Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A SAD PICTURE. felll Arp Calls Attention to the Deca dence of the FARMERS OF NEW ENGLAND. ile Write? About n Rook* Which All Should Houri, Ksprclully Our VOUIIK Mon. A Good Letter. Last night 1 read to my family por tions of a long article hy a preacher describing thc sad condition of a peo ple he has recently visited. Out of one hundred and sixty-eight towns in the State ho visited seventy jif them that are off from the railroads, and all of these have decreased in population since 1890. None of these towns have settled pastors or preachers and the churches are abandoned or have preaching at irregular intervals and the attendance hardly ever exceeds twenty-live persons. Tlie Sabbath schools arc equally deserted. The once busy plants ot small industries are dead and tlie people farm only Jor the bare necessities of liff. Houses, barns, and fences are going to decay and the little mills that were on the creeks have tumbled down and thc dams have washed away. Here and there you will see a stately mansion sheltering some degenerate family in the back woods while thc vacant front greets you with tlie silence of thc tomb. Sometimes you will lind an old man and woman alone in an old ances tral home. I found a mother and her two sons and two"oin maids in ont! itou.se not one of whom could read. The intermarriage of near relatives or not marrying at. all is common and bachelorand dive reid mon mid widow ers have housekeepers and they un blushingly cohabit with them and young girls become grass -widows hy the time they are sixteen. ''Where is all this?" said my wife. "I don't believe a word of it. lt is some newspaper lie-a fake made up by some reporter." I read on. In one town 1 lound the usual Saturday night dance ?oing on In an old vacated tavern and they danced and devellcd | and drank until Sunday morning. Sunday is no more observed than it is in Chicago, for tiley hoe and dig and gather hay all thc same sis on week days. Illiteracy, insanity and imbe cility are very marked! I found one family in which both parents were idiots and had raised up a family of idots. In another home or house I found a poor father taking care of three motherless children, all idiots. "I don't believe a word of it," said my wife. "There is no such people io this country. What paper arc you readlug from?" One can hardly conceive of thc tilth and yice reigning in these country places called homes-a barbarism dif fering from thc city slums only In its stagnant inertia and touched as little by church inllucnces as if In the heart ot Africa. Tlie country people all over the State arc generally without, ambition, improvident, ignorant, not "able to read or write, loose in their family relations, socially corrupt, giv en to drink, and some to thc opium habit. And those arc the towns where half a century ago, lived thc host fam ilies of thc State. Among them thc Fields (Cyrus and his brother), thc Abbotts, the liarnos and Donald G. Mitchell and others. And now let me tell you, my deai wife, I am reading from Thc Hartford Times and this is only a short portion of the report read in New Haven re cently by Rev. Mr. Hutching, a Bible exporteur, of Connecticut. This report is fully accredited to be true and thc editor of Thc 'Times tries to tone it down by saying, **The same conditions described by Mr. Hutchins for Connecticut arc common to all the older States." Kev. George ! Torr j of of Massachusetts, is also a Itiblc col porteur for that State and lie said in Boston tlie other day, *I have driven all over New England with my. own horses and my conviction is there is no immortality in any western mining town that will compare with what you rind a few milos from any New En gland town. Mr. ll u tell i ns' observa tion corresponds exactly with my own." Good friends, kind friends, what is to be done about this. lUit thc editor of The Times is mistaken when he, says thc same conditions are common to all the older States. Wc have no such people In Georgia. In some or our mountain counties thc peuple are illiterate, but they arc honest and moral and attend church and observe thc marriage relation and obey thc laws of thc land and make thc best soldiers thc world ever saw. They have courts twice a year and it takes only a half a week to clear thc crimi nal dockets. Now, I was thinking that as Bos ton and Hartford and New Haven had sent a big lot of money down here to educate and reform our negroes lt would be nothing but fair for us to send a lot of thc graduates up there to do missionary work in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Those negro graduates couldn't teach them the lost art of making wooden nutmegs, but tliey could teach school and preach and thc New longland people could pay them for it and keep their money at home. Something must be done and done quick, or tlie old Puritan race will become extinct. 1 reckon these colored graduates would make good missionaries. They have never tried anything else. When my good friend Mr. T. ly. Oglesby sent me his book, "Some Truths of History--Tlie South Vindi cated," I was too sick to peruse it carefully. Since 1 have gotten helter 1 have reread it-every page-and am free to say it is the most comforting little book ol' 2(iU page's 1 have yet round, lt is masterly and as true and solid as a stone wall. He lias certainly vindicated thc South and nailed thc lies and slanders to the masthhead. 1 feel like 1 have a de fender in mino own household, and yet there ls nota malignant expres sion in it. lt ls gracefully done and would bring conviction to any mi tl, North or South, that was opennto conviction. Every youth in the land should buy a copy and absorb its con tents, for it is as readable as a lo rn a ncc. I regard it as thc best con tribution to Southern historical litera ture that has yet appeared. Send $1.2f? to Mr. Oglesby, Nc. 8 South IJ road street, Atlanta, Ga. lt seems to me that this book would convert a Northern fanatic and if it converted only one it would save a soul from death and hide a multitude of sins. And there has recently come to me thc Mandi number o? Tlie Alkahest, a first-class Southern magazine, and I lind In it a very remarkable article, "Thc Stages ol Ci vi liza t ion." by Mr. ifr?hk ?rm?, bf ?tlftni^r t aia hot think that the Frank Ormf.I Ufi?d tb know was old euu?gii to have written a?'artlc?oVb.iicdeiitlfl?, so philosophi cal, KO Huxleylikeun tba races or man kind. JU Rt or tho article ls ad analy tical hli.tory of tho principal races and tho causes that contributed to their advancament or their decay. The. latter part deals gently and fairly with the negro and our efforts to . elovabe and rcrtne him by education. From Mr. prime's viewpoint and the'laws of ethnology mid biology this cannot be dope and tho effort will he in vain. ?Jut I have not time or space to re view his admirable treatise, Let our thoughtful men, our wiso men, our learned professors in the college read lt and they will lind abundant food for thought and serious reflection. Mr. Orme^scems as familiar with en tbnology, biology, anthropology, so ciology and all the tither ologles as Huxley or Humboldt or Darwin. We old veterans are pleased to sec our young men taking hold of .these things. Ever since t he war our peo ple have seemed almost paralyzed for fear of making their condition more intolerable by talking, but of late there ls a renewal of Independence and younger men are coming to the front. Tile sale of Henry lt. Jackson's great speech on "The Wanderer" has ex ceeded my expectations and lt was a young man who projected that-not for money but for the diffusion of knowledge. And here is a long article Jn a Des Mou i nus paper from a woman who has been recently traveling through Texas hunting for something she wanted to lind and she found it. It was some very high weeds in the front yard of one home-and at another house was a woman sitting on a log dipping snuff and she had Install her front teeth. Another discovery was that Texas wo men don't do anything. They wou't work the garden or raise enickens O' chin n the butter and ir one was caught nt it she would he taken up and put in a glass.ease and sent to the St. L iuis fair as a curiosity. What, a malignant slanderer she is. She winds up by saying that thc people there hate thc negro so bad that If the whole race had but one neck they would chop it off. I know Texas from east to west and north to south and the people will average well with the better class in the older States. When will these slanders cease? Thc March number of The Review of Reviews has' a most excellent editorial on thc South and her people. It ls kind and con siderate until lt gets to Roosevelt and it gives him the most falsomc praise and declares that he is our friend. Lut I want Mr. Shaw to tell me If he can about when will Roosevelt retract his published slanders of Jefferson Davis and make an apology to his widow. That's what I want to know and until he docs that no words of praise will prove him to be either a gentleman or a friend.-DillArp In Atlanta Constitution. LIFE OF YOUNG GIRL RUINED. Marr Ir tl Man in Hurtsville, S. O. Alter Few Day H Acquuintnnce. The Charlotte Observer says at the 1 boarding house of Mrs. John Hender son, in that city, a pretty woman and a bride has waited a week for the re 1 turn of her husband. The woman, ; who is quite young and penniless, found that she was not a bride, and ' that the real wife of her husband is ! still living. The following is the sad story as related by the Observer: The girl is Miss Mary Mclnvaille of Harts vi ile, Darlington county, S. C. She thought until a day or so ago that she was Mrs. Julius Manus Four mouths ago she met Manus in Harris ville and became engaged to bim, and when lier mother objected tb the match she ran away to Kershaw, K. C., and was married to Manus. That was three weeks ago. A fortnight ago the young couple came here and engaged board and lodging at Mrs. Henderson's Manus claimed that hehad been a superin tendent of a cotton mill and that ho expected to secure work in Charlotte. Every morning during his stay here he would leave the house carly, taking his dinrcr with him, and would not return until thc late afternoon. A week ago-Saturday, thc 14th Inst, Manus disappeared. Prior to his de parture he had taken from the wo man he illegally married all the money she had, about $2f>. In a conversation with chief of po lice irwin and an Obseuer reporter Wednesday afternoon Miss Mclnvaille stated that she would leave Thurs day morning for Hurtsville, her former home. Her mother had wired to Mr. J. H. Weddington, chairman of thc county commissioners, asking that her daughter be sent back home; and the young woman said she would never have another moment's peace until she again saw her mother. Manus not only left her penniless, but failed to pay any part of the board bill due by the couple. "1 want to make Mr. Manus suffer," said Miss Mclnvaille to the chief of police. "He must bc arrested. He has ruined my life completely." "And I want my mother," said the young girl, with a wail._ Mi<l CIienrH and IIIKHCH. A dispatch from Detroit recently says: Senator Len. lt. Tillman of South Carolina was greeted with al ternate storms of cheers and hisses when he delivered an impassioned ad dross on race problem at the Light Guard Armory, the audience being evidently divided between ?upholders of his ideas and strenuous opponents of them. He said the North demand ed majority rule and with a sneer ad ded that there were 230,000 more ne groes than white people in South Car olina, "lt will mean that more blood will How than was shed in thc civil war if you persist itftrying to subject us to thc domination of the blacks," he said. "You butchered the Indians and shut out the Chinamen, but had it been known by thc sold iel?, who sur rendered with Lee that it was your devilish intent to set up the negro over the white man we would have fought you HU now."' Upon the sena tor's reference to some of Sherman's anny as bummers, chicken thieves and carpetbaggers, his northern audi ence broke but into such violent hiss ing that the speech was interrupted and some of tho more timid ones in the audience feared trouble._ How It Stands lfrbm several quarters in South Car olina, as well as in oilier southern States, reports come that tratllc on highway lias boen practically suspend ed because or the condition of thc roads. If railroads suspended traille, they would soon be bankrupt; Mer chants in thc towns and farmers liv ing on these roads leading to the towns, occupy the relative position ol' stockholders of railroads. Yet few realize the heavy, losses incurred . by suspended traille on highways. I .i-hUm-ttl. V ?- ITT If- ? - . t ' A TO BE HONORED. null, of tho Mouth Carolina Troops In tho. Civil War. Governor Hey ward Wed nesdav Rent tho'following lotter to Hon. Elihu Robt, secretary of war: "Absence Trono my office has' pre vented my replying earlier to your communication of March Kith. I note with much pleasure that lt is the in tention of your department to compile and publish, as a continuation of the publication known as."The Oiricial Records of the Union aud Con federate Armies," complete list or roster of the otllcers and ? men who served iii these armies during the Civil war. I feel sure that this ac tion on the part of .the general govern ment will meet with favor through out the entire south, and that those who served In the Confederate armies and their descendants' will appreciate this opportunity of having their names handed dowu to history, I shall be glad to give to your department; whatever cooperation lits in my power. "You request that I should desig nate some one from this State to com municate with Ilrig. y? C. Ainsworth, chief of thc record and pension otliec of your department, relative to the details'of the work. I would respect fully suggest Col. M P. Tri Oblo of An derson, S. C. I will request Col. Tri ta ble to correspond with you." The governor also sent Col. Trihble a letter sis follows: "I have been notified by tho Hon. Elihu Hoot, secretary of war, to name ah otlicinL from South (Jaiollna lo co operate with Hritf. Coi . F. C. Ains worth, chief of the record and pension olllee of the war depai ttnent, lu com piling u full roster and list of the otll cers and enlisted men who bore arms for the Confederacy during the great war. This roster and list or v?lint-'s will be compiled ;iud published as a continuation of the publication known as "The Ollioial Records of the Union and Confederate Armies." In compli ance with the request of Secretary Root, 1 have the pleasure of naming you for this important work. I feel sure that with you the work will re ceive loving and faithful service, and I am very glad to name so true and trieb a citizen for the discharge of this duty which means so much for the history of our State. "Secretary Root reques'. s that you communicate with Brig." Gen. F. C. Ainsworth, chief of the record and pension ollice at Washington, D. C. and I have written him that you will do so." CHARGE A STONE FORT. Tho American Troops and tho Fili pinos Have a Fight. A dispatch from Manila says two companies of Maeabebe scouts signal ly defeated thc main body of San Miguel's forces Friday. It is believed San Miguel was killed. Lieut. Reese was seriously wounded. The scouts lost titree men killed and eleven mcu wounded. The enemy occupied an entrenched position midway between Mariquilla a ad San Francisco del Monte, and had erected a stone fort, which was gar risoned by 200 men. The First and Fjurth companies of Macabebes. com manded by Lieuts. Reese and Nieker s in, respectively, attacked tbo enemy's p isition, but as the scouts were ex pjscd to the fire of the enemy in a manner which placed the Macabebes at a disadvantage, the lieutenants decided after an hour's light to sur round thc position and charge. Af ter having divided their companies the two otllcers then led a gallant and successful charge during which Lieut. Reese fell seriously wounded. The enemy then broke and ran, leaving 49 men dead on the lield, in cluding a general otllccr, who is be lieved to be San Miguel, though his identification is incomplete. Lieut. Col. Meyer of the Eleventh infantry has been ordered to Surigao to assume command of thc troops there and di rect the operations of the three de tachments which are pursuing thc bandit band. Additional troops aie to be sent to Surigao latcr'on. A GEOKQiA nov. Lieut. Ross Reese, who was serious ly wounded Friday in the engagement with San Miguel's forces in the Philip pines, is the son of Col. Oscar Reese, an attorney Or .Carrollton, (iii., arid nephew of Congressman W. C. Adam son. He is 22 years old. ile served in the Second Georgia regiment during the Spanish war. Now Chief Const ablcs. Tlie matter of Governor Heyward's appointments to the position of chief constables has been agitating a large number of oftice-seekers for some time. Thc governor has received hundreds of letters applying for positions on thc force. After much thought and a careful selection he Wednesday made the fol lowing appointments: C. L. Cureton, Pickens. J. C. Halli Greenville. J. R. Fant-, Spartanburg. A. S. Osborn, Columbia. S. Y. Delgar, Sumter. S. T. Howie, Charleston. W. F. Holmes, Beaufort. Of the old force Constables Howie, Fant and Cureton are retained, the other appointees having uever occupi ed such positions before. J. C. Hall has been lirst sergeant of thc police force of Greenville, S. Y. Delgar a business man of Sumter, and W. V. Holmes a farmer of Harnwell county. A. S. Osborn who will have his headquarters In Columbia is a mer chant of Ninety- Six. The appointments become effective April I, when the otllcers will take up temporary headquarters at the places indicated and proceed to enforce the law. Dove Slaughter. During thc big Kansas City shoot 18,000 defenceless doves whose natural Heel ness of wing had been dulled by coop life, were, to thc disgrace of that city, thrown from traps and shot at "just for fun." AH Longfellow says: "A slaughter to be told lu groans, not words." Many crippled hirds escaped, to die a lingering death, with broken legs, I ciks shot away or bodies ripped open. . Ifor. In stance, 1 found near the gun club grounds a dove with both legs shot off (bittering helplessly about hunting food. Surely this dove was-paying dearly for somebody's "fun." lt causes pain, hardens the public con science and above lill- cultivates cruel ty in thc hearts of the yoting, than which there .is-nothing more danger ous to thc .fdturc<Happiness ot our own race. ?.? '' Th? Emigration from tho southern fliaion tu Mi'xloo Deann. Ad y Ices received at tho Mexican embassy at Washington tell of tho re cent Importation to that country from the United States of 100 negroes wi to will bc employed along:the line or tho Vera Cruz and Paclrle' railroad. This move Is experimental, and ls being watched with consid?rable interest. If successful results ensue, lt is said that large importations from the southern States will follow in the ef fort to solve the present problem of rinding laborers in Mexico who are alike competent and willing to" work. rJ o an Alabama negro, named McK?l vin ls given the credit for Inducing members of his rac? 'to emigrate to Mexico. McKolvin was at one-time employed on a large Alabama plan ta - j Hon. but later went to Mexico, where he claims to have found better wager. Ile returned to Alabama and distribu ted large circulars among the negroes telling of the advantages of the Mexi can country and of thc opportunities I it offered poor negroes who wanted work in tho country. ?' His circulars also contained asan inducement the assurance that the negroes would not be subject to the order of "white trash." This last feature apparently proved a d ra wing card for McKelvin had no trouble itt pursuading 1?0 ne groes to return to Mexico with him, where bc found work for them at $1.50 a day. Most of this first importation have been employed on the La Junta plantation of. George C. Sanborn. So far lite negroes, it is said, are quite salislied and are, lu turn proving satisfactory to their employers. Mc Kolvin has made thc claim that lie will be able to induce a .million of his race now in the southern States to emigrate lo Mexico and several rail n ad contractors are endeavoring to arrange with him to return to the States and canvass the south for la borers. McKclvin, it is understood, will make a return trip' within the ; next few months. Sonic Wholesome Truths. Some newspapers and people, who are everlastingly trying to turn their sails to catch every breeze from what ever quarter it come, get the cold shivers every time Senator Tillman goes into a Northern city and in his forceful, sledge-hammer style tells the Northern people some good whole some truths. The Atlanta News be longs to this class of newspapers, and it is now frantically calling on Sena tor Tillman to come home and hush. Well the News does not know Senator Tillman as well as we do nor does it understand the purpose pf his mission. As the Spartanburg Journal expresses It Senator Tillman do?s not soft-soap people, and his audiences does not ex peet him to. In fact, they would be greatly disappointed ir he did not in ject considerable vltrol in his talks to them. The people that the Senator talks to in these Northern towns know what they arc going to get when they go to hear him and have no cause to complain when he gives it to them. He told them at Detriot ono night last week that Sherman's army was composed of bummers, chicken thieves, etc. The Spartanburg Journal ti.inks "these are mild terms to apply ..to The perpetrators of wholesale arer-r.? ?nd robbery and the Sod th" ought'.'.to' be; ; proud of a man who can go Into the midst of thc place where those he is denouncing come from and express the South's opinion of them. Senator Tillman is engaged just now in stat ing the South's position on the race question, which has been so offensively thrust upon us by an unbalanced Re publican president. Only a portion of tile northern people smypathlze with thc president in his course, the other portion, and a very large por tion it is, sympathizing with the South. The subject does not furnish occasion for thc superb flights of elo quence of which the editor of the Atlanta News is so well capable,' but requires just thc kind of treatment Tillman is giving it. Such words as his may not please, but thej make their hearers go .home and think, and such thinkinghvillinevitably bring them to a better view of the South's position and the absolute necessity of mainlining it." liri bery in Host on. The peopb of thc North in general, and New England in particular, delight iii charging all manner of elec tion frauds on thc South. To hear these people talk one would think that such a thing as cheating at elec tions among them is a thing unheard of. Hilt they arc not half as free from wrong doing in thc matter of e!? ?tions as they pretend to be. In fact the cheating in elections have became so notorious in Ruston even that the Legislature of Massachusetts lias been compelled to take hold of thc matter. Recently evidence, of wholesale repeating in the eighth ward of Huston at thc State election last November startled the legislative committee that was investigating the charges made about that saintly city. One of thc witnesses before the com mittee, Henry Hrown by name, de clared that he voted no less than seven times between .1:15 and 3:55 in thc afternoon under a promise of re ceiving $1 for each vote. As he was paid sit one time $12 the afternoon's work netted him $8, he said. He thought this was a pretty good day's pay, until later he ran across another man, who said lie knew of a man who voted twenty-four times between G and 8 o'clock In the morning, receiving Sf cadi time. Hrown added that he met parties on Election Day going from precinct to precinct, and voting in all of theil). In each case he voted for John A. Keliher for Congressman and Daniel J. Kiley for Representative. Hrown also sahl that bc was induced to vote at one of thc places by Repre sen Inti vc Kiley. Nothing half as bad as this ever oc curred In the South, and yet these self-righteous Heston people lay awake at night trying to devise some means to prove that thc South commit all sorts or election frauds. Some how or other they won't see their own rascality during election times, but worry themselves sick about the sins of the people of thc South. They are the worst kind of hypocrites and no one know lt better than they them selves, if they would sweep thc trash from their own doors and let other people's trash alone they would he a great deal more consistent than they arc. A o IIB AT strike riot accompalncd by much bloodshed, has occurred at 'the Russian town of Hlatousk among tile I'ral mountains. Twenty-eight persons were killed and about fifty others-were wounded. Hit Downi Grover. lt ls the opinion tit many that Glo ver Cleveland IR working for the nomination tor president at the hands ot the De moo rat I o party. In com menting oh thia subject the .Louis ville Courier-Journal states a well known truth svhen lt says "to the great body of the Deraoerats ur the west and south Mr. Cleveland la an eyesore, an offense, a red rair, but to those Democrats who, like ourselves, would bridge the chasm of 1890-1900 he is merely an obstruction. He stands right across the middle of the bridge, blocking the way. Except for him there would be ho serious trouble. If we were his friend, and assuredly we are not his enemy, and believed in his lofty professions, wc should still counselhim to stand asid-'. We should say to him: 'Mr. Cleve land, thc Democratic shipwreck cante to pass whilst you were on the bridge. Many of the cr?w, and some of the passengers, hold- you responsible, guil ty of incompetency, If not of treach ery.-- Even according to your own rating of yourself, j ou have done enough for your party and your coun try. You are an old man. Why com plicate the. situation, embarrassing your friends and cheating your age of its repose by once more -undertaking to seize the helm and to steer thc ship? " This is a simple truth plain ly told, but Cleveland is too- full rf egotism' to heed it. It seems hard for Cleveland to understand that hu is only a has been, and that the rank and tile ut the Democratic party has trusted bim for the last time. Ile be trayed the party into the hands of its enemies once, but he will never get thc chance to do so again. Grover should go away back and sit down. Ti 11 niim'h Urunt Speech. A very emphatic endorsement of Senator Tillman's speech on the "Lace Problem lu the South'" was sent to him recently by the citizens of T rrell Texas. The endorsement, which was signed by one hundied of the leadh g citizens of Terrell, reads os follows: "We,the undersigned citizens of Ter rell, Texa6, do signify our apprecia tion and regard for the brave, patrio tlc, historic, philosophic and states manlike utterances of ono of thc sons of South Carolina, Senator Tillman, delivered before the United States Senate on the race problem in Ameri ca, and we feel that there are yet men who are interested and desire that Caucasian race shall rule and be re-1 sponsible for the weal or woe of the American people at large." The Spartanburg Journal quotes Congressman Lever as saying that Senator Tillman's speech was the greatest speech he ever heard. Con gressman Lever relates this little In icident lu-connection with the delivery of the speech. Ile says: "Right in the midst of Tillman's speech I remem ber that Senator Morgan of Alaba ma rose from his seat in the senate and going over to the speaker, he in terrupted him by saying, 'You are making the greatest speech ever heard in this senate.' Congressman Lever further said that Tillman's speech was all the talk in Washington for many days after its delivery. Too Work Coe? On. The work of dismantling the bars and fixtures was in progress Friday at many saloons in Charleston in re sponse to orders from the constables, and the word of Chief Howie to Vin cent Chicco Thursday that his places were not tobe the only establishments raided and dismantled, ls being made good. The dealers are following the example of the "King of the blind tigers" in doing their own dismantl ing, rather than have the work done by the constables', in order to save greater destruction of their property. As was stated, when Chicco was told that his fixtures and effeots were to be moved, he asked permission to have the work done by carpenters and the constables were glad to bc reliev ed of lt. They wanted the bar, fur nishings and screen doors taken down, and it waB immaterial to them whether the proprietor had the work done, or they themselves knocked the fixtures down. The constables remained on hand to see the work done. Now, they have served a similar notice upon the bars at several hotels and many other places about thc.city and at these es tablishments thc carpenters and ex perienced helped were at work, carry ing out thc orders of the oOlccrs. Hot ties and glasses were boj ng packed away. Attention ls also being given of course to the better concealment of thc stock of liquors, in anticipation of any greater inspection and search by the constables. The First Htm no to a Wotmi.il. New Orleans claims the honor of belng thc tlrst city In the United States to erect a statue to a woman. Thc monument stands in Margaret Place, at the intersection of Camp and Prytanla streets. Itcommemora tes the charities of Magaret Haughcry, a woman reared in poverty, who accu mulated a fortune in thc milk and bakery business. She spent fieely in the care and help of the poor tn the city, and when she died her money was divided among the charitable in stitutions of New Orleans. Margaret was a young, ignorant woman when she lost her little boy, and although she had but servant's wages, she began at once to spend her money for thc children of the poor about her. She used to carry bread and milk to thc orphan asylum when she had no money to give and no matter how little money she possessed she divided with those who were poorer than she, when she died the people of New Orleans' erected this statue in her memory. Margaret ls represented in thc wollen shawl and cotton dress familiar to reslS dents of thc city for so many years, with a littlechild by her side. Wanted to Cromato thc noy. In Findlay,Ohlo.school boys having been to see "Tracy, the Outlaw," they concluded that lt would be a flue thing to reproduce. They fell upon a plan to size one of their schoolmates and make him the victim of the re production. An account of the affair ls as follows: "Oribis way home from school 8-years-old Clarence Hummell, son of Mr. and Mrs, George Hummell, of East Front street, was captured by live schoolmates, forced to accompany them down the Blanchard river, out side the city limits and there, in a secluded spot, was tied to a stake. Preparations for his cremation were being made when the little fellow's cries attracted thc attention of men who wero employed In the vicinity of the Findlay Hydraulic Press Brick works, and he was rescued by them. Young lIummcH'8 captors had wit nessed the production of "Tracey, the Outlaw," and in talking it over made plans for the capture and the burning at the 6take." THAT was a sensible Chicago Judge who told a husband and wire, who were before him Indivorce proceedings to both kiss tho baby and make up. They did. I CAN CURE TUe' specialist 1? now Indispensable. Iii ol?.walks of lifo thcro i i o demand for the man who can do ono particular tbl/ig botter than any ono else, and such a nia? ls ono who ho? confined bia endeavor to, and centered all o? bli energy arid'ability on tho -r^clalty he baa cjitSs?rj forfcUy Ute's work. -.- Early In my professional career I realized that Chronic Dispose i vrero not being glVen tho attention which ?helr Importance warranted. -1 saw that these diseases required a special flt-r" ness whioh the busy proolltlonor could never acquire. Tor more t'ja-v twenty years X have de voted myself exclusively, to the, study .and treatment of these diseases," arid Ibo fact that physi cians recommend mo to their patients ls aa evidence of my skill and abtllty la my special lino. 1. give special counsel to physicians' with obstinate arid obscure cases. 1 have devoted particular attention to chronic dlseaccs of men'and. women, and no other class of disease, requires more intelligent, and export treatment. It la a fact that a majority ot men owe tho seriousness of their condition to Improper treatment, und a failure to realize tho importance bf placing their case in tho bands ot a skilled arid expert specialist. Nervous Debility DR. HATHAWAY. Recognized as thc Leading and Most Successful Specialist lu His line in the United States, Overindulgence, indiscretions and excesses art not tho only cause? ot un impairment ot sexual strength. Cuoh a derange ment frequently comes from worry, overwork, mental strain,' etc., which gradually weakens ?nd Injures the system before tho unfortunate victim, realize? thc true nature of his trouble. Nervousness, wcajt back, dizziness, loss of memory, spots before the eyes, despondency, etc., otton are the first symptoms ot an.lmuaj,rmcntof manly vigor, arid if neglected serious results are sure to follow. I want to talk'lo i?v'ery "man who baa any of these symptoms of weakening of bis manly functions. l ean promptly correct all irregularities; and under my skillful treatment you wllf have restored allot the strength and glory of your man hood. Whether you consult mo or not, do not jeopardize your health by experimenting .with ready-made medicines, freo samples, so-called quick cures, etc., as the most delicate organs of. the body aro "involved,and only an expert should bo entrusted with your case. Bend for free* booklet, " Nervous Debility ona Its Family of llls.'? ; ' . " >.< : . ^ \? ;v My cuire for this dlBeaso ia gontle and painless, and often causea uo detention frAm business or.other-dutlc?., It involves ?j Stricture tlon end soreness ia allayed and the' canal heals up prom pt ly and permanently. Send for freo book on .stricture Th ia disease la tho enlargement, of veins ot tho scrotum, wblcb AH with stagnant blood, causing a constant drains-open j nd cutting or dango runa surgical operation, improper treatment will result tn serious Injury.' .1 give eaeh case Individ- . ual attention, and treat ita every requirement. Every obstruction is removed, and all discharge soon ceases, lnflommo' - the vitality. It weakens tho cntlro system and saps away all sexual strength, I euro this disease-with tho same uni form certainty jbst as quick as oonslstent with medical science. Probably more men aro afflicted.Avllh Vorlcocelo than-, any other disease, and their strength ls being drained away without their knowing the cauBe. Come to me at once W yon think you ore afflict Varicocele any other disease, and ed, and learn the causo of your trouble. Send for freo booklet on VarloOccle. ' j f> _ This horrible disease is no longer Incurable, and when I say that I can oure thTmost Bover? caso Ido so'becpuso-I Klnnfl rillSfin know justwhat my .treatment has accomplished. If you havo.?ores, pimples, blotches, Hore throat, pains .n tho UIUUU I UI?Ult bones, falling hair, or any symptoms which you do not understand, it ls Important that you consult mo ot once, and ^ I will tell you frankly wbother or not you aro an unfortunate victim. I will guarantee to euro you without tho uso of ^trongand lnjurtoM . druBB Inas aulck. if not quicker, time than any known treatment. My ?ftre ia a permanent ono, arid ls not mero patchwork, and tho^diaeaae "'.TP?' "VJ?_...J.it,? ...i.n, )"..".. air. A tnr mtrt nulinnlil?! "Thn Poison Kine." ? W?Tbo eradicated from tho system forever Diseases of Women to health thousands ol suffering women. Send for my free-booklet, ??Tho Poison King.1 Women who''B?tfor f rom "tho aliments peculiar to their sex are cured by my. gentle and painless method ot treatment, which avoids all necessity for Surgical operations. If you suffer from bearing down pains, backache, Irregularities, leuchorrhea, etc., write me about your case. I hove restored Send for my free booklet ou women's DIBCKSCS.^ ?-. . f\*^-. -Mr specialty also Includes all otber'chronlo diseases, such as Rheumatism, Catarrh, Diabetes, Bright's" I.nrnnin U!Sfi?lSfiS Disease, Stomach, Liver and Kidney Diseases, Piles, FlBtula, Rupture. Paralysis, Locomotor Ataxia, 81. Vina* vitus Dance, cte., and all wbo_want skillful,.expert treatmentbhould write mo about their case. My oillco ls equipped with the most approved X-Ray and electrical apparatus, so that ray patients get the benefit ot tho latest discoveries of science. .;. ; . . TM^IMAM? I invite everyone to consult mo without chorgo^and-wllfeiefund- railroad faro one way to all who take' HBOETUO 8 re?llTieiilX treatment. If you cannotj;ee mo in person write for^symptom^ blanks and full Information about my.euc ?ountrles. Correspondence confide cessful plan of home treatment by which I have cured pnfients lu every Statelu the Unlon^andia foreign-' entlal. .'.- ." - . ?: .... J. NEWTON 88 Inman 1'ii i id ii g, 224 S. Broad St.. Atlanta. (Ja ? iVl. D. ...I uroHS aim r'orn?c Crops The farmers of South Carolina are beginning to take more interest in thc necessity of studying the needs of thc soils and of produeingdiversilied crops. Two inlluence.? have been at work to cause this gratifying condition of af fairs-the work of Clemson college through the summer Institute for far mers and the work of the department of agriculture at Washington.. For the .past two' years, Mr. W. J. Spillman, agrostologist, in charge of the grass and forage plant investiga tions, has been coming to South Car olina and making talks to the farmers. Ile was induced to come through the efforts of Congressman Lever and thc farmers have been much benetitcd by tho narration of his experience and of the results of his investigations. Mr. Spillman will come into this congress ional district in a few days and will speak to the farmers in each of the court house towns except Columbia. The following dates have been se lected hy Mr. Spillman: Lexington, Monday, April lit; Orangeburg, April 14; Sumter, April 15; Bishopvillc, April 1(3. The meetings will be from 12 until 2 on the days named. Thc objector these meetings is to discuss the results of thc distribution of seed, to discuss agricultural topics of gener est to the farmers of this section ; and to make suggestions in the matter of the cultivation of grasses and foragt plants and in the handling of ll vi stock. Col. J. S. Newman of Clemsor college will also be present and wil deliver undresses. Dr. Spillman wil distribute literature on grasses ant forage plants at the meetings, anc will try to get individuals to rnaki experiments. Mr. Lever expresses the belief tba the raising of cattle is the salvation o this country. This industry will en courage the other neglected industr, of raising grasses and if thc farmer who raise cattle will carfully prepar thier compost, there will be no ned to buy tile artificial fetilizer, whic burns out the soil, but the land cai be enriched permanently hy the aj. plication (if ba rn lot manures. In th northwest 1 ind has been built up i this way until ft 41 winch a few yeal ago would not raise -a crop of whea now produces a stalk so large and ; head so heavy that lt bends to th ground._ Scarcity ol' Leap Years, lt is very unusual but still it is fact that the completion of the mont of February marked the tirst time i - history for 101) years when seven sm cesslve Februarys of only 28 day have occurred and it will be 200 yeal lunger, or the year 2,100. The uni sual occurrence is due to the working of the rule of astronomers for calcul; ting leap years. The rule by wide the present or Gregorian Calendar 1 calculated ls as follows: Every year divisible by four shall I a leap year except the centuries ac these shall be leap years if they ai divisible by 400. According to th rule the year HiOO was not a leap yea and therefore the present year, 100: ls the seventh year since a leap yef occurred. The year 2000 will be leap year because it is divisible by 4C so that the next time when seven con mon years will he from the year 20C to 2103, the year 2100 not being leap year. The above rule was ii stitutcd by Pope Gregory in an ei?o: to keep the solar and calendar yea together. Thc solar or sun year is 365 days, hours, 40 minutes and 47 seconds lon so that every four year thc solar yea gets nearly but not quite 24 hou ahead of the common year and a cordingly one day is added toFebrua every 4 years to take up thc discre ancy. There is, however, still a sligl difference, the calandar gaining t the solar year by about one day every 40 years so that on every ce tury year divisible by 400, thc ext day is not added._ Ttio CIOMIIIR Scone. A sad story corads from Barnw to the effect that llcyward Dunbi thc only surviving son of Mr. a Mrs. George Dunbar, has been carri to Columbia and committed Ute hospital for thc ins an This is tlie last scene in the aw: tragedy enacted at Hobbins December 31, 1901, of which so mu has already been written, where t unfortunate young man saw his fall and two brothers killed in rapid s> cession, and, at thc same time, s his mother wounded. Thc m heartless will not wonder that mind and body have given away, such suffering few are called upon endure. Thc friends of the yoi man have observed for some time tl his body was weakening and mind g lng way, and when the end cann showed itself In his frantic search i calls for his dead brother, for wh his heart always went out. The Great Rheumatic Cure -AND lng Purifier . 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