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GOD LAW. Measure That Kas Just Gone into Affect ?SED LAST WINTER. ls liUW Makes It Illegal Fur Any j, te Sell in South Giiroliua Any Adulterated Food or Drug or \WW ^'t^1^}^^^^^^ Label ami Proscribes Heavy penalties for Vio? luting lt. The pure food law passed at the last session of the Legislature went nto effect last Tuesday. The law ivas made to supplement the food r.nd drug law passed by Congress, nd is quite sweeping in its provis ions. Tho full text of the law is pub lished below: 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 pale, any article of food or "drugs which is adultera ted or misbranded within the mean ing of'Wiis Act, and any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convie tion thereof shall be punished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars or by im prisonmont not exceeding fifteen days for the first oiTencc, 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 thc United States Pharmacop oeia or National Formulary or U.S. Dispensatory for internal or external use, and any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for ^-fci cure, mitigation or prevention of disuse of either man or other ani malsTVfhe term "food," as used herein,\hall include all articles used for fooS, drink, confectionary, or condiment by man or other animals, whether .simple, mixed or compound Section 3. That for the purpose of thia Act an article shall be deemed to be adulterated: In case of drugs and flavo.'"' " -^tracts: First. If. when a drag 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 does not conform to the standard of strength quality or purity, as determined by the test laid down in thc United States Pharmacopoeia, National Foi niulary, or U. S. Dispensatory, otll 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 detcrimcntal to health, or any vinous; malt, or spirituous liquor or compound, or narcotic drug. In tho 0?fi<* nf fnnrl' -v>* lOUU. 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 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 ehanically, or by maceration in water, or otherwise, and directions for the removal of said preservative shall be printed on the covering or the pack age, the provisions of this Act shall lie construed as applying only when said product? arc 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 unlit 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 be also deemed to bc mis branded: In case of drugs: First. If it be an imitation of or offered for sale under the name of another article. . Second. If the contents of the package as originally put up shall have been removed, in whole or in part, and other contents shall have boen placed in such package, or if the package fail to bear a statement on the label of the quantity or pro portion of any alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta en ea ?ne, chloroform, cannabis indica, k chloral hydrate, or acetanilide, or J any derivative or preparation of any such sub.-d.anoos contained therein: Provided, that the 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 solio! preparation, in one avo irdupois ounce: Provided, further, that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to apply to the. filling of written prescriptions, furnished by regular licensed practicing physi cians, and kept on file by druggists fas required hy law, or as to such pre? l!\arations as are specified and rocog d hy the United States Pharma ' i, National Formulary or U. ensatory, which are in accord row i th. .jase of food : W it be. an imitation of or \ BOM IO THIN? TO 1K>, '?.MIruy Hushes ?nd iv! loi.*, mid Shel ter Your Fnrm Kninloments. Woods around tho yard and lot oau e out and got or.t of tho way. Thia till help the appoaranco of things nd keep tho place from looking BO naky and bcsldos will dostrow thous nds of weed seeds. , Bushes and briars should/bo shrub lOd in tho pustures to let tuo grass ?row. Many pastures aro utmost worthless for stockton account of tho powth of othor things than grass. Xemombor that grass doos not grow vhore briars, bushes and treos are illowod to take chargo of v~o pns -uro. It ls an acknowledged fact that ?ivory fnrmor should raise all tho lot md stablo mnnuro nossiblo and now ls tho timo to haul a largo lot of loaves anti straw. If It ls not desira ble to straw 'tho lot all over lt can bo hauled and placod in front of tho Htnblo doors and lu tho lowest places. AU tools and farm implements und machlnory should bo placed carofully away Under a sheltor. Tho 01? can and paint brush can be used on souio of lt to a good advantage. Do not leavo any farm Implements; in tho Hold or out In tho weather. It is poor policy, after furnishing tho farm with such things, to lot thom bo ruin ed by carelessness. * Now that farmers uro nearly through working thoir crops there uro somo things needing attonllon which have heretofore been put off. All torracos should bo ploughed to strengthen thom and to destroy tho woods and grass on thom. AU breaks In them should bo repaired and tho low ol' weak places should bo built up. _ "WIINN Roosevelt gets through with it" says the Florida Times Union, "our constitution will he tit for the remnant counter." It was 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 stuft* 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 rmly way that thc best interests of al can be protected. offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article. Second, if it be labelled or brand ad so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to bc a foreign product when not so, or if the con tents of the package as originally put up shall have been removed, in whole or in part, ami other contents shall liave.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 ecaine, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, ace tanilide, or any derivative or prep aration of any such substances con tained therein. Third. If in package form, and the contents are stated in terms of weight or measure, they are not plainly and correctly stated on the outside of the package. Fourth. If the 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 dcsign or device shall be false or misleading in any particular: Provid ed, that an article of food which does not contain any added poisonous or deleterious ingredients shall not be deemed to be adulterated or mis brc-cLd 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 the word "compound," "imitation" or "blend," as the case may DC, is plainly stated on the package in which it is offered for sale: Provid ed, that the term blend, as used here in, shall be construed to mean a mix ture of like substances not excluding harmless colov mg or flavoring ingre dients use'' dr the purpose of color ing and ' /(iring only: And provid ed, further, that nothing in this Act mall 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, ?xcept in so far as the provisions of .his Act may require to secure froe lom from adulteration or misbrand ng. Section 5. That no dealer shall be irosecuted under the provisions of his Act when he can establish a iuaranty. signed by the wholesaler, obbor, manufacturer or other party esiding in the United Stales, from vhom he purchases such articles, to he effect that the same is not adul erated or misbranded or within thc nonning of this Act, designating it. Section (i. For the purpose of car ying out the provisions of this Act ho Slate board of health, with one icensed druggist, appointed by the iovernor, upon the recommendation >f the South Carolina Pharmaceutic al Association, shall take cognisa nce of the interests of the public lealth, as it relates to tho sale of ood, drugs, spirituous, fermented ,nd malt liquors, and tho adultera ion thereof, and make all necessary nquirics and investigations relating hereto, and for such purposes may ppoint inspectors analysts and chem ?Us. who shall bo subject toits su lervision and removal. Within sixty ays after this Act goes into effect he said State hoard of health shall dopt such measures as it. may deem ccessary to facilitate the enforce ment thereof, It shall prepare rules nd regulations with regard to the roper method of collecting and ex mining drugs, articles of food. Section 7. The sum of one thous nd dollars is hereby appropriated or the purpose of defraying the ex cuses, ii any, of analysis or exalt ation of any article of food or drug a provided for in this Act; said nus to be expended under the su ervision and direction of the State oard of health. Section 8. This Act shall go into Tect six months after its approval y the Governor. Section 9". Ah Acts and parts of cts inconsistent with this Act be, id they are hereby, repealed. iwpiwwiM.n.nw ! mmmmmtmmmamm DEAD WH?TE MAN I Honored by Negroes by the Erec- | tlon of a Monument. To -Hie? Memory Because Ho Present- j cd Thom WM n tho Cn m ml Now Used as Cemetary. The monument, erected in Lan?as, j ter county by colored people to a white man as heretofore published in The News and Courier, was form ally unveiled Thursday with impres sive ceremony and in the presence of an immense crowd of both whites and blacks. This is probably the 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 lead ing member of the Lancaster Bar. Thc mounument 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 them as a cemetery, which is located at or near thc church building..The idea of thus honoring their white benefactor or iginated with 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 aro. being only (5 feet and eight inches in height, it is a highly creditable, handsome piece of work, and presents an imposing ap pearance. Thc principal inscription is on the side facing thc cast and is as follows: "On motion of Jarvis Cunningham this momnnt was erected hy the members of Mount Moriah Church in lt)07 to the memory of Mr. Jas. W. Williams in appreciation of the gift to the church by him and his family of this plat of land for a cem etery." "G. W. Mackcv, C. T. B." The letters "C. T. B." stands for chairman trustee board. Tho inscription on the north side i.s. Born December 27, 1W7. Died February 10, 19015. Peace to his ash es." On thc south side: "Trustees; M. M. Young, Jim Brown, 1). Johnson, J. T. Thomas, 1). McKinney, Adam Watts, deceased, John Wren, secre tary; Joe Brown, treasurer. God lovc th a cheerful giver." On the west side: "Rev. Z. Belton, pastor." The unveiling exercises consisted principally by an address appropriate to tho occassion by Principal M. D. Lee, 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. Ho was a large and successg ful farmer and lived in the neighbor hood of Mount Moriah Church. He was a gallant Confed?rate soldier. At the outbreak of the civil war, in the summer of 18(51, he enlisted with the Lancaster Grays and served with that company until December, when he was honorably discharged on ac count of bad health. Recuperating, in April, 18(52. 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 to pilot Butler's forces through this count ry about the time of Sherman's raid. As a slave owner Mr. Williams was kind and humane, and after em ancipation his treatment of the ne gro was ever characterized by fair ness and justice. He is kindly remem bered by all the colored people who knew him. A Chut With Our Voting Men. Boys, let us be mon. IiOt us be honest, earnest, young men and we shall then be noble mon. Nobleness and gentleness aro not one and rare ly do we lind t hem living in peace with each other. We may never bc what the world calls great, but we can all be noble men, and our noble ness can commence this very hour and just whore wo aro. A young man's first and truest act of nobility is to love, honor and pro tect his parents. When he becomes too proud to be soon walking as a Staff to a tottering, helpless father, or to stand by the bedside of her who is waifing a moment this side of the river to catch ono moro gaze, through the fading shadow of the past, of her little boy jost in manhood, he is sure ly fast going down the eminence of manliness. When we launch our ships on the morning waves of tho groat sea of life, let US guide thom by the light of homo, with thc holm of tho cradle words of our mother. Not until wo have loft home and aro wanderers in tho curious strangeness of a strange land, unnoticed, unheeded, lonely and weary, will we know of a truth what a mother is. Then wo feel that she is good and wo bless her. Never can we repay our mother's kindness. Her withered form and her silvering braids shall be defend ed till that, day cometh when Ho shall make up His jewels-and then, we ween, Heaven will know no kinder, no brighter, no purer angel than she. When the over shining stars shall wane in tho fading of our vision, and tho noisy world will grow still in our sloop of death, will we forget her; not till then. IT is rather bold tn a man who has succeeded in making the Repub lican elephant do so many unheard nf things, to denounce anybody foi nature-faking. To-morrow ls the stone ovor which many a buslnoss man has stumbled. J Eastern Plant That Has wonder ful Healing Power, f ? _ ? ! CURES CONSUMPTION. ! -? \ j ? ] Agricultural Department to Begin System of Experiments With Pciiu greek, un Eastern IMunt, Which Is Said to Do a Cure mid Provento tivo of AU Poring of Tubercu losis* ? A special to Tho Nows and Cour ier from Washington says Secretary Wilson, of tho department of agri culture, win soon begin experiment ing In tho arid lands of Texas on the famous food callod fenugreek, which scientists tho world ovor are hailing as possibly an agency of nature which will coinbnt tho ravages of consump tion. Tho vlrturo aseribod to fonngreok Ia Its ability to build up tho very tis sues that tho germs of consumption tear down. Experiments wljh won derfully satisfactory results in the growth of this plant have bempinudo In California, Nobraaka and Now Mexico, and tho announcement will soon ho made of Its Introduction into tho arid west section of Texas under Irrigation by tho department of ag riculture. Hut a short Hmo ago fenugreek waa almost unknown In America ex cept as a constituent of condition powders for grain and vegetable con suming animals. For perhaps hun dreds of years, however, lt has boon known in tho East, where it has a widespread ?iso as a food and medi cino for both man and beast. Ks main uso In that section of the globe was what suggested Its introduction in this country as a euro for consum ption. since time Immemorial tho jewish maiden of Tunis has boon ono who desires in indi fat and such a dainty weight as 250 or 300 pounds ls a thing io bo desired. With her fat is welcomed and she never complains if she tips the seale at 8 IVO or 400. Tho ttme-honorod traditions ol' their lot have handed down the uso of fen ugreek us a fat forming substance, and oven to-day lt is still used. Physicians recognizing the fact that if they can, lu treating a con sumptive case, keep llosh pn their patient tho chances for recovery wore greater, came to tho conclusion that fenugreek would bo of groat uso to them. Accordingly it was introduc ed and many report thal, they have used lt with very satisfactory re sults. The fenugreek plant itself ls not unlike common clover, and, Indeed ls easily mistaken for that plant un less tho two aro closely compared, Tho seed of the plant ls tho pai l used lu the consumption cine, there being several ways by which it. can ho pro pared. Perhaps Ibo easiest way ls io put a tablespoonful In n fumbler of water and let lt. stand over night, drinking the water in the morning. Another method ls to mix a corteo spoonful of tho seed in strained hon ey to kill tho bitter taste, und then eat tho mixturo. Tho women of Tun is, lu their quest for fat, oat thc seed in tho form of a con foot lon and mix ed with olivo oil and in many othci ways. Prominent among tho fow physi cians who have tried the plant in ?he treatment of consumption ls Hr. A. s. Mansfeldo, treasurer of tho Nebras ka Stato Medical Association, who has probably carried the experiment further than any other American practitioner. Ho was the Hist to re port to tho department ol' agricul ture tho uso of the plant as a cure in this country. Although Dr. Mansfeldo has re ported concerning one case lt was of a naturo to show the great possibili ties of thc plant. Tho patient in question was a young Irishman, who was intho last stages of the disease, and although in the end ho eventual ly died, his lungs being so far gone? that, they could not sustain any bodi ly vigor, he is reported to have taken on flosh and continued lo do ro for several weeks until the end carno. David Fairchild, agricultural ex plorer, in charge of Ibo seed and plant distribution ol' the bureau of plant industry, is responsible for bringing fenugreek to the notice of the American people. While travel ing in tho East ho was struck with Ibo prevalence of fat women and on enquiring into Hie cause got on the track of the plant. Ile did not think a great deal ol' the plant until later whoo he learned that it was ono of the principal Ingredients of condition powders for stock. Pulling the two together Im thought that results well worth (ho I rouble could bo received from the plant and accordingly In troduced it into the United Stales. lt is claimed by some thai (lu pia nt can be traced back ns far as the time of Nebuchadnozzer II, when it was in common uso ns a relish for meats and as fl medicine. Many leg ends have berni founded on the plant's great medicinal value. ll is oven staled thal Mohamet himself once said timi il lix* people knew the val ue ol' fonngrook they would obtain ll even at the price of gold. Anet lier legend claims that if a bag ol lin seed was lied to a camel's back it would cine il ol' its Ills. Fonngrook is planted lu the full lix? same as winter wheat ami comes np early in the spring, lt attains a height of about that ol' the ordinary dover and, as stated before when full grown looks about tho same. Tho ador ol' the plant is familiar lo any ono who has ever handled condition |)owdors, such as uro given lo stock. At prosont there is hut aconipnra llvoly small quantity ol' tho seed in th,' Fulled Slates. The department >f agriculture, however, is able io [llstrlbuto quantities of some size on ipplicnlions made to tho bureau of ;eed and plant industry. Speaking of the medicinal value nf (lie plant Dr. Mnnsfolde says: "There can he no doubt that beyond Ihn carbohyhrntos and thc bitter con Lents increasing the appetite, some Hug oise must ho contained ia the iced fl thal causes the assimulat lon of Tal and tho deposition in tho tissues. Possibly that something aids boll) In the digestion and the a.?simulailon )f fat and Hie conversion into fat of Lho carbohydrates om- ol' all these nocessos." A (?ovorninent has un lOl'lakon to make as analysis ol' th" 'onugrook aced with this point in MOW. Much will depend on the re mits which he obtains by the cxnin nation. ?HE general disposition to look on .he Cortelyou boom as a joke may >o due to the hot weather, ami then igain. it may ho due to Republican enders' cold feet. Tm-; farmers of South Carolina ace a crisis, and they will have to tick together, or they may be linan ially ruined. .Judge Rrawley's de tision has dom incalucablo harm to ho whole Stute. WhhVm IN ?RAIN KIUHT YKAHH.1 *?ow Feels liltoct, mu. Burgeons Try To Romovo lt. /For eight years John Vandyno of tVlioollng, >W. Va,, has carried a bul ot around Inside his skull. Wodnos lay ho felt tho first had effoots of lt. lie becamo suddonly 111, lapsed Into unconsciousness, and paroxysms fol io wod. Surgeons hurried him to a hospi tal and performed an operation, which afforded touiporary relief, and will ondoavor lator to locute and ro inovo tho bullet. Eight years ago ho waas handl ing a revolver, which was accidental ly discharged, tho hullot poaotratlng his skull and lodging In tho brain. Tlie Labor Question. It has been frequently asserted that the two great issues now before the peoplo of South Carolina arc tho tax and the labor questions. Each of these questions deserves most seri ous and careful consideration on the part of the leadors of the people. Heretofore too much attention nus been given by the politicians to ques tions that are purely political and frequently to questions that were al together the outgrowth of factional differences. The time for a change has come and the very first thing that should be arranged is an equit able labor law, that will protect the employer and the employee. The most careful and conservative business men of the 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 the whiskey question is not now an issue, for the present legislature to place upon the statute books the legislation which is need ed, and if it is not done within the next year this? matter should be and doubtless will be made thc paramount issue in the next election or thc next two elections. The chance is going to be presented to some man to blaze the way in this trail. It will be al great pity if these questions are not considered purely from a business standpoint. The only remedy for the present condition ls thc enforcement of the statute prohibiting thc enticing of labor under contract. If this can't be done by law, it must be done by moral suasion. The difficulty in the present labor situation is chiefly the tendency of the negroes to move from one farm to another and this disposition is fostered and encourag ed 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 thc Legislature can meet and enact a new labor law. A Hint to 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 and harsh at home, and perfect bears to their wives---crabbed, snappish, ungenerous and altogether unsocial and hateful? Does anvbody know of any such men? Not that wc wish to lay all the wrong doing and blame on mankind, or condemn them en masse, not at all. There are plenty of 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 then, in the perversity of things, you will generally find a real bear of a niau united with a frail, patient, forbearing and forgiving wife. She isyour 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 io 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 are and there is no help for it. Through tho Years. As we go forward and meet the years, each is a messenger that tells us a pleasant story of the land to which we have t aken up our pilgrim age, and though we may not lay hands on them and detain them, yet they imbue us with happy thoughts and pleasant memories, that clothe each coming messenger in halo-like garments of smiles and beauty. Tho journey of life is but short, but it is long enough to teach us the idleness and littleness of things earth ly, and that our earthly tabernacle is far too narrow lo behold the invis ible fire of immortality that pulses through our being, or even to permit, it to shine forth in that brilliancy that it so much longs for. Life is as beautiful as a panorama that moves on to the great and final dimax, when the curtains are drawn, ind the marvelous beauty of the un iverse opens with endless vistas of ?flory upon our enlarged sights, and the dreams of the past are paled from view in thc light of the never mding present. The toy, the sword and thc toy nake up the sum of our existence, :or the old and young are nearest leaven. Prattling childhood and old ige walk hand in hand, and laugh md gamble and make pretty speech is to the bright birds and butter lies, for the veil of time if but a mst to the right and left of them, md love and innocence stand like ?herubs by tho cradle and the grave. SULPHUR HAT ll S AT I1OMI0. they Heal (be Skin and Take Away Its Impurities. Sulphur baths heal Skin Disensos, md ?ive tho body a wholesome glow *?ow you don't have to go off to a ligh-priced resort to got them. Put i few BpOOhfUlS of Hancock's Liquid Sulphur In tho hot water, and you ;et a perfect Sulphur bath right in our own home. Apply Hancock's Mquld Sulphur 0 tho affected parts, and Eczema and .thor stubborn skin troubles ure [illckly cured. Dr. H. H. Thomas, 1 Valdnsta, (Ja., was cured of a pain ui skin trouble, ?ind ho praises lt in bo highest terms. Your druggist oils lt. Hancock's Idquld Sulphur Olnt? neut ls tho host cure for Soros, Pim ?os, IDuckhoads and all inflamatlon. livoa n soft, velvety skin. CAUSES TROUBLE The Farmers Need and Must Have Some Relief. Momo Effective liiuv Must Ile Passed by tho Legislature to Enforce La bor Contracts. Tho labor Question ls being dis cussed from ono ond of tho Stato to tho othor, and the reeont occurroncos over in tho Fork near Norway ore figuring extensively in tho discussion. Tho following lotter from Columbia to tho Augusta Chronicle wld give sonio idoa of how the question Is re garded In all parts of tho State: Fedoral Judge IJrawloy's decision knocking out tho South Carolina la bor contract law continues to cause troublo In the rural districts with that largo class of negroes with whom the big stick of a juli sentonce has to bo used to Inspiro proper regard for contractual obligations. And though it is confidently hoped that tho fav inors will pull through tho presont soason without violonco botweon tho races, and that legislature will next spring enact soiuo offcctlvo feller measure, thoro ls constant danger lu various parts of tho stato of very i sorious clashes ovor conditions that tho decision has brought about. The killing of Constablo Valentino In Or angeburg county a fow woeks ago, followed by the narrow escapo from lynching Ibo negro had with nil but a rlor occurring among sovoral far mers gathered nt tho Inquest lu n gonornl quarrel about farmors en couraging negroes to jump their con tracts since tho doclslon; and half a dozen othor killings of negroes by white mon In wldoly 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. Tho scramble of unprincipled farmors for help has perhaps played a moro important part In getting tho negroes informed than tho publication in the newspapers. Tho result ls that the mean negroe has boeomo inflnitoly moro Insolent, and slnco ho has got ten it Into his hoad that Uncle Sum has espoused his causo his proneness to violence has boeomo moro marked. Thoro ls no danger for tho present of calling Into service tho dreaded Ku-Klux-Klan, hut farmors aro free ly talking of taking innttors Into their own hands by moans of community hands, to stop negroes whom they have kept from want for foou and clothing through tho winter from In solently refusing to carry out their contracts to work out their debts and and spending tho time getting drunk and raising rows. Of courso thoro has been abuso of the law on the part of some farmers, who have cheated tho negro and kept him lu long ser vitude after ho had fairly discharged his debt; but these aro rare instances. Tho groat mass of South Carolina farmers havo no disposition to op press tho negro, but they aro Insist ent, some of thom to tho extent of taking the law In their own hands, that ho shall have tho same respect for his written contract ns othors are required to have. When tho Orange burg farmers chose a spokesman to tell the crowd In very emphatic lan guage that they did not propose to stand for tho nets of certain white mon in encouraging negroes to jump their contra?is or tolerate such con duct on the part of thc blacks, law or no law, they gave expression to a feeling prevailing in many counties in tho Stato. Your correspondent gathered his impressions not only from visitors to Columbia, but from personal Interviews with farmers in half a dozen counties recently. "We've got to have relief, and promptly, or wo aro coming before the next legislature in mass and de mand lt," said Penitentiary Director J. O. Wlngo, an extensivo farmer and former member of the houso from Greenville county. "There ls going to bo serious trouble if wo don't got it." Just wdiat sort of law should he enacted '.hat will stand tho test has not so far boon definitely outlined. Tho question will be treated at length lu Governor Ansel's message; next spring, though just what ho will recommend, he himself does not seem to have determined as yet. Ono "in gestion ls that a thorough and effec tive rural police system bo estab lished for the purpose not only of ridding the rural districts ol' the ne gro criminal but of driving tho 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 those sort of contracts woro much abused, and lt is not likely that the legislature will over again go back to ibis system. One verv hopeful sign in the pre sent situation is tho healthy growth of public, sentiment against, abuse of tho negro. Thosuporstition that il is dangerous to punish a white man for brutal disregard of a negro's rights ls rapidly passing. Caused Him io Faint. It is getting quite common to con vict white men of murder in South Carolina these days. Last week Jas. 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 he made as light as possible. Judge Prince ordered Mr. Gallman to stand up and receive sentence. He 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 the verdict had been murder, or mur der with recommendation to mercy, and that he did not feel that ne would be doing his duty to impose as light a sentence as (Jailman's at torneys evidently wished, hut that he must give him the maximum of thirty years. On hem ing 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 the family. He was then taken to the judge's room and given medical attention. After he revived he was sentenced. Where might ls just leo, justice is servant.--German. Aspiring minds must sometime sus tain loss. Pinto. Method will teach you to win time. Gootho. A man seldom does much good in tho world until ho stops trying to do liar m. It costs moro to avengo a wrong than it doon to let lt. go by default. Tho Blow-going dray hovre binds more coln than the average raco horse. NEARING THE END Great Oil Trust Menaced by In ternal Dissentions. Hiebest Mun in thu World, Scents Trouble mid Only Hogers' Pursuits* sion Keeps Him in tho Linc. Is tho Standard Oil company, tho 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 ago?John D. Rockefel 11er, the head of the great combine, the man whose keen intuition has made him the greatest man in the j 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 disruotion, nothing but the iron will and personal pleadings of Henry H. Rogers, vice president, and the actual head of tne company, kept tho two dissatisfied men fri 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 thc 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 thc 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 the 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 the will of the men wno 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 ita 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 trained 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. Rut instead of this it charg es more than smaller concerns would have done if the Standard would have allowed them the chance." Make Home 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 collars; to have becomingly arranged hair, and ever to meet her other half at the door with a kiss. The house must bc al ways smiling in its 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 he 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 thc husband of Amelia Rives, is a lu natic in New York and a sane man in Virginia, according to the courts of the two states, and he has impor tant business interests in bot\ Could any thing be more ridiculo.! ; Welsh Neck II ARTS VI I Tlie l it h session will Literary, Music, Art, Expression ai graduates of our loading col loges am phasl/.ed In evory department. Heall with electric lights, hot and cold bl naces. Host Christian Influences. Ml logue. Xt?T>t. w. TM irre tl C L- l F FO R D UNION, SHUT A homo School of high grade, 'I lal normal course for those propaHli Music. Only a limited number ot ni given to each. Healthful Mi until hi 1 Address. Hov. H. to any of our customers for ihe sali I olumhng or hardware business, on< page catalogue Which will be found prices on anything In tho supply Uno. COLUMBIA $3 TJ 1*1? JU Y By the Cannibals of the Congo and the islands. PREFER HUMAN MEAT. Tho Darwinian Theory of tho Sur vival of tho Fittest Seen in Its Most .Pitiable Application Among ^ the African Miui-Kntlng Tribes Some FavtH That Will Surprise Many People. (Man ls still much eaton by his follow mon. Cannibalism In all Its horror still persists in the upper Con go region and othor portions of Afri [oa. Tho taste for human moat per sists lu New Quinea and among'cer tain groups of tho South Boa Islands, notably tho Solomons, tho Now l?o brides and Now Ireland. David Liv ingstone, tho ilrst whlto man who crossed the Mauycmaa country of Africa, was reluctant to believe that I cannibalism was not In somo way as sociated with superstitious ritos. Mut when ho saw the eagerness with / N which tho natives dovourod their lj>>c) favorite food ho changed his mind - and wrote that "tho Congo man sim ply profera human flesh to any other kind of meat." Another tribe ls said to have stated, "It ls good to oat meat that talked." Africa shows tho Darwinian theory of survival of tho litest in Its most pitiable application. O? The sick, crippled, aged, mon and women aliko, are killed and eaton In tho cannibalistic tribes. Tho flesh of prisoners of war or mon killed in bat tlo ls preferred above all others. Strangely enough all explorers report that the man-eating tribes are super ior, mentally and physically, to tho non cannibals. In the Ilnngnla country not only aro the bodies of thoso slain In battlo oaten,, but tho natives ha.bltally kill men for food. And about this thore ls much envious system, such as In clines students of anthropology to suspect some hidden origin. Thus the prisoner ls not killed outright, but ls placod chin deep In a pool of water with his hoad made fast to a log lest, ho drown. Tho victim's limbs, by tho way, have boon broken three days previously. On the third day the poor creature is taken out [and killed. This procedure, the floree Hangala says, makes the flesh more tender. Capt. S. L. Hlndo, returning homo from Stanley Falls on the Congo, had personal oxporlonce of thoso people. On the down river trip to Doma six of the Uungula crew were put In irons charged with having eaten two of their companions. Tho accused were magnifiaient savages, over six feet high and superbly proportioned. Two of the crow, lt seemed, had fallen 111 on tho voyage up and were allowod hy the captain to tako a few days ^ rest. Hut when next rations wore ^ served they were missing. The mas ter of the steamer was told moy had died during the night and been bur led ashore. And this Peomed likely enough. Hut the captain of tho ship had his doubts. Ho made n sudden raid on the quarters of his Hnngala hands, und discovered parts of tho missing men, smoke dried and cut up conveniently in the lockevs of tho HIX Kiisspects, now going W? tTlul Ut Leopoldville. Commandant Guy Burrows, latoly lu the service of tho Congo adminis tration, tells a curious story of .tho Batake people, a body of wlioiitjio led In a punitive expedition against. the Mahodc tribes. "I saw a boy hit in the shoulder by n ball from an old muzzle loader," he said, "and yet, although seriously hurt, he looked entirely unconcerned; they are utter fatalists, these fellows. His comrades carried him to ono side, away from the rest of the wounded, and when I saw this 1 remarked: "Take that boy up or he'll get hit again." "At this half a dozen grave leaders came to mo expostulating! '1 Io ls only a young lad,* thoy grumbled. You might lust as well lot us have, him for killing when tho light ls over.' I drove the monsters from mc with my Chlcotte or hippo hide whip. Tho boy recovered and served mo for years. Hut those Hatako cannibals never forgave me." He who relies on another's table Is apt to dine late.- Italian. The time ls never lost that is de votsd to work.- lOmorson. This is Headquarters v FOR Pianos and Organs. You want a Bwcot toned and a dur able instrument. One that will last a long, long life timo. Our pilcos are tho lowest, consis tent with tho qunllty. 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