child's head on idy can- d vas, that is none of my work." b; "And here is a Virgin's face on b; mine," said Jose Pareda, the laziest of the school. "Who could have cfone tl it?" w # Others were exclaiming meanwhile, u for every canvas had received a touch v< of some kind, and it was all admir- t? able. While they were discussing the tl matter the door opened and Murillo ir entered. tl "Let me congratulate;' you; you are improving," said the master, "Why, Pareda, that is very good for *3 tl you. "But it is not my work, master," said Jose, falteringly. al "Not yours; whose is it then?" C? "That's the puuzzle," answered H Vincenzo. Pi And a puzzle it continued to be for several mornings, for the most wonderful things were done by the invisible painter. it "Well, gentlemen, I think this has gone far enough," said the master, ai "to-morrow morning we will come an bi hour earlier than usual and see if we oi can not catch this unknown artist at ii' his work. pi Surprised enough were they the 01 next morning to see, seated at one of ai the pictures, the little "monkey," Se- A bastian Gomez. h< "Who taught you how to paint, st boy?" asked the artist. "You, master." it "But I never gave you a lesson." tl "I listened to what you told those fc gentlemen, and I remembered it." ai "Bravo, Sebastian!" cried the oi school. "You have beaten us all." se "And I have made a painter," said ce Murillo.?Youth's World. lii \ e ... v ' ' ..-I - : ! ONYICTS PERISH BY FIRE RISOXERS IX ALABAMA?SET FIRE TO STOCKADE. hirty-three Burned to Death and Others May Succumb to Injuries Received by Flames. Centerville, Ala., May 16.?Thirtyve convicts were burned to death at i early hour this morning at the Lulle mines of the -Red Feather Coal >mpany, located in Bibb cpunty, 15 iles north of this place. The men ere cremated while making desper:e efforts to escape from a burning ockade, in which they were conaed, and other prisoners were, with reat difficulty saved from the same ite. The stockade was fired by a conict in attempting to escape, and he >o met death in flames. Guards of le camp were aroused by cries of aguish from the suffering men, but le stockade burned so rapidly that leir efforts to save all inmates were itlfe. Those who escaped from the ockade, in which about 100 were mfined, attempted to escape custoy, resulting in one being shot to Bath. After the fire the stockade te presented a grewsome scene, the round geing covered with baked adies, while the groans of those inlred added to the horror of the ;ene. All convicts at the Lucille mine re leased by the State to the Red eather company, of which H. W. erry is president and J. H. Taylor iperintendent. Official information is to the effect lat 26 men were burned to death ad 21, several of whom have since ied, were seriously burned. Three hite convicts were confined at the imp but it is not known whether lese met death. Several guards ere slight'y burned while attemptig to rescue the convicts. State onvict Inspector Hugh has been sent ) the scene and the governor has Pfovofl nirl The stockade was fired from the inde, a plan having-been formulated ) make a general escape. The fire urned more rapidly,-it is believed, lan the men who set fire to the uildings expected and instead of furishing a means of escape, the men lccumbed to the flames. The fire was discovered after it ad made such headway that the aards and other men who were atacted to the scene had all they could 0 to get out some of the men who ere locked up in the cells, and to] revent those who were released -om getting away. News of the fire spread through ibb county and other coal companis have gone to the assistance of the ed Feather company. The bodies F the men will be buried on the scene P the conflagration as soon as the impany and State officials ha^e made full investigation into the matter. i Policemen Fight. Charleston, May 15.?Two police fficers were arrested this afternoon a the charge of fighting and conuct unbecoming an officer, preferred y Sergeant Horn. They will be tried y Chief of Police Boyle tomorrow. Immediately upon being arrested ley were temporarily suspended, in hich status their case will remain ntil Chief Boyle completes his instigation and rules upon the matir. The officers were on their way to le station house when the disagreelent occurred in which one struck le other with his club. 1 have lived for a long time (eighr-one years), and the longer I live le mo:-e convincing proofs I see of lis truth, that God governs in the Tairs of man. And if a sparrow innot fall to the ground without is^notice, is it probable that an em- j Aft ? TT71+Vl An f Uio qM ? Wp I lie; VsCllI iloc Tf 1IUU U 1# XAIO W1U TV v I a,ve been assured in the sacred writ- j igs, that "Except the Lord build the au^e, they labor in vain who build I firmly believe this; and I also jlieve that without His concurring d we shall proceed in this political jilding no better than the builders : Babel; we shall be divided by our ttle, partial, local interests; our -ospects will be confounded; and we irselves shall become a reproach id a by-word down to future ages, nd what is worse, mankind may ?reafter, from this unfortunate inance, despair of establishing gov nnient by human wisdom, and leave to chance, war, or conquest. I lerefore beg to move that hence irth prayers, imploring the assistlce of heaven and its blessings on lr deliberations, be held in this assmbly every morning before we proved to business.?Benjamin Frankn, in Convention, 1789. ..." ' - T . AVANT NOT IN PENITENTIARY. % Officials Believe He, Too, Has Skipped With Bigham. T It seems now practically certain, that both Dr. G. C. Bigham and W. B. Avant havo clrinnpfl fnr nnrts 11T1 known, and that the chances of their ever being returned to the State to serve their three and a half years for the murder of Mrs. Ruth Crisp Bighorn at Murell's Inlet, in Georgetown county, are extremly thin. The ease wfth which these proml- . nent white men have glided out of the reach of the officers, after the supreme court's decision affirming their i- sentence, is causing much comment here and throughout the State. As usual Governor Ansel is non-committal on the master, but when shown a ' telegram from Georgetown to the effect that Avant had left Harper's : Sunday for the penitentiary, coupled vHth the information that neither Avant nor Bigham had yet come to. . the penitentiary, the governor evinced ; much interest. a Georgetown special to The Reeord Tuesday says: 'Cyr; ^ "Avant left Harper's Sunday for/ the penitentiary. Sheriff Scurry re- ' ^ ceived a wire last night from Super- - ^ intendent Griffith saying Avant had not reached the Denitentiary yet" - Monday morning some one called *d|| Superintendent Griffith at the p^ni- / tentiary over the phone to inform/ him that Avant would be down to surrender by 11 o'clock, ringing off before the superintendent could ask vll who was talking. This is the nearest Avant has been to the penitentiary 4^J?1 since the supreme cotfrt decision. The construction placed on the jtelephone incident now is that the telephoning was done in order to quiet: .V||| the penitentiary authorities, that Avant was in Columbia some time Monday and wanted to get a good start out of the State before too much interest was manifested in his where^ / abouts. Another curious incident in the die- '*?% j appearance of Avant is the fact that - ^ some of the morning papers. Sunday carried a story to the effect that Sheriff Scurry had said that he would go to Harper's Monday and arrest v Avani. * v Clerk Brooks of the supreme court ':-iM says the remittitur in the case was sent to Georgetown in plenty of time to effect Avant's arrest. It was ia , '^|j| Georgetown two days before A Ant left Harper's^ The next move in the game wi^ ^ probably be action b'y the solicitor to estreat the bonds of both Bigham. and Avant. Of course there is still the possl-. bility that Avant may be busy some* where in the State aranging his af- -JMjS fairs and may yet show up at th?;rpenitentiary.?Columbia Record, May <?-'301 1^ * HOTEL MAN'S BRAINSTORM. ' ^ Pennsylvania Boniface Shot Himself and Wife During a QuarreJ.' ' Pittsburg, May 15.?F. A. Weller, ' .' a well known citizen of McKees. fv% Rocks and proprietor of the Island ' Avenue Hotel in that suburb, shot himself and wife during a quarrel at the hotel this afternoon. He died ; ^ < ' * 15 minutes later on the operating ta- . ble and his wife is lying at ^ hospital with a painful bullet wound near her ^jgjl left ear. The quarrel is said to have b|| been prompted by Weller's jealousy.> v'.f|? Several months ago he ejected forcl- v^?l| bly from the hotel a man whom he ' believed had insulted Mrs. Weller. ;%J| The offender's skull was fractured. but later he recovered. This incident is believed by the doctors to : have rather unbalanced Weller's ^ mind. ?|| Weller was 36 years old and Ms . wife is several years younger. She - . ^ will recover. Student Knocks Policemen Down. j Athens, Ga? May 16.?Charles , ^ Newsom, a student at the university, knocked down two policemen on the .campus this afternoori\and his arrest r."f by a third was prevented by the in- ' terference of Che students. Newsom had hrown some water from his < . ;.J| window in the dormitory which fell on the officer, who, thereupon, ap- y plied unmentionable language to him. ~7 J? - sass Newsom sought out the officer, who admitted" using the language, and knocked him down," whereat a second attempted to arrest him, but was aiso knocked down an embankment. : The students interfered and Newsom returned to his room and has not yet been arrested. The students are aroused by an officer having used such abusive language about one of the student body. - '^1 ' ; m -; * . -V>J