The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, March 25, 1903, Image 7
A NEW INVENTION
01 a Cnlambl* Maohanic That May
K?voK\tioni*a Locomotion.
MUCH It OtMWBD F0? A VALVK,
tyiitch i? Si?l?l to he Alilc to fiflvet
m SNVing Of l.enwt 0|ieItOh
of i In* Coal I'upil
I'nr F"q?*UI.
The Coluinbja State says "The
lirooks Improved Steam Valve company"
of that eitv has b?eu noli lied
mai llie patent, omce lias gruiuco an |
"allowance" 011 the contrivance which
this coin puny has sought to have patented.
The allowance means that
the authorities have acted favorably
and that the lattcrs patent will be 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 18 years in the Southern's
shops in Columbia, but forrorae reason
his name is withheld on the ground
that he himself does not for the present
want his identity made public.
The inventor put his contrivance
Into the hands of a friend, Col. 1'. It.
itrooks, who is the clerk of the supreme
court, and the latter, with the
advice of <?en. M. C. I hitler, has lieen
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 Itrooks believes
tirmly in its practicability.
To a reporter of The State lie said
Wednesday: "We claim for it that
we ean save from 20 to .'to per cent, of
the fuel used on locomotives. We
elaiin that we can Increase the speed
from 20 to.'10 percent. This invention
will get rid of the 'used steam' which
is called 'hack pressure' and retards
the progress of the engines as they 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 t he attorneys of
several inventors who were endeavoring
to perfect something of the same
kind and claimed t he right of priority.
Colonel brooks went to Washington
and was accompanied by Mr. .1.
H. Edwards, a practical machinist.
The latter explained the valve to the
satisfaction of the patent otlice and,
upon his showing, the "allowance"
was issued. At the suggestion of
General ltutler. patents under the
laws of all foreign countries have been
applied for by the company.
A practical test of the valve will
lie made in a few day*. "We have obtained
permission troni the superintendent
of motive power of one of the
largest, railroad systems to have an
? engine titted with this appliance in
oraer to IIKIhC I an matiwia.i, hm'.a
Colonel brooks. "When we went
into his otlice this superintendent
glanced at t he model and said, indifferently,
't)t?, 1 have seen a irreat many
valves like this.' Mr. Edwards interjected,
'You never saw anything like
this in your life.' That caused the
railroad official to make a minute inspection,
and he was so well satisfied
that he ordered an engine placed at
our disposal when the patent shall
have been secured. 'If it will save us
one per cent, of coal it is valuable,
but if it will save us 2o per cent, it is
the greatest thing we could get 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 of the valve
inust be settled before any plans for
the future will be made, but Colonel
Hrooks would like lo have the contrivance
manufactured in Columbia.
Tlic 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.
Properly reduced, such a hody would
furnish U(> cubic metres of gas and
sufficient hydrogen to till a balloon
with au ascensional force of To kilos. ;
Normally, the human body contains
iron Rutilcient' to make seven large
nails, fat for thirteen candles, carIjou
for sixty-live gross of pencils,
phosphorus to tip eight hundred and
and twenty thousand matches, together
with the constituents of salt. :
(Ifty-iiine lumps of sugar and forty- '
two litres of water. Would it not he '
well to use some of our surplus popu- !
lation to these ends. Let us diver- (
slty our industries. '
|<ct the Sunshine In. 1
The room should be sunny in all ail- '
ments except, a very tew affections ol
the eye, for sunshine is the lu st germ (
destroyer we have, and will make a .
room more wholesome and sweet than j
any disinfectant, vaysthc Scotsman.
Nowdays it i> not considered neees- \
sary to darken every sick room as it
used to lie. it is more fashionable and
much more healthy to Id in sunshine |
all over the house than it is to close i
the blinds so that, the furniture may i
uut fade. It is cheaper and much >
pleasanter to have a faded carpet than (
it is to have a ease of sickness, and ;
the doctor's and the nurse's hill to pay >
The dark, stulTy room, whispering I
voices and tiptoe tread have passed ;
way, fortunately for the patient. (
A Clone fall. 1
F. It. Collins, an attorney of Niles, I
Mich., who had been seriously ill. i
went into a trance Wednesday and '
his relatives supposing him dead. I
summoned an undertaker. When lie I
placed the remains in a casket several I
hours later the undertaker discovered I
perceptible indications of returning ?
life. Medical aid was summoned and *
the patient now bids fair to recover, t
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BILL ARP WRITES HISTORY
Fur lb* MotiiMX* 6) (ho Vouuy IVujuo
or the Country.
So many young peoplo wnu are
thirsting fur historical knowledge
nil la to me fur help that 1 feel encouraged
and will answer their In<jui
l ies us far as I can. These young
people in the country towns have
schools to goto, l?ut they lack Imoks
reading hooks.' cyclopedias, biographies,
and if 1 was as rich as ('anionic
I would plan a library of such hooks
in every community. 1 would have a
million sets of some standard cyclopedia
printed lor every school, even if
they cost tifty million dollars. That
would ditl'use knowledge among the
young people and do moie good than
all he is doing in the big cities. But
what we most need in the South are
historical Ixioks that will be standard
with us and relate the truth alioul
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 Brown and the pedigree
of every Northern race horse, and no
mention of John 1$. Cordon 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 N Co. The tributes in
that work to Dr. Davis and Lee and
Jackson are all that could be desired
and more than was expected.
I wonder what has become of that
great Southern publishing house that
was projected in Atlanta some time
ago. That is what we want and must
have to perpetuate Southern history
and defend our fathers and grand
fathers from l lie 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. Only
yesterday 1 glanced at a serial story
in an A tlata paper and the first, tiling
1 saw was a verse which read:
"John Brown's 1 km I y lies mouldering in
t he ground,
But his soul keeps marching on "
In a Missouri paper 1 saw where a
Yankee troupe were playing "I'nole
Tom's Cabin." And now a fool fellow
from Wisconsin wants to get our
(Jovernors to appoint delegates to a
convention in Atlanta to determine
the race problem, and it is said that
that man Spooner is at the bottom of
it to get up a Presidental boom for
himself. 1 suspected there was a
niggor in the woodpile, for these
Northern politicians never do anvlllln.r
IV.,l,< I pi.,I i.. I I!--1, .....
lives. 1 lamia's scheme fell through
an<l Spooner thought lie could patch
it up. Mill the South never was more
aroused and united on the ueirro question
and will resent all interference,
whether it ionics from Washington or
Wisconsin. Wisconsin! What impudence!
A State whose foreign popula
tion is 02 per cent, of the whole, and
ol these there, are sx.non who can't
speak Kurdish. and only Too negroes
in the State and three times as many
I llltloll.l. ?\ v. > t i % ? I - ? or
care alxmt our race problem?
In the bust few days I have received
three letter* from younu people wanting
to know somet hint; about the < 'onfederate
Hags, what were t he designs
and who designed them. I wish that
I could sketch them and paint them
in this letter, t tut. a 11 1 can do is todeseribe
them and give their history.
There were four in all. but only two
lived to see the end at Appomattox.
No. i, or the "Stars and Itars,"
was adopted by the Confederate Congress
at Montgomery. Its stars were
on a blue tield and its red and white
bars made it look somewhat like the
Stars and Stripes, and sometimes was
mistaken for the United States II i^,
and so (ieneral Beauregard designed.
No. 2, "The Battle Klajr," and
Ceneral .loe K. Johnson adopted it.
and it was never changed. It was a
fHue cross, or rather an X studded
with stars and set on a red held.
No. .'I. In May. 1*0.'!, the Confederate
Congress adopted a national llatf.
it was a miniature battle llaj-r set. on
a white tield that had a white border
at the side and at the bottom. But
iL proved to he a mistake, for it had
too much white and afar otf was mistaken
for :l ll:l,r i .1 true,.
And so on March. lK?i."?, Congress,
adopted No. I as the national Mag.
This, had the same battle llag on a
blue Held, 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, hut
nevertheless it remains as the national
Mag of the Confederate States.
Hut the dear old battle llag No. 2
was the fighting banner of every company.
Our wives and our daughters
made thein for the boys in gray, and
many > !' the.n were smuggled back
home again after the surrender and
still kept as household treasures. Our
boys, the Koine l.ight Hoards, bad
inc. and one night the young people
gave a tableaux performance in t lie
ity ball to raise a little money to put
ioine benches in the desecrated
hurches. for all the pews bad been
taken out and convert* I into horse
troughs for the stall horses. ()ne
icene in the tableaux represented a
attie Held where women were ministering
to the wounded and the dying.
ind one dying soldier, the ensign, had
[his old tattered and war-stained Mag
grasped in his hand just as he held it
when he fell.
The Spanish commandant ot the
post was there with his wile, and
when he discovered the llag. got lurims)
y mad. lie jumped up on his
cat and yelled: "Takedat t'ing avay,
lat is treason dat is an insult to me
ind de I'nited States. I send lor my
mldicrs and I arrest the whole party."
lie ran wildly down the stairs and
icross the street to his quarters and
ame back quickly with half a do/en
IMitrhmen in arms to make t lie arrest.
lie marched the young men over to
lis otlicc, but paroled the young ladies
nit il he could hear from (ieneral
Thomas, w hose headquarters were mi
Louisville. I was mayor then and we
nail some hot words, lie said finally
te would release the young men until
lie could hear from (ieneral Thomas,
io 1 wrote to (ieneral Thomas by the
iamc mail. He very graciously forfave
us, but warned us not to do so
, V
any more, for the display of a Cohfed*
era to IHfr wait treason and tbo punishment
of treason was death.
This U enouph about flaps. There .
' Is no treason In dlsplayinp one n<?w.
I Thtie U a pood doutor undTiiu? keep-,
; fulling on. My wife and 1 had another '
wedding last Saturday?--and pood ;
friends were calling ull the afternoon ; .
j t ) say good words and congratulate uh
m our long and happy married life
: Kiriy lo the morning, widlo my wife
and the family were at breakfast, 1
canto in late and slipping up Itchind
her planted a venerable kiss upon Iter
classic brow.
"She half enclosed me In her arms.
She clapped nte in a meek embrace:
(No she didn't, elf her.)
And Ii.-ikIiinr li.-ick ln>r ln>:ul IihiL.wI i
up
Ami gazed Into my face.'*
Yes, she did that, for it took her by
surprise. I hadn't kissed her since
the first day ol last June which was
lier birthday. Twice a year satisfies
her now. Hill. A iu\
THREE MEN KILLED
Colli Carson a l>calli Trip in a Coal
>litie.
The breaking of a coupling, followed
by the runaway of a string of loaded
coal ears in the Sunshine mine at
South Fork. I'a., late Thursday afternoon,
caused the deatli of three men,
the fatal injury of one, and more or
less serious injuries to mine others.
The dead:
Tony border, of South Fork, aged
Hi years.
Joseph S. St rank. South Fork aged
:ui years.
Frank McClain, of Khentleld.
The injured:
Coolbaugh, of South Fork,
spine injured and breast crushed, will
die.
Albert, Paul, of South Fork, arm,
leg and collar I tone broken, serious.
William Parker. South Fork, crushed
about head and body, will recover.
A half dozen others whose names
could not be ascertained were badly
bruised.
The accident occurred about f> p. in.
as the men were leaving the mine. A
trip of about 2."> loaded cars was being
hauled to the surface by an endless
chain. When the cars left the centre
of the mine liltcen ore men elimix
aboard. All went well until the trip :
reached a "dip" about 1 Oil yards from
the mouth of the mine. The train
climbed three-fourths of the steep
grade in safety, but a short distance
from the level track the Ifilching be- j
twecn the second and third cars broke, j
Instantly the mine slope was tilled i
with shouts of the men as all of the j
cars with the exception of the first j
two commenced to back down the
grade. Slowly at lirst tint with gradually
increasing speed the cars sped
downwards, giving the men scarcely
an opportunity to jump and save
themselves. When about 2uo yards
from where the hitching broke the!
foremost car 'cl't the track and the '
remainder of the train pilled up hack 1
of it. '
IIHI.I' Kiili TilK 1 N.IUKKh.
'iHw ... "'tin n-j'I fortunate
enough In jump from the runaway
ears quickly ran to the outside and
told of the accident. 1 lelp was quickly
Ill-ought to the men huricd beneath 1
the pile of wreckage, which tilled the
six-foot heading for a distance of '
twenty yards. At a late hour Thursday
night tie* wreckage had been
cleared away and t he injured all taken
out. '
<
'l'lii* i 'lull Against tin*
"Vlub Life vs. Home Life" was the
subject chosen by i?ev. tleoiye Whiteman
from which he recently delivered
a sermon in Itutlalo, V Y.. He referred
to the late tragedies in that
city, and drew a lesson from them
that should he remembered. liecent
events, he said, have revealed the gay
irreligious i fe which many of Buffalo's
more prosperous people live.
There is a growing godlessncss among
many well to do persons. The type
of depravity among persons in the
higher circles is often worse than in
the slums of the city. This gay godless
way of living often manifests
itself in what is spoken of as club
life. 1 admit that clubs dilTer in their
aims, but llielieve that that which is
mechanically called club life is opposed
to the interests of the individual, '
of the church and the nation. In re
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ferrintf specially to the Hurdiek murder
he said "a murder is committed in e
nur city and two divorce cases arc
revealed." These he said, have some s
relation to club life. This is an aw- s
ful condition hut the facts warranted
the charge. He closed by saying. s
"America is fast t illnwiiiK in the steps -j
ot the old linmaii empire, the home is Sl
despised; children are an encumhrace: ,,
a poodle do^r is of more value than f(
a ha by. Wealth and pride consume j,
the lite blood ot tin- nation and a risto- w
era tic weakness saps democratic t.
vijior." This is a true indictment, i
and unless such warnincs as t hese are j|
heeded our country will perish as did y
thepreat Unman empire did. Thought- ,,
less people will refer to Mr. Widcinan j
as a calamity howler, hut lie is not.
lie sees things as they are. and he has jj
the courage to denounce the sins of p
t hose who are rich and occupy a con- w
spicious pla *e in the public eye. The |j
hope of thispreat country is a fearless p
ministry and an incorruptible press. |,
ei
.in Honor Well lle.sloweil. H
Tin1 president Thursday announced tl
t In* members of the Imurd of visitors c
to Hi - West Point Military academy
as follows: lion. I?. It. I U ndersoil of <
Iowa, lion. (ieorye P. Itaxter of Colorado,
Col. Asluiry Coward, superintendent
o? the South Carolina Military
iieademy: Joseph c. Darlington of
Philadelphia, Win. A. Pew, Jr., of
I tost on: the Itev. Km est M. Sliers, tl
D. P., St. Thomas church. New ai
York, and J. (I. Schmidlappof Cinein- ji
nali. I
n
A fatal Aecideni. u
At Port Wayne, Ind., a freight h
train crashed into a furniture van of n
the North Side Transfer Company at
the Sandusky street crossing, at Alle- tl
tfheny, Wednesday, wrecking the van f;
and killing two men. Two others ei
were seriously injured. The van was o
completely wrecked and three horses a
were killed. d
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STUDYING COTTON. !?
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i Otrman Li?ut?n&ni Btnt Here by! t
tht Berlin Komlt* lv
h
IE 13 PLEASED WITH THE SOUTH ,
e
l)o MoIiiiiii \V?evll In Iii.Iui'Iiik th? |
Trttiy Cro|iN Very Serlounty,
1
Viewy of ilit* Ni'uin La- -l
bor (^iinNlloii.
Lieut. C. F. A. VVeydiK. an otlleer I
(i ?.lie German army and an otlieial of i
lie Agricultural Komi to of lierlin, is ^
existered at Wright's hotel, lie is I
lore for the purpose of investigat lug '
lie cotton industry in this country
Hid conies with a strong letter of re- .
erence from the secretary of agricul- ?
aire at Washington, commending him *
o the courtesy of the planters and '
nanufacturers in the south.
cJ
Like many of the olllcersin the < lor- ,
nan army Lieut. Weydig isadistin- \
piished looking fellow, lieing more
,han six feet in height and asstraight 1
is an Indian. Ilis life has been one 1
>f adventure and he seems to have I
ormed a passionate attachment for '
southerners. lie intended to leave '
,he city yesterday, but was persuaded 1
lot to do so by the city editor of The '
State in order that he might visit I lie (
Hympia mill, lie is at present local- '
d at San/. Hay, Fast, Africa, and has '
liarkc of the experiments that t he
erman government is making in t hat *
ountry in cotton growing. For t he '
last five months Lieut. Weydig has '
ecu traveling in the south in vestiga- >
ng cotton conditions, and the result '
>f these observations are more t han irdinarily
interesting.
"The south," said the lieutenant, '
'need never have any fear that any
ountry in the world can glow cotton
hat will in any way hurt her inter- 1
sts. 11 is perhaps su peril nous for me J
M say that her sea island cotton is
lie finest in the world and she has
ands enough to g row millions ot more
ales when she has mastered the labor
juestion."
"Your labirer in Africa is nearly
ii, neeroes. is it notV" was asU'i-d
"Ne.s. Niggers, niggers: wo have
lliem everywhere. I only wish we
:ould send you a few million of them."
The German government, as is well ,
\iiown, has no such sentiment alxjut
die negro as that which brought on
he war between the north and south. I
In German East Africa there are some
?.ooo.ooo nenroes and almut 000 white (
men. The negroes are nevertheless ,
mder absolute subjection and for the
anallest infraction of the laws of the
olonies arc most severely punished. ?
1'hey are freemen by courtesy and are i
[jaid small sums for t heir labors, but it
s doubtful if any slave masteis ever <
taudled negroes as do the German oficials.
l"'or all that, it is exceedingly
1 iHit-u 11 to make their work, and
Lieut. Weydig said that the south ,
tad his sympathy in its lalior battles.
i tOave."' said the lieutenant,
"traveled more than 000 miles in
Africa without seeing a single white ;
man, and 1 know the nigger."
The negro in South Africa would be ,
ibsolut,"lv uncoutrolling if it were not
for what is called by courtesy the (
law. As a matter of fact the law is a
few Gal ling guns t hat now and then (
mow them down like sheep if tliev
loo t make cotton. <
l>ut that is neither here nor there, i
ind if was not a matter that Lieut , j
IVeydig cared to discuss for obvious i
easons. lie only smiled knowingly
vhen the subject was liroached and
laid that, they were freemen, but >
'were made to work." To the south- i
on negro of today this will perhaps i
>e a novel idea of freedom. Lieut >
IVeydig had recently visited hooker <
A'ashing ton at Tuskeegee and he!
laid he though* he was a tine man. |
It? did '"t explain why he visited the |
legro educator and the writer did not ;
iress the subject, but he gathered <
hat it was a matter of curiosity to t
ee an educated negro more than anyhing
else, as it has not been reported \
hat the German government proposes i
attempt to educate the millions of j
leg roes she now has under her rule. \
t is not that sort of a government. .
The German idea is that the negro t
leeds work. ?
Lieut. NVeyditf was greatly inter- r
sled in 11is recent visit to Texas. t
"The Mexican weevil is the most
erious tiling tliat menaces the south," (
aid the lieutenant. "It is making t
reat inroads in Texas and it is only a c
hort time when it will work up in f
Yuinessee and in other parts of the t
nwtli, 1 fear. The Texas State ffov- u
riiincnt has already offered $*10,000 ,
ur a remedy for this evil, and I think
ii time something will he found that j
rill do away with the pest. It is j
ertaiuly a very serious matter. In |
he Slate of Texas alone 1 tind that ,,
Lcaused a loss of $11,000,000 last (]
ear It is a tine State and a s'leat ..
ity that it should lie handicapped by
he pest.'
Mr. W. It. Smith-Wlialey extended t.
lie (Courtesies of the mammoth olyinia
mill Friday afternoon and ^real j
as ttie admiration of the (human of- (|
cial. not only lor the bin institution ,,
sell tint tor the tireless energy which t
as ciiahled Mr. Wlialey to build to
niton mills, anions them, this one, (
lie largest in the world more than
In* rrreat (human rroverninent has',
veil contemplated building. t
"Where is the largest cotton mill in )(
ermany?"'the lieutenant was asked. t
"In Salesia."
"What is its capacity?"
" Forty thousand spindles."
Mr. Whaley modestly informed t' e
ennan otllcial that the capacity of f,
le ( Mytnpia was 100,.'too spindles now <
mi that lie contemplated making it i;
ist eight times as large as it was. (j
'lie latter was very quiet for the u
CXI little while and when lie and the >
rit^-r had parted from .Mr. Whaley e
e .inquired rather anxiously what j f
laiiner of man was lie. je
The almost beautiful cleanliness of i c
litjmills impressed the visitor most w
irorahly and he frequently comment - jd
I on the neatness and attractiveness h
f the little homes in the mill village, a
/homplinient which Mr. Whaley t
otjihtless appreciated, as the Oerinau c
rovernment and people are famed f(
heir olcanlinesa In tticir Industrli
it'! lu all matter*, In foot.
Mri WUaley told the lleuteuai
lt.it mill owners wera tuorn uox'o
l? .ii tho State goVoi nujouta fur ti
M'lrum uf their children In the ml
aid lie pointed u it with some pr(c
'ie ohurotten and Hcho da that the ml
iwners maintain ut their own gre?
Spouse fur the l>eneflt of the open
ore. Ho said he hoped to nee the ut
imil made It) years.
"We have the interest,'* said M
Y Haley, "of our employes absolute!
it heart and we are doing things dai
or their welfare that bring our repi
atlon as business men seriously lni
li.estion." Your average Herman
i oold business proposition. He h;
muelhing to sell and lie wants Ii
triti: i >r u. ne pays ms wnrKin;!
lis hire ami the latter then lias i
otik out fur himself. So when M
iVhaley informed the lieutenant tli;
te proposed to put up the liest ho
lital for his employes that his mom
ould buy the lalter's countenam
ho wed another wide latitude of su
jriso.
lie expressed his admiration ovi
ind over a^aiti for the remarkab
11 i 11 and thanked Mr. Wlialey vei
varmly for his kindness.
The lieutenant expressed his grc<
ldmiration and friendship for soutl
rn people. "They are the most lie
>itable and delightful people that
lave ever met," he said, "and 1 ha
raveled much. New York is a it re;
ity, hut it is dollar, dollar, doll;
lien; all the time and one nets tin
>f it sometimes. Every moment
he time I have spent* in t lie soul
las been pleasant."
The lieutenant is going to take se
ral American young men hack
lei many with him. lie has airea<
ngaged some t wo or three and has i
vtriielions I nun the Merlin Komi
lo engage some more. They must
idling men who are educated in I
i/rieultiiral colleges that make
specially of cotton production. Lieu
Weydig's station in Herman Ki
Africa is San/. May, hut he will n
return there for some months. I
left the city Saturday morning.
The State.
A HUGE SWINDLE
In Wliicli I'nilcil Stall's (illicit
arc linplicati (I.
A special dispatch from Washiu
ton to the Spartanburg .lournal sa
tlie development that a connection
government otlicials with the g?
rich-quick concerns was alleged
charges tiled with the president cans
i sensation in Washington.
As far as possible the details i t t
charges and the progress of the inv?
ligation ordered by the president a
being kept secret, but in olllcial c
L'lcs t lie mat tcr is being discussed wi
niucii interest.
It is said that the plan pursu
was tin* securing < (' names <>| sha
concerns against which the novel
ment was about to proceed. Tin
tivms would then tie appiunehcd wi
a proposition to put tlieir business
a shape acceptable to the governme
for a certain stated amount down a
a weekly or monthly payment. Tl
being agreed to, the way was ma
clear whereby the net rich-quick f
lowscontinnedoperations without fc
of molest at ion.
The amount aliened to have lie
ieeured from the shady companies
not settled delinitely by rumor. huL
is averred by s< mo that it reached in
more than a millon dollars, whi
were divided amonn a certain few.
It is averred by ntliers that tl
mm total will lie far larger than th
(localise the operation included ful
Half a score or more of tly-hy-nig
schemes in business, each of whi
was forced to contribute liberally,
i'ho investination by order of tl
president will be pushed vigorous!
l-'ourth Assistant Postmaster (lent
il Hristow, who lias charge of it.
mlered to g" to t-lie bottom of it.
mattei who may he involved.
Ceneral Tyner, whose retireinc
,vas demanded by the president n
lecause he was personally implieat
11 the scandal, but because of his a
,'aneed age and the desire to place
;t l onger man in bis place, denies th
,here was any wrong doing in count
ion with his ollice respecting tl
ighls of "turf investment com panic
hi use the mails.
He says that there was not a wo
if evidence in the report of the pus
itlice inspector to prove that the coi
ei ns were .in the nature of lottery <
raudiilciit iu their character, ai
he re fore the only course open to 11
itlice was to allow them to use tl
nails.
Heiieral Tyner sajs that Harris*
. Itarrett. Ins nephew by marriag
.ml formerly assistant in his utile
tad. as an attorney, represented 01
if the turf companies, lint this wj
mly after barren had severed It
onncction with the department. I
vers.
(ieneral Tyner says he took up tl
ases 'if concerns alleged to he Irate
ilcnt or on a lottery basis, and. al t*
nvesti^at inn, ordered proceeding
Topped, lie dictated a letter at
lounciiiK that no further steps woul
ie taken, reserving the ri^ht. hov
ver. in the last paragraph of his le
er, to reopen the cases. (>ne con
any published this letter, onrttiu
lie last paragraph of warning an
he department was severely criticis?
or t he issuance of the letter in ipie
ion.
AccoiiiiIm Short.
A shortage of over $.*>,000 has her
Mind in the accounts of the late .I. :
lamphell, county treasurer for It ci
mil. It is a year since the death ?
'apt. Campbell, and the estate lit
lade no settlement with the count
Ir. It. M. Spigcner, the treastirt
lected. litis declined to take the ollh
rom Mr. K. .1. Itrenncr, who succeei
d Capt. Campbell, until the clou
an Ik.' cleared. The late treason
.'tis in feehle health and had a ?ret
eal of sorrow the last two years i
is life. Ilis mental condition
dvanced charitably as the cause <
he deficiency. No official statemei
an be obtained.
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i Miflwin- _ _ ' i^f> in ?r * - - - -
? l Continues to make Miraculous Cures I
\ READ THIS LETTERt 7
r. 9 ALMOST A MIRACLE. ^
ly Dillon. 8. O.. Aug. 18th, 190S.
ly S Qentlement?In Beptember, 1*99. I took rheum.it.sm In * very bad form. A
l In t month after the dlsraso started 1 had to ku<> up my work aud go to n
P bed. It continued to grow worse until my Hrms and hands were badly drawn, ?
Lo M *? m,Ioh HO that I could not use them. My legs were drawn back until my S
i 7 feet touched my lilps. I whs as helpless as a baby for nearly twelve months, 7
"? L The muscles of my arms and legs were hard arid shriveled up. I suffered death L !
IS 7 many times over. Was treated by six different physicians In McColl, Dillon and P
: h Marlon, but none of them could do me any good, unt II Dr. J. I*. Kwlng, of Dillon, J
P came to see me. lie told me to try your " Itu rest acidk." He got me one bottle 7
III of the medicine and I began to take It and before the llrst liottle was used up I L
In 7 began to get better. 1 used five and a half bottles stid was completely cured. 7
tm That was t wo years ago, and my healt h has been excellent ever since. I lave had tm
r. 7 no symptoms of rheumatism. I regard " ItllKt'MACIIig" as by far the liest P
n remedy for rheumatism on the market. I cannot say too much for It. 1 hare g
P raoommended It to others since and It lias cured th< m. 7
| will sav further, that I began to walk In about si* dars after I began to take
y 7 " HnglTM acids," with the aid of crutehes ; In about three months alter I began 7
to take It, I could walk as good as anybody, ami went buck to work agniu.
L Very truly, JAMES WILKES. j
J All Druggists, or sent express prepaid on receipt of fi.oo. A
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tLulc Pianos and Organs
l.N T11 IC \\ < > IC I v 1 >I
arteries, Chicauo a rl Si ( liarlis. Illinois,
ig- Ua"it b TW ? MILLION DOLLARS, $2,000,000.
ys nrineli House, 2W"! Kmi* St.. t vnleston, S. C. ,,
df LIANOi AND 0FGANS S> I 1 on Kasy Terms, licfore buying
w >L .or our e ital ?; so a. Iter" - Kactory priees made.
\ 'ai. I ii< of Sr el M . .ie an ' small Musical Inst ruments in stock.
in .1. V. WALLACK, Manager.
cd THE: OOIVIRAIMV,
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,'r- I GOGUMHI* LUMI3Gt? & MFG. GO. |
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As a man looks to a woman bmBb
" womanly, a woman expects a man t*> 1 ^ I T d P O / M <A
Ik* manly: therefore, you need hardly ; X A. I. JJJy l\V'l 1/
wonder that she prefers to he wooed:
(,? hy a man whose actions tell of deter- j J x
<;l" initiation and resolve to one whose at f t ( li I H |\i.
1,11 titmle is one of meekness and ehnmic ''
shyness, who stammers and Musics a I \ , .. , . ...
en whenever he ventuees |<> ad lr< -.s lis | l.i>> to keep in upair.
IS lady-love in public. While (lie tnniil g l-iphi anil very dui.ibl .
lover is worshipping from afar, ho,?- i \v pi,H f an I ni-lnil. ss.
inp yet feariii^ that his wordiip is mi < \ t tVecteil hv eti.iuj.-e of letnC'1
derstooil hy liis diviuilv. tie- mole pcr.it niv.
manly lover stetis in. and h> ; hno .t Elastic,
sheer mate rl'u loess anil detenniu.ii mi. \ : ! an I kn!i-| r <>t.
's- comhined Willi lender courtesy ami a t ir- resisting and oil-pi oof.
wish to please, yrains the prize, leaving Vermin will not at tack it.
the timid one to moan his loss in si 1 - ,\n ready to lay.
u'' ence with a heart tilled with the hit- Needs no print ir 1 or coating.
ter thought that had lie only been a Will not deteriorate with ape.
le little more conlident in his wool tin the
-v- fair one miplit have been his. In love WIMTK FOE I * IS It "ICS
r" affairs women like masters, not slaves: i
's they like to feel that they are hoinp vj \| "FI I t; \ v. TP 1) \'
no wooed, not that they are doinp the d' H 1 lll^.V^L 1>1\.N
wooinp. Therefore, those youn^ men J
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must cast aside all bashfulness and Lli?II^ (X v, I.?1Y1 L* i\ 1 I
timidity and must not only believe in ^ ^ I
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:l brave deserve the fair." hut must aM * I
l|l?l! All classes huildinp mat-rial. J
A Terrl Disaster. CHARLESTON, S (
The steamer Mari|>osa. which ar- B
nl rived at San Francisco one day last fl
week from Samoa, brinps news nf the ^ B
(1. disastrous hurricane which swept nwr H
the l'oumotu proup of islands in .Ian
1(j uary. In all over 000 lives were lost .? y. I
|(. and the financial loss will exceed *.">oo,- '* Z x .5 ~ fi
10 (too. The l'omoutti proup of islands x?1 "2 ~ - s - B
uuml>er about 100. Relief measures * ^ ~ ^ ~ x . B
have been instil utcil and cverylhinp pea ^ ^ t. 5 - ^ Bj
possible is heinp done at Apia ami ?' , j 2 /. = ~ MM
e' other places in the Samoan ? y "" / $-?' * fl
relieve the sulTerinps of the IVunoulu ^/, tl z - ? ? " y, ^B
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i| ? ^om^n' N?. fl. Thr v I I 1 I I lV^C3e |H
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diouVdbetn the'hand's b?'ll ;'t t'io 1'iliewilltf low prices BBb
^^^7 ..''j mw ny i 1 M
the author, t* recoK- " ^ ' I'1'! thousand. yjPQ
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OR n*TH*WAT. tli<><p diseases. Writ* Now It Veil want a u'ihkJ roof. '
or send nir the l?M>k you want to-day. and it , , RfCS
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