Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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:. .- n, :Power forfGoW?iM?? ?tVt?l?? i ??? May Wield. M? Tnlmniio Dlnoonrac? Ou Influeno?? t Urousrut lo Hoar' lor "World'? j Approvement-Tho Iulcnom tCopyr;?nt,.lflW.vby LoutsJUopsob, Vt. Y.] {WM? ^W'>V>Vn5hiu?.toj>, Ma/r?h 17. I In a now way and fi-omupeeuliurtcxt Di*. Talrnag?i (Jia/iq.ursos^f.<-'good iu?lu onooB^^ongutiTo ^?ni'^or'tho world's improvement. -Tho text is Ezekiel 0:8: "And ono man among thom was clothed with Huon, with a writer's ink horn by his sido." . Tho poom from whioh my text ls taken is epic, lyric, dramatic, weird and overpowering. It is moro than -Homovio? or Dantesque, No one ovor had suoh divine dreams as Ezekiel. In a vislonithis. prophet had soon wrath ful angels', destroying angola, each iwlth a sword, hut in my toxt ho sccs n merciful tan gol with' an' inkhorn. /Tho receptado for tho ink in olden ?imo ,wn:v inndo ,911t pf tho horn of a cow 'a "rum or a rbobuok, as now it ls mado'. out of metal or glass, and rthoreforo was culled tho inkhorn, us now wo say inkstand. Wo havo all spoken of tho power of tho sword, of tho powor of wealth* of, tho,powor of omeo, of tho power of soeUil influence, but torday?A speak bf tho power for good br ^?vil in tho inkstand. It is upon your tables; holding u black or bluo br reel liquid: It is a fortress, an armory,- a'gateway, a ransom or a demolition. "You mistake," says nomo ono; "it is tho pen that lins tho powor." No my friend. What is tho influence of a dry pen? Pass it up and clown a sheet of paper, and it lcavos no mark. It expresses no opinion. Jt given np warning. It spreads no intel ligence It is tho liquid which tho pen dips out of the inkstand that docs tho work. .Jloro and thero a eolobrated pon, with which a Declaration of lndo pondonco or a- .Magna Gh??ta or o troay was 'signed has-been-kept in lit erary, museum or national archives, but for tho most part tho liens, whoth.01*, as of old, mado out.of recd or ?till la^or, of . winer of bird or still later oX iii at 0,1 li G substance, hoyo diann-' poared, whllo tho liquid which tho ?)?ns took from tho inkstand romains n scrolls .which, if put together, would bo largo ohough to enwrap tho world? For practical, for moral, for vollffibun, for' i ctorhat purposes, . I ?peak of tho mission of "the writer's inkhorn." ? First;' ? mention that which is pure ly domestic.1 The inkstand is in ovcry household. It gwalia tho opportunity to express offo'etibn or-coridolenco or ndvico. Father uses lt; mother uses it; tho Bona and daughters uso it. It tells tho^tionio news; it announces tho marriage, tho birth, tho departure, tho accident, tho last sickness, tho 'death. Tlint homo inkstand, what a mission it has already executed, and what othor mission will it yet fulfill 1 May lt stand off from all insincerity und all querulousness. Let it tell only that which lt would bo well to read after tho hand that wroto it and tho hand that rccolvcd it can writo no moro. Dip Out bf that inkstand only that which is paternal, m,atornal, filial, BlBti'iTy," brotherly, Saorcd lot it bo not . 0 what aro(somotimes called tho .'hou^holdjgbd?i'l but to tho ono and 'tho only Godwljo "setteth tho solitary In ?amili?Bj" .?,'Dlp but of it solace for parent?^o?^tho', descending grado of ycars^fr?nd oncburagement for those who aro oHmbing tho stoops. ' Furthermore, tho inkstand of the,! business man .'has its mission. Be tweon now abd'tho hour of your de mise, O commercial''man, O proies-.' eional man, thoro will not bo _a day when you?cann'?t dip from tliio ink horn a me fa d? ga "that ' will iniiuenco temporal and eternal destiny. Thoro Is a rash young man running; into Wild speculation, and with as milch ink ns you can put on tho pen at ono tjm? you moy savo him from tho Niagara Voplds of a ruined life. On tho next street there is a youno; man started in business who, through lack of patronago or mistake in purchase ?Of goods or want of adaptation, is on tho brink;.of collapse. Ono line of ink from .your pen will nave him from being-Van Undorllng all his lifo and start him on'V career that will win him a fortuno which will ?nablo him to bcoomo an endowcr of libraries, an opener of art galleries and builder of churches. ' FurthormOro, great aro tho rc BponB|bJUtles;?f tho author's inkhorn. All tho people, or nearly nil tho peoplo, road, and that which they xoad dooldos their morals or iin mornls, their prosperity or failure, thoir faith pr ; their unbelief, their purit^tbr I c'bri'?ption,. tholr heaven or h?tih Bn'ov^ ino any man's library, great'or''email,''and after examining tho books, finding those with leaves uncut,, :but displayed for sako of tho binding, and those worn with fre quent perusal, and, without ovor see ing tho man or Knowing his name, I will toll you his likes and his dis likes; his morals, good or bad or in different; his qualification for busi ness or artistic or professional or mochanioal Ufo. Tho best index to any man's Character is tho book ho prefers above all others. Oh, the power of a book for good or evil! Abraham Lincoln in carly lifo read Paine's "Ago of Reason," and it so influenced him that ho wroto an es say against Christianity, but after ward somo Christinn books carno into his hands and gloriously changed his mind and . mado him a most ardent .friend of :;the'; Bl bio and. a man of Srayer., .Arl?tt?? in Mr. Lincoln's owh andwj-lting io ?h my house, tho lot ter in response to somo resolutions passed by a Mothodlst conference, saying! "In rosponse to your ad dress, allow mo to attest thc nc .? ?< . Burnod to Doath. 1?.-?- .... Jeff Hill, his wif0 and fivo ohildron woro burned to doath, They lived in a log ' houao wost of ' Wollston, Cdfio. About 9 o'olooV whon . tho family was aslftop tho kitohon oaught tho v/holo hou0O?waa.fl?o$ in .flamos, | When tho noighbOrs nurriod'to'tubasaiataneo, they' saw through tbo?opon door, tho ebarrcd romain's of fcho.famlly. Will Hill Waa 50 and was a well ' known mino workor. The coroner at onoo hold an inquo?t and found that the uro fjthf tod from a stovo, whioh wan near to tho only door to tho houio and os?apo waa thoroforo out ol!, Hill was almost blind and prao . --rr'11-',y ? ?')'' i,?,'"i,i Humano Mill Mon. Tho roprosontatives of -150 obtton iMv a uu7or W*Wm Oxoopt tho *WM$MW or of ailiiotod parontfl ?^??0/ mmm school; the milk will do. all in their newel duri that v*-^ .....Mi wm an ni tneir to promote publlosohools. '??fity or ?i? hist?rica! st?Uto?fU?, Indorse tho Bontiiuontu lt expresaos pud thank you in tho nation's ?am? |0)f tho B?ro promise it gives ftobly ''Sustained as tho government has boon by all tho chvirehos, I would Utter nothing whioh might in tho lon.it appoai'.invidious against nny. Yet without.v filia it may fuirly bo said that tho- Methodist Episcopal church, not. less dovotcd than tho b^sfy.is.by its great numbera tho most'importnnt ?* ftl1' It ?H no fault in othors that tho Mothodist church sonda inoro soldiers to tho held, moro nurses* to tho hospital and moro prayer? to Heaven than any, God bless tho Mothodist church- bless nil tho churches-and blessed bo God who in this our great trial givoth us tho churches." What a great tiling1 it,was that tho Christian books which air. Lincoln read obliterated fromhls mind t ho infi del llteraturol William Carey bcciunc n, missionary by reading "The Voyage/* of Captain. Cook." John Wesley's lifo wes shaped by reading Jeremy Taylor's "Holy Living and Hying." Tkcro aro books in your library or ly ing on your parlor tablo or secrotcd in somo piuco by your child that will decido for two worlds, this and tho noxt, tho character of its rcador. Through books we sit down and talk with tho mlghtiost spirits of all tho ngos. Wo accompany Tennyson on his sprlng-tlmo walk as ho falls upon his knees in the meadows, crying to his companioni "Violets, man, violets! Smoll thom." Or. wo rido witli Trajan in his triumphal march, or stand with Godfrey at tho taking of Jorusalom, or with arctlo expl?ror hear tho crash of tho icebergs, or aro received with Hernando Cortes in tho halls of Montezuma, or watch in tho observa tory as Herschel with his telcsoopo captures alioth?*-' ar, or tho ink in tho inkhorii turns red as blood, and wo are at Marengo and Arbola and Eyluu and Povodino and Lcipsio; or wo sail with Hamilcar from Carthago to l'alormo, or wc see Galileo lighting for tho solar system, and around ns gather for conversation Aristotle and Plato and Kobcrt South and ?Sydney Smith and Locke and Samuel Pogers and Chaucer and Paul Pichior and Swift and Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt and Talleyrand and Purko and Edward Irving, wliilo to innko music for us Handel and Mozart and Mendelssohn como in, and wo watch Columbus lal ing and seo John Harvard's legacy of ?000 paid over fdr tho founding of Harvard university, and Joshua ltoy nolds and David Wilkio and Pcm brandt toll us-of their pictures. Oh, tho books I Thank God for tho books, and thanks bo to all tho authors 1 May tho inkhorn ever be under divino inspiration 1 A wrong theory is abroad that tho newspaper impression is ephomcra-1. Pecauso wo read and cast it aside in an hour and never seo it again wo aro not to-judge that wo aro parted from its iniluence. No volume of COO pages makes such impression upon tho pet plo as tho daily newspaper. It is not what wo put away carefully upon thc shelf and once in awhile refer to that has as close relation to our welfare as tho story of what tho world is now doing or has rccontly done. Yes tcrday has moro to do with to-day than something occurring a century provious. Tho engineers who now guido tho rail trains, tho sea captains who now command tho ships, tho ar chitects who now design tho build ings, the batons that now control tho orchestrai}, the legislators who now make the laws, the generals who now march the hosts, tho rulers who now govern tho nations, the inkhorns that now flood the world with intelligence -theso aro what we have most to do with. You have all seen what is called indelible ink, which is a weak solu tion of silver nitrate, and that ink you cannot rub out or wash out. Put it there, and it stnys. Well,.tho liquid of the editorial and reportorial inkstands is an indelible Ink. It puts upon tho souls of tho passing gener ations characters of light or dark ness that time cannot wash out and eternity cannot efface. Porevor in delible. Po careful how you uso it. Tho impression mado with it will be resplendent or repulsivo on ibo day for which all other days wero mado. Put how shall I speak of tho ink horn of tho world's evangelization? Oh, how may loving and brilliant and glorious pens havo been dipped into it! Thomas a Kempis dipped into it and brought up his "Imitation of Christ." Horneo Pushnell dipped Into it and brought up "Every Man's Lifo a Plan of God." Thomas Binney dipped into it and brought up his "Weigh II ouse Chapel Discourses." Conybcaro dipped into it and brought up' tho "Lifo and Epistles of Paul." Archbishop Trench dipped into it and brought up tho "Epistles to tho Seven Churches." Stuart Pobinson dipped into it and brought up "Discourses of Redemption." Austin Phelps dipped into it and brought up "Tho Still Hour." Mary Hopkins dipped into it mid brought up "Evidences of Chris tianity." Thomas Guthrie dipped into it and brought up "Thc Gospel in Ezekiel." John Cumming dipped into it nnd brought up "Tho Apocalypse." Oh, tho opulence of Christian litcra turel Oh, tho mighty streams of evan gelistic power that havo poured from the writer's inkhorn that appeared in Ezekiel's vision! Whilo you recognlzo tho distin guished ones who havo dipped into tho inkstand of tho world's ovangoliza tioh do not forget that there aro hun dreds of thousands of unknown men and women who aro engaged in In conspicuous ways doing tho same thing! How many anxious mothers writing to tho boys in town! How many sistors writing encouragement td'brothers far away! How many in valids bolstered up in bed, the inkhorn on tho stand at their olde, writing let ters of condolonco to thoso worso off than themselvcsl They aro flying all Doath of Judpfo Wallace. Judgo William II. Wallaoe, Spoakcr of tho Wallago Houso in 1876, diod at his homo in Union Thursday of an attack of grip, Ito had boon ill, but was UP again and thought to ho doing nicely whon ho suddonly passod away. Ho had hoon ex ponting doath for somo timo and said so. It will bo a great griof arid sorrow to many hearts to loam of his demise Too muoh praiso and honor cannot bo bostoward upon tho man who sorV'od his il tato so woll. Tho town of Union is mourning, as will all South Carolina, when it is known that this noble Carolinan is no moro. ETwoKiUod. Doputy Marshall Alex. S. Whitely as killod in attempting to arrest Lon Scott for illicit distilling in Lincoln county, Ga., Thura day. Scott was also killed. Tho offioor with his rosso found tho distillers in a barricaded houso and in attempting to mako the arrests a fight onsuod, Sevorr.l othors of tho pofiW wfao'hurt but not soriously. Tho otbor mombors of tho Soott orowd woro arrostod. - ? tho tim? kind w?rurs, fc?fcpet Word^ holpf ul words, saying words/ Call tho evangelistic inkhorn Into sorvico iii tho curly morning, when you fool woll Und you oro grateful ior tho protec tion during your sleeping honr?, und wrlto boforo you roth*? nt close of day to thoso who nil night long will bo Hay ing} "Would to God it wcro niora* Iinji" iiow.IUU.IIJ bruised and disap pointed and wronged nouls of earth would bo glad to got a.lotter from youl Stir up th ut consolatory inkhorn. Ail Christendom bas? been walting for groat ro'vivuls of roligion to start front tho pulpits and prayer moot lugs. I now suggest that tho greatest rovivul of all thno may Istart a concerted and orgoni/.od movement through tho inkliorns of all Clirlstcndom, each writer dip ping from tho inkhorn nearest him a lotter of gospel invitation, gospol hope, gospel warning, gospel in struction. , Tho ink is all ready on n hundred thousand tables, and bosnio it aro the implements with which to dip it out. Why not, through such {roccss. have millions of souls brought o God boforo next summer? By lot ter you could make tho invitation .moro effective than by word of mouth. Tho invitation from your lips may bo argued back, may cvoko querulous reply, may bo answered by a joke, but a good, warm, gospel lotter, written lu prayer and started with prayer and followed by prayer, will bo read over and over again and cannot bo un Bwovod in a frivolous way. It will speak from tho tuhlo by day and night oi', if pettishly torn up, will, in its scattered fragments, speak louder than when it remained wholo. Within nrm's reach of whero you sit thoro may bo a fluid that you may put on wing with message of light and lovo. Tito othor angels spoken of in my toxt wore destroying angels, and each had what tho Bible calls a "slaugh ter weapon" in bis hand. It was a Innoo or a battleax or a sword. God hasten tho time when tho last lauco shall bo shivered and tho last bat tleax dulled and tho last sword sheathed, never nguiu to leavo tho scabbard, and tho nngel of tho text, .who, Matthew Henry says, was tho Lord Jesus Christ, shall, from tho full inkhorn of lils morey, give a sav ing call to all nations. That day may be far off, but it is helpful to'think of its coming. As Dr. Haleigh do darcd that when RO miles nt sea off tho coast of New England tho cnttlo on board tho ship, ns well as himself, scented tho clover on tho New England hills, so we, amid all tho tossing waves of tho world's con troversies, inhale tho redolcnco of tho whlto lilies of universal peace. Id it not tim? that tho boasted inven tion of now and moro explosivo and moro widely devastating weapons of death bo stopped forever and tho Gospel havo a chanco and tho ques tion be not asked: "How many shots can bo fired in a minute?" but '"How many souls may bo ransomed in a day?" Tho world needs less powder and moro grace, fewer fortresses and moro churches, less power to destroy and moro power to save Oh, I nm sick of tho war cries and tho extin guished eyesight and tho, splintered bones and tho grave trenches and tho widowhood and orphanage and childlessness which sob and groan and dio in tho waka of tho armies on both sides of tho sea! Oh, for less of tho slaughter weapon and moro of the evangelizing . inkhornl Oh,, for tho stopping of tho scionco of "assassination, that crime of crimes, that woo of woes, that horror of hor rors, that hell of hells-war, which thia moment stands reeking with blood and washing itself in tears and blaspheming tho heavens and pushing oil! tho edgo of this life mea who. have as mitch right to livo as you and I have and blasting homos in which there dwells ns much loveli ness ns in our own! Would that tho merciful angel of my text tako tho last weapon of war and fling it oi? nnd fling it down with such forco that it shall clang on tho lowest round of tho perdition whero tho first koon edgo of human strim whs sharpened! War! Tn tho namo of Almighty God and of all tho homo? steads it has destroyed and ls now destroying, I bato it, I denounce it, I curso itl If our Bible i.i true-and no othor book that was ever printed is nsj truo ns that book, which Moses ho. gan and John finished-then tho timo will como when nil tho weapons of cruelty will stop and tho inkh orna of evangelization will have thoi)* wny. In tho museums of tho world tho cnrblno and the cannon and the bomb will bo kept ns curiosities, and dill dren will bc incredulous as parents tell them that civilized nations onco employed such instruments of death and moro incredulous when told hy their parents that tho nrmy that killed tho most men was considered tho most glorious nrmy. Tho red horse of carnngo that St. John saw in vision, and tho black horse of famine, and tho pule hors? of death will be stabled, and the whlto horse of prosperity and peace, mounted by tho King of Kings, will lead tho great army with banners. Througl: tho convicting, converting, sanctify ing power of tho Eternal Spirit may wo all march in that procession! Hail, thou Mighty Hider of tho whlto liorso in tho final triumph! Swoop down and sweep by, thou Angel o tho New Covenant, with tho inkhorn of tho world's ovangelizatlonl "Th* mountains and tho lillis shall break forth into singing, and all tho trees of the field shall clap thoir hands Instead of tho thorn shall como up tho fir tree, and instead of tho brie ?hal como up tho myrtle treo and lt shall bo to tho Lord for a name, for nn everlasting sign that shall not ho cut off." f}n\t\ c. o IV ot- for OooUloa. Mix ginger cookios with cold coffee instead of water; it will improvo them. India's Population. Uomploto oonsus roturoB givo tho population of India an 294,000,000. an inoroaso in tho last dooado of 7,000,-' 000. Doduotiog tho population of tho Haluoistan, Shauataks, Ohinhillu and. Sikkim territory, onumoratod for tho first timo, a not inoroaso is shown of only 1.4 por cont, whioh io duo to im proved oonsus nrsthods. Thus, thc population io for tho first (imo statio nary. Owing to tho two faminofl, mor tality from disoaso and a great doolino in tho hirth rato, tho nativo Slates shows oxoossivo doolinos. Thoso results woro quito nnoxpootod. A Negro Pensioner. Comp troll or Gonoral Dorham Friday roooivod a lotter from Abbovillo county, prostostlng against a negro drawing pension in that county. Mr. Dorham said (ho nogro had hoon plaood on tho ponslon rollin 1807 by tho Abbovillo oounlry pon ?lon board and tho rooonhi showod ho had hoon a good and faithful Confed?ralo soildior and watt ontitlod to tho porndon. Ho will continuo to draw his pondon, doupito tho llttlo-windcd |proto;?t. ? .. - rv*.- ? ? ..-li ,.".^*.'-\.-<X1>-,?<?,w, ,, ..^-i.-. . OUR DEAD HEROES; roOnt?nuod from yago 1- 3 tho lOth South Carolina . rogimont, tyrowritfou manuscript. k Bkotoh of 10th and 19th South Carolina regiments, don EllisonCapera for Adjutant Gonoral of South Caro lins? <i. Skoroh cf 15th ?nd 21th South Carolina regiments, hy Gen Ellison Capers. 5. Skotoh of Oulpoppo^nvhattery. G. ltolla of 19th and ,21th South Carolina regiments and Culpoppor's t tttory-tho rolls of Korshaw's brigado boing in Capt Diokort'a book and of 10th South Carolina rogimont?u Col Walker's book. . 7. Commmiosions as follows! (Jotum iaftions appolntod undor authority of tho Stato of South Carolina to looato pesitions of South Carolina troops, and to oroot a monument and nmrkciH to tho samo, on tho battlefield of Ohiokainauga. First commission, to looato positions of South Carolina 'troops, visited tho battlefield. May 18th, 1891, and locat ed (ho position thereof : Gen Hugh L. Farley, Adjutant and Iuspootor Gontral, South . Carolina; Mbjor C. K. HondorsoD, ?aptl?. J. j Qoggans, Major, J. 1). MoLuoa?, vol crans Kor shaw's I ligado. GonO. 1. Walker, Capt ll. F. MoCnHlau, L P. Harling, veterans of 10th aud 19th South Carolina regi ments, Capt Thoa J- Apploby, voteran of 21thSouth Carolina rogimont; Capt J. F. Oulpoppor, Liout Porry Mosos, yctorons of Culpoppor's battory. Tho abovo commission rooommondod that auitablo monument and marker? bo oreotod. In roaponso thoroto tho Scoond commission waa appointed undor authority of a j lin resolution of tho General Assembly, Dooomber 22, 1891, to select designs and seouro esti mates foi ?aid monumontand mar kora. Gon C. Irviuo Walknr, Major J. 1). MoLuoas, Major C. K Hondorson. Tho abovo second oommision Bolt ot cd designs, scoured ostimatos and 1'0'_ portod to tho noxt soassion of tho Gon eral Assombly, but no appiopriatiou waa made At its Convention of 1899 tho South Carolina Division, United Confodorato Veterans, decided to momoriali/.o tho Gonoral Assembly and urgo that propor rcspoot bo paid sons who fought who fought and who diod at Ohiok aniauga. In responso thoroto tho Third commission was authorized by Gonoral Assombly at its Bossion of 1900, and an appropriation of $10,000 was mado for tho orootion of said monument and markors, to bo oreotod by tho com mission, at Buoh plaoos as it may deoido on. Tho commission was to oonaist of tho Governor, Adjutant and Inspector Goncral and throe Confodorato Voto rans. It was as follows: * Governor Milos B. MoSweouoy, ohairman; Gon C. Irvino Walker, eo ofotary, Votoran; Gon J. W. Floyd, Adjutant and Inspcotor Gonoral, South Carolina, Votoran, but appointed ox otiioio; Major C. K Hondorson, Gol J, Barvoy Wilson, Votoraus. Undor tho supervision of tho abovo third commission tho Sjuth Carolina monument, in tho corner atone o( whioh this.rcoord^ is dopositod, was oroot?d. It was dedioatod, unvoilcd and turtjod over to tho oommissionors of tho Chirk amaupa and Chattanooga National V.^rk this 27th day of .May, A. J). ;19MI Also woro ?rootod tho graiiito'??vvW?..i? for tho voriouB oomipands of-South" Carolinaus, aa follows: Ooo to Korshaw's brigade and ono to eaoh of its rcgimonls, i. o., 2d, 3d, Ttdi, 8th and 15th South Carolina regimonts, and James's South Carolina Battalion on Snodgrass Bango'. Ono to tho 10th and 19th Sauth Caro lina rogimont on Snodgrass Bange. Ono to tho 21th South Carolina rog imont on tho Kelly farm, near tho Sholl monumont, to Col Oolquitt. Ono to Culpoppor's battory, in tho Poo field. AU of which is duly cortificd to by Milus B. MoSwoonoy, Govornor of South Carolina, and ohairman of tho commission; C. Irvino Walkor, Scoro tary of commission. Tho daughtors of tho Oonfodoraoy, through Mrs. Thomas Taylor, prosi dont of South Carolina Divison, havo boon invitod. In aooopting Mrs Taylor f ays: "1 hopo many of us may havo tho distinguished happiness of showing houiago to our soldiery on that oooa sion." lb is hopped that all tho Daughters will attend. A Law Breaking Judgo. Tho announcement baa already boen mado in Tho Stato that tho court at Minion waa adjourned booau^o of tho appoaranoo of a caso of fmallpox in a hotel there. A Columbian who has just roturned from Marion rookes interest ing dotails omitted iu tho dispatohes. Tho judgo, ho says, was staying at tho hotel in whioh tho 9uspioious oaBO deve loped; bo arose in tho morning to find tho vigilant health officer had boon up ahoad of him, hung out yollow flags, pub tho hotol under quarantine and plac ed gua'ds uro und s it. Tho judgo did not rolish tho idea of boing hold a prisoner and ho esoapod from tho house, proceeding to tho depot. Tho sherill' ?as Bout to dotain him. This that oflioial courteously did and thon transferred his prisonor to tho town marshal. Tho train oamo and wont, and on it wont tho judgo. Tho Stato'? informant says tho marshal was lined $5 for pormitting a prisonor to escapo.-Columbia Stato. How's This? Wo offor Ono Hundrod Dollars Bo ward for any oaso of Catarrh that erm in t bo ourod by Hall's Catarrh Curo. F. J. CHEN JO Y; & CO., Props., Tolodo, O. Wo, tho undersigned, havo known F. J. Chonoy for tho last 15 yoars, and boliovo him patfoolly honorablo in all businoss transactions, and finanoially ablo to carry out any obligation mado by their firm, WEST <& TRUAX, Wholesalo Drugi gist, Tolodo, 0. WACDINO, Kl NN AN & MAHVIN, Wholosalo Dfuggiflta, Tolodo, O. Hall's Catarrh Curo is takon internal ly, aoting dirootly upon tho blood and muoous surfaoos of tho system. Price, V5 j. por botblo. Sold by all druggists, Testimonials freo. Hall's Family Pills aro tho host. A Foolish Girl. Tho body of May Comstook, who, it is bOliovod, oommittod suioido by jump ing into tho lako at Sixty-third street, Ohioago was found Thursday aftornoon buried in tho sand on tho boaoh noar tho Fifty-ninth stroot pier. Tho causo of tho girl's sui?ido was tho foot that sho had run into dobt to tho oxtont of $7 and dreaded to ask hor fathor for monoy. Miss Comstook was tho daugh ter of John Comstook. a retired fruit gr?wor, formorly a rosidout of Florida and California, but now living at Bon ton Harbor. Tho girl was studying muBio in Chicago. V ) \ ~T PROFITABLE CROP. Broom Oom Brinda One Hundrod Dolla? ft Ton in Columbia. . Tho Columbia Kooord says tho far mord of South Carolina havo boon urged for many yoars to plant broom corn, vhioh is a vory profitablo crop (hit o m bo grown tondvantago in ninny ?notions of this s.tato. Ooo i io ubi o ha? boon tho distaneo of tho markets, but this is hoing romodiod by tho establishment of small broom fadorion in this stato. Ono of those has boon started in Co lumbia by John jil. Sims, who thus praoti?ally demonstrates his faith in tho small industries BO nooossary to lound out Columbia's prospority. His f aotory is at prosont on Marion stroot, bub bo oxpoots to shortly build moro suitable quartors noar tho Blanding stroot depot. His factory now turns out about fifteen dozon fioo , houso brooms daily. Mr. C. M. Timmons started a broom faotory on Assembly street, near Lum ber, sovoral years ago. lt was bought about ten months ago by Mr. Mooro, who havbeoo s'.oadily pushing his busl noBS. Ho turns ont a vory fino pro duo t, for which thoro is a largo demand, ho having no trouble is solliing all tho brooms ho. oan mako Aooording to tho Yorkvillo Yeoman, Hiram Masooy, of Tirzah, is tho only man in York oounty who has tried planting broom oom. Mr. Massey was in Yorkvillo a day or two ago and informed tho Yeoman; roport or that ho hand just returned from Columbia, whoro ho had sold his lot of croom oom at $100 a too, oasb. A broom faotory looated in Columbia bought tho lot. The superintendent of tho faotory scorned surprised at tho fino quality of this lot of oom, and. inform ed Mr. Massoy that ho would tako all ho oould got vs good at tho samo prioo. Asked for ?orno information KS to his oxporionoo in planting, oultivaticg, oto , Mr. Maesoy said broom oom was littto moro trouble than other corn, be ing oultivat'.d in muoh tho samo way as sorghum, fotilizing tho samo OB for cot ton. Fertilizing of oourso inoroasos tho yield. That whieh is intondod for salo, for manufacturo into brooms, is out jiu't boforo tho plant ripons, so that it retains toughness in tho straw and a palo groon color. It is necessary to havo a seed patoh, where tho oom is allowed to ripon. That which is out for mark ot is dried \ and packed into bales of oonvoniont sizo for shipping. Tho yiold averages a thousand pounds of ourod straw to tho aero. Homo moro and somo loss, owing to tho oondition of land, season, fertilization and atten tion givon lb is roady for market in August, af tor two to throo weeks cur ing, at tho slaokentand dullest soaBon of tho yoar, whon the fanner has plonty of timo to attend to it, and at a time whon a good money orop would moan a great doal to him. Mr. Massoy is muoh pleased with broom o>rn, and ia nuking preparations to plant 25 to 30 acres thia yoar. UisBUOoos will doubtless load othor farmers in South Catalina to put somo of thoir land in broom oom, instoad of continuing to bond all thoir oncrgics to raising cotton. - CENSUS OF COTTON GINNING. A Vory Iniportau V Work Undertaken hy tho Ceu*uR jitumau. Tho Groonvillo' Mountaineer says various efforts havo boon mado to por fqct agonoios for scouring carly and trustworthy information as to tho quan tity of cotton annually ?rown in tho Unitod Statos, with a viow to reducing to a minimum tho fluctuations inoidont to au industry so groatly dopondont upon supply aud demand. Statistics of tim crop unod in com mercial oentors havo to do with tho cotton M marketed during oftoh year onding August 31, and aro gathorod very largely through reports of trans portation linos touching tho ootton tiolds. So long M it wa? safo to as sumo that practically tho wholo of tho ootton orop roaohod its market through tho common oarriois, thoir roports constituted a fairly trustworthy basis for estimates of tho oommoroial orop, but, as muoh cotton now goes dirootly from tho holds to tho mills without passing through tho hands of traopor tation companies, this moans of gather ing cotton Statistics is annually becom ing moro and moro unfatisfaotory. All returns aro mado in oommoroial balos, whioh is an unsatisfactory unit of moas uro. Buring tho rast oontury tho avorago woight of tho oommoroial bale moro than doubled. In nomo sootions the oottan balo now moans tho Minaro paokago avoraging in weight 498 pounds. In othor rogions it moans a >alo of 400 pounds, while in still other localities ia found tho round balo avor aging 259 pounds. Nono of tho moans hitherto employed has reported the numbor and weight of theso divors kinds of oommorotal bales. Tho rela tivo number of squaro aud round balos is ohanging and with this tho nvorago waight of tho ordinary unit, tho oom moroial balo, is hoing modified. Honoo tho importanoo of substituting a fixed unit like a pound for a variablo unit of mensuro liko a bato, thus enabling tho country to know tho aobual quantity of ootton produoad. Believing that tV.o reports of ootton ginnors, showing tho numbor and aver ago weight of tho balos passing through thoir hands during a givon year, would afford trustworthy statistios, tho Unitod States Consus Oflioo has by eorrcspon donoo and through tho enumerators obtained from each ginning establish ment of tho oountry a roport of tho quantity of ootton handled of tho orop of 1899. Tho attempt to obtain tho statis tics of tho ootton orop through this agen cy has boon so suooossful, and tho me thod promises to develop statistios so muoh moro comploto and satisfactory than thoso horetoforo adoptod that tho Birootor of tho Oonsua has dcoidod to undortako an annual cousus of tho oot ton orop through tho diroot cooperation of tho ginnors. Tho suoooas of this annual ootton orop; roport must dopond altogether upon tho promptness and aoouraoy with whiph roports aro rooolvod. As tho in formation solioitod is vory largoly for tho bonofit of tho ootton ginnors and ootton growers, it is beliovod 'that tho ginnors will cordially rospond to tho efforts of tho Consus Omeo to rondor thi.i Rorvioo to tho South and to all thoso intcrostod in its groat staplo, Tho Connus Oflioo is now undertaking obtain tho faots rogardlng tho ootten orop of 1900, through blanks mailed to to tho ootton ginnors. Thoso inquires should bo promptly and ?oouratoly answered and rot unit d at onoo in tho franked onvclopo, which requires no postigo.,, Ginnors will not fail to soo that tho' flUoooBH of this inquiry will ro? dound groutly to thoir bone lit, and they should bo prompt to roport to tho Bureau tho nanua and ?ddronnon of now ginning ostaoHshmepts, as well as any changos in tho inanagomont of old ones, Grove's 1 The formula ? know just what yo do not advertise tin their medicine if ye I rori and Quinine pu form. The Iron malaria out of thc 5 Grove's IS the OH, Chill Tonics are im that Grove's is sn are not experiment and excellence ha only Chill Cure so thc United States. O?FOLD HEROES. Confederate Reunions In Colum bia and Memphis DIVISION SPONSOR NAMED Official Circulars Issued by Gan ami Walker in Roforonco to Both Monthes Tho Railroad Rates. Tho Ootumhia Stato says on ovory side tho work of those ohargod with tho arrangomonts for tho Stato reunion to bo hold thoro oarly in May io going for ward. Tho looal ii no no o oommitteo has bcon rooolving subscriptions in ro sponeo to its oiroular lotter to tho oiti zons, and is well satiafiod with tho re sults preliminary to tho oanvass. Tho work of tho oommitteo ohargod with scouring homes has boon dolayod a let ti 0, hut not materially, by the sioknoss of tho ohairman, Ool S. W. Vaneo. Below is givon tho copy of tim gon oral order of Gon. O. I. WalkoV, is&uod from (ho hoadquartors>of tho South Carolina division United Oonfodcrato Votorans, in Charleston, in regard to tho Stato reunion: Qoneral Ord or No. 52: 1. Tho Bovonth annual reunion of tho South Carolina division, U. O V., will bo held at Columbia, S. C., oommonoing May 8th, 1901, at 8 p. m. A largo at tondanoo of comrades is expected, and tho good pooplo of Columbia will do all in their powor to make, ,tljo occasion | ploHsnhtand-ilroflta'olo. . ' 2. Railroad rates on ?no most economical basis havo boon seourod. 3. Miss Elizaboth C. Toaguo of-Aiken, 8. C., has boon appointed sponsor, and Miss Annio Norwood of Qroonvillo, maid of honor, for tho division for tho ourront yoar. ./ 4 AU oamps, rogimonts and brigades of tho division aro oarnostly requested to appoint, oaoh, one sponsor and as many maids of honor as thoy soo fit. A most beautiful and apprcoiatod fea turo of our iounions has boon tho mingling of tho daughters with tho old votorans, and it is hoped that oaoh or ganization will do itsolf tho honor of hoing roprosontod by a sponsor. Whon sponsors and maids aro roooivod by tho oonvontion, oaoh will maroh in, carry ing tho oamp, regimental or brigado bannor. 5. Eaoh oamp will ploaso bring its oamp bannor and oomo into tho con vontion hall with tho Bamo. 6. Tho Ladies' Confodorato Momorial association, pf Columbia, has askod tho division to participate in tho solemn memorial ?orvioos of May 10th, and tho invitation has bcon aoocptod. Tho division, with its oBoort, will movo out to tho oomotory, whore tho tributo will bo paid to our doad. Details of tho parado will bo an nounced horcaftor. Capt. W. ?. Star ling, tho oommandor of tho looal oamp, Hampton, No. 389 U C. V , is an nounood as grand marshal of tho pa rado. By ordor. C. Irvino Walker, Oomiudr. 8. C. Div., U C. V. .Tamos G. Holmes, Adjt. Gon. Ohiof of Staff. N. B. Camps that havo not paid their duos for two (2) or moro years aro not in "good standing," and aro nob on titled to dologatos. Tho following has also beon' issued by Gon. Walkor in rogard to tho gon oral reunion at Memphis: Gon. Ordor No. 53: 1 Tho llth annual rounion of tho U. C. V , will bo hold at Memphis, Tonn., May 28, 29 and 30, 1901. Dologatos from all tho oamp9of this division aro oarnostly desired to bo prosont. 2 Tho Southorn railway has beon so leotod as thooffioial route, and all oem- j rades aro askod to go by that ronlo and go togothor. Tho details of tho hours of loaving various points havo boon announo?d in go nomi ordor No. 54 3. Tho official trains of tho Southorn railway will roach Chattanooga, May 27, at 7 a. m.. and run down to tho Chiokamauga battlefield, so that tho oomrados will havo tho opportunity of participating in tho unvoling ceremo nies of tho South Carolina monumont. 4. Tho South Carolina Chiokamauga Monument commission have extondod a cordial invitation to tho Votorans of tho South Carolina division I J. C. V., to participate in tho unveiling corcino nios. . By order, 0. Irvino Walkor, Comdr. S. 0. Div., U. C. V. Jamos G. Holinos, Adjt. Gon. Ohiof of Staff. Equaliaation of Mill Taxes. Comptroller General Dorham is going to work at once to got ur) tho rotunio on ootton mille, cotton eocd fae torie I and oth?r proporty whioh oomos under tho rooont Aot, which provides for equaliza tion of tho assessment on nuoh property by a Stato board. Ho wants tho roturns sont into his offioo at tho vory earliest possible momont and oxpootn Uo h ?ve tho Stato board moot hoto about tho 20th of May for tho purposo ofjmakln? tho assossmonts. Mr. Dorham?ont out a circular lotter to that circo* to all tho oounty offloott, ( //V J rv? tasteless Chi s plainly printed on .every li arc taking when you take ;ir formula knowing ?. that ye >u knew what it contained, t up in correct proportions ai acts as a tonic while the >Ystcm. Any reliable druggist gittat and that all other stations. An analysis of othe iperior to all others in cv ing when you take Grovi ving long been cstablishe ld throughout thc entire J No Cure, No Pay. Price Revoked the Commissions. WodnoHday, Gov. MoSwoonoy ?BBU cd a proclamation annoucolog Hinton and aftor January 1 ntxt all commis sions hold by commission oT of doods for South Carolina, iseuod prior to Jan?, uary 1, 1896, will DO rovokod. ThoBO oommiBsioDB aro hold at tho ploaeuro of tho governor. Tho proclamation has bcoD ?6HUod bcoauBo of tho faot that thoro is no official rcooid as to Who aro oommif sionors of doods up to tho timo specified, and tbo soorotary of stato finds it impossible to lot anyone know who holds a or mmission and who doos not. Thcso tllioials livo in other Statos and cou a tr ion, and thoy are frequently oaliodupon to probato papors that lalor on rcquiro official reoords. It is in or der to obtain suoh a record that tho govornor his issued tho proclamation. Tho samo thing was dono como years ago iu rogard to tho notario? publie in th<; State. Ho is Right. Tho lt v. John L Bowal!, pastor of tho First Congregational ohuroh in North Brookfield, Mass., has announced to his ptrshionors that bo will accpt a reduction of 10 por cont, of his sal ary of $L,r>00 a year, inaimuohaB many of tho congregation aro faoing a 10 per ocnt. roduotion in thoir wagos earned iu tho local shoo shop. Crushed to Death. Bob Kelly, Dan Proston, Riobard Battlo and Cornelius Davis, nogro min ers, woro killed at tho Sloss-Shefliold No 2 oro mino Thursday by a fall of oro noar Birmingham, Ala. Tho mon had loadod 20 tons of oro, atd, think ing all of it had fallon, ontored tho mino. As soon as thoy were in tho great mass foll, crushing thom to death. Stearn Dyeing of every description. Steam, Nap tha, Frenoh Dry and chemical cleansing. Send for our new price Hst and oiroular. AU work guar anteed or no charge. 1810 Main Street COLUMBIA, S. C A. Li. Ortmaii, Proprietor ~lE OKI INDEED. The New Ball Bearing Sewing Machine It Loads in Workmanship, Beauty, Oapaoity, Strongth, Light Bunning, Every Woman Wants Ono. Attachments, Needles and Parts for Sewing Maohlnes of all makes. When ordering needles send sample. Price 27o per doxen, postpaid. Agont? Wanted in Unoccupied Torr! tory. J. L, BHULL, 1219 Taylor Street. 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