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m V -V _ , > i i i i n ? A NEW INVENTION Oi a Columbia Mmhaaio That May Htvaltitioiilgt Locomotion MUCH I? CLAIMED FOR A VALVE, Which i? t*i?l?l to ha Alilf Id KflVct m SHvlnff or mi I'Cnwt Onetilth >!' iIn* Coal I'kwI I'mi- K?|cl<l. The Columbia State says "The Crooks Improved Steam Valve company" <if that eitv lias b?en notified that the patent otllee has granted an "allowance" oil the contrivance which this company has sought to have patented. The allowance means that the authorities have acted favorably and that the latters patent will he issued in a few days. The valve which this company has in its possession is said to he one of the greatest inventions of recent years. The inventor is a machinist who spent IS years in the Southern's shops in Columbia, but forroine reason his name is withheld on the ground that lie himself does not fur the present want his identity made public. The inventor put his contrivance Into the hands of a friend, Col. I'. K. Brooks, who is t lie clerk of the supreme court, and the latter, with the advice of (Jen. M. C. Butler, has liecn able to get it patented. The object of the valve is to economize the use of coal and to increase the speed of a locomotive. Colonel Brooks believes firmly in its practicability. To a reporter of The Slate he said Wednesday: "We claim lor it that we can save from 2(1 to ."to per cent, ot the fuel used on locomotives. We claim that we can increase t he speed from 2n to ."hi percent. This invention will get rid of the 'used steam' which is called 'back pressure" and retards the progress of the engines as t hey are working today. The valve is very simple in its construction, so simple that every machinist who has examined it is struck immediately with its practicability, and many have wondered why they never thought of it." When the application for a patent had been tiled sometime ago there was a protest from the attorneys of several inventors who were endeavoring to perfect something of the same kind and claimed the right of priority. Colonel Hrooks went to Washington and was accompanied by Mr. J. B. Edwards, a practical machinist. The latter explained the valve to the satisfaction of the patent oilicc and, upon his showing, the "allowance" was issued. At the suggestion of General Butler, patents under the laws of all foreign countries have been applied for by the company. A practical test of the valve will Ik; made in a few day*. "We have obtained permission Irom the superintendent of motive power of one of the largest railroad systems to have an - engine titted with this appliance in order to uiuhc ?.m u.. Colonel Brooks. "When we went into his ollice this superintendent glanced at the model and said, inditfer ently, 'Oh, I have seen a great many valves like this.' Mr. Edwards interjected, 'You never saw anything likt this in your life.' That caused the railroad olllcial to make a minute in spection, and he was so well satisfied tliat he ordered an engine plaeed at mil in>>(Hin.ii vtBt'll lilt' | i.t i? 111 Ml.I! have been secured. 'It It. will save u> one per cent, of coal it. is valuable, but if it will save us per cent, it b the greatest tiling we could yet hold of,' the superintendent said to us. "The engine will be examined and tested as to speed, coal consuming capacity, etc., before the appliances are attached," continued Colonel brooks, "and the other tests will be made to show the merits of the valve." The practicability or the valve must be settled before any plans for the future will be made, but Colonel Uruoks would like to have the contrivance manufactured in Columbia. The Human Hotly. A French chemist, of a particularly inquiring turn, says the Medical Journal, has determined by experiment that the body of an average man, of about so kilos, has all the chemical elements represented in the yolk and white of twelve hundred ordinary sized eggs of the common hen. I'roperly reduced, such a body would furnish till cubic metres of gas and sufficient hydrogen to till a balloon with an ascensional force of To kilos. Normally, the human body contains iron sufficient to make seven large nails, fat for thirteen candles. carIon for sixty-live gross of pencils, phosphorus to tip eight hundred and and twenty thousand matches, together with the constituents of salt, lifty-nine lumps of sugar and fortytwo litres of water. Would it not he well to use some of our surplus population to these ends. Let us diversity our industries. lift tlie SiiiiNliitie In. The room should he sunny in all ail incuts except a very few affections of the eye, for sunshine is the best germ destroyer we have, and will make a room more wholesome and sweet than tiny disinfectant, vays the Scotsman. Nowdays it i$ not considered necessary to darken every sick room as it used to be. it is more fashionable and much more healthy to let in sunshine all over the house than it is to close the blinds so that, the furniture may UOt fade. It is cheaper and much pleasanter to have a faded carpet t han it is to have a case of sickness, and the doctor's and the nurse's hill to pay The dark, stulfy room, whispering voices and tiptoe tread have passed way, fortunately for the patient. A Climr < 'all. F. it. Collins, an attorney of Niles, Mich., who had been seriously ill. went into a trance Wednesday and ids relatives supposing him dead, summoned an undertaker. When lie placed tiie remains in a casket several hours later the undertaker discovered perceptible indications of returning life. Medical aid was summoned and the patient now bids fair to recover. "J? K ' vSa .1 I. I . I ? BILL ARP WRITRB HISTORY (Vtr lb* UontAu 61 tho Vouiih I'ottitie i?l% tho (.'iiuntry. No 4 'ftiiy young peoplo wnu urn thinning fur historical knowledge write lt> rue for ht>||> that I feel onoouuiged and will answer their In <|iiI rii*K us fur us 1 can. Those young uu.nln In ll I....... I ill tin ? wiuili ? i ?? 11.-? itu i u schools to goto, but they lack books reading books. cyclopedias, biograi phies, and if I was as rich as Carnegie i 1 would plan a lilirar.v of such bunks in every couiiniiuil v. 1 would have a I million sets of some standard cyclope- j I dia printed for every school, even if j they cost lifty million dollars. That, ! would diffuse knowledge among the young people and do nioie good than all he is doing in the big cities. Itut what we most need in the South are historical books that will be standard with us and relate the truth about I the South and secession and the Confederacy and slavery and the war and reconstruction. 1 had a cyclopedia that gave a whole column of apology for old John Mrown and the pedigree of every Northern race horse, and no mention of John if. Gordon or Forrest or any of our Southern poets or authors or orators. 1 swapped it. oil' at half price for the International by Dodd. Meade \ Co. The tributes in that work to l>r. Davis and Lee and Jackson are all that could be desired and more than was expected. I wonder what lias become of that great Sout hern publishing house t hat was projected in Atlanta some time ago. That is what we want and nuisl have to perpetuate Southern history and defend our fathers and grandfathers from the slanders of Northern foes. It is Northern histories, Northern novels and Northern plays that have already poisoned the minds of thousands of our young people, (inly yesterday I glanced at a serial story in an AI lata paper and t he first tiling 1 saw was a verse which read: 'John Brawn's liodylies mouldering in t lie ground, I>ul his soul keeps marching on." in a Missouri paper I saw where a Yankee troupe were playing "1'iiele Tom's Cabin." And now a tool fellow from Wisconsin wants to get our Governors to appoint delegates to a convention in Atlanta to determine the race problem, and it is said that t 11 :> t iii.-iii Sinoomo' i< :it t In* lnitti.m ?,t it L<> net up a Prcsidenta! boom for himself. I suspected there was a ninnor in the woodpile, for these Northern politicians never do anything from patriotic, nnseltish motives. Manna's scheme fell through and Spooner tlmunht lie could patch it up. Hut the South never was more aroused and united on t he no^ro question and will resent all interference, whether it comes fiom Washington or Wisconsin. Wisconsin! What impudence! A State whose foieiyn popula tion is 02 per cent, of tin* whole, and of these there are ss.ooo who can't speak lOnnlish. and only 7t?o negroes i in the State and three times as many vn.?v ... >wi ... i- .. or care alxaitour race problem? In the last few days 1 have received three letters fromyounn people wanl' inn to know somet liinn atiout t he < 'onfederate Hays, what, were the designs ' and who designed them. I wish that ' 1 could sketch them and paint them in litis letter, lint all lean do is todeI scrihe them and nive their history. There were four in all. hut only t wo I lived to see the end at. Appomattox. ' No. I, or the "Stars and Hars," was adopted by the Confederate ('on> nress at Montgomery. Its stars were oil a blue Held and its red and white hars made it look somewhat like the Stars and Stripes, and sometimes was mistaken for the United States il in, and so (Seneral Keaurcnard designed. No. 2. "The I'.attle Ulan," and Ueueral Joe 10. Johnson adopted it. and it was never changed. It was a [ (Hue cross, or rather an X studded with stars and set on a red tield. No. J. In May. 1 st?:j, the Confederate Connress adopted a national Man. it was a miniature battle Man set on i .1 ...l.itn C..1.I f I...I I....I .. ...I.:. I .. 1 1 in I?I un.it. lliiu .1 will LU IJIHUIT ;it the side and at the bottom. I tut it proved to be a mistake, for it had loo much white, and afar oil was mistaken for a Mag of truce. And so on March, 18U."?, Congress, adopted No. 1 as the national Mag. This, had the same battle Mag on a blue field, but the white border was smaller and a red one put on the outside of that. This Mag did not wave very long, only about a month, but nevertheless it remains as the national Mag of the Confederate States. Hut the dear old battle Mag Xo. 2 was the lighting banner of every company. Our wives and our daughters made them for the boys in gray, and many of the.n were smuggled back luune again after the surrender and still kept as household treasures. < >ur boys, the I tome bight Hoards, bad one, and one night the young people gave a tableaux performance in the city ball to raise a little money to put some benches in the desecrated churches, for all the pews had been taken out and converted into horse troughs for the stall horses. One scene in the tableaux represented a battle field where women were ministering to the wounded and the dying, and one dying soldier, the ensign, bad this old tattered and war-stained Mag grasped in his hand just as he held it when lie fell. The Spanish commandant of the post was there with his wife, and when lie discovered the llag. got furiously mad. lie jumped up on his seat and yelled: "Take dat t'ing avay, dat is treason dat is an insult to me and <le t oiled States. I send for my j soldiers and I arrest the whole party." I lie ran wildly down the stairs and j across the st reet to his quarters and! I came hack quickly with half a dozen! lMitchmcn in arms to make t he arrest. 1 I lie marched the young men over to i his olllee, hut. paroled the young ladies {until he could hear from (ieneral Thomas. whose headquarters were in Louisville. I was mayor then and we had some hot words, lie said finally he would release the young men until he could hear from (ieneral Thomas. So I wrote to (ieneral Thomas hy the same mail. He very graciously for-1 | gave us, hut warned us not to do so .? \ i ' r i i m any more, for the display of a Cohfedora to n?d was trvfuon and tho punishment of treason was death. This Is enouwh about There t? no treason In displaying one now. Time U a pttod doctor and Time Keeps rolling on, My wife und I had another wedding last Haturduy-?? and pood friends wero calling all the ftftcrndun tj say good words and congratulate us on our long and happy married life. 1Cifly In the morning, while my wife und the family were at breakfast, 1 l.. .. ...1 .... i. i.: l ? .inn* in i?ut aim Mippiii^ up i >111111 (J her planted a venerable kiss upon her classic brow. "She half enclosed me in Iter arms. She clasped tne in a meek embrace; t No she didn't, ell her.) And bending back her head, looked up Ami pa zed into my face." Yes, she did that, for it took iter by surprise. I hadn't kissed Iter since tiie lirst day of last June which was her birthday. Twice a year satisfies her now. Itn.i, A nr. THREE MEN KILLED. ('mil Cat'N oil n llcuth Trip in a <'oal >1 inc. The breaking of a coupling, followed by the runaway of a string of loaded coal cars in the Sunshine mine at South Fork. Pa., late Thursday afternoon, caused the death of three men, the fatal injury of one, and more or less serious injuries to mine others. The dead: Tony I torder, of Sou lit Fork, aged Id years. Joseph S. Strank, South Fork aged .'to years. Frank Met'lain, of Khcntield. The injured: ('<iolhuugh, of South Fork, spine injured and breast crushed, will die. Albert Paul, of South Fork, arm, leg and collar bom broken, serious. William Parker, South Fork, crush ed about head and body, will recover. A half dozen others whose names could not be ascertained were badly bruised. The accident, occurred about p. m. as the men were leaving the mine. A I rip of about, J."> loaded cars was being hauled to the surface by an endless chain. When the cars left the centre of the mine (ifteen ore men climln:! aboard. All went well until the trip reached a "dip" about loo yards from the mouth ol the mine. The train climbed three-fourths of the steep .......I.. t.,.i .. ..I...-, ^nimi 111 nau ij , imii <i mi'mi uni.uitt from the level lr;id the Ifi telling between tin' second and third cars hroke. Instantly the mine slope was tilled with shouts of the men as all of the ears with the exception of the first two commenced to hack down the grade. Slowly at tirst hut with gradually increasing speed the cars sped downwards, giving the men scarcely an o|)|Kirtunity to jump and save themselves. When ahoul 2oo yards from where the hitching hroke the foremost car lilt the track and the remainder of the train pilled up <aek of it. IIKI.I' Hilt Vim 1N.IUICKU. ? ??., h-.fi fortunate enough to jump from the runaway cars quickly ran to the outside and told of the accident. Help was quickly hrought to the men h tried heneath the pile of wreckage, which tilled the six-foot heading for a distance of twenty yards. At a late hour Thursday night the wreckage had hcen cleared away and the in jured all taken out. 'l'lie < 'lull Against the Home. "Cluh Life vs. Home Life" was the subject chosen by l?ev. (leorge Whiteman from which he recently delivered a sermon in Itullalo, N. Y., He referred to the late tragedies in that city, and drew a lesson from them that should lie remembered. decent events, he said, have revealed the gay irreligious life which many of buffalo's more prosperous people live. There is a growing godlessness among many well to do persons. The type of depravity among persons in the higher circles is often worse than in t lie slums of tin; city. This gay godless way of living often manifests itself in what is spoken of as eluh life. 1 admit t hat clulis dilTer in their aims, lint iLelieve that that which is mechanically called eluh life is opposed to the interests of the individual, of the church and the nation, in referring specially to the ifurdick murder he said "a murder is committed in our city and two divorce cases are revealed." These he said, have some relation to club life. This is an awful condition but the facts warranted the charge. He closed by saying. "America i.-. fast following in the steps of the old Unman empire, the home is despisea; children arc an encumhrace; a die dog is of more value than a baby. Wealth and pride consume t lie lib- blood of t he nut ion and aristocrat ic weakness saps democratic vigor." This is a true indictment, and unless such warnings as these are heeded our country will perish as did the great Itomanempircdid. Thoughtless people will refer t ? Mr. Widcman as a calamit y howler, hut he is not. lie sees things as they arc. and he has the courage to denounce the sins of those who are rich and occupy a eonspicinus pla *e in the public eye. The hope of this great country is a fearless ministry and an incorruptible press. .'in Honor WCII llfNlntvod. The president Thursday announced the members of the hoard of visitors to the West Point Military academy as follows: lion. I >. It. 1 U ndersoil of Iowa, I Ion. t ?eni>. e P. I taxtor of Colorado. Col. A si hi r> < ovvurd. superintendent of the South Carolina Military academy; Joseph harlin^ton of Philadelphia, Win. A. Pew, Jr., of liostou: the Kev. Krncst M. Sticrs, l>. !>., St. Thomas church, New York, and J. (J. Schmidlappof Cincinna> A Filial Accident. At Fort Wayne, Ind., a freight train crashed into a furniture van of the Nort h Side Transfer Company at j the Sandusky street crossing, at Allegheny, Wednesday, wrecking the van land killing two men. Two otliers I were seriously injured. The van was completely wrecked and three horses were killed. J STUDYING COTTONT I A German Lieutenant Sent Here by! the Berlin Koiultt HB 18 TLBASED WITH ?HB SOUTH r j Tin* M<*?Iiiuii Wvi'vII In ln*urlii({ ih?* IVkhu Cropn Very SrrlouHly, View* lit' tin* Nt'Jti-o l,ubol* loll. Lieut. C. V. A. Weyditf, an oilleor in tlie German army and an ortleial of the Agricultural Koinitc of Berlin, is registered at Wright's hotel. He is here for the purpose of investigating the cotton industry in this country and comes with a strong letter of reference from the secretary of agrieulO.ra ..I .... ............ ,wli..? I, i... Hilt til vv ii.iiiiii^iuiit i i/iiiiiitiiuiii^ iiiiii to the courtesy of the planters and manufacturers in the south. Like many of the olllcers in the German army Lieut. Weydig is a distinguished looking fellow, being more than six feet in height and as st raight as an Indian. His life has been one of adventure and he seems to have forced a passionate attachment for southerners, lie intended to leave t ilt! city yesterday, but was persuaded not to do so by the city editor of The State in order that tie might visit the < Mympia mill. He is at present located at San/. May, Hast Africa, and has charge of the experiments that the Herman government is making in that country in cotton growing. For the past live months Lieut. Weydig lias | been traveling in the south investigaing cotton condit ions, and the result of these observations are more than ordinarily interesting. "The south,'' said the lieutenant, "need never have any fear that any country in the world can grow cotton that will in any way hurt, her interests. His perhaps superfluous for unto say that her sea island cotton is tlie finest in the world and she has lands enough to grow millions of more bales when she has mastered the labor question." "Your laborer in Africa is nearly ail negroes, is it not?" was asked. "Nes. Niggers, niggers: we have them everywhere. I only wish we could send you a few million of them." The German government, as is well known, has no such sentiment aliout I the negro as that which brought on j the war between the north and south. ; In German Hast Africa there are some a,000,000 negroes and ulmul 000 white men. The negroes are nevertheless under absolute subjection and for the smallest infraction of the laws ?>l the colonies arc most severely punished. They are freemen by courtesy and are paid small sums for their labors, hut it. is doubtful if any slave mastets ever j handled negroes as do the German officials. For all thai it is exceedingly ditlicult to make their work, and j Lieut. Weydig said that the south | had his iyuipalliv in its labor battles, i said the lieutenant, "traveled more than 000 miles in Africa without seeing a single while man, and 1 know the nigger." The negro in Sout h Afriea would Ik' absolutely uncout rolling if it were not for what is railed by courlesy the law. Asa matter of fact the law is a few (Sailing guns that now and then mow them down like sheep if thev don't make eotton. lint that is neither here nor there, and it was not a matter that Lieut. Weydig cared to dismiss for obvious reasons, lie only smiled knowingly when the subject was broached and said that they were freemen, lnit "were made to work." To the southern negro of today this will perhaps t?e a novel idea of freedom. Lieut Weydig had recently visited Hooker Washington at Tuskeegee, and he said he thought he was a tine man. lie did not explain why lie visited the negro educator and the writer did not press the subject, but lie gathered that it was a matter of curiosity to see an educated negro more than anything else, as it has not been reported that the Herman government proposes 'o attempt to educate the millions of negroes she now has under her rule. It is not that sort of a government. The Herman idea is that the negro needs work. Lieut. Weydig was greatly interested in Ids recent visit to Texas. "The Mexican weevil is the most serious thing that menaces the south." said the lieutenant, "it is making great inroads in Texas and it is only a short time when it will work im in Tennessee and in other parts of the south, 1 fear. The Texas State government has already offered $">0,noo for a remedy tor this evil, and I think in time something will he found that will do away with the pest. It is certainly a very serious matter. In I the State of Texas alone I tind that it. caused a loss of $11,000,000 last year. It is a tine State and a ^reat pity that it should Ih- handicapped by the pest.' Mr. W. It. Smith-Whaley extended the courtesies of the mammoth Olyinpia mill Friday afternoon and jtreat was t he admiration of the <Jerman ofticial, not only lor the hiy institution itself hut for the tireless energy which has enabled Mr. Whaley to build in cotton mills, amount them, this one, the largest in the world more than the rrreat (Jerman government has even contemplated building. "Where is the largest cotton mill in fiermany?" the lieutenant was asked. 1 "In Salesia." "What is its capacity*?" " Forty thousand spindles." Mr. Whaley modestly informed tie (Jerman ollleial that the capacity of t lie < Hympia was lou.Jtou spindles now and that lie contemplated making it just eitfhl times as lar^o as it was. | The latter was very quiet for the next little while and when he and t lie | j writer had parted from Mr. Whaley lie /inquired rather anxiously what : maimer of man was lie. The almost beautiful cleanliness of tint mills impressed the visitor most ! favorably and he frequently commented mi the neatness and attractiveness of ilie little homes in the mill village, j a Compliment which Mr. Whaley i doubtless appreciated, as the (Jerman # government and people are famed for thiiir oleanUnuua In their Induntrhs oh'.' In all matter*, In fact. Mr, WhaUy told the llehteuant that mill owners wero uioru unx'bisi Hi in thu State govui ninenta fur the i welfaw uf their uhlldran in thu mlit! and he polntod o it with aomu prldu i me churches and echo >ls that tho mill! owners maintain at their own great' expanse for the lieneflt of the opera-1 tore. He said lie hoped to ace the ugu limit made 10 years. "We have the interest,'* said Mr. Wlmley, "of our employes absolutely at heart and we are doing t hings dally lor their welfare that bring our reputation as business men seriously into question." Your average (Urman is a cold business proposition. He has something to sell and lie wants his price f ?r it. He pays his workman Ills hire and the latter then has to look out for himself. So when Mr. Whaley informed the lieutenant tiial In? proposed to put up the best hospital for his employes that Ids money could buy the lattei's countenance showed another wide latitude of surprise. lie expressed his admiration over and over again for the remarkable mill and thanked Mr. Whaley very warmly for his kindness. f iic- ii?'uit-u.tin. expresseu ins creai admiration ami friendship for soutli- ( ern people. "They are the most hos- j pitable and delightful people that I , liave ever met," he said, "and I have traveled much. New York is a threat | eity, hilt it is dollar, dollar, dollar . there all the time and one gets tired of it sometimes. Kvery moment of the time I have spent* in the south has heen pleasant.' The lieutenant is KOiiiK to take see eral Ameriean youn^ men hack to Ceimnity with him. lie lias alreadv enlaced some t wo or three and has instructions from the Iterlin Komile to i-n^aye some more. They must lie >011111; men who are educated in the a;ricultural colleges that make a specialty of cotton production. Lieut. Weydin's station in tiermau Kisfc Africa is San/. Hay, hut he will not return there for some months, lie left the city Saturday morning. The State. A HUGE SWINDLE In Which 1'iiilcil St a I cm tMticial.H are Iniplicait <1. A special dispatch from Washington to the Spartanburg Journal says the development that a connection of government otlicials with the netrich-ipiick concerns was alleged in charges filed with the president caused a sensation in Washington. AvS far as possible the details of the charges and the progress of the investigation ordered hy the president arc bcinc kept, secret, hut in ollicial circles t lu* mat t? r is heiiit; discussed with much interest.. It is said that the plan pursued was the securing; of names of shady concerns against which the government was about to proceed. These turns would tUctl tic approached w ith a proposition to put their business in a shape acceptable to the government foi a certain stated amount down and a weekly or monthly payment. This beiiitf agreed to, the way was made clear whereby the cet rich-ipiick fellows cont inued operations witiiout fear of molestat ion. The amount alleged to have l?een secured from the shady comoanies is not settled definitely by rumor, but it is averred by si me that it readied into more than a mjllon dollars, wbieb ( were divided amoiii; a certain few. it is averred by others that the . sum total will be far larger than this. ( because the operation included fully , half a score or more of tly-by-nijdit | schemes in business, each of which , was forced to contribute liberally. I The investigation by order of the | president will lie pushed vigorously. | fourth Assistant Postmaster (lener- . al I'.ristow, who has charge of it. is \ ordered to p? to the I wit torn of it. no , mattei woo may be involved. , (leneral Tyner, whose retirement , was demanded by the president not , because he was personally implicated , in the scandal, but because of his ad- ( vaneed a>re and the desire to place a | stronger man in his place, denies that , there was any wrotitf doin^ in connection with his oltiee respecting the rights of "turf investment companies" to use the mails. He says that there was not a word ' of evidence in the report of the post- 1 otlicc inspector to prove that the con- 1 corns were in the nature of lottery or fraudulent in their character, and 1 therefore the only course open to the oltiee was to allow them to use the ' mails. (leneral Tyner sa\s that Harrison .1. iSarrett, Ins nephew by marriage, and formerly assistant in his oltiee. bad, as an attorney, represented one j of the turf companies, but this was [only after Itarrett had severed his ' connection with the department, he ! avers. (leneral Tyner says lie took up the ni.11.1 II uriivri 11.-1 IIIU'HIU 10 lit" IlilUUulent or mii ;i lottery basis, ami. after investigating, ordered proceedings dropped, lie dictated a letter announcing that no further steps would he taken, reserving the ri^ht, however. in the last paragraph of his letter, to reopen the eases. One company published t his letter, omitting the last paragraph of warning and the department was severely criticised for the issuance of the letter in <piestioli. Accounts Short. f A shortage of over $."?.uno has lieen found in t he accounts of t he late .1. S. " Campbell, county treasurer for Itch- f land. It is a year since the death of v Capt. Campbell, and the estate has made no settlement with the county. Mr. It. M. Spi^ener, the treasurer ' ' elected, has declined lo take the olllee from Mr. K. .1. Itrenner, who .succeeded Capt. Campliell, until the cloud { can tie cleared. The late treasurer was in feeble health and had a #reat deal of sorrow the last two years ol his life. Mis mental condition is advanced charitably as the cause of the dcticiency. No official statement < can be obtained. tfTiY'tft-.-iii-i " HI I Continues to make Miraculou* Cures P \ READ THIS LETTER i 7 7 ALMOST A MIRACLE. / I Dillon, 8. 0., Aug. IStb, 1901. I f Qentlpmrn:?In BeDtrmbor. 1*98. I took rhonm.t am in ?.?h pom* ^ (m In a month after the dlira.?n started 1 had to give op my work and go to ? P bed. It continued to itrow worse until tny arms end hands were badly drawn, L ^ so ranch so that I could not use them. My legs were drawn back until my I y feet touched my hips. i whs as helpless us a baby for nearly twelve months. j h The muscles of my arms and leas were hard and shriveled up. I suffered death L 7 many times over. Wua treated by six different physicians In McColl, Dillon and P h Marlon, but none of them could do me any pood, tint il Dr. J. P K wlmr, of Dillon, J P came to see me. He told me to try your " 1(iik>tmaCI1>ic." Ho go; me one bottle J of the medicine and I began to take It and before the llrst lioltle was used up I b 7 b?<(tan to get bettar. 1 used Ave and a half bottles and was completely cured. 7 m That was two years H(r'> and my healt h hat been excellent ever since. Have had tm y no aymptotns of rheumatism. I rcgnrd " Hiikpmaoipi" as by far the best W remedy for rheumatism on thn market. I oinnoi say too much for It. I have d P recommended It to others sluce and It has cured th? iu. 7 Will sav further, thnt I bey an to walk In ulx>ut six days after I began to take / " Union ACIHR," with the aid of crutches; in Hhont three months after I began 7 I to take It, 1 could walk as good as anybody, and went buck to work aguin. L Very truly. JAMKH WILKEB. j J All Druggists, or sent express prepaid on receipt of fr.oo. ? 7 Bobbltt Chemical Co., - - Baltimore, Hd. \ tmk0eHR,m?lyol^W('Ct (Dllll tV MulU'ill .""urea Coughp, Colds, Whooping Cough, LnHiipi'f ? ml all I'liroat an?l Lung Troubles Mndf *?f Pun* Sweoi Cum, Villain and Honey. Your Druggist >o|is it 2a ati<l r>?? II r full lino of Hardware is not better than other, don't buy it. < >11 r sales'nen an; out. Coleman-Wagener Hardware Company 303 KIND St. t'HAKLKSTON, S. (J. JTli< 1 tiDle Oonipany, i. k lam kst M.\M'i''.\('Tn:i;i:s or High ale Pianos and Organs l.S '1*1 I IC W< >1^ I wl >I artorlos, Chicago a i I S> Charlts, Illinois. C:i"lt 'I V > MILLION DOLLARS, ? 2,000,000. Di ineh House, 2W"! Ivur St. < virlcston, S. C. llANOi AND 0F0ANS S< I 1 on Kasy Trrms. Before buying w ' t i ?nr our c ital g.ie a. iter" - l-actnry prices made. \ rj. I m of Si*' ct M-.-.ic an ' small Musical Instruments in stock. .1. V. WALLACK, Manager. THE: :A-*L.E COMPANY, ? ii Mo i> r s. c. (GOCUMBIA LUMBER * MFG. GO. g SASII. DOORS. ULINDS. IINTCRIOR FINISH, MOULD- I ING AND LUMULK, ANY QUANTITY. I Columbia, 8. G^ J As a man looks to a woman to l>e j ?w Mrika womanly, a woman expects a man to t ^ I T ll P O I Ik- manly: therefore, you n-el hanlly 2 !L I J jJI/IIy'1 J' wonder that she pre tors to he wooed hy a man whose actions tell of deter U ^ \lAT\T a ~4 mination and resolve to one whose a! 1 i ( H ) F ! \ ( I titudc is one of meekness and ehronii shyness, who stammers and blush's g | expensive to lay., whenever lie ventures toaddre.s he. ? l.is\ to Jeep in -.pair, lady-love in public. While tin- liinid g Light and very d.u.ihl lover is worshipping from alar. Iio.i- 9 Ware* pro* f an I nrdnrh s?\ ing yet fearing that his worship is mi i ,-,l |M ehaugc of temdersl(K)d by 11is divinity, the more Bper.it me. manly lover steps in, and h> almost Klasiic. sheer iiiaLerfuhiessand delermiiia! .on, A id and A I.a!i-1 t* of combined with tender courtesy and a Fire-resisting and oil-pioot. wish to please, gains the pri/.e. leaving Vermin will not attack it. the timid one to moan his loss in sil- All ready to l-tv. -nee \% ith a heart tilled \\ it a the I>it- \ eeds no p : nting or coal ing lor llu.?i..iit tl...t I...1 I... . I ... l/v. miuukim mmi iiuu uc uiuj ucun a will OOl ' teriorate with ape. little mure confident in iiis wooing the fair one mipht have been his. In love Wit IT K FOR PRICKS ltTuirs women like masters, not slaves: Lhey like t<? feel 11 rat they are hemp tA/ h **r j i j - \ I) \" wotted, not that they are doin# the C" / 1 111 1 1 ? l\ .\ vnoinp. Therefore, these youny men I who wish to prove successful lovers | ] \t l" V, / ]'\[ P\TT j nust cast aside all bashfulness and LIiVllv t\ Ll<iVlLl\ 1 I timidity and must not only believe in r _ I :he old but true saying, ''Only the (^.OVIPAN^ I trave deserve the fair," but musta't ivi ail , 'l> ''' All classes building mat-rial. J A Terrible OlsaNter. CHARLESTON, S. <fl The steamer Mariposa, whieii ai fl rived at San Francisco one day fl >veek from Samoa, hrinps news ( _ . . I lisastrous hurricane which swept I lie I'oumotu proup of islands in dan fl jary. In all over COO lives were lost y. fl md the tinancial loss will exceed sj.'.oo,- ; "* C _r " S ffi too. The l'omoutn proup of islands lr. nr ~ w ? - fij niinher alrout too. Relief measures' *, ; - ~ e ~ ~ ^ fl have been instituted and everythi: u oo ^ ^ ^ i j: ? ^ 3 3M possible is being done at Apia ami , j - i y fl tiler plaees in t lie Sanio an i i j t ? ? < /. _ [ ^ fl relieve the snltel'll;, C?? : /; ~ Islanders. eP~^ ~ - ~Z ~~ x H 2.'_%w ^B| Free to You 1 \ If Volt a ro not XV. > I ?*? ?/x tr .. ?-- I 1 ? ? ? - - - - 1 - 7 is B ri Hi about your j n f'l'O l?M>l.lt '. mill ~oll ? I r ' xiiinlnatlon Mank*. M J 1 N' I V i / ' Tmi/tnn fl I .: -.\r.tti v\,.?^m.Msi, | .V til 066 H ?h*l N ' 2. Varicocele ;.o. | ^ J & nSffp^^': . J&fw . ? > and Hladdcr Com- l 1 I / jWVj ijrj plaint*. No. f>, Disease N I ) 1 f 1 C 1* I O Wl ,f( J of Women. No. fl. The ' M I 111^ lV/O# 2H| 'arrh'' Thf'sf b o M^s '1 x "" ',:,,li tllei; we wil f>',ou,d 'n 'he hands soil at t'lO t'dlowili^f low prices /tv7^ of >^r{,Ir><' HaU^ wa ' ;l> !""C 'ls "' v li,st- W{ '! if author, Is reoo^ ' X -I' " > per thousand. / "I'mt l?n!i0o?P?'rn'. I V 1*> H ind Drawn lloart Cy- H| "u- United HtAte? on ! '^ '1 - 1" 1 th'o Sfl on iiATHAww. thf'pdt-'oase!'. Writ* Now if \'.>u want a in tod r<x)f. ?^B >r send for the l?>ok y?u want to-day, and It , ' , MS ?iil !< * wni you free, trail t \ddren J, New- COtnc i'IltIM UIOIl|{< on .lathaway, >1 I) - - SM Builders Supply Co, I si'kciai.ist Carolina Portland I KYK, ..A II. N<)SK and Til IIOAT. I CDlClU 1,0., .so'liVrlindiln<a.N J| Ht of Spectacles Guaranteed. Gamer's White Lime, Cements, Fire 9 ?Kt ii i. n24 and 1420 Marlon Street Brieks, Terra Gotta Pipes. ffl Columbia, S. C. ?'v