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HOT TIME. r and tho Vestry Have Batt!? !n Church. ELY FIST FIGHT Ouo Of Philadelphia's Churchos in Which tho Hectors Sovorol ol the Vostrytuon and Even Somo Women Wer? Activo Participants. Tho Trouble Had Been Drowlug For Sovoral Months. A rough and tumble fight Sunday morning, March 31. in which the rec tor, several vestrymyn and even some women took a hand was the culmination of the trouble that has . for months been brewing in the con gregation of Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal church, Marlborough street west of Guard avenue, of which Rev. E. G. Knight is rector. It was after Rector Knight had Kreached on the text. "Let. not your eart be troubled," and in closing had delivered the message, "Peace be unto you," that the fight occurred and all of those participating had partaken of holy communion. The real battle took place in the vestry room, located under the chanel in which the beautiful morning service had just been held, and started over the claims for the morning collection entered by accounting wardens rep resenting the two factions into which the congregation is divided. The trouble was expected and was pulled off on schedule time, when George Shegog, who, still claiming his right as accounting warden, hav ing been elected to that position on Wednesday night by the faction op posed to the rector, started to take the collection from the two silver plates that had been carried down to the vestry room by the rector and placed on a table preparatory tb sep arating the envelopes from the coin. Shegog left the main auditorium during the recessional hymn and was waiting in the vestry room to claim tho money. He made a reach for the money, but as he did so lie was grabbed by J. H. Watkins, who also claims to be the accounting warden, having been elected by the rector's faction at a separate meeting on Wednesday night, and Jacob Davis, Sr. The two men grappled and pummeled each other at a great rate. By this time several of the other vestrymen had taken a hand in the fray, and the rector, wearing the vestments that he wore in serving the communon, was soon in the thickest of the fight ing. Chaos reigned, while the women screamed. The fight, a running one, was kept up from the vestry room to the Sunday school room, then through the hall to the choir room and finally back to the vestry room. At one time Hector Knight and She gog had each other by the throat, ana again as many as four men Were hammering Shegog as he lay on the floor. The rector's faction seemed to have the best of the fight at the wind-up, while to the rescue of Shegog came his 18-year-old daughter, Alice, who dramatically demanded that the rec tor take off the vestments of his of fice and not disgrace them any long er. Sobbing bitter, she cried: "I will stand by my father until I die. Let me go to him. He needs me at a time like this." With the young woman was lier brother Har ry, a Dusky lad of 1G years, who gave and took punishment like a soldier. Several mixups were pulled off be fore the fighters were scperatcd. Rector Knight was exceedingly nervous after the afi'ray, but beyond admitting that the money was in his keeping he declined, as at all times during the trouble in his church, to discuss the matter in any of its phas es. Shegog made threats in the hear ing of all present that during the proceedings in court, when the case will be called to prosecute the rector on the charge of embezzlement of church money, there would be some starting revelations that would not only disrupt the congregation but unfrock the minister. The trouble centers around the Easter collection of 190(5, and has brought much discussion into the church. At that particular service George Shegog, then accounting war den, whose duty it is to take charge of all moneys, was not present, so the pastor took charge of the cash collected. When Mr. Shegog asked for it later Mr. Knight declared that the Easter collection was the rector's fund and was always given to him personally. This began a lengthy dispute and finally Mr. She gog appealed to Bishop Whitaker that he should force Mr. Knight to pay back the money, which amount ed to $1,060. and also remove him from the rectorship. The bishop refused to interfere and the rector was arrested on a warrant sworn out by Shegog charging him technically with embezzlement, and when brought before Magistrate Kochcrsperger he was held in $1,000 bail for court. It is believed that the fight of Wednesday will result in the com plete disruption of the congregation, which now numbers only about 100. Bishop Whitaker, whose requests for tile cessation of trouble in the church has been to a great extent ignored by both factions, will probably now take a hand in the affair that will tend toward its untangling. NEW COIN T IO I tFE IT MO N V, Y. Spurious Ten and Twenty Dollar Kills Arc in Circulation, i Tho discovery' Of n now counter feit ton dollar (Buffalo) United States note la announced by tho i cot service, of tho norien of j 9o I, cl. ick lotter A. Lyons register, Holi er to treasurer. Tho now counterfeit twenty dollar national hank note has boon dlflcov ?rod on tho First National Hank of Hereford, Texas, check letter A, Lyons register, Treat, treasurer of tho United Ktfitos. It hi n very poor photographic, print on poor papor. Declined to Talk. Profddont -Roosevelt declined to miiku any comment or discuss for publication tho declaration made by John Templo ({raves, of Georgia, nt Chattanooga, Wednesday night, that Mr. Bryan should bo tho forthcoming national Democratic convention-nom inate President Roosovclt, for another term. A DREADFUL WARNING faa Thrown the Colorai jPeoplo Into Consternation? CouBtornation of the moBt aggro- ? ratod-typo hOB reigned at Summerton Or some time. It seems that about i week or more ago a dear mute neat i boro for tho first and only time tu ils sixteen years of existence wau ion d to spoak hy roliablo members >f hi? raco, and the?o aro the words .lmt foll fro n hie hitherto unused onguo: "Tno Lord ls goln' to rain town Aro and brimstone." ,, It is not known by what phenome- , ml chanco his lips wore unsealed if tor all those yours of silenco and ul owed to uttor this prophecy, Holla jlo sogroos have attOBtod to tho facts >f tho caso, and when, tho story got inroad amongst tho negroes of Clar mdon county lt did not fali,to.have i most profound off oct upon'.thorn. Somo regard it in tho nature of a Divino uttoranco, whilo others say Lhat bofore many days tho boys ton ino will bo loosened and ho will make itrango nnd fearful prophecies of tho wrath of th/* Lord which will bo [toured out upon this ovil generation. Tho.colored man from whom The News and Courier correspondent got tho story W^B in toars of gonuino fright when lt was suggested to him that tho boy's words wore full of loop significance. It will be many tlays boforo tho full offects of the miracle will wear off, and whilo it is felt tho churches of tho negroes In that section will bo crowded with penitents and mourners, who road a ilroadful warning into this event. Christian Intimacy. Because too great "Christian intim acy" existed between the Rev .Solon H. Bryan and Miss Ellen Newby, of Millen, Ga., both are involved in a scandal that will be aired before the Methodist conference when it next convenes. It appears that tho Rev. Mr. Bryan was preparing Miss New by for work in the foreign field and that he took more time for his teach ing than was deemed necessary, by his wife and members of the congre gation. They declare that he was seen going and coming from Miss Newby's millinery parlors at all times of the day and night. Finally the wife objected and was given a sound boating for her pains. The pastor was arrested by neigh bors on.the charge of wife beating, but the wife repented and bailed her delinquent husband out of jail. Bry an has been suspended from his con ference and will have to stand trial. When approached concerning the affair Miss Newby said: "Only a 'Christian intimacy' existed between | Mr. Bryan and myself." But the people of the town refused such a plea, and arc of the opinion that the intimacy went a little to far. It is! a pity that such men cloak themselves with the garb of a min ister, and by their acts bring re proach upon the sacred ministry and the church. And it is astonishing how many men do it. The misdeeds of such men, unfortunately, lessens the respect of the people at large for the ministry. There was a time when a minister of the gospel was looked upon as being different from other men. The fact that he was a preacher carried weight with it, j and he was regarded as a good man because he was a preacher. But that day is passed, and preachers are now judged after they are known, as other men are. The ras cals who have entered the ministry has made this necessary. But we thank God that a large majority of all the ministers are cleanhanded, and would rather die than bring re proach oif their holy calling or the church to which they belong. Why They IAUIVO. Earnest P. Bickell, head of the Chicago Bureau of charities, believ es he has found thc reason why men leave home. He has been investiga ting the cause of wife-desertions for over a year. He names the chief cause as the lack of means to keep a family in anything like com fort with the present cost of living, which he says is a great deal more than it was a few years ago. Bickell's report shows that there are 20,000 deserted wives in Chica go, most of whom have been left to shift for themselves because their husbands find that they cannot pro vide for them. This is true in a special manner when the husband is father of a growing family. In such a case he linds that while his moder ate earnings were sufficient to keep him and his wife, they are not enough to support them and their children. Yet one hears thc cry of prosper ity on all sides. But when the mat ter is investigated it is found to be a myth, and that there is really no prosperity, except for a few. It is said the farmers ought to be pros perous because cotton is worth twice as much as it was some years ago. Hut it should be remembered that everything the farmer buys costs about, twice as much as it use to. Consequently he cannot buy any more with his ten cent cotton than he could with his five cent cotton. This applies to all other callings. A Grout County. The Newberry Observer sr>ys: "Orangeburg is a great county. Thursday's Times and Democrat pub lished reports of fifteen state banks in that county, aggregating a capi tal of nearly $-100,000 and deposits of about one million. And these are only state ban.. , there are national banks also, which are not included in this list." As the Observer says Orangeburg is a great county, but she has no national banks within her hol ders. There are only two other banks in the county besides those whose reports were published in The Times and Democrat two weeks ago. Tho deposits in the banks whose state ments we published was nearer two million than one million as the Ob server has it. The Times and Dem ocrat. PltAYIOIt OF FAITH Unaided n Poor Drunkard to (Jive Up lil ion/'. Drink. Tho Chester Lanlorn says "our old friend .Mr. R. M. Nunnery, of Fort i.awn. was In town yesterday. Un says he was once a drunkard hut has aol touched liquor in 1 1 years and has no desire for lt. Ho was n slavo to Hie pipe nulli four years ngo, when ho throw lt away and never smoked again. Tho Rnioll of a pipo ls now disgusting to him. ile chown tobac co to ?onie extent but says ho will quit lt at once if he determines that lt Is injuring him. He attributes his deliverance from these had habits md the desire of Indulgence lu thom to (ho prayer of faith. Train Porter Kenton. A dispatch from Huntington, Tenn ?sys that an enraged mob hoarded ho Louisville and Nashville trnln at iTozevant Thursday, seized tho negro loiter and gave him a torriblo hoat ng, from which he ls roported doad. FOUND AT LAST A Tribe of Monkey Men Discov ered That May Be, THE MISSING LINK. I*rof. Klnatch Discovers a Trlbo of Hairy Australian Natives, With Hands and Feet Like Big Apes, And Who Uve In Trees. Thoy Aro Very Wild, and It Was Hard to Examino Thom. Professor Klaatsch, of thc Univer sity of Heidelberg, hos discovered a new and most important link in the chain of evolution that binds man to the ape. He has observed a race of Austral ian natives who possess Borne of the most marked characteristics of apes and yet are undoubtedly men. These characteristics consist in having the thumbs but very slightly developed as in the apes, and in having great toes of almost identical form with the thumbs. Professor Klaatsch set out to ex plore the country between the Daly and Victoria rivers, in northern Aus tralia. This country a few miles in land from the coast has hardly been touched by the white man. While in Port Arthur, on the coast of this re gion, he happened to be present at the trial of some natives who were charged with the murder of a white man. The trained scientific eye of the professor noted with amazement that one of these natives possessed hands and feet like those of an an thropoid ape and many other similar characteristics. Professor Klaatsch with great dif ficulty ascertained the direction from which the man came and then start ed thither with the intention of find ing and studying the rest of his tribe. He reached the locality indicated after a journey of three weeks across the desert. At first he could observe no signs of human habitation, but he was prepared for this, becau.se ne knew that the natives were exceed ingly timid and possessed no regular houses. He spread out various glit tering objects as bait, and after a few days these aroused the curiosity of the wild men to such an extent that they crept up to steal them. The professor then put out food, and after they had tasted this he was able to make friends with them just as lie might have done with some wild animals. He found that these natives were covered with long hair from head to foot in all parts of the body except the face, the palms of the hands, the soles of the feet and their haunches. The most remarkable feature of all I was the formation of their hands and feet. The palms of the hands were almost as long proportionately as the sole of an ordinary white man's foot and the fingers were proportionately short. These were partially joined together by skin. The thumb was noticeably short, and its tip did not reach half-way towards the base of the fingers. It did not possess the power of moving freely across the hand, which is characteristic of the civilized man's thumb. All the pecu liarities noted in the thumbs of the natives are found in the higher an thropoid apes, especially the chim panzee and gorilla. The feet of the natives were form ed in almost exactly the same man ner as their hands. They were also slightly turned up on the inner side, so that the little men did not move with the same apparent ease as white men, whose feet came evenly upon the ground, but nevertheless they were able to run very well. Their feet possessed the same prehensile power as their hands, and they used one and the other with equal facility in climbing trees and seizing objects. Now, the possession of a thumb by the ape is one of the most remark able facts indicating his close rela tionship to man, but its lack of de velopment shows the immense gulf which still separates him from the human family. The Klaatsch ape man possessed<an absolutely ape-like thumb and great toe, together with the structure of a man in other re spects, and therefore apparently he partook equally of the characteristics of an ape and a man. Professor Klaatsch examined the physical conformity of the natives with the greatest minuteness and found that apart from their hands and feet their bony anatomy did not differ in any fundamental respect from that of man and did not present any of the minor characteristics that differentiate the skeleton of the an thropoid ape from that of man. The wild men are very simian in general aspects. They have scarcely any forehead and they have large projecting ridges above their eyes. They.are highly prognathous, that is having protruding under jaws. Their noses are flattened almost to nothing at the bridge and are very broad at the other end. the nostrils being large and opening forward, They build no houses but shelter themselves under bushes or in the branches of trees, when the women are raising children however, the men make night shelters of boughs over them. They have no regular marriage, but when a man desires a wife he lies in wait for her behind a tree, springs upon her, beats her into unconsciousness with a club and drags her off to his lair. They do not posses.", a properly ar ticulated language, and they make known their wants by cries and howls resembling the noises made by mon keys and other animals. They know how to build fires and they kill small animals with rude bows and arrows. Except in these two respects they do not exhibit, the rudiments of ordinary human know ledge as exhibited by savages. They cannot he said to possess a vestige of civilization. They eat snakes, frogs, insects and all kinds of things that would be generally considered unfit for human food. The children are covered with a soft fur, which disappears at the age of about, t en, and is then replaced by coarse hair, resembling that of tho ape. It must be a wonderful sight to watch these wild men, women and children playing in the trees, hang ing by the feet and swinging from branch to branch with the agility of monkeys.' Professor Klaatsch narra tes how one of them escaped ina'arm it thc sight of his camera by running np a gum tree and then hanging by Mo feet, looking over his shoulder PRIZE* OFFERED. By Th? Behool ?w^r'?'V'??t?.s?it Asaseis tlon of South Carolina. Tho School Improvement Associa tion of South Carol inn hat) decided to offer 15 prlf.cs to the schools of tho State for the most decided me ti l lal improvement made during tho glvou leanth of timo. Flvo of tho prlzos are to bo flOO eaoh, and 10 aro to be $60 each. Regulations concerning tho 16 pr?tes aro na fol lows. 1. Improvomonts must bo made bo twoon January 1 and November 16, 1907. 2. Prizes will bo ; dwarfed to schools whore tho most decldod ma torlal Improvomonts have been made during tho timo mentioned. 8. Under tho material Improve monts aro Included lotnl taxation consolidation, new buildings, libra rios, .intorion decorations, beautify lng yards and bettor goueral equip mont. v 4. No school eau compete for any of those prlzos unloss lt is a rural school. No town or city with moro than 500 population shall be ollgiblo to tho contest. 6. All who wish to enter this con test muBt sond names and descrip tions of schools, boforo improvements aro made, to tho president, prior to October 1. 6. All descriptions, photographe, and other evidences showing improvo monto must bo sont to tho prosident before Novombor 1. 7. Prizes will be awarded in checks sont hy Docombor 1. Tho prlzos aro to bo used for furthor improvements in tho schools recoiving them. Tho prlzo winners last year woro an follows: Laurena.Wallace Ix>dgo. York.Outhrlesville. Florence.. .Snrdls. Marlboro.Pino Grove. Barnwell, diners nnd Healing Springs Clarendon.Trinity. Chester.Onkloy Hall Dorchester.. . .'.Staliavillo Marion. . . . ..Olivet It ridght bo interesting to know in what manner the schools havo dis posed of their prizo money. Some information along this line is glvon in a bulletin issued by tho associa tion. The bulletin is a book of 30 pages with illustrations showing how cheerless, comfortless school rooms had boon made bright and attractive. Tho Trinity school, Clarendon county, expended tho $100 as follows Paint and Painting.9 76.00 interion building-material. . io.00 Chairs.' . . . . 10 00 Cash on hand of this fund. . 4.00 9100.00 This report came from the Oakley Hall School, Chestor County. "We bought a new boater, which nmken the room very comfortable. "We have also bought a splendid j-evolvlng oihee chair. Wo have also bought paint for the house, and ex pect to have lt pointed ns soon ns the weather permits. We have Ordored a library. A wash basin and towels have been placed in our school. We expect to? secure a teachor's desk with the rest of tho money." The following statement carno from tho Waallaco Lodge school, Laurens county. Pump.9 i r>.6r? Stovo. 8.65 Teacher's desk...10.GK Globo. 7.25 Toacher'B Chair. B OO Chairs.H-00 Pictures..'. . . 10.5 6 Books.\. .. lo.00 Blackboards. . '. . 4.8G Bucket.60 Erasers. 20 Hall for boys. 1.00 improvement n yards. 6.00 United States Flag. . . . .... 1.69 9100.00 The OuthrleBvillo school mndo tho following report: Library BookB.9 10.00 Pictures. 3.00 icacher'fl table and chair. . . . 6.00 Dusting Brush. 26 Flower seed. 60 Stovo Polish. 10 Entertainment supplies.. .. 1.16 Building fund.80.00 Mr. J. H. Williams of Marion coun ty wrote as follows: "Tho 9100 awarded to Olivet School of this county, was spent In improving the grounds, tho build ings, for pictures, blackboards, maps, and have a balance yet. We huve a schoolclaimlng ono of tho prizes of fered this year." to see what the thing was. The Australian bushman, as prev iously observed by scientists, was regarded as the lowest existing type of man. Ile possesses many of the characteristics mentioned as belong ing to the new ape-man described here, but not the apelike formation of the thumbs and great toes. He has the prominent eyebrows and jaws, the flat nose and the lunk limbs. With all their degradation and sav agery the bushmen possess skill of a certain kind. They are the construc tors of the wonderful boomerang, which when thrown for a distance of hundreds of feet comes back to the hand of the thrower and damages him unless he knows how to receive it. The bushmen are also noted for their "corrobor?es" entertainments, at which they imitate the play of va rious animals. The newly discovered ape-man rep resents one distinct stage lower or farther back in the scale of evolution than the bushman. Whether the bushman is a direct descendant of the ape-man or a cross between two races will be an interesting question to decide. The newly discovered ape-man con stitutes a most important factor in the evidence that establishes the doc trine of evolution. Dr. Dubois, the Dutch army surgeon, had already discovered in Java, which is adjacent to Northern Australia, the remains of an ancient creature, which he call ed Pithecanthropus Erectos, or "ape-man who walked erect." This creature possessed even more ape like characteristics in its skeleton than the man now discovered by Pro fessor Klaatsch, but yet in its erect attitude and tile formation of its skull it proved itself much nearer to man than any existing ape. Now we possess four links in the chain of ev olution which proves the descent of man. These are the ape, the Pithe canthropus erectos of Dubois, the ape-man of Klaatsch and the Aus tralian. There is no longer an inex plicable gap between the ape and man. There is no longer a missing link. ?t seems moro than probable that ono of the principal issues in the approaching campaign will be the question of Federal and State rights. Both Democratic and Republican polit icians and newspapers are inclin ed to raise this issue in order to de termine popular sentiment concern ing legislation enacted for the con trol of trusts, corporations and rail road companies. \RKBST1 Jl> OM SI1RIOV8 CHAHGH I I,'..VMW ... ??...iiin/.KniM, Man t 'hnHi?.?! With A* m mit ou Negro Woman. T. D. Mitchell, who ot one time lived In this city and wau on tho city police force huB hoon arrested on a BOrlouB chnrgo In New Brooklyn, near Columbia. Tho charge 1B that ho attomptod a criminal usBault upon Emma Lownian, a young nogro wo man In Now Brooklyn last Saturday night. We take tho following facts relating to the case from the Colum bia Record. They wore brought out boforo tho magistrate who hoard tho caso, aud granted Mitchell bail. It seems that Mitchell followed this nogro woman to hor homo and as sho was entering tho gate he grabbed her by tho arm and attomptod vio* lenco. Mitchell, as ho grabbed hold of hor stumbled over a board In the gate and foll into the yard. This pro vontod him. it is said, from carrying out his purpoBO. Tho matter was at onco reported to tho town authorltlos but Mitcholl was not arrostod until Monday. Mitcholl denies tho chargo aud claims that it is a made up affair be tween this negro woman and a white man of Brookland, who "had it in" for him, and devised this plan of get ting oven. Tho Record says "trouble was narrowly averted Saturduy night In Brookland when tho matter be came generally known. NogrooB were vory Indignant and throatened trou bio and Mitcholl carno across tho ri vor into Columbia and stayed in this city all Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night and wont back to Brookland Monday morning wheu the woman had him arrested.!' Mitchell was a wltnosB In behalf of J. H. Tillman when he was tried for tho murder of the lato N. G. Oouzal oz. Lator on he was charged with others of stuffing tho ballot boxes In Brooklyn and tnoy were all convicted and fined. Tho Record further says last summor he was arrested one Sunday afternoon for gambling In the woods near Lexington and was fined $16 or sontoncod to conflnmen In Jail for throe hours. Bo lt seeiUB that Mitchell has gotten Into consld orablo troublo since ho left Orange burg. Mitchell sayB: "It ls n hatched up plan on tho part of two whlto men In Brooklyn to dispose of mo In some manner and to got even for u minor matter and to do thia they cocked up this scheme with this colored woman. She ls a woman of tho worst sort and boars a disreputable name In this town. I am going to fight the matter Pto the end and will prove to the peo ple of this place and Columbia that ?I am not guilty of the charge under which I have been bound over to hlghor court." The Record says when Mitchell was arrested he seemed to bo sur prised. He was not In the cutsody of tho magistrate long before Mr. P. H. Stallings and Mr. C. T. Weed, two citizens of Brookland, appoared to go on his bond. Tho bond was fixed at $350 and was promptly signed by Messrs. Stallings and Weed, where upon Mitchell was released. Thu chargo against Mitchell ls a very serious one and should he be convicted of it ho would undergo a long period of Imprisonment. He does not say who tho white men are that ho claims put up a Job on him in collusion with the woman, but we suppose their names will come out lu'the trial. Shot Self in Store. At Boston Morris Mosessohn, a pawnbroker, committed suicide Fri day by shooting. Recently Mossos sohn reported to tho police that his homo had been robbed of Jewelry valued at $3,000. Aftor an Investi gation tho police arrested the man charging that ho himself had ran sacked his house with tho ldoa of re covering Insurance Gets Good Job. Tho president has appointed R. W. Tyler, a negro of Columbus, Ohio, to be auditor of tho treasury for the navy department. Tyler ls tho man who lt wnB announced had been con sidered by the president for a federal position in Ohio. But the Republi cana In Ohio would not have him. Greek vs. Bulgaria. Macedonia is the scene of a bloody contest between Greeks and Bulgarians. These two nations de clared war against each other six months ago, but as several hundred miles of neutral Turkish territory lay between them, an actual state of war has been impracticable This anomaly of hostilities does -not prevent the Bulgar and Greek from engaging in actual strife. There are thousands of roving Bul garians and an equal number of Greeks in thc buffer state, Macedo nia. These have espoused the cause of their native lands and are engaging in a war of extermination on about the same scale as characterized the bloody feud between Turks and Armenians. The result is that every time a Greek and Bulgar meet there is a fight to the finish. The stories told by those who escape are harrow ing in the extreme. One of the favorite modes of at tack by the Bulgarians is to catch the Greeks, while they are in church. In a recent slaughter they destroyed a church by throwing bombs int*"* it when it was crowded, (?reeks ? ore killed in great numbers. As the survivors were rushing from thc church they were killed as they left the church door. Only a few es caped and these had their tongues torn out or were maimed in some other way. Both (ireece and Bulgaria are so called Christian nations, yet they are carrying on a war, the cruelties of which would cause an Indian to blush, if such a thing was possible, Neither of them could tell what they are at war about, or what is to bc gained by it. Some way should be found to put a stop to such a war Why don't the adjacent powers in terpose, and teach the foolish Greeks and Bulgar a lesson in common sense. If one nation don't feel like undertaking thc job, let them all join in and do it. By some means this most foolish war should be stop ped. THE Kev. John Johnson, I). I)., died at his residence in Charleston on Sunday night. During the war he was a Major of Engineers in the Confederate army, and engineer in charge at Fort Sumter for fifteen months, covering the period of its heaviest bombardments by thc ene my. It was through his energy and skill as engineer that the Confedera tes were enabled to hold the old fortress to the Inst, and his name will be forever linked with thc suc cessful defence of Charleston, a de fence that was and is thc wonder and admiration of the. world for heroism and endurance of those who took part in it. CAPT. J. D. Browne died In Colum bia on Sunday night. He was a gal ant soldier of the "Lost Cause," and by his death South Carolina loses ono of her most loyal and patriotic sons. Peace to his nsbea. THE GOLDEN AGE We Are Living In lt But Do Not Know lt. ?(?mw Iteflectlons on tho Past, Tho Prosont mid tho Futuro and Its Lessons* It has long boou tho foshiou to scold farinera for their disposition to bo dissatisfied. Every penny-a-liner ?n tho lino has denounced thom us "chronic grumblers." Onilrst thought this may soom to bo a serious reflec tion, but after closer analysis It dooB not appear BO formidable. By. the op oration of a natural law It ls Inipos siblo for any of UB to bo ontlroly satr isflod with present conditions. If thoro is no discontent thoro will be no progrese. It is dlBsatlsfaction with conditions which gives life to thc" groat reformers. It is because they do not like things ns thoy aro that wo have tho great roformors in religion and politics. , The farmor who is content to go as his ancestors did is certainly not a deslrablo acquisition to tho world of ag*loultUre. It is that class who woar out tho land, who deteriorate tho Btock, who nover learn and novor forget anything. Tho improvements ure brought about by those who SUB* poet there in a bettor way. Ho knows that it has always been tho custom to do so and BO, but, like tho iconoclas tic Hamlet, ho bluntly declares that the custom is bettor in tho broach than theo'Borvanco. Ho determines to chango things and striko out on new lines. In this resolve wo havo tho 'germs of- reform, the vanguard of all Improvement on tho farm. Without Impatience with tho Btate tn which wo live it ?B manifest that there would bo no deslro to improve. This impatience, however, while lt stlmulatoB UB to surpass proceeding genorntloiiB, disposes us to overate tholr happiness. It 1B unreasonable and ungrateful tn us to be constantly dlscontod with a condition which is constantly improving. Hut in truth thoro ls constant improvement pre clBely because there is constant dis content. If wo wore perfectly satis fled with tho present wo should cease to contrive, to labor and save with i view to the future. Another curious Illustration of the operations of that mystery of mysteries, tho human mind If found In the fact that to our dissatisfaction with tho present ifi due the tendency to form a too favor able estimate of the past. Though tho times In which we live are infinitely superior to anything ever known to the world, there ls an Irreslstahlo Inclination to imagine that our own period is inferior tc others that base gone before. For the Ufo of us, we cannot escapo tho ten dency to place the golden ngo In tn? past, whereas wisdom would suggest that it is esentlal to progress thal this goal of all our struggles should he placed In tho future Thus wc would look forwnrd to it ns a prize to be struggled for, an ideal to bc reached, instead of taking tho dis heartening view that the best hod al ready been accomplished. In always Imagining that times pasl were superior to tirneff present.wc are under a deception similar to thal which misleads the traveler In thc Sahara desert. Beneath the caravar ali ls dry and bare, but far in advance and far in tho rear ls the semblance of refreshing waters. The pilgrims hasten forward and find nothing hui sand whoo an hour before they har seen a luke. They turn their eyei and seo a lake where, au hour before they were tolling through sand. / similar Illusion seems to haunt na tlonB through every Btago of tho lorif progress from poverty and barbarian to the highest dogreo of opulence ant civilization. But If we resolutely chas* tho mirage backward wo shall find 1 receedo beforo us into the regions oi fabulous antiquity. George Washington, tho richesi man of his day, did not have BO gooe a bed to sleep in as that now at thc service of every one of the thousands of farmers who read this. There were no comforts lp the kitchens of Mad ison or Jefferson which would nol now he spurned by every farmer'! wife, with the latest range or cooli stove, her neatly arranged pantry her ice box and her convenient purni that BOIKIB water through all thc house. A hundred yearn ago noble men in England were destitute ol comforts which millions of modert farmers now consider tho common places of existence. Depend upon lt the golden ago ls all around us al this moment, but this does not mili tate against the proposition of thlt article, that discontent is the result of a natural law without which there would bo neither individual growth nor national progreso. They Come High. Hens must be held in high esteem In Jonesville. One strayed over Into the yard of a neighbor of her owner and was killed and now tho owner ?a suing his neighbor for fifty centn for the hen and ono thousand dol lars as a balm for the owners lace rated feelings. President Roosevelt says Hard man is aliar, but he does not deny thatliarriman raised abigcampaign fund for the Republicans in 1904. He knows better than to do such n thing as that. If he did, Hardman would put him in the Ananias club by hauling the record on him. Ex-Senator Burton, of Kansas, who has returned to his home from prison, is said to be sharpening hhs tomahawk for Roosevelt's scalp. He blames the President for all hi.s troubles. If Roosevelt is not a candidate for a third term how can there be a con spiracy on the part of the great fi nancial interests to defeat him? This is a question that even the faithful Loeb can't answer. The political contest in Ohio is not a contest between Eoraker and Taf t but a contest between Roose velt and his enemis led by Foraker. As a choice between two evils we hope Roosevelt will win. The new dispensary law is quite a bonanza to the press of the State. Every county has to call for liquor bids through at least two daily pap ers and one weekly paper. This amounts to a neat little sum in a year, two-thirds of which goes to the dailies. Ex-Congressman Grow, who died the other day at his home in Penn sylvania at an advanced age, had a fisticuff with Congressman Keitt, of Orangcburg County, on the floor of the House, because Keitt called him a puppy. Thc light occurred before the war, when the debates in Con gress were red hot. Governor Comer of Alabama, is a firm believer in tho "unwritten law." During the past, two weeks ho has issued pardons to two men on this ground. Gilbert Jarvis killed Harry Ready for betraying his niece. He was released. W. E. Shill, who killed a man for betray ing his daughter, wa., pardoned. orne Statistics Showing tu* \Vs>*h ' That Is Being Done. The Salvation Anny all over tho world ls holding a week of special prayer. The army has dopurtmonta in many landa, including. Sadia, Afri ca and Japan. The work in this country has been fruitful of much good. The Btatistics of the Salvation Ar my show that in this country thoro aro 727 corps headquarters and 104 outposts. Tho total attendance in doors Inst year was 11,140,782 and in open air meetings 1,677,280. There are 4,294 local, offlcors and bandsmen, 80,455 junior companies and 4,124,745 War Crys sold. Thoro aro CG industrial homos, ac commodating 1,686 people. Thoro woro mealB given to 1,318,044 men and beds supplied to 463,?60. Tho following summary shows the romarknablo work claimed for the Salvation Army in tho foroign field: Countries and colonloB oe cupled. 63 Languages in which salva tion is proached. . 80 Corps aud Outposts. . . . 7,684 Ofllcers, cadets and em ployers. 20,078 Training Homes. . 31 Accommodation of samo. . iyT,''68? Local officers...,H,G;S89 llandsmon. 19,498 Numbor of periodicals . . 68 Circulation por Issuo .. ..1,086,490 Social Institutions. . 766 Accommodation of came.. 22,647 Shelters and food depots. . . 206 Accommodation of same. . 20,024 Prison gato homes. ...... 16 Accommodation of sam?. . i'-'449 Satisfactory cases por an num. . . ?.. .1,642 Hoscuo homes. . t . .107 Accommodation of same1. . '"''!?,76i Satisfactory cases per au niim. ?s 6,554 Land Colonies. . 18 Acreage of samo.. .. . -29,255) Tho Salvation ' Army workers are not pessimists, hut uro always, happy and always cheerful, although' their1 work is among the poor ..and '-needy and Ul. Tho following statistics, ;ib would seem, would tend, to overawe* them In their of forts but they go^ plodding along. CURBS ALL SKIN TROUBIiBS Sulphur tho Accepted Romedy for a* i Hundred Years. Sulphur ls ono of tho greatest remedies nature ever gavo to mau. Every physician knows lt cures Bkln and blood troubles. Hancock's Liquid Sulphur enables you to get tho full benefit in most convenient form. Do not take sulphur 'tablets' or 'wafers' or powered sulphur In molasses. Hancock's Liquid Sulphur is pleas ant to tuko and perfect in its action. Druggists sell lt. A well known citizen of Danville, Pa., writes: "I have had an aggra vated case of Eczema for over 26 years. I have used seven 60-cont bot tles of tho Liquid and ono jar of your Hancock's Liquid Sulphur ointment, and now I feel ns though I had a brand new pair of hands. It has cured mo and I am certain it will euro anyone If they persist In using Hancock's Liquid Sulphur, accord ing to directions. 'Butler Edgar.' RURAL CARRIERS Are Allowed to Carry Packages' Un der Certain Conditions. On and after July 1 the pay of rural carriers on the routes lu this county will be paid $900 per annum. This should enable the cnrrlers to be fairly paid and to have tho means necessary to pay for tho maintenance of their horses and vehicles. A carrier ls entltlod to carry any package In balk largor than that which the postofilce department will tnko, but he ls not allowed to receive remuneration for his services from tho person who sonds tho package. In all cases he must colloct for his services from tho recipient of such package. If a carrier was allowed to col lect from a merchant who desired to Bhlp goods to local patrons by menus of the carrier it would influence the carrier to tr} to increaso the busi ness of the merchant having such facilities for delivering and at any rate would cause people to buy at the storo of such merchant, becauso lt would bo convenient. This would necessarily work a hardship with the merchant who did not employ the carrier as a dollvory agent, and for that reason lt ls host that all packages carried by tho car rier which do not con h let nor com pete with his regular mall business be collected for at their destination. LETTER BARTY. A Suggestion for u Good Evening's Entertainment. Roys and girls, ns well ns thoso of larger growth, will greatly enjoy hav ing their wits sharponod ut a "Lotter Party," and for this the following sot of questions to bo answered by one, two or three letters is morely u suggestion : Kamo a beverage T Name a common bird J Nanto one of the human organs I What ls Jealousy NV VS hat ls it to suprcsB others XL Name a summer dross goods PIC Name tho condition of winter pavement IC ?amo n county In England BX Nanto too much of something XS Nanto n sailor's response II Nanto a creeping plant IV Nanto a kind of popper KN Nanto a void MT Nanto a composition SA Nanto a mournful poem LEO Tile Train Foll. Ono person wns killed and about 1 5 Injured in a wreck on tho St. John bury and Lake Champlain railroad', about two miles east of Hardwick, Vt., Thursday. The ontiro train, a westbound passenger train, with tho exception of the locomotive loft the rails and plunged down a 4 0-foot em bankment. THE Socialists have announced that for the present they have aban doned effort to carry certain States, among them South Carolina. The Socialists had out a candidate for governor last year in this State, and he polled three votes. We do not blame them for quitting nndor the circumstances. Hemphill sixty years old. Never. If the genial Major stays on earth as long as Methuselah did he will still be less than sixty years of age in spirit and good fellowship. We Have Ono 25 Horse Power Talbott, si Cen tl y been overhauled. Title Engli bo a great bargain for anyone who gino. Wo aro headquarters for any piles and prompt, attontlon will bo ? trusted io our cato. Write un whei and ho suro to get our pricos bofo Columbia Supply Co., "?uVttlNG OWANIXQ" N?Kl?m?, T|,n %?-ii . -rr--* ?W^JI???.^? xv -> ??t a? the House, "You look elck this morning," "Yea I woko up with ? d;;?? ache, a tun tod tosgue and that dark. blown taste in tho mouth." "Dltn't you have nain* in your joint* aud munden." "Yes. AB my old negro mammy used to say, 'I have mieery In my Joints. "Bettor take a bottlo of Ilhouiua elde? old man. "What does Itheumaeide do?" "Why Ithounincldo ia the most powerful nnd effective blood purifier *a tho world, it sweeps all tho gorme and poleons out of the blood and 'makes you well all over.' " "Ever try it yourself." "B?ro I take a couple of bottles of lt before spring begins. Give my- #r blood a spring cleaning. And lihou? macido putB mo in such fine shape that I never have that tired feeing." "Well, I am going to try, thia Ithcumueirio you Bay ls the bout ever, "Thats right. All tho druggists sell lt. Better get a bottle today. You start to get well with tho mot doso. The proprlotorB Bay that Hhe.u niaclde gets at the joints from, tho Insldo ?nd makes you well .all over. .And that tho truth, old man.'" * CUKE-5 ALI, SKIN THO?HL?S ?FTEK TWENTY. YEAHS Man Turned Loose After Bel nj j In Prison that Long. - ?ov. Hoch, of Kansas, one day Inst wool: decided to parolo "Wilde Bells" who has oorved no?rly twenty years in tho Kansas penitentiary, for ^murdering his father, mother, Bister and brothor in March, 1888. .Selle stoutly maintained his Innocence. It iwne"Argued in his defense that he.', was o Kiek ly lod of thirtcon years ,? when^the crlmo was. committed, lt" ^ 'had been a physical Impossibility for .. ..him tq hove committed the crme. . iSpeeciiless and Paralyzed. . . i'-. ." Butumouod to tho office of Dr. John ; \ W. Ballard, of Logansport, Ind., sup-5^ posedly for a friendly call, H. . F. \<d Btoughton, a farmer, found Ballard and Others assembled ns a lunacy.' board to Inquiro into his sanity. "Mfc- iff God,'.-John, would you Bond mo to 'the. ; \. mad house?" ho screamed, then feU %.:y unconscious from his chair. When V; resuscitated, he was speechless nii'd . totally paralyzed. Shot the Right One. It. M. Crowe, of Pittsburg, shot himself while in a box watching a v vaudeville performance at the Grand Opera bonne Thursday. Ethel Levy, ono of the singers, was on the stage'-'*, when Crowe arose and pointed the .;. revolver at her shouting: "It's over." Mrs. Levy lied from the otago y and Crewe shot hiniBolf. Roosevelt seems to be seeing all kinds ol political spooks these days, or is he only stooping to the word heeler's tacticr to gain political sympathy. ; : > Intelligent treatment at your home BY O. ? ot tho greato?t ra I Blake* mada by p opio rending in tho country and ania 1 towns ?a tholr fal uro to o^naulfc the experienced B|>oclaliat for their dee]> coated or chronic disorders. They sulTor ah ng duy nitor day, shorn liing tholr li voa by mondia a?m year., <-iihor through igno-anoe of wliat i h? ?p'-oiu iat could do tor them . r tha belief hat apccial iron tm nt would re qulie their removal to tho city. 1 It i? not necee n y thttyou shotdd real e in the anmo city in order to re ceive benefit of our upochd ti oat men I. We in? ho ni' i ii (Torem from deep Bented. I..?.,...<."! Q?IIK troubles ol Heart, Iii ul. I,unca, Stoimoh, Boweb, Liver? Blndder, blood, N?rvea, or diseases pe cul ar io either .;? jr., to write or c ll npon us and lear ? w,hat hw., don? - for others similarly i-lllioti-.il, ?MU? what we cnn ? 0 for U fin. Thc:e 18 no charg? for thia oonau'ta tlon, nod it i ; w rth your time Mid- of fort who the! you dtcldo to be^in treat Dieill or not. Fdr i,i oi e than twenty years, I, an A thosproi distant?) eint od with me, ka ve given our entiio tirae, thought and ! i inly to the euro of the deep seated dir ni or aervous disorders,.bick ?ave bu filed tho lesa experienced all round phyaician. Whatever you may think jour ailment la, it is not probable that you can be Suito iure of your own diagnosis or int of t ho ordinary physician. Or you may write us, first, in eatha , confldono*, if yon choose. Borne crea ' .* ?,\ do uot : ced a personal vidi, although al wafs adv s?fele. Send f r our booklet on "Brain and ... i Nerve Kxhauation " Mallod free in uiiprlntnd wrapper Dr lin?1 away & Co., 22? S. Broad St, Atlanta, Gs. Plea-?. stud me in unprinted envel ope, your book for tren, for which there is uo charge and which dots' not place raeundorany Obligation? to you. Name. Address. Name of paper. Pianos and Organs At Factory Prices. Write us at once for our special plan of paymont on a Piano or Organ If you buy either Instrument through us you sot a standard make, on? that will last a llfo-time. Wrlta MALONES Mirrie HOUSE, .Columbia, S. O. OFFERED WORTHY wWyt YOUNG PEOPLE. No matter how limited your meant of ada* ?anon, If yon desire a thorough builness trata* lng and good position,wntcior our ORBAT HALF RATB OFFER. Success, independence ?nd probable FpR? ?tlNK Kuavanteed. Oon't ?ehvr: WTltato-day. he OA.-ALA. BUS. ?COLLBOB. Macao ??l For Sale Bcond hand Engine, nnd whi-h his re no ls In first class eon,?iii i , - i will is in the market for such a sizo en thing itt tho way of machinery's?pJ Slvon to nil inquirios and orders en 1 you aro in tho market for anything ro placing your ordors elsewhore. Columbia, S. Ce