Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Waltina* WJji t?6 sltfVV we'?tta.tievuT floV . Harki the\ d?rfet tlngeth.low} * . . .-into tyriiiRitt:*?rb"?t?9 ?ray," Meltalat last vue weary day; Once again toe hight la. here} Aaro you thinking of nie, Dear? All d?y long rny heart has h??rd Just ono softly whispered-word}. All day long youi' narrie has como To merthrbugh tho bu?yhuni; . Everywhere in . the hall nnd Btve?t ? You navo tarried with me; Sweet; % ? ~0gi In tha faooa of the crowd; In tho;orles that echo loud, Ail throughout thd hurrying throngs} All anjid the strife of tongues,' Nothing have 1 heard bi* seen Ha velour voice, your face; my Queertj Othef .women, come aud_go Other^fvolces .whisper low, pther;eyeS grew dim or bright, Shed br veiltholr changeful light: But I'stand apart; alone: Walting still for you, my Own; AH that waiting. Do you feel; Darling, as the slow days steal filent, one by one, away, How toy he*rt must yearn and pray ! flor the touch of J i ps and hand? iarlipjj, do you understand? in the daily strife and stress; )o you/see the foes that press Close and nard within, without? . All thp dread and all the doubt, AH the fears that clasp and cling, All tho bitter questioning? Fast, though with no clash of swords. Gather all those phantom homes; And my soul, as falls the night, Seems to-loose her wonted might, Shrinks before that dusky crew, Prays and longs and yearns for you. Must I always watch and wait, Exiled, famished, ut your gate? Will you not be brave and come Ere tile pleading lips be dumb? Ere within the weary eyes Hope's last glimmer fades and dies? ? i Ah! dear heart, be strong; bc true: See,.a kingdom waits for you! High above all stain or scathe Floats love's banner.sliincs love's faith, Enter on your reign serene! Come! my own! my love! my queen! SLAVE PIRATES Who Stole Negroes from Their \ Owners and Sold Them. A STORY OF ANTE BELLUM DAYS. Many Slaven Wcro Stolen from Our Count Country anti Curried lo thu Wost mid Sold. ' The following interesting story we clip from the Columbia State: Some years prior to the Civil war lhere was. a considerable amount of emigration from the southern coast States, most of such emigrants going to the then unsettled country of the Mississippi and its tributary valleys. In most instances these ?migrants had some means, and they carried their slaves along with them. Consequently they were in a position to accumulate wealth from the rich, alluvial soils of the river bottoms more rapidly than their less fortunate neighbors who had no slave labor to help them. This lcd to much jealously ?md discontent on part of the large olass of self-working whites, wbo after some years spent in seeing their better equipped neighbors getting richer and they poorer, banded themselves together in a certain dis trict In the lower section of Louisiana for the purpose of running off slaves from the Carolinas and Virginia and Relling them or keeping them for their own uses, as needed, preferably dis tributing them among themselves, as this avoided inquiry. They had as their leader a man who became prom inent in the political allai rs of Louis iana in the days of Reconstruction af ter the Civil war. This man went to Virginia, where he bought a small coast trading schooner. She was taken to Mobile, where a false skin was built in lier, leaving a space between her sides and this skin ol about two feet, room enough for a negro to stand sideways therein, lt was so cunningly devised that the most careful search of the vessel never divulged its existence. It was divided into compartments, each holding four or live negroes, and in these comparlnicnts~inany an unac counted for slave (supposed to have escaped to the north) was conveyed to a much warmer climate (of course 1 mean Louisiana). For six years this trade went on and no one ever sus pected Its existence, as tlie slave pi rates were careful to take only tine or two slaves from any one owner, and then only from those having large numbers. Occasionally they ran off a large block of city negroes, but the plantation hands, which they pre ferred, were more carefully selected from a large area. Jt was only on the deathbed of the mate of the vessel t hat, tlie facts be came known, although this boat, at one time and outlier, ran cargoes of negroes from every Atlantic and Cull State. A description of one of the voyages will explain the methods em ployed to capture their cargoes: One afternoon just before tlie sun set on one of the most perfect days that had ever been seen in South Car olina a small schooner was scon to cross thc har at thc entrance ol' the Stone river, some 12 miles below the city of Charleston, a brisk "sou'eas ter" tilling lier swelling sails (which showed clearly against the background of trees on tlie island at Hie mouth of the rive?*) brought her quickly np the river to a point opposite the little summer village known as Legare ville, where just at dusk she dropped an chor. Tlie next morning two or three of the crew caine ashore, osten sibly for tlie purpose ol' buying wood from tlie planters on .1 olin's island, which lay to the southwest of tlie river, and succeeded in making ar rangements for a cargo. This gave them an opportunity to visit tlie dif ferent plantations and to estimate the number of negroes on each. Having thoroughly posted them selves and picked out the negroes they liked best they formed means of talking to them and persuaded Ibero to sneak olT during the night, appoint ing a place of meeting and promising a jug of whiskey, which in those tlays was a rather rare treat to negroes. The unsuspecting negro or course showed up. Instead of whiskey, gags and the rope was his portion. Ile was then conveyed aboard thc vessel and hidden in one of thc compart ments. Of course a "hue and cry" was raised for the missing negroes, but the boat, although searched, was found to be empty, and of course no suspicion entertained that she was o ber than as represented. The ne groes were, of course, supposed to have taken to the swamp, a trick of which jmorc than one was frequently guilty. I >?'??' f ^v"--"- ? Dnwu-wtWitv tf?ese pirated Obtained o?'tbis.voy?gb some 2o negroes from that srotiun' ana in due ^course pdt ld nea.Hie way., they had cvom?i' fr?e ftofd belH?, o! course?, ot y a bluff, lt Was thrown.overboard as soon as possible to lighten the boat and give her more speed. ? These ne ?roes were carried to their rendez vr is, rm nu iRland BomaVmues -below Now Orleans,.from which place they wore turned over to those desiring thom.'-' ' . j - ^. , After tho Civil war one of tho ne groes taken away on that occasion re turned to John's JsUnd and gave j an account of bis- adventures. No ono, how 5ver, believed h 1B tale until It was corroborated by the mate's confession, which came duly to the knowledge of tho writer ' The captain was arrested upon the mate's confession, but being prominent In the'corrupt political deals of those times nothing ?vor came of lt and eventually he went to Cali fornia and waa lost sight of. Many hundreds of slaves were car ried off by these pirates and it is sur prising how successfully they eluded all suspicion. Had they attempted to sell all of the negroes thus stolen they would surely have been caught, but thc leading spirit of it all was too shrewd for that. W. B. Holmes, Charleston, July 14. COMING HOME TO BOOST. Thc North Beginn I MR to Get Back Their Lost Chickens. We do not waot the people of the North and West to judge the negroes of the South by tho Vagabonds who are committing all manner of crimes I among them. There are plenty of good negroes in the South, and the ones who commit the crimes of rape and assassination arc the vicious ones among us, ?md we feel sure thc same is true everywhere. A. writer in tho Augusta Chronicle says: The recent brutal outrages per petrated by thc negro in Indiana, Illinois, Delaware and other northern localities furnish happy Illustrations! lof his marvelous progress" io moral I culture during forty years freedom and would seem to suggest this as an ap propriate time for our brethren across I the line to pass around the hat for| another monument to John Brown. While the collection is being taken thc chair might stimulate their | righteous zeal by singing. "As we go lynching on." to a shot gun accompaniment by thc orchestra. 'The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding tine," and in thc tide of time the chickens turued loose by bayonet suffrage, political recognition and wlte house hospital , ity are coming back to roost in north ? ern homes. "They're coming Fattier Abram A hundred thousand strong;*' I They're coming homo to roost Where they rightfully belong. Tile writer is neither a prophet nor I a pessimist, and yet as the "black hor ror" casts the shadow of its brutal menace farther and farber Into north I ern hearthstones, it may be that even under the pale of Faneui) Hall there I will come some day a dim regret that Stonewall Jackson fell ere Gettsburg was fought. OLD SOUTH. Til? Knee Question. The race question is attracting con siderable attention at the North, and I tis being discussed by the papers of that section in a way that lt has never been discussed before. The Indiana polis Sentinel says: "The situation is serious, lt ls likely to get worse, before it gets better; the race problem lias become ah Indian problem; men of all parties may as well look the facts in the face and bethink them selves how they ate to he dealt with." In speaking of thc conflict between thc races in Evansville, Ind., In which several people were killed, the Sen tinel says: "Behind all these manifes tations of lawlessness are conditions which may well give pause to thought ful men. The fact is that thc eam munity has been debauched and cor rupted by politicians who have im ported hordes of thc most ignorant, most worthless and vilest negroes, causing au enormous increase in pauperism, vice and crime, and reduc ing materially the average intelligence and virtue of the people." This is a serious indictment and sets forth a condition of things that communities in thc south can fully understand and appreciate. While thc original trouble grew out of the act of a lawless negro, thc Sentinel declares that he had been removed from tlie city and thc only apparent motive of thc rioters has been to make trouble in order to give vent to their lawless feelings. The Courier, of Evansville, Ind., says: Tlie cause of thc present reign Of terror in this city can be directly traced lo the vitiation of the negro for political purposes. Before election lion time the advertisements are sent up and down the river among the shiftless negroes, slating that they can get money for their votes at 10 vans vi He. The idea, ignorant and vicious Hock here; they are colonized In saloons; they are gathered in herds the hight before election, even in the custom house and the temple of jus tice, debauched with free beer and sorrupted with free dollars, when they are properly ready to he used on elec tion day. Commenting on this Hie indiana polis Sentinel says: "There is noth ing to be said in behalf of the mob or any of i Us members. Mut there ls just as little to be said for tlio.se who have deliberately debauched and demoraliz ed thc community hy introducing for political purposes a dangerous and vicious element and practicing methods which whenever tolerated arc certain to produce disastrous con sequences. The wind has been sown, the whirlwind is being reaped." Tlie Augusta Chronicle says wc are ac customed to this sort of preaching from tlie Northern newspapers to Southern communities, but it sounds strangely addressed by au indiana polis paper to an Indiana audience. A Kondut Kool. ( >nc brave man has developed in Illi nois. To the Chicago Chronicle he says, speaking of thc negro: "I think that one who is industrious, honest and true to lils country isa thousand times better and more to be esteemed than a million of rebels whose claim to superiority is bottomed only upon the possession of a white hide." The Columbia State says "at latest ac counts this man had not been lynched. Of course he meant to say a "half million rebels," for it was that num ber which kept the two million of tilt "true to his country" and "hot for a bounty" interested for four years. Thc survivors have been endeavoring even since to keep the surplus In the treasury reduced. Hut the Illinois ; willer is not a survivor: at least I ?600 miles separated him from thc nearest skirmish lines. What S/ Woman Who Lived '-Chen ?nl?iy Yeara Bays of "lt. 1 Bbu Hays Hame of the I*onpl* Win Went from tho Mouth Aro ?oin? Well omi Borne Da<t. The Augusta Herald publishes tin following, willoh will he interesting ti reading those who are interested ir question of colonizing the negroes tc Liberia or any other locality: The story that Rosa Crawford, i negro woman, just returned from Lib erla, Africa, has a touch of local color in that she was married in Angust? while enrouto to the Dark Cantinea in 1805. The woman has returned ti Columbus, Ga., and the following an her experiences: The young womat joined the first colonizing party tba left Columbus after the war. In 180! she ran away from her parents am joined a party of some two or threi hundred negroes that left for th? Promised Land of ' the uewly-frcei slaves. She had been a house girl a thc home of the lat? Colonel Mott, ot Mott's green, and in the course of ; year or two would ha''? been cooking While en route to her new home, sin married lu Augusta, her husband be lng one of the colonists. At Charles ton the negroes were placed aboard s new ship and after a long voyage thc] found themselves in the uld home o their race-Africa. The colonists set tied In the seaport Monrovia, which ii the capital of thc country. The Crawford woman gives an inter csting account of her experiences it Africa. She is intelligent, and noter incidents more closely than the aver age negro. She said that those win went over went to work in pretty much the same stations as ab home some cooking, others laundering others keeping house, etc. She her self is a laundress and says that sh; made a good living there- about thi same living she could have made a home. She spent practically all th* time In Monrovia, not going into tin interior except on rare occasions, an( then not far from town. She says thi natives around Monroviaare pcaceabli but further baok in the interior the] are dangerous. Agriculture is actively carried on near the coast, corn, grab and all the vegetables ordinarily raisei in Georgia being successfully grown No cotton is grown in the colony. Sh< says that health conditions there an not so very different from what the: are in this county-the climate suit some and disagrees with others just a at home, where some are healthy am others unhealthy. She says that whei she tirst went to Liberia all the sugar molasses, etc.,' consumed in Monrovij and the other towns was made up ii this country, but Chat in later year this industry has deulined so that mos j of sucb articles are now imported ! Formerly the settlers in the upper par of Liberia sawed much lumber, hu now the lumber, is imported, she says The original settlers had much energy but the present generation is not in dined to develop these Industries. .The Crawford woman says tba when she first went to Liberia two o three American ships touched ab Mon rovia every week. Now sometime two or three years pass without a American ship visiting the port. Tb foreign trade is in the hands of Enp llshmen, Germans. Dutchmen an Norweigians, the American inter?s having steadily declined. Many of th retail stores in Monrovia are kept b colored people. There are but fe white people In Monrovia. She say that Monrovia is hardly as large a Columbus. While a good mary of America negroes there arc dissatisfied wit their lot and wish to return to A morie and would do so if they could pay thel passage, yet many arc content wit! their surroundings and intend to spen the rest of their lives in Africa. Th Crawford woman says that the Ameri can negroes are exercising a civilizin inliucncc over the native, American.1 that they bring tho children of the mi tives into thc towns, teach them, an that thc colony has churches an schools just as thc negroes in Americ do. Fifteen years ago her husband died In 1898, she moved to Sierra Loane tho English colony just north of Li beria. Here she found many rici white families who were willing t pay well for line laundry work, am she says that she was able In tin course of a year or so to save tb money with which to buy her pas sage home. She landed in Florid; port, from which she afterwards pro eeeded by steamer to Brunswick From there she went to Atlanta meeting her brother, and also ber sis ter, Matilda Dawson, or Columbus who had heeu wired to come to At lauta. They had not seen each ollie In thirty-eight years, and made such ? demonstration that an Atlanta police man came near locking both up She is now with her sister at 181 Third avenue. She says she enjoye? execellent health during ber cutir stay in Africa. Of the Columbus ne groes who went to Liberia in 18(i(i less than half dozen have returned t this city. A fatal Tornado. At Streator, 111., on Friday :? tor nado killed live persons, in.'ii red ; score of others and caused a heav; property loss. The dead are: llarrj Doyle, N. IL Livens, lt. Purcell Charles Snyder and an unknown ne gro. All except Purcell were ki Hoi at the race track. A new bu i ld i ni had just been erected and the race were to have been given week af tc next. Not a building is left stand lng. All of the buildings at Cas IOlcctric park were destroyed and th fence and amphitheatre of the bal park were blown away. Stauher'; clothing factory, a two-story bric! building, was blown down and all th stock was ruined. The Vulcain West cm company's plant suffered heav; loas. Purcell was killed there. Th? Illinois, Indiana and Iowa bridge cost lng 81,000,000, is nearly half gone, tin hoisting works and buildings a Spring Alley, four miles west of Strea tor were blown down and several per sons were Injured. Many houses wer unroofed and otherwise damaged Telephone and telegraph lines ari nearly all down and details arc mea gre. Pour persons were killed atu ten others seriously injured by a tor nado which struck the northern par of Mendola, 111. The path of thi storm was about eight miles in length Everything in the storm's track wa was leveled to the ground. GatliSl'eil ?llU ?odU?nsctl by tho .New berry ObsetTcr foi* Ouriy Renders. 'Three men were '"drowned by tue wrecking of a (ishlo^boat off Pensa cola, Fla., on Monday. Th? safo In tho Southern railway tloket offlco atMacon, Qa., was'robbtd of 3400 on Sunday njght. Mrs. Eliza Stick, anod ?ovor ?oank, Conn., drowned herself on Munday night in Mystlo river. Au explosion in a powdor mill' near Wllkesbarre, Pa., on Monday killed throe meen and seriously Injury SCVT eral othors. Maude Jordlne, aged 17, of Bloom, lngton, III., was arrested on Monday on the charge of having killed her tw'j-ycar-old sister. A freight.train ran away on Mon day down the steep grade near Saluda, N. C., and 17 cars loaded with coal were smashed tb pieces. The New England cotton mills have agreed that they will close down until some time in October rather than buy cotton nt present prices. Frank Long, a Macon. Ga., grocer, has made this season, according to thc Atlanta Journal, upwards of $5,000 on 40 acres of cantaloupes. Ydnah Rogers and his wife, aged 75 and 74, of East Brcwston, Mass., were run over and killed bya train on Mon day while they were driving in a buggy. Gov. Lanham of Texas has issued a proclamation offering 850,000 to any person who will discover and furnish a pratical remedy for eotton. boll wcvll in Texas. . Mary McDonald; . described by thc Journal as a ''a pretty young woman," was tin< 1 $25,75, by the recorder of Atlanta on Tuesday for "cussing" a young man over the phone. Geo. Ii. Hiss ot Charlotte, N. C., president of thc American Cotton Manufacturer's association, thinks t here will bc :i0,000,000 idle spindhs by the first of September. J. T. Cato, a well-known buther of Fort Valley, Ga., committed suicide on Monday by shooting himself in the head with a pistol. He left a vi fe and six children. No cause for thc deed is known. Georgians arc evidently fond of children. There was a rush of ofTers in Atlanta the other day to adopt a 13-year-old kid who declared that Ids mother was in the asylum and his father on the chniugung -for cow stealing. Gen. Clement A. Evans of Georgi? says there arc milicien t. funds in liai d to begin thc erection of the "Hattie Abbey" at Itichmand, Ya. The funds oTthe Confederate Memorial associa tion for this object are now stated to be $204,470. Mrs. Minnie Cummigs, on trial for killing her fourth husband in April last, was convicted in St. Louis, Mo., on Monday ani was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. She is to be tried next week for killing lier third husban, Edward Harris, in 1901. Gen. Nelson A. Miles" rode horse back from Fort Hill; I. T.u_to- Reno, Oki., a distance of t)0 miles on Tues day in nine hours' and t'Ti minutes, changing horses several ines ulong thc route. Thc general \ ok the ride to prove that though neat y 05 he ls still halo and hrarty,, r---? Mrs. Carrie Luce is suing F. W. Woodworth & Co., proprietors Of a 10 ent store In Richmond;!., Va., for 5,000 damages tor .getting her - leg broken in a crowd while ! attending a ''bargain sale" tn theirstorc. She con tends that the proprietors should not have permitted such a large crowd to come in. HOW CROPS FARED. Heat Not Excessive at Any Time Dui inf; thc I??8t AVeuk. Section Direction J. W. Ihiuer had Issued the following report of the crops and weather for the past week: The week ending 8 a. m., Monday, July 13th, hada mean temperature of 80 degrees, which is practically nor mal. Tlic heat was not excessive at my time, nor was there a wide daily range between the day and the night temperatures. These conditions were favorable on crops, but there was a deficiency in sunshine over thc east ern and central parts that was harm ful to a slight extent. UK.' VY KAINS IN SOMI? COUNTIES. Locally, there was excessive precipi tation in Edgelield, Marion, Marlboro ind Saluda counties and almost daily excessive rains from the Savannah val ley in liarnwelland Hampton north ward to southern Clarendon and Wil liamsburg counties, and in western Sumter. In this part of thc Slate the rainfall amounted to from 3 to over G nobes. This area includes the region if heaviest rainfall (luring June when it amounted to from 10 to 18 inches. 'I tie rains in other parts were benefi cial, and some places in the northern parts are in need of more rain. Th? week's average for the State was 2.OS) inches. The week's weather was favorable for crop growth and development, with the above exception, and for farm work, cultivation having made consid erable progress, especially in thc west ern counties. With tlic exception of a number of localities that report the contrary, old corn is a.fair crop and is about laid by in clean condition. Much corn w,'.s destroyed on low lands where the rains were excessive. Young corn lias a good color and looks promising. COTTON OENKUAI.LY IMlMtOVKD. There was a jicnenil improvement in cotton, though some sections failed to share in it, but reports from most sec tions indicate that tlic plants are mak ing rapid growth, too rapid for proper fruitage in the Fee Dee counties, though they are still small and late in blooming. Blooms arc more common tuan last week. Lice remains on very young cotton, in spots, but they no longer threaten injury. In the western counties most lields are clean, hut grassy lields ls thc prevailing condi tion in the eastern ones. Cotton is poorest, and yellow, on sandy lands, but most of it has a healthy color, es pecially sea Island cotton. Tobacco curing continues and tho crop as a whole has improved. Melon shipment arc not heavy, as the crop ls light as ycji. Planting fall truck crops is underway. Mino crops con tinue to thrive. Peaches ?tl ll rotting. Other fruits fairly plentiful. Pastures are excellent. Farm laborers are scarce in many parts of the State Edwins D. Phelps, a millionaire resident of New York city, committed suicide by Inhaling illuminating gas oh Monday. Ill health was thc cause. _?????; bf* Hie Presa Aisot???Hon to tho fcato Wilitor of The -6Mte. Tho follow!DR resoUltldna were pre sooted and, adopted at the .session of the Press association at -.White Stone Springs the evening before* adjourn ment: Your committee on tho death of Mr. N.- O. Gonzalos would offer the following us its reporti ~ In view of the sudden and lament able death of dip;.brother Journalist, Mr..' Narcisso Genor "Gonzales; on January 19, 1903, let us add_trlbute to-his work and "to his memory. In him wo recognize a. mian of the highest typo. Ile was a. man of true principle. Ile hated the low and mean with an-extreme hatred Ile exacted from his fellow men, especially those in public position, the same irreproachable conduct he re quired from himself. Ile was a man or decided conviction. Ile thought clearly and logically and always knew' what be believed. If he made mis takes at times in the application of principles to conditions and actions of others, so that he was judged to be unfair and even unjust, yet his positiveness and firmness in convic tions, as to what he thought would be right, won for him the respect of. those who did not agree with him. Ile was an independent thinker, and often advocated movements and policies in advance of those above him, which, of course, meant frequent differences of opinion and opposition to his views. He was n careful and accurate man, upd yet his was a quick aiid penetrating mind. His position was always positive and clearly defin ed. These qualities won for him suc cess and eminence as a journalist. He wan the founder of the Columbia State in INDI, and soon made lt one of the best newspapers in the whole south. Ills services to Columbia, South Caro lina, and to thc south, cannot now be measured, lie was a patriot of the truest type and a worthy public ser vant. In bim we have lost one of the most brilliant and successful editors of thc new south, and this association has lost an active, etllcient and loyal member. ' Let us emulate his virtues. J. C. Mace, W. H. Greever, H. H. Watkins. Committee. A WILD GOOSE CHASE. Booking ? Burled Treasure Near tho City ol* Savannah. W. IL Haslip, or Philadelphia, Pa., is in Savannah, Ga., to dig for buried treasure on an adjacent set island. It ii; nut a wild, Captain Kidd kind of an adventure he is on, however. The treasure be is after was buried on Warshaw island In 1809 by a Confede rate soldier of the name of Amos Berich; who died in Philadelphia last week. Perlen, who had been in the employ of Mr. Haslip,for the past ten years, often told that'gentleman that he had,treasure buried on the Georgia coast.- Shortly before his death he told Mr. Haslip that in his trunk would be found certain papers and parchments t! at would be of yalue'to ,hlm, and that, the proporty waa all to be Mr. Haslip's arter Be?leh"dl?d. Mr. Haslip investigated the trunk. Among other things he found an old piece of sheepskin parchment, which had evidently done duty as a drum head. The parchment contained a map of Warsaw Island, locating a cer ? tain spot. Accompanying it was a statement to the effect tnat Berien was first mate on the Confederate blockade runner, Lucy Verne, out of Baltimore. On one trip when a rich Virginia family named Starke was aboard the Verne was chased by a 1 federal war vessel. Pinding themselves overhauled it was determined to buy ashore all the treasure aboard. Berien was one of the party assigned to bury thc trcas ! ure. Ile made a map of the location on a drumhead, which he kept. Sever al times, Berien says, bc attempted to recover the treasure, but somc bh lng. i h ter ferred: Mr. Haslip is posi ; the of the correctness of the story and says bc will devote a month if , necessary to locating the treasure, which, according to Bcrien's mem , brandum? consists of gold coin and silver plate._: I-'orly Days ot I 'uir Weather. Last Wednesday was St. Swithin's day and according to an old legend if the day is clear, forty days of cloud I less weather will ensue. The old legend runs as follows. Swithin was the bishop of Winchester and a most devotit man. His death took place in 1832, and, in accordance with his wishes, he was buried in the church yard where the "sweet rain of heaven" could rall on his grave. When the bishop was canonized an attempt was made by tho clergy to remove the body from the church yard to the choir or the cathedral as a mark of much greater honor, July 15.was set for the removal but when the day came it rained in such torrents that the plan could not be cari led intocf lect. It continued to rain for 40 days afterward by which time the clergy were fully convinced that the good bishop, now thc sainted Swithin, was satisfied to have bis bones remain where they were, and they let them rest there._ COHN KOU POULTUY-Corn is one of the staples as poultry food, and yi t we can trace a large per cent, of the fail ures to its ?busc. If given to fowls daily lt will produce fat and this In time completely ruins the fowl so far as laying is concerned, but if fed in moderation, as a change from oats, wheat and peas, it makes an ahnest indispensable supply, lt is excelent also for growing chickens, but these, as with the old fowl, it must be fed sparingly. During very cold weather without com it is well nigh impossi ble to keep the hens laying, but even then best results are obtained by par tially roasting it. Por fattening poul try for market meal takes first place, and thc work can bc accomplised sev eral days quicker than when other ls used. When preparing poultry for market feed all they will eat' but when feeding hens for eggs let corn be only an occasional feed, or only a par tial ration if given daily. Oats should be the principal grain food for laying hens, thc corn being used simply as a change. When thus fed it produced most excellent results. The Supreme court of Florida has contirmed the Sentencb of death against William Sylvester, who was convicted of murdering' Edward Bur ton, master mechanic oV thc S. A. L. shops at Fernandina, for discharging him. Unless pardoned will be hanged. JL. . Sip ' i >, ?. ' i ?? \ ?-.:',IT- t.t-""--... 1 ,' ; .,<?-??' . . .?.J .Wi r y i' " rifc?nii ni rr? ...*. 'file Happening* In Various Se?tldns of South Carolina Briefly Told. A now 825,000 oil mill had been 01 gan (zed at Jonesville. James H.. Tillman was taken to Lexington jail on Monday. The State Farmers Alliance will moot in Columbia on' Wednesday, the 22nd. Julius 0. Smith, a prominent re spected oltizen '.ot Greenville, died, on Monday, aged 74. J Kev. John A tin way, an aged Metho dist minister, died at.: his .home at Williamston on Tuesday. PlahB are maturing for adding a $50,000 jj building tp the plant of the Columbia Female college. The people of Wlnnsboro have voted down ? proposition to est?bil, h a beer dispensary hi that town. The Anderson Mail says: "A suc cessful farmer who lives near the city has sold $000 wOrth of cabbages frc m six aores this year." The work of paving the streets of Anderson began on Tuesday and will be completed in four months at a cost of about $25,0007 Eddie Smith, a white boy of 13, was killed in Charleston on Sunday bv falling from a tree which he had climbed In order to rob a.bird's nest. The Pacolet mill stockholders met in Spart?nburg on Tuesday and voted to increase the capital utock from one million to two and to rebuild at once. J. Walker Mauldin of Pickens coun ty was shot and killed on. Monday night while trying, to get his friend Burt Moore out or a house of ill re pute. Moore is accused of. doing the shooting. Will Holland, a young man of re spectable parents, was shot and killed early Tuesday morning in a house of ill repute in Columbia by J. W. Hurk haltcr, formerly of Waycross, Ga., now a telegraph operator in Colum bia. Judge Dantzler at .Laurens on Wednesday granted bail to J nu. H. Wham, th slayer of Fayette Ramage, in the sum of $4,000. The defendant was represented by ?Ferguson ?Ss Featherstone and W. R. Richey, tim state by Solicitor Sease and O. L." Schumpert. Channing Their Tune. The Augusta Chronicle says nothing more notable hasoccuored in the last year than the radical change in thc treatment of the negro question by Northern newspapers. For years past The Chronicle has urged the going of negroes to Northern states, believ ing that these very changes that have oome about would result, and that Northern communities having this ne gro problem to deal with to faeearaong themself, and not simply to preach to Southern audience woulel see things in a new light. Tho following are some of the recent expressions by Northern men and newspapers based on the race trouble and lynching in Delaware, In Illinois, or Indiana: Tim St. Taul Pioneer-Press says We are tired of negroes and the negro problem, and we are outraged with negro preachers denouncing lynching without- a word of condemnation for. the negro brutes that cause them. The KaosasjClty Jonrnal says The negro race is but one g?n?ration but of. slavery, and but a: few generations out of barbarism. When he reverts to barbarism and commits a crime against womankind the punishment will be fully as swift and horrible In the north as in the south. The Mmcapolis Tribune says: The wave of black horror that is creeping over the country will soon or late be met and topped and overwhelmed by a wave of horror that will leave the superior race rid of everything or the inferior but the brutal barbarous passions and bibil thc conflict has bred. The dark, horror that liants over the south ls creeping across the Potomac, thc Ohio, the Mississippi and menacing the north as well. Dr. Lorimer, thc famous pulpit ora tor and platform lecturer, declares: Instead of holding meetings to de nounce lynching, we should hold meet ing with a view of forever stopping barbarous assult on the women of our laud. They arc too freeiuent, and what wonder human nature boib over before such bloody deeds? wc should make lt plain that white men will not tolerate attacks upon theil wives and daughters. This is the im perative duty of tile hour, and 1 trust it may not be overlooked by oui colored citizens in their talk about racial prejudice. The lynching is a regrettable affair, but the wanton murder of a defenseless woman h more so. This butchery of our wo men must bc blotted out some way oi other. We reproduce these statements by staunch Northern and Republican journals especially for the benefit ot tho negroes, and that our readers, generally, may see what a chango has comeover Northern sentiment on this negro question. A 'l'oubli Story. A Columbia, Mo., dispatch to thc New York Sun says: The Missouri river Hood has given P. C. Nuckles of Rocheport a new house, completely furnished. The high water drove Mr. Nuckles away from his farm, and when he returned to it he found on his land a comparatively new house, which was in good condition, despite Its water journey. There is nothing about it to indicate who the owner is." TWKNTY-KIVK thousand men labor ed from early morning till late at night in the Kansas wheat belt Sunday. In 20 counties where the harvest is ready thousands of reapers weie in action. Church services in many rural dis tricts were wholly abandoned. Many women helped the men and others carried water to the liclds for thc harvesters. en and women win? II r- 1 . .?'.!(! ..I the li?.?, t un- I. iii ire.-it morn ?linit'.l nut f ill .?iwill l>. llatlia ? liv .ll .-ll. .'. ll- lu" lr ? f.il/ i- a-? Mir li .ullin: >uil li:.i-t ->m: rp.-> fut - i' e .. I n I I.-1 V o ll ll >. ?? in fe 1 ll iiliii'iim your onso In his I? :i il cl H. it- lip Iii the lo ii ir ont o-lnbltslioil nutt inn tin' Lost ron illation. Il o l-ll rot whom ot horn fn!1 ; .Lerp, ts no |iiitt-hwork or ex|M>riiitpnitnR in his treatment Per sonal nt ion i lon tty Pr Hathaway, ? tai r-PP OB. HATHAWAY. dal COHII-Pf from III!? asrioetnte ttl|y*lp.l;illf when necpssary, which no othpr oflli-o hiw. If you cnn not cab, wrlto for free IKIOUIPH ami question blanks. Mention your trouble. Kv erytlilnir tjtrlctly confidential J. Newton Hathaway, M. D. 88 Inman Building 22? S. Broad St Atlanta, Ga I* m atw ul acteatifl? compound axoda iroa? root?. tart? oed barka-?nlabie ssUbar oploU? ?ar poloene. lt purlllM th? Hood cad re?novM th? eeuiC? al rti.uo?tl.na ?n? all blood dUeaata. Aoyena ?an Uk? RHULTlACID? W.'tFaApi Ht* ?slaty. Duofl Dst tajar* tb? clgeiUvs oriana. - .....!/....'.: -?? y?.V TWO cunes,-. . FLORrrron. fl. C., Aug. l?. 1903. OAHI.IKG?OH, G. O., Aug. IDtb, l?OJ. Gentlemen :-I bogan to suffer from Gentlemen ?-About two years ago I rheumatism about tbree year? ago. and i""1 * very ?avere attack*of Inflam tc*-. hod lt vory bad in my ?mba. At tlmea 10r/ rhoumatiam. 1 aufferad great pain I could hardly wauc. Waa troatod by in,?wWi?nS2i?^ a year airo. Mr.Goorgo W Huon, anengl- t?llof. Capt. Harker, ? COndUOtOr ?fr' neer ou tbo Coaat Line, living- In Flor- the Atlan?o C&at llii*9neordl of oy, enoo. told ma that " BUBOMAOID?" condition KD? awat mo two bottle? of cured bim. I got ? bottle and lt bene- " IUixoUAorna."- r began to? toke" If ?tied Uv. I took ?ve bottle? and am Elld 1,1 a week I cot Up and walked on ' now aa well aa I ever waa In my life, orutohea.- After taking three bottloeof ? regard " RHEUM ACIDE "as. a great w?nfh?^??"Lgo?.lnl,Mlr med*!... X know of other, ifh*. ^o^n.^y^?^ our,a* other bad casca that wer* cured by,tba > Truly, usoof your medicine, In tbla to wu andT ? <r? nnnnn vloinlty. It In nil that you claim for lt. B. T. B?lten. Truly, J. L. pl?KSON... 8o!d by Druggiita. Will be aent expreai paid on.receipt of fi.oo. . Bobbitt Chemical Co., - - Baltimore, fid., U.S. A. .?-. White Stone Lithia Water. Tun BKSTLITIIIA WATKH IN AMEKICA. THE LAUUCET AND MOST MODEUN BUICK HOTEL IN THU CAROLINAS OK GEOKOIA. THU COOLEST. R?SOUT IN THE STATE. All modern Improvements, electric car line from Southern Ry, to HoteL\f Well shaded, pleasant grounds, scenery equal to tlie mountains'; .and .'all\ amusements found at lirst class water places." Come lo White Stone Lithia Springs for health or pleasure. ?.""_ Read what the noted Dr. L?. C. Stephens, who stands at'the. head of the i profession in South Carolina, and who was president or theState Medical As sociation, also president of the Medical Hoard of Examiners of South Carolina , until he resigned to move to Greenville, says: ' "'-?l&j&? Greenville, S. C., October 10,1002. . After a service of one season at White Stone Lithia Springs,-as resident ' physician, I do not hesitate to say that the effect of the water upon'those who. drink It for any length of time, has been perfectly marvelous. Invariably an increase both in flesh and appetite was perceptible In one week, proving it to be a mineral water of undoubted powerful tonic property. Its peculiar adapt ability to diseases originating from dist rders of thc kidneys, bladder and liver;'' such as dropsy, Bright's disease, diabetes and uric acid calculi, and all forms of. dyspepsia, rheumatism and gout, is to be expected from the splendid analysis'; It has been noted frequently that visitors ocfore coming here had to follow every meal witli some form of corrective, or coolbie themselves entirely _t?! predigested foods; soon discarded these entirely, being delighted to Und that': the water alone-nature's own remedy-sufficed. . - Of the many who drank this water this season for ten days consecutively j' notoue but experienced decided benciit and a perceotlble gain weight,-varying from two to live pounds. L. O. STEPHENS. M. I>. For rates and particulars, address. TV" Iii te Stone l^itlaisx Water Go., WHITE STONE SPRINGS, S. O. RSM , OUR AGENTS MAKE $100 to $200 Per Month. -SELLING i'm I'" THE FARMERS MANUAL. w\To$??KS. 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