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r??&s?re Thai Has just Gone Into Affect SEO LAST WINTER. s IJ/W Makes It Illegal For Any Ono to Soil in South Carolin? Any i Adulterated Food or Drug or, o Same Ujulcr^a-j^n!^ Lnbol and ' Proscribes Heavy penalties for Vio luting lt. The pure food law passed at the I last session of the Legislature went1 nto effect last Tuesday. The law ivus made to supplement the food pnd drug law passed by Congress, nd is quite sweeping in its provis ions. The full text of the law is pub lished bolow: Be it enacted by the General As sembly of the State of South Caro lina: Section 1. That it shall be unlaw ful for any person to manufacture or sell, or offer for sale, any article of food or "drugs which is adultera ted or misbranded within the mean ing of'wis Act, and any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic tion thereof shall bc punished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars or by im prisonment not exceeding fifteen days for the first offence, and one hundred dollars or thirty days' im prisonment for each subsequent of fence. Section 2. That the terms "drug," as used in this Act, shall include all medicines and preparations recogniz ed in the United States Pharmacop oeia or National Formulary or U. S.; Dispensatory for internal or external use, and any substance or mixture 4^pf substances intended to be used for ^he cure, mitigation or prevention of disease of either man or other ani malsTVfhe term "food," as used hercin,\?hall include all articles used for fooW, drink, confectionary, or condiment by man or other animals, whether simple, mixed or compound. Section 8. That for the purpose of this Act an article shall be deemed to be adulterated: In case of drugs and flavoring extracts: First, if, when a drug or flavoring extract is sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary or U.S. Dispen satory, it differs from or docs not | conform to the standard of strength, quality or purity, as determined by the test laid down in the United States Pharmacopoeia, National For mulary, or U. S. Dispensatory, offi cial at the time of investigation. In the case of confectionery: If it contains terra alba, barytas, talc, chrome yellow, or other miner al substance or poisonous color fla vor, or other ingredient deleterious or deterimental to health, or any vinous, malt, or spirituous liquor or compound, or narcotic drug. In thi? OfKtn nf fr\nA First. If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to re duce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength. Second. If any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the - article. Third, if any valuable constituent | of the article has been wholly or in part abstracted. Fourth. If it be mixed, colored, powdered, coated or stained in a j mander whereby damage or inferi ority is concealed. Fifth. If it contain any added pois onous or other added deleterious in gredient which may render such ar ticle injurious to health: Provided, that when in the preparation of food products for shipment they are pre served by any external application, applied in such manner that the pre servative is necessarily removed ma chanically, or by macerat ion in water, or otherwise, and directions for the removal of said preservative shall be printed on the covering or the pack age, thc provisions of this Act shall be construed as applying only when naid products are ready for consump tion. Sixth. If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed or put rid animal or vegetable substance or any portion of an animal unfit for food, whether manufactured or not, or if it is the product of a diseased animal, or one that has died other wise than by slaughter. Section A. That the term "mis branded," as used herein, shall ap ply to all drugs or articles of food, or articles which enter into the com position of food, the package or label of which shall bear any statement, design or device regarding such ar ticle, or the ingredients or substanc es contained therein which shall be false or misleading in any particular, and to any food or drug product which is falsely branded as to the State, territory or country in which it is manufactured or produced. That for the purposes of this Act an arti cle shall he also deemed to bc mis branded : In case of drugs: First. If it be an imitation of or offered for sale under tia; name of another article. , Second. If thc contents or the package as originally put up shall have been removed, in whole or in part, and other contents shall have been placed in such package, or if tv package fail to bear a statement on the label of thc quantity or pro portion of any alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha Or beta encaine, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, or acetanilide, or any deriva!ive or preparation of any such substances contained therein: Provided, that thc package contains more than two grains of opium, or more than one-quarter grains of morphine, or more than ten grains of chloral hydrate in one fluid ounce, or. if a solid preparation, in one avo irduDois ounce: Provided, further, that nothing in this paragraph shall bc construed to apply to the filling of written prescriptions, furnished by regular licensed practicing physi cians, and kept on file by druggists ns required by law, or as to such pro strations as are specified and recog >d by the United States Pharma Nat ional Formulary or U. ??nsatory, which are in accord i th. 3 of food ! it be an imitation of or 8? IM M THING TO DO. Destroy Bushes aud Driers, nml Shel ter Yotir Furin Implements. \ \ u Woeds around tho yurd and lot cati ?? JO cut and got out of. tho way. This will holp the appoaranco of things and koop tho placo from looking BO snaky und bOBldoB will destrovf 'thous ands of wood seods. ( 1 Hushes and briars should* ho shrub bed in tho pastures to ?wi ino grass grow. Many pastures nro almost worthless for stock on account of tho growth of other things than grass. Remember that grass does not grow t where briars, bimbos and treos aro ^ allowod to take chargo of k.?o pas- . turo. 1 It ls an acknowledged fact that I ovory farmer should raise all tho lot t and stnblo manure possiblo and now i is tho timo to haul a largo lot of ? loaves and straw. If It is not desira ble to straw'tho lot all over lt can bo i hauled and placed lu front of tho stable doors and lu tho lowest places, j All tools and farm uiiploinonts and , machlnory should bo placed carefully away under a shelter. Tho oi. can 1 and paint brush can bo used on sonio ( of lt to a good advantage Do not ! loavo any farm implements in tho ; Hold or out lu tho Weather. It is ! poor policy, after furnishing tho farm with such things, to lot thom bo ruin ed by carelessness. ? Now that farmers aro nearly through working their crops there aro somo things needing attention which havo heretofore been put off. All terraces should bo ploughed to strengthen them and to destroy tho weeds and grass on thom. All breaks i lu thom should bc repaired a?d tho low or weak places should be bulli up. _ "WHKN Roosevelt gets through with it" says the Florida Times Union, "our constitution will be lit for thc remnant counter." It was I pretty well used up when Roosevelt took charge of it. ( HAVING gobbled Korea Japan has been too honest to talk about '.mani fest -destiny" or "thrown into our laps by providence." That sort of stud Is left for civilized Christian na tions to indulge in. LET the farmers resolve, each for himself, not to employ under any circumstance his neighbor's hands, contract or no contract. This is the only way that the best interests of al can be protected. offered for sale under thc distinctive name of another article. Second. If it he labelled or brand ed so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if thc con tents of the package as originally put up shall have been removed, in whole or in part, and other contents shall have.been placed in such package, or if it fail to bear a statement on the label of the quality or proportion of any morphine, opium, cocaine, hero in, alpha or beta ccaine, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, aco tanilide, or any derivative or prep-1 aration of any such substances con tained therein. Third. If in package form, and the contents arc stated in terms of weight or measure, they arc not plainly and correctly stated on the outside of the package. Fourth. If tlie package containing it or its label shall bear my state ment, design or device regarding the ingredients or the substances con tained therein, which statement, de design or device shall lie false or misleading in any particular: Provid ed, that an article of food which docs not contain any added poisonous or deleterious ingredients shall not be deemed to be adulterated or mis branded in the following cases: First. In the case of mixtures or compounds, which may be now or from time to time hereafter known as articles of food, under their own distinctive names, and not an imita tion of or offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article, if the name be accompanied on the same label or brand with a statement of the place where, said article has been manufactured or produced. Second. In the case of articles la belled, branded or tagged so as to plainly indicate that they are com pounds, imitations or blends, and thc word "compound," "imitation" or "blend," as the case may oe, is plainly stated on the package in which it is offered for sale: Provid ed, that the term blend, as used here in, shall bc construed to mean a mix ture of like substances not excluding harmless c /iring or Havering ingre dients up /for the purpose of color ing and ?voring only: And provid ed, further, that nothing in this Act shall be construed as requiring or compelling proprietors or manufac turers of proprietary foods which con tain no unwholesome added ingredi ent to disclose their trade formulas, except in so far as the provisions of this Act may require to secure free dom from adulteration or misbrand ing. Section 5. That no dealer shall be prosecuted under the provisions of this Act when he can establish a guaranty, signed by thc wholesaler, jobber, manufacturer or other party residing in the United Slates, from whom ne jiu rebases such articles, to the effect that tho same is not adul terated or misbranded or within the meaning of this Act, designating it Section (>. For the purpose of car rying out the provisions of this Act tho State board of health, with one licensed druggist, appointed by the Governor, upon the recommendation of the South Carolina Pharmaceuti cal Asssociation, shall lake cogniz ance of the interests of the public health, as it relates to the sale of food, drugs, spirituous, fermented and malt liquors, and tins adultera tion thereof, and make all necessary Inquiries and investigations relating thereto, and for such purposes may Appoint inspectors analysts and chem ists, who snail be subject toits su pervision and removal. Within sixty flays after this Act goes into effect the said Stale board of health shall Adopt such measures as it may deem necessary to facilitate the enforce ment thereof. It shall prepare ruler md regulations With regard to thc limper method of collecting and ex amining drugs, articles of food. Section 7. The stun of one thous md dollars is hereby appropriated :or the purpose of defraying thc ox idises, if any, of analysis or exami ?ation of any article of food or drug is provided for in this Act; said Hims to be expended under the su ?ervisiort and direction of the State ?oard of health. Section H. This Act shall go into ffcet six months after its approval ty the' Governor. Section 9: All Acts and parts of lets inconsistent with this Act be, nd they arc hereby, repealed. DEAD WHITE M AK lonored by Negroes by the Ere?- ? tlon of a Monument. 'o Ills Memory Because Ho Present- , od Thom With tho {Jmtiiul Now Used as Cometary. The monument erected in Lan?as, er county by colored people to a vhite man as heretofore published n The News and Courier, was form ally unveiled Thursday with impres jive ceremony and in the presence of m immense crowd of both whites md blacks. This is probably thc first recorded instance where negroes have thus paid tribute to the memory of one of the white race. The nearest approach to it in Lancaster county occurred some years ago, when Bishop Isom C. Clinton, now dead, erected a hand some monument at the grave of his former master, Mr. Irvin Clinton, who, in his day and time, was a load ing member of the Lancaster Bar. The mounumcnt unveiled Thurs day was erected by the members of Mount Moriah Church, a colored Methodist church four miles west of Lancaster, in honor of the memory of the late James W. Williams, a prominent white farmer, who donat ed the land now used by thom as a cemetery, which is located at or near the church building. Thc idea of thus honoring their white benefactor or iginated witli one of their own num ber, Jarvis Cunningham, a respected colored citizen of that county, who has. by farming, accumulated con siderable property. The suggestion took well with Cunningham's fellow church members and all of them con tributed liberally to the fund which was raised to carry out the plan. The monument, which stands on the cemetery lot, was made by Mr. A. P. McNich, proprietor of the Lan caster Marble Yard, and is what is known as Vermont blue marble. Though not as tall as such monu ments usually arc. being only 0 feet and eight inches in height, it is a highly creditable, handsome piece of work, and presents an imposing ap pearance. The principal inscription is on the side facing the cast and is as follows: "On motion of Jarvis Cunningham this momnnt was erected by the members of Mount Moriah Church in 1907 to the memory of Mr. Jas. W. Williams in appreciation of the ?ift to the church by him and his Family of this plat of land for a cem etery." "G. W. Mackev, C. T. B." The letters "CT. B." stands for chairman trustee hoard. The inscription on the north side is. Born December 27, L837. Died february 10, 1903. Peace to his ash es." On the south side: "Trustees; M. M. Young, Jim Brown, D. Johnson, J. T. Thomas, I). McKinney, Adam Watts, deceased, John Wren, secre tary; Joe Brown, treasurer. God love th a cheerful tfiver." On the west side: "Rev. Z. Belton, pastor." Thc unveiling exercises consisted principally by an address appropriate to the occassion by Principal M. D. bee, ot the Lancaster Normal and Industrial Institute, Bible read and prayer. Music was furnished by a brass band. Dr. A. J. Warner of Charlotte, was to have delivered an address, but was prevented from coming by a call in Boston, Mass. The veil that covered the monument was drawn aside by two small color ed girls. Mr. Williams, the man whose mem ory the colored people have signally honored, was one of Lancaster Coun ty's most prominent and influential citizens. He was a large and succestg fid farmer and lived in the neighbor hood of Mount Moriah Church. He was \ gallant Confederate soldier. At the outbreak of the civil war, in the summer of 18(51, he enlisted with the Lancaster Crays and served with that company until December, when he was honorably discharged on ac count of bad health. Recuperating, in April, 18(12. he entered the ser vice, joining the cavalry, Capt. J. C. Poster's company, Butler's brigade. He was on duty as a scout during much of thc war and was delegated Lo pilot Butler's forces through this jountry about the time of Sherman's .aid. As a slave owner Mi-. Williams vas kind and humane, and after em mcipation his treatment of the nc rro was ever characterized hy fair less and justice. He is kindly romem lerod by all the colored people who cnew him. A ('bal Willi Om- Young Men, Boys, let us be men. Ix't us be lonest, earnest, young men and we hall then be noble mon. Nobleness md gentleness are not one and rare y do we find them living in peace vii h each other. We may never be vhat t he world calls great, but wc an all be noble mon, and our noble less can commence this very hour nd just where we are. A young man's first and truest act if nobility is to love, honor and pro ect his parents. When he becomes oo proud to he seen walking as a taff to a tottering, helpless father, r to stand by the bedside of her who s waiting a moment this side of the iver to catch one more gaze, through he fading shadow of the past, of bel ittle boy lost in manhood, he is sure? V fast goiiiK down the eminence of ian I i ness. When we launch our ships on the norning waves of t he great sea of fe, let us guide them hythe light f home, with the helm of the cradle fords of our motlier. Not until we ave left home and are wanderers in he curious strangeness of a sf range md, unnoticed, unheeded, lonely nd weary, will we know of a truth dint n mother is. Then we feel that lie is good and We bless ber. Never can we repay our mother's indness. Her withered form and er silvering braids shall be defend d till that day cometh when He shall lake up His jewels-and then, we reen, Heaven will know no kinder, o brighter, no purer angel than she. /hen the ever shining stars shall ane in thc fading of our vision, and ie noisy world will grow still in our eep of death, will we forget her; t)t till then. IT is rather bold in a man who as succeeded in making the Kcpuh can elephant do so many unheard ? things, to denounce anybody for itu re-faking. To-morrow ls the stone over which any u busittcsa man has stumblod. REMEDY mm: r __A_.." m,i _"a. "i-i_ii ??_.?.' ' ? uaoioni nani, mai n?9S npnaor ful Healing Power.? i CURES CONSUMPTION, Agricultural Dopartmcnt toj Dcgin System of lOxpcrhiicuts With Fenu greek, an Kostera Plant, Which ls Said to bo n Curo and Provontn tlvo of AU Forma of Tubercu losis. , A special to Tho Nows and Cour lor from Washington says Secretary Wilson, of tho department of agri culture, will soon begin oxporlmont lng lu tho arid lands of Texas on tho famous food cnllod fonugrook, which scientists tho world over aro hailing ns possibly an ageacy of naturo which will combat tho ravages of consump tion. Tho virturo ascribed to fonugrook la Hs ability to build up tho very tis sues that tho germs of consumption tear down. Fxporlinents with won derfully satisfactory results in the growth of Ibis plant have be?iPinudo lu California, Nebraska and Now Mexico, and tho nnuouncomcnt will soon bo made of Its Introduction into tho arid wost section of Texas under Irrigation by tho department of ag riculture. Hut a short timo ago .fenugreek was almost unknown in America ex cept as a constituent of condition powders for grain and vogel aldo con suming animals. For perhaps hun dreds of years, howovor, lt has been known In tho Bast, where lt has a widespread uso as a food and modi cine for both man and boast. Its main uso in that section of the globe was what suggested Us Introduction In this country as ii euro for consuin pt lo li. Since 11 mci Immemorial tho Jowlsh maiden of Tunis has boon ono who desires much fat. and such a dainty weight, as 250 or 300 pounds ls thing to bo desired. With her fat is welcomed and she never complains If she tips tho seale at 3 50 or -100. The time-honored traditions ol' theil lot have handed down the uso of fen ugreek as a fat forming substance and even to-day lt ls still used. Physicians recognizing the fact that if they can, in treating a con sump!ive ease, keep Mesh on theil patient tho chances for recovery Wore greater, came lo the conclusion that fenugreek would be of groat uso to them, Accordingly it was int rodin od and many report that, they have used lt with very satisfactory ri suits. Tho fenugreek plant Itself ls not unlike common clover, and, Indeed is easily mistaken for that plant un less the two are closely compared. The seed of tho plant is tho pert used in tho consumption cure, there being several ways by which il cnn bo pio parcd. Perhaps tho easiest way ls to put. a tablespoonful in n tumbler of waler and lot lt stund over night, drinking tho water in tho morning. Another method is to mix u po ff ec spoonful of tho seed lu st raine 1 lion ey to kill the bitter taste, und (hen eat tho mixture. The women of Tun is, lu their quest for fat, eat thc see I In the form of u confection and mix ed with olivo oil and in many othei ways. Prominent among tho few physi cians who have tried the plant In ibo treatment of consumption is Dr. A. s. Mansfeldo, treasurer of tho Nebras ka State Medical Association, who has probably carried tho experiment further than any other American practitioner. Ho was tho llrst to re port to the depart ment of ngrlcul turo tho use of tho plant as a cure lu this country. Although Dr. Mansfoldo has rt ported concerning one case it was ot a nature to show the great poss! bil I (los of tho plant. Tho patient in question was tl young Irishman, whe was IlltllO last stages of the disease and although In tho end ho eventual ly died, his lungs being so far gone that they could not sustain any bodl ly vigor, he ls reported to have taken on flesh and continued to do so foi soy ora I weeks until tho end cunio David Fairchild, agricultura] ex plorer, in charge of the seed and plant distribution of tho bureau of plllUt industry, is responsible foi bringing fonugrook to tho notice of tho American people. While travel lng in tho Fast ho was struck with thc prevalence ol fat women and on enquiring into tho cause got on thc track or tho plant. Ile did not think a great deal of Hie plant until Itttoi whon ho learned that it was ono of tho principal ingredients of condition powders for stock. Putting the two together he thought that results wc wort li tho I rou ble could bo rec eived from tho plant and accordingly in trod need it Into tho United Stales. ll is claimed by some that thc plant can be traced back as far a tho time of Nehuchadnezzer ll, when it was in common usc? as a relish foi meats and as fl medicine. Many log ends have boon founded ort tho plant's groat medicinal value. lt is oven slated thal .Mohamel himself once said thal ii the people knew tho val 110 Of fonugrook they would obtain il even nt thc- price ol' Mold. Anothei legend claims thal il' a bag ol tin seed was tied to a camel's back ll would cure it ol' ils Ills. Fonugrook is planted in the fall Ibo same as winier wheat and conic up early in tho spring, lt attains height of about that of tho ordinary clover and, ns slated before when full Brown looks about the same. Thc odor ol' tho plant is familiar to any DUO who has ever handled condition powders, such ns are given to stock At prose ll I there is but aoompnra lively small quantity of Ibo seed In Ibo United States. Thc? department :>f agriculture, howovor, ls able lo [listrlbulo quantities of some size on implications made to Hie bureau of ?oed and plant industry. Speaking of the m od iel uni ni the plant Hr. Mansfeldo says: 'There can be no doubt that beyond Hu? carhohyhrntos and the bitter con lon ts increasing the appetite, 801110 ling else must be contained In the jocds thal cansos Hie nsslmulatlon of Fat and the deposition in the tllJBUOH. Possibly (hal something aids holli in the digestion and the assiniulation if fat and the conversion into fat of he carbohydrates one of all these iroeessos." A Government has un lertaken to make as analysis of the fenugreek seed with this point bi /low. Much will depend on the re mits which he obtains by tho oxnin nntlon. THE general disposition to look on he Cortolyou boom as a joke may >0 due to the hot weather, and then igain, it may he due to Republican caders' cold feet. THE farmers of South Carolina ace a crisis, and they will have to tick together, or they may be tinan :ially ruined. Judge Rrawley's de tision has done incalucablc harm to he whole State. . . ' "i."." L "I ' 1 IM ULLFT IN DRAIN Kid I IT YEAHS,) ow Fools Fifoct, Burgeons Try ! To Remove lt. ?For olght years John Vandym of j /hoollng, W. Va,, has carried a bul-1 it around Insldo his skull. Wertnes ay ho felt tho first bad eifeots of lt. Ie became suddonly ill, lapsod into nconsclousnoss, and paroxysms fol nvod. Surgoons hurried him to a hospi ul and purfuruiod an operation, milich afforded temporary relief, and ylll endoavor hitor to locato and re nov? tho ballot. Eight years ago ho waua handi ng a rovolvor, which was accldental y discharged, tho bullot penetrating ils skull and lodging lu tho brain. Tho Labor Question. It has been frequently asserted hat the two great issues now before ihe people of South Carolina arc the ax and thc labor questions. Each of ;hese questions deserves most scri ms ano careful consideration on the jart of the leaders of the people, heretofore too much attention nas icen given by the politicians to ques tions that are purely political and frequently to questions that were al together the outgrowth of factional liff crcnccs. The time for a change las come and the very first thing that should bc arranged is an equit able labor law. that will protect the employer and thc employee. The most careful and conservative business men of thc state should be called on at this juncture to suggest reforms which should be made in the tax laws and in the labor laws of the commonwealth. Thc opportunity is presented, since thc whiskey question is not now an issue, for the present legislature to place upon the statute books the legislation which is need id, and if it is not done within the next year this? matter .mould be and doubtless will be made thc paramount issue in the next election or the next two elections. The chance is going to be presented to some man to blaze the way in this trail. It will be a great pity if these questions arc not considered purely from a business standpoint. The only remedy for the present condition is the enforcement of the statute prohibiting the enticing of labor under contract. If this can't bc done by law, it must bc done by moral suasion. The difficulty in thc present labor situation is chiefly the tendency of the negroes to move from one farm to another and this disposition is fostered and encourag 2d by the less scrupulous employers who do not regard the golden rule in business. They pick up and go on the least pretext. This must be stop ped by all farmers meeting on a com mon ground and resolving not to employ one another's hands. This is the only way to meet the present emergency until the Legislature can meet and enact a new labor law. A (o Husbands. Isn't it strange that some men, who will be kind and obliging to their neighbors, gentlemanly and polite to other ladies, will be so rude and cold md harsh at home, and perfect bears to their wi ves--crabbed, snappish, ungenerous and altogether unsocial ind hateful? Does anybody know if any such men? Not that we wish to lay all the wrong doing and blame m mankind, or condemn them en masse, not at all. There are plenty af good, noble men, but not quite enough. When they are so strong, and have so much power to do good, and win love, and bless their homes, why won't they all do it. "Circumstances alter cases." Some men's wives are trying enough to wear out the patience of Job; but thou, in the perversity of things, you will generally find a real bear of a man united with a frail, patient, forbearing and forgiving wife. She is your wife, Mr. Bear, and the moth er of your children, and probably de pendent on you for home and means, and can't get away from you; so, of course, she is in your power and you can treat her just as you choose. But if you expect her heart to bound with pleasure when she hears your footsteps, or to proffer you caresses, or to rejoice in your pres ence, you are much mistaken. She is human-neither more nor less. Please reverse your situations and condi tions. How much, and how long would you bear such treatment as you give her? You will inevitably be weighed for just what you arc and there is no help for it. Through (ht; Years, As wc go forward and meet Ihe /ears, each is a messenger that tells ns a pleasant story of the land to which we have taken up our pilgrim age, and though we may not lay lands on them and detain them, yet they imbue us with happy thoughts ind pleasant memories, that clothe ?aeh coming messenger in halo-like if ar men ts of smiles and beauty. The journey of life is but short, nit it is long enough to teach us the dlencssand littleness of things car th y, and that our earthly tabernacle s far too narrow Ut behold the invis ble fire of immortality that pulses brough our being, or even to permit t to shine forth in that brilliancy hat it so much longs for. Life is as beautiful as a panorama hat moves on to the great and final Umax, when the curtains are drawn, ,nd the marvelous beauty of the un verse opens with endless vistas of flory upon our enlarged sights, and he dreams of the past are paled rom view in the light of the never nding present. The toy, the sword and the toy lake up the sum of our existence, or the old and young are nearest eaven. Prattling childhood ami old ge walk hand in hand, and laugh nd gamble and make pretty speech s to the bright birds and butter lies, for the veil of time if but a iiist to the righi, and left of them, nd love and innocence stand like heruhs by tho cradle and the grave. SI U'lll K HAT H H AT HOM IO. 'hey Heal (ho Skin and Toko Away Hs Impurities, Sulphur baths heal Skin DIHCUSOS, nd glVO tho body a wholesome glow low you don't havo to go off to a Igh-prleod resort to got them. Pul fow Spoonfuls of Hancock's Liquid ulpbur In tho hot water, and you ot a perfect Sulphur bath right in our own home. Apply Hancock's Liquid Sulphur i tho affected paris, and Ec zo mn and thor stubborn skin troubles aro nick ly cured. Dr. H. H. Thomas, f Valdosta, Qa., was cured of a paln il skin trouble, and ho praises lt in io highest lorias. Your druggist ills lt. Hancock's Liquid Sulphur Oint lent ls tho host euro for Sores, Pim ?os, Hhiekhoads and all lnflamation. ivos n soft, velvety skin, CAUSES TROUBLE. Tho Farmers Meed and Must Have Some Relief. .Some Effective LAW Must Ho Passed by tho L?gislature to Enforco La* bor Contracts. Tho labor question Is hoing dis cussed from ono end of the State to tho othor, und tho recont o^curroncos ovor In tho Fork near Norway aro figuring extensively in tho discussion. Tho following lotter from Columbia to tho Augusta Chroniclo will givo somo idoa of how tho question ls re garded In all parts of tho State: Federal Judgo ?rawley's decision knocking out tho South Carolina la bor contract law continues to cause troublo tn tho rural districts with that large class of nogroos with whom the big stick of a jail sentence has to bo used to Inspire proper- regard for contractual obligations. And though it ls confidently hoped that tho far mers will pull through tho prosont season without violence between the races, and that legislature will next spring onset somo efTectlvo relief measure, there Is constant dangor in various parts of tho stato of very I serious clashes ovor conditions that tho decision has brought about. The killing of Constable Valentino in Or angeburg county a few weeks ago, followed by tbe narrow escape from lynching the negro had with nil but a ri?r occurring among Several far mers gathered at. the inquest In a general quarrel about farmers en couraging negroes to jump their con tracts slnco tho decision; and half a dozen othor killings of negroes by white men in widely soporated sec tions of tho state, aro but manifes tations of how tho danger spots are showing up. Tho effect of tho decision has spread with amazing rapidity evon among tho most Ignorant negroes. Tbe scramble of unprincipled farmers for help lins perhaps played a more important part in Retting tho negroes j Informed than the publication in the newspapers. Thc result ls that the mean negroo has become Infinitely more insolent, and slnco ho has got ten it Into bis hoad that Uncle Sam has espoused his cause his proneness to violence has become more marked. There is no danger for the present of calling into service the dreaded Ku-Klux-Klan, but farmers are free ly talking of taking matters Into their own bands by means of community bands, to stop negroes whom they bave kept from want for food and clothing through the winter from in solently refusing to carry out their contracts to work out their debts und and spending tho time getting drunk and raising rows. Of courso there has been abuse of tho law on the part of some farmers, who have cheated the negro and kept him In long ser vitude after ho had fairly discharged bis debt; but those aro rare instances. Tho great mass of South Carolina fanners have no disposition to op press the negro, but they aro Insist ent, some of thom to the extent of taking the law in their own hands, that he shall have tho same respect for his written contract os others are required to have. When tho Orange burg farmers chose a spokesman to tell tho crowd In very emphatic lan guage that they did not propose to stand for the acts of certain white men In encouraging negroes to jump their contracts or tolorato such con duct, on the part of tho blacks, law or no law, Oiey gave expression to a feeling prevailing in many counties in tho State. Your correspondent gathered his impressions not only from visitors to Columbia, but from personal interviews with farmers lu half a dozen counties recently. "Wo've got to have relief, and promptly, or wo aro coming before the next legislature In mass and de mand it," said Penitentiary Director J. O. Wingo, an extensive farmer and former mom ber of tho house from Greenville county. "There is going to be serious trouble If we don't get lt." .lust, what sort, of law should be enacted that will stand the test has not so far boon definitely outlined. The question will be treated nt length In Governor Ansel's message next spring, though just, what he will recommend, bc himself does not seem t? have determined as yet. One mg gestion is that a thorough and effec tive rural police system bo estab lished for the purpose not only o? ridding the rural districts of the ne gro criminal but of driving the idle to the chain gangs as well. Some far mers advocate hiring these convicts to farmers and others, as was form erly done with penitentiary convicts; but these sort of contracts woro much abused, and it ls not likely that, the legislature will ever again go back to this system. One very hopeful sign in the pro sen! situation is the healthy growth of public sentiment against abuse of tho negro. Thosuporstltion that it is dangerous to punish a white man for brutal disregard of a negro's rights is rapidly passing. Caused Him to Faint. It is getting quite common to con vict white men of murder in South Carolina these days. Last week ?las. W. Gallman was convicted of mur dering Sims Gilmore at Union and sentenced to fifteen years in the pen itentiary. The result of the trial was a great surprise to the lawyers of Gallman as well as to himself. His attorneys requested that the sentence be made as light as possible. Judge Prince ordered Mr. (hillman to stand up and receive sentence. Be fore naming what the punishment should be, ne gave him quite a talk in which he recounted the principal facts of the case, and said that he would not have been surprised if thc verdict had been murder, or mur der with recommendation to mercy, and that he did not feel that he would be doing his duty to impose as light a sentence as Gallman's at torneys evidently wished, but that he must give him thc maximum of thirty years. On hearing these words cold per spiration broke out on Gallman's brow, and as he wiped it off he grew faint, tottered, and fell and was thought to be dying. This caused considerable excitement among the female members of thc family. He was then taken to the judge's room and given medical attention. After he revived bc was sentenced. Whore hihihi ls justice, justice ls servant.- German. Aspiring minds must sometime sus tain loss. Plato. Method will teach you to win time. Goethe. A man seldom does much good In ? ho world until he stops trying to do bann I. costs more lo avenge a wrong ?hun lt does to let lt go by default. Tho slow-going dray here linds more coin than the average raco boroo ?reat OH Trust Menaced by In? ternal Dissentions. Hiebest Milli Ilk (ho World, Scouts Trouble Mid Only Hogers' 1*111-811118? 8?U11 Keeps Ililli ill tho Jillie. Is the Standard Oil company, the peek of all monopolistic corporations, and the world's greatest example of consentrated wealth, threatened with internal disruption? Rumors that will not down have been sneak ing around New York city's financial center, whispering that as far back as six monts URO, John D. Rockefel ler, the head of the great combine, the man whose keen intuition has made him the greatest man in the world in point of wealth, saw signs of the impending storm, and wanted" to sell his Standard Oil holdings, and retire bag and baggage. A few weeks later, these same rumors have it, James Stillman, the president of the National City bank, of New York, the bank of the Standard Oil company, therefore the richest in the world, also desired to quit the company. With the decisions of these two men threatening the great trust with disruption, nothing but the iron will and personal pleadings of Henry H. Rogers, vice president, and the actual head of the company, kept the two dissatisfied men in line. Rockefeller, who possesses the gift of foresight to a degree almost uncan ny, saw last winter that the day of the downfall of Standard Oil was at hand. The law, which for 35 years had lain dormant while the Oil trust made ridiculous the Federal and State statutes enacted to control the giant concern, had at last turned on the corporation, and with all the more vigor because of its long rest The man who did the main part of the planning which resulted in the perfection of this money making ma chine, which for years piled up in comprehensible fortunes, had a vis ion of the strenous times ahead for his great industrial pet and wanted to quit cold, and, but for the plead ings of Rogers, he would have done so. Meanwhile Rogers, who has active charge of the defense being made against the attack of the Federal gov ernment, having succeeded in getting tlie ruling of Judge Landis in regard to the $29,000,000 fine carried to the Supreme court of the United States, is busy repairing the damage done by the latest shafts of Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations. Smith, after showing how the prices of oil vary in different parts of this country, purely at thc will of the men who control the necessary com modity, and without reference to cost of production, freight charges, etc., makes the astounding assertion that the Oil trust can convey crude oil and its products to Europe in their own steamships and still sell it cheap er than it is sold in America. "Instead of making its price, list lower than that of independent com panies as its monopoly enabled it to do," declares Smith, "thus retaining a great proportion of the business by fair and legitimate means, the Standard is an example of precisely the opposite, it is a combination which maintains a substantial mono - poly, not by superiority of service | and by charging reasonable prices, but by manifestly unfair methods of destroying competition; a combina tion which then uses the power un fairly gained to oppress the public and enrich itself by wholly extortion ate prices. "It has raised prices instead of lowering them at the very time when the trust, by reason of its position and advantages, could produce a great deal cheaper than independent concerns. Hut instead of this it charg es more than smaller concerns would have done if the Standard would have allowed them the chance." Moke iloiue Happy. We often read how the wife is to make home the brightest spot on earth. She is always to wear a cheer, ful countenance, as well as the clean est of dresses and co liars; to have becomingly arranged hair, and ever to meet her other half at the door with a kiss. The house must be al ways smiling in ita orderly way; children ditto; baby no exception to the general rule. Now the great wonder is, has the husband nothing to do in this mat ter, of making home happy? To be sure ho may do a great deal towards making a home. He may build the house and furnish it. in princely style. He may furnish an abundance of food for the table-buy any amount of fine clothing for the family need. Yet he is cross and surly as a snapping turtle, or unsocial, or careless in his habits, or unsympathizing with his wife and little ones. All that the wife can do will not moke the home an agreeable one. Neither can a wife be happy with a husband who is addicted to finding fault with his bread-and-butter. She may try ever so hard to please him, yet when he sits down to meals, she lives in constant fear that some por tion of thc food will not suit his fas tidious taste. JOHN Armstrong ('handler, once the husband of Amelia Rives, is a lu natic in New Vork and a sane man in Virginia, according to the courts of thc two states, and he has impor tant business interests in both, Could any thing be more ridiculo j j; Welsh Neck : HARTS Vit Tho l ith session will Literary, Music, Art, Expression an graduates of our loading eollogCB and phnsl/.od In ovory depart nient. Heal tl with electric lights, hot and cold ba naces. Host Christian Influences. Mil logue Robt w Durrett, CL. I FTO RD UNION, BOUT1 A homo School of high grade. T lal normal course for (hose prepaid n Music. Only a limited number Of pu Klven to each. Healthful M< Ulllnln ( Address. 11 CV, H. A. C?talo? to any of our customors for ?he ask ii plunihng or hardware business, mid page catalogue which will bo found v prices on Anything In tho supply Uno. COLUMBIA BUPPLY i By the Cannibals of the Congo and the Islands. PREFER HUMAN MEAT. Tho Darwinian Theory nf tho Sur? rival of tho Fittest Hern in Us Most. i'll table Application Among the African Man-Eat lng 'Tribes-p Some Facts That Will Surprise Many People. |Man ls still much oaten by his follow men. Cannibalism In all its horror still persists in the upper Con go region and other portions of Afri ca. Tho ta?to for human meat per sists in New Guinea and among' cer tain groups of tho South Sea Islands, notably the Solomons, tho Now He brides and Now Ireland. David Liv ingstone, tho first whito man who crossed tho Mnnyomaa country of Africa, was reluctant to believe that cannibalism was not in some way as sociated with superstitious ritos. Hut when ho saw tho eagernoBs with /fii?\ which tho natives devoured their?11*; favorite food he changed his mind and wrote that "tho Congo man sim ply prefers human flesh to any othor kind of meat." Another trlbo ls said to have stated, "It is good to eat meat that talked." Africa shows tho Darwinian theory of survival of tho litest in its most pitiable application. <& Tho sick, crippled, aged, men and women alike, aro killed und eaton in the cannibalistic tribes. The flesh of prisoners of war or mon killed In but tlo ls preferred above all othors. Strangely enough all explorers report that the man-eating tribes are tjupor ior, mentally and physically, to tho non cannibals. In the Bangala country not only aro the bodies of those slain In battle eaton;, but tho nativos ha.bltally kill men for food. And about this there is hinch curious system, such as in clines students of anthropology to susp?et Booie hidden origin. Thus the prisoner is not. killed outright, but ls placed chin deep In a pool of water with his head made fast to a log lost he drown. The victim's limbs, by tho way, have been broken throe days previously. On tho third day tho poor creature ls taken out and killed. This procedure, tho floreo Bangala says, makes the flesh more tender. Capt. S. L. Hlndo, returning homo from Stanley Falls on the Congo, had personal exporlonce of theso people. On tho down river trip to Boma ?Ix of the Dangala crew were put in irons charged with having eaten two of their companions. The nccused were magillflclent savages, over six feet high and superbly proportioned. Two of the crow, lt seemed, had fallon ill on the voyage up and wero allowed by tho captain to tako a few days y?-*? rest. Hut when next rations wero served they were missing. Tho mas ter of the steamer was told lucy had died during tho night, and been bur Mod ashore. And this seemed likely enough. Hut tho captain of tho ship had his doubts. Ho made a sudden raid on the quarters of his Hangala hands, and discovered parts of the missing men, smoke dried and cut up conveniently in the lockers of tho ?ix suspects, now going V. trial' .n. Leopoldville. Commandant Guy Burrows, lately In tlie service of tho Congo adminis tration, tolls a curious atory^ of tho Bat ak ? people, a body of wlioni\he led in a punitive expedition agalrtst the Mubodo tribes. "I saw a boy blt In the shoulder hy a ball from an old muzzle loador," lie said, "and yet, although seriously hurt, he looked entirely unconcerned; they are utter fatalists, these fellow?. His comrades carried bim to ono sido, away from the rest of the woundod, and when I saw this 1 remarked: "Take that hoy up or he'll get lilt again." "At this half a dozen gravo leaders carno to mo expostulating. 'Ho ls only a young lad,' they grumbled. You might inst, as well lot. us have him for killing when the light ls over.' I drove tho monsters from me with my chlcotte or hippo hide whip. Tho hov recovered and served mo for years. But those Batake cannibals never forgave me." He who rollos on another's table ls apt to dine late.-Italian. Tho time ls never lost that ls de votsd to work.-Emerson. This is Headquarters FOR Pianos and Organs. You want n Bwcot toned and a dur able Instrument. One that will last a long, long life Hmo. Our prices arc tho lowest, consis tent with Gio quality. 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