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NR. ANSEN AND THE NORTH POLE Bill Arp Thinks it is Good to Discuss Some twng Besjdes Pontics-He to Much Interest. ed in Scientific Discoveries. Everybody is thinking about the north pole and Dr. Nausea now. It i glorious to have something to distract our attention from politics. And there are the cathode' rays that have come just in time to help out. It is awful to have to read politicb day after day and to ponder over the ways of parties and partisans. A quail a day for thirty days is nothing to be compared to It. L-t us have any sort of a recess now. We wouldn't mind a big fire or a small earthquake-a quake that would shake the windows in the big house at Wash ington and upset a few desks and tables and roll the drunken member from Alabama otf the sofa. I wish some Guy 1Fawkes would come along and scare thlem all so bad that they would go home and never go back any morh. The pe-oplo are tired and d is heartened. There are a few good public servants there, but they are lost and .helpless. The majority would see the country go to the devil beforo they would get out of the line of their party. The currency and the tariff are not party questions, but the parties have made them so. This has been said before, but it is worth saying again. There is no moral principle that gov erns a professional politician. Look at Blackburn and Hunter-what an expense to the State will the taxpay ers have to meet just to gratify the greed or the sellish ambition of two men. Kentueky has hundreds of men just as able and well qualified as they are. Then why don't they withdraw and stop all their wrangle. Why don't the members make them withdraw. The answer is that this is polities-im pure and complex politics. Surely the cor mon people are fools or they would send better men to Congress and to the Legislature. But I was thinking about Dr. Nansen and the north pole. Can it be possible that he has found it-found the ena of the earth -the very tip end of the spindle that the earth turns on, and was there a linch pin in it and was the axle greased or was the journal hot and did the sparks ily and so forth. If the doctor hasn't found anything but an open plolar sea andt a few walruses and setals and no big, awful suck-hole at the center that had liked to have pulled his vessel in them, he may go back and try it again. The world won't be satistled with that andt It won't believe him. Why, J -Ahn Cleves SymIues found a theoretical hole up there that was 2,000 miles in diameter and a vessel could sail in and around just as easy as sailing on the ocean. Symmnes's hole was talked about when I was a boy and it has had believers ever since. Th.leni Jules Verne came along and made a journey up there and found the identical pole and put a fRag on it, and the one he raised is flying there yet. And last, but not least, Mr. Fairman has found a manucript left by one of Sir John Franklin's men in an Eskimo hut and it tells the whole story, how he and an Eskimo and six dogs were cut lT from the vessel and took shel ter in a cave of ice and lived on wal rIus and bear meat, and after some days determined Lo explore the cave and kept on and on and on, by the light of their blubber-laimp, until they had traveled 150 miles, and at last cane to the opining on the other side, which is to say thu inside of Symmes's hole, and found a land and a peo)le and tine cities and fruits and flowers, and lakes and river's, and the whole was lightedl up by the aurora borealis. Mir. Fai r man callis it the third world andl makes a very fascinating story of it. If it was true I would believe it., and I ami inelined to believe it, any1~how. I I hus a charming love story mixedt up with it, and I am not yet too old( to enjoy themx. I'veJ always had an idea that the Creator puit the aurora boreailis up there for' somie other purpose besides an occasional 11llumilnation or our northern horrizon. Maybhe it. is a big electric arch light for those people in) the hole, w ho never see the siun. Verily, we are onI the eve of great things, but we don't know w ha .t the v are. Dr. Nansen can't put us olf w i th lce anmd water--our own 10~lisha Ke-nt Kane clone better than that and s1 (lid Greely, for. they saw floeks of acquatic birdls coming troml that way. Neverthe less we will wait and see. Mlaybe lie has found a hole-au open funnel-and will go through and come out at the other end. And now we read that D~r. Plongeon, who has been nine years in Yucatan, has at last unr'aveled all the mysteries of the hieroglyphics that are chiseled onl the ancient ruins in that country and declares the ruins to be at least ten thousand years old, and these temples were built long hefore the flood and the letters that make up the alphabet are of Egyptian origin, lie and his wife have been photographing them and have writtc'n a volume that will soon be published in' Paris, a volume that he says will enlighten the scientitic and religIous worldi and rec move all doubts about the origin of man and his progress dlown the corridors of time. We read some of his comnmu ni cation. In The lueview of iteviews last summer and wonderful---thait is all we can do nowadays-just wait and won der. Not long ago I had a nice letter from Mr. Oliver, the American consul at Merada asking me to come over there andI examine these wonderful ruins and write them up and offering his assistance, and I have a mindl to go'. Merid, Is a city of 60,000 inhabitants, and it -ia only ashort sail from Hlavana. The only thing that makes me hesi tate is what Dr. Plongeon writes about the snakes and centipedes and other noxious reptiles and insets that haunt the ruing. Alfter livIng seventy years and escaping the dangers of war and pestilence, I don't want to be bitten by a snake and die in a strange landl. I am like the old man of ninety years who took the measles and said he never was so ashamed of anything in his life, and it would disgrace the family if he died of the measles. And now come the cathode rays that are t' throw light upon all hl'dden things and reveal the anatomical mys teries of the human body. The dic tionary says they are the rays that go to laun-down when the electrIc current is flowing from east to west, and the word means sun-down. Edisoa is at work on the discovery day and night, and will tell us more e'bout it before long. The doctors will be able to look right through a man and diagnose his disease. If he has appendicitis they will see it and know where to cut. I he has a pistol ball in him they can find it. If his heart or his lungs are diseased,, the rays will tell how mch. Poor Glartfield's life might have been saved, for the doctors would not have ht a to out himt all to pieces hunt ing for the ball. The digestIve organs *an be kept in a healthy condition, fo the rays will tell what a man c, or and digest and what he caa'6. Rut .fool man will *)methaes cat thoug there is death in tihe pot. 1 ate sm toate chee lnt igt i siomy wife's warning, and I had the night mare. I cried out. "There's robber., plice," and my wife called we and awoko me and comforted me so kindly, for she said, "1 told yo'u so, but you would eat that toasted cheeso! 'kile next ti me you eat choose for supper and go to bed, you had better put a pistol under your pillow and shoot the thievos and robbers when they ret after you." She Is my comforter and regulator, but sometimes I am right hard to manage. BILrL Am-P. CURIOUS COINCIDENCES. Three Classmates Who Fought and Fell on Gettysburg's Fold. In correcting a etatement made by another gentleman with reference to the career of the late Col. Lewis E. Williams, of the famous First. Virginia, Dr. J. C. Hiden tells a most remarka Ole story about three of his classmates at the Virginia Military Institute as follows : I was intimately acquainted with Colonel Williams from his boyhood. lis father, for whom he was named, was the Commonwealth attorney of Orange County, and for more than an averago generation practiced in the court of which my father was a justice. Lewis and myself attended the same local academies. In 1854 1 was appoint ed a cadet at the Virginia Military In stitute at Loxington. During that ses sion I rooied in No 13-a "tower" room on the second "stoop," and just west of the "arcl. My roommates were Lewis B. Williams, Tazewell Patton, a son of the noted lawyer and politician, Hon. John M. Patton, of this city; Peyton Slaughter and I. C. Allen. The coincidences were really more extraordinary than those stated In the Dispatch. Williams, Allen and Patton ,A ere all of the same class, all in the same room, all graduated July 4, 1855, all became lawyers, all volunteered in the Confederate army, all rose to the rank of colonel, all commanded Vir ginia regiments, were all in Pickott's Diviion, all (I believe) in Kompor's Brigade, and all fell at Gettysburg. I once related this series of coinci dences to a distinguished graduate of Brown University, and he said he saw nothing very remarkable in them. I know at once that he had never master ed the "theory of probabilities " In mathematics. I afterwards related this to that famouseducator Joian Hart, a real mathematician, and he express. td his wonder thus : " The chances for such a series to occur again are, I should say, about as one to infinity." Mr. U &rt took his degree at the Uni versity of Virginia. Lewis Williams and myself belonged to the same literary society and he was one of the finestspeakers in the corpse of cadets. As a student he distinguish ed himself, and graduated high in a class which was remarkable for talents. Stapleton Crutchileld, one of the most brilliant students I ever knew, took the first honor in that class. lHe was a son of the old Democratic Speaker of the House of Delgateb, who wept in the chair when the House refused to elect William J. Hivos to the United States Senate. At Gettysburg, Colonel Williams, who was quite ill with malarial fOver. was lying in .in ambulance. When the charge was ordered ho left the ambul at ce and prepared to lead his regiment -the First Virginia. The field ollicers were all afoot, as it was reckoned al most certain death to he mounted in that charge. Klemper, who practiced at our Orange bar, and had known Willilaws as a boy, said :'" Lew is, you cannot go; you a 'e too weak to walk. and it is certain death' to ride," "' Gon eral, I can sit on my horse, and I must Igo," was the gallant colonel's reply. The major of the old1 iirst thben remnon strted : "~ Colonel, go buck to the ambulance. If you mount that horse, you will be a dead man beftore you go three hundred y'ards. i will take the regimwent ini. Do go back." "No." saidl Williams, "'1 will lead mmy men,'" and lbe mtoutedC( his horse and moved up)on ths d readful, can non-crow ned heights. He had rididen but a few rods when lbe tell. What lheroes hg st thou bo'rne 31 olher ti nne eve is weepinag,. liut still thy~ brightest jewel Th ine honoer thou d idst save; TIhv sons will wear it prm.dlly I'n freedom or the grave.' The Mount Lebanon Shakers recent ly performed a great decd of charity, althou g it was not designed as a char' ity, being nothing more nor less than an advertising scheme. It however re sulted in great good just the same. They gave away 1,000 bottles of their Digestive Cordial to those suffering from stomach derangements. It was so offective in curing those who used the remedy that they were loud in their praises of it and In con mequence a large demand for the cor :lal was at once created. The druggists of this town have lit tle books that tell all about it. Diges bive Cordial creates an appetite, ald~s lgestion and brings about a rapid in 3rease in flesh and strengthb. L~axol is the name of a palatable Castor D)il. Just the thing for children --The recent sale of the Port R~oyal and Western Carolina Railroad has been confirmed by Judge Simnonton in the United Wtates Circuit Court. The signing of the conlrmiatory order was not in the naturs of a surprise to the railroads or the attorneys, as Judge Sim~nton statedl in court several weeks ago that he would confirm the sale. Toe order is quit. brief, and simply confirm, the sale and makes no men tion of the fees for the attorneys. The lawyers 'were instructed at the hearing of the case to forward their arguments for fees by the 1t2th instant, which it Is understood was done. It is said that the fees to the interested lawyers will not be made public. -Judge Benet, sitting in the Circuit .ourt at Charleston, has issued an or her against E. H. Sparkman, of the eur ity SavIn ge Bank ; A. F. 6. Cram sr, of the Coal Consumers Comnp any, and PresIdent J. H. Dosher, of the Pal motto Brewery, to show cause why they should net be ruled for contempt for hating gone before the United States Court and asked for a receiver of the br ewery, after he had issued a temporary '.njunction against that property. The case is a notorious one already and Judge Blenet's order adds another sensational feature to is. -The conviction of Dra. Sutton Bald win, of Alabama, for the murder of Wade E'lson, his rival for the hand of a young woman, wIll no doubt hate a wholesomeo effect. The murder was committed only a month ago, and the parties are promine~nt people. SPrompt trials and convictions by due process of law are the surest cure for lynch law' THE SILVER SLOGAN SOUNDERU TO ORGANIZE SOUTH CAROLINA. Coarmafl 3owdlen Calls for the Formation of a Siaer 'arty-Ho Wants this State to Lino Up for the Fight. ro the People of South Carolina: With the presidential campaign of 1896 the time has again como in the Iistory of civilization when mno are compelled to take a determined stand I -with a courage and firmness that knows no defeat-for the rights of 4 human against the' grood of anl in trenched money power. This year may prove the last opportuniLy to; the cause of the peopl to win peacefully by the ballot. Bondholders and their cohorts of ' centralized wealth are rapidly rivet- I Ing the shackles of a degraded sorfdom on the producers of tho whole world. Men of all classes of busint s,-in pro duct-lon, manufacture and distribution -are feeling mu-ore heavily every day the burden of tributo they aro paying of banking and bondholding classes the plutocratic socialists. The intelli gence of the citizen of this republic renders it necessary for our people to lead the nations in the tight for cur roncy reform. Throu&rh the discus sions of the last few years the intelli gent voter -has come to understand, much better than formerly, how the profits of all Industry are absorbed by the drones of the creditors classes, by controlling the dssue and volume of all money and continually increasing its purchasing power. The period of educational agitation and theoretical discussion Is rapidly passing. The timo for action has come. The united action of the people on the financial issue is the only means of success for the reforms necessary. All patriotic citizens-especially the producers of the raw ink.terial, the farmer and mio ; t ho producer of the tinished articlo--tho manufacturer and the distributors -the ruerchant and the conllercial men--should equally bear the responsibilities of this grand tight for humanity against the Shylocks of Esngland and Wall street. We cannot dally with the danger nor longer be deceived by the dilatory tactics of party politicans. That both parties in charge of our government now are servile tools of the money power is a notorious fact known of all men. Shylock has already led oat the llepublican party as the winner this year. The Demnocratic leaders theim selves confess that there is no hope for their party in the coming elections. Its national convention will only be held to give the loaders-protended friends of silver, but really tile slaves of Wall street goldolators-a chance to try their hands at keeping some of the Southern States in line with another platform straddle and a milk-and-cider candidato. Going into tile national conventiol of either one of the old parties only means deception and di vision of the silver forces and final d0 feat to the cause of curroncy reform. The peoplo must take charge of this fight themselves from the beginning make it open, honest and straight, and resign none of their vital interests L into the hands of party leaders, who F only work for party success. 1 ( A con forence of silver men of al 1 Iarties was held in Washington, ). t C., on January 22-23 ultitmo. It was tile unan1LIliIIOus o)in1ion1 of that confer- r, ence that the frien'ls of silver coinage 8 must at once prepare for independent al action. A national convention was p calledl to meet at St. Louis onl July 22d. In adopting a pllatformi and nominat inlg candidates, thlis convention is to h co-opecrateo with the l'eople's patrty and v all other friencds of currency refor-m. A S national commniittceo was selected and v headquarters establishled at Washing- h ton and the work of organization will S be r-apidly pushled. b After consultation with friends of m the causte in this State, and feeling It t my dluty as a member of the national c commlittee of tile American Silver c Party from South Carolina, I have de- u cidled to issue this ad dress-appealing I to all patriotic citizens, who realize the t supreme importance of the money( issue, witlhout regard to party aflilia-I tions or views on other questions, to I unite at once in an organization with1 the following propositions as a basis. ] 1st. Tile free and unlimited coinage of goldl and silver, at the legal ratio of 1 to 16, by the United States govern mnent, independent of the actilon of any1 foreign power. 21. Thie power to control and regu late a paper currency is inseparable. from the power to coinm money ; hencel bank issues should be abolished and all currency intended tol creulate as money sh~ould be issued, and its volume con trolled, by the the general government only and It should be a full legal ten der. Trho volume of currency-gold, silver and papr-to be suftlcienlt to do the business of tile country on a cash basis. Unalterable opposition to the issue of interest-bearing bonds by the United States in time of peace. The payment of coin obli gatioens of the United States. as provided by existing law, in either silver or silver coin, at the option of the government and not at the option of the ct-editor. To faciliato tile organization of the silver- forces In this State I will make the following practical suggestions : F'irst. Organizo3 a silver league, I with a pledge to stand by tile above 1 platform, at every voting precinct in the State-and more If necos sary. As soon as organized send me I at Denver, Anderson County, S. C., the nlame, postoflico and county of the o-eretary of each icaguo, so that I can have sent him literature for distribu ion. Tihe only oIler8 needled are:t president, v ice-president, secretary and executive committee. Sew-ound. A county convention should t be held not later than May 1st, to I elect, a county chairman, a county exo entive commlnittce and a member oft the State executive committee. Third. As soon as possible after 1 May 1st a meeting of the State e xecu- 1 tivo commtitte should be held to elect E a Stato chairman, determine how dole- ( gates to the national convention uhall be chosen andl such other matters I as may be nleessary. A simple orgapniz..tion is all that is neces-ia'y to give macthinerv for the s camipaign. This gottng i gather of1 ourW forces is a businessH proporamtion to] men who mean business and I hope< that every reader of tis address wlli at once conlsider this his duty and oromptl y proceed to organIze a silver league In his neighborhood and send me the proper noti fleation.4 Respectfully1 J. W. BOW DEN Member National Committee bor< South Carolina A merican Silver Party.1 -A mother started [to tell the story 1 of a~ mlisej toi her1 children, and, up-ini nikinig if they knew what a milser was. I her seven-year-old replied, "0Oyes, I kc now, eco~nmser-somebody wno al ways saves,-and nover spends a cent. * CUBA WILL YET OE FREE. JIoqun*t Appea! of Senator Vest for Recog. niten of the Cuban Patriots, In the United States Senate, the ,esolution on Cuba was taken, and an kgreemoent was made itu to concluding hle debate. Mr. White (Dem.) o 3alifornia continued the speech begun y him tho day beforo, contending hia the question of the recognition of Auban belligoroncy or of Cuban Indo undonee was one solely within the unctions of the excutive department )f the government,, and that Congress ind no right to impose its will upon ho P resdent in such a matter. As to ,he recognition of Cuban indepondenc, IQ said that the indopondence of a new fovernuent could not be recognized autit the real vital distulrbanceus woro ractically closed, and until the cause if the parent country was desperato. ,nder prevailing conditions, the ro ,ogIitioni of the indepeudeneo of Cuba Nould be not only contrary to all pre x-deuts. but contrary to the actual ustice of the case. Mr. Vest asked what would have be on of the struggle for American independence if France had acted on the principle advocated by the Sena tor froin California. The American people, Mr. Vest said, would have today been English subjects, instead Af being free citizens of a froo country. Prance, during the struggle, had re cognized the indepondouce of te United States and had gone farther than any other country had ever gone in a like case-except fron self-inter est. She had sent her armies and Ileets and had put upon the people of the United States a debt of undying gratitude. " If we mean to stand by these peo ple in Cuba, who are imitating us and are endeavoring to make a government for themselves, we must help them in their hour of need. I do not go so far %8 to say that we should do so by arms. That is not advocated by any one in this chamber or out of it. We can at least do It by stating to the world that we believe the attempt of this mon archy of Spain to suppress the insur rection-to crush the attempt to form a republic in the island of Cuba-is absolutoy hopolosts and helpless, as I believe, under God, it is today. "I say thero will never come an hour when Spain can reassert her itominion over the island Cuba. It is impossible for ior to do it. I speak from the gre teachings of history and oxperieni . The course of Spain on this cont nont is marked with blood. Ther(. was a time when Span ish dominion extended from the south. urn limits of the United States to the most southerly point of South Ameri ca. No American can over forgot those burning pages of Prescott, which describe the conquest of Mexico and Poru when the Spaniards, with the lust of gold and the lust of blood, marked their terrible pathway across thoso countries. Of all that dominion, won by blood, won through -torture ind fire, there remains today to that ootlless old wolf the single island )f Cuba, and Spain today, like Giant Jospair in that wonderful picture of 3unyan, sits almost helpless at the loor of the dark cavo of despotism and -rine with Impotent rage it the pro ossion of splendid republics that murch on in the progress of civiliza on and the future. "Mr. President, that wolf can never stain that single cub. Never can pain hold the island of Cuba after ie has lost all these South American rovinces. "'1This question,'' Mr. Vest went on, is not whether Cuba has achieved en independence. The question is -hether Spain can conquer Cuba. Can pain continue to hold Cuba as a pro ince ? I deny it. I say that the 10 mng years of sttccessfui resistance to pain by Cuba shows that Cuba today as the power to maintain and will i aintain successful resistance. This hing a year ago was what the French all an emeate--a mere handful of men ailed ' brigands ' on the east coast, ome of whom were hung as pirates oestes humani-today it is an I nsurrec Ion. E~very Cuban is a patriot. The 2ubans have given up h omes, fami les, everyjthing, through the hope of iberty. Tell me that a peeople like hat can be conquered ! Never I Never! lever!1 Will they be again willing ubjects to the throne of Spain ? " No instance can be found in which i million and a half of people, om inud and confederated so unan imously is they are, have ever been subjugated ixcept by extermination. What A~merican boy does net remember the :urning oration of Henry Clay, when se spoke for Greece in 1824, and when se predicted that so long as Thermo pylae and Marathon were remembered nio Greek would lay downs his arme before the Turkish power ? We are told that the Cuban insurrectionists a~re negrons, mulattoes 'and Inmlians. So much the more reason why we should ympathize with them and s ay, ' God relp them in thoir dire extremity.' " Liberty lives with the poor and op. 2ressed ; not with the wealthy and :>owerful. It throbs in the breast of he imprisoned bird ; it has gone with nartyr to the stake, and has taken its light with his soul to God. Liberty !annot be extinguisheod wh'9n a people ire unanImous in defense of the rights vhich God had given thorm. And If hoso people, ignerant and poor, s'ug fling again~t dopotismn, have Imritatod as, why should we content ourselves vith a bare expression of sympjathy vith the caus-i' 1t is a mere fare~o or tas to do anything else than to d.1 tare our belief to the world that the aahcause is hopo~ess In the Island " I deny and repudIate the doctrine hat all vestigate of SpanIsh power nust be climainated from Cuba before ye can recogtnizo the indcopondencei of hat people. Are we to nait. until the stand Is made desolate by the tire and word ? Are we to stand ellent, and lumb while a Spanish governor (called general) declares his intontion t~o >ayone't the people of Cuba and to mutcher them into subjection to the ',panish quleen ? 1 say that if we do, iod will curse us. I say that if we do, hnd sit hero idlo until a desert has )eD made of that s plenadid Island, we nay be sure that the time will come then there will come retribution upon as as a peole, because we have not >con true to the task assignedl us by 'rovidence-- because we have not >horished the legacy of self-govern neat l:equeated us by our fautheurs." Mr. Vests's splenadid rhotoic was istened to with rapt attention and froat admiration by a full Senate and >rowded gahoerios, and bis peroration vas applauded on all sides. Ho was followed by Mr. Gray who ~ompllimented him with the remark hat if the independence of Cuba could >o achieved by eloquence It had hoee schieved by the burning words that iand fallen from the lips of the Sena or from Missouri. No one could have ueard thoem, ho said, without sym >athlsing with the feelIng with which be Senator's heart was throbbing, btn iuthout giving favorable respnsa itO every aspiration whioh he had uttered for that unhappy Island. Mr. G V went on to argue the futility of doolarIng Cuban independenco when ovet Senat know that the struggle for 6was notyet suooosful. FACTS ABOUT SILVER COINAGE. A Explanation of What Has Boon Done by the Government in tho Past. A cuiroue misunderstanding appears to be prevalent regarding the quantity of silver coined for general use prior to 1873, to which attention is called by a letter from a subsoribor, who says: "I holevo that the number of standard i silver dollars coined in the United States from 1793 to 1873 was between $7,000,000 and $8,000,000. But on turn ing to the Tribuno Almanao under gold and silver coinage we found, in the column undor tho word silver, ovor $110.000.000 fron 1793." The trouble with thid inquirer is that he overlooks the .ery large colnago of a subsidiary sort; namely, the half and quartor dollars, dimos and ha]!f-dimos, of which th actual circulation was formerly much greater in proportion to population than it Is now. The idea is right that of bilver dollars, properiy io called, the total coinago prior to 1873 was only $7,733,988, of which $1,439,517 were co'ned in the years 1793 to 1805, inclusive. There was then a period of over thirty years in which no dollars wore coined. Beginning again In 1837 with only $1,000, and in 1839 with only $300, thi colpage continued from time to time to 1872, but did not at any time become considerable uatil tlie year 1871. The total coinage porior to that year from the organization of the Mint was about $5,500,000. In 1871 and 1872 $2,235,736 were coined, mainly in auswer to a demand for export. It was on this ne count that in 1873 it was provided that a new coin, called the trade dollar, expressly for export uso only, should be minted, and in six yoars about $35, 965,924 of those were coined and sent abroad. As is well knowvn, a large part of them returned to this country, and the operation was not found ad vautageous, so that the coinage of tho trade dollar was aftt-rward discon tinued. But while the correspondent is right in the idea that the number of silver dollars coined prior to 1873 was lens than $8,000,000, as above stated, the Tribune Almanac is also right in its statement that the total coinage of silver was very large. The Mint reuort shows that the coinage or hdlf dollars up to June 30, 1894, had been $130,512,383.50, of quarter dollars $47, 198,044, of twenty-cent pieces, $271, 000, of dimes $28.480,117.20, of half dimes $4,880,219.40, and of three-cent $1,282,087.20. The coinage of this sort was large during all the earlier years and increased still further after the discoreries of the important silver mines at the West. At length it came to pass that the supply of such coins was Inconveniently great, so that the banks and the Treasury Itself became clogged with the undesirable surplus, and in 1878 the coinage of that sort was materially diminished, nor did it again become large until 1891.-New York Tribune. A VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY. The Colleton Lynchers are Exonerated in One Case-Will be Tried Next Court for the Murder of leham Kearne. W ALTERnORO, S. C., Feb. 25.-The murder of Hannah Walker will hiovor be avenged. Twelve juroro have de cided on the case, and they have re turned a verdict of not guilt-y. It was no surprise, for the opinion of every one see~med to be that the jury wculd bring in just such a verdict. At 11:45 last night the foreman sent word that they had agreed on their verdict. The news spread quickly and soon the cour-t house was filled. Judge Aldrich ar rived at 12 o'clock, when the jury filed slowly in. The prisoners showed little signs of uneasiness, but some of the women were shedd ing tears. Wuen the verdict of not guilty wa. read, there was a tendency among the crowd to make some demnonstriation, but the Judge had warned them to do nothing of this kind. The prisoners received the congraulations of their friend., who hung around for some time. The newspaper men went to the home of Mr. Morrell, the telegraph operator, and asked him to open the office and send out the news. He re fused to do this. The reporters told him how anxious the world was to get the verdict, but this had no effect on him ; and as there was no other altern ative, the stuff had to remain over a day longer than it should have done. The seven men indicted will be tried at the next term of court for the mur der of Isham Kearse. A motion was made today for ball for tho defend ants. The Judge ruled that the motion could not be considered. This means that they must r-omahn in jail. The case has attracted widonspread interest in all parts of the world, and those who have watched it as it went on from day to day cannot but admire the work of Solicitor Bellinger, who hstodsingle-handed and alone to make the fight. He had great odds against him, but he did hIs duty to the State like a man. Would Ihat South CarolIna had a few more such men as G. Duncan Blellinger. Some trouble is feared before the week Is over. Cordry Mimma, a tnegro, will be tried for the murder of W. I? Mlxson, in Hampton County, some timo ago. A change of venue 'va.s se cured, and he was convicted In 1895, at the February term, but a now trial was granted. A desperate effort was made to lynch him then, though it was averted by Sheriff Black's good work. Mimits has since been in the peniten tiary for safe-keeping. When lie was brought hero last week a locsal militar y comupany was called out to provent any violence. I -The Connecticut State prison dIrectors have docided to detain George A. Minor, a convict, for twenty lyve years after his pr--sent terria of four years expires in March. This is the first enforcement of the Incorrigi ble law, which permit. the directors to detain any prIsoner who has served t hree terms of not less than two years e ach in the Stato prison. Minor hogan Ihis cruiinal career thirty-sIx yours ago. lie has served eight sentences in the State prison, three since the passage of thme law. -Rlobert J. Burdette does not seem to thInk that our modern world 18 "go ing to the bad." He sees rays of hope in several direction. "The ocean gray hounds have broken the record sev eral times since the ark rested on Ararat. Our preachers don't write soI many, nor wise proverbs as did solo mon; but they have fewer wives and .better children." That last p'oint is sharp and well take. X... -The only bust of Gen. obert .1 1.Jo that was takotn f-olu life was mA by [Irvderilik YVok, thel scullktra uaout tho timio of the battle (if Chau oAllorvlille. A cop of tis sit has buena purchainsod by o soclot, of the Army and Navy Of the Coifodorato itatos in Miryeand, and will be seUt, to the tioutital hall of the onfoderate States in W hnond, to ho depodited in the Maryland room ponding the selec tion of the locat ion of the "Southern battle abbey," whero it will finally rest as the contribution of the soootey to the abbey. -Whett a person is i nab to socture from Peven to tniti1 1 hour or (iet !-jtp, Something Is wI'ong. If he inds hi S 0yes w'ide open, h;s brain in a whirl, and his nervos tenuso after' striving for %while to woo the drowsy god in a jomfortablo bod his condition is a wholesotno warning that he is work ing too hard, worrying too iuch, Is eating something which dlieagrees with him, or Is oi the way to being at tacked by some disease. '-A Westeru newspapor tell of a man who, every time ho gets drunk, Ins!1t3 on paying it year''s subsoripion to his town paper. H1e bs aiready Iald up to the year 1904. Some of the South Carolina editors are trying to Ind out what brand of liquor ho Itses %nd if they succeed will have it placed an salo at the disponsarle throught ut the State. F. A. Jinkins, Roxbury, Mras., writo: Will you please send me two samples )f your Ja anose Pile Cure at, I l.;,ve .wo friands who ale troubled w!th Piles. It cured me, but they Pay It an't cure them. Please send tlii on *.'eem pt of th is as I wish to couvinc0 hem that It will cure them. Samples ire.', --The longest wagon bridge in the Worid is %it-11%ted at Galveston, Texas. it i.4 moro than three miles long, and -panS Galveston bay from no-th to south. t is built mnatinly of wood, and l as one d raw. -''My dearw," ::ti aL d(I ngT ha11bande, do ;I thi ink yOn W ill mnarry again "e.hni tam gonew ?" "I don't know, John," replie d tton lad y, w i:,h a burst (If tears. "I haven't givn the mIlattc very nuch tIougiht as yet." Johnson's Orie'ntit Soap) is theI mot delicatO facial soap in Cxistence. leave'i the vskill soft and(1 voivty. AbsolL)toiy pure and highly mCdieatued. Two largo eakes in a package, 25 ets. -phiry-ninc of the M O mon wih sign'l the Deearation of Indepn dence were college :raduates. Epilepsy 20 Years. Cured by Dr. Miles' Nervinc. A few years ago, Mr. L. W. Gallaher, wt an extensive, successful expert m1a1n facturer of lmober prodets. Attacked with. epilepsy, he wits obliged to give up his bou ness. The attacks camo uIlin pon imost in opportunely. One time fallin. from a CeNa ago, at anLotler down stairs, and oftte'In tih street. Onco 11e fell down a shaft Iln th, mill, his injuries nearly lroving fatal. Mr Gallaher writes from Milwaukeo, Feb. Ilk T! "Thero are nono more miserable thlan opi leptics. For 20years I suflfered with ilep tic fits, having as high asq fro in (on1 night. tried any number of physicians, pay ing ti 01n0 atlone, a fee of t500.00 anid havo do~n, little for years but sca rch for somelthling to help mue, andl have taken aill the leading remodies, but recolvedl no honenit. A ytear ago my son, Chas. 8. Galiaher, drulgglst at 101 Rood 8t.. Milwau~kce, gave 111 l~r. Miles' Restorative Nervino, anti I tried it with gratifyinug results. Have hatd but two fita since I began taking it. I am hetter now in every way thtan I have been n 2) years." Dr. Miles' Remedies are sold by druggi:ate on a posit Live guaranltee that the first bottle will benoit or price refunded. Book on the Heart and Nerves, free. Address, Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. Dr. Jiles' Remdies Restore IReakb. A $25 Cooking Stove YETH 4 COMPL.TR OU'rIIT 3OR owL $..aoO. Delivered to your railroad dept al freigh o hre paid. Road tis desouip os care al. This splendid Cooklag stove is 8 .Shas four 8 Inch p holes; l816 in6 oven; 18 Inch Aeborn 24 inches high' 2lz nne ace smooth casting.. I have this stove maade for any trade, after may own idea eomnbiping all the good points of al mediuta priced stoves, and leaving out tha ohtionable teatues. yodall doubt the best No Cooking Stove made, for the prica, Fitted with Spots,g p ot overs, * skellets, 2 griddles, a a8 ga~ 3 joints of pipe, 1 elbow, I olar, lifter, 1 scraper 1 cake polish, 1 Ira tea kettle, Isiovel. We want tO, make customers and friends in every Part of the South, for the puirpoe of introducing our business to new. People, and to renew our acquaintu ane with old friends. We will ship this splendid Cookin Stove and the above descr~bed waze to any depot, all freight chare paid, for only $X:1.O. whente cash comes with the order. Thi stove is a good one, well made, ad will give entire satisfaction. Orw illustrated astalogue of F'urnituir. Stoves and Baby Carriages maile a free. Address 844 BEOADi SRmnr, ADSSAnm GA.a ALWAYS CHERFUL. - 1lor1en(e Nightinigale is a tail wolian, rathller tout, With gray hai :uid line, open tace. Although a gIeat. stiffer-r, she oes not allow a 0race of i. She las nlot known what it is to he with ut1 prain for imaly velu's. 11- fer - ures are finely iodled, wiile her hatads Ialid feet are very small. 11er voice is low and imusical. She of teu reads taloul, and sonaetjiie she u111118 a Song or hymn. She is very levout and an oiniivorou s reader. D, Howard's description of his life It West Point should be an illeentive 'o every young man. Ile te118 how Ie braved thr, ridicule of the cadets by going to religious services and loillg work in the Stinday school. [Ie said it cost him more to take his ltand and run the gauntlet of their voffs and sneers than it (lid later to race the musketry of the battlefield. 'But I gripped my Bible, shut my o1 thanld went, for iy mother's OUTHERN RAILWAY. PIEDMONT AIR LINE. Condensed Schedule of Passenger Tralas. Ves. Fat A Northbound. No.38 No36 No.12 No. IS Jan. 5, 1896. Daily (Emily Daily IC sun Lv. Atlanta, C. T. 12 00mI 15p 7ta435 " Atluti E. T. 1900 l21y a a " Norcross............260a 93 8 1 Buford ............... ... 10 a 708 u aineaville.. 25p 4010 44a 743 " Lula..................223a 10 1" " Cornoya ...................1 Mt. Airy..... .......20a 11Sa. " Toccoa. ...... .......15a 1163a. " wettminster .........60 a 1227 ). " en.ec.a ...............407a 124211. 4 Central ..... 4 45 p 433a 20 .. " Greenvillo... 680P y 9a 21 ).... " tipalrtatburg. 0 18 p 0 18 a 3221) . "4 0aIneyS ......... .... . . . . ai lackalturg.. 100 p 70ja 40p " King's 7A0.. .. ... ...... " (;tslonia .... ........7 W a & .. Lr.Oharlotto.... ~82011 33a 6 . _ "4 Danivillo ..,.. 12 00 a 10p i 5p.... kr. 11ichmond.... 0 00 a 640 600 . Tr. Washington . 6 42 a940 ........... mlialt iI'. ' it 8 06 a 11 26 P. I'l hiLttleLI ija. 10 2956 3 00 a. Now York.... 12531 620a............. 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