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THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL VOL 'o.-NO. q2. PICKENS. S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 2d, 19or. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR THE INAUGURAL4 MSSAGEX. The Governor and Lieutenant Gov ernor are Inducted Into Office. Thursday at noon the inauguration of the recently elected State oflicials took place at the State capitol. 'The oath of office was administed to the Governor and ieutenant Governor elect in the hall of the House of Re presentatives. Although the day was inclement, a large crowd assembled to witness the t ceremonies, and the two hundred k South Carolina college students who formed the governor's escort were not able to crowd into the hall. The Columbia orchestra in the gal lery rendered several inspiring selec tions while the crowd was gathering and during intermissions in the exer cises. At 12 o'clock Mr. Wilson, the ser geant-at-arnis of the Iouse announced I that " the'honorable, the Senate is in ' waiting." The Speaker commanded , the House to rise and receive the Sen ate. t When the Senate had been seated I the joint assembly was called to order i by the President of' the Senate. Im- I mediately afterwards the eergeant-at- I arms announced the Governoz-elect f and his escort in waiting. The joint I assembly arose to receive the dis- t tinguished party. The or-ler in which ' they came was: Chief Justice Henry C McIver and Rev. Jno. 0. Willson, D. P D.; Hon. Y. J. Pope, associate justice, R and Col. Wilie Jones, chairman State d Democratic executive comml~ittee; Hon01. d Ira B. Jones, associate justice, and t Representative T. H. Rainsford; N.B. t McSweeney, Governor-elect, and Sena tor Louis Appelt; James II. Tillman, t Lieutenant Governor-elect, and Repre- t sentative W. H. Parker. Then fol- 8 lowed the other new State ofllcials; G. t Duncan Bellinger, attorney general; c M. R. Cooper, secretary of State; Jno. 1 P. Derham, comptroller general;.Jno. t J. McMahan, State superintendent of ' education; R. 11. Jennings, State trea- a surer. Capt. Jennings was accompani- h ed by the retiring treasurer, Dr. W. II. i Timmerman. As an escort for the J State oflicials were Senator J. S. Brice C and Representatives J. C. Campbell, a W. 11. Wells and J. W. Crum. The - faculty of the South Carolina college A were also in the party. The Governor-elect. and his escort V were seated on the rostrum behind the Speaker's desk. It was an impressive 1 scene. IIon. Robt. B. Scarborough, the retiring Lieutenant Governlor, T gowned in the handsome new helio trope silk robe of the president of the '-Senate, took charge of the exercises. By his side stood the Speaker of the t House, gowned in royal purple. Group- a ed around them were the men who are to conduct the affairs of State, while f conspicuous in all this array were the a justioes of the supreme court, McIver, P 'Jones ant Pop. The exerciscs we f opened with prayer by Dr. Willson. q The preacher referred feelingly to the illness of George D. Tillman, father of the Lieutenant Governor-elect. F Mr. Scarborough then announced. The Hon. Miles B. McSweeney, gov ernor elect, is present and ready to qualify." The Governor stepped for- r ward and gave assent to tbe oath of t oflice administered by the venerable E Chief Justice Melver. Afier he had taken the oath the Gov- t ernor addressed thme General Assembly C as follows: E -Gentlemen of the General Assembly: I In taking the oath of oillec for the -second time as chief executive of this i 7great State 1 feel more keenly than ever the responsibilities which rest upon me. I realize the poverty of express my appreciation to this people E for the partiality which they have c shown in elevating me to this exalted t * position, and when I think of the i duties and responsibilities which the i position carries with it I am brought face to face with my own weakness. C I beg that you will convey to the peo ple whom you rep~resent my heartfelt I appreciation of the honor which they C have conferred upon me and that you will also carry to them my pledge to C * give them the best service of my head C and heart in the administration of the oflice to which they have elected me.s * It was, I believe, the greatest genl teEnglish language is dluty." Dlur- 0 - igthe lime that I have held the oflice ofgovernor my main p~urpose has been a tdischarge my duty honestly and con-. ,scientiously and without fear or favor. C During the term upon whiuch I am now entering all that I can say is that C this same purpose will characterize my every action. Bunt the same responsibihity which < rests upon the executive is also laid, only with a greater dlegree, upon the jm embers of the legislature. My prey i~nce is only to execute the laws. You I are clothed with p)ower and authority 1 Sto change existing laws and to make. new laws and by your action you can 1l either clog the wheels of progreos or Sgive them new imp~etus. Our forefathers builded wisely wvhen< ey provided that the three dlepart 2 ents of government should be forever: separate and distinct. It has been my I honest endeavor andl purpose to recog-< nize this division of our government< and to let each department (discharge] the duties belonging to that depart mont. In complying with the manm- I date of the constitution to lay before the general assembly a review of the different departments (of government and to make such suggestions as may sechi proper to the chief executive, I * have not piresumed to (dictate or undler akoti to control legislation but hamve mply made such suggestions as 4 cemed to me just and necessary. By ise and careful ani pruident actiol in your part you can do much to ad tance the material prospeiLty of th tato and contribute to the happinesE )f the people. I can only pledge you, tnd through you the people whom you ,epresent, my best efforts in the faith u1 execution of the laws as they may )o interpreted. Our educational interests have also inde remarkable advances and there s a great awakening in all sections on he subject of education. It is a ,ratifying evidence of our proarcs, for vith the material development of the tate and the building of factories and nills there is constant demand for men vho know how. Whatever you may lo to ilt our young men and young vomen to 1111 the positions which are onstantly oplening inl view of the vonderful development of this section vill be so mucli wisely contributed to iappiness and prosperity. But while 'e train them for these positions and upply the demand for men who know iow we want also to train them to liink noble thoughts and they will then erforim noble deds. One of the cry. Ig necds of these times is an elevated sanhood. . "Sublimity of character aust come from sublimity of motives ud the humblest man walking in tle sost circumscribed place can and ought > live sublimely." DiEraeli said truly, circumstances are beyond the control f man but his conduct is in his own ower." No man should be called way from "plain work and coiion uties," but lie should be made to unl erstand that lie can breathe ''while in le naidst of tiem inspirations from li heights of manhood.'' But in all these matters we should ot forget those who have the burden > bear in furnishing the means neces uy to carry on these institutions; and icir rights and interests should ho arefully guarded. This ccitury upon rhich we are now entering holds for a achievements and opl)portulnities of riich we can not even conceive. It. iould be our high privilege "to show ow intelligence, enterprise and relig )us freedom, and respect for the ma sty of the law, may constantly in 'ease comfort, intolligence, prosperity (d happiness.' We stand here at the end of mighty years, nd a great wonder rushes on the heart. 'hile cities rose and blossomed into dust, Vhile shadowy lies of Kings were blown to air ' hat was the purpose brooding on the world, hrough the larger leisure of the cen turies? .nd what the end-failure or victory?" As you stand here im the dawn of is century much depends upon your ations whether the end shall be fail 'e or victory. We should lay the undations broad and deep, for there 'e great possibilities before us as a eople. It might be well, however, )r every one of us to ask himself the uestion : What hast thou wrought for right and truth, For God and man. rom the goidein hours of bright, eyed youth To life's mid span?" The last year of the last century is a cord unsurpassed in the history of is State and possibly of any other outhern State in industrial develop rent. I call your attention to the fact liat during the past year some $15, 00,000 have been invested in ihis tale, the greater p~or'tion of which has enu put into industries for the manu icture of our great staple crop. Some ing over 200 miles of railroadls have en built and received for trafile(dur ig the past year. Any propiosed legmislation touching liese great artei'ies of trade and comn icree should be wvisely and car efully onsidecredl. These industries derive heir i'ight to life and existence from lie State and you as the ropresenta. yes of the State have a right and~ it your duty to see that they do not >press the people, But in guarding lie interests anid rights of the people is well also ito remember that these orporations have rights and it should e yours to see that the strong do noti >prees the weak and that justice and qnity are muetedl out. Mr. Tillman was then presented and worn in. The retiring Lieutenant ~overnor dloffedI the beautif~ul silken >be ot' oilice and placed it upon the Iroulders of his successor. The prei,= - table'au evoked app)lause. Mr. Tillman then took thme gavel andu unounced: " The pur'pose for which Ire joint assembly met having been ac omplishied, the joint assembly is (dis olved. The Senatec will return to tire labr' Thrs closedl the exercises. Li EUTi. (OV. 'fTLLMAN's A[DRES5. When Lieutenant Gover'nor Tiliman iled the Senate to order the aish a on he floor, as well as the galleries, were lied with spectators. is inaugural (Idress was brief, but Ihis words arid Lis sentimen~its were well chosen andl me was greeted with applause as lie oncluded. Ills address was as fol ows. '' Senatoi s: Ini assuming the dluticB f the ofice to which I have been hected I am not unmindful of the re= ponsibilities thrown about it, nor anm Iungrateful to the people who put me nero, nor can I forget thamt I pr"' mde ver a body which has written some f the highest pages im South Carolina 's nistory. WVhat standard of merit will mark mry career in this office, 1 do0 not, now, but impartiality shall be my ulidel star. " It is hardly necessary for me to ~xpress the wish or even refer to thre 'act. that I tirust, tire accuistomned liar. rnony will prevail in -this body. " In the vast dhomain of the old con ury, I am gratitled to know that thiere nay b)e found the cemetery of factional Iiferonces in South Carolina, and that standing here in the (lawn of the new century, we find this is not only a re united State, but a reunited nation. Centuries have faded into shadows; in that great period of the past Napoleon hind his greatness and his grave; the Southern Confederacy blossomed like the rose, faded and fell; ' we stand here at the end of the mighty.years' with all the responsibilities of an advanced citizenship; grave conditions confront our- coutry ; perhaps a dcc do may find this the greatest Republic that -the world has ever known, an empit e ruled by an emperor in royal robes, or a president with imperial powers. It therefore behooves the party to which we all belong, to unite and join in the desperate struggle that will decide the destiny of our country. " Invoking the blessings of the Deity upon your deliberations and asking tile guidance of His divine hand for myself, I now declare the Senate ready for any business that may properly be before it." Mr. Ilenderson offered the following resolution, which was seconded by Senator Mower and others and adopted by a rising vote: Slesolved, That the thanks of the Senate are due and are hereby tender ed to the iron. i. 1. Scarborough our ietiring presiding officer, for his uniform kindness, firmness and ur banity in tie discharge of his ardu ous duties.1 THE STATE'S ROL OF HONOR An Appropriation Needed to Com pitee and Publish Confederate Rolls. Charleston News and Courier. The Daughters of the Confederacy, of Charleston, through their President, Mrs. .James Conner, have memorialzed the Legislature of t:iis State to appro priate a sullicient sum of money to complete the records of the men who fought for South Carolina in the War fr Southern independence more than thirty years ago. It would seem to us that no other argumetit is needed than that contained in the -\lemorial itself, as follows: " To the Ihonorable, the Senate and Ihouse of Representatives of the State of South Carolina : The Memorial of tile Daughters of the Confederacy of Charleston, South Carolina, respect fully sheweth: c That the principal object of the organization of Daughters of the Con federacy is to preserve the truth of the history of the War between the States. In common with all thmking men and women, they deem it essential to this end that a record of all who took part in that great struggle for freedom, not only tihe offlicers, but also the pri vate soldicrs, should be put in perman em, form, so that the youth of out State and coming generations may see alid judge of the immense sacrifice made by their fatheis. Only by printing these rolls can the rank and file of the Con federate soldiery be honored. In no other way can the names of such find their place on the historic page. Monu ments in many cases perpetuate the names of olicers, but only on these rolls is a record kept of the men who gave everything and received nothing but the consciousness of duty done. Surely, you will not deny them the pos sibility of at least being remembered by their own people for whom so many of them died. " Feeling thus the Daughters of the Confederacy have watched with keeni intecrest, the action of your honorable biodlies in mankinig yearly appropriations to have such records compiled1 under the supervision of Col. J olin 1P. Thomas, as State Ihistorian, and~ it, was with the greatest regret that thley learned of its failure, when thre work was nearly fluished, of tihe appropriations neces sary to have the rolls comletedl, and the valuable Imatter alreadly collected puit inito proper form. "With these convictions, they (1e. gire to bring the matter again to your attentionl, andl earnestly ask that a suf ficient appropriation be ma-le to en able the State Ihistorian to continue such further compilations as may be necessary, and~ also to print, all the recordis collectedi, so that they may be put in permanent form and1 distributed among the people of the State and all others iterested, thus disseminating through our land thre valuable informa tioni which they contain." Tihe several Chapters of the Daughi ters of the Confederacy in the. State wvill join the Chiarleston Chapter, andl it, is hoped that the General Assembly wvill give prompt and favorable atten tion to their reasonable request. It will not take nmuchi to comlhete and publish the Confederate rolls, but what ever the aniount, required it should be givecn riot in a grudging spirit, but as a matter of the highest pairiotic dluty. A people who (10 not carie for thecir lie roes, for the men who fought, and~ died for their country, have lost their self respect arid dleserve the confildencp~ of nIo self-respecting people. The women (10 not ask for much from the State they (10 not besiege the Legislature with p~etitions for help ; they (10 not ask now for anything for themselves, but onily that the brave meni who serv edl the State long ago shalh not be per mhittedh to pass into oblivion ; they speak for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the dead who dliedl for their country, for the livig rem nant which wvill soon cross over the river:. There are only a few mien in the Legislature who servedl in thle armies of the Confederacy, but there is not, a single member of that botty who is not pliud that lie comes of the 01(d stock, which dared to face (heath for the sake of his State. We (do not believe that; any oiio of them will vote againsi, the npetiin of t.he women. THE WORLD IS MORE, SINFUL I Bill Arp Reads of Horrible Crimes and Says We Are Growing Worse. "Sorrow endureth for a iight, but joy cometh in the morning." I 8tarted to write my weekly letter last night, but I was not in a calm and serene frame of mind and concluded to put it off till morning. I had read the mnorn ing paper that was unusually lull of crimes and sin and misery and when the evening vapers came there was another catalogue of calaniities and I felt sad and depressed. When will these things stop? But I ami no weep ing prophet nor do8 the public care to read the lamentations of Jerentiah as a matter of choice, And so I have waited until sleep and rest revived me and the bright sun of the morning dis pelled the mists and the gloom. But how can an old man help com paring the present with the past? Memory is his capital stock-and Ills bwest recreation. If I was now in lily teens I would be better reconciled to things as they arc-to modern manners and customs and to the sin and crinie of this fast and reckless age. Our young people cannot realize that there ever was a better time and at better people. Therefore they give the mor ality of the past no thought and the crime of the present no great concern. They look upon the fearful catalogue t in the daily papers as our normal con dition and many join it to keep up with the proccesion. Some apologists say that there is not, imuch difference. between now and then, but that it. appears so because of the telegraph and the ten thousand newspapers that spread the news. Ilie records of the courts tell the truth an( they prove that according to tile whito population of our State there ire ten muiders to where there was one fifty years ago. There are twenty-live divorce cases to o1e, and in our cities there are forty times as many bur glaries, larcenies and shooting scrapes. The number of suicides does not lap pear in the courts, but the increase is not less than a hundred to one. Jef ferson said that the influence of great cities was pestilential to good morals. Just think of it. In the little city of Atlanta there were over 10,000 arrests dluring tile past year. The nineteenth en'tury leaves us this record as a legacy and our great concern is, what are we going to do about it. Our lamentation is that the people have gotten used to it and reconciled to its continuance. It is looked upon as the normal condition of public murals and human affairs. Old men, old editors and old preacl ers cry aloud and spare not, but the young generation do not seem to be greatly concerned. Young ienl, young women and even old women commit suicide somewhere every day and the editors tell us of it in the press diS- i patches and pass on without comment. 1 What an awful condition of mental dis tress it must be that provokes the de liberate sacrilice of one's own life. e fear we are getting hardened to thI i presence of crime-hardened by daily I contact with it; hardened like the rich I of New York are to the misery and t crime in her tenement houses and to the miserable beggars oi her strects. I They see them every (lay and pass r them by without a sign, but they scnd I large monies down lere to educate a lot, of lazy negr'oes they have never seen. What a fool, what a fanatic, what a hypocrite is hiumani nature. This remuindls me to answer a letter of inlquiry from an 01(1 Democraut whlo 1 lives in New ilampshlire. ie wishes I to know who was resp~onslble for thle slave trade that peopled0( thin cotutry with negroes. Ssme of his neighbors insist that the South (did it, while thoe North protested1 againet it and New 1England was especially hostile-'to it. " Ilow long, ahi Cataline, wilt thlonu abu'tse our piatience?" Ihow long will thle dleedants of the0 Punriltan cover upj their own inigmilty? My friend will find in Appleton's Amlerican Cyclope dia, fourteenth volume, the best his tory of slaveiry and the slave trade ever published. In thlat 110 will find thlat slave traders from Portugal brought the first cargo of twenty negroes and landed them at Jamestown, ini Vir ginia, in 1620. Shortly aftor this most of the iNortherni colonies engagedl inl it and( Indlians were enslaved as well as negrocs. The son of King Philip was 801h1 as a blave at P'lymnouth in the year 1086. Tile slave trade between the Northlern colonies and Africa was carriedl on with vigor until 1776. In thant year it was resolved by the Con-. tinental Congress thatt 110 1110e slaves shiould be irmported1. InI 1788 Congress extendeld the traflie to 18(08, but the State of Gecorgia refused to ratify the extenisimi and)( ini1798 eniacted the most prohibitory laws againist it. The feeling against thle trafic was stronger in the Southierni States than11 in tihe Northern. Somec of the North crni States continued to carry it, 011 lonlg after it had1( been1 prohiibited. Aind as hate as 1841 Judge Stouy, of Massa chtusett s, chlargedl theo granud jtury of JBostoni that their 1)eopl1 were "steepedl up to thleir eyebrows in the infamous slave tradle with A frica." Bunt New England could nmot make the service of the slaves ,profitable and so sold thlem to Virginiia andl the Carolinas and~ to South America as late its 1847. When her ships cou1 l o longer dlodge thIe purisuicra from England and F"rance the trafice clime to an end andl thlen began the hlowl of thle aibolitionists against thle South for keeping them in slavery-the very negroes whose an cestors they sold to us. This is his tory, and it Is also hlistory that lafter 1776 never did a slave ship land ona was tile case fo the " Wanderer," who ried to land a cargo of 800 nca )avannimah and was seized and con Iscated. This is enough of slavery and Chow :esponsible for it. The nineteenti :entury has left us some good, sOm( agnal blessigs,and chief among them s the great advance in the social con lition of woman and the generai re -ogmition of her equality with main in nost all civil rights. Unless she chains ierselt to a brute she is n1o longer a 3ave, but stands up side by side with ier husband. 11or demands for her -elf and her children now liid a re lectful audience In courts and legis atures (except, perhaps, that last mis rable abortion called the (ieorgia Lez slature), and no great newspaper could )ass without. aiving a good part of its :olumnis for their pleasuire and comi ort. Woman is fast colinnr to the rout as mistress of the situation. II ivery calling she has proved herself as ntelligent and as pIogressive as man Lud Infinitely his superior III public norals and private virtue. When she foes come fully to tle frout she will ontrol legislation and then whisky, ha curse of the countlry, will be for ver banished. Whisky is woman's Preatest foe, the cause of nearly all lie tyrainy, iiiidelity and crime that nakes her existence misetable. She Vill not have to beg a Legislature to )rotect the factory children, for then he children will have sober fathers tk >rotect them. A good mother writes me from tlanuta about the mutiny at the Tech, Lmld says that the trouble with the boye >f this day is the lack of (iscijlinie al iome. They are not tauglit obe(lienlec n their early youth aiid they grow ui vithout restriiit and imagiine the3 Oiiow ats much or more 1hani pareits 01 eachers. That is so, of course, and very parelit knows it, and hat ac ounits for many (if the crimes aid mis leeds that bring trouble to parelnts. .istead of children rearing their par mtts, most parents fear their children md dread to have a ruipture with them 3ut they get paid for it sooner or later [iogenes hoard a boy swearing on ti eiet and lie hurried off with his cani mid found the father and iiiaiuled him If lie was living here now lie would bi kept busy mauling parelits, and1 . reckon the fathers of those Tech boyl would catch a few strokes. If a teach :r has not the hearty co-operation o he pareit the boy had better be sen TWO ROYAL OID MAIDS. Why Queen Victoria's Grand daughters Have Not Marrid. There are only two old maid prin. :esses iln Europe. Not very long age he Emipress of Germany succOUle( ill narrying off the last of her sisters -a a(y verging upon 2b-aid it is annoy ng to Queen Victoria that. the onIly wo royal siisters left are her naime akes and her grand(ldaughter, The Queen dislikes old iiai(s as ieartily as she (islikes cats, and the mnmarried satie of the daughter of the 'rincess of Wales aid Priicess Chriq ian of Sclileswig-Holstein has been lie cause of many royal family jars, eriously as the parentts and grand )arents may threatei and repine there emains little or no possibility of thi( wo spinters llidinag mates. Prhicesi Victoria of Wales reaches her thbirty ccondh birthday in thie sprin~g anli ?rincess Victoria of Schleswig-llolsteit vill never see 30 again; and( iln spite of heir dleplorable, conspicuous and( un iatiural singleness they aire not tht nost unihap~py of high b oirn ladies, L'hey are fast friends andl allies, and bough they enijoy few of thie same tudles anid pleasures, they are equally allous iln their estimalte of the world 's, nd even gramhniiothers' opinion, and quially dletermined to priove that, (lie ife o1 all uniwedded princess is neither orhorn or unplhrofitale. [t is an mntesting fact that of all he royal households tho Prince of Vales has afforded his daughter the niost, kindly countenance in mainitaini ng her piositloln. The p)rinice is niothi ng if not miodern andii liberal inl his 1iews; lie helicycs iln a woman~f making ier life to please hierselfC, and lie has sever exercised the high parenital auii thority over the onily one of his girls who plreferred inot to be forced mnto the ')onds1 of matriiony mierely for thie ake of the conventionalities. Furth-. armore, it is whispered thia, the prince was on her side when foir tile only time .n her life she fell In love. That, event too0k lacne manly years igo, when a famously rich, hiandlsome, uia~lble and1 enilighltenled yountg ladianl >rince visited1 Queen Victoria. Ihis .iorgeous jewels, his charming manners hmd his excellent, pronuniationi of thc I~nglishi languaige created a great seni mation on his app~earanice first at a gar eli p)arty given at 3uickingham palace lie was thien iintroduced to P'rincesi Victora, who was thiou far and~ away lie best looking (If the three sisteri 111( always the cleverest,. TJhie young East Indian found lie royal highness most alttr'active, iam when lie went to pay a visit 1o Sandring hianm lie shortly found that the princes was by no mieaiis lidifferenit, to his ad mirationi; that personally she was quita willing to make India her home an p~rivately her lover asked lien hand il marriage, ie pledged himself to mak her his oinly wife, to coniduct, his dIc mestie affairs on1 the Eurtneani pln and1( he was not refused poY.'t b~lns lie was told to go hiome nad 'the prir cess' family thlink it, over. IIe wer andl died of the plague three (lays afte reaching I ndia. The princess well knew that he lover had been orderedl home merel to afford lien famIly time to put othe obsac~nles than the sasn hetween thenm It would not have been tactful to re fuse so honorable a proposal from a powerful Indian ruler, so when Provi donce intervened and cut the thread of the young man's life the whole royal household breathed a sigh of mingled regret anud relief. Very well the family knew that had he lived Princess Vic toria would have insisted and hle prince would have clamored and the highest diplomacy and the severest pressure would have been required to bdlk Cupid of his victims. What the princess' grief was the public has never known, but she has never been very strong since. Shortly aftcr the sad news from findia Bile pleaded with her parents to let her study nurting at. Netley hospital; she refuses to even listen to any proposals to arrange i imairnage between herself and any stlout yoiig (mi'ainii duke, and she wears always a ruby ring of sur prising beauty. ''hey say the ring was sent her by the idian prince just be fore lie died to be put upon ier linger by one of his fuittiul servants, who brought it to her with instructions 1o that etfeet. Gossip has iever associated the name of Pricess Victoria of Schles- t wig-Iholstein with any roiance. She is a plain-faced girl without any of her cousin's keen wit., but has a good strong a will of her own. She is devoted to her grandmother, is one of the Queen's I constaiit attendants, and she is one of the few persons who cheerfully dis- I agrees wisth the sovereign lady on many poiints without vexing or disputing with her. Princess Victoria Bws, knits and i cooks admirably; in short, is conver sant with every hioulsehold art, and having visited about among her rela tives a good deal, has come to the sage conclusion that, many of the diplomacy I made marriages 11among royalties are < deplorably unhapp.il)l)y. "t I couild ma11-3rry < a farmer and make him a good wife, I she said to 1te Quecin, " bit I h ave I none of the tastes or graces Ihat. woi( suit. a spoiled, extiavagant hush Ind whom I don't love; so I don't, think I will 1urry at all.'' Perfectly amiably, but quite deter miniedly, she has stuck to her point. She evades comn t ceremonies as much as possible, but is adored by all her boy and girl cous'us, reads alotid to the Queen, does quant ities (1' serviceable, ugly fancy work, is her mother's hard worked secretary and one of the jolliest, miiost contented ol(d imai(s in Enghand. -Uhicago Record. IYNCHING IN BARNW.1IL. The Sheriff of the County Makes a Thorough and Complete Report. The sheriff of Barnwell County hIs made a report to Gov. McSweeney about, the first lynching of tlie new cen tury and the new year in South Caro lina. The reliort shows that the sheril did everything lie cotild to prvent a lynching, but it was beyondl his power to do so. Hlere is the report, in full, being dated Jan. 15: Dear Sir: You have doutbtless re ceived the news through the columns of the press that a rape was committed on a lady of' our' community, about three miles from the town of Elko, yesterday morning at 10 o'clock. I r-k ceived the information about 12.20, aid before I couldl get. of from miy of fice a colored man was airrestedl who fillied the (descriptioni of the party wanted. tIc declared his innocence and~ fuirnished names of par'ues to pi ove his whiereab~outs. In the mnean time public feelinug ran high-so much so that before I couhtti' rccive the dlesir'ed iniforniatiron .1 hound it niecessary to transfecr himi from the guard( house, where hie was placed, to the county jail by a btr'ong p~osse, and 1 also hadl a guard( at thle jail. I left for thle scene of tr'ouble, which is abhou t eigh t milues fr'omn lain well, aimd reaced~~ -there about siniilown. 1 found1( no4 onie at the pla1ce except the famnihy and t he posse that went with mie. We remain 0(d there about one hiourm; and wihe there I was informied that, the imani had1( beenm seeni near sundiiowni gouingi the dIirection of tecynolds station and mi about, half a mile of thle place. I soon1 found out that there was no doubt, ini the indis ohf the people as to the idtentity of the man11, as lhe hiad been seen by several parties and r'ecognizedl just, prior to the act; and going in the dhirectioni o1 the home where his awful dteed was perpetrated. With the near approach of (darknless I was satisfiedl that under the cover' of darlk ness lie would- make his escape anid elude his followers. Ilis mother lives in the town of D)enmark, or near there, ando the (direction lie was mnak lng was proof conclusive to my modn~ that he was trying to reach his moth .e's house. Anmd there being posses in every direction and1( On every road, aiid being uniable to cover' the entire fIeld personally andi~ iniasmuch as the par'ty in jail was thi'eatened, I was advised by my Barnwell friends to return to Ilarnwell to look after the prisonier in jail andI to send a telegram to D~einark I in ord(er to in ter'cept the party, which 1 did in the following wo'ds: 8oSnt 845 p. mn., .1an. 11, I190l. 17 Paid. - IN rxNix'T Tlows or DI)xRuMmx, Dienmark, 8. C.: I Charlie t,an~g ltobinsoni outraged white womnant. Mother hives ini your town. Unitch Sil ionigt; wilt p'ay bill LI (8ignied) F' RAN K i. CRM~cu, Shierif' - 1 wenit, to may ofdice early tis morn Iing, after' being' upl nearly all inighut at .the jail, to r'eceive thme news that Charlie I .ang Robinisoni had been t caught and lynchied somle time hbetween 1 the h~ouirs of I) b nd( h0 o'clock last nighti. I notIflled the cfOoner, ando, after some r litle delay, we went, to the scene of y thbe tragedy; reachced there this mortn r ing at 11 ai. in.; to find the b)ody of . hiarlic Lang Rlobinson swinging to a Two hundred bushels of po tatoes remove eighty pounds of "actual" Potash from the soil. Unless this quantity is returned to the soil, the following crop will materially decrease. We have books telling about compositionl, use and value of ertiliwrs for various crops. They are sent free. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St.* New York. r.c with the followin" notice attached liereon: " Thus We Protect Our Wom ni." Signed, " Citizens of Barn vell Countv." The coroner organized the jury of vhite and colored. The body was let lown, jury examined same, and there eing no evidence the usual verdict vas rendered: "i That he came to his death by gun hhot wounds in the hands of persons mnknown to the jury." Upon investigation from rumor I Intd that he was caught in about a half nile of Reynolds station about sun lown. He was then brought to the >face, identifled by his victim and three >ther parties who saw him prior to the *oiommission of the crime. He con ,essed his guilt, not only in this case, mt i another one that. he committed mi his own race; and from what I ,ould learn, about 1,000 of Barnwell 'ounty's citizens, white and colored, ed hini away about 300 yards distant From the place where he committed the crime, on the public road leading from Williston to Barnwell, swinging him by a 1 1 -2 inch manila rope to a pine tree and riddling his hody with shot and balls. Thus lie paid the aw fiu penalty of his ci ime, and an6ther fiend in human form has darkened the pages of old Barnwell's fair history. I labored hard and faithfully to pre vent the innocent from being punished uinder the excitement and succeeded. I court investigation as to the dis Aharge of my duty as a public oflicor. Ny conscience is clear. I did my vholo duty. I could do no more. ltespectfully submnitted. FICANK If. CREECH, Sheriff of llarnwell County, S. C. TillE MOlMON 'ETAIRNACLE-A risitor to Salt Lake City describes the ;reat Mormon Tabernacle and its fa nous choir of 500 voices as follows: To the stranger in Zion this taber acle is a constant source of wonder. Froin the outsi(le the immense build Lng with its curved roof looks like a iant, sleeping turtle; within, a coil ing without visible support other than the walls, arches over seats enough to tccommodate 13,000 people comfort itbly. It is a marvel of engineering and architecture, and the idea was avolved from the fertile brain of Brigham Young. T1he acoustics of the tructuro are unequalled, and no prilgrimi in this land of the Latter-day Sainits can forget the experience of standing in the gallery at one end of ho long building and hearing the 10ound of a dIropping pin~ on the speak tr's table at, the other end. In this tact, lies the secret, of the >ower and beauty of Tabernacle mu ic. Nowhere dloes harmony reach its uiliness andl purity in the degree that L doeos here. A quaver in a single oice or one false tone cannot escape eltection. Therefore the Tabernacle hoir must be near to perfection. In eni years of lovable leadership Prof. Svan Stephens has brought his 500 or nore singers as near to the ideal as is innmanly .lpossible. TLheir singing is nd~escribable. It. combines the fervor >f the religionist with the art of the raiined musician. It is a latbor of love ,vith them and a religious duty, for no iember of this choir is paid for his r her services. They are called to Lhe mission field and the 2,200 teachers who are spreading Mormnoismn in every country ini the world, are evidences of the obedience whichi they accord to the heads or the church. Senator Vest has a story he tolls to illustrate Arkansas character of the moesback type. According to the narrative thme Senator, inl the days following the civil war, was on a wild country road, whlich hati been blocked by a lingo tree. 'IThe inatives were tryimg to drag it, out, of thme way as a whole when Senator Vest arrived on the scene, looked at the tree and1 at the helpless crowd~ of Arkansas natives, and then said: "WVhy don't you cut hie tree ini two at the nr~iddle and hau lie ends5 out, of the way ?" There was moment, of silence, broken suddenly y one of the crowd, who reached fo.i is gun and elaimedl: "Yankee, by luim l' CASTOR IA For Infants andi Children. The KINd You Have Aiwoyp Bought Tonns tha