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?liL?PA'M?j More W?aderfal Thin -M?i'coni's Wireless Telegraphy. SOME STARTLING STATEMENTS. XliOtlf>lits Sont Through Sluice. Sonn; . ltciiiarknble Casos That Uuvo Oe curred'11? NejTlierry ami* iu ot lier 1*1 noes. Below we print a very interesting article oil telepathy, which means, as far as it can be put in language, com munication uf minds at great distances without atty known medium. The Newberry Observer says the science, if such it is, is now. Thc unabridged dictionaries of only a few years ago did not even contain the word "tele pathy." Still it is older than wireless telegraphy; which it resembles in some respects, bul is far more wonder ful. Some sort of reasonable and in telligible explanation can bc given of the Marconi system ol'wireless mes sages between distant points, hut there is no explanation for this kind ot' communication. That the fact exists cannot be questioned. All we can say is, as Hamlet said to Horatio: "There are more things itt beaven and earth than arc dreamed of iii your philosophy."' Every man may be bis own tele phone. This is the amazing declara tion made by thc believers in tele pathy, which may be described as the wireless telegraphy of the mind. Slr William Crookes has recently startled tlie scientists of tho world by declar ing that it may bc possible to send thoughts across the Atlantic ocean or around the world wit bout either cables or thc apparatus of .Marconi. "ls it inconceivable," said he, "that intense thought, concentrated toward a person with wnom t he thinker is in close sympathy, may induce a telepa thic chain of brainwaves along which a message of thought univ go straight to its goal without loss ol' energy due " to distance? May not the words 'far' and 'near' lose their meaning in these subtle regions ol' unsubstantial tb ought? 1 dare to suggest it." This is the opinion of Sir William Crookes, tiie inventor ol' the Crookes tube, which made the X-ray possible, thc president or thc British Associa tion of Scientists, the "king ol'chem ists" anti hero ol' many a scientific ex ploit. Telepathy, this new and mys terious power ol' tim human mind, is not di III cu lt to understand. Dr. ll. Osgood Mason, fellow ol' the New York Acndeiiy of Medicine, says: "There are fortunate individuals to day who have nu need ol' mails or tele graphs, but who can communicate with one another, no mal ter how widely they may ba separated. A man named Fitzgerald, at Brunswick, Me., saw anti described the Great Fall I River lire, "!0i> miles away, and Mrs. Porter, ol' Bridgeport, Conn., described the burning of the steamer Henry Clay at the time that it wasoccurring on the Hudson river, near Yonkers." Ian Maclaren, the famous novelist, theologian and preacher, has been for several years a believer in tile new science. Ile says: "I believe it is possible for persons miles apart to talk to one another without wires. This mysterious signaling most fre quently makes itself felt in the hour of trouble, and is often a call for lie1;?. One afternoon, to give a striking in - --..vw.va.tt??jc( i made up my llst or Hitit; people, and started on my rounds. Af ter completing the Mist and while going along the main road, at ?ihuut .?1:30 o'clock, I feit a strong impulse ( ui turn down a side street and call on a family living in lt. "The impulse grew so urgent that it could i: ?t he resisted, and I rang the bell, and considered on thc don step what reason I should give foran unexpected call. Wino the door opened it turned out that strangers now occupied the house, and that my family bad gone to another address in thc street, Hie precise number being unknown. "Still Hie pressure continued, as if a band were drawing me, and J sat out to discover t heir new house, tin ! bad disturbed four families with vain inquiries. Then i abandoned the search with a sense of slut me. Had a busy clergyman not enough todo with out going on a wild-goose chase? Next.morning the bead of that house bold that 1 had sought in vain came into my study with evident, sorrow on bis face. " 'Weare in great trouble,' lie said. 'Yesterday our lit Ile one (a young baby) took very ill and died in the af- , ternoon. My wife was utterly over come by the shock, and wc would have ; sent for you, but we liad no messen- ? ger.' " 'What time was if?. 1 asked. " 'About half-past .'I." Another notable telcpathlst is Bishop Samuel Fallows, of the lie formed Episcopal church. "Telepathy is no longer a theory," says Bishop Fallows; "it it is a fact. 1 have, been interested in it for years, and the thing I am pondering now is bow to bring it into common everyday usc. It works on the same principle as the new wireless telegraphy of Mr. Mar coni. I will iiail bim as a benefactor of the human race who will teach peo plo how to use ibis tremendous psychic , force." \ A young merchant, who bad sev- i eral days before buried bis wife, was i awakened in the night by ber voice. | He beard lier distinctly calling his ( ny me. and asking for help. So i in- ? pressed was be by this mysterious i message that he sprang tn bis feet, | dressed and drove at once to the grave. | When be uncovered tile cullin and | broke It open be found bis witt; alive i and moving in an unconscious trance. ? Lifting ber into the carriage be drove ber quickly to the bouse, summoned medical aid. and bad the unspeakable pleasure of seeing ber regain ber health. BOM IS NlSWllUltltY CAS 153. ; Here aro some well authenticated i cases that occurred in Newberry in this State. Tiley are related by the Newberry Observer, whose editor, Mr. , W. II. Wallace, Is a highly cultured i gentlemen, and who would not vouch Tor a thing unless it was absolutely i true. The Observer says: On the morning of thc 25th day of February, 1 ?S77. just about day-light. Mrs. George McWblrtcr of that elly was gently roused from sleep by feel ing a band upon her forehead -which ' she took to bc the hand of a dead i sister-and a voice said. "Father is lt dead." Her lather was living inn Union, and when she last beard from bim previous to Ibis lime be was in good health. In a few minutes j she was again asleep, and precisely > thc same message uti inc to ber in tlie < same way, .'iud woke ber. She drop- j 1 ped dir to sleep again, and thc ex- i pc rici i ce was repeated a third time. O Sbo then ?ioc??iria-Lliofotfgii?y fouvln? c*? ?hut bei- faibbf'wUs.Ucud^h?u" no moro1 doubt of lt th??i if shb bad seen bim dib; Sim {'elated the occurrence to her husband, who tried to laugh lier out of what he called "supersti tion, V reminding her that she did not believe In such thing. Sbe .said: "lt ls true I have no superstition, but I know that Father is dead, and when the telegraph oftice opens this morning we will get a message saying so." When the oftlee was opened a message came saying: "Your father dropped dead this morn ing at six o'clock;" which was Just the time thc strange and Inexplicable mes sage have come to her. Another instance fully as strange as this happened tu Dr. L\ H. Ruff, a physician ol' Newberry, who died In 18110. Dr. Kuli was the grandfather of Mrs. Iiibert li. Aull of this city. Ile was an honored citizen and dis tinguished physician. No man ever stood higher in public estimation. Ile was a man of much more than or dinary intelligence and judgment and culture, in his profession and otherwise. Some time before the war bc had a son, Pressley, at school at Mt.- Koon, then in Edgelield county, now Saluda, about Hf been miles from Newberry. One morning the convic tion came suddenly to thc father that the son had just died. Ile went to II. G. Chapman, thc undertaker, and said to him: "Dick, my son Pressley is dead at Mt. Koon. Get a pair of horses from (icu. Kinard's stables, hitch them to your hearse and wc will go over with a collin for him." Mr. Chapman asked if he had the sou's measure. "No," he said: "you know the size of my son." As soon as thc arrangements were completed, Dr. Hug and Mr. Chapman in a buggy, and the hearse driven by an assistant and having thc collin in lt, started for Mt. Huon" by way ol' the Higgins ferry road. He tween Lind say's bridge on Hush river and Saluda rive they met a negro on a horse, on bis way to Newberry, riding "rapidly and bringing the news of the death of thc young man. Mr. Chapman was greatly astonish ed and asked Dr. Hull' If this was thc ti ist news lie had received of the death of his son. Ile said: "lt is; but I knew my son was dead." Upon comparing the time, lt was learned that the son had died at precisely thc moment thc strange message came to thc father. Among thc persons to whom both Dr. Hutl and Mr. Chapman told this incident is .lames Y. Culbreath of that city, who knew both men well for many years, as did also the writer ol' these incidents. Mr. Chapman in relating the cir cumstance a<lded that that from the time the young man died until the negro mel them on the way it was not possible for any message to have reached Dr. Huff-not meaning, of course, that thc doctor's word need any continuation-for everybody knew him to be absolutely truthful-butas one of the strange features of this won derful occurcnce. lt. should be added that there was no reason why Dr. Lui IT should be ex pecting Icol news from his son. So far as he I.new Lin: young man was in perfect health-was so when he last beard from him. His death was-sud deti-from a congestive chill, Mr. Cul breath thinks. Hearst lila/.cd tho Way. The recent decision of the United States Circuit, Court- against .the Northern Securities Merger, which is (.nc of the most important rendeied in years, is indirectly the work of W. li. Hearst, ?if New York. Tho de cision strikes at the root of illegal combinations, and has openod thc way for thc investigation of the whole trust question. While Mr. Hearst, says thc Spartan burg Herald, had nothing directly to do with the case that has just been decided, lie sought an injunction against the Coal Trust in New York and it was his lawyers who marshalled thc evidence and di gested the decisions upon which this action was based. In the Coal Trust tight. Mr. 11 ea ist had a hostile prose cution and ollicials clearly disposed to shield rather than expose. Circum stances were di itere nt in the Northern Securities' Company, but the Hearst ?L'lit blazed the way and marked the dangerous points. Because Mr. Hearst owns three powerful newspapers, his light on t he Trusts was kinked upon as "Yellow Journalism." IL was I bought tobe for advertising purposes. Hut the decision just rendered shows conclusively that if only the Coal case could have been gotten properly before the court, the main issues ol' thc illegality of Tursts would have been settled a year ago. Thc S partan burg Herald says "Hearst is mc ol' the most interesting charac ters just now in thu public eye. Horn to Immense wealth, lt would seem that he would be content to follow in the tracks of other young men whose lathers left barrels of money on their hands. He could easily have invested his millions so as tb make other mil lions: and lt' he desired fame he could in old agc build libraries with his name.carved in brass over thc door. Ile could join with those of this class in forming combinations and squeez ing tlic people. Thousands of easy op portunities offered, but the career ' he ?hose is the last that one would have supposed attractive to a man in his itu ti on. Mr Hearst struck out boldly n journalism where competition was iierccst, where ideas were set, where prospects seemed darkest and he. has ?cl neil ted the public to a new journal ism. He has fought the battles of [he people. While he has given bread Lo the hungry, what is more to the point and more appreciated is that he lias lent all of bis powers and resources Lo tho task ol' defending the weak tguinst the unscrupulous strong." A Total Wreck. The section of a .southbound Louis ville and Nashville passenger train which left Montgomery, Ala., at 12. 10 Wednesday night, was wrecked at (Jast?ebcrry, ten miles south of Montgomery Thursday morning. Two members of the crew were killed and John Wright of Montgomery; the engineer, sustained a fractured skull. No passengers were injured. The lead arc H. L. Donovan, Mobile, rail way mail clerk, and Major Knox, Montgomery, negro li re??an. Almost in front of the station at Castlcberry the engine struck an open switch and plowed through au empty freight car. Thc mail and baggage cars which fol lowed caught lire and were entirely Icmolished and the wreckage took lire. Total lOxptosloii. The boiler of tile Charles lie van's ?aw mill at lluby, <>.. exploded Tues isiy, killing Charles libyans, Richard louek, I tu fus llouck and two boys lamed I louek and ( ?ottridge. Several ithers were badly injured. COMMITTED BTHO??d. i &a??a?? .: \Vlftj of Prof. W. JE2. ?ren?or.?o Jum{i?? . iront a Summer. News reached Andorsou Friday of the suicide of Mrs. Martha Breazoale, wire of Pror. W. E. Brcazeale of Rut gers college, N. J. She Jumped over board from a steamer in Long Island sound last Monday night while en route from her home in Brunswick, N. J., to New York city. Her body has not been found. Prof. Brea/.eale is a native of An derson county and was for several years professor of mathematics in Winthrop college. He resigned that position several years ago and went to Bordeaux, -Jj'rance, with his family, where he remained for two years. He returned to the United States two years ago and accepted the position of professor of mathematics in Rutgers colicu?, and has been there since. A dispatch to The State says no cause is known for Mrs. Breazeulc's suicide, except melancholy following 111 heath. She left her home in H rims wick without letting her husband know of her intention, and he found that she had taken a steamer for New York only after diligent search. When the boat reached port she was missing, but her cloak and hat were found in one of thc toilet rooms opening on the deck. lt was plain that she had jumped overboard at night. A search ls being made for the body, but at last accounts it had not been found. The married life of Pref, and Mrs. Brcazeale has always been most happy, except for the periods during which she would suffer from melancholia due to ill health. She attempted suicide while Uni family lived at Winthrop by severin}.' an artery in ber wrist, but was discov ered by her husband in time to save her life. Before doing so she left a note for her husband declaring her love for him and saying that she would take her life because she feared she could not live to rear her children as she would like. Her mind dwlet largely upon her children, and she became a moho-maniac on that subject Mrs. Brcazeale was a Miss Dodge of Massa chusetts. She was educated in Balti more and it was there that Prof. Broazeale met her. She was .'18 years old and the mother of four childicn, ranging from 8 to 2 years old. The youngest was born in France. i usp ??.-( i H oiilcer. The adjutant general has received from .Major General Chaff cc, comman der of the Department of the East, notice of the appointment of Colonel Chas. K. Norris, of the artillery corps stationed at Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan's Island, lo inspect the troop.? of the state under the new mili: ?a act. Colonel Norris will notify the adjutant general at once as to thc time of inspection and the work will commence In a few days. As a result of this appointment, Genera) Frost has furnished the department with a list of the towns to be visited, starting from Columbia, and notice has boen sent the captains of thc various coin panics ordering them to he ready for inspection in ten days. So far abo?t thirty companies have complied with the requirements and aro now ready, but there are many who will haw. to prepare themselves for the inspection. General Frost will ask the depart ment to detail ano herofilccr to assist In thc inspections, so that there will be one for the lower and one for the upper part of thc state. Out ot'Kin Sphere. Thc Kev. Frank Sher, of Ashville. N. C., recently adopted thc method used hy Dr. Parkhurst, in New York, of spying upon the unfortunate fallen women of Ashville in order to inaugu rate a social purity campaign. Ac companied by a policeman, the pas tor himself beingdisguised, he visited all the resorts of sin in Ashville, not finishing his rounds until after mid night. We do not. impugn Mr. Su er's motives, but we confess inability to see how such a course as he pursued is any part of a preacher's tni.-sion. According to thc published accounts he practiced deception upon the ab solutely most friendless class of hu man beings in thc world, by conceal ing both his iden i ty and the purpose of his mission. It is inconceivable that he could hereafter influence one of these women to accept the salvation that he preaches from his pulpit, and that is t hc mission of a pr?cher of ihe gospel, as we understand it. Of course, we understand that Mr. Slier meant well, but wc genuninely regret that he has imitated thc sensational ist. Parkhust, in this matter. Front Poverty to Kl dies. A successful career ls always inter esting, but that of thc chevalier, Theodore de Tausslg of Vienna, has much of the romantic about it. Ile was born In the ghetto of Warsaw forty-eight yearsa go of beggar parent age, and started beggar. From ped dler he rose to ofllce hoy, from that to clerk, then to superintendent of a store, and then, with a rush, to a financial power. Now he ls president of about half of the business enter prises in Austria and a director of the rest, with a fortune or $25, OIK), OOO, and is earning $1,000,000 a year in addition to his regular Income. THE New York Sun calls attention to thc fact that Republican Secretary or War Hoot has publicly admitted ne gro suffrage to be a failure; that Grover Cleveland in his speech In New York a few nights ago made practical ly thc same, declaration. The Sun (litotes Mr. Cleveland where bc cites tile generosi'.y of thc south to the black man after the Reconstruction period and tell of this prople "stag gering under the weight of the white man's burden," and then the New York Republican paper significantly says: "These words arc as generous is true. We believe that they repre sent a public opinion in thc north that is growing fast, and is bound to become prevalent. without regard to parly linos." A. C. SIMS, writting from some place, postollice or State not given, to the Home and Farm, says he tried a little experimental work. He sot ipart ;">.' acres. One acre in Kansas J?rn, an early corn, made 20 bushels with $l?. .One acre In velvet beans made vines in abundance, hut no hay >r money. One acre In watermelons brought in $80 besides many melon.?; for his family and given to neighbors. l)ne acre in sweet potatoes, loo bu shels, 950. One. acre in cotton, 500 pounds in the seed. $12. One half tere ribbon cane, 117 gallons.. $58.SO. The melons led; next - came ribbon ??ne, or an acre in cane would have nade $117.00. The Vnnlo t??'l'?it?v; ?' ''^'W {trahi froili th? Ba ml? o? Tlm?.jU fj,,vs (nL; Atlanta journal. )\m been lost, ?ind nobody odd tell what ha?, goue with lt. doe slxteonth or u seeondds missing, lu the "calcUla llons ut the .world's leading nstroiuV mers. There is a diff?rence or that fraction or a second betweon tire sun's time as recorded at Greenwich and as recorded at Paris. Thousands of f?anos aro being spent to Und the miss lng moment. A spacial building has been erected at Paris, ll tied with costly and complicated Instruments, simply for the punoso of tracing out the lost fraction. The best mathema ticians have been employed Tor the task, and it may he years b fore they complete their search and bring for ward solution of the mystery. lt may seem ridiculous that so much labor and expense should be put into thc pursuit of a trilling fraction ol' a second-a period bf time so short as tf) be practically unappieeiubIe"'oy thc human senses. Hut it should bo remembered that longitude ls calcu lated on the basis or Givenwlch time, and thc difference or the sixteenth or a second would change perceptibly the position ol' every meridian of longi tude in the world. Thus many polit ical blindarles, lixed by longitude, would be altered, and thousands of people would lind themselves of a dif ferent nationality. So this lost frac tion is of very great importance, after all. Time is a valuable tiling. A frac tion of a minute may alfcot the destinies ol' thousands. In tiie region of "too late." one second is the same as a hundred years. Like the hairs of our beads, every moment of time is numbered, and in the great economy of the universe, not the twinkling of a star is missing. Each individual is given just so many hours and minutes and seconds, for which he is charged and ol' which he must some day render account before the supreme Auditor. A king's ransom for the sixteenth of a.second! That is what the .Kreuch government is offering. One never knows how valuable is thc grain of time which lie is letting run to waste, bor it may he that tho day will come io wliicb he will cry. "A king's ran som for the fraction of a second!" pur Poorly I'uld Tundiera. In many southern counties the sherill is allowed $?4? yearly, or fort}' cents a day, for feeding prisoners. Of ten times tiie allowance is more than $110 a year. Hut prison .shelter, fuel, clothing, and medicine are extras, paid for out ol' the public funds. The average hillary ol' teachers ia foul .Southern states-North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas and Tennes see-is less limn $140 a year, tint! amount only sutllcient to pay for food for one person on thc basis of prisoi fare. In some .Southern slates tin average salary of teachers is somewhat more than $1 Ki, but in no .Southon stale is tho average salary twice ns much. Even in .Southern cities, al tilings considered, teachers' salarle.' arc not much better than in the rora districts. A young woman who leave; college or a normal school in debt bc gins work in the city schools bw?ii annual salary ol' $270, with the hopi reaching ut) annual salary of $450,on ly after eight or ten jears bard work Out of this meagre salary she must pay tu- board, clothing, and medicine tor books, educational journals, ant summer school Instruction, lu .ill ito less than $280, a year, not count MI? religious and social and charl taol? causes, to which site must contribu? or lose standing. Vet linanciail; hampered at every turn or the ^y the city teacher, as'well as all ol' teachers, is expected to preserve sweet temper, to bc the model for tn c il ld ron in her charge, and lo lill u mean place in thc s?chil lifeof the towi community. Hut if the teacher be mun? If lie is au honor gradu te. a ?.ollege of good standing, if be c ni linties a hard student, if he is able t manage boys, it' lie has the good setts t> avoid partisan and secta rion squat bles, and if he bas executive abiltt enough to management a railway sys tem or command an army, lie may rt ceivc $500 for first years work! If li continues to teach, lie may become principal or a superintendent and rt ceive $80.0 to $t,.">00 a year. Urintul VICw ol' Womanhood. Tiie orin tal idea of Ute frcedot which American woman enjoy doc not accord with that, of American! One Hindoo lady expressed herself i greatly shocked Hitit American me should compel their women to u about in public un protected, their fae, exposed lo the. gaze ol'si rangers, an a Hindoo gentlemen w'fi whom \v talked thus expressed himself tm tl subject til' orin ta I treatment ol' \v< men: "Voil say that we do not hoi or our women. Why, let mc tell yo Unit all Hindoo boys, till they ar ready to learn lite ways ol' men, at taught by their mothers. We at subject to our mothers, and we leno what you occidentals do not yet sect to realize, tba ti to have good men an good citizens we must have got: mothers. You will hardly lind Hindoo man, whatever his caste, da ing to go against Hie counsel of li mother. Can you say ?ts much ft American men?" Could as much, tl our readers think, be said for Amer can men? There are no asylums f< helpless fathers and mothers in tl orient. So long as there is a conn and a crust to bc shared, thc paren' in the oriental family have the lion share. _ THAT the murder of Gov. Goobel i Kentucky was planned, ordered at directed by the Republican clnlmat ?ind sitting Governor. W. (!. Taylo has been almost conclusively demo strafed at the trial of thc acti agents of thc crime. We agree wi i Hie Charleston Host that if is one tiie blackest, ?ts well as most, remar able pages in thc political history Hie United States. And the chi erl mm! nal is protected by the friend pillees of another commonwealth. TUB Charleston Post says: "A oilier merger bas been busied by tl government in Hie conviction of tl robbers who have been operating South Carolina and adjoining Stat for many mont hs. Th? trial of ll gang tit Charleston was a very intt csting event and the conviction ai sentence of the prisoners a saluta and satisfactory demonstration of t watch fill ness and ability of fhegovcr nienfs executive and proseeutii forces.'- _ Muk ico is preparing to take nd val a?,'c of her geographical location connection with um Panama can Hy the Hine thc canal opens slea ship lines planned by President 1> will be. running rrom Mexico ports all Cari bean, Cen Ir? I and Son Amedean points._ Illino Kuli Victim. Punch Arnold, 15 yeats old, v struck over the I tea rt by the ball wi: playing baseball tit Ncwnan, Ga., Monday anti died within a few mb tes. A Huiiiaii Hy emt. Tile human ramify coi i ta I ns tl godi ! than y h v?rins; and hi the froilt rd uk stands Jacob Kuufmunj ii New Yorker. He hus not only boen a . thief, but a specialist In crime, und his victims were always widows. He made it his business to secure the aciiu.intance of women who had lost their husbands ?nd collected- Insurance money. II? preferred widows with children, be cause they were mon- helpless. Tue woman who ls leit wi i family and a row pal rf dolla i in money nfl cn marries Tor a home tor the sake of her children. Kaufman knew it. and cunited h's violin s by the dozen. H ? didn't, marry them. He seemed lo have a horror of bigamy, but no scru ples about lying and thieving. Hu made children love him, and women, too. He was to be the protector in nt least 24 homes that the poi'cc knew ol. .Sometimes he borrowed money and then disappeared. Again he learned its hiding place and stole it. Finally he robbed a woman or SSii and a gold ring. She worked in a sweat shop lor $('? a week, and had her babies tri care lor. That didn't bother Kaufman. There ls occasionally a man born without a heart, you know. Finally Kaufman raced a court. The room was lilied with weeping women and their children. "You are the meanest, most contemptible criminal ever brought belorc the bar of justice," ?aid the Judge, wilt? imposed a sen tm^e td five years In thc penitentiary. F.ve years, lt isn't half enough. We are too easy with some ot our scoun drels, anti especially with those who commit crimes against afflicted mo llien. Some day wise men will so ad just the laws that punishments will more nearly lit crimes, and the mau who makes love, tu- the semblance or it, the vehicle ot women's undoing will pay lor his sins down to the ut termost farthing. Our Itlilitltt Company. The prospects are that if the gen eral government insists on the full number of (55 men in eacli malitia com pany tbere will lie a general cutting olT of military companies in this state. Lestthc "oralenmpany bc among those cut oil* the citizens tit* Florence should lend a helping hand and a good linn one. The law contemplates that every male citizen of proper agc shall be ac counted as belonging to thc militia reserve, all subject to call. Those who arc beyond that age ought, to see that as many aide b idied young men as can be bad in thc militia should join the companies and especially the local company. It needs the help and support of the peuple of ibo city men ami women anti every obstacle ought lo bo removed from the way i f every young mau joining tho military company, lt, isa good thing tor a towri to have such an organ iza lion a* a military company but like all other gtiod things wo lia ve nt) right, lo ex peet it to be here with some effort or sacrifice on our part. The above, from the Florence Times, applies as much ttl our town as it, does lo Flor ence, and we hope our people will heed the suggestions it, contains. I. ?xxl XtMvn. A eenuin ex c ongressman tells a story about a widow in his district who desired a position in the agricultural department. "There was no vacancy at that time," said he, "and I was consequent ly compelled to advise my constituent that 1 could do nut tiing for her until hiter. Dut she persisted lu her effort! to obtain a position and for two weeks thereafter met nie at every turn. One ".lorning I had Jost finished breakfast " ?L-n I was told by the servant that was awaiting me In the reception hall. So I assumed as pleasant a de meanor as possible, and. entering tho room, said in a sympathetic voice: ".Well, my good woman, what news?' "'Good news,' she said; 'good news, Mr. Allen." "'Well.' I sahl. Tm glad to hear that And what la the good news':' " 'Oh.' she said, 'good news, Mr. Al len, good news. A woman In the agri cultural department died yesterday.'" .Tnile. The most precious of all stones, ac cording to n gem expert, is the jade, on account of hs rarity, its extraordinary qualities and the mystery of its cutting, lt was regarded as a sacred stone, and nobody had a righi to possess it except a prince of imperial blood. Arger his Chitins, ii fatuous physician in Amster dam al the time of the venais.".-nee, published a work on the jade, or ne phritic stone, as it was then called, on account of its action tm the ional sys tem. At the same period Italian au thors spoke of the Jade as osiada and discussed its wonderful powers l'or hen ling sciatica. The legends surrounding this stone abound in history. (5oed specimens of Jade are extremely rare, and Hie world is at a loss to know how the Ch?nese managed to cut it, because it is so ex tremely lia i'd that nothing can make au impression upon it. 'l'U?- I>'i>-Nt Llneu I'IIin-r. Unen cloth was occasionally used .for writing purposes, but was uevor very common. Linen manuscripts have been found folded In mummy cases, and tiie Chinese In-fore the invention of paper used silk and cotton cloth. The Itriihiihs nlso wrote upon linen. The lise of this material Introduced a change in the manner of writing. The other substances were rather engraved than writ Icu upon, an iron point being used for t ! e purpose. To write upon linen it was necessary to have some colored Huid which mij;ht gel dry and louve a permanent mark. The Ili-sl ink used was prnh.-ihly some sort of soul or lampblack mixed with sfee or gum water, and the H rat instru ment answering to our pen was a reed l.iiiiK anil Short Hair. Planche says: "Long hair was the distinguishing characteristic of Hie Teutonic tribes, lt was a mark of the highest rank among the Pranks, none of whom but tho (list nobility and princes of the blood was permitted to wear it in (lowing ringlets, an express law commanding the people to cut their hair close around (he middle of the forehead." And this hntlge of servitude and sign manual of plchcinnism in one century has become the essence of style and glass of fashion in another, the freak of one age. (lie fancy <>f another. Tin-: POTATO HACK PUOIILGM. - Jimmy anti Jack ran a potato race. Faull one had t wenty-live potatoes to pick np, says the Philadelphia North American. The potatoes were lying at intervals or live feet in three parallel rows How many potatoes were there in tilly How many feet, from potato No. 1 to potato ?o. 2? in each row? If every potato hi each row had to be carrricd clear back io Hie head of t hal row anti laid down with thc first potato, how many feet ?lid eacli boy have to run before he got through? If Jimmy could run 325 feet in one minute, how long did he take? \ O?M'ON Rotf Si* MILKS L't?KO". 'fut? Kiorcncii Times hftys: "WLJJO {.{jere ure no larras In this country us ftbl.'i says there are in California! u mun trna tu have a railroad train to go over his Heids und got buck in time Tor supper, there aro some very size able Heids. One of thc largest that has been reported to the Times Is on tho. plantation or Capt. Paul WhlppD. at Riverdale. Ii is said I "at Capt. Whipple has a cotton io>v .six m iles in length: Down one side ami up Hii? other is ab..m a days work lor ono mun and a mule." AT HIS OLD THICKS.-The State says the contest of the old plautati'iu dalkey, Dantzler, for the seat in eini gt ess now held by Mr L-ver ls hot ex ulting any fears as to the result, for Dantzler and his lawyer, also colored, are con testan ts every year, lt is said that one of the grounds o? complaint is that some negroes were refused registration certilicatesalthough they read and interpreted the Constitution Intelligently (according to their own statement). Thc testimony was taken before a referee in Columbia last Mon day. _ Bisnoi- Derrick, of the African Methodist Church, said, at a meeting of negroes in New York recently that thc slave pension hill introduced in Congress was an insult to the negroes. Negroes like Bishop D-.rriek, who en joy good fat salaries, can afford to talk such nonsense, but tho good, old faithful slaves of the .South need the help of thc government and should have it. Uivon Ton Ycni'H. At Hamberg on Thursday Judge Gary pronounced sentence on Joe Da vis for thc hilling of .1. H. King, giv ing the prisoner ten j ears in the penitentiary. Davis was found guilty of manslaughter on Wcdne.^day with out recommendation. Tills ends one of the must widely discussed murder trials ever held in Hamburg count, y DR. BIGGERS H(JCKELBERRY KO it TIIIO Bowels and Children Teething. It is THU GREAT SOUTH ERN REMEDY for the bowels, lt ls one of the most pleasant and otllcacious remedies for all summer complaints. A\ a season when vioknt at tacks of t he bowels are so frequent. some speedy relief should be at hand. Thc wearied mother, losing sleep by nursing I be little one teething: should use Ibis medicino. FROM II EN KY W. GRADY. Thc Constitution Editoral Rooms. At lauta, tia., May 2:1, 1W.S7. Dr. Waller A. Taylor, Atlanta. Ga;: Dear Slr:-I have never given ;; certificate on merits of tiny medicar , but, 1 take pleasure in breaking niv rule on t bis subject in behalt Ol' .von; Riggers Huckleberry Cordial. It is the best medicine I baveeverseenforu.se in the family. Filly cents invested in .i bottle of this medicine, and put on a ithelf convenient for use in the begin ning of any bowel t rouble, will often save life, and will save in almost any family ten time its cost in doctors' bills. 1 have a friend whose life, in my opinion, was saved by the prompt use of this cordial, lt. ought, to be in every family in the land, especially at this season ol'the year. 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Broad St we w ill sell you guaranteed i ?tr.utly pure Li. seed Dil in bari el lots for OOcts per gallon, Raw or Boiled. Can Extra. SW Mm Sully Co., ?15 Plain St., Columbia, S. C. TIIUKSDAY, the 0th of April, was the ;>8th anniversary or the surrender of thc Army of Northern Virginia, when Gen. ll. E. Lee at Appomattox surrendered ll,ooo ragged, foot-sore and hungry, hut lighting, soldiers to Gen. U. S. Grant and bis nrmy^ of 100,000 men. I he ranks of that 11, 000 have Leen greatly tiri tined since; only a minority of them remain, hut there is not, one of them whose bent: form does tint straighten a little and i whose bosom does not swell with pride, j when lie says, "1 surrendered With Lee." ' A lleuclly Cyclone. A brief dispatch from Evergreen, Ala., says that at least, uine persons were killed and immense loss to pro perty was caused only by a cyclone which visited Monroe comity last night. _ TnK annual meeting of the Ameri can Tract Society was held at Wash ington. Gen. O. O. Howard deliver ed an address. The report of the secretary showed that the demand for religious literature bas grown steadily until the society now prints 800,000, 000 tracts and per iori ici ls. Southern Railway. Read down. No. I;L 10 o??m 11 .Wain -iSpm 45pui I 25pm 3 lupin lopin 4 Liam 8 lopin :tupm Bead Low ii. No. ll. 7 48pui y 25pm Head Down. No. 14. -1 52pm 7 -If) pm lt) l()[)in ? ooa ti i ll Cain 8 30pin 8 15pm 7 30pm Read I >own. No. 34 1 -lOpill A 50pin Schedule in ElTec January 13, 1003. 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