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| A NEW INVENTION 01 a Columbia Waohviio That May "" Ktvolut(ouig? Locomotion MUCH It CLAIMED F0* A VALVK, 11 V\ " C tVlili'h in rtiilil to lie Atilr? to Effect ^ M SnvlliB ftf Mt I.? !??? Op?e- P til tilth of i In* Coiil I'aoil r for Fi|el<l. I p : I The Columbia State says "The ii brooks Improved Steam Valve coin- 11 pany" of that citv has hvii not! tied ^ that the patent otllce has granted an v "alluwaihv" on thecontrivance which y tliis company has sought to have pat- a en ted. The allowance means that v the authorities have acted favorably Ii and that the latters patent will lie is- v sued in a few days. t The valve which this company lias f in its possession is said to lie one of r ilic greatest inventions of recent t years. The inventor is a machinist r who spent IS years in the Southern's o shops in Columbia, but for rorae reason i his name is withheld on the ground < that lie himself does not for the pres- ;i ent want his identity made public. ;i The inventor put his contrivance I into tile hands of a friend, Col. 1*. It. t brooks, wlio is the clerk of the mi- ,| prenie court, and the latter, with the n advice of (Sen. M. C. butler, lias been able to get it patented. The object j. of the valve is to economize the use of > coal and to increase the speed of a ;i locomotive. Colonel brooks lielieves | tirmly in its practicability. ;i To a reporter of The Slate he said t Wednesday: "We claim for it thai t we can save from iin to .'to per cent, of ( the fuel used on locomotives. We i claim mat we can increase uie speed \ from 20 to .'to per cent. This invention < will get rid of the 'used steam' which j is called 'hack pressure' and retards | the progress of t he engines as t hey are working today. The valve is very simple in its construction, sm 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 some time ago there i was a protest from the attorneys of , several inventors who were endeavor- i ing to perfect something of the same i kind and claimed the right of priori- j ty. Colonel Brooks went to Washing- | ton and was accompanied by Mr. .1. i B. Edwards, a practical machinist. The latter explained the valve to the i satisfaction of the patent otlice 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 tor by the company. A practical test of the valve will 1h; made in a few day*. "We have oh- , tained permission 1 rum the superintendent of motive power of one <>f the i largest railroad systems to have an : engine fitted with this appliance in OlUvf LO Illi'.lvtJ * ill* 11 itl 11' >i to, , ??*. ,\ Colonel Brooks. "When we went into his otlice this superintendent glanced at the model and said, indifferently, *(>h, 1 have seen a great many valves like this.' Mr. E iwards interjected, 'You never saw anything like this in your life.' That caused the railroad otlicial to make a minute inspection, and he was so well satisfied that he ordered an engine placed at our disposal wtacn the patent shall have been secured. "It It. will save us one per cent, of coal it. is valuable, but it it will save us 20 per cent, i' 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 iirooks, "and the other tests will be i made to show the merits of the valve." The practicability of the valve must be settled before any plans for the future will be made, hut Colonel Itrooks would like to have the con- ; trivance manufactured inColumhia. The Hitman I tody. ; A French chemist, of a particularly ' Inquiring turn, says the Medical ' Journal, has determined by experi- 1 inent that the body of an average man, of about so kilos, has all the j chemical elements represented in the yolk and white of twelve hundred or- ' dinary sized eggs of t he common hen. * properly reduced, such a body would * furnish lit! cubic metres of gas and ' sufficient hydrogen to fill a balloon 1 with ati ascensional force of To kilos. ; Normally, the human liody contains iron sufficient to make seven large 1 nails, fat for thirteen candles, car- I Uju for sixty-live gross of pencils, 1 phosphorus to tip eight hundred and 1 and twenty thousand matches, to- 1 gether with the constituents ol salt. ' (ifty-nine lumps of sugar and forty- 1 two litres of water. Would it not he well to use some of our surplus popu- J lation to these ends. Let us diver < slty our industries. * I??* tin* Sunshine In. I The room should he sunny in all ail- J ments except a very few ailed ions of the eye, for sunshine is llie liest. nerm ( destroyer we have, and will make a . room inure wholesome and sweet than j any disinfectant, vays the Scotsman. Nowdays it not considered neees- * sary to darken every sick room as it used to he. It is more fashionable and much more healthy to let in sunshine | all over the house than it is to close i the hlinds so that the furniture may ? not lade. It is cheaper and much > pleasanter to have a faded carpet than ( it is to have a case of sickness, and ; the doctor's and the nurse's hill to pay : > The dark, study room, whispering , | voices and tiptoe tread have passed ; way, fortunately for the patient. t A Clowe < 'all. ] K. It. Collins, an attorney of Niles, I Mich., who had been seriously ill, i went into a trance Wednesday and ' Ids 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 J life. Medical aid was summoned and > the patient now bids fair to recover, i L ^ ^ ...... .-i-v. - " .* 1 ?*?????????rnmm< BILL A&? WKITS8 HISTORY 'or tit* UoiieilU o| the Vouiq IMiniii* ui'ilio t'liuntry. M<j uuny younw people who ?tr? ItlrHtlntf for historical knowledge rllo to me for help that I fool eniiiiiujii'iJ and will answer their inUlrica a? far as I can. These youuK < eople 'n the country towns have i L'hools to Koto, hut they lack Imoks cadinx ln?okK.* cyclopedias, bioura- i hies, and if I was as rich as Curncpic would plan a library of such hooks 11 every community. 1 would have a iiillion sets of some standard eyclope- I ia printed for every school, even if hey cost lifty million dollars. That , rould diffuse knowledge amoiip the ouup people and do mote pood than II he is dninp in the hip cities. Itut vhut we most need in the South are listorical books that will be standard vitli us and relate the truth alioiit lie South and secession and the Conederaey and slavery and the war and econstruetion. I had a eyelopedia hat pave a whole column of apolopy or old John Hrown and tlie pedlpree if every Northern race horse, and 110 nention of John It. tJordon or Korrest ?r any ??f our Southern poets or LUthors or orators. I swapped it olf it half price for the international hy >odd, Meade N: Co. The trilmtes in hat work to Dr. Davis and Lee and laekson art* all that could he desired ind more than was expected. I wonder what has become of that treat. Southern publishing house that, vas projeeti'd in Atlanta some time tpo. That is what we want and must lave to perpetuat.e Southern history ind defend our fat.liers and praml athers from the slanders of Northern oes. It is Northern histories. North rn novels and Northern plays that ia\e already poisoned the minds of housands of ouryounp people. Duly reslerduy 1 plauced at ;i serial story n an Atlata paper and tlie lirst. tiiinp I saw was a verse whieh read: 'John Itrown's lnnly lies moulderinp in t lie proinid, lint his son I keeps marchinp on." Ina Missouri paper I saw where a Vankre troupe were pluyinp "Curie Pom's Cabin." And now a fool fclow from Wisconsin wants to pet our Iiii'ni'tiiiiv t 1 i m mil li it i iloliiiro t oc t 1 1 > .'(invention in Atlanta t?> determine 1 lie race problem, and it is said tliat Lliat man Spooner is at the bottom of it. to net up a I'residental boom for himself. I suspected there was a tlitfK'or in the woodpile, for tliese Northern politicians never do anything from patriotic, unseltish motives. Manna's scheme fell through and Spooner thought lie could patch it up. lint the South never was more aroused and united on the nenrotpiestion and will resent all interforciiee. whether it comes from Washington or Wisconsin. Wisconsin! What impii[icnce! A State whose foreign popula t ion is (ill per cent, of the whole, and ill these there are ss.ono who can't speak Knulish, and only "tin negroes in the State and three times as many iiitnuii.i. vn.uv A ... .1 . i.. i-. .. or care about our race problem? in the last few days 1 have received three letters from voting people wanting to know soniethint?about tin- ( on federate Hans, what were t he designs and whn designed them. I wish thai I could sketch them and paint them in this letter, lint, all I can d > is tude serihe them and tfive their history. There were lour in all. hut only two lived to see the end at. Appomattox. No. I, or the "Stars and liars," was adopted by the Confederate < 'ontfress 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 Llm United States ll i^, and so (Jeneral Iteauregard designed. No. 2, "The Battle Klajt," and iJeneral Joe IS. Johnson adopted it. and it was never changed. It was a IHue cross, or rather an X studded with stars and set on a red lield. No. In May, ls'id. the Confederate Congress adopted a national llatr. It was a miniature battle tla^ set on i white lield that had a white border it the side and at the bottom. Hut it proved to he a mistake, for it had Loo much white and afar oil' was mistaken for a Man of truce. And so on March. Congress, idopted No. t as the national llan. Fhis. had the same haltle Man on a due field, hut the white border was imaller and a red one put on the unlade of that. This lla<n did not wave very lonn, only about a month, but levertheless it remains as the nationil Man of the Confederate States. Hut the dear old hattle Man No. J. .vas the linhtinn banner of every company. Our wives and our daughters nade them for the hoys in n'ay. and many of the.n were smunnlcd hack mine anain after the surrender and itill kept as household treasures. Our >oys, the Koine l.inht (iuards, had me, and one ninht. the yottiin people ,'ave a tableaux performance in the ity hall to raise a little money to put iome benches in the desecrated hurelies, for all the pews had aken out and converted into horse rounhs for the stall' horses. One icenc in the tableaux represented a >attle field where women were ininiserinn to the wounded and t he dyinn. ind one dying soldier, the ensign, had his old tattered and war-stained (lag ; rasped in his hand just as he held it ivhen he fell. The Spanish commandant of the [M>st was there with iiis wile, and Alien lie discovered the Hat;, ft"' furimsly mad. lie jumped up on his lent and yelled: "Take da t finy avay, lat is t reason dat is an insult to me ind de I'nited States. I send for my ioldiers and I arrest t he whole party." lie ran wildly down the stairs and icrnss the street to his quarters and ainc hack quickly with half a dozen I Mi tell men in arms o make the arrest lie marched t he voting men over t?. lis ollice, hut paroled the yoiintr ladies uitil he could hear from (ieneral riiomas, whose headquarters were in Louisville. 1 was mayor then and we dad some hot. words, lie said finally lie would release the yount; men until lie could hear from (ieneral Thomas. So 1 wrote to (ieneral Thomas liy the lame mail, lie very graciously for;ave us, hut warned us not in do so any more, for the display of a Confederate (lag wan treason and tho punishmoot of treason was death, This is enough about dugs, There i? no treason in displaying one now. Time is a good doctor mul Time keeps foiling on. My wlfo und l had uuoiiier wedding hut haturduy-? and wood friends were calling all tho afternoon tj say wood words and congratulate us 011 our lone and happy married life. Kirly in the morning, while my wife and the family were at breakfast, 1 came in late and slipping up Ixdiind her planted a venerable kiss upon her classic brow. "She half enclosed me in Iter arms. Site clasped me in a meek embrace: (No site didn't, either.) And trending hack her head, looked up And ya/.ed into my face." Yes, slie did that, for it took her by surprise. I hadn't kissed her since I lie lirst day of last .lune which was her birthday. Twice a year satisfies her now. Kill Aki\ THREE MEN KILLED Coal Cars on a Death Trip in a Coal >1 i in*. 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 01 less serious injuries to mine others The dead: Tony l.order, of South Fork, :ij,rei 10 years. Joseph S. Strank, South Fork a^c< I .'lo years. Frank Met'lain, of Kbcnticld. The injured: ('oolbau^h. of South Fork spine injured and breast, crushed, wil die. Albert, Paul, of South Fork, arm ha; and collar hone broken, serious. William Parker. South Fork, crush i ed about head and body, w ill recover A half dozen others whose name: j could not be ascertained were bad I] bruised. The accident occurred about p. in as t he men were leaving the mine. / trip of about loaded cars was belli* hauled to the surface by an endles: chain. When the cars left thecentn of the mine tifteen ore men climU: aboard. All went, well until the tri| readied a "dip" about 100 yards fron the mouth of the mine. The trail climbed three-fourths of the st.ee| grade in safety, but a short dislano from the level track the Hitching be t ween the second and third cars broke Instantly the mine slope was tille< Willi sin mis ?>1 the hum i as all ol tin rars willi the exception of the tirs two commenced to hack down tin tirade. Slowly at tirst bill with urad ualiv increasinn speed the cars spei downwards, n'dnn the men sea reel; an opportunity to jump and sav themselves. When about l!00 yard from where the hitching broke th foremost car left the track and th remainder of the train pilled up had of if. iik1.i' Kill! tdk 1 n.i U ItKII. 'i'w, ..i... h->'i i,..,?M for tonab enough to jump from the runawa ears quickly ran to the outside an told ot the accident. Ilelp was quick ly brought to the men buried beneat t he pile of wreckage, which tilled th six foot heading for a distance twenty yards. At a late hour Thur? day ni?fht the wreckage had heei cleared away and the injured all take 1 out. 'I'lii' Cliili AuaiiiHl llo- Home. "('luh Life vs. Home Life" waslh subject chosen by l?e\. tJeoiye Whit* man from which he recently deliverei a sermon in ItutValo. N. V.. Here fcrred to the late tragedies in tha city, and drew a lesson from then that should he remembered. Keren events, he said, have revealed the n<T irreligious life which many of I>uf falo's more prosperous people live There is a nruwinn uodlessness amoni many well to do persons. The typ of depravity anmun persons in th higher circles is often worse than ii the slums of the city. This nay nod less v?;i\ III living ill MM I maniH'Sl itself in what is spoken of as clu lift*. 1 admit that ellitis dilTer in tliei aims, tint Ilielieve that that which i mechanically called club life isoppos ed to the interests ol the individual of the church and the nation. In re ferrinn specially to the 1 Uirdick inur del* he said "a murder is committed ii our city and two divorce cases ar revealed." These he said, have so mi relation to club life. This is an aw ful condition tint the facts warrantei the charge. He closed by Saving "America is fast fallowing in the step of the old Unman empire, the home i despised; children are an encumhrace a poodle doo is of more value t hai a baby. Wealth and pride consunu I lie lite blood of t he nut ion and aristo era tic weakness saps dcmocratii vijfor." Tnis is a true indictment and unless such warnings as these an heeded our country will perish as di< the (treat Koiuan empire did. Thought less people will refer to Mr. Widemai as a calamit y howler, but he is not lie sees things as they are. and he ha: the courage to denounce the sins o those who are rich and occupy a con spieious plan.1 in the public eye. Tin hope o l this (treat country is a fearlesi ministry and an incorruptible press. Aii Honor Wi'll Hi-mIowimI. The president Thursday announeer tin1 mcmliers of the hoard ol visitor: to tli - W.St I'oint Military aeademt as follows: lion. I >. It. I Undersoil o1 Iowa, Hon. tieni^c F. Maxtor of Colo rado, Col. Ashury Coward, superiuteii d. nt of tlic South Carolina Military aeademy: Joseph c. Darlington o| I'hiladi'lphia. Win. A. Few, .1 r., o Huston: the Kev. Finest M. Stiers l>. D., St. Thomas el ill roll, Nov ; York, and .1. (J. Schmidlappof Cinrin ' nati. A Cat a I Accident. At Fort Wayne, I ml., a freight train erashed into a furniture van o the North Side Transfer Company a the Sandusky street crossing, at A He i yheny, Wednesday, wrecking the vai and killing tw?f men. Two other were seriously injured. The van wa completely wrecked and three horse 1 were killed. * J _ r _ - STUDYING COTTON. ? - 0 A German Lieutenant Bent Here by t the Berlin KowUe ; HIS IS VL15ASED WITH THE SOUTH J ??? c Tito MokIoiiii M'vt'vll Ih liijurliitt 'he * Trvow ('ro|iN Vriy Soi'ititiNl y, h \ low* ol' tlie Negro l,u' ? bor t.UieMioii. Lieut. C. 1<\ A. Weydig, an oilloer j' in the Herman army and an official of * the Agricultural Koinite of Merlin, is | registered at Wright's lintel, lie is I here for tlie purpose of investigating ' the cotton industry in this country ^ and comes with a strong letter of re- | ference from the secretary of agiicul- ( lure at Washington, commending liim ' to the courtesy of tlie planters and ' manufacturers in the south. Like many of the olt'cers in the Her- , man army Lieut. Weydig is a distinguished looking fellow, lieing 11 ore . than six feet in height and as straight, , as an Indian His life has been one 1 . of adventure and he seems to have formed a passionate attachment for - southerners, lie intended to leave the city yesterday, but was persuaded ' not to do so hy the city editor of The I State in order that he might visit I lie ' Olyinpia mill, lie is at present local,I ed at San/. Hay, Hast Africa, and has charge of the experiments that (lie Herman government is making in that, country in cotton growing, for the past live months Lieut. Weydig lias I been traveling in the south invcsliguing cotton conditions, and the result I 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 hurl her interests. It is perhaps su peril nous for unto say that her sea island cotton is ^ the tincst in the world and she has r lands enough to grow millions of more s hales when she has mastered the labor l? question." i "Your lab >rer in Africa is nearly t aii negroes, is it not?" was asked, j es. Niggers, niggers: we have , them everywhere. I only wish we , could send you a few million of them." u The German government, as is well . ; known, has no such sentiment aliout . I the negro as that which brought on 1 the war between the north and south. . In German Kast Africa there are some L; 5.000,000 negroes and a) tout 000 white 2 uieu. The negroes are nevertheless . under absolute subjection and for t he I smallest infraction of the laws ot the v colonies are most severely punished. They are freemen by courtesy and are s I paid small sums for their labors, but it ,. ! is doubtful if any slave inastcis ever ,. handled negroes as do the German otk lieials. For all that it is exceedingly r]iflit-ii 11 to make their work, and Lieut. Weydig said that the south t> had his iy in pall iv in its lalxir battles. i tiXiw\,v said live lieutenant, ^ "traveled more than 900 miles in Africa without seeing a single white l( man, and 1 know the nigger." t. The negro in South Africa would lie absolutely uncontrolling if it were not for wlril is ivilli'fl lit' ,-iiii rt ncv tl..> |( l;iw. As ;t matter ot fact the law is a few (lailing guns that now and then mow them down like sheep if tiiev don't make cotton. I int. that is neither here nor there, I and it was not a matter that Lieut.. e Weydig cared to discuss for obvious reasons, lie only smiled knowingly when the subject was broached and " said that they were freemen, but t "were made to work." To the siutli11 ern negro of today this will perhaps be a novel idea of freedom. Lieut 1' Weydig had recently visited Hooker * Washington at Tuskeegee, and lie ' said lie thought he was a line .nan. kr lie did not explain why he visited the L> negro educator and the writer (lid not 0 press the subject, but lie gathered 11 that it was a matter of curiosity to " see an educated negro more than anys thing else, as it has not been reported ' that the Herman government proposes r 'o attempt to educate the millions of s negroes she now has under her rule. lit is not that sort of a government. ' The Herman idea is that the negro " needs work. Lieut. Weydig was greatly inter1 ested in bis 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 up in s Tennessee and in other parts of the s south, 1 fear. The Texas State gov: eminent has already offered $*>0,000 1 for a remedy for this evil, and 1 think ' in time something will be found that * will do away with the pest. It is ' certainly a very seiious matter. In * the State of Texas alone I tind that ' it caused a loss of $ll.noo.ouo last ' year It. is a tine State and a great " pity that it should l?e handicapped by i lhe pest.' \i. w n wi... 1.... ... .?11I . ?? . ??. ?^i 111 ii- ?? iiiin > r.Mriuir'i i s tlie courtesies of tin* mammoth ( Hyin- | 1 pia mill Friday afternoon and ureal i " was Uir admiration i>f tIn* German or- ! tioial, not only lor the biu institution 1 s itself lint for tin* tiro loss energy which lias enabled Mr. Whaley to build in cotton mills, anions thorn, this one, the largest in the world more than I the ureat (human government has , even contemplated builriiuu"Where is the largest cotton mill in l' Germany?" the licutcntfnt was asked. "In Salesia." " .V hat is its capacity" "Forty thousand spindles." I Mi. Whaley modestly informed t' e f i German oitleial that the capacity of , I he < Hympia was 100,.'too spindles now | , and that lie contemplated making it \ - just citflit times as large as it was. j The latter was very quiet, for the' 1 next little while and when he and the writer had parted from Mr. Whaley l lie inquired rather anxiously what I' manner of man was he. I The almost beautiful cleanliness of - the mills impressed the visitor most i favorably and he frequently comments ed on the neatness and attractiveness s oflhe little homes in the mill village, s a A-ompliment which Mr. Whaley dofihtless appreciated, as the German rovernmeht and people are famed for lull- olpanlinbM In their Industrie iti'j In all matters. In fact. Mr, Whaley Void the lleuteuant It.?t mill owners were more unx'O is Iriu the State goy?n uiuonta for tne M'iruto uf their children lt? the mill! mil ho pointed o it with Some pride ; '(6 churches and acha ?1? that the mill twnera maintain ut their own ttreuV iXponse for the heneflt of the operaors. Ilo said he hoped to ace the u^n iiniL made 10 yearn. "We have the interest,1' said Mr. IVhaley, "of our employes absolutely it heart and we are doing things daily or their welfare that bring our reputation as business men seriously into |i:estion." Your average German is i cold business proposition. lie has iniuething to sell and he wants his price f ?r it. lie pays his workman lis hire and the latter then lias to look out for himself. So when Mr. Wlialey informed the lieutenant that lie proposed to put up t he best hospital for his employes that his money could buy the latter's countenance showed another wide latitude of surprise. lie expressed his admiration over mil over again for the remarkable mill and thanked Mr. Wlialey very warmly for his kindness. The lieutenant expressed liis great admiration and friendship for southern people. "They are the most hospitable and delightful people that I have ever met," lie said, "and I have traveled much. New York is a great city, but it is dollar, dollar, dollar there all the time and one gets tired of it sometimes. Kvery moment of the time 1 have spent/ in the south lias been pleasant." Tiie lieutenant is going to take several American young men back to Gctmaity with him. lie lias already ngaged some two or three and has instructions from tin: licrlin Rouble to engage some more. They must be young men who are educated in t he agricultural colleges that make a specially of cotton production. Lieut. Weydig's station in German Hist Africa is San/. Hay, hut lie will not ruturn there for some months. lie lefl the city Saturday morning. The State. A HUGE SWINDLE In Which I'liitcil Slat cm Oilicial* arc I mplicatf <1. A special dispatch from Washington to the Spartanburg Journal says the development that a connection of government officials with the gelrich-quick concerns was alleged in charges tiled with the president caused a sensation in Washington. AvS far as possible the details el the charges and the progress of the investigation ordered hy the president are being kept secret, hut in oiticial circles t he mat tor is being discussed witli much interest. It is saiil that the plan pursued was the securing of names of shady concerns against which the governnient was ahout to proceed. These firms would then he, approached w ith a proposition to put their business in a shape acceptable to the government for a certain stated amount down and a weekly or monthly payment. This being agreed to, the way was made clear whereby the net rich-quick fellows continued operations without fear of molestation. The amount alleged to have lieen secured from the shady companies is not settled definitely by rumor, lull it is averred by s< me that it reached into more than a injllou dollars, which were divided annum a certain few. It, is averred hy others that the sum total will he far larger than this, because the operation included fully half a score or more of lly-hy-night schemes in business, each of which was forced to contribute liberally. The investigation hy order of the president will Ik; pushed vigorously. Fourth Assistant Postmaster (Jeneral Uristow. who has charge of it. is ordered to go to the !>ottoni of it. no muttci w.io may he involved. Ceneral Tyner, whose retirement was deiiiaodnrl to- tlw> nrnJflnnt n?.? because he was personally implicated in the scandal, hut because of Ids advanced ace and the desire to place a stronger man in his place, denies that there was any wrong doing in connectioii with his oilice respecting the rights of "turf investment com panics" to use the mails. lb- says that there was not a word of evidence in the report of the postotlice inspector to prove that the concerns were in t he nature of lottery or fraudulent in their character, and therefore the only course open to t he Oil ire was to allow them to use the mails. tJcncral Tyner says that Harrison J. I (arret t. Ins nephew by marriage, and formerly assistant in his ottice, had, as an attorney, represented one of the turf companies, but this was only after Karrett. had severed his connection with the department, he avers. (leneral Tyner says he took up the cases of concerns alleged to be fraudulent or on a lottery basis, and. after investigating, ordered proceedings dropped. He dictated a letter announcing that no further steps would tie taken, reserving the right, however. in the last paragrapli of his letter, to reopen the cases. One company published this letter, omitting the last paragraph of warning and the department was severely criticised for the issuance of the letter in question. Accounts Short. A shortage of over $."i,000 has been found in the accounts of the late .1. S. Campbell, county treasurer for llcliland. 11 is a year since the death of Capt. Campbell, and the estate has made no settlement with the county. Mr. It. M. Spigener, the treasurer elected, has declined to take the olliee from Mr. K. .1. Itrcnner, who succeeded Capt. Campbell. until the cloud can l?e cleared. The late treasurer was in feeble health and had a great deal of sorrow the last two years of his life. His mental condition is advanced charitably sis the cause of the deficiency. No official statement can be obtained. Ik ???*mirn?sammrnrnrnm4 ' *nf-i 1. \ \tm+mmmmmmm? I Continues to m&He Mlmculou* Cures | \ READ THIS LETTER i 7 J ALMOST A MIRACLE. 7 Rj Uillox, 8. C., Auf. 18th, 10M. S Qentlemen .?In Beptember, 1W9, I took rheum.tt.Bm In a rrrr bad form. ^ L In i month after the disease started I had to Rive op iny work and fo to V P bed. It continued to Rrow worse until my itruis and hands were badly drawn, 4 J so much so that I could not use thorn. My Iors were drawn hack until my I y feet touched my hips. 1 was as helpless as a baby for nearly twelve months, y L The muscles of my arms am] loirs were hard and shriveled no. 1 suffered death L. I 7 ninny um"? over. w u* t rested by six IItferent physicians in McColl. Dillon and P h Murliin, bat nuneof thcnicould ilo in?*uy (roml, until l>r. J. I*. Ewliir.ot Dlllun, A P ctmeton'?me. lie told me to try your " Itnrr m aci uk." He got me one bottle ^ h of the medicine and I began to take It and before the first !>ottle was uaeil up I ?t / began to get better. 1 used five anil a half bottles and was completely cured. 7 h| That waa two yeara age, ami my health has been excellent ever since. Have bad m y no symptoms of rheumatism. I regard " ltiiKtTM AOIliB" as by far the beat P remedy for rheumatism on the market. I oaiiuot say too much for It. 1 hare d P recommended It to others since and It hss cured th< m. ^ W||| sar further, that I began to walk In at>out si* days after I began to take 7 " llnacMAOinr.," with the aiil of crutt lies ; In about three months after 1 began 7 to take It, I could walk as good as anybody, and went buck to work aguiii. L Very truly, JAMKS WII.KK8. J A All Druggists, or sent express prepaid on receipt of fi.oo. ? 7 Bobbllt Chemical Co., - - Baltimore, Hd, \ <Jht^?>ke? Remedy ol SWOCt. CJUIll & M lllU'lll Cures Coughs, Colds, Whooping Cough, LaCiippo > ml nil Throat and Lung Troubles Mailn of Pure Swcei itiiin, Mullein and lloney. Your l)ruggist seps it 25 and 5o TAKE If r full line of Hardware is not better thanot her, don't buy it. Our salesmen are out. I Goleman-Wagener Hardware Company :tf?3 Kl N<? St.. CHARLESTON. S. C. "Th7~r7Ti7ioTdHii i>itn>", l. K LA b< I.ST M. * I'KACTK ItKKS OK? iiigh Ci\ ilc Pianos and Organs LS Tl I IC W'OKLD. I aetorles, Chi cam > a rl Sr Charles. Illinois. Ca?it 1. 'I W ? MILLION DOLL \ US, 12,000,000. ; i iti-h Ih'njsc, 2u'i km* ^t.. i 'ark'ston, S. C. , llANOi AND 0FGANS S. I 1 on Kasy Terms. Before buying tt 'I; itir our citai g :; a. 1 tei"* - Kaotory pricps made. \ 'i.. I ?b i>f Si" r' M . -ic .in ' small Musical 1 list rumeats in stock. .1. V. WALLACK, Manager. THE 'A-iL.E COrVIRAIMY, i ii\i, ksr ?n. s. <\ ( ^G0IAJ^imTT^UNl|3EI^TirG^>0^^| 8A8H. DOORS. DL.IND5. INTCRIOR FINISH, MOULD- I INGANDLUMDLR. ANY QUANTITY. I Golumbm, ft. I As ;i man looks to a woman to laiip womanly, t woman expects a man to ; t I T il 1A O I AT IA I be manly: therefore, you imed hardly I A. I JjJyll\rll' * wonder that she prefers to he wooed _ hy a man whose aetions tell of tleler jj ^ ...... - .j minat ion and resolve to one wh* >se at 1 ji J M I \ I . titnde is one of meekness and ehronir A # shyness, who stammers and Mushes I expensive to lev., whenever he ventuees loaddress his |.,s\ to keep in ? pair. lady-love in puhlle. While .he timid g Li^h; and very durahi lover is worshipping from afar, hop- jj \\iie>pro< I and oidoil/ss. ilip jet fearinp that his worship is nil i \. I greeted hv clianpe of temderslood hy his divinity, the more ? pera! me. manly lover steps in. and h> ; lino-.t jj r.l isiie. sheer tnalerfuhu'ssand di'terirnnal on. | \ "and A.l.ali-i r of. eoinhined with lender courtesy and a I I ire-resisting and oil-pioof. Wish to 1)1 ease. i?:i ins 1 he ori ye. lea v i n.? I \ ' ...: o .. .. .... . i .. - - . r- I , I ' I I mil IH'I ||| t. til" tv I I . the timid one to moan his loss in si I All ready to lay. enoe with a heart tilled with the hit- Needs no painting or coating, tor thought that had lie only heen a Will not deteriorate with age. little morecontident in his wooing the fair one might have been his. In love WR1TK FOR PRICKS affairs women like masters, not slaves: they like to feel that they are being y;/ \| "rt I 17 \ C'TI. L) V wooed, not that they arc doing the H I 1 1 1 1!> i\ A wooing. Therefore, those young men who wish to prove snecessfiil lou r. J J \ t 1' o f~ 17 \ J |7 Y'P must easi aside all bashfulness and Oi v. I timidity and must not only believe in the old hut true saying. "Only the ( ()\lP \ \ \ brave deserve the fair," but must aw ... u'} 11 All classes building mat-rial, \ Terrible Disaster. CHARLESTON, S. C. The steamer Mariposa, whieli airiveil at Sin 1'r.un one d i v " week from Samoa, t>riiii_'s new. of I _ I disastrous hurricane which swept ovei I the I'oumotu group of islands in .Ian- I uary. In all over 000 lives were lost ^ ? and the financial loss will exceed "*. Z -j, ? ~ m 000. The IVtnoulu group of islands 2 5 I number about 100. Relief measures ,?, " 2 . fl have I>een inst it uted and everything i 3 - ? JM possible is being done at Apia and ?' , j i ~ ~ i y. fl other places in the Sainoan gi ip > ? _ > - - ? iS fl renew Lite sutierinirs ol the I mi'iul . c?-< - - ? s3 i o~> i. ? ? ? jj ^ s-ow SH islanders. >- -? y -22 ' ~ -F ?~ i_ Free to You 1 \ If you are not \\ . .- I ^srant^to kno\v the I ;J ^ ? B t Debt It* I __ ~ t.v iSexual Weakness), j y f CSS I .' v iiii l H aciiler i >111 1 f plaints. No.6, Disease < 11 1 11 I AC fl of Women. No. a. The v 11 1 1 ?1?| 'arrh " These booSfs '1 >'<HI will llUlll tiIt'll!. we Wil shou'.Ubelnthehands owlllff 1"\\ prices fltf eV^^rHathaway <IS loHtf US t hoy last. the author. Is recoit- ' X 111' per I l)i)ll>;ind. W nl/ed as the best au | x js 11;|||<| DrUWIl Heart. C\- V thority and expert In >mc uniien bmim on i'i in ? >.? > JK'I Ml'illSUntn tfl n*. nATHAWAT. these diseases. Writs \,,.v il you want a l'imkI roof. -fl or send nir the tnxik y>n want tiwiay. and It . ?' . BS ; Will l?wnt jrou ' Address J. New- COinc ri^'lit, all tilt?. H ton .inthaway, M V Kg ~* nr"a"st Shanfl Builders Supply Co., I . sm ialist Canlina Portland I nose and THROAi Cement Co., .Su,tAhRS,^N 1 HI of Spectacles Guaranteed. Ga?jer's White Lime, Cements, Fire M okku k t J24 and 1-i'Jti Marion Street Brieks, Terra Cutta I'ipes. 2g Columbia, S. C. ?lv. S