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DOD LAW. Measure That Has Just Gone Into Effect SED LAST WINTER. I.nw Makes It ll legal For Any Ono to Sell In South Carolina Any Adulterated Food or Drug or, Sell' ^ge^Sjwn^^ulejr^ and Prescribes Heavy penalties for Vio latiag lt. J The pure food law passed at the last session of the Legislature went .nto effect last Tuesday. The law was made to supplement the food End drug law passed by Congress, nd is quite sweeping in its provis ions. The full text of the law is pub lished below: Be it enacted by the General As sembly of thc State of South Caro lina: Section i, 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 "Rns Act, and any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall bc deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic tion thereof shall be 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 usc, and any substance or mixture trees intended to bc used for mitigation or prevention of ! either man or other ani ?e term "food," as used mil include all articles used , drink, confectionary, or t 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 flavor" ? ..?tracts: 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 does not conform to the standard of strength, quality or purity, as determined by thc test laid down in thc 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 ila vor, or other ingredient deleterious or deterimental to health, or any vinous, malt, or spirituous liquor or compound, or narcotic drug. Tn tho r?q<s<v nf ?nnA' 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 t he 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 chanically, or by maceration in water, or otherwise, and directions for the removal of said preservative shall he printed on the covering or the pack age, the provisions of this Act shall bc construed as applying only when said 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 4. 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, li' 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 been placed in such package, or if t'u* 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 encaine, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, or acetanilide, or any derivative or preparation of any such substances 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 solid 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 fus required by law, or as to such pre* [fWations as are specified and rscog p\r>d by the United States Pharma b>,ni>?a, National Formulary or U. ensatory, which are in accord re wi th. of food: it be an imitation of or HOMB THIN? TO DO. H ? a-si roy I itt s I ?es nutl Url tis, und Shel ter Your Form Implements. Woods around tho yard and lot eau ho out and got out of tho way. This will holu tho appearance of thine,!, and koop tho placo from looking so snaky and bosidos will dostrow thous ands of weed scods. IT Bushes and briars should' ho shrub bod In tho pastures to let mo grass grow. Many pastures aro almost worthless for stock on account of tho growth of othor thlngH than gross. Remember - that grass does not grow t whore, briars, bushos and troos uro v allowed to take chargo ot pas- . turo. 11 It ls an ncknowlodged fact that 8 ovory far mor should raise all tho lot a and atablo manuro posslblo and now a ls tho timo to haul a largo lot of ? leaves and straw. If It Is not desira ble to straw'tho lot all over it can bo hauled and plncod In front of tho stable doors and In tho lowost places. } .All tools and farm iniplomonts and , machinery should bo placed carefully away undor a sholtor. Tho ot. can * and paint brush can bo used on somo ' of lt to a good advantage Do not iuttvu any farm implcinouts in tho J (told or out In tho weather. It ls \ poor policy, af tor furnishing tho farm j with such things, to lot thom bo ruin ed by carelessness. * Now that farmers aro nearly I j through working their crops thoron aro somo things needing attontlon which havo horotoforo boen put off All torracos should bo ploughed to | < strengthen thom and lo destroy th? woods and grass on them. All breaks < tn thom should bo repaired and tho < low or weak places should bo bulli | Up. _ "WHKN Roosevelt gets through j with it" says the Florida Times Union, "our constitution will be fit 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 -11 j fest'destiny" or "thrown into our laps by providence." That sort of stuiT is left for civilized Christian na tions to indulge in. L?ET thc farmers resolve, each for himself, not to employ under any 1 circumstance his neighbor's hands, j contract or no contract. This is tho only way that the best interests of al can be protected- 1 offered for sale under thc distinctive name of another article. Second. If it be labelled or brand- ! cd so as to deceive or mislead the | ] purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the con- M tents of the package as originally put1J 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 ecainc, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, aee 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 thc outside of thc package. Fourth. If the package containing it or its label shall hoar my state ment, design or device regarding the ingredients or the substances con tained therein, which statement, de design or device shall be 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 brc-U^d 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 tillered for side under the distinctive name of another article, if the name bc 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 ar com pounds, imitations or blends, and the word '"compound," "imitation" or "blend," as the case may oe, is pjainly 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 colo^ng or flavoring ingre dients usc1 .ir the purpose of color ing and /(iring 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 iii so far as tho provisions of this Act may require to secure free dom from adulteration or misbrand ng. Section 5. That, no dealer shall bc prosecuted under the provisions of this Act when he can establ'ih a guaranty, signed by the wholesaler, jobber, manufacturer or other party residing in the United States, from whom he purchases such articles, to the effect that the same is not adul terated or misbranded or within thc meaning of this Act, designating it. Section (>. For the purpose of car rying out the provisions of this Act the State board of health, with one licensed druggist, appointed hy the Governor, upon the recommendation of thc South Carolina Pharmaceuti cal Asssociation, shall take cogniz ance of the interests of the imbi ic health, as it relates to the sale of food, drugs, spirituous, fermented and malt liquors, and tho adultera tion thereof, and make all necessary inquiries and investigations relating thereto, and for such purposes may appoint inspectors analyst s and chem ists, who shall be subject toits su pervision and removal. Within sixty days after this Act goes into effect the said State board of health shall adopt such measures as if may deem necessary to facilitate the enforce ment thereof, lt shall prepare rules and regulations with regard to the proper method of collecting and ex amining drugs, articles of food Section 7. The sum of one thous and dollars is hereby appropriated for the purpose of defraying the ex penses, if any, of analysis br exami nation of any article of food or drug as provided for in this Act; said sums to bc expended under tho su pervision and direction of the State hoard of health. Section 8. This Act shall go into affect six months after its approval ol hy thc Governor. I ni Section' 9; All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act be, and they aro hereby, repealed. DEAD WHIT? MAN i onored by Negroes by the Erec tion of a Monument o Ills Memory llecuusc He Present ed Thom With tho Ground Now Hised us Cometary. The monument erected in Lancas_ er county by colored people to a vhite man as heretofore published n The News and Courier, waa form by unveiled Thursday with impres ive ceremony and in tho presence of m immense crowd of both whites ind blacks. This is probably the first recorded nstance where negroes have thus >aid tribute to the memory of one of he white race. The nearest approach ;o it in Lancaster county occurred lome years ago, when Bishop Isom Clinton, now dead, erected a hand some monument at thc grave of his 'ormer master, Mr. Irvin Clinton, vho, in his day and time, was a lcad ng member of the Lancaster Bar. Thc mounument unveiled Thurs lay was erected by the members of Mount Moriah Church, a colored Methodist church four miles west of Lancaster, in honor of the memory ii the late Janies 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 man lier, Jarvis Cunningham, a respected colored citizen of that county, who ins. by farming, accumulated con siderable property. Thc suggestion took well with Cunningham's fellow murch members and all of them con tributed liberally to the fund which vas raised to carry out the plan. The monument, which stands on Hie cemetery lot, was made hy Mr. A.. P. McNich, proprietor of the Lan caster Marble Yard, and is what is inown as Vermont blue marble. Though not as tall as such monu ments usually are. being only (5 feet ind eight inches in height, it is a lighly creditable, handsome piece of vork, and presents an imposing ap pearance. Thc principal inscription is on the ride facing the east and is as follows: "On motion of Jarvis Cunningham this momnnt was erected by thc nenibers of Mount Moriah ('burch in 1907 to the memory of Mr. Jas. vV. Williams in appreciation of the rift to the church hy him and his tamilv of this plat of land for a cem tery." "G. W. Mackey, C. T. B." The letters "C. T. H." stands for chairman trustee hoard. The inscription on the north side s. Born December 27, WM. Died February io, 1908. Peace to his ash es." On the south side: "Trustees; M. M. Voting, Jim Brown, D. .Johnson, J. 1\ Thomas, D. McKinney, Adam Watts, deceased, ?lohn Wren, secre tary; Joe Brown, treasurer. God love Lh a cheerful giver." On the west side: "Rev. Z. Belton, pastor." The unveiling exercises consisted principally by an address appropriate to the occassion by Principal M. D. Lee, ol tlie Lancaster Normal and Industrial Institute, Bible read and prayer. Music was furnished by a orass band. Dr. A. J. Warner of Charlotte, was to have delivered an iddress, but was prevented from joining by a call in Boston, Mass. The veil that covered the monument .vas drawn aside by two small color 2tl 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 succestj ful farmer and lived in the neighbor hood of Mount Moriah Church. He was a gallant Confederate soldier. At the outbreak of the civil war, in the summer of 1861, he enlisted with the Lancaster Crays and served with that company until December, when lie 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. Foster's company, Butler's brigade, [le was on duty as a scout during mich of the war and was delegated to pilot Butler's forces through this country about the time of Sherman's .aid. As a slave owner Mr. Williams vas kind and humane, and after em tncipation his treatment of the ne ?ro was ever characterized hy fair less and justice. He is kindly remem icred by all the colored people who mow him. A Clml Wild Our Vonng .Men. Boys, let. us bo mon. I .ot us bo tonest, earnest, young men and we hall then ho noble mon. Nobleness md gentleness are not one and rare? y do we find them living in peace nth each other. We may never be idiat the world calls groat, but we an all bo noble men, and our noble less can commence this very hour nd just whore we are. A young man's first and truest act ? nobility is to love, honor and pro ect his parents. When ho becomes 00 proud to be seen walking as a taft* to a tottering, helpless father, r to stand by the bedside of her who 1 waiting a moment, this side of the ivor to catch ono moro gaze, through hi' fading shadow of tho past, of her ttle hoy jost in manhood, he is sure y fast going down the eminence of nanliness. When we launch our ships on the norning waves of the groat sea of fe, let us guide them hythe light f home, with the holm of tho cradle /ords of our mother. Not until wo ave left homo and aro wanderers in he curious strangeness of a strange md, unnoticed, unheeded, lonely nd weary, will we know of a truth rhat a mother is. Then wo feel that lie is good and wo bless her. Never can we repay our mother's indnOSS. Her withered form and er silvering braids shall be defend il till that day cometh when Ho shall lake up His jewels-and then, we 'eon, Heaven will know no kinder, p brighter, no purer angel than she. /hen the ever shining stars shall ano in the fading of our vision, and ie noisy world will grow still in our cop of death, will we forget her; ut till then. IT is rather hold in a man who us succeeded in making the- Repob lan elephant do so many unheard f things, to denounce anybody for atti re-faking. To-morrow is the stone over which atty a buslnoss man has stumblod. REMEDY FOUT?T Eastern Plant That Has Womit? - ful Healing Power. \ CURES CONSUMPTION. Agricultural Department ?oj Hegiii .System of Experiments Willi Fenu greek, an Eastern Plant, Which Is Sala to bo a Oura and Prove?da tivo of All Forma of Tubcrcu losis. I x A special to Tho Nows and Cour ior from Washington says Secretary Wilson, of tho department of agrl culturo, will soon begin exportaient lng In tho arid lands of Texas on tho famous food callod fenugreek, which scientists tho world ovor aro hailing as possibly an agency of nature which will combat tho ravages of consump Hon. Tho vlrturo ascribed to fenugreek la its ability to build up tho very tis sues that tho germs of consumption tour down. Experiments with won derfully satisfactory results lu the growth of this plant have boejirtnado lu California, Nebraska and Ni Moxlco, and tho announcement will soon be made of Its introduction luto tho arid west 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 vegetable, con suming animals. For perhaps hun dreds of years, however, lt has been known in tho Hast, where It has a widespread use as a food and medi cine for both man and boast. Its main uso lu that section of the globe was what suggested its introduction in this country as a euro for consum ption. Since time Immemorial the Jewish maldon of Tunis has been one who desires much fat and such a dainty weight as 250 or 300 pounds ls a thing to be desired. With her fat is welcomed and she never complains if she lips tho seale at 350 or 400. Tho time-honored traditions of their lot have handed down tho uso of fen ugreek ns a fat forming substance, and even to-day it. ls still used. Physicians recognizing the fnet that if they can, in treating a con sumptive case, keep flesh on theil patient tho chuncos for recovery Wore greater, came to tho conclusion that fenugreek would be of great uso to them. Accordingly it was In trod U( ed and many report that, they have used lt with very satisfactory r< suits. The fenugreek plant itself ls not unlike common clover, and, indeed is easily mistaken for that plant un less the two are closely compared. Tho seed of the plant ls the part used in the consumption cure, there being several ways by which lt. can bo pre pared. 1'erhaps the easiest way is lo put a tablespoonful in a tumbler of water and lot it stand over night, drinking the waler In the morning. Another method ls to mix a coffee spoonful of tho soed in shalne 1 hon ey to kill tho bitter taste, und Hum eat the mixture. Tho women oT Tun is, in their Quest for fat, Cut thc see l in tho form of a confection and mix ed' with olivo oil and fri many olhei ways. Prominent among tho few physi cians who have tried tho plant In tho treatment of consumption is Dr. A. S. Mansfelde, treasurer ol tho Nebras ka State Medical Association, who has probably carried tho experiment further than any oilier American practitioner. He was tho first to re port to the department of agrlcul turo the use of the plant as a cure In this country. Although Dr. Mansfelde has rr ported concerning one case it was of a nature to show tho groat possiblli ties of the plant. The patient in question was a young Irishman, who was lilllie last slagos of the disease and although in the end ho eventual ly died, his lungs heilig so far gom that they could not sustain any bodi ly vigor, he is reported to have taken on flesh and continued to do BO foi several weeks until tho end came. David Fairchild, agricultural ex plorer. In charge of Ibo seed and plant distribution of the bureau of plant industry, ls responsible for bringing fonugroek to tho notice of tho American people. While travel ing in tho Bast ho was struck with the prevalence of fut women and Ott enquiring Into tho cause got on UK track of tho plant. Ile did not think a great deal of tho plant until lalor when he learned that, it was ono of the principal Ingredients of condition powders for stock. Hutting tho two together he thought that results well worth the trouble COttld be received from the plant and accordingly in t reduced it into tho United States. ll is claimed by some that tin plant can be traced back as far a> tho time of Nobuchudno?'/or lt when il was in common use as a relish foi meats and as fl medicine. Many leg (Mids have been founded on the plant's great medicinal value. lt ls 0V011 slated thal Mohamet himself onc( said that If the people know tho val ne of fenugreek they would obtain ll even al tho price ol* gold, Altothei legend claims thal If a bag Ol tin seed was lied to u camel's back ll would cure it of its Ills. Fenugreek is planted in tho fall the same as winter wheat and conn up early in the spring. lt attains a height ol' about that of Ibo ordinary clover and, as stated before when full grown looks about tho sumo. Th? odor of the plant is familiar lo any one who has ever handled condition powders, such as aro given to stock At present there is but neoinpnrn lively small quantity of the seed In tho United States. The department of agriculture, however, ls abbi lo distribute quantities of some size on applications made- lo the bureau of sec.i and plant industry. Speaking Of tho medicinal valiu of thc plant Dr. Mansfelde says: "There CHU be no doubt that beyond the curhnuyhrates and tho bitter con tents increasing tho appetite, some ling else must be contained in the seeds thal causes the assimilation of fat and the deposition in the tissues. Possibly that something aids boll) in the digestion and the assimilation of fat and the conversion into fat of the carbohydrates one of all these processes." A Government has un dertaken to make ns analysis of Hie fonugroek soed with this point In view. Mmdi will depend on the re sults which ho obtains by the exam in?t lon. THE general disposition to look on the Cortelyou boom as a joke may lie due to the hot weather, and then again, it may be due to Republican leaders' cold feet. THK fanners of South Carolina face a crisis, and they will have to stick together, or they may be finan cially ruined. Judge Rrawley's de cision has done incalucable harm to tho whole State. ow Feels Effect, ftiiv* Burgeons Try l'y j To neniovo lt. ?For eight yeurs John Vandyno of /hcollng, W. Vu,, has carried a bui lt around lusldo bl? okull. Wednos ay ho felt tho first bad offocts of lt. Io bocame suddenly lil, lapsod into nconsciousnoss, and paroxysms fol jwod. Surgeons hurried him to a hospl nl and porformed an oporatlon, /hlch afforded tomporary relief, and /111 ondoavor later to locate and ro novo tho bu Hot. Eight yours ago ho woas handi ng a rovolver, which was accldental y discharged, tho bullot ponotratlng ds skull and lodging in tho brain. Tho Labor Question. It has been frequently asserted hat the two great issues now before ;he people of South Carolina are tho ax and the labor questions. Each of these questions deserves most seri )us and careful consideration on the ?art of thc leadors of the people. Heretofore too much attention nas jeen given by the politicians to ques tions that arc purely political and frequently to questions that were al together the outgrowth of factional lifference?. The time for a change ins come and the very first thing 11 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 sailed 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 edi and if it is not done within the next year this? matter should be and doubtless will be made the 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 bo great pity if these questions are not considered purely from a business standpoint. The only remedy for the present condition is the enforcement of the statute prohibiting thc enticing of labor under contract. If this can't he done by law, it must be done by moral suasion. Thc 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 cd hy 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 (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 bc so rude and cold and harsh at home, and perfect bears to their wives-crabbed, snappish, ungenerous and altogether unsocial and hateful? Does anybody know of any such men? Not that wc wish to lay all thc 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 thc patience of Job; but then, in the perversity of things, you will generally find a real bear of man united with a frail, patient, forbearing and forgiving wife. She isyour wife, Mr. Hear, 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 tho Years. As we go forward and moot thc years, each is a messenger that tells us a pleasant story of the land to which we have taken up our pilgrim age, and though wc may not lay hands on thom and detain them, yet they imbue us with happy thoughts and pleasant memories, that clothe ?acji coming messenger in halo-like garments of smiles and beauty. Tho journey of life is but short , jut it is long enough to teach us the (Heness and littleness of things oarth y, and that our earthly tabernacle s far too narrow ie 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 climax, when tho curtains aro drawn, md thc 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 mding present. Thc toy, the sword and the toy nake up the sum of our existence, or the old and young arc 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 thc veil of time if but a nist to the right and left of thom, md love and innocence stand like ihcrubs by tho cradle and tho grave. suiiP?Ti it BATHS ATTIOMIO. 'hey Heal (ho Skin and Take Away Its Impurities. Sulphur bulbs heal Shin Placases, nd give the body n wholesoino glow, 'ow you don't novo to go off to n dgh-prlced resort to get them. Put . fow spoonfuls of Hancock's Liquid lulphur In tho hot wuter, and you et a perfect Sulphur bath right In our own home. Apply Hancock's Liquid Sulphur o tho affected paris, and Eczema and thor stubborn skin troubles are lliekly cured. Dr. R. H. Thomas, f Valdosta, Qa., was cured of a pain ui skin trouble, and ho praises lt In he highest terms. Your druggist nils lt. Hancock's Idquid Sulphur Oint lent ls tho best euro for Sores, Pim ?os, Blackheads and all Inflamatlon. Uvos a soft, volvoty skin. J. DAUSES TROUBLE. ! he Farmers Need and Must Have Some Relief. lome Effective Law Must Ito Passed by tito Legislature to Euforco La? bor Contracts. Tho labor question is being dis missed from ono ond of tho Stato to ho othor, and tho recont occurrences ?vor in tho Fork nour Norway aro Igurlng oxtonsivoly tu tho discussion, rho following lotter from Columbia 0 tho Augusta Chronicle will give ionio idoa of how tho question ls ro rardcd In all parts of tho Stato: Fedoral Judgo Hrawloy's deciston mocking out tho South Carolina la lor contract law continues to CSUBO trouble in tho rural districts with hat largo class of nogroos with whom ho big stick of a juli sontence has to Do used to inspire proper, regard for ?ontractual obligations. And though it ls confidently hoped that tho far mers will pull through tho prosont ?jason without vlolonco botweon the r?eos, and ?hat loglalaturo will noxt jprlng onset somo offectlvo i'ollof mensuro, Ibero ls constant dangor in various parts of tho stato of Very serious clashes over conditions that tho decision has brought about. The killing of Constable Valentino lu Or fingeburg county a fow weeks ugo, roi lowed by tho narrow escape from lynching tho negro had with nil but 1 rlor occurring among sovoral far mers gathered nt tho inquest in n general quarrel about farmers en couraging nogroos to jump their con tracts since tho decision; and half a dozen othor killings of negroes by white men tn widoly separated sec tions of tho stato, aro but manifes tations of how the danger spots are showing up. Tho effect, of tho decision has spread with amazing rapidity even among tho most Ignorant negroes. Tho scramblo of unprincipled farmers for holp has perhaps played a more important part In getting tho nogroos Informed than tho publication in the newspapers. Tho result ls that the moan nogroo has become Infinitely moro insolent, and since ho has got ten it into his head that Unelo Sam has espoused bis cause his proneness to violence has become moro marked. There ls no danger for tho present of calling Into service tho dreaded Ku-Klux-Klan, but farmers are free ly talking of taking matters Into their own hands by moans of community bunds, to stop negroes whom they have kept from want for food 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 eourso 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 his debi; but these aro rare instances. Tho groat mass of South Carolina farmers have, no disposition to op press the negro, but they are insist ent, some, of them to tho extent of taking tho law in their own hands, that ho shall have tho same respect for his written contract as others are required to have. When tho Orango burg farmers chose a spokesman to tell the crowd in very emphatic lan guage that they did not propose to stand for tho acts of eortaln white mon in encouraging negroes to jump their contracts or tolerate such con duct on the part of tho blacks, law or no law, they gave expression to a feeling prevailing in many counties lu (ho Stato. Your correspondent gathered his lie pressions 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 we aro coming before the next legislature in mass and do rnend lt," said Penitentiary Director .1. O. Wtngo, an extensivo farmer and former member of tho house from Greenville county. "There ls going to be serious trouble If wo don't get it." Just, what sort, of law should be enacted that will stand tho test has not so far boon definitely outlined. Tho question will bo treated at length in Governor Ansel's message next sin ing, though just what ho will recommend, he himself does not seem to have determined ns yet. One oig gostion is that a thorough and effec tive rural police system bo estab lished for the purposo not. only of ridding the rural districts of the ne gro criminal hui of driving the Idle to thc chain g:r.,gs as well. Some far mers advocate hiring these convicts to farmers and ol hers, as was form erly done with penitentiary convicts; but these sort of contracts woro much abused, and il is not likely that the legislature will ever again go back to this system. One verv hopeful sign In tho pre sent situation ls tho healthy growth t>r public sentiment against abuse of the negro. Thesuperstltlon that it is dangerous to punish a white man for brutal disregard of a negro's rights ls rapidly passing. Caused Him to Faint. it is getting quite common to con vict white men of murder in South karolina these days. Last week ?las. W. (hillman was convicted of mur lering Sims Gilmore at Union and sentenced to fifteen years in the peni tentiary. The result of the trial was i great surprise to the lawyers of hillman as well as to himself. His attorneys requested that the ?entonce he made as light as possible, lodge Prince ordered Mr. (hillman to itand up and receive sentence. Be fore naming what the punishment ihould hi;, lie gave him quite a talk n which he recounted thc principal 'acts of the case, and said that he vould not have been surprised if thc verdict had been murder, or m?r ier with recommendation to mercy, md that he did not feel that he vould be doing his duty to impose is light a sentence as Gallman's at orneys evidently wished, but that ie must give him the maximum of birt y years. On hearing these words cold per spiration broke out on Gallman's n ow, and as he wiped it ofF he grew faint, tottered, and fell and was bought to be dying. This caused considerable excitement among the female members of the family. He vas then taken to the judge's room md given medical attention. After IC revived he was sentenced. Where might ls justice, justice ls ervant. - -Herman. As Iring minds must sometime sus nin , ss. Plato. Med, d will teach you to win Hmo. -Goethe. A man seldom does much good In ho world until ho stops trying to do tarni. It costs moro to avenge a wrong han it does to let lt go by default. Tho slow-going dray nerrie binds nore coln than the average race torso. iitAKihiu int fcftu. Great Oil Trust Menaced by In ternal Dlssentlons. Kieltest Man In tho World, Scents Trouble niul Only Hogers* Pursuits sion Keeps Him in tlio Lino. IB 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 mont:; agoi John D. Rockefel ler, thc 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 p^me rumors have it, James Stillman, the president of the National City bank, of New York, thc 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 tue 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 donej so. i 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 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 I by fair and legitimate mcanB, thoi 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 thc 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. Hut 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 over to meet her other half at the door with a kiss. The house must be al ways smiling in its orderly way; children ditto; baby no exception to thc 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. Ile may build the house and furnish ?tin 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 urtle, 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 the food will not suit his fas tidious taste. JOHN Armstrong Chandler, once the husband of Amelia Rives, is a lu natic in New York and a sane man in Virginia, according to thc courts of the two states, and he has impor tant basiness interests in bot\ Could any thing be more ridiculous; Welsh Neck HAUTS Vii The Mill session will Literary, Music, Art, Expression nu graduates of our leading colleges ant phasizod In every department. I foal t with electric llghtH, hot and cold bil unces. Host Christian lufluoncos. Ml logue. Robt. \v\ Durretl CLI FFORD UNION, SOUTJ A homo School of high grade. 'I lal normal course for those preparltt Music. Only a limited number Of |>n Riven to each. Healthful Mi nntain ( Address. Lev. H. to any of our customers for t ho ask I nlumhng or hardware business, uni page catalogue Hvhlch will bo found i prices on anything In tho supply line. OOJUXJM11IA HUPPX<Y By tho Cannibals of tho Congo and the Islands. PREFER HUMAN MEAT. Tho Darwinian Theory of ?ho Sur vival of the Fittest Boen in Its Most Finable Application Among ^ tho African Man-Fating Tribes Some Facts That Will Surpriso Many People. IMon IH still much eaten by his follow nieu. Cannibalism in all Its honor si iii persists in the upper Con- W? go region and othor portions of Afri ca. Tho tasto for human moat per sists lit New Guinea and among' cer tain groups of the South Sea Islands, notably tho Solomons, the Now He brides and Now Irolnnd. David Liv ingstone, tho ilrst white man who crossed tho Manyomaa country of Africa, was reluctont to believe that cannibalism wan not in somo way as sociated with superstitious rites. But when ho saw tho eagerness with / ~\ which ?ho natives devoured their 1j?ej favorite food he changed his mind " and wrote that "tho Cougo man sim ply prefers human flesh to any other kind of moat." Another trlbo is sold to have stated, "lt is good to oat moat that talked." Africa shows tho Darwinian theory of survival of tho litest in Its most pltlablo application. , Tho Siek, crippled, aged, mon and women aliko, are killed and eaten in tho cannibalistic tribes. Tho llosk of prisoners of war or mon killed in bat tle is proforred above all othors. Strangely onough all oxplorers report that the man-eating tribes aro super ior, mentally and physically, to tho non cannibals. In the Bangala country not only aro the bodies of those slain In battlo ; eaten,, but tho natives ha.bitally kill men for food. And about this thor? Is much envious systom, such us in clines students of anthropology to suspect somo biddon origin. Thus the prisoner Is not killed outright, but ls placed chin deep in a pool of water with his hoad made fast, to a log lest he drown. Thc victim's limbs, by tho way, have boon broken three days previously. On tho third day the poor creature ls takon out and killed. This procedure, the floreo Bangala says, makes tho liesa more tender. Capt. S. Ti. Minde, returning homo from Stanley Falls on the Congo, had personal oxperionce of theso people. On the down river trip to Doma six of tho Bangala crew wore put in Irons charged with having oaten two of their companions. The accused wore magnifiaient savages, ovor six foot high and superbly proportioned. Two of the crow, lt seemed, had fallen ill on the voyage up and woro ullowod by tho captain to take a few days ?~ rest. But when next rations woro ^ served they wore missing. Tho mas ter of the steamer was told Uley lind died during tho night and been bur Mod ashore. And this seemed likely enough. But the captain of tho ship had his doubts, lie made a sudden raid on thc quarters of his Bangala hands, and discovered parts of tho missing mon, smoko dried and cut up conveniently In the lockers of tho ?ix HUHpeots, now going' & tri?!* Ut Leopoldville. Commandant Guy Burrows, lately lu the service of tho Congo adminis tration, tells a curious story ot.tho Batake people, a body of wh?iifvho led lu a punitivo expedition against tho Malinde tribes. "I saw a boy hit in tho shoulder by a ball from an old muzzle loader," ho said, "and yet, although sorlously hurt, ho looked entirely unconcerned; they arc uttor fatalists, these follows. His comrades carried him to one side, away from the rest of the wounded, and when I saw this 1 remarked: "Take that boy up or he'll got hit again." "At this half a dozen grave leaders came to mo expostulating. 'Ho ls only a young lad,' thoy grumbled. You might HiBt as well lot us have him for killing when tho light ls over.' I drove the monsters from me with my ChiCOttO or hippo hide whip. Tho hov recoverer! and served mo for years. But those Batake cannibals never forgave nie." He who rollos on another's table ls apt to dine late.-Italian. Tho time ls never lost that ls do votsd to work.-Emerson. , This is Headquarters Fon Pianos and Organs. You want a sweot toned and a dur able inst ruinent. One that will last a long, long life Hmo. Our prices are tho lowest, consis tent with tho quality. 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